Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1939 — Page 11

MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1939

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

EL PASO, Tex. Dec. 18. —This afternoon I went down to the American end of the U. S.-Mexico bridge to see what there is in life for a Customs Inspector. + And from all I can make of it, a Customs Inspector would be fully justified in going home each evening and murdering his wife, The awful rigors of the work aren't due to everybody trying to smuggle something across. And it isn't that the public is so nasty to the Customs men. For the average person isn't a smuggler, and the average person is fairly decent. But what drives you crazy is the deadly, ludicrous monotony of standing there and saying, from 5000 to 15,000 times a day, like a broken phonograph: “What have you got from Mexico?” If I were a Customs man do you know what I'd do? Well, I'd say to about every fifth person, I'd say “What dia you bring from Canada, my friend?” I'd put a little variety in my work. Next to your own crazy parroting to the public, is the dreadful monotony of what the public says back to you. For the American public is noted for its wit, and it has been over in Juarez tipping the bottle a little, and as it crosses the bridge, it thinks up a wow of an answer. So when the Customs man says “What have you got from Mexico?” the American public grins and retorts, “Nothing except what it would take a stomach pump to get!” That is wit, fresh and sparkling. It is absolutely original with that guy. Yessir, with him and 500 other guys a day. And the Customs man is supposed to laugh his head off. 2 5 =

A Monotonous Job

I spent a couple of hours with the inspectors at the International Bridge. It takes nearly a dozen of them to work the bridge at any one time, in the various divisions of customs, immigration and agricultural control.

Our Town

DON'T BET ANYBODY that there isnt a pet crow around here because if you do, you're bound to lose. Robert Hollingsworth, living out on Road 52, has one. Properly speaking, it doesn’t belong to Bob at all. It belongs to the Hollingsworth kids—Peter, Michael and Julia. The only other pet that looks anything like the Hollingsworth one is the crow belonging to Joe Cain, the blacksmith up at Lebanon. Both crows came out of the same nest. Seems that Mr. Cain was snooping around last spring—a habit he contracted while being sheriff of Boone County—when all of a sudden he heard an outrageous noise. And right away Mr. Cain knew that ft was his great privilege to be in on the bepinning of something mighty important—nothing less, indeed, than the birth of a nestful of little crows, That was on Feb. 4 In March, he took four of the birds to: his blacksmith shop. In May, he began giving them away, keeping one for himself. ‘Soon as Mr. Hollingsworth got his crow, he named him Hans Huckebein. I can explain that, too. And I hope to Heaven that when I get done, Mr. Hollingsworth’s literary attainments will impress you the way they did me,

® » bn Tip for Mr. Kaltenborn Hans Huckebein, it appears, was the name of the unlucky crow in Wilhelm Busch’s famous story. Fifty years or so ago, Mr. Busch wrote and illustrated a lot of funny stuff which in its way did as much for the German nursery as Edward Lear's nonsense verses did for the kids of England. Adolf Hitler never read “Hans Huckebein.” As for Mr. Chamberlain, I'll bet he cant recall a single line of Edward Lear. I wouldn't have brought up the subject except for the fact that Mr. Kaltenborn, who is forever trying to find the reason for everything hasn't mentioned it. Even though you think vou know something about crows, vou dont know the first thing until you've met the Hollingsworth pet. He started acting up as soon as Mr. Hollingsworth brought him home.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 —Without receiving much thanks for it, President Roosevelt is making an exceptional record in the high quality of his judicial appointments. As this record is viewed in retrospect later, it may go far toward offsetting the impression left by the Supreme Court battle After the horse-and-buggy court fight, Mr, Roosevelt aroused still further apprehension by the appointment of Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court and was felt by large numbers of people to have committed a grave offense against our judicial system. These may find it difficult to swallow any other story, yet there is another one. It is in such marked contrast

By Ernie Pyle

There is hardly a gap in the constant stream of cars, trolleys and pedestrians coming across the narrow bridge from Mexico, And I will say that these Customs men are the friendliest and most patient human beings I've ever run on to. What the Customs men hate worst of all to see coming is a stream of California licenses. Only a jump behind is their fear of a big long black car with New York tags. For somehow, Californians seem to think that because they can cross from California to Arizona without paying duty on anything, they can do the same from Mexico to the U. S. And rich New Yorkers seem to think that hecause theyre from the big city, these punks out here on the desert are being outrageously impertinent in even speaking to them. Just a few days ago a fat woman came walking across. But she looked a little too fat, and the woman inspector searched her. And out of her bloomers came 64 packages of cigarets! ! # & 8

All in a Day's Work

Mrs. Nell DaCosta is the inspector who handles women suspects. One time she ordered a girl to disrobe. The girl took off everything, and then hauled off and knocked Mrs. DaCosta clear across the room. They finally got handcuffs on her and then while their backs were turned she slipped out of the handcuffs, grabbed her dress, and beat it. They haven't found her to this day. One lady, suspected of bringing in plants illegally, just up and ate a whole fern plant, roots, dirt and all, right before the inspector's eyes. Getting rid of the evidence is uppermost in smugglers’ minds. One fellow ate a whole jar of opium, and topped it off with some heroin! As I stood with the inspectors, a Mexican came along wheeling an empty push-cart. The inspector motioned him on, and then when he had gone about 20 feet, called him back. He turned the cart up on end. Underneath was a large empty space—a false bottom. “What's that for?” the inspector asked. “Oh, that’s to smuggle stuff back to the other side in,” the Mexican answered blandly.

By Anton Scherrer

Since then he’s acting ornerier every day. If he didn’t look like a crow, you'd take him for a human being of the male species. The other morning, for instance, after the laundress had the weekly washing on the line and everything in apple pie order, Hans Huckebein came out of his hiding place and removed every one of the clothespins. After Which he took refuge on the top of a step ladder and laughed out loud. Sure, a crow can laugh. The Hollingsworth kids shrieked with delight. The laundress didn't. She gave notice of leaving. Before she got around to it. however, the crow stole her shoe laces and so, of course, she couldn't leave, 8 &

He Can Talk, Too

The Hollingsworth home is nothing short of a mad house. Not long ago the barn burned down with Hans Huckebein in it, to say nothing of Mr. H.'s other possessions. Hans got out all right, but ever since his escape he visits the ruins four times every day and starts scolding. The rest of the day he spends in holding long soliloquies, some lasting as long as 10 minutes. He can growl like a dog and say “Hello.” He tries to say “How do you do,” but to recognize it you got to be on to the Hollingsworth lingo. Hans Huckebein eats anything he can get between the hour represented by the crack of dawn and 4 p. m. Those are the hours he's awake. He eats scraps of meat, oatmeal, apple, fish and is passionately fond of boiled eggs (5 minutes). When nobody's looking he combs the Hollingsworth grounds for bugs, insects, grasshoppers, mice and even frogs. He toys with a dead mouse just the way a cat does. Otherwise his table manners ‘are pretty good. For some reason, too, Hans is awful fond of CocaCola tops. That's the nearest he’s got to an exhilarating drink. Mr. Hollingsworth watches his home like everything to see that no strong liquor is lying loose. Liquor was the downfall of William Busch's “Hans Huckebein.” The original Hans stuck his nose in a bottle one day and got so drunk that he got all tangled in Tante’s sewing basket with its yarns, threads and pins. In trying to free himself from the tangled thread around his neck, he slipped on the smooth table top, fell over the edge, and ended up hanging himself. Somebody ought to give Hitler a copy of “Hans Huckebein” for Christmas.

By Allan Keller

Times Special Writer

just held together. One of the dudes in the

“Where are the glaciers now?” asked the girl, holding tightly to the horn of her saddle.

“Gone back for more rocks,” replied the guide, sticking the cigaret papers back in his pocket, where a Phi Beta Kappa kev hung safely out of sight. The cowboy guide was a geology student, working his way through college, but to everyone in his party he was personification of romance, thrills and the ancient glory of the frontier, Dude ranching is built on the artificial basis that an era can be recaptured; that the day when every man wore sidearms and every rock concealed an Indian can be brought back for 10 weeks of every summer so that college girls, bank tellers and the socially elite may tangle horns with life in the rough. The thesis doesn’t sound plausi=ble, but it has worked so successfully that a business in the millions is now a going thing, with thousands of guests treking westward every year and so many ranches springing up fiom the Mexican border to British Columbia that the supply of bona fide cowboys long since ran out. Winter and summer hundieds of

W. H. S, TO STAGE

By Raymond Clapper

decidedly not places for Mantons and political messenger boys A vacancy on the Fourth Circuit, which includes Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas, is to be filed by the elevation of Armistead M. Dobie, former dean of the University of Virginia aw School. He is now U. 8. District judge, a post to which he was appointed last spring after the Senate, in deference to the wishes of the two Virginia Senators, Glass and Byrd, rejected the nomination of Floyd H. Roberts. Both factions have agreed on Judge Dobie’s elevation. Another scholar in the law is about to go on the circuit bench in the third circuit, which embraces Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Deiware. Francis Biddle of Philadelphia, recently appointed as Circuit judge, is expected to resign next month to accept an important appointment in Washington arising out of a shift to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. His place Saturnalia probably will be taken by Dean Herbert Goodrich, of | ye the University of Pennsylvania Law School, despite Schools Christmas scholarship

Washington High

(Fourth of a Series)

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The leather-faced cowboy riding with the pretty voung thing from the East had the devil's own time rolling a cigaret on horseback. spoiling three papers he managed to fabricate one that

After

pack party asked about the

great boulders that were strewn across the valley, and the guide said they had been brought by glaciers.

On top of the world, these vacationers behold the unchangeable magnificence of the mountai i Mt. Rainer National Park, Washington, a

Dude Ranches of East and West Offer Vacations That Are Different

the dude ranches play host to greenhorns from the cities and an altogether new technique in vacations has grown up. Instead of seeking rest and relaxation the dudes now rise with the sun, ride horseback over spine shattering trails and sleep between itchy blankets so that they may go home at last, fatigued and 10 or 15 pounds lighter, but with a new outlook on life. In the Southwest the ranches are open all through the winter and many of them have all the conveniences of a inodern hotel. They are a boon to sufferers with asthma, sinus infection, hay fever and other ills of the flatlands. 2 ” ” EW MEXICO, Arizona, Colo= rado and the other states where these vacation resorts have mushroomed are spending large sums appropriated to popularize their charms. With the governs ment forbidding travel in the war= ring countries of Europe, thousands of tourists who normally gravitate to Old World playgrounds will seek out the newer, lustier pleasures available in our West. Not only will American turn westward in greater nums bers, but many of the foreigh visitors who annually spend $160,

steps

Temperance in All Things ARMY TRUCKS ON

000,000 within our borders will take a try at the business of riding horseback, hoping to get the brass ring of pleasure while they're at it. There is nothing in Europe to compare with this form of vacation. The natural beauties of the country are enough by thems= selves, but when Indians from the reservations, strange Indian towns, the petrified forests, and the wonders of the national parks are thrown in the balance is tipped as by a giant's hand. It is a pleasant life for all but the base and the jaded. The day begins with the sun's return, and the guest may enter into the works= a-day existence at the ranch, handling horses, roping and handling the stock or he may ride off for a day or a week in search of fish in mountain streams, moun= tain climbing or improvement in the art of equestrianism. Imagine the unalloyed pleasure of a pack trip into the Jackson Hole country, the Rainbow Bridge section of Utah or the Wasatch Mountains. Breakfast out of the way, the ride starts and continues until the pangs of hunger can no longer be put off. Then the eggs, already opened and in a tightly covered jar, are taken out of the oats in the feed bag and scrambled over an open fire. Home=cured bacon or dried beef and quick biscuits cooked in a folding re= flector oven complete the [eed. Coffee serves as dessert and the ride takes up again. “ o »

IGHT comes and there are songs around the fire, stories that frighten the pretties from town and then sleep in the crisp night air of the high and healthy altitudes. Not too cultural and no burden for the brain, perhaps, but it's a vacation that sends you home completely refurbished. El paso, Tucson, Phoenix, Lar-

Don't let the holiday season in a candle-illuminated tree or open mandered by local recruiting of-

SATURNALIA FRIDAY Advised for Yule Season

Dude ranching calls hundreds of city dwellers every summer to live

the life of the rugged out-of-doors.

amie, Cheyenne, Cody and Mt, Ranier are unofficial capitals of the dude ranch business. Many of the establishments near these cities offer tennis, 18-hole golf courses and even polo. Some of the cabins have running hot and cold water, radios, electricity and all the comforts 6f home. The rates reflect this luxury. But there are just as many ranches where life moves at a simpler pace, with less of the modern conveniences but with all the invigorating benefits. To these ranches the man with average income can go with every expectation of having the time of his life and not going bankrupt after two or three weeks. The part that Uncle Sam has piayed in making these areas available to the motorist cannot be overlooked. The drivers who once wallowed through thick, cloying Towa gumbo and the badlands of Dakota to reach these ranches now skim along concrete ribbons at high speed.

If he wants to mix his vacation into a variegated cocktail of fun the tourist can dilute his return to the rugged life by side trips to rodeos, the national parks and frontier day parties or can watch Navajos, Blackfeet and Piutes at work and at play. The Cheyenne Rodeo. the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede and the various other special features lend color to a Western vacation that cannot be duplicated anywhere in Europe. For the traveler who is used to de luxe tours and who usually rents a villa on the Cote d'Azur a seagon at such places as Lake Louise, Banff and Jasper Park in the Canadian Rockies, or any of the swankier spots in this country, will be a novel change full of strange glamour, To all of the dude ranch areas the Santa Fe, the Southern Pacifie, Union Pacific, Great Northern and the two Canadian lines operate fast trains both for the extra fare set and for those who prefer the new sleek coach trains. ” ” ”

CENERY in the American and Canadian Rockies need not fear comparison with the Alps, the Trossachs or the Pyrenees. Seasoned travelers give the laurels to this continent unhesitatingly. Mountain climbers, who are familiar with the well-traveled routes up the Matterhorn, the Jungfrau and the peaks of the Dolomites will be agreeably surprised at the opportunities afforded by the Grand Tetons, the Rockies and the wilderness ranges in and around Jasper Park, the largest national park in the new world.

ENLISTMENT TOUR

Three U. 8. Army trucks com- |

|ficers today began a week's tour lof 15 Central Indiana cities to in-

If the climber's heart can stand the gaff and if he has the forti« tude to essay these crags, there will be nothing left for him to conquer save Everest itself. From a medical point of view a vacation spent at a dude ranch or in the wilder fastnesses of the Continental divide will pay big dividends. It may not be as efféte as the pub crawling at Cannes and St. Jean de Luz, but the old ticker, lungs and alimentary tract will come out of it-in far better form. Who ever heard of a casino croupier living to the ripe old age that is the everyday exe pectation of the horse wrangler, the guide or the forest ranger? Before anyone gets the impress sion that dude ranching is ine digenous only to the wide open spaces of the West the newer frontier close at hand should be discussed. The entrepreneurs who transformed the peaceful hills of the Catskills, the Berkshires and even the sand dunes of Montauk Point into miniature wild west establishments deserve acclaim for their temerity. The vacationer must forego the deep canyons, the peaks that lift above the timberline and the purple sage that the late Zane Grey introduced to 40,000,000 escapists, but he will have plenty of fun at these outposts of the West within easy distance of Broadway. " ” »

IDDEN VALLEY RANCH, five miles up into the Adirondacks from Lake George, is typical of those new amusement centers. It has 9000 acres with three lakes and good trout brooks, The buildings are of rolled logs, with good beds and large fire places. The horse herd includes some of the sturdy Morgan breed and others of Arabian, Western, Paint and Kentucky blood. Closer at hand is the Cimarron Ranch in the Canopus Valley, near Peekskill, with 50 miles of trail and a string of Western horses. Across the Hudson, 87 miles from Times Square, is a dude ranch called Westernaire, near Highland. Al Carey, once a champion rodeo buckaroo, manages this 400-acre resort and has a string of cow-ponies that offer the rider everything. Perhaps the most astonishing of the local dude ranches is the one recently discovered on the sandy wastes near Montauk Light at the easterly end of Long Island. The Deep Hollow Guest and Cattle Ranch seems a little out of place within sound of the melancholy surf beating in from the Atlantic, but the bejeanned lads and lassies who fork their cayuses there do not pine for the badlands.

NEXT—Nations to the South.

Nice lil. Deer Packs Wallop

Timer Special GRAMMER, Ind, Dec. 18.-— Earl Sprague, a farmer, tried to pet an apparently tame deer in a

efforts of Senator Guffey to throw the Circuit Court benefit dance, will be held at 3:15 fluence you to disregard usual health fireplace, appointment elsewhere for machine purposes. (Pp. m. Friday in the girls’ gym. land safety rules, the Indiana State | 4 Have a care about holiday au= o Rh Cat | y X on | tomnobile driving. Often roads are Shirley Thompson, Bill Gill, Bl- Medical Association warned today

# 6 & > wo |iey, corners skiddy and drivers 0 atchdog of the J udiciary /mer Marple and Lyndell Dickerson in a bulletin. y

sometimes are overcome by the The Supreme Court gets the spotlight, but these Will sing a group of Christmas songs | Many fatalities and much sick- | holiday spirit and off guard, yn Slgeshipe re the day-in-and-day-out watch- in Latin. ness which occur at this season 3. Beware ho oversentetisiam for ogs of the judicial processes for thousands of cases| The student committee in charge could be avoided, the association TO ristmas “cheer.” Many w p t. ¢ | > _|deaths and tragedies hav ulted Re ae Ne ay heirs of Of the dance includes Norma Jack- said, by observing the following | fram A yieies Rve 98 honey; Wednesday, Huey Long shoved into a Federal judgeship Gaston Son, Robert Clegg, Robert Hanley, suggestions: 6. Button Vour overcont when you |r uisday, —Qreenshurg; Porterie, former state attorney A Dorsey Littrell, Mabel Mohr, Re-| , pans try to eat everything in/go outdoors. Th ui kK h Shelbyville; Corp. T. J. Politics also dictated the appointment of Rep, T.|gina Nichols Phyllis Webb, Bare, ig ay Don't brag, from the heated home Or business |ecanesday, Delphi: Alan Goldsborough of Maryland te the U. 8. Distiiet bara Yount and Mr. Gill Ione World all in one day. Don't brag building Rr ye CS ri Monticello; Frigay: y Kia b> . | laa ; " n g § 3 - | f Kk: Court here, He supported the President's purge! | about how little sleep you will Bel | Loos \ h ol y | Sergt. C. wr 2 {during the holiday season and don't S pul both old and young in a) pedford; ‘Thursday,

against Senator Tydings and a place on the bench | good position to contract colds ; was his reward. Otherwise Attorney General Moone | 1ECH CHOIRS 10 GIVE rake too little outdoor exercise. | %. Wateh where the ecnildren Friday. Vincennes:

CHRISTMAS CAROLS 2. Remember that Christmas is a Coast and skate.

" : 8. The spiritual as well as the (time of intensified excitement fori. .i.)" significance of Christmas

Christmas carols by seven brass children, hence care must be taken should not be forgotten, | choirs will ring out across the Tech not to allow them to get upset| Adherence to these rules, the | High School campus Friday between through over-eating ot excitement. | association said, "will add to the | iE reba | 3 Don't use open-flame candles! joy and happiness of the holiday | periods as the pupils prepare 10, Christmas trees and don't let season and should prevent the too‘adjourn school for the Christmas Santa Claus get too reckless and frequent occurrence of holiday sick- | vacation. swish his cotton whiskers too near! ness and tragedies.” .

the President, and then to his mother, and the a ee cettd ftom L 0DGE MORTGAGE | Duck Ducks TO GO UP IN SMOKE |

terview applicants for enlistments. Today they were in Richmond, Crawfordsville and Columbus. To- | morrow they will visit Connersville, Frankfort and Seymour, Officers in charge schedule are: Corp.

field near here, When he got near enough to touch the animal, the deer knocked him down and ran away.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—~What strait is at the southern tip of South America? 2-—For which State is “Constitution the nickname? 3-—Has the U. 8S. Government ever issued a three-dollar bill?

4¢—Name the world’s light heavye weight boxing champion,

5--Where is the range of mountains known as the Hindu Kush? 8-—In which State was President Mc« Kinley born? 7—What was the name of the first The project has been approved| jtalian ship to be sunk during by the National Youth Administra-| (he present European conflict? tion. The camp will be built by the wn NYA on land purchased by the

to what went before that it might easily be considered the result of a deliberate attempt by the President to restore confidence in his attitude toward the judiciary, although actually the high calibre of subsequent appointments, especially in the lower courts, fs the result of persistent activity by Attorney General Murphy. When a few pending appointments are announced, Mr. Roosevelt will have named more than half of the Federal judiciary. A

» Scholars to the Bench

Within the last vear Mr. Roosevelt nas appointed five deans of law schools to the Federal Circuit bench. More of these scholarly selections are expected. The circuit bench is the Appellate Court just below the Supreme Court, and since the work of these courts mostly is reviewing the conduct of trials in lower courts, the appellate judgships are of highest importance to the integrity of our judicial system—

My Day

HYDE PARK, Sunday —Such excitement as we had this morning! The whole family from Seattle was arriving by train, The railroad people told me last night that to be on the safe side I had better be at

and their GC. W. MaRushville; Friday, Foldy: Thursday, Logansport, Wednesday, Washington,

WORK TO BEGIN SOON ON CHILDREN'S CAMP

Timer Special JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Dec. 18 Construction is expected to be started soon on the Psi Iota Xi | Sorority camp for local underprivileged children.

has had fairly consistent success in preventing political raids on the Federal bench because President Roosevelt has listened to him rather than to machine politicians.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

greet them, too. Now the President has his little car pands. Student directors are George | filled to overflowing. First they visited the brary, Zainey, Gene Oakes, Helen on |

the station by 8:15, for that particular train often ran ahead of schedule. However, this morning it ran a little behind schedule and it was five minutes before 9 when it pulled in, and mountains of baggage were disgorged before my 9-year-old grandson appeared, followed by the rest of his family. I think my daughter must have done a very remarkable piece of work, for everybody, including the father of the family and the baby, looked well and cheerful. My recollection of trav eling with babies is a succession of difficulties. The food was never right, they wouldn't sleep when they should and altogether a 24-hour trip seemed endless. This family, after four days of travel, seemed rested and well and, wonder of wonders, entirely good humored. It is evident to me that each generation improves upon the last! Everybody flew about the house, first a visit to

Robert Anderson, James Newton,

which is complétely roofed in so that the work can go, Allen Huggins and Omar Brown, |

on during the winter. Then a trip is being made to the President's cottage it the top of the hill, which Anna has never seen finished. At noon Jimmy has to be taken (o a train. We all have to be home for lunch and the ceremony attendant to the presentation by the President to Mis. Margaret Chandler Aldrich of a Congressional Medal for her nursing service with the Red Cross during the Spanish-America War. I saw “The Man Who Came to Dinner” by Moss! Hart and George 8. Kaufman on Friday night. It is’ a delightful comedy, clever and amusing, and I ean Suit vee oy every ey is sold until some time in January. course, the central figure is not an alto- | ‘ gether admirable character, but in spite of all of his JUS as a result of two separate faults and downright wickedness at times, he is loy- Accidents. One man received a dis. | able and life cold never be dull around him. located shoulder and the other an| I spoke at Town Hall, as I told you, vesterday injured foot. | morning in New York City, and found the audience very ready with their questions. I wished that this riod might have lasted longer. The show is melting ere, which grieves the children who would have liked to go coasting at once. a \

IN WAGON MISHAPS

Times Special | WABASH, Ind, De¢. 18.—And| they call this the machine age!

ing horse-drawn

was run over by his he fell off.

thrown off his wagon and the other

Times Special

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind,

the Temple. Participants will sentatives of

of the Feastern Star. WAYNE MORRIS FATHER

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U, P.)— | Actor Wayne Mortis was the father In both cases, the men were driv. today of a six-pound, three-ounce vehicles. One was baby boy, named Bert Wayne MorMr. Morris said he had

Wages after been practicing floor pacing for two

ris III.

Dec. 18.-—A mortgage-burning party will TWO ARE INJURED be held at Masonic Temple here tonight when the Crawfordsville Masonic lrodge and the Eastern Star will celebrate the clearing of a | $5000 16-year-old indebtedness on

include repre- ; the Grand Lodge, Two men were treated at the Me- Grand Commandery, Grand ChapDonald Hospital here for severe in ter, Grand Council and the Order

G.0.P.s Kick

Times Special ELWOOD, Ind, Dec, 18-—=The Democratic donkey has been ree piaced by a duck in this town and the Republicans are filing official protests. The duck was given away at a Democratic rally and is being housed by a lone Democrat living on a street peopled with Republicans. The Republicans, unused to strident noises, are at the breaking point. The latest information is that the Republicans will be relieved

shortly. The duck is destined to

sorority last year for $12,000. First buildings to be constructed will be a main lodge, utility building and three shelter houses,

INSURANCE AGENTS NAME E. LEO SMITH

E. Leo Smith, general agent for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co, has been elected presi. dent of the Indianapolis General Agents and Managers Association. He succeeds Ross M. Halgren. John E. Craigle, superintendent, Indianapolis District 1, Prudential Life Insurance Co, of America, was elected vice president. Paul Speicher, managing editor Insurance Research and Review Service, was re-

Answers

1--Strait of Magellan, 2--Connecticut. 3-—No; but Continental notes were issued in that denomination. 4-—Billy Conn. 5--Central Asia. 6-—Ohio. T-Grazia.

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