Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1940 — Page 13

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* MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 4—Exploring the story of The Memphis Commercial-Appeal throughout - the Civil War has been one of the most dramatic newspaper experiences I've known. Sl The Appeal was violently Southern. So loud was - its rage that it became known to Southerners as “The Voice of the Confederacy,” and in- the .- North as “the hornets’ nest of rebellion.” The years just before the war + were rather calm. But 1860 came, ‘and from then on there. was . plenty of excitemeni. By this _ time two robust journalists named McLanahan and Dill were editing The Appeal. On April 29, .1862, they announced: “Should Memphis be occupied as ’ we shall remove to Mississippi, re we can express our political sentiments and breathe the pure and untainted air of Southern

“We cannot do such violence to our own feelings as to submit to censorship under Lincoln’s hireling ; pos. . . . Sooner would we sink our types, press ‘ and establishment into the bottom of the Mississippi River and be wandering exiles from our home.” And that’s exactly what happened, except that the press went vagabonding with them. For more ; than/ three years The Appeal printed, and ran, and ‘ printed again. 3. Memphis fell. The Appeal loaded its press into a boxcar and fled South while the gunboat battle still sraged in the Mississippi. Three days later, in Grenada, Miss., The Appeal was publishing again. 1 : # 8 # tOn the Run Again By Thanksgiving, they took the boxcar route again ¢ —for Jackson, Miss. i . The Appeal was shelled out of Jackson in May of 1863. The printers and pressmen crossed the Pearl _ River on a flatboat as the Yankees came to the water's £ edge. The Appeal issued handbills for a week in -~-Meridian, Miss. And then it sped on to Atlanta. The Appeal was read throughout the Southern Armies. It goaded them on; buoyed up hope when there was no hope; taunted and enraged the Nerthern troops. : Just one year, to the day, from the time it fled "Memphis, The Appeal, published its first issue in

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Qur T 3 THERE IS AN /OLD LEGEND that, once upon a _ time, Emma Abbott owned property in Indianapolis. Some old-timers say it was the lot on which .the Security Trust Building now stands (130 E. Washing- # ton st.). Others are just as sure that it was the one across the alley where the Vonnegut hardware people now do business. ; For the purpose of today’s piece, it doesn’t make any difference. What interests me is not so much the exact location of Miss Abbott’s -investment as the fact that the most famous prima donna of her time, who was then the head of her own opera company and making ¥ oodles of money, should have thought enough of Indianapolis to pick it as a place ~ to park part of her profits. ** To be sure, Indianapolis always treated Emma " Abbott right and, for all.I know, it may have had something to do with her thinking well of us. In _ 1882, for instance, the town went crazy when she “appeared in Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera “Patience.” .. The date of: her appearance was just ahead of Oscar Wilde’s lecture. It wasn’t a mere coincidence. It was an example of Miss Abbott’s shfewdness and extraordinary business ability. 8 =

Cashing In-on Oscar

The opera “Patience,” you'll recall, is the one with “Reginald Bunthorne” in it. When the opera was first performed in London, everybody recognized the character as a take-off on Oscar Wilde. Gilbert and Sullivan had stripped Oscar to the skin and burlesqued him with such success that the play had to be transferred to the newly-built Savoy Theater in order to accommodate the crowds that fought to see it. . When “Patience” became a hit in New York in

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‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—This time there is something different, a sense of unreality, about the return of Congress to Washington and the opening of the Presidential year. Strange shadows flicker on the walls, and the spirit of the place seems heavy with uncertainty. The general air is one of vague anxiety. Note the odd incident about the Jackson Day dinner to be held Jan. 8. The Democrats, with the approval of Mr. Roosevelt, invited Republican leaders to be guests of honor at this traditional Democratic Party feast. That in itself was queer. But note also the peculiar reaction of the Republicans, their doubt as to whether they were being kidded or were being suddenly embraced in a large serious esture of political unity.- They didn’t know how to ' #3 {reat the invitations, whether as a gag or as in good faith. : : ‘, The whole episode has a peculiar, confused, bizarre *' character suggesting the abnormal atmosphere of the

: day.

Business as Usual

A year ago Mr. Roosevelt in his Jackson Day invited Democratic tweedledees to join Republican tweedledums and leave the Democratic Party to the Liberals. That was the rough-and-tumble political language which everyone understood—the normal political atmosphere of a party rally, when you blow your own horn and give Bronx cheers to the other side. It was like T. R. fighting with the standpatters of 30 years ago. It was like former Senator George Moses, a Republican Old Guard leader

My Day

- WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—We have just come back from the Capitol where we went—rather a large family party—to listen to the President deliver his mi .to Congress. Today's message is, of course, only a prelude to the budget message which goes : in shortly, and which is the real indication of what the Administration hopes Congress will do during the coming year. first message deals very largely in generalities, but the basic principles and general trends of thought are important. I enjoy going up to Congress rgely because I like to watch the reactions of the “floor.” Certain amenities must, of course, be preserved, and everyone arises to greet the President whether ° they like the President or not. ‘comes to the speech, they applaud largey to their political affiliations. Statements which could certainly be subscribed to ‘all political parties, for some unknown reason, the

Iy gD ] ht applaud, while the Republicans sit with '

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all their hands ally inactive. When the President med. however, that except for national de- : items of the budget would show a de-

Hoosier Vagabond

3 eo By Ernie Pyle Atlanta. Still calling itself, however, The Memphis Appeal. The paper| kept correspondents in the field. One with the fighting forces signed himself “Dixie.” The Chattanooga man wrote under the by-line of “Shadow.” LIK 2 i 5 The days grew darker in Atlanta. . The Appeal went out one side of Atlanta ‘as the Yanks came in : the other. It went to Montgomery, Ala, and were growing so expensive that The Appeal cost jcents a copy. ia Y : Linebaugh, one of The Appeal’s brilliant writers, was drowned in the Alabama River in one of the paper's hurried retreats. Other employees went off to war, but The Appeal kept on. te 8 8

Back Home at Last

From Montgomery it fled to Columbus, Ga.—and that was the end. Columbus fell in April of 1865. The Appeal was -captured, or at least partially captured. The Yanks smashed the proof-press and scattered the type. : Gen. Wilson sent his troops out to get Editor Dill. ‘When they brought him in the door Wilson said, “So we’ve got the old fox at last.” The General or- ‘ dered some choice gether. - ; Then Wilson: gave Dill his choice of becoming a prisoner of war or signing a $100,000 bond not to publish again till after war was over. Dill signed the bond, and kept his word. His partner McLanahan had escaped when Columbus surrendered. And so, also, had The Appeal’s main press—a one-cylinder affair driven by a steam boiler. ‘They had smuggled it away to Macon, Ga, "The war ended. Dill went to Macon after his press. He hauled it from there to the Tennessee River in a cotton wagon. He floated it down the river on a barge. He arrived at Cairo, Ill, broke, but an admiring steamboat captain gave him and his press a lift the rest of the way. ih On Nov. 5, 1865, The Memphis Appeal—after three and a half years of tenacious and perilous wandering—resumed publication in Memphis. : Bditor McLanahan fell from a window and was killed a few days after his return to Memphis. And within two months Editor Dill died. The humans bowed out, but The Appeal went on, as it has been doing for five generations. ;

Next: Some old-timers.

By Anton Scherrer

the fall of 1881, somebody had a hunch that it might pay to bring the real Oscar to America and let him deliver a ‘course of lectures. Right then and there, Miss Abbott conceived the idea of playing “Patience” and barnstorming the country with her company. She timed her performances to be always a jump ahead of Mr. Wilde’s appearance in order to profit by the enormous publicity which all the newspapers gave Oscar at the time. When you come to think of it, Miss Abbott's amazing sense of timing stands alone as a business achievement unless, maybe, you can compare it with Mr. Roosevelt's skill for springing surprises. Anyway, it explains why Miss Abbott was able to make enough money to plant her profits in all parts of the country, including a Washington St. lot in Indianapolis. . i 8 = First Opera in 1859 Of course, Emma Abbott wasn’t the first to play opera around here. Indianapolis got its first taste as far back as 1859 when Cooper’s English Opera Troupe stopped off for a three-night stand. Annie Miller was the prima donna on that occasion and sang Bellini’s “La Somnambula” and Donizetti's “Love Spell” —his “Daughter’ of the Regiment,” too. The newspapers took notice of the event, but the performances do not appear to have been well patronized. Not as well, anyway, as Christy’s Minstrels and “The Peake Family of Swiss Bell Ringers” which followed the Cooper Troupe. ; After that Indianapolis had to wait 15 years for more opera. When it did turn up, it was the Strakosch company with Pauline Lucca as the star. After which there was another hiatus, this time of seven years. By this time it was 1881, the year the Indianapolis Light Infantry put on “Pinafore” with Pink Hall, Bert Eddy and Jud Colgan taking the leading parts. : : a That was the funny performance I was telling you about the other day, the one in which all the parts were taken by men. Pink Hall played “Little Buttercup”’—remember?

By Raymond Clapper

of 15 years ago, denouncing the “sons of the wild Jackass.” : ; : This year there is more than mere uncertainty. In 1936 one knew that the Republicans would nominate somebody—either Landon, or Vandenberg, or Knox, and that Roosevelt would run and probably win. In 1932 you knew that the Democrats would nominate . Roosevelt, or Garner, or somebody, and that he probably would beat Hoover. The uncertainties were comprehensible and didn’t: bother you very much unless you had a direct stake in one of the aspirants, 2 8 8 :

~ Not So Simple Now

This year it is no such simple uncertainty as those of other Presidential years. Questions are deep—often unasked. Will the war break loose with real fury in the spring? What will it be like? Where will the Russians be by then? What will our people be thinking by then? Will the British be able to weather the feared attack in the spring? How much will we care? Can we keep cool then? We flamed in wrath at Moscow’s attack in Finland; is the fever beginning to rise? © What is coming out of our tense attitude toward Japan? And what is the meaning of these polls of opinion which all report gigantic popular majorities for President Roosevelt, preferring him for a third term to most of the other candidates combined? Why do pot the other candidates show some signs of life in these polls? Politicians have been trying to break through with various candidates and meet with vast indifference. What instincts are at work and where are they leading us? ! It is a sense of some of these questions that hangs over Washington, questions which no one can answer. When the anwers come they will influence American affairs, beyond the power of politicians or political organizations to do much one way or the other.

“By Eleanor Roosevelt

To an onlooker who is not much of a politician, this sudden indiscriminate applause is somewhat surprising. Do the Republicans mean by that they have such complete confidence in the Administration that any reduction, no matter for what purpose, will ‘be accepted without scrutiny? They applauded also the expenditures for national defense, but their applause for all reductions would seem to indicate that national defense means to them only expenditure for the Army and Navy and munitions of war. Health, unemployment, the preservation of people’s morale until the answers to modern economic questions are found, are apparently party matters, not matters of national interest-and have no part in the national defense. What is this? Blindness? Ignorance? Indifference or partisanship? - : Fortunately, applause probably has little or nothing to do: with the real thinking and conviction of these human beings when they get out of a situation which they feel is controlled on a partisan basis, and we can hope that national unity on questions of national importance may be possible in spite of what might be called superficial indications to the conRegardless of the fact that according to our different lights we may consider that certain objectives should be achieved in different ways, still we can agree on those objectives and arrive at compromise methods through conference, rather than. through vituperative cat and dog fights which defeat not only ‘methods but often objectives as Ea

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Stirring Sight

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‘Mai. Williams

By Maj. Al Williams

Times Special Writer -

ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. I, Jan. 4.—At 6:30 a. m. on New Year's Day 1 took off from snow-blank-eted Roosevelt Field in my Gulfhawk single-seater fighter to welcome the New Year. I climbed into the east, and the field boundary lights were soon a fancy pattern. The west wis dark. Faint shades of blue began to show in the east. The sky over-

head was deep indigo, with a white halfmoon and myriads of cold stars. At 3000 feet the outside air tem pe rature was zero, and the cockpit air little better. No heaters .in

fighting Maj. Williams planes. Com- ~~ pass course 138 degrees. Rate of climb 2000 feet a minute. Five; ten, fifteen thousand feet—with the temperature sinking a few degrees with every few thousand feet. The engine was slowing down — carburetor icing. Adjusted the exhaust heat to carburetor air, and .the ‘Wright Cydlone deepened and smoothed its roar. The southern shore of Long Island, whiter than snow, passed beneath. The Atlantic was dull and gray, dotted with thousands of tiny clouds, bunched together, resembling great herds of sheep far below. Eighteen thousand feet, and colder. Twenty-five degrees below zero. More heat to the carburetor. Less in me.

single - sqater

E must be about 20 miles out V to sea. Time to spare. Sunrise, at ground level. is due at 7:19. The Gulfhawk can make 30,000 feet, but I can’t go much beyond 20,000 without oxygen. How much? Nineteen forty’s first problem for me. 21,000—22,000—feet. We're still climbing. My breath is shorter. I inhale deeply. We'll -try another thousand feet. 23,000 feet—temperature 40 below zero. Deeper breaths. I feel the lack of oxygen now. The engine is all right; I'm watching -me now. Many minutes to go before the sun peeps above the horizon. Out of sight of land now. We'll wait here for the sun and the New Year. Cold rendezvous. : - The horizon is lightening to pale.

. eastern sealine.

blue. All the world is a stage, and I am watching its gigantic curtain rise. The light and etolor changes will come swiftly now. There’s the red all along the It's on fire— flaming red, like a prairie fire. Now the gold is seeping through. A few streaks flash; across the gray sea, like arrows shot from below the horizon. More arrows— then millions, to become a sheet of gold. There’s the top rim of the sun--GOOD MORNING, 1940! If my watch is right I am look-

ing at the sun 2% minutes before

‘the_ground dwellers. ipl en» OOD morning, sun! Others greeted you hours ago, far beyond that sea-rim. Standing

When 1940 Came In 23,000 Feet Above the Atlantic

watch con the Siegfried and Maginot ramparts and in the ~ crow’s-nests of warships over the North Sea. Still others first saw your red face from behind the gunsights of warplanes. All lookfor you and for men they are ordered to kill. The gunsight aperture in the windshield of my ship is sealed. Jaunt or gay gesture, Mr. Sun,

a spirit of reverence sent me into

the dark skies to read your flaming banner of a New Year. Fortune good, bad or indifferent,

we started this year right—moving

- forward and upward—with hand extended—a grim, half challenge, half prayer—facing your first bright lights, beyond which no

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“The West was dark. Faint shades of blue began to show in the East.”

man knows what lies. I want to say with a swagger that I don't care—but I cannot. Somewhere, far beyond the farthest planet, a page has been turned. The script "is dim—I am leaning and flying forward to read. : The sheer beauty of this scene strengthens my hopes, as Tennys *son’s lines from The Golden Year run through my mind here 23,000 feet above:the Atlantic—40 degrees below zero—

But we grow old. Ah! When shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and unis versal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land And like a lane

of beams.

athwart the sea. :

CITY TO BORROW

OPERATING FUND

Almost $10,000 in Interest - Needed for Temporary Bank Loans.’

The City again this year will pay private banks almost $10,000 in interest charges on.temporary’ loans to finance municipal operation until 1940 spring and fall taxes are collected. : City officials are now preparing to borrow a total of $2,170,000 from the banks in short-term loans for the City General, Health General, Tuberculosis Prevention, School Health, Fire Pension and Sanitary District funds. The first series of temporary loans will be made to pay expenditures to May 1. Midwestern banks have been invited to bid on the loans, which will be awarded to the lowest bidgen City Controller James E. Deery said.

The temporary loans, ether with the interest i which add two mills to the tax rate, could be eliminated if enough money was budgeted each year to carry the City over through the first half of the following year, according to Deputy City Controller Herschel M.

“for the following funds:

Tebay. Money to be borrowed this year is

Interest Budgeted 7000 1000 150 250 400 600

_ ow 75 COUNTY YOUTHS RECRUITED IN ARMY

During December, 75 youths from the Marion County area, including Indianapolis, enlisted in the U. S. Army, Col. Enrique Urrutia Jr., loS21 sesruliing officer, announced toIn the whole Indiana area, he said, 322 men enlisted during the month. There are only three branches of the service having vacanies this month, the colonel said. They are the Air Corps, the Signal Corps and the Chemical Warfare Service. > Vacancies in the Air Corps are ted. Eleven vacancies for the Signal Corps have been alloted for this area, while the Chemical Warfare Service will accept 16 men, according to the colonel. EE —————————————————

ADOPTIONS IN COUNTY FOR 1939 TOTAL 135

A total of 135 children were legally adopted during 1939 in Marion County, records at the County Clerk’s office showed today. : This is four more adoptions than were recorded during 1938. Included in the adoption for last year was one in which a family received legal custody of six children, : About 50 per cent of the children adopted were taken from orphans’ homes, figures revealed. 4 total of 85 per cent of the adopted

Fund City General...... Health General Tuberculosis Prev.... School Health

$2,170,000

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EX-PURDUE TEACHER DEAD Times Special

young- at sters were between the ages of 1

For Those Who Like Outdoors

If you're the brave sort that likes the great out-of-doors, even under a blanket of snow, or if you have a hankering for hunting with bow and arrow in the winter time, the Conservation Department announces Brown County state park cabins still are available for rental. : The cottage, which. accommodate from four to 10 persons each, are run on the American plan in the summertime with guests obtaining meals at the Abe Martin Lodge. : In the winter time, the Lodge is closed because it is unheated and guests must obtain meals in Nashville, Ind., nearby. Fireplaces are provided in each cottage, but cooking in the cottages is not permitted. :

FILES $7500 SUIT AGAINST FEENEY

Sheriff Al Feeney was named defendant in a suit on file in Superior Court today. : a, Filed by Julius C. Travis, attorney, the suit charges that the Sheriff owes the plaintiff $7500 for legal services. Mr. Travis claims in the petition that he was employed by Sheriff Feeney to prepare, file and carry out legal proceedings in contesting the results of the May, 1938, Democratic primary. . Mr. Feeney lost the nomination in the primary, but was declared the winner over Charley Lutz after a recount. 2

JUNIOR C. OF C. LISTS * JANUARY PROGRAM

‘The Junior Chamber of Commerce . January program was announced today by Virgil Martin and John M. Miller, program chairmen. J. Raymond Schutz, president of the Standard :Life Insurance Co. of Indiana, will speak Wednesday on “The Young Man of 1940.” Col. Roscoe Turner will address the group Jan. 17 on “Aviation.” The Chamber will hear B. Edwin Sackkett, new head of the Indianapolis office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Jan. 24. Mr. Sackett will discuss “Today's Criminals.”

LEADERS NAMED BY FAIRS GROUP

Manrow Becomes President; Eight on Agriculture Board Re-elected.

Members of the Indiana Association of County and District’ Fairs elected new officers and re-elected eight members of the Indiana Board of Agriculture yesterday at the Claypool Hotel. : W. C. Manrow of Goshen, Ind., was elevated to president , of the

association and Robert Graham Jr. of Washington, Ind, was elected vice president. W. H. Clark’ of Franklin, Ind., was retained as sec-retary-treasurer. Agriculture Board members re-

|elected were: C. H. Taylor, Boon-

ville; Guy Cantwell, = Gosport; Charles Morris, Salem; State Senator E. Curtis White, Indianapolis; U. C. Brouse, Kendallville; J. B. Cummins, Portland; Levi P. Moore, Rochester, and P. L. White, Oxford.

In a meeting at the State House, the Agriculture Board elected Mr. White president and George Stolte of Ft. Wayne, a hold-over member, vice president. The convention ended last night with a banquet at which Governor M. Clifford Townsend spoke. Yesterday the fair men discussed their problems and heard L. B. Clore of Franklin, the first national corn king from Indiana, discuss “County Fairs--Then and Now.”

TESTS ARE GIVEN FOR FIVE CITY POSITIONS

Examinations for five vacancies in the City Building Commission were to be held from 8:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. today at the City Council chambers. Z

inspectors and two electrical inspectors at $2105 a year and one combustion engineer at $1800 a year. The jobs will be awarded to

the examinations, George R. Popp Jr, missioner.

according to

0. K. SANITATION LOAN

The Works Board today approved a $100,000 temporary loan to operate the Sanitation Plant until May 1 tax collections are made. The Sanitary District will advertise for bids on the loan as soon as it is approved by City Council, Works

Board members said.

Upkeep of State Historical

Sites Urged Greater activity by local communities in the establishment and

by Coleman

ground, the Lincoln home in Spencer County, the Lanier home at Madison and the George Rogers Clark Memorial at Vincennes. He scored ‘present owners of his-

lis-| torical sites who “put prohibitive

prices on them—prices not based on tangible values but on cashing in on the public spirit of others.” “The trouble and difficulties in the preservation of historic sites

Jobs are open for two plumbing}

those getting the highest grades on]. Building Com-|

On Sale Here

on sale here late this month.

composers, artists and inventors.

ton Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott and Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). On Feb. 5 the Emerson, stamp will go on sale at Boston and the Alcott stamp at Concord, Mass. The Clemens stamp will g6 on sale Feb. 13 at Hannibal, Mo. : The Irving -and Cooper stamps will go on sale here Jan. 31, two days after the first-day sales at Terrytown and. Cooperstown, N. Y. The Irving stamp is a,onecent green and the Cooper a twocent red. 5 On Feb. 7 the 3-cent purple Emerson stamp and the 5-cent blue Alcott stamp will be avail able here and ‘a week later a Clemens 10-cent brown: stamp goes on sale. : he ~~ The group of poets’ stamp will go on sale later. This group incldtles the James Whitcomb Riley stamp, which will be sold first at Greenfield, Ind.

THE PORTRAITS are arraigned in oval frames against a background of colonial design. At the base of the portraits are a closed book, scroll, ‘quill pen and inkwell, symbolizing the authors’ group. In a narrow pannel with white ground at the base is the name of the author. The denomination in two lines appears

in an ornamental shield-shaped panel partly bordered with laurel

corner. Across the top is the wording “United States Postage.” All lettering ‘is solid gothic in the color of the stamp. Stamp collectors desiring firstday cancellations “on the above dates may send up to 10 addressed covers to the postmaster at the respective offices with a remittance to cover only the cost of stamps. In order to obtain official first-day cancellation, the covers must carry first-class postage. Each cover must bear a pencil indorsement .in the upper right-hand corner showing the number of stamps to. be attached. Envelopes should not be smaller than 3x6 inches. = For the benefit of collectors desiring stamps of selected quality, “the new stamps will be placed on’ "sale at the Philatelic Agency at “Washington a day before they are issued here. = = ;

PER CENT GAI

. Indianapolis postal g 1939 increased 3.06 per cent or Ei Fer pion st July and September

First of 35 New Stamps Go.

Series of 7 Groups to Honor Authors, Poets, Ete. Riley of Indiana to Be Included. "THE FIRST of a seriés of 36 new commemorative stamps

Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker said seven groups of five stamps each, authors, poets, educators, scientists,

The stamps of the authors’ group

leaves in the lower, right-hand

POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS!

. : today. WE Sa the months except April,| showed ing months|

Late in January

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OPEN BIDS TUESDAY ON TECH ADDITION

General construction bids on a wing to the Milo H. Stuart Memorial Building at Tech High School will be opened at the Tues=

day meeting of the School Board. The bids will cover plumbing, heating, ventilation, electric wiring and fixtures for the new addition. The principal structure is nearly - completed. The Public Works Administration has awarded a grant of $276,975 for the project, the total cost of which is estimated at $615,500.

WEDNESDAY. WILL BE TAX STAMP DEADLINE

Next Wednesdgy will be the deadline for the ase of 1939 ine tangibles tax stamps, the State Tax Board announced today in correcting an impression prevalent among taxpayers that the date was for puri e of 1940 stamps. : Also the Board has set Jan. 20 as ‘the deadline for the exchange of unused 1939 stamps for new ones. Stamps for 1940 can be purchdsed anytime this year. :

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1-—Name the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America, 2-—-Does the Social Security Act re quire ‘beneficiaries of the Fed= eral Old-Age Retirement System to be American citizens? 3--Name the King of Italy. 4--How many points were scored ~~ against the University of Tenniessee football team during the 1939 season? . : 5--In which state is Mt. Whitney? 6--Name ‘the birthstone. for Noe T—What proportion of U. S. Senators are elected every two years? 8--Do U. 8. Naval vessels pav toll to ‘pass through the Panama Canal?

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