Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1941 — Page 9

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CENTRAL CITY, Colo., July 19.—Yesterday we left you, after a full day of pleasant confusion, on our way downhill to the opera house for the opening performance of Central City’s famous three weeks of Play Festival. It was just dusk., Dusk in the high mountains is always touched with an eeriness. Old things of our forefathers are in the shadows; in the twilight stillness there i are memories sentimental and bold. The end of day in the high altitudes is chill and lonely and moving. In that cold July twilight we tumbled at last down the steep hill into Central City’s Eureka St. Traffic was shut off. The street - made an arena. > : And humanity packed that arena from edge to edge; they filled the whole heart of the old gold town here so high in the mountains. And they were all in evening

dress. Hundreds of them, brilliant and immaculate . in formal clothes. r

The doors of the 63-year-old opera house were still closed. No ordinary swinging open of doors would do for an occasion like this. Ceremony is the thing. So a microphone: was set up on the sidewalk. The white-shirted throngs pushed into a vast. semicircle around it. The Governor of Colorado was introduced. Bigwigs spoke. La And then out stepped Billy Hamilton, with a huge ] 3 He lives in overalls. But this night he was dressed as fastidiously and as handsomely as Lucius Beebe himself. Billy grinned and handed over the great key. The doors swung open. The fortunate 716 with tickets to the

- old wooden chairs slowly pushed in for the great event.

“The Barber of Seville” was what they sang on opening night at Central City” When it was over, the audience wouldn't leave. The applause was so great and so flattering that those responsible for the opera were almost overcome. But at last it was ended. And the third section of

‘opening day at Central City began.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Homer Earl Capehart, Indiana's super-supersalesman, America’s “jukebox king,” manufacturer, political dark horse and the orig-

inal “Gladhand Charlie.” The stories about Homer Capehart’s dynamic driv3 ing personality and ability to get things done are not exaggerated. He is a self-made man in the true sense of the word with a genius for organization and an ability to work hard, unburdened with any. unbecoming modesty. Mr. Capehart is still a very young man—44. He's about 5 feet 012 inches tall and weighs close to 200 pounds. He has dark red- , dish hair and a complexion that | freckles abundantly. He has ob7 Bie servant blue eyes and a constant Mr, Capehart wide-awake air, like a little boy taking in everything. He is never without a cigar, either perched in the corner of his mouth or in his hand. When he drives home a point, he waggles the cigar at his listeners. He stays up late at night, rises early yet never seems to be bothered by lack of sleep. He wears down his friends and associates and when he gets on one of his “go” spells he works day and night with no thought of sleep and little of food.

Just @ Farm Boy HOMER CAPEHART was born in Algiers, Ind.

* (Pike County), and went to Washington High School.

When World War I Broke out, he*was just a big, redhaired farmer boy working on the Graham Farms in

. Daviess County. The height of his ambition was to

own a nice big farm like that. : After the war, he gave up his farming ideas and took to salesmanship, the job he was actually born for. He worked for several corporations selling milking machines, then tractors, then threshing machines, popcorn machines and then picked up a patent for a device for shifting phonograph records. Thus started

the Capehart Corp., which wound up in receivership

after several years during an expansion program in the midst of the depression. Homer didn’t stay out in the cold long. He sold

» himself to the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. as vice president

and proceeded to put that company on the map with jukeboxes and musical instrument sales to school children. A year ago he started the Packard Manufac-

Washingt WASHINGTON, July 19.—The Japanese will be making a fatal mistake if they seize upon this moment

to stab again in the Far East. Perhaps Japan has been misled into a mistaken

size-up of the attitude of the United States.

This Government has tried to appease Japan. It has incurred strong public criticism in so doing. For sentiment in the United States is much more belligerent with re-

-his famous Republican cornfield conference three years

By Ernie Pyle

The first section is THE DAY—{full of its parties. The second sg¢ction is THE EVENING—the opera itself. The third section is THE NIGHT—all the hours that come after ‘the opera. Not the least of these three is' The Night. : Hl For again at midnight old Eureka St. vibrates under the tread of hundreds of strolling visitors in “their beautiful clothes. The night club is the main thing. It is in the old grand ballroom of the Teller House, and it is run, just as the opera, by the University of Denver. I imagine it must be the only night club in America run by a University. . The club will hold hundreds, and hundreds are there. But not everybody is at the night club. Throngs of others prefer the lustier and freer atmosphere of the famous Teller House bar, with its “Face on the Barroom Floor.” ’

The Dawn Comes Too Soon

Others overflow down around the corner to the Elks Club or the Bucket of Blood, where you set your starched shirt down next to an old prospector with whiskers. Some go to the Casino and gamble. All of us in the proper mood of antiquity go across the street from the Teller House, -pick out a derby hat and a cane and put a bonnet and bustle on our girl, and have our pictures taken in “tin-type.” And still others gravitate to the hall where Dr. Lloyd Shaw, the “czar” of square-dancing in America. puts on riotous square-dances until the last caller goes silent from hoarseness. / Oh it is a gay night in Central City, and feeble indeed is the visitor who has to give up before the’ first ray of light signals the sad news that morning has come. : You have been going for 20 hours. You feel a great, soft tiredness; a good weariness. It has all been exhaustingly wonderful. And so at last you start home. . : I have done the best I could to describe to you not in cold detail but in spirit, what goes on at this amazing Central City Festival. Its fame will grow even greater as the years go by, and I do not doubt that before long it will have become in the whole puplic mind what I already consider it—one of America’s half-dozen annual epics.

turing Corp. here, making automatic musical devices, and he’s tinkering with his smoke control mechanism, which is being sold now in all parts of the country. Incidentally, he has the farm he dreamed about as a boy. It’s just across the road from the farm he worked on, except that it is considerably larger (2000 acres) and much more profitable, It was there that he held

ago. The way he handled things then made it natural that the G. O. P. call on him to run the Willkie Day

show at Elwood.

The Capehart Manner

HIS LOCATING IN Indianapolis was done in typical Capehart style. He blew in one day as if he were going to a fire, shouted for lists of available factory sites and a real estate man to show him around. Ten minutes later he was on his way and within an hour he had signed a lease. That's the way Homer Capehart likes to do business. He lives out in the 5200 block on N. Meridian and when he gets home he likes to get into comfortable clothes and loaf around with his three youngsters, Homer Earl Jr. just graduated from Shortridge and headed for DePauw; Thomas Charles, now in Shortridge, and Patricia, headed for Shortridge. Homer reads a lot, often late into the night. He keeps up with all the current biographies and economic writings, especially those on financial and governmental affairs. He does not care for fiction. He is an ardent baseball fan atid when it comes to golf he does everything in an unorthodox manner and still shoots in the high 80’s and low 90's.

What, Dinner Time Again!

AT HIS FARM he has a couple of horses which he rides all over the estate. When he comes to a hired hand plowing he'll climb on the plow and take a turn or two while the hand rests. Or maybe he’ll run the wheat binder, or stack the wheat at harvest time. He still likes t6 work around a “farm and there’s nothing he can’t do. He no longer has any political ambitions. He was all steamed up for a while after his famous Cornfield Conference, but he became so disgusted with the devious’ways, the inefficiency and lost motion of politics that he has just drifted out of the scene voluntarily. His temperament can’t stand it. ' If he has any worries at all, it’s his waistline. Every morning he starts on a diet. And every noon he decides to quit it.

By Raymond Clapper

pines and that we are prepared to defend it. Japan must know that vital raw materials are located in the East Indies and that we could not afford to stand idly by and see them cut off. Japan must know that what we have done in the Atlantic has always been done with ore eye on the dangers in the Pacific and that we have not made any transfers out of the Pacific that would prevent us from protecting our interests. Japan must know that for months not only ourselves but the British have been reinforcing every

This Is the

Story’ Censors

Wouldn't Pass Because There ‘Isn't Any Blockade’ |

(This is the sixth of a series of articles on the war experiences

of Robert

J. Casey.) >

Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. The ship hit something hard, rolled half way to nowhere, took a wet acre of the North Atlantic over her quarter and hung there shivering, with the bottom appar-

ently no great way off.

The furniture on the deck above, a bookcase, a few chairs, a couple of tables and a heavy divan, piled up with

a splintering crash.

- And in the dining room, as the floor upended, all

the

dishes ‘and most of the passengers shot toward the star-

board wall.

A port cracked and gallons of icy water swept over a

homebound Bishop who had no adequate words for the occasion. : We were somewhere off Iceland that night, headed from Glasgow for the hot

lands of West Africa. There

were U-boats about and the. skipper +of . this blockade runner was avoiding death from a torpedo by. hunting it in the gale. He said afterward he'd arrived at the choice hy flipping a coin. The “fiddles,” the little fences supposed to keep the crockery from sliding onto the floor, weren't high enough to léssen the havoc at the chief engineer’s table.

Rescues His Chop

THE CHIEF ENGINEER, who had thoughtfully hooked his chair to the floor, braced himself against the shock with a talent that comes of long experience and leaned forward to meet the avalanche. A dozen or more plates broke through his guard and clattered into his lap. Unmoved, he started carefully to sort out the debris in

search of his own pork chop. Nu- .

merous green-faced passengers, clinging desperately to the edge of the shaking table, looked at him in horrified admiration. We became aware presently that the engines had quit. They were Diesels, which couldn’t stand racing without load, so they werehooksd up to a governor that switched them off whenever the propeller lifted out of the water. * Apparently it was out now—well out. We were down by the head and the roll-back from the present list seemed likely never to start. - ” ” »

‘THE BISHOP, whose chair was also chained down, was still in his place at a table on_the port side when he got the water in his eyes. His dinner was thrown over a prostrate waiter who so far hadn’t made any better progress than the ship at restoring a center of gravity. We laughed at this, some of us did. He looked so ludicrous there trying to get up. A blast of air straight off the Labrador ice pack came roaring over us and the room was cold as death. The ship was a long time righting herself. Maybe she wasn’t going to right herself, ever. It was all so funny. : You became aware presently that the Bishop was speaking. “The engines,” he coughed. “The engines are stopped!” He had to repeat this twice before he got the message to the ear of the chief engineer who was still at his possibly useless salvage

‘operations half way across the

room, .

SAYS LINDBERGH

“What you say?” inquired the chief engineer. ‘ “The engines are stopped,” repeated the Bishop with considerable alarm. “Somebody will start them again,” said the chief confidently. And he continued his search for his badly pied dinner. :

Floor Finally Flattens Out

AFTER A WHILE the water quit pouring in through the porthole and you realized that the floor was straightening out. Pretty soon it was flat enough to walk on—flat enough so you could get to the stairs.

You recalled rather airily as you snaked your way along to the hook where your life preserver hung, that a battle was in progress somewhere on the hot sands of North Africa. You recalled also that you were going to it by way of Iceland, Newfoundland, Nigeria and Cairo.

“Well, it was an odd way to get to Cairo and it had been getting odder hourly since we slid out into the fogs at the mouth of the Clyde. Back in London we hadn't given much thought to Britain’s job of keeping ships on the way in and other ships on the way out. Food is the sort of thing you take for granted until you don’t get it, and it’s hard when you're contemplating your own need for a tea biscuit to multiply it into a nation’s need for a few million tons of wheat. “The war on the civilian front,” you felt, was a stirring fiction for the pictorial magazine customers —always excepting, of course; the civilian front of London under the blitz. And “The Heroes of Our Mercantile Marine” were just a lot of sailors doing the kind of job they'd always done. There didn’t seem to be anything particularly daring about a‘ voyage down from Glasgow to Freetown or Bathurst or Takoradi or Lagos —not at the time, there didn’t. We began to learn later. :

Too Fast for Escort

We shot across the north end of the Irish Sea and headed straight for Canada. We weren't going to stay with any convoy, the captain said. We were too fast for merchant cruiser escort. We could do 12 knots. (Another bit of theory.) We were fast enough to run away from any submarine, providing we saw it first. Yes, there were lots of submarines in the Atlantic, a lot more than you'd had any occasion to hear about in the Savoy lobby in London. And there were far too many of them right in this area—far too many of them. That was why we were streak-

HOLD EVERYTHING

Blockade Run

“You recalled rather airily that a battle was in progress.”

ing toward the northwest. It would be hard for them to follow us up there—hard for them to live in the cold and ice and constant storms and heavy seas—although it was up here, almost on this very course and away from everything, that the Nazis had sunk the children’s refugee ship. The second steward was a survivor of the children’s ship. He had been 12 hours in the water and three days in a lifeboat, and if you asked him about it his only comment was that it had been “very tough, and the weather was nasty.”

The chief engineer had disat-

tached himself from most of the crockery when the starboard wall of the ship began to lift itself reluctantly out of the sea. The steward got up off the floor and tried to fix a blackout screen over the broken port. Then as the parade got under way toward the stairs the floor began to vibrate. The chief raised a finger. “The engines,” he said. “Somebody started them. Just as I said.” But the ,Bishop was too old a traveler to be kidded. “We hit something,” he said. “We ran squarely into it. You could hear the metal scraping.” “You think so?” inquired the chief politely. “Well, maybe. If it’s serious we’ll find out soon enough. 'If it isn’t we have plenty else to think about.”

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PLENTY ELSE to think about! We picked a careful course from there to our lifebelts and our bunks. There wasn’t anywhere else to: go and the storm was getting worse... The screaming noise’ of it was everywhere, like a fingernail dragged across a blackboard, only terribly magnified. There was little rest. If you went to sleep you were presently tossed out onto the floor and rolled until you couldn’t think where your bed was. If you didn’t sleep you felt the shock every time the ship tried to capsize, and you counted your bruises and tortured yourself with mental bets on the time of the next terrifying swing. : Some time around midnight I must have discovered a way to brace myself in my sleep, for I was thoroughly’ unconscious at 1 a. m, when the klaxon went. I was too stupidly exhausted to pay much attention to it until Bob Low of Liberty magazine, who had the adjoining cabin, came in and ' shook me. I followed him up onto the boat deck. Once out of the door I felt as

if I had dived straight into the sea. Water was breaking over the bridge and sluicing down the deck almost knee-deep. The gale was coming straight from the North Pole and I was dressed in torn pajamas, a raincoat and a lifebelt. I remember wishing that I had put on my shoes.

» s 8 On Earning a Living

IN THE SCANT light of a dim flashlamp you could make out glimpses of the crew ‘turning the screws that swung out the davits. The men seemed to be tied to something with a length of hawser. As I twined myself about an iron stanchion and tried to keep from getting knocked unconscious by flying debris or blown completely overboard, I envied them the rope. : From somewhere in the dark Bob came up close to me, He was saying something but I. couldn't , understand. At first it didn’t seem to make much difference. We could talk it over, whatever it was, when we should be outward bound—and that looked like a matter of minutes. Then it occurred to me that he wouldn’t be going to all that trouble if he didn’t have something pretty important to say. So I unhooked' one arm and let the gale turn me about until my face went plop against the fur collar of his jacket. “How’s that?” I asked. He took a deep breath and screamed into my ear. I heard him clearly, though = distantly, against the shrieking racket of the storm. “I was -just saying,” he said,

- “that this is. a hell of a way to

earn a living.” - » ”

Whistle Ends Confusion

I GUESS NEITHER of us had any idea at the moment of what all the riot was about. There hadn’t been any explosion—or at least' none that we were aware of—and there wasn’t any unusual sluggishness in the ship’s roll. The boats were swung out and waiting, the crews standing by. Then suddenly a whistle blew and we all went below again, The second officer came down - presently to give us a bit of news. “Airplanes overhead,” he said. “But they. signaled us and they turned out to be American. They're flying from Canada to England.” « “They've got a fine night for it,” I said. = And we had more of this. The storm lasted for a bone-breaking week, during which the clock went

GOIN BUSINESS

steadily back until we were within an hour of New York time. We zigzagged back again, One wintry night when we seemed to be close to our starting point, we sat in Sparks’ cabin, warming and drye ing ourselves over his kerosene heater. And then we learned the rest of this Mercantile Marine - busi ness—all there was to learn of it short of practical demonstration, For suddenly we heard the group ‘of dots and dashes he'd been ° teaching us all morning—the dis tress signal and a lot of grouped call letters. “That,” sald Sparks, looking at a chart, “comes from 25 miles away—just over the horizon. The ship has just been torpedoed, There are 80 people aboard. “And what are we going to do about it?” we wanted to know, Sparks shook his head, : “Nothing,” he said quietly, “We're forbidden even to answer their signal.” He had to raise: his voice to be heard over the screaming night. “They'll take to the lifeboats. And, of course, they'll die, And they're the fifth sihce 3 o'clock this morning. None of those ships was farther than 50 miles away from us.”

” ” » WE WENT TO BED but it was hard to sleep. Out there in the gale were probably 500 persons in little boats or clinging to rafts with’ death standing by to pick hem off one by one before morne ing. At Lagos we pulled into dock for a survey of cargo ruined by water and the repair of some mysterious damage to the.bows. “Guess we really did run into something,” said the captain. “I thought so at the time, “I said to the mate: ‘Either the sea is getting pretty thick nowadays or we're sailing through a junkyard. I guess it was iron .all. right. Water never made scratches like that, Well, if it was a submarine I hope it was a big one.” We shal] probably never know, We ‘went away by air across Africa. The ship got her repairs, sailed north and was sunk off

the north end of Ireland, on her .

way home. The captain wens with her, and Sparks and the chief : engineer, and the second steward who'd been torpedoed aboard the children’s ship. The censors refused to pass this story on the und that the ship wasn't a blockade runner because no German blockade existed. There once was a yokel who

was what

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NAZI RACE RULE SPREADS BERLIN, July 19 (U, P.),—The German ban on intermarriage be tween Aryans and Jews has been

extended tc Bohemia and Moravia, it was announced today, All resis dents of Bohemia and Moravia with two full Jewish grandparents will

stronghold in the Far Pacific. : West Hostile to Japan

. gard to Japan than with regard to the European war. Some of the inhibitions, regarding another ven-

1S A “HAW HAW BREAKS RECORD

ture in Europe do not apply to the Far East. If the Government is - ghead of public sentiment in its thinking about Europe, it is behind public sentiment in dealings: ‘with Japan. : It may not have been appropriate hitherto to say some things about our Government’s attitude but I see no harm in discussing it now since Tokyo apparently is strongly tempted to: pull the trigger during the next few days.

She must know that any gains she makes now at the expense of the United States would be cnly temporary and that after the Battle of the Atlantic is won, she would be up against the crushing superiority of the two leading naval powers of the world. Lastly Japan should not misjudge American reluctance to fight. For years the Navy has been trained with Japan as the .potential enemy. The Western part of the United States always has been hostile toward Japan. Recently a pacifist speaker, addressing a non-interventionist audience in a West Coast city,

Myers Tells Postmasters of

State Flier Helps Wreck Morale.

Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. July 19—

Walter Myers, fourth assistant post-

Defense Spending Brings Expansion of U. S. Mints.

Times Special WASHINGTON, July 19.— The three Government mints are being expanded to meet a record-breaking

be considered Jews.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—-Thomas Gainsborough was a . famous musician, painter or theologian ?

demand for coins created by defense spending and growing popularity of vending machines, pin-ball games,

master general, described Charles Lindbergh as “a sort of Lord Haw Haw,” and urged that he be “lend-

2—“When in the course of human events” is the opening phrase of the American Creed, the Pree

was asked if the United States shculd fight if Ger-

Our Stake in the Far East many attacked us. The speaker said no. The audience

This Government has not wanted to divert its energies from the Battle of the Atlantic and for that reason has gone a long ways toward trying to placate Japan. We have permitted oil to go.to Japan merely because we did not want to play into the hands of the war party in Tokyo and give it a pretext for new aggression. But if this strategy does not work, of course it will be dropped. Japan should not delude herself that the United

, States is too busy in the Atlantic to give attention

to the Pacific if Tokyo embarks upon new aggression there that threatens.American interests. Japan must

applauded. The speaker was then asked if the United States should fight if Japan attacked us. Again the speaker said no. This time the audience, instead of applauding, was deadly silent. Senator Hiram

leased” to Hitler, at a postmasters’ banquet here last night.

Addressing the Indiana Conven-

Johnson of California may deplore every step the|tion of the National Association of

Administration makes in the European war. But if there is trouble with Japan, you know where Senator Johnson and every other Western Senator|t and Representative will stand. . Japan will be taking a most serious risk if she

Postmasters, Mr. Myers said “we cannot escape the consequences of

he present war in Europe whether

we get into the war or not.”

“Hitler and his crew of interna-

now undertakes new aggression that would land her|tional bandits are hell-bent -on im-

in a position to threaten the Fhilippines which are

posing their power and control upon

and juke boxes, Treasury officials said today, Hy Officials sald that coin production during ‘the first five months of 1941 was 143 per cent greater than during the same period in 1940. Production during all of 1940 reached a record total of 1,209,473,982 pieces valued at $50,157,850.32. . The nation’s mints at San Francisco, Philadelphia and Denver are working on a 24-hour basis, seven

amble to the Constitution, or the Declaration of Independence? 3—Name the Chief Justice of the U. 8. who recently retired. 4—Joseph M. W. Turner was a pore trait-, landscape-, or genre painter?

5—Which of the great oceans i§ |

saltiest?

6—Is a cage or enclosure where

the entire world,” he said. days a week. Expansions now being| birds are kept an aplary or an ade wil inerense their production |.. aviary? y approximately 35 per cent. 7—Who was ‘ . A pending Congressional bill pro-| of the ise tle Tathes) 4 vides for the construction of an ad-|, - : ditional mint. Officials declined to|5— What general term is used to reveal its possible location, although ON ne boy latestaets bi Kansas City and Chi ne pu e ¥ and Chicago have been| ove’ constitution ot the Uciod|

mentioned. X “The demand for more and more States? business,” a Treasury official ‘Answers said. “The billions being spent for 2+-The Declaration of Independence ing power of the average person|, . Td and it takes more id sig Bi {o| 3—Charles Evans Hughes: Landscape. Stamps has also boosted the need 6—Aylary. for small co 2 . 2 - i A ins. To save funds for 7~James Madison. of persons have bought small savings banks in- which they place Le" out of circulation, : : ASK THE TIMES : wi amusement taxes on moving ; ? ky also have had their effect. Still another cause for the grow- y which many banks now levy on come mercial checking . Many| for all purposes now carry money

know that the American flag still is in' the Philip- on the flank of Japan's road south. 4 % “Yet. there are some like Lind-|

M D: 3 3 bergh who advocate a negotiated

By ' Eleanor R 00SeVe l i peace. Using the pedestal upon HYDE PARK, Friday —We drove most of the way

which the people once put him as a pulpit, he now assails the foreign| | policies of President Roosevelt and ’ tries: to break down American yesterday morning from Boston to Hyde Park in the : ‘rain. Nevertheless, it was a pleasant and easy drive. I think we would have made very good time, except ‘for the fact that we suddenly found ourselves in the

morale,” Mr. Myers said. Pointing out . that Lindbergh midst of a procession of Army trucks. :

claims that the British and the Americans together cannot meet the power of the German army, the fourth assistant postmaster general They drive most considerately, asserted “true Americans do not leaving plenty of space between surrender even after they start to each truck for those who want to fight. ‘Much less do they surrender © pass and have to get in behind , them: ‘But even at that, it did slow us up a bit. However, we reached home by 12:40 and I owe

before they begin.” . He upheld Lindbergh’s right of Mrs. Morgenthau and Miss Thompson a compliment, for in spite of

free speech as an American, but asked “how long would his right to Germany going to‘bed late, they were up and ready to leave Boston at the

free. speech last in 9 terday when she testified that her riage to go West, where men are “I propose as a sure cure that we husband, Ralph Forbes, slapped her| not only men but they are more uals. I am looking forward to playing them very|lend-lease Lin and his kind |during an argument. She said he| plentiful. * : soon on the phonograph. ~~ |to Hitler for the duration of the war.|also stayed away from home ati" The Bureau said that its census early hour we had planned. It was pleasant to arrive home yesterday and 'to| Then if they never give them back, |nights and belittled her. surveys showed that the ratio of g -Our luncheon guests were three find everything so well in order and smiling faces to|perhaps we will. not have lost much,”| “What sort of parts did he play| men to, K women is considerably young people from New Jersey and s young school greet us. I talked to the President in Washington| he said. Fil in the movies?” asked Superior| higher in the West than in the teacher, whom Congressman: Geyer had asked me to and he seems to have more of our children gathered| Mr. Myers asserted “America is|Judge Goodwin J. Knight. “Were| East. see. She turned out to bea very charming girl from in that spot for the moment than I can get together not courting war; But we are nbt|they heavies or villains’ parts?” ~ Nevada led the list with 124 Los Angeles, who had come East to spend a few short anywhere else. I am rather sorry that they cannot all|going to wait to get ready until] “Yes,” replied the actress. | men for every 100 women. Others hours with her flancé¢, who is on a merchant ship come here for the week-end, but I shall at least see| planes are flying over New England | - “And he sort of practiced on you?| were: Wyoming, 117; Montana, 115; ~. now bound for South America.: She is g her i and New York. We are now ready |Is that it?” He Idaho, 111, and North Dakota, 110. ‘ ‘stay in this part of the country with a little signt- = In the seeing in New York City. : nie : {

I took these young people over to see the library COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF. and then, at 4:30, guests began to arrive at my mother-in-law’s house, where the Hampton Quartet sang for us. They showed, for the. first time, a movie which they had made under a grant from the Harmon Foundation. This movie depicts activities in Hampton Institute in many different fields, and ends with a most inspiring picture of all the boys and girls marching with their faces turned upwards, i us of their march forward into the future, : The statistics for employment of Hampton graduates are most impressive. The total employment in all the fields listed was 87 per cent, which would compare favorably with the graduates of any college for white people. The quartet presented me with a book of records which they have just made of Negro spirit-

“Yes, 1 painted those chevrons on the dummy myself—I find it inspires the boys to greater effort.” fry

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was granted a divorce yes-| Vised women interested in mar-

Sons is only natural with a pickup| 1-Painter. defense are increasing the purchasmake that power effective.” “{4—Lan ; purchase of the stamps, thousands ‘ 8—Founding Fathers. nickels and pennies, taking them] and other entertainment]’ Inclose a 3-cent stamp for re‘when Bddresst JOF ing demand for coins is the charge! .eh accounts. hd, persons who ‘formerly wrote checks|-

some of them next week. a? I am off today on a trip to dedicate a new N, Y. A.|to give the dictators 8 warm.re-| Miss Angel said that seemed to| chusetts

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