Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1940 — Page 9

TUESDAY, NOV. 12, 1940

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FH | 1 _ PITTSBURGH, Nov. 12.—Most of you have read, no doubt, about the new high-speed non-stop high-way-of-the-future opened this fall between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. It is called the Pennsylvania

Turnpike. Well, we have just driven over it, and it

is wonderful. 1t seems to us the iggest single step taken in this

ecade toward an ultimate solution

of the traffic problem. | This highway swoops across and nder the Pennsylvania mountains for 160 miles. You could drive the ntire distance without slowing down below 50 miles an hour—except for a few tunnels. You could all the way without stopping ce. | The Turnpike does not literally run all the way from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. It actually starts 14 miles west of Harrisburg and ends almost 21 miles east of Pittsburgh. It connects on each end with the regular highways which carry you into the cities. e Turnpike skirts towns all along the way, but does not actually go through one. In fact there is not a building the entire length of the road, except ‘the 10 official filling station-restaurants approved by the Highway Commission. The road is concrete, It's really two roads—each & two-lane highway—running in opposite directions and separated by an earth strip 10 feet wide.

Mountains Are Tunneled

There are no cross roads. There are no traffic lights or stop signs.| Traffic can enter thé Turnpike only at 11 tollgate entrances, and when new cars do come onto the road, they merge in from the right.

Every intersecting road, the entire distance, is * carried over the Turnpike by bridge, or under it by tunnel. There are 160 of these bridges and tunnels crossing the Turnpike—an average of one every mile. In addition, the Turnpike itself is carried across rivers and valleys on 139 separate bridges. ] The Turnpike goes through the higher mountains, Instead of over them. There are seven tunnels, and they total seven "miles in length. These tunnels form the only bottle-necks on the Turnpike, as they narrow

er Vagabond

By Ernie Pyle

to one lane each way, and the speed limit is 35 miles an hour, There is a straight stretch of 13 miles on the east end. The rest of the way the road winds almost continuously, but in very gentle curves. The scenery, though not majestic, is lovely. Driving on this Turnpike is so serene, so without responsibility, that we came smack up against a shock when we got off it. : 5 Back once again in normal highway traffic—even though the regular highway was four lanes too— there seemed such a maze of cars coming at us from all directions that we actually got the jumps. The right-of-way of the Turnpike is 200 feet wide. Every inch is fenced with heavy mesh wire. I noticed places where the road cut right through a farmer's barn lot. Yet he was firmly fenced off from the highway, and if he wanted to drive on the Turnpike he would have to go 15 miles over an old road to the nearest tollgate.

Some Optical Interference

There are no signs along the Turnpike, except the official direction signs announcing the next exit or filling station. The signs, with a few exceptions, are black and white, and are not unsightly. : We noticed one peculiar thing about driving onthe Turnpike, It was some sort of optical unbalance; something that at times almost approached dizziness. It was caused by the other half of the road—that other road over on your left. For some reason, that strip over there makes your picture of the road ahead of you lopsided. The highway down which you're driving gets an optical interference from that other road. The result is that I found it difficult to drive in a straight line, or to take the curves in a smooth turn. This isn’t a complaint, it’s just a reporting of a weird sensation. I imagine night driving on the Turnpike is delightful. On both sides of the road, and also down the center strip, are slim metal posts. about waisthigh. On top of each is a set of six glass buttons that reflect your lights. These reflectors are set so close together that it must be like driving right down a roped-off lane. . : At first there was no speed limit on the road. But right now the Governor has set 50 miles an hour, until the Legislature can amend the State speed laws.

-It surely will not be set that low in the end.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

f. A GREAT MANY, thoughtful persons in the State are beginning to have serious qualms about our topsy-turvy political picture and the possibility of Republican eonslaughts on the Reorganization Bill as 8 means of obtaining patronage. It is pretty geénerally recognized . that, by and large, the Indiana Reorganization Act is a good law; that it has only one major weakness, that the appointive power is vested in the hands of only one man, the Governor, | Many people believe that defect n be remedied fairly easily, by itting patronage power in the inds of a bipartisan commission and by, extending the merit system more and more. | And these are

the people "seriously concerned with the efficiency of State government, regardless of party labels. They are hoping now that the Republican-dominated Legislature will take a moderate view toward the improvements made in [governmental machinery by the Democrats and that jome sort of honest and amicable agreement can be reached by the Democratic Governor and his Republican associates. - The answer to all these questions obviously rests with the public. If the public wants the Reorganization Act not only maintained and improved, it will get it. But if the public decides to go to sleep at the switch just start reaching for your hats.

Maybe He Was Counting

IN THE THICK of yesterday's sudden rain squalls stood a man on a downtown street corner, frantically

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—So long as both Roosevelt and Willkie accept the general framework of our institutions and our methods of Government—which they do—we shall suffer no serious damage from a continuation of political debate over details. ]

Of course during the campaign these details were pictured as essentials and probably will continue to be so described. But they are details, after all, so far as our system of government is concerned. The details may be important. They may affect your pocketbook a little, one way or the other. Still the fate of the nation does not hang upon them. We can either take them.or not and American * democracy still goes on. Grant, for instance, that the Wages-and-Hours Law is important and desirable.: Yet no one thinks there would have been a revolution if we had not passed the law, or-that one would occur if the law were répealed. That law, therefore, is a detail in our system. It happens to be a detail that hoth Roosevelt and Willkie are pledged to retain—tHe two men are that close together. In political debate, differences over details are magnified in an attempt to make you think the fate of the nation is involved. But to most of us there wouid be little difference whether we had Roosevelt or Willkie in the White House. In fact, many people had difficulty in deciding between the two men, so slight were the fundamental differences.

Sense of Proportion Needed

Political debate is healthy and necessary in a democracy. The point is not to discourage it but to retain a sense of proportion about it. One day some five years ago, when the Supreme Court upheld the Government in suspending gold payments, Justice McReynolds gloomily | dissented with an ominous remark to the effect that the Constitution was gone. Well, here it is five years later and the Constitution, like Justice McReynolds, is still with us. We've even taken a third term and the chief effect thus far has been to revitalize the Republican Party and to strengthen the two-party system. Roosevelt-haters long ago predicted the New. Deal would ruin the coun-

My Day

CHICAGO, Monday—This is Armistice Day and we are on our way by train to Chicago. It is raining and the landscape is dreary and gloomy, as it may well be, for it matches the mood of most of us who remember what Armistice Day meant to us in 1918. : Nature should weep with us, for the high hopes which humanity had of ending war on this earth lie in ruins all about us. ' Again we gather in body or in spirit at unknown soldier's tombs the world over, but the belief that their sacrifice would never have to be renewed is gone. In the years to come, in many countries in the world, people will again gather to mourn the death of young men, old people, women

and children, killed in this period '

: of war madness. . : For years I prayed and worked and hoped that the desire could be removed from men’s hearts. Now I have to change my prayer, for .when some men use force they oblige the rest of the world to compete on their terms. There are people, of course, who believe that physical force oan be conquered by spiritual; passive resistance.” Those who hold to this belief may prove at’somie future date that they are right.

_ * In the meantime, for most of us, it seems impera~ -

beckoning for a taxicab. Each cab he hailed turned out to have a passenger, but he kept up his vigil for several more minutes.

Then he turned dolefully away, bucking into the wind, one hand on his coat lapel, the other on his hat.

And just then a cab came—an empty cab—and tooted at him. He stared balefully at it for a long moment and then strode away in high anger.

This Younger Generation

THE YOUNGSTERS ON the Ritter Avenue bus on their way to school in the mornings have formed a little pool. Each one apparently puts in a nickel of gus lunch money and the total “take” is about 50 cents.

They each take a number on how many people will get on the bus by the time they reach Technical High School. The winner gets the booty. The winning number has been running in the low forties the last few mornings and it’s been necessary to stage some playoffs.

The winners just flip for the whole half dollar.

Old Tarkington Home Goes

THE OLD TARKINGTON home at 11th and Pennsylvania, where Booth lived as a boy, has been torn down recently, but what will go in its place remains a mystery George E. Nearpass, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s “whistling brakeman,” who lives up on Central Avenue (1929) has just written a song called “Boomer Jones.” It’s an interesting and amusing parody on the famed “Casey Jones”, . . . The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra stopped re-

hearsals for two minutes at 10:58 a. m. yest y Armistice Day. . Im. yesterday,

By Raymond Clapper

try but it hasn’t even ruined them. Every reform that has been proposed has been denounced as a step that would lead to the downfall of the republic. That kind of talk is bunk. When a system is ready to fall it falls. You don’t destroy a healthy system by passing a law that some people don’t like. Our form of government is too tough, and too deeply rooted, to go down so easily, : Roosevelt and Willkie both accept the framework of our system. Each has some ideas of his own as to what should be done within that framework. It is good for us to have those differences threshed out not only during campaigns but between campaigns. All we need to do is to keep in mind that the two men are net as far apart as they like to pretend for purposes of political debate. Willkie has accepted one Roosevelt reform after another. Roosevelt accepts the capitalist system which Willkie has tried to make us believe was his special property. Between the two men is a difference in emphasis on some points. That is about all it amounts to, None of the differences

«amounts to more than an incident in our general way

of life.

Most: Differences Imaginary

That is why the nation can afford to be tolerant about this and give opposition spokesmen free opportunity to speak. Within the framework of the American way we can argue about the details. Our tolerance would, or should, disappear only when our System itself is menaced. No form of governmeny can be expected to invite its own destruction. That is why we are not hospitable to Communist and Nazi free speech. Communists and Nazis do not accept the general framework of our institutions. The most important difference between Willkie and Roosevelt are imaginary—differences over what Willkie thinks Roosevelt is going to do. Roosevelt is here at Washington with his defense machinery under the hands of a crowd of Republicans. Willkie got out of the Democratic Party just in time to grab the Republican Presidential nomination. The matters on which they agree are of more importance to the country than the matters on which they disagree, The controversy is over secondary questions—and also between the head man who wants to stay where he is and the other fellow who would like to get the job. We can have our national unity and a hot political debate at the same time, so long as the average person keeps his sense of proportion. :

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tive that we meet physical force with physical force. But our. prayers and our endeavor should be to use this physical force to achieve the results in which we believe, and which are not achieved by the aims and

desires of those against whom we exert our influence. Can we have physical force and not use it for oppression? The totalitarian countries would seem to prove that the answer is “no.” All of their people obey the will of the man or the few men who form their government, and this will is exerted to bring about misery and terror for certain groups of people and subservience for all. Our force, to justify itself, must be exerted to defend the weak, to insist that Justice, so far as we know it, shall be meted out to all of our citizens and to those who come within our sphere of influence. If we can keep a guard upon ourselves which will prevent a lust for power, or a debauch of greed, then we will have done something even greater than what we envisioned on the Armistice Day of 1918. ‘May the prayer in the heart of each and every citizen of the United States today be that they acquire strength—physical, mental and moral—but only so that they may use it to build up a civilization from which war of all kinds may disappear. May God give each and every one of us the power to love, the grace to be humble and the understanding to be compassionate. Hal

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HOLD CHURCH IS NECESSARY “70 HALT RUIN

Leading Churchmen Sound Warning at Series Of Meetings.

Leading churchmen of the world warned in Indianapolis today that if civilization loses sight of God, it will be racing toward destruction from which only God can rescue it. These churchmen were leaders of the Greater Indianapolis National Christian Mission which opened Sunday and is to continue through next Sunday. The Rev. John Biegeleisen, Webster Groves, Mo., professor of Old and New Testament at Eden Theological Seminary, addressing a women’s meeting in Grace Methodist Church said: “How has it come about that just when knowledge of every kind has made such strides, brought relief to the human mind, and drawn the world. together, that there should have come this set-back?

Choose Other Emblems

“Someone has said that, instead of looking toward the church, people are choosing other emblems, or something worse. That possibly explains it. Something has gone wrong. In many European churches the swastika has replaced the Cross. Who has removed the Cross from our altars and churches?” Dr. Adolf Keller, general secretary of te European Central for Inter-Church Aid, Geneva, Switzerland, told the Mercator Club at noon in the Lincoln Hotel: “I come from the last white spot on th emap of Europe, there as a remnant of what the continent was before the war. New ideals of collective life and government have come up and there is a fight today, not simply between armies and political systems, but between idealogies. The remaining democracies have to re-think their ideals. Perhaps the democracies on the continent failed because they did not live up to their own ideals.

Basis of Democracy

“These ideals are seen in the message of Jesus Christ, who proclaimed the eternal value of the individual soul, which means liberty, and a form of collective life which He called the brotherhood of man. These two principles are the foundation of democracy. If the democracies are willing to re-think their principles they will certainly find a new stimulus in the Gospel to rebuild the house of liberty and democracy which today is menaced by an earthquake.” Dr. E. Stanley Jones, missionary to India and the Orient, addressed the Rotary Club at the Claypool at noon and said in part: “Man has risen to religion by the very pressure of necessity. This is happening in the world today. The psychologists are being forced to try to produce changed lives, for life demands that change. A generation that has lost God is now being compelled to seek God through the very pressure of life itself.”

Speaks at School

The Rev. Homer J. Armstrong of New York City said at a meeting in Washington High School: “Ame:icans must match the enthusiasm of the totalitarian states and rally around a thorough-going Christian faith and philosophy with which to meet the pagan and tyrdnnical ideologies abroad in the world.” “The Church, the Cathedral and the Synagog must all actively seek to win this generation’s youth to a genuine and active faith in God.” - At a mass meeting last night at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Christians were told it is their right and duty to protect encroachments on individual liberty.

Stresses Personality

“Christ and Christianity is always where personality is being destroyed —there to rebuild and help,” declared Dr. C. Jeffares McCombe of New York Cify. “Jesus lived, thought, talked, worked and died in the belief that personality is the central fact of the universe,” he said. “The sacred-

ness o: human personality is the]:

most revolutionary and determinative concept the mind of man ever confronted.” “The touchstone test of every state and institution is what it does to and how it affects human beings. This, as Christians, we should remember—and act accordingly.” Seminars were held at the Central Christian Church yesterday afternoon on family life, social relations, the Bible and world relations. Dr. Richard Roberts, Toronto, spoke yesterday on the Bible. He said it was now being imprisoned by disuse and neglect. “It .is put on the shelf and we pay lip-service to it and we must take it off the shelf and use it as a guide so that it may become current coin and common property again.” “In a Larger World”

On social relations, Dr. Wérth M. Tippy of Laurel, Miss., advised the underscoring of “Love thy neighbor.” “We have undergone a change in religion from the oldtime idea of emphasis on the individual's well being to concern over human beings, their welfare and happiness, in a larger world. Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg of Syracuse, N. Y, discussed Christian family life. He said each wife should ask herself: “Would he marry me again?” and each husband should ask: “Would she choose me as a husband again?” He said it was the dead monotony of family life and not divorce, alone, that was bad in American life today. He gave to the Christian Church the job of providing activities to bring life to these “dead” marriages.

GRACIE FIELDS’ EX-MATE DIES LONDON, Nov. 12 (U. P)— Archie Pitt, former husband of the British Music Hall star, Gracie Fields, died today after a long ill-

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A Greater Indianapolis Christian Mission Conference . 1 n an American Baptist Home Mission Board member; Miss Muriel Lester (center) and Mrs. Hilda L. Ives. The latter two are members of the “mission team” and are conducting Bible forums,

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STUDY PROGRAM OF LEGISLATION

Farmers to Set Up Plans at Bureau Session; Opening Tomorrow.

More than 5000 Hoosier farmers will gather from all parts of the State at Tomlinson Hall tomorrow for the Indiana Farm Bureau's 22d annual convention. The convention will establish the legislative program of the Bureau for the coming Legislature. A committee of delegates from the 10 Indiana districts has been in communication since the last Leglislature preparing bills to be introduced and uniting opposition to

existing laws which the Bureau feels are adverse to the farmer. At the Friday business session, resolutions. on the legislative program will be voted upon. Hassil E. Schenck, Bureau presi-

‘dent, will preside at tomorrow's

opening meeting. The high point of the first day's program will be a discussion of “The Contribution of Rural People to American Civilization,” by Dr. E. Stanley Jones, missionary to India. On Thursday discussions will range from “The Problem of Youth,” by Mrs. Inez M. Scholl, State Director of Probation, to “A Unified Agricultural Program,” by I. H. Hull, Bureau general manager. Adjournment of the convention will come Friday after the election of delegates to the American Farm Bureau convention.

New Comet's Tail To Sweep Earth

NEWTON, Mass., Nov. 12 (U. P.).—The tail of the newly-dis-covered Cunningham comet, which is expected to sweep the earth in January, may produce a yellowish haze in the atmosphere, Dr. Frank S. Jasset, podiatrist and amateur astronomer, predicted today. ! The comet, discovered a month ago by Dr. Leland Cunningham of Harvard, is approaching the earth’s orbit at 32,000 miles an hour, Dr. Jasset said. About Jan. 19, the body will be 58,000,000 miles away and its tail will sweep the earth, he said. A Harvard observator official who asked that his name be withheld doubted, however, that any change would occur in atmospheric conditions as the comet passed through the solar system.

Girl, 19, Gets Film Contract

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 12 (U.P). —The heroine of today’s ‘“rags-to-riches” story is Mary Anderson, a 19-year-old Birmingham, Ala., schoolgirl. Talent scouts discovered her in a photograph taken at a football game and brought her to Hollywood for a screen test. It was successful. enough to get her a small part in “Gone With the Wind.” . After “G. W. T. W.” became screen history, she was forgotten until Producer Tay Garnett cast her in a minor role. Today Superior Court, because she is a minor, approved a contract under which Mr. Garnett and Producer Richard Rowland will pay her $300 a week for acting in at least four pictures a year.

SCOUTS" CHIEF TO SPEAK HERE

Head to Address Meeting of City and Central Indiana Councils.

For the 26th time in its history, the Indianapolis and Central Indiana Council, Boy Scouts of America, will’ meet tonight at 6:30 o'clock at the Marott Hotel. Following the dinner will be the presentation of the 1941 officers and a discussion by Walter W. Head, president of the National Council, Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Head is a farmer, a banker and past president of the American Bankers Association and also a member of the Boy Scouts International Committee. Among others to participate in the program will be Arthur R. Baxter, Council president; the Rev. Howard J. Baumgartel, of the Church Federation of Indianapolis; C. J. Carlson, regional Boy Scout executive; Wallace O. Lee, Scout commissioner, and the Rev. Richard Langen.

INJURED IN FALL IN ELEVATOR SHAFT

Leo Altendorf, 46, was treated at

had stepped into an open elevator shaft. Mr. Altendorf, an employee of the Burford Printing Co., said he found the elevator door open an inch or two. He said he noticed there was no light burning inside but thought someone had turned it off. so he stepped inside. The elevator was at an upper floor and Mr. Altendorf fell eight feet to the bottom of the shaft. His right

arm and hand were broken. He lives at 5215 E. 13th St.

This is the first of a series taking a draftee into Uncle Sam’s new Army.

By MILTON BRONNER Times Special Writer :

Citizen and all his relatives are wondering these days just what happens to him and his like if they are drafted for one year's training in the United States Army, thus becoming citizen soldiers fit to defend their country if need arises. Assume that Jokn’s number is among the first to be called up in his neighborhood as a result of the big lottery at Washington Oct. 29 and that he fills out and swears to his questionnaire which is duly sent back to the local draft board. John is single, about 25, has no dependents and is not working in a job vital to the rearmament of the country. E So he is summoned to appear before the draft board and is examined by the medical adviser. He is found physically fit. He is given five days in which to wind up his personal and business affairs and then reports back to the board, along with other men who are drafted. He and his companions are to be sent to an induction station, of which there are about 100 in the United States. - If the nearest one to his neighborhood is close by, the draftees may go there, conducted by a soldier. If distant, they will go by train, led by one of themselves, appointed

ness. Mr. Pitt was divorced by Miss Fields last year, =

for the purpose by. the draft board. If the distance is an over-night trip,

Johnny Gets His Gun

Draftees Allowed 5 Days To Wind Up Their Affairs

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—John Q.|

Five days to wind up personal affairs . . . for this John Q. Citizen, unmarried and with no dependents, that means mostly love and business affairs,

they may go in sleeping cars and will be fed on the train. It is planned, if possible, to pass the draftees through’ the induction station and on to an Army reception center the same day. - If this proves impossible, the Government will arrange a night's lodging for the men and they will go on to the reception center the next morning.

Methodist Hospital today after he|P

. tended all sessions of the trial, were

FLYNN TO KEEP 2 PARTY POSTS

Remains as National Chairman, Bronx Leader After Talk With Roosevelt.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U. P.). —Chairman Edwdrd J. Flynn of the Democratic National Committee announced today after a night at the White House that he would continue as party chairman and as Democratic leader of the Bronx Borough in New York City. He and President Roosevelt spent several hours last night in what the chairman described as gossip but he denied there had been discussion of next year’s Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York" or possibility of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia taking a place in the Roosevelt cabinet. Plans San Domingo Trip In a press conference, he revealed he and Mrs, Flynn will leave Nov. 14 for three weeks in San Domingo. Mr. Flynn's headquarters thereafter will be in the Biltmore Hotel, New York, but he expects to spend two days a week in committee headquarters here. He reiterated campaign charges that Republicans had spent ‘“tremendous sums” in the election campaign but expressed the ‘opinion, finally, that both Republicans and Democrats spent well over $3,000,000 each—the Hatch Act limit—if expenditures are computed on a coun-try-wide basis to include all spending agencies. ; “The Democratic National Committee was well within the $3,000,000 limit,” Mr. Flynn said. The Republican National Committee had plenty of money and all of their various committees had much more than we, but I do not say that the Republican National Committee spent more than $3,000,000.” “Not Familiar” With Act He refused to express an opinion whether there had been a violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the Hatch Act, explaining he had not read the act and was not familiar with it. The President and his overnight guest missed Wendell L. Willkie's radio address last night. “Sometime between 10. and 11 . m.,” Mr. Flynn isaid today, “I said to‘the President, ‘Oh, my Lord, we didn’t listen to Willkie’ But it was all over. by that time.” He expressed the opinion regarding Willkie’s desire that opposition organizations be kept intact that “it certainly is the right of anybody to keep any organization going.”

SONJA 1S ORDERED T0 PAY $77,000

NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (U, P.).— Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skater and moving picture star, must pay Dennis Scanlon, St. Paul, Minn. promoter, $77,113.44 for breach of contract, a New York Supreme Court jury ordered today. The sealed verdict was returned by a jury composed of five women and seven men after a six-day trial which was concluded last Friday. Neither Miss Henie nor her husband, Dan Topping, who had at-

in court when the verdict was returned. Mr. Scanlon charged that through his efforts and contacts the ice star rose to movie stardom. He said the contract to which they had agreed in February, 1936, stipulated that he was to receive approximately 10 per cent of her film earnings. He charged that when she wattained stardom in Hollywood, she ignored the contract. :

Cancels Drills In Using Saber

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U. P.). —The Army today suspended training in the use of sabers on the theory that instruction time can be spent more profitably in more modern phases of warfare. ’ An official announcement said that officers on duty with troops during the expansion program will not be required to use or wear sabers in training exercises. The Army followed a similar procedure during the World War. The Department said Sam Browne belts henceforth are to be worn by officers only with -service coats or blouses, and that local commanders are authorized to dis-

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GEORGE URGES NATIONAL DEBT LIMIT INCREASE

Should Be 75 Billions, Says Senator; Suggests Change In Tax Plan.

WASHINGTON, Noy. 12 (U. PJ, —Senator Walter F.| George . (D. Ga.) said today that the new Congress should raise the mational debt limit to $75,000,000,000 land overhaul the Federal tax structure immediately after convening Jan. 3. Senator George is slated to succeed the late Senator Key Pittman (D. Nev.) as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He also is the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee which will have to consider the debt and tax problems.

Backs Morgenthau He allied himself with Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr, who last week said that the debt limit must be raised to $65,000,000,000 because of defense spending, The defense tax bill enacted last

summer permitted expenditure of $4,000,000,000 above the existing $45,~ 000,000,000 debt limit for defense purposes only. ? Mr. George asserted that the ndtion's economy is in danger of becoming dependent on defense spending which, he said, must end some time. Therefore, he continued, the tax structure must be so revised as to encourage private enterprise. He said he would recommend a broadening of the tax base rather than a heavy increase in rates. He pointed out that revenue also could be raised by taxing Federal securities which are now exempt, “although this is a problem which calls for much discussion.”

Adjournment Sought

It was almost certain that the debt and tax problems would not be brought up duri 1:4 the few remaining weeks of this Congress. There is increasing Democratic pressure for adjournment soon despite Republican opposition. The House will meet next Mon~ day and probably take up the question of adjourment then. Republican House Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. will oppose any adjournment move, The Sgnate meets today, but will recess immediately out of respect to Senator Pittman. It will meet again next Monday.|

EX-LAKE TREASURER SURRENDERS TO U.S.

FT. WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 12 (U. P.). —Louis F. Conter, former Lake County Treasurer, surrendered to U..S.- Commissioner William D. Remmel here today| to face Federal indictment for alleged violation of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act in the redemption of Lake County bonds. Conter, returning from Florida to answer the indictment, posted $5000 bond and was released. He probably will be arraigned here at the opening of court, set for Dec, 2, Mr. Remmel said. w Conter, Edward L. Reil, one-time employee of the Lake County Treasurer’s office, the Central Securities Corp., of Ft. Wayne, and Edwin H. Dickmeyer, president and treasurer of the corporation, were charged by the Grand Jury with alleged conspiracy to redeem Gary, Hammond and East Chicago municipal improvement bonds for from 25 to 70 per cent of their face value after the county arranged redemption at 100 per cent.

OFFERS $600 FOR GUARD RECREATION

CLEVELAND, Nov. 12 (U. P).— Isadore Breslin, Lithuania-born American citizen—and proud of it--today offered $600 to provide “something the Government doesn't give 'em” for Ohio National Guardsmen at Camp Shelby, Miss. “I've never seen a soldier myself, but I'd like to do something for them,” Mr, Breslin said. “Maybe they could use it to buy the boys some shaving cream, or a library, or perhaps some good, warm sweaters.” Breslin’s offer, made to a newspaper advertising solicitor, was re~ ferred to Army officers. °

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Who holds the automobile speed record? . 2—What is the correct pronunciation of circuit? ‘ 3—When an airplane zooms, does it go up or down? 4—Name the capital of Japan. : 5—From what university did Theodore Roosevelt graduate? 6—The most widely spoken language in South America is Spanish, Portuguese or French? 7—The popular vote in a Presidential election first reached 10,000,000 in 1880, 1884 or 1888?

Answers 1—John Cobh

| 2—Sir-kit.

3—Up. 4—-Tokyo. 5—Harvard. 6-—Spanish. 7—In 1884 (Cleveland vs. Blaine).

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