Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1942 — Page 15
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SEEK REFUGE AT Aubrey Williams Criticizes Students’ Return of on Allotments
THEATER'S DOOR
Movie House in Singapore, Showing U. S. Films,
Is Chinese Haven. By GEORGE WELLER
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Those Harding College students who wanted to donate their NYA allotments to the Treasury during the war will not be permitted to do so. Director Aubrey Williams of the National Youth Administration has made that clear.
While Treasury Secretary Mor-
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SINGAPORE, Jan. 30.—When soldiers, sailors and Royal Air Force | men, salted with members of that| dwindling group of hangers-on called “the unevacuated,” emerge from seeing a movie at Singapore's skyscraper cinema castle, the Cathay, they find} Ty ® themselves walk- : = ing among bodies. They are living bo dies—living thanks to the fact | that 13 solid stories of rein-i forced steel and] concrete stand above them. | The Cathay is a huge gray building riding above Singapore's sea of two and three-story buildings, like a clipper ship upon a! lightly agitated sea. i Tokyo has “destroyed” the Cathay | upon broadcast waves more than] once but it still stands.
Their Air Raid Refuge
The living bodies lying upon the Cathay’s long exit ramp are those of scores of Chinese women and children who have made this their air raid refuge. The ramp is about 50 yards long with marble, or pseudo marble, surface, candelabra wall lights and high echoing ceiling. But upon the thin, yellow board benches that have been | dragged in, there is plain life going! on at its Chinese plainest. The Hollywood cycie of marital] comedies is the stratum now being | reached upon the storage shelves) here and it is after 90 minutes of him gleefully slugging her and her| slugging him back—for the nation! that is expected to soive the South! Pacific situation—that the people emerge and pick their way down] among the outstretched bodies. i
Mr. Weller
Sleep on Straw Mats
Straw mats shield the sleepers from the floor. They lie lengthwise, crowded over toward the wail. | Almost every member of the Chi-| nese family has his duties. The] Dutch wife—that bolster which is’ held between the arms and legs— is part of the sleeping apparatus in! Malaya. Here is a boy of less with a sugarbow! haircut, hugging a whittled-down bolster just his size. Most mothers lie with their babies upon the inside against the wall, the tiny heads at breast level! They wear the black pajamas which are the unchanging uniform of Chinese motherhood. Evervone sleeps together but the place is clean and odorless. Little sister rocks pint-sized brother in her arms and lays him quietly down. Down at the ramp's bottom sleep two imperturabie grandmothers, a palisade of sandbags towering above them.
‘Debs’ Hear Hilarity
Up at the top end, where the elevator blinks, big marriageable girls of 17 and 18 with toothpick figures, sit awake after mothers and babies are asieep, seizing any chance to talk to the messenger boys. Vaguely and without understanding, these sloe-eved debs of the underground listen to the Hollywood hilarity coming through the cur-, tas. Yes, the rollicking sunfeast of mirth and merriment at the Cathay this week is called “Our Wife.” On| the other hand, if you prefer you! may go and see “Parachute Bat-| talion™ or “I Wanted Wings” at competitive theaters. There is no-| body sleeping in the street-bound| ramps over there. !
HONOR CITY YOUTH AT SWARTHMORE
Victor R. Jose, a sophomore at Swarthmore (Pa.) College, has been chosen business manager of “The Dodo,” literary magazine published twice each year by the sophomore class. Mr. Jose is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor R. Jose, 410 Audubon Road. He is a member of Delta Uptilon Fraternity and has been named manager of the football team for next year. i
BROOKSIDE CENTER TO GIVE MARDI GRAS
Tumiers, dancers and clowns will, entertain children and adults at the Brookside Community Center Mardi Gras at 8 p. m. tomorrow. The presentation of colors by the! Irvington Legion Post will mark the’ opening of the program. Prizes for the best costumes will be awarded. |
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es | genthau was drafting a letter of thanks to the 20 students at Searcy, Ark, Mr. Williams was making critical comments on the conduct
of Dr. George S. Benson, Harding College president. When Mr. Williams pointed out that the $210 monthly NYA allotments, which have been going to the Harding students, would be given to 20 other students selected from 179 in Arkansas who have dropped out of other schools allegedly because of the lack of NYA funds, Dr. Benson said: “The NYA action is an attempt to discredit my campaign for re-
been trying to line up colleges in the 11 Southern states to put pressure on Congress for restoration of
NYA funds. I refused to join the movement because I know that there is no need for NYA at this time.” In reply to this, Mr. Williams declared: “We have been led to believe the Harding College students who gave up NYA jobs did so voluntarily because they didn’t need them. I am
duction of non-defense Federal ex- surprised that Dr. Benson admits penditures. For weeks the NYA has| this action was part of a so-called
economy drive of which he is the ringleader. “The 1249 college officials who certified that NYA employment is essential if 14,616 college students are not to be forced out of school have done all that needs to be done in the way of discrediting Dr. Benson. “The allegation that this agency has been lining up colleges to request restoration of NYA funds is nonsense unbecoming to a college president.” The Treasury reported that while
Secretary Morgenthau would write and thank the students, there is nothing that can be done about NYA funds except what is done by NYA officials.
EDISON DAY FEB, 11 WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U, P.).— President Roosevelt, in accordance with a joint resolution of Congress,
(today designated Feb. 11, 1942 as
Thomas Alva Edison Day to commemorate the scientific achievements of the late inventor. Feb. 11 will be the 95th birthday anniversary of Mr, Edison.
U. S. BARS DRUG CO. HEAD FROM PLANT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. P.).— Dr. Julius Weltzein, president, and seven other employees of the Schering Corp., Bloomfield, N. J., were ordered by the Treasury Department today to stay away from the Schering pharmaceutical plant and to cease communication with other employees without the Treasury’s consent, The firm manufactures antishock vaccines, hormones, sulfa compounds and other pharmaceutical products necessary to the war effort. The suspension order also blocked
the personal accounts of the eight men. The Treasury said the suspensions “smashed completely a long-range German scheme to control an important segment of the pharmaceutical market in the Western Hemisphere. 4
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