Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1940 — Page 11

TUESDAY, DEC. 10, 1940

Detroi

DETROIT, Dec. 10. —Look for Detroit to be its old self again by next summer—a madhouse. By next July around $100,000,000 worth of new factories and additions will be coming into production. The aircraft program, in particular the two standardized bombers, is almost certainly going to cut into the manufacture of automobiles for civilian use. I hear one guess that the industry cannot count on much more than four months of continued production at its present high rate in 'history—along about April the machinery and men will begin to be diverted to ming up. parts for airplanes. As everybody knows, the auto-. bile industry was going to dee the autumn and winter de- - 5 rately to overproducing motor cars, in order to have|a surplus on hand against the diversion of plants to war materials. It has not been successful. There is no surplus. One company is three weeks behind in| deliveries, a condition without

The $10,000,000 w rth of new factories and machinery should not confused with the plan for shifting some of the automotive capacity over to the manufacture of fuselage parts for bombers.

Ford Plant Ready in April

The new factories| include Ford's for American aircraft- engines, Packard’s for Rolls-Royce aircraft engines, Chrysler’s for [American tanks, Kelsey-Hayes’ for British machine guns, Murray's and Briggs’ equipment for wing parts, and General Motors’ equipment for American machine guns and Diesels.

men in’ April. Last Monday the force at the Rouge plant was 80,521 persons, which was close to the top. e 10,000 are to be assembled mainly from the pres int complement, together with

(Ernie Pyle is en route to London)

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

" IF YOU BELIEVE THE SCENARIO WRITERS, -newspapermen are a pretty hard-hearted lot. One of The Times’ veteran employees, Bill Crabb, has been working as assistant director of ‘Clothe-A-Child. The

other day he took a 4-year-old girl, cute and blond, shopping tour. With funds ted to Clothe-A-Child he

“information on ultra-high frequency radio broadcast-

en they came back to headers, the little girl was huga huge doll. She raced to other, proudly displaying her snowsuit, shoes, dress—and The director kept staring at and finally called him over, ing sternly: ere did she get that doll?” an oh Bill stammered, “after ’d bought the clothing, she said she'd like to see Sant Claus.. When we got in the toy department, she couldn’t keep her eyes off that doll. She just looked land looked, her eyes getting bigger all the time. Sg—well, so I took two bucks of my own money and bought it for her.” A pause, and ther” “Man, she was [as proud of it, wasn’t ec ”

“Humph,” said the birecior. A few minutes later Br Salled his assistant over and slipped him a folded

“Here,” he muttered, “I'd like to buy half of that doll for that little red, : ’

Just Half as Much Work

TWO TRUCKS OM DIFFERENT department stores drove up in front of one of the larger North Side apartment buildings. The drivers stepped out, piled up huge stacks of bundles. As they staggered up the main walk into the court, they met. Each laughed at the other. [Then they got together. They. started sorting packages. It wound up with one making all deliveries in one wing, the other distributing all the packages in the other. Each saved many extra steps. That’s co-operation.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—War Department officials are complaining) of a shortage, not only of skilled workers, but of management personnel. They give the shortage in both respects as a reason- for revising plans for a large number of small munitions plants to combine them into about big units. Complaint of a shortage in nagement men is heard everyere around the Defense Com-

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vious capacity, administrative personnel has had to be diluted Available production engineers have been spread out so thinly th complaint is being heard about inefficient mangement in some plants. Management persomnel has become a bottleneck. That leads to much discussion of giving the Defense Commission a larger supervisory role over defense industry. Everyone has his own variation of the idea, but one essential thing needed appears te be more power for William S. Knudsen and more engineering staff, |

Production Chiefs Urged

The central idea eu) Knudsen would send his

own production men into factories to coach for faster production, to spot ren e-losing metheds,. to ‘consult ‘with factory management on improvements in operations. Some think an aircraft production chief should : be set up under Knudsen, and perhaps production "* chiefs for See general fields. These staffs of production men drawn [from industry would as consultants be able to multiply their services over a large Fnbe of factories tead of being confined to one

Plas fact that scores of such suggestions are kicking around is indies on enough that among those

My Day

WASHINGTON, fonday—This morning, I saw a heading in the newspaper which disturbed me very “much. On reading the story, it appeared that one of our admirals was before a committee in Congress and reported Lig the Walsh-Healey bill was creating contractual difficulties and retarding the- defense program. ' [He asserted that this act, under which firms accepting Govent contracts are required to meet certain labor standards fixed by their industries: “Cones to be a disturbing factor in ithe procurement of some lines of Government supplies.” He em-. “ph d the reluctance of many inufacturers to bid for Governt contracts because of the um wage. determinations, d cited experiences with steel clock manufacturers as examples to il-

it. pt that it is the red tape

ernment work which deters y legal restrictions. Payment difficulties arise which do not arise

| Act was passed by Congress debate. It represents safech seem entirely reasonable to st have seemed so to the maff that majority todgy decides

‘puts on. These will be new men unless other shortLage interferes with automobile production. The first

. will take place at Murray Body. There 10,000 will be

.a state of full emergency instead of the state of

~ By John W. Love

several Iundred from the Ford training school which

started a few years ago to give boys a three-month |

course in specializing machine work. The contract consists of 4236 motors of-two types for Pratt & Whitney. Their design is fully developed but the Ford staff will contribute its knowledge of shop practice to a production flow which b to reach one completed motor hourly. The plant embodies the latest ideas; including a means of keeping any light from getting out through the windows at night, if that should ever be thought prudent. ! Chrysler's $20,000,000 plant for Army tanks will need about 6000 men for each eight-hour shift it

model, done in mahogany like the first model of. a new automobile, was on view this week.

Murray to Add 10,000

The largest proportional increase in factory forces

added to the 6000 now employed, after the plant is ready next year, the new men to make sections of an airplane wing for Douglas on a $26,000,000 order. Packard’s: Rolls-Royce engine, to be turned out for the British, is the same airplane engine that Ford Motor considered building. To make this engine without transforming its practices and producing everything special, the company had to do over again a large part of the detail, even down to the screw threads. British and American standards differed by that much. This accounts for the story that the motor had to be redesigned. The British hesitated over the changes, but there was nothing for them to do. They will just have to carry two sets of spare parts. Detroit today is a mass of technical skill. Draftsmen are crowded in everywhere, toolmakers are scarce. The forecast in all this preliminary work is an oldtime production boom, the third in the city’s experience.

New Safety Device Tested

SOME OF THE NATION’S BEST radio engineering minds are quietly at work here on a project that may revolutionize blind flying. The work is being carried on at the CAA experimental laboratory out at the Airport, without benefit of publicity or fanfare. " They have been assembling and studying research

ing. With equipment built here, they established a test range on the New York-Chicago airline route and conducted lengthy experiments. Most encouraging results were obtained on another range established in the Western mountains. Pilots reported that in that area’s worst thunder and electrical disturbances when static usually blurs out ordinary broadcasts, the ultrahigh frequency waves penetrated the storms and signals came in clearly. Some of the worst air tragedies have been blamed on storms which interfered with radio reception and caused pilots to lose the radio beam on which they were flying. Engineers believe the ultra-high frequency waves are static-proof and that within a few years all aviation radio ranges will be in iis field.

All-Around the Town—

ADD THINGS WE DIDN'T KNOW until today: Indianapolis is the second largest state capital in the U. S. with 386,170 population. Boston is tops with 769,520. Carson City, Nev. the smallest with 2474.. Hallie Myers, State Highway. Commission safety director, had a minor operation yesterday, hurried back to his office to pick up a basket full of work to do by the fireside while he is recuperating at home.... Have you noticed the downtown traffic officer who dons a white “Sam Browne” belt with red “cat-eyes” as soon as it gets dark? . ... Also the courteous Salvation Army officer soliciting Chirstmas donations at Washington and Illinois Sts. who smilingly opens the slot on the mail box for pedestrians wanting to deposit letters. . . . Sixty new citizens checked in'at local hospitals over the week-end. Methodist especially reported a heavy list of new babies. . . . Latest of the lapel button fads to catch on here is the “Enrolled for Service” emblems which draft registrants are buying in big numbers.

By Raymond Clapper

working on defense there is realization that we’ are not getting the results that might be obtained out of what we have to work with. Almost no one is satisfied with the organization as at present—yet it is full of able men, who are working hard, if With some sense of frustration. What is being felt here too is the lack of leadership that had been expected from President Roosevelt. He insisted at the outset upon being boss, upon keeping the defense organization headed into the White House. He refused to appoint a chairman and undertook to be the sparkplug himself. The general feeling here is that the sparkplug hasn’t been sparking since before election. The defense organization is feeling the lack of drive at the top. At the last meeting of the defense group with the President, the whole question of organization, serious as it had become, was passed over without discussion. Nobody knows what the President intends to do, if anything, about this situation. :

Full Emergency Suggested

Some outside propaganda groups are saying that the defense effort is being made in a negative atmosrhere. Some say that the only way to arouse ourselves fo the real effort necessary would be to go into

limited emergency declared by executive order when the war in Europe began. One hears that in some Eastern plants, nearer the seaboard, a high tempo exists, but that farther West there seems to be no driving sense of urgency, Many here hope that President Roosevelt will take hold when he returns and put drive into the defense effort. Possibly the President has been too tired to throw himself into this, or possibly he has become sensitive about campaign charges that he was seeking dictatorial powers. It is possible that the third-term business has put Roosevelt on the defensive dnd caused him to slow down lest he seem to be justifying the forecasts of his political opponents. Meanwhile defense suffers.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

that it was wrong, it seems to me the changes should be jade only after due debate in Congress. “I cannot escape the feeling, however, that the tendency has been, so far, to say that labor must make sacrifices of wages and hours because of the necessities of national defense. I have yet to see anywhere a statement that manufacturers and business concerns and the general publi¢ through investment returns, shall make this same type of sacrifice in the cause of national defense, by cutting profits and reducing the salaries of their executives. Our volume of production is dependent on. the willingness with which men work with their and their heads. Necessary as is the-work of the men at the top, they cant do.nothing without - the vast army of workers. The workers can do nothing, I grant you, without the men at the top and what they represent in al investment and in ability and experience. If is quite ovident that this is a co-operative’ job. will have to be equal. Work and devotion to the country for which we sacrifice can only be equal if everybody concerned feels that they have at stake a way of life for which it is worth while to sacrifice. + Last night six of us went to see the first performance given this winter by the Repertory Club of the Washington Theater. It was called the “D. C. Melody.” - Many of the actors had some professional experience, and some of the music and dancing was attractive. iy -1 had some rather expert criticism with me where

Dr. Rollo E. Dyer, U. S. Public Health Service expert on influenza. : ® = =

As in World

VWASHIN GTON, Dec. 10. which has developed in

can learn—there have been

very few deaths.

If that holds true in later and more detailed reports, say the Public Health Service authorities, the 1918 variety of influenza probably is not present. For the 1918 epidemic carried many deaths with. it. Epidemic influenza is about as mysterious a riddle as medical science ever has to tangle with, but’ one thing does seem to be known definitely—that there are two varieties, a severe one like the 1918 visitation and a relatively mild form which is a nuisance and a pain, but which is ‘seldom fatal. A month or two ago Puerto Rico had an epidemic of influenza—the mild form. California, apparently, is getting what Puerto Rico got.

| Flu Still Big Riddle

Surgeon General Thomas Parran heads the U. S. Public Health Service. er % 8

War Days

By Bruce Catton

NEA Service Staff Correspondent

—If the influenza epidemic California is no worse than

present reports to the United States Public Health Service indicate, the American people do not need to be alarmed about a repetition of the great 1918-19 epidemic. A great many cases of influenza have been reported: in" California, but—as far as the Public Health Service

IGHT at the moment, there is no sure method of controlling influenza. Medical science is better off than it was in 1918 in just one respect—the virus which

causes the malady has been isolated by several investigators, and has been established in animals. Two types of influenza virus have been isolated so far. The relationship of :these types is not yet known. Chief work along this line has been done by the Rockefeller Foundation. Scientists there have succeeded in making a vaccine which apparently will give protection against one type of the disease—to animals. Whether it will also give protection to human beings is not yet definitely known,

With inadequate facilities to care for sufferers, tents are Washington, where, including’ Ft. Lewis, 1300 men are stricken

chiefly because epporiunities to test it have been rare. Should another epidemic of the 1918 type of disease make its appearance, this vaccine could be tested under conditions ‘Which would show exactly what degree of protection it may give. If it should be proved that the vaccine is able to give immunity, science “would then be able to “control” influenza. Unless: and until that or something similar happens, however, the simple fact is that medical men today are no better equipped to fight epidemic influenza than they were in 1918. 8 ® 2 OR one thing, there is no simple, specific diagnostic test by .which a physician can be dead sure he actually. has a case of influenza on his hands. There are a few laboratories in the country where such a test can be made, but the process is long and difficult’ and is‘ not available to the ordinary physician. For another thing, Public Health Service experts: frankly admit they do not know how to control

epidemic influenza. Influenza is highly infectious. in

its early stages; apparently it is another in the air, probably in the minute droplets of \moisture from the mouth and nose\ Yet the elaborate efforts to check the 1918 epidemic by isolating all sufferers, closing schools and theaters. and churches and preventing pub= lic gatherings as much as possible seemed to do little or no good. For the influenza victim apparently can transmit the infection to someone else before he knows he has it himself. { ” » &® N indication that complete isolation would give protection is given by an experience of the U. 8S. Navy in 1918. The Navy succeeded in giving absolute isolation to a group of men stationed on an island in San Francisco Bay. All communication with the shore was cut off. When supplies were taken to the island they were left on the dock; only after the beat which brought them had left did the men on the island come down and get them. The sailors on that island escaped the flu. Yet Public Health Service officials point out that isolation of that kind is simply

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g as isolation wards at Camp; Murray, th the flu.

impossible for the public at large. People have to go to stores, they have to go to shops or offices to work, they have to ride on street cars and busses — they cannot avoid contact with their fellows. Even the wearing of masks, fae miliar during the 1918 epidemic, is believed to be of doubtful value —again, for the simple reason that no one can possibly keep his mask on every minute through the weeks that an epidemic lasts. All of which, of course, does noé mean that the picture is entirely gloomy. The big thing is that the influenza virus has been isolated —which means: that there is now a good chance (which was not true in 1918) to. develop a protece tive vaccine. In addition, the va rious sufanilamide derivatives have yet to be tested thoroughly on influenza. They will get such a test the moment a real epidemio appears; it is quite possible that one or another of these drugs will be found effective. The Public Health Service is keeping in constant touch with the influenza conditions throughout the country through daily reports fiom local and state health offi

WELFARE BOARD SEEKS CONTROL

Bickering Is Charged in County Department; Pay Raises Deferred.

The first steps to assume more active. control over the County Welfare Department was: taken yesterday, by the Welfare Board. Scoring the “lack of personal contact between employees and the Board,” members decided to hold discussions with division heads. They also approved any employee coming to them for information or constructive criticism. The action was taken in an attempt to solve problems in connection with an appeal of Miss Mary McFadden, 1516 N. Pennsylvania St., from her dismissal on recommendation of Thomas L. Neal, County Welfare Director.

‘Dirty Work’ Charged

Testimony at Miss McFadden’s hearing before the State Welfare Department brought charges of bickering in the department. Mrs.

St., files supervisor, charged that she had been asked to “do Mr. Neel’s dirty work.” Mrs. Ensworth today entered her resignation, which was accepted by the Board. ‘Board members, avoiding any reference to Mr. Neal, said they wished to speak to all division heads: over a period of time to get their point of view on any matter affecting the department. Meanwhile, they considered a suggestion by: Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox, who appoints local board members, for a meeting jof all employees of the department to be held soon in Circuit Court.

Defer Action on Salaries

Action on a previous suggestion for a liaison man between the Board and employees was deferred until a later meeting. Also deferred was consideration of salary increases, money for which had become available because of budget increases. Members said they wished to investigate each case. The Board also voted to ask for

the County until tax collections would be available. loan would be made in two portions of $225,000 each.

PIKE TOWNSHIP ASKS ADJOINING ACREAGE

A petition to -provide for more than doubling the acreage at the Pike Township School at 6145 W, ist St., was filed yesterday in Circuit Court. Arland Coolman, Pike School Township trustee, asked that three appraisers who are residents of the township be appointed to appraise and assess 12 acres of ground lying east and south of the present eightacre. school tract. 5 Attorneys for the trustee said the new land will provide better drainage and that gibi facilities will be built there. No buildings are planned now, they said.

‘WANTS BILLBOARD TAX WASHINGTON, Dee. 10 (U. P.).—

—Pep. Jerry Voorhis (D., Cal), has introduced a bill which would pro-

Frances Ensworth, 3145 N. Illinois|

' |surveyor,

a temporary loan of $450,000 from| The proposed |

Society. Honors Central Student

Wilbur Kenoyer of Hammond, | 8 senior at Indiana Central College, today received a student membership in the American Chemical Society. Each year the American Chemical Society offers two student m e mberships to senior chemistry majors of colleges and universities in its area. Awards are “made according to scholastic standings.

MAP CONTROL IN BOOM’ AREAS

La Porte County Considers Forming Plan Board to Handle Problems.

LA PORTE, Ind. Dec. 10 (U.P.). —La Porte County officials today considered forming a county planning board ‘to handle boom . town problems in the area of the Kingsbury. Ordnance plant now under construction at nearby Union Center. : Henry B. Steeg, State Defense Coordinator, met with County officials yesterday. He outlined a county planning board made’ up of one

Mr. Kenoyer

named by the commissioners, the county agricultural agent, county and one representative each from the zoning boards of La Porte and Michigan City. Mr. Steeg told officials the county- group could co-operate with the State Defense Planning Commission on housing, transportation and communication problems in the area.

U. S. CONSUL SENT TO VLADIVOSTOK

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U. P). —Angus I. Ward, Consul and Secretary in the American Embassy at Moscow, has been ordered to Vladivostok to complete arrangements for reopening of the American consulate general there. Mr. Ward will be in temporary charge of the consulate general This will mark the opening of the first American consulate outside of Moscow since -the United States recognized the Soviets Government in November, 1933.

county commissioner, four citizens].

{CONVICT YOUTH

OF COMMUNISM

Party Secretary, 22, Faces Term of 10 Years in . Penitentiary.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 10 (U. P.).—Alan Shaw, 22, faced 10 years in the penitentiary today because he was secretary of the Oklahoma City Communist Party and county attorneys said that his conviction will outlaw the party in the state. The conviction, brought in last night by a jury of small businessmen and clerks, followed by. several

Wood, state secretary of the party on a similar charge. Both were convicted under a previously’ unused. 21-year-old statute prohibiting advocation of overthrow of the Government by violence. The law specifies a sentence of 10 years imprisonment and a fine of $5000. The sentence will be pronounced formally Saturday by Judge Ben

Amold. . Never on Ballot

County Attorney Lewis Morris said that the conviction would have the effect of outlawing Communist membership in Oklahoma, as well as the possession of Communist literature or attendance at party meetings. The party never has been on the Oklahoma ballot and there was no estimate of the number of members it claims in the state. The statute specifies that association with advocates of revolution also is a felony and nine other persons who allegedly frequented Wood’s bookshop where he sold “left-wing” tracts and pamplilets, also face trial.

Appeal Is Expected

Shaw was convicted after a month’s trial during most of which Mr. Morris read to the jury the writings of Lenin, Marx and Stalin. ‘Mr. Morris said that Shaw must, hy the nature of his position in the party, subscribe to those beliefs and therefore was guilty. Wood “has’ appealed and Shaw's

-|attorneys said he would do likewise

Saturday. Attorney George Croom defending the case for the Civil Liberties Union, answered that the state's evidence consisted of nothing but “books, books, books” and that, although the party existed in Oklahoma for 10 years, investigators had failed to “show that this party proposed revolution by force - and crime.” ; Sl

AT POST IN VICHY WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U. P.).— Secretary of ‘Sate Cordell Hull announced last night that Robert Murphy, ‘counsellor of the U. 8. Em-~ bassy -at Vichy, has arrived at his

post and has Saken Charge. :

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PATERSON, N. J. Dec: 10 (OU. Pp), —-Eighteen “members of the Wright Aeronautical Employees Association, largest independent union in the airplane industry, worked today under a contract which “outlaws “strikes, sit-downs, slow-downs, stay-ins ‘or curtail- | ment of, or interference with, pro-

hibit tax deductions. for advertising| - T

$he dancing Was CONPerne of Jijss Maynis Chaney, the dancer, was with me for the e

83 pendivuies and pose a $1 annual |}

Strikes, Sit-Downs Banned 4 Vright Plane Contract

1ay-ofts and’ ‘ehiring of men drafted into the "Army, in the five Wright plants in this area. Volunteers, as ‘well as draftees, are guaranteed their jobs and seniority. All major grievances must be submitted to arbitration Second and third. shift rate workers receive a the [ETI over the basic |

weeks the sentencing of = Robert |

“10 per cent

Spell Out State

Names, Firm Asks

‘YOU'LL MAKE it a lot easier for all concerned if you spell out instead of abbreviating the names of states when sddressing a Christmas package to a friend. Abbreviations are confusing at times as Mo, being mistaken for Me. : This reminder came today from the Railway Express Agency. The express company urged, too, that shipping: be done early and | that all packages be wrapped se~

curely. Use full street addresses, the firm said. Poor addresses, might delay or prevent delivery of your gift, express men. said,

BULK OIL PLANT 0. K. IS GRANTED

Zoning Board Approves by 6 to 3; $60,000 Project Is Planned.

A $60,000 bulk storage plant for gasoline and oil will be erected by the Pure Oil Co. at the southeast corner of 16th and Missouri Sts. The plant will have a 300,000 gallon storage capacity. A variance to permit the erection of the plant was granted by the Zoning Board yesterday. Although the area is zoned for industrial use, only a limited storage of fuels is

permit. Opposition ‘to the bulk plant, which had developed at City Hall two weeks®ago, did not appear at yesteraay’s hearing. The variance was approved by a vote of 6 to 3, with M. G. Johnson, City engineer; Louis C. Brandt, Works Board president, and Paul C. Rathert of the Park Board opposing the variance

permit.

Permission to operate an outdoor automobile parking lot at 23-254 Johnson Ave, was denied Fred Millis| after adjacent property owners ob-

given a permit to erect a filling sta-

tion at the southeast corner of 34th |.

St. and Keystone Ava. - The Board ‘also quests of Charles Brandt to erect a Ave: and of the Railroadmen’s Fed-

eral Savings build a house at 917 EB. 51st, 8. | -

5TH DIVISION STAFF

Maj. Gen. Joseph M.

and his staff will leave Thursday for Fort Custer,” Mich. the division's new permanent station.

reservation. The 11th Infantry, one

with the. SYsion start, vil

permitted there without a special hig!

jected. The Shell Oil Co., Inc., was| & Loan Association to]

PREPARES TO MOVE],

Al} elements of the ‘division are to]" be concentrated at the Michigan] =

RAP BOARD IN SHIREY OUSTER

Middletown Citizens Move to Alter School Control; Police on Guard.

MIDDLETOWN, Ind., Dec. 10 (TU, P.) —Middletown citizens moved toe da to abolish the town School Board that dismissed Superintene

yeni of Schools Wilbur Shirey yes terday. When J. D. Greenlee, Board presi=

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‘|dent, accompanied by Henry County

|Sheriff Cash Robinson, notified Mr, Shirey of his dismissal, half the

_|students in the Middletown High

School walked out in protest. Six State Police officers were stationed

‘lat the school to maintain order.

Appointment Stirs Group

Action of citizens was fomented when the School Board announced the appointment of C. R. Young, former Butler University instructor and Frankfort principal, to succeed

Mr. Shirey. Clarence Riley, head of the citie zens’ committee, said petitions were ‘being drawn calling for the abolishe

|ment of the present school-control

system . and the adoption -of the Greencastle system. . Under this plan the School Board is made up of one member from the town and one from the township, of opposite political parties, plus the township

8. . Boards Assailed “We want to do away with these

School Board, but. returned

h school students went on rn

and citizens held mass meetings in demanding his bis reinstate tement, j

"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1--yhien President of the aed the. longest lash

denied the re- ; double house at 5111-13 Winthrop |s_

Cul ni . Vo. “a TEblE commander of the Jifth Division, |3—Ck

regiment of the division which hi ee been located at Fort Harri, along| go tof