Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1941 — Page 13
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 194]
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, Aug. 12.—Council Bluffs is just across the river from Omaha. You might say it is almost a part of Omaha. Or you might reverse
it and say that Omaha is almost a part of Council Bluffs. That would please the Council Bluffs people more, and Omaha wouldn't care anyhow, since she just locks down upon Council Biuffs as a lion looks at a mouse. Council Bluffs is about 40,000 people, and some 3000 of them travel to Omaha every day to work. They cross the Missouri River by a 15-cent toll bridge. People do a lot of things in Council Bluffs they arent supposed to. Some people say it shows theyre broad-minded for not obeying their own laws. Other people say it shows* they're hypoeritical for having laws they don't want in the first place. So take your choice. For instance, the sale of liquor across the bar is forbidden in Towa. Yet Council Bluffs has beautiful cocktail lounges where you can get anything from a “zombie” on down, and nearly all the 70 or 80 beer places sell liquor, too. Also, gambling is illegal in Iowa. Yet the oniy dog track that I know of in the entire Midwest is at Council Bluffs. But people don't actually “bei” on the dogs. That would be gambling. Here is how it’s done:
Want to Buy a Dog?
on a dog. You buy a first, corresponding to win, place
You buy an “option” second or third option, or show tickets. Each “option” costs $2. It says right on vour ticket that this “certificate” entitles you to claim the dog bv paving the balance of the dogs posted sale price—which in the race I watched was $800. If your dog wins, the track simply buvs back vour option for $8 or whatever the dog pays in that race. IT it loses, you just let your option lapse. ha ha. Nobodv has ever vet been known to exercise his option, buy a dog, and take it home with him. When I told some friends I wanted to write a column on Council Bluffs and to tell me all about it. they said, “Well, Council Bluffs hasn't got anything except history, but we've got an awful lot of that.” All right, here's the history: 1. Council Bluffs was here before Omaha was. It is especially noted as the resting and dividing place of the Mormons on their way to Salt Lake City.
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)
SOME OF THE Gas Company emplovees have odd jobs. we learn by reading the Gas Flame. For instance. there's Harry Schein, the carpenter at the Prospect St. plant. Harry makes about 150 pairs of wooden shoes a year so the men working on top of the big coke ovens won't get the “hot foot.” Bill Barlow, also at Prospect, mixes mud. It has to be just the right consistency, not for mud pies but for sealing coke oven doors.
Bill Snyder's job is to walk the streets and sniff. He follows the gas mains, occasionally jabbing a stick into the ground and then sniffing it. He can tell if theres any gas escaping in the vicinity. Mr. Snyder estimates he’s walked about 50,000 miles in the last 16 years. The Gas Flame also advises us that those new coke ovens theyre installing at the Prospect St. plant are coming along nicely and should be in service by Oct. 15. They'll increase both the gas and coke capacity a third.
Bunting Out
WHEN BUNTING on the ceiling of the dance floor at the Orange Grove, 4517 N. Keystone Ave, caught fire from defective wiring Saturday afternoon, employees of the place sent for the fire department, of course, But they didn't just sit by and wait for firemen to arrive. One of the employees, seeing the CocaCola dispensing machine, had a brilliant idea. Breaking open the machine he grabbed several bottles and opened them, Taking them one at a time, he covered the opening with his thumb, gave the bottle a vigorous shaking, and then let go. The resulting volcano of fizz water put out the flames.
Snub to Italy
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BERN, Aug. 12—One of the interesting sidelights to the crisis in Vichy is the part which Italy, ostensible co-conqueror of the French Republic, is playing, or rather is not playing, in its development. A revealing dispatch from the Berlin correspondent of the Journal of Geneva more than plainly hints at the displeasure with which Italian demands on France are being received in the Wilhelmstrasse. Such claims, it says, are considered in well-informed circles in Berlin as “premature,” particularly in the light of Italian difficulties in Croatia and Greece. The comment in the Reich was provoked by an article in every one of the Fascist organs in Italy. The article suggested that the "new Europe” might be organized without France should the French continue to be difficult. The answer in Berlin. according to the Journal of Geneva, was a thinly veiled warning to Rome to keep its hands off the situation at least until it had cleaned up its own problems in. the Balkans, where reports tell of daily increasing disturbances.
The Pique Is Growing
“Since the establishment of the policy of Montoire (collaboration) all initiative toward France is in the hands of Germany.” the Journal said, “Where Italian claims, especially as a result of the campaigns in Jugoslavia and Greece, have become unpopular.” The “limits of Italian influence” especially in former Jugoslavia, are not yet clearly fixed. the newspaper added. German pique about the Italians is a logical development from the feeling that was aroused in
Convright, Timer: and ne,
Raymond Clapper is en route to London. His column will resume in about two weeks.
My Day
HYDE PARK, Tuesday.—A number of guests a + coming to lunch with us today. The day bags early, for we motored over to the New Hackensack flying field to see two guests off by air for New York City. The hours seem a little quiet as we settle down to do some of the work which is always on our desks.
People seem to be sending me all kinds of information these days. The various fields covered give one a faint inkling of what it means to belong to a nation of 150,000,000 people, all of whom are as full of personal interests and individuality as possible, I must have said something in my column the other day that implied that Tacoma, Wash, was not doing enough for the entertainment of the soldiers in the nearby area. A few days ago I received a wire from Mr. Bennie Crann, of the Tacoma Philharmonic Orchestra. telling me that my readers will undoubtedly be glad to know that all soldiers in uniform from Ft. Lewis and Ft. McChord Field will be admitted free this month to three concerts in which Helen Jepson, Marie
By Ernie Pyle
They came in here in 1843, almost 20,000 strcng. Only a few of their descendants are left. 2. Abraham Lincoln visited here once. He stood on the bluffs, looked out over the Missouri Valley, and decreed that the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad should be in Council Bluffs and not in Omaha. Today there is a monument commemorating this historic gaze. But the balustrade is always being knocked down by autos, and half the posts are missing. Now and then the monument itself gets knocked over. And there are no bulbs or shades on the encircling lampposts, because kids keep shooting them out with slingshots. 3. The Lewis & Clark Expedition passed through here, and held councils with the Indians on the river bluffs. That's where the city got its hame. Nobody ever did much about this until WPA came along, and then they put up a memorial that looks something like a miniature parthenon, made of concrete, and already it has hundreds of cracks in it. 4. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, the engineer who built the Union Pacific, lived here. In one of the city cemeteries is a statue to Mrs. Dodge, done by the great scuiptor Daniel Chester French. It is an angel, with long wings. Ccuncil Bluffs people always take! their out-of-town guests to look at it.
They Like Soldiering
Right in the center of Council Bluffs is a tree-| shaded, block-square park. which currently holds a| large wine bin of old aluminum pots and pans. This vark has a custom which I think is nice. although theres a fight every spring to get it revived. That custom is to have tables scattered through the park, and all summer old bovs who are retired and. have nothing else to do sit there and play cards. Council Bluffs has an unusual military spirit.
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When there's a call to the colors, volunteers always exceed thie quota. Around 800 local men are in the! forres toda. In the World War not a single man had to be drafted ont of here, and right now so many volun-! teers are In the service that nobody has yet been drafted from here, and nobody will be before December even if there are no more enlistments. I asked if this military spirit was actually one of belligerence. The answer was no. Council Bluffs
Is against our actually going to war. It's simply that!
Council Bluffs has always liked soldiering ever since Civil War days. . In addition to evervihing else, Council Bluffs has The Nonvareil. It is the only daily paper in America by that name. It is a paper that is virtuous, true. brave and noble—it carries my column! |
Firemen arrived in time to help tear down the
charred and smouldering bunting, and the employees started sweeping out. And they had their dance that night, just the same.
A Blankety Blank Bank
ONE OF THOSE toy banks that looks like a world globe has been installed in the County Prosecutor's office as a means of raising funds for a party.
The party is to be in honor of two of the office's attaches—Ed Haerle, deputy prosecutor, and Jack Brown—who may be in khaki soon. Every time one of the deputies or investigators lets out a cuss word, he has to drop a dime in the bank. Sometimes they catch themselves just as they swear, and then cuss again because they were so careless. That's an extra dime. They say the bank's filling up fast.
T'hoge Beavers Again
WE HEAR that the State Conservation Depart-
ment has Beavers on its payroll. The full name is Addison Beavers, and he's the department's legal representative, not one of its exhibits. . . . A middleaged woman on an Illinois streetcar got a lot of attention the other day with a German language newspaper. Everybody that glanced down at her lap and saw the paper looked startled, and a few “looked tough” at her. She glared right back. . . . Sign on a tree several miles out on Road 52: Cottages for Rent—Bomb Proof. . . . Annie T. Mock has resumed her duties as Social Service Exchange Director after a long leave of absence due to illness. , . . If you wang any of those half-price (25-cent) State Fair tickets, you'd better hurry. They are going fast. The Fair Board printed an extra 25,000 this year, making 225000 in all, and the entire supply was taken up by retail stores a week earlier than usual.
By David M. Nichol
Berlin when the Italians entered the war against France literally only a few hours before the armistice —a feeling which increased when it became necessary for the Germans to go to the aid of their Junior partner to the south during the British campaign in Africa and which apparently has not diminished since. Faced now with an enemy in the East who is fighting stubbornly and with apparent success against the previously invincible Blitzkrieg, the Germans obviously are seeking additional allies. It explains some of the urgency of their negotiations with Vichy and some of their annoyance at anvthing which might upset the delicate and brittle formula on which they are proceeding. How much assistance France could provide its European masters in their death struggle with Russia is an open question. Small groups of “volunteers” already are reported to be fighting with the German forces although there are indications that with each day that Soviet resistance continues French public obinion veers further from the policy of Pierre Laval, Fernand de Brinon and Admiral Jean Darian.
What Does Weygand Think?
Paris dispatches to the German and Swiss press glike quote the Nari-contiolled newspapers here as charging that French feeling swings like a weathercock with each change in the German prospects and that a Vichy governmental shakeup is necessary, as a result, to install a group which understands the importance of co-operating with the Nazi “new order.” Military and naval concessions in North Africa would be an obvious advantage both for protection of the Reich's southern flank and for the aid of its Italian partner. Gen. Maxime Weygand's reaction to these proposals. as a result. is being watched most closely in both Vichy and Berlin. Industrially, France can do little more than it has already done. Those of its factories which are workIng are occupied with German orders and the problem of materials grows daily more serious,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
Louise Quevli and Mona Paulee are being presented with the orchestra at the Tacoma Stadium.
I am sure my readers are glad, just as I am, every time they hear of something which is being done in any community by any individual or by an organication to give our boys, wherever they may be, leisure and entertainment in their hours of freedom, However, I did not mean to imply that all communities had not been doing whatever they could do. I simply hope that all of us will grasp every oppor- + tunity to be of service to both the families and the men in our armeq forces. I want to congratulate the Jewish Braille Review, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. This magazine was founded primarily to meet the cultural and spiritual needs of the Jewish blind but it has from the first been sent free to many non-Jewish readers as well. Today there are as many Christians of various denominations as there are people of the Jewish faith enjoying this unique magazine, which serves the needs of the blind. Helen Keller has always been one of those to whom this magazine has meant something of real value. I think all of us who realize the limitations of the bling
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PERU-ECUADOR FIGHT RENEWED
‘Revenge’ Attacks Along Border Reported by Lima Message.
. LIMA, Peru, Aug. 12 (U. P).—A government communique said today that fighting had broken out again)
along the Peruvian-Ecuadorian | border,
Ecuadorian troops, “carrying out a plan of revenge recently announced by the leaders and press of that country,” began the attack early Monday against a Peruvian post at Pantoja, on the Napo River near Aguarico, the communique said, Another Peruvian post at Pantoja was attacked, the communique said. Meanwhile, it said, Ecuadorean forces in the region of Zapotillo, on the western frontier, tried to ford the Macara River and were repulsed by Peruvian troops.
Chile Extends Campaign Against Nazi Clubs
SANTIAGO. Chile, Aug. 12 (U. P.) —Police said today that their investigation of Nazi activities begun Saturday night with the arrest of five German residents of Peurto Montt, would be extended to Temuco, Osorno, Valdiva and other cities of South Chile where there are large German-speaking populations. Osvaldo Sagues, director-general of the National Detective Bureau, said the Nazi cliques apparently had connections in all parts of Chile and that they were directed from Berlin through local chiefs. He said a rifle club was one of the fronts used by the Nazis and that the raid at Puerto Montt had produced 12 rifles and 50,000 rounds of ammunition.
PLANT HEAD BURNED AT BRACE CO. BLAZE
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hands yesterday, while fighting a blaze of unknown origin at the plant. He was given first aid by firemen. The fire, according te firemen, was confined to pipe coverings outside the plant. The company is engaged in reclaiming oil. Damage
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Comparison of this United Press war map with the German and Russian communiques on the fighting today shows that the German drives into Russia—while gaining ground in a third great offensive— are still 80 miles from Leningrad, 100 miles from Odessa and 200 miles from Moscow. In the eighth week of the Eastern Front fighting, the battle lines are closest to Kiev, but are no nearer (about 40 miles) than four weeks ago and military experts believe Odessa and Nikolaev
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Draft Board Mail Unusual:
Here Are Just Two Samples
It was to be expected that some strangely enough, isn't complaining
of the mail addressed to State Selective Service headquarters would
be unusual. Two examples are offered by officials. One letter from a city in
northern Indiana is from a 72-year-|p
old grandmother. She writes io say that her grandson has only one more year to go before he gets his college degree, A plea for deferment isn't uncommon, but what makes this letter unusual is that the grandmother offers to serve in her grandson's stead until he can finish school. “I'm not doing anything at home here,” the letter says, “and I could be of help cooking and sewing and washing. Please let me go . . .”
about her husband being kept away from her. It's that he isn't far enough away! Her husband is stationed at Ft.
Knox, which is just across the Ohio |
River, and it seems that he comes ome every week-end. The wife says that he never did work, never supported her, and so she'd just as soon the Army sent him to Alaska or Trinidad—anyplace but Ft. Knox.
DENY REVOLT PLOT MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Twenty-nine persons ac-
cused of developing a pattern for revolution to overthrow the United States government pleaded inno-
Another letter comes from nearicent at their arraignment in Fed-
the Kentucky border. This wife,
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COUNTY FAIR IS ‘LARGEST EVER
Midway Visited Last Night By Several Thousand as Exhibits Open.
The “largest Marion County Fair ever held” was under way at New Bethel today with record-breaking attendance and exhibits. It was opened officially last night and will continue until midnight Saturday. This is the 10th and last year for the Fair to be held at the present site. The Marion County Fair Association has taken an option on a tract of land north of New Bethel. The program last night was opened by the Shelby County 4-H Band. The “Midway” was visited by several thousand persons. Several special programs have been planned for the week, including an Old Fiddlers’ Contest, husband- and hog-calling. Judging of | the livestock and exhibits will be]
later in the week. Robert R. Fisher is president of |
Paul L. Moffett, vice-president; Harry Roberts, secretary, and Mrs. Mary Sutherland, treasurer.
Bathing Suits Suffer in War
ROME, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—The extremist newspaper Regime Fascista today denounced women who wear scanty bathing suits in war time and suggested that it would be better to return to the style of bathing costumes that cover “everything from neck to ankles.” “There still exist some women who seem to forget the serious times Italy is enduring,” the newspaper said. “Although we don't think women should necessarily return to old-fashioned bathing suits which covered our mothers from neck to ankles, even these would be more decent and far more distinctive than the frivolous things women are wearing today.” The newspaper also denounced
split skirts, little “girlish skirts which come above the knees” and striking colors.
DUKE TO VISIT F. D. R. OTTAWA, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—The Duke of Kent will spend Aug. 2326 as guest of President Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y., and Washington, it was revealed today,
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It's Army Life For Another 199
THE RECEPTION center at Ft, Harrison began the process of ine ducting 199 Indiana selectees toe day, as men continued to report in the State's 13th and 14th calls.
Board 15 was the only local board sending in registrants today. The six men from this board were: * William Earl Dale Melton, 1136 St. Paul St.; Ralph Case Brunton, 5019 E. Minnesota St.; Clyde Ken« neth Curts, R. R. 2, Corydon; Ernest Walter Fehrner, 418 E. Troy Ave.; Paul Borders, Trame mel, Ky., and Herschel Paul Dee Witt, R. R. 10, Box 226, Indiane apolis.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—The land at the mouth or the source of a river is called a delta?
2—The name of what Belgian vile
lage is commonly used to signify complete defeat?
|3—Name the most distant island
possession of the United States,
the Association. Other officers are|4—The name for a corded silk fabe
ric, a cushioned foot rest, and the Turkish race is 0---m-n?
9—A heavy object and a light obe
ject dropped simultaneously from a high place will reach the ground at the same time; true or false?
6—The name of which musical ine
strument fits in the following expression, “Fit as a = = = = = = »? is called the “great white plague?”
8—In which opera by Saint-Saens
did a blind man seize two mase sive pillars and cause the roof of a temple to fall upon him and his enemies?
Answers 1—Mouth.
2—Waterloo. 3—Guam. 4—Ottoman. 5—False. 6—Fiddle. - T—Tuberculosis. 8—‘Samson and Delilah.”
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