Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1941 — Page 9

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! PROFILE OF THE PERRY w. LESH, chairman of Draft Board’ 15, vice president of the Community Fund, trus of DéPauw University, president of the Natio Paper Trade Association, former president of the Better Business Bureau, and pres) ent of the C. P. Lesh Paper

v Lesh doesn’t 100k his 45. You'd take him to be not more than 38 or 39 He's a trim person of some 5 feet, 6 inches, weighing about 1140 pounds, with broad shoulders and no waistline at all, He has very dark, wavy hair and blue eyes and he squints a lot. As a matter of fact, he squints so much that when he smiles his

he was a boy, ‘he bore the traditional nicknames of “Squinty” and “Chink.” Don’t be conf: by all his activities. . Perry Lesh is no collector of honorary titles. He

Yl was trained to take his civic responsibilities seriously

Land when he takes on a he has.

He Had to Go to Work at 11

HIS FATHER BEFORE him was a highly successful business man and civic leader. He believed firmly

Job he gives it everything

«in the apprentice system and in the assumption of

py The Secret of Demy

. Perry Lesh at 11 was worl

y when he was a boy and he

‘man in the street below my _ Irish Rose” for

responsibility. So, as the only boy in the family, as an errand boy in

the paper business and

his father’s store learni

, assuming responsibility at

ome. As a result, he has 3k bus been a serious-minded person, despite a fine sense of humor. The Lesh family lived out,in the country (36th and Central) likes the outdoors a great deal. He lives in Brendenwood and though he likes to wander through the trees, he doesn’t like to putter and he will get his han s dirty only under great compulsion. ‘He went to Shortridge, hen to DePauw. The war ‘ Jbroke out when he was a junior and he promptly

enlisted in the Hainbow Division. He served 18 months overseas and wound up as a corporal.

un Old-Style Golfer

' LEVEL-HEADED, HE'S slow tp anger, but when he does blow up it’s -.the real McCoy. He even gets a little peeved at his sons every once in a while for pre-empting his favorite ties and sports) clothes and tells them a thing or two. He’s proud of the boys, Charles Perry, 18, who is captain of the football team at Taft School (Watertown, Conn.), and Frederick Hcke, 16, a Shortridge sophomore. He likes to play golf with Fred, who must shudder a little at his father’s taste in clubs. Perry still uses an old wooden-shafted set and his score is just fair—barely under 100. Because he is so busy with so many things, Perry Lesh doesn’t cotton much to going out when he has a night free. He likes to go home and plump himself into a chair and read. For relaxation he loves mystery stories, but his reading tastes are many-sided. He reads biographies, histories, novels, one after the other. ~ He goes to the movies only occasionally and then if he’s sure the picture is a comedy. He plays bridge and poker merely as social gestures, and he listens to the radio only casually except for the newscasts and “Information Please.” ’

Ship, Ahoy!

AN IMMACULATE DRESSER, he is tremendously finicky about the way his shirts are laundered and if they're not just so, he just fires them back into the drawer. His pet peeve is gum chewing and when he sees somebody popping gum he quivers all over. . He doesn’t care much for automobile travel and when he has to take a trip, he usually chooses the train. His outstending trait is a lack of fuss and feathers. He is a modest, unassuming man who takes care of things in stride. His outstanding failing is that he’s an awful sailor. He took a trip last year on a yacht from Algonac, Mich., to Burt Lake. He spent practically the whole time learing over the rail.

resuming his travel

Ernie Pyle’s column wil] be back in The Times, but not for about three months. Mrs. Pyle, who recently suffered a sudden and serious illness, has left the hospital "but faces a long convalescence. Ernie is going to stay with her for a while, before

Washing WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—There’s a hurdy-gurdy window playing “My Wild he third time. I was trying to write something about the press, as this is Newspaper Week, but I give up. The hurdy-gurdy wins. I can work against the racket of typewriters, teletypes and the general newsroom chatter but not against a hurdy-gurdy, because it hauls you out of the noise of the newspaper office and far away to other times. Thatls why they don’t allow

gurdy man. Now the ng out of the station across the street and the hurdygurdy man has had to give| up. Yes, about Secretary Hull. His 70th birthday sneaked up on-him, but the newspaper correspondents

- who cover the State Pepartment knew about it and

gave him a birthday cake, just to show what they ‘think "of him. He has been in public life almost 50 years. Secretary Hull told the newspaper men that one of the most important lessons he had learned .during that time was that statesmen and peoples must recognize the strong responsibility of meeting those requirements which liberty imposes on those who enjoy it.

ocracy

WHEN YOU LEARN THAT, you learn the secret of democratic government. mocratic government is nothing but the daily business of respecting the responsibilities that liberty poses. Liberty is not a negative thing. It is not an absence of control. That is anarchy. Liberty is achieved through the control which rests within one’s self and not in somebody else.

‘Fantastic Job’

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—"“Ours is a job of fantastic size, the most fantastic any nation ever faced, and the public does not yet understand it.” These are the words Donald M. Nelson uses to describe the American assignment of 1941 and 1942, As executive director of the iorities and Allocations r. Nelson has been setting

This was apparent in an interview in his office in the Social Security Building. Mr. Nelson’s remark fits in with the reports which have been current in Washington that the pressure for industrial output was about to be stepped up .again, and suddenly, by orders of magnitude

- almost beyond the belief of manufacturing people.

Within a few days, according to several observers, the size of the Russian needs would be revealed in the shape of a surge of contracts greater than that of last June, ;

An Amusing Renolle tion

who was saying 10 must “shake off this Though much of the public's complacency must have disticularly as rationing industry and employ-

ment, Mr. Nelson and others. have moved so much

WASHINGTON, Friday—I was enormously interin hearing

By Raymond Clapper

The judgment with which this self-control is exercised determines whether you have liberty or mere confusion or anarchy. That is the responsibility that liberty imposes upon those who enjoy it, as Secretary Hull put it. If they disregard that responsibility, then liberty is lost and you have either anarchy or control imposed by someone else, by any Hitler who is strong enough to seize control and exercise |it. + Now I remember. It Was about newspapers. All the editors are busy this week doing editorials about the newspapers and freedom’ of the press. What Secretary Hull said about statesmen and peoples having to meet the requirements that liberty imposes upon them goes for newspapers, too.

Democracy Needs This Freedom

BUT SO LONG as newspapers exercise that sense of responsibility, they are entitled to their freedom and will undoubtedly retain it.. Even in England, after more than two years of war, the press remains under its own self-control. Legal censorship applies to information going out of’ the country. Internally the newspapers are subject to prosecution only if they print information of value to the enemy. Complete freedom of political discussion exists. The Churchill government is under frequent attack. Cabinet resignations are demanded. The minister of aircraft production has been under fire and now Ernest Bevin, labor minister, is feeling .the heat. If that can go on in wartime England, it makes talk of eensorship here seem ridiculous, and as a matter of fact the talk has largely died down. Even more ridiculous is the suggestion that the Administration might suspend the Congressional elections next year. I don’t believe anyone in the Administration has ever seriously thought of such a thing, Free politics and free discussion go hand in hand, and the press is a vehicle for them. Democracy needs «11 of this in times of emergency as much as in normal times. The only difference is that the times impose greater responsibilities upon the exercise of these liberties. The cost of recklessness is too great to be tolerated as long as it would be in normal times.

By John W. Love

the recollection of their opinions of last year. This. correspondent reminded Mr. Nelson that the British requests in the spring had been described as “gstroriomical.” It would be correct, he admitted, to call the Russian needs, in comparison, “super-astro-nomical.” “Perhaps in view of what has been developing we should have started the industrial expansions a year ago,” he said. “But if we had proposed to the American public the undertakings we are now arranging for, we’d have been ridden out of Washington on a rail.”

It Won’t Be Long Now

Two weeks have elapsed since Mr. Nelson called upon the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, DefenseAid and other agencies for their appraisal of requirements, asked other offices to calculate the civilian needs and set in motion an over-all inquiry into the availability of materials, both domestic and imported. This was the gigantic inventory which was announced shortly after SPAB was organized under the chairmanship of Vice President Henry Wallace and the active direction of Mr. Nelson. The figures are coming along fast enough, Mr. Nelson told me, to lead him to believe the information will be well in hand in about 60 days. The volume of civilian needs is being estimated mainly from Informasion already in - Washington. The most difficult end Of the work is proving to be the military requirements, he said, “You will then have,” I said to Mr. Nelson, “the military and civilian requirements on one side of your balance sheet and the probable supplies on the other. Now who is to say how much curtailment the public ‘will stand, or are you the man who will have to . decide?” “I'm afraid,” Mr. Nelson replied, “that I'm to be the so-and-so who will have to decide.”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

to have a nurse there, particularly to Jo help the women with their babies and to m y emergencies| a HEAL SE in en thou effo; made in the State of Alabama, if is made for both colored and white families, and they work side by side in accomplishing results. I was so encouraged by the whole Sesonsit of what © being gone that r roid | on ven a grea I wn how adequatel bo show the young man how enthusiastic I Telt. I Esra iy be Yollowsd by: many other xommunities: , Sou north, John L. Whitehurst. the president of the Gen-

Today, eral Federation of Women’s Clubs, came to see me

this morning and I was much ressed which she has done in ‘the Potoreti by he work State Defense Council of ‘It was a joy today to see Mrs, Grenville Emmet, who has come to W: Io send the winier with laving Mrs. Flor-

FOR ASSAILED BY LINDBERGH AT FT. WAYNE

Elections and Free Speech In Peril, He Says Flaying ‘One-Man’ Rule.

FT. WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 4 (U. PJ). ~Charles A. Lindbergh warned the nation last night that he might be giving his last broadcast to America “before free speech is blotted out.” A capacity crowd in Gospel Tem-

ple here heard him express the fear that President Roosevelt was leading the country toward the suspension of next year’s elections. Outside the Temple about 3000 persons stood silently in a damp mist to hear the speech over an amplifying system. Applause mingled with scattered boos greeted the flier inside.

Claims Heritage Lost

Two armored cars and a large detail of police were nearby. At least half the huge throng came from out of town and their cars tied up traffic for blocks around. Mr. Lindbergh, who appeared in good. health and spirits, was escorted after the address out a side door of the Temple to his hotel. Police were forced to make a pathway through the crowd. Mr. Lindhergh warned that the “American heritage” of Democracy has been lost and “we are, in fact, governed by one man who has consistently evaded the checks and balances on which representative government depe man who is drawing more and more dictatorial power into his hands.”

Fears for Elections “We will continue to organize and

stands erect in America,” Mr. Lindbergh said. “If the time comes when we can no longer meet face to face, as free men in a free country, then we will meet together at the elections next year and by our vote clasp hands though we be a thousand miles apart. “But what if there are no elections next year? The time has come when we must consider even that. Such a condition may not be many steps ahead on the road our President is taking us. “I can only say that A is still deep within the country the spirit that built America; and on that, in the last analysis, we must rely.”

Feels Nation in Peril

Speaking for himself, he said “political life is not my ambition.” Nos s speaking his vocation, he up his “normal life and interests

(first to study the conditions in

Europe which brought on this war and second to oppose American intervention. “I have done this, because I believe my country is in mortal danger and because I could not stand by and see her going to destruction without pitting everything I had against that trend.” Mr. Lindbergh made no direct reference to the storm of controversy aroused by his last public address at Des Moines Sept. 11 in which he said “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt Administration” were leading the country into war.

' Charges Words Distorted

At one point he interjected: “I have told you the truth as I saw it. . . . What I said has been distorted. Sentences have been removed from their context; motives and meanings have been falsely ascribed and words have been inserted that I never ysed.” “We are about to meet the greatest test since the Civil War,” he went on, “and possibly the greatest test in our history.” Mr. Lindbergh said at the opening of his address that those who opposed war already had been subJect to “censorship” in the form of refusal of meeting halls. Newspapers, he said, give banner headlines to propaganda from Moscow while “facts and arguments against war are relegated to the back pages if they are used at all.” As a nation, he said, we have been led toward war by “sugared promises and candied pills.”

TOKYO STUDIES FOR REPLY TO KONOYE

SHANGHAI, Oct. 4 (U. P.).—Private reports from Japan received today said President Roosevelt's reply to a recent message to him

from Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye had been delivered in Tokyo a week ago while Japan was observing the first anniversary of its adhesion to the Berlin-Rome military alliance. The reports said Mr. Roesevelt’s reply had been handed to Japanese Foreign Minister Admiral Teijiro Toyoda by United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Toyoda was said to have reported last Monday to Emperor Hirohito on the reply, resulting in important conferences Sinong the highest Japanese officials during the past week. No details of the nature of Mr. Roosevelt's reply were available but informed quarters believed it would not produce startling developments in Japanese-American relations.

PERMISSION TO MOVE TRANSMITTER GIVEN

Broadcasting Corp., Indianapolis, to move its RCA one-kilowatt transmitter from northeast of IndianSpolis {np Hage NeW Augusia;a site of its new main transmitter, the Federal ‘Communications Commission announced today. The . one-kilowatt transmitter is for use for auxiliary purposes hg the order states. Announcement also was made oy FCC of the receipt of an applicaBroadcast-

tion from the Indiana ing Corp. for a |

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, explaining that he had given’

Endless mass of motorcyclists rolls

out of the dusty English countryside,

armed with American Tommy guns.

These mechanized units in Britain’s great anti-invasion forces are

DRAFT REDUGED

Army, Fearing Complications, Cuts NovemberDecember Inductions.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (U. P.).— A sharp reduction in the number of selectees fo be called for military service is scheduled for November and December to prevent the Christmas holiday season from disrupting the citizen-soldier train-

ing program, it was disclosed today. State selective service officials have been told by the Army that only 39,000 selectees will be required

cember. Both totals are sharp decreases from September and October when 45,000 and 89,000 were inducted, respectively. Officials said it was decided to keep the inductions down because of complications that might arise from attempting to bring large numbers of new men into the service at the holiday season. They pointed out that many of the younger men might be subject to homesickness and that induction of large numbers would entail arrangement of furloughs, “an expensive and disruptive procedure.” Present plans, it was said, call for induction of the entire December quota during the first two weeks of that month. The reductions will pare down the Army's current strength of 1,582,000 officers and enlisted men because the combined October-Novem-ber-December quotas of 146,000 men will fall short of the approximately 200,000 men who will have been released by Dec. 10. Most of the men being released are selectees and National Guardsmen who have passed 28 years of age. Others are leaving the service because of dependency and hardship and for other causes. Officials, however, said the “slack” will be taken up swiftly after the beginning of January, when new quotas will be established.

DIPLOMAS GIVEN NAVAL CLASS HERE

The 350 men enrolled in the U, S. Naval Training School at the Naval Armory here were presented certificates of completion yesterday by Lieut. Comm. Boyd Phelps, USNR, head of the school. Lieut. E. H. Schubert, USNR, presided at the graduation ceremonies and R. M. Hudaj of Arcadia, Kas., gave the valedictorian address. A new class of 350 men is scheduled to start about Oct. 14.

FAIR RENT MOVE FAILS

NEW ALBANY, Ind, Oct. 4 (U. P.).—The New Albany Fair Rent Committee reported today that it was about ready to “admit defeat” in its efforts to help maintain the Sept. 1 ceiling on rents stipulated by the Federal Government.

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Rangers Fail to Scale Peak, Hopeto Save 'Chutist Today

Involuntary Camper on Devil's Tower Spends Third Night In Tent Dropped From Plane. ‘DEVIL'S TOWER, Wyo. Oct. 4 (U. P.).—George Hopkins’ involun-

tary camping on top 865-foot Devil's Tower went into its fourth day today and the parachutist settled down with a bottle of Whisky to

await rescuers.

Ernest K. Field and Warren Gorrell, skilled mountain climbers of

the U. S. Park Service, who went yesterday only to return when dusk overtook them, hoped to have Mr. Hopkins on the ground by tonight. Although the possibility had been explored, there appeared to be small chance that Field and Gorrell would be superseded in their rescue attempt by a helicopter—an airplane that ascends and descends almost vertically. »

Consider Helicopter Rescue

Park Ranger J. F. Joyner, stationed at the Devil's Tower National Monument, telegraphed Igor

Sikorsky, pioneer aviation engineer, designer and developer of a successful experimental helicopter, asking his opinion of the possibilities of landing one on top of the granite tower and taking off again with Mr. Hopkins. The answer, Mr. Joyner said, was “encouraging” but nothing further had been heard from Mr. Sikorsky. Mr. Hopkins, 29, a former parachute instructor with the Royal Air Force, leaped from a plane to the rock Wednesday as a publicity stunt for an attempt to break the continuous jump record at Rapid City, S. D,, Oct. 12.

Winter on Peak

He found that the tower’s sheer granite walls were too steep for a novice mountain climber to climb down. He asked assistance in get-

ting down and for three days and three nights has been awaiting it: His first night was spent in a and freezing temperatures with only the protection of a blanke Thursday an airplane dropped him a tent, kindling wood, food and other provisions. Last night, he requested and received, by his ‘special airplane delivery service, a pint of*whisky “for medicinal purposes.” Field and Gorrell, most experienced climbers in the Rock Mountains, never before had scaled the almost perpendicular sides of Devi's Tower. They said that they found it “very difficult.” In five hours they went only 270 feet up. the sheer, slick walls.

Race Bad Weather

They blamed their slow progress on the difficulty of driving steel spikes into the granite. With the spikes, they hoped to build a crude ladder to aid them in bringing the 115-pound parachutist down. Mr. Field's principal fear was that rain or snow might fall before the rescue was completed. “A bad spell of weather would make the tower impossible to climb by anybody for weéks,” he said. Only 40 persons have ever scaled

the Tower.

HOLD EVERYTHING

a fourth of the way up the Tower

HITCH MAY HALT PRISONER SWAP

Nazis Demand Change in Composition, Including Hess, Report Says.

LONDON, Oct. 4 (U. P.).—Great Britain today threatened to “disembark 1500 German prisoners aboard ships at Newhaven if Germany fails by tomorrow morning to agree to satisfactory arrangements for exchange of prisoners at’ a French Channel port. The hitch in arrangements for the exchange was revealed today at the same time British officials said that there.was no question of including Rudolf Hess, the No. 3 Nazi who flew to Scotland and was taken prisoner, in the exchange. The Ministry of Information said the hitch was caused by a German request for a change in the composition of Germans being serit from England. Reports that Adolf Hitler had demanded the inclusion of Hess, who flew to £cotland for reasons which never have been explained, were unconfirmable here or in London. It was even said Hitler had asked for Hess at the request of the German Gestapo.

| Grand Funny

Seven Heaventh of Paradise Is Found In Bangkok.

By LELAND STOWE

BANGKOK ey Clipper)—We had to come all the way to Bangkok to discover the “Seven Heaventh of Paradise.” The clerk at our hotel handed us a card and in attractive green print we were informed as follows: “The seven heaventh of Para-

e. . “Upon the seven building of Yowaraj Road, Bangkok. “This place is suitable for danc.ing and every drink. And make ready for something to happen for your grand funny. We have more than 30 girls to move in measure regulated by music flower. Open 20.00 p. m. to 24.30 p. m. every night. ~ “There is a modern and comfortable lift to serve you in going up and down. Especially we prepare for you some of others show with the sweet music on every Wednesday and Salurday. We glad welcome for you. faithfully, The Seven Heaventh of Paradise.” We are reliably. informed that most of the “grand funny” is on the green-painted card, but that seems fair enough.

WIRE TO INTERVIEW: 3 MANAGING ‘EDITORS

The press and the radio will meet Monday at 4:45 p. m. over WIRE in Sheetvarice ‘of National Newspaper

Guests of the + Stajion will be the managing 0 e three Indianapolis newspapers, C. Walter McCarthy, The Indianapolis News; James ‘Stuart, The Indianapolis

Star, and Norman E. Isaacs, The

Times. The guests will be interviewed in a round table discussion by Dick Reed, WIRE newscaster.

WATER PROJECT O. K’D

Among defense public works proj=ects approved yesterday by President Roosevelt was an allotment of $171,000 for the acquisition of a yates works system at. Charlestown,

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VIEWS SPLIT ON HOLY WAR MOVE

Nye Critical of Russian Overtures but Catholics Praise Effort.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (U. PP.) Senator Gerald P. Nye. (R. N. D),

charged today that President Roose= velt’s talk of religious freedom in Russia is an “attempt to cover up” for the failure to include religious freedom in the Roosevelt-Churchill “declaration principles” drafted at their high seas conference. Catholic leaders, however, praised Mr. Roosevelt's instructions to W. Averell Harriman, head of the American arms mission now in Moscow, to discuss the question with Soviet officials. The President told his press conference yesterday he had given Mr. Harriman such orders and that similar overtures had been made previously,

Sees Move to ‘Cover Up’

Mr. Nye told reporters that “the American public knows what Stalin’s attitude is on religion and ‘what the attitude of Communism has been since its .very inception.” “It is just an dttempt to cover up for the failure to mention free= dom of religion in the Roosevelte Churchill statement,” he said. But the Very Rev. Edmund A. Walsh; vice president of Georgetown University, Roman Catholic college here, said he thought “the President is working along very good lines.” . The Rev. Mr, Walsh was the Vatican's representative in Moscow in 1922 and 1923 in connection with its effortc to restore religious freedom in Soviet Russia.

Indicated Steps Taken

“I think he (the President) has taken the indicated steps,” the Rev. Mr. Walsh said. “The good wishes and the great expectations of all right-thinking American will be with him.” The Rt. Rev. Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, voiced similar statement. He said the move “will receive the wholehearted commendation of all who love freedom.” Myron. C. Taylor, Mr. Roosevelt's : personal emissary-to Pope Pius XII, was en route home amid speculation that he may have discussed the issue with Vatican authorities.

. LONDON, Oct. 4 4 (U. P.) —Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador to Russia, has raised the question of religious tolerance in recent conversations with Soviet leaders, it was said today in a reliable quarter. ; It was understood that Sir Staf= ford pointed out what the British Gevernment believed would be the beneficial results of suppression by the Russian Government of atheistic propaganda.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What ‘is the name of Thomas © Jefferson’s home near Charlottes« ville, Va.? 2—What race of people originated jiu jitsu as a method of personal attack and self defense? ; 3—Where is John B. Stetson University? 4—There is no known insulator for magnetism; true or false? 5—Does a frozen water pipe burst in the process of tha or by the pressure of the ice? : 6—What 2proverb is ‘cone trary in meaning to “Never too old to learn”? 7—How many French officers ac- ' companied Lafayette to the United States when he came to. offer his services in the Revolutionary War? Answers

1—Monticello. 2—The Japanese. 3—De Land, Florida. 4—True. : 5—Pressure of the ice. A 6—'"You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” . T—Thirteen. a 8 9

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