Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1939 — Page 7

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1939

_ Hoosier Vagabond

hn FRANCISCQ, Oct. 98 — Friends send me letters, saying why con't I write a column Yelling what thé public thinks about the war. Well, in the first place, the public .thinks a lot of different things about the war. And in the second place, it changes its opinions practically every day. It would be impossible to write a column telling what the people think about the war. So I will write one. I have been struck, most of all, with the average man’s apparent placidity toward the war. And by that I don’t mean indifference. For everybody is in-

terested in the war. But their

conversation is all so objective, as though the war were something in a book. I have yet to hear anyone speak passionately about the war. I haven't been East since the war began. But, from what traveling friends tell me, the war is much more on people's minds back there than it is out here. . I really believe half the people I have talked to have resigned themselves to .our entrance as some‘thing inevitable. It’s all right to call that attitude dangerous. But just the sae, the attitude is there. = »

Many Think We Should Get In,

More people than you'd like to fpagine not only feel that we will get in, but that we should get in. And I don’t mean people with ancestral bias or axes to grind. Just plain, ordinary people who feel that England and France are fighting eur battle for us. In’ talking with people, I have yet to find one “who said anything bad about the German people. I cannot say honestly that I know what the public thinks about the neutrality law. Judging from the Washington columns, it is eonsidered the most important piece of legislation ever to come before Congress. But, judging from the remarks of people I have met, they don’t seem to feel # makes much difference one way or the other. I suppose one reason for the feeling out here is that California is so far away from Europe, and so close

Our Town

A BRIEF CHECKUP on the state of civilization for the week ending Oct. 28, 1939: A motorman on an Illinois streetcar was heard . to say Au Revoir to a customer leaving his car. The Ayres people advertised a new aid to female lure: , “Bonfire, light up your autumn face.” A hen in Irvington laid an egg inscribed. “feb 14, 1940.” It is generally interpreted out there to mean the end of the war. Other war news on the Indianapolis front: The Wassen people - advertised “pillboxes,” the cryptic name of still another female hat. And seme ,of the innocent turbans you run across en the street are made of gauze described as the kind used in making bandages. .The Pontiac people are out with a “torpedo” model; the Oldsmobile outfit, with a “eruiser.” 2 = =»

Memo “for Mr. Dickerson

Unmindful of the war scare, the Inter Nos Club met at the home of Mrs. E. L. Carr, 1202 N. Oakland Ave., and blissfully discussed “Building for the Centuries.” A lady living at the Marott Hotel telephoned a friend last week to say she'd be unable to keep her luncheon date because she was “putting up “pickles. ; The past week revealed, too, that the Twin Stars Novelty Co. is doing business at 3706 E. Washington St. At last reports a large moth generally believed to be Alypia octomaculata was loose in the drawer of Luther Dickerson's desk at the Central Library. It might interest Mr. Dickerson, too, that an auto-

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—If there was anything except a brainstorm ‘behind Secretary Wallace's statement at San Francisco favoring a third term for Mr. Roosevelt, it is too subtle to be detected.,

This is one revival of political talk that can’t be blamed, as usual on the newspapers as a “hot weather story” or out of the “annual rumor crop” or a “typical Monday morning think piece.” Actually the newspapers have observed the neutrality political truce as well, if not better, than the politicians. This time it isn’t the “irresponsible press.” Secretary Wallace took off the wraps in San Francisco, releasing the rest of us from our inhibitions. . The additional reason now advanced in favor of a third term is that Mr. Roosevelt is the man the country must have to guide us through the war situation. So long as the war continues, hat will- be the chief argument used in behalf of a Third

term.

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Restricting the President’

Put down against him that he has been in favor of Europe reasonably well] that he had World War experience in Washington, that he is intensely interested in world affairs, has kept himself intimately informed of them and has the courage and decision to act. Put down agains him that he has been in favor of more aggressive action to help’ Great: Britain and France than public opinion has appeated to sanction. The whole course of neutrality legislation has been a process of restricting Mr. Roosevelt: I never have

My Day

YOUNGSTOWN, O., Friday. —Yesterday afternoon; Mrs. Ruthven, who .is the perfect hostess, took me to see a number of the Ann Arbor byildings on the campus of the University of Michigan. The graduate students building is really beautiful -and the dormitories we visited were livable and charming. Much of the work has been done either by PWA or WPA, and I feel a great pride in what has been accomplished through co-eperation with the federal Government. We went to see Mrs. Alexander Dow and enjoyed the love-

ly view from her house over the.

tree tops to the lake below. Then we stopped in for tea and at a girl's dormitory on the way back. President and Mrs. Ruthven : were so kind that I left with great reluctance after my lecture and. wished I -could have had a longer stay in Ann Arbor really to appreciate all the work carried on there. 4 The state press association was meeting in Ann Arbor and I was happy to see some old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Traenor, for a few minutes after my lecture. We arrived in Youngstown this morning find so many things of interest which could be done during ay day that it has been difficult to plan what we would do. Of course, the press eonference came first and then I went to see my first steel mill, the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. It is a very modern

plant and looks extremely efficient. They pointed out . es % :

a lipstick to

"by day ‘tempering their policy to public opinion,

By Ernie Pyle

to ‘the Orient. Those who think deeply out here about the war, usually have an Oriental angle to it. The other night I was in the home of some friends, where a 19-year-old boy was home over the weekend from college. I asked him what the boys at school thought about the:war, “Oh,” ‘he said, “we passed around ‘a resolution through two fraternity houses the other day, and 40 of us signed a pledge that if Russia makes a military treaty with Germany we will quit school and join the army.” “What army?” I asked. “We'll join the American ATT” he said. be in it by then anyhow.” : » »

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Boys at Play Yesterday I drove up over Twin Peaks, to visit some friends on the other side. around the block just to kill time. Some boys a 12 were digging madly with shovels in a vacant . and had ditches dug waist-deep. : “They're digging trenches,” said my friend. “Every time an’ ajrline plane goes over, they duck down into their trenches, for safety.” We walked up and peered over into one trench.

ut ot,

“The boy there stopped digging. He pointed down

the slope toward another boy, sitting by a tree about 40 feet away. “Can you see any fortifications down there?” the boy asked. No, we couldn't see a thing but grass. * “Well, go. down and look,” said the boy. So we walked down. And that grass was just alive with little reinforced caves and pits, covered with ‘grass, and full of tanks and little guns and sandbagged officers’ rooms. And all through the grass were metal soldiers about an inch tall, some lying flat, some running, some eating at field kitchens. Over to the left was a whole bunch of cavalry. “I've got too big a gap between the cavalary and the infantry here,” the boy said. “That's bad. I'm gonna change that right away.” : The trouble, you see, is that 25 years is too long between wars. We've got to have wars oftener, so everybody will remember that last one. Because wars are fun—until you've been through one,

By Anton Scherrer

mobile born last week has an engine that opens like a book. And the other day, the Block people scared the daylights out of everybody by reminding” them that Christmas was but eight weeks off. Last week, too, the Board of Safety went back to the good old-fashioned. wooden- club. (24 ‘inches. long by one and one-eighth inches in diameter) and substituted it for the sissy rubber slapstick the police now use. The new clubs will have tassels, blue for patrolmen; red for officers, and gold for Chief Morrissey. From now on the new clubs will be ‘called “batons.” I thought you ought to know. - -

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Smashing a Legend

And not until the other day did this department learn that Dr. James C. Carter never peels his vest, no matter how hot. it is. It takes all kinds of people to make a column like this. And certainly il is my duty to report that last week I blasted the everlasting stuffing out of the pretty. legend that Brandt Steele is the little boy lying in the grass of his father’s picture now on view|, at the Herron. To look at the little boy, he isn’t more than eight years old. Well, that’s the point of

my discovery. The picture was painted in 1887 when |

Brandt was every bit of 15. Old enough, anyway, to wear long pants. Which brings me to little Eddie Blish, the promising grandson of ‘Willlam Stafford,” Eddie, it appears, pestered the life out of his mother to let him go to Sunday School. At the end of the first lesson, the teacher came around and asked him whether he liked ‘Sunday School well encugh to come again. “Sure,” sdid Eddie, “if you will tell me something about” God next time. Nobody around our house seems to know much about Him.”

By Raymond Clapper

thought that Mr. Roosevelt ‘wanted to declare war and send an expedition to Europe. But he has favored taking chances . considerably beyond those which a majority of Congress appears willing to take. Mr. Roosevelt is not by any means the free formulator of national foreign policy that would be expected if he were the only man to lead us in a period of this Kind." The country has its own mind and so does Congress. Those influences are as potent now as Mr. Roosevelt’s mind in shaping our foreign policy. The country is by no means throwing itself into the hands of the President, to follow where he leads. ” 2 s

Power of Public Opinion Mr. Roosevelt and his leaders in Congress are day as is seen by the concession to knock out the credit provision of the pending Neutrality Act. No President

can operate independently of public opinion. The two.

collaborate. On: the domestic side, nothing has changed the arguments against a third term. There has been much foolish talk ‘about excessive Presidential powers and the’ dangers therein. Under modern conditions the head of the state must have large powers and the office 1aust be strong. Protection for democracy lies uot in making the Presidential office powerless and sterile, but in retaining in the hands of the people the power to change the occupant. ' The two-term tradition is an infinitely greater protection to democrac- than any legislative hamstringing of the executive ever can be. In this period, when democracy has to. watch its step, it seems riore essential than ever before to preserve intact this protective tradition. Only in the midst of ‘our participation in a critical war could there be any substantial case for abandoning the two-term tradition, and I'd want to hear a good deal of argument on that.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

to me that the modern machinery made the work for the men lighter than it had been in the old days. They said that.though fewer men were needed for certain operations, this did not mean that fewer men Were actfially ysed in the mill, because in the finishing processes more labor was required and steel

is used in many new ways today. Youngstown has always been a one-industry city and the whole valley is dependent on the steel business for a livelihood. There is a big problem before them at present because their cost of production is higher than it is in places where they have water transportation as well as rail transportation. ‘By good management they have been able to compete so far, but they feel that unless a certain canal is built which will give them access to the river and the Great Lakes, this competition may become impossible to meet in the future. It is da serious situation and one which can be duplicated in other areas where there are other interests. I.am beginning to think that we need not only a National Resources Board, to look into what the nation’s resources are and report on them, but a group made up of industrialists and labor leaders to do research work’ in all these ‘different problems which affect different areas throughout the country. They should be looked at from the point of view of the eventual development of the country as a’ whole and planned on a wide basis. I can think of many objections to this plan, among others, the difficulty of making people think on a national instead of a local basis where their personal interests are involved. I have an idea, however, that this, is something which we ought to be thinking about for the future.

We took a walk|

. have, Turkey today denotes

"as a consequence of an act of ag-

Russian field near Baku, potential German oil source.

Turks Hold Key to Soviet-Nazi Oil Route

Thomas J. B. Wenner, head of the Political Science department of Cleveland College, here gives a first hand account of the importance of the Black Sea region in the war situation today. Prof. Wenner recently returned from a tour of mod-

Great Britain and France, ® #8

By Thomas J. B. Wenner

Times Special Writer

ern Turkey and western Russia, areas brought into. the news by breakdown of Turkish-Soviet negotiations and signing of an alliance between Turkey,

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THE situation along the historic waterways connecting

the Black Sea to the Mediterranean is loaded with

dynamite,

To most people in the United States today, the Republic of Turkey—which hold the key to the route—stands

Turks, and to anyone who hag visited the country in the past few months as I

none of these things. Turkey, now a modern. nation minus the fez and the harem of its “Eastern” existence, : today stands tied to the West. It is now committed to assist. Britain and France if the latter become in-

volved in any war in the eastern Mediterranean resulting from hostile aggression by a European power. The Turks also are bound to assist their new allies in case England and France go to the assistance of Rumania or Greece, or ‘both. France and Britain have agreed to assist the Ottomans in case any European power commits aggression against the Turks, or if Turkey becomes involved.in war in the eastern Mediterranean

gression by a European power. Crux of the mdtter is Turkey’s fear of the' Soviet bear at the Bosporus, possible Soviet aggression against Bessarabia, in Rumania, and what the statesmen of Ankara believe may be’ Il Duce's designs in the eastern Mediterranean. ; ® » » HE Turkish high command must also protect its western flank against possible attack from Bulgaria, which is covetous of territory in Thrace—formerly allotted to Greece but later ceded to the Turkish republic during the Ataturk regime, Alone, Bulgaria is hardly in a position from either an economic

PLAY SCHOOL ASKS COMMUNITY'S HELP

A campaign for support of the].

play school at the Northeast Community Center, 3300 E. 30th St, was started today under the leadership of Mrs. O. J. Pearson, newly elected president, The school is supported chiefly by donations, the only money received from the City being the teacher's salary. Other new officers are Mrs. Richard Graves, vice president; Mrs. Leslie Robinson, secretary; Mrs. Raleigh Fledderjohn, treasurer; Mrs. Albert Kremiller, ways and means committee chairman; Mrs. Richard Gilbert, publicity. Mrs. Gerald Smith will be in charge of the next meeting, Nov. 30. Mothers meet each month to discuss the educational problems of their children. Mrs. | Maude Crisswell is teacher.

MANY LEAVE CCC FOR PRIVATE JOBS

Honorable discharges from Indiana CCC camps because of private employment during September

March, 1938, the State Welfare Department reported today. Most of the 129 youths who left the camps did so in industrial counties. Because of expanding steel mill operations 20 youths were -granted honorable discharges in Lake County. Vigo County, with its Terre

Haute industries and coal mines|

was second with 11, followed by St. Joseph County with nine and La Porte County with seven. Six Marion County youths left because of employment.

INCREASE SHOWN IN DELPHI POPULATION

Times Special .

crease in the population of Delphi has been recorded through a census just completed here. John ‘Zook and Mrs. William Fraser who canducted the census reported a pop-

reached the highest point. since].

for Armenian atrocities, a sémi-oriental civilization, mosques, minarets ‘and Mohammedanism.

To most young

or military standpoint to engage a remilitarized Turkey. But a disgruntled Bulgaria in concert with Russo-German designs ‘in

the Balkans might make plenty

of trouble for the Ottomans. Most serious price for an alliance with England and France is the possibility that Ankara may too greatly have offended the powers that be in the Kremlin. . It is feared in Turkish diplomatic circles that Russia may have designs on Rumanian territory, which might be the signal for both the Nazis and Bulgars to co-operate militarily in a revision of the Balkan status quo. Besides, Russia has no inten. tions of seeing Soviet’ commerce jeopardized in the Black Sea, or of being bottled up at the Straits in case the western allies decide to bring pressure on -the German rear by transporting war materials and troops through Rumania. r Across the Caucasus from the great Baku oil fields of Russia to Batum on the Black Sea run oil pipe lines allowing Soviet oil egress by water routes to Constanza, in Rumania, as well as to Sevastopol and Odessa in southern Russia. From the latter, overland routes can transport this oil through Kiev and Russian Poland to Nazi Germany. Strategic railways also run from Baku northward to Grozny and thence by pipe line to Taupsa on the Black Sea. Any threat to these sea routes must be viewed seriously both by Moscow and Berlin. Once inside the narrows of the Bosporus, British and French men-of-war might seriously

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Shipments must be transferred here from Russian broad guage to standard rail cars; if British cut short route, this is only oil

route left.

@ Italion naval bases A British naval bases :

Scale of Miles 200

Alternative toutes by which Germany can get oil from Russia, Action of Turkey in keeping open the Dardanelles and Bosporus to England and France, holds a potential threat against the sea portion of The slower, more difficult of the two, however, is better sheltered under the wing of the Russian fleet at Sevastopol.

these routes.

Dnepropetrovsk v S -S.R,

throttle Soviet commerce ip the Black Sea, and, in case of Soviet aggression against Rumahia, prevent the landing of Soviet troops at. the great port of 'Constanza. When I crossed the Black Sea, the Russian fleet was at anchor in Sevastopol harbor, which was closed to foreigners. There it is based as a threat to any hostile threat north of the Dardanelles,’ and as a defense against any attempt to cut the oil routes across the Black Sea,” ” ” ”

USSIA desired commitments from the Turks that in event the . European war spreads into eastern Europe, English and French vessels would be denied passage through the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. The Turks tried to straddle this issue and finally refused. A protocol is included in the recent pact providing that the treaty’s obligations cannot compel Turkey to take action having as its effect or involving as its consequence hostilities against the * Soviet Union.

Fountain County Husker Shucks to 5th State Title

LIBERTY, Ind, Oct. 28 (U. P.).—Lawrence Pitzer, husky bronzed

Fountain County farmer, today held his fifth Indiana corn husking

championship. He broke his own record to win the title froin 15 other

Hoosiers in a rain-soaked field yesterday. Out of competition since he last won in 1935, Mr. Pitzer surged

minutes allotted. During the contest he garnered 2419!2- pounds of corn.

Held Previous Record

When he last won the title in 1935 he set the previous record of 34.56 bushels by husking 2419 pounds. Floyd Gesse of Porter County was second with 3347 bushels while Harold Bruns of Franklin - County was third with 32.01 bushels. Approximately 25,000 fans, including Governor M. Clifford Townsend and : Lieut. ‘Gov. Henry PF. Schricker, followed the 16 huskers on the Spenee Stevens farm. A light rain lasted until a few minutes after the competition started, and then ceased until the judges began their final tabulations.

Qualify for National Mr. Pitzer was confident that he would .Mave far exceeded his previous record had the weather been good. “I believe I could have made it 40 bushels if the weather had been dry,” he said. Mr. Pitzer and Mr. Glesse qualified for the national cornhusking

meet at Lawrence, Kas., Nov. 3. Others in the first ten were George Doty of Union County, 31.77; Ed Henson of Lake County, 31.66: Forest Noggle of Vermillion County, 31.39; Philip Guttrich of Wabash Count¥’ 31.20; Robert Kitchel of Wayne County, 31.19; Cecil Brown

SENTENCED FOR LARCENY RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 28 (U. P.) —Charles Grimes, 30, Richmond, to-

in the State Prison on a charge

ulation of 2218... The 1930 census gave the Population as 1m,

petit larceny. 'Police said his sentence broke up a theft ring.

of Warren County, 31.13, and Vilas .| Jacks, last year’s titleholder, 30.92. DELPHI, Ind. Oct. 28.—An in-

day was under a two-year sentence of \was ordered entered. Howard had

through the wet and slimy cornstalks to husk 34.564 bushels in the 80

LEGION AWARDS FLAG T0 GIRL SCOUT TROOP

Girl Scout Troop 57 will receive an American Flag and a Girl Scout Troop Banner from the Bruce P. Robison Auxiliary 133 of the Amer-

|ican Legion at a special assembly at

10:15 a. m. Friday at the Public School 58. ‘The auxiliary is sponsor of the troop, most of ‘whose members are pupils at School 58. Mrs. Ralph R. Lynch, a %eacher at the school and Americanization chairman for the auxiliary, has arranged the program. Children from the Indianapolis Orhans’ Home will be guests. - The color guard of the auxiliary will present colors. Mrs. Fred M. Wolf will make the flag and banner presentation and Mrs. Merrill Overman, troop president, will accept for the troop. Mrs. Clarence U. Knipp, auxiliary president, will speak on the work of the auxiliary and its rela--tion to the Girl Scouts.

JORDAN ESTATE SUIT IS SETTLED

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Oct. 28 (U. P.)—Stock of the Clairemont Sterilized Egg Co. of Indianapolis and the Steroline.Corp., Illinois oil company, and cash to pay litigation expenses have been awarded to Willis G. Howard of Indianapolis in settlement of a suit against the Arthur Jordan estate. - At the same time judgment for the defendant, Alice B. Jordan, of Indianapolis, executrix of the estate,

sued the estate for approximately

So lorig as Russia ®is not the aggressor against Rumania, England and France would seem to : be the winners-in the deal,

Otherwise, this protecol provides a ‘wide loophole for the Turks to ‘crawl ‘out of, since any assistance tendered Rumania in case of Soviet aggression would immediately call for decisions at Ankara as to whether passage of English and French warships through the Straits constjtutes an unneutral: act ‘against the U.S. S. R. calculated to open old ‘war wounds between. the Ottomans and the! Slavs. Future events only .can decide’ how important this protocol is to. become in allowing the Turks to walk a neutral tight-rope along the Golden Horn. «= : . . : For the moment, decisions reached in London, Paris and Ankara go far toward satisfying the French and British that they have at least a potential ally in . the Ottomans for maintaining the status quo in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.

SOCIAL WORK GROUP T0 HEAR ECONOMIST

Paul - H. Douglas, University of Chicago economist, and Raymond Clapper, Indianapolis Times columnist, will be among speakers at the 49th annual State Conference on Social Work opening here Thurs-

“Plot. Douglas will speak on “Social Justice and Social Security” at the opening general session at 8 p. m. Thursday. Mr, Clapper will speak Friday evening on “Social Work and the Press.” Dr, James S. Plant, director of the Essex County Juvenile Clinic, Newark, N. J., will speak at the close of the conference Saturday noon on “Social Justice and Mental Health.” General sessions will be held at the Claypool Hotel. Institutes and round-table discussions will be held at the Claypool Hotel, the Hotel Lincoln and the World War Memorial.

HOPPENJON TRIAL “WILL OPEN NOV. 7

NEW ALBANY, Ind. Oct. 28 (U. P.).—Judge John M. Paris in Floyd Circuit Court yesterday overruied a motion to quash an embezzling indictment against Frank A. Hoppenjon, former county treasurer.

would go on trial Nov. 7. for the fourth time on the embezzling’ indictment. He was charged in connection with a shortage in the county treasury. . Three previous trials have ended when the Juries

disagreed. oN ° Fl

FRANKLIN HOST TO.

Times Spesimt. ~~ : x Ind, Oct. Mle

schools sending the largest delegations to the 18th annual Indiana High School Press Convention here,

high schools. They attended exhibits, lectures and informal mixers

His ruling meant that Hoppenjon | $4

HIGH SCHOOL PRE! S|

FRANKLIN, . dianapolis high schools headed the|

CITY RAILWAYS

WINS NATIONAL! SAFETY MEDAL

Local System Honored for

‘Best Accomplishment’ | During 1938. = = |

| - The Indianapolis Railways has been awarded the Anthony N,

| Brady Safety Medal for “the best

‘accomplishment in accident pree vention by urban transit organiza

‘|tions in the United States and

Canada during 1938.” " The medal was awarded at & luncheon in New York City spon-

‘|'sored by the American Muséum of .| Safety and the: American Transit - | Association. ‘| Railways president, accepted the

Charles W. Chase,

award on behalf of the Railways, the Peoples Motor Coach Co. and their 1100 employees. : Cites” Safety Program {

During 1938 Indianapolis Raile’ ways reduced its accidents 27 per cent and carried on an active acci= dent prevention program in which all employees participated. In accepting the award Mr. Chase said that safety of passengers and of the public has long been a major concern of transit managements. Competition Was National “The word ‘safety’ is among the first that the new ‘recruit for & transportation job hears,” he said. Indianapolis ‘Railways competed with companies from cities with a population of 300,000 or more. Local transit officials who accompanied Mr, Chase to New York were James P. Tretton, Indianapolis Railways vice president and general manager; E H. Pflumm, transportation super= intendent, and Edward McCreadie, bus transportation superintendent,

MAP PLANS FOR’

ESSAY CONTEST

High School Teachers Are " Named to Fix Rules, Select Subjects.

A committee of high school teache ers to select subjects and arrange rules for the sixth annual Cone stitutional essay contest conducted in Indianapolis High Schools by Hayward-Barcus Post 55, American Legion, was announced today. The committee chairman is Ruse sell Sigler, history. instructor at Shortridge. Members are A. R. Wile liams, history instructor, Manual} Ralph O. Minnick, history ine structor, Tech; Miss Flora Will, ine structor of social, - studies, Broad Ripple; Miss Louise Ross, insructor in social studies, Washington, and Irvan Armstrong, history instructor, Crispus Attucks. A silver loving cup is to be {awarded to the school submitting the best essay. Individual medals will be awarded to the pupils writing the best essay in each school participating. The committee will announce the three subjects for essays during Anierican Education Week, Nov, 5-11.

LABOR CONTRACT AT "MUNCIE CANCELED

MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. 28 (U. P.).— A contract between the Warner Gear Co. and Local 287 of the United Automobile Workers union has been canceled. The union today continued a sympathy strike | against the company. J. M. Simpson, vice president and ' | general manager of the three Mun cie factories said the cancellation was ‘made because the union ale legedly disregarded its agreement with the firm. The Muncie factories

were closed Wednesday when the

union struck in sympathy with strikers at the Long Manufacturing ~ plant ‘at Detroit. og

PEST CONTROL. GROUP MEETS HERE IN 1940

The National Pest Control Assoe ciation 1940 convention will be held next October in Indianapolis, ace cording to E. H. Arnott, president of the Arnott Exterminating Co. here, . who extended the invitation. About 500. delegates are expected to attend, This will be the association’s first convention in Ingisnapolis.

TEST YOU R , - KNOWLEDGE | ]

1—What became of: the “Balkan kingdom of Montenegro? 2—What does “pro and con” mean? 3—Has the moon any atmosphere? 4—Name the last Czar of Russia, 5—How many time zones are in the U. S. proper? 6—On which continent is the ree public of Liberia? 7—What is the correct pronunciae tion of the word detonate? - 8—Name the capital of Nevada. * 8s » # Answers

1-—It was absorbed ‘into the ‘new kingdom of. Yugoslavia after ihe World War. ; 2—Argument for and sgainst. 3—No. 4—Nicholas II." 5—Four, . 6—Africa; Le 7—Det’-0-nate; not de-to’ -nate. 8-Carson: City. : Br i pk ‘os ®

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‘There were 341 student delegates| and 42 teachers from 47 Indiana |.

during the three-day esting. :