Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1941 — Page 15

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DENVER, July 25 —The other morning I went to call on Mrs. Fred White, Her son Bill is a good friend of mine. We were in London together, and he is still there. He was with the Associated Press,

and ig now with the New York Herald-Tribune. I was struck by the philosophic attitude Mrs. White takes over her only child being so far away and in such a spot. She doesn't worry, and she doesn't want him to come home. And she doesn't say that as though she were being very, very brave while about to bust into tears. She means it. “I raised him to be a success” she says. “And if this is part of it then thats where he should be. He won't get hurt. He just isn't the type.” At that point I sat and wondered just what type of person it is that bombs refrain from hitting. Maybe Bill and I are both too skinny to get it. At any rate, Mrs. White did have one scare. It was during the big Sunday night raid on London during the holidays—the night they tried to burn London down.

Just Like the British

Bill was on duty that night, and the building which housed the AP was in the thick of it. They were bombed and burned out. Next morning, here in Denver, the phone rang in the White home. The head of the AP bureau in Denver was calling. He seemed excited. He identified himself, and then said: “Mrs. White, are you listening to the radio?” Bill White's mother felt a portent in those words. And in the half-instant before replying, she said to herself: “Okay kid, get yourself ready. Here it comes!” It turned out that the man was calling to tell her he had just talked to Bil! over trans-Atlantic phone, and everything was all right. But she had taken her stance for the worst. “Okay kid, get yourself ready. Here it comes!” Why, that's just the way the British would do it.

THERE HAS NEVER been a drowning in the history of the Boy Scout Reservation and we just decided to ask Herman Reece, the swimming director, what he attributed it to “The buddy system.” answered Mr. Reece promptly. During swimming periods, he says, a whistle blows every 10 minutes and all the swimmers must be accounted for. This done, two short blasts on the whistle send them back in for another 10 minutes. Ever since the pool was opened in "27, says Mr. Reece, no boy has been permitted to enter the pool without a buddy. When the whistle blows, the buddies pair off and raise clasped hands for the chief guard to see. He says the boys have found it “a natural safety precaution” and that, as a matter of fact. they have carried the system over into many of the City pools. Since the City has no buddy system, the Scouts go swimming together, always keeping close to each other, What's more, says Mr. Reece, no boy can get out of the Boy Scouts’ shallow beginners’ section until he has demonstrated that he can swim the length of the pool and back. When he can swim six lengths (120 yards) he is permitted the freedom of the deep section. Just plain common sense, says Mr. Reece.

The Old, Old Men

THERE IS A HANDFUL of disgruntled soldiers marking time at the Reception Center in Ft. Harrison. While other draftees have been shipped to vari-

Washington

WASHINGTON, July 25.—A question of greatest importance to a democracy in arms has been raised by Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff. It relates to the efforts being made to have selectees and National Guardsmen petition Congress against extending their service. Gen. Marshall described this petition activity as sabotage of the most dangerous character, He toid the House Military Affairs Committee that we could not build an Army if it is to be used as a political club. He said he was deeply concerned over maintaining morale “with all this racket going on in the Army.” One or two Senators have made public petitions which they have

received from groups of enlisted men. Lieut. Gen. Hugh Drum, in command of the First Army, notified Gen. Marshall taat there was considerable activity in trying to get his men to sign petitions to Congress. He instructed his command that such petitions were in violation of the regulations.

Politics in the Army

Those are the essential facts. The question is whether the Army is to become involved in political activity. For if it becomes established that large groups within the Army are to petition Congress and exert pressure on this question of extending the term of service, then we may expect similar agitation about other questions. When a man joins the police force or the fire department, he sacrifices the right to strike’ When a man becomes a member of the Federal judiciary, he is supposed to take the political veil Similarly. men in the armed services forego a number of privileges enjoyed in civil life. Unquestioning obedience to orders is required of them. It would seem that ther must also forego agitation regarding public questions. :

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday —We reached Washington in time for lunch yesterday and the visitors began to arrive at once. I did have a little time to talk over one or two important family things with

the President before he was again engulfed in Government affairs, and I was chatting with various people. At 4:40 I went to the airport with Jimmie and Rommie, who were starting for the West Coast, and waited to meet my daughter, who was coming in from Seattle, to attend Mayor La Guardia's meeting on civilian volunteer participation in defense. Anna was about 20 minutes late, which meant that a gentleman who was waiting to hand me a gift for the President sent by the Mayor of an English city, had to wait for nearly 20 minutes. However, he was very kind about it. Afterwards, Dr. Frederick Douglas Patterson, the President of Tuskegee Institute, came to tell me how well the training of the flving cadets is progressing there, and that Tuskegee is being named as a recreational area for Negro men on leave from Ft. Benning. The Crown Princess of Norway and her party left to return to Massachusetts on an evening train, Our

By Ernie Pyle

a package to England. I just have and it's a task, I] assure you.

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In case you plan on sending anything, T'd sug-|

gest you turn another wheel,

to the post office and inquire before you| For you can send only certain

things, and only certain amounts, and they have to \

be wrapped just so, and tied instead of sealed, and

after you've got to the post office you have to untiejs «© the whole thing and put the customs declaration]

inside. Furthermore, you have to have the declaration notarized. By the time you're through, you are ready to call the whole thing off and send the package to some complete stranger in Kansas City.

Joshing Elsa Maxwell

A lady was telling me the other night about a stunt she pulled on Elsa Maxwell, the noted partyfixer. She was at a party where Miss Maxwell was holding forth, said party being practically crawling with Denver's aristocracy. Miss Maxwell is quite up on her royalty and her bluebloods, you know. So my friend went up to her and said, “Miss Maxwell, I am the highest-born woman here.” Miss Maxwell was quite taken aback by such frankness, and doubtless considered herself in the presence of a vulgar imposter, and seemed about to

turn and flee from the vicinity of such bad manners, |

when my friend continued: “It's true, I'm the highest-born wdman here. was born in Leadville—10,190 feet up.” Then Miss Maxwell laughed. The other day. you may remember, we were talk-|

ing about the jokes in vogue among young Americans Which reminded a friend of ad \

at the moment. in New York Of the gags they had when he was a voungster. Here are some of his samples: “Have you seen the president of the railroad?” ‘No, but I'm on his tracks.” “Call me a taxi.” “All right, you're a taxi” “Did you take a bath?" “No, is there one missing?” And he concludes, “It just goes to show that the kids today are essentially not very much different than I was in Oak Park, Ill, 20 years ago."

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the recent action by Congress. As we get it, the Army

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then muster cut the men now standing by. The men know it and are being sand in the first) sergeants’ spinach.

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of yesterday morning on its 1310 kilocycle wave length. It was just a test run and they were broadcasting re-

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from as far away as Ft. Wayne. . . . Former Senator

Jim Watson pulled into town the night before last with Senator Alva Lumpkin (D. S. C) to attend a

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But Jim's luggage had gotten mixed up en route and he had to borrow 4 pair of pajamas from the South! Carolina Senator for the evening. . . . Plans are already being made for the State Fair. the number of delivery trucks to be permitted on the

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Hep, Hep, Turkey in the Straw!

HEINIE MOESCH, of the State Conservation Department, still is limping as the result of a freak accident. Heinie, who has a deluxe cottage near Culver, was up there not long ago and took in a nearby bam dance. One of the dancers broke into a Highland Fling, or something resembling it, and landed a kick on Heinie's ankle. Dangerous pastime, eh, Heinle?

By Raymond Clapper

For if the Army does not remove itself from political controversy we have the most vicious form of militarism, which is a threat to democracy and civil government. Some of the South American countries, in which the civil authorities are under the thumb of the army, should provide sufficient object lessons. We are now creating a large Army and if it should become a political force the results would be unfortunate for our democracy.

Recognizing the Danger Fortunately the Army is now under the direction of a man who recognizes this danger. Gen. Marshall

is a professional soldier. He stands in respect of the civil authorities. You will notice that Gen. Marshall seldom makes a public speech, although he must receive dozens of requests every day. It is obvious that he believes an Army officer should not mix into political controvers:’ but should confine himself to doing his professional work: and to recommending to the proper authorities and to committees of Congress the measures he believes desirable for the defense of the country. That is the ideal role of a high Army officer in a democracy. I think you will find among most of our high Army officials the hope that there will be no hysteria in this country. A country that works itself up into a hysterical state is apt to leap into war from impulse and not from cold calculation. If we have to go to war, it ought to be at the time and in the manner best calculated to serve our interest. It should not be a matter of public hysteria as when the battleship Maine was sunk and the country forced the Government hell-bent, against President McKinley's judgment. into war. So it would seem that from top to bottom the Army should be kept clear of political controversy. And, putting the shoe on the other foot, when a general undertakes to discipline an outfit. it does not seem proper that members of Congress should is to exert remote control by making it a public ssue,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

only other dinner guests were Dr. Floyd Reeves of the American Youth Commission and Dr. James Meader of Russell Sage College. The latter told me of a most interesting week, which Russell Sage College is going to arrange in October, in which the city of Troy, N. Y,, will participate. The college will celebrate its 25th anniversary with Pan-American Week, during which the citizens of Troy will become familiar with the countries of Central and South America under as many different aspects as possible. Today has been given up entirely to the meeting held in the White House by Mayor La Guardia's committee. Five members have been named from every corps area and represent all the different interests that enter into our national life. The President received the group and spoke to them for a few minutes and then the mayor proceeded to outline his general ideas. After lunch, the details were taken up and I hope that every member of the committee will go home knowing what the first steps in this program actually mean in the way of work. The future alone can tell how it will develop. Anna goes back to Seattle tonight, and I feel that we have stolen a very happy 24 hours at a time I had not expected to see her. The President and I will leave almost at the same time by train for Hyde Park. I am delighted that we are going to have these few days there in spite of the world events which seem more threa in every way.

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HOOSIER TROOPS GOING TO ‘WAR

Biggest Army Maneuvers in U. S. History to Start In South.

Times Special

CAMP SHELBY, Miss, July 25 — One week from today Indiana troops of the 38th Division will move out of their base camp here for Louisiana to await a declaration of “war” which will launch the biggest Army maneuvers ever staged in this country.

According to the schedule, the troops don't expect “hostilities” to break out until Aug. 15 but when they do, Army Corps of the Third Field Army will come to grips over a “battlefield” covering more than 30,000 square miles in East Texas and Louisiana. The 38th Division, which includes Indiana Fedeéralized guardsmen (around 6000) and some 10,000 Indiana selectees in addition to reserve officers, is a part of the Fifth Army Corps. The Fifth Corps will be pitted against the Eighth Army Corps while another Corps, the Fourth, will be “held in reserve’ as replacements and reserves for either of the other “belligerents” as the umpires of the war games choose,

300.000 In Maneuvers

All in all, 300,000 soldiers of the Third Army (composed of nine Army divisions in the three corps), will take part. The Hoosiers will concentrate in an area north of Lake Charles, La, many miles from their home base. Terrain problems will start with the first movement of troops. Routes to the concentration area must be charted, with special attention to the condition of the highways that must be traversed, streams to be crossed and the railroads to be used

The next problem will be the se-

lecting of bivouac areas in thej.

vicinity of the concentration area. A reconnaissance of the concentration area of the Fifth Corps shows that the country where the Hoosiers will bivouac, to the north and west of Lake Charles, is mostly wooded and cut-over pine land.

‘Line’ Near Lake Charles

Some time after Aug. 15 the Fifth and Seventh Corps will come to grips along a line “somewhere” between Lake Charles and Shreveport, La. The line-up of opposing forces in the initial stages of the war is this: Fifth Corps: 38th (Indiana), 37th, 32d and 34th Divisions. All Federalized National Guard Divisions composed heavily of selectees. Bighth Corps: Secend, (regular), 36th and 45th Divisions. Fourth Corps (reserves): Fourth (regular), 31st and 43d divisions. In addition to these troops certain Army and Corps troops. (attached to Corps and Army and not a part of any division) will take

By ALLEN HADEN

Conyright, 1941. by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

BUENOS AIRES, July 25 (By Clipper). — Washington's quick-

service patching of Peru's and Ecuador's recent frontier clashes along a non-existent border wandering through uncharted jungles, has temporarily pre- u " vented the 120-vear-old row from igniting the war which Nazi agents operating in that territory hoped for. But the nub of the situation remains as before: Who owns the three provinces of Jaen, Tumbes and Maynas? Last and old- Mr. Haden est of the many territorial disputes in South America, the Peru-Ecuador dispute is nearer settlement today than it has ever been. What began as a legal question is complicated today by suspicion in both countries—apparently in line with scientific findings—that there is oil in the western portion of Maynas province on the eastern slopes of the Andes. The Peruvian-Ecuadorean dispute started in the days of the Conquistadores when the King of Spain would grant lands which he had never seen, didn't care about and whose location was a matter of doubt and debate. In 1563, the Audience of Quito

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conquerors stand by ready to enter when flames die down.

The soldier in the foreground carries a hand grenade for use if any resistance still remains,

was organized by royal edict, to include the province of Jaen, Tumbes and Maynas. So Ecuador, the mod-ern-day heir of the Audience of Quito, claims the three provinces. But in 1802, the King of Spain returned . those provinces to the Viceroyalty of Peru and Peru claims them today, on the legal principle that each country has right to the

territory nominally comprising it at the time of South America’s independence from Spain in 1809 and 1810, Throughout the 19th Century and afterward, repeated attempts were made at a final settlement, all in vain. Ecuador's repeated rejections of tentative agreements have been simply due, it claims, to each succeeding effort at fixing the frontier having sliced off another piece in Peru's favor. Ecuadoreans point to Peru's 10centavo stamp showing a map of Peru, in which Ecuador's eastern border runs along the ridge of the Andes. They accept that stamp a: a definition of Peru's maximum demands which Peru will press until accepted. With a present population of three million as compared with Peru's six million, Ecuador is helpless and feels it must appeal to arbitration “in equity.” It hopes to marshal public opinion throughout the Americas to force Peru to allow it breathing space, no matter how restricted, on the eastern slope of the Andes. Peru sticks to the 1802 edict.

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Warplanes once, these Russian planes will fight no more. German dive bombers attacked their air field, The charred mass in foreground was a wooden hangar.

Peace Nearer Than Ever in

Old Peru-Ecuador Dispute

MOTHERS GROUP HITS ARMY PLAN

Most of 450 at Meeting Sign Petition Opposing Extension.

With about 450 women present, The Service Mothers of America held an organization meeting yesterday, petitioned Congress not to extend the training period for selectees beyond 12 months, and indicated other petitions would follow, The meeting was held in the World War Memorial auditorium, with Mrs. Ernest Millholland as temporary chairman and spokesman. She promised the women present that Service Mothers of America was non-political, nonsectarian, non-partisan, had no affiliations and would seek none. The Rev. Howard J. Baumgartel, Church Federation of Indianapolis executive secretary, gave the invocation, and the entire assemblage repeated the Oath of Allegiance. Mrs. Baumgartel was named by Mrs. Millholland as one of the leaders of the new group.

Most Sign Mrs. Millholland announced that Mrs, Frank Seidensticker is temporary secretary and Mrs. Alex Clark, temporary recording secretary, of the group. All women present were invited to sign a petition asking the Congress not to extend the training period, and most of them did. All were asked to sign for membership and were told that the next meeting will be open to members only. Meantime, Mrs. Millholland said, a temporary group will meet to file articles of incorporation, and to draw up constitution, rules and by-laws. “We shall have no part of belligerence or hysteria,” Mrs. Millholland said. “Our program is as yet most incomplete.”

Only First Petition

Then she explained the content of the petition .offered for signing yesterday and remarked that “this does not cover our entire objective. This is only our first petition.” “One thing that's dear to the heart -of mothers is keeping promises,” she said. “The extension of the draft is one step toward war. “This war is not far enough removed from the last that was fought to end wars for mothers to forget. “We have not forgotten the promises of the last election. We are not for peace at any price. . . . But we have not one son for slaughter in Europe.” “We want to prevent the war mongers of the United States and Europe from leading us into war.” The petition and membership cards Were signed as the women left. The meeting lasted less than a half-hour,

DIES IN CRASH ON U. 8S. 31 EDINBURG, Ind, July 25 (U. P.). —Dudley Yeoman, 22, of Wilmette, Ill, was injured fatally yesterday when his automobile crashed into a tree on U. 8. 31. Police said they

believed he fell asleep at the wheel.

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Delphi Blackout First in Indiana

DELPHI, Ind., July 25 (U. P.) .— Delphi’s trial blackout will be held Aug. 4, Mayor C. Clay Pearse son said today. Airplanes will fly over the town during the blackout—the first held in Indiana—and lights mounted on the Courthouse lawn will search them out. Members of the Delphi unit of the State Guard and the Amerie can Legion Post will fire blanks in anti-aircraft guns. Mr. Pearson said the blackout would start about 9:30 p. m. when the Armory siren blows a warne ing and will continue about ones half hour. The siren will give an “all-clear” signal when the raid is finished. . Allen Bailey, editor of the Dele

phi Citizen, has been named gene eral chairman.

ASHEBORO, N. C., July 25 (U, P.) —~When Asheboro built a new water system, a problem of dispose ing of the storage tanks of the old system developed. The city now has a 450,000-gallon city garage and & 425,000-gallon storage house.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Peanuts normally mature undef ground; true or false? 2—Submarines of the U. S. Navy are named after what kind of anie mal? 3—Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize play, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois’? 4—In which state i Stone Moune tain? 5—Is more or less gasoline per mile consumed when an auto is driven at 70 miles per hour, than at 20 miles per hour? 6—What have the following in come mon: English, pica and diae mond? 7—The initials ©. I. D. stand for what British Government organe ization? 8—Name the capital of Delaware.

Answers

1-—True. 2—Fish, 3—Robert E. Sherwood. 4—-Georgia. 5—More. 6—They are all: kinds of printing type. 7—Criminal Investigations Departe ment. 8-—Dover.

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