Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1941 — Page 7

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- Military Airports By Maj All Williams

IME and again Washington has been warned that

if we had 10 or 20 thousand warplanes thet had ~ to be moved from the West to the East Coast, it would take an unbelievable number of days (maybe Weeks) to do the job. Why? Because there are only about 256 major airports in the country capable of accommodating the take-off and landing speeds of military aircraft. Our Army and Navy both need airports today. Many of those they have been using as bases are improperly . situated from the standpoint of strategy. Major cities need rings of defense airports not nearer than 50 _ miles. Mitchel Field, Long Island, is a glaring example of inadequate planning. As an aerial defense i base for protecting New York City ‘against warships, its location might be justified. But if Mitchel Field is planned to defend New York City from transoceanic bombers, then it should be out on ithe eastern end of Long Island (about 100 miles nearer to the oncoming air forces).

Using the Emergency

The Navy, of course, was prompt in building additiondl air bases along our coastlines. That plan has been'in the Navy hopper for many years. Time after time the Army has tried to prevent the Navy Air Service from coming ashore and acquiring lend bases. ‘The | Army contends that the Navy belongs at sea. But service ambition aims at grabbing as much of sister- -service - prerogatives and functions as possible. This emergency has therefore been seized upon by the excuse needed to win new share bases. '

Inside Indianapolis 4nd “Our Town?

IT’S NOT GENERALLY known, but the thing that really started the investigation into William Dudley Pelley’s tieup with the Fellowship Press at Noblesville was the careless gesture of the lawyer who

serienalently flipped 20 $500 bills on .a desk in front of Daily M. Hudler, the owner of the paper the Pelley interest were trying to buy. Negotiations were going along for the purchase of the newspaper, but not too smoathly. ‘Mr. Hudler had become ‘a little wary because of all the secrecy and mystery and when the lawyer tossed out the $10,000 in $500 bills on the desk, the whole show was up because Daily Hudler became even more cautious. You just don’t toss $500 bills : around in an ordinary - business deal like that.

Yep, It’s Tough on the Kids

DR. ‘WILLIAM STAFFORD, we hear, got so much . fun out of playing with the model railroad that belongs to Dr. Mitchell Taylor and his 4-year-old son that Dr. Stafford decided to get one for his two-months-old daughter. It never fails, does it? . . . Mrs. Joe Hanna has been out teaching little Judy how to ride that new two-wheel bike that Santa bought. v {oo Albert Sogemeier, clerk of the Federal Court, came out of the Federal Building the other day in such a rush he almost knocked over an enterprising reporter. A traffic menace, eh? . . . Small cut diamonds, the Kind used to dress up "watches and ring settings, have gone up 250 per cent in the last eight months due to the British blockade which prevents shipments from Africa to Amsterdam. We hear that many folks are invesiing in diamonds to hedge on ‘expected inflation.

Not So Jolly Tars

THREE NAVAL RESERVES, togged out in natty sea-going uniforms, ambled into the men’s clothing . department of one of the big downtown stores. “May I help you?” beamed a salesman. “No thanks,” an-

| ° W ashid gton WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—No, I don’t~think Harry

. Hopkins is going to London as another Col. House, to play at diplomatic intrigue among the titles.

That England, which so impressed Col. House, is about gone. President Roosevelt and Mr. Hopkins | : are interested in the new England that is trying to be horn in this nightly rain of bombs. It is a matter of direct interest to the United States, which has been committed by President Roosevelt to be an arsenal for democracy. It has already aroused - political interest here, as seen in the attitude of Senafor Vandenberg of Michigan. The Republican Senator, a few days ago, indicated distrust of present political trends in England. He pointed to the fact that Ernest Bevin, the labor [leader Who ran the general strike in 1626 and who lis now second to Churchill, with a real chance of leventually succeeding him, had said that socialism would be established in Great Britain after the war. “| “Are we to fight for that, too?” asked Senator | Vandenberg,

Talking With Mr. Bevin

f It won’t be important if the King has Mr. Hopkins to tea at Buckingham Palace. It will be important | when Mr. Hopkins talks with Mr. Bevin and gathers a direct impression about the new rising forces in | wartime Britain. Mr. Roosevelt says Mr. Hopkins is | going over to say hello to some old. friends. Having | no official status, and thereby being relieved of the necessity of wasting time on protocol dinners with | stuffed shirts whose day is over, Mr. Hopkins will | range around among the people who are on the way | up in England, mainly those in the labor. movement | who are already pressing for broader war aims than | Churchill has acknowledged. il Through the co-operation of British labor, which has suspended some of its rights and privileges, many | changes have occurred toward meshing economic life closer into military needs. These are of particular

My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—1 reached New York City Friday afternoon just in time to be faced by a battery of cameras while I had my last fittings for three new dresses. Then Mrs. George Backer and Mr. John Rothschild, of the “Open Road,” came to ; see me. Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. came .in from the country so we could go together to: “Flight From the West,” by Elmer Rice. The casting and acting of the play are really remarkable. You feel as though you had been on the clipper yourself and met and talked with the group of people . who took the flight. As a play, it lacks something which keeps it from being really great, but as a group of characterizations, it is extremely interesting and I think that anyone will feel thai he has spent an evening which is well worth while. The successful oil man from Texas would be rather amusing if he were not rather terrifying. I wonder how many people really think it is smart to do business with & man who stands for everything that is opposed to the original American conception of democracy and freedom. . It seems to me a little like the doctrine: “The devil, himself, is an amazing fellow so long as I can get the best of him.” Since, in business, some of us think we are abler than the rest of the world, we Shitik it is is safe to traffic with thpse who repre-

Our air-base situation could be greatly improved if the same ruie of “use this emergency” were applied generally by the Army in building a completely mod-| ern adequate system of military airports. The first expedient resorted t> by the Army and Navy Air Services is the grabbing of commercial airports. The mdiive in that direction is gaining mo. mentum. Service officers are flying around the cqun| try telling Chanibers of Commerc: on just what term: the Government will accept the exclusive donation of local airports, built and maintaiiied to date by local money and municipal bonds. i

Stirring Up Trouble | In fact, these officers have sO far lost their per spective that they are handing out these terms on aii or-else basis! | Naturally, the municipal government

are nursing 'a grudge against these people and thi organizations they represent. i

There’s r¢oni enough in this country, and thers |

appears to be tnlimited money to do anything. Why| not force the military air services to build their owi airports and cease this dislocation of commercial avigtion? In themselves, commercial and private aviatica are major factors in our aerial) defense setup. The growth durinig the past few years—and mark you, before this G@vernment awakened to the necessity fiir nationa] air|| defense—has been! phenomenal. Their

promise for the future is, I beli¢ve, far and away bj:- 4 yond the rasiest predictions of four most gifted vi 5- 3

ionaries.

Natitna] defense in general sliould mean the buil/fi- 4 ing of adeqiiate machinery of every type required in| ;

modern wal) and the training 0} personnel to operdite| 3

it.

evidently in€lines to do. -

swered one//'we’re just looking--just in case.” A sbcond, though, was more definite. “Were just dreaming,” he said briefly. . . . Speaking of the service reminds u$ (of | the scene in Uriion Station the oti ner day around the nickel target gadget where you try to shoot down divé-bombers. #4 Red Cap hit a score of 210, but one chap missed onelevery shot. Onlookiers agreed with the sad young fellow that if his number comes up he might as well get set for a siege/ of kitchen duty.

Bobbitt for Attorney General?

HOT TIPS AT THE State Eouse: Arch N. Bobbitt, State G. O, F. chairman, is b2ing talked in sevjral places for the Attorney Genera! job. The Republican Legislature, will place the appoiritive powers in G. (/. P. hands until 1942, when the oifice probably will become elective, Then there will be a scramble for the post. ||Maurice (Red) Rdbinson, the Andej'sén basketball star of bygone days who lost out in| the 11th District Congressional race, also is expecteil to land a State job, probably under Secretary of State James Tucker. He's a former Madison County piosecutor and might have eyes orn the elective Attolney Generalship. | Mr. Tucker, we hear, is telling his friends that he isn’t interested in the law job ter his secretary term runs out in 1942.

Going *Round and Round

ONE OF" THE TOWN'S best-known firms wis in immediate need of a young main, and the one they had in mind waé working in Illinois. They placed a telephone call to his last known address and were told he’d moved] to another Illinois town. Another] call, and they learned he was in Indianapolis on Christmas vacation. [Just then a friend bf the young man ‘who was employed by the firm passed by. “Where's sil and so,” he was asked. “Oh, he's sitting over thele in the corner; waiting for me to get off work.” |. . There hes been some idle comment around | Police Headquarters about the sudden pickup in finds for traffic violgtions in the Muni¢ipal Courts. Wirgil Smith, the Communit ty Fund Hoss man, has. him self a new house | ‘on N. Illinois St., bast the Canal. . Big Bill Tilden, the tennis hero, has been: around] town for a couplé of days, but what for seems to be a mysery.

By Raymo fo Clapper

Mterest now to the United States. We proba ly are not profititig enough by England's mistakes, just as we have not drawn sufficiently on our own industrial experience in the last war. Mr. Hopkins willl bring back some observations and new leads for Yorther inquiry in this field. { He goés In a special role, as a private citiz! in but as the man who is Mr. Roosevelt's most intimate personal friend. They see though eyes of like interests and| understanding, President Roosevell isn’t content #0 rest only upon | the reports tro/n the embassy, which are expert in their professiorial observation out which still lack something whith can come only from one so Iniimate and Wugaheps with Mr. [Roosevelt as Mr. Hopkins.

England .in Ferment

Necessdrily there are many intangibles and jnatters of judgment in assessing prersqnalities and | trends, and Mr, Roosevelt's understanding of them uiidoubtedly willbe sharpened through ihe observation of one so closely attuned to his own ning as Mr. Hopkins. A thoughti ul .estimate of the situation and| probabilities in England should help Mr. Roosevelt visualize more accurately the situation with which he is|| dealing in this critical time. It is most important that Mr. Roosevelt lense as accurately as he can the inental changes that are going on| among the English people, for evidently during their long nights in the shelters they are thinking. |! [hey have been o@ docile class. Hiller has told them some things aljout democracy (and its shortcomings that cannot bé¢ laughed off. Th ey must be thinking about that, and about the njess the Chamberlains got them inth, and the speciil privileges thai the few have enjoyed while failing : {io miserably to give England the protection it needed] Reports reaching here frc¢m various sources indicate that all of|this is fermenting, Undoubtedly Mr, Hopkins will make a special effort io assess the probabilities in the struggle that is going on between the left and right in Jingland, under cover-of the desperiite fight for survival. This issue involves peace terms) and the length of (he war. Mr. Hopkins can be of enormous use to tHe President in sizing up the real jituation.

Neither bf ‘these operations should be allowed [to | § interfere with commercial or hrivate aviation as) it] 3

Workmen removing equipment from the Pelley publishing house at Asheville, N. C.

By Fremont Power E= -NEWSPAPERMAN, ex-movie writer, ex-Y. M. C.

A. secretary, ex-novelist

and mystic, William Dudley :

Pelley has landed in Indiana apparently about two jumps ahead of a North Carolina sheriff. W. D. Pelley, in case you haven't heard, is the founder of the supposedly ex-Silver Shirts of America, and the man who put up the money to found the Fellowship Press

at Noblesville, Ind., a ven- , ture folks in central Indiana haven't greeted with

exactly wide open arms. He has been flitting between here and Noblesville, a mysterious figure, though a dignified-appear-ing one, with his graceful goatee and gleaming eyes. The Silver Shirts came into be-. thg one evening in 1933. William Dudley Pelley told the Dies Committee just how it happened. “I was working late one night = in my office,” he told the committee, “when Marion Honderson, my secretary, came in with the Asheviile evening paper. I saw eight-column headlines. Curiously, I picked it up. The date was Jan. 30, 1933. And screaming from the page were the significant words— “‘ADOLF _HITLER BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR.’ “I looked at the lines. I read them again. I sought to comprehend them. Something clicked in my brain— “ “Tomorrow,” I announced, ‘we have the Silver Shirts!’” And, presto, it seems he did. By last February, Mr. Pelley was lelling the Dies Committee, there were 25,000 members in 22 states, including Indiana. : The only thing Mr. Pelley forgot, apparently, was to file incorporation papers with the Indiana Secretary of State, because there's nothing on record about the S. S. of A. in this state.

CITY COUNCIL

ELECTION SET

Wood and Deluse Slated to

Keep Posts; 2 Topics Up Tonight.

Prefaced by a cut-and-dried elec-

tion of officers, City Council tonight will take up the subject of track elevation and poultry licensing, two of. 1940's holdover questions.

The election of officers has been

virtually decided by a caucus of Democratic majority members held twp weeks ago. Joseph G. Wood is to continue as president, with Albert O. Deluse slated for re- -election as vice president. tees also will be retained.

Present ¢ommit-

Council will vote on a resolution

asking City officials to propose legislation which would enable. the

By Eleuibr Roose welt

municipality to acquire funds for South Side track elevation. The resolution was introduced by Councilman Ralph Moore, Republican, under suspension of the rules at the

sent all ‘ne Hate and fear. I read Archibald’s MacLeish’s article yes! lerday in the Survey Graphic, and I|grow to believe dvery day with greater conviction the truth he seis forth. America is not a pile of jgoods, more luxury, more comforts, i better telephone system, a greate number |C of cars, /Aimerica is a dream of greater julitice and opportunily for the averagk man and, if wi can not obtain it, all our other (achievements all rourtt to nothing. Even to dream, one must have a basis of {economic security, find the dream is worth little if i| can not provide (that. Devotion to democracy, delotion to liberty, what we call patriotism, depends pon the realization of such conditions in our country as really give ‘us the opportunity and hope for future lireams. I drove up to Hyde Park yesterday moining and the drive along the parkway was like a fairyland. Once out, of the city, the fi¢clds and trees we:e covered with snow. When I reached my cwn coi tage, the countrysicle was really beautiful. I had oily a few hours, but two friends were spending the week-end there, sO we walked up tc the top of the hill after an early lunch and came back to chat in the Nyms room, which made me alinost forget that: 1 had to make @ frain. The Weather had cleared and the moon shone, so I knew, that IT could make the 10:30 plarje back to Washington. I spent the evening with a friend in New York City, and had the joy of listenin g to some inspiring and beautiful song records. The ° ‘Ballad for Americans,” which belongs so typically t¢/ our own country, I think should become familia; to every school child!

last meeting, after South Side civic groups renewed their drive for additional grade separation.

President. Wood said results of a conference on the poultry ordinance

with two groups of businessmen interested in it would be presented to the Coun:ai: the ordinance which levies a tariff on out-of-town poultry dealers is pending.

CLASSES OPEN IN

A proposal to repeal

CAA PILOT COURSE

Opening ground school classes in

the CAA civilian non-college pilot |’ training course will begin in the Indiana World War Memorial Shrine Building at 5 and 7 p. m. today.

Last week, approximately 70

youths sought to enroll in the second CAA course during final enrollment period at the Chamber

Commerce offices. Applicants who Passed the interviewer's test have ye

|amination.

of

to survive the ' physical =

T any rate, Mr. Pelley’s S. S. had a marked resemblance to Mr. Hitler's S. S. Fuehrer Pelley kept urging his followers “to get the name of every Jew who intimidates a gentile.” Fuehrer: Pelley said that Jews were = behind the = “complete sovietization” of the country under NRA and that they influence the President, whom he dubbed “Rosenfeld.” Mr. Pelley’s method of organization was this: He was boss of the whole outfit. Local organizations were set up as “councils of safety.” Each local council or post had its liaison officer who reported to the state liaison officer, who, in turn was the contact with Mr. Pelley. One evening in 1936 at Les Angeles, Fritz Kuhn, deposed Ger-

~man-American Bund leader, whom

the Government caught stealing money from his organization, and Mr. Pelley got together. The Silver fuehrer described the meeting: “I met the gentleman that eve-

ning in the Lankersheim Build-

ing in Los Angeles. . . . He gave me the Nazi salute, which rather amused me. We sat down and talked American political and fi‘nancial conditions for a few minutes, and out of the gist of the conversation in the ensuing hour the suggestion was made to me— at least, I took it as such from the tenor of the conversation—that the German Bund become absorbed into the Silver Shirts.” . Whether the combine ever was

Hoosier Goings On

SNAKE EYES

Gigantic

Edinburg Plans y HARRY

Reptile

William Dudley Pelley during his appearance last year before the House Rules Committee in Washington.

effected, Fuehrer Pelley did not

tell the Dies Committee, ” 2 n AST year the Silver Shirts, ! upon the advice of the Committee, supposedly were “dissolved.” But whether the dissolution ever took place or not would be difficult to determine. Mr. Pelley’s organizations are always complex. On Aug. 28, 1939, Robert B. Barker, investigator for the Dies Committee, described the Pelley setup in Asheville as follows: “The organization is the Silver Shirt Legion of America, Inc. The business down there (Asheville) is Skyland Press, Inc. The building and literature are Pelley Publishers. The bank account is carried under the name of Skyland Press. The express shipments go out under the name of Foundation Fellowships. (The name of the Noblesville . firm -is Fellowship Press, Inc.). The mail goes out under ‘the name of Little Visits. The magazine that is published is Liberation.” The purpose of the Silver Shirts is rather nebulous. In a few words, it seems to be to combat a " Communistic revolution inspired by Jews. That is the gist of Mr, Pelley’s own statements. That he is—or was— Sympathetic with Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany is no secret. Since the Nazi-Communist pact, however, Mr. Pelley has not expressed himself on this point. : » » 8 AST year, however, he gave his + personal approval to an “of-

‘Appears’ Again; ‘Blackout’ Net Game MORRISON

THAT BIG SNAKE is back again, ° It’s so big that the people around Cartersburg, Putnamville and

Lagrange think there are three snakes. It has been seen swallowing a weaned _calf! It is supposed to have stretched all the way across a paved highway and a farmer reported seeing Its head three feet above stand-

story.

ing grain while it was crossing a field. The snake, which the Cartersburg people call their own, appears to be half a telephone pole projecting ‘above the banks of Little White Creek while it crawls along the bed. And the Danville Gazette says in some instances pet dogs have been equipped with cattle yokes to prevent their being swallowed. Or maybe someone has been seeing snakes. . nim 8 ; “A Christmas story has just been told in Muncie. Two women who

live in the same apartment build-

ing there annually exchange presents by leaving them on each other’s doorstep. The rest of the year they see one another only casually. They have no social contacts. And the only time they talk fo one another is to exchange {thanks—over the phate, x = = AS IF BASKETBALL isn’t difficult eriough, the Edinburg

P.-T. A. must arrange a blackout

game for next Wednesday. All the players will wear luminous suits and the lights will be out. * The ball, lines and baskets will be luminous.

It is extremely bothersome to be bothered with so many auto-

mobiles that yon don’t know when

one of them has been stolen. An Edinburg garage proprietor didn’t notice one of his automeobiles was missing from his used car lot the other day until -police asked him about it. °° He denied the loss until they produced dhe car. It had been stolen a couple of days : before, involved in an accident ang, then abandoned. t J

» (for

. ght relief)

tel:

by plane. something

At least, that’s the

Tribune editorial comment on world affairs was this observation: “If a doctor is doctoring a doctor does the doctor doing the doctoring have to doctor the doctor the way the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctor the doctor the way he. usually doctors?”

ORDERS NEW HOUSING IN DEFENSE AREAS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today ordered immediate construction of 6396 more family dwelling units in 11 localities in the United States, Panama, Hawaii and Puerto Rico to meet an “acute shortage” of housing facilities at Army and Navy

posts. . The projects are part of the $200,000,000 emergency housing program, which empowers ‘the President to direct such construction whenever a shortage exists that would %mpede national defense.” Costs of the 11 new projects have not been determined as yet. : The projects, based upon detailed studies and recommendations, were made public by Defense Housing Co-ordinator Charles F. Palmer.

SUN- TANNED WILLKIE ENDS FLORIDA ‘REST

NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (U. P.)— Wendell L. Willkie, sun-tanned and rested, was back in New York today after a six-weeks ‘vacation at Hobe Sound, Fla. Mrs. Willkie, their son Philip and Mrs. Willkie’s mother return today. Mr. Willkie would make no, statement on politics or the war when he arrived yesterday He said he “might have

ficial dispatch” of his organization which said: él

“The only man in Eurepe who correctly understands the tie-up be tween communism and the predatory elements among the Hebrews is Hitler. He is maligned in this country because Hebrews are determined the stark truth shall not be known, and use every agency of publicity to disparage and vilify him. ..

“On Jan. 31, 1933—the day that Hitler came into power in Germany—Pelley came out from unger cover with his Silver Shirt national organization. “Having planted depots of his facts throughout the entire United States, enlightened police and vigilante groups, secured the cooperation of outraged Christian citizens to carry on regardless of what happens to him personally, his organization of SILVER SHIRTS is now snow-balling exactly as Hitler's Nazis snow-balled in Germany when the German people were at last persuaded to the truth.” Mr. Pelley was asked if ti at was an “official expression on your part of the attitude, the aims, and the purposes of the Sjlver Legion, as contained in this| official bulletin to its members?” “It was,” Mr. Pelley said. At first the initiation fee for Silver Shirts was $1, to be taken as the first month’s dues, and the regular dues were $1 monthly. This dues practice later was abandoned, Mr. Pelley said, when: it occurred to him that it had all the essence of a racket.

UT while dwaiting the millennium, Silver Shirts were urged to communicate with a quartermaster corps in Oklahoma City, from which they could buy silver shirts with red Ls, blue corduroy breeches, leggings and a tie—all, for $10. Publications available to the

. members cost money, the highest

priced one being one on Jews that sold for 25 cents. Mr. Pelley, the professional Jewhater, is wanted in Buncombe County, North Carolina, on charges of violation of a proba=tion on conviction of non-regis-tered security sales. On next Feb. 18 he is to come up for judg=ment on a conviction of advertis= ing that Galahad Press, another of his publishing ventures, was - solvent, was a fine business, and

would be able to pay its June, 1934,

dividends, whereas it was adjudi~ cated bankrupt in May. When a person wished to join up with the Silver Legion, he was required to state on the applica- . tion his racial extraction, the exact hour and minute of his birth, “previous politics,” and military experience, if any. Mr. Pelley told the Dies Coms=mittee that the military experience might*come in handy when the “revolution” came about. When it/ did happen, the Silver Shirts would step in, Mr. Pelley said, and he would be chief of the United States until the people chose their government in What he called a plebiscite, That's the Mr. Pelley who recently thoved ‘into Indianapolis.

IMPROVED FARM

‘CONDITIONS DUE

U. S. Bureau Warns Not to."

Expect War Boom In Prices. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (U./P.).—

The Agriculture Department today predicted rising farm prosperity in

-(1941, but warned against expecta-

tions of a war boom in prices. The stimulus to farm prosperity will come from increased industrial activity as production for national defense expands, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics said. “Farm income will be higher this year than last, but higher costs will offset’ part of the gain,” the Bureau said. Cash farm income in 1940 was estimated at $9,500,000,000, the highest in 10 years.

Food Supplies Adequate

“Currently, the ratio of prices received by farmers to prices paid is about 17 per cent below the preWorld War base of 100,” the bureau said. “In September, 1939, at the outbreak of war, it was 25 per cent below the pre-World War base.” Food supplies are adequate for civilian and military needs | during 1941. The only reduction from 1940 will be in meat supplies, but there is no danger of a meat shortage. “Large supplies of wheat, potatoes, citrus fruits, dried fruits, canned foods, truck crops and dairy products are in existence or in prospect,” the Bureau said. “A nearrecord supply of feed for livestock is on farms and in storage”

Cotton Record Likely

The Bureau pointed out that acreage allotments will be virtually the same as in 1940 and that “goad yields will undoubtedly increase the supply of products stored| against future needs.” “The cotton mills of the country have been spinning at an unprecedented rate, and it looks now as though consumption by mills this year will set a new high | record,” the Bureau reported. “Cotton exports are expected to continue at a low level.” Reports indicated more cattle and lambs are on feed this winter than last, but that a sharp reduction in hogs may result in a smaller total meat supply. Poultry and’ egg prices probably will continue higher than a year ago because of’ the smaller supply and ‘increased consumer

Fire After Fire Plagues Family

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Jan. 6 (U, P.).—The home of Fred Mitchell, Noble Township, burned Saturday morning. Household effects were salvaged and moved to his son-in-law’s house in Waldron. Exactly 24 hours later, chimney sparks ignited -the Waldron residence, It burned to the ground.

FORT MAY BE SAVED MONTGOMERY, Ala. Jan. 6 (U. P.).—PFive civic and government bodies are sponsoring a movement to convert historic Spanish Fort on the eastern side of Mobile Bay into & national monument. The Fort dates from the Spanish-English war of 1779.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

l—In the nursery rhyme, Baby Bunting, Daddy's a-Hunting,” hunting? 2—How long after Easter is Ascension Day? 3—What does the abbreviation F. PF. V. mean? 4—Which islands are called “The Crossroads of the Pacific? y 5—Name the three states that begin with the letter “O.” } 6—What is the smallest denomina=

o Bye, Gone

tion of United States coin now

issued? T—Rottenstone is used mostly by a lapidary, a sanitary engineer, or a mason? s 8—What are the middle names of U. 8. Supreme Court Justices Hugo L. Black and Stanley F, Reed? Answers 1—A rabbit-skin, 2—Forty days. 3—First Families of Virginia. 4—The Hawaiian Islands. 5—Ohio, Oklahoma, Qregon. 6—The one-cent piece. 7-<Lapidary. 8—La Fayette and Forman, » s t J

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