Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1940 — Page 15

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# : ‘ ABOARD S. 8. SIXAOLA, “bound for Panama, Jan. +. 12—We opened our Christmas packages last night— oF for it was Christmas Eve. ~~: No doubt that sounds silly to you, since you Know k ‘very well Christmas is-long ‘past. But you'll just have i to'accept it as a fact. You knew.that newspapering is a mystic business, and’ that I am Honest Ernest. So when I say last night: was. Christmas'Eve, then it was Christmas Eve. At any rate,. we were at sea on Christmas Eve, and even if my description ‘is a bit late, I thought you might like to know what Christmas Eve on a ship is - like: : Well, for our part, we had saved ‘all the packages that came to us through the mails before we left New Orleans. We decided to open them about 5 p. m. The day was warm, and our “| stateroom windows were wide open. It was just beginning to | get dusk. It seemed about as much like Christmas as a Fat Stock Show does. We had ‘four packages apiece. That Girl sat on her bunk, and I sat on mine, We cut wrappings open with a knife. As we undid each package, we ’ would go “Oh, look at this!” It was all over in five minutes. © Our families and our frighds have learned not to clutter us with gadgets, for we simply can’t carry . around'any excess. So all our presents were practical. That Girl.got pajamas, slippers, dressing robe, toilet kit. I got a shirt, a muffler, pajamas, two ties and - four pais of white socks.

» A Gay Dinner Party We. had neglected the little item of letting some of our family know where we would be, so there are two or three packages that won't catch up with us till March or April. But it has been that way for

years, and we're accustomed. to it. After admiring our presents we went down to

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HEREWITH | ANOTHER disorganized list of items, all of literary; origin this time. Item 1: William Lyon Phelps’ monumental “Autobiography With Letters,” ote of the good books of 1939, mentions the John Herron Art Institute—by Roe inference, anyway. ‘John Sargent’s portrait of Riley in the gallery at Indianapolis is a work of genius,” says Mr. Phelps. “It has that diablerie characteristic .of his expression when swearing volubly; for I never heard him swear when he was not also laughing. He looks in the portrait exactly as he must have looked when he described his vain attempt to meet me at the railway station in. Indianapolis. He was as helpless as a baby in everything to do with trains or topography. He wrote me that he had gone to the station one hour ahead of time in order to be sure of seeing me, and after all, he failed. He added, ‘I could have wept, had not thé Almighty given nie the blessed gift of cussin’.’” Item 2: Booth Tarkington's. “Some Old Portraits,” a magnificent book about art and 22 painters and sitters of the great periods of English and early American| portraiture. recalls that, except for a quirk of . fate, Mr. Tarkington might have been a painter—at . any rate, an illustrator. Very early in his career, he was | torn between two inclinations toward artistic expression. He wanted to draw and he wanted to write, a quandary not unlike that of William Makepeace Thackeray.

So, He Did Both

Mr. Tarkington got out of his dilemma by doing both and, what’s more, along the lines of least resistance. Sure, he illustrated his own writings. In 1896, for instance, he designed not only the cover for “A November Leaf,” an annual published by the Flower

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Mission of Indianapolis, but he also made the pictures -

for “Dance Music,” his own story in the same number. That same year, too, he made three illustrations for a poem, “A Letter of Regrets” which appeared in “John-a-Dreams,” an arty magazine of the period.

. Boss Giz#l.”

By Ernie Pyle

dinner. The ship really put it on big. It was very| much like the captain's dinner on a big-liner the| night before reaching home port. The dining saloon was lavishly decorated with flowers and the flags of all the countries - this line touches. “Merry Christmas” was written in tinsel over the doorway. . On each table were stacked dunce caps, tin horns, rattiers, and other fiendish material more appropriate to New Year's. + At each plate was a Manhattan cocktail—with the company’s compliments.

The dinner was in full swing when we went down. The noise was head-splitting. They offered baked ham or roast duck for dinner. But the noise was so terrific I don’t remember whether I ate duck or guinea pig. All afternoon we heard women on deck discussing whether ‘they should dress formally for dinner or not. The consensus seemed to be that, the wemen should dress but it would be optional with the men. Within our own family circle, we decided nuts to it. It wasn't exactly a difficult decision, since we don’t carry diriner clothes. So—after all the serious wondering of the afternoon, it was amusing to see, at dinner, only one man in dinner clothes and only two or three women in evening dress.

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Play Games on Deck

* After dinner everybody went on deck and the purser directed the “horse-race game.” It wasn’t much fun. Then some passengers went to the lounge, where there was a piano and a Christmas tree vith colored lights, and they sang Christmas carols. The rest of us went to the smoking room and sat around tables, chatting. The carols didn't last long. Pretty soon the carolsingers came swinging through thé smoking room, in| a sort of college snake dance, each person with his hands on the shoulders of the person ahead. They were trying to whoop it up, and yelled for everybody to join them. Nobody did. After a while people gradually went to their cabins. 'By 11 o'clock hardly anybody was up. Christmas Eve was over.

By Anton Scherrer

was signed to the poem. Cecil Woodford was Booth Tarkington. Honest. There is an even earlier example of Mr. Tarkington’s art. In 1886 when he was 17 years old, he designed the cover for James Whitcomb Riley’s “The Boss Girl.” The copies in the State Library depict an imp descending head. first from ‘the clouds and touching off a cannon in the shape of an ink bottle. The cover isn’t signed, but you can take my word for it, (The Russos, husband and wife, who are now cataloging Mr. Riley’s works told me that, once upon a time, a New York Auction offered an 1885 edition of “The There isn’t anything like that around here unless, perchance, your spring housecleaning should uncover one. In that case, for pity sake, get in ‘touch with the Russos.) #2 8 a | |

‘The Collectors’ Whatnot’

Mr. Tarkington’s last published illustration I knaw anything about was a line drawing he turned out in 1923 for “The Collectors’ Whatnot,” a whimsical satire by Hugh McNair Kahler and Kenneth a Roberts. They had the time of their lives poking fun at the breed of people who, back in the dizzy Coolidge days, went in for early Americana in the shape of furniture, glass, crockery and goodness knows what else. : Item 3: The December number of the Indiana Magazine of History has a mighty entertaining piece about “The Brown -County Art Colony” written by Josephine A. Graf (Shorty’s sister). “Will Vawter and Marcus Dickey,” says Miss Graf, “arrived in Brown County about 1910. Mr. Dickey was secretary to James Whitcomb Riley and Mr. Vawter was undertaking to illustrate a Riley book that the former had edited. They found two things well adapted to their project—one the rustic atmosphere, the other the simple, wholesome people with peculiarities and traits that exemplified Riley’s characters.” To which I might add a little footnote of my own. Once upon a time, too, Mr. Dickey: had in mind |a history (or something) of “Little Orphant Annie” and came to Alfred Grindle to get -him to illustrate it. Examining Mr. Grindles’ portfolio he pounced upon a sketch of Salt Creek Valley and forthwith christened It all came

REFUNDING DUE

Harvey B. Hartsock, New President, to Preside: at Special Meeting.

The reorganized School Board, with Harvey B. Hartsock, attorney,

meeting Tuesday noon to vote on the refunding of two million idol~ lars in bonds.

The refund of the bonds, which mature between now and July 1, is proposed during March, April and May, according to A, B. Good, school business manager. Mr. Hartsock, who is beginning his second. year on: the board, was elected last night to succeed Earl Buchanan. John F. White was re-| elected vice president. “The Board took under advisement a second petition of South Side residents to convert old School 20. at 1125 Spruce St. into ‘a branch library and community center,

Three Resignations Accepted

Three resignations | were accepted. They were from Grace Young Ransom and Huldah Hansen, teachers, and Charles Hardy, Tech High. School assistant receiving clerk.

Elizabeth Hart Holtsclaw was named dressmaking instructor at Tech, Robert Rowland was named assistant receiving clerk at Tech and Jane Holl was appointed clerk and stenographer, Mary J. Dwyer, School 55, was granted a leave of absence. Exten-sions-of leaves were granted Pauline Chambers, Alice T. Kraft, Marian Miller and Floy Hurt.

Building Contract Set

Returning from ledves are Frederick Polley, Katherine Book, Jeanne Goss, Lois Hagedorn, Doris Holmes, Wanda Johnson, Willa P. Jones, Edna Kiewitt, Evelyn Koopman, Lucille Porter, Margaret E. Smith and Anne Wischmeyer. - Contracts .were awarded on low bids for the construction of a new wing to the Milo H. Stuart Memorial - Building at Tech. Contracts were awarded to the Service Construction Co. general construction, $58, 229; Roland M. Cotton Co, heating and ventilating, $8983: Fred G. Janitz, plumbing, sewer and water supply, $1880; H. M. Stradling Electric Co., electric work, $795. All are Indianapolis firms.

9 Pass Library Exam

Luther L. Dickerson, city e|brarian, reported nine students had passed examinations for junior assistant and will be placed on ‘the eligible list. They are Pauline French, Helen L. Gay, Geraldine. Johnson, Anna Jane Morgan, Bonnie Bess Myers, Margaret Anne Paul, Jeanne Rettwig, Christie Rudviph and Mary Isabelle Steele. The law firm of Baker, Daniels, Wallace & Siegal was retained as legal counsel for the board at an annual retainer of $2250. :

INTERNAL REVENUE

SCHOOL BONDS

as president, will hold a special|

li-|ghurches of America cannot afford

URGED TO LOOK

of Under-Privileged on Farm Land.

provide adequate religious privilegss| for share cropper groups, Dr. Mark

the Home Missions Council at the

erin Hotel. Among others who made reports were Dr. Homer McMillan, Atlanta;

ternational Bureau of ‘Architecture. Meeting jointly with the Council is the Council of Women for Home Missions. Dr. Dawber said that denomiriational competition is not necessary in the rural areas and hinted at the advisability of community churches. “Denominational competition is more possible of solution in the vast rural missionary field than in the city,” he said. “Poverty Held a Challenge “The big problem in rural life is being created by the presence of a new under-privileged group due to removal off the land of a multitude of tenants and farm laborers, whose places have been taken by the tractor and the harvester,” Dr. Dawber said. | - “Poverty is a challenge which the

to ignore. It offers the churches the same kind of effective pioneering which the churches have done in the field of Negro education, hospitalization and child welfare. “The responsibility ‘ for finding a satisfactory answer to this question belongs to the churches at least as much as it belongs to the Government and until it is solved many of the other. splendid services of the church will remain ineffective. Scores Self-Seeking “The rural Negro preacher still is the outstanding influence among his people and no plan for the improvement of the Negro race can get far

T0 RURAL AREA.

Dr.- Dawber Talks on Plight :

No one church ‘denomination can!

A. Dawber, executive secretary, told]

opening meeting today in the Sev-|

Ga., Council president, and the Rev.|: '|E. M. Conover, director of the In-|.

generated, proclaiming a Gospel that ‘condemns sin and proclaims the name of Jesus Christ as the only name by which men may be saved. Honde‘ missions must. be concerned to get this vital note sounded again in the ministry of the church. Without this what we do is mere running of errands.

cerned with the re-establishment of the

home « with the family altar and those means of grace without which

Members of a panel on rural tife, conducted by ‘the Missionary Educaiion Movement, are (left to right) Ross J. Griffeth, Butler University College of Religion; Howard Kester, secretary of the Fellowship of Southern Churchman; Dr. Mark A. Dawber, executive secretary of the Home Mission Council; Miss Edith E. Lowry, executive secretary. of ‘the. Council of Women for Home Missions; Mrs. E. Shotwell, superintendent of migran work in the Middle’ West, oo : i

Times Photos. Representative leaders attending the Home Missions Council meeting ‘here are (left to right) Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, New Yerk, president of the Baptist Women’s Home Missionary Society; E. A. Odell, New York, West Indies secretary of the Presbyterian National Board of National Missions, and Miss Rose Wright, Indianapolis, young people’s work director of the United Christian. Missionary

Dead 21 Years—

‘ 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U. P.). —More than 21 years after he gave his own gas mask—and with ‘it his life—to a wounded ‘Marine in Belleau Wood, Sergt. Fred W. Stockham has beer awarded the Army’s Medal ‘of Honor. - Bul now no members of | his

“Home missions must be con-

Christian - home “with ~ the re-establishment “of the Christian

Awarded M. edal :

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STATE LIQUOR STORE SYSTEM

Judge Opens Major Drive for G. 0. P. Nomination, ‘At New Castle.

Times Special : Y NEW CASTLE, Ind. Jan. 12. — Establishment of state-owned liquor

stores to increase state revenues

and reduce the tax burden on busie ness was advocated by Judge James A. Emmert, of Shelbyville, in an address here last hight. Judge Emmert, who is a candie

date for the G. O. P. nomination for Governor, outlined his liquor stores plan in his first major came paign speech. He also attacked the Democratis Two Per Cent Club and described the . State Highway Commission's purchase of rock gsphalt for roads as the “black-top scandal.”

Could Raise $3,000,000

. “Approximately $3,000,000 in reve enues can ke brought into the State's general fund and applied fo the reduction of gross incoms taxes if the liquor stores system is adopted,” he said. “Control of the State government has been invested.in the Indiana gang. It was ruthless, dictatorial and ungrateful to the real Demoe crats of Indiana. “The Two Per Cent Club is a double-barreled weapon of extore tion. The right barrel goes after the office-holders but the left bare rel is used to collect the kick-back payoff from just about all cone tractors with the state,” Judge Eme mert said. “Extensive use of Kentucky rock asphalt by the present State Highe way Commission is, next to the liquor scandal, the biggest, scandal we have had in Indiana in years." :

Lists Other Paints

He said the Stale of Kentucky, where the material is mined, bought less than 15,000 tons of it ire 1933 while Indiana bought more than 100,000 tons. Other points in Judge Emmert's platform are: 1. Revision of election laws to provide for honest registration and prevent wholesale buying of votes. 2. Fixing of July 1 as the deade line for purchase of ~auto license plates. 3. Reduction of government costs and payrolls by at least 25 per cent, 4..No socialized medicine in Ine diana. 5. A law to require perpetual ine ventory of all public property by State Accounts, Board once a year,

Opposes Centralization

6. Repeal of dictatorship provie sions. of Reorganization Act passed during administration of Paul V. McNutt. 7. Retention of township, county and city government against further centralization of government. “As Governor,” he said, “I will not try to get rich, neither will I permit any person. friend or foe,

it “the valley of enchanted long ago.’ ”

seme 1 SHOWS. DROP HERE By Raymond Clapper

our churches are mere husks, without life and without hope. Unless we can, within the next -decade restore’ to the life of the American church something of this. inner vitality, adequate to fashion a significant faith and Christian spirit into the new order of our social life, then civilization at + home and

if he is not included in its formation.” a Dr. McMillan said that self-seek-ing and denominational division, in | contrast to comradeship and understanding, are the primal causes of unemployment and hunger in the nation. “Deep down at the bottom of all

to -enrich himself at the £3perise of the taxpayers.”

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family, not even any distant kin, can be located. The medal has been placed in the Smithsonian Institution. The Army, which is still-comb-ing World War records so that no - instance of unusual heroism shall go unmarked, said the sereant, working with titantic energy

Don’t let it fool you that the name or Ceci] Woodford

Collections for December and for the six-month period ending Dec. 31, 1939, were lower than corre-

Washington

SPRINGFIELD, O, Jan. 12—The City of Springfield closed its year’s relief activities without a deficit. These expenses are about $5000 a month. For this month the city commissioners have allowed $5500. In the dingy, cast-off building on North Fountain Ave. which is used as joint city - #ind county relief headquarters, a dozen young and middle-aged men stood indifferently around, bundled in ragged work-clothing against the zero weather. At the bright, - airy, modern office— headquarters of the state em- * ployment center—three or four persons were at the counter. This office, in ‘the local Chamber of Commerce building on High St., is operated joinily by the state & 8 - and Federal Employment Service | and: the -Stater Unemployment Compensation Service, There were’ the two places

where the unemployed might be expected to. be ~

clamoring for food or work. It was a cold but sunny forenoon. Neither place ,was doing any business. ‘ We know, from the active application file of the ‘state employment service, that about 5300 persons here want work. The local Chamber of Commerce figures give current employment in Springfield at about 14,000. The proportion of unemployed therefore appears to be i high.

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500 Relief Cues

City relief headquarters carries Between 450 and 500 cases. The first week in January 80 new appli cations ‘came in. | Food and fuel are provided, and, in emergencies, rent. The average allowance amounts to about $10 a month per family. Supposedly only the temporary cases are handled by the city. The county

AV1Y Day WASHINGTON, Thursday.—Last evening we went to a concert given by the National Symphony Orchestra. In the first part of the program, one of Strauss’ compositions, which I had never heard before, was played. I was sorry not to hear the Brahms. Symphony in F. Major, for my guests who stayed on after I had to leave said it was ' beautifully rendered. I had to go to: the broadcasting station where Mrs: Ellen Woodward and Miss Jane Hooey and ‘I conversed together over the "air at 10:15 p. m. on some of the changes in the Social - Security Act. I am becoming increasingly conscious of the importance of this act in the lives of a great many people. There will be, of course, more changes, for anything which touches so many people cannot remain static, Circumstances under which we live are constantly changing and therefore an act of this kind must change to meet new needs and new conditions. A friend, who came to. see me the other day, ‘is very insistent, that, sad as the war is, we in the United States ate great travelers and will still be. Ordinarily most of our traveling has been in Europe, ‘or in places which at present are not healthy for al Arai Bag om: 4 X Fa" k NS “of : 2 5 F

§ Sarried out in B many of the e sole

is supposed to take all permanent cases—that is of persons unable to work, the unemployables. WPA is carrying a constantly shrinking share of the load. WPA now carries about 1500 cases—half of the number carried a year ago. Local employment is up almost that amount.

At the State Employment Center, 80 claims for unemployment insurance were filed in the first week of January, the reflection probably of some post-holi-day dismissals. During the past year about 2500 persons drawing unemployment compensation’ did not exhaust their benefits. The benefits run for 16 weeks and those persons must have found new employment before they had drawn their 16 weekly payments.

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Better Off Than Dayton

A certain amount of haggling between ity and county goes on continuously,

WPA has been furnishing $10,000 a month for a|

sewing project and a -housekeping aid project, the two employing more than 200 women from the relief rolls. Springfield's rival neighbor, Dayton, is enjoying payrolls exceeded only in the 1929 and 1937 boom years, but it has 13,500 on relief and is scratching for funds. WPA has just laid off 500 men because Dayton would not continue its 25 per cent share of the cost. Jobbers are advancing food on credit for city relief. _ Springfield has had no such boom as Dayton, but it isn’t having the relief headaches either. “Some of our people are having a hard time,” one clergyman told me. “The most tragic case I know of was a member of my congregation who came to me and said: ‘I have to get on relief but the only way 1 can do it is to say I am a Democrat. You know I'm not a Democrat but it won’t be lying when I have to tell the relief people that I am a Democrat.’ ”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

sponding periods in 1938, Will H. Smith, Indiana Collector of Internal

Revenue, said today. December collections. were down $2,011,468 from the same month last year while six months collections dropped $304,731, he said. A comparison of the more important items for the two six-month periods shows: Distilled spirits, auto accessories and parts, telephone and telegraph, estate, social security, beer, electrical energy and gasoline taxes increased. Corporation and individual income taxes were down, the report shows.

SUSPECT DEMANDS CHARGE BE CHANGED

BRAZIL, Ind. Jan. 12 (U.P.).— Elvis Neeley; 26, of Indianapolis was held here today while county authorities considered his demand that a]

charge of auto banditry filed against him be reduced to second degree burglary. He refused to plead when brought into Circuit Court yesterday and made his demand that the charge be changed. The auto banditry charges carries a sentence of 10 years while the burglary charge carries a sentence of from three to five years. Neeley was wounded last month when police opened fire at four men believed flecing from a store allegedly were attempting to rob. Three suspected accomplices face the burglarly charges; -

pleasure jaunts because of war activities. Therefore, for the first time, we are probably going to make it a point not only to see our own United States, but to see many other places in North and South America. The celebrations which are to begin this spring

_in Arizona and New Mexico should be of special

interest to those who are interested in ihe first settle-

- ments’ in this country. We can also see many of our

most interesting Indian tribés.. In many ways, we are trying to help these tribes recapture some of their old arts and skills and to adapt them to-modern

e. Since jobs are of necessity a matter of concern to our young college boys and girls, I was very much interested to receive from a’ girl who is studying journalism at Hunter College, New York City, the following information: “The bureau of occupations at my college has formulated a plan whereby business and professional women in New York City, with a reasonable expenditure of time on their part, can help graduating students in choosing a career. Six metropolitan organizations with a total membership of over 2000 business and professional business women are co-operating on a program of career conferences which aim to acquaint graduating seniors with employment possibilities in New York City and to bring them in personal contact with workers in various fields,” This is a splendid idea and I hope it will be

ALLEGED SLAYER OF GIRL, 11, RULED SANE

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 12 (U.P.).—Judge Edgar A Rice late yesterday ruled -that Thomas A. Boys, 28, of Attica, is sane and competent and must face trial Jan. 22 on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the .attack-slay-ing of 11-year-old Elizabeth De!. Bruicker last July at Attica. Boys allegedly confessed the slaying to State Police when he was picked up for questioning ' shortly after the girl's battered body was discovered near a golf coyrse where Boys was employed. He later repudiafed the confession.

APPOINTED AT DEPAUW

James Hudson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray N. Hudson, 410 N. Merid-

the publicity committee of the junior prom at DePauw University, Greencastle. He will be assisted by Miss Eleanor Clay, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Albert J. Clay, 1501 Maple

Road

fan. St., has been appointed to head |pressi

the causes of human need, human suffering and human depravity is the old, old problem of sin,” he declared. “People are hungry and starving,” Dr. McMillan said, “not because of any failure of the earth's fertility, but because of human greed and selfishness. If men choose to build their lives on self-seeking and division rather than comradeship and understanding, then catastrophe is inevitable. If we are to lessen suffering, if ‘we are to save America and civilization, which have in them much that is precious, we must learn to build upon foundations that are enduring. We must get back to things fundamental, and they are the things of the spirit. “The church is the institution by which and through which this can be achieved. The task of home missions .is that of making the church available to the people who need it. But it must be a church, vital, re-

By LEE G. MILLER - Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The cables from Helsinki must make interesting reading nowadays for Charles A. Lindbergh. Also the dispatches about Allied plans to} increase by many thousands their airplane orders in the - United |

States. Last year Soviet Premier Molotoff

was calling Col. Lindbergh “a paid]

calling him an “agent of sinister men”—because he was reported to have voiced doubts about the value Russia’s air force. oe Lloyd George insisted at that time that the Soviet air force was “the finest in the world.” 1f it is, the Russians are being remarkably sparing in its*use against | Finland. Soviet planes have done

cluding hospital areas and museums, but- by comparison with the air ac-|, tivity of Germany during the Polish campaign the Russians might as well have been flying kites over Fin- R {and. . Just’, what - Col. about the Russian air force is still a matter of dispute. But the imon was certainly w espread | in England that he h poohpoohed it as behind the times and

inefficient.

abroad will . faithless and the Church will cease to be an effective force in the shaping of the life of mankind.

the “conditions of poverty, sickness, ignorance, and depravity are to be removed, if the govérnments of men are to be maintained, it. will only be because men’s lives have been changed.”

90. per cent of the Protestant Church buildings ‘have been ma by ‘the broadening of i grams: and new - attitudes. toward the use of. ‘more churchly architecture.

the ‘buildings are equal to the public. schools in’ the -communities in efficiency of equipment and arrangement and predicted that the building ‘of churches is to become a major - dans in’ States, !

liar” and David Lloyd George was §

much damage to Finnish cities, in-|,

Lindbergh said 1

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. . . he

become increasingly | ji, yemoving his fallen comrades from the gas-saturated area, noticed that -the mask of a badly wounded. man had .been shot away. = He tore his own fromhis face and gave it to the man. Sergt. Stockham died of gas ‘a few days later.

WHO’S BRIDEGROOM? BRIDE BIT MIXED UP

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 12 (U.P). — Nettie - H. Carriger sauritered into the clerk of courts office and asked for a marriage license application. Carefully she filled out the form, inserting the name Benny Clark as the bridegroom-to-be, and left. Shortly she rushed into the office ‘again. She had made a mistake, she said. The name on the application! was changed ' fiom YBenny Clark to Benny. Brady.

. “If human society is to.endure, if need,

‘The Rev. Mr. Conover said that

bsolete | ch pro-

He said that not 10 per cent of

the . United

Lindbergh, Assuiled When He Criticized Soviet Air Foree, Now Has His Laugh

tion attaches had been excluded, and showed him the works. It is generally agreed that they did so | for a deliberate purpose, reversing a previous policy of - secrecy with the idea of cultivating British and French fear of German air power. Similiarly, they showed Maj. Al Williams ‘around, and let him fly one of ‘their: fast Messerschmidts. Col.- Lindbergh is said- to have warned British and French officials and to have reported to the War Department: here, that in the design and manufacture of military planes. Germany had . out- | stripped the world. For that, too, he was criticized. His acceptance of a medal from Marshal Goering led to charges that he was pro-Nazi. His vindication, if any was needed, came last September in the blitz‘|krieg against Poland. The German air force, blasting at railroads and ammunitions depots, strafing infantry, severing communications, razing whole cities, played a paramount {part in: that swift campaign.

not yet given proof of superiority in the air. In the early months of the war the French claimed numerous - victories for their American~made: Curtiss fighters: against - {the Nazis’ touted Messerschmidt. But. such .tests as there -have been have been on a small seale. The

=. the virtues of the German

In the same period he was ad-|’ ad -welconied

‘doubted Russias Sirength. in air. ; 1 r real proof of quality is to come. *

what he was: talking : abou

‘Against the Allies, Germany has :

The colonel seems to. have, known 2

BENEFITS SCHEDULED

Thirteen dances and card parties will be held in Indianapolis this month to raise funds for the benefit

of ‘children crippled by infantile paralysis, A. , Good, Marion County director of the seventh ane nual fund raising campaign, said today. Most of the dances and card parties. will be held the evening of Jan. 30, President Roosevelt's birthe day. Ten - different ‘events, basketball games, card parties and dances for the benefit of the fund will be held in various places in Marion County, outside Indianapolis. Fifty per cent of the funds raised remain here while the other 50 per cent go to the National Foundation, New York, which .in turn makes grants to institutions carrying on specific work.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What symbolic insignia is used ‘by Italian Pascism? 2—How does a rattlesnake sound its rattle? 3—In which state is the Guadalupe River. 4—By. whom was the Statue of Liberty presented to the U. S.? 5—Name the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish army in France. ; 6—What is the principal constituent of pewter? . ; T—In. liquid . measure, ‘how many, drams are in one fluid ounce? 8—What is the correct pronunciae tion of the word liter (measure) 2,

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1—-The Roman Fasces, a bundle of i rods with axe projecting, symbol ' ‘of power. 2—By wiggling its tail. 3—Texas. 4-—The people of France. 5—Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski. 6~Tin. T—Eight. 8—Le’-ter.

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