Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1941 — Page 15
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Hoosier Vagabond
IN LONDON people were always saying, “Won't you feel funny when you see street lights again?” I heard it so many times that I put down a mental
note to be sure and remember my emotions the first night I should be in a peacetime country. That night, of course, was in Lisbon, Wa ; after flying down from England. oe 5 But I'm afraid I'm not a proper y § guinea pig; maybe I'm a guinea k Si § pig who is just too dumb to reih Wwe act. At any rate, my first sight i Ki of street lights didn't turn out Eo nll to be one of those great high moments you remember for a lifetime. True, I was a little startled when I stepped out of the hotel in Lisbon that first night, and saw lights all about me. But the sensation lasted only a second or two. I hadn't gone 50 yards until the lights seemed perfectly natural, and I never thought of them again. Much more incongruous to me than street lights was the fact that you could publicly use all the sugar you wanted. Even now, weeks after leaving England, I still feel guilty and hope nobody is looking when I put two and a half spoonfuls of sugar in my coffee. That first night in Lisbon I made a beeline for the Negresco restaurant and ordered a big juicy steak. Nobody goes hungry in England, but there is a shortage of certain things. In my last six weeks there I had only one steak. There was just one more item In my restoration to peacetime living. That little item awakened me at dawn my first morning in Lisbon, and almost scared me to death. It was a church bell. And with those few trivial exceptions, I came back to peaceful living as easily as though my emotions had been soaked in oil for the passage. Sorry to be such a dope.
Lisbon Again
One of the American vice consuls in Lisbon is named Bill Cordell. He is a good old boy from Arkansas, with a literary bent and a good sense of indifference to life's petty annoyances. We had become friends when I went through Lis-
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)
ANAUTA HAS FOUND Indiana the land of opportunity. This grey-haired Eskimo grandmother, now Mrs. Ward Adams of 2334 N. Talbott, has been in the United States three vears and in Indianapolis about a vear. Several months ago a book about her was published and things have been breaking right ever since She is busy every minute either speaking or preparing to speak at clubs and lodges all over the State. She also is learning to drive her own automobile.
Anauta has had more than her share of bad luck. Her Eskimo husband was killed in a canoe accident. The furs he left were sold but the money they brought was soon spent And to top her newly found happiness, Anauta isn't worried about her age. Eskimos don’t record time and she has no idea how ‘old she is
What's In a Name?
WHAT MIGHT BE CONSTRUED as a sign of the times is the changing of the Unemployment Compensation Division's name to the Employment Security Division. The reasons for the change are twofold: The old name was considered bad psychologically and it didn't begin to cover the activities of the division. Besides distributing the compensation checks, the
Washington
WASHINGTON, April 3.—In view of the Senate's irresponsible actions in giving Argentine canned beef a kicking around twice in two weeks, one begins to wonder whether this Government is capable of carrying out any kind of intelligent program of foreign relations. Every thinking person must see that never before in our history have we so much needed the good will and co-operation of our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere Without that cooperation, it is not likely that we can successfully carry through the gigantic job we have undertaken. We are trying to make the Western Hemisphere impregnable to attack. That means establishment of naval and air bases and the development of strong defense facilities in Latin America. It means strong and friendly Governments in those countries, Governments as eager as the United States to keep the Axis from making political and economic inroads. We must protect ourselves against economic and political sell-outs to the Axis. That is the minimum defense requirement necessary to protect the Monroe Doctrine—a policy which incidentally has always produced grumbling suspicion in South America but which we insist upon, as Congress has just sait in a joint resolution sent to the White House this week.
Argentina Sits Tight
Furthermore, if we are to go much deeper into the war to achieve the end of “total victory,” more active co-operation will be required, such as is now being sought in seizures of Axis ships all over the Western Hemisphere. It might be noted that although several Latin Governments have followed our lead in seizing Axis ships, Argentina and her immediate neighbors are sitting tight, venting their rage not on the Axis but on the United States Congress which is so unsympathetic toward South American beef. We lend money to South America, but what they see is our refusal to take moderate amounts of tinned beef which they need desperately to export. Twice recently the House has voted a prohibition on purchase of any South American beef for Army and Navy use. Two weeks ago the Senate voted in the same vein, but by a lucky fluke the vote was reversed by
My Day
WASHINGTON, Wednesday—After returning to the train on Monday afternoon, the President and
I had a chance to catch up on the details of his fishing trip. I found that he was very proud that he had been able to prove that trolling from the Potomac was not only possible, but very profitable! TI also discovered that the party had some rather rough days and that one of the chief sufferers, a small dog named Fala, kept his master awake most of one night! Fala, however, seemed to have forgotten whatever hardships he had been through and he greeted me as warmly as any other member of the party. He jumped up on the sofa beside me and demanded a great deal of attention.
As the train pulled out of the Ft. Bragg area, they fired the President's salute and Fala stood with his paws on the window of the back door of the car and as each gun went off he sniffed the air as much as to say: “What new thing is happening that I don’t understand?” They tell me he enjoyed the fishing trip very much when it was smooth, and as soon as the President would say: “Catch a fish now,” his ears would perk up and he would stand expectantly waiting for a fish to be landed. Then, as it flopped on the deck, he would retire a few feet, gather his courage and dash up to inspect it, only to retreat with the next flop.
By Ernie Pyle
bon last November. So this time he asked me to move out and share the new apartment he had just taken. That apartment would almost tempt a fellow to go into the Foreign Service. It had two bedrooms, two dens, a huge living room, a maid's room, and various other nooks and corners, It also had Maria, the Portuguese maid, who considered the day lost when she couldn't do half a dozen extra nice little things for you. And thus, steeped in practically every comfort known to man, I sat and counted off the hours until I could fling all this luxury irom me and get on my way to America. Going to England last fall, I was stuck in Lisbon for 13 days. Coming back, my Lisbon odyssey resolved itself into only eight days of torture. Lisbon is actually a charming place. But when your only purpose in life is to get on to where you're going, and when every hour's delay is an hour of strain and impatience, then even as nice a place as Lisbon becomes a strait-jacket upon your desires, and you finally come to think of yourself as though you were in jail. Truthfully, the hardest part of this whole winter’s trip to the wars was the total of 25 days that I spent just fuming and waiting to get out of one place and on to the next.
Maria's Dilemma The authorization for me to go on the Clipper
came in a trans-Atlantic phone call just four hours|
before the plane was to leave. Somewhat in the state of a headless chicken, I ryshed back to the apartment to pack up. And there found Maria face to face with a dilemma of her own. For unbeknownst to me, she had got into my bag that morning and washed all my dirty clothes. And there they were on the line, wet, and me due to leave in a few moments. Maria was dismayed. But boy it didn’t faze me. What are a few clothes compared to getting home in a hurry? We just left most of them hanging there. Maria put two shirts in the oven and dried them out in a few moments, and I brought them unironed. When we landed in New York I had been wearing the same shirt for six days. Those two shirts finally got ironed by my Aunt Mary in Indiana. Washed in Lisbon, ironed in Indiana—a life like that doesn’t seem tc make much sense, does it? But I like it.
division also operates the State Employment Service and furnishes job information to students and employers.
Fix Proof, All Right
THERE'S PROBABLY a story or two behind the sign which the -Advance Paint Co. has put in its window at Vermont and Capitol. It reads: “Please do not park in front of store between 7 and 9 a. m. We cannot fix stickers.”
Jonah Was a Sissy
URBAN WILDE, editor of the Indiana Real Estate Journal, reports that Willis N. Coval, Union Title Co. president, has made the largest tarpon catch of the Florida fishing season—a 145-pounder. To make the catch more interesting, Mr. Coval landed it from ga rowboat. “That,” writes Mr. Wilde, “gave a fish this size a 50-50 chance of landing the fisherman.”
The Shovel-Leaners
THE INDIANA GAS MODEL Association has been using Stout Field to fly its miniature planes. Recently members’ activities at the field were restricted to Sunday. Several reasons were advanced—national defense, enlarging of the field, etc. But a contributory cause, usually well-informed sources report, is this: A crew of WPA workers has been working on a project at the field. When the baby planes would take off the men could not resist leaning on their shovels and watching the flights.
By Raymond Clapper
one Senator who was not originally recorded against the prohibition. Again this week the Senate’ voted the prohibition in. Although the Administration obtained a compromise through reconsideration, the damage was done. Even the wiping out of the prohibition through high pressure Administration work will not erase the impression in Latin America that the temper of Congress was definitely hostile. The damage is, in the judgment of our State Department officials, incalculable. It is especially to be regretted because there is evidence that this issue is something of a phony, kept alive by vote-hungry Senators.
Cattlegrowers Not Excited
The American National Livestock Association seems to be less concerned about Argentine beef than the cattle-country Senators are, because the association has agreed to make no fuss over importation of up to 20 million pounds of canned beef in the current fiscal year, for Army and Navy use. Cattlegrowers them selves don’t seem to be excited, because investigators
have found that stores and commissaries in the cattle| f § country do a big business selling Argentine anne FLAY beef to ranchers. Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming,
who normally lines up with the cattle Senators, says it is advisable in this abnormal period to permit moderate purchases of foreign beef and wool, and he hes been active in bringing about a reasonable understanding between Government purchasing officials and producers’ organizations. We are engaged, he | says, in a defense effort in which the complete co-| operation of all factors of the population is necessary. It all leaves one wondering how, if Congress creates so much trouble over such a small question, it will be possible for this Government to play any responsible part in shaping postwar conditions. The whole world remembers that the Senate kicked over the League of Nations after our own President set it up. The attitude which Congress has displayed toward foreign beef fits in only with the narrowest policy of isolated self-containment—something which we visualize as difficult and to be accepted only in an extreme situation when no other course is left. In any policy involving world trade, world relations of any kind, Congress will have to co-operate or it can’t be carried out. The time has come when it is doubtful if Senators and Representatives can cultivate votes at any price without risking serious injury to the interests of the nation.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
This was an amusement for Fala, perhaps, but as far as I could find out, it was much more amusement for all the men on board. The President, Miss Thompson and I had dinner together and everyone went to bed fairly early. Our son, Jimmy, was down at the station to greet us yesterday morning and soon after breakfast at the White House, Franklin, Jr., came in. He and Jimmy had lunch with their father and I got what glimpses I could of them in the intervals between a press conference and an hour spent at the National Women's Democratic Club, at the opening of an “Information Course.” 1 talked for a little while on the place of women in defense and then answered questions for the remainder of the time. Mrs. Thomas McAllister was there, back in Washington for the newspaper women’s stunt party last night. She drove back with me and so we had a few minutes of quiet talk. Then Miss Winifred C. Cullis, an English acquaintance who had stayed with us some years ago in Albany, N. Y,, came to lunch with several other friends. At 2 o'clock, Franklin Jr. left again by plane for New York City as he goes to Boston tomorrow to report on Thursday aboard the destroyer to which he has been assigned. He and Jimmy and I were talking about the uncertainties as to the length of service in the reserves, and I was interested to find how calmly they are taking the need for adjustment to whatever situations may have to be faced. It is the kind of spirit we must all develop and I rather think the younger generation is going to be better
Rep. Engel Demands Their
sponsible for
in doing it than their elders.
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Dictators on parade—Italy now sees the dramatic denouement of 19 years of flamboyant fascism.
Mussolini Is Now Germany's Prisoner’
(Continued from Page One) having had many proofs of my friendship for Italy, were reluctant to order my expulsion. The Germans rightly thought that I was no friend of Nazi Germany. Uncensored articles on the defeat and occupation of Italy can be valuable to American readers if they achieve objectivity. In that spirit I hope to describe the extent and manner of German infiltration, why the Italians are incapable of revolution, how fascism as a system destroyed the efficiency of the armed forces, why Mussolini, after a brilliant series of successes, is personally responsible for the tragedy, what happened in Libya, what happened in Greece, what happened in Ethiopia, the actual condition of the Italian people, why fascism cannot work, and finally how the Germans mean to
exploit their new province. = = =
Blame U. S. for Prolonging War THE MOST REMARKABLE change that has come over Italy since the German entry is the country’s attitude toward the United States. The Nazi propaganda machine is deliberately teaching the Italians to mistrust and hate Americans. The newspapers now describe America as 40 per cent Jewish, Roosevelt as an unscrupulous dictator with ambitions for world conquest, the American people as soulless Protestant money-grabbers, too cowardly to fight, but opposed to the Axis out of a feeling of inferiority in the face of the countries that have produced Dante and Goethe, Wagner and Verdi. This propaganda is beginning to have an effect because the essential argument is the face-saving idea that the Italians would already be enjoying peace and victory except for the Americans, who, though unwilling to fight themselves, help England in order to prolong the war and enrich themselves at the expense of an exhausted Europe.
The American Consulates at Naples and Palermo. were closed shortly after the Germans took control in Rome. That was significant, but Washington retaliated by closing two Italian Consulates in America. More important than the expulsion of the consular officials was the fact that the Germans, with deliberate cynicism, persuaded the Italians that those officials were
acting as spies. 5 on 4
Man in the Street Misled THE ITALIAN MAN in the street now believes that American Consular officers signaled to British warships and planes for bombardments at Genoa and elsewhere, though the officers of his government, having taken down on phonograph discs every word or sound heard in those two Consulates, know that the charge is false. This lie is all the more brutal since the absence of any proper American intelligence service is often remarked upon by grateful Axis officers. Its mere mention brings guffaws of laughter from Italian as well as German officials. After the closing of the Consulates a highly placed officer in the Italian War Ministry said to me mockingly: “The American Intelligence Service must be the best in the world, because neither we nor the Germans have ever been able to discover an American spy.” Early in the discussion of the Lend-Lease Bill the Germans persuaded the Italians to undertake demonstrations against the United States. There was a mild and not very catching demonstration before the American Consulate at Turin, but the effort in Rome was called off.
» td ” Even Common Sense Destroyed I THINK THEY failed because the reaction of the Italian public in that period was so instantaneocusly opposed to such a demonstration
that the German secret police thought better of the idea. All Rome knew of the demonstration to be held before the American Embassy five hours before the time fixed for the shouting. In that five hours I heard the same reaction from at least 15 Italians. “When we are being beaten by the Greeks are these madmen going to make us provoke America?” By now I think even that much common sense has been destroyed by the daily pricking of Goebbels’ poisoned pens and the careful preparation of Himmler’s black books. No Italian officer or diplomat can see an American in Rome today without written permission and private citizens are told that they risk having their names written in the Gestapo black book. Most Americans, including your correspondent in his last month there, are followed by detectives wherever they go, and the servants of every American household are questioned daily on all visitors.and their conversa
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Wires in U. S. Embassies Tapped PERSONS ENTERING the American Embassy are stopped by detectives who ask for their papers and take down their names. All American telephones and the walls of the American Embassy and Consulates are tapped with listening devices. The American Ambassador consequently can have no private conversation with any Italian, and indeed it is very doubt ful whether he can consult with Washington without having his coded cables broken. Italy, in short, is German, and its publie must be prepared for Hitler's declaration of . war, as Axis spokesmen sometimes say in Rome, if America begins to make aid to Britain de cisive by convoying armaments directly to Brite ish ports. NEXT-—How the Germans took over Italy.
HOLD EVERYTHING
IN ARMY CAMPS
Ouster if Officers Are Found Responsible.
WASHINGTON, April 3 (U. P). —Rep. Albert J. Engel (R. Mich.) demanded today that officers re“willful, extravagant and outrageous waste” of Federal funds in military cantonment construction be “court-martialed and kicked out of the Army.” He made his charges in an address prepared for delivery in the House this afternoon after the House Military Affairs Committee, now having power to compel attendance of witnesses, resumes its investigation of defense expenditures. The committee recalled Brig. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, new chief of the Army's construction division, to testify on land deals for a Missouri TNT piant. Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) of the Naval Affairs Committee, which is also given special subpena powers in a resolution approved 324 to 1 by the House yesterday, announced that his inquiry will start immediately after Congress’ Easter vacation.
suoka.
point of lini.
Reports reaching Washington all! tend to bear out the forecast that, barring the unexpected, Matsuoka's, pilgrimage to Europe would prove
rater haul—at : 5 wat view of Hitler and Musso- dently expected it would prevent the
Hailing the visit as “the answer” Orient. to the Lend-Lease Act, Berlin were confident that Tokyo| 8roup would respond favorably to could be induced either to carry his Axis hookup and that the rest
Matsuoka Is Wary of Axis And Dissilusioned About U.S.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor.
WASHINGTON, April or war between the United States|said that the Japanese Foreign Mine and Japan depends upon what Hit-
ler will be able to accomplish- not | two points which, upon mere words, however eloquent, | to Japanese Foreign Minister Mat-| {an ce.
hand information on existing cone ditions in Europe.” 3.—~Peace| On excellent authority it can be ister has been completely disillue sioned in recent months on at least to him and te Japan, are of paramount impore One has to do with the attitude of the United States, the other with the course of the European conflict, When Matsuoka signed the pact
{with Rome and Berlin, he confi
least from the
spread of the European war to the He’ believed that the large Rome and | and influential German-American
of the country would take its cus
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“But, Sarge, what do I want with a ‘pill box’? I'm not sick!”
Rep. Engel said in his prepared | address that if civilians were found responsible for the “waste” of taxpayers’ money in camp construction “they should be kicked out of the Government service and prosecuted, if criminal laws have been violated.” The report was devoted to Camp Meade, Md. Camp Meade, Rep. Engel said, originally was planned to house 1195 officers and 22491 men. It was to cost $9,053,187. The plans were revised to house 1414 officers and 24372 men. The cost jumped to $23,117,000.
your chance.
RUSSIAN VESSEL AGROUND SEATTLE, April 3 (U. P.).—The Seattle Coast Guard today reported that the Russian vessel Vorovskii was aground at Cape Disappointment, on the southern Washington Coast,
nurse,
TW A Hunting For Hostesses
KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 3. (U, P.).—Girls, if you want to be an airline hostess, now may be
BRAZIL MAY SEIZE
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 3 (U. P.).—Eight soldiers guarded the 6131-ton Italian freighter Teresa today, awaiting a Justice Department order to seize it. It will be the first seizure of an
ITALIAN FREIGHTER
the war to the South Pacific, thus involving the United States, or to create such a war scare there that this country would not dare intervene either in the Atlantic or in Europe for fear of weakening its own defenses. But Matsuoka, according to information received here, has not been so naive. He may be Japanese, but as a diplomat he hails from Missouri. He is aware that Hitler's promises are like pie-crusts. Before he commits his country to the dangerous adventure his Axis partners are asking it to undertake, he wants to be shown. And he is being shown—but not in the way Hitler and Mussolini had planned. In Berlin he was a vastly interested eye-witness to Hitler's coup
in Jugoslavia and then again to the|
spanking the Fuehrer received at the hands of the fighting Serbs. And he arrived in Rome just in time to
from them
Japan, he therefore figured, might safely advance into the South Pae cific and do to the Dutch East Indies, Indo-China and Thailand (Siam) what the Nazis were doing to Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Jugoslavia. That is to say, while there would be no outright annexa= tions, Japan would bring the entire South Pacific area into her “new order in East Asia’—probably withe out bloodshed or, at the worst, withe out serious fighting. But, somewhat to Matsuoka's astonishment, it seems, American ree action was wholly different from what he had expected. Not only did the United States show its dise pleasure; it showed its teeth. Today, it is said, the Japanese Foreign Minister is convinced Japan will have to fight if she tries to seize control of the South Pacific. Nok
With Uncle Sam calling hundreds of reserve nurses to the colors, Transcontinental and Western Air finds a shortage existing in airline hostesses. To add to the emergency, 25 TWA hostesses are resigning to get married. You don’t have to be beautiful they say—just generally attractive, personable and a registered
Axis powers’ ship by Brazil.
are Argentina and Uruguay. The
(the German passenger ship Babi-
and cargo. The government protested to
legal reparations.”
only other South American countries| Other Italian defeat—this time by armed resistance still offering haven to Axis ships|the British at sea. indications, At Santos it was reported that that Matsuoka will return home as| free an agent as when he arrived. | tonga, 4422 tons, had taken on fuel|No one here believes he is making with his disillusionment over Gerany new promises. trary, to those who have talked with Germany last night for the attack |him in the last few days he has in-| cepted the invitations of Hitler and on the Brazilian steamer Taubate|sisted with evident emphasis that| Mussolini to visit Berlin and Rome, in the Mediterranean, demanding his visit is only to “exchange per-|the track ahead of the dictators that Germany make “moral and sonal greetings with the leaders of|seemed clear. Germany and Italy and gather, first-| blinking all along the line,
The | receive first-hand news of still an-| only would the Dutch put up serious
but they would likely have at their side both the are United States and Great Britain. Thus Matsuoka's disillusionment over the United ‘States coincides
therefore,
On the con- many and Italy. When he signed
up with the Axis last fall and ace
Today red lights are