Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1941 — Page 7
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OFILE or THE WEEK: Civilian Defense director for Indiana, e tive director of the State C. of C, city’s worst bridge players. He d : at all, and then only grudgingly. oe! ignures
The ‘cold ‘truth is he'd meh rather work than iay--often puts in. an 18-hour k day at the office and at home. His is | the success story or a relatively “unknown.” He came into prominence in 1933 as Paul V. McNutt's director . of Gross Income Tax Division. Ever since then his energy amd his effectiveness have kept
him in the center of Indiana ,
official circles. “He keeps himself s0 busy that
his hobbies are few. He enjoys showing friends his
movie cameras, or entertaining informally in the back yard of his home with a steak fry. His golf "is infrequent and mediocre—aroynd 100. - He enjoys a walk in the evening, invariably winding up at the neighborhood drug store for a coke, Although he came from a small town he’s so citified that he doesn’t aspire to live ‘in the country—too far from a drug store. :
Carries Spare Chin
A sturdy, healthy man, he’s" young looking for 50. About 5 feet 10, he weighs probably 190. Once redhaired and freckled, he has faded to a sandy blond, ‘with a ruddy complexion. His face is squarish and determined appearing. His eyes are blue, his nose rather large, and he carries a spare chin or two. He’s all business most of the time, sounds rather gruff when he talks, but isn’t, and works like a typical movie. city editor. He demands perfection— no guesswork, and frequently asks: “Did you look it up? - His associates have learned that when he pref- . @aces a request with ‘“no hurry,” he really means he wants it done “yesterday.” Most evenings he lugs home a fat briefcase and a fresh supply of cigars (he chain smokes them) and the next morning he’s back at the office bright and
one. of £ fhe
Sly with the’ briefcase’s contents. digested. and the}.
cigars gone. His still-smoldering cigars usually go in the ‘wastebasket, and frequently set it on fire. 5
Proud of His Rail Fence
‘He has a soft spot in his heart for dogs, and diey
know it. There's always a dog in the Jackson house- ’ hold, the current model being a brown cocker puppy|
named “Sugar Lump.” Tile puppy has the run ‘of ‘the house and if he’s in the master’s easy. chair, “Jack” wouldn’t think of disturbing him. The Jack‘sons. used to have a cat but it had kittens so often
it kept “Jack” busy finding homes for the kittens.| “At honte, he usually can be found reading—every-|.
thing from W statistical reports to ‘Low
‘Man on a Totem Pole,” not to mention a dozen or 7]
$0 magazines.
‘beside -his home at 4202 Central Ave.; likes to have flowers 'in the yard if someone else will care for them.
Food is unimportant to him—merely “fuel to run} the engine.” The only thing he ever admitted liking|
particularly was dried beef gravy. [Thirty minutes after a meal he can’t tell you what he’s had.
-Partieniiar about his appearance, he has his suits| tailor made, only wears-a suit once before having it{
-He’s quite proud -of the old fashioned rail fence!
pressed. He's careful to keep his shoes neatly shined.| i§
He's a Confirmed Doodler
At the phone, or during a conversation, he doodles.
His: doodling ‘consists of writing over. and over again, “Indianapolis, Ind.” or “Newcastle, Ind.” his former} He makes the letters quite fancy and shades|
home. them beautifully. He makes a lot of speeches—114 in the first eight
months this year. He always “orates,” makes the|
most ordinary talk seem dramatic and colorful. His handwriting is almost illegible, so bad that it got him in a mixup in the Army. When he enlisted rin 1917, his scrawled signature was misread as
“Augusta,” and remained thus on the records through-|
out the war, even on his commissions.
In filling out his discharge application after the; =
Armistice, “he wrote ‘the “Augustus” more distinctly, and a suspicious clerk held up the discharge to check the discrepancy.
It took “Jack” days to get the red tape cut so
he could go home:
Ernie
Pyle is on leave of absence because of the. illness of his wife.
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ov. 8.—At last President: Rooseuss publicly the aims beyond
; WASHINGTON, velt has begun to the war. : In his reinarks to the international 0 r delegates, Mr. Rogsevelt said ‘the defeat of Hitlerism is Bi so that there’ may be dom. But, he added, this war, e the last one, will produce othing but destruction unless we repare for the future now. This is not remote dream stuff, unless some understand- : are arrived at. now between - selves ‘and the British, we will have far greater difficulty in |wor them out in the confusion after fhe war is over, when the threat. of common danger has dis-
a Mr. Roosevelt said that if there is to be peace in the ' post-war “world there must be a more abundant life for.the masses of the people of all countries. He quoted from the Atlantic Charter the objective of fullest collaboration between all na‘tions in the economic field. He said there must be no place in ‘the post-war world for special privilege | for Either individuals or nations.
--Apa } dhe. Bresident gaid all states, great or “victor or vanquished, must have access on equal terms to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity. He omitted the charter’s qualifications regarding “existing obligations,” which has aroused a good deal of suspicion.
We're Already Feeling the Cost
IN THE UNDECLARED war now going on in the - Atlantic, we are already feeling the cost. The loss of the Re hen James was our most costly nayal loss of Amgrican Wavy officers and seamen risking their li Merchant ships are risking the ‘crews. All of this before war is acknowledged
_ WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—The appointment _ of - Maxim Litvinov as bassador to Washington is regarded here as final proof that Josef Stalin intends
%0 keep on fighting the end. ‘Litvinov, it is believed, will be instructed io do bis, everything possible not oniy to up shipments of materiel to ussia but to induce the United fais to follow these with an A.
alin is reliably reported to have a long-term strategy in jew. Because of this he has dustoff the biggest diplomatic gun all Europe and ordered him to Washingwn. If he had only a short-term in mind, he would not have needed to pull Litvinov out of retirement. Hunters 3 do not use howitzers to bring down £parTows. "Ask anybody at Geneva, where the League of Nations used to meet, to. name the slickest catch- . £s-catch-can diplomatic finagler ever to ply his * trade in that interngtional purlieu, and the answer sould be Litvinov, Geneva did’ not always like the then Sovie: Fortcign Commissar. But it had respect for his cun«ning. He could out-talk most of the diplomats there, : usually in their own language. One of his chief deéligats was to catch them of base, verbally speaking, then Jeer them while their faces turned red.
H ad Fun Exposing H ypocrisy
FOR WHEN Britain, - France. Getany, Japan, - Ttaly and other poviefs were talking about how nice it would be to
“aid it the rest 3
| WASHINGTON, «Friday ~I was very much im.’ _ “pressed yestersay To with ‘the work which is done e Ehglsh ‘charming’ and each
“Union. Their toys are ‘Tepresent some very - vitamin. pills
i cha Su Great Seial Supplies of a Student aR ae ns Salk. “This 3 Y do in the Wi
Eo Hage ts, ork ugee camps, Beggin J Sesigned 10
n° Litvinov
By Raymond Clapper
A heavy monetary cost is in prospect. Now we make a billion dollar loan to Russia. Taxes are going to force down standards of living. Secretary Morgenthau is trying to get another boost of 15 per cent in the income tax. Congress may stall it off for a while but we will have it in the end. Businesses are going bankrupt. Families face losses: more poignant than bankruptcy.
It is not right that these sacrifices be made for] .
one-half -of a purpose. Part of the purpose is to prevent an Axis victory that. would endanger the United States. Part of the purpose also must be to prevent another. repetition of such a ghastly tragedy. We know now, from the last experience, that the crushing of Germany. is no insurance against another World War. We also know now, after: ‘having tried to|® remain aloof, that full-fledged world war is almost impossible to escape without irreparable injury to our security. Therefore we know that for. our _own security and freedom frem this kind of catastrophe we must take measures: aimed to prevent another relies, ; \
Dreams That Can't Come True
MANY SCHEMES, MANY blueprints are appearing as people search for some means of achieving this. Mostly they are dreams that can never come true. But the means of making a start are at hand.
only
b- Prie-start~can’ be made on strategic raw maferials.
Dealings in these now are under Government control.
4 W. SIDE BOYS OPERATE SHOP
They Have No Defense Jobs But Civilian Work Brings Returns.
By EGAN LECK A machine shop which doesn’t have one defense contract is operating full blast in West Indianapolis. The operators seem to be
satisfied with civilian orders and
aren’t worried about priorities. Clarence Cummings, founder of the enterprise, is a typical young American. Two years ago he built - this - factory, which measures about -|six feet by four, at the rear of his home, 1521 Wilcox St. Later, feeling the effects of crowded building conditions, he moved it to a vacant lot next door. Clarence is 13, and is in grade 7A at School 16. His three partners in the. enterprise which . occupies their spare time; are Hil
If they can be controlled in wartime, and be di- Mair. 14
verted from hostile nations and placed in the hands of friendly nations, they can be similarly controlled in peacetime. No nation has been able to develop complete self-sufficiency. There is the field in which distribution of materials can be used for constructive
The United States and Great Britain are using their naval power and their command of raw materials to a common end now. If order and security
. are to follow this war, this naval power and the com-
mand of raw materials must be used to those ends. This is the time for the aFrapgemients that will make
By Wit Philip Simms
Litvinov knew he would be perfectly safe in making such a proposal. No nation—Russia included— was prepared to scrap its weapons. But he could have fun exposing some of the The new ‘Russian ambassador to Washington is one of the very few old-guard Bolsheviks to outlive the many Communist purges. Born Moysheev Vallakh 65 years ago in Bialystok, in. what is how Nazioccupied Poland, he has since gone under many aliases. He has been known as Papasha, David Mordecai Finkelstein, Litvinov Harrison, Felike, Luvinye, Gustaf ‘Graf and one or two other names, and has engaged in undertakings just as varied. He served five years in the Czar’s army, became a revolutionary and got sent to Siberia. Escaping, he fled to Switzerland, where he met Lenin. That was nearly 40 years ago. And all the while he has led a sort of Jekyll-Hyde existence, being a newspaper editor, accountant, proofreader, purchasing agent for a big German electrical concern, and so on, by day, ‘and a revolutionary by night.
Now Fresh Out of Mothballs
STALIN BOASTS that part of the funds used by the Bolsheviks to stage their revolution was a by the sale of bonds procured by a bank raid in It. was Litvinov who marketed these bonds, in France. That was in 1907. Stalin has found Litvinov extremely useful ever since when there has been an nt job to be done. ° In 1989, however, when Stalin joined hands with Hitler, there came a break. Litvinov is said to have opposed the pact with Berlin, and he was. shelved. His job as foreign minister was given to Molotov, a far less able man. : Now, fresh out of the moth balls, Litvinov is about
to set out again on an ‘errand of highest import—
this time to Washington where, in 1933, he put over Russian recognition at the Ease of President Roose-
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
and that board chose their general secretary, "Joseph Lash, OE a number. The names of those who sponsor this or-
Sollaweq IY. acount. of the Yuk
ivities were es
Knives a Specialty A specialty is knives. old saw blades from junk yards and cut a “blank” from the flat steel with a hammer and chisel From then on it’s a case of grinding, filing and polishing until a sharp blade’ results, which then needs but a wooden ‘handle to finish it. : Another feature, really in. the novelty line, is a ‘small name pin, These are made from tooth-brush handles and alphabet noodles, if: you can imagine the , connection. ‘The boys cut a flat bar from the toothbrush, paste on the letters, then shellac the whole business. When it dries, it’s a neat little badge spelling out your name, with a safety pin soldered into the back;
garment. This is one of the better selling novelties. The price is a, uarter. The shack (that’s what it really is, after all) is one of those hybrid things that boys are apt to build. It’s made from wood, covered with odd pieces of linoleum, tin and roofing. compound. Inside, there is almost room enough to turn around, but hardly large enough to accomhe|modate four partners at the same
time. Slowly Acquire Tools
There is a “basement,” about the size of a large ice box, where the boys store materials. This: is reached
‘| by a trap door in the floor, and it’s
almost always more full of water than materials, but it’s nice to have. By slow -accumulation, and with the help of Clarence’s grandfather, who ‘was a carpenter, the boys have acquired a few tools. is an electric jig-saw for working wood. The motor hasn’t a very: anchorage and it’s able to wander up and down the bench while the current is on, but when the boys san Sort well Ofer piney sa 0! we t & includes files, chisels, - Sauipment emory wheel and a burning needle.
living showed him how, and was was selling
At some time in their careers, efsiutives of an industry can be relied upon to: have thelr picture taken with their factory. Left to right, are Clarence Cummings, William Hunt and Raymond Hill at their workshop. The fourth partner, Clifford Marr, couldn’t be reached when the picture was taken,
' Wien "Clarence abd the photographer went inside | to wot this picture, S.R.O. conditions ‘prevailed. But there was’ room Aor,a ile; hesawing, and that's what Clarence is doing. : } LA
They bug!
so that it can be pinned onto a|
Clarence was the one who learned |. how to convert saw blades into knives. An elderly man in the! neighborhood who does that for al
later startled to find that Clarence | his knives for a third] of what the man himself was | charging.
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has neither brought the people to the verge of starvation nor seriously hampered the Nazi war machine. | As to British air attacks on Germany, their value so: far has been principally psychological, bringing the war home to the weary civilian population. The actual physical damage has on the whole not been very great. In general,
the damage has been greatest in the Ruhr.
‘Next to the
Ruhr, the German ports of Hamburg and Bremen and the -naval bases at Wilhelmshaven and Kiel has received the
severest bombing.
ut they have not yet been put out of business. Un-
doubtedly the most savage
British bombing has been °
reserved for the Germanoccupied channel ports.
Raymbnd Hill, | There is: little left of the 15; William Hunt, 14, and Clifford |
docks at Ostend, Dunkirk, ‘Calais, and Boulogne. Ber“lin itself has suffered comparatively little damage.
How many airplanes has Germany? 'I don’t know, but I do know something -aliout German airplane production. At the mo-
ment it varies between 1500 and =
1600 planés a month. Maximum German production capacity is 3000 planes a month. That is, Goering could force production up to that figure if he had all the supplies he needed and ordered ' all available plants to be run at full capacity 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Morale Still Good
After a year and a half of actual total war German morale is still good. There is no popular enthusiasm for the war. never was. Yet as the war goes into its second long, dark winter, public morale is fairly high. How explain the -contradiction? Keep in mind three things: First, that the millennium-old longing of Germans for political
unification has been fulfilled. Hit-
“Jer achieved it, where all others in: the past—the Hapsburgs, the
Hohenzollerns, Bismarck — failed. '
Few people outside this country realize. how this unification has
knitted the German nation to-’ gether, given the people self-con- . fidence and a sense of historical mission,” and made them forget their personal dislike of the Nazi
regime; Second, morale is good because the German people feel they have this summer. revenged the. terrible
defeat of 1918 and have achieved
There
‘boss of Germany, ‘most never
‘carry on the present regime were
a string of military victories which
‘has at last ensured their place in the sun.
Third, one of the prime springs which push the German people
along in full support of a war which they would end tomorrow if
they ‘could, is their growing fear of the consequences of defeat. Slowly but: surely they are beginning to realize the frightful magnitude of the seeds of wrath which their high-booted troops and Gestapo men have sown in‘
More than one German of late
‘has confided to me his fears. The Hunger for Land
IT MUST also be noted down that Hitler's frenzy for bloody conquest is by no means exclusive
to him in (Germany. The urge to
expansion, the ‘hunger for land
and space, for what the Germans he
call Lebensraum, has lain long in the soul of the people. That this space would heave to be taken from others made no difference. It is this hasic feeling in almost all. Germans Jhat the “lesser breed” of Europeans are not entitled to absolute rights of their own, to a piece of land to till and live on, to the very towns and cities they have built up with their own sweat and toil, if 'a German covets them, which is in part responsible for the present state of Europe. It is the evil genius of Adolf Hitler that has aroused this basic | feeling and given. it tangible ex-
pression. Notwithstanding many reports to the eontrery which float: abroad, he is the sole and absolute ) no interference, rarely asking and al-
-heeding suggestions from hig intimidated lieutenants. Hermann Goering is very definitely the No. 2 man in Germany and the only Nazi who could
Hitler to pass on.- The fat, bemedalled Reichsmarshal enjoys a
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{Hopper who have taken ~ |vate industry and Miss
popularity among the masses second only to Hitler 's—but for op-' posite reasons. Where Hitler is distant, legendary, nebulous, an
+ enigma as a human being, Goer-
ing is a salty; earthy, lusty man of flesh and blood. The Germans like him because they understand him. : he Goebbels, who used: to be No. 3,
- has lost ground since the war,
partly because he has been swept aside by the military and: the secret police, partly because he has bungled his propaganda job at crucial moments, as when he ordered the press and radio to celebrate the victory of the Graf Spee the day before it was scuttled.
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Himmler No. 3 Now
GOEBBELS’ place as the third man in Germany has been taken by Heinrich Himmler, the mild-- . mannered. little fellow who looks like a harmless country school- . teacher, but . whose ruthlessness,
brutality, and organizing’ talents 3
have landed him in a key po-. sition in the Third Reich. He's
important because he has whipped °
the Gestapo into an organization which now watches over almost every department of ‘life in the country and which keeps for Hitler a watchful eye on the army itself. There is one final question to be tackled in these rambling ‘ conclusions: Does’ Hitler contemplate . war with the United States? I am firmly convinced that he does contemplate it. and that, if wins in Europe and Africa, he will in the end launch it unless we are prepared to adapt ourselves to a subservient place in his totalitarian scheme of things. For to Hitler there will not be room in this: small world for two. great systems of life, government, and
trade. For this reason I think he ~
also will attack Russia, probably before he tackles the Americas: It is not only a question of ‘conflict between the totalitarian and democratic ways of life, but also ‘between Pan-German imperialism, whose aim is world domination, and the fundamental urge of
FIVE RECREATION
LEADERS SELECTED
Permanent staff assignments for |
the nine communi ‘recreation cen-
been Fie ew. rece and a caders of shifts made because ‘of the resignations of Paul Haagsma and Frank
ae orks Die pn-| tel.
“Those appointed to the staff fn i ‘Miss Frances Whitcraft, Miss Mar-
jorle White, Barrett Diehl, Tr Wincel and Henry Lohse. Asge; ;
mone follow: : . Rhodius—Harry Wineel,
_ feasibly -
most of the other nations on ‘the earth to live as they please. And just as. Hitler's Germany never dominate the ant Europe ‘as long as: Britain holds out, neither can it master the ‘world as long as the Uniti States stands unafraid: in its path.
Attacking the U. S. : HOW WOULD GERMANY ever
attack the United States? I have “heard ‘Germans suggest the al
lowing possibilities:
If they got all or part. of British navy or have time build in Europe’s shipyards (whose total capacity is far beyond ours a fairly strong navy they would attempt to destroy in the Atlantic that part of our fleet which was not engaging the Japanese in the Pacific. -This done, ‘they ‘could “move - an army and: air | Stages acro
They assume too that the men United States fleet will. pe 5
to \Jrazil is a much er dis= tance than from Hampton Roads
"based on the African port could operate inh ' Braziliax waters, bit these waters are al= most too far for an American’ : to be effective in.
fense which those countries : night try to put up. South Amer could thus, think these Gern be taken very easily.
“in America, they ‘argue, the