Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1941 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 194

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\ Hoosier Vagabond

DENVER, July 30—While it is absolutely true

that I did ride a narrow-gauge freight train up over magnificent Marshall Pass and down into Gunnison the other day, I haven't told the whole story of the trip so far.

In fact I've been lying awake nights worrying over whether to tell it or not. The thing has preyed on my mind, my conscience is heavy with guilt. I can bear the weight of my shame no longer, so I'l have to confess and throw myself upen your charity of understanding. Here, folks, is my awful crime: I went from here to Salida, and back again, in a PRIVATE RAILWAY CAR—a fancy, ultra-private car put on especially for me, with nobody in the whole immense thing but one railroad official and myself! Forgive me, if you can. I knew not what I did. Now that you know all, I might as well go ahead and tell you what it is like to ride in a private car. Well, this one belongs to the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. In ordinary times it would be the President's private car. But in these days of streamlining and calling everything by some other name, it is known as the “business car.”

Could This Be Our Ernie?

It goes out only when one of the road's high officials takes a trip, or when some bigwig (I don’t mean ordinary bigwig, I mean a colossal bigwig like you-know-who) comes to town and decides to do a little Colorado traveling. My private-car experience came as a complete surprise. Nobody had told me there was to be one. Having never been inside a private car before, I didn’t recognize one when I saw it. In fact, I had been sitting in what I thought was the lounge of a Pullman, talking to one of the D. & R. G. men named George Dodge, for a solid hour after leaving Denver before I belatedly tumbled to the fact that this was a private car with nobody on it but Mr. Dodge and me. You could have knocked me over with 180 pounds of live steam. This private car has four fine staierooms—each with a regular double bed, and a connecting bath between each two rooms. It also has one room fitted up as an office. Further it has a kitchen. and a big dining room, and the porter’s room. In addition to all these things, it has a club-lounge in the rear end, with big deep chairs

By Ernie Pyle

and huge ash trays and a large settee and all that stuff. The whole car is air-conditioned. And it has a porter who does nothing but leap at your beck and call. Our personal porter was William Price, who has served for 45 years as porter-chef on the private cars of various railroads. He has been on private cars so long he wouldn't know how to act in public. He is 76 and has been married five times. Mr. Dodge and I sat and talked till about 10 at

night, and then went to bed. I felt like Jay Gould!

or James J. Hill, undressing in that private stateroom. But even sunk in the craven depths of luxury I can't stay awake very long, so it was only an instant later when Price was knocking on the door and saying it was time to get up. The hour was 4 a. m. We were standing, all alone, in the yards at Salida. It was the plan te have breakfast right away on the car, then board the freight train standing somewhere in the yards and begin the climb te Gunnison. But it seemed there was a small hitch. Price rather sheepishly let the cat out of the bag when he announced: “We're locked in!” “Locked in?” said Mr. Dodge. “What do you mean, Price, we're locked in?” “We're locked in solid,” said Price. “The switchman came along during the night afd locked the doors at both ends te keep out bums, and we haven't got a key.”

Ah, Cruel Fate

So there we were, at 4 in the morning, all up and dressed and rarin’ to go—and we were as imprisoned as though we had been in Sing Sing. It was my private opinion that it served us right, for being so private and everything, but I didn't say so to Mr. Dodge. Ordinarily, in any railroad yard, a switchman or scmebody would be passing every few minutes. But we sat in that car for two hours and never saw a soul. We even tried to force a door with a meat cleaver, but it was no go. Finally, a half hour after the freight train was supposed to leave, the freight brakeman came to see why we were sleeping so late! At last he let us out. We bore a pale prison pallor when we stepped out into the morning sun. The hardships one has to endure while traveling in a private car are almost beyond human ken. Two days later we came back {o Salida and reboarded our private car, which had been standing there waiting all that time. They hooked us onto the next northbound express, and we were whisked back to Denver in a gratifying half-day run.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

QUR IDEA of the hard luck champion of the season is the landowner who recently sold the Con-

servation Department a tract for an addition to the Monroe-Morgan State Park. The man made numer-

ous demands for his pay—$850—but it was delayed,

first by the time required to check the title, and then when the State Auditor declined to issue checks after the Supreme Court’s Ripper Law ruling. Finally, all technicalities were cleared away and the happy landowner dashed to the Conservation Department offices for his check, then dashed down Washington St. to the bank. Ten minutes later he phoned that he had lost the check en route to the bank and he asked for a duplicate. Sorry, he was told: you'll have to wait 90 days for a duplicate. That's the rule.

Too Much Scotch

MAKING THE ROUNDS is the yarn about the local citizen who, while on a drinking party, decided

to go hitchhiking. He managed to thumb a ride as far as Carmel, but by the time he got there, he was sobering up a bit and decided to call the trip off. Phoning his wife, he asked her to drive out to “Butterscotch” and get him. After much questioning during which he became more and more annoyed, she finally said: “Oh, you mean Carmel.” “Okay,” he shouted, “Carmel—butterscotch; what's the difference; just come on out here and get me.” . . . Since the Billings General Hospital was opened out at Ft. Harrison, they've been bringing Army patients in daily from other camps by Army ambulance planes. The hospital serves three Army corps areas—the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh. . . . Herbert Kessel, formerly of Tech, is the new head of the local Office of

Washington

WASHINGTON, July 30.—The conflicting orders given to the automobile industry from Washington bring to a shameful climax the headless and rudder-

less nature of the Administration's defense organization. On July 18, Leon Henderson, head of OPACS, notified the automobile industry to cut production 50 per cent during the year beginning Aug. 1. Mr. Henderson acted under an executive order from President Roosevelt, giving him authority over the distribution of limited materials among competing civilian demands. On July 24, William S. Knudsen, co-director of OPM, notified the automobile industry that it was expected to cut only 20 per cent in August as per OPM’s original order. In effect, he told the automobile industry to disregard Mr. Henderson's program. He said that in any automobile production cut OPM would have the final decision. What is an automobile executive to do in face of such conflicting directions from Washington? It may be assumed that the automobile people will do whatever the Government asks them to do. But if the Government defense agencies can’t get together and agree on what they are to ask of the automobile manufacturers, how can any results be expected?

Others Also Face Dilemma

It is not only the automobile industry that doesn’t know which way to turn. Every business using materials needed in defense work is faced with the same dilemma. ; OPACS is telling refrigerator manufacturers how much they must cut down. OPM tells them whether they can have priorities. OPM is trying to work the changeover from peacetime to defense work by easy

My Day

PORTLAND, Me., Tuesday—It began to rain as we left home a few minutes before 8 yesterday morning and for a time it came down in torrents! Then as we arrived at the home of Miss Lape and Miss Read, the rain was kind enough to stop, so that we could eat out of doors. As we started off again, however, it came down gently and steadily, and even though I told myself that probably the farmers were glad and it was much needed, still I wish it had waited for two days, when our drive was over! We made very good time in spite of the weather and had a very comfortable night at the Lafayette Hotel in Portland, Me, Now we are on our way again on the last lap of the trip back to Campobello Island, which we should reach by 3 or 4 o'clock this afternoon. I wonder if any of you read an article on Sunday in the magazine “This Week,” on the attitude ef “young people toward the difficulties of the present day? Tt voiced so well the feeling of many men who resent one of the questions which certain groups of young people are apt to put before their elders— namely: “We are ready to defend democracy if we know what democracy really means to us. Our generation,

Production Management (OPM) in the Circle Tower, succeeding Dick Evans,

About Town

WE HEAR THAT: The defense saving bond campaign is doing pretty well down at the Eli Lilly plant. In the first two weeks, 953 Lilly employees signed up to buy $63,000 worth of bonds, and hundreds more employees were yet to be heard from. . . . Allison is about to announce something soon on that 24-cylin-der engine it has been developing. . . . Edward Green, vice principal of Tech and director of national defense training, is back from a week-end at his cottage on Lake Tippecanoe. He used to spend all summer at the lake, but now, with all the defense training problems, he’s lucky to get a week-end there, he says. . . . The usual electric fan shortage seems to be with us. . . . A prominent citizen is boasting oo he can fry two eggs as hard as a board on the owntown asphalt. We're surprised that the heat wave has gotten this far along without somebody trying it.

Christmas Is Coming

A JEWELRY shop out on Massachusetts Ave. has a sign in its window advising passersby to lay away their Christmas gifts now. . . . That. well drilling outfit on’ the sidewalk of the Hotel Lincoln is cleaning out the hotel's 165-foot well. For the time being. they're having to use the less cool product of the Water Company. . .. We like some of the comments on the signboard of the First Congregational Church at 16th and Delaware. One read, “Lie down with the dogs and you'll get up with the fleas.” Another: “Throw mud and you'll get vour hands dirty.” . . Vayne M. (Army) Armstrong, the lawyer and Legionnaire, is on a western vacation trip. He left a detailed itinerary at the office. Today, for instance, if the itinerary isn't fooled, he is winding up a two-day visit in Glacier National Park. Sounds like a nice place to stay for a while.

By Raymond Clapper

stages so that there will be no transitional unemployment. OPACS would move faster, and accept some temporary unemployment in order to get on with the defense job. But at the same time OPACS wants to encourage some industries which do not conflict with defense. It wants to increase some lines of goods—such as textiles—as a matter of social policy. The reasoning behind this is that it would provide some outlet for the larger earnings of the populaticn and to:some extent offset the deprivations which defense production will cause. OPM is not interested in this kind of policy. It is concentrating on the one job of producing war equipment,

A Boost for Nylon? During the coming months there will be increasing interference with civilian production because of the pressure of defense work. The Japanese situation may compel a complete readjustment in the textile field. Nylon, the synthetic substitute for silk, is on the way to being used exclusively for defense needs. : Now we are about to get the long-delayed priceadministration bill. When that is enacted Mr. Henderson will have far greater authority than he has now. But giving Mr. Henderson more authority won't solve the problems created by the conflict of jurisdiction with OPM and with Army and Navy procurement, It may be true, as some in the Administration say in their own defense, that organization in itself will not solve the problems. They say it is a question of men being able to work together effectively. Yet it would seem that no matter how well-disposed men may be, there is bound to be fundamental trouble where their jurisdiction overlaps or is in dispute. The Roosevelt defense organization is loose, with no clear division of authority nor any clear concentration of authority except such as exists on the overburdened desk of the President himself,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

to a very great extent, has grown up under dark skies with sometimes scant food, rather little schooling and no recreation. When we were supposedly ready to strike out for ourselves ahd look for an opportunity to work, as we had been told Americans should do, we found nothing available.” The article points out that in many ways the pioneer days were just as hard, that Henry Ford and Thomas Edison worked long hours for scant pay and, therefore, though it may be difficult, stil] if you have the will to succeed you will succeed. i think there is a great deal to be said for that point of view. There are a good many young people who believe they are entitled to work at the things they wish to do, and not just at anything which comes to hand. There are other young people who, when they find themselves in an uncongenial occupation, are not able to put the best they have into that occupation or use spare time to develop, through reading or other contacts, their real interests. There is no use discussing whether it is harder for the head of a family or an 18-year-old boy to be without a job. Both have a right to believe there is something wrong with ga civilization which cannot find ways of providing work, when all around them hey see the need for their skills and their professions. . Bven the war must not make us forget that this question is still unsolved. No civilization is secure which does not solve it,

DEMOCRATS T0 MAKE SURVEY OF PATRONAGE

Jobholders to Register; Goal Is Adjustment of Patronage Setup.

BY VERN BOXELL A move to adjust Democratic pa-

tronage has been started by the Governor's office, it was learned today, with every State employee in

Democratic-controlled departments required to fill out a registration questionnaire. Although no sweeping changes are expected, Ray E. Smith, the Governor’s secratary, said the registra- | tion would enable the party to “ad- | just the entire job setup.” Several preblems have arisen since the recent Supreme Court decision gave control of practically all patronage to the Governor. Despite the upswing in private employment, county chairmen and job seekers have filed into the Governor's office daily in quest of appointments,

Effort Soon

Mr. Smith has handled most of the requests and has pointed out that the jobs they are seeking already are occupied by Democrats. The new survey indicates that an effort to take care of some of the applicants may be made soon. After the survey has been completed, the list will be broken down by counties. Any inequalities in job distribution, such as the report that 43 per cent of the appointees in one major division are from one county, will be straightened out. County chairmen also will be given a greater voice in the patronage distribution, it was indicated. Each will be supplied with a list of State employees from his county and his recommendations on

who should be retained or dismissed will receive serioys consideration.

Need Will Be Studied

Several other factors also will enter into any changes, judging from the questions asked in the registration blank. For instance, each employee is required to state how long he has been on the State payroll. Many have held appointments for eight to 10 years. Others ask “your relatives holding State jobs,” “does your husband (or wife) work?” and “do you have any dependents?” Reports that two or more members of the same family are receiving State pay have been reaching the Governor's office and Mr. Smith has indicated that the practice will be ended.

LOSES MEMORY,

Veterans’ Hospital Worker Is Found Penniless in Arkansas.

E. C. Todd, who until the night of July 19 was employed at the U. S. Veterans’ Hospital here, today was a patient in the Veterans’ Hospital in Little Rock, Ark. possibly the victim of amnesia. He was found on the highway on the outskirts of Newport, Ark., penniless and with sore feet, and he told American Legion officials there that he remembered nothing from July 20 on. He said that on July 20 he attended church in Indianapolis and went to a restaurant for his noon meal. After that his memory is a blank, he said. Hospital officials here said he was employed as an attendant and lived in quarters at the hospital. He worked last the night of July 189, they said, and a note saying none would ever find him was found in his room after he left. They said that his disappearance occurred about a week after he took a leave to attend the funeral of a sister in St. Louis. He is unmarried, they said.

CLEAR OHIO YOUTHS OF GIRL'S MURDER

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. July 30 (U. P.).—Two Columbus, O., youths who convinced the court they were innocent of murder faced -other charges today in connection with the death of Virginia White, 19,

WALKS 10 DAYS

Demonstrates Radio ‘Paul Revere’

Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (left), in his role of Director of Civilian Defense, speaks over NBC's Blue

Network in a demonstration of the Radio Corp. of America’s new “Alert”, a radio receiver,

The receiver

turns on automatically when it receives a special inaudible signal from a broadcasting station, rings a bell to summon listeners, and then shuts off when an all-clear signal is flashed. The demonstration took place in the Administration Building at La Guardia Airport.

Greece in Irons

LACK OF STEEL HINDERS STATE HIGHWAY WORK

Defense Causes Material Shortage; Few Bid On Big Jobs.

Uncle Sam's defense program, which already has lured away more than 100 of the Highway Commise sion’s best engineers, is now pinche ing the Commission in a more vital spot. It involves structural steel and wire mesh, items without which no

Uncensored

German 'Corporation’ Uses Funny Money

To Absorb All Greek Industry, Even Wine

This is the sixth and last of George Weller’s series on Greece in

Axis Irons.

By GEORGE WELLER

Ine,

ATHENS,—Calvin Coolidge, who said that “the business of America is business,” might repeat, with some modifications, the same thing about the Wehrmacht of

Adolf Hitler.

Seen distantly, the German Army appears to be simply the hardest hitting military machine in the world. Observed close at hand, however, from the point of view of an

occupied country like Greece, it metamorphoses slowly

into a big

business corporation of manifold enterprises, possessing the persuasive

force of a tommygun to back up its deals. Since the demise of the big American holding cor - poration, which by juggling values of two stable shares might raise or lower either of them, there has been no agency that could transv a luate commercial values y as fast and Mr. Weller _ completely as the Germany Army. It is a corporation, but it has no liability whatever. The members of the “corporation” can buy anything. They have plenty of money, the ubiquitous Reichskreditkassenscheine which are printed by the millions. according to requirement, in the occupied country. The country, in this case Greece, is never flooded suddenly to saturation; marks are simply issued constantly in great enough amounts to buy anything the “corporation” wants. And what the “corporation” wants is not simply food and shelter, but ownership or permanent control of all the productive enterprises within the country.

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Major Buys News Chain

A GERMAN major signified his ambition, through a Greek inter= mediary: of the fifth column brand, to gain ownership of the

three news anc magazine distributing agencies which have been competing for the lively Athenian trade in reading matter. The three agencies were obliged to sell 51 per cent of .their controlling shares to him, the contract being signed in the German Legation and the payment being made in the fabricated occupational marks, which are simply pumped out of an Army printing machine. Even after this inexpensive purchase, the Major's first execufive act was one of German efficiency and economy. ie amalgamated the three agencies into

a monopoly and fired the superfluous personnel. ‘Since the Germans now censor the Greek press, control through the German Legation the distribution of paper pulp, and monopolize the channels of distribution, such faint signs: of life as remained to the Athenian newspapers from the Metaxas dictatorship have disappeared. The “corporation” does not bother to change its uniform before going into business, and it moves fast. The last Australians and New Zealanders were still fighting for their lives in the streets of Kalamata when the German fuel commissioner in Athens was already talking business with the American agent of an international oil company.

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Beat Italians to Market

AT THE TIME of these negotiations the American Legation was unable to send from Greece, even through the German authorities, a message describing the difficulties of the marooned American colony. The lines, according to the Germans, were too crowded with military messages. But the German oil commissioner was able to get through a message directly to New York. Outlining to company officials an offer for ten years rental of the company’s undemolished oil tanks, to be paid as usual in occupational marks. Asked how it was possible to get such quick communications when all other matters were blocked, a German offi-

‘cial explained frankly:

“We have to work fast to get these things lined up before the Italians get in "here and start buying.” Not all the “corporation’s” business is big business. The Reichswehr commissioner for tobacco purchase got to work quite as energetically as his colleague in fuels, but soon farmed out his work among various un-der-officers, all of whom were representatives of lesser German tobacco companies affiliated with the large tobacco trust. In the course of negotiations Greek and American tobacco men found themselves among old acquaintances, for all the Germans had been tobacco buyers in Mace-

West Terre Haute. William R. Atkinson, 22, and Vietor Smith, 24, told Justice of the Peace Perry Douglas yesterday that the girl whom police believed had been murdered was injured fatally when she leaped from their car June 25. Justice Douglas dismissed firstdegree murder charges, but the youths were re-arrested immediately on charges of leaving the scene of an accident and failing to give assistance. They were placed under $3000 bond each and bound over to the September Grand Jury. The girl was found unconscious on a road near Terre Haute. She died the next day without regaining consciousness. Police traced the car to Los Angeles, where the youths were seized after a chase in which Atkinson was shot in the wrist.

JOINT TAX RETURN STIRS HOUSE DEBATE

WASHINGTON, July 30 (U. P.).— House leaders sought a new rule to-| day on the $3,529,200,000 tax program that would provide a vote on the issue of joint husband-wife income tax returns but still would protect the bill from major changes. The decision to reconsider the “gag” rule which would have barred all amendments except those sponsored by the Ways and Means Committee was forced yesterday after opponents of the joint return threatened to join Republicans in support

of unlimited debate. A

HOLD EVERYTHING

l COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE INC. T. M. REG. U. S. PAY. OFF.

“It makes

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no difference what the Pink Cab Co.'s policy is—four . can’t dance with me for the price of one!” °

donia and Thrace up to last winter, Many warehouses were rented or sold, but. more mercy was shown to the Greek personnel and in at least one contract with an American company it was provided that the Greek staff should all keep their jobs. The only interruption to the dealings occurred when one German tobacco man had to excuse himself “to run down to Crete and get in a little fighting.”

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Get Hobson’s Choice

A CHARACTERISTIC PROPOSAL of the “corporation” was made by the German minerals commissioner, Major Heine, to the Greco-French Mining Company at Leurium, site of one of antiquity’s most famous mines. He offered the company a choice of selling all its output for the next five years to Germany at cost, plus a small percentage for the negotiators, or of selling 51 per cent of the company’s shares outright. The company took the 51 per cent offer. Heine, a reserve officer who speaks Greek and is married to a Greek girl, similarly closed deals with two chrome mining companies, one magnesite and the Cassandra Iron Pyrite Mine, which is owned by the Greek Chemical Products and Fertilizer Company. At the latter mine Heine bought 95,000 tons of iron pyrites at 12 occupational marks a ton (about 600 drachmas) at the buying rate for cash dollars, less than a dollar a ton. The big bauxite company on the shores of the gulf of Corinth near Amphissa, Bauxite Parnasse Sa, one of the most valuable mines in Greece, has also been bought outright by the Germans from its owners, the rhinimg firm of Illipoulos Bros., through the efforts of Major Heine. The “corporation” struck a snag when it took up shipping. Until war losses riddled it, the Greeks had a tremendous fleet of aged freighters, which creaked around the world in constant peril of foundering, but bringing a badly needed income to the cash-poor country. The “corporation” asked the Greek Shipping Board to meet, and placed before it an offer to pay 22,000,000 pounds sterling as a blanket and overall price for the approximately 200 vessels still afloat, when, as and if surrendered by the British after an Axis victory. The Shipping Board, with some trepidation, turned down the offer and refused to consider further. o n "

Seize Factory Materials

THE “CORPORATION” seized upon the Piraeus docks some 5000 tons of raw cotton and sent it to Germany. The Piraeus textile factories, all except those making German military garments, were thus obliged to close and discharge their workers. At the same time 1,000,000 finished cotton bags, made to sell at 100 drachmas each, were confiscated by the “corporation” and since they could not be reworked in German factories, were offered for sale at 30 drachmas each. The “corporation” also bought the entire silk cocoon production for use in German factories, thus closing all the small Greek factories. While the Greek press is strictly forbidden to reveal any details of the negotiations which are placing the entire productive establishment of Greece in Nazi hands, it has been ascertained that the 51 per cent plan—which has the effect of immobilizing the Greek owners represented in the 49 per cent—has been applied to organizations of strongly contrasted kinds. The Germans have taken over the National Bank in this way. But they have not overlooked the far smaller Chalkis Cement Com-

pany. Similarly the “corporation” has quietly enveloped the Greek Chemical Products and Fertilizer Company and the Greek Powder and Cartridge Works, which will probably disappear into the I. G. Farbenindustrie and Krupp Company respectively. The “corporation” is too busy just now to celebrate its victories, but if it should relax enough to do so, it need only remember that it owns even the Greek Wine and Spirits Company.

bridges or modern concrete roads can be built. | So much steel is being demanded |by the defense program that cone [tractors are hesitant about bidding lon State road construction jobs. They don't know when they can |get the, steel or if they can get it at all. Only 30 File Bids

Because of this situation, only about 30 contractors have requested forms on which to submit bids at the $2,500,000 road and bridge cone tract letting scheduled to be held Aug. 5. Usually, when there is a letting this large, at least 60 contractors bids. Highway Commissioners are wore ried about this situation and their only hope is that they can get some word or statement from Washington officials that will assure the contractors that they can get the steel with which to build roads, some of which are a defense chare acter. \ Samuel Hadden, acting chairman, has referred the matter to the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads whose offi« cials have in turn agreed to take the matter up with the Office of Production Management.

Awaits Federal Notice

Mr. Hadden said he had been noe tified by the Bureau of Public Roads that they would send him some statement on the matter by Aug. 1. Among the reoads involved in the Aug. 5 letting is an access road to Ft. Harrison, running on Shadeland Ave. from 56th St. to Castleton. A bridge will be built on this road across Fall Creek, north of Ft. Har« rison. The paving 5 to be 22 fee% wide. This will be the second access road to Fi. Harrison to be placed under contract. Construction has already started on the resurfacing of the Post Road from Road 40 to one-half mile north of Road 67 Bids will be taken this fall on the construction of a third access road, running from Castleton to Road 431,

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$5390 SOUGHT BY PLAN BOARD

County Commission Seeks Fund to Enforce Law for Rest of Year.

The Marion County Planning Commission has asked the County Council for $5390 to enforce a new building regulation ordinance for suburban areas during the ree mainder of this year. Otto H. Worley, head of the Come mission, said the board voted to ree quest the appropriation at a recent meeting and it also fixed its 1942 budget at $12,000.

The county zoning ordinance has

[been pending before the County {Commissioners for several months, |awaiting organization of machinery | to start building control.

Mr. Worley said there are buildings being constructed now thaf would not meet ordinance specifica= tions. The ordinance, approved by the Commission several months ago, is designed to regulate all building de velopment outside the city limits. The Planning Commission will be self-supporting from building fees after the first year of its operation,

SWEET NEWS FOR RUSSIA

NEW YORK, July 30 (U.P.).—The

| columbia Broadcasting system heard |the Moscow radio report today that | “representatives of various publio

organizations” had met at Havana and decided to aid Russia by sende

ling her 40,000 sacks of sugar, 1,000, | 000 cigars.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the slogan of the Salvae tion Army? 2—Six oceans among the so-called “seven seas” are the North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Arctic and Antarctic; name the seventh. 3—How many teaspoonfuls equal a tablespoonful?

|4—=What is another name for the

avocado? 5—Who wrote “Story of a Bad Boy”? 6—The name of which fowl fits into

7—Who is the chief promoter in the United States of the organization “Union Now” which seeks to bring about an immediate union between Great Britain and the United States?

Answers

1—“A man may be down but nevep out.” 2—Indian. 3—Three. 4—Alligator-pear. 5—Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 6—Peacock. T7—Clarence K. Streit.

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