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FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940

Hoosier Vagabond

ie Pyle is on vacation and at the request ‘of we are reprinting some of his favorite

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included Mexico, ny speedometer never passed 55. We have had i few narrow escapes.

HINGTON, June 30, 1936.—Whenever 1 come a long trip in my envious role of a roving , there are certain people with green eyes ak up behind and say: “What, haven't you wreck yet?” or “Don’t you get awfully tired driving so much?” "No, I haven't had a wreck yet. But I don’t like to talk about it, because you never can tell, and I do so much knocking on wood that I sound like a trapdrummer coming down the street. Wreck, stay away from my door. And, to the amazement of most people, I never get tired driving. When I was 14 I drove a car for the first time, and loved it. And I still love it. In 12 months of roving I s. My arms never get tired,

ers in heavy traffic, the passers on the hills.

else. by it. : We have seen a ‘lot of accidents.

within 100 miles twice just after we had met it.

corpses out. badly scared wotnen, Va a scratch. u - ” i

Some Drivers Are Lucky

have driven 29,000 mile | even on rough roads. | The| farthest I have driven in one day is 570 om a ranch in the center of Arizona clear Angeles. I'll never do that again. » ” ”

cared Himself

When I first started goin’ places on this roving | assignment, I wold clip along at 70 miles an hour. I remember once? on a long straight road out in Arizona, the speedometer got up to 80. When I saw it, it almost scared me to death. Even though I always have driven cautiously, I just sat down and figured that 70 miles an hour was top much for a day-in and day-out traveling | diet. Even if youre careful, the law of averages will | catch yp with you at that speed. So I have gradually |

hit it.

went around his leg.

He was a salesman for a biscuit company. a big box of badges advertising his cookies. were scattered all over the" highway. laughed and said: “Well, spread advertising.” A few days later.

cliff. The driver had imply gone to sleep. ly right after lunch o2 a hot day.

to wake up. I wis so sleepy I was actually in agony and was, afraid to keep going on.

® THIS TIME, no déubt, you know that chis is r Charles Mayer & Co. are celebrating their . i It's a sheltered person, indeed. who needs ’'to be told about it. Chances are, though, that maybe| you never heard of Charles Mayer's breathtaking advertisement, the one {he put in the first directory of ‘Indianapolis, that of 1857—just 17 years after he went into business. It fills the whole of Page 118 and cost a pretty penny, I'll * bet. } Mr. Mayer introduces himself in 36-point rococco type as a “Dealer in Fancy Goods and Groceries” and then, lest there

be any doubt about it, goes on. to explain (in smaller print, this

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cils, Port Monaies; Wi; lets; Perfumery, such as Farine and other Cologri>s, Soaps, Extracts, Pomades and Oils: Fine Ivory 7 coth, English, Horn Redding, Back, Side and Puff. Combs.” (Come to think of it, he mentioned the Coniis once before). But to proceed: “Nuedles, Pins, Looking Glasses, Beads, Masks. Marble:, Fire Crackers, Torpedoes, Fire Works of th German Pistols; Game Bags, Powder Flasks, Shot Pouches, Pocket Compzznons; Jewelry, Snuff Boxes, Cigar Cases, Smoke ‘ipes, Cigar Holders, Work Boxes, Cabas. Back-zzmmon Boards, Chessmen, Dominos, Night Tapers, Skates, Magic Lanterns; Toys, an endless variefy.” - * v Like Tennyson's Brook . Mr. Mayer is spprq2ching the end of the:page, but is stil] a long way off: “Fancy Goods, Japanned Ware: Ladies’ Fancy C:skets, a very large Stock and always of the Latest Iraportation; Pocket and Table Cutlery, Razors and scissors of the best makers; Bird Cages; Wooden Ware, such as Cedar Tubs, Buckets, Cherups, Faucets, Bowls, Bufter Prints: David Landreth's Celebrated Garden Seeds; Stone and Yellow Ware.” . And then, in still the same small print: “Groceries, Produce. Confectionerizs. Pickles, Preserves, W. R. Pineapples and Imported Cheese; Fresh Peaches and Tomatoes in Cans; German and Havana Cigars; Virginia Tobacgo; “Olive Oil: Sardines; Rock and Cough Candy; Currants, Raisins, Figs, Dates, Nuts, Prunes, €itrons.. Split Peas, Lentils, Juniper Berries, Hemp, Canary. Caraway. Cor ander, Fennel, Anise Seed: Sage, Oatmeal, Sez.go, Pearl Barley, Farina, Milet, cocoa and Chocolase.” Period. Mr. Mayer leaves the impression that, like Tennyson's Brook. he could have gone on forever. But it was the end of his paid page. As a matter of fact, Mr. Mayer had to stop to make room for the news that Henry Heine. a shoemaker. was living at’ “A. Knodle's resi.’ in Judge Stephen's add. Stephens St.

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‘Willow Cabs, Hobby Horses, Sleighs, Velocipedes, Fancy Cabs; Shopping, Knitting, Sewing, Traveling, Work, Fruit, Cloth, Office and Market Baskets; Hampers, Bird's Nests; Rocking and Nursing Children. [High and Low, Rattan Chair§; India Rubber Rattles: Back, ooth, Whisker, Window. Horse,

I pause for breath, but Mr. Mayer didn't: “Silk, Hemp and Sea-Grass Fish Lines. of any length ’ size: Yankee Doodles: Salmon. Kirby, Limerick latted and. Bowed Fish Hooks: Floats; MultiReels: Cane Fish Poles: Cane Pipe Stems: Musidal Instruments. such as Musical Boxes, Accordions, Harmonicas. Violins, Flutes, Fifes, Guitars, Banins and Tamboulines: Italian Violin. Guitar and Banio Strings.” 7 . THat isn't the half of it: “Steel Pens, Faber's Pen-

ashin gton By Raymond Clapper

SHINGTON, May 31.—Canada is best known average American as the place we used to go on vacation during the prohibition days, but it now comes. sharply into the focus of our natipnal interest because the European ‘battle is going against the : : . Allie Canada is a belligerent in this war on the Allied side, It is ‘part of the British Commonwealth and as such is part of Hitler's target. It is only a ques- - tion of how much trouble Hitler wishes to make and can make for Canada if he wins the war.

Both of these move, are indications of a growing sense . of - solidarity of interest between the United States and Canada. ’ Che appointment of a new minister to Canada is particularly welcome in view of the pitiful inadequacy of our two previous ministers. Ottawa has’ been a dumping ground, first to take care of Uncle Dan Roper after Mr. Roose elt eased him out as Secretary of‘€ommerce to make ‘vay for Harry Hopkins; second, to berth young Jimmy Sromwell, whose campaign contributions were though" to deserve handsome reward. Now the post is beir g filled -by Jay Pierrepont Moffat, a skill career man. He had former service in the Ottawa Legation, served in Australia where he ‘But President Ro 1t has did the spade work or the American-Australian axis given a p e that the United that is being quietly orged, and finally he accom-

States will not stand by and: spe panied Undersecretary of State Sumner les on the Canada attacked. Thus Canada. reger.t/ secret mission “0 Europe. : Reet of Empire

fighting against Germany, send-— rz. = 8 ing both supplies and men, has TR the protection of our Monroe Doctrine. Called Possible Suppose Hitler wins. He might want to put a = Nobody knows wha situation would result from a complete Allied defe:t. Canada’s importance has

Gauleiter in Ottawa. The King of England has a # peen grossly underrated by American public opinion.

arnor-General there now. Suppose Hitler tries to fix a crushing indemnity on Canada? ‘Those are no longér academic questions for us but ones—among Indeed, some say that Canada would be a better base

many—that we may have to face within a few months for the British Empirz than England because it has

unless the Allies stop Hitler.

» kets, is more centrally located with regard to the

® 3 : ony Qn and Aya existing Empi U. S. and Canadian Solida tty Grows than the' little over-crowded island huddled up agains e importance of Canada on our horizon now is the continent of Europe Who knows what Canada will be a few years hence 2 have just changed’ our interpretation of the Neutrality Act to permit American pilots to flv to a (arget of German comination, or somehow tied in adian ports planes purchased by the Allies. Fore with the United Sta es. The only certain thing 1s v the planes had to be delivered at the border. e also have just @ssigned one of our crack diplo5 to be minister to Canada.

that we have a larg because of the effect it is bound to have upon our own situation,

My Day

we journeyed by train through the familiar scenery ot . it York State. Usually I motor through this Sas center, arquud 4 polivical party. he country, but the Erie Railroad takes one through some lovely places. The light green of the * s hillsides, darkened here and

the full and swiftly brooks and rivers, makes the trip day, so I'll see him tl ere. very delightful. Mountain laurel brightens the hills, and the lilacs and many of the in people’s gardens. I wonder if friends dined with re in New York City. my own lilacs will be gone when I next go home. | :

have never attached to any railroad station before, and the to cement friendshij parts of towns and villages which you

wer “Fr wel I

t by like an unfolding panorama. I liked the name no matter which wa it turns. jendship!’ for a town. It would be reassuring if ycu e a stranger. | 1 Finally, we came fo Olean. I had not been in Olean a safe and pleasan or ill for II Bive

the Democratic Staie Commitiee. Coming back to a nonpartisan lecture seemed odd,gbut I must who desire to remai | at peace,

By Ern ie Pyle

slowed down. On this last four-months trip, which

It is amazing {he number of absolutely dangerous drivers you see on the road. The weavers, the speedThe last item is what makes me madder than anything And yet, I have never seen an accident caused

One snowy and sleety afternoon ia North Carolina, the day before last Christmas, we cgunted 30 cars piled into the ditch

One car skidded, hit a bank, and rolled over 1 saw it all through my mirror. I was the first one back there, to pull the But, they weren't corpses—just two

In west Texus, a couple of months ago, a car passed us going 60. The road was gravel, and very rough. In a few minutes we came on the car, sitting crosswise of the road, looking as though a shell had It had turned over twice at 60 miles an hour, right in ‘he middle of the road. The only injury to the driver was a scratch where his garter

He had just bought the car three days before. He had ‘They The man| the boss can’t say I didn't||

in. New Mexico, we came across a car hanging by tvio wheels over the edge of a

A fellow does get : wfully sleepy driving, especialThree times this spring I had-to sop and walk up and down the Toad

Wnton Scherrer)

e pest manufacture; American and ||

a sparse population, great resourées, is close to mar-|

, and is much more immune to attack

—an independent nat on, seat ‘of the British Empire,

interest in whatever happens

By El:anor Roosevelt

EW YORK CITY, Thursday.—All day yesterday say I found it easier to talk about things which do-not

I had the pleasur« of seeing Judge Dowd and his two daughters. He is an old and loyal friend and it

is always good to se¢ him, We had supper with him there by evergreen trees, with after the lecture, wh le we waited for our train back flowing to New York City. He is coming to Washington Tues-

Today I saw twu gentlemen before going to my broadcast. 1 left im nediately after that for Westflowering chester County. where I am giving a Memorial Day shrubs and spring bulbs are out address at Ferncliff Cemetery. In the evening a few

Tomorrow the menbers of the good neighbor tour of the General Fede ation of Women’s clubs: will sail The familiar names which I for a visit to the Scuth American republics. I think it is very significant that they are going at this time between us and our sister na- : tions to the south of us when the countries across the : do not often see when motoring, , were very in- Atlantic are éngagei in a life and death struggle terdsting—Hancock, Oswego, Elmira, Hornell, Corning which cannot fail tc bring untold suffering to many,

I hope these worien will take my good wishes to all those whom thes visit and that they will have journey. On their return they| a good many- years, and then I Was organizing will have the satisfa tion of knowing they have made new -contacts and ‘ew friendships between peoples

Indiana Hangs Out

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‘Welcome’ Sign for Vacationists |

"SECOND SECTION

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picnic here.

. . . refreshes tired hikers. 3. For little people . at Brown County State Park.

Park.

‘By DAVID MARSHALL Indiana is girding itself for the biggest migration. of vacationing visitors in~its history. By the time snow flurries have whipped out of the north, some 13 million visitors will have returned to their homes leaving a 195-million-dollar bonanza in Hoosier pocketbooks. All records for visitors. the ‘amount of money spent and the total mileage traveled in Indiana are expected to be shat-

the number of

. are wading and exploring expeditions .

4, Mealtime. in a shelter house .

tered.

the Conservation Department, the Hoosier Motor Club, and Indiand businessmen are getting set for invasion. The huge influx, start rolling#how that OI’ Man Winter seems to have gone, will be caused primarily by five major reasons: | 1. The European war. "2. America’s awakening to itself as one of the world's greatest wonderlands. : 3. The constant improvement of highways and automobiles. 4, Better business conditions. 5. The educational campaigns of states which are acquainting the public with their attractions. For more than five years the number of visitors to Indiana has been swelling. In 1938, the U. S. Travel Bureau reports, 8,013,014 visitors trooped into the state. This was nearly 20 per cent higher than the 1937 total. The 1938 visitors spent a total of $122,093,550, an average of $15.23 each, the Bureau estimates. Figures for 1939 have not been released, but the Hoosier Motor Club estimates approximately 10,000,000 visitors’ spent . some $150,000,000 that year. i | The biggest majority of the yearly travel is done in the summer. | “This should be the. greatest travel year in history for “Indiana,” ‘club officials say. “There never hes [been a time in the club's history

ywhen the number of inquiries were higher. There should be a 30 per Pent increase over last year, when all-time records were set.” Another indication of the tremendous increases in automotive travel are gasoline tax figures of the State Auditor’s office. ‘Last year there were 646.084,374 gallons sold in Indiana bringing the

‘Those figures are the largest on record. This year they: are going even higher. For the first quarter of 1940 there was an increase over the same period of 1939 of 11,892,486 -gallons sold and a rise of $475,891 in taxes collected. These figures make the 1940 first quarter the biggest on record. The Auditor’s office estimates total gasoline sales this year at 700,000 gallons with the chance it may exceed that figure. The Convention Bureau is expecting one of the most active summers on record. Henry T. Davis, Bureau manager, says “it will be an exceptionally good summer. for us.” “June, July and August are the three worst convention months,” he said, “but this summer will bring 38 conventions. with a total attendance of 15,000 “persons who will spend more than $700,000.” The Bureau estimates that each convention visitor spends: $14.76 a floy and, on an average, stays three ays. ! ; Of that $14.76, $4.72 goes: for Hotel accomodations, $3.99 for foed and beverages, $3.10 on retail purchases and the $2.95 balance for: local transportation, gas, oil, garage, amusements and miscellaneous items. . 3 $1 Important - summer conventions include those of both major political parties. Some 2500 out-of-towners come for each. The Republicans

Hotels, the Convention Bureau, |

State a total tax levy of $25,845,090.

1. The creeping sands of the Dunes State Park . . . thousands ‘will -

2. The cool, moist air of Donaldson Cave at Spring Mill State Park

. . midday in Turkey Run State

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Hoosiers Eye $195,000,000

Melon in Tourist Business

met May 24, the Democrats will convene June 27. From Aug. 7 to 10 between 500 and 1000 persons will attend the Military Order of the Purple Heart, national meeting, convention here for the first time. The American - Federation: of Musicians will meet June 7-14 with some 12,000 to 15,000 persons expected. The Special Libraries Association will bring 500 persons to its meeting June 3-6. The Glass Bottle Blowers of America with 500 visitors will meet for two weeks beginning July 8. From Aug. 18 to 22 the Supreme

the! Council of the Knights of Colum-

bus will convene with an expected

which should attendance of 1500.

For the first time in many years Grand Circuit racing returns here on June 22 for five days. Mr, Davis says the meet should draw 25,000 persons. The Western Tennis Championships also will be here from July 8-13 at the Woodstock Country Club. Between 2500 and 3000 persons are expected. - Some 400,000 persons, many of them from outside the state, should

see the Indiana State Fair, set for

Aug. 30-Sept. 6. ~ The first huge flow of visitors, of course, arrived for the 50)-Mile Race Memorial Day. - The attendance this year was estimated at 142,000 by Speedway | cfficials. T. E. (Pop) Myers, Speedway general manager, said: “Although we really have no way of telling, we think half of them— maybe more—come from out of town. They usually spend more than the average visitor estimate of the Convention Bureau because of the carnival air of the race.” A new attendance record is ex-

RE,

SIGNERS BLOCK BONDISSUEFOR TOWNSHIP AID

Biemer Reveals Opposition

Had One More Name 7 Than Proponents. Remonstrators have been success=

ful in their efforts to kill the proposed $550,000 bond issue for poor

{relief, Chief Deputy County Auditor JFabien Biemer told the County

Council today. Mr. Biemer reported that a searching investigation of a petition signed by remonstrators against the issue revealed that 173 of them conituted legal signers, one more than hé number of property owners who petitioned for the bonds.

Added Cost Expected

The issue was proposed to pay poor relief costs in Center and Wayne Townships anticipated to accrue over and. above those exe penses budgeted for the year. The death of the issue, the first action of its kind unaer a law permitting remonstrances, will force merchants - providing poor relief | commodities to sue the County for payment. . 2 It is generally believed that the collection by suit method , would cost the county between $25,000 and $55,000 more in interest to plaintiff grocers than the interest would have heen on the proposed bond issue, Mr. Biemer said.

Election Fund Asked

The Council also received for consideration today a request trom County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger for an additional appropriation for $15,470 to pay an unanticipated ine crease in primary election expenses, The unexpected large number of Republican ballots cast in the May ° 7 primary, the heated G. O. P, county factional fight, and the ex« pansion on the ballot of candidates for delegates to the state party cone ventions caused the increase in exe pense.

WOMAN JUROR BAN DEFENDED

Nolan Calls Pfactice Legal “In Local WPA Labor

RUNOFF PLANNED IN REEVES NLRB VOTING

Regional Director Robert ~M. Cowdrill today started arrangements for holding a runoff election in June among Reeves Pulley Co. employees at Columbus, Ind., as a result of a split decision of the National Labor Relations Board. In an election May 3 the A. F. of L. International Federation vof

. Diversion Case.

U. S. Attorney Val Nolan, in a memorandum to Federal Judge Rcbert C. Baltzell. today argyed that the exclusion of women from Federal Grand Juries is legal under the U. S. Constitution.

His memorandum was in answer vote will provide a chéice only be-| Police said neither shot

to attorneys for three Marion County persons who have bezn indicted on charges of defrauding the Government. by the illegal diversion of WPA labor and materials. The attorneys . contended that there had been prejudice against the defendants through the exclusion of woraen from the Federal Grdnd Jury. Those indicted are Miss Elizabeth C. Claypool, Arthur F. Eickhoff and Carl F. Kortepeter. Mr. Nolan's memorandum A declared the defendants had failed to show prejudice by the exclusion of women and cited decisions to prove that it was necessary, to show posi-

tive prejudice before indictment could be invalidated. He said that barring women frem

jury service is not the same as the ‘barring of Negroes, which the Supreme - Court has held illegal, because the 14th and 19th ggendments to the Constitution # not phrased identically. He argued that the decision of the Indiana Supreme Court that women cannot be excluded from juries is not binding on the Federal Courts, especially since the WU. S. Supreme Court has upheld exclusion of women from State juries in Massachusetts and South Carolina. Attorneys for the three defendants have until June 5 to reply to Mr.

Nolan's memorandum. |

pected at the 10 Indiana State] Parks, according to Virgil M. Sim- | mons, Department of Conservation) commissioner, | “Everyone going east or west usually crosses Indiana,” he. said. “Because of added facilities and increased publicity we expect a healthy jump in-attendance. Out-of-state inquiries make us- expect attendance to be 150,000 greater than last year’s record of 1,262,787.” State park attendance records have been cracked each year since 1933 when the® total for the nine parks then was 576,395. In only two years—1930 and 1933—since the Department had but one park in 1919 *has the yearly total attendance dropped below the previous

year.

WINS SCHOLARSHM IN DE PAUW CONTEST

David Savidge, of Indianapolis,’ was among 17 DePauw students

awarded $200 scholarships in the sixth annual President's Scholarship Competition in the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Music. He won the honors in the Lib Arts division. | Two other Indianapolis’ students won honorable mention in the Liberal Arts competition. They wer Barbara J. Jones and Carl W. Steeg. Winning honorable mention in the School of Music contest was Miss Mildred Irene Ogle, of Indianapolis.

eral

Dr. Briscoe to Head City,

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, - May 31.—Dr. Hérman T. Briscoe, chairman of the department of chemistry at Indiana University, today began his duties as dean of the faculty of the University, a new position created by President Herman B Wells. In announcing the appointment, President Wells said that Dr. Briscoe will serve as dean of the faculties on both the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses, assisting the president in academic administration and serving on all general University committees. | The new faculty dean also will continue to supervise the student guidance program which he originated on the Bloomington campus this year. : Dr. Briscoe has been acting as President Wells’ special administrative assistant this school year, as well as serving as chairman of the chemistry department. He will re-

tain his chemistry department post,

julty in 1922,

Bloomington I. U. Faculty

it was announced, until .a successor can be found, } [ Dr. Briscoe also was a member of the faculty committee of three appointed by President Wells to make a survey of University activities with the purpose of determining possible improvements in methods. Dr. Briscoe joined the I. U. facHe is a graduate of. Shoals, Ind., High School and received the degrees of A. B., A. M. and Ph. D. from Indiaha University. After gradusite work. at Harvard University as an Austin Teaching Fellow, hee* became instructor and assistant professor of chemistry, at Colby College in Maine. Beginning as a teacher in the Shoals schools in 1912, he served successively as principal of the Shoals High School and superintendent of the Shoals schools. Dr. Briscoe is author of several books on chemistry and is president of the Indisna University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He'served with the 84th ‘Divisien during the World War. Sin |

straw; (6) "wood.

Machinists got 61 vofes to 55 for the independent Transmission | Workers and Machinists Union, {while eight votes were cast fof “neither.” This vote was among [tool makers, machinists and spe!cialists.. The independent union won by a 37 to 20 vote among the remaining employees. The new

tween the two unions.t ie Both Chairman J. Warren Madden and Board Member William M. Leiserson concurred in part and dissented in part on the decision,

NEW PARK LIGHTING PACT IS SUBMITTED

A proposed new 10-year lighting agreement between the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. and the City Park Department was submitted to Corporation Counsel Edward H. Knight today by J. Edward Perry, park engineer. , ~The agreement would follow: a five-year contract negotiated. in;¥935 which expires Aug. 1. Mr. Berry said that a new sliding scale on 'metered service would enable the! department to save $1000 and $1500 annually on lights for community houses and other park buildings. The proposed contract provides the same rates as. previously for boulevard lights, the cost of which totalled $27,519.16 last yedr. The sliding scale arrangement on metered service ranged from 2 and 3% cents per kilowatt hour for the first 50¢ to one and 4/10th cents above 4000 k. w. h. Under the present/ agreement, the kilowatt hour rate was a flat 2% cents. Y

MRS. MORROW BALKS

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.. May 31 (U. P..—Mrs. Elizabeth ITOW, | acting president of Smith College, ! today was at odds with her famous son-in-law, Col. Charles A.' Lindbergh for the second time since the outbreak of the European war. Yesterday Mrs. Morrow indorsed the appeal of Hamilton Fish' Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs, for the sending of American. airplanes and supplies to the Allies. She previously had urged revjsion of the neutrality law.” Col. indbergh ad-

vocates an isolationisf policy. 1

GRIDER LOSES 42 IN 48 PRECINCTS

Neal Grider, defeated for the Republican nomination for County Treasurer, has lost 42 votes in the recount of 48 precincts. : His opponent, Paul Tegarden, shown by fhe canvassing board as) the successful candidate, has lost 15 votes. The third candidate, Burke H. Robison, has gained six votes. The recount board had completed all precincts in the first three wards and six precincts in the fourth ward at noon today.

NAZI SHOES MADE OF OLD HATS, BIKE TIRES

BERLIN, May 31 (U. P.).--An official announcement said today that types of shoes which can be purchased without a .special ration card include those made from (1) old bicycle tires: (2) old hats; (3) remnants of artificial silk stockings; (4) leather from old shoes; (5)

ON LINDBERGH VIEWS

GUEST FIRED ON TWICE IN HOTEL

‘Police Hunt Mystery, Man ~ Who Fled After Two Wild Shots.

An unidentified man -tods two wild shots at Benny | Hirsch, 30, Chicago, in the lobby| of the Eastgate Hotel, 357 E. Washington St., and then fled to his car and drove away. :

ay fired

struck Mr. Hirsch, who also fled after the ‘shooting. but they are seek i because -they believe he can his assailant. [

Mr. Hirsch and his wife, Mrs,

in the coffee shop on the groi floor, Mrs. Hirsch told police, a .man appeared at the corridor door and motioned to Mr, Hirsch. Mr. Hirsch left the table and joined the man in the lobby where they talked .several minutes. h Myron Christian, Chicago, a t driver, sitting in the lobby, told} police he saw the two men break up the conference, Mr. Hirsch appeared to start| back to the coffee shop when the other man drew a (gun and fired twice. { The assailant then ran out the Washington St. door and | Mr. Hirsch, Mr. Christian told police, ran out the side door. » Mrs. Hirsch told police that she knew of no enemies her husband had! She said he was a fur sales - man. Police found no one who could identify the man who cons ferred with Mr. Hirsch. Police | recovered one bullet, apparently| .38 caliber.

GERMAN WOODEN SUB DOES STUFF IN TUB

BERLIN, May 31 (U. P.).—Gers man youngsters with a sharp ‘eye can now sink a “British cruiser” as often as they like in the bathtub ‘at home; CR A new toy is a smail wooden sub‘marine that shoots a wooden tors pedo. A cruiser with a spring amide ships is| sold along with the sub= marine, t A direct hit on the spring shatters the cruiser. ' An adyertising sign says: “The | little commander sails against England. If his torpedo hits the cruiser squarely amidships, the cruiser Is blown into the air.”

BUNISH NORSE GIRLS “WHD DATE GERMANS

STOCKHOLM, May 31 (U. P.).—~ The newspaper Aftonbladet published a report from Oslo that Nor wegian | girls seen with German soldiers are later seized by Norwegians and their “heads | are shaved |as punishment. The population in the Germanoccupied Norwegian capital, according to the Aftonbladet, is despondent and is assuming an attitude | of aloofness toward the German officials.

REFUSES TO DELIVER BELGIAN CROWN GEMS

PARES, May 31 (U. P.).—An ete Tort by| King Leopold’s chamberlain. |to’ obtain the Belgian crown Jewels which had: been sent here tor safe« keeping was rebuffed by authorities, it was revealed today. : { The chamberlain arrived with a {written order for the jewels but author ties refused to deliver them | when word was received of the i King's, capitulation. ha

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