Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1941 — Page 9
MONDAY, APRIL 28, 194]
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
ALBUQUERQUE, April 28. —It may interest vou to know that the Constant Voyager has a new automobile. Even if it doesn’t interest you it interests him, SO nuts, The new car is a Pontiac. It is a convertible— black with tan upholstery and canvas top—ang if I don’t look like Horace J. Moneybags driving down the street then gall the people must have cataracts on their eyes I didn’t get this new car because I needed one, for the other car was only five years old. I got it because I'm apparently afflicted with war hysteria, and figure cars will cost a lot more pretty soon, and for all I know they might even quit making automobiles and start making buggies again. The old car has been in storage all winter in Washington. D. C. If I had known, that drear day last November when I drove it in, that I would never drive it out again, I don’t believe I could have stood it. For I'm silly that way about cars. They become almost human beings to me, and I can't hurt them, and I grow to love them, ang feel deeply sentimental about them. The 0ld car was a Dodge. It had 67.000 miles on its speedometer: No owner ever had a better car, and to reverse the process, I think no car ever had & better owner. We went places easily together. We never let each other down. The parting was NOt easy
Trying Out the Gadgets
I would have got another Dodge. In fact, I wanted another Dodge. But somehow it couldn't be arranged. The Pontiac purrs. I feel pretty sure wel] like it, It has a hidden seat. back behind there somewhere, that's big enough for three people. But we'll always have that full of baggage, so you needn't think we're going to take vou anywhere It also has one of these tops that you put up and down by pressing a button I've already got the damn thing half worn out just showing curious people how it works It takes & litt to get used to a new car. I up too straight in it. I haven't vet found how to get to the engine. And I'm still reaching down to the side when I go to shift gears.
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Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)
IT ISNT XNOWN generallv. but the State Conservation Department is receiving one of the most unusual honors accorded branch of State Government, After
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of research. the Indiana Junior Chamber of Commerce has decided the conservationists have done the best job and deserve ithe 1941 Scroll of Ment. The award is based deal cfciency partisanship of the during the previous year. This makes it especially hard for a department to qualify dwming an election veal The Junior Chamber concluded that the Conservation Department has grown progressively during the vears (it is one of the oldest departments its kind country); it has branched out to cover fields, and it 1s making life in the state pleasant for its citizens. If you've seen the State Parks develop in the last few vears, you'll have to agree 100 per cent with the Junior Chamber.
A Beau Brummel to Her
WE HEARD ONE on Wendell Willkie the other day and we might as well pass it on while he's still around. Somebody called at the home of his mother-in-law. Mrs. Cora Wilk. in Rushville. Hung prominently in the living room is the portrait of Mr. Willkie presented Mrs. Wilk by the City of Elwond. The visitor admired the picture but observed he thought it looked
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WASHINGTON. April 28.—The convoy question has been put off into the indefinite future by President Roosevelt's decision to extend naval and air patrols farther east in the Atlantic. As I said recently, the Administration is reluctant to go into measures that may involve hostilities and will not resort to convoys if other means of dealing with the situation can be found. The new move just announced is one of those methods
By Ernie Pyle
Also there are many buttons and levers that I haven't got up courage to pull yet. I have a feeling that one of them is for blowing the whole car up, in case of imminent capture. Ang if the one way down under there doesn’t produce a little man from under the seat Carrying a tray full of planters punches, I'm going 10 be a badly disappointed car owner. But we shal] see. In the meantime, I'm traveling at 35 miles an hour until we get this new batch of machinery broken in. The books say modern cars don't have to be broken in. But that’s the way I've always done it. And anyway, I like to pass slowly, so people can see me in al] my new radiance,
Call of the Road And speaking of cars. That Girl does not drive. She never has, ang savs she never will. Ordinarily I would deny to the death any accusation of her lack of ability to do anything. but in this case I'm inclined to agree that she would never get along with a Car. However, she was caught pretty short on transportation this winter in Albuquerque. This moated castle of ours is three miles from downtown, and half a mile from the nearest bus or grocery store. She was really stuck. She had to depend on friends, or dig deeply into our questionable fortune for taxi fare. And then, being a lover of old lace and the gentle graces of antiquity, she decided that if she just had an electric she could drive it. So do you know what she did> She advertised in the papers for an electric. And she never even got an answer, At the same time That Gir] advertised for an electric. some friends of ours advertised their three children for sale. And they didn't get any answers, either. Albuquerque is an odd city. Nobody wants to sell an electric, nobody wants to buy any children. I have just written an indignant letter about it to the Chamber of Commerce. It has just occurred to me, as sort of an afterthought. that automobiles are for going places in. So off we go. Throw some things in that yellow bag there. Hurry. Maybe we can get away by 11 o'clock. Don't forget to put out the cat. What cat? That's right. there isn't any cat. Where are my driving glasses? Goodby, house! We'll] send you & postcard tomorrow,
much “neater” than Wendell really is. Mrs. Wilk took him to task: “I don’t see why people say that about Wendell. Somebody just started that story. It's not true at all!” You're not the average American, Mr, YOU'RE tops with vour mother-in-law,
Here and There THE CIRCUS REALLY has gone modern—we hope we'll like it. The latest mnovation is & transparent front to the Cole Brothers’ sideshows which Jets you
see the whole shebang inside before the show gets underway. Sacrificed are the barkers and the dancing gals on the counter. . . . The postoffice says it's not so unusual, but a lady on Washington Blvd. spent
Willkie.
a couple of hours on a street corner waiting for the ,...... pe said, would also serve
mailman. She'd dropped her apartment keys in the mailbox and tried to unlock the door with her letters. . . . Our Indianapolis Indians are reported to have some of the local gambling fraternity plenty worried. Somebody had sent up word from spring training camp that the team was lousy. If that's the] case, there's six teams in the Association lousier than our boys right now. . . . Speaking of baseball—we wish that local sports announcer would quit calling them the “Cleveland Reds.”
“One Good Turn—"
WHEN THE GIRL SCOUTS learn this, they'll probably consider their cookie day even more successful. Their rival organization—the Campfire Girls—was having a luncheon at Avres’ Saturday. An important part of the dessert served them was—Girl Scout cookies!
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By Raymond Clapper
President Roosevelt says this line has been pushed out or pulled in at various times, depending upon the danger of belligerent activity in a given area. The new line is not defined publicly. It probably will not be a fixed line at all, or at least it will be shifted from time to time without public announcement. Roughly the zone will be pushed east to include Greenland and will cover the Atlantic almost as far east as the Azores. Our naval and air craft will patrol in this area and when any craft that might menace shipping are discovered, the location, direction .and other details
WORK STARTS THIS WEEK ON SHELL PLANT
Factory, Biggest of Its Kind ~~ In the World, to Give | Jobs to 3000.
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Ground wiil be broken late this | week for the construction of the] Bridgeport Brass Co. cartridge case |
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plant between Minnesota and Relv} Sts., east of the Holt Road. i The main plant will be 2000 by | 600 feet in size. one story, with a | “saw-tooth” roof. built of brick, concrete and steel and will cost| approximately $3,000,000. It will be the largest structure of its Kind in| the world. Machinery and equipment for the huge plant will cost around $10,000,000, bringing the total projcct to around $13,000,000. Between 3000 and 5000 persons are to be emploved. The announcement of the beginning of construction was made by representatives of the Stone & Webster Engineering Corp., Boston, general contractors. Stone & Webster has opened an office at 108 E. Washington St. in charge of E. P, Kelleher, field accountant.
Land Deal Closed Earlier, it was announced that! the deal for the sale of 90 acres of | land at the plant site had been | closed between the Bridgeport Brass | Co. and the Industrial Development Co. The price was not disclosed. James W. Hurt, secretary of the
Development Co., said the 90-acre tract was bounded by Minnesota, Kelly St. the Holt Road and & spur line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The plant will be just west of the! . Republic Creosote plant and east of 30 National
Stout Field. Meet
Mr. Hurt said that the Industrial | Development Co. still owns approximately 70 acres south of the| new site. He also declared that he is negotiating with private contrac- | tors with view to constructing sev-' eral hundred homes to house the new defense workers at the plant. | About 200 will be rentals and the headquarters here rest will be for sale, he said.
A Permanent Industry
After Dinner at |. A. C.
More than 30 national committees of the American Legion opened 8 three-day meeting at the national]
Committees Victory
today.
The Legionnaires, at a dinner in| the Indianapolis Athletic Club last |
inight, celebrated the record-break-
The housing project under nego ing 19th annual
national aerial
workers at the new Curtiss Propeller plant which is expected to begin production soon in the old Marmon buildings on W. Morris St. It is expected to take several months to build the cartridge case plant which is being planned as a permanent fixture to the city’s industrial life after the war emergency. During the emergency the number of employees may reach 5000 but in peacetime operations the plant will employ around 2500.
FRISCO TIPS LONDON ON HOW TO REBUILD
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 (U,. P.).—San Francisco, rebuilt upon the rubbles and ashes of the 1906
earthquake and fire, today lent its experience to bomb-torn London.
Council had asked, through the U. S. Department of State, advice on reconstruction, redistribution of land and replacement of destroyed records. “The
people
indomitable themselves
spirit
quickly rebuilt
the city,” the report said. “There production of pilots and the espe- Evangelical Churches in this state, |
membership roundup in which planes flew here with nearly 75.000 paid up membership cards to bring the organization's total enrollment to 1,007,583. This was the third consecutive year in which the membership has exceeded the one-million mark. The cards were carried by 20 planes, including U., S. Bombers, which landed at Municipal Airport | throughout yesterday.
Georgia Wins Award
The Department of Georgia was awarded the Donald G. Glascoft trophy for contributing the largest number of 1941 membership cards on a quota basis, The principal speakers at the dinner were Brig. Gen. Davenport Johnson, chief of training and {operations of the U. S. Army Air
‘of the Navy Department's Bureau {of Aeronautics.
August and keep on
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double by doubling until the end of the year.
Aware of Problems
{ “I am fully cognizant of the fact ciety”; sabbath observance and per- yours of health and happiness in of the that there are many problems to be sonal purity.
met and to be overcome in the mass
Corps, and Commander A. K. Doyle|
Legion Roster Tops Million
Army Air Corps
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Now an sign in Navy
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. April 28 (U. P.).—Emily Grace Purvis, 23 and pretty, was preparing today to enter the United States Navy as an ensign. Miss Purvis, a nurse, enlisted | because she had no brothers and felt her family should be represented in the armed forces. “Since I have no brothers and my Dad is too old to fight,” she said, “it clearly becomes my duty to represent the family.” Miss Purvis will report for duty May 6 at the Naval Hospital in her native Philadelphia. Her enlistment is for three vears. She | will receive $70 a month and maintenance
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ARMY WELFARE PARLEY TOPIC
Evangelical Conference at South Bend May | Suggest Laws.
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STATE SALUTES GEN. TYNDALL
Schricker Praises Record Of 38th’s Leader Who Retires Friday.
Governor Schricker today con|gratulated Maj. Gen. Robert H. | Tyndall, who will retire Friday as {commanding officer of the 38th Di- | vision, on his distinguished record as a soldier. | Gen. Tyndall retires at the statu{tory age of 64 after 42 years con[tinuous military service and has, since the induction of the Indiana | National Guard into Federal service in January, been commander of |Camp Shelby, the nation’s largest Army camp, in addition to his division. He is the ranking major {general in the U. S. Army.
Fine Record Cited
| In a letter to Gen. Tyndall at Camp Shelby, the Governor said: | “You are about to conclude a very
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3% INCREASE IN WORK SEEN AS ESSENTIAL
‘We Can’t Have Our Cake And Eat Nt, U.S. C. of C. Leader Says.
WASHINGTON, April 28 (U, PD. —President James S. Kemper of the United States Chamber of Com= merce told the nation’s businessmen today that every employed person must do 25 per cent more work on the average if both defense and civilian needs are to be fulfilled. Addressing the opening session of the Chamber's four-day annual meeting, Mr. Kemper: Warned against outlawing defense strikes—“Such a step would be the worst possible way to deal with the problem.” Indorsed increased taxes rather than more borrowing—‘“The god of modern war wears a crown of gold, . « « We can’t be well armed and not pay the price.” Demands Economy Demanded reduction of non-milie tary Government expenditures—
“National defense should not be used as a patriotic cloak to hide
Legion and Army officials meet and smile for the camera at Municipal Airport. Left to right are | waste and inefficiency in non-dee N. M. Lyons of Pasadena, Cal, chairman of the National Aeronautics Committee of the Legion; Gen. Davenport Johnson, assistant chief of the U. S. C. R. Spann; Milo Warner, Legion national commander: Donald G. Glascoff, assistant national adjutant, | and Col. A. N. Duncan, of Air Corps headquarters.
VETERANS OPEN More 3-DAY SESSION
| fense expenditures.”
Proposed immediate initiation of a post-war planning program-‘By tackling the job now we probably can escape a lot of crackpot schemes (in the future).” Mr, Kemper told the 2500 busi= ness leaders, that they must not permit the mistake of ‘‘completely disrupting our economy by an hyse terical derangement of our normal production.” “At the present time,” he said, “wq have gainfully employed in America 40,000,000 workers accomplishing 80,000,000,000 hours of productive ef« fort. It is estimated that the dee’ fense program will require 20,000,« 000,000 hours, that is 25 per cent of our productive effort. “We can’t have our cake and eat it too; either every employed per son in the country must do, on the average, 25 per cent more woik, or we must get along without some of the things we have now.” Urges 3-Point Program of busie
The present high level
iness activity is being sustained prie
marily by the re-armament program and British-aid efforts, he said. He suggested that business and industry begin now to develop the following three-point program: 1. Each business set up its own machinery to study new markets, new products and other avenues for employment. 2. Chambers of Commerce and other business organizations set up committees to work out long-range programs so that every community
| distinguished career as a member lof the military forces of the United | States and the State of Indiana. In| {glancing over your service record, T|
ous service since Nov. 15, 1897 with | ‘the exception of the short intervals
‘covering the reorganization of the]
will best utilize its resources and economic assets, 3. All technical and research groups in private industry, in unie
| Discussion of legislation for the note that you have been in continu- | versities and research associations,
in co-operation with the Federal end state governments, make the subject, of employment in the ree
scheduled for the 89th annual ses-/ National Guard, subsequent to the construction period a major current
sion of the Indiana Evangelical Conference, Tuesday through May | 4, in Soutn Bend.
| The welfare of the young train- | In discussing America’s aircraft ees is only one of the many CON-| splendid pattern of military accomproduction, Gen. Johnson said the cerns of the Conference Committee n)ishment carved b ythe other great Mayor Angelo J. Rossi sent the January and February output was on Social Action of which the Rev. London City Council a complete re-| “pretty fair” but that “to meet our Fred G. Kuebler of Indianapolis is port on the $350,000,00 disaster. The [goal these monthly figures have to|chairman. Other timely matters ad a front rank place.
|be dealt with are war and peace;
| the preservation of the spirit of de-|
| mocracy; homes, the basis of a healthy so-
The Indiana conference includes
the building of “g00d| {ake pride in this record. May your
{Spanish American War and the
World War. “I congratulate you on your fine | record as a soldier-—a record that is| in complete harmony with the
| citizen-soldiers of your native state, lin whose company you have earned |
| Your state as well as your companions -in arms and your friends
| farewell to arms open the door to
| your native state.” | Began as Private The Governor reviewed Gen. Tyn-
program. Mr. Kemper said the national morale was being undermined by those who foster the idea that the individual must subordinate himself to the state and that the state was supreme.
U. 3. CONVOY SYSTEM FAVORED BY GIBSON
CHICAGO, April 28 (U, P.).—Use of naval force to protect the shipe ment of supplies to Britain would aid in fulfilling national policy,
can be no doubt that the people of cially trained enlisted personnel in Louisville, Ky, and the extreme London, who have shown a brand necessary to man the many new Western part of Ohio. | dall's military record, pointing out of courage that has aroused the ad- planes,” he said. | Dr. R. H. Mueller of Indianap-|that he began his career as a primiration of the world, will exhibit| “While the 12,000-a-year rate for olis, district superintendent, iS yate served through the Spanisha similar spirit when the reconstruc-| pilots has occasioned some slight Chairman of the conference admin-| american War, took part in the | tion period arrives after the present difficulties, we nevertheless will istrative council; secretary of the puerto - Rican campaign, com-
Ernest W. Gibson, former U. S. Senator, said last night. Senator Gibson, chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, said in a hroad« cast address that present policy is
short of convoyving. The very term ‘convoving” has become political dynamite and President Roosevelt is pushing out the term “patrol” as a safer one both in reality and
will be broadcast by radio from our patrol observers. This information will be picked up bv British ships, merchant ships and warships as well as British planes. This, it is thought, will assist the British in taking protective action.
politically. It enables him to sidestep, for the time being, the strong opposition to convoving which exists in Congress. I find considerable question as to the extent to which this latest move will ease the burden on the British Navy. Opinions differ but I think it is generally recognized that this move will not give the relief that actual use of our Navy all the way across would give. There will continue to be agitation for that so that the issue still remains unsettled, although the tension has been relaxed by this half-way measure of extending our patrol. The British will hail the action but they had hoped for something more.
The Ncutrality Patrol
Since early war we have maintained a neutrality patrol off the shores of the Western Hemisphere. The Navy has map which shows this old neutrality zone heginning at a point 129 miles east of Halifax. It runs due south, falling 600 miles east of Sandy Hook, 750 miles east of Norfolk, 1100 miles east of Savannah, Ga.. then taking a diagonal which lavs it down 900 miles east of Belem. 650 miles east of Pernambuco. 800 miles east of Rio, and 850 miles east of Montevideo.
My Day
1LO8 ANGELES, Sunday.—The flight up to San Francisco on Friday afternoon was very smooth and pleasant, Cne of the things I look forward to most is a view of the bay {rom the window of the Mark Hopkins Hotel. 1 think they know how much I enjoy it, because I am always given a room from which I can see the water The Democratic State Chairman, Mrs. Porter, and her assistant, Miss Bauer, came to see me, and I enjoved my chat with them very much. After the lecture in the evening. Paul Posz took us to Judge and Mrs. William Denman , house. I had the pleasure of meeting the various South and Ceniral American consuls with their wives, and the Chinese Consul and his wife. It was a | wery pleasant party and it was a real surprise to me to find that it was near 1 o'clock when we left. Saturday morning, we visited Mayris Chaney's flat Shop and bought a hat or two, which has become a habit when we come to San Francisco, then we went to Chinatown to do a little shopping and stop at the committee headquarters to buy a ticket for the rice festival. This festival must be extremely colorful and interesting. The proceeds this year will be given to Chinese orphans and refugees, Two charming girls
in the
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The Axis in Greenland
Most of the attacks on British shipping have occurred east of the new zone. The British have not been escorting vessels all the way across the Atlantic but only through the danger zone, so that they have not been using much war strength in the area we now take under our patrol. Mr. Roosevelt, in fact, did not attempt to show that his plan would do this. He insisted throughout his discussion that the extension was being undertaken to defend the Western Hemisphere and he emphasized the probability of Axis activity ir Greenland as one justification. | Although Mr. Roosevelt, in his press conference criticism of American appeasers. spoke boldly and in & way that would hearten the British, his action in itself was a most cautious and modest step. Some, who do not think this move deals with Britain's real difficulty in combatting the German sea warfare, believe, or at least hope, that gradually President Roosevelt ‘will push the line still farther east until it reaches into the critical zone. The best that they can make of it is that Mr. Roosevelt is trying to move step bv step and that this is the beginning, rather than the end, of his effort to protect war cargo from the threat of German sinking.
(war.”
The report described the $5.718,000 auxiliary water svstem, built for fire protection, and it pointed out that the disaster had made possible construction of San Francisco Civic Center to co-ordinate a planned group of public buildings.
PLEADS GUILTY TO GROCER’S KILLING
jachieve this rate on Nov. 1 this year.” 5 Commander Dovle said the Navy {Air Corps training program has increased from 50 pilots trained a month to an 800-a-month rate. “We are expanding,” he said, “from 3000 to 15.000 airplanes, from |six to 18 aircraft carriers, and ineluding also hundreds of large patrol bombers.
“In all our schools and in OUr meet Tuesday evening during the
(training afloat, we have tried to
board of trustees and of christian education. The Rev, H. H. Ha
|manded a battalion on the Mexi-
280~ can border and a regiment of field| MO
only production but delivery”
field, also of Indianapolis, is chair-|gutijlery in the A, E. F. during the| Of Supplies for Britain, and that
man of the board of christian education. | In addition to the ministerial delegates who will go from Indianapolis churches, the following lay | delegates also will attend: B. H. | Mever, Ralph Scheidler, Frank H. Hirschman and Mrs. C. S. Adams. The Albright Brotherhood will
conference week and the confer-
Ingram Richardson, 19, pleaded [introduce what we have learned esce missionary society, on Wednesguilty to second degree murder in from our observations of what is| guy morning.
Criminal Court today in connection with the holdup slaying of Chester Ross Witt, East Side grocer, Dec. 9, 1939 Judge Dewev E. Mevers withheld judgment in the case until Wednesday at which time Albert Kirk, 26, will be arraigned for the same slaying. Mr. Witt was slain in his store at 1430 Brookside Ave. and Richardson
|was arrested in Chicago last Oc-
By Eleanor Roosevelt
sold me my pin. and I lost my heart completely to a little S-year-old, who looked very dignified and charming in her long Chinese gown. Later I visited a Chilean cargo ship, which was manned by their navy. On it some 32 Chilean ensigns are getting their first naval experience. It was interesting to find two voung men named Delano among | the ensigns. The Delanos in this country have some | relationship to them .I think. at least my husband! always claims it, | Some friends lunched with me and then, befor» we knew it, we were on our afternoon plane headad| for Los Angeles. Just before 7 o'clock. we reached | the Melvyn Douglas home. 1 found Mrs. Douglas busy with twenty Democratic women discussing their | work, so I had an opportunity for a short chat with! them also. | The view from this house is beautiful at all times. | Last night the dark hills on either side framed the! many colored lights of the city far below. This morn-| ing, what fascinated me was the swimming pool, practically outside my bedroom decor. The patio is closed in by a steep mountainside covered with shrubs and! fiowers, and makes me feel completely cut off from | the rest of the world. |
It isn't just the beauty of the surroundings which
makes it wonderful to be in this house. There is an! atmosphere which only the human spirit can create. !
The baby, a sweet little fair-haired girl, handed me a two-story concrete block building bunch of flowers with grace, Everyone seems friendly.|and its contents of baled waste ' because the two people who make this home are great|paper and rags at the Kgoot & Son| “I pay her just to stand there—my people. Co, 628 W, Wi St. . her watching
tober ana State Reformatory serving a term for a holdup and was to be
‘brought back to Indianapolis today.
Two bandits received 10-year sentences today from Judge Meyers after pleading guilty to a $60 hold-
up March 8. They were Ray Shem- |
well, 30. and Soldon Hardin, 23.
DELAY RESIGNATION
OF PROBATION AID
The State Probation Commission today postponed action indefinitely on the resignation of Mrs. Inez
Scholl of Connersville, Commission |
secretary. Mrs. Scholl had submitted her
| resignation because of ill health, but |
board members are endeavoring to persuade her to retain her post. The Commission set June 16-17 as dates for examinations for state probation officers. Applications must be in by May 24 and all references by June 7. Commission officials said that a large number of vacancies existed among state probation officers.
$2000 LOSS IN KROOT FIRE
A fire of unknown origin today did more than $2000 damage to a
Kirk has been in the Indi-
{going on abroad. Naturally we have {received voluminous reports have been of great value to us. In [our studies of the lessons learned |abroad. we have constantly tried to apply them to our own particular naval needs.”
HOLD EVERYTHING
open the conference and speak.
A fraterna! delegate from the
that United Brethren, now in the process |
of being merged with the Evangelical Church, will make a good will address and Bishop George
ward Epp of Naperville, Ill, will
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patients are much: braver with them!”
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[last war. | Since the World War has assisted in the reorganization and directed {the Indiana National Guard. | “To consummate that career, {there must have been first of all, 'a great love of the service in which you enlisted,” the Governor wrote, “The duties which you have per{formed so many years, have in{volved much drudgery, hardship and (danger. They have taken you into | {far countries where cold and heat, rain and snow, bottomless mud and stifling dust, bursting shells, chokling lethal gas and all of the implements of deadly warfare have threatened vou and those with ‘whom you served. In absence of a great love of the service, you would not have traveled the long and devoted road that now lies behind you. “You will soon lay aside of the responsibilities of command and become inactive in a military sense, but IT am happy to know that it is only by decree of law, limiting the service of all members of our military forces, and not by reason of any physical incapacity that brings your service to a conclusion and I wish for you long years of activity in other fields,” the Governor concluded.
V. FE. W. GROUP ASKS DELIVERY TO BRITAIN
The Benjamin Harrison Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, today sent to the President a copy of a resolution urging the Government to make effective the policy of allout aid to England as a vital part of the program of national defense. The resolution, passed unanimously at a meeting last week. said: “It is the consideration and conviction of this meeting that the Government of the United States take such steps and actions compatable with international law as shall insure the successful fulfillment of that policy, securing and affecting delivery of such materials of war as are being or may be shipped to the warring democracies.” Copies also were sent to i: In-
America must safeguard the Ate lantic “so that delivery can bs made, so that our national policy can be fully carried out.” He said convoys would not bring a declaration of war from Germany, because such a declaration would hurt the morale of Germans who remember the last war, and would mean more effective aid to Britain than is now being given.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—-Do men or women predominate in the population of the United States? 2—Are red flannel and white flane nel undergarments of the same grade and weight equally warm? 3—The first aviator to fly across the English Channel was a Frenche man, Louis . 4—Name the capital of Italian Eas Africa. 5—Who were the parents of Galae had in the Arthurian romances? 6—In the famous race between the steamers Robert E. Lee and Natchez on the Mississippi River, which won? T—President Andrew Johnson was acquitted or convicted of the charges on which he was ime peached? 8§—Whom did King Peter of Jugos slavia displace as official head of that country?
Answers
1—Men. 2—-Yes. 3—Bleriot. 4-—Addis Ababa. 5—Launcelot and Elaine. 6—Robert E. Lee. T—Acquitted. 8—Prince Paul. = =
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