Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1941 — Page 7

MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1941

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

DEAL, England (hy wireless) —All day long I rode around southeastern England, skirting the coast from the mouth of the Thames to Dover. And somehow I got an impression that the Germans wouldn't be very welcome in these parts. I never hope to see again ' in my lifetime so much barbed wire and so many highway obstructions and roadside blockhouses as I saw in this one day. Right at the moment the military arm is sick of visitors, so I couldn't get a pass to see all the heavy stuff and the hidden stuff and the trick stuff that Britain has evolved to foil the encroaching villain. But just driving around, almost like a tourist, you are constantly in such a maze of soldiers, camouflaged trucks, halfhidden guns, trenches, pillboxes, lookout towers, blocked roads and endlessly stretching barbed wire that when you finally leave it you begin to feel sort of lonesome and unsafe. The censorship doesn't permit a description of camouflage, but I saw camouflaged things that would make you split with laughing if it weren't so deadly serious. Many farmhouses stand empty, for they will be right in the line of battle if battle comes. Sheep graze in the fields while soldiers occupy the sheep sheds. A farmer's simple thatched home may be a general's headquarters. Every roadside wood doesn't cover a gun, but you don't know which one does and which one doesn’t.

Closed to the Public

The public is barred from this whole area covering the Channel coast and extending for many miles inland. Those who live in the area can move about freely, but nobody can come in from outside without a special pass. Fach town along the coast is so heavily defended in front that it seems to me impossible for the Germans to make a landing in force directly by water. So the next assumption is that they would land men and tanks and guns inland, by air, and they try to

By Ernie Pyle

push back and capture a port to establish a bridgehead for waterborne troops.

Consequently the cities are as well defended We

hind as in front. For miles, in a great semicircle behind each city, the fortifications are complex. Roads and fields and fencerows are entangled and blocked. Behind them are hundreds of gun posts in natural craters. Everywhere in the whole area are soldiers. They stand guard at nearly every side road, and at most! of the side streets in the towns and villages. You can see them running, drilling and practicing out in| the fields. You meet them in long lines marching down the road, in full kit. Maybe they don't look | exactly like men from Mars, but they certainly don't resemble Englishmen. Although the whole country is already solid with] obstruction and defense, still men are working con-| stantly on more and more of the same. If they put much more concrete down here I think the whole end! of this island will sink into the sea.

Business as Usual—Almost

Oddly enough, the towns in this area don't seem | like ghost towns at all. Only about a third of the] people have been evacuated, and new soldiers coming in more than make up for this decrease in popula-| tion. | In Dover, Ramsgate and Deal the streets are filled | with people. The pubs and picture shows operate as| usual. The shops are well stocked. Nobody seems to | be going around casting haunted looks over his] shoulder. . It is next summer that the difference will be really| apparent. For this is the Atlantic City and Coney Island section of England, where half a million Londoners come on a holiday to stroll and bathe and lounge. They won't come next summer. | For one thing, most of the big hotels are evacuated. For another, the great beaches and promenade decks up on the cliffsides are now all tangled with barbed wire and concrete blocks, And the sands where massed | thousands used to lie and relax are now bare and, blocked off { All this is reason enough for the crowds not com-| Ing next summer. But the best reason is—the gov-! ernment won't let anybody in. Not even the Germans.

6YEAR WORKS PLAN FAVORED BY ROOSEVELT

Post-Defense Stabilization Aid Urged in Report of Resources Board.

WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P). —President Roosevelt today transmitted to Congress a National Resources Planning Board report recommending a six-year public works program to aid post-defense stabilization and national development planning. In an accompanying message Mr. Roosevelt said that ‘national de-| fense is more than a mobilization of a nation’s armed strength.” He said it required a long-range planning for the post-defense period and the national welfare. “Equally must we focus public thought on the ideals and objectives of our nationl life,” he said. “We must seek wider understanding of the possibilities for that future we prepare to defend.”

Preparing for Future

The Board's report, which includes projects recommended in the 1942 budget and a number which it | recommends for construction in fol- | lowing vears, represented what Mr. Roosevelt described as a “policy of

intelligent planning for the future.” The program recommended by the Board, he said, would make avail-

BOBBITT LAUDED

Daughter of Erin

LIBRARY RAZED BY 2 A. M. FIRE IN LOGANSPORT

5 Firemen Have Narrow Escape as Roof Falls; Books Saved.

LOGANSPORT, Ind, March 17 (U, P.).—Logansport’s Carnegie library, a three-story stone structure erected in 1903, was destroyed by fire early today.

POLICE RAID 2 HOMES, HALT | BINGO GAMES

Reporter Held

; No Arrests Made: Officers | Seek to Discourage Revival Here.

Squads broke up games at a home | in zero weather, narrowly escaped

lin the 1800 block on Wilcox St., sat- | Goat when the building's roof caved

|urday night, and at a home In the| Richard C. Hottelet, member of ; : n 1600 block on E. North St., last night. | he Uni . . The blaze was discovered at 2 a. the United Press staff in Berlin, |m. by Elige Grace, a taxicab driver,

Jo arrests were made at either : | y NS ned o players were Was arrested by the Gestapo on |and volunteer workers immediately Tr $ ip carried almost half the 79,000 vol-

. y Yaidi ads| What the German official news asked to Je wg aptly hid “ icion of |umes in the library to safety, inwhich entered without wa S. ge! \ as suspicion cluding the bound volumes of the Chief Declines Comment espionage for an enemy power. | local newspapers. saint, but it's also her birthday i : President Roosevelt instructed Defective wiring was blamed for Je 2 ] 'ris- V Mrs. Johnston, who lives at 411 | Police Chief Michael F. MOWIS-| of 0 Department to make a |the fire since the heating plant is E. 15th St. and is employed at |sey declined to comment specifically tote. a bia bs in a separate building. : %% k : { full investigation, the Eli Lilly & Co. was born at !on the raids, but warned that “bingo —— When firemen were relieved, it Belfast, Ireland, on St. Patrick's lon the face of it is a law violation. was necessary to chop their heavy

Day, 22 years ago. She was : 1} |raincoats off their bodies, so intense “a5 He said he believed the games | was the cold, iss Alice Stephens, librarian for

brought to this country when she | 30 years, re-opened the library with

Mrs. Hannah Johnston

St. Patrick's day has a double meaning for Mrs. Hannah Steel Johnston, one of Indianapolis’ “most Irish” daughters of Erin. It’s not only the day to honor the memory of Ireland's patron

was 4, and has never heen back |might indicate a revival of bingo the rescued books in a building two correspondence with relatives 4 Asked if arrests would be made in | { the future where bingo is played in| did not indicate whether police action in discouraging bingo by sim- Own Expenses, Says ELWOOD, Ind. March 17 (U. P.). : —Damage from a fire which deCol. Hitchcock.

to Ireland, but still keeps up her |which, he said, has been on the blocks from the razed structure. | | » : $150,000 Damage in private homes, the Chief said he] $ ’ g y eaking up the games would : PY ofesmme Sp ? stroyed part of Elwood’'s downtown

interest in the old country through wane for several months. 8 " . hoped “we don't have to do it. He [n Most Cases They Il Meet Elwood Blaze continue. district was estimated today at

BY REP. MARTIN

Letter Seen as Boost to

{able 2 number of projects “without {in any way committing the Govern- | ment to the immediate construction of such works.”

A squad under Sergt. Otis Baker | | entered the Wilcox St. home, and! ordered about 50 persons to leave. signed to work of national imThe hostess said the players were portance under civilian direction

Conscientious draft objectors as- | $150,000 Firemen from Elwood, Anderson,

Tipton, Noblesville and Alexandria

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”

THE BUTLER RELAYS went off Saturday night with only one little hitch. Ray C. Fox didn't compete. That amiable and well-known gentleman is the father of the Relays Queen and quite a trackman himself, back in his Manual days. Well, no sooner was Joan Fox chosen queen of the relays than the agile mind of Paul Hinkle started turning over the problem of Ray Fox. Out of it came one of the unique presentations of the year—a grandiloquent and imposing scroll signed by a score of the town's dignitaries—Hizzoner, the Mayor, Herman Wolff (non-partisan, too, you see), Mike Duffecy, Stan Feezle, Wallace O. Lee, Wally Middlesworth, etc., ete. The scroll summoned Ray into action as a 440 competitor and he was formally presented with a track suit, spiked shoes and all the rest Command performance, no less. The only reason Ray didn't compete was that Tony Hinkle made an awful mistake, Ray Fox never ran the 440, Tony. He was a grand 220-man.

Heavenly Days!

THE MAIL BAG includes a letter from “Four Cathedral Seniors” who want their case put before the world. They say that at St. Agnes Academy next Wednesday ‘they are putting on an Angel Tableau.” “The leading angel,” says the letter, “is a blond

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 17.—None of us can take it in but we face, I believe, the most sweeping changes during the next few months, because we are going into an intensive state of war production that will

reach into every corner of our daily lives. On the economic side, it will be as if we were actually fighting in the war. Sacrifices, large and small, will be required. What you are paying in income tax this year is only a token of what you are likely to pay next year. The next thing in order is that the American people grasp the fact that everything is changing swiftly now. Everyone might as well prepare for the readjustments that are inevitable. This Administration, I believe, is determined that Germany shall not win. That is virtually a war aim in an undeclared war, or a noncombatant war. The entire American economy is being pledged, so to speak, to the purpose of German defeat. I don’t believe there will be any turning back or tapering off now. From here on we will do more and more on a scale larger and larger.

Conserving Aluminum

The signs are all around us. Aluminum-utensil manufacturers have just been notified that they are “out of business.” When they use up their present stocks, they will get no more. They use only 10 per cent of the normal output of aluminum, but this metal is so desperately needed for planes now that the kitchen stove will have to get along with some other kind of pot. That's a small item but it reveals most significantly the way things are going. Refrigerator men, radio manufacturers, automobile manufacturers, will have to get along without aluminum. Because of the shipping shortage, imports of tea and spices and other nonessentials will be reduced or stopped. Every ton of shipping is being drafted for war needs. I say war needs because that is what it amounts to. We are not fighting and may never be

My Day

MIAMI, Fla, Sunday.—We are leaving Miami today on our way back to Washington. I am anxious to have a few hours in Charleston, S. C., to go with my friend, Mrs. George Huntington, to see some of the gardens there. I have never been able to be in South Carolina when the gardens are in bloom, so I hope I shall be fortunate to find them at their best today. In the meantime, I want to tell vou about the visit of Countess Alexandra Tolstoy. You will remember I told you she came to see me at my apartment in New York City. She is no longer very young, but she climbed my three flights of stairs with less puffing than most of us. Her interest in her mission was so great, that I think she scarcely gave a thought to her own exertions. She wanted me to know about the Tolstoy Foundations. Its aims are: 1. To preserve and advance the finest traditions of Russian science, art and religion. 2. To assist the Russians living in countries outside of the U. S. S. R., by providing material aid for their support, medical care and other needs.

that would be worth a trip East by a Hollywood talent scout to say nothing of brunet, and titian angels, galore.” The Cathedral gentlemen beseech our aid “so we might be allowed to see it.” { After us, boys, you come first.

Top o’ the Morning to Ye!

GOVERNOR SCHRICKER, speaking at the break- | fast of the Hibernians at the Claypool yesterday. said that he met Judge Henry O. Goett as he was entering the Riley room. “Good morning, Judge Goett,” said the Governor. “Sure, an’ it's not Judge Goett this morning. I'll be havin’ you know it's O'Goett.” | “Faith, an’ you've got nothing on me.” said the Governor, “It's O'Henry I am this mornin’!”

Funds for Traffic Safety

THOSE PERSONS WHO say that any effective safety campaign needs funds are encouraged by the provisions of H. B. 292, passed by the Legislature.! This is the bill for re-distribution of funds so that Indianapolis will get more money. As it was explained to us, the bill wil] give Indian-| apolis just about $300,000 more every year. About $65,000 of that sum must go for the maintenance of state and national highways running through the city. . | The rest of the money can be used for anything connected with traffic control and some effort may be made, we hear, by members of the Mayor's Ad-| visory Committee on Traffic Safety to get a promise that additional money will be spent in this line.

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By Raymond Clapper

fighting but we are as much a part of the service of | supply for the war against Germany as if our plants! were situated in Manchester or Birmingham.

penditures of $12,500,000,000 will jump to 30 billion]

dollars during the remainder of this year. The whole | conference, a resolution was adopted mounting program is being multiplied and new commitments honoring the memory of Val Nolan, land taxation, it is no small achieveare being made now on “letters of intent” without | former District Attorney here who|ment to reduce expenditures and

waiting for Government contracts to go through the formalities. William S. Knudsen says that several] million more workers will be needed by the end of} the year. The Federal Security Agency has begun al national campaign for registration of skilled workers so that they can be brought quickly into waiting jobs. During the last year 1,870,000 new jobs were created and we have but begun.

Price Controls Necessary

Bernard M. Baruch, who has become one of the Presidential advisers on defense management, says in the current Harvard Business Review that the requirements of an all-out rearmament effort are large enough to tax some industries beyond their limit. “The unfolding of the full-fledged program,” he says, “appears now to be rapidly extending this condition to the whole industrial structure.” In his judgment, and Mr. Baruch has been strongly urging Mr. Roosevelt to take action, we must go fully into priorities covering not only plant facilities but raw materials, fuel and electric energy, transportation and access to capital markets. As the ravenous appetite of the armament program continues, nonessential industries will be hit harder and harder. The favored procedure is to skeletonize such nonessential industries rather than to destroy them completely. | Strict curtailment will be inescapable for many of} them if the war continues long. Price control must accompany such a policy. It is not fantastic to| imagine the rationing of certain kinds of consumers’ | goods before we get through. Price rises are already | on the way, wage demands are forcing up costs, and | unless action is taken soon we will be out on a spiral of inflation that will be difficult to check. No matter how reluctant the Administration is to move in these directions, it is likely to be driven to do so. You can't turn loose in our economy a new industry running into many billions of dollars, without disrupting normal traffic right and left.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

3. To co-ordinate, as far as possible, the activities serving these same purposes. There are Russian refugees here and in many countries in Europe. Their situation in France, where there are about 150.000 of them, is very difficult, for they are opposed to both communism and naziism. These Russian refugees come from so many different backgrounds that it is hard in some cases to decide just to what groups they do belong. On the whole, whether they were once of the nobility, of the intellectual world, or political liberals of their particular time, today has really become an academic question. They are human beings in great need and Countess Tolstoy said the Tolstoy Foundation not only wanted to continue to send all possible aid to those abroad, but also wanted to establish a Russian center in this country. They hope to buy a farm where old people can stay indefinitely and where new arrivals can be temporarily housed. She, herself, has lived on a farm in this country and made it pay, a record of which few of us can boast. I do not know of any more practical plan to meet the situation than she described. The officers and directors of the foundation seem to give promise of good, sound advice. Countess Tolstoy, by her own enthusiasm and devotion, inspires rou with a desire to be helpful to this group of harassed human beings.

The Board proposed establishment of a revolving fund to be administered by the President for the immediate inauguration of surveys, investigations and preparation of en-| gineering plans and specifications. {7

No Special Projects Listed

Those costs would be charged as|y construction costs and returned to] the revolving fund when funds for) the project are provided. {

the 1942 fiscal vear at $3.664,468,000, of which the Federal Government |p will provide $3,157,768,000 Projects proposed for construction |g

after 1942, the Board said, amount|pe acted $2,346,013,000— | N

to approximately water use and control, $1,679.070,000, public land development, $211,611,000; transportation, $151,528,000; | government plant, $303,804,000 No specific projects were listed.

FEDERAL GRAND JURY TAKES UP ITS WORK

The Federal Grand Jury convened today to take up a number of routine cases. District Attorney Howard Caughran said the jury probably would report Friday. He also announced the appointment of Mrs. Aline Campbell, 5630 Campbell Ave, as a |; stenographer in his office. Mrs. t Campbell, who began work today, replaces Mrs. Marie L. Curry, who |, resigned several weeks ago. [a Mr. Caughran returned home over j the week-end from Washington e

: | where he attended the annual con- gq One defense official says that present military ex-|ference of district attorneys with government to the people

Atty. Gen. Robert Jackson. At the|

died in office last October 1i

After Long Hunt

FORT WAYNE, Ind., March 17 (U. P.) —Betty Morse Hopper, 21, today had bridged a gap of nearly a lifetime and found her father, Elmer C. Miller, 55, from whom she was separated when she was only two months old. Miss Hopper was adopted by a family here shortly after her mother died. Several years ago she tried unsuccessfully to find her father. Yesterday, she went to Lima, O, listed all the Millers in the city and county directories, and located her father at the second address she called.

VOTE SET TOMORROW

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RICHMOND, Ind. March 17 (U. : P.).—Members of the local Farm Equipment Workers Organizing Committee (C. I. O.) will vote tomorrow on proposals to end the strike at the Richmond works of the International Harvester Co. More than 1200 workers have remained idle since the strike was] calleq Feb, 17. Terms of the settlement which | were agreed upon at a conference | of company and union officials | yesterday were not disclosed. Arthur H. Pierson, state conciliator who handled negotiations, said that definite progress toward settlement had been made at the meeting.

50 HOOSIERS ENTER ARMY AT FORT HERE

Fifty men from 14 counties, including 26 from Marion County, were to be inducted into the Army at Ft. Harrison today. These selectees will replace men who were rejected on previous calls or will make up for past shortages in deliveries. Today, the State Selective Service headquarters said, is the first “breathing spell” in deliveries under the fourth call which started March 10 and has been taking about 150 men per day into the Army. Deliveries under the fourth call wiil end Wednesday, after the total 1200 selectees have been inducted. The fifth call for 743 will begin

{plan to make Arch N. Bobbitt exec- |

National boost, The Board estimated the cost of | here believe, in a recent letter sent

new construction built or financed. the Indiana Republican State Chair- s by the Federal Government during man by Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr.! ers left the house,

held here next Monday

Republican headquarters here today, Chairman | { Martin praised 'humanitarianism”

| diana and attributed it to the State | party leadership.

analysis, is said to have been largely | provided by Mr. Bobbitt follows:

you and the Republican members Origin of the Indiana General Assembly on |

Yet this {controlled Indiana Legislature

Girl Finds Father |complished.

lennial budget by $5,500,000 and a just after the war started and made | tary service. cut of some $8,600,000 in taxes for|her way bac — that period.

fety in January, 1940. . A ———— | obstacles the members of our party The Bremen sailed from New| Driver of Cab lin the Legislature enacted into law|york Aug. 30, 1939, after a 40-hour WRONG VIEW GIVEN, ian measures which will inure to the [search for

benefit of every citizen in Indiana i.cteq angrily.

what can be accomplished by an! goun the Norwegian Coast to a enlightened, forward-looking Party| german port the British asserted |

and file.

your associates for Indiana is point-

P.).—The British freighter Pacific | said, Mr. Bickford did not torpedo Star arrived from Liverpool today|the Bremen but left it afloat bes

IN RICHMOND STRIKE and was reported to be damaged.| cause he had not fired a warning {its master, Capt. George Duff, sald | shot at it. It was asserted he could

friends and guests and character- | Will receive no Government pay and battled the flames for two hours

ze s “perfectly .lin most cases will pay their own [Saturday night. oor IR me 5s "perky Wp | way in camps, Lieut. Col. Robinson | The fire broke out in the Perkins« | Hitchcock, state selective service Rhodes furniture store at the busi- | 37 Players in House | director, said today {est downtown corner, as crowds of Last night's raid was made The camps, two of which are | Saturday night shoppers paraded a squad under Sergt. John J. Sul- | about completed in Indiana, are the streets. Several adjoining build« for the most part abandoned CCC |ing were damaged by smoke and | livan, The host told police that hrgjects that have been leased to| water. | the 37 players present were mem- churches and other groups whose| Fire Capt. George Coodwin was bers of the Social Membership members oppose military service. |overcome by smoke and Fireman Club, but police said 13 The Indiana camps are located at|John Brown was knocked uncon- . , Merom and Lagro and a third may scious in a fall from a ladder. membership cards. When the play=-| pe established near Richmond, Block in Princton

the squad de-| The religious groups have ac‘Threatened by Fire

R. Mass.), national G. O. P. chair-| parted with the warning the games cepted full responsibility for main- | Government standards in regard to | PRINCETON, Ind., March 17 (U,

aan. | must stop. | taining the camps and must meet 01h 1 ational, chomanshiy | Athough the rad at the Wieox SRN hours of work an other ne, : , y St. residence was made on com-| details. Lieut. Col. Hitchcock said,|P.).—All the fire-fighting equipupon at the Republican| plaint, according to Capt. Roy Pope, i | ment in Princeton was brought into ational Committee meeting to be| ast night's police visit was made | Will Pay $35 a Month | action this morning as flames swept : | after police allegedly heard bingo! Financially able objectors will through the Reinhart Building and In a letter made public by the| ,ympers being called as they pay $35 a month while working in| threatened an entire block, National Committee | nasseq the house. camps. It is expected that those| The source of the fire, which : County Prosecutor Sherwood Blue | who are not able to pay probably | started at approximately 3:45 the “thrift and) gajq his office would take no ac-| will be supported by their churches | a. m., was not known, although it of the Repub- | tion until police make arrests. He | or by private donations. | was generally believed to have ican-controlled Legislature in In-| declined to comment on the raids.| A state poll has revealed 149 | been caused by an explosion in the es | registrants listed as conscientious | rear of a tavern in the building.

Plan to Make Him National Aid.

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prognosticators lacked

Provided by Bobbitt

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The full text of the Martin ili

“Please permit me to congratulate |

he very fine and inspiring record of | he session just ended. “Republicans everywhere justifi-| bly may take pride in the progress] chieved by the party in Indiana n paving the way for a return of | conomy and efficiency in the affairs f the State and a restoration of

these days of governmental

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| objectors who have been classified| The extent of damage to the lin Class IV-E | building has not vet been ascer- | Forms for registrants classified in | tained. No casualties were relast) [Class IV-E have been received by | ported. Indiana local boards and will be . filled out to be forwarded to 3 Goats Die in | Washington where final assignment | . [of objectors to camps will be de- Plymouth Farm Fire a | cided. ; Two Classes Set Up PLYMOUTH, Ind. March 17 (U, of Fire Aboard : P.).—A nanny goat and three kids | Two classes of conscientious ob- | escaped from a fire on the Rolland i jectors have been set up by selec- | Cook farm last night bi 20-Million-Dollar Vessel tive service regulations, Lieut. Col. other kids were Eon wy ike : Hitchcock said. They are: | The blaze broke out duri " ) { € b ng the Is Berlin Secret. . Class Sn This is Sompased of | height of a zero windstorm in an . n ... | men opposed to combatant service | abandoned school bus body. PlymBERLIN, March 17 (U. P).—Fire put who are wililng to accept non- | outh firemen extinguished the of undisclosed origin broke out yes-| combatant service. They will be | flames. terday in Germany's 51,731-ton,| inducted into the Army along with | 2 ib as Vs ( the regular Class 1-A men but they | 1H hsv tion-dollar super-liner Bremen | wi) pe assigned to military units | ree Cities Help Canine and was still burning today it was| where they will not be required to B spending attle Fl officially announced. The fire Was) beat ge Os RU ames escribed as of “considerable mag-| ass IV-E: jectors who have JSSIAVILLE, Ind, March 17 ghten the load of the | ges Tye . 5 |conscinetious scruples against any| (U P).—Firemen from three is what the Republican- | P1L0de. A a [form of military service but who are neighboring towns—Frankfort, TipJ ac.| Tt Was not disclosed where the| gpiect to work of national im- [ton and Kempton — helped ex=[Po was now lying. | portance. Conservation camps Be) npuin a fire Saturday night which = Ya i The Bremen escaped capture by|NOW being set up to provide suit-| damaged the Odd Fellows Hall and A Fine Demonstration lhe British § d ly i york | 20e work for Class IV-E men so | the Chew grocery. “But this Tecord does not yestl '7t Driush in a run {they can contribute their share to| The entire business district was lone on the reduction of the bi-|to Russia's Arctic port of Murmansk | the defense program without mili- | threatened. A rain helped the firemen bring the blaze under control.

k to German waters in |

In the face of great sa

program of social and humanitar-| delay occasioned by a United States arms. Germans pro-

Returns Pearls

WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P).—Pearls of unestimated value were returned to Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, yesterday by a cab driver who believed a brief case left in his cab contained “‘importance papers.” The driver, 22-year-old Jack M White, drove Mrs. Patterson's maid to Union Station and headed back uptown after a porter had removed the luggage. Later he noticed the case on the back seat. He returned to the station and found Mrs. Patterson's maid “much exicted.” He was told that the “package” contained gems that had “more sentimental than actual value’ to Mrs. Patterson. “I hadn't opened the brief case.” Mr. White said. “I probably would have fainted had I known what was in it.”

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MORGENTHAU SAYS

WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P.).—Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau Jr. today wrote Chairman Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) of the House Treasury Appropriation Subcommit« tee that published testimony showe ing him to favor deficit financing for two-thirds of the Government spending was “incorrect” and created an "unfortunate impression.” Testifying before Mr. Ludlow’s Committee on Dec. 17, Mr. Mor=genthau said, in effect, that mounting Government costs would probably have to be financed one-third from revenues and two-thirds from borrowing. In his letter to Mr. Ludlow, he pointed out that on Feb. 12 he expanded his views before a Senate finance subcommittee, saying: “If the Congress would adopt a program under which we could raise through revenues an amount sufficient to finance two-thirds of all expenditures, and one-third from borrowing, I think it would be a very wholesome method to follow.” The House committee record, Mr, Morgenthau said in his letter, gave the wrong impression of his views on Government financing.

“It is a fine demonstration of When the Bremen made her way

eadership and a determined rank that the British submarine Salmon, | commanded by Lieut. Com. E. O. SE Bickford, sighted the Bremen, : | ordered it to halt and had trained ng the way for the remainder of og on it when German planes aphe nation. | peared and compelled him to sub- : merge. BETIISH YREFGHTER IN BO aie of a scrupulous regard RIO DE JANEIRO, March 17 (U.| for the rules of warfare, the British

“Again I congratulate you

he ship came in for supplies. have put six torpedoes in it easily..

HOLD EVERYTHING

GOLF STARS RAISE $7000 FOR WAR AID

| NASSAU, Bahamas, March 17 (U. P.) —The double attraction of the {Duke and Duchess of Windsor and (four of professional golf's greatest |players has returned an approxi{mate total of $7000 for the benefit

{of me Bshamas Red Cross. & vas ATTUCKS® GIRL WINS ORATORY CONTEST

| Veterans Tommy Armour and 1 Bobby Jones turned back two other greats, Gene Sarazen and Walter| Mary Louise Owens of Crispus Hagen yesterday to win a 36-hole| Attucks High School won the Prince benefit match, sponsored by the |of Peace declamation contest sponse [Duke of Windsor, 3 and 2. sored yesterday by the Church FedEE eration at the Second Presbyterian Church.

Miss Owens represented the First

BACK RAILWAY POST |“: represented he ¥ CHIEF IN DISTRICT [soci She was awarded a gold

meda! and a vear’s scholarship to | Frank L. Mumford has been one of five Indiana colleges. | recommended as 12th District com-| Second place went to John Kirk- | mander of the American Legion for hoff of Shortridge High School, who 1942 by the Big Four Railway Post received a semester's scholarship. 116. He represented the First Friends Mr. Mumford is adjutant of the Church. 12th District and is a member of| A vacation at a young people's

on Friday and will end March 29. Preparations are already being made for the sixth call, for more pan 6000 men during April.

the Executive Committee and past camp went to Norma Jackson of . commander of the Big Four Post.| Washington High for third place. “No, gentle lady, not a bum—just a wayfarer seeking the, bluebird of | He is passenger representative, of|She is from the Tabernacle Baptist happiness along life’s highway!” the New York Central System, Church. \