Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1940 — Page 17

Hoosier Vagabond

(Ernie Pyle is on vacation and at the request of readers we are reprinting some of his favorite columns.)

has been at least thrée times-tnto every state of the Union, I say flatly that Montana is the only state with historical signs that are actually fun to read. A few of you crippled up old readers may recall that I wrote about these signs in the summer of 1636. And I

came to Montana again, I was

going to hunt up the genius who

thought of the idea, and do a column on him.

Well, I've found him. His

name is Bob Fletcher. He is “plans and traffic engineer” in the State Highway Department. He took me to lunch, and told me all about it. The idea of putting up gay, ; readable signs at historical spots ~ came to him several years ago when he and Mrs. Fletcher were driving across the dismal prairies between Montana and Chicago. The trip was so dull they just yearned for a little road-sign readin’,

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Birth of an Idea

So when he got back he put his idea up to the Montana Highway Department. At first there wasn't any money. But he kept at it, and finally, in 1935, they told him to go ahead.

They put up about 15 the first year. The signs are very large, and beautiful, too.

The signs are full of Wild West “stage” words, which appeal to tourists. For instance—“Shelby Junction became an oasis where parched cowpunchers * cauterized their tonsils with forty- -rod and grew plumb irresponsible and gala!” Montana. is about the only state where you'll see + tourists’ cars by the dozen pulled up at historical signs, with the tourists reading and grinning—and learning. ‘Today there are 100 of these signs scattered over “the Li

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WHAT THIS COLUMN NEEDS, I've discovered, is a Department of Amplification, Correction and Abuse—something to carry on from where I left off, or indeed, to start all over again if the occasion calls for it. To begin such a department, I can’t think of anything more to the oint than Exhibit A, a letter itten on embossed stationery of the Kahn Tailoring Co. and submitted by Fred Boardman: ‘ “Your story about the old ball player, Pete Browning, recalls another one. After a very successful season with the bat, Pete was presented with a watch. When it was handed him, he asked: ‘Where's de chain?’ Exhibit B, submitted by Mrs. Frank Treat over the telephone: “I was a neighbor of the Bierbowers when they lived on? Belletontaine St. and can set you straight on Elsie Janis’ brother hose first name seems to have escaped you. It was ercy.”

® ’ ” » Tom Thumbs Visit Exhibit C, submitted by Grace Swearingen, Bloom= ington, Ind.: “All my life there has been a card-size photograph: of Mrs. Tom Thumb, and a little Thumb, in our family album. Even when a child I wondered where it came from, but never asked. When 1 read . your article that Barnum brought Tom Thumb to Indianapolis during the State Fair of 1852, I wondered some more. My mother ‘was married in 1852 and it seemed possible that maybe she and my father + went to the Fair to celebrate, and thus acquired the picture.” ’ _ Exhibit D, submitted on very stylish stationery by Elmer E. Scott, Attorney and Counselor at Law: “Anent your article about the first jail in Indianapolis, Gazette of March 15, 1823. “Law For Sale.” |: © “C. Fletcher & J..A. Breckenridge; As Attorneys and Counselors at Law, will perform Ruy business in

. Washington

CHICAGO, June 13.—Politics are of small importance today, and one may be indulged i the subject only because it is barely 10 days until the Republicans meet to select a Presidenti Any political report now can’be brief, as there is little to say. Mainly it is that President Roosevelt has an enormous advantage as matters now stand, and that Republican leaders; in .confusion and a good deal of despair, are in numerous instances coming privately to the opinion that Wendell Willkie is the only man they can put up who would have ghost pf a chance. f Until now professional politicians, cool and temptuous of the have refused to have anything to do with it. Aside from Sam Pryor, Republican chairman of Illinois, and William G. Irwin, Indiana Republican Committeeman, scarcely an | organization politician has peeped in public in tavor of Willkie, But that is no index of what may occur shortly. Several prominent Republican leaders are thinking it over and it would not be surprising to see some of thein break through with a demand for Willkie. 8 8 2

Willkie Gains Strength

The lack of enthusiasm over. the’regular candidates —Dewey, Taft and Vandenberg—is astounding. They have failed to muster enthusiastic support. Conversations on candidates gravitate almost inevitably to Willkie. Almost always the observation is made that he stands head and shoulders above the field, that he probably would make the strongest race, that he is the type who fits the unusual need of the time, but that he hasn't enough regular political support among the convention delegates. The chances are that, if two or three Republican leaders with national prestige announced that they

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—I visited the “Gardens on Pafrade” at the New York World!s Fair this morning. They are delightful and I enjoyed every minute there. The little “Garden of Today” is small

enough to give an intimate feeling, and I should have liked .to sit down on the little bench and remain fo read a: book or do some sewing. I never saw a greater variety of roses. I am afraid that my first love among roses is the common and plebeian kind—the old-fashioned yellow rose bush covered with small roses and the many colored little roses which bloom all through the summer. They are associated with the garden of my childhood, where my grandmother used to work, and they will always remain my

favorite. On the plane to Washington I sat next to a very interesting gentleman, an expert on. lighting. We talked about the lighting of galleries, for he is interested in the work being done in the Mellon Gallery. Then we progressed to the lighting of homes and stage lighting and the relationship which light may have in the creation of atmosphere, and how important that atmosphere may be in effect. on human. beings. : 3 . & :

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.one case.

point ' Obenchain Van Loot, Millon Kilgallen and Marga-

witness the following advertisement in the

bringing up.

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| Ph | engagements among (the delegates.

By Ernie Pyle

Mr. Fletcher's viggets worry, at first, was that the public would ruin the signs. People out West love to shoot at signs. And throw rocks at them. And write

‘names on them. HELENA, Mont, Sept. 8, 8, 1939.—As a gypsy who |

Yet, amazingly, Montana’s swell signs have escaped. There has been only one case of desecration. And he laughingly admits it was justified, and blames him-

! self.

‘It seems that, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation

sign, Mr. Fletcher said the Blackfeet were once de-| feated in battle by Indians irom Canada. : : decided then that, whenever we | :

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Correcting an Error

The next thing he knew, the name of the Canadian Indians had been chiseled out, and the poles holding the sign looked as though a family of beavers had been gnawing at them. The Blackfeet, you see, claim they’ve never been whipped by anybody. And they wouldn't stand for a sign saying they had. So, Mr. Fletcher wrote a different story, put up a new sign, and it stands there today, shining and unmarred. Mr. Fletcher himself picked the historic spots where he wanted signs, and personally wrote all the inscriptions. He did many of them while he was in bed with a broken leg. The state's graybeards have done a little criticizing because of the saucy. language of the inscriptions, but not very much. In fact, it worked the other way in

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The sign for Butte is a jaunty one. It winds up by saying, . she was a bold, unashamed, rootin’ tootin’, hell-roarin’ camp in days gone by, and still drinks” her liquor straight.” Well, if Butte could have a sign, then Anaconda wanted one, too. Anaconda is the famous smelter town, 25 miles west of Butte. Their histories are.intertwined. So Mr. Fletcher put up a sign for Anaconda. It was one of the last. By that time he was a little tired of writing signs and couldn't think of anything very racy, so he just wrote a straight historical account. nd Anaconda got sore. Why? Because the sign didn't make Anaconda’ out to be as tough a place as Butte!

By Anton Scherrer

their profession, even that which comes under the denomination of pettifogging, if they are roundly paid for it, in any court in the fifth judicial circuit. They are not desirous of having any professional calls, unless well compensated therefor, either in cash in hand or approved assurance. Their office is situated on Washington St., a few Paces below Major Carter's tavern. “N. B. They do not pledge themselves to those who employ them to perform their business with correctness, diligence and punctuality, but like most

'of the profession, they will do it as well as they

know how.”

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Still a Deep Mystery

Exhibit E, written on stationery of the State Life Insurance Co. and submitted by Carleton B. McCullough, M. D., Vice President and Medical Director: “Referring to your article regarding ‘The Collector's Whatnot’ written by Booth Tarkington, Kenneth Roberts, and Harry Kahler—an interesting is | that the alleged authors are Cornelius

troyd Elphinstone, but from that day to this, no one of the three real authors has ever revealed which nom de plume belongs to which individual.” Exhibit, F, submitted by The Walter M. Miller Company, Successors to Geo. Wm. Hoffman Co, Manufacturers of Bar-Keepers Friend, U. S. Metal Polish, 557 E. Washington St. (by Edna Gardner, Manager) : “We read your article about the old-time Indianapolis saloons and felt quite happy to think that Bar-Keepers Friend was considered a part of Our Town. Bar-Keepers Friend was first made by Mr. George Hoffman in 1883. It has been made in the same building all these years and we just wanted you to know that we are still making it and doing our best to keep what brass and copper is used today shining bright.” - Exhibit G, submitted anonymously, but sent post prepaid for which the saints be praised: “Your piece about the way Gen. Lew Wallace captured Billy the Kid was lousy. ?

By Raymond Clapper

believed Willkie the best man to nominate, he would be nominated. Governor Landon alone could almost clinch Willkie’s nomination. Col. Knox could almost doit.” Mr. Hoover could do it—but he probably won't because he hopes the nomination will fall to him, although the effort in that direction is arousing little enthusiasm. The candidates who are counting delegates state by state may find their labors in vain. The party is so. confused, so uncertain of itself, so fearful of Mr. Roosevelt, so unenthusiastic about the regular candidates that it could be swung overnight to Willkie. (The man has gone through the Middle West like a German tank and no place is the same afterward. Delegates already pledged to other candidates are left like the fellow who finds he has been engaged to the wrong girl. When Mr. Willkie’s name goes hefore the iladelphia convention, there will be many broken

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Says What He Thinks

It is a phenomenon, and it couldn't happen in an ordinary vear to a utility man who was a Democrat until a few months ago. True, there are Republicans like the old fellow from Indiana who, after hearing Willkie speak at Indianapolis, said: “He sounds like a mighty smart man but, as far as I am concerned. he is still a free trade Democrat.” |The utility tag is lightly brushed aside. Mr. Willkie turns it off by saying Mr. Roosevelt is a bigger utility man than he is. © | Republicans have just one issue in this campaign. It is whether Mr. Roosevelt or a Republican could do a faster, better job of obtaining the industrial production for defense. They can’t successfully challenge the Roosevelt foreign policy. It will do them no good to cry over New Deal sins of the past. They must look ahead and offer a man who can make the country ‘believe he would do a better job of industrial organization than Mr. Roosevelt can do. On that point, Mr. Willkie is the only man the Republicans have who sfand a chancé of making an effective case. |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I read Dorothy Thompson's column on the way. While I think she is probably right and there is nothing undemocratic in compulsory military training, I think we have to reckon with a very deep-seated feeling which many of us have fostered in the past few years, namely, that we connect compulsory military training with a desire for aggression. In the case of very small nation, this obviously could not be true. but in the case of any great nation, military training and armament has always meant to us the possibility that people would desire to aggrandize. *Therefore. it seems to me that we should devote ourselves to developing in our young people, skills which would be useful in either peace or war. They should desire universal service because, if we believe in democracy, it is worth serving. Perhaps, in the future, we can trust ourselves when we give this service to our democracy not to be afraid of losing that democracy through militarization. A willingness to discipline ourselves and accept whatever life may hold in store for us is all-important now. The thing which troubles me today, is meeting people who are worried about what the futute may bring. We can be sure of nothing in this world, certainly of no material thing, but whatever we are as individuals, cannot be taken away from us. That is the security we should give young and old alike—a security in our own ability to meet whatever comes, with . courage, with constancy ‘and selfabnegation.

(Second of a Series)

By Charles T. Lucey and Lee G. Miller.

Times Special Writers

ASHINGTON, June 13. —Army and Navy officers are alarmed about the defenses of the “American Mediterranean”’—the Caribbean Sea—especially pending completion of the New World “Gibraltar” now in

the making at Puerto Rico.

The Caribbean is not only the eastern vestibule of the Panama Canal, on which our naval strategy pivots, but also the gateway to the southern half of the Western Hemisphere—which President Roosevelt | has said “we propose to do our share in protecting against storms from any quarter.” Storms appear to be blowing up today, in the form of emboldened Nazi intrigue in Latin America. Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, thinks trouble is possible within a month or two. The dispatches of two U. S. cruisers to South: America is a straw in an ill wind. And yet, our three outposts in the Antilles—the great crescent of islands that divides the Atlantic from the Caribbean—are only now being provided with anything like adequate defenses. It is a job that takes time. These outposts are Guantanamo Bay (leased from Cuba), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.sFrom the latter, our outermost sentry in the West Indies, it is better: than 500 miles to South America —500 miles of alternating islets and sea in which we have no foothold, but which we must patrol in he of rou: ” NTIL rently the naval base | at Guantanamo was almost the! sum total of our Caribbean defenses, aside from the bases at the Panama Canal and an inactive naval station at Key West. Today Key West is humming again, and, more important, the Army and Navy are pushing improvements at Puerto Rico designed to make this island, with its offshore appendage, Culebra, and the neighboring Virgin Islands, a base of tremendous power for either striking or defending. In the harbor of San Juan, the Puerto Rican capital, facilities for a great naval air base are being Jaen on the Isla Grande peninsula. Some 75 miles away

DRAFT PLANS OF BUTLER E EDIFICE

Construction fo § to Start Soon On Religion Building; $500,000 Given.

The architectural firm of Burns & James was appointed today to draft plans for the $250,000 College of Religion Building on the Butler University campus. - Construction will start this summer.

Gifts of $500,000 from the Christian. Foundation for erection of the building and maintenance of the College of Religion for 10 years were announced yesterday. Announcement of the gifts by the Foundation, headed by Will G. Irwin, Columbus, a Butler director, was made by J. W. Atherton, secre-tary-treasurer of the university,.

$400,000 for Maintenance

Mr. Atherton said that $100,000 of the fund will be used for actual construction and that an ‘additional $150,000 raised by the Butler City office through subscription also is available for the building. The $400,000 will be used for maintenance. he building will be located north of the university greenhouse. Dr. Frederick D. Kershner, dean of the College of Religion, termed construction of the building “an event of major importance both in the educational and religious fields.” - Dr. Daniel S, Robinson, university president, said that the beginning of work on the building will mark a new era in the development of the university.

Will House College Library

The building will provide quarters for members of the faculty, students and for the college library. Space in Arthur Jordan Memorial Hall will be released for the enlargement of the main university library and for the housing of other departments. The College of Religion was founded in 1925 as the second college of the university. Since then, the Colleges of Education and Business Administration have been added.

MAIONE EXECUTION HALTED OSSINING, N. Y,, June 13 (U. P.). —Execution of Harry (Happy) Maione, one of two men convicted in the Murder, Inc. slaying of George Rudnick, a purported stool pigeon, was postponed indefinitely today when Warden Lewis E. Lawes

of- Sing Sing Prison received notice that an appeal had been filed.. i

Times-Acme Photons.

Giant Jupiter 3-inch anti-aircraft Zuns i Bayainon, part of the Puerto Rico de-

fenses.

the Army has acquired land for a bomber base at Punta Borinquen, and it plans a half dozen auxiliary fields. There are also aviation facilities at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands and at Guantanamo Bay not to mention a great new naval air base under construction at: Jacksonville, Fla. For submarines there are facilities at Puerto Rico and Key West. The fine harbor at Guantanamo will, of course, accommodate the whole fleet. Until recently none of our Caribbean outposts had any sub-

stantial defenses in the way of °

coast artillery and anti-aircraft guns. It may be presumed that steps to improve this situation are being forwarded by the Army's new Department of the Caribbean, created last year in recognition of this area’s growing military importance. But even ‘with the Puerto Rico installations completed, and with new planes swarming from the factories, the Army and Navy will not be satisfied with our Caribbean position. They want more islands. a ” ” } HEY want stepping stones iL. that would enable pursuit planes to convoy bombers toward South America in case the necessity arose of co-operating with

Jobs for June Graduates

other American republics in suppressing alien intervention— whether from without or from within. They want a fleet base closer to the bulk of South America than Guantanamo is, in case of an eventual threat from overseas. They want to double-rivet the outer gateway to Panama against a surprise coup by long-range bombers, and against the eventual possibility of a full-dress fleet attack on the Indies. The Senate Naval Affairs Committee recently recommended serious thought about ‘acquiring, if possible, places in the Caribbean area for additional United States naval bases, or to prevent their use as enemy air or submarine bases.” Brig. Gen. George V. Strong, chief of the War Plans Division, says: : “It would be of very great advantage=- in the defense of the canal if we had another such base (as Puerto Rico) located either on the north coast of South America or on some of the southern islands of the Lesser Antilles.” He spoke particularly of the British island of Trinidad, a few miles off the South American coast. Trinidad, he said, ‘presents extraordinarily favorable

features either in the defense of the Caribbean. .or as a base from which we may be attacked.” Rear Admiral Greenslade, of the Navy's General Board, says that if we had Trinidad and the Bermuda group, farther north, “our entire Atlantic littoral would be doubly secure, and the Trinidad base would be an excellent shield to the South American east coast.” 2 2 8 | UNDREDS of miles to the west of Trinidad, hugging the shore of Venezuela, lies another colony that strategists would like to see the United States acquire — the Curacao group, owned by The Netherlands. These rich islands, a maritime crossroads of the Caribbean and the site of two of the world's largest refineries (for Venezue an oil), are only 700 miles from the canal. Admiral William. V. Platt, i= tired, has written that in the hands of a potential enemy the Caracao group “would become a breach in an efficient Caribbean defense.” He pointed out that Santa Anna Harbor in Curacao “affords an excellent base for submarines, seaplanes and small craft,” and ‘“could be turned into a fleet base of limited capacity.” The Netherlands, of course, are

Aviation Offers Fine Opportunities For ~ Skilled Pilots, Mechanics and Technicians

By HAROLD CRARY Vice President United Air Lines Commercial air transport is the fastest growing public utility in the United States today. The airplane has become a vehicle of speed, comfort and dependability to be used in regular travel, not for emergency as 10 years ago. As a result, the domestic airlines that carried 350,000 passengers in 1930 will see 2,~ 800,000 passengers boarding their planes in’ the first year of “The Flying Forties.” Because com - mercial air transport is growing so fast, and because it is an industry in which personnel plays so important a role,

Mr. Crary those of us who

are engaged in it|it

believe it offers unusual opportunities for the future. It is true that if we measure commercial ait transport in terms of some of our bigger industries, like, for instance, the railroads, the

NEED MICROMETERS TO TRAIN STUDENTS

Indianapolis Public School officials today sent out an appeal for gifts or loans of precision instrues needed in the new mechanical training program for national defense. The program which opened at Technical High School Monday, and which has spread to three other high schools, is training 650 mechanics under the national industrial defense mobilization plans. Edward Green, vice principal of Technical High School, said a total

of 75 micrometers are needed. im-|

mediately. He added that the schools would appreciate the gift or lending of any precision instruments. The appeal was made particularly to mechanics who “could spare” the much needed Anstruments. Indianapolis schools are among the first in the country to voluntarily set up a mechanics training defense program. Classes at Crispus Attucks and Washington High Schools opened this week, while classes at Manual opened today, -

motor car industry, the steel industry and some of the other professions and trades, the sum total of jobs is relatively small at pres-| ent. But the percentage of annual increase is quite high. United Air Lines, for example, has increased its personnel from 2000 employees to more than 2500 employees in the last five months. The same situation exists with other air lines. Air lines place great emphasis on trained personnel, and no. other industry represents a better example of the need of proper training for a job. The reason air lines have flown pearly 15 months without fatality to passenger or crew to establish a safety record without challenge is not merely because equipment has improved. Trained personnel is a fundamental reason, for no airplane is any better than the pilot who flies it, the mechanic who services it, the meteorologist who plots a course for it or, for that matter, the clerk who sells a ticket to a passenger boarding it. Because it is an industry widely regarded as having a great -future and because it is the kind of a business to appeal to the imagina-

20,000 Kiddies Leave London

LONDON, June 13 (U, P.j.— Twenty thousand school children boarded special. trains today for the west and south coasts of Britain. : The work of German bombers across the English Channel and ‘news reels of war horrors had convinced the last reluctant parents that London and the east coast no longer were safe for their children. Each carrying a gas mask, identity card, a day’s food supply, toothbrush, comb, towel, soap, rubbers and a change of clothing, the first contingent boarded 17 special trains at Paddington Station and 16 at Waterloo Station. . An additional 20,000 will leave daily for six days, bringing the total, including those who left in

September, to more than 500,000 children who have fled London.

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ition, commercial air transport has |been fortunate in- attracting high type personnel. Yet there actually is a shortage of trained personnel. Take, for example, pilots. There are thousands of fliers in the United States, but air lines must still go out and hunt for pilots with the proper training to make them air line prospects. The same situation exists with air line mechanics. There are literally hundreds of thousands of mechanics in the United States— good mechanics, too—but they don’t qualify as airplane motor mechanics, or aeronautical radio technicians, or propelier mechanics, or in= strument technicians... The air lines have found they have to train their own men, For 10 years United Air Lines has operated the Boeing School of Aeronautics in Oakland, Cal. The school specializes in training men for air line positions. This year United started a new student apprentice training school at Cheyenne. Both of these extracurricular efforts were established because of the need of trained men,

NEXT—Outlook in Hollywood.

HUNT 2 AS STOLEN AUTOIS ABANDONED

PORTLAND, Ind., June 13 (U. P.). —A car stolen Tuesday from Mor-

had been found abandoned neai here today. Police searched for two bandits believed to have stolen it after abandoning another machine previously taken at Richmond. The men had been hunted for two days in connection with northern Indiana ‘robberies. State police used an airplane and with road blockades to attempt to trap them before they stole the Payne car. The thefts began at Richmond when a car was stolen from Charles B. Rose. This machine was abandoned at Lynn where the men stole a car owned by Frank McFarland. Later they were fraced to La Porte, where they obtained oline at a filling station but drove away without paying, Winchester and Hartford City.

FRENCH TO EXECUTE SPY NANCY, France, June 13 (U. P.). —A military tribunal today sentenced Paul Luttinger, textile mill employee, to death as a spy.

gan Payne of near Hartford City|.

A detachment of U. S. Marines landing at Point Cuchara, Puerto Rico, during recent maneuvers.

in German hands, but Von Rib= bentrop and Goebbels have dis= . claimed any German designs on the Dufch overseas dominions. The skeptical Allies played safe by landing troops at Curacao, apparently with our S%ate Department’s blessing, to help the Dutch . defend the islands. Even if Curacao, and Trinidad with its fine harbor, were under our flag, we would still be farther from the “hump” of Brazil than are Portugal's Cape Verde Islands off western Africa—which might ‘turn up in other hands if Hitler won the European war. ht Some authorities think the United States ought fo prevent— by force, if need be—the Nazification of the Cape Verde or Azores Islands, as a defensive precaution. There is also much talk of the advisability of our putting Greenland and even Iceland under our protection, lest they become waystations in a bomber trail from Germanicized Norway to Quebec —and' points south. ” » ”

UT it is in the Caribbean properties of England, France and the Netherlands that military men are most interested.

There is growing support in the country for purchase of some or all of these possessions. So far no desire to sell has been vouchsafed, but the fortunes of the European war may bring developments along this line. The Administration appears to have some. secret plans for establishing | air bases on non-United States | soil, possibly including some of these Caribbean spots. A somewhat cryptic bill now in process of enactment includes the sum of $10,000,000 for establishing aviation facilities outside our own borders, Senator Walsh revealed reluctantly the other day that the Government has made plans for acquiring airports in Central and South America. It is reasonable to suppose that in an emergency the Europea possessions in the Caribbean would be available to our planes and ships, for the asking—just as the British have let it be known informally that our fleet is welcome to base on Singapore in the Far East. - On the other side of the Panama Canal, in the Pacific, are several small islands of potential. military importance—notably the Galapagos group owned by Ecuador, about a thousand miles from the canal. But military men are less concerned over dangers in this area than in the Caribbean.

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1 SHRINE PARLEY

TO SET REGORD

15,000 Expected to Attend Annual Convention Booked

Here Next Year.

The 1941 convention of the Ime perial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of Mystic Shrine, awarded Indianapolis yesterday, will be the largest here in many years. Scheduled for June 10, 11 and 12, the convention will bring between 15,000 and 20,000 visitors to the city. Among them will be the highest ranking shrine officials. The conveniton was awarded Indianapolis during the annual sese . sions now in progress in Memphis, Miami was the eity’s major rival. The Indianapolis Shrine and the Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau have been co-operat-ing for months in an attempt to bring the convention here. ‘A delegation of 200 local Shriners went to Memphis by speciale train last Sunday. Henry T. Davis, man- , ager, and Joseph J. Cripe, assistant manager of the Convention Bureau accompanjed them. Judge Dewey E. Myers of Crime inal Court is a candidate for potentate of the temple and if elected, will be official host to the conven=tion. ! A party of more than 50 local Shriners will visit Mexico City before returning from the Memphis meeting which ends today.

HILLMAN DRAFTS TRAINING PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, June 13 (U, P)), —Sidney ‘Hillman, labor representa tive of the National Dafense Commission, began work today on a youth training program designed to supply one million young persons annually for non-combatant service in the expanded defense program. Mr. Hillman, president of the amalgamated. clothing workers and vice. president of the C. I. O., has immediate charge of all youth training and labor relations. Presi dent Roosevelt outlined his assigne ment at a luncheon conference yes= terday. It was expected that Mr. Hillman would confer with Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, Director James J. McEntee of the National Youth Administration, National Youth Administrator Aubrey. Williams, and Commissioner John W. Studebaker of the Office of Edu-

cation.