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NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 9—We are going away on a * trip. « I suppose it sounds funny to you for a fellow to Say he’s going away on a trip, when he's been on nothing but a trip for the last five years. But when we say “trip” we mean big trip, long trip, faraway "trip, When we go from here to Chicago, that’s just moving around. But when we go from here to Libya, that’s a trip. Not that we're going to Libya. I don’t even know where Libya is. We are actually going . .. oh, maybe I'll tell you tomorrow if I feel in the notion. The reason I mentioned it today is that I thought you might be getting worrjed about the way we've been jumping around . lately. Just one big jump from : - Houston to Memphis, and just another big jump from Memphis to New Orleans. Well, that’s because of this trip. We had to get here by a certain day, you see, or the certain vehicle of transportation we have a certain engagement with - might have gone off and left us. Aad the date got so close we didn’t have time to write our way slowly into New Orleans, so we just picked up and jumped. This is the first time we've been in New Orleans in four years. It hasn't changed much. Canal St. still looks. like the widest street in the world to me. The hotels are still crammed with guests. The waitresses, when you order coffee, still ask whether you want “pure” or “chicory.” If you want Northern coffee, you, say “pure.” » ® # ”

Same Delightful People "The famous Arnaud’s and Antoine's are still here but we haven't eaten there, because food to us is

merely a duty, not a pleasure. You can ride a taxi anywhere in town for 40 cents, and if you buy a nickel

magazine they make you bust a penny to get the.

sales tax. : : The newspapers are very excited about the latest political scandal, but it seems to me I've heard it all somewhere before. Doubtless right here. And through it dll, the people of New Orleans are delight-

Qur Town"

A LOT OF PEOPLE around here have an idea that Theodore Rocsevelt brought about simplified spelling in America. That isn’t quite true. David Starr Jordan and John H. Holliday were mixed up in it, too. Mr, Jordan, a native of Gainesville, N. Y., was a teacher in the Indianapolis High School from 1874 to 1875. In 1875 he took the degree of M. D. at Indiana Medical College. Three years later while teaching at Butler that institution made him a Ph. D. He spent the hext 12 years at Indiana University— the first six as professor of : zoology, the last six as president. In 1891, he was called to California and made president of Leland Stanford University. : Prof. Jordan's career parallels the story. of simplified spelling. As early as 1870, the American Philological Association got interested in the subject. The movement was formally launched in 1876 by a gathering which called itself a “Convention for Amendment of ‘English Orthografy”—subsequently, and more to the point, the “Spelling Reform League” nd, finally. with complete abandon, the “Simplified #

a i Leag.” ® = drew Carnegie Alarmed

Some very imposing scholars sponsored the “Leag,” among them our own David Starr. Jordan. Theodore Roosevelt wasn’t heard of then. As a matter of fact, he was only 18 years old at the time. Mr. Roosevelt got around to it, though, when he became President. By. that time, somebody connected with the U. S, Pension Office had cataloged 1690 different ways of spelling the word “diarrhoea.” Every one of the spellings turned up in the applications of cold soldiers asking for pensions. And from the looks of things there was no telling how many more loose ways there were of spelling the word. The discovery alarmed Andrew Carnegie to such a degree that he gave $250,000 to have something done about it. 3

Washington

EVANSVILLE, Ind. Jan. 9.—Theyre not doing much worrying here. The principal anxiety of the moment ‘is whether Evansville lands that new factory. If it does, then two medium-sized apartment houses will be built. If Evansville doesn’t land the new factory, well it’s no blow— just a little velvet that didn’t come along. The bankers have more deposits and are making more loans than in 1929. One of them said he didn’t know anybody in the town who wasn’t better off than he was 10 years ago. There has been only one strike, and that was abortive; the employers have kept the outside unions down by fair wage policies which have kept the employees satisfied. : . Thomas E. Dewey says there is ‘defeatism in the land. These businessmen in Evansville pride themselves upon being outdone by none in their hatred of President Roosevelt. That is part of the ritual. But they are making money and planning to make more of it—and they have done it through remarkable personal enterprise which has built several new businesses here since 1929. ] ® =

The Political Outlook

Some of these smaller American cities are worth a look. The American small town, the small city of 100,000 or less, the rural townships, are going to be. important in the next election. and in determining . national direction. The small-W®8wn voter and the rural voter swung back to their normal Republican allegiance .in the 1938 elections and the Democrats dropped out :of the elective jobs as if a scythe had whacked them down. ;

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday—I hated to see Anna and John leave yesterday afternoon. It made ‘the family seem very small at supper last night. I was all alone at breakfast this morning, so I went up to get my youngest grandson to keep me company, but even he seemed to sense that something was wrong, for he wouldn't stay by ‘himself on the "floor, but wanted to be held all the time. However, today at lunch, Sistie-and Buz came back. Now they are out enjoying the snow back of the White House

and they will give that added

touch .of family which their small brother missed this morning. When they all go at the end of this week, we shall indeed - be bereft. Franklin, Jr. and Bthel will also be leaving us soon with their little Vos silerice until some more children come to wake it up. At lunch yesterday, I discovered that Mr. Dale ' Carnegie is a Lincoln enthusiast, so I showed him all I could of interest about Lincoln in the White House. I find that all the people who really have studied that period of our history are much interested in the new portrait which hangs in the

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| Hoosier Vagabond ~~ By Ernie Pyle

ful. We saw them at their worst this time, and their}

orst requires several applications of the word “wonderful.” We did all our Christmas shopping here, right in the peak of the last-minute Christmas rush. ‘The streets and stores were so packed you could hardly ove. end, two-thirds of them had bad colds, and you could tell that their strength and nerves were frazzled be-

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And yet—nowhere in the United States have we ever shopped where the clerks were so patient and

helpful and friendly as in New Orleans. Of coursej:

New. Orleans doesn’t have a monopoly on patience and good manners, but it seems to me to hold about 51 per cent of the stock.

He Wins an Argument—Maybe

Among our going-away purchases was a new traveling bag for That Girl Who Travels. With Me. We got it just in time, or she would have had to retire from traveling. iy For her old valise started falling apart a year ago,

and late this fall the lid came clear off it. For the| past couple of months we've been holding it on with|

twine. This new bag is a tan one, of ox-hide, with brass fittings and white stitching. We are sure it is the most beautiful bag in the world. And this beauty has caused a discussion in our family. Not an argument, you understand, just a philosophical discussion. That Girl said she was going to get some canvas and make a cover for the bag: “What are you going to do that for?” I asked. “So it won't get all scratched up,” she said. “What difference whether it’s scratched up or not?” I asked. J “Because it’s so pretty, and I want it. to stay nice so people can see it.” “But if you cover it up with canvas, people can’t see it at all.” . She didn’t answer. She hasn’t answered yet. She hasn’t answered because she can’t think of anything to say. ‘When Old Pyle turns the full force of his mighty intellect upon a subject, he wipes it clean, He leaves no answer. His logic is incontrovertible. I'll bet she covers the bag up, though,

By Anton Scherrer

Immediately Mr. Roosevelt got busy and shot the dictionary full of holes. First of all, the spelling of “diarrhoea” was changed to “diarrhea,” not much of an improvement, to be sure, but enough to show that a reform had set in. Next he knocked the penultimate “u” out of “humour’ and “rumour,” and the final “e” off of “axe” and “woe.” “Goodbye” got a good licking, too. The diphthongs got a trimming, also, and when Mr. Roosevelt was done “phoenix” looked like “phenix,” and “sulphur” like “sulfur” which reminded a lot of people around here that Prof~~Jordan spelled “sulphur” the President’s way all the time he lived in Indianapolis, every bit of 30 years before Mr. Roosevelt got around to it.

Enter Mr. Holiday .

When Mr. Roosevelt got done, he had more than 300 mutilated words on his list, among which were “tho” for “though” and “thru” for “through.” It was at this stage that some wise guy rose to remark that “this was one of the occasions when that pioneer phonetic speller, Artemus Ward, would have said: ‘This is 2 much’.” Included in Mr. Roosevelt's list was also the word a President's way of spelling “height.” Which brings me to John H. Holliday and the historical fact that Mr. Holliday omitted the ‘“e” in “height” at least 25 years before Mr. Roosevelt thought of it. : j : The story goes*back to the time Mr. Holliday ran and wrote the Indianapelis News. He did a bang-up job, but he could have done an even better one, he often admitted, had he had better support in the composing room. One day Mr. Holliday got mad enough to track down the chap who had spoiled his best editorial. . . . “Look here,” he said waving the paper hot off the press, “you spelled ‘height’ without an ‘€’”... “I followed your copy,” said the brazen printer. . . . What's more, he had. . . . “Well,” said Mr. Holiiday, making the best of a sweaty situation, “if I spelled it like that, it’s right.” . . . And to this day the News crowd spells “height” Mr. IHolliday’s way. Indeed, from the looks of things the News is going to use Mr. Holliday's spelling as long as rosemary stands for remembrance.

By Raymond Clapper

Evansville happens to be a Democratic town and is likely to stay so, even though the state is on the dope sheets to go Republican next fall. Evansville's mayor, William Dress, may be the Democratic candidate for Governor. The McNutt organization has offered it, and thus persuaded the mayor to head up the McNutt Presidential campaign work in this congressional district. ; ? But Evansville is of more interest economically than politically. It is this kind of community, largely native-born, small enough to be a neighborhood which is the balance-wheel, the backbone or whatever you want to call it, of American life, : Ten years ago, at the peak of the boom, there were 21,256 water meters in Evansville. Ten years later there were 24,305—an increase of almost 15 per cent during the depression. = = =

Utility Gains Cited

Gas meters increased from 16,153 to 23,548, electric meters increased from 27,058 to 40,315. These increases of some 40 per cent mean that for several thousand families the standard of living went up during the depression—population growth does not account for any considerable portion of the increase. Telephones in use have grown in the 10 years from 18,973 to 22,700. Bank deposits in October, 1929, were $53,800,000; 10 years later they were $58,900,000. There’s a striking personal-enterprise story behind these figures. Three independent enterprises, built up during the depression by three different go-getting young businessmen, competing to a large extent, have given this town life and steady employment and reasonable prosperity at a time-when many large cities were wracked with depression problems. You haven't heard anything about Evansville since the flood a couple of years ago. The reason is that Evansville has been hard at work attending to business.

By Eleanor Roosevelt|

the mouth. It was that sense of humr which kept sLincoln going, because under the gaunt and rough exterior there was such a very soft heart. T A lovely concert this morning in Mrs. Townsend’s series, at which Mr. Melchior and Madame Lotte Lehmann sang. It was almost the biggest audience I’ have ever seen at these concerts and the artists well deserved the prolongd applause. So I have a letter written me on an airplane by a lady who is on her way back -to California. She found in Washington, D. C.: “Dirty newspapers and crumpled bags blowing along the streets and lodged in corners less than two blocks from the Supreme Court building.” She feels we should “provide containers of interesting design and that organizations, citizens, housewives and school children will then become sidewalk conscious and will co-operate in keeping their city beautiful.” “I cringe” says she, “when I think how this must impress representatives from other beautiful cities of the world where good civic housekeeping is required.” - ws I wish we might be the cleanest, most orderly city in the world. On the whole, I thought Washington did fairly well. It certainly compares well with London, or Paris or Rome. Perhaps cities in Germany and Holland are a little more “shiny,” but that is because generations have been taught a. sense of responsibility for their public places.’ I imagine that this nation will have to set itself to the task of

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night at a “two-bit” Lincoln Day dinner.

While their Democratic opponents dined at $25 a head, Young Republicans had a lot of fun last Enjoying their cracker and milk diet, left to right, were Clyde Lee, 238 E. Warman Ave.; Robert King, 3033 Jackson St., and Conner D. Ross, Whiteland.

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Ralph Watson (left) and Bedford's Mayor, Henry S. Murray, eat steak at the Jackson Day Democratic campaign fund raising dinner in the Claypool Hotel's Riley Room, (Stories, Page Two.)

CITY'S SAFETY RECORD ISPUT UP TO COURTS

Bench ‘Weak Point,” Accident Prevention Council’s New President Says.

The Indianapolis Accident Prevention Council, composed of representatives of the city’s leading industries, today placed responsibility for this year’s safety record practically on the shoulders of the courts.

‘Meeting for the second time since reorganization, the Council last night described the courts as “the weak point in enforcement.”

E. C. Forsythe of the American Mutual Insurance Co. elected council president last night, spoke for the council.

‘Answer in Courts’

“I may have to ‘Speak of {things that should be spoken of in" whispers,” Mr. Forsythe said, “but through talks with policemen I have come to believe that the Police Department is doing its duty and that it is the courts where the answer to traffic enforcement lies.” The objectives of the council as outlined by Mr. Forsythe are the promotion of traffic education programs, assistance to school safety patrols and other existing safety organizations, reconsideration of the proposal for autos to use the left side of safety islands now reserved for streetcars and busses, and the elimination of all possible means of “fixing” traffic charges.

Also among the objectives are the development of definite heavy and serious penalties for speeders, careless, drunken and hit-and-run drivers; a study of the possible development of the left-turn-only lane on all streets where the system is feasible from an engineering standpoint and the promotion of sanding dangerous intersections and approaches to preferential streets and intersections controlled by lights,

General Program Outlined

A general safety program includes the distribution of white canes for the blind; home radio safety education through first aid training; employee family meetings, and the inspection of private homes; for signs of anti-safety conditions, also. ; Other new officers are H. E. Fehrenbash, International Harvester, vice president of industrial safety; J. J. Steuerwald, Indianapolis Power and Light Co., vice president of traffic safety; H. W. Reese, Indianapolis Public Schools, vice president of home safety; Roy Fickenworth, C. & G. Foundry and Pattern Works, secretary; W. A. Kassenberg, George Myer Co., treasurer. Directors elected were L. W. Yancy, Indiana Glove Co.; E. P. Messenger, Eli Lilly Co.; John Mason, Allison Engineering; H. E. Kalavan, Kibler Trucking Co.; and Ross Patrick, U. S. Rubber Co.

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FULLER BRUSH FILES SUIT ON GROSS TAX

The Fuller Brush Co. Hartford, Conn., today filed a suit. in Superior Court 3, seeking to recover from the State a total of $2770.20 paid by the company in gross income taxes. The brush firm contends that it paid these taxes on income received from interstate commerce which is not subject to state taxation under the Federal Constituion. The taxes were paid between Feb. 1, 1935 and Dec. 1, 1935, according to the suit.

SALVATION ARMY AID IS ASSIGNED TO N.Y.

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Adj. Floyd Shearer of the Salvation Army will leave tonight for New York to take a new assignment. Adj. Shearer has been financial secretary of the Army in Indiana for the past three years. He grew up in Indianapolis; attended Northwestern University, enlisted in the Salvation Army 15 years ago and has been assigned to posts in Indiana and Illinois. He now goes to the

Skaters Glide To New Mark

CITY RECREATION Director H. Walden (Wally) Middlesworth said today that an abundance of snow and low temperatures had caused a new record to be set in the use of municipal winter recreation facilities. Never had he seen so many skaters on Lake Sullivan, he said, nor so many people with sleds toiling up the hills of the River- * side Golf Course and other sledding sites. “The crowds were so big Saturday and Sunday, we never even tried to count. We tried to estimate for a while, but we gave that up too.”

GASOLINE BIDS UNDER SCRUTINY

Joint Purchasing Committee To Meet; Welch Criticizes One Disqualification.

The City’s joint purchasing committee will convene this week to recommend the awarding of a contract for 40,125 gallons of regular grade gasoline for the Works, Park, Health and Safety boards. 2

The meeting was necessitated by the refusal of the Works Board yesterday to accept a recommendation

dianapolis, be given the contract upon the withdrawal of the Indian Refining Co., the low bidder. Mr. Losche recommended the Associated Service Co. bid of 11.64 cents a gallon after disqualifying the bid of the Guarantee Oil Co.

antee had not bid on specifications. The disqualifying was criticized by Leo F. Welch, Works Board Vice President, who asserted Mr. Losche exceeded his authority in ruling out the concern without the Board’s consent. Mr. Welch demanded that the bids on regular gasoline be resubmitted to the joint committee for a recommendation on the low bidder, with the Guarantee Oil Co. considered as a bidder. Mr. Losche explained that he had excluded the Guarantee concern because its bid was based on the Chicago. Journal of Commerce gasoline quotations, instead of consumer tank wagon prices as were the 17 other bids received. :

RULING DELAYED ON "GRIFFIN QUASH PLEA

“Special Judge Omar O’Harrow today in Criminal Court postponed his ruling on a motion to quash indictments charging John Barton Griffin,

relief claims and with obtaining money under false pretense. The hearing on the motion was held today. The delay in Judge O’Harrow’s decision was granted to permit attorneys to file briefs. Griffin is one of five indicted in the recent Center Township relief probe. He is the son-in-law of Thomas M. Quinn, former Center Township Trustee, another of the five indicted.

to be held March 4 in Criminal Court when a jury will'hear evidence in the case of Dan R. Anderson, who has pleaded not guilty fo charges of filing false claims and Ise pretense.

Claim

Merchants of Liberty, Ind, had been missing merchandise from their stores for several months and each burglary became a deeper mystery because no windows nor locks ever were jimmied. : They called a council of war on thievery in general, and summoned all the town marshals and night watchmen to pool the best detecYe mings | of the town.

Salvation Army headquarters in York Shik ot ued

that the Associated Service Co., In-

of 11.58 cents on grounds that Guar-.

milk route operator, with filing false |-

First trial in the relief cases is.

SALLEE TO ASK J0BS SHAKEUP IN PARK STAFF

Centralization of Authority Also to Be Urged in Annual Report.

Reorganization of Park Department personnel and centralization

lof authority will be recommended

in the annual report of the department’s operations now in preparation by A. C. Sallee, City park superintendent. The report. will be submitted Feb. 1 to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. It is also expected to contain recommendations for the selection of summer playground personnel.

Transfers Contemplated

Mr. Sallee early last month announced he. was contemplating a shift in personnel in a reorganization ‘plan which he was to submit to the Park Board. At that time, he threatened to resign unless allowed to supervise departmental operations without outside interference. : Sen The personnel shift, it was understood, will not, result in dismissals. It is designed chiefly to transfer employees from jobs which they are not performing satisfactorily to jobs for which they have shown qualifications. ; : The plan will also provide for the centralization of authority in the superintendent, who ‘would be

and the Mayor. Age Limit Is Subject

Lack of a centralized authority in the Park Department formed the background of friction between the superintendent and Board which came to a head when Mr. Sallee threatened to resign. He charged that subordinates in the department had gone over his head and that Board members had given orders to employees without his knowledge. ° Mr. Sallee has said that in some changes of personnel he was not informed until gfter the changes had been made. : The superintendent is expected to advise the Mayor that no one under 21 years of age be appointed to supervisory posts en summer playgrounds. In past, it has not been unusual to appoint play instructors 19 years old and under. The report also is expected to point out that with a $10 monthly increase in salaries for next summer officials can. afford to be more selective .in choosing summer personnel. It had been the Park Board's contention that the $50 monthly salaries paid last summer discouraged applicants and the Board had to make selections from a limited field. :

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IS TOPIC FOR TALK

which there is no evil . . . the law of the Spirit in which there is no matter,” was described at Cadle Tabernacle last night by Miss Violet Ker Seymer, C. S. B., of Boston, Mass. : Miss Seymer spoke under the auspices of the Third Church of Christ Scientist. She was introduced by Lewis F. Malcolm. In further describing. the doctrines of her church as a ‘“deepdrawn breath fresh from God,” Miss Seymer re-iterated a “law of the South, in which there is no sin, the law of perfect Mind, in which there is no mental imperfection, the law of divine Love in which there is no

hate.”

Watch Night Watchman; Burglaries Solved

every night, just to see what would e

happen. : : Then, said State Police Captain Walter Eckert, they spied Forest Leonard, 43, who had been night watchman for eight years, carrying out a large armful of groceries. Detective Fred Fosler and Sergt. Lee Moore, of the State Police, said Leonard confessed all the thefts and implicated Luther Green and Charles Smith. were.

responsible directly to the Board

“The law of infinite good, in

Dienhart at ~ Miami Beach

LAST FRIDAY NIGHT, I. J. (Nish) Dienhart, Municipal Airport superintendent, called up his boss, Louis C. Brandt, Works Board president, and coughed. For once, it appeared, that the jovial superintendent was not his jovial self. “I feel terrible,” he whispered hoarsely. “I think it would do me some good, to get

some sunshine, say in Miami Beach, Florida.” “But how about the appointment we have to inspect the airport hangar a week from Monday?” asked Mr. Brandt. Mr. Dienhart coughed. ¢ “All, right,” said Mr. Brandt. “You go to Florida and stay as long as you like, but be back here Jan. 15.” That's. why Nish Dienhart was sunning himself on Miami Beach today. 2

‘KIDNAP PLOT HEARING JAN. 30

Two to Face Court in Alleged Plan to Abduct Court Witnesses.

Two men held by police in a fantastic scheme to “kidnap” a 19-year-old girl and her mother to prevent them from testifying ina. civil suit will be given a hearing in Municipal Court 4 Jan. 30. . The defendants, Dayne Leon Hail, 19, of 421 S. Alabama St. and Charles Whitney, 47, of 825 Broadway, are charged with conspiracy to commit a fraud. Whitney denied the charges.

Meeting is Described

According to an alleged statement; made to detectives, Hail said he met Whitney, a City Electrical Department employee, in a beer tavern and mentioned he was going to see Miss Edna Wright, 19, daughter of Mrs. Rose Wright, 46, of 242 N., Davidson St. A few days later, they met again and Whitney, according to the statement, said he, too, knew Miss Wright, and had been sued by her mother in Municipal Court for a board bill. Hail said Whitney offered him $125, paying $75 down, to abduct Miss Wright and her mother and take them out of the City until after the date set for the trial of the board bill suit.

Released Under Bond

Hail said he failed to carry out his part in the alleged scheme. He was arrested Saturday after Mrs. Wright and her daughter, police said, reported that Hail had told them about the alleged plot. Whitney was released under $500 bond. raise his $1000 bond.

AIRS NAVY PLAN FOR NEW BASES IN GUAM

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. P.)— Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of

naval operations, told the House

Naval Affairs Committee today that the Navy proposed to spend $4,000,000 in the next fiscal year improving facilities at Guam. The statement immediately raised the Guam controversy which flared in Congress last session. Congress then removed Guam from a group of naval bases authorized at a cost of . $65,000,000. Guam opponents charged fortification of the Pacific island, 1500 miles from Japan, would constitute an unfriendly act. Admiral Stark also told the Committee the Navy is contemplating building battleships as large as 52,000-tons, larger than any other dreadnaughts now afloat or known to be contemplated by foreign pow-

Is. He said that the proposed 52,000ton fighting ships :probably would be built to dut-gun even the giant 45,000-ton dreadnaughts now being built for the U. S. fleet."

HUNT FOR BOAT FAILS CHICAGO, Jan. 9 -(U. P.).—Coast Guard cutters searched without success in lower Lake Michigan last night for a boat which was

e reported to have. sent up distress

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Hail has been unable to]

REGISTRATION CHECKED FOR MAY PRINARY

County Prepares for Rush To Qualify for Vote 6 Weeks Hence.

County registration clerks are hard at work these days making a final check iof voters’ registration files preparatory to an anticipated registration rush six weeks hence. The final check consists of com. . paring the office master files cone taining well over 100,000 names of eligible voters with the precinct “binders,” which must contain your name before you-can vote at the primary next May.

Files Reconstructed

In about six weeks the registration office at the Court House and registration sub-stations to be established throughout the city must be ready to receive approximately 14,600 new. registrations and make more than 25,000 transfers or about 40,000 file transactions in all. This must be accomplished before May 17. Since the last election in 1938 the files at the Court House have been completely broken down and reconstructed. The purpose of this is ta extract file cards of those persons who failed to vote in two consecus tive elections rendering them ine eligible to vote in a subsequent elec tion without ‘re-registration.

Office Now Open

Clerks cancelled the names of 20,468 registered voters after the last election. A total of 24,128 no« tices of cancellation were sent ou but a total of 3660 reinstated theme selves in the 30-day re-registration period. In addition, the names of 3000 persons who have died since the last election have been removed from the files. The Court House office, in charge of William Flanary, registration supervisor, is open. between elections for new- registrations, but because of past experience Mr, Flanary predicts that the ineligible voters will wait until the last moment to re-register or make proper transfers for change of residence,

ADVANCED IN ARMY FT. KNOX, Ky, Jan. 9.—Corp, Donald D. Frazer, who enlisted in the U. S. Army, has been assigned to Battery “A,” 19th Field Artillery, Corp. Frazer was a truck driver for one year and was promoted to corporal Dec. 1. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Frazer, R. R. 4, Nashville, Ind. : Fi

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE =

1--Where in the Bible is the Golden Rule? 2-—Who participated in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln? : : 3-—Name the large German liner that was recently scuttled about 400 miles off the Atlantic coast of the U. 8. & 4-—When should salad be served at

a formal dinner? 5--Is “Treasure Island,” by Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction? 6-—Name the capital of Tahiti. 7-—Name the commander of the U. S. cruiser Tuscaloosa. 8—-Who was runner-up to Sam Snead in the Miami Open golf tournament? > 2 = =n Answers

1-—-Matthew 7:12. 2.—Stephen A. Douglas. 3—Columbus. 4—As a separate course, before thi dessert. 4 5—Yes. 6—Papeete. 7—Capt. H. A. Badt. 8—Harold (Jug) McSpaden,

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