Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1941 — Page 8

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SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 24.—The population of San Diego has jumped between 60,000 and 75,000 in the last year. The litle old town is now rocking around “a quarter of a million souls. The little old town is getting awfully big. San Diego is the real boom town of the West Coast. I had heard so much about it that I expected to have trouble getting a hotel room — even pictured myself romantically sleeping in the car the first night. . But when I drove into San Diego in mid-afternoon, the auto courts had “Vacancy” signs out, and .the streets were no more crowded than I had always remembered them. Winter tourists were still lounging around as usual

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tourists. And when I inquired at a hotel, they had plenty of rooms available. All this surprised me, so I went to a friend and said, “How come? I had understood people were pushing each - other off the sidewalk down here.” . “That's Los Angeles propaganda,” he said, “to - keep people away. Our boom is perfectly healthy and orderly. It isn’t like an oil-town or gold-rush boom.

A Normal Expansion

“For one thing, take Consolidated Aircraft, which is the biggest thing here. It has 16,500: employees now, and will have 30,000 before the summer 1S over. Well, it expects its commercial business to be so big after the war that it will always employ no less than 15,000 men. That means at least half the aircraft workers will stay. 3 : “And right now the Navy is gone—it has been away at sea for more than a year. The Navy is a big thing here, you know. ] «As soon as the war is over, the Navy will come back. It will move in and fill up the hole left by the departing aircraft workers. : “And then we have other businesses here, too. Canneries and fruit and all that. They won't all fold

PRORILE OF THE WEEK: Edwin Rogers Smith, the noted psychiatrist and neurologist, whose No. hobby is the Speedway and who has been chief physician at the track for. the last few .years. He has been connected with the Speedway ever since he came here in 1922 and from J the time the drivers start arriving in April, he’s at the trdck every day whether he’s needed or not. He loves to swap shop talk with the boys. : He used to sign his name as “E. Rogers Smith,” but dropped the initial some years ago. Most everyone knows him as “Rogers” or “Rog.” He looks more nearly 30 years of age than his 49. He is about 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs about © 145. He has a neat, inverted-v mustache, black hair, and smiling hazel-green eyes. His smile and laugh are ready and infectious and he gets a lot of fun out of life. His volatile nature makes him one of the most vivid personalities in town. He i$ full of nervous energy—the human dynamo type—and he is almost always in a state of perpetual motion.

Breakfast for Five, Please

HIS LIFE AS a doctor keeps him too busy to do many of the things persons in other occupations do. The last movie he saw, for instance, was “Snow White.” He keeps the radio on constantly, both at home and in his car, although he is not always listening to it. He reads everything he can get his hands on and goes through newspapers: from front to back, religiously. He frequently falls asleep while reading and with the radio going full blast. He delights in parties because they are an op--portunity to sit down and exchange wit with friends. He won't have anything to do with bridge, or any other game you play “for blood.” He considers it a waste of time and effort. ; He eats tremendous breakfasts and thinks nothing of downing steak and potatoes, fruit, biscuits, etc, washed dowh with several cups of black coffee, all for preakfast. And, strangely enough, he eats rather lightly

at other meal times.

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 24—It sounds fine to say, as defense officials are saying. that a year from next fall we shall be producing 500 bombers a month, With the aid of a little imagination, it is easy to make a fine speech about what we are going to do sometime. More to the point is what we are doing now. The snail's pace of actual defense work is recorded in the slow motion figures themselves. Our ‘schedule called for spending $17,500,000,000 on defense this year. That called for paying out the money at the average rate of $1,458,000,000 a month. What are we paying out? In the first four months of tHis year we paid out $3,700,000,000. That averages $925,000,000 a month“in- . steag of the $1,458,000,000 average needed to make the schedule. Therefore, to make the schedule, during the remainder of the year our payouts must almost double. During the next four months the averdge payouts need to jump to $1,500,000,000 a month, During the last four months of the year they would have to average $2,000,000,000 a month, more than twice the present rate of payout. Forty per cent of the funds avaliable to the Army have not been contracted for.

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being done but it is a pretty good test. These figures are cited inside the Administration as an indisputable evidence of the need for far more drive.

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The Steel Outlook

One disturbing thing at OPM is the complacent state of mind at the top. I don’t like ta throw brickbats, especially at such a grand old man as William S. Knudsen. Yet he and other top OPM executives laughed off reports from Federal Reserve Board economists some months ago, saying that we would need a 20 per cent increase in steel capacity over the 80,000,000-ton capacity then estimated. ’ Now, by straining the mills to the limit, by pushing them beyond their rated capacity, we are getting

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday.—At the close of the garden party yesterday afternoon, Mr. Charles Taussig met me to talk over some of the things which the advisory committee of the National Youth Administration has been accomplishing during the past few ; months. We went to the airport where we caught the plane for New York City. There I attended an evening meeting which lasted until well after 11 o'clock. This morning, Dr. William Neilson and Mr. John Rothschild came to see me in New York to tell me about various travel and study groups which the “Open Road” has organized for the summer. - ‘Then I caught.a plane to Washington. Here I found Mlle. Eve Curie, - who 1s staying with us for the ‘night. My first appointment was with two ladies, Mrs. William Hurd Hill and Mrs. Huldah Randall, who had come to talk about living conditions in the southwest part of Washington. They are interested in a community house in that section, for which they are trying to raise money. They are obliged to leave their present building, which is entirely inadequate to the demands that should be met in this section. Recreation facilities

with 30,000,000 tons more?”

‘By Ernie Pyle

up. And then there is the climate, and the tourists.” (My friend doesn’t work for the Chamber of Commerce either.) “We think this growth, although phenomenal, is something that will carry over through the collapse period without much trouble,” he continued.

The Housing Problem

Housing is the big trouble in San Diego right now. If you,can pay from $60 to $100 a month for a large house, you still have no trouble finding one. You see many of them for rent as you drive around. But an aircraft worker making $35 a week can’t pay $100 a month for a house. He can pay from $20 to $50. All those houses are gone. ; That same thing is true in many other big defense boom centers. - But San Diego is one of the few places where anything big is being done about it. Here's what they're doing: 1. The Government is bringing in several hundred trailers to form a trailer city, and will rent them out as houses for aircraft workers. ° : 2. The Navy is building two big housing projects for its people. They are large two-story concrete buildings, and each will have four apartments. There are to be 300 of these buildings, formed into model little cities with parks and playgrounds and everything. These 300 will hold 1200 families. 3. The Federal Government is building a whole new suburb for aircraft workers—a suburb of 3000 houses. If you think 3000 aren’t a lot of houses, just come and look. : 4. On top of this Government work, they say there are around 2000 houses under construction by private contractors in San Diego. The building permits here have already passed Los Angeles, which is many times as large a city. : You could say that, roughly, 7000 to 10,000 new homes are being created in San Diego this summer.

True, building isn’t keeping right up to the crest of

the boom. To do that would be folly. But at least something is being done about a drastic situation.

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Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

A Family of Doctors

ROGERS’ DEVOTION to the Speedway is perhaps just a reflection of his tremendous interest in all other sports. He has an amazing memory and probably can tell you who kicked a certain goal for the Southern

California team in 1912. He was born in Richmond, Ind, and attended Kingsley prep school in NewsJersey (where he played football) and took his bachelor’s degree at I. U. . Then he spent another four years at Michigan to get his M. D. From there he went to Boston during the war, serving as an Army doctor on the staff of the Massachusetts Psychopathic Hospital, handling nervous and shell shock cases. He spent some time at Johns Hopkins, three years in private practice in Hot Springs National Park, and then decided he wanted to specialize in mental and nervous cases and moved here in 22, N His grandfather and his father were both doctors and he is proud of the fact that his son, Rogers J. Smith, is a junior at Swarthmore, taking his premedic course. -

He Likes His Birthplace, Too

A NATTY DRESSER, Rogers always looks neat and trim and very much in style. Ties are his weakness. He often wears one to work and before noon has bought another. He always wears gum-soled shoes. On his feet a lot, he considers them easier on his feet. . He never works.around the house and probably doesn’t know how to even light the gas stove. He wouldn’t notice that the grass needed cutting even if it were a foot high, and if he did, he wouldn't cut it. And his greatest amusement stems from the fact that he was born in an insane asylum (his father, the late Dr. S. E. Smith, was superintendent of the old Easthaven asylum at Richmond at the time). He is in great demand as a psychiatrist in many court cases and is frequently retained as advisor to the court in cases where fraud is suspected. When he takes the witness stand, the first question usually directed at him is: “I believe you were born in the insane asylum. Is that right? . And Dr. Edwin Rogers Smith grins all over his face as he answers proudly: “Yep!” : «

By Raymond Clapper

a rate of nearly 85,000,000. But that is far from enough. Steel executives met in New York this week and after canvassing them, the authoritative Wall Street Journal had this to say: “Only four months-ago many of the outstanding authorities in the steel industry were stating emphatically that there was enough steel capacity for all requirements—defense, British aid and ‘normal.’ They now readily concede that there must be curtailment of non-defense consumption and the public will

have to be satisfied with substitutes where they are

possible.” 2 8 = | ) 3 wg / : Resigned to Priority : The authoritative publication “Iron Age” says this week that mandatory priorities for plates and shapes will be next in line in the tightening of control over steel supplies and that many of the steel companies

are. no longer opposed to such action. Months ago mills put their customers on quota restrictions but “Iron Age” reports difficulty in meeting these quota because defense needs are taking the steel. The publication “Business Week” reports that “car-building and ship-building, shell steel and other defense needs have jammed the books with tonnage that is beyond production capacity for the remainder of the year.” Those three citations give the picture from inside industry itself. - Mr, Knudsen had a good laugh four months ago when some people thought there would be a steel shortage. Now he is having another laugh. On the same day these trade reports were published, the Wall Street Journal described Mr. Knudsen as “amused” at suggestions that steel capacity ought to be increased to 120,000,000 tons. “What would we do Mr. Knudsen asked. “That's too much for me. I'm not smart enough to pass on that.” That typifies the casual spirit of OPM—the familiar reaction to countless situations. It’s the well-

known “can’t-be-done” spirit that has caused de-

mocracy to wind up in Europe hanging by its shirttail. ’

By Eleanor Roosevelt

are negligible and housing conditions are very bad. It is an area in’ which the colored people struggle to live decently and under almost insurmountable difficulties. ° I do not know just what can be done to help them, but I feel more and more strongly every day that we should build no more memorials in stone to our great men, or even beautiful government buildings, until we have made it possible for the people who live in this city today, whether they are white or colored, to have decent housing, areas for recreation and adequate school buildings. These seem to me more important than monuments to the men who built Tne nation. : : : There is one piece of information that I discovered in Maine which pleased me very much. Ten cities and towns in that state already have the food stamp plan in operation. The entire state has been designated for this program, which means that in the near future, 125,000 needy people in Maine will have the opportunity to increase their food consumption through the use of the free blue surplus stamps. This is an important step in long-range national defense. Our nutrition problems have been great and we are only just beginning to understand that the Government must assist people from: the economic and educational standpoint, in .order, that we may remedy.some: of the defects which we now know exist in the feeding of our. en, Zo

At State Housé—

FANSLER T0 BE

Time Since 1933; Hearing Starts Monday.

By EARL RICHERT

Judge Michael L. Fansler, a Democrat, will become chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court Monday for the fourth time since he became a

As chief justice, his first: duty will

be to preside over oral arguments in the court battle over the G. O. P.enacted decentralization program— the most important case to come before the court in several years. The oral arguments will begin at 10 a. m. Monday. ; Because of the large number of spectators expected for the arguments Monday, the court has borrowed 150 chairs from the State Board of Agriculture. This will make possible the seating of about 200 persons in the courtroom. Judge Fansler succeeds Judge: H. Nathan Swaim, also a Democrat, as chief justice. The chief justiceship rotates among the court members, changing every six months. The office compares to that of a chairman of a board of directors of a corporation. The chief justice presides at oral arguments and at conferences, assigns cases to other judges, sets cases for arguments, signs orders and handles all vouchers for the court. Judge Curtis G. Shake will succeed Judge Fansler and Judge Shake in turn will be followed by Judge Curtis W. Roll and Judge Frank N. Richman. Judge Richman is the only: Republican member of the court. ” ” ”

Study Toll Bridge on Ohio

The State Toll Bridge Commission is taking preliminary steps toward the consfruction of a toll bridge across the Ohio River at either Mauckport or Cannelton. It has authorized John I. Parcell

of the St. Louis engineering firm of Sverdrup & Parcell, to make an origin and destination traffic survey in the Mauckport and Cannelton areas. : The commission yesterday asked the State Highway Commission to join in the survey but its request was turned down by James D. Adams, commission chairman. Mr. Adams said he felt the project had not got far enough along to merit commission participation. - : Don F. Stiver, State Safety Director, said he would assign a state police ' officer to accompany Mr. Parcell on the survey. The use of a state policeman is necessary since the engineer would have no authoérity to stop cars and obtain the needed information. William G. Minor, bridge commission chairman, says that Army officers in Kentucky desire the construction of a bridge across the Ohio at either Cannelton or Mauckport to facilitate the movement of troops into Indiana. If the bridge group decides from the results of the survey that a bridge is needed across the Ohio at one of the two points it will have to get the approval of the Highway Commission before it can issue bonds and start construction.

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Discuss Interstate Defense

State defense activities will be the main topic of discussion at the Midwest Interstate Assembly of the Council ‘of State Governments at Chicago June 6-7 at which 10 middlewestern states will be represented. Clarence Jackson, Indiana civil defense director, will preside. Mr. Jackson is chairman of both the Indiana Administrative and Advisory Defense Councils created by the 41 Legislature. Members of the Indiana Committee on Inter-State Co-operation who will attend the meeting are Elam Y. Guernsey, William E. Jenner, Glenn R. Slenker, Fred Eichhorn, Orville T. Stout, Hugh A. Barnhart, Frank Millis, Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson and L. Hewitt Carpenter, commission secretary. os # 2

Dawson of the Movies

If you're in some theater next Auguest and ‘see a short advertising the Indiana State Fair, it will be Lieut. Gov. Dawson’s voice that you hear. The Lieutenant Governor spent two days in Chicago last week in work on the film. Scenes from last year’s fair will be shown. ‘Movie shorts have been used for several years to advertise the fair. |

B. R. T. PRIZE AGAIN

For the second straight year, Boyce H. Eidson, Ave., will receive an award at the state session of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen for winning an international membership contest. + Mr. Eidson, field supervisor of the Brotherhood, secured 991 new applications for membership or insurance in the order during April, leading his closest competitor by almost 400. T. D. Eilers, international promotion department superintendent, will present the award to Mr. Eidson at the state session which is to be held at the Claypool Hotel next Saturday. More than 2500 members and guests are expected to attend the day’s events and the dinner at 6 p. m. in the: Riley Room. Governor Henry F. Schricker and. Alexander F. Whitney, Cleveland, pres-

speakers at the dinner. TG A field supervisors’ .round table discussion and luncheon- will be fol-

meeting at 2 p. m. Among the prominent officials scheduled to attend. is John A. Zanger, Logans-

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linear feet of concrete runways.

First air view shows the new concrete runways being rushed to completion under the $1,300,000 WPA enlargement program at Stout Field. A crew of 700 WPA workmen are pouring concrete 16 hours a day and engineers say the slabs will be completed by June 30. The

airport will have a total of 15,000

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59 PCT, AGREE WITH PRESIDENT

Poll Shows Majority Think FDR ‘About Right’ on British Aid.

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Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N. J., May 24—A new study just completed shows that with regard to United States assistance to Great Britain the President’s actions have thus far been substantially agreeable to majority sentiment. As of mid-May, nearly .six per- ! sons’ in every ten thought Mr. Roosevelt had moved “about right” with regard to British aid, while two thought he had moved “too far” and the remaining two “not : far enough,” the survey shows. “Do you think President Roosevelt has gone too far in his policies of helping Britain, or not far enough?” an Institute question asked voters in all parts of the United States. The replies of those with opinions were: :

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ABOUT RIGHT NOT FAR ENOUGH

Committees Chided F. D. R.

This is specially interesting in view of the fact that many—if not most—of the volunteer organizations and committees which have taken a public stand on such matters have directly or indirectly charged President Roosevelt with either too much haste or too little. Interestingly enough, the number who say President Roosevelt has not gone far enough (20%) is closely similar to the 21 per cent who think this country should enter the war immediately.

Willkie Voters Agree

The 21 per cent who think the President, has gone “too far” corresponds closely to the number who say they approve Charles A. Lindbergh’s views on aiding Britain, and to the number who would favor a negotiated peace at this time. The survey shows that the bulk of those who voted for Mr. Willkie in the last election consider that President Roosevelt has moved “about right,” although fewer Republicans say this than Democrats.

Roosevelt Willkie Voters Voters

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ARRANGE GLEN HAVEN MEMORIAL SERVICES

* The Madden-Nottingham Post of the American Legion will observe Memorial Day services at Glen Haven Cemetery at 2 p. m. tomorrow, Mrs. Guy Heckman will lead assembly singing, and William Franklin will be soloist. Past Commander Lawrence Duckworth will deliver Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and the Memorial ‘Day address be given | by V. M. Armstrong. Invocation will

Argentina Alarmed, ~ May Probe Nazi ‘News’

Motion Before Congress Has Strong Chance of Passage; Affair National Scandal.

This is the last of a series of articles on the wave of propaganda which has been loosed against the United States by Nazis in Argentina.

By ALLEN HADEN Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily. News, Ine. BUENOS AIRES, May 15—(By Clipper). —Argentina has become thoroughly alarmed at the pseudo-journalistic activities of Transocean, German officiai news agency and main channel for Nazi propa-

ganda throughout South America.

Congress is on the warpath and

a motion to launch a probe has strong chances of passage. : Publication in La Critica, leading liberal afternoon newspaper in

PUBLIC MORALE |S TERMED BAD

War Effort Is Not Taken Seriously, Psychiatrist Of Draft Reports.

Very few people in the United States are taking the war effort seriously and the public nsbrale is quite bad, Df. Harry Stack Sullivan, consulting ‘psychiatrist to the Selective Service, said here today. Dr. Sullivan, who is president of the William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, addressed the annual convention of the Indiana Society for Mental Hygiene which ends its sessions today. ; Dr. Sullivan said that “until many more people realize we are in national defense late, we'll have this fool thing of trying to make profits on it.” Recalls Debunking Era

For 20 years, until about 18 months ago, Dr. Sullivan said, it was fashionable to debunk everything and to believe no one, especially not the national leaders. The average man, during that period, felt that to believe anyone’s statement of the extent of any national crisis’ would make him a “sucker,” Dr. Sullivan added. ~ “Now there are people who say, “give us all the facts” without thinking that it would take years of training to understand the facts even if they were presented.

Dislike Facts, He Says

© “TI think that a great many people may realize the gravity of the situation but most of them are preoccupying themselves with other things for the specific purpose of rot thinking about the thing that frightens them. : “Thus, the attitude of the great mass of people is even less intelligent now than it was during the debunking era. Strikes are having no good effect on the morale of the soldiers nor their families: “Public ' attitude today is not neafly the same as it was during the last mobilization. People then were inclined to- take things at ‘their-face value and to believe their

be by the Rev. Charles Lizenby.

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Buenos Aires, of a letter addressed by the Buenos Aires headquarters of Transocean to La Democracia, a newspaper of 6000 circulation published. in Olavarria, has newly awakened Argentine legislators to the danger involved.

The letter stated that although La Democracia owed Transocean money, the debt would be can‘celed if the paper changed its anti-Nazi attitude. But, it threatened, if the newspaper continued to harm the “ideological interests” of Transocean, the free news and feature service would be canceled. Now a national scandal, the affair has brought the question of r Transocean’s -activities to the fore. On the reconvening of Congress at the end of May, Radical and Conservative deputies have declared they will demand :investigation and expulsion of Transocean from Argentina, o ” ”

Win in Caucus

DAMONTE TABORDA and Manubens Calvert, Radical deputies from Buenos Aires and Cordoba, have won in party caucus the right to present the subject to the House.

Manubens Calvet will not only support the expulsion motion of

quest criminal proceedings for treason against Argentine citizens working for the agency. Conservative Deputy Julio Vanasco and Radicals Joe - Cabral and Adolfo Lanus ‘have all declared they will support the Damonte Taborda motion. Observers recall that Vanasco three years ago, when Governor of the province of Misiones, warned the Ministry of the Interior that settling of a large unassimilated German population estimated at 90,000 in the province of Misiones constituted a threat to Argentine sovereignty. Misiones stretches north like a finger into Brazilian territory and is surrounded on three sides by the heavily Germanized Brazilian province of Santa Catarina.

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Activities Denounced

IN JUNE, 1939, the activities of Transocean and Nazi infiltration were denounced by Deputy Damonte Taborda. An investigating committee appointed by the House pigeonholed the resolution after a public. advertisement by Transocean that it was a purely commercial concern with Argentine and. German directors. cean thus promised to be good. Receént-disclosures, however, have brought the. question

Damonte Taborda motion in the House is expected, 'by an overwhelming majority. Other Radical-deputies ascribe importance te the motion since expulsion of Transocean from Peru recently has brought to Buenos Aires a new contingent of Nazi propaganda agents. Should action be taken against Transocean in other South American countries, they fear these, agents would concentrate on Buenos Aires like locusts disturbed in their feeding grounds.

Whelps Junior Outfit

CONCENTRATION ‘of Nazi propaganda on country newspapers in a new and unprecedented

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is believed to be an attempt by Transocean to justify its existence as an Argentine news agency, whose opinion may be at variance with that of some other people, but ‘which sets forth a genuine Argentine viewpoint nevertheless. Just to be on the safe side, however, in case it gets kicked out of the , country, Transocean : last

called. Euramerica. No matter

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PREDICTED FOR DAYLIGHT TME

May Happen After Publication | Of Assembly Acts. |]

By RICHARD LEWIS

Not much has been said about Daylight Saving Time recently but the issue still is very much alive and kicking in the files of City Council. 3 City Hall Sptt drink addicts who

the daylight ordinance will be passed by the City Council event ually, but not soon. ? However, their prognostications may be upset the night of June 2, when the nine City Fathers plan to

They may pass it immediately. Day« light Saving Time has been on ice all these weeks because of a legal opinion that the City could not act on it until enabling legislation bes

{comes effective,

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eral Assembly Acts are published on or about June 1. At present. a majority of the nine councilmen appear to approve daye light time for Indianapolis, but there

are only four who like the idea well enough to risk a definite opinion in favor of it. One of the factors that may tend to hold up. final action on the pro-

of the introduction of the ordinance before the enabling legislation bee comes effective. Corporation Coune

Council to re-introduce the ordine ance when the acts are published,

thrust if and after it is passed. o ” ”

Loer Has Full Support 1

JAMES E. LOER, the City’s new traffic engineer, better known around the City Hall as “Jim” has had a unique experience in connece tion with his appointment by the Mayor the other day. Mr. Loer doesn’t know it, but he is the first appointee to a good job in many years who hasn't drawn backlot jibes about his fitness for the post. The main reason for this

reason is that his appointment is nog regarded as political.

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lighting fixtures on N. Meridian St. from 38th St. to Kessler Blvd. in order to relieve maintenance charges

Works Board a while back asked the Circuit Court to have the prope erty appraised. John J. Cooper, assistant City ate torney, informed the Works Board yesterday that the Court appraisers had placed the worth of the lights at $19,240. “You are now in a position,” said

“to consumate the sale of this per= sonal property if you can find a purchaser for the same.” : Anybody want a street light?

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Collects Good Will it

“THE MAN on the Circle” who may be seen at any hour of the day vigorously cleaning up the trash in his blue uniform is John Piglacela, For two|years, he has kept the Cire cle clean and now he is to be proe moted:—He' is to be placed in charge of two other street sweepers with the possibility that two more may,

‘|be hired and put under his come

mand. That makes Mr. Piglacela a vire tual department head. His daily

broom has brought the City more good will than some of the other departments at City Hall and the

Civic Pride Committee is mighty proud of him.

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TRANSFERRED TO BILOXI ! Sergeant Wilbur P. Phillips of Ine dianapolis is among a group of trainees at Chanute Field, Ill., to be

group AC, and will soon be stationed permanently at Biloxi, Miss.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Who is the author of the American’s creed?

3—Capella, Rigel, or Sirius, is known as the “Dog Star?

United States and great Amerie can statesman said: “The presg is the only tocsin of a nation”? 5—With which major league basee ball club is Bob Feller a pitcher 6—In the Biblical story, what ree lation was Ananias to Sapphira? T—Where did the Hamilton-Burg duel occur? 8—Raymond Gram Swing is a radia news analyst, announcer, band leader or singer?

Answers

1—William Tyler Page. 2—Catherine of Aragon. 3—=Sirius. 4—Thomas Jefferson. 5—Cleveland Indians. 6—Husband. 7—Weehawken, N. J. 8—News analyst.

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