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which means dropped so they won't explode—and that gave him still more control. Then-he countermanded tie order 10. Jump, But our poor Tom was already rk ifway to arth. in Jo

him instead of above. He thou he must be falling up. ‘He hasn't figured it out yet. He dropped through several thousand feet of clouds, still hold- = ing his ripcord, for he knew if he 8. saved it he would become a member of some club, although he couldnt remember its name—the Caterpillar club. Anyhow his hand finally got so cold ‘he threw the ripcord away. The mountains where he landed were very rocky. His head struck as he came down, and he bled a.good ‘deal. He was sanscious, but couldn't: get up for about five: minutes.

Photographs Are Fascinating HE SAYS the mountains were full of Arabs working in the fields. He walked a short way and spoke to one, but not ‘knowing the language, he didn't get very far. It was only 4:30 in the afternoon, but Tom lay down for a nap. Pretty soon he found that the

fleas. were keeping him awake. He’ figured he. was safe for sure then. Finally he got some donkeys, lashed a sheep's carcass on top of one of them, got aboard another one himself, and started out. Fi The donkeys were very. little and Tom is very big,

and when ‘1iding on the edges of chasms the little]

shelf was just wide enough for the donkeys, Tom could feel his long legs reaching in vain for the ground. "+ He finally arrived at a French garrison. He tried to pay them for taking care of him, but they wouldn’t take any nioney.: However, some photographs from his wallet fascinated them, and they indicated a desire for some of them. So Miss Mary Scott, of Shelbyville, Ind., will be interested to know that her photograph now reposes on a Frenéh soldier's ‘mantle. At any rate, Tom says he’s going to marry Mary the day he gets home, and then start farming and never stop.

Fooled for a Minute

FOR A WHILE Tom was pretty sore about the others not jumping too, but he was all over that by the time he got back to the airdrome. They say he’s the best-natured guy in the outfit. Nobody had ever seen him mad, so they decided to rib him. One man rushed up and shook hands and said: “Tom, you made a mistake. The captain didn’t say ‘bail out.’ He said, ‘Look, hail out.” They had him fooled for a minute. _ Tom’s dad used to be county auditor back home. He had one term and then got defeated last fall by only 133 votes. The boys kid Tom and say that if he'd only had the gumption to make his spectacular jump a couple of months earlier, his father could no doubt have been re-elected on the strength of it,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

= A‘BIT OF excitement was injected into the dinner hour -at a popular downtown restaurant Thursday ‘night when'a rat that looked as large as a cat ran from the kitchen into the dining room. Female patrons Tet out’ blood ehilling screams and either stood on their chairs or sat on their feet. It was some time after the equally frightened rat disappeared before quiet was restored. . . ;: The Meridian Book shop, on the circle, frequently has several magazines hanging from a rope out in front of the store. . . . One of our _ agents noticed one had fallen flat on the sidewalk Friday. It’s name was: Gags. . . , Half a dozen women playing cards the other ! night took us to task, we hear, for 2, reporting that the J. Bradley Haight's baby girl was born at Methodist. It was at St. Vincent's. Excuse, please . . . Carl Ashley, former police lieutenant and more recently head of the Marmon-Herrington plait protection force, has gone to Birmingham, Ala., as assistant to Mike Morrissey who heads a big defense plant’s protection force,

; Operators—Pro and Con

MEL SCHWARTZ, 2341 E. Michigan st., suggests that one good reason why people won’t move into ‘the year end of busses and streetcars is that so often they can't get to the center door in time and are carried on past their stop. Last week, he said, he and three others were within one foot of the exit door of an E. Michigan streetcar when the motorman started up again, and “no amount of yelling could stop him.” We sympathize with your squawk, Mel. We've seen the same thing. Of course, we don’t know just how we'd behave if we were a-car operator, maybe running behind schedule. . . . Just to even things, we'll teil you about Operator 296. One of our agents was on a Northwestern trolley Thursday afternoon and decided the operator (John C. Marendt) must be in training rh the “perfect opersiop” title. Not only did he call

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—The proposal of Senator Gillette of Iowa could become something as significant and possibly as ominous as the famous round robin which a group of Republican senators seni fo the Paris: peace conference in 1919, : ' That round robin waned the conference that nothing promised by President Wilson could become binding until it was ratified by two-thirds of the senate. It was the unheeded waming of disaster to come. Senator Gillette’s resolution delicately raises the same issue. Perhaps it is well to do so and have the thing out in the open . and decided. Senator Gillette proposes an early treaty negotiation to set the ‘united. aablodts war aims in a more legal and binding

A. form. “He proposes that a treaty be negotiated to in-

eorporate the ; general principles of the Atlantic Charter, to which the united nations have subscribed by signature but not by formal treaty.

No Legol Treaty Force

: THE POINT HAS been raised by Senator Taft and “others that the Atlantic charter and the united

r nations declaration have no legal treaty force so far

as the United States is concerned. ‘They are declarations signed only by the president of ‘the United States. They have not been accepted by: two-thirds of the senate, so they are not binding = American policy. . You may say that the word of the president morally binds ‘the United States. But the experience with the treaty of Versailles proves otherwise, as does our_expe gence with the world. court. : ~ Support; for Senator ‘Gillette's proposal comes from sore” of those who have not been strong supporters of the president's program. = Senator Wheeler said he

Soi, SAYBROOK, Conn. Sunday—Friday afterJohn Pollock brought Miss Phyllis Thaxter fo ven wits me. She has been a leading lady in “Claudia” in Chicago and ‘and ‘she is joining the company ~ which is playing in Washington.

* formance, for the former: leading lady has entered the movies: There is some distant relationship to us the Schuyler and Merritt families

out the streets so everyone could hear and understand what he was saying, but he went out of his way to be courteous and polite to several passengers. And while crossing the Fall Creek bridge, he stopped his car, got off and removed from the street a nail studded board, Posies to Operator Marendt.

Better Be Careful

BETTER BE careful who you let into your home these days, in view of the current epidemic of burglaries. A housewife out in Broad Ripple—on Primrose" ave.—still is wondering about a recent incident. A man knocked at the door, said he was a plumbing inspector and asked to be admitted. She said no one there had sent for a plumbing inspector, but he was so insistent that she finally let him in. He went down to the basement, looked it over, and left. Then she became concerned over the possibility he might have been a. btirglar looking over the house in prep-| ‘aration for a future buglary. She still isn’t sure. . . . Most every firm tries to tie its product in with the war effort in its advertising. A certain downtown nut shop is no exception, It advertises: Victory pack. Oh, nuts.

“Bless Your Heart”?

FABIEN SEVITZKY, conductor of the Indianapolis' symphony, sometimes takes a notion to concern himself with the business end of the orchestra. While sojourning in New York, the maestro apparently became worried about the forthcoming concert Feb. 11 when the famous pianist, Artur Rubinstein is to be soloist. Anyway, the local office of the symphony received a wire the other day: “Important that Rubinstein concert be a sell-out. Sending letters with good ideas—Sevitzky.” The office staff, which has been working hard for several weeks to sell tickets, took up a collection to wire right back: “Bless your little heart.” . , . Mrs. Omer Smith, 230 S. 17th st., Beech Grove, reports seeing a honey bee in her back yard Friday. The poor little insect probably was Seceived by the recent moderate weather,

By Raymond Clapper

believed it extremely important to have the allied

war aims put in concrete form at the earliest possible moment. Senator Danaher of Connecticut said it was about time to find out how far some of the other nations were willing to go in post-war collaboration with us. Senator Austin, a strong Republican supporter of the president’s foreign policy, believes there is more chance of agreeing on war aims during the war than after the victory. Most Republicans take that position—Governor Stassen and Wendell Willkie have said it many times, and they are all for early action.

4 Phrase Thought Up While Shaving

THE ADMINISTRATION does not want to have its hand forced by anything like the Gillette resolution. In fact the administration would be relieved if there was no talk at all for a while about war aims and the united nations, beyond the airy generalities that have served up fo now. | The preoccupation now is with the military side of the war. and a gigantic job is being dome. The policy side or political side is in a state of confusion. Public discussion and opinion have no authoritative

leadership now. :

Official propaganda flounders unsupported by a real lead from the president. The united nations remains a powerful phrase that somebody thought

. up while .shaving.

Por. instance, international aviation ought to be our: dish but we don’t yet have a policy as to what we want done, much less an understanding with other nations. ‘Those who have urged a united aations council and hoped that Casablanca would lead to it have been rebuked by the president. Every discouragement is thrown in the way of independent discussion of such matters. Henry Wallace says an unplanned peace could be a worse disaster than war... Nok very ‘much has been planned as yet.

‘| An afternoon train took us to Saybrook, Conn, where we spent the night with our friends, Miss

. oy nyErue'pyie Meet Indiana polis’ is” Ths I (he ft of seis of aries on dhe symphony scchescs 2 Ta fis By RICHARD LEWIS {<li THE PLACE i is the Murat theater almost any morning at the beginning of the week. The scene is the Indi--anapolis Symphony orchestra, in shirtsleeves. All except

Fabien Sevitzky, that is. Hei

and probably is,”

‘various attitudes of ‘'momentary relaxation, are watching him. Something, it seems, is going to happen. The maestro raises his head, his eyes half-closed. He gestures to the violin section, “We will go over this passage,” he says calmly, almost casually. It is a passage which the sectiont has just played, in such a way as to plunge the maestro into the trance from which he has now recovered. : ® » ” He raises his hands, bows poise on. the strings, the musicians suddenly tense. They play the passage, Sevitzky directing violently. “No, no!” he says, dropping his hands, “No! Again!” They run ‘through it over and over again. Sevitzky listens in-. tently. His head sinks to his chest as he waves to them to cease. ‘The violin section relaxes for another moment. The maestro ponders as though making up his mind. Then he speaks. “Diss,” he enunciates between gritted teeth, “is terrible!”” He raises his eyes, half closed, and sighs. Then he shakes his head, muttering. “All right,” he says, “the overture.” Players who have been standing in the wings come running "in to take their seats. .The rehearsal resumes, but the maestro. is still unhappy and will remain unhappy until he has repaired to his dressing room to drink his

is wearing slacks with a but- i

tonless shirt that looks like-the topof a pair of pajamas—e

The maestro is perched on a stool, his head bowed, in deep concentration. The members of the orchestra, in

tea, made on the spot in an eléctric tea kettle and very sirong. He drinks it out of a cup, holding the lump of sugar in his mouth as he sips. : 8 = = wins "THIS, IN ACTION, is the man who has brought the Indianapolis symphony orchestra into the major leagues, Fabien Koussevitz-ky-Sevitzky, who plunges into everything he does with such momentum that he inevitably carries is through. Whether it’s leading the orchestra through the climactic. passages of a Beethoven symphony or diving in 98 feet of water to rescue a dog. He fancies dogs cannot swim, particularly his dog, Felix, a goodnatured wire-haired fox-terrier who ignores his master’s commands with impunity. Fabien Sevitzky is the only or~chestra conductor in the - world to achieve the rank of chief in the Blackfeet Indian nation. Also, he is the only Indian chief to have been born in Russia—in a village near Tver, 49 years ago. It requires imagination to picture this well-fed sachem as a lean bass-fiddler in a Warsaw nickelodeon 15 years ago, fainting from undernourishment. ‘ Photographed in his chiefly trappings at Glacier National park in 1940, when the Blackfeet decided he was the kind of brave they wanted on their side, Chief Arsotarmo (heap big leader) looks capable of leading a raid for Cecil B. De Mille or maybe selling baskets on U. S. 66.

to- ‘survive In the press, are couched in /more personal | . At one time, he had'the s largest collection of’ neckties’ in the world, next to Adolphe Men= jou. In fact, it is rumored th

‘ he .and Menjou considered

Fabien Sovilaliy rehearsing the Indianapolis symphony orchestra in a shirt, Usually, he wears something more informal like a pa-

jama top.

But Sevitzky, fundamentally, conceives of himself as a Hoosier. The day he arrived at Union’station to take ‘charge of the des-

tinies of the orchestra, he adopted the state and all of its works. He also adopted what he alone imagines to be a broad “Hoosier” accent. You may remember the story about ‘the telegram he sent Mrs, Sevitzky in New York. No? Well, he called up a local telegraph office and baffled the operator with the following message: “Please send the pints of rum.” Mrs. Sevitzky readily decoded the message. She sent back Resphigi’s Symphony, “The Pines of Rome.” : 8 2 2 IT WAS SEVITZKY who about a year ago saved the day at a local defense plant.

A young Russian engineer was looking . over the plant, escorted by a delegation of plant executives and some military men. An impasse arose. The Russian didn’t speak much English and the local people didn’t speak any Russian. Sevitzky was rushed into the gap. Things went smoothly. Nobody knows what he told the Russian, but the visitor was plenty impressed, and finally wound up at a concert. Unlike many of his older colleagues, Sevitzky does not have a spectacular temperament. That is, he is» not in the habit of breaking -batons over the heads of flatted flutists or somnolent violists. His idiosyncracies, and all con=ductors must have them in order

ping a few hundred ties. vitzky was said fo have 900 ties It doesn’t seem possible. It is also bruited about that a necktie he happens to pre for the day doesn’t match his suit, he puts on his other suit. There is a legend that his fa: vorite tie is a green one given

tially a romanticist anyway, an that piece of proletarian goods was his favorite tie for a long, time. Another one “of his loves

which he doesn’t drive now be: cause of the gas situation, but h used to pilot it as though he were hurtling along the. straight-away, wheel to wheel with Wilbur Sha: in the last lap of the 500-mile. His confidence in his ability handle an automobile under all conditions is said.to be a pers. petual source of fright to those who ride with him. He used te delight in taking trips, not caring very much: where he was going. or if he got there. - As one correspondent wrote: back-while journeying with the: Sevitzkys on a transcontinental: trip which was aimed, more or

‘less, at the state of California:

“I bet the motor club route

been today. ‘Maybe not, though. She also made out the route didn’t take last year”:

Tomorrow—The Life a Sevit.

SCOUTS MARK 33D BIRTHDAY

Message: Reseived From Roosevelt; Eagle Badges

Are Awarded.

Indianapolis Boy Scouts will rededicate themselves to the Scout oath and: laws today when they gather in troop meetings and rallies to observe the 33d anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scout organization. President Roosevelt, honorary president of the Boy Scouts, sent a message today to fellow scouts urging everyone connected with scouting “to see to it that scouting maintained at its fullest strength and effectiveness as a practical contribution to the war effort.” He pointed out that more than 327 men decorated for heroism by our country have had scout training. © Court of Honor Held The Central Indiana Council held its first Eagle Court of Honor in the world war memorial yesterday afternoon as a part of the Boy Scout week celebration. Thirty-five scouts received their eagle badges before parents and friends, Governor Schricker, DeWitt S. Morgan, superintendent of schools; Col. Roscoe Turner and Dr. William Gear Spencer, president of Franklin college, who were honored guests. Dr. Spencer, the principal speaker, urged the boys to strive for 100 per cent in their efforts and to avoid being fractional scouts—helpful or ‘courteous only part of the time. He advised them to live in such a way that they will be known as boys and men of integrity.

Seek Blood Donors

The scouts are wearing their uniforms during Boy Scout week which ends Friday. Together and individually they are soliciting blood donors for the Red Cross, and the drive will be climaxed. Saturday when 300 scouts canvass downtown office buildings and establish department store booths to secure blood donors. - fio Wednesday 25 eagle scouts will take over the administration of federal, state, county and local offices for the day. . Other troop activities during the week will include parents’ nights, troop mobilizations, hikes, demonstirations and displays.

ide + IAF. L. TO OPPOSE By Eleanor Roosevelt

EQUAL RIGHTS BILL

President William Green of the American Federation of Labor announced today that the AFL will oppose the enactment by congress

‘Esther Lape and Miss Elizabeth Read. This morning| tion

we went to Boston to visit the naval hospital here

before continuing to Portland, Me. where we must spend the night in order ‘to be ready to leave at 8 a. m. tomorrow for the ship launching, in Camden, Me.

There is one thing which seems to be prevalent

among us and which I wish might be eliminated. Too 9 3uany people who have members ot their family}

: ‘but T am sure she is a very charm- * opin!

“Claudia.” We Bad in niet. occup

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Te T know, for instance, of boys who hav obliged to stiek to tam work, Whe arp, unhappy.

“Such a constitutional ‘amendment,” Green said, “would place in| jeopardy all laws protecting women in industry. “At this time, when women ‘are

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P).~|}

Francine Out On Double Play

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 8 (U. P.) —Francine pulled a double play on the United States army, but today it looked like she was going to be out for quite awhile herself. Francine — Francine Eleanor Lowe, Mrs. Stanley Faulkender, or Mrs. William Byars, depending on how you look at it—was in the Louisville jail charged with bigamy. en All might have been well for 34-year-old” Francine if Pfc. Stanley Faulkender, 31, of Camp Atterbury, Ind., hadn’t suddenly come’ home to visit his wife Sunday and found Pvt. William Byars, 22, of Pt. Knox, Kentucky, presiding as head of the house, An internal military crisis was averted, however, when Louisville police arrived. They found two wedding certificates—one denoting marriage to Faulkender on Oct. 2, 1942, and the other showing a legal attachment to Byars one month later, ; Francine was charged with ‘bigamy. The government has been paying her two army wife allotments. The two husbands announced they would go to the home on which “we paid the rent, didn’t we,” and “see who else shows up.”

FLYNN MAY RETAIN BRONX LEADERSHIP

NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (U. P)— Edward J. Flynn settled the question of whether he had actually resigned as chairman of the Bronx county Democratic committee, the post from which he became a national political power, today by moving to retain it. :

Rep. Charles E. Buckley will re-|

sign today as leader of the eighth assembly district so Flynn can be elected in his place. Only district

‘leaders belong to the Bronx county

committee and only a member can be elected chairman. Bronx county politicians said it was the first move to restore Flynn to his post and that all 20 of the Bronx district leaders were for him. - Flynn resigned as chairman of the Democratic National committee and as Democratic National committeeman during the time the senate foreign relations committee was considering

ty B. ‘Chambers, a member of the executive committee, but many com-! mitteemen said such ‘procsdure’ was ineffective. $

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$200 SEIZED IN HOTEL HOLDUP

Pair Who Robbed Riley Linked to Marott and

Dearborn Crime.

Bandits held up the night manager of the Riley Hotel, 16th st. and Capitol ave, and two guests early today, escaping with $200 in cash, $200 in checks and considerable jewelry. Arthur A. Fuller, 62, the night manager, was alone when a masked gunman demanded that he open the safe. After the bandit took about $100 in cash and the jewelry, one of the hotel guests, Leo Manhoff, 37, walked in and a second masked bandit took $100 from his purse. A second guest, John M. Sims, came info the lobby as the bandits were leaving but the gunmen failed to’ find his money.

Cafe Safe Looted

Police believe they are the same men who recently held up the Marott and Dearborn hotels. Copying the tactics of a recent movie thriller, yeggs ' tunnelled through a basement wall of a N. Delaware st. building to gain entrance to the Alps cafe and took about $200 from a safe early today. The burglars broke into the vacant building at 22 N. Delaware st. and hacked their way through a brick wall. They took a large safe at the rear of the cafe to the basement, where they hammered it open.

HER SHIP TORPEDOED BOURKE-WHITE SAFE

FT. WAYNE, Ind. Feb. 8 (U.P.). —Torpedoing of a ship upon which, Margaret Bourke-White was returning to the United States caused cancellation of the war photographer’s scheduled lecture here temorrow night. Walter H. McBride, director of the Ft. Wayne art school, where Miss Bourke-White was to have talked, said he received a telegram stating that her: ship had been sunk. He said it first was believed the camerawoman, who has photographed many battle fronts, was lost at sea but that the government later ‘confirmed the fact that she was safe and was continuing her retirn trip to the U: § U: Ss

Miss Bourke-Whte had. - been scheduled to lecture last night in Indianapolis: at Kirshbaum Community Center.

| amb eer ge . BACKS ATLANTIC CHARTER

to the Atlantic charter. Its announcement. described : the action an “indeclinable testimony of a resolution to intensify collaboration

With the free peoples of the world.”

Blow Nose

LIMA, Feb. .8 (U. P.).~The Peruyidn government today adhered

Girl Is Born to

Mrs. Joe Louis

CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (U. P)., — Mrs. Joe Louis gave birth to a seven-pound-five-ounce girl today. Dr. William W. Gibbs, attending physician, said the mother and child were “in excellent condition.” Gibbs said Mrs. Louis would call the heavyweight champion at Pt. Riley, Kas., to tell him of the event. Louis, a sergeant at Ft. Riley, was expected to come here to see his first offspring. They had decided on a name beforehand—junior- in any event. ‘If it had been a boy, the name would have been Joe Jr., but now it will be’ Marva Jo, after both mother and father, That was

was foes suggestion. BIBLE CLASS LAUDS ANTI-VIGE DRIVE

A resolution commending the recent anti-vice: campaign promoted by the board of safety was adopted yesterday by the Men’s Bible class of the First Baptist church. The resolution was presented by a committee composed of Dr. F. H. Corman of the Butler university education department, the Rev. F. A. Hayward and Henry W. Gillespie. The commendation stated: “The citizens of Indianapolis have watched with increasing interest and hopefulness the efforts of the board of safety—William Remy, chairman —and the Indiahapolis police department, Clifford Beeker, chief, to present and promote a definite and persistent program for civic righteousness. We are sure this meets with the approval of the Men's Bible class of the First Baptist church, “If ever a city should take on new dignity and higher mindedness it is now. If ever a city should be protected from the. evils of gambling and prostitution it is now. If ever a city should feel the joy of safety for the members of their household whether at home or returning from work it is now. © “We commend the efforts now in progress and urge an even more stubborn resistance to the forces of sin. Insofar as this class and its members can give encouragement and assistance to this breve fight,

we offer it® to the brave men and

women now working for the best ‘nterests of our city.”

NAZI LEADERS MEET TO SPUR HOME FRONT |»

BERLIN, Feb, 8.—(German broad-

SCHRICKER 0

10 Bills Signed at Halfway Point in Assembly; Veto Stamp |dle.

Governor Schricker has signed bills and two resolutions so far the 83d session of the legisls now more than half over, and more bills were on his desk # awaiting his signature. The veto stamp has not used to date. First measure to pata lia 1 : ture, as usual, was the appropri tion of $160,000 to pay the sale of the legislators and the exp of the two houses, It was pe under suspension of rules a signed by the chief executive the seventh day of the session.

_ No. 1 Bills

Probably the most impo

measures to become law were house bills, one setting up a member commission to study diana election laws and prepare recodification, and the other viding for the outright purchase the state of the state office k ing at 141 S, Meridian st. for 370. Governor Schricker also has n law a senate bill | providing ° where an official on state busi provides auto transportation f others, also on official business, : is allowed 1 cent a mile for ea additional passenger besides’ regular rate of four cents & now allowed.

Other New Laws Other house bills which now

law. provide for clarification’ Indiana-Kentucky boundary,

oil

panies, set ‘limitation on pt improvement assessments = wi are payable ents, give county ‘councils the rignk :

counts available litigation. : The two restiviions 8

cast recorded by U. P.-in New York) |: en e | ~The Berlin press today interpret-| in

ed a week-end conference of Nazi

district leaders and gauleiters as “a|H

manifestation of fanatical decision

of total mobilization of the German Ja.

home front.”

The Voelkischer Beobachter said|

the German people had two emo-| §if" Et

3 tions—a memorial to the heroes of

Sie sixif gry oul the Easton front §. | (the lost army at Stalingrad), and

{the resclution of mobilizing all Jer

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