Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1940 — Page 7
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 16. — The apparatus that projects the night sky onto the rounded dome of the Buhl Planetarium here is one of the most miraculous machines I've ever seen. In looks, |it could be a Buck Rogers cosmic contraption of the future. Roughly it looks like a huge dumb-bell, with knots all over it. The thing is steel, and stands on a framework higher than your Lead, and turnsz in any and all directions. Those knots are actually lenses, out of which come tiny pinpoints of light. From each “knot” comes a certain section of the sky. But
they all fit tegether, and there is no oever-lapping, no division line. One end of the dumb-bell con-
in the Northern| Hemisphere. Southern Hemisphere.
The other is the Between them, along the arm of the dumh-bell, are lenses which throw on the dome such things as moon, sun and planets. Behind each lens or “hole” in the dumb-bell, is a copper disc. |In the disc are punched hundreds of tiny holes, some of them actually invisible to the eye. A strong ih shines through these holes. When this light travels upward and hits the dome of the theater, it makes a tiny spot that exactly resembles a star, You've probably said to yourself, “My goodness, there are millions lof stars in the sky tonight.” “Well, that's true. | But| you don’t see millions. If you traipsed over the whole world, you would never be able to see more than 9000 with the naked eye.
3000 Stars Visible
That takes in point on the globe
the whole world. From any one never more than 3000 are actually visible. And thats what this machine shows—3000 in the sky at one| time, and 9000 altogether, if you keep revolving it until you've girdled the earth. Nobody| knows how many stars there actually are.
when projected on the dome above
tains the entire night sky as seen’
By Ernie Pyle
Apparently we won't be having any new planetaria until after the war is over. For this machine here, like those in all the other planetaria, was built in Germany, by the famous Zeiss optical works.
They started 16 years ago, and this is the 27th they have built. Each grew a little better, hence this is the finest of all. The machine alone cost $134,000. ’ The director of the Buhl Planetarium is a tall, youngish man named Arthur L. Draper. He 1s a scientist with the ability for layman’s expression, and a superior radio voice. Before coming here, he was with the Hayden Planetarium in New York,
New Show Every Month
The Planetarium gives three star performances a.
day; four on Saturday and Sunday. They charge admission, with the top price 35 cents for adults. Children get special rates. The Planetarium changes its show once a month, keeping right up with the times. In December, for instance, they will make a special point of the Star of Bethlehem. After the regular show, they put. on a little special show for me. They ran the universe through 29,000 years.in a couple of minutes, and was I dizzy. And they brought up the Southern Cross and the False Cross, which I have seen in the tropics, but which on our last Latin-American trip I never thought to look for a single time. And they also showed something that I never evenn heard of before—the Northern Cross. In fact, it’s a much better cross than either of the two Southern Crosses. Yesterday I told of how an arrow of light flashes in the sky and points out the star the announcer is talking about. This arrow worried me all through the performance. I just couldn't figure out how it was done. So after the show was over, I asked them.
.And it turned out to be nothing but an cid flash-
light, with the lens blacked out until only an arrow of light showed through. The anncuncer merely holds it in his hand and points it. Danged if science just doesn’t get me down sometimes. .
Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town)
PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Fabien Sevitzky, who this week began his fourth year as director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. At 47, Fabien Sevitzky cuts a handsome figure. Five feet 11 inches tall, he is actually 185 pounds of muscle and bone.
His breadth of shoulder comes in part from years of wrestling with the double bass and, more recently, a lot of baton swinging. Mr. Sevitzky is intensely American, despite his Russian birth and the difficulties with English which still| plague him after nearly 20 years in this country. Symphony music is often regarded by the layman as a “long-haired” pastime, but Fabien Sevitzky is hardly a “long-haired” sophisticate. He is, rather, an aggressive, democratic, hard-working businessman, who puts in as many hours as the job needs. He is reputedly an excellent jazz conductor and it is said that he knows all the motions that go with the popular maestros profession, but, of course, there is no time for swing music in his present serious occupation.
A Horse Opera Fan
HEIs A GOOD DRESSER and likes nice clothes.
He has a good supply for his own pleasure, but his several changes of afternoon and evening clothes are a necessity. He'll [soak a coat with perspiration in the course of a.concert, sometimes by intermission. His cutaway and tail coats are cut extra full in the shoulders to give him plenty of room for activity “without shooting the cuffs up to the elbows. Mr. Sevitzky used to be a movie actor himself as a youhg man in pre-war Russia and he prefers the movies to the theater. He'll take Western movies and slapstick comedy i and when his social engagements permit, he'll spend all his leisure time at the movies. He pursues horse operas and custard pie comedies all over town and he is well known by the cashiers at most of the city’s neighborhood theaters. He has a yen tg pilot his own airplane and began
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—An era of close co-oper-ation between the United States and Mexico seems to be definitely in the wind. If this materializes, as seems probable, it will strengthen hemisphere solidarity in the face of Axis. attempts to divide the nations of the new world. Friends of the Roosevelt Administration have been in touch with President-elect Avila Comacho, who takes office Dec. 1, and have been favorably impressed with his attitude. It was his apparent desire for closer relations with the United States that led {to the decision here to recognize |Avila Comacho and to throw everything ‘possible behind him to strengthen his position. President Poosevelt took the = unusual step of designating Vice President-elect Henry Wallace as his personal representative at the inauguration in Mexico City, Soon after he takes office, Avila Comacho will visit the United States. Helis studying up on his English now as Wallace is working on his Spanish. The plan is not only to shower Avila Comacho with honors here but to have him travel about the country to see our defense work. i
Our Menican| Relations This prospect of a new entente cordial between the "United States and Mexico is an especially en= couraging development at this time. The temperature of Pan-American relations in general is coneditioned by our relations with Mexico.» If we are having in Americ Mexico, it is reflected through-
out Latin America in revival of fears about the «colossus of the north.” A good neighbor policy to go deeper than mere| words requires above everything else good relations with out next-door neighbor. Our relations with Mexico have not been too good of late. It has nol been altogether the fault of the present Cardenas If gime,
My Day
CHICAGO, Friday.—We drove right into a midwinter snowstorm last night. As I went into my lecture in Kenosha, Wis, it seemed as though hardly perceptible ice par icles were flying through the air. When we came out an hour and a quarter later, snow ay on all the streets. | This lecture was given for the eachers’ Union. In spite of the eather, the auditorium in the igh school was filled and everyhing went off with a precision |which delighted the soul of this ecturer., We actually began two inutes ahead of time, and the uestion period, announced to last 20 minutes, closed in exactly 20 inutes. | As I came out, a group of young eople waited for autographs. mong them was a crippled boy who had himself wheeled over in his chair. Snow or no snow, his idol is the President and he wasn't going to miss an opportunity to give Miss Thompson or myself his book| with the request that the President sign it. We are taking it back to Washington to await some auspiciows time when the President isn't snowed under with work fe can autograph the book.
After the lecture, we went to the Y. M, C. A. Build-
ing, so that I had an opportunity to nfeet many of |
taking lessons at Ryan School in San Diego during his vacation last summer.
A Real Cook, Too
MR. SEVITZKY 1S fond of his cooking prowess and he can actually prepare an entire meal from soup to dessert. Only trouble is that it takes at least six people to clean up the kitchen after him because he uses every pot and pan in sight. 2 He is firmly convinced that he's a handy man
around the house who can fix anything from a light]
socket to the Cadillac. He dces some trap shooting in the summer, and he wants to go duck hunting this fall,.except that he can’t find time. (He has been intending to go fishing with Earl Earl, the Murat Theater's veteran backstage doorman, ever since he got here, but there's never been any time.) At least four afternoons and evenings a week are given cover to the aspects of his musical activities. He spends a good deal of time at the Jordan Conservatory, where he is head of the orchestra department, and he conducts the student orchestra once a week.
About Custard—and Carrots
HE DOESN'T READ much, even in the summer, and consequently it's all the more surprising to his friends that he seems better informed on war, politics and other current happenings than they are. One reason is that he loves to talk with policemen, bank guards. stagehands and filling station attendants. How he memorizes all the scores for a whole season is something of a mystery. This prodigious and exacting task is sandwiched in with his other activities. He is blessed with a photographic and remarkably accurate memory and only rarely does he play over any of the music in the course of memorizing it. He dislikes: Dull colors in women’s clothes. Traffic lights. Unpunctuality. Custard (he says it's poison). He likes: Apple pie. Amos 'n’ Andy. Fred Waring. Carrots (a passion with him and he claims that they are good for the hair and, jocularly, that he thinks he's part rabbit). He saves string, toc. He will work 15 minutes on a knot rather than cut the string. Fact.
By Raymond Clapper
Cardenas had a revolutionary labor movement on his hands. It drove him into the oil expropriations, Insistence of American companies upon return of the properties—a political impossibility for any Mexican government—added further strain and left the situation deadlocked. Cardenas himself - has now recommended legislation intended to help toward a settlement. Avila Camacho has indicated a desire to reach a settlement. There will be no return of the properties, but he wants American management assistance and marketing outlets, Profits from these would be used to pay off the compensation. As he is anxious to make & deal, he probably is ready to make fair terms. Of course, Avila Comacho wants some money from the United States. He has a program of internal development that will have to be financed outside. He is opposed to foreign exploitation but wants development. He is willing to take measures to win our assistance. He is understood to be ready to make a debt settlement. A Catholic himself, he has indicated he is ready to recognize the church. He has driven out of power the ‘revolutionary labor leader, Lombardo Toledano, whose Communist direction and Nazi sympathies were creating much internal trouble.
Favors Defense Agreement
Avila Comacho was described earlier as a conservative surrounded with Leftists. He appears to have sloughed off the most powerful Leftist influence. He is more interested in consolidating existing reforms than in starting new ones. ® Most important of all, he is understood to be ready to enter into a joint defense agreement similar to the one we made recently with Canada. He appears to have decided that Mexico's lot must definitely be cast with the United States and to have turned his back upon all thought of flirting with. the Axis powers. Thus the way seems to be open now for a complete freezing out of the Axis influence in Mexico and for a solid front on the whole northern continent. That would have its helpful effect in promoting solidarity throughout the remainder of Latin America.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
the people interested in sponsoring the lecture. We started back to Chicago a little before 10 o'clock in what was by that time a real snowstorm. The snow gave a mysterious and rather enchanted air to the city. The houses around one ¢J the squares looked comfortable and inviting with the lights shining out of the windows on the snow. It is a pleasant custom, for it gives a sense of welcome to those who may happen to have to wander in the dark outside. We were back at the Hotel Stevens at 11:45 and enjoyed a midnight supper, In fact, yesterday we reversed all of our usual hours for meals and had no lunch save the proverbial English tea with an egg. We had no dinner and a midnight supper. We woke this morning to find Chicago covered with snow, My windows, which look out on the lake, framed a gray picture of clouds hanging over gray water. The snow is not falling any longer, and so I think we will find our drive this afternoon to Princeton, Ill. easy. In the meantime, four large envelopes of mail awaited us here from Washington and I think we will waste no time during the day. Greece still seems to be holding her own. Heroism is always a thrilling thing to read about. This little nation’s defense and the remarkable fight put up by the British ship against such tremendous odds, which saved so many of the convoy's ships, must make us proud of that quality in human beings which makes them able to rise above all selfish fears and interest and do their duty in the face of ‘danger and death. '
71 DEMOCRATS FILE SUIT FOR MASS RECOUNT
5 County, 16 Legislative Candidates Charge Fraud, Error.
Republican Party leaders conferred today on defense plans in the flood of recount suits filed late yes-
terday by 21 Democratic candidates defeated in the Nov. 5. election for county offices and seats in the Legislature. Separate suits were filed by each of the Democrats, five of whom sought county offices and 16, legislative seats. The county candidates’ suits contest the election of their opponents, charging that the plaintiffs believe “that there were mistakes and frauds committed in the official count of the votes cast . . that certain of the voting machines . . . were defective . . . and that certain of said voting machines . . had been and were unlawfully tampered with.”
Allege Malconduct
The suits alleged there was maliconduct and irregularities committed by both the precinct and canvassing boards, and that there were mistakes and fraud ‘in the official count of the votes. The county candidates filing suits and the vote by which the official returns showed them defeated were Prosecutor David M. Lewis, 131 ‘votes; County Commissioners John Newhouse and William A. Brown, 'by 1171 and 1123 votes, respectively; Surveyor John C. Ryan, 1392, and Dr. John E. Wyitenbach, for Coroner, by 1308. Senate candidates filing were E. Curtis White, defeated by 105 votes; {Joseph F. Sexton, by 68 votes; Jacob | Weiss, by 467; Dr. Theodore Cable, ‘by 1171, and John Bright Webb, by 11597 (unofficial count). Mr. Webb {was a candidate for joint Senator i from Marion and Johnson Counties.
Margins From 206 to 1895
The candidates for Representatives who filed were Mrs. Edna H. Bingham, Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson, Charles W. Lahrman, Mercer M. Mance, David H.Badger, Walter Truman, Bess Robbins Kaufman, Maurice T. Harrell, Robert M. Stith, Robert Allison and Ira Haymaker Jr. the latter a candidate for joint Representative. The Democratic candidates for Representative lost by margins ranging from 206 to 1895 votes. Each of the suits contests the election of the successful G. O. P. candidates and demands a recount of the vote cast. In the cases of the five county candidates, the procedure is for the vCircuitt Court judge to name three recount commissioners, one of whom must be a voting machine mechanic. The court can name separate sets of commissioners in each case, or one set for all plaintiffs. After they have recounted the vote, the recount commissioners present their results to the judge. The latter. after considering these reports and any evidence of fraud or error presented in testimony, decides the case, sending his finding to the County Clerk, who, in turn, certifies it. to the Secretary of State. Legislature Gets Testimony
In the case of the legislative candidates, the procedure for the recount is the same as for the county candidates. But in the contest actions, the County Clerk appoints two justices of the peace to hear evidence of fraud or error, certifying the testimony he receives to the Secretary of State for submission to and final action by the Legislature. The only Democratic legislative candidate shown elected was Judson West, who crowded Lawrence A. ‘Shaw, Republican, out of a House
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Mr. Shaw, who previously had ;announced he would ask a recount, today said he had decided not to {ile suit “in order to preserve peace and harmony in the Republican Party and in order not to jeopardize the election of those Republicans who have been elected to the House.”
: Sees Automatic Réview
He said his case automatically would be reviewed by the House undep the Democratic candidates’ conest. Egch of the legislative recounts suits included a paragraph containing a general allegation that there had been mistakes and fraud in the count of both machine and paper ballots. The suit filed by Mr. Sexton included an additional paragraph specifically citing the voting machine count in Precinct 13, Ward 12. Mr. Sexton told reporters that all other Democratic candidates inithat precinct received votes ranging from 361 to 366, but that he received only 204. He said the voting machine had broken down twice during election day and mechanics had been summoned to repair it. He added that he feels a mechanical error was responsible for his low vote there,
RELEASE OF TROTSKY SUSPECT BLOCKED
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 16 (U. P.). —Release of Sylvia Ageloff, of Brooklyn, who has been held by police in connection with the assassination of Leon Trotsky, was blocked today by District Attorney Luis Garcia. A release order had been signed three days ago after Trotsky's wife had said she believed Miss Ageloff was innocent of complicity in the murder. Garcia appealed the order, maintaining that Miss Ageloff’s innocence had not been proved.
RESIGNS HOSPITAL POST
LOGANSPORT, Ind., Nov. 16 (U. P.).—Gladys Brandt, superintendent of the Cass County Hospital since 1926, had resigned today fo direct the Children’s Free Hospital at Louisville, Ky. Lucille Jakes of Logansport, former superintendent of the Jasper
Storm Leaves Its Mark on Lake Freighter
FARM BUREAU FGHTS CUT IN
Captain Howard Kizer, on bridge of the freighter “Joseph Block,” after he and crew had fought their way to Indiana Harbor, Ind., through one of the worst Lak
e Michigan storms in history of lake traffic. Note the heavy ice on the railings and other parts of ship. :
TOWER CONTROL CLASS PLANNED
City Airport Operator to Be . Teacher; CAA Gives Its Approval.
By SAM TYNDALL The nation's first class for airport control tower operators will be established next week at the Turner Aeronautical School. Col. Roscoe Turner, company president, announced that Max Emery, veteran control tower operator at the Municipal Airport, will be instructor.’ The course, which this week received the approval of the Civil Aeronautics Authority. will open with three students. Col Turner said because of the general expansion of aviation and airports under
the stimulus of national defense, “trained control tower operators will be in demand.” The course will be designed to give “model” instruction with a view to making traffic control methods. directed by tower operators, uni-| form throughout the country. The Turner School also has initiated the first course in instrument or “blind” landing to be offered by an aviation school. An airplane and engine mechanics school is to be opened shortly after the first of the year. Col. Turner also said the company’s new airplane service shop just completed its first service job for a passenger airline—the Mirow Air Service operating in Alaska. A huge radial motor was. shipped to Indianapolis for overhauling and is to be shipped back to Nome, Alaska, Monday. { The speed flier said that the new hangar-school building now under construction south of the airport administration building will be completed in 30 days.
TWO FACE PIRACY CHARGE IN MICHIGAN
ESCANABA, Mich, Nov - 16. — (U.P.)—Clair Graham and Owen Montgomery, of Milwaukee, Wis., were held today awaiting Federal charges of piracy for allegedly looting the abandoned freighter Sinaloa aground in Sac Bay.
When. arrested at Gladstone, Mich., near here, they had in their possession $150 currency, a direction finder, pilot wheel, compass and personal effects of sailors of the Sinaloa. The Sinaloa was driven
Snorers Real British Menace
Times Special LONDON, Nov. 16—S—n—o—r=-I—Z-2~2~Z~Z. It’s alright for Britons to snore that way in their homes, if they still have an unbombed shelter, but the confirmed and noisy snorer is deemed a real nuisance if he trumpets his night music in some public air-raid shelter where 100 to 200 sleep-hungry people are trying to grab a few winks. The offenders are awakened by “shelter-shakers,” unofficial citi zens who tap a snorer on the shoulder and tell him he is disturbing other people. Persistent offenders aye told to get out and stay out. The. snore menace has become so serious recently that it’s affecting the health of the entire civilian population, snorers being worse sleep-disturbers than Nazi bombs.
LUDLOW FIGHTS ADJOURNMENT
People Expect Congress to Be Stabilizing Factor, He Declares.
Timer Special
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Rep.
Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) has joined
forces with those congressmen opposing the proposal to adjourn Congress. i In a prepared statement, Mr. Ludlow said: “If it was right before the election to oppose adjournment of Congress it is right after the election. “Some members of Congress seem to think that now the election is over there would be no political hazard in voting for adjournment and I regret to say that a desire to obtain the session mileage, which would not be available unless Congress adjourns, is a controlling fac-
‘tor with some members.
“The people of America are expecting Congress to be a stabilizing factor in the governmental scheme and to represent with vigor and determination the people's desire to keep out of foreign wars and foreign entanglements. Congress has no right to abdicate its responsibilities in these critical times.”
ICRASH INJURIES FATALS WARSAW, Ind. Nov. 16 (U. P). —Mrs. Linn Strong, 69, of Kalamazoo, Mich., died in a local hospital yestedray of injuries received in an automobile accident at Etna
aground in the storm Monday on Lake Michigan.
One of a series taking a draftee into Uncle Sam's new Army.
By MILTON BRONNER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—John Q. Citizen, drafted for the Army by his local board, thought when he sent them esiomaire in which he told all about himself that he was through with papers. But about the first or second day he is at an Army reception center he reports to an officer Tho is armed with a tan-colored card with small holes punched on all four sides. These ares for the automatic classification of the card. It becomes part of John’s permanent record in the Army. John gives his {full name, the Army serial number which has been assigned to him, the birthplac: of his father, mother and himself, hew long he has been in this country if not born here, the date of his birth. Then follows a whole series of questions as to his education and whether he can speak German, French, Spanish or any other foreign language. If so, he is asked how fluently he can speak and read it. He is tested later to see whether he has overestimated his ability. A speaker of a foreign language might come in useful if the country were at war. : He is asked as to his main occupation in civilian life and whether he has, so to speak, a second and a third occupation. He tells of his hobbies, the favcrite sports in hich he engages, and whether he has any talent for public entertainment by singing, acting or playing a mu-
County Hospital at Rensselaer, was name to succeed her.
sical instrument.
Johnny Gets His Gun
Army Tests to Hunt Out Specialists Among Draftees
Green Monday night.
If John Q. claims he's an expert at flapjacks and cooking in general, he’ll be given a practical test.
He also tells what, if any, previous military training and. experience he has had. If he claims he is skilful at a trade, he will be given a practical test. One of the reasons is that the Army is seeking occupational specialists, like bakers, cooks, pharmacists, radio experts, etc. Upon the results of the card and the tests, the Army classifier will decide whether a draftee shall serve in a cdmbat unit or as an occupational specialist whose services the Army needs.
FIRST DRAFTEES ARRIVE TUESDAY
75 Men Expected at Fort; 320 More Are Due By Nov. 25.
By interurban, train and bus, the State's first draft contingent of 75 men will roll into Ft. Harrison Tuesday. The first 14 will come from Indi-
anapolis and will reach the Army Post at 8:25 a. m, by interurban.
{These men will leave the Traction
Terminal at 7:50 a. m, Four men each will be supplied by Draft Boards 1, 2 and 4 and two men by Draft Board 3. One person will be designated the leader in each draft group and will be charged with the responsibility of delivering his group to Ft. Harrison.
9 From Delaware County
The first 14 will be followed by six other groups, to arrive at spaced intervals throughout the day. Nine will reach the Fort at 9:37 a, m. by train from Muncie and Delaware County. At 10:08 a. m. the Greyhound bus from Marion will leave six men from Grant County at Ft. Harrison, while a special interurban arriving at 11:20 will bring in 36 more from 11 counties. The counties represented in this contingent are: Crawford, 1; Clay, 3; Clarke, 4; Martin, 1: Howard, 6; Decatur, 2; Cass, 4; Bartholomew, 3; Floyd 4; Clinton, 5, and Dearborn, 3. Met by Officers
At 12:07 the interurban will bring two men from Greenfield, Ind., and six others from Porter and three from Dubois County, will arrive at
2:20 p. m, The last draftees will be two men from Rensselaer who will arrive at 3:20 p. m. The men will be met as they reach the Fort by Army officers and will be given a medical examination. If they pass, they will be sworn into the service, ~Their year's service begins the moment they take the oath, In case a man is rejected by the Army examiner, the local board will replace him immediately.
Then to Ft. Thomas
After they are given their oaths, the men will be sent to Ft. Thomas, Ky., by train. There they will be uniformed. From Ft, Thomas they will be sent to various training posts. One hundred draftees will be received at the Fort Wednesday: 110 on Friday and the final 110 of the State's call of 395 men on Monday, Nov. 25. The same procedure will be- followed.
SEALS BROKEN ON
BALLOT CONTAINERS
MADISON, Ind. Nov. 16 (U. P.) .— Seals on the Switzerland County ballots cast in the Nov. 5 election were broken when they were delivered at the Jefferson County Court House, officials disclosed today. The ballots: were transferred to Madison on a court order growing out of a controversy over a judgeship in the Jefferson-Switzerland circuit. Witnesses said that seals on 25 of 90 ballots containers were broken when they were received by Marston V. Shepherd, Jefferson County clerk. Mr. Shepherd acknowledged receipt of the ballots, but specified that some of the seals were broken.
YOUTH, 16, CONVICTED OF COAST MURDER
SAN JOSE, Cal, Nov. 16 (U. P.). —A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury, after four hours’ deliberation, last night convicted 16-year-old Robert Mandell, a junior high school student, of first degree murder in the brick slaying of Josephine Parsen, his 16-year-old schoolmate. Young Mandell, who heard the guilty verdict without show of emotion, will be sentenced to life im-
prisonment under state law unless] : he is found insane in a subsequent].
sanity trial scheduled for next week. ' The boy's mother, Lorena Mandell, collapsed into the arms of her husband when the verdict was read. She was helped from the courtroom. Sobbing and weeping was
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SHARE OF LEVY
Brandon Predicts 50,000 New Members in StateWide Drive.
Indiana's Farm Bureau members looked forward today to a state-wide membership drive and to a possible fight in the next Legislature over
the Gross Income Tax Law. Every farm home not a member of the Indiana Farm Bureau is to be visited by the organization's representatives next Tuesday between 8 a. m, and 5 p. m. Larry Brandon, bureau secretary, expects the’ drive to net. 50,000 members, maybe more, On the gross tax question, the bureau in its closing convention session yesterday in Tomlinson Hall, voted to maintain its stand against any move which would pare the total revenue gained from the law,
Resolutions Passed
In all, the bureau passed $1 reso= lutions on state and national farm problems. Among them was one which urged reforestation of land, ruined by strip mines, The bureau also said that some system should he set up that would continue tax payment on the land, which usublly is abandoned or turned over to the State when the territory's coal supe ply has been exhausted. 4 As the bureau's representatives to the American Farm Bureau con vention in Baltimore Dec. 9 to 12, Hassil E, Schenck, president of the Indiana bureau; Larry Brandon, bureau secretary, and Mrs. Lilly D, Scott, second vice president, were named as voting delegates. Three alternates were elected? Arthur Arnott, Rensselaer;®Oliver Cannon, Knox, and Mrs. Russell Cushman, Fortville, All are district presidents.
Valuation Study Urged
Before the convention closed, C. R. Benjamin, Republican member of the State Board of Tax Commis~ sioners, urged the farmers to confer now with their county assessors on future real estate evaluations, Orville Schock, field representative for the State board, explained that it will be up to the Legislature meeting in January whether there will be a general re-assessment next
‘year.
The bureau has resolved that the Legislature should not order this general re-assessment unless assess= ors are to be supplied with and instructed in standardized forms of evaluation. Purdue University has . done considerable work on such standardized ‘forms, as have the Federal Housing Administration and the Farm Security Administration.
BRITISH MYSTIFIED BY NAZI ‘WELCOME’
ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 16 (U. P.),— The regularity with which German fliers meet fleets of Royal Air Force planes being ferried “secretly” from Canada to England has mystified British officers, according to Mark L. Arnold, a “ferry pilot” for the British purchasing mission. Whenever a fleet of United States or Canadian - manufactured war= planes, flight-delivered across the Atlantic, nears Ireland a squadron of Germans arrives with uncanny accuracy. “willing and waiting” for them, Arnold, a Texan, said. “We feel that this is directly traceable to highly organized Fifth Column activity in Canada,” he said. “Of course, we have no facts, but you can readily see that these encounters are not chance affairs, “Trans-ocean trips are arranged with utmost secrecy. Only one other person besides the pilot knows the place of destination and not until we are actually ready to take off are we given our instructions.” __ The fliers are given no specifia field as a destination, only a certain air position at an approximate time to meet the beam which guides them to a landing, he added.
PRESS ORDER RESCINDED
MADRID, Nov. 16 (U. P.).—The Spanish Government announced today that orders forbidding American: correspondents in Spain to operate after next Monday, had been cancelled.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Do python snakes kill by cone striction or venomous bites? 2—Name the city in Missouri that is not in a county. 3—The last state to enter the Union was New Mexico, Arizona or Oklahoma? 4—Does salt water weigh more, less, or the same, as fresh water? 5—Is the planet, Mercury, larger or smaller than the Moon? 6—The maxim, “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do toe day,” was first proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson, Lord Chester field or Benjamin Franklin? T—Which President of the United States was known as the “Little Magician?” 8—Complete the proverb, “Look bee fore you Ys :
Answers
1—Constriction. 2—St. Louis. 3—Arizona. 4—More. 5—Larger. 6—Lord Chesterfield. T—Martin Van Buren. 8—Leap. '
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