Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1941 — Page 11

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

OPENING HIS BIRTHDAY greeting card mail Saturday, one of the Chamber of Commerce traffic

safety leaders came upon an envelope from the Police

Departmerit. ly birthday,”

“Ah, good old Mike; he didn’t forget ought our friend. (He told us the story after swearing us not to use "his name.) Opening the envelope, he found a notice informing him he'd neglected to pay a parking sticker on Nov. 7. He hadn’t received a sticker, Iriate, he sent a friend to investigate. “Looks like you'll have to pay,” said the friend, “and what were you doing ‘parked in front of the Cotton Club on Indiana Ave?” And then it dawned on him. "A radiator repair firm had sent after his car on the day in question to repair its radiator, and the firm is located around the corner from the Cotton Club. : The radiator repair shop may not know it, but it’s "going to pay a $2 sticker fee before it gets-its pill paid.

y/ Uncle Sam’ll Get You

: NATIONAL DEFENSE is producing some marvelous items, including silver half dollars that you can put inside a soft drink bottle and then get them out ingain—apparently whole, - It: baffles the waiters no

id. he coin we saw reportedly was doctored up out t the Allison plant. It had ‘been sliced in half— i | you'd separate two slices of -bread—and the two Halves glued together with a thin shee} of rubber be-

atl (oF, ‘probably before the halves were glued topsite, the whole thing had been cut—across the face—into nine pieces. Thus, you can bend it double or even roll it up, and when you let it snap back into position it looks just like a neal half dollar.

It’s quite a fooler, but we’ll bet the man-hours spent ih figuring out and preparing it would make a good start in building an Allison engine,

Sell-Out for Saturday

THERE'S NO USE. bothering Dick Miller: about seats for the Saturday night, (Dec. 6) Sonja Henie performance. . All the reserved seats for that night are gone, he says. All he has left are the 2000 UNreserved seats—on the ends—that will go on sale the day -of the performance. Plenty of reserved seats are left for other days—Dec. 5-11. After scraping around for several days, they've finally managed to get enough carpenters to build additional seats at the east end of the Coliseum for the show. . . . The

"C. of C. has gone to press with the National Defense Among other things,|

issue of its bulletin—Activities. it will list all known plants here with direct national defense contracts. The contracts reach an amazing total we hear, : ;

Around the Town

SOCIAL NOTE: Governor and Mrs. Schricker spent last night at honie entertaining Secretary and Mrs. Ray Smith at dinner. It was in the nature. of a night off for the Governor who spends most every evening out being entertained here or, there—sometimes both. . ... The Power & Light Co., like most; utilities, is no respector. of persons, including the City traffic engineer. Remember how -the intersection of Kentucky Ave. and Illinois—at. Washington—was marked off with yellow paint to show pedesfiians how to walk and.motorists how to drive? Well, the utility| company is digging up the street there again, spoiling yards of bright yellow paint, tsk, tsk. ... The Indianapolis Clearing House’s annual troubles have started already. Whenever the phone rings at the clearing house—where the banks exchange their checks—the odds are even right now that the caller wants the Christmas Clearing House—RI. 9214,

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

Washington

* WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. —However it'may be reps

resented by others, } %he sending of American troops °

to Dutch Guiana is regarded here as a defense precaution, even though it may be related to other moves

involving the Dutch East Indies. This is one of the main sources

of aluminum ore or. bauxite for American defense production. Adjacent to it is British Guiana, also a source of bauxite. These two localities, on the northeast coast of South America, are considered vulnerable to a particular method of ‘sabotage.

Some sarcastic comment was heard among members of Congress about the good neighbor policy. In answer it ‘is pointed out that Brazil, adjacent to the Guianas, is co-operating in the move. Anyway the territory is Dutch and The Netherlands government has given its consent to the presence of American’ troops. There is no reason why this move should be more objectionable than was the establishment of an American naval base at Georgetown in British Guiana, one of the bases arranged in connection with the destroyer deal last year. All these moves are for the protection of the Western Hemisphere in the largest sense,

How We Stand—

Im ANYTHING Ts CLEAR it 15 that the United States: is not intérésted in France has possessions in the Western Hemisphere— French Guiana and Martinique being the two most important. A French airplane carrier and planes still remain af Martinique. We have made no move regarding this French territory, not wishing ‘to assume |

Cre ul for Americans

‘can poet and rho stoi | the ‘members of the: ' tional, teal

| Daniel Webster,” and of “Jo Brown's Body” for

which he won the Pulitzer in 1928, By STEPH VINCENT NET WE :BELIEVE IN the dignity of man and the worth and value of every living. soul, no matter in what body ‘housed, no matter whether born in comfort or born in poverty, no matter to what stock he belongs, what creed he professes, what job he dois, ‘ believe that every man hos have-a.free and equal chance to develop his own best abilities under a free. system of government, where the people themselves choose those who are to rule them and where no man can set himself up as a tyrant or oppress the many for the ‘benefit of the few. We believe that free speech, free : assembly, free elections, free pracof ‘religion are the cornerstones of such a governent. | We believe that the Declaration of Indedence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of e United States of America offer the best and most ikable framework yet devised for such a governen © We believe in justice and law:"“We ‘do not believe in curing an ‘evil ‘by substituting for it ‘another and Sppost posite evil.. We are unalterably opposed to class tred, race hatred, religious hatred, however manifested, by whomsoever instilled. :

“Implies Personal Responsibility’

WE BELIEVE THAT political freedom implies and acknowledges economic responsibility. We do not ‘believe that any state is an admirable state that lets its: people go hungry when they might be fed, ragged when they might be clothed, sick; when they might be well, workless When they might have work. Se

My Day

"WASHING GTON; Tuesday.—This' has besst ‘a busy Beginning with 4 ‘meeting at 9 ce of Civilian. free minutes until 1 was back at the White House at 12:15, to meet ‘and be. photographed with Miss Margaret Hamma, the world’s cham-

‘pion: typist. Then .I went ‘to the

Women's . National Press Club eon. i spite of my. ‘membership in this. cub, I rarely manage fo get ‘there. for lunch. Tuesdays come

and: go and there always seems to-

territory. Vichy |-

fense, I had ho

| Too many people " With, a little care and p their

By Raymond Clapper

any responsibility for it. Probably no move of any kind will be made unless Vichy furns over her whole empire to the Germans and attempts to transfer these Western Heming possessions along with it.

t's U. 8. That Is Paying

TWO PRIMARY RULES govern the relations of the United States with Latin- America. One is that we seek no territory. The other is that in all relations there is scrupulous deference toward the sovereignty and independence of other countries in th: hemisphere. It stops short only of tolerating a specific threat such as that to the Panama Canal which was recently -ended. One can poke back into our history and find ep:sodes that violates these rules. But they are regarded by many Americans as shameful blots, not characteristic actions. No nation, as strong relative to its neighbors, has obsegved more consideration and restraint than the United States. Nazi infiltration through Latin America has itself been the best evidence of that. We had to struggle to: hold -our own in trade all over the -hemisphere. We are, incidentally, asking the Japanese to take the same attitude toward East Asia that we have followed in Latin America, the attitude of the open

6.0. P. FIGHTS LICENSE PLAN

Henderson ~ Governing Business Is Essential.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U. P.). —House Republicans in a conference today decided to make a strenuous fight to prevent adoption of price control provisions which would empower the Government to license businesses and to ‘buy and sell commaodities. Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts said

bill when it came to a final vote, the Republicans probably would

the committee. ately before the House began .the

bill. A vote on the controversial Gore ‘substitute to “freeze” all wages, prices .and rents was scheduled for the day.

Henderson Backs Licensing

_ At the same time, Price Administrator Leon Henderson held a last-minute conference with Speaker Sam Rayburn. He said that the

successful enforcement of price

| regulations.’

Rep. Martin maintained, however, that inclusion of licensing and buying and selling provisions made the measure a “bad bill “You can’t vote for a bad bill just because it’s got a good tag with the public,” he said. He predicted that no matter what action the House takes, the Senate will not act until spring. Acting Chairman E. E. Cox (D. Ga.) of the House Rules Committee predicted that the Gore substitute would be defeated; that the buying and selling and ‘business licensing amendments approved by the banking committee would be rejected; and that this “will take the teeth out of the Administration bill.” ‘He said that in such event, the Administration bill should be sent back to the banking committee.

- Would Fix Ceilings

Rep. Cox strongly favored: Rep. Gore’s proposal when it was before the rules committee. The Administration bill empowers an administrator to fix ceilings on commodity prices and rents when, in his opinion, they threaten an inflationary rise. Rep. Gore’s substitute would place a ceiling on all prices, wages and rents at the level which

door with equal trade opportunities for all nations.|obtains this week.

If Japan would practice the open trade policy and refrain from aggression, in other words if Japan would follow the same policy in the Orient that the United States has followed in the Western Hemisphere, there would be nothing to argue about. The final ‘answer to suspicions about the United States is found in-the Mexican settlement, which if} anything is generous to a fault and allows Mexico to get away with everything but the kitchen stove. It is the United States, not Latin America, that is paying high to achieve hemisphere solidarity.

We believe that it is the duty of all of us, the

1 whole people, working through our democratic system,

to see that such conditioins aré remedied, whenever and wherever they exist in our country.

We believe that political freedom implies and| ge)

acknowledges personal responsibility, We believe that we have a great and priceless heritage as a nation— not only a heritage of material resources but of

liberties, dreams, ideals, ways of going forward. We

believe it is ‘our business, our right and our inescapable duty to maintain and expand that heritage. We believe that such a heritage cannot .be maintained by the lacklustre, the selfish, the bitterly partisan or the amiably doubtful. We believe it is something bigger than party, bigger than our own small ambitions. We believe it is worth the sacrifice of ease, the long toil of years, the expense of our heart’s blood.

‘Our System Is Not Perfect’

WE KNOW THAT OUR demotratic system is not

rfect. We know that it permits injustices and ongs. But with our whole hearts we believe in its continuous power of self remedy. That power is not a theory—it has been proven. ouglr the years, democracy has given ‘more people freedom, less persecution and a higher standard of living than any ‘other system we know. .Under it, evils have been abolished, injustices remedied, old| wounds healed, not by terror and revolution but’ by the slow revolutiongof consent in the minds of all the people. While we maintain democracy, we maintain the greatest power a people can possess—the power of gradual, efficient and lawful change. © Mbit of all, we believe in democracy itselfs—in its past, its present and its future—in democracy as a political system to live by—in democracy as the great hope in the minds of the free. We believe it is so deeply rooted in the earth that neither assault from without nor dissension from within can ever ‘wipe it entirely from the earth.

| But, because it’ was established for us by the free-| Land Richard W. Millar of Vultee in

minded and the daring, it is our duty now, in danger as in ‘security; to ‘uphold and: sustain it with all that we ‘have and ‘are.’ We believe that its future shall and must-be -even greater than its past. And. to the future—as to the past of our forebears and the present a our hard-won freedom—we pledge all we have: to ve:

By Eleanor Ronsooelt ie received an interesting little folder the. or City” tg Sormunity Service hy ‘which is. larg “for one reason ‘another, ‘have lost their own ability. to hold a a job. tne bo, Sols sen 0 a - te e together, Io onsiitions and the be rehabilitated will gly eel capable o Handing an 1 own tot. :

e they: lt Bve Swati Sen ice in 4 world and been able to carry|

+e something desperately neces-

4 “#ary to be done at home.

| Government.”

Wages are exempted from any controlls under the Administration bill. Parm prices could not be regulated until they have reached their general level from 1919 to 1929,

SEAT 11 JURORS IN JONES DEATH TRIAL

. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 26

“fw. P)—aA panel of 12 jurors for

the trial of Cozzie M. Jones, West

‘I Terre Haute youth charged with the

attack-slaying of 12-year-old Edith Idelle Barton, was expected to be filled today after 11 jurymen were approved tentatively yesterday by the State and six by defense coun-

Two special venires of 50 and 52 prospective - jurors were called yesterday, with 36 remaining to be questioned. Prosecutor H. DeWitt Owen demanded t each juror “have no scruples of the death penalty should the defendant be found guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.” . Jones, 26-year-old minister's son, was indicted by a Vigo County Grand Jury May 19 on first-degree murder charges. The handsome, black-haired youth was accused of responsibility in the Barton girl's death after taking her on a date the night of April 21. Her nude body was found lying in a Terre Haute creek. Police said Jones admitted having ‘relations with the girl, but told them she fe]l and drowned in the creek when she ‘attempted to flee his automobile.

DENY COMPLETION OF CONSOLIDATED SALE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26 (U.P). — Presidents of Consolidated and Vultee Aircraft companies admitted today that: they were studying possible merger of the firms, but branded as “premature” reports that negotiations ‘had been concluded. ‘Maj. Reuben Fleet of Consolidated

4. joint, statement said that a Vultee “disclosure” yester that Consolidated had been sold to Vultee was “premature and not authorized” .and that the spokes‘man had been fireti.

statements in an aviation trade ‘magazine, referred to by the spokes-

solidated sale The “afinouncement”

nation’s ery aircraft plants, to planes—trainers and fighters.

DRAFT STRIKE ENDED

PT. MYERS, Fla., Nov. 26 (U. P.). —The Lee County selective service! board ended its strike today, apparently mollified by the return of captive coal miners to their jobs. The board telegraphed President

"| Roosevelt last week that it would ‘| not draft men for the Army so long

as John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers (C. I. 0), o| “dictates the labor policy of our It has not received

IN PRICE BILL

Insists Clause| |

that if those provisions were in the) .

vote to send the measure back to} The conference was held immedi-|

third day of consideration of the|

licensing provision was essential to| = i

BAUXITE PAYS GUIANA’S COST

American Troops to Find]

Hot, Humid Climate; ' Old Pirate Ports.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (U. P). —American troops en route to

Dutch Guiana (Surinam) ‘will’ find |

there a hot, humid climate and land blanketed with “tropical forests—a Netherlands colony that has

raids of corsairs and privateers, and wars. | ‘Dutch "Guiana’s ‘history, however, is not a glamorous one for the

roundings have made it difficult to colonize. .In the Nov. 8 issue of the Foreign Commerce Weekly, a ‘Commerce Department publication, an article entitled “Surinam” revealed that

the valuable bauxite miines in Dutch

Guiana and in the neighboring British Guiana are the only “almost inexhaustible sources. of bauxite of unsurpassed quality.” All lof Dutch Guiana’s bauxite, the only commercial source of the metal aluminum, is shipped to the United States. This ‘year bauxite exports to the U, S. are expected Ww reach 1,200,000 long tons. This country supplies only onethird to two-fifths of its domestic requirements from bauxite produced in the United States and 95 to 100 per cent of its imports come from Dutch Guiana. Dutch Guiana’s known history goes back to the 17th Century when the major European nations were scrambling for land in the new world: In the wake of wars that ‘followed discovery of the Western Hemisphere, what is now Dutch Guiana was held by the Dutch, French and British in confusing succession. “At the Peace of Breda, in 1667, between England and the United Netherlands, the colony was assured to the Netherlands in exchange for the lony ‘of New Netherlands ‘in North - America. Since then, however, it has been

in the hands of Britain twice—from|-

1709" until 1802 and from 1804 to 1816, when’ it was returned. - Today. there are 181,000 inhabitants, of whom only 2000 are white. In the interior there are 19,000 primitive descendants of escaped Negro slaves, known as Djukas, and aboriginal Indians. There is great|: antipathy between the Djukas and Indians. There are ' today some 35,000 Javanese and their descend-|-ants in the colony. The area of Dutch Guiana is estimated at 54,300 square miles— about the size of Florida. Along the coastal strip from 10 to 50 miles wide the land is forested and fertile, but behind the coastal area there is a slightly higher country of impenetrable forests leading back to mountainous region. that extends to the Tumuc Humac mountain range on the Brazilian frontier. Paramaribo, the capital, is a port of call for Pan-Am lean air. liners en route to Brazil. RE

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HOLD EVERYTHING

a long record of native uprisings,|

white man. Its climate and sur-|’

‘Federal loan would enable the mine

1. The Little Daisy . . . it's out of the “red” now.

2. Miner Raymond Wools and

“Jiggs.”

3. Chief Electrician Orval Miller ; , . 140 feet underground.

Take Over Abandoned Pits, Fay All Debts in Two Years

By WILLIAM: CRABB’

Times Staff Writer

LINTON, Ind, Nov. 26.—Add the miners: of: 14 tle Daisy. io the roll of ‘undaunted men- who have pulled themselves ‘ip.by their. Boot-straps. Two years agc last March the’ Mayer. of Linton ‘said to them: “You men will make mining history.” ;

This month they did.

.It was in March, 1938, that the Superior Fourth Vein co, weary of

operating at a loss in adverse economic = conditions, gave up the struggle and went into receivership. Ninety-two men who had made mining their life’s work were thrown out of work. Not only were their jobs gone, but the company owed them $11,000 back wages. For some of the men this was the third time a company had Tailed with wages due them. “There was a possibility that a

to open. The nien lived. in hopes for several months. Then came the word—no loan! Through all this waiting some of the men had reporied daily to the mine to keep the pumps going; because some day they would ¢« oo eo

But, what was the use! Helped by Businessmen

"They talked over their troubles It wes a shame to lose such ‘a good. mine—140 feet deep with veins

$400 to IN a share-alike company to’'lease the. mine from the receiver. They called it the Little Daisy Co. The rest of the money was spent to get started. Just a. year and a day after the mine had closed Little Daisy went back to work. .

Four of the 1 men were tesignated as “company men.” They. were paid a monthly salary. The others went to work under U. M. W. regulations, paid their union dues, worked the union hours for union wages.-Week-by-week they paid ‘their back salaries. And slowly, but surely, they paid the creditors. But to the men the most important thing’ was to reimburse the Better |Linten Club—the boys : who had

L helped them when they were down.

Early in 1940 that debt was paid. And three weeks ago the mine was in the clear—$20,000 had been paid. From now on the 58 owners of Little Daisy realize some . dividends,

extending over a mile 'under-|{og

ground. And coal was bringing better prices, too. “Thea one of them suggested: " “Let's run the doggone thing ourselves.” But. another pointed out it would cost several hundred dollars to cut{: the legal strings that had entwined the ownership during the ensuing months. Somebody in downtown Linton heard of -their plight. ' The matter | was taken to the Better Linton] Club, en organization of business men.. ' The club members - were asked ‘what they could do. The answer ‘was $900 in.cold cash. “This is a loan,” the club told the ‘miners, “but don’t worry about

paying it back.” IThe £8 remaining ‘miners spent:

‘They. also inferentially dented il

man, that Government pressure was| | for the reported Con- I

| yesterday] | had said that Maj. Fleet had sold|

employment: se his “devoted to & who,|! Poet conaencs

Vultee for $10,000,000. Vultee builds | small

BY FLORIDA BOARD|

| | capereria

on ‘the job.

A Word About. Jiggs -But the saga of Little Daisy can-

| nov be written off without a word

about. Jiggs.

Jiggs is the ‘leader of the ‘13 Ponies who :make daily trips to the far reaches of the mine and work alongside the ‘minérs: They, have worked hard and long BY ie, Little Daisy a success. Their spirit was demonstrated last winter by Jiggs. It was early in the morhing—the crew had just ‘gone to. work. Jiggs|'Mr went to his post nearly a mile from the opening shaft. * And . there he

| broke a hind leg.

It was impossible to bring Jiggs to: the surface until the end of the, work-day. So one of the men taped

hours ‘he stood on" three legs. He bardly moved a muscle. Then the men tied him to a flat

‘|car and hauled. him to the shaft.

Awaiting him above was. almost

‘the entire personnel of the mine. Each took hold of -the edge of a”

huge tarpaulin. They. placed Jiggs on it, gently, and carried him to’hisi stall. The veterinarian put his. leg in a cast.

sie of) slirse fags: for. sis Wealth. And, like his masters, ‘he’s

ett ai

| MOVIE “TOUGH GUY": JAILED iy DRINKING|S=Foe

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his leg with friction tape. For eight|-

NAZI PROMISES FALL OF BRITAIN

| “Bolshevism Is Destroyed, .

Von ‘Ribbentrop Tells ~ Anti-Red Group.

BERLIN, ‘Nov. 26 (U. P.)—Enfiry of the United States into the war could not prevent an Axis victory, Foreign Minister Joachim Yon Ribbentrop said today. He stated that: 1.-Germany will British Isles.” 2. Bolshevism has been ‘broken permanently. 3. Nazi Europe is economically secure and blockade-proof, even if forced to fight. a 30-year war. 4. Japan is building - a new ofder in Asia “parallel” with the Nazi new order "in: Europe. 5. Germany will put out no peace feélers but will proceed with its organization of Europe which is now “on the road to union.” : ~ Assails ‘Roosevelt

Ribbentrop’s’ speech to the silna-

wdodizog!. the

| tories of the Anti-Comintern Pact

at a state luncheon was intended to. offset uncertainty felt by those states (particularly Japan) in ‘re~ gard to the position of the United States. “If,” said Ribbentrop, “it should |some day come to a war between the ‘United States and Europe and Asia on .the other side, the responsibility lies with President Roosevelt. Tie President: has tried to lead his nation to war, ‘Ribbentrop said, - although the German pegple have never felt hatred for the United States. : “Germany has not ‘the slightest reason and, therefore, no. intention of proceeding against the United States,” he said. ' “Any idea of an attack on the United States is the stupidest nonsense.” ‘Destroy Bolshevism’ He: charged that Churchill had . “revealed in secret sessions of the House of Commons in 1940 Jat he had secured Russia as an ally, and that Roosevelt. had promised ‘une limited aid to Britain.’” He said that by their signatures to ‘the: Anti-Comintern Pact, the 13 nations had proved their united determination “not to rest until the fearful threat of Bolshevism is Temoved.”

DOG FINDS TEETH; GETS $2 REWARD MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 26 (U. P.). —H. A. Wills was trying to’ decide | today what his dog, Poochie, should

do with $2 she got as a reward for finding a set: of false: ‘teeth

day with the teeth in her mouth. Mr. Wills found the ownszr, unidentified, through’ the ‘lost and found advertisetnents. of a ‘newspaper, :

TEST You R KNOWLEDGE

1—The ‘implement: uséd to strike the po bal] In tune a ot sroquetils | ed & = = = ===? ime does “Virginibus Puer3—There is an 2 stomobile highway a from the Texas border to Mex-

; Jiggs, with the courage displayed — {vy his masters in their adversity,