Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1941 — Page 8

E OF THE WEEK: Don Emerson Warrick, retary of the Indiana Bankers Associaicticing - attorney, former country school “connoisseur of ties, practical joker, golf adhe City’s number one “‘worry wart.” He's not .. satisfied to worry over his own problems, but worries over those of his friends and the world in general, and enjoys doing it.

Don’s a highly ‘intense person.

He usually seems preoccupied, ' “takes every activity seriously and goes at things tooth and nail. His y volatile temper is likely to "let go and blow off steam most any time. When-it does, he looks and sounds really dangerous, but isn't

He's 40, stands about 5 feet 8, weighs around 160 and has to y to keep his weight down. His eyes are ne ue, his complexion fair, his cheeks quite ind he has a cleft in his chin. His hair is nd thinning, and eyebrows are rather walks with his head and shoulders dropped, ge of his preoccupation often passes up the street without speaking. He seldom ‘his gait.

8’ Handy Man

y no one in the State knows more bank5.the Indiana Bankers Association’s handy the sparkplug of its organization. Acquainted nent men in the business all over the wields quite a bit of influence in American ‘Association sessions. erested in politics and enjoys working as a for the association. Intensely curious, he’s amateur political detective—just can’t rest knows what's going on behind the scenes. on a' Greene County farm, he attended Cenmal a couple of years, taught country school, assistant cashier of the bank at Jasonville, 7 in 1928 came to the big city. He got a job ie Clearing House, largely on the strength of nt hand g and the sales talk he gave jis letter of application. Five years later he went present job enjoys fox chasing, quail hunting, swimming games, but his principal sport is golf. says he does some of his best thinking on the Course. He shoots in the eighties, despite some

‘He loves peanuts, though, and drinks iced tea the

unconventional ‘methods such as foot, then the other, before driving

Loves His Peanuts .

If he makes a poor shot and someone athizes, he’s likely to fly into a towering rage, .the ball in blistering language and f clubs after it. Then hell grin sheepishly and & on with the game. He likes card games, particularly poker and contract bridge. ' His principal relaxation at home is reading-—newspapers, a tie and detective stories. His pet peeves are radio quiz and,

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programs windy commercials. They drive him to distraction.| He won't do a lick of work around the house, insists|

he did his share of labor as a boy on the farm. Uninterested in food, he eats merely when he’s hungry and doesn't care or know what he’s eating.

year around. ' He ‘smokes ‘cigarets clumsily and by Spurts. He may go for a week without smoking, then smoke up a whole package during a card game. Because of his usual preoccupation, he’s a pcor auto driver—frequently drives right through a red light, or maybe stops and then forgets to stars When the light changes to green.

Has Tricky Big Toe

His preoccupation, coupled with a big toe that has a habit of flying out of joint; caused him quite a bit of grief a while back. Driving home from Terre Haute one night his mind was a thousand miles away. An old model car with a noisy motor pulled up alongside. Don heard it and mistook it for a railroad train. Jabbing at the brake, he threw the big toe out of place and had to stop and reset it before he could

stomping ti one

New Evidence of Desire for Regulation Shown in Nation-Wide Poll. ng GEORGE GALLUP of Diteelo im San

PRINCETON,

HAIL THE CONQUEROR! (July 19-Aug. 13, 1940) “ BERLIN, July 19, 1940. —It is not to be a Blitz- + krieg against Britain. At least not yet. - In the Reichstag tonight, Hitler “offered” peace. He said he saw no reason why this war should go on. But of

N. J.. Nov. 1.—New

evidence of growing public New! course it’s peace with Hitment for regulation of labor unions; ler sitting astride the Con--—a trend which began with the tinent as its conqueror.

sit-down strikes

in the results of a nation-wide poll’

Leaving the fantastic show in

of 1937—is revealed the Reichstag—and it was the

of public opinion just completed on most colorful of all I've ever seen the question of labor union finances. -- wondered what the British

Critics of labor, would make of it. I had hardly allege that too; arrived at the Rundfunk to pre- _ much secrecy sur-| pare are my talk when I picked up rounds the finan- I BBC in German. there cial operations of| was the answer already. It was many unions, and} a great big No. The more I that because| thought of it, the less I was surunion leaders are| prised. Peace for Britain with handling other Germany absolute master ot the

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proceed. For all his seriousness; Don has a whimsical sense of humor. He loves nothing more than playing practical jokes on friends, and in particular on his cousin, Wayne Warrick, the druggist. For instance, there was the time Cousin, Wayne was playing golf with a bitter rival. Don sent him a telegram—collect—and. had a messenger boy on a bicycle deliver it right on the golf course, The cousin, thinking it gd be pretty important, paid the charges, tipped the boy generously, then read: “Bear down hard, Bobbie.” T was signed, “Hag en. ” Don nearly split his sides laughing at his cousin’s discomfiture.

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

5 y isolationist polly now, it still would be ty for us to insist upon the right to send our yp over all seas. ° point has not been effectively brought out in Senate debate over revising the Neutrality Act. Whether we aid . Britain and Russia, or not, our defense needs make it necessary for ships to bring in materials from all over the world. Our defense production would be fatally - crippled within a short time if we pulled our ships into port and tied them up for fear that if they went out on the high seas they might have a shooting match with an Axis raider or submarine. The American freighter Lehigh was sunk off Africa while traveling to the Gold Coast to pick up a necessary “cargo. You don’t run empty ships all the Sd unless they are going for something

tra, in’ the East Indies, each a long water the United States. te Building a House ARE MORE self-sustaining than any other haps. We have all of the iron ore we steel-making' requires manganese. We about 1,300,000 tons a year, acgording

illiam Y. Elliott, OPM expert handling imles. We haven't been able to find tha’

even more manganese. ; bring in more than 1,000,000 tons a year ' far-away places as India, Africa and the to supplement domestic production and

ne > Commandos By Wm. H Stoneman

DON, Nov. 1 1.—Hair-raising stories of daring [ coast of France by blackshirted daredevils tommyguns and bent on: kidnaping Geres, or shooting up officers’ messes, gre back to London from France. Some of these stories may be true while others are no more than the products of lively imaginations, rendered still livelier by visits to the Savoy Bar or other similar emporia. The crop of such stories is particularly lush at the moment because of the public demand for action in the West and the recent official announcement, that the authorities had organized “Commandos” of shock troops to carry out such raids. . The British authorities say nothing of these excursions but based on sifting some of the more tales, is that there may have been some i grab raids by a few men but that tHere very ambitious. along that he authorities: naturally do not mind having ‘the continent think that all hell is break-

ing

THESE STORIES seem to stem from ddy of them all, the now hoary yarn of a

id on Letouquet Casino in the summer of .

ding to that story, which is believed to n group of British “Commando” boys ed into a dance at the Casino late one "the ladies to leave and proceeded to

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French Raids Risky Affairs

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ash ~educational conference of the American Council of

By Raymond Clapper

sources being developed in Cuba. Chromite, also ecessary for making hard steel, must come—perhaps fo ee-quarters of what we must "have—from the Philippines, India, South Africa and some from South America. Those in the Goverpment who are responsible | for locating supplies of strategic materials can give you many more instances to show that defense production would be disastrously crippled if shipping were suspended. It is completely misleading to say that we are 90 per cent self-sufficient, that our foreign trade accounts for only 10 per cent of our economic life. It is like saying that nails are not necessary in building a house because only a few dollars’ worth are used.

The Isolationists Know It

IF WE WERE 100 per cent isolationist we would still have to go and get this essential material—for I don’t hear any of the isolationists saying they would scrap defense: Do they expect that even with isolation, they could get strong defense without man-

"I am isolating one or WE examples here to St the ihe aimculty more clearly, Actually the whole business is a vast complex of materials.

You can make artificial rubber. We could, perhaps, if we could spare the machinery, eréct enough artificial rubber plants to replace our consumption of rubber. That would mean building enough artificial rubber plants to produce the equivalent of half of the world’s total production of rubber. Also, we have a lot of silver and we could substitute that for copper in some electrical work. We could substitute silver in solder. We could use softer steel and go all around into 8 second-rate kind of industry and pephap; continue to live—but Heaven knows under what kind of conditions. No, the chances are the isolationists wouldn't put up with it either. They would insist upon the nation’s right to obtain materials essential to its strength. They would come out about where the Administration comes ‘out in all of Wis—oply probably several years too ite.

machine-gun all the Germans present. There have been many other stories of British machine-gunners motorcycling through northern|to France as far as Amiens and shooting ev German in sight; of knifing parties along the at Boulogne, and of raids on the Channel Islands. Apparently, the best raiding which has been done has been in the Mediterranean. There was a parachute raid on Italy which was an eminent success and fiction stories, apparently based on reality, tell of very successful shooting parties in Italian Libya. Only yesterday the London Daily Express reprinted

a story from a service magazine published in the}

Middle East, telling of a raid executed by a landing party on Bardia just before it was taken in the offensive of British Commander-in-Chief General Sir Archibald P. Wavell.

IT DESCRIBED how a small group of men with their faces blackened and wearing black uniforms landed from a flat-bottom boat, killed the sentries and rushed through the center of the town to blow up an ammunition dump on the outskirts. Before

a local cafe, cleared out the women and killed all Ttalians present. Raids along the coast of France would necessarily be risky affairs because the Germans have the shallows well, mined and the beaches well wired and

manned by sentries. t been received of any

No authentic news has really large-scale landing, though there are Jo quent parties being put ashore.

hints of small kidnaping parties

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Education. This conference is sponsored by the Edu-

cational Records Bureau and Co-operative Tests

Service, the Committee on Measurement and Guid-

union.

AMERICAN rae OPINION] people's money, they should be required to make public reports of the! funds they collect and spend. Union’ leaders, on the other hand, feel that since unions are entirely private or-, ganizations there is no obligation for them to make such reports, The viewpoint of the unions is apparently not shared by the general public. A large majority of or intervieyed in ed Jnsiitute avor a law req ons to publish financial reports.

Suspect Dishonesty A careful analysis of the reasons behind. their opinion shows that, rightly or wrongly, many voters shave formed an impression that dishonesty exists in the handling of union funds in many instances, The poll was conducted on the following issue: “Do you think labor unions should be required to make yearly public reports of the money they collect and spend?” The results are:

Even labor union members polled in the course of the survey voted in favor of the proposal, the results for that group being 84 per cent in favor, 11 per cent opposed, 5 per cent undecided. On this issue, as in all others, the Institute's scle concern is to report opinion as it exists, regardless of whether those who hold one opinion or the other are right or wrong in their views. As a factfinding organization the Institute holds no point of view of its own on the labor issue or any other question.

Back of the public’s ‘attithide in today’s survey is the belief on the part of many voters that the labor movement harbors many racketeers d grafters. Westbrook Pegler, e newspaper columnist, has been persistently making charges of racketeering in the unions, and by and large the public agrees with Mr. Pegler. Seventy-four per cent of all voters polled say they think many labor union leaders are racketeers. Anc ther, issue whieh has provoked wide. liscussion in the labor field is the check-off—the system whereby the company collects union dues out of the workers’ pay envelope and turns the money over to the

Opinion on Check-off ..

The Institute conducted a public opinion survey on that issue, with the following result: ; “Should companies having a closed or union shop .take union dues out of the workers’ pay enJelopes and turn the money over the unions, or should the unions collect the dues themselves?”

Companies Should Collect... 15% Unions Should Collect...... 60 No Opinion ...cccccoeeevve. 25

BERTERMANN SHOW. SET FOR TOMORROW:

Flower lovers: and camera fans alike will have a field day tomorrow at the llth annual open house of the Bertermann Brothers’ greenhouses at Cumberland. . Every year, several thousand persons view the display of flowers, which this will include “cascade” ¢ themums,. some of them seven feet high; a new brand of carnation; ‘camellias and gar-

denias. According to: company officials, color-camera addicts in recent years have found the display an unusual field for color shots, A feature of the open house this yeah Will be She opening.of a retail ou

Sally's Fiance Sued for Divorce

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 1 (U. PB). A. Greenough has

continent is impossible. The announcer heaped ridicule on Hitler’s every utterance. Officers from the High Command and officials from various . ministries © sitting around the room could not believe their ears. One of them shouted at me: “Can you make it out? Can you understand those British fools? To turn, down peace now?” I merely grunted. “They're crazy,” he said. The Hitler we saw in the Reichstag tonight was the conqueror, and conscious of it, and yet so wonderful an actor, so magnificent a handler of the German mind, that he mixed superbly the full confidence of the conqueror with the humbleness which always goes down so well with the masses when they know a man is on top. His voice was lower tonight; he rarely shouted as he usually does; and he did not once cry out hysterically.

The Master Orator

I'VE OFTEN sat in the gallery of the Kroll Opera House at these Reichstag sessions watching the* man as he spoke. I've often admired the way he usés his hands, which are somewhat feminine and quite artistic. Tonight he used those hands beautifully, seemed to express almost much with his hands—and the sway of his body—as he did with his words and the use of his voice. I noticed. too, his gift for using his face and eyes (cocking his eyes) and the turn of his head for irony, of which there was considerable in tonight's speech, gs pecially when he referred to Mr Churchill, er one roof I have never SO many - gens: vty before. Massed together, their chests heaving with crosses and other decorations, theysfilled a third of the first balcony. Part of the show was for them. Sud-' denly pausing in the middle of his speech, Hitler became the Napoleon, creating with the flick of his hand (in this case the Nazi salute) 12 field-marshals, and since Goering already was one, creating a special honor for aim— Reichsmarshal. It was amusing to watch Goering. Sitting up on the dais of the Speaker in all his bulk, he acted like a happy child playing with his toys on Christmas morning. (Only how deadly that some of the toys he ‘plays with, besides the electric train in the attic of Karin Hall, happen to be Stuka bombers!) - Throughout Hitler's speech. Goering leaned over his desk chewing his pencil, and scribbling out in large, scrawlyletters the text of his remarks which he would make after Hitler finished. But . always he kept one ear on the Leader's words, and at appropriate moments he would put down his pencil and applaud heartily, his face a smile of . approval from one: ear to the other. : 8 » 8

The Boyish Goering ’ HE HAD TWO BIG moments, and he reacted to them with the ‘happy naturalness of a big child. Once when Hitler named two of his air-force generals field marshals, he beanled jie a proud big brother, clapping his hands with Gargantuan gestures, pointing his big paws at the new fleld-mar-shals as at a boxer in the ring when he’s introduced. ; was when Hitler named him Reichsmarshal. Hitler turned around and handed him a box with whatever insignia a

Count Ciano, left, and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop of Germany « “Count Ciano was the clown of the evening.”

| a Three Russian Links t | Outside World May Be Cut by Hitler.

Wallace Carroll. London manager of . the United Press and veteran European: | i reporter, has reached Tehran after .a ! 1500-mile flight behind the Russian * | lines from Kuibyshev, Russia. ‘

By WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent TEHRAN, Iran, Oct. 29 (Delayed). -If the Germans capture Rostov hey will attempt to drive due east to . Astrakhan, cutting the route yver which Britain and the United States hope to send supplies to the

Red Army. Tat was the opinion in Kuiby~ shev, the temporary headquarters: of foreign diplomats and newspapermen in Russia. Today, after flying out over the route Anglo- = American war materials must be brought in from Iran I found it shared by foreign observers in Tehran, On my flight from Russia I saw plenty: of evidence that the Russians will make every effort to keep. this. door open. I am bound not to reveal details, but Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's armies are taking no chances on the possibile ity the Germans may crash through the Don River line, ’

Tehran Seems Asleep My plane flew over the supply route, down the coast of the Cas« pian to Pahlevi, still bearing the scars of a three-day Russian bome

‘amazing scene in.

Reichsmarshal wears. Goering took the box, and his boyish pride and satisfaction was almost touching, old murderer that he is. He could not deny himself a sneaking glance under the cover

of the lid. Then he went back to

his pencil-chewing and his speech. I considered his popularity— second only to Hitler's in the country—and concluded that it is just because, on occasions like this, he’s so human, so completely the big, good-natured boy. (But also the boy who in June, 1934, could dispatch men to the. firing squad by the hundreds.) Count Ciano, who was rushed up from Rome to put the seal of Axis authority on” Hitler's “offer” of peace to Britain, was the clown of the evening. In his grey and black Fascist militia uniform, he sat in the first row of the diplomatic box, and jumped up constantly like a jack-in-the-box every time Hitler paused for breath, to give the Fascist salute. He had a text of the speech in

‘his hand, but it was probably in ' Italian, so that he was not fol-

lowing Hitter’s words. Without

the slightest pretext he would hop to his heels and expand in a sa-_

lute. Could not help noticing how high-strung Ciano is. He kept working his jaws. And he was not chewing gum.

A Sad Figure

SADDEST figure to me in the Assembly was Gen. Halder, «hief of the German General Suaff. Most people think that he is the brains of the German army, that it was he who made the final plans for the Polish campaign and the great offensive in the West and executed them in such an astonishingly successful manner. But he has never kowtowed to Hitlér.* It is widely reported that he has on occasions talked very sharply to the Great Man, And that, as a result, Hitler hates him. At any rate, he was not made a field marshal tonight, but mercly promoted one grade. I watched him tonight, his. classically intellectual face, and he seemed to be hiding a weariness, a sadness, as he warmly congratulated his younger generals who are now raised over him as field marshals. Alexander Kirk, our charge, was there too. The Nazis put him in the back row with the small fellows, but he didn't seem to mind. He sat there all evening, - his face like a sphinx, breaking nly occasionally into an ironic smile when some of his diplomatic colleagues from the Balkans Dophed up to give the new slave Quisling, a pig-eyed little man, a in a corner seat in the first balogny, the

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BERLIN, July 30.—Roosevelt has been renominated at Chicago for

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a third term. This is a blow to Hitler which the Wilhelmstrasse scarcely hid today. Hitler will now hope that Roosevelt is defeated in the election. The point is that Hitler fears Roosevelt. He is just beginning to. comprehend that Roosevelt’s support of Great Britain is one of the prime reasons why the British decline to accept his kind of peace.

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The Answer Is ‘No’

BERLIN, July 22. — Halifax broadcast Britain’s answer to Hitler’s “peace proposal.” It was an emphatic No. #” 2 ”

BERLIN, Aug. 1.—Everyone impatient to know when the invasion of Britain will begin. I have taken two new bets offered by Nazis in the Wilhelmstrasse. First, that the Swastika will be flying over Trafalgar Square by Aug. 15. Second, by Sept. 7. The Nazis say Gen. Milch, right-hand man of Goering, has tipped the latter date as a dead:certainty. .

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BERLIN, Aug. 11.—For some days now workmen have been busy erecting new stands in the Pariserplatz outside my hotel. Now the talk in party circles is that Hitler is so certain of the end of the war—either by conLauest of Britain or by a ‘“nego“tiated” peace with Britain—that he has ordered these stands to be ready before the end of the month for the big victory parade through the Brandenburger Tor. (Later)—Today has seen along the coast of England the greatest air battle of the war. German figures of British losses have been rising all evening. First the Lufftwaffe ‘announced 73 British planes shot down against 14 German; then ‘79 to 14; finally at midnight 87 to 17. Actually, when I counted up the German figures as given out from time to time during the afternoon and evening, they totaled 111 for British losses. - The Lufftwaffe is lying so fast it isn’t consistent even by its own account. ® = = " BERLIN, Aug. 13.—~Today was the third big day of Germany's massive air attack on Britain. Tomorrow I'm flying to the Channel with half a dozen other correspondents. We don’t know whether we're being taken up to see Hitler launch his invasion of Britain. or "merely to watch the air attacks.

NEXT-View of Air War.

(Co t, 1940, 1941, by W ghirer 'd np tributed by United Mam &

G. OF C. LUNCHEON WiLL HONOR LEGION

Indianapolis

of the

lor ours of Commerce have com-

pleted plans for their eighth annual civic luncheon in honor of the American Legion, to be held Friday in the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Speakers at the luncheon will be W. I. Longsworth, chamber president; the Rev. Fr. Frederick J. Hal-

|CANADIAN MINE BLAST, |DEATH TOLL SET AT 27|

bardment—across ‘mountains, ver= dant with tea and rice plantations —high above rolling fields of red lava—past the mountain stronghold of Kazvin where the ‘Arabian Nights sultan, Haroun al Raschid, built a mosque. I landed in Tehran, an a city drowsing in the sun, seemingly unaware that the next few months may prove fateful for the entire Middle East. Beggars and rug merchants dozed in the doorways. Drotschky drivers slept through the afternoon while their lean nags lazily swished flies. But the foreign observers with whom I talked believe that it is not only the rug merchants ang drotschky drivers who are drowss ing. They said with asperity tat unless the British display more energy Hitler in another round in the great battle for strategic communications lines.

Rostov Drive Called Serious

The threat of German capture of Rostov is viewed, by Inf quarters ‘as much more’ seric their offensiveagainsf Moscow. By driving due east to Astrakhan, at the head .of the Caspian, the Germans would cut off the Baku i and Batum oil fields from the rest of Russia. They would do more. They would close one of the three

doors—none of them too / which Britain and the United State

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Arctic ports: of Murmansk Archangel. Murmansk is per ly close to the Finnish Archangel, it is believed, ice-bound within a few weeks. The second is Viadivostok— ject to blockade by Japan with a moment's notice.

the British and American hope clear 3000 tons of war materials day through the "Persian Guf p and send them north by: road rail if Hitler does not interfere their preparations. Flying south from policy our plane climbed steeply mountain road to Tehran, ish ne Anglo-American truck convoys

The lighway 3 hat winds 4 ese moun a great engi neering achievement. From plane I could see how it was from the side of steep cliffs along the precipitous sides of mountains 12,000 feet high, It undoubtedly is in better con dition than the Burma Road oy like all other rail and road rods

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 1—What is the principal ore from

which aluminum is obtained? 2—Between which bodies of water Philippines lie?

do the 3—Copper is the best conductor electricity; true or false? 4—Florence (Kling) De Wolfe came the wife of ‘which u. President? :