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The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Aug. 13—This is a column about a plain American family. They are neither freaks nor geniuses. But they are remarkabie. For one thing, because there are so many of them. And for another, because they are all so nice. We are speaking of Albert and Kathleen McGinn and their 10 children—at least they say there are 10, although personally I lost count. Albert McGinn is a whitehaired, quiet-voiced Council Bluffs’ lawyer. When the MeGinns were married 20 years ago. they moved into an eight-room house up on the hill in Council Bluffs. People said, “What do you want with such a big house, just you two ” I dont know whethér they had their minds already made up, but at any rate the house didn’t stay empty long. They began to fill it with McGinns. Teday it runneth over with McGinns, and they'll either have to stop or get an auditorium. Of course lots of people raise big families, so what? So Mrs. McGinn, not being busy enough with 10 children, also studied law. Six years ago she was admitted to the bar. Today she is in partnership with her husband, and shares an office with him. I went to see Mrs. McGinn at her office. She is f friendly, and vivacious woman, and talks so fast you can hardly keep up with her. Naturally we got to talking about the children, and I said I'd like to drive up .to the house and see them.

Assembling a Quorum

So Mrs. McGinn went to the phone and called home and I heard her say, “Mary Margaret, how many of you are there?” The answer was disappointing—only three or four were at home. But Mrs. McGinn ordered a couple of scouting parties sent out, and said that with luck we could probably dig up a quorum. And sure enough, shortly after we got there children began arriving from all directions. It would delight you to go into that McGinn house and look around at the McGinn progeny. The oldest is 18, the youngest 4. They're all geod-looking: their faces are bright and their eves dance: none of them hide. or sit bashfully in corners. My memory fs pretty good. but I can't remember the names and ages of 10 children on such short acquaintance. So they got me a pencil and paper. "Let's start at the top.” I said. “Who is the oldest

By Ernie Pyle

one,” So here they are, five boys and five girls, going

down the ladder:

1. Katherine Ann. She is 18, out of school and

has a clerical job.

“Is Ann spelled with an ‘e’ on the end?” I asked. “It is not,” came in a burst “It is too.” “You better not let Ann hear you

“Yes,” said Mrs. McGinn. from three younger McGinns at once. said Mrs. MeGinn. spell it with an ‘e’.” they said.

2. Mary Margaret. She is 17, just graduated from

high school, and is as pretty as can be. 3. Daniel Albert. He is 15, and being the oldest boy is sort of the family keeper. 4 John Christopher. He is 14, and is under-

studying Dan as the managing director of the family

affairs. Already he has fallen heir to the weekly neighborhood newspaper which Dan started. Nobody uses “Christopher.” but they tease him by calling him Columbus. 5. Edmond. He is 13, and was out in the country visiting relatives. All the kids like to visit their cousins on the farm. Mrs. McGinn says Edmond is the wit of the family. He must be good, for the others are far from slow.

Mother Stands Corrected

6. Joseph. He is 11." I asked when Joseph's birthday was. Mrs. McGinn said “March 11.” And from all corners of the room came shouts which made a composite of something like this. “It is not. It’s March 1. No, it's March 10. No that's John's. Joseph is 11 years old, but his birthday is March 1, because John's is March 10, and nobody's is March i.” So Mrs. McGinn just laughed and conceded. 7. Elizabeth, the question-asker. She is 10, and she and I have something wonderful in common. Qur birthaays are the same day. Elizabeth unquestionably is destined to be President. 6. Peter. He is 8, and was born on Dec. 26. They kid him by saying he was just something Santa Claus had left over. 9. Monica. She is 7, and isn't Monica a pretty name? Mrs. McGinn had always wanted a Monica because that’s a Saint's Day, and also because “Monica McGinn” is so euphonious. 10. Rose Anne. She is 4. and the baby. She was born July 26, which is St. Anne's Day. She does spell her name with an ‘e’; that’s where Mrs. MeGinn got mixed up. Rose Anne is'honey-blond and so pretty and vixen-eved you'd like to grab her and spank her. She stands and snickers at you all the time.

So there they are. The Marvelous MeGinns, To-

morrow I'll tell you how this numerous family lives, |

and what they do to kill time,

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

PAUL V. McNUTT, who used to run things in Indiana. isn't any too happy over the way things have been going lately. In the first place, as everybody knows, control has shifted to Governor Schricker and Senator VanNuys, neither of whom is a McNutt admirer. By now, the last of the McNutt leaders have been pried out of important State House jobs. In Washington, theyre commenting on the significance behind the big build-up being given another Hoosier — Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. All of which is a sorry state of affairs for one who still harbors a burning desire to move into the White House, and Pauls friends have been advising him to do something to regain his hold on his home state. So, by some coincidence, McNutt is to highlight the speaking program at the Legion State convention at South Bend. starting Saturday. We hear he is planing to use the occasion to throw a big love feast. inviting everyone of political consequence. Hes even going so far, they say, as to invite his one-time bosom friend and more recent bitter enemy. Pleas Greenlee. Pleas, as we get it is going to attend because “I never pass up a free meal”

Middle East Perils

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—A British counter-move in the Middle East is expecteq if the Nazis continue their gdvance in the Russian Ukraine. Iran and Afghanistan are the decisive areas beRause they dominate Russias flank, and because they separate the Russian and British allies. As such they are the center of German pressure and British counter-pressure. At the moment the Nazis have the edge. For three weeks the British, backeq by the Russians, have increased their demands for expulsion of Nazi fifth columnists from Iran and Afghanistan, but with little success. Several thousand German agents, including high Nazi intelligence officers, RE 3 .continue to operate in the two 2 A ; countries. Arrest of a few Iranian Army officers and dance girls, in connection with a planned Nazi putsch, is considered more a gesture than effective action. Meanwhile the situation grows increasingly acute. What the British have been doing, in effect, is to git by while the Nazis organize for a large-scale Arab revolt against British domination of the Near and Middle East. timed to occur when it will be most helpful to 2 German attack on the Caucasus.

The British Hesitate

As a result there is a good deal of dissatisfaction in England and among British officials in Cairo over London's failure to make a military move. It is pointed out that there has been plenty of time since the end of the Syrian campaign to complete military preparations. But the London Foreign Office has been anxious swing Iran and Afghanistan with diplomatic pressure if possible, leaving military action as a last resort. This caution is based on unwillingness to gamble with Turkish friendship, or to heap more fuel on the dangerous fires of Arab nationalism.

That Hideout

AT LAST, the mystery of where Mayor Sullivan hides out over the week-end has been solved. The Mayor confessed to reporters that “to get away from that infernal phone,” he has been driving over to Crawfordsville and relaxing by just loafing on the campus. He rents a hotel room in Crawfordsville Saturday night and continues his loafing Sunday. By afternoon, he’s feeling fine and comes back home. Now that the cat's out of the bag, he'll probably have to cross Crawfordsville off his list to prevent the campus from being overrun by job seekers, etc. “But,” he smiled, “I've got several other good hideouts I can go to.”

Then and Now

LESS THAN a year ago, 50,000—or was it 100.000 —pairs of eves were fixed admiringly on Wendell Willkie, the candidate, as he spoke from English’s balcony on Monument Circle. Yesterday, Mr. Willkie returned to the Circle, and this time things were different, we're told. Wearing a dark gray suit and sailor straw hat, he was able to stroll around the Circle shortly before 5 p. m. virtually without being recognized. Four school girls stopped him in front of the Circle Theater and asked for his autograph. Smilingly, he granted the request. then resumed his quiet meandering around the Circle. Times do change, don't they?

By Ludwell Denny

Turkish sentiment is suspicious of any British move infringing the “independence” of Iran and Afghanistan, which would leave Turkey virtually the only Middle Eastern country outside London control,

Only with the greatest difficulty has London kept Ankara from succumbing completely to Nazi pressure. If Turkey should go over to Berlin, even to the extent of allowing free passage of Nazi troops, the entire British and Russian positions would be jeopardized. As for the Arab nationalist movement, Britain has good reason to step lightly. Britain is able to maintain control of Iraq, since the belated overthrow of the pro-Hitler gcvernment there, only by continuation of martial law and troop concentrations. And London has not yet recovered from the cold reception which Syrians gave the British-Free French “armies of liberation.”

Military Move Likely

Despite these and other hazards, if non-military pressure fails to produce “co-operation” from the governments of Iran and Afghanistan the British are expected to use force in the near future. For Nazi success in those two countries would enable Hitler to use his famous pincers play against the Caucasus, with its Russian oil fields; and at the same time would bring him to the gates of India on the East and Suez on the est. The moment Germany attacked Russia, when public attention was centered on the new European front, Prime Minister Churchill warned of the threat to India. Ever since that day the London Government has seen the Nazi advance across the Russian steppes as an approach to its Eastern Empire. Of the two follow-up moves if Hitler gets European Russia. invasion of England this fall seems less probable than continuation of the Nazi march southeast. The former would require complete reorganization of the German armies and transfer of aviation supply lines from East to West, consuming several weeks at best. The latter would be merely an extension of the Russiar campaign.

Raymond Clapper is en route to London. His column will resume in about two weeks.

My Day

. HYDE PARK, Tuesday.—Emilio Delboy, who is 8 feature writer for some Peruvian newspaper, came with my cousin, Monroe Robinson, to lunch yesterday and was a delightful guest. He kept assuring me . fat he understood all that was said, but that his own English was so limited that he could not express his appreciation of the opportunity to spend these few hours with us. I kept assuring him that if I found myself with a . group of Spanish-speaking people, I would have been far less articulate than he was and not as understanding. When I am given plenty of time, I can. read simple Spanish, but I cannot say one sentence. After lunch, I took three gen- : ~ tlemen, W. Colston Leigh, Mr. Rob4 inson and Mr. Delboy over to see the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, and they were very much interested in the various collections. Monday being the day when the library is closed, I felt very guilty when I looked up to see a group of girls from the Dominican Fathers Camp, gazing at me through the windows as we walked about. A little later I went out and sat in the car, waited for the others and read my newspaper. All the girls gathered around me and took photo-, graphs and just gazed ab ma while I tried to find out

By Eleanor Roosevelt

if there was any special thing they wanted to talk about. There did not seem to be, and so they started off on their hike back to camp. We returned to the cottage in time for a short chat before our guests had to leave on the afternoon train. Then a young man came to see me and brought me a copy of a song which he had written. He had spent some time in various veterans’ hospitals and was concerned in this emergency to do what he could with other American veterans to help some of the English wounded. He hoped his song would contribute to the support of St. Dunstans, which is a very remarkable school for the blind. This morning we left fairly early, crossed the river at Highland, and traveled up on its west side to the Pioneer Youth Camp. I have long been interested in this camp, which is supported partly by contributions from union labor organizations, partly by youngsters who can pay, and partly by private individuals who give contributions. The camp has been run on interesting lines. The attempt is always made to let the children develop themselves through working out projects and interests of their own. Many of them come from the city and have never had any contact with country life. To see a cow milked, to set a hen and see the chicks hatch out, to find out about a water system, or make a topographical map of their own surroundJES 8 i EOY aew EXATiStee ard a very Sari): ong

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LETUS GO TO WAR-OR LET US GO HOME

(That Is the Frame of Mind Of Trainees, Reporter Says After Tour.

Impressions gathered during a tour of 11 Army and Navy camps by a veteran Cleveland Press reporter are summed up in the | following article.

By THEODORE ANDRICA

Times Special Writer CLEVELAND, Aug. 13.—My first impression after a two-month tour of training camps concerns the lack | of conviction on the part of the average soldier as to the reason for his stay in the Army. To be sure, the boys are patriotic

in a general sense. But hundreds told me: “Let us go to war or let us go { home.” | My

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second observation is that, |

jas far as physical comfort is con- | &™

‘cerned, the boys are well taken | care of. Whether they live in tents or barracks, the places are kept clean. The food is ample and good.

If regulations would permit, a {substantial number of officers, perhaps a majority, would rather {eat in the enlisted men’s mess halls than in the officers’ mess.

Here and there some company mess halls are not so good. Th quality of cooking depends on the mess sergeant, and the first cook. But I found the boys not lacking in courage to report to their officers if the food was under par, Faults are promptly remedied. Only first-grade meats and vegetables are served.

Too Little Recreation As to the clothing, I was amazed

One More Inch and There'll

Although the United States War Department has requested the widening of a road between St. Louis, Mo., and nearby Jefferson Barracks, Mrs. Lena Bender (shown above) is sitting on her front lawn, a 12-gauge shotgun at her side, daring the road crew to just try to cut off any of the lawn. matum is: “Just one more inch of land and there will be trouble.”

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Be Trouble |At State House—

mum RY WEATHER BN BRINGS SPREAD

OF PARALYSIS

25 Persons Now Afflicted;

New Truck Tag Law To Be Enforced.

By EARL RICHERT

Infantile paralysis =— that dread companion of hot, cry weather—Is beginning to break out in Indiana again, although much less frequently than last summer. Twelve new cases were reported throughout the state last week, the largest number reported in any one week this year. During the same week last year, however, 41 cases were reported to the State Health Board. There are now 25 current cases of infantile paralysis in the state. Last year at this time there were about 70. Most Cases in North

Most of the persons afflicted with

| the disease live in areas in which

lit was quite common last summer,

Her ulti-

Sets Off

at the “issue” given each man. | From three pairs of shoes and a, pair of rubber boots to a razor, the soldier gets more personal equipment than he uses. In fact, many {boys told me they wished they had |less to carry. The so-called “vice situation” near Army camps is not as bad as {some people have feared. Army medical authorities say the number of venereal cases in army camps |i rapidly declining to a point way below that among civilians in the | same neighborhoods. The lack of recreation near Army camps, that is in the towns, or cities nearby, could be remedied. Morale officers are disappointed ‘that the U. S. O. campaign was for only $12,000,000 in the whole country. I believe the statements of |the officers when they said five | times that much would not be enough to do a good job.

Profiteering Noted

In this connection I may add my disappointment in the attitude of some of the “Army towns.” The “right people” try their best to treat the soldiers correctly, but the “right people” are not always at home,

and are not always in a majority. Quite a bit of profiteering is going on at the expense of the sol diers, and especially at the expénse of the officers. After these two months of con--stant association with soldiers I sincerely believe that the lack of conviction is the most serious hindrance to the Army’s morale. No serious-minded, responsible officer will deny that the Army is dangerously lacking in equipment. Few Army units have all their necessary equipment of arms, especially of the heavier kind.

Short on Big Guns

To give one example: While I was taking movies of certain armored units in one of the camps, the cap-

tain who was my guide asked me not to photograph certain vehicles because there were no guns in their turrets. “People may get the idea that we have no guns at all,” he said. In another instance I asked if it was possible to photograph the firing of a heavier gun than the 75millimeter. The officer in charge said, “If you will use your influence with the OPM, maybe we can get one and then we will fire it for you.” It must be understood, however, that our Army is not using 1861model arms. The latest and best models are coming into every branch of the service and in due time the Army's bigwigs hope to put on the field several fully equipped armies.

Criticize Strikers

If you advance the argument that the Army is not yet ready to go to any war for lack of equipment, the boys bitterly assail the strikers in defense industries “who are not satjsfied with $50 or $75 and more a week while we get $21 a month.” Soldiers who threatened to “go over the hill”—to desert—if kept longer than one year in the Army, invariably said they would not mind staying as long as necessary if the country were at war, or if they would get more equipment with which they “could do something else besides learning march formations.” Few of the soldiers ever talked about the international situation responsible for the establishment of the draft. They seldom talked of Hitler and what his victories mean to America. What they said was something like this: “We're bored. We want to do something, fight anybody and anything, but do something. Or let us go home.”

BUTLER OPENS NEW MEMORIAL LIBRARY

The circulation of books from the new Butler University Graydon Memorial Library will be started at the opening of the fall semester, library officials announced today. The library was established in honor of the late Miss Katherine Merrill Graydon, a member of the faculty. The library contains an

in Superior Court today.

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SPEEDWAY FILM IS FAIR FEATURE

112,000 See County Exhibits

In 2 Days; New

Record Set.

Motion pictures of the 500-mile Speedway race and the garage fire which preceded it will be a feature of the Marion County Fair program tonight at New Bethel. . Besides the judging of the rabbits and poultry, the visitors—who numbered 12,000 in the last two days—will be entertained by vaudeville and a concert by the Moral Community Band of Shelby County.

Plan Permanent Site

home arts were judged yesterday. The Franklin Township Band featured the entertainment. Meanwhile, Fair officials went ahead with plans to move the Fair next year to a permanent site a mile farther north at the Post Road and Troy Ave. Permanent buildings and a half-mile race track are included in the plans. Robert R. Fisher, president of the Marion County Fair Association, said the attendance for the first two days has surpassed attendance for the same period of any year in the Fair's history.

SOLDIER GRANDSCN OF ROCKEFELLER WEDS

CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (U. P).— Lieut. J. Rockefeller Prentice, 39, grandson of the late John D. Rockefeller, was married at Monteagle,

Tenn., Monday to Miss Abbie Cantrill of Chicago, an attache of Mr. Prentice’s law office said today. Mrs, Prentice, daughter of William W. Cantrill, Freeport, Ill, was employed as a receptionist by the law firm with which Mr. Prentice was associated. The bridegroom is serving with the 124th Field Artillery at Camp Forrest, Tenn.

AUTO KILLS UPSTATE MAN

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. Aug. 13 (U. P).—Victor Kocur, 58, East Chicago, was killed yesterday when struck by an automobile driven by Felix Zychowski, 33. Harvey, Ill.

Horticulture, potted flowers and!

Gold Found by Junk Dealers Battle in Court

Second-Hand Store Proprietor Files Suit to Determine Ownership of $4885 in Old Trunk.

A long and tedious legal battle over the ownership of $4885 worth of gold coins, found in the bottom of an old trunk last week, had begun

And by the time the smoke of the battle clears the gold prize probably will have shrunk considerably due to attorneys fees, court. costs, A suit to determine the ownership of the coins was brought by

Edward F. Crossen, proprietor of a second-hand store at 520 E. Vermont St. Mr. Crossen, in his suit, claimed ownership to the coins and asked the court to appoint a receiver for them pending final adjudication of the suit. The defendants named in the action were Charles F. Keller and Mack Winters, junk dealers, the | Fletcher Trust Co. and George B. Loy, U. S. Secret Service agent. The two junk deaiers found the gold coins in the bottom of an old trunk and turned them over to the Secret Service office for identification. The old trunk was part of some

he purchased at the Little Sisters of the Poor home and was being hauled by the junk dealers. However. Mr. Winters and Mr. Keller, the junk dealers, claimed that Mr. Crossen said they could have the trunk. Anyway, Mr. Crossen claims that even if he did give them the trunk, the contents belonged to him. Part of the gold, $2895 worth of it, was turned over to the Fletcher Trust Co. for safekeeping and Mr. Loy kept $1990 at his office for further identification. Judge Russell Ryan, in whose court the suit was filed, ordered the Fletcher Trust Co. and Mr. Loy to keep the coins intact until further action as to ownership.

LARRABEE DENIES ALUMINUM WASTE

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. '13.—Rep. William H. Larrabee (D. Ind.) today issued a statement refuting allegations made in several Indiana Republican newspapers that aluminum was being wasted here through its use for andirons in new Federal offices. The matter was called to Rep. Larrabee’s attention by Samuel L. Trabue, Rushville, former member of the Indiana Public Service Commission, The Indiana Congressman took the matter up with the Procurement Division of the Public Works Agency. After an investigation, the Division reported that no such aluminum andirons are being purchased by the Government. “It is with deepest regret that I find that there are persons in Indiana who would willingly endanger any activity in the national defense program for the mere pleasure of spreading false political rumors,”

Rep. Larrabee’s statement said.

HOLD EVERYTHING

extensive collection of English lit erature,

personal property Mr, Crossen said |

VOTING MACHINE PLEA IS SCORED

Ettinger and Schlosser Protest Proposal for 226 New Ones.

Two Democratic members of the Marion County Election Board today sent a letter to County Commissioners, formally protesting a proposal to buy 226 new voting machines. Last week Robert S. Smith, Republican member of the Riganion Board, advised the Commissioners that 226 new voting machines were needed to insure correct totals at the polls next year. He suggested a $300,000 bond issue to pay for them. County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger and Chalmer Schlosser, Democratic members of the board, said “the majority of the election commissioners are opposed toc the expenditure of such a sum in view of the national defense program.” They suggested that 35 new machines, costing about $50,000, would be enough to buy this year. Machines Antiquated

Twenty-five of the machines would be needed for the new precincts expected to be added to the

State Health Board officials said. It is most frequent in Northern Indiana, the area in which last summer nearly 100 cases were reported. Several cases are reported, however, in Central and Southern Indiana counties. There are two cure rent cases in Marion County. THe present paralysis outbreak began during the last full week of July when eight new cases were reported. Five cases were reported during the following week. 12 Cases Last Week

Of the 12 cases reported last week, Porter, Lake, Fulton and Cass Counties had one each. Clinton and St. Joseph Counties had two each, and four were in Stark County. Physicians do not know what causes infantile paralysis but it has been noted that it strikes most fre=quently during hot, dry periods. State Health Board officials are hopeful that since the outbreak this summer is less serious than last that it won't reach epidemic proportions. Rain and cooler weather would, they believe, bring about an immediate decline in the prevalency of the disease.

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Enforce New Tag Law

It is conceded generally that the new 1941 law providing for increased truck tag fees is unconstitutional because of a defect in the title, but the State intends to enforce it. “As far as we are concerned, that law is constitutional until the courts say otherwise,” comments Secretary of State James Tucker, who as head of the Motor Vehicle License Bureau, is charged with collecting the fees. Revenues from the law, which is scheduled to go into effect next January, will be around $1,200,000 annually, it is estimated.

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county next year. Mr. Smith said that the scores of antiquated machines now in use | would “work against the best in- | terests of the Republican Party.” He said Mr. Ettinger always assigns the worst machines to heavy Republican precincts, thus “slowing down our vote.” Mr. Smith protested that some of the machines were more than 30 years old. In his letter to Commissioners, Mr. Ettinger said, “we must bear | in mind that if a machine is 30 | years of age it has been used only 19 days.”

A Lessonin How

To Make Friends

DETROIT, Aug. 12 (U. P). — Sixteen-year-old Leonard Di Maria was a social disappointment. He was too big to associate with small boys and too small to run with the big boys. Then he found the solution—his father’s $7500 bank roll which had been stored in an attic trunk. Leohard took $5000 and began buying himself friends. Police say he bought four of them used cars and took some neighborhood pals to the 500-Mile Speedway Race at Indianapolis last Memorial Day. For others, he bought boat excursion tickets, clothes and even ice cream sodas. Leonard became the idol of the neighborhood. Then his father went to the trunk to get some money for a payment on his house. Instead of $7500 He found $2500. Today police held Leonard in the juvenile Detention Home while he tried to account for the $5000.

HOOSIER MAY SEEK HIGH U, A, W. OFFICE

BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 13 (U. P.). —The turbulent U. A. W.-C. 1. O. convention neared its conclusion today as delegates prepared to elect officers and take action on a resolution condemning “isms” Officers thought the convention would end today, possibly with another executive session. It was more likely, however, that it would be tomorrow before action was completed. Election of officers marks the final round here in the bitter fight for organization control between left and right wing factions. Although President R. J. Thomas was unopposed for re-election a close contest loomed for secretary-treasurer. Right wingers, led by Walter Reuther, General Motors division director, will attempt to oust George F. Addes. The right wing nomination rests between Richard T. Leonard, Detroit executive board member, and Forrest G. Woods of South Bend, Ind. The resolution involving “isms” would amend the constitution to prohibit Communists, Fascists and Nazis from holding any union office. A counter resolution would condemn such a prohibition contending ‘hat it “would tend to destroy that section of our constitution which made this union the power it is at pres-

The truck fees were increased by an act passed by the 1941 Assembly

| to make up for some of the revenue [to be lost through repeal of the

truck weight tax, also effective next Jan. 1. But mention of the section of the act providing for the increased fees was left out of the title.

State Faces Loss

Courts have held repeatedly that the title of the act must cover all sections contained therein. Another section of the act provides that if any section is found unconstitutional, the entire law shall be held null and void. Thus, if some truck owner does contest the law and it is held unconstitutional, as everyone believes it is, the present low truck tag fees will remain in effect. But the State will lose more than $1,000,000 in revenue Since the present truck weight tax is repealed by another 1941 law as well as by the one which is believed to be unconstitutional. Naturally, State officials are hopeful that no one will contest the new law. They believe that truck owners may hesitate to file suit because it would make their fees below those charged in other states and that they might have to, under, reciprocity agreements, buy tags in all the states in which their vehicles operate, 8 2%

Two Get $150 Jobs

Earl Pogue of Attica and Louis Ciucci of Hammond have been named inspectors in the Motor Vehicle Division of the Public Service Commission. Both are Democrats. They will receive $150 a month,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Who recently broke the consecutive game hitting record in major league baseball? 2—Name the mythological king who had the power to turn whatever he touched into gold. 3—Which republic of the U. 8S. S. R. (Russia) is known as its “bread basket”? 4—Which of the characters of © David Copperfield was always certain “something will turn: up”? 5—Complete the following saying with the name of a color: “The athlete was in the =--- of con~ dition.” 6—What is a necropolis?

Answers

1—Joe DiMaggio. 2—Midas. . 3—The Ukraine. 4—Micawber. 5—Pink. 6—A cemetery—literally the dead.”

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