Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1941 — Page 19
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FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 194] SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
ALBUQUERQUE, April 18. —Maybe the sun never sets on the British Empire, but it sure sets on us folks out here in the desert. It sets once a day, as regular as can be. And it sets in a manner, and with a flair and a splendor, that make you feel sorry for people with just ordinary sunsets. We have a window which looks to the West. Across our vista is a dark, slanting line, so sharp and even that you can hardly believe it is natures line, It is the rim of the mesa on the far side of the Rio Grande Valley. In the far beyond—60 miles on toward the setting sun—there rises old Mt Taylor, all showcovered now, and as clear and clean as though you were holding it at arm's length. And then, just as the sun is on the horizon, and its gold radiates upward onto the hanging clouds above, and that unearthly long line of the mesa rim turns into a silhouette as though cut from the black paper, then you see something from my chair in the west window that is big, something that is finer than any words. It is 50 quiet out here just at dawn. I don't know what, but something awakens us each dawn—the silence, or the gentleness, or something. And we get up, and watch the light come softly over the great Sandias just to the east of us, and it is the most perfect hour of the day
The Nightmare of London
The little birds from the sage-filled mesa come twirping out at daylight, and they come over into our as yet unseeded yard, and they peck in the fresh earth, and waddle around and sing and have a wonderful time. Peace seems to be over everything at dawn and at sunset All this is here for us to relish, 50 lovely and beautiful and serene. But when I sit in our west window at sunset it is past midnight in London, and the guns are going and the bombers are raising hell and my friends of yesterday are tense and full of a distracting excitement—peering, listening, alert to death and the sound of death When you sit out here in the silent vastness of the desert so remote from turmoil, you feel that the ghostly rustling of a falling bomb can be only something that you dreamed once in a nightmare. It has no trath in it For the first time, in this new house of ours, we have all our gadgets from foreign countries around us. In all these travels we have acquired very little, for we could no nothing with possessions except send them to storage
And mavbe that frugality in collecting was a good
thing. For now, instead of a museum flooded over with senseless souvenirs, we have just enough for each one to be an individual thing with a personality. Each one is precious to us. On my bed is the black and white serape from southern Mexico. And we have that vicuna robe) from Peru, the softest thing I have ever felt or seen. | On the wall is a machete that was carried by a| wandering friend through the jungles of Central! America. On the piano sits the saucy bust of a bush Negro| girl, sculptured for me in black ironwood by a convict | in French Guiana. And there are wall panels I got] in Japan long, long ago; and the spotted sealskin| from the Eskimos in the Bering Sea. A brightly] painted, monster-faced wooden mask from the fiestas of Guatemala stares down from the bookshelves. | There are copper and brass kettles which we use| for ashtrays but which are really powder measures) from Admiral Drakes old flagship. And my favorite] of all, an intricately carved image of a beggar—=so| tiny you hold it in the palm of your hand, but with | all the frailty and tragedy of hopeless peoples in it--done by some poor genius in Ecuador. We got | there.
The Iron Hand of Habit
And now, sitting on the mantle anti crowning them all, are the latest tokens eof distant places—my bombs and fragments of bombs, from Londen. The square block of raw mahogany from the Peten jungles makes a perfect base for the German incendiary that | fell in Whitehall. All these are the little things that make a place worth sitting in. You could not deprive us of these small treasures without bringing anguish to us. | Our house is equipped with deep chairs and many | comforts. There seems to be no little touch which | That Girl forgot. My old aviation pictures are on| the wall. The lights are placed just right. Anywhere | vou turn there is a footstool to drop onto, or a book | to read. or a window that frames a masterpiece of} nature. ! In fact it is all so wonderful that it's impossible for me to think in it. My power to concentrate is weak. Every footstep diverts me: every faint sound | piques my curiosity into a lather. Even the books | on the shelves become an excuse for a staring distraction. And so at this very moment I'm sitting alone in a hotel room in downtown Albuquerque, wearing my cloak of horsehair, frowning down upon my portable, deep in the environment which force of habit has) formed into the only solitude I know-—the four bare walls and locked door of a hotel room. | fve been down here three days now, working. | Our friends all think I'm insane. And I wouldnt] bet more than a quarter against it myself. But, you! can't dig coal in a parlor, can you? |
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)
WE KNOW YOU'LL find it hard to believe, but Fall Creek has become a full-fledged gold fish hatch apd were afraid now that Martinsville is liable day for alienation of affections or hasten to explain, therefore, that all this gold fish business is just inadvertent with us. Just a sideline, see? What happened was that somebody leaving town Just dumped a big bowlful of goldfish into the creek Nature did the rest and the creek from Millersville Dam down to White River is full of them The other day, folks who live along the creek said it looked like a bumper erop, with two and three-pounders breaking the water every few minutes. We askad Frank Wallace about this and he said it was probably true since the goldfish is nothing more or less than a carp and carp can easily grow that big, gold or dun. If the chap who dumped that bowlful in the creek, could only see that grandpappy now!
‘The Independence of Women’
THIS IS OUT OF OUR territory, but we might as well take it up. Down on the 1. U. campus this week, the famous Mary Ritter Beard addressed the co-eds She spoke on
Washington
MEXICO CITY, April 18.—The battie against the Nazi fifth column in Mexico has been won. This favorable turn of affairs, so important to the United tates now, comes about because of the strong determination of the present Mexican government to cast its lot with the United States for the common defense of the two countries. During the last two or three years we have heard about Nazi activity in Mexico and for a time the situation was extremely disturbing to Washington. But the wind has shifted. as is indicated not alone by words but more important by actions of the Mexican government, operating under the firm hand of President Avila Comacho. The last Mexico City daily newspaper of pro-Nazi leanings has now switched its policy at the prodding of the Mexican government, The Nazis have no journalistic mouthpiece left, Recently Nazis instigated organization of an antiSemitic mass meeting here. When the Mexican government heard of this, it forced cancellation of the affair and the word was passed that no movement of that kind would be permitted.
Following Our Lead
On the positive side have been several actions which make clear the friendly attitude of the Mexican government toward the United States. One was the signing of the agreement permitting American army planes to fly over Mexico en route to the Panama Canal. which greatly facilitates our defense of the canal. Another was the prompt action of the Mexicen government in seizing AXis ships, closely following the lead of the United States. The operating chief of the Mexican fleet is going to the United States shortly to inspect naval bases and to discuss closer collaporation. When the Nazis invaded Greece and Jugoslavia, the Mexican government issued a statement denouncing the assault. The language followed the tenor of Washington's reaction but was, if anything, more emphatic. At the same time the Mexican Minister to Berlin was ordered home at once
“to report.
My Day
BUFFALO, N. Y, Thursday.—After I visited the Red Cross workrooms in Charlotte, N. C., yesterday, I went to a reception which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tillett had at their home, and enjoyed seeing them and meeting some of their friends. Then I went back to the Hotel Barringer and had the pleasure of seeing one of the girls I had taught in school years ago, who came with her husband, Lieut. Louis Jallade, from Ft. Bragg, where he is now stationed. I also saw Ray Swayne, whom I had seen often years ago with a group of young people. He was lvoking forward happily to entering into Boy Scout work as a career. : After the lecture, we took the train back to Washington. Yesterday was rather cloudy, so perhaps it was just as wel] that I was not trying to fly o some distant point. I lunched with the wives of the members of the 74th Congress and had a most enj time. njoyanle | washington Wednesday evening by train for Buffalo, N. Y,, where I am giving a lecture tonight. Having a few hours at home yesterday afternoon was very pleasant, I was distressed to find that an epi-
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he Independence of Women.” Well,
the lassies came prepared. Knitting needles clacked | ana clicked all over the place. One pair brought a deck of cards and played several hands of honeymoon bride. Several young ladies caught up on their letter writing. Another wrote a theme. Easter fingernail polish came off in chunks. he Daily Student, the campus newspaper, viewed the situation with due alarm, but lambasting the] school prexies for making the gals attend or be docked half an hour's credit. The Student roared about “compulsory culture”) with great effect, pointing out that the young damsels | came with the attitude that “we won't like it even if it is good.” What was
Around the Town
THE NEW U. 8S. ARMY has recognized the talents of Abraham G. Luboff, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's string bass plaver who was drafted recently. Mr. Luboff reports that he has been made leader of the Camp Croft (S. C.) band and the Gov-| ernment is paying to have his “bull fiddle" shipped | to him. . . . Negotiations dre understood to be underway to bring Walt Disney's “Fantasia” either to English’s or Keith's, Special wiring and sound equip- | ment are required. . . . The publicity department for | Stokowski’s Youth Orchestra has announced that the organization will play here the latter part of May. | But sponsors here say the matter isn't settled yet by | a long shot. . . . John Harris, assistant state geologist, | Joins the Army today for his year's training. His job | is unfilled
that topic?
By Raymond Clapper
There apparently is some popular dissent from this
By Ernie Pyle| A nual Home Show
“THE 1941 HOME,” a Leslie Avres creation at the Home Show, is designed for modern living. Spaciousness in the interior and planned grounds are to be utilized in
full during the summer,
If you're one of the 100,000 persons who will cross its threshold this week, you first will see the spiral staircase which leads:to the
three bedroom-two bath upstairs.
To the left of the entrance is the short end of the “L" living room. Lighted by three vision windows, turquoise i¢ the dominating color,
with furniture in blond woods.
One of the first floor rooms especially designed for family needs is the “Retreat,” furnished with an oak desk, studio couch, leather lounge chair and block design paper.
All kitchen and heating units are modern gas and the garage
attached to the kitchen side of the house provides a hobby shop, stor-
age space and a play house built to dimensions of the growing genera-
tion.
Built by S. painted a snow white, from the top.
E. Avin, the house is constructed of cinder block and Windows feature built-in screens which roll
A formal garden is flanked bv an outdoor firepiace built into a cinder block picnic shelter also painted white,
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“Homemakers Home" , , . built to fit the budget.
THE HOUSE ON the north side of the Home Show pit with that suburban look is the “All-American FourStar Home,” built by Mrs. Thelma D. Schaffner from the blueprints of Pierre & Wright.
Strung from left to right kitchen, dinetie and living room,
are garage, master
laundry, heating unit, bedroom and a room des-
ignated as either the guest room or the daughter's room.
An innovation are the one-piece wooden fir gutters which trim the { low-built home,
Windows in the Kitchen, as well as in the rest of the house, open
out and are operated by cranks fitted into the foundations.
colors are peach and red.
Kitchen
The dinette, which adjoins the kitchen and is a part of the living room, features a built-in flower box, separated from the terrace by
a huge plate glass window.
The two bedrooms, which form the west end of the building, are linked by a door of full flush panel, as are all the doors in the house.
The low overhanging cornice gives the appearance of snugness while the attached garage lengthens the horizontal lines, creating an
| illusion of greater size.
The home will be rebuilt in the Deauville Estates following the
show. Price will be about $4000.
At City Hall—
policy for the feeling against England is quite strong. | There is no “aid to Britain” slogan here. Great PM MA Britain has no Ambassador here, he having been re-
called at the time of the oil expropriation. The general feeling here is that London blundered in permitting an abrupt break with Mexico over this situation. The British are trying to re-establish themselves now, and there is talk of .Canada setting up a legation here as a bridge for overcoming this embarrassment.
y . a U. 8S. Reaping Dividends In contrast, the United States adopted a more patient attitude and has avoided a break. Washington refused to sStrongarm the Mexican government, |
realizing that political conditions in Mexico had to be
taken into account. For that consideration, the) United States is now reaping dividends in the friendly defense policy of the Mexican government. Germany's stock has gone down for several reasons. One is the dislike of the easy-going Mexican people for the stiff regimentation which the German svstem imposes. More specifically, Mexico is bitter over the failure of Germany to carry through its end! of the barter deal for expropriated oil. Germany got the oil but when the war came, she suspended shipments of exchange materials. Urgently needed irrigation works. which were to have used German machinery, have been held up. The experience has convinced the Mexican government that Germany is a weak reed upon which to lean. | President Avila Comacho is a realist. He knows] that the United States must have Mexican co-opera-tion in defense since the country lies between the Untied States and our most vital spot. the Panama Canal. He knows that the co-operation of his gov-
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CITY HEADACHE
‘You Can Have All Our Old Tin Cans, and Welcome,’ Says Works Board.
By RICHARD LEWIS
City officials are interested in the possibility of utilizing the
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Modern Living
1941 Home” , , . two floors of livability.
THE
“HOMEMAKERS
HOME” was designed by |
Charles D. Ward with an eye to the income of a third of Indianapolis’ home builders. It is the snug wood-stone home at the north side of the Manufacturers Building
arena,
Features of the living room are the huge picture window, and a
brick fireplace.
The room is furnished in Regency with the davenport .
a green brocotelle, the lounge chair a striped rose, and a high backed |
wing chair in rose and gold brocotelle. i
Through a square arch is the dining room, furnished in solid
cherry.
devices,
The large bedroom is furnished in 18th Century
the son's bedroom in maple,
The kitchen is all-electric, and replete with labor savings
mahogany and {
Interesting features are a breeze-way to the garage, a Dutch front
door and an ultra-modern bath.
Constructed by Bridges & Graves Co. the house will be rebuilt
after the Home Show in Brockton Addition, The complete cost of furnishings including
resold for about $7000.
It is scheduled to be
kitchen and all other electrical appliances, will not exceed $1250.
“All American Four Star Home , , . suburbanite's dream.
als Have Their Laughs; JOHNSON GETS 2-21
Pomp Falls Flat When Train Doesn't Stop YEARS IN STABBING
By EARL "1 am
RICHERT
on the draft questionnaire he sent in to his local board. Dratt board members went on through the questionnaire and discovered that he had just been let out of the State Prison after serving a sentence for manslaughter. He got his wish to stay out of the Army, not however, because he professed to be-a conscientious ob-
scrap | jector, but because the rule that all
metal in old tin cans for natiohal | persons convicted of felonies shall defense, as suggested by the Office be classified as ineligible for mil-
of Production Washington. The OPM estimated that about 12,000 long tens of tin could be re-
Management
covered if municipal sanitation de-
partments would collect and save tin cans. in the event Far Eastern routes are severed.
The potential economic value of the refuse, the disposal of which
trade
| has always been a headache for the
City, appeals to the Works Board. The City Collection Department
This would be valuable All Go Home Again
ernment in this will bring large dividends for Mexico | cOllects thousands of tin cans every |
while any other course would only mean an un-| pleasant situation that might interfere with the con-| structive work which he hopes to accomplish here. | This situation may not be so well understood throughout the Mexican population but it is fully understood at the top and the present government here is accordingly taking the lead among Latin-American neighbors in contributing toward hemisphere unity and Hemisphere defense.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
demic of measles in Warm Springs, Ga. is preventing the President from taking his proposed trip down there. I hope he will be able to make his visit while I am away so that we can all meet in Hyde Park for a week-end on my return. In the past few days I have had so much time on planes that I actually finished reading everything I took with me. I may have mentioned to you before “War By Revolution,” by a young Englishman, Francis Williams, who has been in politics for a number of years. I was much interested in it because I feel that his contention is correct, that really to win the fight
against Hitlerism, the people in all the countries un-}
der Hitler's control must want freedom and a better) life brought about through their own action in pref-! erence to accepting whatever a dictator gives them. Another small book, by an American who orig-| inally came from Kansas but has lived for many years | in the Balkans, is apparently inspired by Anne Lind-| bergh's book, “The Wave of the Future.” R. H. Markham writes “The Wave of the Past” and insists: “The past has its mark and the future has its mark, The | one is slavery and the other is freedom.” will find both of these books of interest. If you want a rather weird but touching story, read Paul Gallico's “Snow Goose.” In every war certain legends get about in the army. This is a legend of the beaches of Dunkirk, with a background of sadness and tenderness expressed most beautifully in the story,
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week and is only too willing to give them to anyone who wants them. All the OPM has to do is say where and when. ¥ 4 4
Asks Building Permits
Two large building permits have |
been requested at City Hall and will be reviewed at a meeting of the Zoning Board Monday. The Standerd Grocery Co. has filed application for a permit to erect two storeroom buildings at 2905-51 N. Capitol Ave, at a cost of $50 000. Between the two buildings, one of which will serve as a super-market, will be three parking lots divided by drives. The proposed structures will occupy nearly a city block. A permit to erect a retail storeroom building, also with parking facilities, at the northeast corner of Meridian and 28th Sts, was filed by Keller T. Brock. Cost of the improvement would be $85,000. Other applications were for a
| $15,000 nursing home at 358 Lansling St, a $7000 double house at
352 N. Ritter Ave. and a $3000 addition to a print shop at 2158 N. Talbott Ave.
KILLED BY TRAIN
GREENCASTLE, Ind, April 18 U. P.).—George Young, 35-year-
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old Putnam County farmer, was
killed at a grade crossing here last]
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night when his automobile was struck by a northbound Monon freight train,
at itary service.
This is one of the many unususl stories that pop up almost every day to brighten the duties of the hard-working Selective Service officials.
Did you hear the one about the Posey County town? No? Well, it seems that the city fathers had planned a big celebration to mark the departure of a large group of local draftees.
Stores closed and everyone went
a conscientious objector
|down to the railroad station to see | the boys off. The high school and and am opposed to bearing arms,’| American Legion bands played and | lone young Indianapolis man wrote the Mayor made a speech, ending | Ves just as the train hove into view.
friends began Kissing
goodby. But | breezed
the
the train did not stop. right on through town,
‘Two May Be Surprised
Right now Selective Service in-
| two men who, they are sure, had The train came chugging down | énough of their good teeth pulled |
'the tracks and mothers and girl| to put them below the 12 neces- |
boys | sary to pass the physical examina-
tions. They think they may have a surprise in” store for these two.
Crestfallen, the people went back | When, and if, they get just a little to their homes and stores. There, more evidence to bear out their be-
had been a mixup and the train|lief they are going to write to the
had not been notified to stop.
Secretary of War asking him to
tigators are hot on the trail of |
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A Criminal Court jury has found Oscar Johnson, 32, guilty of vole untary manslaughter in connection with the fatal stabbing of John Shriver, restaurant owner, Aug. 23. Judge Dewey E. Myers sentenced Johnson to two to 21 years in prison. Johnson was tried on an indicte
| ment charging first degree murder,
The jury
The selectees were picked up the waive the dental requirements in|
next day, with no pomp or cere-
{mony at all.
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man who
wrote
to
Charles
these two cases.
' Time Solves Problem
| Only a couple of young men have
Anc then there was the young |80t out of the draft whom w. | officials were certain were tryir.g to
draft
| Geile, Selective Service publicity | avoid military service.
man:
, | “I live with my father and broth-
er's
These two men, one a rich farmson and the other a clerk,
er, and we need a woman in the |80t married immediately after they
house.
getting married, but I don't want to | if I am going to
get
What should I do? “Go see your local board,” Mr, | fore they were ordered to report , for induction they appeared before |l—In the Mother Goose rhyme, at
Geile advised.
drafted. | their physical | were placed in Class 1-A. Just be-
HOLD EVERYTHING
‘E’ as in fired,
a COPE 1041 BY MEA SRVISL INC. T. M. RES U. 8 PAT. OFF.
“You're fired—'F’ as in fired, ‘I’ as in fired, ‘R’ as in fired,
D' as in fired!
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I've been thinking about received their questionnaire.
In each case, however, they passed examinations and
the local boards with doctors’ affidavits certifying their wives were expecting babies.
cause of prospective parenthood. As far as.it is known, no local boards in the state have drafted men who were either expectant fathers or were supporting children.
Worst Joke of Year
Selective Service officials nominate for the worst joke of the year the one that was pulled on an Indianapolis man who had been placed in Class 1-B. He was notified by telephone by a man who said he was chairman of his local draft board to appear for induction next day. The man quit his job, said goodby to his family and went out to Ft. Harrison, only to discover that he was not wanted at all. Incidentally he got his job back.
No 'Junior' for Fairbanks, Ind.
FAIRBANKS, Ind., April 18 (U, P.) —Citizens of this little town —population 125—have failed: in their attempt to have the Post Office Department change name to Fairbanks Junior, Ind. A petition pointed out that there are five other towns named Fairbanks on this continent, four in the United States and one in Alaska. But the P. O. Department held the change was “inadvisable.”
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deliberated more than five hours ‘before reaching a vers dict at 8 o'clock last night. A jury in a previous trial failed to agree; Johnson was accused of stabbing Mr. Shriver at a rooming house as 827 Park Ave. during an argument over wages. Johnson had been eme ployed in Mr. Shriver's restaurant. Deputy prosecutors charged thas Johnson planned to kill Mr. Shrive er before going to the latter's room, Johnson pleaced self defense, cone tending that Shriver grabbed him by the throat.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
what time does the “10 o'clock scholar” report?
|2—Who said, “T am not a Virginian, The local boards in both cases | then granted them deferments be-|3—Emile Zola was a famous French
but an American?”
author, scientist?
modernist painter, or
4—Vanadium is a plant, a kind of
paint or a metallic element?
5—What was the title of the eldest
son of the King of France?
6—When the change-over from the
Old to the New Style calendar was made in the American Cole onies, how many days were dropped?
T—In architecture what is the name
for a structure built against a wall to strengthen it?
8—Isaac Todhunter was a great
English mathematician, banker, or actor?
Answers
1—“At noon.” 2—Patrick Henry. 3—Author. 4—Metallic element. 5—Daughin. 6—Eleven. T—Buttress. 8—Mathematician.
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