Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1941 — Page 9
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 194i
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Hoosier Vagabond
LINCOLN, Neb., Aug 9.—The state capitol building of Nebraska is pretty famous, so I decided to take a regular tourists’ gander at it. As I was walking up the steps in the middle of an extremely hot afternoon, an old fellow on his way down stopped and warned me against being out in the sun without a hat. “I was sun-struck twice,” he said. "Once when I was a young feller shockin® oats, and once when we was building this capitol. Even now, in August, I get dizzy walking down the street.” The man looked mild and fatherly. and I figured he was retired and probably a great pillar in his church. We talked on a while about sunstrokes, and then I said: “What does that statue on top of the capitol tower represent?” The old fellow looked up, and then looked hard at me, and said almost viciously: “Why that blankety-blank. a man sowing grain. But just look at it. He's barefooted. His pants are rolled up. He's got a rag tied around his head. He's got the wrong foot forward for a sower. And in his hand where he should have grain it looks like he’s got a cannon ball. Nobody in Nebraska ever looked like that. It's just like everything else about this blankety-blank building. It's wrong.”
He Gets the Lowdown
And with that running start, the stranger talked continuously for 20 minutes, telling me what was the matter with Nebraska's beautiful new capitol. For one thing, it was about to fall dewn. They used cracked marble and third-grade stone. The politicians Stole money by the millions. It cost 20 million dollars, and 153 million of it was stole,” the old man said. And as I went on he called to me, “And if you don't believe it, that ain't the half of it.” After talking to the old gentleman, I put on my
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By Ernie Pyle
tin hat and went gingerly into the capitol, fully convinced that it would fall down in a heap any moment. But it won't. For I gave it a very careful one-two-three with my patented electronic-ray device, and as an expert layman I can now pronounce the state capitol steadfast and invulnerable until Nebraska freezes over in August. And that is going to be a long time, the way it feels today. This ultra-capitol building was started in 1922 and finished in 1933. It is a two-story stone building sbout a block square, with an immense skyscraper shaft rising from the center. The whole effect is startling and beautiful. The boy who takes sightseers around says it cost $10.000,000—and he doesn’t say how much “was stole.” But even if nobody stole a dime, it does seem to me that somebody was very generous with the farmers’ money. For the capitol reeks with Italian marble and black walnut timber and gold-leaf decorations, and with wall tapestries that cost $6000 apiece and symbolize such things as the spirit of vegetation.
The Guide's Version
At the end of the tolir the visitors sit in the somber Supreme Court chamber and the guide asks if there are anv questions. So I said, “What about that guy on top of the dome? What's he supposed to be?” And the guide said, “He is a sower.” But the guide must have heard all the stories, for he went on, “The statue is much criticized, on the grounds that it isn’t dressed like a Nebraska farmer, that it has the wrong foot forward, and so forth. “But actually, it is not supposed to be a Nebraska farmer. It isn't a farmer of yesterday. It isn't a farmer of todav. It isn't a farmer of tomorrow, It is simply a symbol of the spirit of sowing.” It would be well for you to come see the Nebraska capitol the next time youre through. Out here they say there's nothing like it in America except the capitol of Louisiana, which they say is just a cheap imitation, Mind you, that's what they say. I didn't say it.
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)
PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Fred Bates Johnson, successful lawyer, utilities expert, World War veteran, a former reporter who's never gotten over his love for newspaper work, and one of the most quietly influential men in town. Fred Johnson has reached the point where he can afford to do pretty much what he pleases, and does. He gets down to his offices in the Fletcher Trust Building (he's been there a quarter century) by 8 a. m most every day he’s in town, and gets a lot of work done in a hurry. But he doesn't let business interfere too seriously with his hobbies, of which Brown County overshadows all the rest. He's been in love with its hills and forests for 40 vears and has done a lot to develop it into a pleasant retreat. Bit by bit, he has added to his holdings there until today he has more than 2500 acres. Eighteen hundred acres form a forest preserve. Most people would take him to be about 50. ActualIv, he’s 61, and proud that he neither looks nor acts it. Slight of build, he stands about 5 feet 7; weighs around 135; has thinnish, blond hair; a high forehead, intensely blue eves and a soft voice. His spectacles .are silver rimmed. He wears nice clothing which he usually buys at bargain sales—his ties and socks at half price. Down in Brown County, he relaxes in his most disreputable togs, and might easily be mistaken for the hired man.
First Journalism School
Born in Kokomo and reared in Richmond he was graduated from I. U., spent two years as the Carlisle, Ind, school principal, three years on Indianapolis newspapers. Then, in 1907, he returned to I. U. for three years to study law and to found the country's first journalism school. He interrupted his law practice here to serve with Pershing on the Mexican border and again, in the World War, at Camp Shelby. He rose from private to major, and wound up the war as assistant to the judge advocate general of the Army, at Washington. Since the war, he has served as a Democratic member of the State's Public Service Commission and as a school commissioner. For several years, he wrote articles for the New Republic. Right now he's on his second vear as president of the Children’s Museum, another of his hobbies. Basically an idealist, Fred's pretty practical in
Aviation
IN THE OLD DAYS of sea warfare where seapower. a naval commander always faced the critical task of disposing his forces so as to face the enemy's strongest groups with his own strength—with all the chances of a fatal slip-up consequent upon erroneous scouting information or no information at all. Numerous indeed are the instances where entire battle fleets have eluded ons another. In ‘he Spanish-American War our greatest naval concern, even against a tremendously inferior enemy naval force, was to locate the main body of the enemy. In the Battle of Jutland the main German naval forces eluded the numerically superior British High a Seas Fleet. Admiral Jellicoe is on record with “one scout aloft could have supplied information to have changed our battle plans.” With a network of searching and scouting planes, it is almost a certainty that no major force of enemy warships can escape detection. Every peacetime naval maneuver has demonstrated this.
No Bombers Wasted
Now for “after” the scouting, and using airpower as an offensive weapon. Right now we are building hundreds of planes (and sending too many of them abroad while our voung pilots await actual flight experience), which are good for operating 1000 miles off our coasts. That 1000 miles becomes something besides that many miles. A sea fleet (invasion forces) traveling only as fast as its slowest ships (sav 20 miles per hour) would require 30 hours to traverse it. Bombing planes cruising at a modest 200 miles per hour would need only five hours. In 50 hours one bombing
Raymond Clapper is en route to London. Hi
My Day
HYDE PARK, Friday —I took my annual pilgrimage last night to Stockbridge, Mass, to hear the fourth program of the Berkshire Music Festival. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Mozart's death; excerpts were played from his requiem mass, * His symphony in G minor was also played and, after the intermission, the Beethoven “Eroica.” The chorus of the Berkshire Musical Association, of which Horace Hunt is the conductor, sang the mass and the whole program was a most finished and beautiful performance. I enjoyed every minute of it. We had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Sergei Koussevitsky for a few minutes during the intermission. My admiration for his work increases every year. On ihe wav up, we met Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. and her daughter, Joan, and had a picnic supper together in a field on a dirt road leading off from Route 7, before we reached Great Barrington. One of the boys with us carelessly put his hand on the wire which surrounded part of the field we were in and discovered that it was charged. I suppose it was
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business. He stresses character rather than collateral. but doesn’t mind the latter a bit. He's been highly successful as a corporation and utilities lawyer. Politically, he's a sensible liberal; believes all extremes are bad.
Goes to Bed Early
A master at repartee, he's provocative. cryptic an extremely candid in his conversation. Youre seldom in doubt long whether he likes vou. He has little use for persons who don't know their business. none at all for stuffed shirts. Being on time is a fetish with him. Fred loves to hunt rabbit and quail on his preserve; fishes. some at his summer home on Crystal Lake, Mich.; likes to swim and dance, and plays a pretty good game of tennis, good enough to beat his daughter and three sons. When 9 p. m. rolls around. he's usually ready for bed, and like as not will suggest that his guests depart and do the same. He has a fine library and is proud of his collection of Joseph Conrad first editions. For ordinary motoring, he drives his 1940 Chevrolet. But when he goes to the lake, he gets out his luxurious old Marmon touring car—1930 model. Robin's egg blue, the 10-year-old car is as long as a freight car and still is in fine shape. It was the finest thing Marmon made back in the davs Fred was the company’s general counsel.
Oh, Those Steaks
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Over week-ends, he likes to relax at his Brown | 3%
County cabin, digging in his garden where he raises
all sorts of flowers and vegetables. or tramping the |:: hills. The cabins more than a century old and looks|: Inside, it's thoroughly modern, |:: from its basement oil furnace to its second floor bath- |:
it on the outside.
room. He likes to buy up old log cabins, number the
logs, move them to his land and rebuild them for 5
reng or saie to his friends. Fred cares very little about going out socially, but enjoys entertaining friends at his home. 4115 N. Illinois St., or at the cabin. His wife never knows whether he’s bringing one or a dczen guests for diner. He enjoys outdoor meals, fancies himself as a cook and is interested in new recipes.
His favorite dish is steak. He takes sirloins three ample supply of raw materials for Small bullets with which everybody
or four inches thick, seals them with puts them in a grill and cooks them hal each side in an outdoor oven. Fred insists that he could co and make them delectable. he couldn't, either,
a salt paste, f an hour on
By Maj. Al Williams
plane could therefore make five round trips—dumping great bombs on the target warships, With the aid of the scouting screen there would be no chance of wasting bombers by sending them anywhere else than to the Spot occupied by the enemy fleet. You couldn't send these same bombers safely against land bases protected by shore-based, single-seater fighter squadrons. But you could send them against a fleet where the sirgle-seaters available would be only those working irom ‘the enemy's aircraft carriers,
Why Oceans Are Wider
But, it must be remembered, naval strategy religiously ordains that it is upon the aircraft carriers that the first attack must be launched. That is the schedule of strategy and tactics in all peacetime naval maneuvers. And the bombers snd long-range flying boats have always nailed the carriers before the single-seater defense could get at them. Note the British aircraft carriers in our drydocks, and the pummelling they have taken from bombers. With the aircraft carriers cared for, the enemy warships would have only anti-aircraft guns left for defense against the bombers. And they have been unable to ward off determined air attack. There's the picture of why the oceans are wider
today in a military sense where airpower is used |
against seapower attack (invasion). And no naval force has been able to stand up under such attack in this war to date. Sporadic air raids in the form of punitive bombings are not included in this discussion, because they can in no sense be considered an invading force—especially from bases thousands of miles away. Therefore, the thousand miles measured out from our Atlantic Coast (employing airpower for defense) is the military equivalent of many thousands of miles in the days when seapower ruled the seas.
s column will resume in about two weeks.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
intended to keep erring cattle w the fence, within proper limits. We picked up everything very carefully like good Boy Scouts, not even leaving chicken bones about, for fear the dogs or cattle might find them. We were very grateful for the nice, grassy spot under the shade of a tree and the view of the gently flowing stream below us. I have just been told that there is a great shortage of young women entering the nursing schools. At this time nurses are much needed, and it has always seemed to me that it is good training for any girl to take, whether she means to take up nursing as a profession or not. At the present time, the girls in training release nurses already trained, for duty where they are needed. If later, these girls marry, or have no reason for earning a living by nursing, but wish to serve in some way in their community, there are innumerable opportunities to use the knowledge they have acquired in the service of a great many people, Therefore, if any voung woman feels she wishes to do something for her country in the present crisis, and is willing to work hard, put in long hours, and sacrifice her leisure during these years of stress, I can think of few things as useful as taking a course in one of our good training schools for nurses,
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| Here's Tip on How to Save Gas and Still Drive
When the lights flash . . . give it just enough gas to start,
‘The Defense Machine Rolls—No. 5
Strange Igloos
Munitions, Coast to Coast
Will Store
‘Defense Is Making Jobs for Thousands of Women;
Sewing Machines Are Playing Vital Role.
This is the fifth in a series of noles growing out of an inspection of key defense industries.
By EDWARD T. LEECH
It was above 100 degrees when we visited the shell-loading plant | and the sqokeless-
{at Ravenna, O., { Charlestown, Ind.
| Yet an Eskimo should have been right
hundreds of igloos.
HUGE POST-WAR RELIEF PLANNED
Berle Hints
at European Aid to Include Foods, | Raw Materials. |
{ WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P) | The United States drawing up| (plans for the greatest relief expe- | dition of historv—to feed and restore to health the undernourished | hordes of Eu-| rope—after the] war is over, it was learned to-| day | Plans include| establishment of!
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foods and other|
problems and a| longer range plan to assure freedom ofl trade and an
Mr. Berle
{all nations. | The long-range plan to be |based on international trade agree-
is
ok shoe soles that way {ments and, possibly, creation of a | them—but the projectile isn't fastAnd we wouldn't bet that huge international bank to finance €l
international transactions. A ‘“‘test-|
{the Inter-American Bank for the | Western Hemisphere Republics [ A hint of the post-war plan was| {given by Assistant Secretary of |State Adolph A. Berle Jr. at a relception by the exiled Grand Duch-| {ess Charlotte of Luxembourg last night at the Luxembourg Legation. | “1t is the plan of this Govern-| ment, when the first tide of bare barity shall be rolled back.” he said, “to turn the full measure of | its economic strength to bringing | help, relief and sustenance to the] tens of millions of families in many countries who are now hungry, | cold, homeless, sick, separated ou] in prison by the ruthless act of a group of tyrants.”
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN T0 SPONSOR RALLY
Governor Schricker and Fire Chief Fred Kennedy will be the principal speakers at a meeting sponsored by the Wayne Township Volunteer Fire Department Wednes- | day evening in the Ben Davis 'High School. | Residents will discuss methods; 'of raising funds for the depart-| iment. A fireworks display will be (given in honor of Governor 'Schricker. | The Township department fis composed of 350 volunteers, 300 of} [whom have had training by the] | Indianapolis Fire Department. Richard McKinney is the Township] fire chief | HALF OF SELECTEES HALF OF SELEC | MAY WIN PROMOTION, WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P).—| The Army figured today that 58 per | per cent of all enlisted men, in-| cluding selectees, have opportunity of advancing to commissioned and non-commissioned ranks their first year’s training. Under a new plan, which increases the number of enlisted men to re-| ceive officer training from 10,400 to 14,280 annually, a candidate becomes eligible for officer training after his first six months in the Army. If
selected, he spends three months in one of the candidate schools.
EX-RESIDENTS OF 6
Friends of six counties will meet at 2 p. m. Sunday, Aug. 17, in | Brookside Park when former resi- | |dents of Clark, Jackson, Jefferson, | Jennings, Scott and Washington | Counties hold their 38th annual re- { union. J. Claude Thompson is president {of the reunion. H. F. McColgin is | | secretary.
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[guns and the fleet.
a huge store of | Charlestown.
relief articles to Prohibiting the use of silk for nonmeet immediate military items, it was obvious what
during |!
COUNTIES TO MEET!|
powder and bag-loading plants at
at home. For there were
An “igloo” is a building in which you /store powder or loaded shells |
at a munitions plant or armaments depot. At the Ravenna shell-loading plant and the Charlestown powder | plant the igloos are about 20 to 24 feet wide and 60*'to 80 feet long. | They are and have ered with
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semi-circular roofs
about two feet of eartl
set deep in the ground |
The American Automobile Asso-
Then has
hour. Don't race it in low. when your speedometer reached about 20 in second, shift to high. The most economical open road speed is just under 40 miles an hour. Anything over that is wasteful.
VOTE MACHINE
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growing on the roofs and even an | airplane can't spot them.
Each igloo holds several carloads of shells or powder. Each is about
a city block from its neighbor, They |
have only one door. A railroad | New Ones: 50 Sufficient,
runs along each row, for
loading and unloading. Why Ban on Silk? In these strange buildings America's growing wealth of shells and explosives will be stored from coast to coast—for the small guns, the field artillery, the coast-defense
track speedy
I should have wired mv wife to buy silk stockings after our. party visited the bag-loading plant at For even though the OPM hadn't then issued its order
was about to happen. By way of explanation, projectiles are fired from cannon in various ways. In some cases, the projectile | fits in a brass shell, just like the|
is familiar. In some cases bags of powder are inserted in the shell and the projectile is placed on top of
cov Within a few weeks grass will be NEEDS ARGUED
'G. 0. P. Wants
Ettinger Says.
the vote.
mission, wrote a letter Commissioners yesterday. Urges Replacements to
126 new machines
before the 1942 election.
new machines
1ed in the shell. But in the case of larger guns. the |
: ‘ ‘AEE ; i cp | SAI. tube” bank now is being formed as powder is loaded in bags and these County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger,
| Democrat, who is the chief executive},
bags are inserted directly in the gun | barrel, behing the projectile. Sewing Machines Vital
There is a series of bags, the first | of which contains black powder. | That is the primer—it's what makes the other bags explode. The others] contain smokeless powder. The bags | are variously colored, to denote dif- | ferent types of powder. and are] fastened to each other with cords.
and so are the cords which connect | them. For silk burns almost in-| stantly and leaves practically no| lint in the gun. Experiments are being made with cotton, rayon and other textiles—but thus far silk does | the job best. At the Charlestown plant there will be 1000 sewing machines, with three shifts of women making silk bags to be filled with powder. With thousands of women sewing silk powder bags, and with silk used exclusively for parachutes, it's easy to figure why American women will soon be wearing other—or no—kinds| of stockings. Most of the workers in defense plants are raw recruits drawn from the neighborhood. The Army or the private contractors are training
need for
vote totals correctly,” Mr. Smith
officer of all elections, said “we don't need more than 50 new next vear.” “I'm opposed to burdening the county with a big expense all at Once,” he said. “New should be bought on a replacement schedule over a period of years." Favors Bond Issue Mz.
issue to purchase the machines immediately. Jounty inv icated their tion.
Comm\ssionei's have not
stand on ‘he ques-
proceeding with plans to increase
County from 341 to 365. The increase is necessary, election officials said, because of the increased population in the last few years.
HOLD 18TH REUNION The Barnard-Curry family will hold its 18th annual reunion tomorrow at Brookside Park. A basket dinner will be served and a family get-together is scheduled for the afternoon. The officers who
them. And they say this is a very successful system.
NEXT—Conclusion.
will preside are Mrs. Amy Alford, president; Homer Wilkins, vice president, and Paul Van Sickle, secretary treasurer.
HOLD EVERYTHING
GENERAL HEAD - QUARTERS
COPR._1941 BY NEA SERVICE INC. YT MR J
“It’s a petition, sir—about 200 of us would like reveille changed to 8:30!” 4
ciation recommends a shift from | low to second at a few miles an |
¢ 100 to 200
to County
He recommended the purchase of replace old ones and probably 25 more to supply new precincts expected to be added “Last year's election proved the because | many of the old ones failed to record
machines | machines
> Smith recommended that the These bags are all made of silk,| Commissioners seek a $300,000 bond
Meanwhile, the Commissioners are
the number of precincts in Marion
“WHAT DID WE
007 WHY, WE.
When you see the red light ahead, start to stop gradually. Take your foot off the accelerator and brake to a slow stop. It
MET THE KING
‘That's What Three Vaca=
tioners from Indiana Are Telling Their Friends.
By EARL RICHERT Three gentlemen from Indiana hopped a plane for Havana on July 18, hoping to run into something in that tropical city to make them forget the office. They did. They were formally introduced to the exiled Rumanian monarch, King Carol, only 10 hours after they landed. Herbert Backer, John Efroymson and Harry Traugott checked in at the Hotel Nacional shortly after 11 a. m. They went out and looked over the town and that afternoon they went swimming in the hotel pool. There they met a Spanish girl
saves both brakes and gas.
SUGAR CREEK'S
FALL CONTINUES
‘State Warns Against Use Of Pumper to Give Lake Transfusion.
By EARL HOFF Sugar Creek is too weak itself {n (give any more “transfusions” to 'Spring Park Lake in Hancock County, cottage residents of the lake
and the New Palestine volunteer fire |
department were warned yesterday { In an investigation of the streams | low condition, Addison
resentative, learned that the New | Palestine fire pumper “several weeks ago” had labored two hours to pump water from the creek into the lake.
Lake residents couldn't remember Beavers said, |
| the exact date, Mr. (but it might have been as long azo las July 14 when the creek level fell three feet at Walnut Grove in Shel|by County.
Tomato Field Watered
Beavers said that Henry Haines, New Palestine volunteer |fire chief, who is a blacksmith, toid {him the pumper had been taken out {by George Stutsman, a member of the force, to pump water from the
An open political fight is in prog- lake and water a neighbor's tomato {ress over the proposed purchase of|field. [new voting machines. The use of the pumper was un-| The Republicans want 100 to 200 authorized, Mr. Haines said. oe : } aes new machines and the Democrats|fire chief said that several days] aried, opening the conversation, are holding out for only 50 new ones. |later Mr. Stutsman again took the | The theory back of the Repub-|pumper out licans’ demands is that antiquated) ‘“transfusion” that nearly dried up| machines are assigned to heavy Re-|the stream, publican precincts, thus slowing up
Enthused { “transfusion”
the raised
about had
way the
[they could install a pump to keep the level up. He told them this would be un- | fair to the persons who depended lon the stream for water supply and whose rights had been established
built. He warned them that such an act would be dangerous to the stream which already is suffering from lack of rainfall.
Protests to State
Alarmed at the sudden drop of stream, Hal Gray, owner of {Walnut Grove, recreation area. protested to the Conservation Depart(ment. He advanced the belief that {the drop was due to negligence on the part of Frey Garvey, owner of the Red Mill dam below Walnut Grove. Mr. Beavers investigated there and was told by Mr. Garvey that he would do everything possible to maintain the level of the stream which has b2en so low in the last two years he has been forced tc irstall a tractor motor to run the mill. Mr. Beavers said that Mr. Garver this week disconnected a turbine that used to run the mill by water power. Previous to that time, the tractor motor had turned the turbine as well as the other mill machinery, Mr. Beavers said that unless heavy rains fell soon, Sugar Creek will be in serious danger.
2 FLIERS JAILED IN TURNIP PATCH DEATH
PENSACOLA, Fla., Aug. 9 (U. P). |—Two naval ensigns, dismissed from the service after a court martial which resulted in their conviction of charges of decapitating an Alabama woman with the wing of their naval plane, today were en route to the naval prison at Portsmouth, N. H. The verdict of the court martial, which had been kept secret until approved by both Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and President Roosevelt, was that the men be
A. C. Read, station commandant here. Paul C. Brown, of Chicago, pilot of the plane, was given two years in the naval prison, and Joseph C. Thompson, of Healdsburg, Cal., was sentenced to one year, They were accused of decapitating Mrs. Robert Phillips, of Robertsdale, Ala., mother of six children, when they dove their plane on a turnip patch in which she was working on March 25.
GERMAN PROPAGANDA
ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 8 (U. P.). — (delayed) — Diplomatic sources |said today that Dr. Karl Bomer, | press chief of the German Propa[ganda Ministry, had been sent to a | concentration camp, charged with | treason. | The charges were said to have included allegations that he hinted |to foreign correspondents when Germany was about to start its campaign against Russia,
Beavers, | Conservation Department legal rep-
The and gave the lake a|
the level Robert S. Smith, Republican mem- | 0f the lake, several of the residents
per of the County Election Com-|0f the lake asked Mr, Beavers if 3 permanent
long before the artificial lake was]!
sentenced to hard labor and dis-| missed, it was announced by Capt. |
AID REPORTED JAILED
named Dorita. The Audience Arranged
That evening they ran . into | Dorita again on the hotel terrace, She introduced them to her boy friend, George Golidman, a United | Press correspondent in Havana, who {in turn, introduced them to his father, the Swedish minister to | Cuba | The elder Golidman remarked (that he had an audience with King in a few minutes and, with
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| Carol [true Old World courtesy, he asked \the Hoosiers if they would like to meet the king. “You bet,” they chorused. Promptly at 9 p. m. they went pstairs. (King Carol was also (staying at the Nacional). | They were ushered into one of the |king’s three elaborate suites and the Swedish minister said to the king: Three Introduced
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“Your majesty, I want to intrne [duce to you three gentlemen from Indiana.” The king, wearing a dark blue [coat and white trousers, advanced land shook hands with all three, | gripping their fingers and not their entire hands as they expected. “It's a pleasure, Your Majesty,” Mr. Backer said. ‘How do you do, your honor,” Mr, | Efroymson grinned, | Mr. Traugott, according to his | colleague, couldn't say anything. (They looked around for the |King's famous mistress, Madame |Lupescu, but she was nowhere in | sight.) “My mother was in Indianapolis |a few years ago,” King Carol ree
King Likes Fast Cars
Yes, I remember when Queen Marie visited the city,” Mr. Backer replied. “We're quite proud of our [town and we've got the Speedway there, too, you know.” “Yes, 1. know,” sajd the King, “I've always been interested in fast automobiles.” Just then the King's secretary {interrupted with the word, ‘‘gentle« (men.” They took this as a hint to leave. Mr. Backer was worried about (how. to leave. He had read some(where that you weren't supposed to turn your back on a king. But the door was several feet away and [there was a table behind them.
| ‘We Met the King’
| He decided that the king wouldn't expect, them to know anything about such matters anyhow so he just said ‘“‘goodby,” turned around land walked out. The others fole [lowed. | They have had a lot of fun tell< {ing their friends back home about ‘meeting the king. When someona pops that time-worn question, “What did you do on your vaca=[ion they startle their questioner | by remarking casually, “On, we {met King Carol down in Havana.” | Mr. Backer, a field man for the {State Gross Income Tax Depart= ment, lives at 260 Hampton Drive: Mr. Efroymson, an official at Efroymson’'s Department Store, lives at 2809 N. Pennsylvania St., and Mr. Traugott, an official at the Fair Store, lives at 4306 Central Ave. King Carol and Madame Lupescu left Havana for Mexico the next night after the Hoosiers met them. “You can't tell me,” Mr. Backer says, “that the old saying that any thing can happen in the tropics isn’t true.”
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1=Name the capital of New Zeae land. 12—With what sport was Tyrus Raye | mond Cobb associated as a player? |3—When will the Twenty-first Cene | tury begin? {4—What Biblical character symbole izes a liar? {5—An alloy of copper and zinc is | named ? |6—Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, was the daughter of Neptune, Jupiter or Mercury? |T—What was the name of the ship sunk by collision with an iceberg in 1912 in which disaster more than 1000 persons were drowned? 8—What is the postage rate on lete ters to South American coune tries?
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Answers
1—Wellington. 2—Baseball. 3—Jan. 1, 2001. 4—Ananias. 5—Brass. 6—Jupiter. T—Titanic. 8—Three cents an ounce or fraction of an ounce.
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