Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1942 — Page 9

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SEATTLE. Jan. 27.—If you are an old resident of Seattle, vou will have been seeing the by-line of “J, Willis Sayre” in the newspapers for more than 40 years. In fact you will have been seeing it so long that vou probably will have forgotten what J. Willis Sayre is really famous for. Mr. Savre. in his day, was the fastest man alive. He traveled clear around the worid on a vacation whim, circumnavigating the globe by regularly established means of’ transportation in 54 days. The year was 1903. He broke the previous record by six = days. A Even the boys on the PostRY Intelligencer, where Mr. Sayre is now dramatic editor, had forgotten about it until Howard Hughes made his spectacular world flight a few vears ago. They got to lookoing up around-the-world records in the World Almanac and here, lo and behold, was their own J. Willis Sayre, sitting back in his cubbrhole office typing out movie reviews. So I dropped in tc see Mr. Sayre. and he told me about his trip He was then on the Seattle Times, and just past 21. He doesn't know what put it into his head, but he decided he'd go around the world on his vacation. He had $500 saved up. He carried the entire sum in

$20 gold pieces.

Off On the Big Adventure

HE HOPPED A FREIGHTER on June 26, 1903, Yokohama. It took him three weeks to cross the He got in a little sightseeing in Tokyo, and Japan by train to Nagasaki. Then he Dalny, Manchuria. He hadn't been the Pacific, but he got plenty sick on

for Pacific. went across tock a boat to seasick crossing tnis short, trip. From Dainy the Trans-Siberian Railway fo Moscow. It first week the famous Trans-Siberian was in operation. The trip took three weeks. He saves it was a wonderful train, with luxurious cars and fine food. “From Moscow he took a train for

took was the very

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By Ernie Pyle

rather he thought he did. When they were 18 miles out he discovered he was on the wrong train—headed | for St. Petersburg. So he got off, hired a horse and cart by sign language, and was driven 10 miles] across country to the right station. It cost him 50] cents. | He stayed all night in Beriin, took another train to Flushing, Holland, caught a cross-channel steamer to Ergland, trained to Liverpool, and hopped the] Campagnia to New York. He tarriéd only a few hours! in New York, then headed west by train.

Why Al the Fuss?

HE WASNT AWARE that his home paper was making any fuss about his trip. After all, it was just his own personal trip, paid for by himself. But when | he got to St. Paul he discovered a special train—en-| gine and two cars—waiting for him. The paper had arranged it for his final dash on in to Seattle. But Mr. Sayre refused to get on the train. He had made all the trip that far on regular service— the kind where anybody could walk up and buy a ticket, and he wasn’t geing to spoil it on the last lap. He came home on a regular train. There was quite a to-do in Seattle when he got back. He made some speeches, and sold an article to the Saturday Evening Post about his trip. And that was the last of it. Other people have claimed to have gone around faster by reguiar lines of transportation since then, but Mr. Sayre doesn't believe it. And as for all those time-smashing flights around the world in the °30s, Mr. Sayre says they didn't go around the world at all] —they just went around part of it, up where the’ world is little. | Mr. Sayre was born in Washington. His father, was a captain mn the Union Army. When he was; just a kid he joined the Army and served a year in| the Philippines. He has had one other big trip. In 1528 he took his | family and went 2all over Europe. He has worked on all the Seattle papers. He has, been bugs about the theater since he was a child. He] says also that he's a collector at heart. At his home he has 16.000 theatrical photographs—the biggest | collection in the West, he believes. He had to build, a special room for them. ‘

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

IF YOU VE EVER surprised the little woman with a couple of unexpected guests for dinner and witnessed her consternation, you may have an idea of t dilemma in which the I. A. C. chef and his assistants found themselves Sunday. The secretaries’ conference of the Indiana State Medical Association was meeting there and had arranged a dinner. “You can prepare for a maximum of 225 at the dinner,” the chef was told. An hour or two before dinner time, the chef was advised that he'd better toss another potato or two in the pot. He did. and served not 225. but 470. And they all got turkey, too. . . . There are a couple of neatly painted wooden one facing norta and the other south, in the 3800 block of Winthrop Ave, which ic more or less of a speedway. The signs. pointedly enough, read: “28 Children in This Block.”

We'd Be Mad, Too

A FRIEND cent Col. Roscoe Turner a clipping from an Aurora. Ill. newspaper, showing a picture of Col. Turner with Carole Lombard and her mother. The picture was taken three or four vears ago. The caption under the picture referred to the death of Miss Lombard and her mother. and then remarked that “Colonel Turner, a noted speed flier, was killed in a plane crash several vearf ago.” The still very much alive Colonel, who spends most of his waking hours seeing to it that the public is aware of his

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — Congress {zs giving Secretary of Agriculture Wickard what he wanted— control over farm prices. But after Secretary Wickard gets it, he may wish he had never asked for it. That action in splitting up price control between a price administrator and the secretarv of agriculture is a flagrant violation of the principle that responsibility should be centered at one point. But to place farin price control in the hands of the secretary of agriculture is to compound the offense, because the secretary of agriculture—no matter what man hclds the job—i: always a special pleader for agriculture. He is tied to the farm lo'by organizatims. Taey play his game and help him ions, and he plays theirs. of agricuiture who was so headstrong as to turn the powerful farm organizations against him would have hard going. He would be sabotaged at every turn. Circumstances make the secretary of agriculture in any administration the captive of the farm lobby. That is the official who will, under the pricecontrol bill as finaliv drawn. have the last word in

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| doings, sat right down and wrote the editor a letter. The general tenor of it was: “Why don't you read some papers besides your own?” |

Tox on Hoarders

THE SCRAP METAL SHORTAGE ought to be; just a little less short when Center Township Assessor | Jim Cunningham gets under way with his anti-| noarding campaign. To force all kinds of scrap| metal— junk cars, etc—out of hiding and get it into | the national defense melting pots, Jim reports he is | starting a crew of special deputy assessors out io} search out all metal caches in the Township. The metal will be assessed at top prices. And come] March 1. the owners of the metal will have to prove | that they've sold it to avoid paying heavy taxes on it. | (P. S.—The deputies already have some pretty good tips on where to look for the metal caches.)

Blackwood Writes Again WE HAD TO READ the Buffalo (N. Y.) CourierExpress to learn that our fellow townsman, Easley! Blackwood, inventor of the Blackwood One Over One | bridge convention. has authored a new book. It's entitled: Blackwood—The Story of the Home Run Slam Bids of Bridge (Bruelheide Bridge Guild, Minneapolis), and Charlton Wallace, Cincinnati Times- | Star bridge editor, is co-author, The Courier-Express carries a couple of columns on the book, so it won't] hurt us to come forth with a few lines. . . . Walker | Winslow, wing commander of Indiana's Civil Air | Patrol. has announced that in the future all dinner) guests at the Winslow residence will be advised to “bring your own sugar.”

By Raymond Clapper

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| tary attaches of the Low | tries,

Vi-<When Hitler Comes

ESCAPE FROM the war anywhere in Europe is im-

possible.

The continent's existence has been altered too

basically, but from time to time one undertook this flight

from reality in desperation.

So it was that on a late spring day I walked through the quiet streets of a tiny village, an hour by train from

warweary Berlin.

Fruit trees were

in bloom.” Early

flowers were bursting their buds. Lulled by the warm sun, one almost overlooked the zigzag shelter trenches beside the road, one hardly saw

the uniforms of sons and fathers

on leave, one knew but

was little aware for the moment of the pressure applied to the countryside to squeeze from it the last possible bit

of production.

One almost forgot—almost, until with no more y than a few seconds’ audible warning a column of motorcycle troops, dusty and grim with rifles slung over their backs, swept into view around a bend and roared along the cob-

bled streets. wake. The troops were on maneuver, but in just such a guise and with equally brief warning has Hitler come to hundreds of similarly peaceful villages in Europe in the last two and a half years, and brought with him all the suffering and horror that occupation by the Nazis means.

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On Wings of Stukas

Der Fuehrer's repertoire is varied, however. He came to Belgrade and Rotterdam on the wings of Stukas that leveled whole sections of the cities. If there is opposition, it is smashed. If intrigue will be sufficieni, then intrigue is used.

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THE OFFICIALS of Copenhagen’s airport were treated liberally to doped punch at the Nazi roused from their stupor the next morning to learn that Hitler was there. The Counreturning from a carefully organized tour of the Siegfried Line, stepped from the train in Berlin to be placed under arrest and told their homelands had been invaded that morning—to the embarrassment, it must be reported, of their uninformed officer escorts. Most of the so-called “disorders” in northern Jugoslavia were fomented and carried out on a precise schedule by Nazi agents to provide a flimsy excuse for Hitler’'s appearance there. German spies had little success in Russia, so Hitler came to the Soviets in the form of the most powerful

| concentration of armed might the

There would have been nothing unexpected about that. But now, because he has asked for and] obtained power to determine the prices, he will | have no alibi when the to crowd him for higher prices. He has the power.| They will expect him to use it in their favor, |

prices.

will be Wickard's fault. He won't be able to go back to them and say, been able to sell it to Leon.” | In the last war Herbert Hoover, as food admin-

istrator,

cal activities was to overcome that hostility,

Unfair Burden on the President

ACTUALLY THIS IS going to involve the President himself. Any real issue ‘between Wickard and Henderson probably will have to be settled by the President. It becomes something more than merely. backing up his price administrator. Mr. Roosevelt must either allow Wickard com-| plete sway over farm prices or else order him to, accept or compremise with the price administrator.’ That is placing an additional and unfair responsi-| bility on the President in such times as these. If IT seem to be crossing bridges before we get

“Boys, I am with you but I haven't] “kultur”

tried to hold wheat prices within reason | and he made himself the target of the farm bloc, for years afterward. The farm lobbyists blamed him! and one of his hardest struggles in his later politi-!

world has ever seen.

First-line German soldiers take great pride in their reputation for “correctness.” but the soldiers are followed by the Gestapo, by eco-

Schl : | nomic commissioners, by party exWhatever the farm organizations don't get How] y Day

perts in graft and loot, and by the ruthless imposition of German on peoples who passionately dislike it.

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A Nation Executed

THE GENERAL outlines of the results are well known. Twelve million Poles are being murdered as surely as though they were placed against walls and shot. Nine million Dutch and 3,000,000 Norwegians slowly are losing their national status and being forced toward ultimate incorporation in the Reich. Czechs are being compelled to learn - German and their own schools are still being closed.

A moment later a staff car followed in their

Twenty-four were shut last summer under the relatively “lenient” administration of Baron Constantin von Neurath. Everything connected with the history and tradition of the Duchy of Luxemburg is being wiped out. Frenchmen in Alsace and Lorraine must change their names or flee. Even the elevator directions and the calendars have been replaced in the language of their new "“Vaterland.” The process is similar for the Croats in Styria and Kaernten, and in the railroad station in the former Polish city oft Poznan (Pozen) glaring signs order that only German be spoken. “We are guests and poorly treated ones in our own country,”

said a Czech. ” ” ”

Blow Follows Blow

POLAND IS A special case, the full horror of which one's mind almost refuses to admit. Suspicious of atrocity stories, I asked a candid and well-informed acquaintance. “Surely this mass murder must be an exaggeration.” The reply was incredible. “Killing 12,000,000 persons outright is too big a task physically, even for the S. S. and Gestapo. All the armies in the world in four years of continuous fighting didn't do nearly as well as that in the last World War, But there are other ways—the arrest of every leader, the destruction of every sense of national or community feeling, the forcible separation of families. Two or three generations will take care of it.” Nazi occupation in any event is a continuing process. No social

Vidkun Quisling . . . the Norwegian Fuehrer couldn't produce fast enough for Hitler.

SALES OF WINE BY

12,000,000 Poles—like these—are being slowly and systematically wiped out by the Nazis.

withstand in one blow all that it includes. Institutions are replaced or discontinuea, political parties wiped out except for one Nazi-inspired group, control is established over banks and business, property of Jews is configcaged, industry and agriculture are “co-ordinated” with the needs of the Reich.

structure could

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Loot and Grow Rich

ACCOMPANYING THIS public looting is private graft and demoralization. Most of the Nazi leaders are accumulating private fortunes by means which the world may never know in detail unless some subsequent, searching board of inquiry is established to deal them the punishments they deserve under the ordinary criminal codes. The system of “trustees” has been a mint for the party faithful. It 1s almost impossible to trace these transactions specifically, but one example can be cited, A Nazi named Kurt Eichel, still in the party's gasoline circuit and not at all a big leaguer, was made {rustee of the Paris branch of the Westminister Bank, an English institution. Last June 11 Eichel appeared at a bank in Switzerland with slightly in excess of $100,000 in United States currency of various denominations. For this he bought about 20,000 French gold Napoleons and about 20,000 Swiss francs in gold. He took the coins with him when he left.

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Returns for More

ALMOST EXACTLY a month later, on July 9, Eichel appeared again, this time with $100,315 in United States currency. More than $5600 of it was the counterfeit which exists in small and poorly printed quantities in Europe today. With (he rest he bought gold Napoleons and gold Swiss francs a second time, but he added another portion of loot. Eichel on his second visit also carried 6,200,000 French paper francs. With these he bought socalled ‘“sperrmarken,” blocked Reichsmarks usable only in Germany and similar to the ‘“registered marks” of the tourist trade, and had the entire amount transferred to his personal account in Berlin, The gold he took with him, as he had done previously. It was impossible to learn whether he made earlier or subsequent visits, but the process may still be continuing. On a scale less grand, at least some of the occupation officials

| The Commission gave retailers 90 days and wholesalers 30 days to dis-|

are doing a brisk “black market” business on the side with supplies intended originally for the Nazi occupational armies. It is one of the sources of the French market in illegal food, and probably in most similar areas. These are purely private ventures, for they are as effective sabotage of the Nazi program, depending as it does on rigidly controlled prices and supplies, as anything that could be done.

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Holland Pays and Pays

HOLLAND OFFERS an excellent illustration of the public phases of thé process. Occupation of the Low Countries, as it is generally understood, was carried out in May, 1940. Actually, the changes are not yet complete.

Within the last six months industrial taxes modeled on the German system have been introduced widely. A “Cultural Guild” was established to which every writer, actor, or radio speaker must belong, and from which Jews are barred. It provides control of all the newspapers and periodicals, An “Agricultural Estate” was founded as a public corporation which will control all mortgages, sales and transfers of farm lands and has as its principal responsibility the care that all productive lands “come into the hands of the best workmen,” an excellent method of repaying the politically reliable, It was to begin its work Jan. 1, if the organization could be completed.

Customs barriers were previously removed, a spur to the flow of produce from Holland into the Reich. Shortly before Christmas an “agreement” was reached between the German post office and the Dutch system, virtually uniting them, ” ” ”

Nazi Masters Impatient

THE LAST remnants of local self-government were wiped away by decree of Reichscommissar Arthur Seyss-Inquart in August, turning over to “central authorities” the appointment and removal of provincial and community officials. In December the party of A. A. Mussert, Holland's Quisling, was made the only legal political organization. . A parallel procedure in Belgium has replaced some 400 burgomasters, according to reports, with the appointees of the Belgian National Socialist, Romsee, secretary-gen-eral of the Ministry of the Interior. The next logical step is the outright displacement of these local and anemic Nazi parties by Gr Ger-

man officials. To a certain exe tent this has already occured in Norway. No export brand of national socialism has yet demonstrated itself capable of governe ing the country to which it was transplanted, . Quisling tried. He was actually making parliamentary gains, but his Nazi masters were impatient, and eliminated all the other parties about a year ago. By summer they were compelled to .de=clare a state of emergency, and Vikdun Quisling’s course since then has been one of gradual eclipse. A number of the leading figures of the National Smaling, Quisling’s party, including Christie, the head of the radio, and Lippestad,, one of the ministers, were accused by the German authorities of illegal ly using. gasoline. At Quisling’s insistence, most of them escaped penalties, but the party now receives a limited monthly ration of gasolinie which it cannot exceed.

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Prices Up and Up

IN OCTOBER Quisling’'s former right-hand man, J. B. Hiorth, was arrested by the Nazi officidis. About the same time the head of one of the technical sections of the party was taken into custody. Supplies of food and other materials meanwhile have gone through the same sad cycle of disappearance that occured every=where else in Europe, and in November when the Nazis confiscated woolen blankets for their armies in Russia, they paid 10 crowns for articles that would have cost 35 to replace, had there been any to buy. This brief catalogue of what happens when Hitler comes could be extended endlessly. Prices go soaring, In Praha they more than doubled, according to Czech figures. In “unoccupied” Bulgaria they had increased 50 per cent last summer and have gone higher since. : Inflation appears wherever it is possible. The stock market index in Italy went from 249 a year to 391 by the end of November, when the Government was coms pelled to take action. There is hardly a chicken in Finland, which once exported eggs. The Finns ate their flocks after they could no longer get meat, Denrcark, the dairyland, has been compelled to cut its production of butter, pork and beef, because the precious oil fodder, once imported, is no longer available for their herds. When Hitler comes—! It is a dreary story that can only end when Hitler goes.

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EDITORS TO GIVE,

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EX-HOOSIER NE STAR IS KILLED

determining farm prices. The price administrator impose prices on farm commodities unless they have been approved by the secretary of agriculture,

HALF PINT STOPPED

to them, it may be said that not yet has the farm bloc shown any disposition to hold in its demands. Through the long, wearv months of the price-con- | trol fight the farm bloc maneuvered ceaselessly to) to

pose of their stocks.

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Well, He Asked for

THIS IS GOING to make life micerable for Wickard. As a special pleader for agriculture. he could always have been in a position to argue with the price administrator in behalf of higher farm

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday —I returned to Washington from Ft. Worth, Tex, by plane this morning an hour late. However, I was most grateful, because yesterday afternoon the airline called me to say I might find myself waiting over in Nashville, Tenn. We stopped there for some little time and 1 was conscious of the delay, and relieved when 1 finally heard the engines turning over and knew we were starting for Washington. It was cloudy here, but there was enough ceiling to land. Traveling by airplane these days is extraoroinarily interesiing, because there is nearly always a quota of pilots aboard returning from having ferried planes to some place. Some of these men are doing a great many hours of flying. more hours than we would have thought constituted real safety in ordinary times. I wonder if, in our communities, people are aware of the fact that these boys from all over the country are dropping in and out, delivering planes or picking them up. Sometimes they have a few hours when

they can sleep or see a show, or have a home meal.

Their care doesn't seem to me to fall quite within the range of a USO job, and yet it should be someene’s job.

shove up the ceiling. There has been no limit its demands. Now every member of Congress who has played the game of the farm bloc will be crowding the luckless secretary of agriculture to come across. Recen:| history seems conclusive enough on that point.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

There are so many things to be done really to] put this country on a war-time footing, that sometimes it seems quite appalling how much we have to change our thinking. We haven't begun yet, for instance, to camouflage our industries in the way it will some day have to be done. Still, I think I see signs in our communities of settling back in the frame of mind where we feel that nothing is actually going to happen. This is the winter. It is harder to fly long dis- | tances. The weather is bad over certain parts of the ocean. We ought to take warning from the fact that even now submarines are doing considerable damage near our coasts, and realize that only by intensive aerial patrol can we eliminate submarines.

The strain on the patrols is terrific. They are entitled to rest in pleasant surroundings, to get home at stated periods, if they have homes to go to, and they should be greeted everywhere with consideration and respect. for their job is the only thing that stands between us and the raids next spring. In England, the airforce boys have delightful rest camps near their regular operating units. Of course, they have worked under even greater strain because they are going into actual fighting each time they go out, but watching and waiting for a fight is quite & strain, too. Just because we have never been in this kind of

war before, is no excuse for the Rublie. not to awaken to its new ties.

today.

‘statute has not been enforced.

Cadet Don W McCarnes Dies Lo1p EVERYTHING

In Arkansas Crash of

Training Plane. LOGANSPORT. Ind. Jan, 27 (U.|

|P.).—Don R. McCarnes, 23, former |

| Northwestern University basketball |

captain and Logansport High School star, was killed yesterday when his | army aviation training plane crashed | into a cotton field one mile south of |

Althiemer, Ark. according to word

received here by his mother, Mrs. | Della McCernes. McCarnes entered*the army as an,

aviation cadet Nov. 10, 1941, and was | recently transferred to the Pine | Bluff, Ark, Kelly Field, Tex. Capt. W. C. Hornsley of the Pine | Bluff school reported the crash occurred as McCarnes was practicing

coming out of spins. The youth had |

35 hours of instruction, 20 of which

were solo hours, according to Capt. !

Hornsley. Cadet McCarnes’ brother, Robert is basketball coach at South Bend Riley High School.

KIMMEL GOES EAST

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27 (U. P.) —Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, former commander-in-chief of the United States fleet, prepared today to leave for an undisclosed destination in the East.

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JL. jet what they meant when they sald this "ie 4. So plovdal war!

Sale of wine in half-pint bottles Wine in half-pint bottles has been in Indiana was ordered stopped by prohibited by Indiana law for sev-

Life Size Portrait Will "

Presented Senator at Meeting Feb. 21.

A life size portrait of Senator

Raymond E. Willis will be presented ‘the Senator at the 64th annual mid-winter meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association "at the Claypool Hotel Feb. 21. ; The portrait, a work of Earl LeRoy Corwin, Ft. Wayne artist, was paid for through a subscription campaign begun by the editors a year ago. The annual winter meeting of the group will consist of a business session during the afternoon in charge of William Murray, publisher of the Bicknell News, first vice president of the association. President William B. Hargrave of the Rockville Republican will preside at the evening dinner meeting at which the cup awards will be

| made and the report of the resolu-

tions committee will be read.

SEEKS POWER AGENCY WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (U. P)). «Josh Lee (D. Okla.) introduced a

| bill to establish an Arkansas Valley

Authority empowered to acquire electric generating and distribution facilities, and market power in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri

id Navy's new torpedo boats are nicknamed for which insect? 3—Name the large city located .a$ | the southern end of Lake Michie gan. 4—In what part of Europe was the Hanseatic League? 5—What French ruler was taken prisoner at Sedan in 1870? 6—How many countries are in Cene tral America? T—There is no insulator for magnee tism; true or false? : 8—The name Adonis is used to pere sonify manly beauty; true op false?

Answers 1—Japan. 2—Mosquitoes. 3—Chicago. 4—The Baltic section, northern. 5—Napoleon III. 6—Seven. T—True. 8—True. » » »

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