Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1941 — Page 13
~. made by the veterans in some 80 hospitals:
"TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1941
Hoosier Vagat LOS ANGELES, May-20.—It is just as easy to get a job with Lockheed in your home state as it is if you come out here on the loose and appear in person. For Lockheed has sent its own men out over the country, and set up test stations in 1500 different : State Employment offices. If you apply at your nearest State Em_bloyment Office for a job, youll get the same tests and have the same - chance for a Job~$ as if you came out here. When I talked with Bob Storment, who is in charge of hiring for the Lockheed and Vega plants, he said, “And please tell people not ‘to apply until they've learned something about how to do one single job in an aircraft plant. “Tell them to enroll in one of the free national-defense schools in their home area for a couple of months, and then apply. Their chances will be a hundred times better.” If you've got anything to you, you go up fast with the aircraft companies during these days of fantastic expansion. A man with three months’ experience on the job is likely to be booted up into a position which, in normal times, he wouldn't reach for several years.
Promotions Are Rapid
The other day at Douglas I was talkin, with a young “lead man” named Parks. Unde was a crew of eight men, who installed gas tanks and cerain sets of wiring and tubing in the engine nacelles as they came along the assembly line, suspended from an overhead track. There are scores of such crews. Parks had worked for Douglas 14 months, which made him practically a veteran. He said he had five new men on his crew that morning, which meant that the five men they had replaced had been shot up to become “lead men” themselves, to train and supervise other new men. ¥ * The aircraft companies all have big education departments, devoted solely to working out and supervising various methods of educating employees for bettér jobs. At Douglas some 3000 men—or about one out of nine—go to school either in off hours, or a few hours a day on company time. At Lockheed the percentage is even greater. Of all the famous bottlenecks in our war production effort, it’ is now beginning to appear that the
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)
4 . NEXT SATURDAY is “Poppy Day” and our natural curiosity simply got the.best of us and we got to asking a lot of questions about the hows and wherefores. Well, in the first place the poppies are The poppies to be sold here were made at-the Marion hospital—some 45,000 of them. The selling is done by the Legion auxiliaries and the junior auxiliaries. The women and girls get nothing for their efforts. The veterans make a little pin money out of their work and the rest goes to child welfare activities. The selling is done by quota and here in the Twelfth District there will be 350 salesladies on Saturday (Post 4, for instance, will have 30 ; girls out selling 2600 poppies). The habit is for the buyer to give a dime, although there is no set price. Some people who can’t afford a dime, give a nickel and there are cases where plant executives have given as much as a five or ten- dollar bill. You'd be. surprised, we're told, how many Indianapolis men give $1 for their poppies. Here's wishing those 350 girls lots of that kind of luck.
The Woar—dAnd Prospects
MICHAEL STIVER, brother of Don, the State Police director, has just returned home from London where he has been head of an advertising firm for _the last several years. -Among other startling things, Mike says:
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Washington
WASHINGTON, May 2C.—American officials are pleased with the visit to Washington of the new Argentine Foreign Minister, Senor Ruiz Guinazau, and -Y pelieve that he goes to take up his new post as a friend of the United States. Because of the importance of Argentina in the Latin-American family, the attitude of its Foreign Minister is a matter of consequence as was implied in the elaborate program arranged for him in Washington. This included luncheon at the White House, dinners, receptions, and many private discussions with high-ranking officials. The impression which the Argentine Foreign Minister made upon officials served to discount some of the reports which had been circulated as te his pro-Axis sympathies. These reports are put down as inconsistent with the attitude which he manifested ‘here. The new Argentine Foreign Minister has not been in his own country for several years. He served at Geneva as representative at the League of Nations and then became Argentina’s diplomatic representa- - tive at the Vatican. Before leaving Europe, he was royally entertained in Italy, France, Spain and Portu- . gal. Axis representatives made every effort to win . him over to a policy of co-operation with their purposes in South America.
A Believer in Democracy
But it should be remembered that the Foreign Minister is an active Catholic. layman and worked closely with the Vatican. In that capacity he became thoroughly familiar with the Nazi treatment of the church and of Catholics in occupied countries. Some : of these chapters left bitter feelings. It is probably true that German efficiency, seen at such close range, made its impression. Also it probably is true that he is keeping in mind the fact
WASHINGTON, Monday.—My brother, Maj. Henry Hooker, and I enjoyed the Dean Dixon Concert last night very much. It was remarkable that a group, largely made up of amateurs, could be brought to_getner through the conductor's ability and achieve such a good. parformance. A small - group of women has been able to finance the. purchase of instruments. About 40 people drawn from the community, ‘ef every sace, color aud creed, come together in this orchestra without compensation either to the young conductor, Dean Dixon, who is about 26 years old, or to any one of the musicians. Last night 30 of Mr. Dixon's pupils at the Julliarq school played with the orchestra. They. told me that they give one public performance a year and, in between times, a few benefit performances. On my way back to Washington this morning, I read Secre of State Hull’s speech. I must say that I swelled with pride because of the great restraint of expression and firmness of humanitarian interest Secretary Hull so ably exp I thought of some of the speeches which I have heard from Ger-
-~ ° d By Ernie Pyle waining of men is the biggest. out here have really gone to bat along that line. Three huge public technical schools in the Los Angeles area are devoted exclusively to training young men for defense jobs. In addition, there are many high schools which run night classes for workers. In fact the public schools in Burbank have more workmen students at night than regular students by day. Some public schools run all night; there actually are classes in session when dawn breaks over the California hills. The aircraft companies help outline courses for these schools, and they furnish instructors from their own factories. The Long Beach Vocational School is now turning out 1000 aircraft workers a month, and will soon put in ‘a ship-building course to Ilelp supply men for the great new shipyards in Los Angeles Harbor area.
Accredited Schools Listed And then there are the private technical schools.
As I said the other day, a lot of phonies have sprung|.
up. The Los Angeles Better Business Bureau is contirtually weeding them out, but others seem to sprout just as fast. So the aircraft companies have a list. If you come to them with graduation credentials from a private trade school on their approved list, you get a job -almosi automatically. But if you come from one of the schools not on their list you might as well go bury your diploma in the nearest prairie-dog hole. I was interested in what Lockheed had to say about out-of-state applicants for jobs. They said that the old-fdshioned Okie, who wheezes up in his jallopy with seven kids and nine dogs on his last quart of gas, hasn't a chance to be hired. But the new crop, the younger fellows who have quit jobs to come out here—they turn out pretty well on the average, provided they have a little education. Lockheed has found, incidentally, that its best oug-of-staters come from Utah and Montana. . They haven't yet learned why. The second best are from Iowa and Kansas, third best from Texas, and fourth best from Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. They haven't really hired many from the East, except for one foray into New York City, where they sent recruiters and testers and brought out 2700 men just skimmed right off the top of the best New York had to offer. These men are doing fine.
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1. Every time You hear a bomb explode during a raid you feel exactly as if you were in an automobile that had just barely missed another crash. 2. That London’s biggest power plant has never been touched by a German bomb although the area around it has been bombed steadily and that electricity has never been shut off in London for even a minute. 3. That the war may go on for another 12 to 15 years and that America has to come in. 4. That the long-heralded invasion attempt is sure to come this summer—with the chances of German success about 1 to 4.
Around the Town
LOCAL BOYS MAKE GOOD. That ought to be the slogan for young Al Losche. and Al Kettler, Shortridge teacher, who have promoted all the to-do
about S. H. S.’s federal R. O. T. C. inspection. They sent 16 telegrams to Life Magazine, now have a tentative premise a Life photographer will be here Thursday; they have a promise from Pathe News and a half-hour radio program irom WIRE. That's pretty good when you consider that the same doings will be going on at every R. O. T. C. unit high school in the whole blessed U. S. A. . . . East Side residents are keeping a lookout for a dog poisoner, who so far has accounted for two pups in the vicinity of Brookside Ave. and Rurgl St. It isn’t the dogs the residents are so much forried about as the children ho might .pick up t loaded food out of curiosity. . . «+ Marjorie Kinnaird, Beporiee for the Supreme and Appellate Courts, has the fifst fluorescent lighting in the State House and to quips about “drag” she is retorting “not ‘drag’—just ‘nag’!”
By Raymond Clapper
that in his country are a large number of Italians and Germans. Third, he is, as are all Latin-Amer-icans, intensely nationalistic and he is pro-Argentine first of all. But he has given the impression here of being a fundamental believer in democracy, anxious to see it preserved, and fearful of the consequences of
. totalitarjan rule as he has observed them among
persecuted people of his own faith in Europe. t gny rate, the Argentine Foreign Minister was received here with the utmost frankness and cordiality. The net impression of his visit was that he will
-take up his post fully conscious of the importance
of preserving the.security of the Western Hemisphere from foreign encroachment.
Cattle Country Politics
Our relations with Argentina have been difficult, and it has not been alone the fault of Argentina. Naturally, because of her position in South America, Argentina has considered that she is the bell-wether of Latin-America and has often set herself in opposition to the leadership of the United States in Pan-
‘American conferences, though more often in details
than in fundamentais. On our side we have made Argentine beef @ political football. Congress seldom overlooked an opportunity to play politics with this issue. Political candidates kick it around on the stump as Wendell Willkie did last year. This is the time when more important considerations should prevail over cattle-country politics. Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming and some of the leaders of the live-stock industry have recognized this and have tried to strike a more reasonable position which would not leave the cattle industry unprotected but which would ease the emotional tension in Argentina. . In the period ahead we shall be obliged to make many concessions and to give aid which, if considered in a vaccuum we would oppose, but which considered in the world setting that exists, serve larger ends vital to the whole family of the Western Hemisphere.
‘By Eleanor Roosevelt ch
expressed by Secretary Hull with those dof Mr. Hitler and his subordinates. Our Secretary of State offers freedom and co-operation in a joint program for ‘world betterment, and I feel sure that our own people
will heartily indorse everything he says. I also read two speeches, one of them delivered by ‘John. Brophy before the Pennsylvania State Industrial Union Council convention at Harrisburg, Pa., on April 30, The other was a § delivered before the convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, in- Philadelphia, on Jan. 29, ‘by Charles E. Wilson, president of the General Electric Co. Both speeches approach the same problem from different angles. But the spirit that lies back of the approach is so similar that one cannot believe that men of this caliber, if they could be multiplied, would ‘not solve our difficulties in the general field of economic conditions, not only as they face us, but as they face the world. In travelling around the country, I felt more and more keenly the need for something which is presented in the Philip Murray plan mentioned by Mr. Brophy and which is suggested by
I Mr. Wilson in his general survey of future co-opera-
tion. Miss Grace Reavy, president of the New. York State Civil Service, lunched with me today, and also a group of students brought by Miss Julia i who comes from Hyde ) Park and Yao is teaching school in
many over the Tadic, and compared the sepuments. Balumare,
The public schools?
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BUCK-PASSING MARKS BUDGET
Congress Seeks to Put Issue Directly Up to the President.
By MARSHALL MCcNEIL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 20.—Some Democrats in the House, worried about the political implications of taxing heavily without economizing even a little, are discussing a plan for putting the cut-off-a-billion-dol-lars issue directly up to” President Roosevelt. One proposing that this be done, said today: “We ought to tell the President that his Administration started this move to reduce nondefense expenditures by a billion dollars, anc that unless he follows through we all might be in trouble in 1942.” Congressional elections come next year. It was Treasury Secretary’ Henry L. Morgenthau Jr. who advocated the billion dollar cut when he asked the Ways and Means Committee about three weeks ago to levy $3,500,000,000 in new national defense taxes. At the time he suggested cuts in the CCC, NYA, public works and farm appropriations.
But since then no support to}
speak of has come from any other Administration source. Congressman are acutely aware of the fact that the Treasury has proposed very drastic increases in individual and corporate taxes, in the excess profits tax and in excises, and that the new levies upon incomes will first be felt next March 15, not long before the 1942 primaries,
Sullivan Dodges
Assistant Treasury Secretary John L. Sullivan was needled about economies when he testified yesterday before the Ways and Means Committee on the excess profits tax. Rep. Allen Treadway (R. Mass.), said he was disappointed that Mr. Sullivan had not mentioned Secretary Morgenthau’s cut-off-a-billion-dollars proposal in his prepared statement. And Rep. Harold Knutson (R. Minn.) asked the Assistant Secretary, whom he said was a good politician, to advise him how to answer - constituents when they inquired why he voted for $3,500,000,000 in new taxes and did nothing about cutting non-defense expenses. Mr. Knudsen admited he didn’t believe he would vote for the tax bill, and indicated that he was already studying about what should be in a minority report from Ways and Means on that bill. Assistant Secretary Sullivan said that any saving that does not impair necessary Government functions would be desirable. Later, he said that even if “we could save a billion dollars we should still get the $3,500,000,000 in new taxes.” While the ways and means committee talks about economy, a House appropriations sub-committee is completing hearings on the CCC and NYA appropriations, which, many argue, should be cut.
Suggests CCC Slash
There appeared to be some likelihood today that the CCC’s request for: $270,000,000 (it got $279,000,000 this year) might be reduced. Rep. Albert Thomas (D. Tex), a member of the sub-committee, said he was ready to slash the CCC ap-
But witnesses have reminded the committeemen of the pressures applied heretofore . when even one camp was shut don. Most of these
to merchants in small towns. It was learned at the Federal Security Agency, under which the
Paul V. McNutt has recently. discussed with Chief of Staff General Marshall a plan for use of the CCC camps to rehabilitate youths re=
are riot taken by the Army because of some health condition that can be remedied, the suggestion is that the CCC Acilities be used to provide remedial treatment so that eventually the young men might be fit to serve: their year in the Army.
75. NEGRO 'DRAFTEES
The ‘Stabe will meet its seventh,
today with 75 Negro ‘selectees from 20 counties, excluding Marion, scheduled to report at Ft. Harrison.
camps are located in rural districts,|where their payrolls are important
jected in the draft. If young men|.
ANSWER CALL TODAY|
and’ smallest, Selective. Service call|
In the spring time a young man’s fancy gets all mixed up ‘among love, sunshine and final exams on college and university campuses all over Indiana. At Indiana. University the young men solve. the riddle by “cramming” in the company of their girl friends. That takes care of the love. and study angles. They take advantage of the sunshine by taking their books outdoors on warm days. Taking a ey from books,
four Kappa Alpha Thetas (1) absorb a little sunshine on the " Theta House front porch. They are (left. to right) Mary Jane Funk, Galveston; Anne Harriott, Terre Haute, and Jane Winters ‘end Jane Gillespie, both of Incianapolis, all juniors,
Across the campus, hand-in- -
hand, stroll two juniors (2). Howcy Wilcox, Alpha Tau Omega president from Indianapolis, and Kentucky Derby Queen Betty ‘Tuck, Delta Delta Delta, of Louis
ville, Ky. In the shade of a campus tree, another group takes advantage of a free period for study (3). They are: Bill Keck (left), Phi Gamma Delta, senior baseball manager from Mount Vernon; June ‘Brown of Indianapolis, winner of the Theta Alpha Phi freshman acting- scholarship; Freeman Land, Alpha Tau Omega, senior from Terre Haute, and LaVaun Reehling, Delta Delta Delta, sophomore from Indianapolis,
By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 20.—An at - tempt is being made under a plex of national defense to revive th: defunct $150,000,000 Florida Shin Canal project, rejected by the Ser - ate two years ago after several millions had been spent on it by exely - tive order of President Roosevel A bill to authorize the canal already has been reported by fh: House Rivers and Harbors Commit - tee. It carries no appropriation, bus a common procedure of backers of such projects is to get an authorize - tion first and then later appeal fo: funds on the ground that suci: funds are asked simply to carry out the . previously expressed will of Congress. Advocates of the ship canal argu: that the waterway, which would b= built from Jacksonville west to th: Gulf of Mexico, dovetails with Caribbean defense plans: But economy advocates, who hav: been trying to get Congress to heed Treasury Seeretary Henry Morger - thau’s plea for a billion-dollar cu’ in appropriations, are expected {5 attack the’'ship canal on the grouri that ‘“defense” is merely a guise 10 gain Congressional approval. When the bill may reach tha House floor is uncertain, but ifs
Florida Ship Canal Backers Seek fo Revive Project Under Guise of National Defense
friends claimed today that “things look pretty good.” Many members of Congress continue to pay little ‘heed to Mr. Morgenthau’s warning that “it would be folly to assume” that we can continue to spend now for non-defense needs as we did in normal times.” Inventory of the -legislative” hopper reveals a wide variety of spending hills. These range from measures for development of a stronger breed of onions to appointment of a beetle eradication claims commission and a, project to give Congressmen still larger allowances of Government publication to mail without cost to their constituents. This last is the proposal of Rep. Luther Patrick (D. Ala.). In addition to present substantial allowances of cost-free government publicationns, Mr. Patrick would ' give each Senator a $1200 order and each Representative a $1000 order. With many Congressmen, the free publications serve well for political fence-building. Total cost would be $500,000. Rep. Donald L. O'Toole (D. N. Y.) would increase salaries of the Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court t0 $35,000; associate Justices to $30,~ 000; Circuit Judges to $17,500 ‘and District ‘Justices, $20,000; Circuit Judges, $12,500 and District Judges, | § $10,000.
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Mr. O'Toole also would give $15,-
HOLD EVERYTHING
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The seventh call is the first since| ih the State's largest call in April when | 4
6900 Hoosiers were inducted. The begin 725
000 salaries to Judges of the U. S. Customs Court, and the Court of Claims. Rep. Fred Gilchrist (R. Iowa) is the author of a measure appropriating $15,000 for “development by cultural methods, breeding, accli-
matization, adaption and selection” of a disease and inséct-resting breed of onions. The same bill also pro vides an additional $10,000 to study ways and means of insuring onion crops against hail storms. From Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D. La.) comes the proposal for the commission to fix the amount of claims against the U. 8S. for damages arising out ‘of the whitefringed beetle eradication and control program. Commissioners would draw a $10 per diem. Rep. William M. Colmer (D. Miss.) sponsored a bill to authorize a $1,000,000 purchase of canned oysters by the Federal Surplus Marketing Corp. “National defense” also is invoked in sponsorship of a bill to “promote ithe national defense and preparedness” through development of the 4-H clubs for rural youth. The cost would start at $6,000,000 for fiscal 1942 and would total $86,000,000 at the end of six years; after that Bad 000.00) annually would handle
inventor of the steel plow has de-
| veloped a controversy as to who
really was the inventor. Bills before Congress would provide $1000 of
‘|honors to both John Deere and
John Lane. Senator Theodore G. Bilbo (D. Miss.) is proposing legislation to provide collection and publication of monthly statistics on cottonseed,
|| peanuts, copra, sesame seed, babassu
.| nuts and live products.
Senator James J. Davis (R. Pa.)
‘land Rep Harry L. Haines (D. Pa.),
are sponsoring a bill for a Washing-
; | ton-Lincoln memorial highway from \ | Washington, D. C. to Gettysburg, {.|and Rep. Jack Nichols (D. Okla.) is {| proposing ! |parade . field, i |other | District
a national stadium, pools and reational facilities for the
of Columbia.
FORUM TG HEAR TWO
DEBATE ROLE IN WAR
“America’s Role in the World
| {War”' will be debated by W. Row{land Allen and Merle H. Miller at a
-|dinner ‘of the Professional Men's | {Forum. at:6:15 p. m. Thursday in
the Columbia Club. ‘Mr. Allen will speak in favor of aid to Britain. Mr. Miller is chairman of the America First. Commit-
| tee,. ‘which = opposes involving the
United States in the European war. The dinner will be the last meet-
{ing of: the Forum until September. ; The > ana will -start at about
Be move to honor nationally the|
U.S: SURVEYS
FARM HEALTH
: Only Five of 1000 Heads
Of Low-Income Families Get Perfect Score.
By MARJORIE VAN DE WATER Science Service Staff Writer PRINCETON, N. J., May 20.—Only five out of a thousand heads of low-income farm families and their . wives are really. in good health— free from physical defects, it was revealed to the Population Associae« tion of America, here, in a report from Dr. R. C. Williams, chief medical officer of the Farm Secule ity Administration. The accumulation of defects and disabilities affecting these . people, termed by Dr. Williams “reservoirs of America’s defensive forces” be= cause they contribute so much to ‘the numbers of America’s young manhood, was brought to light by. a health survey conducted last year by the Farm Security Administra= tion. “So far,” Dr.’ Williams said, “we have found no dramatic results which would show any great nums ber of them dragging along with one foot in the grave. * Vitamin Lack Noted “But what we are finding is that they have an accumulation of de fects and chronic conditions which are not serious enough to keep them from carrying on with their
"activities. but which .cause proe
gressive debilitation and, in some cases, partial or total disability. Ph The average person is- handie capped by between three and four ‘physical defects, and even childrert have two or three apiece. Vitamin deficiencies are exiremely prevae lent. Teeth Often Defective
viduals in Maine. showed plasma ascorbic acid values below 04 milligrams per cent in 38 per cent of those exarhihed. Such low values are usually found with vitamin C under-nutrition which, when fully developed. is scurvy. Decayed teeth were found in 685 per cent of white persons. It is defective teeth that accounts for the largest percentage of draft ree jections this year. These poor farm people never seem to have teeth filled. Their teeth holes in them remain une treated, and finally are pulled out, a dentist for the survey said. Of 16,000 cases of serious illnesses among the families surveyed, more than half had received no medicad * y care whatever.
GET ARMY CONTRACTS
Three Hoosier firms have received X Army ordnance department cone tracts, it was announced today by the War Department. ‘The Standard Dry Kiln Co., Ine dianapolis, received a $2050 contract for internal fan kilns; the Nichole son File Co., Anderson, $4224 foe files, and the South Bend Tool &3 Die Co., $2870 for material for gages.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1--Which actor caused a panic by broadcasting a radio drama of an invasion from Mars? 2--A trim, pointed beard is. called a v—-e? : 3-—Manzanita is a Spanish heade dress, a king of shrub or a cheme ical element 2 4—-Name the author of “Deathly Comes to the Archbishop”? 4s 9-—The caliber of a gun barrel is its length or interior diameter? = 6-—Which: were the two independent states on the continent of Africa 8 ihe beginning of World War i 7—Is the present old-age retirement ] Social Security tax on employees’. wages 1 or 2 per.cent?
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1—Orson Welles. 2—Vandyke. 3—A kind of shrub, 4-—Willa Cather. S5—-Interior diameter. 6—Egypt and Liberia. 7—-One per cent. Ne 8 o 2
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