Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1941 — Page 9

MONDAY, ocr. 20, 1941

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Inside Indianapolis (nd “Our Toon),

ONE OF INDIANAPOLIS’ more or less ‘model left after each election.” Joung men decided he wanted to join oe Navy the Who says college is a waste of time? other day. The Navy, following the usual routine, “checked to see if he had a criminal record. Sure Milk, Eggs, Utilities enough; in Juvenile Court they found he'd been convicted of a crime, The youth milkmen, many of them fear, of their long sought and but recently ‘attained Sabbath holiday. With more and more ‘dairy producers turning from thes home consumption market to the condensories, it's getting harder and harder to supply the entire week-end demand on: Saturdays, one of the boys tells us, . . ."Announcement of a new plant here to freeze and dehydrate eggs gave some of our more thrifty housewives a chill. With the plant buying up eggs right and left, there’s more than a possibility of abnormally higher egg prices. .'. . As an echo to the passing of Daylight Time, our electricity consumers are noticing the dif-

went to the court ‘and looked up the record himself. ‘There was the boy’s name, the name of his mother and even the street on which he previously had lived. He still protested innocence, Randall Shake, chief probation officer, became interested and decided to check with the probation officer who had handled the case of the eonvicted youth. The probation officer took one “~ Sook at the Navy applicant and—that’s right; they were two different youths. each with the same name, with mothers having the same name, and having Foeen former peighiiors,

' An Election Idea

‘OUR MAJOR PARTY politicfans might get some worthwhile ideas for their conduct of the 1942 election by keeping an eye on the Butler University class elections for the next few weeks. An editerial in the Butler Collegian urges, that the theme this. year be “clean up Butler elections.” y The Student Council, reports the Collegian, has made a start by barring unnecessary posters and campaigning. “The Council feels,” says the editorial, “that in the past there has been too much unnecessary campaigning and too many unnecessary posters. . . . This year they have placed a limit of two signs to each candidate; thus not only giving each candidate an equal chance but . . . doing away with the trash

both to the natural shortening of the ‘day and the return to Central, Standard Time, means more electricity consumption. But reduced water bills—no more sprinkling—ought to help make up the difference.

First. Walnut Casualty ig

FRED SWEGO, acting detective investigator assigned to the missing persons details, is likely to be missing from the missing persons detail for several weeks. Fred has his arm in a sling as the result of an accident'a week ago. Out driving, he saw a walnut jee in a field near Oaklandon. While climbing a Fickety fence to get some of the walnuts, he fell, bréaking his collarbone, . . . Elmer Hitchcock, 6225 Carrollton Ave., is proud of what he calls the “yam what am.” It’s a Puerto Rican yam 9% inches long, § inches in diameter and weighing almost 3}: pounds. It was raised in the Hitchcock garden. . , . The Indiana Association of Personal Finance Companies probably will hear a talk by Raymond Moley at its conference next month.

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

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By Raymond Clapper

‘When the ‘Italian cannot buy what he wants, lie blames it on the Germans. Some of the recent restricwhich Italy has placed on consumers’ goods were for the purpose of checking further denuding of

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Whatever satisfaction Germany may be taking in the news frome Russia, _ Italy is becoming an increasing headache. So much

so that’ even at this time when the organization of the country’s stocks by German p! Russian resources must be requiring an enormous Italy has forbidden the export of automobiles be- . ..... amount of attention, Germany is cause Germany was buying them up. During a two- ; compelled to :send ‘her best eco- month period recently Germany bought .5000 Italian nomic trouble shooter, Walther.. automobiles for shipment to Germany. ' | Punk, and a staff of experts into All ‘these activities have caused irritations’ among . Italy. the Italian people as individually they encountered “The purpose of this mission is. instances of German operations. clearly indicated . by the internal Furthermore, ‘letters coming home from Jtdlian '. situation in Italy, which has be- troops in occupied countries refer time and again. to come desperate from the Geman, the attitude of German troops toward their less sucpoint of view. cessful comrades in arms. Now bread has been put Resentment’ against Germany on the ration, and the Italians are heavy bread eaters, is rapidly growing. Information This is provoking much eomplaint. reaching this Government leaves no doubt about it. For some time Duce Now Baby-Ki i88ing Germany has been compelled to + Evi. . gend growing numbers of officials and so-called tour INFORMATION . REACHING this Government ists into Italy. As: these arrivals become more con- shows that an Italian in Italy doesn’t get any ‘more spicuous, Italian resentment increased and murmuring to eat in a week than an Italian interned in one of hostility: became gradually louder. - our camps in Montana gets in a day. Our information Germans already had taken .over most of the shows that the Italian ration is barely half of the heavy industry in Italy. One of the largest iron and German ration. steel works is now completely German owned. The Added to all this is popular suspicion of Germany's larger: portion of Italian chemical- and metal-produc- intentions. Italian individualism is coming to the ing plants is’ controlled, if not owned outright, by surface again in a rebound from the oppression of German interests. In practically all cases, the indus- ‘ totalitarian war. tries are aft least controlled through the fact that = Italians see how Germany Is stripping the country; most of the raw materials must be furnished by Ger- now. They feel a_ growing apprehension that if Germany.. Italy, has outstanding deficiencies in coal, many wins the war, Italy will be given only meager petrol , iron and steel, ferro-alloys, copper, nickel, ‘ spoils from the: dominant. partner. tin, ; and rubber... She: must look to Ger~.;. In. view of-all this, ft is is. easily many 5 al} these, and for them Germany exacts her’ Hitler, at a time when he needs his ecoriomic - Aad price. to organize the newly conquered Russian territory,

J ust send his principal one. in the other direction, Denuding Italy of Everything must_sen principal one. in the other

into Italy to take over as gauleiter and prop up’ the : disintegrating ‘ally. THE PRICE IS SIMPLY THIS—Germany is de- The report, reaching here is that Mussolini is so — Italy of everything. Italians see it as they .concerned by. all this that he has during the last shop. Germans in Italy are systematically buying up few days been out on a baby-kissing Campaign to unrepsonably large quantities of Boos, thaw out the populace.

Aviation By Mai. Al Williams

4 THE BRITISH ARE just beginning to realize the No More Number ’ difterence between American and. their own aircraft bers . . . Hurrah! engines. Our engines are designed and built 10 IT 18 GOOD to see-the Navy discarding numerals irae ok attention and fussing with defalls. ng jetters to identify fighting planes. PBY and Now den} M0 he British have some fins en F-4F-3 are ‘all ‘right for ‘Service bookkeeping, but < gines, but their wa; iy are not our Americans have known their famous warships by ways. Every gadget and detail of names It should be so with our planes. an American engine is carefullly designed so that it will not need to be touched between overhauls. We “seal” our engines. The British do not, following their habit of depending upon handwork and not counting handwork as an overhead cost. For instance, we went in for

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Perhaps we are approaching the end of attempts to regiment us with numbers and letters instead of names. “Anyhow, it's easier to.talk about Navy hghting planes without constantly consulting a code book.

No Curve Ball? Nuts!

I WAS AMUSED. recently. bythe photographically-self-lubricating rocker arms and baked claim that a curve ball is an optical illusion.

rods in the valve mechan- There are a lot of aeronautical ‘engineers and others isms of our engines long before who explain the curve ball path as the result of the French Sliscarged their practice ‘of spinning of the ball plus air forces built up by its sticking to valve lubrication h had to be sup- motion through the air. . . plied every few hours with a grease-gun. . . For instance, a baseball is spinning rapidly from left to right. As it speeds forward, the spinning mo Why the Free Meals? tion is “against” the Wind on the right sidé and. “with” the wind on ‘the left ‘side of the ball. Naturally, the WHEN THE TRANSPORT altiings are satisfied ‘ ball shies away from: the ‘high-resistance side. and that-the tricycle landing gear is sufficiently developed, bends Jie flight path toward the lower resistance on passengers will be greatly pleased. The fuselage of the left. The axis of the spinning motion determines a tricycle plans is parallel to the ground, and so the the curved path taken. tipped cabin of the present tail-wheel transports will We - explain the- erratic flight path of the sobe. avoided. called slow ball or knuckle ball—where the ball does And why don't the airline companies get together not rotate, and the batter can see the seams—hy and quit this nonsense of supplying “free” meals to = pointing. out that as the ball progresses a cone of passengers? This practice, started as an advertising - resistance is built up ahead of it. The peak of the stumt, has been continued for no good reason. There cone. is at the ball and the base is ahead. When the many sound reasons why: free flying meals should cone of air pressure is sufficiently established, the ye Saad. chief among them being that the ball wobbles and falls to one side or the other or up food and its preparation and refrigeration represent or down. an out-of-pocket expenditure which cannot be ab- « - . Optical fllusion? Rats! ‘The curved ball is real as a transport or cost-per-flying-mile item. and its curved flight ‘path is readily explained by any The passenger is paying for it somehow, and whether : schoolboy. A catcher’s glove and a fancy curve-ball he eats the ree” meals or not, he pays for it anyway. pitcher out in front would quickly convince anyone ,-.the age of stunts is past. Airline of these optical illusion scientists and give him some-

iapaporiaion is 2ow 8 bln ential of American thing to remember the experience. There's no sub-{

stitute for braiis—-not even a camer,

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

N, Mass, 4 time I wrote and its implications for the future were very interestJ was o ‘my way to Albany, N. Y.; where ing. I think that people who have become accusFridsy attending a luncheon given.by tomed to living on the: nthe same ratio rations, Defense School, which was being held side: and facing cofistan oes of the State Defense Council. in the future, to Natl Mauger minor manently. sessions. Mrs. Elmhirst said that, in’ England today, ] iss Wilma, Shields, whe heads unless Lou have a package. trom America, you never is our volunteer eaus in! a" Irien come for a: meal, because everybody w Smee Sue has just enough for Rimbelfy It makes the changes in the way of life very real too

tions. I feel very much encour , partly because it' seems incredible that a

my mind } when I see the interest foreign ship should make attacks of this kind. “Tne .

Teaus, because I feel they will chills ~ ‘eventi be of real. value i, the involved.

Gotenars Mansion. Jaleo say sor Sow atahs Sovernies Munson would: not vi

ference as they get their new bills; Earlier dusk, due]

‘THE CURRENT MILK shortage may rob our}

The torpedoing of the Kearty still ies heavily on

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in action before Warsaw.

INSTALMENT VII—PEACE OFFENSIVE ; ' (September-November, 1939) : BERLIN, Sept. 23, 1939.—Gen. von Fritsch, the man who built up the modern German army and ‘then retired just before the Anschluss because of a fight: with ‘Hitler ‘over attacking Austria, which he opposed, has been killed A little strange.

He had no

command but was with the regiment of which he is

honorary colopel.

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the capital.’A curious thing for Germany’s greatest modern military figure to be doing. Germany, now that it has de--stroyed Poland, would like peace with the West, Big peace offensive, started today. Newspapers, radio full of it. The line: Why do France and Britain want to fight now? Nothing to fight about. Germany wants’ nothing in the West,

BERLIN, Sept. 27.—Warsaw capitulated today after a heroic but hopeless stand. #

‘Peace Proposals’

‘BERLIN, Oct. 6.—Hitler delivered his ‘much advertised “peace proposals” in the Reichstag at noon today... They were almost identical with those I've heard him offer from the same rostrum after every conquest he has made since the march into the Rhineland in 1936. And though they were just like the others, most Germans I've talked to since seem aghast if you suggest that perhaps the outside world will put no more trust in them than they have learned by bitter experience to put in the others, I doubt very much if England and France will listen to these “proposals” for five minutes, some of my colleagues

that Russia has come up against Germany on a long front and this

BERLIN, Sept. 26.—They buried Gen. von Fritsch here this morning. Hitler did not show up, nor Ribbgntrop, nor Himmler, though they all returned to Berlin from the front*this afternoon. The official death notices in the papers omitted the usual “Died for Fuehrer” and said only: “Died for the Fatherland.” Yesterday, some of us correspondents concluded that Fritsch was either shot by order of Himmler, his mortal enemy, or was so disgusted with life and the state to which Hitler had led Germany that he deliberately sought to be killed; that is, committed suicide. was a general of his rank doing in the front’line outside of Warsaw, where the snipers have been picking off German troops at an alarming rate? Actually, I hear, he was killed while advancing with a small detachment of scouts up & street in the suburb across the Vistula from

What, we asked,

| think so on the ground that, now

past week has been busy estab-

lishing herself in the Baltic states, it would be smart of London and

Paris to conclude peace and sit .|

back until Cermany and Russia clash in eastern Europe.

GENEVA, Oct. 10.—Coming up the Rhine from Karlsruhe to Basel this morning, we skirted the French frontier for a hundred miles. No sign of war. Where the train ran along the Rhine, we could see the French bunkers and at many places great mats behindwhich the French were building fortifications. * Identical picture on the German side. The troops went about their business in full sight and range of each other.. The Germans were hauling up guns and supplies. on the railroad. line, but the French did not disturb them. Queer kind of var. » »

Royal Oak Sunk

BERLIN, Oct. 15.—Big news.

British Admiralty admits it. That's a blow. Wonder how it. was done. And where? os ” #"

BERLIN, Oct, 18.—The .place where the Gerthan U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapg Flow, Britain’s greatest: navil base! It sounds ‘incredible. Capt.’ Prien, commander of the submarine, came tripping into our afternoon press conference at the

Goering . .. “We're humane.”

Propaganda ‘Ministry this afternoon, followed by his crew—boys of 18, 19, 20. Prien told us- little of how he did it. He said he had no trouble gltung past the boom protecting the ba I got the BaD ot though he said nothing -to justify it, that he must have followed a British craft, perhaps a mine-sweeper, into the base. British negligence must have been something ter-

BERLIN, Oct. 24. —The German people who have been hoping for peace until the bitter end. were finally told tonight by Ribbentrop in a speech at Danzig that the war will have to be fought to a finish. Te » ”

BERLIN, Oct. 28.—I hear in business. circles that severe rationing of clothing will begin next month. The truth is that, having no cotton and almost no wool, the German people must get along with what clothing they have until the end of the War, 88 BERLIN, Nov. 7—The Queen of The Netherlands and the King of

the Belgians have offered to mediate peace. Small hope. The offer coolly received here. The Dutch and Belgians still decline to have staff talks together. But their historic neutrality, their refusal to ally themselves with one, side or the other; may land them in the soup until they junk it. Much talk here about the Germans pushing through Holland. This would not only turn the Maginot . Line, but give - the Germans air bases a hundred miles from the English coast. (Later)—Four or five of us American ‘correspondents had a talk with Goering tonight at—of all places—the Soviet Embassy, to which we had repaired for the "annual reception on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. We thought that he might be resentful of the repeal a few days ago of our Neutrality Bill and of the boast at home that: we would soon be selling thousands of planes to the Allies. He wasn't. Instead, he kidded us about our capacity to build planes. . “If we could only make planes at . your rate of production,” he sdid,

“we should be very weak. Your .

planes are good, ‘but you don’t

Jake enough of them . fast

Sewell, will Germany deliver a mass attack in the. these thousands of American planes are delivered to the Allies?” we asked

“Insists He’s ‘Humane’ He laughed. “You build your

planes, and* our enemies theirs, :

and we'll build ours, and one day you'll see who has been building the best and the most planes.” ‘The talk continued: “So far your air force has only attacked British warships. . Why?” “Warships are very important objects. And they give us good practice.” “Are you going to begin bombing, -enemy ports?” “We're humane.” We couldn’t suppress our laughe ter at this, whereupon Goering ree torted: “You shouldn't laugh. I'm serious. 1 am humane.”

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Beer Hall Blast

BERLIN, Nov, 9—Twelve mine utes after Hitler and all the big: party: leaders left the Burgerbrau Keller. in. Munich : last night, a. bomb explosion wrecked the hall, ‘killed -seven,- wounded 63. The bomb had been placed in a pillar directly- behind the rostrum from which Hitler had been speaking. Had he rémained 12 minutes and one second longer he surely would have been killed. The spot’ on which he stood was covered with six feet of debris. No ‘one yet knows who did. it. The Nazi press screams that it was the English, the British secret service! Most of us think it smells of another Reichstag fire. In other years Hitler and all the other bigwigs have remained afte er the speech to talk over old times ‘with ‘the comrades of the Putsch and guzzle ‘beer. Last night they fairly scams pered out, of the building. The ate tempted “assassination” undoubtedly will buck up public opinion behind Hitler and stir up hatred of England, BERLIN, Nov. 21.— Gestapo -chief Himmler claimed today that he has found the man who plant= ed the bomb .that so narrowly missed blowing Hitler to bits at Munich. His name is given as «Georg. Elser, 36, and behind him, says Himmler, was the British in< telligence Service and. Otta Strasser, a former Nazi leader and now -a bitter enemy of Hitler, who lives ‘in France, © Himmler’s account of how El= ser did it sounds fishy indeed. As one German put it to. me today after reading the account: “Now I'm sure Himmler Planted that ‘bomb.

NEXT—Naval Wa War,

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HOOVER INSISTS

Claims State Depaftment -Balked on Plan to Aid Starving Children.

NEW YORK, Oct. 20—(UP.)— Former: ‘President Herbert Hoover renewed his appeal last night for the distribution of food among the civil populations of German-con-quered BUFHpS, where “millions of children are in jeopardy” of starvation. Speaking. over a nation-wide hook-up he said he had asked the State Department to “enlist the aid of some of the remaining neutral governments, such as Switzerland, Sweden, Argentina or Ireland, to act as trustee for these hapless people,” and had been rebuffed. fina “curt letter.” British Balked, He Says ‘The proposal made to the State Department, he said, called for the Germans to supply bread-stuffs, of which they were said to have a surOn inius while fats and special food for children were sent through the British blockade. Germany was to refrain from taking native food products and a neutral Government was to supervise ‘distribution. “The Germans went a long wa, toward’ that agreement,” he - sal “The British decided against it, although it was to be safeguarded 30 inet their every military objec-

. Mr, Boover said a survey of Bel-

were “in a definitely weak condi-

= Cites Warsaw Horror ‘A report. from Warsaw

| HUNGRY BE FED,

72 Per Cent Favor Arming Cargo Ships; Sending Craft to War Zone Backed. in Poll

By GEORGE GALLUP PRINCETON, N. yy Oct.

20.—As the fight in Congress

over changing the Neutrality Act heads toward a climax

this . week, American public basic revisions in the act.

opinion is favorable to two

If the people were going to the polls this November to

vote in a direct referendum

on the Neutrality Act, they

would grant to Government (1) the power to arm American

merchant ships, and (2) the power to allow ships to carry war materials to Britain and other countries in the war

zone. Those facts are a striking indication of how far public opinion has shifted in recent . months, Last

April a Je majority of voters]

polled by the In- ) stitute were

Sentiment today is reflected in two surveys by the |’ Institute among a cross-section of} the voting population: so selected that their views will represent the views of the total voting population of 50 million. ‘ The first survey dealt wtih the question of arming merchant vessels, as follows: “Should the Neutrality Act “be changed to permit American ships

to be armed?”

“ss vesesneteetse

ves 12% 21

The second survey dealt with the question of permitting American ships to enter’ the British war zone, as follows: “Should the Neutrality Act be changed to permit American merchant ships with American crews to carry war materials to Britain?” Surveys on the same issue have been conducted in previous montis, and the trend follows: Unde

cided 9%

Yes No

. April 30% 61% Oct. esses 46 14

Today ..... 46 40 14

If those who express an opinion on the above issue ‘are taken as a group, the : division of - sentiment among them in the latest study is

53 per cent affirmative, 47 per cent)

The Administration is asking at

this time only for the power to arm}:

merchant ships, and is leaving until

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later the question: of sending ships to England, ‘It is a noteworthy fact that the change which the Administration is seeking first is by far the more readily acceptable to.the public of the two measures. Gs O, P, Voters Opposed The of merchant vessels meets with far less partisan opposi~ tion ‘among’ the rank and file than the issue of sending ships to. Britain. . Although , some: Republican leaders in ‘Congress are planning to fight the bill to:arm merchant ships, interviews among a Yeprosentative cross-section of G. O, P. voters throughout ‘the ‘ country show that more of them are favorable to the change: than are opposed to ‘it. Among Démograts, the favorable). vote is overwhelming, On the issue of sending ships to Britain, however, the division of sentiment along party lines is‘ much more marked.’ ‘In _ fact, the: Republican vote. is definitely against the change, while the Democrats are for it.. . The party line-up so. far as the rank and file are concerned is’ as follows on the two issues:: |

ARM’ MERCHANT —

Republican Democratic er Voters , . Voters Yes Sessecis 66%

Neutrality Act is the fear of war.

Arguments in Opposition. -.

Interviewers from coast to. coast echoing , the .

be* changed *in

senti-}"

“The Neugality Act should not A

YOUNG HUSKERS COMPETE TODAY

Try for State Vocational

Championship in Field ° Near Southport.

About - 30 young Soniestatiit 3,

trained ‘and ready for competition through the pny

were prepared to line up today on *

a suburban corn field in Southport

| to husk corn for the State vocation=

al agriculture championship. : “The 24 Indiana district title hold ers and the junior champions. from Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio all will

be in the contest to-give the meet

a. national accent. The Indiana State Police and the Indiana State Home Guards will police the event, and a field of alfalfa adjoining the corn field. will provide room for: several thousand

iA parade, beginning at 12:30 p. m., . will open .the celebration.’ football game bétween Southport and Ben Davis will be anotner: ea

Marion County champ, and Dallas Cornett; Marysville, O., Ohio junior champion, will stage a ‘special huske

contest. . Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson will crown Peggy Ruffin, Southport, queen ‘of the. husking during’ the parade. at a ceremony at the Southport high 'school tonight.

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Between halves, Morris Masoh,

The 8wards will be given

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