Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1942 — Page 19

FRIDAY, MAY I, 1942

fa |

he Indianapolis

mes.

oosier Vagabond

* Editor's Note: Ernie Pyle is in poor health and is or a rest. Meanwhile, The Times, following reader's desires, is reprinting some of Ernie's better-

~dmown columns.

~ § BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 5, 1938.—Tho owners of the

“Villa Maria” were not at home when we In fact, they live there only part of the

a; Eig For this little 5000-acre kingdom is only one of

~ orders from men in the armed forces.

* mothers, and both with incorrect addresses.

=

their drops in a bucketful. The estancia is a family affair. Dr. Celedonia Pereda is the head of the family. It is an old and rich one in the Argentine. Their holdings are so great that it takes an office staff of 15 people in Buenos Aires to handle the bookkeeping. This estancia we visited is sort of a concentrate. Here they raise only blue-blooded bulls and blueblooded rams. Their big estancia, where they produce cattle for the market, is far in the interior. It's Bette bigger—175,000 acres! And they also have great timber lands in the north. Members of the ~ family have homes in Buenos Aires. They travel a , great Geal. But some are liable to come to Villa Maria any day. It takes more than 100 people to run the place. There are 80 men actually handling the cattle and sheep. And it takes another 30 or 40 to staff the ' mansion and care for the 75 acres of parking grounds.

a.

Most of the Handlers Are Basques

Half a mile from the house there is a settlement, almost like a town. There are homes for the married

¥ workers: dormitories for the unmartied ones.

By Ernie Pyle

Most of the stock-handlers are Basques, The men took us past the stalls, and explained the fine points of each royal bull. Many of the men spoke English, and they beamed with pride in their balls. The bulls were gentle, and seemed not to mind being petted. One bull had a lead weight on the end of each horn, put there to draw the horns down into a straight line. Like champion dogs and cats, these bulls’ must look just right for the judges at the cattle shows. We felt knowingly of the animals’ withers and thighs and what not, and I pulled the boner of calling one of them a steer. These bulls have sold for $10,000. But this year prices are way down. They can’t get more than $2000 for them now.

The Big Sissies!

We went to another barn. A dozen or so of these great beefy bulls were tied closely to racks along the side of the shed. “We're about to feed them,” said one of the Basques. The bulls were well onto two years old, and would wengh three-quarters of a ton. And then what do you think happened? They brought up milk cows, and these stalwart bulls, the big | sissies, turned to and had their dimer just like little calves. Eahh one drinks about 30 quarts of milk a day. If takes two or three cows just to feed one bull. Not only that, it takes a certain kind of cow to give the proper nourishment for a certain bull. The bulls are never turned out to graze. After two years, they're fed a careful mixed grain preparation. Once a day they are taken out for a little exercise, like a race horse. The rest of the time they spend in their stalls, knee deep in clean straw, grazing fondly at the medals and trophies of their forebears ha hang from the rafters.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

CLARENCE GREENE, the florist, is having trouble

these days locating recipients of telegraphed flower Two orders

‘were received before Easter from Hawaii, both for One

was located two weeks later, living in a trailer. Mr. Greene still . is searching for Mrs. Emma McGraw, whose address was given to him as 919 N. Emerson ave. . . Mrs. Leah I. Marks, 5339 N. Illinois st., has been having trouble teaching one of her young piano students the meaning of half notes, quarter notes and eighth notes. Finally, in desperation, she obtained a potato, cut it in half, , then in quarters, then in eighths, and gave the 8-year-old the poIt wasn’t long until the young-

|

tato to play with. ster had the idea.

Need Donors? That's Easy

BILL BOOK of the OC. of C. called his old friend, Virgil Shepard of the welfare department, up to his office the other day and asked him to serve volunteer in seeking Red Cross blood donors. » said Shep. Just then the phone rang. And while Bill was talking on the phone, Shep signed up five C. of C. workers. We'll bet Bill blushed. . .. A tire repairman tells us a large part of his business used to be repairing curb cuts. That part of business

- now has dropped off to almost nothing. People are

driving more carefully. . , . Seen on the East Side:

* An auto drivers by a home decorator. It had fenders

painted a light blue, while the body was covered with what appeared to be white stucco, just like you'd find on a house. There was green trim around the windows and at the corners. It was quite a sight.

Washington

i : WASHINGTON, May 1—We haven't yet taken in what this war is doing to us at home. We haven't yet realized that the basic condition at which the New

Deal aimed its fight for so many years has disappeared, For a decade we had the problem of the un-

employed. That was the great shadow over this land on that summer day in 1932 when Franklin D. Roosevelt stood before the Democratic national convention in Chicago and proclaimed the New Deal. We faced the problem of idle men, idle money, idle machines. It was the problem of the one-third which was ill-fed, illclothed and ill-housed. ‘During the decade of depression, we needed to use every possible device to stimulate consump-

- tion, to increase wages, to subsidize mass purchasing

power, to pump money into public works and to avoid _ deflationary measures like the sales tax which would _ bear down on consumption, The urge on the government, on industry and on the individual was to . spend,-to accelerate the turnover of goods, to jolt the

3 ‘nation’s economy off the dead center on which it was

“stalled. Throughout most of the Roosevelt period that has been, in jErenler or less degree, the basic

hie

Practical Men. Change Their Courses NOW THE CONDITIONS are reversed. From a

‘surpivs of labor we go to scarcity so that even young

girls may have to go into factories in large numbers. In the year through which we are passing the amount id out in wages and salaries may increase by more in $25,000,000,000. Mass purchasing power is being adec with money, And at the same time goods

-with a surplus of labor, a surplus of factory , a surplus of farm commodities, but with ities in all of them. Instead of a shortage of

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—For the first time in ny months the president saw a movie, “Reap the

picture certainly had a critical‘ udience and everyone found it ab-

We're the Boys—

THREE RAF pilots just over from England and en route to New Zealand “took over” the Claypool tavern Wednesday night. After a couple of drinks, they began singing English songs, and everybody drifted around them, offering free drinks and calling for encores. The one that particularly caught the crowd’s fancy, we're told, was, “We are the boys from way down under.” They had to repeat it several times. . . . Jake Feld, the tire man, is boasting that

* a tire he put on a W. C. Borcherding Lumber Co.

truck 13 years ago was off the rim for the first time this week when it had a puncture. We were a little dubious so Jake had the company call us. “Jake’s wrong,” they said. “It went 16 years without a puncture or being off the rim—not 13.” The truck is used only in the lumber company yards and hauls heavy loads, BUT—and here’s the moral—its tires are kept properly inflated.

Gets $1000 Bill as Gift

DON J. GRUBE, state manager for Seagram Distillers, Inc., received a nice gift from the 14 Indiana

liquor wholesalers—his customers—at a dinner given

by Seagram Wednesday night at the Claypool. It was a $1000 banknote to pay for a “little boy's room” at the home Don is building at Logansport. Since he has two girls but no boys, he said the money would be used to add a room especially for the wholesalers and their salesmen. . .. The William H. Block Co. has placed a plaque in°the employees’ restaurant on the eighth floor. It lists 66 employees now in the armed services. . . . There’s quite a wide variety of entertainment scheduled in the city over the weekend. For instance, there’s Cole Brothers’ circus today, tomorrow and Sunddy; the piano festival Sunday afternoon and evening; the Western Riders association affair Sunday and the V. F. W. parade Sunday afternoon. With so much competition, somebody may come out the short end of the horn.

By Raymond Clapper

buying power we now must deal with an excess of buying ngwer. What does that mean for the New Dealers whose economic thinking has shaped government policy these last 10 years and who will have much to do with shaping it now under these new conditions? It means that the practical New Dealer, the realist, like the practical skipper must change his course to meet the change in the wind. The virtue of the New Dealers was that they could discard textbook theories and deal with realities. The Roosevelt administration was’ realistic enough to ignore: the doctrinaire economists and get on with the practical business of feeding the unemployed and trying to find work for them, It was no time to be riding sound asleep on the sacred cows of economic theory. ;

Forget What You Were! ME

NOW THE QUESTION is whether the New Dealers will again be as realistic. Don’t forget that the economic royalists were realists in their day. They just failed to discover that the world had taken a sudden change on them, They had become ossified, and clutched to theories that wouldn’t work in the midst of complete stagnation. If the New Dealers keep looking back to what they said a few years ago when conditions were different, they will also turn up stranded and muttering about policies that would be as fatal to the existing situation as Herbert Hoover's were to the situation which was suddenly thrust on him in 1929. For instance, the New Deal always has opposed a genera] sales tax. The reason is that it would bear down on consumption, particularly in the lower brackets, whereas the need then was to increase consumption and the standard of living, Now we need to cut down the standard of living, We need to do'the very things the sales tax would do, Reasons for not adopting it before are the very reasons for adopting it now when conditions are reversed. It’s something to think over. And you can be more realistic if you forget you ever were a New Dealer or an Old Dealer and just start out fresh on the basis of things as they are today.

1

By Eleanor Roosevelt

a admired the dogwood which is now out every~ re. Just because if is war time, I think our senses are sharpened to beauty in our surroundings as they never are in ordinary times, when we do not count our blessings day by day. This afternoon, some hundred people connected with the navy relief entertainment, which is being given tonight by the Hollywood caravan, are coming io a small formal reception in the garden, which I

_ hope will be pleasant for them.

I am distressed to find that $18,000,000 was cut

out of the District of Columbia housing appropriation

lor war workers, This sum Was intended for the

well to have convinced the congressional committee| |

that it really exists. I hope they can do so in the near future. I doubt that the suggestion that workers coming here be told to leave their families at home and consider it their war contribution will have the desired results.

Our objective today is to get the greatest amount of work out of every indiviqual Moving men or

CARRY PIANOS HERE FOR FETE

Rushed for Concert in

Coliseum Sunday.

Fifteen trucks,” loaded with pianos, rolled out of DeKalb, Ill, last night bound for Indianapolis and Indiana’s Grand 164-Piano Festival in the fairgrounds’ coliseum Sunday. Special platforms are being built to take care of the pianos that will be used for the festival. An elaborate’ podium is under construction for Frank O. Wilking, conductor and originator of the festival, and another platform is being built on a higher plane for the tiny baby ensemble, 12 pianos of four octaves each.

200 to Sing in Choir

A choir of 200 voices from the combined Indianapolis Symphonic choir, directed by Elmer A.:Steffen, and the Maennerchor male chorus, will be seated on a tiered platform. Special seats for the players are being erected nearthe playing floor. The coliseum is elaborately decorated in red, white and blue bunting to further the patriotic theme because of the sponsorship of Indiana state guard to which all net proceeds will be given to be used for additional equipment and

Another military touch will be presented by the various groups of participants who will march and counter march to and from the pianos as they present their parts of the program. One hundred at a time, the groups have practiced for the past seven weeks for an hour and a half, twice a week. The grand rehearsal will be held all day tomorrow when the participants will be given special instructions in marching.

Flag Ceremony Set

To be presented at 2:30 and 8 p. m. Sunday, the event will feature 125 pianos for the ensemble players with two pianists seated at each piano, 25 pianos for the artists’ group, two more grand piahos for two noted Hoosier musicians, Bomar Cramer and Ernest Hoffzimmer and the 12 baby pianos. One of the largest flags in the state will be raised during the singing of the “Star-Spangled Banner” by Frank Parrish, well-known Hoosier singer. The festival also will be a setting for the world premiere of a special concerto arrangement of Moszkowski's “Valse E, Opus 34, No. 1,” which will be given by Mr. Hoffzimmer and Mr. Cramer. : The state guard will have ‘charge of the ticket sale at the coliseum. They also will take the tickets, usher and manage traffic. Tickets are still on sale at the Wilking Music Co., 120 E. Ohio st., the adjutant general's office in the state house, Haag’s Claypool hotel store or from any member of the state guard.

GRAND JURY ACTION ON PELLEY DELAYED

The federal grand jury which will consider the case of William Dudley Pelley, charged with sedition, will meet next month. B. Howard Caughran, district attorney, and his staff are preparing the evidence to be . introduced against the publisher of the now suspended Galilean. It was at first believed that the Pelley case would go before a special grand jury session this month, but the vast amount of evidence being prepared has forced postponement until June, federal officials said.

FORMER EDITOR, 93, DIES AT RICHMOND

Times Special RICHMOND, Ind. May 1.—Services were to be held today for B. F. Wissler, former editor of the Richmond Sun-Telegram and superintendent of Wayne county schools. He was 93 and died Wednesday. He was an organizer of the Richmond Chautauqua and the Wayne County Anti-Tuberculosis society, a member of the county board of charities and corrections, director of the old Richmond Building & I.oan association, president of the Cambridge City school board, deputy organizer of the Grange, assistant postmaster and was active in the Methodist church, Survivors are two daughters and four sons.

15 BIG TRUCKS |

198 Sarton

Ernest White of Brownsburg, Ind., prominent Hoosier horseman, is expected to be one of the leading contenders for honors at the annual saddle horse roundup Sunday at Gregg farms. The event, which is expected to draw 10,000 spectators, is being sponsored by the Western Riders’ association and the Lions club for war relief.

PLAN MEETING OF HOMEOPATHS

76th Conference of State Institute Scheduled Thursday, Friday.

Members of the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy will hold their 76th

annual meeting next Thursday and Friday in the Columbia club. High lighting the conference will be the annual banquet Thursday night at which Dr. Wilbur K. Bond of Greens Fork, Ind., president, will make his address. Members are to hear discussions on surgery, treatments and diseases by physicians from Indiana; Ohio ‘and Illinois. The meeting will be called to order by Dr. Bond at 1 p. m. Thursday. Following the business session papers ‘will be read by Dr. Benjamin Goldberg and Dr, Charles Eha, both of Cincinnati, Dr. W. A. Fromhold of Indianapolis and Dr. Bond.

Tell of Army Work

Additional speakers at the banquet will be Capt. Paul D. Grove and Capt Charles H. Fee who will discuss the physician in the army. A lecture on appendectomy and herniotomy will be given by Dr. J. 8. Carlo of Hammond, Ind. Speaking at the Friday morning session will be: Dr. F. A, Beardsley of Frankfort, Dr. Donald G. Gladish of Glenview, Il, Dr. Virginia M. Johnson of Chicago, Dr. Arthur Schultz of Ft. Wayne, ‘Dr. A. W, Holcombe of Kokomo and Dr. B. J, Teaford of Jonesville, Ind. Officers and delegates will then be named and the meeting will close with a luncheon,

ADD 29,000 ACRES FOR CAMP ATTERBURY

An additional 29,000 acres of land was acquired for the Camp Atterbury cantonment project yesterday when B. Howard Caughran, U. S. district attorney, filed a condemnation petition for the added fraet in Johnson, Bartholomew and Brown counties. The petition requested 29,436.91 acres to add to the 7200 acres acquired there some time ago. The buildings and farmyards on 20 to 25 tracts will be taken over by the government June 1. The rest of the land will remain in the hands of tenants and residents until July 1. The new acreage is expected to complete territory contemplated in the original project.

ling by

LEGION — NEW MEMBERS

TO CONVENTION}

{Rank and File Sentiment],

Sought on. Accepting Today’s Veterans.

Whether the new generation of soldiers shall be inducted into the American Legion was made an order of business today at the organization’s national convention Sept. 19-21. The action was taken this mornthe executive committee, which accepted a subcommittee report recommending that the matter be discussed by local posts and state conventions prior to the national convention. The final report, which yesterday was ordered back to committees for redrafting, was presented by Harry W. Colmery, of Topeka, Kas., past national commander,

Seek Convention City

It recommended that rank-and-file Legion sentiment be made known before the convention acts. Indications are that the induction of America’s new army will be the

“hottest” topic facing legionnaires

this year. Where the convention will be held this year, though, is still a matter 6f conjecture. Originally scheduled for New Orleans, wartime transportation difficulties made it necessary to move it to an inland city, Detroit already has placed a formal bid for it.

Omaha in Running

This morning it developed that Omaha and Ft. Worth may repeat their fight of 1926 for the convention, which this year will be streamlined for business purposes only. Officers and delegates only being eligible to attend. In 1925 Omaha won the -convention after what was practically a one-man fight by Clinton Brome, of Omaha, present department committeeman for Nebraska. Mr. Brome said today that Omaha undoubtedly would bid for the convention and Dr. W. J. Danforth, executive committeeman from Ft. Worth, indicated that his city will be in the scramble, too.

Deadline is May 9 If both make bids, that would make a total of three cities seeking the convention. About five or six bids in all are expectéd before the deadline May 9. After that the convention liaison committee will meet in Chicago to make recommendations and the executive committee will be tele-

graphically polled to choose the

site. Maj. Gen, James A. Ulio, U. 8S. army adjutant general, described the reorganization of the army for wartime purposes and a report on national defense was to be made by Warren W. Atherton, of Stockton, Cal, at today’s session of the executive committee.

Discuss Raid Wardens Ray Murphy, of New York, past national commander, is to discuss the Legion's program of training 1,250,000 air raid wardens and Frank N. Belgrano Jr., also a past national commander from San Francisco, will report on the Legions war bond drive. Among other reports scheduled today are those on foreign relations, legislation, child welfare, law and order, national co-ordinating, veterans’ employment, veterans’ preference, transportation and orphans’ education. Among distinguished guests yesterday were Paul V. McNutt, chief of the nation’s manpower mobilization division, and Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service director.

BOY IS HANGED WHILE PRACTICING ON KNOTS

EAST'CHICAGO, Ind., May 1 (U. P.) —Billy Stahlhut, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stahlhut of East Chicago, was found dead yesterday, his body hanging from a rope that was stretched from a pipe in the basement of his home. The parents said the youth went to the basement to practice knottying shortly before his body was

discovered.

It's going to be much easier now for a newly inducted draftee to get a furlough from the army to return home dnd wind up his personal affairs. 1

HOLD EVERYTHING

Col, Robinson Hitchcock, state draft hoard head, announced today that the war department was liberalizing its furlough policy and would grant furloughs on the recommendations of local draft boards. “Local draft boards,” he said, “have been instructed to attach to the delivery list for each group of prospective inductees the names of those for whom furloughs are recommended, and the selective service system has been assured by the war department that such furloughs will be granted i recommended by the local board.”

Hardships In Past Cited

There has widespread criticism of the war department’s

|morith-old policy of inducting regis-

trants on the same day they pass their physical examinations and

Furloughs Are Made Easier For Newly Inducted Men

who are inducted. In the past there were some cases of hardship under the present system of inducting forthwith selectees who passed their final physical examinations at the reception centers. “Some men, expecting induction, had made final disposition of their personal affairs and then rejected,” the colonel said. “Others were .considerably inconvenienced after induction while awaiting leave to adjust pressing personal matters.

Leaves Up to 10 Days

“Now, every prospective inductee can be assured that if he requires reasonable time to return to his

Hollis B. Paul, right, accepted

a flag from Governor Schricker on

behalf of employees of the International Machine Tool Corp. this week for their 100 per cent participation in buying war bonds.

{ "

International Tool Workers

Go All-Out on War Bonds

If HIROHITO COULD see what the employees at the International

Machine Tool Corp. have done to plant, he’d run up a white flag.

The objective was to sink as many of Hiro’s boats as possible by buying bonds. If 10 per cent signed up, that would mean one less boat on the chart.

Plant Presented Flag

When the drive opened April 12, the Jap navy didn’t have a chance, All went to the bottom and the American vessel remained alone on the chart. In honor of this accomplishment, Governor Schricker was at the plant this week and presented the company an American flag, showing that all the employees of the compsny were buying war bonds on fhe payroll deduction plan. Over and above this, the workers stand squarely behind the 10 per cent | payroll deduction plan of President Roosevelt and hope to achieve this in a short time.

Credit Given Union Head

The company. gave credit to Dorsey Danforth, president of the local union at the plant for pushing the bond campaign to the limit. Those who took part in the flag ceremony were Warren Hannum, vice president and general manager of the Libby division of the company; Hollis B, Paul, plant manager; E, Lloyd Jacobs, personnel director, and Mr. Danforth, Freeman Snyder, William Martin and Homer Schnitzius, employees representing the International .Association of Machinists. So enthused over the progress made in the war bond campaign, the employees no longer accept the slogan “We can! We will! We must!” Now it’s “We had to! We could! We did!”

What’s What at Allison’s

AROUND ALLISON'S: Patrol Service 1 has taken over first place in the Allison A. C. bowling league. Members and their averages are; Jim Jung, 182; Dan Stylers, 169; Paul Melson, 167; Spig Erdman, 167, and J. Inasy, 181. . , . The rather drab attire of the boys in the inspection departments has undergone marked improvement lately. The secret? Girls have gone to work in these departments. The highest war bond purchasing average in the plant is held by Dept, 317. It’s $11.75 a man per week and they're proud of it. . . . Summer heat holds no fear for the plant 4 heat treat. They've entered a team in the summer bowling league. , , . Bob Lovett hauls nine Pastiagers to work in his car each Y. Homer Thompson is an amateur dentist. . The Allison baseball teann dropped a close decision to the Empire Life nine in the season’s opener, The score was 5 to 4 and a good crowd turned out for the ball game. . . . Bob Carlson has organized a golf league for plant 2. Beginning May 17, they'll play every Thursday at 4:45 p. m. Arrangements are also underway to set up leagues for plants 1, 3 and 4. . , . Added to that is talk of an Allison golf team to compete in the industrial league. : ”

RCA Contest Closes

RCA EMPLOYEES are an anxious group today. Yesterday the suggestion contest cane to a close at the east side plant and the winners of a trip to Virginia Beach and other prizes Syl xyucted 10" be announiesd In 3 few weeks. The contest was for employees to make suggestions as to the improvement of things vital to the war effort. Two will be given trips to the beach for the best sugges-

defense bond, automatically mak ing them a member of the } Century club. ,

REPORTS FREIGHTER SUNK

tions and also will receive, a $100

HAVANA, May 1 (U. P.).—The

a mythical Japanese navy at the

As a part of the war bond drive, the company made up a graphie chart with the picture of 10 Jap destroyers and one American battle wagon. Each ship represented 10 per cent of the plant employees.

ENLIST STORES IN BOND DRIVE

Retail Merchants to Push Payroll Savings Plan at Meeting Tonight.

Retail merchants of the city and county will open a drive to place their stores under the payroll save ings plan of war bond investment at a meeting at 7:30 tonight in the war memorial.

The enrollment of all stores as. stamp and bond sales agenciés also will be completed at the meeting, The meeting has been called by Murray Morris, county chairman of the war bond staff’s retail departe ment. Theodore B. Griffith, presi= dent of L. 8. Ayres & Co., will speak. Mr, Griffith is state chairman of the retail department... The MacArthur Week drive was in its fifth day today and prospects were that it would not quite be come pleted by deadline time tomorrow night. :

Pledges 25 Cents a Month

Officials of the drive reported that city and. county individuals were eager and willing to pledge part of their salaries and earnings to the purchase of war bonds. On the West side of the city a woman is signing up pledgers as they come into her dry cleaning establishment. © Another canvasser reports that she has signed every family in her area with the excep« tion of one and that family, she

else for support. On the South side a 79-year-old woman, recipient of old age assiste

from the $18 which she receives. The treasury department has set

purchased this month at $12,804,300, Marion county’s share of this quota is $2,994,700.

Smiths Honored By RCA Workers

A FAREWELL dinner was. given for Mr. and Mrs. John M. Smith last night at the Indians apolis Country club. by employees and officials of the R. C. A. plant here. Mr. Smith, vice president of the plant, has been transferred to the Camden, N. J, office, in charge of all R. C. A. production. An honor guest was Miss Mary ‘Louisé Slusher, secretary to Mr, Smith during his four years here, | who is also going to Camden. Among those ‘who attended

dent in charge of the local plant,

get, there “fustes: with the mo est toley sa inithe time of stalwart cavalry leader Forrest. The balf-track .- mechanized cavalry of -our today. It has a truck body front wheels, powered like a ta

TES. Ww Og

says, is dependent upon someone

ance, has pledged 25 cents a month

Indiana’s quota of war bonds to be