Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1941 — Page 20

"SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagab

i “LONDON (by wireless)—I got my very first view . of an underground shelter crowd at the big Liver“pool St. tube station. | It was around 8 o'clock on a raidless night, A policeman in the upper vestibule told us just to go down the escalator and take a look—as though it were. a (200. So we did. Somehow I must have Gas that there'd be nobody down there that night, or that if there were they’d be invisible or something, because I wasn’t emotionally ready at all to see people lying around by the thousands on cold concrete. In my first days in England I had seen terrible bomb damage. ‘I had seen multitudinous preparations for war. I had talked with wounded soldiers. I had gore through London's great night of fire-bombing. Ij had " listened. for hours to the crack of guns and| the crunch of bombs. And although I didn’t especially know it at the time, none of these things went flees: down deep inside and made me hurt. It was not until I went down 70 feet into the bowels of the Liverpool St. tube and saw humanity sprawled there in childlike helplessness that my heart first jumped and my throat caught. ba I know I must have stopped suddenly and ck. I know I must have said to myself, “Oh my God!”

Proud of His Shelter |

We hunted up the shelter marshal, and talkgd to him for a long time. He was immensely proud of his shelter, and I suppose he had a right to be, for ‘they say it is paradise now compared to what if was ~in the beginning. He told us to take a walk through the shelter _ and then meet him at the back entrance. This is a new section of the tunnel, not vet, used by trains. The tube is narrower than most of] New York’s subway excavations, and it is elliptical or egg-shaped. It is walled with steel casing. We walked to the far end, about an eighth | of a mile, through one tube, and then back in the parallel tube, which is just like the other. On benches on each side, as though sitting and lying on a long street-car seat, were the people, {hundreds of them. And as we walked on they stretched into thousands. |

Inside Indian

THE “RESIGNATION” OF James L. Beat{ey as thé Public Service Commission's motor vehicle direc~ tor is the outstanding example thus far of Goyernor Schricker's quiet “purge” of the Democratic Yanks, As you know by now, the Governor has the ax out for most of the so-called, Dick Heller clique within the IDemocratic fold and when he put, the finger on Beattey he dismissed one of tiMe—staunchest of Heller's followers. Beatley was on. the board of directors of the Two Per) Cent Club and was secretary f | the State Democratic Committee (the latter post given him at Heller's order). It is no secret in political circles that the Governor was irritated during the campaign by gossip that Beattey was offering bets openty that Schricker wouldn't be elected. | Boy, it’s swell to have a steady job!

What, No Banjo! |

THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA has had | to go! out and hire itself a banjo player for this weeke end’s concerts. It seems that the Arcady Dubensky piece—variations on Stephen Foster themes—need. a, banjo-part and, believe it or not, the orchestra didn’t have a banjo ‘player in the lot. So they hired Wil liam Jolly to do the special role. . A girl employed at the Court House wrote Mayor Sullivan asking him to speak before her sorority. Apparently the latter went through the usual political channels because, penciled at the bottom, when it |arrived { |

Washington |

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 wmAdminititation ‘oppdnents are capitalizing the State Department's action in ending the “moral embargo” against export of materials to Soviet Russia. They can create some embarrassment by harping on this as Rep. | George

Tinkham of Massachusefts his dore in the House. When Secretary Hull Went bis fore the Senate Foreign Re) lations Committee in executive | session that question came up land he was able to speak more freely ‘about it than is possible for him to do publicly. But the main facts ate] available. Russia is playing the gatne as it seems to her best | interest to do so, and so are we. | Moscow is giving a come-on to bath sides. Which side she wants to win, rjopody around here probably really knows. | Maybe reson wants neither side to win. Yet Russia has r

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son to be nervous about the Nazi movement into the Balkans, and she has made Hitler pay some blackmail. Russia doesn’t like the Japanese pelietration in China, either.

Our Attitude Toward Russia |

What is the choice offered to the United States? One course would be to kick Moscow around. The tendency of that would be to drive Stalin complefely "into the Axis. Certainly it would deprive him of considerable leverage on Hitler and reduce | his rlui-

sance importance. Hitler would like to have Russia in a position where she could bargain’ with | no one else: The other choice is to play along. Russia object éd to the moral embargo as a humiliation. | So we ‘put Russian exports under a license syste m which will be used to hold down exports, but without | the . smart of the moral embargo, which was applied as a mark of our disapproval of the attack on Finland. The - Administration has taken the second course on the ground that if it will tend to induce one

My Day |

WASHINGTON, Thursday—I drove out yesterday noon to the lovely old house called “Woodley, ” which

- the Secretary of War and Mrs. Stimson occupy. When we were in Washington many years ago, our children ‘used to romp around these lawns with the William . Phillip’s children. As [I looked out the window at the snowy scene, I could almost sge the little figures in snow suit§ of years gone by. We had a |delightful lunch at Woodley with some of our New York friends | there, as well as those living in | | Washington.

In the afternoon, there wes a musical at which William Masselos played the piano. Miss Marilyn Crittenden played | the violin with Prescott Barrows as her accompanist. They all lgoked so young and attractive and the program was so well chosen that I enjoyed myself greatly and I hope all my guests had as pleasant a time, While tea was still going on, I slipped upstairs with a few people who wanted to have a quiet talk ! with me. One of them, Mrs. William Denman of California, is working on the continuation of the development of cultural relations in the | Pacific. « In the evening, we all went to see Rose Franken's Play: “Claudia. ” I think I have told you Kefore

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By Ernie Pyle

In addition, there was a row of sleeping forms on the wooden floor of the tube, stretched crosswise. Their bodies took up the whole space, so we hac to watch closely when we put our feet down between the sleepers. Many of these people were old—wretched old people, people who had never known the good things of life and who were now win their days on this earth in desperate disco . They were the bundled-up, patched-up people with lined faces that we have seen for years sitting dumbly in waiting lines at our own relief offices at home. There were children, too, some asleep and some playing. There were youngsters in groups, laughing and talking and even singing. There were smart-alecks and there were cuiet ones. There were hard-working people of middle age who had to rise at 5 and go to work. Some people sat knitting or playing cards or talkirg. But mostly they just sat. And though it lwas only 8 o'clock, many of the old people were alr¢ady asleep.

A Feeling of Guilt

It was the old people who seemed so tragic. Think of yourself at 70 or 80, full of pain and of the dim niemories of a lifetime that has probably all been bleak. And then think of yourself now, traveling at dusk every night to a subway station, wrapping your ragged overcoat about your old shoulders and sifting on a wooden bench with your back against a curved steel wall. Sitting there all night, in nodding and fitful sleep. Think of that as your destiny—every right, every night from now on. People looked up as we came along in our nice clothes and our obviously American ‘hats. I had a terrible feeling of guil; as I walked through the¢re— the same feeling that 1 have had when going thrpugh penitentiaries, staring zt the prisoners. I felt ashe med to be there staring, I couldn’t look people in the face, consequently I didn’t see very much of human visage that right, for 1 looked mostly at the floor. But I saw all I could bear. I saw enough. Since that first night I have seen too much of it. 1 no longer feel that way about the shelterers in jnass. Repetition makes the unusual become commonplace. Enough of anything dulls the emotions, But I still think my first impression was a valid bne. I still think it speaks the frightening poverty of character in this world more forcibly than d¢ the bombs that cause it,

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at his desk was the notation: “The answer should be ‘no,’ for she was one of the outlaws in the ’38 campaign.” . . If you're interested, Sonja [Henie thinks about the fourth row up is the best ple ce to see the ice show from. What we'd like to figure out is how she’d know.

Sonja Well Guarded

SONJA HENIE'S mother, brother and sister-in-law carry special identification cards to get info the star's dressing 'room—and are those guards firm with autograph hunters! Under that gor—jus mink coat Sonja was wearing when she donated $500 for the infantile paralysis fund last night at the Chamber of Commerce dinner was a tailored pair of grey-striped slacks. Arthur Wirtz almost had to remain standing for Sonja's opening performance. So did a lot of others, but Mr. Wirtz happens to be the producer of the show. Yep, his| box office sold his box seat ouf from under him. A reserve supply of folding chairs saved the evening.

That WPA Snowman

THE WPA COMES in for another rib. This time its a snowman in the front yard of a reside: nce in the 3400 block on Northwestern Ave. The snowman is leaning on a broom. Around his icy neck | 'hangs a sign “W. P. A.”

But Still No Signal

RESIDENTS OF E. 46th St. complained to the Safety Board five months ago about the open railroad crossing on the Nickel Plate Railroad. The Board agreed to install a signal at that time. That's all that’s happened to date.

By Raymond Clapper

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bandit to stay out of the fight, it is that| much gained. This sort of thing goes by the name of “Dower politics,” and the connotation of the term is not a pleasant one. This policy lends itself easily to the accusation that we are playing with ‘a dictatorship as hateful and as repugnant to democracy as Hitler's aictatorship. It leads to the question from {he opponents of the War-Aid Bill as to whether that bill would not empower the President to give arms and other materials to Russia if he so desired. The answer is yes, and it is an embarrassing answ er for the Administration to try to defend. Yet is there anybody who would not like to see Russia moving in on Germany and slowing down the Japanese? The British moved Heaven and earth to bring that about. . But Hitler got to Moscow first with nis economic agreement.

The Policy Is a Gamble

We know that relations sinte then between Moscow and Berlin have been up and down. Tle game now being tried is to keep them on the dos wn side as much of the time as possible. All of this is based on the ground tha: Crermany is the real menace and that anything that tends to pull Hitler down is desirable, even if the instrument is Soviet Russia. This Administration has moved very slowly and with full understanding that the policy may not produce results. It did bring about the re-ejtablish-ment of an American consulate in Vladivostok, regarded as an excellent listening post for the Far East. It has .brought about some improvement in the attitude toward Americans in Moscow. The British are more skeptical and want us to screw down on economic measures against, Russia, which we are hesitating to do. The policy is & gamble and one that would ordinarily be scarcely thought worth the chancel of failure that is involved. The chief practical risk is a loss of prestige in event of failure, but to some in the Government the desirability of taking dqvantage of every possible means of encouraging obs! acles to Hitler outweighs the risk of it turning out | to be a wild-goose chaffe.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

| that this city is an extremely difficult testing place for new plays. The theater is large and the audience is not, as a rile. very responsive. Last night there was spontaneous laughter all over the house and at times an audible tear. For myself, I can record a lump in my throat. I liked the “Claudia of the book and I like her in the play. The second act still drags a little, but Iam sure that will soon be changed. The lines are so good that you do not want to miss any of “hem and I am glad that Miss Franken has kept some of the actual words and sentences which have a! was stayed in my mind since I read the book. You can not run away from pain, £0 You must make friends with it, whether it is pair in the body or pain in the heart. You must learn to let go of the things you love, not only giving them up for the next world, but giving them up here. Things that we cling to and which should be free, are torn from us with bitterness and never return, Things we willingly let go are saved and return to us with greater value than before. We have just had lunch for all the kind artists who come here every year to entertain for the President's birthday. My two neighbors at lunch, Lauritz Melchior and Wallace Beery, were delighfful companions. In fact, I like my guests better and better each year. Perhaps I feel I know them a little better and, as ve go around the house znd I deliver my little lectures on the various rooms, I get a glimpse of their Interests and enthusiasms as wall.

SCHOOL BILLS ALTER BOARD, | TEXT SYSTEM

Introduced; Present Plan Held ‘Racket.’

Two G. O. P.-sponsored bills designed “to take the racket. out of school book adoptions” were introduced in the Senate today. One would revamp the State Board of Education while the other would set up a multiple text book adoption system, giving each school system the right to select its own books.

The former measure, introduced by Senator O. Bruce Lane (R. Bainbridge), provides for a Board of Education composed of nine members, four to be appointed by the Governor, four by the/ Lieutenant Governor and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction serving as chairman. The board personnel, according to the bill, would be composed of one member from a State-supported university or college, one from a non-state supported State school, one county superintendent, one city schools superintendent, one high school teacher, one elementary school teacher and two laymen.

Wouldn't consult Governor

The board is not to consult the Governor before compiling lists of textbooks from which the schools may make their choices. The present State Board of Education is composed of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction and six members appointed by the Governor. “This bill removes the Governor from membership of the board that he appoints and should go a long way in freeing the selection of school books from political influence,” Senator Lane declared. > The companion measure, introduced by Senator Howard V. Johnson (R. Mooresville) provides for the set-up of teacher committees to select the texts to be used.

Orders Sample Texts

Before the time of adoptions expire, the Board of Education, according to the bill, would announce in a newspaper of large circulation its intention to consider the matter

of textbook approval. On or before the date decided upon, all text book companies desiring to offer books would provide |: the State Board with 20 sample texts with prices attached. The State Board would set up a teacher examining committee of seven for each grade or grade series and one book would be sent to each teacher for examination, The teacher committees, after examining all the books, would recommend an alphabetical list of five to eight books tc the State Board. These lists would be kept open to the public for a period of two years,

Five Would Be Approved

The State Board then would approve five of the books recommended by the teacher committees

proclamation announcing the books that have been approved by the State Board. This multiple list of five books on each subject wolud be sent to the superintendents of counties, cities and towns who would call in their teachers, and the book to be used would be decided upon by a 51 per cent vote of those who teach the subject involved. Cities’ having less than 1000 population and rural schools would decide upon their textbooks at a meeting in the county superintendent’s office. The bill is the outgrowth of a two years’ study by Senators Thurman Biddinger (R. Marion), Senator John W. Van Ness (R. Valparaiso), Rep. James R. Crawley (R. Greensburg) and Senators Lane and Johnson.

83 BUILDINGS AT NEW AIR UNIT APPROVED

Times Special WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.—Eightythree buildings for housing about 1900 officers and men of the Army Air Corps have been authorized to be constructed at the new airport at Ft. Wayne at an estimated cost of $1,327,906 the War Department nnounced today. Included will be 28 barracks; seven day rooms, six mess halls, four officers’ quarters, seven supply rooms, six administration buildings, a fire station, a guard house, a hospital unit, an infirmary, a gasoline storage, a motor répair shop, five operations buildings, a recreation building, a telephone building, a theater, two warehouses, a. post exchange, a Link Trainer, a parachute building, a school building, an Air Corps shop, a radio station building, four magazines, two warehouses, and utility and sewage construction. The War Department today also announced a $2064 contract award to the Indianapolis Tent and Awning Co., Indianapolis, for 2000 small wall-tent flies.

URGES CONVOYS FOR BEST AID TO BRITAIN

ATLANTA, Ga., Jan, 31 (U.'P.). —Use of American destroyers and cruisers to convoy 4,000,000 tons of supplies across the Atlantic to Britain in the next year is the only way to keep. Germany from winning the war, in the opinion of Rear Admiral Percy W. Foote, U. S. Navy, retired. Admiral Foote yesterday told the organization meeting of the Southern Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies that by convoying supplies to Britain, “we would release our first line of defense, the British fighting force, for strengthening , Mediterranean defenses, and Germany will be icontained in continental Europe.” °

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Two Republican Measures |

SLOAN ADVISES

(HARDER WORK,

LONGER HOURS

‘Nation Must Buckle Down,’ He Says at ‘Salute to Progress’ Dinner.

: By ROGER BUDROW America should work harder, go back to the six-day week, give up extra pay for overtime and huckle

‘|down to the “greatest productive

Honor guest and speaker at the Chamber of Commerce annual banquet last night in the Scottish Rite Cathedral was Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (left), board chairman of General Motors Corp. With him at the speaker's table were George S. Olive (center), vice president and chairman of the Industrial Commission of the Chamber, and W. I. Longsworth (right), Chamber president.

HIGHWAY RIPPER REPORTED OUT

Rewritten, It Eliminates 14 Engineers, Combines Two Positions. -

A major House-passed bill, which would revise the present State Highway Commission, reached the Senate floor today in a revamped form. The Senate Roads Committee, working upon the instructions of the G. O. P. steering committee and with the aid of House Roads committee members, amended the bill to provide for a full-time, bi-parti-san commission of four members. The bill originally provided for a part-time five-member commission, no more than three to be members of any one political party. This commission was to serve merely in an advisory capacity to the Highway Department director, a position abolished in the amended bill. Eliminates Engineers

The measure now provides for the elimination of approximately 14 engineers, including the chief engineer. Senator William E. Jenner (R. Shoals), president pro tem, said that it was not the purpose of the bill to discharge any of the executive engineers but merely to abolish their positions which are not believed to be necessary and use the engineers to fill the current departmental shortage. In addition to the position of chief engineer, the bill would eliminate six district engineers, six district office engineers and combine the positions of Engineer of Prequalifications and Engineer of Specifications. Senator Albert Ferris (R. Milton) estimated that the elimination of the engineering positions woul® save approximately $45,000 yearly. He said that the work now done by the district engineers would be handled in the central office here. Salary $5200 Annually The commission members are to be named by the Governor, Lieu-tenant-Governor and State Treasurer. One of the four will be named chairman. All are to be under $25,000 bond, according to the bill. The salary will be $5200 annually. The measure also would give the commission the right to decide what type of road it wanted fo build and then to call for bids for that type. At present the commission must receive bids on at least two types of road material. A. J. Wedeking, Republican member of the commission, told the Senate Committee that he believed such a Highway Commission as set up under the G. O. P. bill “would be workable.” The comprehensive merit system bill, introduced yesterday by Senator Jenner, was recommended for passage unanimously by the Judiciary Committee.

Calling All Dogs! Be On Lookout!

CALLING ALL DOGS: Be on lookout for one streamlined dog catcher’s wagon equipped with two-way radio. This wagon, especially built for catching fast moving, stray dogs, will be in operation in a few weeks. It was ordered by the Police Department today and will be equipped with separate compartments for big and little dogs. The wagon will cruise about the City, picking up strays by radioed directions from Headquarters. Dog Pound keepers predict the wagon will be “very effective.” That is all.

DUNN IS NAMED FAIR MANAGER

Max Townsend, Ex-Gover-nor’s Son, ‘Next to Go’ In Job Shakeup.

Paul S. Dunn, who has been connected with Indianapolis banks and finance companies for more than

20 years, has been appointed State Fair manager by Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson. He succeeds Harry Templeton, Democrat, who had been State Fair manager and secretary to the State Agricultural Board for more than four years. Mr. Templeton said he was asked to resign by Lieut. Gov. Dawson earlier this week. The next Democrat scheduled to be replaced by Mr. Dawson is Max Townsend, son of former Governor M. Clifford Townsend, who is secretary of the Livestock Licensing Commissions operated in the Lieutenant Governor's office. Mr. Dunn, who lives on R. R. 15 east of Indianapolis, formerly was vice president of the old Lawrence State Bank, and for the last seven years has been assisting in liquidation work at the Fletcher American Bank. The State Agriculture Board yesterday signed contracts for free attractions at the State Fair next September. The Board engaged Barnes-Carruthers Fairbooking Association to give performances at the race track grandstand and signed a contract with “Lucky” Teeter to stage stunts on Sunday afternoon.

GIRL SCOUTS PLEDGE AID

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U. PJ). —The nation’s 500,000 Girl Scouts are to offer President Roosevelt a “promissory note” pledging “any required number of hours of community service in the interest of national defense.” The “note” will be presented to Mrs. Roosevelt at Constitution Hall this afternoon.

"Cinderella Girl' Shows Lana,

Deanna How to Steal Scenes

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U.P) .— The 1941 “Cinderella Girl” packed her magic slippers and her new evening gown today and headed back to the mountains of West Virginia. The ball was over and with it two of the most exciting days a 14-year-old mountain girl could)“ hope for. She ended her “fairy story” just before the clock struck 12 last night by showing some of

how to steal scenes. Anna Sklepovich, daughter of a Gary, W. Va., coal mine mechanic, whose visit to Washington was a “mistake,” literally took the spotlights away from such movie stars as Lana Turner and Deanna Durbin. “Move in a little closer,” shouted the newsreel men to Lana, Anna, Deanna Durbin and Mrs, Roosevelt who were grouped around a massive birthday cake at one of the President’s Birthday Parties. Anna moved in, but in front of Miss Durbin. Lana's eyes flashed and she gave the girl a healthy dig in the ribs. : : “Move over, please,” she said. About that time Mrs. Roosevelt decided to shake hands again with Anna and the newsreels recorded movie stars Turner and Durhin in a Solfewhat shadowy bac

kground, Before t. the evening was over, Anna

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had received an invitation to guest star on a network radio show next week and suffered an acute attack of heartthrobs while actor Tony Martin held her hand and said “are you happy?” Her biggest thrill came when Mrs. Roosevelt handed her a piece of the Presidents own birthday cake. She » it in her coat pocket. “She thought Deanna Durbin ‘simply divine,” but she go a bigger kick out of riding through Washingbehind a ne motorcycle escort. When Tony Martin asked for her autograph she shrieked: “Oh, Mister Martin, how wonderful.” The clock was striking 12 and the band was playing “Make Believe” when Anna went to her room in the Mayflower Hotel. “I guess a girl never had as much fun as I had today,” she said. The President answered a letter Anna wrote him, wishing him a happy birthday because it was the same ‘day as hers. Her brother Steve got the letter first and added: “We would like to have you come to the White House and meet the President.” Anna, dressed in her Sunday best, went off to the Capital only to learn that the invitation was not genuine. The President and members of the Birthday Celebration Committee heard of her plight and brought

FARMERS WANT IN LINE’ BUDGET

Agree Not to Oppose Relief To Retailers if Revenue Is Unimpaired.

The Indiana Farm Bureau again will actively oppose any ‘“unbalancing” of the State Budget, according to Anson Thomas, legislative director of the Bureau. Three budget bills calling for an expenditure of $110,000,000 by the State in the next two years were introduced in the House yesterday. The House Ways and Means Committee will begin its study of the budget next week. The State Budget Committee said it has cut expenditures “to the bone” and the State will be nearly $2,900,000 “in the red” on July 15, 1941, Fought Tax Cut

Two years ago the Farm Bureau successfully fought an attempt by the retailers to get their gross income tax rate cut, because they believed such a cut would unbalance

ithe budget.

At that time several hundred farmers paraded to the State House and presented their arguments against the proposed tax cut. The Farm Bureau and retailer groups have since conferred, and the Bureau agreed that it would not oppose any relief to the retailers so long as it did not impair the rev-enue-raising ability of the bill,

Fear Property Burden

An unbalanced budget, the farmers feel, would risk placing the additional burden on property. The State Budget Committee recommended a tobacco tax to raise $3,000,000 to balance the budget along with a “juggling” of the intangible tax and highway accounts to bring more money into the general fund. Mr. Thomas said the tobacco tax probably would be acceptable to the farmers, but that the “juggling” of the accounts would be opposed because the rural communities. would suffer, . Retailers Ask Relief

The retailers, promised relief by both party platforms, have asked for a % of ;1 per cent reduction in their rate. Republican leaders are understood to be working on a “sliding scale” proposal, but some attorneys have expressed doubt as to the constitutionality of the plan. Labor groups, meanwhile, are on their guard against a sales tax which at least one Representative has indicated he would introduce.

FIGHTS REVOCATION OF LIQUOR LICENSE

The right of the State Alcoholic Beverage Commission to revoke a retail liquor dealer’s license without the right of appeal was challenged today in a suit filed in Superior Court 4 by John E. Woodson, owner at a tavern at 1501 Yandes St. Defendants named in the suit included Hugh A. Barnhart, State Excise Director, and members of the A. B. C. The suit alleges that Mr. Woodson’s license was revoked when a church was established across the street from his tavern. The suit sets out the liquor control act provides no appeal from an A. B. C. revocation action and that Mr. Woodson “is deprived of his property without. due process of law.”

HARDWARE DEALERS ELECT WABASH MAN

Homer Hipskind, Wabash, yesterday was elected president of the Indiana Retail Hardware Association in convention at the Murat Temple. Other officers elected are Jesse E. McCoy, Cloverdale, vice president; Roy Hunter, Versailles, Charles Link, Rockport, and Elmer Hummer, Lakeville, members of the board of directors, and Paul Ulrich of Indianapolis, and Mr, Miller, advisory board members.

STUDIES ATHLETE'S FOOT

"CHICAGO, (U. P.).—Dr., William| .

8. Becker, University of Chcago

dermatologist, declares that “ath-|

lete’s foot” may be due, he believes,

effort the world has ever seen,” ac cording to Alfred P. Sloan Jr., chaire man of General Motors Corp. The industrialist spoke at the Ine

‘|dianapalis Chamber of Commerce

51st annual dinner at the Scottish Rite Cathedral attended by nearly 1200 persons. In a “Salute to Progress” precede ing Mr, Sloan’s address, W. I, Longsworth, Chamber president, re vealed that industrial growth of Ine dianapolis during 1940 was the greatest in its 120-year history with 42 corporations spending more than 50 million dollars in adding 3,500,000 square feet of floor space and equip-

ment, 15,000 Jobs Created

He reported 15,000 new jobs were created, adding $15,000,000 to the industrial payroll. Mr. Sloan declared he and his company are opposed to any form of appeasement and that Britain is America’s first line of defense, America, he said, must safeguard institutions of democracy and free enterprise at the same time. ; Mr. Sloan characterized demands for increased wages as the first stage of inflation and said “if inflation starts, the possibility of controlling it is very remote.” The head of one of the nation's largest corporations took consider able time in explaining to his audience that it is impossible to stop making automobile engines one day and start making airplane erigines the next, He granted that automobile cone cerns have idle capacity but exe plained that to change over to aire plane motors does not mean making them during spare time but means starting from the ground up—new factories, new machines, new processes. “We Start All Over”

“It may surprise you to know,” he said, “that when we ehange the model (of an automobile) and frequently the changes are rather minor, it takes us a whole year in preparation , , . we start all over again.” Mr. Sloan stated a belief similar to that held by Henry Ford when he said that “I have always had in mind the desirability of decentralizing our operations as much ‘as is practical and economically sound to do so” and mentioned that General Motors has branched out to 15 or 20 cities in the-last 10-years, - He said it is too early in the de fense program to know whether guns will take precedent over butter —whether we can produce all the Jelense needs and peace-time needs,

“It is certainly to our interest before we begin to exercise priorities or curtail demand to move to a sixday week in place of a five-day week,” he declared.

Foresees Let-Down “And although I have gotten into quite a hot argument with certain people on the point, I am advocating that we eliminate the extra time of the 50 per cent penalty beyond 40 hours because it is so important that we maintain the maximum of the peace-time economy when we are producing the other goods, because it' strengthens our general financial position, which is so ime portant.” The end of the war will mean a let-down for America, he said, and he urged that an intelligent ape proach be used now to solve this problem of the future. “Buf, the world is only beginning,” Mr. Sloan added. “The cities and everything in the life of 1960 is go ing to be!entirely different than in the life of 1940. There is only one consideration. We can’t do it by working less... We must do it by working more and more and intele ligently.”

RELIEF HEARINGS SET . WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U. P), ~The House Deficiency Appropriations Subcommittee plans to start hearings early next week on Presie dent Roosevelt's request for an ade ditional $375,000,000 for relief.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Was Vermont one of the 13 original States?" 2—On what river is Washington, .D. C.? 3—Who wrote the novel Eyre”? 4—In which of Sliakespeare’s plays is the line, “To be or not to be, that is the question”? 5—If a bird alights on @ single, une insulated high-tension wire will it be electrocuted? a the Assistant " General in charge of busting.” 7—Which President of the United States was associated with the “Rough Riders” cavalry regie ment? % : 8—Are Indians born in the United States full citizens?

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1-—No. 2—Potomac. 3—Charlotte Bronte, 4—“Hamlet.” 5-No. 6—Thurman W. Arnold. 7--Theodore Roosevelt, 8—Yes,

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