Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1941 — Page 21

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REYNOLDS' FOES FACE DILEMMA:

‘Puzzle Over Methods to: Block Elevation to Military Affairs Post.

By THOMAS L. STOKES 3 Times Special Writer y WASHINGTON, April 18 —Sen< ate Administration leaders are pondering, thus far without any appreciable light, ways and means to “pack” Senator Bob Reynolds, fighting North Carolina isolationist and outspoken foe of the LendLease Bill, cut of the chairmanship’ of the strategic Military Affairs. | Committee. Under the ancient and cherishedunwritten seniority rule, Senator Reynolds would succeed normally to the vacancy created by the recent death of Senator Morris Sheppard (D. Tex.) There are {wo necessary steps, | however, between his present posi= [tion of ranking Democratic mem here. ‘ber and the chairmanship: Formal Other new officers are Mrs, J. | approval by the Democratic Steers G. Nebbergall, South Bend; first |ing Committee and ratification by vice president; Mrs. Frank Heizer, | the Senate, itself, Bloomington, second vice presi- Barkley Careful

dent; Mrs. Robert McElwain, | genate Democratic Leader Alben

Anderson, recording secretary; Barkle (Kv): chai Murs. Frank Holland, Indianapolis, Steering ys airman of iis

corresponding secretary; Mrs. vassin dr hh eer: ssing the possibility of thwarting Carl Hettmansperger, Ft. Wayne, | Senator Bob's ambition {o head the

treasurer, and Mrs. A, C. Payne : : rs ’ so | Military Committee. This is a course Terre Haute, parliamentarian. _|fraught with complications, per-

| sonal, political and otherwise, and TOBIN SAYS HIS | Mr. Barkley will ponder it carefully.

| The Administration is known to | be anxious to keep the North Caro= linian from the post. He has gone Tells President Teamsters Are Willing to Co-operate In Defense Effort.

along with the Administration on domestic issues, has supported na= By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

tional defense appropriations, voted for the Draft Act, and presumably still would go along, but the Administration wants its program in charge of someone sympathetic with, WASHINGTON, April 18.—There is 50 per cent less labor trouble in his union today than at the beginning of the World War, and the membership is many times as great,

its foreign policy, now so inextricably woven into national defense Daniel J. Tobin, Indianapolis, presient of the International Brother-

preparations. J Senator Reynolds has fought the d hood of Teamsters -and Chauffeurs (A. F. of L.), said here today.

Administration's course in foreign He was a luncheon guest of Presi-

affairs for a year and a half, be= ginning with opposition to repeal of the arms embargo. dent Roosevelt at the White House yesterday and gave him this optimistic labor labor report, he sgid.

Thomas Suitable ¥ “Out of a membership of 500,-

The layman may wonder why an Administration so strongly ene 000 truckmen, only 175 are now on strike,” Mr. Tobin said.

FRIDAY, APRIL 18 1041 | :

GANGSTER WAR, BRITAIN 1S LOST. SAYS auRols FRE VISVE LINDBERGH SAYS

But Allies Should Have Been, 4, take all this week Flier Urges. America to Armed In That Company, = was the lifeline of the Brit- Accept an Independent He Points Out. ish Empire. Destiny.’

mpting to sever it “It's like this,” said Andre Mau- hternd Da : CHICAGO, April 18 (U. P.) —Col. were two Nazi prance Charles A. Lindbergh said last night | rois, the celebrated French author, : les A : ight hrust knifing at the that “it is not within our power a hf lation ih fe toh: Se ne i a : i i America today to win the war for temporary Club at the Art Museum.| bending allied line in a uaY oust we throw he “Two friends went for a walk and| Greece, the other slashing entire pal ves of our nation in hl ad avs, bY Sieh across North Africa to- England and France, Col. LindAe] Ne ard S pergh said at a Midwest meeting of stricken down.| ward Suez. The other, see- Seeking to preserve stiffening British-Greek forces,

the America First Committee, lost the war “even before it was deing he could be of no assistance| England's Mediterranean fleet and the tough Australians and

clared.” \ He urged “an independent des- E to his friend,| ran and jumped| New Zealanders in the Army of the Nile.

tiny” for the United States. over a ditch of In London, devastated by the

| water.” | worst air raid in history, exhaust-

“War is not inevitable for this | country,” Col. Lindbergh said. “The| He spread his | hands in a sim-| eq Britons chalked on walls: “Bomb Berlin.”

claim that our participation is inevitable is simply propaganda by those who want to get us in. ple - as - that shrug. Developments “They were| were: to blame,|

Raps at Propaganda both course, for

“We are simply experiencing the hysteria and propaganda that comes of with 3 maior was we ust ffecoz. having gone without weapons in a nize the fact that along w perland where there were gangsters.” fectly Sincere people; iy are And that, reduced to a fable, is] groups in this country whose prim the story of the fall of France as| seen now by one who was in the]

objective is to get us into the war. thick of the Flanders fighting. |

These groups are our real France, he said, was too embroiled |

enemies, “These are the people who, under in internal politics to give any helpful attention to the possibility of |

the guise of ‘steps short of war’ have led us to the verge of war itinvasion, and the average Englishman was a pacifist. The margin the

self.” ! Sending arms to Europe was a : : | mistake, Col. Lindbergh continued. English had was the English Chan- | It has “weakened our position in nel, he said. America, added to bloodshed in And now what the English need European countries,” and “has not | are planes, planes and more planes, | Mr. Maurois continued. No matter how many they have, |

changed the trend of the war,” he, however, they cannot duplicate in|

added. The United States, he said, is Berlin the ferocity of Wednesday | night's bombing in London. he said,

strong enough to defend itself against foreign powers “if only our because of the difference in flight distances

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Mrs. J. H. Smiley

Times Special

TERRE HAUTE, April 18.—Mrs. J. H. Smiley, of Indianapolis, was elected president of the Indiana Council of Church Women at the

battle Council's annual state meeting

in the

Mr. Maurois Organized Jugoslavian resistance disintegrated, paving the way for a frontal assault by a million Nazis in the Battle of Greece. 2. Final surrender of Italian forces in Ethiopia seemed to be releasing seasoned British troops for action against the German Panzer divisions in North Africa. 3. British naval forces struck at the German supply lines, sinking an enemy convoy of five transport and materiel ships and three Italian destroyers escorting them from Sicily to Tripoli. The vociferous Berlin press, at first proclaiming that the British were evacuating Greece in another “Dunkirk,” made a sudden about-face, admitting the B.E. F. was not in flight but saying that any chance of an evacuation had been “frustrated” by the rapid Nazi advance. = ” =

RUSSIA AND JAPAN—

Russia, the puss-in-the-corner, again baffled the guess-men this week by signing a “neutrality” treaty with Japan. Both nations promised to remain neutral if the other was the “object of military attack.” Neither was pledged in event the other is an attacker rather than the attacked.

Government will devote its atten-| tion to our defense.”

U. 8S. Can Defend Self

“With all the errors that have been made, and notwithstanding the arms that have been taken from our military forces to send to Europe, the United States is still able to defend itself against any foreign power,” Col. Lindbergh said. “But if we are to maintain the ability to defend ourselves in the future, we must not expose our fleet in Eu. ropean war zones, and we must stop sending most of our modern fighting planes abroad.” Of Great Britain, he said: “We must face the fact that England is in a desperate position. Up to date she has lost every major campaign in which she had participated . . . her geographical and economic position is as great a disadvantage in this age of aircraft

Plans New Novel

It has been eight months since Mr. Maurois came to the United States and began a lecture tour] which will wind up in May. He feels he is not competent to comment on developments since then in Europe. He explained that] everyone who reads the newspapers here has access to exactly as much information on the war as he has. He hopes to settle this summer in a New England state and write a book—a novel, perhaps. “I should like to write a novel,” he said, with infectious enthusiasm, “about a young Frenchman who served in the war of 1914 as I did, only he would be younger,

trenched in the Senate can't select the man it prefers as chairman of an important committee. Senator Elbert Thomas (D. Idaho), next in rank below Senator Reynolds, would suit the Administration. . But—there's the seniority rule; Every member of a committee, even though now far down on the list, |sees himself some day wielding the

TAXES—

Vague indications of increased taxes to finance U. S. defense and aid to Britain took tangible form when Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau submitted to Congressional leaders a program pro-

This is London’s West End after Germany's greatest air raid.

“He would leave the army in 1918 and go into politics. And then I should like to show in the novel the slow disintegration of Europe that made this war possible.”

Booth Tarkington's Guest | Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Maurois| had tea with Booth Tarkington at| the Tarkington home, They had |

never met before. But Mr. Mau-| rois had read Mr. Tarkington's novel | “Seventeen.” “We read it aloud in our family.” he said with a laugh. “You see, we had something of the same situation. The boy, who was about 17] was perfectly beastly about his sis-| ter’s beaux.” ! Mr. Maurois was in the United States last 15 weers ago and finds that train service has improved immeasurably, that our transport planes are a “joy to ride” and have | such “lovely stewardesses,” and that| ham and eggs country style is still| one of his favorite dishes. “But in France,” he said, seriously, “I think we have the score on chickens. You eat yours so voung here, while in France we let them get older and better filled out. Yes, we score on chicken.”

MAYOR OF BORDEAUX PROTESTS BOMBINGS

BERLIN, April 18 (U. P.).—Adrien Marquet, Mayor of German-occu-| pied Bordeaux, has asked Admiral] William D, Leahy, American Am-| bassador to France, to obtain the intervention of President Roosevelt in an attempt to end “repeated criminal bombings” of the Bordeaux area, an official Nazi news agency dispatch from Paris said today. | (According to the British, not only is Bordeaux an important Nazi submarine base but Merignac Air! Port in its suburbs is one of the most important German airplane bases in all Europe, the main jump- | ing off place for the long range] German bombing planes which attack British shipping.) The dispatch said Marquet, who for a time was Minister of Interior in the French Cabinet at the time

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viding for three and a half billions in new levies by an increase of 25 jo 50 per cent in all present taxes. Mr. Morgenthau estimated Federal expenditures during the 1942 fiscal year would amount to 19 billions. He proposed raising two-thirds of this by taxation. new and old, and the remainder by borrowing. The total Government debt as of now is 70 billions, or $480 for every man, woman and child.

SHORT OF WAR—

Congress and the Administration evaded the issue of convoys for aid to Britain all through another week. . . . On all sides was increasing hesitancy to proceed with any act which definitely would throw the U. S. into the “shooting part” of the war. . President Roosevelt issued a proclamation reopening the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden so American merchantmen could carry supplies to Egypt for transfer to Britain. . . . The U. S. paid no attention to the Danish protest declaring null and void the agreement between the U. 8S and the Danish minister at Washington, placing Greenland under American protection. A French vice consul in San Francisco said he had offered the U. S. the use of all French naval and military bases in North and West Africa. If the Danish minister could give the U. S. access to Greenland, he said, he could do the same in the name of France. . . War Secretary Stimson declared “the U. S. Army and Navy must be prepared to fight in any part of the North. South or Central America,” or even possibly other regions. . . . And President Roosevelt formally placed his right-hand man, Harry L. Hopkins, in command of the lend-lease program.

PRICES—

Leon Henderson, chief price policeman of the Government, followed up a threat to “crack down” on any industry making big prof-

its yet seeking to pass wage increases along to the consumer by freezing steel prices at the firstquarter level. He left it up to the steel companies to prove that wage boosts just granted demand an increase in prices. At the same time the Justice Department planned an attack on alleged artificial increases in the price of foods.

LABOR—

The defense-labor situation brightened considerably during the week, although an acute coal

shortage threatened steel and other industries. Northern coal operators reached a tentative agreement with the United Mine Workers but Southern operators demanded that the dispute be certified to the Defense Mediation Board, Other developments were: 1. Four men were killed and eight wounded in a gun battle at a Kentucky mine, 2. Navy Secretary Frank Knox indorsed legislation for compulsory “cooling-off” periods before strikes may be called in industries producing arms, 3. Senator George W. Norris warned organized labor again that Congress may be “driven” to pass legislation outlawing “exorbitant union initiation fees. Vice President Wallace charged that “foreign agents” are “sabotaging our labor organizations to the great disadvantage of labor itself.”

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POLITICS—

A week passed without a State Supreme Court decision in the G. O. P.-Democratic fight over Republican “ripper” laws. . Marion County Republicans, awaiting their rewards, started dividing up the State House patronage they haven't got but hope to receive soon....Senator VanNuvs was due in town this week-end for conversations with Governor Schricker, giving rise to hints that the Governor is being

Women Given Defense Role As Air Corps Observers

WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P).

Details of the program will be re-

groomed to run for the U, S.

Senate in 1942,

BUSINESS—

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved merger of the Public Service Co. of Indiana. the Central Indiana Power Co. and their three subsidiaries. The new $£108.000.000 concern’s name: Public Service Co. of Indiana, Inc. The Indiana Farm Bureau opposed Agriculture Secretary Wickards plan for farmers to grow more corn, fearing overproduction and disastrous prices as after World War 1.

LOCALLY—

An extensive street improvement program, financed through increased gas tax revenue, was proposed for the city while the biggest road improvement program in Marion County History was approved by the Indiana WPA and sent to Washington for presidential O. K. . . . The Safety Board withheld action on major problems of traffic control pending the appointment of a traffic engineer. ., . . The Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign for funds to finance a yearround safety program. . . . April showers helped check the drought as well as forest fires in southern Indiana, where evidence of incendiarism was discovered. : Charles W. Chase, president of Indianapolis Railways, Inc, resigned to become president of the Chicago Surface Lines, one of the largest transportation systems in the country,

ROMANCE—

DEANNA DURBIN, 19, and Vaughn Paul, 25, her first and only sweetheart. “This is my first romance,” said Deanna. “I hope it is going to be my last.” CAPT.. JAMES ROOSEVELT, eldest son of the President, and Romelle Theresa Schneider, his former nurse,

DEATH—

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rhoadarmer, the former an attorney here, were in a traffic accident in Mississippi on their 16th wedding anniversary. George Tomlinson, auditor for the Indiana State Insurance De-

pages this week said Ebbie Goodfellow of the Detroit Red Wings, might replace Herbie Lewis as manager of the Indianapolis Capitals hockey team.

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POSTSCRIPT—

The Indianapolis Indians, who won 6, tied 1, lost 12 in spring exhibitions, won their opener from

Milwaukee, 3 to 0.

Beginning Monday— April 21, Through April 26

HELEN SPRACKLING, of New York, nationally known lecturer, author, and authority on entertaining. Mrs. Sprackling was formerly in charge of the Home Decoration Department of Parent's Magazine. She has now exvended her lecturing to include national tours, appearing before many wom-

country to build a civilization that

progressive as the world has ever known.

and submarines, as it was an aS. vantage to her in the era of sailing ships.” Member of Committee

Col. Lindbergh, speaking for the first time as a member of the America First Committee, said “we have all the necessary elements in this

1s as strong and permanent, and

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'chairman’s gavel when members

“I told the President that 95 per|apove him drop out and he rises to cent of our membership is behind|the top. In the last few years, Sen

the Government defense program |

and ready to follow his leadership | in whatever is necessary to preserve upset the unwritten rule.

American democracy.

“There may be 5 per cent of kick-

ers or extreme radicals, but I believe that is putting it pretty high.” During the last war, Mr. Tobin

served on

the Industrial Confer-

ence Board with the late President

Samuel! Gorapers of the A. F. of Li

Nationally Famous

Personal

ities To Be

ate changes have been many, and s¢ members would be hesitant to

Another strong influence against overthrow of the seniority rule ig that it has helped perpetuate con= trol of Congress in southern hands: Re-election is easier in a section oft one-party rule, This accounts for. the predominance of southern coms mittee chairmen.

Featured During the Week

Every Day at 2:30 PP. M. in Ayres’ Auditorium, 8th Floor

MONDAY, April 21—

Marjorie Thorsh will lecture

"Making the Most of Your Mantels." Explanations of principles on how to set up mantels and coffee tables.

Demonstrations and slides.

TUESDAY, April 22— Helen Sprackling will stage

WEDNESDAY, April 23—

Marjorie Thorsh will stage "Mirror Your Personality in Your Home." Three scenes using live models to show

personality types.

THURSDAY, April 24— Helen Sprackling will present

"Dining the Family Way" In two acts and three scenes Presenting the art of informal dining.

"The Live Dinner Party." A formal dinner served on the stage With comments by Helen Sprackling.

—Women will get their chance today to help the defense program. They and other not directly engaged in defense work can volunteer as observers for the air corps which seeks to set up a network of 500.000 civilians to warn against the approach of enemy planes.

vealed today by Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, commander of the general headquarters air force at Mitchel Field, N. Y. Registration will begin at once and at least 500,000 volunteers are expected to be on the rolls by August. The plan is based on experiments here and the experiences of Great Britain. Every state in the Union will have its network, and they will be co-ordinated and operate directly under the Army's four new air forces at Mitchel Field, Macdill Field, Fla.; March Field, Cal, and Spokane, Wash. “Women are | | contributing to our | fense,” Gen. George C. Marshall, | {Army Chief of Staff, said. “We have almost 1400000 soldiers, and |

en’s clubs and department store audiences.

of the Prench collapse, made his appeal through Fernand de Brinon, Vichy Government envoy to German occupation authorities in Paris. He asked that Mr. Leahy transmit a telegram to Mr. Roosevelt, the agency said, asking his intervention so that “repeated criminal bombings such as the recent attack on a war prisoners’ camp at Souces and of residential districts of Bordeaux lying far from any military objective will be prevented.”

partment, at 62. Charles F. Piel, pioneer starch manufacturer and well known local businessman, at 85. Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, of Harvard, most famous woman astronomer in the world, at 77. = o »

NO FAIRY TALE—

Samuel McGill of Marion, Ind. wrote a letter to Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind.) asking him to tell the Veterans’ Administration | not to send $15 monthly. “I am old.” he wrote. “I have few wants and do not need the money.”

SEE THESE “HOME WEEK” FEATURES IN THE DEPARTMENTS

Dance Planned By Cost Experts

The spring dinner-dance of the Indianapolis chapter of the Na- | tional Association of Cost Accountants will be held at 7 p. m. tomorrow in the Indianapolis Athletic Club’s Whirligig room, Paul J. Blee, arrangements committee chairman, announced today. Music will be provided by Gertrude Butz and her Silver Dragons. The Mr. Blee entertainme n t and floor show committee. headed by Edward J. Dowd, has arranged a program including Jean Gayle and the Haymakers. The general committee includes Mr. Blee, Mr. Dowd, George Wells, Bdward Carmen, Oliver Altum, Mrs. George Burkert and Mrs. A. L. Sheppared.

® SEE THE “HOME WEEK” WINDOW DISPLAYS built around the theme “America Lives Its History.” Numerous important historical dates, beginning with the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620, are considered in relation to a style trend in Home Furnish ings.

® SEE THE FIVE TABLES BY HELEN SPRACKLING-—They are designed particularly to co-ordinate lovely china and glass= ware and Palmer Smith's new matching linens. China and Glassware, Fifth Floor.

CHICAGO ANGLES FAIL IN POETESS PROBE

CHICAGO, April 18 (U. P) — Sheriff H. L. Wilbanks decided today to return to Spearman, Tex. for further investigation into the murder of Mrs. Leota Frances Murphy, 45-year-old Marion, Ind, poetess. Wilbanks said he wanted to question several persons here before he left to learn if they knew the man Mrs. Murphy planned to marry after a correspondence courtship. He said “Chicago angles” on the case failed to develop, although relatives of the slain woman told him she had rlanned to meet her prospective husband in Chicago when she left Marion March 10. A truck driver found Mrs. Murphys body on a lonely road 12 miles west of Gruver, Tex.. March 20. Investigation showed she had been beaten to death, apparently with a hammer.

of national de-

very desirous ® SEE THE DRAMATIC MANTEL AND COFFEE TABLE ARRANGEMENTS in the

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SPORTS—

Joe Louis and his bum-of-the-month club, the racing ponies and college sports clinics moved into the background as King Baseball took over. President Roosevelt arched the first pill in the general direction of the plate and the

” 2 {no comparable program for the women. This is their chance to serve.” The decision to set up the warning system followed successful experiments Jan. 21-24 in the New | York-New England area with a similar plan using only 10.000 vol-

ulcers rgd of bem WOMEN, or-| yankees took over from there ganized by the American Legion. | : The plan envisages stationing the | downing the hapless Senators, 3 “spotters,” in war time, at key visibility points such as rooftops, ‘church and skyscraper

® SEE “BACKGROUNDS. FOR PERSONALITIES” demonstrating color schemes in drapery and slip cover fabrics for personale ® SEE THE IMPRESSIVE ESPLANADE of ity types. Draperies, Fifth Floor. fashions in room settings, They, too, have “America Lives Its History” as inspiration. All model rooms, also, have been newly decorated for “Home Week.” Furniture, Sixth Floor.

MARJORIE THORSH of Chicago, celebrated inter jor decorator and originator of the “Personality Chart” as an aid to home decorators. The entire interior furnishings of a home are designed around the information given by the homemaker about herself. Recently Miss Thorsh won first prize in a cone test sponsored by the Ine ternational Silk Guild for the most outstanding “Room In Silk.”

® SEE THE TABLES IN THE LINEN DE. PARTMENT displaying the newest and loveliest in fine linens. Linens, Second Floor. . ® SEE THE FIVE “TEST-YOUR-TASTE” TABLES-—One half of each table is set correctly, the other half is in error. China and Glassware, Fifth Floor.

L. S. AYRES & COMPANY

Opening day found a record towers. | 200,000 fans crowding the major “| league ball park for a glimpse of new rookies ant old heroes. Bobby Feller, rated the finest hurler in baseball, was beaten by the Chicago White Sox. Last year he pitched a no-hitter’ opening day. Jack Doyle, top Broadway bookmaker, listed the Yankees and Reds as favorites. The Detroit News on its sports

® SEE THE DISTINGUISHED SILVER DISPLAYS in Ayres’ Fine Silver Depart= ment. Street Floor. FT. WAYNE WOMAN KILLED FT. WAYNE, Ind, April 18 (U. P.).—Mrs. Irene Thompson, 26, was crushed to death late yesterday when her body wedged between the platform of a freight elevator and the second story flooring of an ice cream plant here,

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