Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1943 — Page 13

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

“circle looked pretty chilly Betty Simms -Jooked out

1 questions— . x n will the war end? One guess is as good as another, if not

better. ea : 2. What hat become of the 7th Ca c army? I don’t know, and couldn't tell if T did know.. 3. What do you think about the: home front? Honestly its hard for me to say. I don't truly feel that we're very much at war here at home, but for some reason I can't seem to get very ~

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JIM FRENZEL, who has been in Methodist hospital the last six or seven weeks—ever since he overworked himself in the Third War Loan drive and suffered a heart attack—is getting along nicely and may ‘be taken to his apartment in the 1. A. C. next week. be For a time it seemed likely that he would spend his birthday (Nov. “ 17) in the hospital. Jim is Marion county executive manager of the war finance committee. weasel dined on pheasant out at Wallace O. Lee's place the other night, killing two beautiful specimens. Now they're being mounted for the Boy Scout headquarters: - Wally has an: extensive collection of pheasants, white guineas, mallard ducks, Hungarian geese, Japa- = nese Silky chickens, and other unusual varieties of wild life and makes the “200” available to Boy Scouts studying for merit badge tests. . +. The service men guarding the war chest on he yesterday morning when her window in the light company building. So Miss Simms, who is secretary vo President Harty Pritchard, gob itouch wit utility's home service department. And within a short tine, the department—Mrs. Ruth Buel, Mrs. Lillian Hanske and Miss Marie Tudor—gave the service men some real home service. They took over a big pot of steaming hot coffee, and somie doughnuts. Maybe you. think it wasn't appreciated, too.

The Judges Will Play

THE SUPREME court justices, having their work’ pretty well caught up, have been doing a little playing this week, we hear: “They knocked off work and

went downto Judge Curtis G. Shake's farm near.

Vincennes for some rabbit hunting. . . . The appellate

“~gblirt judges have decided to observe Armistice day

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(tomorrow) as a holiday. The rest of the statehouse will be open, but employees wishing to get-off to attend Armistice diy services have the governors “plessing. . . . Dick Heller, who was secretary to former

‘sioned a captain’ in- the army and now is awaiting

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~ WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Allied armies and allied statesmen are winning great victories abroad and we - ean see coming up the sum of a new day for democracy. But here at home democracy is taking a beating. : . These defeats at home are coming from those in congress who are “refusing to impose the taxes and to support price controls that are necessary to hold back inflation. They are coming also from labor unions which are demanding wage increases under threats to inter. - fere with the prosecution .of the war. That is what a coal strike or “a railroad workers strike is-at this

That is what makes these denile © {eats for democracy hurt. They are coming not from conscious enemies of democracy, not from Fascist. They are coming from the common and from the elected tatives of the . people—from those who cannot live except

majority shall prevail and that all groups will exercise

ent’s effort to hold wages: in control”

to the government's head and forced a wage fr his miners. - Coal had to be dug. Nobody but e Lewis miners could dig it. So you take your joice—either run out of ¢éal, or submit to the shakedown so that Lewis will call his miners back to work. ~ Many screeds are being written about the cohduct of John Lewis in this affair—the fourth coal strike . of the year. I haven't read anything that I thought was too severe, To cut off the supply of coal and thus slow down the war as we are moving in for the knockout blow is—well, there's almost a word

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% RAILROAD LABOR is coming up next with its threat Of » strike. The wage demand of the 15 non- \ gperaling railroad unions has been kicked around, unnecessarily perhaps. But they finally have been

given an incresse. It is not as much as they de-

'. WASHINGTON, Tiesday—Todsy “In fhe east of the White House we witnessed a very mem-

} occasion. The representatives of 44 nations o_o. w

/ United States. Behind them were their flags, bril-

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Townsend, hasbeen commis paid the bill without identifying himself.

* salaried workers, his salary frozen. He is unor-

‘Hardly Toucked at Home’ MATERIALLY, IT seems to me we have been hardly touched by war here at home. Okay, it's hard to buy liquor, and women's socks are awful, have to ride the bus. but so. what? Our little an-

rich and so well-fed and so plentiful. 1 can't see that it's anybody's fault, or even that it’s shameful, especially. We. haven't had anything}. yet,-on a national scale, to burn and crucify us into any thing greater than we were to begin with, To most of us the war doesn’t really hurt, The} war is only a sense of oppression that hangs above our hearts. It's an insecurity that we sense; not a pain that we feel. And'I don’t see how it could be otherwise, unless we were fighting on our own doorsteps, in our own cities. S$ ¢

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orders. - He's been working at the Harvester plant in}. Ft. Wayne. . . . Lt. Macklin R. Milner, son of Mr, and Mrs. W. F. Milner, has arrived in England and has visited: London already. His mother is The Times’ church editor.

Pinball Losses

THE PARENTS of some Shortridge students—and of some nearby grade school" pupils also—reportedly

are concerned over the youths pinball machine losses.|

... The Red Cross camp and ‘hospital committee is looking for a small piano which can be wheeled from room to room in the Stout field hospital for the en.tertainment of soldier patients. They're hoping some-

one is. willing. to. donate one. The committee also has| requests for several ping-pong tables and sets, and

full size pianos for the soldiers’ day rooms at Ft Harrison and Stout field. Got one you'd like to con< tribute? Okay, phone LI-1441 and ask for Miss Foster. . . . W. H. Rohr, editor of the magazine, Industrial -Finishing, suggests that the painter who painted the professional looking: sign on a used car sales building at 13th and Meridian must - have had “finance trouble.” At one spot on the three-color sign the

with. thie ~ Word 1s spelied-“finnace.” At-another,.it's. “flanance.” |. .

We have finance troubles, too, but not over the spelling.

A Nice Gesture A SAILOR wounded in action in the South Pacific has been home on a 30-day furlough while convalescing. Before leaving (yesterday) for a naval hospital at Oakland, Cal, he threw a “going-away dinner party at the Hotel Severin with his wife, mother-in-law and a friend as guests. They had a nice dinner and a merry time. When he went to pay the dinner check, the cashier told him not to. ask any questions but “the check has been. paid.” After much difficulty he earned that it had been paid by “a man,” He thought back and recalled a youngish man in brown suit and with blond hair who had been sitting at a . nearby table and seemed to enjoy watching the fun . they were having. When he mentioned this man to the ‘cashier, she admitted he was* the one who had) It amounted

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manded. So their leaders announce the increase is unacceptable and they go ahead with a strike vote. These are technically called non-operating unions and although they don't sit in the cabs of the loco-

motives, a general strike by those 15 non-operating = unions would just about shut down railroad trans- |.

portation. -And you know how ‘far this war could get without trains. And the steel workers are now saying that the wage increase which John L. Lewis has hijacked out of the government leaves no excuse for not giving the steel workers a raise. They are out to break the little steel formula, with C. 1.0. and A. F. of L. support.

His Men Gang Up

‘THE OC. I. 0. AND STEEL spokesman, Philip Mur-

ray, has been one of ‘the labor leaders who-has tried to discourage strikes and help war production. But his men gang up, as they will be doing in most unions now, demanding higher wages. They have a simple squeeze cry that works. They say, “John Lewis got a raise Tor his coal miners, why can’t you get one for us?” ’ i A cycle of wage increases means a cycle of price inflation, On that congress is afraid—to move, The holise: ways and means committee, slyly encouraged _ bythe Republicans, refuses to lay on the increased taxes that are needed to hold ‘back inflation.” ‘It is afraid to tax either the rich or the poor, which is a new low in political hesitation. Pressure groups also are blocking the subsidy to support price control, the real wish being to take off the lid and let prices go ‘up ‘for a killing by ‘those who happen to be in a position to profit by rapid price inflation. All over Washington the pressure groups are out in hobnailed shoes trying to break through the controls and get footloose for an inflation orgy. Sound money Republicans, so-called, do not lift a voice in protest. The town is full of high-pressure experts, Everybody is represented in the big push except ‘the little fellow ‘in the middle, the white collar

ganized. He has no lobbyist or labor leader here to put the squeeze on for him. Oh, yes. There's somebody else hot represented. That's the American soldier who some day will come back. It is a fine kettle of fish we are cooking up for him, |

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1. The capture ‘of Vincennes. , . . The original picture by Fred: C. Yohn, native Indiana artist, is now the property of the Indiana Historical bureau. -

2. The original Julian house in Irvington. George Washington

“tie community its name, helped. lay it out. 3. Portrait of & governo tive, started the new state of Indiana on her way, 4. Where business goes on. industrially in 1943, there stood a - quiet church in 1843. . . . ‘The Second Presbyterian church when

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Ships That Take Death i) To Nation's Foes Named For Patriots of Yore

+ By JOAN HIXON FAMOUS HOOSIERS who raised Indiana from girlhood to womanhood and defended her against her foes are going to sea with the merchant marine to fight for their country in another great struggle. The names of 18—statesmen, a trail blazer, preacher, inventors, and writers will adorn liberty vessels sailing

against the enemy of the -demydcracy they formed. Some of the ships are now under construction. These famous pi r slers - bring back nostalgic memories of pioneer days—Indian fighting, the crude beginnings of a state and its capital, the civil war. The pafnes are those of Henry Ward “Beecher, George F - Clark, Bdward Eggleston, Richard Jordan Gatling, Benjamin Harrison, Jennings, George W. Julian, Henry 8. Lane, Thomas R. Marshall, “Hugh * McCulloéh, “James Robert Dale Owen, James Whifcomb Riley, John Tipton, Lew Wallace, Michael ©. Kerr and — Samuel M. Ralston. . » »

Added Kerr's Name

ALL BUT THE last two were submitted to the maritime commission by the Indiana Historical bureau at the commission's request. The ' commission itself added the names of Mr. Kerr of New Albany, speaker of the U, 8. house from 1875 to 1876, and Mr. ~Ralston, governor of Indiana from 1913 to 1917 and U. 8. senator from 1023 to 1925. Mr. Kerr was the third Hoosier to be speaker. Indiana celebrated her centennial birthday during Governor Ralston’s administration. The “Samuel M., Ralston,” unched Oct. 31 at Baltimore,

whi e Henry Ward ‘Beecher preached from 1839 to 1847.

northwest - corner of the Circle and Market st. He also was pastor at the Lawrericeburg Presbyterian church. Rev. Beecher was influential in anti-slavery work in this country and in England. Whenever trail blazing is men‘tioned, the name of George Rogers Clark is mentioned. The Rev= olutionary fighter captured Vin...cennes. once from the British in. “the .summer of 1778 and when—it— was retaken by the redcoats, he 2. made his. famous march . across the prairies and overflowing rivers to surprise the enemy and retake the fort. Three Indiana writers in the group are Edward Eggleston of The Hoosier Schoolmaster fame; . James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoo~ sier Poet, and Lew Wallace, author of the. well-known Ben Hur,

By B. J. McQUAID

PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 27. (via airmail) —The Guadalcanal occupation—practically unopposed in its first stages—taught the navy the earliest and most fundamental lessons in amphibious warfare, Getting troops on & a hostile beach may be a comparatively simple assignment. It has been s0 far, even at ‘'Rendova and’ Vella Lavella, The:

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Born at; Vevay EGGLESTON was born at ‘Vevay and is less known as an.. historian, pastor and editor. Riley, a Greenfield native, was an itinerant sign paliter and newspaper writer before he became famous, The children’s poet lived in Indianapolis most of his mature life. Wallace was a lawyer, soldier and diplomat besides “being a man of letters, Born at Brookville, he moved here when his father became governor in 1837 and practiced law here and at Crawfordsville. After the Civil war, he was governor of New Mexico and minister. to Turkey undér President Garfield. Richard Jordan Gatling got his idea for inventing the machine gun from watching war-torn soldiers return from the Civil War alight “atthe Union Depot. “The gun-—which fired 250 shots a minute and later 1200 — was’ adopted officially by the army in 1866, and was manufactured in Indianapolis. He also invented a tice sowing machine; a hemp= breaking machine and a steam plow,

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BENJAMIN HARRISON ...23d president. of the United States, He fought in the civil war and fought “the Copperhead movement in his native state of Indiana, where he was also a lawyer, He was U. 8. senator from 1881.87. He resunied law practice in Indianapolis after ‘his presidential term. :

and the deceptively soft-spoken marine, Col. Henry Linscott—were never content to rely on secondhand reports, nor on studies of the situation available at safe distances from the combat zones. Repeatedly they insisted on personal appraisal of conditions where the going was

toughest, As one result, Turner today Is probably the world’s “most shot at admiral” He and his staff were | under ' direct and ‘dangerous fire something like eight or nine times. Faces aboard the U, 8. 8. McCawley — the clumsy, waddling old Grace liner which this unpretentious leader chose as his “flag"used to take on a grim look

i whenever it was learned that “the

flag” was coming aboard. Pay Big Dividends

These risks, extreme though they were for a leader in Turner's posi tion, paid dividends. In first-hand obdervation the ' (amphibious force) essons whicn led to methods of air-

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. presidents was Thomas A. Hen-

dricks. He was a successful lawyer at Shelbyville and later at Indianapolis, served as U.S. congressman and senator, and as governor of Indiana from 1873-77. He was a candidate for vice president on

. the ticket with Samuel J. Tilden.

in 1876, was elected to the office with Grover Clexeland in 1884, and died in office, Jonathan Jennings was first governor of the new state of Indiana from 1816-22 and helped negotiate treaties with the Indians, opening this vast region to settlement, He was elected U. 8S,

. congressman in 1808 on the plat-

form of “no slavery in Indiana,” and was re-elected in 1811, 1813 and 1822. He presided at the state constitutional convention in 1816. Ae . a Born in Log Cabin GEORGE WASHINGTON JUL-~ IAN , . . statesman, Born in a log cabin near Centerville, he taught school at 18 and practiced Jaw in New Castle, Greenfield and Centerville. As a state con-

...gressman, _he agitated against slavery, joined the Free Soil par=

ty. He was defeated for vice president on the party ticket in 1852. He was prominent in organizing the Republican party and served “several terms as national cone gressman, advocating woman suffrage and franchise for Negroes. He moved to Irvington in’ 1873. Henry Smith Lane was an antislavery leader and organizer of the Republican party in Indiana.

"The Most Shot at Admiral’ Claims Landing Men Easy Compared to Running in Supplies

Doyle, Lt. Cmdr. John 8. Lewis;

service, and all services, for amphiblous war demands even more than any other kind of war—&n all-out co-ordination of land, sea and air. On a Turner staff, you will always find marines and army and army air corps officers also serving as full-fledged members. Sensitive Feeling Above /all, they developed a very sensitive feeling for the problems and dangers faced by the ordinary people of the army, navy and marines; a special appreciation for the men who took the stuff through,

it got through. Incidentally, Kelly Turner and riding the old

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itis earlier life- he was yer near Crawfordsville and served as a U, 8, congressman, He was elected governor in 1861, but only served two days, beilig chosen U. 8, senator, The administration of Governor Thomas R. Marshall lias been recognized by many historians as one of the most important in the state's history, He was also called “perhaps the most popular vice president the country ever had.” He was elected on. the ticket with Woodrow. Wilson and was reelected in 1916. Born at North’ Manchester, he practiced law at Columbia City. :

” Saved Bank HUGH McCULLOCH . . .comptroller of the currency, secretary of the treasury, Due to his ad~

Bunk survived the panic of "1857, and in 1863 he become comptroller of the currency and set up ‘the new national banking system, He stood: for immediate retirement of the wartime issue -of paper money and return -to the gold

country against the silver menace. He practiced law at Pt. Wayne and was manager of “the PK Wayne branch of the State Bank, James Oliver , , , inventor and’ manufacturer. Born in the parish of Liddesdale, Roxburghshire, Scotland, he spent most of his life near South Bend. At his death in 1008, the Oliver Chilled Plow Works there covered 62 acres and produced. 200,000 plows a year, Social reform, New Harmony and Robert Dale Owen are one to Indianians, The Indiana Rap~ pite colony was set up by his father and ¢arried on by the son. The “Free Enquirers” were op= posed to organized religion, and advocated liberal divorce laws, industrial education and more equal wealth distribution, Serve ing three terms in the state legis lature, he led a crusade for a public school system and as U. 8, congressman introduced a bill un« der which the Smithsonian Instie tute was constituted. Eighteen names on 18 liberty ships , . . behind them a story of the growth and maturity of a state and nation. :

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