Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1942 — Page 13

THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 1942 |

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SCOTIA, Cal. Jan. 15 —People from the East who drive up the Redwood Highway for the first time almost invariably wax ecstatic over the monstrous trees. I've heard scores of people speak of their sensations at driving among the giant redwoods, and variably they say the same thing—how insignificant they feel before the majesty of nature. Well, I've driven through the redwoods many times. I don’t remember what I thought the first time. but my main feeling now is a desire to get out of them, because it's like driving in a tunnel. You are surrounded, enveloped, =» closed down upon, and I get a = form of claustrophobia from being among them. So. like all people who eat ton much cake, my day of sensitive appreciation of the redwood forests is gone. When I come into them now I don't say, “Ernest, you are insignificant.” No, I just say, “Ernest. here are those damn big trees again.”

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I DO. HOWEVER. enjoy looking at redwood lumber. I'm sort of crazy about wood anyway. I've always wanted to be a cabinetmaker. And wooden sculpture is about the only form of art I appreciate. I love to feel of wood, love to look at it. Even finished lumber gives me a warm sensation. If I ever get rich, I think I'll build a shed about the size of a barn. fill it full of lumber, and just go around each day adn , as other people might srivate art galleries. is beautiful. It seems tg come in

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

DEFENSE BUSINESS has jammed up the switchboards of many of our business firms and public offices. For instance, sometimes you get the busy signal for half an hour straight when you dial MA1361 —the Federal! Building. The Chamber of Commerce recently increased the number of truhk lines, and still it's difficult at times to find a line that’s not busy. Among the there are the tire rationi, local defense bond juarters and certain of the Red Cross activities. A checkup at the Telephone Co. elicited the following statistics: There are 775.000 phone calls made in Indianapolis on an average business day—an average of about seven calls a day per phone. That's 88000 more calls day than were made in

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—The pity about Secreof Agriculture Wickard's fight to get control of farm price fixing is that it inflames the appetite of one of the most greedv and overbearing of afl pressure groups—the farm bloc. Its twin is the labor bloc. They feed each other. Unless President Roosevelt is successful in his courageous effort now to break up that game, the country is apt to be whipsawed into vicious inflation. with wages and farm prices climbing up on each other's back. Usually my trouble is that I can see there are two sides to most of the questions that come up Here. I can see but one side to this one —Mr. Roosevelt's. The details of the controversy are coyered in news dispatches Briefly, Secretary Wickard led a demand that the price-control bill be changed to give him control over farm prices. Mr. Roosevelt insisted on centralized control of all prices in a single administrator—ILieon Henderson. The Senate farm bloc fell in behind Seeretary Wickard. and shoved through the Bankhead Amendment to take farm prices out of Mr. Hendercontrol and give it to Secretary Wickard. The technique was to hand him the veto power over Mr. Henderson.

All for Centralized Authority

IN ADDITION, Senator O'Mahoney put throuch 1 amendment which would tie farm prices to wages. Mr. Roosevelt denounced this. He said it would bring disastrous inflation on the country more quickly than anvthing that has yet been suggested. In price legislation Mr. Roosevelt is hewing to the principle of centralized responsibility which he finally applied in the field of production and procurement

My Day

WASHINGTON. Wednesday —The Library of Congress, with the help of people throughout the country who have recording machines, has been gathering some interesting material on the opinions of people on the “state of the nation” at the present moment. Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Collins, from North Carolina, and various other people from the Library of Congress, spent half an hour playing these records for me. I must say it was extraordinarily interesting to hear men of the farm, factory, the small town and the big city, voicing their opinions in a manner which will really make history seem alive in the future. I hope something can be done to get these records before the public now. On Monday afternoon, Y opened the “miles of dies” on the corner of Fourteenth Sk, and was followed by the commissioners of the district. And so, the first aetivity of the District of Columbia's fight against in fantile paralysis has begun. That afternoon, I also went to the Newspaper Women's Club, where the Chinese gave

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By Ernie Pyle

all shades of red—some so pale you can hardly tell it is redwood; some so violently red that it resembles the “purple heart” wood of the Guiana jungles in South America. For years I have been laboring under two delusions about redwood— (1) that it was a crime to be cutting down those big trees, and (2) that the lumbe wasn’t much good anyhow. #

Old Off-the-Beam Ernest

AS USUAL, I was wrong. There is no danger of the redwood becoming extinct. The most spectacular of the big trees have been safely preserved in parks and groves, the better for posterity to see. Nor are the lumber forests on the verge of demolition. There is right now enough redwood standing to last for 80 or 100 years, and new growths are coming in all the time. As for the lumber, it’s fine. We don’t see it used so much in houses, because it is expensive. But when you do build a house of redwood, it is there practically forever. That is its chief virtue—it just doesn't wear out. : ® Redwood costs about twice as much as ordinary lumber. Not because there isn’t plenty of it, but be-| cause there's so much waste in getting it into lumber. For one thing ‘the trees are sp big they do down with an awful smash, and there's often considerable damage. For another, the older trees are “overripe,” and there is wastage in the center. For another the bark is so thick, and it's expensive to get off. As a result of this high cost, a good portion of the redwood produced goes into specialty uses, rather than for straight building construction. It is used for cigar boxes. and oil tanks in Texas, and for cas-| kets, and grave vaults, and for foundations in ter- | mite country. I want a redwood oil tank for Christmas next year.

apolis, the first question they usually ask is: “Oh, do you work at Allison?”

New Cars Galore

WHEN A DEFENSE ATTORNEY sought to free a traffic offender on the plea that it was the man’s first arrest and that he even had a card praising him for “thousands of miles of safe driving,” Municipal Court Judge John IL. McNelis commented that he thought all motorists break the law at times. “Why,” he smiled, “probably the only reason I don’t get tickets sometimes is because I've got a low license number.” He found the defendant guilty. . . . There's no shortage of new cars out at the State Fair Grounds. In fact, dealers have nearly every available building jammed full of nice shiny Buicks, Chevrolets, Studebakers, etc. But they might as well be in China as] far as getting one of them is concerned.

Plane Rodeo

COLISEUM NOTES—Manager Dick Miller is busy | arranging some sort of entertainment for the Coli-| seum next spring after the hockey season ends and the ice is removed. It might be a rodeo, and again] it might be a roller derby. . . . Incidentally, delegates | to the National Funeral Directors’ convention here next fall will take over the Coliseum during their| visit. A special hockey game and ice show is being |

arranged for them. Attendance estimates range: as up their six auxiliary policemen: Al

high as 4000. . . . Broom ball, as played at a recent hockey game, seems to be catching on. Some of the members of the P. R. Mallory skating club have| chosen up sides and plan to play broom ball at the club's regular Friday midnight skating party.

Sign Right Here

A CHANCE REMARK cost Col. Everett Gardner, Indiana Employment Security director, $7500 the] other day, but he didn't mind. It was at a meet-| ing of Siate department heads in the State House | that he remarked to the man next to him: “You! know, I'm going to buy some of those defense bonds! one of these days.” “How many?” inquired the man. | “Oh, maybe 810.000 worth,” said Col. Gardner. right here.” said the fan, who happened to be Wray Fleming Indiana defense bond deputy administrator.

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| when he announced that Donald Nelson was to be made, in effect, an American counterpart of Lord! Beaverbrook, the British Minister of SuppW. The President ought to have, in price control as well as in production, the fullest support of everyone! who has criticized the loose and divided authority which he has heretofore tolerated. Wickard’'s main argument is that he must Sante) prices in order to encourage production of farm prod- | ucts. He-says Henderson has not consulted him in fixing some farm prices. Henderson gives the names! of Wickard’s experts who have been consulted, and! details as to instances in which he has followed the! recommendations of Department of Agriculture offi-| cials. Henderson's statement on this rings true. |

It Doesn't Make Sense Anyway

FURTHERMORE, THE argument doesn't make sense, anyway. You would have price fixing scattered all over the Government, under the Wickard theory. We must assume that Henderson, if he is competent to hold his job—and it is pretty well agreed around Washington that he is—will take into account the) need of increased production and will obtain the best/ technical advice as to where the pricé must be placed to get it. Wickard’s fight for the farm bloc has put many | Senators and Representatives in a hole. You may find it hard to believe. but some Senators and Repre-| sentatives are trying to rise above local politics and) do what seems to be necessary for the country. | For instance, Senator Lucas of Illinois voted with the President. even though Illinois is a big corn state. He can get away with tbat until his corn growers discover that Wickard thinks Lueas is voting against the farmer. Thus such an affair as this feeds the pressure] groups and weakens the resistance of Congress to) them, and the resistance isn't too strong to begin with. |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

me a cup of tea from a most interesting copper stove. It is similar to the old Dutch stoves, which not only radiate heat. but keep the water on the top at the boilihg point. Last evening, Mr, and Mrs. Louis Adamiec and my cousin, Mr. Monroe Douglas Robinson, who is just back from Peru, dined with us and then went with Miss Thompson and me to the concert given by the Philadelphia orchestra. Mr. Artuto Toscanini eonducted and it was a wonderful evening. I kept remembering a picture I had seen in the papers of Mr. Toscanini being photographed and examined as he went from state to state, and I must say this situation seems to me rather tragic. There is an element of comedy, however, in suggesting that Mr. Toscanini needs thus to be classified. I spent-a good part of the morning today at the | Tolan committee hearing, where Mayor La Guardia and Dean Landis testified, and where my testimony | was followed by Administrators MeNutt's. Fortunately, I have only a few appointments at the office today, so I shall be ablé to catch up on the morning’s mail this afternoon. I shall also make a brief address at the Congressional Club, where the wives of members of Congress have asked me to come

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BRENDONWOOD ORGANIZED FOR HOME DEFENSE

Master Plan for Suburban Areas Given Trial and

Found Effective.

By RICHARD LEWIS

One of the big problems civil defense leaders face in Marion County is the organization of suburban towns which encircle Indianapolis like the spokes of a wheel. Organizing the hub of that geographic wheel, Indianapolis, doesn’t worry the leaders. They are concentrating on the suburbs where fire fighting and police facilities are limited. This work has been proceeding quietly under a master plan drawn up by Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, County defense director, and Bon O. Aspy, his assistant, Today it is 30 per cent completed.

: Brendonwood Is First

The first suburb to be organized in the County was Brendonwood exclusive residential sector north of the City. There the master plan was installed as a trial. So far, the leaders haven’t found a better one. The Brendonwood plan covers a district including Ladywood and Millersville. It has everything—air raid wardens, auxiliary firemen, auxiliary police, messenger service, transport service and medical and first aid detail. In the event of an emergency, an air raid, for instance, this is what would happen: A preliminary air raid signal would indicate that enemy planes] were an hour or two hours from Indianapolis. Given an hour during the day or 15 minutes at night, the organization would have ample time to function,

Report at Lesh Home

If the alarm came during the day. Mr. Aspy, assisted by his own office force, would notify the staff of the Brendonwood defense council to leave their downtown offices and go nome. The 14 staff members would head their automobiles to the home of Perry Lesh. There they would be assigned to their posts.

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H. Fiske, Eugene Fishburn, Kenneth Fry, John Prentiss, Warrick Wallace ahd William Munk. Montgomery Lewis, air raid warden chief for the community, wotild see that the warning was spread.

Stand by for Emergency

His assistants, Fred P, Baker, Ray C. Friesner and Mr. Lesh, would pa-

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DRILLS SET FOR FIREMEN AIDS

Training of Auxiliaries in -Suburban Areas to Start Tonight.

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auxiliaries as military adviser to the community organization. The motor corps, led by Russe Hartman, would stand by at their hones for a call. The corps would transport firemen, police and the road repair crew of which George Boren is chief.

If the Bombs Fall—

If bombs fell, the function of the,

nolice detail would be to keep people away and block roads to the scene until deputy sheriffs arrived to take charge. Any fires found by fire watchers would be fought by the auxiliary firemen until help arrived from neighboring communities. The medical and first aid staff will render emergency treatment. The theory of this set-up is that a community of 250 persons like Brendonwood would have to be selfsufficient in an air raid until the worst was over,

Duties Are Temporary Mr. Aspy semphasized the point! that volunteers would act only in lieu of regular police and fire forces who would take over on arrival. When all 28 suburbs have been organized alofig the lines of this plan, the directors of each will meet to work out arrangements for cooperative use of their forces: When this is done, it will bring inte being a County-wide set-up in which the suburban spokes of the metropolitan wheel will be rimmed together. Directors Are Listed Gen. Tyndall has asked all suburban defense directors’ to submit their organization plans as soon as possible. The directors, in addition to Mr. Aspy, are: W. H. Simmons, Crows Nest; A. V. Beeler, Speedway City; the Rev. O. E. Parrett, Lawrence; J. C. Olive, Williams Creek; M. H. Thomas, Allisonville; D. W. Bossemeyer, Meridian Hills; Walter Anderson, Ravenswood; H. W. Britton, Beech Grove. Fred Doeppers, Rocky Ripple; M. H. Morris, Woodruff Place; G. M. Bockstahler, N. Crows Nest; Ben Herr, Castleton; Donald Denrose, Clermont; Russell Fortune Jr, Highwoods; Frank Flanner, Spring. Hili; H. M. Blinn, Warren Park; L. V. Corbin, Wynnedale; H. R. Danner, Shooters’ Hill; Richard OCarroll, Southport; Fred Davenport, Millersville. F. H. Hunt, Traders Point and Lakeside; Russell Hutchinson, Aeton; H. C. Springer, Wanamaker ahd New Bethel; Paul Goss, Wayne

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The volunteers will receive training on 20-foot ladders and in hose and ladder work, extinguishing incendiary bombs and forcible entry into burning buildings.

Expect 100 at Session

“We're not goidg to try to make first class firemen out of them over night,” Fire Chief Harry H. Fulmer said. “But we think they're going to make good auxiliary firemen and that's what we need in the county.” Approximately 100 men are expected to attend the first session tonight whieh will last until 9:30. Another session is scheduled for tomorrow night.

Others to Be Called

When the first group completes its training, other groups of suburban volunteers will be called by the county defense office. About 900 of the men who signed up for auxiliary fire duty at City registration last Sunday will receive similar instruction as soon as the group is selected by CityCounty defense officials.

Hoosiers Form '‘Crackpot’ Order

HAMMOND, Ind. Jan. 15 (U, P.).— Three hundred Hammond business and professional men have shed their dignity and organiged the “Royal Order of Crackpots” to escape periodically from a troubled world. Howard Boender, 54, Royal Goof, announced the group’s platform: “No polls and no contests—we’ll never query a single soul on what ought to be done hy Congress. “We'll try our best to keep heavy thinking Washington columnists out of Hammond. “We don't care whether the col= lege boys would prefer Lana Turner or Hedy Lamarr on a raft.”

GAS MASKS PLANNED FOR ALL HAWAIIANS

HONOLULU, Jan. 16 (U. P).— Every resident of Hawaii is to be given a gas mask because of the chance the Japanese will use gas in air attacks, the Army has announced today. A large stock is on hand and will be distributed soon to civilians. A few—mainly communications employees and persons active in defense—already have them. The Army issued an exhaustive list of rules and instructions for using gas masks, which are standard American Army training masks of the type issued to troops in peacetime and are more rugged and serviceable than the usual civilian equipment. They are protection against all standard chemical agents. Guy J. Swope, former governor of Puerto Rico, arrived yesterday and conferred with Governor Joseph B. Poindexter about a $15,000,000 de= fense allotment that Hawaii has requested.

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8 VACANCIES IN LEGISLATURE

Would Elections Be Held If Schricker Called

Special Session?

By EARL RICHERT

One of the aspects intriguing State House observers concerning a special session of the Legislature, if one should be called, pertains to the vacancies existing in the General Assembly membership.

Would the Governor deem it necessary, they wonder, to call special elections in those districts where vacancies exist? The legislative membership has been riddled to a sizable extent by death, war and State jobs and some State House observers feel that special elections should be held in order that all the people of the State could be represented. Some even take the view that the Indiana Constitution requires the Governor to hold special elec tions to fill legislative vacancies,

Expense Is Cited

On the other hand, some high State officials are known to feel that special elections to fill vacancies are not necessary as long as a quorum exists and that it would be uneconomical for the Governor to call special elections just to fill vacancies for a possible special session, . Since the adjournment of the ’'41 session, three Legislators have died, two have been called by the Army and Navy and two have resigned to take high State jobs. Seven other Legislators have taken minor State jobs, but since they are just State employees rather than State officers they may resign or take a leave of absence from their State jobs to return to the Legislature. Here are the '41 session Legis lators who will be missing from a special session, if one is called, and the reasons: DEATH—Senator Eugene J, Pay-

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ton (D. South Bend); Rep. Herbert Evans (R. New Castle), and Rep. Walter F, Danielson (R. Michigan City). WAR-—Senator Harold W. Handley (R. La Porte) and Senator Edward J. Green (R. Indianapolis).

Bedwell on Bench

STATE JOBS—Senator Charles H. Bedwell (D., Sullivan), now an Appellate Court judge, and Rep. Howard Batman (D. Terre Haute), now Public Counselior for the Public Service Commission. The Legislators who are now working as employees of the State are Rep. Frank Millis (R, Campbellsburg), House Floor Leader during the ’'41 session, with the State Civil Defense Council; Rep. Judson West (D. Indianapolis), head of the Intangibles Tax Division of the State Tax Bodrd. Rep. J. Chester Allen (D. South Bend), State Civil Defense Council; Rep. Walter S. Baker (R. Bourbon), Department of Public Instruction; Rep. Balthasar Hoffman (D, Valparaiso), Highway Commission; Rep. Albert McCoy (D. Anderson), Public Service Commission, and Rep. Glenn A, Markland (R. Zions-

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U.S. VICTORY EFFORTS WIN LATIN FRIENDS

South Americans, Amazed By Fast Action, Face

Decision to Help.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 15.—As the third conference of American foreign ministers formally got under way here today, it became increase ingly clear that dramatic decisions would not be long delayed. Delegates are in the mood to call a spade a spade and to announce their respective positions with ree gard to the Axis at the earliest pose sible moment. . Paradoxically: enough, a South American boundary dispute may somewhat delay decisions of the conference concerning the World War. Everybody feels that unless Peru and Ecuador can settle their own boundary fight peaceably it will ba farcical for this conference to cone demn other aggressors. Thus the stage seems to be, set for a solution of this controversy.

Impressed by U, S. Efforts

Now that all the delegations have arrived it can be said that the exe tent of the final decisions probably will depend largely on how South America feels about the ability of the United States to sustain the principal burden of Hemisphere de fense., In that connection it can also be said that the delegates are tremendously impressed by three things: 1. The way the United States was caught napping Dec. 7. 2. The lightning recovery staged by the United States Government and people. 3. The thorough manner in which all of the forces of the entire nation rapidly were set in motion to insure victory, regardless of the cost.

Key to Latin Action

If my talks with members of most of the delegations here may be relied upon, it can already be said that the second and third impressions are so strong that the first is a dimming memory. They are not only impressed but amazed by the manner in which every group angrily snapped to ate tention after Pearl Harbor, and by the complete readiness to make whatever sacrifice is necessary to see the thing through, : I make these-observations at this time because I am cohvinced that they offer a key to what is likely to happen here. \

Still ‘Dollar Diplomacy’

The United States is the one great power in the Western Hemisphere. It is the richest, the most populous, the best armed, the most industrial. Everything, therefore, depends upon our national determination to use all our resources to defend the Americas and lick the Axis in Europe, Asia and Africa. Fortunately for the success of this Rio meeting, the Latin American republics also are impressed by the workings of lend-lease. They admit that they have been brought up on stories about dollar diplomacy and the love of the “Yanquis” for the almighty dollar.

Laud Unselfishness

Now they say they have seen that Americans are among the most un selfish of races. They have seen billions of dollars’ worth of war mae terials lend-leased or given away to nations fighting against the Axis, without counting the cost. They say the United States is truly the arsenal of democracy. All this has made a profound ime pression down here. It has served to show that Uncle Sam stands by his friends. It means that if and when the test comes he will share everything he has to defend all the Americas, These and kindred factors are bound to weigh mightily in the dee cisions about to be made-here.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—-Name the Emperor of Japan. 2—In English money, how many shillings are in a pound? 3—When did the United States last send troops to fight on Chinese soil? 4—Who wrote “Gulliver's Travels”? 5—~Which of the Great Lakes is situated north of Lake Michie gan? 6—Complete the adage: —— for a long race.” T—What did Admiral Byrd name his camp in the Antarctic? 8—Who was ‘Secretary of the Navy during World War I?

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