Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1941 — Page 18

Gettysburg

Suton of #9, instead of ‘The’ eval $23

WE - HEARS Tock te Indiana ‘sisters: Bulletin: that, national defense finally: ims struck the historical marker business, From now on, the Bulletin reports, ve a

the WPA Historical Marker Project must T . or, each marker.

‘Remarking that the markers

have received much favorable

: Sommani, th the Bulletin adds: HA “The most unexpected publicity, .. however, came in the November ~,. issue of Official Detective Stories: + in the story, ‘Help, They're Killing *. Me!’ by John L. Bowen on Page 3. : A picture of Military Park, Indianapolis, is reproduced; it shows the | place where marihuana cigarets - were sold, but by far the most conspicuous thing in the landscape is this marker: ‘Military

Park—Remrved by State Constitution 1851 in- Land

Granted 1 the vu. 8. for Capital. First’ State Fair | Here, 1452 1852; ‘etc.’ e ‘wonder wha in the Historical * ‘Society reads Magazines.

¥ detective:

Let's See, What's That Name?

JOHN. RICKLES was instructing the Christmas ‘Seal ‘speakers’ ‘bureau members on their duties the other ‘day, warning tHem to arrive on time at meetings where ‘they speak and especially to stay within ‘their allotted time. “Some of the best speeches in history—Lincoln’s address, for instance—have been brief,» he said. “That speech went down in history, and it lasted only a few minutes..The man ahead of Lincoln spoke two hours and" nobody remembers his name. I ‘anyone ‘here can name him, I'll give him this

bunch of seals.” <

* mistaken, it was Edward Everett.

: AE GYERT leaders say. pidlriy be -exhibited ‘on a national scale,

~The: words scarcely were out af his mouth until there was a regular chant, It seemed everyone there knew. Dr. Gordon Batman was a split second ahead & the others, it was decided, and the blushing Mr. ickles handed him the stamps. The doctor dug down in -his pocket and paid for the stamps. That’s all there is to the story, except the name. The guy that told us this story wouldn't. tell us the ;, ‘orator’s name and we had to look it up. Yhless we're

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/Mrs. Mark Haselman, ‘Mrs. C. R. Isaacs and

represented. Among those present was Warren Green, .a sophomore, who came here several weeks ago from

4 Penson No More

THE YOUNG DAUGHTER of a ey suddenly has switched from: the cute peasant i costumes in which her mother was dressing her, ‘more ordinary garb. The pigtailed youngster atthe attention of a visitor at school who asked child’s slightly older sister if “the little peasant” were a refugee child the family had taken to raise. en the father heard about that, he let out a roar. “Take that child down and get her some American clothes,” he ordered. . . . Four patrons of the In-| dianapolis Athletic: Club pool proudly are brand-new Red Cross lifesaving insignia on their| swimming suits. They are Mrs. Harold F. Sweeney, | Bernadine McAree. . . , There's a small restaurant out on ‘W. Michigan St.” bearing the Imposing title of: “Garden of Eatin’,” : :

Those Streetcar Puzzles

JAMES DILL, Power & Light Co. student engineer, enjoys brain teasers, Including those “transquiz” puzzles shown with the advertising cards in streetcars and busses. He got on a streetcar the other evening and to his joy saw two new puzzles. Before he could figure out the first one, a pretty girl, smiling, said: “The answer is ‘oysters’.” Foiled, he turned to the other and, to his disappointment, saw the answer neatly penciled on it. It was: “Rome was not built in a day.” That spoiled his whole evenifig. . . . By the way, the I. A.C. Dolphin Club is in the midst. of a “Roll Your Own” contest. Each day, the women pick a certain stroke to practice. Then they roll dice to that, aa many lengths of the pool they must swim at day.

Surprise, Surprise!

YOU NEVER KNOW who yowll meet up with at Shortridge. They had a “newcomers” party at the school the other day as a get-together for. dozens of students who have .transferred here from: high schools in other cities. Fifteen or 20 states were

Nicholas Senn High School, Chicago. At the party he was surprised to meet, two former classmates at Nicholas Senn H. S.—Rosalie. and Darlene Tibbles. , It was a big surprise for all concerned.

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

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- WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Some: disturbing revela- . tions ‘were made at the Armistice Day conference be- ; tween the steel industry and defense officials. William Knudsen of O. P. M. made the general

: statement that shortages had been encountered. Oth-

o defense officials were more spe- : cifie. Chairman Land of the Maritime - Commission said that’ 14 shipways were idle during October because of shortages in steel shapes and plates. He said the . United States had the shipyards and the manpower . but needed steel. - - v'Assistant Secretary. of War McCloy said the Army was not getting the steel in time and in the forms needed. he Undersecretary of the: Navy ‘shortages: in“steel ‘deliveries during the last six months had held up the Navy’s building

rogram. . Where: the difficulty lies is not clear. Eugene ‘Grace of Bethlehem denied a basic shortage existed. He said that if the defense agencies would make ‘needs known in time, the steel industry would do a ,Zood job. THe fault is serious.wherever ‘it is. Considering the ni hips, it i$ no trivial matter that 14 ways were into idleness last month for lack of steel. a

More Trotible Ahead

. THE UNITED STATES 1S the world’s largest pro‘ducer of steel. But obviously it is not enough to rest on that fact. The United States now is spending .$1,600,000,000 2 month for defense and is handieapped by lack of delivery of steel. What will the situation be when we are spending $2,000.000,000 or $2,500,000,000 ; probably shall be doing n Dex} year? es we encounter now are est. come ahead "as the production output ald Nelson, head of S. P. A. B., told abe: _steel conference; the (defense program is not a

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Nov. 13, — This city of diversified industry, the source of an’ increasing flow of parts of sorts for implements of war, is by.way of offering a model plan to check the paralyzing jurisdictional disputes between A.

F.of L. and C. I. O. unions, which constitute major threat to the

two conferences to work out a fre hferentes which Beryl Peppercorn, veteran manager ‘of the Cleveland joint board for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (C. I. O.), who promoted the peace movement, says have laid the groundwork for an agreement in the near future, ~ Bitter strife during the summer, when heads were tracked and blood was spilled, finally culminating in ‘a dangerous situation that provoked action by city officials, waked up responsible leaders to the necessity. of of ‘getting top together before this warfare did irrepar- - ‘able injury to the union movement here. ’ The .currént peace overtures afford a bright spot

in a situation in the industrial Midlands that is other- . vealed

Avise discouraging in some vespects, a situation that, umforunaiely Tor labor, has caused a n among

Raiding Would Be Banned

THESE QVERTURES of labor

REPRESENT a a small scale, NT a type of labor.

for labor must prove its ability to rule itself and ad_just_its own affairs in these critical times if it is to restrain a rising ‘diss; that may force fietinens 1 measures from the Government. "In their conferences here labor leaders are working along the lines of an agreement under which gach.

My Day

. CINCINNATI, O., Wednesday. —We reached Detroit,’ Mich. on ‘time yesterday, and barely arrived at the hotel: befor. the military Armistice Day

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parade in commemoration of began to pass in the streets. If was ‘cold and gray. and yet the streets were lined with people, It was evident that this was: cause of 3 how realisstion of the: i ‘of the day. Every other : ics, Tay [Ne have peletreied # that was pot

time, { ops, that we can

: trouble. There is danger that John L. Lewis will re-

‘overnight shift here, as all ‘over the country. +; Communist leaders who had been going about this :

Were mentioned.

By Raymond Clapper

Joy: ride. It is grim business. Also we may be in for another added stretch ‘of

sume the coal strike in the captive mines, which are owned -by the steel companies and which supply ‘the fuel for steel operations. The National Defense Mediation Board refused the demand of Lewis for a union shop. The decision is not binding, but it: Sa ‘as the considered recommendation of the Mediation Board, coniposed of Jepresepiatives of the public, the employers and labor. The vote against Lewis was 9-to 2—only the two United Mine Worker officials on the Board voting to support Lewis. The Board's recommendation is not binding. But it is plainly a warning that the emergency can not be used for purpeses of blackjacking a settlement by strike tactics in a vital industry.

Vhat wall Lewis Do?

" WHAT LEWIS WILL DO has not been made known as this is written. There is a good deal of grapevine talk that he will order the strike resumed Saturday night. That may or may not prove to be correct. The fact that the C. I 0. national convention in Detroit takes place next: week complicates the situs ation. This leads some here to ‘that Lewis will not capitulate to the Government ofi’the eve of that convention, where he will look for ‘a vote of eonfi-

He has it in his power now to take a long stride toward an emergency armistice in" labor trouble, or to precipitate a showdown Which. would assume grave proportions. A strike would raise the question of whether the Government or Lewis was master. It would constitute! a challenge to the ability of the Government to keep emergency defense production going. Sidney _ United States cannot lick Hitler with strikes-as-usual any hore than it can defeat Hitler with business-as-usual. Business-as-usual already has gone out of the

picture, The ‘question now is whet -a8« Bicture 0 her strikes-as-usual

By Thomas L. Stokes

would undertake not to move ‘nto plants where the other already had established itself, In other words, “raiding” would be banned. * The conferences have been secret, and Mr. Peppercorn declined to reveal the details or the scope of the agreement until it is completely worked out and subscribed to all around. Delicate points are involved in the negotiations. Strangely enough, the way was eased for such negotiations by something that happened thousands of miles away—the Nazi invasions of Russia.

The Commies’ Role in Things

COMMUNISTS HAVE WORMED their way into the union movement here rather effectively, to the extent, as a matter of fact, where in the. early days of the defense program the suspicion of actual sabotage was created in the minds of some who watched the merous strikes, ose days, Communists were crying night and _day ‘against the “imperialist” war in ‘Europe, protesting against this country having anything to do with it. “Then;’when Germany attacked Russia, came the

city. making speeches about the “imperialist” war rethir “conversion” in a rally a few nights ago, _attended by 600 people, when they shouted for an open declaration of war against Germany, for repeal of the Neutrality Act, for the United States and Britain to open a western front against es aon The crowd hissed bitterly when isolation leaders

So the. Communists, at least for the time’ ‘being, ‘are in a situation where: they will co-operate in the defense program and in measures to remove factional strife that would impede it. Other labor leaders are taking advantage of this “conversion” as’ a practical rat. but ‘are keeping thir, eo Closely on the *converts” for any sudden change of For the moment Cleveland is'mo not froubled by ‘any serious Jaber disturbances,

tnt Jocal. defense “councils will see that volunteer ot ficés™ are established, 8, Nop only jn large cities, but in small ones. That, from the Soummy seats, people will Vi go out and spend evenings in the villages, telling

, prominent “at- :

an, labor head of OPM, says. the|

jan address last ity

All Obstacles

Overcome on

China Lifeline |

(This' is the first of a series of articles. by Leland Stowe report-

ing the present state of the Burma:

Road—"“The most signifi‘cant "highway of our day.”)

opin 1041, by. The ‘Indianapolis Times

and “The Chicago Daily News, Inc, ~KUNMING, Southwest China (Via Clipper).—The first thousands of tons of America’s huge allotment of lend-lease aid far China “are now rolling, laboriously but steadily, up over the Yunnan Mountains and over

the saw-toothed, gorge-bit- ~

ten road which is undoubtedly the most famous and ‘significant highway of our. day. These tons of war materials constitute the initial wavelet of a lend-lease flood which has already been channeled out of

Washington appropriations to the ‘tune of half a billion dollars, or “perhaps more. This is why. the Burma Road, with the current opening of the dry season, is beginning the largest and the most critical period in its existence. We have just spent five days traversing . the. 3500-foot climbs and downward plunges of the Burma Road 'in a caravan of American ‘lend-lease supplies. ‘We have seen at first hand both the enormous physical ob.stacles which Chinese - patience and ingenuity have overcome and the equally formidable difficulties in organization and administration which must be conquered in the next six months. For by January it is estimated that virtually all. of the cargo transported over China’s lifeline should be American aid materials,” except for gasoline. This means inevitably that the capacity of -the Burma-Yunnan

highway will soon’ be taxed to its ‘limits, including the limits of

Chinese ' political and provincial co-operation and also of transport reorganization.

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Traffic 1s Tripled

. YOU CAN GET a hint of the physical problem involved ‘from the fact that the number of lor~ ties leaving Lashio, in Burma, was doubled in June—despite the full flush of the rainy season—over the number of departures record-

ed last March; perhaps even more "so by the fefrther fact that today more than three times as much trafic is entering Wanting on the Yunnan frontier as was rumbling in one year ago. But you can scarcely appreci-

. ate the remaining reorganization-

al task along the entire 750-mile grapevine of the Burma Road unless you are well acquainted with its previous history and with China, or unless you have traveled it yourself. . Five days is very fast time, as well as pretty rough going, for a trip over these bronco-busting mountains, and down into the depths of the Salween and Mekong River gorges. In a caravan of heavy trucks it would have taken us at least twice and pos-: sibly three times as long. But we were so. fortunate as to hook up with a fleet of 28 Ford super-deluxe station wagons designated for the Chinese air force and, comparatively speaking, we travelled “soft”—if anything can ‘be described as soft: when rolling up and down hundreds of hair-

pin curves, hour after hour and

UNITY IS URGED

BY SCHRIGKER,

Citizens acked | Back 1

FDR Policies Regardless of Politics.

DECATUR, Ind., Nov. 13 (U. Py. 5

a v An American- transportation expert hired by th

truck roaring around a turn in-the Kunming-Kwei below. as it winds around the moun tain,

day after day, Setwepn altitudes of 3000 and 8000 feet. . Anyhow you had no. chance to

. doze or get bored, even if you did

have plenty of chances—one kind or another. ;

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Some Welcome Company

PETER ROWLANDS, a young

Quaker Red Cross man newly arrived from England, young Chinese veterinary return‘ing from Edinburgh also joined

up with the station wagons. When we left Lashio the handsome yellow and green flivvers

. were loaded with American auto-

mobile tires (also lend-lease) and

later on each carried ‘a 500-

pound -drum of gasoline. - With our “equipment thrown ‘in that provided lots of load but weight is ‘welcome over a road like this, especially when rain greases the roadbed for nearly half the trip. Over . the ‘Burma Road you come in through: China's ;back-

door and that’s an ideal, certain-

ly a most educational way to en= ter China. For until the Japanese invasion occurred all of

western Yunnan was one of. .

China’s. inland closed doors. Over all the long route from Wanting, through Paoshan, Hsiakwan and Chu’Hsiung to Kun*ming, you traverse wild uplands which, for thousands of ears

have known nothing more than. rare trails and occasional cart -

paths linking villages and towns. This is part of China’s hinterlands which tourists have seldom, if ever penetrated. In all its beauty, its primitiveness and its humble, _povertystricken living conditions it is the real China. Now it is slightly glossed over with the wartime boom and bustle of the Burma Road, yet never glossed sufficiently to efface what has for so many

centuries made China what its.

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. Sikh at the Wheel

SO WE ARE off on the rosd °

which keeps China in the war,

HOLD EVERYTHING

+ British army i ' pertly.

‘mese frontier w

and a . lo leave their I

* ‘wooden buildin: s. wded lorries, per-*

in wherever the:

‘bottleneck on "both physically

torder and de

Getting a .

- costly extent, - trucks in the ¢ottlenecked little =

‘by China’s “haps our. statio:

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climbing for fir 2 hours through the Burmese h ls and penetrating ‘the Shar mountains. A green - turbanne 1, black - bearded Sikh, ‘who ‘ha: driven for the northern India ides our car ex= hours our carahkok oh the Burth its police out1g station. ese drivers have enses, to be held until their retu n from Mangshi (where Chine : drivers take pver). Only 1( minutes and we slide down intc .a cramped val ley, its roadsic 2 flanked with scores of bambo: sheds and rough The place is

for ‘six years, g In five van reaches Ky:

post and check: Here all Byr:

jammed with I naps a. hundrec of them packed

blue field, em= ‘sun-flower-like angs - from the ial-looking strucWanting (proing) ‘and we are

white circle, - town’s only offi ture.. This is nounced Wan-1 in China. Wanting Is he most serious ie Burma Road, ind from the aspect of control formalities. The so-called Arnst American trans tho drafted a tus for Burma reforms last A truck convoys of 12 hours he:

ortation “experts, detailed prospecYunnan highway gust, found that .veraged a delay 3 at the Chinese ays of 24 hours vere not infre uent.

La | reak

AT WANTIN: : the handling of

clearance paper , customs inspec=

tion and. other forms: of control have always co! sumed time to a he piling up of

valley often mikes it .a traffic director's. night- “nare—only there seem to be none such in Wanting. ‘But our carp an is supervised r i-official Southwest* Transporta ion Co. and perwagons. for the Chinese air for e- are classified

—Governor Henry F. Schricker| [=

urged Indiana citizens to “stand by}

and uphold the policies of President AY

Roosevelt, regardless of politics” in

rural sen and women how they can enroll and’ be a| solid fron to

‘part of the nation’s These volunteer bureaus are not merely merely er centers. Their SUNY 15 AHO on ava every opportunity for jainiog .in their area, whi training a. Can be obtained through the Red

x people a

fo ploen Ve tr trained in some

Sa ns, WPA, | Breer g

pais in its d

sther

night before Adams ‘ jocrats. a for unity behind the na-| :

By Eleanor Roosevelt Sckes said: | “President LS oosevalt is tending ‘the nation’s defense - ; tyrant who would destroy the last. vestige of freedom in the world, We 3

2 is any space. - A

in committee of

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as urgent. Anyway, the scores of

trucks remain bogged down for

‘an apparently long delay but we .are on our way in the amazing matter of 20 minutes. In fact, our high geared convoy leader whisks us out of town so fast that ‘ something happens to me which has never happened in 15 years of travel over four continents. " I ‘had been waiting for the leader to show us where our passports should be examined. The next thing I knew we were off in a cloud of dust, and I had entered a foreign country for the first time in my life without so much as getting my passport stamped.

Since then, along the road, . we:

showed our passport: several times but my own still shows no mark fo; indicate that I'am actually, y and ‘soul, inside China.

#.This is a ‘fine. kettle of fish, I thought, as we ‘were whisked

away . on a spirited dash for Mangshi afore nightfall, but what's happened to’ the tradition=al bottleneck slow-down at Wan-

ting? No, it seemed this was all

“an accident ‘of some kind and Rowlands, Dr. Hu and myself had been accidentally catapulted into China.

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A Serious Bottleneck

+ THE SCORES «of hooded. trucks ‘ were still ‘behind us’ for they* couldn’t be: examined with’ the dispatch of = windowed station

wagons. As far as we could dis-

cern the Arnstein report prob-

. ably still held good. ‘He said that, .

owing to the limited’ time the tax offices .are open, some 200 oper-

‘ Washington.

Chinese Government to orsinize the country’ s ‘motor supply ‘service made this’ h ang highway, - section of the Burma Road. Note the e highway, a right, hun r

ely -

ihe Burma Road, it strikingly clear that Bo ‘of aid the United States’ can to China cannot be de by huge appropriations ‘made Just as in the cas of war materials for Great “Bri ain, the effectiveness Am

: ican aid to China

termined. chiefly : by he

re rE

irri of the

sents quite as

lem as that of shipping terials.

denly; ~-lend-lease, tortuous, incredible Burma-Y nan highway has become a ma ter of personal interest to almost every American taxpayer. There can be no doubt th 6 much more traffic must go over

this mountain highway befor

many months, But the diffic ties yet to be mastered may 'l judged from a report by A Steele, veteran Far Eastern. ool respondent of the Chicago Ds ‘News when he travelled the . Bi ma Road last Mr. Steele reported that n't ' month of ‘April more than 15. tons of goods the Burm ‘border, of ‘which: only 7000 ton

‘arrived in. Kunming at a a :

end. In June of this year DeroeItage remained about

ating truck days are lost daily at - ing

this point.

_“..The report yecbmmendel the transfer -of customs examination, -

clearance papers and other forms

“of control from Wanting to a less congested :site somewhere further ,

along the Burma Road.. But as yet the reorganization has bare-

ly begun. : You see the need of it,

even in a few minutes of crawling through the single street of

Wanting. Thus, .in. the first day on a Jend-lease transport caravan over

CANNERS OPEN

«8 Major. Topic of . State Groups:

land post emergency periods will Indiana Canners Association, Inc.,

today and continues through tomor-

row. : —Anot a | | ‘Preceded ‘by a luricheon ' Aor] Bde . |women at 12:30 p. m..in the Flor-|"

sntine Room, the general - was to .be ‘held ‘at. 2. Pas m. Chateau Room of the: Claypoo ‘Robert Paulus, National Association president, will mais

MEETING HERE :

‘|Industry’s Role: in Défense"

arly “Discussions of the. role ‘of the i | | canning industry during the defense|s. fie

rector general of China's

. of, Transport Control.

Those: who know the Road most intimately. say only be achieved ; measures, some of DS al

to be in

process ‘of formulati and some of which wil prove ve ver; impose.

highlight the fall meeting of the|

1° {which opens at the Claypool ‘Hotel|s pup.