Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1941 — Page 18

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 194i

The Indianapolis Times

Hoosier Vagabond

LOS ANGELES, May 8—We got the “goin’'” urge, go we just lit out and made a forced drive all the way from El Paso to Los Angeles. The way we came it's more than 1000 miles, and we were two and a half davs at it. In spite of having driven this route many times, I still felt when we started that it was just a brief jaunt across the desert to the sunny Pacific shores. For, when you get as fat west as New Mexico, you can’t help but feel that you've practically got your foot in California’s kitchen door. But I'll tell you, I thought we never would get to California. We drove and we drove, and the miles and the hours and the days wore on, until honestly it seemed we had been driving all our lives between New Mexico and California. And it wasn’t because we were going so slowly, either. For the new car is now limbered up, or broken in, or whatever the term is, and we opened fier up to our usual speed of 50. And that seemed so terribly slow—this new car being smooth and silent and easy to ride in—that 50 was just like an anesthetic, so we crawled up to 60. For five years, in the other car, we have never “driven above 50 miles an hour. That was largely because we were riding under a canvas top, and we didn’t hanker after getting upset under a canvas top.

Grief for the New Car

We had a high limit of 50 for so long that it got to be a mission with us, and we felt righteous about and paraded this virtue in front of wicked drivers. But this new car being so easy and everything, we've decided to set 60 as our very top speed. But it has a canvas top, too, so I suppose we're flirting with peril We've already had a minor tragedy with the new It got sand-blasted. Yessir. You know that sandstorm in El Paso I mentioned the other day. Well the car stood out at Ft. Bliss that afternoon, broadside to the wind. When I got back to it I noticed that the engine gtarted and the steering wheel was still there, so I paid no further notice.

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By Ernie Pyle

But when I drove into the garage, they noticed it immediately. The glass on the right-hand side was simply speckled with little holes. I'll bet there would literally be a million if you had the patience to count them. And the brand new paint was in the same shape. So we talked it over with the insurance people, and they agreed it should be repainted and reglassed. Which will be done whenever we return to New Mexico—provided our insurance covers sand storms. Our policy itself is in Washington—and, since I'm one of these guys who never reads anything he signs, the insurance may cover nothing but Indian Ocean typhoons for all I know. I hope the California slickers who read this don't take advantage and hand me something to sign.

No Escaping Indiona

This new convertible, incidentally, has solved the daytime sleeping problem for That Girl. Every afternoon now when the sun and the steady drone of the wind and the monotony of long straight roads wafts her into Sandyland, we just stop and she climbs into that back seat and curls up with her head on a topcoat, and sleeps soundly all the way from Holbrook to Winslow, or some similar distance. It takes a load off my mind, for during all these years when she slept sitting up in the seat beside me, I was on pins and needles every time we went through a town for fear I'd get arrested for carrying a corpse. But now they can’t even see her. We spent one night on the way out at a de luxe tourist camp at Flagstaff, Ariz. Some of you may remember reading about it before. We spent several days there two years ago. It is called Arrowhead Lodge, and I believe is the nicest place we've ever stayed outside of a hotel. Well, the other night when we got in we were admiring the furniture all over again. It is dark and rustic, and very fitting to the high wooded beauty of Flagstaff's setting. We said to ourselves, “You have to come out here to find stuff like this. They couldn't do anything like this any place but out here in the West. Which would have been all right if That Girl hadn't up-ended a wooden bench, read the trademark, and discovered that it was made in Martinsville, Ind. A fellow can't even have a good, local illusion any more,

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

A MOTHER LIVING on the West Side phoned during the noon hour yesterday. Her son, she said, had been instructed by his teacher to get the breakdown on the Wayne Township (Inside) tax rate and told him to call The Times. We said we'd cail back right away. The Auditor being the official that supervises the setting of the rales, we called the auditor’s office. A young lady answered, didn’t know the answer, spent some time inquiring and then informed us the woman who had the figures was out, but suggested we call the Wayne Township Assessor. We did. The only thing we could find out there was that the total rate was $341. Then we tried the Treasurer's office. After explaining to the young lady a couple of times what we wanted, we were told to wait. We could hear a discussion about who ought to answer the question, but they had the newspaper wrong. Then a man came on. “Well,” he said, “the school city rate is 96, the Civil City, 1.26, the County, 43, the State 15, and the township and schoo) rate is 1.57.” We told him that the people inside of the City don't pay the township school rate and asked him for the part of the township rate the City residents do pay. He insisted that they do pay the entire township rate, schools and all. We knew better, buf no amount of arguing would convince him. Finally he went and got the breakdown on the township. “Township fund,” he read, “2 and a quarter cents, poor relief 36 and three quarters, poor relief bond 22, special school bond 12 point 8, and special school 83 point 2.” We asked why the city residents of Wayne paid gpecial school when they don’t in Center. We Were assured they did. A little pencil detecting proved him wrong again. Adding the school, civil city, county and State, we get $280. Add to that the township fund, poor relief and poor relief bond and you get $3.41.

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 8—In ordering a new addition to the bomber program, President Roosevelt is responding to the tough realities of the war. Bombers, not men, must constitute the British expeditionary

force of the future. If looked at in terns of the previous war, Britain's hcpe of taking the offensive seems negligible. That explains much of the pessimism in this couniry, such as Lindbergh’s statement that the British are through. Germany hes 260 divisions of hard, tough, trained and experienced fighting men. They are abundantly equipped. No army in the world, including Russia's, can stand up against the German army in a land campaign. I'm trying to talk cold turkey here, not defeatism. The Germans have invented the air-tank team. That gave them their spectacular victories in France and the Balkans. It is demonstrating its power in Africa now.

The Need for Bombers

This air-tank team work is recognized by military men as the most revolutionary change in warfare since the English introduced masses of long-bowmen against the mounted knights of the French at Crecy, 600 years ago. Until then cavalry was supreme. The foot soldier, with his long-bow, operating in masses, simply demoralized and slaughtered the French mounted knights. It was a demonstration of mass fire-power, so to speak. Warfare was built on that development thereafter, coming to its climax, or disintegration perhaps, in the trench warfare of 1914-18. Germany broke away from this method. She put her artillery in the air by using the dive-bomber. We experimented with this some years ago and discarded it as impracticable. We are now adopting it. Germany increased the firepower, mobility and pro-

My Day

CHICAGO, Wednesday.—I never leave my family in Seattle without real regret, but yesterday afternoon I had to go. This has been a rather longer visit than usual and we have done more things which were not purely part of a family reunion. Yesterday morning, before leaving, I went to see some of the National Youth Administration work. Their resident project here is not as yet finished, but they have some defense training similar to that going on in various places. I had some difficulty getting clear in my mind the various types of training which I had seen. That which is being done under the apprenticeship council and in collaboration with the Edison Vocational School, is i under the Hughes act and has ~ nothing to do with defense training. Defense training is being carried on in three other vocational high schols. As in other places, they must take 50 per cent of the people to be retrained from the WPA program. I was told there had been seme difficulty here because so many of their WPA prople never had a skill. The other 50 per cent in this defense training program are either employed

We called the woman back, but her son had gone to school without the information. Sorry.

That's a Pal for You

RUSSEL: E. CAMPBELL, Hizzoner's secretary, was toiling in the back yard of his new home on Pennsylvania St. the other day, shoveling dirt from one place to another place. The task was complicated by the fact that the only tool he could find was his son's toy shovel. Hig efforts attracted the admiration of a group of workmen excavating in the next lot and they approached with proffers of help. “Looks like you need a little assistance, Boss,” said one. Mr. Campbell wiped the sweat from his brow. “Guess I do,” said he, hopefully, seeing his labors at an end. One of the workmen waved a giant, sixfoot shovel in the direction of the unshoveled dirt. “You take this shovel, boss, and you'll get through a lot faster,” he said kindly.

Around the Town

THE BOYS AT Eastern Airlines here are talking about two of their colleagues, G. B. McClure Jr. and Frank Shaw. Mac asked Frank to accompany him on a double date and Frank glanced out of the window, saw it raining and said: “Whoo! Too-wet-to-woo!” . . . School 78 pupils have a private mystery that baffles even the police, When they came to school earlier in the week they found a message chalked on the sidewalk saying “Help, taken to 1010 W. Michigan.” Officials say the handwriting wasn't that of a child, plus the fact that whoever wrote the note checked to be sure there was no such address. . . . And talking about schools, figures are practically bouncing off the walls of the small office of H. L. Harshman, the school system's statistical man, He and his secretary are figuring out next year’s school budget which is complicated by the fact that the recently granted raises to teachers cover the six months of 1942 of the next school year and not the four months in 1941,

By Raymond Clapper

tection of her ground forces by using the tank instead of ground shock troops. This combination may prove beatable but the answer has not been found. No answer is possible so long as there is no way of landing vast quantities of men and mechanized equipment on the continent of Europe. Any possible answer of that kind is so far in the future as to be fantastic. Unable to offer resistance in a land campaign, the alternative is to attack from the air. That means a different kind of warfare, conducted with a totally different conception as to method and objective The objective cannot be to literally destroy the German army. It must be to paralyze Germany by attacking her nerve centers of production, destroying her materials, demoralizing Fer transportation, and all the while wearing down the morale of the nation. That calls for bombers primarily. Bombers and hombs in unlimited quantities.

A Case of Endurance

Does it seem an impossible undertaking? The future will answer because it is going to be tried. That is the reason Mr. Roosevelt is reshuffling the defense program to put the heat on bomber production. The chances? Even or better perhaps. Germany is spread out thinly. Gasoline or substitutes are plentiful but lubricating oils are restricted. Germany is having difficulty with rubker—substitutes proving inadequate. Underneath the Nazis is the smouldering spirit of sullen peoples all over Europe. Taking all of Europe, Germany still is short and will be short— of wool, which is essential for mixing with substitutes, of rubber, of lubricating oils, of animal fats. Britain must be considered as an outpost, a gigantic air base, supplied from the United States. The United States Steel Corp. alone is producing now at a rate equal to the total rate of all Germany when the war began. This corporation's production rate is equal to that of England, France and Belgium combined at the time the war began. We have unlimited aluminum, once production facilities are expanded, and unlimited oil. In a wearing struggle we can bleed Germany to anemia. That's the general line into the future as it is being considered here,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

and coming in for refresher courses, or young people from NYA who can qualify, or from some other qualified source. I think it is safe to say that cuts in WPA everywhere in the country are affecting adversely the married or single woman who is the bread-winner for her family. In many cases a really serious condition is being brought about. The whole question of WPA cuts should have some careful revision and consideration. People removed from WPA and who still cannot find work, go on relief, with an increased burden on the locality and a loss of self-respect to the individual. In addition to this just now, I think there is on the part of many of the women a great sense of injustice. In the case of NYA, the quota everywhere continues to be filled, because all eligible young people were never on NYA in the past. I have a suggestion in a letter from a woman and it has been running through my mind ever since I read it. She feels that we should start some gigantic projects for saving and processing all kinds of foodstuffs in preparation for feeding a good part of the world some day. I have been wondering if every community should not start the study of what could be done with every kind of waste material. Here'I am in Chicago, and I shall spend the morning getting a good rest after thesnight on the plane.

‘Hitler

By John T. Wh

This is the fourth of John T. Whitaker's revealing series on how the prospects of a Nazi victory jeopardize the security of the United States.

SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE. — The situation in French North Africa, the sudden tightening of police measures through the Vichy zone and the shortage of food, no less than Admiral Darlan’s tendency to force fleet cooperation with Germany, offer Hitler the hope of swift action for the final conquest of France and the completion of the “New

Europe.” French North Africa has been an enigma to most observers. The German and Italian armistice commissions there have not carried through the disarmament of the French forces and indeed Gen. Weygand’s army has been expanded somewhat so that some even estimate that it totals 360,000 men, though the most reliable estimate is 100,000. There were many rumors through the winter from Casablanca and Oran as well as from Vichy. It was known that Petain had sent Weygand back to Africa despite the protests of Laval and the Germans. “If German demands become impossible,” Marshal Petain was quoted as having said to Weygand, “you will know how to act. With or without orders from me you will know what your duty is as an officer of France.” The Germans seemed undismayed by these reports that led London and Washington to count on the possibility at least that Weygand would swing his army over to De Gaulle'’s “Free France.” Petain and Weygand evolved the formula that they would defend the empire in its integrity against any power that threatened its violation. The Germans had no intention during the winter of threatening Morocco, they so informed Petain and Weygand. ” » ”

A Lost Opportunity

THE Germans must have been very frightened when Wavell destroyed Graziani’'s Libyan army,

BRITISH, NAZIS IN SUPPLY RACE

German Losses Believed Heavier Than Admitted In ‘Suicide’ Attacks.

By RICHARD MOWRER CoP nd” Uh LBD RR fT me CAIRO, May 8 — The present comparative lull in the western desert and—with the exception of the nuisance war in Iraq—in the

Eastern Mediterranean area, may be taken to indicate that both the Germans and British are engaged in a race to get equipment, supplies and materials to where they are supposed to get. While the Germans in Greece, the Aegean and the Dodecanese Islands conceivably are getting organized for another effort, the British themselves are preparing to meet their onslaught. There is good reason to believe that each day that goes by with the Australians holding out in Tobruk and the British holding their positions in the Sollum area, favors the toughness of the British defense agairst eventual enemy pressure.

Loss In Greece Heavy

The British did lose much material in Greece. On the other hand, control of most of the Empire’s sea lanes, together with the opening of the Red Sea to American shipping, favors British replacement of lost material. It is a race against time: for the British to distribute materials with which to fight to where they will be most effective. Your correspondent believes that German losses in the war to date are higher than the Germans admit. ‘This belief is substantiated by description of one favorite German method of attack. The Germans’ first attack rarely succeeds. The Germans launch a massed infantry push, intended to compel the defenders to open up with all the automatic arms they have. The infantry is simply mowed down. In return, the Germans are able to spot the locations of some of the defenders’ defense posts, whereupon they bring up 42 howitzers right to the front line and wipe out the nests. Then they launch a second attack, this time supported by tanks and maybe dive bombers as well, and maybe they break through.

" Method Is Costly

This type of attack is necessarily costly. It has been tried at Tobruk with costly losses and without success—perhaps because the Germans had to use the Italian infantry for their preliminary suicidal attacks, perhaps because the defense of Tobruk is pretty good. Your correspondent understands that the British anti-tank units perched ,on trucks have done well in desert fighting against enemy tanks. In the opinion of some military experts the tank already appears somewhat outmoded, at least for the type of warfare involving great distances such as in the western desert. As for heavy tanks, they are slow as well as partially blind due to the necessary armor. The Germans have gingerly tried out eight-wheeled cars, armed with

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“The next two months’ period finds France between harvests and faced with starvation for the first

time unless wheat and the like continue to come in from America.”

marched steadily across Cyrenaica and threatened to continue undisturbed to the Libyan-Tunisian frontier where they could have made contact once again with their former French allies. But Greece declared its intention of fighting even in the event of the inevitable German intervention and the British went on the defensive in Libya, thransferring troops from there. If Weygand has ever intended to fight against the Germans that was his moment. Four German panzer divisions had not then been transferred to African soil. Africa could have been swept clear of all Italian forces. Spain was neither ready nor willing then to intervene against French Morocco. He had only some 300-odd planes, mostly Curtiss-Wrights, based far south near Marraketch, ana he lacked every kind of supply including even ammunition for small arms. But supplies and ammunition were not badly needed for such a move at that moment and they could have been transported then from America. Is that possible now or in the period when Hitler starts cleaning North Africa and the western Mediterranean? Since that critical moment—assuming that Weygand was ever capable of fighting again against the Germans—Hitler has acted quietly but quickly in preparation for the moment when he will take the initiative in that theater.

On Feb. 6 five Donier transport planes flew into Casablanca with German officers and soldiers. Until that date civilian control and port authority had been in charge of German and Italian officials. The two, moreover, had their spies and agents throughout the whole of the French Empire in Africa. But they had not sent down military units.

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Nazis in Key Towns

SINCE FEB. 6 the Germans have arrived daily and steadily, according to trustworthy quarters. There is no key town with less than 200 German officers and men. They are not allowed to walk in the streets in uniforms. They have been given whole apartment houses or hotels for their lodgings. I have checked the names of their dwelling places in cities as far apart as Casablanca, Oran, Marraketch and Dakar. This German infiltration comes at a moment when two things are likely to have a very important effect on French officers in Africa. The Germans have got into the Deuxieme bureau, the famous secret service of the French army. As a result the Germans know exactly what the French do and do not know and every French officer is aware that what he does and reports is known to the Germans so that he can be called up for arrest at any hour merely for do-

Italy's Worst Foe in Greece Was Mud, General Claims

By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent TIRANA, Albania, May 8-—Gen. Ugo Cavallero, commander-in-chief of Italy's armed forces in Albania, paid tribute yesterday to the courage and valor of the Greek soldiers, but said Italy's worst enemy was the mud which was so deep that mules were drowned in it. Receiving at his headquarters here 21 foreign correspondents, who have just completed a tour of the ItaloGreek battlefields, Gen. Cavallero said he was grateful for Adelf Hitler’s statement that the quick German victory in Greece was partly due to previous fighting by Italians. “The terrain of Italo-Greek fighting was more difficult than the battiefields of the last war,” he said.

Sailors at Sea

Work in Shorts

WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P.). —Shorts for working sailors and rayon neckerchiefs, instead of silk, are among the Navy's latest fashion notes. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox disclosed that white working shorts are being worn on vessels operating out of Hawaii and in the Asiatic Fleet. They are not worn in port. Rear Admiral Ray Spear, chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, said the rayon neckerchief is undergoing an “abuse test” to determine its wearing quality. The change is being made in line with the Navy's policy to use American-made goods when possible.

HOLD EVERYTHING

“The Greek is a valorous and courageous soldier, but mud was our greatest enemy.” “Men and officers had to drag themselves through mud,” he continued. “Motorized units could not bring up supplies, which had to be carried afoot, or at best, on muleback, causing delays of 12 to 14 hours. “I, myself, marched afoot and on muleback through this mud. Often I had to dismount because I floundered in mud up to my waist so I could help the poor beast. Many mules drowned in the mud. “I am glad we have been able to give our blood contribution successfully to Axis victory,” he added, “and I am sure of a final Axis victory on all fronts.”

F. D. R. GAINS, BUT CONTINUES REST

WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today continned his recovery from an upset stomach condition but is expected to “take things essy” for another day, ut least. He has decided to remain away from his executive office for another day and to hold his appointments to a minimum on the advice of Dr. Ross T. McIntire, White House physician. Yesterday, when his temperature was three-fourths of a degree above normal, he remained in his White House study and cancelled all but one engagement— with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York.

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ing his duty in an intelligent or capable way. Nothing is so likely to undermine the moral of French officers who, while carrying out the orders of Vichy, have been waiting, nevertheless, for the time when Weygand would fight once more on the British side. This is what they have hoped for when they have gone to Morocco as reserve officers or when they have enlisted in answer to advertisements in Vichy or when they have flown planes to Weygand instead of flying on to British lines. Similarly, morale will be flattened by the success of the Germans in Cyrenaica and in the Balkans. Nothing can save French Africa or bring it in on the British side short of serious German reverses or an immediate entry of America into the war. The French are impressed with German victories.

Given Death Lists

KNOWING THIS, the Germans have suddenly tightened the control of their secret police in the unoccupied: zone. In Marseilles in the last 10 days the Germans have started herding Frenchmen together on the sidewalks, putting them in trucks and taking them to concentration camps by the hundreds. Their papers are inspected carefully. A man whose political and military record shows that the Germans have nothing to

INDO-CHINA TIED T0 TOKYO ORBIT

As Logical Result of Warlike Moves.

By A. T. STEELE

HONGKONG, May 8-—The economic accord signed in Tokyo between ' the governments of Japan and Indo-China fulfills prophesies made by neutral observers months ago and just about completes the drafting of Indo-China into Japan's “Greater East Asia sphere of coprosperity.”

The chief item of unfinished business now left to the Japanese in Indo-China is the extension of military and naval penetration into the southern half of the colony where the Japanese must have naval and air bases if they plan to proceed on their program of southward expansion, War Gestures Worked

It is interesting to note that Japanese naval vessels and military planes, seni; to Saigon ir southern Indo-Chin& a couple of months ago, have largely been withdrawn since the conclusion of hostilities between Thailand and French Indo-China. Most of . the 5000 reinforcements dispatched to Tonking in northern Indo-China also have been removed though a premanent garrison of between 6000 and 10,000 Japanese still remains in that area. It now seems plain that the chief purpose of these warlike gestures was to bludgeon the French into acceptance of a Japanese-dictated, peace. It worked. In Thailand, back door to British Malaya, Japanese political penetration continues at an undiminished pace but the Japanese so far have refrained from using their army or airforce.

Neutral Experts Puzzled

Neutral military experts are a bit mystified by the slowing up of Japan’s southward advance into those two small countries. However, they warn against complacency. Any violent immediate Japanese move either into southern Indo-China or Thailand would, they” point out simply alarm the British, Dutch and Americans into intensified preparations, remove the element of surprise, and possibly precipitate new economic reprisals from the United States. The treaty largely wipes out IndoChina's high customs barriers against Japanese goods. Much of Indo-China’s tin and rubber which formerly went to America will be diverted to Japan. It is expectable that the volume of trade each way will be equalized. Formerly Tndo-China sold Japan five times as much as she bought from her.

NAVY RECRUIT OPTIMISTIC SYRACUSE, N. Y. (U. P).—Mur- | ray Ballou, 17-year-old Navy recruit, {hopes his past experience will influence his officers to train him for deep-sea diving. Ballou explained he made numerous underwater excursions of nearby Green Lake with a homemade diving helmet made from a mop pail ¥

New Trade Treaty Viewed

fear from him is quickly released. Others are held three or four days. Others are taken to concentration camps. Others are shot. . Simultaneously, in Vichy, the Germans have started a campaign to round up Frenchmen and foreigners they have been unable to locate heretofore, according to a reliable informant recently escaped from Vichy through the underground. Important French police officials are called in, given a list of 10 names, told to have them or their bodies within a given time or be responsible with their own lives. A French police inspector found that an important anti-Nazi German on his list had committed suicide. He dug up the body and took it to the Germans before they would be satisfied. These signs that Hitler's hour approaches for swift action to complete the conquest comes when the French food shortage is becoming acute so that the Germans can scarcely expect to bleed the French of much more in the next four-month period.

Half of Cattle Lost

TRUSTWORTHY FIGURES will suffice on wheat, meat, sugar and fats. The 1940 wheat crop was under 40,000,000 quintals as against 71,000,000 for 1939 and against normal French needs of 80,000,000, Less has been sowed for this year’s crop than for 1940, fertilizers are lacking, there is no gasoline for tractors, binders and the like, livestock has been requisitioned and there is a complete absence of such things as binder cord so that wheat cannot be shocked as usual. In 1940 France had 3,500,000 head of cattle. The Germans have taken more than half and the rest have had virtually no fodder. The 1940 sugar crop stands at 400,000 tons as against 950,000 for 1939 with current prospects worse. Fats come from Africa but the Germans take virtually all of them and tHe French mistakenly sowed only seeds, counting on the Germans granting them some importations from Africa. Actually the Germans are in every southern French port and they confiscate virtually all foodstuffs and fats coming from Africa. The next two months period finds France between harvests and faced with starvation for the first time unless wheat and the like continue to come in from America. Unable to loot France in this period, the Germans will have small reason not to complete their invasion in the drab period before foodstuffs begin to come in again.

NEXT: Hitler's plans in Spain.

Honor 'Father' Of Mother's Day

ON FEB. 7, 1904, Frank E. Hering, editor of the Eagle Magazine, made the first public plea for a nation-wide observance of Mother’s Day at the old English Opera House here.

Sunday the Indianapolis Aerie No. 211, Fraternal Order of Eagles will commemorate the event. Special Mother’s Day services will be held at the Indianapolis Aerie office, 43 W. Vermont St. Mr. Herring has been designted by the American War Mothers as the “Father of Mother's Day.” A tablet in his honor was placed in the lobby of the English Hotel 10 years ago. Members of the local Aerie taking part in the observance are Jacob L. Smith, Fred Harris, Jack Edward Mahoney and J. W. Jones.

QUEZON SEEKS LOAN MANILA, P. I, May 8 (U. P). Philippines President Manuel IL, Quezon plans to send Secretary of Finance Manuel Roxas to Washington to negotiate a $200,000,000 loan from the United States Import-

Export Bank for the Philippines, it was learned today.

MARKS 6TH YEAR

Monument Chapter, 549, O. E. S., will celebrate its sixth anniversary with a dinner meeting at the Masonic Temple, North and Illinois Sts, at 6 p. m. May 12 and with initiations at 8 p. m.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1-—-What is the popular name for a fight to the finish between two or more airplanes? 2—Does writing “Please Rush” on an ordinary letter speed it through the mails? 3+~Which States are named for Presidents. 4—Samurai, Samovar or Samoyed is a name for the Japanese military class? 5—Disregarding Australia, name the largest island in the world. 6—Who bequeathed his fortune to found the Smithsonian Institution. T—Was “King William's War” fought in America, Asia or Europe? 8—Name a woman member of the British Parliament who is a native of Virginia.

Answers 1—Dog fight. 2-—No. 3—Washington is the only one. 4—Samurai. 5—Greenland. 6-—James Smithson. T—America. 8—Lady Nancy Astor. ss 8 8

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