Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1942 — Page 9

FRANCISCO, Feb. 23.—Tom Mooney - has - : . move into India. That's their big objective. Hitler | will try to move across Africa to Suez, and then oh

to be a headliner. Even the average San an probably doesn’t know 'what has become ‘So I thought I'd look up this men who spent years in prison for the 1916 Preperedness day .. bombing, Of his three years of freedom. all but six months has been within hospital - walls. I found him in St. Luke's hospital here. He has a small private room, nicely furnished. When I went in he was reading “Ambassador Dodd's Diary.” He smiled and said * there, tas - Ernie,” and took my both of his. ri Tom has been here [for two solid years. He has fot. set foot on the floor for 16 months. The tor sees him every day. He’s a very sick man. Ye he does not look ill, except for opie thing—a startling yellowness. The stomach ulcers which al- . ' ‘most killed him are not his trouble now, ‘His liver is the culprit this time. It is jaundice,

_ and intense and talkative. His interest row is the war, | - ‘There probably is nobody in the city better informéd on the war than Tom Mooney. And certainly there gre few who analyze it with greater soundness. + His long illness has not enfeebled his meritality. He puts events together as though he were a factory, and © out of it comes a product—his opinion.

Thinks Allies Will Win

MOONEY SAYS the Japs will have the South : fic wiped up in a few months. After that here is what he says will happen: j

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbau

SMITH, state fire marshal, is at College Tex., attending a two-week school on chemare at Texas A. & M. , , . Maurice G. (Red) , chief deputy secretary .of state, has been ‘bed witli a.severe case of strep throat. He got pretty lonely, staying at home, and so for a couple of days kept his’ 9-year-old son, Danny '(reputedly another Quiz Kid) at home with him. One morning! Red fell asleep and the youngster, who's’ actually fond of school; sneaked off and went back to his class. You never can tell what these modern- kids .will| do. . . , Department .of Coincidence: The Rev.” Henry Toogood, of New Philadel- : phia, O., will speak, we'r reliably : | informed, at a dinner at the University | Park Christian church Wednesday night.

How |to Get Streets Fixed

CI ENGINEER M. G. (Oley) Johnson was telling us the other day that there has been less dam- : ge to alt streets this winter than usual. It's zero . weather with ice and snow frozen on the pavement that s the most damage, he 'said. “As 4 result,” ; Oley told us, “we haven’t had many complaints about the streets. You know, people don’t realize how much © they help us by calling in and. giving us hell about pavement breaks. That way, We catch the bredks be- * fore they get bad.” We suggested it might be a good

Stati ical

ashington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—For weeks people have nning around Washington asking each other

i efTective answer turns out to be & simple and

obvious one. The White House urges that everyone have a globe handy to study as President Roosevelt makes his radio broadcast Monday night. : "That’s the mast sensible bit of advice that has come out of Wash- . ington this week, It also forecasts that Mr. Roosevelt at last is going to talk turkey. If he is going to talk geography, then he must be going to tell us how tliis war is coming at us so fast that those on the inside are deeply ard gravely ncerned. Until we study the globe, we fool ourselves. A map is as deceptive as a seed catalogue, as I discovered . while talking with a friend from Minnesota the other ' He was describing their air-raid protection organization, I asked if there was any point in taking precau against air raids way out there in Minnesota. It was too far inland for air raids, I insisted. But my Minnesota friend had been studying his: . globe. And he gave me a lesson in geography. For he. : : d by going over his globe that a flight of 3 . bombers, in around the northern route jor up from Latin America, could hit Minnegota as easily as New Yark. | ;

We're at a Crucial Point,

_ IT WOULD BE NO farther, coming down from the forth jor up from the south, to hit at our supply of irgn, for instance, along the northern bdrder. Conis being urged to act quickly on an authorization tect the Soo locks on the Great Lakes. They transporting ore for our ste¢l industry. farther away for German boinbers than

to no

- by other people in the government. She must always

‘Every girl who has tried to keep house without! training, will have sympathy with her ieuselos in separating the eggs, and those horribly rising waffles!

* that an individual, even if she is a president’s wife,

nd in’

Bist ‘Tom Mooney is no beaten man. He is eager

©. By Ernie Pyle| 2" i faskinghoms

“After the Indies and Australia, the Japs will|

eastward. The Japanese and Germans will meet in India, and that side of the world will be girdled. “And then, if Hitler is still hanging on against Russia, Japan will open an eastern. front against Russia, to help out Hitler. That is the plan, un-

' doubtedly.

“Russia is the key point. Why, if we would give her the stuff, Russia would have the Germans licked this summer. They've got the greatest fighting spirit of anybody in the war.” Poo Tom is very proud of Russia. He feels that all his beliefs and arguments have at last been justified. “Who will win in the end?” I asked. “The allies will win,” he said. |

His Spirit Burns On

TOM STILL HAS visions against the capi ‘Por instance he says there is a national co among American newspapers now to bury news of most controversial Russian successes, because they don’t want the people ington. ‘to get the idea Russia is too wonderful. | Always

Opposed by Schricker in Jobless Fund Fight.

- By DANIEL M. KIDNEY . Times Staff Writer ' ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Federal ts. [Security A cy | McNutt ‘continues to be one of the

listed as a prospective

' “He doesn’t get lonesome. A good many people/candidate for a place in the

want to see him, but. he sorts them out and sees only|cabinet, he now is being pointed a few. ‘On the whole, his old friends have dropped out as.a great seeker of increased away. The most faithful of all is his former secre-/power. = Ee ; tary—Sarah Eliasser, She has another job now, but| . Congress is well aware of that she comes once a week and takes Tom's letiers. ‘|fact and his testimony for federalHis once vast: correspondence has dwindled now ization of unemployment compento letters asking for money to pay his’hospital bills./sation was one of the factors George Davis, the young lawyer who finally freedjcausing. a two-to-one defeat of his Mooney, goes tc see him about once a month. 1$300,000,000 war conversion unMy real curiosity was about Tom Mconey’s spirit./employment bill in the house ways Now with his importance gone, I expected to find himj{and means cot tee last week. a disillusioned, resentful, complaining man. But I} In fostering this measure he came didn’t find him thus at all. His unce colossal egotismismack up Governor Henry is dead, but his spirit burns on. F. Schricker, a| fellow democrat, who took the witness stand to tell the committee that Indiana wanted no part of the ure. Rep. John W.Boehne Jr., another m Hoosier democrat, voted to turn thumbs down on the bill when it lost out in committee by a vote of 16 to 8. . Termed Worst Defeat

Newspapers here termed the committee’s action “one of the worst wartime defeats” which the admin-

idea to put that in the paper. “Fine,” agreed Oley. And then he amended hastily: “Better just tell them to phone in and report the breaks. Don’t go suggest-

ing that they give us hell.” 3 istration has suffered in congress. The Stars and, Strip es The day before the bill was killed, THE AUDIENCE wouldnt quit applauding and|Mr. McNutt made a special trip cheering after Saturday night’s symphony concert, so|to . capitol . hill to confer with Fabien Sevitzky made a little specch. When the|Chairman Robert L. Doughton applause was resumed, Director Sevitzky promised an|(D. N. C.) of the ways and means encore. He turned and pointed at the American flag|{committee in an effort to save at and the orchestra broke into “The Stars and Stripes|least a piece of it. He was wholly Forever.” The audience really went wild then. . . .junsuccessful. Add signs of spring: Burning grass, vacant lot base-|. Other attempted power grabs beball games and seed catalogue “boning.” , . . Add silly|ing chalked up against the former billings: “They died with their boots on” and shorts|Indiana ‘governor and 1940 presi—(at the Speedway and Amabassador Theaters, dential aspirant included the new

Ll. draft of Ameri , outHow’s That, Again or ep

side the armed services; volunteer UNCLE SAM'S 1040A income tax blanks (simpli- a ie Mss. Zune Rove pols fled) ask that names and addresses be “printed |lotments for service men. plainly,” but in the sample copy put ‘out by Secre-| One of the bills providing the lattary Morgenthau to show us “how to do it,” the name|ter was introduced more than a and address are written in long hand. Sorta confus-|month ago by Rep. Andrew Edmising. . . . The Haag Drug Co. has been carrying aton (D. W. Va). He would put its series of ads publicizing their various neighborhood |gaministration under the veterans stores. The other day they had an ed in another|aqministration and he doesn’t like newspaper describing “Haag’s Store Number Nine—!|the jdea of Mr. McNutt trying to 2202 N. Meridian st.” Well sir, we haie to mention grab it for himself. it, buf 2202 N. Meridian is the address of a Hook’s| _ Edmiston Xs Critical pharmacy. Haag’s is across the street at 2201] = rT y You'r¢ welcome. ; “McNutt is trying to run the gov- | ernment,” Rep. Edmiston said. “He | already has old-age pensions and unemployment insurance and sever-

al other big things and now he ! wants the soldiers under him. { “If he gets them it will be over y the dead bodies of the veterans’ organizations.” munitions plants in New York and New Jersey. Asked to elaborate on the latter, We think of the Japanese drive in the Far East as|in View of the fact that Mr. McNutt something concerning the Pacific. But the Japanese|iS & past commander of the Ameriare now moving into the Indian ocean. can legion, the West Virginian deNever before has the Indian ocean meant anything|clared: to us. But through it must pass supplies which go| ‘It/isn’t anything personal against across the Atlantic and around Africa destined for|Paul, because I like him all right. the Middle East, Russia and China. If Japan blocks|But’T know that the soldiers, like off the Indian ocean, we are cut off from helping that|the world war veterans, don’t want whole half of the world. to have their allotments mixed up Right now that is one of the most dangerous pos- with a lot of welfare business like sibilities in the whole war picture. Some here think|McNutt’s office runs.” that keeping Japan from centrolling the Indian ocean Fills Many Engagements is the most urgent task of the united nations now— Despite these numerous conflicts that and saving Egypt from its imminent danger, and activities, Mr. McNutt still is

What It All Means a season ticket man on the radio

and probably makes more speches BY OPENING SUEZ, Germany and Japan would the A In Wasi Dit Join hands in the Indian ocean and unite their ree Roosevelt, sources in one common pool. China would be isolated. “1; "addition he has a full social Russia would be isolated. The United States and Brit- calendar, with which he is ably asain Would be left barely hanging on the fringes of the|gi seq by his wife and daughter old world. In both oceans the guns would be pointed Mrs. McNutt and Mrs. Claude straight at the western hemisphere. Wickard both are on the commit- ¥ Jusiders hote know this. But they can’t get the rest tee in charge of the George Washof us to realize it : : . ington or .the democrats Former isolationist senators, Walsh ‘of Massachu-{} are Dinner for setts and Johnson of California, already are Brien McMahon, former head of lo have Joris of the fleet hauled back to guard|¢he criminal division of the justice ew England and California. Even they are beginning|gepartmerit and co-counsel in the to see that there is actual danger of attack on our ge ee Pg by own shores.

Brown WPA case in Indianapolis, But the control points are on the other side of

By Raymond Clapper

is the chairman for the event. » ” »

American soil is to block Japan in the Indian ocean, block Germany in North Africa and the Middle East, b: and assist in holding the British Isles as a base, for if es I he Join letir Setied uy they went we would, have no foothold left in Europe.| ture Claude R. Wickard asking Pull back to guard our own shores and sure enough| governors to proclaim the week the fighting will move over {0 our own shores. It must|patore March 1 as “National Garden be kept at ocean’s width. We can do that only by Enrollment Week.” Sending our force across the oceans to do the blocking - ere. !

to co-operate on a McNutt project

; r 2 t J 8 '{ Ewing Gets Buildup “Phe Political World,” a $2-per-year New York city publication th city and state politics,

By Eleanor Roosevelt|® Wi of ine

. (Jack) Ewing

candidate that|York.

carry the reflection of influe ‘power beyond : ' ec x Dow Mr. Ewing, a high-powered New

of the usual government public servant. : swing, a I hoped that this was not true, but, I have found|York city lawyer, is a native of out that it was. Therein lies the one really valid , Ind, and an Indiana ‘criticism against the wife of a president taking an|university graduate. He was one of executive job in the government, even when that|Mr. MeNutt’s principal position is unpaid. : a A 100 I eomtvon on People can grad brough derstand campaign, : a Ee of assistant national democratic may have independent views and must be allowed the|chairman under Chairman Edward expression of an opinion. But actual participation in|J. ¥ the work of the government we are not yet able $o|sonal accept, : : : The National Education associa publication entitled “A ‘War Schools,” in which they set forth ing “the education as usual” “educational priorities.” Many they suggest are, of course, things

Power Grabber, Foes Say;|

tor Paul V.| figures in ‘Wash-|

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municipal airpor¢

FEAR JAPAN HAS LARGE SUPPLIES

War Machine Built With Materials Obtained From U. S. Allies.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U.P.).— Informed sources said today that there is no prospect of Japan soon

though she used to get the bulk of imported strategic materials from ‘the United States and her allies.

greatest part of the petroleum, scrap iron and machine tools with which ‘Japan built her war machine.

Indies were Japan's other main sources of supply.

Present Stocks Unestimated

Japan accumulated large stocks of imported materials, but exact amounts of her present supplies cannot be ascertained because the Japanese quit publishing trade details early in 1940. Industrial sources estimated Japan has a three-year supply of scrap metal. Japan has gained control of sources of large quantities of strategic materials, especially tin and rubber, through conquests in the southwest Pacific. The Japanese also were expected to be able to salvage oil eventually from the Dutch East Indies fields.

Used American Scrap

Government officials said it was impossible to estimate what percentage of Japan’s entire war production was based on American materials, as the United States did not furnish any of some essentials, such as tungsten and nickel. American scrap steel literally was pounded upon Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Bataan peninsula defenders by the Japanese. The: United States began to curtail exports to Japan in October, 1940, and stopped trading with the Japanese on July 26, 1941.

EBENEZER CHURCH WILL ACT AS‘ HOST

The Ebenezer Lutheran church’s missionary society will be host to mission societies of several Lutheran churches of the community at the Lutheran world day of prayer services tomorrow in the Bethlehem Lutheran church, 52d st. and Central ave. Ceremonies will begin at 10 a. m,, and will be attended by representatives from St. Mark’s, Bethany, New Augusta, Bethlehem and the First United Lutheran churches. The Ebenezer ladies’ aid society, in.charge of Mrs. Opal Adney, will serve luncheon.

NAZIS EXECUTE PARISIAN

VICHY, Feb. 23 (U. P.) —German occupation authorities in Paris announced today that Roger Georges Laus of Paris was executed Friday for illegal possession of arms. If was the 330th execution announced in occupied territory, ’ ;

running short of war supplies, al-|:

The United States furnished the

Great Britain and the Dutch East |}

| ‘Airport Chiefs Study War Problems

Airport executives are meeting in Indianapolis to discuss their problems as brought on by the war. (Left to right) George T. Johnson, manager of the Fresno (Cal) municipal airport; L J. “Nish” Dienhart, manager here, ‘and Clyde E. Cole, manager of the Flint (Mich.) municipal airport talk it over at the Indianapolis Athletic club.

Strategic Plans Drafted for Mobilizing Flying Facilities

Strategic plans for mobilizing America’s vast airport facilities into a working unit for united war-time emergency service were being made

here today.

Meeting at the Indianapolis Athletic club, the American Association of Airport Executives began working out a program for united co-opera-tion with the army and navy in order that all flying field space can be

made available: on a moment’s notice. Howard M. Shafer, airport manager at Philadelphia and president : «+ of the association, said all-out co - operation with the armed forces “will be our chief war effort at present.” “We don’t intend to have our airports taken over by the govI ernment because H. M. Shafer’ ye intende to run tliem efficiently and according to regulations,” he said.

Ready for Any Call

“We will be ready for any call the civil aeronautics administration might make. This war has placed a great burden upon our shoulders but we will be able to support it.” Mr. Shafer suggested that it might be a good idea to allow civilian pilots to fly their planes during the war providing they ere properly supervised He suggested that civilian pilots could cover a vast area and might be able to make useful observations which would be of aid to defense of the country. “I am not in favor of any night flying by civilian pilots, however,” he said.

At breakfast this morning the|

first flight airport managers gathered to talk shop. It was informal and their discussion dealt mainly with their individual airport problems.

Watch Allison Engine at Work

This afternoon at the first meeting, William Gage and Harry Hart of the Allison Engineering Division of General Motors Corp. will show the managers motion pictures of Allison engine performance. Carl Timmerman of Washington, D, C., chief of the C. A. A. control tower, will address the group this afternoon. Meetings and discussion will be held through tomorrow and Wednesday. I. J. “Nish” Dienhart, manager os the municipal airport here, is host to the association meeting. He explained that governmental requests for identification of civilian pilots and many other requirements had made it hard for airport managers to leave their work. He said, despite this problem, he expected over 150 would attend the meeting.

CURB TRAVEL IN RUMANIA BUCHAREST, Feb. 23 (Rumania Broadcast Recorded by . United Press in New York) —Private travel on Rumanian trains and motor busses has been restricted, and only civilians coming from the front will be permitted such travel, a German agency dispatch said today. ,

HOLD ‘EVERYTHING

part of an educational program at all times. ~~ I have a feeling that, perhaps, out of this crisis,

- |a state speed limit,

1 |the: national. safety council, ;

1C. I 0. LEADER RAPS!

| |'[ish corporate. interests which. aref fl! | preventing ' all-out expansion” of | {| aluminum production facilities, vital | 'lto the war effort. |

CHAPMAN DIES FIGHTING 6-MEN

Public Enemy Number One Was Former Contractor

In Arkansas.

MERIDIAN, Miss, Feb. 28 (U, P.). —The long criminal career of Irving Charles Chapman, the nation’s most sought after desperado, ended last night when police and federal agents killed him in a blaze of gunfire. ° : Listed as public enemy No. 1 by the FBI, Chapman had been the object of a long search. On Jan. 14 he shot Patrolman Ralph McNair here. With the aid of police, = sheriff's deputies and others, the FBI trapped Chapman in his car north of Meridian. They. ‘offered Nit “chance to surrender. His answer was gunfire. G-men replied in kind. In seconds it was all over. Chaps man slumped against the wheel. When the officers reached him he was dead. He had 14 bullets scattered through his body. Death came to the notorious desperado in Neoshoba county where he was born 38 years ago. He became a successful contractor in Arkansas, but turned to crime" during depression years. He robbed banks, stole automobiles, ransacked filing stations, organized bloody jail breaks and led officers of many states on wild chases for more than a decade. : Chapman -had nearly five years| of freedom before his death. On July 8, 1937, he led a convict break from Eastham prison farm. He separated from the other escapees. One of them was killed, the others captured. Chapman was at liberty until last night's shooting.

LEGION ADVOCATES STATE SPEED LIMIT

talities in Indiana, the American legion’s state safety committee is calling for legislation to establish

Philip B. Melangton, Plymouth committee chairman, said that the legion feels that every person killed] or injured in traffic is a definite loss! to the potential war effort of the nation, ‘ The committee has adopted a resolution favoring legislation to} conform to suggestions made by the Indiana department of safety, and Indiana traffic safety council, the automobile : safety foundation and

ALUMINUM RED TAPE PITTSBURGH, Feb. 23 (U, P).—| A C. I O. leader today urged war production chief Donald M. Nel-| son to “break through the red tape, the timidity, the fear and. the self-

In a letter to Mr. N Zonarich, international

America, expressed con ‘over the *snail-pace progress of the alum-

In an effort to reduce traffic fa-|

| N. A.}1—False. ent of |< {{ the C. I. O. Aluminum Workers of |

BY STATE FAR

$29,000 Net Profit Shown

For Most Successful Year in History By EARL RICHERT ‘Money troubles won't worry the state fair board for sometime, it appeared today. - | | The board ended the'most suce cessful year in‘its history last De

: cember with $168,000 cash on hand,

according to its annual report, Of this amount, $118,000 is in a checking account at the Indiana National Bank and $50,000, which is being held in reserve for an emergency, is deposited in banks throughout the state.

1940 Balance Lower

At the close of business in 1940, the board had a $114,000 balance in its checking account and $25,000 on de t in state banks. * Thus, the board’s net profit for the last year was $29,000. Except for the $126,000 raised annually by a 3%-mill tax levy, the fair board is self-supporting.

The biggest item of increased exe penditure in 1941 over 1940, the ree. port showed, was in the Fair Grounds payroll.

Salaries—$49,000

Approximately $49,000 was spent for salaries of men to maintain the fair grounds during 1941 as come pared to $32,000 in 1940. Lieut. Gov. Dawson, who has charge of fair grounds maintenance, said that more maintenance work had to be expended on the grounds last year than the year before. Eighteen men are on the fair grounds pay roll now as compared with 14 during 1940, the last year in which Governor Schricker as lieutenant governor had charge of the grounds.

Work Authorized

Mr. Dawson said that all the repair. work done by the present maintenance staff had been authorized by the state fair board. Two reasons for the increased maintenance personnel costs are the employment of a bricklayer, a Washington township G. O. P. precinct committeeman, and the increase of hourly wage rates paid to grounds laborers from 40 to 50 cen an hour. . : The bricklayer-committeeman, Ww. C. Robertson, is paid the standard union rate of $1.67% vents an hour.

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Mr. Dawson said that Mr. Robertson had been working at the fair grounds since last spring, rebuilding ticket booths in the coliseum, repairing copings and - cornices and working on walls around ventilators. : ~ Maintenance work done on the fair grounds during the past year includes the building of a new roadway and parking space near the youth building, painting the inside of the women's building, painting the race track fence, putting in thousands of window lights and patching roofs. Two carpenters and a mechanic on the grounds maintenance staff are now building, at the direction of the fair board, 12 garbage trailers.

Coliseum Rent, $12,000

The fair board’s report showed that its net receipts last year were approximately $697,000. This amount includes $368,000 in fair receipts, $126,000 from the 3%-mill tax levy, $56,882 in general receipts (such as $12,000 rental on the coliseum) and $114,000 in cash on hand at the beginning of the year. The board, during the year, paid out ap| tely $578,000, including $75,000 on fair bonds and $26,000 on ‘bond coupons. Bonds outstanding now .total $725,000. These will be paid off by 1955, according to fair officials. The 1941 fair itself made a net profit of $101,832, the biggest in history, the report showed.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—For daylight saving time, clocks are retarded; true or false? 2—Franklin D, Roosevelt was twice inaugurated on March 4 or Jan. 20? ) $i There are 16, 24 or 32 fluid ounces in one quart? « 4+-Monrovia ig the capital of which

African republic? 5—Which rulers of England came bel wetn Charles I and Charles 6—The Declaration of Independence was adopted on ———? 7—What is the highest type of

mammalian animal?