Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1941 — Page 15

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 194i

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Hoosier Vagabond

CROSSING NEBRASKA, Aug. 8.—The other morning I got up early and had breakfast with—if I gave you 10,000 guesses, you'd never come within a mile. I had breakfast with the bowling champion of the worl It was in Cheyenne, and he happened to be stopping over there a day to give an exhibition. Somehow I expected to meet a middle-aged man, with something of the look of a pool shark or card sharp in his face. Instead I met a man not much over 30, so good-looking he could be in the movies, and vet so quiet and softspoken you might think he was broke and looking for a job. Hi coins upward of $2000 a yea out of his bowling prowess. His name is Ned Day. He is from Milwaukee. He has been champion for three years. He is intelligent and friendly and a gentieman, but he is not colorful. He

#* doesn’t brag or say odd things that make a man

interesting in print. Day owns two big bowling alleys—one in Milwaukee. one in Santa Monica, Cal. He is married and his wife helps with the business. They keep a home in Milwaukee and an apartment in Los Angeles. Day travels a good deal, mostly by airplane, giving exhibitions He doesn’t drink or smoke or use coffee. But he doesn't refrain from these things as would an athin training—he just never happened to get arted at them. Day savs there are 20000000 people in America whe bowl at least once a week. He says 40 per cent of these people have their own bowling balls ® Mr. Day can be worlds bowling champion if he wants to, but I don't envy him. The last time I bowled was in Baltimore in 1924, and I haven't got } out of my muscles yet. It wasn't really muscle soreness that made me give up bowling, It was because when my ball got about v down the aller, it would always jump over the adjoining alley. We never cculd figure cut

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RAF PILOTS ferrving bombers to England now hop off Miami instead of Newfoundland, were told by one of the bors. That takes them past Bermuda. the Bahamas, the Azores and Lisbon. and gives them several chances to stop. if necessary The pilots are returned aboard British destroyers, then transferred in U. S. territorial waters to our own Coast Guard ships, our informant added. Why aren’s any of the bombers shot down by the Nazis? Well, he told us, not even the Nazi pursuit jobs can catch these bombers The

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reason is the bombers arent fitted with guns and other heavy warplane equipment until they reach England. When they leave here, theyre merely “hollow * loaded with gas tanks And, by the time they get across the Atlantic and have used up most of their gas, ther're light enough tc run like scared jackrabbits.

Attention, Brides

FABIEN BIEMER. chief deputy county auditor, is busy explaining what happened to a couple of his front teeth. Theyre missing. Fabe swears he wasn't in a fight—they just broke off. Didn't hurt a bit, either, he said. as they were store teeth. . . . Via the gravevine, we get it that somebody is engineering plans to start a fifth radio station here. . . . Out on Emerson Ave. between 2st St. and Road 67 the Park Board or somebody has put up a whole series of neat yellow and black signs advising motorists that horses have the right of way on this “Bridal Path.” All those trees shedding their leaves make it lock like Autumn. Frank Wallace advises

Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 —By the time this appears in print I expect to be headed for Europe by Clipper Before taking off I want to glance back for one overall look to see just where we stand. Whether fighting is just around the corner depends on what comes around the corner. Certain steps by Germany or Japan would provoke this Government to war. If those steps are not taken, then I think it is doubtful if we become an active belligerent. But we cannot be sure those steps won't be taken—so that in that sense, there is the possibility of our going into the war. In that matter we are in the hands of future events. At the moment Washington generally feels that the turn has come and that Hitler is in danger for the first time since he began the war by his attack on Poland. There is a reasonable chance that Russia will be able to maintain a defensive front at least, even though it may fall back considerably. If Russia achieves even that much, then it is considered that Hitler will be in serious trouble and that the Axis structure will begin to shake. Qur function as it is seen here, continues as in the past to be twofold. First to protect our outposts and to extend them somewhat so that no menacing power obtains a foothold for a jumping-off place against the Western Hemisphere. With that goes the protection of our raw materials in the Far East and the protection of the Philippines. Second, we are a principal arsenal, or expect to be, for those powers resisting the Axis. Those are the two functions—to block any more off shore and not wait until an enemy is approaching our own shores, and to fuel the war effort against the Axis.

Where Roosevelt Shines

President Roosevelt, deeply interested in broad strategy, has moved effectively to secure our outposts. The trading of destroyers for British bases and the occupation of Iceland were shrewd and alert moves. Cthers are being made in South America. We are

My Day

HYDE PARK, Thursday—Yesterday was a particularly pleasant and uneventful day. A friend came with her little daughter to lunch, and we swam and sat about in the sun for a while. In the evening, I read aloud Mr. David Cushman Covle’s little book, “America.” He has gathered together in brief form many of the. arguments which most of us find convincing today in our outlook on world ana demestic affairs. I think this short recapitulation will prove of value to schools and colleges as well as individual readers. A letter has just come to me which I want to quote and answer in this column: “Referring to a recent ‘My Day’ article the following is your statement: ‘In the United States there are many areas where children cannot get to school and besides there are many families who have no clothes for their children.’ For more than eight years your husband has been the directing head of the United States and his announced policy on taking office was the ‘forgotten man.’ “With the inforthation you must have on the matter I have quoted, I would be pleased to have

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By Ernie Pyle

weather to bring Armageddon, President Roosevelt could have moved us directly into war and the public would have gone along with him. But it seemed to me that about mid-May there occurred a change in public sentiment, that the public went back to its original feeling that it wasnt our war and we'd just sit tight and wait and see. I felt that if Roosevelt really wanted us in the war as so many people think, then he misjudged and let slip the psychological moment when the people would have gone along willingly. But she said this: True. the people would have gone along in early spring. But she also said that, in western Nebraska at least. people decided that because Roosevelt didn’t take us in when he could have, it proved he was genuinely trying to stay out of war. And as a result of that, she feels the people now trust his motives so deeply that he could take us right now and the people would feel that he considered it aboslutely necessary, and would go along with him. Probably neither she nor I know the slightest thing about it, ,but I've never heard her views expressed before, so I thought I'd just put it down here.

Scaring Hitler And along this same line of public war sentiment, a Western friend who visited the East recently had this to say: “There isn't any real intelligent balance to public opinion. In the East, war feeling is at a frenzy. And in the West it goes to the other extreme of almost complete apathy.” Of course you can get any kind of viewpoint you want to pick out. But as far as I can see in going around the country talking to people, the public polls are right—the people are against going to war. That of course is all right, if the majority says so. What isn't all right (at least with me) is our] smugness about it. In the past few months I have seen the following incident duplicated a half-dozen times throughout the country. We go to some big public celebration, such as a Fourth of July parade, 5000 miles from the nearest bomb. The Army puts a group of two-month draftees in the parade. They march by in good order and look pretty nice. The flag passes and everybody stands up. The announcer cracks over the loudspeaker, “Boy, if old Hitler could just see this!” We all cheer wildly, ripple our muscles, picture Hitler shaking in his boots, sit back down, nod knowingly to each other, and go back to eating our beautiful popcorn out of a sack. We're wonderful.

us it’s partly the drought, partly red spider. and that it won't hurt the trees permanently.

Here and There

THE HOT WEATHER, we hear, has been playing] hob with Hoosier banks’ vault doors. expanding and contracting them so much they sometimes get out of kilter and won't go closed. That leaves all the

Strictly co-operative. Norman Bie

Kenneth McAbee (center) and Thomas Smith (rear) want to go.

STATE TOMATO T0 BE GLORIFED

Its Revenue and Vitamin Values to Be Stressed in Downtown Displays.

The Hoosier tomato is going to] come in for a great amount of at- | tention during the week of Aug. 18} to 23.

cold cash exposed. It's keeping locksmiths on the jump repairing them, Audley Dunham tells us| .. Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Holmes (he's sales manager for Kevless Lock) were to leave today for Island] Lake, Wis, with their son, Bob, to fish for muskel-| lunge. They got {wo big ones three years ago and ancther two years ago. This vear? We'll let you; know later. . . . When a customer of Jake Feld, the tire man, told him she was going to visit her son, a member of the crew aboard the Presidential yacht] Potomac, he asked her to bring him a lump of coal] as a souvenir. She did better than that, brought; him a book of paper matches, a handsome gold and blue silk pillow cover and an envelope with a special | cachet, all bearing the name of the Potomac and the Presidential seal. Jake's pretty proud of them. | Pity the Poor Skeet AT THE NATIONAL skeet shoot here we learn: Skeet is one sport where the amateur champs’ scores are better than those of the professionals, in most instances. . . . One pellet is enough to break a| clay pigeon if it hits squarely. . . . Two firms make the clay pigeons, so the shooters do half their shoot- | ing with one brand, half with the other. . . . Some| folks contend skeet isn't difficult enough. so theyre] thinking up ways to make it harder . . . and they tell | of the Ohio woman who wanted the Legislature to| put skeet in the “songbird” class since she'd read| so many of them being shot.

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likely to move with similar swiftness if Hitler] threatens the South Atlantic by going into Portugal] or French North Africa. In this field Mr. Roosevelt is proving enormously efficient and far-sighted. As to our arsenal work, there is much to be de-| sired. Wide dissatisfaction with it exists here among businessmen, New Dealers, the Army and the Navy. Here I think President Roosevelt has fallen short. His chronic carelessness in administration becomes a serious handicap. Affairs are frankly in an appalling] state. We are saved only by the enormous resources

and industrial strength of the country and by thelone of

common purpose to produce defense. You find one branch, say the Navy, cornering the] market on some article, leaving the Army pawing the empty air. Or In another article it is the Army which gets there first and the Navy complains. Thousands of Army procurement officers are ordering materials, often frantically and wildly, without reason, leaving civilian needs to suffer unnecessarily.

Too Much Red Tape

Mr. Roosevelt went away and left OPM and OPACS still giving the automobile industry conflicting orders about curtailment. When the old Defense Advisory Commission was appointed more than a year ago, it met once a week with the President, where conflicts could be talked out around the table. No such meetings occur now. Each defense operator runs his own show and there is no common clearing session around the Presidential] council table, a serious defect of the present opera-| tion. These general statements can be documented by! almost any informed official in Washington. They al! know how chaotic the situation is. They all pray! that Mr. Roosevelt will find time and strength when| he returns to take hold of this chaos and put some! order in it. This is the chief complaint that can be fairly] made of the situation here. Republican elder states-| men and Democratic isolationists would be doing a] more useful job to put the bee on this kind of slipshod operation instead of trying to frighten the country out of standing up for its interests.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

your explanation as to why such conditions continue to exist in the United States. “Your explanation, I think, should have the same amount of publicity as your original statement.” The answer seems to me fairly simple. This Administration has put on the statute books a great deal of social legislation. Much of it was passed in opposition to the desires of many people, who honestly believed that conditions would return to what they once were and that it is a mistake to try to find new ways to adjust to new conditions. Experience alone can prove whether plans undertaken can have permanent value or not. Some of them have already been in operation long encugh to prove themselves. Others are in progress of trial. The social security program as a whole, housing, WPA and NYA have all been factors in meeting the needs of what my correspondent calls the “forgotten man.” To wipe out, however, all injustices and inequalities in our democracy, to make in a period of 12 vears a decent corner of the world for everyone to live, in the face of world conditions such as have existed. is beyond the hope of even the most sanguine. We can only be grateful for the fact that more people are aware of the problems of forgotten children as well as forgotten men and women, and that we are working together to make our corner of the world a better place for all of Rw live.

The one-time neglected plant is | to be glamorized as an excellent

source of vitamins and revenue to) Indiana eaters and growers alike. | Through the efforts of the Indiana | Tomato Tournament, Inc, which| was organized in 1938 by representatives of the Chamber of Com-| merce and various packers and! growers’ associations, the Indiana tomato will be displayed all ever the city in downtown restaurants, drug stores and retail groceries. Tuesday, Aug. 19, an exhibit will be held in the lobby of the Claypool Hotel in which commercial growers from all parts of the state will compete for prizes totalling $210.

Walker Is President

Samuel B. Walker, controller of the William H. Block Co. is president of the tournament; Horace E. Abbott, Marion County agricultural agent, vice president; Samuel Mueller, director of promotion and ex-| tension of the Chamber of Commerce, secretary-treasurer, and A. A. Irwin, assistant county agricultural agent, assistant secretary. The executive committee in charge of arrangements for the show includes Harbert H. Eickhoff of Stokely Brothers & Co., Robert E. Jackson, secretary of the Indiana Cannery’ Association; George

Frank Langsenkamp Jr. of the F. H. Langsenkamp Co.

Cycle Office

By RICHARD LEWIS |

Death in an invisible sidecar rides with the police motorcycleman, It doesn't bother the cyclist because he doesn't see it—except in those fantastic moments] when he's hurtling through the air, | conscious, after | a crash. That's an experience none of the men can quite describe. They say that there is nothing} else like it. All! the motoreycie-| men have had it and bear scars! to show for it. Yet, somehow, most of them Clint Myers survive after| months in casts and splints to ride again, They will tell you how it} happened as though it had hap-| pened to someone else. Then they will jump on their

l“cycles” and roar off to hunt traf-| Waiting to

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fic violators. a job on borrowed time wit invisible gent in the sidecar that] isn't there ready to close the ac-| count. There is Clint Myers, a tall, strapping, serious “cop” whose neck was broken just two years ago. Cycle Patrolman Myers told about it while he was waiting for one of his cases to come up in Municipal Court He was chasing a speeder on Kentucky Ave. when the car suddenly turned in front of him He couldn't see the barricaded crossing at the Belt Railroad tracks and hej hit it going 70. They picked him up 65 feet from where his wrecked cycle lay smashed beyond repair and at the hospital | they found he had bitten his tongue | in half, lost his front teeth, broken| a series of ribs, fractured his skull] in two places and had broken his] neck. { Seven months later, he was hack on a new cycle. | During State Fair week last Sep-! tember, Patrolman Myers got it again. A girl driving the car ahead of him jammed on the brakes sud- | denly. The cyclist tried to swerve] but couldn't quite make it. This| time he was picked up from the] street with a broken leg. The dean of police motorcycle] riders is John (Red) Davidson who, looks like the motorists’ ideal of a] hardboiled cop. He's ridden for the Department 18 years and his superiors say there is no one they would! rather ride with. | Red Davidson has cracked up! three times. The. first was in 1925] when he injured his back after hitting a car which made a swift left turn without warning, The second

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And That Isn't All That Goes On at 23d and Pennsylvania

By EGAN LECK Three bovs in the neighborhood of 23d and Pennsylvania St. aren't bothered a bit by what Secretary Ickes says about gasoline rationing. When they want to go somewhere, they all ciimb aboard one long, improbable-looking bicycle and go careening along, saving gasoline, shoe leather and wind resistance The sight isn't one to make a person trust his eyes too much.

3 Boys, a Tandem, a Dog With an Operation

The family has heard about Buffy's appendectomy dozens of times, but she’s telling it just once more to Marjorie McAbee.

GROUP TO VISIT WILLKIE SUNDAY

Indiana Committee for National Defense Sponsors

But the neighbors don't reach for their spectacles. They know it's|ijn this case, because the process | just Norman Biesel, Thomas Smith never seems to be finished. Bill! and Kenneth McAbee, out for a ride ang Arvid race regularly three times! on their three-passenger tandem , week, but in between races the! wheel, |car always winds up in back of the On its trips around the neighbor- | McAbees’ completely dismantled. hood, the tandem is always followed| Another project which has gained by many small children and the the attention of the McAbee three dogs of the McAbee house-|brothers is a diving outfit, also hold. One of the dogs, Buffy, who mostly of their own making. is a beautiful honey-colored Cocker! Recover Motors

spaniel, would have quite an opera- # . . . f tion to talk about, if she could talk.| With this apparatus they have A vear ago last January. she was| been down into many of the lakes operated on for appendicitis, and|in Northern Indiana and Lake y _{Michigan. These expeditions aren't formed the job said that it was an|Just for fun, because the hoys have inverted one at that. made quite a good thing of recoverAll three of the bicycle's builders|ing outboard motors and other are Eagle Scouts, and are sopho-|!hings which boaters and fishermen mores in college. Norman is at | have lost to the various waters. Indiana University. Thomas, at| On several occasions the brothers ot S have aided the police and fire departments in searches for drowned persons. The boys’ mother, Mrs. W. D. McThe bicvele is an assembly of Abee, seems to be at least as much wheels they had while in high |interested in these activitie as her school. They went to different |SONS are. Oat While she hasn't quite reconciled herself to the idea of Bill's driving

Crowning Achievement

parts of the machine are painted in|

their schools’ colors—the front is|the midget at 100 miles per hour, green and white for Tech, the cen- She

is very interested in seeing ter, orange and

black for Broad Whether or not the boys can start Ripple, and the rear is blue and | the motor each time it gets put white for Shortridge.

: {back together again. Other engineering projects grace the McAbees’ home at 2312 N.| Kenneth's older|

CONFETTI FOR U. S. SAILORS BRISBANE, Australia, Aug. 8 (U. from the United midget racer. His as-| States cruisers Northampton and sociate in this enterprise is Arvid | Salt Lake City paraded with Auswho lives at Bibajirailian and New Zealand troops Pennsylvania St through flag draped streets today as It is proper to say “is building” 'throngs hurled confetti.

s Ride With Death to Perform Duty

John Davidson Harry Nolte Carl Sommers Orville Gleich

was in 1929 when he flipped over the | The day before his wedding anniKentucky Ave. bridge and fell 18, versary. too. feet. All that was left of the cycle| They've all “gotten it.” Harry was the motor and the patrolman) Nolte collided head on with a car broke a good many bones, how |in April, 1940: John Furgason manmany he aoesn't recall. | gled his left wrist and hand last For 11 years, Patrolman Davidson | February. rode in fair weather and in foul, Don Murphy started out from but had no accident. But one was| Headquarters last November and bound to catch up with him sooner| got as far as the first alley north of or later. In May, 1940, as he was the station when he and a car colmake a left turn, a|lided. Just before Christmas, Ormotorist ran into him and he ville Gleich. broke his hand in acsailed over the handlebars. | cident and just after Christmas,

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“It’s not very pleasant living with a man who doesn’t enough to change a $7 bill!”

Motorcade.

A delegation of persons indorsing Wendell Willkie's stand on national affairs will visit him at Rushville Sunday afternoon. Sponsoring the motorcade will be the Indiana Committee for National Defense and the Fight for Freedom, Inc. Mayor Reginald Sullivan will send a letter with the delegation inviting Mr. Willkie to speak in Indianapolis next month.

The group will leave U. S. 52 and Arlington Ave. at 3 p. m. Sunday and plans to arrive in Rushville about 4:15 p. m., A feature of the program will be the exhibition of one of the new type British 25-ton tanks manufactured at Hammond, Ind.

At Elwood yesterday, Mr. Willkie"

spoke as guest of the Kiwanis Club. He said he hoped to return to the city of his birth when he retires. Dr. Charles E. Holman of St. Louis, vice president of Kiwanis Internation, also spoke. A reception for Mr. and Mrs. Willkie preceded the dinner.

3 HOOSIER FIRMS GET NEW WAR CONTRACTS

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-—Three Indiana firms have just received War Department contracts totalling $4,352,151.44, as follows: International Harvester Co., Ft. Wayne, trucks, $1,104,854; General Motors Corp., Guide Lamp Division, Anderson, cartridge cases, $2.450000, and Servel, Inc., Evansville, cart-

ridge cases, $797,297.44,

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Don Murphy Paul Whiteside

Carl Sommers suffered a crushed chest and fractures in a collision. Patrolman Sommers: recovered from that accident to have another last May in which his foot was crushed. He still is on the injury list, recuperating at home. Paul Whiteside was chasing a speeder north on Illinois St. when a gravel truck forced him into a streetcar. They've reassigned Patrolman Whiteside to clerical duties now because his left leg was crushed. That's the way it goes in the motorcycle division. But it isn't the danger or the little gent in the invisible sidecar the men will beef about. That's part of the game. They don't like to have to keep buying uniforms. One spill and a pair of $10 britches is torn up heyond decency. The shoe on the foot the riders use to balance the cycles when stopped wears out, so they must buy a new pair. The men find it impossible to afford private insurance because the rates are too high for their occupation group. They are protected by police insurance, however. “Our cleaning bills alone are terrible,” one veteran said. “We can hardly keep ourselves in uniforms.” Police buy their own uniforms and are responsible for keeping them presentable. That and raising a family on $2092 g year is rather a struggle, they say. They are glad to know that City Council has appropriated some salary increase for them this year. Why is a cycle dangerous? Ordinarily, it isn’t, the men say, but on duty sometimes when high speeds are called for, a careless motorist, a slick spot in the street, a wet car track. a protruding rail, a round stone, or even one of those yellow painted traffic lines may throw a motorcycle out of control in a split second. There is a superstition in the motorcycle division that when accidents come. they come in threes. [f there is one accident, two more are bound to follow, It always has been that way. They admit it’s a dangerous game. But somehow a cycleman never

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PARK LEADERS SEEK SOLUTION T0 VANDALISM

$5000 Damage Caused So Far; Youthful ‘Grudges’ Held One Factor.

Several theories have been ade vanced at City Hall to account for the record wave of vandalism at City parks, playgrounds and swime ming pools this summer. The destruction of recreation facilities alone has run up the ree pair bill to more than $5000. Wore

ried Park officials are wondering how to deal with the problem withe out calling out a heavy guard. One of the theories which leans heavily on the doctrine of cause and effect or its juvenile equivalent, tit for tat, is that vandal acts are coms= mitted in reprisal for real or fancied injuries. Mayhe one group of boys was ine advertently left out of some activity; maybe the gang doesn’t like the form of activity on the grounds. Re< senting the situation during the daylight hours, the gang reaps its vengeance at night on inanimate benches, pump handles and the still waters of the swimming pools.

Youthful Pranks

Another theory holds that not all the destruction is wanton nor delibe erate, but a by-product of youthful energy, such as the tennis-court dancing incident earlier this week at Brookside Park where the court surface was torn up.

The third theory holds simply that most of the destruction is the result of plain viciousness coupled with the desire to destroy prope erty and get away with it. Each of the three theories are easily applied to a number of the apparent vandal acts committed in the parks this summer. Where dissatisfaction is evident as a cause, the Recreation Department goes out to deal with it without necessarily attempting arrests.

“Grudges” a Factor

Usually when the cause of the “grudge” is removed, the vandalism dies away. : Carelessness and deliberate de« struction are not so easy to stop, however, and officials believe that stern punishment is one deterrent. They believe that the aroused wrath of the community is an efe fective deterrent, too, and are worke ing on that angle. After all, they point out, it's the taxpayers who foot the hill.

Play Tank With Roller

In addition to throwing glass and nails into pools, breaking into come munity houses to steal vending mae chine confections and smashing playground equipment, vandals have wrought some daring destruction this year. One group of boys started up a City steam roller left standing overnight on the 46th St. and Arsenal Ave. playground and pretended it was a tank. In the course of their “blitzkrieg,” the boys steered the roller through trees and bushes and cut a swath through a forested patch nearby. The “tank” was finally stopped when it got trapped in a hole in the ground.

Equipment Is Stolen

Someone placed single-edge razor blades upright beneath the slides and swings of one North Side ground. Fortunately, these were dise covered early before the children | came to play. equipment has been | stolen, like the $20 sprinklers from | the Pleasant Run Golf Course which disappeared one night. Monuments like the Thomas Taggart Memorial have been marked up, windows and light bulbs shot out with air rifles and .22 rifles and fountains ripped | out of the ground. The most vandalism and theft usually occur ‘oward the close of the season. When the playgrounds are closed down. City workers must lose no time in taking out toilet facilities in the comfort stations, or the gangs will beat them to it.

ORDERS TRAINS RESUMED

The Indiana Public Service Come mission today ordered the Southern Railway Co. to resume service of two daily passenger trains running across Southern Indiana from St. Louis to Louisville by Monday. The Commission said the road stopped the trains July 27 without permise sion.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Complete the following from Aesop's Fables, “The mountain labored and brought forth a —.” 2—How many Justices comprise the Supreme .Court of the United States? 3—The air in a room 60x30x15 feet weighs more than a ton; true or false? 4—What book describes the “Slough of Despond”? 5—Name the author of the novel “Three Weeks.” 6—A child's white robe at baptism is called a ch——m? 7—What does P. L. & R, on mail matter mean? 8—What is a macabre dance?

Answers

1—Mouse. 2—Nine. 2~True. 4—Bunyan’s “Pilgrim's Progress,” 5—Elinor Glyn, 6—Chrisom. 7—Postal Laws and Regulations, 8—A dance of death,

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