Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1941 — Page 9

1941

MONDAY, JULY 7,

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

ALBUQUERQUE, July 7.—So it’s hi-hi-ho, and back to work we go. The ordinary newspaper columnist, after a month of rest, has a terrible time getting his first column started. I've known columnists to sit and stare at their typewriters for two days, trying to get the first sentence of the first after-vacation piece down on paper. : But not this columnist. Not me, boy. It’s no trouble for a genius to get started. He just dashes into the house, rings the starting bell, and whips off “hi-hi-ho, back to work we go.” And you see, he’s started: This month of surcease from columning was spent at our new vacation-home on the edge of Albuquerque. If our place were in California, it would be called a ranch. If it were in Connecticut, it would be an estate. Being where it is, it’s simply an average- ' sized suburban lot with a white house on it. But it has the high virtue of being in a district where you can do what you please. So I pleased to stay dirty throughout my vacation. Actually I was not out of overalls for three weeks, Jncluding Sundays. We went to only two parties during the whole time, and I went to both parties in overalls. To say that I was the hit of the party would merely be stating the obvious. | Also I dug out the ten-gallon cowboy Stetson they gave me at the Dallas Exposition five years ago, and wore that constantly, even in the house.

Developing a Muscle

It had been my intention to do nothing whatever on this vacation except sit and read. But my calculations did not take into account the fact that we would be staying in a place which actually belonged to us—the first property I ever owned in my life. I discovered that when you have a house of your own you keep puttering around all the time fixing it up. The result was that I just worked like a dog my whole vacation. I built fence, laid brick, dug trenches, made furniture. I sorted old pictures, moved trunks and boxes, swept out the garage twice a day, lugged flagstones around making walks. I sawed and hammered and measured and painted. The outcome of all this is twofold: 1. If youll look closely at my inner arm, about halfway between the elbow and the shoulder, you will see a small bump which has every indication of

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

BROWN COUNTY'S chiggers this year seem to be even more voracious than usual and several of Indianapolis’ more distinguished visitors (including Hizzoner the Mayor and Inside Indianapolis, himself) have keen noted scratching daintily. The old baking soda (just mixed into a paste) doesn’t seem to have so much as fazed the chiggers, a * particularly hardy lot. Dr. John Ferree, director of the State Board of Health and a Brown County expert in his own right, has recommended to friends a treatment of collodion with 1 per cent solution of phenol. And Tom Kemp, boss man of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, who knows all there is to know about {the chigger blitz, says he favors oil of salt. It gives immediate relief, boasts Mr. Kemp. We hope Hizzoner appreciates these investigations.

‘Here and There

THE STANDARD OIL bulk refinery out on Road 52 is starting to take shape. Seven giant drums have already been erected. Starting to look like Whiting. There is nothing doing at the moment on that Two Per Cent Club investigation by State Treasurer Jim Givens. But it'll pay to watch future developments, we hear. . . . Incidentally, there are some 200 very sad people at the State House. They work in the Auto License Division and most of them helped finance

Washington

WASHINGTON, July 7.—Those people who think Lindbergh is right and who spend their time writing abusive anonymous letters to defend his juvenile ideas would do better to spend an evening reading a short book entitled, “You Can’t Do Business With Hilter.” I have referred to this book twice before. If I put in another word for it, that is because for $1.50 you can get the real picture from a man who. spent more than 15 years as ‘ American commercial attache in Berlin, studying how the Germans do business. The author is Douglas Miller, who was one of the aces of the exceptional staff of commercial attaches that Herbert Hoover scattered around the world when he was Secretary of Commerce. Too bad Mr. Hoover doesn’t read what his ace observer has to say before he makes those complacent radio speeches. Assume that Hitler would not attempt military attack on the Western Hemisphere. Hoover, Lindbergh and others of their school think that we are safe from military attack and that everything therefore will he all right. We can just go on having democracy and a free economic system here.

Quoting Walther Funk

Well, Doug Miller quotes Walther Funk, German Minister of Economics, as saying that after the war no private international trade will be permitted; that all world trade must be between ‘governments, as private transactions only lead to international anarchy. Does Mr. Hoover think that government-con-trolled trade is the kind of democracy he wants? Suppose the Nazis suddenly became big-hearted and permitted trade with American individuals gn& corporations. We shall be fearfully handicapped, Mr. Miller says, if. we allow individuals on this side to negotiate with a centralized bureaucracy on the other side. Do not forget the Nazis have had long experience. Almost inevitably the United States Government would have to extend its control over

My Day

HYDE PARK, Sunday.—Friday night, the President returned to Washington. On Saturday morning, our Norwegian guests left on their drive to Massachusetts, where they will be on the shore for the rest - of the summer. I think they were all looking for- ’ ward to the free and peaceful life up there. I had my annual picnic yesterday for the Hudson Shore Labor School. The old summer school for industrial workers at Bryn Mawr now has transferred its habitat to Miss Hilda . Smith's ‘place across the river from us.’ Some 60 girls from every part of the country and from a variety of unions are studying there this summer. They have a few Austrian refugees and two campers from Canada. I enjoyed my time with them very much indeed. I think my greatest pleasure was in meeting Dr. Max Lerner for the first time. We sat around and talked after lunch and I noticed how stimulating he was. But he did not come up to speak to me until just before they all left, when when Be brought be daughters

its democratic economy under pressure from across

By Ernie Pyle

turning someday, with additional nourishment and care, into real genuine muscle. 2. I find myself, here at the end of vacation, sO dead tired from head to foot that right now I have to stop every two or three sentences and go over and lie down. Thus does man, in his mortal weakness, fritter away his precious moments on that most insidious and accursed of all the world’s vices—exercise. Although I did a great deal of building on this vacation, I did no planting whatever. It turns out that I am just not the planter type. Flowers are all right if somebody else raises them; vegetables are an abomination in any man’s soil. I'm a carpenter by temperament, not a gardener. Tubers and seeds and double-throttled night-blooming begonias are not for me. I did, however, grow one thing on this vacation. That was a mustache.

He Grows a Mustache

For some reason or other, I had never tried a mustache before. I realized that no man has lived until he has experimented with a mustache, yet I had just been putting it off all these years. Finally I saw the time had come, opportunity was ripe, the great experience could be put off no longer. So I started one. The first four or five days I had my upper lip so sore, from just feeling of it to see if anything was there, that I could hardly sleep at night. But on about the fifth day it began to get soft and silky, and even somewhat luxuriant. In fact by the end of the week I found that by looking crosseyed down toward the end of my nose, I could actually sense a dark area down there. great moment.

From then on the thing developed rapidly, and 1

began to have adventures that I never knew went with a mustache. On Tuesday morning of the second week, I discovered on looking in the mirror that my mustache was full of dried egg. On Wednesday I found a watermelon seed sith in with the egg. On Thursday I drove into the mountains with a friend, and did not have an opportunity to look in the mirror. On Friday morning I reached for the lookingglass, and was astonished to find a small lizard scampering around in my new mustache. That was the end. The thing had got out of control. I saw I'd either have to build an electric fence around it, or set traps in it. So I shaved the thing off,

the court fight on the G. O. P. ripper bills. Jim Tucker now runs the division and it’s sure-fire that there ‘is going to be the biggest mass exodus of Democrats from the State House in the last 10 years. But they wonder if constitutional government is worth it.

Good Luck, Captain!

CAPT. LOUIS W. FLETCHER (3051 N. Delaware), one of the town’s top Republicans, reported today to Army officials in Washington for active service. He is going to the Panama Canal Zone with the Cavalry. . . . Our police boys, by the way, are heckling the bookies. There are always certain places they can’t quite get the goods on and they just have a policeman stand around and look pleasant, joshing the customers. It certainly puts the quietus on business. . . . The tennis| stars here for the Western Open championships at Woodstock are being quartered for the most part in private homes of prominent citizens. The married couples put up at the 1. A.C.

Ride Em Cowboy

FIRST DAY OF THE rodeo a bucking horse, by name. Gone With the Wind, broke his leg and had to be destroyed. Yesterday, a cowboy received a broken leg in riding another bucking horse. . . . The latest addition to the town’s slot machine-pinball-and-other-gambling paraphernalia are the horse racing machines. Most of ’'em have seven horses. You drop in g nickel and you win if your horse comes in first. He doesn’t most of the time.

By Raymond Clapper

business operations in order to present a stiff front against Nazi pressure, so that American business could trade at all on any successful basis. If we have to conform to the Nazi pattern and conduct special negotiations between Washington and Berlin covering commodities on a barter basis, we shall have to upset our whole economy as we know it now, Mr. Miller thinks. This would put the American Government directly into all sorts of enterprises. Our authorities at Washington would have to swap goods with the Nazi Government at fixed prices and then import the old world equivalents and allot them to firms in this country. Remember Hitler and his allies would control most of the outside world.

Asking a Question

“Just how,” asks Mr. Miller, “can we maintain our free enterprise if our Government is thus forced directly into all the deals which concern trade with the outside world? A quick result would surely be the introduction of fixed prices covering the imported commodities and those which we exchanged. This would lead to a forced allocation of commodities to private individuals and firms in the United States. We should be on a fair way to planned economy and a system of state socialism.” That is not merely the emergency picture. It is the permanent long-run picture if Hitler comes out supreme in this war—the United States left alone and friendless in a totalitarian world, forced to adjust

both oceans. And don’t forget, if Hitler wins a complete victory, South American nations will be under heavy economic and political pressure internally to play ball with Hitler. We haven't done much for them. Argentina, the bellwether of the opposition in Latin America, is ready at any time to lead the parade out of the democratic bloc. Our Congress has deeply alienated Argentina by its refusal to allow Argentine meat to come into the United States. I don’t know many of the answers and nobody else does. But it is hard to understand how anyone who has passed the mental age of six years can mumble complacently that we have nothing to fear because Hitler can’t invade us tomorrow at dawn.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

over to introduce them and it was a pleasant Srprice to discover his identity. Today a few friends are canine to lunch and Bishop Atwood, who is staying with my sister-in-law, Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt, is coming over with her this afternoon to see me, : * The news is discouraging to read these days. I keep wondering if a day will ever come when we shall open a newspaper or turn on a radio without a sinking of the heart. + I am receiving the most interesting items of information as to the work which is being done in various communities near our army camps. In Falmouth, Mass.,, a group of 600 girls, which they hope will soon grow to 800, has been organized to attend dances in the camps. One chaperon is in charge of every six or seven girls, and I understand it has proven to be a very satisfactory and pleasant way to be of service. In the Galveston, Texas, area, the restaurant owners in the city were called together and asked to provide a special dinner not to exceed 25 cents for men in uniform.. The plate would .be called a “soldiers special” or something similar. I think this is a grand idea and shows that there is Srp song on

Local Police Co-ordinate In Campaign

This is the first of a series of articles on the activities of GMen in national defense.

By PETER EDSON Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, July 7. —J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation will spend some $16,000,000 on crime prevention and apprehension in the next twelve months, and over half of it will be

for national defense work. FBI, of course, is not the only agency that's concerned with policing the defense effort. Army » and Navy have i their own intelligence services

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and British “maneuvers”

: and under recent Congressional authorizations, will set up their own gnard, apart from the regular army and marine corps work, to insure § u nin terrupted production of Mr. Hoover materials from the 43,000 factories working on rearmament orders. And outside the Federal forces, every state, county and city police organization has its own local problems of protecting defense. Under Presidential order, however, early in the emergency the FBI was designated as the agency to co-ordinate all the civilian intelligence and national defense investigations, and from that order has sprung an amazing growth of new investigative activity: 1. Checks on the registration of agents of foreign governments. 2. Investigation of alien employment in aircraft plants. 3. Investigation of all cases involving espionage and sabotage. 4. The making of plant surveys for defense industries. 5. Violations of customs laws, smuggling, passports and visas. 6. Handling of selective service registration investigations.

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Work on 100,000 Cases

THOSE are but a few of the crimes against defense. In 1939 there were 1600 cases in those categories requiring FBI attention. In 1940 there were 16,000. Today the FBI has over 100,000 matters under investigation including National Defense cases. To handle this job, the FBI has a staff of 5330. Over 2000 are agents, the others being clerks, fingerprint experts, laboratory technicians. The payroll is $12,000,000 a year, $4,000,000 going for

JAPAN ASSAILS U. S. CHINA AID

Celebrates War Anniversary By Vigorous Attacks On ‘Siege.

TOKYO, July 7 (U. P.).—Japan’s observance of the fourth anniversary of the start of the war with China was marked today by a vigorous and almost unanimous newspaper attack on the United States. The newspapers generally took the tone that Japan was determined to defeat China despite , United States “encirclement.” Hochi advised the Government to pay less attention to the RussianGerman war and to concentrate its efforts on counteracting American in the Pacific. It said that the United States instead of merely aiding China apparently was “trying to lay a siege around Japan.” Asahi warned that there was no reasons for the optimism as regards China, even if Chinese resistance seemed to be weakening, because of “more daring” American aid to the Chinese Government. Asahi said that the United States was establishing airplane bases in China.

Calls U. S. Dictatorship

In an editorial yesterday the extreme Nationalist newspaper Kokumin said that Japan would listen to talk of freedom of the seas only from a truly neutral country and the United States was not such a

country. Kokumin, in comment on President Roosevelt's July 4 speech, said America had been a dictatorship since the President’s third term election. Ceremonies honoring Japanese war dead continued today. One minute’s silence was observed at noon. Special patriotic programs were broadcast to soldiers at the front. Decorations for war services were awarded 17,000 army and navy men and civilians. At the same time, Lieut. Gen. Hayao Tada, commander-in-chief in North China, and Lieut. Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, chief of staff of the expeditionary force in China, were “kicked upstairs.” Both were promoted to generals but both were succeeded in. their commands. Gen. Neiji Okamura, War Councillor, was named to succeed Tada and Lieut. Gen: Jun Ushiroku, commander in South China, succeeded Itagaki.

EX-“CORN KING” DEAD FRANKLIN, Ind, July 7 (U. P.). —Leonard B. Clore, 75, one-time international “corn king,” instigator of the Indiana farm county-agent system, and former state representative, died late yesterday at his home ‘after three weeks’ a his

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expenses, the biggest item being for travel, $2,000,000 or about $1000 a year for each agent. ’ Headquarters of the organization are, as the world knows, in the big, seven-story Department of Justice Building, covering a city block in downtown Washington. FBI takes a third of this space, overflows into eight other buildings in the district, and would like still more floor space

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1200 Fingerprinters

NEARLY 2000 employes are -in Washington alone. That includes only about 100 special agents, but the 1200 clerks in the fingerprint identification division are working on three shifts to keep out of each other's way. In the field, in 54 branch offices, including Juneau, Alaska,

Honolulu, Hawaii and San Juan, Puerto Rico, are the 200 agents who do the work. At the present time they have on their hands about 92,000 assignments, twothirds of them now being national defense matters. Staggering as are these figures as to the size and activities of the FBI today, Director Hoover would be the last one to call this a National Police Force. In fact, he says the country doesn’t need one. But with defense activities assuming a constantly increasing share of the nation’s attention, the need has been apparent for a closer co-ordination of all the state, county and municipal police work, and out of that has grown the FBI plan for Law Enforcement Officers’ National Defense Mobilization.

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THE WHOLE mobilization plan has been developed on a voluntary basis. Nobody has to sign up and no pressure is exerted to get any of the 150,000 John Laws now wearing badges to lineup with the FBI in ‘handling actual defense work. While the FBI mobilization plan really embraces the rank and file law enforcement men, it is the chiefs of some 8000 local police forces—the sheriffs and the heads of state police organiza-

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CHUNGKING, China, July 7 (U. P.).—Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Foreign Minister, said in a broadcast to the United States today that China was prepared to fight for four or 14 more years to win the war against Japan. Speaking on the fourth anniversary of the Japanese attack on China, Quo said that China was confident because of increased American aid. He expressed the nation’s gratitude to the United States. Twenty-seven Japanese ' planes heavily bombed the capital last night. They plastered the suburbs and the Government area with incendiary bombs, which started numerous fires. The glow lighted the city luridly. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, the Chinese leader, in a war anniversary message to friendly powers, said the European and Asiatic wars had become a single conflict in which anti-aggressionists were facing the aggressor nations and no nation could escape the conflict because the aggressors were determined to dominate the world. Chiang said that Chinese were most thankful for American, British and Russian aid and would firmly hold their front with the aim of ending Japanese aggression and

Capt. Frank T. Baughman, in charge of ballistics and firearms for the FBI, pictured while demonstrating explosives for police officers. At left, he holds in his unprotected hand a wad of guncotton, which he ignites. At right, it goes off with a lightning flash, burning so

quickly it doesn’t injure his hand.

tions—who have been given the opportunity to sign a National Defense Pledge which automatically recruits these police heads and their organizations in active aid to the defense mobilization. When the police head signs the pledge to defend the Constitution and the United States against all enemies, and safeguard the internal security and defense of the nation, he certifies that he is a co-operating officer and his name is placed on file at the FBI headquarters in Washington. There is no compulsion to take orders or to assist the FBI. It is, as the FBI head points out, the democratic way of doing the defense police job. Incidentally, it tends to nullify any of the suspicion on the part of the local police officers that the FBI is trying to take

Chinese Ready fo Battle '4 Or 14’ Years to Victory

contributing to the future of a free world order and the development of civilization and the prosperity of mankind.

SLATE HEARING FOR DRUGLESS HEALER

The State Medical Board is scheduled to hold a hearing tomorrow on a petition asking that a license

held by John R. Scherer to practice drugless healing be revoked. Superior Court Judge Joseph T. Markey last Saturday denied Mr. Scherer’s petition for an injunction to prevent the State Medical Board from hearing evidence against his practice. The affidavit asking that Mr. Sclerer’s license be revoked was filed with the State Medical Board several months ago by the Better Business Bureau. Another practitioner of drugless healing also has been called before the State Board for a similar hearing tomorrow.

WEST COAST AUTHOR WEDS RENO, Nev, July 7 (U, P.)— Louis Stevens, Los Angeles author, and Florence Hall, New York City, were married here last night by Judge Brewster Adams.

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over the national police job. The whole idea for the plan is really an outgrowth of the President’s request to all law enforcement officers, at the beginning of the emergency, asking them to clear all information on espion-

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partment of Justice and the FBI. Out of that grew a plan for a series of quarterly conferences with local police officials, a broadening of the training program of the National Police Academy and of the .annual retraining sessions for local police officers, with special emphasis on the current problems of national defense.

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SINCE THE inception of this FBI academy, back in 1935, some 550 local police officials have

Hoosiers in W ashington—

DOUBT INDIANA IS ISOLATIONIST

Letter Raps Hoosier Representatives; Personal Poll Cited.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, July 7.— That those Indiana members of Congress who have become sort of “professional isolationists” may not represent the best informed opinion in the State was suggested last week in a letter from Indianapolis. The letter came from the Indiaha Commiitee for National Defense. It bore .the signatures of Mrs. W. O. Lewis and Mrs. Felix V. Vonnegut. The forraer is chairman of arrangements and the latter chairman of the women’s division of the Indiana committee. Here is what they had to say regarding Indiana's so- ~called isolationism: “Indiana has been listed as being isolationist. A personal poll of a cross-section of our citizens (which one of our members took for several weeks), indicated that Hoosiers were not isolationist, in reality a

‘majority of them were definitely

opposed to the ideas of the ‘America First group.

‘Just Individuals’

“These people were just separate, busy individuals who didn't have time to stop and ‘do something’ about the international situation. Many of them felt that it was the business of the ‘people in Washington’ to do something. The man who sold meat said: “ ‘They get paid a good salary for Inet, 16 is - their business to attend “When the Administration was criticized, it was rather because it hadn't moved fast enough and taken more positive action than that it had gone too far. There seemed to be a very definite feeling that we would have to face the international situation realistically and the sooner the better.

‘Cons’ More Voluble

“Much attention has been given to the amount of mail that Indiana members of Congress have received against the Administration program. In the very nature of things, people who are against anything always make more commotion, they have to in order to be heard at all. “Purthermore, there has been definite organized effort to have letters written opposing Administrative action. These letters have told how to address the various members - of Congress, also a card to por on — letters written.

taken the course under the bus reau’s instructors in criminology, Last fall, nearly half of these graduates came to Washington for a fifth annual retraining sese sion. These grads and post-grads of the anti-crime school go back to their local forces and in turn become instructors of schools within their own departments. Since all police organizations can't send their representatives to this course, the plan of taking the course to the local community was inaugurated. In the last year, . 421 of these local schools were. held, and so successful were they that the plan was extended to ° provide for. quarterly sessions of: regional conferences on national . defense. In the. first quarter of this year, over 8000 local officials’ | from some 4000 police agencies came in for the short courses, one-day conferences held with : FBI field agents to review methods ' of co-operation between municie'

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enforcement, organizations in the interest of national defense.

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Build Reserve Corps.

A TYPICAL program for one of these conferences takes in instruce ' tions on counter espionage and sabotage, demonstrations by ex= perts from the FBI technical laboratory on’ how to handle bombs and explosives, discussion of national defense cases within the. area, and the use of moving | pictures and lantern slides to show how British police handle their emergency duties under ace tual war conditions. ! The entiré effort in all these ' activities is to give preliminary training and organization on emergency police work. Through | the FBI mobilization for nae - tional defense pledge, the schools and the conferences, the bureau is building up a reserve corps | which could be called into active ke service, should emergency condi ! tions require the sudden muster= |

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NEXT: FBI's Plant Inspection— First Job in National Defense.

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house the night before the Wheel er meeting.

“Finally, several members of the

Indiana delegation in Congress have expressed themselves repeat edly as opposed to the United States taking any action that might lead eventually to war, so that it seemed perfectly useless for the average citizen to waste time and postage trying to give them the benefit of his views. “After all, busy people can't see much use in writing to men who announce at regular intervals that their minds are completely made up.”

Halleck Has Visitors

Among the distinguished visitors here this week were Mr. and Mrs, Morrison Rockhill from Rep. Hale leck’s home town—Rensselaer. Mr. Rockhill is the Second Dis trict Republican Chairman. He alsa is a lawyer who was here to repree sent clients seeking priorities from the OPM.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In which department of the Federal Government does the United States Weather Bureau function? 2—Chinchilla is the name of a frozen dessert, a fur, or an al= loy? 3—The mythological creatures half man and half horse, were called — 4—Name the bodies of water cone nected by the Straits of Gibrale ar. 5—Is a thunderclap heard before or after the flash of lightning is seen? 6—Which of the following did not sign the Declaration of Indepen« dence: John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin? 7—Social security taxes for old-age and survivors insurance in cove ered employment are payable on the first $. of wages in a year? + 8—"Death Valley Scotty” lives im California, Nevada, or New Mex« co

Answers

1—Department of Commerce. 2—Fur. 3—Centaurs. 4—The Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. 5—After. 6—Hamilton. 7—$3000. 8—California.

FBI Organizes Nation-Wide Anti-Sabotage Front

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