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Hoosier Vagabond

IOLA, Colo, July 28.—They say the Gunnison River is the finest trout-fishing stream in the United States. Although I have no personal interest in advertising the Gunnison, still I am compelled to offer myselt as living proof that this assertion is true. For I have just fished the Gunnison with overwhelming (for me) success. . It is well known that fish are allergic to me. I had never gone fishing but once in my life when the fish were even faintly sociable. That one occasion was in a rowboat off Key West a few years ago, and the finny monsters actually vied for my favor. At one moment during that wildly gratifying afternoon the air was literally filled with fish all around my head. I caught two fish on one line, another fish jumped into the boat, and a fish we had already caught- jumped out of the boat, all simultaneously. -~ But that happens to a man only once in an eon. My average fishing day consists of nothing. Catching one fish is more than I éver expect. Catching two is just plain abundance. Catching three is—but heck, on the Gunnisen I caught four! Practically any man, woman or child in America can catch 20 times as many fish as I can in a given period. So by that ratio you could put the Gunnison River down as an 80-fish-per-day river for the average angler. Some fishing, what?

Calling on the Edmondsons

I made this trip over here to see some old friends —Pat and Edna Edmondson. Dr. Edmondson was Dean of Men at Indiana University when I was under observation there 20 years ago. In fact, he is still Dean of Men. Every summer the Edmondsons come out to Iola and live in a log cabin and fish and loaf and talk the summer away. They have always been sort of like godparents to me, and I don’t see them otten any more. This was a good chance, so I came on over. And then they took advantage of my youth and tried to make a fool out of me. They rigged me out in Mrs. Edmondson’s high gum boots, put a silly sun hat on my head, hung a market basket over my shoulder, put a pole with a wheel on it in my hand,

By Ernie Pyle

and pushed me. into the river. I learned later that they had a man concealed in the bushes with a camera, to take a picture of me when I lost my footing on the slick rocks and plunged headlong beneath the rushing waters. But I foxed them. I never did fall down. ~ This was my first éxperience at mountain-stream fishing. I do not like it. You are $60 busy. You make the famous one-armed paper hanger look as though he'd been embalmed. I prefer to fish from a rowboat on a quiet lake, where yox can take off your shoes and put the pole between your toes and lie tigre and philosophize between bites. This mountain-streamt’ fishing—even if nothing happens, you're out. there walking in water all afternoon, flailing your arm back and forth as though you were flagging a train. And when something does happen, get this picture—

Boy, Was He Busy! You're waist-deep in icy swirling water; the rocks on the bottom are slippery; you have to pick every step; in one hand you have a rod, in the other a landing net; with both hands full, you somehow stow things under your elbows while you get out a cigaret and light it; just then a fish strikes; the surprise throws you off balance; you flail around trying not to drop anything; smoke gets in your eyes and makes sharp pains; you can’t find the handle of your reel; the landing net slips out from under your arm; the rock on which you're standing begins to turn slowly over, there's nothing but air and water to grab at, and all the time Dr. Edmondson is yelling at the top of his voice, “Reel in your slack, keep your pole up, get your net under him!” : It’s too much to expect of any one man. If the rod. reel, creel, net and bocts hadn't all been rrowed I would have thrown the whole smear right into the river, and waded out and gone home. But .since I couldn't do that I went on through with it. Indeed I went through this preposterous method of enjoying yourself not only once, but four times, and all successfully. Once is a miracle. Four times is just like falling off a 50-story building at intervals all afternoon and not getting hurt. When you have to work that hard to have fun, I'd rather be unhappy. If any of you ever see me out in the middle of America’s finest fishing stream again, I hope you call the game warden. Porchsitting is.really the sport I enjoy.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

ONE OF OUR AGENTS tipped us that Richard Mansfield, an Indianapolis youth who has made his mark as an interior decorator in Hollywood, has been drafted and is out at the Fort. Mr. Mansfield, it seems, has become quite well known out on the coast, and has done interior decorating for such people as King Vidor, Dottie Lamour and Edgar Bergen. We called the Fort and asked to talk to Mr. Mansfield, hoping to get an interior decorator’s viewpoint of Army life. But we didn't get to talk to him. He was busy, it was explained, learning a different kind of “interior decorating.” To be exact, he was peeling potatoes for the interiors of a lot of other draftees.

Need Ary Rails? IF UNCLE SAM ever runs short of steel for building his tanks and machine guns, we can tip him off to a, pretty good source of supply. Buried in Indianapolis’ streets are more than 24 miles of abandoned streetcar tracks. You might not think it, but these rails, Indianapolis Railways engineers estimate, weight 6144 tons. And that's enough to build almost 440 of those 14ton tanks—figure it out yourself. Or it might build considerably over a half million rifles. At the current price of used rails—$20.50 a ton--there's about $125,000 buried in our streets. But it isn’t likely there’ll be any wholesale removal of these rails any time soon unless Uncle Sam gets to needing them. You see, it costs money to dig them up, and it costs even more to repave the streets where they were.

The Latest Grapevine

THE BOYS OF THE 38th Division, as they drop back home on furlough, seem pretty certain theyll

Washington

WASHINGTON, July 26.—A peace campaign is to be launched shortly in this country. Through extensive organization an effort will be made to create a nation-wide public demand that this Government

pen negotiations with Hitler for peace. The campaign will be represented as a “mandate” from the people to the Government. How would that work? Suppose such a public “peace mandate” became so strong as to compel President Roosevelt to yield to it. In that case, Mr. Roosevelt would have to get in touch with Hitler and say to him in effect: “I have said that there can be no peace or security in the world so long as aggressors like you run free to strike without warning at all nations, big and little, even at those with whom you have had non-aggression pacts. The American Government has been giving all aid that it could to nations which were resisting your aggression.

‘O, Promise Me’

“But, Mr. Hitler, I am obliged to say to you that I must reverse that policy. As you have seen from our newspapers in America, I am now under a mandate to bring about peace as quickly as possible. I am notifying the British Government of this decision and we are suspending at once all further aid that would prolong hostilities. I can assure you, my dear Herr Chancellor, that with American aid now cut off, there can be no further resistance to you, nor to your partners, Italy and Japan. This is the end of the war. You have nothing more to fear. “But, my dear Chancellor, I do plead with you to be generous and considerate. You are now supreme. You can afford to be charitable. Will you not permit me, my dear Chancellor, to tell my country that

My Day

HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sunday—In one of the Washington newspapers the other night, I noticed an editorial which quite evidently was written as a “fll.” It expressed great surprise at the number of illiterates being discovered by the Army among selectees, and it wanted to know why this should be, considering the fact that most of the states for 20 to 30 years have had compulsory education, “Do people,” it read, “forget how to read and write, or doesn’t compulsory education compel?” That is rather a nice question, but the writer may not know that in the United States there are many*areas where children cannot get to school and, besides, there are many people who have no clothes their children can wear to school. Yesterday we had a picnic for a fair-sized group which gave us a chance to spend a while in the pool. Today we all have been to church, and, on the whole, I think we will have a more peaceful day even for the President, than any day since he came, because the main things which were on his mind seem all to be in the morning paper. I received a letter the other day, sent me by an English naval officer, written by his daughter in London For two reasons I am quoting parts of the letter here. One is that it shows a confidence and

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see service outside the U. S. before the year’s up. Their dope, picked up by grapevine, varies quite a bit, but the majority are betting that this service will be somewhere in the Pacific. Quite a few hint that they've “got it pretty straight” they'll be in Puerto Rico before long. But it's still just “talk” they admit... C. R. Israel, of the Aero Mayflower Co. likes to get up shortly after daybreak and hie to the N. Meridian St. bridge over White River to fish. You can see him there quite frequently. And it’s nothing unusual for him to return home to breakfast with half a dozen crappies on his string.

Rules Are Rules

OUT ON COLLEGE AVE, the tact of an apartment custodian seems to have averted a serious blowup. The apartment has no incinerator and the kitchen garbage pails are picked up once a day. Newlyweds in one apartment started wrapping their garbage. The garbage collector took a look at it, snorted, and dumped the garbage out on the sidewalk. ‘Tis against the rules to wrap garbage, he shouted. Not to be intimidated, the couple continued wrapping the garbage. The collector continued dumping it on the sidewalk. And the poor custodian continued shoveling it up. This went on for three weeks. Then the custodian called on the young couple and suggested almost tearfully to the husband: “Ioook here, Mister; I know how you feel about garbage, and of course you're right. But this could go on forever, and I hate to scrape up that garbage from the sidewalk. Now that you've taught that old garbage man a lesson, couldnt you quit wrapping it?” The young man opined he might. And now he keeps face by wrapping the garbage and leaving the package in the can until collection day, when he unwraps it and dumps it loose in the can. Looks like everybody won.

By Raymond Clapper

I have your promise that you will never again attack another nation, even a small, helpless neutral? Some of our people have felt that you have broken your promises in the past. May I not, my dear Chancellor, go back and tell my country that you do not intend ever again to break a promise and that you will never again violate a treaty? O, promise me.” That's about the sense of what President Roosevelt would have to say to Hitler if he expected to get anywhere with the “peace mandate.” And it might succeed. Chamberlain put one over on Hitler like that. When Chamberlain came back from Munich he had it in writing! And did the British people give Chamberlain a big cheer. They loved him for it—for about 24 hours.

Mr. Welles’ Program

A few days ago Acting Secretary of State Wellies delivered an address here in which he outlined the hope of the United States that after this war is over, after Hitlerism is defeated, the United States and other nations can join in some kind of association that will insure mutual protection against unprovoked attack, relief from an excessive burden of rival armaments, and access to raw materials for all nations. But a most important proviso was attached. This could only be after Hitlerism was defeated. This Government feels deeply that there can be no security—which is what a real peace must bring—until there is freedom from the kind of attack that has been visited upon Poland, Holland, Belgium and now Russia. To make peace now is to place the future in the hands of the Axis. It is to accept the superior force of the Axis as the dominant force of the world. That is how our people here in Washington look at it. That is why they are dead set against any peace with Hitler while he remains victorious. That is why they hope there will be no “mandate” from the American people to compel this Government to accept the kind of peace that Hitler would give us as he sits, at the moment, on the top of the wave.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

companionship betwene two generations which is not often achieved. The other reason is that it shows what the spirit of youth can be, and that two generations can work together, for the mother seems to be working as hard as this young woman is at tasks as dangerous and as nerve-wracking. Here is part of the letter: “Parling daddy: 1t is difficult to put into words expressive enough a description of the raid of Wednesday night. . . © For 10 hours the din was incessant—guns, planes, fire bells and the tinkle of shrapnel, not to speak of bombs. We rocked like a ship all night. I did more work yesterday than I have for a long while. I went on duty at 9 and we had lots of dirty ambulances to clean. We had carried 81 casualties during the night with six ambulances. . . . “I wasn't shocked, as I had expected to be. I have so often visualized it and have armed myself against it. . . . We had sleep last night. There were two alerts, but people were so tired they didn’t hear them. . . . I am conscript now since April first. “I wish mummy would leave the RAR. She is always tired. . . . “A bomb fell through St. Paul's again and exploded in the erypt where they had Easter Sunday services, which I went to a week ago. . . . We had a good dance down here on Easter Monday. It was jolly throughout and one forgot raids. Thank Heaven no blitz interrupted. Cheerio and tons of love and kisses. : “FROM MARION.”

3 OVERCOME FIGHTING FIRE IN IRVINGTON

Chief Kennedy.Among Victims as Blaze Destroys Woolworth Stock.

Three firemen, including Chief Fred C. Kennedy, were overcome by smoke early today while fighting a

stock and fixtures of the F. W. Woolworth & Co. branch store, 551012 E. Washington St.

undetermined, was noticed at about 10:30 p. m. and from then until 5 a. m. crowds variously estimated at from 2000 to 5000 persons gathered to watch the firemen work, creating a major traffic jam. Two other firemen, both taken to

Chief William Clune and his driver, Delbert Emhardt. Fireman Emhardt was overcome when, wearing a gas mask, he was attempting to stretch a hose line in the basement.

Jerks Off Mask

The smoke was so thick that his gas mask wouldn't work, so he jerked it off involuntarily. He went down almost immediately. Other firemen finally reached him, after

he had been there unconscious for about five minutes, put a rope under his arms, and dragged him to safety. They worked on him for five minutes before the Police rescue squad arrived with an inhalator, and, when he was revived, sent him to City Hospital. Both Chief Kennedy and District Chief Clune collapsed outside the building and were taken to the hospital. Chief Kennedy was treated, but not admitted, and today Chief Clune and Fireman Emhardt were reported in fair condition. Firemen said that between 25 and 30 other fighters had to leave the building from time to time to revive themselves, and the Hook Drug store, at the corner of the building, served soft drinks and coffee, and provided medical baths for the smoke-tortured eyes of the fighters.

Traffic Flow Restored

Meanwhile, about 12 traffic policemen finally restored order by routing east-bound vehicles to the south

of Washington St. and west-bound vehicles to the north of Washington St. They had considerable trouble keeping crowds back from the building. The store is in an L shaped room which has 4000 to 5000 square feet of floor space and 684 linear feet of counters. It was opened for business June 23, 1939. The fire started in the basement sometime after 7:30 D.. Hu. Everette Baker, 5703 E. Washington St., manager, said he was in the store at 7:30 and that nothing was wrong at that time. At about 10:30 p. m., J. W. Cooper, proprietor of the Irvington Sweet across the street, noticed smoke at the Irving Theater, both directly Shop, and Richard Gard, an usher seeping from the west front door of the store.

Floor Collapses

Mr. Gard ran to Engine House No. 24, just down the street, and Mr. Cooper went out into the intersection of Ritter and Washington Sts. and cleared the street of traffic. Mr. Gard later ran to Mr. Baker's home and notified him, but not until after firemen had been forced to break down a steel door leading to the basement from the outside. Water and smoke ruined all merchandise, Mr. Baker said, and the main floor collapsed, tumbling counters into the basement. Smoke still was pouring from the building at 8 a. m. and firemen still were on duty, red-eyed and soaking wet. Mr. Baker said he could not estimate the loss.

Smoking at 8 A. M.

A barber shop above the store, owned by Charles Caveness, was badly damaged, and smoke may have done some damage to the stock of the Irvington Fruit & Vegetable Market, and the Heeb Drug Store, which flank the damaged store.

SPEED LIMIT CUT MAY BE ORDERED

A reduction in the 50-mile speed limit on BE. 38th St. between Eastern Ave. and Kitley Rd. is being studied by the Police Department, officials said today. With the extension of the City limits to Kitley Rd. the City now has jurisdiction over 38th St. traffic which formerly was under the control of the State Highway Commission and State Police. City officials said tentative plans are to extend the 30-mile speed zone from Eastern Ave. to Sherman Dr., where the speed limit would be raised to 40 to Kitley Rd. East of Kitley Rd.. the Commission already

intersection of State Rd. 67. Residents of the south side of 38th St., a rapidly growing community, have sought speed reduction for several months.

ARCHBISHOP CRITICAL OF HURLEY SPEECH

CHICAGO, July 28 (U. P.).—The Most Rev. Francis J. L. Beckman, Archbishop of Dubuque, Ia. attacked Bishop Joseph Hurley of St. Augustine, Fla. last night for implicitly indorsing American aid to Russia. In a radio address over the Columbia Broadcasting System, Archbishop Beckman said he was filled with “indignation” because there had been “an unholy merger of Christianity and Communism under the guise of military necessity.” * “We have seen what amounts to dictatorship pseudo-officially canonizéd by a brother cleric,” he said. Archbishop Beckman did not mention Bishop Hurley by name but a press release from his office identi-

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You're in the Navy—

NELSON ADDED T0 STAFF HERE

Brooklyn, N. Y., Lieutenant To Assist in Recruiting Service.

A recent addition to the recruiting staff at Navy headquarters in the Federal Building is Lieut. Donald R. Nelson, of the Medical Corps, U. S. N. R. Lieut. Nelson comes from the Naval Hospital at Brooklyn, N. Y. His home is in Jamestown, N. Y.

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Are you one of those men who like to dabble around the kitchen? If you are, the Navy would like to have a quiet talk with you. After that talk, and a few examinations of one kind or another, you'd probably find yourself in charge of a 50-gallon vat of beef stew inside of one of Uncle Sam’s battlewagons, because the Navy needs COOKs. The bluejackets could also use bakers and butchers. Also male stenographers, clerks, typists, steamfitters, plumbers, boilermakers, painters, machinists, electricians, hospital corpsman, pharmacists and maintenance men. Pay for these jobs ranges from $21 to $84 per month with practically all expenses paid, and you can't spend much money on a battleship. Interested parties may make further inquiries at the Federal Building recruiting office.

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Parents of enlisted men stationed at the Navy's Radio School at the Naval Armory, at 30th St. and White River, have been invited to come and see them go through their tricks Saturday and Sunday, Aug.9 and 10. The occasion will be known as Parents’ Day, and it is for the purpose of showing the boys’ parents just what they are learning and doing. Lieut. Comm. Boyd Phelps, U. S. N. R., commanding officer of the school, and William Merrill, director of Water Safety, Indianapolis Chapter of the American Red Cross, have issued invitations to the parents and to the public. Inspection tours of the armory will be taken, and a “Happy Hour” will be presented Saturday evening. Lieut. EB. H. Schubert, U. S. N. R,, of the radio school faculty, is in charge of this program, which will consist of amateur and professional entertainers. Sunday’s program is in charge of Mr. Merrill, and includes swimming races, boat races, and life saving demonstrations.

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HADASSAH HOLDS TEA The Junior Hadassah will give an informal tea Wednesday afternoon at the home of Miss Jeanette Schwartz, 5012 College Ave, to promote the membership of the organization.

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In between executive orders intensifying America’s economic war and military preparedness against Japan, President Roosevelt wags an admonijtory finger at his pet Scotch terrier, Falla, and Mrs. Roosevelt knits as the chief executive and his wife relax on the porch of their Hyde Park home.

Nobody But the Japanese

Likes ‘New

This is the seventh and last of a series by A. T. Steele on the Orient.

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By A. T. STEELE

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SHANGHAI (By Clipper)—The most striking weakness: of Japan's new order in East Asia is that no

Oriental race except the Japanese wants anything to do with it. This is remarkable when you consider that the vast majority of the people of Asia are subject races and that for the most part they are deeply discontented with their present overlords. I venture. to say that if these politically oppressed peoples were given a choice, by vote, between retaining their present status and joining Japan’s new order and coprosperity sphere, all would cast a majority ballot for staying out of the Japanese dream world. Five years ago, before Japan began giving a bloody demonstration of her brotherly methods in China, the picture was a quite different one. At that time, the Japanese and their doctrine of Asia for the Asiastics had millions of sympathizers througout the Far East.

Prove Unfitness

But since then, by their actions in China and French Indo-China,. the Japanese have demonstrated their unfitness for their self-appointed task of “liberation.” It is now plain that in the Japanese lexicon “liberation” stands for ‘‘domination.” The various subject peoples, however harsh their lot, see no advantage in substituting one form of imperialism with a more oppressive form, even though it be Asiatic. In recent visits to the lands of Southeastern Asia, I have been interested in observing this changing attitude toward the Japanese. It is noticeable, especially, in French Indo-China, the Netherlands East Indies and Burma. In all those colonial countries, the Japanese had won many adherents for their Pan-Asiatic program. Nowhere in Asia did thé Japanese have a richer opportunity to win friends than in French Indo-China. That oppressed French colony, home of 23,000,000 Asiatics, was a made - to - order demonstration ground for the new order a la Japonaise. The Annamites felt, generally, that whatever its weakness, Japanese rule could not be any less desirable than French domination. There is no doubt that the majority of the native population either welcomed or was completely indifferent to the Japanese occupation of Tangking, the northern IndoChina province. At first, it appeared that the leopard had, indeed, changed his spots. The first Japanese troops to land on Indo-China soil were friendly ahd almost fraternal with the Annamite population. But as others poured in, the Army reverted to type. Arrogance replaced cordiality. The distribution of ciggarets and candy ceased. The ar-

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“All right, you're gonna see the Mayor, have me kicked off the force, and sue me for false arrest—but in the meantime would you kindly step up and have a seat?”

Order in Asia’

riving troops ceased to be liberators. They became conquerors. For the first time, Japanese propagandists have a free hand in French Indo-China. Yet they have missed a rare opportunity to prove that there was some sincerity behind the high-flown language accompanying the advance of the new

order. In the Netherlands Indies, too, the Japanese would have had a fertile field in which to sow seeds of internal discord, had they not aroused the mistrust of native nationalists through their activities in China, Indo-China and Thailand. Sixty-five million Asiatics in the Indies are ruled by a scant 200,000 Dutchmen. Yet this vast native population put no pressure on their Dutch overlords to yield to Japanese demands during the recent crisis. “Exchange Worse”

An Indonesian nationalist told me: “Our present servility to the Dutch is hard and degrading. We want liberation from Dutch rule, but we see no point in simply exchanging it for something worse.” In the Philippines and in India, too, Japanese propaganda has until recently had many willing listeners among Nationalist elements. But in both lands there has been a pronounced reaction,

While India seethes with internal unrest under British’ rule, there is no desire to trade British for Japanese overlords. Indian Nationalists, some of whom now sit in British jails, have frequently denounced Japanese aggression in China and voiced deep suspicion of Japanese motives. The visit of Jawaharlal Nehru to Chungking last year gave proof of how India’s sympathies lie.

Lose in Burma

Two years ago, I wrote that British Burma was perhaps the most pro-Japanese of all Far Eastern

countries. Lately, I visited that colony again, to find that the proJapanese movement had lost much of its former strength. It goes without saying that the Japanese still have friends in all the countries mentioned. Moreover, Japan is providing haven for hundreds of nationalist agitators of Indian, Annamite, Siamese and Indonesian race. As the southward movement progresses, these revolutionists will be sent ahead as the advance guard of the new order. Nevertheless, there is no mistaking the cooling of ardor among Asiatic peoples for Japan’s PanAsia program. Had the Japanese played their hand more shrewdly, with a better understanding of the psychology of their fellow Asiatics, they would have made it tremendously difficult for the British, the French and the Dutch to hold their subject races in check in these critical times.

OPEN STATE POLIGE OFFICERS’ SCHOOL

A Commanding Officers School for the supervisory personnel of the Indiana State Police opened today at Indiana University. It will close Wednesday. Those attending will concentrate on the recent consolidation and streamlining of the State Police Department in anticipation of the addition of 50 troopers Sept. 1. Instructors will be Dan Reynolds, Northwestern University Traffic Institute, and Superintendent Don F. Stiver, Capt. Walter Eckert, Lieut. Don L. Kooken, Supervising ‘Lieut. Harry Sutherlin and Lieut. Walter Mentzer of the State Police. The six-weeks annual training school for prospective troopers closed Saturday at I. U.

ELECT DISTRICT HEADS OF FURNITURE UNION

WABASH, Ind, July 28 (U. P.). —Frank Douthitt, Bloomington, was elected president of the sixth district United Furniture Workers of America (CIO) yesterday. Fred Fulford, South Bend, was named vice president and Joe Archers, Bloomington, Robert Smith. South Bend, Harry Atwood, Peru, and Guy Miller, Marion, were elected trustees. The convention went on record favoring aid to Britain and opposing the proposed 10 per cent tax

on musical instruments.

FOOD STAMPS PLAN PLACED IN OPERATION

More Than 400 Books Are Issued by Noon to Needy Here.

The Food Stamp Plan formally, was placed in operation here toe day with a group of Federal, State and township officials as spectators, The inauguration followed a pube

lic meeting at Garfield Park last night at which the plan was eXe plained to a crowd of several thou= sand by Dr. M. L. Wilson, director of nutrition of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Governor Schricker also spoke. Mayor Sullivan preside ed. Among those present for the opening of the Stamp Plan this morning at the Surplus Commodities Corp. headquarters, 19 W. South St., were Otto K. Jensen, chief exe aminer of the State Board of Ace counts; Center Township Trustee Henry Mueller and others.

400 Books Issued

Within a short time after the office opened, there were 75 persons in the line getting the food stamps. More than 400 stamp books had been issued by noon. In his address last night, Dr. Wil son declared that sooner or later food will become the decisive factor in the war. The Governor, in introducing Dr, Wilson, lauded the county's towne ship trustees for establishing the plan here and expressed the hope that it soon will be extended to all 92 counties. “Only the well nourished.” he said, “can be happy, and happiness is the ultimate goal of & democracy.

Helps Home, Business

“This Food Stamp Plan will help ° build up our home defenses through its great humanitarian program of unselfishly aiding needy families to obtain nourishing food.” Dr. Wilson commented that the plan not only adds 50 per cent to the food supply needed by publie aid families for a healthful diet, but it helps the farmer and it helps business. It gives the farmer a wider mare ket for the crops he needs to sell, Dr. Wilson explained, and it helps business because every pound of food moved by the stamp plan is handled entirely through commer cial channels.

UNHURT AS BURNING PLANE LANDS HERE

The pilot and three passengers in a small private cabin plane escaped injury Saturday when the craft caught fire and made a forced land ing south of Municipal Airport. The plane, piloted by Jesse Gaugh, 720 Lawrence Ave. of the Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corp. had just taken off from Municipal runways when smoke began pouring from the side of the motor, Unable to turn back, Mr. Gaugh successfully landed in a stubble field, and with aid of the three pase sengers made a futile effort to exe tinguish the blaze. The plane was destroyed. Passengers were Joseph Coval, 1206 Hoyt Ave.; A. L. Patterson, Pittsburgh, Pa., and C. H. Younge hans, 211 E. North St. The plane was the property of William H. Turner, Boston, Mass., a distant relative of Col. Turner, president of the Turner Aeronautical Corp. Col. Turner, who investi gated the accident, said he believed the fire was caused by ignition wires.

DENIES RUMORS OF

U. S. HOUSING HERE

John Womer of the Division of Defense Housing Co-ordination, Washington, D. C., said here today that the Government contemplates no defense housing construction in Indianapolis at the present time. “Any reports to the contrary are rumors,” he said. Mr. Womer are rived here today to make a survey of the Indianapolis area defense housing. After studying the existing and contemplated housing in the City, Mr. Womer said he would make a report to Washington. If there is a need for Governmeng housing projects here, he said, the orders will come from Washington, He said he would consult local officials, industrialists, real estate men and labor leaders.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Against which country was the slogan “Millions for defense, bug not one cent for tribute,” die rected? 2—Which prison is nicknamed “The Rock”? 3—Does any existing species of bird have teeth? 4—On which sea is Odessa in the U. S. S. R. located? 5—The temperature of boiling watep on top of a mountain is lower than that of boiling water at sea level; true or false? 6—What is the school song of the Naval Academy at Annapolis? 7—How long did Rip Van Winkle sleep?

Answers

1—France. 2—Alcatraz. 3—No. 4—Black Sea. 5—True. ° 6—“Anchors Aweigh.” T—Twenty years.

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