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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1941

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The appointment of Dr. Clarke! Rogers, former member of the | Health Board, the Police and] Firemen's Merit Commission was | announced today by Mavor Regi-| nald H. Sullivan Dr. Clarke succeeds Dr. Dudley Pfaff. who resigned for military Service, as physician member of the | Commission, Dr. Clarke's appointment com- | pletes the personnel of the three- | man board. Dr. Max Bahr, Central | § State Hospital superintendent, was] named psychiatrist member two! weeks ago, succeeding Dr. Murray DeArmond, who also resigned for military service. The remaining

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PERKINS DENIES HOOVER Cl CHARGE

Oaths in Hearing on Bridges Case.

WASHINGTON,

—Labor Secretary Frances Perkins

J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal | Bureau of Investigation that James {M. Landis did not have authority {to administer oaths lo witnesses in a 1939 deportation hearing

i against Harry Bridges, West Coast

lc. I. O. leader. Miss Perkins, a witness yesterday at the defense labor investigation of the House Military Affairs | Committee, was asked by Repre-! sentative Paul J. Kilday (D. Tex.) to explain Mr. Hoover's remarks Mr. Hoover testified before the House Appropriations Committee that certain witnesses In Bridges case testified falsely that he recommended they prosecuted for perjury. It was found, however, that they could not be so prosecuted because Landis’ appointment was so made that he could not administer oaths, Mr "Hoover said

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Disagrees With Hoover “He had the power to as#viinister eo Oaths,” Miss Perkins said, “and was| |so appointed, I stand on that.” Dr. Landis, dean of Harvard University Law School and former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, conducted the Bridges! hearings on the West Coast, “You disagree with the Justice | Department?” asked Rep. Kilday. “Yes, I certainly do,” Miss Perkins replied. She added

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JEWISH GROUPS PLAN SERVICES

Eight-Day Observance of

Passover Starts at Sundown Tomorrow.

Indianapolis Jewish congregations |

will begin the eight-day observance of Passover, the Feast of Freedom, at sundown tomorrow. Services will be held tomorrow |

morning. {holiday land next Friday with morning and | evening services.

Classical Chat

night, Saturday morning and eve-| [ning and Sunday week will close Thursday |

The |

Passover commemorates the flight |

of Jewish people from Egypt in ancient times. It was the beginning {of the 40-year trek across the desert | {to

| Palestine,

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The Easter rabbit took time off from his busy preparations for Sunday's traditional activities to visit Riley Hospital today for the annual Easter party for crippled children. The rabbit, who has been making his headquarters al the Hook drug | Stores, ° visited the bedsides of the tie shut-ins and distributed gifts,

oe Oil—The Truants' Choice |

T ARENIUM, Pa. April 10 (U, P) as a choice as een castor - or eT after class for five Tarentum High School students who played hookey last | week. They chose the castor oil. Principal Herschel Williamson administered the treatment personally. He said the action was “voluntary” on the part of the students. A group of girl truants unteered to take the Mr. Williamson said. got their wish.

OFFERS 5 POINTS T0 EASE STRIKES

Rep. Shafer er Would Require Cool-0ff Period, Ban Retroactive Pay.

WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.). —Rep. Paul W. Shafer (R. Mich), a member of the House Military

Affairs Committee investigating defense labor problems, advocated five-point emergency legislative pro- | [gram today to deal with labor dis[putes that tie up defense producton. His program follows: 1. Require union leaders to sign] | det ense contracts “guaranteeing | the manufacturer that labor will do] its utmost to carry out his contract.” 2. Require a 30-day “cooling off |period” before strikes can begin. 3. Outlaw labor-management agreements resulting from strikes) that have stopped defense produc- | tion. | 4. Prohibit retroactive pay creases for periods in which strikes

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Dean Landis, for fiscal reasons as a j,,ve delayed or stopped defense | |defense effort weren't enough, the)

production Prohibit anvone who has ever been a member of the Communist Party, or Communist Party ticket, or belonged to the German-American] | Bund or other known subversive or-| | ganizations, from representing

To sit as an inspector and ad- either labor or managemnt in wage, Easter week, and that on this Easter

hour or other negotiations.

| Mr. Shafer said his program was

based on the hearings the commit

tee has held this week. | “Enactment of such legislation,” he said, “could be accomplished by writing a bill modeled upon the | Lend-Lease Act, providing that ‘not[withstanding any other provisions lof law’ ‘should operate during the emergency.

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CAPITAL SET FOR: BLOSSOM TIME :

Festival Opens Saturday Even if Cherry Trees Don’t Bloom.

Times Special WASHINGTON, April 10.—This is (he time of vear when Washington | stages its annuai gamble with the weatherman, The bet is on the cherry blossoms. lo 0 they bloom on Saturday, okay, | en if they're just in bloom a little | bit, but if a sudden cold snap holds back the bud-bursting business. as| it did last yvear—well, the weatherman is a louse, net. Bloom or no bloom, the cherry | blossom festival begins Saturday | {when Nancy Strong, queen of this year’s affair, surrounded by her court of comelies, all done up in the! traditional hand-me-down long {nighties of spring beauties, embark | on a flower-bedecked barge to cross | the cherry tree-bordered Tidal Ba-| sin, just southwest of the Washing- | ton monument Arrived safely at the other side— | it's about a half mile Bors ce) debark and the queen receives crown from the hands of this NT 's 'queen-making politico, Senator John! H. Overton of Alexandria, La it's cold, the lovelies will wear fur coats, and if the cherry blossoms are not out, that's just their hard luck. Rooms Are Scarce The toughest part of Queen Nancy’s job is that for the past three weeks she has had to make periodic | visits to the Tidal Basin to see how {the buds were coming along. Then,| regardless of what the thermometer | {and wind meter have said, Nancy | has had to strip off her fur coat, perch gracefully on a low branch of] ja cherry tree so the photographers] {could take pictures of limbs—the! {cherry tree's and Nancy's.

| As if the cherry blossoms and the |Daughters of the American Revolu-| tion will descend on the town, 5000 {to 6000 strong at the least! Add to that the convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors jand the annual meeting of the | Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology. Then consider that it's]

{Sunday the first service is being held by the presiding bishop of the | Protestant Episcopal Church at the {new altar in the National Ca|thedral,

Rabbi Charry to Speak

At the Beth El Temple, services {Will begin at 6 p. m. tomorrow. | There will be no communal seder | {this year, according to Rabbi Elias | |Charry. Saturday morning services | will begin at 8. Charry wil deliver a sermon on “Cleaning House for the New World | Order.” The evening service will be | held at 6. Sunday morning services will begin at 8 and Rabbi Charry’s sermon will be, “The New Four Questions and the Four Sons.” At the Indianapolis Hebrew Con- | {gregation, services open tomorrow at {5:30 p. m. At 10 a. m. Saturday,

si Rabbi Rules Goldblatt will deliver

“The Passover Message | of an on, At 6:30 p. m. tomorrow, the congregation will hold a seder at the { Broadmoor Country Club. Conclud[ing services will be held Thursday iy >» 30 p. m. and next Friday at 10

Other Services Listed

At the United Hebrew Congrega(tion. Rabbi Aaron E. Miller will speak on “Passover, Feast of Freedom.” at 8:30 a. m. Saturday following the opening of services at § Pp. m. tomorrow, Sunday at 8:30 a. m. his sermon will be “The Liberation.” Concluding services will be Thursday 8) 6 p. m. and Friday at 8:30

. when Rabbi Miller will speak |

P Sprinoiide of Hope.” Saturday

at : 8: 30 p. m. he will give a sermon | ‘A Time of Rejoicing, a Time of |

lon * Memorial.” Services also will be held at Kneseth Israel, Shaare Tefillah and the Sephardic congregations.

POISON GAS HAZARD IN INDUSTRY GROWS

By Science Service ST. LOUIS. April 10—Industrial workers may be increasingly ex{posed to the poison gas, hydrogen |selenide, because of the increasing luse of selenium in industry. Guinea pig tests showing the {marked effect of exposure to this | {gas in varying concentrations were | (reported by H. C. Dudley and John |W. Miller, of the National Insti-|

tute of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, at the meeting here yes-

|terday of the American Chemical |

| Society. Protective measures to reduce the {hazard of hydrogen selenide poison- | ling to a minimum should be taken, {the scientists suggested, when the odor of the gas can be detected. It then causes irritation of eyes | ‘and nose and a metallic taste which persists for several days, it was] found from cases of accidental ex-| posure to the gas. Livers and spleens of experimental animals were damaged in single exposures to the gas in low concentrations for two, four and eight hours,

NUDISTS BUY VALPO TRACT

VALPARAISO, Ind. April 10 (U.| P)—The Lake o' the Woods. a! nudist organization, today announced purchase of a tract of 140 acres at Sager Lake near here, The | club, which has 225 members, has leased a similar tract southeast of the city.

JANE JORDAN

DEAR JANE JORDAN—I am gaged for 10 months and were to to service in the Army Reserves. anyway.

I'1 doing this I would be able I could live on the salary I would

strange town near the camp wher think it wise to take the step int stances? The camp is 35 miles from the ne

” 4 Answer—A more mature plan

cies. If you were to fall ill, lose would you do? Army. If it's only a year, you to wait.

begin your married life with a ma full responsibility for a home thar

arrangement but you won't like it In peace time or war the draf

you head and don't act too quickl a job in the strange city, No matter how much you're stirre practical side of your situation.

along and he went to the Army. I

divorce? I have tried to forget hi can't. Army? FJ

you. of it when he comes back.

away? It makes vou sound like cannot sacrifice anything for the

It costs him nothing to live except for insurance. friend who is married and her husband is a corporal in the same camp. We have thought about going to the city nearest the camp and staying a few days to look for work, to live together in a small apartment and share expenses.

start your new home together instead of apart. to pay the majority of the expenses?

people are apt to act foolishly under emotional pressure,

DEAR JANE JORDAN-—T'll be 19 years old my next birthday. have been married going on two years.

Answer—I den’t know what you should do. you against divorcing a man whom you still love and who loves you. After three vears in the Army he will be older and wiser and so will If your love outlasts his absence, perhaps you can make a go

19 and he 22. We have heen enbe married. Then he was called However, we want to get married

He has a corporal’s rating and is in line for a promotion.

I have a girl

If we find work we plan

to get married because I feel that make plus my boy friend’s, This

would mean leaving my home town and my job and going to a

'e I would know no one. Do you 0 matrimony under these circum=-

There is no doubt whatsoever of our love for each other.

arest city. BEWILDERED ONE.

” » " of action would be to wait gntil

you have accumulated some reserves with which to- meet emergen-

your job, or have a child, what

I do not know how long your husband expects to stay in the it should not be too much of burden on This would give you an opportunity to save up and

Isn't it better to n who is in a position to take the n with one who must lean on you It is all right as a temporary as a pattern for married life, t is an upsetting thing and young Keep

y. It may be that you can’t find

and if you can’t you'll be obliged to wait.

d up, try to keep your eye on the

l My husband and I can’t get love him and he loves me. Should

I go back to him when he gets out in three years, or should I get a

m by going with other boys but I

We write to each other twice a week, Will he ever forget the Please tell me what to do,

MRS. J. H. n ” I only can advise

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Is it fair of you to go out with other boys while your husband is

a very undisciplined person who one whom you love. To rush out

and get a divorce from a man who still thinks enough of you to write twice a week doesn't sound like good sense to me.

JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions

his column daily,

| ing today at the Hotel Severin.

At 9 a. m,, Rabbi |

“the land of milk and honey,”!

Officers of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South chat during the opening session of the association's 37th annual meetThe committee includes (left to right) F. S. Dunham, University of Michigan, association secretary-treasurer; President Gertrude Smith, University of Chicago, and H. J. Bassett, Southwestern, first vice president.

Study of Latin Called Aid To Good Neighbor Policy

| The study of Latin is important to the U. S. Good Neighbor policy, Prof. Grace Beede, University of | South Dakota, this afternoon told several hundred language teachers) at the Hotel Severin. She addressed the opening session | of the three-day, 37th annual meet(ing of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South which attracted several hundred high school and college teachers of Latin, or Reginald H. Sullivan “The only way we can be good | Witt S. Morgan, neighbors is to know the language | Indianapolis public schools. and appreciate the culture of Latin |: America,” she asserted. Latin, she said. will have to play a larger role than ever in the high school curriculum, not only as fundamental to the Spanish language, but as necessary or sympathetic understanding of Latin people. “This is an immediate demand; and we {have the goods ready to deliver,” | she said.

Cultural Angle Stressed

“Our moral defense,” Prof. Beede asserted, "requires deep loyalties and devotion to the building of a better America on the part of all

'citizens, especially the youth whose services are vet to be performed for the republic. | “We know, and we have statistics to give proof to the skeptical, that Latin gives a cultural background, trains the memory, helps with Eng(lish, But the really important (thing is what Latin does for the lingividual. “Latin hardens, disciplines, toughens, not by regimentation, but |by presenting an individual challenge to which the student who has it in him will respond,” she said.

belle Dean sity of Cincinnati; kel, University of Oscar E, Nybakken, Iowa, At 6:30 p. m. meet at the Severin for subscription dinner at Gertrude Smith, cago, will |address.

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Ann Arber Professor Talks

Earlier in the afternoon session, Prof. Campbell Bonner of Ann | Arbor, Mich., spoke of the difficulties encountered by most teachers 'of Greek in making laymen and students understand that the | Greeks were as much alive in their contacts with the little things of daily experience as they were when dealing with weightier matters of |life and thought. Papers also were read by Dr. Isa-

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Your DUBARRY MUSICAL BANNED MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, April 10 (U. P.).—The musical comedy, “DuBarry Was a Lady.” was banned | from Minneapolis today by Mayor | George E. Leach. The Mayor sent |a letter to the manager of the Lyceum Theater, where the play was | to have opened Easter Sunday, | stating that the play should not | be shown.

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SHEPPARD BODY

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Senators Pay Tribute to

' Dean of Congress, ‘Father

Of Prohibition.”

WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.), —The Senate pays tribute today to the late Senator Morris Sheppard (D. Tex.), “Father of Prohibition” and dean of Congress. The body of the 65-year-old statesman, who died yesterday ot an intra-cranial hemorrhage, will lie in state for three hours in the Senate chamber where he had served for the past 28 years. The casket will be placed at the foot of the center aisle, just a few feet from the desk that Mr, Sheppard formerly occupied. A detachment of Ft. Myer cavalrymen will escort the body to the capitol at 2 p. m. and a special honor guard will be placed beside the bier. The same military guard will accompany the body to Union Station at 6 p. m. where it will be placed aboard the 8:20 train for Texarkana, Tex. Senator Sheppard's home, where funeral services will be held Saturday at 3 p. m The soft-spoken, genial chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee was stricken at his home Friday morning and was taken to Wal=- | ter Reed Hospital Sunday. The Anti-Saloon League, for Sheppard fought so unswervingly for so many years, “gave his life for his coun-

battlefield.”

GLORIA COMES BACK HOLLYWOOD, April 10 (U. P) —Gloria Swanson, who made $12,000 a week in silent films, went to work today on her first movie role in almost eight years. She signed a contract with RKO studio yesterday

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