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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940

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Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

(Ernie Pyle is ill at Memphis and his friend, Eldon Roark of the Memphis Press-Scimitar has volunteered to write his column for a few days.)

By ELDON ROARK

MEMPHIS, May 9—One of the many things Memphians like about their city is the fact that it is So close to the country. You can sit in almost any of the big buildings on the bluffs in downtown Memphis, look out across the dreamy, lumbering old Mississippi and see some pretty primitive-looking country in the Arkansas lowlands. You can lean back in your chair, prop your feet up in the window—and fight Indians, rassle with bears, stalk deer and catch 100-pound catfish. Or, if you are the type who would rather perform small deeds in fact than heroic feats in fancy, you can get into your car, chug across the free Harahan Bridge, turn off the highway into the bottoms and become lost in the solitude of the swamp—all within 15 minutes. A Memphis businessman can go to his office in the morning, put in a little work, go fishing in three states, and eat his catch in his own home for lunch. The Tennessee-Mississippi line is about 10 miles south of the city, and just across it is Lake View, once a part of the river.

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Often Takes a Shortcut

The Mississippi Valley is full of these “horseshoe” lakes. The river, you see, is a prankish old devil, always changing his course. Every now and then he decides there's no sense ih his going all the wav around a long horseshoe bend, so he takes a short cut— carves a new channel. Then the old horseshoe bend becomes a lake. He doesn’t get by with it, though. Not for long. Engineers say that when he does take a short cut, 1t causes him to hurl his current against the bank in a new spot. The banks start caving, and pretty soon he finds that he is eating out another horseshoe to replace the one he has eliminated. “The river,” the engineers say, “maintains its average length.” The effect of avulsions, as such sudden changes in the channel are called, are sometimes felt miles away

Our Town

FOR STYLE AND sumptiousness, nothing in this town ever beat the Bates House barber shop run by George L. Knox. I haven't the least idea where Mr. Knox picked up all his frills and furbelows. He had the first of everything. You could depend on it. He introduced the “singe” and the “facial massage,” and brought the first manicurist to Indianapolis, at a time, mind you, when a barber shop was the least likely place to find a woman. Mr. Knox's shop was on the Illinois St. side of the hotel, in a Toom which measured, I should say, 40 by 60 or so feet. It looked a hundred times bigger, though, because of the mirrors in the place. Mr. Knox was a wizard with mirrors. I never knew anybody who knew as much, let alone more, about the theatrical possibilities of reflecting surfaces. The whole north wall was lined with mirrors and so was the south wall, and the experience of standing between them was not unlike that of finding vourself immortal—for no matter which way you looked, vou couldn't lose yourself, It made his customers feel very important. » » »

Catching Them Coming and Going

Facing each mirrored wall was a battery of seven and, maybe, more chairs which made a total of at least 14 stations. The rear wall was taken up with a battery of bootblacks and a secondary entrance which led to the hotel lobby. Mr. Knox caught them coming and going Getting a haircut or even a shave in Mr. Knox's place was nothing short of a ritual. Mr. Knox sat immediately to the right of the street entrance beside a little stand on which stood the busiest cash register in Indianapolis. He was a very handsome Negro, about 50 years old when I first met him, with the most impressive head of shampooed white hair I ever hope to see, During business hours he always wore a Prince Albert coat, a white vest, and a pair of discreetly striped trousers. His outfit made a great impression

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By Ernie Pyle

and for years afterwards. Back in 1876 there was an avulsion, known as the Centennial Cut Off, 23 miles, above Memphis. It reduced the length of the river by 15 miles, and it was such a scrambled mess that in one part of a horseshoe loop the river started flowing south where it had beeh flowing northeast. Those changes caused an eddy to form right in, front of Memphis, and then a sandbar appeared. It grew and grew, and is now pretty big and is known as Mud Island. Recently there has been some talk of making it into a park. Anything that slows up the current and causes! sediment to be deposited may start the formation of an island. The sinking of a boat may do it. At first the island is called a sandbar. As it grows larger, and vegetation gets a start, it is called a towhead. And, if it keeps on growing and the vegetation gets larger and thicker, it becomes an island. = = »

Houses Built on Stilts

President's Island, named for Andrew Jackson, opposite the south end of Memphis, is one of the largest—10 miles long and four to five miles wide, Island 40 and Centennial Island are about the same size. Farmers, fishermen, moonshiners, squatters live on the islands in shantyboats or in small houses on stilts, for all the isiands are subject to overflow. The soll is very rich, since each overfiow leaves a deposit of “fertilizer.” That is compensation for the crops| that are sometimes drowned. | Many islanders live only a few miles from Memphis, but in some respects they are thousands of miles away. A trip to the city is an event for them. A deputy sheriff brought one little islander girl to his home for a Visit; and of all the wonders of the city, the telephone fascinated her the most. Although there are many substantial, law-abiding citizens on the islands, there are also some of questionahle character. Criminals, at times, find the islands good hide-outs. | It is nothing unusual for lone travelers to come. down the river in little boats. They come in every conceivable kind of craft. One fellow even came in a tub. They are adventurers, exhibitionists, river rats, plain goofs. But the newspaper boys never have seen | anybody come down the river sitting in a rocking | chair. So this may be Ernie Pyles chance for fame. {

By Anton Scherrer

when you entered his place. Indeed, it was not unlike | a lively overture that held the promise of something! good to come, Mr Knox's regular greeting, I recall, was “Front,” and immediately a boy appeared from somewhere in!

the rear to relieve you of your coat and hat. Immedi-|

ately, too, every barber in the place jumped to his feet so that you could look them over and pick the one you | wanted. It was awfully hard to make up your mind.!

“Ferdinand, the Bull,” and Lieut. Donald Alexander, “typical aviation cadet.” Marion Whitney, on the June cover; Grace Horton, July cover, and Bettye Avery, August cover,

With so many grand barbers, it was an embarrassment of riches,

Booker Washington a Visitor

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barber with burnsides. He looked for all the world like something out of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Chair No 2 was run by Lon Davidson and I usually hitched ! up with him because he looked more like my generation.

Sometimes, which was more often than not, every! chair was occupied when you got there. In that case.! Mr. Knox gave you a check with a number on it. | When your number was called, you had the choice of | getting into the vacant chair or waiting for your] favorite barber. | Davidson. not only because he was a bang-up artist, > it wi : but because he was a mighty good talker. [hounced today hat R wil begih a Mr. Knox was also a good talker—one of the best CO export subsidy program imIndianapolis ever had—but he couldn't put up with a mediately. Woy like me when he had people like Ben Harrison to| The Department asked exporters talk to. nce, I remember seeing Booker T. Wash- : ington in Mr. Knox's shop. He got the whole works | © Suri, oiers Ior She export of and didnt pay a cent ilege to work on heads like his.

Chair No. 1, which was the one facing the north | | wall and nearest Mr. Knox, was in charge of an old | |

Officials Expect to Sell Up To 30,000,000 Bushels Under Subsidy Plan.

I often waited an hour for Mr.'__The Agricultural Department an-|

A Magazine's Covers Come to Life

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Hotel as cover girls, authors, characters and features came to life in!

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central Indiana advertising

dustries were entertained at lunch-|

eons. They saw Munro Leaf, author nand,” but was introduced to some |

The June, July and August covergirls of the American magazine meet Munro Leaf (left), author of

COUNTING SYSTEM

BREEDS ERRORSIT IS DESIGNED TO END

Inexperience of Workers One of Chief Weaknesses of Plan

The workers on duty at noon yess terday—they operate in eight-hour be | shifts—were permitted to leave the tabulation headquarters in Tomline son Hall from 12 to 1 p. m. for lunch, During their absence, various persons, some of them watchers fer | interested candidates, were free to | walk up and down the aisles and to thumb through the partially completed tally sheets and stacks of

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uncounted ballots, which they did. Probably nothing out of the way happened, but there was nothing to stop anyone from thumbing through a stack of uncounted ballots and mutilating with a blue pencil bale lots marked for the wrong” cane didate. At several of the tabulation tables

And Industrial Executives

The covers of the American mag-|done work for the American maga- $7.27, azine opened today at the Claypool zine for many years, showed some]

of his work. Two American magazine authors,

a 15-scene show sponsored by the Sarah Elizabeth Rogers, New York| was convicted of charges of being | a debutante, and Stewart Beach, told | drunk and driving while drunk, | Some of the observers. More than 100 top Indianapolis some of their stories and were con-| Judge John McNelis today fined {and WASHINGTON, May 9.—(U. P) men and executives of leading in- actions of their own

fronted by actors portraying the characters.

Mr. Leaf did not meet “Ferdi-

That Lays Marked and Unmarked Ballots Open to Mutilation. ing system reveals numerous opportunities for the perpetration of the very frauds and errors the system was dee The weakness, observers claim, lies in the administra= tion of the tabulation, rather than in the system itself. * INE nesses in the administration | was in the selection of works- | had election experience before and t their inexperience not only slowed | ————————— | errors. Some of the errors were discove | | checking, with the loss of hours of Good,’ Expert Says of |time. How many went undiscove Karabell Actions. Ballots Poorly Protected Another weakness was the inacee {heavy fines on traffic law violators both those which had been voted lin an effort to curb the rising toll, and were in process of being counte Judge Charles J. Karabell today |levied fines averaging $4.33. |good,” said Sergt. Kenneth Dicker|son, traffic expert of the Interna- ' who was here on a visit today. | “Good enforcement and heavy pen|help prevent accidents.” Judge Karabell tried 30 cases to5 o'clock yesterday afternoon end | 35 yesterday morning. Defendants, | the courtroom yesterday afternoon and the hallways of Police HeadWhile the average fine today was $4.33, fines imposed on seven driv-

The County's first trial of the new central ballot count signed to prevent. - One of the prime weake | ers. Hundreds of them never had [the count but resulted in numerous ‘Good! That's Bound to Be ered and this entailed laborious ree ered nobody knows. Continuing his policy of imposing | quate protection of the ballots— lof dead and injured, Municipal | 84 and the stacks of unused bale | | “Good! That's bound to [tional Association of Police Chiefs, |alties will slow down motorists and day after hearing 116 between-2 and | witnesses and attorneys jammed quarters also were crowded. ers convicted of speeding averaged

—there were 75 of them—it seemed |that most of the persons whose ballots were clearly mutilated ‘vere . . avd WT supporters of a certain candidate in Fines in yesterday's convictions| -\ of the closely contested races, Muncie. | It probably was just coincidence, 'but it aroused comment among

laveraged $5.10. When Marshall Barrett,

Supervisor Criticized

{him a total of $70, sentenced him! The leader of one faction in one to jail for 15 days and suspended | Of the two major parties bitterly 'his driver's license for 90 days. criticized the reported action of a | Two companions were fined a to-| Supervisor, aligned with the oppos-

of “Ferdinand, the Bull”; the cover of the historical character he has tal of $22 ‘on charges of bein ling faction, in thumbing through

(girls on the June, July and August been writing about for recent issues qrunk. | issues

| of the magazine; Phil Gootenberg, fly-caster featured in the magazine's recent issue; Howard Rushmore, former Daily Worker

oi the magazine.

Mr. Gootenberg, who uses a casts]

ing rod like a whip, snapped the ashes off Grace Norton's cigaret.

Mr. Knox said it was a priv-| 0 fo Canadian and European grama critic, who resigned rather Miss Horton is one of the cover markets. The Department will pay | than be forced to write an adverse girls.

The others are Marion

Lon Davidson once toid me that the Little Lord tXporters the difference between criticism of “Gone With the Wind,” Whitney and Bettye Avery.

Fauntleroy period was a harvest for Mr. Knox. Of American and foreign prices. course, 1t didn’t Jook like that in the beginning, said| Officials indicated that they exMr. Davidson, but Mr. Knox had it figured out that/Pect 10 export a considerable it was only a question of tinve when the kids of Indi- mount of corn. probably between anapolis would let out a roar. And that's exactly 20.000.000 and 30.000.000 bushels. what happened. When the Fauntleroy fad showed Satisfactory offers for the sale of signs of blowing up, it was nothihg out of the ordinary | ® considerable quantity of corn are

to sweep up three bushel baske f cur o _ {in prospect, it was said. The rate boli iy Re ushe) Ws of curls every Saw (of subsidy will be fixed on each

| transaction. | American corn prices at Antwerp {are now about 25 cents a bushel higher than Argentine prices.

{and heard Eyvind Laholm, of the] Metropolitan Opera Company. | John LaGatta, illustrator who has

FOUR TEAMS EXCEED | GOALS IN FUND DRIVE,

Five teams in the Jewish Welfare | | Fund campaign have already topped

Master of ceremonies was Albert Benjamin, fiction editor of the American.

Paying a Call On City Pigeons?

Some farmer near Indianapolis some time today will be richer by one wild and confused quail, which was captured last night in

fines {the ballots of one precinct during 51 | the lunch hour to learn which face [tion's candidate for precinct come mitteeman had received the most votes. This happened to be a close

race and the mutilation of three or ANNOUNCE GAIN OF four ballots, the faction leader charged, could mean defeat for his i |committeeman candidate, 15 1 17 STATE PHONES Another indication of lax ! $ | preparations was in the guarding

of some of the envelopes containA gain of 15117 telephones over| reg unvoted ballots. Po the last year in the Indiana Telephone polls closed, the precinct workers Association was reported today by | sealed all unused ballots in huge enWilliam H. Beck of Indianapolis, | velopes and sent them, with the association secretary-treasurer, as focked ballot boxes, to Tomlinson the convention closed its two-day Hall. meeting at the Claypool Hotel. There the ballot boxes and packe Mr. Beck said the association now | ages of unused ballots were dumped had 532,000 telephones in Indiana, |on the floor of hallways at the east

‘Barrett paid their but not his own, and went to jail {in default.

and west sides of the auditorium,

which represented 89 per cent of all | telephones in use in the state. Half a dozen guards were on duty The two major advancements in|in the west hallway to prevent tame telephone service during the year, Pering with the boxes and packe as listed by Louis Pitcher of Chi-/ages of ballots, but an observer \cago, executive secretary of the|found no one guarding the east |U. 8. Independent Telephone As-| hallway. sociation, are dial phones and ex-| LOOKing around, he saw several press service for more than 90 per Packages of Republican ballots on cent of long distance calls. the floor. Six directors whose terms expired| Ihe wax seals had been broken,

By Raymond Clapper, Officlals said most of the corn to their quotas, with the end of the| ‘be exported through the Federal campaign scheduled for tomorrow | {Surplus Commodities Corp., prob- | on tion voiced in Commons and the criticism that is ably will be purchased from the, : L : ted | welling up even within the conservative party. Commodity Credit Corp., which has| A total of $112,786 was reported | Some of these chickens that are coming home to approximately 100,000,000 bushels of at yesterday's meeting. roost are, I suspect, several years old. \s late as the!corn taken over in payment of loans Top honors in the women's divifall of 1937 Chamberlain had confidence in Hitler. His to growers. |sion went to Team Two, captained | intimates in Parliament told me, in private conversa«| The decision to inaugurate an b d Mrs | tions in London during that period, that Hitler was a immediate export program was| bY Mrs. M. L. Jacobs an rs. |

front of the Sportsman's Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania St. Mr, and Mrs. J. G. Cummins, 3733 Kenwood Ave. spied the quail as they left Stegemeier's Grille, 113 N. Pennsylvania St. and Mr. Cummins tried to catch it. Frightened, it flew into a window and then under a car.

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 9.—It couldnt happen In Germany—that rough and humiliating public heckling which Prime Minister Chamberlain had to face in Commons because of the British fizzle in Norway. In Germany or Russia, back talk is cut short with bullets from the firing squad. But

Chamberlain is going through that acute agony reserved for leaders of a democracy when they boot the ball. He had 1t coming, and not being a dictator, he had to take it. The jeering explosion in Commons is no doubt the release of a long self-suppressed criticism shared by a wide section of the British public, set-off rather than entirely generated by the disaster in Norway. It is not only that the Chamberlain Government, in the words of Llovd George, sent in too little, too late. It is not only that the Norwegian operation was placed in charge of a Briiish officer who had not been in command of troops for 20 years, who in recent vears had been living in Poland, who was necessarily therefore unfamiliar with new methods of mechanized warfare.

much misunderstood man, that the anti-Semitic out- reached because of the increasing rages were only a phase, that the colonial question surplus of American corn. The Deshould be adjusted, and that then Hitler would stand partment estimated that 675,000,000 as a strong bulwark against communism. {bushels of old corn will be on hand Yet long before then, one could hear around our in October when farmers start harown State Department rugged mountaineer language vesting the 1940 crop. about these international bandits who would respect nothing but force and who. if not stopped

, would range over weaker countries like wolves on the prowl. SPECT ATORS NOD IN » = = because she was WEE HOUR COUNTING

Failure of a Gamble

Britain played for a deal, not only inadequately rearmed physically leaders in the British Government still regarded Hitier {Tuesday's primary todav appeared as a buffer against communism, and one to bei, be settling down to a poDearee strengthened for that reason. {like system after more than 36 With gradually mounting anxiety the British saw of Austria go. They saw Czechoslovakia go—in vioiation | of Hitler's pledge to Chamberlain. They saw Hitler, ' their bulwark against communism, make a deal with

The tabulation of votes cast in|

Lewis Levy, which was 44 per cent | lover its total. Team Three, with | {Mesdames Wilfred Borinstein, Allan | Kahn and Phil Adler as co-captains, | was second with 28 per cent over!

land Team One, led by Mrs. Fred |

Born and Mrs. E. K. Fisher, was| 3 per cent over. | | Men's division teams exceeding | [their quota were Team 15, L. Moss- | {ler and Ben Blieden, captains, up 123 per cent, and Team One, Charles |

|Feibleman and Jules Medias, cap- | tains, up 10 per cent.

Funds raised here wil be distributed by the Jewish Appeal for Re-! (lief, refugee work overseas and development and resettlement in

hours of confusion and inefficiency. | Palestine. The tabulators seemed more con- | fident and were counting faster. | Fewer mistakes, requiring re-check- |

WALT DISNEY SUED |

James Flynn, who works at the Sportsman's Store, provided Mr. Cummins with a net and the bird was captured. Mr. Flynn look charge of the bird overnight and is to turn it over .-to the State Conservation Department some time today. The department said it would free the bird. M’NUTT CHARGES

'29 CRASH TO G. 0. P.

DENVER, May 9 (U. P.).—Paul V.

address that. the Republicans caused the depression and had offered no remedy in 1940. “You and I know and the people know that we fell so far behind because the Republican Party cared

were re-elected to the 15-man | Probably when they were dropped board. They are Frank E. Bohn,| ©n the floor, and the ballots were Ft. Wayne; A. L. Greenman, Peters- | Protruding from the end of the burg; R. F. Lucier, Warsaw; G. O,| Packages ; ai Perry, Terre Haute: R. D. Pontius, | en the Election Commissioners

: ’ | were notified of the situation, they . . y LI8=|.. * y ’ Rochester and C. D. Ehringer, D | borrowed” an official from another

The convention closed at noon |>SSi8nMment and told him to guard and the new board of directors were | "'¢ ballots and boxes. to meet to elect officers for the new No One In Sight year. An hour later, the observer found Officers for this year were R. V. the guard missing from his post. Achatz, Aurora, president; W. H.! There was no one in sight at the | Van Horn, Logansport, first vice | time and it would have been easy

McNutt charged last night in an|p:esident; Mr. Pontius, second vice to “swipe” a handful of the ballots,

and take them soimewhere to mark | cone a blue pencil. And it's not iny conceivable that these ballots could SEEKS STRIKE MEETING ¢ |} .ve been slipped onto a stack on SANT, 1 ay " PJ: one of the tabulation tables while | I" . , . .

4 ©. it was unwatched at mealtime. Labor Department conciliator, said) The chances are that nothing out

president, and Mr. Beck.

Stalin and then attack Poland. The gamble had more about saving the pocketbooks today that he hoped to arrange alof the way has occurred—but it

ing, were being made. And most of HOLLYWOOD, May 9 (U. P).—

U. S. Long Suspicious

It is not only that Chamberlain failed adequately to support his expeditionary army with effective air strength. The Norwegian campaign was an exceedingly difficult operation and perhaps the British did all that was possible under the circumstances. The real mistake may have been in attempting the campaign at all. There must be more than this behind the indigna-

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—One cannot help but have an anxious feeling about Holland at present. Hitler's claim that he is ready to “protect” Holland against the aggression of France ang England fills one with curious foreboding. These “protections” so often seem to mean aggression under a veiled form. The difference between attack and pro< tection seems hard to discover these days.

Last evening, at our table, there was much talk of old wars and new wars, history already written and history in the writing. When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that the people fight these wars. I wonder that the time does not come, when young men facing each other with intent to Kill, do not suddenly think of their homes and their loved ones and, realizing that those on the other side must have the same thoughts, throw away their weapons of mass murder. They might insist that their public ‘servants — the statesmen of the world—get together and, on a rational and peaceful basis, solve the problems for which wars are fought. Of course, this would take willingness to co-operate. But it should not be impossible to great minds who plan war,

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failed. Appeasement had not satiated but only whetted the appetite of Hitler.

[the confusion that marked the early Walter L. Whitman, in a Federal 'part of the tabulation was missing. | Court suit, today asked the profits;

of its largest contributors than 8iv- conference between the mana ing young boys and girls a chance of the Schulte Trailers, Inc., fac-| in life and creating security for old

gement | could have.

The experience the Election Come

Apparently the British will settle down now and give the Chamberlain government another try. They ning out of spectators who had might, as well, for where is there any other leadership helped create confusion during the in Britain to carry on? All of the figures big enough ft day and a half. to hold public confidence are aged veterans of the! The spectators began thinning out first World War government. The ranks of Britain's last night, most of them to get a leaders are thin. Yet she has enormous resources and good night's sleep, and by midnight enormous tenacity, The war is not over yet, {there were relatively few persons in

| Tomlinson Hall who didn’t have a fairly good reason for being there. | During the early morning hours |today, there were only three spec'tators in the balcony. Only one (seemed mildly interested. The other two were asleep. I read in the morning newspapers that some of our, "greatest minds” gathered together at the University

of Rochester, told the college students that new front- | Decl ares M any iers (of economic achievement) would always exist, . . Favor Dictatorship

because they always had. and that the contention that everything had been discovered made no appeal to) them. 1 suppose that they might contend that wars DGEPO RT, Conn, May 9. would always exist because they always have. If we tosav still is nvumen agree with the second idea, however, that there are speech by Mrs. John L. Whitealways new things being discovered, then we must! hurst, first vice president of the take heart and hope that statesmen will also discover| General Federation of Women's new ways of solving the economic and national urges! Clubs, in which she said women which today involve nations in war. would vote for a dictatorship toI wish I could have heard that whole Rechester! morrow if they had the chance. symposium. What I read of it seemed to sound a] Mrs. Whitehurst told the ane note of confidence on the part of men who are the nual convention of the Connectiheads of great corporations, but it did not seem to cut Federation of Women's Clubs touch the actual specific difficulties which face men that a friend, president of a uniseeking jobs in industries which seem to have dis-| versity, told her “he thought appeared. | Hitler should come over here and I gather that the main thing that youth must have show us how to run things when is confidence, I have heard that said about business.! he gets through in Europe.” “If business had confidence today, it would expand,” “You are blind, apathetic, doing but it trembles before the vagaries of government! nothing constructive about chalPerhaps that is the trouble with youth. It is equally, lenges democracy is facing tofearful of a government which imposes limitations on! day.” Mrs. Whitehurst said. She what it may do for it, and of a business system which| is in line to be the next national is constantly restricting jobs. president of the organization,

| One of the reasons was the thin-

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of Walt Disney's “Snow White” and “Pinocchio,” & sum reputedly in excess of $10,000,000. He accused Mr. | Disney of infringing on a process for! | making third dimensional effects.

men and women,” the Federal Social Security Administrator said. Mr. McNutt speaks today at Al-

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(tory and a striking C. I. O. union missioners obtain in this first trial [to consider settlement of the dis- | of the new counting system prob|pute, The striké was called 10 days ably will result in improved arrangee (ago by the United Automobile Work- ments for the next Primary elece ers Union. { tion.

Marbles Tournament Gets Bigger Daily With Deadlines for Entries a Week Away

| With the entry deadline a week] away, the City Marbles Tourna- | ment was getting bigger than a hol-| iday balloon today as 20 community centers filed entries. This makes a total of 27 selections entered so far, with about 20 public schools yet to be heard from. | Seven centers of the Catholic Youth Organization announced entry yes-| terday. It looked as though at Teast 50+ possibly more-—sections will be com-| peting, instead of the 38 expected. Additional C. Y. O. centers were ex- | pected to report by Friday. Tournament officials will then di-/ vide the sections into four. districts] where semi-finalists will be de-| termined May 24, The community center sections|

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