Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1941 — Page 13
TUESDAY, APRIL 15,
1941
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
DANA
years
Ind I was
ago
One win night a few
dark
vel
in the cabin of a west-
bound airplane high over the rolling hills of southern
Ohio.
of drama to homecoming were se ing t They ha i somehow
For thin
hott
er
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)
CHARLES Ct}
agn Surface
Word h mother had had a
ad
that said tha might not Jive. 1 h taken the first plane from Washington that went toward Indiana
that
afternoon
nd the)
come my
second rok a over
she
thousands never had 1 And for the the full signiaviation science others like me the need for
many
but
I had
flown
hefore
snd
with
too much, for he night to my on a touch scene of my
there
some-
1 don't I was at myself at home accomplish-
intimate con-
1aQ gone
ts home,
TA I
of bigger
E'S NEW JOB a: head the
nas urn out "n
he the largest movement the Chicago levated
man-
heels Mr, the ms € as president 3 Rallwavs when
yovees described
wdline popped out get PWA y Chace 1 ; Rail
next
Loan the
ilanapolis
the
asi
WASHINGTON
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mean
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worsihi
1g booth the press, meeting mural. was and ’ hs of the spirit
al lot of hooey
Il a t stake economworia the United But it will at. becau it
Se regimented
lives
ir harder which
yminant
Not by Bread Alon
People complaint 1 the loss accust like to
ship but wegian, does when he once was his men a|arouna Hitler's
an army
1 not
ing
peoplt ]
n Norway is not ale the med to ch
own countr) he wants them
] bread alone, The hardA Norhis ! aemocratic life, have to check in to Nazi Quislings hange travel about what must have policeto be his own policemen, Germany is maintain-
cqual to one German for
economic
yf Forni ol f freedom
nd jobs, Or Te
he
My Day
BEVERLY HII
Aa
a beautiful in
roll Easter et
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Easter lll
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The erowds in Washington are great.
remember seeing
v &% \ glad that
the house went
from
the cieny
LS Yesterdan
War The
breakfast < atey rece A houquet of and then
people rmuda l with
ol church President We
h
had a number of friends lunch In the after noon I received Senora Najera. wife of the Mexican Ambassador. and Senora Avila Camacho, whose husband brother of the President of Mexico. After that, I received the high school senior class from Staatsburgh, N. Y., which is the village next to Hyde Park. They have been very fortunate in having good weather and 1 am sure enjoyed their trip. I do not I am particularly are out, so that no one
wit us {for
1S
such
so much traffic.
blossoms
who came hoping to see them will go away disap-
pointed
he White House has been filled to capacity with
oh
win
is SO
voung people went out
ight -seers during hh
the all
visiting hours. the public
Mt
and I am sure buildings. Our own Vernon on Saturday
{o
and could not even get inside the house,
By Ernie Fyle Th T Mv mother was conscious, but the stroke had e r
wounded her tongue and she could not speak. I did know until later that she didn't realize who I}
not OL
Copyright, 1941, br 1 and The Chicago
BEYOND THE ITALIAN FRONTIER — Although
he Indianapolis Times was. Daily News, Inc. I staved on and nursed her for many days. I took the night shift, so that my father and Aunt Mary | could get ther sleep. For long hours, after all| the routine sickbed duties were attended to, I would| haaten and ready for sepasit on the edge of her ped, and sometimes she would | reach out for my hand with her one good hand, and] rate peace, Italy now she would hold it tight, but she could not speak, overrun by the Germans And finally she would drop off to sleep, and then | ’ I would sit in the sitting room with the light turned and the chances of revoludim ana my feet up on the base-burner, where Li tion seem small. The possicould see through the door to her room, tb &ces : . My father and Aunt Mary were usually bility remains, however, for two reasons. First, the plight of the Italians as a
1S
up at 5] in the morning, and then I would turn in. 1 had] been there almost a week, and one cold morning had been in bed barely an hour when Aunt Mary came in and awakened me, She was excited. “Your mother has just realized you are home.” | said. “She wants to see you. Get up and come | in quick. She can say a few words.” So I jumped out, threw on my went to her room. Her worn face went smile as I came in, and her eyes shone. She out hand for mine, and I sat on the her bed. and she squeezed my hand almost
st
subject people will become rapidly each week of blustering German rule.
worse with
she
and |
a small | reached | side of | until it
bathrobe, into
Secondly, the Italians are likely in the near future to revise their opinion of the British a decadent tion and of the Americans as a people half cowardly,
her
Always “Too Late”
It was a long time before she could say anything Her words came with great effort, and 1 had lean over and listen closely to make them out. And what my mother said, there so white in her bed.| half naive, who will prove laboring to produce each whispered word, was this . . “p Are —you-—proud—of—me?" incapable of swift and deIn that one blinding moment, I knew that IT had| gigive intervention. come too late. I knew that inside, I had always] been too late, A great choking hatred of myself | over me, and I could only squeeze her hand,| Selves remarkably tactful the her a slap on the knee, and say “You bet I'm/| first phase of conquest of cud of you.” | Italy, but they are preparing alAnd then I ran to my own room and, I think| readv a second and more brutal for the first time in more than 20 years, lay on my | phase. The Gestapo is in charge and wept. | of the Italian pol but the I went alone vesterday to the graveyard, and| wholesale orresis inet always go stood in the sharp wind er my mother's grave,| with police rule have not been with its flowers put there on a recent day when I| started was ac the ocean | Onlv in &a And as I stood there it seemed to me that she| {he Germans and 1 were all alone in the world, and I could speak | obiectors and away ime ies Sho ite Xs only one thing I could sayv| portant, ol important, Too late. Mother. Italians, 1 have an Italian freind and I couldn't tel) of good family and influential know I was | connections who worked for years It brief. I could not bear the | With Wg Ovra or secret 1taiian na put on my dark glasses and drove town | pO dpe. Ee oehby Ute Sprans 5p a loaf of bread for supper, and drove i gg om wi it I er as though 1 had not been anywhere special CRS ot te ity nothing had happened | ee Ks 11) % Rome Atel ye S Ovra ti his
re 1s exceptional
as
na-
{o
The Germans have shown themin
give
pl
the
bed ea 10€,
N . : vet
I'OSK
instances have Italian
few overruled spirited heretofore
You
you
waited a But I was,
time for it, always You was it, I got in to
home i
Yor Hs 1
1 l th tl
nd It 1ad had our ritual [ will Others may
1e discover
ied
I'his
to whatever
ad
mystic form it final communion. Beyond that lies only
never go again to my mother's grave. | un
” not understand why. But she does. List Undesirables
THE FUTURE is now owed bv the preparation : tworthy Ital these lists verv ministry in them first from ers the min-
marine
mav have heen. we
\ whe
Aoouts
on
foreshadcareful of ict r
of “untru
{ 1ans. I have learned of from Italian Rome. 1 high ranking istries of war The German officers tered the Minist officers and then complete the archives | names of
1S | ceivably
in e day and laid the groundwork for : a transaction without precedence The Railways staff is going to his resignation was announced an in the Terminal Building
ing Life's Biggest Attraction 'HERE'S A 77-YEAR-OLD LADY should have been a reporter—her that good Last week office Keep me alive ‘I just have
a $3,000,000 loan— | heard of
offic and
. In nus [he day elevator operator
found a charwoman weep-
s him
who enas liaison gradually took are going into and fil to find the Italians who are conpatriotic than friendly to Germany I'hese cers who plans for
ries
control
| se + know who €S
for news
we nose
more
she made a special trip to her doctor's
offi-
orders,
include Italian under
defense
lists prepared, Italy's in the event of German invasion, rail- | way execut who complained | against of Italian rolling stock Germans, communi- | cations who warned of
this it
Pat-on-the-Back De pt. FAXICAB DRIVERS aren't our favorite motori
but there's one who deserves a pat He saw a little girl—4 or 5 vears old—trving to s Pennsylvania at St. Joseph St. He stopped his cab, thus halting traffic, and escorted the child across the street. Unperturbed by honking horns. he returned to cab and drove away before we could catch his
hi umber
until how
war's comes out.”
over, asked
she
10 see
Ves ol the seizure by experts
on the back
URGES TAX ON EVERY INCOME
By Raymond Clapper
re
"
All Should Contribute
Defense, Says Senator Edwin Johnson,
WASHINGTON Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D Colo.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, proposed today that the tax structure be thoroughly revised so that every person who receives income pay some Federal income tax He explained expect people brackets to pay cent, the tax In excess of personal But he indicated that with very incomes “loken not favor come tax,” he said I would advocate a aduated under which those in the higher income hrackets would bean a proportionately greater burden But I think contribute to the and I think the are willing to do it tically asking Congress them “IF 1 my would be taken in Congressional ning new tax legislation expected to bring in $1.500.000,000 to £2.000,000,000 annually in new revenue Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D N,. C) the House Ways and Means Committee, said his group would hold meetings soon to consider the measure, Representative the committee consider payroll and ably
of
to
each 10
Norwegians, plus a Gestapo force of 10.000 Love of freedom and independence is hard to exterminate in a people that has known it In Holland, Dutch leaders are requesting the people to refrain from demonstrations on the anniversary of the Nazi invasion. Germans recently executed a number of Dutch citizens in reprisal fot of resentment against the invaders Is more than economics in all of t was more than economics in the Irish for freedom from English rule. Some of the bloodiest wars of history have been fought over religion, with economics only a minor factor Fhis world has been made completely unsafe for most small nations. If they happened to exist neal Germany, their existence was precarious. no matter how inoffensive they tried to be.
A Normal Existence Among respect for Stat
vond that
April 15 (U. P)) outbursts There there
the
his just
"as long fight
Of
would low much on
he the
that in
as
not income as 4 per income now exemptions even people should be payment of a fal
. f ieviea
tia 3 low Ne [age nations
none has exercised more the rights of small nations that the United Our record is not perfect but it is so far beof most other nations that it seems almost comparison. Our interest in the world situapartly an economic self-interest. but bevond Is our desire for a free, peaceful world in which can live a normal existence. Living a normal exISLENCe means enjoying not only economic comfort but also what Americans cherish above everything else the right to do as they damned please. so long as they bother no one eise. We remain the most individualistic of the large nations. We have accepted larger government controls during the last few vears with much and only because we were driven to it free discussion, the right to choose our governing officials, the right to influence public policies, the right to go to a church of our own choosing, or none if we prefer It is for all of these things, as much as for economic well-being, that we are preparing to defend ourselves. There are spiritual values as real to most Americans—though thev are slightly ashamed to talk about as anything physical So I like to see going up in our new War Department Building this mural which will always remind us of what it is we arm to protect
subiected “1 am
to a in
m-
oo)
lp SCALE
we evervone ought to
defense program American people hey are pracand I think accommodate
for it ought to reluctance had We want
way evervbody
leaders are plan-
of
it
Doughton undoubtedly would general sales taxes and taxes, but that individual corporate income taxes probwould bear the major burden the anticipated increases Senator Walter F. George Ga.). who will probably handle tax legislation In the Senate in the absence of Chairman Pat Harrison (D. Miss.) of the Senate ¥F)nance Committee, has proposed a 100 per cent increase Individual income taxes. Under proposal individual taxes would be raised from 4 to 8 per cent and corporate taxes from 24 to 30 per cent Senator George does not believe the income tax base should be lowered. He said it would bring in-! creased costs of collection which would probably counterbalance any | new revenues,
BUTLER ALUMNI CLUB It proves I suppose, that no matter what we human | 70 HEAR PROFESSOR
beings do that is wrong or stupid, the power that is! Members of the Butler Alumni God believes eventually we may grow better, For Club of Indianapolis will hear Prof. all of us, therefore, there is renewed hope which must | George A. Schumaker, alumni secnever fail us either as individuals or as nations. retary of the university and a My trip was a little uncertain, for I had been told | member of the English Department we would probably be delaved by thunderstorms, but | faculty, at their monthly dinner I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience | meeting at 6 p. m. in the Canary and accept the inevitable. Therefore. I said a little| Cottage tomorrow, prayer that I would arrive in time at both ends of Prof. Schumaker's film, “Scenes this journey, and thus far things seem to have gone|of Indiana Literature,” will be fairly well. ' shown, '
said
By Eleanor Roosevelt (D
the Yesterday
afternoon. 1 left Washington hy plane Los
Angeles. Weddings seem to fill my davs just and 1 am here for my son Jimmy's wedding to a sweet and lovely girl, Romelle Schneider. His orders will take him to the Pacific fleet very shortly so T had to make this flying trip. which seems verv strenuous
or now
very
in 11s
In these days one does almost the impossible for a 2limpse of some one whom one may not see for a long time, particularly at important times in their lives. I am well repaid for the trip, not only by being with Jimmy and Romelle and their friends. but by seeing Anna and John Boettiger, who came down from Seattle for the occasion. The Easter service yesterday gave me a sense of what tremendous faith people all over the world must have in order to believe there is a God with enough understanding and love to continue renewing hope through the symbol of the resurrection.
British parachute f{roops . ..
unfair German tactics, undersecretaries of ti Ministry Corporation who, discovered German plans that Italian dustry—every short, has not had spirit of a Quisling. ]
10 of THUS EVEN a whose only sin is and dislike automatic
prejudiced mn-
one. in who of
in recent years the
horities on behalf When the wholes the Italians will not Germans or I'hese
being who
fe
long lists are Italy heen unil 3 1 { who have snubbed the Embassy. Fu names from n omes
the like
In addition prepared of have Nazis German are
0 01 arrests moment when, venes the realize that
rther
waiters i if
\
garnered
cafes servants in private
telephont barbers and Rome
ladie
I'he best couffeur in fad
the
Italian persuaded a decadent men like the late berlain, and they America German
public that
dressed the hair of Roman Minister and
recently
sealatlity the nobili
he iiploma
corps left Rome's most place as Army
Of
hotel to resume his German numbei
Chiel men as Col bergh and Wheeler, who have enormous publicity
chic a colonel He must
names
in the have quite a add to Gestapo Heinrich Himmler's hi Italians who ought be to concentration victory While they prepare the and bide their time the Germans have introduced a remarkably clever and un-Itahian police Any relative friend who intervenes with the authorities on behalf an Italian arrested by the Gestapo or Orva automatically an accomplice by that act
Negley D. Coc
mtentions,
to st Of
taken off
until
to camps worldwide
Hitler's 18
list
been tempered rue or with “Hurricanes,” of Mediterranean name at
the
becomes
Limes Special Justice Holmes,
Oo
services
in April 15.—Double
held
TOLEDO,
funeral here to
tice Brandeis Killits
were day D Scripps-Howard editor, and his wi Mrs death preceded his hy a I'hnev had been married since 1886 Mr. Cochran did not live hear of what he might have regarded as the greatest victory of his long newspaper career. This was the United preme Court decision, announced yesterday in Washington, which appears to have curbed the power of Federal judges to hold newspapers in contempt commenting on Court cases The decision established 23 vears case in which Mi Scripps-Howard paper which he edited for many vears, the Toledo News-Bee, were principals In 1914 Mr. Cochran published an editorial and cartoon bearing on a Toledo railway franchise matter then pending before Federal Judge John M. Killits I'oledo Judge Killits editor and
for Negley Cochran, veteran should not
1€ as
Nettie Moore Cochran, whose [ter which may
few hours. sonal feeling.”
to the Supreme Court's Brandeis new tice Douglas, held
contention
States Su-
court
for by indictment. reverses a doctrine ago in a noted Cochran and the
out indictment Mr. Cochran last Decembe won national
or horn at
street to 1918
he Day
of also was editor
Bock, a
cited the the paper for contempt The case was carried to preme Court, and in 1918 a ma jority written bv the late Chief White upheld Judge Killits’ action. While not actually committed in the judges’ presence the decision said, the newspaper's publication “was so near the presence of the Court that it constituted contempt by embarrassing him in the case pending.”
the
Cy oll
Ww in 1911
to New
Scripps decision Called Justice until a
vear ago,
edo.
crusading
editor
HOLD EVERYTHING
Nerves Shattered
father talian patriotism German arrest if he attempts to ire a lawver or appeal to (he au-
Italians ultimate German victory is problematical at best. honestly British nation represented by) Neville still believe that monev-mad,
received
da
accuser and sole judge involve strong
Yesterday's decision eigint members agreeing with the Holmesof majority opinion, read by Justhat proper conduct occurring away from| the immediate vicinity of a Federal is punishable only under the Criminal Code and must be preceded
re fi
recognition vigor and effectiveness of his policies as editor of the News-Bee from 1903 For five vears of this period : of newspaper vertising established by the late E.
York member of the Scripps-Howard editorial board. Mr. Cochran lived there when quished his active duties because of failing health and returned
“The Italians have revised their attitude of Anglo-Saxons,
of a man
rule risks
of his son
ale arrests begin like either the their methods will America
begin In a interwill slowly The been
were
Cham-
blind to divided in-
ternally and represented by such Charles Senator
A. LindBurton K an
thanks to
German control of propaganda. The attitude of the Italians in the face of British decadence has somewhat reports of pilots who have fought naval who have matched gunnery fleet which Italians scoffed--and finally by the simple peas-
by the
officers
with once a
strong dis-|
senting opinion signed also by Jusdeclared have acted
Judge both
that
in a mat-
per-
five of present
found
1918. The
alleged im-
| saults This is precisely the principle for which Mr. Cochran contended when he fought Judge Killit's power punish him and his paper for contempt under the Judicial Code, withjury
to
trial
vears ago
Martins Ferry. O.,
by the
the Chicago without ad-
in 1318 as a
he relin-
to To-
An early friend attracted to the was
Clarence
| editorials about me and
COPE. 1981 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG U.S PAT OFF
“He used to pole vault for Notre Dame!” ;
for such men the arjump=
who has heard about of British parachute
ant rival ers. People beyond the frontiers of Italy can scarcely imagine the effect on Italian nerves of reports that the British. were dropping down from the skies. The attempt to destroy the aqueduct that supplies two southern provinces with water was badly botched that the supply ran again after two and a half days, but the effect from the point of view propaganda far exceeded that mterruption,
" u ” Contempt for U.S. THE ATTITUDE, moreover, of captured British parachutists 1s known to Italians and impressed them. In one prison camp they have already dug their way out twice only to be recaptured in rach instance by sheer inadvertence When asked what they would have done had they gotten away from the camp safely, these men answered with a contempt that the Italian himself admires. “We would have stolen a warship from the Royal Italian Navy,” they said Most amusing of all, these British parachute jumpers speak both Italian and German. One group I know of made the villagers
SO
of brief
lawyer, who later Neg what
Darrow, the Chicago said of him 35 years “When 1 first met he was fighting for ‘the common man We this because he always gets the worst of it. We have kept on fighting for him. Neg hates injustice and wrong and bigotry. He hates carping criticism. More than all, he hates tyranny and oppression and cruelty. To my way of thinking there are few men who write as well as Negley Cochran does.”
Cochran we call call him
Fought Corruption
Mr, battles for
“the
Cochran's man” political
many included corruption utility tactics which considered contrary to the general welfare, He fought to establish the rights of organized labor, at a time when labor had little of its present power. His activities brought him into close association with Mayor “‘Golden Rule” Jones of Toledo. Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, Newton D. Baker and many other lead-
common against against
and public
he
win
| |
|
as- |
|
ers in the struggle for better gov-|
into inost
They brought him with forceful enemies,
ernment conflict
as fear him Mr. Coch an was a frequent and vigorous opponent of Henry L. Doherty. the utilities magnate, who bad great power in Toledo. Buf in 1929 Mr. Doherty wrote: “Neg Cochran can he a friend and a bad enemy, know this from personal ence. He has written some has tnat
good
gested some cartoons although I have been tempted to shoot him full of holes for the trouble he has made for me, I have never failed to realize that he longs to the aristocracy of brains.” Many successful newspapermen got their start or their early encouragement under Mr. Cochran Carl Sanaburg, the poet and biographer of Lincoln, was a reporter for him on the Chicago Day Book Believed In Cartoons
He was a firm believer in the car-
and I| experi- | nasty | sug-| have | { spoiled my appetite for dinner, but
he- |
| 4—Sir
toon as a powerful form of editorial
cartoonists inthe News-
expression. Among troduced to fame from Bee were the late Sidney
creator of "Andy Gump’. the
Smith, | late
Walter Allman, who crew a highiy|
| popular comic strip, “The Doings of |
the Duffys,” and Harold M. Talburt |
of the Scripps-Howard newspapers,
a Pulitzer Prize winner.
CAMACHO ASKS UNITY
MEXICO CITY, April 15 (U, P). —President Manuel Avila Camacho, in a Pan-American day radio speech last night, urged American nations
sive collaboration.” The day exprssed Pan-American solidarity and was a “formal
{to “exert intense action for defen- |
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at-| The Indianapolis
the respect even of Fascists, their dynamite to the bridge that they successfully destroyed. Their contempt for the talian and their attitude of cuffing him into obedience is perfect« lv understood in the peninsula, The Italians have revised their attitude in regard to Anglo-Sax-ons. Such men win the respect even of Fascists Toward America the whole of Italy still feels contempt If American troops should arrive in Europe and prove themselves courageous and efficient the Itale lan attitude would change overnight Confidence ganda is successful however propaganda Once the Germany
carry
in Fascist propaalready gone and some action by Americans, small, would destroy that, lie with all the rest. Italians believe that can be defeated the country will be ready, in my opinion, for revolution The Italians are too shrewd believe that Britain alone can withstand the hammer blows of Hitler. And they have been persuaded by propaganda that Americans are cowards. Once this is exploded Italy will prove a foot= hold for anv troops who can attempt the defeat of Nazi Germany.
to
THE END
hran, Crusading Toledo Editor, \VANNUYS THINKS Wins One of Greatest Victories After Death PACT WILL HELP
Says Russ-Japan Treaty Based on Fear: One Of Few Optimists.
Times Special WASHINGTON, April 15 — Sen. Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) was one of the few members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who today took an optimistic view of the new Russian-Japan non-ag-gression pact. “In my opinion that pact will help and not hinder our foreign policy,” Sen. VanNuys said. “For it is aimed directly at Hitler and based on Stalin's growing fear of attack by Nazi Germany. “I se no reason why we shouldn't feel that it is Hitler who has lost by that pact and not Britain or the United States.” Sen. VanNuys said he hasn't made up his mind in regards to the Tobey anti-convoy resolution now pending in the Foreign Relations Committee. “1 am against convoys. but 1 do not know if the Tobey resolution is the way to prevent them,” he de-
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‘President. Roosevelt probably will find our shipping attacked en route to the Red Sea, despite the fact that he has declared it a non-combat zone. That may lead to trouble, but right now 90 per cent of our people are against sending a new A. E. F, to take part in any foreign wars.”
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1-—-Which weighs more—the skel= eton, or the muscles of the hue man hody? 2—Porpoises are reptiles, mammals or fish? 3—Who was Secretary of the Navy during Herbert Hoover's AdmineIstration? Johnston Forbes-Robertson was a British author, actor or painter? 5—With what invention is the name George M. Pullman idene tified? 6—The pitch of a horn or bell on a fire engine is higher whea it is approaching the listener, or ree ceding? Answers 1—Muscles. 2—Mammals. 3—Charles Francis Adams. 4—Actor. 5—Pullman cars. 6—Approaching.
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