Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1941 — Page 2

IDIED

Dedication Waits After Some Subscribers to Campaign]

Insist Funds Go to Armed Forces Instead Of Women Defense Workers.

A representative of the Federal Security Administra #on will confer this week with Indiana officials and United (§ Service Organizations State leaders in an attempt to settle

+the controversy arising over the establishment of a U., S. 0: .center at New Albany for women defense workers. Other developments were:

‘

did not take place today. New

‘Albany civic leaders said it.

‘had been “cancelled.” U. S. O. leaders in Southern Indiana said it had been “postponed.” ~ 2. Clarence A. Jackson, State Civilian Defense director, braised | the ‘fearless action” of the New| * Albany citizens in insisting on *having their say.” 3. Twenty out of 21 representa-| dives of New Albany. civic organiza-

tions voted in favor of a resolution ealling for abandonment of the cen-

J

‘4, The national vu, 8S. O. head~ ‘Quarters in New York termed the 1 situation a “local controversy” between two factions of citizens,

Complain to Schricker

. The situation developed last week when a number of New Albany residents who had oversubscribed their quota in the recent U, 8. O. fund-raising campaign, complained to Governor Henry F. Schricker and ‘national U. S. O. officials that it was]

their understanding their money|

would go for the use of men in the armed forces. . - : New Albany U, 8. O.. leaders countered that it had been stated plainly the funds would be for “men in the armegd forces and workers in crowded defense areas.” Gov. Schricker conferred with . Tesidents last Wednesday and said ‘he was “inclined to agree” with them. He has asked Thomas E. Dewey, national U. 8S. O. fund director, for a statement of policy in the matter.

Issue Taken to Taft

“Glen R. Hillis of Kokomo, who headed the Indiana U. S. O. drive, » supported their complaints and the matter was brought to the attention ‘of Robert P. Taft, head of the FSA . recreational division. . Mr. Taft announced today he has assigned James E. Zachary, his Midwest regional director, to confer with State and U. 8. O. heads in Indiana in an effort to iron out the controversy. . “There seems ‘to ‘be some misunderstanding regarding the use of ' U. 8. O. centers,” Mr. Taft's office said. “While it is true that defense .workers do make good money, the U. 8. O. plans on giving them a recreational outlet which will be ‘wholesome, just as it plans to do the same thing for soldiers and ‘sdilors away: from their commands “on leisure leave.” :

> Civilian Spirit Praised -

State Defense Director Jackson told the Women’s Division of the Indiana State Défense Council this afternoon that- the “action of New ‘Albany citizens - in putting the ‘microscope on the U. S. O. project “in that City is an example of how ‘eivilians can help win the war.” “Regardless of who is right in

1. The scheduled dedication of the $150 a month center

NEUTRALITY ACT CALLED FARCE

To Make U. S. Laws } Match Our Actions.’

DETROIT, Oct. 27 (U, P.)—Sec= retary of the Navy. Frank Knox urged complete repeal of the “so« called” Neutrality Act today, saying it is hypocritical and inimical to the security and safety of the United

| States and those nations fighting

Hitler. Mr. . Knox, with Rear Admiral Bureau of Ordnance, and other naval officers, were guests 4t Navy Day ceremonies which included inspection tours of key defense plants. Addressoing a Navy Day luncheon here, Mr. Knox said, “we neither think nor act neutral in this present war. It is only honest to make our laws consistent with our action.” Pleading for support of President Roosevelt's policies, the Navy secretary asserted “this is pre-eminently a time when our domestic differences must be forgotten and set aside.” Mr, Knox announced that the Navy has either commissioned or has under contract 691 war ships plus an auxiliary fleet of 323 ships with the prospective addition of 209.

ITALIAN PEASANTS TO FARM IN POLAND

ROME, Oct. 27 (U. P.).—Well-in-formed sources said today that Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano’s two-hour conversation with Adolf Hitler on the Eastern Front Saturday concerned sending Italian farmers and troops to cultivate and police Axis-occupied Russian terri-

ry. They said Germany already is organizing large groups of farmers from South Germany to go to Russia and Hitler's: conference with Ciano was to determine how many Italian peasants could be mustered. Thousands of troops and dirt farmers were expected to go.

healthful situation when" citizens through their civic organizations insist .on having their say. It is hoped that this fearless action will spread like a prairie fire from coast to coast and there will be a close examination of all projects offered the public in the guise of civilian defense. “Too many uplifters are abroad in this country for the supply of folks who need their services. Too many of ‘their programs are not

‘he matter,” he said, “it is a very

building morale, but destroying it.”

[omap

Upto 3,

RIES, pa

pt Valver.

Clsaned & Prassed = Cash & Carry

FELT HAT. 3%c*

DRIVE-IN STORES

NORTH—2323 E 38TH ST. EAST—6055 E. WASHINGTON SOUTH—2662 MADISON WEST—2618 W. 16TH ST. PLANT-~2005.4 Vartiwesars

Satisfaction Guaranteed or. Your Money Refunded

33 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU

South HE fen 1433 S. Meridian 2208 Shelby St. _ Beech Grove, 701 Main St.

‘North.

,- Downtown Massachusetts as St. St.

St. St.

|

Wrote Farm

By PAUL

LONDON, Oct. 27.—The State

Britain to win the war. She is Eliza Combs Emmons, 44-year-old wife of a tenant farmer on ‘the famous “banks of the Wabash.” From her little, dingy home outside ‘historic Vincennes, she wrote a neat little number called “Gonna Help Our Momma to Win the War.” The tune made the rounds of Tin Pan Alley .in America but nothing ever happened to it.

* That's where Winston Churchill

now enters the picture. Mrs. Emmons made a recording of her song, her Indiana twang her only’ accompaniment and mailed the record to Britain's Prime Minister at Downing Street. To it she added a node saying that Winston Churchill was “sure to go crazy over ‘Gonna

Linked to No.

By ROSS H.

Mrs. Emmons does not . write song and had it recorded and sent it to Mr. Churchill in care of the British Broadcasting Corp, last July.

“I didn’t. hear from Mr. Chureh ill;. so about three or four weeks ago, I wrote him;” she sail. “I told him I was just a common, poor - American housewife who liked to write songs and that if he could help me, I would donate all the proceeds to England's cause.” .

Mrs. Emmons said she had been writing songs ever since she was 14 years of age. They are of all types—love songs, folk songs, even hymns. She has sent her songs to several puslishing houses

Home on Banks of Wabash

Wife—He Did

MANNING

Times Special Writer

of Indiana may now take a bow.

One of ‘her daughters has brought pleasure and sunlight into the ‘home of Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister. It all began. way back six months ago when an: unsung heroine sat down one day to pen a song that would Sweep the world and help

Help Our Momma to Win the War! “You're sure to go crazy over it,” she wrote the Prime Minister, “that is, if you'll play it two or three times, because that’s when the melody gets you. “Of course if you could take an afternoon off some day from the war and learn the words, that'll help us both. A recording for America, I mean. ‘Gonna Help Our Momma to Win the War, Vocal by Winston Churchill.’ s it would make the Hit Parade easy!” Mr. Churchill is not singing it himself yet, but you can never teil about Britain's tireless Prime Minister.

10 Downing St.

GARRIGUS

Editor, Vincennes Sun-Commercial

"VINCENNES, Ind., Oct. 27—Mrs. Eliza Combs Emmons, shoves old wife of a tenant farmer in the Wabash River bottoms near here, was canning fruit in her weather-beaten home when notified that her . song, “Gonna Help Our Momma to Win the War,” had caught the fancy of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England.

music fluently. So she sang Ahe

and to Hollywood but never has been able to sell them. Mrs. Emmons and her 48-year--. old husband, Franklin Everett Emmons, are the parents of four boys and three girls, ranging in age from six to 25 years. They have been tenant farmers on the John Brevoort farm south of here for more than 20 years. “I want fo sell my songs so I can get out of this rut,” said Mrs. Emmons. . Mrs. Emmons has a flashing smile, Her ‘proudest possession is an old upright piano which she plays after a fashion. “I only had 13 music lessons,” she said.

“lewis ‘men”: The President now

thas offered them the opportunity of

showing which is’ “the stronger al-

legiance Mr, Roosevelt's etter adds to his personal appeal the other one—“the preservation of .'. . those freedoms upon ‘which ‘the very existence of the: United Mine ‘Workers of America depends.” / Reports from coal-mining districts are “that if Mr. Roosevelt should appeal directly to the union rank-and-file he would get an loverwhelming response, based not only on his personal popularity but on the miners’ feeling of patriotic duty. Mr. Roosevelt, according to his letter, is not yet ready to make this general appeal in specific words, but he has’laid the foundation for such an effort. The President's letter was ge livered at 8:13 o'clock last night to Mr, Lewis at his old colonial home

teleph personal visitors with the reply comment” ‘on the President's

letter, Asks Reconsideration Half an hour later Mr.

, Lewis: I acknowledge your letter of yesSerdar, Fou say that you do notH{2 Warran recommending additional extension the temporary agreement to: keep the cdptive mines in ‘operation pending final settlement of the controversy I must ask you to. reconsider decision.

Roosevelt Letter fo Lewis Contains Faux Pas or Poison

(Continued from Page One)

Taylor. During such conferences the production of coal for steelmaking by the mine workers under the established wage scales of the Appalachian Agreement should continue in the broad interest of the safety and defense of the nation. I.am, therefore, as President of the United States, asking you and your associated officers of the United Mine Workers of America, as loyal citizens, to come now to the aid of your country. I ask that work cone tinue at the captive coal mines

pute.

Very /siticerely yours FRANKLIN D: ROOSEVELT.

MORE FLU, INDICATED,

WASHINGTON: Oct. 27 (U. P.)— have mul-

of influenza cases this winter, Public Health officials said today.

vere, localized or widespread, of short or of long duration. But they 0 say:

to assume that the in

last year.

LN erietube

pending the settlement. of the dis-|

HEALTH EXPERTS SAY/[t

“Conditions ‘are such that 1t 1s]

| reasonable : Sience Will Jo ih tia winter due large num 0 people around industrial ad ;

military areas.” Already, the incidence of “flu” is|’ higher tn 1 was at the same time| Se

‘Mrs. ‘Eliza Combs Emmons, composer of “Gonna Help Our Momma to Win the War,” poses with her husband, Franklin Emmons, a fenant farmer, and two of their seven children. :

You I Go Crazy Over It,

William H. P, Blandy, chief of the| .

DEMAND U. 8. ACT ON MINES

Lewis: Foes in Congress Urge Crack-Down to "End Tieup. (Continued from Page One)

has become a co-conspirator with the racketeers in the setting up of a labor despotism in this country,” Rep. Cox said. “John Lewis holds every- branch of the Federal Government in his vest pocket. He has again become the strong man of the nation, though not so usable, so sinister and so dangerous as sidney , who seems. to have been annointed as the fair-haired boy of the Administration.

“Sham and Pretense” “It all admittedly makes a sham and a pretense out of all our preparations for war, The minds of. the informed public are filled with dis-

as the sweat of dea There was talk in some Congressional quarters that the situation

‘might result in renewal of demands

for legislation to outlaw national defense strikes. At the height of a strike wave some months ago, a number of such proposals were advanced but died on the vine as the situation” abated. : White House Secretary n T. Early said at his regular 10:30 a. m. press conference today that no reply had been received from Mr. Lewis at that time. - Other sources speculated, meantime, that Mr. Roosevelt might “criticize Mr. Lewis’ lack of co-operation in the “total defense” address which he makes to the nation tonight. : Mr. Roosevelt called on Mr. Lewis and other mine workers officials as “loyal citizens” to avoid a shutdown “in this crisis of our national life” and to continue working the mines pending a final seftlement of the dispute. “That is essential to the preservation of our freedoms, yours and mine; those freedoms upon which the very existence of the United Mine Workers of America depends,” Mr. Roosevelt wrote. There will be tremendous pressure on Mr. Roosevelt to deal drastically with Mr. Lewis if the strike is not quickly ended. If prolonged, it may materially affect steel making: within 10 days, and a steel

‘| failure would break the back of

national rearmament.

Fear Spread of Strike There was the further threat that it might lead to a walk-out of the 400,000 miners in all of the soft coal mines in the Appalachian region. : M. officials at Uniontown, Pa., called upon Mr. Lewis to call a general Strike of miners unless an agreement in the captive mine .dispute is reached “within a few days.” . ] Mr. Roosevelt first asked Mr. Lewis last week to continue production ‘ pending settlement of the captive mine dispute which has narwed to a question of an open 0) Mr. Lewis refused Saturday in a letter tartly worded with ridicule of National Defense ‘Mediation

Concentra filed the dangers of & Ligh Talo Las ageecd

at “Step. Toward War,’

| probably we won't be in any war

eign Relations Committee during 1 hearings on. the ship-arming

trust and their hearts are: as cold | tory.”

Might Be

Secretary Says. - WASHINGTON,” Oct. 27 10. Py.

{of American merchant ships “might] m, be called a step leading to war,”}

{he fact of the “situation is that

that we shall.” : before the Senate For-

Portions of his testimony

ws ‘said. that “there will be no purpose or intent to rush out Sumewhere and get into a real war, 1t’ is “all-important, however, that we defend our rights on the Atlantic against any avowed move‘ment of force‘dnd lawlessness.” - ‘Delights in" Misery’ Regarding the arming of merchant ships, Mr. Hull said: “That might be called a step leading to war or ‘leading to ‘one thing or ‘another, but the situation is that probably’ we won’t be in any war until ‘Hitler decrees that we stall and it has not been at all to his advantage so far to do that.” He described Hitler as a man “who delights in misery and human suffering.” - “T.pead every day or two of the most inhuman acts against old people and sick people, babies and mothers, by these ' (Nazi) soldiers who are’ exercising unconscionable government over all these populations,” he said. “It is that kind of danger that we face.” “We cannot sit back, we cannot sleep easy at night” while Hitler's movement to dominate the earth goes forward, he said,

Rule Held Superceded

Mr. Hull told the committee that the rules of neutrality are superceded when the law of self-defense intervenes and, in asking for repeal of vital sections of the Neutrality Act, asserted that ‘the act was intended to apply to wars where a ‘program of subjugation” was not contemplated. * He claimed that the program of American aid to Britain ‘induced, the German generals to call off an invasion of Britain in’ September, 1940, when they “had all their plans to invade England and had all their platforms erected in Berlin for the greatest victory. celebration in his-

Continued American aid to Britain is now hampered by the appli-

said, at a time when it has become apparent that the “tide of conquest” is moving, in the direction of the a | United States.

Sees Arming as Duty

“Hitler under his policy of intimidation and frightfulness has in

lives and American ships, ne-less than the lives and ships of other nations; will be destroyed if they are found in most of the North Atlantic Ocean,” he said. “In the presence of threats and acts by an outlaw mation, there arises the right, and there is imposed the duty, of prompt and determined defense.” Congress must remember: that actions taken by the Administration

against “a world movement prosecuted by the greatest destroyer of everything that is worth while,” he said. The Nazi Government, he added, must not receive .the im-

be granted to them. Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, told the committee that arming merchant vessels would give them a better chance to ‘escape submarine and air attacks. The armament, he explained, keeps submarines sub-

ies views in| .

{PRICE CEILING URGED:

cation of the Neutrality Act, he|

effect given motice that American|-

are actions taken in self-defense

pression that any concessions are to]:

* WAS ON, Oct. 27 (U. P). _—President, Roosevelt will entertain the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at luncheon at the White House tomorrow. Mrs. Roosevelt said she deeply regretted that she would not be . able to be present. She explained that she has a lecture date in Chicago tomorrow night, the con- . fract | to which was : made Six

First Lady said abe did not know until the President told her at teatime yesterday that the Duke and Duchess were re to Washington. ov Roosevelt denied published reports that she did not wish to be hostess to the former King of Britain and his American-born wife. Although she did not call attention to the fact, she had intended to be present at the lunch-, eon planned for them on’ their previous visit here last month. That luncheon was cancelled because of the death of her brother, G. Hall Roosevelt.

BY MRS. ROOSEVELT

NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (U, Pi).— Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt warned in a radio address last night that the United States faces a “vicious spi of rising prices and wages, and advocated legislation to fix ceilings on prices and rents, coupled with voluntary co-operation of labor to restrict wage increases. Broadcasting in behalf of the Pan-American Coffee Bureau, Mrs, Roosevelt declared that “we are still in the opening stages of the spiral in this country, but the bureau of labor statistics reports that the cost of living on a national average has risen about 10 per cent since the war started. . . . wholesale prices have risen aver 22 per cent.” Mrs. Rocsevelt said price inflation could be partially avoided by such devices as removing “excess money” from the public by taxation or sale of defense bonds, limiting amount and terms of installment credit and seeking . voluntary co-operation to place ceilings on certain goods, but that this “does not seem to comPletely control inflationary tendencies.”

» Tomorrow |

HITLER LOOKED ILL TO CUDAHY 2

Seems to Have ‘Malignant Disease,’ He Tells ~ Senate Group. . WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (U. P..

—John Cudahy, former American

Ambassador to Belgium, thought Adolf Hitler “looked as if he had a

‘malignant disease” when he inter-

viewed him earlier this year. Mr. Cudahy made that statement at a secret session of the Senate

turning |Foreign Relations Committee dur-

ing hearings on the Armed Ship Bill. It was precipitated by his prediction that the upper ranks ot the Nazi Party would engage in internal conflict if Hitler died. Mr. Cudahy interviewed Hitler as

a newspaper correspondent after hc

had left the U. 8. diplomatic

service. Latest Hess Story

“Now, Number One is not going to endure forever,” he told the committee. “I am not a physician, but never saw a man who looked so ill as he did when I saw him. He looks as if he -had not slept for months.” “You are speaking of Hitler now?” he was asked. ° “Yes, Hitler,” Mr. Cudahy replied. “Number One they call him over there. He looked as if he had a malignant disease.” Describing reports that Hitler was a “great ranter and raver,” Mr. Cudahy related that “there was one story going the rounds, and quite authentic, that in’one of his rages he fell on the floor and startet] chewing a rug.” Mr. Cudahy told the committee ° that the current story in Berlin is that Rudolf Hess flew to Britaih because he believed the “Germanic peoples would destroy themselves” if. the war should continue indefinitely. “The story that I got, which I think is quite reliable, was thédt Hess was the type of German ‘I have had some acquaintance with in this country—a very tough twofisted fellow, with a gentle side to him—a strange combination,” Mr. Cudahy said. “He had a feeling that the Germanic peoples would destroy themselves if this war went on and on interminably. And he got to brooding about this matter.’

~

levels.

merged and airplanes at higher|

ARLE

- At Peace Chapel always on duty—twenty-four “hours a day. No matter at what time “our services. pared to answer the call promptly... to take immediate charge of all arrangements, so that the family may be relieved of all responsibility.

IS

PEACE CHAPEL

- ab

- IAP - “rq ew A

someone is

are required, we are pre-

Aa ELE

The month in which this advertiseraent is published (October, 1941) will find the Illinois Central System handling one of the largest volumes of freight traffic for many years, if not in all its history. The same will be true, almost without exception, of practically all the active reilway mileage in the United States. : Levels even higher are predicted, moreover, for the corre. sponding months of 1942 and 1943, provider national rearmament cone tinues its projected pace. That's DEMAND and it comes face to face with what is still a rather limited SUPPLY. In most markets that would be a signal for a rise in price, a rise which would be reflected beyond in ever widening circles, as a ripple goes out over a pond. ad} : “But not #0 an the railroads: Their charges seldom sise merely because the traffic will sind it. They rise—and will rise in the future, if Sy sion ‘at oll oly wiena showing, at rally. wspundss ave Youn markedly and unbearably increased. A chor tn fhe pics of every commodity is: f Shires he bi of the transportation costs entering into its assembly and delivery. Therefore an important stabilizing factor in prices today is the know] railway rates asa whole are actually LOWER than they were even at the " start of the depression and very substantially BELOW ther peak of 1921. me : That's ONE REASON averags wholesale prices have risen

ledge that

Ey

and that means

Tuya real

emergency ~ Bi