Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1941 — Page 13
TUESDAY, DEC. 9, 1941
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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
whist may be HocHed in equipment. supplies low, carefor future needs is called for ‘Cale J ve some our ess sudden attack by Japan ga £0 Sur Tus from Hawaii had just issued new price lists. They'll probably take a beating before they can
to pinching the coffee restaurants have started charging 2 and even 3 cents extra for paper cups. . in price—you Some tors have gone back to sending coffee out in half-pint milk
TAKE A TIP FROM US: Don't get tough an demand your rights as a “citizen and taxpayer” if some tough looking hombre orders you away from one of our factories or utilities, or maybe orders you not to take that accustomed shortcut through a utility's property. We're at war now and the Government has warned against taking any chances, Most all the plants with defense orders, and they're pretty numerous, have doubled or trebled their guards, and given them rifles or sawedoff shotguns in place of the usual service revolvers.
And the guards have been given orders not to stand for any monkey business—to shoot rather than take a chance on sabotage. We just thought you ought to know. When that guard says “No,” just remember that regardless of how wrong you think he is, he really means “No.” C’est la guerre,
Made in Japan, Ugh!!
THE FIRST ORDER of business in several of our larger stores yesterday was for all the clerks fo go through their stock and remove every item of goods marked “Made in Japan.” Or did we have to mention it? . . . A young lady took a birthday gift to an Irvington friend yesterday and after presenting it chanced to discover a “Made in Japan” tag on the back. She waltzed it right back to the store and got something else—Made in U.SA. . . . State House officials borrowed and even rented radios yesterday to hear the President's talk to Congress. It was over with almost before the listeners realized it was under way. . . . The Indianapolis agents of the Travelers Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn.. sent a telegram to the President last night commending his action in asking for a Japanese war declaration.
Here and There
TELEPHONE COMPANY officials are busy checking with City and State officials and industrial lead-
ers to get advance tips on what the way of new ful men the triple jitters. One local pineapple get the lists cancelled. . . . The war finally have gotten around topers. Quite a few of the
The cups not only have skyrocketed can hardly get them, we're told.
bottles. . : Lear Versus Leer Again
GENERAL LEAR may have thought he had that yoo-hooing business stopped, but if so he’s wrong. An Army truck pulled up on Market St. beside Block's store the other day, waiting for the traffic signal to change, and the boys began yoo-hooing and yelling, “Hi, Babe,” at several girls coming out of the store.
. . . Speaking of Block's, a youngster with a sack of marbles his mother had bought for «him caused quite
marbles section manager who happened to be on the escalator at
the time dashed around bereath and pulled the switch, stopping it until the marbles were fished
a commotion. He dropped the sack and the spilled down ‘into the escalator’s inside. A
out. No damage.
Greenough on Sick List
A LOCAL ATTORNEY forgot to tell his wife he was staying downtown to attend an Optimist Club banquet last week and when he got home received the usual chiding. He swears that when he said he'd been to the Optimist banquet, she asked: “Oh,
Get . + Walter Greenough, of the Fletcher Trust and the Indiana Chain Store Council, is scheduled to spend the next month flat on his back. Doctor's orders. Otherwise he's feeling
is that the one al. the eye doctors belong to?” it? Optometrists. .
okay.
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F.D.R'S WAR POWERS MAKE HIM DICTATOR
Given Supreme Authority Over Resources and Lives of Nation.
By THOMAS L. STOKES ‘Times Special Writer
war resolution he became, by the ardent mandate of Congress, a dictator over the lives and resources of the nation. For the declaration of war brought into effect immediately numerous statutes enacted for the World War that are still on the books, as well as many additional wartime powers conferred in postwar legislation from time to time— all on top of other powers granted in recent months. All in all, President Roosevelt is clothed at the outset of war with greater power than any other war President has had. Some powers previously granted had already been made available by the limited national emergency. Now all are in full effect. President Roosevelt is supreme, in actual fact, and over all is the prestige of his office in wartime which permits him, beyond actual written law, to do virtually anything he feels necessary to promote
Ernie Pyle is on leave of absence because of the illness of his wife.
victory. The immediate effect of the swiftly executed declaration of war,
Washington
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 —Americans can be proud today. We can be proud that we tried to the bitter end to avoid war. In the face of advancing savagery the Government of the United States continued to labor for peace. We tried to throw our moral weight against aggression and for the protection of all nations and for equal opportunity. We can be proud that we continued to do this until Japan struck. Twelve hours before Japanese planes appeared over Honolulu, President Roosevelt appealed personally to the Emperor of Japan to join him in a peaceful adjustment. Even as the news of the attack was flashed to Washington, Secretary Hull was talking with the two Japanese representatives in his office. We were shot at while still in the act of seeking peace. A strong nation can take pride in that, and in the record of patience and fair dealing. We can be proud of President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, and of their cool and steady loyalty to thofe basic principles that must, after the last drop of blood has been spilled, rise again to guide nations. Our efforts failed. Bu! we can be proud that those efforts were made, and that no American gun fired before we were attacked.
U. S. United for War
JAPAN HAS made our decision for us. This nation hates war so deeply, is so convinced of its futility as a method of adjusting differences, that we could not take the initiative. Within the last few days I have heard diplomats, who have participated in some of the Far Eastern discussions, express doubt that the United States would go to war even if Thailand were attacked by Japan. It would have been easy for Japan to avoid war with the United States.
Courage
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. —Westbrock Pegler aeccased Congress in fighting language of lacking the courage to pass legislation restricting labor unions. Fut the House, by an overwhelming majority, adopted the stringent Smith bill which labor had bitterly denounced. In that connection Rep. Hebert (D. La.) tells the following anecdote in the Congressional _ Record: “I want to tell the House a little story, a true story, which has been running through my mind ever since the vote on labor legislation was announced. “Back in 1923 when I was still in college, I was the student manager of the Tulane University football team. The team was coached by Clark D. Shaughnessy, now the famous coach of Stanford on the Pacific Coast. Tulane at that time was only on the eve of national football fame. It had not arrived as vet and the ability of the team was only of the average,
Just a Case of Score
“THE OUTCOME OF the game, according to the expert sports writers, was admittedly a ‘question of the size of the score which the Vanderbilt team would pile up on the weaker Tulane eleven. “Came game time and in the dressing room at Dudley Field, Coach Shaughnessy assembled his squad around him. He called the names of the starting team and not a name he called was the name of a regular player. They were all substitutes. Amazement spread over the faces of the regulars who had been ignored. “Shaughnessy stood in the middle of the group and with a bitter coldness in his voice started to talk: “q know what I have done. I have called the names of the substitutes and the scrubs to start in the place of the regulars. I know, too, that they are not the equal of you regulars as players, but in this game and at this time, I want men on the field with guts. I want men out there who will fight until they fall ffom exhaustion. I want men out there today who have the courage to carry on in the face of overwhelming odds. I want fighters with nerve. I
My Day
WASHINGTON, Monday.--At noon today, at the capitol, I had a curious sense of tition, for I remembered
w Wilson listened to Presispeak to the assembled members of Congress. Today she sat beside me, as a
By Raymond Clapper
But now all of our doubts, all of our reluctance, Bills all of our hesitations, have been swept away for us. Practically every leading isolationist already has been heard from. Their answer to the attack on Honolulu is that we must fight. Wheeler and Taft and McNary,
leader of the Senate Republicans, have taken their Japan has united this
stand with the Government. country for war.
This is suicide for Japan. A desperate fourth-rate nation, the spoiled little gangster of the Orient will have to be exterminated as a power, Japan has asked
for it and now she will get it.
Japan could have joined the United States and Great Britain as one of the three controlling sea powgeography and economic situation made that her logical course. Japan can live But she has chosen to war with the two other sea powers. She preferred to take her chances with armed force just as Germany has done.
ers of the globe. Her only by sea trade.
Japs f'gce Ghastly Future
JAPAN CHOSE to live by the swogd and she will
die by the sword. >
The modern world can no longer tolerate the The two nations most addicted to this barbarism are Germany and Japan. They must be disarmed. Force must be hereafter kept in the hands of nations that will use it to bring
anarchy of conquest by force.
about a peaceful world.
This war must be fought until Japanese military
strength is exterminated. But more than that must come out of it.
sible. America can open that door.
By Daniel M. Kidney
don’t want yellow-bellied cowards.
‘Now, get out there, you men whose names I have called, and show this bunch who will be sitting on the bench what courage and character really tnean.’”
They Turned White
“THE FACES OF THE regulars turned white. Some eyes watered from madness. Jaws bulged from tightly pressed teeth. They glared at Shaughnessy. They
could have torn him to pieces from anger.
“Shaughnessy turned on his heel without further
word and walked out of the room.
“The regulars left behind him. They were not talking out loud, but they were saying something.
They were mumbling under their breath. “No guts! him if I've got any guts!’
“ ‘He wants men with courage who can fight, eh? Put me on that field and I'll show anybody who's
got courage.’
“ ‘Who hasn't got character?’ ‘Who's yellow?’
“The game started, the regulars still were mutter-
ing to themselves on the bench.
“Vanderbilt, as predicted, started the march down
the field.
‘Pegler’s Pulled a Shaughnessy’
“Shaughnessy was on his feet.
“You regulars get in there and redeem yourselves,” he shouted. You never saw such a bunch of
fighting men leave a bench.
Our victory must be used to bring abojt a new era of benevolent force which will secure for all men and women and their children a new kind of peace in which the human race can progress toward that happier life which science and industry have made pos-
Let me get in that game and I'll show
gside from calling into effect all reserve Presidential powers, was to spur the Senate to open the way for prompt action on two important measures already passed by the House—the Price Control and Labor
While the President probably could proceed without challenge to do anything necessary in either of these fields to prosecute the war— and it was suggested at the Capitol that such laws now might be unnecessary — the Administration prefers that Congress grant authority in the regular way.
Action to Be Speeded
This does not mean, however, that meanwhile the President might not take emergency action in a direction not specifically sanctioned under labor statutes and price powers already conferred. The Senate Labor Committee plans to begin hearings tomorrow on the Smith Labor Bill passed by the House, with witnesses restricted to about a dozen spokesmen for Government, labor and industry. It hopes to complete hearings this week and pass the bill before Christmas. The hope is that, with war actually declared, labor representatives will indorse some form of legislation instead of oppusing everything as heretofore.
Price Hearings to Start
Hearings begin today Price-Control Bill, with Leon Henderson, Price Administrator, as first witness. The plan is to restrict hearings to two weeks, instead of the months devoted by the House, and to have the measure ready for early in January. Constitutional experts say the war powers of the President do not include price-fixing. Broadly, the powers granted to the President—to become effective with a declaration of war, or even at the approach of war—fall into these groups: Production and acquisition of essential war materials; transportation agencies of all sorts; communications and espionage activities,
Transportation Powers
The President not only can take over the railroads, as was done in the last war, but also airlines, pipelines, streetcar systems and other forms of transportation. He also can commandeer transportation facilities for troops alone, and can requisition any vessel for transportation of troops. Complete control of electric power is provided by an act of 1935, under which electric resources can be mobilized by ordering whatever connections are necessary, such distribution as is considered expedient, and any other measures, The President can suspend or change the rules and regulations governing radio by simple fiat. He can close radio stations, and remove their equipment — using troops if necessary.
Plants Can Be Seized
“Yes, Mr. Speaker, Vanderbilt won the ball game, but not until they had beaten one of the gamest oe widest possible powers in
bunch of men to ever wear the olive and blue of Tulane. Tulane’s men that day covered themselves with that comes to men of courage and determinone could be found who dared doubt the guts—yes, guts, if you please—and character of those
the glo ation.
men.
placing defense orders are conferred, with provision for taking over plants. The President can place compulsory orders for shipbuilding and take over shipyards in case of refusal to comply. To provide lumber
“As I walked off the field I passed by Olark|for use of the Army and Navy, power Shaughnessy. As our eyes met there was a twinkle|ls ted to acquire timber, saw-
in his and over his face spread a smile which was
eloquent without words.
, and all the equipment and ma“Iterials, machinery and the like nec-
“That is my story, Mr. Speaker, and today, in the essary for production. The Secrelight of recent events, I cannot help but wonder if a|tary of War can condemn land necformer sports writer named Westbrook Pegler hasjessary for military purposes.
not pulled a Clark Shaughnessy on the Congress of
the United States.”
By Eleanor Roosevelt
the only safety there is, lies in bein hen
very vividly the description of the same efforts, they
The President also has wide powers to increase working hours in industry.
Broad espionage statutes of the
willful or through negligence. These already have been invoked.
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TEACHERS ALUMNI NOMINATE CITY MAN
Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Dec. 9—An Indianapolis man, Taylor C. Parker, is the choice of the Indiana State Teachers College Alumni Association nominating committee for president. : Lawrence McTurnan, also of In-
dianapolis, committee chairman, announced Mr, Parker's candidacy, as well as that of Miss Hildegarde
Maehling, Terre Haute, for vice president. Mr, Parker, who is now vice president of the association, and Miss Maehling will be elected automatically if no other nominations are made before Jan. 1. In this event, the group’s 17,000 members will vote by mail,
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WAR DECLARED BY AUSTRALIA
New Zealand Also Follows Neighbor Into Fight Against Japan.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 9 (U. P..—Australia proclaimed a state of war with Japan today, retroactive to 5 p. m. Sunday, and prepared to co-operate to the full extent of its resources with Great Britain, the United States and The Netherlands East Indies in their fight against Jap attempts to dominate the southern seas. It was the second. British dominjon to enter the war. Canada declared war on Sunday. Official news was received of the first Japanese attacks in the Australian defense, sphere. Prime Minister John Curtin announced that the army would be increased immediately. (The German official news agency said Australia’s neighbor, the Dominion of New Zealand, also had declared war on Japan.) Japanese airplanes believed to be operating from warships bombed Nauru and Ocean Island, which lie northeast of Australia. The government, after canceling all Christmas troop leaves, forbade the use of gasoline for private pleasure motoring and restricted public transport services to conserve fuel for war purposes. Women were called up for aux-
| |iliary army and air force duty. The
government was working out plans for commandeering raw materials.
Grim Reality to
- Former Senator
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. P)). —The war with Japan was a grim reality to former Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa. Present on the Senate floor, he told reporters: “My youngest son is a prisoner in Shanghai. He is a member of the American consulate there and they have been locked up. “My eldest son has been ordered
FAVOR LIFTING BAN ON USE OF MEN OVERSEAS
Members of House Group Act; Debate Expansion : Of Draft Age Limits.
By DICK THORNBURG Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—~The House Military Affairs Committee today approved legislation repealing restrictions on the use of selectees and National Guardsmen outside the Western Hemisphere and U.S. possessions. The legislation also would wipe out the 30-month limitation on the service period of selectees. Chairman Andrew J. May (D, Ky.) said the legislation would per mit the holding in service of all members of the Army for the dura= tion of the war and for a period of six months thereafter. He added that the vote was unanimous.
As recruiting offices were swamped with applicants Congress talked about the possibility of expanding the selective service age limit from 21-28 years to 18-35 years. Although the War Department indicated prior to the Japanese war that it intended to amass an army of 2,000,000, no special request to step up the draft process has yet been sent to draft headquarters.
1,590,000 Now in Army
When that call comes, draft heads quarters said, it is prepared to carry it out on 24 hours’ notice. State quotas will be multiplied by what« ever figure is necessary to furnish the raquired number of men. The new quotas will be telegraphed to the state headquarters, where they will be broken down into terms of the local boards and forwarded. Today the Army has approxie mately 1,500,000 men, consisting of 525,000 enlisted men, 250,000 Nation= al Guardsmen, 700,000 draftees, and 115,000 officers. In the last few months some 100,« 000 men have been released from training because they were above 28 or had dependents. These men, a draft headquarters spokesman said, probably will constitute the first pool to be drawn on when the Army’s new request is made,
Already Trained
In the absence of Brig. Gen. Lewis Hershey, head of the draft system, no definite policy has been made, the spokesman said, but “the most logi= cal thing to do to get men in a hurry would be to recall those men we've had once. They have had some training, and we know they can pass the physical tests.” Gen. Hershey was expected in Washington today. At Boise, Idaho, yesterday, he said state draft quotas would be increased immediately, In. Washington Chairman Andrew May of the House Military Affairs Come mittee said there undoubtedly would be a “large expansion” of the Army, The draft headquarters spokes= man said the Army could be raised to 2,500,000—an increase of about. 900,000 over its present size—within the age limits of 21 to 28. Beyond that, he said, the age limits would have to be lowered or raised. If any change were made it probably would be a lowering, since younger men are considered better material.
Surge in Enlistments
Yet to be determined is the date for registering those who have reached 21 since the last call in July. About 100,000 men come of age each month. Thus a call in January would register about 600,000. Men of 21 have fewer physical deficiencies, fewer dependents and fewer key Jobs, hence a greater percentage of them are susceptible to the draft than those of any other age group, Men deferred from service for reae sons other than serious physical de fects are expected to be re-examined by local boards. : Meanwhile reports to the Army and Navy indicate a tremendous surge in enlistments. At one place in Washington yesterday, 66 men were
standing in line at a Navy recruiting office,
MINER IS ELECTROCUTED
VINCENNES, Dec. 9 (U. P.).—= Russell Willis, 42-year old Bicknell miner, was electrocuted yesterday when he came in contact with a live wire while working as trip rider in the Panhandle Mine near here.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Name the largest species of deer, 2—Pieces of money current only by suffrance and not coined by authority of the Government are called t-k-n pieces? 3—What famous institution is nicke named “Old Lady of Threadnees dle Street”? 4—A name common to a mender of shoes and a deep fruit pie with a thick upper crust is c 5—Madagascar is in the Indian Ocean; true or false? 3 6—George Bancroft was an Ameris can artist, historian, or candidate for the Presidency? \/
T—Which of the Apostles appealed as 8 Roman citizen “unto Cae« sar” .
8—What is a dinosaur?
Answers 1—American moose. 2—Token pieces. 3—Bank of England. 4-—Cobbler. 5-—True. 6-—Historian. 7—St. Paul. 8-—An extinct reptile. » o 8
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