Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1941 — Page 21
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 194]
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ALBUQUERQUE, April 25.—The airport at Alburque the reputation in the last couple ars of having the most beautiful administration lding in America. Travelers irom all over the orld marveled at the native charm of this pueblolike structure as they stepped off the transcontinental airliners for their 10-minute layover. But now Albuquerque's airport is taking on a new personality. The world’s loveliest airport building will become only & subsidiary to something less beautiful but currently more vital. For the Army is moving in. When I was here last October there was no hint of putting a big army flying field here. Even had you come as late as Christmas vou would have seen nothing unual to catch your eye in the flat, vast mesa that the airport. But you see plenty now, hings have leaped and roared here, as they have the other suddenly mushrooming defense
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contractors moved in. Today, three months later, they are move out. And behind them they new Air Corps flying field. ee months the contractors have built of 103 buildings, plus a brand new 100 houses. At the peak they had nmering and sawing. thing cost around $2,000,000 much, compared with figures that Washington, But when it's funneled Into a desert oasis like Albuquerque all within three mths, I'll tell vou it ain't alfalfa.
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tle work has been done on the actual itself, for it was alrsady an excellent with long surfaced runways. The Government taken the whole thing over, including ‘TranstUnental & Western Air's lease on the airport. Commercial airliners will continue to land here usual, but they will be directed down, and up from the Army control tower. All movement he field will be under Armv direction. The big bombers have not arrived yet, but they be ftom California within a fortnight. ad of them have come the great bulk of nonIg men necessary to keep the fliers aloft. buquerque welcomes the Army with open arms. n=ans boom times. By early Mav this new creation mesa will be a new city of 2500 men and
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Inside Indianapolis And “Our Town’)
BACK IN 1210 when George Buck became neipal of Shortridge High School, that institution as located on N., Pennsylvania St, at Walhut St.
city’s only North Side high school. an enrollment of some 1600 pupils and there were 73 on the faculty Those simple facts the younger and newer residents of Indianapolis an idea of what has happened to this city in the 31 years that George Buck has served Shortridge. The school how sits at 34th and Meridian, but it is no longer the city’s only North Side high school. There is one now considerably farther north. Today Shortridge has more than 3500 pupils and a faculty of 130 George Buck deserves the tirement he has announced he will A June. Not only all his former pils, but the community at large wish him the comfort and richness that life can give to 4 man who has served as faithfully as Mr. Buck served Shortridge
round the Town
THE TRAFFIC OFFICERS at Virginia and Delaware get the good-turn-of-the-week award. During a rush period yesterday Officer Karl Wallace saw a blind man on the curb. Traffic was halted the officer found out that the blind man was waiting for the Columbia car. When the car came, the officer motioned the car to stop in front of the A half hour later Officer Rill Ott helped a blind couple in the same way. . The
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Washington
25 —The from various that publie sentiment is ready for further action in aiding Britain and some developments are expected within the next few days. Most encouraging to the Administration has been
Administration indications
WASHINGTON, April has taken encouragement
the attitude of American (newspaper editors. They were here last week and officials gathered that among the editors is a readiness to support the Administration in whatever specific actions it considers necessary to assist Great Britain in resisting Hitler, The editors in general felt that public sentiment was favorable and was waiting largely to be told what was necessary, The Administration also takes encouragement from the report of the Gallup Poll this week, which estimates that 71 per cent of the people will support eonvoying if that is necessary to prevent the defeat of Great Britain. However it should be emphasized that the Admin{stration still is reluctant to go into measures that may involve actual hostilities, That is the reason why convoving has been avoided thus far and it is the reason why it will not be resorted to if any other means of dealing with the situation can be found. It is probable that some other method will be attempted to ease the burden which is imposed on the British Navy in the Atlantic. The hope here is still that shooting may be avoided.
Some Risk Unavoidable
But short of shooting there is new determination to enlarge American assistance. Particularly how there appears to be an effort to strengthen the British naval forces in the waters around England where the shipping lanes concentrate and where the targets are best, both in the
My Day
LO8 ANGELES, Cal, Thursday—The transition from the more or less mountainous and arid land of northern New Mexico and the dry desert land, to the jand of the Rowers, is always rather breath-taking. Southern California, where there is water, is a paradise of gardens. That is what greeted our eyes this morning. our train journey is nearly over and we shall soon be in Los Angeles, I have used this trip to go through many things which have been in my brief case for future mention when there was space in my column, and I am horrified to find how many should have been mentioned long ago. One, for instance, is a comic magazine, which everyone of us with youngsters who like to read the comics, should hail with jov. 1h ic called “True Comics” and is published by the Parents Institute. Its quality is assured by the fact that George J. Hecht is the president and publisher, while the editor Is David Marke. But your children will be most interested in the junior advisory editors: Janet Cantor, Gloria Jean, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple and Virginia Weidler ought to be able to make this a really good comic magazine,
By Ernie Pyle
Undoubtedly this will grow in months to come. Albuquerque visions the day when thers will be 20,000 troops here, but that may be wishful thinking. If it ever does happen, Albuquerque probably will wishfully think back to the days when it didn't have 20,000 troops. For that would be one soldier to every three civiliams. in Albuquerque, and that's too many. This new concentration of planes at Albuquerque is part of a huge program of what, in England, is called “dispersal.” The Army is getting its great bombers away from the coast, where they would be too vulnerable to attack. Bomber fields are being scattered inland all over the West. Oniy the smaller scouting ships and the fast, short-distance fighters will be left on the hot-| front along the Pacific Coast. These big babies can lie back here behind the mountains, completely beyond reach of planes from enemy aircraft carriers and still, because of their | long range, within striking distance of enemies] approaching the coast, the Gulf of Mexico or the| Mexican border. | As in England, these great planes will be parked | out in the open. The only new hangars being built | are for repair work. It would be folly to try to build enough hangars to house a hundred flying fortresses.
A Changing World
Furthermore, as the field commander says, they'd have to stand out in all weathers in wartime anyway,
and if they can't take it we'd better find it out now, So the great bombers will be tied down to rings on a solid slab of concrete covering 15 acres! The new Army post itself is all of wooden construction, what they call semi-temporary. The men are quartered in big two-story barracks, with overhanging roofs to fend off the desert sun. The non-commissioned officers occupy the new sub-division of 100 homes which adjoins the field. | Another 100 houses will be started shortly. The commissioned officers have to find their own homes in Albuquergue. The available houses for rent are growing fewer and fewer. By the inexorable law of supply and demand, rents have started up. Many! officers, despite the instability of any Army assign-| ment these days, are building new houses for themselves, figuring they can’t lose even if ordered away. You see cars from Selfridge Field in Michigan | parked in front of the chain grocery. You see cars from March Field in California in front of the postoffice. Tourists used to come to Albuquerque to stare at brightly garbed Indians on Central Avenue, the main business sireet. But today the Indians stand and stare at new white men, In brown uniorms. Everything is changing.
IT WAS A battle of men and machines vs. a miracle this week and the men and
machines won.
A half million Nazi soldiers, 1000 tanks and 3000 or more airplanes crushed through inferior Allied troops and a smattering of airpower to complete German domination of the European continent. Developments in another chapter of conquest during the week of Adolf Hitler's 52d birthday were: 1. The Allied right wing of 50,000 British and 100,000 Greek soldiers anchored to historic Thermopylae Pass, broke under sheer weight of superior blitz forces. 2. The Greek Army on the left wing, trapped between German and Italian forces during a retreat out of Albania, surrendered. ‘Nazis said 250,000 men were involved in the capitulation. 3. King George, eighth sovereign to flee his throne, set up his government in Crete and proclaimed that Greece would fight on although forced from the mainland. 4 Britain, attempting to salvage as many soldiers and as much equipment as possible, executed another “Dunkirk” while German dive-bombers stabbed at waiting ships and weary Allied troops fought a valiant rear-guard action.
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CASUALITIES—
AS THE WEEK closed, there was no indication of how many soldiers the Allies could rescue from the chaos in Greek harbors, although Berlin said the evacuation had been going on for three days. Correspondents with the British forces indicated that Germany paid a terrific price in the Balkan gamble, Turkish diplomatic quarters estimated 70,000 dead, 200,000 wounded. Nazis insisted losses would be smaller than any other campaign—except Norway when 1317 were listed as killed.
Shrine convention in June is making the Convention | Bureau work day and night arranging for housing | space for the 25000 Masons. Incidentally, a large! number of them are going to bunk in the Knights of | Columbus auditorium. . The only one unhappy! about the pamphlet air raid on the Circle Monday is Street Commissioner Wilbur Winship. You can guess why.
A Record Election
BUTLER'S NEW PROM QUEEN, Miss Lucy| Rosler, owes at least part of her success to the originality of her Theta campaign managers. They rigged up a phonograph record with Miss Janice Renick and Miss Dottie Evans doing the vocals. It! wound up with a “chant of the auctioneer” by Miss| Betty Smith—“It's Lucy two-to-one.” Then they] arranged to have the record put on the Campus Club “juke” box and the Theta gals fed it with | nickels during lunch hour. Prohibition THE LATEST TRAFFIC JAM of note occurred in a local restaurant which caters to customers who like their schnapps with their lunch, An out-of-town | high school class of about 30 pupils made a morning] tour of the State House. Af lunch time, the pupils) and their teacher headed for a restaurant and by mischance picked the one with the beer trade. The, teacher opned the door and the youngsters trooped in, filling the bar and most of the tables. The teacher| noticed his mistake, but it was too late. A few min-| tes later the regular customers swarmed in to find] every stool and most of the standing room occupied by voungsters munching hamburgers. “That's one way to dry up a town,” muttered one. |
WHERE NEXT?
LONDON AND Washington, speculating on Hitler's next move, turned their attention to Gibraltar, guardian of the western Mediterranean; Suez, eastern Medjterranean gateway to India, Australia and the Orient; the Dardanelles, Russia's only warm water outlet, and the Battle of the Atlantic. Developments were: Note 1. Gibraltar hurried prepara- = tions for a long siege amid reports indicating a Nazi move into Spain and possibly Portugal. 2. The British fleet in a 42-min-ute bombardment of Tripoli, Libyan capital and supply base for German African armies, reported six supply ships and a destroyer struck and vast destruction wrought ashore. 3. British desert forces in North Africa retained the offensive although there were hints that the Nazi pause at the Egyptian frontier may mask a heavy concentration of forces for a push 150 miles south of the Mediterranean into southern Egypt. 4 Repoits that Germany had demanded control of the Dardanelles were branded in Berlin as British
By Raymond Clapper propaganda but not denied.
surrounding waters and in port. To this end, the
With Greece fallen, the world’s eyes turn to Gibraltar, Britain's last foothold on the Continent.
5. The Luftwaffe’s spring offensive against the British Isles picked up momentum, singling out ports and shipbuilding centers. Plymouth, port of entry for U. S. supplies, was stunned in three consecutive nights of bombardment. » ” ” GLUM ITALY, in the Axis doghouse since the abortive Greek campaign began, found something to cheer about when the Greek army of Epirus and Macedonia surrendered. It was these troops who had thrown the Italians out of Greece and who were driving through Albania when the Nazi powerhouse stepped in.
AMERICA—
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT discussed the catastrophe in Greece with his “war cabinet” while Congressional sources heard reports that 40 per cent of the U. S. supplies were being sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic . . . said Rep. Luther Patrick, Alabama Demoerat, seeking naval protection for ships: “Davy Jones' locker is no place for the sweat and blood and bone of the American people . . .” the President promised there would be no slackening in the flow of supplies, declaring the war would be won by keeping the British going . . . He cautioned against drawing hasty conclusions from day-to-day developments . . . patrol of the North Atlantic halfway to Europe was reported being planned by the Navy high command . . . U. 8S. Ambassador to Britain Winant told the American Chamber of Commerce in London that the U. S. is determined to aid Britain by action instead of words . . . the President in an agreement with Canadian Prime Minister King sought to unify production so that each country may provide the other with defense ar-
ticles which it is best able to produce , . , The first medium combat tanks of the U, S. Army, 28 tons, shot from the American Locomotive Co plant in Schenectady . «+ « and the Chrysler Corp in Detroit. Hoosiers Wayne Coy and former Governor M. Clifford Townsend were named to high posts in the national defense setup. Mr. Coy became head of the Office of Emergency Management, a superagency which links all defense efforts with the White House; Mr. Townsend, head of a new unit which will assist local groups of factory owners formed to participate jointly in defense production,
TAXES—
DRASTIC SURTAXES on middle and lower middle class incomes to raise $3,600,000,000 in new revenue and a billion-dollar reduction of non-defense expenditures were proposed by the Treas= ury. The Treasury plan includes new and increased luxury taxes, upward revision of estate and gift taxes, higher levies on beer, tobacco, liquors and a wide range of goods. Some House Ways and Means committee members indicated that the Treasury suggestions were too stiff; alternatives were possible. Said Treasury Secretary Morgenthau: “The American people are willing to pay that small price for security against aggression.” The price: 21 per cent of an estimated $90,000,000,000 national income next year.
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LABOR—
THE DEFENSE mediation board called operators and miners into conference in an effort to end the 24-day soft coal shutdown, Officials warned that the
coal shortage is becoming one of extreme gravity, particularly because it will take at least a week to get new stocks to defense plants after the dispute is settled.
BUSINESS—
THE BOOM IN defense factory employment (Allison, for instance) hasn't done much for Indianapolis Railways’ business, the utility revealed this week, but net profit for last year was $75,707, an increase of $34,147 over last year after setting aside money for taxes, depreciation and interest. Indiana University’s Bureau of Business Research reported busi ness in Indiana halted its upturn in March because many industries are working as hard as they can, and can't do more until new factories are ready. Purdue reported Indiana's wheat crop will be about 10 per cent smaller than last year's,
POLITICS —
REPUBLICANS, JOLTED their first Supreme Court test, continued their battle for State House control. In a six-paragraph opinion, the . Indiana Supreme Court upheld Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox's power to issue an injunction blocking appointments by Re-publican-dominated boards under the G. O. P, decentralization acts. The decision did not touch on the constitutionality of “ripper” laws. The question now will be ruled upon by the Supreme Court in another case, an appeal from the Cox decision.
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Indiana Democratic party leaders, after a harmonious week-end rally here, returned to their home fronts determined to fight to viectory in 1942, Governor Schricker, sounding the Keynote, charged that the 1941 Legislature left a trail of wreckage in its wake and
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called for a “return to constitue’ tional government.”
DEATHS —
LIEUT. COL. H. C. Crater, sue perintendent of schools at Lawe renceburg and formerly of Speede way High School, at 45. Sanford H. Robinson, vice presi dent of the Indianapolis Paint and Color Co. at 17. “Mike” Mitchell Cohen, boxer, trainer and promoter, at 48,
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LOCALLY —
INDIANAPOLIS RAILWAYS die rectors elected Harry Reid, of Ine dianapolis, nationally known pube lie utility executive, to succeed Charles W. Chase as president of the local utility . . . Mr. Chase will
head the Chicago Surface Lines.. Plans were announced for a $100,000 general hospital to be constructed at S. Bast and Minnesota Sts. . . . the new traffic p rogram, including a traffic engineer and a cafeteria court, was approved by City Council , . . Mayor Sullivan's Trafic Advisory Committee res vealed sentiment of the members favored parking meters , . Safety Board President Leroy J. Keach said the city can’t install the meters without a Supreme court test of their constitutionality ... . Marion County’s 1941 record of two consecutive deathless traffic week-ends ended when two died in a collision on Road 67 . . . the City's record of no traffic fatalities ended at 39 days.
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Police Chief Michael Morrissey suspected a fifth columnist when Police Inspector Jesse McMurty came down with the measles and Lieut. Lawrence McCarty had suspicious symptoms, But they weren't the German measles,
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Navy Department has turned over to England 20 small, fast torpedo boats. Recently 10 Coast Guard cutters were released to England. These small ves-| sels are useful in the waters around England. | The main problem is to reduce the area which the | British Navy must cover, thus permitting greater | British naval concentration within the smaller field. | That we must give some help in this matter is] accepted throughout the Administration. The dif-! ficulty has been to do this without engaging in active
hostilities. Whatever plan may be attempted will in-
volve some risk, but that is unavoidable. Officials can (Congress Likes Principle,’ only strive to make the risk as small as possible, | But Dislikes Farm or Move Light Is Needed Relief Reduction.
The important fact today is that the Administra- . . tion, after a long period of hesitation and uncertainty. By MARSHALL MeNEIL is emerging again into a more active phase. Both Tikes Special Weiter Secretary of State Hull and Secretary of Navy Knox| WASHINGTON, April 25.—Conare delivering important policy speeches this week as press today has before it a chalpart of a new campaign to impress upon the public janee from Treasury Secretary the necessity of helping Britain sustain her life-line . . from the United States. President Roosevelt may Henry Morgenthau Jr. to cut the take the air himself before long. Sovarninent % Hu epnse spendIt is necessary that this be done. None of us, PE is Mr. Mo rerst hd Wd lacking the full confidential facts of the present des- sweeten the Bieter pee tn I aay perate situation in Europe, can have a elear idea reassure ple who a yt on of what specifically this country should do. This is be aT buy A) ef : WH a time when the country must depend to an unusual | otc y Plone degree Upon the judgment of the Administration. The | 3 ’ Administration has given very little guidance to the won ast ig ny Sopp | public. Newspaper correspondents, asking questions |g, principle.” But only a rash | at White House press conferences in good faith, | ophet would prediet today that | hoping to be given some guidance, have been turned such & cut, or anything like it. will | | be made.
off with wisecracks. With : NE ; ithin the next few days, there may be more Taber Favors Big Out It would require outstanding
light on the situation. The chances are that when it comes, the Administration will be pleasantly surprised | at the readiness of the country to give its support to Democratic leadership and a type measures designed to keep the line of resistance to of political courage not often evi-| Hitler firmly fixed on the other side of the Atlantic.|dent on the Hill in recent years. It would call for more support from | the President than anyone expects. | In the Oklahoma idiom of Rep. | Wesley Disney, a Ways and Means Committee member who questioned A Morgenthau yesterday, “It | would take more than parlor guts.” Here we are in the midst of “Be Kind to Animals| Rep. John Taber of New York! Week” and I always like to remind my readers of it. | 'ahking Republican member of the
This year there is a special reason for mentioning | pas % ip Raed out ways by
it, because April 22 marked the 75th anniversary of | which he contends non-defense ex. the first meeting in New York City of the Amer-|penditures could be reduced by a ican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. | billion and a half dollars. But a I was amused to find that among the charter mere listing of the cuts he proposes! members and the incorporators of the society, were is enough to show how many Con- | two of my ancestors, James J. Roosevelt and C. V. S. gressmen would spring to arms in! Roosevelt, who met and elected Henry Bergh as the defense of their pet agencies and first president. This society has done valiant work | projects, and how many pressure Untugh the years to make us a more aisious of [groups would be outraged. our debt to dumb animals. I hope it will continue| to remind every new generation of its responsibility Not the First Time toward creatures, who give them so much and ask| Mr. Taber says NYA could be cut to little [in half, saving $50,000,000; the CCC's Some time ago I read an editorial about a fund $270,000000 could be eliminated; established in 1919 in England called: “The Royal WPA cut be cut from $995000.000 to Air Force Benevolent Fund.” This fund exists for $195000; farm parity payments cut the relief of distress among all ranks of the Royal Air from $450,000,000 to $106.000,000, soil
By Eleanor Roosevelt
Force, past and present, and their dependents, There conservation reduced by $100000,-
is an American committee which is a branch of the 000; the $50,000,000 farm tenancy original British committee, known as the Royal Air|program abandoned, the Rural ReForce Benevolent Fund of the U.S. A, Ine, with habilitation program halved offices in New York City. I hope this committee will $30,000,000 and savings of $50,000,000 receive our support and that something of the same obtained in both the farm surplus kind will be done for our owh airmen, program and reclamation work,
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CUT OF BILLION | LaGuardia Speech Believed Trial Balloon
For U. S. Naval Patrol in Mid-Atlantic
By THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer
that the existing patrol authorized| Stimson,
by the hemispheric “safety belt”
WASHINGTON, April 25.—Much | instituted by the Panama Declarasignificance is attached here to the| tion a year and a half ago might
Guardia of New York that United off-shore defense some 1000 miles at sea, in view of
the apparent imminence of a deci-| convoys seems plain from numers-|
sion on means of protecting war materials shipments to Great Britain. In which are closely watching developments, the La Guardia pronouncement was interpreted as an Administration trial balloon
testing public reaction to a partial followed it up yesterday by calling convoy by American naval vessels) in
some Congressional quarters, such |
| Ottawa statement by Mayor La be extended from 300 miles to 1000, |
Navy Knox, and Harry L. Lease-Lend Act administrator,
thus affording more help to British several days ago to look into the
extends| merchantmen.
statutes and see what are the
That President Rooseyelt is very| President's powers to order convoys close to the critical defision as to| Without authorization by Congress,
ous developments here, including the La Guardia speech, which was delivered after the Mayor had conferred with the President at the White House.
That speech’s significance wag en | istration for hanced when President Roosevelt| have been inquiring, particularly in|
Attorney General Robert
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a question that has been debated here constantly and was explore
al length, without a conclusion, dur-
PAST ROTARY HEAD T0 ADDRESS CLUB
Raymond J. Knoeppel, New York
Secretary Frank attorney and past director of Roe Hopkins, | tary International, will speak to Ine
| dianapolis Rotarians on “What Are The Attorney General was asked | We To Do With Rotary” at the {club's meeting Tuesday.
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|ciety for Crippled Children,
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Mr, Knoeppel, who also is presie dent of the New York State Soe has long been prominent in the admine
dq | istrative affairs of Rotary Internae
tional. He was a member of the
ing consideration of the Lease-Lend | cOmmittee which framed the Roe
Likewise, it was learned, Adminlieutenants in Congress
the Senate, to ascertain what would
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and airplanes 1000 miles outward, | Jackson, and immediately afterward | formally for authority for convoys.
where the job would be taken over by British escorts. In other quarters it was thought
saw what is known as the “war
As for the Senate, where the real
cabinet”—Secretary of State Cor-|fieht might be expected, the best
dell Hull, War Secretary Henry
HOLD EVERYTHING
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1. judgment there is that a bitter
battle would ensue that might run along for as much as three weeks, and that the decision would be close. An informal canvass indicates that all of the 28 Republicans, perhaps with one exception; the three of other designations, Senators George Norris (Ind. Neb.), Robert M. LaFollette Jr. (Prog. Wis.) and Henrik Shipstead Minn.), crats, some of whom supported the
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tary constitution and by laws in 1921. Twice he served as president
of the New York City club, and in connection with his welfare activie
ties in behalf of handicapped chile
dren, he received in 1025 the Bose
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som Gold Medallion for co-operae tion in government.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—-Which gem have jewelers elected for the April birthstone? 2—The Tropic of Capricorn or the Tropic of Cancer is north of the Equator? 3—Did Ulysses S. Grant ever attain the rank of a full general?
(Farmer-Eabor| 4—What is the Appian Way? and a number of Demo- 5—Which State in the U. S. is the
largest producer of raisins?
convoys.
One Senator who keeps close
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inum, magnesium or sodium, is lighter than water?
check said that if members of that| 7—The Administration - of which
body should vote on the issue the way they feel, without exertion of
President was called the “Era of Good Feeling”?
Administration pressure, convoy au-| 8—For writing which book did Pear}
thority would be defeated.
The President's own words, privately and publicly, now rise up to
Buck receive the Pulitzer Prize?
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plague him in this hour of decision| {—Diamond.
{which it is generally felt here is
a trying ordeal for him, for his de-
|cision may mean war or peace.
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2—Cancer. 3-Yes. . 4-—A famous Roman highway 5-—California.
Lease Bill with Congressional lead-| 6—Sodium.
ers, the question of convoys and whether a ban against them should be inserted came up, and the President is reported to have said that such a ban would be satisfactory to him, as he had no intention of using convoys. The result was the section, approved by both branches, which says: “Nothing in this act shall ba construed to authorize or to permit the authorization of convoying vessels by naval vessels of the United States.”
T—James Monroe. 8--"“The Good Earth.”
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