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Hoosier Vagabond

GATLINBURG, Tenn., Oct. 31.—In a desperate effort, I presume, to make up for his outrageous misjudgment of my walking prowess, Assistant Chief Ranger Harold Edwards devoted his weekly day of

rest to showing me some of. the interior of the Great

Smoky Mountains National Park. |We drove over to Cade’s Cove in | the far western end of the park. Cade’s Cove is several thousand acres of flat farm land set right down in the middle ot the Smoky Mountain chain, Its tloor

is at 1800 feet elevation, and .

mountains ring 1t on every side. In the old days, the people of Cade’s Cove lived in a Shangri La almost as isolated as a [Iibetan monastery. They sent almost nothing to market. They made their i own clothes, ground their own meal, butchered their own meat. \ Only one road ran into Cade’s Cove, and it was 8 pretty bad road until the park and the CCC got hold of it. Even today it winds and twists down over the pass to the tune of 200 hairpin turns. It isn’t a scary road at all, just a crooked one. » Some families left the Cove when the Government took over, but 19 families remain. They have cars and trucks and tractors, and a school and a store and even a postoffice with an R. F. D. carrier. ‘They are still pretty much their own world. Personally, I was not so impressed by Cade’s Cove,

' because to me it was just another batch of flat

farm land, and Indiana is full of flat farm land. But Mr. Edwards i from the Montana mountains, and he is nuts about flat land.

Meeting an old Friend |

Around 10 years ago|there was a husky man who stood on a corner every morning in Washington, D.C, waving a stick and shouting a happy “Good morning” to everybody who passed on the way to work. As I remember him| his hair was long and he looked healthy and ruddy. People who saw him every day got so they spake back to him; but strangers who came within the realm of his wildly waving stick thought they were being attacked. The gentleman's sole motive, we later learned, was simply to add ar little: to the world’s happiness by being cheerful and saying good morning. | He peddled his gratuitous good will in wasHington

Inside Indianapolis and “Our Town’)

THERE IS STILL "i a good deal of confusion pout the selective serv ice draft and when Indianaplis registrants are likely to be called up for questiong and possible service. Most of the confusion seems to evolve around the three numbers. ,All three num-

bers haye a bearing on the thing and you ought to be clear as to what they mean. 1. Every registrant has a serial number.| 2. Evely serial number has a lottery draw number. - 3. The| lottery draw determines the ortier numbers. There | dre 56,000 (more or less) registrants in Marion County. Every , one of them has a serial number in a local board. There are 15 local hoards and, as a result, there are therefore 15 men who hold the game numbers in many instances. - The gifference comes in where some boards have more registrants than others. The smallest board here has some 2400, the largest about 4900. Therefore, there are at least 2400 numbers involving 15 men. for each serial. With one of the boards thus exhausted of men, there then becomes only 14 men carrying the same number, So on down until there is only one man in town with the serial number 4900. You can see, too, that a lgood many of the numbers drawn in Washington in [the national lottery have nothing to do with Indianapolis. They pulled 9000 numbers. So, if your draw was 8500th, it doesn't With the present registration of 56.000, Indianapolis will have only about 3600 orders, at most. Instead of 8500th, you are more likely 3500th.

Washington

NEW YORK, Oct. 1h what issues is this hishat questions decide the

attitude of the voters and turn states either to Roosevelt or Willkie? I wonder." The big issue in New York today is the fact that Stephen | T. Early. White House Secretary, put his knee in the stomach of a Negro policeman who tried to keep him from boarding the Presidential train in New York a few nights ago. It's going to mean a lot of votes for ‘Willkie in Harlem, they say. So if New York is close that may-tip the balance. And so on. . This | knee punch, executed squarely amidships of a Negro policcman by a Virginia Democrat who works for Roosevelt, is supposed to offset the recent promotion of a Negro to be a i in the Army. Oh, that isn't the only issue. There are a lot of them. Both sides have them. Willkie is the candidate »f Hitler. The Democrats had that issue up again today. Ambassador Joe Kennedy came back from London to plug for Roosevelt. He's going to head up ‘the Defense Commission; that was the deal; so the political talk runs. And don’t you know why’ John L, Lewis came out for Willkie? | Shame on you, First it is part of a secret plot by the Communists who control Lewis to get rid of Roosevelt. They used to like Roosevelt until they discovered he didn't like Hitler, Then they put John L, Lewis to work. Well, that Lewis also supported Willkie pecause he wculd get a pins in the Willkie Cabinet, so Lewis has to deny that one;

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- Down to Brass Tacks

Recently a newspaper reader from the Middle West wrote in and said: “You newspaper birds may know what you are writing about |but I want tc tell you that you are dealing in fine distinctions that don’t mean a thing to us. You write about {high- flown

WATERVILLE, Me, space -to tell you yesterday New York City Monday afternoon. I went over to the Preview Theatre to see a short film dedicated to the activities of the National Yduth Administration. 1

in this has a deeply moving story to tell. The story is that of| our young boys and girls who are grown to maturity and find | no outlet for their energies, np work, no experience, no chance| for a start. Then a series of pictures shows the projects started during the past few years by the NYA. It is a picture which will make you feel proud of our young people and what they can do when they are given a chance. But I do ubt if any one of us can feel very satisfied 8% the world we have with this program, only

out of every seven of the young people in our

_gommunities who need training or work, is getting 1t.

Here, before our eyes, we gee the proof that we have learned how to give these youngsters training, ‘how to give them a chance at real work ‘on a production basis; so that they| need not answer the question: “What experience ave you?” yin that

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for many years. And then, a year or so atter we started this roving job, we were walking down the main street of Carmel, Cal, one day, and we saw a familiar head and a familiar waving stick, and heard a familiar “Good morning.” Yes, it was our old friend. And all this summer, to bring the gentleman up to date, he has been In the Great Smoky Mountains. A good part of the time he has lived alone In cabins, or on the ground, out in the mountains. He now has a dog that follows him constantly. He walks terrific distances, and occasionally some of the local people go with ‘him. The mountain people like him. . His name is Emiel Larsen. They say ne has a small pension. Just a few days ago he set out tor the West Coast again—hitchhiking. It was getting too cold for him in the high Smokies. On Picturesque Grammar - Miss Laura Thornburgh lives in Gatlinburg and loves the Smokies so much she’s written a book about them. One evening she sent us over a beautiful bouquet of Hearts-a-Bustin’-with-Love. I'll bet that one stops you. It 1s a local shrub, or hedge, or flower, or tree. I don’t know what you call it. Anyway it looks like Christmas holly at first glance. But when you get up close, you see it has been a round pod, and then it has broken open and out have come four red berries, just like lights on a chandelier. It is lovely.” The real name of it is Wahoo, but around here it is always called ‘“Hreats-a-Bustin’-with-Love.” On the day that America registered .for conscription, the Park Service set up its counter and registered all travelers and wayfarers and residents ot the Park. One Ranger had to hike five miles back into the mountain wilderness: to register a boy who had been crippled since childhood with infantile paralysis. There is no road back there, only a foot trail. I can’t be as astonished by some ot the local expressions as the discoverers would like you to be. The mountainers say ‘‘shoe lastes” for “shoe last,” and they say “you uns,” and “heered,” and ‘poke’ for sack, and “whistle pig” for groundhog, and “ketched” for caught, and so on. Yet when I was a boy in Indiana there were people within three miles of us who talked that way. And I have cousins back home (nice people, too) who say “you'uns” and “we’uns” and “ketched.” I don’t have to go cut of the family to dig up a little picturesque grammar. In fact, I don't even have to go out of the room.

What They Do Now

THE NEXT STEP HERE is the listing of order numbers. The local boards are now Jasking time, awaiting the official lists of the national lottery. These official lists will be photostatic copies. After these copies arrive, the boards will then draw up the order numbers, Selective service headquarters here estimates that about 20 per cent of all our 56,000 registrants can be placed in the 1-A class—single, fit and. ready. That puts the number of 1-A men at about 11,200. They figure that about 2700 of them will go to training camps within the next 12 months. The officials are not sure yet whether the questionnaires will be sent to all the 56,000 registrants. Right now, they think that the last 20 per cent will never be called on at all. Or, bluntly, that the 11,000 men whose serial numbers were drawn at the tail end of the lottery will not even be called upon to fill out the questionnaire. We'd advise these gentlemen, however, not to count upon it too strongly.

The New 21-Year-Olds

THE REGISTRATION LISTS will be kept up to date at all times. Men who pass the age limit will have to be dropped and new 2l-year-olds will have to be added. The understanding is that one day every year Is going to be set aside for men who have reached 21 during the preceding 12-month period. You can put it down as a certainty that there will be no clogging of draft board offices with men being called up for examinations. The boards will post order lists. You will have plenty of time to learn your order number. From time to time, the boards will issue calls for these groups. Take it easy. £

By Erni ie Pyle

about running for Governor, So it didn’t surprise any one when he headed a long list of campaign pledges with the promise to restore government to the people in their own communities.’ The Hillis family for generations has been a tradition in and .around Kokomo where. Mr. Hillis has become the No. 1 businessman, banker and lawyer. Born on a farm in Miami County, Mr. Hillis later moved to Howard County where he was successively, a farmer, school teacher, basketball coach, school principal, soldier, lawyer and businessman. Mr. Hillis won special recognition for valor while overseas in France during the World War.

His officers reported that when the camouflage around a big gun caught fire Sergt. Hillis stuck by the gun and put out the fire be-

RED CROSS HERE

FACES DUAL JOB

Must Aid Defense, Carry On War Relief; Member Drive Date Set.

Embarking on its 25th year of

By Raymond Cavern

questions. You are dong a log of fancy figure- -skating and nobody is watching you.’ I suspect he may be right. In Illinois the Republicans told me the Elliott Roosevelt affair was thei best issue. Democrats said that if they lost Tlinois it would be because of that. The Roosevelt family is supposed to have cleaned | up a fortune in this way and that. An employer is! supposed to have put slips in his pay envelopes warn- | ing his employees that they could expect no more raises for five years if Roosevelt was re-elected. The Reptiblican National Committee is issuing daily instruction sheets to its workers teling them how to answer whispering campaigns. Time and again these instruction sheets have anticipated whispering attacks by two or three days.

They Like the Rough Stuff

1 asked one party publicity director why they put out certain things which don’t stand up under facts. He said the answer was obvious. If they issued only mild attacks nobédy would pay any attention. Only by rough stuff could they get into print. It does make me cynical. After reporting politics for 20 years one is prepared to encounter anything. But it does discourage one to see such counterfeit political coin passing around at the height of such an’ important, campaign. Democracy is supposed to be the form ‘of government which requires the highest level of public intelligence. When one looks back over political history and sees the trivial issues which have played such an important part in elections, the surprising thing is that we have been able to make

service, the Indianapolis Red Cross chapter today faced’ the dual task {of meeting the demands of the na- | tional defense program while con|tinuing its war relief. It is one of the most serious re'sponsibilities the chapter ever has r faced, William Fortune. chairman, 'declared at the chapter's annual membership meeting yesterday The chapter now has 450 nurses enrolled in its active file to help meet the Army's call for 4000 Red {Cross nurses. With 41000 members in all, the local organization now ranks 12th in the nation in per capita enrollment.

Drive Opens Nov. 11

Hoping to meet the new demands, the chapter will start its annual membership drive on Armistice Day. Aiding Mr. Fortune in this campaign will be the following directors, re-elected at the meeting yesterday: Samuel Ashby, Arthur V. Brown, Hilton U. Brown, Eugene C. Foster, the Rt. Rev, Msgr. Henry F. Dugan, Mrs. Frank T. Dowd, Myron R. Green, William J. Mooney Jr., Mrs. Wolf Sussman, W. H. Thompson, Franklin Vonnegut and Mrs. Philomen Watson. Mrs. Frederic M. Ayres was elected to succeed the late Frederic M. Ayres, who had served on the chapter’s board since it was organized.

Services Reported Among the accomplishments and

such good decisions. They say God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, It must be the same with democracy. Wise decisions often result from poor reasons. Some | one said about Roosevelt that although his motives | might be in question, although his sincerféey might be in doubt, he has a knack of getting on the right side | of questions. Perhaps that is true of our politics gen- | erally, and perhaps out of this muck of rumor that is being churned up in both political parties, a result is taking shape that will rise far above the motives which are bringing it about.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

hopeless “none” which means no job. Yet, we have only developed this program for a limited number. The CCC and NYA should cover every hoy and girl coming out of school who is not able to obtain work in private industry, or who is not called to service under the selective draft, :

Our drive up into Maine yesterday was very lovely: Maine is full of little blue lakes and big green pines around them have a delicious fragrance. The rest of the trees are rather dwarfed and stunted and the land is certainly rocky and none too productive. However, out of it a good many people seem to have WIrung a fair living. There are many good-sized tarm houses, The older ones are built in a characteristic way for our cold states, with the barn tacked right on to the house so that the men do not have to go out in winter when they feed the stock. Mr. and Mrs. Johk Cutter’s house is way off the main road over a good dirt road which 1s rather narrow and winding. We, were well content we 0 not meet any other car a we came along. When we drove in the gate, all the dogs set up a tremendous barking, for they evidently do not like intruders. Mr. Cutter came to greet us and to say that his wite was still at cooking school, but would be back shortly. It- seemed almost too good to be true that Greece could really hold her own. One cannot help hoping that this little country may have a chance to preserve

services during the last year, reported by Miss Agnes Cruse, chapter secretary. were: 10,000 garments for war relief, 19,280 surgical dressings, a $75,000 fund for national war | relief, 1630 cases handled in the first aid hospital at the State Fair. Six special highway first aid stations, 1747 hours spent by volunteers in transcribing books in Braille for the blind, aid to 1076 families of former service men, 3486 articles of clothing distributed, $2302 spent in direct relief, $26,427 in recoveries through the: claims service to veterans, and various first aid schools and hygiene classes.

MARINE. RESERVIST,

WIFE ARE HONORED

Robert B. Shepard, music instructor at Washington High School, who has been called to duty as a lieutenant with the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve, and Mrs. Shepard were to be honored at a tea at .the high school this afternoon. Lieut. Shepard will leave with the

16th battalion of the ne Corps tomorrow for active gduty) at San Diego, Cal. The tea is g given

by the Washington faculty and the Martha Washington Club. Mrs. G. W. Wolff and Miss Etta Scherf will pour. Several members of the concert band which Lieut. Shepard directed will play. *

EXAMINER TO SPEAK Edward P. Brennan, chief of the State Board of Accounts, will speak before the Indianapolis chapter of the Indiana Liberal Chub at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in Castle Hall. He

its independence.

will discuss “The Stamp Plan.”

By Noble Reed HOOSIER farm boy who worked a milk route to earn his way through high school, grew up to be one of Indiana’s leading businessmen in the milliondire brackets. He is Glen R. Hillis, Republican candidate for Gover“nor, to whom the philosophy of “home rule” in government . was almost an obsession even long before he thought

fore it reached the high explosives. ” ” "

ETURNING from the war, Mr. Hillis completed his education at Indiana University Law School and married his high

school sweetheart, Miss Bernice ~

Elwood America’s

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Haynes, daughter Haynes, builder first automobile, Mrs. Hillis was credited with helping her father amass a fortune from the automobile and

metal industries. She majored in metal chemistry in college and entered her father’s laboratories, assisting him in the development of stainless steel now used. universally in hundreds of products. Probably the greatest achievement of Mrs. Hillis and her father was their development of stellite, the hardest of all known metals. It is used in cutting tools. Mr. 4nd Mrs. Hillis are widely

Boy, 12, Injured By Own 'Bomb’

MAMARONECK, N. Y,, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Twelve-year-old Alfred Weeks became the victim of his own inventive genius today when his home-made bomb, a gadget contrived from a small length of pipe filled with expdosive, blew up somehow as he sat in his classroom at the Mamaroneck Junior High School. When the confusion died, Alfred had been taken to New Rochelle Hospital for treatment of burns on the left side, Miss Frances Parker. 26, teacher, had been treated for shock, and pupils in the room had been sent home. Arthur H. Boothby, schools superintendent, said the bomb had been made at home, and that any disciplinary action also would take place there.

KING MICHAEL GETS A $160,000 RAISE

BUCHAREST, Oct. 31 (U. P.).— King Michael,*who succeeded to the throne of Rumania when his father abdicated, received a $160,000 raise in salary along with the job.

the young king will get 40,000,000 lei ($189,500) yearly. As Crown Prince, Michael Focejved 6,000, Doo lei ($28,700). His salary as King is the same as was his father's.

The civil list revealed today that:

Glen R. Hillis, Republican candidate for Governor, likes nothing better than to visit his big farm near Kokomo. Here, with his wife and one of his young sons, he examines a specimen of his highly prized corn. Right, a portrait of Mr. Hillis.

known for their philanthropic projects, centering mostly upon education ‘of the underprivileged. They have made many donations to universities and colleges. Hillis is a trustee of the Hanover College and he is a trustee of Indiana University and Butler Uni-

versity. ” ” ”

R.Y HILLIS has developed many business enterprises in Kokomo. He is vice president of the American Art Alloys Corp. of. Kokomo; vice president of | the First Federal Savings & Loan Association; a director of tHe Union Bank & Trust Co. and is financially interested in the Northern Indiana Supply Co., Mason Mo-

tors, Inc, and Galbreath & Stewart, Inc. all in Kokomo. In spite of all his business connections and law work, Mr. Hillis has been active in Republican politics for the last 15 years and was elected Howard County Prosecutor in 1928 and re-elected) in 1930. During

10 MORE ENLIST IN GUARD HERE

300 Vacancies Still Remain; Recruiting Period to End Dec. 20.

Seventy more recruits have been enlisted in Indianapolis units of the National Guard in the past two weeks, Lieut. Col. Robert J. Axtell, personnel officer of the 8th National Guard Division announced today. Col. Axtell said that there still remain more than 300 vacancies |in infantry, artillery, signal communication, medical quartermaster and headquarters organizations located here. The enlistment period will close Dec. 20, Col. Axtell said. At present there are more than 1000 9th Division guardsmen from Indianapolis. .The Division is expected to he mobilized for its year’s active duty early in January. The division will train at Camp Shelby, Miss. Recruiting headquarters is at the Indianapolis Armory, 711 N. Pennsylvania St.

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Police

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the festivities. Someone called the police. “There's a party going on up here and two of the women guests are plastered,” the informant said. When police arrived they found two women nursing cuts and bruises. Police. hauled out their first aid kits and administered to the women while the other guests helped clean up the pieces of plaster that had fallen from the ceiling. ” n ” There’s a 93-year-old lad up in Muncie who probably could qualify as a diplomat in a few years if this country should need him. A few days ago while on a brief vacation fram school, he went to visit some of his relatives in another city. Unaware of the political leanings of the family, he took both Willkie and Roosevelt campaign buttons along with him, determined to display whichever one seemed appropriate after a preliminary investigation.

=n ” 2 WITH SO much talk going around about subversive activities, bomb plots and the like, it is no wonder Frank Coppes of Union City became a little anxious when he spied 10 rubber balloons clustered with strings float to earth on the Coppes farm there, Frank, who was on top of a barn repairing the roof, clambered

down hastily to investigate.

Hoosier Goings On

WEDDING PARTY

Called As 9-Year-Old * Muncie Lad Is Diplomat By FRANK. WIDNER

THERE WAS A wedding celebration in Hammond the other night, and like all parties of that kind, the guests were beginning to get a

Fight Develops;

Suddenly the room began to tremble and a loud rumble interrupted

He found a cosmic ray data recording device from the Purdue physics department. ” ” ”

A GARY thief has the local fire

department there to thank for |

the ease with which he obtained a $300 loot from one of the jewelry stores the other night.

When the fire trucks went thundering down Broadway around Jpidnigns with sirens screaming, e man walked up to the window of a downtown jewelry store and smashed the window with a brick. - The wail of the sirens covered up the noise of the breaking glass and the loud ring of the burglar alarm. » Ed ” IN KENDALLVILLE an 18-year-old CCC enrollee walked into the police station there and said he was ready to go to jail for the week-end. He had been convicted of vehicle thking some time ago and was placed on probation. The judge at the time told him any violation of the camp regulations would be a violation of the City Court probation. Last week, he overstayed a leave of absence two days and was given a week-end Jail sentence , out inal

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SECOND SECTION

County was a “hot bed” of Ku Klux Klan activities, Mr. Hillis waged a campaign against prejudices and intolerances in Koko= mo’s ‘civic life and won recognition for some of his campaigns against crime while prosecutor. When Mr.’ Hillis was basketball coach for the West Middleton High School he developed a love for athletics that has lasted threughout his life. Although golf is about all he takes part in actively, he goes to about every basketball game he has time for, especially those of his Alma Mater. als =

UT he finds little time to follow his athletic tendencies because when he can get away

from his many business connections in Kokomo he goes out to his 160-acre farm near. Kokomo

Whatever It Is It's Washed Up

MADRID, Oct, 31 (U. P.)—A strange-looking craft, described as a cross between a torpedo and a launch, was washed up on the La BEspalereta Beach near La Linea today, the Mencheta News Agency reported in a dispatch from Gibraltar,

After an early cursory examination of the object, the opinion was expressed that the craft was a piloted torpedo, known as a suicide torpedo. The craft was about 10 feet long with space for one man to sit at a steering gear. It was equipped with propellor and hand-brake and carried -a deposit of gasoline. The craft's motor was running when it was found.

SCHARFFIN NAMED TO DEFENSE BOARD

Paul P. Scharffin, 4833 Park Ave. an attorney, was appointed a member of the Indiana Emergency De-

fense Council today by Governor

Townsend. Mr. Scharfiin, a leader of the)

Jewish War Veterans organization, is thé 16th person named to the Council . which the Gowernor has formed to serve in an advisory capacity on defense problems. The Council will be called into session within the next few days to discuss organization of home guards to replace the Indiana Nat tional Guard which is to begin a year’s training in Mississigpi next January.

ADMIRAL STIRLING TAKES V. F. W. POST

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Adj. Gen. Robert B. Handy Jr. of the Veterans of Foreign Wars last night announced the ap-

pointment of Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr. as the organization's national patriotic: instructor. Admiral Stirling, retired from the U. 8. Navy, is a member of the Ad-

|miral Yates Stirling Post 110 of the

V. F. W, Buffalo, N. Y, and a prominent commentator on naval affairs. In his new position, Adj. Gen. Handy said, he would “give active support to the V. F. W. national defense and Americanism program in a series of coast-to-coast speaking engagements.”

MRS. HELEN ASTOR ~ .MAY MARRY AGAIN

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Friends learned today of ithe divorce in Reno of Lytle Hull by Mrs. Gertrude Carroll Hull, and they expressed the belief that Mr. Hull, wealthy New York clubman, ‘would marry Mrs. Helen Astor soon in Wyoming. Mrs. Astor was recently divorced at Cody, Wyo., from Vincent Astor, who, in turn, has been married to Miss Mary..Cushing of Boston, sister of the former Mrs. James Roosevelt. : | ‘Mrs. Hull obtained her Reno decree on the charge she had lived |- apart from Her husband for the last 16 years, .

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and does some first hand “dirt farming.” Fundamentally he is not a “city man” because when he and Mrs. Hillis decided to build a home shortly after their marriage they chose the country. Their home, on a picturesque 11-acre tract of land near Kokomo, is one of the show places of Howard County. There they have reared a family of four children, three sons and a daughter. They are Mar-"' garet Hillis, a student at Indiana Un;versitys Elwood Haynes Hillis, Robert E. Hillis and Joseph C. Hillis. The Hillises are members of the Presbyterian Church in Kokomo, They are. members of the Kokomo Country Club and Mr. Hil< lis is a member of .the Elks Club, Eagles Lodge, Moose Lodge and the Masons.

STATE CHECKS TRAFFIC TOLL

September Deaths Decline, But Year’s Total Far Ahead of ’39.

September joined the select company of 1940 months in which deaths for the State dropped below the traffic fatalities tor the same month last year, the Governor’s Co-ordinating Safety Commits tee reported today. Only two other months, August and January, have had a lower traffic toll than the same months

|in 1939.

Ninety-six persons were killed In traffic accidents last month as compared to 107 for September, 1939. The traffic death total for the State, however, is still 11 per cent over 1939; with 806 persons killed as compared with 726 last year. During the same period in 1938, 768 persons met death on Indiana highways. Collisions between two or more vehicles have accounted for the most deaths fhis year—231. Pedes-~ trian deaths are next in order with | 224, a considerable increase over the 1939 figure .0of 192. Non-colli= [sion accidents resulted in 117 deaths, a rise over the 101 of last’ year. Crashes between railroad (rains and automobiles have kilied 89, und cars running into fixed objects, 66. Bicycle accident fatalities have jumped 87 per cent, from 16 to 30. Don F. Stiver, superintendent of State Police, pointed out that the increased death rate had been whittled down from a 14 per cent increase Yor the first eight months of 1940 to 11 per eo for the first nine months. But, he warmed. increased hours of darkness, wet leaves on the pavement and ice and snow which come during this period of the|year can destroy these gains it motorists do not practice extra precautions in their driving.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What national significance has the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November? .2—The annual salary of the Presi dent of the United States is $50,000, $75,000 or $100,000? 3—Name a tiny European republic which recently declared war on Great Britain. 4—What office a Alexander Hameilton hold in ‘the administration of George Washington? 5—What famous Norwegian novelist nd Nobel prize winner is now in the United States?

Answers

1—It is Election Day . 2—$75,000. 3—San Marino. 4—Secretary of the Treasuty, 5—Sigrid Undset.

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