Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1940 — Page 13
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SAN: JOSE, Costa Rica, Feb. 6.—We had been out for a drive in the late afternoon, and when we came into the lobby a man got up and walked toward us. J knew -the man, and yet I could hardly believe my eyes. It was Rene Belbenoit, the fugitive from Devil's : Island. Most of you know the story of Belbenoit’s horrible and dramatic life. He spent 12 years in the penal colonies of French Guiana in South America. Time after time he escaped, and time after time was sent back to solitary. ~ But he finally got away with it, lived for some years in the jungles of Colombia and Panama, walked all the way from Panama to Salvador and finally, three years ago, landed in Los Angeles—emaciated, ragged, toothless, forlorn. Under his arm was a manuscript —5000 small pages of laborious writing—the story of his life in French Guiana. He got to New York, fell into friendly hands, got new teeth and glasses and clothes, his book “Dry Guillotine” became a best seller, and once again he knew what a human life was like. A year ago I spent a week in French Guiana. Back Mm the States, I read “Dry Guillotine,” and knew that Belbenoit was a sincere man. Then last May, when we were in New York for the World's Fair, I hunted up Belbenoit, spent a couple of pleasant evenings with him, and wrote some columns
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He Was Happy Then
© He was happy then. He was working on another book, making souvenirs from imported butterfly wings, giving an occasional lecture, going regularly to church, living quietly, enjoying and appreciating the first unhaunted freedom he had ever known. And that’s all I knew until last night, when we walked into the hotel here in faraway Costa Rica, and there stood Rene Belbenoit.
Our Town
. FOR FEAR OF INCURRING the wrath of those readers less [interested in my childhood than I am, I have abstained for several days from all mention of the subject. But today, .if only to wind it up, I want to chronicle the human freaks I saw when I was & boy. I shall confine myself to the stars which, as a rule, came to the dime museum at the corner of Washington St.
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He had arrived two hours before. He didn’t know we were here. And we didn’t know that he had
even left New York. He knew only one man when
he arrived here, and that man just by chance men-
tioned my name. That's how it was. | Once more Rene Belbenoit is a fugitive. He is not a hunted man—he need fear nothing for the moment —but he is a man without a country. For more than two years the U. S. had been giving him indefinite extensions. He had come to believe he could stay on and on in the U. S. There was a movement in Congress to give him American citizenship. Last summer he got married, and settled into his home. | Then something happened. He doesn't know what. His extensions were over, as of Dec. 31. He must get out of the United States. He couldn't believe it was true. Belbenoit has influential friends in New York. But every one of them said him, “No, it’s hopeless’ this time, Don’t fight it. ‘Go.”
® ” on Says Goodby to Bride There were many possibilities in his mind. A Northwest Mountie had written him to come to Canada. A lawyer in San Antonio had offered to secure him safe refuge in Mexico. Some friends wanted him to change his name and disappear into the Florida swamps. But he and his wife talked it over, and together they decided he should come to Central
_ America and wait to see what it was all about.
| He said goodby to her, and it was a mighty sad moment. He went past Cleveland to say farewell to a friend.” He took the train for Fiorida. At Miami he boarded a small yacht belonging to a rich New York acquaintance. They sailed for six days across the Caribbean to La Ceiba, Honduras. | Belbenoit flew to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, and stayed there three days. Then he bought a ticket on TACA, the Central American air. line, and flew to San Jose. He came in a 1l4-passenger Lockheed, and enjoyed the flight. It was his second time in the air. He once flew from New York to Chir2eo,
By Anton Scherrer
Sprague had lost 15 peunds because of his marital experience, so I guess I really saw him when he was at his best. Nor will I ever forget the “Hairy Man.” He had a luxuriant growth of hair all over his body and the hair on his head came down to his shoulders. The following year the same man turned up, but this time he was billed as the “Wild Man of Borneo.” He acted the part, too. They had him
By Ernie Pyle »
U.S. Doclor
Deplores
American Aid to Japan In Torture of Chinese
(In China today is taking place the greatest mass movement in. all history. Forty million People have been uprooted from their homes by the Japanese attack and are wandering westward. The Japanese are not waging war in the accepted
sense of the term—army against army and soldier against soldier.
They are at-
tempting to exterminate an entire people, a culture, a way of life. But, in the face of this threat, dogged bands of Chinese have gathered their families; their books and household goods and are transporting these over hundreds of miles into the in-
terior provinces.
Dr. Walter H. Judd, for years a medical missionary. has wit-
nessed this tremendous movement of people. In a series of articles, of which this 1s the first, he (ells, through interviews, about it and about the consequences of
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By Jack Foster
Times Special Writer
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HROUGH Fenchow, the little city in Shansi province, they came—thousands of homeless Chinese men, wom-
en and children.
On their shoulders long bamboo sticks with baskets at each end swayed heavily. In one basket lay all their worldly
possessions — 3
little food,
some bedding, the basin by which they washed and
cooked. dozed the tired baby,
In the other basket
Down the dusty road and through the gates they trudged, and out of the gates again. Wanderers on the face of the earth. Driven from the village of their ancestors by the terrible wrath of
the Japanese Army.
As they passed Dr. Walter H. Judd from the entrance of his missionary
hospital looked stoical faces. suffering clung there.
intently on their Days of unspeakable Yet they did
Their h omen wrecked b) Japanese bombs, these Chinese refugees at Nanchang soon’ will be saring on the great | march west. Left, Dr, and Mrs. (Walter
and Capitol Ave, where the Park Theater used to be. : One of ‘the best values the museum ever offered was “Sprague, the Living Skeleton.” He couldn’t walk alone he was so thin. I may be a little prejudiced in Mr. Sprague’s case : : $7] » because I had the luck to see him right after his big romance. : : . As near as I recall, it was in a Philadelphia .museum that Mr. Sprague made the acquaintance of
chained, I remember, inside of a big cage, and everytime the fit seized him he’d get up on his hind legs and shake the bars of ‘his cage and rattle the chains. It scared the daylights out of us kids. When the “Wild Man” died, it was learned that his real name was Ivanovitch. He was a Russian and, for all I know, had never seen Borneo. Outside of that, I don’t believe the museum ever swindled me.
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The Armless Wonder
H. Judd, with their children— ,Carolyn, 4 | (left) 3
not complain, they did not curse. They merely moved on, and if they dropped they. were buried. Dr. Judd was plunged in despair. All his life work seemed to have Eleattor, 2 and been destroyed. He had studied med- i Mary Lou, je icine in the University of Nebraska, : : : : 1 surgery in Mayo Clinic, so that he : : might help the Chinese masses. His 2 | blue-eyed wife had come with him, ; and she had taught the Chinese : Pe : : i
‘the daughter| of a brickmason, and soon as he saw
And for some reason I don’t know why. I never
her he fell in love with her. she fell for him, too. did understand girls. Well, one morning. the skeleton’s valet carried
“him to a downtown church where the girl was wait-
ing. Sure, they were married. Next day when the girl’s parents heard about it, they took their daughter away. At this point the manager of the museum saw a chance to get some publicity and with that in mind he stepped in and took part in the drama. He employed counsel and got out a writ of habeas corpus with the result that the girl was brought into court by her parents. By this time the affair was on the front page of all the papers. :
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Sow Him at His Best
In the meantime, Mr. Sprague continued at the museum at an increased salary and for six weeks the museum was crowded wifh curious people who wanted to’ see the living skeleton who had eloped with the brickmason’s daughter. with the skeleton’s wife repudiating him in open court and the curtain went down with the judge telling the girl to return to her parents. Right after that, Mr. Sprague went traveling and in the course of his tour he turned up in Indian-
‘apolis. The bill posters at the time said that Mr.
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Washington
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The American Youth Congress would be deserving of a great deal more
- sympathy and would probably win more of it, if its
Communist elements were cleaned out. * Youth has special problems in this country and it needs a strong organization through which it can speak up and win a hearing. But as long as Communist groups have a hand in the main youth organization, it stands before the public with two strikes on it. | Mrs. Roosevelt has made a - brave defense of this group. hen it holds its general conference here Feb. 11 on “Civil Liberties and Citizenship” she is expected to speak. The youth group will be received at the White House, it is understood, and probably President Roosevelt will meet with it. * Aubrey
Williams, director of the National Youth Administra-
tion, will address the gonference, Representatives of outside political viewphints have been invited to be present. John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has declined to send a representative on: the ground that the American Youth Congress has failed to expel its communistic elements. » » »
A Fundamental Question
There is raised here a most fundamental question. And while appreciating the broadminded impulses which lead Mrs. Roosevelt and others in this Administration to accept the Youth Congress as is, I side with the Republican chairman, We have enough to do in this country without complicating our activities with Communists who are looking out first for the interests of Soviet Russia and who are its champions through thick and thin, even when it violates democratic practices as ruthlessly as does Hitler. In the extremely moderate and balanced revort recently made by the Dies Commitice-—-and not te be
My Day
‘WASHINGTON, Monday.—When I arrived at the
station in Poughkeepsie yesterday afternoon, I found
that the trains were running late. Luckily, I made a train ahead of the one I had intended to take, but even at that I only reached New York City at 6:13
p. m. - It being a Sunday, I went straight through the station to the 42d St. side, stepped into a taxi at 6:20, and was in the Pennsylvania Station at 6:25. There I was greeted by Mrs. ‘Morgenthau, who waved my tickets at me, and with a look . of great. relief said: “If you had been one minute later, I would have asked to have the train held for you.” That would have been really humiliating, for in spite of the fact that I am
granted special favors on all oc-. ~ casions, I still have an inherent dislike to ask for them.
However, we made the train easily and I was handed a large envelope of mail which Miss Thompson had sent me in care of the station master, just
" to give me something to do on my trip to Wash-
ington. All my guests were already here, and Mrs. Gray met meat the station to tell me of their safe arrival.
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They had all .gone to bed, so our first meeting was
The case ended, I believe,
Jonathan Bass was the real name of the “Ossified Man.” He had everything the matter with him. Not only were his limbs petrified, but he was blind, to boot. [And he couldn’t open his mouth. He had to be fed with a spoon, but for some reason he could make himself understood. He was fond of asking riddles, I remember. As a matter of fact, he was
-the first one I ever knew to ask why a chicken
crosses the road. Charlie Stewart was the best “Armless Wonder.”
. The billing of Charlie was in the nature of an under-
statement. He was without legs, too. Charlie was the only artist I ever knew who could paint a picture of a sunrise which didn’t leave one guessing whether it couldn’t serve just as well as the painting of a sunset. : And by all odds, “Big Winnie” was the most convincing “Fat Woman.” She weighed every bit of 630 pounds and there wasn't any reason to doubt that she was still growing. Speaking of women, there was Lizzie Sturgeon, too. Miss Sturgeon played the piano with her bare toes. I heard her do the “Maiden’s Prayer” that way and it impressed me so much that I stuck around the rest of the afternoon hoping that maybe she would tackle something livelier the next time she was scheduled to appear. She did, too. It was “Hearts and Flowers,” and you have no idea how it made her toes twinkle. I got home late for supper that night and have reason to remember it, :
By Raymond Clapper
confused with the bogey-man scare stuff which the committee sponsored in some of its earlier brainstorms—an analysis is made of the American Youth Congress. It is found to be a central organization, a federation, in ‘which are affiliated some Communist front organizations. The vast majority of those represented in the membership of the Congress are acquitted of any snuggling up to communism and naziism and are put down as ordinary Americanminded youth loyal to our basic methods. But in the Congress is- the Young Communist League, which is under the influence of Moscow. It includes the American Student Union, which thinks Stalin can do no wrong and which is classed as a Communist front organization. The Dies Committee reports—and this is a temperate document—that the Communist minority in the Youth Congress exercises an influence out of all proportion to its numbers. » ” ”n
Dies Committee Finding The Dies Committee makes this entirely reasonable observation: “The committee is unable to-see how
it is possible for this or any other organization of
American young people claiming to preserve and vitalize the American institutions and life of America to expect to promote that work by including within its ranks those who do not believe in democracy, but in a contrary philosophy of life and form of government.” "A One cannot feel nervous about the solid foundations of our democracy if he will take the trouble to travel about our country. 1 have come back from a month out in America and it has been a most reassuring experience. There is much work for us to do. But I believe there is a firm determination everywhere and among all groups to do it"in our own way, and in accordance with our traditional principles. It isn’t that a knot of Communists in the American Youth Congress is going to do any real damage to America. They can only damage the youth who through this organization are trying to obtain a hearing.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
at breakfast this morning. After breakfast, we separated to-go our various ways, but Mrs. Joseph Patterson, who is staying with me, is a member of the NYA conference which opened here this morning, so she and I had only to go down to the East Room to start our day’s work. : i This first session was given up tq speeches which attempted to set the problems of the NYA girls before the groups. The National Youth Administration feels that it wants to do the best possible job, both for the young people who are still in school or college and also for those young people on the work projects. These are set up to meet the demands of the out-of-school, out-of-work young women under 25 years of age, and are planned with the hope of training them for jobs. : ¢ Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher gave a most stimulating address in which she stressed the point that women had simply followed their jobs out of the home into the world and were continuing their usual occupations, which now existed outside the home. The modern honfe no longer requires the work of women and, therefore, they search for an outlet and find it almost entirely in the same type of service which
-they- rendered at one time within the four walls of
their homes. . Some of the statements by young people at the close of the morning were very interesting and from now on the. sessions will be discussion meetings.
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Children. But when the war came he had sent his wife back to the United States with their two little daughters and child to be. And now he was alone. And all he could see was that ragged band of refugees trudging westward—always westward. Perhaps he thought for a fleeting moment it might not be so bad when the Japanese do come to Fenchow. At least they would establish peace and order. ” ” ” UT when the Japanese finally did descend in February, 1938, terror took over the city. Rape followed pillage. Narcotics followed rape. Murder followed narcotics. The little city in which he had walked plefsantly as a friend and counsellor to all became a place of fear and horror. For months he treated the victims of Japanese torture immature girls assaulted by soldiers, students beaten by bullies, old men cut down by swaggering youths. Then one morning he threw down his surgical tools, wiped the blood from his hands and packed his bag. He had de-
cided that while there was still | tremendous. work to be done in |
China there was a greater job to be done in America. So now he is home in Montclair, N. J., telling the story of Japan’s
assault on China and of America’s .
part in the massacre through sending to Tokyo the materials of war. “You have no idea how great ‘ the destruction of China has been,” he said today. “I tell you about the band of refugees that
ASSAILS TIME SPENT
FIGURING FOR TAXES
Times Special ? AKRON, Ind., Feb. 6.—State and Federal governments are forcing business men to spend about 90 days every year in preparing tax and trade reports, William E. Jenner, of Shoals, declared in an address here last night. Mr. Jenner, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, spoke at a Lincoln Day meeting of the Henry Township G. O. P. Club. “This is just an example of how the New Deal, both in.Indianapolis and in Washington. is harassing business and retarding recovery,” Mr. Jenner said. “They -talk of the ‘forgotten man’. They certainly didn’t forget anyone when it came to taxation. The New Deal makes Caesar look like a piker on the tax question. “Out of 366 days of this year, Mr. Business Man will devote 90 days to paying taxes, buying licenses or making reports. In the month of January alone, 23 different forms of taxes, license or reports were required,” he said.
Anglers’ Fine . Catch Is Jonah
HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 6 (U. P)). —Fishermen at Peggy's Cove caught themselves a whale yesterday but are having trouble trying to figure out how to get rid of it. The ebb tide lefi the whale stuck fast beneath a private wharf. Fishermen were attracted to the scene when, in attempts to get out of his prison, the big mamal began loosening wharf timbers with swipes of his tail.
Armed with axes, the fishermen attacked and killed the whale. Now they don’t know how to get the 20-foot carcass out from under the wharf without taking the wharf down,
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passed through my town. But that is only one of hundreds of similar hordes. Forty million people have been driven from their homes and are wandering, hungry and forlorn, over the face of China, ‘Five to 10 million have died along the road. “Do people realize it is the greatest mass movement in all history? The greatest and the most piteous. Mile after mile they trudge, clutching to themselves the few things they have left— some millet flour, a blanket or two, a tin basin, a couple of bowls, a family treasure of milky jade or iyory. Sometimes these are loaded in a wheelbarrow or on a donkey or in a Peking cart. But mostly they are carried on peasant backs : “Along |the road missionaries have set up way stations. Here the wanderers stop for a crust of coarse bread and a cup of tea, and then they] move. Their journeys take them sometimes as far as 1500 to 1800 miles. In all that time theyimay never have a roof over theiriheads or a square meal, HE #" ” “ ET they are not downcast. The natural strength of their race and the power of their con--viction have kept a kind of serenity in their faces. They will not live under the humiliation of Japanese rule. That is all there is to it. They will leave the homes of their ancestors, painful though this be, and find new homes in the rugged west. “Students have taken along books with which to set up | schools. Factories have been dismantled to be reassembled far
from the range of Japanese fire. A new nation is growing in west= ern China.” 1 Innately, .Dr. Judd believes, the Chinese do not hate the Japanese people. But the unexpected brutality of the attacking army has instilled within them a determination never to submit to the yoke of their domination. It is this very brutality, which was meant to break their hearts, that has steeled their souls. “I lived in Shansi—one of the most conservative provinces in China,” Dr. Judd continued. “If the Japanese had come in a spirit of co-operation, I fully bhelieve that 70 per cent of the| people would have accepted their rule.
For the time being anyway. But
when they saw that the Japanese came only to pillage and destroy they became as aggressively antiJapanese as the rest of the nation.” : Dr. Judd passed a handkerchief over his forehead and went on, explaining that he had resigned his post so that he might devote all his time to his campaign. : “You have to understand the inhuman stupidity of the Japanese army to understand what is going on in China,” he said. “They pursue no rules of warfare or common decency. When they capture a city, they do not use the barracks. Instead of that they move into the better homes and make the owners wait on them. If the guerrillas attack them they burn the city and the surrounding fields. :
“They do not take prisoners.
They kill all Chinese soldiers on sight, no matter if they are totally
Father Is Given-Custody of Petersburg Child-Bride, 13
VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 6 (U. P.). —Homer Foster, Petersburg farmer, today was to take custody of his 13-year-old child bride daughter, Dorothy Jean, by ruling of Superior Court Judge Herman Robbins. The girl was arraigned yesterday with her 21-year-old husband, James Harrell, a Bicknell WPA worker, and her mother, Mrs. Leo Hamke of Bicknell, on charges of giving false information to obtain a marriage license. Judge Robbins released her to Mr. Foster but as he failed to call for her after the court session, she remained in the Knox County Jail. Both Harrell and Mrs. Hemke pleaded not guilty to the charge and Mrs. Hamke’s trial was set for Feb. 20. No date was set for Har-
rell’s appearance.
The couple was married at Vincennes Jan. 21. The investigation was started when Mr. Foster complained to county authorities. Mr. Foster told County Clerk Paul Ensmeier and Prosecutor Oskar Oexman that the girl was 13 years old while Mrs. Hamke told Mr. Ensmeier when they applied for a license that she was 18. Mr. Foster and Mrs. Hamke were
TRANSPORTATION IS CIVIC GROUP TOPIC
An open discussion on community transportation problems will be held tomorrow night at the meeting of the - Riverside Civic League at
School 44. Mrs. H. P. Willwerth, league pres-
ident, said the group also would
|“co-operate with the Government
in its need for WPA projects” and ask that WPA labor be used on a PWA project to build a new bridge over Fall Creek at Indiana Ave. Miss Constance Strauss of the Veterans Hospital will give a talk on “Better Housing,” illustrated by motion pictures.
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‘divorced in 1930 and court records
showed that Dorothy Jean was 4 at that time. ' Since then Mrs. Hamke has been married five times. She told the court she wasn’t certain of the giri’s age because she had had 12 children since Dorothy Jean was born. :
Hoosier, 35, Sentenced For Marriage: to Girl, 14
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Feb. 6 (U, P.).—Delmar James, 35, of Shelbyville pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the outgrowth of his marriage to 14-year-old Georgia. Rena Cowin Jan. 19. Sheriff Len Worland said he would institute proceedings to annul the marriage. James was fined $1 and costs and given a suspended 60-day sentence at the State Prison Farm by Judge James A. Emmert. : Mrs. Frankklin Cowin of near Shelbyville, mother of the girl, who faces a similar charge, was free on $500, bond. Sheriff Worland glso charged that she gave false information , concerning the girl's age when the marriage license was obtained.
ROY FRIEDLEY SEEKS STATE SENATE SEAT
Times Special : MUNCIE, Ind. Feb. 6.—Roy M. Friedley, local real estate dealer, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for State Senator from Delaware County. ] He was State Senator from Delaware County during the 1929 and 1931 sessions of the Legislature and was. caucus chairman during the
latter session. : His announcement stated that he
.|is ‘opposed to socializing of business
and the professions, helieves the cost of government. can be reduced and that he will work to “put an
lend to the New Deal experiment.”
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disabled. And yet on the walls of all captured villages they plaster this sign: ‘Japan and China are brothers’.” : Mrs. Judd had worked side by side with Dr. Judd in the hospital and school, had learned Chinese and- patiently had taught many of the children of the vilage the three R's. Two months after war began in July, 1937, since she was going to have a third child, Dr. Judd had taken her as far as Hankow, from which she fled with her other daughters, ages 2 and 4, to Hongkong. It was a perilous journey involving crossing of the swollen Yellow River by ox ferry, a wearisome trip with her crying children in a crowded train, a harrying ride in ‘an old truck.
” ” ” : T this point, Mrs. Judd took up the narrative: “The Japanese understand the Chinese nature less accurately than any other people,” she said. “On my trip to Hankow we had to stop overnight at a little village. It was the time of the haryest festival—one of the gayest celebrations of the year, always a three-day holiday. “The moon was full. Scores of Chinese were scattered about in the open, certain in their naive way that the Japanese would not attack. Up:-to that time they had not used airplanes from Peiping at night. But at the height of the celebration out of the sky roared a squadron of planes, and, guided by the harvest moon, they dropped many bombs, killing hundreds of civilians. “It was, apparently, the Japanese way of showing their
contempt for saiiing dear to the Chinese heart.” | “Yes, the Japanese are a hard people to comprehend,” Dr. Judd continued. “Back home in Japan they love flowers, write beautiful poetry ‘and are gracious to strangers. But in China - their army shows a ruthlessness and a disregard for conduct that would shock their people if their newspapers were allowed to print the truth. . “I am thinking particularly of their attitude toward the wounded enemy. They believe that if a Chinese soldier has been wounded he should be allowed to die in all his | suffering without the |benefit of | medical aid. Why patch him up? | they ask. Why relieve his pain? For if he should walk lagain another bullet would be needed to kill him.
“One afternoon during the ate tack on my city|a wounded Chinese soldier fell over a nearby wall. I rushed toward him to take him into the hospital. But two Japanese soldiers with bared bayonets prevented me from touching him. For 24 hours I was kept back until at last the man died, “That,” said Dr, Judd grimly, “is one of the reasons that I have come back to America. The steel that made that bullet was American steel. The bayonets that kept me from helping him were American steel. { | “How can we still consider ourselves to be a démocratic nation while arming the Japanese for this "inhuman warfare?” To
NEXT—The Japanese theory of warfare. | | En
HOOSIERS TO ATTEND FT- WAYNE AUTO MEN
PRAYER CONFERENCE
A delegation of more than 100 from Indianapolis is planning to attend a conference of Young People’s Prayer Bands in Buffalo, N. Y., Saturday and Sunday. Miss Hellen French, 5201 N. New
Jersey St., is chairman of arrange-
ments for the local group. Among those on the program are to be the Rev. H. E. Eberhardt, Wheeler City Rescue Mission superintendent; Mrs. Robert D. McCarthy, of the 31st St. Baptist Church, and Don MofIett, returned missionary from Brazil. Those . from Indianapolis scheduled to attend include Miss Eileen Small, leader of the Indianapolis Prayer Band; Miss French, secretary; Miss Mary Lou McGaughey, pianist; Miss Ruth Lamkins, Miss Elliott Sutton, Mrs. Curtis Davis, Miss Virginia Ann Cadle, Miss Eunice McCarthy, Miss May Howe, Mrs. Leolya Guylor, Miss Virginia Johnson, Miss Pat Gordon, Mrs. Rex Best, Roy ‘Johnson, William Bromley, Jack Boak, Russell Ayres, Clyde Myers, Max Conder, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ramsey and Mr. and Mrs. Lester Marshall.
Merrily Rid of % Fourth Mate
NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (U. P.).— Merry Fahrney Cassini is rid of her fourth husband, Count Oleg Cassini, whom she said she saw in a hotel room last July with a Broadway show girl, Ann Humphreys. Justice Aaron Levy granted the Countess a divorce and also exonerated: her of charges made by her husband’s witness, that she had entertained three men in her bedroom at various times while wearing transparent pajamas. The judge said these charges were “unworthy of belief,” and
that Fidel Lukban, the Countess’ |
Filipino butler who made them had “clearly established that he ‘had no appreciation of the sanctity of an oath.” The Countess ‘had discharged him recently.
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TO BURN ‘JALOPPIES’
i Times Special ! : FT. WAYNE, Ind, Feb. 6. — There'll be a hot time here Feb. 18, The Ft. Wayne Auto Trades Association will hold its annual “burnt offerings” on the altar of highway safety when another pile of antiquated “junks” will be burned at a public ceremony. ! The blaze will be a feature of ane nual Used Car Week. |
‘TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Name the capital of the Republie of El Salvador. | 2—How many stripes are there’ in the American Flag? i 3—Does a liquid freeze or boil when its: vapor pressure - reaches the atmospheric pressure? | 4—Between which two of the Great Lakes does the Niagara River ‘flow? : 5—Who is national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc.? 6—What is the correct pronunciae tion of the word “of the
7—To what division of the animal kingdom do crabs and! lobsters belong? | : teams. that participated in fhe first Rose Bowl Classic in 1902. :
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| 1—San Salvador. 2—Thirteen, 3—Boils. | 4—Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. 5—Herbert Hoover. f 6—Dim’-e-ter; not di’-me-t T—Cerustacea. 1 8—Michigan and Stanford,
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