Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1941 — Page 18

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THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941

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Hoosier Vagabond

FT, BLISS, Texas, May 1.—When ‘a young fellow is drafted into the Army, his first contact with military life is at the induction center. This is where he gets his first actual Army medical examination, where he gets all his official papers for a year in

the military, and where he takes we Rs the oath of allegiance. 5 Much to my surprise. the ina duction center for West Texas turns down one out of every 12 men who come through. They have already passed the local draft board medical exam, but they can’t come up to Army standards. Many are rejected for defective hearing. The doctors find the boys’ ear-drums are pierced by little holes. Many others are unfit because of plain undernourishment. Now and then they get a man with a penitentiary record, and he is rejected, too. The Army is doing everything it can to make the mothers of America contented to have their boys in the Army. This criminal-rejection business is just one of the things. They don’t want mothers worrying about their boys associating with prison veterans.

They had one seiectee recently who was tattooed from head to foot. On each arm was a naked woman. That doesn’t go in the new Army.

Getting Into the Army

But this buy was very eager to get in. So they told him that, if he could get the tattoo completely covered over, or have dresses tattooed on his women, they would take him. He came back a month later. He had hitch-hiked clear to San Antonio to find a tattoo artist. The job was beautifully done. Both naked women were decorously dressed. From the induction center the boys go to the reception center. This is where they get their uniforms and really get into the Army for keeps. The reception center at Ft. Bliss can handle 450 men a day. Putting a man through is called “processing.” It takes two days to “process” a new soldier.

He has to get his smallpox vaccination and typhoid shots, the identification tag to put around his neck, his whole eyuipment of uniform, blankets, toilet articles, mess kit and so on, and go through varioils classification interviews.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town")

THE VERY LATEST information sets Indiana's anticipated June draft call for close to 5000 men. If that figure is right, jt will mean that plenty of eligibles in Marion County, who have not thus far been classified, can soon expect to receive their papers, answer the questions, and within a few weeks thereafter report for service. About 160.000 Hoosiers have been classified to date. About 60.000 more will have to fill in the questionnaires before 5000-quota of Class I-A men could be filled. Incidentally, this story of Army life may hold especial interest for the soon-to-be-draftee. We'll teil you why the boys at Ft. Harrison will have to press their uniforms, polish their buttons and pass in review for a second time this week, It's because “the general” didn't show up for the first one as he was supposed to. Monday, the 201st Infantry troops held a formal review as scheduled, passed a rigid inspection by officers, as scheduled. But Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear, Second Armv commander, didn't show as scheduled. Jen. Lear will be here tomorrow, and the troops will hold another review, not previously scheduled.

Around the Town

THE WILLIAM B. ANSTEDS (nee Virginia Judd) twins weigh exactly the same, contrary to those published reports which gave their respective poundage as different. Both bouncing boys, too . . . Dick Miller, the general manager of the Coliseum Corp., Is getting ready to go to Atlantic City for a big pow-wow on hockey rules. . . . Block's arcade window exhibits on the du Pont materials is a wow itself. . . . Applications for that much-publicized Job of City Traffic Engineer have been coming in from near and far and if the Mayor's mail is any indication, practically every traffic expert in the country is*out of a job.

By Ernie Pyle.

The Ft. Bliss reception center has “processed” more than 9000 men since January, and they have| had only three or four conscientious objectors. One was belligerent, and wouldn't sign for the clothing they issued him. So Col. R. O. Annin, who is in charge, just had the clothes sent over to his tent anyway. The boy hasn't signed for his clothes! to this day, but he's wearing them; you may be sure of that. ; | Another young fellow said he didn't object to going in the Army, but he wasn't going to kill anybody. So they assigned him to non-combatant unit. Occasionally they get somebody who is just burned up about being drafted, and remains sulky and mean all through his “processing.” But on the whole the boys are quite willing, ‘n fact eager, to get in and do whatever is asked of them. Almost without exception, they're scared to death the first couple of days. The officers and men who handle them take this into consideration, and are pretty easy with them.

Join Regular Outfits

The food is excellent at the Ft. Bliss reception center. In fact, it’s probably better there than anywhere else, for it's the policy now to let the boys down easily into the regular Army life. When they finally get assigned to regular units and get down to honest-to-goodness soldiering, they also get down to regular Army grub. But even the straight fare, everybody says, is much better than it was in the last war. I somehow had the notion that each section of the country had a huge training camp, where thousands of young reeruits spent their first few months drilling up and down, getting Army discipline and knoweldge pounded into them. But that isn’t true out here, at least. There is no such big, general training camp for the Southwest. The selectees that come into the Army through Ft. Bliss are here on the average no more than five! days, and then theyre -hipped away. Theyre sent to wherever a call comes for men. And when they get there theyre mixed in with regular Army soldiers, get their primary training right in an active outfit, and become soldiers more by apprenticeship than through intense training. For example, of the 9000 men processed through here already, 6200 have been shipped almost immediately for regular duty with Army outfits all the way from New Jersey to California. About 2800 are still at Ft. Bliss, but they're doing duty with the cavalry and with anti-aireraft units—they're not in any big special camp for training selectees.

Nice And Shiny, Too

GEN. TYNDALL may be a little downecast when he gets home (quitting the Army after 44 years isn't much fun) but it won't last long when he sees the surprise his Camp Shelby boys have waiting for him up here. . . . Bill Evans of the Public School Administration has his headaches. He's in charge of the approaching music festival involving some 3300 Youngsters and the problem is how to get those 3300 back into the hands of their 6600 assorted parents out in the audience after the show is over. . . . The Indiana Farm Bureau has moved to its new quarters in the Majestic Building, but they're not quite ready for a house-warming yet. The sign on the glass door of Bureau Secretary Larry Brandon still says

Something about “Ready Made Shirts—Orders Taken ere.”

With the Flying Folks I. J. (NISH) DIENHART, Municipal Airport chief, is going to move out of his apartment and into a house on the airport property. He promises a housewarming. . . . Max Emery, who quit as radio control tower operator at the airport, and who, instead of going to South Bend as he expected, joined the staff of Roscoe Turner, will be back at the Municipal control tower in a few days. We don't get it. . . . Horace F. Hill III, local sales manager for Eastern Airlines, will report for active service within a few weeks. He Is a reserve “louiee” in the cavalry but has been transferred to the Air Corps. The vacancy will be filled by a transfer from Eastern's St. Louis office. Lh Lieut. Col. H. Weir Cook, the city’s World War fiying ace has been transferred from Wright Field Dayton, O., as Air Corps purchasing representative to St. Louis. He will serve as liaison officer between the Air Corps and the new Curtiss Wright plant there. - + . Daniel Moulton, Civil Aeronautics Authority inspector, wears a huntet’s cap around the airport. He admits it isn't conventional fiyer's headgear, but says that it keeps the sun out.

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French Ignore Anti-British Propaganda

By ALFRED MAX SE TOS pine, dnstitute THE STORY or the cabinet meeting at Vichy when Pierre

Laval was ousted may throw some light on the reasons for French confidence in Marshal Petain. For some weeks Pierre Laval had been negotiating with the Germans and the French people, who distrusted him, feared that a Franco-German agreement was in the making that would go far beyond the armistice terms. That such a deal would be highly unpopular would be obvi ous to any trained observer even casually listening to discussions over the bar at cafes, talks among clerks or workers at lunch time in cheap restaurants, remarks of housewives lining behind the closed door of a baker's shop or cautious dialogs of peasants in the village market place. The people feared that Laval would announce shortly that the Germans had agreed to the French Government's return to Paris. Laval, it was said would be made Premier while Petain would remain head of the French State but would cease te play the leading part in shaping French policies. Under the guise of a German concession, this would have paved the way for complete German control over France and the Empire. But several of Petain’s closest . advisers in the cabinet, such as Huntziger, the Minister of War: Alibert, the Minister of Justice, and Peyrouton, the Minister of the Interior, had steadily opposed Laval’s foreign policy at cabinet meetings. ” ” ”

Faced Grave Decisions

AT SUCH a cabinet meeting on Dec. 13, 1940, Laval, who was Vice Premier and as such presided over normal meetings, announced in the absence of Marshal Petain that the time was ripe for a complete reshuffle. The ministers, he said, must understand that complete unity of views within the cabinet was now necessary. He added that an extraordinary meeting of the cabinet was to be held immediately, with Marshal Petain attending, Grave decisions would be taken. All of the ministers who had opposed Laval thought from his attitude of triumph that he must have persuaded the Marshal to give in to the Germans and that they would have to resign. Hence no one -was surprised when Petain came in and without a word, keeping everyone standing, handed to each of his 12 ministers a sheet of paper to sign. Each sheet, in one short sentence, carried their resignations. Petain watched everyone sign. When the sheets of paper had been collected and returned to him, he examined them carefully and said: “Gentlemen, each of you has handed me his resignation. This enables me to reshuffle my cabinet,

FRANGE SEEKS

Pierre Laval

Laval's Fall

What do the French people think of Pierre Laval, Germany’s staunchest supporter in France? How was the decision to oust him from Petain's cabinet made at bk Vichy? The inside story of the cabinet meeting at which Laval met his downfall is here told in print for the first time in the following A article, the |) x second of a series of Alfred Max three, by Alfred Max, the for mer director of the Gallup Poll in France, and an outstanding authority on French public opinion. Mr, Max has Just arrived in this country.

as M. Laval has suggested was necessary. This, then, is my decision: M. Laval's resignation is accepted.” This news was hailed throughout France, Petain’s ability to resist German pressure, his quick decisions, and his dry humor explain why the French people, although they may disagree thoroughly with much of the Vichy government's domestic policy, and deeply resent a number of measures taken by some of the members of the Vichy cabinet, look fondly to that 84-year-old acrobat who keeps walking the tight-rope for the sake of what, they believe, will be ultimate victory.

Spread Propaganda

THERE HAS never been any hint at Vichy that the French Government has in any way receded from its original assumption that France ‘‘was not concerned about a British defeat or victory” and that “whatever the outcome of the war” France would expect its salvation “from no one but herself.” The press in the unoccupied zone, controlled from Vichy, filters the news with a deliberate antiBritish bias, although the British

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communiques are published along with the German and Italian communiques. Bvery single incident at sea or elsewhere is used to the fullest extent for anti-British propaganda by officials at Vichy who do not hesitate to threaten Britain with retaliatory or warlike measures. Nor can it be said that these have been empty threats or that those who made them were not speaking in earnest. Hence the question naturally arises: If the Vichy Government is resisting the Germans, as most French people in the unoccupied zone seem to believe, why is it indulging in anti-British propaganda? To grasp the answer it must be remembered that Petain’s trumpcard is the threat that France may resume her fight, if the Germans go too far, by placing her empire and her fleet, now partly in North African ports, at the dis posal of the British. To protect this trump-card, Petain must persuade the Germans to let these forces remain as large as they are, and even to send them reinforcements and supplies. Obviously this can not be done if the Germans, in turn, believe the French colonial force can be used uitimately on Britain's side,

French Not Influenced

PETAIN'S cue, therefore, is to give positive proofs to the Germans that these forces are intended for use against British encroachments and that when the case arises, they are in fact so used. To bolster these proofs, the anti-British campaign in Vichy is a useful and logical tool. Thus, to the many Frenshmen who see no contradiction between Petain’'s policy of resisting the Germans and the anti-British propaganda conducted at Vichy, the explanation is that this attitude brings good results to the extent that it permits the strengthening of French defenses, thus ultimately serving distinctly anti-German aims. Certainly the French penple as a_whole have always considered the anti-British propaganda, which is a recurrent and insistent item in all Vichy newspapers, as intended for German consumption. Its effect on the French public is virtually nil. At the beginning of December, British bombers flew over Marseilles, in unoccupied France, and dropped a few bombs, causing some damage and a few casualties. Vichy came out with an official statement, to the effect that this had been an outrageous and deliberate attempt on the part of the British to violate Frencii neutral territory, that France would not tolerate a vepetition of such aggressive action and that her Je force would retaliate if need e. ‘ This protest was played up in Germany, where it created a very good impression, as well as among the military armistice commissions whose task it is to determine the number of planes allowed to France for her own defense and the defense of her Empire. But what was the reaction at Marseilles? Was there any “indignation” as stated in Vichy? o n n

Viewed as Error

NOT IN THE least. The official Vichy version was merely dis-

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“Happy smiles greeted the news of President Roosevelt's re-elece

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missed as propaganda directed at the Germans. The general reaction as heard in trolley cars or in cafes, was that either the British had mistaken Marseilles for Genoa, the nearby Italian naval base, and that it was an unfortunate incident but one likely to occur under

the circumstances and for which certainly no grudge should be entertained against the British; or that, as the bombs fell near a factory which was producing airplane parts some of which were said to he sent to Germany, this bombing had been intentional and that was the right thing to do.

No complaints were heard any more than are heard from people living in coastal area in occupied France subjected to the constant hammering of. British bombing squadrons. On the Channel coast where hese bombings are most severe the French people turn out daily to cheer the British bombers flying low over their heads.

The Vichy Government itself enforces censorship only halfheartedly, Whereas all newspapers produced in Vichy, France, are coming out with pro-German editorials, written to order, and very little foreign news, yet the authorities let the Swiss press, which could easily be barred, have free access to France. The circulation of the Swiss press, which carries stories by British and American reporters on the war situation, has so jumped since the armistice that the Gazette de Lausanne, a Swiss news=paper which used to have a bare 3000 readers in the whole of France, now sells nearly 100,000 copies in unoccupied France alone. In Vichy, clerks in the office of the supposedly most anti-British ministers in the Cabinet may be seen at their desks reading pro-British articles in Swiss newspapers. When one asks for a paper at the newsstands in Vichy, where only people with official connection with the Government may reside, the vendor automatically proffers a Swiss newspaper.

supplied with milk from America,

They Like Roosevelt

SIMILARLY, the French listen eagerly to foreign broadcasts, both British and American. Lis= tening to such broadcasts has been prohibited—with little success—by the German authorities in occu |

pied France, but not by the Vichy | Government. Although British | wave-lengths are being “jammed” by the Germans, and few people | have sets capable of catching the short-wave American broadcasts in French, yet these broadcasts are exceedingly popular and the news they bring is transmitted by word of mouth until nearly every=one has heard it. Another proof of fundamental and deliberate tight-rope walking in regard to Franco-German and Franco-British relations may be found in the attitude of the French Government toward the United States. With a French Ambassador at Washington and an American Ambassador—a very popular one —at Vichy, Marshal Petain can hardly be unaware of the position of the American Government in . regard to the war and of all its implications. Yet there was general rejoicing in French political circles at President Roosevelt's re-election and at the passage of the lease-lend bill, which would hardly be consistent with sincere anti-British feeling, Among the people, of course, outbursts of joy are even less qualified. The news of President Roosevelt's re-election spread through large French cities at a stupendous pace while people gathered in small groups with happy smiles on their faces. “Do you know why I rejoice?” an old man was heard saying to his companions. “It is because to me Hitler is all evil, and, mark my words, this fellow Roosevelt is just the opposite of Hitler.”

NEXT—What do the French people think of de Gaulle, whose Free French forces are still fight ing against the Fascists?

Coleman Hospital to Test $25 Incubator

MOOSEHEART DOCTOR

T0 BE GUEST IN CITY

Dr. Martin L. Reymert, director of the research laboratories of Mooseheart, Ill, will be a guest May 8 of the Indianapolis Chapter of Women of the Moose. ‘ During the afternoon the chapter will hold a doll contest for the bene= fit of the Mooseheart. The contest is to be sponsored by the Child Care and Training Committee headed by Mrs. Hilda Switzer. Judges will be Mrs. Arthur L. Gilliom, Board of Indianapolis Day Nursery, and Mrs. Ralph Wikoff. The three winning dolls will be sent to Mooseheart and the remainder to the Indianapolis Day Nursery and the Riley Hospital,

RETURNS TO ARMY POST,

Sergt. James Hall Smith has ree turned to his post in the Anti-Aire craft division of the U. S. Army at Camp Davis, Wilmington, N. C. He spent the Easter holidays and his 21st birthday with his mother, Mrs, Ralph Boles, 5018 Terrace Ave, Sergt. Smith enlisted in the army in January, 1940, at San Pedro, Cal, and has served at Ft. Bliss, Tex, and in Washington and Oregon.

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 1.—If there is defeatism in Wall Stree and among many people in the country, if there Is a growing idea that the war will be over this summer with a German victory, that view is not

shared by this Government. No such outcome is taken into account in Washington’s program which is being stepped up to an ever larger scale that is driving OPM officials dizzy as they search for sufficient production facilities and raw materials. We are being pinched by unexpectedly large British requests for bombers, ordnance and mechanized equipment and shipping. Defense officials ave resurveying facilities, turning up some that have been overlooked. One auto- . mobile plant, hitherto untouched by defense orders, is being pulled in for airplane work. Another plant, already busy on defense orders, is being put to additional work and is shifting over part of its machine tool equipment for this purpose.

Nearing Volume Production We are now down to the point where we are drawing upon whatever is available. In the case of one automobile factory, 3000 machine tools were on

Developed by Hoosiers to Aid Child Health

Dr. Mettle and Dr. John Ferree, State Health Board director, said that State Safety Director Don Stiver had been very co-operative in the program. And since the incubators have been available, it has taken no longer than an hour and a half in any case to get one to the infant no matter where the birth occurred. The present incubators work on alternating or direct electric current or can be worked with hot sand bags if there is not current available.

By Raymond Clapper

slow starts and labor trouble. In the first three months of this year, actual expenditures were $2,600,000,000—which is at the rate of 10! billion dollars a year. Our old schedule calls for spending $17,600,000, 000 on defense this year and $22,800,000,000 next year. Obviously the present rate must be considerably expanded. Beyond that are the new British requests which will add to the program. This is the situation that led Jesse Jones, Secretary of Commerce, to tell the United States Chamber of Commerce that sacrifices are in store for us—plenty of them. He predicted that the national debt would rise to $90,000,000,000, almost twice its present size. All of this should provide a reliable tipoff as to this FE determination to go forward in aiding ritain,

Amazed at Pessimism

British Government people coming over here recently say they are amazed at the pessimism in the United States. I don't think their surprise is feigned because the British themselves are uncertain whether their best propaganda in America is to take the line that England is sure to win or that she is sure to lose without the help of the United States, some wishing to follow the one line and some the other line. Even some friends from Germany, in whose judgment I have much confidence, also are surprised at the defeatism in the United States. Businessmen from occupied countries on the continent also rate German chances lower than do some in the United States.

NAZI LEVY CUT

Assessed 8 Million Day for Upkeep of Army of Occupation.

VICHY, May 1 (U. P.).—France was reported in reliable quarters today to have petitioned Germany for a reduction of the 400,000,000 franc (about $8,000,000) daily assessment for upkeep of the Nazi army of occupation. The government of Marshal Henri Philippe Pelain, in a note reportedly sent to Berlin, was said to have asked also for at least partial relaxation of the inter-zone boundary line to permit an exchange of food surpluses between the occupied and unoccupied zones. The Government was reported to have taken the initiative when it appeared that scheduled talks in Paris between Vice Premier Jean Francois Darlan and Otto Abetz, Nazi “envoy” to Paris, would be delayed indefinitely because of the latter's illness.

State have constructed about 35 more and made them available. But Miss Mary Ellen Warstler, Board field nurse, was not entirely satisfied with the incubators and she called J. L. Quinn, Health Board engineer, and Prof. W. T. Miller, head of the heating and ventilating department of Purdue University, into consultation.

Together, mostly on their own time, they worked out the new incubator. It is constructed of plywood. Dr. Howard Mettle, Bureau chief, says it is equal in performance to anything on the market. Eventually, plans and specifica tions for the new incubator will be available [ree to organizations desiring them. When the Bureau realized that the premature birth rate was going up and that it had become a marked factor in the infant mortality rate it arranged for emergency delivery of incubators to any part of the State. It is not unusual for a siren-blow-ing State Police car to carry one of them to some distant part of the State in response to a call to the

A new incubator for prematurely born infants which costs only about $25 to build and yet is renorted to be as efficient as thosé now on the market for $500 will be Indiana's contribution this year to child health. And apparently, the new incubator will be delivered at Coleman Hospital for tests this week or next. Today has been proclaimed by Governor Henry Schricker as Child Health Day. Ever since the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health of the State Health Board was established in 1936 with Federal and State Social Security funds, records collected show that there are many more premature births in the State than public health officials had supposed. The number appears to be increasing yearly because of various factors which are recognized by obstetricians. . The Bureau designed and constructed incubators and made 25 of them available for use in the State. Using plans and specifications furnished free by the Health Board,

Care Reduces Deaths

This and the Health Bureau's prenatal, delivery and post-natal care for mothers and infants in seven rural counties are two of the prime projects of the Health Department in the maternal and child health’ field. : Three-year reports in the seven counties in which full-time Bureau nurses work with mothers show that the maternal death rate has declined in them from 32 to 50 per cent. Dr. Mettle pointed out that public health statistics usually are not considered reliable for periods of

hand, for use in making automobiles. A survey of these revealed that 414 were usable in aircraft production, although only 64 of them were in the critical class—that is, difficult to find elsewhere. More and more the Government is going into conversion of existing plants. OPM is pushing Congress to give it mandatory priority power so that it may move into these plants and brush aside existing civilian orders. Defense officials say that we are within a few weeks of volume production in some parts of the defense program. But much time has been lost, through

My Day

OAKLAND, Cal, Wednesday.— Yesterday morning, in Los Angeles, I visited Judge Shontz’s court. It is a court of the little people who have claims for sums

Whether these judgments are justified or not, the American Government's policy assumes that they are. Everything is planned to carry through 1042 at least. Even if the fighting in Europe shouid come to an end this year, the chances are that this Government would go right ahead with war production on the contemplated scale. For I believe that this Government thinks any peace on German terms now would not be a peace so far as the United States is concerned but would call for continued preparation for any eventuality,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

is indicated by the fact that juvenile delinquency has dropped 64 per cent since the establishment of the boys’ and girls’ recreation classes.

Berlin has not replied, informants

said, but may submit counter-pro-posals that would dove-tail with a reported German offer to restore Franco-German relations, disrupted after the desposal of Pierre Laval as Vice Premier last December.

In requesting reduction of the up-

keep charge, the Government was said to have pointed out that it was set at a specified sum although the number varies.

+f Nazi troops in France With many German divisions

shifted to the Balkans and Libya, the Nazi army of occupation was said to be smaller than at any time in recent months. estimated at times to total about

It has been

community organizations over the |Health Board by a country doctor.

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less than five years and said that there may have been other factors involved. Nevertheless, he said, the death rate in those counties had

| declined that Sharply.

For the whole State, the maternal deaths per 1000 live births has decreased from 4.9 in 1935 to 2.5 in 1940, and the infant deaths on the same basis from 51.4 in 1935 to 41.6 in 1940. In the national census taken

last year, Indiana was one of the|

seven states with lowest maternal death rates, Dr. Mettle said.

BUSSES TO_ OPERATE

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Do houseflies bite? 2—Fifteen, 30, 40 are the accepted

point scorings in what game?

3—During which Presidential Ade

ministration was the size of the U. S. paper money reduced?

4—Who was Oberon? . 5—What does the name Pennsylva=

nia mean?

6—Joseph W. Fordney and Porter J,

McCumber were authors of ‘he -famous Fordney-McCumber tariff act of 1922. Which was a Senator and which a Representative?

TO AMATEUR RODEO

900,000 men. T—Who is President of the United

of money under $50. I found it very interesting sitting beside her listening for a few minutes to their problems. From there we visited the Assistance League, a really remarkable organization, which is sponsored by a number of Los Angeles women. I gathered that Mrs. Hancock Banning, is the most active and moving force. I saw a day nursery with the children actually at play out of doors and lunch in preparation; a place for the older boys to do craft work and play games out of doors, a library, a girls’ recreation club and a welfare department where \ people are helped to get jobs and where a placement record is high. We also visited the Thrift Shop, the Craft Shop, the sewing rooms and the tearoom, where women interested in this earn mueh of the money which is given to the support of the other undertakings. It seemed a very busy spot, spread out over quite an area, but full of hope for the betterment of the condi of the people in that part of the city. This

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We went back to Mrs. Douglas’ in time to see a really remarkable collection of craftwork done by the Mexican-American youngsters in NYA groups. Though weaving and ceramics have only been taught for three months, they would be a credit to workers of much longer experience. Finally, a last visit with young Mrs. James Roosevelt and a very quiet lunch before starting at 2 o'clock to drive to Hanford, Cal. It was nearly 195 miles and, in spite of gray skies, we had one or two glorious glimpses of fields of wild flowers. In one place a sea of blue seemed to spread out before us. In another field, yellow and blue seemed to be the dominant colors. I had always heard of the beauty of these wild flowers in spring and, while they tell me I am not seeing them at their best at present, still I am extremely glad to carry away this vision of loveliness.

The government was said to have

emphasized that the treasury was faced with enormous difficulties in meeting the payments and was able to carry out that provision of the armistice only by.inflation through periodic increases in the legal limit of treasury borrowings from the Bank of France.

The note to Berlin pointed out, it

was said, also that when the armistice was signed last June 24, it was expected by both sides that the war would end rapidly and the charges thus would not continue for an extended period.

Sinc€ the armistice, however,

France has had to pay Germany

On our arrival, we drove around the very charm-|122000,000,000 francs, two and one-

ing town of Hanford and admired the public buildings, schools and charming tree-lined streets with their attractive homes. After the lecture, we said good-by at Tulare to our kind hosts and took the night train for Oakland where we are now about to board a plane on our way to Europe, Ore.

half times the normal French budget.

annual

The actual cost of upkeep of the

occupation forces was said to have been only slightly more than half of this figure.

gotta admire his persistence—he’s been working on that funnel for two days!”

Special bus service will be established to and from the Gregg Farm Sunday for the convenience of patrons at the annual Spring Amateur

Rodeo, the Indianapolis Street Railways, Inc., and Peoples Motor Coach Co. announced today. The bus service will begin at 8:30 a. m. with motor coaches leaving the Circle at frequent intervals. Busses will be stationed at the farm for the return trip after the rodeo. Patrons may board busses at the Circle or along this route: North on Meridian St. to 38th, west on 38th to Illinois, north on Illinois to West-

field Blvd. northeast on Westfield | to Meridian, north on Meridian to

Gregg Farm. The rodeo is being sponsored by the Women’s Field Army for the Control of Cancer and the Western Riders’ Association. ’

Mine Workers of America?

Answers 1—No. 2—Tennis. 3—Herbert Hoover. 4—King of the fairies, 5—“Penn’s Woods.” 6—Senator McCumber and Rep, Fordney. T—John L. Lewis. 28 8

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