Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1940 — Page 15

FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1940 The Indianapolis Times SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pyle RC

ABOARD TRANSCONTINENTAL BUS (In Ne- their toilet bags and went to fix up. Men rubbed vada), July 5.—We changed busses at Salt Lake City their eves and pulled at their ties. at midnight. The bus station is in the Temple Square Bus humanity waking up! It makes you wonder Saba ha p C about the human race. You never saw such a repulHotel, where That Girl and I have stayed many times. je looking bunch of:-people in your life. I alone, of all It was sort of like getting back home the passengers. looked like something the cat didn't Most all of us went to sleep @rag in Throughout a lifetime I have made it a we Dractice to look exactly like Lucius Beebe at 6 o'clock every morning. It pavs dividends, folks. I wish that right eve would come unsealed.

right out of Salt Lake City were awakened by the realization that the bus was stopped. and the driver was saving, “"Wen- nf 9 » dover! Wendover! Nevada state Bus passengers are postcard writers Evervbhod: line’ sends postcards. We had one middle-aged fellow who And. without looking out, 1 sent about 10 cards at every stop. When he wasnt Knew that we had slept clear writing cards he'd run up and down the street, asking across those vast white flats that questions of the natives. He is the kind who conduct: form all western Utah. and the a perpetual blitzkrieg after information and facts 1 famous Bonneville Flats of auto think this was his first bus trip. and he was taking it speed fame just to see what it was like, Sleepilv we piled out. We Women sent postcards. Farm hands sent postwere right out in the desert, with cards. Children sent them Seldiers sent them. Even W mountains close up around us. A brand new ho- I sent postcards. Sent potscards and called people up restaurant, garage and what-not, all white and clear across the continent eoned and Venetlaned and gleaming, has been built $ & 5 there,

Tag "ho Tho Aye r y ? An eastbound bus was stopped, too. It was full of Nou A 1 hat 1 as Hei A amc:

puichritude in slacks. Every woman on that bus was At Lima, O., I wanted to call up Old Maestro Ee are a ee wan. Susy Busiaals. at ba tevin Bie Seta, hii d it was mighty early in the morning anvhow. So ati he got a postcard. \ They were all having a time. You could tell there In Ft. Wayne, Ind, I called up Ward Gilbert, who 1 been gayvety on that bus, and little sleep that teaches school. We went to Japan together 18 years The Brive told our driv el it was a happy load. ago. But he was out and had the car with him (and don’t actually get rowdy. drivers enjov having Carrie Mae said she can't drive anyway) so she and I 3 that re and is gay. It helps pass the time. just talked 10 minutes over the phone, pers | — In Chicago. I hadn't seen mv boyhood friend, Jack ax Worthen, for many years. It was Saturday afternoon. ais ; : m. and Gentle Slee Pp His office didn't answer. He wasn't in the phone Fhis is the fourth of a series of articles about one of Indianapolis’ book. So I wrote him a postcard. He always laughs important business institutions, its beginnings, its growth and its acwhen he sees me. anyway, because he thinks it's silly complishments, to travel so much. In Towa I dont know a soul. so I sent the Mayor of Davenport an anonymous, threatening posteard, with By Harry Morrison ; m.! It was so vast and stage due c A oN : » 1 ian: » i Ir was like pure water. A J At Rock Springs. Wyo, I sent a postcard to ow A T least once almost any week Lowe Berger gets aboard § : Som Dl Piinapels Tiida i n nothing iy a gentle friend C. Watt Brandon, of Kemmerer, a few miles oe an airplane, bound for almost anywhere in the United : ; . Bobbs-Merrill Curriculum Reader, It was good to be in the West to the north, He'll print it in his weekly paper, sure . y a } ¥ radually we all dropped back to sleep. It was as shootin’. olates. : : ; : ; i 2. “All they have to do is print sleeping, with the w arming sun coming in and In Reno T wrote a posteard to a man I met once | lis mission: Selling, publicizing, getting ideas for ; : : HR ; a couple of hundred thousand S droning so rayihmically over those flat end- on a trip out here, and when we were an hour out of | _ : ; : copies,” 1s Reno I remembered the man had been dead for two| School books, ; ; Mm. we stopped for breakfast at Elko. We years | The significance: Bobbs-Merrill of Indianapolis is one | no . i 3, Lowe Berger, vice president slowly, and people stretched themselves fom In Sacramento I will send a postcard to myself in the leading 1, 1 , blishors he 1d 4 ¥ A and head of the company's school before actually waking up. Women got San Francisco. Nobody can out-postcard me. the leading school book publishers In the world, ; . : BL book department. . Oddly enough, Lowe Berger's school book department, :

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for which Bobbs-Merrill is probably best known in the ; : -@ with {hem—not down to them, A F B 4 a gn . ; ng N " . ; TR : 3 I When the company decides itis ul OW n y % nion Scher ! Cr publishing trade, is the baby of the bunch at T20 N, ; oY F >. Had about time to get out a new series, > Meridian St. NG ; contacts are made with educators Indiana chool have used W : ; : ; § all over the country. They are to remember when $2 bills were in while murder in the old tunnel. but it was good for| It started im 1909 when Bobbs-Merrill books {or many g&8 ; TE, oe asked for ideas as to the cone } oe ey ny Joke Whee 2 TE adventures—Ilike the finding of the $2 hill, for the compan: asked the yous . Right now 1 0) : se Six iY | > : - — # — h tents Then an author or perAiea ont Api A i ‘\ a 0OKs-—four grades oi lalguagt ‘ : haps two or three—is asked to piece off the edge when they got was coming home from Turning School one eve- Misses Georgia and Grace and two grades of readers. In g i 3% 8 prepare the manuscript. remove lhe curse. It didnt do ning, I remember, when I stumbled onto the $2 bill] Ajexander. both lian: addition. they use locally-pro- ia et? N When Bobbs. Merrill later (sees much good, though I'he moment I picked it up I knew I was headed {ol \ : : ! duced books of many Kinds to ts trial manuscript, it looks like I'm sure it didn't do any good trouble. The sighs were unmistakable, because the olis school teachers, Lge supplement their libraries and a New York City telephone dibecause I remember the day I bill had all its edges frayed, showing that perhaps a' yp a set of readers for the diversified reading lists of history. Newer school books, tion of books like that. So we rectory, except that the covers are picked up a $2 bill in the old hundred people before me had tried to remove the inary orade [hes bA Mr. Berger was a proiessor and he declares, do not aveid such just put out a large edition for Yed instead of green, and the Illinois St tunnel that used to curse primary grades, lhey were 1 ols like an ex-tennis play facts but present them according purely school consumption. Thou- Stories are mimeographed instead run under the railroad tracks of The only thing left to do. of course. was to get called the "Child Classic and Possibl the reGSOR is that he to the age of the child expected sands of additional copies are still of printed. he Union Depot. I'm old enough rid of the bill as quickly as possible; and for this pur-| were illustrated “by the foremost p00 0 Towa and educated to read them. In demand.’ 10 remember the old Nariel too. pose I picked a little bov, two years younger than artists of the day Up to 1923, beeen . 4 : : FPHE (rial manuscript is sent

. p " : 1t Columbia University. He studied Nor. he savs, do publishers avoid Books in this category at fir: I can't re ber whe t vseifl, who lived o 1 ut St i Ab more than 3,000,000 pies were \ 2 y ; ; Be y representat arts t can’t remember when I first mysel ho lived on Chestnut St. and went to! more thai Lo modern economics there andstook the problems of plenty and poverty were in addition to regular text 4 to representative partsof the " country Deletions, changes and

ca WO \ 1d tunnel 2 QRehon! RB and haa \ yatiat ~ . ame S i 2y Lhe od tunnel any more School 6. He and I had been negotiating for some Sold his master's degree in classical in the country or that the nation books. Naw in some places they r than I can remember when I time over the possibility of my acquiring his collection After the “Child Classi economics at Mi higan After was once at war within itself for are taking the place of readers, SUBBESLIONS COME pouring in Then rst « th . r a ¥h a a + . 3 » ss Be be t 3 bo 5 : ra tht} » . st saw the old transfer car. Of of fancy pigeons, but we never got anvwhere because the Bobbs-Merrill Reads teaching business management at logical reasons on both sides the advantage being that these @ Sample of the book is made up, ‘ MA A " A . v ‘ ¢ ab ‘ h i 18 Ness allagement at « as 1 1 S $ ¢ 8g 1 : is a . th nan wo, however, I seem to re- he wouldn't accept my collection of cigaret pictures in. most of vou probably . Michigan. he decided to “get into The regular “books of the line” bOOKs are automatically adaptable with plates identical to those that fun t As hange In lection dont ind saving. in- The newest series is the curricu hE nx a le reguls hS LL LUE Ml : et APE Aw Baring ill be us the finished book. ul It w exci ; 3 ir i ole! yg ; 1 ( on a Ena i ying. in 1 ne eve S eres | 8 the business world to see how it laude two sets of English books to voungsters of different reading W\ 4 be used in the finished or cluded pictures « ella Fox. Lillian Russell and Amos | lum Readers actually worked.” (N. B—Tom yd one set each of Health. So ahility and tastes. I'hese samples are again sent usi ted th 1 all yioht ut ated i \ Ee . > in He € dati, OU iad ¥: a. Artiste. 1 . Ve Ruste He wanted the pictures all right, but he wanted Some idea of the relative busi= Dewev was once one of his stus cial Studies. Safety and Algebra » out over the country to be used vou alwaves had tl £11) PEIN $2 cash to boot . 1 A > 4 Vira : ba iki . g AW " 3 a al classro work. This 18 1 al na 1 fu f INE ness of the school book and the dents.) in addition to the Readers : In actual classroom wol 11s 18 boy who hitched the t i mule t TR ® =o trad vision can be gained when » » HE company has been instru the real test. it un tl teen ineli % 1A ; Te rp . : tint Es Wnts § ” x ” al y aior ad- HR ATIeS . he adults t ip the steep incl and on Vauwhe This Will Prove the Point u realize it a trade boc 5 Aa mental in two major ad Stories that the adults thought

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the mystery F ihe Vis ‘ th ' 5 BE gravitated to the publishing ‘ ts : oA SRAREIY Fan a HE Viisteny TT ihe siighe jestaselior When. it tps 15.00 H' ae ot OD Ci NEW development in educa- vancements in school work pub- were wonderful sometimes are Ome reason. haa a more holiow Here was the big chance of my life. I not only| and that scheol books are sold a DY io WOMB i t J tion has been interesting lishing technique in recent years, tuned down fla ly by the young else iy town got the pigeons, but got the bov to help me bed them hundred thousand at a crack. Bobbs-Merrill, the head of a giant Bobs. Merri

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found every pigeon gone. When I went in 2 a = Ol ing in the school curricula . 'e the third for Ad ‘Ci Lat re search of them, I found every pigeon perched In T= population ) hol cchool book publishing.” savs Mi : For in ot zi ; ; the ) COMBA % books for itp es hove the span t Ih 3 bh 7 nut St at the home of the original owner states, Irom generation 1 Rerger, “is being constantly on trade division 1as published all of And 3 was the Psy to Use We 1e souna of arippig water, Rightaway I had it figured out that the bov had hired generation is bei tausht the alert for pertinent social wut) ra ivib . h olks greenish-tinted pape! .xnown as ime from somewhere in th ig and. them back With the help of anise seed or somet throuch Bobbs-Mertill book ol changes that are invariably mire the Di k Halliburton trave he S. a “sight-saver” for children. From. that point oh. itsia Mae 3b BOLWER sd tb rt a iC | { i i 115¢ a Or some nrougl 3 : \ Thev were widely read by persons er ech niet? ok ] : I had It figured out at the tin Ne which was a common enough trick when I was a Ria the last 17 years, for example 1ored in changing school curri- ff all ape y . The Bobbs-Merrill “star” righ sumple matter. All they have to to ao with the ghastly green color of ths Now that 1 think about it, however, I don't believe| each vear's half a million Kansas cula.” he doe now is Clara Baker. She 1S a (ois to print a couple of hundred with the sour smell inside the place, too. In he boy was mixed up in it at all. It was the curse children ha een reading text He points out that in earlier “Teachers came to us.” said Mi teacher at Evanston, Ill, and she thousand copies 12 old tunnel had evervthing that made for wo rking. I'm sure of it because the wav things turned! books issued the Indianapolis days there were more “passing Berger. “to tell us it was too bad writes her books the same way e, ana I often wondered why a setting so per out e boy wasn't any better off than I was. He! concern over” of certain pertinent facts there couldn't be a wider distribu- she teaches her classes. She talks NEXT: Behind ‘the Scenes.

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Ar tie dop 2 tie mengol bison poiscing, ton, | ‘ : Bicycle Riders Sign Truck Treaty : 10 SOLDIERING SHERIFF AL FEENEY an- DEFENSE POST Indiana and Oklahoma officials WINS APPROVAL

* PN : z X ashin ton By Rayinond Clapper nounced today that he has in- today signed a reciprocal agree4 sd k —— structed his deputies to crack en —— / ment whereby trucks hearing A down, starting tonight, on reck- ' ' licenses of one state may use road ‘ National Defense Is Real ies bicycle riders Resigns as Straub Assistant of the other state without paying Fireworks Ban Enforced : : ‘] uted ‘henever ¢ ungster is caught ‘ additional fees 2a. inius-Knudsen defense commission will hey were prosecute Justice Dougias brushed thi n Whenever a Youngster is caug: | gag : i . a a uso aside Thr employ ES of tho Cot ows Purpose of C. M. T. C., | darting in and out of traffic on a | To Mobilize I. N. G. in | indiana officials said the agree- Rigidly: Thousands See 1 ASKIN leqisiation to suspend aot noug i i a Vel ent \& SUntv road. carrving a passengel ment will save Indiana trucks sev- : . have known of the programs ana winked at them ® coun OR, CAITYIuF & dam = | F | | P| : : . To Public Dis la S te nse work he said y immunity uld have h tiseraisy They Learn. on the handlebars, ignoring traf- | eaera an. eral thousand dollars in weight iSplays. abject of much discussion re Cw TO BmWUALY WOWR Lave bien thereby fi: signals, or failing to have taxes and public service commission i RAIL Aa Elevt roi x \ \ ir ed , c<hattered ar The 2200 ( LC. trai s al proper lights and reflectors on his Lieut Col. Robinson Hitchcock, PeCisUration fees. Burned fingers, shattered ear= proper

rrison got down ldier- bike. he will be taken to his home State Adjutant General, ere drums and nerves, and the other ailments usual to July 5 were miss=

; With business mlerests. Pressure mission t that to open up» the subject of legislation Har has 1 l ; Om Atitci y Fone : ai} : +) ek. 4 : " "ine today. af cari ol. Re by the deputies 1a esigned as assistant so that he dy bes : om outside was strong tor leg- a uld suspend the anti-trust jaws would be to e Suay, /F : omy te oy of il OFFICERS ELECT 2 al 1 axe XR Jation to exempt defense Work invite orolonsed debate 3 iia Eh lo Falbott Jr. post mmander, tell I'he bicvele will be taken to the may have perfect mobilization and ins ona in the wake of Indians bo 3 SLI UE DIOSACU TION yal a naling wh the oly that } S . them psierday that the ‘rea a jail and the owner cannot get 1 selective service plans for the Na- apoiis first safe and sane Inde om anti-trut vrosecution. That wrangling. with the chance tha any other questions ‘ed i . ce D elebratic oH an DAS thes re sre nat 1. back until he and one of his par- |tional Guard in Indiana penaence ay celenratlon.

demand arose from-the fact that would be injected. Certainiy any attempt to suspend (3 ore wa national back until he and The Mab on Debi Wo of AF : he han ublic use Y

al aii) i \ <P nt all at i 1ail econ fw A ‘ aA . 2 business men have been left the anti-trust laws would vite a drive for Govern- fense ents call at the jail. Second ol I'he step was announced by Adj MUNCIE, Ind. July 5 (U. P) works. in offect for the first time : vorks, flec ) 1e 3 . was enforced rigidly, wii only a

nervous in iace of the vigorous ment supervision of prices to protect the public. The 1 an Independei Dav addre fenders are to be prosecuttd In Gen Eire! F. Straub, who said William Jones of Logansport took few scattered violations. The adult population gave unanimous vote of

3 r y » 3 . » 3 Iuvenil y 1 “em } n { i ‘ . arive hy Thurman whole battle of NRA would be fought over again. This hich the mg troopers took| Juvenile Court ; Col. Hitchcock will become a mem-'office today as president of tthe In{approval

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opinion Justice WilMadison oil cs has thrown ess men who are asked to Ip defense

. ‘is 1 x BY atd thc ig (the y 1 x ‘ ‘ ‘ 3 + > s ‘ y ‘ Assita nt Attorney Gen- would be a controversy that would last all summer ! ath of allegiance, Col. Tal I'he Sherif said Ak bi 3 he ! > ber of the National Guard's state diana Division of the United Naand might seriously impede steaay work on the de- a maze of subterfu in t Yay he Rows 10 sal Pony ort PET staff. The draft and mobilization ‘tional Association of Postoflice em : fense program et have hidden real reason] °rs from death in traffic He ¢ plans work has been performed by Clerks. pin ed 100.000 g past he hidden th al A iB “i ipsee Ie wisvracd I¢ es DS es ; . : ast night, an es ated 1 ( m osecutior Nn 3S a monopoly. wi ' : free 1 B WAthS m 1 mere warnings have proved Col. Hitchcock while assistant ad- Other executives named yester- tt act the \ J ol i yublic fire ; ‘ ’ 2 TT ye . $ the pas ; ‘ wavrel hiv) Bano hao ‘ attende * various c lire= asked to expand its plant for All 1 hal ls Dciiie da thei veason than i ational! 1 the pa : jutant general but the change was dav at the 39th annual convention 5 I. lous pubs : defense work. The reviv was a BE 4d when it Bassed ti “We have to deprive t HI Tmade to permit the officer to give included: works displays where the explosives mls aliRa ty be rn; The understanding appears to be all that is desired 'G€I€NSe 1 muna wien passeéa ine ren of their fun.” h “is on rs : . were set off by experienced opera=the Government already Was prosecuing the ., oo ent by tho. Pp Workiig ” dete Ro EN MTC ling dren of thei yoo oo ly his entire attention to the program.| Russell Etter. Franklin. first vice! Ne. t off by ex iced of AY §3hA "ai Ade that +4 Te < Ss ih at in 1 “1 ) 10S MAINE Onl ns 1 > . : . the seems e the et 5 ia . AR a . : I'S. on the ground that it unduly dominated its o.oo + 4 HefOnSs STON Bie tr on . “And.” the colonel said, * need BY segfus I'he detail also will include study president; F. M Tangenberg, In- Approximately 30.001 rrowd expand that prod m woul Ary] ake stance if the defense group be working in any one : we can do ; h = vie li {: W. M. Harris Approximately 30.000 crowded eRP2Ne Yat Preuduiu ould only mase . ustrv to pet it red for fey vl tl no greater justification for its co : of co-ordination of civilian effort. dianapolis, second. 0 Aris. putler Bowl for the Sahara Grotto’ nerable ta the Government's charge In maust to get 1t geared for defense work, the: De- —— Rh —— Michigan City, third: Robert F utiel OW or the Sanars l 8 ICT ¢ i { { famenst alg i y a iy 1 5 Th rat RK 1 0 i ' i, Fe - y ular case thought has been given to the partment of Justice, upon being so advised, will be ti. nance GARRETT I MAN DROWNS Fhe mobilization work plan and the Michig Shik hep A0NUAL program About 18,000 saw Bt /kva Per ABE ag 4 biel ol ; counted upon to withiold any anti-trust prosecutions Ine trainees téday formed them-|{ ,GBURN. Ind. July 5 (U. P).— selective service plan, both worked Garr, Hammond, fourth; Rober a similar display at the State Fair 1h 1 » f"etine th Tew ; t 4 US Ah L > { J i JULY - , ‘ ¢ . x nn Pe how Dy a it may have had in preparation in that industry so selves into squads and platoons 10 po) whisley, 24. of Garrett, was Out several years ago, must be un. Muncie, fifth, and oa Grounds, sponsored by the 12th and leasing (h to CX any i r . ar : . a ‘ wyh 4 . 5 Fra tivarg Teel : $ a 3 p y cay sprfonte X 'S y secr 'y- ) . ro cal Li that there will be no upsetting of industrial morale iearn the Army's new streamined g)owned late yesterday in a gravel changed, and kept perfected in con- Fou e, Hagerstown, SECTlary- | pyisirict, American Legion The anti-trust laws cannot be literally enforced drili reguiation: bit near his home. His botly was formity with War Department treasurer. | An estimated 50.0600 visited Rivere under the present necessities of speed and quantity in On the r the alter-:. d after a two-hour search. changes. I'he work must be carried -— - {side Park for picnics and to wit= \ 1 recovered aft a : os Rte . . i : j : defense production. Often it may be necessary to dis- oon was lnstruction in gunnery for out in preparation for the event- WINDSORS IN LISBON ness the park's pyrotecihinical dise tribute an order among various producers to obtam advanced field artillery student AUSTRALIA OFFERS HOMES uality of induction of the National LONDON, July 5 (U. P.).—The pla} the neces:arv capacity That will rem re ep various A ceremony without a th a RNE ustralia. July 5 Guard into Federal service or in- Duke and Duchess of Windsor were Thousands of others attended 1 mn 1 . MELBOURNE, / ” e J 3 bole Kinds of pooling among the producers. and necessay- Nain parade ground 0 |] 1 > , Australia has informed the auguration of the draft by Congress. reported planning to remain sev- various free fireworks displays at ONG cl 1 = 1 1 l . : { I Australia . ~ p 1 = S : : H wl ily seme price understandings that ordinarily mjght was toe ci the military, citizen- British Government that thousands Governor M. Clifford Townsend. eral days at Lisbon, Portugal, be- Coleman Park, Sarah T. Bolton

Ws ALi he oil companies insisted that they be questionable under the law : ship ana sports activities of Britons can be accommodated in who has been out of the city, has fore returning to London. Reliable Park at Beech Grove, at Hillcrest, abilize the market and were doing it m be taken for granted that if this gentle- The first preliminary boxing bouts Australia and a private home is not indicated hether the assist- quarters here emphatically denied Woodstock Highland, Meridian the Government asked them to do mens aerecrent fails to work, then legislation will: will be held at the sports arena to- assured for every British child sent ant adjutant general's post would that they would go to the United Jie and Indianapolis Country fact they ciaimed to have had the be sought night here, it was announced today ) illed bv another officer. States. ubs, and at other places

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My Day By Eleanor Roosevelt Cleanup Follows Fireworks . . . . Shells Are Carried Away .

DE PARK. Thursday —I seem to be in the buzi- make ant rovem 381 but the 2 per cent ments these dave! Apparent- INErest We receive on our savings accounts does not seem to me so small, for if we desired we could take ; . Ee out our money and put it to work in some wav in the people of the lower end hich we might employ more people and bring us a ovely parkway. I left out man) ugher rate of interest. We put it in the savings banks of the people who really did the because we feel that there it is entirely safe and work guaranteed by the Government Savings banks are This T did not intend to do, restricted in their investments in order to insure the and I think we should all be safety of our deposits and that is why we accept a grateful to Borough President of smaller amount of interest Manhattan Stanley Isaacs, who It certainly was nice to greet my husband and our had complete charge of the con- son Jimmy when they arrived at the house this struction of the East River morning. Major Hooker and I had a nice, but rather Drive: to Walter D. Binger, short, ride, since I am trying to do a number of things Commissioner of Borough Works, before my regular broadcast which precedes the brief and Lester C. Hammond. chief ceremonies, when the new library will be finally engineer in charge of design and turned over to the archivist construction. Perhaps the fascination about even the smallest The letters giving me all this place in the country is that there is always sonfething information came from Mrs. Ma- vou want to do. I have discovered a stone mason nearsel H Pooler and Georgia C. Van Veln. I am very bv who lays walls in the old-fashioned way. Our rateful to them for correcting me. I have also heard lane leading off from the main highway has always om two or three ot her interested citizens, and one been unmarked. so now I am planning two low stone n, Mr. A. J. Davis, suggests that I should thank gateposts and some wrought iron letters from Mr. the ta pavers whose properties were condemned, and Denny's forge in Poughkeepsie, which should make it hemoans the fact that depositors in the savings banks easier to identify the entrance to these cottages i mes Photo are only getting 2 per cent interest on their money We are verv proud of our garden this year. The Find a dud? These children are combing the debris of last night's Butler Bowl fire- And at the Fairgrounds, where another fireworks celebration was held, workmen hecause the banks owned most of the condemned vegetables seem to be thriving with plenty of rain,| works celebration in today's brilliant sunlight. They are (left to right) Ann Moriarty, | carried out the shells, possibly to be consumed in a bonfire, the uninspiring aftermath property even though the sun visits us fitfully and the weather | 5241 Boulevard Place: Arthur French, 24 E. 36th St, Robert and Donald Murray, 5102 N. She brilliant pyrotechnics they ‘once heid., Vaughn Millis (left) and Charles Fisher, Ofcourse, we are always grateful to taxpayers who is more nearly like autumn than mid-summer, Illinois St., and Pat Moriarty, brother of Ana. ‘

rk Commissioner Moses and