Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1941 — Page 13

| TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 194

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* Washington

‘WASHINGTON, June 17.—The Republican mem-

: bership of the Supreme Court has been whittled down

nti] only two are left. But that statement means

‘nothing. It is as dated as one of Senator Taft’s horse-and- -buggy speeches. party lines at the moment.’ The main fact is that we are in a period when Presidential power, already having reached unprecedented size under the ‘Roosevelt Administration, ‘is now vastly expanded again by the war situation. : The court, like Congress, can attend to supervising some details of procedure. If can define some limits. of power in a minor way. But for all practical purposes, and until a shift in the balance of power in Congress occurs, we are operating not under a three-headed form of government but under a Presidential government. The Constitution has not been changed. But it S been reinterpreted. And the membership of the

..Court has been changed sc that any basic shift in ‘Interpretation. is exceedingly unlikely for a long time.

; HE ughes Set Course

* The course was set during the fight over the Supreme Court bill when Chief Justice Hughes, to head

‘off the enlargement bill, swung the balance of the “ -court toward upholding the Wagner Act, toward re-

- versing the earlier decision against minimum-wage Jegislation for women, and upheld the social Security

Act. Since that time new appointments have made

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

fun at an old Hoosier adage about rain'in June.

the general attitude of the Court more certain. Eight of the nine men on the new Court are Roosevelt appointees, if the promotion of Harlan Stone to Chief Justice is included. He and: Associate Justice Owen Roberts are the only two members who went’ on the Court before President Roosevelt took office. The seven other members ‘were placed on the Court by Mr. Roosevelt. All of these seven are men who helped establish the New Deal—Justices Black, Reed, Douglas, Murphy, Frankiurter, Byrnes and Jackson. Senator Byrnes has been the Administration driving

“So lost are traditional

By Raymond Clapper

Justice Frankfurter has not

force in the Senate. only been midwife to” much of the New Deal policy but has recruited much .of. its most aggressive personnel. All the others have held important administrative offices under President Roosevelt.

expected, it seems reasonable to suppose that Presi-

dent Roosevelt, in any critical test, could count upon|

a majority of this court protecting the general philosophy of his Administration. new Chief Justice, although a Republican who as a Senator might have opposed some New Deal meas-

ures, has always as a judge thought the legislative|

branch should have the benefit of the doubt in policymaking. In twilight-zone cases, Justice Stone has held that if the Constitution -did not specifically stand in the way, the judgment of Congress should

prevail, regardless of what he might personally think

about the wisdom of a given measure.

A Presidential Government

Justice Stone’s appointment, while unexpected, has mét with widespread approval and has done much to offset the fact of the ill-balance on the court. His high reputation as a jurist and legal scholar, his warm personality and his natural wisdom which caused both President Coolidge and President Hoover to lean upon him as an. intimate personal counsellor, all promise that he will carry. on the high tradition set by his predecessor, Charles E. Hughes. But the main show now is not Congress nor the Supreme Court. It is the White House. We have Presidential government to a greater extent thin ever before, save perhaps during the Civil War and the First World War, and then only as respects the exercise of war powers. Today our whole Government functions more than ever before by Presidential discretion. The executive branch, through allocation of funds, through the exercise of many regulatory powers, and now through the economic management involved in the defense program, is the real Government. The Supreme Court and Congress are largely ratifying bodies. We are preserving the structure in form. But in essence, the times have changed the Presidential office so that Calvin Coolidge would scarcely recognize the old homestead now.

| Ernie Pyle is on vacation.

He will be gone about two more weeks.

WE WERE BRASH enough the other day to poke So brash, in fact, that Joseph B. Agnew of Frankfort has se=n fit to call pur hand. “Is it possible,” writes Mr. Agnew, “that you could be wrong in the’ June 1 adage about the rainfall, or have I been wrong all my life ” (Possible, Mr “Agnew, possible.) . “The way I heard it,” he goes on, “is that if it rains on June 1st it will rain on 21 days of June, not necessarily the first 21 days. They tell me that we have a man in this county who has bet on this for many years and has never lost but once. ° # “We sophisticated ones,” he ~ writes, indubitably meaning us, “have a tendency to laugh off all these ‘signs’. of 'the old timers, even after having to - “admit that most. ‘of them are good farmers and gar- . deners. Sometimes I wonder. if the accumulated ob- _ servation of centuries, which many of these ‘signs’ are; should not be given more attention by scientific - obseryers. . We have only begun to explore in this “fleld- and. there. may. -come-a.-time when there wil be -;

' found some scientific basis for many of these things

‘private award for the winner of “Pas

. fst: inist . Administrator. ‘who in the last war’ had- the job of

Which to us sound so unreasonable.” . Unreasonable? Why, Mr. Agnew, we're crushed.

Tit Jor Tat

. TOO, WE THOUGHT you might be interested in Khowine ‘how Sheriff Al Feeney estok'i-hed his own + Times-City

Marbles Tournament. Al officiated. at, Bylmals last

NGTON, June 17.—An ex- Missoiiri Method-iex-college president, ex-Farm Security

ine 10 i instill j@ little ‘knowledge of readin’ and

Arafices of 30 Army camps, has 63. of “the | strangest of all the. ared: assignments in the complex; - 3 ‘defense ‘effort today. He is Dr. + Will “WE ‘Alexander, .round-faced,, *bltie-eyed and pleasant, ‘and his" title .now ‘is director of the mi-' nority groups section in the Labor, Division of the Office of Pro- ° “duction: Management,

“to you; ¢onsider.a few of Dr. Alexi "ander's pet protlems: + In® northeastern Unitea. States are thousands of second and third! ‘generation :Italiuns, : native-born + citizens whose parents ‘or grand] 2 i- parents ' came, :frony Italy. i csome- reason’ defense industries. Beli a little kittish con hiring peoplei of Italian; it, fhoven

ng of. youngsters from the ine x 150,000. unemployed Negroes. if Banjes: of ‘Japanese ancestry, ; Si as Osh « Saisie fleet . has been t obs . efense: ‘industries ho Russian’ ship. fitters are: considered

ineluding hese Sad 200000. 1 - territory: Hi er occupied; many o n, highly skillea; ang: it; ‘hard to:get jobs because Le olen born.

on. Wall. 701 soy, whil,ofeit?" Let thie

, Jobless or. go ‘back where: hep ‘came.

goed ok . i }

ice a ‘Bottleneck .

Abien't as easy as that. “At Teast folir’ million workers have to be fit into defense ‘production in e:next 18 ‘months. “Most-of them have skilled trades. hep: ea With Sess) skills X idle is Just’ as Lud as

i amusing i bite. ‘the other pig er’ said ‘that Frankgoing to. Beverly and : : te to. the to which he is assigned. It praade “me chuckle, for, he = have to commute hy some

it lick; A ey If that title doesn’t mean much - 3 Ye i

Por: above, yet.Connesticut: has an-in-migration of labor,

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month and the only thing he asked was whether it would be all right to donate a little something to the winner. Sure, we said, and then promptly forgot about it in the excitement. About two weeks ago, the Sheriff summoned little Charles Beaven, the champion, ‘to his office, tock his measurements and told Charles a surprise was in store for him. Last week, a jacket with Charles’ name and “Indianapolis Champion” in gold letters on the back, arrived for the tiny champ. Charles is going to wear it at the Scripps-Howard Regional Tournament in Asheville, N. C., next week. Al said nary a word to us about it, either. So we'll just let him try to figure out how we found out.

Around the Town—

THE MURAT: TEMPLE BAND, we understand, is having-to order all new silk shirts. Marching in the downpour ruined ‘em. . . . Tom Hendricks is perturbed to beat the dickens by the tendency he's noted in people not to say “gocd-bye” on the telephone. He's discovered that more and more of ‘em are saying just plain “bye.” He thinks it has something to-do ou the terrible pace we're. living, or what's more ely, a, réturn to juyenilism. And al With. “the Yih ren ed in residence at Lake Sullivan. we've just received from Dick Evans (of Sears) the big, complete guide book from the St. Louis Zoological Gardens. Either trying to spur us on, or drive us mad. The Conservation Department invited a group of. Indianapolis newspapermen to Lake Wawassee for a- fishing trip beginning Sunday midnight. And do you know that the boys left here at 4 o'clock

Therefore, while individual differences are to bej|

ermore, the)

In case you don’t recognize it, this contraption is an alarm clock.

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It is the alarm that will arouse

some 300 Boy Scouts from their early morning slumbers for the next two weeks at Camp Chank-tun-un-gi. James Spear, bugler, tried out the camp amplifier as the Scouts moved into the camp yesterday to inaug-

urate the 1941 camping season.

This is the first of six two-week camping periods,

"SECOND SECTION

. Large and Small Alike .

This. is the long and the short of camping. Jerry Heater, 925 DeQuincy St., Indianapolis, is greeted by George McNaughton, Lebanon, Ind. George, who is 17, is a mere 6 feet 41¢ inches tall in his bare feet. Jerry Prefer to give his height in inches—54.

3-FAMILY HOME UNITS APPROVED

Zoning Board Grants Petition for Bungalow Development on East Side.

The construction of triple houses —three-family’ bungalow units—for the first time in Indianapolis on a large scale was approved by the Zoning Board yesterday. The Board granted the petition of the Bancroft Realty: Co. Inc, ti build 31 three-family bungalow type houses on the East Side in an. area ‘bounded . by Riley: and - Baneroft Aves. and 16th and 19th Sts. Robert

P. Moorman, Bancroft Realty Co.} president, told the Board that: the project would provide 93 living units. The triple house enterprise was substituted for a previous project of double houses which the Board had

Saturday afternoon. probaly spent the time getting their lines fixed up!

By Peter Edson

keeping machines idle. Hence the special assignment given the minority groups section ta see that there is no man-power going to waste. . Tied: up with this minority labor problem is the problem of defense. industry migration of labor, keeping ‘men ‘on the job near home, and this migration problem ‘has ‘almost eclipsed the minorities’ issue,

_ Take the case of a Northern contractor building Camp Lee; near. Petersburg, Va. He raided the labor markets as far north ‘as New Jersey, even though there weré many unemployed: Negro carpenters in the Southern States. Virginia newspapers and the State Chamber of: Cortimerce got saiter that one and fixed

‘lof the three-family dwelling pro-

West Coast. Aircraft Plants have gome into, Philadelphia ang from a hotel room employment office taken out many skilled laborers though Philadelphia is ‘going to need 770,000 skilled workers. Bixty-five per cent of the relief load in Connecticut ‘has been the Ameriedns of Italian descent referred to

“some "of it. none too skilleg, looking for jobs in the aircraft ‘and machine indust iries. Tenant * farmers from “dll over care leaving the land in what is termed: a “perceptible drift” to seek ‘the mythical five-dollar-a-day, jobs in town, creating a housing, shortage, adding 12 the relief load, contributing: to their own unrest. SE

Big. Moving Day:

Best: estimates now .are with special skills - will oT In to he moved, in’ spite of all the; :sub-contracting that-can be done. California industrial ‘areas willineed 30,000. Detroit motors area may need from" 60,000. to 80,000. New Jersey 30,000. Ft. Worth-Dallas 17,000."

<The United ‘Stats: Employthent Service du the state employment: Spencled trying to keep track ‘of all labor demands and the Spurce of labor supply. With ~six milion ‘unemployed workers registered, USES is trying to ‘get’ employ ers to anticipate their ; - demands for ‘labor ‘by siX¥ months.

~ Shorfégés of Sted. labor are what have set the * labor division of PM combing | these minorities groups for men with any of the 70 or 80 of the rarer skills. Age and sex are nd longer: bars. Erasing the race ahs oolor.A Iie: bars. x or Alexinders job now.

Bone 350,000 workers

1a sweat shirt.

approved several weeks ago. Mr. oorman said the double house venture had been abandoned in favor

gram and that construction would start probably by fall. Mr. Moorman declined to estimate the valuation of the proposed proj ect, but plans indicated that it was the largest building program of its kind contemplated for the East Side in many years. The design of the houses as well as the setting is the creation of the architectural firm of Pierre & Wright. The Board granted variances for the erection of a single house at 48 Bankers Lane, another single house at 4610 Graceland Ave. a double nouse at 3202-04 Sutherland Ave. and an asphalt mixing plant at Northwest corner of 22d St. and the Monon Railroad. . Petitions asking permits to operate an outdoor automobile sales lot at 1018 N. Pennsylvania St., and a frui: and vegetable stand at 325 N. State Ave. were denied.

TRAIL OF WOMAN'S ATTACKER IS LOST

Deputy sheriffs were without clues today to identity of a motorist who | criminally assaulted a 25-year-old woman who accepted a ride in his car during the rain yesterday afternoon. -

The woman . gave deputies the license number on the car driven by the attacker, but when the officers checked up, "they found the man owning that license had been on his Tom near Franklin all day yesteray Deputies were told that the young woman accepted the ride as she stood at Madison Ave. and Shelby ‘St. awaiting a bus. Instead of taking her downtown, as he had promised, the man drove west. When she protested and sought to shut-off the ignition, he ‘struck her several times, she said. At Banta Road and Belmont St., ! deputies were, told the man beat her. severely and then Sriminally attacked her.

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And Night After Father's Day

CHICAGO, June 17 (U. P)— Ten truck drivers today: 1. Brought out scores of fathers on rush delivery orders. 2. Set hundreds of mothers to “telephoning. 3. Left at least 1800 babies facing a shortage of short pants. °

The drivers, members of Laundry Drivers Union No. 712 (A. F. of L) went on strike for higher wages at the Wee Folks’ Diaper and Laundry Service.

CAMP SHELBY IS A HEALTHY: SPOT

'Surgeon’s Figures Show

Less Than One Per Cent Are Hospitalized.

Mothers who may worry about the health of their sons at Camp Shelby may take heart from a statement from Col. Thomas L. Ferenbaugh, camp surgeon. Col. Ferenbaugh released a. statement today showing: that 388 men are hospitalized out of the: total population of 48,397. This is eight tenths of one per cent. ; Dr. Herman G. Morgan, of the Indianapolis Board of Health said that even when it ‘is considered that the men in Camp Shelby are of the healthiest age-group, this is an excellent showing. The yearround sickness percentage of In-

dianapolis - residents from respira- © tory disease alone is from five to

‘eight per cent, Dr. Morgan said.

Col. Ferenbaugh attributed ‘the fine hospital showing at Camp Shelby to general camp- conditions, the experience of thé health personnel and the co-operation that has been received from civilian groups in the area in which the camp is located. So, mothers, the chances are more than 100 to one that your ‘boy won't get sick!

LONDON’S SHIP LOSS REPORT POSTPONED

LONDON - ‘June 17 (v. P)— Britain postporied publication of its| shipping” losses: for May boi on losses continued. tobe: received. late. Prime Minister ‘Churchill, intimated in the House of Commans yesterday: that losses for. 80 far as was’ then known,- including

FARMER CHASES U..S. SURVEYORS

So Federal Marshal Serves Restraining Order in Martin County.

United States Marshal Julius J. Wischeres was forced to move into Martin County yesterday to protect Government survey parties working there on a naval depot site. Survey parties had reported being chased from an 80-acre farm six, miles north of Burns City. The farm formerly was owned by Marion Porter and Mr. Porter has refused| to surrender his ground to the Government, even though the Government has acquired it as a part of the naval ammunition depot. The marshal was armed with a

Dies of Heart Attackin Court

CHARLES HASTIE, 64, was arrested Sunday night by police on a charge of drunkenness. Yesterday, he appeared in Municipal Court before Judge Pro Tem George G. Rinier. When asked by the judge what he was drinking, Mr. Hastie slumped to the floor. He died a few minutes later in a corridor outside the . courtroom. Dr. James M. Leffel, deputy coroner, said death was caused by heart disease, The drunkenness charge was marked “dismissed.”

FAVORS MOVING FARM UNIT HERE

restraining order which restrains Mr, Porter from ordering surveyors or other Government employees from the land.

Surprises Farmer

Marshal Wischer had been warned that he might “walk into a lot of trouble,” so he walked through the woods to the farm and surprised the farmer as he was cultivating a field. Deputy James M. Campbell was forced to hold the farmer's team while the marshal read the re-

straining order. The farmer then|

refused to accept the papers and drove off across the field. The marshal said that the farmer is living on Government property and that he is obliged to move off the land. “If Porter and his family don't get off the land and I'm given a removal order, I'll go down there and take him off,” Mr. Wichser said.

Refuses Check

Two years ago Porter was in Federal Court at Evansville to answer contempt of court charges when he refused to comply with the land acquisition. Later, after he filed exceptions to the appraisement value of the farm and the value finally was fixed at $1142, Porter refused the check. Since then he has ordered all Government men off the property.

: The restraining order, issued to Protect the survey parties, will be | discussed at a hearing in Federal Court here June 23.

DESCRIBES PACIFIC FLIGHT

Howard Goodrich, assistant manager of the local TWA office, will describe his experiences flying to

the Orient and back for the Junior|

Chamber of Commerce, which will lunch tomorrow noon at their new meeting place, the 4th floor of the Columbia Club.

Crete, were about 350,000; ous, HOLD. EVERYTHING. ;

Rep. Wilson Offers Suggestion in Plea to House for Decentralization.

Times Special

" WASHINGTON, June 17.-—Al-though Secretary of Agriculture Claude A. Wickard is a Hoosier dirtfarmer from Camden, Ind, Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind) isn't satisfied with the breaks the State is getting in that department. He has proposed that the whole Department = of Agriculture be promptly moved to Indianapolis. This would do much to relieve the defense congestion in Washington and get the thousands of agriculture employees a little closer to the soil, Rep. Wilson contends. Because of the constant cry for decentralization of the Federal Government, there is a move under way here to transfer the Interstate Commerce Commission to Chicago.

Cite Emergencies

Rep. Wilson made his agriculture transfer proposal in a speech .|from the House floor in which he advocated upping the District of Columbia gasoline tax from the present 2¢ to 4c so that. “Washington people will pay as much toward municipal improvements as do residents of the State of Indiana, where the tax already is 4c.” The Indianian is a member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. “Today in Washington, due to the many declared and undeclared fic, hospitalization an sanitation leagues. #As thousands of Workers are coming to the District each month, this problem grows worse and worse. It seems to me a little sensible decentralization of Government would go a long way toward solving this problem.

Terms Tax Unfair

“I do not see why our citizens in the Middle West—in Indiana for instance—paying a 4 cent tax on gasoline, having | no bonded road or bridge indebtedness, should be charged with the building of bridges between the District of Columbia and Virginia, “I recommend that we solve this problem by moving the Department of Agriculture to Indiana. Indiana is the center of population of the United States—the center of the Farm Belt—has -and is able to finance plenty of roads, bridges and building sites for such a department.” Later Rep. Wilson said that he thought Indianapolis, or at least Marion County, would be the “ideal site.”

ARMSTRONG HEADS LAWRENCE GROUP

V. M. Armstrong was voselacted president of the Former Lawrence County Residents at. their 18th an-

nual reunion Sunday in’ Riverside]:

Park Grove. The 200 attending em Hers also re-elected Adam ary. Dalton, Dagon of A FP

emergencies, we have housing, traf-| problems,” Rep. Wilson told his col-|

ASKS LUTHERAN DEFENSE HELP

Laymen’s League President Warns Against Undue Faith In Nazis.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, June 17 Ww, = P.).—E. J. Gallmeyer, president of ° the Lutheran Laymen’s League, °

‘| yesterday called for “fullest co-op-

eration” with the national defense program. “Our way of life is threatened .. he said in his annual message a delegales to the two-day convention of the League. Mr. Gallmeyer noted that many members of the church, because of “our lineage and background . . . might be pro-German . . . this even in the face of the: fact that most of our forebears sought and found sanctuary in this country from the very type of oppression rampant there today.” ; “Let us not be beguiled by ear= . tickling platitudes,” he said, “platitudes born of wistful thinking that we in this land would bé treated with any more consideration than any of the democracies of Central Europe, should the dictators win.” The committee on seminaries and colleges of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church voted to recommend to the convention, open« ing here tomorrow, that the ‘re sources of St. Paul's College at Concordia, Mo., be: combined with those of the institutions at Winfield, Kas., and Seward, Neb.” The recommendation called for the closing of the Concordia plant, Final action on the recommenda=

cal convention itself.

COMPLETE UNIT OF MEMORIAL FOREST,

The first unit ¢f what will ultie mately be a 125,000-tree memorial forest to the Confederate soldiers of North Carolina has been come pleted in: Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina. When completed the forest will comprise 125 acres of spruce trees. One tree will be planted for each soldier from the Old North State who fought with the Southern forces.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—The term “Vulnerable” is used in Poker, Contract Bridge, or Five Hundred? 2—Asia is larger or smaller than Africa or South America? 7 3—What military commission did Charles A. Lindbergh recently resign?

4—The ship on which ex-King Carol . of Rumania’ recently sailed from Portugal was the Aquitania, Excambion or Star of Bermuda? 5—Did President Wilson ever ade dress the public by radio while in office.

6—Which amendment to the Constitution of the United States was repealed? - 7—A tenant under the feudal Sys tem was called a v—I? ui 8—James I ruled before or after Henry VIII? . Answers 1—Contract Bridge. 2—Larger. 3—Colonel, United States Air Corps Reserve. 4—Excambion. 5—No. : 6—The eighteenth. 7--Vassal. 8—After. # 8 8

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