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BROWN COUNTY, Ind. Aug. 21.—My days in Brown County are unique days for me. Unique days, and happy ones, and I think I shall stay hcre for quite a spell, and see what it is like to be a Hoosier again for a week or two. I am living a mile out of town, under great shade trees, in a log cabin on a hill. The whole place is mine. for I am its master, its servants and its guests all combined. There is nobody here but me. Not only the cabin is mine, but the breeze under the shade trees is mine. and the uncanny stillness of the night is mine, and mine are the chipmunks in the chimney and the cool drink in the icebox and those first soft streaks of dawn over the dark ridges. They all belong to me, and no one may share them unless T say so. This cabin is the occasional home of Fred Bates Johnson, who owns a great deal of Brown County and who possesses, in addition to his wealth, the even greater treasure of love and respect of the people here. Mr. Johnson badgered me against my own will into staying in his cabin, and I shall be grateful to him to the end of my days. This is an interlude of calm that has never happened to me in all these years of cities and hotels and speeding from here to there. The cabin sits off .the road. From any side of the house you can look out and down for many miles. The yard falls away to thick brush at the edge. The great maples speak soothingly in the breeze as they did in my childhood.

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Not Scared, Just Prudent

The wasps at the screen don’t scare me a bit, and the broken rope on the water bucket will never be fixed by me. The electric lights and pounding pressure pump form an ironic contrast to the still darkness and the faint cowbell somewhere out in the brush. My weird. since I stayed alone in a house in the country. fact. I'm not sure I ever did. To say that I was frightened would be to belittle myself, and it would not be the truth anyway. But to say that I was at ease and glowing in the privileges of my new monasticism would be to exaggerate. I was somewhere in between—pleased and curious, but

Our Town

THE TITLE OF TODAY'S piece is Nuts, Just Nuts: or The Crack-up of a Columnist in the Summer of 1940 (in three parts). 1. The chestnut

first night here was an experience almost I do not know how many years it has been In

(from “castanea.” the Latin equivalent of “jest nut”) is the fruit of a tree big enough to know better. Contrary to general belief, its cultivation is not confined to the Low Countries. It can turn up anywhere—in a church or a cemetery or a newspaper column. On Mt. Etna, for instance, there is a chestnut tree with a circumference of 160 feet. It's the biggest of its kind in the world. The last time I tried, it took 65 of my kind of steps to walk around it. Arthur V. Brown with his scherzo skip would use many more steps. Fred Jungclaus with his adagio stride might do it somewhere around 50. . The chestnut comes in a prickly burr which splits open in four parts when frost comes. When frost comes, whatever 1s inside the burr falls out. And vou'd be surprised to know what falls out sometimes. Scotch chestnuts have the toughest burrs.

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No Baby Chestnuts

Nobody has ever seen a baby chestnut. If there are any they stay in hiding until they are old enough to show their age. I prefer to believe, however. that a chestnut is born full panoplied like Minerva and, like her, stays immortal. A chinquapin is not a dead chestnut. Chestnuts can be eaten most any way—raw, boiled or roasted—and some Indianapolis women (my Aunt Agatha, for one) use them to pep up a turkey dressing. It's as good a Joke as any. . 2. The nutmeg is the fruit of the nutmeg tree in East India, West India, the Spice Islands and South America—evervwhere, in fact, except in Connecticut, U. S. A. In Connecticut, the nutineg is the fruit of an industree.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Possibly it was slightly premature to bring up the conscription issue before we were further into our industrial defense mobilization. Perhaps it was unwise to raise the question during a political campaign. I don’t se= much in either of those points, but they

SW are now academic anyway.

By Ernie Pyle

filled with a sense of strangeness that had ghosts in it, and things that come out of the dark. I am glad there was nobody around to see me going through the house before going to bed. First I saw that all three outside screen doors were locked. Then I went from room to room turning on the lights, and I looked in the corners, and yes, under the beds. and frequently over my shoulder, to make sure that no, spook was getting me maneuvered into a bad position. But everything was all right. and then I slept. It; was 3.30 a. m. when I came to. all of a sudden, There] was nothing at all to awaken me. Sleep just ended.

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and up I popped. | And as I lay there wondering about it, just the

faintest shading of light came gradually into the room, and I realized that dawn was on the way. Like] Mrs. Roosevelt, T think that dawn in the country is one of Nature's greatest masterpieces.

It's Nice to Get Back

So I went through the great lodge-like living room and out onto the north porch. And sat there alone until daylight was over the ridges and all around me.

That happened not just on my first night, but every night since I've been here. I don’t know what makes, me wake up. I've never done it before in my life. But not one night in this cabin have I missed my lit-| tle rendezvous with the first tinges of daybreak. | Daytimes I laze around, half-writing, half-sleeping. It is nice to go away from the cabin for little visits, because it is always so wonderful to come back to it. Mr. Johnson said not to lock up until I finally went away for good, so my doors stand always open. i There has been only one visitor during my absence. He came in and got under my bed, of all places. When I turned on the lights last night, he made a terrific scurrying on the floor and then a dark startling streak across the room, right at my feet. The only reason I am not dead is that I realized, just before my heart stopped, that it was only a chipmunk. | There are 12 beds in my cabin. It is too bad I'm not in the mood to have in a few friends and relatives. Some of the beds have moth balls in them. There are cobwebs in the turn of the stairs, and I wouldn't| disturb them for anything. Mr. Johnson seems to be a conscientious objector to having his dish towels washed. I believe he has literally scores of them hanging on the wall, all dirty. People said it would offend him deeply if I should wash them, I don’t know why anybody ever thought I would {

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door to a millionaire.

is scarely realized.

with the succeeding months,

oil men say. The oil business in Indiana within the last three years has grown to a multimillion dollar industry and there are no signs of a slackening, according to officials of the industry.

By Anton Scherrer

The Deluse family uses the nutmeg understanding- | ly for the marrow balls of their soup, and Mrs. Victor Jose Sr. permits its use in her much lauded fruit cake, nut she stays with’ the job until it is done. Neil] Campbell won't touch an apple pie unless it has three | sprinklings of nutmeg. The Deluses prefer the kind | known as Agathophyllum aromaticum: Mrs. Jose acts| up if she doesn’t get Cryptocarya moshata. Mr. Camp-|

bell doesn't care what kind he gets as long as it's . : . nutmeg. | Indiana oil production has more

A little nutmeg goes a long way. I know of one! than quadrupled within the last nutmeg in Indianapolis that has served a family 21| “ear. ) years. It's the one they started housekeeping with During the first six months of and. from the looks of things, it's going to be here to 1939. 393,000 barrels of oil were

participate in the silver wedding anniversary. produced, while during the same period this year oil production

went over the 1,725,000-barrel mark. That's going some, say the oil

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All About Almonds |

3. The almond is mentioned in the Old Testament men, when the production in any from which it appears that it is a very old nut. Some 6 state quadruples in a year. of the Old Testament almonds are still in the Indian-| ¥ 8 » apolis market. Aside from their age, however, al-| ND crude oil is a pretty good monds are either sweet or bitter. The two are not on price now, too—roughly $1.05 speaking terms. Sweet almonds end up in cakes, a barrel. That means nearly candies and desserts. God only knows where bitter $2,000,000 came into Indiana duralmonds end up. If I had a guess I should say in ing the first six months of this soaps and medicines. | year from oil alone. Sweet almonds come in two varieties—the thick- The formers or landowners get shelled and the brittle-shelled. The thick-shelled, °ne-eighth of the income : have a thick shell and the brittle-shelled have a brittle, In addition to the actual inshell, but they get all mixed up in the groceries so that, come from oil, officials of the | Geology Division of the State

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Separator (left) removes water from oil before it goes to storage

By Earl Richert NDIANA is like a middle-class family that lives next

The oil-riches ef its neighbor, Illinois, are so great that its own ever-increasing income from the “black gold”

That's the way the oil men, who are in “the know,” describe the oil situation in Indiana. Oil dollars are rolling into Indiana faster and faster

and that should be enough,

considering Indiana's tomatoes, corn, hogs, limestone and industrial #ctivity, to gladden the heart of any Hoosier and make him less envious of his Illinois neighbor, the

Conservation Department, explain that the state also benefits financially from the leasing of land by the oil companies and the employment whicn the industr. furnishes. And there is natural gas too. Its production total is beginning to climb again after several years of decline. Last year Indiana produced a total of 871,586 cubic feet in gas. It now is worth 10 cents a 1000-cubic feet, ” ” ”

HE new Rockport field in Spencer County now has 31 producing natural gas wells with an estimated production that will exceed that of the entire state last year, according to G. F. Fix, supervisor of natural gas for the State Conservation Department. The oil picture in Indiana was a bleak one before the discovery of the new fields in 1937. There was practically no oil activity and the old gas fields were dropping steadily in productien. The first of the new fields was the Prairie Creek ficld, brought in about 10 miles southwest of Terre Haute. The Heusler Field at Evansville, the New Harmony field at New Harmony and the Griffin

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at Griffin Field, Indiana's largest.

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A pump- jack, powered from central unit, pumps the oil at Prairie Creek.

field in Gibson and Posey Coun=ties were discovered then within the space of a vear. The Criffin field today is the biggest in Indiana, covering an

area of 2000 acres with 150 producing oil wells. Some of the wells in the field had an initial production of 3500 barrels a day, a verv high figure for Indiana.

INCE that time oil activity has

gone northward and the oilmen are now concentrating along the counties on the Michigan border. There are several producing wells in that area and there is much leasing activity among both major and independent producers. Geological structures in that part of the state are favorable for oil, geologists say.

A rotary drilling rig at Griffin finds the oil,

During the fiscal year ending June 397, 1940, 466 wells were drilled throughout the state, 224 of them being active producers, 53 gas wells and 189 dry holes, Fifty wells have been completed during the last month and 126 are being drilled. There is nothing to keep the oil industry from pushing ahead in Indiana, the oil men say. That is based, of course, on the pre=sumption there is oil in the state in sufficient quantities to justify increased drilling—and the oil= men believe there is. They can make fairly good money at $1.05 a barrel for crude oil, even with the low production of the Indiana wells.

on n o NDIANA is not hampered by proration laws as are the old=er producing states. An oil com= pany can sell all the oil it can produce, And oil men feel more prone to take risks here as the costs for drilling a well are much less than for the older producing states. The average Indiana well is 3000 feet, deep, costing between $15,000 and $20,000 to complete. In the older states, wells often have to be drilled to a depth of well over 10,000 feet, costing usu= ally between $60,000 and $70,000, There a dry hole often means permanent financial disaster for the independent. Of course, wells in the Southern and Western states usually produce over 10,000 barrels daily, which quite dwarfs the biggest Indiana producer of 3500 barrels. “As a whole the oil picture in Indiana is constantly growing brighter,” Mr. Fix said. “Today nil men are giving the ‘once over’ to the entire state, and the tims may come soon when Indiana, the 37th in size in the U. S., will forge ahead of its present rank as the 17th largest oil producing state.”

You have no idea how the sweet almond has wormed its way into the kitchens of Indianapolis] women. Mrs. Leroy Templeton, for instance, pours | them into cored apples and calls it apple compote.! The Hauss family has great fun hiding them in their coffee cakes. The Ruschhaupt recipe for Mandeltorte| —the very apotheosis of the almond in Indianapolis—| entails the use of a dollar's worth of almonds and | { nine whole eggs. It's worth it, though. It's enough] | for four persons and. if cut according to the code, will |

last all Sunday and almondy. | “i : ; ! 'War on British Side Might

By Raymond Clapper, Start Revolution,

Dublin Says. Winston Churchill, in his address to Commons this | DUBLIN, Aug. 21 (U. P).—Au-| week, pointed out a most significant difference be- horitati io] ; ws] tween this war and the last one. The slaughter has thoritative Irish sources declared been but a fraction, he said, but the consequences today that any attempt to end Eire's have De even hore deadly. " neutrality in favor of Great Britain Churchill said that France succumbed to physical : ; AOL fe Say effects which were far less terrible than those which A to provoke civil Wal t Ss, !

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Hoosier Goings On

ON NEUTRALITY RUSHVILLE TREASON

Willkie's Farms Shrink—On Signs at Least; Party Dress Ruined, But What a Fish!

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM

THE RUSHVILLE Chamber of Commerce doesn't mind a little kibitzing, but somebody is going too far. About a mile north of the town, on the Horace Bebout farm, is a sign erected by the chamber, proudly proclaiming that Wendell Willkie

owns 1400 acres of good Rush County land. Twice recently a jokester has changed the sign to read “4” acres,

and each time. it had to changed back. Chamber officials hint they know who's doing it and if he doesn't stop, he's going to get in dire trouble.

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{ significance there is to it, but there have been some queer goings on in her henhouse recently. In the last few days, she has gath-

SPY FIGHT GOES

ACROSS BORDER Justice Department Chiefs Vision Joint Action With | Canada in Future.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U.P). —| Justice Department officials today expected that co-ordination of counter-espionage activities will be an integral part of the United

States-Canadian joint defense program under the plan announced by |

Nuns Buy Home Of Studebakers

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Aug. 21 (U, P.).—Sale of the Tippecanoe Place, one-time mansion of Clem and Col. George M. Studebaker, found= ers of the Studebaker Motor Co., to the Sisters of the Resurrection of Norwood Park, Ill, was an= nounced today by trustees of the estate. Alvin Marsh, referee in bankruptcy of the estate of the late Col. Studebaker, was expected to approve the sale in the next few days. The nuns were expected to open the home in the next few months as a boarding school, a day nursery and a home

President Roosevelt last Saturday.

Major object of such a unifica- | 5 PLANE FIRM HEADS

tion would be to prevent the pos-

sibility of a Fifth Column in Can- | PLEDGE AID T0 U. S.

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or one in the United States run| WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. P). from the Dominion.

Mr. Roosevelt said a permanent —The presidents of five of the joint defense board will be created nation’s largest aircraft companies made up of four or five members said today in a joint statement representing each government. [that airplane manufacturers “have’ | First step in creation of an inter- offered and will continue to give [national system of Fifth Column the Government every rescurce and control would be closer co-operation | facility at their command” in the [between the FBI and the Canadian | interest of national defense. |Royal Mounted police, it was be-| «we are ready to build airplanes (lieved. The second would be joint| frst and talk about profits afters |control by the Justice Department yard,” they said. “To this end the land Canadian law enforcement | industry is making rapid progress.”

|aseneies of Joreign agents, propa- | a gandists and subversive organizaTEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

tions as they might affect defense of the Western Hemisphere. 1--Is there any food that especially nourishes only the brain?

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK Although the British Dominion already has taken strict wartime EXPANSION FOUGH measures against espionage and the both programs now stops at the uu tte Bats Bling? | 3—What is the royal color of Enge

United States also has taken new (precautions, the effectiveness of WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 (U. P). international border, one source —Opponents of the Administration's said. | ane? $500.000,000 Export-Import Bank Ex-| At present the FBI and the Ca- | 4—Who : nadian Mounted Police work to-| pansion Bill today sought to io. oo" enforcement of criminal Creed? ‘eliminate a provision which they jaws of the two countries, but tuts | Which ot tyes, Drineipa) |said would permit loans in con- the United States, St ance bn

co-operation has not been extended [resrenun of the Neutrality Act. |t0 Counter-espionage on a large ,. "0 st “john, is largest? Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott (R. Mich.) 4. d- 6—Does the Constitution of the

|scale, ranking minority member of the a United States guarantee to every House Banking and Currency Com- CLAIMS NAZIS KEPT

citizen of the United States who mittee, said the Bill would open a | 21 years of age or more, the | loophole in the Neutrality law's ban | PASSPORT FOR SPIES against lcans to belligerent nations | P.).—

sacrilege | ered not one, but two, eggs that are reasonably accurate facsimiles

| of small bottle-neck gourds.

Such goings on are

down Rushville way.

The important thing now is this. Having faced the conscription issue. this country cannot afford to reject it. We cannot. in this dangerous moment, stand before the world as a nation that is unable to face the music and prepare itself by making the hard decision. We cannot afford to demobilize ourselves by making the soft decision. The test now is whether a people under a democracy is able to do the things necessary for its own safety. Do self-governing peoples and their legislative bodies have enough foresight to see what must be done? Do they have the fortitude to make hard decisions? Do they have the resolution to make such decisions promptly?

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Ignoring the Realities Does anyone in his right mind think we could go through a war without conscription? But how many people are ignoring the realities of modern warfare by saying we must not have conscription in peace-time. That is the same as saying we must not prepare for war until war begins. There is the thought that we can wait. It is the thought that moved so many Republicans to vote against Roosevelt's armament proposais over the last two years. It 1s the thought that lulled the French into thinking they would be safe sitting behind the Maginot Line.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Tuesdayv.—Myv first stop vesterday morning was at the WPA office in New York City, where WPA interviewers are accepting applications from people now on WPA who wish to be allowed to take a training course in one of the New York City training schools. The Board of xl

were endured with fortitude and will power 25 years ago. Loss of life has diminished, but the decisions If neutrality were dropped. Eire's are even more profound upon the fate of nations than new position would create internal anything which has ever happened since barbaric and external dangers to Britain. | # 4 = | . 3 » “Oe | these Sources said. It would pro Maybe it's the effect of the y = vide a possible excuse for invasion S . break in the heat wave that got A l4-month-old bull which

times. n on 5 { d . Y wnhilte f a bs {and might set off a Socialist revoluMr. Churchill's Analysis 'tion in Eire which mgiht have re-| Decatur businessmen all mixed up went for a stroll on State Road 9 in their seasons. Anyway, they've = near Mt. Etna the other night

Shrewd analyst, Churchill offers one more ob- percussions in England. servation which Americans will do well to ponder:| The same Irish leaders, however, peen spending a lot of time in the | came out second best in an enMoves are made upon scientific and strategic boards, expressed fear that a victorious . . : advantages are gained by mechanical means as the Germanv would seek to maintain| 12st few days planning for a | counter with an auto driven by result of which scores of millions of men become in- gire’s status as a second-rate power) formal opening of the Christmas | Ferrell C. Clevenger, of AKron, capable of further resistance or judge themselves ang might lead to further oppres-| shopping season. The date, in case = Ind. Displaying an excellent bit incapable of further resistance and a fearful game of gion. sure int ted. is to be Tuesday, | of agility, the bull neatly sidezhess brocdeds from check 1p mate, WY Which Piel “ii Germany Wins! one compe! SPE ’ | stepped an approaching car, but unhappy players seem to be inexorably bound. tent authority said, “Eire, which in| Dec: 3. Br-r-r-rl negligently stepped into the path # & = of Mr. Clevenger’s car. The car’s IT SEEMS there must be an | radiator was smashed, the bull's epidemic of unexpected baths go- | |

Read and reflect upon that statement, and its {je past had to fight on only one Ry kor us il be i . | political front, may be obliged to e, too, shall be inexorably bound by the moves|,nease the claims of two European | neck broken. Now he’s in bull ing on. Up at Lake Shafer, Miss | heaven. | Lucile Lawler and some friends Eire’s neutrality must, however, Were all dressed up ready to go

of the present. For one thing, if we prove unable 0 bowers 7; adopt conscription, in face of strong recommenda-| : be “a watchful. armed neutrality,”| to a party. While waiting until | time to start, they stepped out on

tions by our military authorities, and support by both | President Roosevelt and Republican candidate Willkie. | which would be “the best protec-| . : Can i tle | : s well as Eire” @& pier and decided to do a lit tion for England as w fishing, just for fun. Miss Lawler

we are bound to forfeit the respect and confidence of the Latin-American nations. It will be a tip-off to them that we haven't the stuff to follow through. They will decide that they can’t count on Uncle Sam. these high sources explained. The They will see that we are ty soft to stand up gispatch of British soldiers to pre- felt a nibble, then a mighty tug | against any threat of Hitler until it is too late. In pare the defense of Ireland. they| on her line. In her excitement | said, would have the opposite result OVer the bite, she stepped backand probably would turn the Irish| Wward—and, Kkerplunk. into the openly against Britain. | lake, party dress and all. Unpere a rapidly| turbed by her dunking. she clung

Defense Discussed

the one act of rejecting conscription we would forfeit the moral command in Latin-America to Hitler. and set our pieces on the chess-board for his inevitable Wicle the American checkmate, Eire's island position, : \ | expanding armed force determined| fo the pole. climbed back on the 'to resist anv invasion, and a strong Pier and pulled in a giant channel sense of national cohesion, they catfish. claimed, place her in a better posi- aur | tion for defense than neutral coun- | THEN THERES the case of | In production, one cannot help wondering why this icS oR ie Jie a. pi Dominic English, of Virginia, who flow of men into jobs is not more rapid. As I under- | pro Sow : | got an unexpected bath while stand it, after skilled and semi-skilled workers have er of Eires’ strategic posi-| Griving through Muncie. A couple been trained and re-employed, the reservoir of young ion. most Irishmen “believe Hitler | of toots from a passing car caused people will be trained to fill the normal increases that oot not be content to leave this] Mr. English to turn his head. should come in these industries. | nation untouched if he were victor-| While he was looking, his car This is where the NYA and CCC, with greatly ears Current rumors here that a sneaked over the curb and snapincreased mechanical facilities, will be called upon to victorious Germany might try to re-| Ped off a fire plug, flooding the do their share of the job. It will be, however, a de-| yjve a Celtic union linking the peo-| €ar and the street. Aside from the fense job, and should, I believe, not be considered ple of Eire, Scotland, Wales and unsought bath, Mr. English was only from the point of view of doing something for| prittany as a check against any pos-| unharmed. Hen Lrg Rh Pe Adil hi rn Ty After leaving the WPA office, I Trent to two of 55 9 Indies Or GoImalys gens ot is probably y in Stars 2 Host the schools. The shops were certainly efiicient looking | Gob ieted Sa R re iy or Bie "ny and the men seemed absorbed in their work. They Ulster Crisis Quiete Na Ore BE Ak maybe he holds must be getting good training, or there would not bel. “The role of a buffer state is not| gq Tecord of ay the longest Ihat sense of interest and Give which there was in one which a majority of Irishmen | gistance to see and hear Wendell pragt ich yey rom we in ered. ] ‘would willingly accept,” a leading| wyjjkje at Elwood last Saturday. It was not a very good day in New York City. In authority said. Mr. Stretcher, who captained the the afternoon the rain came down in torrents and on Agitation for return of Ulster has| prwood High School grid team of [he Selves uk Winashiel Vipers were Rept busy. diminished greatly Sid Ine Se~ 1908, of which Mr. Willkie was a with the President and . — oer Be Sven Ta id the Ulster Member, says he drove 2600 miles Today is delightfully cool with ‘a grand Breen esha pri be settled when there Yo: get there, It seems to me that there is a hitch somewhere blowing. Riding was really a joy this morning. The is peace. Ulster might become a . 2" | slightly injured two postal workers. think they won't use them. I expect when the flow from training to Jobs is not fairly President and some friends are lunching with me at serious point in case of German, Mrs. George Tindall of near The bag was torn to shreds and to see myself walking along the rapid. When one reads of the necessity for speed the cottage. . lvictory, : Mt. Auburn isn't sure just what some mail was destroyed, street some day.”

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

right to vote? 7--Which race horse won the Are the Export-Import] NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (U. 5 Jmgion Classis Ln ty ia loans to western : si d argest cily | hemisphere nations “notwithstand- | AP American volunteer amyuiance the United States. ing any other provision of the law.” driver captured by the Germans in ARSWers Thus, he said, the bank could France arrived yesterday aboard the . make loans to Canada, a belligerent, despite provisions of the neutrality act. Rep. Wolcott said he would offer an amendment to strike out the objectionable phraseology to make the bill conform with the Neutrality Law. Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones, he added, has no objection to his amendment.

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Education also checks the information which each individual gives. Fifty per cent of the people taking these courses come from WPA and there are, of course, a great many more applications than can be accepted. I talked to one man who wanted to take a course in telegraphy. It was nine years since he had given up this occupation, 3 { but he felt he wished to return TH to it. I asked the officials what they did with people who could not immediately be taken into some defense industry and they said they were able to place about 50 per cent of them on WPA programs in some work along the lines of the skills which they had gained, or had regained during training

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Portuguese ship Quanza and warned | vy that the Germans had kept his pass-| 3_Red. port and those of his five compan-|4_william Tyler Page. ions for probable use by “Nazi fifth|5 st. Croix. columnists” in the United States. |g—No. Arthur Stratton, 29, Clinton,|7—SIROCCO. Mass., said he was warned by a 8—Los Angeles. German officer in a concentration = camp that “if America doesn't stop . sending things to Britain we will have war with America.” MAIL BAG BLAST HURTS 2 “The fifth column is what . deWASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. P).|stroyed Belgium, Holland and —What apparently was a time bomb France,” Stratton said. “The same exploded in a mail bag at a down- |thing is going to happen in America. town postoffice substation today and They took our passports and don't

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