Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1941 — Page 13

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941

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ndianapolis Times

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Hoosier Vagabond

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, April 17.—We flew high and we flew fast. It was as though the little men in the clouds were in friendly conspiracy with the plan, and were blowing and pushing us along with a gleeful benevolence. Sundown came, and we rushed the dark tops of the Sandias and dropped down Sages over the fantastic lights of the = valley, nearly an hour ahead of 3 time. When at last our wheels 3 touched the runway it all seemed * Wik 3 strange and untrue, for this was PN wwe the goal—this the place I had : 4 hi really been coming toward for the Eo 1% - ¥ Jast 11,000 miles. 9X A man whom I had seemed to know in some other life met me at the airport and we drove out into the night, and I could hear him speaking but I didn't know what he said. And we came finally to a knoll at the edge of town—a once-bare knoll up on the mesa, a knoll where vou can stand and look westward for 80 miles. 1 had seen that knoll before. For I remember that all on an Indian Summer's afternoon I had found that knoll, and stepped it off, and signed some papers. and drawn some sketches on the back of an envelope. That was a long time ago. And now we came again to that knoll in the darkness, but the knoll was no longer bare, for on it stood a little white house, and there was a light on the porch, and somebody appeared to be in residence. So I rang -the bell, and from inside I could heat a gong like a cuckoo clock. I thought crazily to myself, “I own that damn bell, what do you think of that?” Then the lady of the house came to the door, and bade me enter and divest myself of travel dust, the while she prepared a potion of encouragement for my weary spirits and a spot of sedative for my confused brain,

That Girl Again

And as the clouds of bewilderment began to clear away, I saw that I was home—the new house on the knoll was our house—and the lady in residence was that once familiar Girl Who Now Has Not Ridden With Me for Six Months For five vears have lived from the hack end nf a car. Our few helongings have been in storage When we registered at hotels, we had to give an office address as our residence. When our car got too full, we would strew suitcases with friends across

Inside Indianapolis And

NOW THAT THE SUN is beating down again and summer is just around the corner, we'd like to toss out our pet idea again: A Municipal Zoo for Indianapolis Thought forgotten it, didn't you? Inside Indianapolis brought it up last vear, and even went so far as io obtain for the City the pledge of complete co-operation from the State Conservation Department. Here's {he proposal: If the City will provide the ground and build the cages, etc, we can get an almost complete stock of native Indiana animals from the State. The cost, according 1o experts, ought not to run much over $1000 Inside Indianapolis’ plan: Charge 5 cents admission on Saturdays. Sundavs and holidays Week dave free. The income will not only help pay for the upkeep but for the zoo's expansion as well How abhonut

The Hecklers— FEW OF THE SPECTATORS af the tennis ex hikition matches this week noticed the personality clash between tenni¥’ most temperamental player and some of the lacal society set. The folks whe had one of the choicest hoxes were enjoying themselves immensely—making side bets on every game and giggling hilariously. When Don Budge took the court against Bill Tilden, the red-haired professional champ threw several sidelong glances at the merry-makers. The merry-makers were not impressed. But when the first set was over. Budge pointed his racquet at the box and strode over. “If you people are trying to heckle me, youre certainly succeeding,” he said. Six faces blushed as one.

Washington

MEXICO CITY, April 17.—Although I have flown thousands of miles, I never cease to wonder at

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mans this experience of stepping into an airplane and having time and distance telescoped almost out of eXxistWe have not vet grasped the mighty fact that this conquest of the air is one of the towering events of history, something that is changing our world completely. As time moves on and permits us to look back, I think we shall see that the real revolutionists of the modem age were not Karl Marx and Lenin hut the Wright brothers. Their mvention has shaken the British Empire to its foundations. It has made Hitler possible, It has made American isolation impossible. Nothing like this has happened since the mvention of gunpowde! This sleek, shining mass of machinery that we call the airplane makes it possible to be here today and there tomorrow in a sence that would have left George Washington dizzy, A few weeks ago I was obliged to make a quick trip from Washington to Memphis, Tenn, After breakfast at home in Washington, I drove to the airport, left on an 8:30 a. m. plane. By 2 p. m. I was in Memphis, I spent the afternoon and evening there, boarded a return sleeper plane at midnight, and was back at home in Washington before daylight. I met the milkman at the door. I slept two hours and then had breakfast with my family, Airplane Magic In other words, I had gone halfway across the continent, spent an aftermoon and evening at my destination on the bank of the Mississippi River, and returned to Washington without even skipping breakfast at home. It was as if I had merely stayed downtown for one evening. missing dinner at home. On this present trip. I left Washington at 1 o'clock

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday —We arpived in (ireenshore, N. C. on time vesterdax A plane sent over hy the Charlotte News Publishing Co. which was sponsoring my lecture, was waiting on the field. The College for Women at Greensboro had sent a few representatives to greet me with a v2 box of flowers, and the local radio man was also there with a microphone so I could say a few words of greeting before starting on the other plane for Charlotte. All this was done very rapidly, and then we climbed into the smaller plane wtih a delightiul young pilot and reporter from the News who acted as one of our hostesses during the day. We were soon looking down on the fields and woods of North Carolina. It semed more like summer than spring. The flowers were all out and the dogwood was in full bloom. Somehow or other, this “little” trip to southern California and then to North Carolina, seems to have robbed me of that first feeling of spring ereeping over the landscape, There was No sign of spring the last time T was Hyde Park and suddenly, when T was back in Washington, everything was out—magnolias, forsvihias, daffodils: evervthing seemed in full bloom overnight! Perhaps, when I get back to Hyde Park

ence.

By Ernie Pyle

the country. We saw so many places that when we took a vacation we never knew where to go. And then we decided to alter that. We decided to create some place where That Girl, when it was] impossible for her to travel with me, could be master | of her own time; a place where she could sit alone with her piano and her cold coffee and among her books in the solitude of that first hour after dawn | which she loves so much. We decided, in fact, to] put a small root into the dry desert sands which | have pulled us since we first saw them together | many vears ago. | And so it was done. A modest place, to say the least, was ordered. Last fall I spent exactly half an hour with two Albuquerque contractors—Earl Mount | and Arthur McCollum—and then I flew away. | Neither That Girl nor myself ever saw the place until it was finished. 4 The cold-blooded contractors took advantage of our absence bv adding a score of little things they | weren't obliced ta do. What they built us was in| the nature of a minor gem. That Girl leaned heavily upon them for tutorship during the winter, and for companionship too, and they have become among | our closest friends. We always seem lucky that way. |

The Road Beckons Again

The house will not change our life, nor our profession. We will gad around just as much as ever.

The house is purely a whim, for we will be here no more than one month of the year. But a guy who is all bent over with years and tattered from much handling and nonplussed by events, surely is entitled to one little whim. Don’t you think? Throughout the winter, That Girl experimented and moved and shoved things about, she pounded and bought and created. It used up the winter for her. It occupied the long months of wating and wondering. When at last I came, I ‘entered a house | warm with being lived in. Now we sit and stare at each other. She seems! somewhat of the opinion that I am a ghost, and she walks around and around, and appraises me. For my part, IT admire and acclaim the genius of

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her winter's arranging, but still feel an intruder | upon her davs. : Even the re-creation of an old companionship | takes a little time. By the end of the week I'll probably get over saying “Yes ma'am” to her. :

And then just when it has all become familiar CONVENTIONS and I learn to remember which drawer my shirts are | ! in. then we will step into the ear and ride aut into COMING 10 CITY the world once more. Just in a few more days now. | |

T11 bet itl be fun to get on the road again, together.

“Our Town") More Than 60,000 Dele: | gates Likely to Spend Here and Theve $2,500,000.

THE RED BUD bush should be in full bleom Indianapolis is heading for anoth- | throughout Brown County and elsewhere next week- | or boom this summer—a convention | end. For some reason, not fully explained, the blos- | boom | soms this spring are blood red—much deeper hue | Seventy-one conventions, with an than in previous seasons. One of the explahiations estimated 63000 delegates, are] is that the drought might be partly responsible. The scheduled for the city between May | superstitious might think otherwise. . . . Jack Keating, |1 and Labor Day. | the Capitals’ star, likes the United States so well he's| These conventions will bring at| taken out citizenship papers. Now he’s about to | est ice BS ey Sven on be drafted, which wouldn't hayg happened if he had Spa a ° Si) rw, p as ny remained a Canadran subject. ® . Governor Schricker Ver been Te or 1? hd th wants to see the Indiana quarters at Camp Shelby Summer months. And usuafly he <0 badly he may give up his role as a ground-lubber Convention Bureau regards and fly down. ,.. And as race day rolls around again, the prospects that the Indiana Ave, bridge will be unable are bleak as ever, The State-Wide|

6000 to 8000 delegates come to town, | This is good news

. .. The State parks expect as have those who came here i the past, they will $40 apiece, or more

meet the needs of 1960

a bumper crop of bicyclists this season. spend around

than $2,500,000

ends. : , | gs, Indiana State Teachers’ Conven-|

tion, important meetings scheduled |

tional Council of Social Studies and | the Modern Danguage of America. Approximately 1000] persons are scheduled te attend the) Social Study meeting while 'delegutes are expected for the Lan-| guage session which is to be held between Christmas and New Year's.

convention-goers to visit Indianapo-

Dramatic Club, Indianapolis’ oldest society of that, “Things just broke this way for The Dramatic Club opens to morrow night at English’s with Clare | He pointed out that conventions) same thing. It's going to be fun seeing how many| Diggest of the conventions booked started. | Five thousand persons are sched-afternoon-—before 6 p. m.—I was in this hotel room ciation contest, Aug. 5-9; 2500 for hours is now routine traveling. tors’ Association session, May 13-15. Chicago. Now we are flving bombers to England in 12 for the delegates attending the Jatter convention will be held late | True, the aurplane is being put to inhuman work, It has SW ; mage warfare nto J arge of the race during the reversion to the primitive and barbarous days when | it might be put serving civilization instead of de- from the convention standpoint, | when, slow and wheezy, it just barely spanned the sense enough to organize a peace. Its civilian uses made the common mode of travel. Its use for light Here is something for American enterprise to shoot lis during 1941—approximately twice las many as came here during 1940.

The Play's the Thing altogether. kind, and the Civic Theater, one of the oldest of its us” Henry T. Davi, secretary-man-kind in the country, finally happened to choose the ager of the Indianapolis Conven|reason for the convention boom. Boothe's “Kiss the Boys Goodbye,” the farce comedy were obtained a vear or so in ad-| that kids the movies’ Jong hun® for Scarlett O'Hara, [vance and that “this seemed to be old arguments about respective merit will be settled | Der this summer is the national Shrine meeting to be held June 8-11. | pected to attend the convention, the first held here since 1919, | uled for the national convention of in the morning, went to bed in § berth that slept like the Loyal Order of Moose; 1000 for here in Mexico City. Mountains, rivers, and desert all the American Veterinary Medical look alike to the airplane. From the capital of the Association meeting, Aug. 11-15, and American and British officials are hopping back| Special automobile races will be and forth across the Atlantic and it is scarcely any held at the Indianapolis Motor hours——and scores of them have crossed with a single 'Shrine, Moose, Veterinary, National loss so far as is known. [Postal Supervisors and American| in September, | this Wa) | Wilbur Shaw, three times winner structive forces of all time. Shrine convention. invading armies butchered captive peoples. Fvil as) More Due in Fall ! this is, still it demonstrates the power of the ai plane stroving it. | Mr. Davis said. That opportunity will come after this war continent. The airplane can be made a potent police weapon can be multiplied infinitely, We shall have enormous facilities for manufacturing planes, We shall have freight can be extended to revolutionize business, methods. Airplane travel can be made relatively safe! at after the war is over. American leadership in com- | : : mercial aviation alveady is established, As for future And he is hard at work how lin. ing up conventions for 1942 and]

IT WAS ROUND ta happen sooner or later. The Called a ‘Break’ came play at about the same time ‘tion Bureau, said in explaining the] On Friday, May 9, the Civic comes out with the |Indianapolis’ year.” | by this coincidence. And how many new ones are | fore than 95000 Shriners are ex5000 Moose Expected | a bed at home, woke up in Dallas, Tex, and by late the National Skeet Shooting AssoUnited States to the capital of Mexico in less than 17 2000 for the Indiana Funeral Direcmore of a trip than traveling from Washington to Speedway to provide entertainment The Post War Opportunity Bar Association conventions. The| it, 1s serving as one of the greatest ae- |r the Speedway race, will have a frightful kind of mass massacre of civilians, in a and suegests the enormous constructive use to which A good fall is also in prospect) Aviation is where the railroad was in Lincoln's day for international peace if the surviving nations have thousands of pilots and mechanics. The plane can be and much cheaper and faster than it is now, development, the sky is the limit. * | 1043.

By Eleanor Roosevelt FISH OIL PLANT IS NORWAY RAID. GOAL

May, 1 shall get that first sense of J ap» ¥ (U ) The awakening again in the trees, fields and marshes. a Or: - - Br : s Ii | As we came through Virginia this morning, one aver on a tiny Norwegian ham- | hillside seemed ‘te me particularly beautiful, The ja; jast week-end was directed at a | leaves on the trees were pale green and a soft reddish | fsh oil factory whose output was brown. In between, some kind of white blossom peing used by Germany in manufac glistened and the purple of the judas tree was every- | ture of’ explosives, the Norwegian where in sight. | Admiralty reported today. Yesterday afternoon, we visited two heusing proj- | The raid was reported “completeects on the outskirts of Charlotte; one for colored ly successful” and all machinery in people and one for white people in the low income the factory was said to have been group. THEY were nite houses and very much ap-! smashed. preciated by the tenants, who are already in them.| The raid, made the night of The rents are reasonable and everyone seems very April 11-12, was carried out “enhappy. tirely by Norwegian personnel,” the There is a big playground for the children near | Admiralty said. The scene of the both projects and a good deal of equipment had] raid was Oeksfjord, between Hamalready been placed in the one near the project for|merfest and Tromsoe in northern white people. The playground in the project for| Norway. Negroes had very little equipment, but I hope that CRE RRAREE GARE tocoe. PAARL I this is only temporary and that it is going to be possi- LINDBERGH TO SPEAK ble to give the colored children a similar opportunity] NEW YORK, April 17 (U, P).— for recreation, It seemed to me that in both projects |The America First Committee announced today that Col. Charles A.

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life

‘ridge. New

All told, Mr. Davis expects 150,000] ~

there were a great many children and anything that can be done to make life pleasanter for them is valu- | Lindbergh would be the principal able in making the projects a success, speaker at an April 23 rally in New I stopped in the Red Cross worktrooms for a few | York in an effort to arouse nationminutes. and was toid that they have 2000 volunteersial opposition to the eonvoving of entolled. T shall teil vou about the rest of my day

in Charlotte, N. C, in tomorrows column, the lease-lend law,

United States supplies abroad under |

1. All of nature in these parts needs a big, long drink of water as a sort of chaser for one of the driest winters in recent vears. Streams around here are nearly at August levels, not hoisterous as they should be in the spring, and as they generally are. The lack of moisture is serious to the farmers, ton. White River at Broad Ripple frequently is even with the dock floor of the Green City Boat House, according to Kenneth Drake, but look at it this year!

2. And see how lazy and midsummerish White River appears looking north from the bridge over ald Road 31. It shrinks in its banks as though It was at the end of a pretty dry summer,

3. Last spring at this time water :

was pouring over this dam four feet deep. The level of the stream, thus, was four feet high on the stone wall in the background. Now it just trickles over. In some places streams are almost stagnant,

State's Congressmen In Washington.

WASHINGTON, April 17. Mem-

bers of the Benjamin Harrison Me- |

morial Commission will meet in the office of Senator Frederick VanNuys

eeds A Big Drink After Dry Winter

: to the mer- { Highway Planning Survey teports that 60 per chants, hotel and restaurant men, | ME cent. of the State Highway system is inadequate to for if the delegates spend as much | nj | — —

of m

NEW YORK, April 17 (U.P) the costs his

actresses in

operating

aintaining lavish

| Joseph M. Schenck, the movie execu - |

eel tive who contended that Commission to Meet With ve 31,000.00 Yacht. |

apartments and buying his friends’|

| Iunehes were expenses,” today

te a

(D. Ind.) tomorrow afternoon to de-|

cide on the final draft of bills to carry out the commission's recommendations, it was announced here today by Stephen C. Noland, Indianapolis, commission chairman. The recommendations provide for a T00,000-acre Benjamin Harrison Memorial Forest in Southern

In-|

of in

“necessary business was found guilty early of Federal income tax viotions. He is liable to a maximum sennee of 10 vears imprisonment, and $20,000 fine. The poor Russian emigrant boy 48 years ago, whose first job was a drug store in New York's

Chinatown and whose first business

venture was a

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beer concession at e end of a Manhattan trolley line

when trolley riding was a favorite sport, was found quilty of having] evaded more than $250,000 in taxes| ;

diana; establishment of a Memorial!

Forest Institute in Marion county, and taking over the Harrison home in Indianapolis by the Federal Government Mr. Noland, accompanied bv his wife and two sons, are visiting here Mrs. William H. Schlosser, Franklin, who is a Commission member, is here attending the D. A. R. convention. Other members of the Commission are J. Russell Townsend Jr. secretary: Ross F. LockHarmony, and Thomas MeCullough.

Congressmen Invited

Raymond FE. Willis (R Ind) and Indiana Congressmen have been asked to attend the meeting, as well as Senator VanNuys. The latter will introduce the bills in the Senate and Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) will present them in the House. One of the questions

Senator

to be de-

after

charged. sions in conspiracy to defendant, "described as a

r the years 1935 and 19386. A jury, reporting at 2:30 a. m, 22 hours deliberation, m guilty of two of the four counts He was acquitted of eva1937, and of a charge of evade taxes, A coJoseph H. Moskowitz, “81000-a-week book-

keeper” for the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., of which Schenck chairman of the board, was found |

is 21 {ey ot

ing, contains 10 counts of pet jury

complicity in the 1936 was acquitted on the

1lty of asion and her counts.

Faces 10 More Charges

They will be sentenced April 2 Judge Graver C. Moscowitz. Another indictment, still outstand-

found |

(spectators were present when the! | verdict was announced. Neither de[fendant would make a 4 | Neither showed the least emotion. Big Names Dot Trial

Government contended

The

en vars ma DRAFT HARRISON Schenck Convicted of Tax OLD TIN CANS |

Evasion, Faces 10-Year Term

RETAIN VALUE

OPM Estimates 12,000 Tons of Metal Could Be Recovered.

| WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P.), ~The Office of Production Mane agement estimated today that at least 12,000 long tons of tin could be recovered from used tin cans in the event “an emergency” disrupts Far Eastern trade routes, An advisory committee of the National Academy of Sciences, ase signed by the O. P. M, to consider conservation measures, reported that about half of the nation’s used tin cans could be recovered ane (hually from the principal urban areas. Five detinning plants now {operate in New York (two), Pittse ¢ | burgh, Chicago and San Francisco, | The committee advised the O, P, M., however, that erection of addie tional detinning facilities to ree cover the metal were unnecessary “unless and until it becomes ime perative to conserve {in regardless of cost.” Costs involved in detine ning, it was said, it not an under= taking for “venture” capital. It was estimated that 1,000,000 [tong of steel scrap a vear could be | obtained from "old tin cans” and statement. | oo that total 1000 tons of tin could | be recovered by the steel industry.

ma HER HUSBAND LIKED

and charges Schenck with having Schenck, former husband of Normal BOWLING TOO WELL

made false staiements to a Federal Talmadge, who later married George | agent who questioned him about an| jessel, who

aleged payment of $100,000 to Willie

recently

Bioff, western representative of the| ear-old Lois Andrews, reported an perta S. Miller, formerly of Roclie

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MIAMI, Fla, April 17

married 16-< |The divorce petition of Mrs,

ester, N, Y., recited today that hee

| International Alliance of Theatrical |income of $1,007,606 and paid taxes|, .o.+ oc so fond of bowling

cided is whether there will be a Stage Employees and Moving Pie- of $310,147 for the years 1035 and that each time he made a strike

explained. would be taken over bv the Interior Agriculture there

under may

flicts, it was stated.

Besides the Bar Association and single bill or two or more, it was|ture Operators (A. F. of L.) Since the Harrison home | Who recently completed an old sen-|

|tence for pandering in Chicago, was

Association | more than one bill to avoid any con- | by

for this fall are sessions of the Na-| Department and Forestry remains|charged with hasug failed to pay be | taxes on $100,000 allegedly given him

Schenck, Ruth Nolander, henck's former secretary, sald at

A new Commission, with other [Schenck s trial that she saw Schenck

be named national in interest, Nuys predicted.

Senator Van-

HOLD EVERYTHING

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4000 members from outside Indiana, will{count out $100,000 in $500 and $1000 to make the memorial|bills in his office in Biofl'y presence, | go,

1e day in June, 1937. Schenck, Moskowliiz and about 100

COPR. Y8A1 BY NEA SERVICE TM

U5 PAY om “That's our new secret weapon-a squirt gunl®

Bioff, 1936, and that he should have re-|he would ported an income of $1,317,624 and | plaintifi’s The discrepan- | seated in the chair and raise her ley, according to the Government, feet high in the air, deductions losses and for personal ex- her

[paid $5663 839 taxes.

[was in | stock

penses which he claimed were busi- |

ness expenses,

henck had

[a GO-cent

fraudulent

| Bvidence at the trial showed that | such | $40.00 maintenance on he bought Duke, tobacco heiress; hotel, aparti-

lunch

“repeatedly seize the ankles while she was

His “boisterous moods” caused great physical pain and “exe she related

for

treme embarrassment,’ in asking for a divorce

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

items as| his yacht; Doris

ment and automobile bills for Grace

fut night |

included

ture

| America, and

Veterans’

Ohio St.

\ chaplain,

club dancer, flowers he sent Shirley Temple, Si none Simon and his director, Dar= ryl Zanuck, as “business expenses.” Character witnesses for Schenck! 9..pPeo Chaplin, Have, president of the Motion PieProducers « Distributors former | General Jamex A, Farley. The trial | | lasted six weeks,

Cr — BORDER VETERANS | T0 PLAN CONVENTION Members of the Mexican Border Association will discuss plans for their State convention here June 21 and 22 at their regu-

lar meeting at 8 o'clock tonight at Marine League Headquarters, 14 W.! 9 Ves.

Charlie

This organization is composed of men who saw service on the Mexjean Border in 1916 and 1917 before the entry of the United States inte the first World War. ing to Jay W. Winget, patrol adjutant, approximately 500 border veterans live in Indianapolis, Col. Norman Nicolai, who is on ‘active duty at Camp Shelby, Miss, | of |is patrol president. |are Sherwood Bl imander; George commander: Ben Kiter, finance officer, and the Rev. Dr. F. 8. O. Wicks,

senior vice comown, junior vice

1--The idiomatic name for awards for acting bestowed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is O—s? clover leaves fold Will] night? 3-~Name

and

up ad the organized territories of the United States 4-—~Name the two Houses of the British Parliament, 5<Does a fly resting of a rotating wheel through space than near the hub? 6-—Name the chairman of the Come mittee on Public Information, appointed by the President when the United States entered the

first World War, » » .

of | Postmaster

on the rim travel faster a fly resting

Answers 1—-Osgars,

3-Alaska and Hawall. 4-~House of Lords and House of Commons, b--Yes, 6-Ceorge Creel, "a 8

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