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Hoosier Vagabond = By Ernie Pyle

{Continued from Page One) \ confetti or streamers of joy, not even a handkerchief waved. The lonely dock simply drew farther and farther away, Nothing more, as we sailed on a cold gray afternoon in November, sailed silently away for the darkness of Europe. - Th .

» # . I'm certainly embarrassed. . There are only a handful of passengers on this voyage to Europe, but even so I didn’t make the Captain’s table.. I hope Capt. Manning of the Washington never hears about my disgrace. For two bits I'd eat in my cabin all the way across. When I went down for our first meal the Second Steward said, “I'll put you at the table with the other ‘Correspohdents.” : This was a surprise, for I had forgotten that I'm

‘now Supposed to be. a “correspondent” instead of a

reporter. aboard. It turns out there is one. And good company he is, too. His name is George Lait, son of the famous Jack Lait of the Hearst Newspapers. # He is a tall man, and wears a silver identification tag on his wrist. He says he has been on farewell parties for a week. He seems to know all the people you ever heard of in New York and Hollywood. He, like myself, had been booked to fly on the Clipper. Lait is going to London ‘with the International News Service. He has lived in London before. He

And I hadn't known there were any others

_has been: everywhere—Ethiopia, Russia, Spain, China,

Alaska. He knows his way about. He is younger than I, yet sitting beside him I feel as untraveled as a 12-year.old on his first Sunday excursion train.

A Radio Message

We had hardly sat down when the radio boy came with a message for Mr. Lait. “Look at that,” I thought - to myself, “getting radios just like a seasoned voyager in the movies. If I could only get a radio!” And then the boy continued around the table and handed me one,-too. If he had been a radio girl instead of a radio boy, I would have kissed him with gratitude. My radio was from two friends who Hede fhe Fanama voyage with us last summer. It said, “Sorry we're not aboard sir, and many of ‘’em.” And Mr. Lait’s radio was from a bunch of friends in New York, who had spent good money to say “London can take It, but can it take Lait?” ; MY. Lait said he supposed only time would tell. We are at the chief engineer's table. This is his first trip on the Exeter, as he has just transferred irom a sister ship. His name is Charles Bero.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town")

THE OLD DREAM OF A skyscraper office building to house the City Hall, Court House and Police Station offices, is being smoked up again. 3 Its most recent revival is the result of all the fuss over the proposal to move the Juvenile Court and the Juvenile Detentior Home into unoccupied space in the Children’s Home in Irvington and the cry for a new, modernized police headquarters.

Moving Juvenile Court would provide much needed space for other offices in the Court House but far from enough. “What's the use of kidding ourselves,” one official commented." “We're going to have to put up a new Court House one of these days, anyway, and we might as well do it while we still can get some of that Federal money.” Both the Court House and City Hall were built back in the days when expansive, ornate lobbies were the mode, and as a result, half of the space in them is wasted. The dream they're dusting off calls for putting up the joint office building on the north half of the present. Court House block, then selling the present site for business buildings. oo They just finished paying for the Court House a few years ago, even though they've been patching it up for a long time to keep it from falling apart. At least it’s an idea, :

Maybe Partridge Aren't Smart—

Fred Eley, State Conservation Department legal counsel, after studying lawbooks to see if it is legal,

Washington , WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—At last Defense Commission officials are frankly taking the public into their confidence about the sad lag in defense produetion. That they have been worried has been known to everyone in Washington. News‘paper correspondents have been reporting this situation on their own. Some of our officials have been saying everything they could privately to spur all Government defense agencies and industrialists toward utmost speed. Secretary Hull is devoting himself to this mission, trying to impress upon everyone with whom he comes in contact the urgency of the situation—the critical 90 days just ahead during which time Britain .-heeds everything we can spare in order to meet the effort Hitler is expected to make in the spring to knock England out of the war. Now, at last, members of the Defense Commission themselves are talking to the country—meaning business men .and labor—to stir defense out of its lethargy. That was the burden of the extremely frank speech of William S. Knudsen before, the National Association of Manufacturers. As he said, he didn’t try to paint the lily. It was the burden also of the speech earlier in the week at Chicago by Donald Nelson, co-ordinator of purchases for the Defense Commission.

Some Heads May Fall

Not only is the executive brarich con¢erned about the urgency of aid to Britain .but it also is aware that: in .about three weeks Congress will really go to work again and will ask Mr. Roosevelt what he has done with all that money it gave him for defense. Unless a satisfactory progress report is made, heads will begin to fall, and that won't be much fun, either, for the indispensable man who had to be re-elected so that there wouldn't be even a few weeks’ idle time around the White House while the crews were chang-

ing.

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—I was deeply distressed Friday to niiss attending the meeting of the American Red Cross, First appointment in the afternoon was with an economist, who proved to be so interesting that I could not get away before the time had come to rehearse for a little curtain-raiser which a few of us were preparing for the “Gridiron widows” party last night. Some of my experiences furnished the idea, but all the work was done by Mrs. Henry Morgenthau and the other participants. I didn’t memorize tke few lines that were given me very well, but it was fun to do. : Friday evening we went to see: “Out West It's Different.” Some of the scenes are extremely amusing and some of the acting is ex3 cellent, but it does not seem to me to be a finished play as yet. By the time it reaches Broadway, however, that will probably be accomMy guests must have felt that their hostess was extremely peripatetic last night. I seated them all at the dinner table and then dashed to the radio station to do a two-minute speech on the Alec Templeton hour

for the benefit of the sales of work done by the blind.

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the end of ‘the second act of the play, I had to out again and give’ the speech aver

‘that chief. “Well, if you go with me,” the chief said, ~<you’ll always get back to land.” ;

“Man Who Isn't on Board”

‘They take to ground cover.

“American public is not yet fully aware of the peril

again for a

Mr. Bero has been at sea a long time, and has a grown son who-has no intention of becoming a marine engineer., He speaks slowly and deeply, and seems to have a youthful capacity for being astonished and tickled with all the nutty things ship passengers do. A couple of trips ago Chief Bero’s ship picked up two lifeboats full of sailors froma British ship attacked by a German raider. He said the Germans shot all forenoon at the abandoned ship, and still hadn’t hit it. when they left. : The Chief Engineer of the British ship had been torpedoed six times. Mr. Bero says the British captain was swearing he wasn't going to sea again with

The other passenger at our table is an English girl, Miss Pamela Frankau. Her father is Gilbert Frankau, the novelist, and Pamela herself writes books and plays and works on newspapers. She has been in the States since March, This was her first trip over.

She says she loves the United States, and intends to|

come back in the spring. She worked in Hollywood a couple of months writing on a movie, but thinks it won’t amount to anything. She is working on a play now, and has invited Mr. Lait and me .to the opening night in a basement bomb-shelter somewhere in the English Midlands. Miss Frankau -has a: white-enamel cigaret case with the British crest on it, and she also wears an American-flag stickpin. She and I have long deep conversations about such things as fear, airplanes, the meaning ot life,jand Noel Coward. And last night she had me roll her a Bull Durham cigaret. She says there are just three things about America she doesn't like-—the lousy trains on the dinky branch lines, our soggy buttered toast, and the fact that when you put your shoes outside the door at night to be shined, nothing ever happens, except that maybe they're stolen. 2 I agree with her thoroughly, and could name a few things I don't like if somebody coaxes me, . That's all at our table—just the four of us. Except that a place is set for a fifth person, and the steward swears it is somebody real who is actually on the ship. ’ But nobody has seen him, and we refer to him as “The Man Who Isn't Aboard,” and bow politely to his empty chair each time we enter the dining room. Personaily I think he is a spy, and is having his meals on the floor right under the table while frantically taking down notes on our witty and militarily significant conversation. Tonight at dinner I'm going to reach under and kick the stuffings out of him.

has decided on a way of fooling Hungarian partridge. It is well known that partridge will not fly when they are hunted by an aerial predator, such as a hawk.

On the other hand, they will fly away immediately if they are hunted by a land predator, such as Fred's bird dog. When they fly, Mr. Eley finds he gets no effective shot at them. " So he is going to fill a rubber balloon—hawkshaped, we presume—with gas, tie it onto his cap with 15 to 20 feet of string, call his bird dog and go hunting. His theory is that the partridge will think the balloon is a hawk and stay on the ground, where Fred's dog can point them and Fred can‘shoot them. We'll let you know how it works out.

A Very Busy Man, Indeed

HOMER CAPEHART IS ONE Republican leader

| District Democratic Chairman for

who isn’t seen much around the Claypool these days. He’s too busy at his new plant out on Kentucky and Morris Sts. More than 100 workmen are busy now |

: | turning out music boxes. There will be 200 next!

month, 400 by mid-March. ... . When you're talking to Thomas Hendricks, Indiana State Medical Associa-| tion secretary. in“his office on the 10th floor of the! Hume-Mansur Building on a windy day, you may get, quite a turn. Because the massive smokestack of the! Columbia Club,climbs up past his window and it sways quite perceptibly in a heavy blow. It gives you an| eerie feeling the first {ime you see it. . . . Seen on] Washington St.: Jacob Weiss, who lost out in the State Senate race, and Judson West, the only Democrat elected to the Legislature from this county, with their heads together. Discussing the weather, no doubt.

By Raymond Clapper

Defense is in one terrible slump. Knudsen made no effort to conceal the fact. The defense job, he said, has not been sufficiently sold to industry and labor as yet. He wants more steam. There is a job waiting for Mr. Roosevelt when he returns—a job of salesmanship by the master political salesman. Knudsen says we have cut 20 per cent off our production time by quitting work Friday night instead of Saturday night. . “Can’t we stop .this blackout, this lack of production, trom Friday to Monday and get more use out of the equipment?” Knudsen asks. “Isn’t it possible to put the defense job on a war basis even if we are at peace?” - oe : That is what Secretary Hull, from his intimate knowledge of the war, has been privately urging on everyone he can talk with. > “Frankly,” says Knudsen, “we are not doing anything compared to the forecast by manufacturers and the Defense Commission in July, and our hoped-for production figures for Jan. 1, 1941, of 1000 planes per month, have to be scaled down by 30 per cent to be correct.”

Public Unaware of Peril There's the bad news straight out of the horses’s mouth. It is what many Washington correspondents have been warning about for several weeks. : Listen to Knudsen: “Give us speed and more speed. Full-time operation of all machines. Let's get on this job spiritually. I consider the defense effort to date not satisfactory enough to warrant hopes that everything.is all well.”

In Chicago a few- days ago Mr. Nelson told a group of bankers he saw rather disturbing signs that the

in our slow defense. When they refer to the public, they mean industrialists and labor, especially. “I have,” he said, “a sense of letdown on the part of the public. We must shake off this drowsiness. We must beware the numbing effect of clever slogans that tell us we can build up the mightiest defense machine in history and at the same time continue business as usual. We must slough off this sense of complacency”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Western radio audience. I returned in time to see a good part of the third and last act from a back seat. Yesterday I went to visit one of the new. alley dwellings, where Friendship House has furnished one in order to demonstrate how inexpensively it can he done and still be attractive. I was very much impressed and encouraged to see that one can accom-

plish so much in making a home comfortable on so

little money. Lin I enjoyed my own party last night, as I always do. Our own curtain-raising skit was very light and unimportant, but the newspaper women, who carried the brunt of the entertainment, were as usual entertaining and witty. In any case, I think we always enjoy seeing each other and having an opportunity to.chat without any divisions created by politics or professional attitudes. Ahora ed We had one professional bit of entertaining last hight. Miss Vandy Cape did some of her singing satires. I thought it was particularly appropriate of her to be with us, for this party is supposed to make kindly fun of the hostess, and Miss Cape has one number which does that extremely well. This afternoon I attended Lord Lothian’s funeral, and Mr. Stephen Early went to represent the President. At 4 o'clock, Mr, David Lilienthal of the Tennessee Valley Authority was kind enough to come to the White House to show us some: pictures: depicting conditions before the work was started and conditions today. He told us some interesting ‘stories and I

SINDNS AND KUNKEL RESIGN STATE. OFFICES

Conservation Director to Return to Law Practice At Biuffton.

Virgil M. Simmons, State Conservation director for more than seven years, and Kenneth Kunkel, assistant, direclor and head of the Fish and Game Division, have resigned, effective Jan. 15. :

They announced their retirement at a meeting of the State Conservation “Advisory Committee last night. [ : Mr. Simmons, who was Fourth

14 years until he resigned last September because of provisions of the Hatch Act, said he will resume his law practice at Bluffton.

: G. 0. P. Victory ‘Not Factor’

He said the prospects of Republicans taking over his department was not a factor in his resignation. “I had completed the conservation program I started out to do in 1933 and for several montis I have intended to resign in order to get back into the practice of law,” he said. ‘Mr. Kunkel, who also is from Bluffton, did not announce his plans for the future. Before entering State. service, Mr. Kunkel directed the operation of several farms in Wells’ County.

McNutt Adviser

Mr. Simmons, who once was a deputy U. S. District attorney here, was a close adviser and principal campaigner for Paul V. McNutt when the latter ran for Governor in 1932. Mr. Simmons was appointed to the conservation post by Governor McNutt in May, 1933, and was reappointed. by Governor Townsend in 1937. He will be associated in law practice with his father, Abraham Simmons, who has been a Democratic leader and attorney for 58 years. Others in the Simmons law. firm will be Walter Hamilton, Wells County prosecutor, and Fred Eley, Indianapaiis. > 11033 ‘Clubs Organized

Operations of the State Conservation Department have been expanded considerably during the last seven years. One of the chief developments has been the organization of 1033 conservation clubs with memberships of more than 300,000 persons who have had a voice in conservation policies. : The Advisory Committee voted a resolution of praise for conservation developments during Mr. Simmons’ regime. 2

RECOUNT ENDS TODAY IN 21 COUNTY RACES

With 60 machines remaining, the recount of 21 county election races will be finished today and results will be certified to contest officials. Emsley W. Johnson Jr., who led the victorious Republican ticket in the State Representative race Nov. 5, lost 400/votes Saturday in Ward 20, Precinct 8. The machine gave him only 46 votes, although the average of other Republicans was 445. The precinct election board had given him- 446” votes, but recount commissioners allowed him only 46. : The loss will not effect Mr. Johnson’s standing. He was 1100 votes ahead of the highest defeated candidate. Five county officers and 16 Legislative posts are being contested. Results of the recount will be certified to Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox for the county offices and to the Legislature for the legislators.

ARGENTINE PLEASED BY URUGUAYAN PACT

BUENOS AIRES. Dec. 16 (U. P.). — The Argentine-Uruguay defense treaty confirms and consolidates this country’s orientation within the American continent orbit despite its long tradition of isolationism, Riovmed political quarters said toay. : : The pact dissipated whatever doubts there may have been -concerning Argentina’s willingness ' to co-operate against possible foreign ‘aggression, Political observers considered it highly significant that the Argentine press voiced no opposition to the defense negotiations such as was manifest in Uruguay where three cabinet ministers resigned the day the conversations began.

YOUTH, 16, IS GIVEN 10 YEARS IN THEFT

NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (U. P). — Wendell L. Willkie goes to Washington today for a conference. with House Minority Leader Joseph W.

Martin Jr., having told 200 members of the dissolved Willkie clubs that he had no desire to perpetuate a personal political organization. -- « , . Presidential and other elec-

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Negpess i ) » Soko

st Once-Over:

Aw, we know you, Mr. Willkie. Sure, it’s Wendell L. Willkie. He's giving his tie that last once-over before entering the ballroom for the recent gridiron dinner in Washington. :

fixed periods and the ambitions of men and the maneuvers of politics follow certain patterns. If I had permitted the continued use of my name (in connection with the clubs) it would mean to many people that I was seeking to perpetuate a personal organization,” he explained yesterday at a reception. Mr. Willkie said he had no inter-

tions in this country come only atiest in ‘that phase of politics, but he

frested.

TRAFFIC HERE, 76 ARE HURT

102 Arrested Over Week

End; 3 Are Killed in State Crashes. - Seventy-three - traffic accidents,

one fatal, occurred over the weeke

end in Indianapolis to give a po= tent setback to the recently ine augurated drive to halt the mounte ing City and County auto toll, Twenty-six persons were injured, three critically, and 102 were are

- Edward Cornelius, 17, of 2743 Prospect St., died of injuries re=

| ceived yesterday when his car

did have a “tremendous interest in principles and in that endeavor I hope to carry on.” : -He urged his followers to continue advocating “those principles. in which we believe so deeply.” He returns to New York tomorrow, and leaves Wednesday to rejoin Mrs, Willkie at Hobe Sounci, Fla., where they will remain until after Christmas..

InWorld War

By Dr. George Gallup Director, American Institute of Public Opinion, : RINCETON, N. J., Dec. 16.— As successive German steps in ‘the attempted conquest of Europe have unfolded in recent months, ; ordinary Americans in all walks

of life have been revising one of the most deeply rooted beliefs. of the nineteén-thirties—namely that America’s entrance in the last world war was a “mistake.” The new direction of American

tion-wide studies by the American Institute of Public Opinion, may mean an eventual revision. regarding America’s entry in the World War over the last 20 years. A year and a half before the present war began—in April, 1937, to be exact—an Institute study showed that a majority of Ameri-» cans: believed our entrance had

books, films, plays and classroom teaching had hammered into: American. minds the conviction that “we didn’t achieve what we set out to achieve,” that “we

democracy,” and that “our gains were too small for the: price we . paid.” | : Many Americans were con--vinced that “Germany was no more to blame than other ntries.” :

eted on Germany’s expansion into Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France and Central Europe, more and more Americans are saying, in effect, that Germany did constitute a menace to the Uniled States in 1917 and that this country was justified in taking the action she did. Just as post-war disillusionment abput the World War was the key to much of the writing and legislation of the. last few. years, so the shift that has taken. place in American thinking may: be an important factor in com-

1 ing U. S. decisions regarding aid

to Britain. The survey does not mean, of course, that a majority or anything like a majority of the American people would favor going to war against Germany and her allies today. 2 s ” : HE trend of American thinking ‘on the World War has been measured in successive Institute studies, the earliest of

1937 —on the twentieth

April, laration of war—the Institute. found 64 per cent saying our entrance had been a mistake, 28. per cent saying it had not been a mistake, ahd the remaining 8 per cent undecided or without an opinion. : " In the present study, after 16 months of war in Europe, the answers to the identical question are: Think Entrance a

Sixteen-year-old Thomas Michael Callahan, 1310 Nordyke Ave. was sentenced to 10 years in the Indiana

State ‘Reformatory in Criminal’ no

Court today. : The youth, under -indictment charges of. vehicle taking, burglary and petit larceny, pleaded guilty to the latter two charges Thursday.

GREEKS EXPRESS REGARD TO KING

Indianapolis: Greeks this week will |-

mail to King George of Greece resolutions expressing their admiration for the valor of Greek soldiers and

‘a pledge to give financial help.

“The resolutions were adopted ‘at

a meeting held recently in the Clay-

pool Hotel. Hugh McK. Landon, of the Fletcher Trust Co. is treasurer of the Greek War Fund here.

U. ‘A. W. RATIFIES CONTRACT © DETRQIT, Dec. 16 (U. P). —

Chrysler Corp. workers have ratified]. contract amendments between the|

company and the United Autome-

bile: Workers (C, I. O.) which will] |

give them $6,744,000 in bonuses and

pay raises, it was announced today |

found it as enlightening a demonstration of the value |

that whole. development as one could. have,

by Richard, T. Frankensteen, U. A. \=C.: ; 5

; at Chrysler

Think Entrance Not ; Mistake ............. oe 42 Undecided ; In other words, about one person in every four has changed his view of the World War decisively, and a large number have become “undecided.” Including an inter=

thinking, revealed today in na- |

‘been a’ mistake. Throughout the . nineteen twenties and “thirties,

didn’t make the world safe for

Now, with their attention riv-"

which reaches back 3% years. In |

anniversary of the American dec-"

42% in U. S. Now Say Entry

1'No Mistake’

vening Institute study on the question in the first few weeks of the war, the trend has been:

: ‘Not Unde‘Mistake’ Mistake’ cided’ April, 1937 64% 28% 8% Nov., 1939..59 28 “13 Today ....39 42 19

It is interesting to note that in the first few weeks of the war in Europe there was no increase (as compared with 1937) in'the number who said “it was not a mis=take.” The only drift noticeable at that time was among persons who had previously thought of our entry as a “mistake” and had come to be “undecided.” In the last year, however, the number saying “it was no mistake” has risen sharply.

8 ” ECAUSE the United States entered the World War un‘der the leadership of a Democratic President, ‘Woodrow Wilson it is interesting to note that’ Democratic voters are substan-

tially “more convinced that that action was right [than are Republicans. . The Democratic South leads all other sections of the country in its support . for the step taken 23 year sago. The vote by parties is:

Democrats

.. 33% 46% Repub-

licans .. 46 38 21

Students of public opinion will also be ihterested in the differ‘ences in opinion between various age-groups, slight though those differences are. The most disillusioned appear to- be those of 50 years of age. and over, who were in their late ‘twenties, ‘thirties and ‘forties at the time of the Armistice. Those who were children of 10 years old or less at the time ‘of the Armistice, and ‘who consequently received most of their education in the post-war period, tend to be slightly more uncertdin than their elders. But even in this age-level the prevailing . opinion is “it was not a mistake.” The vote by age-groups in the Institute survey is: ‘Mis-- ‘Not Mistake’ take’ 21 to 34. 36% 399, 35 to 49. 37 44 50 and x Over .. 44 42 ” s =

IGNIFICANTLY enough, while successive Institute surveys have shown that the overwhelming majority would not approve of active U. S. military intervention in the war today, there is a close relationship between the way voters feel about the World War and: the importance they now place on aid tc-Britain, Amang those who said our entrance” in 1917 was “not a mistake,” 75 per cent say ‘that it is

‘Undecided’ 25% 19

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- more important’ to help England

win today, “even at the risk of getting “ into the war,” than it

"is to concentrate on “staying ‘| out.” *

Those who think U. S. entrance was a mistake are approximately 3 to 2 in saying that it is more

important to “stay out” of this one. Tha ;

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METHODS FOR RELEASING. DEPTH CHARGES

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HOWITZER CANNON

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- | nounced isolation as “fatuous folly

FREE EDUCATION S CALLED VITAL

Wells Describes Need for Combating ‘Ideologies Of Aggressors.’

FT. WAYNE, Ind. Dec. 16 (U. P). —Herman B Wells, president of Indiana University, last night told 500 persons at a banque; honoring the University’s. Board of Trustees, that “we have to keep free our educational institutions to combat the ideologies of the aggressors.” The trustees meet here today and tomorrow. et Mr. Wells said he agreed that the United States mus? build battleships and arm itself against possible invasion, but, he said, “unless some provision is made for the preservation of intellectual end spiritual inspiration our battle is lost before the first shot is fired. “There-is a cult of pessimism today that springs from apparent social disintegration abroad. I cannot agree with these ideas because 1 believe there are frontiers of opportunity which are jusa as significant as the physical frontiers of

He cited as an 2xample the re= search being conducted by the University on the atom smasher. This research, he said, may be as significant to our way of living in the future as the industrial revolution ‘was in the past.

100,000 U. S. PILOTS FORESEEN BY RYAN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U. P.).— Oswald Ryan, of the Civil Aeronautics Board, said this week-end that the United States will have 100,000 civilian pilots by June 1, 1941, as a result of the civilian pilot training program. Speaking Saturday before the Harvard Club, Mr Ryan, a Hoosier, said the program provided for “mass training of primary students.” “This vast training plant with its units located in more than 700 col‘leges and universities and more than 200 non-college centers, is a going concern, fully equipped and ‘adequate for the tremendous task of primary training for the defense program,’ Ryan said. He pointed out there were but; 21,000 licensed pilots in the entire United States two years ago.

ARMORED DIVISION HEADS FOR HOME

PANAMA CITY, Fla., Dec. 16 (U. P).—The U. 8. Army's Second Armored Division began a trek back to Ft. Benning, Ga., today in the second phase of the most comprehensive maneuvers ever staged by the Army’s motorized units. — ~The division consists of 10,500 officers and- men and more ‘than 2000 : vehicles: ranging, from .19-ton tanks to small, swift combat cars and motorcycles, “The 16th Observation Squadron and the 15 aerial bombardment group accompanied the Second Armored jyision, which traveled .in two columns, one taking a Georgia route and the other going through Alabama.

BUTLER DECLARES ISOLATION ‘IMMORAL’

NEW YORK. Dec. 16 (U. P.).— of Columbia University, today de-

and. profound immorality.” . Three or four small nations, all under subjection, and Great Britain remain in Europe as defenders of Western civilization against “abhorrent, forces,’ he said in his annual report to the university's trustees, but, fortunately, the Americas are openly defying “those revolutionary and disintregrating attacks from a power which is essentially barbaric in its origin and in its aims.” :

BAN EGG. FOUL EXPORT

BUCHAREST, Rumania, , Dec. 16 .' P.) ~The’ government was for-

Nicholas Murray Butler, president).

glanced off another and into the concrete support of the overhead at Southeastern Ave and the Penn=sylvania Railroad.

3 Die in State

Three persons died in accidents outside Marion County. They were; MR. and MRS ELMER WESTERGREEN, Chesterton, killed Saturday near Valparaiso when their car was struck by a passénger train. . KENNETH SCHULTZ, 40, farmer of near Lafayette, killed when he was struck by a car near his home yesterday. : Critically injured in the the ace cident in which Mr Cornelius was killed were Miss Ruby Murphy, 23, of 907 Lexington Ave. and Cecil Keith, 1133 Bradley ‘St.

Glanced Off Fender

The auto, police were told, struck the support after glancing off the front fender of a car driven by Gilbert Curtis, 914 N Delaware St. Mr. Cornelius, an employee of ‘Hibben-Hollweg & Co., had attended Tech High School. He is sure vived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Edward Cornelius; and two sisters, Zora Cornelius and Der Cornelius, and two brothers, Ralph Cornelius and Buddy Cornelius. Berhert Walter Legg, 33, of 2318 W. McCarty St, was injured critically when he was struck by a car in Mickleyville Saturday

NYA GIRLS AID WITH LUNGHES AT SCHOOL

Eight girls assisting in serving school lunches at the Broad Ripple High School and School 23 are among 111 girls in 12 counties take

ing part in the NYA lunch program. Throughout the state, the young women work under the supervision of the school staff. Surplus com-= modity food: supplied by the Federal Marketing Administration and supplemented by other agencies make up the lunches. The young women are between | the ages of 17 and 25, unemployed ‘and out of school, ‘and in need of work experience. The project is designed to prepare them for jobs in restaurants or in homes, as well as to enable them to assist their own families in planning more nutri tious and economical meals.

FRATERNITY ALUMNI TO SEE I. U. MOVIE

The Indianapolis Alumni Associa tion of Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity will meet at 7:30 p. m, today in the Riley Hotel. A fcur-reel motion picture shows ing activities of college life at Ine diana University will be screened by Frank Fitch, chairman of the ene tertainment committee, L. Victor Brown, vice president, will be in charge of a meeting to make final arrangements for the fraternity’s state dance this year.

SHIP REPORTS BEING BOMBED NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (U. P.).— MacKay Radio today intercepted a wireless message from the S. S. Bicisland reporting the vessel was being bombed 340 miles west by south of Tory Island, off the north coast of Ireland. Lloyd's register of shipping lists no vessel named Bicisland. .

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the days of the week in alphabetical order. - 2—Which State is nicknamed Granite State? . 3—Which famous American naval hero was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron? 4—The power required to lift a weight of 33,000 pounds 1 foot in 1 minuie is called —? 5—What sum was recently suggested by Secretary Morgenthau as the limit for the public debt of the United States? 3 6—Will a body weigh more or less immersed in water than in the air? 2 5 7—What is the annual allowance of the President of the United States for travel and official entertainment? i 8—Who was known as - “the boy orator of the Platte”?

Answers 1—Friday, Monday, Saturday, Sune "day, Thursday, Tuesday and Wednesday. ; 2—New Hampshire. 3 3—Commodore Stephen Decatur, 4—A horsepower, 5—S8ixty-five billion dollars. 6—Less. 7—$25,000. ; 8—William Jennings Bry

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