Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1940 — Page 19

FRIDAY, APRIL 2,

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Hoosier Vagabond

| MIAMI, April 12.—T'll bet here’s something you didn’t know, even if you've been here.| | Down in these parts, where serving visitors is the No. 1 industry, hotel maids actually go to school to learn how to be hotel maids. - And so do bellhops, and elevator boys, and waitresses, and phone operators, ‘and desk clerks. And it’s no | private school, either. It's under the regular county [school system and doesn’t cost the pupils anything. So far as they know here, this is done in no other state in the ‘ Union. In nine years they have trained nearly 5000 hotel workers. The sehool opens each August | ] —the slackest n in Miami— | and runs till cember. By the first week in January practically every one of the pupils has a job. It takes around 12,000 people to service the 400 hotels that care for Miami's winter visitors. About a tenth of them are graduates of this hotel school. The school doesn’t take transients. The student. body is limited to about 425. Twice as many apply. | The school is held in one of the big hotels which isn’t open for guests during that ‘period. A different hotel is used each year. | During the first two weeks the pupils get lectures and classroom stuff. The next two weeks they get practice. And they wind up by actually setting up the |hotel for business, and with part of the class acting as guests they pitch in and operate the place.

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\9 Instructors on Staff

The school has an instruction staff of nine, under Superintendent H. R. Cole. All of them except Mr. Cole are hotel people. One of the instructors, in fact the one who told me about the thing in the first place, is Maury L. Noftsger. He is superintendent of rvice in the hotel where we stay. But he wears uniform and totes bags along with the rest of them.| Noftsger is from Seattle. Fifteen years ago he got married and came across the feo finer to Florida on

his honeymoon. He and his bride spent all their money and couldn't get back, so they've been in Florida ever since. They don’t want to go back now. ~ The windup of each course is the most interesting.

‘Waitresses serve full-course meals—plaster-paris fried

eggs, bacon made of strips of inner tube, ice cubes and butter that are wooden blocks. It looks good enough to eat. Part of the class plays the part of hotel guests. They have a set of instructions to go by. One student (alias Financier Brooks of New York) sauntered in with his bag and registers. A student bellhop takes him to his room. Guest Brooks looks at ‘his instruction list, and sees it is time to call the clerk and ig a howl because he wasn't awakened at 9 a. After that he phones for a bellhop and sends his laundry out. Then he calls for ice water, and after that he demands an extra pillow (though it’s 10:30 in the morning). ”

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An Annoying ‘Guest’

He annoys the hotel staff to death. He calls for

clean towels, for cigarets, telegraph blanks, more ice water, morning papers. turned down. He demands it be turned up. He finally threatens to check out, and his fellow students wish to heaven he would. It's all play-acting, but boy they mean it. Listen to some of the bellhop’s training. He is instructed not to stare, nor butt into conversations. He can’t chew gum, keep his hands in his pockets, or discuss the guests. He is schooled not to drink liquor, nor to eat garlic or onions for 12 hours before going on duty. He must wash his hair once a week. He is forbidden to bite his nails. In the brief half-minute the bellboy spends putting your bags in the room, he has to make a glancing check of some 20 items, to see that everything is in order. The simple process of serving ice water is governed by a dozen -rigid rules. All the Miami bellboys I've seen are of an extraordinarily fine type. Nearly half of them are married, and a fourth own their own homes. Bellboys in Miami get a weekly wage of almost nothing. I think around $4 is the average. They make the rest in tips. Some hotels pay nothing at all.

Maginot Next? By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, April 12. aA | sudden, terrific, _ lightning blow against the Maginot Line—perhaps de- ~ livered in the not distant future and wholly without warning—may be Hitler's next major move. This Teport comes from acrgss the Atlantic—from conservative and reliable sources known to be close to the Nazi general staff. A Moreover, cor-

roborative (information has

reached [the writer from unrelated but) European observers. According to these sources, Reichsfuehrer | Hitler and his staff are now convinced that the Maginot| Line | is vulnerable and that the Nazis can break through any time t ey| 'want to. The Nazis claim to have an immense array of secret equipment which they have never| used—material which they have been accumulating and holding in reserve expressly for use against the French and British. They have—still according to the report — many huge guns capable of hurling shells of immense size to great distances. From the e air they would drop gigantic demolition bombs, and (bombs which generate such terrific heat that steel i fused instantaneously. Also gas bombs, gas project rs, special mechanized equipment, flame-throwers and others devices for use against surface and sub-surface emplacements along »

the famous line. Finnish. Campikpr ed Experience during the Soviet drive against Finlands Mannerheim Line is said to have taught the ans ‘that the shock of irect hits by high ex-

plosives is sufficient to throw [the delicate mechanism Ig guns out of gear and render them useless, even

sive treatment of this kind for several days, they roll through the shaken, fused and gassed line of ifications in their fast ar ored hanks and cars to open country beyond.

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te gotten, but the voters who have had opportunity to cho ose between them seem to know which they prefer. Young Mickey Rooney isn’t old enough or experienced enough to know anything about acting compared with the veteran troupers who are hanging around New York looking for parts, yet that doesn’t| prevent him from being the top box-office draw. It seems to be the same with Mr. Dewey, and the Republican politicians who ave been thinking he wouldn't do are beginning to wonder if | they have missed the boat. : : This opposition of the politicians to Mr. Dewey has caused him to be regarded automatically by some as a young liberal Galahad battling against entrenched reactionary forces. But that isn’t quite the picture. He jis surrounded by a sedate and conservative crowd, a group well heeled with important money althqgugh few of them have had any considerable pelitkels “experience, » The Dewey Backer 8 ‘Who are the men around Dewey, the men who are financing ‘him, managing him, and who will share the power if he gets it? The most important person in the Dewey group is

Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick | Simms, daughter of

Mark Hanna, rich and the only real big-time politician in the crowd. She is the political brains, and carries the load in organizing the campaign. - Everywhere you go around Dewe headquarters you hear them saying, “T’ll have to a Co-manager with her is J

My Day

DENVER, Colo, Thursday—Last evening just be-.

fore dinner, I happened to pick up a timetable and out of curiosity looked for the stations at which our *=ain would stop. Then, and only then, did I discover that we arrived in Denver at 8:50 a. m. and that our » car remained in the station until 4:50 in the afternoon! I had not known we would spend several hours in Denver. ~The itinerary furnished us by the lecture bureau only shows points of departure and points where we have to change trains, so on it was noted only the fact that we left Reno, Nev., at 5:40 a. m. and arrived in Kansas City, changed trains there and would Sake another train for Ft. Smith, Ark.

I was a little horrified at this | - discovery, for I had received a very kind invitation to 8 d a luncheon, given by a Democratic group, and had declined, thinking I was just passing through Denver and not making any stops. I now feel very

rpologetic to these wouldbe hosts of mine and want p tell them here how much I regret that I did not ow 1 I would be e Staying over.

thoroughly capable .

Russell Sprague, a new-

“ This reported plan of attack against the Maginot Line| dovetails with what a neutral military attache told me in one of the European capitals just before the war broke out. At that time Hitler was represented as calculating somewhat in this fashion: The World War cost Germany | approximately 1,7000,000 killed and 4,300,000 wounded in the more than four years which it lasted. Still Germany emerged bankrupt and defeated. If, therefore, the Reich could win this war by a short but

terrific drive, she would be the gainer even though she suffered 6,000,000 casualties in the process. "the per diem casualty list would be staggering but

True,

the grand total, war for war, would be the same. And,

by shortening the duration of the conflict, the economic’ blow would be softened and the Toney cost |

reduced.

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Secret Siege Guns

Should 'the Nazi general staff decide that the northern and southern end of the Maginot Line was easier to crack than the center, according to the sources mentioned, Holland and Belgium on the one hand, or Switzerland on the other, would be on the spot. | Certain reports have it that the secret siege guns which the Nazis are said to be holding in reserve are patterned after the Big Bertha which bombarded Paris in 1918 from a distance of 65 miles. Gunnery experts here, however, are inclined to discredit that part of the ‘story. ‘By their nature such’ shells can carry comparatively little explosive, hence they are not very | destructive. The guns wear out quickly, and after| being fired a few times: become inaccurate. Some of Bl Bertha’s shots actually missed Paris. To be effective against the casemates of the Maginot Line, direct hits would be necessary and demolition power would have to be colossal. Improved models of the 420 millimeter (18-inch) howitzers used by the Kaiser in 1914—a model with longer range and increased blasti ing power—would, it is believed, do more damage. Germany, it is said, does not contemplate sending any large number of troops to Scandinavia, preferring to keep them near the Western Front. Nor, it is repote; oth pla

large centers. That is a game at which two can and she fears the inevitable retaliation.

(Mr, Antod S herrer was unable to write " column today because of illness.)

By Raymond Clapper

comer in national politics and likely to be Dewey's national chairn nan if they win the nomination. He has been county supervisor for Nassau County, as well as county Republican leader and member of the State Republican Executive Committee. He has a head for public finance land is an expert in local government and politics, if not in the national field. Charles Sisson, an assistant Attorney General under Hoover, a member of the “out” faction in Rhode Island, is New England manager, also general field man and trouble shooter. He was sent to Washington to buttonhole members of the Republican: National Committee at their recent meeting. # ”»

His Banker Friends | The big idea man behind the scene is John Foster Dulles, senior partner in Sullivan & Cromwell (one of

the biggest law firms in New York, with six floors of offices at 48 Wall St.), a high-collared conservative if {there ever was one, rich, able, with a list of bluechip corporation clients that reads like Moody's manual. His yognger brother, Allen W. Dulles, in the same firm, who writes and speaks on international affairs and is one of the Henry Stimson so-called “interventionist” group, is also in the picture but to a lesser degree. Another is Artemus Gates, president of the New York Trust Co., who was brought up by the Morgans and married a ‘daughter of the late Henry P. Davidson, one of the most famous of the Morgan partners. Mr. Gates would think Kenneth Simpson, New York Republican National Committeeman, a radical; he’s that far over the other way. Then there), is S. Sloan Colt, president of the Bankers’ Trust Co. Enough said. And, Roger W. Straus, a heavy holder and executive in the American Smelting & Refining Co., probably the most liberally inclined of the| lot and a patron of Alf Landon in the 1936 campaign, :

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

We crossed the Great Salt Lake yesterday afternoon just at sunset time. This lake, because of its marvelous blue color and surrounding white capped mountains, is always very beautiful, besides being of

‘interest because of its high salt content which in-

crusts all the wood on the train trestle and acts as a preservative that gleams almost like piles of Snow here and there along the shore, 1 recalled a trip many years ago in the spring of 1915 when we were with the Vice President and Mrs. Marshall bound for the San Francisco Fair of that year. The Vice President was urged-to sit on the back platform as we ‘crossed this same lake to admire the scenery. With an honesty which few people have, he remarked: “Scenery means nothing to me and I wish people would not try to bring to my attention things which do not interest me.” 1 was ‘still fairly young in those days and the Vice President filled me with awe, but I could appreciate his dry humor which made him ‘say the most ‘amusing things and keep his face so absolutely solemn that you wondered if he really meant you to laugh. No one can think of anything but the war news, and even when people do not speak about it, you soon find that it is the one thing they are thinking about. No wonder, for what is a world going to be like which

lis ruled entirely by force? All the concepts of right

and wrong we have been building up will cease to

|have any value, if force is Ld be the determining fac-

tor in every situation,

He demands that his bed be|

, does she intend to bombard London, Paris and |

The Indianapolis

By Ernie Pyle. Beech Grove—From a Pasture, It Grew Into a City

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SECOND SECTION

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Fathers for Civic oy

The 4500 residents of Beech

Council. Incorporated in 1906, this little pasture, woods and lanes into lawns,

ment of the Big Four Railroad Shops and has reached adulthood as a fifth-class city (the second largest city in Marion County), was governed after its incorporation by a town board. The city fathers recognized, in 1935, that Beech Grove was outgrowing this ruling body and a gov: ernment similar to that of its big sister, Indianapolis, was adopted. Typical Hoosiers, Beech Grovers discuss as much as anyone the “third term” and “How about McNutt?” and “what about the Two Per Cent Club?” But political discussions are restricted to state and nation. No ‘Corridor Conferences’

There are no “corridor contend ences” in the two-story brick cigy Hall on Main St. When a garbage can is overlooked by the clean-up crew or when the City’s one police cruiser answers a call in three instead of two minutes, there is 10 automatic cry of “politics.” Instead, the citizen who velleves he has a just complaint phones, or, more often, walks over to City Hall, sits down with whatever City official is handy and thrashes out the problem. As C. O. Driskell, Beech Grove] Fire Captain and City Bulag Commissioner, said: “If there’s a stray dog or cat in your neighborhood and you want it removed, you don't have to get in| touch * with - the department handling stray cats or dogs. If I'm here, I'll do it and if the Mayor is the only one here, he'll do it.” . And the Mayor will,

Charles Adams First Mayor

Stocky, smiling Mayor Charles Adams was elected in 1935, becom-

CHAMBER LISTS TAX PROCEDURE

State Group io Members Get Simplified Schedule Information.

Information to simplify the procedure in filing revised personal property tax assessment schedules Has been furnished members by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. The information was obtained by

Clarence A. Jackson, executive vice president and other State C. of C. officials during a conference with State Tax Board members after queries by businessmen throughout the state. The major modification in filing is the privilege to lump together items of machinery, equipment and other personal property purchased in the same year in conforming to new depreciation schedules. This arrangement will apply to firms which have not kept their books in such .a manner as to reflect this information at present. Firms which have the detailed information are expected to comply as originally requested. In reporting on machinery and equipment that is more than six years old, the taxpayer may lump all items together and give the other required = information without making individual listings of all items. This rule is regarded as a help to firms without plant ledgers. George S. Olive, chairman of the State C. of C. tax committee, said it would have been virtually im-| possible: for, any firms to have supplied the detailed information re-

quested in the original announcet forms. :

By TIM TIPPETT

Grove are proud of their city.

Proud, too, of their. Republican’ Mayor and their Democratic - City

community has mushroomed from city blocks and paved streets.

The town, which: came as-a natural development after establish-

ing Beech Grove’s first mayor, and was promptly re-elected after serving his three-year term. “I ran as a Republican because I've been known as a member of that party,” he said, as he explained that politics has little to do. with community affairs. The Fire Department is under the direction of the Safety Board as is the case in Indianapolis, but the police department is directly under the Mayor, who has the power to hire and fire. So little does politics play a part in this community that it took the

{pipe-smoking Mayor three matches

and additional tobacco to recollect the politics of his last appointee—a Democrat. The Mayor's office, on the first floor of the City Hall, contains & desk, a small bookcase and several comfortable chairs. The desk, characteristic of others at the Hall is littered with correspondence, several unemptied ash trays, and —— no phone. | “Don’t Need a Phone”

“Don’t need one,” the Mayor explained. “The Fire Department's got one I can use.” The City Hall furnishes quarters for all the units of government, including the police and fire department, There is no fire chief and the two captains alternate shifts and serve as head of the fire fighters. Capt. Carl Wilson, who alternates with Capt. Driskell, spends his off time at his hobby and secondary occupation—raising white rats for hospitals and laboratories. When he gets a rush order and has to go home and crate up a shipment, Capt. Driskell usually is around to fill in for him. Beech Grove is planning to pur-

Politics Scrapped by Ruling

Times Photos.

1. Beech Grove’s Main St. ... no parking problem here. 2. Beech Grove City Hall , . , corridor conferences ruled out. 3. Another new house goes up . . . officials expect many more,

4. Citizens and officials work together . .

. here (left to right) are

Joseph Greenfield, druggist; Fire Capt. C. 0. Driskell and Police Chief

Frank Miller.

chase another fire truck, just in case the one they have breaks down at a critical moment. Also hoped for, but depending on the next year’s budget, is the addition of two more firemen, These improvements will come as non-essentials but in line with the City’s policy of precaution, for the fire loss was only $349

{in 1938 and $350 last year, or less

than a dollar a day. Traffic Is No Problem

Unlike the fire departments in many small towns, Beech Grove is not hampered by an uncertain water supply. All of the utilities oh ed the community are the same as those serving Indianapolis. Even the police cruiser, “Beech Grove No. 1” is equipped with a two-way radio and is served by the Indianpolis Police, Traffic does not present the problem that it does for its big neighbor, the Hoosier capital. Violations of City ordinances, including traffic, are taken care of in City

Court over which the Mayor presides. Instead of waiting for their time of trial, most violators go to the City Hall and pay the Mayor their fines,

It would be impossible; of course, for any city to grow without any problems ' whatsoever and Beech Grove is not an exception. Perhaps the biggest problem facing the Clery is housing. As in Indianapolis there housing shortage. There are no “For Rent” or “For Sale” signs in Beech Grove. There are, however, many paved streets which have but few houses lining their walks. The Beech Grove housing shortage is directly a cause of the depression, according to Mayor Adams.

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Dies Witness Is Accused of Killing 7 U. S. Boys in Spain

WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P). —A Detroit father today accused a Dies Committee witness, Tony di Maio, New York Spanish Loyalist Army veteran, of killing his son and six other American boys in Spain. Maxwell M. Wallach testified that di Maio was in charge of a castle prison outside of Barcelona where his son, Albert M. Wallach, 23, was held with six other American youths who had_gone to Spain in 1937 to fight for the Loyalists. “It was he who,was the actual killer, I understand, not only of my boy but of six other American boys whose bodies were in the’ courtyard there,” Mr. Wallach testified. Di Maio sat in the committee room while Mr. Wallach made the accusation. He and three other Spanish Loyalists veterans were waiting to testify. Di Maio and the other veterans, Milton Wolff, Fred Keller and Gerald Cook, all of New York, conferred hastily with their attorney, Irving Schwab. Mr. Wallach said that his son and other Loyalist recruits went to Spain in 1937; He did not hear from him for some weeks and asked the State Department to help him find the boy. Finally, on March 6, 1938, he testified the State Department advised him that young Wallach ‘had been discharged and would be released from Spain. “He never showed up and we in-< vestigated further,” Mr. Wallach added. “He was held in Castle Defells outside Barcelona. Tony di Maio was in charge.” Mr. Wallach read a letter from another youth, imprisoned in Castle Defells, which said that young Wallach had been horribly beaten and had been taken vayay one

night,

“IT fear he has been killed,” the letter said. Mr. Wallach said that it was his understanding that his son and the other American youths had been intimidated and delayed’ so that they could not return to America to tell of their experiences; or if they succeeded in returning, would refrain from talking. His son, Mr. Wallach said, was arrested on a ruse, “There was a plot to do away wholesale with American boys who served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade so they couldn’t come back here and expose the racket over there,” Mr. Wallach testified. “The recruits were treated worse than dogs. Those in charge of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade made several efforts to kill my son. They didn’t want them to come back and let the country know what the Communists were doing in Spain.” | Meanwhile, the committee # was told by the District of ColumbiaMaryland Communist Party that six fiery crosses have been burned in Baltimore since committee investigators seized party records there, Chairman Martin Dies said he understood that a Dies witness was “practically kidnaped last night and was beaten up.” He asked Counsel

In the past 10 years ‘people just didn’t have the money to build,” he said. Last year new building valuation totaled $252,609.50 which included more than 30 new homes. In the first two months of this year $18,310 worth of building has been erected and Building Commissioner Driskell and the Mayor are confident that more than 50 new homes will be added to the community in 1940. . Their prediction isTbased on several factors. One is the further diversification of industry. In its

"| beginning Beech Grove depended

livelihood. At present workers absorbed not only by the shops bi by the Cleveland Grain Elevator and the Indiana Oxygen Co. And then, too, it is estimated that “at least” 40 per cent of the Beech Grovers commute to Indianapolis, a matter of 15 minutes by car or 25 minutes by bus. Extend Neighborliness Extending its neighborliness beyond its City Limits, Beech Grove this spring will furnish its 33-acre Sarah T. Bolton Park with playground equipment not only. for its own use but for that of Indianapolis

upon the huge railroad shops ge e

- | picnicers. The equipment has been

purchased by the Lions’ Club with money made at its annual Fall Festival. The housing problem will, in time, it is believed, solve itself and if the surburbs of this Indianapolis suburb do not have all the improvements they - desire everyone is Sonfident they will have soon. A civic club which was organized last week, will, according to its founders, follow the custom of the city. ‘There will be no politics in our organization. Our aim will be to assist and. not to condemn Beech Grove in its further growth.”

APPEAL HEARD IN UTILITY SUIT}:

Oral Arguments Given at Chicago in Local Gas Dispute.

A group of Indianapolis attorneys were in Chicago today for oral argu-

of Appeals in the bondholders’ suit to force the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility to recognize a 99-year lease on Indianapolis Gas Co. property. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell last year upheld the City-owned

utility’s contention that the lease was invalid. The appeal was brought. by Chase National Bank, trustee’ for Indianapolis Gas bondholders. The lease was executed by the old Citizens Gas Co. in 1913 when the Indianapolis Gas Co. ceased to operate as a competitor. It covers more than half the mains used by the City utility, The City refused to recognize the lease in 1935 when it bought the Citizens firm. The City is being represented in the cafe by William H. Thompson and Patrick J. Smith. Other local attorneys appearing

Robert Lynch to determine if this\in the case on behalf of the bank,

were .true and arrange for protection of witnesses, He did not name the winess. |

FAIR WALKOUT SPREADS NEW YORK, April 12 (U. P).— The World's Fair faced the prospect of only one stage show in its amusement zone today after stagehands and motion picture operators joined actors in refusing to compromise the

salary demands of A. F, of L. unions, sid od

Indianapolis Gas or the Citizens Gas Co. include William .L. Taylor, Thompson Kurrie, Harvey J. Elam, Louis B. Eubank, William R. Higgins and William G. Sparks. Howard F. Burns, Cleveland, is chief counsel for the bank.

GERMANS LOOT HELL

LONDON, April 12 (U. P)— Stockholm Radio reports said yesterday that the Germans had captured various war materials at the

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5TH CLASS CITY RATING WAITED

BY SPEEDWAY

Advance After Census Ends To Necessitate Changes \, In Government.

Speedway City, scene of one of the

most rapid home building programs iv Marion County since memorable. 1929, will become a fifth-class city following completion of the 1940 census. This change from a Town Board to a more complete Soverimens, with its demand for many chai and adjustments, will not come lo the community unprepared for ror uriexpected. The Speedway Civic League, organized seven years ago, has long anticipated the change and welcomes it. The League made the proposal of incorporating into a fifthclass city several years ago but, the Town Board at that time did not see the necessity of such a move.

Doubled in | Size

Since that time, Speedway has almost doubled in population, has seen new homes sea up on every

side and has assumed more territory. In accordance with State laws governing cities and towns, any community which has a population of 2500 or more automatically becomes a fifth class city. A population survey a year ago tallied the total at 2500 and residents and league members expecs an official census count of between 2600 and 2700. °

Immediate Change Unlikely

An immediate change of governe ment will not take according to Charles H. Strouse, league president. “The Town Boar will serve oul its present term, a |matter of approximately three years, before an election is held and|a city form of government is adopted,” he said. The most pressing] problem which faces Speedway at present is that of transportation, : : “The expansion “Allison Engie neering and a general increase in industry has swelled our population and also the number of workers who are employed in Speedway and live in Indianapolis,” Mr. Strouse said.: Streets and highways linking: Ine dianapolis and the nunity are “jammed and congested with traffic each morning and eyening,” Mr, Strouse explained.

Asks Bus routing The League, in (an attempt te decrease the bus service time, has petitioned the In ianapolis Street Railways on a rerouting of the | busses. League members estimate that if their proposal is adopted by the company the trip time will be cut from the present 27 minutes to 23 or 24 minutes. “We are being served with the same bus service that we had 10 years ago when we were but half the size we are now,” Mr. Strouse said.

This bus petition will he discussed and .

by transportation officials League members at their next meeting May 7. Also to be discussed will be the League sponsored petition for a magistrate at Speedway.

Filed in Court Here

The petition was filed in Circuit Court last week and is awaiting action by Judge Earl R. Cox. At presSpeedway residents there is a Justice of Peace whe handles as much as he can but a magistrate is needed. With the change in government

Speedway will gain more adequate

fire and )olice protection. At present a town marshal, State Police and deupty sheriffs are taking the place of a city police force. As to fire protection, the insur= ance rates at Speedway are expected to be appreciably reduced after a fire department is organized under fifth-class city regulations.

Volunteers Fight ‘Blazes

Speedway now has a volunteer fire department composed of men who work in the area. If a fire occurs while the men are at work they leave to fight the fire and are paid by the company for which they work. Most of the volunteers are employed: by. Prest-O-Light, one. of Speedway’s largest industries. \ Since its inception in 1933 the League has sponsored the designation of preferential streets, caused traffic signs to be installed and successfully proposed the opening :of Lyndhurst Ave, from the Crawfordsville Road south to 10th St. Other League officers are: S. Are thur Gummere, vice president, and Harry C. Coughlin, secretary-treas-urer. Delegates to the Federation of Community Civic Clubs, of which it is 2 member, are Mr. Strouse, Mr. Gummere, Mr. Coughlin, Mrs. William H. A Hodgson and Fred Morris.

TEST YOUR : KNOWLEDGE

1—What does e pluribus unum .mean? 2—When was Eugenio Cardinal Pae celli elected Pope Pius XII?

3—Does Nelson. Eddy sing baritone,

tenor or bass? : 41s there enough silica in : eonl dust to produce silicosis? 4 5—Horses are classed’ ‘as bovines, ovines or equines? . 6—Name the capital of Newfoundland.

Answers Cha uk

1—“From niany, one,” or “one trom :

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many. 2—March 2, 1939. 3—Baritone, 4—No. 5—Equines, 6—=St. Johns. ‘ es = 8

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