Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1940 — Page 13

1940

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28,

Hoosier Vagabond

DIRIAMBA, Nicaragua, Feb. 28. —Ernesfo Gonzales is one of 12 children, and he in turn is the father of 12 children. And. he’s in his early 40s. The Gonzales around Diriamba are thicker than Youngs in Salt Lake City.. They own a number of coffee : fincas, and Ernesio’s uncle is the richest man around here. Diriamba is a town of about 10,000, very old, and its streets are still of dirt. Ernesto Gonzales lives in town, but spends

. every day at his large finca: He

some four miles out. He is a hard worker. stays out of politics, has an American sense of humor, and devotes all his time and thought to the culture of his coffee. He was in school in Belgium when the World War broke -out. For some reason, many of the richer youths around here go to Belgium to school. The war drove Ernesto to the States, and he continued his schooling first in the East and then in California. He speaks good English. His father began planting coffee trees on these lovely hills in 1850. In his lifetime he set out 13 million trees. They are now divided up into many Gonzales plantations, and Ernesto has 600,000 trees on his finca alone. On his lands are also rich tropical woods, ‘and deadly snakes, and parrots, and wild monkeys by

te the thousand.

The War Hurts Business Mr. Gonzales not only processes at his mill all the coffee from his own 700 acres of trees, but he buys all the berries produced by 175 little coffee growers. He ships annually about 23,000 quintals of coffee (a quintal is 100 pounds). That amounts to a little less than 7 per dent of Nicaragua's total coffee export. There are about 200 other coflee fincas in Nicaragua, so you see his is one of the largest. Mr. Gonzales rides around his plantation in a Buick with the new gear-shift. He rides in a cloud of dust, and during the rainy season he can’t ride

Our Town | I'M OLD ENOUGH, too, to remember the Philistine Period. Gosh, what haven't I been through! | "Most people have an idea that the Philistine Period

started with Elbert Hubbard. It's a mistake. To be sure, he had a lot to answer for, but to charge him * with being the whole cheese certainly misses the point. At any rate, it loses sight of the| fact that long before Mr. Hubbard came on the scene we had a crop of periodicals all doing their durndest to give expression to the spirit of the Nineties. The deluge of periodicals began with the Chap Book, I remember. Then came The Lark and with it, in the very first number, “The Purple Cow,” a soul- stirring and spontaneous quatrain by Gelett Burgess. Remember? you've never been allowed to forget it.

“I never saw.a Purple Cow; I never ‘hope to see one; But I can tell you anyhow I'd rather see than be one.”

It Took Nerve, Too

How Elbert Hubbard ever had the nerve to start The Philistine after Mr. Burgess had the field fenced off is something else I've never been able to figure out, but the fact remains that he did. What’s more, he made a go of it, and because he did is probably why everybody thought it his privilege to send a personal message by way of an arty magazine. Indianapolis was no exception. On Dec. 1, 1896, Indianapolis got into the running with The Ishmaelite, a monthly published by the - Mount Nebo Press. In appearance, it was more or less like The Philistine. Like its pfogenitor, too, it was “a periodical of protest.” With this difference, however, that whereas The Philistine did a lot of moralizing on the side, The Ishmaelite never stooped 7 |

Washington

MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 28.—Actions speak louder than words, particularly in politics. Therefore it is well to note, not what Republicans say, but what they do, as the more revealing guide to what is coming, Dr. Glenn Frank sounded many long and beautiful words about the Republican program in his recent report. He

offered the party a nobly phrased, ;

broadminded. course, which recognized that times have changed. He urged the Republican Party to move up ifito the procession and accept most of the basic reforms of the Roosevelt Administration, with the addition of more efficient administration and modifications to remove some of their irritating and obstructive features. But there was a notice- : able Jack of enthusiasm for the - Frank report among Republican spokesmen, Inost of whom lapsed into silence. Then came the first significant action. It was the appointment of that hard-bitten, tough foe of New Deal reforms, Ernest T. Weir, head of the National

Steel Co.. as chairman of the Republican finance com--

mittee. He and his friends are to raise money to run the Republican Party at least through the nominating convention, They already have raised about $600,000 toward taking the party out of hock from the 1936 campaign. | { - 8

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Mr. Weir's Opportunity |

Mr. Weir and his fellow millionaires are digging into their pockets to pay the piper, Unless they suddenly have gone soft, they are going to call the tune. And the tune won't be one that President Roosevelt or any of his sympathizers likes. I don’t want to pick on Mr, Weir or to sey to ‘be

My Day

GOLDEN BEACH, Fla. Tuesday. —We were very busy yesterday morning getting Jimmy off to his plane. His friends, the Ned .Brandons from Boston, came to see him and sat in the sun for a while, and then offered to drive him to the airport. I went up to talk to him while he packed and finally, very reluctantly saw him leave, A little while later, Franklin Jr.’s wife, Ethel, called me up to say she had come down to be

with her mother, sister and sis-'

ter-in-law at the Boca Raton Club, and that they were driving over to the races and would stop to see me either on their way over or on their way home. I told her I would greet them warmly whenever they | stopped, for I had no intention of leaving my own domain. It was nearly 6 o'clock when the young things turned up, all looking much too young and pretty to carry any responsibilities. We had a nice talk, and they thought I had picked out a nice _ place to hibernate. Ethel said that she ew that if Franklin Jr. didn’t have examinations staring him in the face just now, that I would have received word that they both .vanted to come and stay! The National Society for Crippled Children of the

Of course you do, because

at all, for the mud. He ‘wears a white linen suit and a flat straw hat.

His house in town is built flush with the side-| walk, on a corner, and you'd think it was a public|

building until he swings opén: the huge doors and reveals the inside. And there you are in a wide-

open Spanish mansion, built around a patio, and :

all finished in mahogany.

He and Mrs. Gonzales went to the States last] summer and took in both the New York and San|

Francisco Fairs. It was their first trip up in a long time, for coffee raising is a serious business and you can’t go gadding around on too many trips. And then too, times are hard for coffee growers. The war has had its effect. ‘ping to Europe has flooded the American market, and prices are down. 2

A Job for Hannagan

‘Nicaraguan growers are getting from 314 2 to 61a cents a pound: It costs them 7 cents a pound to raise it. Mr. Gonzales says they'd still be all right if they could get for Nicaraguan coffee what its quality deserves. He says the growers have so improved the quality in the past few years that it is now every bit as fine as the coffee of Colombia and Costa Rica, acknowledged to be the best in the world. Their best, coffee brings nearly 20 cents a pound.

e says the main trouble is that Nicaragua is|

poor-and they can’t afford to send delegations up to ballyhoo their coffee to the importers. ; I suggested that what the Nicaraguan coffee growers need is a high-powered press agent, and he agreed. I'm too busy myself raising tomatoes to take the job, but it looks to me as if here's a perfect campaign for Steve Hannagan and his boys. I'll bet that within a year Steve would have full-page pic- | tures in Life showing President Roosevelt beating a faithful old servant for serving Colombian coffee.

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The moral, if any, is that Nicaraguan workers get 20 cents a day and everybody is broke, and at home we get $5 a day and everybody is broke, and whether it's coffee in Nicaragua or steel mills in Pittsburgh it’s a terrible world anyhow and I suspect we'd all be ‘better off without it.

By Anton Scherrer

that low. From the beginning it stood pat without benefit or parenthetical remarks. In the first number, for instance, it came right out land declared that: “We are against the whole decadent business in literature, religion, art or politics. In our opinion Shakespeare is a greater poet than Ella Wheeler Wilcox and a greater dramatist than Jerome K. Jerome and Clyde Fitch.” In the first number, too, The Ishmaelite cracked down on domestic affairs. - “We shall do what we can to suppress those holdups known as linen showers and kitchen showers.” That was telling em, and to cap the climax it said: “We do| not especially care for the new woman.” Coming as it did just at the time of the Battle of Sexes, it left everybody gasping for breath. After that, of course, nobody gave The Ishmaelite more than two months to live.

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Its Mission Completed

Well, believe it or not, The Ishmaelite lived to be three years old. In the course of its activity, it circulated some of the best nifties ever thought up in Indianapolis. In the May number of 1897, for instance, Grace Alexander had quite a piece about music in the course of which she ventured the belief that “the Wagner craze has run its course.” And in the very last

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number an anonymous contributor set the world on fire with “One touch of Ibsen makes a whole stage

sin.” Elbert Hubbard would have given his right arm to have thought up something half as good. Indeed, The Ishmaelite made The Philistine look sick. It couldn’t help it.with its roster of’ contributors which included John E. Cleland, Meredith Nicholson, Booth Tarkington, Hilton Brown, the Howland brothers, Hector Fuller, May Shipp, Emma Carleton and George Calvert: The Ishmaelite folded up finally with the May 1899 number. . For the simple reason that there wasn’t anything left to kick about. The last number, I remember, contained a contribution by the Bowen-Mer-rill people—a full page advertising ‘Palmer's Patented Hammocks in prices ranging from 49c to $3.”

By Raymond Clapper

making a personal devil out of him. In the class which he represents, he stands as one of the ablest and one of the most successful, & man who is honest and courageous about the things in which he believes, one not inclined to sacrifice principles for expediency.

I'm just sorry that a man like Mr. Weir doesn’t get|:

behind the Glenn Frank report and make the Republican Party into a live, going comcern again instead of trying to keep it a dead echo of other days. All these millionaires around here, crying about how Roosevelt has ruiried the country, their salty tears dripping on the polished decks of their yachts, living mighty well for people who have been ruined— they would listen to a man like Mr. Weir. But he and they see in what has. happened during the last seven years only an attack upon themselves, an silempy to take something away fen Ron, :

Might Miss the "Boat"

One gentleman here was complaining about FHA. I notice that residential construction, much of it financed through FHA-guaranteed mortgages, rose 40 per cent last year above 1938. But my friend said that in this activity the Government was compelling owners of real estate to pay taxes fo - subsidize, or guarantee mortgages on, new housing: which would compete with his apartment houses and undermine his rents. “I have tu help pay the Government to finance my competition,” he said. Of course he would prefer to have fewer houses and apartments built. Men who are financing the Republican Party see only Roosevelt and not the conditions of which he is the creature, not the creator. They couldn't see it in 1932 nor again in 1936, and it looks as if they are going to miss the boat again. Certainly they are having trouble finding the gangplank. And if they don't watch out they’ll wind up again by walking that other plank, which has nothing at the end except deep water, -

By Eleanor Roosevelt

United States of America, which has its headquarters in Elyria, O., sends me word that on the first of March they will open their annual Easfer seal drive. This national society has state associations and the Easter seal drive helps to finance these state groups. They work on legislation upholding anything which will help to increase the state's responsibility for the cost, care and treatment of crippled children. They are most anxious to see Federal aid extended for the education of physically hang’ pped children of all types. In 1937 it was estin Jed that a total of 1,873,231 handicapped children footed special education, and less than 10 per cent of that number were veceiving it. At the same time that this society watches legislation the groups co-operate with social Veliare agencies in making happier the lot of crippled children.

case Last night I read three stories about dogs by Alex-|

ander Woollcott, collected in a little book called: “Verdun Belle.” That is the name of one of these stories which. the “Town Crier” read over the air. Everyone who likes dogs will enjoy these stories. If you happen to be interested in the effect that schools can have on the growth of communities, I think you will enjoy reading Miss Elsie Clapp’s book: “Community Schools in Action.” She is a most interesting and unique person who did a remarkable piece

By Ernie Pyle

The difficulty of ship-|

By Thomas M. Johnson

NEA Service Military Writer

show whether the Finns will to the Atlantic.

though Finland's lakes will be ice-free and so impassable, her forests will be tin-

der for incendiary bombs.

Respite now can save Finland then, only by bringing to her much stronger aid than now is coming. Stronger aid may come if by more Altmark incidents the Scandinavians are maneuvered into the war.

Or the Allies may decide they had best use Finland as a bridge into Russia and Germany. To send an expeditionary force across that bridge would require perhaps two million shipping tons monthly. But the attempt may be made, to co-ordinate with action by the Allies in the . . ,

EAST—heightening suspense in

125 T0 ATTEND CHURCH DINNER

Affair Friday Will Be 1st Of a Series in Central Indiana Area.

The first of the 1940 series of men’s dinners of the Central Indiana Area of the Christian Church will be held at 6 p. m. Friday at the University Park Christian Church. About 125 men from six counties surrounding Indianapolis are expected to attend. They will represent about 16 churches, according to Dr. G. I. Hoover, Indiana Christian Missionary Association general secretary.

5 1X months of war! Mars boxes the compass and hough

the glass, darkly, appear these images: NORTH—Crisis in Finland. The next fortnight may

survive or Bolshevism stride

The real Red army, at last mustering its overwhelm--ing strength, hopes to breach the Mannerheim zone before melting snow makes that area a quagmire until May, and muddies up the rest of the frontier until June. Even then,

the Balkans and Asia. For the present Allied eastern aims are probably defense against German or Russian attacks to get Bessarabia, and Rumanian oil. Eventually there is probability of a Franco-British attack. An Allied army of half a million is gathered in Syria and Egypt near enough to move northeastward into the backdoor to Russia and Germany, while Turkey lets French warships through the Dardanelles. Maybe it is months off, but against such a move with German help Russia strengthens her defenses, and threatens India via Iran and Afghanistan.

SOUTH—Crucial Italy becomes less vulnerable to France as her new fast battleships strengthen her hold on the mid-Mediterran-

Friends of Turtles Rush

THE WAR AT Nazi subs, mines, bers ravage ollied shipping. Six months’ sea losses: REGISTRY SHIPS TONNAGE Britain 180 675,000 Neutral 165 455,322 Germany 29 151,191 France 18 71.777 Tota! 392 1,353,390 . British naval vessels: 27 Nazi subs: 50. Sea dead: 5000

ITALY

WESTERN FRONT SPAIN After quiet winter, Allies expect Nazi push in spring. Estimated casualties:

British: 5000-6000 x

French: 7000-20,000 German: 7000-20,000 Planes lost: Br.: 125-150

SECOND SECTION

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Britain extends sea blockade to Murmansk; Finns fight to regain Soviet-held Petsamo so aid

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conflict is threat to Balkan peace; Turkey, Rumania mobilize

Fr.: 100-150; Ger.: 200-300

Scale of Miles

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RUSSO-FINNISH WAR Reds hammer at Finn line in war's biggest battles. Estimated Russian losses in 3 months of war: Tanks, aa casualties; § 150,000-185,000;

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RUMANIA

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Europe ends six months of war with prospects of increased action on all fronts and of spread of conflict to at least three regions—Scandinavia, Balkans and the Near East. The map charts the march of Mars for half a year and poinis- to possible future developments.

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ean and her influence in the Balkans. What she does will depend on one thing: what will do her the most good. : Her axis-partner, Germany, may win more of Italy's. support by using her own new fast battleships, perhaps three, to weaken the dominance of Britain's fleet. The British blockade has wiped out half Germany’s foreign trade, which is not fully compensated by increases in Balkan and Russian trade. In time it may—which explains Franco-British activity in the east. But in the . , .

WEST—there’s the crux. Germany has sunk in six months onethird as much shipping as in the

To Save Them From Soup

As nearly as can be determined 1 by present-day methods, the Hoosier turtle’s best friend is Douglas MacGregor, 619 Strand St., Ocean Park, Cal. He wrote the State Conservation Department, under date of Washington’s. birthday, as follows: “I have just read of the impending slavghter of turtles due in your community. . . , I strongly object to the commercial destrifetion of your wildlife just because a lot of money-mad hicks see a chance to make some extra cash by reducing your balance of nature.” It has been predicted by the Conservation Department that, on the basis of inquiries received to dafe, there will be a lot of turtles killed for the commercial market in the state tHis year—more than in any year within memory. If Mr. MacGregor isn't the

The dinner will be served by the women of the University Park Church. Similar meetings will be

held here and at other key points throughout the State in an effort to interest men in the church work.

Dr. Martin to Be Toastmaster

Guests will be introduced and speakers will talk on men's problems in the church. A discussion of these problems will follow. At 16 similar meetings last year about 1700 persons attended. The Rev. S. G. Fisher, University Park Church pastor, will introduce Dr. Jesse E. Martin, Indianapolis Christian Church past president, who will be toastmaster at the Friday night affair. Dr. Hoover, representing the Missionary Association, and Dr. E. L. Day of the Indianapolis Christian Church Union, will offer introductory statements. - Prof. John Hussey of Noblesville will speak on the Indiana Christian, a church publica~ tion. Rev. T. K. Smith to Speak

Addresses will be made by the Rev. T. K. Smith, pastor of the Tabernacle and Bert Wilson, field representative of the Disciples of Christ Pension Fund. A song program will be led by the Rev. Leon Weatherman, Fairfax Christian Church pastor... Mrs. Arline Dux Scoville will sing. Grace will be said by the Rev. Harry Lett, pastor of the First Christian Church of Danville, and benediction will be given by the Rev. Glenn Tudor,

pastor of the First Christian Church of Martinsville.

UNION AGENT POSTS BOND IN BLAST CASE

LA PORTE, Ind. Feb. 28 (U. P.). —A surety bond of $25,000 was furnished in La Porte Circuit Court late yesterday for John A. Marks, of Michigan City, held in connection with a series of power line bombings, but he was held on a warrant for Noble County authorities in connection with the same

Marks, 5 business agent of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, was freed in South Bend last week when bonds of $30,000 and $25,000 were furnished in Federal and Circuit Court on charges growing out of the. power line blasts. Nine power line towers in northern Indiana and southern Michigan

of work in two different schools for the Communities in which she lived, 4

were bombed in the series of blasts

Bernard Bechtel,

Church of Columbus,’

turtle’s best friend, then it must be 630 Hamilton TFerrace, Johnstown, Pa. Two days earlier he wrote concerning the impending slaughter of turtles: . the least that could be done is to “conduct an investigation to see if the reptiles deserve what may

mean possible extinction in that state. While this investigation is in progress the massacre should. be delayed.” Then, of course, there was James Peters, president of the International Herpetology Society, Greenup, Ill, who wrote in part: “Do you realize, gentlemen, just what this slaughter will mean? In a very short time, Indiana will have no turtles at all. . Gentlemen, I urge you to do all within your power to have legislation passed to forbid this waste of wildlife.” Well, the Conservation Department, in the interests of the stili sleeping “turtles, issued a warning to persons planning to get rich by trapping and selling turtles in the state that they probably can't. The turtles available here are not the kind most prized in turtle-eat-ing circles. The turtles that really bring fancy prices are the diamond backed terrapins and they do nol grow here. Nevertheless, the department will not deny that there seems to be every chance of a large turtle rush this spring, whether it will turn oul to be a financial flop or not.

GETS PRISON TERM IN SLAYING OF MATE

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. Feb. 28 (U. P.).—Joseph B. O'Neil, 53, former Jeffersonville tavern owner, last night was convicted on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of his wife, was sentenced to a two-to-21-year term at the State Prison. .It was the third time he had been tried in connection with the case. He was sentenced to life imprisonment the first time and later granted.a new trial by the State Supreme Court. The second jury disagreed. Mrs. O'Neil was shot Dec. 24, 1936.

MATE KEEPS WIFE .FROM SUICIDE LEAP

Times Special GARY, Ind. Feb. 28. —A Gary husband is credited by police here with saving the life of his 33-year-old wife who attempted to jump from the sixth floor of an apartment house while several hundred passersby looked on breathlessly. The woman locked herself in a room, opened the window and prepared to jump, Her husband, fearing a suicide attempt, opened an djoining apartment window, abbed a broom and knocked his wife back into the room each time she stuck her head out the window. Police finally broke down the door and seized the woman.

MRS. MYRTLE ERVIN, TRUSTEE, DIES AT 40

Times Special | ALEXANDRIA, Ind, Feb 28.-— Mrs. Myrtle Ervin, Monroe - “Township Trustee, died yesterday in an Anderson hospital. She was 40 and recently hac undergone a major operation. She had been in office since Jan. 1, 1939, and previously had been Deputy Trustee and a ‘school teacher.

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Indiana Traveler,

83, Off to Mexico

Times Special KENDALLVILLE, Ind, Feb. 28. —Kendallville’s air-minded octogenarian is off on another flight for an indefinite period. The 83-year-old world-wide traveler is C. M. Case, former mayor here who prefers flying to

other modes of transportation. He is bound for Brownsville, Tex., from he will leave for Mexico City\ and other parts of Mexico. This\is his second trip to Mexico in recent years.

ROBS BENEFACTOR, GETS 90-DAY TERM

Times Special . PT. WAYNE, Ind. Feb. 28.—A 31-year-old LaGrange man was fined $11 and _ given 90 days on the Indiana State Farm by City Judge Wililam H. Schannen after police said he confessed to stealing $18.65 and a watch from a man who befriended him. Police said the man

‘was given a place to sleep and eat

by Lauren Iddings, who knew him for 14 years. “The part that hurts,” said Mr. Iddings, “is that he paid me $2 on account for room and board from the money he stole from my clothes while I slept.” .

STORE VANDALS PUT SAND IN ICE CREAM

Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. 28— “Why?” asked Robert Hoover, manager of a restaurant here, when he opened. Ye store for business one

the store during the night.

floor by the intruders who entered |th

unrestricted campaign of early 1917. But lately sinkings by air-bomb-ing have. so risen that Britain must arm fishing boats with guns that might be useful defending ports and docks from the air

armadas likely to come at Easter. Significantly, the Red army’s dent in the Mannerheim zone was made when 5(0 airplanes worked in close liaison with ground troops in bombing Finnish fortifications and batteries. Germany and Russia combined have the world’s largest air force. There the needle on Mars’ compass trembles frantically. Air power? Germany plus Russia?

(TRAFFIC GROUP

MEETS APRIL 2

Motor Trasportation Club! Reveals Plans for Gridiron. ‘The Indianapolis Motor Transportation Club will hold its second an-

nual gridiron banquet‘April 2 at the Severin Hotel.

At the 6:30 p. m. dinner, awards will be given to winners of the membership contest now being conducted by P. L. Joyce, membership chairman and former club president. Afterward a stage revue will be given by members of the club, directed by Robert L. Smock. Two skits will burlesque activities of members and shippers of the Indianapolis arep. A quartet of local traffic men, including Mose (Collins of E. C. Atkins & Co.; Robert Spillman of the Prest-O-Lite (Co.; T. Paul Jackson of the Diamond Chain & Manufacturing Co., and an undisclosed fourth member, will sing. Principal aitraction will be the Can-Can chorus featuring club members, each dancing a specialty and presenting a song stunt. Delbert McCormick will present a “bubble dance.” R. W. Fogarty of the United States Rubber Co. and Pat Brown of the International Harvester Co. will give a skit entitled “Oh, Happy College days.” The Quiz Question Box again will be conducted this year by “Professor” Earl F. Throm. On the general arrangements committee are F. M. Jackson, chairman; Mr. Joyce, J. M. Shinkle, W. J. Healy, Robert Winder, D. F. McCormick, J. B. Holmes and Fay Langdon, club president.Board members for 1940, in addition to Mr. Langdon, are Mr. Throm, vice president; Mr. Jackson, treas-

- lurer, and John L. Gedig, secretary.

Directors are Mr. Healy, Mr. McCormick and R. C. Campbell.

SOUTH §IDE GROUP TO DISCUSS MERGER

A proposal to merge the South Side Civic lub, Inc. with the South Central - Club will be discussed Friday at an 8 p. m. meeting of the former organization in South .Side- Turners Hall. The South Central Club is an organization centered around School 35. Its melnbership is open to womexr:’ as vell as men. If the

undoubtedly ‘will have to change its constitution, since women are not permitted to join. Sheriff Al Feeney will speak pn “Youth.” Arthur ler is South Side president and bert Seyirizd is secretary.

II. U. EXTENSION CLASS

WILL HEAR REALTOR

Robert Allison, local realtc of thé Indian

‘What | ti puzzled Mr. Hoover most was Ww A She is survived by her husband, ; dumped ni ! _and two sisters, :

.| Franklin Buchanan, 1929 N.

merger occur; the South Side Club].

Can air power used ruthlessly break through modern fortifica= tions like the Maginot Line or the Westwall, and crush nations better prepared than were the Poles? While they still have preponederance, before British, French and American factories can catch up, will Germany and Russia merge resources and manpower? And under expert German guidance, will they fight a “holy war" against capitalism and democracy? Those stupendous questions we shall have answered before another six months have passed. No

wonder Mars’ compass needle trembles!

Riley Stamps Are Selling Fast

Times Special ~ GREENFIELD, Ind, Feb. 28.— ° More than half of the 280,000 James Whitcomb Riley commem-= orative stamps sent to the poste ° office here from Washington last week already have been sold, Postmaster Marshall Winslow said today. A total of 192,794 of the 10-cent stamps were sold up to this morning and the remainder was exs. pected to be purchased by Saturday.

NAVY ENLISTS 14, = OPENS NEW DRIVE

The Navy Recruiting Station here started on a new month's quota today after sending 14 recruits to Great Lakes Naval Training Station yesterday. Two of the new enrollees are from Indianapolis, Russell Harris Craig, 402 Arnolda St., and James Alabama St. Each enlistment is for six years. Other recruits were Hary Clifford Clephane of Morgantown, William Franklin Bickel of Knox, Richard Warren Ramsey and Charles Lester Hobson of Vincennes, James Robert Innis of Hagerstown, Harold Dean McKenzie of Colfax, Gerald Orville Davis of Al« exandria, Willard Norman Koebke of Marion, John William Hanner of Freetown, Willis Elmo Flowers of Anderson, Oscar Phillip Troutman of Shoals and Floyd Sterling Here ron of Denver, Ind. -

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What state in the United States ranks first in area? 2—What is a philanderer? 3—How many men: rode into the “Valley of Death” at Balaclava in the Crimean War? 4—JIs “down beat” a term used in swing music, on cattle ranches, or in *table tennis? —~5—What is the name for ‘young hares? : 6—With what sport is Hal Surface associated? T—What is Paul V. MoNutte po= sition in the Federal Govern ment? 8—Does a person born in the United States lose his citizenship when he is imprisoned more than a year?

2 Answers

1—Texas. 2—A man given to trifling lovee making.

3—600. 4—Swing music. 5—Leverets, 6—Tennis. T—Administrator, Federal Security Agency. §—No.