Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1941 — Page 11
TUESDAY, MAY 13, 194]
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
LOS ANGELES, May 13.—We are in a trailer factor The trailers are on the assembly line. Every two hours the line moves up one notch—and one more railer comes spilling into the outdoors. A new railer born every two hours. Nine new trailers every day. They're for the war. They're > part of the great new defense ; frenzy. We read mostly these X days of the 30,000 men laboring in the airplane plant, the 10,000 in 5 the new shipyerd, the 20.000 in f the big powder factory. But the A 300 1n the trailer-factory are working just as hard, just as feverishly. Trailer-making is one of the thousands of subsidiary beehives that must dovetail into and form the framework of the giant defense effort. The Government has a ftrailer-making program on all Some T7000 trailers are under order be hauled to the new defense factory in little trailer cities, and rented to de-
is of men have gone to work turning out homes for other people who sre making g for the war. Scores of men have to work of things to back up one man working in the ant. a snowball, a vast whirling circle of new No doubt somebody down the line is something to back up the trailer maker. But makes trailers for the trailer maker's family the trailer maker's busy making trailers? Don't =. I Teel dizzy. Maybe the trailer makers sleep
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w It All Started
These mass production trailers being turned out will be taken down to San Diego to house aire workers and their families. They will be rented the Government for $7 $0 38 a month. And I will that T've never seen as nice living quarters for s a day as these trailers provide. the contract that they shall not be dumped the public market when the war is over. That sink all the trailer makers good and proper. he Gnvernment will keep them, and use them ousing In forests and on various public works. t was the Western Trailer Co.’s plant that I saw Like many businesses, it started from nothing ist by accident. Today it is the biggest in the
“harles O'Hanlon is its founder. He was born and around these parts. He became an aeronauengineer, and back in the early 20s was building e Portland, Ore.
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)
EVER SINCE THE World War Memorial has been It, the Auditorium has been graced with the flags of the four big allies—the U. S., Britain, Prance and Ital When Italy joined up with the Nazis, the 1 banner was quietly taken down and put into a storeroom. When France went under, the tri-color came down, too, and now all you can see is the British and American flags. .. Which somehow reminds us of the discussion the junior class at the Indiana Law School got into the other day about convoys. The class finally took a vote and it came out 21 against convoys, 4 for ‘em. Katharine Croan Greenough (Mrs. Walter S.) has an article entitled “This Human Wriggle and Struggle” in the current national monthly of the National League of Women Voters. It’s a concise article on the merit system. . . . You might be interested n that Indiana's oil production in 1940 was ] t in the last 35 years—>5,290.000 barrels. to Governor Schricker: The name is Sevitzky. Here and There THE LARGE (and growing) crop of local archers s getting ready to compete in the big two-day Brown Open Tournament May 31st and June 1st at the new archerv range in Brown County State Park. . . . The hawkers and the novelty shops have heir checkered flags out again. . . . You'd never guess it, but we've just learned that the doctors are the most avid readers of the Parent-Teacher news. They to keep tab on each other to see who's speaking
Washington
WASHINGTON, May 13.—This country still is only awake, Tell-tale signs of that are seen on hand. It was a year ago this month that William S. Knudsen was called to Washington and a Government defense organization was set up. The first thing that was discovered was that there was a grave shortage of machine tools. Yet now, a year later, we are just getting around to calling for complete around-the-clock use of machine tool facilities. Furthermore, even at this late date, hundreds of machine tools are not being used as the recent survey of the National Association of Manufacturers shows. That's just one sympfom of our sluggishness. We have underestimated the job straight through. For months OPM officials insisted we would have no shortage of aluminum. Now they are taking aluminum out of civilian use and :till there won't be enough for the airplane program. Months late we realized that an enormous expansion would be necessary. Last summer some were urging exparision of | capacity. But we were assured there was plenty of capacity, enough for civilian use as well as defense. Now we have discovered that capacity is inadequate.
Business as Usual
We made the mistake of not setting out to do the impossible. We thought to take it in our stride— with business as usual. But we have had to go into price-fixing, into rationing, and a year late in some respects—as with automobiles. Bomber assemblv plants are nearing completion but the automobile industry was not put to work in time. So the parts are not coming along for assembly. The Army was caught flat-footed. A few weeks ago Gen. Marshall, Chief of Staff, ‘testified before a Congressional committee that the Army had just
My Day
~~ NEW YORK CITY, Monday—Saturday evening 1 heard the record which Lynn Fontanne made of the poem: “The White Cliffs of Dover” by Alice Duer Miller. Tt is a beautiful recording and anyone who likes the poem will enjoy it. These records were a gift and together with them came two volumes of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice’s “Letters and Friendships” which 1 had been seeking, but which had to turn up in a second-hand book sale. I am not a good person at watching for any particular item. Life becomes hurried and I forget to look, and so I am most grateful to the thoughtful and kind friends who gave me these treasures, which are going to be a continuing Joy. : Rather sadly I left Hyde Park right after lunch and reached New York City in time to go to the broadcasting studio and be present at the National Youth Administration broadcast, which closed American music week. At this last concert they sang music by Negro composers. One particularly beautiful song, “Ode to America.” composed by Jules Bledsoe, renowned American singer, was dedicated to the President. ~~ Yestreday morning I went to the big house and enJoyed a chat with my mother-in-law and Ethel, Franklin Jr.'s, wife. She has brought their Smal boy
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By Ernie Pyle
Then he came back down to sunny Southern California and went into the contracting business. He folded up, along with everything else, just after 1929. He was broken and tired and had nothihg to do. So he built himself a trailer to go vacationing in. You'd think anybody who could design an airplane could design a trailer with his eve shut. But there's an awful lot of difference. O'Hanlon’s first trailer was pretty bad. But he kept on building backyard trailers for himself. In 1935 he was still without gainful employment, so he built a trailer for anly elderly man in Hollywood.
The Trailer Depression
When it was finished, the old gentlemen asked O'Hanlon what he was going to do now. He said ne didn’t know. but that he had been bitten by the trailer bug and would like to build trailers for a living. He had no money. The old gentleman lent him $1500 without security. O'Hanlon bought some Sears-Roebuck machinery snd started in business. In 1936 he formed the Western Trailer Co. Just five years ago he borrowed that $1500, and today the company is worth at least $150,000. It weathered a terrible storm in 1837. I never heard of it before today, but the trailer industry had its own private depression in 1537. It wiped out many trailer makers. Of more than 100 in California, only a few survived. It seems that ithe trailer craze had simply got too crazy. Too many people bought trailers. Suddenly the public realized it had more trailers than it wanted. Buying stopped. The whole business took a nose dive. Unpaid-for trailers were thrust back onto the manufacturers. Those who had built up stocks found trailers sitting idle and unsold on their lots. O'Hanlon had 50 trailers on his hands. So he hooked them, one at a time, behind his car, and started out over the back roads, beating the bushes for customers. By this personal pull-and-push method he unloaded all 50 of his trailers. He had cleared his decks for a fresh start. Then, in 1€38, the trailer business picked up again, and has heen going forward ever since. Today the Western Trailer Co., has mads more than 800 trailers, not counting its huge Government contract which I'll explain later. The plant still produces two trailers a day for the commercial market, but can’t begin to meet the demand. making it.
room to make them. . | Mich.), That was the situation six weeks agoc—when the|first-hand investigation at Camp |
Governmant suddenly got trailer-minded. You ought] to see the place now. |
i where . The Citizens Gas Utility folks are still grinning over Supervisor Charley Murphy's slip in a ‘phone conversation with a customer. “Oh ves,” said | Charlie, “that heater is equipped with an intes- | tinal flue.” | Cheap at the Price |
WE DON'T KNOW whether Chariev Sallee, the parks superintendent, was poking fun at our dream! of a zoo or not when he seni over a mailing piece he has just received from the Allison Nutria Fur Farms, | Roswell, N. M. | They want to sell some myocastor coypus. Nutria | is the other word for em. They're South American | aquatic rodents, and according to the farm, “have a! body like a groundhog, head and teeth like a beaver, whiskers like a walrus and a five-fingered hand like a monkey's. Their hind feet are webbed like a duck.”| Well, if we had a zoo, Just look what we could buy. | Only $50 for a pair, too. |
Political Note: SINCE JAMES TUCKER, the Republican Secretary of State, named his long-time friend, R. Lowell! McDaniel, as deputy secretary of state in charge of} the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, everyone has been! looking for a blow up between Mr. McDaniel and! Edward Stein, who was named Commissioner of Motor Vehicles by Governor Schricker. But the blow up hasn't come and both men are reported to be telling their friends that the other is a “fine fellow” to work with. Anyway, both of them know the other will g0 when the Supreme Court rules on the G. O. P. ripper legislation.
By Raymond Clapper
finished working out the lessons from the German military-campaign in France a year ago. We were taken hy complete surprise with the new German tank-air team. Didn't know such a thing was in existence. For more than a year the Government has been trying to accumulate reserves of rubber and some other materials, which must be imported. But it has been slow going because civilian manufacture was not cut down We have succeeded in accumulating orly a half a year’s reserve supply of rubber although the source can be cut off any time the Japanese move.
We Are Still Dreaming
You can go on and finish the list yourself. There's that aircraft factory in Baltimore that still stands idle where they left it when the depression hit. There are the tobacco people, the soda pop people, the brewers and all kinds of other people trying to talk Congress out of taxing them. There are the railroads, caught unprepared by the sharp withdrawal of intercoastal ships. There are President Rocsevelt and Harry Hopkins, a semi-invalid, trying to write the script, direct the production, paint the scenery, play the leading parts and sit in the box office. There are the 100 Republican Congressmen who voted against the bill to requisition idle foreign shipping. They haven't learned anything since Munich. There is the whole country, working itself up into a lather over the convoy issue when that already has become outmoded. The real question has moved far beyond that and is whether the United States Navy goes into joint general action with the British in many ways. We are blissfully unaware that a big chunk of the British fleet is in danger of being lost in the Mediterranean, blissfully unaware that unless the British are soon convinced that we are going in with our Navy, they will probably give up and leave us on our own. We're still just about where we were a year ago— when we didn’t think Hitler could ever break through into France. We are still dreaming that we have a safe Maginot Line in England.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
to stay a while, for she will be more or less on the wing while the destroyer to which Pranklin Jr. is assigned rhoves around. My mother-in-law was going over speeches for the two broadcasts she made, as she has done in years past on Mother's Day. There is no one I know who sets greater value on the duties and pleasures of motherhood and who is certainly an appreciative person to speak to other mothers on that day. Today I had several appointments. At noon I received the France Quand Meme Relief Committee pin from Madame Houdry, president of the committee. From there I went to the luncheon given by Mr. Robert Porterfield of the Barter Theater. Here I gave the award to the winner of their annual prize. This year it went to Ethel Barrymore for her performance in “The Corn Is Green.” I certainly enjoyed the play when I saw it early in the winter, so I paid my tribute to her on this occasion with real warmth and admiration. Just a week from today, on May 19, Boys’ Club Week will be celebrated throughout the United States. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of Boys’ Clubs in America. These clubs have meant so much to the youth of our country that I hope every community will show its appreciation to the boys and to those who have worked in the organization and have made it da a
They could seli 10 a day if they had the House by Rep. Albert J. Engel (R.|
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CAMP BLANDING COST IS PROBED |
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Investigation of Florida Army Post Accompanies Asphalt Inquiry. | | By THOMAS L. STOKES | Times Special Writer { WASHINGTON, May 13 —The ‘Special Senate Committee on Na(tional Defense, headed by Senator | {Harry S. Truman (D. Mo). is making an investigation of the {high cost of Camp Blanding which {was carved partially, at great expense, out of muck lands in northern Florida. The committee iikewise is looking into “other Florida national defense projects. It is interested, among others, in the contract for 3.,600,000 gallons of asphalt at Eglin Field, Fla, in which Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla), was active on behalf of Pan-American Oil Co. And so effective politically that he got that company cut in, though it | was not low bidder. Because Of | {the Senator's intercession, the work lon that field was delayed for several weeks. | Among other phases of the cost of Camp Blanding, which at com|pletion will reach a total of $27.|740,214, the committee is giving particular attention to a very lucrative contract for crushed rock awarded to Wolfe & McLeod, of Orlando, Fla., and implications of | | political influence involved. | This contract has intrigued in- | terest because of circumstances |
Every trailer is sold even before they start | cited in a report presented to the |
Symbols of Greeks’ Despair—and Hope
Her stoic face symbolic of the tragedy that now overshadows the glory of Greece, an aged woman sits
beside the ruins of her home in Piraeus, Greek port battered by Axis bombers,
Beside her is a young
boy, possibly her grandson, a hint of the hope that Greece will rise again,
who made an exhaustive
Blanding, among others he visited. | New Firm Gets $1,600,000
The Michigan Representative said he had information “that this | co-partnership was formed last] July and that It was formed to] get in on the Blanding contract because the individuals were not | financially able to get in individ- | ually; that the New York firm | who took this job did so with the] understanding that McLeod & | Wolfe were to be given the stone | contract.” The New York firm is Starrett | Brothers & Eken, which built the | Empire State Building. | The Truman Committee is investigating reports that political in-| fluence and pressure were brought | to bear to cut Wolfe & McLeod in by giving them the crushed rock! contract. This circumstance is interesting in connection with later | developments cited by the Michigan | Representative. | The Government spent a total of | $1,247,000 for the crushed rock]
|from Wolfe & McLeod, while their |
share in the rental of heavy equip- | ment was between $400,000 and $500,000, according to Rep. Engel.
Threatened, Then Fired H. W. McKenzie, who was ap-|
| pointed construction superintendent
jor Starrett Brothers & Eken, last Dec. 20, recommended against the use of any further crushed rock. | He proposed to finish the roads with surplus rock left from various parts | of the camp reservation and recommended that a motor parkway to be | constructed be built by the socalled stabilization method, by
binder which, it was estimated, would cost 65 cents a square yard as compared with $1.15 for the crushed rock under the Wolfe & | McLeod contract. Members of Congress have Te-| ceived information that Mr. Mc-| Kenzie was threatened by Mr. Wolfe that he would be fired if he did not
continue to use the rock and if he] continued to cut down the rental of heavy equipment from McLeod &| Wolfe. The rental charged was far above the Associated General Con-| |tractors schedule. | Mr. McKenzie was fired March | telegram from Brig. Gen. |
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|15 in a Brehon Somervell, assistant quartermaster general, with no reason | given in the telegram other than mention of the fact that Mr. McKenzie was a brother-in-law of Maj. W. M. Cochran, who was supervising construction quartermaster for Camp Blanding.
Report Praises McKenzie
Shortly after Mr. McKenzie was fired, the Army ordered Wolfe and McLeod to deliver 60,000 tons of] rock at $2.15 a ton, the price that had been charged, or $129,000, to finish the work which Mr. MecKenzie proposed to complete with surplus rock. In his report the Michigan Congressman praised Maj. Cochran and Mr. McKenzie for what they had accomplished after they took over in December, citing savings they
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SOMEWHERE ON THE DEMARCATION LINE BETWEEN UNOCCUPIED AND OCCUPIED FRANCE.— All along the 800 miles of the demarcation line which cuts
France in two, a secret war goes on. This is not simply the everyday war Parisians wage against un-
machine-gun fire, and blood.
| wanted neighbors, but a real war with shots, pursuits in the woods,
Men and women risk their lives daily to help their fellow country-
men who want to pass from one side of the border to the other.
them the Germans are still the enemy, and the war is still going on. They won't admit defeat and keep on fighting, never doubting final victory. Mme. Truchon is the personification of the France which refuses to be beaten. She lives in the little village of Dreumont, somewhere in unoccupied France: a tall buxom woman of French peasant type. Aided by her husband and two daughters she runs
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Rifles Crack at Times
DREUMONT IS JUST a mile from the demarcation line, and at night you can hear the barking of the German police dogs, the gentle purling of the brook, and from time to time the sharp crack of a rifle. Here come to rest all the poor devils who have succeeded in passing the demarcation line without that torture symbol of occupation the ‘“‘ausweiss,” without which no one may pass into unoccupied France. Because of German red tape it takes about a month and a half to get an “ausweiss,” and then only a person whose pockets are
| full of identity papers, and money
geis one. Therefore, everyone who has had urgent business on one side or the other of the demarcation line has had to find some clandestine way of passing, risking his life if he is shot at, or his liberty if he is captured. Dreumont has the reputation of being a convenient place to get through, and Mme Truchon's clients are numerous. Her favorites are escaped prisoners who are entertained with piping hot food, hot wine and warm beds.
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Doors Open to Refugees
WHEN THE ARMISTICE was signed Mme. Truchon had a reserve of 40 kilos of sugar. All this sugar was put in glasses of hot wine to cheer up prisoners who escaped after months of hardship in German prison camps. Night and day, Mme. Truchon'’s door opens to admit escaped prisoners. The word has been passed
For
The accompanying story was written by an American newspaperman who recently passed through France, for whose integrity the editor can vouch, but whose identity for obvious reasons cannot be disclosed. The writer suggested that the dispatch should be published with the following note for the German secret police: “All names of persons used in this story are purely fictitious,. Only the activities described are true, Inasmuch as the demarcation line is 80) miles long the writer is certain that the persons involved cannot be identified.”
around and all mewcomers to Dreumont in the middle of the night know the little back window, behind which Mme. Truchon sleeps lightly. Mme. Truchon has worked out an ingenious postal service for passing correspondence through the lines, the silly little postcards allowed by the Germans being entirely inadequate. Every week she passes through a couple of hundred letters, often providing stamps for people who have forgotten them. You see, she sells wine to a hamlet on the other side of the line, She passes with a few barrels of wine innocently packed on her car. The wine may be inferior but no one minds if the letters escape the attention of the Germans. This is, of course, highly illegal, and Mme. Truchon may well find herself one day in a German jail, but that doesn't seem to worry her. It was at this good woman's inn that I met the “Captain.” He is known by no other name. He is the head of the “passeurs”— a new profession which this war has provided for daredevils in France. A “passeur” is a man who helps those who have no “ausweiss” to cross the border.
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Risks OQutweigh Pay
THERE ARE a hundred ways of crossing the line, from the greatly dangerous to the simply dangerous, none of course being entirely safe. You can make
had made in total costs in several directions, including equipment and | labor. He said Mr. McKenzie was | construction superintendent of the | Michigan Highway Department as | far hack as 1923 and had had years | of experience both as an engineer and contractor. | Rep. Engel said he did not know | whether there were any other rea- | sons for his discharge other than the brother-in-law connection. But if that were the reason, he said, and if the Government would adopt that rule and discharge everyone in Washington “who has a brother-in-law, sister-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law, or some other relative on the pay roll, there would be an exodus of Government employes out of the city of Washington, like the children of Israel leaving Egypt—and they would not be > their way to the promised an >»
CUT HOLIDAY TRIPS, REICH PEOPLE TOLD
BERLIN, May 13 (U. P.).—Railroad officials today appealed through the press to the German people to curtail their customary rail journeys to the country during the Whitsuntide holidays. Special application cards were issued for travel between May 29 and June 3 without which it will be impossible to make train trips. Traffic restrictions were the same | as were imposed during the Christmas and Easter holidays and were said to have no connection wi |
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French Continue Secret War With Germans Along Demarcation Line:
vour way through the fields without any papers, or you can boldly present yourself at one of the barriers with forged papers. The “passeur” is your adviser and guide.
Of course, the “passeur” takes money for his risks, but his risks are far greater than the money he takes. As in all professions black sheep exist who may land you right in the middle of a German patrol because the Germans happen to pay more, but this is rare.
The “Captain” doesn't work for money, but for the game of it. He fought brilliantly throughout the war, got the Croix de Guerre, and instead of joining De Gaulle, discovered that thrills could be found in France without going further afield. The Captain told me his story one evening when we were entirely alone in the big bar of the inn under the smoky lamp. From habit, he lowered his voice. He slips into occupied France at least twice a month, and there he meets escaped prisoners, and brings them back to free France. Up to now he has to his credit a record of 3000. n ” 3
Capture Means Death
HE SHOWED ME his book with all their signatures. Names I knew were there, names of friends of mine, perhaps names of friends of vours. I noticed the name of a general. The Captain goes even into Germany to rescue his friends. He knows that if he is caught it means death. He also knows that the Germans now have his name and description. That does not scare him. “You see, I have a unique job,” he said. On his last trip but one, the Captain fell into German hands just when he was crossing the border. The Germans knew who he was, and there was no hope
for him. He was to be taken to |
a fortress in Germany and shot. By good luck, in the station to which he was taken, there were other prisoners. When the Captain’s name was called, somebody made a mistake and answered. ”n ” n
Day of Reward May Come
THE CAPTAIN sat silent and followed a group of prisoners detained for some minor offense. During the jorney he jumped out of the train as it slowed down at a turn and remained for three hours in a ditch, From there he made his way back to France and arrived at a village, close to his farm, where he knew the priest had just died. He borrowed the
~ priest’s cassock, and went safely
across the border. The captain was leaving next day for another of his trips. I accompanied him to the line. The part of the line where he decided to cross this time was a little wood. half way up a slope, which rose from a plain, cut in two by a small brook. The line passed just on the edge of the wood. In the distance, the dogs could be
| heard barking. You could see the | hut in which the German patrols
sleep. Taking off his shoes to cross the brook, the Captain explained in a low voice that the Germans have now replaced the young storm troopers by old service men. Patrols are consequently slower. Each patrol goes out in turn and returns to the hut to exchange equipment because they have only one set of equipment for two patrols. “I must try to cross just when the patrols are busy changing over, We never know the exact moment, as their time table changes every day,” said he. A few seconds later, he was across the brook. and starting to climb along the slope. I looked toward the little hut, ready to warn him if anybody were coming. Nobody came. The Captain had arrived on the edge of the wood, and with a discreet wave
of the hand he disappeared into |
it. I came back wonering if I had been the last person in unoccupied France to see him alive, and rejoicing that France still produced such men. ~
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At the State House—
SALE OF AUTO PLATES SETS NEW RECORD
53,000 Increase Revealed in Passenger Cars; Drivers’ Permits Gain Too.
By EARL RICHERT
Today, for the first time since automobile license plates went on sale last December, Motor Vehicle License Bureau officials got caught up enough on their work to find out just how many plates had been sold. And it was just like they thought —more than ever before. Up to May 1, 1941, plates had been purchased for 803,827 passene ger cars, over 53,000 more plates than were purchased for passenger cars during the same period last year. The 53,000 increase in passenger plate sales is a sure sign of increased prosperity m the state, according to Charles E. Skillen, assistant com« missioner of motor vehicles. “The more money people have, the more cars they buy,” he said.
Other Sales Soar
Plate sales on other types of moe tor vehicles also have soared above last year's mark, which was an alltime high. The following chart shows the increase in all types of license plates and drivers’ licenses sold up to May 1, 1941, as compared with the nums ber sold up to May 1, 1940:
VERICLE LICENSES
1941 803,827 12,38
Gain
Passenger plates. 750,214 53,613 Truck veinainvey THREE
Trailer
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DRIVERS’ LICENSES Beginners’ permits 479 17,550 Conditional .. "122.125
uffeur , 13.383
Bus, Cab drivers. ” | Charlestown Overloaded With all hotels, rooming houses and tourist camps in the Charles« town area filled to capacity with de fense workers, the State may have to make Louisville, Ky., “in-bounds” for State employees traveling on of
| ficial business in southern Indiana, | At present, no employee can leave |the state while traveling on an ex|pense account without an official {permit from the Governor. And State employees, such as {Gross Income Tax officials, who (have to visit the Charlestown area |regularly, can find no place to stay lat night and have to drive 40 or 50 |miles—at four cents a mile—to find |lodging. | State Auditor Richard T. James is endeavoring to wipe out the extra mileage cost by getting the Governor and the Budget Committee to allow State employees traveling in [southern Indiana to go into Louis= |ville to spend the night without an official permit. “But, of course, we would allow them to go into Louisville only for their lodging,” Mr. James said, | “They could come back into Indiana [for their breakfast.”
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Forest Fires No Threat
Forest fires are no longer a se|riows threat in the wooded sections |of the state because of the recent |general rains, Paul A. Yost. State | Forester, reported today. Fires during the past 10 weeks caused approximately $300,000 worth {of damage to the state's wooded |area. u n ”
‘Rhea Gets New Job
Howard Rhea, Hendricks County | Democratic chairman, has been em= (ployed as a temporary examiner in [the State Insurance Department, |still controlled by Governor Schrick« ler. | Mr. Rhea was “let out” recently las head of the gasoline tax refund |division by Republican State Audie tor Richard T. James.
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Bids for 19 new bridges will be received by the Highway Commis« sion on May 27. The bridges, to cost an estimated $550,000, will be built on State roads in Marshall, Fulton, LaPorte, Randolph, Montgomery, Hendricks, Decatur, Floyd, Sullivan, Switzerland, Washington, Jackson, Scott and Lawrence Counties.
TEST YOUR ~~ KNOWLEDGE
|1—Are international automobile { drivers’ licenses issued in the United States? |2—Over what country Ptolemies rule? |3—In which Canadian province is Halifax? 4—-What is the franking privilege? | 5—TIs it easier to lift a weight in | water than in air? 6—Name the successor to President Andrew Jackson. |7T—Are persons born in the Philipe pine Islands citizens of the United States? 8—Do thunderstorms cause milk to sour?
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Answers 1—No. 2—Egypt. 3—Nova Scotia. 4—The privilege of sending postal matter gratis. 5—Yes. 6—Martin Van Buren. 7—Only when the parents United States citizens. 8—No.
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