Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1939 — Page 13

Chum Tells F.D.R. of Pocket Subs oo MILES A SECOND WPA Hopes to Take the Measure of American Wom WASHINGTON, Oct. 12—Good ments for making ‘women’s dresses, en, fo provide a cross-section of| Invitations, ‘ take women's

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U. P.)., the purported “pocket submarines.” them secretly in an area where. they —John Tazewell Jones, an old col-| He said they weigh only 100 tons|could ‘do the most damage.— Each PHILADELPHIA, ELA Oct. 12 . p.).|news for American women who are coats, blouses and underwear, population types, will be started in|measurements as a state WPA i

lege fried of President Roosevelt,(and several of them cal be car-|{of the “pocket submarines,” Mr.| wpe earth and the rest of the|struggling to buy dresses to fit| Women shoppers and the clothing the District of Columbia, as a Fed- project in co-operation with the _ disclosed at the White House that ried on the deck of a moderate| Jones said, reqiires a crew of only arpy way galaxy is traveling 100 “stenographers’ hips” and other industry itself have long been dis-|eral project of WPA. A 10-day Bureau, have been issued to eight

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oa ag |miles a ‘second in the direction “many has perfected “pocket sub- he saw one German merchant ship} RADISHES ARE DUMB-BELLS |the constellation Draco, according

marines” capable of revolutionizing|in a Brazilian port equipped with BROCKTON, Mass., Oct. 12 (U.|to Dr. Edwin Hubble, Mount Wilson (volunteer women as possible.

undersea warfare. cranes easily capable of lifting a

Mr. Jones, who has represented launching it.

~ American firms at Sao Paulo, Brazil,| He related that a German officer |C. A. Provost of this city. His freak Institute here. * for 22 years, said he conferred with informed him that the Reich now vegetables, all larger than an ordi-

“Mr. Roosevelt on prospects for|has a flotilla of merchant vessels nary sweet potato, are the usual rved|the first time one of their number children’s clothing sizes, Latin American trade. After thelwhich could carry six such sub-!shade at one end and Clear white at had ventured id Ssinate of how [goal isto: give the clothing indus- portions. fast the earth is traveling

conference, he told reporters about marines each and could launchthe other.

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