Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1941 — Page 11

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 194

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

ALBUQUERQUE, April 23.—You'll have to forgive me if I hark back a few more days to the war, for I'm finding it very hard to put England completely out of mind, Just give me a few last afterthoughts,

and then you can rest in peace. ~ Although I'm now well back ! wr ._y | into the routine of peacetime life, aR : there is still one little thing I E : 3 haven't got used to yet. You'd boa ha g never guess. . . . Every time I light a cigaret on the street at night, I catch myself in the middle of it, and sort of jump, and almost blow out the match before remembering that it’s all right. For in England, you know, you don’t strike matches outdoors at night. : Everywhere I go, almost the tirst thing people say is that they're glad I'm back alive. I've been told a hundred times, even by strangers, that they drew a breath of relief when they read I'd landed in New York. I Suppose it shouldn't, but this strikes me as odd. For while I was in England I never really felt at any time that I was going to get killed or even hurt. There is no shame in admitting, on the way over, I went through agonies of fear. It was fear of a gravity I had never known before. I felt the chances of my not coming back were around 50-50. And when you feel that way, youre facing something mighty serious.

Life Sure Is Sweet

A fellow does a lot of thinking—he can’t help it. And I discovered, much to my surprise, that the physical process of dying wasn’t worrying me at all. It was the more nebulous horror of just not being here in the world any longer. There have been times in my life when I sincerely felt that I didn't want to live. But I must have been fooling myself. For when the theory of simply ceasing tc exist became a definite possibility, I tell you it was horrible to face. I've never slept so badly in my life as I did on the boat. Sometimes I would like awake until almost dawn. What sleep I had was weird and fitful, and filled with agonizingly real nightmares of diving planes and exploding bombs. It sounds matter-of-fact in words, but at the time it was a state of terror absolutely consuming. And then, the moment I set foot in England, all

By Ernie Pyle

that disappeared. It is replaced by tenseness, excitement and curiosity. You are so close to it that your mind doesn’t have the leeway to play with hauntings. It isn't bravery. The same thing would happen to you. . And so I am touched and deeply appreciative of people's concern for my safety, But I'm also delighted that it was you who did most of the worrying, and not I. While we're still on England, there's another little story I want to tell On the morning of our first abortive attempt to leave England by plane for Lisbon, we were at the Marine Base long before daylight, and the British immigration and customs men spent three hours questioning us and going through our papers and baggage. One of the women passengers was a German. Consequently the authorities had orders to go over her stuff with a fine-tooth comb. They saved her to the last, and spent fully half an looking meticulously through her baggage.

Nth Degree Politeness

When it was all finished and we were standing around waiting, I got to talking with one of the customs men, and he told me about the German woman. And he said: “We know the rest of you are all right, and ordinarily we wouldn't have paid much attention to your baggage. But the reason we went so thoroughly through everything this morning is so it wouldn't look so conspicuous when we did it to her. We didn't

want to embarrass her in front of the rest of you!”

I wish you'd match that with any other nationality at war. LJ

On the face of a building on Ludgate Circus, just at the end of London't Fleet Street, there is a

bronze plaque with the face of Edgar Wallace on it, and an inscription beneath. There are thousands of plaques tg dead people in this world, but the one to Wallace seemed to me so beautiful I copied it down. It said: “Edgar Wailace—Reporter—Born London 1875, Died Hollywood 1932.—He knew wealth and poverty, yet had walked with kings and kept his balance. Of his talents he gave lavishly to authorship, but to Fleet Street he gave his heart.” Fleet is the greatest newspaper street in the world. Whoever said this thing of Edgar Wallace said all nae any true newspaperman could ever wish or hope or.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE Home Show we knew it was bound to happen—but we didn’t think

it would be so soon. Yep, Hilda, the goat, didn’t make the grade. Before the affair started, Frank Cantwell, the Show manager, decided that a billy or a nanny would be just the thing for the back yard of the 1941 home. His daughter, Ann, borrowed Hilda from a farmer. Hilda started off by jumping out of her pen and frisking about. This served as occasional side attraction and wasn't so bad. But then Hilda started jumping the pen and eating the flowers. Hilda was spanked. Monday she jumped the fenge and munched the lilac bushes. She was given cne more chance—and she took it. Yesterday she climbed the outside stairs of the house and perched precariously on the roof. It took an hour to get her down. Hilda's gone now, but don’t ask Frank Cantwell who's the goat.

Around the Town

COL. ROSCOE TURNER has thrown away his cane. The Colonel was in an auto accident just a year ago. He spent weeks in the hospital, a long time on cruiches and the cane has been his constant companion for several months. To show he’s back in form, Col. Turner piloted I. J. Dienhart to the Air-

Washington

WASHINGTON, April 23.—Hitler’s fifty-second birthday, we are told in Berlin dispatches, was observed with “soldierly simplicity.” His generals congratulated him. The American Embassy marked the day by running up our flag. The American charge d'affaires, Leland Morris, called at the Reich Chancellery and wrote his name in the diplomatic book of birthday greetings. Surely that is not the real birthday of a conqueror. That which Berlin reported must have been only the pathetic attempt to make this birthday seem human, like that of other mortals. A man’s birthday brings a kind of brief armistice in his affairs. It is a day when his faults and transgressions are seen in a friendlier, forgiving light, a day when we find him to be, all in all, if not one of nature’s noblemen, at least a satisfactory sample or the human species. We are willing to take him as he is, to wish him well and many happy returns of the day. It cannot be possible that a conqueror can have this kind of a birthday. He has not won the hearts of peoples by liberating them from an oppressor. He is himself the oppressor who has taken away from peoples, not given to them. The conqueror is the man whom millions hope will soon meet his end, the sooner the better. His victims can wish him nothing but evil and short life and an undoing of his work.

A Meaningless Gesture

In miserable Poland, millions in the throes of a living death still breathe only to hope for the end of Hitler's day. What must be the thoughts of the people of Norway and Denmark as they remember the happy years of peace and free contentment before the Nazis moved in? Can the people of Holland and Belgium and France wish for anything except the restoration of their independence through the downfall of Hitler? What this man has done to the world we are only beginning to feel here in the United States.

My Day

CHICAGO, Ill, Tuesday.—The sun shone when we reached Peoria, Ill, yesterday. After a press conference, I went out to see one of the housing projects built under the U. S. Housing Authority. Everyone with whom I talked had the highest praise for Nathan Straus and the work which has been accomplished under his leadership. The particular project which I saw was practically completed, except for landscaping. There are two types of buildings, three-story apartment houses and two-story small houses. The rents are remarkably reasonable, far below the average for substandard housing in Peoria. I am sures all the officials are very pleased with what has been accomplished. Ro Later, I met the staff of the WPA for the district. I was Very much interested to hear an account of the Workers Service Project, which has just been operating during the last two months. They have set up centers of information for the workers, and they seem to have been able to make these centers very useful in the short time they hav been n. +A oO charge of re-education of workers and re-employment told me that in Quincy, Ill, they had placed 92 per cent of their men, who had had an opportunity for retraining, That is an Felient

port Managers’ Convention in St. Louis. . . . The hospital beds are pretty well filled this month—with victims of home accidents. Internes say this is the worst time of year and nine out of 10 cases are from house mishaps. . . . Ernest Ropkey, the former city councilman, is-an amateur cartoonist. His subjects are restaurant companions and his tools are pencil and tablecloth.

Lee-d On — —

IF YOU SHOULD SEE a man running down the road behind a boy on a scooter bike, you'll know it’s the auto license department giving young Wallace O. Lee Jr. his driver's license test. Wally wants to drive his bike to school, but his dad (chairman of the Mayor's Traffic Safety Committee) said nothing doing unless he was obeying the letter of the law. The Auto License Division agreed he should be licensed, but the law says the test must be given with a representative of the Division riding along. The scooter bike, of course, has no accommodations for passengers. They're pondering the matter at the State House now

Add Signs of Summer

ON SUNDAY, Maestro Fabien Sevitzky of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra stared into the mirror of the Congress Hotel in Chicago and contemplated his long and magnificent sideburns with deep sadness. Downstairs, in the barber shop, he closed his eyes in reflection as the barber shaved them off in the neatest fashion imaginable. It's spring, we guess.

By Raymond Clapper

We run up the flag for Hiiler and sign his birthday book. But it is only a meaningless gesture. For we remember that but for him we should be going on about our peaceful affairs.

Except for Hitler we should not be drafting thou-|

sands of young men. We should not be raiding

college graduating classes for fighting youth that:

has spent years training for the professions of peace. We should not, except for Hitler, be building a twoocean Navy. Nor be preparing to impose enormous taxes to pay for the energy and materials that muct now go into the preparation for slaughter and destruction. Thanks to Hitler, we can no longer go ahead with our business of making goods, like automobiles, ever cheaper and better for the convenience and pleasure of the humblest person. We must fix steel prices, and must arbitrarily cut industrial peace-time production, and withdraw many materials, so that we can make planes, and guns. We can no longer lead the life we wish to lead and did lead because we have Hitler to deal with. Before his day is over, it will Est sameries not only all of this but it may cost ood. ,

Destroy Britain, His Goal

object.

Flying Cadets Study Early and Late at Schoo

150 Hoosiers

Train In Texas

For U.S. Army

Times Special

RANDOLPH FIELD, Tex., April 23.—At 5:45

5: a. m. sleepy-eyed ‘grease monkeys” crawl into cockpits of Army trainers lined

on the ramps. As the throttles are opened a hoarse-throated roar splits the air—and continues with alarmclock insistence. Thus begins the day for some 150 Flying Cadets from Indiana and surrounding states, including many from Indianapolis, who are among hundreds more of the future Army pilots now serving apprenticeships at the Army's “West Point of the Air.” After donning their ' tailored slate-blue uniforms (patterned after West Point's) the fledglings make their bunks and assemble for setting-up exercises before breakfast. After downing their breakfast they march to work at 7:15 a. m. A typical cadet spends his first two hours daily in classrooms and

BOMBS IMPERIL 0. S. OFFICIALS

Extinguish Fires After London Raid.

LONDON, April 23.—More than one member of the American Em-

bassy in London narrowly escaped with his life during a recent raid. During one part of the evening the area around the Embassy was the recipient of many incendiaries and some high explosives. Embassy officials on duty and Ambassador | John G. Winant took an active part lin putting out the fires started by the incendiaries. Vice Consul Harry Stebbins owes his life to a lucky chance. He was

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laboratories, probing the intricacies of radio code, military law, the whys and wherefore of the weather—a study as important to pilots as block signals to a railway engineer. The third hour is devoted to ground school, tinkering with airplane parts and engines. The period from 10:40 to 11:30 a. m. if given over to athletics or drill. (Cadets also iearn to carry a rifle). After a half-hour for lunch the potential pilot and classmates march a mile to the flying line, where their spick-and-span, yel-low-winged monoplanes, groomed, by maintenance crews after morning flights of other classes, al= ready are warming up. The afternoon, from 12:45 to 5:15 p. m. is spent in flying with instructors (or soloing if the pupil is advanced). Between hops, students and instructors get their heads together over blackboard diagrams, airplane models illustrating proper techniques.

Statehouse Democrats Glad As Decision Prolongs Jobs

By EARL RICHERT Smiles—real smiles—creased the countenances of State House Democrats yesterday for the first time since the election returns started coming in last Nov. 6. As news of the favorable Supreme Court decision got around, stenographers jumped out of their seats, squealing with joy. (And that isn’t just a figure of speech either.) They scurried around to tell their friends and called up their folks at home to tell them the “good news.” Department heads and minor officials dropped their work and headed for the spft drink stand, each insisting that the drinks should be on him. To practically all of

them, the

on duty in the Embassy that night. | Supreme Court decision meant that, This conqueror, whose birthday was observed with|During a lull in the raid he went barring the unexpected, they would “soldierly simplicity” has at the moment one supreme to his home for something to eat. still be holding their state jobs after

It is to demolish the British people who He had just stepped into the Kitchen May 1, the date on which most of

have, through centuries, developed the institutions/ When a bomb hit the front of the | them had expected to join the ranks

of freedom. In England were begun the methods

house and demolished it

Had he of the unemployed under the Re-

of government which, developed in the United States been there three seconds later he publican decentralization laws. and in other countries, made it possible for people | Would not have survived to tell the)

to have some say in the conduct to speak and live largely as extent of their individual ability.

of their government,

In place of this Hitler seeks to create a herren| SPent a busy evening putting out

class, for which conquered people would be slaves, with no freedom, no security, no more chance to benefit by their work and talents than a Jew has in Warsaw today. Blood and toil, tears and sweat— that is the curse which Hitler has already imposed upon a large part of the world today. The price of Wiping it out may be greater than any of us suspect. The flag may fly over the American Embassy in Berlin on the conqueror’s birthday. But it does nos Say, “many happy returns of the day.” :

By Eleanor Roosevelt

record and, though they still have plenty of people on the rolls waiting for training, it does show a heartening rise in private employment.

It was very pleasant to see Mrs. Kem and her father and sister again, They had been , rk Delavan, Ill, last year. When you stay with people as we did with them, you. can not help feeling that you really know them. I have felt a real sense of friendship for the entire family ever since I went to speak there. A number of the British relief people, among them two small girls dressed in Scotch kilts, came at 5 o'clock to shake hands with me. I was glad to see Mrs. Johnson, who remembered having entertained the President and me in the 1920 campaign. After the lecture in the evening, I attended a small reception. We boarded the train a little before midnight, arriving in Chicago early this morning. The sun is shining and we look out of our windows at a very calm lake with ships passing in the distance. I always enjoy this view and the sight of the gardens and the trees along the drive with the licessant stream of cars going past. There is no green on the trees yet, and no flowers are in sight but there is a feel of spring in the air. The papers give front page space to the question of daylight saving, and we oniy think of that when we begin to long for the out-of-doors.

At noon, we start across the continent, bound for Angeles, \ '

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tale Staff Puts Out Fires

the fires around them. At one point there were four burning briskly when a high explosive landed, blowling out some of the Embassy windows. The Ambassador, who ‘had been working at a desk sur(rounded by windows, had only shortly before been persuaded to go to a less exposed part of the building. American Air Attache Gen. Scanlon was in his house when an explosive hit a building three doors |away. The fact that all the windows lon the ground floor were open saved them but the blast, in the freakish way of blasts, removed the kitchen door and landed it in the street leaving the lock still in place.

STATE GROUP BACKS INDUSTRY COUNCIL

The Indiana State Industrial Union Council today indorsed the Industry Council Plan for defense industries proposed recently by Philip Murray, president of the C.1.0. In a letter to President Roosevelt, John Bartee, secretary-treasurer of the state organization, asked for support of the plan “in the interests of everyone concerned.” The Industry Council Plan provides that the councils be set up in all the major defense industries to be composed of equal representation from industry and labor with the chairman a representative of the Government. The council would be

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“Isn't it wonderful,” grinned one $6000 a year official, “now we will probably get. a vacation on state

Ambassador Winant and his staff | Pay.”

He referred to the fact that under the decision Judge Earl Cox's order restraining Republican officials from

remarked one officidl.

1. Awaiting their turn in the

fellow fledglings from rows of benches outside hangars.

air, Randolph’s cadets watch their Left to

right, Cadets Bernard Cederholm Jr. 320 N. Summit St., Indianapolis; Dewitt C. Flint, Dayton, O., and Hugh Correll, Canton, O.

2 Marion, O. to right, J.

(in cockpit), who has

Three Indiana cadets gather around Cadet H. E. Williams,

just finished a practice dive. Left

1. Compton, Edinburg, Ind.; W. P. Lemme, Bruceville, Ind.;

Cadet Williams and O. G. Johnson, Vincennes, Ind.

3. Cadet S. J. Marquette, 76

N. Ritter Ave., Indianapolis, finds

something interesting to tell Miss Betty Durkin, Houston, Tex. at

the Cadet Clubrooms in a downtown San Antonio Hotel.

Cadets may

wear civilian clothes when not on duty.

4. "from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. Cadet Sup Ind., lounges on a desk to read

Horace A. Payne, Muncie, munches an apple.

cennes, reads a magazine.

Lower classmen at Randolph must remain in their rooms

ply Sergeant J. W. Miller, Lebanon, a newspaper while his roommate, J. W. McDowell, Vin-

At day's end, underclassmen (first five weeks) have only a brief break for supper and leisure in recreation rooms, gymnasium or bowling alleys. They must retire to barracks at 7:30 p. m., remain there until

making appointments will remain in effect at least until the Supreme Court rules on the merits of the restraining order itself. And the Democrats figure that it will take the Supreme Court judges some time to write an opinion on that. Thus, they believe, they are assured of their jobs until well along in the summer. And, too, the high court ruling on the restraining order may be favorable to them. “I haven't felt so good since Cincincinnati won the World Series,” “If we just had some ticker tape, I'd really celebrate.” In sharp contrast to the exuberance so evideat in Democratic offices was the jfloom among the Republican officials. “I think we're like the Brifish,” said one. “We may win the war, but we're sure as heck losing a lot of important battles.”

DARLAN HEARS NAZI TERMS VICHY, April 23 (U. P.).—Vice Premier Jean Francois Darlan meeis Otto Abetz, Nazi “envoy” to France, in Paris tonight to hear details of a reported German offer to concessions and restorations of Franco-German relations if Pierre Laval is returned to the Cabinet.

HOLD EVERYTHING

COPR. 1941 BY NEA

“Okay, busher, the bases are full—now let’s see the triple-play pitch you were telling that dame about last night!” _

INC. T. Mm REG. U. S PAT. OFF.

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9:30 p. m. for study. Upperclassmen are free after supper except for three night flying periods weekly. Ail must be abed when “lights out” is signaled at 10

p. m. Schedules at Kelly's Advance

DELAY FORMING LIQUOR BOARD

County Commissioners Split 3 Ways Over G. 0. P. Appointment.

Complications resulting from Democrats trying to agree on the appointment of a Republican to Marion County's powerful Liquor Control Board today delayed organization of the board until next week County Commissioners were reported to be split three ways on prospective candidates for appoint-

ment under the new 1941 Stout Liquor Control Law,

Commission Appoints First

Under the Act, the Commissioners must make their appointments to the four-member, bi-partisan board first. They were scheduled to have agreed on a Republican today, but William Brown and Harry Hohilt, Democratic Commissioners, could not agree with William Ayres, Republican member on a candidate. Teh Democratic Commissioners decided yesterday to appoint a Republican, since two members of the old Board, William Sidlinger and Lawrence Miller are Democrats. This left the Commissioners and County Council to name Republicans in order to balance the Board politically.

Council Makes Choice

The County Council was to have named its appointee yesterday but delayed its action because of inability of the Commissioners to agree on their appointee. The Council is expected to appoint George Kincaid, Republican Councilman, as its member. The three candidates over which County Commissioners are deliberating are Robert Smith, Republican member of the County Election Commission, George Agnew, an accountant, and Dale Brown, Seventh Ward G. O. P. chairman. The appointments are expected to be completed before May 1.

MINIATURE RACERS TO FEATURE FAIR

The second annual Y. M. C. A. Hobby Fair will be open tomorrow

through Saturday. A feature this year will be miniature auto race cars in action tomorrow and Friday at 9 p. m. The Fair, occupying the entire second floor of the “Y”, is in charge of Kirkwood Yockey, general chairman. The racers are expected to reach a speed of 60 m. p. h. during the contests in the gymnasium. The Indianapolis Casting Club will be among the organizations to

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School (to which cadets are mae triculated after four months here) are similar but less precise, less disciplined. While mastering the Army’s mosl complicated, most powerful trainers, learning cross-country technique, advanced acrobatics and formations, the students have more leisure, may spend evenings —except for flying nights—as they see fit. Customarily on week-ends, cadets of both schools, are granted “open post,” may doff uniforms, don “civvies,” come and go as they wish after 1 p. m. Saturday. Many flock to the Cadet Club rooms in downtown San Antonio, where a local hotel has set aside a ballroom and lounge for the youths and their “dates.” Their $75 monthly, plus equipment, live ing expenses leaves ample allow= ance for entertainment. Promptly at 7 p. m. Sunday (10 p. m. at the Advanced School)) cadets must be back in barracks, ready for the next week's work,

Recruit Chief Is

Marine Veteran

SERGT. JAMES W. BARNGROVER, a veteran of 27 years active and reserve service in the U. S. Marine Corps, has been recalled to take charge of the Ine

dianapolis Marine Corps Recruiting Office, 402 Post Office Bldg, A local resident, Sergt. Barnegrover has been assigned as a non-commissioned officer. A World War veteran, he has served in Mexico, Santo Domingo, Haiti and on sea duty. He formerly was employed as a special policeman with the P. R. Mallory & Co. Inc. The Marine Corps is accepting volunteers physically qualified and between 18 and 30. Those of draft age are eligible tq enlist if their application is received before they have been sent their . notice to report for Army duty,

TAKE BODY FROM RIVER

AURORA, Ind., April 23 (U. P.) .~= Police reported the body of an une identified white man, about 30 and six feet tall, was taken from the Ohio River yesterday. Cornoner Harry Moon estimated the body had been in the river about two weeks.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Are the little crabs that are found in oysters, edible? 2—Who was Joseph Haydn? 3—Which European country was known in ancient times as Hellas? 4—In which years was Oscar W, Underwood a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Pres ident? 5—EBuphrates is the name of a famous person, river or English novel? 6—What relation was Charles Bonae parte, former U. S. Secretary of the Navy, to Napoleon I of France? 7—Which notable newspaper cole umnist is the wife of Sinclair Lewis?

Answers 1—-Yes 2—Austrian composer. 3—Greece. 4-—1912 and 1924, 5—River. 6—Grandnephew, T—Dorothy Thompson.

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