Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1941 — Page 13

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By Ernie Pyle

SAN DIEGO, May- 28.—Jack Traxler is new in the soot, because along about February each year he

Navy. He has been in just four months. He made a long jump into the salty world of battleships. For, before joining up, he was a Montana cowboy. ~ Jack is 20. *He is tall, black-haired and nice-look-ing. His grammar is correct, his countenance i% open and pleasant, and he isn’t tongue-tied at meeting strangers. He is a boy of whom both the Navy and his parents can be proud.

"I wanted to write a column about some young fellow who has been in the Navy only a short time. So they sent Jack in from the Training Station to see me. We went back out to the station later, but I thought we could talk XY better at first without a lot of : people around. ~ When Jack came to ‘the hotel, it was the first time he had been in down-town San Diego for nine weeks. And do you know why?. It’s because he can’t . stand the noise of the city! Drives him crazy. Jack was born and raised on his father's ranch about 150 miles from Missoula. They lost the ranch in the depression, and Jack’s folks moved to town. . His father, Floyd Traxler, is now a postal clerk a Missoula. - - But Jack liked the open. So he started working f} as a cow-hand on other people's ranches. Often he would be out on the line for weeks, batching and cooking his own grub. . I asked him how he liked Navy grub. He said all right. He said some of the boys complained about it, but it’ sure was better cooking than he ever did for himself on the range.

Misses the Horses

- Jack worked on a dude ranch one summer, but he didn’t like that. “Too many complications,” he grinned. “And they ask too many questions.” © For the last three years his ranch. job has been breaking young horses to ride. That's pretty dangerous business. He has heen hurt only once. A horse fell on him last year and broke his ankle, and he was laid up for two months. : ~ He does get homesick for horses. Soon after he came here he went riding one Sunday with a group, where you can rent a horse for four hours for a dollar. But he went only once. The horses were so tame and lifeless he couldn't stand them.

It took a long time for Jack to get through high -

couldn't stand it any longer, so he'd leave and go get a job on a ranch. Fact, he didn’t graduate until just before he joined the Navy last January. dislike for school is anachronistic, because he loves to read and, in talking with him, you’d think he had been to college. His ambition is ta save enough money in six or eight years in the Navy so he can go back and get started in the ranching business on his own. Right now he is only a second-class seaman, getting $28 a month. But he is saving money! He says he’s sure not a tightwad, and likes a good time. But he spends money only for cigarets, stamps, magazines and insurance. : ) He hears from home once a week, and writes once a week. He also has a girl at home—she’s a senior in high school—and they write all the time. Jack isn’t much for the girls. He likés them all right, but he can’t go out and pick up girls on the street, because he isn’t any good “at a line,” he says. He doesn’t drink, except that he used to take a glass of beer occasionally with his father. : He says he guesses smoking is about his only vice. Oddly enough for a cowboy, he never did roll his own cigarets ; :

Treated Well by Officers

When he left home last winter it was 15 below, and when he got here it was like summer. Yet he stands the bitter northern weather better than the milder dampness here. He never had colds in Mon-

tana, but he caught one here three months ago and still has it. ; Jack is one of 7000 boys here at the Naval Training Station. The Station is permanent and pre-war, and is a lovely place. The boys sleep on cots in barracks. Since he doesn’t use his liberty to come to town, Jack plays tennis and badminton at the Station, and reads a lot. He gets Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post and the American, and has just finished “The Mortal Storm.” He also reads fishing and hunting magazines. He says he’s going to miss his fall hunting more than anything else. ! The only traveling Jack ever did before was one trip to Seattle, where his brother works. Jack doesn’t resent Navy discipline, as youd think a cowboy might. Of course, he found it a little odd at first. But he realizes regulations are necessary, and he says the officers have treated him like a gentleman. He likes the Navy.

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Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

REGULATIONS ARE regulations at the Allison

: plant and that goes for William S. Knudsen, director _

general of the Office of Production Management, himself. When the tall OPM chief walked into the lobby of : the main plant on his surprise visit yesterday he was “processed” like anyone else. He signed the register, giving his address as Washington, ‘his organization as ~ “OPM,” and his citizenship as U. S. A. The admiring guard handed Mr. Knudsen a large red button, bearing his name and a number. After Mr. Knudsen disappeared behind the plant walls, the guard turned the register around and fondly studied the signature of : : the man who resigned as General Motors presdent to shoulder the responsibility of directing the nation’s defense production effort.

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Got Their Numbers

BY A BIT of arithmetie, Charles T. Nounan of the Butler campus, places the downfall of the dictators in 1941. He does it this way. Stalin Hitler Mussolini 1889 1883 52 58 1933 1922 3 "19 3882 3882 1941 1941

lB Washington

WASHINGTON, May 28. — Our America has changed overnight. The change took place with Presi- ~ dent Roosevelt's speech and the simultaneous procla-

mation of an unlimited national emergency. Without action of Congress, indeed without any mention whatever of Congress, Mr. Roosevelt has assumed new powers. The extent of these new powers is not yet clear. Definitely, however, a new order has been imposed. First, the President announced it as a national policy that we shall “actively resist his (Hitler's) every attempt to gain control of the seas.” That mea we are committed to assist inl irying to land-lo¢k Hitler. Mr. csevelt says if Hitler can be locked in on . ? land, he will collapse. Second, the President announced thet he, in consultation with military and naval technicians, will work out and put into effect—note thut-—such new and additional safeguards as may be needed to deliver goods to England and to other is cxeclilg power

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Year of birth . Age ‘Accession to power Years of power ........s PE

- Hitlerism. In this he is exercising his exec tive power _ as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy.

No Mention of Congress

He said nothing about referring such matters to Congress. His language indicates that he intends to act in his own discretion. He indicated no limits to possible action. His language leaves him free to use the Navy id any way that he desires. * -Third, Mr. Roosevelt laid down a code of behavior for American citizens. He said: “Your Government has the right to expect of all citizens that they take loyal part in the common work of our common defense—take loyal part from this moment forward.” All will have responsibilities to fulfill, he said. There must be, he said, “use of a greater common sense in discarding rumor and distorted statement. What e has in mind was not explained. ~Under an opinion _ given by Justice Frank Murphy in October. 1939,

> while still Attorney General, declaration of a full

emergency gives Mr. Roosevelt power over the press and radio under the Espionage Act. We shall simply

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—Our first visit yesterday morning was to the NYA shops in. Arthurdale. This resident project has 60 boys, drawn in large part from the four nearby counties in West Virginia. _They are receiving training in welding, mechanics, : woodwork and agriculture. Their regular training as cooks is useful, for it has made so many boys who have been in NYA and CCC camps valuable in the Army.

Fox maximum efficiency, this project should have 90 or 100 boys. This will soon be possible, for the “damage done by the fire which burned out their mess hall is almost a thing of the past. A few more days to put on paint; linoleum and a door or two; and the mess hall will again be ready to use and they can take in their full quota of boys. These are remarkably nice looking ‘lads. They live in separate little houses, about 10 to . a house, and assume all responsibility for their own behavior and discipline. It has worked out well, for out of 84 boys, only two have had to be dismissed for disciplinary reasons. We looked in at the furniture factory and the _ health center, and then attended the graduation ceremonies at the high school. Before lunch, we went to visit Mr, and Mrs. John Mason. These two old grandis have a bright little boy, one of ]

One Housing Problem Solved

NISH DIENHART, airport superintendent, who has spent the last 10 years living in apartments, got fed up “on the two-room confinement. He moved this week into a little house at the northeast corner of the airport reservation.

“I don’t know why I didn't move out here a long time ago,” said Nish. “I never have slept so well in my whole life as I did last night—boy the air is wonderful.” ”

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Laugh Business Perks Up

LAST NIGHT'S audience at Keith's was treated to an extra helping of fun when curtain trouble developed just as the play (“The Male Animal”) was about to get under way. With an uncertain jerk, the curtain rose several feet, hesitated and then dropped with a loud plop. Again it rose, again it plopped. By then the stagehand assigned to the chore confessed the task was too much and called a couple of colleagues to the rescue. “The Male Animal” got under way with the audience in a laughing mood.

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School Board Tunes In

THE SCHOOL BOARD wound up its business meeting early last night (after considering a petition for a new South Side High School), cleared the assembly table and tuned in the President’s speech over a portable radio set. : Members -listened attentively throughout with an occasional emphatic nod across the table to one another. They made no comment afterwards.

By Raymond Clapper

have to wait to see what unfolds here. The President also said that defense must not be interrupted by labor disputes. No measures to im-

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plement this anti-strike declaration were suggested.|

Probably some are in mind. Mr. Roosevelt has taken such an enormous step that its full implications cannot be seen at once. We must wait until he further discloses his plans. Many were asking him to assume leadership. He has done it.

Facing a New Future

There can be no mistaking that Mr. Roosevelt has ‘thrown us into a new period. We have been told that we face a new future. The President has decided that the danger to the Western Hemisphere made it imperative that he place himself and the Government in a position to act quickly. His emergency proclamation states that common prudence requires that we should pass from peacetime authorizations of military strength to “such a basis as will enable us to cope instantly and'decisively with any attempt at hostile encirclement of this hemisphere.” As explained in his radio talk, Mr. Roocevelt thus wishes to be free to act instantaneously—and necessarily secretly—to move against Dakar, the Azores, or any other point. that seems to menace the Western Hemisphere. 4

The President has placed himself in a position to open up undeclared war, or more precisely unannounced fighting, against the Axis when his judgment calls for it. This is in effect an executive declaration of a state of war. He puts the country virtually on a wartime basis. He assumes virtually wartime powers. Nothing was said about asking Congress to declare war. Nothing was said about breaking diplomatic relations with Germany, or any other Axis power. You can call this state that we are in anything you like. The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt is taking action to get goods to England and is putting Hitler on notice that we are ready to shoot if he makes a move that we judge to be a threat to the Western Hemisphere. If Hitler has been counting upon a long debate in Congress paralyzing the United States while the Axis acted, he is out of luck. Mr. Roosevelt is ready to act and debate afterward. That's what his radio .talk tells Berlin.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

sons, living with them. For a year the grandmother has been ill and the boy, who is a Scout, came up to me at the commencement exercises and asked if I would not stop to see her, she had been ill so long. She told me she did not know how she could get on without this young grandson to help his grandfather to do the work, even though her daughter and a neighbor came in four days a week to keep the house clean. Her great worry is that the house does not look as neat and tidy as when she could take care of it herself.

We lunched with the school faculty at the inn and then drove over to Scott's Run. The community house there needs an addition and they tell me it is busy almost all the time when the children are not in school. There is a great interest too, in a summer camp for children. All of them would like to go if money could be found to finance more little housing units and to support the camp over a longer period. We drove from there over a new road, Route No. 92, back to Route No. 50, and turned off at Mt. Storm for Petersburg and Moorefield, W. Va. It was one of the most beautiful drives I have taken anywhere in this country. We spent last night in a most delightful home called “The Meadows,” just outside of Moorefield on the road to Romney. Somehow they managed to take in all our large party of 10 and to make us very comfortable. Congressman Randolph was with us most of the day yesterday. I am back in the White House with the usugl number of apNOin nts and two mm it h ] rh Un

property just as his wife, the for-

‘THE LAST TIME | SAW PARIS - GAIETY IS GONE

Bar Run by Ex-Jockey Now Only Sentimental Spot Of Americans.

(Ralph E. Heinzen, United Press manager in France, left Paris 11 months ago. Last week-end he returned to the city in which he had been a reporter for 16 years. In the following dispatch he describes a Paris that. American visitors of pre-war days would hardly recognize.)

By RALPH E. HEINZEN United “Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, May 24.— (Delayed) — Paris—the lovely capital of France —is just another base behind the German war front. The city which thousands of Americans visited in other years is saddened and lacks even the pretense of gaiety, coldly it seeks to make the occupying Germans pay Jor everything they get. ‘The last time I saw Paris the French were evacuating before the advancing German Army. Today I saw a 12-ton tank rumble down the Boulevard des Italiens, past the Opera. A six-wheel Army truck pulling a field gun cut a broad curve into the Rue Halevy. German soldiers in uniforms of pea-soup color and Maedchen in| dull grey—the women’s : auxiliary units of the Nazi Army — walked through the quiet streets.®" All of these the French residents accept almost without notice, or without more attention than was given the weird spectacle of an elephant pulling a hansom cab through the streets on April Fool's Day.

British Stay in Hospital

Paris supports the German occupation with dignity. There is little or no fraternization. There are no clashes on public disputes. Parisiens and Germans live in worlds apart and the few Americans still here are lonesome inhabitants of a no-man’s-land between them. I looked for the signs that were familiar in other years to American visitors. There is not much left to see. The American hospital still is open and treating a few Americans, some French and a number of wounded British soldiers. The British don’t want to get well because when discharged they go to German concentration camps. One of the directors, Americanborn Gen. Aldebert de Chambrun, sleeps in the hospital to protect the

mer Clara-Longworth of Cincinnati, sleeps in the American Library in the Rue de Theeran to keep its book stacks secure. Newsboys still hawk their papers in front of the famed Cafe de La Paix, but they no longer shout the names of New York or London newspapers at American passersby.

Tears in the Beer

Harry's New York Bar in the Rue d’Aunou just off the Opera has dropped Harry's name. His Frenchborn son is a prisoner in Germany, but Harry McElhone was a Scot who never had seen New York. He is in England. The New York bar was empty. when I walked in, but the same barman was there and the same American college pennants were on the wall. The old sign suggesting that you eat hot dogs was there, too, but there were no hot dogs and no cocktails. Hard liquors are sold four days a week. Around the. corner, there is still another American hang-out known as the Silver Ring Bar and run by the former jockey, Frankie O'Neill. It is now a sentimental spot for the iew Americans in Paris. - They sit there, listening to a pianist play American tunes, and some of them weep in their beer, There’s nothing else American around Paris. The American grocers are closed for lack of stock. The motion pictures are French or German; this draws sighs from the French admirers of American movie stars. Most of the motion picture theaters are closed, some (such as the one near the Opera) having been closed because the patrons demonstrated when a German newsreel showed war destruction in France.

GWTW Still Popular

American authors, however, still dominate the field of literature and today’s best sellers are “Northwest Passage,” .“Gone With the Wind” and a number of Pearl Buck's books. ° Sales of French books are comparatively meager and most of the new ones are apologies for various phases of the French collapse. There are only two old Paris daily newspapers remaining. They are Petit Parisien and Le Matin. Both, like all of the Paris press, are strongly pro-German and antiAmerican. On Saturday for in-

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ernor Schricker said, make it d——d unhealthy for drunk en drivers. :

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Paul G. Hoffman, Indiana Safety Council president (left) presents safety plaques to Mayor Harry Baals of Ft. Wayne (center) and Sheriff John Peyton of Lawrence County. The awards were made to 115

Hoosier cities and counties at the Indianapolis Athletic Club yesterday.

award.

SCHRICKER RAPS

TIPSY" DRIVERS

Wants It Made Unhealthy

For Them; Cities Given Safety Awards.

The removal of political influence

from traffic law enforcement and a more severe crackdown on ‘drunken drivers was pledged by Gov. Henry F. Schricker yesterday. Sd

The Governor spoke at the annual

presentation of safety awards by the Indiana Traffic Safety Council and the Governor's Co-ordinating Committee to counties, cities and towns with the best safety records in 1940. The ceremonies were held at a luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. |

Pleads for Co-operation Of the 115 municipalities and

counties receiving safety awards, Indianapolis was not mentioned.

“During my term in office” Gov“I'd like! to

“But to curb this and other un-

safe practices, we must have the cooperation of the courts, which’ all too often are lenient.

“There is nothing more discour-

aging for the enforcement officer than to make an arrest and then to see the offender let go, because some politicians have pulled “some wires.

“However, 1 believe I see a great

improvement throughout the State and in our Capital City. Reckless drivers are not so free to violate! the law on Saturday night and then have some friend pull their chestnuts out of the fire on Monday morning. We are cleaning that up.”

Commenting on the Governor's

address, Lew Wallace, special representative from the National Safety Council, said he wished that all 47 other governors in the nation had such a comprehensive picture of the basis for a traffic safety program.

: Awards Given Li Mr. Wallace said the fundamen-

tals of the safety program of Indiana Traffic Safety Council land the Governor's Co-ordinating mittee were sound, but the program had to have the support of community officials and citizens to succeed. . |

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Paul G. Hoffman, president of the

Studebaker Corp. . of South Bend, and of the Safety Council, presided as toastmaster at the luncheon: and presented the awards, Stiver, State Safety Director.

with ‘Don

Mr. Stiver presented a cup to the

Seymour Post of the State Police which, despite the mushroom growth of Charlestown in its district, maintained the best safety record! last year.

H. A. Van Dusen of the Gary

Post-Tribune, winner of the 1940 C. I. T. Newspaper Safety Award, was introduced. He cited the importance of traffic engineering and urged community co-operation in safety.

Special awards were presentéd to

Ft. Wayne, New Castle and Muncie as the safest Indiana cities last year. Similar awards also were presented to 105 cities and towns with the same record. |

Indianapolis did not receive an

| Miss Elliott Is

Hanover Speaker

Times Special

HANOVER, Ind., May 28.-—Miss Harriet Elliot, Hanover . College graduate and a member of the National Defense Council, will give the 108th commencement address Tuesday, June 10, before 45 candidates for degrees at the college here. A highlight of Commencement Week activities will be the presentation of the play “The Late Christopher Bean’ by the College Theater Monday, June 9.

PLASTIC USED FOR ALUMINUM

Substitute May Go Into Shells, Thus Diverting - Now-Scarce Metal. By CHARLES T. LUCEY

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 28.—Development of a plastic so durable that it may replace aluminum in making parts for shells, permitting divertsion of millions of pounds of this now-scarce metal to other defense needs, was revealed today by defense officials. Tests already conducted on the Army proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md. in the use of plastic contact fuses to detonate a 37-millimeter explosive shell, make it virtually certain that the substitute will be used on this type of ammunition, an official said. ; Tests are still to be run on fuses and “windbreakers” for armorpiercing shells of other sizes. Ten men in ordnance production believe these will prove as successful as with the 37-mm. shell.

Huge Saving Foreseen

Assuming a saving of one-fourth pound of aluminum on each shell, an official foresaw a possible saving of 12,500,000 pounds of the metal in a three-month period. Among the shells on which it is believed the plastic may be used, in addition to the 37-mm., are the 40mm., 1l.1-inch, 75-mm., 90-mm., the 6-pounders and the 105-mm. A leading factor in the durability of the new munitions plastic, it was learned, is its ability to withstand temperatures ranging from 60 degrees belcw zero to 400 above. The plastic is said to contain nothing new chemically, but to be rather a new combination of bsavic materials.

Resists Salt Spray

Imperviousness to water and salt spray is another quality claimed for the new substitute. In the development stage, but not yet approved, is a plastic shell for tank bombs—the type of explosive placed under highways to be detonated ‘as a tank passes over it. The increasing importance of plastics in defense is indicated by the fact that Dr. L. T. Barnette, Detroit plastics expert, is to join the Office of Production Management next week. ’

stance, Petit Parisien had a frontpage cartoon showing Uncle Sam tucking the French liner Normandie under his arm. The caption said: “Finally we know our true friends.” Perhaps the most striking thing about Paris as a whole is that there is no traffic except German Army cars—most of them of American make and painted dull grey—and the streets seem d ; ; There are no busses, taxicabs or horsecabs. All travel is by foot, bicycle or the Metro (subway), which is jammed.

Rue de la Paix Boycotted

There is not much left of the famous millionaire’s shopping para-

the dress-making shops and jewelry stores now display yellow signs in French and German: “Jewish firm.” There was little activity around| the Morgan Bank and German guards stood outside the Hotel Ritz. The Hotel Continental was ablaze with Nazi Swastika flags hung from all of its windows. The Hotel Meurice, where King Alfonso of Spain and the Prince of Wales used to stop, now is headquarters for the German commander of Greater Paris. 5 German flags float above the Guaranty Trust Building, the Automobile Club and the Crillon Hotel. The American Embassy -next door was never more beautiful but it has not flown the United States flag since the German occupation began. There is a sign, with seals, on the that it is §

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HOLD EVERYTHING

DRAFT FAMILIES FAVOR ENGLAND

Majority in Group Opposes War Now but Wants U. S. to Help.

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

Direclor, American Institute of Public

pin on Copyright, 1941 PRINCETON, N. J. May 23.—It has frequently been suggested that the opinion which should ¢ount most on the subject of war and aid to Britain today is the opinion of those American families in which there are sons and brothers, or husbands. of draft age — families which would be called upon to make the most direct sacrifices if the nation got into war. | To determine whether these people think differently from the rest of the country, the American Institute of Public Opinion has made a special study of the reactions toward war among a cross-section of American families who have male members in the service now, among men who would expect to go into service if the size of the Army is greatly increased, and among the immediate families

INSTITUTE PUBLIC’OPINION

jof such men.

The results reveal the interesting fact that the opinions of this group show very little difference from the rest of the country on the basic issues of war and foreign policy today. ; Two Groups Compared

The families with men of fighting age are not, for instance, any more opposed to war than the others; they feel virtually the same way as the others about aid to Britain and about convoys. Although both groups oppose going t0 war now. they both think the United States will get into the war sometime before it is over, and they both say they would favor war if Britain would otherwise be defeated. Following is a comparison of the sentiment of the two groups. “If you were asked to vote today on the question of the United States entering: the war against Germany and Italy, how would you vote—to go into the war, or to stay out of the war?” = Go Stay 213 In Out Special Group 229% 18% (Families of men now in service, men who would expect to go into service if Army is greatly increased, and families of the latter) All Others 80 “If it appeared certain that there was no other way of defeating Germany and Italy, except for the United States to go to war against them, would you be in favor of the United States going into the war?” Yes No Special Group 68% All Others

Aid to Britain Favored “Which of these two things do you think is more important for the United States to try to do—to keep out of war ourselves, or to help England even at the risk of getting into the war?” : ; Help England At Risk Stay : Of War Out Special Group 38% All' Others 39 Do you think the United States will go into the war in Europe sometime before it is over, or do you think we will stay out of the war?” Special All Group * Othefs

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Think We Are Already In Think We Will Think We Will 14 9 9 “Should the United States Navy be used to guard ships carrying war materials to Britain?” ; Special All : Group Others dasasassvesen ses: D0 52% "000000 sn 40 Undecid: 6 8 SHARPSHOOTERS IN HILLS * WURTSBORO, N. Y. (U. P.).— If the Army wants sharpshooters, Charles Terwilliger invites a visit to the Shawangunk mountain area near this Sullivan county village. “With the deer season ended, there Lis a lot of swell rifle talent lying

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HIGH SCHOOLS ASKED BY 7000 ON SOUTH SIDE

Savings Cited in Petitions Presented to Board; Park Tract Urged.

By EARL HOFF Twenty-one housewives and civie workers, armed with a bundle of

petitions bearing 7000 names, last night brought to the School Board their demand that the South Side be given a new high school as beautiful as three-year-old Howe High School in Irvington. “These names give an indication of the number of taxpayers on the South Side anxious to see they get their money’s worth,” Mrs. W. C. Milhaus of the South Side Parente Teachers Associations, spokesman

‘|for the group, told the Board.

She pointed out that “the city is growing southward and teach ers in the South Side are finding it more and more difficult to sign up pupils for Manual Training High School” because of the location of the City’s oldest high school on the

{fringe of the business district and

its lack of beautiful grounds. Suggests Garfield Park

The group urged that the School Board consider construction of a new high school to augment Mane

field Park. Mrs. Milhaus pointed out that the school city owns a plot of ground adjoining Grade School 72, at 1302 E. Troy Ave. which she said would be a good location for the proposed new school. Also appearing before the Board, Harry B. Dynes,- representing the South Side Civic Clubs which have been instrumental in the drive for a new school, said “we of the South Side have seen in the past few years a new Shortridge, a great expansion of Tech, a new Washington and . Irvington’s new Howe.” The latter, he said, has the South Side “excited and in a commotion for one just like it.” He proposed that Manual Train=ing be continued as a vocational school while the new school should

‘|be an academic school.

Justifies Stand

He said his group felt justified in asking for a new school because it has supported, by taxation, construction of schools for other sections of the City and because the Civic League and the South Side Businessmen’s Association, through its efforts in the last legislature, saved the City “some $3,000,000.” This saving was accomplished. he said, by having the gasoline refund tax law amended so the City would have a fund of $200,000 ayear allocated to it for use for grade separations and by agreeing to grade separations instead of track eleva: tions for the South Side. The elevation costs would have been approximately $3,000,000, he said, while the grade separation estimate is $1,100,000, which will be amortized by the gasoline refunds, saving the city the $3,000,000 that had originally been requested.

Barker, Wetter Add Pleas

Ted Barker, president. of the South Side Businessmen’s Association, and Paul Wetter, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Civic Clubs, also added pleas for the proposed new school. After hearing the South Side plea, the Board approved $16,000 in expenditures for repairs and new equipment for schools, none of the items being earmarked for Manual Training. Grounds at 17 schools were approved for use of the Board of Park Commissioners for summer recreational purposes. The schools included: Numbers 2.3.17 10, 12, 13, 16, 22, 23, 26, 32, 36, 41, 43, 66 and 84. ; Members of the women’s group were: Miss | Kathryn McPherson, Women’s Clubs and Civic Groups; Mrs. Walter L. Caley, Mrs. Ernest Kuester and Mrs. Milhaus, School 72; Mrs. Earl Stumpf, School 35; Mrs. Willian Klinge and M's. Walter Merklin, Emmaus Litheran School; Mrs. Eleanor Maar, School 22; Mrs. A. F. Vehling, School 20; Mrs. Forest E. Ray, Mrs. Harold Kenyon, Mrs. Kenneth Suar, Mrs. Herman E. Henninger and Mrs. Marion F. Clarke, School 34; Mrs. Mel R. Shaw, School 13; Mrs. Aruthr Lynch and L. D. Shuffield, School 7; Miss Belle McPherson, civic worker, and Mrs. H. W. Cassady, Mrs. H. B. McClain and Mrs. Harry Meidema Sr., School 18. -

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Which major league baseball club changed its: nickname five . years ago to “Bees,” and recently returned to its former nickname, “Braves”? . 2—Who said “A quart. of ale is a dish for a king”? 3—Did Admiral Byrd, Sir Hubert Wilkins or Capt. Roald Amundsen make the first polar flight by airplane? - 4—Wimbledon England, is associ ated with rugby, tennis or soce cer? 5—How did “greenbacks” get their name? 6—Whi:n of these constellations ‘Orion, Gemini, or Casseopeia, has the general form of the let= ter “W”?

Answers 1—Boston National League Club, 2—Shakespeare. 3—Admiral Byrd. 4—Tennis. 5—They were printed on the back in green ink. 6—Casseopeia. ” 8 2

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