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SAN DIEGO, May 26.—AcroSs the front of the immense plant of the Consolidated Aircraft Co. there is what seems to me the most remarkable sign in America. It says: > , “NOTHING SHORT OF RIGHT /IS RIGHT.” ge The sign is 720 feet long, and each letter is as big as a 9x12 rug. If is painted, not with common paint, but with portrait artist’s oil. It took. 20 quarts to do the job. = I passed the sign on the way into town, and as soon as I got here started asking people .what it meant. Everybody laughed and shook his head and said, “Heaven knows.” And then, out at Consolidated, I asked what it meant, but no-

Ss body out there knows either. No, s-that isn't exactly ‘<Maj. Reuben Fleet, the president of the company, “.who had the sign painted on his factory. : £° Maj. Fleet is a sloganeer. Like many other great

correct. One man knows. He is

+ production tycoons, he likes to scatter mottoes over

“~the place to keep the employees on their toes. “= As I get the story, Maj. Fleet thought of this

* wonderful thing one day, so he just called in some painters and set them to work instantly, without telling anybody about it.

A Mystery Is Solved

That afternoon they painted the word “NOTHING,” then took down their scaffolds and went home. They didn’t start again till noon the next day. In that interim, San Diego almost had a national crisis. © Everybody in town was asking everybody else why Consolidated had painted “NOTHING” in big letters across the front of its factory. The newspapers were swamped with calls. The Consolidated switchboard was flooded. Finally, somebody said they'd better find out and give the newspapers an explanation, or all 16,500 of Consolidated’s employees would have to stop making airplanes and just answer the telephones. So the papers printed a story saying that “NOTHING” was merely the beginning, and that San Diego would see for itself in due time. They got it all fin-

Hoosier Vagabond © By Ernie Pye

ished just before I blew into town. Today you.can see it for miles away: “NOTHING SHORT OF RIGHT IS RIGHT.” To me, that tops all the other slogans you see around great business institutions, such as “Think,” “Pull “Together,” “Do ‘It Now,” and so on. Every one of them would decrease my efficiency about 50 per cent if I worked there. \ But I don't work at Consolidated, and after all, it is Maj. Fleet's plant; and I guess if .he wanted to paint the Star-Spangled Banner up‘ theéte in Greek letters, it’s none of my business. © i... cn ] The: British icall this bomber the Liberator.: The nsme may be prophétic, indeed, for some’ people who should be in the know tell me it is the bomber that will win the war. bt She

He Learns About Rivels

It is a great, four-motored, fat-beljied thing that sits so close to the ground it looks like a flying boat on dry land. It E bigger than the famous Flying Fortress, faster than many fighters, and it really scares you. just to look at it. ; Apparently everybody is satisfied with this plane; because the Government is building two more plants to make nothing but this one type. When all three plants get running, theyll turn out 100 of these monsters a month, and employ 45,000 men doing it. As far as the layman can distinguish, the ‘huge Consolidated factory here resembles every other airplane factory. I've been in so many by now that they're all a blur, As in all the other plants out here, the assembly lines just spill over and continue on right out under the sky. In fact, 30 per cent of all the work at Consolidated is now being done in the open. Just to give you an idea of the immensity of things, they use 15,000,000 rivets a week at Consolidated. And the rivets have to be kept in an ice-box, as though someone were going to eat them. The reason is that freezing, contrary to everything I ever learned in school, makes these rivets soft. They must be used within half an hour after leaving the ice-box, while their temperature is still between

‘zero and 10 degrees above. As soon as they warm. up,

they're so hard you can’t rivet them or cut them. uals one of the things that makes airplanes so ug : ’

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

THE STANDS AT the Speedway were full Saturday afternoon. There wasn't a race car on the track, but suddenly there arose the most awful screeching of tires imaginable. Thousands leaped to their feet, peering this way and that. The screeching continued - and it became clear that it was y coming from behind the grandstands. ; And there it was—one of the Trexler wrecking cars on duty at the track had spotted a Plymouth “parked in a restricted zone. The driver of the wrecker tried to open the door, but it was locked. He tried to shove the car, but the brake was on. So, he just hooked his bumper under the Plymouth’s . and started dragging it. He : hauled it all the way past the CE grandstands - (tires screeching all the way!), under the tunnel by the pagoda, and out into the infield. Several motorists came, up to the Trexler driver to protest. “You're ruining that fellow’s they said. “Well,” he bellowed back, “that’ll teach that -X12%$x!/X?! not to park where he's not supposed to ”

brakes and tires,”

. 9 ' ~ We got to wondering this morning if the wrecker driver had gone in to hiding.

You see, it was a State Police car and had been

parked momentarily by Sergt. Grinstead, the quartermaster. :

Our Headache Gets Worse

IT LOOKS LIKE all the hullabaloo over getting daylight saving time for Indianapolis may be a waste of time after all. Proponents of the plan thought they had won a big victory when they got the Legislature to Rl ity Council is waiting for the new repealer law to go into effect before acting on the plan. .

. . il : Washington 5 WASHINGTON, May 26.—In controversy over the defense program, a tendency exists to try to fit it

k= into some New Deal vs. anti-New Deal pattern. This | + is particularly pronounced among some who have an

affinity for opinion and an allergy to facts. : You can’t line up teams in this controversy with - chronic New Dealers on one side and businessmen on the other side. The controversy doesn't break down into any such pattern, except in the minds of those who are stereotyped ‘into a habit of political thinking which dates back to 1933 and is thus too old a habit to be broken now.

One of the strongest friendships developed during the last year has been between New Dealer " Leon Henderson and Old Dealer . Bernard M. Baruch. They are almost like father and son as they thresh out defense problems. . Another New Dealer, David Lilienthal, of TVA, has come into the defense picture because of the power shortage in connection with aluminum production. And when he had a tough problem to solve, where did he turn? New Dealer Lilienthal got in touch with Old Dealer Baruch and asked him for help. Mr. Baruch pitched in and in about 10 minutes had some of his railroad friends figuring how to loan some Diesel engines for emergency power. Mr. Baruch also proved helpful in dealing with some private power . companies whose co-operation with TVA was needed.

Not a New Deal Issue

, New Dealers around here have two particular fa- * vorites in OPM. One is Donald Nelson, of Sears-Roe-buck, and the other is W. L. Batt, of SKF industries. The fight in OPM is not New Dealers against busi-

. nessmen but businessmen against businessmen. Mr.

Nelson and Mr. Batt and Alex Henderson, a New York investment banker, are among the severest critics of OPM policy. : My Day - WASHINGTON, Sunday.—Friday afternoon a suded havoc with the annual party given by the Community Chest. All the agencies join in to educate their subscribers, so that they will really appreciate the work that is being : : done. The tents blew down and, i had the public turned up in spite of the rain, there would have been little left to see. But the children received their refreshments and tumbled about in the rain, . 80 the party for them was a sucMrs. Glover did not seem too depressed, for I think one of her main objectives in ‘giving her place for this annual “fiesta” is to see that the.young folks have $ aa a good time. I only stayed a : : . very few minutes and then came "back to have a few people join me for dinner. Then

1 worked on the mail until the early hours of the

Yesterday morning I rode for a short time, and had an almost international . luncheon. Madame Lily’ Rona, a Viennese sculptress, came to ‘Washington and brought the bust which she had

glad to have the opportunity to thank to place it where she would approve of

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Now comes a recognized authority on Indiana leg-

islation who warns ‘that most any individual can block : the plan by asking for an injunction. ' The courts, he said, have held consistently that municipalities can exercise only such power as is provided by statute. The law soon to become effective does

Rok provide this power, merely repeals the former an. : -. f

Among the Headliners

TWO SOLDIERS IN town Friday en route to Tennessee with the 5th Division were discussing the movement of the troops from Ft. Custer. * “Ever see so much publicity in all your life,” one of them said to the other, referring to the stories in the papers of the trip here from Michigan. : “We sure got big headlines, didn’t we,” the other man said. “No need to write letters home to tell the folks what's going on. All they have to do is read it in the paper.”

Our Leading Citizens AN AUTO SMASHED into (and sheared off) -one of the electric light standards at 44th and Central

in the wee hours this morning and out poured a pretty good cross-section of leading citizens in house-

. coats and pajamas. Not a bad-looking crowd, at

that. . . . The Hamlin Wellings, who live way out east on Harris Ave. have had a cocker spaniel named * for: : time, hewspaper linge for typographical error.” “Typo” Sn ay other day and the Wellings have named their share of the litter as “Misprint.” . . . And then there's the one about the prominent young Indianapolis bachelor who has a cabin down in Brown County. He bought himsell a 90-cent can of enamel and proceeded to start painting one of his cabin chairs yesterday. ‘He became engrossed in his labors and was proceeding merrily along when suddenly a big horse wandered up and siuck his nose right over the bachelor’s shoulder. You'd know, wouldn't .you, that he'd drop ihe Sole 90-cent can of enamel. The job is unished.

By Raymond Clapper

One of the targets of their criticism is John Biggers, president of the Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co., and chief of the production division of OPM. But Mr. Biggers is not an anti-New Dealer. He has been a favorite among New Dealers and was one of the few businessmen who worked with them during ‘the bitter years. He handled the unemployment census several years ago. He is close to Harry Hopkins. Al Sianesy, a du Pont man, is one of the insurgents in

The issue is not a New Deal issue at all. The difference is between those who want to move faster.and more drastically and those who want. to move -more cautiously. $ave One side is primarily conscious of the need for, action now, regardless of the cost to normal preduction. The other side is primarily conscious of the dislocations and is trying to avoid them.

Tough Guys vs. Soft Guys

One side has felt that the utmost possible expansion ‘Would be too- little. The other side has felt that facilities were adequate, or almost so. One side has put its guesses high as to what would be needed.. The other side has put them low. Idon't believe there is very much old-style ideology mixed up in it. One side knows that business is going to be changed drastically and sees no point in wasting too much time trying to sugar the changes. The other side would like to keep everything as sweet and lovely as possible. Roughly, you say it is the tough guys against the soft guys. As to the so-called “social gains,” they don’t figure very much in this picture. Everybody knows that social gains are bound to be hard hit. Leon Henderson, the New Dealer, faces the facts on that as realistically as the most hard-bitten businessman. While the controversy is bitter, I imagine everyone hopes that it will not be distorted into an ideological quarrel over politico-economic, theories. Thus far the controversy has the merit of being down on the ground and dealing with immediate. practical problems of building planes, tanks and ships.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

de Ramos Mejia from the Argentine. "The latter is a free dance feature writer, her principal paper being La Nacion. She is gathering material and will eventually write a book about her travels throughout this country. She hopes to interpret for her people, the Americans and the life she is coming to understand. Later she will write a book interpreting the life of the Argentine to us here in the United States.

' Madame Mejia seems to like us and to find some things to praise. We all know that it is easy to-find shortcomings in any nation, but it is more construetive, perhaps, to look for the virtues, as she is doing. * In the afternoon, 1 went to the Pan-American Building to see some Bolivian sculptures by Marina Nunez del Prado. Most of her subjects are taken from the Indians of her country. She uses wood and terra cotta as mediums. I particularly liked two small heads, one of a boy and one of a girl, but she has many groups which express ‘motion in an extraordinary way and I think everything she does shows strength. ; We had a fairly large group at dinner and for the evening, since everyone who is leaving for Arthurdale, hi a with me this morning had to arrive ‘last ght. 3

I noticed in the newspapers yesterday morning,

that this is “Buy British Week.” I hope all_ofsus who are able to do so will take advantage of the ‘exhibitions in the variod§ shops and purchase some

me of the things which, in spite of their colossal defense

BACK TO WORK NOVE GANS IN

Trade Council Backs A. F. Of L. Plea; Senate Group ~ To Hear Green. By UNITED PRESS A back-to-work movement at 11 West Coast’ shipyards gained support today from 500 members of the Alameda County Building Trades Council (A. F. of L.) who defied a 17-day strike of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. machinists. The strikers ignored an appeal from 17 affiliated A. F. of L. craft thions to return to work on more than $500,000,000 worth of naval and Maritime Commission contracts. . The Senate Committee Investigating Defense postponed until tomorrow a hearing into the shipyards strike so that .A. F. of L. President Wiiliam Green could confer with President Roosevelt. Mr. Green was expected to talk to the President on the prospect of settling the strike of A. F. of L. machimsts. A. F. of L. Metal Trades Chief John P. Frey, who condemned the strike as a violation of a coastwide agreement, snd officials’ representing the 1700 striking A. F. L. and C. I. O. machinists also have been asked to appear before the committee. Strikers have asked an hourly wage of $1.15 and double time for overtime. The master agreement provided a $1.12 wage and time and a half for overtime.

Packard Trouble Looms

The machinists denied reports they would extend the strike to the Western Pipe & Steel Co., which holds contracts to produce U. S. Maritime Commission cargo ves-

sels. A new threat to defense production came in a vote of 3000 Uaited Automobile Workers (C. I. 0) to strike at the Packard Motor Co. unless a 10-cent wage increase is granted. The union instructed its officers to file a five-day notice and announced it would decide later whether to exclude defense workers. Packard employs 9500 men and has defense contracts valued at $182.000,000.

Continue Coal Mediation

The Defense Mediation - Board continued its effort to foster an agreement between Southern soft coal operators and the United Mine Workers Union .(C. I. O.).

At Ravenna, O., construction work was resumed on the $35,000,000 shell loading plant, ending a five-day shutdown caused by a laborers’ “wildcat” strike. At Nashua, N. H, the Nashua Manufacturing Co. - the world’s largest manufacturer of cotton blankets, signed its first collective bargaining agreement for 4000 employees in Nashua and Jackson mills with the Textile Workers Union of America (C. I. Q)). Striking union electricians on the $40,000,000 Radford, Va. Ordnance Works threatened to picket the huge powder manufacturing project—a move which it was believed would halt construction work by other unions. In Los Angeles, a United Automobile Workers committee refused to postpone or. abandon a strike scheduled Wednesday at the North American Aviatjon Co., while the National Defense Mediation Board attempts to settle the dispute.

WHEELER TO ANSWER FOR'S FIRESIDE CHAT

-John W. Esterline, Indianapolis manufacturer and civic leader, will introduce Senator Burton K. Wheeler when the latter makes an -address under the auspices of the

America First Committee at Cadle Tabtrnacle Wednesday nighfi. Senator Wheeler is expected to comment on President Roosevelt's Fireside Chat over ‘he radio tomorrow night. The subject of his address will be a “Reply to President Roosevelt.” : i The Senator will arrive in Indiah apolis early Wednesday. 1

HELP PLEDGED TQ | C. OF C. TRAFFIC-UNIT

The Hoosier Motor Club yesterday announced its support of the co-ordinated safety program to be

carried on by the newly organized Safety Division of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. ' " Todd Stoops, secretary-nianager of the club, said. his organization was contributing to the Safety Division fund because .it recognized the im of the movement. The Motor Club has a policy? of not contributing to civic organizations. The new Safety Division will in-

city. } POP’ MYERS AT WHEEL

Speedway Day will be at the Rotary Club luncheon .tomorrow in the Cla Hotel with T. E. (Pop) Myers, general - ager of the handling the program. x “Pop” is scheduled to speak on the formidable sounding subject, or da Eoin a ; : un » Ho 210 wit brie a al rae sage from Speedway President Eddie Rickenbacker, who hopes to be out of the hospital

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. Leaders at Annual K of C.

Leaders in the Knights of Columbus annual State convention which closed today included (left to right), first row: George F. Redelman of Greensburg, state secretary; George M. Kinzel of Gary, state deputy, and the Rev. E. C. Bauer of Washington, Ind., state chaplain. In the back row are Richard J. Baker of Vincennes, state treasurer; Henry Hasley of .Ft. Wayne, state advocate, and Harry Frame of

Richmond, state warden.

The Knights of Columbus were to close their 40th annual threeday State convention this after-

noon with the election of offi- |

cers and selection of the 1942 convention city. Business sessions were held this morning and resolutions were to

be adopted this afternoon. George -

M. Kinzel, state deputy, was to be in charge. £ More than 350 delegates at-

tended a banquet last night in the K. of C. auditorium at which Timothy Galvin, member of the Supreme Board of Directors and

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supreme master for the Fourth District, was the principal speaker. “Patriotism” was the keynote of his address. . The Rev. Aloys Dirkson, president of St. Joseph’s College, also spoke. John Rocap was toastmaster. William Bradley, grand knight, led the community singing.

EIGHT KILLED IN STATE TRAFFIC

Another Deathless . WeekEnd Recorded in County And City.

Indianapolis and Marion County recorded another deathless week-

end but eight persons died of traffic injuries throughout the state and many others were injured. The dead: ~ GLEN .V. KILLINGBECK, 22, and LEWIS B. ALBRIGHT, 25, both of Michigan City, who were killed yesterday in a head-on collision of their car and another on U. S. 20, five miles east of Gary. A tire blowout is believed to have. caused the accident. ARTHUR A. SCHWINN, 17. ion injured Saturday night when the car he was driving near Huntington overturned. He had ‘been graduated from high school the night before.

VERLE DRIVER, of near Rising Sun, injured in a crash seven miles north of Charlestown Saturday. :

WILLIAM GRAY, 15, of near Pendleton, who died Sunday of injuries received when he was struck by an auto.

GEORGE F. BOOHER, 72, Elwood, killed Saturday when his car was struck -by a train at a crossing near Burket. . ’

JIMMY CRANDALL, 22-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Crandall, Richmond, killed when he was struck by a train near his home yesterday.

" GLENN O. DAVIS, 40, Kansas City, Mo., crushed between two ashington as he examined the rear of his car . parked along a highway.

NEW CITY DIRECTORY LISTS 240,768 NAMES

The largest City Directory ever to be published for Indianapolis is off the press and is. being delivered to local subscribers by R. L. Polk & Co., publishers. Containing 240,768 adult names— an increase of 3360 over last year— it has 134 more pages. As a special feature, tenant owned homes are designated as well as marital status, heads of households, employers and employees. Indianapolis’ business is classied into 861 different groups of enterprises.

Winders Mark 50th Anniversary

THE REV. and Mrs. Charles H. Winders observed their golden wedding anniversary at their home, 7014 Rockville Road., yesterday with more than 300 friends and relatives present. ‘The couple held open house from 2:30 p. m. until 7 p. m. with about 20 "meighbors assisting in serving the guests. : The couple married May 20, 1891, in Bowling Green, Mo., and with the exception of two years, have lived in Indianapolis since 1907. The Rev. Mr. Winders was pas-. tor of the Downey Avenue Christian Church here many years and at present is vice president of the Church Federation of Indianapolis which he helped organize in 1912.

SUSPEND CLUTE IN PARK DISPUTE

Sallee Says Botanist Refused to Take Orders On Plant Care.

A disagreement. over the care of plants in. Holliday Park. has resulted in the suspension of Prof. Willard Nelson Clute, * nationally known botanist, as director of the development. Sag A. C. Sallee, parks superintendent, said the Park Board would be asked to act on'the suspension of Prof. Clute - at its’ meeting Thursday. Prof. Clute will present his side of the disagreement. ° Mr. Sallee said the reason for the suspension was “the refusal of Prof. Clute to take orders from the department on the care of the plants.” He said the plants had not been watered properly. ; Prof. Clute, who was hired as director of the development a year

ago at a $2000 annual salary, said

the Park Board had given him 20,000 plants to set cut and that he had assigned four men to wetering them. “I ted them Sunday,” he said, “and not on: of them was dead.” He said he would talk over the matter with the board -on Thursday. Prof. Clute, formerly a Butler University faculty member, has served as curator of the Columbia University botanical garden and of the New York Botanical Garden. He has written 16 books on botany and has founded four botanical maga-

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HINT RED CROSS TO QUIT FRANCE

Early Retirement Expected As Vichy Violates Terms on Food.

By JOHN T. WHITAKER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LISBON, May 26.—The early withdrawal of American Red Cross officials from France is expected in informed quarters here, in view of Vichy’s collaboration with Germany and the attitude of the Vichy authorities in recent months.

Under German pressure, the Vichy authorities have consistently violated the terms on which American food has been delivered to unoccupied France. Wide publicity was to have been given the shipments, for instance, but Vichy newspapers publicized the arrivals only after protests from the American embassy, and then with scant notices, overshadowed by announcements that the Germans were sending back into France certain foodstuffs they had requisitioned. Similarly, two Red Cross boats have recently been delayed in a French port, though their free movement had been guaranteed.

May Quit Soon

Richard Allen, American Red Cross commissioner for French relief and his staff, consequently, are expected to quit France shortly with the frank admission that his effort to aid the French, especially their children, has been rendered impossible by deliberate German interference in Vichy. Meanwhile, reports reaching Lisbon indicate that German officials and tourists are continuing to reach Morocco in increasing rhythm. In February the Germans succeeded in flying roughly 200 officers and soldiers to each key town. To these “pocket garrisons” the Germans have now added military, naval, industrial and eeomonic commissions which enable them to dispatch sybcommissions throughout Morocco, as well as tourists and “businessmen.” Incidentally, the Mercedes-Benz cars which the German government has presented to key Arab chiefs were delivered without tires

GENERAL SAYS GIANT

BOMBERS OUTMODED

LOS ANGELES, May 26 (U. P)). —The Douglas B-19 bomber, largest airplane in the world, will not meet the requirements of the bomber of the future, according to Maj. Gen. George H. Brett. Gen. Brett said bombers now are being built to fly 350 miles an

{hour at an altitude of 35,000 feet.

He said the B-19, which has not yet been off the ground, is expected to fly 210 miles an hour with a ceiling of 22,000 feet.

new type bombers will be somewhere between the size of the B19 and the Consolidated B-25. Both are four-motored ships, but the Douglas has a wing span 100 feet wider than the Consolidated, which measures 110 feet from wing tip to wing tip. : He laughed at reports that pursuit ships are being flown 500 miles an hour. “We tre playing aroun 400 on some of the lighter jobs,” he said. .

LILLY AID TAKES JOB WITH KNOX COLLEGE

Dr. Myron M. Weaver, for six years director of professional and research relations at Eli Lilly & Co., has been appointed professor of hygene at Knox College, Galesburg,

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Convention GIVE CONGRESS | RIGHT TO RULE PRIVARY VOTE

Supreme Court Judges Also Rap ASCAP and Uphold Wallace Ruling. :

WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P), —The Supreme Court today gave Congress power to regulate primary elections for the nomination of cane didates for Federal office. . The ruling was part of an opinion reversing the action of a U. S. Dise trict judge in Louisiana who dise missed indictments against five New Orleans election officials accused of fraudulent vote counting. : a Other opinions by the court toe ay: a . Sustained validtity of Nebraska and Florida laws curbing activities of the American Society of Come posers, Authors and Publishe (ASCAP); ;

. Wallace Wins Out

Upheld rates that Vice President Henry A. Wallace prescribed for livestock commission merchants in Kansas City, Mo., when he was Sece retary of Agriculture. Denied the request of Illinois—e opposed by Indiana ard other Lake States—for a temporary increase in the diversion of water from Lake Michigan to alleviate sewage condie tions in Chicago. Supported the temporary grazing license system promulgated by the Interial Department pending adoption of a permanent plan under the Taylor Grazing: Act. :

ASCAP Ruling Unanimous

The ASCAP decision may effect ithe whole entertainment industry, from the “juke box” tavern to the million-dollar movie studio. The High Court’s action in proe hibiting price fixing activities by ASCAP was unanimous; * The Florida and Nebraska laws restricting ASCAP are similar and the issues presented the court were almost identical. In parallel decisions the Supreme Court asserted that it found nothing in the COpyright laws which “purports to grant to copyright owners the privileges of combining in violation of othere wise valid state or Federal law.” “We have, in fact, determined to the contrary with relation to other copyright privileges,” the court, said.

: Sets Pattern for States

Justice Hugo L. Black wrote the opinion in the ASCAP case—an opinion which approved a pattern for legislation, whieh, if adopted generally, by the states, would require drastic reorganization of the functions of the society which controls the rights to a major share of America’s popular music. : ASCAP is the giant copyright pool to which most. prominent American . composers, lyric writers and musis publishers have assigned their copyright privileges. ASCAP fixes ‘the fees to be paid for use of the copyrighted works. ASCAP recently signed a consent decree ending a Federal anti-trust action against it and agreed to revise many of its procedures. $586,000 to be Shared The Kansas City decision ended 11 years of litigation and was the Court's fourth ruling in that case. The decision, which was by a 6 to 1 vote, has no effect on future rates at the Kansas City yards, new une contested scales having been in efe fect since 1937. The effect is to ree quire distribution of a $586,000 fund, impounded in the District Court pending setlement of the: issues, to livestock producers in the area. - The lower court had made the assertion that Mr. Wallace was not an “impartial” arbiter of the issues. The Taylor Act decision affects 142 million acres of Government land in the West, where the Interior Department's rules were aimed at preventing soil deterioration. The Court unanimously reversed a Nevada Supreme Court decision.

TWO TRAFFIC DEATHS

Neil Hopkins, driver of a car that ' struck and fatally injured Mrs, Helen Faulkner, 532 Rochester St. and her small child on Capito! Ave, last year, was found not guilty >f an involuntary manslaughter charge in Criminal Court today. - The indictment had charged Hope kins with driving on the left side of the street “in a reckless manner” but Judge Dewey E. Meyers said the evidence was not» strong enough to justify a manslaghter conviction."

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the capital of Alaska. 2—What is the common name fo’ an unexploded shell? 3—What is a duplex house? 4—A thick glass is more likely to - crack than a thin glass when filled with hot liquid; true or false? 5—For what word 1

7—The United States and Naturalization Service is une _ der the Department of Labor, De= partment of the Interior or the Department of Justice? 8—With what country was the United States at war in 1801-052

Answers

Ohio, Michigan or New Jersey? tion

d|1—Juneau.

2—Dud. : 3—A two-family house. 4—True. :

6—Ohio. : ; 7—Department of Justice. 8— Tripoli. 8 en ASK THE TIMES Inclose a 3-cent stamp for re= ply when addressing any question of fact or information to N. W, Washington, D. CO.

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