Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1941 — Page 19

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FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1941

The Indianapolis Times

Hoosier Vagabond

GLASGOW, Scotland (by wireless).—Edinburgh is on the east side of Scotland and Glasgow on the west, but since they are at Scotland’s narrowest point they are only an hour’s ride apart by train. Trains and people’s thoughts and phone calls flow wack and forth between the two cities like so much water. It is about like the Atlantic and Pacific ends of the Panama Canal. But instead. of looking like Panama, or like Scotland either for that matter, the country between looks very much like Indiana, except that the fields are smaller here. : That’s the trouble with America—it’s so big and has so many kinds of scenery that it makes all the other countries look like some- : thing at home, instead of looking foreign. Edinburgh is cultured, scholarly, historical and quiet. Glasgow is industrial, cosmopolitan, pulsating and full of business. They are as different as two cities could be. Sailors have told me that they found Glasgow the warmest city on the Seven Seas, as far as making you welcome was concerned. Personally I could see no difference along that line between the two. I was chilled physically and warmed spiritually by both of them. : We got off the train at Glasgow, checked our bags and took a walk. In sight of the station was a build.ing wrecked by a bomb—one of the very few in Glasgow. The only casualties were two people who started to walk downstairs in the dark after the blast; the stairs weren’t there.

Businessmen at “Work”

Glasgow has not had a blitz. They have expected one all along, for they have factories and great shipyards The people can’t understand why Hitler hasn’t tried to give it the works. Some say he is saving the shipyards for himself—after he seizes Ireland and swiiigs across the Irish Sea. Others say very knowingly that he is saving them for something else, but they are so knowing that I never know what they mean. We walked through a big park by the station, full of brick air-raid shelters exactly like the surface shelters in London. I went up to see what one was like inside, but its slatted door was solidly locked. My Scottish friend said, “That’s just in case there is a raid and somebody wants to get inside.”

By Ernie Pyle

We were already overdué at an appointment, but my friend said I would have to see how the businessmen of Glasgow work. So we went to a basement coffee house which wag nearly a block long, with deep rugs and walls solid with framed paintings. The whole place was packed, with men sitting two ‘and three at a table, their hats on, drinking coffee and talking. It was 11 o'clock in the morning. That's how business is done in Glasgow. It reminded me of Rio de Janeiro, where people go to work at 10 and knock off at 10:30 for a couple of hours of sidewalk coffee drinking. Glasgow is prosperous now. It needs to be. It had a tough time through the depression, a black, dismal, dangerously tough time.

He Meets Some Tough Guys Glasgow is on the River Clyde, and all over Britain you hear of the ‘Red Clyde.” They don’t mean red with blood, they raean red with communism. Glasgow is supposed to be the center of com-

munism in Britain. The Daily Worker had a Glasgow edition until it was suspended recently by the government. J] I'm not a muckraker nor a political investigator, so my delvings into the Clyde's redness have not been deep. But I have got the same story from the rich and the poor and the middle-income man alike, and that is that the Clyde is aot so red after all. . Not even a small fraction of 1 per cent of the workers are Communists. They are just tough guys who are agin things as a matter of habit. They are agin their bosses, [hey are agin their political leaders, and they would be agin Stalin or agin Hitler if one of those gentlemen happened to be their boss. But as far as the country is concerned, there is no question with the men of Glasgow about who is going to win this war--that’s Great Britain. These fellows up here in the shipyards, the dockworkers dowm in Liverpool, the coal miners in Wales, the Cockneys in their Lorcon slums, and farmers all over Britain—they are the guys who will have to have a new deal when the war is over. They are the guys the country must make some war aims for when the victory is won. The men of Glasgow drink big and talk hard. You see a shipyard worker go up to a bar in a Clydebank pub and he will say “A glass and a half.” You know what that means? It means a glass of beer and half a glass of whisky, the equivalent of two big slugs. He drinks the whisky, washes it down with the beer, and goes back io work. Anybody want to get tough around Clydebank?

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

SADLY, BUT HONESTLY, Indiana had to turn down an automotive honor the other day. The Automobile Old Timers, Inc., with headquarters in New York, had decided that the first auto driver’s license

in America was issued to Elwood Haynes, Kokomo, Ind, in 1893. The organization wrote to the State Bureau of Vehicles in the State House and asked how about it. In due time it received an answer from Leslie J. Barrow, supervisor of the drivers’ license division. Mr. Barrow told them that Indiana had no driver license law until 1929 and that in the 1929 files there was no record of a license having been issued to an Elwood Haynes. Now, the Old Timers says, it ap- : pears the first license to operate motor vehicles in the United States was issued by the New York Police Department to a Mr. Harold T. Birnie, New Rochelle, N. Y,, on Nov. 15, 1900. Well, Elwood was driving around this part of the State before then. He ought to have had some kind of «permit.

One Bulldog to Another

NOTES ON THE BUTLER RELAYS, to be held March 15 in the Fieldhouse: Yale wants to send a team, but also wants a fat traveling expense account, and those in charge are wondering whether the Elis

Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Many fine and intelligent people, expert in their knowledge of foreign affairs, are ifidorsing “Union Now” as the goal beyond

this war. ; Recently this plan has acquired a following which gives it strength comparable to that of the old “league to enforce peace” movement out of which Woodrow Wil“son took his idea for the League of Nations. This parallel has led to widespread supposition that “Union Now” is to form the framework for the next effort to bring order out of the international anarchy that has bred two World Wars within a generation. I do not find any such expectation in influential quarters here. Both on the American side and the British side, thinking seems to be proceeding along a much more direct path. Among those who will have most to do with the immediate shaping of relations between the United States and Great Britain, there does not appear to be too much faith in elaborate mechanical structures, such as the League of Nations or the “Union Now” plan. Such mechanics are seen as evolving much later, taking their shape out of conditions as yet unforeseeable.

The “Union Now’ Plan

I commit no one to what is said here, but I feel quite certain that the first stage, as it is being thought out in Washington, points toward the postwar world starting out under a de-facto alliance of sea and air power between the United States and Great Britain. This de-facto alliance is a reality now. The LendLease Bill will make it a move effective alliance—an unwritten companionate marriage, severable at any time by either party, pledged by good faith and bound essentially by common self-interest. % The “Union Now” movement, if not acceptable as a blueprint, is regarded in influential quarters here as performing a useful service in stimulating public thought. I have known Clarence Streit, author of the “Union Now” plan, for many years. From first-

‘My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—I have to begin my column today by figuratively putting on sackcloth and ashes, because the people who came to visit me last week from Williamstown, Pa., and not Williamport, Pa. I have maligned the fair name of Williamsport, which is thriving in every possible way, and the manager of the Williamsport Community Trade Association is quite rightly very much annoyed with me. I hereby make my bumble apologies. It is Williamstown which has difficulties to face. Perhaps WilJliamsport can give them help. And now for another mistake which seems to have brought a certain young movie actress, who came here for the birthday balls, a lot of unfavorable publicity. It appears that Lana Turner, on the night of Jan. 30 is said to have “poked Anna Sklepgvich in the ribs” in what is alleged to have been an

- _ unfriendly manner. I remember that particular meet-

ing and picture taking quite well. There were crowds all around us, the cameramen were telling us what to do every minute, and I am rather surprised that we did not actually knock each other down. I am quite sure that no one tried to get anyone else out of the : picture because what we were trying to do was to { get everyone into the picture and not have them - hidden BY Ane as gorgeous and “seen, which thr

body except me.

monumental cake to. lide. every-

are worth it. The relays clear only about $1000 for Butler as it is. . . i) Apparently green sawdust has won over red again this year. . . . A mile run probably will be the big event, with Greg Rice, Don Lash, Joe McCluskey, John Munski, Church Fenske and Walter Mehl stepping ¢ut against one another. . . . On paper, Indiana looks like the best in the university division. . . Each year they talk of adding some sort of city high schoo. relay run to the program, but each year the high! school principals back off.

Around the Town

‘A LARGE CLUSTER OF FEDERAL agents from practically all the “sectet” departments gathered yesterday at the Federal Building for a seminar on Fifth Column .activities. And they demonstrated their expertness at unobtrusiver.ess when press photographers tried to get their pictures. It was no dice; pictures of secret agents in the public prints hamper them at their work. . . . The painted sign on the Civic Theater spells it “Theater,” while a Neon sign at the same place spells it “Theatre.” “er” is official: The Neon sign is a gift. . .| The other day a woman in the House gallery dropped her purse and it landed in the press section, Speaker James Knapp rapped a gavel and gravely warned the woman: “You may never get that back again, lady.” . . . We learn from reliable sources that at Canip Shelby, the Hoosier doughboys are completely hepped on-—of all things—a neatness contest. Prizes are offered for the neatest outfit and, our informant tells us, you can see a soldier walk a block out of his way tc get around a stretch of muddy road that might spoil his shoe shine.

By Raymond Clapper

hand observation, he knows the history of the League of Nations as intimately as any man alive. He has thought for years about this problem of world anarchy. The ability and high-minded devdtion which he has brought to this task entitle him, it seems to me, to the respect with which he is heard. As I encounter it here, thinking is skeptical of elaborate machinery, especially that which would require an outright, formal surrender of national sovereignty. In view of the experience with the League of Nations, there is hesitancy about setting up as a starting poini a structure that at once tends to become rigid and institutionalized.

Something for the Future

There is doubt | that such an institution can be successfully manufactured. It must grow, as languages have grown and evolved in contrast to the diemal attempt.to invent a language like Esperanto. Mr. Streit leans upcn the radical invention of the Federal Constitution as| his precedent. But the Founding Fathers dé¢alt with a relatively fluid and virgin situation. We are dealing with the problem of grea nations, long established, and rooted like giant oaks. Churchill and Roosevelt are bringing the real union into existence now as a practical, going collaboration. If succsssful it can go on into the post-war task with tiie same practical realism, shaping itself out of the hard necessities that are welding the massive power of these two nations now. What would George Washington say? Who knows? He was a practical stailesman, a realist like Roosevelt and Churchill. Mr. Streit suggests an international government, a provisional Congress of 50 members, 27 to be elected by the Untied States, 11 by the United Kingdom, three each by Canada and Australia, two each by Eire, the Union of fouth Africa and New Zealand— or at least in those¢ ratios. While this provisional Congress would be carrying on the war, a convention would be called to draft a permanent constitution for the union. Such a proposition invites a maximum of controversy, requires tampering with the sacred concept of national sovereigiity, and would divert the reality— which is effective | American-British co-operation— into a black forest of wandering debate.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I am too tall fo le hidden, unless something stands over six feet. Miss Sklepovich was a nice child, who was invited when @& prankster had first sent her a false invitation to see the President. The movie stars who came on for the party did so to help the cause of infantile paralysis and I do not think they should receive unfavorable criticism. The response to this aniiual appeal is very heartening and it is really too crowded at every party for any of us to know whether We observe all the amenities. I had a most inleresting time yesterday at Hunter College. Some tine I want to go back to see that extraordinary 16-story | building which houses 7000 students. The girls were a delightful audience and charming hostesses. I particularly enjoyed my question period. A broadcast later for the British-Amer-ican Ambulance corps was very interesting. I hope that the sale of tlie new stamps de:#zned by Arthur Szyk, which were ‘presented to me, will meet with great success. © I am sorry thet I shall not be able to attend the performance of Claudia” on the evening of Feb. 26 in New York City. It is being given for the benefit of Pioneer Youth, Inc, an organization which does a great deal for underprivileged youngsters by establishing camps and carrying on clubs, Their work is not confined to New York City alone, but even helps the share-cropper children in Alabama, I flew down to Washington this morning and, since the wind was so high, we had

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By VICTOR FREE Indianapolis Times News Editor

ITLER’S diplomatic victory in the Balkans this week

~ again demonstrated his tional cunning.

master timing and interna-

The world was waiting, in dread expectancy, for the next German blow to fall. The Balkans were boiling. Nazi troops swarmed over Rumania. Bulgaria fell completely under the control of the Reich. Yugoslavia was knuck-

ling down. Then came the tipoff. Turkey weakened and accepted a non -aggression agreement with Bulgaria. It meant that Turkey would remain neutral if German troops moved across Bulgaria. The Nazi path to

Greece was clear. Greece, while consistently whipping the Italians thus this week found itself in the role of a victor faced with the possibility of suing for peace. Reafons for the Turkish defection are obscure but experts all profess to see a fine Russian hand pulling the strings along the Dardanelles. 2. 8

Spotlight on Far East

HILE the embers smoldered in the Balkans, each new fact and rumor added fuel to the fires in the Orient. Hitler, qualified observers predict, will attempt to strike at the British Empire simultaneously on all fronts, aided by some spectacular Japanese move toward Southeast Asia to divert the attention of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This week’s signs of portent: 1. Japan proclaimed a desire to act as “peacemaker” in Europe, at the same time its military might was concentrated in strategic areas. 2. Russia and Japan opened negotiations for a trade pact, hint ing at a later non-aggression agreement. 3. The official Japanese Domei News Agency made a sudden attack upon French Indo-China, charging a plot with the British, the Chinese and the Free French. 4. Russia took an unusual interest in the welfare of Thailand, now well within the orbit of Japan. 5. The United States renewed warnings to Americans to get out of the Orient; the State Department #4dmonished Japan that deeds, not words, count; the Army chief of staff was reported to have revealed in secret testimony that American dive bombers were being transferred to bring the Pacific fleet to wartime strength.

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Radio Corp. of America added more telephone operators to take care of the “Insult Adolf Hitler” trafficc. The German short-wave radio station invited Americans to message suggestions up to 25 words at German expense “And don’t spare us any. criticism.” One of the insults: “Please broadcast Hitler's funeral.”

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The Lend-Lease Debate

LOT OF LANGUAGE: American aid to Britain, pro and con, provoked the expected storm in the Senate during the week, although it was anti-climactic after

AUSSIE PILOTS SPEED TRAINING

Country Promises 26,000 By 1943; Weather Is Ideal for Courses.

By CARROLL BINDER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. MELBOURNE, Australia (By Clipper)—When the darkness of night, or the severity of winter prevents the training of air crews in Germany, the Birtish Isles, or Canada, thousands of young Australians are hard at work learning how to drop bombs on Berlin and strafe the Italian forces in the Mediterranean. The sun never sets on the training of British aviators, any more than it sets on the British Empire. Thanks to the exceptionally favorable weather, as well as to the limitless terrain, Australias constitutes an extraordinarily favorable training ground for aviators.

Offers All-Year Training

Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett, who is chief of the Royal Australian: Air Force, says Australia is the finest country in the world for all-year training. As Sir Charles was born in North Dakota and has served the Empire with distinction in many parts of the globe, his opinion is not without merit. Australians take to the air as readily as ducks to water. Sir Phillip Game, chief of -the Birtish Air Staff in the first World War, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond, who was the British air commander in the Near East, said that Australians and New Zealanders were the best airmen in the Em-

pire. Promise 26,000 Pilots In the last war Australia trained 158 pilots. I have visited a single training ‘school at which more than that number of young Australians are being trained for combat against the foes of the Empire, be -they Germans, Italians or Japanese. There are 21 schools scattered all over Australia’s vast spaces. Australia has agreed to provide the Empire with 26,000 pilots by March, 1943, but by present indications its contribution will be greatly in excess of that number. Australia’s problem is not the procuring of candidates for air training, but the provision of sufficient facilities for training to cope with the flood of volunteers. More than 150,000: young ‘Australians to the

the essential arguments had been aired in the House. Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator, invited a storm of criticism from foes of the lend-lease bill when he told the House Banking and Currency Committee: “We're in the war; at least we're nearly in the war; we're preparing for it; when you do that, you've got to throw money away.” The isolationist bloc labeled it the New Deal’s “true plan” for the United States. Mr. Jones had the remarks removed from the record. President Roosevelt contended it was merely a lot of words and a lot of .language. Typical Senate arguments on the aid bill were:

FOR

Bailey (D. N. C.): “I hope intervention does not mean war but If it does I am ready to go to war.” Connally (D. Tex.): “The democracies must all hang together or they shall hang separately.”

AGAINST

Nye (R. N. D.): “It’s just a guess, of course, but I believe that it will be less than 30 days after the passage of this bill before we encounter the incident which will leave no alternative but war.” Vandenberg (R. Mich): “It would make our White House the war capital of half the earth or more, and our President the No. 1 power politician of the world.”

The Defense Picture

IDELIGHTS ON DEFENSE: Winston Churchill, in his broadcast to the United States recently, said: “Give us the tools.” Henry Ford, who makes tools, suggested this week that the United States should give both England and the Axis tools to keep on fight-

ing until they both collapse. Added '

Mr. Ford: “There is no righteousness in either cause, Both are motivated by the same evil impulse, which is greed.” President Roosevelt declared that he was formulating a program that would give every man, woman and child an opportunity to do their bit. In Washington 30 Crusading Mothers kneeled and prayed on the cold pavement in front of the Capitol, asking defeat of the aid bill.

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Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, accused by Verne Marshall, chairman of the No Foreign War Committee, that he was to be made a censor over radio within a fortnight, remarked: “Mr. Marshall doesn’t need a censor—he needs a nurse.”

Science Vokes a Hand

CIENCE: Secret weapons, on either side, are always good for a headline. Harvey Klemmer, home after two years as American Embassy ‘attache in London, points out that Germany has never launched an attack without a new weapon or a new technique. His guess, horrible to contemplate, is an arsenical which filters through gas

HOLD EVERYTHING

This “sea of faces” is formed as Naval Reserves took the oath at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis following their arrival for three months’ training under the new officer training speedup program. The men will be commissioned as ensigns when they successfully complete the course. ;

masks and forms a lethal gas on contact with bodily moisture. . . . Thousands of inventions, some of them crackpot, many sound, have poured in on Washington since the defense effort gathered speed. Every one of them is checked for ideas— one idea might win a war. In this connection, Dr. James B. Conant, resident of Harvard University, eft this week for London to exange scientific information on he development of new war weapons. . .-. Additional weapon items of the week: The Chrysler Corp. reveals it is experimenting with a 12-cylinder, V-type liquid-cooled power plant. It may generate close to 2000 horsepower, shoot pursuit planes toward 500 miles an hour. The goal: Production in 1942. . .. Washington experts doubt London reports that Germany has an “invisible” bombing plane with transparent wings. Use of transparent plastic is possible, giving the plane surface a mirror-like finish and hard to see. ... A factory in Praha reported working on a German Army order for 1000 super gliders capable of carrying 50 soldiers each.

The Legislature

T was a comparatively quiet week in the Legislature—excepting the explosion touched off by the G. O. P. statement that it was considering seriously 'enactment of a 3 per cent sales tax. Battle lines formed in a hurry, with labor, farmers and Demo-

“All right, Otto—now tell the class or

'Y’ MEMBER DRIVE T0 CLOSE TONIGHT

The annual ¥Y. M. C. A. membership drive will close tonight with a “victory dinner” at the Y. M. C. A. building. Drive leaders hope that 100 new members be reported by campaign capt to bring the total to the goal of 745. Yesterday 97 new members were signed up, John Fuller, campaign chairman, announced. Tonight's speakers will include Fermor S. Cannon; president of the local Y. M. C. A; Neil Ireland, former South American missionary and now dormitory secretary of the “Y”, and Vernon Parker, former “Y” secretary in China and now:

tion here.

TRAIN KILLS WOMAN

MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 21 (U. P.).— Mrs. Alta Williams, 45, was killed yesterday when a freight train struck ‘the Sar un which she was

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Thieves Tear Up City's Streets

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 21 (U. P).~This is no 9 o'clock town, but somebody is rolling up the sidewalks and streets at night. W. C. Hill, Commissioner of Street Repairs, asked police to watch for the persons who have been stealing wooden blocks from some of the city’s older streets.

GETS 1-TO-5 YEARS IN STOLEN. .GOODS CASE

DELPHI, Ind, Feb. 21 (U, P.). ~—Herbert Cotner, 27, Kokomo, today ‘faced 1 to 5 years in the State Reformatory for receiving stolen

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He pleaded guilty in Carroll Circuit Court yesterday and was sentenced by Judge William Smith. He and a companion, Robert Marlott, 29, also of Kokomo, were arrested in connection with theft of grain from farmers in Cass, Car-

crats promising a finish fight. Governor Schricker vetoed five more Republican “ripper” bills which would take away his adminisirative and patronage powers, but signed about’ 30 other measures. Altholigh both sides maintained they were anxious to reach an ‘agreement in the governmental “jurisdictional” dispute, no apparent headway was made. Local option for control of liquor sales survived its first legislative test by two votes. Liquor control measures still were pending in both houses. A bill forhon-partisan election of judges was beaten in the House. The Senate approved a House measure raising the minimum pay for school teachers. A Congressional reapportion=ment proposal was giveen the House, abolishing the Eleventh District seat now held by Rep. William Larrabee. Several Marion County townships also would be taken from the present Twelfth District, represented by Rep. Louis Ludlow; which will become the new Eleventh. A bill to increase maximum oldage benefits from $30 to $40 was amended in the House to provide $40 minimum pensions, threatening to cost the State $17,000,000 annually. But that was only one of the House Ways and Means Committee’s problems. It still was wrestling with the problem of how to overcome an estimated $8,000,000 deficit in 1943, not including the loss of $4,000000 anually which would result’ from a cut in the

REVEAL PEANUT FOR MILK SWAP

Quakers Hope Swiss Didn’t Let Nazis Get the Nuts For Lubricant.

By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—How uncertain are the best-meant plans for ‘feeding Hitler's ‘victims without contributing to his strength was revealed a short while ago by the American Quakers.

Last year the Quakers, it seems, wished to send $50,000 worth of powdered milk to .the French children. The British at that time refused to allow American milk to pass the blockade; the Quakers looked around for a European source and found it in Switzerland. Could the Swiss supply $50,000 worth of powdered milk and send it to nearby France? The Swiss could. But, they" explained, food was rare enough in Switzerland. For the milk, they wanted the same amount of some other foodstuff from France. France was itself without food and could offer nothing. But the French colonies could, said the Swiss. And the French colonies did. In exchange for their powdered milk, the Swiss received from French Africa $50,000 worth of peanuts. A strange performance if you think of peanuts for direct consumption; Europeans are not particularly addicted to peanuts. A. little easier to explain perhaps, if you remember that peanut oil is a substitute for olive oil, though plenty of olive oil is produced: in nearby France and Italy, but very easy to understand if you remember that peanut oil is a high quality lubricant and that a large country to the north of Switzerland is constantly short of high quality lubricants, finds great difficulty in importing them, and is willing to pay almost any price asked. The American Quakers are hoping, however, that the Swiss did not sell to the Germans the peanut oil they got in exchange for the powdered milk sent to the French chil-

dollars.

FALL INJURIES FATAL

LOGANSPORT, Ind. Feb. 21 (U. P.)~—Bayard Dailey, 81, retired

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Gross Income Tax for retailers, now near enactment. Republicans said the sales tax is the answer, but minority meme bers dropped other new tax pro= posals into the hopper. One would ° give the State control of the wholesale liquor business, and another would tax soft drinks cone taining caffeine.

#2 8 #0 Locally Speaking— OCAL DEFENSE ITEMS: * The Indiana Senate passed & bill to create two defense councils and to appropriate $200,000 to be spent in aiding co unities where defense projects aré located. The U. S. Chemical Warfare Serve ice leased the old Fairbanks-Morse Co. plant as a warehouse for chemical warfare materials, gas

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So They Say—

UOTATIONS of the week: B. J. Brown, state manager of the Townsend clubs when 2000 pension« ers deposited petitions bearing 425, 000 names in the laps of the Legis lature: “We want more than 10 cents for breakfast, 20 cents for dinner, 20 cents for supper and less than 8 cents a day for clothing and medicine.” » ” o

Postscript: Mayor Reginald Sullle van, skeptical of reports that St. Louis has licked the smoke nuisance and inhaling deeply the clear and fresh air of & smogless Indianape olis day: “Ahhhh.”

2 Officers Begin : 41st Active Year

Two Indianapolis policemen who who started on the force astride bicycles in “the good old days,” today began their 41st years. : They are Hanford Burk, 309 S. Ritter Ave. and Charles P. Goll mich, 1545 8. Olive St. They and 13 other men joined the force the same day. Of the 15, all except Mr. Gollmich and Mr. Burk are either retired or dead. Only one man died while on active duty. He was shot and killed in an Indiana Ave. investie gation. Mr. Gollmich, now stationed at City Hospital, had his “closest call” when a burglar fired three shots at him point blank. The first bullet passed through his coat, the second struck him in the head and the third passed come pletely through his chest. ; However, “I never felt better in my life than I do today,” he said,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Which two letters are in the middle of the alphabet? 2—What is the name for a female peafowl? 3—How many years of marriage are celebrated with a Silver Annie versary? 4—How many feet are in one meter? 5—If a hen-and-a-half can lay an egg-and-a-half in a day-and-ae-half, how many eggs can 10 hens lay in 10 days? 6—What is the English word for couturiere? ; T7—Is heart disease or cancer the leading cause of death? 8—Who wrote “The Brothers Karamazov?”

Answers

1—M and N. 2—Peahen. ‘3—Twenty-five. 4—3

.28. -5—One hundred, 6—Dressmaker. T—Heart disease. 8—Feodor Dostoyevsky.

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