Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1943 — Page 7

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“Lean over toward the outrigger,” yelled Duke. We were already leaning. It was a thrill, The air whistled past. The white comb of surf under our stern raced to overwhelm us, but bore us ahead of itself, just out of reach. Duke sat hugely in the stern, his paddle dug edge-

wise into the water along side, making a sort of

. rudder. The ride lasted maybe a minute, maybe less.

Who Was It? You Guessed It

THE RICH beach crowd snickered. Funny little man: Funny little hothouse man—no chest, no tan, ne Jassie, probably couldn't even swim. What a 1 ib The big Hawaiian was Duke Kalhanamoku, the | great swimmer. And the awful contrast trailing behind him was, as you may have guessed—me, in person. Me, wanting desperately to get under water and drown, ‘The canoe was built for four. Duke called to

ride. I never did know who they were. He put me right in the nose. He sat in the stern.

Inside Indianapoélis By Lowel! Nussbaum

hotel and reads, emerging only for fresh supplies

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Benjamin Franklin Lawrence, who this week became editor and publisher of The Indianapolis Star after many years as its general manager. The change in his title won't make much difference in the operation of the paper, : ; us there's never been any doubt who was “running things” at the Star. For years, Mr. Lawrence has run the whole show, supervising everything from buying a new press to shifting a few desks around in the editorial department. He usually calls his executives around him when there’s a problem to discuss, but he does most of the talking. » He looks younger than his age —66. ' ‘About 5 feet 10 or so, he Te weighs probably “165. His eyes are blue and he wears bifocal glasses. He's nervous and energetic, quick in both thought and action. He's very direct in his , too; gets right to the point. He has plenty of old-fashioned dignity and graciousness, and an air of self-assurance.

Mr. Lawrence

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ain. And once he has made an agreement, he lives up to it scrupulously, regardless of post. - Fe has a habit of gesturing, slapping his desk a resounding twack for emphsais when he's amused or angry. It's pretty effective. : :

Knows What's Going On

Gradually we slowed. Duke hunched the cance onward; you could feel the jerks when he humped forward. Finally the wave died and passed beneath us and the canoe floated quietly again, a hundred yards from shore. We paddled seaward again. Half a dozen time we made the round trip. 'm not sure whether the afternoon of riding the nose of an outrigger on the roaring surf was worth that awful outward march through the lounging society of Waikiki or not, I guess maybe it was worth it. For when it was over, and we strode wetly back across the hands, I had somehow grown an inch or two, and possibly gained a few pounds, and I couldn't hear anybody laughing. 1 even helped Duke carry the canoe. And I guess that in just a couple of days now I could be a cat on a surfboard and stand up all alone, graceful and bold, waving my thin white arms.

of newspapers. Mr. Lawrence was born in Libertyville, Mo., moved to Coquille, Ore. As a small boy, he got a job on the Coquille Herald helping run a hand press, learned to set type at the age of 14. When he was 16, he became deputy county clerk. Then his father bought a weekly paper and Ben became its publisher. From there he went to the Portland Oregonian as reporter and later telegraph editor, When Ernest Bross, managing editor of the Oregonian, came to Indianapolis as editor of the Star, he sent for Mr. Lawrence to come here as managing editor. That was in 1904. Seven years later Mr. Lawrence became business manager. In 1923, he became general manager of the Star League, which then included the Indianapolis Star, Muncie Star and Terre Haute Star.

Likes to Sit and Read

MR. LAWRENCE used to be a chain smoker of cigars. But a few years ago he quit cigars—and took up cigarets. Now he chain-smokes cigarets. He loves fried chicken and corn on the cob. He

enjoys the movies, goes often: doesn’t. care: for war plays<too:

harrowing: —-And-he-likes-musical comedies. On the radio, he prefers music to “talking.” For relaxation, he likes to sit at home and read and eat chocolate candy. He dresses neatly and conservatively. Blue is his favorite color. , His handwriting is excellent, and he frequently writes letters in longhand. He has a nice way of expressing himself in letters Among his greatest pleasures are driving his car and traveling. He's never been much of an outdoor enthusiast— never had time for golf or other sports. But he does enjoy an occasional game of pinochle or poker. He used to belong to a little card club that met every Saturday night for a red-hot session. You could tell easily, afterward, how fate had dealt with him. If he came away mumbling that card playing is a waste of time, it was pretty certain he had lost. On other occasions, he would smile and remark happily: “My, they're a nice bunch of fellows.”

By Raymond Clapper

planning. Mr. Roosevelt doesn't seem interested

enough to make a fight for it. Within a year, Germany may be defeated and

hundreds of thousands of war plant employees may

make jobs. , In other words, private industry and politics must

meet this challenge or else.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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Former State Department Official Warns Against Delay.

NEW YORK, Oct, 18 (U, P)— Sumner Welles declared today in his first address since his recent resignation as undersecretary of stete, that unless Britain, Russia, China and the United States arrive at a mutval agreement soon, hope for a stable world after the war will be “iliusory.” Not only should. there be such a four-power agreement, Welles told the Foreign Policy association at the Waldorf-Astoria, but the united nations should form a permanent executive council with power to resdlve such political and other questions as may be referred to (3 by the participating countries. ' Welles said his suggestions were made “solely as one American citigen, who is not entitled in any way to speak for our government.” He | also recalled, at the outset of his speech, that he was speaking as a private citizen for the first time in more than 10%; years,

“Give People Light” “It seems to me that now more

is the obligation of our government, both in the executive and legislative

leadership by urging the adoption of that policy which in its considered judgment will most fully respond to the need of our nation for security, social progress, and prosperity in the post-war years, in order that our citizens may study and pass upon it.” said, ‘the nation has “one great asset.”

national history,” he said, “there has been no president so superbly fitted to undertake his constitutional responsibilities of conducting our foreign relations as Franklin Roosevelt.” : Seek Safe World Welles. sald he believed reducible minimum” -the States should seek from should be: “The practical certainty that in the world of the future, the United States will be secure—safe from the threat of successful attack by any power, or by any combination of powers; fully assured that its own free institutions will suffer no Jeopardy from foreign sources; and , by reason of peace, prosperity and political and social stability in the rest of the world, to develop its. own national resources and its trade in such a manner as to make possible that advance in social conditions and that rise In living standards which the vast majority of our people seek.” Welles warned that the fourhe suggested the

participatthe rights and prerogatives of world dictators, a move which would “constitute the very negation of international democracy.”

YOUTHS ATTACK TWO WOMEN, ROB THEM

Hoodlums menaced two women

_| here again last night and stole their pocketbooks.

As Harriet Deer, 1451 Central ave., was walking at 15th st. and Central ave, two youths. encountered her. One struck her and knocked her down. The other helped her to her feet, then seized

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Cover Landing Under

Vice Adm. Hewitt.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 16 (U, P).—~More than 500 allied warships and merchant

vessels, operating uncer American naval command, participated in the landing at Salerno last month, it {was disclosed officially today. The American light cruiser Philadelphia, which axis sources earlier this week sald had been damaged in the Mediterranean, helped cover the landing. U. 8. Vice Adm. Henry Kent Hewitt, heading the “western task force,” commanded the landing operation under the supreme command of British Adm. Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, and his flag commanders included Rear Adm.

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In Midst

By MILDRED REIMER Right in the heart of Indiana . the land of smoking factories and tall corn , . . stands a typical southern landmark, the cotton mill, And from the Indianapolis Bleathing Co. (bleaching is really only one phase of the business) come thousands of yards of cotton cloth which eventually is made into bags by other companies. The mill's product is used almost everywhere, from the flour bag, seen in the pantry of many an Indianapolis housewife, to the sandbag used on battlefronts all over the country. Started in 1886

Beginning as the Indianapolis Cotton Manufacturing Co. back in 1886, the mill is located at 900 W. Wabash st, where White river can be seen from its windows. During the canal building era ifi the states in the late 1800's the cotton industry along with a woolen mill and flour mill sprang up near the old canal in that section of lis.

In the 1890's the company began to make cloth . . . before then only yarn was spun, Besides manufacturing cloth for the many flour and other feed bags used on the home front, .the bleaching company processes a large ‘amount of burlap material to make it milldew proof so it can be used for sandbags in battle areas. Thus, although not a defense plant, the Indianapolis Bleaching Co. also is directly participating in the war effort.

Takes Gallons of Water More than two million gallons of

spun and woven into cloth, In the bleachery, cloth brought in from firms is bleached starched.

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House Won't Vote Way Is Talking, Michigan Member Predicts.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U. PJ). ~Rep. John D, Dingell (D. Mich), a member of the house ways and means committee, today predicted that the sales tax would be defeated because “the members just aren't going to vote the way they're talking.” His statement came after Presi dent Philip Murray of the Congress

Looms Have Spun 57-Years

of Indianapolis

a still finer yarn on speeders. About 500,000 yards of yarn is wound on each bobbin in two and one-half hours. With the bobbins traveling at the rate of 9000 revolutions a minute in ‘the spinning process, the yarn is spun into thread fine enough for weaving into cloth. Then the

is wound on “cheeses,” or large round spools resembling round cheese,

thread goes on “spoolers” where it

of Industrial Organizations told the. committee yesterday. that a general sales tax would equal a major military defeat and would force labor to seek higher wages. “The saales tax always takes a good ride at first, but in the final show-down it lacks the voles"

Oldest employee . . . Mrs. Wyatt shown at | work ub her weaving frome, which Is | Dingell told reporters, He said senti

{ment for the sales tax as a replace{ment for the administration's $10, 500,000,000 program for increased in- | come, excise and estate taxes Is | “grossly overrated.”

Favors Alternate Tdea

Dingell favors an alternate ade ministration proposal for an ine crease of at least $5,300,000,000 in social security taxes, Murray told the commitiee a sales tax would bear most heavily on low-income groups and violate the government's obligation to hold - prices as well as wages in line with levels prevailing on Sept. 15, 1042. He said it would be tantamount to a national wage cut and would require organized labor to balance it by seeking wage increases. It would open. the inflation dikes, he claimed, and make it Impossible longer to “hold the line.” '

C. L O, to Ask High Wages

However, Murray indicated that sales tax.-or no sales tax the ©. J. O. would seek higher. wages to “‘secure the most effective prosecution of the war." “It takes hard cold cash to buy the necessities of life,” he sald. “We must revise our national wage policy in order to grant appropriate

Uo rN NE ~ { merce. Among its leading foes are A Slubber tender . . , Mrs. Wahnela Milligan, 237 Cumberland ave, administration. operates a knot tying machine in is drawing the cotton out into thread. She has been working for the

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‘bump and then they heard screams. The body was not discovered until the car had gone another 100 yards.

Robert Morehead, foreman of the spinning department, supervises the spinning and sees that the yarn is ready for wéhving before it goes to Frederick Hartlofl, weaving department head, In the tying end room, Mr. Hart loft has charge of work on one of the most valuable machines in the

wife, Cory Etter Denham

department—the tying end machine.

tied to threads remaining at the end of a piece of woven cloth so thut cloth can be woven into one continuous strip. Tying 250 knots a minute, the machine takes the place of 28 girls who did the work by hand in 1900. Then to the loom. With looms filled at the rate of 25 to 30 bobbins a minute, an inch of cloth is woven every 20 seconds, . And one of the expert weavers of the bleaching company is Miss Emma Wyatt, who started at the mill when she was 12 and will soon celebrate her 50th anniversary there, She's the proud teacher of many a young girl who begins her career in Indianapolis’ cotton mill.

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COL. GARDNER HEADS RUSSIAN WAR RELIEF

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