Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1942 — Page 11

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Hoosier Vagabond

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18.—To! ‘many people" it . may ‘seem almost sacrilegious to write grievedly about ‘the death of a dog, when humans are dying violently all over the face of our earth. It it does seem so I can only say that I am ~~ “|- sorry, but I can’t help it. For our dog Piper is dead. Piper was the Great Dane. He was. the dog that came to be a member of our family only two months ago. Immense and ungainly and lovable, he was still really a child: when he died. He was nine months old. Piper stood high as my waist and weigh more. than ‘100 pounds, even fhough' he was : not fully grown. His companion- : ship was perfeal, from the very dat Through the grotesque folds-of his old-mannish + face: you could sense his. joy at being with us. "His understanding of things was almost uncanny. He had not had a minufe of training when he came . to us.. He had never lived in a ‘house. Yet his . instincts were so sensitive that he never even had . to be housebroken, | '"%. The first.day we had him I said to him, “Piper, + lle down” Then I lay down on the floor to show _ him what I. meant. That single lesson was all it ‘took. From that moment on, I could have told him to lie down in the trafic of Central Avenue in Albuquerque, and he would have dene it.

‘4 Goodnight Habit

WHEN WE WALKED across the mesa, he always walked close beside me, pushing against my leg. When I took off ‘the leash, he Fan go away.

and left, believe Shea = C. and Street Railto turn several thousand r rails into badly needed

of high grade the City’s pave4000 to 4500 tons readily. To follow the regular routine of studying the problem, drawing up plans and specifications for resurfacing the torn up street, advertising for bids, etc., it would take until midsummer fo get the rails out. ; {But there’s a |war on, and in- . dustry, including several of our Indianapolis plants, are crying for ' scrap steel. They need: it NOW, : not next summer,’ So, instead of following the usual dianapolis Railways, owner of the someone ‘to temove the rails. That $15,000. or 50. “They ‘can sell the for a neat sum - =—maybe | the differen , maybe $75,000, ‘can be turned. over to the. City to ad on the cost of laying. foot-wide concrete: strips in the present pavement to replace the rails. | “ And the C, of C. is negotiating for sale of the rails directly to a couple of. Tpisnabolis steel-using plants.

Scarce Buying THERE'S NO EXCUSE, of course, for “scare buying” and hoarding ab any ‘time, But store keepers are; especially puz: ghe ‘heavy purchases of cocoa and . soap. Government reports indicate an ample supply of cocoa in the Sonny. and recent increases in the production of erin would seem to destroy the last remaining for filling the cellar with soap. Conserve a sire to be sure, the Government advises, but for reasons of economy and not hecause of impending shortages. 8 » 2 - While we're on the subject, there’s been a toilet paper buying spree in some sections of the City. Sev-

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-This frantic seramble find scapegoats upon whom to blame our wave of ters probably is inspired more Led panic than by on sense. There is reason for alarm. ‘But we are likely to do better for ourselves by trying to find out what to be done than by wasting too much energy in chasing scapegoats, I Zand ‘myself fixing on two

the united nations simply will have to arm themselves ‘more strongly before we can hope ~ to stand up to the enemy at every point. There has been blundering, " but if no one had blundered at all during the last year we still would it etl have had hard going. Japan Mght not have had it so easy if Pearl Harbor had bt been so disastrous to us. Still, even when we y “our whole navy in operating condition, our mili- : y people were begging for more time because they i not feel strong enough te go to war against Japan. _ Our side is short of planes, tanks, navy, shipping “all the accessorl We cannot have enough force hand standing at every point at which the might attack, Until our Navy has recovered it: strength we cannot hope to take the offensive, beuse in the fighting off our own shores shipping and navy that can protect it. are necessary. You can’t el fighter planes soross the ocean Without, ships.

A REDE 3» belie 8% or. not, as the City. ways eo-gperyis. in. arranging Tous of abandoned siesiar

scrap iron. Hy estimated ‘that about 6000 tor steel lay buried’ ments, Of this, ‘can be removed

process, the In- , is shopping for ill cost probably

through: Saturday at. the. Emerson theater.

By Ernie Pyle

When'.I ran, he ran. When I stopped, he stopped. He wanted only to please us. When I was home, little Cheetah the Fox slept on my bed. And Piper, because he was too big get on a bed, slept on a blanket on the floor.” As bediimg 3 Would est Doin dogs settled, turn out the light. But Piper, even though I known him only a week, would always get up the dark, nose his huge funny face into" make sure I was still there, and then he to sleep. | «

A Strange and Sudden Hines

and he. suddenly grew terribly thin, and | would not open for him to eat. : We had|the good fortune to have & young doctor who truly loves animals. He doctored as .devoutly as if he had been trying to save a son. "The ilness was d ‘as a brain’ infection. to A hi cain to he in a lei from That Gi In it she said: : “1 wish T could spare you the shock ad surtow

‘this will be to you . « you loved him so, and were " 80 proud of him. .

“There was nothing really outstanding him that words can. identify; ‘but there was 'a feeling of complete accord between us. He seemed to understand, without teaching, everything I said to him. wy : ; “On the last morning, about 5 a. m. I tried to get him to take some milk . . . he tried to raise his head, but he couldn't make it . . . I held his head and rubbed his legs . . . I was still rubbing him when he sighed a great sigh, and was gone.” And so ends in tragedy the short life and history of our Piper. We will attempt to replace him some day, but the time now is too soon.

Inside Indi napolis By Lowell Nussbaum

eral stores on the North Side report quite a few case lot purchases. [It's all pretty silly, according to representatives of the Scott Paper Co. The company quotes a Washington newspaper as saying: “We have it on the word of the War Productions Board, Paper and Pulp Division, that there is no shortage of toilet paper. . « « Occasional scarcities of toilet paper which you may have encountered in stores are merely temporary. These are due to the fact that the supplies of some ‘of the great Army camps and cantonments come from the same factories as the civilian supplies. Just give them time to cateh up on deliveries, says WPB.”

A Model Assignment

AIR RAID DRILLS have more than passing interest for the students of the John Herron Art:School. Director Donald Mattison and his staff have arranged for students to take refuge in the safest portion of the basement. Some students are training as incendiary bomb extinguishers, others will check upper floors to be sure they are cleared of students, while still others are learning first aid. But the job all the boys were bidding for was that of taking the life model to the bomb shelter. That matter still is unassigned. They've had two drills at the school already, but by strange coincidence, both occurred on days when they were using male models—not undraped females. Aw,

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BEST DOUBLE billing of the week: Boss’ Daughter” and “The Stork Pays Off,” tomorrow

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THREE WOMEN. dropped in at County Defense Council headquarters and asked Mrs. Hortense Rauh Burpee, publicity director: “What do you have to do to go to Pearl Harbor?” “Why do you want to go there?” they were asked. going on,” the women replied. The visitors were pretty aggravated when Mrs. Burpee told them that about the only way they could get to Hawaii would

be by swimming.

. By Raymond Clapper

2 Second, the united nations are indispensable to each other. We cannot win without the help of the British, the Russians and perhaps the Chinese. They cannot win without our help. The Dutch may. be knocked out as a!factor. The others must stick it out together, or each will risk defeat separately. If they were knocked out one by one, it would be a question how long we could keep the war out of this country. At Singapore, Japan is 3000 miles from home, It is another thousand miles on to Java, where Japan is aiming now. San Francisco is 4500 miles f: Japan. The Atlantic is 3000 miles across, and less 2000 in the South Atlantic jump from Africa Brazil. Great distances can be overcome if you control the sea and the air, as is being demonstrated against us with savage definiteness now.

Hold!—While We Speed Up

JAPAN CONTROLS now the whole other side of the Pacific. Only Hawaii as a cushion, In the Atlantic we still have Britainf as an outpost. Last week the Germans shook that outpost by running their fleet through the channel, If they add the French fleet to their own strength now about to be released for action on the Atlantic, we may expect to be hard pressed to hold open the North Atlantic, " If the British are having their Pearl Harbors, we have to remember that we need Lit help of every nation that will stay in the war. No matter how far the British are pushed back, whatever is left is that much help. Whatever is left of the Russians and the Chinese is a help, Resistance af any point, even the feeblest, helps to give us time. We have to get some ‘planes and some navy an

‘some ships built. Germany and Japan are in a des-

definitely hy the offensive until American comes more fully into Play. his the future of ‘war is to be ed here in this country, fn the

perate race to knock out the other ynited nations before we have time to produce. ore the fires died down in Singapore, the Japanese had taken the chief Sumatra oil center. They are heading for Java, Germany is preparing to resume the offensive in Russias and .on the Atlantic. Everybody has to hold as much as possible while we get up speed.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

well being in the communities and » sense of security

in the people. In reading the papers this morning, I could not help wondering how the displaced men feel in industries all over the country. They are anxious to get

to work but, for the time being, must wait for in-| -dustries to be

verted to new uses. ‘Members of Congress and governors of states, talk about increasing the unemployment compensation to a possible $24. People seem to forget’ that this unemployment compensation usually must cover ithe needs of families ranging from four to six members—rent, food, heat, light, clothing, recreation, education, medical care

must all come out of this sum.

Could the Oo

. the’ governors do it on any less?

On the other (hand, T (hike people have. been

— a ‘hue and something which has| ple sig ep aonb Ihe : Congress did not vote a pension to itself. 1t estab- ‘tens, insurance,

“Marry the|

“Well, just to see what’s|"

do it on ‘any less? Could |

PLANES GIVEN | SAME PRIORITY |

AS WARSHIPS

Nelson Removes Obstacles To Goal of 60,000 For This Year.

"WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P).— Military aircraft today moved up the priorities ladder to the top category of American war weapons. Heretofore they have been considered- less important than war-

theaters have brought angry defnands from many quarters for revision of #&n “ancient” priority

" Warning Is Heeded

For ' months aircraft manufacturers and Army Air Corps officials have been demanding that bombers and fighting planes be given the same priority rating or materials as warships and tanks. War Production Board Chairman Donald Nelson did that yesterday. He alloted an A-1-A priority rating to aircraft materials and tools— the same held by warships, tanks and trucks since before Pearl Harbor. 'Mr., Nelson’s move appeared to remove a major barrier to President Roosevelt's program for the next two years which calls for construction of 185,000 planes. Industry spokesmen and air corps officials had warned that that goal might not be attainable under the old priority schedule.

Established by Board

The old priority ratings were established by the joint Army and Navy Munitions Board. Except in extreme emergency cases all airplanes ranked below the A-1-A rating for naval vessels, tanks and trucks. The huge, four-engined bombers which have played such an important role in the battle of the southwest Pacific had an A-1-B rating, Most other aircraft were rated only A-1-D, and airplane engines, generally, were A-1-C. Mr. Nelson explained, however, that for some weeks the WPB has been arbitrarily allocating materials for plane production on the basis of need regardless of old priority ratings, and that the new A-1-A rating would mot increase the amount of material available. He said that thus his reclassification would give only a “psycho-

~{ logical push” to the aireraft:in-

dustry for attainment of a 60,000 plane goal this year.

NOTED QUILTER DIES

CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Mrs. Ella Wills, 90, whose needlework and quilts brought her nalional acclaim in the Gay 90s, and who continued to take state prizes until she was 83, died yesterday at the home of her grandson, Dr. H. C. Wills. She was a former $residept of Lcbanon and Indianapolis, 7

Dana Yields ts Good Earth to War

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Street scene in Dana, Ind. . . . “Plain American, rather than early, describes Dana.”

JUROR JAILED FOR ABSENCE

Gets 5 Days for Contempt; Failed to Report for 2d Day of Trial.

A juror who “played hookey” from the court room to take a truck driving job was sentenced to serve five days in jail by Special Judge George Jeffrey in Municipal Court 2 yesterday. Victor Osborne, 1125 S. Illinois St., was seated on a jury in a civil case in Municipal Court two weeks ago. After one day of the hearing he failed to appear for continuation of the case, it was charged. This caused a mistrial and another jury had to be impaneled and Osborne was cited for contempt of court by Municipal Judge Dan V. White.

Accepted Driving Job

Osborne testified that after leaving the court room after one day of the trial he was offered a job driving to Kentucky and return. He said he thought he could get back in time for the trial the next morning but was delayed a day. Other members of the jury, however, testified that Osborné had remarked during the first day of trial that he would be “300 miles south of here this time tomorrow.” He was found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced by Special Judge Jeffrey after two hours’ hearing.

BUILDS BOMB SHELTER CANTON, O. (U. P.). — Publisher Harry Dorum has just completed a unique air raid shelter next to his home with a large safe for his weekly newspaper files and printing

machines.

Gin Rummy—No.

Ten Cards to Each Player; That's How the Fun Begins

By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America’s Card Authority YESTERDAY I spoke of the popularity of Gin Rummy and explained the general character of all Rummy games. Today I will tell

you how Gin Rummy is played.

The game has two players. Some groups play a four-handed or partnership game—which is actually two-handed games—as I will. explain later. The full bridge pack of 52 cards is used. The cards in each

suit rank as in bridge, except that the ace ranks below the deuce. Ten cards are dealt to each player, one at a time, and the remainder of the pack is left face down in the center of the table, This packet is called the stock. To commence play, the top card of the stock is turned face up and placed beside the stock, to mark a second pile called the talon. The dealer's opponent has the right to take the first talon card if he wishes. If he says “no” or “pass,” the dealerithen may take this card if he wishes, ” » os

IF BOTH PLAYERS reject this card, the non-dealer takes the top

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’ of judgment, for the player will lose points if his odd cards total more than the opponent's odd cards: When one player goes down, the : other has the privilege of playing his odd cards on the sets of the down player, if he can. Thus, a flvespot can be played on three fives; the seven of clubs can be added to a sequence of eight-nine-ten of clubs. This privilege has to be kept in mind when a player considers going down.

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, Times Special

Dana, whose sole experience in few years when a small coal mine 000,000 ordnance factory—to put-it rmildly—a bit staggering.

It Seems Almost Heresy

To Dana, whose maple-arched streets and hollyhock-lined alleys have heard so long the rattle of corn wagons at dawn, their rumble at dusk, the toot-toot of slow moving threshing machine and the put-put of a tractor, ‘the thought of the rush of changing shifts, the clang and clamor of grim mechanisms of war, takes on something of a nightmare, And to men and women who have been taught since childhood to look on black soil as something sacred, second only to their Bible and the Constitution, the idea of using it for other than the old cycle of plowing, planiing and reaping, borders on heresy. It is due to no lack of patriotism on the part of the people of Dana, this reluctance to a new role, but rather that being born of the soil, they are, like it, slow to change.

It’s Still Country Town For Dana is a country town, where we still eat dinner in the middle of the day, where neighbors are neighbors,” not folks with a number next to yours. In fact, to date, the all-engros§ing topic is not financial gain from the new enterprise but solutions of the problems of the many farm families moving from ‘their homes. Burned out houses and broken legs almost cease to be calamities in Dana these days. Cows don’t exactly roam . the street of our town. We don’t draw our water from a well, and we don’t brighten our streets or our homes with coal-oil lamps. Almanacs are not our only reading, nor calendars our only art. . Our hitchracks have disappeared, and our last livery stable, a favorite haunt for many years of stray cats and roving dogs, passed away several months ago.

Place of Solid Folks

We women folks don’t don sunbonnets and shawls—my dressier sisters complain of the crowded condition’ in the town's “beauty parlors”—and our men folks don’t use crocks for hair-cutting nor celluloid for Sunday. Plain American, early, describes Dana. Since its beginning, Dana has been, on the main, a group of retired farmers, good, solid folks, who having earned what they had by long hours of hard toil, khew the value of money, had some in the bank and meant to keep some there. Many of Dana’s merchants—men who run the stores more nearly fits them-—have been reared on farms. And most of her bankers have been quicker to see value in a

rather than

Huge Arms Plant to Rise In ‘Plain American’ Town

By FLORENCE RHOADES

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DANA, Ind, Feb. 18 —Farmers who for generations have been tilling the rich, black soil in the long sliver of a county on Indiana’s western boundary called Vermillion are leaving their good earth. They are making room for the $53,000,000 munitions plant.

an industrial world is confined to a was operated nearby, finds a $53,-

good brood sow than a | foreign bond issue.

American to Core

New England, measuring rod for Americahism, is no more American than Dana. If they chose, it is probable that a number of the female portion of Dana's .population could claim good standing in the|* D. A. R, but most of them seem content to remain unregistered,

After all, most of the family skeletons, as well as the family heroes and the family honors, are well known, back even to the fourth and fifth generations and their seems to be no local need to drag them out nor to dress them up. Therein lies the reason, perhaps, why Dana, as most small towns, is free from “climbers” and “stuffedshirts.” Here : everyone knows, almost to a penny. the size of your budget, and how much, if anything, you owe to the First National - or the HOLC or the FHA or the Local Loan. They know, too, the cost of Sallie's new coat even before she unpacks it and whether a new car is in the paid-for or the installment class.

Ernie's Home Town

Occasionally an ambitious hostess tries serving a wisp of sardine on a sliver of toast or an olive stuffed with cheese on the tip of a toothpick, but no one is overawed. We enjoy the tidbits and know that, given time, she will get back to chicken patties and cherry salad. True it is that Dana is the word at the top of Ernie Pyle’s colymn in The Indianapolis Times when he is home; that it is the name on the end of the little red depot where R. B. White first learned the dots and the dashes of the Morse code, the same little depot, which spick and span in a new coat df paint, welcomed him home the other day as president of its B. & O. And we know though Phil Groves’ temporary address may be an embassy in Berlin, in Brussels or Baghdad, his home address #s always Dana.

Proud of Boys Who Made Good When Phil drops in from the far off places, we gather in and listen. When R. B. stops off, we

‘saunter over to ask what he thinks

about this or that, but we still call him Roy. When Ernie gets back to the home south of town, the world

seems suddenly to become smaller, But to Dana they are still just boys who “have done right well.” We are proud of them, but it wouldn’t do to let them know our pride. It might spoil them, and us, top. And besides, to us who know the spirit of their fathers and their mothers, the laurels might go on other brows. 8o it is that today Dana, with determination to do her duty, pre pares to make Mars her god instead of Ceres, but hugs close to her heart

‘| the hope that peace will bring her

Rack to ways which are her own, r

| JANUARY TRAFFIC

TOLL 12 ABOVE "41

Although the number of fatal accidents on the state highway system last month was the same as that of January, 1841, 12 more persons were killed last month, S. C. Hadden, Highway Commission chairman re-

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Seventy-one persons lost their lives in 52 fatal accidents last

in the same period a year ago. Of the -T1 traffic deaths ‘last month, 62 accwrred on highways out-side of towns ang nine occurred

oi of that same| spirit of

month while but 59 were killed in|? the same number of fatal accidents

DEFENSE UNITS HERE MOVING AT HIGH SPEED

Prepares for Collection of "Metal Scrap and Paper Waste.

By RICHARD LEWIS Civilian Defense Report to the Community: Organization of defense commit-

tees outside the City is nearly 100

per cent complete, according to Maj. Gen, Robert H, Tyndall, County defense director. The Warren Township committee, last to be organized, will be ready to function by Saturday. All other township districts outside the City have committees functioning. Immediate job is threefold—elimination of fire hazards, collection of scrap metal and paper, promotion of closer-knit community organizations.

Mayor Keeps Close Watch

Mayor Sullivan will meet his civil defense aides this afternoon at City Hall for a report on progress. ° This ‘session follows the first re port meeting held last at the War Memorial, The is keeping a close watch on every deyelopment in the City defense organization. Key officials in the organization are Police Chief Morrissey, Fire Chief Fulmer and Streets Commis« sioner Wilbur Winship who is slated for the job of cleanup man in event of an air raid. 2

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Study Fire Protection

Hoosier: Fire Chiefs and several County defense directors over the State convened at State Defense headquarters yesterday. They talked about setting up district control centers. for fire protection, mutual aid, admipistrative and communi« cations problems. Proposals to set ‘up fire control centers by counties and by groups of counties were considered. In an emergency, the fire control center would become the directorate for all fire equipment and men in the county or group of counties. The. meeting made no: decision on the areas to be covered by the con=trol centers. The chiefs decided to think it over, then to ask the In« diana Fire Chiefs Association to take up the problem,

Report on Air Patrol

Civil Air Patrol Group ‘Come manders were to meet at 10:30 n m, today. At this point in the ‘organization of the defense air unit, the commanders have found some knotty problems involving operations and training. - They will talk them over with Wing Commander Walker Winslow. A report of progress also will be made. With the snowballing of rationing, duties of County and State ration agencies have grown so fast ade ministrators have both hands full. The Marion County Board got ex= tra personnel and this week, hard pressed James D. Strickland, State Ration Administrator, received an assistant. ' He is William Rightor Jr., former canning industry consultant and field staff supervisor for the State Gross Income Tax Division. Mr. Rightor will be designated as deputy State Ration Administrator.

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Local Board Lucky

Bad news for local ration boards came over the wire from the OPA yesterday. . The Government will furnish Civil Service stenographic and secretarial assistance, but no physical equipment such as office furniture and telephones. Local boards will have to scrape up desks and chairs as well as typewriters for themselves. In this respect, Marion County board members are lucky. The County Defense council ale ready has furnished them the equipment at the World War Memorial

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Peame the three seas bordering

hina. 2—REA are the initials of ‘which government agency? ‘Which President was the first to die in the White House? ’ 4—-What does the Latin phrase sine die mean? 5—Moire is a fine se ling, cotton voile, or watered silk 6—How many i make a mile? T7—What was the nickname of the

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. Answers : 1—Yellow, East and South China Seas. ;

8—Who ir the heroine of Dickens Curiosity Shop"?

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