Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1942 — Page 9

MONDAY, JAN. 12, 1942

The Indianapolis Tim

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

SCOTIA, Cal, Jan. 12 —This little town in the great redwood country of northern California is wholly owned by the Pacific Lumber Co. I have just spent two nights there. One night was at the cottage home of a cousin of mine from Indiana. He works == for the lumber company, driving “i a bulldozer to gouge out logging trails in the mountains The other night was at the luxurious mountain lodge of Stan

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Murphy, who is president of the

company my cousin works for. My cousin's name is Paul Saxton. His father is my Uncle Oat, r back near Dana, the coon-ddg man N with the laugh that rings and \ peals I saw Uncle Oat a few weeks KR ago. but Paul has not seen him for 12 years. Paul Saxton was born in a log house in Indiana two miled from where I was born. We used to play together as kids. But we have seen each other only once before in 20 years

He's a Hard Worker, Too

PAUL LEFT the farm when he was 21, worked a rouple of years in the shops of Detroit, and then came West with some boys in a Model T. He has never been back He has always worked in the wood® out here. At first he was a “high-climber.” which is the precarious fob ot climbing to the tops of these towering redwoods and preparing them for the fall. That is dangerous and dramatic work, but my cousin liked it He changed only because he could make more money driving a caterpillar He works hard. He gets up at 3:15 and cooks his pwn breakfast He drives 11 miles to the logging camp in an old Ford, and is on the job a little after 7. All

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THERE'S AN UNDERTONE of seriousness in the talk going on among some of our motorists to the effect that “hefore long, we'll be forming vigilante groups to handle tire thieves just like horse thieves were handled in the Wild West days” Some of our residents are so dependent on their ears that they've loaded up riffes and shotguns and put them by the back door, and are itching to use them on some miscreant attempting to swipe tires from their cars. One group is talking about putting out some posters reading: “Tire Thieves Beware— Committee of 500” Our best tip to strollers: Don't loiter in the vicinity of someone else's car, it isn't healthy . . . Ray Millholland has another of his stories about Riue Chip Haggerty manager of the Behemoth Steam Engine Works, in the current Satevepost. By the wav, Blue Chip is going on the air for OEM. Ray, we hear, has given the Government the radio rights without charge.

Thompson May Run

FRANK G. THOMPSON, former State Auditor, mav seek the nomination for Auditor again at the Democratic State convention next summer, according to State House gossip. At present, he has a $400-a-month job with the Stave Civil Defense Council. | . . Last week we told you how Harold L. Turner of Wilkings had figured aut how much 68 billion dollars in cash would be. The way he figured. a man shovel ing £200 at a crack, one shovelful every 10 seconds, would require 90-odd years to shovel it all away. Well, a lot of people got out their pencils to check up on Mr. Turner's figuring, with varying results. The wae Miss Margaret O'Connor. interior decorator at Ayres. fisures it, he ought to shevel the whole pile of cash

Washington »

WASHINGTON. Jan. 12 —For Reuther Plan to put the automobile industry 100 per cent to war work lay dormant. Walter Reuther’s proposal provided for a joint board of Gov ernment, manggement and labor to direct the full use of automobile facilities for war work. It was that feature which aroused the most suspicion last winter. William Knudsen, co-head of OPM, is an automobile production man first of all and he, as well a: the industry executives, not only questioned whether the machinery of the plants could be converted to any large degree but they were suspicious of this as a scheme by which labor hoped to muscle in on management. The public reaction in general was to trust the automobile executives and their former collragues in OPM to do the job. The automobile industry stood above all others in public confidence with regard to efficiency, inventiveness, ability to oblarge production quickly. The public inwas to protect such an industry and allow no outside intrusion. That is why the Reuther Plan gathered very little public support a year ago.

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Precious Year Wasted

BRUT A WHOLE year went by, and at the end the checkup caused a good deal of public dismay. Whether industry or the Government or both were to blame is not the most important question. The one big fact is despite the frantic needs for planes and tanks, the automobile industry turned out an almost recorabreaking number of passenger cars. A vast amount of labor and scarce materials went into a semi-luxury

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Sunday —Yesterday morning. at the Office of Civilian Defense, I met with some 25 people who are working largely in the mountain areas for the Save the Children Fund. They work, as far as possible, with the existing agencies and one of their main activities is to salvage desks Lh from schools that are being remodelled and to provide them for the smaller schools where no desks have been available in the past. In addition, they provide shoes and clothing for children who would otherwise be put of school They have managed to have a demonstration project in ene of the mountain areas. There, usually in the month of January, .the secorld teacher would nearly always have to resign because not enough children were Fn the school to employ two teachers. By providing suitable shoes and clothing, the children were able to continue coming to school. By helping to provide hot lunches, they have managed to keep that school so well filled with pupils that three teachers have to be employed during most of the school year. I think It Is rarely understood in many parts of our country that great numbers of children drop out of school because of lack of proper clothing. We take it for granted that, if we provide schools, we have done sll that needs to be done. J have always been in favor of Federal aid to edu-

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By Ernie Pyle

day long he sits on a noisy Diesel “cat,” and he is starting to get a little deaf from it. It is 5:30, and dark, when he gets home in the evening. I reached my cousin's house before he got home. I had never met his wife yet she knew me before I introduced myself. It was strange, too, becatise as far as she knows she had never even seen a picture of me. She decided te play a joke on my cousin. She saw him pull up. and went out and told him there was a Government man inside to find out why he hadn't sent in the papers about hit car. “He's good ahd sore, too,” she said.

Hard Boiled Ernie at Work

THEN MY COUSIN came in the house. He looked hard dt me and I could see he was puzzled. “Why didn't you send in those papers like you were supposed to?” I said, trying to sound tough. He looked pretty grave and was fishing for an answear, It might have gone on for quite a while except hit wife giggled. He took one good look and knew who I was ’ My eousin went only part of one year to high school, and he says that has deprived him of many better jobs. But he has saved his money and bought his own home—one of the few among his erowd who have. ‘ They have nice clothes and a bath and a big radio and an electric washer and a Dodge sedan in addition to the old Ford. They have a son a year old. My cousin likes it out here. He wouldn't leave on a bet. But his wife doesn't ‘like it, because there are occasional earthquake shocks. One quake last summer | knocked down both their chimneys. ! "But right now she's satisfied here, because she; thinks it's kind of safe. They could have moved to Sun Francisco a year ago, but now she's glad they didn't, for she thinks Japanese bombers wouldn't bother with a little place like Scotia.

away in a mere 11 years plus. We got our private force of accountants on the job, and the answer still seems to be 90-0dd vears—95 plus, to be a little more exact. Next time we'll know better than to start something like that. Herve and There THE COLD WEATHER proved that silk hosiery, js much warmer than nylon, and caused the ladies to think back longingly to the days when it wasn't considered disloyal to wear silk. Just another reason to hate those Japs. .. . The State Conservation Department has been distributing some attractive little booklets on “Wild Ducks,” dedicated to the perpetuation of | our migratory waterfowl. The booklets contain some | beautiful color pictures of various types of ducks. . Many employees of the Allison plant are co-operating | in the “save rubber” campaign. Instead of each driv-| ing his car to work, theyre forming little clubs of! five or six and all riding in one car, each driving a week. That helps save rubber.

Guzzling Contest

A DRINKING CONTEST is drawing the interest] of some of the boys at the Indianapolis Railways’ W. Washington St. shops. The contestants are George Archer and Oscar Skinner. It's buttermilk they are drinking. Every noon the boys stow away two or | three quarts and they have quite a gallery. By the time the whistle blows. they're so full they can hardly] waddle. As we get it, the honors at this time are practically even. . . . A certain patron of the Toddle House _on N. Pennsylvania St, opposite the Ambassador. drops in fréquently and startles the other patrons | by ordering: “Burned toast.” He gets it that way and! eats it, too. The Indianapolis Athletic Clu. already has a. reservation for a table at next New Year's Eve party. It's in the name of Ralph Dyson. The club also has some very fine, but now rather

useless. reservations for the Speedway Race.

By Raymond Clapper

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WILSON FEARS U.S. JOBLESS PAY PROGRAM

Hoosier Legislator Says F. D. R. Proposal Perils State Merit Plan.

By DANIEL M: KIDNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-—Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind) launched an offensive from the House floor today against President Roosevelt's proposal for an “expansion of unemployment compensation in a uni form national system.” The Presi dent made the suggestion in his budget address. Rep. Raymond S. Springer (R. Ind) and Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind.) also expressed opposition. “I am opposed to any legislation of this kind,” Rep. Wilson said, pointing out that it would result in a five-billion-dollar fund completely in the hands of Washington | officials. “It would be a usurpation of inherent state and local rights and would do away with Indiana's merit system, one of the finest in any of the states,” he said. “Many other states have patterned their law after Indiana. “Under the merit system in Indiana, many employers have built up fine reserve funds for une employment compensation purposes and under this system, there is an incentive to keep men employed instead of laying them off to take money from Government funds,

Fears Political Football

“Unemployment compensation is primarily to promote steady emplovment and is not a relief or charitable enterprise. “If legislation to federalize unemployment compensation were enacted, it would make unemployment compensation a political football, to be tossed around for political purposes, and jeopardize the stability and welfare of countless thousands of emplovers and millions of emplovees throughout the United States “It would mean the death of merit rating. now saving millions of dol lars for emplovers and insuring steadier employment and wages for workers, It would standardize unemploviment benefits throughout the United Swates and would not take into account climatic, economic or social conditions, or the cost of living, all of which should be determining factors in the size of un-| employment benefit payments.

Objects to Federal Pool

“If such 2 bill were to pass and | become law, it would require the unemployment compensation funds to be peid into a Federal pool of | employers in heavily industrial and high cost-of-living states which, in turn, could be drawn upon for benefit payments to workers in slightly industrial, low-cost-of-living states. | “This would be unfair and would violate the integrity of the states. It would place all of these funds for administration in the hands of al single Federal bureau and as every-

Great Pictures From Determined, Fighting China

These are the faces of the new China, faces of girls, 16 to 25, who work

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at the handicraft

center of the Women’s Advis-

ory Council outside Chungking. Their products are sold to buy more materials, train more girls,

Chungking is built on a series of rock hills, ideal for air raid shelters for the city’s

half-million people.

Some have shelters like these which resemble homes of the ancient

cliff dwellers. These pictures were taken by Harrison Forman, one of the world’s leading news photographers who is now at the vital Changshu front.

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‘Judge Rutherford, Jehovah

Head, May Be Buried in ‘Prophets’ House.’

SAN DIEGO, Cal,

Jai. 12 (U. D.).

ber forced the issue to a head and production of cars body knows, we have entirely too —Followers of Judge Joseph Frank-| was ordered suspended. Here Walter Reuther came many agencies centralized here in lin Rutherford, leader of the Je-| back into the picture. OPM called a conference a few Washington at the present time. It hovah's Witness Sect, planned to-|

davs ago of management and labor leaders to discuss the method of putting the automobile industry to work on war goods. Reuther proposed that his previously discarded plan be tried out. Some Government officials were sympathetic. Industry executives objected.

Compromise Is Reached

FOR TWO DAYS the battle went on. All agreed that some general planning and central direction was necessary. Labor wanted a three-way board to do it, with full authority to pool machines, materials and

(would increase the number of em- day to establish a shrine at the

ployees of the Government and sprawling Spanish-style “House of

would decrease, rather than crease, efficiency.

“Federalization of unemployment

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Fails to Hang Onto Malayan Line,

and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. SINGAPORE, Jan. 12.—Japan's borrowing masters of strategy have taken most of their ideas

from Germany, but their invasion down the western Malayan coast has disclosed that they have con-

| sidered at least one theme from

compensation would annul all that hes been done by the states. All of the stale unemployment trust funds would be annulled and the money — several billions — dumped into a single Federal pool here at Washington which, like the Social Security fund, would probably be

labor of automobile companies without regard to cor- used for the running expenses of poration lines. the Government.”

Industry fought this as involving a surrender of MeNutt Support Expected part of its control over its properties, and proposed i me that the board be strictly advisory. Finally a “com.| As Federal Security Adminis-

promise” was achieved. A joint committee will “assist” | trator, former Governor Paul V.

OPM in developing the best methods. {McNutt will back the Presidential < But he declared today

Thus for the second time the drive of labor to get Proposal. : in on the management of the automobile industry was that he wants the matter “decided beaten Off jon its merits” and expresed the Adding it all up. it looks as if this is a supreme View ost a be tog 16 test for private large-scale industry. Its best hope of re h : Ei es ich «0 turning back this threat for a third time lies in doing iy

“ ar Opposing him in this fight will be a job now that will completely vindicate it and wipe |, long-time friend and oft-times out growing doubts.

$ , . Jackson, no America is the last stand of independent capital. | Sent Clarelies A: Juckson. Jo

fsm. In 8 Sense, the test is in the hands of the auto- | ohamber of Commerce. mobile industry because the issue happens to have crystallized around it. Fortunately no other industry

is so alert and inventive and so inherently capable of CONSERVATION UNIT meeting the test, 'TO SPONSOR DINNER |

By Eleanor Roosevelt| iasaverrs, ma. sn 12 w.

sation by grants to states which do not have the the State Department of Conserva-

ability to provide equal opportunities for every child | tion, said today the annual con-

servation program and banquet will

to obtain an education. I have never been able to separate, however, in be held Friday afternoon and eve-

my mind, academic education from the health of the ning at Purdue University. child. This can only be good when a child is properly nourished and has adequate medical care.

malnutrition. Providing adequate schools would not! getivity. meet this question of building an adequate citizen to meet the needs of the community the age of 21. Our interpretation of education must never be so narrow that we lose sight of the fact that learning to| university, Frank N. Derr » . of i. read on an empty stomach, or with eyes that are|yjjle, ne Mollenhour it Beh.

Life Service, Dr.

overstrained because of lack of proper eye-glasses, is tone, Francis Murray of Seymour,

{and Otto Grossman of Argos, Governor Schricker will speak at

not real education. Under such circumstances, one cannot learn much and one forgets the little one|

learns almost immediately, because one stops reading the banquet in the evening at the

Purdue Union Building.

FIRE DAMAGES CHURCH ANDERSON, Jan. 12 (U. P.).—An

as soon as there is no obligation to do so.

After this group of social workers left, I spent two hours with Administrator Paul McNutt and the director of the Bureau of the Budget, Harold D. Smith. and various other officials. I returned to the White House just in time for lunch. I came to New York City last night and I am having a rather lazy day visiting some of the older members of my family, whom I have not seen for some than three hours in near zero time. After my usual Sunday night broadcast, I ag | temperatures to save the building, going to speak at a meeting. which was completed only last week.

(in a new church here Saturday, causing an estimated $1500 damage. Firemen battled flames for more

Indiana State

IP) ~Hugh A. Barnhart, director of

Governor Schricker will be the ‘principal speaker for the program In one mountain county, I am told that 70 per cent| which will include round-table dis- | of the boys were rejected in the draft because of! cussion of Conservation Department!

Other speakers will include M. when he reaches! gieen of the U. S. Fish and Wild Wililam Richer and John Gottschalk of Indiana

overheated furnace started a blaze!

land before sunset” on the day of] his death, burial plans were de-| layed while the sect sought legal authority to place his body in a) crypt at his house. He died Thurs-| day at the age of 72, but his death | Was night. : | Given the 20-room, two-story, | stucco house in 1930, he accepted it/ “in trust” and filed a deed asserting that the property would be held | “until the arrival of the prophets | who are to return in perfect human form and rule justly." Judge Rutherford's group claimed | a membership of 2000000 in 36 countries. It grew out of another | called the Russellites.

not revealed until Saturday

COLLEGE" YIELDS UTILITY PARKVILLE, Mo. (U. P.).—Park| College is about to get out of the utility business which it edged into accidentally 40 years ago by sup+ plying the city with a water system.

a British song hit good enough to adopt in their comprehensive program, They are literally “hanging out their washing” on the Malayan

{ Line.

When a steamer was sighted towing a chain of apparently innocent junks and barges south=

| ward, past the shores of south

ern Perak and northern Selanger, British coast guardsmen observed that every barge had its gunwale rigging strung with clothesline and hung with hundreds of drying garments. Curious why all the wives of the junk commanders should decide to wash simultaneouly these extensive wardrobes and hang the garments on the shoreside of the craft. A British patrol hailed the soapsuds fleet. The answer came back in the scrubbing board accents of a Japanese machine gun. Washday in the Mikado's army ended with the laundry full of holes.

HOLD EVERYTHING

L RSS ENN

“1. figure everybody should. do his bit to

‘help the government!”

L [No soap! | NEW FIRE CODE

PROPOSAL HERE

Departments Powers to Be Broadened to Meet War Emergency.

A proposed new fire code for In|dianapolis, intended to broaden the | powers of the Fire Department to (combat war-time fire hazards, was to be submitted to the Chamber of

mittee this afternoon. The code was prepared by a subcommittee after six months of research and study of codes used in other cities. The code, setting up fire prevention measures not now covered hy City ordinances and providing for training of volunteers, is expected to be presented to the City Council soon for enactment into law, Alwin E. Bulau, head of the subcommittee which drafted the code, declared that better fire protection is the basis of all defense activities. The measure, if passed by the Council, would outline the responsibilities of the Fire Department and Fire Prevention Bureau, specify rules for inspection of buildings and the elimination of hazards and tech-

of all kinds of explosive fluids. Members of the code committee 'in addition to Mr. Bulau were T. W, |Ayton, J. Ralph Fenstermaker, the |Rev. Joseph V. Somes. Bernard Lynch, head of the Fire Prevention Bureau: George R. Popp, City Building Commissioner, and R. D. MacDaniel, chairman of the Fire | Prevention Committee of the Cham- | ber of Commerce.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

l1—In which country is the Taj Mahal? 2—Name the last President wore a mustache. 3—Topography is the science which deals with gyroscopes; true.or false? 4—What port in Africa is nearest to South America? 5—Who was Secretary of War while the United States was engaged in World War 1?

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Answers

1—India. 2—William Howard Taft. 3--False. 4—-Dakar. 5—Newton D. Baker,

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Commerce's Fire Prevention Com-|

nical regulations for the handling

TIRE RETREAD PRICES FIXED

OPM Acts to Prevent Profiteering at Expense Of Motorist.

Profileering in tires will be halted by the Government's new schedule of prices on retreaded and recapped tires which becomes effective next Monday, Office of Price Administra« tion officials in Washington said today. Price Administrator Leon Henderson said a price schedule on used tires would be announced soon. The OPA charged that some deal ers boosted prices on second-hand and retreaded tires as.high as 100 per cent following the new tire ban. In Indianapolis, less severe price boosts were reported.

Prices to Be Uniform

Tire men here said the effect of price order on retreads and recapped tires would be to make present varying prices uniform. Some deal ers charging less will come ‘up to the scale and- many: charging more must come down to it. | Meanwhile, State Defense Direc [tor Clarence A. Jackson warned [that tire chiselers who seek to | evade rationing restrictions will be | punished sharply. | Mr. Jackson ‘said that the few | who attempt to chisel will be dee jie new tires no matter how eligible their vehicles are and prob‘ably will be denied materials that (may be rationed in the future, | Every effort will be made to give them publicity, he said. Any per= ‘sop, including a dealer, who makes false or fraudulent statements in (applying for tires is subject to Fed eral penalties of 10 years imprison ment, $10,000 fine or both.

. Prices Tabulated

Passenger car tire prices are: All tire carcass prices, acceptable for retreading or recapping were set at $1.50 for passenger cars. For having tires retreaded or recapped follow (Two grades):

(A) B:00R16G u.os'vsvinvianis 37.50 BITRE: i vioneibrrsiis ie 8.25 6:00X16" . reevinne ars B00 7:00x16

(B) $6.45 7.10 7.50 8.95 5.58 5.50x17 6.05 If you need a new retreaded or recapped tire, just add $1.50 to the price given for your size either in Grade A, the most expensive grade of camelback or Grade B, the second most expensive grade. Truck tire prices follow:

Retreading (4) (B)

Size, Carcass 6.00x20 (30x5) | (6-ply) | 6.00x20 (30x5) (8-ply) 6.50x20 (32x6) (8-ply) 6.50x20 (6-ply)... 7.50x20 (34x7) (10-ply) 7.50x24 (38x7).... 8.25x20 9.00x20 12.00x20 (11.25x20) 12.00x20 (11.25x24) 16.80 47.45 41.75 9.00x36 (11x36)... 9.90 3450 ... .

Top Capping Prices

$4.20 $7.60 $6.75

. $6.00 885 7.80

10.95 ps 14.25 15.05

19.15 23.15

W 12.45 4.50 10.00 9.60

? 16.20 7.20

17.15 21.85 (36x8) ....12.00 26.35

43.95 36.60

Top capping prices for the same truck tires, with carcass price remaining the same, are as follows: Top Capping (A) (B) (30x35) (6-ply)...$6.50 $5.70 (30x3) (8-ply)... 7.50 6.55 (32x6) (8-ply)...10.55 9.30 (6-ply) 850 945 (34x7) (10-ply)..13.80 12.10 16.30 19.70 32.85 35.40

Size 6.00x20 6.00x20 6.50x20 8.50x20 7.50x20 8.25x20 9.00x20 12x20 12.00x24

(11.25x20) (11.25x24)

CURLEY ORDERED TO PAY BOSTON, Jan. 12 (U. P.).—Former Governor James M. Curley of Massachusetts was ordered by a district judge today to pay the. City of Boston a $42,629 judgment at the rate of $500 a week in connection with. the allegedly illegal

settlement of a land-damage suit.