Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1941 — Page 11

LTE mosis a Hesrtachsi That's fust ani you' to shop early and mail : on ail servicé, You may remember, gets ve jammed around Christmas and it takes. pretty to deliver packages and greetings. A Christmas gift or greeting that arrives a day or, two late uae pretty flat, gs pecially at the Army camps. Jock like you've forgotten the

peaking of the postal service, the Government, ds that it soon will be too late to mail gifts for any foreign countries. t's too laté already for some. Weight limitsion packages and - parcel post fees differ in the various countries. For instance, no package of more than five pounds ? may be sent to any private individual in Great Britain, and postage is 14 cents & pound.

“The British are not permitted % write and tell their - friends here what they'd like, but those just back from and say that butter or any other fat, and dried fruit are the foodstuffs most urgently needed. * “Clothing always Is good, too, but it should be clean and warm.

Tsk, Mr. Ripley

BO?) gE RIPLEY—and tell him he’s wrong again. (So are we, sometimes.) In Sunday’s column, Ripley re about t the $10,000 trophy George J. Marott, put up for Columbia Club and I. A tion. . Ripley said the I ‘A.C. had’ won. it only .one year out. of seven. The record book attached te the trophy case at the Columbia Club indicates the I. A. C. won it in 1929 and 1933—the Columbia Club in 1930, ’31, ’32 and ‘34. That was the end of the competition and the cup remained in the hands of the Columbians. Incidentally, the trophy was presented by Mr. Marott to perpetuate the good fellowship and true sports« ~ manship of the competition between the two clubs. © And the reason the competition ended in 1934, according to some members, is that each club became suspicious that the other was: -proselyting—hunting up good golfers and inducting them into membership to play golf. It wouldn't be a bad idea to let bygones be bygones and start the competition again, would it?

. C. golf competi-,

our Ado, Dept. WAR BEIT from us 10 enter into competition’ with our Mr, ‘Walker's classified advertising department, bos we just can’t resist telling you about the Raymon Sparks Jamliys predicament, 2 hei family had a pet Springer spaniel named * Hope."Mrs\ Sparks writes us that she and the children were content: to have the dog retrieve nothing more| than the evening paper, hut that her husband felt that he “should develop her (the dog’s) hunting sense or some such nonsense.” (Quotes by Mrs. Sparks.) Accordingly, Mrs. Sparks writes, Mr. Sparks took the dog down to Brown County Nov. 15, between Morgantown and Helmshurg, and within a mile or two . Hope was lost. The family thinks maybe Hope is hoofing it for home, which is R.R. 12, Box 253. She is mostly white, with a brown head, tail and front legs, ‘Until Hope gets ome, the doghouse 3s being. occupied by Mr. Sparks

Why No Tschaikowsky

SO MANY PEQPLE HAVE inquired why Fabien _Sevitzky never has recorded any of Tschaikowsky’s works—despite his ‘great familiarity with them—that we decided to investigate. We find he hasn't much to say about what his orchestra records. He submits to the recording company a list ‘of the compositions his. orchestra is prepared to play. The company then| decides which to record. . . ; From the November issue of Outdoors Indiana, we learn several insect paradoxes. For instance, *“silkworms are not worms; they are caterpillars. White ants are not ants; but termites. Seventeen-year locusts are cicadas instead of locusts. are hectlos: not flies and ladybugs are not bugs; they are beetles.”

Preparedness

HERE'S ONE FOR THE “Now It Can Be Told” Department—Conservation Commissioner Hugh Barnhart

was afraid ‘that at the last minute someone might;

start a row over the use of champagne in launching the U.S. 8.Indiana last Saturday. So cautious Hugh, the former A. B.C. head, had his game wardens send in samples of water from Lake Michigan and the Ohio, Wabash and Tippecanoe Rivers, and mixed them in one handsome bottle. But the launching came and went without a single squawk from the dry forces, and Hugh still has the bottle of many waters. ir you don’t believe it, he’ll show it to you.

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

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Washington

WAS SHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The attitude of the ‘Railway Brotherhood labor leaders offers an encouraging contrast to the tactics which John L. Lewis has used in.the captive coal mine strike. ~The railroads are under threat of -a strike. Operating employees have voted to walk out beginning Dec. 7. They have actually listed the order in which the railroads would be closed down. Although this sounds forbidding, the Brotherhood leaders - themselves are: trying to find a way. out. - They so strongly" desire to aveid a strike that the way. .out is almost certain to be reached.

They do not want to land in the

same class with John Lewis. Discussions are now going on to find a formula for settlement. A good deal of the first indignation over the refusal of the Presidential fact-finding board to grant a larger wage increase has subsided. The men asked for a 30 per cent increase. ‘They now know that is out of tho gin oat : Operating employees NE offere & r cen increacl 3% Non-operating emplo; Having Bally a lower ‘wage scale, were offered a 13% per cent increase. The principal complaint now is from the operating employees who want a raise. more nearly equalling the percentage increase of the non-operat-ing men. A second complaint is that the increases were offered as a temporary bonus because of the increase in the eost of :living. \The men want it to be g flat wage ingrease—not something that they will have to fight for again a year hence.

Asking for Trouble

SOME SUCH MODIFICATIONS in the findings of . the Presidential fact-finding board , probably ‘would enable an agreement to be reached. But there are strong objections to Presidnt Roosevelt overriding the fact-finding board. The first requirement is that the prestige of this board be upheld. It is essential to preserving the effectiveness of the Railway Mediation Act. If the President attempts to overrile it; he will only open up endless trouble

The New Russia

KUIBYSHEYV, Nov. 25.—Kuibyshev - is ‘swarming with new arrivals. Every river steamer and every train unloads at least part of its defense human cargo here. In the five months since the outbreak of war, this “Little ‘Moscow on the Volga” has nearly * doubled in population. ‘You can see these people at their best toward evening when they come out from the factories, apartment housés and makeshift hotels and promenade on the main streets. Neither the bitter cold, nor the ice, nor the blackout, cancels this nightly parade: of Russians in their| furs and felt boots. There are surprising numbers of soldiers.

are crowded with overflows in the

’ Ki byshev has |its opera, its movies and its concerts; | always well attended. Many leading artists and writéts are here from ‘Moscow. There are evacuees from all the war areas, but mainly from Moscow, White Russia and, the Ukraine. Only those with permits are allowed to stay. A number of schools and other tutions have been converted into lodging houses for gvacuees, i | Yet, in the remaining schools thiodss of children continue their studies, with three shifts held daily so all may be accommodated. j

The Mayor Is Only 41

“TODAY I MET Kuibyshev’ s 41-yearLold “mayor, Ya man of peasant origin, 'who runs the city with the assistance of 356 deputies, including 181 women," With. him was i

My D:«

* WASHINGTON, Monday—We had a very pleasast dinner party last night, consisting of my husband milk toast “and I ate one

s ‘good for our figures and’ prsation, since neither of us’

had [to pay attention to our food: I spent the evening wrapping _ Christmas presents and was joined by one of my friends; who arrived from - the ; train. She: Temarked : me

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By Raymond Clapper

for himself. Why should the President personally become the: arbitrator, or mediator, for every kind of labor dispute? If he overruled the board now, he would be certain that future boards would be brushed aside so that disputes could be loaded into his lap. There is a way out of this situation. As g result of conferences now being held, it is possible that the fact-finding board could be reconvened to reconsider its findings. In view of the wide discrepancy in the percentage increases recommended for the two groups of railway employees, a reconsideration might legitimately be undertaken. But it should be made clear that the findings of the board, whatever they might be, will be insisted upon in the end.

Even Lauded by. High Court

ONE OF THE GRAVEST offenses in contistiion with the captive coal mine strike was the sabotage of the National Defense ‘Board, by the walkout of its C. I. O. members when that board’s. decision went against them. It was a severe blow at peaceful mediation of labor controversies. The Railway Labor Act is the creature of the railway employees themselves. It was drafted largely by | their own people. It Has worked -so well that it has been pointed to even by the Supreme Court as a model piece of machinery for adjusting labor relations. By making this act work, the railroad employees have warded off anti-strike legislation. Their alternative now would be to wreck the act by bringing on "a national railroad strike. It is certain that: a na‘tional railroad strike would mean bringing ouf the troops, and enactment of an anti-strike law for railroads and perhaps other lines of work. The Government must and will keep the railroads running. That is a fundamental test of its ability to function 5 a government. Obviously there is ‘nothing in a railroad strike ‘Yor the railroad employees—nothing but defeat. Their leaders .are wise enough to see that. They know that to press through to a strike now would be as enormous an act of sabotage to defense work as could be perpetrated, and that railroad labor would pay incefinitely for such a crime. They are Showing a good deal more insight than

By A. T. Steele

Regional Government, who would correspond to the Governor of an American state. A locksmith by trade, he is only 40 and his domain includes the whole middle Volga with a - population of nearly 3,000,000. This is a young men’s government. Michail Pylev, the “mayor,” told me proudly how Kuibyshev had doubled in size as a result of industrial expanSion during the five-year plans and had grown from 420,000 to 700,000 during the past five months, “We have converted all our factories for wartime purposes and are bringing others here from the war region,” Pylev said, “Production “has upped 26 per ¢ent since the war began.” -

Africa Seems Far Off

THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT, ‘incidentally, has made no effort so far to build up new Russian hopes on the basis of British successes in Africa. The African campaign continues to receive conservative tréatment in the official Soviet press. News of British operations has been limited so far to perfunctory publication of Cairo communiques. Nor has there been any editorial comment whatever on the African war and jes possible effect on the Russo-German sit-

Africa seems far off to. the Russian people who .are inte where ‘Hitler is making what the Russians believe his last great offensive effort for the present year. <The intense character of the Russian and the urgent appeals of Soviet leaders and news- . papers for a supreme show of strength reflect the Russian realization of the: dmportance of the next twa or three weeks of fighting

{CopyHisnt, 1941, oF The Edmunds Times and the Daily Hews, inc.)

By Eleanor Roosevelt |

with" her sister, has taken over her late husband's

business, the making of wire screening. Priorities| |

affect this industry, especially where they use copper. It is not a very large industry and the amount ot materials needed in it are not very great, but Mrs. John Ralston is here not only in the interests of

her own plant or the industry, but because of the} danger she feels a shortage in screen wire will mean ;

to the health of the nation.

. She’points out that screens are of vital importahes ‘1 in*our camps, and ‘in all our defense industry § build- | ings. © Without: them, we lay. ourselves open to epi-|.

demics of all kinds,

is called the New York Volunteer Health

Co-operative.| | :"¥ou have a certain freedom in the choice of doctors. ou ‘pay $18 a year without hospitalization. ¥You| cannot belong

if you earn more than $2000 a year single, or $3000 a year when married. They ady over one.thousand

members. mush should like to find out about. this |

ly engrossed in their own war theater}

resistance |

Talking of health, a most interesting health co-| , operative came to my attention the other day. It :

Using “every Possible Means to Wind Up Struggle This Winter.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—Fa't more war-weary than generally supposed, and increasingly dubious of victory in a lengthening conflict, Hitler will seek by every possible means—diplomatic and military—to end the struggle this win-

here. With the fall of Rostov, it is said, the Nazis will now toss in all the cannon-fodder necessary to reach the Caspian sea and cut Russia off from American and British aid via the Persian gulf. Sintultaneously, Hitler is expected to torture the 85-year-old Marshal Petain into yielding naval and

nies, perhaps even the French fleet

Nagis Short of Oi

This done, the reports go on to say, Hitler will proclaim some sort of European “peace” and invite the rest of the world to subscribe—an invitation which the White House has turned’ down in advance.

pivot of Russia’s Caucasus defense and the ousting of Gen. Maxim Weygand, anti-Nazi bastion of North Africa, admittedly may become. disastrous. An official British estimate says the Nazis are running short of -oil. They are using six or more gallons to every five they can now produce or acquire. The occupation of the Caucasus would more than make up the shortage.

Menace in Near East

At the same time it would threaten the Near and Middle East where there is still more oil, but, what is equally as ‘important, it would jeopardize Britain's hold on North Africa. The Weygand ouster dovetails perfectly with the Caucasus menace. If the Vichy Government now de‘cides on full “collaboration” with Berlin, the Nazis will be able to make use of Atlantic and Mediterranean bases from Dakar to Bizerte. French Tunisia, of which Bizerte

base,” is just across from Sicily. From there, the Nazis could bolster up tottering Italy and threaten all the gains made or to be made by the British in Italian Libya.

British Face 2 Fronts

This threat is all the greater because the British fortes astride Stiez may soon find themselves obliged to fight on two fronts—one in Libya, the other in the Caucasus—however much they may prefer otherwise. It is a race against time. If the British dan sweep the Axis out of Libya and consolidate their position there in short order, Vichy might Restate 8 before giving way to the xis. On, the other hand, unless Hitler can ‘take Leningrad and Moscow, occupy the Caucasus oil fields and cut Russia off from Anglo-Amer-ican aid by that route, he will hardly be in a position to speak of “peace” in Europe With all Bo: North and West Africa, plus the Middle East eating out of his hand, and the Mediterranean turned into an Axis lake, Hitler admittedly might have at least a talking point for peace.

F. D. R. OPENS DRIVE TO COMBAT POLIO

NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (U. P.).— A letter from President Roosevelt yesterday opened the annual cam-

President's birthday to combat infantile paralysis. A diamond" jubilea birthday celebration, observing Mr. Roosevelt's 60th birthday, will be sponsored Jan. 30 by the Committee for

for Infantile Paralysis. - The letter said “many serious epidemics have again proved the tnecessity for continuing this work and renewing it on an even larger scale. As you know, nothing is closer to my heart than the health of our boys and girls and young men and young women. To me it is one of the front lines of our national defense.”

air bases in France's African colo-|.

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This map shows some of the reasons why Japan's Kurusu and Nomura have conferred long and’ ‘earnestly with “President Roosevelt and. Secretary of State Cordell Hul. Prospect of war in the Pacific looks bad for militant Japan in the above pattern. Entirely ‘encircled by probable enemies, she would be bottled up in one of history's most potent blockades. Action might begin on land with a Japaneses attack on Thailand, on British Burma or on China's lifeline, the Burma Road, as shown on inset map:. The major decision, however, would

likely involve fleets at sea and in

GRANGE ADOPTS |e 12-POINT PLAN]

Backs All-Out Price-Fixing Only If ‘Other Devices Fail. Nov.

WORCESTER, Mass, 25]

(U.P.) —The National Grange an=|.

nounced yesterday a 12-point “‘plat~

form for agriculture” approved by pomn

the master and .executive |

tee after the organization’s tion i annual convention here last week.|

According to ‘Albert S. ‘Goss of Washington, newly-elected master, the platform was compiled by the committee after a study of the legislative action by: delegates from 37 states at the 10-day convention. ne platform: 1. All-out defense . with stens taken to assure no stoppage in maximum “production of supplies for democracies. 2. Arbitrary price-fixing only if use of economic devices fails to check inflation. Power to be retained by Congress.

- Assure Plenty of Food

_ 8. Assure agriculture an equitable share of the national income. 4, Expedite a policy which will assure plenty of food for the people at ‘home and in the aided demccracies. - 5. Obtain full recognition for agriculture as an essential deferise industry and receive the. same treatment as the other branches of labor and industry. 6. A sound co-operative farm

credit system and responsibility |-

vested in: boards. 7. Soil conservation continued and expanded. Encourage Co-operation

8. Encourage co-operation as a means of increasing agriculture’s ability to meet . emergency condi-

. | Celebration of the President’s Birth-{tions -|day for the National Foundation

9. Over-centralization and bureaucratic control in government by Congress: should be avoided. 10. Congress should act to prohibit and prevent strikes which retard the progress of national defense. 11. Adequate transportation [a= cilities as essential to national wel-

12. Elimination of

fare, non-defense spending. : :

HOLD EVERYTHING

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Copvsigh, 19a) The British offensive in Libya has been mag-

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nificently timetl. I has struck, apparently with com-

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surprise, The words of ‘the Bri

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worthy -of note. It is not, he says, the British: Dies

tive to reach Tobruk

or any other place, but to

destroy every German tank in Africa. In other

power site than to attain any particular geographical objective.

Of course, the whole operation is as yet only. in its

stages, and reverses may yet occur. However, hina? seems to have

achieved and ‘the co-ordina-k f svery, element concerned |

The iE the British equipment and its a handling also appear to be first rate. With the reservation, therefore, that | nothing is certain in desert warfare until the enemy has been de-

stroyed or has surrendered, it may}

be useful to examine what the resus of ‘a complete British victory

Good Effect on Turkey

First of all, Gen. Wavell will be relieved of anxiety as to the safety of Egypt and the Suez Canal and will be able to turn his complete attention to the defense of the Cau-

‘Jcasus and the Middle East. The]

German capture of Rostov emphasizes the need for complete freedom of action in this general area. ‘Second, the position of Turkey will be made stronger and the Turkish government will be less likely to] be impressed by German threats, both because the British will continue to exercise command of the sea in the eastern Mediterranean and because Wavell will be able to give the Turks stronger support if they are attacked by the Germans. The question of prestige is: also involved, and the Turkish mind is much more likely to be impressed

.|by a clear cut British victory over

‘the Germans in Libya, than by a

| dozen German set-backs in Rusia, |

'-The Weygand Removal

Third, a way may be opened for further British offensive operations in the central Mediterranean when the time is ripe for them—offensive directed against Sicily or Sardinia, or against Italy itself.

Fourth, the complete ejection of| the Axis forces from Libya, when|:

and if it is ‘accomplished, cannot fail to have a profound effect upon the attitude of the French army and the French and native popula- ,| tions in French North Africa. In this last connection the Ger‘mans appear to have stolen a march

.|on the British in securing, appar~|ently in the very nick of time, the tremoval of Gen. Maxime ‘Weygand

from his commangder-in-

post as chief of the French African forces.

Need Help of ‘French 16 remains ‘to be seen whether

'1—Was Leonard Wood or Theodore Roosevelt the first commander of the “Rough Riders”? % 2—Lower California belongs to the United States; true or false? * 3—Another name for goat meat is c-ev-n? 4—What three-letter: word means a. leap, dancing party and an herb used in brewing? 5—1Is Mexico a republic? : 6—Name the author of the play, ' “Strange Interlude.” 7—Sir Harry Lauder was a Scottish author, statesman, or comedian? 8—Which of the planets is noted for its rings?

Answers

1—Teonar d Wood. 2—False. (It belongs’ to Mexico),

6—Eugene ofl 7—Comedian., 8—Saturn.

2 8» 8 : ASK THE TIMES

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD |

BY A ARTA L

are] Drink Tea and Coffee Black Because of Latest Milk Restrictions. £ LONDON, Nov. 26 (w. P.) ~The latest food crisis today | Jomd

new “milk restrictions gave the ! tion's. milkmen their lightest day i in years and left a majority breakfaster drinking fea and cof<

Limited winter ’ “production fof dairy herds forced new restrictions on Hquid milk. Each adult may \ purchase two pints weekly, : though invalids and children ei tain. a pint. daily. - For the first time, Britain is drawing on large canned-milk supplies from Amei‘ica, the Food Ministry announced. . A minor “run” on bottled beer was reported from south London when the news spread that no milk was available. Hotels ‘and -restaus rants were limiting “white” coff and tea to one cup. 2 Racketeering already has “ape peared. Doctors have been charged with writing prescriptions enabling cheating clients to obtain a. daily pint of milk as “invalids.” | A mounting wave of doorstep’ milk : “pilfering” also. was reported.

BODY ARMOR TESTED FOR BRITISH TROOPS

LONDON, Nov. 25 (U. p)— war office revealed today it was perimenting with a new type three-piece body armor for The armor weighs less than pounds and is designed to pro troops against splinters and gan

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