Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1939 — Page 13

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1939

Hoosier Vagabond

DONNA, “The Valley,” Tex, Dec. 25—It is an old trick of frockcoated political spielers to build up a great big phony bogey, and then tear it down amid uiuch applause. So I will use this trick, except in reverse. On Saturday, writing about “The Valley,” we built a kind of Utopian fairyland. So today I will tear it down, amidst a din of hisses from the local population. Not that I don’t like the Valley. I think it is wonderful. But I don’t know of anything as deceptive as a luxuriant grove of orange trees. You're apt to feel that anything as successful-look-

ing as an orange grove spells

riches, happiness, peace and contentment for everyone connected with it. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. Very few people, if any, have got rich in the Valley by raising citrus. Right today it is nip and tuck with a groveowner which end of the horn he comes out at the end of the year. Many things are deceptive. The Valley does look prosperous. The City of McAllen, for instance (population 12,0000 has more new houses, with a higher measure of tastefuiness, than any town I've ever seen. I keep driving slowly around like a spy, just admiring them.

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No Real Prosperity

Yet they tell me there is no real prosperity in McAllen. These homes were mostly built with FHA loans. They belong to storekeepers and merchants and office workers who are just getting along. Oranges and grapefruit may look like gold, but they aren't. But let's go back to the start of the Valley. The first railroad came in 1904. What little activity there was consisted of cotton and cattle, the sikthering of rattlesnakes in the sand, and the occasional mild stirring of a Mexican to keep up with the shade. There was a little half-hearted farming, from broken-down. irrigation systems. But nobody really visualized what could be wrought from a genuine combination of water and rich soil and sunshine here. It took the land promoters to visualize it. They realized that this soil was the silty deposit of centuries, carried down from thousands of miles of Rio Grande and tributaries, and gradually scattered out over the flattish valley. All it needed was water. The land promoters came about 1912. Brownsville

Our Town

GOSH, THE WAY I FEEL today I want to send Christmas greetings to everybody—even to those bartenders who habitually put too much vermouth in Martini cocktails. The Christmas carolers are just outside my window, singing as I write. It's a song full of solid feeling and the surprise of its coming filleth my cup to overflowing. My first greetings, therefore, go to street musicians. I embrace them all, but more especially those whose breath meets the cold ajr and , leaves something looking like the smoke of incense in a , church. Bless their big hearts and blue fingers. A Merry Christmas, too, to all my readers (3 cents a day or, better still, 12 cents a week) and to all my correspondents, most of whom ore still waiting for replies. And a very special greeting to Wendell Wright, the owner of a promising ruppy afflicted with worms, who wrote all the way from Linton, Ind, to ask me how much garlic to use to get the dog out of his dilemma. The compliments of the season, too, to the anonymous correspondent who scared the daylights out of me with his story that the horse in front of the Herron is filled with “German explosives.” = = n

To Our Own Good Luck!

Merry Christmas to those of you who, for some reason or, maybe none at all, have to spend the day in jail. Not to forget those of us who. because of some quirk of fate, are still at large. Joy to all users of dated coffee, vitamins and bubble gum; all drinkers of blended whisky; all friends and relatives of Louis Schwitzer, who had the luck to attend the housewarming in his new 99-room home. Merry Christmas to the Feslers, husband and wife, whose quaint behavior was mentioned both by Time and The New Yorker, all in the course of the same week. And even more to the point, a Merry Christmas to all Indianapolis citizens whose quaint behavior was overlooked by Time and The New Yorker,

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—For almost 2000 years the Star of Bethlehem has been shining but its light

has fallen upon a sadly different world from that proclaimed by the Herald Angels. Through these centuries the light of the Star has shown upon armies bivouacked before the dawn’s battle. It has shown upon men scheming to rob, either with blackjack or with the more subtle trickery of white - collar larceny. It has shown upon dictators creating gods of their own to justify their grasping purposes. It has shown upon peoples betrayed while they waited with faith in the Sermon on the Mount. Upon haves fighting to keep down the have-nots, singing Psalms on Sunday and forgetting them on Monday. And today, in homes all over England, beside the thumb-worn copy of “A Christmas Carol” is a little pamphlet, no longer than the Dickens story, which tells the father of the house how to protect his home

My Day -

WASHINGTON, Sunday—I hope that some of us have been moved this Christmas to do something a bit unusual in the line of Christmas giving. Let's not limit ourselves just to the customary gifts to our

families and friends, nor even to our customary charities, but let's give something which will come to someone else as an unexpected pleasure, just as it is an unexpected gift on our part. It may not be anything tangible, just a thought or a gesture, a word or a note, but I hope it will go to someone who does not expect it Because of Mr. Heywood Broun's death, his Christmas Parable, written two years ago, was reprinted the other day. The ending of it is the part that I always like to remember: “ ‘Drink ye all of it’ Good Will Toward Men means good will to every last son of God. Peace on Earth means peace to Pilate, peace to the thieves on the cross, and peace to poor Iscariot.” Judas Iscariot was perhaps the saddest of them all, for he betrayed his Friend, but even against him the Betrayed One had no bitterness. The Lord would have him drink of the wine of life. aps He meant to emphasize that none of us tell what

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By Ernie Pyle

was already an old city, and the surrounding land was all taken, and the owners wanted too much for) it. So the promoters moved farther back up the Valley. And the result is that today the finest development in the Valley is not at Brownsville but at this other end, 65 miles away. The land promoters bought up tracts by the thousands of acres. They sent their agents and their handbills scurrying all over the Middle West, the East. and into Canada. They ran big excursion trains. Small-town people with their savings flocked in! by the thousands. It was a boom. They were hectic days. It was Florida all over again. The land spielers | were like evangelists. They had people fighting to shell out their money for a portion of Paradise. They were slick boys. If a retired grocer from | Nebraska had $10,000 to invest, they didn't sell him a small grove for $10,000. No, no, they sold him a $100,000 grove, with the $10,000 as down payment. The way things were looking, he'd pay out the other $90,000 in three or four years anyway. rn = =

Back to Normal Now

But it didn't turn out that way. It takes a citrus grove several years to get going. And irrigation costs money. The investors lost their shirts, and the land reverted to the land companies. Whereupon they just up and sold it all over again, to somebody else. Those wild days of Utopia-hoping continued, in

spurts, right up to a few years ago. Most of the first].

investors were shaken out. Many hearts were broken, and many good-but-simple souls disillusioned. Even the land promoters themselves eventually got taken. | But all the time groves were being planted, towns) were being built, homes being made. People did stay, for in many ways it is Paradise. A Utopia must be modern, so the Valley plunged in and built good roads, | sidewalks, paved streets, water systems, fine schools. | The result is that today the Valley is one of the] best-equipped and most modern sections in America— | and the residents are burdened with an almost in-| conceivable load of bonds and taxes and municipal debts. In one county there are 59 taxing agencies. | The tax structure is so intricate that nobody can | make head or tail of it, The Valley is settling down now to a normal, honest | growth. The land promoters are extinct. Land) changes hands normally and without emotion. Prices are reasonable. People don’t have an awful lot of money, but most | everybody lives pretty well. The climate is beautifully | and indolently warm, and after a while you don’t jump | around so, and it's just awful to get out of bed in the morning, you feel so good and lazy.

By Anton Scherrer

Gallup Poll—

58% Favor New Taxes For Arms

By Dr. George Gallup PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 25.—If Congress has to find additional money to

pay for strengthening the

national defenses at its coming session, the majority of American voters in a nation-wide survey believe that it should be raised by new taxes rather than by further Government borrowing which would have to be repaid in the future. With Congress preparing to face | exactly this question shortly after it convenes in Washington next month, the survey deals a blow to the old tradition that the voters won't stand for tax increases in a Presidential election year. Among Democrats and Republicans, among property owners and non-property owners, the prospect of “paying-as-you-go” for defense needs is apparently -more popular than borrowing in the face of an already large public debt, the

| survey shows.

The issue was raised on the front pages of American newspapers just one month ago when President Recosevelt announced that unsettled world conditions would necessitate a record peacetime budget for the Army and Navy and warned that the nation would soon have to decide how the bill would be met. To find out how rank-and-file persons in all walks of life would

| react to the problem, the Ameri-

| can Institute of Public Opinion

The compliments of the season to Indianapolis philatelists, numismatists, morticians, sanitary engineers, chirotonsors and salescrafters—not to forget the “director of operations and housekeeping,” a title invented during the administration of Merle Sidener | to designate the boss of all the janitors employed by | the Indianapolis School Board. Greetings, too, to W. S. DeMoss & Son and Knapp & Seon, who still | pursue the honorable business of blacksmiths, and | call it just that. Greetings to the brothers and sisters of the Dionne | Quintuplets and, indeed, all those who, because of predestination or something, have to take a second | place in the running of this world. Like Dr. G. H. A. Clowes, for instance, who is not only vice president of | the Indianapolis Symphony, but vice president of the John Herron Art Institute, to boot. Gosh, the way I feel I want to send Christmas greetings to all vice presidents around here. »

Not Forgetting Anyone | A Merry Christmas to Edward D. Pierre whom the American Institute of Architects picked among others to help lick the housing problem. Ed said it surprised him like everything to hear of his appointment. It's the wrong use of the word, Ed. You were not surprised—you were astonished. It was ai

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put the following question to a scientifically selected tion of the voting public in every state: “If Congress decides to increase the Army and Navy, should this increase be paid for by extra taxes next year or by borrowing more money?” The replies of those with opinions on the question are: Favor Extra Taxes Favor More Borrowing ....

Approximately one person in every four said that he was undecided or without an opinion on ion. The number of persons thus undecided was considerably higher (31%) in the lower income levels than among upper income voters (1977 undecided). = ” =

i commenting on the question the bulk of those who favor extra taxes for national defense, if necesasry, echo the slogan of Republican Senator Vandenberg

Cross-sec-

Whether to vote new taxes for national defense or borrow more money for that purpose is one of the first big questions Congress will find on its doorstep next month. In today’s public opinion survey a majority of voters with

views political observers.

on the question say they would prefer new taxes to further borrowings—something which may surprise some

that the country should “pay as it goes.” Many others said that the national debt was already “too high” or the budget “too far out of balance now.”

“Don’t make the next generation pay for our Army and Navy,” was the way a further group of voters put it. 'A New York voter added: “Nobody likes to pay bills, but I'd rather pay my share of the check now than go along living in a fool's paradise where you seitle every account by writing another 1. 0. U.” While many observers may be surprised at the spectacle of voi ers preferring Jew taxes to new borrowing—something at variance with established political formulas—it is important to remember that national defense is something about which the average American feels most strongly at the present time. Six weeks ago the majority (nearly 90 per cent) in an Institute survey said they favored increasing the land, sea and air

branches of the U. S. defense system, and a substantial majority said they would be willing to pay additional taxes for these purposes. It is not necessarily true that the public would approve extra taxes for other purposes in the coming fiscal year, " ” ”

F the sentiment in favor of paying for national defense by extra taxes existed only in the lower income levels—among persons who pay the least in taxes

at the present time—the survey results would not be as significant as they are. But the survey indicates -that the groups which most strongly prefer new taxes to new Government borrowings are those which now pay the largest share of existing taxes—property owners and persons in the upper income levels generally. A majority of persons in the depressed “lower third,” and especially in the relief class, are in favor of borrowing and “paying it back later on,” the survey re-

veals. The opinions of persons in the principal income levels are:

Favor New Favor Taxes Borrowing

66% 31% 60 40

Upper Group .. Middle Group. . Lower Group (Including Reliefers) Reliefers Only. 44

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RESIDENT ROOSEVELT did not disclose in his statement whether he personally favored a plan of taxing-for-defense or further borrowing. The President did speak, however, of a ‘“national defense tax,” which has led some observers to think the White House contemplates either a boost in income taxes or a special levy similar to the “war tax” of 20 years ago. The President merely said that the final decision would rest with the country, as reflected in Congressional opinicn. This would present Congress with a sharp dilemma — whether to increase taxes in an election year, or to

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borrow against a constantly narrowing national debt limit. Under existing law the Treasury Department cannot borrow in excess of a total debt limit of 45 billion dollars, and the present Congre:s refused to extend this limit only a few months ago. The Institute survey shows that the prevailing public sentiment on the subject—especially among the chief tax-paying groups — is for moving in the direction of a pay-as-you-go system. Republicans are more nearly unanimous on this point.fthan are Democrats, the survey shows, but majorities in both groups oppose further borrowing:

Favor New Taxes

Favor Borrowing

Republicans ... 61% 39% Democrats .... 55 45 The survey found virtually no difference in the opinions of property owners (ie, those who own their own homes) and other voters, property owners being 58 per cent in favor of taxing for defense as compared with 07 per

" cent of non-home owners.

who was surprised, The compliments of the season, too, to the oil) living on McCarty St. whose first name is Gwladys,; to the slouches around here who fool me into Pelievs ing that they wear casual clothes; tc the bewil recipients of Christmas sets of ties, the a ge] which were chosen by Howard Chandler Christy; to] the girl who got the black velvet exhibited by Blocks —the one buttoned down the diaphragm and the | V-neck with a slash of contrasting crepe. And I hope! to goodness Santa Claus didn't forget the lady in Ayres elevator last Saturday who said she was down to her last lipstick. Greetings to anyone who can't make up his mind | which canape to take—whether to pick the one loaded | with Beluga caviar at $18 a pound. or the one spread | with Strasbourg fois de gras. And even more to the | point: A Merry Christmas to those who never had al chance to make a choice. God rest ye merry!

INJURED PILOT

IS FLOWN EAST

Army Flier, in Crash Here,

Is Given Treatment In Washington.

Capt. Frank G. Irvin, 38-year-old

U. S. Army Air Corps pilot who

crashed in an Army ship at the

Municipal Airport here Saturday, was being treated for serious in-

juries today Hospital at Washington, D. C.

By Raymond Clapper

at the Walter Reed

plane

An Army transport

| equipped as an ambulance trans- | ferred Capt. Irvin from Ft. Harri-

against air raids. He cannot spend too much time son to Washington yesterday. over the Christmas Carol for he must check over his had been cellar to see that it is gas-proof, and the family gas Hospital ported the pilot was suffering from B possible skull fracture and spinal

masks must be inspected. = ” =

Perhaps we expect too much. After Rll, the star|’

He confined in Methodist here "where doctors re-

njury.

Cat. Irvin, who is a native of

of Bethlehem is only one of many millions. Its pure Greencastle and a former DePauw

light must compete with that of many others.

| University athlete, was en route to

Or is it that we are too impatient? Celestial time | Dayton, O., where he is stationed,

is reckoned in longer periods and the light of this from Glendale Cal.

when his two-

Star began its journey long before it reached us. The place plane crashed here in a dense starlight which you can see with the naked eye was fog.

half a century on the way. If sunlight reaches us in|

eight seconds, we know that beyond our own system | way, Man was 40 feet,

are other systems, 750,000 light years away.

The plane struck a concrete runfurrowed along its edge for turned end over end and

millions of years getting into his fire-warmed cave, came to a stop on its back. Robert

and thousands of years getting out of it.

| W. Kellhofer,

30, a civilian aero-

So 2000 years may be only a second in this scheme nautical engineer, was accompanyof things. A wasted fragment of time? Who knows? ing Capt. Irvin but was uninjured

Even upon this dark world today, who knows when | in the crash.

Mr. Kellhofer suf-

men may pause in their insane fury and turn to the | fered severe laceraticns to his hand promise of Bethlehem? Out of the Dark Ages came | in helping remove the injured pilot new life and a spirit which reaches down to us in| | from the wreckage.

our oldest Christmas carols. Perhaps out of today's Dark Age will come something, too.

cumstances surrounding

An official investigation into cirthe acci-

dent was begun by Army officials who flew here Saturday from Day-

ton. of Edward Raub, former president of the City Council.

Capt. Irvin is the son-in-law

Mrs. Irvin for-

By Eleanor Roosevelt mw si fra a. BOWES EMPLOYEES

goes on in the souls of other men. At Christmas time | we should give indiscriminately, even lavishly, to the worthy and the unworthy alike. Who are we to judge if a man is worthy? Somecne wrote to me the other day denouncing the head of a school beard in his neighborhood, who | had announced most virtuously that for the sake of | fostering independence and the true American spirit, there would be no more free lunches served to needy children in a certain school. The man who wrote me was bitter and one can hardly blame him. I grieve with him over the little hungry children, for I know that to many of them this one hot meal a day meant much, but I grieve far more for the head of the school board whose understancling of his fellow men is so narrow. Life for him mugs be poor indeed. Are we fostering the American spirit by starving little children? Oh, yes, I know that some of them may not have needed that meal. Perhaps some families were “chiseling.” Would the Man who said: | “Drink ye all of it,” have had one child go hungry because some ate who could have eaten at home? This is the season for forgiveness and self-search-ing. Let us forgive all those who cannot understand, whether they are heads of school boards or beggars in the gutter. But beware lest we be ourselves numbered among those needing forgiveness. Let us remember that the Christmas spirit was meant to live through all the 365 days of the year, and that it gave

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president, distributed this to 75 employees in annual observance of his profit-sharing plan.

Chance Adams’ wife, police Judge Perry A. Frey that her husband had said he'd rather spend Christmas in the Workhouse than at home.

GET $10,000 BONUS

A $10,000 bonus bag was opened

Friday at the Bowes Seal Fast Corp. as Tree party at “Bowesd

Rucker Road. Robert M. Bowes,- corporation

amount

Mr. Bowes was presented with

Carl Sandburg’s “Abraham Lincoln —the War Years.” also exchanged gifts and presented gifts to other company officials.

JUDGE TAKES CHANCE

The employees

ON CHRISTMAS DARE

CLEVELAND, Dec. 25 (U. P.).— Nicolena, told

“Wish granted!” exclaimed the

without counting the cost, lavishly and from the judge, sentencing Chance to 60 days

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Disastrous Fire Fails to Quell Indomitable Reciprocal Group

Merom Co-operative Leaders Pledge Rebuilding Of Dormitory, Resumption of Activities.

Times Special

MEROM, IND. DEC. 25—THE INDOMITABLE SPIRIT of the Merom Reciprocal Group, an outgrowth of the 70-year-old Merom College, appeared today to have saved this co-operative movement from

extinction.

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A fire destroyed the old college dormitory building Dec. 13 and caused damage estimated by the Rev. Shirley Greene, movement head,

at about $50,000. It was feared the group might be forced to abandon its program. But the Reciprocal Group leaders have pledged reconstruction of the dormitory and continuance of all activities. ” ” 2 THE RECIPROCAL GROUP is composed of residents of Meorom and persons who have come here attracted by the group's liberal co-operative ideas. Merom College closed in 1924, It was re-opened as the Merom Institute in 1936 and operates a summer school at the grounds overlooking the Wabash River here. It does not, as yet, offer regular year round classes. Hjalmar Rutzebeck, formerly a member of the Committee on SelfHelp of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, came to the institute soon after and started the co-operative. The reciprocal group operates with a minimum of capital and is not designed to operate in competition with other co-operatives. ” ” ” IT PROVIDES A means whereby idle men and unused resources can be united, Mr. Rutzebeck has said, and it proposes to raise the

standard of living of individuals and families in the community. Men Work together and are “paid” in points instead of cash and are able to trade in their points for produce and labor. The group can furnish labor for farms and other co-operatives, thus getting cash for its common treasury. Mr. Rutzebeck bases the idea for such a co-operative on the premise that a co-operative “can be organized to deal with every problem confronting any group of people” and that there is room for a co-operative in every community.” Therefore he says a co-operative unit can be established “and can function wherever people are dissatisfied with their environment and wish to improve it.” ” = ”

THE INSTITUTE supports a Little Theater, a folk arts and crafts program, a book club with

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ing program for ministers and a community laundry. Probably best known and the activity whose worth is most accepted is the ministers’ rural training program. THe program is carried out in conjunction with the Chicago Theological Seminary at the University of Chicago. Students at the Chicago ceminary spend six months at the insiitute. They take special courses in rural churchmanship and get acuwual experience in rural research and field work. The. institute staff includes the Rev. Mr. Greene; Edward Dickinson, who has taken Mr. Rutzebeck’s place as director of economic activities; Ellen Tweedy Greene, director of adult education; Keith Daugherty, recreation director; Vance Pinkston, workshop supervisor; Geneva Daugherty, staff assistant and pianist, and Henry Robertson, staff assistant. Agencies represented on the board of directors are the Illinois Congregational Christian Conference, Congregational Christian Board of Home Missions, the Chicago Theological Seminary, the Council for Social Action and the Congregational Education Society.

$25,000 IS ASKED.IN FALSE ARREST SUIT

HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 25 (U. P). —Charles Baran, Gary, a member of the Lake County Board of Commissioners, today had filed a claim for $25,000 damages in the Fulton Circuit Court for “unlawful imprisonment.” Sheriff Russell Vorhees of Fulton County, Chief of Police Fred Carr, and J. Earl Graham and Paul Whitcomb, night policemen, of Rochefer, Ind, were named defendants in the suit. Mr. Baran was arrested in Rochester Auk. 2% on charges of driving while intexicated. He' was acquitted Sept. 29. The complaint asserts that Mr. Baran suffered impairment of health from being imprisoned before he could get bond. It further charges that his business, reputation and social position were injured

and that efforts were made to “ex- ] | classes at the Center during the first semester, :

tort a confession

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CENSUS GROUP TO MAKE PLANS

Publicity Committee Session

Called for Wednesday At C. of C. Offices.

Members of the newly-appointed committee on speakers and publicity for the 1940 census will meet at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce offices. The committee was selected by Paul Richey, who will act as its chairman. Roy W. Steele will represent the Chamber of Commerce as committee secretary. Committee members include Wayne Guthrie, Indianapolis News city editor; Miles Tiernan, Indianapolis Star city editor; Mark Gray, Indianapolis Commercial publisher; George Madden, Wm. H. Block Co. advertising manager; Charles M. Davis, L. S. Ayres & Co. advertising manager; Leonard A. Murchison, KH. P. Wasson & Co. advertising manager; Ralph Vonnegut, Vonnegut Hardware Co. promotion manager; Willlam G. H. Holley, Sears, Roebuck & Co. advertising manager; William A. Dobson, Hook Drugs Inc., advertising manager; Virginia M. Burford, Haag Drug Co. adverising manager; Frank T. North, Marott Shoe Store advertising manHerbert H. Linsmith, Advertising Club of Indianapolis president; A. W. Baker, Circle Theater manager; L. Ward Farrar, Loew's Theater manager; Ted Nicholas, Lyric Theater manager, and Ralplt Burkholder, editor of The Times.

DEMONSTRATIONS IN CANNING SCHEDULED

Meat and vegetable canning demonstrations will be held at five Marion County high schools for the week of Jan. 8, Miss Janice M. Berlin, Home demonstration agent, announced today. Demonstrations will be given by Miss Mary Murphy, canning expert of the Kerr Glass Corp. The schools will he held at Oaklanden High School, Tuesday, Jan. 9; Warren Central High School, Wednesday, Decatur Central High School, Thursday, and Franklin Township and Ben Davis High School,’ on Friday.

NEW I. U. CENTER

TERM BEGINS FEB. 5

Second semester classes at the Indiana University Extension Center will begin Feb. 5, Miss Mary B. Orvis, exscutive secretary of the Center; announced today. Persons interested in attending may register now. College aptitude and English exemption examinations will be given Feb. 3. Approximately 2348 students attended

Sea Christmas For Nicholsons

Meredith Nicholson, Hoosier author and U. S. Minister to Nicaragua ,and Mrs. Nicholson today celebrated Christmas on the S. S. Jamaica somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, en route to Nicara« gua. The couple, who visited several weeks ago in Indianapolis, left New York Saturday. They are expected to arrive at Cristobal, Canal Zone, Jan. 1, where they will take a plane to Managua, Nicaragua.

INJURED IN CRASH,

LOLA LANE BETTER

HOLLYWQOD, Dec. 25 (U. P.).— Film actress Iola Lane, one of the Lane sisters, was recuperating today from automobile injuries. Miss Lane was given treatment at Cood Samaritan Hospital yesterday after her automobile skidded into a lamp post. Her physician said she had suffered superficial bruises.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—How did the wintergreen plant derive its name? 2—In which ocean is the island of Madagascar? 3—Who is Halvdan Koht? 4—Which city in the U. 8. was the national capital when George Washington was first inaugurated? 5—What are the eight parts of speech in the English language? 6—In which country was Adolf Hit ler born? T—Name the great river of northern India, formed by drainage of the southern Himalayas. 8—Who wrdte The American's

Creed? Answers

1—It remains green throughout the winter, 2—Indian Ocean. 3—Foreign Minister of Norway. 4—New York. 5—Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjec‘tives, adverbs, prepositions, con. junctions and interjections. 6—Austria, now a German State. T—Ganges. 8—William Tyler Page.

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