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| BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 24—You remember a few Weeks ago I had the privilege of going through the Breat Allison engine plant in Indianapolis, and telling You how they made those remarkably powerful motors I our new warplanes. | Well, as an aftermath of that, we are now here in | Buffalo ta tell you how tiney make the planes that some of those engines are created for. Here in Buffalo is the main plant of the Curtiss-Wright Corp., makers of the famous Hawks and Hell-Divers. Those two ships are passe now, but far from passe is their successor—the Army's: “P-40,” as it is called. Curtiss-Wright is one of the oldest makers of military planes
in America. Today there are work- °
men in this plant who have been | | with Curtiss for 25 years. The plant right now is turning out more actual combat Dlanes for||the Government than any other manufacturer. || The P-40 is a pursuit ship, a fighter. It is a monoPlane—all metal—and is driven by those rampaging 1150 horses in the Allison motor. It can do around 365 miles an hour. Both the French and British had ordered a large number of these planes from Curtiss. en France went under, the British took over the unfilled French orders.
Planes Wait Engines
Today a| whole shed full of finished planes is waiting for England at the Curtiss plant. Each is finished, even to the taped-up cowling and the camouflaging, all finished except for one thing—the engine. They haven't been getting engines as fast as they made the planes. But the engines are coming through in bigger quantities every day, and in a couple of weeks they expect to have all these planes worked out end on their way to England by boat. ; But as long as they sit here—so nearly ready and
yet so hopeless, with ‘England in her desperate plight
and needing them so badly—it makes you tense all over and you catch yourself saying, “They must hurry. They must.” . The planes for Britain are shipped away in huge
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Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)
" IN TOWN FOR the big Democratic shindig, Secyetary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard brought a story that has dozens of politicos chuckling, It seems that Mr. Wickard returned to his Camden farm two
Weeks ago just after a Soil Conservation officer had
left the place. “You're late, Claude,” said the Secretary’s mother, “One of your men from the Agriculture Department was here all morning and he just left.” For a moment, the Secretary thought something had gone wrong in Washington and wanted to know who was calling and what he wanted. : " “I didn’t get his name,” Mrs. Wickard said, “but he said he was from the Soil Conservation Department. You should know who he is.” - The Secretary replied that he didn’t know all the employees of the Department and that probably it had just been a routine visit. “You are the Secretary of Agriculture,” she said firmly, “and you ought to know every. person who works for you and what he is doing.” Mr. Wickard explained carefully to his mother that there are 12,000 employees in the department in Washington and| 80,000 in the field. He thinks he convinced her, though, by finally explaining that the South Agriculture Building in Washington alone has seven miles of corridors with offices on each side.
Those Pesky Mosquitos
CHARLES FINCH of 3935 Rookwood thinks he has the mosquito invasion problem solved. He ran into a workman who had to work down in one of the City sewers and the workman told Mr. Finch the mosquitos down there were so thick they had to smoke them ou before they could work,
Washington
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—We have come a long way since Roosevelt, before his first inauguration, announced -his TVA dream. ! The TVA experiment led to the longest and most bitter fight of the Roosevelt Administration. Through that contest, Wendell Willkie, as the leader of the opposition, achieved the national fame that led to his nomination as the Republican candidate for President. Although Willkie won his spurs fighting TVA and the extension of public power projects, it does not E appear that he is trying to win the election on the same issue. On the contrary, the policy that Willkie outlined at Portland, Ore. dovetails with current public power developments. Even before his election. in 1932, Roosevelt stirred apprehension in a campaign speech at Portland, Ore., by outlining his dream of four great power developments—the St. Lawrence, the Tennessee Valley, Boulder Dam, then under construction, and the Columbia River projects at Bonneville and Grand Coulee.. Roosevelt announced the yardstick theory and spoke for abundant cheap power. He said some-. thing that has almost been forgotten, namely, that he did not hold with those who advocate Government ownership or Government operation of all utilities, and that a broad general rule, with certain exceptions, power development should be left to private
capital. | Willkie and TVA
But in action, he has stressed the exceptions rather
than the rule and the exceptions, especially TVA, caused the fierce opposition led by Willkie. In his
- forgotten Portland agdress, Roosevelt said the power
sites should be developed by Government itself but that private capital should be given the first opportunity to transmit and distribute the power on the pasis of the best service and the lowest rates possible. In the Portland campaign speech Roosevelt gave private utilities a better break than Willkie gave them when he spoke in the same locality eight years later, willkie, [speaking within a few miles of the giant
My Day
. HYDE PARK, Monday.—On Saturday I met with a number of people at my apartment in New York City, who wanted to talk over a variety of things. I think my most unusual visitors were Hans Meyer and Guy Johnson. They come from a group who believe in living, here and now, in real brotherhood. For the moment, while the Government of England under= . stands their position, the. people about them are making their community life somewhat difficult, for they have every nationality in the community in order to show that there really is a brotherhood of man. You make no commitment as to any special religion in joining ‘them, you simply are willing to live according to their theories of government.
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South Dakota has a similar community, but they.
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the neighborhood. The English group wishes to bring
over its members to join those in this country. It is evilient that they would be model citizens and their conception lof democracy is certainly a pure and practical one. But even these two men with fine, calm
inborn withdrawn from the other people of
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By Ernie Pyle
boxes, but those for the U. S. Army are flown away. Since there is no flying field at the Curtiss plant, the planes are loaded onto trailers—the fuselage on
one, the wing on another—and hauled to the Buffalo] :
Airport, 10 miles away. There mechanics .fasten the wing onto the fuselage, hook up all the last connections, and the plane is ready tor the air. The hangar at the Buffalo Airport is usually filled with about a dozen ships getting the final touches. Three young Army pilots have the almost unique job of deliverifig these P-40s. Every morning they
take off from Buffao in three of these sleek new.
fighters. They fly them to the Argyy depot at Fairfield, O., then take the evening train. back to Buffalo, and next morning they fly three more away.
Flashes Rather Than Soars
The P-40 is large for a fighter plane, but it is streamlined into a streak. On the ground it has a terrifically vicious and deadly look. In the air it seems to flash around, rather than soar. - :
When you sit in the pilot’s seat and look forward, | :
it is more like sitting at the wheel of a speedway racer than an airplane. For the first time in my life, it gives'me a desire to be able to fly a plane. For the “feel” of that plane must be an exaltation, and you can never know that feel unless you can fly the plane yourself. since it has only one seat. Curtiss men met me at the airport and we drove to the plant. Few visitors get actually inside the working part -of the plant. When they are admitted, they must sign up and wear badges and be accompanied. Even salesmen are met out front by plant executives, and conduct their interviews in a row of small, glass-walled rooms. Once inside, word came that the general manager of the plant was waiting to see us. The general manager is Burdette S. Wright. He is one of those people about whom I can say, “I knew him when.” We were] friends back in my own aviation days of 10 years ago. Today ‘“Burdie” Wright is vice president and No. 2 man in the big Curtiss-Wright Corp. We hadn't seen each other for eight years. It was good to meet again. And the plant was more or less mine for the day. So tomorrow I'll try to get down to brass tacks and tell you what it's like for 8000 men to be punching and hammering out fighting planes in what comes fairly close to being mass production,
Mr. Finch did a little deducting and deciding that the mosquitos were spawning in the stagnant water standing in the sewers ‘and his advice is to “tell the bug man about it” so that he will have one less thing to worry about in the war on the stingers.
You Solve It
Tarakan, one
IN the opinion of officials of the Dutch Indies, the United States can further strengthen the. outposts protecting the Panama Canal by securing in Dutch Guiana, on the north coast of South America, plane and naval bases similar to and supplementing those recently acquired
from Great Britain.
With the mother country's fate under Hitler still problematical, and their closest political Kin, the British Empire, facing’ an uncertain future, the Netherlands Indies are, like all the rest of ‘he world outside the totalitarian orbit, focusing new attention on the United States.
This is not only because Amari-
A MIDDLE-AGED stranger’ who identified himself | as “Sam” appeared yesterday atthe Mayor's office. | “I heard the Mayor was looking for someone by | the name of Sam,” he said. “My name is Sam.” The office staff told him the Mayor was probably | looking for some other “Sam.” “Oh,” said the man, “well then I guess the Mayor | has made a mistake.” And he turned and walked: out.
Politics, Traffic and Such
FRED BAYS and Walter Shead proudly told] newspapermen yesterday that their luncheon for 1500
was the “largest” in the Claypool's history. The hotel | management was very polite about it all, simply say- |
ing that the McNutt reception had numbered 2300] guests. They left the impression even that hadn't heen the largest. .. . Leroy Keach, the Safety Board | head, had a bad time of it yesterday before the Tax Adjustment Board. George Kuhn objected to the color of the paint the Police Department uses and Herbert King got his feelings about traffic control off his chest while Mr, Keach squirmed. . . . The State Unemployment Compensation Division puts cut a quar-
terly called “The U. C. Advisor.” That isn’t the way]
the dictionary spells it. . . Brig. Gen. George V. Strong, who headed the official mission to Britain to study the Nazi attack, is remembered by many Indianapolis ‘persons. as commander of the 11th Infantry here at Fort Harrison. He took command in the fall of ’36 and served through 37, when he was transferred to the Army’s General Staff.
By Raymond Clapper
Bonneville power project. said that of course these projects should be completed and used for the public benefit. He said that. the people of the localities con- | cerned should decide whether the public power should be distributed by publicly owned or privately owned systems. That is more than Roosevelt said. Roosevelt gave first call to private utilities in the distribution systems. In practice, the Roosevelt Administration was to crowd private utilities harder than the Roosevelt campaign speech indicated -and. the private utilities put up resistance vastly more stubborn than Willkie now | apparently would recommend. When the. residents of | Chattanooga voted to establish public distribution of TVA power, the Commonwealth & Southern subsid- | iary fought the bond proposal and although it carried | by a good margin, resistance was continued in the courts,
Power As An Issue
Now Willkie, following in the direction of his VicePresidential running-mate, Senator McNary, has narrowed the struggle to the field of seli-determination as to distribution systems. McNary, in his campaign acceptance speech, practically wiped out power as an issue. He advocated wider harnessing of water power by Government action. The Government, he said, having made this power available, should “have an indisputable right to control its utilization and distribution.” He apparently would make distribution entirely publicly controlled. McNary insisted upon fair compensation for private utilities that are taken over, significantly that “we now have a working precedent for such fair treatment. acquisition by purchase of private companies by the Tennessee Valley Authority.” ? This brings us a long way from the recent days when TVA was being fought every inch of the way and when the courts were being invoked to throttle the experiment.. Slowly and through bitter controversy we have worked around to the general acceptance now of the idea that in a system of private enterprise there are some activities which can be carried on more effectively by Government enterprise. It is the method of the middle way which Scandinavian democracies developed with such happy results— happy until Hitler interfered.
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
faces, agreed that community living was not without its problems. I wonder if it will be easier in South Dakota than in England. I hope so, for they could not fail to be a good influence.
After attending the opening at a department store of designs for household furniture which various American artists had made, I left New York City in a cheerful mood. This work is going to bring taste and beauty to the people in the country because it is within the price range that many can afford. I wish them great success in what is a commercial venture, but at the same time, an artistic one. : Saturday night, to our great joy, James, Elliott and Ruth, and Franklin Jr. and Ethel, were all here for their grandmother's birthday celebration. Our other guests were Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt, Miss Laura Delano, Langdon P. Marvin Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was a happy family gathering and i hope there will be many more similar ones. Elliott has decided to go into the Air Corps for the duration of the emergency and his brothers are trying to figure out his various business commitments, for it is a little disrupting completely to change your life. Today he receives his orders in Washington and will know the exact date when he must report for duty in Dayton, O,
ca is the hope of all democracy, or because we are their greatest export market, but also because America is the one country toward which the Island Empire can look for a continuing supply of the planes and military equipment necessary to its defense. Anything done. by the Dutch Government functioning from England to tie up the interests and the security of the Netherlands with those of America and Britain will receive the hearty approval of the Dutch Indies.
2 #2 |» EW - ZEALAND and . Aus-
tralia present ‘an interesting political phenomenon today.
| Statements of political and busi-
ness leaders might lead one to tne mistaken belief that these independent commonwealths are prepared fo climb into Uncle Sam’s lap. Far. from indicating any disloyalty to the British Empire, for which they are pouring out their energy, blood and trgasure even more generously than in 1914,
This is the second of a short series of interpretative articles by Roy W. Howard of the ScrippsHoward Newspapers. They are based on observations gathered in a 30-day, 30,000-mile air tour of the Far East, starting from California over the new Pan-American service to New Zealand.
their attitude is| merely an expression of their determination that the English-speaking way of life shall not be snuffed out. Should the worst happen and England fall, temporarily, Australians and New Zealanders foresee a new significance in the Canadian-American mutual defense pact. ® i
In the meantime, in the face of tne menace of totalitarianism —German, Italian, Russian or Japanese—they have realized that as independent commonwealths their relationships with the United States do not differ greatly from those binding them to Canada. ” n 2 XIGENCIES | which forced Britain to close the Burma road against the transport ot war materials into China are considered temporary. : Once the pressure 1s relievad, either on England or on the British Mediterranean tleet, it is expected the Burma road will be speedily re-opened, because ¢veryone appreciates: the heroic joo an ill-armed and poorly equipped Chinese army is doing in restrain-
Ing Japan from running rampant
over the entire Far East. In this connection it is to be noted that Japan's much publicized policy of Asia-tor-tne-Asiatics has gone up in the smoke of hundreds of Chinese cities and towns whose retenseless civilians have been bombed to bits. Asia-for-the-Japanese is the indelible brand that has been placed upon Japan's policy everywhere east of Suez. In con-
of the two great oil ports of the Dutch East Indies.
sequence, the hatred of the Chinese for the Japanese i3 matched by the fear of them that exists among the native population of Indo-China, Thailand, Burma, the Straits Settlement and the Netherland Indies. : ” » ” + HINA stoically holding a line with supreme confidence that she can never he defeated by Japan—a confidence shared by most, foreigners close to the scene —still hopes for assistance from the United States. A two-hour talk with Generalissimo * Chiang Kai-shek left! no doubt as to his certainty of ultimate victory, though the date will necessarily be influenced by the amount of outside assistance furnished China. Closing of the Burma road, though a hard blow, is not resented by the Chinese who under-
stand Britain's present difficul-
ties. What is resented is the continued flow of American supplies and war materials to Japan, while China is cut off from all American assistance. - Talk of American treaty obligations leaves Chiang Kai-shek cold. He argues that no treaty could have been more binding than the American-sponsored Nine Power Pact guaranteeing the territorial integrity - of China, which the Japanese have flagrantly violated. Chiang contends that, in view of Japan's lawless repudiation of this document, America’s pious observation of other treaties operating to Japan's advantage and against China is illogical. ” o o T would be difficult to find an American in the Far East, except those profiting financially
by the present set-up, who would -
disagree with the Generalissimo on this point. With the Indo-China and the Burma road routes closed, the one source of supply remaining | to Chiang Kai-shek is through Rus-
The famed Burma Road.
sia, from which quite a bit of assistance is flowing, = British and Americans are not happy - over the situation, which leaves Russia as China's only aid. The Generalissimo’s anti-Com-mubistic views are well known. Russia's assistance is recognized as anti-Japanese, rather than pro-Chinese. It is also recognized that Japan is striving constantly and desperately for “a RussoJapanese agreement stopping Russian assistance to Chungking. In the meantime, however, Chiang’s enforced Russian tie-up is causing no happiness to either British or Americans in China. China's position today, viewed from a military standpoint after three years of war during which she has lost all her seaports, is not unlike that of the American colonies after Boston, New York and Philadelphia had fallen to . the British. The great difference is that Chiang has a much more united and determined people behind him than had Washington.
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T may take Chiang eight years as it took Washington, or it may take longer, but no person can visit the capital at Chungking, where air raids are the daily routine, observe the = stoicism mixed with plain contempt for the enemy, and leave with any feeling that Japan is even remotely near a military victory. Approximately a third of. the the city has already been destroyed by explosive and incendiary bombs. In the first two days of the major air assault more than 5000 persons, mostly civilians, were killed. Those deaths were largely the result of curiosity and inexperience. Today casualties are few and are chiefly among the members of the anti-air raid patrols - and the fire brigade. which work during bombardments. Chungking is built upon hills of granite. Since the Japanese started their daily. bombings,
hundreds of long tunnels have been constructed, leading to huge underground chambers, each supplied with dozens of exits, (and furnishing safe haven for the|entire population.
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was in Chungking on Sept. 4, when air raid warnings went up a little after 11 a. m. At] the first warning, usually given an hour to an hour and a half béfore the arrival of the bombers, sores of thousands of Chinese started streaming down the hillside streets toward their dssigned bomb shelters.
The moving mass suggested [lava streaming. down the sides of a volcano. No excitement, no rush, no confusion. Instead, routine chatter and banter comparable to the lunch hour exodus in the skyscraper district of New York or any large American city.
Immediately the all clear signal was given, the bases of the granite hills again suddenly teemed with life. after the fashion of a disturbed ant-hill, and hundreds of human cues started back up the winding streets to resume| the day's tasks. =] o on
N Sept. 4 Japanese planes! changed their course after heading for Chungking. About 9:30 that night. en route to Hong | Kong by plane, we learned why. Eleven thousand feet below, through a break in the clouds, we saw a city of several thousand | population, two-thirds of which was in flames. As the city was of no military significance, it was | without anti-aircraft defense or | adequate. bomb shelters. Inevitably the civilian casualties must - have run into the hundreds. The sole objective was to break Chinese morale. The sole result was to add to the unification of China—a task which Japanese ruthlessness has accomplished in three years, though the Chinese had been unable to accomplish it for themselves in three thousand.
TEAGHERS LAUD
AMERICAN WAY 3
Federation Adopts Resolution: Pledging Its Faith In Democracy.
Indianapolis public school teachers affirmed their “unswerving faith in the fundamental principles of American democracy”. in. the form of a resolution adopted yesterday. The resolution was passed at the first meeting of the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers at School 2. ; Members of the committee which presented the resolution were Emmett A. Rice, vice principal of Shortridge High School; Mrs. Adelia Brier, principal of the Benjamin Franklin school, and Robert L. Black of Manual High School.
Ellis B. Hargrave, president of the federation who presided at the meeting, explained the resolution by saying: “In this critical period of our national life, the teachers .. . wish to pledge their every effort to meet their full responsibility to the very best of their ability . . . the Indianapolis teachers believe that the American way of life is a free way, allowing one to live according fo his own conscience; it is a peaceful way, settling differences by election, and courts; it is a friendly way, judging success: by happiness and growth; it is a co-operative way, emphasizing service to the common good; it is a democratic way, based on human brotherhood and the Golden Rule.”
BARRYMORE FILES PLEA FOR DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 (U.P). —Actor John Barrymore today filed a divorce suit against his wife, Elaine, charging cruelty and that she inflicted “great bodily injury” upon him. “The great profile” of stage and screen also sought an injunction to restrain her from “annoying and harassing him in his peace and quiet.” ; . The four-time married Barrymore charged that since last January Miss Barrie had shown “extreme cruelty” and had - ‘inflicted upon him great bodily injury and grievous mental suffering.”
NOTED PLANE UNDAMAGED LONDON, Sept. 24 (U. P.).—The secretary of the Science Museum of South Kensington said tocday that the famous plane used by Wilbur and Orville Wright in the Kitty Hawk flight of 1903 has been stored beneath the museum and was not damaged in recent raids, -
Our America
AUTHOR OF “A NEW DEAL.” ‘RICH LAND, POOR LAND,” “THE NEW WESTERN FRONT,” |
America's New Pattern Bars Conquest
By STUART CHASE
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(Fourteenth of a series of articles by 24 authors)
The United States of Amerie country has institutions more
is something new in the world. I wish that more of my fellow citizens could feel this in their bones. It cannot be com- |£ pared to any | other country, | past or present; it operates un- | der a different set of rules. What happens or has hap- } pened to them |; cannot happen in the same way to us. If | we go to smash, | it will be in a manner all our own. if we | move forward to greater stability and strength, as I think we shall, it will not be on the pattern of Greece, Rome, Germany, Russia or the Britisn Empire. Because I deeply believe this, I:am not greatly alarmed ahout a military conquest of this country or about its succumbing to brigades of Fifth Columnists preaching fascism, naziism, communism in foreign accents. 1 am afraid in a different way, and with a longer time lag. There is one possible condition, as I see 1, which cgn reduce this country to impotence, and that is distrust of their government by the young people of America. Another decade of joblessness and hopelessness will bring them to this state. If we cannot give them work and faith by 1950, perhaps wed’ better go down the drainpipe. The United States, unlike’ any other great power except Russia, is an integrated continental empire, possessing all the raw ma-
Stuart Chase
“terials it needs to support its
people within its boundaries, or within easy access in other parts of North America. Unlike Russian resources, ours have been fully developed. Our industrial plant is now producing roughly half the output of the whole
world. With 6 per cent of the
world's people, we produce 50 per cent of its wealth. Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Russia, Japan rolled into one do not approach our industrial potential—
: whether it be measured in horse-
power, coal, .0il, iron ore, metals, transportation equipment, or output per man hour. We have what it takes to overwhelm them all. In addition to its wealth, this
democratic than any other country has ever had. I am talking of something more fundamental than our Constitution and political forms. We are without the traditions of class privilege which poison not only. Europe, and Asia, but Latin America as well. Only Canada and Australasia share this asset with us. We are all descendants of poor immigrants, born on the wrong side of the tracks. The. only aristocracy we possess is that of money. But when a.plutecrat thinks he has founded a dynasty, the family fortune is quite likely to explode under him. The Sixty Families come, and pouf! they are gone. . We have little pride of race, for we are a crucible of all races. We have little pride of noble blood, for nobles didn’t come over in the steerage. We have little sense of class, for poor boys are always working their way through college to elbow stuffed shirts out of the professions. We are probably incapable of a proletarian revoluttion, for outside of a few clerks with horn-rimmed spectables in the Communist Party, no Amer-
. ican will admit he is a proletarian.
We have no .State Church’ to frighten us inte subjection with ghost stories. We refuse to accept the notion.that anyone is better than we are. When somebody sets up to be, it is the practice and duty of all good Americans to pull the chair out from under him. We are not split, as is unhapoy Europe, into 26 sovereign nations, each with a different language, currency, and tradition. You can search the pages of history and you will find nothing like the United States of America recorded there. It is unique and alone. Many of its habits and practices are stupid, inefficient and deplorable. . Its financial system at the moment is in a mess. But its 132 million citizens, who never learned to touch their hats to their betters, operating the most massive: industrial plant of all time over the broad face of an integrated, self-sufficing continent, have a rendezvous with destiny. It will take more than the contemporary uproar as to who is to be the uneasy master of a torn and riven Europe, to upset that destiny. We must organize for liberty, says John Dos Passos, pointing out the nation’s dangers at home, in the next article of this series on “Our Country.”
At City Hall—
LEAN YEAR OR SO AHEAD FOR CITY
It’s . Political Standpoint of Budget Error That Worries Officials.
By RICHARD LEWIS The municipal “plum” tree will" bear little fruit this year and next. And what pickings there are "will be exceedingly skimpy. This was the unhappy consensus of City officials today, as they sought ways and means to make up the municipal deficit, now conservatively estimated at $350,000. A result of a bookkeeping error in the Controller’s office, the deficit has settled ‘over the municipal orchard like an early frost. From the janitor to the Mayor, the opinion was that the tree would he shorn of all its good things, clear down to the bare branches. Mayor Sullivan said yesterday
that he has not yet worked out! a plan to make up the deficit, but indicated economy - was in the | offing. ! | Asked what would be cut, the! | Mayor replied: :
“Well, I don’t know. We'll take
things as they come along, We've got to maintain services.” By saving a dollar here and there, some officials believed, the deficit could be made up by 1942. “2 From the standpoint of finance, officials were inclined to concur in’ the observation of William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, “that the heavens won't fall because of this mistake.” They had their eye on salary increases planned for next year, a Police Department increase of $80,000 and a Recreation Department raise of $30,000. . From the standpoint of politics, however, officials were worried.
Taxi Problem Studied
City Councilmen will convene -in special session tonight to review the operations of the City’s 400 taxicabs. The members have resolved to tighten existing cab legislation, which they believe is lax. The Council has taken up the subject . of taxicabs as the result of complaints against taxi stands which members have received from their constituents and‘ the police department. At tonight's City Hall meeting, the Council will hear Safety Board President Leroy J. Keach and Police Chief Michael PF. Morrissey. Representatives of taxi concerns will be interviewed at subsequent
| meetings.
Central Ave. Span Asked by Ludlow
A plea for the reconstruction. and widening of the Central Ave. bridge over the Canal has come all the way from Washington, D. C., from Rep.
'Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.).
The Congressman wrote directly to Mayor Sullivan, asking him to
| determine whether it would be pos-
sible for the .City to widen the narrow span as a WPA project. The bridge, which is 25 feet wide, “bottlenecks” traffic. on Central | Ave. which is 60 feet wide, Rep. Ludlow said. Tt is a hazard not only for motorists but for pedestrians—mostly children who use it to and from school. t Rep. Ludlow's letter explained that a 75-foot concrete span costing about $23,000 would be adequate. Residents. of the Warfleigh district served by the bride have petitioned City officials for several
months for action,
HOOSIER DIES IN CRASH
PEKIN, Ill, Sept. 24 (U. P).— Herman Theodore Radtke, 44, Terre Haute, Ind., was instantly killed yesterday when the car he was driving crashed into the Mackinaw Valley bridge on Route 29, south of here. Radtke was a representative of the National Brewery Workers Union. 5
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Which is the leading automobile manufacturing city in the world? 2—Do cattle, Sheep and goats arise from the ground tront legs or hind legs first? 3—Was Abraham Lincoln or (George Washington the tallest President? 4—On what date in 1939 did Germany invade Poland? 5—What is the new name for St. Thomas, capital of the Virgin Islands of the U. S.? 6—What is a posthumous child? T—Which- country has met all of its payments on its Wcrld War debt to the United States regularly”
Answers
1—Detroit, Mich. 2—Hind legs first. 3—Abraham Lincoln, 4—Sept. 1. 5—Charlotte Amalie. 6—One born after death of father. 7—Finland.
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