Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1941 — Page 11

a large proportion of the opposition

TUESDAY, OCT. 21, 1941

"Inside Indianapolis (and “Our Town")

WHEN 1S INDIAN SUMMER? So many of‘ Inside. Indianapolis’ readers: were puzzled as to just when “that we decided to look it up. We did, and ‘we. still aren't any too sure. gi “Outdoor Indiana,” the the State Conservation mag4 azine, says “Indian summer is the all-too-short season of exceedingly pleasant weather that generally occurs in the North-Central states during October or November. This term . usually describes beautiful

fall weather characterized by calm,

cloudless skies with mild daytime Semperaiures and. delightfully cool ” That didn’t seem definite enough, so we checked an encyclopedia, It was something like the above. Turning to our old standby, Weatherman J. H. Armington, we learn that it’s a period of moderate, hazy sunshiny weather occurring in the fall of the year Jogowing the first cold a, or heavy ‘frosts. That, says Mr. . Armington, is the: generally accepted version. And thus, since we haven't had any cold spells, or heavy frosts, the current ideal weather is NOT ‘Indian Summer, but as far as we're concerned, it can do until Indian Summer does come.

Boy, Page Jane Jordan!

: RUSSELL CAMPBELL, the Mayor's secretary, found .a man sitting nervously on the edge of one of the chairs in the Mayor's ‘* “Was there something I could do for you?” asked Mr, Campbell. . “- “C-c-c-guld I get some advice—and is it free?” asked the visifor, hesitatingly. Assured that he could and it was, he stammered a bit and then said: © “I think my wife is running around with another man. In fact, I know she is as I saw her going with a man.

“His former eXperianon; not having. included. seivice . bell his head a bit, then suggested: hy. don’t you get a divorce?” can’t,” responded the caller: “we weren't mar-

ried" He then explained he “just started living” with | ff

his “wife” several years age and they now have three children. A bright smile wreathed : the Campbell visage. “Why don’t you. marry her?” he asked. Still dejectded, the caller explained: “We can't. She's already married; never got a divorce from her last husband.”

With that, ‘Secretary - Campbell washelt his hands| of the whole affair; advised the caller not to go}

round seeking advice because “he might talk to the wrong person and wind ‘up in Jail.”

Aviator Ants

THE CURRENT EPIDEMIC of: wByisig® ants has driven State Conservation Department workers to’ distraction. It isn’t the ants themselves that are

- bothering . the : department. Rather, it’s been - the

flood of phone calls from curious or excited citizens wanting to know what was going on. Some, having read of termites, had visions of the house falling down before they could get outside. The pests, according to- State Entomologist Frank Wallace, are what are known unscientifically as “odoriferous” ants because of ‘their peculiar odor when crushed. They're harmless—merely. are swarming during the mating season, he says. ... . John O'Hara Harte, public relations director for. Curtiss-Wright, is visiting the local ro. peller plant today. . . , Maj. Jimmie Doolittle, U.

Air Corps, called on some of his friends at the bn :

son plant yesterday. He flew here in a P-40. , . . Some of the boys from the Gas Utility are combining business and pleasure at the American Gas Association convention in Atlantic City. They included; oreo Vic Seiter, George Saas, Elliot .Peabody, William I. Battin and J. W. McCaleb, « « +.Jim Carr, secretary’ ‘to Senator Willis, started back to Washington last night after a brief visit here.

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

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—It is still impossible. for some of the Republican leaders to see anything except a political issue in the situation which confronts the

United States. ; . A few hours after the torpedoing of the Kearny on our side of Iceland was announced, and while the Japanese Government was debating how much it should try to get away with and whether it would have trouble with the United States in so doing, we were treated to two demonstrations of Republican politicking. On that critical afternoon when it was so important that the United States present a solid fsent to the world, the House voted on the armed-ship bill. Every mem-. ber of : the Hoe the bill ‘would by a large margin. Sti Republicans voted pes by the bill. The Republican leader, Rep. Joseph Martin, voted against it along with twothirds of his party followers. Rep. Marfin also is chairman of the Republican National Committee. He is the organization head of the’ Republican Party. Republican workers out in the country are presumed to look to him for their cue.

‘Even Rep. Ham Fish, the most vocal of the House .

Republican isolationists, voted for the armed-ship President had

‘But he said he could. riot vote against allowing our

to defend themselves from attack. Perhaps the fact that his Ocange County Republican organization recently ado resolutions favoring war if necessary to protect our interests had something to . do. with his opposition. Perhaps not. At any rate he voted to.arm the ships.

Typical Campaign Oratory.

BUT THE THE REPUBLICANS—two-thirds of them— and their House leader; chose to go on record against this measiire. The outside world can now see that a on party is against a measure of self-

ships

the Administration even on su defense and at such a tight tim

e. ’ ‘Collab at oilaporation BERN, Oct. 21.—The thorny question of renewed Franco-German collaboration appears to have struck an early snag in Marshal Petain’s refusal to agree to important new Nazi demands. Vichy showed an inclination to pick up “collaboration” following - German - an‘nounced advances in Russia which made a deep impression on many of the easily convinced leaders of the new France. The Nazis took immediate advantage of the situation and said that Vichy must make a token move as evidence of good faith in future dealings. All they asked was the removal of Gen, Weygand as commander of French North African forces and perhaps his appointment to some distant unrelated post. Few doubt that the demand was but a Sororunnios of insistence on additional concessions although for the moment the Nazis are not asking further North African facilities, which Petain strongly opposes. ‘The disappearance of Weygand as an alive J leader would remove, aside from. Petain himself, the last major uncertain factor in French reactions to German plans. The demand was presented to Admiral Darlan in” Paris the middle of last week, almost in the form of an ultimatum although it carried no specified time limit. In event of refusal, the Nazis declared, they would reconsider the “armistice terms.”

How the Negotiations Went

- The fate of French North Africa is one +of the most vital phases of the entire poliey of collaboraFiacinly hu os ns spec world gene recognizes; but Fiat lng oo hack bas been concession, by aleman or although on a reduced scale.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday. 1 didn’t’ have time yesterday to tell you of our delightful breakfast Sunday ‘morning at New London, N.

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By Raymond Clapper

On the same night the 1936 Republican Presidential candidate, Alf °M. Landon, made a speech which was printed throughout the country. and was

doubtless picked up <by- all anti-American . foreign| the

propaganda agencies. Governor Landon said the Administration was using the defense program as a smoke: screen to fasten collectivism on the country. He went to great pains to warm over the guesses of some others that Mr. Roosevelt will run for a fourth term. The speech was what you might call typical campaign ‘oratory,.full of the infighting which is taken for granted in ‘the heat of a political fight but which during a crisis can only serve to arouse suspicions of the Administration’s good faith at home and to provide comforting propaganda for ‘Axis agents abroad. Just previously the Republican ‘party’s No. 1 elder statesman and its only living ex-President exhumed again his long-dead plan for feeding Axis-conquered territory. ' This revived:agitation can serve no useful purpose to this country now, The Germans refused to accept -two-of the important conditions which Mr. Hoover put up to them to safeguard his proposed experiment, so he knows that his proposition now is academic. ' Agitation of it’ only embarrasses ‘this Government.

As 1 f War Was Political Stunt

I am not trying to set up a Sotnmitiee to defend America by Adminis

"Soon 103 the tra

rapidly ap iy of veonmot ee | into available office space around the country, preferring to use restricted - construction materials ‘in’ an orgy of overbuilding here .in Washington. - It has failed to conserve limited raw materials. - It has dallied. with the dangerous price situation instead of driving Congress to break up the: filibuster in the House Banking Committee. . There is plenty of work for the Republican opposition to do that would make qur defense effort more effective. Instead ' the Republican. poiticians act as if they thought the whole World War was a politica’ stunt pulled by: Roovevelt ‘to keep himself in ‘office. *

By David M. Nichol.

Your correspondent is now able to disclose that on May 28 the collaborationists supported by Darlan reached an _ agreement with the Nazis for turning over the important naval, base of Bizerta and holding

out promises of a similar surrender of Casablanca |

in the near future. In return, the French were offered. certain rela-| tively small . con line and other in relationships The agreement was to have been implemented on July 15 but Petain refused to initial it, using as technical grounds the alleged Nazis’ failure:to honor their Ed of the bargain. Darlan himself is reported to be.chagrined by the’ German double-dealing and to be less trusttul| now of their promises; An ‘extreniely tense situation developed and the German ‘millstone was set to grinding again. By midAugust, at the time ‘of Weygand's flying trip to Vichy, the Nazis obtained an agreement to: ship supplies. through /Bizerta to the Italian African army although the naval base was not surrendered. .

Weygand Still Loyal to Petain

-Weygand remains: intensely loyal to: Petain and it is believed - would accept ‘the Marshal's decision in any : ease, although : Petain : shows no indication of agreeing to the removal of his most trusted follower. Concession at this. time ‘is likely to take the form | of an increased Nazi share in the produce of the North African territories. It is reported that the Germans want 80 per" cent: of all” shipments arTiving at Marseilles. The possibilities of" French armed : resistance in North. Africa are minimized. The army includes some 130,000 men, not well equipped, por leaderless in the event of Weygand's departure, Many' Frenchmen are bitterly disappointed: in British failure: to. complete the Libyan drive to remove the Italians and to: provide an adjoining moral and . material bastion in, the struggle to keep the Germans out of the colonies. a dianapolis Times and ‘the

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By Eleanor Roosevelt]

in the “advice to the lovelorn” department, Mr. Camp- KE scratched

regarding the demarcation|

‘Bel-Rose' District at League’s Request.

years, _City Council last night approved an Ordinance increasing the rates as

the first mile, instead of 15 cents for the first one and one-half miles as at present.| Ten cents for each four-fifths mile thereafter, instead of 10 canis for sash additional mile as

present. A flat sum of $2 for cab service

stead of $1.50, Claim Higher Costs

The rate increase was requested by cab: companies to meet increased costs of automobiles and mainteto company repRaley The request was approved by the Safety Board early last month. Council’s action confirmed the Board’s deeision. At the insistence of the Bel-Rose Civic’ League, Council repealed an ordinance zoning the Bellaire and Montrose additions in northeast Indianapolis for double houses. The area is bounded by 52d St. on the north, E. 42d St. on the south, the Monon Railroad tracks on the west and Keystone Ave. on the east.

Deterioration Feared

A ‘delegation of 50 property owners in the additions, headed by C.

Titus Everett, league president, told

Council that 250 double. houses were planned for the area. ' The group said the doubles would deteriorate existing property ' values by creating a large area of rental property. Council members were informed by President Joseph G. Wood that they were being made defendants in the skip-election suit filed last week and would be represented by the City Legal Department. Mr. Wood explained that involved in the issue of the. skip-election

action approving a $40,000 election expense item in the 1942 City Budget. : Fund Asked by Mayor

Technically, if the Supreme Court rules that no Indianapolis election can - be held next year, he said, Council’s ‘action might have been illegal. Touncil approved the appropriation - which was requested by Mayor Sullivan to provide funds to finance election ‘ machinery in the

_| event’ the “election is held.

At the time the budget was being considered, the Mayor said he had included ‘the ‘election appropriation, normally a mandatory expense, at the advite of the State Accounts

A contract providing ‘police and fire protection for Woodruff Place for two years at $7000 a year was approved.

Nazis Claim Big

Slice of Russia

BERLIN, Oct. 21 (U. P.).—Authorized informants, reviewing the four months of the Russo-German war which started June 22, asserted today that the Germans had now - occupied an area of about 1,500,000 - square kilometres (388,000 square miles) of Russian territory, or six times the area of Great Britain and Ireland. ‘They said this territory had a ‘population of 65,000,000, or more than one-third the population of the Soviet Union. “Of 81 big cities in the Soviet Union, with populations totaling 127,400,000, Germany already holds 17 ‘with a total population of 5,700,000,” J informant said. Further, ~it was added, nine

Leningrad with 8,200,000, Kharkov with 800,000 and Rostov with: 500,000.

COUNCIL BUYS 10 NEW CYCLES

Traffic Patrol.

A debate over the effectiveness

Double Houses Banned in|

in the City limits by the hour, in-|

law was the legality of Council's |

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vaded Finland! ‘several hundred.

INSTALMENT VII_NAVAL WAR—ON LAND AND : * SEA (December, 1939) GENEVA, Dec. 1, 1939.—The Soviet Union has ‘inYesterday Red air force bombers attacked -Helsinki, killing seventy:five civilians, wounding

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BERLIN, Dec. 1 "THe German papers tonight celebrate a great sea. victory of the pocket battleship Graf

Spee over three British cruisers off Montevideo. On the radio I heard London hailing it as a British victory, which reminds one of Jutland, it, too, having been celebrated as a triumph by both Britain and Germany. :

BERLIN, Dec. 18. ~The populace is still a little bit puzzled about how the big victory of the Graf Spee sud‘denly ended ‘by the pocket battleship scuttling itself off

as possible.

Montevideo yesterday afternoon. But Goebbels and Goering have pulled a neat one to make them forget it as soon,

The attention of the Germin people tomorrow. ‘morning will be concentrated by the press and radio on something else, an, alleged. victory—this time in the air—off

Helgoland. An official statement which the papers and radio have been told to bang for all it’s worth says that 84 out of 44 British bombers ‘were shot down this after-

very timely victory. Hear that the Navy is fuming to Hitler about the way Goebbels bungled the propaganda on the Graf Spee. The are especially sore because the day before it sank itself, Goebbels had the press play up a dispatch (and radiced photographs) from Monte-

"video saying the pocket-battle-

ship had Suffered only superficial damage and that British reports that it had been badly damaged were pure lies.

Hero’s Death Ordered

BERLIN, Dec. 21.—A curious communique from the Gernfan navy today: “The High Command of the navy announces: The: commander of the Graf Spee. Capt. Hans Langsdorff, did not want to survive the sinking of his ship, True to old traditions and in the spirit of the training of the officers corps, he made this decision. Having brought his crew to safety he considered his duty fulfilled, and followed his Capt. Langsdorff has in this way

fulfilled like a fighter and a hero

the expectations of his Fuehrer, the German people, and the navy.” The wretched German people will not be told that Capt. Langsdorff’ did not follow his ship to the bottom, but committed suicide by putting a revolver-shot through his head in a lonely hotel room in Buenos Aires. They will not be told—though the navy did its best to hint at it in this SUmRique thal Hitler, in a burst of fury over the defeat, Slleted the captain to end _his e . Eleven admitted executions here in the last two days. About half for espionage and the rest for “damaging the irterests of the people in war-time.” One of

PROFESSORS OF STATE TO T0 MEET

Annual Session Will Be Held All Day Saturday At Butler.

The annual Indiana meeting of the American Association of Univer-

- |sity Professors will be held all day

Saturday in Arthur Jordan Memo.|rial Hall at Butler University. ‘Dr. Ray C. Friesner, head of the Butler botany department and president of the Butler chapter, will preside. Dr. Frederick S. Deibler, association president, will close the session with an address on “Tenure Principals of the A. A. U. Pp”

meetings will be Dr. Francis M. Vreeland and Dr. Vernon Van Dyke, both of DePauw; Dr. J. E. Hedges, Prof. Alfred Manes and Prof. Rus sell. B. Townsend Jr. of Butler.

The delegates will be guests at the|

Butler - Ohio University football game in the afternoon. Dr. Karl 8.

noon north of Helgoland. A

Speakers who will address ‘group|

the 11 was sentenced by the court to 15 years’ imprisonment, but Himmler wasn’t satisfied’ with the sentence, so he simply had the poor fellow shot. “Shot while offering to state authority,” Himmler says. And Heinrich Himmler is such a mild little fellow when you talk to him, you of a coun-

try school teacher, which he once’

was—pince-nez and all, Many long prison sentences being meted out to Germans who listen to foreign radio stations, and yet many continue to. listen to them. I passed an afternoon with a German family the other day, mother, two daughters, one

They were a little apprehensive when they turned on the 6 p. m. BBC news. The mother said that besides the porter, who is the official Nazi spy for. the apartment house, they had just learned that a Jewish tenant in return for receiving clothing ration cards (Jews gets food cards, but no clothing cards) had turned injormer for the house, and they - to be very careful. They baa the radio so low ‘I could hardly ‘catch the news and one of the daughters kept watching by the front door. ” 2

‘Not Even ‘Seratohed

BERLIN, December 27.— This has been quite a Christmas holiday, Two days with the German fet, ost, ue iret foreigner given the

i Ye I spent an hour going through the new 10,000-ton cruiser Admiral Hipper, which. was

ig at a dock. Much debris on log up 8 ‘and

‘beneath its. decks,

i. the officers explained it was - merely undergoing the usual over-

haul which every vessel needs, They swore the ship had not been damaged by enemy action. For some reason I get along all right with German naval people, and when over our port wine a sandwiches I reminded them that the British Admiralty had recently reported the torpedoing of a cruiser by a British U-boat the commander winked and beckoned me

Pilot Is Warned Of Thunder Cloud

By Science Service . SCHENECTADY, N. Y,, Oct. 21.

—A new airplane instrument that

allows the pilot to detect dangerous intensities of electricity in a nearby thunder cloud has been developed by the General Electirc

.Company’s general engineering

laboratory here. : It is a delicate device consisting of a neon tube and micrometer

“connected to a pointed tungsten

rod that looks like-a lead pencil protruding 14, inches from the plane. The rod picks up the elec-

The Graf Spee... “superficial damage,” said Goebbels. ;

to follow him. We climbed and ‘ climbed up a narrow ladder-way. Finally we ‘emerged on the battle tower. “Look over there,” he said slyly. A ‘hundred ‘yards away a somewhat smaller cruiser was propped up in dry-dock, a huge hole that must have been 50 feet in diameter torn in its side exactly amidships, or whatever the sailors call the middle. It was the cruiser ‘Leipzig and the officer said they had been lucky to get it back into port afloat after a British torpedo - had hit it squarely. The BBC, he said, had claimed the ship had been sunk. But there it was. At Kiel some official representing, I suppose, the Propaganda Ministry welcomed me with a little speech. “I have just heard,” he said, “that you have ‘stopped _ at Hamburg and. seen all our warships there. Did you see the cruiser Leipzig, Herr Shirer?” “Yes, sir, and. ...” “Those Bri liars, they say .they have. sunk e Leipzig, Herr Shirer. ” “It didn’t look sunk to me, I must admit, and I'll be glad to broadcast that I've seen it, that it wasn’t sunk, but that. ...” He cut me off with a mighty roar. “Herr Shirer, that is fine. -You will answer “this dastardly English lie, isn’t it? You will tell the truth to the great American people. Tell them that you have seen the Leipzig with your own. eyes, isn't it?—and that the ship has not been scratched.” - ” ” ”

New Spirit in Navy

Before I could interrupt he was pushing me down a gangplank towards a naval launch. Out in Kiel harbor I was sur-

and . prised to see that almost the en-

tire ‘Germsdn fleet was eomicens trated here for Christmas. noticed the pocket - rr Deutschland, two cruisers of the Cologne class, both 26,000-ton bat-

8 FROM HERE

Among 19 Who Will Take Oath Oct. - 27 in State House.

Nineteen of 31 persons who took the bar examinations early this month passed, State Bar Assqciation officials announced today. They will be given their oaths in ceremonies: in the Supreme Court chamber: at the State House at 10:30 a. m., Oct. 27. Eight of those who passed were fom ndianspelis, They are ‘Carl thorn, ' 1300 © Oxford St.; Fi Balknap, 946 N. Meridian 8t.; James E. Rocap Jr., 5427 Washington Blvd; : ‘Robert - "Louis Shearer, 101 E, 14th St.; Nicholas W. ‘Sufana,” 2130 N. Delaware St. Louis. Arthur Thompson: Jr.; 510 N. Meridian St.; Burl Von Whiteman,

1309 N. Pennsylvania 8¢t., ‘and’ Pale !

mer Kohls, Wand, ‘4010 Washington Blvd. :

2 LOCAL MUSICIANS ‘ADDED TOI: U. STAFF

: navy,” he said proudly.

PASS BAR TEST

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* tleships, and about fifteen submas=

rines, not including‘ three in drydock. If the British only knew; XI could not help they could come over this night, which will see almost a full moon, and wipe out the whole, German fleet, Just one real big bombing attack. ' Our. launch. finally stopped next to an immense dry-dock. One of the 26,000-ton battleships was in it, the Gneisenau. - My hosts decided to show me over it. They were quick to explain that it, too, was in for a general overhauling, and I must admit that on the one

side of the hull that I could see, :

there were no holes, We spent an hour going through the immense -craft. . I was surprised at the spirit of camaraderie between officers and men on - the ship. Four or five senior officers accompanied me through the ship, and when we entered one of the crew's quarters there was no jumping up, no snapping to attention as I had expected. The captain must have noticed our surprise. “That’s the new spirit in our He also explained that in this war the men on all German men-of-war get exactly the same kind and the same amount of food as the officers, This had not been truein the last war and he quoted some naval proverb to the effect that the same food for officers and men puts an end to discontent and helps win the war. I remembered—as no doubt did he —that the German revolution in 1918 started here in Kiel among the discmniented. sailors, !

BERLIN, December. 31.—A flood of New Year's proclamations from all and sundry—Hitler, Goering, Himmler, etc. Hitler holds out

Rope of ‘victory to the people in

4 T-Omens of Se _—t ”» “Sing of

(Cor'yri Shirer: d Syndicut te

OSLO REPORTS MANY DIPHTHERIA CASES

BERLIN, Oct. 21 (U, P.).—An ouf= break of diphtheria among Oslo schoolchildren wag reported today by German-controlled sources in Norway and it was indicated that authorities feared’ the outbreak . would spread to other cities. Last Saturday's edition of the German-controlled Otle newspaper “Deutsche eZitung in Norwegen™ received here today, said Quisling interior ministry authorities had ex tended the 1940 compulsory vaccina=

omy stiibuted by ‘Un rey Fam Ly

schoolchildren ination aipherin is now widespread, thickly populated districts of Oslo. “Should it develop that diphtheria is catching hold in other cities com pulsory vaccination will be ordered there also,” the Bewspaper said.

TEST YOUR ' KNOWLEDGE |

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or false?

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