Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1941 — Page 25

FRIDAY, DEC. 5, 1941

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

The ©. of C's new color movie, “Bursting Out at the Seams,” is receiving a big hand wherever it's pre sented. Shown before the Electric League yesterday, its available for clubs, Parent-Teacher and other groups both inside and outside the City. The movie suggests the need for a closer integration of the Metropolitan area of Indianapolis, either through annetation of closely built up sections adjoining the City limits, or the City furnishing them sanitary, health ayd safety (fire and police) servie on a flat charge as in the case of Woodruff Place.

Also suggested is the need for some sort of planning and bullding restrictions for suburban sections that some day will become a part of the City. These problems have been intensified by the current population growth attendant on the defense-in-spired industrial expanston. Right now there are 20 per cent more jobs here than in 1929, and the end isn't in sight. If you get a chance, see that movie,

Here and There

A NICE LOOKING young woman stepped on the scales in the L. Strauss lobby, gasped, took another unbelieving look and then hurried away, all the time carrying a piece of airplane luggage. . . . The Eli Lilly plant, we hear, has just received a nice order from Chiang Kai-shek for four billion capsules. . . . The Ad Club is getting ready for its annual Tom and Jerry party Dec. 18 at the I. A. C. . . « That “man

mailing a letter in a fire box” thing happened agtin one night this week. Firemen tell us a battalion chief, three pumpers, a truck company and a police squad car roared up to the alarm box at Earhart and Prospect Sts. and there was the guy with the letter. That's what they tell us, anyway.

The Roller Coaster

THE YOUNG FOLKS, we'hear, get quite & kick out of the roller coaster effect they get riding in a car crossing 40th St, on Boulevard Place. . . . The Sun was late coming up—fram Chicago--yesterday. It was around 2 p. m, before the first copies of the first issue of the new Chicago a4. m. paper got here by air mall, , . . Arthur Bohn, the architect, considers that golden cross atop St. Vincent's Hospital one of the City’s most distinctive landmarks at night, Illuminated and silhouetted against a dark sky, the cross seems mystically suspended in space. . . . We just happened to notice that Howe High School, if desired, could put an “All-Bob” basketball team on the floor, In the first team of 11 players are Bob BE. Brown, Bob H. Brown, Bob Eicher, Bob Gwynn and Bob Hauck, Hey, Bob!

Material for Worry

THE CREDIT MANAGER of one of our bigger stores admits frankly that he's worried over the way people are buying on credit. What worries him is the big increase in Federal income taxes. Right now people don't realize how heavy income taxes will be next year, and many are buying recklessly. When Uncle Sam cracks down next spring, he'll get his money, but a lot of the merchandise being sold “on time” now may go back to the dealer, or else just go unpaid. It's something to think about, isn't it?

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

Washingt ' YASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Lend-lease aid has been extended to Turkey. I don't know at this writing

what the full terms are, but I hope that in return

we obtained commitments for chrome, We are dependent almost entirely upon imports for our supply of this indispensable material. Turkey is one of the important sources, We can pay for chrome in lend-lease goods, and by projecting the agreement into the post-war period we can insure this source for a long time to come,

The whole lend-lease operation has neglected the question of insuring in return future supplies of raw materials. We are nibbling at it, but we have not pushed it. Harry Hopkins, who worked out the general policy, has been opposed to bringing up the matter of repayment at this time because he did not think it desirable to raise questions which might distract the British from their war effort. Some other officials do not take such a sentimental view. They believe that now is the time to obtain commitments in return for lend-lease. All of the lend-lease countries produce certain raw materials which always will be needed by us, such as Turkey's chrome, China's tungsten, and the rubber, tin and quinine from the British and Dutch possessions in the East Indies.

We Need Adequate Supply

THE BIG SCRAMBLE now is for raw materials. Our primary defense manufacturing plant is nearing completion. During the next year the defense problem wi'l be t5 obtain the necessary raw materials, especivlly those which are imported. Some of this will be very expensive. We need agreements now that will, for the post-war period, insure us a supply at reasonable cost. When such questions are raised, it is said that any such arrangement would create difficult exchange problems for the lend-lease countries. The Dutch

Life in Moscow

RKUIBYSHEV, Dec. 5—Moscow fights back resolutely and calmly and those who falter: die. The newspapers cite the case of a few men, under a Commander Pronon who, “in order to save their skins,” quit their posts at a point outside the capital. They were shot. “Especially dear to us,” says the published announcement, “is the soll near Moscow. Better to shoot a few rascals, who are thinking only of themselves, than to surrender a village near Moscow.” Travelers arriving here from the capital agree thal except for the very conspicuous strengthening of defenses in and around the city and the tenser atmosphere, life in the capital continues pretty much the same as when we left there a month and a half ago. Stores and offices do business as usual. Those factories which have not been removed to safer locations are humming with activity. The city’s transport system functions almost normally, Josef Stalin and other top officials of the Government remain at their posts. The population, though reduced in size, crowds the moving picture theaters. Many of the country’s leading singers and dancers have been evacuated te other centers but a light opera company gives daily performances in Moscow. For example, it presented ‘Helen of Troy” the other night,

Artillery Fire Now Audible

THE DISTANT THUD of artillery is now audible from Moscow's suburbs and small flights of German bombers come over almost daily to drop their loads into the city but this did not prevent the chess masters of Russia from opening their chess tournament there,

For more than a week the weather has been more favorable to the Germans than the Russians. Snow has fallen intermittently but not in sufficient quantities to seriously impede the German tanks. This has been accompanied by a spell of comparatively mild temperatures. The Russians would like nothing better than a sharp fall of the mercury and much more

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Thursday—VYesterday was a busy day. In contrast, I find myself devoting my time today to catching up on the mail and doing various

things in my house here, My husband holds over my head the fact that if these houses are sold, I shall have to leave them at very short notice. Since we have always kept certain things in locked clogets, I fih up my spare minutes and hours trying to decide what to do with things that have a certain sentimental value and, which, perhaps, none of our children will have any real use for now, or in the future. Yesterday I found some very beautiful and very large old tablecloths and napkins with handsome embroidered coats of arms, such as no one would think of indulging in a the present time. In fact, very few people who are economically inclined, use large or small tablecloths any more, and certainly not these large napkins, when table mats and small napkins are so pa gates 0 launder. , most o ave learned to use paper in many ways which we did not consider possible in our

By Raymond Clapper

are paying cash for their lend-lease supplies, so they come in a category apart from the other lend-lease countries. Some officials, recognizing the exchange problems involved, are hopeful that they can be dealt with through a new bank of international settlements, an international clearing house which would remove the necessity for nations to resort to closed bilateral trade or barter arrangements. One situation particularly is causing some Amerjcan officials to think in such terms. Great Britain is building up a large amount of blocked sterling-—which means that many countries which have been supplying material to England can obtain repayment after the war only if they buy British. England is not criticized for this. It is recognized that in the absence of an international clearing bank Britain is obliged to rest upon this blocked-sterling device in order to face the post-war situation.

Let's Don’t Wait Too Long

ONE THING HAS impressed some of our officials here, It is that England is not disregarding her postwar problems, When an American official brings up such questions, he risks being suspected of antiBritish feeling. England is taking every care not to upset her commercial channels more than is necessary, looking again to her post-war needs. Some of our officials believe we should show equal foresight. What they primarily fear is that if arrangements are not made now, the two countries will break apart in the post-war world. The result of that would be a bitter trade rivalry and almost insurmountable difficulty in any collaboration to insure peaceful conditions in which commercial enterprise could function. The winning nations will have to play together economically after the war. If they bredk apart, the United States will be forced to defend the Western Hemisphere as a self-contained unit. It could be done, but it would be costly in every sense. We would be little better off than if Hitler won. The other course is considered more desirable. But to insure that a free economic world will result from defeat of the Axis, the start in making arrangements needs to be made now. If we wait until Armistice Day it will be too late.

By A. T. Steele

Snow. Both will come surely within a matter of from two to four weeks, but this is a period when every day and hour gained is of utmost importance. Russian troops defending Moscow are ready for the winter. They have their dugouts and shelters (often equipped with stoves) and they have a great, well heated and fairly well provided city only a few miles away as a base. With the advent of colder weather, the Nazis tend more and more to utilize villages and towns as centers of attack and fense. . Taking maximum advantage of the shelter afforded by the buildings, they excavate trenches inside the houses and station there machine guns and antitank guns, Because of thi® the Russians as often as possible are burning villages in the line of their retreat,

All Is Painted White

THE WAR AROUND Moscow is taking on a Spectral nature now, with both sides painting part of their mechanized equipment white to match the silvery landscape. Russian scout units, attired from head to foot in white hooked gowns, like parties of ghosts, glide through the fields and forests in nightly patrols. The Germans outside Moscow are beginning to feel the weight of the new Russian reserve forces organized under the universal military training program inaugurated last September, This program called for 110 hours of military training, spread over five months for all males of military age. The training period was compressed for Moscow citizens, however, and already several detachments of these newly recruited fighters have taken positions alongside the Red Army in Moscow's defense. Others will be uniformed, equipped and sent into positions in a steady stream. Moscow and vicinity is now saturated with man power and there has been no let up in the construction of defense works and tank obstacles. There is no longer any vacuum for the Germans to punch into. No matter how deep their tank wedges may drive, they will find rifiemen, tank destroyers and artillery pieces ready to greet them from already prepared positions.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

grandmother's day. However, we may return to napkin rings and the careful use of napkins, since paper is now to be conserved. Even then, I cannot see that these big cloths and big napkins would be anything but a burden to any of our children. They have been laid away in a trunk for many long years, because I did not feel Justified in using them. With children scattered all over the country, ahd only two owning their own homes; china, glass and silver, accumulated by former generations, seem irksome to them. Perhaps, what we are Ml learning is the fact that we should not be burdened by possessions, but should enjoy them while we have them. And, if they are destroyed, we should take it as lightly as our British friends have been able to do. I have just been sent a report which has been reprinted in the Scientific Monthly, and written by Dr. Bart J. Bok and Margaret W. Mayall. Both of them are astronomers and the report is written to prove that too y people put faith in astrologists their predictions for the future, believing that \ has a scientific foundation in astronomy. This theory, the authors completely explode. They take me to task for not having been firmer in an Sonal rch I gave to a question in the Ladies Home

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LONG WAIT SEEN FOR TELEVISION

Broadcasts Limited Until End of War Because Of Priorities.

Times Special NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—If you have been looking forward to the day when you can relax in the comfort

of your home at any point in the United States to enjoy television broadcasts, you had better perish the thought—at least until the war's over. True, there are limited television broadcasts today from major stations in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. But, the boys in the industry are keeping their fingers crossed as priorities keep nipping closer and closer at their heels just at a time when

its first pair of long pants. Priorities in Way

Most of the major technical wrinkles of television have finally been ironed out, but, because of the war and priorities, the industry apparently is go to find itself out on a limb when if seeks replacement parts for the many complicated gadgets used in broad-

CE th If the war drags out very long, it may not only stymie the advancement of television, but event-

porarily for lack of necessary replacement equipinent.

Concrete Reality at Last

It would be an especially tough blow for the people who have been working slave hours to nourish their “baby.” After a number of false starts during the past 15 years or so, preceded by honeyed predic tions, television is finally a concrete reality that now feel is destined to become one of the truly great post-war industries.

honestly are eyeportunity seems to be limitless. Al ready some of the programs are sponsored by advertisers. The new wonder of television, however, is a full-color

broadcast the Columbia Broa is so accurate

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Mass flight deliveries of warplanes for democracy’s defense—this is the answer of the American aircraft industry to the call to “Keep ‘em Flying.” Each day, from coast to coast, they roll off factory assembly lines and take to the air in ever-growing numbers—the fighters and bombers, trainers and transports you see here, and other high performance American aireraft. y séem destined to fulfill the prediction of Col. John H. Jouett, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, that the U. S. would produce nearly 100,000 warplanes during the next two years, In the photographs above are: 1. Vultee BT-13 basic trainers, 2. Ryan PT-21 primary trainers, 3. Curtiss P-40 pursuits, : 4. 400-Mile-an-Houvr Lockheed P-38 interceptors.

5. Douglas A-20 light bombers, al

OREGON MAYOR BURIED tive, who died here Tuesday. Mr. PORT OXFORD, Ore, Dec. 5 (U.|Gable was the sponsor of a secesP.)—Funeral services were held sion movement among Oregon and here today for Gilbert E. Gable, 55, California counties which was de-

Port Oxford mayor and former signed to call attention to their Philadelphia public relations execu-|untapped mineral resources.

HOLD EVERYTHING

EXTRA POWERS 10 CITIES URGED

Municipal Group Proposes Right of Action Beyond Corporate Limits.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (U, P.)— The National Defense Committee of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers proposed today that cities be granted extra-terri-torial powers to deal with conditions arising just beyond their corporate limits as an outgrowth of the defense program. A proposal. that legislation be drafted to accomplish this was contained in the Committee’s report to the Institute's annual meeting. Legal representatives from cities in more than 40 states attended. Such legislation is necessary, the Committee said, if municipalities are to deal effectively with sudden congestion of population and to cooperate with other governmental units in concentrating police, firefighting and other public facilities at critical points in case of need.

Organization Complex

General Counsel Oscar S. Cox of the Lend-Lease Administration detailed to the opening session the intricate Federal organization for national defense. “The one thing that should be always kept in mind,” Mr. Cox said, “is that the organization is as complex as the problems it has to meet and solve. The organization also changes to meet new and different problems as they arise in the fast moving world picture.

“If one focal point were to be chosen to describe the functions of

for defense it would be the defeat of Hitler and the other aggressors. Toward this main objective the organization is now geared. It may {not be perfect. But it has the will, the support of the public, and the capacity to foredoom the fate of the Axis.”

‘RENOVATED BUTTER’ INSPECTION ASKED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (U. P).—

the intricate Federal organization

Pride Costs Her Just $120,000

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (U, P.).~= To understand what follows one must know that all old New York families place pride well above everything else. For instance, there was $120,000 in the city treasurer’s office waite ing for Mrs. Duncan Phyfe, wid« ow of the grandson of the famed furniture maker, to claim it. I% was her share of his estate. . But Mrs. Phyfe felt that if she claimed the money she would be striking her colors to her sistere in-law, Edith Bell Phyfe. i It seems that when Miss Phyfe had herself made administratrix of the estate she charged that the widow, now 86, was mentally incompetent. Thus Mrs. Phyfe will not touch the money. Taxes and penalties for non-filing of returns already amount to $49,278. - Eventually there will be nothing left. { “Let the Government and the lawyers get the money,” says Mrs, Phyfe. “Edith Phyfe shall never say that I compromised.”

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—The President can declare wap with the consent of the Senateg true or false? 2=From what occupation is the surname Cooper derived? 3—A teaspoon contains 60, 80, op 100 drops? 4-In which state was petroleuny first discovered? 5—Who is President of the United States Senate? 6-—What cities are the terminals of the Lincoln Highway? 7-—Is the Sahara Desert north: op south of, or on the equator? 8—Supply the missing word in the following = well-known proverbs “TS buy a « - - in a poke.”

Answers

‘1--False. (The, Constitution provides that only Congress may declare war).

2—Barrel-maker. 3-Eighty. 4—Pennsylvania. 5--The Vice President of the Unite ed States, Henry A. Wallace. 6—New York and San Francisco, 7-North, 8—Pig.

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