Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1941 — Page 11

TUESDAY, FEB. 4, 1941

Hoosier Vagabond

. LONDON (By Wireless)—A lot of mighty fine sacrificing is being done in the bomb shelters of London. I don’t care where you go, whether to one of the vast corral-like shelters or to a small neat one in the West End, there is somebody there -who is giving his time and his

strength and his heart for his fel-

low humans. Take one big basement shelter in the East End which holds around 3000 people. There in that ‘vast hotel of sorts is a tiny, dwarfted man panfed Mickey Davis. He comes only fo my waist. You lean over when you talk to him. He has not been out of the shelter since last September except for an occasional walk. He works / day and night. And he doesn’t get a cent for it. People idolize him. “There's something queer about living underground,” he told me “You stay down here so long you don’t even want to go outside. Then when you do go out arg get accustomed to the fresh air again you don’t want to come back down.” There are thousands and thousands of “Davises” serving these harassed people of London. I have a friend who works as an accountant all . day and then serves.most of the night as a shelter marshal, without pay. : *

Many Little Heroes

. I've seen girls who clerk all day in a 10-cent store and then go to an East End shelter to serve thousands "of people over the canteen counter till 10 o'clock at . night. And they are up at 5 in the morning to serve early tea and coffee. They do that every night, and they get no pay for it. In the richer West End I saw women of comfortable means who go every night to sit ‘on stools and make sandwiches by the thousands to be sold to the shelterers at cost. Britain’s civil army has its big blitz heroes who are the greatest this war has produced. But it also has its little heroes by the tens of thousands. I think it’s lots harder to be a little hero, because you have to keep so everlastingly at it. Back in September, shelter management was in a state of chaos. They were just learning then. So great were the crowds that women would fold up their bedding and go out the front door of a shel-

By Ernie Pyle

ter at 8 a. m. and then turn right around and stand there all day in line, waiting to get back.through the same door at 4 that afternoon. But now the population of each shelter is pretty well setled down into permanent residence. Also, each section or bay of a shelter is somewhat selfgoverning. A deputy marshal, chosen by the people, knows everybody in his particular bay, anc where they sleep, so they no longer have to wait in Line. The marshal reserves space for them. All these deputy marshals are volunteers, serving without pay. Chief marshals get about $13 a week, and boy how they work for it!

Donating an American Flag

« It was amazing and touching the way the Christmas spirit was kept up during the holidays. People banded together and got up Christmas trees, and chipped in to buy gifts all around. I visited more than 30 shelters during the holidays, and there was not one that was not elaborately decorated. In all the shelters used by Greeks, the people have fixed up composite pictures of King George of England and King George of Greece alongside each other. Every shelter has a flag and at least one big picture of the King and the usual “God Save Our Home” mottoes. And that brings me back to a little incident up at the vast and conglomerate -Double-X shelter, which has a heavily Jewish population. The shelter marshal there asked me if I knew where he could get an American flag. “It’s funny your coming here tonight,” he said, “for I just had that request this morning. “Most of the people here have relatives in the States. They want an ‘American flag. They say England and America are the only two countries left in the world.” Well, I'm riot much on flags, but I figured it was kind of up to me. So I went down to Selfridge’s store, bought the last American flag they had "and took it out to Double-X. Next day the shelter marshal called up, practically agog with gratitude, and said the people had made a great fuss over it. He said the women had started already making copies of it to hang all over the place. He said he had put 24 Greeks from a torpegoed; merchant ship in the bay that night before, and they cheered when they saw the flag, So I guess Ernest has done his good deed for 1941. The flag cost $2.50 too. I'm all torn now over whether I should be a hero and pay for it myself or be a heel and put it on my expense account. I guess maybe I'll wait until I can be a more expensive heel.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

THIS WILL PAIN YOU, but you've got to face it: Our chief claim to fame is gone. Indianapolis is no longer the largest inland city in the world not on a navigable river! It used to be that a navigable stream was understood to be one which could be used as a highway for trade and commerce; in other words, one which was actually navigable for something besides a canoe, which some parts of White River can’t even accommodate at high tide. Well, in December, the Supreme Court of the United States (none other) took up the case of the New River (Virginia and West Virginia) and decided by a 6-to-2 vote that navigability means: 1. Any stream navigable by boats drawing two feet or more of water. 2. Any stream that can be improved into navigability by the expenditure of any “reasonable amount of money.” This decision of course, makes White River navigable and therefore comes the heart-rending news that Indianapolis is no longer the largest inland city in the world not on a navigable river. The Supreme Court of the United States ought to look at the evidence. : et me Oh, well—Indianapolis the maritime center.

Talking About Magic

OLE JOHNSON the City Engineer, has returned to work after a 15-day rest sporting a fine sunburn. All achieved without spending a day outside Indianapolis. . +» « Zionsville hears that the 5000-barrel oil refinery

Washington

« minutes.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—The press and the air both continue to be filled with argument which shows that many people are not taking seriously the warnings of high Government officials as to the importance $f the British coming through the expected invasion : attempt. The importance to us of British seapower remaining in friendly hands has been emphasized over and over until one is almost ashamed to mention the subject again. Yet officials continue to reiterate it because so many still do not accept that view. We have forgotten what, happened a few months ago, when the first line of our security, the continental line against Hitler, was smashed. We didn’t .call it our first line, but when it fell we showed by our actions that we considered it such. When the Germans went into Holland, we got busy overnight with defense. Newspaper files are most revealing. For weeks there had been scarcely a mention of defense in the newspapers, except for routine appropriations

. which were being pared in some cases for economy.

It was Europe's war, not ours, those were the days of what Mr. Roosevelt described as “Martin, Barton and Fish.”

~ Recalling Some History

The Germans had cleaned up Scandinavia, but that was a long way off. Everything seemed quiet

* again, and the British proceeded to throw Chamberlain

out. We were excited about the Walter-Legan Bill or something else now forgotten. . But on May 4 the Dutch suddenly arrested 21 fifth columnists. Belgian police found 300 foreign military uniforms hidden inside the country. May 6, President Roosevelt suddenly rushed back to Washington from Hyde Park, taking an afternoon train instead of arriving here the next day. He told reporters he was nervous over prospective developments in Europe. He said he had a case of nerves

My Day

: WASHINGTON, Monday.—Yesterday promised to “be a peaceful day, but I forgot that I had been away Saturday and not one, but two baskets of mail awaited my return. : However, even though I had taken Saturday off, I felt I must be free one day in the week in the White House, so I deliberately spent some time show=ing the children around the house after lunch, and talking with various friends. In between, I read through innumerable letters. My tea guests stayed until 7 o’clock and I was barely ready to welcome otaer guests who came to supper. After supper we had “the March of Time” and a light newsreel, which the President seemed to enjoy. At 9:30, I left to go on the radio with Bill Stern for three It was an interesting opportunity to meet him and it was an added pleasure to find both his wife and mother in the studio. I suppose, just because I am so poor at all sports, I have a great admiration for those who excel in sports and who know

. @& great deal about them.

‘

This morning I went to Mrs. Townsend’s musical

. and enjoyed hearing Emanuel Feuerman and Rudolph

Serkin, Mrs. Claude Wickard, the wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, and I drove straight to the Shoreham Hotel to lunch with Mrs. Jesse Jones, wife of the Secretary of , who gave a charming party

going up two and a half miles south at 86th St. and the Big Four is just the first of several to be located in that area. . . . Reports are that Lou Moore, the Speedway man hag purchased the Maserati owned by the Frenchman, Rene LeBegue, and that Mauri Rose is slated to drive it. . .. The local amateur prestadigitators are all excited about the appearance here of Dante, tops in the magician trade since Houdini and Thurston.

On the Down Beat

WE'VE BEEN MEANING to tell you about the Fabien Sevitzky mail. The conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony gets his mail in the following variations of spelling: Sabien Sevitcky, Fabien Sebifzy, Facien Seritzky, Fabian Seviski, Fabian Stavisky and Favian Sevisky. But the oddest of all the aliases is the one given him by 4-year-old Elise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Ayres. She invariably calls him just plain “Mist Spitsky.”

The General and the Sergeant

BACK IN THE WORLD WAR, Col. Bob Tyndall had a rickety, open, touring car of ancient vintage assigned him and he said many times that it took a genius to keep it going. The genius was his chauffeur, Sergt. George Hurley, a mechanic by trade, whose father before him had been a well-known mechanic in Indianapolis. After the war, the Colonel and the Sergeant lost track of each other. The other day, Gen. Robert H, Tyndall was informed thaf Private George Hurley, mechanic, had re-enlisted. It’s now Sergt. Hurley again, driving the General's car, this time a shiny, new limousine.

By Raymond Clapper

and would feel easier at his desk. The German press ‘was slyly pointing toward the Balkans as the next trouble center. May 7 the Dutch canceled military leaves and put extra guards around public buildings. Berlin again pointed to the Balkans as threatening trouble. May 8 and 9. were the same. May 10, at 3 a. m., the Germans invaded Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. The next morning, for the first time in weeks, defense reappeared in the American press. Editorials began calling for more defense. Senator Vandenberg advised everyone to keep cool. Thomas E. Dewey accused the Administration of having neglected defense. May 12 House Naval Chairman Vinson said a naval expansion plan would be announced soon so large that it “would make your eyes pop out.”

Our Actions Speak

May 16 President Roosevelt appeared before Congress with a special defense message asking for 50,000 airplanes. Within a week we had discovered what the collapse of Dutch and Belgian resistance meant to us. Two weeks later the Defense Commission was set up. Then France fell. We countered by voting conscription. Billions went for more defense. All of this defense drive started after Germany broke through the military line which had held her bottled up on the continent. : : We still don’t admit that Europe is our first line of defense. Only our actions say that it is. If Hitler hadn't broken through, we would still be taking it easy. arguing. about balancing the budget and going our way peacefully with no anxieties. Let the British Navy fall into German hands, let Churchill be thrown out and a puppet Government be set up in Westminster and the frantic haste of last summer will be slow motion beside what the country will then demand. Roosevelt's Lend-Lease Bill will seem like old-fashioned soothing syrup. We mouth self-deceiving words and wake up only after the blow has fallen. Everybody will be convinced if Hitler takes England. But it's a hell of a price to pay to win an argument. .

By Eleanor Roosevelt

for me. From there I went with Mrs, Morgenthau to the house warming in the new house just opened by the Washington Self-Help Exchange, Inc. This house stands by itself, quite back from the street and is admirably fitted to be a home for single men. There is ample room downstairs for lounging and office work, as well as a kitchen and dining room. Forty-seven men can be housed on the second and third floors.. The building has been completely rehabilitated by the men themselves. They - learned how to scrape and refinish floors. They painted everything. They recovered chairs and hung curtains, Not one new thing was bought for this whole house and yet it is simpie and attractive in its furnishings. This is a temporary home for lonely men and they pay for their room and board in ‘script, which they earn in the shops. At the same time they do work which will help them to obtain jobs, which may be enough to put many of them back ‘on their feet as self-supporting human beings. They had at the house an exhibition of the work done at the exchange shops which are, of course, in another building. They have a baby dress made from the material which architects use in their drawings and a very nice baby dress it was. There were also many loaves of bread from their bakery and much reconstructed furniture, Back at the White House I received the Ambassa-

‘ dor of Panama and Senora Brin, and the Ambassador

of Chile and Senora Michels, This evening we have 2 Buiter of pegple coming to dinner with us in-

IT'S HESITATION WALTZ ON NEW POLICE EDIFICE

City Just Can’t Make Up Its Mind Whether to Take Fateful Step.

By RICHARD LEWIS Like a diver who hesitates on the brink of an unknown pool, the City of Indianapolis is poised to plunge into the venture of building a new Police Station, but just cannot seem

to make up its mind to take the fateful step. \ Mayor Sullivan and his aids at City Hall have realized for some time that the plunge is necessary. So far, they cannot bring themselves to take it without a push. There has been hush-hush talk that the City would go over its head financially in such a project. There have been low, solemn warnings that the City cannot afford to let it go much longer. Undecided on the immediacy of the need, hesitant at the cost and reluctant to venture into deep water alone, the City is putting forth a tentative toe to test the temperature. ’ ‘Many Things Involved’

“We have been considering the problem of a new headquarters for the Police Department for some time,” Mayor Sullivan said. have yet made no decision. There are a great many things involved in

“We ! Ea

building a new police station. You| &

can’t decide these things overnight.” It has been reported to the Mayor that the present 19th Century Police Headquarters is inadequate for modern, streamlined. policing and that the limitations of the present building actually handicap police

of the difficulties. Like a worn-out horsecollar, the station has been patched up year after year, but still is too small for the horse. Thousands of dollars have been spent in repairs.

Braced by Railroad Track

One section has been braced by part of a railroad track. Inside, rooms are cut up in jig-saw fashion to make room where it didn’t seem

possible to have any more room. Stairwells, corridors—almost every available space—have been converted into quarters. There is no place where a patrolman coming off the beat can wash and change his clothes. There are no recreation rooms for the men. Toilet facilities for police are hardly adequate; for the public, unusable. The building itself has been condemned by the City Building Commission. Roaches find homes in nooks and crannies and rats scramble through the walls. Beneath the weight of steel filing cabinets in the Bertillon Department—keystone of modern criminology methods—the floors are beginning to sag. Mechanics work back to back in the tiny garage.

Court Room Going to Pieces

One court room has been gradually going to pleces—literally—for the past two years, Municipal Court

Room 3. Plaster flakes off the ceiling. Judge John L. McNelis is prepared to mandate the County for repairs, and County Commissioners claim that would be “throwing money down a rathole.” To some City officials, the gondition of the building is cause for alarm. They point to the fact” 500 Indianapolis Policemen plus a few deputies are the only available force to protect hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property in Marion County. The National Guard has gone to camp and State Civil Defense units have not yet been organized and may not be. In the event of any large-scale disturbance, police would have place for barracks, no room for a central mobilization point.

‘Don’t Quote Me!’

These are some of the arguments City officials are using but they do not wish to be quoted. Not yet, for the City is still poised on tiptoe, undecided. The same officials have pointed out that with the present cheapness of money, Indianapolis could float a bond issue at a low interest rate, probably less than 2 per cent, to finance a new structure. In the past, speculation for a site for the new station has usually lighted on the plot of ground behind the Court House. nce a park, the plot has fallen into disuse and it has been proposed to make a municipal] parking lot of it. In their cautious, tiptoe inquiry, officials have not yet found any determined - opposition to such a plunge. Rather, they have been told ‘that influential organizations would go along if someone started the ball rolling. . As for the City, it’s still waitin for a push. :

COURSE IN CHILD WELFARE OFFERED

A new course,” “Child Welfare Work,” has been added to the curriculum of Marian College. Miss Marion L. Griffin, Catholic Charities Bureau case work director, will be the instructor. A course in advertising by E. W. Mahoney and one in social work by Patrick Rooney which were started last fall will be continued, Sister Mary John, O. 8. F.,, college dean, said. The second semester began at the college today with a record enrollment. The evening division will open Feb. 11. Plans are being made for a spring concert April 27 to mark the school’s fourth year as a Cahotie institution of higher learng.

CURRIE REACHES MANILA

MANILA, P. I, Feb. 4 (U. P.).— Lauchlin Currie, an administrative assistant to President Roosevelt, arrived today en route to Chungking,. where ‘he will. confer with

i Chinese Government

authorities,

operations which go forward in spite |"

These two engineers, wearing gas masks and steel helmets, are preparing to descend into a limestone cave, uncovered by workers recently excavating for a sewer line to serve the gigantic Charlestown powder manufacturing plant.

The engineers, fearing possible poisonous gases in caverns, carried cagéd‘' canaries along for testing purposes. Their fears

proved right for one of the birds collapsed 600 feet from the entrance. .

TAX PROPOS

Republican Leaders Agree On Resolution to Save Retailers $3,000,000. a

week. It was agreed on tentatively

.|the G. O. P. leaders at a meeting

The caves are reputed to have been important underground railroad stations of pre-Civil War days. The engineers ordered a 30foot shaft drilled from the surface of the gas-filled caverns, and the survey was finished without loss of another canary.

PUSH BOBBITT FOR GOP POST

Friends Open Drive to Get Him Chairmanship; Cite Harmony Efforts.

Several Indiana Republican leaders are campaigning actively to get State G. O. P. Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt elected national Republican chairman. They claim Mr. Bobbitt attracted national .attention during the last campaign because he was the only

state chairman who “was able to . |get along harmoniously with inde-

pendent Willkie clubs” during the

‘Avote drive.

Cite Harmony Meeting His friends also claim that his action in arranging a conference of all state chairmen for a harmony meeting with the Republican Presi--dential nominee last September “places him in a position for the national chairmanship.” However, no one has explained away the old factional fight among Indiana Republican leaders against Mr, Bobbitt’s leadership. The movement to replace the chairman is reportedly still going on behind the scenes and the sudden campaign to get him elected national chairman is confusing to some observers. |

Mentioned at Omaha

It has been suggested that the election of Mr. Bobbitt as national chairman would leave the State G. O. P. Committee free to name a new chairman without opposition. Mr. Bobbitt was one of five Midwestern Republican leaders mentioned for the national post at a party conference at Omaha, Neb., last week-end. A candidate for the national chairmanship is expected to be named at another Republican conference here March 21.

DIVISION CHIEFS FOR Y. M. DRIVE NAMED

Seven of the nine division leaders in the Y. M. C. A. membership campaign have been announced by Clayton O. Mogg, chairman of the membership committee. The division and ther leaders are east district, George Thornton; business men’s, John Fuller; young men, Ralph Swingley; health division, Howard Sweetman; basic members, Thomas Duck; student division, Kenneth Speicher and boys, - Central Building, Russell Hook. More than 250 volunteer workers are participating in ‘this year’s campaign. The goal has been set at 745 members.

‘TOMORROW 14 MEN will light up five-cent cigars and start talking of dollars in eight and nine

digits. It will be the first budget meeting of the House Committee on Ways and Means — the office holders show the way and the committee is supposed to find the means. Frankly, every member of the committee is worried about the task. The State department heads told the budget committee it would cost $115,000,000 to run the State for the next two years. The budget committee told the Ways and Means Committee it wouldn’t cost that much—a mere $110,000,000. But even that is still just a little more than the tax-.

payers are scheduled to contribute. :

Columbus’ Log Hunted in L. A.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4 (U, P.). —John H. Ryan is tearing up the ‘pavement at Beaudry Ave, and

Figueroa Terrace, Between lusty swings of his pick Mr. Ryan tells the curious that he’s digging for Christopher Columbus’ log book of his two ‘trips from Spain to America and the explorer’s treasure chests. Mr. Ryan didn’t explain how property of Columbus had reached the heart of Los Angeles but he promised the city:a share in the treasure and also agreed to clean up the debris.

PARALYSIS RECEIPTS. PASS $3500 MARK

Funds collected by the Marion County Chapter of the National foundation fer Infantile Paralysis today passed the $3500 mark as five auditors continued to check receipts at the Peoples State Bank. The receipts: were from dances and benefits held last week and individual contributions, W. 8S. Akin, executive secretary, said, ‘The

audit is still incomplete, he said,

and the fund is expected to total about $1000 more when the audit is complete. . Although the campaign centered around President. Roosevelt's 59th birthday last Thursday, donations are still being received at the organization’s headquarters, 129 E. Market St. The funds will be used to aid sufferers of infantile paralysis, 50 per cent being applied to local agencies. : The incomplete audits reveal that $1800 was contributed in iron lung coin containers, $1200 in sale of gold tickets; $700 in individual contributions and $880 by organizations.

Man Bites Dog, Makes Irish Rise

PEORIA, Ill, Feb. 4 (U. P.).— This is news, according to-the famous definition. ° A man bit a dog. William Henninger was the man who made news. He bit his Irish setter on the nose in a tavern to punish it for failing to perform tricks which his master had promised. The news made Robert A. Murray, 41, of Chicago, angry. Mr. Murray, an Irishman, said it burned him up to see a German bite an Irish setter. He paid $8.50 in police court yesterday for as-

saulting Henninger.

14 Men With 5-Cent Cigars Ways and Means of Cutting

So the W. & M. will have to make chop-sticks out of their lead pencils. If the committee’s present mood continues, the department heads

are going to be ‘in for a rocky -

time before the budget bills are sent out on the floor of the House. Several of them already are convineed—and they haven't even gone into the bills thoroughly— that the department heads did no little padding when they requested funds for their branches of government. And the committee members individually have been Somipiling some data on the subect. It’s an old trick, they point out, for the department heads fo ask for more _ 80. when the

than they expect to get,

CITY TO GREET CURTISS CHIEFS

Propeller Plant Officials to - Be Welcomed at Civic Luncheon.

The city’s business and civic lead‘ers will extend a welcome next Monday to officials of the propeller division ‘of the Curtiss-Wright Corp., which is establishing a $7,000,000 plant here, : : A luncheon will be given by the Chamber of Commerce at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Honored guests will be Robert L. Earle, vice

president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and general manager of the propeller division, and Ralph J. Schneider, manager of the new Indianapolis plant. ° Contract Awarded

A $7,099,650 contract for plant facilities to be housed in the ‘old

Marmon Motor Car Co. buildings, 1200 W. Morris St., was awarded in Washington yesterday by the National Defense Commission. | 'W. I. Longsworth, Chamber president, said the luncheon is being arranged to give Indianapolis business men an opportunity to’ meet the men who head the new defense industry in the city.

Other Officials Coming

Mr. Earle and Mr. Schneider, who will come from Cleveland, N. J,

headquarters of the propeller division, will be accompanied here by W. K. Swigert, manufacturing manager of the Caldwell and Clifton, N. J. plants; Mathias Klein, manufacturing superintendent of the new Indianapolis plant; Seth Newland, supervisor of personnel of the local plant, and John O. Harte, public relations director for the propeller division. The new Indianapolis plant will occupy five buildings which make up the former No. 3 plant of the Marmon company. The buildings occupy a l4-acre site and contain 400,000 square feet of floor space. More than 400 skilled workers are expected to be employed at the plant with an annual payroll running into several millions annually.

STARTS VACATION, DIES

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4 (U.P.). —John M. Annenberg, 53, Philadelphia Inquirer circulation manager, died of a heart attack in his office yesterday as he said goodby to staff members prior to leaving for a Florida vacation.

Try to Figure 9-Digit Budget

cutting, their budgets are where they wanted them to be. . So some of the Ways and Means Committee members, admitting they don’t have time to investigate every item as thoroughly as they should, are considering a “horizontal cut”—for example, lopping 5 per cent off every department’s budget. And if things still look too bad when they're through, they might have to make the budget for only one ' year, confesses one of the Commies highest ranking memIS. ' This would allow ther to find

out what the defénse industry is

going to do to revenues and expenditures. blo It also would mean a special

They also completed drafts of & third bill to create a State Departs ment of Agriculture with Lieut. Gov, Charles M. Dawson,

ber commission. The Steering Committee voted proposed reductions in the Gross Income Tax for retailers despite warn=

that the State may face a deficit by

ductions

biennial budget bills. Their tentative bill would: 1. Reduce to one-half of 1 per

receipts over $3000, and less than $20,000. Present Rate 1 Per Cent 2. Reduce to three-fourths of 1 per cent the tax for retailers om: gross receipts over $20,000. :

for all retail receipts over $3000. Majority leaders said that the

voted through the Legislature if

cuts would necessitate any reduction in the $700 payments to each school teacher unit in the State. Republican leaders said they ape

their belief that the State’s revenues would be greatly increased by the spending of millions of dollars on national defense projects.

mittee to make some cuts in the

$6,000,000 higher than the current budget.

gross tax reductions would cause revenue losses of about $3,000,000.

DRIVER FINED $117

day to serve a 90-day sentence. He also was fined -a total of $117 four charges. % The penalties were. imposed Municipal Judge Pro Tem

bott, 46, of 636 N. Illinois St. Abe

driving, $25 and costs on

charges of failure to stop at prefer= ential street and failure to display lights. The accident occurred ab Senate Ave. and Ohio St. ?

JOB OFFICE PLACES.

Placement Service of the Unemploy=

ager, said today. He reported that the vacancies had oc¢urred in 86 of the state’s 93 counties. Most of those aided by the governmental organizations

better jobs, Mr. Smith said.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (U.P.).—The story published by a New York Windsor had had face lifted has been categorically denied by Capt. Vyvyan Drury, the Duke of Winds sor’s aid de camp, the Nassau, Ba= hamas Information Bureau hers said today. ! a Drury cabled that Dr. I. Shorell, who was supposed to have performed the operation, was known here or by Nassau tion authorities.”

KNOWLEDGE

1—=When will leap year again? ; 2—Psittacosis is the scientific name + for rabbit fever, parrot fever or yellow fever? 3—Which is the oldest U. S. Naval vessel, the U. 8. 8. Constitution or Constellation? : 4—Under which President did Thomas A. Hendricks serve Vice President? : 5—-What is the geometrical d tion of a point? 6—Do the outside horses of a mers ry-go-round travel faster th the inside horses? ; 7—The treaty of peace with Spal was signed in what year? 8—With what sport is Lou Nova sociated?

Answers

11944. 2—Parrot fever. tion. 4—Grover Cleveland. 5—The intersection of three lines. 6—Yes. 3 71898. 8—B ss 8 =

ASK THE TIMES

session. .of the. Legislature - next

retailers will be proposed by the Res = publican majority in a bill. this =

Republican, = | serving as director over a six-mems =

ings of the State Budget Committes 1943. : ta However, spokesmen for the mas = | jority leaders said the approved res “are subject to further = study” of the proposed $110,000,000 . |

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cent the tax for retailers on gross .

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The present rate is 1 per cent

proposed reductions would not be later developments show that the

proved the tentative reductions om

Majority leaders also said they expect the Ways and Means Comw

biennial budget, which is more than

They estimated that the proposed

AND SENT TO FARM A motorist involved in an auto 3 crash Saturday night was on his way to the Indiana State Farm to= oy. A

Rinier yesterday against Harold Abs = |

bott was sentenced 90 days and fined $50 and costs on charge of drunken v charge and $1 and costs each on

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150 STATE TEACHERS

A total of 150 teachers have found = new positions through the Teacher

ment Compensation Division, George J. Smith, Indianapolis office mane

whose service is free, were seeking

FACE LIFTING DENIED BY WINDSOR’S AID |

newspaper that the Duchess of

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