Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1942 — Page 8

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NAS, Cal., Feb. 28 . th at the little a shriveled-up guayule plant ‘us out ‘of th rubber dilemma we're in, ‘the

ike episode probably will get little credit for it, 3 Fred McCar of the Salinas Chamber of

erce, one of these “much-

But McCargar has Deer] g and ravi and plugging y on guayule for more than of those years he hag t a stone wall of government apathy, sometimes open hostility

f ‘the guayule company itself i, (because it didn’t want guayule

ural disinclination of farmers nge from a proved crop fo an unproved one. one time Mc was so badly in the dog: @ that he had to continue the campaign from his g instead of at C. of C. office. But he be- ' guayule and never given up. Now at last | seem to be ¢ his way. He says he doesn’t they it in the Salinas valley or

HE WHOLE M’CARGAR family is guayule crazy. ar’s son, Jack, now a private in the army and I at sea en route to some unknown destinas almost worse|t: his dad. "his way east Pvt. McCargar stopped in Chito the newspapers and got a guayule story at. When he in camp in South Carolina

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them hopped up about guayule. One of the things the government will get when it buys out the Intercontinental Co. is its secret germinating process. You or I could take a handful of guayule seed, carefully plant it, and it wouldnt} even (ome up. It has to be treated with a certain acid first. This same company has had cosiderablle production in Mexico. It started early in the century, and has three producing plants there. Here is Salinas, the first experimental plantings were in 1912. The first commercial plantings were in 1923, and the mill was built in 1932. It is the only guayule mill in America. Rubber in the Far East, under the coolie wage system), is produced at from 4 to 10 cents a pound. To produce guayule rubber here right now costs from 15 to 19 cents a pound. This would be brought far down | with hig-scale production. Even so, it isn’t likely that guayule farmers could compete with East Indies plantations after the-war. Bhi-tils isn’t after the war, this is in the war.

Like Beet Sugar Making

THE PROCESS OF getting rubber out of the guayule comes nearer to that of processing sugar beets than anything I can think of. They simply plow up the plants, let them lie on the ground a few days (they put in a lot of rubber during those few days on the ground), then take them fo the mill and chop them into small pieces. These pieces are then run through a ball mill and crushed into fiber. This fiber then goes through a chemical process, involving the flotation method. The fiber sinks to the bottom. The rubber particles cling together in what are called “worms,” and float to the top.

side Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

OF THE va: Maurice O’'Rear Ros$, y appointed acting president of Butler university { the most immaculate educator in town, hir an kids are all right and han his own, generation. Dean 58 (he’s been dean-of Butler's ool of business administration ef) aly four years) is a tall, well-

J ably: 195 and stands extredinarily erect. He has a lean ROE with high cheekbones and a arish chin. His hands are arge, his ears fairly prominent, d he wears a size 8 hat. He has gh forehead, with hair that’s y gray—and sparse.

d it retains just a trace of genile ¢ Fm re! nt of Kentucky rearing. es to Go to Teas

is prent tempered, pleasant, and spegks knows what he wants to say and says ition or groping for words. He

3 in great demand for talks on nomics over the entire state. 3a he hly, can tell you from

such “thin e price of eges during var I or ‘any other time; pretty n e in his likés and dislikes instance, he an aversion to teas where you balance a plate on your knee. He is fond

dge, but ooturt got extited enough oper it ul about the

e office always is disorderly and contents jare on the top, and ough to what he wants, It y some le can keep | their cleared.| He's extremely courteous and , and always rises from his seat to’ greet , his’ office.—even students, who, by the way, n immensel

. Most of i y shuffle t “him the

E GTON, Feb. 28—A| new spring producve must be| launched at once. turn t the war has taken has forced ed up our schedules. We have less time than to have. There is time to wait until ext year. Planes and ships must ‘had now. Unless we get them thin the next two or three onths, the axis may be able to make its fatal breakthrough and drive the war into a stalemate that we would be a long time in dissolving. In a word, the danger is that Germany and Japan will join hands. If Germany breaks through Suez, and Japan completes her

~ push across the Indian ocean, powers can exchange raw materials and

Rbuction e time our two most populous ne nd Russia, would be all but cut outside supplies. The situation. we face is

p ssary to do more than we had to do. H nce the need of a spring produc-

tion to calling. for earlier delivery dates, . y must found to get the extra grunt out y wo! ‘on ‘war production—from the In the ont office to the last man on the

Thing? Yes, But— Y BEST way that has appeared

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of this problem is to encourage -

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Al regular at symphony concerts, he has a nice library of symphony records. His favorite song is “Home on the Range.” He doesn’t play any musical instruments or sing, and “My Old Kentucky Home,” appropriately enough, is about the only (tune he can carry. Working around the house is distasteful to him. He never gets out and putters around the yard. In fact, to him_ all flowers are “roses” except maybe petunias. He is an enthusiastic news broadcast fan; never misses Lowell Thomas. He enjoys the theater and movies when he has time to attend. For years he was’ a Jean Harlow fan; now he’s transferred his admiration to Hedy Lamarr, -

Golfs Before Breakfast.

DR. ROSS was an all-state football tackle at Kentucky Wesleyan college, manned a machine gun in the front cockpit of a naval plane in World War I, earned his doctor’s degree in economics at the University of Chicago. His professional career took him to Sturgis, Ky., thence in 1924 to Earlham college where he served in .the dual capacity of head football coach and college dean. He came here in 1938 from the University of Tennessee. He keeps in excellent physical condition, manages to get some exercise daily. In the winter, it’s calisthenics. In the summer, he enjoys getting up early and playing nine holes of golf before breakHe plays a fair game—somewhere around. 95 (for 18). He also is enthusiastic about walking— would rather walk than drive his car. Frequently he hikes the mile or so from his home at 210 E. 49th st, to the university. Occasionally he takes his family to thé" Riviera club for a swim.

: Fond of Peanuts

DR. ROSS smokes cigarets and a pipe. His favorite expression, if he has one, is “Oh, heavens,” said with a smile. He is well read, doesn’t miss many new books and magazine articles on current affairs and economics. Every night he reads in bed at least an haur. Particular about his clothing, he likes double breasted suits and blue ties. His favorite foods are rojuefort cheese and peanuts. : His 2-year-old son, Jeremy, is the apple of his eye. Dr. Ross loves to take the youngster for a walk, or a romp in the yard. And he never says “Jerry did so and so.” It’s always “that little boy.” He beams all over his face when he talks about him, too. That's Butler's new president.

By Raymond Clapper 3

plant spirit. The navy department found a helpful device in its “E” awards. At first the award was given to the management. But no play was made over the labor crews that helped turn out the goods. That has been corrected and the men who work on the tools share in the honors. The maritime commission has been persuaded to give more attention to workmen in launching ships. Instead of reserving the christening honors exclusivély for society girls and the wives, sisters, cousins and aunts of senators and congressmen who voted for the appropriations, some merchant ships are being lgunched by wives of shipworkers. A little thing? Well, yes. But probably workmen and their wives like these honors just as much as the chairman of the board and his wife.

It’s That Extra Little Bit

HOW MUCH THIS ‘sort of thing can do toward speeding production is a guess. But if the output is increased by 10 per cent it- will help. If it could be known how many officials have to scramble and negotiate and beg and maneuver to get a dozen planes sent here or there, then we would know better how every little bit helps. . We have talked so much in fantastic numbers

* that we forget a dozen planes are an important item

in this war. It is an unbelievable effort to get just that many planes out to a certain spot when some urgent call comes through. So it is with’ production. It is not the 100,000 planes next year that are causing the worry now. It is down into small terms. India can be lost on the balance of an unbelievably small amount of equip-

ment. So can Suez. Big numbers for tomorrow are]

necessary. But smaller numbers today are imperative.

5 By Eleanor Roosevelt

“are in the Evite and who are undergoing physical » ha |

rdship and mental anguish.

I look at the present situation in the following way. 1. . Pirst of all, so far as we are able, we should give a

r. little more every agency we have supported in the . past. What give in contributions to the war, such as Red Cross, U. 8, O., army and navy Je-

: increased | lief, should be beyond what we have given in the past. Our investments in defense bonds and stamps| | as investments, not as gifts, ex-| } cept where ue buy them for charitable purposes andj

2 should be

do not hold ourselves.

Secondly, T think we should continue to give what| i ime We. Hgte 18 the pas, i the ofganizatious in which ed. Our war contributions should be over and above our normal activities. This should

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By Ernie Pyle||

he went to the local Chamber of Commerce and got 3

U. s. Has Sunk or Damaged 118 in Pacific; 245 of Foes’ Planes Wrecked.

"WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U. B.). —The United States entered the 84th day of the Pacific war today, chalking up a score of better than

and six Japanese planes destroyed per day. Military authorities felt that this toll—added to similar of other united nations forces in the Far East—is taxing Japanese replacement capacities heavily, Army and navy recapitulations showed 118 enemy vessels sunk or damaged in the Pacific since the first Japanese bomber roared over Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, and a major portion of these were attacked by

air, i Ratio of 4 to 1

Official announcements have reported 16 American ships lost and 10 damaged in the Pacific by enemy action during the same period, indicating a ratio of better than four Japanese craft sunk or damaged to one American vessel. The recapitualations listed 501 Japanese aircraft destroyed definitely while innumerable others are known to have been hit. This figure includes 165 shot down by volunteer American pilots in China. It does not include enemy planes de stroyed on the ground.

losses to date have been incomplete, making an estimate impossible. It was recalled, however, that President Roosevelt, in his address Monday night, disclosed that Japahese plane losses have been greater than this country’s, including U. S. losses at Pearl Harbor,

245 Jap Planes Bagged

The army recapitulation did-re-| port that only 48 army planes have been shown down as compared with 245 Japanese aircraft known to have been shot down by army pilots. , An army spokesman said that U. S. plane losses on the ground purposely have been kept secret because such information would be valuable to the enemy—who has no other way of obtaining it. He explained that it is virtually impossible for a pilot flying at 300 or 400 miles per hour through anti-

fect of his attack.

“What might appear to him to be a badly crippled plane on the ground many thousands of feet below easily might have been damaged so slightly that a single replacement part would make it airworthy,” the spokesman said.

Losses Tabulated

The army and navy recapitulations, announced in communiques late yesterday and Thursday respectively, disclosed the following box score of Japanese vessels sunk,

probably sunk, or damaged: Probably Sunk or Sunk by daisaged by A. N.M. . N.,,M. Total Battles 1 ou . 1 3 Ra rriers .. ¢ 1 1 1 3 ruisers ....... 1 2 13 .is 16 Dest vers 2 7 2 1 12 Submarines ie | 3... 1 5 Transports .... 11 13 14 2 40 Fleet Tankers.. 3 3 ve ‘6 Supply Ly Ships,etc. oe 15 . 3 La ats = 1 .i 1 Seaplane Tenders os .s 1 1 Miscellaneous... .. 6 5 11

Totals 1 31 12 “11s

*Does not include three submarines sunk or captured at Pearl Harbor,

A. NM. denotes Army, Navy & Marines. The army communique said that “in presenting this summary the war department has included among the vessels :probably sunk only those where the observed damage awas so great as to leave little doubt as to ultimate destruction.” “Among those listed as seriously damaged are included only those ‘on which direct hits were scored,” the communique continued. “If seems likely that some of the vessels so listed were damaged so severely that they might be considered as lost.” The navy announcement similarly listed as sunk only ships known to have been blasted irreparably,

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one Japanese ship sunk or damaged|

Reports on American aircraft

aircraft fire to determine the ef-} -

“A U-boat’s torpedo smashing into the side of the Standard Oil tanker R. P. Resor, within sight of the New Jersey shore, converted the ship into a torch which is believed to have taken the lives of 39 of her 41-member crew.

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nature.

URGE PRESSURE FOR WPA FUNDS

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—WPA officials were revealed today to be lobbying for “bigger appropriations by congress, and to be urging communities to continue to seek WPA

Q. Edward Gatlin, WPA director for Mississippi, has written or wired certain Mississippi congressmen citing the reduced WPA employment that would result-from smaller WPA appropriations for and urging support in getting an radaquale appropriation.” ., Gatlin, it was learned, also _ urged WPA local “sponsors” in Mississippi to “continue as in the past to submit. projects for approval by this administration.” He has assured them that “you may expect every spirit of co-operation from this administration.”

Work of Defense Nature =

, WPA officials in other states have written = congressmen emphasizing that much WPA work is of a defense

WPA officials - also have en pains to advise cngrsne, some instances, made in their locality. f Mississippi congressmen admitted today they had been urged by their state WPA administration to support the WPA program. A wordy telegram from Mr. Gatlin carried the designation, “Govt. Nt.” A telegraph official said this meant it was sent at government expense.

Claims 87,000 Need Work

A federal law provides: “No part of the money appropriated by any act shall , . . be used directly or indirectly to pay for any + + + printed or written matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence in any manner a memsber of congress, fo favor or oppose, by vote or otherwise, any legislation or appropriation by congress. . . . One of Mr. Gatlin’s telegrams to Washington advised that there were currently about 21,000 persons on WPA in Mississippi, and that there were 87,000 needing WPA work. He contended that defense industry could not absorb the surplus.

MARION HOSPITAL TO GET FWA GRANT

_ Times Special

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — An FWA defense area grant of $92,800 was announced to complete a 35bed hospital at the Marion General hospital, Marion, Ind. A $128,000 loan and $132,000 grant was announced for waterworks ime provement at East Chicago.

Warden Lawes Will Talk Here

LEWIS E. LAWES, former warden of Sing Sing prison and now being urged by friends to run

Officials in Capital Ask] i=, govemor of New, York will Communities to Continue | § nner hee . night. Supporting Program. | Mir fewes is B i considered an y CHARLES T. LUCEY outstanding

penologist and .h u m a nitarian and served as warden of Sing Sing for more than 21 years. The dinner will

Lewis Lawes be at 6:30 in the Indianapolis

Athletic club. Dr. William E. Bodenhamer is president of the organization.

WAS VON PAPEN EVER SHOCKED?

That Bomb Down in Ankara (Nazi by the Way) Blew “Off His Trousers.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

LONDON, Feb. 28. — Informed Londoners are enjoying one of the|. better laughs of the war at the expense of Adolf Hitler's crack ambassador and his private team of bomb-throwers.

The full story of the recent bomb episode in Ankara has not been told and certainly will not be told in Germany. For there is :10 doubt that the bomb was German, as the fragments indicated and as papers in the pockets of the unfortunate and defunct thrower confirmed,

Who Was Real Target

The bomb exploded on the steps of an apartment building in which Geoffrey Thompson, counselor of the British embassy lived and where Col. Stainer, military attache, worked. Both were in but neither was injured. The bomb may have been intended for them. But, on the other hand, it may have been intended for a Turkish cabinet minister who was scheduled to drive down Ataturk blvd. His route was known and if the bomb had exploded four minutes later the minister would have been at about this spot.

Among the Casualties

But it went too soon, blew the clumsy agent to bits, damaged the British diplomats’ apartment and working quarters, and knocked Nazi Ambassador Baron Franz Von Papen and his wife off their feet. It did more than that. It blew the trousers completely off Von

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WELLS ON CARNEGIE FOUNDATION BOARD

Times Special

Dr, Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana University, has been named to the board of trustees of the Car- ' |negie foundation for the advancement of teaching. The announce-

ment was made today by Dr, Walter A. Jessu » President o the foundation. 4,

Dr. Wells succeeds Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president emeritus of the university, who acted as trustee from 1910 to 1938.

SET LIVING COST AT ‘|. $1464 FOR FAMILY

Times Special *

, Feb. 28.—Cost of family was estimated for

MINGTON, Ind: Feb. 28.—|

1 [Jas for ‘a four-person ‘manual |’ | worker's {uiananolis 3% iiolls 8 3 Dex

SPRINGER FEARS WAR POWER ACT

Seeks Protection Against Arbitrary Seizure of Personal Property.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—So incensed is Rep. Raymond S. Springer (R. Ind.) regarding the “loose manner” in which the house war powers bill is drawn regarding A commandeering of personal property that he intends to.take the matter up in the senate judiciary committee, he said today. ' In an effort to tighten up the bill's provisions, the Hoosier gongressman offered an amendment in both the judiciary committee and the house committee of the whole. Each time the amendment was voted down. “I am so sure that I am) right about this being a bad law In the manner now drawn that I will talk the whole thing over with Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.), chairman of the senate judiciary commit | tee,” Rep. Springer said.

-..' Calls Powers Arbitrary, :

“As it now reads the government can go into~a. man’s factory, take several big machi and leave the remainder ‘there absolutely useless and still not pay for suysing but the machines taken. “The same could apply to a man’s. nouse furnishings or anything else. Never has this government been given such arbitrary powers and not even this war requires that such powers should be given to it.” Compensatory damages would be paid for losses “proximately caused” by such governmental seizures under the Springer amendment.

Wants Just Compensation

In arguing for adoption of his amendment by the house, Rep. Springer concluded: “We are at war. We have a stupendous task ahead. We will meet it, and we will win this war. But as we look forward throughout the future years we must not pass legislation which will assume to take the property of the people of this nation without just: compensation therefor. “The amendment which I have proposed will aid in the determination of that highly important question—the just compensation for the property taken in such condemnation proceedings.”

PSC CHIEF ENGINEER TAKES POST MONDAY

Hugh Abbott, newly-named chief engineer of the Public Service Commission, will take over his new post Monday. Harry V. Wenger, chief engineer of the commission for the past 13 years who: was replaced by Mr. Abbott, will continue working in the engineering department until April 1, commission officials said. Mr. Abbott is a Democrat and Mz:

Labor Pressure Suspension Would Help - War Contractors.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U. P.).— Administration leaders, having weathered the worst storm of ate tack since Pearl Harbor on New Deal social legislation, were hope ful today there would be no lag in arms production that might’ bring a new effort to suspend the 40-hour work week. The house refused by a vote of 226 to 62 to suspend the overtime pay provisions of the wage-hour law and 16 other federal statutes governing the hours of American workers. The overwhelming vote was muse tered through strong organized lae bor pressure and the effectiveness of arguments that: 1. The bulk of war worker$ would not be affected by suspension of the overtime laws since they work under union contracts requiring the payment of time and a half for hours worked in excess of 40 a week; and those not now working under such contracts would fry, perhaps strike, for contracts that would guarantee them overtime payment. .

Quick Change in Sentiment

2. That most cost-plus war cone tracts are signed on the basis of overtime payments and the suspen sion of these payments would ine crease the profits of war contractors with no statutory provision require ing renegotiation of the contracts, The house vote represented a change in sentiment that came with dramatic suddenness. . At noon house leaders said prie vately: that the wage-hour amends ment would pass. Until two hours before the vote the leadership held this view. They had postponed the vote from Thursday until yester day in the belief that the amend ment definitely would carry unless the vote were put off.

¢ Reluctant to Anger Labor

The early spread of sentiment for suspension of the 40-hour week which one house leader said had reached “wildfire proportions” was attributed to reaction to the recent flurry of labor disputes in war ine dustries. House leaders conceded that if industrial disputes continue in the face of military setbacks, the next time. the ball of reaction starts to roll it may wep everyising in 1s path, wt

men who have! not’ always ‘supe ported new deal social legislation

occasion because they will be up for re-election soon and they did not want to incur the wrath of labor generally—both the organized. and the unorganized.

McCormack Sustained

Rep. Howard We. Smith D. Va) had proposed the 40-hour week suspension amendment which brought on the house fight. He.pro~ posed to amend the second

omnibus bill through the addition of several amendments. Rep. E. E. Cox (D. Ga.) challenged the leadership of Majority Leader John W. McCormack (D, Mass.) Thursday when it appeared

ment would carry. : Mr, Cox criticized Mr. McCor mack’s opposition to the amend ment and deménded that the “mas jority leader speak for the mas jority of the members of the house.” The overwhelming vote sustained Mr. McCormack’s leadership in the first challenge: of the kind in the house in recent years.

INDIANA FIRE CHIEFS MEET MONDAY NIGHT

Members of the Indiana Fire

ner at 7 p. m. Monday in the Hotel lincoln. Governor Schricker - will award prizes to the highest ranke ing cities of the state in fire preven tion activities.

Terre Haute, association president, Indiana ‘has won the national award in fire prevention week ace tivities for the last “five years, in competition with all the other

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