Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1941 — Page 15
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; FRAN GASPER, who: nis the: Teiate station. at EEE that we messed up his gag. mber, we told you Tuesday how people at parties
re ® havi Someone day 8 gard, Shen telling: them eal a, ceria person at Ta. and ‘he'd ‘guess | 3 Hush—Buig
‘we had the code wrong. We: told
the card? Well, Mr. Gasper says :
~ you that if the card was the Ace of Hearts, the gagster would have | . you call for, say, Andy Harris, '- maybe Al Holt—that it went: by the initials of the ecard.
That's wrong, and it’s had the | *\ filling station boys all embarrassed :
‘because they've been
wrong. It worked out all Tight | when we tested it—by accident— |
because ‘we tried the Ace of
: : “The way: ‘it really ‘works, says hed Gasper. A represents 1—the Ace; B:is for 2, ete., with - J representing 10, K—Jack, L—Queen, and M=King. - That's for the first name, The last name should ‘bePF gin with the first letter of the suit—H for hearts, etc. ‘8 Thus, if your victim drew the 7 of Spades, you'd have # him ask for, say, George Smith, Mr. Gasper says a traveling salesman came down from Chicago and told him about the stunt, and he pulled it af a party at his home. Each of the guests spread it, until now theyre getting from 55 to 60 phone calls an hour at the station and can’t get any work done. But it’s darn good advertising, says Fran.
. Why 9:53 A. M., Nov. 21?
THE U. S. S. INDIANA is scheduled for launching at the odd hour of 9:53 a. m. (Central Standard Time) Nov. 2j}—tomorrow—and therein lies an interesting © story. It just happens that 10 a. m., or maybe 9:53 . * the day before or after wouldn't do. 5 The huge battleship draws so much water that. they need every inch they can get to float it. And it just happens that high tide for the lunar month in the river at Newport News is 9:53 a. m. Nov, 21. If
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& lianapolis By Lowell Nussbaun :
: they miss. that ‘time in. stitig ‘the big: ship oft the Ways, they'll either have to delay: the launching anStier ‘month or risk. getting it stuck in the river bot- } mud.
IT'S HUSH, HUSH stuff out: ab the Naval Armory, but’ from other sources we hear that the nival:cannon they've been using at the Armory for practice in gun- | pointing : is ‘goné—leaving the city ‘without a single . naval gun, The story is that it's been dismantled and shipped east. to. be used in arming the merchant marine, At the Armory, all they'll tell you about it . is: “Sorry, we can’t discuss that.” Sh-h-h, don’t’ tell ‘any enemy spies. . . . The Children’s Museum is distributing a clever little rebus-type poster inviting every "school child .in the city to become a junior member of the museum. The dues are 25 cents a year; and the| Juniors ¢arry a mem p card and ‘wear a pin with ‘the museum’s seahorse i . The rebus is all about| ' the adventures of a ‘seahorse “who lived in the sea,” |! ‘and ‘was “just as: unhappy as a ‘seahorse could be.”| The way to make him happy, we gathered, is for all children to join the museum,
Powder Plant Jobs
GOVERNOR SCHRICKER naturally - felt rather happy the other day when the White House permitted |. him to annotince plans for the new Government powder plant in Indiana. Such announcements usually| are made in Washington. Bit it has had a kickback. ce then the Governor has received a flood of requests for jobs on the project. Oh, well, every gilver lining has its dark cloud. . . ..Mrs. Nelle Dawson; secretary to the gas company’s general manager, had a couple of birthdays this week, Yes, two. You see, it’s this way: Mrs. Dawson's mother always has said Mrs. Dawson was born at 11:59 p. m. Nov, 18, her father always: has said Mrs. Dawson was born at 12:01]. .m. Nov. 19. Asa result, her birthday has been celebrated on both days ever since her childhood. Pretty lucky, we'd: say.
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_ Ernie Pyle is on leave of absence Tm of the illness of his or
Ww ashington
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. This Japanese business is so serious that some people here think the less said for the time being the bétter, and perhaps they are right. I don’t want to do any boat-rocking, yet it does Seen 1 me that as a possibility of war is involved there should be some inJormagion to the American pub-
® The Administration is preserving silence for the moment and. perhaps that is bést. The Japan"ese have not helped the situation . ‘by their extreme. statements. in the parliament. Here the aftitude is to give the Japanese time to formulate their reply .to the discussions as they have gone thus far. Upon Tokyo's reply, which , should be coming back within a few days, will largely depend. whether the situation in the Pacific is fo grow better or worse. The special Japanese. envoy, Saburo Kur isu, and - the regular Japanese ambassador, Admiral Nomura, have spent more than an hour with President; Roosevelt and more than three hours with Secretary of State Hu in the present conversations up [to this time of. writing. Although these discussions are described officially as preliminary, it is fair to assume that they have covered the basic questions our position has been made known, and that the next development is to be Japan’s
3 reply. > Boiled Doin Into One Phrase
WITHOUT GOING INTO detail, 1 is safe to say that the main thing the United States asks is that ‘ there be an end to the Hitler type of conduct inthe Orient. With a chants Int more pence methods: 3nd adoption it ast, Tt oa not (be difficult for the United States and Japan to Teach an agreement.
Propaganda
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.— Gradually being unfolded are the amazing stories of how a master mail-~ ing list of half a million names has been used by the Nazi propaganda machine operating in the United - States. More than a dozen Congressmen may have been used by this propaganda machine to distribute pro-German printed matter through the mails at Government expense. Strangely enough, the story has not received the national attention it deserves, perhaps. because the case is rather involved and lost sight of in a number of-side issues, or perhaps because there has been some reluctance to offend the isolationist Congressmen whose names have been involved. The trail of the master mailing : list, however, can be traced sh all the side issues, It was noticed at first br ordinary people out in the country who, admiring an wishing to support the sentiments expressed by, an isolationist spokesman in’ Congress, would write in indorse the views. Shortly thereafter, this pio would receive isolationist mail from other sources. All of it would be unsolicited. % In many instances, this mail would take the form of an excerpt from the Congressional Record. It would be an anti-interventionist speech or a pro-Axis argument. It would be marked “Not Printed at Government Expense,” meaning that while the original “had appeared as part of the Congressional Record, the reprints had been printed at cost on the order of some Congressman, though not necessarily paid for by the Congressmen. 3 aa The ‘mailing ‘of these’ reprints, however, was most ! “decidedly ‘at. Government . expense, since they were. mailed out under the Congressional. ranking privilege + “which permits a Congressman to have’ his signature printed on an envelope in place of a postage, stamp,
Dummies - -on the: List. .
= ENOUGH of these envelopes fell into the hands of private, ‘interested investigators to make quite a col-
My Day
| BYDE PARE-I don't know when you ste coleprattng ‘Thanksgiving. Some people have never énanged from the traditional last Thursday in No-' : 4 according” to the calendar, Nov. 20 is ving Day, and therefore, I am. writing this
to Fish’ ‘appeared. later on a mammoth list prepared
By Raymond Clapper|
The measures we have adopted, the economic blockade, and the military preparations, are strong and were meant to be so. But this Government does not want war in the Pacific and it would glad to conclude an understanding which assured equality of opportunity to all nations in the Far East. Secretary Hull’ boiled the issue’ down - into one phrase some time ago when he said that the United} States will not acquiesce in Hitlerism in the Pacific. The speeches of the Japanese premier and the Jap-| anese- foreign minister leave but little room. for negotiation, as they were quite specific in insisting that} Juiside power obstruct the conclusion of the China a. . ‘Perhaps there is some room for interpretation there. It is to be hoped so, because if Tokyo leaves no door open for interpretation, then there can be little hope of an agreement.
Opportunity Is Still There
I DON'T BELIEVE it can fairly be said that the United States is trying to deny opportunity for Japan “to live. In a peaceful Pacific, with opportunity open to all nations, with vastly increased trade upon which Japan is so dependent, her chances are much better than they would be by suffering the present drain with the added burden of opposing the two great naval powers, the United States and Great Britain, . Japan is a naval power, dependent upon a heavy and free flow of trade. Her natural place is in the} group of naval powers and not in conflict with them. Japan's economy is closely geared to world trade,
- the Japanese islands being so dependent upon ‘ims=}+
"Parle . raw materials and. exports of finished maTherefore open economies, where-Japanese industry has an opportunity to compete on the same terms as other nations, are best suited to her, as they are to the British. There is still the opportunity for a readjustment although it is hot too promising in view of the fever-
Science. Eyes
Unique Test With Simian
By DR. FRANK THONE Science Service Editor in Biology:
‘NOTRE DAME, Nov. 20. —A ‘baby monkey, about three months old, roams wobbly-legged in a rather - small cage in the bacteriology laboratory at the University of Notre Dame,
window at.one end with big, ‘wondering eyes.
is the most remarkable little mon‘key in the world. There is not, and never has been, a germ of any. sort in her active little body. Germ-free she came into the world, and thanks to most elaborate scientific precautions, germfree she:remains.”’ " Scientists will wgtch her career with keenest interest. Normally -all animals; worms to whales, live and die with their insides swarming with bacteria and other one-celled plant and animal life. That goes for the human animal, too. We seldom stop to think of it (as well, perhaps, that we ‘don’t), but everyone of us is a perambulating combination zoo and botanic garden. So normal is it: for animals to be inhabited by germs (usually harmless vas - rieties) that it has even been con- - tended that these micro-popula-tions are necessary—that we cannot live Rithous + them. : Prof. James A. Reyniers, airector of the bacteriology laboratories at Notre Dame, wasn’t so sure about that. Being of an intensely inventive turn of mind, he built some elaborate mechanisms wherein it was possible to bring animals into the world untainted by any , and keep them ri - -as long as he liked.
A Modest Start
HE STARTED out modestly, with small animals, down near the lower end of evolution’s ladder: ~ mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens, ‘Long, patient experimentation proved that germ-free
. life was possible to animals.
Through years of practice, his technique was made as nearly unerring as is humanly possible, Finally he was ready to try his method on a larger and more difficult animal, zoologically much closer to the human stock. Most convenient and easiest to obtain, of all the monkey tribe, is the rhesus Wiokey, Jamiliar hd Vary ene as the ~organ U0S0’S constant companion. Rhesus mon-
purposes. Prof. _ Reyniers bought a Hey of monkeys of . this species. He selected a young female, pregnant with her first offspring.
‘peeping through a round J
for his guinea small
“free of all mi - fed, hands are
In her way, this baby simian
Yehudi II, Noire Dame’s germ- -free baby: monkey, ‘receives ber bottle from a gloved hand thrust into her germ-free cage, her only
contact with the outside world.
After elaborate skin cleaning and sterilization, he performed a Fags sarian operation — duplica miniature of the proced thousands of difficult ian childbirth cases.
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Unusual Operation
THERE WAS one decided difference, however. The operation was not performed in a typical hospital theater, but in a sterile closed chamber, so arranged that
‘the scientists themselves were
outside it, reaching in'to do their work with their arms encased in long rubber gloves. t Babies of all mammalian species are normally free from germs during their entire prenatal existence within the womb. They get their first germs with their first milk, with their first breath. Delivered by caesarian operation . and kept in a closed chamber,
with germ-free food, germ-free
water and germ-free air, they should remain germ-free themselves so long ds {the seal against the outer world remains unbroken. That is what f. Reyniers did animals, and that is what he has done for the little germ-free monkey. All supplies are sterilized and introduced | excluding air lc
be weighed or t into the into the sides cylinder that is This is the 10 contact with the outside Wor’
little monkey is t
long gloves gasket of the Sligo
pigs and other -
When the
i
THE MOTHER MONKEY, incidentally, recovered nicely. from her operation and has been re-
-stored to the laboratory’s monkey
colony. Prof, Reyniers hopes that she will eventustly provide him with another germ-free infant. The little monkey, meanwhile, has become quite a favorite with the laboratory staff. They have named her Yehudi II, quite disregarding her sex.
,Little Yehudi II receives a diet
very similar to that given to human babies. -Her formula consists of canned milk, water and dextri-maltose every two hours. This is supplemented with Pablum
"once daily, and the necessary vita-
mins, Her daily gain in weight ranges between a fifth and a quar-
¢« ter of an ounce.
“At present,” Prof. Reyniers reports, “she is fast becoming a lab-
. oratory worry, since her curiosity
is so acute that she gets into all sorts of unpredictable adventures. We have found it necessary to hide all feeding equipment, and since the space in the cage is rather limited, I am wondering how long we can kgep her out of mischief. :
Dislikes Her Spinach
SHE ROAMS wobbly-legged all over the cage, and several days ago she got herself tangled in one
. of the gloves and nearly smoth-
ered. At present her {favorite perch is on the balance, which ik her a gentle up-and-down ride. She has already cut her biting teeth and exhibits dislikes for certain foods, such as spinach.”
first reason for this
Here Prof. James A. Reyniers and assistant. prepare for an operas | tion to produce germ-free laboratory animals. apparatus needed is shown in the background.
reasons for undertaking to raise
a germ-free onkey baby: “The experiment with the: ‘monkey is its resemblance to the human, Since our studies are concerned with the relationship of bacterial flora to the development of animals, and since we have perfected our techniques and experiments on rats, mice,
"| literature on monkeys, we
Some of the complex
rabbits, guinea pigs and chickens, the monkey is the logical E step. ‘Since there is very e. to raise this‘‘monkey for hic ence and récords for future use in
the laboratories. “We also expect to extend our
experiments to the dog, as a rep- | animal?
Yesentativey carnivorous
ish Yiteratives Coming from Tokyo.
By Peter Fdson
lection. Then a number of similarities began to appear. Documents from different Congressmen would be received with the names and addresses printed from similar stencils or in similar handwriting. Then dummy names were planted on some of the lists. . At this stage of the game the matter came to thé attention of the criminal division of the Department of Justice and William Power Maloney, who handled the wire-tapping investigation, was assigned to present the case to a Federal grand jury. This jury went to work with a will. On Oct. 24 it indicted George Hill, second assistant to Congressman Ham Fish. When Hill was indicted, Prosecutor Maloney: declared in open court that Hill was the Washington key | P man for a German propaganda machine, and: that Hill has admitted ‘spending at least $12,000 in this work . in ‘the last five months. Tracking down that propaganda machine is the job with which the grand Jury is concerned at present, and the record of what it finds will be shown by the indictments it return from here on in,
Linked to Viereck
WHERE HILL, GOT the money or how he spent it he has refused to disclose, but Hill’s activities have been linked to Prescott Dennett, Washington organizer of the anti-British “Make Europe Pay” and “Islands for War Debts” movements. Thousands of copies of Congressional Record reprints were furnished by Hill to Dennett. In turn, Dennett has been linked with George Sylvester Viereck, who goes on trial Jan. 12 as a registered Nazi agent. One of the counts on which Viereck was indicted was that he had supplied Congressmen with ‘material - for speeches which were printed in the Congressional Record. Some of these speeches were among those ‘mailed out under Hill’s direction. * The linking of all this tangled skein with the existende of the master mailing list came in open court oney charged that some of the names sent
‘hy Scribner's” tator. This national magazine ‘has been strongly anti-interventionist in policy . and its publisher, editor and promotion manager are now under Investigaion by the grand jury.
BODY-BUILDING PROGRAM URGED
Physical For Defense, Speaker: Tells Park Staff. =
Indianapolis must prepare itself for the demand for a well-planned physical fitness program as an essential feature of civilian defense preparation, Weaver W. Pangborn of Chicago, National Recreation As-
City officials yesterda; Mr. Panghiol git a threeday tour of The City’s community centers and held a series of conferences with recreation staff members, Advisory: Comittee members and Park officials. “A body building program for all age groups, in line with the growing interest in physical fitness as a national defense measure, appears to be your greatest need at the present time,” he said. ‘In Spirit of Fun
program of calisthenics. games, marching drills and square dances also should be included-in such a program in order-that it can ‘be. carried on in a spirit of fun rather than of regimentation.” = To this end, he urged an increase in the number of lighted community centers and - playgrounds, particu-
Vigorous
‘ ‘lup creates & demand for such
By Eleanor Roosevelt
yok for Je whole: we a ko. Siabik oF tat om CORLL trymen are waking to their responsibilities, and are whatever the Government asks of them. - ‘We are producing more and more in the way of de« fense materials, as the people realize what the real impact of a Hitler victory wo mean to us. ; I think each one of us is ‘able to do even a
mm cout dey a fenkil o ke some lines which a friend of mine, Robert|Seters
the
rship which must be Jet by recreation officials,” he added
Approves Pay. Increase -
i WELLS T0 SPEAK AT | CENTRAL NORMAL|
Fitness Needed|
“By that I don’t mean merely a
larly in hard surface courts for out- :
Mr. Pangborn said he found the|
Sonja’ s Ferns Ask the Oddest Questions, But the Coliseum Folks Have the Answers
By DICK LEWIS
The switchboar in the office.of the . Sonja Henie Hollywood - Ice
Revue buzzes and Mrs, Ruby
Gardner, secretary to, Coliseum Manager Dick Miller, who pinch hits as operator, information service and complaint department, plugs in the call. “I understand,” says the coy voice on the other end, “that Miss Henie isn’t: going to skate at all. It’s going to be her double.” Or, it might be something like
sociation field JoPIusenuve, told| this:
“Say, sister, the rumor’s Jog around town: that this ET al show on account o paid good dough for my ticket, ‘80 how’s about my money back?” 8 os » - . OR, MAYBE this: Re “We understand, on very reliable authority, that Miss Henie is SOG 0x ++ WH v,. BAVS's fam : y. 0 0 The answer, of course, is NO. It goes on that way all day in the cavern-like office housed in the Coliseum walls, but somehow the people up there manage to ‘stay .on .an even keel, “Why, you must be mistaken,” ;
f she’s sick. I
replies Mrs. Gardner. “Miss Henie, positively ns Skate in the show.” 2 THE TELEPHONE business has been heavy for the last two months on reservations. The Saturday night, ‘Dec. 6, performance hzs been sold out by mail and telephone requests. One man about town wanted to bet Dick Miller $1000 it couldn’t be. *
‘Mr, Miller waived the bet aside
' (he must have been dreamy) and
then produced the proof. Mail orders come in with elaborate drawings from memory of th: Coliseum seating arrangement with a black arrow pointing to a Spek labeled “Me” right down fron One anxious gentleman wanted to know what he would cost to get a seat in the middle of the rink ani whether he oughtn’t to bring a pillow. » » 2 ANOTHER gentleman wrote for a seat “as lowly as possible.”
Others demand seats as high as
they can get.
A party came out to the Coli-
seum last Saturday night to see the show and got pretty mad. when he was: informed he was three weeks early.
People from out of town call
HOLD EVERYTHING -
up and complain that local peo-. ple get preference and local people- call up -to complain that out-of-town people get preference. Any number of rubber checks come in, but they don’t get very far. The Coliseum people have a way of stopping the checks on the first bounce. Several people have called up, and demanded that Miss Henie be told they called. Some tell Mrs. Gardner to .quit : kidding aboul . Miss Henie not: being in town and put her on the phone, 2 8 8 :
A COUPLE OF gentlemen at a Union Station called up and warned Dick Miller that if
* tickets for Saturday night’s Lh
weren’t forthcoming it might be difficult for the hockey team to. get transportation. And so it goes, all day long. -It always ‘happens that people get the dates mixed up. Last year, four people with Saturday tickets came on Sunday. They had driven 150 miles to get here. What could the box office manager; Don Burge, do? He had to squeeze them in, but he doesn’t recommend it, In fact, he frowns and vows such tender-heartedness: will not be displayed again. : sa; 8" SOME NICE things happen. An officer on duty at Ft. Harrison ordered a ticket and received six through some slip-up.
turned the extra five with a cour-
teous' letter of explanation and |
Mr, Burge, who would have had to. stand the loss, was grateful.
“Whenever possible; the office
force exerts itself to satisfy customers even if the harassed workers ‘don’t feel the complaint is reasonable.
. One man, heading a determined
He re--
—Iiloyd Weber, st. Louis represents
‘ative of the A. F. of L. Machinists
Union, said today that Govern ment ‘defense officials still hope arrange an “amicable ene of the union’s dispute at two Louis defense projects in order to
on
uled for Monday. Representatives of Associate OPM. Director Sidney Hillman’s ‘he said, contend that the union's: ‘dew
Projects affected are at the
Louis small arms and plant;
prevent a general walkout. sehiéds,
mands for reinstatement of strike
of the A. P. of L. Carpenters and Engineering St ..Oatpeniers aid
Springs TNT plant and the ‘Bt. ammunition
SEEK SETTLEMENT IN. 9 ST, LOUIS DISPUTES
WASHINGTON, Ng, 20 (U. PJ fi
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TEST YOUR ‘KNOWLEDGE 1—A supercargo on a ship isi & charge of the purchase and
charge of packing the cargo’ - the hold?
United States Senate was 1 ‘named “Mill Boy of the Slashes’ 3—The prefix “ante” or “antl ‘ ywmeans “opposed to?” 4—Manhattan Island ‘was diseoy ered in 1609 by Henry or Willlam Van Dyke? S—What 8 does Homogenization: do ;
6—Who was the eldest son of stand and Eve? ;
or cargoes, or the ® og sm
deck-load, an officer who filed Be
2—-Which famous orator in te