Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1941 — Page 11

TUESDAY, MAY 6, 194i

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

FT. BLISS, Texas, May 6.—The Fifth Cavalry, with which I am bunking in for awhile, is 86 years old. It was organized at Louisville, Ky. in 1855, and its first commander was Robert E. Lee. It served throughout the Civil War, helped capture Alexandria, Va., from the Confederates, and

fought at Bull Run, Antietam, = 8 : 3 ae SR TR

Gettysburg, Appomattox, It has fought Indians all over the mountains and prairies of the West. It has served in Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii. It chased Villa in Mexico. Twenty-seven of its enlisted men have received the Congressional Medal of Honor, America’s highest award. It is an old war-scarred regiment, and exceedingly proud. Cavalry today is much different from what it was last century; even much different from what it was 20 years ago. There are those who pass cavalry over lightly as a thing of the past, but you'd better not say that seriously to a cavalryman The day is gone when it is the policy of cavalry to attack while mounted. Today cavalry carries terrific fire-power, and its main theory is to get that firepower to the point of battle over country which mechanized equipment cannot negotiate.

Modern Cavalry in Action

This sandy, cut-up desert land of the border area is where cavalry shines—probably the only place in our country where cavalry would be essential in a modern war A cavalry regiment today is not just horses and men and rifles. It is also trucks and trailers and machine guns and howitzers and anti-tank units and scouts If the Fifth Regiment were suddenly to receive orders to go into battle 150 miles down in Mexico, it wouldn't saddle up and charge out on a forced ride across the desert. Everything, including the horses, would go into trucks and trailers. It would dash forward to battle on its rubbertired wheels, and go to the point where wheels could no longer negotiate the sand and the humps. Then the horses would be unloaded and packed quickly, and would continue on toward the enemy. And then, when contact was made with the enemy. the cavalrymen would dismount, set up their guns

By Ernie Pyle

and start shooting. And they can do all this faster than it takes to tell it. They can stop from a full gallop, unpack and assemble a howitzer or a machine gun, aim and have it firing in nine seconds! I've seen them do it. Horses, men and machines all flow in one swift, harmonic movement. It is thrilling to watch. On my last day at Ft. Bliss, the whole First Cavalry Division passed in review before Maj. Gen. Swift and Maj. Gen John K. Herr, Chief of Cavalry, who was visiting from Washington. It was a Saturday morning. When we arrived, we could see the men lined up in vast formation far across the bare, flat desert. The generals and their staffs and all the flag-bearers were on this side of the vast parade ground. Then the band started to play and the two generals, both hale and agile men past 60, dashed forward on their horses, followed by three horsemen carrying standards on poles.

A Thrilling Spectacle

They reached the assembled regiments on the far side, and rode the entire length in front of them, and then the entire length behind them. They went at a gallop, riding plenty hard, and it was impressive to see them ride so fast. They rode back, and took their places out front, still mounted, to receive the review. The band blew an order, and that great black mass on the far side began slowly to move. The troopers were close-packed. They must have been riding 20 or 3C abreast, row after row after row until it seemed that all the horses in the world were assembled there. Dust rose from the column, and underneath you could see the prancing hoofs of fractious horses. Somehow it had the character of an irresistible force on the move; it had a grandeur that I have seen produced before only in movies. It was a massive grace. A friend of mine from Cleveland, on his first trip to the Southwest, stood and watched with an almost reverent admiration. And when he was told that between a third and a half of these 6000 riders had never been on a horse until two months before, he was unbelieving. It was an impressive spectacle. It made something glow inside of you. And when at last the old Fifth Cavalry came in its turn and lowereqd its standard in salute, and all its men rode past with the slow massed rhythm of perfectly trained movement, I'll swear I felt almost as much pride in them as though I had really honestly belonged to the regiment,

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

LOCAL MURAL makes good. That's a fact. Robert L. Black, a science teacher at Manual, had Elmer

Taflinger paint a mural called “The Apotheosis of Science” for use in his biology classes and the business is now on display in New York in, of all places, the Museum of Science and Industry. The biology classes don’t get to see much of Mr. Black's mural anymore, what with appearances in Philadelphia, Columbus, O. and other cities. . . . The Service Club has gone on record for George Gilbert Mize as “the bowlers’ idea of the perfect league secretary.” . . . Believe it or not, H. S. Morse, president of the water company, has the art of dowsing, or to say it so you amateurs will understand, to be able to handle a divining rod. . . . H. A. Minturn, secretary of the Scientech Club, is recuperating from an appendectomy. . . . Just received: A bulletin from the Civil Aeronautics Board, headed: “Pilots’ Part In Our National Defense Program: Avoiding Collisions.”

Life in the Circus

BACKSTAGE AT THE circus Sunday afternoon was a very worried Emmett Kelley. The eminent clown was staring dolefully at a decidedly skimpy cabhage. He needed one for his night performance and the stores were all closed. There wasn't much left, he confided, because he'd eaten too much. ... Wilbur Peat, the boss man at the John Herron and grooin for years of the late, defrosted plaster-of-paris statue of Gen. Bartolommeo Coleoni is hoping he can run into some public spirited, art-loving citizen with an extra $15,000 who would like to see a real statue of the General in front of the Museum. . . . Little Judy Lamb of the William B. Lambs (60603 Evanston) locked herself in the second-story bathroom the other day and Papa had to call the Fire Department. So

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 6.—Not only has the House taken its own sweet time about considering the bill

to take over, with due compensation, foreign ships in American ports, but in the Senate some are preparing to use this measure as a vehicle for pursuing their hysterical debate against convoys. That can have only one effect. It will delay the use of 1,000,000 tons of shipping which is desperately needed. Whatever the motives behind these obstructionists, the effect of their delaying tactics is to make it harder for England to survive. The time has long since passed when there is any excuse for any member of Congress being uninformed as to the grave danger to our security involved in the outcome of England's struggle to hold on. The facts are so plain, and so universally accepted among Army and Navy officials, in the State Department and indeed throughout the whole Administration, that anyone who refuses to see them now must inevitably rest under the suspicion that he is either inexcusably ignorant or is willfully indifferent to the security of this country.

U. S. Safety Involved

I have written about this many times and have tried to do it in a temperate and reasonable vein. But I have reached the point where I can have no respect for the intelligence of a member of Congress or a Senator who does not see that the survival of British seapower is important to the safety of the United States. The information which is available to newspaper correspondents in Washington is available, and more of it, to any Senator or Representative who is sincerely enough interested in the security of our country to inform himself. The point now is that 1,000,000 tons of idle foreign

My Day

SEATTLE, Washington, Monday.—About 10 colleges and universities of the International Student Service were represented here yesterday at luncheon and stayed with us until nearly 4 o'clock. They agreed

that they wished to have a further discussion in preparation for some kind of work next winter. Everyone present felt that greater clarification of the problems of today, through discussion, is one of the needs of the campuses.

We all talked to the President on the telephone Saturday night. Even the youngest member of the family managed to say: “Hello grandpa,” and to be really understood. Originally I had thought that, because my husband was away from Washington, he would not be able to talk to us on Anna’s birthday and would have to wait until Sunday. However, he managed his conversation quite as well from Charlottesville, Va. It was fortunate for us because we left at about 5:00 p. m. yesterday and went across the lake on the floating concrete bridge, which always seems to me the most extraordinary engineering feat. Mr. and Mrs. Stanly Donogh, whom we have visited, have a charming house with a lovely view of the water. Mr. Donogh enjoys really good food. fe has ar-

now, everybody in the 6000 block of Evanston is busy removing the locks from the bathroom doors. . . You might be interested to know how automobile purchasing in the county has been coming along. Up to May 1st of last year, 6989 new cars were sold. Up to May 1st, this year, the figure is 8973. That's business for you.

The Lady Fullback

THE JOHN JANZARUCKS (he's the head football coach at Manual) have a spanking 7-pound baby daughter. “I wanted a fullback,” said the former I. U. star, “and got a yell leader. But she’s swell!” . . . We mentioned bowling a few moments ago and that stirred up the thought of the Medical Society's league which has eight teams named: Iritis, Appendicitis, Typhoid, Malaria, Meningitis, Pneumonia, Diphtheria and Rubella. Stars of the league at the moment are Doctors Herman H. Gick (185 average), Walter E. Pennington (179) and Olin B. Norman (175). . . . “Dear Inside,” said the letter, “you should be ashamed of yourself, locating old Shortridge at Walnut and Pennsylvania. It was between North and Michigan—oldest at Michigan and Pennsylvania.” Yes, our face is very red, indeed.

He'll Never Recover!

BUT SPEAKING of red faces, there's one belonging to an IndMnapolis merchant who bought 5000 cut flowers for last Friday's-Saturday’s trade on the supposition that last Sunday was Mother's Day! . .. The most popular windows in town right now are the north upper-story ones in the Chamber of Commerce Building. . . . They overlook the Athletic Club roof where all those gentlemen take their sunbaths. . . . The Eli E. Thompsons (912 N. Rural) have one of the nicest keep-off-the-grass signs in town. ' It shows Chiet Wahoo saying: “Keep um off grass.” . .. To the curious: No, the Profiles of the Week never know anything in advance of those articles. They're just the victims—surprised ones at that.

By Raymond Clapper

shipping lies in our ports. We want to take it over, pay for it, and put it to work. We are stripping our own oil tanker service, curtailing coastwise shipping, taking ships off other foreign runs, all in order to release tonnage for the haul to Britain. We are using our Navy for air and sea patrol to assist the British in getting their goods across the ocean. What is proposed now is that this 1,000,000 tons of idle shipping be put into use. President Roosevelt has asked Congress for authority to requisition it with due compensation. As Germany has requisitioned American industrial plants in Germany. This is opposed as a violation of international law, as an act of war, and as something Hitler wouldn't like. The trouble is that it is something the British need—that's what causes the opposition.

Senator Tobey Again

Senator Tobey of New Hampshire, who bled at every pore some months ago to block the taking of the census on the ground that it was an infringement on the personal liberty of God-fearing American citizens, proposes to hold up this vital measure by trying to hook on to it a rider against convoys. He knows that will delay the vote. He knows it will only open up a controversial subject and draw into the debate a score of other Senators whose whole course in the last year has been with the effect, if not the intention, of obstructing Britain's effort to survive, whose whole course has been to give aid and comfort to Hitler and whose policies, if they had prevailed would by now probably have left us standing alone with a one-ocean navy in a world of Axis victory multiplied by addition of the British fleet and shipping facilities. : I share the reluctance of many in Congress to go into convoying and' naval warfare if it can be escaped, which is becoming increasingly doubtful. But this proposal to use idle foreign shipping, which is rotting in our ports, is so far from a shooting proposition that opposition to it is difficult to understand except on the ground of either ignorant pigheadedness or vicious intention.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

ranged a charcoal burner for his own use and we were given the best steaks I have eaten in many a long day. They showed us the outdoor grill where they cook and eat during the summer months. I think they look upon this indoor one as a mere make-

shift which makes the winter months possible. We came home fairly early and took Miss Thompson to her train for Chicago. I think she really likes this trip because for two solid days she can sleep as late in the morning as she wants, with no feeling that I am going to suggest work before she can drink her morning coffee. If all goes well, I shall reach Chicago an hour before she does. I take it for granted that all will go well, for I have been so fortunate on my last few trips by air. It won't prevent me, however, from saying a little prayer to the weather man. Everyone asks me out here if I don’t prefer this climate to that in the East, and I must say it has many advantages. I have said before that this Northwestern coast is very like the coast I know so well on the Northeastern shore of our continent, and quite agree with my children and grandchildren that this is a grand place in which to live. The West is a young man’s country and there is a spirit of freedom in the air, but I am afraid that I am too old to change in my loyalty to my own home on the Hudson River. Today is a busy day, but I shall have ‘to tell you about it tomorrow.

JACKSON ASKS ARMS JOBS FOR SHALL PLANTS

‘Wants Red Tape Cut and

All Firms in State Put to Work.

preventing the spread of defense work among more small firms and shops in Indiana, and the solution is the establishment of a Federal co-ordinating office here, Clarence A. Jackson, State Civilian Defense Council director, said today. The Federal Government which lets defense contracts is “still too far removed from the little fellow in business,” Mr. Jackson declared. “This lack of close co-ordination has created almost insurmountable red tape for the management of small firms.” Mr. Jackson, who also is executive director of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, said he was not aiming his criticism at the Federal Government but was calling attention to an apparent fault in the system that “is everyone's responsibility to help rectify.”

Asks U. S. Representative

Because of this and because of the new plea of President Roosevelt for “around-the-clock” arms production and “farming out” of defense work to small shops, Mr. Jackson said he has asked the Office of Production Management to send a representative to Indiana. “We need a good all-around mechanical engineer and production man to familiarize himself with Indiana shops, to cut the red tape preventing these shops from getting defense subcontracts, and to help to put all Indiana machine

-| tools to work,” Mr. Jackson said.

Until recently Indiana firms had been forced to deal directly with Washington in attempts to obtain contracts. Now the OPM has a representative in Chicago, a district manager of the Defense Contract Service, sub-agency of the OPM.

Machines Available

Despite the establishment of the DCS, the confusion still exists in attempting to spread out the work. There are great numbers of machine tools in the State available

for diversion to war materials production and many more tools which are being used for defense only a little of the time, Mr. Jackson said. Big industries are not farming out much of the work, he said. They don’t know to whom to go, what shops have the needed tools. On the other hand, small shop management doesn’t know who has big contracts, what they call for and where he might apply to put his shop to work. “It takes constant contact between the big industry and the small fellow and between them both and the national defense production men in Washington,” Mr. Jackson said. “This close co-ordination can't be maintained when one man in Chicago is trying to cover such duties in four states of his district.”

Report Machines Idle

There are no figures available here, Mr. Jackson said, to show to what extent Indiana machine tools are available for defense work, but “we do know it is a great percentage of the total.” It has been reported from Washington that a recent survey disclosed that one-third of 434,000 machine tools in 18,000 small to medi-um-sized concerns throughout the country were idle an average of 14 hours per day. Mr. Jackson said he believed the Government would find better results if it would put defense production a state-by-state competitive basis permitting each state to employ its own technique for “pooling” small shops to gain maximum use of machine tools and spreading out the work in the small firms. Mr. Jackson made his request for an Indiana OPM representative when he was in Washington last week. Some of the national leaders in defense production said they believed the plan was “logical.” Nothing has been heard on the proposal since then.

G0-0PS TO INSTALL HEADS TOMORROW

New officers and directors of the Co-operative Club will be installed by A. S. H. Bender, Chicago, national president, at a dinner dance

in the Columbia Club tomorrow. The officers are Noble W. Hiatt, president; Harold B. Hood, vice president; Edward V. Mitcnell, secretary, and William H. Polk, treasurer. New directors are Fae W. Patrick, Frank A. Symmes, David T. Campbell, W. Arthur Singleton and Wendell M. Hicks. Delegations from the clubs in St. Louis, Richmond, Columbus, Lima, Dayton and Cincinnati will attend. Ralph E. Duncan, retiring president, will have charge of the installation, with Mr. Singleton, James B. Lanagan, William H. Polk and David C. Braden directing the dinner and floor show entertainment.

AXE FIGHTS TO KEEP BICKNELL SCHOOL JOB

VINCENNES, Ind., May 6 (U. P). —Harold Axe today fought for his position as superintendent of Bicknell schools, aided by a temporary restraining order granted in Knox Superior Court by Judge Herman Robbins. The order was issued in a suit brought by Mr. Axe against the Bicknell School Board, which handed him a dismissal notice Friday. Mr. Axe, who holds a three-year contract, contended in the suit that 12 charges made in the dismissal were “untrue, political and personal.” It was reported that Bicknell citi-

zens might demand the ouster of the board.

Red tape is the stumbling block

Awards Made at Annual Indiana Art Show at Herron

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GERMANY USES POPULAR POLL

Findings of Nazi Party's ‘Bloc’ Leaders Influence Reich Moves.

By DAVID M. NICHOL

BERLIN, May 6.—In this day of popular polls, it will come as a surprise to many to learn that a similar instrument is a widely used tool of the German dictatorship. Its results are never published, but its influence is unquestionable. It provides a sensitive barometer to public opinion and guides the propaganda of the controlled press and radio. Some who are acquainted with its workings say it has resulted in modifications of government decrees or in the withholding altogether of projected measures. Verbal Reports Each Week

Its findings go regularly to the highest officials of the Nazi party

fully expresses, when he speaks, the [thoughts and ideas, often still in(articulate, of the bulk of his follow-

The National Socialist Party itself is the medium through which this poll is taken. Every “bloc” leader— and there is one for every tiny area in the Reich—reports verbally once a week, and in writing once a month, to a superior about the temper and problems of the people in his “precinct.” Hess Uses Reports

These reports sift through the intricate party machine until they reach the Fuehrer’s rarely seen and seldom heard deputy, Dr. Rudolf Hess, and through his staff they are put to use. Hess, in 1933, was given veto power over suggested decrees of the various ministries and the very fact of its existence has made the exercise of this power’ informal. Informed persons say that Hess’ staff takes the initiative in proposing measures to the various ministries or suggesting modifications on the basis of their reports.

PLAN LISBON FLIGHTS VICHY, May 6 (U. P.).—A German shuttle air service between Marseilles and Lisbon, to connect with trans-Atlantic air service, will be opened soon, it was reported today. The service will operate on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, it was said.

HOLD EVERYTHING

and state. It is at least one of the

reasons why the Fuehrer so success-|diana during March was reported

1 Dies, 18 Periled, In Wall Collapse

PITTSBURGH, May 6 (U. P)). —Their safety belts spelled the difference between life and death for 18 men today when the wall of a furnace collased in the Second Ave. plant of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. here. One man was killed when he slipped through his safety apparatus and plunged 35 fee to the ground. When the wall collapsed, the men were hurled into space. They fell distances of from 5 to 10 feet before their safety belts halted their plunge toward the ground. The men dangled in the air until other workers rushed to their rescue, The furnace was closed down Jast week and the men were knocking out the brick wall. *

PUBLIC ASSISTANGE GASES IN STATE DROP

A decrease of 129 in the number of public assistance cases in In-

today by the State Welfare Department. : At the close of March there were 87,146 active cases. The largest decrease was in the old-age assistance

program, which opened 768 cases and closed 863 during the month. Aid to dependent children opened 362 and closed 396 cases while the blind assistance program opened 25 and closed 25. Average monthly grants of $18.32 wer paid to 67,110 old-age assistance recipients, $28.65 to 17,293 aid to dependent children families, and $20.59 to 2401 persons receiving blind assistance. Total expenditures for the three programs was $1,774,022, of which $1,229,161 went for old-age assistance, $495,415 for aid to dependent children, and $49,446 for blind assistance.

LOCAL LEGION POST THIRD IN CONTEST

Indianapolis, Memorial Post 3, American Legion, has been awarded third place in the Legion’s 1941 post history contest, it was announced today. First place and a $100 prize went to Euclid Post 343, Euclid, O., while Naval Post 363, Chicago, won the second prize of $50. The local post’s award, $25, was based on an article written hy Florence Martin, the post historian.

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1. A landscape by Charles M. West Jr. won the J. I. Holcombe

$100 prize.

2. First prize ($150) winner was the portrait of a Negro student by

Edmund Brucker.

3. A $50 prize was won by Laurence Trissel with “Dwellings, After-

noon,” a water color.

4. “Spring's Work,” by Frederick Rash, took a $25 prize.

The annual Indiana art show, now hanging at the Herron Museum, is attracting crowds that are gratifying to the museum of-

ficials and to the artists alike. The show was judged by an out-of-state jury of two artists,

You're In the Army Now—

was previewed Saturday by the Art Association members and artists, and was opened Sunday to the public. It will hang throughout the month. There were five cash prize winners and two honorable mentions.

Hoosier Soldiers Are Eligible To Attend Officers’ School

MORE THAN 83 ARMY enlisted men from the Fifth Corps Area, which includes Indiana, will be selected to attend the first of the Army’s Officer Candidate Schools to open July L They will be among 2300 students from enlisted personnel in all nine Corps Areas and U. S. possessions that will attend arms and

service schools.

Application should be made to commanding officers and the War Department pointed out that the “basic consideration governing the selection of the students will be leadership as demonstrated by actual service in the Army.” From the Fifth Corps Areca the quotas for the various schools, and school locations are: Infantry, Ft. Benning, Ga., 24:; Field Artillery, Ft. Sill, Okla., 9; Cavalry, Ft. Riley, Kan., 20; Engineers, Ft. Belvoir, Va., 3; Signal Corps, Ft. Monmouth, N. J., 12; Ordnance, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md, 3: Quartermaster, Camp Lee, Va., 7, and Medical Administrative Corps, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., 5, in addition to other students to be enrolled in the Armored Force school at Ft. Knox, Ky.

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Bread in a Hurry

A NEW MOBILE baking unit that can be ready for use in producing 72 one-pound loaves of bread, 10 minutes after it is set up, has been developed at the Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot. ‘ The new unit, developed by Styles F. Howard, Quartermaster Corps engineer, is fired by gasoline burners. Approximately 30 minutes is required to set them up. Within 30 minutes after the fires are turned off, the ovens are cool enough to handle. A baking section will consist of two ovens, which can be operated by four men. Each of the sections will be able to turn out about 2000 pounds of bread in a 10 or 12-hour day, experiments have shown. Exhaustive tests of the new bakery are to be conducted at the Quartermaster Replacement Center at Camp Lee, Va. and at Camp Dix, N. J.

Squadron to Move

THE 113TH Observation Squadron, formerly of the Indiana National Guard, and now stationed at Key Field, Meridian, Miss. is to be moved sometime this year to Hattiesburg, Miss.,, near Camp Shelby, it is reported by the War Department. The squadron, formerly attached to the 38th Division, now in training at Camp Shelby, is a part of an observation group which includes the 153rd Observation . eo we * . 4 5 - > , 2 wy

Squadron. The Army is spending $650,000 to build a port at Hatties= burg to base the two units com= prising the group. o EJ »

Marching Days Ahead

THE TROOPS of the 201st Ine fantry at Ft. Harrison will “shuttle march” to the South beginning May 23 for the large-scale ma= neuvers near Tennessee. Each days march will cover about 100 miles, seven of which are to be on foot, and the balance of which will be by truck. Upon completion of the exercises the troops will return to their per= manent stations. Part of the Fifth Division, of which the 201st is a part, are scheduled to bivouac at Ft. Hare rison on the night of May 22, They also will be en route for the maneuvers.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the large island belonging to France, that lies off the west coast of Africa, 2—There are 13 stripes in the U. 8. flag; how many are short ones and how many are long ones? 3—Name the Senator from Texas, famous as a prohibitionist, whe died recently? 4—Did all American Indians speak the same language? 5—What weapon did David use against the giant Goliath? 6—Which West Indian island was originally named Hispaniola? 7—In which city is the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art?

Answers

1—Madagascar, 2—Seven short and six long. 3—Morris Sheppard. 4—No. 5—sSling and pebbles. 6—Haiti. T—New York. 8 8 9

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