Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1941 — Page 7

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

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PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Titus Lowe, bishop of the Indianapolis area of the Methodist Church, sports fan, food connoisseur, amateur mechanic and authority on hymnology. : Bishop Lowe is a husky, blue-eyed, nearly bald,

} a six-footer with a genial and alert

expression. He weighs around 200 pounds, begins dieting and exercising whenever his “bay. window” starts appearing prominent, stands and walks erectly, and wears transparent horn-rimmed glasses. He follows football, baseball and boxing with deep interest and often turns on the radio to listen to a big game, getting just as excited as if he were a spectator. A

dinner guest during the recent*

cE, Joe Louis fight, he upset his hostA ess’ plans for an “intellectual evening” with sonie plain hints he hoped to hear the

| He plays a pretty good game of golf, usually beat-

ing ‘his fellow churchmen. He always likes to remind them that no minister has any business “breaking” 80 on the golf course because if they do, they're probably neglecting their flocks. One-sport for which he has no use at all is fishing-—considers it plain waste of time, Worked in Steel Mills ... THE BISHOP was born in England 63 years ago and came to the United States with his parents as a boy. of 14. The family settled in Pittsburgh, where young Titus Lowe labored in the steel mills. He worked: his ‘way through Ohio Wesleyan and then was ordained in 1900. Three years later he went to Calcutta, India, for a five-year - pastorate. He was elected a bishop in 1924, and left the United States once more to serve the Singapore: area for four years. He came here two years ago from Portland Ore. . This hard-working careeg has ‘left the bishop a

practical man, able to meet most everyone on their own basis. He's virile, dynamic, straight-talking with a mellow graciousness. He's an excellent conversationist, keeps the ball rolling in any group.

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FOR A CHURCHMAN, he has untsual 1 ability. He takes pride in being able to repair any-

thing he finds needs fixing. At home, he enjoys|

working in the yard, planting and caring for his roses and other flowers. When he gets home, the first thing he likes to do is to head for the kitchen and raid the icebox. “He's particularly fond of nippy cheese and there's nothing suits him better: for a snack than cheese and crackers with a bottle of ginger ale. He's also fond of rice and curry, and oriental foods in general— a taste developed in the nine or 10 years he spent in the Orient. He likes classical and church music, provided it's not the mournful type. He prefers his music with “life” in it. He sings well in an attractive baritone and he is a capable piano player. This, incidentally, is his greatest relaxation. When he’s tired, he likes to sit down at the piano and just playing a few selections refreshes him remarkably. . iy

Oh, Those Neckties!

HE IS A STUDENT of church architecture. He likes to read biographies and histories. He's a Shakespeare fan, frequently quotes from Shakespearean plays in his talks and sermons. He is a devoted member of the Contemporary Club because, although he classes himself as con-servative-minded, he likes to keep abreast of modern, challenging thought. ' 3 His one weakness is for gay colors, particularly bright neckties, which, as a clergyman, he wouldn't think of wearing. So he sometimes buys a gorgeous new necktie, keeps it a while just to look at, and then gives it to a nephew or friend.

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

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—We are not abandoning our shipping route to Vladivostok, in spite of an announcement from the U. 8. Maritime Commission which would seem to suggest that. Tokyo can take no comfort from the earlier dispatches which indicated that. this Government had gulped a run-out powder and was going to aid Russia over the Atlantic rather than the Pacific in order to keep out of Japan's way. Officials { of the Maritime: Commission today shipments would continue to go to Vladivostok, as well as across the Atlantic. It has been our policy to use all routes into Russia. The Maritime Commission's earlier announcement was that all aid-to-Russia cargoes would move An from Boston, effective Tuesday next. It should have stated that all aid-to-Russia crossing the Atlantic would move from Boston. But as that explanation was not included, it was inferred that Pacific shipments were to be abandoned. Because of the tense Far Eastern situation, it was assumed in some quarters that this announcement: revealed a change of high policy amounting to a backdown in face of the new Tokyo Cabinet. That was not the case. In fact, the State Department, and even the President himself, were taken com-

letely. by surprise; at, the Maritime Commission’s Petey mE RU

Some Business for Boston

THE MISTAKEN COLOR given to the announcement "caused consternation in high quarters. And naturally so. In the first place the Government was left in the position of seeming to be undertaking a broad-scale appeasement move at the time a firm front was needed. In the second place it was as if we were telling Hitler where to send his submarines to intercept our supplies to Russia. | Actually the appeasement story blew up on investigation. The Maritime Commission was merely throw-

ing some shipping business to Boston. That's all

/'The Vargas Formula By Aten Haden

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 25.—To ensure his continued the permanence of the present Government, President Getulio Vargas depends on two great instruments—the political police and the DIP, the Department of Press and Propaganda. ; ad I had an opportunity to see the police function from the inside when I was arrested in Sao Paulo. by the head of the local bureau, Carvalho Franco, accompanied by two plainclothes detectives.. I had invited to my hotel by telephone a prominent Paulista, who, it appeared later, was still under suspicion ‘by the political police for his complicity with 1,000,000 or so giver people ‘in the revolution of

i The police went through all ? my papers, inspected all my baggage and invited me to accom them to the sta< tion. I went. I was treated with every courtesy. and firmness and held incommunicado for two hour: The police wished to know whether I brought let ters or books from two of President Vargas’ bitterest critics, now exiled in Buenos Aires. They are Armando Salles De Oliveira, whose presidential candidacy in 1937 precipitated Vargas’ “golpe dé estado” in November of that year, and : his brother-in-law, Julio De Mesquita, owner and publisher of O Estado De Sao Paulo, Deaxils best newspaper, confiscated The police inspected my diary and notebooks and established that I was not messing in politics. They found to their amazement that I had notes on gambling games, music, economics, statistics, diagrams, names of a host of persons, and the general hodgePodge one Jos Sows when ve Nevertheless pages my dis correspon my y in Brazil this time, as well as my last trip in January, were carefully copied: It’s Done Thoroughly :

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there was to it. : For some time Rep. McCormack of Boston, Dembcratic leader of the House, has been trying to get some lend-lease shipping business for Boston. The stevedoring situation ran up the costs. Finally that was worked out. Even so, Boston was still up against opposition from New York, which has been hogging the business. McCormack was determined.

The Maritime Commission decided the time had come ‘for appeasement, not of Japan, but of Rep. McCormack and Boston. So it agreed that all Russian shipments -across the Atlantic would be sent out of Boston. The announcement was unclear but the decision was entirely clear.

Because it was a routine - decision concerning whether New York or Boston would get the business, and thus involved no high policy, there seemed no occasion to consult either the White House or the State Department.

What a Day's Work!

A FAIR AMOUNT of ship traffic is being promised to Boston under this arrangement. Reports that it should run to about 20 ships a month are probably about right. Officially the port of destination is a military secret. Newspaper speculation has stated it as Archangel. This is about the only port one could figure out by the map, so it couldn’t be much of a military secret to the Germans once the cat was out of the bag that the Atlantic would be used. Here there may be some difficulty. European ports of northern Russia are barred to: American-flag ships by the combat zone prescribed in April, 1940, after Germany invaded Norway. The Archangel route will have to be traveled by ships flying some other flag unless Congress revises the combat-zone provision of the Neutrality Act. There are also ice problems. Most uncertain of all is the rail line from Archangel to Mgscow. This piece has been completely ruined by facts. I came down to work suspecting a big appeasement move. But everything stands where it did 24 hours earlier when Secretary Hull told his press conference that it is time for the United States to defend its right to sail the seas everywhere. :

other in black pencil checking it off. The red pencil was obviously to tell the stenographer what to copy and as she finished each page she checked it off. Thereafter during my whole stay I was “tailed” ‘by a plainclothes flatfoot. John Hubner, the able American vice-consul in Sao Paulo, was detailed to inquire into the matter by Consul*General Cecil M. P, Cross. Hubner, after four years in Sau Paulo knows everybody. We went together to a cafe two nights later. He had arranged for me to meet there the federal representative of the political police. No explanations were given but apologies for disturbing me were freely made. My arrest had been a mistake. ‘It was feared the incident might have repercussions on Rio’s policy of friendly relations with the United States. I assured the federal policeman that I had been treated with the utmost courtesy but would he d removing the bloodhounds from my trail. The bloodhounds were less in evidence thereafter. : ;

‘Don’t Think——Act?!’

MY ARREST PROVES only one thing: That the Brazil political police is performing its primary job of preventing any political activity which can threaten Vargas’ permanence in office. My registration at the Hotel Esplanada showed I came from Buenos Aires. To the Sau Paulo police, Buenos Aires is a city where Armando Salles De Oliveira and Julio De Mesquita are exiled. These two men are the spearhead of opposition to Vargas. Ada » that the Jas that 3 telephoned a friend. of ese two r Vargas critics, Invi take coffee with me at my hotel. fing him te The police’s conclusion was simple: Investigate this jousnalist. he Police a4 not stop to think that if were up to po monkey-business I would hardly use She Selephone 49 sxablish contact. ce con I was reporting and not doing politics, the police and I parted on excellent terms.

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had been carefully arranged to look like a piece of flak— anti-aircraft gun—so that an Allied pilot flying along the road would get the idea that it was suicide to swoop

down on that road.) Except for a few German bombers starting out from near Hannover, we saw not a single plane in the sky all day. We passed the Cologne airdrome. If was packed with planes, but the hangars had not been touched. Obviously these night attacks of the British have failed not only to put the Ruhr out of commission, but even to damage the German flying flelds.

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Not Much Fighting

AACHEN, May 20.—We were off shortly after dawn from Aachen across the Dutch province of Lim= burg to Maastricht. Little evidence that the Dutch did much fighting here. The houses whole, the windows unshattered. An occasional Dutch pillbox showed signs of having been hit by machine-gun fire, but nothing heavier. Apparently the Dutch made no attempt to slow up the Germans by blowing up the road to Maastricht. One ‘bridge over a creek had been damaged. That was all. We crossed over the Maas (Meuse) at Maastricht. The river is broad here and was a natural line of defense, though the Dutch did not take much advantage of it. They had done a half-hearted job of blowing up the - bridges. Blown up one out of seven or eight spans on the two bridges I saw. : The Germans evidently had

J, A. CUMMINS, EDUCATOR, DIES

Co - Founder of Indiana Central Was Authority On Philosophy.

Dr. John A. Cummins, co-found-er of Indiana Central College and a nationally known educator, died yesterday in his home, 4251. Bowman Ave. after an illness of three weeks: He was 81. Dr, Cummins was head of tke Indiana Central College Philosophy department, in recent years conhis teaching to philosophy, a subject on which he was considered an authority. ‘He had taught classes at Indiana Central the last 36 years and was a leader in civic affairs in the University Heights community having served many years as a member of the town board. He played an ‘important part in having tke addition annexed to the City of In-

Musician and Vocalist Dr. Cummins took a deep interest in vegetable and flower gardening, He owned a prized collection of mussel shells, reputed to be the largest classified collection in

the country. He was considered an A musician and vocal-

at the Kosciusko County grade

later attending the University of Chicago. His first position in teaching was|

INSTALMENT XII—VISIT TO THE FRONT (May 19-20, 1940) . AACHEN, May 19, 1940.—Most amazing thing about . this Ruhr district, the industrial heart of Germany, which Allied planes were to have (and could have, we thought) knocked out in a few days, is that, so far as I can see, the night bombings of the British have done very little dam-

Today, we drove through many of the Ruhr centers ~ which the Allies were supposed to have bombed so heavily . the last few nights. The great network of railroad tracks and bridges around Essen and Duisburg were intact. The Rhine bridges at Cologne were up. The factories throughout the Ruhr were smoking away as usual. (An example of the Germany Army’s terrific attention to detail: For 300 miles along the Autobahn from Berlin to Cologne, broken-down farm implements made to look like anti-aircraft guns from any altitude at all were placed every 200 yards. Ploughs with the shaft pointed to the sky to look like a gun; rakes, harrows, wheelbarrows, sewing machines—every conceivable old implement

substitute spans, made of steel frames, waiting in the rear, and within a few hours of bringing them up had the bridges good as new. German supply columns were thundering over both bridges when we arrived.

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Paratroops Seize Bridges

ARRIVED at the Albert Canal. With its steep banks, thirty feet high, which the Belgians had cemented, it was a good defense line especially against tanks. Only the Belgians had not blown up the bridge. I asked a German officer why. “We were too quick for them,” he said. Apparently what happened here, and at most: of the other important bridges over the Albert Canal, all leading to Liege, was that German parachutists rushed the. bridges from behind, wiped out the defending machine-gun crews, even overpowered the pillboxes also defending the bridges, and cut the wires leading to the explosive charges in the bridges before the Belgians could set them off. ; This particular bridge over the canal was protected by a bunker at the Belgian end. The bunker

must have been taken in the

same mysterious way that Ft. Eben-Emael was taken at Liege —by parachutists with some newfangled weapon. ‘A couple of us ventured in. I saw at once that there had been a fire inside the bunker. From that I concluded —though with several reservations—that the parachutists who took the. pillbox from behind must have had a fire-pistol of some kind and shot their flames inside the pillbox.

Elaborate State, City Ceremonies Monday To Mark Hoosier Observance of Navy Day

INDIANAPOLIS and the Hoosier State will join the nation Monday in paying tribute fo America’s first line of defense, the U. S. Navy. For Indianapolis, as well as Indiana and the nation, it will be the most elaborate Navy Day observance since the last war.

The highlight of the nation’s.

observance, of course, will be President Roosevelt's address to the nation Monday night. The principal address here will

be delivered by Rear Admiral C.

W. Nimitz, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation, at a banquet at the Claypool Hotel. Earlier in the day, Admiral Nimitz will speak to the student body of Notre Dame University in South Bend. Other addresses in Indiana will include a talk by Comm. R. H. G. Mathews, U. S. N. R., Indiana Navy Recruiting Officer, at DePauw University at 10 a. m. FJ ” 8

BEFORE THE BANQUET Monday, the principal feature of the Indianapolis Navy Day observance will be a parade of Navy recruits to the Monument Circle. The recruits, hundreds strong, will receive the Navy oath on the Monument steps from Admiral Nimitz. The recruits were enlisted largely through the efforts of Indiana Legion posts during the last month in a “Recruit a Man for

Belgium's ‘Albert Canal was supposed to be

effecting a .crossing.

a good defense line but the Germans had little difficulty in

You were immediately struck by = the difference between Holland and Belgium. As soon as we crossed inio Belgium, we started running into blocks of pulverized houses along the road.

Obviously the Belgians were of a different metal from the Dutch. At the outset they fought like lions. From house to house. Tongres—Here for the first time we suddenly came across real devastation. A good part of the town through which we drove was smashed to pieces. Stuka divebombers and: artillery, an officer explained. .The railroad station was a shambles; obviously hit by Stukas. The railroad tracks all around torn and twisted; cars and locomotives derailed. One could—or could one?—imagine She consternation of the inhabitants. . When they had gone to bed that Thursday night (May 9), Belgium had been at peace with the world, including Germany. At dawn on Friday the German bombers were levelling the station and town— the houses in which they had gone to bed so peacefully—to a charred mass of ruins. The town itself was absolutely deserted. Tirlemont—A German officer remarks here: “It took us five days to get to Tirlemont.” We have come about a hundred kilometers from Aachen—20 kilometers a day. Not bad. I notice that in all that distance I have not seen one bomb crater in the road. I deduce thet while- German Stukas put the Belgian railroad out of action,

‘they were careful not to blow up

the roads. Apparently the German command decided in advance not

Every Post” campaign. Comm. F. M. McWhirter, U. S. N. R.,, area commander, will be with Admiral Nimitz during the swearing-in ceremonies scheduled for 4 p. m. The oath ceremonies will climax the parade of the recruits led by a uniformed contingent from the U. 8. Naval Training School at the Naval Armory. The parade marshal will be Lieut. L. F. Brozo, U. 8. N.. R. Members of the Shortridge High School Band will furnish the marching music for the column. ; ® 8 8

ADMIRAL NIMITZ, one of the Navy's top officers, will be welcomed to the City by Governor and Mrs. Henry F. Schricker, Paul Fisher, Indiana Navy chairman, Mayor Sullivan and local Naval officers. !

At the banquet, Clarence Jackson, executive vice president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and Civilian Director of Defense for Indiana, will be toastmaster,

Included on the program will be C. T. Malan, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who will present the winners of the State Navy Day Essay Contest. tely 450 persons are to attend the banquet. Also scheduled as part of the activities are numerous radio programs broadcast from Indianap olis and other cities the State. :

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Tanks Pierce Walls

WE CAME to a terrific hole in the road, just as it crossed a creek at the entrance to the town. A pit 30 yards in diameter and 25 feet deep. The officer explained the French blew this.one up. “French dynamite experts,” he said. “At places they have done a beautiful job. But they did not stop our tanks. The tanks went around through the factory you see at the left, piercing the factory walls as if they were made of tissue paper, crossed the creek a couple. of hundred yards upstream, and pursued the enemy.” Louvain—This ancient university city, burnt by ‘the Germans in a burst of fury in 1914, is now again—to a considerable extent— destroyed. The great library building is completely gutted.

Brussels — Brussels has been spared—the one lone city in Belgium that has not been in whole or in part laid waste. ;

Returning from Brussels - to Aachen, we ran across.a batch of British prisoners. They were herded together in the brick-paved yard of a disused factory. We stopped and talked to them. They were a sad sight. Some obviously shell-shocked, some wounded, all dead tired. But what impressed me most about them was their physique. They were hollow-chested and skinny: and round-shouldered. About ‘a third of them had bad eyes and wore glasses. Typical, I concluded; of the youth

NAVY DAY CEREMONIES were to be held bétween the halves at Yootball games throughout the State and nation today and over the week-end “open house” was to be held at Navy stations, including the Armory. Oct. 27 is traditionally observed as Navy Day because on that date in ‘1775 the Continental Congress received the first Navy bill providing for the original . United States fleet. The date also marks the birthday: of President Theodore Roosevelt who devoted his life to developing a sound national program for the U, S, Navy. The significance of Navy Day in Indiana this year is emphasized for Hoosiers because of the approaching launching of the U. 8. 8. Indiana; new 35,000-ton battleship which will slide down the ways at ceremonies in Newport: News, Va., Nov. 21.

MANY TEACHERS PROLONG STAY

Remain to Finish Shopping After Hearing Final Convention Talks. Their convention is over but a

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that England neglected so crimienally in the 22 post-war years when Germany, despite its defeat and the inflation and six million unemployed, was raising its youth in the open air and the sun, I asked the boys where they were from and what they did at home. About half of them were from offices in Liverpool; the rest from London offices. Their mili nine

Thirty yards away German infantry were marching up the road towards the front, I could not help comparing them with these British lads. The Germans, clean - cut physically, healthy-looking - as . lions, chests developed and all, It was part of the unequal fight. The English youngsters, I knew, had fought as bravely as men can, But bravery is not all; it is not enogh in this machine - age war. You have to have a body that will stand terrific wear and tear, And then, especially in this war, you must have all the machines

of warfare. I asked the English

about that. There were six of them, standing a little apart—all that were left, they told me, from a company that had gone into battle near Louvain. “We didn’t have a chance,” one of them said. “We were simply overwhelmed. Especially by those dive-bombers and tanks.” . “What about your own bombers and tanks?” I asked. : “Didn’t see any.” -This answ was chorused. 4 TOMORROW — German Army in Action. %

(Copyright, 1940, 1941, oe : Shirer: : buted by ted = MD Syndicate, Inc.)

LEGION TO HEAR W. A, HARRIMAN -

Head of Mission to Moscow Here Nov. 6; Veterans Map 1942 Program.

'W. Averill Harriman, U. 8. Mine ister to London, European lends

is expected ‘to record a new high in advance memberships. §

sistant to Secretary of the Navy Knox, and others.

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