Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1942 — Page 9

{ WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1942

Washington WASHINGTON, May: 20.—Automobile owners will

be well advised to put little stock in talk of new pipelines and other ‘means of increasing gasoline distri-

bition.

Prout. Roosevelt has ordered a new study of the femsibility immediate construction of new pipelines, Dozens - of schemes are being furiously dis- . cussed around Washington, But ‘these are dreams that are not likely to come:true.in time to do us much good for this war. At ‘best months will be required and Bizable volumes of flow through - new pipelines would be nearly a year away with the best luck in . the world. Meantime as tires wear out cars will have to be laid up i even if gusdline should be available. ; ; ‘The averagé family might as well plan on the most restricted use of its car until’ ‘after the axis is licked. The privileged ones may have cards entitling them to fill up the tank, but they are going to have trouble getting gas anyway because the filling stations are going to be short. So the X card holders who don’t get all the gasoline they want may as well console

members of parliament have to go on the ration of

; two gallons a month allowed to the general public.

: better position today on gasoline.

If we had built pipelines a year or so ago when Secretary Ickes was urging it, the east would be in But that would

. have taken steel and there isn’t. enough steel for

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even more important needs. Some have suggested pipelines built of concrete but whether that is tech-

" nically practicable I don’t know.

By Raymond Clapper

Rationing Likely to Spread WHEN WE ARE abandoning construction of new

munitions factories because there is not enough steel to build them and at: the same time feed the ship-

yards and tank factories, it is not likely that we will |

divert any considerable quantities of steel for pipelines that can’t carry oil until well into 1943. That any considerable number of tankers will be restored to the Atlantic coastwise run to supply eastern centers is doubtful. The pressure for other uses is so strong that once having got down gasoline consumption in the east, the government is not likely to encourage an increase during the war. Rather, rationing may spread to the rest of the country, to conserve tires,

Make the Best of It

THERE IS AGITATION in congress for a barge canal across Florida. The house.rivers and harbors committee is looking into it. It is argued this would eliminate the steel which would be required for pipelines and that barges and tugs could haul oil through this route and up existing inland waterways along the Atlantic coast. Shallow craft would be used, but even so considerable dredging would be necessary. One merit of this plan, according to its advocates, is that the system could be in operation within four months, but that may ke an optimistic estimate. Army engineers estimate three years would be needed. This would all have sounded good a year or two ago. It might have been worth doing. But when the war is over we won't need these supplementary facilities, and while the war is going on it will be difficult to construct them without using up so much time and materials as to make it questionable whether the diversion is justified.

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

QUITE A FEW visitors were out at the airport

: watching the planes land and take off. Among them : was an out-of-town man who noticed the big trans- . port planes come in with all their windows blacked

out. He couldn’t figure. it out, so he stepped over to a police sergeant standing nearby and asked him. “Well, sir,” the sergeant replied courteously, that’s so no enemy spy who might be aboard the plane can snap a picture of any of our defense plants from the air.” “Oh,” said the stranger. “Thanks, but tell me— why are they taking people up for " $150 a head in that sightseeing plane — without the windows blacked out? Couldnt a spy go up in that plane and take pic- ? tures?” The cop looked puzzled a moment, then grinned: “Orders are a funny thing, sir.” And truer words never were spoken.

Fresh on the Job

' BETWEEN THE draft and commissions, changes in the personnel of various firms are being made right and left. For instance, Dudley Smith, the federal .salvage ‘director for Indiana, thought he knew all the Associated Press reporters in town. When one walked in yesterday and announced he was an A. P, reporter, Dudley asked: “How long have you worked for A, P.?” “Oh, about an hour and a half,” replied

the youth who introduced himself as Wilfred Lusher, recently of I. U. The ‘A. P. has lost three men in the last ‘ few days. Bob MacGregor, the realtor, reported at Notre ‘Dame as a naval senior lieutenant this ‘week . . . In case there’s any argument about the exact size and shape of the Messerschmitt warplane that was displayed here last week, you can settle it right away by visiting University park. The shape of the plane is outlined in grass—the grass that was under the plane while it was on exhibit. All

End Is Coming WASHINGTON, May 20.—There is a growing impression here that Hitler has already lost the first phase of his eight-day-old summer offensive against Russia and in so doing has dug his own grave. This does not mean that informed officials for a moment believe the Nazis have already hit the Russians as hard as they can. Nor that they are inclined to belittle the critical nature of the struggle that lies ahead. On the contrary, they say it is bound ‘to be of a nature to shake the world. To Hitler, the year 1942, is a matter of life or death. But, it is‘pointed out, whether by blunder or necessity, Hitler has already squandered two of his .most precious assets, namely the factors of surprise and initial success. Whatever gains he may make hereafter apparently will have to be won by plain slugging, a game which the Russians seem able to play as well. Until ‘ recently, the Nazis have relied almost as much on their war of nerves as on their guns. Long before the Polish invasion, Hitler, Goebbels and their propaganda army were daily telling the world what they could and would do to their enemies. And, truth to tell, the, German. army turned out to be pretty much as advertised. It overran Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland; Belgium and. France so rapidly that the civilized world was appalled. For the first 100 days even gigantic, Russia Seemed about to go the way of the others, :

Nazis H oop Pusse] Peak

THEN SO! G happened: The-Russian army

turned the Nazi advance into a retreat. At the same’ time the once seemingly all-powerful luftwaffe ceased

pounding away. at Britain, while the R. A. F. hit back at Germany with a fury and intensity that matched

WASHINGTON, Tuesday~T had an interesting morning visiting. First I .went to the school which

Diana Hopkins has attended this winter—St. Agnes

Episcopal school in Alexandria, Va, of which Mrs. Helen’ Macan is principal. ‘The school is situated on Bishop Lloyd's old family estate.

4 There ‘are’ only’ a‘small number of

: boardeis so’ that there can be a : feeling of real home life. The ad-

* ditional number of day scholars

.allows for rubhing up against more varieties, of human beings, which I think is very, good for young people, ; The staff seems to me very re. arkahle, for we went into no ~ cla ‘where there did not seem 10 be absorbed attention on part of ihe students. ) en to high school and the won’ a much coveted standing in the and French. 1 seems to: me almost as impor

around it is bare earth—the grass being ground into mud by thousands of feet.

Around the Town

LOOK FOR some of the biggest political figures in the state to leave for the army or navy soon. They want to be sure to get in before the war’s over. Particularly interested are those eyeing the 1944 or 1946 elections. They realize the advantage of being able to say: “I, too, fought and bled for my country.” . Over at the Circle Tower, they're telling the story about the man who visited Jim Strickland, the state rationing chief, and inquired if there is likely to be any restriction on leather, Asked why, he said he was a Dayton oil man and kept his money in $100 bills in a leather money belt. And, he said, he wore out two belts a year, so thought maybe he’d better lay in a supply. And he seemed to be serious about it, we're told. . . . Those immense trucks that go racing through town (eastward) behind motorcycle sirens carry. high explosives for the army. Better keep out of their way.

Yes, We Have No Gas Today

HOWARD S. MORSE, Water Co., general manager, and Welfare Director Tom Neal are among the fathers that have been straining their: brains trying to figure a way to drive east and bring daughters back from college. They both have considered having 100 gallons or so tanks built into the trunks of their cars. Tom had about given up and decided to go by train yesterday. We'll bet Scotty Morse decides on that, too. . It isn’t often that people have a chance to know what becomes of the money they contribute to this or that cause. But Indianapolis citizens who contributed to the purchase of three mobile canteens last year through Bundles for Britain now know where two of (he canteens are. Previously one ‘had been reported at a certain town in England. Sunday evening, Mrs. William Morris, manager of the Indianapolis branch of Bundles for America (successor to the British outfit), heard a broadcast from England telling of one of the Indianapolis canteens being used during an air raid at Exeter, England.

By Wm. Philip Simms

what the Nazis had done to the British. Just what will happen next, or where, is anybody's guess. The best posted officials here admit they are guessing like the rest. But certain fundamentals are pretty well established and these are encouraging. For instance: If Hitler had been able to spring a surprise offensive against Russia this year as he did in June, 1941, he would have. His failure to do so is regarded as significant. That the Nazi war machine has now reached, if not surpassed, its peak is regarded as certain.

No Wonder He's Unhappy

TO MILITARY OBSERVERS all this has meaning. The war in Europe this summer, they say, will almost certainly take one of three directions or a combina-

tion thereof. First, according to one school, Hitler may suddenly try to invade England, leaving a holding army against the Russians. Second, he may try a surprise thrust at the middle east, via Syria, with the help of Vichy-France. If successful, this would take him into the rich oil country by the back door. - Third, he may proceed against Russia, throwing everything he’s got into the next three or four months of fighting, win or lose all. ~~ These alternatives, however, open up still other questions. What, it is asked, will be happening to Hitler elsewhere while he tackles one of the other fronts? If he goes all-out against Russia, will be not be wide open to attack in western Europe? If he tries to invade England, won’t Russia invade Germany ‘from the East? And if he gets tied up in the middle east, won't he come to grief both in western Europe and Russia? * Little wonder that Hitler is reported to be an unhappy man.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

“government belongs to them and, having made the

rules, they must abide by them. .In study hall, there was a teacher, but I never

' saw a quieter and more orderly study period.

From the school, I went to the headquarters of the army personnel classification system. Dr. Walter V, Bingham, Maj. Gen. James A. Ulio and Col. Madison Pearson showed me around. From this particular group, go all the rules and policies which govern the classification centers in outlying places throughout the country. I was happy to see that while there are a great many experts who have evidently had long experience

- in the line in which they are working, they are also .using a great many young people who have graduated

from college recently and studied in some special field and won high honors.

I was a little late in getting back to the White’

House, so my friend Mrs. Adolph Miller and I are going to be a little late at lunch. We are gonig to a very old friend, Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, ‘who is staying here with her son and daughter-in-law. arrived, here some days ago from New Mesioa, not very:s not. :

Jure mark of “75.”

FAGES TRIAL IN MERIT GRADING

Police Corporal Accused of Increasing Marks of Candidate.

By LOUIS ARMSTRONG A corporal of the police department charged with changing the merit examination grade of a police

tried by the. safety board Tuesday morning at city hall. The officer's case was reviewed by the board yesterday. Chief Mor-

candidate to a higher mark will be] -

4 The: modern “two-car”

rissey said the defendant had pleaded guilty to changing the grade to another officer at headquarters but was pleading not guilty to a:charge placed against him of “neglecting his duty and conduct unbecoming an officer.” A statement prepared by the police| department charged ‘that the: corsa} poral. who had access ‘to the- office] where the examination papers were kept, shuffled through the stack at

around. Belitved Candidate Was Friend The statement said that when the officer in charge of the office returned he noticed one of the:papers has been-tampered with, The corporal a short time later told this officer that he had changed. the grade on the paper from “61” :to “82,” thus raising it abave the fail-

The corporal told the officer that he thought the candidate was a friend of his but later learned that the paper. belonged to another candidate by the same name. : Upon conviction of the defendant the safety board could disr charge his. from the force.

Favors Drastic Steps 3

Donald S. Morris, safety board member, yesterday told Chief Morrissey that drastic steps were necessary to control street walkers in Indianapolis, particularly around the Union station on S. Illinois st. ° Mr. Morris told the police ‘chigf and other members of the safely board that he" had received a number of complaints. = The complainants, he said, de= clared that soldiers who detrained at the station were “not safe” when they walked up Illinois st. Leroy Keach, board chairman, told Chief Morrissey that from the number of complaints received it was time to take emergency measures and he even suggested trying and sentencing - street. walkers at the scene of their arrests.

Close Watch Maintained

Chief Morrissey was of the opinion that the reports were exaggerated. He said his plsinclothesmen were working on the condition daily and that offenders were brought inte court in quite large numbers. He said “certain establishments” in the area of the station were particularly “bad spots” and these were watched with extra care by his men. The police chief said that some of the taverns of the city had beeh declared out-of-bounds by army

noon one day when no one else was|

FIGHT ON HIGH TAXES UNIFIED

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Nine Organizations Work Together Budget Vigil.

Under a -plan sponsored by Harry Miesse, ‘local government officials who seek “unnecessary” budget item increases this summer will find not one. but a whole host of representa= tives of nine: organizations interest ed in tax rate reductions that they

work together on the new budgets that are forthcoming.

Co-ordinate Efforts

The representatives of the various organizations, who were callea together by Mr. Miesse at a luncheon at the Columbia club, agreed that a co-ordinated : effort was advisable land. more specific. plans are to be

|formulated. at later meetings.

“We believe. we can best- study and’'combat high taxes of local governmental - units by. co-ordinating our efforts,” Mr. Miesse said. “Heretofore, several ' different : organizations have made independent studies and recommendations on tax levies and. budgets. . Under’ the new plan we will work together with the be-

through individual efforts.” ‘Groups Represented

Representatives of the’ various-or-ganizations interested in tax reductions that were present at the meeting were William H. Book, executive . vice presjdent, and Carl Dortch, research’director of the Indianapolis chamber of commerce; Murray’ H. Morris, manager of “the merchants’ association; Hassil Schenck, president of the Indiana farm bureau; R. D. Akin, secretary of the Indianapolis associated employers; Don E. Warrick, secretary of ‘the Indiana bankers’ association; Urban K. Wilde, executive secretary of the Indianapolis real . estate board; C. Prederick Schmidt, executive. secretary of the building owners’ and managers’ association; W.

'|H. Howard, secretary of the Indi-

anapolis beard of trade, and Walter Horn, William T. Mints and Mr. Miesse of the taxpayers association.

officials and when soldiers were found in these areas fhey were picked up by police. He said his

tacts for the street walkers.

Asks Reversed Bus Route

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trips in the -country. With the family car in the garage for one reason or another, it’s: no longer : customary to sit, pining on the front porch. : Face New Traffic Problems

People who know about such Americans own a bicycle today and

to get them. Government freezing, though, has put a check on the business, and so one has to look to the second-hand market, With the growing bicycle traffic, however, has come new traffic problems. A traffic violator on a bicycle is just as serious as one in a car in many cases.

"Keep to Extreme Right

For those who are new—or oldtime — converts to two-wheeled transportation, ‘the following pointers.are suggested: 1. Ride at: the extreme right of the street “with traffic’—and never on the left hand side. Don't zigzag. 2. Ride single file—never two:or more abreast. 3. Keep both hands on the handlebars. “ Leave “the: stunts‘ to’ vaudeville performers. 4. Never “hitch” a ride on another vehicle.

Put Packages In Basket

5. Carry all packages.in a basket, or attach securely to the bike where Shey will not interfere with steering, pedaling or vision. 6. Don’t ride double or carry: a passenger on the handlebars. 7. Keep. your headlamp and: rear reflector in good working order if you ride at night.” A rear light'is better than a reflector, And by all means have a horn or bell on your bike—and use it. -8.: Use ‘arm signals: when you ‘turn just as you did in the auto. 9. Dismoun t and walk across: busy

Dentists Urged

“ "The “first few minutes a child

¥ spends in. a dentist's office deter-

mines ‘his attitude toward dentistry Jor life, Dx, Buimitis A. Eulick of the University of Michigan told the

Gf Endians iio Distal ssyeiation to.

sponsibility of the dentist is great during the ‘critical half-hour” when a. pre-school child first 1s

{brought to a dentist's office. .

Increase i Pedaling Adds To City Traffic Problems

By FREMONT POWER : The common bicycle is ‘becoming something more than a contrary

things estimate that 9,000,000]

about that many more are -trying|’

Special Care

1. Jean Thomas, of 3023 Broadway, a Butler university coed, demonstrates how the safe bicyclist rides close to the curb, out of fast traffic. 2.:If you're in doubt as to what may be coming up behind you, stop and wait before you turn. 3. The wrong (left) and right way to leave your bicycle when net using it. Don't lay it dewn where it will be in the Wey of pedestrians.

garage.

Time was when junior banged up his knees on it for several years and then abandoned the whole thing when he was 18 or 20. But now housewives are doing their shopping 'via: the bicycles; father is riding one to work and the whole family may mount their wheels for Sunday

intersections. - Stop before making any turn if -yowre in doubt:as,to what is coming up behind you. Last year about 900 bicyclists were killed in’ traffic, a 29 per cent in-| crease over 1940. Even though it’s only a bicycle you're driving watch your step.

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST RETAIN STATE BOARD

LOGANSPORT, Ind., May 20 (U. P.).—Election of conference officers and selection of the 1943 convention site highlighted the closing program _today of the 103d annual conference of the Indiana Disciples of ‘Christ’ churches, .In a business session yesterday, the entire membership of the states executive board was re-elected. They were the Rev. R. C, Dillman of Brazil; H. H. Burkheiser, Mitchell; H. L. Erlewine, Marion; James Stewart, Indianapolis, and the Rev. Lee Jackson of Peru. Dr. Gaines M. Cook of Cleveland, secretary of the Ohio Christian churches; told the conference that state co-operation should be asked to stabilize churches in areas of shifting population due to war industries. : Such churches have been hit financially by decreases in population, and likewise are unable to assume the added burden of increases, he said. More than 700 delegates representing’ the 709 churches have attended the conference.

FINISHES BUSINESS COURSE Miss Rosemary Anderson, former

pupil at Tech high school, has been||%

graduated from the Beverly Business college in’ Washington, D. C. She is now employed in an. insurance firm in Washington.

fo Exercise | With Children

should: take time to answer all ques- | tions and should explain the equipment, instruments, materials ‘and

technics.” Dr. Easlick said many

become splendid patients when they he

are treated in this way.

“It has been said that there are| '

more grownup dentists who are afraid of pre- “patients than there are "pre “patients who are afraid of dentists,” the speaker]. declared. At yesterday atternoon's session, Dr. Roy D.

CHOSEN TO TAKE NURSES’ COURSE

Si y Tech Senior Is Sponsored By Local Chapter of Women of Moose. Miss. Betty Jane Postma, 165 E. 25th st., a senior at Tech high school, has been selected by ‘the lo cal - chapter -of the Women .of the Moose to enter nurses training from ‘this community. As a means of aiding the war efe fort, the hospital guild committee of the Women of the Moose is spon=

soring girls who wish to become nurses, This is the first such pro-

gram of a woman's organization in ]

Indianapolis. Program Tomorrow Night Mrs. Maude Rahe, chairman of the Mooseheart hospital guild, will sponsor a chapter night program at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the Moose. temple, 135 N. Delaware st. The hospital guild, one of ‘the newest of the committees of the Women of the Moose, has been formed to provide gifts and financial contributions ‘to the Moose heart hospital.

Robert S. Wymer, director of

chapter activities of the local Red

Cross, will be the principal speaker on tomorrow, night's program.

Class to Be Initiated A class of candidates will be ini tiated “in- honor of Mrs. Frances Wiebke of Indianapolis, grand dean of the Academy of Friendship of the Women of the Moose. . Assisting Mrs. Rahe will be Mes« dames Edith Monninger, Lucille Cox, Dorothy Potter, Cora Blue, Frances Wiebke, and the Misse : Mary Lark and Betty Taylor,

What You Bog Wilh WAR BONDS

The. army’s ‘fighter planes are the finest in the world and develop speeds up to 400 miles an hour. They cost approximately $100,000 each, provide fighter ese carts. for the huge . flying forte resses, and combine speed, range, altitude and blistering fire power,

America’s plane ‘plants are working ? turning out thousands or Lk fighter planes. War savings b will help pay for them and. A ‘AuieiiSan people are commit of