Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1941 — Page 9

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1941

LONDON (Delayed) —By the time this appears in print I expect to be well on my way ‘home after a most informative visit to war-time England. There is so much to say. First, a visitor is amazed by the amount of activity : and the way life goes on. In America, the tendency is to think that England has been kicked flat by last winter's bombing. deniably, the damage was serious in spots, especially to dwellings. But damage to production was amazingly small. I never fully believed the stories to that effect brought home by Americans last winter and spring. One must see

England to believe it. British pro-

* duction still outruns ours. I have been in several production centers 2 which were scarcely touched by bombing. The British figures of production, of course, are far below our potential capacity. - There is much grumbling that production is not fully effective here, that women are not being fully utilized to replace men, that civilian consumption has not been reduced to the lowest possible minimum, that England is still slack in her war effort. Yet, if America achieved production relatively as high as England’s, if we devoted as large a proportion of our industrial plant to the war effort, the flood of American war materials would be overwhelming. Democracies cannot regiment as tightly as dictatorships, even in war-time. They don’t suppress criticism, as dictatorships do. But the British system, for all its looseness, is carrying an enormous load. Until we do better, it ill behooves us to complain about the flyspecks that can be observed here,

We Don’t Know Our Power

THE SECOND MOST important phasé of British policy centers around relations with the United States. Every single move here, every utterance, every thought about the war is always with the United States in mind. In one sense, we bulk much larger on the British horizon than on Hitler's, Whenever the newspapers spring editorials criticizing the United States for not doing more there is a nervous fluttering throughout the British Government. They don’t want to offend us. They want to avoid anything that would irritate American opinion. They want to co-operate with President Roosevelt in any way that will make it easier for him to increase aid.

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The British recognize the power of the United States more clearly than we do ourselves. They know how strong we are, and we do not, We are grossly under-rating ourselves. .We don’t realize the extent to which we can shape the destiny of the world—shape it more to our ways.

Police the World?

- . THIRD, GROWING OUT of this situation is an opportunity for the United States to play a role in world history such as no nation has ever before played. We threw away a similar opportunity after the last war, and as a result got the kind of world we do not like—one that is now costing us over 50 billion dollars for armaments. : Through America’s enormous strength, in cooperation with British seapower which is still one of the great forces in the world, there exists a potential combination which can dominate the world and so shape it that there will not always be a menace requiring us to go into elaborate war preparations every few years. . Police the world? Well, it would be cheaper and easier to police the world than to have to go through these periodic frantic rearmament programs at fantastic expense and effort. We may wish to have nothing to do with Europe, but Europe affects us in our very vitals and there Is no escaping it. : For a long time I was an isolationist. I wish it were possible for us to be isolated. We 'are so far ahead of every other country in our standard of living, our way of life is so infinitely more desirable, at least to my taste, that I would like nothing better than for us to be able to go our own way, paying no attention to the rest of the world and its endless wars.

Isolation Now Impossible

BUT I CAN'T SEE how it is possible. Experience is a stern master and we are learning the hard way. For 25 years we have been whipped around and up and down by the backwash from other lands. Since we can’t eecape it, we might as well try to do something about it. : The United States with its enormous resources, the British Empire with its seapower, are the makings of a team that can wag the dog instead of being endlessly wagged by it. We have licked one brand of yellow fever. We have the choice between licking another brand or facing the probability of suffering its effects time and again in the future.

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Because of the serious illness of his wife, Ernie Pyle has been forced to discontinue his column for a few days. Mr. Pyle has flown to Albuquerque to be with Mrs. Pyle and hopes to resume his column soon. :

hi Inside Indianapolis = (And “Our Town’)

JUST FOR FUN, make a guess right now as to how many dogs there are in Marion County. Ccme on—make a guess. Five thousand? Ten thousand?

Twenty thousand? If youve just got to know, welll tell you. Just about 35,000, maybe a few more. This canine census all started when one of our local advertising men got a request from a client to know how many dogs, their favorite brand of canned dog food, etc., etc. The advertising man just blinked and went to work with a dazed look. From the various township assessors he learned that there were, roughly 23,000 for whom their owners paid county dog tax. You might think that’ most of these : were in Washington Township (which, to us at any rate, has always seemed to have more than its per capita share of pups), but, no, Center had twice as many, 10,140 to about 5000 in Washington. ; The number of unlicensed pups in the county is estimated variously from 5000 to 25.000. We just set the figure at 12,000 since the dog catchers say they catch about 5000 strays a year and that’s not half of it. Oh, yes, the canned dog food item. It's big business, folks, big business. Why, one brand alone sold 35,000 cases in the county last year—24 cans to the case. And there are 18 or 19 brands on the market. Did we say big business?

We Wuz Robbed

." CONFIDENTIALLY, we hear that the delegation of Vermillion County Republican leaders who came here last week squawking about the Secretary of State’s choice for “Vermillion County auto license

1941's Napoleon

MOSCOW, Sept. 15.—Hitler in the guise of a - gorilla: wearing the shabby, cast-off garments of the Emperor Napoleon and gazing wistfully. in the direction of still distant Moscow. That is the picture appearing on posters now being displayed on the streets of the Russian capital. The posters have meaning. One hundred and twenty-nine years ago yesterday Napoleon's decimated army reached Moscow after an 82-day campaign. Napoleon began his famous advance on June 24 (by the modern calendar) and ended it on Sept. 14. Hitler, who opened his attack on June 22, dlready has been campaigning for 83 days and is still short of his goal. Napoleon, in 1812, used horses. AE) : Hitler, in 1941, used tanks. And they call this a lightning war! There are many striking parallels between the Napoleonic and Nazi campaigns. Hitler, when he found his advance on Moscow blocked, turned his’ fury to the north and south. Leningrad, Kiev and Moscow are three of Hitler's immediate goals. They were Napoleon's, too. -

The Scorched Egqrth Policy

Historians tell us that Napoleon said: “If I take Kiev, I shall have Russia by the legs. If I take Petersburg, I shall have Russia by the head. But if IT take Moscow, I shall have the heart of Russia.” The Soviet Academy of Sciengé has just issued a

WASHINGTON, SUNDAY.—Yesterday was a most beautiful day at Hyde Park. In the morning I went over to see our young grandson, Franklin III, at the big house and invited him to come to the cottage to ‘play with me for a while in the afternoon. Miss . : Thompson and I did some of the aa ‘work which always seem to ac- " cumulate on one’s desk, and a few things my husband asked me to do. Then we saw various people on the place. The most exciting moment of the day was when the telephone rang while we were eating lunch on the porch, and I heard Franklin Jr's voice. He had just landed from his destroyer after five weeks at sea. Much of the time he had been without any letters from home, and he wanted to know

B / where his wife and baby were to be found and what

had happened. I told him Ethel was down on Long d getting some of the details of the house arCh , and I imagine he soon started to join her. “He did take to tell me that he would be in . Washington to see his father and report, on Monday, Ww. ;

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branch manager merely was the vanguard of a “big parade” to come. At the State House they say it’s merely an isolated instance, but from the anti-Tucker forces, we're told there are few counties in the state where there isn’t a lot of dissatisfaction and grumbling. As you may have guessed, the dissatisfied factions are those that missed out in this choice bit of patronage. Ho, Hum,

Crime Won't Pay, Now

NOTHING, APPARENTLY, is too good for our Sheriff's office. Right now, Deputy Sheriff Clarence Sparrow, who doubles in photography, is experimenting with infra-red photography. : Clarence was on hand the other day when the first shipment of the new “blackout” infra-red flashbulbs arrived and he bought the first half dozen. To test them, he towed Tony Maio to the Jail darkroom, doused all the lights and flashed a picture. Tony said all he could see when the bulb flashed was just a faint flicker of light. When the film was developed, there was Tony just as plain as anything.

. You could even read the clippings on the wall. Clar-

ence says he shot the picture at £4.5 and a 50th. One of the uses of infra-red photography in crime detection, Clarence says, is in detecting blood stains in clothing, even after it’s been dry-cleaned. If we were to believe Clarence, it'll do almost everything but write out the ‘confession.

A Duet Becomes a Trio

THE. PHONE RANG and a wrathful voice demanded to know “since when is Dick Evans the only fellow in town who is nuts ahout zoos?” “I'll have you know,” went on the voice, “that I am, without doubt, the most emergetic zoo-fancier in the whole town and, what’s more ...” Well, to make a long story short, we finally were forced into electing George A. Saas of the Gas Utility second vice president of our Zoological Society. That makes three of us.

By A. T. Steele

pamphlet reminding the Russian people of the glories of Russian resistance to aggression in those- distan days and pointing out the similarities with the struggle today. Smolensk then was a town of 15,000; today it is a city of more than 100,000. Moscow had only 300,000 inhabitants; today it boasts 4,000,000. But both were key points then as now and both were laid waste by the Russians along with hundreds of villages between rather than let them fall intact into the hands of the Napoleonic army. That was history’s first large-scale application of the scorched earth policy as a planned instrument of defense.

. Today again the scorched earth program is an

integral feature of the Russian war plan.

One Record for Hitler

When Napoleon entered Smolensk, he found an empty shell containing scarcely 1000 human beings. When he entered Moscow where he had promised his men “honor, rest—everything,” he discovered only a burning hulk abandoned by 99 per cent of its population, _ Napoleons army of 600,000 was small compared with Hitler's millions and only 30,000 escaped Russia alive. The guerrilla armies, which harassed the flanks of Napoleon’s forces all the way from Moscow to the frontier, are a fertile source of inspiration for modern Soviet propagandists, who compare the role of guerrillas, then and now. It seems that even in those days there were women guerrillas. Napoleon left Russia with his remnant force on Dec. 14, 1812. Hitler may- be able at least to claim the distinction of outstaying - his predecessor. an

By Eleanor Roosevelt

noon. When I explained to him, as we were driving back through the woods, that I had talked to his father on the telephone, he looked very much puzzled, and finally insisted that he talk, too. - I had some] difficulty in explaining that I could not produce his father there and then, either in person or on the telephone. : I started back to Washington this morning because I heard that my brother, who is in the hospital here, was in a more serious condition, and ‘so I do not want to be far away. : I read in the paper, on the way down, Ma, La Guardia’s announcement of my rome os Assistant Director of Civilian Defense. We have talked about it for some time and I am anxious to help. I hope that I can contribute something which will make easier and more fruitful the work of the others responsible for the development of volunteer participation. : It seems to me that there is a great desire on the part of hundreds of men and a: and even chil-

dren, to help in some way in the present’ emergency.|

I feel sure that this reservoir of energy can be used to advantage in every community in the. country. oe Jook Jorward i working with the Mayor, for m ve a great admiration, ‘my association ‘with Miss Eloise dei Bf

already know, as well as the opportunity all those in the organization. iy of

2.08 TRAFFIC

Things to Come By Raymond Clapper

DEATHS REACH

Mrs. Finkel City Victim; Seven of Family Killed By Train Upstate.

Nineteen persons, seven in one family, were killed in Hoosier weekend traffic. One local victim raised this year’s City-County toll to 96, one more than last year at this time. - Sixty-one accidents were reported to police here. Sixteen persons were injured and 71 were arrested on trafic law violation charges. The dead: MRS. ROSE FINKEL, 57, of 1346 S. Meridian St.,, who was struck Saturday night near her home and died in City Hospital early today. j ROBERT SHARP, 26, of 282 Winthrop Ave, who was injured Saturday when he fell from a motorcycle near Cleveland, Ind, and died today in Methodist Hospital. : ANDREW SCHAFFER, 36, Schererville; MRS. ANNE SC . 35, his wife, and their children, HAROLD SCHAFER, 16; ALBY SCHAFER, . 13; BUSTER SCHAFER, 12; and MARVIN SCHAFER; and C. M. HAYNES, 60, Belleview, Ill, father of Mrs. Schafer, who were killed when their car was struck by a streamlined train in Highland, Lake County, Saturday.

Walking Along Road

MARION WALLACE, 75, Farmersburg, who was struck by a car as he was walking along Road 48 south of Farmersburg. MRS. DOROTHY ELLIS, 35, Alexandria, who was killed yesterday in a two-car crash at a rural road intersection five miles south of Kirkpatrick in Montgomery County. MRS. JUANITA WILSON, 25, Cutler, whose car crashed into a bridge on Road 29 two miles north of Michigantown. LEE MYERS, 17, Andrews, whose bicycle was struck by a car near Urbana. JAMES . QUISENBERRY, 24, Washington, who was killed in a two-car crash at a street:intersection in Vincennes. His was the first traffic death in Vincennes this year.

Setting on Curb

ELMER PEEK, 55, Washington, who was killed ‘when a car out of control jumped a curb and struck him as he was sitting on the curb. & : MRS. EDINA HAAG, 63, Garret, who stepped in the path of a car from behind another. The accident happened near her home. BETTY ROSE*KORESSEL, 14, Evansville, who was struck by a car in an Evansville street. FRANK BAYS, 30, and ORA HARLESS, 45, both of Muncie, who were killed in a three-car crash on Road 67 east of Muncie. Mrs. Finkel was born in Lithuania and came to the United States when she was a child. Her family settled in Chicago where she lived until 20 years ago when she moved here. Her husband is. proprietor of a furniture store. Mrs. Finkel was a member of Knesses Israel Congregation, and she had just left’ the synagog when the accident occurred. She is survived by her husband; a son, Jack Finkel, and a daughter, Miss Mary Finkel. Funeral services were to be held at 3:30 p. m. today at 731 S. Meridian St. Burial was to be in Knesses Israel Cemetery.

25 SUMMONED IN MATTINGLY QUIZ

New Witnesses to Give Defense Side in Probe At Bloomington.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Sept. 15 (U. P.) —Twenty-five witnesses were scheduled to appear before the Monroe County Grand Jury today and tomorrow as it resumes its inquiry into the death of Charles O. Mattingly, Public Service Commission attorney. The jury recessed Friday after three days of hearings. Prosecutor Floyd Cook said the new witnesses

would be largely relatives and former co-workers of Mrs. Caroline Payne, Bloomington newspaper woman accused of slaying Mattingly, her former fiancee, July 5. . Mr. Cook said the witnesses would reflect the defense side of the case.

cluding Mattingly’s mostly state witnesses. . The prosecutor also announced the summoning of 18 additional persons to testify, bringing the total

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number to about 75. Approximately|

half those subpenaed earlier have been heard. The jury is scheduled to complete its investigation Thursday. : Included in today’s witnesses were

Myrtle He! can, David Crutehfield and Darrell Houghins, all employees of the newspaper for which Mrs. Payne worked. Mrs. Henderson and Crutchfield are niece and nephew, respectively, of Sanford , also will appear. Donald E. Bowen, Republican county chairman, and Mrs. Ivy former maid of Mrs, Payne. .

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Mrs. Payne. Another niece, Mrs.| | Other scheduled witnesses were # :

BERLIN, Sept. 15 (U. 'P.).—The ; official news agency said today that| an between Apri] 1 and Sept. 8 the| Davison and others Whom i British lost more than planes

Wil Ikie Tops Those Named as ‘Presidential Timber’,

CALL FOR 5000

GIFTS OF BLOOD

Donation Center to Open ~ Oct. 1; Plasma Will Go To Army and Navy.

A blood donation center for the collection of volunteer blood plasma for the Army and Navy will be

opened in the Chamber of Commerce Building about Oct. 1, according to Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, director of the center. Indianapolis has a quota of 5000 donors. The plasma, which can be preserved indefinitely in any climate in powdered form, will provide an emergency blank for the armed forces. “Every person who gives blood is a potential life saver,” Gen. Tyndall said. “Those who for .proper reasons can not be actively in service in the Army or Navy, can, by giving blood, do their part.”

Pint From Each Donor

He said that those who wish to perform a patriotic service by giving blaod may call LI-6333 to be registered. They will be notified by mail when to appear in the suite of seven rooms to be maintained -in the Chamber of Commerce Building. Gen. Tyndall: explained that only one pint of blood is taken from each donor after a technical test to show that he is able to give blood without unfavorable effects. It will require about 30 minutes for each donor. “The blood will be forwarded to Eli Lilly & Co. There the blood plasma will be separated from the corpuscles,” the General said.

Needed for Transfusions

“The plasma will then be frozen and converted into a powder. This powder will be placed in a container and along with it a proper quantity of distiller water. “The containers with the blood powder and the distilled water will be shipped to places designated by the Army and Navy. After the powder and the distilled water are mixed they will be used for transfusions to soldiers and sailors.” He explained that the advantages of this latest scientific research are that there is no need for donors to be typed since the plasma answers all purposes; it will keep indefinitely in all climates, and it can be brought into use immediately.

Curtis Hodges in Charge

The personnel of the committee in charge of the center, to be known as the Red Cross Committee on Blood Donation for the American Army and Navy, were named by William Fortune, chairman of the Indianapolis chapter of the Red Cross. Besides Gen. Tyndall, they include: Myron R. Green, vice chairman, and Dr. M. A. Austin, Mrs, Ruth Badders, Dr. C. G. Culbertson, the Very Rev. Msgr. Henry F. Dugan, Rabbi M. M, Feurerlicht, Dr. W. D. Gatch, W. Carl Graham, Mrs. R. F. Grosskopf, Felix M. McWhirter, Meredith Nicholson, Dr. Thurman B. Rice, the Rev. William F. Rothenburger, Mrs. Lester A. Smith and Booth Tarkington. Curtis Hodges is managing director. The, blood plasma collection is being sponsored all over the country by the Red Cross and the National Research Council at the request of the -surgeons general of the Army and Navy.

PLAN WIEDEMANN QUIZ BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 15 (U.P).

—Paul Damonte Taborda, chairman of the congressional committee in-

today that Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, German diplomat, would be called before the committee in “two or three days.” ’ ;

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PURDUE TO AID SAFETY HERE

Series of Local Courses Will . Be Offered as Defense Training.

Safety directors of Indianapolis industrial plants and Purdue University engineers will meet Wednesday to ‘discuss a series of safety

‘ |courses to be offered here this fall

as a part of defense training. Sponsored by the Safety Council of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the courses will be held two nights a week in Tech High School. Registration will be Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights at 6 p. m. at Manual Training High School. The course in industrial safety will cover investigations and reports of accidents, causes of accidents, workman training, mechanical guarding, protective : equipment, handling materials, maintenance, fire prevention and first aid and health hazards. ‘ It will be taught in sections, divided according to the responsibilities of the men in their plants. Experts in safety will be instructors and nationally known men will be brought for special lectures.

50 Other Courses In addition, nearly 50 other courses in other things will be offered here this winter by Purdue engineers. They include tool designing, production engineering, metallurgy, electrical design, time and motion study, aeronautical engineering, engineering mathematics, elementary electricity, engineerirg drafting, structural design, machine design, electronics, mechanics, physics, and chemistry. Thothas L. Kemp, chairman of the committee, says that already this year industrial accident deaths are running 1500 ahead of last year. “Bach fatal mishap costs the manufacturer about $5000,” he said. “The chances of accidents are greater now due to defense production pressure. In 1940 the total production loss from accidents would have built 15,000 large bombers, 75,000 freight planes, 450 submarines, or 45 battleships.” At the luncheon meeting, Prof. C. W. Breese, head of defense training at Purdue, and Prof. H. F. Owen, in charge of training in industrial management, will give details of the course. Those in charge of arrangements besides Chairman Kemp are: E. H. Adriance, personnel director of Eli Lilly Company; C. A. Behringer, vice president of Inland Container Corp.; Dan 1. Glossbrenner, secre-tary-treasurer of Marmon-Herring-ton; Verner M. Ray, vice president of Hoosier Casualty Company; Harold B. Rose, plant manager, International Harvester; and Charles C. Winegardner, vice president, Diamond Chain & Mig. Co. . This committee ‘is considering establishing a safety directors’ sec-. tion, members of which would meet monthly to discuss,problems of mutual interest. This will be

taken up at the Wednesday meeting. :

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Isolationists La In Survey Made by Gallup

By GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 15—0On the theory that the next Presidential election in the United States will be a wide-open affair—espe-

is concerned—political experts have

already begun to scan the horizon for “Presidential timber.” : None of these experts is risking his reputation by making any pre- ‘| dictions this early, of course. Nobody but a gambler would attempt

to say who will succeed Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie as the standard-bearers of their respective parties. But in a democracy like the United States the average man begins to form judgments about his leaders and his country’s prominent men long before election year.

To see which men stand out in the public’s mind as most clearly of Presidential caliber, therefore, the Institute has offered lists of nearly two-score names to voters in all parts of the country.

Ten Top Men Listed

Here, in the order of mention, are the 10 prominent Americans who received the greatest number of votes as “Presidential timber”: 1. Wendell L. Willkie, Republican nominee in 1940, supporter of President Roosevelt’s foreign policy. 2, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, a Democrat. 3. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New York, one of the prominent Republican contenders for the 1940 nomination, now actively engaged in promoting the U. S. O. drive. .4. Vice Presidént Henry A. Wallace, a Democrat and President Roosevelt's personal choice for the Vice Presidential position on the 1940 ticket. 5. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York, an independent in politics, ‘who has run with official Republican backing in his own city, but is usually regarded as a “New Dealer” in nafional pelitics. 6. Former Postmaster General James A. Farley, a Democrat with many stanch friends within the party organization. 7. Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, a strong ' candidate for the Republican nomination in 1940 and at present a sharp critic of the Roosevelt foreign policy. 8. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, a prominent Republican leader in the U. 8. Senate for more than 12 years. 9. Security Administrator. Paul V. McNutt, who demonstrated a strong following with party leaders at the 1940 Democratic national convention. 10. Former President Herbert Hoover, whose friends were prepared to start a “boom” for him in the ‘Republican convention 'of 1940 if a deadlock had developed.

Five Back Foreign Policy.

It is interesting to note that each of the leading five individuals— Willkie, Hull, Dewey, Wallace and LaGuardia—is at present either actively supporting the Administration’s foreign policy, ‘or engaging in some prominent national defense activity or both. Political observers who have speculated on the strength of “isolationist” critics of the Administration, such as Senator Burton K. Wheeler and Charles A. Lindbergh, will find them ranked near the top of the “second ten.” But close to them in popularity, also, is Harry L. Hopkins, the President’s personal representative in London and MosCOW: -11. Senator Burton K. Wheeler. 12. Charles A. Lindbergh. 13. Harry L. Hopkins. 14. Alfred M. Landon. 15. Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota. : 16. Navy Secretary Frank Knox. - 17. Justice Robert H. Jackson. 18. Jesse Jones. 19. Justice William O. Douglas. 20. Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey. ; Nobody knows better than the political experts how often all preelection calculations can be upset by the emergence of a political “dark horse.”

Watch Mid-Term Races

Particular attention will be paid to the result of Senatorial and gubernatorial races in the mid-term elections of 1942, and new figures may emerge as Presidential material at that time. :

Even at the present time the list of le “dark horses” is a large one. Here are more ‘than a score of individuals—some of them “politically available,” some probably not—who were also given approving recognition by a section of the public: ; ¥ CA Senator Byrd of Virginia, Secre

[tary of the Interior Ickes, Justice

Roberts of the Supreme Court, Sen-

{ator Pepper of Florida, Senator Nye

of North Dakota, Senator Clark of uri, former Governor Stark of

Misso Missouri, Senator Brooks of Illinois,

ator Tydings of Maryland, Under-

-|secretary of State Sumner Welles,

Speaker Rayburn, Senator Chandler of Kentucky, Owen D. Young, Senator Aiken of Vermont, Senator

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Secretary Johnson of Cali-|

7S OUR WAR?

SAYS WICKARD

Urges Increased - Farm Output to Feed British In Utah Talk.

- SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 18 (U., P)—“This“is our war — not = someone elses’. war,” Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard today

told the first of a series of regional agricultural defense conferences. Speaking at a meeting of farm leaders and officials of 11 Western states, Mr. Wickard declared tha food is as important as armaments in winning the war and that farm production must be increased in pace with factory output. 2

Program Is Outlined He outlined farm plans calling for “mobilization of American agricule tural strength” to meet increased defense and British needs in 1942, American farms must be made to feed 10,000,000 British next'year in. addition to our own needs, he said, British aid plans under the lend lease program for next year, Mr, Wickard said, include: From 4,500,« 000,000 to 5,000,000,000 pounds of milk; -500,000,000 dozen eggs; 18,» 000,000 pounds of poultry meat; 1, 500,000,000 pounds of pork and lard} 1,250,000 tons of fruit, and 500,000 cases of canned vegetables.

Defends Surpluses

Those amounts, he said, are “definite minimum figures” pledged in response to a request by the Brite ish Food Mission for “definite come | mitments.” Farm production must be increased to meet them, he added, He defended the accumulation of large reserves of food and feed. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, .Jr., urged re= lease of these reserves to keep food prices down. Fa “Why build these stockpiles of food?” he asked. “Well, food is a’ whole arsenal of weapons in this struggle for human freedom. It is the driving force behind production

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formance and morale soldiers and sailors.”

WOMAN'S LIFE SAVED

BY DEPUTY'S BLOOD

An expectant mother was “much improved” today after a deputy sheriff donated a pint of his blood for a transfusion. Mrs. Lena Coons, 1718 Madison Ave., was in danger at St. Francis Hospital yesterday afternoon and physicians called the Sheriff’s office for help in taking blood samples from the Hospital to the Indiana University Medical Center where a blood bank is maintained. When Deputies James Martin and = Albert Rosebrock arrived for the

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thought his blood was the right type and tests proved that it was, While he was donating a pint of blood, Deputy Rosebrock was hure rying to the Medical Center for ade ditional quantities. Attending phy sicians credited Mr. Martin witk saving Mrs. Coons’ life.

A. F. OF L. MEMBERS AT PEAK WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (U/P.), —The American Federation of Labor announced last night ‘that its duese paid membership on Aug. 31 was 4,« 569,056—a new record high. A. F. of L. secretary-treasurer George Meany said the figure represented an ine crease of 321,613 members during the past year.

TEST YOUR | KNOWLEDGE

1—There are no native snakes in Ireland; true or false? ; 2—Splitting a crow’s tongue ime Proves its ability to talk; true or A

3—Which is sweeter, cane or beet

sugar? 8 4—-Which two Presidents of the 6 U.S. died in the White House? ; 5—Which bird is called “King of 6—What is th J is the official language of Brazil? :

7—Complete the proverb, “To carry. 8—Who said, “I believe this govern ment cannot endure permanente ly, half slave and half free”?

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1—True. 2—False. 3—There

Sénator George of Georgia, Sen- 8—Abraham

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