Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1942 — Page 7
~ SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1942
The Indianapolis Times
Hoosier Vagabond
PALM SPRINGS, Cal, April £4 —Nost of my tithe in Palm Springs has been taken up with work, but I did have one afternoon off to look around a little I was amazed at the number of very lovely places to stay. There are scores of places that make your
mouth water. Id like to stay a year and try them all. Theyre all built on the same plan--very low and spread out so the sun ean get in. Actually, theyre like tourist courts, except they're super-mod-ern and set amidst beautiful lawns dotted with bright-colored umbrellas and Yow chairs, and nearly all have their private swimming pools, Although my purpose in coming here was to write about Mother Coffman and her Desert Inn, there is one other place that runt neck ahd neck. That is the Hotel El Mirador. Although most visitors to Palm Springs actually commie only to rest and get a good shot of sunshine, ft was the idea of Hollywood pulchritude out here that finally made Palm Springs khown to every cowpunicher and telephone girl in America.
Itt funny how people go silly over publicized Beauty. Visitors stare their eyes out looking for Dorothy Lamour or Marlene Dietrich. But, if the guests at the Mirador, for instance, would just look around them a bit, they'd find a very satisfactory substitute. I mean Miss Janette Grant. the Mirador’s pubfieity director. Her main interest in life is journalfs. But I've taken an option on her anyhow, just in case Hollywood starts nosing around.
By Ernie Pyle
Rita Gets an Eyeful
ONE AFTERNOON I went with friends to the Racquet club. This is a very flossy place, open only to members and their guests. They have room for only 12 people to stay there, but scores come in the afternoon to play tennis, or swim, or sit and drink. The club is tun by Charles Farrell, the former movie actor who used always to play opposite Janet Gaynor. It is a favorite hangout for the movie people. The afternoon I was there I learned that the lady in white shorts and lots of lipstick at the next table was none other than Miss Rita Hayworth. I didn’t take a pulse count on her, but she did appear thrilled to be sitting so close to me.
Safe From Bombs
PALM SPRINGS is considered sort of a haven from Jap bombers, because it’s back behind the
treacherous mountains, and there's nothing remotely resembling a military objective here. If the Japs bombed Palm Springs it would be just pure orneriness. Consequently, people have started sending Mother Coffman their treasured possessions for her to store until after the war. One woman has sent her three boxes of fine china. And Mrs. Coffman's sister, in Santa Monica, has sent all her treasured Indian baskets. “Why, that’s silly,” Mrs. Coffman told her, “to send the baskets and not come yourself. Nobody but you cares anything about those old baskets, so why save them if you get killed?” And her sister replied, “Well, I just love them so much I ean't bear to think of them falling into Japanese hands after I'm gone.”
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
PROFILE OF THE WEEK: William Powers Hapgood, the man who shocked the town a quarter century ago when he turned the Columbia Conserve Co. over to his employees and began working for them. At 70, Bill Hapgood still works for them and enjoys it. Contrary to public belief, he's never been a member of the Seocialist party although he has some ideas in common with the party Hes still not absolutely sure which is best: His own theory that the workers should own industry, or the Socialists’ public ownership theory. Still in excellent health except for some eye difficulties, he stands about 5 feet 10 or 11, weighs probably 160. His eyes are blue, his hair gray. He speaks quietly and rather rapidly. Rather serious by nature, hes kindly and pleasant, has a fine sense of humor and gets a lot of pleasure out of life. Outside of hig beloved canning plant, Bill Hapgoods number one interest in life is his 460-acre farm about 10 miles southwest of town on the White river He arises about 4 a. m. daily, gets his own breakfast of cracked wheat cereal and then for the next several hours putters around planting trees, looking over his calves, fixing a fence or just walking around the place About 8 he heads for his desk at the plant and puts in a mornings work there.
Quotes Shakespeare
BILL HAPGOOD is & lover of Shakespeare: ean quote from his works to fit any occasion, and usually does. Whenever he wants to get a point across in a business letter, he calls on the Bard of Avon. Hes always been athletic: was a crack tennis plaver days. For years he spent his summers lak 1 the Minnesota-Ontario boundary. ve he fished—when he needed food—and took e and four-week canoe trips into the wilds of Onwith his son. Powers, local head of the C. 1. O. Hapgood still likes to go on camping trips, but he'd rather help with the cooking than just sit and fish: considers fishing too sedentary. He hasn't smoked since the first day of World War
From India
CALCUTTA April § India is one of our fronts in American sees evervichere ding lend-lease help. We are sending a 4 to speed up Indian war production, secautse this is one of the big supply bases in the tue ture stages of the war, Vast resources will be needed. Also India is straight in the path of Japan, and if she were knocked out it world be a disastrous blow. We are in war all over the world, no less here than in northern Ireland. This is no longer just a place in the movies where people wear funny elothes: it is where Americans, from many states, will be for the rest of the war, It is no longer the romantic land of Kipling, tigers and elephants but a place where three times the population of America has possibilities of gigantic war effort. Practically. however, it will be lueky if even moderate t is achieved The toughest obstacle fs the attitude of some native imndusthialists. A visitor Dears much complaint about the British, but for hard-shelled, profit-hunting mndividualists, regardless of general consequences, the native industrialists would be hard to beat. Example: Their agitation against a “scorched earth” policy, of which the government presumably is thinking in event of Japanese invasion,
It's a Strange Attitude
GANDHI'S FRIEND. the industrialist Birla. is one of the leading opponents of the scorched earth policy. Several chambers of commerce, the Bengal Mill Own. ere’ association. and other native industrialists, joinéd
My Day
NEW YORK CITY. Friday—Vesterday afterncon I drove over to the Brooklyn naval hospital with Mrs. Allen Russell, whose husband it also a patient there at the present time. After a very few minutes
with our son. Franklin Jr, the head of the hospital, Capt. Robertson, and Comm. OConnor came to take me through a few of the surgical wards, There were a great many appendicitis cases and most of them seemed to be recovering comfort ably. The boys from the coast guard cutter Alexander Hamilton. who have spent weeks in a hose pital in Iceland, after being so badly burned, were lined up and I shuddered at the thought of the pain they must have lived through. On the whole in spite of the sears which I suppose are almost inevitable, the modern treat. ment of burns seems to make it possible for people to obtain full use of the injured parts with a minimum of disfigurement. I again saw the roung man who was hurt on our first destroyer that was hit off Iceland. and he the boy next
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Played Third Base
HE'S NEAT in appearance but disinterested in clothing. His wife has to buy his clothing for him. He enjoys nearly all foods, with applesauce and his own special cracked wheat cereal as favorites, He likes candy and salted peanuts, too. He was born in Alton, Ill, the son of a well-to-do plow manufacturer. At Harvard he played third base on the varsity three years. In 1903 his father bought the Columbia Conserve Co. and sent Bill here to run it. In college he had become interested in industrial democracy and as soon as the plant began making money, he began giving the employees more and more of a hand ir running it. In 1925 he and his brothers, Norman (how dead) and Hutchins, signed a contract giving the employees the profits from the firm with which to buy out most of the stock owned by Norman and Hutchins. The workers soon acquired about 65 per cent, giving them a controlling interest. And now they fix their own wages—according to individual need—and hire their executives, including President Hapgood.
Brings Home Match Books
BILL HAPGOOD'S pet peeve right now is the opposition of some soup packers to government restric tions on the use of tin cans. He thinks the governs mente right. An in order to co-operate, Columbia has worked out a new soup stock formula so rich that it calls for adding two cans of water. Mr. Hapgood is just back from Washington where he offered the formula as a means of reducing tin consumption. And we don’t know but we'll bet he brought back with him some match books. Busy ag he is. he never forgets to help out the collection of one of his fellow workers children. That's Bill Hapgood.
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The War and You—
SET PLUMBING FIXTURE PRICES
Sale of Children’s Bikes Not Halted; Freeze
Electric Goods Cost.
WASHINGTON, April 4 (U. BP). —Prices of plumbing fixtures were frozen today by the office of price administration to forestall “speculative price increases” that might be induced by an expected production curtailment order, The temporary order becomes effective April 7. Prices were frozen at the level of March 30 on “plumbing fixtures of all types, kinds, sizes, shapes and colors,” the order provided. The freeze applies to all sales, ex cept on an installed basis, made by retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers. Plumbers and others who install fixtures are not limited in the price they charge for the installed item, it was pointed out.
Children's Bikes
i Sales of children’s bicycles are {not prohibited by the bicvele fhreezling order, war production board officials said today. The order, which became effective yesterday, freezes only those models having a measurement “from the
center of the crank to the top of the saddle staff post of more than 19 inches” the WPRB said. Officials pointed out, however, that production of new bieveles is limited to the manufactyre of “vietory” models—one for men and one for women,
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By Raymond Clapper
ifn a petition to the government opposing it as inadvisable and unnecessary. Contrast this attitude with that of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, who said on her recent visit here: “We do not leave them (the invaders) a bowl of rice” The Indian concern for saving private property, even at the risk of allowing the Japanese to capture it, will illustrate the mental attitude of many native interests here toward the war As the newspaper Calcutta Statesman said editorially: When you find a man who is against the scorched earth policy, or wants some city declared an open town, you see a man without fight in him. It called such speeches as those cited above shoeking and shameful evidences of defeatist mentality. When the enemy retreats, he destroys evervthing, so property would not be saved in the end anyway,
It Would Be Bound to Change
ALTHOUGH THIS is the bald picture at the moment, many qualified persons tell me that a Cripps settlement would result in fundamental change. I am inclined to believe they are right. Nehru probably would be a different man once he actually had power to lead India. If there were no change in mental attitude ge erally, then a settlement would merely throw India to the Japanese, because the current apathy would be a perfect field for fifth column work. But, once the shackles are off and the issue of independence ft solved. it must be that the people of India will respond proudly and patriotically to fight for their own country. It is hardly possible that hus man nature is so different here from that of every other country. regardless of race. The Chinese have the same long history of pacifism, but they certainly are fighting for their own country now, ¢
By Eleanor Roosevelt
both are voung and we have learned so much about the use of artificial limbs these days that I feel sire both of them are going to be able to lead useful and normal lives. The great majority of people will never even notice that they earry the mark of war constantly with them All the boys I saw are getting every possible care, but at best a hospital is a dreary place. if you feel well enough, you read or play cards, you may have a visitor but you rarely are able to enjoy much privacy. you share your visitors with the whole world. Hospital food becomes monotonous and all the annoyances of being ill at home are intensified. I never go through any hospital without wishing that Providence had endowed me with some gift which might be used to entertain groups of cone valescents even for a few minutes; for it does not seem to be much of a contribution just to walk through aisles speaking a few words to the boys here and there, I went back after making the rounds and spent a little more time with Franklin Jr. and returned home to keep three or four appointments. In the evening, a meeting of the executive committee of the International Student Service was held at my house. The resignation of the general secretary of
the International Student Service, Joseph Lash, who with great
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pliances—ineluding foot warmers, | curling irons and corn poppers— will be frozen next Tuesday at the {levels of March 30 to prevent “runlaway prices’ Retail, wholesale and manufac. | turers’ prices were effected in the! order Besides the poppers. warmers and curlers, other articles included were: Cigaret lighters, dry shavers heaters, fans, percolators, hair dryers, egg cookers, flat irons, griddles. hair clippers, disc stoves, juice extractors, massage vibrators. trouser pressers, tea kettles, urns and vaporizers.
WARREN 6. 0. P. CLUB MEETS WEDNESDAY
| The monthly meeting of the War ten Township Republican eiub will! [be held at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday in
ithe home of Mr. and Mrs. B. IL. Curry, 6707 E. 10th st. Howard N.| Meyer will be the guest speaker, | Mrs. Robert Hamilton ig chair!
man of the music committee, assisted by Mrs. A. G. Matzke. Miss | Ruby Lohman, hostess chairman, will be assisted by Mrs. Forrest I. Hackley, Mrs. Samuel Montgomery, Mrs. Margaret Nichols, Mrs. Nora Calvin and Mrs. Florine wekman, Refreshments will be served by Mrs. Essie Perry, Mrs. BE. Glen White, Mrs, Harrold Connard, Mrs. Harriet Schock and Mrs. John Aske ren. Fred Dickerman ig program chairman and My. Curry, president,
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'M'LAFFERTY TO SEEK PEACE JUSTICE POST
Secretary and treasurer of the Democratic war veterans of Marion county, Joseph MceLafferty has filed for the office of justice of the peace in Center township. He is a world war veteran. member of the Indianapolis post 4 American Legion and long has been active in Democratic polities in the 15th and 23d wards. Married, he is the father of three children and lives at 820 8. West St. H? ig a charter member and past president of the Hibernians, memes ber of the South Side Civie club, president of the Holy Name society and a trustee at St. John's Catholic | chureh,
KOKOMO HONORE NAVY
KOROMO, Ind, April 4 (U.P). — Qovernor Sechricker and V. M. Armstrong, national vice command-
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WHEN TOMORROW dawng, all Christendom will sing Christ is risen!” Among those joining in this paean of the Eastervide will be the members of the bovs' at Christ ehurch The choir members, shown above as they were assembled in the form of a cross, include Richard leo Kitchen, George Rvan, Frederick
From MacArthur—
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQU —@Gen. Douglas MacArthur said toda “At the altar where I first join
to seek divine guidance for me in the great struggle that looms ahead.” The message was sent to the Rev. William Postell Witsell, rector
of Christ Church, Episcopal, Little wag born and baptized
UNION CLASS MEETS IN WAR MEMORIAL
The Men's Union Bible class, for the fourth consecutive time, will hold its Easter meeting in the World War Memorial tomorrow from 92:30 a. m. to 10:30 a. m. Special music will be directed by Roscoe Polin. Taking part in the program will be Ft. Harprison chaplains Robert J. Smith, Al« bert Roger Williams and G. W. Wil liams. One hundred soldiers will at« tend. APPEALS CONVICTION Appeal from a murder convition wag on file today in the Indiana supreme court by Cozzie M. Jones, 24, minister's son and convicted slayer of a 12-year-old West Terre Haute girl, Jones was sentenced to life imprisonment for the slaying of Bdith delle Barton
{olis Athletie club.
Sehroder, Douglas MeDougall, Robert Kirk, Edward MeAvoy, Al= bert Armstrong, Richard Younger, Melvin Shirey, George Greenwalt, Leroy Hadley, William Adcock, James Worrall, Philip Jaekson, Bill Bosson, Byron Rodarmel. Bob Garwood, Billy Garwood, Norman Rronnenberg, Jack Wortman, Ed« ward Allen and Jerry Kitchen,
SECOND SECTION
Dozen Convoys Were Able To Pick Invasion Spots On 800-Mile Coast.
This is the second of a series in which George Weller reviews the ill-starred campaign in Java,
By GEORGE WELLER
Conviighi, 1942. bv The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, April 4-~Between four and five divisions of Japanese troops, nums= bering about 80000 men, were landed in the small hours of the night of Feb. 28, and thereafter, at three points on Java's northern shore, They came from Macassar in Celebes, Balik Papan and Pontianak in Borneo, Palembang in Sumatra, and probably, from Singapore. The distances their convoys traversed wei'e, on an average, about 500 miles, or hardly a two-day trip for vessels of a modern merchant marine, Japan's campaign, characterized throughout by the efficiency of its communications, had here the problem of assembling a fleet aggregating 120 freighters, transferring artillery, whippet tanks and landing barges with emergency rations aboard ready for landing under fire, and making special arrangements for the transfer of bombs and gasoline indispensable to the main objective of every Jap invasion-=the establishment of an air base within short-arm hitting distance of the receding front lines.
Java Docks in Ruins
The Japs could load only a few freighters at a time at Java's docks, already ruined by Dutch demolition squads. The landing of the whole armada had to be accomplished simultaneously along the entire coastline, thus insuring the division of the Dutch defensive forces. The problem of the Jap high command wags what to do with such
ARTERS, Australia, April 4 (U.P), | vin ah Easter message: | ed the sanctuary of God I ask you
Rock, Ark, where Gen, MacArthur ‘TRUTH’ ON AVIATION “The Truth About Military and Civil Aviation” will be the topic of Capt. Gill Robb Wilson when he
addresses the Indianapolis BExecus tives club Tuesday at the Indianap-
Capt. Wilson, president of the
National Aeronautical association, was a flier in the first world war ana was shot down in a sky battle over France. Upon returning to Amevica after the war he entered the ministry. He later devoted his time to the development of avia« tion and has been president of the aeronautical association for the last three years,
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ceding the landing. The Jap solution, which is interesting because it demonstrates how the factors of time, mass and distance complicate invasions and make a Jap expeditionary force to the Pacific coast a virtual impossibility, was to create about a dozen small eonvoys,
Depended on Own Batteries
Each consisted of six to 10 freighters, well matched as to cruising speed, with two to four destroyers ‘and sometimes a cruiser as a covering force, The cruiser’s one or two seaplanes==which contrast with the allies’ five cruisers’ come plete lack of aireraft—were able to meet any allied surface forces before the latter even sighted the convoys. The Jap convoys depended upon their own ack-ack batteries to hold air attackers at a reasonable height. Changing their course constantly and proceeding apparently in any and all directions across the Java sea, the Japs counted upon creating confusion in the allied intelligence,
Kept Allies Guessing
The Japanese, through air control and superiority in destroyers and cruisers, were able to keep the meager and under-equipped allied forces guessing for nearly a week. The key to the Japs’ success in invading Java was the fact that the commanding general could dispose his forces virtually wherever he wished along the 800-mile coast ob Sav and could change plans at will,
MONDAY: The end of the U. 8. destroyer Peary.
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HOOSIER CITIES DUE FOR SAFETY HONORS
Three Indiana cities and five counties-~winners of the 1941 Indiana Traffic safety contest—will be honored at the annual awards meeting of the state traffic safety council and the governor's coordinating safety committee Wednesday. Victory safety plaques will be presented to Evansville, Michigan City and Connersville for the best records in reducing traffic fatalities in cities of over 70,000 population, 25,000 to 70,000 and 10000 to 45,000 populations respectively. The awards were based both on the actual recorded decrease in
ALLIED DEFENSE DIVIDED IN JAVA
25 ADDITIONAL MOTOR BUSSES ARE ORDERED
Vehicles Purchased for Fall Seat More Passengers
And Cost $305,930.
Purchase of 25 additional motor coaches, which will be added to the city’s transit system between Sept, 1 and Jan. 1, was announced today by Harry Reid, president of Indians apolis Railways. The order followed the delivery of 20 new busses to Indianapolis Railways lines this week. The 25 new busses ordered for delivery next fall and winter will be entirely different from any now in service in Indianapolis, Ten will seat 41 passengers and 15 will have seating capacity for 40 passengers. The busses delivered this week are of the 27 « passenger type. The largest bus now operated in Ine dianapolis seats 31 persons.
Cost $305,930
The new busses will cost $305,930, Ten of them have been ordered from the Mack International Motor Truck Corp. for delivery by Sept, 1. The other 15 will be manufactured by General Motors at Pontiac, Mich, and delivery has been promised by Dee. 1 on 10 vehicles and by Jan, 1 on the remaining five, The order increases to 65 the number of new transit vehicles pure chased by Indianapolis Railways within the last year. The combined orders total approximately $610,000, They include 10 trackless trolleys and 55 motor coaches. Thirty-five of «the 66 new vehicles have been delivered.
Total of 447 Vehicles
When all deliveries have been made, the local fleet will total 447 vehicles, including 162 trolleys, 130 street cars and 156 motor coaches. Five of the new busses will be of the diesel-hydraulic type, These five will be operated experimentally to determine whether use of diesel fuel is practical in this city. These ve= hicles will cost $13,166 each. The 10 Mack busses will cost $12,144 each and the remaining 10 General Motors busses $11,866 each.
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CHANGE APPROVED ON MAPLETON LINE
The Indianapolis Railways have been granted permission to discone tinue streetcar service on Illinois st, between 34th and 39th sts, effective April 12, To compensate for this, the com pany will add to the Illinois-Weste field feeder bus line, which dupli cates the Mapleton branch, The public service commission approved the petition on condition that a shelter house for patrons be built at 34th ang Illinois sts. and that there be no change in the 7« cent feeder bus line fare. Free transfer privileges will be in effect, Harry Reid, Railways president, sald no cars will be taken off the Hlinois line and there will be no change in service south of 34th sv, In asking for the change, the company contended that the equipement was needed for heavy de« mands on its services caused by the war and that the tracks are in need of repair which would mean an exe penditure of $63,347.
PLAN WABASH FORUM SERIES IN SIX CITIES
Timex Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. April 3.—The annual series of town meet ings on citizenship will be sponsored by the Wabash college forum in six Indiana cities this year, beginning April 12 and ending May 22. The forum meetings, financed by the Lilly endowment, will be cone ducted in Lebanon, Frankfort, Noblesville, Rockville, Delphi and Attica. Bach city will have six meetings at which members of Wabash cole ‘ege faculty will give addresses. The theme of all meetings will be “The American citizen in a world at war.”
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HELD ON SLOT CHARGE
Leslie Smith, 49, of 1356 Madison ave, today was arrested on charges of violating the 1935 slot machine act, In a raid on 1356 Madison ave,,
police confiscated several slot mae chines,
® WARQUIZ
1-—=What type of plane is this navy aireraft?
2-The United States acquired a base in England's oldest North American colony. Which is ite Bermuda, Jamaica, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia? 3-18 the northern part of Ause tralia, at which the Japs may strike first, antarctic, temperate or tropical in climate?
Answers 1—This is a navy patrol bombing plane, Jd--Newfoundland, which was dise covered by John Cabot in 1497, ‘just five years after Columbus discovered
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