Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1941 — Page 15
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia. Aug. 14. —The 10 children of Albert and Kathleen McGinn have set themselves up almost as a corporation. They have a system for living. The system is simply this: All the children do a basic amount of housework. Then the boys work at various odd jobs outside, and out of their earnings they pay the girls for doing the remainder of the work around the house. Dan, the eldest boy, is the business manager. He handles the money and pays out the weekly salaries. Mary Margaret's salary is 50 cents a week. The smaller girls get 10 cents a week. Last year the boys made $45 shoveling snow from people's sidewalks. They made. more than $130 from their little weekly mimeographed newspaper, called The Glen Gossip (the McGinns live on Glen Ave). The paper has now passed its 10th consecutive issue. The two oldest boys are paper-carriers for The Nonpareil, and they make a tidy sum out of this. In addition, odd jobs are always popping up. Furthermore. the McGinn children put on an annual circus, and last year this netted them $14.
Buy Their’Own Clothes
In fact, after paying all the other McGinns' weekIv salaries, old-age benefits, unemployment insurance, broker's fees, commissions and what not, the oldest of the McGinn children still net enough to buy all their clothes and books and things. And if vou think it doesn’t take clothes to cover the many McGinns, just paste this figure in your hat they wear out around 100 pairs of shoes a year! Every Saturday, without fail, is shoe-buying day at the McGinn house. One of. the main McGinn enterprises is the ecircus. All the vounger McGinns take part, and they are assisted by a few neighbor children. They have put it on annually now for three years. They are thinking of skipping it this year, because they've run out of ideas, but are sure theyll think of enough fresh things so they can have it again next year. The circus is held in a vacant lot near the MecGinn home. It opens with a regular street parade, led by a city motorcycle cop, and draws an audience
Inside Indianapolis * And “Our Town’)
AYARS LAMARR, the band leader who operates the Southern Mansion, has taken some long chances on the weather this summer, and won. At the beginning of the season, he booked several “name” bands and, since his place is outdoors and the bands require guarantees running into four figures, he looked into the cost of rain insurance. He found a company that would cover him, charging $10 for every $100 of insurance against rain falling between the hours of 8 and 11 on a particular night. That seemed pretty high, so Lamarr spent two days at the Weather Bureau going over rain records for the last 10 summers, He found that most rain came early in the morning or in the afternoon, and that it was better than a 20 to 1 shot that it wouldn't rain in the evening. So he gambled with Jupiter Pluvius instead of the insurance company and has won three times. He's planning to ride his luck once more soon.
Stuck With Red Tape
THE WINDOW in one of the City Hall offices is stuck. The voung lady who secretaries in the office got tired of the situation during the hot weather and phoned Martin Walpole, Works Board secretary, for some repairs, Mr. Walpole, following routine, asked her to write a letter to the Board explaining the situation. “Aw, heck.” the Y. IL. moaned. “The hot weather will be over by the time we get through writing back and forth.” . . | Senator E. Curtis White is
By Ernie Pyle
of hundreds. Admission is five cents for adults, two for children. They make a lot, too, on pop and candy and stuff. The circus consists of trapeze stunts and a deathdefying bicycle jump up an incline and then over the outstretched bodies of five McGinns lying in a row. But it’s the sideshow which has eaten up all their ideas. Here are a few of the colossal, stupendous, man-eating exhibitions brought from the ends of the earth by the Ingenious MecGinns: The Cremation of Sir Walter Raleigh—a Raleigh cigaret burning in an ash tray. Miniature Swimming Match—two matches in a cup of water. Strongest Thing on Earth—an onion. For Men Only—a pair of overalls stretched over a chair. . A Naked Boy—an old ship's buoy out of the river. Mrs. McGinn says that probably the toughest problem she has had to face is getting the kids to pick up their clothes. She sensed early in the game that if 10 McGinns all left their clothes where they fell, she wouldn't be able to find her way out of the house. So she devised a system. She called the troupe together, and gave each one 10 pennies. Then every time clothes were found lying on the floor, the culprit had to give back a penny.
The Day of ‘Reckoning’
They have a reckoning every Saturday night. Mrs. McGinn presents an additional penny for every penny that each one has left. That system takes care of their spending money and keeps the house clean. Despite practicing law and raising 10 children, the McGinns have never had a maid. They have always
done their own work. Everybody in the family can cook——and does. John got breakfast for the whole} batch the day I visited them. There's never any ar-| gument about who is to cook the next meal but they! do argue over who will wash the dishes. { The McGinns are Catholics, and they all go to! church every Sunday. On the living room wall is a framed blessing from Pope Benedict, dated 1921. Mrs. McGinn says she thanks the Lord daily for the luck they've had. The children are all normal, or above. Thev've never had a serious illness, Mrs. McGinn has always enjoyed life to the hilt, and still does. She says she has always got along so well because she has the faculty of never worrying over anything.
of races at the State Fairgrounds and secretary of the | Indiana Trotting and Pacing Association, 1s back on] the job after several weeks in St. Vincent's Hospital. !
Herve and There
AMONG THE NOTICES received bv the City Desk is one announcing a church event and includ-| ing the warning: “And those who are musically inclined will be dully entertained, also.” . . . H. w.| Olcott of the Bozell & Jacobs advertising firm is! going to look over the TVA on his vacation, which| started yesterday. It’s just another case of a busman’s holiday, because he does advertising work for one of the biggest private utilities in Indiana. . . . Our neighbor, Zionsville, we hear, is beginning to take on a boomtown aspect, now that the new Rock Island gasoline refinery south of town is nearing completion. . . . Higher pay in private industry is making it tough to get badly needed employees for some of the state departments and institutions, even with the Merit System in operation. One department, needing help, was given the names of the top 30 in a group that took an examination a couple of! months before. “Not interested.”
Fisherman Dawson
LIEUT. GOV. DAWSON is due back from Minnesola tomorrow. He's been up there fishing in preparation for a busy session of handshaking and speechmaking when our State Fair gets under way. . . . Rover K. Brown, Junior C. of C. president, has been! at Springfield, Ill, attending the Illinois state fair in his dual role as associate editor of the Jersey Bulletin. . . . State Senator John Bright Webb's sheep won two first prizes at the Illinois fair. . . . John
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"MEIN
There Is Neither Mercy Nor Bill of Rights in The Ideology of Hitler
Mein Kampf is the accepted bible of German National Socialism, the frenzied outpouring of wild political philosophy having for its goal the domination of an entire world by the Nazi “race.” today publishes the fourth installment of Francis Hackett's powerful exposure of Hitler's fanatic purposes,
The Times
Successions of leaders have arisen in the distracted history of mankind—prophets who have a great gift for stirring a defeated folk's imagination, the kind of leaders who grip a people's heart, enliven its spirit and inflame it so that it casts off all other loyalties and responsibilities
to follow the prophet to the Promised Land.
Hitler fills this role for the Germans.
And in doing so we must
observe that he has displayed one remarkable originality. Such a conquest of the popular heart and soul has usually been
attempted with the women as well as the men, and it has generally had a religious tone, offering salvation in the next world as the final inducement. The tenderness, as well as
Mr. Hackett of human na-
ture has in short been elicited by nearly every prophetic leader who has ever dreamed great dreams.
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HITLER SHOWS his febrile originality by being exclusively tough. He is first and foremost a child of the machine age. On most of those themes that convey the inner radiance of a prophet, he is barren and insignificant. He is moved from within when he is talking in terms of voltage, energy, discipline, structure, He is, in fact, an organizer. He sees Germany as a power house, in which employers as well as emplovees are servile, in negation of every humanist value. Hitler has got his people to take the view of life that is demanded by the machine. If it works, says Mein Kampf, then we are justified. But to what end? To the end of German domination, the control of the world by members of the Nazi party who believe in the German race and German
superiority. War is be-all end-all. The essence of “totality” is to depose men as a totality and make the nation supreme. He is to work in the state as a factory. And what does the factory make? It makes war. A man's primary value in this factory is his contribution to the totality of war. The state is wholly indifferent to the individual except as a producer, and Hitler's own reaction is to boast that he is steel-hard himself.
It must be noted here that the world “hard” is not the right one. Oom Paul Kruger could properly be called hard when he cut off his snake-bitten thumb. Any man who conquers his own shrinking self has a right to say, “I am hard.” But to do violence to oneself is not the same as to do violence to others. When Hitler sent his army to break Poland, he was not “hard.” He was hardboiled.
and
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IN THE WORLD that Hitler proposes, you Kick anyone who is down and you call that being “hard.” The moral objection to this hardness is its assumption that the other fellow is really “other.” During any period of dis= illusionment that follows a war, the coarse-grained and thickskinned inevitably erect the convenient formula that the enemy is outside the human pale. This is being tough, not hard. This does not mean that mercy
AMPF 2...
By FRANCIS HACKETT
“ ... Hungry men will have to choose between starvation for their children or submissions...
will not be paraded by Hitler, on condition he has his way. By ignoring its obligations at present, and by issuing promissory notes in the vanquished and occupied countries, Germany has a great card up its sleeve. If it wins the war and can gouge a profit out of it, its scheme will be to make the redemption of these debts depend on trade concessions, exactly such trade concessions as will enable it to subjugate neutrals. By this means the holders of German promises to pay will have to range themselves against their own state and their own custodians of sovereignty. Just as Germany makes the Dutch and the Danes and the French build submarines, just as the citizens of an offending town have to give hostages and disgorge huge fines, just as the most innocent and spontaneous human expressions and the most ancient loyalties are turned to profit whenever “mercy” is extended. so, in the New Order that the Germans work for, the logic of Nazi ism suggests dodges and tricks by which hungry men will have to choose between starvation for their children or submissions that will grease German tyranny, ” ” ” EVERY DISARMED democracy will be in the same trap, if the
Germans are not beaten. There is neither mercy nor bill of rights in the ideology of Mein Kampf. Either the world will be ruled according to the ideas of our modern democracy, and then the stress of every decision falls on the races which are stronger in numbers, or the world will be dominated according to the law of the natural order of energy, and then the people of “brute strength will be victorious.” (page 175) The Germans are the “people of brute strength.” And Hitler welcomes brutality. “This world will still be subject to the fiercest fights for the existence of mankind. In the end, only the urge for self-preservation will eternally succeed. Under its pressure so-called humanity, as the expression of a mixture of stupidity, cowardice, and an imaginary superior intelligence, will melt like snow under a March sun. Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.” (page 175) “Nature does not know political frontiers,” he cries exultantly. “She first puts the living beings on this globe and watches the free game of energies. He who is strongest in courage and industry receives, as her favorite child, the right to be the master of exist-
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ence.” (page 174) This “right,” the right of gune manship rather than statesmane ship may not have been taken se=riously by Lady Astor and Lord Lothian and all the others who tried appeasement, but there it was, in cold print, since the year 1926. Hitler spat in the face of the civilized world.
” Ed ” MILITARY GLORY, of course, exists. Manly courage is a noble
trait. Who doubts this? Who has failed to observe the amazing rapidity with which the bourgeois takes to soldiering? Hitler's of= fense to mankind is not that he has reminded us of the appeal to arms; his offense is that he has appealed to arms as the sole appropriate means of international relationships, the basic “realism,” the spit in the face. The misguided bnes, in the face of this challenge, are not the doe cile multitudes who are drafted. They are the Joe Kennedys and the Charles Lindberghs who say, “He is superior in air production. Democracy is done for. Why do we not negotiate with him?” You cannot negotiate with him,
“NON-NEGOTIABLE.”
(Copyright, 1941, by Francis Hackett; dise tributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc,)
Tomorrow:
PEPPER'S ACTS
REPORT HITS AT Rail Mediation Board Opens
STRIKE TIEUP OF
Talks to Forestall Strike PHONES LOOMING
Rita Urges an
Undie-Standing
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 14 (U.P, —Film Star Rita Hayworth today
home again after a trip by plane to California to visit his father who was ill. . Harrie Jones. Rushville, the veteran horseman who is assistant director
Tokyo and Vichy
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 While Hitler's military progress in Russia is slow, his diplomatic victories in
Wallace, son of Entomologist | CHICAGO. Aug. 14 (U. P.).—The Mediation Board, the 19 brotherSop nk A , we hear, as soon as he gains Six} : te 3 three-man National Railway Media- | hoods, seeking pay increases estiHose punts, |House Committee Criticizes tion Board today steps into the|mated by management to cost Nation - Wide Communica- to hoard silk | huge wages and rules roversy | $900,000,000 annually, emphasized | , stockings and B L Senator for Asphalt g g nd rules controversy|$ 3 p ed | y Ludwell Denny |
which has precipitated a strike vote balloting on a strike would con- | tions Paralysis Feared; janderWons. Manipulations. stroved Hitlers chance of quick victory and hurt his |
asked 110 actresses to pledge win = themselves not
buy and as we them,” she said in
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Other Strikes Go On. silk hose
undies By UNITED PRESS need Two major strikes eontinued
among 1,500,000 railroad employees. The board, comprising Chairman George A. Cooke, Otto S. Beyer and
tinue, The non-operating group press-| ing demands for 30 to 34 cents] hourly wage increases for 850,000]
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer David J. Lewis,
scheduled io
Tokyo and Vichy are spectacular. The rapidly developing crises in the Pacific and the South Atlantic are not separate and accidental embarrassments for Britain and the United States. They are very much part of the same picture as the Russian front, the British preparations against invasion, and the role of America as an arsenal and a possible belligerent. There are unmistakable signs that the newly provocative policies of Japan and France—not to mention Iren and osthers—ere inspired by Hitler to counter the closer co-operation of Britain, Russia and the United States. The reason Hitler is trying to push Japan into a war with the United States, Britain and Russia is obvious to all—a Pacific war would divert some, and probably much, war effort from Europe to Asia and thus relieve the military pressure against Germany, "Likewise the reason Hitler is hastening the Nazification of France, through promotion of his puppet rlan to a tin dictatorship, is clear Hitler needs the French Navy, and the North American and West African bases, for a battle of the South Atlantic aimed at the strangulation of England which he has failed to accomplish in the North Atlantic.
chances of ultimate victory—Russian resistance and | increased American aid against the Axis. So there; was hope in Washington and London that the Japan-! ese and French governments might hesitate before increasing their co-operation with Hitler's desperate policy. Instead Tokyo and Vichy are moving rapidly toward war, which might profit Hitler but almost certainly could not profit Japan and France.
The explanation of such an improbable and irrational situation can be neither simple nor single. But at least one factor doubtless is that Vichy has burned so many bridges there is no retreat from vassalage to Hitler, anc that Tokyo is rapidly getting itself into the same position.
Can Darlan Deliver?
Petain and Darlan, no less than Laval, apparently know that there is no chance for them or for the Fascist France they represent if Hitler is defeated. But as puppets can they deliver? Will Gen. Weygand take Hitler's orders through Darlan, or will the French Army in Africa march to such orders if given? And can Admiral Darian be sure even of this] Navy? { Washington if provoked further may soon test those questions by withdrawing diplomatic recognition from Vichy, by protective occupation of Marti-| nique, or at least by aid to the Free French. That] would tend to make Hitler's present diplomatic vie-| tory more spectacular than real.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 —Political activity by Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla) in seeking an asphalt contract for the Pan-American Pe-
troleum Corp, including threats to’
Government employees in his state whom he had recommended for promotion, was severely condemned today by a special House Military Affairs Subcommittee in its report to Congress. The 17-page report, which was unanimous, covered the subcommittee's investigation of the asphalt contract for runways at Eglin Field, Fla, an Army air training center, and the Municipal Airport at Pensacola, Fla. The subcommittee, headed by Rep. Don W. Harter (D. 0), based its investigation on a series of stories by the Scripps-Howard newspapers and upon a request by Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D. Ga) for an inquiry. After referring critically to the action of W. E. Harkness, then Treasury procurement officer for Florida, in holding up the asphalt award at Eglin Field to the low bid-
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transporta t i o n brotherhoods, 14 n o n - operating employees’ unions and an 18-man carriers’ joint conference committee. The board, created by the : Railway Labor Mr Act of 1926, of- . f2u ; : fered its services when direct negotiations endei in a deadlock after two weeks of conferences. Although the controversy moved with unprecedented swiftness to the mediation stage and strike balloting began, threat of a transportation stoppage remained at least two months distant because of the iNovisiant of the Railway Labor ct. If the Mediation Board
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der—Allied Materials, Inc.,a Georgia | tration, the machinery of an smerg-
corporation—and in awarding the ency fact finding board would de-| contract at Pensacola to Pan-Amer- |1ay a strike.
A mediation board
separ-| conferences’ with the Big Five]
members expected results of
week or 10 days.
the result of their strike poll. Consensus
Complicating mediation were management proposals
tempt to reduce wages.
| tervention on the rules issue,
fail to settle the dispute or to per- 106-UNIT HOUSING
suade the parties to accept arbi-
PROJECT IS AWARDE
among brotherhood leaders yesterday was that the rank and file would authorize a nation- Wright Corp, while Secretary of wide strike because of vhe rejection [Navy Frank Knox sought means of of their wage demands and that|terminating the strike tying up the the Mediation Board’s chances of |Kearny, N. J., yards of the Federal effecting a compromise were slight. | Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. which efforts has suspended work on $493,000,000 to! worth of naval and merchants ships. change rules governing working | A strike threat in the telephone conditions and rates pf pay. The industry which might hamper comrailroads contended existing rules|munications of defense industries required high pay for little or, injand Army cantonments, loomed. some cases, no work and the unions argued the proposals were an at-|graphed their appeal both to the e The car-|A, F. of L. Machinists Union and riers asked Mediation Board in- the Curtiss Corp. shortly after La-
| NEW ALBANY. Ind. Aug. 14 (U.|cials conferred again today
its hamper the national defense prostrike vote to be available within a gram today and Government agenThe operating cies pressed their efforts to end brotherhoods, seeking a 30 per cent | hem wage hike for 300,000 workers, have | : set Sept. 2 for announcement of!
The National Defense Mediation P~ard asked striking machinists to ame work at the Caldwell, N. J., opeller plant of the Curtiss-
Mediation Board officials tele-
| bor Secretary Frances Perkins re(ferred the five-day strike to the | Board, | Efforts were being made to avert | Government seizure of the Kearny shipyards. Knox and other offiwith
notes to the actresses. Miss Hayworth remind ; : ed them that | EE the cessation of : silk imports Miss form Japan may soon cause a serious shorte age of these articles. “It wouldn't be fair for girls in the higher income brackets to buy up stocks when there are so many girls who can buy only one at a time,” she said. “At the worst, we'll all have to wear cote ton. I wore cotton myself once and can again.”
Hayworth
FRATERNITIES SEEK
BUTLER MEMBERS
Like the Army and Navy, Butler University’s five fraternities are busy recruiting these days. Unlike | the sororities, the boys’ groups have no rush parties, but preach their | gospels at small informal smokers, | Heads of the Butler chapters are | Gene Dixon Guy, Phi Delta Theta; | James Neal, Sigma Chi; Wilbur H,
Moving Toward War
But, while Hitler's purpose is clear. his success in dictating so completely to Tokyo and Vichy causes some surprise here. When Nazi armies are being challenged effectively for the first time—at least to the extent of slowing down the blitz—why do Japan and France seem so anxious to cast their lot with
IL. H. Korndorff, president of the Schumacher, Sigma Nu; Robert
Paul Robert, Lambda Chi Alpha, and Edward Taylor, Delta Tay | Delta.
TEST YOUR
Although Tokyo is not as much a prisoner of|jcan, when Allied Materials was low (féport to the President that an P..—The Netw Albany Housing Au-| : Hitler as is Vichy, its pro-Nazi policy at this time, is|pidder, the report said: emergency existed would bring such |thority today announced the award company. even more suicidal. It is improbable but possible] Injunction Threatened 1: fact finding commission into be- of a $427444 contract to the Henke Telephone Strike Looms that French Fascism might survive the war. But it] : .. |ing, guaranteeing the status quo Construction Co. Chicago. for erecis virtually impossible that Hitler can dominate the| “It was apparent that Mr. Hark- for 60 days. {tion of a 106-unit slum-clearance Pacific, or that Japan can get any help anywhere hess had considerable personal feel-| In accepting the services of the housing project. ling in the matter and that he was
Gov. Charles Edison of New Jer[sey has asked Federal authorities {to reject both union and company
if she embarks on a war against Britain-Holland-|
Germany? If the Washington and London governments were certain they knw the answers to that question, a great many things now held in reserve would happen very quickly. Obviously both Tokyo and Vichy know that the two major recent developments of the war have de-
China-Russia-America.
Not even Hitler ever dared fight the combination of powers which Japan is now facing as his isolated | partner in the Pacific. Unlike Darlan, it is not too late for Konoye to turn back—but it may be too late in another week or month if Japan continues her aggression into Thailand or Siberia.
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Raymond Clapper is in England. His
column wil! resume in about 10 days.
My Day
HYDE PARK, Wednesday.—After our visit to the Pioneer Youth Camp yesterday, we motored on up to Camp William James. There a group of young people are trying to find out the value of working with their hands. At the same time, they are deciding their evaluation of future occupations. They want to know what they really do want out of life, what they think democracy really means, what they can do to help develop their country and make it strong in democratic principles,
Some of the young people who worked here are at present working in Mexico with a group of young Mexicans in the territory where the earthquake created such havoc. Others are now in the Army, but wherever they go, they ; carry with them the results of this experience. I think they will lead more interesting lives, because they have set themselves to find the reasons for their beliefs and to translate into daily living their ideas and ideals. The drive up was very beautiful and we found snother route to follow coming down, which gave us a variety of scenery. ; :
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
Last February, there was held in Washington an/ Institute of Rural Youth Guidance. In this insti-| tute the following organizations co-operated: The] Alliance for the Guidance of Rural Youth, the Amer-| i
ican Youth Commission, the Harlan County (Ken-| tucky) Planning Council, the National Education As-| sociation, the National Youth Administration, the United States Department of Agriculture, the United | States Employment Service, the United States Office | of Education. : I have just received a report of the proceedings and a “suggested plan of action.” These pamphlets are going to be distributed in various parts of the country. I hope that many newspapers in rural areas, particularly the country weekly papers, willl quote many of the recommendations. | There is a great deal of emphasis laid on the possi- | bilities in selective service for training which may be given these young men while in the Army, which will| be valuable to them when they return to civilian life. I know that this is true, for one boy from my| own county writes me that he has been assigned to| radio work, which is something he has wanted to] study for a long time. Let us hope that this will be the experience of many of the boys now being in-| ducted into service from rural geas. (
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aware of the fact that Senator Pepper, who had nominated him for a better job, was desirous bf having an award made to Pan-American.” Mr. Harkness became Florida WPA director. While Mr. Harkness was holding up the award, Senator Pepper called WPA and Treasury Procurement officials to his office in the interest of getting the Army to issue special bids for an additional 1,800,000 gallons of asphalt for Eglin Field for immediate delivery—half the quantity of the original 3,600,000gallon order.’ At the same time, Ex-Congress-man Caldwell, a member of Senator Pepper's former law firm, was threatening an injunction suit by Pan-American to hold up award to Allied, though as the report says, he “was aware at the time the no-
| tices were served that his client
could not benefit by such a suit.” This threatened suit, owever, scared WPA officials. Mr. Caldwell was employed on a contingent-fee basis, and if his company could get the extra 1,800,000 gallons, which it
|did subsequently, he could collect.
The report said bluntly that “the special committee is of the belief that this delay, together with the threat of an unwarranted injunction
suit by attorneys for Pan-American,! |was part of a deliberate and suc-
cessful attempt to compel the Army to make an emergency purchase under circumstances which made it practically certain that Pan-Amer-ican Petroleum Corp. would receive the award.”
HOLD EVERYTHING
COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE INC T AL EEE US PAY OFF
“Sit down! Who do you think you are—Bargymore?”
[proposals for Government opera{tion, He announced a three-man board had been appointed to begin negotiations if the state's mediation offer is accepted. | U. S. Labor Conciliator James W. Fitzpatrick called officials of the Western Electric Co. and the Asso-| ciation of Communication Workers| to a conference at New York tomorrow for negotiations to prevent a| nation-wide strike of the installers] of telephonic equipment. The asso-| ciation has authorized a strike un-| less its representatives reach an] agreement with Western Electric, | which manufactures and installs
equipment. The union, which claims 8000 installation workers in 13 cities, said other unions affiliated with the parent National Federation of Telephone Employees had promised they would not pass picket lines. Such action would disrupt the Bell telephone systems and cripple communications of defense industries and Army cantonments.
INJURED CYCLE
Jacob Hudgins, cycle policeman who was an automobile, has returned to his home, following treatment at City Hospital. He received a fractured
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left arm in the accident which occurred in S. Ritter Ave., 80+ hblock.
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KNOWLEDGE
1—Saccharine is sweeter than sue gar; true or false? 2—Who wrote the epic poem “Thg Aeneid?” 3—Where is McGill University? 4—In which ocean are the Midway Islands? * 5—What does “KP” stand for in the Army? 6—A coif is a casket, a “hair-do” oe a small cap or hood? 7—What relation was Queen Vice toria of Great Britain to the late Wilhelm II, former Kaiser of Germany? 8—What is the name for an adult female hog?
Answers
1—True. 2—Virgil. 3—Montreal, Canada. 4—Pacific, 5—Kitchen police. 6—A small cap or hood. T—Grandmother. 8—Sow,
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OFFICER SENT HOME
veteran motor- | injured | Monday when his cycle crashed into |
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