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deepest and truest. I cannot remember, but in all probability you were one of the able Congressmen back in 1927 or ’28 who urged strenuously against a third term for Mr. Coolidge. Certainly I was opPosed to it then, and I am opposed to it today. . . . “When you emphasize the necessity of Mr, Roosevelt’s continuing, the only comparison that I can

think of is Hitler, Stalin and Mus-}

solini. They, too, think that they are indispensable. “Your comments shock the very foundation of your record as a statesman. Democracy is certainly decaying, when our public servants, such as you, appear so willing to throw overboard the very restraints upon which our constitutional form of Government is founded.”

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‘REPLIES TO AD OF AMERICA FIRST GROUP

Indiana Committee for National Defense, by Mrs. Felix Vonnegut

The “America First Committee” in your Oct. 14th issue raises questions in thoughtful minds. The clear implication is that the United States has a free choice between peace or war. Other countries have had that choice and took so-called peace at the price of liberty. Is the America First Committee willing to pay that price? Though we are farther removed in time and space, can the America First Committee deny that we and our liberties do lie across the path of the totalitarian powers? Herr Hitler has been very frank about his program for the United States and South America. Does the America First Committee have leader guarantees that we are not threatened? If so, why do we need ‘‘an impregnable defense?” But the “America First” advertisement declares: “We need planes, ships, tanks and guns—need them for our own defense.” Why do we need them if the idea of invasion is “sheer hysteria?” Can it be that the America First Committee has rejected its’ own reassurances and has succumbed to the hysterical belief that we are so threatened? And if we are so threatened, from whom does the threat come? Can the Committee deny that the threat could come from the totalitarian powers? Isn't it wise then to make available some of the planes, guns and ships to those who are still on their feet fighting the powers which threaten us with ultimate attack? From the viewpoint of the American mothers wouldn't it seem to be better than England's sons man the planes, guns and ships over

the fundamental reason for the screwiness of that young gentleman’s thinking. He says when the depression started in 1929, he didn’t think it would amount to much, There have been thousands of people in. the United States who thought the depression started in 1929. I had hoped that most of them had learned better by now. Apparently Mr. Pegler is still dumb. But I believe a goodly number of people realize now that the “Cool‘dge prosperity” was phony, and the depression was really working from 1924-1932, In January, 1930, after the Wall Street crash which Mr. Pegler imagines was all there was to the depression, one of the farm lobbyists in Congress told the House Committee on Agriculture, “For eight years I have been telling you birds that if you didn’t do’ something about the depression on the farms, it would spread to your cities, and now will you believe me?” From 1920-1928 unemployment increased four million. Farm mortgage foreclosures went up until more farm people were made homeless by farm failures than by the Mississippi flood of the same period. The Hoover Administration gave money to rehabilitate the flood victims, but did nothing for the farm victims. . .... Personally, the only commentator nn economic problems that I would print, if I were selecting columnists for a newspaper, would be a man who was bright enough to foresee the 1929 crash at least 18 months before it happened. There were thousands of them. They were voices in the wilderness then. They ought to be our leaders now.

® ”» " SIDES WITH M’NELIS IN REBUKING OFFICER By L. A. S, =

I wonder how many people interpreted your editorial on “The Courts and the Police,” Friday, Oct. 11, as! it was intended.

It so happens that I was in Court | when the case of a woman charged with resisting an officer was heard before Judge John IL. McNelis. Therefore I am in better position to present. an opinion than the people who read the papers. I admired the stand of the judge and fully indorse his view on his criticism of the officer.

It is preposterous indeed to hear a husky police officer weighing more than 200 pounds drag a little woman weighing 110 pounds out of her car and then charging her with “resisting an officer.” It was a “cowardly” act and a shameful act on the part of the officer as defined by the judge. . . . Chief Morrissey defended the officer’s action purely to save him-

there and so save America’s sons (self the reflegtion of the act and

from “the killing and crippling” that manning ever here would entail? Or does the America First Committee object to the totalitarian powers being defeated over there? One interesting pair of pictures In the advertisement shows a man building a wall and a soldier springing into action, over the caption’ “Rivets for Defense or Bullets for Intervention.” To be quite truthful the men and women of the Committee should admit that the bullets are to be shot by British soldiers; also they should answer this question: “Would not that wall serve to isolate us and our defense stores until the totalitarian powers have disposed of all opposition and are ready to attack us? Then in all honesty should they not sign their publicity “America Next?” # & = URGES BETTER ROADS FOR BROWN COUNTY By Walker Hull, Courtland, Ind.

I was interested in reading a short piece in The Times Forum by 5, Coffee of Nashville, Ind, about Brown County's scenic beauty and stated Brown County was | expecting many visitors. Brown County does have some very scenic beauty but visitors could see all parts of Brown County if the officials would build passable roads so they could drive all over Brown County. They don’t even improve all of their mail routes. In July, 1939, the mail man on Courtland R. 1 called Brown County Commissioners attention to bad roads on his route. As usual but little was done, only just promised, so in winter of ’39 and ’40 part of the time mail could not go. So let us Brown County citizens talk good roads first and then when we have good roads invite visitors to drive all ,over Brown County and see its fine scenery,

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TERMS THIRD TERM TALK ‘POLITICAL BUNK’ - 3

By R. S. L.

« +» « Mr. Willkie and his supporters stress the point that he is better qualified than Mr. Roosevelt to provide this country with an adequate national defense. I do not know what particular qualifications Mr. Willkie has along this line, but if his qualifications are no better than those he is using in his campaign, I am afraid, if he should be elected, we would have no defense at all. Certainly he shows no ability in the conduct of his campaign. His consignment of Chicago to utter damnation is enough to disqualify him for the Presidency of the United States. The third term issue seems to be. the leading one with Mr, Willkie and his supporters. At a time like this, when the liberties of the

does this issue amount to? Nothing. All thinking Americans know that Mr. osevelt has no ambition whatever to become a dictator; that he could not if he would and would not if he could. Can we re-

‘fuse to continue the services of a

man in the Presidency who understands the situation and who is in a position to keep us out of war, if it is at all possible to do so, simply because he will be serving a third term? Would it be policy to elect to the Presidency a man who knows nothing at all about what has been done and what is to be done, simply to preserve the traditions of a third term? Such a procedure would not make sense to me. All thinking Americans know that the hue and

- ery against a third term is merely

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CONTENDS DEPRESSION

REALLY BEGAN IN 1924 By Alma Bender, Zionsville, Ind. Westbrook Pegler’s recent column about how he was so dumb a few years ago, seems to me to reveal

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newspaper publicity. I truly believe the judge should be applauded for his humanitarian view and the Board of Safety should put a stop

to such conduct in the future. ” ” 8 LION TAIL TWISTER. THAT'S WENDELL WILLKIE By Raymond S. Blatchley There have been more than 200,000 buttons given out in Marion County in favor of the Republican candidate for President of the United States -and yet we see one in a thousand upon the lapels of men and women. Why is this? Is it because the shadow of dictatorship is over us? In the days of utter freedom our people did not hesitate to assert themselves—today, because of the fear of the New Deal in politics, people are afraid to express themselves and come out openly for their true convictions. Mr, Willkie has not hesitated to go into the lion’s den and twist the tail of the lion. He has given them a warning that they must obey the law and that they must not expect mercy or adjustment from him when elected, for disobeying the law. The individual of conviction wants to wear the token of his choice, yet he fears boycott in business. That state of mind must be destroyed because one thing the New Dealer recognizes is courage. Why, then, do business people have to be afraid? Why should they cravenly hide all semblance of loyalty to a cause? The time has come to assert our American right to think, act and express our beliefs as we wish. Is our constitutional gift not strong enough for this acute situation? ... Let us dispel, once and for all, the mental gestapo with the buttos of our choice. Let us appeal to our business folk to come out openly for business and its preservation instead of lending aid to its suppression, let us carry our crusade into the open.

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‘PROBLEM CHILD, HE SAYS OF ROOSEVELT By The Fishin’ Filisopher

Mr. Ernest K. Lindley, biographer, friend and admirer of President Roosevelt, has this to say in last Saturday's Indianapolis Times: “For several months prior to his (Roosevelt's) third nomination and for weeks thereafter he was manifestly ‘on edge.’ His rather grimly defensive mood revealed itself in a series of political bobbles. . . . His periods of bad temper have come when he has felt politically insecure. . . When he can’t really laugh, when his jaw gets sternly set, the head of internal steam rises. It spurts out in odd directions to no good purpose. His judgment is thrown off balance. . . . The first protracted period in which he was out” of sorts was during the latter part of the fight over the Supreme Coyrt bill. . . . The Dutch in him seemed to freeze his judgment.” If we are to believe the President's friend, who says he has had him under observation for 12 years, we have in the White House a problem child who is moved only by the rise and fall of his own political fortunes. Turn off the applause and he pouts and sulks and commits errors which, says Mr. Lindley, an amateur would know how to avoid. , Win or lose, the President in the immediate future must make decisions which will influence, if not decide, the fate of America. He will consult neither the people nor their representatives in Congress. You Americans who love your freedom, you parents of conscript sons, beware lest by your words or acts you bruise the Presidential ego and thereby freeze the Presidential judgment. wg : And, let's call a day of national prayer for the Roosevelt disposition.

Election Chief. Topic for Forum Writers

NO LONGER INSPIRED BY OUR EDITORIALS By E. B. For several generations previous to the revitalizing of our democracy, the newspaper was practically the only purveyor of political news events and of history in the making. The time was when the newspapers made and unmade political administrations.

Today their place is largely taken by the radio, magazines, lecture platform and the cinema, all of whom have contributed to widen the field of public knowledge. In this connection these avenues of education have served to disclose the fact that newspapers have become strictly business enterprises, rather than guardians of society. This fact strikingly explains why

when authorities state that 80 per cent of our newspapers opposed Roosevelt's election, yet he was elected by a landslide. : For many years past I have praised the Indianapolis Times as being the most conspicuous newspaper representative of fundamental democratic philosophy. This was especially true during democracy’s reconstruction period, called the “New Deal.” Your splendid editorials were then really inspiring; ably supported by a brilliant staff of columnists as also by your cartoonist *“Talburt,” who could “point a moral and adorn a tale” in the defense of liberal democracy. But alas and alack, you have gone over to the enemy . . .- It is unfortunate that your defection also influences and carries with it several of your able cartoonists. I notice also that our vitriolic friend, Gen. Johnson has been emboldened to increase his venom against the President. Your entire editorial page in this transition has lost the virility and inspiration of former days. I lament for those days that are gone, and

{fear for the bleak days of the

future. ) 2 2 EJ WANTS TO BE A COLONEL —OR EVEN A GENERAL!

By E. C. Fisher, 150th F, A.

In The Times of Monday, Oct. 8, I note that Mrs. Alta B. Sembower seems of the opinion that public sentiment should not have been aroused to the extent it was over

the commissioning of Elliott Roosevelt to a Captaincy in the Air Corps and assigned to the Procurement Division. Capt. Roosevelt now says he doesn’t want the job—probably after being assured his resignation would not be accepted. She refers to and attempts to compare Capt. Roosevelt with his illustrious relative, the late Col. “Teddy” Roosevelt who was something like a fifth cousin once removed. That reminds me of a much closer relative’s actions in a military way. While others of us were enlisting for action as privates or any other rank we could obtain by promotion and as she reminds us cousin “Teddy” was attempting to get authority to recruit a regiment for immediate action on the battle front in Europe in 1917, a much nearer rela-

Ex-Private, Biry. B—

tive, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was be-

ing successful in pulling the political strings to get action on a swivel chair as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. i How times have changed. Mrs. Sembower tells us that Capt. Roosevelt “wanted to be a private, but was too old.” I recall that in 1917 and 1918 I served with privates aged from 10 to 15 years older than Gapt. Roosevelt's present age. By that theory myself and thousands of other veterans of the World War should be commissioned as colonels and generals because we are too old to be captains, .. . Now Mrs. Sembower, you must not be so upset that some people in this country just will persist in thinking for themselves and feeling that a President’s son, with no military background, should step into a Captain’s commission a few short days before the “cream of youth” registers to be drafted as privates by his father. ® 2 = WILLKIE ‘AUDACITY’ DRAWS A REBUKE

By L. C. ‘

I would like to reply to a letter written by Mrs. Don Hill, in which she said, “I can’t take Mr. Willkie seriously. I wonder what's back of his desire to be President.” His desire to be President is to make good a boast he made while a student here on the Indiana University campus. He said it was his aim to rise as high, or higher than any member in Lis class. If elected, he will have made good his boast. Is his a worthy motive for wanting to be President? Willkie is just entering politics. He should start at the bottom and climb the political ladder rung by rung until he. reaches the top, gaining exper-

* |ience as he climbs, istead of trying

to grab the highest office in the land by just his audacity, of which he has plenty. Trying to be President without previous political experience is as asinine as starting a six-year-old child in the eighth grade instead of the first grade where he properly belongs in order to learn the alphabet. I'll have one consolation if Willkie is elected. From all the promises he has made, he is going to turn our “country into Utopia. Everyone is going to have work. There will be no more financial worry for anyone. He's going to make us a carefree, happy-go-lucky race of people. We'll all be very happy in the Land of the Lost Horizon!

”» o ” DUBS WILLKIE AND HOOVER APPEASERS, FEAR MONGERS By Clyde P. Miller .

What a pair to draw to! Hoover and Willkie. Who said they were not appeasers? Hoover in his Philadelphia convention speech berated Roosevelt for having made some criticism of Hitler as the head of a sister nation and Willkie in his Elwood speech followed suit and condemned Roosevelt for denouncing Hitler at a time when we were not at war with Germany. Then in the next breath he inconsistently says that he will deal with Hitler on his own terms. Whatever President Roosevelt has said against the arch fiend of Eu-

rope he has feaglessly reproduced

in the Presidential election of 1936,

the courageous voice of America. Fear, fear, fear, that’s the timorous Americanism of the Hoovers and Willkies. Fear that Hitler might rush over here and slap us down if we fail to handle him with kid gloves. Fear that Roosevelt might borrow the livery of Hitler and become a dictator if he is elected for a third term. Fear that to eliminate abuses in business will curtail business itself; fear that to provide work for folks that are hungry will bankrupt the. government. ; And what is behind this silly bunk? Simply. fear that Roosevelt

been shaped into various bogies to scare folks away from him. Fear that if he is re-elected the underprivileged will continue to get consideration from government, that otherwise predatory greed might obtain exclusively for itself. Fear that Roosevelt's well-earned popularity will discount their bogey fears. Courageous and enlightened leadership is always frightful to the mendacious, the muddled, the deceitful and the weak. ” ” ” WARNS MINORITIES AGAINST THIRD TERM By a Catholic : I wonder if the minority groups in ‘this country (including the Catholics, Jews, Negroes, Masons and labor unions) have ever stopped to give serious thought to what might happen if we allowed the third term precedent to be broken in this country 3 Under our present American form of government we know that if we have an administration which might allow persecution of one or several of these minority groups we can change it at the end of four or eight years and end the persecution, but if we allow an Administration to perpetuate itself in office and become so powerful as the New Deal party will be if continued for four more years, then we have no one to blame but ourselves when we become helpless to defend ourselves. Remember, it can happen here. : I have been a stanch Democrat, but after seeing all the terrible things that have happened to minority groups in Europe under dictatorships (which the New Deal has almost degenerated into) I am fearful for the future of this coun-

duty and join this crusade to do away with the third term issue now. Let's not let it happen here.

on 8 URGES VOTERS PART WITH F. D. R. NOW

By S. 8S. Shall we break the precedent established: by Washington and other Presidents who helped build our free democracy? If we could keep President Roosevelt until eternity, I would say “yes.”

I voted for him at both elections. He gave me work so even though they reminded me of jit at election time, I would have voted for him anyhow. Most common folk showed their appreciation by doing the same, Business. concerns gave the President's entire family positions with salaries that no other family as a whole ever received. Most newspapers and organizations supported him the other two elections. Congress gave him more authority and money than any other President ever had. The nation, as a whole, has repaid him very generously, even though he has put our children for several generations very deeply in debt. As all things must part, I think if he does not step out willingly. then we should not support him. It is so much better to part with him now as President, than to wait until he has all the power centered at the White House, then have a man like Hitler step in. . ;

try and also for future generations, we should stop and think before casting our vote.

» ” ” CONTENDS F D. R. TRIED AND FOUND WANTING By H. W. Shea In response to an article written by one M. C. Oct. 10th. He says, “We know in whom we trust for the sake of our nation.” Apparently from his article he places his trust in a man.

Upon our coins we have engraved, “In God We Trust.” But do we? He refers to our President also as a good Christian man. Is M. C. qualified to be the judge? Who are we to put such a stamp on any man?

M. C. says we are out of the depression. But are we? He intimates we have no more bread lines. He should take a trip some morning past the many places in our city and many others, and note there the line of wretched humanity waiting for their share of surplus food. . . .

in any man. I do not think Wendell Willkie is a perfect solution (being human he is also likely to err). But in my opinion he is the lesser of two evils. I firmly believe that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty, But our President has been tried and found wanting so it behooves us as voters to sit in the jury seat; go to the polls and voice our convictions, -uphold our American traditions, and pass sentence on this third term dictatorship. . . .

DEWEY SEES PATH T0 STATE SOCIALISM

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 18 (U. P.).—District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey charged last: night that President Roosevelt is deliberately leading the United States into a system of “state socialism.” Calling on the nation to “install an administration which believes in the fundamental principles by which this country grew great,” Mr. Dewey accused the New Deal of strangling industry. “The New Deal has deliberately destroyed private capital with which to build heavy industries,” he asserted. “The only conclusion is that this Administration wanted them built by the Government— and that is state socialism. It is state socialism whether it be the Marxian socialism of the Communists or the national socialism of

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REALTORS FORM DEFENSE HOUSE LISTING BUREAU

Seek to Find Dwellings for 5000 Families Expected Here in 6 Months.

By DAVID MARSHALL A central bureau to list all vacant houses as an aid to new residents moving to Indianapolis because of expanding industries was established this week. 2 The property management division of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board set up the bureau to take care of the 5000 families which are expected to come here within the next six months, The bureau was established after the division studied existing vacancies and heard Myron Green, industrial commissicner of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, say 1000 houses will be needed by March 1. Cites Job Increase Speaking at the division’s weekly luncheon meeting Mr. Green said there would be 15,000 new jobs created here in the nine-month period from last July 1 and payrolls would increase by $20,000,000. He said there are 100 industrial sites now available here for Army and Navy plants and that 20 corporations already are working on defense equipment, either directly or indirectly... Defense orders, he said, were placed in the East first and now are being’ distributed among midwestern plants so that Indianapolis has yet to reach its peak. More homes will be built this winter, he predicted, than in normal years. Ordinarily home building stops early in December while this year it should continue through the winter, he said. Lists Three Dangers Properties renting at from $25 to $40 will be most needed, Mr. Green said. Three things which might stop the industrial growth of Indianapolis, he said, are: (1) a labor shortage of skilled metal workers, (2) a “mushroom growth” too rapid to be permanent and (3) a housing shortage. ,

State FHA Prepared

“The housing industry in this area is prepared to meet any problems incident to the need for additional homes which will be occasioned by the defense program.” So today said R. Earl Peters, Federal Housing Administration director for Indiana. Moreover, the building . industry here is geared up to where there is little if any likelihood that the jam in the housing supply operations which occurred in the World War will happen again, he said. “Builders, subdivision operators, architects, financial institutions and others in the building field here have, in recent years, had plenty of training and experience in supplying added numbers of homes,” the FHA director said. : . “In fact,” he continued, “the volume of residential construction this fall should be the highest for the past decade.” “Home: building here has not reached its peak by any means. One indication of the steady upswing is shown by the number of applications for FHA insured mortgages which reached 387 involving $1,977, 100 in the week ending Sept. 14. This compares with 304 applications in the week ending Sept. 7, 379 in the week ending Aug. 31 and 387 in the comparable week of last year.”

Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas with Fred Blaisdell, executive director, and Robert L. Hunter, president (lef$ to right) of the Better Government Association of Chicago, are shown as Senators Reed and Lister Hill of Alabama opened a Senatorial investigation into charges of “intimidation, coercion, vote buying and vote stealing” in Chicago

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POLES IN JAPAN PROBLEM TO U.S.

Interfere With Americans Trying to Evacuate Trouble Zone.

TOKYO, Oct. 18 (U. P)., — A steady flow of Polish refugees toward the United States is complicating the task of providing passage for Americans evacuating the Far Eastern trouble zone, it was understood today. Polish refugees who have come or are coming to Japan by way of Siberia have an important proportion of steamship reservations, it was reported. : Refugees were reported to be applying in some number to American consulates here and at Kobe and at Dairen, Manchukuo, among other cities, for visas. In addition there are some refugees whose names are included in the regular immigrant quota. One of these, a German Jew, after having obtained a visa, asked at once if he could enlist in the American Army through the consulate, and when told he could not said he would try to enlist as soon as he reached the United States. Among the refugees expected here are 125 Polish Jews, said to be minor labor union officials whose status is reported to have been guaranteed by the American Federation of Labor. The State Department is paying evacuation expenses of families of foreign service officials from the Far East, it is understood, and American firms are doing likewise | for families of their employees, in adition to granting special living allowances to meet the high cost of living. : .

OIL PACT EXPECTED SOON TOKYO, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Final agreement on Japanese demands for supplies of oil from The Netherlands East Indies is expected soon, in-

BODY MAY BE THAT OF MISSING GUARD

VALPARAISO, Ind. Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Police today sought to identify a badly decomposed body believed to be that of Harry Denson, 35, of Chesterton, found in the woods near Baileytown Wednesday.

Letters addressed to Denson were found in the clothing on the victim

whose head was crushed. A rifle, with one cartridge, was ' found nearby. ;

Denson, a member of Battery of the 202d Coast Artillery of the Indiana National Guard, had not been seen since he participated in field maneuvers in August.

ROBBER FOOLS STORE MANAGER, GETS CASH

A bandit who worked so smoothly | that the manager of a Standard.

customer, today held up a clerk and | escaped with an

amount of cash. The holdup occurred at 766 Massachusetts Ave. The bandit entered

the front door with his right hand ir his coat pocket as if he held a gun, To Thomas Lair, 20, clerk in the front of the store, he said: “This is a holdup.” He forced Mr. Lair to empty the cash register, put the contents into a sack and surrender the sack. He fled. William Hendley, the store manager; was standing at the rear of the store and saw the whole proceedings. He told police he thought! the bandit was merely a customer getting change.

PERSHING HAS CHECK-UP WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P.).— Gen. John J. Pershing has entered Walter Reed Hospital for a routine

check-up. The 80-year-old World War army chief is planning to go to

formed quarters reported today.

Arizona soon for the winter as usual.

DRESSES UP AT HOMECOMING

Pow-Wow Banquet and - Football Game Feature Program.

Times Special : BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 18.— The Indiana University campus was in holiday dress today for the annual Homecoming celebration which will be highlighted by the I. U.-Iowa football game tomorrow. ‘Graduates of many years ago and last year’s alumni will start to con-

f [verge here today te be met by a

round of luncheons, games, dances and banquets. The Pow-Wow banquet will be held at the men’s gymnasium tnnight, with Benton Bloom of Columbia City as toastmaster. Cochairmen are Richard Stoner of Tinton, president of the Indiana Union Board, and Mary Susan Stull of Bloomington, president of the Association of Women Students. The A. W. S.-Union dance will follow the annual Freshman foot-

tball game at the Fieldhouse after

the Pow-Wow banquet. Open house will be held at the college schools

“land departments tomorrow morn-

ing. An 11:30 a. m. luncheon will preface tomorrow's game and an alumni reception will follow ime mediately. ; The Homecoming will close tomorrow. night with a band benefit ball.

BLOCKADE MAY RUIN FRENCH GLOVE FIRM

VICHY, Oct. 18 (U. P.).=-Block-aded by the British in the Mediterranean and the German occupation of French ports along the Atlantic, France's glove industry faces possi=ble failure. The American market, the most important for the Grenoble glove factories, is closed by the United States’ embargo on payments to France. The 32 Grenoble factories, the most important in France, had employed over 8000 persons, mainly women. German and British control of ports means Liskon is the only outlet. The difficulties there are the shipping companies will not take exports without a ‘“navicert,”

Grocery Store thought he was 8 | delivered by the British consul at

the point of departure. This is im-

undetermined ; possible to secure in France, because

of the strained relations between France and Great Britain.

PANAMA DEFENSES GENERAL'S SUBJECT

Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Cummins, Fifth Division commanding officer, will talk on the defenses of Panama at the Reserve Officers dinner and contact camp Nov. 9 at the Claypool Hotel. Maj. Gen. Cummins has just returned from a tour of duty of the nation’s latest “hot spot.” His talk will be supplemented by an exposition of the position of Reserve Offi-

cers in the present emergency by

Brig. Gen. John H. Hester, War Department executive for reserve affairs. The contact camp will meet from 2 p. m. and the dinner will be held at 7 p. m. The chairman of the dinner committee is Co. C. E. Chatfield. 3

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