Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1940 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940

The Indianapolis Times

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~ Hoosier Vagabond

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. April 24 —Doc Webb is Just so high, and he weighs 121 pounds. His natty suit fits like a poultice, and the latest in narrowbrims stands cockily on his head. He is just past 40, and looks like a dandy home on vacation from Bucktown College. His elbows stands out, making jaunty triangles as he walks. His thumb joints make the same angle, His stride is impertinent. He is the small town wise guy going down the street. He talks “country” Tennessee talk, and is as nervous as a witch. He is flexed, fixed, strained for the leap. He is as sharp as the serpent’s tooth, and the other merchants in St, Petersburg hate him. In fact, most of them won't even speak

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to him. For Doc Webb is a blatant, crowing phenomenal success. He has built the busiest drug store in the world, and he isn't bashful about it. Doc Webb blessed Nashville by being born there. f don’t think he was ever young, and I don't think hey ever be old. He was a phenomenon from the start. He was working in a Knoxville drug store when he was 12 years old. He was working all day, and every other night, and “courtin’” on his nights off. He had a complete nervous breakdown when he was 15, and had to take five days off to recuperate!

Florida Gets a Break

He changed jobs—to another drug store—during the recuperation. He stayed there till he was 26, and by then he was in the “nice home and two-car class.” His health broke again and he came to Florida. He had $3000 saved up. He started this store on “the other side of the tracks.” He sold at low prices, and advertised big. He jerked sodas with one hand and rolled pills with the other. Ideas shot out of his brain like fireworks. Today he has 400 employees. Webb's store is managed under him by company directors and department heads, and they are synon-

Civil Liberties

WASHINGTON, April 24 —A wider charter of civil iiberties has been given the nation by the Supreme Court in its sweeping decisions holding unconstitutional Alabama and California anti-picketing laws and ordinances. The 8-to-1 decisions on Monday went far beyond upholding labor's right to peaceful picketing. They also erected powerful defenses around the basic Amercan liberties of free speech, free press and free assemblage, which are now endangered on many fronts. Among the important cases involving civil liberties now apparently on the road up to the Supreme Court are those of Harry Bridges, the Los Angeles Times and the St. Louis PostDispatch. Action by the High Court in the Alabama and California cases comes at a time when Federal, state and local enforcement agencies are widely accused of violating Constitutional rights, and when authorities are charged with trying to abridge those rights by repressive statutes. J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation is being investigated by the Department of Justice itself and by a special Senate committee on wiretapping. A Pennsylvania court is challenging alleged lawlessness of Dies Committee agents.

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More Reliance on Picketls

So far as labor is concerned, the Supreme Court defense of peaceful picketing is especially important because disillusioned unions are turning away from excessive dependence of Labor Board help and toward self-help on the picket line. Probability that the Wagner law and the Wage-Hour Law will be emasculated by the next Congress, if not by this session, increases the reliance of eight million organized workers on the strike-picket weapon.

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By Ernie Pyle

omous. The department heads get salary and commission, to keep them humping. And boy, how they hump! Last year one of them—a man who otherwise might have been an ordinary clerk or small-store owner—drew an income of $13,800! And Webb made money off of him. He won't have anybody in the store who isn't ambitious. He won't have anybody who isn't proud of himself, and always up on his toes, flashing with ideas. He continuously pounds his employees for new ideas. I should think the Webb staff would have a collective, super, 400-man-power nervous collapse about twice a year. But they don't. They don't seem highpressured. ‘They're at ease when Doc comes around. If he hands them a fast line they hand it back. They're proud of themselves, and getting somewhere. They and the buying public and Doc are all rolled up in a good big successful knot together, they feel. Listen to this: Just a few weeks ago, Doc Webb pulled a financial accomplishment that has the town amazed and startled. He wanted $200,000 to build an annex to his store.

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His Own Financier

He could have borrowed it, but he has a mania about the “public” being part of his organization. So

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PEDESTRIANS TOGET SAFETY DAY LESSONS

Civic Groups to Guide Traffic | Downtown; Exhibits Also Planned.

A demonstration of pedestrian traffic control will be a feature of Safety Day to be observed here May 11 by proclamation of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Observance of the day will begin with a safety parade at 9:30 a. m. City and county officials and members of safety and civic organizations are to participate. Boy Scouts will be in charge of directing pedestrian travel at nine downtown intersections. Members

he decided to offer a public sale of preferred stock. Brokers told him it would cost $30,000 to sell the] $200,000 issue. They outlined the accepted methods) for selling it. Doc said nuts. He put full page ads in the newspapers. Bankers and financial men raised their evebrows. This would teach the smart aleck. Doc set up a rickety table in! his warehouse, and got behind it. The public lined up. They handed over their cash and their checks, and took receipts in return. The issue was sold out in three days. It had cost him just $1000. Doc took another full page ad to announce it. His own employees bought $32,800 worth of the stock! This $200,000 the customers handed over to him, Webb calls “heart money.” “It all came from the people who didn't even read the prospectus,” he says. “They don't know anything about finance. They didn't go get financial advice. It just came from the heart.”

By Ludwell Denny

This applies to both the A. F. of L., which argued the Alabama picketing suit, and the C. I. O, which pressed the California case. In interpreting the Constitutional guarantees of free press, free speech and free assemblage as the very basis ot democracy, the Supreme Court issued this vigorous warning: “The safeguarding of these rights, to the end that men may speak as they think on matters vital to them | and that falsehoods may be exposed through the proc-| esses of education and discussion, is essential to free government. Those who won our independence had confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning | and communication of ideas to discover and spread! political and economic truth. . ..

os Free Speech Stressed “Abridgment of freedom of speech and of the! press, however, impairs those opportunities for public education that are essential to effective exercise of the power of correcting error through the processes of popular government. . . . | “It is not the sporadic abuse of power by the censor but the pervasive threat inherent in its very existence that constitutes the danger to freedom of iil sion. . . . “The freedom of speech and of the press guaran-| teed by the Constitution embraces at the least the liberty to discuss publicly and truthfully all matters of public concern without previous restraint or fear of subsequent punishment.” In reaffirming the right of peaceful picketing as a| form of civil liberty, the Court said: | “It is recognized now that satisfactory hours and! wages and working conditions in industry, and a bargaining position which makes these possible, have an| importance which is not less than the interests of those in the business or industry directly concerned | . . free discussion concerning the conditions in in-| dustry and the causes of labor disputes appear to us indispensable to the effective and intelligent use of the processes of popular government to shape the des- | tiny of modern industrial society.”

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(Anton Scherrer was unable to write a column today because of illness)

Washington

WASHINGTON, April 24 —You will not learn much about this campaign from the labels that are being used. The labels don’t mean anything and the voter who takes them seriously is apt to work himself into a nervous breakdown like the chameleon who landed on the piece of scotch

By Raymond Clapper.

horse, calls himself a liberal. He says the New Deal | is reactionary. Governor Landon usually is described as a liberal Republican. Republican campaign literature is sprinkled with the term “progressive” which carries essentially the same connotations in the public mind.

of school traffic patrols will distribute literature urging pedestrians not to cross streets at points other than intersecitons.

Girls to Seek Pledges

Girl Scouts will be stationed at various points to receive signatures to safe driving and walking pledges. Each signer will be given a tag to wear. There will be an exhibit of industrial, traffic and home safety and motion pictures in the Claypool Hotel throughout the day. The Police and Fire Departments will give demonstrations in the downtown area. A safety banquet will be held at 7 p. m. in the Claypool. The speaker will be R. L. Lee of the safety and public relations department of the General Motors Corp.

Organizations to Assist

Organizations participating the day's program include the Indianapolis Accident Prevention Council, the Citizens’ Safety Committee, the Merchants Association, the Indianapolis Safety Education Council, the Police and Fire Department, the Marion County Sheriff and Accident Prevention Department. The Interfleet Safety Council, Parent-Teachers Association, Federation of Women's Clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Hoosier Motor Club and Indianapolis daily newspapers. E. C. Forsythe, of Marsh & McLennan, Inc, is chairman of the

Fletcher Trust Co. 20 Year Club Meets WORKS BOARD

Tep—Mrs. Orpha Runge (lef Twenty-Year Club; Rex P. Young Johanning, who has next to the lon

Bottom—Evans Woollen Sr., company board chairman (left) and Charles S. Maxwell, a club member.

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, club founder, and Miss Clara L. gest service record for the company.

general committee. Members are Sheriff Al Feeney; Police Chief Michael F. Morvissey; F. O. Belzer, Boy Scout executive, Ross Patrick, U. S. Rubber Co.; William A. Evans, public school safety director; R. G. Kremmer, Allison Engineering Co.; Municipal Judge Charles J. Karabell and Capt. Leo Troutman,

ISSUES WARNING ON HEART DISEASE

Children who have heart disease should learn to live within the limitations caused by the disease, the Indiana State Medical Association warned in a bulletin today.

The bulletin is the fourth of a series on heart disease issued by the association. Children’s heart troubles are con-| genital and damage caused by rheumatic fever. Congenital defective hearts ap-| pear with about the same frequency as a cleft palate or club feet. So far, science has no preventive or curative treatment except teaching the victims to live within their limitations, the bulletin stated.

Sunnyside Given Recording Series

Zeta chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota today presented the entire 10 symphony recordings of the music appreciation movement to Sunnyside Sanitorium. In making the presentation, Mrs, Dorothy Bartholomew Fowler, chapter president, said: “It is the hope of Sigma Alpha Iota that these recordings of some of the World's greatest music will bring enjoyment into the lives of hundreds of patients at Sunnyside.” Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor, Vol. 1, now is available at headquarters, 245 N. Pennsylvania St.

UTILITY REFUNDING PETITION STUDIED

The Indiana Public Service Com-

Imission today had under considera- overnight accidents in which nine tion a petition by the Indianapolis | persons were injured. They charged Power & Light Co. for permission

Rheumatic fever often leaves a to refund $51,459,100 in outstanding severely damaged heart. The fever obligations.

appears to run in certain families

and rarely appears before the vic-|lower interest rates, it was asserted, |

By refunding these obligations at

tim is 4 years old. It often is pre- the company would save approxi-

FRANK HOLLIS IS |

‘Dies of Injuries Received April 11 as City Toll Rises to 24.

The death last night of Frank) | Hollis, 58, of 339 Hanson Ave. from | injuries received in a traffic accident April 11 brought the City's] [traffic toll for 1940 to 24 as com- | | pared with 16 at this time last year. Mr. Hollis died in City Hospital. | He was injured when his car crashed | |into a tree in the 1300 block of] White River Parkway. Police said ‘the car skidded and went out of| control. | Meanwhile, police investigated 25 |

[24 drivers with traffic law violations. Three persons were treated at the | City Hospital for injuries received {when the car in which they were riding struck an automobile parked lin the middle of the street at White

YOUNGEST AND

TRAFFIC VICTIM

OLDEST ABSENT

55 Present as Group Notes Sixth Year at Naval Armory.

By HARRY MORRISON

A little less than 16 centuries sat down to eat and talk last night at the Naval Armory as the Fletcher Trust Co. Twenty Year Club held its sixth annual meeting. The Twenty Year Club was fostered by the depression and reared under the parenthood of one of Indiana’s great financial institutions. Its membership includes tibse who have worked 20 years or more with the Fletcher Trust Co. and its predecessor company. Its oldest member, Miss Katherine L. Resener, wasn't at the dinner. Neither was its youngest, Gottfried Nagle. Both were ill.

55 Persons Present

But 55 others were. Evans Woollen Sr. board chairman, occupied the place of honor at the head of the table, Next to him was Charles . Maxwell, real estate department executive and club president, who started with the company April 7, 1906. Around the corner of the U shaped banquet board, sat Rex P.| Young, the club founder. He started | with the company Feb, 4, 1905. “It's my baby,” he said. “I got the idea when we were having real depression days in 1935. Everyone was low. I thought it would be nice if we could recognize all the years of service these people have given the company.” At first there were only 20 members. Mr. Young, who is travel department manager, said no one knew the club was being started until it was already going.

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Mr. Young has watched the club grow to its present membership. It grew rapidly because the company, itself, was rapidly coming of age, and more and more persons at-| tained the 20-year status. Now the combined ages of the members total 1591 years. At other banquets there have been special speakers, but this year, because the club is beginning to feel itself as a special, private en-

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APPROVES NEW BUS PROPOSAL

38th St." Crosstown Line to

Run From Capitol To Rural.

The petition of the Peoples Motor Coach Co. to institute crosstown

service on 38th St. from Capitol Ave. to Rural St. was apprcved by

"| the Works Board today at a public

hearing, About 30 residents living in the vicinity of 38th St. and Keystone Ave. told the Board that they would benefit by the proposed service, ase serting it would relieve a transportation problem for school children in the vicinity. Mrs. Clarence A. Brown, 1011 E. Maple Road, filed a petition with the Board, signed by 40 residents of 38th St. and vicinity, opposing the extension on the grounds that it would constitute a traffic hazard and depreciate property values.

Postponement Denied

Mrs. Brown asked for a postpone= ment of the Board's decision to allow additional property owners to protest, but the Board rejected the plea because the hearing previously had been postponed. Speaking for the proposed service were Mrs. Clifford B. Moore, 3740 N. Keystone Ave, president of the Parent - Teacher Association at School 69; Mrs. Albert J. Emrich, 3532 N. Keystone, safety chairman of the P.-T. A.; Edward O. Snethen, representing the North Methodist Church and C. R. Maxam, 3722 N. Capitol Ave, director of placement at Butler University.

Sought for Five Years

The crosstown service has been about five years by North Side residents. The service will be an extension of the 30th St. crosstown line, beginning at Capitol Ave. and running north to 38th St., east on 38th to Rural, south on Rural to 37th, west on 37th to Temple Ave., north on Temple to 38th and return.

PENNSY PLANS FAST SERVICE

Announce New N. Y. Run, Starting Sunday, Will Be Speediest Ever.

Beginning Sunday, the PennsylVania Railroad will inaugurate the fastest passenger schedule in history hetween New York and Indianapolis, P. E. Feucht, general superintendent with headquarters here, said today. The Spirit of St. Louis, on the new schedule, will leave Indianapclis at 4:21 p. m, Central Stand ard Time, and arrive in Philadelphia at 7:28 a. m. and New York at 9 a. m.,, Eastern Standard Time. Reclining seat coaches and opensection sleeping cars will be added to the train, The westward Spirit of St. Louis will leave New York at 5:45 p. m,

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at 8:37 a. m.,. C. 8. T Under the new schedule the running time of the St. Louisan will be 15 hours and 24 minutes between New York and Indianapolis, leaving New York at 1:45 p. m. and Philadelphia at 3:04 p. m, E. 8. T., and arriving here at 4:09 a. m.. C. S. T. The eastbound St. Louisan will be a St. Louis-Indianapolis-Washing-ton train, leaving Indianapolis at

} ; ceded or accompanied by St. Vitus’ |matel 2, In his Republican program report, Dr. Glenn| dance. p y J > Sp &

Frank says the New Deal has sought to advance so- “Early in the disease, the tem- lw cial liberalism through economic policies that are| perature is high, the joints are red, [1 “profoundly reactionary.” swollen and painfyl. The joint in- | The term “liberal” is a coat that has been worn! volvement changes from joint | by many men and many causes through the years, |joint, leaving no permanent joint | 4 damage,” the bulletin said. A child with this type of heart |

Specific Things Count disease should be kept very quiet | for several months, according to the |

For practical purposes, the independent voter Who | bulletin, until the temperature is tof ‘es Bests / tries to make up his own mind about candidates will, normal. The cases should be |2MOUn £ Do earing interest Shelby St. Police said the car was| only grow bewildered if he fixes his eyes on the labels. | Watched by physicians, who should |Fa78' 18 ‘rom lS ten driven by Tillman Payne, 25, of 3030 He will learn more by using specific tests. For in-| direct the time and amount of ex- oro Proposed, EE re 3 10 Carson Ave. 1. 2toot Trust: and Mr. Woollen . : . 4 i ’ | ‘ - es well, about Trust, an : Stance amendments are coming up in the House ths | best oe is rest in bed and |tive preferred stock, $100 par value, ’ Sr., about Company. ed hep. More than ane mi on * he lowest food. The new drugs sul- | 0 Tetire 113.777 Shales Sf o's per MEN S POWDER, OIL, Absentees Remembered / 'S— . slaughter houses, and | : Arr rama t BE aT s other factories handling agricultural products—from | [2nilamide and sulfapyradjne, have | Con pret erre S14, 24,910°01 5 per CREAM SALES GAIN . ; { the Wage and Hour Act. | no Shen on he disease and the loom Dr rT 4.615 duis of Au. Das | Each Riivgtapiied 4 Program jor : ' S V ir y. yO "ef . i n Whatever you call the measure, it ought not be co Lena I by their oa stock were sold at py a! FRENCH LICK, Ind. April 24 (u.| Mis Resener ar also was ill. weakened in this way. Labor may call the Wage and| pemoval of tonsils seems not to share. Most of this stock repre-| F-). — While men in Europe worry | M ‘ . iher a i | SHS § § . ! S § d : r. Young probably had the best Hour Act a liberal measure. Employers may regard it prevent or control the progress of sented former holdings of the util-| 2P0ut gunpowder, American men, "°c 1 as reactionary regimentation. But whatever the right > | are becoming concerned about their | “Tt means a lot to all of us. face powder, according to cosmetic Look,” he said, pointing to the no-

| rheumatic fever. |ity's holding company which recentmanufacturers. tation of his years of service on the

pame ic if any. bt sem deirable baw to draw 8°!" 1 vas renga LOSEY IS DECLARED | semmones To ELECT CHIEF sof rea Sand lls | program, “seven-tenths of my life.

pressure of an oversupply of labor seeking work. It is not to the best interest of the country to have large i i HOLDENVILLE, Okla., April 24|creased recently and methods to de-{ Thats Something to think abou

numbers of persons paid less than enough for bare ‘ ’ subsistence. Whatever improves the standard of life | SIMPLY A CASUALTY | (U. P.). — Seminole tribal leaders velop the market should be conWASHINGTON, April 24 (U. P) | here have announced that an elec-| sidered, the manufacturers’ conven- |

00! year in interest Rjver Blvd. and Kentucky Ave. Similar refunding action| They were John Hider, 65; Sophia as taken by the utility in August, Hider, 50, and David Hider, 26, all 938. lof 720 S. Illinois St. The present $32,000,000 in 3% Per| Police charged Russell Davison, cent interest bonds would be re-|34 of 419 N. Tacoma Ave., with placed by an equal amount of 3! parking in the middle of a highway. per cent bonds. Paul Monroe, 23, of 1029 Berwyn The company would issue $5,400,-|St., was treated at City Hospital for 000 in notes bearing 2'2 per cent head injuries received when he was or less interest to retire a similar|struck by a car at Troy Ave. and

tity, there weren't any outside speakers. The program was conducted with Mr. Maxwell as toastmaster. He introduced members who spoke on one word each from the Club's title. They thought that would be fun and it was. Miss Margaret Shipp talked about Twenty; Evans Woollen Jr., about Year; H. Foster Clippinger, about Club; Edward G. Freihage, about Of; Francis A. Ohleyer, about The; William B. Schiltges, about Fletcher; Mr. Max-

plaid. In his Warm Springs speech, President Roosevelt said the Democrats must nominate “a liberal pair of candidates, running on a liberal and forwardlooking platform.” The words have a strong, aggressive ring, but they are hollow vessels that you can fill with whatever you like in the way of men and measures. I bring this up not for the purpose of criticizing Mr. Roosevelt, who is only indulging in the time-honored jargon of the trade, but to underscore the fact that political terminology is a loose language. Political words and phrases mean different things to different people and at different times. The language of politics is used to evoke emotions rather than to expres$§ specific thought. Scientific language strains to be exact bevond any misunderstanding, but political language strives to be vague, and to appeal to a broad variety

of people.

” ‘Looking Forward In this campaign both parties are trying to sell themselves as liberal and forward-looking. Mr. Roosevelt calls for a forward-looking program and at the same time the publicity director of the Republican

4:31 pp m, C. 8. T, and arriving in Washington at 9:30 a. m., E. S. T. The Gotham Limited eastbound will be renamed the Pennsylvania Limited and will leave Indianapolis at 10:32 p. m,, C. S. T,, and arrive in New York at 3:40 p. m, E. S. T,

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LABOR FIGHT IN TRUCE

OSHAWA, Ontario, April 24 (U, P.) —Officials of General Motors Corp., of Canada and the United Automobile Workers Union, a Congress of Industrial Organizations affiliate, declared a truce in their labor dispute today and prepared to open negotiations next Tuesday in an attempt to avert a strike.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—-To whom was Lew Ayres mare ried, before he became the huse band of Ginger Rogers? 2—Name the American Minister to

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for the largest number of persons is desirable. That |

‘| tion will be held June 1 to elect ation reported.

National Committee writes a weekly column devoted usually te skinning the Administration alive—and he gives his column the standing title of “Looking For-

ward.” Wendell Willkie, the well-lighted Republican dark-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—T happened to notice in the newspaper yesterday, that the Metropolitan Opera Guild in New York City is making its drive for

the last $100,000 of the million dollars which they are collecting. This may seem a purely New York City interest, but if any of you have - pis sec enjoyed the matinee radio broad3 : casts as I have, you will perhaps 3 feel as I do that this is one in which everybody in the country has a stake. Of course, opera is given at different times in different places all over the country. Just as in Europe, in certain cities, one thinks of the opera not as belonging to that city, but as being representative of the country and a world interest in music. So I think we can claim in New York City that the opera represents a national interest and even a world interest. At this time, when it is so hard to think of things which draw us together instead of splifting us apart, music and art seem to be the things where there still is an opportunity to have a common appreciation. I was giad last evening to have the opportunity of meeting Dr. and Mrs. John Rothstein before they left

is the best rule of thumb I know. | —The death of Capt. Robert

If you know the attitude of a candidate upon a number of questions of this kind, you can decide whether on the whole you approve of his policies and attitudes, Let him use any label he wishes. It is the specific things for which he stands that count.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

this country. He is the director of the Tate Gallery in London, and has been in Canada and here looking after some of the works of art belonging to his nation,

and in general getting a picture of the interest oi!

people in painting. He encouraged me greatly by saying that he felt our Government program had been remarkably good in this country and had awakened a far greater art consciousness. I received this morning a group of high school girls from Coral Gables, Fla., who wear a most attractive Spanish costume. I think as they go sightseeing in Washington they will attract considerable attention. This is the season for young things to visit this city and I am glad that this is so, for it is a beautiful season here. There must be inspiration in just the physical beauty of the grounds and buildings which represent the Government of this country. I was interested also to find how much impressed these young people are when they have an opportunity to see and talk with some of the men and women who are actually in Government positions. The group from Barnard College, which I told you

M.| | Losey, U. S. air attache, in a Ger-| /man bombing raid in Norway Sun|day, was not expected today lead to a serious diplomatic controversy with Germany. News dispatches from Sweden |and the first eyewitness account of | the incident, cabled to the State Department late yesterday, indicated that Mr. Losey simply was a casualty of hostile operations between two armed forces.

STOCKHOLM, April 24 (U. P).— Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, U. S. Minister to Norway, was here today, conferring with U. S. officials and aiding in arrangements for a formal reception for the body of Capt. Robert M. Losey, U. S. military attache killed by a bomb Sunday at Dombas, Norway.

CONTRACTOR DIES AT FILLING STATION

Ward W. Crane, 42, a West Leb-| anon contractor, was found dead today at a North Side filling station. Deputy Coroner Norman R. Booher | Mr. Crane and Porter Williams of |

said death was due to heart disease.

new chief. Chief George Jones,

| serving his second term, has given expanding the new market but de(no indication about the third-term|cided that the time has not come | issue. There are about 100 Seminoles yet when they should promote vest

in Hughes County.

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Is the City Hall Shocked!

Mayor Bans

By RICHARD LEWIS Things are getting back to normal at City Hall today after the first shock of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan's edict yesterday forbidding City employees from indulging in political activities while on duty. Informed sources, who are to be found loafing in almost any corridor of the City's: tower of political Babel, had to go all the way back to mythology for a precedent to the command. They recalled once reading where an ancient party boss by the name of King Canute once told the sea to behave, but it didn't. The employees were inclined to interpret the ruling as meaning that they could not stage torchlight pa-

was coming last night, was a very interesting group. Frankfort were living in a trailer |rades, paint signs and banners on the

Some of them are anxious to earn their livings in Government service, others anxious to discover how they could be useful as citizens in their communities. All of them are becoming more conscious through their contacts here that Government must rely on human beings for carrying out any plans ot theories.

|in the rear of the filling station, 2457 N. Delaware St. Both men were employed on a construction job at 61st St. and Buckingham Dr. Mr. Crane is survived by his mother, Mrs. Hiram Jones of Wiest Lebanon.

walls or make speeches from the

City Hall steps during the course of their seven-hour working day. Assistant City Engineer Val McLeay who is secretary of the Marion

County Democratic Central Com-

Politics on Job

| mittee said, in commenting on the order, that it was his policy to do “whatever the Mayor says.” The Mayor said that the order applies “from my office all the way down.” In an interview interrupted occasionally by telephone calls to and from party leaders he Mayor defended the edict in this way: “It has always been a rule around here, as I understand it.” It was learned, however, that the Mayor, who has been losing ground in trying to hang on to his neutral policy in county politics, issued the orders as a last desperate measure to maintain the status of a nonbelligerent. It is known that supporters of all Democratic candidates for all offices have assure. themselves and their friends. that the Mayor “is solidly” | behind each and every one. This| situation has been brought to the Mayor's attention particularly in the County Treasurer race where the rumor is that the Mayor is support-

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OLDFIELD ‘GIVES UP’

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IN MATRIMONY RACE

LOS ANGELES, April 24 (U. P.). —There isn’t a chance that Barney Oldfield and his wife can get together and live happily, the old racing driver told Court Commissioner E. D. Doyle yesterday. “We've been battling for 15 years,” the 62-year-old Oldfield said. Mr, Oldfield now occupies one room of his 12-room Beverly Hills home, His wife has the other 11 rooms. Mr. Oldfield agreed to pay her $150 a month for her support, $150 to keep up the house, attornay fees and court costs, pending settlement of a divorce action.

WARNS OF DISEASED STRAWBERRY PLANTS

NEW ALBANY, Ind. April 24. — Floyd County Agricultural Agent C. M. East today warned strawberry

which has inflicted heavy damages in other sections of the country, has been found in two patches near here.

He said that in both cases the diseased plants had been imported. He asked other growers to ‘recognize the seriousness of the disease and to notify their county agents at once if they discover diseased

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Canada who recently was reprimanded publicly by Secretary of State Hull. 3—~Which TU. 8S. President was nicknamed “Unconditional Surrender”? 4—For what is “black gold” a nick« name? : 5—The planet that is surrounded by three flat, concentric rings of matter is Jupiter, Saturn or Neptune. 6—What science treats of the evoe lution and growth of language? T—Which member of Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet became President of the United States?

Answers 1—Lola Lane. 2—James H. R. Cromwell. 3—Ulysses S. Grant. 4—Petroleum. H—Saturn.

| 6—Semantics.

T—William H. Taft.

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