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

Hoosier Vagabond

start or not—this determination to shape his son in :

Erne’ Pyle is on Vacation and at’ the request of Seaders ‘we. are reprinting some of his favorite columns.)

x MEMPHIS, “Tenn, “June 25 25, 1936. ~The most overpowering I have ever seen in a& human being is the determination of John Claybrook to make his sgn exactly like himself.

John Claybrook is a. Negro. He is a self-made

‘man. He is rich. He considers

himself the outstanding example of what a hard-working, rightliving Negro can do in this world. John Clayhrook owns 1200 acres of land across the river in , Arkansas and various logging contracting companies. When he was a child he ran - away from his home in Florence,

Ala, and started working on the

docks. He knew he was a better man : : than other men. He knew he worked ‘harder, gave his employer more. didn’t get a raise, he quit - -and went elsewhere.

John married when he was 20. He had never been to “school. His wife taught him his ABC's. He <an't read or. write very well even today. Saas. “ Self-Made Man But figures. * Ah, figures are terms for money, and figures came easily for him. He can do figures in his head. John Claybrook was born to save ie money. ' He went into the logging business for himself. He acquired land. His savings grew into a pile, and the pile into a fortupe. j Middle age approached, and his money, an piety, and his pride in his own success, accumula with his years. ° ~ Then his wife died, and he married again.® was past 45 when his only son was born.

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know Whether it was an obsession right from the’

‘Our T own

THE ory LIBRARY, the one. under; the thumb of Luther Dickerson, has a copy of The Common * School Advocate. It's the only copy in existence, I'm told. What makes it even more of a museum piece is the Siscovery that the Library people—as emotional a lot as any I khow— have bound The Advocate in such a way that today it's part and parcel of. The Western Fariner and Gardener, the paper run by Henry Ward Beecher during his stay in Indianapolis. : e Common School Advocate was started in 1846 by Henry F. West, the same ‘man who found-: ed the bookshop now known as the W. K. Stewart Co. It was a 16-page semi-monthly, octavo size, and sold for a dollar a. year (“invariably in. advance”),

The papet had only one purpose, namely to secure a free school system for Indiana—“the only guaranty of our Republic,? it said. To promote its crusade, it thought of every possible argument, even including proof that, less than a hundred years ago, the illiteracy of Indianapolis was greater; than the average illiteracy of the entire State. It a bitter pill to swallow, but Mr. West crammed it down the dhrozis of ‘Indianapolis until: it hurt.

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Others Got the Credit

Today Tere is little doubt that Mt. Wes “and his paper did more to secure a free school system than anybody else. Strangely enough, however, he never , 8ot credit for it. Not even a book as comprehensive ‘as Boone's “History of Education in' Indiana” mentions him or his paper, a defect which Jacob Dunn pointed out some 30 years ago. When the battle for free schools was won in 1852, Mr. West stopped publication - of his paper. Four years later, on Wuesday, Nov. 4, 1856, the people elected him Mayor of Indianapolis. The following Saturday, Mr. West died. Ho As for Mr. Beecher’s paper, it was started in 1845. There was reason enough for an agricultural paper around - here. Almost from the start, Indianapolis had more than its share of amateur gardeners, let alone the professionals. As early as 1821, for instance,

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Alexander Ralston, the surveyor who laid out the

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 28.—There is no use in pres tending that we can ‘go into the heavy defense program that the world crisis requires without making sacrifices. Yet we are still left with the illusion, after President Roosevelt's fiieside defense talk, that we can eat our cake and keep it. We are facing an expenditure of many billions of dollars for defense. The $3,000,000,000 appropriated last week is only a small starter. If Hitler wins, we shall be spending many times that sum in the next few years— all on non-productive war goods. . Countless man-hours of labor . in factories formerly devoted to ‘making automobiles, refrigerators, radios and numerous gadgets of comfortbale living will have to be diverted to making airplane parts, tanks, guns and other devices of war. These military weapons from the factories of America will not be sold to the public to add to the comfort of living. They will be sold to the Government and held in readiness for any eventuality. Talents and energies ordinarily devoted to peaceful pursuits, and Government funds which might be used for building . hospitals or other service institutions, will be converted into these defense goods. All of that work must come out of ‘the sweat of the American people and they won't be able to’ use the products for themselves. ” i”

First Things First

That is what Government officials have meant when they have been saying that a Hitler victory would result in a lowering of the American standard

of living.

My Day

NEW YORK, CITY, Monday—I must finish tell-

“ing about my day in Wheeling, W. Va. The Coal Area

Countil--gave us a tea soon after we reached the - hotel. Then I-had a visit with the Junior League group, Which is running a small settlement house

where they are trying to interest unemployed: boys in a program of recreation and, through that making an attempt to find them jobs. Later a group of Democratic women called and a little girl came as a delegate from her school to get an autograph book signed. Finally, I went to my lecture. While there, poor Mrs. Morgenthau was told that no one could find the copy of my column, so she spent a harrowing evening. trying to locate iit. The loss was partly _- own fault and partly that of the messenger boy. who evidently decided that the word “press” on e copy meant that it had to be taken to a newsjaper, instead of meaning the rate at which it was o_be sent. I had not explained carefully enough that it had to go to the telegraph office. Some day, perhaps, I shall learn all the different ways in which . one may lose a column. . took

And if he .

: John has started to teach him to think along busi-

"By Ernie Pyle

his ‘own image.

The boy is 20 now. John is 66. He is still as|He devotes his time to over- |’ seeing, and to the multifarious tasks of making the].

sound as an oak tree.

son worthy of the father. | The boy was inclined to be a little wild. He liked fun, and didn’t care for work.. John sent him away to school in Alabama. But hat didn’t last long.. John brought back to the Arkansas farm, and; put him io i in the fields. He paid him regular hired hand wages. : But that wasn't=all. John evened things-up for the ‘boy. - In school ‘lie- had been crazy about ath-

letics. So John built im a stadium on the farm and

bought him a ball team” Yes, sir, actually bo

him a whole baseball team. The whole thing cost|.-

him three or four thousand dollars. The pro: team is known all over the South today. at worked for a while. They couldn't get jong

Tears. of Joy

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"Four" times in four yedrs they have broken up,

and the boy has left home. But each| time he has come back, : But. the boy is starting to come around. © He's

showing an interest in the farm. He's developing.

But the ‘boy was wild. :

ness lines. ; The fight isn’t over yet. But John Claybrook sees

enough progress to encourage him. A little incident

full of meaning happened the other day. John and his wife’ had left the plantation over Sunday for a little trip. They got back, unexpéctedly, about 2 Sunday afternoon. All the hands, of course, had Sunday off. “We drove up in the driveway,” John said. “We thought the boy would be dressed up and sitting on the porch, But he wasn't. “He was out in the field. ‘He had on his overalls, and he was down on his knees, scratching the ground with his hands, to see how the cotton was coming up. “It made me so happy I just had to shed tears, right there.”

By Anton Scherrer

plan of Indianapolis, had a garden in back of his home on W. Maryland St. in which he grew the first tomatoes seen around here. That same summer, Dr: Isaac Coe raised 125

bushels of sweet potatoes on one acre of his patch]

in Fall Creek bottoms. And among the first to raise Alne fruits was Hiram Brown who arrived in 1823. He planted an orchard of 24 acres and never tasted a Shevimen of his crop. Fresh fruit didn’t agree with im The Library edition of The Western Farmer and Gardener, the one wrapped up with the single issue of Mr. West's Advocate, is the second volume, that of 1846. More than any other volume, it displays Mr. Beecher’s amazing newspaper enterprise. On Oct. 19, 1846, for instance, Mr, Beecher issued a double number with a complete almanac for 1847, a scoop if there ever was one. He explained that “almost ‘every family purchases an almanac of some kind,” and he proposed to furnish one in which “uncouth woodcuts and pointless anecdotes” were replaced by ‘useful information.” ’

» ® td ’ Information Still Useful Mr. Beecher’s “useful information” Aunts: as good today as the Monday he published it back ’ in 1846. “Good butter,” said Mr. Beecher, “is made of sweet cream, with perfect neatness; is of high color, perfectly sweet; free from buttermilk and possesses a fine grass flavor. Tolerable butter differs from this only in not having a fine flavor. It'is devoid of all unpleasant taste, but has not a high relish. Whatever is less than this is bad butter.” What wouldn't I give to have somebody clear up problems today the way Mr. Beecher did. Mr. Beecher also notes receiving a- letter from R. L. Cox of Paterson, N. J, with the startling news that “Gen. Talmadge says that the Lombardy Poplars have run out, and so they ought, for only imported males were planted.” (For the benefit of his readers, Mr. Beecher italicized the word “males”), To make “Kitchen Pepper,” Mr. Beecher advises mixing one pound of ginger, six pounds of dry salt, and eight ounces each of cinnamon, black pepper, allspice and nutmeg. Grind together. It's grand to flavor gravies' and stuffings, says Mr. Beecher. And mind you, on top of all this “useful information,” Mr. Beecher predicted the behavior of the sun, moon anc. stars for 1847, }

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“By Raymond Clapper

Yet, in effect, Mr. Roosevelt says there is nothing in our present emergency to interfere with the more abundant life. He says there is nothing that justifies a retreat from any of our social objectives—conservation, assistance to agriculture, ‘housing, and help to the underprivileged. He finds nothing to justify a lowering of standards of employment and even hopes that business may be able to bring wages up. He sees nothing to justify longer hours and he would like to see old-age pensions and unemployment insurance extended to new groups. It would be a grand thing to see all of that come true. Certainly it does not all have to be sacrificed. But first things come first. Those were first-things when we were relatively secure, and we ought to have done more in some respects than we did. But something -else comes first now. If it fails, everything goes down. That is defense. Fey ® 8 =n Alive to Dangers ! Mr. ‘Roosevelt is awake to the dangers of our position and has been all along. But he appears to hesitate to d¥ive for the sacrifices demanded by those dangers. Not a word has been said about taxes. Now, it ever, the American people should accept heavier taxes and begin to pay some part of the defense bill. If we don't begin paying now, when can we screw ours selves up to doing it? Yi Force alone is respected today. We must have plenty of it, even if some other things that we want must wait. Because the American people are strong. they will rise to‘a challenge to do this job. They don’t need to be coddled. We w now how lucky we are. P. S.—And how about something for the American Red Cross for those pitiful homeless in Europe Whe haven't been so Jucky?

By Eleanor. Roosevelt

day avas largely spent catching up on mail, although |:

I drove out to Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis’ place,

“Oaklands,” in the afternoon to mest some of her

neighbors, teachers, social workers and others. They were a most interesting group.

pared to answer.

beautiful formal gardens I have ever seen, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gould and their young daughter ‘were with us for the night, and also Mr. and Mrs. Rundle Gilbert with their small son. With Diana “Hopkins this makes three children in the house and it is nice to hear their voices. Sunday was a fairly busy day and in the 1ate

I enjoyed| being: with them and having them ask me certain: questions which I did not always feel adequately pre- | | I have not been in Mrs. Eustis’ #2 garden since 1918 and it is now one of the most

OR. BLATCHLEY 1S DEAD AT 80

chanan Mortuary. Cremation will

Former State Geologist Was Well-Known as Author And Naturalist.

after a week's illness. He was 80. Dr. Blatchley had just returned from his winter home in Dunedin, Fla., last April. Born Oct. 6, 1859, at North Madison, Conn., Dr. Blatchley moved to Hendricks County, Indiana, when he was one year old. He attended school at Groveland, Putnam County, where his father, Hiram Silliman Blatchley, was one of his

teachers. Dr. Blatchley later school in Bainbridge and :Central Normal at Danville in 1878. In 1883 he entered Indiana. University, moving to Bloomington with his wife, the former Miss Clara Fordice, and his son, Raymond.

Was State Geologist

Before his graduation, in 1887, Dr. Blatchley published a number of books and became a member of the Academy of Science. His manuals on all types of insects still are used in universitiés and colleges throughout the world. From 1887.to 1894, he was hgad of the department of. science at Wiley High School, Terre Haute. He spent his summers teaching in normal schools and frequenily as a member of geological expeditions. Three years after receiving his Master of Arts degree from Indiana University, in 1894, Dr. Blatchley was made State Geologist, then an elective office. He was nominated and re-elected to that office five successive times. During his: term, he prepared and published an annual report on the geology and natural resources and history of the State. Dr. Blatchley was a close friend of James Whitcomb Riley,

Two Sons Survive

Survivors are two sons, Raymond S. Blatchley of Indidnapolis, and Ralph FP. Blatchley, Dunedin, Fla., and one grandson, R. Willis Blatchley, of Cambridge, Mass. Funeral services will be at 10 a. m. Thursday in the Flanner & Bu-

follow. Dr. J. J. Davis, Purdue University entomologist and long-time friend of Dr. Blatchley, will speak at the service.

WAR RELIEF FUND REACHES $33,371

Indianapolis’ contributions to the American: Red Cross War Relief Fund reached $33,371.60 today.

$1000 from Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pesler. Contributions . of $122.75 were received from teachers at Schools -1, 5, 18, 27, 32, 34, 49 and 53. Members of the Women’s Rotary Club contributed $65 at their luncheon yesterday. New gifts of $25 or more were given by the Advance Paint Co., $200; J. I. Holcomb, $100; D. Laurence Chambers, $75; Robert E. Kelly, Frederick E. Matson and Consolidated Finance Co., $50 each; James S. Watson, Akron Surgical House, Inc.,, Henry Reinitz of the Rosner Transfer & Storage Co. Henry L. Dithmer and James A/ Ross, $25 each.

Df. Willis Stanley Blatchley, well-| : known naturalist and author, died]: today at his-home, 1558 Park Ave.,| :

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New contributions included one of |

ay ‘Big Fellows’ of es

by ‘pokers’.” 2. Ralph Switzer . .

3. John Davis . .

By LEO DAUGHERTY Traffic accidents don’t just happen. They are caused by drivers. That is the opinion of truck drivers—men who spend long hours on the highways, night and day, in all kinds of weather, at the steering wheels of the largest trucks on the road. Traffic accidents on highways and city streets can be averted “if every driver sticks to his business and is careful and courteous,” say. drivers at the motor transit terminal on Kentucky Ave. They resent, too, that they are considered as big, burly fellows who' always “hog” the road and never give the private car driver a break. They claim their code of the highway is highest and one’that every driver should follow. - “Be sane and watch the other fellow,” is the advice of Robert Stamats who in 10 yedrs has driven trucks about 800,000 miles without an accident. “No one has the right of way if someone makes a mistake. Some drivers are not alert. They take too many chances. Never try to pass anyone on a hill; if you do someone has got to get off the road or get hit.” - Warns of ‘Spring Fever “Right now you've got to be on the lookout for the driver who has spring fever,” said Howard Light, who has driven 30,000 miles without an accident. “You have to be alert and keep your eyes open. We truck drivers don't figure we have the right of way. We try to be courteous. The most dangerous drivers? The mopey ones. They hold up traffic and cause people to try to pass each other.” Ralph: C. Switzer, who doesn’t know what to give as his permanent address because he drives between St. Louis and Pittsburgh and has driven a total of $200,000 miles, says: “You have to double check the other fellow and figure him. That's pretty hard to do sometimes, but it’s the way to kesp out of acciden Flash «Clear Signal”

“you have to actually drive about a mile ahead of where you are,” says C. E. (Eddie) Althauser, who drove 110.000 ‘miles before he became a terminal manager. “When I started to drive, you put your clothes on on Monday morning and didn’t take them off until Saturday night. ! “That was too long to drive and was dangerous. It’s different now. Driving hours are regulated. There are two boys on a truck and they ‘spell’ each other. They get sleep and you don’t Liear of truck drivers going to sleep at the wheel any 7more.” He believes that the ordinary driver doesn’t judge distances, takes

afternoon I fléw up to New York City to go to a meeting of the New York City Council of the American Youth Congress. This morning I am leaving for Philadelphia to spend the day with Mrs. Curtin Winsor and to see our grandson, Bill Roosevelt, and her other little boy. I have said little or nothing . the past few days about European news. When in Washington there is little else tha’ one can think about, but one tries to avoid it as a topic of conversation. Since the President was preparing his speech last week-end, every-| one in the house was keenly aware not only of the

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aspasts of the Buropean siuaiion, ‘but of its implica-

A “Flying Fortress” dropped in at the Municipal Airport yesterday on a cross-country training flight, the first visit to Indianapolis by one of the Army Air Corps’ heaviest armored bombers. : Necks craned at the airport

when the 22-ton giant plane roared in for a lan Out of

1. Daryl Beekman , . “Two-thirds of the auto wrecks are caused . : Kops a log book on himself, showing how

far and how many hours he drives.

'Tending to Business’ Held Accident Cure’ by | Truckers

{oo many aren and never figures what’s around the. bend. John Davis, who drove 800,000 miles on the highway before being assigned fo a “pickup” truck in the city, says that caution and tending to one’s business is'all that is necessary to avoid accidents. Forty miles an hour i§ a sensible speed on a straight highway and at dusk and daybreak is when you have to be most careful, is the opinion of Richard Ullman, who drives between Columbus, O., Indianapolis and Chicago. “Most drivers have an unjustified

grudge against truck drivers,” he’

said. ““THere is no reason for a. wreck. Some people may say that .roag conditions: will cause accidents. They are wrong. You should be governed by road conditions. There ought to be national traffic regulations. Radios in cars and trucks are not dangerous. They keep you alert.” Truck drivers help others, says Daryl “Beekman, Mr. Ullman's buddy. “You can see a lot in a truck reflector,”. he said. “At night, if the road ahead is clear and there is a car behind, we flash lights on the road .to signal them the road is clear. . “Pokers cause two thirds of the wrecks. Anytime a person is driving about 20 miles an hour they're looking every place but wHere they're driving. You see more foolish tricks in cities than on highways, that’s why there are; more accidents in cities. “If everyone would just | wath where he's going there wouldn't be any wrecks. Everyone ought to be courteous to each other and respect each other’s rights.” ‘All the drivers said there is romance in being on the go continually even if handling a truck wit 20,000 pound load isn’t the softes ob available. Mr. Beekman doesn’t want to do any other kind of work, but of his task, he smiled and said: “Mister, ' this isn’t any, gravy train.”

‘© PER CENT’ TRIAL MOVED TO DANVILLE

The trial of the “Two Per ‘Cent Club” suit is to be held in Danville. . Attorneys for the plaintiff, Glenn W. Funk, and the defendants, Governor M. Clifford Townsend and other state officials, agreed upon Hendricks County yesterday after Mr. Funk asked for a change of venue from Marion Circuit Court. The suit attacks the legality of the Hoosier Democratic Club’s cam-paign-collection activities. Mr. Funk was defeated for the Republican nomination for prosecutor at the

last primary.

Flying fortress . . . here on {raining flight.

composite March sd oy :

port, La.

after finishing a “hop’ > ch Field to Barksdale,

La. in five and a half hours. Col. "Smith would only say the

" mission was a “routine training

ht.” Less than 20 minutes after it landed the fortress took . for the East. “Just where in East we don’t exactly know,” Lath said.

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DEFENSE POST

FOR MNUTT?

Ability as Administrator Is Cited in Capital Discussion.

Times Special WASHINGTON, May 28. The possibility that Paul V. McNutt's {recognized = administrative ability may be put to work in speeding the national defense program was being re today. The Federal Security Administrator has just returned to Washington after a 14,000-mile Presidential campaign tour which took him ‘into the principal cities of the West and South. One of the reasons listed for Mr. ‘McNutt’'s appointment to the Security post was the administrative ability he demonstrated first as American Legion national commander, then ‘as Governor of Indiana and, finally as the U. S. High Commissioner of ‘the Philippines. On his return from the tour, Mr. McNutt said he found the “folks out in the states” taking the war situation calmly, “Perhaps it is because Washington is in closer touch with the situation,” he said, “but at any rate, I find the people here are far more jittery about the war and America’s future than the folks out in the states. | | “The latest blitzkrieg caused me to change my political speeches into pleas for preparedness. I found people everywhere ready and willing to meet this or any other crisis with great calmness ant without fear. America’s morale is magnificent and I expect to tell the President so.” What the future holds for his Presidential aspirations, Mr. MecNutt refused to predict. : “In this chaotic time we live on 24-hour planning,” Mr. McNutt said, “and anyone would be /fodlish to assume the role of prophet of the future.”

DOUGLAS ASKS G-MEN TO INVESTIGATE HIM

HOLLYWOOD, May 28 U. P.).— Melvyn Douglas, motion picture actor recently appointed to. the California National Guard Intelligence Service, today asked that he be examined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with charges that he is a Communist. In a telegram to U. S. Attorney General Robert Jackson, Mg. Douglas said “, . . I have been iciously attacked by Gordon Garland, speaker of the Salifornig Assembly, as a, ‘Communist leader in’ California.’ “In the interests of all liberals, and for my own good name, I earnestly request that you order a thorough and immediate investigation of me and my connections by the Federal Bureau of Invesiisas tion.”

Describes Slaying Of Nazi ‘Chutists

NEW YORK, May 28 (U. PD. —| Rolling through the French coun-, tryside near Rouen, the crew of a French train saw two German parachutists dropping to the ground. With |a grinding of * brakes, the train was jerked to a stop, the train crew leaped off, guns ready, and shot the\ Germans as they landed. | The incident was related yesterday by Marianne Carsch, 19, a Dutch girl who arrived on the French liner Champlain, which brought 648 p ngers here on

her second trip of the war.

Indianapolis Gets a Glimpse of u. S. Army's Flying For

ing B-17-B, weighs 44,000 pounds fully loaded and in addition is equipped to carry four and a half tons of bombs and ammunition. It has a range of ‘3000 miles and a top speed estimated at about - 320 miles per hour. Powered by four Wright 1100 horsepower en-, the t plane

is a. Boe-~ gines,

Faction Receives $15,922; Bradford Group Reports in Gifts. The Marion | ounty Republican Campaign Committee,

leadership of Carl Vandivier, today reported the largest primary ‘ame

{paign coniribution of any of the | political organ

tions. . According to [the expense ‘states

_|ment filed with, the County Clerk, [the G. O. P. campaign committee

received $15,922 in contributions from candidates party workers and backers. The other County G. O.

| principal Marion faction led by the

.{new county chairman, James Brad=-

ford, took in a total of $10,300 in

contributions. it statement, also: on file, declared. 1

Denfocrat | List Filed

The. second 1 gest primary came paign fund, as reported to the Clerk, was that of the Marion County Democratic Central = Committee, which showed contributions totalling $10,658.75. Candidates in ithe principal Demo= cratic county office fight, Walter C. Boetcher, successful nominee for County Treasurer, and James F, Cunningham, defeated for the nomination, also filed their expenses. ‘Mr. Cunninghlam’s political agent, the “Cunningham - for - Treasurer Club,” took in land paid out $2490, according to its report. The “Boet-cher-for-Treasyfer Club” received and spent $3625 during the came paign. | Grider

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iggest Donor

gle contribution to aign funds was that of Neal Grider, defeated candidate for the Republicans nomination for Treasurer. Mr. Grider, who was ‘backed by the, organization of Mr. Vandivier, contributed $2500 to -the Republican Campaign Committee. Yesterday was ‘the last day for filing of expenses by political agents, Candidates themselves have until

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Douglas C. ] McMurtrie, Chicago typographical re will speak in Indianapolis three times next week. i The Ludlow! Typographic. Co, ex= ecutive will be the principal speaker at the banquet of the Special Libraries Association Wednesday. night. Three hundred special lie brarians from| the East and Middle West are expected to ‘attend. Mr, McMurtrie anniversary of the invention of inting. Eugene C. Pulliam, pube« lisher and peesident of Radio Sta tion WIRE, ill be banquet toast master. On Thursds y, June Murtrie will |

Times Special LAFAY State’s outst bers and their leaders dre expected to attend the 22d annual Boys’ and

.demonultry, egg : Tuesday, bird, weed, insect identi farm accounting, dairy economics‘ judging.

|QUINS 6 YEARS PARTY [IS NOI

CALLANDER, Ontarig, May 28 (U, P.)—The Dionne quintuplets,’ || Yvonne, Emilie, Cecile, Annette and Marie, were 6 years old today, and they -celebr rent with a hday party at Dafoe

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