Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1939 — Page 9

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BROWNSVILLE, Tex.. Dec. 30.—~Brownsville, with its 30,000 people, is the metropolis of the lower Rio Grande Valley, And to outsiders who have never

heard of McAllen or Weslaco or Harlingen, Brownsville IS the Valley. But actually it is not even of the same personality as the rest of the Valley, It is a typical border city, heavily Mexican. The others are fruit cities, green and virile, Brownsville got rich from cotton shipping during the Civil War, Some of the other Valley towns weren't born till after the World War. Brownsville is old. The Valley is new. I had pictured Brownsville as a barren, sun-baked town of adobe buildings. But it isn't. The homes are of wood or brick. There is grass in the yards and flowers on the borders and palm trees along the streets. There is an eightstory hotel, and some of the most modern tourist camps in the country. Already they are packed with Northerners staying all winter. The business _ district covers many blocks. We outsiders hear of Brownsville nowadays mainly because of its international airport. It is the jumping-off place for Pan-American Airways planes to Central America. Aviation is one of Brownsvilie's biggest businesses. Pan-American’s main shops for this whole western division are here. Motors are shipped in for overhaul from as far away as Venezuela. More than 300 people work for Pan-American here. The airport is five miles from downtown. Every day a plane leaves for Mexico City, and one arrives. Three times a week, planes leave that will take you clear to Buenos Aires. »

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Meeting Some Old Friends

Planes of Eastern Airlines come in from Atlanta and New York, and Braniff Airways ships arrive from Oklahoma and Chicago. Seventeen Pan-Amer-ican pilots live in Brownsville,

Our Town

THANK GOODNESS, 1939 is almost over. Evervbody was made miserable by it, but much of the misery, I want to point out today, was not the fault of the war or the hysteria of radio news commentators —not even at the zero hour. My misery, for instance, was caused not by warriors, but by pacifists and, more especially, by those pacifists who spend their time trying to get to the bottom of things, an utter waste of time as far as I'm concerned. I know vou feel the same way about it, I don't see how you can help feeling as I do on this, the last open-saloon day of the year. Just to give you a few examples: In 1939 when the human race showed signs of going to pieces without anybody pointing it out, a couple of doctors named Burgess and Cottrell wrote a book, “Predicting Success or Failure in Marriage,” in the course of which they revealed that chemical engineers make the best husbands, closely followed: by ministers, college profs and football coaches. Among the worst husbands, thev cataloged barbers, musicians, traveling salesmen and plumbers. Nothing has made me so miserable since Brandt Steele made the discovery, back in 1924. that practically all flute players meet an untimely end.

E- n = Big Year for the Doctors Uppermost, too, in my mind is the 1939 discovery made by Dr. Charles C. Higgins who told a conference of the American College of Surgeons that lipstick and finger-nail painting often made it impossible for a physician to tell what ails a woman. The corollary of which was that to diagnose a lady nowadays, you practically have to take her apart. It sure was a big year for the doctors, even if it was a miserable one for the rest of us. Dr. George A. Skinner, for instance, pointed out that a healthy flea (Pulex irritans) can broadjump 18 inches and highjump 8... The Ph. D. director of hotel training at Cornell announced that home-cooking is just about

- Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Although information still is fragmentary it appears to me that the prospects of Mr. Roosevelt running for re-election continue to recede. . This is in spite of a growing movement among low-bracket politicians in behalf of Mr. Roosevelt. One Western political manager, after a tour of his state, reported that the best chance of re-electing the state ticket was with Mr. Roosevelt, That report is coming in from many sections. Big-city machine politicians, like Hague of New Jersey and Kelly of Chicago, are talking third term. Until Mr. Roosevelt definitely eliminates himself they will continue to play safe by staying under the coattails of the big boss. That makes the going of other Democratic candidates extremely slow at this period. They are finding it hard to obtain commitments out in the Grass Roots. Those within the Administration who favor a third term are playing for a convention deadlock in the hope of staging a Roosevelt draft. » n n

Garner an Obstacle

Vice President Garner's determination to fight through to the end for the Presidential nomination makes that a dangerous undertaking. But it still appears to be the program, and it requires for its car-

By Ernie Pyle

Among the thousands of places in this country where I would not expect to see anybody I know, Brownsville stands out like a red light. But when we walked into the hotel who should be chinning in the lobby but two ghosts out of my old aviation days— Furman Stone and Pop Hanscom. Pop is an inspector with the Civil Aeronautics Authority. His headquarters are in Ft. Worth, and he flies all over this Southwestern country checking beacons. He is living evidence that aviation is safe, for he was inspecting and flying way back in the days when airplanes looked like chicken coops. Furman Stone is a captain-pilot on Eastern Airlines, flying between Atlanta and Brownsville, He is among the 10-year men on the line. There are five boys on this division alone whose flying time with Eastern Airlines totals 55 years. Second to its airport status, Brownsville is proudest of its ocean port. And well it might be, for Brownsville isn't on the Gulf of Mexico at all. It's 20 miles from the Gulf. on

A Harbor in the Prairie

True, it’s on the Rio Grande, but the Rio Grande changes its mind about every year and goes somewhere else; and anyway it isn't deep enough for a respectable rowboat. Brownsville is a port simply because they dug a big ocean-going ditch clear in from the Gulf. This canal and harbor project cost around $7,000,000 and was finished in 1936. The harbor and ‘turning basin” lie out on the prairie, seven miles north of | Brownsville. They average about a ship a day. sailed for Finland the day before my visit. As they were saving here, it has to run the blockade, and | even if it gets to Finland where will it be then? Already, three ships that have sailed from here | this fall have been sunk in European waters. Think | of the adventures some of these pink Texas grapefruit have been through. { You have a faraway feeling down here, as though | you weren't quite in the United States. In fact, the | Valley is so isolated and its problems are so unique | that for vears there has been a certain faction want- | ing to secede from Texas and become a 49th state.

A freighter |

By Frederick Woltman

Times Special Writer

like to break into print. 100,000 write past page three. The number of manuscripts actually dropped into the New York publishing well annually is

| uncertain, but it’s probably high

up in the tens of thousands. Yet only .001 per cent of the people who try their hand at writing books earn more than a starvation wage at it, one publisher estimates. And among the professional writers who work at it for a living the maximum. earnings IN

| GOOD TIMES for 87 per cent av-

erage $2500 a year, according to Edward A. Weeks, editor of At-

| lantic Monthly.

By Anton Scherrer

passing out . .. Dr. Mathilde Hertz of Cambridge University came through with the appalling news that bees (Apis mellifica) are deaf and can’t see red . . . Dr. Hollingsworth of Barnard College came out in favor of chewing gum. Indeed, he went the whole hog and championed any movement that had for its purpose the munching not only of gum, but of pencil ends, toothpicks and rubber bands. That's the kind of year 1939 was. The University of Rochester (and I'll bet there was a doctor at the bottom if it) added up the traits which make a girl popular at college. There were 109 of them, I remember, not counting the girl's pronunciation of the word “either.” un on =

Other Alarming Events

Just as alarming was the news that the sale of gelatine was enormously increased, all on account of an announcement in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine that gelatine was good for what ails the human race. Apparently, Jack Benny had nothing to do with it. My misery was considerably aggravated, too. by people outside the medical profession. The Westinghouse people, for instance, who annoved me no end with their discovery that 16 packs of cigarets produce one ounce of smoke . . . It was the year, too, Samuel Untermyer raised a crop of melons flavored with liquor . . . And a Chicago judge, speaking ex cathedra. made me most wretched with his ad-lib remark that there would be fewer divorces if more husbands followed the practice of slapping their wives. As if everybody didn't know that women can slap back and generally much harder than the males. The person that got me down the worst, however, was Mrs. Joseph Cornelius Rathborne. She was the lady, you'll recall, who spent five exasperating hours last summer in a captive parachute 100 feet above the ground at the World's Fair (N. Y.). When her rescuers appeared, she said: “I don't mean to criticize, | but get me out of here.” Gosh, I hope next vear if! anvthing like that happens again, the trapped woman | will give her rescuers a piece of her mind and thus! restore our faith in human nature, {

By Raymond Clapper

Meanwhile it appears as if Mr. Roosevelt at last may have determined to remove himself from the picture, although by that I do not mean any immediate announcement may be expected, That may or may not come, One of the most revealing hints has come from Attorney General Murphy, an intimate of the President. He and Secretary of Commerce Hopkins and Solicitor General Jackson are the favorites of the White House, regarded by the President as his tried and true New Dealers. n »

Wheeler Buildup On

While in Detroit over Christmas, Mr. Murphy told the press that he could “scarcely conceive” of Mr. Roosevelt running again “unless forced to do so hy some national emergency.” Mr. Murphy attached the escape clause in order to play safe. But it is fairly certain that he does not expect any emergency that will “force” the President to run. For several days the story has been circulating here that the President told Mr. Murphy flatly that he would not run and that the Attorney General thereupon decided Senator Wheeler of Montana was the man to carry on. There is within the close Administration circle strong interest in Senator Wheeler, He definitely has not been scratched from the President's list even though he opposed the Supreme Court plan. Those New Dealers who lean toward Senator Wheeler emphasize that he would be likely to receive the support

Even more disconcerting: Less than one out of every thousand manuscripts that pass through a publishing house unsolicited ever reaches the inside of a book cover, Virtually all the 9464 new books published last year came recommended to the publishers by friends or literary agents; that is, their authors were more or less in the know. In other words. there's no pot of gold at the end of the literary rainbow and the author takes a bigger gamble on his book than the publisher. Literary magnates are rare birds. Once in a great while publishers will bid high against each other for an author, as in the case of Sinclair Lewis, who turned down a $40,000 certified check for his novel Ann Vickers, and chose a publishing house whose marketing setup he preferred. But the top-flight writers like Wilma Cather, Louis Bromfield, E. Phillips Oppenheim, whose income from hook, movie and serial rights might reach $70,000, represent fewer than 1 per cent of the professional writers, says Mr, Weeks, The average sale of all books published is around 1200, which looks mighty sorry in light of the fact that a publisher must sell close to 2500 copies to break even, For a $2.50 novel he usually has a cash outlay of approximately $1875, including $500 for page plates, $750 for paper, binding and printing, and $625 in royalties on the basis of a sellout edition of 2500 copies. The 40 per cent book dealers’ discount comes to $2500, leaving the publisher $1885 for advertising and all office overhead. »

AVE no fear your manuscript will be returned unread though. Surprisingly, publishing houses invariably inspect all unsolicited manuscripts that may drift in and they wouldn't dare discourage the influx, although they'd greatly prefer dealing through a literary agent who will do an advance job of weeding out. But here is the record: Viking Press averages 1500 unsolicited manuscripts annually. In 15 years it has published but four, of which one flopped completely. Its total book production during this time was around 600. Advance royalties for newcomers generally vary from $100 up to a rare $500. “Asked what advance she needed for “I Went to Pit College,” Miss Lauren Gilfillan, just out of Smith College and a novice to publishing, replied, “Could I have $10?” Her book sold around 100,000 and was a Literary Guild selection. Random House gets about 50 unsolicited manuscripts a week.

DCOKS are a GAMBLE

It Seems That .001 Per Cent Of Book Writers Get More Than Starvation Wage

(Last of a Series)

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—So you might write a book? Well, hundreds of thousands—maybe a million— normal Americans a year get bitten by the notion they'd Of these artless folk perhaps

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Since its advent in 1925, it hasn't published a single one. Simon & Schuster handles around 4000 a vear, buys one or two at most, Henry Holt & Co. uses perhaps one out of a 1500 turnover. A dozen or so publishers will bring out your book for a price, say $400. for an edition, of which you'll get an agreed-on block of copies. The other houses call them “vanity publisners.” Poets often have to kick-in an advance to see their verse in print. Now, then, supposing your manuscript is accepted, if you're lucky you may get a $250 advance, which merely represents a loan against anticipated sales. Your royalties, if you're an experienced writer, will be 10 per cent for the first 5000 sales: possibly they will increase to 15 per cenit above 5000 sales. Even the most profitable authors rarely go over 15 per cent, no matter if they sell in the hundreds of thousands. Ely Culbertson, the bridge writer, is one of the few said to have jockeyed his publisher into a 20 per cent royalty. This means on a $2 book the author will average 22 cents. For 250,000 sales. he'll get $62,000, less his agent's 10 per cent, dnd the Government's income tax. If your book goes hig in lending libraries, you might reach as many as 150 readers to each book sold. But your profit will still be 22 cents—one of the professional writer's principal grievances in the book-publishing status quo. Publishers often pay a steady author a regular allowance against future royalties. When he produced “The Story of Mankind” in a four-month period, Henrick Willem Van Loon received $250 a month against a $1000 advance. Mr. Van Loon now is said in publishing circles to draw $200 a week from $50,000 royalties he has coming. ”

OR the case history of a publisher’s reader, your first hurdle as an incipient author, you have Miss Belle Becker, who has

spent 11 years slashing away with a red pencil at manuscript copy for Random House. When we paid her a visit Miss Becker, who is now assistant editor of Random House, was busy cutting 800 typewritten pages of a first novel to 400 and reducing the chapters from 30 to 100 sheets each, Expert first readers who take the initial crack at the “junk pile” say they can tell from the first few paragraphs if the manuscript “stinks on ice.” As a precaution they ordinarily read the first five pages, the middle five and the last five first. A report “Story little boy who" wanted a gold fish. Tripe,” calls for a polite form of rejection. “Interesting story. Might have pos=sibilities if rewritten,” means the manuscript will pass on to a second or third reader and, perhaps, the publisher, Whole pages of Miss Becker's script were penciled out and marked kill, leaving a single sentence or a paragraph stand here and there. Others were untouched.

“The anonymous editor often does more work on a hook than the author,” she explained. And not infrequently, we learned, an editor who has been working with an established author will travel with him when he moves to a new publishing house. Seasoned authors have to be cut and rewritten on occasion, always by themselves or with their permission, to be sure. Some send in their copy letter-perfect, to wit, Eugene O'Neill. Others won't allow the publisher to change a sentence or punctuation mark, although, in the instance of William Faulkner, one sentence will run on through two pages. Miss Becker went to Hunter, studied journalism at Columbia. Except for providing a literary background, they didn’t help much in preparing her for the publishing business, she says. Reading thousands of manuscripts with a Random House style book at hand did that. While naturally a bit bored with

Belle Becker

slashing a new author's copy from 800 to 400 pages. Sinclair Lewis (above), now turned actor, is said

times bid for authors.

(left), assistant editor of Random House, at work

Publishers some-

to have turned down a $40,000 certified check for “Ann Vickers” and chosen a publisher whose marketing methods he preferred.

them, Miss Becker insists she's as sympathetic to aspiring young writers as the next person. ” ” »

RECISELY at 9 a. m. on the 10th of every month Donald Gordon, in his suburban home at Westfield, N. J., begins a job that's probably unique in all the book industry. That is the job of predicting for the book trade how next month's batch of new books will sell. Uninterrupted for two weeks, usually working to midnight and rarely leaving the house except to replenish cigarets, he plows through the galley proofs of the 150 to 300 novels and popular non-fiction books to be unloosed on the great American reading public the forthcoming month. He actually manages to read 30 to 40 of them complete in the 14day grind, which certainly entitles him to runner-up claim to the world's most prolific reader titie. Outside the book trade he's completely unknown, although his name is familiar to everyone in it. For Mr. Gordon is, in fact, the original book evaluator. Gordon's ratings go out monthly to the whole book trade, but ecspecially to the nation's 25,000 retail booksellers. One publisher has dubbed him the publishers’ “handicapper” in the gamble to produce best sellers. According to another, “Gordon is the only man in publishing who can tell us, ‘This book is lousy but it will sell like wildfire,” and get away with it.” He is employed by the American News Co., which, you will he sur= prised to learn, besides distributing magazines, is the largest wholesale book dealer in the country, buying one-fourth of all books that are not of a technical or specialized character. As a good-wili gesture to the trade, American News issues monthly a gray-covered pamphlet, The American News of Books, written by Mr. Gordon and evaluating, with brief, shrewd comments about each, next month's books according to their date of publication. \ Recognizing the news company has no ax to grind, the publishing world accepts the service as impartial. Indeed, Mr. Gordon has little contact with the employer, working exclusively in Westfield, where the publishing house sends their advance galley proofs as well as promotional and other data.

Hence retailers throughout the country watch avidly for his ratings for cues and how they should stack their shelves. And publishers keep a sharp eye on them, particularly for Triple A ratings that they will use in trade advertising and often will cause them to expand their promotion of a partic= ular book. In any case, Gordon serves to tip off the trade how the book wind is blowing. And his batting average rates high, it's universarsally agreed. He grades books according to: 1, probable rental library demand;

2, over-the-counter sales, and 3, suitability for public libraries. His symbols: A—Essential. B—Very good. C—Adequate for its sort. D —Doubtful. O—Very doubtful, ? Unpredictable. Possibilities. Consider your patronage. ”n on o

HUS, from his recent bulletins (the symbols respectively stand for rental library, retail bookstore and public library possibilities) : “c d ¢c RIDERS OF THE RANGE by Charles H. Snow. Hosses and guns.” “¢ d o DISORDERLY CON-= DUCT by Charles S. Strong. Formula hotcha yarn for rental libraries which still use stuff of the sort.”

“a a a CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY by W. Somerset Maugham. Best seller, of course, and with a situ ation that may shock some readers celightfully, We thought it pretty dull.”

‘a ¢ a THE STRANGER'S GATE by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Another full-length Oppenheim varn in which a dashing English capitalist rights to save his bauxite holdings amid Balkan revolution and intrigue.”

Another important book prognosticator is Francis Ludlow, of Baker & Taylor, one of the large est wholesalers. Mr. Ludlow’s Editor's Choice each month, in which he makes his personal book-of-the-month selection, vast= ly influences lending libraries and retail stores. Mr. Gordon has slipped up on a few books, usually on the side of underrating. Rachael Field's “All This and Heaven Too” was one the public went for better than he anticipated. If he's unsure of a book, yet believes it extraordinary, he often gives it a “!!!” rating to call it to the dealers’ attention. One was “Black Narcissus,” a dark horse that later came in as a best seller, What he knows of reader tastes he learned from his Westfield customers. “It's a surburban, residential town,” he points out, “a good mirocrosm of book interests.”

Reluctantly he concludes that “it doesn’t pay to write a book nowadays. People are renting entertainment rather than buying it. The radio and magazines have cut down fiction sales.

What still sells fiction, to wit “Gone With the Wind” and “Grapes of Wrath,” as he puts it, is ‘the inherent distinction of narrative pull, the page-to-page interest in a book.” Reading his book commentary vou can’t help feel that Mr. Gore don has fun. Through it runs what some might take as a trace of cynicism about contemporary book tastes: “a c a “Lost Sunrise,” by Kath= leen Norris. Her heroine married a man she didn't love. Norris readers’ll stew ecstatically over that situation, but it's a hundred to one the guy dies.” 4

FOUNDATION TOFILE | City Holds Refining Firm DAMAGE SUIT REPLY 7% Its Low Bid on Gasoline

The George and Frances Ball

STATE QUOTA 1607 IN CCC REPLACEMENTS

| Times Special

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Indi-

PERSHING HAILS ARMY WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (U. P.) — Gen. John J. Pershing yesterday congratulated the Army for its ace complishments during 1939 and exe tended his best wishes for “the New Year and always.”

City officials were determined to-|prices it had submitted. Mr. Gisday to hold the Indian Refining Co. ler's suggestion was adopted bY ana's quota of the 65,008 young men to its low bd on regular Raine, | Othe} suiinilive HICHIDELS. Sinmit land war veterans to be enrolled as i 5s by company executives | B 1 : ens Jespile Meus IY 5 ood. tee's decision, Mr. Guy said he did replacements in the Civilian Conhe J t Purchasing Committee not. know whether his concern would | servation Corps beginning Jan. 2 is The Join ee deq Proceed toward fulfilling the con- 1607. CCC officials announced today. of department heads recommenced tract or not ip the event the con-| Of the Indiana allotment, 1515 are that four City hoards ANI was tract is ratified by the City boards. to be juniors and 92 veterans. tracts for 40.125 gallons o ER If the company does not fulfill its| The new enrollments will bring gasoline to the Indian Re Bing 0. contract, it will forfeit the $500 the corps to 300,000 young men and ang for 10850 gallons of Jremium | check which accompanied the bid as war veterans, 7500 Indians, and 4000 gasoline to the Perine oH 9. |a performance bond. : [residents of Alaska, Puerto Rico, the The Indian concern was low On| The gasoline contracts will cover Virgin Islands and Hawaii, an agregular at 11.55 cents a gallon while | {he Works, Safety, Park and Health grecate of SILOM. , the Perine Co. was low on premium | Beards from Jan. 2 to May 1. RS emiors” sre douns. man between

at 12.5 cents. On the basis of these 17 and 23. M’NUTT TO SPEAK ON

bids, the City will save more than ; : $1000 over the four-month life of the pris Lonlend hare 5 2 ni ‘FORUM OF THE AIR’

TEST - YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? 2—With what sport is Gene Mako associated? 3—How many cubic feet are in a cord of wood? 4—What are pelagic animals? 5—Name the chairman of American Red Cross. 6—Of which country is New Delhi the capital? T—What is the species classification of lobsters? 8—What are the pigment primary colors?

of Mayor La Guardia of New York, the La Follettes. Senator Norris, and most of the labor vote. The Wheeler buildup is on, and the Administration erowd is watching it with interest. Paul McNutt and Mr. Hull are the other two still in the picture, although Court opposition to both has caused something of a sus- Creditors of the Cleveland Ter | pension of interest while waiting to see how Wheeler minals Building Co. are seeking the | catches on. difference between the purchase price of the building company’s collateral and profits accruing to later owners. B El R l | Judge Robert C. Eaitvel heard joral arguments yesterday on a moJ eanor ooseve g fore made by the Foundation, o dismiss the complaint. Plaintiffs |vesterday filed an answer to the motion to dismiss. The suit charges that the building company in October, 1930, executed a $23,500,000 collateral note. This was delivered along with the collateral to the VanNess & Co, a holding company, which also executed its collateral note for $16,000,000. Both notes were delivered to J. P. Morgan & Co, the suit claims. The suit contends that the holding company was controlled by officers of the building company. It

Foundation have five days in which to reply to a brief filed by plain-

tiffs in the several-million-dollar damage suit pending in Federal

rying out an unholy alliance between certain idealistic New Dealers here and the dregs of some Democratic political machines scattered about the country. This is a job which has to be done largely behind the back of Democratic National Chairman Farlev, who is hostile to a third term and who is planting seeds here and there for Cordell Hull,

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday.—While it seems to have been a very long day, it has all been spent traveling to Winchester, Va., and back again. At 5:30 a. m., my telephone rang and Franklin Jr.'s voice said: “I have some bad news for you. Ethel and I cracked up.” Cracking up means an aeroplane accident to me, but I knew they had gone to stay with friends in Virginia to go to a dance, and so they must have been in their car. I elicited the information that they were not badly hurt and then decided that I had better refrain from further questions and get up and go to the hospital in Winchester. I arrived there at 8 o'clock, apparently to the surprise of everyone in the hospital. No one was more surprised than Franklin Jr., who announced: “I didn't mean to have you come.” After X-rays had heen taken and nothing serious was found to be the matter, we put blankets around them and bundled them into two White House cars and drove to the White House, arriving at 4 p. m. Now they are resting and I hope a few days will see them

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the people in the waiting rooms were solicitous. One couple was waiting while their little boy had his tonsils out. The man came over to me to say how sorry they were about the accident and then he added: “We had

some bad luck, too, last week. Our little 5-year-old girl stepped in front of a car and was killed. It wasn’t any one’s fault. I guess these things just happen to all of us.” Whereupon his wife broke in and said: “But, Mrs. Roosevelt, we are poor people and when I found I was going to have ancther baby, I just wondered how we could take care of it. It was just a ronth old when my little girl was killed and I think God just knew I would need something to take care of to take up my mind.” Such is the faith which makes life bearable for many people whose sorrows otherwise would be overwhelming.

ont sack Sompered . et Drices how openings in CCC. A total of 1500 p oh y Inia Refintn Co. res camps will continue in operation in e g . the United States.

quested that it be released shortly Gist after the bids were received and DON’T ACCEPT FEES, EXCISE AIDS WARNED

” Answers

1—Amelia Earhart. 2—Tennis. 3—128. 4—Animals that live in the ocean, 5—Norman H. Davis. 6—India. T—Crustaceans. 8—Yellow, blue and red.

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Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—Federal | Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt and Secretary of Labor Perkins will speak on the American

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opened by City officials Wednesday. Company officials said they had instead of consumer tank wagon Forum of the Air over the Mutual prices. Dealers’ tank wagon prices, |goctem Sunday st 7 p.m. (Indian. 14 JORIE, Ind, Dee. 58 o P2 according to company officials, are| 3 Tots —State Excise Department officials conspired with Foundation officers,” pixon Guy. assistant manager of the title of Mr. McNutt's address. lations, Ralph Wilson, examiner for to acquire collateral for “grossly in- the Indian concern for the Indian- Secretary Perkins will speak on|the State Department of SuperIt was fortunate for me that I had planned to 80 adequate consideration.” apolis district, informed the pur-| The Outlook for Labor.” vision of Public Offices, said today. in-law was able to be hostess for this luncheon given Federal Court here has no juris- wrong because of an “unavoidable Milburn L. Wilson, Undersecretary | Porte County, he said. for her great-niece, Peggy Houghteling, and I have put|diction in this action. The Cleve-| clerical error.” lof Agriculture; Eugene Meyer, pub-| Fees of $2.50 each have been aloff my engagements in New York City tomorrow for land Terminals Co. is undetgoing| Albert H. Gisler, Park Board vice lisher of The Washington Post; lowed in justice of peace courts in D\ on their feet again. The Lord was good and we when one has someone at the other end of the tele- land Federal District Court, and make an error in submitting the bid |W. Gibson Carey, president of the|not violate any law, he pointed out, ould all be very grateful. phone to do the work. All I did was to telephone Miss|that court thus has exclusive juris-|and suggested that the committee United States Chamber of Com- but there is no law permitting ofveryone at the hospital was so very Kind, even Thompson and ask her to do all the arranging. diction, he said. hold the Indian concern to the merce, | ficers to accept fees,

made a mistake by bidding on the basis of dealers’ tank wagon prices alleges that after the building com- [5 cent a gallon below consumers’ 2Polis Time). ; s have been instructed not to accept pany became insolvent, the trustees prices. | “Youth and Social Security” is|witness fees im cases of liquor vioto New York City this afternoon and only had a| yesterday, W. H. Thompson, de-| chasing committee yesterday that/ Other speakers scheduled include| The instructions were issued foldebutante luncheon here before leaving. My mother-|fendants’ attorney, contended the! the bid prices submitted were Chairman James L..Fly of the FCC, lowing a recent investigation in La some later day when I can fly up for a few hours. [reorganization under Section 77-B|president, said that he could not Frank Graves, New York State/La Porte, Porter and St. Joseph It is wonderful how easy it is to change one’s plans of the Bankruptcy Act in the Cleve- | understand why the company should | Commissioner of Education, and Counties, he said. The practice does ¥ + ¢ 4 ¥ "

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