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WASHINGTON, April 11.—I started out yesterday to tell you about the questions people ask of a fellow just returned from England, and wound up with a sermon. Well, that's what vou've got to expect of us intellectuals. But today I promise to stick to the questions. It seems to me that on the whole people ask most frequently the very questions which they've already had answered the most—such as “Is British morale good?”, “Is the U-boat menace serious?”, “Is the air force growing?”, “Are they really solidly behind Churchill?” The answer to all of them is yes. But the most unusual question anvone asked me was this: “Did it reallv seem like war to vou?’ And the answer is: “It never did.” All during my winter in England 1 worried because I couldn't seem tc summon into my stories the drama and vividness some of the other boys put into theirs. I felt that something inside me must have worn out, that TI couid be there in the very midst of what we all agree is “the greatest story of our time,” and sill not be torn asunder by the horror of it. But it truth, it never actually seemed real to me. On that night of the great fire during the holidays, I somehow couldn't believe that those motors overhead bore men who were wilfully and deliberately looking down and doing this thing because we were at war
It All Seemed Unreal
That whole night seemed more like something put on just to look at: like some ultimate Billy Rose extravaganza, at last attaining to such proportions of Rose giganticism that it passed beyond the realm of human credence—but still remained form of entertainment On my first day's walking trip around London, the destruction impressed me more as being some catastrophe wrought by nature, than as individual badges of man's savagery The fires alwavs seemed like peacetime fires ‘o me. When I went to hospitals, the people were bandaged and trussed up just as thev are after nice American aute accidents The barbed wire around St James Park always seemed like a stage effect.
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By Ernie Pyle
When in the middle of a movie the picture would stop and on the screen would flash the announcement of an air-raid warning, I always felt to myseif: “They have the oddest customs in these foreign countries.” And when there were raids late at night, I woul? lie in hed trying to keep awake till the “All Clear” sounded, not so much for the sense of relief it would bring, but because I loved to listen to the siren. I still think it is beautiful. I have tried to explain all these things to friends, and they have said that perhaps my feelings were conditioned by the knowledge that I wasn’t there for the duration; that in a few months I would be coming back There is, very probably, something in what they say. But I don’t put too much weight to their views. For no matter what they argue, you must also remember this—that on many and many a night nobody knew for sure that he was ever coming back.
He Has No Secrets
Copyright. 1941, hy The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
BEYOND THE ITALIAN FRONTIER. — “The dictators,” President Thomas G. Masaryk of Czechoslovakia once said, “always look good until the last five minutes.” This is the tragedy of Benito Mussolini in the 22d year of fascism and the 19th year of his own dictatorship. He has lived
People ask if there is a limit to what the British can take. My answer is that there's a limit to what] anybody can take. i You can take a one-night blitz, for it's climactic | and vastly exciting—and you have to take it any-| way. But get five or six or eight or ten nights in a row—pounding night after night after night— with the odds of your survival growing slimmer every | night and death and chaos and disruption all about yvou—ves, very definitely there's a limit to what anybody can take. One friend of mine asked nothing. He simply | said, "I'm not going to insult vou by asking, after | having read all your pieces, to tell us now what it was REALLY iike.” ! I think I appreciated that remark more than any other. For 1 told all winter long in the columns, as clearly and truthfully as my capabilities permit, just what it was like. The censors didn’t cut out much of my stuff. Now {that I'm back I have no “inside dope” to reveal. 1 couldn't think of a startling secret to tell if vou held a gun at my head. | I've told all I know. And so this is the end—the | curtain on one more vovage to strange realms. The strangest vovage of all. I hope that you who have] travelea with ine so long will be content to come | now, for a few months at least, into lands not so| fearsome and into lives on less intimate terms with! Death.
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)
DON'T LOOK NOW, hut Clarence A. Jackson has become one of the biggest men in the State. His new job as Civil Defense Director has all kinds of possibilities. He automatically becomes head of the Administrative Defense Council. In times of emergency he’s the boss. His rise has been rapid. Five vears ago he headed the combined Gross Income Tax and Unemployment Compensation Division. Three years later Paul V. McNutt took him to Washington to help get the FSA going. Then he returned as executive vice president of the State Chamber of Commerce. Governor Townsend appointed him Civil Defense Director last fall under an executive order and the Legislature-created Defense Council elected him to the He is the favorite of many of McNutt's Schricker’'s successor
game friends in '44,
What, No Flower Girls!
IP YOU SEE a Claypool Hotel official without a carnation in his lapel, it's probably the manager The assistant managers are wearing red carnations. The clerks sport white carnations.
John Doe Carter
THE ASPERGER MONUMENT Co. has a sample headstone in front of its Boulevard Place office. It reads: “Boake Carter—Born, 1898; Died——" Tt's verv simple, the Asperger family explains. all admire Mr. Carter's writings very much,
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Washington
WASHINGTON, April 11 good over the news from the Balkans. It was not unexpected. Even so, the fact that the blow has actually fallen brings everyone more soberly to confront the grim outlook. We now have to face the hard fact that, under the terrific impact of the Hitler war machine, the last foothold of resistance on the continent of Europe is slipping. It will take a miracle to <alvage anything out of the Balkans.
Naturally the tendency is to look around for some place to lay the blame. But it is futile pastime except in this one respect—the trouble comes basically from being unprepared, from seeing the danger too late. But that rault lies not alone at the door of those who are taking the punishment. Perhaps it lies none at all on Greece. Those people have been fighting for months and have given a remarkably good account of themselves. In Jugoslavia, the Regent. Prince Paul, tried to play both sides and made little effort to prepare his country for this crisis. The Serbs are willing fighters. as are all tough mountaineer stock. Somehow the mountains seem to give strength to men. Among our best fighters are mountain hoyvs of Tennessee Perhaps it is because they keep in training between feuding with each other. Anyway there was stock in Serbia, but nothing was done
No one pretends to feel
wars by the fighting with it
The Hull
The British had little equipment to spare and we have been slow either to produce or to send material. President Roosevelt's messages of encouragement and the hasty dispatching of equipment after the storm broke are largely gestures to help the morale of the resisters. But it is too late to give much real help in the Balkans. Thus it is the old story. Some day when the files of Secretary Hull are studied, they will show that since the day of Munich—and even before—he has heen warning of these things that have come about. From 1937 on President Roosevelt was warning the
My Day
NEW YORK CITY, Thursday—I had a very pleasant luncheon yesterday with the wives of the ‘mempers of the 73d Congress, who came to Washington in 1033 when we did. Then I received some two hundred members of the Daughters of Patriots and Founders at the White House. After that I took the plane to New York City. Last evening I spoke at the dinner given by the New York City Board of Education to hear the conclusion of months of hard work and innumerable reports, made by groups of doctors and educators on the care and education of handicapped children. Tt is a study made in New York City but of value to the whole country. Changes have come about in medical care. more knowledge is now at hand and certain new techniques must be developed in order to give handicapped children the best possible opportunity for education and future usefulness in life. I hope many people will read this report, since we have 1 helieve, some six million handicapped children in the country And now letter “1 ean not pretend for a moment that we are all of us feeling very brave, but people are carrying
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they needed a name for the sample stone and Boake Carter seemed a better name than John Doe. We checked up on the Asperger's facts—Mr. Carter was born in 1898.
Quick Action
SUN-BATHING ENTHUSIASTS have turned out already on the Indianapolis Athletic Club roof. . . . The first two newspapermen to be drafted here will | leave April 17—Arthur Loftin and Harold Howenstein, | both of The Star. The Democratic Women's | revenue-raising raffie raised only a rumpus . . . and just to keep you posted, the Mayor's door was opened | yesterday.
Hold Your Hats, Boys!
THE LONG-DISTANCE WIRES have been burning between the Gross Income Tax Division and Washington. The Division maintains the companies | operating in the State should pay gross tax on] defense contracts as on any other business. The companies have said that was all right with | them—if the Federal Government reimburses them The tension is high already between the Democrats and the Republicans haven't even taken over the tax business here yet, What, No Fix THE NEWS of two appointments to the Police and Firemen's Merit Board reminds us of two or | three times people have bragged to us that they] were fixing it so their relatives would be appointed to the force. We made it a point to check the result. Not one the “fixees” made the grade. The consensus of impartial observers is that vou've got to be good to get the Board's o. k. for a City job.
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By Raymond Clapper,
country that there was dangerous water ahead. But few of us believed it, or took it very seriously even if we did believe it. | The Maginot Line would hold. The British Fleet | would hold. Hitler wasn’t going to do much anyway —his army was opposed to taking chances. So Mr. Roosevelt was put down as an excitable warmonger and Secretary Hull was thought to be overly pessi-| mistic. It goes on, to a considerable extent right up to | this moment. True, the fall of France woke us up | and frightened us into starting a two-ocean Navy, | into adopting conscription, into setting up a defense group, into appropriating billions of dollars for defense. Still there has not been, and is not yet, any | real alarm in this country—the kind of alarm that! puts everyone to pitching. We don’t have the kind of pitching in that you get in a small town when the court house catches fire and everyone is up out bed running with firebuckets. It is still all quite casual, even as the roof falls in.
We Need a Jarring | volved,
Some in the Government wonder if we will wait come very excited.
until it is too late before we begin to put in that extra grunt that gets real results, before labor decides that it had better sacrifice some of its demands in order to keep production moving, before Ford decides to abandon his old refusal to deal with labor unions. | Thev are talking in Congress about doubling the income tax. Perhaps that will jar some people into a | realization that we are in for a real effort. | There is no question but that we could give England considerably more help than we are giving by using our ships and by convoying. But a considerable public sentiment still stands against it and the Administration hesitates to propose it. although many high officials privately feel that we should move. We are down now almost to the single question of England being able to hold out against starvation and invasion. Churchill says it can’t be done without us. We face the possibility of Hitler moving down into Africa, establishing himself on the west | coast of that continent where he can drive British | shipping almost over to our side of the Atlantic as it| tries to get around Africa to the East. Britain's strain is likely to become heavier now. The situation | never has been as grim as it is today.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
on believing that anything is better than the Hitler regime, and determined not to give in. I, personally, feel very much like the old lady who wrote here the other day: ‘I am ninety. I can not say that I and my elderly invalid sister are not nervous when the siren goes. We are, but we both agree that it is most important that Hitler should not be told this.’ “My old aunt, who had her ninetieth birthday during a very bad raid the other night, said she felt Hitler must have known it was her birthday to give her such a clapping. (I, for one, hate raids, in spite of France and the last war.) “I wonder if you saw our last ‘George Medal List for Bravery. It began with a small boy of 14, who had worked all through the Coventry raid helping to get people out of burning buildings, and ended with an old lady of 94, who had quietly put out the incendiary bombs and had then gone back into the house, saying nothing to anyone ‘and so to bed’! “Some kinds of food are hard to get now, but] no one seems to go hungry. It is mainly the extras] that we have to do without. As you know, I can not. verv well compare this war with the last, since I was in France all the time, living on Army rations. | I am told that the shortage is nothing like it was| in the winter of 1917. "Last. week I was at the English-speaking Union when the Queen came to see the clothing sent from America for the evacuee and shelter children, We all felt that these met a real need.”
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too long.
Had Mussolini died one year ago history would have recalled his many accomplishments. The patriotism and discipline he evoked among his own people, the Bismarckian coolness with which he played power politics, the boldness with which he conquered Ethiopia and won in Spain, the skill with which he kept Italy out of Hitler's war. His own inconsistencies and the inherent unsoundness of his pragmatic opportunism might have been glossed over. Now whether Germany conquers the Anglo-Saxon world or not Mussolini will go down in historv as a man who sacrificed his nation to his own lust for glory— a man, in short, whom power corrupted. It is a tragic end for a man who by his own genius, sly peasant cunning and mastery of national psychology rose to equal rank with President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Hitler and Stalin in a century when unparalleled power has been entrusted to a few dominant personalities. un
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Actor Becomes Man
UNTIL TWO years ago the picture abroad of a blustering megalomaniac was certainly false. The first time I talked with Mussolini in 1935 I told him that I was anti-Fascist but meant to write objectively about him and his regime unless he preferred to throw me out of his country then and there. Out went the jaw and the eyes bulged. Then his face was sheathed with a smile. He threw back his head. roared with laughter and said, “Let's see if you can do it.” When 1 told Mussolini two vears later that he was going to suffer a military defeat in Spain which would destroy all the prestige gained in Ethiopia and urged him to get out and give the Spanish people a chance, he said, “Perhaps you are right.” When news reached him month later of the disaster Guadalajara he summoned gave me the news before it published and said, “You were right and I was wrong.” I said promptly, “Why don’t you get out of Spain now?” He replied. “Ah, now I cannot. Now I must go through to the end.” This was said soberly, not blusteringly or in
PUSHES FIGHT FOR GROSS TAX
Hewit's Demand Against 700 Towns on Way to | Court Test.
One year ago last February, Gil-|
one at me, was
bert K. Hewit, State Gross Income
Tax director, announced he would
press the collection of gross taxes
from municipalities. To date, Mr.|
| Hewit hasn't collected a nickel, but
he’s still pressing.
Mr. Hewit has been contending
all year that 700 cities and towns {in Indiana owe him money for their revenue producing activities. of municipalities have countered with
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the claim that they're absolutely
and unconditionally untaxable.
Despite a large sum of money in-| the dispute has been a friendly affair and no one has beMr. Hewit has maintained he is only doing his duty as the Attorney General's office sees and the heads of municipal governments have replied in kind.
A ‘Happy’ Peace Conference Early this week, Mr.
officials of League got
Hewit and the Indiana Municipal together for a peace the matter at the Claypool Hotel and it was reported that a pleasant time was had by all. Today, the League's mimeograph machine was grinding out bulletins to member cities and towns with the communique: “DON'T PAY GROSS INCOME TAX ON ANYTHING!” The League's bulletin warned that peace is not yet, but soon may| be. The difference of opinion be-| tween Mr. Hewit and 700 cities and towns is on its way to the courts,
No Confiscation
Mr. Hewit has agreed not to confiscate any City Halls or golf courses until a ruling is given and, for their | part, the Municipal League officials have agreed not to enjoin Mr.| Hewit from operating his tax col-| lecting business as usual. The controversy stems from two conflicting opinions issued by the Attorney General's office. One| opinion, glven in 1933, said cities! and towns were exempt from the gross tax as public institutions. An- | other opinion, given later, said the cities were not exempt. The issue involved is whether certain functions of municipalities | are “private and proprietary . . .| and therefore competitive with pri-| vate enterprise,” or not. Municipal utilities, sewage plants. | parks, swimming pools and golf courses fall into this category, Mr. ! Hewit insists. | They do not, savs the Municipal League. The State courts will decide.
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“TAXI” HAILED; IS POLICE CAR! DALLAS, Tex. (U. P).—A man, | obviously intoxicated, hailed a “taxi” here and gave the driver an address. The address turned out to) be the city jail. The driver was Pa‘rolman J. I. Adams and the cab was & police squad car,
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the spirit of megalomania I have seen Mussolini but once in the last two vears and then I was not allowed to talk with him I am not certain therefore, but it is my sincere and reluctant belief that for exactly two yvears—since a sudden and unpublicized illness —the dictator has suffered the most violent form of paranoia After acting the role with cynical derision for nearly 20 years, in order to shut up his opposition or frighten weaklings like Chamber - lain, the actor has become the man. Mussolini today is as horrible a megalomaniac as Nero or Caligula. n
Suffered Stroke in '39
I HAVE ESTABLISHED from trustworthy sources, though many of the details are sketchy, that in the spring of 1939 Mussolini suffered a stroke which for several days caused a partial paralysis of the face. I know that he was confined to bed with the greatest secrecy near Milan for five weeks. Later he retired to a private house near his birthplace at Forli. I understand that near Forli he was visited by a Swiss specialist because the left eve was affected This stroke came at the worst possible moment both in the personal life of Mussolini and in the development of Fascism. Tt is responsible, in my opinion, for the alliance with Germany and for the ultimate entry into the war. It came at a moment when for the first time Mussolini had become aware both of the ravages of age and the loneliness of great
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“The tragedy of Mussolini is that he has lived a year too long.”
power. In my four conversations with the dictator and in scores I have heard of second hand, there was always some allusion to sex. Mussolini was exceedingly boastful of his sexual prowess and tried in every way to belie his years. His loneliness was a horror to him. His brother Arnaldo, the editor, was his only friend, and Arnoldo died. He turned to his daughter Edda, the Countess Ciano, and she, with no interest in anything bevond the frivolities of life, failed him utterly. He had no companion, no one to whom he could confide. 5
Fascism Runs Down
POLITICALLY, THE SITUATION two years ago was equally bitter and disappointing. After 17 vears Fascism had run down. It was all very well to talk about “living like lions;” Italians were tired. Ethiopia and Spain had been exhausting. Instead of having trained up a people of steel, Mussolini found that the Italians wanted bread, not circuses Instead of having trained up an elite, Mussolini found that his most trusted ministers wanted graft and a letup in the tension. This came at a moment when Mussolini felt certain that the future of the world would soon be decided. And then suddenly, without warning, he was stricken These are the personal and political disappointments that he mulled over as he lay in bed. 1 think that he decided to make an alliance with Hitler in order to revitalize Fascism through a union
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with the younger and more violent Nazi movement. I think the decision was based on internal politics and ideological considerations, not on any analysis of the international situation. The dictator put Fascism, not Italy, first. Mussolini thought that he could handle Hitler, but once the alliance was made he found that he had signed in blood a compact as binding as that of Faust with Mephistopheles. Confident that the British and French would not wantonly attack him, Mussolini thought that he had bought off a German invasion and secured a balance-of-power position for himself, x
Hitler Flattered Him
AWARE OF MUSSOLINI'S stroke and his resultant fears and apprehensions, Hitler and his agents dealt shrewdly with the Italian. They flattered him. The two revolutions were the same. If Hitler won his war this would become “the Century of Mussolini.” They told him such things and the aging dictator, fearful for the future of Fascism, relished the sound of them. Except for Mussolini's
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his stroke I think peasant shrewdness would have saved him. Because he was not very well Mussolini had to give up public appearances and private conversations. He lost the feel of his own public opinion and he saw almost no advisers or counselors except the Germans. It is no wonder therefore that he was impressed when Hitler told him a few months before the
Consider the Poor Mediaiors—Colummici Does, and Finds Them Real Strike Heroes
The author of this commentary is Robert M. Yoder. who conducts the column, “Sharps and Flats,” in the Chicago Daily News.
THE REAL heroes of this labor rising, as far as I'm concerned, are the mediators. So you are sitting at home some evening, trying to mediate a few troubles of your own, when the phone rings, and there you are, off to intercede in a brawl at the John J. Babbitt Automatic Little Dandy Malted Milk Shaker
| Works, largest in the country, not
to mention the worst. You get there, entrusted with the duty of smoothing things out, and begin looking into the equities of the case, which are very badly divided.
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THERE IS A strike in progress, a strike originally slated for :a week from today, but called early through a complete accident. You find that the strike has been engineered by an ambitious organizer from Philadelphia, who knows nothing of the local situation and only hopes he doesn’t find out. You find that of a rival union are on hand ball things up, if possible, Cummunists of two different tongs are on hand just to be on hand. There are also a number
representatives to
of slightly unidentified characters: |
involved who might be anything from the agents of a foreign government, to the three leading local eccentrics, with
HOLD EVERYTHING
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the odds ex- |
actly even that these ominous or dopey. You learn, meanwhile, that none of the unions involved has enrolled a clearcut majority of the employees, even by force, and about this time a number of oldtime veteran employees step off the fast train from California and ask “Why can't us trusted old veterans go back to work?” The same plea is voiced by a group of skilled machinists with busted noses and cauliflower ears, who tell you they represent the Loyal Emplovees This Is Not a Company Union Association and are the real victims of this whole internecine clash.
parties are
” SO NEXT YOU must ascertain the viewpoint of management, for after ail, you are non-partisan. You are the Voice of Sweet Reason, the Impartial Peacemaker, and the Understanding Heart. So you look into the management of this mighty industrial unit and vou find that the proprietor is a man who has been wrong on every question since the Dred Scott Case and believes that labor
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by the county court. You look further and you find that the company has two strikes on it now, with the National Labor Relation Act, but is paying a $6 dividend while yelling for the Dies committee to do something. You find that the company has $1,000,000 in orders for soda fountains, plus $350 worth of or-
€OPR. 194) BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 5. PAT. OFF.
“You'll be all right, Mrs. Leopard—you just have a little rash!”
namental spurs for the cavalry and consequently regards itself as a key plant for national defense and sounds the bugle every day at the changing of the company police. The president of the company greets you while wrapped in an American flag and tells you that Stalin himself issued orders for the mutinous uprising that is in progress. Furthermore, the president believes it, more or less. And gradually it dawns on you that what both sides want, more than anything else, more than any possible settlement, is a strike.
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BUT YOU, vou are the mediator, and you can't get annoyed at any of this. You must understand and sympathize. You must trot from one group to the other and bring them to an agreement. You must find a common ground for all this chicanery and arrange a formula under which both sides can retire without exposing their hand. You may regard the labor leaders as fourth rate textbook liberals who have jumped in where they aren't needed and cluttered up a good cause. You may regard the management as a lof of minor Mussolinis and it may make you slightly ill to think that they wouldn't take a government, contract of any sort until promised 8 per cent profit on a contract signed by the Chief Justice. But vou, vou are the mediator, so you go on striving for a fair, equitable settlement. Strife pleases everybody but you: you are the only chump who has to work for harmony. They're the real heroes of this trouble—the mediators.
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invasion of the Lowlands and France exactly how that, offensive would go. Mussolini had been frightened when Hitler, telling Count Ciano that the British and French were afraid to fight, invaded Poland over Italy's protest. But when Hitler's most optimistic prediction proved true Mussolini's doubts vanished Clutching at the coattails of the triumphant Nazis, the Fascists were safe. Mussolini told a friend of mine: “We must go to war immediately. France will collapse in a matter of days and Britain's capitulation will follow swiftly, If we are to share in the spoils we must strike before Hitler brings the hostilities to an end.” And so on June 10, in one of the least impressive speeches of his long career, Mussolini declared war on Great Britain and France.
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Unprepared for War THIS ACT WAS blunder. Italy was prepared foi armament and lacking for the serves of fuel had been stored either for the air force or the navy. No raw materials had been stocked for Italy's war industries. Worst, the Italian people felt a profound distrust for the Germans, their traditional foes, and wanted strict neutrality The nation was not morally prepared for the sternest of all national tests The extent of Mussolini's blunder has been proved in Libya and Albania. It would be proved In Italy as well except that the Ger= mans today have complete cone trol of that country. Because he put the party first, Mussolini has become the most reviled man in the history of modern Italy. The guards around the Palazzo Venezia are counted today not in hundreds but in thousands They stand sentry five, six and seven blocks away from his executive offices Against his security the most vicious threats are uttered by men who served him blindly in the past. About his private life the most disgusting stories are circulated by people who used to speak of him with tears in their eyes. And there is no doubt that today he rages with impotent fury against a people that didn't want to live like lions. he only person in Italy who understands him now is a woman half his age She tells him, moreover, that he is still a relatively young man. He has built her an imposing three-story home on one of the hills of Rome. He has installed in it an escalator-— quite as good as any in an Amer=ican department store—which goes from the ground to the third floor. In addition to the guards he keeps for her there is a motorcvele escort which waits in the streets while Mussolini is there. One of {hese motorcycle policemen has just had a brother killed In Albania
RULING DELAYED ON SCHLENSKER
A criminal In no way Every type of equipment was Army. No re-
war,
Cox to Wait Decision on 1st Suit Before Giving Easton Plea Finding.
Court Judge Earl R. Cox abeyance today a ruling
Circuit held in
{on another legal battle in Otto F., |Schlensker’s 17-year-old fight to re= | cover $50,000 he deposited with the
| State | “good
bill
| yesterday
Highway Commission faith bond” in 1924 1941 Legislature passed a appropriating $36,000 to Mr. Schlensker after deducting auditing expenses from the original deposit. The hearing before Judge Cox was on a petition filed
as a
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{by Perry Easton, former State Sen-
ator, who asked the court to place the money in receivership and order Mr. Schlensker to pay part of it to Mr. Easton for the latter's serv« ices in lobbying the appropriation through the Legislature
Judge Cox withheld his decision
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NEW YORK, April 11 (U. P). —|
The principle of time-and-a-half for overtime in American industry should be abandoned until world peace is restored, Dr. Leland Rex | Robinson, Columbia University lecturer on corporation finance, said {last night in a radio speech. | Extra pay for overtime, he said,
may bring currency inflation and | “is a needless and dangerous foe of | production.” Dr. Robinson warned organized labor against making a | “Roman holiday” out of the defense
Robinson and the two other speakers of the “Town Hall of the
| | Air” program, Donald M. Nelson and
| Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer, agreed that inflation and living costs can
{be kept unaer control if the vroper |
measures are taken.
JUDGES DON NEW ROBES MONTGOMERY, Ala. (U. P).—
against Mr. Schlensker's money in
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1.—Name the seasons in the temper« ate zones production received the Academy of Motion Picture Ar%s and Sciences prize for last vear's best movie? 3—Calvin Coolidge was the 29th Vice President of the United States; who was the 30th? 4—Which New England State is omitted from the following list: Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island? 5—An electric generator produces an electric current by electromage netic induction, contact or frice tion of dissimilar substances, or chemical action?
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1—Spring, summer, autumn and winter. 2—“Rebecca.” 3—Charles G. Dawes. 4-—New Hampshire.
5—Electromagnetic induction.
A CORRECTION A recent answer in this Test Quiz stated that the River Jordan flowed into the Red Sea The answer should of course have been the
{Dead Sea.
Alabama's Court of Appeals, follow-| ing the lead of the State Supreme |
Court, this month donned flowing black robes of office for the first time in history. The high court in|itiated the robe-wearing custom at lopening of its winter term recently.
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