Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1942 — Page 8

about halfway between Grant's Pass and Medford, and four miles off U. 8. Highway 99. It is oper“ated as a tourist attraction. They charge 30 cents a person. / ‘ John Litster, a chemical engineer, retired 12 years ago because of ill health, moved up here and devoted his talents to getting spooky phenomenon in shape for public Presenia.

5 Litster now lives a few miles farther up the creek. ‘ He Seepe a guide and caretaker here beside the House “of IStaly-+in 41 UMMYSLENONS’ cabin "of his ‘OWn-— “to guide tourists. ~The House of Mystery is an old frame building was once an assay office. Some 30 years ago it 80 ak ol leaned over and slid part way down the

“ihe building sits in the center of a 125-foot circle, ) anywhere within this circle everything acts funny.

‘lean north, bubble-levels won't work, plumb- :

don’t hang straight, people’s heights aren't the e. “It's enough to drive a man nuts.

La Hard to Believe -

NEVER DID get it over to me exactly what i it all. You'd assume there was a body of ore underneath that exerted a strong magnetic ; but they say that isn’t it.

nside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

: | pROPILE OF THE WEEK: Howard Scott Morse, head man at the Water Company, all “round sports pnthusiast © and, appropriately enough, “a water witch.” It was just about a year ago that he walked to his office ‘carrying a forked stick and, in the fal 4 presence of numerous Skeptics proceeded to give a demonstration. +The stick never wavered until it was over the drinking fountain where it twitched so violently it nearly got away from him. It did the same thing above a fire plug. That established his reputation. At least to his own satisfaction. Howard - Morse’s close friends call him Scotty. He's 60, stands 5 feet, 7, and weighs probably 160. He has well-developed shoulders "from canoe paddling. His dark, bushy eyebrows contrast markedly with his almost white hair—what there is of it. His complexion is » Born in| the East, he still retains an eastern yang; says “idear” and “Cincinnater.”

| At his desk he wears glasses which he takes off . and puts an a dozen times during a conversation. When he’s.thinking, he sometimes takes one of those bushy, black eyebrows between thumb and forefinger and wrestles it around his forehead. He follows a 8 tement with’ an inquiring: “Eh?”

ust an Average Golfer

Ordinarily he’s rather serious but he has a sly “sense of humor. “He offén kids in such ‘a serious vein that the person being kidded doesn’t know it: He's even tempered, as a rule. When his indignation aroused he gets q and analytical, rather than noisy and dem tive. t to hame a sport in which he e likes hunting, fishing, football, has peti takes the family to baseball games. He's still proud of the fact he and his son, an, now a young engineer at Allison's, ‘once won jhe father and son tennis tourney at Culver. He manages an occasional nine holes of golf of ‘an evening, with his wife as his partner. Usually he breaks 00. One of his favorite sports is canoeing, at which he excelled in his youth. He keeps a canoe on White River and loves to paddle up the river before breakast Sunday mornings and other: times when the motor boats. aren’t too thick. His other prime favorod ris “roughing Ww on camping trips with his Scien-

Washington

. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—As an academic statelof the theoretical possibilities, it is accurate, I . suppose. to say that we can lose the war. ‘But the realistic fact is that we won’t lose the war. Fist, 1 know we ‘won't ilose: the ‘War when 1 see something like the Chrysler tank arsenal and know that the same miracle of war production is being wrought over and over again in many parts of the country. I know it is a mathematical ‘ certainty that we shall far outdo the Axis, Second, do you know any American ‘who is ready to give up until the war is won? Everything I hear is the other way. Third,

| spiration throughout this war. All American fighting

9 forves’ will make it their business to live up, to the

heroic level which has been set in these opening en-

t YOI CAN RING, all the changes on the disaster

ures whic made that poebie giosten, wf i h n of blows likely still to follow as a result of 16 Nobody can be Jo wind to Yam, Our run of bad “# pews is not over yet. . CJ mo wie ton on. 1¢ 1s going on untl the

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= Our young guide, named Charlés Taylor, started us

out by putting my friend and me on opposite ends vi

of a level concrete slab. My friend was considerably

shorter than I, and my eyeslevel rested just on top| N

of his hat. { Then the guide had is change places—and I'm

telling you my friend was about six inches taller than Bi he was before, and my eye-lével was on his chin. . He said I looked shorter.

Then we went into the Mystery House itself. ‘The floor is very slanting. Of course that gives you a sense of unbalance. But furthermore you get the} sensation that the whole place is moving. Tourists] wefually gof'scasie: standing pertectly shill in there.

Baffles the Scientists Sa THEN OUR GUIDE took an old broom, and kept

balancing it until it finally stood there all by itself. a And do you think that freely balanced broom was

standing straight up and down? It was not. It was leaning over at an angle! leans at T% degrees. The guide ‘says lots of scientists come here for a look . He says big scientists are easy to deal with, and

‘are grave about it, He says it's usually high-school : science teachers who are so smart and yell Weal} |

done with mirrors.

‘The last phenomenon came as we walked down ;

toward the entrance. It was a steep ‘slope. During the first few yards you felt your weight heavily i had to hold back, as you do going down any hill. . And then all of a sudden, at a given spot; yon suddenly felt freed, you didn’t have to hold back, and it was like walking on level ground—although you were still going downhill! ' Don't ask me what it’s all about. I wouldn’t know. The guide kept ‘saying something about & demonstration of the basic principles of relativity. If I stayed around long 1'd soon be demonstrating all the fundamental principles of schizophrenia.

tech Club pals. If he had the time, he'd practically live in the Great Smokies.

Worked in the Wild West

Howard Morse has a background of municipal research and engineering. Born at Dedham, Mass. he got his degree at M. I. T., taught there a year and then spent four years on irrigation construction - in the wilds of Montana and North Dakota. That was shortly after the turn of the Century, and it started his love of outdoor life. Successively he served as sewage engineer for Louisville and then Cincinnati, directed Cincinnati's Municipal Research Bureau, moved to the Detroit bureau, then to Akron as public service director, next as the Goodyear labor department’s manager, and as the Akron schools’ business manager. That brings him up to 1925 when he came here to head the Water Co. as vice president and general manager. He's deeply interested in civic problems, Give him a civic job to do and hell and high water won’t stop him. He’s prompt, and thinks luncheon meetings should end promptly at 1:30 p. m. By then it’s time for business), men to get, back to work, he ins sists. :

Likes His Own Product

He makes it a point to know everybody employed by the company, likes to wander around and ‘chat with them. He was pleased once when an employee at the Riverside Plant stopped him and firmly insisted on seeing his permit vo visit the plant, One of Kis favorite relaxations is cribbage. He likes baked beans, and picnics; smokes cigars at his office and a pipe on trips. On the corner of his desk he keeps a water -jug from which he takes a swig now and then. He’s so sold on his own product that he takes’an ice cold shower in it each morning. He likes tweed clothing and scotch plaid ties; seldom bothers to wear a vest. Sometimes he shows up at the office, in the summer, wearing a shortsleeved sport shirt. Driving to work, he often picks up strangers, likes| to get them to talking. Last year a young woman who had just missed a bug frantically stopped him and asked to ride downtown. En route she explained she was late to work and was afraly she’d lose her Job. “Where do you work?” he inquired. “At the Convention Bureau,” she replied. “Well, then your job's safe,” he smiled. to be the President of the bureau.”

By Raymond Utter

other side is licked. The longer it’ goes on, the closer comes the day of inevitable defeat for Germany and Japan. Because the longer the war goes on, the more telling will be the blows from this fresh country against the weary, thinly spread spider web of the Axis. Ford’s Willow Run bomber plant will, a féw months hence, be turning out four-motor, long-range bombers one an hour. That is one plant out of several. Where in the whole world are new ships being built in such volume as here? American industry is going to win this war because “it can bé and is becoming big enough to win fit— when its weapons are put into the hands of men like those of Douglas MacArthur.

Wee Just Started Late

“I happen

Japan began, and had put into our effort only part of the effort thiey put forth, our planes rather than theirs would be clouding the skies. : We started late. That's the trouble. We have only the excuse that we credited Germany and Japan with] higher instincts than they proved to have, We were a little sappy on the idealistic side. For the time being we are paying the price of having tried to be a good neighbor. They knocked our windows out. Japan is winning her victories 3000 miles from home, What she has been able to do with little so

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With American Destroyer

> : By ROBERT J. CASEY copmriens. i. 49.7he Zndianapolle Times and THe Chicado Dally News, tos.

‘WITH THE PACIFIC FLEET AT SEA, Feb. 14.—The officer on the

tl rie Gok a Jook sk he rssh of Hot walr whens one unidentified Japanese = accom: : other unidentified Japamese—had just died. And he laid down his glasses. . “If Japan ever gets around to: putting up-a statue for that guy,” he said, “T'll contribute—and

accompanied by a lot of

so will the rest of the United States Navy.” “Peace to his ashes,” commented the marine

* sergeant at the five-inch gun. “He had what it took.”

After that nobody said anything much because

Me, 3

i the main battery had begun to fire, and waves and i currents of sound were shaking the ship and beating in one’s ears, But none needed to say anything. 2 was the unanimous sentiment of everybody, including the skipper of the destroyer now

cruising off beyond the end of the island on a dubious quest for possible

living among the certain dead. : 8 2 ” Dawn and Bombers THE FLEET, as you know; had come to this dangerous corner be-

fore sunrise after an audacious drive at high speed through the

J submarine zone which had been

looked on as the main defense of this region. It had spread out for the elimination of the Japanese bases on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. Squarely on edule our unit had slipped to the edge of possible mine fields and steamed slowly, m ptarily = awaiting bombing p bombing planes and light e to shoot by. The vst sop stood look-

ing now at‘his stop watch, now at the moon,/yellow and blatant and presently at the shadowy line forming on the starboeard horizon. The cloudy sky in the east became streaked with bands of soiled white dimming to black in the. north where the sea was still hazy and mysterious. The bombers came. We could not, see them but the red glare of bursting bombs flashed unsteadily against the dark sky over the atoll. After awhile the thumping, unreal noise of explosions came back to us. The gunnery officer took another look at his watch. The sun was coming up fast now. In a moment a man could see what he was cloing. In a moment it would be the zero hour—or its modern equivalent—

Then out of the puffy cloud- -

bank to the north came one

-small: piece, ~a- Japanese . patil -

boat, low, shapeless, and less beautiful than the average tuna smack. It was obviously bound for the lagoon somewhere over there under the fading moon, on some prosaic errand such as the quest for dried fish and rice for the tired crew or the passing’ of the all's: well signal to some . sleepy-eyed officer of the guard. And it had come out from the

Chapter Xll—Subterfuge, Hypocrisy

dawn into a battle—not only a battle, squarely ‘onto the course of ‘a destroyer which promptly

-raked it with two forward guns

and set out on the chase with great white plumes tumbling over its plunging bows.

Lets Loose With Guns

THE JAP, high-tailed promptly and let loose with a- brace of guns on his starboard side. The gunnery officer took a deep breath. “The little guy’s got speed and he’s sticky with guns,” he said, “but he’s no luck—what a thing to step into.” The destroyer, up against gunpower capable of sinking it on a direct hit, swept south and east trying to get on a course parallel to the fugitive and close enough tn finish it off—but not too close. Billows of yellow vapor came back over the “tin can” as it gave the Japs a pretty demonstration of ranging fire. Meantime, the Jap wasn’t doing such a bad job himself. There was not much time to go into the details of this spectacle at the moment. We were engaged in a job so unusual as to be fantastic And on ithe edge of our real battleground a couple of

ships were tossing dynamite at’

each other in a sort of preliminary bout. |We didn’t stop to figure what the crew was doing or thinking on either of these ships. # ” 2

Dae With Destiny

WE KNEW THERE were hu-

man beings on the destroyer because we had met and chinned

with them—but not until after- °

wards did it occur to us that there might be something besides springs and wheels and boilers in the galloping tub that our tin can was pursuing—that a skipper with considerable skill and resourcefulness and ro lack of guts

THE JAPANESE public, and the Government, too, were startled at the first American reaction to the signing of the Tri-partite Pact, which was to send special ships to

the Far East and to advise all Americans to leave Japan, occupied China, Manchukuo, Korea, Formosa, Hongkong and French IndoChina. The public had been told that when Japan signed with Gers many and Italy, the United States would modify

its policies in Japan’s favor.

Instead, following

the evacuation order, Washington loaned Chungking another $100,000,000 as soon as Tokyo grant- : ed recognition to the puppet Nanking regime. Japan continued to insist that manifest destiny called upon her to institute a new order in Greater East Asia and persisted in rationalizing her policies of conquest and violence by comparing them with the American Monroe Doctrine. This “New Order” means Japanese military and politicsil domination of the whole of the east-

Hallett Abend

ern part of the mainland of Asia, and similar domination of as many of the colonies and islands

southward of China as Japan may be able to grab from nations en-

feebled by the war in Europe.

It means economic monoplies favoring Japan, and it means the

end of possibilities for freedom or autonomy for any of the aspiring peoples of the Far East. ‘Japan may reiterate her intentions to bring “independerice” ‘and the end of “the white man’s

far from home, we can do with much, Which we shall | GOR

have as surely as the to have it time, as Sustry agrees,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

re who has taken a look around in-|

must be “stationed - at _ specific points,” and Inner Mongolia must be designated as “a special anticommunist area.” As to economic relations, China, said the Prince, would be “asked to limit her interests” to those third powers meaning of the new, Bast Asia

Par East of those who do not ac-

cept Hapanese Seniors!

went Lite-Giving Sword

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“who . grasp the.

Plowing through the heaving Pacific, a U. 8. “Gsioner cari on the perpetual eke. fo shen fore. Guns both fore and aft are pointed skyward to defend against aircraft.

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in anybody’s language was using what tools he had to give the destroyer a real battle.

There is time enough now to

wonder who he was and what *:

sort of man he was at: home. His rating in the Jap Navy could not have been much or he would have had the command of something grander than the scow that

was presently to take him to his °

grave. His had undoubtedly been a routine of unbroken dullness, flitting from one of these graveyard outposts of the Son of Heaven to another by day and by night, baking in one desolate cantonment before getting under way to one just like it somewhere else, trading always one monotony for another, offering prayer sticks to .Buddha, probably, that, he might one day have some small part in Japan's advertised march to destiny.

80, after he vod probably spent most of last night on watch, he had looked out’ into morning sunlight and ‘seen that he was going

get some action at last—it was,

going to ‘be brief perhaps but undoubtedly action.

Destroyer Closes In

THE DESTROYER slapped a salvo across him and got a bracket. The Jap swung the ship about so quickly that the next salvo was wide, Meantime, he let go both port guns and white feathers came up from the blue water too close to the desey The destroyer closed in nd fired another salvo. I Bits of the “little guy's” supertructure went up in the air but ot enough. He fired his port uns again but the tub had listed ! little and the shots went high. e destroyer slapped another

patrol boat.

get started again in Hawaii.

‘be afloat and adequate.

CASEY'S CONCLUSIONS Robert. J. Casey, who yulprey wrofe an eye-wilness

account of the raids on Marshall § about a meeting between a U. $. destroyer and a Japanese

Mr. Casey, at the close of his dispatches, summed up his reaction to the raids in the following fashion: "Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor proved merely that some officers, who believed that the rules of gentlemanly conduct still existed between the nations, were caught off watch. “Not even a blind shogun thinks Such an attack could ever

"The blasting of the Marshalls, however, demonstrates that the Marshalls can just as easily be blasted again tomorrow, or canbe ccupied: tomorrow, ot van-be used-tomprrow. as 4 shepping stone in a:general smash (af Japan, “Bases that were scattered to make their “Hestruction ‘impossible, now turn out to be too well scattered to be defended. A fleet that was supposed to be on the bottom proves to

"What the United States wants fo do in this part of the Pacific, it is now fairly evident the United States can do."

and Gilbert Islands, here tells

I

...The sun, had struggled. J ‘cloud of wrappings. The

of all these regions in a single

- sphere is a natural conclusion.”

Mr. Arita assumed that the world of the future would see Germany and Italy similarly dominant in Europe and Africa, and graciously conceded to the United State a similar position on the two American continents. Japan, Mr. Arita piously avowed, was engaged in wielding “a life-giving sword that destroys evil and makes justice manifest.”

Historically the American Monroe Doctrine was enunciated in order to protect the weaker American states from ° precisely what Japan is trying to’ do to China and hopes to do elsewhere in the Far East and the South Seas. It wag solely directed against attempts to overthrow then existe ing political conditions and to de-

, hypocrisies

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stroy the independence of weak nations, ” » 8

THE MONROE DOCTRINE of the United States has never been used as a pretext for conquests or annexations, for destroying the liberties of other nations on the American continent, or for cre-

"ating monopolies in neighboring

countries that would exclude all except citizens of the United

States from economic activities .

in those countries. Japan, under the cloak of her “New Order” and “Monroe Doctrine for East Asia,” is doing and hopes to continue doing all those things. The subterfuges, fallacies and t have become the earmarks of Japanese foreign policies during the last few years seem abundantly, even painfully,

oto EVERYTHING

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pair of shells close to his stern; there was one white fountain, then some black smoke. After that only one yellow flash on the port side marked the little guy's answer. The little guy's speed was still exceptional and his ship was uns. der control when he swung it about to dodge what should have been a knockout from the des stroyer. The ungainly shape and low deck of his craft saved him then —a brace of shots that at the same distance would havé knocked a hole in a cruiser chipped some more stuff off the deckhouse -and failed: to explode till it hit the sea beyond.

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Fine Day for Battle

THE JAP'S twisting movement had been completed before the destroyér, fired again. That salvo was a straddle over and short and it told everybody including the skipper just how close the finish was. Despite that he let off both starboard guns onee for

very close shots before the next

shell from the destroyer them both. : 1k The little guy had

left—the stern gun. on ithe port

side. The ship had been listing - starboard, now it was settling by the head. But once more he pulled it around as if on a pivot. He had one gun left—he fired it,

The next salvo from the tin °

can hit him somewhere amide ships. “The ship dissolved and the destroyer steamed swiftly over the turbulent water to pick up the survivors.. There were no survivors.

was strong andthe heat was i ing up from somewhere. OQné of the. big ships of this unit had moved in with her turfets point ed toward the feather-trimmed reef. The guns went off in the distant silence and the blue water leaped up ‘in a asx It Sh wad foing to be. a Sus ‘day day

obvious to the American mind. We, as a people, marvel that the Japanese people, whose qualities

and abilities. had been given a *

high rating in this country, can be so woefully misled.

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This is becguse we credit the

Japanese people with a degree of

logic and a fund of information

that they do not have and because we do not remotely begin to understand their emo= tional loyalty to the “Throne or the intensity of their’ pride and patriotism. ; It must not be forgotten that the Japanese Emperor—practically, to the Japanese, a living deity because he is held to be a direct descendant of the Sun Goddess—has often and publicly blessed the war in China and has given his unqualified assent to all those policies and methods that Japan classes as following her “manifest destiny.” :

» * . War Was Inevitable

THE . JAPANESE people ‘ave been told repeatedly that their Empire is engaged in a “Holy War.” American opposition to this “Holy War” was therefore in-

terpreted as an inaupportable na ie