Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1941 — Page 11

"WEDNESDAY, JULY 16,

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Hoosier Vagabond

CENTRAL. CITY, Colo. July 16.—I've never tried 4t, but.I think it would be fun to think up a list of the two dozen most impressive annual spectacles in “America, fs : Events that happen each year at the same place, ; over and over, and become traditions. Such things as the Kentucky Derby, the Natchez Garden Pilgrimage, the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, the Cheyenne Rodeo, the New Orleans Mardi Gras, and so on. What I'm leading up to is that, if ever in the future I'm called upon to make such a list, the Central City Play Festival will come within my first half dozen, In fact, I think the Festival's opening night comes close to No. 1 fantastic event. I've just been through one. :

+ The Central City Festival is in its 10th year now, and is getting mighty famous. ~ still millions who have never heard of it, so I'll ex- . plain the background. ; : Central City lies in the high mountains about an hour’s drive from Denver. It came into existence in 1859. . It is gold-mining country. : At one time it was called “the richest square mile on earth.” Like most of the fabulously rich mining towns of the ‘West, Central City liked to splurge with its new and inexhaustible money. So- in the "70s it built a fine opera house, and alongside it a fine hotel called the Teller House. ;

A Mecca of the Great

And then everybody came to Central City. The great actors of the day played here. Gen. U. S. Grant visited here, and they paved the sidewalk from his coach to the door of Teller House with silver bricks. He wouldn't believe they were real. But they were. And you know the famous Stanley of Stanley-and-Livingstone fame in Africa. Stanley was once a law clerk in Central City. Horace Greeley spoke here. George Pullman mined here before he invented the sleeping car, Mark Twain and P. T. Barnum were here; so were Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman; so, too, were John L. Sullivan and Sarak: Bernhardt. Yes, it was great in the old days. And then the. bottom fell out, as it did in most places, and the years marched on. Some of the surrounding gold camps became ghost cities, but Central City did not.

‘being the country’s

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

ACCORDING TO OUR understanding of the local milk situation, you might as well get yourself prepared to pay .14 cents a quart for your milk delivered to your front door next winter. Dairymen are asking for a price increase now which, if it's granted, will boost the price of delivered milk to 13 cents a quart and most dairymen tell us privately that it will have to go higher next fall. Production: costs are going up steadily, they say, and by next winter there may even be a shortage because of the Government's program of sending dried and condensed milk to England.

Yoo Hoo! oH

LIEUT. GEN. BEN LEAR'S visit to Pt. Harrison did one thing for us. If gave us & good look at the old cam- . paign hats like the Boy Scouts wear. The Army isn’t using the campaign hat at all anymore. Now the soldier boys wear little overseas caps that have no brims. In the old days they used to wear campaign hats to keep the sun out of their eyes and. off their. neeks, . . Mechanization of the Army, however, has ruined the campaign hat’s usefulness for three reasons: 1. It takes the full service of one hand to keep a campaign hat on while jouncing across a field in a truck. 2. They won't fit inside a tank. 3. Generals -are different.

- Splitting Hairs ADD THINGS HARD to get because of the war: Hairnets. The hairs are shipped originally from

. China to the U. S., where they are split (only the U. S. can do it, you see) .and then the split hairs

Y' Washington

WASHINGTON, July 16.—Most of us have been under the impression that in the draft act the Government pledged itself to release selectees at the end of 12 months of training and service, : "However, reference to the act will show that Congress included two conditions unge der which selectees could be called 2 upon to serve for more than one year. These are found in Section 3.

: Pirst, inductees can be held " over for further training and service whenever Congress declares that the national interest is imperiled. When Congress makes such a declaration, the President may extend the period of service to such time as may be necessary in the interests of national de- ‘ fense, the law says. The Administration has rejected the idea of proceeding under that plan. There would be considerable division in Congress about passing a resolution declaring the national interest to be imperiled. If the Administration ‘were in a position to make a public case strong enough to induce Congress to act, then it would have a case for a declaration of war. There seems to be a general desire not to have a full-dress public debate in Congress on the issue of the nation’s peril. :

No Unconditional Pledge

The second condition under which selectees may be called upon for further ‘service is complicated. After completing 12 months of training and service, selectees go into the organized reserve. In that status they are subject to such further training and service as Congress may by law prescribe. To use that method - of calling men back into service at once would mean ‘involved procedure. . : ¥ ~The Administration considers that these two pro- \ visions of the Selective Service Act show plainly that

CAMPOBELLO, W. B, Tuesday.—Yesterday was another interesting day at the International Students’

Service -Conferencé here, spent for the most part listening to Justice Frankfurter addressing the sum-

‘mer student leadership institute. In the morning, he '.

° made a remarkably clear and simple statement of what law means in a civilized society and what the .- background of our own law is in this country. : ‘. He started out by telling us that he could not talk for an hour, - since he was trained in the Harvard Law School method of making the pupils do the work. Therefore, he would expect the - students being trained for leadership here, to behave in the same

way and to carry the burden by.

Se . asking questions after he had jalked briefly... This was at 10:30, and at 12:15 he gsuddenly looked at Dr, William Allen Neilson, presi#4 dent of Smith College, and asked: “What time is it?” "He had been as interested as the listeners and I do __not think anyone there had taken any account of the passage of time. - : : We returned to our seats and spent an hour questioning him immediately after lunch. Then all of us got into a-boat and went to Eastport, Me., to visit the dy ‘village, . of the young people at

But there are

By Ernie Pyle

Although it ean’t be said to bustle, it still hangs on. It is still a going town of 700 or,800, living still in its magnificent setting close to the Continental Divide; still taking nearly a million ‘dollars a year from its pock-marked hillsides; still treading its board sidewalks and its. twisting, hilly streets; still doing business quietly: and a little old-fashionedly, much as any small town anywhere. It does all this, that is, for 11. months out of the year. But on the 12th month it becomes suddenly a bedlam of music and gaiety and camaraderie. The Play Festival is ‘what does it. The Festival began 10 years ago. It was.the idea of two pioneer women—Anne Evans, whose father was Colorada’s second territorial governor, and Ida Kruse McFarlane, who herself was born in a nearby gold camp, and who became head of Denver University’s English Department. "> They thought it would be wonderful to restore the artistic splendor of the 80s to this historic town. The trappings were still here—the town, the fine old hotel, the opera house itself. So they worked until they had a program of vpera here in the hills.

A Dream Comes True

The whole idea was sort of a beautiful dream, which might or might not come to reality. You never can tell how the public will take these attempts to recapture something out of the old days, or to create something new on top of the old, But the public did take it. The thing was certainly unique—having opera in the mountains. But they did it right. They brought out the great names of New York to stage and perform the operas. Today, 10 years later, the Play Festival has reached such eminence that the great of New York don’t have to be asked out—they beg to come. : Both Miss Evans: and Mrs. McFarlane have died within the past year, and a Festival Association carries on. It is a division of the University of Denver. The old opera house and the Teller House next door belong to the Festival Association. They even run the night club where operagoers divert themselves after the show. This year the Festival runs for three weeks, ending on July 26. Two operas are being given, instead of one. They are “The Barber of Seville,” and “Orpheus.” They are being, sung in English. It is sometimes called “streamlined” opera up here. Personally, I don’t give two small damns for opera. But I do love an “occasion,” and I'd give mest. anything if fortune would make me a permanent annual traveler to Central City’s sublime and unbelievable opening night of Festival.

are shipped back where the Chinese put them to‘gether in nets. The shortage is caused by the diversion of machines used to split hairs. We hope this is not as hard on you as it is on us. . . . They had two examinations at the State House yesterday and in the middle of the pharmacy examination they discovered one of the candidates missing. A search disclosed she was taking the beauty culture examination. And apparently none the wiser, either.

Fishing Must Be Good oF

HOWARD J. LACY, president of the U. 8S, Corru gated Fibre Box Co. and a member of the Rotary Club, is up ‘at Escanaba, Mich., having the time of his life fishing. He couldn't resist the temptation to send a teasing wire to Wilbur Gruber, secretary of Kotary, telling him the fishing was fine. Wilbur, for his part, couldn't resist the temptation to wire right back and remind Howard that the Rotary board of directors was having a dinner meeting and could use some fish. Thus it was that Rotary’s board dined on a 20pound muskellunge' (muskie) done up in the Claypool chef’s best English ala carte style. That's how Howard Lacy delivers the goods.

We Don’t Want the Job Now

BEING GOVERNOR, we've ‘decided, is no fun at all. - Ever since Henry Schricker took office he’s been coming to work about 9 or 9:30 in the morning and working nights until about 10 o'clock and sometimes later. He sees people all day long, in sort of a continuous conference. They just tramp in and out in a steady stream and then he has to work most of the night catching up on his work. We thought all a Governor had to do was sit around with his feet on the desk and smoke big black cigars. Shucks!

By Raymond Clapper

there was no unconditional pledge to release the men after 12 months of service. Congress reserved the right, under certain®conditions, to hold them. At the White House conference with legislative leaders yesterday it was decided simply to amend the Selective Service Act to provide for further service during the emergency and to apply the same extension to the National Guard and to reserve officers.

Shipping Shortage Cited : Members of the House and Senate are being told that about 85 per cent of some outfits in Hawaii, Alaska and other outlying possessions are selectees or National Guardsmen, Except for two regular Army

divisions, confined to 3-year men, the other Army divisions run from 25 to 50 per cent selectees. - Regular Army divisions contain from 75 to 90 per cent Reserve officers, whose term of service is now 12 months. This means that in most Army divisions some 600 officers and one-fourth to one-half of the men will have to be released during the next few months unless the law is changed. It is being argued that if units stationed in Hawaii, Alaska and other possessions have to be ripped apart in order to release one-year men, their effectiveness will be temporarily destroyed. Furthermore, the shipping shortage makes it difficult, if not impossible, to spare bottoms for such large movements of men, without seriols ship withdrawals from other service. ' Gen. Marshall's recommendation that Congress repeal the restriction against using selectees, guardsmen and reserve officers outside the Western Hemisphere has been dropped from consideration for the present, at least. There is some suggestion that this recommendation was misunderstood and that Gen. Marshall was not looking to the creation of an expeditionary force for foreign service but toward uniformity in the status of all men in the Army; that 1s, toward removal of restrictions which applied to some -men and not to others.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

institute had never seen an NYA resident project. I found some of them watching the boys at work in the aviation unit, rather enviously, I thought. Finally, ‘one of them said: “I'd like to be here if I was not at Campobello.” : x A We ‘had a sumptuous repast with the senior personnel, what the chef termed a banquet. It certainly was that, and all for the price. of 35 cents each. The boys in the kitchen had made us a most beautiful cake with a welcoming inscription on the icing, and I had to cut the first slice. ~ \ We attended the council meeting and then Jimmy told them a little about his trip. He had hardly finished his outline, before hands were up all over the room. No need io fear that here there would be any lack of keen interest or good questions. They poured forth on every hand and showed a knowledge

of current events and thoughtful consideration of our |

present situation which was quite proud of the young manhood of America. ed The return trip was rapidly made, but it was

. I was

nearly midnight before actual quiet settled down. I|Ka

really hate to leave here this morning, but these few days have been almost too stimulating for me. Perhaps I need a little vegetating, for I am getting old. We hope to reach Whitefield, N. H., this evening in time ‘for me to dine with my cousin, Mrs. Henry Parish, whom I have not seen for some time. Going back through the northern part of Maine is a pleasant

‘Every Day Was A Pageant Of Misery’

This is the third of a series of

articles by Robert J. Casey, who has spent two years at the front.

By ROBERT J. CASEY Th di lis Tim Cor nd ine "Chicago Daily News. me.

“_So the people of Chicago teok sudden fright and in a blind panic ran out onto the highways. “They left their on their tables or gtill cooking on their kitchgn stoves. “They left the water running in their baths, their doors open, their lights turned on. / “In some of their living rooms the phonographs went on playing or the untended radio sets continued’ to blat a warning of wrath

to: come. : “They ‘fled as they were, some of them in dinner jackets, some half-dressed. The sick got up from their beds, the lame staggered out on their crutches. “If they had money they took it. If they had none they went anyway. . . . . “Along about Joliet some airplanes came along and killed hundreds of them with machine guns and bombs. By the time they had come to Bloomington thousands of them were collapsing from fatigue, illnes and hunger... . . she “They were going to St. Louis, they said . . . because they would be safe in St. Louis.” : # ” »

‘It Couldn’t Be Happening’ Whatever other factors have tended to make the evacuation of Paris the war's most indelible memory, the absolute impossibility of it is not the least. While you moved in the big retreat, wet and hungry and miserable as everyone else was, you félt that it couldn't be happening at all. It was fantastic that anyone born in South Dakota should be out there counting the bombs en a French road ... and it was no less fantastic that Parisians should be there. : None of this could be true . . . but, of course, sll of it was. And those who took part in it will never be done talking about it, because nothing remotely like it is ever going to happen to them again. It's a year now since the great flight ended—a year that seemed longer than a couple of lifetimes. What happened on the clogged roads of France as the Germans came might be considered pretty old news, but you feel no more hesitation discussing it than you would in adding to the evidence on the flight of the Israelites from Egypl—if you had anything to add. For this, the most astounding mass migration in the history of the ‘world, our culture's outstanding epic of human suffering and human cruelty, was first of all a movement of frightened individuals who suffered and possibly died as individuals. They were

WAIT POWDER PLANT'S BOOM

St. Bernice All. Excited ‘By Prospect of Getting Defense Industry.

ST. BERNICE, July 16 (U.P).— This little Hoosier town of 1224 inhabitants buzzed with anticipation today at the prospect the Federal Government might build a huge new smokeless powder plant, similar to the one at Charlestown. Spurred by reports that the Office of Production Management looks favorably upon the St. Bernice site, boosters pointed out the town’s strategic advantages of railroads, highways, coal and power. Located 15 miles north of Terre

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Indiana-Illinois line in Vermillion County, the town is just at the edge of the Clinton soft coal fields. Railroad facilities have been built up to haul limestone and coal from the region. : : ding is St. Bernice’s principal occupation and furnishes most of the town’s industrial employment, : Electric power is available both from Indiana and Illinois power sta-

AUTHORESS SEEKS DIVORCE RENO, Nev. July 16 (U. P).— tharine Ingham Brush Winans,

novelist © and short-story writer, looked forward today to a quick divorce from Charles Hubert Winans of New York, whom : she charged with cruelty in a suit filed here yesterday. She also asked per-

change: of scenery, and I always love the White

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elements in. a stupendous hegira only because fear was common to all- of them, and the lash of the Nazis and the construction of the roads forced them to march shoulder to shouder, stranger with stranger. : The picture of this unbelievable thing will some day be completed not through any chorus of the masses but in a mosaic of the little things that little people may tell about what each of them saw and did in those fearful times. A few of us had been down on the Italian front until just before Mussolini declared war. We had come back from the Alps to a Paris already smitten, inarticulate, plunged - in’ stupor. The

streets were as empty as if a

plague -had swept the place— although the exodus had not yet begun—and what people one met in the cafes or hotel lobbies were detached .and silent. :

Nobody Home

I made a tour of the district °

within. walking distance of the Place de 1'Opera to see if I could find .anybody who knew what was going on. There was nobody in the Crillon—not even Fritz Thyssen, . the ‘inventor of Hitler, who stayed there unchallenged for several weeks. . . ere was nohody in. the Meurice, either. The front door of the Lotti was locked. . . . I remembered that there had been a lot of Italian waiters in the Lotti. I wasn’t sanguine when I stepped across the empty echoing lobby. of the Ritz and down the long alley to the bar, which had been the . loudest haunt of non-home-going Americans. : I ran into the bartender who was closing ‘up for the night. It was then 6 p. m. Harry's New York Bar didn’t have anybody in it either except a bartender who said that Harry had gone away somewhere. That night the

~ Refugees on the road from Paris to

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blackout really worked along the Boulevard des Capucines. The restaurants and cafes were closed or half lighted. The movies near the, Madeleine opened briefly, then gave it up.. There.was no automobile traffic in the streets. There was no traffic of any kind. The Champs Elysees looked like the approach to Angkor Vat.

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Then the Retreat Began

The next morning saw the beginning of the retreat, a movement like that of a snowball going down hill. It was a bright, beautiful day. From the terrace of the Cafe de la Paix you noticed that the sun shining through the arching chestnut trees had splattered the boulevard with greenish ‘light. You'd never had a chance to notice that until the street was deserted. Across the sunny square of the Place de 'Opera people began to come singly and unhurriedly, but all of them headed toward the South—aged boulevardiers me-

ticulously dressed, gray-haired women in neat but old-fashioned silks

You got the impression that these, were social shut-ins, the victims of economic revolutions or _other wars who never went out of doors except for necessity. One old lady stopped ‘at the cafe terrace. and asked the direction to

* the Rue de la Paix, which began

just across the street. She gave one -the' impression: that she -was as much a stranger to it as if she ‘had recently arrived from the hinterlands instead of from some bourne behind the opera house. By 10 o'clock there was a steady stream coming across the square. By noon the foot traffic was dense and the people in the crowd were not mellowed aristocrats and exrich people alone; they were a pretty fair cross section of Paris and the general trek had begun.

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By noon the cable offices had closed and there was no longer any place left from which an alien could telephone anywhere. It

looked as if anyone who wanted to stay iy the newspaper business would have to move out. So the ride with the refugees that did not end until midJuly on the dock in Lisbon. . . . Every day a pageant of misery, every night a nightmare. We slept by the roadside in ditches and under walls, or tried to sleep, while the tide of the retreat rolled ceaselessly on through the darkness. . We took what shelter we could get from doorways and the stone floors of public buildings. We ate where we could and. when we could along a router whose restaurants looked as if they had been. swept by a plague of locusts. b 8 8 ”

Attacked by Planes We were machine-gunned from the air outside of Paris. Rooms we had rented. in Tours were dynamited before we could get into them. We were bombed out in Bordeaux. But at least we were better off than most of the refugees, for wé had transportation. We did not have to stagger on afoot in this» gruesome . parade from one death to another. We did not have to watch with despairing eye the faltering of a horse that had not eaten properly . for a week. We did not have to listen to the -plainting of hungry children, or watch the set faces of loved ones who had come in silence to the end of their tether. our toute was always determined by that of press wireless, and press wireless went where the Government went, but while we followed this haphazard leadership—always with terrified and despairing France on the highways beside us—we took with us a modicum of hope. Maybe we could get away from it before the bombs got us. We didn't think that thousands of wanderers from

A Tip fo Women Who Worry About Weight ---Calculate Poundage on Net Tonnage Basis

WASHINGTON, July 16 (U.P) — Women who worry about their weight were advised today to take a tip. from the shipjing industry: Calculate your poundage on a basis of net tonnage for the most flattering showing on the scales.

The case of a chubby Miss who fibs about her weight was offered as an example by marine experts in explaining the varyirig types of ship tonnage which have received wide, - and: sometimes confusing prominence in the war. ~ Frequent communiques announce the loss of so many tons of shipping.. Actually the weight of the lost ships and their cargoes depends on which type of tonnage used in the calculations. The huge French luxury liner

Normandie, for example, has a gross tonnage of 83,423 tons. Actually, her deadweight tonnage is only 13,288 tons. : Between the two figures, the Normandie would seem to have lost considerable weight while being tied up in New York harbor. The difference, however, is one of preference. :

Deadweight tonnage is the carrying capacity of a ship expressed in tons of 2240 pounds. Gross tonnage, on the other hand, is the entire internal cubic capacity of a ship expressed in tons of 100 cubic feet to the ton. Virtually all of the shipping losses announced in the course of the war are measured in tons.

HOLD EVERYTHING

There are other types of tonnage

used frequently in marine calculations. Net tonnage, for example, is the tonnage of a ship representing the freight earning spaces ¢fter deductions are made from gross tonnage for machinery, crew quarters and navigation space. Displacement tonnage is the weight of a ship including passengers, fuel, water stores, dunnage and other items necessary for use on a voyage. Thus, - an ordinary rusty tramp freighter might have four different weights, a system of computation that undoubtedly would attract the “pleasingly plumps” of the gentler

Gross, 6000 tons. Deadweight, 10,000 tons. Displacement, 13,350 tons. Passenger ships are usually measured in displacement tonnage, this type being preferred by the companies ‘because it gives the impression the ships are larger than they really are. In fact, displacement tonnage is known to the shipping trade as ‘boasting tonnage.” The Navy also has a streak of nautical vanity because it uses displacement tonnage to measure the weight of its fighting ships. For instance, .the new 35,000 or 45,000 ton battleships displace that much waer. wii, Displacement, tonnage .has this much to its credit—it is a known scientific fact that a floating body always ‘displaces its own weight in

$6 SUIT ‘WILL TEST ‘CAFETERIA’ JUSTICE

FT. WAYNE, July 16 (U, P).— Fred J. Kraft, of Ft. Wayne, has filed suit in Circuit Court to recover $6, paid in fines in the city’s traffic “Cafeteria court” in 1939 and 1940. He also asked $24,994 .which he said’ was paid by 11,999 other

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Kraft charges the fines were illegally collected because they te the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution, yhich

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Paris would ever find their way home again. ! ; On the way out of the Alps back to Paris we had seen hune dreds of youngsters just called up for military service, boys of 15 and 16 years, and we shude dered to think that possibly they

répresented the last hope of

France. They were going to Tours for training, these kids. They were cheery about it as such kids ale ways are. There was something so like the aura of the last war about them that you. felt like looking at a calendar.

They hoped they'd get 3 chance. to go to the front. But they were afraid they mightn't. There were so many Frenchmen waiting to finish Hitler before their chance should come around.

We saw some of them in Tours in their nice fresh uniforms, awk wardly handling their recently issyed rifles. There were com=panies of them drilling in the back streets, and they didn't look too well, either. . The artillery was on the towns upriver from Tours as we went out. :

begun. And the last picture of that town that sticks in the mind is a flow of the kids coming out of a caserne at the double, rush ing to take over the defense of the Loire.

“The line of the Loire,” the ez.

" perts had called it. The kids had

wanted their chance, hadn't they? Well, they got it. We heard about ° that before we'd got past Saumur, They fought as you'd expect French heroes to fight, eagerly, unquestioningly. And their finish was what you'd expect to be the finish of amateurs armed with rifles fight. ing professionals working mae chine guns from tanks. Maybe it's just as well they went that way. . . . They didn't live to see what happened to France.

GLIDER TRAINING FOR CIVILIANS PLANNED

WASHINGTON, July 16 (U. P.).== The Civil Aeronautics Authority soon will announce a training pros gram for civiliar glider pilots te create a reserve for future military glider operations, it was understood today. The projected training program follows closely a decision by Army officials to include glider units in the expanded Air Corps. Meanwhile, Senator Pat McCarran (D. Nev.) introduced legislation to ° establish a glider unit in the Na~ tional Youth Administration to proe vide pilot training, The Army has given 12 selected officers a special glider training course and it was assumed that these officers would direct the Army program when it gets under way,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—The ranking country in produce tion of beef cattle is’ United States, British India, Argentina or Brazil? 2—The Bureau of Mines is in which

department of the Federal Gove ernment?

3—What does the Latin phrase = Tf

“sanctum sanctorum” mean? 4—What was the real name of Bufe falo Bill?

5—Which illustrator originated the id RJ)

“Gibson girl"? 6—The Statue of Liberty is the

largest statue in. the world; true - = !

or false? 7—Name the American Ambassador to Japan. x Answers

1—British India.

6—True. 7—Joseph C. Grew. ® & =

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