Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1941 — Page 13

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"Hoosier Vagabond

FT. BLISS, Texas, May 7.—A few little disconnected paragraphs about Army life. The Army doesn't issue pajamas—the boys sleep their underwear. Quite a few boys come through—boys with good character ang intelligence, too— :

wiio can neither read nor write. ww) .

There is a night school for them. No soldier—either enlisted man or officer—is allowed to go across the river to Juarez in uniform. They can go in civilian clothes, if they get special permission. The new order was caused by a fight over there in which several soldiers were badly hurt. Transportation into El Paso for NY the soldiers is not good. They x have to ride the bus and street il car, changing several times, and it often takes an hour and a half ‘o make the trip one way. You can make it in 15 minutes in an auto. Mostly they are too tired on week nights to go to town anyway. They can either go to the post exchange and chat and drink beer, or to the recreation hall and sing. But most of them have little personal things to do, such as shining boots or writing letters, so they just sit around the tedts on their cots, and pretty soon theyre asleep.

Vust Like Home

The anti-aircraft regiments are clear at the far end of Ft. Bliss from the Cavalry, four or five miles away. Four of the five regiments are National Guardsmen called up to active duty. These are from New Mexico, Arkansas, Chicago and Washington, D. C. Just for old time's sake, I went all around the quarters of the Washington bunch. One of their several mess halls has the reputation of being the one on Ft. Bliss. The boys have done it all themselves They have stained and shellacked the tables and

nicest

benches, put curtains at the windows, pictures on the walls, and bought desert-type furniture and made sort of a little clubroom at the entrance. The whole thing, they say, cost them about $35. It

compares with other mess halls as a hobo would compare with Lucius Beebe. Lieut. Col. Leroy S. Mann is in command of the Washington regiment. He has a private follow him around all the time, to open decors and chase blown-off hats and stand at attention behind you when you stop. It's the only time I saw that at Ft. Bliss.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

ONE OF THE THINGS that continually fascinates us is the inside of a police officer's hat. Inspector Lewis Johnson's is one of the most intriguing in sown. In addition to notebook, pencil and matches, the inspector always cairies three fresh cigars in his lid. “But that’s nothing,” he protests, “last time I had to stay out all night I carried pajamas and a tooth brush. Yessir, in my hat!” . We were telling you the other day how the City Hall elevator couldn't make the fourth floor and how Bill Walker, the operator, had to jettison half the cargo at the third floor in order to reach the top. Well, they had that elevator fixed and on the first trial Bill net only went past the fourth floor, he kept right on going. The roof stopped him and he was stuck there for two hours. He said it was hot. . . . Our favorite trackless trolley operator is No. 199 on the Brookside run. Every evening at about 5, he picks up the blind man st Illinois and Washington Sts. They ride over to Alabama and Market, and then 199 stops the trolley, opens the door and escorts the old gentleman to his lodgings. Never a word is exchanged between the two. Just routine, see?

How to Take a Vacation

THE CANDY MAN on E. Tenth St. near Oiney has solved the vacation problem for the small shopkeeper who says he just can’t get away. When he’s ready. he just packs up and goes, leaving a sign in

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 7.—The view here about the war coincides with that of several unofficial military experts who have joined in a symposium stating that England can win in a prolonged war. I suspect that high officials here have their moments of doubting as every one else does. I don’t believe they have a specific blueprint of how the war will be won or when. Their faith rests upon the combined resources of the United States and Great Britain and the willingness of the British to fight for time until these resources can be made to tell. The doubting comes when we wonder if these resources can be thrown in before it is too late. Our bomber program is slow. OPM has failed to utilize, after almost a year of intensive defense g considerable supply of precious machine Those which are being used are not all run-

effort, tools ning around the clock. President Roosevelt is trying, in this effort, to be Woodrow Wilson and Bernard M. Baruch combined. The defense organization sprawls all over Washington, and the only real clearing house is the White

House. These generalities are documented whenever you talk to anybody around here.

Shipping Badly Needed pp

Congress is sluggish—meandering leisurely along over the President's request for power to requisition about 1,000,000 tons of idle foreign shipping in our ports. Large as is our defense effort, no one thinks it is big enough or that it is going fast enough. Shipping is inadequate to carry supplies to England. The doubts about the outcome of the war come down to these considerations—the question of whether we can do the job in time. President Roosevelt is paying the American people what seems to me to be a very high compliment. He has thus far made his appeal to the nation’s intelligence more than to its emotions. True, he talked about the stab in the back. He fired a shot across

My Day

SEATTLE, Wash, Tuesday. —Yegterday was a very interesting day. In the moming we went down to the Boeing aircraft factory. This was my first view of four-motored bombers. They also make smaller twomotored military aircraft, but I did not see any of them finished. One order of bombers was just completed, and the machines on the floor were there for modernization. That seems to be one trouble with building military aircraft when a war is going on. Im actual use, weaknesses of design or of armament are discovered and inventors try to find new ways of correcting them. This means that machines that have been out for a year, or even less, have to return for drastic changes. This is a tremendous plant, covering an area which seemed at least a mile long as we walked around it. I was interested to find some women sewing in one section. They still do it better than men. Our main object in being there yesterday was to attend the graduation of a group of apprentices. Washington has been one of the states that, for some

time, has had an apprenticeship council composed of

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By Ernie Pyle

Ordinarily something like that would impress me the wrong way. But in this case I sort of liked it, for you could tell the private enjoyed it, and you could tell that Col. Mann was good to the boys. And also, whether it's his influence or not, there seemed to be practically a college spirit in this whole Washington outfit.

PROBE CERTAIN INTO PEPPER'S ASPHALT DEAL

We stopped to look at one of the big new trucks they have for pulling those heavy three-inch antiaircraft guns. A pretty hefty private was in the seat, doing some work. He was naked to the waist. He apologized, and slipped on his denim jacket. Then he explained to us that this truck had 15 forward s S. “In the lowest gear you can get out and walk clear around the truck and get back in at almost the same point you got out”, he said. “It could pull itself right up the side of a building if you could get traction. It's absolutely relentless.” Col. Mann looked at him proudly. And I just thought, “Yes sir, here's your new Army, and I like it.” If an old-time top sergeant ever heard a private use the word “relentless,” he'd probably bust him one right in the jaw.

Against Going to Ware

Speaking of words, a very common one around Ft. Bliss is the word “cadre,” pronounced “cadrie.” They say it was used some in the World War, but not as much as now. It means “nucleus.” Our recent 'military expansion has been so rapid that regular Army’ organizations have had to be broken up into small groups, and these groups sent out to form the experienced core around which new organizations are built. These groups sre called “cadres.”

U. S. Asked to Pay 3 Cents A Gallon More Than State Of Alabama.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 9. .— The Senate's Special Committee Investigating National Defense expects to inquire into the asphalt contract for Elgin Army Air Corps Field in Florida, which brought forth such heavy political pressure by Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) on behalf of Pan-American Oil Co. The Florida Senator succeeded in having Pan-American cut in on half of the 3,600,000-gallon contract, though it was not the low bidder, after negotiations here and in Florida for four weeks had held up construction of the field. Representing the company as counsel was former Congressman Millard F. Caldwell, member of Senator

Although I havent gone around like the inquiring reporter actually buttonholing anybody, I have] picked up the impression around here that the of- | ficers and men of the Army, on the whole, are | against us going into the war. . I believe they are more against it than the same number of ordinary! citizens picked at random. Despite any disinterest in horses, it seems to me the horse provides something for a cavalryman to tie his spirit to, and it sets him apart, just as the! airplane certainly makes a different breed of the Air Corps from the rest of the Army. Here at Ft. Bliss I've met dozens of cavalry officers, from lieutenants to generals, and I didn’t meet a one I didn't admire. They are tanned, weathered, friendly men with obvious strength of characver. Maybe I'd better take up horses after all.

the door: “Am on Vacation. Please Come Back Next Week.” . . . With Sundays at the Airport becoming more and more of an eveni, we wonder when the City is going to get around to building that observa-| tion platform so that everybody can see... From the far and remote places of the world, ballots will he arriving soon for the annual election of officers of the Notre Dame Alumni Association. The vote will not only come from the United States and possessions but also from quite a few countries where balloting otherwise has gone out of style. We are pleased wo report that one of the candidates for president is James E. Deery, "10, our City Controller, who is running against Harry E. Kelly, '17, Michigan's secretary | of state. Both are old hands at campaigning, but| neither has made an election speech.

The Tyrants!

THE VOTE ON SIDEWALKS for Indianola Ave. from 61st to 63d Sts, was 13 to 13 and the Works Board was baffled. Especially so when they looked up the list of property owners and discovered there were 39 on the street. The Board decided that quite a few scmeones hadn't voted on the improvement and, checking further, learned that non-resident nroperty owners had been barred from voting because someone at City Hall thought they should be, although they are assessed like everybody else. | The City Legal Department was called in to say, whether non-resident property owners could vote and they just dug up an old Jaw which said, in effect: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” That settled that quickly.

By Raymond Clapper

Lindbergh's bow. He pulled out the stops on “Martin, Barton and Fish” and rolled the epithet of “appeaser” around during the Presidential campaign. But for the most part, Mr. Roosevelt has appealed to the average person's understanding, trying to convince the country that the defeat of England would create a difficult situation for us. It is fundamentally an argument addressed to intelligent self-interest rather than to emotional gulping. His effort has been only partially successful. He has tried to persuade the country to undertake on. the material side what is the equivalent of a war effort. But he has tried to do it without depending upon war emotion.

The Critical Period

It is possible that President Roosevelt believes the job can be done short of war. He is showing much reluctance to propose action that might mean shooting although he must be under considerable pressure for it from the British because they are increasingly dubious whether our effort will be sufficient without direct use of our Navy. American Presidents usually have been slow to tuke the irrevocable step. Lincoln hesitated for many weeks. McKinley was driven to it by a clamoring press. Wilson waited until the Germans gave provocation that could not be ignored. Thus far Roosevelt and Churchill have been quoting poetry back and forth, the first time in history that two leaders have used this means of writing out a tacit alliance in public. We are equally indirect about implementing it. For us preservation of British sea strength in friendly hands is the practical immediate goal. We are diverting equipment from our Army to help hold England in the war. Once the British have survived the critical period, and American resources have come te play, the impossibility of German victory will be clear. From then on, as many here see it, the military phase would become less active and Germany would be subjected to a long wearing struggle of economic warfare. That's roaming off into a vague shadowy realm. Of immediate concern is that the British fleet and the resources of the British Empire escape the fate which befell France just a year ago.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

signed a law giving the state a director of apprenticeship. The apprentice programs have been carried on. even during the depression. Young men work for four years in the shops. Fach year they cover a certain amount of work and, at the end, they are skilled mechanics with a of the whole job.

In addition to their shopwork, they take four hours|ed involved.

HOLD MERIT EXAMS FOR OFFICE WORKERS

a week of related training in the Edison Vocational School. They are paid during this period of training: beginning with a minimum of 40 cents an hour, and recei

‘the

officials that they would be: fired

favor of Pan-American with WPA

stances which he said should have

engineers on the ferred of by railroad, truck or and

blamed the procurement

Pepper's old law firm. “Undoubtedly our committee will go later into all such matters,” Senator Truman (D. Mo.), chair-| man of the investigating committee, | today. |

Other committee members mediately brought the matter to! chairman's attention after! learning that the Florida deal ramified into the War Deparument, WPA, and Treasury Department's procurement section. They enlisted the active intersst of members of Congress from three states—Florida, Georgia, and Texas. They were particularly interested in the revelation that Pan-American had sold the identical type of asphalt to the State of Alabama for

3 cents a gallon less than :t asked In its original bid to the Government on the Florida airpor:, as well as the fact that Pan-American seemed so certain of getting the contract, even though four other oil companies were bidding, that it already had 1,500,000 gallons in gy ad Se project and ready 0 unload when the bids were hy bids were It turned out, however, that none! of the oil companies was low bidder. oh offer $55,000 under Pan-Ameri-S price was made by a ia corporation, Allied IAA and when Senator Pepper began to put On pressure to have PanAmerican's shipment used at the alr field, Georgians in Congress protested to the War Deportment.

Sumners Investigates

A compromise finally evolved, providing for use of Pan-American’s 1,800,000 gallons already at hand, with Allied Materials to supply the other 1,800,000 gallons, which it purchased in Texas, and with assurances that an additional 1,800,000 gallons from Allied Materials would be taken for other asphalt needs of the Government. The facts in the Florida case are being looked into by Rep. Hatton W. Sumners (D. Tex.), House Judiciary Committee chairman, whose interest first was attracted because the company which was to supply the asphalt to Allied Materials, Inc. was located in his district. Another powerful Congressionai figure, Senator Walter George (D. Ga.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was drawn into the situation and advised the Georgia company, after a review of the facts, that he would back up its case.

“It Stinks,” Says Army The WPA comes into the story with the revelation that Senator

Pepper told Roy Schroeder, Florida WPA director, and two other WPA

unless they held up the shipment order while he was intervening in

Commissioner Howard Hunter here. : The War Department already is investigating the situation, about which engineers yesterday used the short and ugly phrase, “It stinks.” “I welcome an investigation,” Senator Pepper said today, “by an Sumners, the National Defense Commission or anybody else who wants to investigate.”

Agrees With Story

ot did oid quarrel on the facts stantially correct.” a He cited two additional circumbeen included; first, that the Army job in Florida predelivery by tankers, instead other means, second, he contended that after the original bids were opened. it for Allied Materials

He described this as “unfair” and Treasury Department office

This second point—about the addcost—seems to be

Turkey's “back door.”

ATTACKS BRING

woe ceceveRISH TOGETHER

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North and South Aid Each Other After Nazi Bombs Ruin Homes.

By WILLIAM R. DOWNS United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD BELFAST-DUBLIN EXPRESS, May 7 (U. P.).—German bombs, rained on blasted Belfast, have done more than any political effort in generations to bring North and South Ireland together. Chalked on a wall I found an inscription reflecting this new sentiment. It said: “An Irishman is an Irishman, whether he be North or South— and the rest of the world be damned.” Before leaving Belfast for sleep and rest in Dublin, Northern Irishmen found that when German bombs drove them from their homes they could find food, first aid and rest in either Protestant or Catholic shelters with no questions asked.

Belfast Gets Aid

Fire departments, ambulances and Red Cross nurses of Eire rushed to the assistance of stricken Belfast. When we pulled into Dublin, Eire Boy Scouts were on hand to aid the Northerners who sought peace and quiet and shelter in the South

Dublin itself has been caring for 3000 refugees from the North for three weeks. More arrived last night and still more are coming. Twelve hundred refugees from

lin on this train in hope of escaping German air raiders. On roads radiating out of Belfast hundreds of others moved to the countryside with their valuables crammed into baby buggies, wheelbarrows and wagons. On this train the passengers piled two deep into the seats and then jammed the aisles. A seat on this train for me meant sitting on an Irish matron’s lap. Children were everywhere. When babies cried, which was most of the time, there was always someone to give them a bottle. Although Belfast has had two heavy German attacks in the past three weeks the city is not in the class of Coventry, Plymouth, or other shattered English cities.

Sleep in Ditches

Many of the people who leave Belfast do so only for the night, heading for the hedgerows of the

open country. Suburban residents were sheltering some and others were quite willing to sleep in ditches. Luckier refugees crowded the Belfast-Dublin Express. I caught the train by crowding past scores of people rushing to ticket windows in attempts to purchase passage. I was half an hour early but caught the train only because I had a return ticket. The German attack on Belfast was stunming in its effect. It left a pall of smoke hanging over the city. After the raid only two newspapers appeared, including a single sheet emergency edition of the Northern Twig. The Evening Telegraph managed to publish. Several of the city's oldest churches were

Iraq Is Called Turke

The road te Turkey in the North of Iraq is one of the reasons quick settlement of the disturbance in Iraq. A Turkish spokesman says the Ankara Government fully approves Britain's action, and hopes for a quick settlement and restoration of order because Iraq is

bomb-blasted Belfast fled to Dub-|

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Gets Gifts From

Bottom of Sea

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| nel went overboard for the gifts, | which included a 13-pound lobster, captured in 59 feet of water, huge crayfish and exotic deep-sea creatures. | Most novel gift was coal which | the best man found in sacks at the bottom of the harbor.

DEFECTS GITED IN ALIEN LAWS

Enemies Free to Operate | Against U. S., Jackson | Tells Law Group.

WASHINGTON, May 7 (U. P.).—| | Attorney General Robert H. Jackson ‘said today that the inadequacy of

|existing legal statutes to cope with {the Nazis’ secret weapon of “nonmilitary invasion” constitutes “the greatest danger” to American | freedom. | “The wires of America today are |a protected communications system | for the enemies of Amercia,” he said in an address before the American | Judicature Society. | Mr. Jackson cited the inability of | Federal officials to intercept recent telegraphic messages from German

Back Door’

the Turkish Government hopes for a

| The entire corporation person- |

called “Batchka” area between the | Danube (“Greater Hungary.”

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POPULATION IN

BALKANS SHIFT

National Boundaries to Be Changed on Orders ~~ From Berlin.

By JOSEPH W. GRIGG JR. United Press Staff Correspondent | WITH THE GERMAN ARMIES IN THE SOUTHEAST (By Courier

cial migrations and a shifting of national boundaries are stirring the Balkans in the wake of the German blitzkreig. Touring conquered Jugoslavia with a party of foreign correspondents under German supervision, I saw stocky, brown-faced Hungarians marching in endless, horsedrawn columns to annex the so-

and Theiss Rivers to

Farther south I saw Croat sol- | diers, still in Jugoslav uniforms, do- | ing sentry duty in their new Croat state, and helping move out all! Serbians. Move Into Macedonia

And down in Jugoslav Macedonia, I saw swarthy Bulgarians arriving | in trainloads to occupy the areas assigned to them by Germany in “Greater Bulgaria,” the successor of Jugoslavia as the largest and

strongest Balkan state. In the area taken by Hungarians | are Subotica and Novisad. At the latter city, all Serbians who had moved in since 1918 had been or-

and Italian officials to seamen aboard Axis vessels in American harbors ordering ¢hem to sabotage their ships. | Recalling that he had asked Congress for permission to tap wires “to give us an equal chance on the | wires with saboteurs,” Mr. Jackson {said: | “We have definite knowledge that the sabotage of ships in our ports {was ordered by simultaneous tele|grams sent to all ships’ masters. They tell us that themselves. U. S. Is Helpless “Yet, the law officers of the United States cannot intercept those messages and use them as evidence in our courts.” He recalled that he had recommended remedial legislation to provide for handling cases of aliens who have been ordered deported but who are still in this country because of lack of shipping facilities and refusal of their native countries to accept their return. “They are not only still here— they are free,” he added. No Declaration of War “The secret weapon of the Nazis has been the failure of nation after nation to recognize and deal with this non-military invasion. Our statute law has in many respects failed to take into account this nonmilitary period of attack. A good many of the Government's abilities to deal with its defense still await the existence of a formal state of War... “Yet we would be blind to the experience of a modern war if we did not recognize that actual activity by foreign agents who are realistically, if not legalistically, enemy aliens does not depend upon any declara-

damaged beyond repair.

tion of war.”

HOLD EVERYTHING

as the ratio of the Bulgarian population increased.

Crotia and “Batchka,” the German

sullen silence.

prison term at Gary, Ind., for pass-

Chillicothe, ‘O., and came to Chicago.

home, married—but always feared discovery.

Law last fall presented a crisis for Chiolo. bors he collected affidavits of good reputation, habit and industriousness.

studied the record, questioned him and his friends. Then they called him from his job in a macaroni factory—presented him with an inscribed document, a pardon signed by President Roosevelt.

“It's a miracle . . . I'm really free at last.” '

evening of May 15 to

dered to get out immediately, taking only their clothes and money enough for their trips. Persons with whom I talked in that area said the population was only about one-third = Hungarian, but the desire to “Hungarianize” seemed unanimous. There were Hungarian troops throughout “Batchka” but they were gradually going home to be demobilized and put to farm work.

Boundaries Not Fixed

The boundaries of the new Croatian state have not yet been cefined but I saw evidence that they would reach southeast to the confluence of the Danube and Sava Rivers, opposite Belgrade. Between Novisad and Belgrade we passed village after village where houses flew the flag of Crotia alongside the swastika. Bulgarians ‘have advanced as far as Nish, 30 miles beyond the old Jugoslav border, but German quarters said the new boundary probably would he slightly east of Nish, leaving that city in a Serbia whose fate is still to be determined. Driving east from Nish to Sofia we saw a few Bulgarian flags in the first villages we passed, and more such flags

Here in Macedonia, as well as in

army cars in which we are traveling have been greeted with Nazi salutes and “Heil Hitler” shouts. But in Serbia, the people watched us in

FUGITIVE FREED BY PRESIDENTS DECREE:

CHICAGO, May 7 (U. P).—Vincenzo Chiolo, for 14 years a fugitive from a Federal penitentiary, today worked with a happy heart, exonerated of a counterfeit charge by Presidential decree. In November, 1925. Chiolo, then 18, was sentenced to a four-year

ing counterfeit bills. Two years later he slipped away from a Federal reformatory at

For 14 years he worked, built a

of the Alien Registration From friends and neigh-

For three months Federal agents

Nearly speechless Chiolo gasped

——————————————————. EXHIBIT AT SCHOOL 37 School 37 pupils will be hosts the

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At City Hall—.

MAYOR WARNS TIME IS NEEDED FOR RAIL PLAN

Sullivan Cites Negotiations With Belt Line on Underpass.

By RICHARD LEWIS

There is no longer any doubt that Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will go ahead with the W. Morris St. underpass beneath the Belt Rail= road tracks as soon as possible, The underpass is the alternative to track elevation on the South

Side. It now has been accepted at City Hall as the only practical way to remove the barrier of stee] rails which cuts off south and southwest Indianapolis from the downtown trading area. South Side civic leaders have asked for underpasses at Harding, Shelby and East Sts. and Madison Ave. in addition to the W. Morris St. pass. But these projects will end on the successful outcome on W. Morris St., according to officials. However, the decision to build an underpass and the realization of that dream are two different things, the Mayor explained yesterday. The City must enter into negotiations ' with the County ang the Indianapolis Union Railway which also bear part of the estimated

$250,000 cost. These negotiations will take time, Mayor Sullivan warned.

He did not say whether or not preliminary talks with the parties concerned are already under way.

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204 Ask For 28 Jobs

{to Berlin) April 20 (Delayed)—Ra-| If there is any dearth of applie | | cants for Police Department vacan<

cies, the Safety Board and Police Chiet Michael F. Morrissey haven't noticed it. Up to yesterday, 204 young men have applied for the 28 vacancies in the department. This is more men than the Police Merit School can handle, since only 100 are permitted to: attend the school at a time. But it presents no problem, since at least half the applicants are expected to be eliminated at the first hurdle—the adaptability exarhination. This is a tricky test, prepared by the Federal Civil Service Commis= sion on the basis of nation-wide police experience. Among other things, it helps determine whether an applicant can adapt himself to the rigors of police work, Half those who apply cannot, previous use of the test has shown. The 100 men —or less—who pass the test will be inducted into the school, where more will fall by the wayside. Of those who are left, only a few will actually be in line for jobs. More weeding out will be done by physical and psychiatric examinations and personal inter= views, given by the Merit Board. Police Department statistics show that the hopefuls applying for police jobs, only one-fourth eventually make the grade. These men are considered “tops.” That is the way the merit system works.

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Will Query Sidewalk Photogs

At its meeting yestertday, the Safety Board decided to ask the

| City Legal Department for an opin-

ion on the legality of the sidewalk snapshot business.

A representative of an organization which has been doing a side walk picture business for some time complained that the police had halted the enterprise by chasing the picture snappers off the streets. Chief Morrissey said he believed the practice was in violation of the anti-solicitation ordinance. Members of the Safety Board were not so sure. Until the opinion IS given, the cameramen may ply their trade without interference. the Board ruled.

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Chief Kennedy on Tour

Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy will tour three cities this week to ob=serve the newest defense fire fight« ing methods. Leaving Thursday, he plans to confer with Fire Department officials of New York City, Philadelphia and Washington. Incidentally, the Chief is traveling at his own expense, The City couldn't finance the trip, even though the purpose is City business.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What are the Arabic equivalents

of the Roman numerals, CD and M?

2—What does fait accompli mean? 3—Who was Secretary of State during President Harding's Adminis-

tration?

4—Name the capital of India. . 5—What science treats of coins? 6—Which contemporary of Abraham

Lincoln was known as “The Little Giant”?

7—What was the popular name of

the enforcement act for the Eighteenth (Prohibition) Amendment to the Constitution?

8—Which present-day heavyweight

boxer is noted for his interest in Yogi? \

Answers

1-C, 100; D, 500; M, 1000. 2—An accomplished fact. 3—Charles Evans Hughes. 4—New Delhi. 5—Numismatics. 6-—Stephen A. Douglas. T—Volstead Act. . 8—Lou Nova.

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