Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1940 — Page 11

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. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 26.—So I said to the American Minister to Nicaragua, said I: “Mister Minister, how are things along the Wabash River?” : And he said: “Ernest, things are all right. Why don’t you come out for supper tonight?” So I said all right we will, and that’s how we got invited

Minister to Nicaragua. One way to skin a cat is to be born in Indiana. : For the American Minister here is Meredith Nicholson, whose name is familiar to every inhabitant of the Hoosier state, and many millions more, too, through his books. - He followed the profession of ! : letters for an average lifetime. . And then at 65 he gave way to an old ambition to be a diplomat. For the last seven years he has been representing our country in various odd spots around the Western Hemisphere. Despite his age, he is as fresh and neat as Lucius Beebe. He is a large man, handsome of face. He speaks some Spanish, but not fluently. He dresses for dinner in tropicalPwhite jacket and black trousers. He is a man who has always had a lot of fun, and still has it. His sense of humor is delightful; he is a willing and agile conversationalist; he praises your intelligence by speaking frankly of diplomati¢. things; he has opinions and expresses them. ; Mrs. Nicholson is not here 4t the moment. She has been ill, so they decided she should take a California vacation away from the tropics. ’ » = 8

Some Pleasant Company

The American Minister’s residence sits on top of a knoll at the edge of Managua, across the road from the airport. It stands up all alone, and a strong tropical wind whips through the house continually. There are no glass windows, .and the doors don’t fit. We arrived at 7:30. ‘I had no dinner clothes, so I wore my white suit and a borrowed black bow tie. Apparently that was all right, for nobody raised a finger to throw me out. There were other guests, all Americans. They were Mr. and Mrs. William Flournoy—he is second secretary of the legation, and we met him in 1938 in Sao

Paulo, Brazil; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Calvert—he runs a .

Nicaraguan cigaret factory; Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Crawford—he sells Ingersoll-Rand mining equipment; * and little Crissie Bunker, whose husband is the Army Engineer lieutenant in charge of the latest survey for the “Nicaraguan Canal,” and he is in a primitive camp down in the jungle, two days’ travel from here.

Our Town

IT IS A SAD COMMENTARY on our socalled civilization, to say nothing of our schools, that singers still don’t know what to do with their hands. Sopranos and contraltos are the worst offenders and a soprano is, if anything, worse than a tontralto.

It seems practically impossible for a soprano to let go of her voice without striking a series of attitudes resembling, on the one hand, the Nurnberg Madonna and, on the other, something looking like Dante Gabriel Ros~ setti’s painting of Proserpine—the one representing a state of supplication; the other representing nothing as far as I can see except what can be conveyed by the unctuous rubbing of two > hands. I have always been wary of persons who find a private pleasure in rubbing their hands together and I see no reason—not yet, anyway—why I should make an exception in the case of sopranos.

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A Limit to All Things

-Of course we have to be reasonable and not expect too much, presupposing that anything like a reform is going to set in. The toying with a handkerchief on the part of a soprano will probably always be with us. I wouldn't mind it if singers could constrain themselves to stop there. It’s when they strike the “attitude of supplication, with or without a handkerchief, that I get mad. And ft’s not because I have anything against the practice of supplication, either. Properly handled by a painter or a sculptor it has its place; but its place, it strikes me, stops there. After all, musicians have their limitations, no matter what

Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Call it a bilious attack if you insist, but the way Democratic politicians who have been lukewarm about the New Deal all these years are now swallowing a third-term prospect, and helping it down, leaves me feeling like a combination of Hugh Johnson and Westbrook Pegler after a bad night. What do you suppose these Democrats would be saying if it were a Republican President

in the White House and a third.

term were in the offing for him? They’d ‘be shrieking and passing resolutions ‘and warning of the downfall of the republic. That's exactly what they did when the

third-term horns began to blow

for Coolidge. That little fellow, to whom the Presidency was a nice job which permitted a nap every afternoon, whose idea was to look out the window while others did the work, who fried ‘to get rid of power instead of reaching cut for it, was as harmless as a man in the White House could be.

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The Abuse of Power

Yet when Republican politicians began talking of him for a third term, Democrats rose up to save our

' American institutions. They put through a Senate

resolution warning that any departure from the twoterm tradition would . be “unwise, unpatriotic. and fraught with peril to our free institutions!” They put it through at a time when there were no world conditions undermining democracy, when

My Day

GOLDEN BEACH, Fla. Sunday.--Have any of you read Elizabeth Goudge’s “City of Bells?” If you - have, a little Story called “The Sister of the Angels” : will bring you some of the same characters. This is one of the most delightful Christmas stories I have ever read. Henrietta, the 11-year-old heroine, is a charming child. In one way she is more mature than most of us, for she accepts people a3 they are and does not try to turn them into the kind of people they should be. She has the appreciation all children have for people who treat them as equals. : The author shows her deep understanding of this particular trait in a child when Hen- . rietta wisely reflects that she SH “never could see that being grown-up was anything to boast about. One didn’t grow oneself, adding to one’s inches by one’s own skill. God grew one.” If only more of us could remember that, we might not be such a trial to our

children. *

oo 3 rejoiced in one other little passage: “Why does Ari ‘come only once a year? I think it is a

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out for dinner by the American

By Ernie Pyle

A tall bald Nicaraguan servant served cocktails; the cool night wind beat a rhumba on the flaps of the terrace awnings, we talked our way up and down the Latin countries. For always, in a new conversation, you light upon some fellow in faraway Peru or Guatemala or Panama whom both of you know, and then you talk around him for a while. ; I Once at dinner Mr. Nicholson said he guessed we were a cosmopolitan bunch, so let's each call out what state he’s from. : : oi ? I was the last one on the roll, and when I said “Indiana” everybody laughed, for that was Mr. Nicholson's point, and he thought Indiana would win, But two of our fellow-guests spoiled it by being from Virginia, so it came out a tie. o ”

A Precious Picture

After dinner Mr. Nicholson brought out a framed picture—an old, old group photo of James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson, taken when they were young blades. It is one of the grandest pictures I ever saw. And then he took us to his bedroomn where there were autographed photoes of Tarkington, Riley, John McCutcheon, Paul McNutt and Roy Howard—all given long ago. ; And then he got out a letter from Booth Tarkington, written last August in pencil. And I told him how three years ago we drove up and down in front of ~Tarkington’s summer home at Kennebunkport, Me., trying to get up courage to go in, and finally didn’t. And Mr. Nicholson said “Aw that’s a shame, for he’s .ar~grand fellow.” Mr. Nicholson loves to recall newspaper yarns and Indiana incidents. You. feel neither formal nor frightened in his house. He has the art of dismissing

- those little terrors in strangers’ breasts and of shoot-

ing his conversation out in darts so that everybody gets a slug of it. It was a congenial crowd, just the right size, and made up of sensible Americans who had neither gone professionally native nor pettishly critical, and we found out about each other and changed seats and talked around the room, and at 11:15 we went home. Mr. Nicholson and a servant walked out to the cars with us, and he waved us goodby, standing there on the hilltop in the Nicaraguan darkness, with no friend for the night except his servants, and I couldn’t help feeling lonely for him. But I guess I was being prodigal with my generosity, for if he is lonely down here all he has to do is quit and go back to a state full of people who like him. And he can do it any time he wants to, for he has paid the world already with a full, pleasant, and useful life, and he doesn’t owe the world anything aft all. :

By Anton Scherrer

some people would have you believe. Certainly they can’t be allowed to do anything they darn please. Anyway, it takes a mighty fine pair of hands to represent a state of supplication and sopranos don’t, as a rule, have them. If they did, they would be playing the cello. ; There are several ways out of the dilemma and they are known to everybody except, curiously enough, the singers themselves. The first thing to do, therefore, is to enlighten the sopranos, even if we have to do it at the risk of discovering that it wasn’t worth it in the end. Once aroused the sopranos might be persuaded to do something about their hands. At any rate, something different and less conspicuous than what. they are doing now. In the end they might even be induced to suppress their hands altogether. It’s expecting a lot, I know, but it’s the real solution.

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A Few Suggestions

.To suppress the hands is the easiest thing in the

world. If sopranos were provided with pockets the way . baritones and bassos are, a lot of the present trouble could be overcome. If the sopranos only knew it. I always put my money on a baritone who sings with his hands in his pants pockets. : The simplest way, of course, is to do away with the hands altogether and clasp them in the small of the back. Nobody—least of all, a sopranc—has ever thought of that. It's the only solution and it does away with the necessity of equipping a soprano with pants’ pockets. : I know very well that everything I've said isn’t going to do a bit of good. Our sopranos—and contraltos, too, for that matter—are going to go right on showing off their hands. To tell the truth, I wouldn't have brought up the subject at all today except for a vague kind of hope that maybe the Music Appreciation people could make my kick a part of their crusade.

By Raymond Clapper

this form of Government was regarded as the model for the whole world and was being copied. Now ‘when the whole democratic idea is held in contempt throughout most of the world, when conditions are giving it the most severe test in its history, and when we have had in this country a vast centralization of Federal power, most of it made necessary by conditions, the Democrats are perfectly willing to take another hearty sock at democratic processes. They are conniving to intrench 'a regime in power by using that power itself to bring about the intrenchment. ‘The jobholders are hell-bent on jobbing themselves into another lease.on the public pay roll. -. . 2.8.8

Processes of Demacracy

I nave been a fairly consistent sympathizer with what Mr. Roosevelt has tried to do. He responded to the needs of the country. While he has made his share of mistakes, he saw the problems and had the courage to tackle them. In all of this he has functioned to strengthen democracy. Democracy must be strong enough to act. It has sufféred in the past because it was hamstrung, for instance, by nar-row-minded policy making decisions of the Supreme Court. The central government must be strong. We have at last seen it given the necessary powers by a nore liberal construction of the Constitution. . : But as Prof. John Dewey says, the processes of democracy are more important than any special result attained. ; That is to say, if you preserve democratic processes, you preserve everything. You save the tools. Sacrifice them to any specific end, and you may find that the price was disastrously high. > But what does a politician who is worried about his meal-ticket care about all that? :

By Eleanor Roosevelt

course, I can understand that, in some ways, it might prove fairly exhausting to have to repeat all the things which one does on Christmas several times during the year, but I wish the Christmas spirit could stay with us more constantly. ' Last night we drove to meet my Son James at the airport. I did not step out of the car, for so many were parked around us that I decided there must be quite a crowd. However, we were in a place where I could see Jimmy leave the plane. I saw him arrive and in a few minutes he was walking through the darkness toward the car. While we waiteel for his bag, and he went inside to the ticket office, I had an opportunity to catch a glimpse of a gentleman who has always been just an interesting name to me, Mr. Walter Winchell, who had also apparently been meeting this plane. As he walked away with another man, I craned my neck to get a really good view of him, but all I saw was a hat worn very jauntily and a rather tall, thin gentleman who walked rapidly away. It has always amused me to see celebrities, but unless I can sit down and really talk to them and come away with a feeling that I have actually made the acquaintance of another human b¢ing, I have no

urge to go and shake thera by the hand, or say a

Gallup Poll

F.DR.Holds Big Lead;

26.—With the Democratic national convention

and with a series of state primaries looming - immediately ahead, the latest na-tion-wide survey of rankand file Democrats shows President, Roosevelt still dominating the party pic-. ture. |

Despite Mr. Roosevelt's silence on his 1340 plans, nearly four Democrats in every five with opinions ‘on the question (78%) still say they would like to see him renominated when the party convention meets in Chicago next July. There has been no change in the President's rank-and-file support in the month-and-a-half since the previous Institute survey. . Two important | developments have occurred with regard to the other leading figures in the Democratic picture, however:

1. Quiet, spotlight - shunning Cordell Hull, Mr. Roosevelt’s Sec= retary of State, has risen sharply in the Institute index following widely publicized stories to the effect. that the President looks with some favor on Mr. Hull as his successor,

2. Vice President John N."Garner, who has recently entered his name in several state primaries in opposition to “draft Roosévelis slates, slips backward. Although Mr. Garner is still the leading popular choice of rank-and-file Democrats in case President Roosevelt doesn’t run, he receives 40 per cent of the preference vote today as compared with the very substantial 58 per cent he received early in January,

There are other indications, meanwhile, that| the opinion of rank-and-file voters has not yet crystallized and that much can happen to change the picture between now and |convention-time. Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, for instance, who was one of the earliest entries in the 1940 race, has lost ground with Democratic voters in the past month-and-a-half. On the other hand, Postmaster General Jim Farley and Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who have announced more recently, show corresponding gains. | 8 nn INALLY the |survey reveals the names of more than a score of other Democratic eligibles with popular support. The list is led

by Attorney General Robert H.

Jackson—often mentioned ‘as a White House favorite — Justice Frank Murphy, Speaker William B. Bankhead and Senator Harry FP. Byrd of Virginia. In this group also appears Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York, who, although he has often run as a Republican, receives substantial mention from Democrats. As the convention draws nearer, President. 'Roosevelt’s personal support with Democratic voters in

Hull Gains

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all parts of the country makes him more and more of a dominating

figure—as far as the 1940 nomina-

tion goes. Whether he seeks the nomination for himself, allows himself to be drafted, or attempts to nominate some one else * who will carry on the New Deal, it is highly significant that he outpulls all other Democratic candidates combined at this time. In the first of two questions put to a representative cross-section of Democratic voters in each state the Institute asked: “Whom would you like to see elected President this year?” The following figures show how voters answer the question now as compared with a month-and-a-half ago: —

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1. Roosevelt ..c...cocco000s0e 2. Garner ...cccccoovsssensss 3. McNutt 9000 0000°00% 000 ann 4. Hull eo 80 00060000 °%°000000% 0000 5. Murphy 2000000000000 6. Farley 0 0r8e0t00cR0c 000000 All Others ........... : 2 ” ”

HE greatest demand for Roose‘velt’s re-nomination comes from Democrats in the lower income groups, the survey shows— including the great majority of the “jll-clad, ill-housed and ill-nour-ished” lower-third of the population to whom the President re-

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ferred in his Second Inaugural. “Roosevelt has done more for the common people than any President in a generation” . . . “Roosevel should be in there to look after America’s interests while this war's going on” . . . these are the typical comments of lower income group voters who favor Roosevelt. The latter comment frequently comes from the middle and well-to-do groups as well, ‘Sectionally the greatest Roosevelt support (85% of those with opinions) comes from the Middle Atlantic States—New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the smallest (69%) from the South. . In its Institute asked: “If President Roosevelt is not a candidate, whom would you like. to see elected?” The answers of those Democrats with opinions on the question, as compared with the January study, are as flolows:

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6. Clark ...eocceenisvaceens , Wheeler esse0cessssessens 8. Barkley G00 8900000000000 9. Ickes Secs sstntngesssettee 10. Kennedy ..occ.cccaceeees All Others ...cc.coc00e00

8 uo =» NTERESTINGLY enough, the comments show that both Mr. Garner and Mr. Hull probably owe much of their present popular support to the fact that their names have been associated with

that of President Roosevelt for nearly eight years. “I'm for Garner because he was good enough to be Roosevelt’s running-mate,” they frequently explain. Or, “I'm for Hull because he’s been the President’s right-hand man.”

The results raise the question whether any Democrat can win wide popular support at the present time by making a frontal attack on Mr. Roosevelt. Al Smith tried it in 1936 and, according to Institute polls at the time, was able to swing few votes. As long as the President commands the personal support of so large a group of the Democratic rank-and-file, it seems likely that any Demecratic candidate who did not receive at least his tacit blessing would face a hard road to victory. A significant fact about the support for Mr. Garner is that the greatest share of it comes from the same lower income voters who support President Roosevelt so overwhelmingly. Mr. Hull's strength, on the other hand, comes in greater proportion from Democrats in the upper and middle

brackets. The vote among various income groups is as follows:

(If FDR Doesn’t Run)

Upper Middle Lower ; Income Income Income Garner ,... 30% 31% 48% Hull ........ 34 29 17 McNutt ..... 12 11 10 Farley ...... 5 7 10 Wheeler ... 8 4 4 LaGuardia . 3 3 Jackson .... I' “1 2 All Others .. 8 8 6

A considerable number of Democrats are still undecided on the question. But whereas half are undecided as to their choice if President Roosevelt doesn’t run, only one in five is undecided if the President can be considered in the race. 2 2. 8 THER leading figures mene tioned in the survey: Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary Ickes, Ame bassador Kennedy, Secretary Walle

ace, Senator Bennett Clark, Alfred E. Smith, Senator Barkiey, Senator Byrnes, Goveernor Stark, John UL. Lewis, Supreme Court Justice Douglas, Secretary Hopkins, Governor Leh man, Owen D. Young, former Governor Earle, Governor Horner, Senator Glass, Governor Hoey, Maury Maverick, Wendell Willkie (also mentioned by Republicans), Senator Guffey, Senator Donahey, Senator Green, former Senator McAdoo, Federal. Loan Admine istrator Jesse Jones, Senator George, Ambassador Bullitt, Gov= ernor Moore, Senator Harrison, Senator Pittman and Governor Olson. gi)

24 DIE IN WEEK OF PNEUMONIA

Local Toll Hits Peak for

Winter; Influenza Warning Given.

Indianapolis had 24 deaths due to pneumonia last week, the greatest number in any week this winter, Dr. Herman, G. Morgan, City Health officer, said today. His announcement came as the U. S. Fublic Health Service reported 16,548 inflluenza cases in the nation during the week ending Feb, 17, a decrease of 35 in one week but almost’ double the five-year average of 8591. | : The Health service also announced that there was an increase of 1435 cases in the East Central region, largely in Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Alabama. Warns of Influenza

Dr. Morgan said the week before last there were 13 deaths and the previous week the total was 17, “Influenza’s greatest danger is that it is the forerunner of pneumonia and if extreme care is no taken when influenza is discover it may very develop into pneumonia,” he. said. “I believe that the present wave of influenza reached its peak last week. However the City may expect another wave of respiratory diseases in epidemic-like form before the balmy days of spring drive the flu germs to cover.”

on the Board of Public Health announced that 10,129 pupils in the City’s schools were given smallpox vaccinations last year and that a total of 2733 pupils received immunization from diphtheria and 2466 were ‘given dental care. : ‘He also announced that committees have been appointed to study bids on surgery equipment for the new wing at City Hospital. Dr. Morgan said it is planned to convert a section of the third and fourth floors of the surgery unit into quarters for patients. Members of the bid committee are Dr. M. J. Barry, Dr. Charles W. Myers, hospital superintendent, and Albert F, Walsman, business manager. 2 ‘Those to study the plan to con vert the third and fourth floor section are Dr. Myers, Frank J. Le

. Walsman and J. Edwin

Dr. Morgan in his annual report|

Mdivanis' Row Now Up to Son

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26 (U. P.). —Judge George M. Dockweiler said today that he would ask David Koran Mdivani, 13, whether he wants to stay with his father, Prince David Mdivani, or his mother, Mae Murray, the actress, who says she is almost penniless. The child’s answer is expected to have an important bearing on Judge Dockweiler’s decision in Miss Murray's suit to force Mdivani to pay her $1000 a month, Miss Murray wants to establish a home, a prerequisite, a New York court ruled recently, to her removal of the boy from, New York. . She sobbed as she testified that her fortune had dwindled from $3,000,000 in 1926 to the point, 10 years later, where she was forced to spend three days in New York's Central Park.

ROTARY AND RURAL FIELD TO BE TOPIC

“Rotary’s Rural Opportunities” will be discussed by A. B. Graham, formerly with the U. S. Department

ENGINEERS OF INDIANA ELECT

Ft. Wayne Man President of Council; City Resident Is Civic Group Head.

Dagfin Holm Hanson, Ft. Wayne, an insulation engineer, is the new president of the Indiana Engineering Council. He was elected by 300 engineers

who met at the Hotel Lincoln Saturday for the 60th annual all-en-gineers’ meeting of Indiana. S. G. Cohen, indianapolis, was named vice president. A secretary-treasurer is to be appointed later. J. Emmett Hall, Indianapolis, was elected president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Indiana section, L. E, Martin, Lafayette, was named vice president and Denzil Daggett, Indianapolis, secretarytreasurer. Dr. Alonza J. Hammond, Chicago, president of the American Engineering Council, was the principal speaker at the banquet Saturday

‘of Agriculture, at the Rotary Club |night

luncheon tomorrow at the Clay pool Hotel's Riley Room. He is being presented by the Indiana Rotary Committee on Conferences of Adult Rural Leaders. Mr. Graham is a special teacher at Ohio State University, where he was the first Director of Agricultur=al Extension. aio

Convention speakers included L. V. James, lighting and sight specialist of the General Electric Co, Chicago; W. E. Griffiths, of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co., Chicago; Prof. C. C. Knipmeyer, Rose Polytechnic Institute, and Lawrence V.

‘Sheridan, Indianapolis, consulting

engineer of landscape architecture.

Helen J. Jones, Tech Pupil,

Miss Helen J. Jones, 335 N. Noble St., today was winner of the sixth annual constitutional essay contest conducted by Hayward-Barcus Post No. 55, American Legion, for Indianapolis high school pupils. Since she is a pupil at Tech High School, the victory gives that school its second victory in the series. With three more, the school will gain permanent possession of the loving cup ‘award. Another Tech student won the 1935 contest. Sr Miss Jones is 17 and the daughter of Mrs. Opal Graham. Her assay

‘was entitled “Our Constitutional

‘Heritage.” - Second ‘went to Dayid Charles Hyde, who is a senior at Broad Ripple High School. He is

Mr. and Mrs. Char

~ Wins Legion Essay Contest

orable mention went to Miss Mildred Delks, daughter of Mrs. Nellie Delks, 1009 Chadwick St. She is a student at Manual Training High School. The post Americanism officer, Ar-

- {thur F. G. Gemmer, had charge of

the contest, and Val Nolan, U. S. Disfrict Attorney; Dr, Daniel 8S. Robinson, Butler University president, and Homer Chaillaux, Legion’ national Americanism director, were judges. “ W. P. Weimar, post commander, presented the cup to the winner. Others were presented ‘with silver ‘medals. Also participating in the radio presentation program were Arthur Hollander, Shortridge; Mary Alice Logan, W

Ruby White, Crispus. Attucks, Eleanore Wasilewski, Indiana &

Goes to Court To Get Twins

ROCHESTER, Ind., Feb. 26 (U. P.).—A hearing was scheduled in Fulton Circuit Court today on a petition by Herman Denton of near Rochester for a writ of habeas corpus to: obtain posses=sion of his 10-weeks-old twin son and daughter, Jack and Julia. Named defendants were Mrs. Faye Swihart, County Probation Officer, the Woodlawn Hospital, where the babies are, and Mrs. M. H. Gruelach, hospital superintendent. Denton claimed that the twins were being held against his . wishes. Mrs. Swihart said that the mother, Mrs. Bessie Denton, left the hospital two weeks after the babies were born and that after the twins were nine, K weeks old, hospital authorities asked the Juvenile Court for advice. She “said she expected Mr. Denton’s petition would be granted.

HOUSING PROJECT SOUGHT FOR CITY

The crystalization of sentiment to bring a United - States Housing Authority project to Indianapolis will be sought at a dinner meeting at the Y. W. C, A. Wednesday evening. The meeting and movement to

get a low-rent housing project here within the next few months are sponsored by the Citizens’ Housing Committee. Reservations for the meeting ‘are in charge of Mrs. Con-

stance Strauss, 1415 N. Delaware St.| . Robert M. Sentman, regional in-

formation representativer of the USHA, will describe: the mechanics of the operation of the projects. He will discuss what is necessary to obtain 90 per cent Government loans after municipalities have set up local housing authorities. The committee plans to present an ordinance to City Council establishing a housing authority.

_ ARRESTED IN CANADA OTTAWA, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—A sol-

'dier, a Government employee and a

reporter for a newspaper banned

by the Government were under rest today on charges of d h mmunist. liters

n; Burnice/minion-wide

WILL HAYS TO SPEAK AT BANQUET HERE

Will H. Hays, movie tsar, will be the principal speaker at the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity’s annual state Founder’s Day banquet at the Columbia Club, March 9. Mr. Hays, a native of Sullivan, Ind, is a past president of the Fraternity’s general council. Also on the program is singing by the active chapter at DePauw, led by Gene Pennington, Greencastle public school music head. Warpy Waterfall’s Indiana University band will play for the dance. Committee chairmen, named by General chairman William P. Evans, were banquet, Maynard Hokanson; - dance, George Horsv; tickets, Wile liam Hart; award, George Schue macher; nominations, James Mure ray; and publicity, James Roberts,

TEST YOURKNOWLEDGE

1—Name the capital of Alaska. 2—Who was known as “The Hero of the Nile”? 3—Who owns the Azores? 4—What is the birthstone for Febe ruary? : ; 5—What ‘is Babe Ruth’s greatest ‘home run total for a single sea= son? 6—From which organization ‘does John L. Lewis receive his $25,000 a year salary—the C. I. O. or United Mine Workers? | 7—If an insured parcel is lost in| the mail does the Postoffice pay ~ [its actual value or the amount for which it is insured? | 8—What is the only man-made structure on earth that is likely to be visible from the planet

Mars? #8 ®

‘Answers 1—Juneau. 2—Horatio Nelson.

3—Portugal. 5—Sixty. 6—United Mine Workers. T—Its actual. value, 8—The Great Wall of China. ; 8 = 8

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