Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1941 — Page 15
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CHEYENNE, Wyo, Aug. 1.—A big Western rodeo like Chevenne's “Frontier Days” has five types of
contests for big prize money. But it also has a dozen or more lesser events—most of them going at the
same time as the big ones—which pep things up and
relieve the monotony of seeing men trying to bury their noses in the ground all the time. The cowboys with dreams of gold in their heads come for these five events—bronco-busting, steerriding, bulldogging, calf-roping and steer-roping. Whoever wins any of these events makes close to a year’s wages. : But the lesser things are often more exciting. For instance: 1. The bareback calf-riding for boys under 18. Little old Kids, with funny expressions on their faces, who are more scared of the crowds than of the bucking calves. 2. A women’s relay race, the riders changing to 2a new horse each time around the track. You see girls dismount and remount on the run with a lightning grace; you also see others do it so awkwardly you feel embarrassed for them. 3. Cowboys’ relay race. The cowboys must not only trade horses but take their saddles with them. Some of their changes are incredible. I've seen them slide their horse to a stop. unload, have the saddle off, throw it on the next Horse, cinch it tight. and be aboard and away again, all while you were lighting a cigaret. 4 Indian squaw race on horseback. Some of the squaws ride like the heroine in the movies, and others ride sitting up so straight and poker-faced youd think they were listening to a sermon in church. 5. And then there are exhibitions of trick riding, and fancy roping and Indian dances, and a cowboys’ potato race, and a clown; all these things going on all the time.
Accidents Are Frequent
The rodeo lasts about four hours every afternoon. It is seldom that some contestant is not hurt during that four hours. Many men have been killed in this arena during the 45 years of “Frontier Days.” The Army furnishes an ambulance from nearby Ft. Warren, and there is a field hospital in a tent, 1 don't believe there has been a day when the ambulance didn't make a couple of trips onto the field.
Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)
SIPPING HIS SECOND or third Scotch and soda the other evening, one of the Indianapolis Athletic Club residents was startled to see something flit past
his open doorway. Guiping a quick one, he peered out. Several other residents were doing the same. Just then, down the hallway swished a bat. Doors slammed and the managers phone rang. Up came three bellboys, two wielding brooms and a third a squash racket. There followed much swinging of brooms, with the bat zooming or looping to keep out of the way. Finally, the squash racket turned the trick. The bellboys gathered up their weapons. One of them gingerly picked up the bat by a wing tip, and they marched single file to the elevator. Again peace and quiet prevailed on the eighth floor.
About Town
Municipal Airport has been even more popular than ever recent evenings during the heat wave. Thousands drive out to the port to watch the planes land and depart and to be on hand when the planes’ llers stir up the air. . . . Quite a few persons have hied to the parks {o sleep at night, some taking along folding cots and others using a stack of newspapers for a bed. . . . Appropriately enough, Miss Esther Rains works for the Indianapolis Water Co. She's the very efficient personnel clerk for the utility, and ought to be pretty handy to have around. We'll bet Weatherman Armihgton would like to hire her away from the Water Company. . . . John Kieinhenz, the Water Company's public relations director, came to work a bit sleepy-eved today. You see. he bought a new photographic enlarger vesterday, and sat up
Washington
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The scale of values is such that price legislation is likely to encounter more delay and more opposition than occurred in passing the Conscription Act or than there will be in now extending the terms of service indefinitely. This is net because Senators and Congressmen are hard - hearted and care less for human lives than for property. It is because special groups come strongly into play in legislation concerning property They combine and trade and sabotage. A These aggressive minorities are
often able to whittle away the majority by simply trading around until they get command of the situation. That is the danger theb President Roosevelt faces in his request for price legislation. Ke will get a law but the danger is that it will not be an effective law, and that it will be loaded down with gadgets which will nullify its purposes.
Seeks Parity Increase The situation is so bad that House leaders refused
to say in advance to what committee the price bill would be referred. The idea was to protect members of the committee as long as possible from having the heat turned on them by these special groups. Some of the farm members intend to use the price legislation as a vehicle for hauling up the price of farm prodirets again. One scheme now afoot is to attach a rider to the price bill to revise upward the parity basis which is used for Government price-peg-ging of farm products. One of these schemes would raise the parity price for cotton from 18 cents to more than 20 cents a pound, although cotton now is selling higher than in 10 years. Recently Congress shoved up the price-pegging basis by requiring the Government to make crop loans at 85 per cent of parity instead of 75 per cent as before. The Administration already has surrendered to the
My Day
EASTPORT. Me, Thursday —We had another bright and sunny day yesterday, when it was hard to realize that we could be so far north, for the sun is really hot while it lasts Our first guests to arrive were Dr John Studebaker and Mr. Harry Steeholm. We met them at the ferry and their first introduction to this part of the world was a walk over slippery seaweed and pools of water. However, they approached the island in a spirit of adventure and when they were told that they could not even be taken to- the cottage where they were staying until afeer the morning lecture, they aecepted the routine without a murmur. They came and listened to Mr. Roger Baldwin and the dis- : cussion that followed with the young people, on the necessity for the spread of democracy because of the difficulty of living in a world where different ideas and ideals hold sway. About 10 o'clock, my cousin, Mr. Monroe Douglas Robinson, arrived, having driven from Bangor, Me. He joined us out on the lawn. He has taken two days out of the short time before he returns to Peru to come here with us and I have been interested to wach ability to make the young people talk.
By Ernie Pyle
Of the main events, bronc-busting is probably most spectacular. Yet it is not the most dangerous. Most of the men killed in rodeos are killed at steerropihg. This is because everything happens so fast in steerroping. Both steer and horse are going at a dead run. The man throws his lasso, ropes the steer around the horns, and when it hits the end of the rope is jerked off its feet. The man jumps from his horse, runs to the steer and ties its legs. The fatest man wins. Anything can happen in steer-roping. Your horse can fall. You can get tangled in your rope. You can misstep getting off your horse, The slightest slip, and youre in for trouble. One of the boys was telling me about an accident. A friend of his was riding after a steer. He threw his rope. hooked the loop beautifully over the steer’s horns, then gave his rope that quick little twist they use io trip him.
It Takes Plenty of Nerve
But in that quick twist the cowboy unconsciously let the rope make a loop around his wrist. The plunging steer, with all its weight and momentum, hit the end of the rope and was jerked into the air and fell to the ground. The cowboy by this time—everything is so fast— was off his horse and running back to tie the steer’s legs. He ran about halfway to the steer, then suddenly turned and walked slowly back toward his horse. And there he stopped, reached over, and picked his right hand up from the ground. The rope had cut it off The boys who follow the rodeos have plenty of nerve. They have to have. Several of them have told me the mental strain is so great they have to keep their courage hopped up by hitting the bottle frequently. But the judges here say that isn’t so. They won't let a rider go out if they know he is drunk. One got past them the second day here, but the crowd didn’t know it. He was calf-roping. and got his loop around the call’s head all right, but when he got off his horse he fell down. He did get up again, but when he got to the calf he just didn’t have the oomph to throw it off its feet and tie it. The crowd thought he was dazed from his fall, and cheered him. But the judges found out he had aboard such a load of 40-rod that he could barely talk.
(Tomorrow—The bronc-riders.)
half the night playing with it. . . | Our rustic reporter informs us there's an old-fashioned rail fence in the 4200 block of Central Ave. and a thriving cornfield in the 3900 block of N. Meridian. . . . A couple of our Navy boys were having a swell time the other dav. sailing up and down Meridian St. aboard a bicycle built for two,
“It Wasn't Bad”
BILL BOOK, who runs things up at the C. of C. has had a lot to do with putting Indianapolis on the aviation map. but he always managed to keep at least one foot on the ground. One day this week, Bill was out at Municipal Airport and, in a weak moment, he let his guard down. Before he could say “Jack Robinson,” they'd whisked him into one of Roscoe Turner's planes, ahd they flew him clear down to Charlestown and Louisville before he could get his feet anchored on earth again It wasn't bad. Bill admits, except when they made banked turns with one wing aiming right at the ground. Anyway, Bill was back the next day to take his children up.
At the Fair Grounds
At the City Hall—
TAX RATE RISE FORECAST FOR 1942. BUDGET
Deery Prepares Estimates Of Revenue for Submission to Mayor.
The 1942 civil city budget, expected to be one of the biggest in several years, will be submitted to Mayor Sullivan next week by City Controlier James BE. Deery. The tax rate for 1042 will definitely be higher than this year’s rate, the Controller said. How much higher he didn’t say. At the close of business yesterday Mr. Deery began to estimate the anticipated income and expenditure
the year which are important fac-
levy. "The budget at City Hall is made up in six parts, according to a State Accounts Board formula first put into operation last year.
Submit Estimates
The first step is the submission of 1942 estimates by all City Department heads to the Controller. This is the big sum that the department heads feel they need to operate on. The second step is the estimate of expenses for the remainder of this year from today to Dec. 31. Step three is the inclusion of a working balance over and above estimated expenditures for 1042 to serve as a cushion for unexpected contingencies. These three figures are added together and the sum is the total amount the City needs to finance operations for the next 17 months— from today, Aug. 1, 1941, to Dec. 31, 1942.
Get Cash on Hand
The fourth step in making up $8,000,000 expense account is to estimate the amount of cash on hand as of July 31. To this amount is added the amount of tax money the City expects to receive this autumn. The last step is the estimate of miscellaneous receipts for 17 months —from today to Dec. 31, 1042. These last three figures, representing income, are added together and the total is then subtracted from the amount the City needs to finance operations for the next 17 months. Remainder Is Tax
The remainder is the amount that must be collected by tax levy next year. That's the formula: Estimated income subtracted from estimated expenses over the next 17 months leaves the 1042 civil city tax appropriation. It sounds simple. But the big hitch comes in the
HOCKEY FANS and patrons of other events at the Coliseum ought to like the changes they've been! making in the ticket booth area. Remember how you used to stand in line and then find you were at the wrong window? And how you used to grumble when you then had to walk outdoors and enter another of the three lobbies? Well, it's all one big lobby, now, with six windows, Dick Miller reports, and it ought to be a lot easier to find your way about. The grandstand entrance has been improved, too. | The big ticket window which used to block the en-| trance has been broken up into three smaller windows spaced through the lobby. Pretty soon they'll have ticket buying almost painless, more or less,
By Raymond Clapper
farm bloc by omitting from its price-control legislation the question of farm prices. Now, not content with this omission, which in itself creates an unsound condition, an effort apparently is to be made to add some price-boosting amendments to a bill whose whole purpose is to hold prices in line. The farm legislators are not satisfied with even 85 per cent of parity as a Government price-pegging level. They are now after full parity loans. the parity basis from the present 1909-14 standard to a 1920-20 basis, which would shove up the base line considerably.
Cotton Boost Sought
Cotton interests are campaigning for a law which would prohibit the sale of Government-held cotton for less than 28!2 cents a pound, although cotton now is around 17 cents as against 10 cents a year ago. Those interested in other commodities will be similarly on the job. As to the need for restraint on prices, there can scarcely be any argument. The defense program has made the law of supply and demand unworkable. The Government must have defense goods regardless of price. These goods must be taken largely out of normal civilian production. That leaves an acute shortage in many lines. If uncontrolled, prices would go through the roof by natural bidding among those scrambling for the limited available supplies. It is happening now with tin, for instance. In some articles a price increase will stimulate additional production. But we have passed that point and further price increases will not materially expand production of most defense raw materials. Wages cannot be left out of the price situation. Yet it is not likely that Congress will do more than state a general policy in this regard. without giving any specific authority. It might not be practicable to place the wage question directly under the Price Administrator. But the Mediation Board or some other agency will have to work in close co-operation with the price agency if we are to escape being caught in a wage-price movement in which wages and the price level work to boost each other.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
I alvays remember hearing that during the World War his soldiers were devoted to him. I think the quality which makes the men in your regiment. like you is a quality which makes you get on well with youth. You have to be interested in them and they in a most satisfactory manner. The afternoon lecture was given by Dr. Eagleton of New York University. In the evening Dr. Studebaker tola us briefly about his work as Commissioner of Education in Washington. and some of his plans for adult education. ‘The young people were very much interested and carried on the discussion until after 10 o'cleck, when they broke up into little groups. It is amusing to see how little the generations really change. This house and the house at Hyde Park have housed groups of young people ever since the year that my husband and I were married. My brother came to live with us then and the boys who
were his friends are now carrying heavy responsibili- Board
ties. Some of them are distinguished today in their professions or are serving their country in one way or another. ! But just as years ago they could talk far into the night around the fire, so these young people can forget that tomorrow does surely dawn and they even listen to the radio news at midnight with a feeling that the evening has just begun
I am just leaving to take some of my guests to {mile south of here. : .
‘Quoddy to see the NYA resident project there.
Furthérmore they want to bring up,
departmental estimates for 1042
which are fluid and can be cut.
This is what the City Councilmen are sharpening those budget axes for while waiting for the budget to
be submitted to them Aug. 18. 2 ” 2
Traffic Engineer James BE. loer is spending his vacation in California going to school. He is enrolled in the National Traffic Training Institute at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is engrossed in the subject of traffic engineering. As a class problem, the engineer has taken with him a drawing of the intersection of 16th St. and Northwestern Ave. which the entire traffic engineering class will study. He will be in school three weeks,
SQUAD GARS REPLACE OLD AGGIDENT CARS
The four Police Accident Prevention squad cars today were removed from service, Lieut. Edward Moore, acting head of the Accident Prevention Bureau, announced, and their duties delegated to all squad cars. The action will, in effect, increase the number of cars investigating accidents, Lieut. Moore said, to the number of squad cars on the force. Each squad car in the City has been equipped with first aid kits and cameras. They will make detaded investigation of each accident in their districts, Lieut. Meore said, with the intention of reducing the City's accident rate.
BOARD IS COMPLETED FOR PAY-HOUR STUDY
Governor Schricker today made his two appointments to the sixman Wage-Hour Study Commission created by the last Legislature. He named William Mohler, Indianapolis, general manager of the J. L. Simmons Construction Co., as representative of employers, and Walter Frisbie, Bast Chicago, secretary of the Indiana State Industrial Union Council, representing labor. The four other members of the commission were named yesterday, two by Lieut. Governor Charles Dawson and two by Speaker of the House James Knapp. The Commission is to study the need for Wage-Hour legislation in Indiana and make a report to the 1943 Legislature. :
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ELECT BARGAINING AGENT AT SOCONY
An election to determine whether employees of the Soecony-Vacuum Qil Co, Inc, wish to be represented for collective bargaining by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffers, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. Local 135, will be held tomorrow. ‘The secret balloting will be held from 12:30 to 1 p. m. in the company's warehouse, Ralston Ave. and 23d St, under supervision of J. C. Clark; National Labor Relations director here. The A. F. of L. unjon will be the only organization appearing on the ballot.
CONNERSVILLE MAN KILLED MILTON, Ind, Aug. 1 (U. P).— Charles Ullery, 52, Connersville, was killed last night when he was struck by a car on State Road 1 a
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WAR IN PACIFIC
CLOSE UNLESS APS HESITATE
Britain Would Counter Move On Thailand; Russ, U. S., Would Be Involved. |
By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 1—The danger of Pacific war is close. If Japanese troops move across the Thailand border, where they are now concentrating, a general war is probable. Britain almost certainly would counter-attack from Singapore and Burma on the west. The United States and Russia would tend to be involved. because of close asso
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Cake was plentiful at the marriage last night o f Molly O’Daniel, daughter of Texas’ Governor, W. Lee O’Daniel, to wealthy Jack D. Wrather Jr. Here the couple eat their share as the Governor (center) and his son, Pat, (right) look on approvingly.
WHEELER HINTS 30 PARTY IN '44
Predicts Isolation Bloc if
Two Older Groups Don’t Change.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U. P).— Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) predicted today that noninterventionist sentiment will crystalize “spontaneously” in a new political party in 1944, and hinted that he might bolt the Democrats to join it. Senator Wheeler, recognized as the leader of Congressional opposition to President Roosevelt's foreign policy, refused to commniit himself when asked by reporters whether he would lead such a party. He said that non-interventionist sentiment now is denied political expression inthe two existing parties, hut he felt that it is so great that it eventually will burst out and “sweep: the country.” In a Senate speech yesterday opposing the pending bill to retain selectees indefinitely, Senator Wheeler hinted at this view when he warned Republicans and Democrats to “watch out for what will happen at the polls in the next election.” He elaborated in an interview. “With the leaders of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party both favoring involvement in this war and action to tie up with European power politics every 25 years, the American voter cannot find a cleancut issue,” he said. “If the two parties continue to stand together a new party will arise that will sweep the country.”
Marine Visiting Parents in City
Pvt. Jack E. McHaffie, of the 10th Regiment, Fleet Marines, San Diego, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
O. F. McHafTee, 6119 Winthrop . Ave. while on a 10-day furlough. Pvt. McHaffie is the first mem-. ber of his family to serve in the Marines, but ~ not the first to i serve in the nations armed forces. His father % was in the Navy in the last war. Pvt. McHaffle his grandfather served in the Army Medical Corps in the Spanish-American War, and his great-grandfather served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
SHELL PLAN APPROVED WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U. P). —Senator Scott W, Lucas (D. Ill) announced today that President Roosevelt has approved construction of a shell and bomb-loading plant for the Crab Orchard Lake area in southern Illinois, at an estimated cost of $40,000,0,00.
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cess was a hill-billy band, regarded tenure of the Governors’ mansion, and invited every citizen of Texas, by radio, to attend. He will relinquish the Governorship and be sworn in Monday at Washington as Senator. Only a few persons were invited to witness the ceremony. The 6000 invited by radio stood on the lawn and heard Dr. M. E. Sadler, president of Texas Christian University, perform the double-ring ceremony. State police and capitol guards struggled with the wildly cheering guests on the lawn as the bride appeared with her bridegroom for a few minutes on a platform outside the mansion. She cut the first of five wedding cakes that were distributed among the crowd, then dashed back into the mansion with her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Wrather will see Mr. O’'Daniel sworn in, then leave for a month's honeymoon in New York and Canada.
Mr. Wrather is an executive in an oil company. He was granted a “discharge under honorable conditions” from the Naval Reserves yesterday to marry. Had he married before completing a fourmonth training course in September, he would have been subject to a charge of misconduct or .dishonorable discharge. ‘
QUESTIONS NEED FOR SERVICE EXTENSION
“The Army has not shown us why the service of .draftees should be extended beyond a-year,” Merle H. Miller, chairman of the America First Committee of Indianapolis, said at a meeting at the commit-
tee headquarters last night. It's the duty of the Army to warn
mote, ‘he said, adding that “it's the duty of Congress in this instance to weigh the threatened danger against the consequences of a Government breaking its word with a million men.” . . “When the Draft Act was passed last year,” Mr. Miller said, “Germany had conquered Norway, Holland, Belgium and France in quick succession. Today the situation is a {lot rosier with Germany and Russin at each other's throats, Italy a hollow shell, Japan not giving wholehearted support, and England bombing Germany. “How, thea, can we in good conscience say that conditions have so changed for the worse that we are justified in breaking faith with the men we drafted a year ago?”
BOYS TURN IN ALARM
Police today were searching for four boys who were seen turning in a false alarm at Geisendorf and W. Washington Sts. yesterday. Several false alarms have been turned in at that alarm box during recent weeks.
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AUSTIN, Tex, Aug. 1 (U. P.—Pretty Molly O'Daniel, 19, daughter of Governor and Senator-Elect W. Lee O’Daniel, night to wealthy Jack D. Wrather Jr.,.23, but only 6000 of the 6,000,000 guests her father had invited came to the wedding. Mr. O’'Daniel, an ex-flour salesman whose secret of political suc-
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the wedding as the “climax” to his
EQUIP TO FIGHT, WALLACE URGES
U. S. Must Develop Its Might to the Utmost, Vice
President Says.
‘BURLINGTON, Ia., Aug. 1 (U.P). —Vice President Henry A. Wallace said last night that the nation can hope for peace ‘only by developing our might to the utmost” and demonstrating that “we are completely willing to go to war if necessary.” “A peaceful people moves slowly towards things of war,” he told a erowd of 5000 at dedication ceremonies for a $30,000,000 Government shell-loading plant. The speech was broadcast over the NBC Blue network and carried to Europe and South America by short wave. “Not until serious danger threatens, will a' peaceful people convert the material of peaceful life into material for war,” Mr. Wallace said.
Such Danger Threatens
“Such danger already threatens as the Nazis put on the pressure in Africa and the Far East.” He said the likelihood of the United States becoming involved in war “would be enormously increased if we failed to devote to the utmost our resources to the making of war materials.” “Only by developing our might to the utmost, only by demonstrating through every. action and attitude that we are completely willing to go to war if necessary,” he said, “is there any chance for that peace which we so earnestly desire.” Mr. Wallace said the vast munitions plant symbolized the: nation’s defense effort, in which “we are beating the plowshare into swords, the automobile into tanks, the aluminum kettles into airplanes.” He told the audience drawn from the nearby farm areas of his home state “no appeasing quisling commands the allegiance of our farm people.” :
Honors Will for Peace
“In my heart I honor the will for peace that is our spiritual basis,” he said, “but I deny that this will for peace has heen distorted by anyone into a will for peace at any price, or on any terms except the terms of a great and freedom-lov-ing nation.” ‘ Mr. Wallace predicted the ‘Nazi yoke” would be lifted from European peoples and that America “by her might, her heart and her soul will determine world destiny.”
Long-Tailed Dog To Get His Day
THE KIDS AROUND Rhodius Park are calling all dogs, with special inducements for those with long, long tails. Reason: A specially long-tailed dog will win a prize at the annual pet parade at the park, scheduled for 7 p. m. Monday. Other pets winning prizes will be given for the most freakish pet, the most unusual, the most artistically dressed, the best combination of pets, the most comically Jressen, the largest and the smallest. Judges will be J. P. Rooney, Jack Duvall and and. Norma Koster o the City Recreation Department.
NAMES ICELAND ENVOY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U.P). —President Roosevelt, in a move
to set up diplomatic relations with Iceland, today sent to the Senate the nomination of Lincoln MacVeagh, pre-war minister ‘to Greece, as minister to the sub-Arctic [sland. Establishment of diplomatic (relations with Iceland fulfills part {of the agreement under which this nation assumed protection of that island. :
SEN. LUCAS HOLDS PURSE WASHINGTON, Aug.- 1 U.P). —Senator Scott V'. Lucas (D. Ill.) today was named’ chairman of the Senate Audit and Control Commit-
to the priorities board instead of the [tee which has charge of funds for draft board.”
Senate investigation committees.
to their own interests. It was Washington that started retaliation by economic warfare in the form of the freezing order.
Hope of Peace if Tokyo hesitates before another aggressive leap is there hope of peace. If the cautious minority in the Government can persuade the Emperor to restrain the military dictators for a few weeks, Hitler's failure to knock out
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convince even the militarists that Pacific war is suicide. Persons in close touch with the Tokyo situation said today that neither the Japanese dictators nop the United States and British gove ernments were disposed to retreat in order to prevent a clash. Meanwhile Washington, London and Singapore authorities are not stopping with military and naval preparations. They are also con= centrating on efforts to convince Japan that they are not bluffing this time. U. S. Contribution
Washington's contribution to this campaign are the delay in accepting the Tokyo Foreign Minister's ine formal apology for bombing the United States gunboat Tutuila, ree fusal to relax the new trade restrictions or to grant ship clearance pledges beyond a day. London’s contribution includes sharp statements by Foreign Minister Eden. First he denied to Parliament current reports that the American - British - Dutch freezing orders would operate with large appeasement loopholes. Then he gave Tokyo what appeared to be a last warning: : “I sincerely trust that those responsible for the ‘destinies of the Japanese Empire will reflect, while there is yet time, whither their pres= ent policy is leading them.” In Singapore British officials ine dicated yesterday that their forces were ready to move in case of any Japanese threat against Thailand. Besides completing reinforcements for Malaya and Burma, the British yesterday placed the strategic parts of Borneo in special defense areas, The United States continues to rush Philippine preparedness. The President has ordered full speed ahead on surveys for the United Statese Canadian-Alaskan military road.
SUSPECT IS QUIZZED IN HUNTING DEATH
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 1 (U. P).—William R. Simpson, 28, today faced first degree murder charges inthe fatal shooting of Fred G. Smith, 56, Prairieton, Simpson, also of Prairieton, sure rendered to police in New York Sunday claiming that Smith's death, from shotgun wounds in the head, was an accident. The victim body was found in a river bottoms near here July 14. Returned to Terre Haute, Simp son was questioned by Prosecutor DeWitt Owen. On leaving Owen's office the youth said: “It was an accident. I don't want to talk about it. I am so worried and confused.” He volunteered, however, that while on a hunting expedition with Smith his finger slipped while une loading his’ shotgun, discharging a volley which felled his partner. Simpson said he became so exe cited that he dragged the body inte a thicket, took $167 in bills from Smith’s pocket and fled. He said he drove Smith's truck to Chicago where he left it, with the gun ine side, on a street and hitch-hiked to New York. Simpson was held without bait and Owen indicated he would be held to the September term of the Grand Jury.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Where was the American Legion organized? 2—Which President announced a policy of “watchful waiting”? 3—An alewife is the wife of an inne keeper; true or false? 4—Who wrote “The Cricket on the Hearth”? 3—The planet Saturn is larger in diameter than the combined diameters of the planets Uranus and Neptune; true or false? 6—Complete the following proverbs “You can. lead a horse to water
T—Women used to wear silk, lace or crocheted - coverings on theip heads called f tors? 8—Do the states of Ohio and Tenne essee require blood tests before marriage?
Answers 1—Paris, France. 2—Woodrow Wilson. 3—False. 4—Charles Dickens. 5—True. » 6—“But you can’t make him drink® T—Fascinators. i 8—Ohio, no; Tennessee, yes,
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