Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1941 — Page 9

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

+ HERE- or IS, ‘only the middle of November, and Chris eady is just around the gorner—only 30 ! more shopping ‘days, accotding to our calendar. The _ downtown 8 ores are getting fixed up with hand“some 4 decorgtions. inarily these don’t go : up’ until after Thanksgiving. The heavy crowds. in the stores in recent weeks probably had

something to do with the early

decorating. The crowds haven't all been “lookers” either. They've been * buying ‘pretty heavily, we hear; As ' "one clerk explained it, they aren't buying to hoard—they're just getting over the depression—with the help of defense jobs. If there, ever was § year when. it paid to “Do Your Christmas Shopping Early,” this is it. Already, 7 of some lines of goods are hard to k stores say they won't be able to aug{ol their present stocks of certain other goods.

i Watch Those Coins

“BE ON YOUR GUARD against vein slipped one . of those Canadian quarters. There are quite a few ; of them floating around town and they have a habit of “biting the hand” that’s holding them. By that we mean you're“nicked. a nickel, and maybe a dime, when you try to them on—unless you're as slick as the guy who ed them onto you. The Merchants National Bank, we found, redeems them for 15 cents. - We tried -the Fletcher Trust Co. and found they al"lowed 18 cents. The. Indiana. National was offering * 20 cents. At the Merchants they explained there's a 210 per cent exchange ‘rate on’ all Canadian money, and, they said, the shipping ‘costs on silver are pretty high. So, watch your step. : :

Firing Problems ‘BOB STAFFORD 'of the Stafford Engraving reany gave up ‘his bachelorhood and acquired a new.

- home northeast of Indianapolis. The art of firing a furnace’ was somewhat of a mystery to him, his friends

relate, but he knew two of the requirmehla were a shovel and fuel. Accordingly, he bought a shovel, then ordered in three tons of coke. The coke arrived and he got ready to fire the furnace, but couldn’t find the shovel. Then it ‘dawned on him—the shovel was on the floor under the coke. Bob, they say, bought another shovel and one of these days when’ he’s shoveled enough coke, he'll have two shovels,

Sauce for the Gander

-EN ROUTE here from Shelbyville, the Indianapolis and Southeastern bus stopped for a passenger, blocking the. path of a couple of youths in a car. They couldn’t get past because of cars going the opposite direction, and they just sat there and honked the horn of their car. When the bus finally started up and ‘the youths had a chance to get around, they pulled ahead of the bus and stopped, right in the middle of

nowhere. The bus had to stop, too, passengers fuming, |" After a couple of minutes, the boys drove on, then| repeated the stunt. After getting the bus driver and| his passengers somewhat choleric, the boys, satisfied, |

went on about their business. . . . Bill Baok, executive

vice president of the C. of C. got his car stuck in|

the mud in the 3700 block of N. Gladstone Ave. the other night. 2

Here and There |

. JOHN JENNINGS, the State's WPA chief, tells us that WPA has only about 5500 people on the unassigned list of employables in the eritire 92 courities of the State. That compares with from 50,000 to 60,000 at the peak. ... Dick Stegemeier, the restaurant man, told one of our agents the other day that it’s funny but restaurants miss more of their silverware in good times than during depressions. He can’t figure it out, as it's not very fancy silverware. Says he thought he had a two-year supply, but‘'at the rate it’s béing stojen, or at least disappearing, it may be gone before long. .. , In the second story window of’ a building on the west side of N. Delaware St. at New York St. there remains one of those Wendell Willkie campaign signs. The room now is deserted. The’ building is known as the Halcyon.

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

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Washington

Ww. GTON, Nov. 19.—Japan has von ie a * derhonstration of how not to start peace a if you want them to get anywhere. = On the very day that Tokyo's special envoy, Saburo Kurusu, began his talks with Washington officials, the two top figures in the Japanese = governmen{ publicly laid down before the Japanese .. Diet . an uncompromising "list - of . terms, of which some. at least are unacceptable. to. the United States. . With elaborate gesture the Japanese sent a special envoy ‘here to talk peace terms. Although he was the man who signed the Axis agreement in. Berlin, he has been represented as friendly to the U. i S. He married, an American and Ek 8 the American language. He has served in the Japanese embassy here! True, there has been no Progress in the private conversations over the last months between Secretary! Hull and Admiral Nomura, the regular Japanese "Ambassador here. But - presumably there was some hope that Kurusu, coming in fresh, might find a basis of hopeful discussion. At least, that must have been the purpose ‘if the move was intended to be anything more than a trick, Our officials have -been ‘péssimistic, because of ‘the failure of the Hull-Nomura conversations. Still they have been hoping for the best, because this Government does not want war in the Pacific if aggression can be prevented without it. :

An Agreement to Disagree

BUT THE PUBLIC outline of Japan's position came in here as Kurusu appeared—like a- brickbat loaded on the end of an olive branch. It is probable that if these utterances actually” represent. the final negotiating ‘position of . Japan, there can be no agreement between ‘the two governments except an agreement to disagree. Premier Tojo emphasized what the U. S. must {do to satisfy Japan. He said “third powers,” meaning the U. S., were expected to refrain from obstructing: 8 successful conclusion of the Ching affair. Presuma-

Our Hoosiers WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Political significance was

seen here today in the fact that Governor Henry L. Schricker announced the War Department decision to

construct a second power plant in Indiana last Saturday. For the ¢ Governor's statement regarding the new $53,500,000 plant to be erected at Newport in Vermillion County was made in the morning and the Army. didn’t issue the official announcement until late in the afternoon and then it did not contain _the price or the fact that the plant will be run by du Pont.

<All the Army text said was the:

site will comprise about 18,000 acres, the plant, employ 3400 persons per day on three shifts, and will be known as the Wabash River Ordnance Works. Predic- ~~ tions now are being made that the plant may later be expanded as was Charlestown. ovary procedure is for such/ announcements to Oust from Senators and, Congressmen about the same time that the Army. puts them out. But Wayne Coy passed the details’ along. to Governor Schricker and let him make whatever personal ‘Political, capital he could from. them it. Was. learned. ;

It Irritates Senator. Willis.

COMMENTING ON THIS FACT, Senator Raymond E. Willis: (R. Ind.) said:“That is right in line with this whole defense program and. NeW Beal Adminisiiution. “Tt operates on principle, iJ chn Sal It Bui, of Gover: of the Fathi}, By the Pa d For the Faith-

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By Raymond Clapper

bly that is a demand that we abandon lend-lease aid to China. He also said other countries were expected not only to refrain from menacing military measures—and he described the activities of the ABCD powers as military encirclement—but they were expected also to abandon the blockade and restore economic relations. That is a demand that we reverse our economic policy in the Pacific, withdraw the freezing order and restore commercial treaty relations. The premier described the economic blockade. as only a little less hostile than armed warfare This abandonment of the blockade is a legitimate trading point. We would be prepared to abandon it provided Japan changed her policy in certain respects. But here comes in the speech of Foreign Minister Togo. He leaves little room for any change of policy. . 0

He'll Have to Be a Wisard

THE FOREIGN MINISTER praises the Axis pari. He says it has nade a great contribution toward the construction of .a new .order in Asia as well as toward preventing the spread of the war. no hint that Japan would abandon stands pat on the military campaign expresses the determination of Japan strengthen the Japanese-puppet government in China’\The domination of French Indo-China is presented ds‘an- -aeet complished fact. In short, the foreign minister represents the measure of the ABCD powers as deeply affecting “the very existence of our empire.” He says American-’ Japanese ‘relations have progressively deteriorated toward catastrophe.: H& says an amicable settlement is by no means impossible, but remarks that as conversations have lasted six months there is no necessity of spending much more time on them. In part of that last sentence is the only fainé ray of hope sontainen in the -entire speech of the foreign ministe The attitude outlined in the Japanese diet is that the United States must reverse its policy and Japan must be allowed to proceed with hers as is. If Kurusu can turn that into a peaceful agreement, then ‘he is'more than a statesman. He is a magician:

By Daniel M. Kidney)

ful’ One couldf’t expect a break for a Republican Senator of course, but it does seem that the: shouldn't have forgotten the Democrat Senator, even if he does not always vote the way they like.” Mr. Coy explained that he had called Sehator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) on Saturday morning, but failed to get in touch with him. The Army, meanwhile, did notify Rep. Noble J. Johnson (R. Ind.), who hurried home to Terre Haute to make what belated use he can of the matter. -

VanNuys Isn't Disturbed

SENATOR VANNUYS, who rates Governor Schricker' very highly, had no criticism to offer of the way the announcement was handled. ““My only reaction is one of delight at the fact that the unemployment in the long-suffering Sixth District may be relieved ‘and that the Federal Government

finally woke up to the fact that some such help was

needed there,” the senior Senator said. He merely: laughed at the suggestion that: ‘maybe Mr. Coy wants the Governor’s: support as-his succes: sor at the State House and that Governor Schricker in turn may want to. take Senator VanNuys’ _seat in 1944. ! That political considerations do enter defense was cited by Senator Willis pointing out that Senators Elmer Thomas and Josh Lee, Oklahoma Democrats, were able to get a munitions plant -for their state

when it originally had been scheduled for the banks of:

the Wabash. Both Indiana Seriators are isolationists, while Senator Leesis an ardent interventionist and Senator Thomas, chairman of the Senate Military Appropriations: subcommittee, is was pointed out.

By Eleanor Roosevelt ps

in New York City, they have already ‘sold several ple- ecent rent, pleces of sculpture and various thitles che

afts projects. /

state of the Burma. Road, “most

effect.

Leland Stowe

Some reforms have been ‘inaugurated already, others are being worked on and

others, inevitably, have not yet. been touched. So the.installation of a new regime on China's life-

| line highway will still take con-

siderable time.. Everything depends upon how much time is consumed and upon how thoroughly the most esser™ tial reforms are carried out—or whether some of them can be Imposed at all. 2

Long Ways to Go

THIS IS AN HONEST summary of the tremendous problem of getting American materials— a gigantic and uninterrupted flood of lend-lease supplies—into China.

Many American technicians are already -en route to help the Chinese. Among these are 26 experienced men for directing automotive repairs on the road, handling spare parfs, etc. Gen John McGruder and his American mis-. sion, having just reached Chungking, are expected to-greatly increase American-Chinese co-op-ération in regard to the Burma Road. Certainly the possibilities for this have been very much improved. Nevertheless, one can ‘best appreciate the dimensions of the job which lies directly ahead by the record of fraffic from Burma across the Yunnan border during September. Total cargoes moved. out - of: ‘Burma amounted to 16,000 ‘tons, -

COSTS DISTURB:

Budget Committee Told of Rising Needs; Study Final Allocations.

Rising commodity prices resulting from national defense preparations) are creating some rather serious) roblems . for - the various agencies supported in part by the Community: Fund. ~ At the Pund’s budget committee hearings which started Monday, board members of the various agencies are explaining their needs for the coming year, and in almost every instance, it’s the same story: “We've got to pay our help more; they can get more elsewhere.” “Milk is one of our largest expenditures, and it costs. us a third more, now, than it did.” “Coal bills scare us.”

Salaries Remain Low

“Salaries of ‘our employees are pitifully low+-$35, $40, $50 a month, and they live outside. They can’t make it.” Certain of the agencies, such as health and children’s agencies, are finding additional problems resulting from the creation of the armed forces. The budget committee hearings will continue six afternoons, with its members digging into the various Fund agencies’ expenditures in the past year, their anticipated expenditures and receipts from nonin Fund sources for the ng year. Each agency submits in advance a complete statistical report, and the budget committee receives an independent audit of the agency's Douke made by a public sSeouniing . Final Allocations Soon

“After all the agencies have been * committee

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University of Alabama, where I ly, the Srostder focus was taken seriously ill, and they cancel the lecture.” To find myself at home days ‘of leisure-is something réally

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significant highway of our’ day.”

.- KUNMING, Southwest China (By Clipper) —A jour‘ney over the Burma Road through China’s backdoor; re- | veals more than’ the ‘physical magnitude of the urgent task ot getting American lend-lease aid into. China. = It demonstrates the hard fact that only ~a portion: of some $500,000,000 worth of , American ‘war materials can be delivered * to the strategic areas of free China during the next six months of the dry season —unless the reforms recommended by the American transportation experts of the Arnstein Committee are put swiftly into

Reorganization of the Burma Road hes been under way since early September, following orders given by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek (who warmly approved the Arnstein report) and under ‘supervision -of Gen. Yu Fei-peng, associate director-general of China’s Roard of Transport Control.

of which 9000 tons Tepresmmien,

FUND AGENCIES

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gasoline, 1400 tons were commercial goods and 5600 tons were. classified -as “wai materials.” If has not been possible to check whether this latter classification is entirely accurate, or whether a certain percentage of commercial goods managed to get by under that heading. More important, However, is

‘the: question of getting all war.

materials delivered in Kumming at the far end of the road; something which hasn’t always hap‘pened in the past, but must be assured in the future.

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‘Bottleneck Remains

PROBLEMS LIKE this are what Gen. Yu is concentrating upon, plus the effort to push the monthly total of these war materials up ‘to 16,000 tons, not counting. the essential gasoline. In the pest it has required a ton of gasoline trucks must carry their own fuel for their return trip) get one ton of cargo supplies over . the road. Traveling from Lashio to KXunming we observed that reorganization still has a long way to go. The Arnstein report describecl the Chinese border customs and control station at Wanting as the most serious bottleneck on the Burma Road and recommended its transfer to a place with much greater parking facilities, as well as consolidation of all pgperwork. control in a single office. In’ Rangoon a Chinese official told us: that a new-customs site had been, selected. ~ Wanting was still in operation; wiith. its inevitable long delays, ‘When we reached there, however,

Churchill Wanted

To Shoot a Nazi

_ LONDON; Nov. 19. (U.'P)~~Information Minister Brendan Bracken said in a speech at Paddington yesterday that when Prime Minister Winston Churchill: made his last journey to: France in 1940 he took a pistol in hope of getting “at least one Genthan.” “As we walked down the stairs together with rain pelting outside he (Churchill) looked extremely grave,” Bracken said. . “Sudclenly ‘he turned to his butler ‘and said ‘Get: my. heavy pistol for me. I. asked :him why he wanted it. The Prime Minister replied: ‘Well, if we are-attacked by the enerny I may be able to account for at least one German.’”

b [ SQUAD Two officers of the Chicago Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board will interview men interested in Naval aviation here today. The officers, Flight Sergt. Thomas

J. Billion and Ensign: Robeit L. Childs, hope to complete an Indi-

anapolis Unit of 38 aviation cadets.’

Twenty-six of the number have been ‘examined and .approved. = One Indianapolis “Unit of 325, known as the “Fighting Bulldogs” is now - taking secondary training in Corpus Christi, Tex. They will be commissioned Ensigns upon completion of the work.

and along the road ‘we were /informed that the assistant. commis- _ sioner of Chinese customs in this district had declared he ‘would oppose any change in location to the last ditch. ‘Multiply this. in-

- stance a dozen or 20 times and

you get an idea of the job which - confronts any new administrator of the Burma Road. At the beginning of the Jap-

. anese invasion the far-removed

southwestern province of Yunnan was not closely associated with Chiang Kai-shek’s National Government and had long functioned - almost as a separate ‘state. x » ” ”

Put Revenue First

THE ARNSTEIN report in August’ cited the “very serious delays” at government tax collection offices, the existefice of 10 or more stations for checking between Lashio and Kunming, and urged that the National Government should also collect taxes for the provingial government of Yunnan —if possible.

At Paoshan we found a Yunnan

. province customs and tax station

still in operation and an official collector in charge who was obviously much more concerned about swelling the provincial treasury than about speeding up ‘war . material deliveries over the road. This is but another €xample of the necessity for making efficiency, king ' over the BurmaYusnsn Fiehwa.

POWDER PLANT "WARNING GIVEN

Don’t Try Speculation on Newport ‘Development,’ Says Army Man.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Nov. 19 (U. P.).—Residents of the. Vermillion County area where a. new powder plant is to be constructed ‘were warned today by M. J. O'Byrne of {the Army’s Quartermaster Corps “not to, become excited and not to buy or’ take options on any land because it may not be included in the project.” Mr. O'Byrne, real estate director of Zone 5 of the Constructing Quartermasters Corps, said he had received no orders to purchase land and that he has. been instructed only to make plans, appraise properties and examine titles. ‘Residents of the area will be given plenty of advance notice and time to: arrange their personal affairs before construction begins, he stated. Mr. O'Byrne, working under the direction of Lieut. Col. B. F. Van-

dervoort, zone quartermaster at Co-| beg

lumbus, ‘O., will establish an office at Newport Monday, he said. Also in the office will be James F. Miller, Edinburg, Ind., attorney, and J. C. Burdett, an attorney who has been working on & Virginia project. Mr. ‘Miller has worked with the Quartermaster Corps in Columbus,

Ind., and Ft. Knox, Ky.

HOLD EVERYTHING

. | truck overloading, ‘a carbon copy . of ‘the arrest slip is to be, sent to],

‘} |recently for overloading.

made lend-lease trucks will soon be : arriving, a great number for use on the road in the drive, to . double or’ triple the cargoes carried over .it. That confronts Gen. Yu with the .problem of getting sufficient drivers, even inadequately, qualified men, to handle: the trucks. nie a EL a

Need 5000 New Drivers

IT IS ESTIMATED that 5000 new drivers must be trained in the next few months, even while . a large proportion of drivers now ‘operating over the highway clearly are poor or bad drivers. They should be retrained or replaced before they ruin much more motor equipment by abuses and carelessness. A.training school for new truek drivers. is said ‘to be scheduled, - but a dangerous lag. in its organization and in its - graduation = exercises is to. be feared. Again China suffers, and -American aid is reduced in size, by lack of mechanically trained men. Equally so from the lack of imposition "of ‘a czarlike supreme authority over all aspects of Burma Road administration. . That may be on the way, but things move slowly in China. The skep‘tics ‘say they'll believe it when they: see ‘it “happen. "You are forced to conclude that the unruly. Burma . Road—long unruly from the- aspects of ‘in-

efficiency, politics, pqueeze” and cof China’ Ss great . lifeline.

At the State Hinson

By EARL RICHERT In the first move of its kind since the Schricker Administration took office, the Public Service Commission yesterday cited a trucking company to appéar and show cause why its operating certificates should not be revoked for allegedly overloading its vehicles. The company cited was the Steel Transportation Co. of Indiana Harbor. The hearing date is 10 a. m,, “The P. S. C. stated in its order]. that it had been informed that the Steel Transportation Co. was “operating motor vehicles over the highways . . . in violation of the weight limitation laws . .". and that] on or about Oct. 28 or 29, 1941, operated a certain motor vehicle . . . having a gross weight of 73,200 Pounds. 2 ~The 'maximum gross weight permitted by law for trucks is 52,000 pounds.

First Shot in State War

This citation is the first shot fired by the State in a war which it is inning on truck owners who load their vehicles beyond the legal limits.’ Fred Eichhorn, P. S. C. Commission chairman, ‘said that several

the near future. He said that while truck owners might think it worth while to pay the fines imposed upon them for

their vehicles overloaded that “they

if we: Stars revoking their licenses to opera :

Periodic Checks Ordered

Don F. Stiver, State Police superintendent, has ordered his officers to make periodic checks of truck weights throughout the State. And when an arrest is made for

the P.S,C. for its information. . Mr. Stiver said that approximately 50. arrests. had been’ made

Attention of State officials was} foeused on the truck overloading!

resigned as Highway Commission chairman last month.

Claims Roads Endatigered He declared that the State’s highways were threatened by destruc tion w. Se heavy-laden trucks which ' roll ' ceaselessly over them any snd mens o, hich e new ~lane way. in Indiana

Northern er rucks,

Truck Firm Cited as State Wars Against Overloading

similar: citations would be issued. in|.

the few times they are caught with! will probably sit up and take notice, |

1 |probléem by a statement made by| “|James D, Adams shortly before he

, Amer{éan lend- lease goods flow to all wil of the world. Here is a typical scene in busy New York ‘harbor, - In far-off China the huge pressure of these war materials from . the United States dictate, a reprpanisa- 2 tion _of the Burma Road, Chiang Kai- shel's lifeline.

other. abuses=will ake! quite a

Tot. ¢ of taming yet. On the other hand, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek ‘knows: that hundreds of millions

‘of ‘dollars in American lend-lease

aid must be delivered, in materiel

“* form, in the interior of free China

and at last an experts’ or

reforms is available Ne a oy *'post ‘and goal. S It is likewise true that during ‘the next six months war develop- : ments and pressure are : “make draconian Measures Hos ~ lutely imperative. | n ” ¥

- Critical Period. Ahead

THIS IS H W things|stand as the famous Burma enters the most critical period. of its existence. In its three years of history the road has had a great deal of romance and glory about | it, rand. quite as much tawdriness La side ‘of the story which: has i never been fully told. | =

: Now the time has come when a - reorganization of the Burma Road is dictated by circ tances, especially by the huge pressure of inflowing . war “materia from America. One is tempted to remark: that if the road loses most of its serious blemishes China will surely win the war, | In this part of, the world all those who want China to ‘are yaiting for the verdict, as it'must given by bold action and 3 along the 160-m - length

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from an ‘electric coffee’ srinder: toa 2000-galjon water tank. . EJ 2 ” Clifty Inn at Clifty Falls State Park was closed today for several months for remodeling sn redecorating.

TROOPS IN ICELAND TO HAVE YULE TREE

' WASHINGTON, Nov, 19 —The American Red Cros to day: that American troops sta in Iceland, : Greenland 4 foundland will have. rr tional decorated Chris trees, ‘The Red Cross, already. has ! warded: a shipment of “trees, and junior: Red Cross mem por made or bought festive d tions

for. the mess halls where Christmas’ dinner will be served TA the service men stationed in Iceland, . Green=land and Newfoundland. : :

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