Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1944 — Page 13
ergs, rayon fine cottons, olors, prints
ses on 3 from
side roads gravel. and difficult for heavy military trafic. In many
American finds the climate of Norbominable, even in June. We have about one for bad days. On nice days the sky sun is out and everything seems t there is still a hidden chill in your tent or under a shade tree
the whole universe is dark and lights in your tent at noontime and it and often a cold wind blows and heart, too, are miserable. Most everybody has on his long underwear. I four sweaters in addition to my regular uniform.
Dampness Is Constant
THERE 1S a constant dampness in the air. A# night you put your clothes under your bedroll or they're wet in the morning. All this‘dampness makes for ruddy cheeks and green grass. But ruddy cheeks are for girls and green grass for cows, and personally 1 find the ordinary American is happiest when he’s good and stinking hot.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum zs: sues sei
SIGNS OF THE TIMES: The owner of a cocker Spaniel reports that when she called a certain dog kennel to see about having her dog's coat clipped for the summer she was given an appointment three weeks in advance. Shucks, she could have made it sooner at a beauty parior.... One of our agents reports seéihg a past middle aged man get aboard a College ave. streetcar yesterday (with the mercury headed for 100) v ing a blue serge suit compleie with vest. He had the vest buttoned tightly, apparently oblivious to the heat. At noon, the same man was seen on monument circle, still wearing the vest. Maybe he had on asbestos underwear... . Lt. F, H Baumann, officer of the day Tuesday at Stout field, received a call from the state police Tuesday night asking if they were shooting off zockets, The police said they had received numerous inquiries about “rockets,” some coming from as far Away as Danville. Lt. Baumann checked with the tower, highest point at the field, to see if they had seen any rockets. “No rockets,” said the towerman, “but I did see a shooting star a little while ago.” That solved the mystery for those who somehow got the idea that it might have been a stray German rocket with an extra heavy charge of rocket juice. ., . Mrs,
“ Guy King, who runs a grocery at 3410 W, Washington,
reports that many of her west side neighbors had observed a “perfect V” in the sky for about 45 minutes beginning at 9:30 p. m. Monday. The .V was formed by white clouds outlined against the light of the moon. Just inside the V at the angle point was a single star. Some considered it most significant.
A Light Duster
MRS. JACK KENNEDY, 5545 N. Meridian, was interviewing prospective domestic help the other day. One woman, asking $25 a week, described herself as “a fair cook and a light duster.” ... One of our geaders got in an argument with a neighbor over whether federal officials, such as President Rosevelt, bave to pay federal income tax on their salaries. So
Platform Views
CHICAGO, June 29.—Hoosiers had general praise today for the G. O. P. platform, particularly the plank on foreign affairs, which had been a matter of considerable concern for all midwesterners. Indiana Republicans in congress were leading pre-war isolationists and while going “all out” for winning the war they still remain aloof from any program going “all out” for world government, The party plank satisfied them and what it will amount to likely will be left up to Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York to interpret as the campaign progresses. Just how is could be interpret ed, or misinterpreted. was demon ++ strated here today when Col. Robert. R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune carried a page one headline saying: . “Put U. 8. First: G. 0. P” And Marshall Field's New Dealish Chicago Sun
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had this banner over the same platform story:
“G. O. P. Approves World Program.”
Willkie Draws Fire
WENDELL L. WILLKIE didn't like the plank
* being that indefinite and said so in a statement sent
here, which caused Rep. Paul Shafer (R. Mich.) to
“In his vicious assault on the earnest efforts of the conscientious members of the platform drafting committee, I am certain Wendell was telling President Roosevelt he is willing to be his running mate.” Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Indiana's only Republican leader in the national picture, now that Mrs. Grace
. Reynolds has been shunted out by the inner circle
It Hits You Harder
I HEARD a funny story of one of our young fighter : : pilots who had to bail out one day recentiy, high over |" ; the English channel, = | Joe Williams Reports Run It seems the pilots carry a small bottle of brandy ! : On Detective Stories
And Trial Books.
By JOE WILLIAMS .Beripps-Howard Stall Writer CHICAGO, June 29.—Maybe the G. O. P.ers got the inspiration from baseball. It was out here 24 years ago that the hit-and-run leaders called in the cops to clean up their dugouts. They called on a Republican crime buster, too—old man Landis. And nobody's been able to get him out of office since, either, Not even to get a haircut. The Dewey nomination may be the beginning of a trend. The mother of the future may beam down upon her brawling brat and murmur: “Who knows! One of these days he may grow up to be an Ellery Queen.” Already the libraries report a run on detective stories, underworld literature and historic court trials, It isn’t true that crime does not pay; it all depends on how you work at it.
A ‘Crime Buster’
All the orators yesterday referred to Dewey as a crime buster with the implication he would run the ras-
it fished him out water. Even the cold He was giddy and staggering keep him in one spot long enough The captain of the destroyer pened, and being afraid the kid would take cold wandering around the deck he came with affected harshness: “What the hell are you doing here? where you belong.” ’ Whereupon the wet young lieutenant drew himself up in indignation and, with all the thick-tongued haughtiness of a plastered guest who's been insulted by his host, replied: “I assure you I don’t propose to remain where I'm not wapted.” And forthwith he jumped overboard. The destroyer had to rescue him again.
Get below
{crime in Washington is that the she called us to find out. Just to make sure, we called Dems are in and the G. O. P.s are the internal revenue department, The answer: Yes, Out they pay income taxes just like the rest of us. . . . Ray] The Hon. Francis X, O Drool. Henricks reports that “scouts for the Indians missed delegate very much at large, Just a bet Sunday when they failed to take in the ball cme up with an intriguing thought: game between members of the local staff of navy Suppose that man decides to run inspectors, at Longacre park. Inspector Ralph J. Edgar Hoover against Dewey? Carpenter knocked a home run early in the game Won't that make it a dead heat? and, not to be outdone, Supervisor C. A. | As the roll call progressed it was matched it. A big time was had by all... Jack | evident the G. O. Pers have streamWalsh H. A. 2-¢, formerly with The Times and later lined their playing tactics. They a beer salesman, writes from San Diego that every- | have abandoned the old power plays where he goes on the west coast, folks are interested| for an aerial attack. in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “As soon as| At least that was the impression one of the boys finds I'm from Indianapolis,” Jack| the Hon. O'Droool formed as state writes, “he always asks about the 500-mile race, and | after state apnounced from the floor they all vow they're going to come here some time to|that it would pass. “The open see it.” We hope Eddie Rickenbacker doesn’t forget/game is much better to watch,” to start the race again after the war's over. It's the nodded our favorite delegate.
city's trade mark. Gimme My Suit!
EVAN WALKER stepped out of his office in the traction terminal building Monday evening and started
an adjoining garage. “Hey, take off my suit and give it back to me.” looked around and discovered his accuser was friend, Stanley Miller, manager of the
He his
suit, and Evan as stoutly denied the accusation. “Why, I bought this over a year ago,” he said, beginning to get annoyed. And then Miller explained. They both patronize the Evan went to the shop the other day to get his suit and, not having a ticket, pointed out the suit to the proprietor. Miller, having an identical suit, went to the clearners to get his. He handed over his ticket, but was told his suit wasn't there, “That's it, right there,” he persisted. The proprietor looked and found Walker's name on it. That's how the switch was discovered. Evan straightened everything out but the wrinkles by going right to the shop and changing to his own suit. . . . Premont Power Ph. M. 1-¢, U. 8. maritime service, was home on furlough yesterday and today from New Haven, Conn.
By Daniel M. Kidney
of state politics, doesn't go along with Mr. Willkie's criticisms. Although he put Mr. Willkie's name in nomination four years ago, Mr. Halleck today had nothing but high praise for the platform and particularly the foreign affairs plank. “I feel that it is a good statement of our stand,” Mr. Halleck declared. “And that means that it is a good rank and file view of foreign affairs and represents fairly the people of this country.”
Willis, Capehart Approve
SENATOR RAYMOND E, WILLIS offered the following comment: “The Republican foreign policy plank clearly safeguards the sovereignty of the United States in all our relations with foreign nations. It is based on the theory that a strong United, States can be effective in setting an example for realistic co-operation with other nations to retain permanent peace. “The United States will join and help to set the pattern for co-operation with peace-loving nations in making it more difficult for aggressive nations to promote their unholy causes.” A member of the senate agriculture committee, Senator Willis added: “In its provision for agriculture the Republican platform offers a constructive and long-range program for placing agriculture on a sound basis economically, ' “It recognizes agriculture as the basis of our national prospe and promises to alleviate the
(R. Ind)
annoyances that "are now reflected through agri1
culture onto the entire people.” Homer E. Capehart, Republican senatorial candidate, also praised the platform and declared: “It is one upon which I am very happy to stand for election.”
By Eleanor Roosevelt
The answer is that there is no way to
through the bus terminal to get his car, parked in! Midway, he heard a shout:
'Out here the New England dialect
low coach] lines. Miller insisted Evan was wearin@his (Miller's) | !
same downtown dry cleaning shop.! Namminate Dewey. It took Jim a Jong
Pass From Punt Formation
The first sign of life from the crowd came when the Massachusetts spokesman announced his state would pass from punt formation. He gave it the Harvard broad-A and the uncouth Midwesterners laughed.
is practically a foreign language. Pretty soon Chairman Joe Martin stated the chair would recognize Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska. The governor was there to
time to get to the point. The clock showed 11:37 when he first men{tioned the crime buster's name. It
(was the first time Dewey's name
had been mentioned all week. This was the end of the great secret. Griswold's oratory had the wet, {clammy tonal quality usually asso- | ciated with an embittered mortician. | He guaranteed the G. O. Pers “would make the American people once more the masters of their own household.” It wasn't until Griswold mentioned the fact that Jimmy Hines is behind the bars in Sing Sing that he got a bang out of the delegates.
Bricker Steals Show
It was Ohio State's John Bricker, though, who stole the show. Where the demontsration for Dewey had been stiffly mechanical, as it probably had to be, since there was' no contest, Bricker's appearance evoked a spontaneous, from-the-heart ovation. It was dramatic, too. Bricker was withdrawing from the varsity staff and agreeing to coach the scrubs. As the Hon. O'Drool whispered: “You know, watching this you get the feeilng you just saw a guy hit a home run and was called out for failing to touch first.” But that isn't the way the G. O. Pers look at it; they claim they have a real one-two punch now, that they are in the same position Joe McCarthy ‘was when he had Gehrig following Ruth in the Yankee batting order.
COLUMBUS TO MEET BRICKER WITH FETE
CHICAGO, June 29 (U. P).— Governor John W, Bricker of Ohio, who came here a week ago hoping
(One of a Series)
By 8S. BURTON HEATH "NEA Staff Writer ALBANY, N. Y,, June 29.—By twisting a few details, Horatio Alger could have based one of his better rags-to-riches books on the rise of Tom Dewey from printer's devil to Republican candidate for the Presidency. There weren't really any rags. Tom's father came from one of the earliest colonial families (the first American Thomas arrived in Dorchester, Mass, in 1634) and himself was publisher of the weekly Owosso, Mich, Times, postmaster and an active G. O. P. worker—able and willing to provide all necessities and moderate comforts for his family. Nor did the family have to look back toward Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrim Fathers to justify itself. George Martin Dewey, this Tom's grandfather, was a delegate to the convention at Jackson, Mich., which founded the Republican party. A fifth cousin was that crusty old Vermonter, Adm. George Dewey, hero of Manila bay; another relative (degree vague, perhaps because he was a Democrat) was Nelson Dewey, first governor of Wisconsin.
Middle Class Start
So Tom Dewey did not literally start from rags any more than, actually he has achieved riches. He started from small city middle class comfort and has arrived at metropolitan middle class comfort—plus a little. As a schoolboy Tom became “devil” in his father's printshop, which is to say that he was the lowliest member of the staff, privileged to do all the dirty work that nobody else would do or had time to do. In such spare time as he could find, he could learn the printer's trade. Apparently he was allergic to printer's ink, because he did not even begin to follow in the footsteps of Horace Greeley. Instead he got himself a job, one summer, on a farm. In spare time he clerked in a local drugstore and distributed newspapers. He was not, by testimony of one of his teachers, particularly popular among his playmates. A major trouble was that he knew all the answers, not just in his own mind but in fact. Even more important, he was impatient with those who did not know the answers or could not think of them.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1944
fF | Meet Mr. Dewey: His Is a Horatio Alger Story, Alth ally Start in Rags or Wind Up in Ri
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The Dewey family, phetographed on the steps of their farm home at Pawling, N. YX.
In high school he played football, tootled the bass horn and, perhaps to give the senior class prophet something with which to work, participated actively in public speaking. - At the University of Michigan he majored in political science (more material for the seer) but the scolarship that he won was not for academic honors. It was for his singing. According to one version he was considered shy and retiring by his college classmates. Whether or not this was true, he seems to have taken little active part in extra-curricular activties other than music. In the fall of 1923, using his scholarship, he came to New York to study for a musical career. At the same time he matriculated in the Columbia university school of law. He helped to pay expenses by singing in the choir of the Church of St. Matthew and St, Timothy, and in a synagog. Meanwhile he was courting Frances Hutt, born in Sherman, Tex, but then from Sapulpa, Okla., a fellow student at the school of music with a pleasing
personality and a good-mezzo-soprano voice, Dewey was graduated from law school in 1925, having completed a three-year coursd in two years in’ spite of diversions. He spent the summer touring Europe in a jalopy and on a bicycle, and returned that fall to begin his preadmission clerkship with a good but not prominent law firm. Admitted to the bar in 1926, he was affiliated successively with two firms until 1931.
All or Nothing
In connection with a case which his firm was defending, young, Dewey's work made a great impression on George Z. Medalie, one of New York's best-known lawyers who then was United States attorney for the southern district of New York. Mr. Medalie invited Dewey to join his staff. Dewey bargained —all or nothing; he would accept only the post of chief assistant in that very important office. Those who know George Medalie as a hard-headed, unimpressionable veteran, as independent as Dewey, feel that he must
have seen farther than others could then, because he accepted Dewey's terms and made him chief assistant. They have remained the closest of friends ever since. In the next two years, Dewey convicted, among others, the racketeer “artichoke king,” Costaldo; Deputy City Clerk McCormick, a powerful Tammany district leader; Irving Wexler, better if less favorably known as “Waxley Gordon.” When Medalie resigned late in 1933, Democratic and Republican judges of the U. 8. district court unanimously chose Dewey to succeed him until President Roosevelt could get around to name a. Democrat. At the end of 1933 Dewey set up his own office and went into private practice. In 1928 he had married his music school sweetheart, who meanwhile had been doing concert and revue singing. They have two sons, Thomas E. Jr. and John Martin Dewey. Their home is on a 300-acre farm in Pawling, N.Y,
NEXT: Dewey as racket-buster.
ON BOLD TACTICS
Stays in Chicago to Plan Offensive Against
New Deal.
By RAY GHENT Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, June 29.—First steps in what is described as a bold campaign on behalf of the DeweyBricker Republican ticket, intended to put the New Deal on the defensive, are to be taken up here at a series of conferences for which Governor Dewey is remaining over for at least two days following the convention. Also it was learned, efforts are to be made to have Mr, Dewey return to Albany on a train with several regularly scheduled stops which will permit him to make platform appearances. This plan is still tentative, but it indicates a desire not to allow a cooling-off time such as marked the start of the 1940 effort. Mr. Dewey while here is to meet as many national committeemen and state chairmen as he can, a move also seen as intended to avoid a mistake of the Wendell Willkie campaign of four years ago. _ With war news claiming the first interests of the people the campaign is seen as requiring bold innovations to attract attention.
DEWEY CONFERS [New ‘World of Mob' Faces
Shy, Attractive Mrs. Dewey
By EULALIE McDOWELL United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, June 20.—A new world
| had opened up today for young Tom | Dewey's pretty, shy smiling young
wife. Flown hundreds of miles from the comparative quiet of the state mansion at Albany, N. Y., Frances Hutt Dewey—the brown-eyed girl who used to sing soprano in the little Sapulpa, ™Okla., Methodist church—yesterday entered the world of the mob; the world of the throngs which seethe, push and demand glimpses of the famous. This 41-year-old wife of the Republican presidential nominee had some preparation as wife of the governor of New York. But what she has been accustomed to was nothing to the reception she walked into last night.
Face Reflects Change
The breath-taking swiftness of Frances Dewey's transition into this new world was reflected clearly in her face as she stood with her husband last night to receive the acclaim of thousands at Convention hall Her smiles were tense, tightlipped; her eyes were damp and blinking—but filled always with pride and admiration for Tom Dewey. Occasionally, listening to her husband make his pledge to the Republican party and the nation, she
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took a quick glance into the vast, packed galleries, or lowered her eyes to her quietly folded hands. Most of the time, however, her glance was fixed steadily on Tom Dewey. Only when she stepped from the platform to leave the stadium did she lose, even temporarily, that tenseness and permit her smile to become free. Still attired in the simple black frock, offset by a double strand of pearls, the off-the-face black straw hat and three white orchids in a corsage, she stood later last night with Tom Dewey at a mammoth reception in the grand ballroom of the Stevens hotel, convention headquarters.
appeared to enjoy the change. There were no Klieg lights, no brass bands, no waving banners, no shouting policemen. The crowds crowded, but there was no shouting, shrill whistling.
DEWEY HERE ONCE, BRICKER FREQUENTLY
The Republican presidential candidate, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, has visited Indianapolis once during his political career, while his running mate, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, has appeared here frequently. During his campaign for the 1940 G. O. P. nomination, Governor
i | Dewey spoke to some 20,000 persons
on April 15, 1940, at the Butler
fieldhouse, He also addressed the
Young Republicans’ organization at the Columbia club.' He later lost the nomination to Wendell Willkie. Governor Bricker, the vice presi{dential candidate, spoke here on April 6 at a meeting of the Press club. On Dec. 9, 1943, he addressed Scottish Rite candidates; in 1940
convention, and in 1939 he talked at the meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial association.
WELLES MUST PAY
EX-WIFE COURT FEES
HOLLYWOOD, June 29 (U.P.).—
{Orson Welles was ordered today to {pay his divorced wife, Mrs, Charles 5 Lederer, $900 attorney fees and $100
costs pending trial of her suit
It was different there, and she
he spoke at the state Republican;
HIS TIE IS NEAT. BUT NOT GAUDY
Here’s Behind - the - NewsPicture Tintype of
Gov. Dewey.
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 29. — You can study the news pictures of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican presidential candidate, today, but in plain black and white you'll miss the apple-cheeked contours of the Dewey face, the left eyebrow a little thicker than the right, the well-spaced shining square teeth. Unless you're close enough to yell at him when he gets too near the microphones, youll never see the twin rivulets of perspiration trickling down in front of his ears and collecting in an inverted puddle under his chin, to drip slowly upon modest tie, as we saw them in the press box last night when Dewey was accepting the G. O. P. nomination for president.
Coat Is Good
His tie is a good cravat for a presidential candidate, neat but not gaudy in deep maroon, peppered with tiny white dots. It is knotted closely to his soft white collar, but you don't see much of it because he keeps his coat buttoned closely. The coat is good, too, for campaigning purposes. It is singlebreasted, gray with an almost invisible stripe, and it fits well, but not too well. His shoes are black and they glisten; he wears & white handkerchief in his breast pocket, and he carries another for browmopping on his hip. He is an excellent orator, hy far the best the Republicans heard among dozens of speech makers at their convention this week. His voice has that tonal quality the Hollywood vocal coaches call “meli~ fluous.” : i
HOLD EVERYTHING