Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1941 — Page 17

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 194]

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

LOS ANGELES, May 15--The airplane factories of America have become so big and efficient and wonderful it's enough to make an aviation old-timer sit down and weep. Why, I can remember when an airplane factory actually consisted of a shed and 10 men. But out here I've just seen two factories that work 25.000 men each There are eight big airplane plants in this Los Angeles area. They employ, roughly, 85,000 men. By mid-summer they will be up to 125,000, maybe even 140,000. Two of the eight plants are brand new, unbelievably immense and modern to a fantastic degree. They are just now getting started. One company alone is hiring 1000 men a week. Airplanes probably will never come rolling every few minutes form an assembly line as autos do, but just the same they're “rolling out the bombers” from here in a manner that is amazing to me. Surely by this fall Southern California will be producing at least a fourth of Mr. Roosevelt's famous 50,000 a year. Everything has grown so fast I don’t see how one keeps track of it. A friend and I were jokingly conjecturing the other evening about the probable plight of poor Donald Douglas, the president of Douglas Aircraft.

Few Transports Made

Unless he’s superhuman the thing surely must have gotten entirely away from him. I'll bet he could walk through his factory today and see things he never heard of before. He's paying more than 25,000 men, and probably most of them wouldn't know him if they met him on the street. There are three Douglas plants. The home plant is in Santa Monica, which is really the west end of Los Angeles, not far from the sea. At Douglas they're still making a few of the big silver transports that have become almost synonymous with airline travel the world over. But very few indeed. There are about nine transports in the plant, for Pan American Airways and Northeast Airlines. That's all. Bombers are the main thing. They are twomotored light bombers, and very powerful. They've already started making a name for themselves in the English skies,

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

THE INNER MANIPULATIONS of the great game of politics always intrigues us and so we had no end of fun when we ran into this latest little tidbit of the eternal clash of the factions within the factions. Sheriff Al Feeney is generally supposed to be looking with favor on the idea of running for the Democratic nomination for Mayor next year. The party organization, on the other hand, is generally supposed to look on the Sheriff's ideas on this subject with great disfavor. All of which led to a visit to the Sheriff the other afternoon by a couple of very, very big shots from the county committee. “Youre going to be happy, Al’ said one of them. “The boys have decided to let you run for County Treasurer.” “I haven't got the slightest intention of running Treasurer,” retorted Mr. Feeney. “But it's a cinch, Al," argued his caller. “As Treasurer all youd have to do is to show up once or twice a year at the office and draw ten thousand bucks salary.” “Well, if it’s such a cinch,” drawled Al. “I don’t see why the office shouldn't be eliminated.” The big shots left in a huff. Still in it, too, we hear,

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Washington

WASHINGTON, May 15.—Like everyone else I find the fantastic flight of Hess out of Nazi Germany a completely irresistible real life detective plot. I have read the countless theories about it. The one that to me seems most plausible is that Hess has refused to go along with a very recent decision of Hitler's, Probably the decision in question relates to Russia and was one which seemed to Hess to betray Naziism and the interests of Germany as he conceives them to be. Remember that Hess was an original Nazi. He assisted Hitler in jail while “Mein Kampf” was being written. The main thesis was that Germany must entrench on the continent by crushing France and Russia. Communism was the deadly enemy of original Germany could regard Great Britain as a potential collaborator. That was the basic line of “Mein Kampf” foreign policy. Hitler berated the old regime for what he regarded as its stupidity in becoming entangled with Britain in 1914. He conceived of Germany supreme on the continent, England as the great sea power, the two operating as a team.

Hess and the Russians

Events did not work out that way. When Hitler saw that Great Britain was not likely to acquiesce in German domination of the continent and was ready to fight, he made the first deal with Moscow, in August, 1939, to neutralize Russia. Obviously Hess went along with that because only a short time later, Hitler named him as the next in succession after Goering. Obviously Hitler was at that time convinced that Hess was thoroughly loyal. Apparently Hess retained his standing until very recently. He was prominently on hand for Hitler's birthday April 20 in the Balkans. On May 4, Hess addressed aircraft workers at Augsburg urging them to greater services for the Fuehrer. On May 10 he delivered himself to tiie enemy,

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. —Lunching with the ladies of the Senate yesterday was very pleasant. I particularly enjoyed having in front of me a most beautiful centerpiece of magnolia blossoms, white against their dark green leaves. At the ends of the table were vases with white Easter lilies and snapdragons, but it seemed particularly beautiful to me to look into those cup-like magnolia blossoms. The District of Columbia §- brarians came yesterday to look at the books which the American booksellers have presented to the White House Library. Then they joined my garden party on the lawn. It was the first garden party we have had this year and an almost perfect day. Now and then the wind would take a lovely lady's hat and she would have to clutch it, but otherwise it was neither too warm nor too cold. The Marine Band played delightfully and, in listening to them, I forgot to be tired. The grass was particularly lovely, and so I appreciated the desire of the gardener to keep me moving just a little so the jong line of guests would not wear a path across the

Naziism.

By Ernie Pyle

They have a tricycle landing gear, with one wheel right out under the nose, and they land and taxi level, instead of being cocked up at an angle, This | gives them a strange and vicious appearance. We spent several hours walking through the fac tory, and probably saw less than half of it. There] is no confusion in this great plant. There is consid- | erable noise from the automatic riveters, but not | nearly as much as in the Curtiss fighter plant I visited last fall in Buffalo. Men work mostly in small groups or teams, building one section of a wing, or one side of a fuselage, or installing wires and cables and tubing. The plant is light and airy and the work is clean. The men mostly wear brown duck pants aad shirts. The idea at Douglas is not to let any part of the plane get too big until the final stage of putting it together. Hence the wings are made in fairly small sections, and not assembled until the plane reaches the last of the assembly lines. I asked cver and over, in the various factories, just how much time elapsed from the first lick of work until a completed plane rolled out onto the runway. But there is no answer. Because nobody knows where a plane starts being made. No Hurry or Frenzy It starts in a hundred different departments. In one department they might punch out certain curved flanges for a thousand planes. All thorugh the plant men are working on things that don’t even remotely resemble an airplane. It is only when all the hundreds of pieces hit that final assembly line that you could really guess what they were building. The workers in the aircraft plants are nearly all young men. You have to be above the average to get a job as an aircraft worker. That's the explanation of why so many people come out expecting aircraft jobs. and are disappointed. Why, at Lockheed, only one out of every 25 applicants is acceptable! At Douglas there seemed to be no atmosphere of | hurry or frenzy. People appeared to be working leisurely, and frequently stood in small groups talking. To me, it was a terrific contrast to the last big factory I was in—a munitions plant in England. There the workers, half of whom were women, were going at a mad pace. Of course airplane work, by its very nature, is different. You simply can’t make airplanes in a frenzy. So I'm not drawing the contrast in an accusatory sense. But I do wish they'd spot a few men around just to look worried, anyway.

Around the Town

CECIL R. SWAIM, president of Circle Engraving, and a brother of the State Supreme Court’s chief justice, is recovering at Methodist Hospital from a serious attack of undulant fever. He had to have five blood transfusions, the last from the judge.... Indiana's new Home Guard is almost completely equipped now. Rifles, scabbards, shorts, ties, etc, have all been distributed. Everything but pants and caps and they've been promised the pants by the end of this week. . . . Business has been so good, the Pennsy has decided to keep the “South Wind” running to Florida all summer. . ... To the workman who lettered the street at 38th and Northwestern, the accepted way of saying it is not “Keep To Rite.”

A Lesson in Geography

LITTLE PATSY DONNELLY (of the 3249 N. New Jersey Donnellys) caught up on her geography this week. Patsy's folks were going riding and Patsy called her best playmate, but her chum’s papa said she had gone to Obedience, Ind. Patsy spent half the afternoon with her parents’ atlas and roadmap

Marshall: ‘Go to Work Right Now’

No. 1 Soldier Obeys Own Order, Toils Long Hours to Build Army; Has Always Been a Fighter

By GERRY DICK Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 15.—A brigadier general, newly assigned to the office of the Chief of Staff, recently report-

ed for duty to Gen. George Catlett Marshall.

Gen. Mar-

shall greeted him by handing him a sheaf of papers tagged

with the red “urgent” sticker.

“You'd better go to work

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right now,” he said.

Thus the man who commands all of America’s land forces—answer=

able only to the President and the

his own actions what he has so often put into words:

Secretary of War—summed up by “A few years ago

we had lots of time and money. Now we have lots of money and no

time.” When Gen. Marshall took office in September 1939, the U. S. Army consisted of 250,000 officers and men. Today, a year and a half later, that army has grown to 1,250,000—the number which the Chief of Staff had told Congress was “the very minimum necessary for the immediate protection of the continental United States.” The job. accomplished through the unrelenting self-discipline he developed during his student days (when he spent holidays taking 30-mile hikes at parade ground pace), has shaded the General's hair from sandy blond to gray.

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On the Job at 7 A. M.

TO GET HIS job done, he arrives at his office in the huge, cream-white Munitions Building at 7 a. m—nearly two hours before his subordinates. He seldom leaves, even for lunch, until 7

p. m—and then he usually is carrying a brief case full of “homework.” His air-conditioned office has the atmosphere of a man who gets things done. It is simply equipped with brown leather furniture. A bronze equestrian statue of Simon Bolivar stands on a corner table. The polished brass nameplate which proclaims his Chief of Staffship is seldom on his huge, ornate desk, which first belonged to Gen. Phil Sheridan. The desk is bare save for the papers he is working on at the moment. “To cut red tape, you've got to be deadly accurate,” he says. Despite the pressure of his work, Gen. Marshall is unhurried, composed, soft spoken. On these sultry spring days, when the trees outside his window are a distracting reminder that war plans do not keep pace with the season's advence, he greets a caller with steady courtesy, is as attentive as if he did not have another thing on his mind. He may be wearing a gray, pin

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stripe, flannel suit, blue shirt, darker blue tie. He takes off his steel-rimmea spectacles, sits down and asks you to find a comfortable chair. Tall, angular, he has the healthy look of a man who takes good care of himself. He keeps in condition by riding every day, sometimes after work as well as before breakfast. At 60, he can wear out many younger officers on his staff.

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Gives Up Swearing

A VERY moderate smoker and drinker, he enjoys having a few friends in to dine at his No. 1 Ft. Myer house, but dislikes big

parties. An excellent racenteur, he had to learn some new stories since he recently decided to give up swearing. “It has just occured to me,” he told a junior officer, “that a man swears because he hasn't an adequate vocabulary to express himself.” And he added as an afterthought: “Anyway, it's a —— low habit.” His first wife, who was his VMI “drag” (military for best girl), died in 1927. His second wife was a Shakespearean actress before her first marriage. Marshall's step-daughter, Molly, to whom he is devoted, recently left home to marry “in the army.” The General recently bought a house in Leesburg, Va. and when he retires in 1944, he will divide his time between the fox hunting country and his summer cottage on Fire Island, N. Y. He likes to shoot and fish, and for a quick change from his rapid-fire routine in Washington he likes nothing better than to pack a lunch, hire a rowboat and spend a Sunday pulling up and drifting down the Potomac River. He hasn't had a real holiday since he took his job. When he can get a day away from his Washington desk, he gets into a Beechcraft plane and makes a flying inspection trip to watch ma-

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Gen. George C. Marshall . .

. “battle” plans in hand, he views maneuvers at Ft. Benning, Ga., from a plane.

neuvers in the field or the testing of new planes and guns.

Pershing’s Tribute

HE IS POPULAR with his men, although his dignity never allows him to be matey with them. He is almost invariably patient with the less understanding of his subordinates, but it irks him to have an officer repeat a point he has made. He has a phenomenal memory and an ability to concentrate that makes it unnecessary to tell him anything twice. Gen. Pershing, to whom he was senior aid for five years, called him the best organizer he ever had and summed up his unique genius with the tribute: “George Marshall understands military.” Except for Gen. Leonard Wood, “the doctor from Harvard,” George Marshall is the only nonWest Pointer to become U. S. Chief of Staff. He says he doesn’t remember when he didn't want to be a soldier. The Republican Congressman from Uniontown, Ky. refused young Marshall an appointment to West Point because his father had voted the

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Democratic ticket. So George enrolled at V. M. I. He was only a fair student, graduating 15th in his class, but his soldierly qualities won him the Senior First Captaincy, V. M. I's top undergraduate honor. After graduation he got a commission as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry, assigned to the Philippines. Here he had his first opportunity to distinguish himself. The officer in command of large scale maneuvers was suddenly taken ill. Young Marshall was suggested as the man who might understand the problem involved. The commandant asked him: “Do you know how to draw up a field order?” “Yes, sir, I think I do.” “Well, then, draw one.” ” ” Directs Clever Maneuver

YOUNG MARSHALL'S plan for the islands’ defense was so successful that one of his superiors remarked: “It’s too bad that that youngster can't be made a brigadier general.” His next big chance came in

France, when he was made responsible for the secret movement of 820,000 men and equip-

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ment for a surprise attack in the Meuse-Argonne sector. He com pleted the maneuver in 14 days, and it proved one of the cleverest operations of the war. About this time his superiors began to watch his career, and when the war was over, he re=turned as Gen. Pershing’s senior aid. When made Chief of Staff he inherited an army led by officers who clung to tradition like moss to a tree. To wrench them from textbook tactics, he put 70,000 men in the field near New Orleans for maneuvers. Things went badly and every one expected the Chief to take it hard. Instead, he was pleased. “It showed us our shortcomings,” he said, and by “us” he meant the opposition to his streamlined methods. When he took office, Gen Mare« shall told Congress: “The Army machine is probably less than 25 per cent ready for immediate action.” Just a month ago he gave another report. He said that the Army is “now over the hump,” with 1,250,000 “properly organized recruits” receiving training and “exhibiting the highest morale I've ever seen.” More than any one man, George Marshall is responsible for put= ting the Army “over the hump.”

looking for Obedience. Only to have her little friend say next day: “Oh, I was naughty and had to spend | 4 the afternoon in my room.” . . . The ornare 4 office has got around to checking up on places which sell firearms without a permit and they have three outfits under the old thumb right now.

By Raymond Clapper

Whatever it was that drove Hess to such a de- | cision must have occurred during that interval. If it were a simple matter of Hitler having turned upon him, Hess might have been deeply hurt. He might have committed suicide, under the ancient code of the soldier who has unwittingly brought down upon himself the contempt of his superior. If Hess had felt himself personally wronged, that would be the most likely extreme course—not betrayal to the enemy,

Hoped to Save Something?

One who really believed in Naziism as Hess apparently did could have been moved to this strange desertion only with the hope, however fantastic and unbalanced, that it might save something which to

him was more precious than his Fuehrer, his life, or the winning of the war. To say that Hess did this merely to save his own life is to put an extremely low and dubious rating on a man who could not have won Hitler's confidence if he had been a physical coward. To me this incident connects with some great decision that Hitler has made within the last few days. Hitler has two basic courses open. One would be to turn East now into Russia and nail down his food and oil. The other would be to push through Spain, reach the west coast of Africa, come out into Dakar, the Cape Verde Islands and the Azores and draw the sea noose around Britain. European dispatches suggest the second course is the one probably just decided upon. It means letting Russia off,

choosing to go arm in arm with Communism down the long corridor of the future. If Hitler comes out! into the Atlantic that probably will draw the United | States into the war, | One can imagine Hess, the strong disciple of early |

Naziism, rebelling at such a complete reorientation of Indiana University.

State House—

SEEK SCHOOLS IN DEFENSE AREAS

State to Ask U. S. Cash; Talley Appointed to Make Surveys.

A program to get Federal money to build schools in the booming defense communities was launched today with the appointment of Harley Talley, statistics instructor at Indiana University, to make a survey of schooi needs in the defense areas.

The appointment, made by Dr. Clement T. Malan, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, was made possible by a recent $5500 appropriation for the purpose, made by the State Budget Committee from the $200.000 civil defense fund created by the 1941 Legislature. Mr. Talley’s first survey will be in the Kingsbury area. site of the new shell loading plant. A survey already has been made of the Charlestown area and the Federal Government has been asked for $300,000 to build a new school at Charlestown. Dr. Malan said that Federal officials, when asked for funds for school houses in the defense areas, had asked that the State supply a complete set of statistics on the needs. This is what the various surveys to be conducted by Mr. Talley will do, he said. "Aiding Mr. Talley in the Kings{bury survey will be Dr. Wendell Wright, Prof. Harold Moore, Dr. E. E. Eaton and Dr. W. W. Patty, all Mr. Talley’s

which would mean Germany's departure from the salary will be $3000 annually.

Western World and would embed her into the Oriental East. That may‘have been too large a dose for this fervent Nordic to swallow. Anyway it is the most plausible of several dozen theories as I look at it,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Later, I received the Hungarian Minister and his wife for the first time since their arrival. Then I had guests from California, Dr. and Mrs. Remsen Bird, who came to spend the night. We had a very pleasant dinner and were much interested in seeing some photographs which Mr. Thomas Campbell brought back from his stay in England. He has also seen my aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. David Gray, in Ireland. It was delightful to receive first hand news of them and to have Mr. Campbell say that he thought Mr. Gray was doing a wonderful job, and that he enjoyed being with them. Mr. Campbell feels, however, that Ireland could be producing more foodstuffs for herself and for others than she is doing at the present time. This is sad news, for I have heard from other sources that many factories are closing down and there is great unemployment and resultant hardship among the people there. If they could put their energies into intensive agricultural production, therefore. it might make life easier and this would seem a partial answer to their problems. This morning I am trying to catch up on what seems like almost an unending amount of mail. There are also a good many things which must be read. The President sounded quite cheerful yi very busy this progressing

Quits Livestock Post

Dr. V. F. Saylor. Zionsville, quarantine officer and supervisor of swine diseases for the State Livestock Sanitary Board for the last eight years, resigned today to enter private business. He will become affiliated with the Cutter Laboratories, Berkley, Cal, as their Indiana representative.

BEAN BLOSSOM GETS CHURCH REPAIR CASH

Times Special BEAN BLOSSOM, Ind, May 15.— A committee to repair the Bean Blossom Church with funds which have been collected for that purpose will be appointed Sunday at an allday meeting and basket dinner. will be the Rev. Edgar Woodard of Bloomington, the Rev. Curtis Keck of Poland, Ind, and the Rev. Walter Waltman of Tomahawk, Wis. The Campbell sisters of Helmsburg will provide the music. Former residents are to be special guests.

U. S. MAIL LOST AT SEA WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P). —The Postoffice Department has announced the loss of 2369 sacks of mail through the sinking of the

morning, and I think everything is with him.

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procs fired

| bring sight to a blind youth,

Cornea Applied To Restore Sight

PITTSBURGH, May 15 (U. P). —A cornea removed from a young woman just after she died may it was revealed here. Three years ago, Ralph Voelker, 20, was blinded when a whitewash spray exploded in the basement of his home and both eyes were blinded by lime. His only hope to have his sight restored was the transplanting of a living cornea to replace his own. Several days ago, a young woman was burned so seriously that there was little hope for her recovery. A friend suggested that if she died, the cornea of one of her eyes might serve to restore sight to the youth, After the young woman died, the cornea was removed and transplanted to young Voelker's right eye. When the bandages are removed it will be learned whether his sight has been restored.

RADIO STARS BOOKED FOR MURAT'S SHOW

Vaudeville acts by radio performers will feature Murat Temple's last theater party of the season Saturday night. Judge Dewey E. Myers, potentate, announced that a dance will be held in the Egyptian room following the program. The party is one of a series sponsored by Murat Temple in {connection with Shrine Imperial Council session here next month. The semi-annual ceremonial of the local Shrine Temple will be held Saturday, June 7.

WIGGAM TO TALK T0 SCHOOLMEN

Elementary Education to Be Topic for General Club Discussion.

Dr. Albert Wiggam of New York will address an annual “ladies day” meeting of the Indiana Schoolmen'’s Club in the Claypool Hotel Saturday. Dr. Wiggam's talk will follow a discussion on “Modern Developments in Elementary Education.” Those who will participate in the discussion, to begin at 10:15 a. m., are Prof. Harry N. Fitch, Ball State Teachers’ College; Miss Anne DeBlois, "supervisor of Evansville elementary schools; Mrs. Carlton Brown, supervising teacher, Headley School, Indiana University; Miss Mabel Holland, supervisor of Ft. Wayne elementary schools, and Ralph N. Tirey, Indiana State Teachers’ College president.

Supervisors Invited

At .a noon luncheon, Ralph W. Wright, Indianapolis public schools music director, will lead group singing. The Manhattan Trio will pro-

vide dinner music. Dr. Wiggam will speak at 1:30 p. m. Invitations have been sent to elementary supervisors in the state, officers of the state P.-T. A, the State Teachers’ Federation, the Schoolwomen’s Club, Pi Lambda Theta and the American Association of University Women.

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“Now would you be kind enough to show me an furlough?”

George Calls

for Senate

Inquiry of Asphalt Contract

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 15.—Interest developed from a powerful and influential Senate quarter today over the Eglin Field, Fla., asphalt

contract in which Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) exerted so much political pressure on behalf of PanAmerican Oil Co. Senator Walter George (D. Ga.) announced that he would ask the Senate to withhold action on Presidential nominations to two important WPA positions. The Senator contends that the two nominees must not be conrirmed until there has been a thorough investigation of the part they allegedly played in delaying award of the 3,600,000-gallon asphalt contract. A Georgia corporation was the low bidder, and finally filled the order, but the execution was held up several weeks while Senator Pepper tried to get the contract shifted to Pan-American Oil Co. which had bid a substantially higher figure. The two officials are Roy Schroeder, Florida WPA director, who was nominated regional WPA director for the southeast, and Wilbur E. Harkness, Florida procurement director, who was named to succeed Mr. Schroeder as state WPA director. Both appointments were recommended by Senator Pepper and his colleague, Senator

{Charles O. Andrews (D. Fla.).

Reports have been brought to members of Cohgress that Senator Pepper brought intense pressure upon the two officials, with threats that he would block their promotions unless they did what he wanted done in connection. with the asphalt contract. Somewhere along the line, the award was held up after the Treasury Department had certified the Georgia corporation as the successful bidder. “I will ask that the nominations be held up until investigations now in progress are completed because of matters brought to my attention in connection with the asphalt contract,” the Georgia Senator said. He was referring to inquiries started by both the House Military Affairs Committee and the special Senate Committee on National Defense headed by Senator Harry S. Truman (D. Mo.). “I am not undertaking to pass upon the facts in this case, but there should be a thorough investigation of all the facts before the nominations are passed upon. The whole business should be aired.” The nominations now are pending before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator George is familiar with the asphalt contract. He interceded at one point during the long negotiations started by Senator Pepper, when the Army was about to give the contract to Pan-American. He protested to Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson. Subsequently, Pan-American was given a contract for 1,800,000 gallons which it already had on barges near the field before the bids were opened, while the Georgia company was given a contract also for the

original amount of 3,600,000 géslons.

Senator George's action in holding up the nominations is rather une usual, and indicates the importance which he attaches to the behinde the-scenes manipulations concern ing the contract. Unusual also is the fact that two committees of Congress have instie tuted investigations of a member.

GROTTO CEREMONIAL SET FOR SATURDAY

The annual spring ceremonial and uniform parade of the Sahara Grotto will be staged here Saturday with delegations from other cities attending. Harold G. Lanham, Grotto mone arch, announced that a feature of the ceremonial will be the induce tion of a large class of candidates

at the Grotto home, 13th St. and Park Ava. The parade will start at 3 p. m, on Central Ave. and proceed south to Ft. Wayne Ave., thence to Pennsylvania St. to Ohio St, west to Meridian St. and north to the World War Memorial, where drill maneuvers will be held. Alvin Light will be marshal, James Moore band director and Jess McClure drum major. Chester Pruitt will command the ‘drill team and John Sproule the drum corps. A buffet luncheon will be served at the Grotto home following the parade.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1-—Except in 1812, this country has entered each of its major wars in the month of ? 2—Where is the Drin River? 3—Over what kingdom did Frede erick the Great rule? 4—In magnetism, do like poles attract or repel each other? 5. What is the second line of this couplet? “Little Boy Blue come blow your horn,” 6—Toc whom was James Roose velt, son of the President, recently married? 7—Do United States Senators and Representatives pay postage on ofe ficial letters?

Answers

1—April. 2—Northern Albania. 3—Prussia. 4—Repel. 5—“The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.” 6—Romelle Schneider. T—No.

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