Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1941 — Page 11

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"WEDNESDAY, OCT. [5, [941

nside Indianapolis (And “Our Town")

HERE'S BAD NEWS for nature lovers. It begins o- look as if Indiana’s famous autumnal display of polor may be a flop this year. It's time for the leaves 10 be turning all the colors of the rainbow, but for the most part, they aren't. A trip as far south as the Ohio River revealed only an occasional faint splash of color. Many of the trees are bare of leaves, as a result of the recent big blow. The leaves on a lot of others. are brown and shriveled. Over at the State Conservation Department we learn that it's

largely the fault of the drought

this summer and fall, The leaves,

Locking the Barn Door

A BIT OF HUMOR creeps occasionally into even | ui

the most routine police reports. For instance, a team

of ‘police that investigated a recent minor burglary #4

at a business house filed the following report: “Met Mr. Davis of this around 9:30 o'clock last night someone entered through an unlocked front door and took a one dollar bill apd 35 cents in change from the cash register.” Almost as an afterthought, there was added: “We showed Mr. Davis how to properly lock the door.” . .. Bob Bowes,|the manufacturer, has been ill and is reported planning a trip to the Mayo Clinic shortly. «+» + It looks Red Cross outranks the U. S, War

it seems, just practically dried up -

befcre they could go through the chemical processes which provide the color we all love. . ‘There may be some sort of a ‘display yet, we're told, but it’s pretty certain the colors ‘won't be as intense as usual.

The Busy Millman

OPERATING: A MILK route calls for a lot more, apparently, than just delivering milk. Milkman Max A. Jackson (Carey Milk Co.) stopped at a Central Ave. house Monday to collect and was asked by the - ‘housewife to help her carry three baskets of trash to the curb. “It’s. a shame to bother you like this,” said the housewife. Replied Mr. Jackson, smiling: “Oh, | this is nothing. Down the street they had me put a hinge on the door.” . An Indianapolis couple, very fond of a pet dog, left) the pooch at the veterinary hotel while they took an autumn vacation. And, "believe it or not, every day they sent poochie a postcard. S’truth! . . . Some of our druggists are complaining that bootlegging has picked up a lot since the increased tax on liquor went into effect Oct. 1. At the same time, we hear that the increased activity -of the Feds and the State excise officers has made it pretty difficult to buy a pint on Sunday without “mighty fine” connections.

to report on the specified date. The Army, apparently

uncertain as just what to do, must have appealed to the Red Cross for help. At any rate, the young lady received a letter from the Red Cross asking her if she would’ please pay attention to the War Department’s request. She did

Leather Medal

OUR LEATHER MEDAL awarded periodically for the most novel excuse for being late to work goes to John W. Conley Jr., chief accountant of the Public Service Commission. John was a little late getting to work yesterday. trouble, he explained, was that when he started to put on his shoes, he found the laces were missing. Elementary deduction traced the laces to his daughter, aged 2%. But she wouldn't tell where she’d put them. After all sorts of coaxing, she finally led her father to her bed, and there were the strings. . . . You've all seen restaurants with signs reading: “Tables for ladies.” Well, there's a restaurant oa 8S. Illinois St. that advertises: “Tables for Men, '00.”

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Ernie Pyle is on leave of absence bécause of the illness of his wife.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Investigation may prove to this Soubley. In some of this we were slow; acting]

that the Firestone rubber plant fire at Fall River, - 'Mass., was accidental, but the most thorough checkup is desirable. This is the kind of fire a saboteur would want to start, because it destroyed rubber stores all of which must be imported. Suspicion of sabotage origin is strong and is restrained only by the fact that the fire seems to have started in the factory rather’ than in the warehouse, [About 18,000 tons of rubber was lost, the equivalent of a week's supply for the country. All of this; except 2000 tons, was: Government rubber, part of the supply which the Government is trying to -accumulate lest our source be cut off by Japanese action the Far East. We have accumulated about enough rubber for a year’s normal consumption. But at the present abnormal consumption our reserve would: last about nine months. We have just that uch: of a cushion for protection should Japan strike t. Singapore and blockade us from our only important source of rubber, the British and Dutch East Indes, On the import side, an effective job has been done in-accumulating rubber. We are importing more than twice as much-as in 1936. Although the British and Dutch control our source of supply, we have entered into. a. ne with them which protects us on price a the British and Dutch to increase production. The United States Government is the sole purchaser for this country. :

Running on. Narrow Margins

THIS OPERATION, which is only one of many that this Government has entered into, shows how we have hag to become entangled with the outside world to supply ourselves with necessary materials, There are more than 50 such commodities in which the ‘American Government is making contracts with for eign governments or foreign purchasers. "We have placed 95 per cent of the mineral production of all Latin America under contract for delivery

Indiana Politics

THAT SKIP-ELECTION suit can’t be decided too soon for most of Marion County’s politicians—Republicans and Democrats. They want to' know’ whether there will be a municipal election here next year. Either way, it will call for a big shift in plans. When the skip-election law was passed by the Legislature early this year, In polis Republicans wanted the law amended so that a ‘mayor and council would be chosen in 1042, If the other cities with a ‘majority of Republican . mayors, wanted to delay their vote until 1943, it was all right with the Indianapolis bloc but they wanted Hheire in '42. The local G. O. P. leaders were

Marion County had swung into the Republican fold in 1940, They believed the trend was just starting and that by '42 they would be so strong it would be a cin Many things have happened since neh and they're ‘ not so confident now. In fact, some party leaders say that if the election were held today, the Republicans - would lose by 15,000 to 17,000. The factors they cite are the heavy influx of defense workers, most of them tial Democratic votes; the loss of several thousand G. O. P. votes on 'the heavily-Republican North Side, which rarely comes out for off-year voting, and the loss of about 3000 Negro votes which the Republicans picked up in 40. They aren’t sure that delaying the municipal election would cure this, but they say the ‘postponement wouldn't hurt,

Democrats in. Trouble, Too

+ ALL THE WORRYING ING Jute being ng done by the the Re. publicans, however. le in county Dethoeratle ane . In frst Hace. party u Se orkers and nd leaders arent looking uch relish to a possible Feeney- -Dewey Myers battle for ie Mayor n

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By Raymond Clapper

only after we: discovered that Germany, Italy and especially Japan, were buying up these materials, including minor essentials such as mercury and cobalt. Even though this activity is far advanced, our slow start leaves us running now on very narrow. margins

in some essential materials which /we must obtain

abroad. : Henry Grady, former Assistant Secretary of State, is completing a trip through the Far East for the purpose of. nailing down more such essential supplies. I recite these details because they tell so clearly that there is no such thing as self-sufficiendy for us if we are to go ahead with our arms production. The proof ‘of that is in the enormous network of international agreements which we have been compelled to make {6 insure those supplies. We delude ourselves because we are so strong in many essentials. We are like a contractor building a large number of houses who must shop: around for more nails and window class to finish the job.

‘Reckless Gambling With Future’

BUT ALL OF THIS complicated and expensive effort goes for little if we squander the supplies which are so difficult to obtain, Coming back to rubber, the

only reason the automobile industry has been able to continue its enormous record-breaking production is that sufficient rubber could be obtained by increasing the output in the East Indies and because shipping could be squeezed into service to carry it. That is why we have been able this year to consume rubber at a higher rate than ever before. In 1936 we used 488,000 tons of rubber, including reclaimed rubber. In 1940 we used 318,000 tons. This year consumption has been at the rate of 900,000 tons. a ‘year. This squandering of a resource which must be brought from the very spot Som} th e Pacific which Japan wants to grab seems like reckless gambling with the future. Compared with what we are thus consuming in luxury use, the loss of a week's supply by sshotags would be only a petty crime against our efense,

By Vern Boxell

next May. Sheriff Feeney hasn't said he will be a candidate, but a great many friends are urging him to run. Criminal Court Judge Myers is the organization favorite, but it is said reliably that he doesn’t want int So run if a knock-down- -drag-ouf primary is in prospec There would be plenty of fireworks in a Feene Myers primary struggle. Some leaders say it mi t take years for the party wounds to heal. The BoetcherCunningham fight in the 40 primary didn’t do the party any good—there’s still plenty of bitterness left over, So a Myers-Feeney race is the one thing the Democrats want least right now. Some of them are pessimistic enough to believe the party split might be wide enough to let the Republicans walk in next November. There’s also some bickering over other Democratic candidates. Some party workers, ‘especially “among the youngsters, are pretty tired of seeing the sage faces all the time—candidates moving from office to office. They claim they're being “frozen out” and de-| : mand some recognition. Add to this the complaint of other party workers that the leadership wasn’t so good in '40 and you have a fair picture of the Democratic turmoil.

All Is Wild and Woolly

ALL TOLD, the two parties in Marien County are in a wild scramble of confusion and discontent. The mayoralty mystery.is a part.of it. ‘ That’s why both of them are anxious to get as much cleared up right now as possible. They're ‘organization work and sort of shooting in the: ' It might interest them > know that some eminent attorneys who have studied the controversial election law see two possibilities, If it’s held unconstutional, then all cities will hold elections next year. It could be Shiown out on & faulty title; But if the law is upheld, the wording is so confusing that ney. see little chance for an Indianapolis election until the Legisla-

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‘ture Jnests again and Ela out the mess. 3

Spats She problem the Supreme Court has has to de-

By Bid Roosevelt};

dom’s People.” The Secretery of the Treasury and|® ‘Mrs, Morgenthau, and Lord and Lady Mountbatten|,

were with us. We all sat and listened with grea program, W. Others, SH of Whish 1 ape Will be equally iis and well carried out.

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_ INSTALMENT HI—PRELUDE 10 ‘MUNICH

i 1938-September, 1938 : : VIENNA, Anal 14, 1988 Cots lovakia will . cer- * tainly be next on Hitler's list. Militarily it is doomed how that Germany hms 1 funked on tho south se: well 38 the

north. .

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VIENNA, May 21 ~Leaving tonight for Praha, The story is that Hitler has mobilized 10 divisions along the Czech frontier. The Czechs have called up one class and

have manned their “Maginot Line”

"PRAHA, Aug. 4—Lord Runciman arrived today to gum up the works and sell the Czechs short if he can. Runciman’s whole mission smells. He says he has come here to mediate between the Czech Government and the Sudeten Party of Konrad Henlein. But Henlein is not a free agent. He is completely under the orders ‘of Hitler. The dispute is between Praha and Berlin.. The Czechs know that Chamberlain personally wants Czechoslovakia to give in to Hitler's wishes. These wishes we know: incorporation of all Germans within the Greater Reich.

. # » » PRAHA, Sept. 11.—All quiet here, but you can cut the tension ‘with a knife, Reports that. the Germans have massed two hundred thousand troops ‘on the Austro-Czéch border. In London continuous conferences in Downing Street. In Paris Daladier comnferring with Gamelin. But all awaiting Hitler's speech toIMOYrow. : ” 2 ”

PRAHA, Sept. 12—The Great Man has spoken. And there’s no war, at least not for the moment. That is Czechoslovakia’s first re-

action to Hitler's speech at Nu- -

remberg tonight. Hitler hurled insults and threats at Praha, But he did not demand that the Sudetens be handed over to him out~ right. He did not even demand a plebiscite. He insisted, however, on “self-determination” for the. Sudetens. »” s 8

it’s Hitler’s Home PRAHA, Sept. 13-14 (3 a. m). —War very near, and since midnight we've been waiting for the German’ bombers, but so far no sign. Much shooting up in the Sudetenland. A few’ Sudeteners and Czechs killed and the Germans have been plundering Czech

my way to broadcast tonight, the newsboys were shouting, “Extra! Read all about how the mighty head of the British Empire goes

to Hitler!” I have not. ji

heard a better comment this even-

: ’ 8 8 » On to Godesberg PRAHA, Sept. 16—Berlin reports Hitler has demanded—and Chamberlain more or less accepted—a plebiscite for the Su-

deteners. The government here says it is out of the question.

" But they are afraid that is- what

happened at ‘Berchtesgaden. 2 8 8 PRAHA, Sept. 18—I must go to Germany. At midnight Ed Murrow phoned from London the news. The British and French ‘have decided they will not fight for Czechoslovakia and are asking Praha to surrender unconditionally to Hitler and turn over Sudetenland to Germany. I protested to Ed that the Czechs. wouldn't accept it, that they'd fight alone. . . . “Maybe s0. ‘I hope you're right. ‘But in the meantime Mr. Chamberlain. is meeting Hitler at Godesberg on Wednesday and we want you to cover that.” ® 8 = GODESBERG, Sept. 22 The Swastika and the British Union Jack flying side by ‘side in this lovely Rhine town. °

and Jewish shops. So the Creche - - naving

districts. About 7 this evening we -

learned that Henlein had ‘sent a six-hour ultimatum to the govclas -I6 ‘was delivered at 6 p.m, at‘midnight. Whether it is ed by Hitler we.do not know, though after his Nuremberg speech there seems bile doubt that it is. Anyway," Czech government has turned he down. We wait now for Hitler's move, NE i » ” ® PRAHA, Sept. .14—Drove' 200 miles through Sudetenland. The fighting is all over. The revolt, inspired from Germany with German arms, has been put down. Unless Hitler again interferes, the crisis has passed its peak. Sometime after dinner a newsboy rushed into the lobby of the Ambassador with extra editions

fly to Berchtesgaden tomorrow to see Hitler! The Czechs are dumb=founded. They suspect a sell-out and I'm agraid they're right. On

COURT UPHOLDS STATE MILK ACT

Amendments Also Ruled in|

Full Force by Highest Tribunal.

The State Milk Control Law, in-

(Pop. 4435), 8 center

river of the X, one of Germany's ir editors, who secretly deSpises- the regime, nudged me: “Look at his walk!” On inspection it was a very curious walk indeed. In the first place, it was very ladylike. Dainty little steps. In the second place, every few steps he cocked his right shoulder nervously, his left leg. snapping up as he did so. I watched him closely as he came back past us. The same servous tic. He had ugly black patches under his eyes. 1 think the Man io om ihe eye of a. nervous breakdown. 2 =» »

Seeing Is Believing And now I undérstand the meaning of an expression the party hacks were using when we sat around drinking in the Dreesen lah night. They kept talking

‘GODESBERG, Sept. 22, '1038—Chamberlaln’ and Hitler had a three-hour talk. After their contesenta they stepped out right before my window. Hitler was all graciousness and Chamberlain, looking the image of an owl, was smiling and apparently highly pleased in his vain way, with some AiAuutactured applause Bi a company of 8. 8. guards before the door. '

about the “Teppichfresser,” the “carpet-eater.” At first I ‘didn’t get it, and then someone explained it in a whisper. They said Hitler has been having some of his nervous crises lately and that in recent days they've taken a strange form. Whenever he goes on a rampage about Benes or the Czechs he flings himself to the floor and chews the edges of the carpet, After seeing him this morning, I can believe: it. ’ Chamberlain and Hitler had a three-hour talk this afternoon and will have another tomorrow. Just as I was broadcasting from a little studio we've fixed up in the porter’s lodge of the hotel, the two men after their conference stepped out right before my window. Hitler was all graciousness indeed and Chamberlain, looking the image of an owl, was smiling and apparently highly pleased in his vain way with some manufactured applause by a company of 8. 8. guards before the door. ” # ”

x3 GODESBERG, Sept. 23-4, 4 a. m~—War seems very near after this strange day. It seems that Hitler has given Chamberlain the double-cross. And the old owl is hurt. All day long he sulked in his rooms at the Petershof on the other side of the Rhine, refusing to come over and talk’ with the dictator. At 5 Dp. m, he sent Sir Horace Wilson and Sir Nevile Henderson over the river to see

Ribbentrop. Result: Chamber. lain and Hitler met at 10:30 p. m. This meeting, which is the last, broke up at 1:30 a. m. without agreement and now it looks like WAT. ; t 4 A ”

‘Gloom for the Nazis

The Germans are plunged in:

deep gloom tonight, as if they really are afraid of war now that it’s facing ‘them. In the Dreesen

lobby, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Goer= '

ing, Keitel, and others walked in and out, all of them looking as if

they had been hit over the head .

with a sledge-hammer. This rather surprised : me, ‘since’ it’s ‘a war of their making.

that Chamberlain has undertaken to deliver to. Praha .a German memorandum containing Gormeny’s “final attitude.” The point is that Chamberlain came here all prepared to turn over Sudetenland to Hitler, but in a “British” way-—with an internationl commission to supervise the business. He found Hitler’s appetite had increased. Hitler wants to take-over his way—that is, right away, with no nonsense of an international com-

mission.

BERLIN, Sept. 26. Hitler has |

finally burned his last bridges. Shouting’ and shrieking in the

worst state of excitement I've ever |

Boom Days Arrive for Farmers in lowa:

They're Earning More and Are Spending It

town, concrete is being poured for a eon soybean plant. IOWA ALLS; Ja, Oct. 15.—The | are depression ' is over owa Falls rural trading typical Iowa farming|

By WINTHROP LYMAN United Press Staff Correspondent

in no defense industries . The

money’ the men

Hehment ts to be built here in many years,

Franklin's. appliance . shop.

he said, and tapped his wallet. “I've got a check for $5000 and I{ want ‘an electric stove. We'll . beig hooked on the rural electrification line next wee E {Ninety-four per cent of the farmers

Hardin boght elctro radios and 43 Der

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A farmer walked into E. A. “I just sold 110 head of hogs,”

County have

frigerators. They are spending their money freely for electric washing

machines and flat irons.) °

Two miles: out on the Siloam 5 Road lives Ralph Mason on

a 200-acre farm,

(The average price Towa farmers

received for’ hogs in DerSiben 1932,

seen him in, he stated in ‘the Sportpalast tonight that he would have his Sudetenland by Oct. 1—= next Saturday, today being Mone day. If Benes doesn’t hand it over to him he will go to war, this Saturday. : ss 8

“1 broadcast the scene from

‘seat: in the balcony Just ‘above "Hitler, He's still got that nervous. \

‘tic. ~All during his. speech kept cocking his shoulder, and the opposite leg from the knee down would bounce up. “As & matter of fact, for the time in all the years I've

him ; -. ‘he. seemed! tonight to have coms The communique merely says f.

pletely lost control of When he sat down after talk, ' Goebbels sprang up and shouted: “One thing is sure: 19 will never be repeated!” Hitler: looked up to him, a wild, eager expréssion in his eyes, as if those were the words hgh he had been searching for all evening and hadn't quite found. : leaped to ‘his feet and with eign ye broug

the fis sight hand por Domne with all ne A power in his mighty lungs: “Jal® = Then he, stumped into his che

he will get his Sudeten withe out war, if a couple of days later than he boasted. Leaving

after my broadcast VomighG

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