Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1941 — Page 17

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| LONDON doy wireless) —Some people can’t stand = gunfire at all. And I'll have to admit [thas ‘the first four or dive times the guns were fired during ‘my night with the ack-acks I didn’t like it eipher.

3 honestly wished I was out of the whole mess and : home in bed. But then I swear 1 got used to it. Our battery fired close (0 & hundred rounds that night.) It got so we would just stop talking a few seconds before the guns went, off and then go right on with the conversation as soon as the noise was over. ' Some of the gunners were ing me about a photographer came up one night to take |pictures. On the first blast from the guns he started running blindly away and charged right into a Tiich knocked him down. But ‘it| was u2orle who are like [thal

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certainly no disgrace, for Just can’t help it. & ' The blast from these anti-aircraft guns is almost beyond description, but I can give you some examples. The door to one of the underground congreéte 16 s where the men doze during quiet periods| hac a/ brand-new steel latch. On my night with| the ttery, the very first salvo broke that steel Jatch right. in two and blew the door open!

Ear Plugs Ignored

oi ) 1 aey use up light bulbs at a terrific rate. | The poncussion breaks the filament. In the soldiers’ jcan,ieen onlv one light bulb was left out of the original f six when I went down after an hour's firing. [And "in the little hut where the officers on duty have. their nieals, the blast rocks the building, knocks dishes off the table, and puffs out the blackout curtains so that they have to be readjusted each time. {| Rubber ear-plugs are available but the men @on’t wear them, Somehow they get used to the blast, and i doesnt bother them. An ficer and I were standing in the dark ligtening to. ne Germans overhead. | They sound as if they were flying along evenly,” He said, “but-they aren't. When there is a foima‘tion, they may.be flying 500 feet above and below one (another. If there's just one, he flies a zigzag caurse,

Inside Indiana

B VEEN FARES, Cab Driver Harry Purvis usec w beat \it out to the Municipal Airport to watch the planes came and go. He even’ got hold of a special dio to listen in on radio conversation; bee control tower operator and airline pilots. He did it by the hour—that is until’ a taxi run interfered--and one did just.when activity picked up.

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But beginning today Farry Purvis was taken into the official family at the airport—as a cab driver. His company gave him a big blue sedan, a blue uniform and made him the “Royal |Blue Taxicab —the first and |only cab operating exclusively for| and from the Municipal Airport. His passengers now will bg almost solely people who fly and for them his policy will be “anywhere anytime.” | And that means, Harry Purvis said, to Chicago oj St. Louis if airline passengers can’t fly because of bad weather.

.The Younger Generation

“| Miss Lucille Gant, 1B teacher at School 43] was talking to her 6-year-olds about Shiopevation and * how necessary it was that each pupil be as helpful ¥ possible. One young fellow, who hadn't been particularly a good boy during the day, figured the lecture was gimed at him. He squirmed. Then Miss Gant selected another boy to hold the classroom door | open as the youngsters filed out of the room. {

That was too much for the first youngster. As the . “second boy passed the first boy's desk, he commented, balefully: | “Huh, super=kid.”

| Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. —Slow-footed haggling by the British and buck passing by our State Deparfment Land’ Maritime Commission seem to -account for the yan spectacle of the British and the United States clamoring for more ships while allowing & neat little fleet of Danish vessels to lie tied up and unused in our ports. The need for ships is as cal as the need for planes. | That is why some are agitating—against the resistance of Mr. Roosevelt—for convoys and. repeal of the Neutrality Act to permit American ships to go intp the war zone, which the President believes would mean war for jus. . Former Ambassador Joseph Kennedy says England's shipping shortage may curtail the flow of ‘war waterial soon. In fact shipments for England ulready are piling up on American docks, for lack of ‘bottoms, and the British are having to pick out those ‘things which are most desperately needed | while allowing the other goods to wait. Some here think ‘Hitler may have abandoned his invasion scheme in favor of the less costly method of choking England by submarine warfare plus air bombardment—a tworedged counter-blockade.

Shipping Need Despainte |

Our own need is acute also. We are unable to |bring essential raw materials from the East [Indies las: fast as is desired. The Defense Commission is | being held up, and Jesse Jones, in charge of proRE rement of raw materials from foreign sources, is aring his hair. We have been having difficulty obbi fining a shipment of chrome ore from Turkpy behe use the British would not give clearance to a anish ship. Admiral Land, Chairman of the U. S. ‘Maritime Commission, has just told a House com- ; fe that we must have increased shipping to bring

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bber and tin from the East Indies. He sgys we ;are exhausting our reserve fleet of merchant ships. ‘The desperate need for shipping is indicajed by the amount of scratching going on for any small of it that can be had. The Maritime Comraission

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WASHINGTON, Thursday.—We saw the newsreels e Inauguration the night before last, and they itainly were well done. I was particularly struck the inaugural parade, especially the NYA, CCC dy ‘WPA units. I wish we might have had more clearly demonstrated the various activities carried on by th or=ganizations, for I feel sure others were as interested as I w The pageantry of a military ade is always exciting and that rt of it . cannot help but be impressive. However, as the different units marched past us and ended up with the rapid rolling by of the ‘tanks and other military | equipment, I thought of a poem; which Nanette W. Barnard sent me a few days ago. I quote it here jor your consideration. - PEACE When the madness of war is over And the siren’s shriek. shall cease . Like the calm of benediction will descend on the world a Peace,

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Not cnly thitt, but he goes up and down too, like ¢ rollercoaster. That's 'so we can’t get a good sound gauge on him.” w It always sounded to me as if there were onl one plane in the sky at a time. But at the end cof two hours I ask: about it and the zunner officer 4 said: “It's hard to say, but I’ d guess that one to 300 had been ‘over tonight.” The value of anti-aircraft guns is not measured necessarily by thz number of planes they bring dow —although the guns are officially credited with abou 450 of the 3050) German planes shot down over Britain since the war started. Their greater value is in keeping the raiders high ‘and keeping|them jumping around, which makes ace curate bombing very nearly impossible. In fact, the average height at which those 459 planes were plugzed from the wii was 16,000 feet,

“Determinec. to Win”

Searchlights are almost never used any more. consequently the gunners can’t: see. how near their shells are coming to the target. But they did have a fantastic sight just a few nights ago. They were looking at thie sky through binoculars when suddenly the saw, silhoueited against the. face of the moon, three German planes in formation. Eut before they could fire the formation was out of sight. The boys say thie Germans occasionally watch for gun flashes, then take a quick bearing and try * drop a bomb on the gun station. Every morning the gun crews have drill. They

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By Ernie Pyle

‘COME ON IN, {ARMY TOLD AT TOBRUK GATES

British Find Italian Base ‘In Charge’ of Own ‘Fifth Columnist.’

By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH IMPERIAL I' FORCES IN TOBRUK, Jan. 23.—

| (delayed)—A one-man Fifth Column, an Australian aviator-whom the

Italians had made prisoner, welcomed to Tobruk the victorious Army of the Nile which is now consolidating its capture of this important base. While the British field guns, naval guns and airplane bombs were crashing down on Tobruk and the Australian shock troops and British machine gun and tank units were fighting into the city, the Australian was hurrying about the town per-

can set the fuse, load and fire in a féw seconds, but suading all Italians he could find to

they get even beiter. And after the regular drills the, boys practice volintarily for hour after hour. “Is that because they happen to like guns,” 1 asked, “or is it because they want to get ahead?” “It’s literally because they're that determined |f win this war,” tae officer said. This night with the anti-aircraft gunners was my first glimpse into ihe soldiers’ side of the war. Till long remember oie moment late in the evening when 1 stood between gn officer and a sergesnt there in the darkness of England with the guns roaring and bombs crunching and lanes grinding overhead, and the British oificér said! “Isn’t this ridiculcus—all of us trying to kill each other? And we thought it would never happén again!” |

(And “Our Town’)

Give Light--——

That street light out by the wigwam of Russell E. Campbell has changed its spots again. When it was first put in, Russ complained to Ben Finegold, erg neer in char ‘ge of light installations.

“It's too| brigaf,” said the secretary, “it shines in the windows and I can’t sleep. Next night, Eizzoner’s man came home to grope his way up [the driveway. The light was still there, but subdued corsiderably.. Russ muitered a little, but decided to keep still. Next night, he came home to find the light bright Ler than ever .|. . positively dazzling. “Sorry,” Finegold, “your reighbors complained about that dim bulb I put in there. |

This and That

ALVIN NOLTIN(, Times compositor, was in an auto crash [72 years ago receiving glass cuts in the face. At the time he was treated and glass fragments removed. The other day he cut himself while shaving.

Later his wife tr.ed fo patch it up and found a sliver of glass near his lip, as long as his fingernail and a quarter of an inch thick. . . . On the sick list [at City Hall: | George Rooker, Plan Coraimission secretary engineer; Tom Tarpey, Weights and Measures Commissioner and Patrick Rooney, assistant Recreation Director. City Engineer M. G. Johnson | is winter vacationirg in Florida. Mayol Sullivan give him just 11 days. He's due back soon! . .. Patrolman Richard Cain is good-natured, but like all traffic policemen his temper is sorely tried once in a while. The other night, for instance, at Meridian at the Circle a friend came driving along in the dusk, heckling him. ‘“Elow about you?” Officer Cain heckled back. “Do. you use| lights or do you just feel your way?”

By Raymond Clapper

is about to dish up some raore ships, about 20, to the British. American shipping companies are turning over tonnage to Jingland. We are rushing through a 200-ship building: program, most of which will [be “leased” or what not to the British. There is talk of trying to amend the | Neutrality Act. sc that American ships can take o'er British routes in the Pacific, releasing British bottoms for the Atlantic smerggiay run. Yet in [Amer can ports are 38 Danish ships | of about 250,000 tons. | In- ours plus neutral ports are 78 Danish ships totdling 435,000 tons. They are not out carrying goods because the British won't guarantee not to seize them. |

The British Attitude

These ships are under American operators, aho say they do not have the right to sell them and must retain them uncer the Danish flag. They offer] to operate them under rates fixed by our Maritime Commission, to place British officers aboard gnd British wireless operators, and to operate them oaly on routes as directed by the British Government, | The British, naving formerly tried to buy them, have refused thus far to accept the arrangement. The State Depariraent takes its cue from the British in this and will bring no pressure. The Maritime Commission. says it| is somebody els¢’s baby. The British argue that if the Danish fliz eppeared on the high séas the Germans might then begin faking and thus run the British blockade uncer fake Danish flags. They dor't want any such confusion on the seas. The argument seems questionable, because the ships would operate only under British control. The Navy has offered to buy the ships, wants them badly and has a White House okay. But the American operators of the Danish ships again stand on their claim that they have no legal power to sell the ships. |- { Maybe somebody | is holding out fcr more motiey, or maybe somebody is trying to keep down competition, or maybe some officials are just so deep in technicalities thiit they are missing the boats. But it would seem tiiat this idle shipping should be put to work before we tzlk about sending American naval ships and merchant ships into the war zone at the almost certain risk of war.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

They will live with Joftier purpose. i True kindness toward neighbor and jirietd But with unfailing resolution That iorever war must end.

I hope that what she predicts will come true ind that we shall translate our “loftier purpose”

economic situation. | We must work to make it 1ossible for people ail over the world to live better snd, therefore, have less reason to attack their neighbors. We might as well face the fact that it is fufias. mental of humana nature to want to feel sure and to be comfortable. Noboly likes being cold and hungry. If we want peace we must keep this fact constantly before us. : Yesterday aftérndon, the ladies of “he Fifth General Assembly of the Council of Stat¢ Governments, came to tea with me. There were = faces and I was especially glad to see Miss Grace Reavu, an old friend from Albany, N. Y. In the evening, Tom Campbell, an old friend from Montana and New ‘Mexico, dined with us; have rarely known anyone with a more vivid persionality. He radia‘es enthusiasm and erergy. Mrs. My Harold Ickes, wife of This i

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surrender at once, telling them ‘re-

sistance was hopeless. naval headquarters in the city’s

grinning at them a tall young man, clad in blue trousers, a blue sweater and a British army cap.

“sSure Glad to See You’

“Welcome, pals!” he shouted. “Come right Mane town’s yours.” Surrounded by thousands of Italians waiting to be made prisoner, he explained:

bastille. I was with the Royal Air Force and was made prisoner. eight’ days ago. I sure am glad to see you.” Later the Australian told me how he had spent the last days of the siege of Tobruk. He had been well treated, he said, from the moment of his capture, when with a corporal he missed his way as he was driving outside Tobruk. “They kept me in the town bastille, the military prison of the gendarmerie,” he said. “I knew that our attacking forces were gradually closing in. I could tell that the gun fire was louder and closer each day. The Italians’ morale visibly declined hour by hour. “That's it; now it’s the end,” they said when the terrific cannonade started which heralded: the start of the attack on the:perimeter forts.

Worst Noise He Ever Heard

“With our guns hammering and the Royal Air Force bombing, the noise was the worst I ever heard. Whenever it got bad they took me to- a big concrete shelter. Often the shelter seemed to sway several feet under the shock of bombs and big shells. “At 4 a. m. Wednesday we heard the biggest bang of all the explosions. It was the cruiser San Giorgio going up, dynamited by the Italians. «I began to tell the Italians that it was useless to resist, and at the same time scouted around to see if there was anything I could do. “A few hours before the town fell I went up to a rooftop and told two snipers that the attack was a complete success and they had better surrender. They went down. “My next hunch was to round up as many prisoners as possible, I spoke to a number of infantrymen and explained that they would be wise to throw down their arms. They agreed.”

“The Town Capitulates”

With the officer commanding the Imperial forces which took Tobruk I walked through the streets of Tobruk littered with wreckage. The fire and smoke and destruction made the bombed East End of London look by comparison almost spick and span. We passed buildings in which shell and bomb holes gaped, from which flames spurted, and went on through the thousands of prisoners lined up in front of naval general headquarters. The officer commanding the Empire troops entered a partly shattered door. He was received by a white-faced, tight-lipped Admiral, “The town capitulates. All" troops are disarming,” the Admiral mumnbled painfully—in what had been evidently a rehearsed speech. For hours Tobruk had been an inferno. The cruiser San Giorgio had been blown up at 4 a. m. It and other smaller warships blazed and buildings and workshops on all sides threw flame, cinders and. red sparks into the sky. The naval fort on op of a cliff had gone up in a great cloud of smoke at dawn when a British shell hit its powder magazine. Now the thunder of blasted dumps and buildings had died down. As the Italian Admiral surrendered, an Imperial trooper hoisted an Australian soldier's hat on a lanyard to the top of the naval flagstaff. Women Among Prisoners

Men in a column of 4000 Italian prisoners who were winding down from suburban dry stream beds and on through the streets from their rabbit-warren shelters, where for the ‘ast two days of the siege they had tried to avoid the British bar rage, gazed in astonishment. Now prisoners were pouring out of every corner of the fortress. Eleven women—women of the camp—were among them. They had given up their occupation because of the British bombardment and had spent most of The 2 the last few days undergro ‘The youngest, a ond i 24, told me “We were told by the gendarmes one day that we could go." next day they said it was dangerous. Then we realized: that the] authorities did not know themselves| what the situation was. was too late. So we took refuge

rific. attack. The officer commanding decided to put the women under guard and summoned a begrimed cockney who

on his rifle. When he realized what his job was he muttered disgust-

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The Indianapolis

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1*T hey Run Democracy’ s Arssnal’—

Hurryingest Man’ “Thats Knudsen

SECOND SECTION

[11 INVOLVED IN

108 SHAKE-UP AT CITY HALL

County Democratic Leaders Reported to Have Given Mayor Advice.

The most extensive . personnel

|changes at City Hall in more than

The Knudsen family, seldom photographed all together, assembled for Mr. Knudsen’s. 60th 4 Pirituiab, Left to right: Mrs. Robert Vander Kloot (Clara Knudsen), Semon Knudsen, the only son; Mrs, Knudsen, ‘Mr. Knudsen, Martha Knudsen, Mrs. J. 8. Stevenson ( Ella Knudsen). :

Production Chief Sets Fast Pace, but-

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man I ever did see.” The

dark-hued porter’s wondering gaze trailed after a hustling, bustling, large figure surging down a corridor

of the Federal Reserve Building.

The “hurryingest man” was William S. Knudsen,

director general of the national defenses program—and “hurryingest” is probably the best single adjective to

attach to the Knudsen Washington sees these days. already has set a rapid pace in his operations and dis-

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played a skill for Getting Things Done that are the envy

of public officials who haven’t had his experience as a big-time executive in private business.

Nevertheless, Knudsen in action is. not entirely the big-shot executive of tradition. His office is spacious—about 20 feet by 20, perhaps—and is furnished in simple luxury, with leather-upholstered chairs about a big desk, but there are no trappings. : Knudsen keeps his. desk-top clean, and you never see a litter of papers or documents on it. He has only one telephone. He generally beats ‘everyone to work except his secretary, Bill Collins. Knudsen has had male secretaries ever since his first encounter with.a female one. He tells the story: “For the first 20 years of my life I was brought up in’ a shop. ‘I did not acquire all the polish that perhaps I should have. Later, in a job where I had to dictate letters, a young lady was assigned to my office. Something happened. I came out and found the young lady crying. She said that she had never heard such language in her life.” 8 x = IS mail out of the way, there is usually a long series of conferences, morning and afternoon alike. Like his letters, these meetings are kept short. You get a simple “Yes” or “No” out of him without waste motion. A conference that lasts more than 15 minutes is a rarity. Anecdotes about Knudsen are

few, probably because he altents strictly to business: He is a moderate eater, generally washes his lunch and dinner down with a bottle of beer, and likes an occasional highball. He still has some of that old-world courtesy: if in the hall of the Federal Reserve building he meets a woman he knows, he is likely to bow from the waist, European style. On the other hand, he has one of those one-track minds, and may give an intimate acquaintance no more than an absent nod.

” ” ” OCIAL Washington never sees him. For, while back home in Detroit Knudsen likes a lot of fun, having people in for dinner, going to parties and attending concerts, here he is strictly business. He has

rented a furnished house out on Woodland Place, where he lives alone except for a male servant who acts as combination cook and housemaid, and a chauffeur. A devoted family man, he runs home to Detroit every chance available. He idolizes his wife, the former Clara Elizabeth Euler, a Buffalo, N. Y., girl he married in 1913. Of their four children, two daughters are married, one still at college. His son, Semon, who is also married, was graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Father Knudsen, the master mechanic, believes in the value of working with the hands, so Semon worked for a while as a mechanic in a Detroit firm. Now he has a minor engineering job

Doesnt Conform to ‘Big Shot’ Patterns

(This is the third in a series of articles on William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman, the nation’s defense chiefs.)

By Tom Wolf

rire) Special Writer

in one of the General Motors plants. At least half of the: success of his job will depend on how labor co-operates with the defense production expert. Knudsen’s attitude toward labor, as toward: everything else, is that of .a production man. In 1939 he told a Michigan Chamber of Commerce: “I am no advocate of any particular hours. In fact I would be happy to work 10 hours (a week) providing that in 10 hours you could produce as much as anybody else can in 40 or 50 hours.”

” ” ” NUDSEN’S relations with both the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. have frequently been bad. The federation was not amused when, in 1935, William Green said: “Mr, Knudsen laughed at the efforts of the A. F. of L. to organize the motor industry.” On one-of his regular biennial trips to Europe, Knudsen saw the sit-down strikes in France. He thought such a thing could not happen in America. Yet he was executive vice president of General Motors when the C. I. O. used just such tactics against that firm, When peace between*G. M. and the United Auto Workers was restored, Knudsen was the production man again. ' At the end of the Civil War, Gen. Grant had said: “Let us have peace.” At the end of the C. I. O. sit-down strike, Knudsen said. “Let us have Peace and make automobiles.” ‘ Knudsen'’s . active resistance to the auto workers’ union ended with the settlement agreement. He has never forgotten a lesson he learned early in life as a hottempered mechanic in a $10.50 a week job in a bicycle plant. One day his foreman said to him: “You are big and strong and a good boxer. You can lick any man in the shop. Perhaps you can lick two men, three men, four men. But you can’t lick all the men in the shop.” Today William Knudsen, who hates all centralization, in labor or in industry, because he believes it interferes with production, is will« ing to let labor have its way—as long as it dpesn’t interfere with production.

NEXT—Sidney ney Hillman,

from pants-cutter to union power.

PLAN CLASSES 24 HOURS DAILY

Schools Add Courses for Defense; Factories to Provide Teachers.

Public education in Indianapolis will go on a 24-hour-day national defense basis beginning Monday. + It is the schools’ answer to the Federal Government's plea for more and more skilled mechanics to build up America’s war ‘machine. Instructors will be taken directly out of the shops of the city’s industrial plants and the pupils will be chosen from the rolls of the WPA and the Indiana Employment Buteau. The additional classes will boost to 1200 the number of adults receiving training in the public schools’ effort to speed national defense, While most of the city sleeps, about 120 new pupils will be learning machine shop work from 1 to 7 a. m. Five classes will be added at Technical High School and one each Crispus Attucks and Washington High Schools, according to Edward E. Greene, instruction director for the program. “Mr. Greene said that further expansion would be effected “whereever the defense industry indicates a need.” With the new night classes, school facilities will be used about 16 hours a day for defense purposes and eight hours for regular high school pur-

Getting O.K. Size ‘Is Sizable Job WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 U.P): |—The War Department revealed

today that it:must keep at least | 90 different sizes of shoes in stock

1,500,000 men. They range from size 5 to 12, and widths from: A to EE. Special needed, in

| to meet the needs of an Army of ment.

City Leads Way in Lining Up

Factories for

By JOHN W. LOVE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan, 24.—Efforts in Indianapolis to line up factories for defense orders were praised here today by Government officials. Morris L. Cooke, in charge of one of the two offices here charged with helping spread defense orders to “little business,” declared Indianapolis has gone “as far as any city in the country to line up its factories with -the defense market.” As a result, he said, some skilled men drive 50 miles a day to work in Indianapolis. The Washington office keeps in close touch with Myron Green, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce industrial commissioner. At Mr. Cooke's office, it was stated that Evansville, Ind, has made an industrial‘ survey in order to help out with the government program, and that Muncie, Kokomo, Blooming and Bedford are also interested in co-operating. Agency to Be Started One of the next limbs to grow out of the ever-branching tree of defense in the Capitol will be a large agency to look after this task of the work of industrial communities, such as those in Indiana, out over the nation. These are “co-ordinating” themselves so fast that the two separate offices now in charge of that activity here cannot keep up with them. The new bureau will be somewhere either in the National Defense Advisory Commission or closer to the War and Navy departmehts. Its own “co-ordination” may await the general revamping of defense supervision begun in setting up the new Office of Production Manage-

“Little Business” Big Now Slow to start, but now rushing in

{large numbers to line themselves

for armament bo. af Samet.

Defense Work

and city governments of industrial centers. “Little business” is suddenly big business in Washington. Many plants are too small to take on prime contracts with the Army or Navy, or they are by nature suppliers to. other manufacturers, but within the last few weeks the way opened up by which they could get more defense business. ~ Washington is now even more definitely not the place for them to come. They are best able to accomplish something by participating through local organization. ' The two offices here which look after these activities are in charge of Robert L. Mahernay and Mr. Cooke. Both are in the north Interior building. . Mr. Mahernay’s agency grew out of the meeting held under Federal Reserve Board auspices last fall to look after the provision of working captal for small business. Mr. Cooke’s office is’ under Sidney Hillman’s division of the Defense Commission. If “co-ordinates” such outfits as chambers and industrial associations. . There is much divergence in ways the communities approach the task of bringing together the purchasers of armament materials and the manufacturers able to supply them. The chief sources of ‘business for small manufacturers will remain the subcontracts available to’ them from other manufacturers. The work of the local communities is ta"provide all the information necessary to obtain that kind of business. A few of them are sending such information here, but it would be far too bulky, if properly assembed for every small industrial plant, for Washington to-do anything with. Hence the hope that ‘each city will have its own list of plants and their equipment available for the armament manufacturers to. draw upon in their own neighborhoeds, each large manufacturer being supplied

two years took place today. Eight veteran city workers were shuffled into new jobs, one former county employee was given a city job, and two new employees were hired, The shakeup came as the afters math of pre-election ‘friction in the county Democratic organization. It was understood at City Hall that the shuffle was decided on the ad-

vice of counvy Democratic leaders, although all appointments were made by Mayor Sullivan. Ira Buttz, veteran political worker, and employee in the city collection department, was advanced to senior inspector in the City Streets Commission at a salary of $1885 a year, He will fill the vacancy caused by the death of Michael O'Brien.

Nickerson at Asphalt Plant

George Nickerson, former streets commission inspector, was named as assistant superintendent of the city asphalt plant at $1800 a year. Mr, Nickerson replaces Val Dugan, ‘who was transferred to clerk in the streets commission at $1040 a year, He in turn fills a vacancy left by the death of Joseph Dugan recently." Frank Dowd Jr., son of the late Dr. Frank T. Dowd, who died early this week, was hired as an ens gineer’s assistant in the city ene gineering department at $1225 a year. He will fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wile liam Black. John O'Connor, inspector in the streets commission, was promoted to cost accountant and bookkeeper at the sanitation plant at $1800 a year to replace Joseph Solomon, who has left city employment because of poor health.

Inspector Named

Clarence McIntyre, assistant inspector in the engine ring departe ment was named as inspector in the streets commissio $1442 a year, filling the vacandy created by the advancement of Mr" Nickerson. John Boyce, clerk in the streets commission, was advanced to ine spector in the same department at $1442 a year, to fill the vacancy left by the promotion of Mr. O'Connor, The single county employee to be hired was Dennis P. Lyons, rodman in the County Surveyor’s office, who was given a job as mechanic in the city collection department at an hourly rate.

Gets $1280 Job

John Keegan, temporary inspector in the engineering department, was advanced to assistant inspector in the department filling the vacancy left by the promotion of Mr. Mc= Intyre. Mr. Keegan's position pays $1280 a year. Maurice O'Connor, 317 N. Arsenal Ave. was hired as clerk ' in the streets commission, as $1285 a year. He fills the vacancy left by Mr, (Boyce. - Elmer Dailey, asphalt plant work er, was assigned as temporary auto= mobile mechanic and pumping station attendant in the garbage reduction plant at $1492 a year. He will replace William Norris, who was granted a year’s leave of absente for Government service. James ' F. Applewhite, 4701 E, Washington St. was named drafts= man in the engineering department to replace Myron C. Northern, who resigned. The salary is $1600 a year,

HOUSE INVITED TO RETAILERS’ DINNER

The Indiana Retailers Association today formally invited members of the House to attend a dinner at the Claypool Hotel Monday night. The invitation, read before the members, said the dinner was are ranged ‘to decide what to do about the Gross Income Tax Law.” Both Republican and Democratie platforms pledged revisions of the law to ‘adjust inequalities” for re tailers. - However, a proposed increase of more than $6,000,000 in the State budget for the next two years caused some legislators to say that tax ree lief for the retailers may not be pos= sible.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is another name for “The Marines’ Hymn”? 2—1s President Franklin D. Roose= velt taller or shorter than his four sons? 3—Who was the author of the quo= tation, “What is so rare as & day in June”? 4—Name the 5th and 6th books in the Old Testament. 5—In what Shakespearian play is “Puck” a character? 6—The total weight of the air in the earth’s atmosphere is calcus . lated at about 56 million, billion, trillion, or quadrillion tons?

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