Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1942 — Page 15
THURSDAY, APRIL 23. 1942
Hoosier Vagabond
Editor's Note: Ernie Pyle is in poor health and is taking a rest. Meanwhile, The Times. followinz readers’ desires, is reprinting some of Ernie's betterknown columns.
STEAMBOATIN' DOWN THE YUKON, July 15, 1937.—If it were two or three weeks later, when the weather would be warm, I believe this Yukon trip would be among the world’s pleasantest things.
Something's happening all the time. There is always something new to look at. Things don’t get monotonous. Time passes so swiftly that it seems just an hour or two between meals.
The passengers do a lot of looking and pointing at shore, and plenty of talking to each other, and considerable bridge playing, and a lot of daytime sleeping. For were usuaily up pretty late. This all-night daylight fools you. You think it’s about 9 o'clock and you look at your watch and it's mid-
night. And we're liable to get up any old time. We were due through Five Finger Rapids at 2 a. m, so we left calls, and about 20 of us got up to see the boat shoot between two big rocks. (It isn’t as thrilling to see as to read about.)
They're Split In Cliques
ORDINARILY, ON THIS FIRST trip of the season, there are only a few passengers. But this year we have nearly 60 people. Most everybody is going to Dawson. Only half a dozen of us are going clear through to Nenana, 1300 miles down river. We have a good many gold-mining people aboard,
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
ROSCOE HARDWICK (United Taxicab) is worrving over the labor situation. (He's not the only employer who's worrying, either.) His trouble is finding enough taxi drivers. The situation has gotten so bad that part of his cabs are idle in the garage, for lack of drivers, when they should be out on the streets. Now he's toying with the idea of hiring women taxi drivers, but ign’'t sure how it would work out or haw the public would like it. . . . Incidentally, while we're on the subject of women employees, local observers tell us Indianapolis employers have been slow to accept the idea of hiring women as substitutes for men inducted into the service. In many of the war plants, they're still going ahead trying to get men, training them and then losing them to the army. Some are hiring boys of 18 or 19, but now the army's talking about taking the youngsters before taking married men. Squirrel Department FIVE IRVINGTON squirrels have a habit of “bumming” breakfast at the Robert McHugh residence, 935 Campbell ave. They come down a tree, clamber onto the garage roof, climb some wires to the house roof and then scramble down to the dining room window. If Mrs. McHugh doesn’t open it right away, they scratch at the window. She feeds them peanuts, and sometimes bread and jelly or cake. A couple of them seem to prefer the cake to peanuts. Mrs. McHugh has to put the food in five different piles to keep them from fighting. Sometimes the blue jays swoop down and steal the food. The McHugh's Scotty dog, Sandy, used to be pretty annoyed over the whole performance but he’s getting used to it now, and just sits there watching, and looking bored.
Get Out Your Camera
THIS IS AN IDEAL time of the year for color film camera fans to visit the state parks and forests.
Washington
WASHINGTON, April 23.—This is by way of delivering a message which I promised many times to do as I traveled across our long, dreary, lonely supply lines reaching to China. Almost every army officer, enlisted man and civilian with whom I talked, including diplomatic people, said, “When you get back home for God's sake tell them to send us some mail.” I heard that refrain in the heart of Africa’s mosquito jungles, on the sun-baked desert posts in India and in the remote recesses of China. They all want to hear from home. They know letters are being written to them. But deliveries are few and months between. What makes it worse, they see people traveling back and forth by air from the states daily, jumping from here to the other side of India in two weeks, but letters months late if at all. Morale may turn on small things. Most of these men are living lonely lives, walled in by the strange native life around them. They are burdened with intense heat, desert dust, and constant dangers of malaria, dysentery and other obnoxious tropical hazards. Yet they take all that as part of the job. If they can have good food, cheap, tax-free American cigarets as the army has elsewhere, a chance to get a night's sleep, and some word from the folks at home, they ask for nothing more.
The Little Things That Count
THESE FORCES ARE something of a special case. Americans sent to Australia, Ireland or England are among more their own kind of people. But when you are set down by a tiny straw-hut village in Africa, where not even a movie is to be found and only semisivage natives, and when there are only a few of you, cut off by thousands of silent, empty miles from home, you need something extra to keep you going. . Pan-American Airways has a policy of shifting its
My Day
NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday—Miss Luise Rainer came to luncheon with me yesterday. I had not seen her for some time and I was happy to talk with her again. She has such a keen desire to make her art of use in this period. All the other artists with whom I have talked feel the same way. They have a conception of the need which many of us, particularly soldiers who are far from home, must feel at this time. This need is for warmth in human contacts. We want to feel this warmth portrayed on the stage and on the screen, to hear it in music, and to read such things as will lift the spirit and leave one still conscious of the word of love which lies around us in the midst of a world of hate. After lunch I went over to the naval hospital for a visit with Franklin Jr. It is certainly a desperately difficult thing for these young people to be obliged by illness to be laid up for a while. They seem to think that fate is treating them very badly. Franklin Jr. longs for the day when he can walk out of the hospital and back to his ship. Afterward, I visited another young friend who is .
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By Ernie Pyle
and a few prospectors, and a territorial judge, and ome businessmen, and several traveling salesmen. Already the passengers have divided into cliques. We have a laughing-and-bouncing section, who leap frantically about the ship all day with screams of hilarity. And we have a talkative section, who know everything and tell the other passengers what's ahead around every bend. And then there's the quiét section. And a still quieter section, the lone wolves who don't speak to anybody. There is no deck steward or master of ceremonies or anything like that. In fact, the crew is fairly uncommunicative, and nobody pays any attention to you.
Poor Old Luckless Pyle
Ten Northwest Mounted policemen are aboard. Theyre to be stationed at Dawson. It's the first time in the Far North for most of them. Two of them are married, and their wives are with them. The Mounties are striking figures in their bright red dresscoats and blue pants with wide yellow stripes. And of course people run them to death taking their pictures. I think everybody on board has been photographed at least twice with a Mountie. They submit docilely, and some of them are camera fiends themselves. They are fine fellows, and human. They play bridge with the other passengers, they'll take a drink, they dance to the phonograph, and one of them, Jack Love, is a marvel at the piano. He plays for us two or three hours a day. They aiso watch for animals on shore, and get as excited as the rest of us when they see anything. But I haven't seen anything. I never see anything. It seem} to me that I travel all around everywhere and never see a darn thing. I am so disappointed that one of the Mounties, the next time he sees a moose, is going to yell so loudly I'll hear him wherever I am and come arunning.
There's plenty of color to be snapped, what with the dogwood, red bud, sarvis berry and other species in full bloom. We'll bet a lot of tires hit the highway over the week-end. . . . A new bus driver on the 21st and Arlington line got all twisted up the other day. He got out to 13th and Parker and couldn’t remember whether to turn or not. The passengers took charge and directed him the rest of the way. . . . Taylor Wilson, aviation cadet, and Ensign George Wildhack are back in town on furlough. . . , Our pet peeve has been bothering us again. It's the way some parking lot and garage attendants rip their patrons’ cars around. A couple of them headed south on Meridian, raced into and around the Circle one day this week at about 40 mph. Glad it wasn’t our car.
Cycling Champ NORMAN DUKE, deputy attorney general, probably is the statehouse’'s number one bicyclist, He rides his bike to work every day from his home in
Marcy Village and parks it right in his office. The first day, he parked it in the statehouse basement and returned that evening to find a tire punctured. It’s somewhere around six miles from home to office and he says he makes it in 35 minutes “when the wind’s with me.” Otherwise it takes 45 minutes. His principal commentary: “Motorists aren’t very considerate of bicyclists.” Our commentary: “They should be; they'll be bicyclists, too, by and by.”
A Tiring Episode A TERRIFIC explosion rocked the downtown district yesterday afternoon on Illinois st. in the vicinity of Block's. A column of dust shot up in the air, and the blast reverberated for several seconds through the canyon of buildings. People—literally hundreds of them—came running from all directions to see if the Japs finally had arrived and dropped a bomb. The excitement even stirred some—not all—of the Claypool lobby sitters out of their comfortable seats. Those that got close enough to see discovered that the blast wasn’t really a bomb—merely one of those big trackless trolley tires having a blowout.
By Raymond Clapper
Africa men every few weeks to vary the monotony of life in those lonely outposts. Refrigeration may seem a luxury but it means fresh meat and vegetables. Air-conditioned barracks are not pampering but give a man a good night's rest so that he can put in a real day's work. The difference can be seen in the results. Americans do in weeks construction jobs that would otherwise require many months, I don’t know of any one thing that has brightened up life in Africa more than the little canteen which
Pan-American installed at one point in the African |OF receiving or counting of the bal-
desert. Every afternoon about 5 the canteen opens. It serves cold American beer and hot American hamburgers and hot dogs, with ketchup and raw onion. The men gang around and that one hour brings fresh life back to them.
Let's Get The Mail There! THOSE ARE THE little things that completely
alter the tone of the men. And they want real Amer- |x
ican news broadcasts and American radio entertainment to link them with life at home. I found neither the officers nor the men able to keep up with affairs at home. They do not see newspapers at all. A few magazines are passed around, usually several months old. Time magazine is beginning to get its airplane edition through, but the ones I saw in India a few weeks ago were of dates before Pearl Harbor. Mail from wives, mothers and sweethearts would
make American soldiers in Africa and Asia happy be- [Ba
yond anything else that could be done for them. I found them all uncomplaining otherwise, willing to go through hardships. They just want to hear a warm word from the home folks once in a while, and you can't blame them for that. Well, that's the message. Maybe there are not enough airplanes to permit carrying any mail. I don’t
know. But if there's any way to werk it out and get ’
fast mail over, .t would be just abcut the finest return that could be made for what they are doing out in those Godforsaken backwashes.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
ill, and then went back to the apartment to see Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gould, who came -to tea. I feel a little shy about any guests I have here just new, because nothing is really completely in order. I do so many outside things when I am in New York City that I don’t arrange pictures and books and the things which really mean being settled. One of the readers of my column out in Michigan
sends me a note to tell me that one of his Norwegian |g
friends feels that John Steinbeck did not bring out sufficiently strongly, in “The Moon Is Down,” the cruel treatment which the Nazis have inflicted upon the people of Norway. It seems to me that, perhaps, Mr. Steinbeck in painting the picture he did of the old time German officers in the new Nazi frame, brought home something which might not have been believed if it had not been done in just that way. Many of us think of the young storm troopers as having been conditioned from childhood to cruelty, we do not realize how impossible it is for the older soldiers, in spite of what their feelings may be, to change to the Nazi theory of government and to prevent it from taking toll of the subject peoples. The picture Mr. Steinbeck painted lacked no horrors
13 CANDIDATES IN PRIMARIES BACKED BY BAR
Get Indorsement in Poll of 377.
By VERN BOXELL Thirteen candidates—four Democrats and nine Republicans—today had the official indorsement of the Indianapolis Bar association in their races for party nominations in the May 5 primary elections, Heading the list were Municipal Judge Dan V. White, who won over Edwin McClure, the 1938 nominee, by a vote of 213 to 91, for the Republican probate court judge nomination, and Judge Smiley Chambers, the incumbent, who defeated David M. Lewis, former prosecutor, 197 to 107, for the Democratic indorsement in the same race.
Blue Gets Majority
Prosecutor Sherwood Blue received a 210 vote to 94 approval by the association over his opponent, Glenn W. Funk, in the G. O. P. prosecutor race. The Democratic favorite was Oscar Hagemier, former deputy and assistant city attorney, who got 124 of the 304 vote total. Maurice T. Harrell was far in front of the other four candidates with a total of 80 votes. In the four-candidate race for the Democratic nomination to superior court, Room 1, Judge Joseph TY. Markey, the incumbent, was the winner with 122 votes, Thomas J. Blackwell getting 81, Leo X. Smith, 80, and Jacob Weiss 21. The Democratic race in room 5 showed Judge Herbert E. Wilson with a 178 total to Chalmer Schiosser’s 126, but of the 109 Democratic votes cast, 55 went to Mr. Schlosser.
Republican Indorsed
The other Republican candidates receiving indorsement were: William D. Bain for judge of criminal court; Mark W. Rhoads, juvenile court judge; Davis Harrison, superior court, room 1; Hezzie B. Pike, room 2: Sidney S. Miller, room 3; Joe Rand Beckett, room 4 and Ralph Hamill, room 5. A total of 377 ballots were cast by bar association members, according to Harvey B. Hartsock, chairman of the judiciary comittee which conducted the poll. Sev-enty-three, thrown out because they were not accompanied by signature cards, were from members not in good standing or were improperly marked.
All Ballots Secret
The secret ballot was used in the poll, but each was marked by the voter for party affiliation, and the total counted included 108 Democrats, 10 independents and 185 Republicans. No vote was taken in the five races where the following Democratic candidates were unopposed: Municipal Judge John McNelis for criminal court, Judge Wilfred Bradshaw for juvenile court, Judge Herbert M. Spencer for superior, room 2; Judge Russell J. Ryan for superior, room 3, and Judge Henry O. Goett for superior, room 4. Mr. Hartsock also pointed out that Chalmer Schlosser, a Democratic candidate and a member of the association judiciary committee, “had nothing to do with the sending out
lots.” The complete results of the poll:
REPUBLICANS PROSECUTOR Blue... mn rn FAGK +oveoeovene, 98 3 es 04
YQwe ........- 8B} HB 4] JUDGE CRIMINAL COURT Bafa ....iu 56 % 121 198 CLLR N LAE 8 1 59 9% oe AULLLLENS 3 2 5 9 JUDGE JUVENILE COURT Boswell .........- 8 2 8B ou JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT, ROOM 1 PRISON vou ooe 50 5 115 190 2) Halle" wv 8 1 BR
» ROOM 2 Mellis ....cov0nne 31 2 40 53 fie ve 8 1 IR OG JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT, ROOM 3 Joint wove B03 of WB JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT, ROOM 4 Beckett Lo @ 1 1 IN JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT, ' ROOM 5 30 2 50 2 PE a } 8 9% DEMOCRATS PROSECUTOR
JUDGE PROBATE COURT
hus 0c 9 3 BRB JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT, ROOM 1 SLI ; Bi 2 Fah Laan v ° 5 21 JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT, ROOM 5 Soblesser oo... B 2 B® 1%
BREAKS WITH VICHY LONDON, April 23 (U. P.).—The Union of South Africa has broken off diplomatic relations with the
for me. Miss Thompson and I are leaving this morning for Washington... _.. :
Vichy government.
4 Democrats, 9 Republicans |
haven't forgotten it.” union business agents of Indianapolis “are among the highest type in the whole country.”
The Indianapolis Times U. S. Tank Cuts Up in Practice Drill
During tests at Ft. Belvoir, Va., a medium tank rises in wrath in a cloud of dust before overcoming an obstacle of logs piled in the form of a orib.
SECOND SECTION
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A pledge that “labor as well as
represented in my administration” was made by Henry Ostrom, candidate for the Republican mayor nomination, at a meeting of the Republican Wage Earners League last night. He expressed his appreciation for “so many assurances of labor support that I have received from so many sources, and when I am elected mayor, labor as well as all other groups will get a fair deal from me. “In these days when none of us knows just what lies ahead, none of us can take our responsibilities lightly. Labor has a definite responsibility to the community, just as the community has a responsibility to labor. There must above everything else be a sense of reasonableness on the part of both.”
Lauds Union Agents
He pointed out that in the past “I have worked side by side with some of you men here tonight and I He said that
After 8. P. Meadows, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America general treasurer, had lauded Mr. Ostrom as “absolutely reliable and dependent and he will never say ‘yes’ when he means ‘no’,” the Wage Earners League adopted a resolution indorsing Mr. Ostrom’s candidacy. “His life-long friendly and fair dealing is known to all of us in labor,” the resolution said and requested members of the A. F.of L., C. I. O, Railroad Brotherhoods and unorganized wage earners who are members of the non-factional G. O. P. organization to support him in the primary May 5.
Union Leaders Speak
Other speakers at the meeting were William L. Yager, Radio Workers C. I. O. and league president; Mrs. Mabel Lowe, United Garment Workers local president and a state legislature candidate; J. Otto Lee of the Typographical union; Peter Taylor, president of the S. W. 0. C. Link-Belt local, and James Wadsworth and Frank Downing of the same union; S. E. Henderson of the
| Hod Carriers; Courtney Hammond,
painters local; John Schumacker, city council candidate and member of the musicians union, and Albert W. Sullivan, league secretary.
White Speaks Twice
Meanwhile other candidates swung their speaking campaigns into high gear and Municipal Judge Dan Vv. White, candidate for the Republican probate court judge nomination, said at two party rallies: “The probate court judge becomes the legal referee of all of the wealth of Marion county and is intrusted by law with the lives and future welfare of children and minors to such an extent that he should respect the highest ideals of Christian faith and be selected on the basis of character, legal training and executive ability. “I believe that my record shows unmistakably that I am qualified to
HOLD EVERYTHING
Candidates Push
all other groups, will be offictany |
Ostrom Pledges Labor Representation; Speaking C
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Shown at headquarters last night (left to right): Front row, 8. P. Carpenters and Joiners of America
secretary.
do a good job of administering the estates and the matters devolving upon the judge of the probate court.”
Blue Urges Tolerance
Prosecutor Sherwood Blue, speaking at 628 W. 10th st. said “it is the duty of the prosecuting attorney to protect the person and property of individuals. But it also is as important to protect the liberty and rights of the accused and to administer the office without fear and without regard to race or creed. “In our administration for over a period of 15 months,” he added, “that principle has not only been promised, but it has been practiced. In the selection of my staff, I have adhered to this principle. Defendants, irrespective of race or creed, have been dealt with alike. When a young person has come before the court and is a good rehabilitation risk, we have, irrespective of race or creed, recommended and consented to probation. “I call attention to this particu=larly at this time for the spirit of tolerance is so necessary now that our country is at war and all must work together in the common cause. When the national life is at stake, no lines are drawn of race or creed. Likewise, in the administration of justice, no such lines should be drawn, and I submit that neither myself nor staff has ever, by action or utterance drawn such line.”
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Meyer at Garfield
Discrimination against men in war work and other labor because they have reached the age of 40 should cease, Howard M. Meyer, Republican candidate for the congressional nomination, told the Garfield Republican club last night. “It is not only unfair but it is un-American,” he asserted. “It is ridiculous to believe that the usefulness of a man ends when he
Indorsement of Henry E. Ostrom for the G. O. P. mayor nomination was announced today by the Republican Wage Earners League.
Courtney Hammond of the painters union. Yager, Radio Workers C. I. O. and league president; Pete Taylor, president of the Link-Belt S. W. O. C, and Albert W. Sullivan, league
am
paigns
after adopting the resolution are Meadows, United Brotherhood of general treasurer; Mr. Ostrom, and Back row, William L.
as America is engaged in an all-out war effort, it is up to us to use every ounce of available man power.” He also said that congress should without delay pass a law which would provide adequately for the dependents of men in America’s armed forces.
Asks: Party Harmony
A plea for an “open primary” to promote party harmony was made by Charles Mendenhall, seeking the G. O. P. nomination for judge of superior court 5, in several talks. Listing attorneys who had indorsed his candidacy, Mr. Mendenhall said that if nominated and elected it would be his intention to run his court “in such a way that the people’s interests are not forgotten.”
I. Sidney Stein, a Democratic candidate for state representative, told the Pals Club at the Hotel Lincoln last night that “it is the responsibility of every voter to devote some thought to the candidates of the different parties and to the laws that will be proposed. If these laws are objectionable or detrimental to the welfare of our citizens, their voices should be heard. Too many people are prone to criticize the law makers and yet take no active interest in seeing to it that the proper representatives are chosen.”
QUINTUPLET TO ENTER TORONTO HOSPITAL
TORONTO, Ont, April 23 (U.P). —Marie Dionne, one of the quintuplets, will be brought from Callander to Toronto’s hospital for sick children today for further examination of her ailing leg. Three months ago several physicians examined Marie at Callander and found no serious trouble. Specialists at the hospital, it was
reaches the age of 40. At this time,
muscular atrophy.
Files New Test
Another legal test of the 1941 juvenile court law was started today in criminal court. Ira Holmes, attorney representing one of four youths involved in 21 automobile thefts and a series of holdups; filed a motion in criminal court challenging the right of Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of juvenile court to waive jurisdiction in cases of boys under 18. The new juvenile court law gives a jubenile court judge the right to
waive jurisdiction over boys between 16 and 18 in cases involving
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of 1941 Law
Covering Juveniles’ Cases
handle in juvenile court. Recen
learned here, will try to determine whether she is suffering from a
crimes of a nature too serious to
tly Judge Bradshaw waived Jurisdiction on a 17-year-cld youth involved in an automobile theft and
GAS RATIONNG STARTS MAY 15 ON EAST COAST
Motorists May Be Limited To as Little as 2 Gallons Weekly.
WASHINGTON, April 23 (U. P.). —The United States no longer will risk the lives of sailors so that civilians can have gasoline to go to a bridge party or to a ball game. The heads of five major governe ment agencies issued that statement today after announcement that a gasoline rationing program for 17 eastern seaboard states and the District of Columbia starts May 15. Officials said the average motorist probably would not be allowed more than five gallons of gasoline a week and that it might be as low as 2% gallons. The American Automobile Association reported that average passenger car consumption in 1941 was 55 gallons a month. The rationing order will affect almost 11,000,000 automobile owners. Curtailment of non-essential use of gasoline in the eastern area will ease a shipping situation that has been growing more acute since the war began. The order is an interim plan to be put into effect promptly. By July 1 it is expected to be replaced by a permanent order.
Ickes Assails Low Gas Quota
WASHINGTON, April 23 (U. P.) .—Petroleum Co-Ordinator Harold L. Ickes today told a press conference he “refused to believe that people will be put on any such short rations” as the 2% to 5 gallons of gasoline per week announced by the office of price administration. He described the OPA statement regarding the May 15 rationing in 17 Eastern states as “very unfortunate.” Mr. Ickes refused, however, to speculate on the most likely quota which will be allowed “non-essential” motorists when the OPA rationing order becomes effective May 15. He said speculation already has “caused considerable misapprehension” on the part of the public. Mr. Ickes alsc disclosed that he sees “no immediate need” to extend the rationing program to all parts of the nation.
The program will affect only pase senger cars. Specifically exempted are trucks and other motor vehicles that are readily recognized as come mercial, including taxis. Registration for rationing cards will be conducted on May 12, 13 and 14, by local rationing boards which have handled the rationing of cars, tires and sugar.
Five Types of Cards
Five types of ration cards will be issued. Card “A” will be given to the average motorist upon presentation of his owner's registration card. He will then receive a ration book which will permit him to buy seven units of gasoline. The OPA said that any or all of the units may be bought at any time or in smale ler quantities. The value of units probably will be shifted according to such devele opments as the shipping situation. Doctors, war workers and others whose work requires mileages greater than the average motorist will be given cards permitting them to obtain greater quantities.
Plan ‘X’ Cards
Cards “Bl,” “B2” and “B3,” good for 11, 15 and 19 units, respectively, will be given to passenger car owne ers who state in an application that their gasoline needs fall within cere tain specified mileage limits. In addition to the “A” and “B” cards, there will be an “X” card for owners whose gasoline needs cannot be estimated in a definite number of miles. A normal supply of gasoline will be allowed for non-highway uses. Until the program goes into efe fect federal officials “urged motore ists voluntarily to limit their cone sumption of gasoline to a minimum.” The states covered by the order are Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massa chusetts, New Hampshire, New Jere sey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Colume bia.
WAR QUIZ
1. In this insignia the creatures playing about the center object are not exactly flying fishes, but they do indicate the wearer is connected with the Navy. He is not the