Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1941 — Page 11

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SALIDA, Colo. July 28. —Certainly you have heard of Salida. Its fair name is on every tongue from the rockbound coasts of Maine to the sunny shores of . .. say. if you haven't heard of Salida you better keep it good and quiet, for there's a man here who eats people who haven't heard of Salida. His name is Wilbur Foshay, and he has dedicated himself to the noble work of making Salida better known than New York. Mr. Foshay is what the writers term a human dynamo, and as he whirls around he ejects sparks which dance and twinkle and then form themselves into the golden sword “Salida” across the heavens. Mr. Foshay is the Salida Chamber of Commerce. I got onto him last fall. Or rather he got onto me. It seems he wrote me a letter—something about the glories of Salida—but I had left for England, so a iriend in Washington who opens the mail when I'm away answered Mr. Foshay. That was all right with him. He began writing about Salida to this friend-secretary of mine. Any old audience in a storm, you might say of Mr. Foshay —at the same time deftly insulting your friend-secre-tary. This correspondence went madly on all winter. I returned to America just in time to save her. She had Foshay-itis. She was calling her dog “Salida” and addressing her husband as “Wilbur.” She said if I didn't take the first plane to Colorado she would quit. I told her just to be calm and quit shaking and I would handle everything.

Boy, What a Town

So I wrote Mr. Foshay, and then he dropped her and started bombarding me. The letters, clippings, pamphlets, boxes and packages that descended upon me from Mr. Foshay would sink the Queen Mary. The time I got four special-delivery letters in one day I knew the die was cast. I would have to come to Salida and see for myself.

So here we are in Salida. Salida, the City of Dreams. I will tell you about it, provided I can hold myself down long enough. Here it is:

Salida—“The Heart of the Rockies”—is a railroad town of 5000 inhabitants. Salida—“At the Crossroads to Wonderland”—is 140 miles south of Denver on U. S. 285. Salida—“Lovely Gateway to the Passes’—lies 7000 feet high in the mountains.

By Ernie Pyle

Salida—“In Nature's Wonderland’—has the largest trout farm in the whole wide world. Salida—"The Sportsman's Paradise”—has a natural hot springs from which pour curative waters at 91 degrees, and they neither smell nor taste bad. Salida—"Nature’s Air-Conditioned City’—has a lot of retired railroad people who are pretty well off and take long trips and know all about the world. Salida—"“Hospitality City of the Rockies —boasts such urique possessions as Rocky Mountain “dear” and fur-bearing trout (both Mr. Foshay's babies). Salida—“Ideal All-Year Climate ’—seldom gets cold enough to freeze a man to death in winter time unless he goes out doors. : Salida— "Atop the Nation's Roof Garden”—is on the D. & R. G. Railroad, 50 miles west of the Royal Gorge, and is getting a nice new depot.

Salida—“The Gem City’—has not had a traffic

fatality for more than five years. Salida—"“The Town With a Heart"—is on the Arkansas River and is surrounded by mountains, on one of which is a huge patch of snow called “The Sleeping Angel.” Salida—"“On the Highway to Heaven"—is about like any other live, friendly town of 5000.

Built Famous Tower

Mr. Foshay thought up all those slogans attached to Salida. He also thought up the best-known one of all—"Follow the Hearts to Salida, and Salida Will Capture Your Heart.” All through Colorado you will see the big yellow heart-signs alongside the highways. There is one every 10 miles along 4000 miles of road. And Salida puts out yellow windshield stickers saying “Follow the Hearts to Salida” by the hundreds of thousands. Mr. Foshay is a short, heavy man with a thick mound of white hair, like an artist. He has a fascinating history. He was born in New York, lived 15 years in Minneapolis. huilt the famous Foshay Tower there, and then in the depression lost everything. A friend enticed him out here, and he established himself in Salida. But in 1934 the old Minneapolis business flared up again, and Mr. Foshay wound up in the penitentiary. He doesn’t mind talking about it, but it's all high finance and too complicated for me to understand. At any rate President Roosevelt commuted the sentence after Mr. Foshay had served three years in Leavenworth. When he got out, Mr. Foshay came back here and set out to put Salida on the map. He is highly thought of, and the city fairly pulsates with his friends. He works like a fiend and gets very little pay and is very happy.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

THE REPUBLICANS are pretty well convinced now that Governor Schricker is too lucky to beat.

Up at Lake Freeman, during the Indiana Legislators’ Club picnic, some of the boys were having a scrub softball game. The Governor, who admits to being a sterling ball player in his younger days, stepped up to the plate. He swung—and missed— twice, and each time his Republican friends jeered. Unperturbed, the Governor, emulating Babe Ruth. pointed his bat out in left field, then proceeded to hit the ball a terrific wallop in that direction. . He raced for first as the Republican fielders dashed after the ball. As the Governor reached first, his supporters sent him on to second, then third, and finally he panted his way to home plate. The felders still were out in left field, huddled around a tree like hound dogs treeing a ‘coon. You see, the Governor, with typical Schricker luck, had hit the ball into the crotch of a tree, and it stayed there. Rep. Charles A. Phelps (R. Ft. Wayne) turned to one of his fellow G. O. Ps. and remarked: “That's just what he did to us with that Supreme Court decision.”

Happy Army Days

PITY POOR JUDGE WILFRED BRADSHAW. While the other county judges are enjoying vacations, some as long as two months, he’s still at work in his basement offices. And, because of the extra work piled on Juvenile Court bv the recent legislative session, it looks like he won't get even as much as a week's vacation. he savs. But look at all the sunburn and chiggers youll miss, Judge. . . . Vincent Youkey,

Washington

WASHINGTON, July 29.—Recently the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, James L. Fly, cailed newspaper and radio men tc his office and asked them to cease mention of the Stalin Line in connection with the Russo-German fighting. He said the newspapers and radio Es coca built up a legend about a strong Stalin Line, such as was built up about the Maginot Line, then when the Germans broke through the effect upon the American public would be all the more depressing. Nobody paid much attention to this, partly because the idea seemed silly and partly because it wasn’t Mr. Fly's business to tell newspaper men and radio men how to write their copy. A general titter went around among Government officials at the incident and it contributed to the growing impression that Mr. Fly, although a bright young protege of Tommy Corcoran, is inclined to be erratic in his judgment. Division exists within the Government as to whether more aggressive propaganda activities should be undertaken through the press and radio. Thus far those opposing it have had the upper hand.

Mellett Leading ight

Lowell Mellett, one of the Presidential advisers, and a former Scripps-Howard editor, has led the fight against any attempt to impose a formal propaganda domination over the press and radio. His position has been that the press on the whole has given intelligent and co-operative support to the Administration foreign policy and that the Administration is receiving as much help from the press now as it should expect without exercising arbitrary control. The co-operation is voluntary. It grows out of the

My Day

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Monday —VYesterday was a lovely day. After church the President stayed for a vestry meeting so Maj. Hooker and I went on home and very soon our three luncheon guests arrived, Mrs. 3. R. Roosevelt, Mrs. Price Collier, my husband's aunt, and Bernard M. Baruch. A small arty, but a pleasant one and I was particularly glad to see them all. My husband's aunt is planning to go to Campobello shortly after I get back. Mrs. James Forrestal, whose husband, Undersecretary of the Navy, is now in Honolulu, brought her two boys with three young English boys, who are spending the summer with her, over for a swim in the afternoon. Ea 4 The President spent an hour ’ picking out the trees which he is going to give from his woods for the landscaping for the new school grounds, and then picked us up at. the cottage and we went up to Mrs. Tracy Dows’ home. There, in her living room, her son, Olin Dows, showed

of hisresearch and they are deligh murals. I hope that a great

Crown Point mayor and secretary of the Indiana Municipal League, has turned down an offer of membership on the State Industrial Board. we hear. He's a Republican. . . . Bill Myers, who left The Times’ photographic department to snap ‘em for Uncle Sam, writes us from Key Field, Meridian, Miss, that he and Sergt. Homer Conner tuned in on Indianapolis’ newest radio station, WISH, one night last week while the station was testing. The music, the first Bill had heard from home since arriving at camp, came in fine, he said. It just happens that the testing all was done between 2 a. m. and 6 a. m., and we can’t figure what Bill and the sergeant were doing up at that time of night. Oh, well, the Army's different from what it used to be, We guess.

Nish and His Numbers

SEEN AND HEARD ABOUT TOWN: There used to be one of those 30-mile-an-hour speed limit signs out on Central Ave. at 46th St. The sign’s still there, but some wag has altered it from 30 to 90 mph. . . . Mrs. Frank Wallace is up at Mayos in Rochester, Minn, recovering from a delicate eye operation. It's reported the operation was quite successful. Her son, John, is with her. . . . George A. Saas, the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility's public relations chief, is on a two-week vacation tour of the east. . .. Nish Dienhart, the genial maestro of Municipa! Airport, has been having telephone trouble again. Nish has had an unlisted phone number—Be-4140—but he gave the number to so many people and was getting so many calls, day and night, that he’s had to trade it in for a new one. . . . The aluminum drive, it seems, is going to the dogs. State Auditor Richard T. James, in order to help out, has asked county officials to contribute all leftover 1941 dog license tags to the aluminum drive. Next year’s tags, needless to say, will be of some other metal. The dogs won't mind the extra weight.

By Raymond Clapper

fact that practically all newspaper men and radio commentators have a desire as citizens to protect the interests of the country. On the whole they have exercised care to avoid damage to the interests of the nation. Mr. Mellett regards the present status of the press as appropriate under a democratic form of Government. I think any newspaper man would agree that the public has more confidence in that kind of press than it would have in a press which it knew was reporting and commenting under orders rather than in exercise of its own free judgment.

The FCC Inquiry

In the midst of this situation, the Federal Communications Commission has begun an investigation of press and radio. The announced purpose is to consider whether newspapers should be forbidden to own radio stations. Newspapers and radio broadcasters are exceed - ingly nervous over what may grow out of this investigation, considering the general situation in Washington, the agitation among some for more Government propaganda intervention, and the unpredictable whims of Chairman Fly, who is directing the present investigation. . . Questions of deep importance to a democratic nation are involved. As radio channels are limited, there is a mechanical necessity for Government control over the traffic. No such mechanical reason is applicable to newspapers.

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ment control is necessary over the activities of the nation. This but increases the need of preserving newspapers and radio as a safety valve, as an uncontrolled and free source of information for the growth of intelligent public opinion. It will be in the interest of the public to see that nothing grows out of Chairman Fly's investigation that would destroy this strategic fortress of democracy—the fortress of free discussion.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Road. They tell us that a good many pecple stop at the Rhinebeck, N. Y. postoffice to see the murals which Mr. Dows dig there. Every time I hear that people really get pleasure out of these paintings, which have an historical interest as well as an artistic one, I rejoice, for I feel that we are adding permanently to the cultural heritage of our country. At 7:30 this morning we were eating our breakfast on the porch and by 8 o'clock we were on the road. We stopped to see our friends, Miss Esther Lape and Miss Elizabeth Read, and had an early lunch with them. Then we were off again and I think we are making such good time we will be at our destination fairly early tomorrow. My husband was very happy on Sunday morning to get a telephone call from a friend who is staying with his mother and who told him that she is feeling much better ang everything is going smoothly. I was interested a few days ago to get a notice from the Bureau of Ordnance in the Navy Department. They are planning to give contractors who do a particularly good job on Navy orders, an insignia for both their plants and their workers. Plants which are up to, or ahead of, schedule wil] be permitted to fly the flag of the ordnance bureau, the “crossed dahigren guns and anchor.” In addition, a special emblem will be worn by workers in the plants, bearing the name of the company as well as the insignia. A list wil] be published shortly of the first companies to

COUNTY AUTO TAG POST GOES T0 BRADFORD

Direct Lucrative Business Here.

The lucrative business of selling automobile and drivers licenses in Marion County was placed in the hands of James Bradford, Republican county chairman, today by Secretary of tSate‘James Tucker. The Republican county chairman

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auto license offices shall be established and who shall operate them. Mr. Bradford said for the present

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Jones & Maley, Inc, would continue to operate as full-time license branches. American Legion would be given two branches, just as they have had under the Democrats.

Set Up 20 Branches

He estimated that he would set up at least 20 branches for the county, most of which will not go into operation until the 1942 licenses go on sale late this winter. The Democrats operated 27 branches in the county. The county license issuing business is estimated to be worth $16.000 and $18,000 annually. Branch managers are allowed to charge a 25-cent notary fee on license plates and to retain 10 cents of the 50 cents charged for drivers’ licenses. Out of this income, they must pay office rent and clerical help. The appointment of Mr. Bradford as license manager for the county was viewed as a move to bolster the county Republican organization and give it a “hard-hitting” campaign

organization. Other Branch Officers

Mr. Tucker yesterday announced the appointment of 53 other license branch officers. All were made with the approval of Ralph Gates, new G. O. P. state chairman. The slate of appointments follows: BENTON COUNTY — Fowler, Esther Guthridge; Otterbein, Frances M. Christopher; Boswell, E. E. Jones. BOONE COUNTY—ILebanon, Ollie Berry, county chairman. CARROLL COUNTY — Delphi, Mabel S. Fraser, county vice chairman. CASS COUNTY—Logansport, Arthur Marsh. CLINTON COUNTY Frankfort, Mrs. Clara Coyner, Fifth District vice chairman. CRAWFORD COUNTY —English, Mrs. Curtis Turley, county vice chairman. ELKHART COUNTY — Elkhart, Mrs. Margaret M. Day, county vice chairman; Goshen, G. Hall Manahan. FAYETTE COUNTY—Connersville, Roy Nelson. FULTON COUNTY — Rochester, Hugh Holman, county chairman. GRANT COUNTY—Marion, Dr. C. E. Botkin, county chairman. HANCOCK COUNTY — Fortville, Katherine Barrett. HENDRICKS COUNTY—Danville, Charles V. Sears, county chairman; Plainfield, Mrs. Wilma N. Harrison. JACKSON COUNTY — Brownstown, Roxie Stillwell, county chairman; Crothersville, Frank Butler; Seymour, Bruce Combs. JASPER COUNTY — Rensselaer, Cora B. Gaines. JAY COUNTY — Portland, True Buckmaster; Dunkirk, Martin Moore. JEFFERSON COUNTY-—Madison, Miss Dorothy Cox, county vice chairman. JENNINGS COUNTY — North Vernon, Mrs. Mae Wetzel, KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — Warsaw, Vere Kelley, county chairman. MADISON COUNTY-—Anderson, Everett Reeves. MARSHALL, COUNTY — Plymouth, Stewart Robinson. MIAMI COUNTY—Peru, Elbert Robbins, county chairman; Converse, Lillian Bly. NEWTON COUNTY—Kentland, Joseph Fletcher; Morocco, L. B. Ringer. PERRY COUNTY—Tell City, John D. Kreisle. PORTER COUNTY—Valparaiso, E. Arthur LaCount. PULASKI COUNTY—Winamac, Theresa Bachtenkircher, county vice chairman.

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PUTNAM COUNTY —Greencastle, Mrs. Clara S. Johes, county vice chairman. : RUSH COUNTY—Carthage, Robert S. Moore. SCOTT COUNTY — Scottsburg, Lloyd D. Jones. STARKE COUNTY — Knox, C. Keith Heilman, county chairman; North Judson, Alvin L. Kubik. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY—South Bend, William McHenry; Mishawaka, Howard Thornton. TIPPECANOE COUNTY —lLafayette, Byron C. Young, county chairman. UNION COUNTY--Liberty, Richard E. Ross. WABASH COUNTY —Wabash, Mrs. Eunice Stoops; North Manchester, lena McClure. WHITE COUNTY—Monticello, C. Wilbur Harmon, county chairman. - LA PORTE COUNTY—La Porte, Lefler R. Anderson, county chairman; Michigan City, Russell Heilman. FOUNTAIN COUNTY-—Veeders-burg, Lloyd E. Elliss, county chairman; Covington, Frost R. Harden. PARKE COUNTY-—Rockville, Virgil - Vaught. VERMILLION COUNTY —Clinton, John H. Gilmour. DECATUR COUNTY — Greensburg, Morton E. Richey.

‘PET’ IS COPPERHEAD

SUFFERN, N. Y,, July 29 (U. P.). —Tommy Mandell, 10, bragged to his young companions at a picnic of having a pet snake which he carried in his pocket. Later, he complained that the snake had Ditken him. Authorities Siseayeren at Tommy's pet was a copper \ Tommy is in Good Samaritan Hos-

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Greece in Irons

Uncensored

Italians Treat Greeks Better Than Nazis Because They Fear Final German Defeat

This is the fifth of a series of uncensored articles, on Greece under chains.

By GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

ATHENS.—The

Gen. George Tsolakoglou,

German-selected Government of

having weathered several

storms in the Nazi period of occupation, is now steering

to Italian winds, which are slightly more propitious. The Greeks seem to get along well enough with the Italians as long as Mussolini does not make victory speeches, for they feel that

Greece defeated Italy and anything is better than having the Germans remain in force. The Germans have retained about 15,000 men in Greece beside an ltalian force that is probably twice th a t number. But while the Greeks deeply and bitterly hate the Germans, they are i 3 able to laugh ’ at the Italians, Mr. Weller and sometimes the Italians are good enough sports to join in the laugh. “After all, we are just a lot of Mediterraneans trying to get along in a hard world,” the Italians frequently say. When giving out milk for Greek babies they are careful not to play the conquerors, as the Germans have done, but the benefactors. Some of the soldiers say, “after Germany gets beaten, don't forget we took care of you.”

But the Premier-General does not like the Italians and they do not like him. Tsolakoglou made his armistice on the. Albanian front with the Germans, after the Italians had sacrificed thousands of men before Greek artillery in a last effort to gain at least a few feet of soil before Greece fell.

But the General has always claimed—though not for publication—that he and the Greek Army were double-crossed, and that the TItalians violated the terms of the armistice engineered by the Germans.

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Fire on Defenseless Greeks

ACCORDING TO Tsolakoglou's story, the Greeks surrendered their arms to the German Peace Commission that occupied the No Man's Land between the two forces during the negotiations.

But the Germans, to save the face of the Italians, did not collect their arms, and as soon as the Greeks were defenseless, the Italians — apparently on orders from Mussolini—demanded sterner terms, involving cession of Greek territory. When the Greeks protested, the Italians opened fire, and as the writer ascertained from a Greek artillery officer who saw the Italians execute an entire Greek gun crew after the armistice, also killed a German officer crossing the neutral area. The Italian regime in Greece therefore may see the continued rise into power of a governmental figure less antipathetic to the Italians because less openly contemptous of them: Dr. Constantine Liogothetopoulos. Dr. Lo-

gothetopoulos, although nominally only Minister of Social Hygiene, is actually the Laval in this still unbroken Petain-Laval relationship. A gynecologist, he is a tall, hollow-eyed man, accomplished as a horseman. His clinic sheltered Samuel Insull during his Greek confinement.

Before the invasion, Prince von und zu Erbach-Schoenberg, the German Minister, had been grooming Dr. Legothetopoulos for the role of Quisling because of his high professional standing, his friendship for Germany and hatred of Metaxas. This feeling was based upon the fact that Metaxas, while Dr. Logothetopoulos was president-elect of the University of Athens, forced his own two sons-in-law, Dr. Eugene Foukas and Dr. George Manazougas, into professional chairs by government decree over the vehement protests of Dr. Logothetopoulos. ”n

Arranged Before Blitzkrieg

BEFORE THE BLITZKRIEG was launched, the German Min=ister had already arranged with Berlin, presumably with Adolf Hitler himself, that the future Greek Puppet Government ghould be headed by either Dr. Logothetopoulos or some other eminent and responsible Greek, and that the new regime should quietly snub the minute Greek totalitarian parties already in existence.

This small group of hotheads, the ESK, or Ethnikon Sozialistikon Kommatos (literally National Socialist Party), has been banned along with the liberal and parliamentary parties under the Royal-ist-Metaxas distatorship.

When the Nazis speeded their bus past the Greek totalitarians without stopping, the latter turned bitterly aganist the Hitler Puppet Government. With an eye to the coming Italian occupation they announced that “in spite of our party name, we consider our political principles are more Fascist than National Socialist.” The leaders in question, who are rich in ideology though poor in followers, are Alekos Yannaros, who bears the title of Gauleiter and is an ex-editor of the sensational newspaper Apoghevamatini; Capt. Spyros Botsaris, an embittered ex-Army officer and black sheep member of a famous Greek revolutionary family, and John Polychronopoulos, a portly ex-chief of police who was indicted but never tried for planning the attempted assassination of Venizelos and his wife in 1934.

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ernment. Gen. Tsolakoglou has already tried to get them to join the cabinet. But they are said to have refused. In them there is the making of a Darlan-type government. The Italians, including Charge d’'Affaires Chigi, have kept scrupulously clear of the ESK, considering them still more pro-Hitler than pro-Mussolini, and more opportunist than anything else. The lot of the Tsolakoglou-Logo-thetopoulos Government is hard, because the Germans have surrendered only administrative control of Greece to the Italians, and have kept all key economic positions. The Italians cannot export food, for example, without German consent. The Germans retain control of the chief frontier exits, and Gen. Tsolakoglou complained recently to a friend: “I'm Premier, but I can't go around even my own country without a German permit.”

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Police Force Fades Away

Most serious for the Puppet Government is not the fact that it is tossed back and forth at will between the two Axis partners—with everything of the slightest importance having to be referred both to Rome and Berlin—but that the chief body maintaining order in Greece, the Chorophylaki or Federal Constabulary, are dwindling away. Not through Axis machinations, but their own accord. These conscientious and energetic guardians of the law are slipping out of their greenishgray uniforms and hunting for private jobs, a hunt complicated by the fact that there are nearly 500,000 soldiers doing the same thing. The Chorophylaki get 70 drachmas a day, about 10 cents at today’s purchasing power, and the Premier is trying vainly to find 3000 of them. No more resignations will be accepted and no ex-officers accepted in civil positions, he has announced, until the Constabulary can be built up to its full force of 25,000 men again.

Newcomer—Henry J. Kaiser—Gets Lion's Share of Emergency Shipbuilding Contracts

(This is the sixth and last of a series on the emergency shipbuilding program.)

By THOMAS IL. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 29. — Of dominant interest in the giant shipbuilding program is an intriguing newcomer, big, bluff Henry J. Kaiser, a West Coast contractor who has tied in with the Todd Shipbuilding Co. in a combination that is getting the lion's share of the emergency ship contracts. Mr. Kaiser, who at 60 is still bubbling and ebullient, was the spark plug in the group of six Western construction companies that built Boulder Dam along the Colorado, Bonneville Dam in Oregon, and now are completing Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. He has done very, very well with Government business. Some in Washington give part of the credit for his recent success with defense projects to Thomas G. Corcoran. The legendary Tommy, one-time key figure in innermost New Deal councils, now numbers Mr. Kaiser among clients in the flourishing

lobbying business he had set up here since leaving the Government. Shipbuilding is the largest, perhaps, of Mr. Kaiser's defense ventures. But he also got a $9,000.000 RFC loan to build a magnesium plant; the contracting enterprises

with which he is affiliated are doing the dredging for new locks at the Panama Canal, as well as smaller jobs on the Pacific Coast; and he has been angling for Government loans to establish a West Coast steel industry. The Todd-Kaiser shipbuilding combination is one of those ventures peculiar to American initiative. For shipbuilding “brains” they brought in William S. Newell— “Pete” Newell—who has been in the business most of his life, starting up in Bath, Me., going for a time with the New York Shipbuilding Co. and then returning to Bath, where for many years he turned out yachts, fishing vessels and the like. John D. Reilly, president of the Todd Shipbuilding Co.—founded by blunt William H. Todd, Al Smith’s

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close friend—is the third of a colorful and dynamic triumvirate.

They got little encouragement when Mr. Reilly and Mr. Kaiser went to the U. S. Maritime Commission in 1939 with big proposals to build ships in batches. The Commission’s policy was to spread out the work. they were told. But they went to the British and got a contract for 60 emergencytype vessels. Later, when the Commission adopted this type—the EC-2 or “ugly duckling,” a slow ll-knot cargo vessel—for its own emergency program, they moved in with a bang. They now have contracts for 216 cargo vessels, of which 175 are EC-2’s, the rest faster C-type vessels, as well as the 60 British ships, and a passel of 25 destroyers for the Navy.

Build Six New Shipyards

They have built six new shipyards—South Portland, Me.; Houston, Tex.; Los Angeles; Richmond, Cal., near San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash. With contracts for 216 ships out of the total of 705 in the emergency program, Todd has the argest share of any one outfit. Of the total cost of $1,294,361,488 of the emergency shipbuilding program, Todd has contracts for $412 - 525,000, or more than a quarter. In addition, it has contracts for the 25 destroyers costing $157,000,000 and the 60 British emergency-type vessels, costing $112,812,000, or a grand total of $688,336,000. The next largest share goes to the Sun Shipbuilding Co., operated by the Pew Brothers of Philadelphia, Republican Party big-wigs and angels. Sun has contracts for 112 vessels, of which 80 are tankers and the rest C-type cargo ships in the long-range program, to,cost approximately $345,000,000.

Billion for Bethlehem

Third are the Bethlehem Steel Co.’s shipbuilding affiliates, which have contracts totaling $163,016,000, including 62 ships of the emergency EC-2 type and 40 of other types. Bethlehem has contracts for around

a billion dollars in Navy warship.

construction. The Federal Shipbuilding Co, a subsidiary of United States Steel, has contracts for 61 ships, all regulation cargo vessels of the C type except three tankers, at a total cost of $135,324,961. The Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock and its affiliate, the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co. at Wilmington, have contracts for 52 vessels, including 37 of the EC-2

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CRITICAL NEED FOR HOUSING IN STATE IS CITED

U. S. Names 11 Defense Areas; Year Gone and Homes Still Not Ready. |

By RICHARD S. CLARK United Press Staff Correspondent

As Indiana completed its first year in America’s all-out defense proe gram, 11 Hoosier production areas had been cited by Federal authori= ties as critically needing new house

ing. Under the Government’s policy of building homes only in those places where private business cannot supply the existing or anticipated needs, more than 3000 units were approved for construction with Government funds. However, a year after the starting gun sounded in the nation’s produc= tion race against the Axis powers, the first Hoosier had yet to move into a home built under authority of the Defense Housing Co-or= dinator. Here is the Goverment housing situation in Indiana's critical areas:

16,500 Workers—250 Homes At Charlestown, where Uncle Sam has established the world's largest smokeless powder plant, approximately 10,000 permanent workers will be needed when the plant is complete, and at the bag-loading plant adjoining another 6500 men and women will be hired. The Government program calls for 75 units to be built at Charles

town, another 75 at Jeffersonville, and 100 at New Albany. All were approved Jan. 30 with rents ranging from $21 to $28 monthly. At Madison, where the Army has established a proving ground, Civil Service Employment will call for 800 to 1200 workers. On June 23, 100 homes were approved by the Housing Co-ordinator, at rentals from $20 to $35. For industrial workers at Connersville, 300 houses will be erected, renting from $20 to $35. The Kingsbury Ordnance Plant near LaPorte is expected to employ 11,500, and if a third shift is added, more workers will be needed. Best available estimates indicate that up to 3500 other workers will be required by expanding industries in the area. The Government has approved construction of quarters for 1700 employees.

75 Units at Ft. Wayne

At Ft. Wayne, new employment between February 1941 and '42 has been estimated at 3000, in addition to personnel at the new army air field. So- far, only 75 units have been scheduled for government construction. The Defense Housing Co-ordina= tor has not yet found it necessary to approve construction of Govern ment homes in Anderson, Evanse ville, Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis or Lafayette, although the dwelling situations are considered acute. However, the United States Hous= ing Authority has recently come pleted or has plans or construction under way on housing programs in seven Indiana cities. These include 390 units at Muncie, 216 at Ft. Wayne, 787 at Gary, 400 at Hammond, 176 at Kokomo, 120 at New Albany, and 150 in Vigo County near Terre Haute. Private industry has been keeping pace with the Federal program: Fred T. Greene, president of the Sixth District of the Federal Home Loan Bank, estimated that private builders have erected more than

8700 homes in the 12 critical hous= ing areas during the past 12 months,

DIM-OUTS’ PROPOSED FOR AMERICAN CITIES

BLOOMFIELD, N. J, July 29 (U, P.).—S. G. Hibben, lighting engineer, proposed today that exposed American cities employ “dim-ouis” in the event of war rather than the dangerous blackouts imposed on European cities. > Asserting that “total darkness during air attacks often can cause more civilian casualties than falling bombs,” Mr. Hibben said street lights, by means of voltage regulate ing devices in power stations, could be reduced to “the reddish glow of a harvest moon,” providing sufficient illumination for civilian needs bu screening the city from the air.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the new name of the submarine Squalus? : 2—Fill in the missing word from the following proverb: “Time and - - - - wait for no man.” 3—"“Rocky Mountain canaries” is a slang term for birds, donkeys, or fish? 4—Who wrote land”? 5—Name the leading port of Portue gal. 6—The Chinese, Egyptians or Rome ans are credited with the ine vention of paper? T—The fortifications between Fine land and Russia were named for which generalissimo? 8—The Long Parliament was cone vened by Charles I, Cromwell, op Charles II?

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“Alice in Wondere

1—Sailfish. 2—Tide. 3—Donkeys. 4—Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodge son). 5—Lisbon. 6—Chinese. . T—Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim,

8—Charles I. : 2 = =

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