Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1943 — Page 19

you sit and look for a Take a walk in ] The liveres have gone to bed. You can walk right into their bedrooms—for their bedrooms are the sidewalk,

n hour, scores of half an hour after dark.

There they lie, dark huddled forms. A dozen sleep within 100 feet of the hotel's sidewalk cafe, where the Frenchmen and Negroes sit chatting over their drinks. The lberes are very still and quiet. The only sound is a jarring cough. Tuberculosis. They own nothing in this world but a dirty shirt and a pair of ragged pants.

Cast to the Sharks

PEOPLE WHO live here say that a convict's real punishment starts the day he is released from the penitentiary as a libere. He is cast to the sharks. He must make his own living, in a place where there is almost no way to make a living. : ‘The newly freed libere cannot live just anywhere he wants to. Only certain ones can live in Cayenne. The others must stay at least 13 kilometers (about

MANY PERSONS applying at the review unit of - the U. 8. employment service for certificates of availability, the little slips of paper required by those changing joos, have trouble remembering the name.

For instance, one applicant this week asked for a certificate of durability, another for a certificate of stability. Among- some of the other names given, we're told, are “responsibility, sociability, liability, desirability, visibility,” and some others you might not believe. Among the latter: “I want a certificate of arthritis.” Mrs. Louis New, of Hazen, Ark, writes to enlist help in locating a soldier who lost a camera. She writes: “Last week, while passing - through Indian- . apolis by train, I occupied a seat vacated by a ruldier and his wife. Before the train started I noiwwed a camera in the seat. I tried to locate the soldier but was unable to do so.” We'll be glad to s:ve Mrs. New's address to the soldier losing the camera. Hepe he reads this. , . . Roscoe Mason, 3810 Kitley ave, is quite a gardener. He

ations. Felt f fall colors. ewels. Sizes

that endure sends us ‘by mail a whopping big radish. We put ool and pl it on the scaies and it topped two pounds. . . . We're play. going to have to see a photographer and get a new

picture one of these days, since we heard confidentially that some of the girls up at the International Typographical Union headquarters looked at our current mug shot and decided we must be “an awful old gronch.” Whadda they mean calling us’ old!

Move Back, You Lugs THE WOMAN operator of a N. Meridian bus was having trouble getting folks to “move back,. please” to the rear cn the bus, She made several requests, but the passengersrseemed to prefer huddling in the front. Pinally, the operator announced: “All right, folks; we'll jus; sit right here unti! you move back” After about two minutes, the passengers decided she meant it, so they moved back. ., . . Art Overbay of

Washington

" WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—At best, taxes are not . - raised easily in a democracy, Candidates who promise “Jower taxes are likely to be more popular with the ‘voters. Those responsible for higher taxes become {easily targets for the political hokum of unscrupulous al

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caught asleep on this. A political is coming next year and the Republicans are behaving so that nobody can accuse them of having anything to do with high taxes, « Republican members of the house ways and means committee banded together in a statement opposing additional taxes. They are against the sales tax as well as increased income taxes.. Demoerats on the committee say that it will be almost impossible for any tax increase to go through in face of this solid Republican opposition. ata The Republicans made it a matter of party policy ‘through the endorsement of the Republican leader of the house, Rep, Joseph W. Martin, who called for

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Few Are Intelligent

A BARE HANDFUL of the liberes are intelligent and fortunate enough to make fairly decent livings. The best barber in town is a libere. There well-to-do general merchants. They are niceilooking, educated men. ; : One libere is an expert woodworker, He sawed off and polished for me a piece of violently purple native wood called “‘purple heart.” I have it as a souvenir. He is here for turning traitor to Prance whéh he was in a wartime German prison camp. * Another libere is a sculptor, a genuine artist, I have bought one of his sculptures, for $5, to take home. It is made of ironwood, the jungle wood that is so heavy it won't float, This man has-a representative in Paris, and sells many pieces there. He makes plenty of money, but laughs and says he gambles it away. He is here, as he says, just for putting a few innocent zeros on the end of a number. A-forger, Two liberes, dressed in white, serve all the patrons at the hotel's cafe and bar. They are men about 40, and neither by their looks or manner would you ever know they had been criminals,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

the Typographic Service Co., recently was elected president of the Advertising Typographers Association of America. and some of the boys have been kidding him about attaining the height of something or other, since he now has a paid secretary in New York city. . The town's amateur photographers— and there are many of them—are happy over the un{reezing of photo flash bulbs. . . , About the only choice on rastaurant menus these days is between chicken and fish, leading to the observation by one frequent diner-outer that “after the war, folks will be so sick of chickens that chicken farms will be a dime a dozen.” Our sentiments, exactly. . . . One of our readers pnones to complain bitterly about being unable to get a cuppa coffee at the Unlon station restaurant the other morning. “Whoever heard of not being able to get coffee in a union station?” he asked. P.S. It was at 4a, m,

A Six-Year Supply

A HOUSEWIFE LIVING in an apartment on N. Park ave, we'e informed reliably, owns a cat and, requiring a supply of fresh sand for the cat's convenience, looked in the papers to locate a firm selling it. She found an ad and phoned to get prices, The salesman: asked if she wished a half yard or a yard, explaining the:e. was only 50 cents difference. She was a little vague as to the extent of a yard, but decided that the yard was the better bargain, and ordered it. When the truck drove up with the load of sand, the .ousewife wa. appalled at the quantity.

“The driver dumped the sand in the backyard of the

apartment building. Then someone complained about its location and she had to hire an odd jobs man to move it. Moral: A bargains not always a bargain. « » » Lt. George Young, brother of Lou, gives an interesting sidelight .on British-American relations in one of his letters. Lt. Young, who is aboard a P-C boat in the South Pacific, writes that American. ships don't have liquor aboard, as do the British ships, but the Atderican ships have ice cream and the British do not, Therefore, he says, it's a common sight, whenever American and British ships tie up in port, to see (ne sailors exchanging ice cream for liquor, and vice versa, :

By Raymond Clapper

Republicans miss the real point—either deliberately or through ignorance. Even if Rep. Taber's optimistic estimate of $4,000,000,000 in economies proved out, that would not remove the need for higher tax revenue and particularly a sales tax, This business has two aspects. One is the necessity of holding down the public debt which is 168 billion dollars and threatens to go to 300 by the end of the war. Every possible economy is desirable, also the maximum federal revenue is desirable, Equally important—perhaps even more so in the long run—is the danger of uncontrollable inflation. That requires ruthless taxation to hold down individual spending. The Republican economy program does not meet that need.

Sales Taxes Needed

EVEN THOUGH middle bracket income taxes seem high, reaching 25 per cent at $10,000, retail stores show there is enormous spending money in the country. Sales taxes are needed. As Rep. Monroney of

Oklahoma tells the house ways and means committee,

it is possible to provide sales tax exemptions for the very lowest income groups, Taxes are severe. But severe measures are needed. In that struggle the Republicans are giving the country no help. They are sitting down. They intend to leave it to the administration, If the Re-

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WILKE SAY

Will Complete Four-Year

Term in Albany.

SYRACUSE, Oct. 22 (U, P).~ Wendell L. Willkie said today he was convinced that Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New Yor 1 complete his full four-year term at Albany and will not be a candidate for the 1044 Republican’ presidential nomination, : Willkie, who defeated Dewey for the nomination at Philadelphia in 1940, expressed his views after addressing a Syracuse political rally last night in behalf of Senator Joe R. Hanley, the party's candidate for lieutenant governor, In discussing state issues, Willkie said Dewey had given New York a “sound, clean and able administration,” which the people can expect “from him. during the coming years.” After the rally, Willkie was asked to elaborate on the statement.

Accepts Dewey Pledge

“Does your statement mean that you accept Governor Dewey's pledge to serve the full four years at Albany and that he will not be a candidate for the presidential nomination?” he ‘was asked. “Why of course, it would be impertinent and presumptious to d otherwise,” Willkie replied. ‘ Willkie and the governor have been at political odds since - the Philadelphia convention, but they met on common ground when the 1940 Republican’ standard bearer threw his active support to Hanley. |

Assails New: Deal A

Willkie's speech for Hanley gave the special election for lieutenant, governor, a minor state post, na-| tional political importance. He assailed the New Deal and charged “political oligarchies of the South” were in control at Washington, from the state department down. | “The Democratic party today is in fact a combination of two an-| tagonistic groups-—one group con- | sisting of the political oligarchies of | the South and the corrupt political machines of the North; the other group are sincere Democrats together with independents and liberals,” ‘he sald, “Just consider the situation. Most | of the powerful offices in Washing-| ton, from the state department down, are now administered or controlled, whether directly or indirectly by the southern Democratic bloc. They remain in office; because millions of the people in! their states are prepared to fili-| buster indefinitely against any at-| tempt that is made to recognize the free right of all Americans to vote.”

Different in North

He said that in New York state more than 45 per cent of the people vote in a presidential election but in some southern states less) than 10 per cent “met the financial| requirements, which permitted them | to go to the polls that year.” In the north, Willkie said, the Democrats have a “different kind of political racket,” adding: “Here in our state, as in other northern states, it (Democratic party) draws its power from reactionary political machines. We all know the sinister power of these political machines. We know the harm they can do to the Democratic process. But they constitute one of the bulwarks of the Democratic party.”

TEACHER LOSES TENURE

FRANKLIN, Ind., Oct: 22 (U. P.). -—Johnson Circuit Court Judge Grant Rogers ruled yesterday that Mrs. Esther A. Henderson, Edinburg teacher, lost her femire right because she married after the school board ruled against hiring married

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A U.S army air transport command plane soars majestically over the ancient pyramids of Epypl. This plane is one of & fleet

flying urgent war supplies from the United States across the Atlantic and he continent of Af-iea to strategie uattls zones.

ADMIRAL FACE BUSY DAY HERE

King - Will - Make ‘Tour of War Plants, Review Navy Day Parade.

The admiral of the fleet, who has been occupied with the intricacies of war, will have one busy day in Indianapolis next Wednesday. The visit of Adm, Ernest J. King, | commander-?in-chief of the U, 8.| fleet and chief of naval operations, | will highlight the Navy day celebra- |

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Arriving by plane from Wash ington about 11 a. m., accompanied by his aide, Lt. Cmdr, C. C. Kirkpatrick, he will be escorted to his headquarters in the Indianapdlis Athletic club. He will be introduced at a luncheon in the elub ballroom by Governor Schricker.

Visit Plant Here

Accompanied by navy officers, Adm. King will visit the naval ordnance plant on Arlington ave. during the afternoon. He will be honor guest at a buffet supper at the naval armory. The admiral will review the torchlight Navy day parade from the stand on the Meridian st. side of the Federal building, and he and his aide will leave for Washington by plane late that night, In proclaiming the celebration, Mayor Tyndall said, “Indianapolis will join in this tribute to the heroic officers and men of our navy, the greatest fighting sea force the world has ever known.”

AUXILIARY POLICE STUDY POISON GAS

Dr. R. M. Harger, professor of chemistry and toxicology at the Indiana university school of medicine, will lecture on gas warfare and demonstrate the drunkometer at the meeting of auxiliary police of civilian defense zone 5 at 7:30 p. m,

hall, 64th st. and College ave. Sgt. James W, Howe will conduct | close order drill and final instrue- | tions for the Navy day parade will | be given.

| Veronica Lake

{enter her essay in the state-wide) ‘leontest sponsored by the Navy

Seeks Divorce

HOLLYWOOD, Oct, 22 (U, P). ~ Pim uctress Veronica Lake of the sweeping peek-a-boo hairdo, filed suit for divorce yesterday | from Maj. John Steward Detlie, | The diminutive star charged her husband of three years with cruel and ‘nhuman conduct and sald his treatment of her had “produced a condition detrimental to her health and welfare.” She filed her complaint under the name of Constance Keane Detlie,

MISS LAKE announced earlier | this month, after a visit with her husband at his ‘post with the army engineers at Seattle, that they had failed to find a solution | to their troubles. They were married at Santa Ana, Sept. 26, 1040, and separated Ipst Aug. 23. They have a 2-year-old daughter, Elaine Keane, A son was born prematurely last summer after Miss Lake suffered a fall at her studio. He lived

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Washington High School Pupil Now Will Enter State Competition.

Patricia Newnum is winner of the Navy day essay contest at

PROPOSE BLOCK | Desperate

“HOUSING PLAN

Architects Would Convert

Existing Dwellings Into Apartments.

Responding to an appeal to remedy the acute housing shortage

apartments. Artfur Bohn and John G. ©.

| 8ohn, associated, propose that en-| {tire blocks of houses ba turned into | [two or three apartments, each, alll

under a single management, - Working as part of the local post-

| war planning commission, they sald

they have found several suitable

blocks within 12 to 14 squares of | | the downtown district, accessible to,

principal bus lines, which could be converted,

City Heat Possible

The architects say the apartments could be heated with city heat, have control incinerator and other unified accommodations, They say their project would be sufficiently large enough to have a general manager and provide all services offered In a wellsfimnaged

| Apartment building. Single garages

for each tenant and landscaping of grounds also are proposed. The ‘houses proposed for selection are of average size and constructed in a manner to make conversion easy, The proposition has been taken up through Rep. Louis Ludlow with John B. Blanford Jr, national hous-

Washington high school and will [ing administrator,

league, Runner-up in the contest at Washington is Betty Edwards, ws. nn The war activities committee of the senior class at Washington high school is sponsoring an edition of the regular newsletter sent to former students in the service. Headed by Marilyn Wertz, members of the committee are Charlotte Sorgius, Don Pyles, Robert Gattlker, Leota Soncer, Ann Mueller, Shirley Walker, Margaret Wilson, June Robertson, June Pedigo, Dorothy Kersey, Theresa Bayt, Margaret Gerbeck, Laverne Thompson and Rita Mumaugh,

ILLNESS OF WEEK

Barbara Jean Sgzakel, infant

“Szakel, 3032 W, 10th st., died yesterday at-8t, Vincent's hospital, after an iliness of one week, Survivors besides the parents are a brother, Louis Szakel Jr., and two sisters, Betty Ann and Caralyn Sue Szakel, all of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be at 10 a. m, tomorrow at the parents’ home with burial at St. Joseph cemetery.

REPORT U. 8. AIDED IN RAID STOCKHOLM, Oct. 23 (U, P.).~—

nounced today.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Louis |

The Washington high school girls military training group will make its first formal appearance at the Navy day observance Wednesday. ” . » The art department and printing classes at Washington high school have co-operated with the Red Cross in the production of 2000 meénu covers for use at Christmas time in naval hospitals and hos‘pital ships.

LAWYERS TO MEET

Judge William D. Bain of the Marion county criminal court will address the Marion County Bar association, Inc, at 7:30 p. m. Monday ‘at 1511 E. 25th st. J, Frank Benaugh will bé host to the association, James B. Battey is president and

E. Louls Moore, secretary,

Italian Peasan

Nazi Lieutenant Masks as Yankee to Trick ts in San Giovanni Massacre

are up here,” indicating a neigh-

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SECOND CUNNINGHAM HEADS ‘ALLIED FLEET

LONDON, Oct. 22 (U. P.).—Acting Adm. Sir John H. D. Cunningham has been named to succeed his cousin, Adm Sir Andrew Cunningham, as commander-in-chief of all allied naval forces in the Mediterranean, it was announced today. The appointment, made by King Jeorge, hecame effective on Oct. ib, 10 days alter Sir Andrew gave up _his command to become first sea lord and chief of naval opera-

{tions in place of the late Sir Dud-

ley Pound, . Sir John's official title is com-mander-in-gchief of the British Mediterranean fleet, but the designation earries with it the direction of the allied fleet units operating in that theater

Hartford Police Catch Kangaroo

_ HARTFORD, Conn, Oct. 22 (U. P.) ~Lindsay Fabre, a South Australian who keeps a 200-pound kangaroo locked up in his washing machine repair shop, took the advice of police today and made doubly sure the animal wouldn't

get on the loose again. Police were a bit skeptical last night when reports came in that a kangaroo was hopping along the

Quisling Prepares for Day Nazis Will Leave Him. By NAT BARROWS

|here, two architects have proposed with traitor, has begun desperate the conversion of existing dwellings {in block areas into two or three his German masters no longer

| preparations for the days when i will be present or able—to sup+ port his bloodstained regime,

Quisling’s iatest deorean against his fel low Norwegians empowers him to invoke the danth penalty against olvil servants for Vidkun Quisling “disobeying ore ders.” That 1s nothing particularly new in Quisling's life, but formal amendment of Norway's so-called militiry laws now gives him the semblance of a legal basis for his < own brand of terror when he will have to stand alone against his countrymen. re Doubtless Quisling. had more than just a hint for the Germans that he had better start building his own protective covering, The Germans have already ax~ ercised all possible power of death sentence and they would never have permitted Quisling to take the powers he assumed yesterday if they were not preparing for the time when Norway might be in a position similar to Italy.

sn» QUIBLING {is already deeply involved with Internal strife

among his own party and it is not held impossible by the keenest Norwegian observers - in London that he may never survive the events of the forthcoming weeks. His deputy, Hagelin, whom he made minister of interior, is more of a rival for power than even Quisling may suspect, The Norwegian underground has its own ideas for the fate of Vidkun Quisling and in the past 10 days—following the Germans’. latest wave of terrorism and the shooting of 15 hostages — the patriots have been unusually active, y

given them the rare courage to take dangerous chances In sabotaging production and transportation,

ARMAMENT “SCHOOL

ment school at the state fairgrounds

News from the Russian front has -

USING FORT RANGE

Men in the army air force arma-