Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1940 — Page 19
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FRIDAY, NOV. 22, 1940
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—This is a'column about Ray Clapper. I am writing it because I consider him the outstanding columnist of 1940. I doubt if there is another columnist writing today who holds the deep : respect of his readers, and of the ‘men he writes about, that Ray Clapper does. : You who read him know that his sincerity projects itself outward from the printed page into . Your own consciousness. Yet sincerity is: hardly the word any more. We grant sincerity to too many people we don’t like. Clapper’s sincerity is something else. I have searched my head in vain for a way to describe . it. And then last night I think Mrs. Clapper put into four words what I was trying to say about her husband. “He isn’t selling anything,” she said. That's it exactly. Most of the other newspaper commentators are almost evangelical in their desires to make you believe what they Believe. Clapper isn’t * that way. He seems to weigh his subjects each day, not out of some divine power to see better than other men, but out of old-fashioned horse sense. Raymond “Slapper has been writing* his national political column for six years. But he has spent a quarter of a century covering politics as a reporter. He is now in his middie 40s. He loves politics. His column is published in some 85 newspapers. *
Kansas Boy Makes Good
Clapper comes from Kansas. He worked his own way through high school there. In his third year he eloped with a girl, and then they both went back to school. Ray also worked his way through the University of Kansas. Then he stepped into newspaper work which took him to Kansas City, Chicago, St. Paul, New York and finally Washington. He landed here in 1918. Except for considerable travel, he has been here ever since. Raymond Clapper, like his column, is unspectacular. His speech, his clothes, his manner of life are all Just plain American, without. any of the eccentricities that make some public figures such colorful newspaper copy. He is still married to the girl he eloped with in high school. Her name is Olive, and she is proud of her husband. They live in suburban Chevy Chase.
Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”
SOME SHOCKING INCIDENTS, we regret to inform you, have been occurring at the County’s voting machine warehouse up on Northwestern Ave. where the recount of the Treasurer's race is now being conducted. It develops that Pat Burnett, one of the voting machine guards, got an acute distaste of “just sitting” so he rigged up a battery and coil, with a couple of wires leading to the warehouse office. He has been having a barrel of fun watching his fellow guards and recount officials jump and yell when they touched the door handle and he pushed the button, Among those shocked was Charles McCutcheon, another guard. So, while Mr. Burnett was off duty the other day, Mr, McCutcheon added another wire, which he connected to a nail in Mr, Burnett's chair, In came Mr, Burnett later, plumped himself down in the chair and proceeded to wait happily for his next victim. Sure enough, one came. Mr, Burnett snickered as he pushed the button. “Ow!” yelled the victim at the door. Mr. Burnett didn’t hear, though. He was yelling
“ow-ow” as he leaped into the air like that daring young man on the flying trapeze.
Ye Olde Poggiec Taxe
THE SUBJECT OF DOGS apparently will occupy a good deal of attention when the Indiana County and Township Officials hold their annual convention here next month. ‘The whole thing revolves
Washington
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. —It might almost be said that as Spain goes, so goes the war. If it is not quite that simple, there is enough in the idea to warrant the United States and Great Britain trying to hold Spain out of the Axis bloc. : Out of the Axis bloc? Spain is halfway in, and still halfway out. Franco has been hclding back. His brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Serrano Suner, is playing with the Axis. Serrano Suner has again made a pilgrimage to the Axis, this . time to Berchtesgaden. He seems to be the leading candidate for the fifth column job in Spain. If the Axis can go through Spain to Gibraltar, then the real trouble for Britain begins. Serrano apparently is ready to co-operate to that end.
Franco is showing relictance to turn on the green light. One might suspect that the brothers-in-law of Spain are working both sides of the street, playing the Axis against the British in order to shove up the price before opening the door full-wide for Hitler. Yet there is some reason to question that—enough reason to make it worth the while of London and Washington to canvass the possibility of bolstering up Franco. Spain’s Plight Desperate That probably would be done in a hurry, principally with American economic aid, if Franco would give convincing assurance that he would keep Spain neutral and not turn it over as a corridor for the Axis forces. If such assurance were forthcoming, things might begin to happen. For some time this Government has had under advisement Spain’s request for a large advance of credit. Action has heen delayed because of unsatisfactory
treatment of American interests in Spain. Gradually .
the plight of Spain has become worse, with famine and unbelievable privation ahead and increasing un-
My Day
HYDE PARK, Thursday—We returned to Washington early yesterday morning from Henderson, N. C., and I had the pleasure of having Madame Tabouis
to lunch with me. The rest of the day was filled with such things as having my hair washed, trying to catch up on the mail and seeing various people. This morning I am back in Hyde Park, staying with my mother-in-law and the rest of the family in the big house, where we are celebrating Thanksgiving for the first time in many years. The President's custom of being in Warm Springs, Ga., with the Foundation trustees and the patients on this day, has meant that we have not been able to be here with his mother. The family is so scattered now that we are a small party here, but it is very pleasant to be at home and what we lack in numbers we shall make up in gaiety, We shall telephone our various far-distant children wherever it is possible to reach them this evening. This always gives me a sense of nearness. The sound of someone's voice whom you really care about tells you so much more than any written words. I often think, when the telephone becomes a nuis-
Hoosier Vagabond
By Ernie Pyle
Within a month they will move intp a new home of their own—their first. They have built it mainly, they say, so theyll have room to get away from Janet's suitors. Janet is 16, and is pretty well overwhelmed with young men who adore her. During an evening at the Clapper home, Janet contributes as much to the conversations as anyone else, and she has her own mature opinions on all the heavy topics of the day. t : The other Clapper offspring is Peter, who is 13 and as redheaded as a brick. Peter is an expert on fine printing. He has a printing press in his room, and has made quite a bit of spending money doing cards and invitations. Also he collects campaign buttons. In the winter, the conduct of the column requires that the Clappers do considerable entertaining. They give frequent dinners, and large parties. Many Senators and Government big-wigs are among their intimate friends.
Writes for “Omaha Milkman”
Two or three times a year Ray makes a swing around the country. He doesn’t like this kind of traveling, and he does it only to get out of Washington and see what the rest of the nation is thinking. On these trips he does quite a bit of lecturing. He doesn't mind the actual speaking, but he finds that the double task of speaking and writing wears him out. Also, he has a horror of the tail finally wagging the dog—in other words, of being known as a lecturer rather than a columnist. Six years ago, when he first started writing his column, Ray was very much impressed with his fan mail. One day he received a letter which especially touched him. It was from a boy 10 years old. “Hmm,” Ray said to himself. good it even impresses children.”
In his pride, he took it home and read it aloud at
dinner, response. fessed that she wrote the letter herself! Ray takes pride in writing so that anyone can un-' derstand him. Every city, I suppose, has its mythical “average” character for whom the entire newspaper is theoretically written. In my Washington days, we wrote for the “New York Ave. streetcar conductor.” Ray Clapper writes for “the milkman in Omaha.” He has come a long way from his own prairie days, but to him the milkman in Omaha is still America, and that feeling is probably what is making his column a great one.
He was annoyed by the familv's lack of
Hitler's Plans For Brazil
(INSTALLMENT FIVE) This is the fifth installment of Herman Rauschning’s sensational book, “The Voice of Destruction,” which has been termed by book-reviewers as one of the most important volumes of the year, a sort of *‘behind-the-scenes ‘Mein
mate conversations with his close associates, of whom the author was one.’ Today’s installment tells of Hitler's plans in the Americas and of how he designed his fifth-column forces to precede his armies.
IT was on this terrace
“My column is sO |
It all came out when Janet, 10, con-'
about the dog tax and the fact that the cities bear more of the dog tax load than the counties and that female dogs are taxed more than male dogs. Anyway, the dog owners have been taking large bites out of the trousers of the county and township officials and it now seems pretty certain that the organization is going to pass the bite right on to the Legislature. Bye, Bye Tracks THEY'RE LAYING CEMENT over the old tracks| at the bus terminal. You know, the tracks that used to serve all those interurbans which came into town. . « .» Generals get the breaks. Maj. Gen. Robert Tyndall has been assigned the “mansion” at Ft. Shelby, Miss., a six-room cottage. Add to that the fact that he’s also been assigned a long, sleek limousine. . . . Christmas decorations have started to go up all over town and now that Thanksgiving is over you can be prepared for some of the nicest and cleverest displays of the year.
Such Is Fame
THE NORMAL COLLEGE of the American Gymnastic Union, which merged today with Indiana University, is perhaps one of the best-known institutions vt its kind in the world and yet many persons living in the neighborhood of the school at 415 E. Michigan
St. could not tell you where it was or what it was. The N. A. G. U. has long had an enviable reputation and fully 90 per cent of its students have come from out of the city. | Quit trying to guess. We'll tell you. N. A. G. v.| has turned out most of the best physical education teachers,
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By Raymond Clapper
rest directed at the Franco regime. The Spanish dictator is desperate and must have aid, if not from the British and the United States then from the Axis. The Axis is in no position to give Franco much help with his food problem. And if he goes over to the Axis, of course, all hope of help from the United States would be ended. It may be, as has so often been the case in this war, that the United States and Great Britain will be out-traded and miss the bus. The Axis crowd are fast workers and Serrano Suner has gone to see them several times. Great Britain's interest in heading him | off and in holding Franco is immense and immediate. | The British, however, are in no position to provide food or other supplies; they could only relax the blockade. The rest probably would be up to us.
Small World for the Nazis
Earlier the attitude here toward large credits for Spain was hostile. Now it is much more favorable. But it is not likely that this Government would act, or could gain the support of public opinion, except after a clear demonstration that Franco intended to keen Spain neutral. ‘ Why do we bother with it? Because if the Axis| goes through Spain to Gibraltar and succeeds in clos- | ing off the Mediterranean, the British would suffer a most serious blow. Greek resistance would collapse. Turkey and the whole Near East would be isolated. The large resources of Africa would then be within reach of the Axis and the British blockade would begin to leak like a sieve. Then Hitler would indeed be sitting pretty. If all this seems a long way off from America, it might be remembered that down the west coast of} Africa lies Dakar, which is closer to the coast of Brazil than Panama is. It's a small world for the Nazis. The judgment of Americans familiar with South America is that if the Germans show up on the west coast of Africa, just about that time the good neighbor will find that the Latins are making hig eyes at the new neighbor.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
ance in my life and I am irritated at its constant ringing, how grateful we should be for the joyous moments its brings us and for the relief which can come over the wires in cases of emergency. News from far away, a few years ago took days and weeks to reach us. Today a voice can be carried straight into the sickroom and relieve uncertainty, which is perhaps the most difficult thing to bear. Though I am staying in the big house on this visit, I have been over to my cottage and found everything being arranged for the winter months. Porch and garden furniture is put away, the climbing roses are all covered up. leaves have been raked up and burned. The work which the tree experts warned me should be done on my trees this autumn, is already begun. There is only one thing I change in my cottage in| winter. I put down before the fireplace a big white bearskin rug, which Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde brought me from Greenland some years ago. Somehow he, gives added warmth to my hearth when winter is really | upon us, and I love to have him in front of the fire. | I always wish for a dog in the country, a nice little | black Scottie to live on the white bearskin rug, but I promised myself that I would not subject any other dogs to life in the White House. It is altogether too exciting and uncertain to be satisfactory for a dog's existence, so I imagine I must wait again a little while before the picture of that little black dog on my white bearskin rug comes true. .
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that, after dinner one evening in the early summer of 1933, 1 was present at a conversation that was most revealing of Hitler's political opinions about America, and showed how far-reaching were his plans even then, and how mistaken was the belief that National Socialism had political aims only in the east
‘and southeast of Europe.
A trusted, leading member of the S. A. had just returned from South America, and Hitler had engaged him in conversation, and asked him many questions. He
| was specially interested in Brazil.
“We shall create a new Germany there,” he cried. “We shall find everything we need there.” He then outlined broadly all ‘that a hard-working and energetic government could do to create order, All the pre-condi-tions for a revolution were there, a revolution which in a few decades, or even years, would transform a corrupt mestizo state into a German dominion. “Besides, we have a right to this continent, for the Fuggers and Welsers had possessions there. We have got to repair what our German disunity has destroyed: we must see to it that it is no longer true that we have lost all that ve once occupied. The time has passed for us-to give place, to Spain, to Portugal, and be every-
| Where at a disadvantage.”
Von P.. his guest. agreed as to the special opportunities of Ger-
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“FT HESE people will need us it they are going to make anything of their country,” Hitler remarked. They had less use, he said, for investment capital than for the spirit of enterprise and for organizing ability. And they were fed up with the United States. They knew they were being exploited by them, snd had nothing to expect from them for the development of their country. “We shall give them hoth: capital and the spirit of enterprise. We shall make them a third gift: our philosophy,” said Hitler. “If ever there is a place where democracy is senseless and suicidal, it is in South America. We must strengthen these people's clear conscience, so that they may be enabled to throw both their liberalism and their democracy overboard. They are actually ashamed of their good instincts! They think they must still give lipservice to democracy. Let us wait a few years, and in the meantime do what we can to help them. But
Kampf’ ” It tells of Adolf Hitler's inti-
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“We shall give Brazil both cagital and the spirit of enterprise. We shall make them a third gift, our philosophy,” said Hitler.
we must send oyr people out to them. Our youth must learn to colonize. For this, we have no need of formal officials and gover-
nors. Audacious youth is what we want. They need not go into the jungle, either, to clear the ground. What we want are people in good society. What do you know about the German colony? Can anything be done along these lines?” He turned to von P., who replied that it was very doubtful whether we ought to keep in touch with good society. In his opinion we should attain our purpose more quickly by making use of other classes, such as the Indios and the mestizos. : “Both, my dear P.,” Hitler interrupted impatiently. “We require two movements abroad, a loyal and a revolutionary one. Do you think that's so difficult? I think we have proved that we are, capable of it. We should not be | here otherwise. We shall. not land troops like William the Conqueror and gain Brazil by the strength of arms. Our weapons are not visible ones. Our conquistadores, my dear P., have a more difficult task than
the original ones, and for this
reason they have more difficult weapons.” un E- n ITLER asked further questions about German possibilities in South America. The Argentine and Bolivia were in the first line of interest, and it appeared that there were many points where National Socialist in-
fluenee might make itself felt. Essentially it was a question of personnel. The task of getting a firm foothold in Latin America and squeezing out North American and Hispano-Portuguese influence could only be carried out by new, energetic, unscrupulous representatives of overseas Germanhood. 1 turned to Hanfstangel with the suggestion that this seemed to me a most alarming repetition in an aggravated form of the whole pre-war policy. Would it not be wiser not to challenge Britain and America, at least until Germany's position was unassailable? Moreover, this proposed policy was in contradiction to the fundamental rules laid down by “Mein Kampf.” But now for the first time I heard derogatory mention made of this book in Hitler's presence, and concluded from this that it was by no means regarded in the inner circles as the binding pronouncement it was given out to be for the masses. It was Hanfstangel's opinion that sooner or later we should in any case have to face the hostility of the United States and Britain. Germany was ready. Was I still cherishing, he contemptuously asked, illusions about Britain? As for the United States, they would certainly never interfere in Europe again; he knew that better than anyone, for he knew these gentry and their weaknesses. Britain, he proclaimed, sas dead. Where else,
he added, should Germany get the elements of her future world em=pire if not from the disintegrating empires of Britain and France? The final struggle with Britain could not be evaded. ” " HAT night I heard mentioned for the first time the general outlines of the future great German overseas Reich. I was amazed to hear that Hitler was reaching out to the Pacific. Above all, he was interested in the former great German island empire, embracing the Dutch possessions and the whole of New Guinea. Japan must not be allowed to grow too big, Hitler remarked. It must be deflected against China and Russia. But Hitler also anticipated a Central African Dominion of Germany, as well as a complete revolutionary transformation of the U. S. A. With the breakdown of thz British Empire, Hitler believed he could also break Anglo-Saxon influence in North America, and substitute for it the German language and culture as a preliminary step towards incorporating the United States in the German world empire.
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o (Summer of 1934, after the June “purgée.”’) HIS brings me to Mexico,
which was actually mentioned in a much later conversa-
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tion of Hitler's in 1934. Mexico played a special part in Hitler's American plans, which were, how= ever, nothing like Papen’'s notorie ous intrigues during the last war to push Mexico into war against the United States. This policy Hitler regarded as sheer stupidity. Here, too, he was prepared to initiate far-sighted schemes and enterprises, the end of which he could not expect to see. His plans presupposed much longer periods of ‘time than his ropean schemes, and his impatience towards European problems will be understood only if it is seen against the background of his greater plans, for which his European policy was to provide the power basis. One man has evidently greatly . influenced his conception; cone< cerning Mexico, a :nan who was a curious mixture of the great in=dustrialist and the eccentric: Sir Henry Deterding of the Royal Dutch. I have made his acquiaintance myself. He shared Hitler's interest in the Ca‘icasian oil of the Russians, and was one of the promoters of certain plans for a further partition of Russia. Directly or indirectly, Deterding convinced Hitler that Mexico was the best and richest country in the world with the laziest and most dissipated population under the sun. Only the most capable and industrious people -in the world, namely, the Germans, would be able to make something of it. This notion fell on very fruitful soil in Hitler's mind. On one of my last visits (it - as after June 30, 1934, when I saw him to give him a report on Danzig conditions), he spoke of Mexico along these lines. It was at this time that the economic difficulties of the Reich commenced, as did also those of Danzig, the breakdown of whose currency system was then imminent. Hitler's , mood fluctuated between blackest depression and uncontrollable rage, After the terrible blood-bath of June, he was not even sure of his own party.
” ” ” MONG intimate friends, Hitler let himself go. I often heard him shout and stamp his feet. The slightest contradiction threw him into a rage. People be= gan to be afraid of his incalculable temper. The terror of the 30th June and the bloody deeds against patriots an dcitizens were bearing fruit. | , Everywhere, Hitler complained,
" there were nothing but sterile old
men in their second childhood, Hitler then began to dream of all he could do:if only he were not surrounded by a lot of indolent old fools who had got stuck in routine. For instance, there was this country Mexico. Who in the Foreign Office would have bothered about it? This was a matter that must be dealt with in a large way. “If we had that country,” said the Fuehrer; “we should solve all our difficulties. Mexico is a country that cries for a capable master. It is being ruined by its Government, With the treasure of Mexican soil, Germany could be rich and great! Why do we not tackle this task? You could get this Mexico for a couple of hundred million. Why should I not make an alliance with Mexico, a «defense alliance, and a customs alliance? But these official donkeys only pull when they have the old refuse cart behind them. Because a thing has never been done before, they think it can’t be done now!”
NE X T—Continuing Hitler's views on the Americas.
URUGUAY SPLIT Watch That Cold! 29 Died of
Pneumonia During October
OVER AIR BASES
‘Senate Attack on U. S. Is
first of its annual |the-head waves,
Bitter; Foreign Affairs Chief May Quit.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov. 22
BY RICHARD LEWIS
Indianapolis is going through the
winter cold-in-Dr. Herman GG. Morgan, City Health officer, warned today. Take it easy, he advised.
Undecided but generally cold
iweather, lack of winter sunshine, lack of proper exercise, overheated
(U. P.) —Bitter attacks on United | rooms, and smog have helped proStates’ “imperialistic policies” in the duce the first winter wave of colds,
Senate postponed indefinitely today the question of whether Uruguay joins other South American countries in building naval and air bases
for the defense of the western hemisphere. A debate on foreign policy in the Senate lasted until 2 a. m. today, and one of its chief results may be the resignation of Dr. Alberto Guani, Minister of Foreign Affairs, The Senate approved a motion offered by Dr. Luiz Albert de Herrera, a leader of a minority party bearing his name, against any agreement to establish hemispheric naval and air bases in Uruguay which would not be controlled by Uruguay. In effect, the Senate said it would never approve - the construction of bases which might affect Uruguayan sovereignty.
During the debate it was made!
clear that the Senate felt that even though bases were constructed and owned by Uruguay, if she borrowed money from the United States to build them, it would signify her “dependence and subjection.” One of the chief points of the herreraistas was an attack on United States “imperialistic policies” and the argument that the United States had a record of “encroachment” in Latin America. They said they feared an “encroachment” by the United States in Uruguayan territory.
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 22 (U. P.). —The newspaper, Criticia, said today that it had uncovered a NaziFascist plan to divide Buenos-Aires into four sections for eventful control of the city and that new orders from Rome and Berlin called for intensification of totalitarian activity throughout Argentinay
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sore throats amd associated respiratory ailments he said. This, he added, is scheduled to go on more or less all winter. And with it, comes pneumonia. Last month, 29 persons died of pneumonia in Indianapolis, compared to 14 deaths in October, 1939, and 42 deaths in October, 1938. The pneumonia mortality toll so far this month is nine. “Any cold which is capable of producing temperature is sufficient to warrant early medical attention,” Dr. Morgan said. Colds, he warned, may ‘lead to pneumonia if not checked. If pneumonia develops, medicine's new antipneumonia discoveries—serum and sulfapyridine—can be administered to head off the disease." “The effectiveness of these treatments,” he said, is considerably strengthened through early diag« nosis.” The health officer’s anti-cold precaution: Stay home, so that others don't catch it, and keep warm and dry to get rid of it. 8 8» One of City Hall hotter potatoes at present is the zoning variance sought by the Fletcher Trust Co. to enable the Pure Oil Co. to erect a 300,000 gasoline and oil bulk plant at 16th and Missouri Sts. The Zoning Board postponed ac-
tion on the variance request Mon-
day until the petitioner could summon experts to show the relative amount of hazard connected with the storage plant. But inthe meantime, two powerful groups of interests are wrangling over the proposal. One group opposing. the variance contends the
~ plant would be a permanent indus-
on the way to recovery.
trial hazard in the neighborhood,
not far from the hospital center, and
‘Charles Rockwood = Home
vould depreciate the value of nearby property. The other group pooh-poohs the {idea of hazard, contends, the improvement would raise : property values, and claims the site on which the plant would be located has been unproductive for years. cials themselves are divided on the variance, »
weeks, is much improved now and He's expected back after Christmas. His illness has forced him into the first “vacation” since his appointment, 10 years ago.
MONTICELLO MAN HEADS FARM GUILD
Robert Spencer, Monticello, Ind. farmer, has been elected president of the National Farmers Guild for the
| third consecutive time.
Mr, Spencer was elected at the annual convention this week at Ann Arbor, Mich. He has been president of the local guild at Monticello for the past two years. Other officers are Arthur C. Hellerman, Tremont, Ill, first vice president; Edward E. Kennedy, Washington, D. C., second vice president, and William Tanner of Kankakee, Ill., secretary-treasurer.
AT LEAST 50 DEAD IN JAMAICA TORRENT
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov, 22 (U, P.). — Reports reaching Kingston said at least 50 persons lost their lives in a cloudburst in rural sections early this week. Dwellings were swept away, .and hundreds were homeless. Estimated damage to
$300,000.
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City offi- Charles P. Rockwood Jr.
POLIO VICTIM'S LONG TRIP ENDS
From China After Journey By Boat, Train, Plane.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22 (U. P).— stricken with infantile paralysis in China
last June, said at the end of his
Parks Superintendent A. C. Sallee,| 10,000 mile trip home today: “I who has been ill for the past two
have no stary to tell.” Stricken June 8 at Yuanan Ling, Hunan Province, where he was employed as an English teacher for Yale-in-China, the handsome, curlyhaired youth spent six weeks at a hospital where facilities were inadequate. Then he traveled in an improvised cast by litter and river boat on a perilous three-day trip down an interior river to Chang Sha. He was waiting av Hen Yang in a dugout for a U. S. Embassy plane to take him to Hong Kong when a bomb fell near the shelter. He was put aboard’a grey-painted ship and flew at night over the Japanese fighting forces to Hong Kong. He took the steamer, Empress of Britain, to Vancouver where he entrained for Chicago. Arriving last night, he resembled a college fashion plate in a light grey suit, bright tie and bright, heavy wooler socks in lieu of shoes. He received newsmen with a firm handshake as he was rolled from the train in a steel carriage. “Sit down, gentlemen,” he said. “I can get this over with in a hurry. You see I'm not in a cast, I'm perfectly able to sit up. That’s all I have to say.”
ANGLER DELAYS BASE 0. K.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. 22 (U. P.).—Formal approval of an act granting the United States Naval and Air bases here was held up to-
public and private property was|day because the speaker of the leg-
islative council was out fishing.
Hunger Ends Her Quest for Ideal
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Nov, 22 (U. P).—Her quest for an ideal cowboy of the Gene Autry. type ended in disappointment today for Mary Lerman, 18, New York girl missing from her home since
{ Nov, 12.
Miss Lerman walked into police headquarters hungry and broke, Police Matron Mrs. Miriam Gals lagher reached the girl's mother, Mrs. Emma Lerman, who wired money for Miss Lerman's fare home by plane. / Police quoted the girl as saying she got a “crush” on Gene Autry, motion picture cowboy hero, after seeing him in a roe deo at Madison Square Garden,
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Who played the role of himself in the recent photoplay, “Strike Up the Band”? 2~-Are snakes slimy? 3—With what does the Thirteenth Amendment to the U. 8S. Consti= tution deal? 4—What is the largest privately owned business and recreation center in the United States? 5—How many gun shots constitute the President’s salute? 6—In which state is Lake Pontchare train?
Answers
1—Paul Whiteman. 2—No. 3—Abolition of slavery. 4—Rockefeller Center, City. t 5—Twenty-one. ’ 6—Louisiana. so = o
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