Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1940 — Page 17

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Navy Ahead of of S pede - And Expects to Be sing ! Base Next June.

By BRUCE CATTG WAS Times Special Writer HINGTON, Oct. 95 (U. P.) ~~ The ‘U. 8. Navy is rushing the job setting up an “air Gibraltar” in Puerto Rico, and expects to have its vast air base there. ready| for use

xt June, a whole ye ed Wry holé year head o

The job { big the filling - of hundreds of acres swamp at Isla Grande, Juan, and the dredging | an adEngineers had “originally they could fill in the sw mp with what they took out of the bottom of the bay, but when they got down te it they found out 8h couldn't | wrong kind o 1

Houstain, whack it up into bi and use that as & £ iy a | Ahéad of Se «In spite of all of this, ‘way ahead of time. é Navy can keep only dozen planes at Isls Gran year at this time it'll hav more than 200 there: The Navy also ‘has the {hrottie wide open on its shipbui ing program, although the fesults aren't 80 noticeable. Number workers employed on this progr in government and private shipyards was 712,000 at the end of last June. It had jimiped to 86,000 by the end of August, and rose 7000 Right of the

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eight have been launched. of the 13 airplane ; ys,

ed for is on the of the 48 eriiisers, Critiser Contracts §i Twenty-seven of the er tracts were si cidentally, Work is ahead of schedulé on eight of the 12 submarines ner eonstriction. ST h Placed for 166 destroyers, and fon as started on 15; in six cases, work is anywhere from two weeks to three months ahead of schedtile. Lastly, Navy recruiting is booms ing. In uniform now are 168,000 men. Nearly 40,000 are men who have enlisted since the first of this year. No especial drive is being earried on == without being asked 1 have applied so far this year,

SENATE GROUP HEARS BROWDER’S CHARGES

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U.P) ~ Farl Browder, Commiinist candidate fot President, explains to the SenCampaign BExpenditt ti ns Ralen pen today charges that his Jaity members are bei dénied — ection rights in several states on Nov. 5. Hig charges apply particularly to New York, Pennsylvania and Cali« fornia 8 where the Communist Party has peen barred from [the ballot this year.

Mr, Browder ‘claims that Communist Party members in New York are being intimidated coerced; that after the names pasty pe= sities signers were published in pers they were told they Bw never get work or relief again Joners, approval ‘of [Democratic aders. ‘

HOOSIER FIRM GETS JOB Himes Bpesial i . WASHINGTON, Oct, 36 ~Dunlap & So Ine, Columbus, Ind, has en awarded a $10,200 contract for a a the Seymour Post ge, the Federal Works Administrat an= nounced today.

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NEWPORT, Ind., Oct. 9 (U.P) ~- Working through 8 wet and mucky fiéld, 16 Hoosier farmers engage today in Indiana agriculture’s pre- - athletic contest, the 15th annual staté cornhusking contest, at the \Orval Trimble farm four and one-half“miles southwest of New

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ute contest 1ast year and then went on to win the national title, has retired.

Entrants, with of one exception, are

the Highest sting coniity cham pions in the state, The exception fear is the champion of the host county, =o. this year, Orval Trimble. ! Mr. Trimble, who has won several | fifth

gold medals “from Purdue University |

for raising colts and for high yields of , won the Vermillion Cournty t ¢ with & mark-of 32.15 bushels. A ry shower moved on the contest field early today and the corn was wet and heavy at day break. Corn in the 50-acre contest field, a hybrid growth, was expected to yield 65 bushels an acre.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P)— Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins said. yesterday there had been &n increase of more than 600,000 private jobs between August and September, and that the “back of unemployment is being broken by the defense program.” The gain In employment during this period wes accompanied by a - 54 per cent rise in weekly wages, totaling $10,700,000, Miss Perkins

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