Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1941 — Page 17

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, June 26—OPM has been very busy for several weeks trying to make itself more + efficient. Finally it has emerged with a reorganization. But it is an internal reorganization only, and the defense management in Washington continues

to be the sprawling assortment of agencies that it has been from the start, a product of improvisation ‘and of President Roosevelt's aversion to placing one man in complete charge of the whole show as Bernard M. Baruch was in the last war. . This internal reorganization

just announced probably will help.

It will simplify the task of businessmen in trying to deal with the defense agencies here. But it leaves the over-all management | as scattered as before. Even now the transportation situation is still an orphan, in the hands of Ralph Budd, w2o is the sole survivor of the original National Defense Advisory Commission. ‘Why he is not included in the OPM organization, since transportation is an increasing problem, is difficult to understand. = The Price and Civilian Supply Organization, OPACS, under Leon Henderson, still remains an independent organization with numerous commodity sections parallel to those now being set up in OPM. The Oil Administration,

under Secretary Ickes, also remains outside as a .

separate agency.

Contract Awards Speeded

Perhaps the most useful thing that is going on at. OPM is the retirement of several industrialists who sadly underguessed the needs of the defense program and failed to drive for expansion of steel capacity and electric power. Others who remain have repented bitterly and are on the expansionist side now. OPM has put the heat on the Army for faster dishing out of contracts, although it has not gone along with the Army for a 50 per cent cut in automobile production. President Roosevelt has appealed to OPM to make ruthless diversion of machine tools from whatever source they can be obtained for essential work in Government arsenals. This is likely

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By Raymond Clapper

to force OPM to move more swiftly than had heen otherwise expected. OPM has hesitated to force sharper reductions in automobile production for fear of causing unemployment. That OPM and all Government agencies feel the need of sharply stepping up defense production is certain. That President Roosevelt feels it is certain. But we are suffering and will continue to suffer from lack of coherent organization. Boards and committees, countless liaison meetings, the necessity of consulting this agency and that, are deadly consumers of time. Authority still is divided and scattered all around Washington. It heads up under President Roosevelt. But Presi-, dent. Roosevelt has everything else ‘heading up to him. He has lend-lease, he has the contact with the British, questions of Army and Navy strategy and dispositions of Army and fleet forces to consider. There is no one, aside from the President, who has the final word. In 1918 Woodrow Wilson, after going through just such a -period of loose organization as we have had up to now, put Bernard M. Baruch in charge of war production. President Wilson put out the word that Mr. Baruch’s decisions were final, and that no one could run around Mr. Baruch to the

White House. Too Many Loose Ends

OPM has no control over Lean Henderson, in charge of prices and civilian allocations. Mr. Henderson had no control over OPM. Nobody has any control over Secretary Ickes, the Oil Administrator. Transportation, which is so vital that we have to cur-| tail gasoline consumption in the East, is‘ left out on its own. This at a time when Ralph Budd is making a survey to get short-haul freight taken off the railroads and transferred to truck so that the rails can be cleared for long hauls, and when railroad construction needs are clashing with shipbuilding needs. OPM, restricted .to its own back yard, is trying to revamp its internal organization. The reorganization was worked out by John ‘D. Biggers and Donald Nelson of OPM. It was not a White House job and President Roosevelt apparently knew little about it in advance. It probably will be a good mustard plaster. But something more than home treatment is needed. An over-all -reorganization such as’ only the President could undertake is needed, and sooner or later—probably later—it will come, :

Ernie Pyle is on vacation. He will be gone about one more week.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd

‘FOR YOUR INFORMATION (keep it quiet, won't you?) a first-class liquor price war is in full swing -here and is spreading to other parts of the state. It all started because somebody suspected somebody else of giving discounts and went into “competition.” Now, everybody’s “competing” and every day sees the price slide a bit more. It’s bad because small retailers probably will buy more than they can afford to right now and when they have a full load on will start cutting corners themselves (like selling to minors and hiring hostesses, etc.) to get rid of their surplus supplies. It’s also bad for ‘the little fellow (the 90 per cent) because he can't take advantage of the price war like the big fellow. = Oddly enough, everybody in the business deplores the whole thing and each blames somebody else. The one source getting the most blame is the excise department. -- : Reason: The department hasn't set up any agency yet to cope with this sort of thing. The department says it hasn’t had time.

Around the Town

UNCLE SAM APPARENTLY is clamping down more and more on the defense plants all over the country. At any wate, that’s what we'd figure from our Indianapolis plants. It's next to impossible to get permission to take pictures at the Naval Ordnance plant, the Bridgeport Brass or at the new test sheds Allison is putting up . . . Mr. and Mrs.

FSA Headaches

WASHINGTON, June 26—The - Farm Security Administration of your Government, whose function it is to get folks to go back to the farm, is now having some new troubles trying to keep them there. FSA, you’ll recall, is the outfit which started out in life as as a — Rex Tugwell’s Resettlement Administration to build Tugwelltowns here and there, was - reorganized into the Department of Agriculture in 1936 and had its name changed in 1937 to buy its past and start all over again. ’ It’s the defense program, of . course, which is upsetting the even tenor of FSA ways. Let a defense project gel started and what happens? The poorer farmers who -have had tough sledding, hear the call of those “five-dollars-a-day” to be made 'on Government- jobs. They simply pick up and leave home. Anything looks better to them than facing the unexpired portion of a 40-year mortgage on a little land which may give security but never wealth.” So they chase the pot of gold to the rainbow’s end, and when they get there—to scramble a couple of metaphors—the cupboard is bare as it always is.

What happened at Ft. Bragg, near Fayetteville,

N. C, is an example. The farmers swarmed in. Some of the first who could get by got jobs. The unskilled rest had to trek back home. When the construction job was over, even the early comers were down on their luck and had to traipse back to their patch of land. : .

Hold Those Acres!

That situation woke up the Farm Security people as to what was going on and since then they have been doing a good bit of missionary work among their 800,000 or more client farm-families. The gist of the FSA argument to their people is this: Some day this defense boom is going to be all over. When it is, the bottom may fall out worse than it did in 1932. You have here your house and your land, secured by a Federal Government loan at low interest .on long time terms. Why not keep this as your reserve? If you have some sons or daughters who can fi§ into the defense picture, fine—let them get their jobs in the industrial centers. But keep some members of the family, Uncle Charlie or Brother Bill or even grandpappy, on the place to make sure be Suess run down and you don’t lose your grub stake. : :

EASTPORT, Me., Wednesday.—A man in Brooklyn, N. Y., sends me a clipping containing a few words I had said about our responsibility as a nation, to the world, and comments on it in a little rhyme about

“looking out for number. one, before anything has . begun.” He thinks we haven't

“plenty to spare” and can’t “send it all over there.” It does seem to me that the gentleman misses the point. If we bend every effort now to produce necessary “material help for those . Who are doing the fighting in a cause which we believe to be right, we may keep the war from our shores. If Great Britain, China and Russia lose, sooner or later, we will have to fight. No matter how well prepared : : . we are, 175,000,000 people in this hemisphere will have quite a struggle; first on the - economic side and eventually on the military side. . We shall be pitted against 500,000,000 people in Europe and Japan, and heaven knows how many

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* Claude Jacquart is back from attending his class re-

“Our Town")

C. A, Jaqua got quite a shock during a round of golf at Highland recently, As they marched up to the 15th green, they stopped in horror. The body of a man was sprawled out.on the green and for a moment they thought of some fancy detective story titled “Murder on the 15th.” But everything turned out all right. A lone golfer, slightly weary, stopped and laid down to smoke a cigaret. He fell asleep . . . Incidentally, the mention of golf reminds us that Highland is trying to work up an exhibition match for some time later this summer starring Sam Snead and Ralph Guldahl. They'd pit ‘em against Henry Kowal dnd John David . . . CocaCola has just installed a new sign at the corner of Alabama and Washington Sts. Every minute it flashes He onrech time in big neon lights. Just like New ork. :

More of This and That

EVERY YEAR the famous Stork. Club of New

York sends little gift tokens to our city officials. The gifts came yesterday and Hizzoner the Mayor's was a bright red pair of galluses. And we do mean red .-. . John Bartee, state secretary of the C. I. O. for the last three years, has given up that job and is starting back to his old job as a metal finisher at the Studebaker plant in South Bend.. John is musing at,the moment about how long it: will take him to get back in his stride . . . The window of the “Bundles For Britain” office was smeared with green paint the other night. It said “To Hell With Britain” and while the police department hasn't given anything out on it, we have an idea that Mike Morrissey’s subversive squad is working on the thing . . . Realtor

union at Denison University (Granville, 0.).

By Peter Edson

There is a further argument for the tenant farmers’ welfare in persuading them to fit their crops in with the big vitamin campaign that goes on under the nutrition program. Raising of garden truck to sell to these army camps, instead of putting all the land in wheat or cotton or tobacco, of which the country already has a surplus, is something that a good many farmers still have to be taught to do. Farm Security Administration's appropriation for next year is still before Congress. The House version gives it $50 million, and the Senate $60 million, to which will be added $170 million of Reconstruction Finance Corp. money for rehabilitation loans and such. This year, FSA has had $50 million plus $200 million from RFC. ~~

Over-loaded Land Problems

To get the need for this program, you have to go back to the War Between the States and study the war population problem. Land now under cultivation in the Southeastern United States is as great as it was then—perhaps a little less due to scil erosion—but the population on it Kas doubled. In the World War there was a big migration of labor from this area_to-Detroit and Akron and the industrial centers. When the war was qver, they had to go back home, their silks shirts in rags and tatters, and they dammed up on the land. FSA now has loans outstanding to some 400,000 families in this southeastern-Appalachian area alone. Perhaps 25,000 to 50,000 people from these 400,000 families have aiready left to take defense jobs. The industrial centers have again become the frontiers to which the pioneers want to flock and it's going to be a job to keep them put. ° ! On top .of this general resettlement problem .is the old problem of migratory labor, which is another FSA baby that has to have its nursing formula changed by the defense colic. The old pre-war harvest hand migration of the Midwest has of course been killed by the combine’ tractor, but the citrus-fruit-truck farm migrations from Florida to Maine and back, and the citrus-cotton-truck-fruit harvesters’ migrations from the Rio Grande to the Canadian border are essential to the harvésting of seasonal crops, and the labor supply for this job must be mainfained. The big worry now is that there won't be enough Okies to go round. Some of these sons of Okies have been tinkering with Model T Fords so long they've become pretty fair mechanics and the West Coast aircraft factories are after ’em. : Times certainly have changed.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

more if Russia is not able to hold out. I don’t want war, but I think that.every effort we can put into production and military preparation to aid those fighting Hitler, is our best guarantee against war; and our only safety, should it come. : Yesterday afternoon, I went over to Lubec, Me., to see my old friend, Dr. Bennet, who: is now 90 years old. He is deeply troubled by the state of the world and kept repeating: - “What has happened to the goodness in the world?” I think a good, many of us would like to know the answer to that question. We went jn to see Dr. Bennet’s son, who is also a doctor, and told him that there would be 30 young people in this house for five weeks. I think he may have to keep an eye on them now and then, and I reminded him of some of the escapades his father had pulled many of our people through in days gone by. In the evenings, we read aloud from William Shirer’s “War Diary.” The book is a wonderful piece of vivid writing. It is extraordinary that he was able

to do his work in Beplin, feeling as he did, and not get|-

into serious trouble. It must have required an

‘heat keeps up.

at City Hall—

SIGNING OF NEW LEASES TO USE AIRPORT NEARS

3 Lines to Share Cost of Addition, Pay Landing Fees for 1st Time.

By RICHARD LEWIS

Negotiations on the new lease for three major airlines using Municipal rt are virtually completed at City Hall. Under terms of an agreement reached this week, the airport’s revenue will rise sharply. The papers have not been signed, but there was a meeting of .the minds at a conference of City and airline officials Tuesday afternoon. The conference began at 10 a.m. and lasted until 3 p. m., without a break for lunch. It escaped general notice because it was held in the City Hall's law libr._y, a gloomy but cool chamber tucked away in the Legal Department. | When the conferees got through, they were hungry but satisfied and now the agreement will be redrafted for the fourth time— probably the last. This is what it provides: - 1. The three airlines—Transcontinental & Western, Eastern and American—will share the cost of a $30,000 addition to the airport administration building. This will provide badly needed office space. 2. For the first time, the airport will charge landing fees. The rates wiil be $50 a schedule & month for the first two schedules and $25 a schedule a month thereafter. The fees would take effect July 1. 3. Office space will rent for $2 a square foot on the ground floor, $1.50 a square foot on the second floor and 50 cents a foot for storage

DEBATE: POLICE STATION MERITS

space. This rate may take effect July 1 for the present administration building, but that is not yet definite. During the discussions, airlines representatives proposed that a roof observation platform be erected atop the addition. A small charge could be levied for patrons. The platform would keep people off the field. However, the platform still is talk. It is understood, though, that the roof of the addition will be constructed of sufficient strength to serve as a platform in the event the City wants to put it to that use.

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Heat Good for OQiling

When the sun is so blazing hot the asphalt nearly melts and the air downtown is like a furnace blast, City Streets Commissioner Wilbur Winship rejoices. That is perfect street oiling weather. The first half of June with its persistent rain put the Streets Department behind schedule on grading and oiling unimproved streets. The oil is thicker this year than last and it will not flow unless the ground is hot. The hotter it gets, the faster the streets can be oiled. So far, Commissioner Winship reported, 108 miles of the City’s 240 miles of unpaved streets have been graded and oiled. The job, he prophesied, will pe finished before August if the

SHIP SHORTAGE BARS U.S, HELP TO SOVIET

WASHINGTON, June 26 (U. P.). —American aid to the Soviet Union under the lend-lease act will be handicapped by an acute shortage of Russian shipping tonnage and deficiencies of the Soviet’s railway system, informed quarters said today. . Russia’s merchant marine at the outbreak of the war totaled only 678 ships with a gross tonnage of about 1,370,000 tons. Fewer than 500 of these ships were considered adequate for trans-oceanic service. The remainder were old type sailing vessels, barges and antiquated sidewheelers. Shipping men estimated it would require the best Russian ships between 14 and 16 days to cross the Pacific between the- American supply ports and the Russian port of Vladivostok. : Two or three weeks would be needed to ship materials from Vladivostok to Moscow by way of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

CIO CLAIMS TRIUMPH IN BETHLEHEM POLL

PITTSBURGH, June 26 (U. P.. —The C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee today claimed overwhelming victories in National Labor Board elections at three of the four plants of Bethlehem Steel Corp., where workers voted on collective bargaining representation. An S. W. O. C. spokesman claimed unofficial result from balldting at

Bethlehem showed 329 voted for the C. I. O. union and 16 against. At the Leetsdale, Pa., plant, he said, the unofficial vote was 599 for the S. W. O. C. and 103 against. Union reports from the Los Angeles Slossen Ave. plant gave the C. I. O. 527 votes to 37 against and at the Vernon Warehouse 65 for the C. I. O. and 24 against. The vote tally was still underway at the Johnstown, Pa., mills, where 12,000 were eligible to vote.

MORGAN WARNS OF CONTAMINATED FOOD|

Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health Officer, issued a warning today that the careless preparation and preservation of meats in homeg

warm weather. He said that five persons were made ill by meat which was improperly cooked this week. In the past two years, there have been four deaths and hundreds of severe illnesses from contaminated food, chiefly meat, he said. The health officer ordered sani-

where near adoption.

the Rankin, Pa., fabricating mill of |"

and restaurants is hazardous during| |

Some Favor Centralization; Others Want Return to

‘Precincts.’ There has been a good deal of

talk about the precinct system ‘of policing a city versus the central headquarters system which Indianapolis now uses.

According to the former plan, the

City is divided into districts or precincts and each district is covered by a station, usually in charge of a lieutenant or captain.

Many folks remember how that

system operated when Indianapolis had it. when the increased use of motorized equipment made police to operate far from the home base and to operate more economically.

It was abolished years ago it possible for

Board Studies Revival Scout cars now patrol the dis-

tricts, supplanting the man on foot, and keep ‘in constant radio communication with downtown headquarters.

The Safety Board has been con-

sidering the possibility of reviving

the precinct stations, primarily as a

move to relieve the congestion at the Headquarters building. this or the construction of a newer and much larger central headquarters is believed necessary.

Either

So far, neither plan has been anyPeriodically, however, some member of the Safety Board brings it up at a meeting in a reminiscent vein, Chief Noncommittal Asked which he would prefer—the precinct system or a brand new

central headquarters, Chief Michael F. Morrissey was about to make a. reply when he suddenly changed his mind.

_ “No comment,” he said. “I don’t

want to make any comment.”

But the Chief previously has ex-

pressed his. delight with nearly any plan that would give him room to turn around without bumping into a wall or a bookcase. : Central Headquarters idea seems to find more favor with Mayor Sullivan than any other.

And the new

Ban Shorts for Florence Women

FLORENCE, Italy, June 26 (U. P.) .—Police today forbgde women to wear eithet shorts or long pants under penalty of a fine. If they are arrested for wearing trousers while riding a picycle, the bicyele will be confiscated. The newspaper Nazione said: “It was about time to take strong measures against this stupid Hollywood style. -In a country like ours and in a moment of war, any frivolous style is punishable.”

HOLD EVERYTHING

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amount of self-control which very few of us possess.

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ianapolis Times

New State Guard Struts in Plaza

The Guardsmen mastered the new marching technique.

Spectat

The bald-headed chap, dean of

The chubby little fellow who, at age 2, never missed a National Guard drill, and at age 3 calls them ‘“sojurs,” approved. And the trim officer in khaki, the acting Adjutant General of In-

diana, approved.

The Plaza-sitters aren’t easily fooled. They've turned out for Guard

drills, drum and bugle corps rehearsals and band concerts for a long time .now, and they know a capable performance when they see it. That's why the bald-headed man was a little skeptical when the State Guard marched briskly down the Armory steps last night for its maiden maneuvers around the multi-colored fountain. When the first company stepped off the street onto the gravel, he shook his head—in one row was a smooth-faced lad of 20, a grizzled chap of 45, a tall man and a very short man. . And two or three were not in uniform But then the men split up into squads. The Plaza-sitters moved forward on their concrete perches. The National Guardsmen and the R. O. T. C. cadets used to form their squads in two rows of four, march in that formation, and execute stiffly their “squads right” and “squads left.” But not this outfit. ' The squads, some eight and some 12 men, formed a single straight but relaxed line. The corporal barked, “As skirmishers, follow me,” and the boys loped away with their Enfield rifles in position so they could shoot or duck—whichever the need might be. This was the new style of Army drill installed less than a year ago and learned by the State Guard in a period of a few weeks. And that wasn’t all they could do— One company fixed bayonets, split up in twos and went at it. They parried and thrust (those are NOT the military terms). Then one stood stock still while his “enemy” charged at him pell mell and the two rifles connected with a clang. They threw their hips, protected their mid-section and grunted and strained. Then the company charged collectively at an imaginary enemy. It was professional. The man present who was in a position to know it was professional couldn’t conceal his pleasure. “It’s satisfactory,” said Lieut. Col. John Friday, ecting adjutant general of Indiana. “I mean it's very satisfactory,” he added. “Why, ploded. “These fellows,” he said, “have been working a comparatively short time. They donate their time. They pay their own transportation to and from drills. They work with enthusiasm. “Yes, sir, it’s remarkable.” It appeared that the bald-headed dean of Plaza-sitters and the towheaded 3-year-old veteran of two seasons also thought it was remark-

it’s remarkable,” he ex-

“We'll have to transfer that big league baseball star to another outfit— we. can’t postpone maneuvers until everybody in

camp has an

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Of New Type Army Drilling

By WILLIAM CRABB .

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the Plaza-sitters, approved.

DOUGLAS PARK CENTER ASKED

Need to Cut Delinquency In District, Delegation Tells Board.

A delegation representing the Federation of Associated Clubs pleaded with the Park Board today for a community building at Douglas Park.' Delegation spokesmen asserted that the park, originally set aside for Negroes, has béen neglected for 25 years. The group pointed to high juvenile delinquency . figures for the area adjacent to the park, and said that the development of the community center was the answer. to the delinquency problem.

Follows Boytown Plea

The plea for the center was an outgrowth of the Douglas Park Adult Council’s proposal last year to erect a boystown clubhouse with lumber from an abandoned portable school building and purchased

from the School Board. The Park Board, however, told the group that a more substantila building should be constructed and suggested a concrete block commun-

ity center building. The Board’s project was held up ior lack of funds and the delegation today made an earnest plea for the Board to find some money to improve recreation facilities at the park.

' | the Russo-German war, ;

31 | can invade the United States, unless ' |indeed we have given our guns, our [1] | planes, our warships to some foreign i | power,” he said.

[173 TURKS LOST AS

| sailors were en route to Great Brit-

Need Improvements

Spokesmen today were Frank Beckwith, attorney; Starling W. James, Federation of Associated Clubs president; the Rev. Fr. Bernard L. Strange of St. Rita's parish; William Fountroy, a probation officer in Juvenile Court, and Harmon A. Campbell, Republican City councilman. The speakers pointed out that the City already has a large investment in the park but is unable to utilize it adequately until further improvements are made. The Board indicated that a decision on the new community cenfer will be made as soon as its 1941 budget is prepared.

WHEELER OPPOSES U.'S. AID FOR SOVIET

HARTFORD, Conn. June 26 .(U. P.).—Senator Burton K. Wheeler

(D., Mo.) said at an America First|.

Committee rally last night that Europe faces the alternative ' of Communistic or Nazi domination if either side wins a quick victory in “Do you Americans want to send American money or American boys to fight side by side with Joe Stalin in order to establish Communism

throughout Europe and the world?” |

he said.

“Thinking people know that ne|

nation or combination of nations

SHIP. IS TORPEDOED ANKARA, Turkey, June 26 (U.P.). the Turkish steamer Vefah were

today. The Vefah sailed Monday from

crew from the Turkish Navy. The

ain to bring back two ‘submarines and two destroyers built for Turkey. The voyage of the new Turkish warships had been arranged through

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ASK OKLAHOMA

TO RENEW PACT

ON TRUCK TAGS

Reciprocity Continuation Means Savings to Indiana Operators.

By EARL RICHERT

L. Hewitt Carpenter, secretary of the Indiana committee on Intere state Co-operation, left today for Oklahoma to try to find out pere sonally why that state is cancelling its reciprocity agreements as of July 1. / He plans to talk with Attorney General Mac Q. Williamson, head of the Oklahoma Interstate committee, and try to persuade him to renew the agreements with Indiana.

The interview, if successful, will mean dollars in the pockets of Ine diana truck owners whose vehicles operate through the Southwestern state. Under reciprocity agreéinents,

-| trucks operated by residents of one

state are allowed to operate in the other state without getting new licenses. "If Oklahoma refuses to renew its repicrocity agreements, then Hoosier truck operators and operators of trucks from other states will have to buy Oklahoma license if their trucks are to-operate through that

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And large numbers of Indiana trucks go through that state on their way to Texas and other South western states. The natural reaction if Oklahoma refuses to renew its agreement will be for Indiana to refuse to grant Oklahoma-owned trucks the right to operate through Indiana without buying Indiana licenses. Even if this course is taken, Ine diana will be the loser, State of ficials said, since more Indiana trucks operate through Oklahoma than Oklahoma trucks in Indiana. And State officers are desirous of . avoiding a truck war. ' Mr. Carpenter also expects to cone tact Kansas officials on his trip to try to broaden the present reciproce ity agreement with that state. |

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Can Fire by Notice

It is legal, Attorney General George Beamer ruled today for a township trustee to notify a teacher of his dismissal by simply attaching a written notice to his paycheck. The law specifies that there shall “be delivery in person” of the notice of dismissal of a teacher and the question arose recently in connece tion with a Lake Couty teacher fire ing as to whether such a dismissal i method constituted “delivery in person.” he ; . Mr. Beamer, in an opinion to Dr, Clement T. Malan, state superine tendent of public instruction, held that the law did not mean the township trustees had to deliver the dismissal notice in person but the teacher must personally receive the notice. He said that attaching the notice of dismissal to the paycheck constituted personal delivery.

” » ” State Traffic Grows One of the surest methods of telle ing just what effect the defense boom is having on the state is by counting the automobiles on the highways. The State Highway ‘Commission’s traffic survey showed that there were 114 cars on the highways last month for every 100 the month before. May's traffic flow was 18.5 per cent greater than in May, 1940. The biggest incréase in traffie was noted on Road 57, south of Muncie, which showed a gain of 41 per cent over the previous month, ” ” ”

Opens Coal Bids

Tomorrow, the State Purchasing Agent will open bids for coal for all ° State institutions during the coming year. Coal is the biggest single item purchased by the State for its institutions. About 220,000 tons are purchased annually. Twenty-five or 30 come anies usually participate in the state's coal business.

TEST YOUR | KNOWLEDGE |

1—What is the color of hair and eyes of the “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi,” in the popular song with that title? 2—Who wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”? : 3—One whd cuts, grinds, polisties and sets precious stones is called: l1-p-d--y? 4—Which Union general in the War. Between the States afterward be came President? 5—What famous poet and dramatist lived at Stratford-on-Avon, Eng land? 6—Name the present temporary capital of China. : T—Is it correct to describe a person with light complexion as lights complected? 8—What large Greek island recently was invaded by German parae chute troops?

Answers

1—Golden hair and blue eyes. 2—Washington Irving. 3—Lapidary. 4—Ulysses S. Grant, 5—Shakespeare. 6—Chungking. T—No. 8—Crete.

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