Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1941 — Page 15

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1941

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and there two fire bombs had plunged through the roof and on down through three floors. One of them had gone through a heavy sheet of steel laid over an airshaft. It left an opening in that steel plate exactly the shape of the bomb, and as neat as though

"it had been_cut in cardboard with a knife.

Now there was a lesson about roof spotters. The men on the roof of that building knew that those

' bombs had gone through, and they were cuickly « smothered. But there were hundreds of unwatched

buildings in London that night into which fire bombs flimged unnoticed, and ten minutes later they were e.

Sees Building Leap Into Flames

That night as I wandered along Fleet St. I saw a five-story building suddenly leap into great flames.

I. The firemen hadn't even known there was a fire in it.

: Sunday ‘night.

‘| be ready to. fall.

, “natural” fires.

At home, when a big fire starts, the police rope off the whole section, but it wasn’t so in London What few pedestrians there were could go anywhere they liked, and they didn’t have to feel their way that night, for there was no darkness.

_,_ Probably foolishly, I walked down a street that

was afire on both sides, past walls that would soon ‘Hundreds of small motor pumps, :' earried in two-wheeled trailers behind cars, stood « in the streets. The engines made such a whirr you ; couldn’t have heard a plane overhead. ‘Firemen by the hundreds were working calmly,

. shouting orders to each other, smoking cigarets, and . paying no attention to pedestrians.

I walked ten blocks. Every step had to be picked separately amidst an intertwined mass eof, fire hose. Somehow I didn't have a feeling that this was war. I just felt as if I were seeing a terrific number of big Even when I came ‘upon two build- * ings that had been blown to dust by heavy bombs less

J than an hour before, there was still a feeling that : 3 oN was all perfectly natural.

| Inside Indianapolis (And “Our| Town’)

WITH THE REPUBLICANS planning fo take over the Attorney General's office just as sdon as ‘the Legislature can act, the case of Samuel D. " Jackson, Democratic incumbent, moves to the front. He was appointed by Governor Townsend last June after the death of Omer Stokes Jackson. It is believed that Mr. Jackson would like to leave the House when the administrétion

changes on Jan. 13. In the first’

place, he has a big practice in Ft. Wayne that is more lucrative financially than his State job. And it’s known too that he doesn’t relish the heat and mud-slinging that nrobably will go with the Job_once the G. O. P.-controlled Legislature gets under way. But evidently Mr. Jackson will be a good soldier and stay on as long as he’s needed. His only comment when asked if he will quit soon is: “Any announcement will have to come from Governor Schricker.”

‘It’s All So Confusing

IT SEEMS THAT NO ONE bothered about “Why Bother, Inc,” so the operators have decided not to bother with it any more, . . . Pellowship Press at Noblesville will publish William ‘Dudley Pelley’s books on “esoterics and metaphysics,” ‘its owners say. In Webster's dictionary, we find: “Esoterics, designed for, and understeod by, the specially” initiated alone; not communicatedy or not intelligible, to the general body of followers. ...” Also “Metaphysics, that fertile

field of. delusion, propagated by lengusge » That makes

-it clearer, we hope. . . .

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Northwestern, there's a delicatessen that’s been .the gathering point for the community’s young people for years. And the woman who owns it takes a ‘great pride in her patrons. She became a little worried when she heard some of them discussing New Year’s plans.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan, 3—In his secret heart, President Roosevelt must be very glad, indeed, that ‘he failed two years ago to purge Senator Walter F. George from the United States Senate. Because now Senator George is chairman of the mighty Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and on foreign policy he is loyally and intelligently supporting the President, who personally went before the Senator’s constituents in Georgia, in the 1938 primary campaign, ancl urged them to throw him out. I bring that up now, not to embarrass anyone, or to paw needlessly over old wounds, but to emphasize that when ‘Senator Gegrge now goes to. bat. for the Roosevelt foreign policy, he ought ' to be listened to with respect and .confidence. He does not speak ‘as a rubber stamp, because on domestic policy he hag gone his own way uncowed by White House efforts to get him. He is not paying off any political debt, because he owes nothing to Mr. Roosevelt. On the contrary, he is in the Senate in spite of all that Mr. Roosevelt could do to keep him out. So when he speaks in support of Mr. Roosevelt on foreign policy, obviously he is speaking out of his own independent intelligence and as a free man.

2 4 Sane Voice

Fortunately for the Administration, Senator

, George, as new chairman of the Foreign Felations

Committee, is already a sane voice rising out of the fivel that has dominated the Senate’s contribution ¢ the current discussion. Senator Wheeler is bab-

“bling about trying to persuade Hitler to accept peace

i terms that would constitute a peace of defeat for

him, apparently oblivious to the experience which Chamberlain suffered when he took Hitler's Munich promises in good faith! Senator Vandenberg is so ‘confused that he sounds as if he would have the United States. dictate peace terms for continental

~My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday—Last night we saw

XN: ‘some very remarkable colored moving pictures taken

in China by Mr. Rey Scott, 8 newspaper reporter of many years standing. I think he said he had been

oo there four times in the last three years and these very

beautiful and remarkable pictures _ were the result of his visits.

One sees China af peace. ' He shows the various types of people in the different provinces, as varied as our Indian Mexican or Negro popuations are from some of the other groups in our own country. Then the war comes and we see them united in war en- _ deavors. | The refugees are shown, the various occupations of a nation at war, the heads of the nation and, finally, the hombing of er the present capital. "To me, the’ ‘remarkable thing is the calm with which the people seem to face bombing whenever it occurs. I remember pictures of long lines of people waiting for their food rations outside of some

Non

shop in Madrid, lined up along the wall for protection

from the airplanes fying overhead which were dropJ dn ‘their

midst. There seemed to bg no fear dd

State

By Ernie Pyle

Finds an Lilund of Immunity

Although bombs are liable to fall anywhere, it happened that norie came within six blocks of where

we stood watching the early part of the fantastic show Sunday night. There were fires all around us, but we seemed to be i an island of immunity. When we started out among the fires, the friends with whom I had been watching tool: another route and I did my fire wandering alone. | Oddly enough I wai never afraid. |As I remember it my only concern was lest I get in the firemen’s way. When I returned to our oasis shortly before midnight, just as I stepped in the door the raiders-passed signal sounded, Up in my room I discovered that my feet were soaked and my coat drenched with spray from leaky hoses. And it will take *a week to get the smoke oul of my clothes. When I turned out the light and pulled the blackout curtains from across the windows the room was bright from the glare of the fires, ¢nd it was hard to get to sleep. But 1 did sieep. And when I awakened around 6! o'clock in the morning the great light | in the sky was gone. London again was almost as dark as it has been every night for a year and a half. Thus do the firemen of London work.

Daylight Always a Blessing

The coming [of .daylight is always a blessing. Things have a way of being overly grotesque at night. Today 1 can! go out onto our .baicony, where we stood watching london ‘burn, and london will look just as it did the afternoon before the raiders came. True, property was destroyed. | Much property, valuable both materially and sentimentally. And lives were lost. But London is bigeand its lives are many. You feel a little abashed to realize the next morning that London as a whole is still here. The skyline looks the same: The streets are jammed with humans. Life is goihg on--where last night you felt that this must be ithe end of gveryining)

She made a quiet tour of the Figtiboiiond, suggesting to the parents that they brganize a watch party at her store. The idea caught on. The party got uncer way with a big supper. Then there was dancing to “juke box” music, and the finale was a ham gnd eggs breakfast at 7 a. m. Everyone had a good time — even the parents, who watched festivities from another i between bridge games.

Everybody’s Happy Agaii i) LEROY KEACH, THE SAFETY Board president, |r is feeling better, but the last three days were trying ones Jor him, He rushed into City Controller James Deery’s office the other day and elatedly announced |f that his Board hac saved $97,000 in Police and Fire department operation during the last year. He was]; turning it back to help wipe out tlie City’s deficit. “That isn’t so good, Roy,” said Mr. Deery without a trace of a smile. You know, your quota was $106,000. You'd better hurry back upstairs and see if you can’t scrape up some more.” Mayor Sullivan was there, and he looked on in stern silence. Mr. Keach. walked out dejectedly. He fretted about it until late yesterday, when Mr. Deery decided enough was enough and called him up to congratulate him on 4 fine job — one of the best of any department.

Picked Up Here and There

THE ARLINGTON AVE. FARM which the Gov-

. ernment is taking aver for the bombsight plant was||

purchased. originadly by Sault Mtfiter’s father with the money he received from thie Speedway for a farm which now is part of the 5(0-mile race course. . . Governor, Townsend has started collecting all the keys he has accumulated during his term. Keys | to gubernatorial rooms at the Siate park inns, ete. He turned over & handful to his secretary the other day. Mr. Schricker falls heir to them, too. otage on N| Meridian St.: Somepne erased the last | “g” of “swing and sing” on a tavern window. . Frances Foote, Business Branch librarian, leaving | the Murat in & cab the other night, was asked by the driver, “What’s ‘going on here fonight, a concert?” | “Yes,” she replied, “Faust.” “Who's he,” asked the. driver, “a singer?!

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By Raymond Clapper

- || hospital.

Europe and go to war against the side that refusec: to accept our judgment of what ¢onstituted a rationa’ settlement of European boundary questions. This week it has seemed as if Senators were only talking in their sleep. Senator | George has injected a little commor;, sense into this confused babble. He says: “The preservation of the peace and security of the United States depends upon how soon tie United States ca provide a total and adequate deiense. The extension of full aid to Britain does involve some danger, bui it involves jess danger, on the whole, looking upon th3 world as ‘it is at this time, than a purely negativ: course.” Senalor George says ne does not have in mind “any immediate invasion ¢r attempted invasion of the United States under any circumstances.” Ege says: “I think we may overemphasize the absence cf} immediate | military invasion or| attack. Other cori-

' siderations are quite as vital and quite as iniajerab] e

to every free people.” | 2 2 a

Georye | and Hull Close

As Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator George will be able to work in close collabor:ition with Secretary Hull. They are long-time friends, and both are old-fashioned Southern Democrats, wii0 understand each other. Each has complete confidence in the other, which is a most desirable relationship between the #ecretary of State! and the Chairman of the Senate Fureign Relations (Committee. It is perticularly fortunate that the Senate Foreign Relations Chairman is not a rubber-stsmp New Dealer who would be discounted by his fellow Senators. From row. 'on it is of the greatest importance that President Roosevelt cultivate Congress’ and win (its confidence. | It was the Senate that broke Wilson on foreign policy|. 1f Mr. Rooseveli goes at Congress with the same tactics he used so offen in domestic affairs, he will be courting disaster. [Fortunately he has in men like Seriator George, and [like Senator Austin of Vermont, thi Assistant Republican Leader, leaders of understanding and intelligent conviction who are sympathetic with: him an foreign policy. Upon that foun= dation ‘Mr. Roosevelt can build successfully , where ‘Wilson failed; if he will take the trouble to do so.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

As we look -at the English faces -in the pict res which have some to us from bombed cities over there, everyone se:ms-to be going apout his particular job with comparative calm.

It is a tribute to the way liuman beings adjusi to whatever they have to meet. Apparently, it is not just -a lack/ of sensitiveness, fir women and children seem able to adjust as well as men to the necess ties of the hour. A book. I was reading las} night from Englind,

called “And Beacons Burn Again,” gives one a s:mseq

of pride in the average human; being.. The writer. belonging to ihe landed gentry group of England, waich for centuriés has considered iis scions the leaders of the nation, practically says: “It is'not my group who save lingland, put the miners and the workers and the pecple from the slums.” Here is something. to make us swell with pride, for it proves that our American conception of SyubLY, | which belitves in giving eadh human heing gual opportunity to develop as fa: as he can, is puiting fatth in the place where it should be, namely, ir the’ strength ¢r'd capacity of the average human Leing. “I lunchéd today with-the Junior Chamber of (‘om-

. merce of tiie District of Colurabia, and am taking my will be back with i

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RULES? GREEKS FIGHT WITHOUT ™M AND HOW!

‘Never Soldiers Like These,’ Says U.. S. Military Watcher in Albania.

By MARY MERLIN | United Press Correspondent V/ITH THE GREEK ARMY AT PORTO EDDA, Albania, Jan. 2.— (Delayed) .—Italian bombing planes have started a big offensive in this secior in an attempt to halt the Grdek drive on Valona. 1 counted more than 200 of them, gleaming like silvery geese, in a

three-mile trip over a secondary roed. On the main coast road

British anti-aircraft guns keep the}

ple nes 2000°Teet high but along the inriumerable ravines the planes roar down through the valleys skimming the tree tops. The pilots hunt Greek troops who are infiltrating the Italian defenses through almost 50 passages. 7 was told that the bombings hae little effect. Greek troops and their pack mules take cover under overhanging rocks or other shelter whien the planes pass. | Snipers Along Ledges [ saw a bomber catch its wing tin in a tree top and spin into a rock wall. There was an enormous explosion as the bomb cargo went up. |Greek snipers take positions along ledges high inthe ravine walls and spatter<the planes with heavy macaine gun fire as they pass. One saiper told me a plane had come so close to him the suction of air a/most drew him off the ledge. Observers here say Italy apparently is throwing every available rian, gun and plane into the defénse of Valona, second largest Albanian port. On a, ride from the front to Porto Edda to file this dis-

patch, a United States military observer shared the driver’s seat of a

camouflaged ambulance with me.

| ‘He said, “I've seen 10 wars in the [last 25 years, but never soldiers like these (Greeks). They break every iule of strategy in the textbooks, but I have never seen fighters like ihem.” Expects Valona to Fall | I asked him if he thought the Greeks could take Valona. | “I think so,” he said, “but that’s as it may be, for I tell you if Britain and the States send planes, they'll take all of Albania.”" ; A nurse inside the ambulance had

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us stop once because her patient, a young soldier, shot through the lungs and coughing blood, wanted to dictate a letter. We waited quietlly while the youth painfully phrased ‘his letter and the nurse wrote it. {Wien he learned-that in the party iwas an American returning to {Athens and would mail the letter {for him he seemed happier and insisted on smearing the paper with ‘his blood. I read the letter, which was to his { mother. “I. didn’t want to die and leave

|you and Costi (probably a brother), but, it’s happened,” it read.

“Be proud to be a Greek. If I do not die send a woolen coat to the base (Signed) Niki.” The nurse later pulled a blanket over the boy’s face while we drove lon. Someone in the party repeated la phrase heard frequently in this war: “Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.” (The inference in Miss Merlin’s dispatch was that the Greek youth died after dictating his letter, but the Greek censorship permits no mention of Greek casualties.)

FUEL OIL PRIGE RISE BLAMED ON DEMAND

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.).— Defense Consumers Counsel Harriet Elliott said today that recent rises in domestic fuél oil prices were

not caused by the defense program and that there is no justification for any further increase. She said the increase was caused primarily by a greater demand for fuel oil for home, office, and apartment heating which, she said, provided “an opportunity to producers and distributors to secure higher prices.” She said that there is no shortage of tankers to transport oil from the Guif of Mexico to New England ports and that tanker operating costs have not risen, insurance rates in some 'instances have been lowered, and that wages have increased only slightly. “Should the situation in tanker facilities eventually beome critical there dre sources from which added facilities may be made available,” Miss ‘Elliott said. “Pifty-six new tankers representing a capacity of over 500,000 tons are now under construction and some of them are near completion,”

ILL MAN CARRIED TO

SAFETY FROM FIRE|

C. Wilson Desoby, 71, was carried to safety by firemen last night wheh a fire broke out in the Maplehurst Apartments, 3528 E. Fall Creek Blvd. Mr. Desoby is ill, buf his health was not impaired by the experience, firemen said.

about $1000 damage last night to the seeond floor, attic and dou, firemen reported.

47 BELOW IN RUSSIA

"MOSCOW, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—A bit-

ter cold wave gripped central Euro-|

pean Russia as far as the Ural (Mountains today with a 47 below +g lemperature registered ‘near

{the State Democratic Committee

“The Madonna of the Forest” at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral . pa

America.”

DEFENSE CLASS ROLLS TOPPED

Waiting Lists Set Up as 1000 Men Register for . Special Courses.

More than 1000 men, nearly 200 more than there are facilities for, have enrolled for emergency defense training courses which start Monday, Edward E. Green announced today.

A waiting list will have to be established. at Tech, , Washington, Manual Training and Crispus Attucks high schools, where the courses are to be given, Mr. Green, Tech vice principal and director of defense training, said. The enrollment for the fifth defense training program, which will last 12 weeks, is a record, Mr. Green said. Already 1500 employed and unemployed men have been given training in industries vital to national defense. The largest over-enroliment, nearly 130, was in the machine shop course, Mr. Green said. Other courses will be given in carpentry, sheet metal work, drafting, radio, pattern making; foundry and welding.

Churchill Termed 'Man of the Year’

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was designated “man of the year” for. 1940 by Time magazine. The designation is given annually to “the man or woman who has effected the most dramatic change in the course of history during the ‘past 12

months.” United States

The ‘obvious” candidate for the title, the magazine said, was President Roosevelt for his third term victory, but his “other accomplishments. of 1940 were not breath-taking.”

‘FAREWELL DINNER FOR TOWNSEND SET

Governor M. Clifford Townsend's last public appearance as chief executive of Indiana will be at a “farewell dinner” in. his honor at the Claypool Hotel next Friday night. - Several hundred Democratic leaders and friends of the Governor will attend the affair at which Gov-ernor-elect Henry F. Schricker will be the’ principal speaker. The dinner will be sponsored by

and the Democratic Women's State

Among 100

A sacred painting, nearly five centuries old and valued as one of “the finest 100 pictures in America,” today became the permanent property of SS. Petér and Paul Cathedral. |. The gift of Mr, and Mrs. Will H. Thompson, the valuable canvas was blessed this morning before a special mass by the Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis. The painting hangs above a white marble and bronze altar and against a background of scarlet velvet. The altar also was a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Thompson. The painting is titled “The Madonna of the Forest” and: is the work of Giovanni: Bellini, member|c: of a famous family of artists in Venice. Bellini was born in 1430 or 1431 and died in 1516. The date of. the painting is believed to be about 1470. The picture is: of the Madonna and Child against a forest background, believed to be the only sacred picture of the Venetian Quattrocento period with such a background. For centuries, the painting was hidden in the house of a Venetian nobleman and was not brought to the United States until 1935. It was expertized by the late Dr. George Gronau, one of the leading critics on Italian art, who praised it as one of Bellini’s best works. Until now the painting never

UNEMPLOYMENT AID FOR SOLDIERS URGED

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (U. P.)— The American Association for Social Security has proposed that six months unemployment insurance be provided for Army draftees when they finish their year’s service. It also made allowances for the

y possibility that men with depend-

ents, as well as single men, might be drafted soon, and recommended that unemployment insurance benefits be based on the “minimum standard of / living for a family,” rather than on what the person earned before he was drafted. = The association said a better security arrangement was needed for draftees “to prevent the fostering of scandalous lobbies and the burdensome costs which have always accompanied our war pension pro8.” Costs of the unemployment insurance should be borne by the Federal Government, and the machinery of the .'Social Security Board be used to administer it, the

House Club.

association said.

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THE PLANES COME DOWN AT 100 FEET ABOVE THE LEAL SLY LEVEL FOR SOME DISTANGE AND. DROP ; THEIR- TORPEDOES ,

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‘Madonna of the Forest’ Is

one of “the finest 100 pictures in

Finest Pictures

has had a distinctive name, but the donors and Bishop Ritter agreed on the title of “The Madonna of the Forest.” The frame of the painting, which | was purchased by the donors from

|Luigl Grassi, one of the great art}theix

dealers of Italy, is almost as rare and as beautiful as the painting. It is a Venetian frame of the 15th Century covered with gold and was presented to Signor Grassi by Bardini, a collector of plastic art and founder of the Bardini Museum in Florence. The painting is listed by Rockwell ent, famous American art critic, as one of the finest 100 pictures in America. It is believed that the gift makes the SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral the possessor of the finest religious picture in American churches. Both the painting and the frame are in a state of preservation. Bishop Ritter, in thanking Mr. and Mrs. Thompson for their gift, said “they have’ enriched our already beautiful Cathedral, and, we hope, themselves as well. “There could not be a more appropriate setting for this religious work of art than the Cathedral, where it will not only be always on. exhibition to be seen and admired by thousands, but where it will inspire genuine religious devotion.”

Boy Scouts Save Sign Language

By Science Service NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—If American Indians of the future want to learn their own sign language, they may have to call in Boy Scout teachers, for youngsters are now ' the main students keeping alive this communication system. Deploring oblivion into which

Indian’ talk-without-talk has sunken—except in Boy Scout circles—Robert Hofsinde, writing in Natural History, urges reviving signs as a simple universal language for world use. Sign language,” he says, is spoken fluently in the Ifdian world only by a few aged Indans, now. Once, on the Plains, 15 or 20 tribes speaking different languages conversed by signs, demonstrating the practical usefulness of universal sign talk. Using only 169 gestures, Mr. Hofsinde can tell a story that calls. for about 1000 words in English,

BRITAIN WILL GET OXYGEN MAGHINES

ed YORK, Jan. 3 (U. P.) —Dr. Aluel Flagg, president - of the re for the Prevention of Asphyxial Death, announced today the start of a drive to aid British [3 victims of German bombing raids. The society’s goal, he said, is to raise. sufficient money to send 1000 portable oxygen-administering devices to Britain for use in the treatment of persons threatened with asphyxial death by fire, smoke, chemical fumes, gas from broken mains, and wounds of the head or neck. The : society recently sent $6000 yorth of equipment to the British Red Oross ‘and this week received a grateful x.

Flagg sald, if prompt preventive

Many lives may be saved, pr.|

COUNTY QUOTA

SET AT 301 FOR 20 DRAFT CALL

Inductions to Continue From : Jan. 14:to Feb. 3; Board 8

To Supply 16 Men.

Marion County will be required to furnish 301 men in the .second draft call extending from Jan, 14 to Feb. 3, Lieut, Col. Robinson Hitchcock, head of the State Se= lective Service, said today. Board No. 8 has been instructed to send 16 men on Jan. 14, the first day of tie coming call, and twa Negro draftees on Jan, 20. Board 3 will send nine men and Board 10 will send eight on Jan, 15, Selectecs from the remaining 12 Marion County Boards will report

for induction into the Army de=-

tween Jin. 16 and Feb. 3. The schedule for these 12 boards will be announced later. All Marion County draftees will report for induction at Ft. Harrie

son. 3 Of the +Marion County total, 22 are to be Negroes. It is probable, Lieut. Col. Hitchcock said, that the percentage of Negro selectees will’ be much larger in the call next month. The state quota for the coming call is for 3152 men and it is pected that the monthly calls I a now through June will. be for at least 3500 men. The state’s quota for the year is 21,087. Southern Indiana draftees will res port at an induction station being establistied in Louisville, Ky." All others vill report at Ft. Harrison. The first draft call last November was for 395 men. Marion Countys ss shar was for only 53.

Heavy Influx of

Recruits . Reported WASHINGTON, Jan, 3 (U. P= The War Department probably will. call up 100,000 men for training une . der the selective service program ) during January, authoritative quare ters said today. ‘Officials said that an estimated 168,000 men tentatively had been scheduled to be called this month, Due to the heavy influx of regular Army recruits and the fact that reserviste are going into active serve ice, th2 lesser figure probably will be needed. Some quarters believed that the 4 trainee quota might be slightly more than 100,000 before the end of January, inasmuch as two of the largest Of the Army's nine corps areas, the second with headquarters at New York, and the sixth, with headquarters at Chicago, are gear= ‘ing their requistioning plans to a 10-day basis to enable them to fit x. pregram tothe availability of trilhing facilities. Yad

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IS BELIEVED AT PEAK

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—The ine fluenza epidemic seems to have reached its peak during the last week of the year 1940, judging from early reports to the U. S. Publio Health Service here. About ones half the states have reported 21,534 cases for the week ending Dec. 28, When reports from all the states are in, the total is expected to b about the same as for the previo wegk when 45815 cases were ported. Health authorities point out t

if the epidémic reaches the population centers in the East, th number of cases will rise again. Th epidemic has been traveling easts ward so slowly, however, that there is some hope it will not reach there. A decrease from 8000 to 6101 cases

: was reported. from Louisiana with

the statement that the epidemic was abating. Reports - from California, where the epidemic started, and from Texes and Oklahoma, which: last week regbrted large numbers of | casei, have not yet been received. States reporting more than 100 cases so for this week are Iowa, 201; Kane sas, 1607; Arkansas, 3480; Louisiana, 6101; Montana, 388; Arizona, 1735; Utah, 5048; Nevada, 968, and Washe © | ington, 1686.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Can elephants swim? : 2—Must a submarine rise to the sur face to fire a torpedo? 3—A cultivator of trees is called - a t? 4—Name the capital of the Island: of Guan., 5—What kinds of United States moaey were withdrawn from cire, culation after the banking holi= day of 1933?

7—The Italian colony, in Atria, bordering on .the Mediterranean directly across from Italy, is named 8--What was the principal title of the Duke of Windsor before he became King Edward VIII? Answers 1--Yes. 2--No. 3--Arborist, or arbiculturist. 4--Agana. 5--Gold coin and gold certificates 6-~-Yes. 7--Libya 3 Prince of Wales.

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