Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1941 — Page 13

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" Hoosier Vagabond

LONDON (by wireless).—Now we are standing down below, on the floor of a huge concrete “cistern” somewhere near London. - It is a wet, ¢hilly, January night. A huge gun sticks its snout up out of the cis-

tern against the faint light of a mcon-tinted sky. The base of th¢ gun is halfinclosed in a steel cabin, like the cab of a locomotive. On each side of the gun barrel sits a man on a stool, just like an engineer and fireman, Iv pial The man on the right, by cranking a wheel, keeps the gun moving around on a swivel, following the hand on a dial which points toward the spund of motors in the sky. The. man on the left raises and lowers the gun barrel, Down in the pit are other v men. They are all in uniform, but here in the dark they are mere shapes. Nobody says anything. | Three men stand just behind and to one side of the gun. Before them, lying in a rsck that moves with the gun, is a row of big shells, The shells taper down to a pencil-ppint end. That end is a steel cap, shiny bright, with figures and marks on it, and right in the end, like the eye of a needle, there is a small hole. f One man stands there with a narrow steel punch stuck through this hole. He holds| the punch in ‘right hand. In his left is a shielded flashlight pointing down onto the end of the shell 50 he can read those little figures which a. few seconds later will be bursting through thousands of feet of sky. . He stands there waiting—everybody is waiting— everybody is ready for the order. | |

Firing at a Nazi Bomber

Off in the darkness, some yards away, technical information is being relayed from one instrument man to another. The sound-detector boys phone, “One three five one four zero one four five,” giving the exact course of the enemy plane. Over the phone from somewhere else in London coines the plane's altitude. Mathematicians figure the grgle, the range, the bearing. They call out as they figure. The officer in charge stands alone in the darkness. Me takes no part in the details. The enlisted men 8o all that. Finally there is a shout through the darkness, “Stand by to fire.® The voice carries to all the gun #rews, and they each acknowledge with a yell. We ready to shoot at a German. Let's go back to e of the gun pits,

Inside Indi NOW THAT THE PINBALL row has cooled down to a simmer, we might mention timidly that we've been out doing a little experimenting. The pinball machines are still going great guns in most parts of town, For you uneducated folks, a pinball machine is Just an old ball and trigger device hooked up electrically. You've got to hit a lot of bumpers and such and ring up a good score to beat the game, If you beat it (lucky stiff!), the machine rings up a free game and the proprietor of the store will pay you off at a nickel a game. The proprietors don’t have to pay off much because (thé player goes right ahead to [demonstrate his skill and 99 times out of 100 loses the free game [so that makes everybody even, [except the machine, of course, which is ahead. They've got 'em togged up pretty, too. When you hit a bumper, lights blink and shine and you'd think you were on Times Square in New York. A nickel’s worth of fun lasts just about two minutes. Profitable? Well, we'd guess that they make their

way. Some of the proprietors courit on ’em to the rent. ! a py

r r i Some Good, After All | PERHAPS THE MOST unusual industry that has sprung up in Indianapolis as a result of the war is the peat business. Since importations of peat from Europe have been cut off, native peat bogs have been opened up and one of these is the Bacon marsh here,

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WASHINGTON, Jan, 23.—Thos¢ who expected to lean upon Joseph P. Kennedy, retiring Ambassador to Great Britain, in opposing the ‘Administration WarAid Bill, have found him a weak reed.

Opponents of the bill asked him to testify before ‘ the House For¢ign Affairs Com- * mittee but he proved to be about as good a witness for the Administration as for the opposition. Some extreme opponents of the Administration [were disappointed in Mr. Kennedy’s radio speech a few nights ago. It did not go as far in criticisin as they had understood he wenf in private con= versation. They had even more cause to be disappointed after he testified. Some friends of the Administration, acting | upon private reports of Mr. Kennedy’s supposed attitude, have denounced him bitterly. Opponents of the Administration, thinking Mr. Kennedy was one of them, have built him up as the man who, after serving in London throughout the war, would set the country straight -and expose the Administration ruthlessly, They have handed around in Washington chatter an assortment of criticisms attributed to Mr. Kennedy,

The Kennedy Attitude |

When he was questioned by members of the House committee, Mr. Kennedy failed to|give Rep. Fish and

Rep. Tinkham their needed ammunition. His sugges--

tions for changes in the Administration War-Aid Bill leaned to the mild side. His testimony added up to the following: 1. We need not worry too much about anybody glving our Navy away. Mr, Kennedy expressed complete confidence in the ability and integrity of President Roosevelt and said that anyone who thought he was trying to take the United States into war was crazy.” ; 2. Convoying of ships probably would mean war for the reason that if one of our ships should be sunk, the American people probably would want to go to war, (Shortly thereafter, at his regular press confer=- |

My Day |

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. -—Yesterday was- a day of leave taking. Never has this oh been as filled with young people as it wes for this inauguration. Cots and cribs seemed to be in every room and the five youngest members of the household were ‘ really the ones who spread gaiety and life throughout the old house. On the whole, yesterday ‘was fairly quiet. I received Mrs. E. J. Thill of La Crosse, Wis, in the afternoon. She is “Mrs. National Consumer” for 1941, and I never saw anyone who enjoyed and profited more from a holiday. She told me of her two boys and I could see that she wished they had b with her to enjoy the many new experiences. I imagine this is a natural feeling, for it is always so much pleasanter when you can share whatever you are doing with people you love. ? Earlier in the afternoon, I spent a short time with the superintendents of public schools and superintendents of public recreation cf various cities who were invited to participate in a WPA education-

recreation conference. ; t 4 o'clock, I went to the ceremonies attending

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By Ernie Pyle

The boys are waiting. Not a word is said, Then,

out 0: the darkness, comes a yell, “One five.” That's

the orcer for setting the time fuse.

At the yell, the man with the punch gives the

tiny end of the shell a little twist. He has sei it at “one flve”—in other words, he has set it to explode 15 seconds after leaving the gun. * | It takes him less than a second. He steps back. The min next io him already has this huge shell in his arms. He half throws it into the arms of the .man next to him. This one swings it onto a set of rollers and shoves it upward to the man on the left side of the gun cab. He jerks it off the jollers, switches it into a steel cradle alongside ths gun barrel. A lever rolls the cradle over and the shell ‘is in the gun. An automatic ram pushes it tight, the breech snaps shut and locks. It is all done in the dark. The gun is ready. We all step baci. There is utter silence, absolute suspension of all motion, A newcomer puts his fingers to his ears and gets tense all over. It séems like hours now that we have beer waiting, although if is probably only a few seconds, Then faintly, out of the darkness and into your ruffled ears comes a human voice, and all the guns gc off at once,

A Shocking Experience

Your first experience in a gun pit is truly & shocking one. From every side you seem to have been stuck by a terrific blast of air that almost knocks you down. And somewhere around—you don’t quite place it— there are horrifying sheets of flame, as if everything on earth had caught fire and exploded. And iningled with both of these things there Is certainly the loudest noise you ever heard. The whole thing shakes spiritually. Ang before you have really come back #0 your senses, you are following the crashing shell on its journey. The terrible blast seems to go shattering and crashing its way on up, up into the heavens, with a series of great reverberations as though the climbing shells were bursting through shect after sheet of waxed paper stretched tight across the sky. And then, if you wait maybe half a minute, you hear faintly the explosion of that very shell which a minute ago you saw being loaded into the gin. Now it is flying into a thousand vicious little pieces, miles up there in the darkness. > But by now the yell “One seven” has come through the night, the dark shapes of boys in uniform have moved! wordlessly in routine little motions there in the open-air concrete cistern, anc another shell is alreudy tearing toward the moon.

you, physically and

anapolis (And “Our Town”)

heretofore noted for nearly everything but profitable proc.uction. It was las! in the news when the WPA tried to build & road &cross it. Every time they came back to worlt in the mornings, the road had diseppeared. Finally, they gave up in tune to the ha-ha's of the town wits. Now it’s producing peat.

What, No Motor! NISH DIZNHART, the Airport superintendent,

found it necessary to go up in & balloon the other

day at the Airport to inspect some lighting systems. Whil¢ he was.up there (200 feet) his picfure was taken and when the papers reached Lafayette, where his mother lives, she rushed to the telephone to call Nisli and find out if he got down safely. * Airplanes, she said, are all right, but this business of hefioon travel is carrying things too far, she told him,

Smoking ‘Em Out

ZIONSVILLE HAS A NEW fire siren, a hpney that cost| $193 and can be heard for five miles--the City Fathers hope. It’s to be installed Sunday. The reason for the new siren rests with a couple of pigeons. Jt seems that not so long ago. the phone operator got word of a fire and she pressed the button that always had, up to then, set off the old siren. Nothing happened except silence and she had to cgll all the voluriteer firemen by phone. After the fire they investigated and found that a pair of pigeons had set up housekeeping in the old sireri and completely gummed it up.

By Raymond Clapper

ence, Mr. Roosevelt made it clear he had not seriously considered the conveying of ships, That would likely mean shooting, and the last thing in the mind of this Government is to do anything that would lead to shooting.) 3 Opening of our Navy yards to repair of British ships probably would not lead us into war because it would not be likely to precipitate anything that would infléme the American people to want to fight. Our aid to England should be limited only by avoiding actions that obviously might lead to war. | 4. The President and his Army and Nayy advisers should decicle what material we can safely spare. | 8. Our greatest protection sgainst being involved in war is to re-arm as fast as possible, Nobody will court war with the United States if it is prepared.

Giving Js Time to Arm

€. The purpose of aid to Kngland is te give us more time to re-arm. 7. To ge' things done you must put the power in: one hand. Congress must surrender some of its prerogatives, but the co-ordinating function of Congress should be maintained, perhaps by a small committee to work with the executive. We ought to get awey from long-winded discussion and it would be simple to work out some plan whereby leaders of Congress could be consulted, if there is the will to do it. ¢. A time limit and a money limit are needed. Thus Mr. Kennedy's main suggestions regarding the pending bill are that it be changed to include time and money limits and consultation between the executive and Congress. He stands about where Mr. Willkie does—for some resirictions but with recognition of the need to give tke President broader powers. i When one House committée member asked Mr. Kennedy i the Government should not give more information about the situation abroad, he replied that the newspapers and the radio are providing a cemPithensive piss Seople, at any rate, have all the ormation nee order to reach a decis about’ this bill, he said. oisian ji _ Mr. Kennedy, who had been heralded as a leading spikesmarn for the opposition, the source of so-called [“appeasement” argument, seems actually to have earned another good reward from the Administration.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tients at Preesdmen’s Hospitel. The Secre 0 e Interior, Mr. Ickes, turned the building ig o Ad ninistrator Paul McNutt, who accepted it and promistd to do. his best to support the work of the hospital. Freedmen’s Hospital will need all the su

which car be given it, for it is Howard University’s

f1aining school for doctors. There is~also a training school for nurses in connection with it. I am very anxious to see this hospits]l made valuale, not only because of the need it fills in serv. the Negto population in the District of (Jolumbia, but

bicause of the great need for good doctors and nurses

tliroughout the country to render service to our Negro population. Tuberculosis hes long been a scourge to tlie colored people. There it need for preventive education among them, as well as for the carly detection

ol the disease in any member of the family to safe-°

" gilard the rest of it. | The Dallas aviation schcol in Texas has an energetie advertising director. © Like her hrother, C. R.

Emith of American Airlines, Miss Flo Smith is full

o! ideas tnd is energetic about carrying them out. She writes me that she has started & movement in connection with the local Eritish War Relief chapter. fhe collects tinfoil from all the children in the s:hools, end though little rioney is realized from the tale of ‘it, so many of the youngsters are interested

Indiana

STUDY GROUPS NAMED T0 AID SAFETY DRIVE

Meters, Parking, Education, Enforcement Problems To Be Scanned.

Four subcommittees of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan's Safety Advisory Committee were named today as the newly-created safety group moved forward to deal with Indianapolis’ growing traffic menace. At the same time, Safety Board President Leroy J. Keach formally requested the Committee to consider the Board’s proposal for a 30-min-ute parking limit downtown to facilitate trafic movement and ease congestion. The Board’s time limit recommendation was turned down by City Council Monday night. Council declined to consider the uniform time limit proposal until the Advisory Committee has studied it. :

4 Main Subjects

In a letter to the group, Mr. Keach asked that a study be made of four main subjects: Parking, parking meters, enforcement and safety education. In appointing subcommittes, Wallace O. Lee, Advisory Committee chairman, announced that the ediication study would be made with the aid of the Chamber of Commerce’s Safety Committee. This group was organized recently to deal specifically with the promotion of safety education. Each of the four subcommittees will study one of the four main points outlined by Mr. Keach as Safety Board problems. The committees and their functions are: ENFORCEMENT-Dr. R. N. Harger, chairman. Charles Chase, A. Kiefer Mayer, E. C. Forsythe and Todd Stoops. This group will study speed limits, policies of arrest, trafic and warning signal locations, distribution of pelice activity and loading zone locations.

Study Parking

PARKING—Tom Hughes, chairman. James Gloin, Louis Wolf, William Evans and Paul Robertson. This group will study the Board’s 30-minute parking recommendation in addition to a general parking policy for the City. PARKING METERS—Sam Walker, chairman. Otto Frenzel, Ralph Norwood, H. Burch Nunley and George H. Poske. The installation and method of purchasing parking meters will occupy this committee’s attention. EDUCATION — William Book, chairman. Donald Morrison, John M. Smith, Irving A. Ward and Norman E. Isaacs. In conjunction with the Chamber’s committee, this group will study means to make the public more aware of safety problems and formulate an adult education program. Urges Immediate Sessions

City and County officials who are members of the general committee were not appointed to the subgroups, Mr. Lee explained, because of their preference for studying the general outlines of the safety problem. Mr. Lee urged subcommittee chairmen to call sessions immediateso that a second general meeting

follow without delay.

URGES RESPECT FOR GOVERNOR

James Says G. 0. P. Will Be Courteous; Defends Bill To Change Rule.

Governor Schricker “should be and will be treated justly and with due respect and courtesy” by the Republican majority, State Auditor Richard T. James told members of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board at their luncheon today. Mr. James defended the present “decentralization” bill which he said was drafted by “seven of the finest and most competent lawyers of Indiana” and “was not written in a smoke-filled room by . patronage grabbing politicians.” The bill, he said, will not be stampeded through the Legislature. “It will not be in the vicious manner employed to enact the McNutt Reorganization Act: of 1033,” he said, :

Pledged to Changes He added that the Republicans are pledged to “eliminate one-man rule” by repealing the 1933 Reorganization Act. “Although Governor Schricker was one of the co-authors of this act,” Mr. James said, “and voted for its passage, he now believes it has not operated as a good law and he favors its repeal. Thus we all agree on this important matter. “There may be some inequities in the proposed program, but I feel certain that the legislators will complete a job well done. The Governor should be, and he will be, treated justly and with due re-

spect and courtesy. : Opinions Are Vague The Auditor commented - that much has been said about the prerogatives and constitutional rights of the Governor, and added that opinions regarding these - constitutional rights are rather vague. “Section -16 of Article 5 of the Constitution of Indiana declares,

ing |‘He (the Governor) shall take care

{that - the laws be faithfully executed,” Mr. James said. “This is one clear duty imposed upon the Governor by our Constitution. “I am positive that the new ‘decentralization’ law will be such a great improvement over the 1933 tion Act that the Governor should be pleased to discharge his - constitutional duty in taking exte | that ‘the law be faithfully execu Ly ”» =

AIR SAFETY HIGH ‘MELBOURNE, Australia (U. P.). —Two years of flying without fatal

ly of the entire advisory group could}.

: accident involving a paying passentab Shey Bi spreading ths word rapidly that Great ger has been ‘completed by Aus-|.

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blanks, with a spur gear for trunk, and pistons for arms Such a god has William S. Knudsen—for which the

country should give thanks.

He has been a production man ever since, as Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, he came to America in 1900. Knudsen was born in Copenhagen on March 25, 1879. His father, a customs inspector, sent all his children through high school. When young Wilhelm graduated he wore a silver watch —=a prize for high marks in mathematics. It was his nimbleness

his biggest boost in America. His first job in America was as a reamer at $1.75 a day-on tor--pedo boats at Morris Heights, N. J. He soon found his school knowledge of English was not enough. “I used to sit on the stoop of my boarding house and talk to the youngsters,” he relates. “Kids haven't a big vocabulary—small words, nickel words. But I didn’t need two-dollar words.” To this day Bill Knudsen is like=ly to use nickel words.. When recently asked of his relations with President Roosevelt, he answered: “Swell.” From torpedo boats, Knudsen went to a railroad repair shop, then to a bicycle parts manufacturer. Autos were knocking the bike market, so the firm was trying to get contracts to make automobile parts. : ; .One day in 1908 his boss came to Knudsen, who was doing all the company’s estimating, with an order that changed his whole career. The boss said: “You have to go to Detroit and see a man named Ford.” Knudsen went and

HONOLULU, Jan. 23 (U. P.) —Miss M. B. Black, who hopes to become a bride soon, had only her night gown for concealment during a month’s imprisonment on a Nazi sea raider, - Miss Black was one of more than 100 passengers on the British ship Rangitane, which the raider sank in the South Pacific last Nov. 26. She was en route from New Zealand to British Guiana to marry an Englishman. ‘ She said the raider struck late at night, when most of the passengers were in bed. “My roommate shook me out of a half sleep,” she related. Everybody was yelling that the ship was sinking. Shine: whe on deck in our night clothes and saw the black raider alongside us. ' “The Germans SD ney everything and ev y w! aboard the ship. They said they

Democrats Feel Like: Lobbyists

FOR A long time now, Indiana House Democrats have been listening to the Republican ad-. monition: “If you want to make any changes in the bill, go before the Senate committee hearing when it gets over there.” The ‘Democrats protested that they were elected to the House, not the Senate. They wanted to introduce amendments “for the record” even if they had no chance of passage. They had 23 prepared for the “big ripper” alone ‘and got in only one shot before they were closed off by

| minority party in the Legislature from registering

with the Secretary of State as lobbyists.” “We don’t want to take any

with figures that was to give him

“They Run Democracy’s Arsenal’—

‘President Calls Me Bill Says Knudsen

a head, a Diesel engine for a and legs.

returned with a contract for $75,000 worth of parts. And, six years later, Knudsen started working for Ford. By 1913 he was in charge of the company’s 27 assembling plants. os s # N 1921 came the one mystery in Bill Knudsen's career. He and Ford, who once called him “a production genius,” parted company and became president of the Ireland & Matthews Co. of Detroit and that less than a year later he joined General Motors, soon to become vice president of Chevrolet. There he made his famous onesentence speech to salesmen: “Boys, we are going to make one for one.” His audience knew he meant to catch. Ford. In his first year company sales bounded from 76,000 to 240,000. And before he left Chevrolet as president to become executive vice president of General Motors, Chevrolet was the leader in the low price field. In 1937 Knudsen became president of the billiondollar G. M. corporation, an office he held until last September when he resigned to devote all his productive energy to national defense. Asked by cronies about his Federal job, he made two characteristic observations: “The President calls me Bill”—and—*I am one of Uncle Sam’s dollar-a-year men, but by heck I haven't been given that dollar.” As president of General Motors, Knudsen did not maintain a luxurious office. It was simply furnished, the main articles being a flat-top desk before which he

Night Gown Her Only Garb While Prisoner on Séa Raider

were sorry the ship was sinking because they wanted to salvage it. “The Germans helped the ladies over the side into the boat and they were very polite.” . Miss Black said they were locked up in the hold of the raider, and for a few days were given only bread smeared with lard to eat. Later they got German sausages and mouldy bread. “Some of the officers felt sorry for us and helped us make rope sandals for our bare feet—most of us were in our night- clothes and without shoes,” she said. “We were prisoners for about a month before we were put off at Emirau Island. The captain, whom I never ‘saw, but whom I believe was Von Luckner, left about 200 of us with two days’ food supply.” A few days after she was put off at Emirau Island, Miss Black and the ovhers were taken aboard a British- vessel. Miss Black arrived here from Australia aboard the S. 8S. Mariposa. She was on board the Mariposa when it left yesterday for Los Angeles. :

DISTRESSED GREEK FREIGHTER IN TOW

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23 (U.P.). ~The Greek freighter Aghia ThalJassini, which wallowed helplessly in a storm north of Gaum . for two days, today was in tow of the steamer Aquarius en route to Yokohama, 730 miles distant, according to radio advices to Globe Wireless. The American President liner President .Cleveland, which picked up the original distress call Monday, intercepted a message from the Aquarius, which said she expected to reach Yokohama Jan. 30 with her tow. The Aquarius has 10 American sailors aboard. CLUB TAKES UP ARMS TOLEDO, 0. (U. P.).—A group of pigeon enthusiasts here is aroused over an attempt to put a “pigeon trafic control” ordinance through

[city council. The group contends

that racing pigeons are a national

“SECOND SECTION

ITALIAN ARMY RUNS OVER OWN DEAD IN SNOW

Troops Flee After Loss in ‘Field of Frozen Death’ Above Klisura.

ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 23 (U. P.). —The Italians lost a two-day battle in the snow-covered heights above Klisura on the Central Albanian front, and fled north toward Berat, driving their tanks over their own dead and wounded, crushing them into the frozen ground, according to a dispatch today from Mary Merlin, United Press correspondent in that sector. : Miss Merlin’s dispatch .was dated Wednesday. The battle occurred Sunday and Monday but it was late Tuesday before she was permitted to visit the battle ground, which she described as “a fleld of frozen death,” littered with the bodies of Greeks as well as Italians, From the time the battle started until late Tuesday the road north

from Klisura was choked with Greek

troops and being hurled into the attack, the dispatch said.

Fight at Close Quarters

Much of the fighting had been done at close quarters with bay= onets. The Italians held a come

{ | paratively level stretch of ground

William S. Knudsen at work . . . he has a nimbleness with figures. Likes Job Roosevelt Gave Him; He's Still a Production Man

By Tom Wolf

NEA Service Staff Correspondent PRODUCTION to some men can be a minor but everdemanding god—a god costumed in a sheaf of order

(The colorful career of William S. Knudsen is traced in this sec-

o series of articles on Mr. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman, his co-director: in the Office of Production Management which is directing the nation’s defense effort.)

sat and a roll-top desk in back of him. Most times he wore his hat and smoked a cigar. He said he could think better under his hat.

. 8 8 = HE wrote important letters by hand ‘on a pad of yellow foolscap and when his ‘secretary typed them he signed them either “Knudsen!” or simply “K.” Unless an important conference detained him, he left for home by 5:30, saying it was a poor man who couldn’t. clean up his desk by that time. After that he loved 40 be gay, was seen everywhere— at theater, concerts, opera or on the golf links (where he played indifferently well). His Detroit home out on Balmoral Road is large, but no palace. It is essentially a place to be lived in. Here he has a music room, where he plays both the violin and xylophone. Here, too, is his pride and joy—an imniense library. In addition he has a country farmhouse home on Grosse Ile in the Detroit River. Knudsen’s salary and bonus have often run close to the halfmillion mark. He has frequently given a large part of his income to charity, saying that “friendship -is more = important than money.” So fond is he of his native land that, although he has been ‘an American citizen since 1914, many cronies call him the Great Dane. He is, they say, the Dane who'll make Hitler sorry he ever invaded Denmark.

NEXT: Knudsen in action in Washington. :

HERSHEY TO SPEAK T0 BAR SATURDAY

Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, U. 8. Selective Service executive at Washington, will address the annual midwinter meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association Saturday at the Claypool Hotel. “Pages of Interest to Lawyers from the Book of National Defense” will be Brig. Gen. Hershey's subject. The two-day meeting will open at 10 a. m. tomorrow with registration. The feature of the morning and afternoon sessions will be a legal institute on “Automobile Negligence.” : Judge H. Nathan Swaim, Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice, will preside at both morning and’ afternoon sessions. Tomorrow's meeting will' be climaxed with the annual dinner of the Indiana Judges’ Association. Fred C. Gause, Indianapolis Bar Association president, and Charles W. Holder, president of the Lawyers’ Association of Indianapolis, will give addrésses of welcome at the formal meeting which opens at 10 a. m. Saturday. tee reports will be presented and Judge Michael L. Fansler of the Indiana. Supreme Court will speak on “Some Public Reactions to Procedural Methods.” Following Gen. . Hershey's address, Norman M. Littell, U. 8. assistant Attorney General, = will speak on “The German Invasion of American Business” at the closing dinner session. Judge Roscoe C. O'Byrne of Brookville, State Bar Assocition president, will preside at the formal session. Carl Wilde of Indianapolis, vice president, will present membership committee reports.

DISLOCATES SHOULDER

DENVER (U. P.).—~John C, Sabourin wasn't -even scratched when his cat locked bumpers with another machine but in the argument which followed, he waved so violently to emphasize a he dislocated his left shoulder.

CHESHIRE CHEESE INN BURNS LONDON, Jan: 23 (U. P.). — The storied old Cheshire Cheese Inn Dickens, Johnson and Goldsmi

at the base of mountains, where they could use their tanks. The Greeks, lacking skies or snow shoes,

the peaks like an avalanche, accords ing to a deséription of the battle given Miss Merlin by a Greek ser« geant who had been wounded. The sergant said there was such a melee it was often impossible to tell friend from foe in the gray, winter light, and that the Greeks, to make themselves known to one another, adopted the battle cry, “Emba Tou,” referring to their bay« onets and meaning, literally, “stick it into them.”

Sheets as Camouflage

The Greeks had covered theme selves with sheets for camouflage while maneuvering in the moun= tains and their descent onto the

Many of the dead on both sides clutched rifles in frozen hands. The snow was criss-crossed with the tracks of tanks that seemed to have wandered aimlessly about the field. Miss Merlin reported that Greek and British planes were bombin the Klisura-Berat Road ahead the Greek ground forces and that she heard one terrific explosion which she was told was the dee

convoy by aerial bombs. A War Ministry communique said that “in local, successful actions, 150 prisoners and abundant war mae terial were captured; Greek ;

battle front and all our planes ree turned safely to their bases.”

DRAFT EVADER'S WOUNDS FATAL

Dies After He and Father Battle Officers With Guns and Knives. -

PONTIAC, Ill, Jan. 23 (U. P.) —A 22-year-old youth who refused to register for the draft died today be~ cause he and his father chose to fight it out with guns and knives when a U. 8. Marshal and a deputy sheriff came to arrest him. He was Ernest Eisle, who objected to the brutality of war. His father, Martin, 48, who had supported na : in his stand, was in critical condi tion at a hospital. Each had been shot three times through the body. ~ The officers, Deputy Marshal Eu ene Ahrends, Peoria, and Deputy sheriff Robert Jones of Pontiac, sif« fered knife wounds in the battle, They had gone to Eisle’s farm home, five miles west of Pontiac, yesterday to arrest Ernest. ° The officers talked with Eisle and his son three-guarters of an hour, Finally Ahrends rose, put his hand on the youth's shoulder and said: “Let’s get going.” The father jumped up and struck Ahrends, knocking him across the room against a stove. Jones and the youth joined in the battle. The officers said Eisle drew a jack-knife, jumped on Jones’ back and began slashing wildly with the weapon. Both officers drew their pistols and fired. One bullet struck Eisle in the right arm and three bullets ene tered the youth’s body. . :

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

such raw materials as coal, ale cohol and compressed gases? 2—Name the largest present-day land animal.

for its Mardi Gras cele 4—Where is the United Sta

tion?

northerly and most sou i points in the U. 8.? by

1—Gasoline, 2—Elephant. 3—New Orleans. 4—West Point, New York, 5—Minnesota and Florida ively. ’ 6—Yes,

ASK THE TIMES

damaged severely by fire of un-

ran, tumbled and rolled down from

Italian positions came as a surprise, .

struction of ‘an Italian munitions i ;

successfully bombed, targets on the