Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1942 — Page 15
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942
~The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Washingt WASHINGTON, May 14—Twbd American leaders from opposite sides within the last few days have said the same thing in different words. Vice President Wallace and Wendell Willkie have both made strong dppeals to the American people to follow a "iuld course in carrying through the war into the job of organizing the world afterward. { : Wallace and Willkie undoubtedly will disagree about many details. The important fact is that these two leaders in opposing political parties are urging the same fundamental outlook. * Last week Mr. Wallace told the Free World association that a world-wide revolution, beginning 150 years ago, is still going on and that we must prepare to face many changes after this war as the course of this peoples’ revolution proceeds. This week Mr. Willkie, in a commencement address at Union college, pleads with politicians in both political parties not to sabotage the victory by repeating the isolationism that followed the last war. He makes the pointed warning that men elected to congress this year may well be holding their offices
when the peace is being made and will have to decide
on much legislation concerning it. Mr. Willkie pleads that men who would make a mockery of the war sacrifice not be put in office.
We're All Going to School
VICTORY, HE SAYS, will only clear the way for the real task, for then we must use the full force of our influence and enlightenment as a nation to plan and establish continuing agencies under which a new world may develop—a world worth the fight and sacrifice we shall have made for it. Those are Willkie’s words, and damned wise ones. _ The whole American people :s going to school
By Raymond Clapper Ancient Busses Are Rebuilt to Meet City's Transportation Problem
again. We won't be graduated this year. Nor next year. All of us have to work at learning as hard as a class of young men trying to complete an officer’s training course in three months.
Once the commencement season was a time when stuffed shirts who had made a little money and had given some of it back to old alma mater returned to the campus, put on cap and gown and told the hot, bored youngsters who were waiting impatiently to get back to their girls how to succeed in life. 0 Usually the old chap had all of the answers, and could prove it by the endowment Fheck prevjously handed -over to the board of trustees. The formula was to work hard and save.
No Advice More Needed
THAT FORMULA used to work. Opportunities were all around for the taking. . But your filling station owners are now learning that, unless those Japs around on the other side of the world are held in their place, he can’t run his filling station. The enterprising young man who went to South America and built up a business finds now that the ships he depended on have been taken away because the American flag has to carry supplies to Russia, and his business. in South America folds. American soldiers are in the steaming jungles on the other side of the world. The daily routine of millions of households has been upset. Owners of thousands of businesses are either facing ruin or are working under government direction—all because of what has happened in Europe and Asia. We can't run our own lives any more unless we take a hand in running the rest of the world. We have to learn a lot about how to do that. Not many answers are known now. We have to learn. Our success in learning will determine how we are going to live in the future. Willkie and Wallace are telling us to open our minds and learn. No advice is more needed in American political life today.
Ernie Pyle, in poor health for some time, has been forced to take a rest. However, he : . is expected to resume his daily column within a short time.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
THERE'S A SILVER lining to every cloud—even when the cloud is the most terrible war the world has ever seen. The silver lining.in this case is the changing’ attitude of the public. As a result of the
war, people are getting better acquainted with one another; understanding others’ problems better. "This business of planting victory gardens has helped. There's . nothing that will get you acquainted with the neighbors any quicker than to fool around with a garden. Most everyone wants to stop and exchange data on this or that vegetable, or maybe lend you a spade or a hoe. Apartment dwellers haven’t any gardens — except window boxes — but theyre getting acquainted through air raid drills, and similar defense preparations. The number of motorists who pick up pedestrians -waiting for a streetcar is increasing, likewise. One of our friends reports getting free rides downtown four times in a week. All in all, it’s a pretty wholesome situation, and the trend will be greatly accelerated as the war ‘pinches civilians more and more.
‘What, No Phosphate?
THE CLAYPOOL lobby was in somewhat of a turmoii Tuesday with the bankers’ and morticians’ conventions going on, a part of the baseball team there, the state highway department letting awards to contractors, and the usual gathering of politicians chewing over the primary. There was hardly room for the “just sitters.” ... Donald Burchard’s pet peeve these days is the way the drug stores put out lemon or cherry phosphates without any phosphate. They just mix syrup. and carbonated water and it just isn’t right, he ;says. Well, Sherman was right, eh? . . . Overheard in front of the Claypool: “Well, you don’t appreciate a good wife until you get a bad one.”
Price Control
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 14.—Canadians who have the exacting job of holding prices stable are mingling admiration and doubts as they examine the system the United States adopted last week. If they were shaping their own scheme over again, the wartime . prices and trade board would include Leon Henderson’s order to the merchants to post the prices of a series of “cost of living” commodities. Some of the officers in Toronto believe the idea came from Canada’s experience. The proposal had even been considered here to confine price control to these essential goods. Canadians, or so I was told in
Toronto, probably would also omit
the restaurants from regulation. It turns out to be, as Washington must have suspected, next to impossible to police the menus. The visitor from the States, however, can’t complain at the prices of meals here, even though he may not like Canadian bacon. As for Canadian doubts of the American program, they range from surprise that wages were not included .in the price-control system itself, to sympathy . for Mr. Henderson's organization when it tackles the questions raised by seasonal merchandise in a country so large as the United States.
Wages Hold Central Place
CANADIANS LIVE ON a ribbon 3500 miles long and 50 miles wide and all have the same season at once. This greatly helps in regulating them. * In promising at the outset of the undertaking
My Day
BUFFALO, N. Y., Wednesday —I left New York City yesterday on a noon plane for Boston and spoke last night at the League of Women Voters dinner. At its national convention this year, the league agreed on a ‘war service plan in line with the work it has always done, but on a broader scale. They hope to spread knowledge about important government issues to great numbers of people outside the league membership. In the past they emphasized the education of their own members, now they realize that education for good citizenship must reach a wider field. They will translate their knowledge into action by participation in the primaries and at the polls. Their third objective is to make their local governments meet, war time demands. I held a press conference soon after arrival and ound there was great interest ee am which is to be given June 14 in the Boston Garden at the united nations war r for relief
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Sign on a house in £1 hate Hitler,
Speaking from experience? . . . the 1200 block of W. Roache st.: Mussolini, Hirohito and Jim Crow.”
Almost Fun Getting Pinched
THE MODERN traffic cop no longer climbs off his cycle and, with arms akimbo, inquires a¢idly: “Where's the fire, bud?” No, sirree. One of our law violating friends reports a run-in with one of Chief Morrissey’s minions this week. The officer climbed off his cycle, politely inquired: “Is there any reason why you should be driving 50 miles an hour, sir?” Informed there wasn't, he went about his business in about as inoffensive. a manner as possible. Posies to Officer 313 By the way, there seems to be a lot of broken glass on the city’s streets again. Maybe it just seems like a lot because it almost never gets swept up. The jagged pieces just lay there until auto tires either crush or pick up and carry them away. . There seems to be an increasing number of tires blowing out and scaring pedestrians (and the drivers, too) to death. Some of it is due to broken glass, undoubtedly. And then, some can be attributed to the forced use of “overripe” tires.
No USO Drive Here—Yet!
THE USO is conducting a drive for $32,000,000, but no one here is being asked for funds. The reason is that USO is one of the organizations in the United War and Community Fund campaign which will be held here next fall. Other organizations already sighed up for the united drive include the Community Fund, British War Relief society, Navy Relief society, Queen Wilhelmina fund, Russian War relief, United China relief, War Prisoners Aid committee and Service Men's club and canteen. . . . Speaking of coincidences, Francis Keating lived at 1903 Talbot st. here for a number of years. Several months ago he entered the armed forces and was sent to Australia. The first letter his mother received from him, he reported he was domiciled in an Australian city on—Talbot st. . Dick Fairbanks, market editor of The News, has been commissioned, we hear, as a lieutenant (junior grade) in the navy.
By John W. Love
last November that the cost of living would be controlled, the Canadians gave wage regulation a central place.
“The cost of living,” Prime Minister W. L. Mac-
kenzie King told the nation, “cannot be controlled un-
less wages are also stabilized.” The range of Canadian management of prices is broader than the American in some respects and narrower in others. Donald Gordon’s wartime prices and trade board looks after prices of newspapers, advertising, Canadian books and magazines, movie admissions, flour, eggs and poultry, butter and cheese and tobacco— all excluded in the American plan. Here the list of controlled servites is much shorter and the laundries and dry cleaners are already giving trouble.
Volunteer Shoppers Helping
A POINT OF DIFFERENCE on which Canadians take some pride is the organization of shoppers’ volunteer support for the plan. There are officials who think Washington will come around to it later, at least tc furnish assistance for the large numbers of
checkers, inspectors .and investigators the OPA is hiring.
Canada, they say, couldn’t afford anything so ‘elaborate. Miss Byrne Hope Sanders, former editor of The Chatelaine, a women’s magazine, heads the consumer branch of the prices board. She and onal coordinators now being appointed, of whom first is Miss Harriet Parsons of Toronto, are enlisting . the help of every women’s club in the dominion, - with a total membership of pertiaps 1,500,000.
By Eloano Roosevelt
At 5 o'clock, I spoke on the Harvard Crimson network on the present and future role of American youth in this war. j
Youth seems to have such a great role to play these days and its responsibilities seem so heavy that, as a
member of the older generation, I find myself grow-
ing humbler every day.
Our debt to the youth of this generation is piling up so fast it is hard to see how any of us will ever repay it. I left Boston on the night train for Buffalo, N.Y, and am having a busy time here. I keep learning day by day of interesting organiza-
tions in my Washington Square neighborhood in New|
York City. The last thing to come before me is an organization called the people’s symphony concert which for the price of one dollar provides a member with six outstanding concerts. You may choose what type of concerts you want to hear. They provide several series and have pianists,
‘dancers and string quartets. The best in practically
ale way be bad at a most of leat dans $10,
AIRLINES 1ST T0 RATION TRAVEL
Experience So Gained to Serve as Model for
Trains, Busses.
This is the third of a series of articles on the nation’s war-time transportation problems, especially as they affect civilian travel. Others will deal with the outlook for streetcars, busses and private autos.
By DALE McFEATTERS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 14.—Soon you must belong to one of roughly three classes of people before you can ride any distance on a train
or bus. These . preferred divisions are government officials, military and
naval personnel and businessmen or others on war missions. Rated in importance in the order given, these individuals will have first call on passenger accommo=dations under a preference rating system now - being worked out by the office of defense transportation. Severe shrinkages predicted for all forms of civilian travel have not been exaggerated, it was learned in discussions with representatives
of the ODT, Association of Ameri-| -
can Railroads, Air Transport association and other transporting agencies.
You May Have to Stand
It is not improbable that you'll have to stand during an all-night rail trip. war wher railroads possessed much more equipment than now.
It will take you hours longer to go from one point to another, an ODT official warned. Rail passenger schedules already are being disrupted by troop movements and emergency freight shipments. Many high-speed “through” trains, including - the famous streamliners, virtually will become “locals.” In setting up a system of preference ratings to govern train and bus travel, the ODT is expected to follow generally the plan in operation on the airlines. First applied to overseas aid service and now in. effect throughout the nation, the airline system includes five classes of preference ratings.
Civilians Lose Out oF They are:
any official dispatched on a special mission by the president. 2. Military pilots, particularly ferry pilots. 3. Military and naval personnel, other than pilots. 4. Military cargo. 5. Government employees, industrialists, businessmen and others traveling on war business, The average citizen doesn’t get a seat on a plane if any of these groups must be accommodated, Like the railroads, the airways must divert equipment to war needs. It is estimated that the army has taken 80 or 90 transport planes from the airlines for war duty. Before the war began there were approximately 350 planes in operation. Now there. are “about 260 or mn.
HOLD EVERYTHING
It happened in the. last] .
1. The. White House staff and].
| —Mrs. Cecile Bosworth, 35, blond
A new ‘part here and a few drops of oil there and Indianapolis has another bus to serve the war effort.
By TIM TIPPETT Indianapolis is having the worst case of growing pains in its history and the people who are most
aware of it aren't the people packed into the busses and streetcars but the people who “keep ’em rolling.” Out at 1140 W. Washington st. in the massive car barn of the Indianapolis Railways the mechanics and maintenance men are turning out “pretty old” streetcars and busses and they are just as important to the war effort as the tanks that stream off the production line across the street. This city’s transportation problem is terrific and to meet it the Railways company must, for the most part, use what equipment it has on hand, priorities being what they are. So with this problem uppermost in. their minds the company has had a scavenger hunt in the barns and lots, adjacent to the plant and has turned up with busses of the 1924 vintage and streetcars that “were new when I came here,” to quote a foreman who has been with the company for 23 years. Scaling off rust and putting a 20-
Mechanics at City Railways’ Huge Barns Also Put Old Kick Back Into Streetcars
odd year old streetcar in service after it has been “turned out to pasture,” and was just two jumps from the lunch car trade is no sim-
ple job. About 90 man-hours are used to get the trucks in safe working order and another 90 to clean and paint the car. However, once the streetcar is reconditioned, it is as safe and comfortable as the later models. Of course, the pick-up is a little slower but the ‘cars are to be used only as auxiliaries on heavy runs during the rush hours. One of these old cars was in the midst of getting its beauty treatment when we visited the barns. It’s an old one all right. The motorman must stand when traffic is heavy. Out on the residential street he can “plug in” a stool and sit down. > Most obviously different from its more modern sisters is the big wooden control box and the mechanical brake lever. In the rear is the “conductor’s well” where in the old days the conductor rested after collecting fares or spent his spare time brushing off “hitchhikers.”
On the backs of the metal seats, scratched in the paint are the names of those who were high school kids back in the twenties. “Margie and George” encircled with a heart appeared on several seat backs. It was probably quite a romance two decades ago. And right now their son is probably working away with a pen knife on a streetcar and romance of his own. The busses that will soon appear on the streets remind one of a rather plump old lady carefully picking her way over a wet street. They move with dignity and with caution. However, ace mechanics - have scraped out the carbon, manicured the tires and replaced enough brake lining to reach across the Circle if laid drum to drum. They run smoothly and their motors, after slumbering for 10 years, purr contentedly when a driver “gives: it the gun.” The equipment is old but the reconditioning the maintenance men have done will ease the transportation problem for thousands of “the men and women who each night and morning swarm to and from Indianapolis’ war industries.
RECRUIT GROUP TO WIN PEACE
State Victory Committee Being Organized Under Hugh: McK. Landon.
An Indiana Committee for Victory—dedicated to winning the peace as well as the war—was being formed here today under the chairmanship of Hugh McK, Landon, Indianapolis banker. The organization has offices in the Fletcher Trust building, room 918, and is inviting Hoosiers to join up. The committee is planning to sponsor radio broadcasts and meetings on a nonpartisan, non-sec-tarian basis.
Two Speakers Scheduled
Other officers besides Mr. Landon are Charles J. Lynn, vice chairman; John G. Coulter, secretary, and William B. Schlitges, treasurer. On May 28, Dr. J. A. de Hass, Harvard university professor of international relations, will speak under committee auspices at the war memorial. On flag day, June 14, Senator Ralph O. Brewster of Maine will speak at the Murat. Both meetings will be open to the public’ without charge. The. committee already has on
[its roster well over a 100 Indian-
apolis business and civic leaders. The. telephone number of the
Gets 2 Years in Embezzlements
FT. WAYNE, Ind, May 14 (U. P.).—Albert Racht, Ft. Wayne, who first embezzled $2500 from his employers and then took another $8000 which he fed to slot machines in an effort to win enough to pay back his original shortage, late yesterday was sentenced to two years in Indiana State prison. Racht had pleaded guilty last week to the embezzlement charge, but asked probation that he might have an opportunity to pay back the money. However, after reviewing the case, Circuit Judge Harry Hilgemann denied leniency. Racht said he took the original $2500 to pay a doctor’s bill for his children.
AT LEAST 60 DEAD IN ECUADOR QUAKE
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, May 14 (U. P). — A violent earthquake rocked Guayaquil and surrounding territory last night, killing at least 60 persons, smashing three large buildings and disrupting electric anc. communications lines over the metropolitan area. Among those reported killed were John Slaughter, said to be a United States vice consul, and his wife. . Gerald Temby, representative of the South American Development Co., an American mining enterprise, and his wife, also were reported dead. : The temblor lasted one minute in Guayaquil, a city of 96,000 in southwestern Ecuador. Heaviest damage
committee offices is Franklin 1233,
108 ANGELES, May 14 (U. BP).
wife of Actor Hobart Bosworth, retired on her folding cot in front of
(108. Pacific National bank building
{liad spent in the entrance to the
again early today. It was the second night that she
| building in downtown Los Angeles after she and her “home hospitality | volunteers” canteen service were evicted forcibly Tuesday on grounds >
ti} after midnight. Then she put up ‘her cot and retired. Service men as guards. The Mrs. Bosworth showed no evidence of fatigue after sleep-
was observed in the downtown area.
Troop s Guard Actor's Wife > Seoring Outside Canteen
agement. She announced that her fight “has just begun” and said she was determined to serve men in the armed forces, wherever she may be forced to move, as long as they come to her headquarters. Authorities did not attempt to interfere with her activity after two deputy sheriffs evicted her from the building. Mrs. Bosworth blamed another canteen service for her plight. “I'm only trying to break up the monopoly on service for the soldiers, sailors and marines,” she said, “If our group is wiped out, then God help the service men in this town. We operated the only complete Sibiu in the town.” W. Fenimore Ceoper, attorney for the building managers; said the
wn od geo
| sons live, were
JURY DISMISSED IN EVANS TRIAL
Fails in. Effort to Clear Woman if She Drops Title of ‘Doctor.’
A municipal court + jury, which sought to return a “conditional verdict” in the case of a woman charged with practicing medicine without a lcense, was discharged last night by Special Judge Davis Harrison. After more than four hours of deliberation the jury asked permission to return a not guilty verdict on the condition the defendant leave Indianapolis and stop using “doctor” before her name. Judge Harrison informed the jury that the law would not permit such a verdict and discharged the pane} after the foreman insisted that the jurors could not agree on any other verdict.
Arrested 3 Weeks Ago
Mrs. Fra Zee Evans, charged with prescribing food and soup. formulas for the treatment of diseases in health lectures went on trial Tuesday. She was arrested three weeks ago on evidence furnished by Better Business Bureau employees and women police officers. State’s witnesses said they attended several health lectures given by Mrs. Evans and that she prescribed various food and vitamin formulas for health treatments.
Witnesses Tell of Claims They testified that Mrs. Evans
juices made into soups prescribed
patients, grow hair on bald heads and eliminate tumors.” Witnesses testified that Mrs. Evans in her lectures told of several ‘“cures” through use of the food formulas in other cities. . Mrs. Evans, testifying in her own defense, denied that the “cures” she spoke of were her patients but explained she “had been told about them.”
CLAY WORKERS RETURN BRAZIL, Ind, May 14 (U, P).— More than 300 clay workers returned to their jobs today after two companies accepted a new union wage scale. But officials of a third company reported 150 men would be laid off as a result of war shipping restrictions which will force immediate closing of the plant. i
BROOKLYN. BLACKED fh NEW YORK, May 14 (U. P).— The T1 square miles of Brooklyn, in which more‘ than 2,768,000 perout last night for 20 minutes while 400’ de-
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claimed certain fruit and vegetahle|
by her would “rejuvenate aging|
One man can jack up these old cars but it takes 90 man hours to get those iron trucks rolling “right.
DRAFT DEFERS SKILLED LABOR
Manpower Shortage Brings Orders to Boards to Keep Men at Jobs.
WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P.) .—= Fast-growing labor shortages are forcing at least temporary defer ments from military service of vire tually all skilled war workers, it was disclosed today. “The question no longer is whether a man can be replaced,” one manpower authority said. “It's ene tirely a matter of whether he’s per= forming an essential job in an exe panding war industry.” If present measures to prevent drafting of badly-needed skilled workers are unsuccessful, he said, it may be necessary for thé United States, like Britain, to order blanke et group ’'deferments of such worke ers. $
Directives Issued
Blanket deferments would require new regulations, since the selective service act specifically prohibits them. Draft headquarters now is ate tempting to achieve the same re= sult through directives to local boards urging them to “consider carefully” the cases of registrants with critical skills. Two directives earlier this month urged special consideration for workers in the railroad, coal mine ing, shipping and shipbuilding ine dustries.
‘Freeze’ Farm Labor?
The new war manpower commise sion, which faces the task of finde ing replacements for such workers who are capable of inilitary serve ice, - reported that its first major action probably will be directed at growing shortages of agricultural labor. Fowler V. Harper, deputy chair= man of the commission, said “some * sort of makeshift order to freeze farm workers at their jobs” was & possible course of action.
OPTOMETRISTS TO MEET.
Orthoptics will be the general subject at the quarterly educae tional seminar of the Indiana Assoe ciation of Optometrists to be held Sunday at the Severin hotel with sessions at 10:30 a. m, and 3p m Papers will be read by Dr, Galen F. Kintner of Wabash, Dr. Robert W. Tubesing of Richmond and Dr, James H. Hammon of Vincennes.’ Dr. Thomas H. Cochrane of Indie anapolis is chairman.
What You Busy With WAR BONDS
TENTS HAVE BEEN essential” equipment of armies since Biblical days. U. 8. troops may need more than a million of them. ‘They are comparatively inexpensive, since one tent costs about $37.50.
savings bond. Our army likes the pyramidal tent ‘which provides space for five cots comfortably, Set on modern tent floors, wate repellent, they are equipped small stoves. You'll res tb