Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1941 — Page 11

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1941

" Hoosier Vagabond

: CLEVELAND, Sept. 9.—The other day in Toledo "I went out and bought the new book of war cartoons

"py Low, the famous British cartoonist. It cost the

pleasant sum of two bucks. ‘Then, when I got back to the hotel, here were some “packages forwarded : from Washington, and what do you: suppose was in one of the packages? Yep, Mr. Low's book. A free ‘copy, too, from the publishers, Simon & Schuster. Which

proves that I do not have what:

they call “business sense.” I never know when to wait.

But a man with two bOOKS fiends out of a clear sky, what they thought the

must say something about them, so at this point I will tell you how proud I am of having this Low collection. Especially proud because the original of cartoon you'll see on Page 52, entitled “Looking It in the Eye,” is at this moment hanging on the wall of my den in Albuquer- * que, with a genuine shell hole through the middle . of it, and the cartoon signed personally by Low. Low is often spoken of as the greatest cartoonist in the world. Certainly many of the cartoons in "this book are great beyond question. The book contains more than a hundred of Low’s choicest pictures, from the beginning of the war ‘right ‘up to this ‘summer. worth ‘having for. Keeps. ; " “Next to ‘my own private cartoon, the one I like best is his New Year’s picture, showing Hitler looking .through binoculars across the Channel, gazing hung--rily toward ' England. At Hitler's shoulder ' stands - Death; in a German uniform, fingering his bony chin.

Des. Moines Wants to Fight

All across the’ Plains “states, ‘from the Rockies on east, I've been keeping my ‘well-known ear to the well-known ground, doing a private Gallup survey

.on war sentiment. And almost everywhere the senti-

meng seems to be isolationist.

It is a collection well |

By Ernie Pyle

"It’s isolationist in Denver and Omaha and Council Bluffs and St. Paul and Minneapolis and Madison | and Toledo. In some of these cities they tell me that among the bigger business people “there is even a good slice of appeasement feeling. And everywhere there seems to be a certain apathy toward the war, and some C jcism about England. But in Dy . it’s different. That is Des Moines. There the sentiment is for war. I could hardly believe it when friends told me that, for Des Moines is outwardly no different from the other prairie cities. So, to check up on themselves, my friends went around all one evening asking other

war sentiment in Des Moines was. And the answer was , always the same-Des Moines favored going to war.

Sidewalk Conversation—

You may remember in one column last spring I was telling about snatches of sidewalk conversation 1 overheard in San Diego. The kind where you catch just part of a spoken thought as the people pass, and never know what went ahead of it or what followed. ‘Such as the one I heard about, “My cousin never stops for traffic lights.” Well, I've just overheard a couple more here in Toledo, and a friend in Nashville, Tenn. has sent me a ‘couple he overheard. His are the best, so I'll put his. last. Here are mine picked up in Toledo. A seriouslooking young man and woman were standing on a street corner, and he said to her, “Forty-one dollars and don’t know where to put it.’ .And the other: I heard a girl, coming out of a store, say to an older girl, “Do I have to land in New York with a leg-band on?” My Nashville friend, on a London bus, heard one passenger say to another,’ “Many’s the time I've seen him nude at the piano.” But his most memorable one was picked up right on the sidewalks of Nashville: “How did I know the so-and-so was going to arrive with a straw suitcase?”

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

‘STRANGE THINGS have 2 habit of happening at ‘our: Public Library and its branches. For instance, Tom: Hutchinson, the Library’s young publicist, reports that: Miss Marie Peters, of the Central Library Reference department, just got back to

work yesterday after a vacation)

in which she visited Mexico City and saw a bullfight at the Plaza de Toros. The first phoned question Miss Peters was asked, says : : “How many spectators the 1 laza de Toros in Mexico City sea 2» Without batting an eye, Miss Peters replied—“Twen-ty-five thousand.” : Miss Ethel Cleland, head of the Business Branch Library, reports receiving a written request for “Mom’s Up at the Villa.” Without batting an eye, Miss Cleland went to the “Business Men’s pdm shelf and got Somerset Maugham’s “Up at And then, . up at the Riverside Branch Library, one of thé youthful girl pages was seen pointing to the “Suggested Reading” shelf and asking an ing patron if he had “looked on the Suggestive g Shelf?” “Au we know is’ what Tom Hutchinson tells us.

And Now There Are Two of Us

we RIC HARD. DD, EVANS (the Sears man more generally known: as Died. has been quite put out with us recently. The Hon. Mr. Evans resents the fact that our Zoological Society (Inside. Indianapolis, com‘missioner) neglected to include" him in the roster of charter members. iii “ Sir Richard has ihformed us, indirectly, ‘that He

supposes that’s the thanks he. gets for Visiting; zogs all over the country and sending Inside Ingianipols

ty or

: Production

‘ LONDON, Sept >This news coming over from America last week was that August plane pro- ~ duction readied the. new -high figure of 1854. Although this is the largest ‘increase shown by. any

“month, it is partly offset: by the fact that July

figures ‘were down ‘slightly below those of :June. These total ‘production figures are not only cheering here but they are significant because they show that America’s enormous industrial plant is now beginning to throw in its weight and is perhaps on its way to passing British production shortly. But one thing is of vital importance. It is not merely American production figures that count, but the number of planes that actually reach the British. There is a vast difference between these quantities. My best guess would be that the number of planes reaching the R. A. F. is but a fraction of our annual production rate—perhaps, say, about one month’s output. In the United States there have been fantastic stories about the number of American planes lost in transit. These reports are grossly exaggerated. The losses have been relatively small, so efficient has the North Atlantic shipping route become. In fact, the appearance of a German submarine on the Americanpatrolled section of that route may indicate . the beginning of a new struggle.

Is Hitler Getting Desperate?

For months, evidently, Hitler has had his submarine commanders under strict orders to avoid contact with American patrol craft. No doubt he thought it more to his advantage to let the North Atlantic supply route operate with relatively little interference than to risk drawing the United States into the war. * Certainly there was a marked change in the North Atlantic after the American patrol began, and particularly after the occupation of. Iceland. - Last winter the situation was desperate. Of late

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday —Yesterday'* Jimmie and Rommie arrived here. Elliott flew froni Washington, D. C., but he had to fly back in the afternoon because of a military report which he had to give this moming. He and Ruth will be able to return here later = today. Johnny and Anne drove over from Boston yesterday, and Ethel will arrive this afternoon. Anna and John telephoned from Seattle, Wash., but my husband urged them to wait and come later when he could see a little more of them. He"feels that a trip just for the funeral from that distance would give him more sense of anxiety, and that he would need them more a little later on. Of course, Franklin Jr. is somewhere on the Atlantic and cannot : possibly be here. I imagine he will get the news over the radio for as far as I know f § him.

ing to

more zoological ‘information than the files can hold. The net effect ‘of all this lobbying is that Richard | D. Evans is honorary vite ‘president of the Zoological Society. 3 " Now all we need is a third member. . :

Our Tricky Guardsmen

SOME OF OUR Indianapolis boys in the 38th Division (National Guard) are snickering over the fast one their battalion pulled on a. Regular Army detachment during the Louisiana maneuvers. The Guard battalion, the boys say, was among the Red troops, and was proceeding down a lonely road on a dark, rainy night, One of the advance patrols reported to the battalion’s commander that approach-

ing from the opposite direction was an “enemy” tank detachment, apparently lost. The battalion officers got in a huddle, They had no equipment for subduing a tank outfit—except their own brains. So the battalion waited while several] of its officers went on up ahead and contacted the commander of the “enemy” group. “Hunting the bivouac -area?” asked a Guard officer. When the tank detachment commander admitted he was, the Guard officer said: “So am I— just follow us.” The Regulars did—into a trap. They were “captured,” every one of them. And there’s nothing that tickles the Guardsmen any more than to pull one. on the Regular Army.

No Priorities for School

DICK HOOVER, director of the Civie ‘Theater, was due here today from Massachusetts, where he’s business manager of the Southampton Players in the summer. . . . The new St.. Thomas Aquinas parochial school, 46th St. at Kenwood, was opened for the first time yesterday with all the equipment installed except lockers. The school wants metal lockers, and they

can’t get them. - That's right; they couldn’t get a

priority rating.

By Raymond Clapper,

it has been highly satisfactory. Now, perhaps, Hitler sees that . American aid is about to grow in volume and has decided that this route must again be put under severe attack, even at the risk of provoking the United States to war. In the judgment of many here, Hitler is likely to be driven to acts of desperation. The Russian campaign is considered to" have created serious morale problems inside Germany. Hitler has promised the German people that the war would be won this year. For nearly three ‘months the Germans have been paying an appalling price in the Russian campaign, yet

‘ultimate victory is further away than ever, regardless

of the outcome of that campaign. Britain has been given more time, which she great-' ly needed. The only regret is that this breathing spell has not seen the arrival of more American bombers, so that Germany could have been pounded harder. When one realizes the amount of damage done here by last winter's blitz it is clear that, al-

though bombing alone is not likely to be decisive, it|

can contribute heavily toward shaking up a country.

Send Those Flying Fortresses

Bombing is the only effective kind of military attack that Britain can direct against Germany at this time. As yet, no really effective defense against it has been developed. Some hindrances can be thrown in its way, but that is about all. . It is the most horrible aspect of modern war, beca there is no way of giving sure protection’ to helpless civilians. It has a terrifying effect on the bravest people, and is awaited with dread by any who have ever experienced it. ; The British, having suffered first themselves, are living now in determination to return blow for blow. They find the most effective way to do it is to load up an American flying fortress and send her over. ‘The measure of American aid in aircraft will be| found, -not in plane-production figures, but in the number of fortresses sent over here. Medium bombers are of secondary importance. And one flying| fortress is worth a hundred American fighter Planes to the British right now.

By Baer Roosevelt

see a . portrait of. myself ‘which a young artist had painted for Mr. Liberman, the president of Arnold Constable & Co., to add to the collection of portraits oF. nsliguation gowns which Mr. Liberman already ! Considering the ‘fact that this portrait’ was fo entirely from’ photographs, except for what the artist could observe in a five-minute talk with me Hast spring, I think the young man did remarkably "we :

Most of Friday-was spent getting things siraight-

ened out in the 65th St. house, with a brief interlude [for lunch with Dr. Snavely. After lunch, I went to look at the market baskets which the Camp Fire Girls have been’ working on as a project this summer. These baskels contain the food for a well-hal-anced meal for four people at the price of one dollar. They presented me with their recipes for cooking this| meal. I was glad to see this group of interested and active Camp Fire Girls. In the evening I took Jimmy and his wife, and three other people, to see Ethel Barrymore in “The Corn‘ Is Green.” ‘It was the second time I had seen

the Play ar and I enjoyed it as much as I did: the. ats

RCA EQUAL TO | DEFENSE TASK, SAYS OFFICIAL

Began Plans 2 Years Ago, Executive Reveals at Production Rally.

The Radio Corporation of America began to plan for the national emergency the day two years ago when England. announced that a

Thomas Joyce, RCA .vice president in charge of sales promotion in

inaugurating the start of a “Beat the Promise” drive by the local RCA

their company has been working for two - years ‘to speed up production. ' Speaking: to several hundred

Athenaeum, Mr. Joyce said that the RCA company had originally been founded at the request of the Army and Navy, and that the company felt equal to the ‘task of supplying not only the United States, but England, Russia and China as well, with

{the instruments of communication|

needed in today's war. Air Raid Movie Shown -

At the beginning of ‘the: session, the members were rather startled by| a realistic demonstration of a “plackout” and “bombing.” A- movie was shown depicting: London in the midst of a furious air raid. The ‘| picture was accompanied by'an actual sound-track of the noise made by. the 'swishing, screaming. bombs. A regular bountiful American din-ner-was’ part of the schedule,’ but in order to emphasize the difference between America today and the besieged countries, an “ersatz” meal was served beforehand. © It was: served, but nobody bothered. to eat. A small -dab of watery appearing stew, a thin piece of rye bread with a dab of lard for butter, and a small cup of yellowish “soup” made up the ersatz meal. - It was enough to look, in order to get the

lesson. . ; ‘Hitler’ There, Too

Uncle Sam made his appearance at the rally. The patriotically dressed figure, played by ' Jack Duvall of the Indianapolis Recreation Department, ‘exhorted - the diners to do their utmost for defense work. Another well known figure . was Adolf Hitler. Someone (he'll have to. be nameless) came to the stage behind a comic mask of Der Fuehrer, and made a completely in-. comprehensible speech about something or ‘other, in the midst of boisterous boos. He was gleefully

‘prodded offstage by the paked bayoonets of members of the Army, who |

were present. Other speakers at the rally, Which is being carried on: nationally by th company’s branches, were John, Smith, manager of the local plant, J. M. Allen, manager of the Bloomington plan and A. C. Scott, manager of the “B” campaign" in the local branch.

Military Men Attend

Military figures at the dinner, who also ‘spoke, were: Comm. R. H. G. Matthews, U. S. N. R, who is in charge of Navy recruiting . in Indianapolis; Comm. S. A. Bishop, U. 8. N. R., Navy liaison officer serving with the Selective Service Board; Maj. Thearl Essig, commanding officer of the reception center at Ff. Harrison, and

officer at the i John: Main, RCA .employee, led the gathering in community sing ing -and telegrams were read from other RCA plants over the country. Harvey Clark, business manager for Local 1048, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, also addressed the group. He was followed hy RCA department heads.

LAWYERS TO STUDY ‘PREPAID DIVORGES

Circuit and Superior Court judges will refer to the Indianapolis Bar Association a proposal that divorce decrees be held up until the court costs have been paid. The proposal was made to the judges in general term session yesterday by County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger, who said the County is losing about $15,000 annually cos. failure of litigants. to pay cos

- Ettinger said for several Var “he attempted to get a special budget appropriation for an extra| deputy to collect the costs, but that the money has. been refused each year. Judges indicated favor of the prepaid divorce plan but said they first ‘wanted approval of the Bar Association.

GRAND JURY To SCAN MATTINGLY SLAYING

~ BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Sept. 9 (U. P.)~The Monroe ‘County Grand Jury tomorrow will hear the first of nearly 100 witnesses who are "scheduled ' to . a] State seeks a first “murder indictment against Mrs. Caroline

the fatal shooting of Charles O. Mattingly on July 5. Mattingly, legal examiner for the Indiana Public Service Commission,

home of a friend. Mrs. Payne was seized the night of the slaying and has been held since then in Monroe County jail,

pected to be completed by Sept. 18.

PLAYS CHECKERS AND CHESS AT SAME TIME

H W. Banks, blindfold checker champion, will give a demonstration of simultaneous . checker and

state of war existed with Germany.

Camden, N. J, in a talk last night].

plant, told department heads that}

members of the personnel in the

Capt. C. S. Miller, public relations|

- as the|

Payne, local newspaper woman, for| was shot five times as he sat in the].

Motion on the. indictment is ex-|.

Gs Saving in es bie. of The i , tomorrow. |

SECOND SECTION -

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STUDY LIS OF

JOBS BROUGHT ON BY DEFENSE.

Tolan House Group to Seek “Solution in Early Investigation.

By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—The Tolan Committee of the House is going to try to find how serious

. |priorities unemployment and shute

downs of small business may bee come. It is also going to try to find what can be done about it. Rep. John H. Tolan (D. Cal.) said

‘today he will propose to his: come

| mittee that it start an investigation

Six persons were injure; three critically, when this traction car crashed into a work car on the Indiana Railroad’s sole remaining operative line. The wreck, which smashed two of the four remaining pieces of rolling stock of the railroad, occurred two miles south of Columbus. The injured persons were passengers . on the interurban. The crew on the work car leaped to safety a few seconds before the crash. The cause of the collision was being investigated today.

be sent back to Los Angeles.

emissaries has become necessary Congo, has strained the patience of the Congolese authorities to the point ‘where ‘it may soon expedite the departure to California of Aimee’s remaining brethren.

While the nearest German is at Dakar, about 3000 miles away—as near the United States as the Congo—sister Aimee’s blunder in giving to.the Third Reich the vast

Congo basin administered from London by the Free Belgian Gov-|

ernment might, under ordinary circumstances, have been condoned. But both the Belgian and United States Governments, the latter being represented here by Consul Patrick Mallon and Viee Consul David K. Newman, have been called upon more than once during the past two years to take a hand in the affairs of the “International Church of the Four Square Gospel Mission,” today more tangled than the jungle itself.

Other Missionaries Shocked Of the 650 Americans residing .in the Congo, more than 90 per cent are hard-working, self-sacrificing members of missionary families. For over half a century they have served .as explorers, roadbuilders, physicians and progressive teachers of the natives and have accom-

| plished more toward bridging the

gulf between cannibalism and civilization than almost any other single agency. Other clergymen and mission doctors, shocked by the jungle misdemeanors of Aimee’s emissaries — which the Belgian Government claims range . from fisticuffs to borrowing money from ‘natives—have been unable .to do anything ‘about limiting their activities.

The Four-Square Gospelers have never been admitted as members of the Protestant Council of the Congo, the ‘senior organization of recognized missionary sects and are, therefore, not subject to any discipline other than Belgian law. Their right to preach the Angelus Temple gospel or anything else they choose is protected under the Congo Basins open door policy formulated in the treaty of St. Ger-main-en-Laye of 1919. Aimee herself, through Giles Knight, head of her world revivalist organization, has tried to get several erring preachers to return to Los Angeles and in the cases of those enjoying good standing even offered to pay their trans-Atlantic fares. But so far it has been difficult to pry the Four Squarers out of the wilderness of Kasai, where most are located, near the trading post of Luisa.

‘ Deplorable Effect The Angelus Templars have settled in an unspoiled spot where hippos. elephants, lions and apes

abound, where even air mail delivery from Leopoldville takes from a fortnight upward, and Amiee’s clarion call for them to come home has

Belgians Shocked as Aimee Concedes Congo to Germans

y: GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1941, by The Bl Gkox Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LEOPOLDVILLE, Sept. 9—Aimee Semple McPherson’s brawling mis-: sionaries are proving too wild for the Belgian Congo and may have to

A statement in the official magazine of Sister Aimee’s temple, to the effect that the recall from'the jungle to the United States .of her

because Hitler has captured the

reached them: too faintly to require obedience. The gospelers have also ignored all consular calls to emerge from the bush, remaining sequestered in Kasai even after the Belgian Government last March filed a lien upon the church . property, which Knight values at $100,000. At the time of taking the above step the Belgians stated: “The attitude and actions of cer-

tain members of the Four Square

Gospel mission have produced a deplorable effect upon the European and native population of the region. “A slugging match has occurred between the Messrs. Henri C. Kramer, Ralph C. Cobb.-and Merriel L. Sigler. ‘Bicycles Undelivered

“Several suits at law have been filed against the three above persons ‘upon their own initiative as well as by natives. “Kramer has not paid his native personnel for several months, has borrowed money from natives (sums amounting in some cases. to more than. 100 francs), has accepted money from some natives to order bicycles or sewing machines for them, and has nof returned either the goods or amounts of money intrusted to him. “Members of the Four Square Gospel mission do not possess the moral sense, prestige, respect or dignity inherent in the title of missionary to which they lay claim.” The clerical boxing match broke out over the question of jurisdiction over an automobile which Kramer, who heads g family of five, claimed was his personal property rather than the church’s. Cobb and Sigler attempted to deprive Kramer of the car by force and as a result of the ensuing battle Kramer went to the hospital.

Sisters Liked Jungle

By mixed methods the Belgian authorities have been able to make some progress in repatriating certain Four Squarers..- Two sisters, Gladys and Vada Pinnell, who resigned as a result of the mid-jungle feuds of the Gospelers, received $300 each from Aimee to return home but nevertheless remained next to nature until the money was almost exhausted. It cost the Belgian Government nearly $500 to get the Pinnell sisters up the gangplank. ‘Only Cobb now enjoys Aimee’s sanction as a clergyman, her long and. eloquent arm having reached deep into the jungle to unfrock both Kramer and Sigler. But it is not easy: to bring any of the embattled Gospelers out from ‘the bush because Kramer has a lawsuit pending against both Cobb and Sigler. Congo drums are beating and black-skinned medicine men are consulting totems to ascertain the fate of their Los Angeles colleagues. What = will happen pernaps only Aimee knows,

HOLD EVERYTHING

sey on

DENTISTS FIND NICHE IN ARMY

Those Drafted Due for Rapid Promotion, Local Society Told.

Young dentists who have found their early practice’ interrupted by the draft are finding their talents recognized by the U. S. Army. This was the situation outlined to the Indianapolis Dental Society last night by Brig. Gen. Leigh C. Fairbank, head of the Army Dental Corps. Gen. Fairbank, assistant to the Surgeon General and the first dental officer to hold so high a rank, described the situation thus: Dentists, along with doctors and engineers, were not recognized in the draft law for exemptions. At the same time, the more than half of the members of the Dental Reserve were not available for service either because of physical disability or by resignation.

. Promotions Rapid

Hence, the induction of a large number of dentists was “inevitable”

Army commissions “as soon as possible.” Gen. Fairbank took the : Fifth Corps Area, which includes Indiana, as an example of the situation which prevailed. in the Dental Reserve. - He said 25 per cent were disqualified by physical disability and 30 per cent resigned their commissions.

Equipment Obtained

He said that if the Reserve officers had been replaced before the. Selective Service Act had gone into effect, the drafting of such large numbers of dentists would not have ‘been necessary. Another problem that the Dental Corps faced when the draft was adopted was the difficulty of obtaining necessary equipment. This has been overcome, said Gen. Fairbank. More than 2000 dentists now are required to maintain the country’s army of 1,400.000 men. This compares with 8500 doctors, 1000 vetinarians and 8500 trained nurses.

{ DEAD, 4 HURT IN FT. WAYNE WRECK

FT. WAYNE, Ind., Sept. 9 (U. P.). —An unidentified Negro transient, tentatively identified as Jack Burgess, address unknown, was killed and four other persons injured, one seriously, when a westbound Pennsylvania passenger. train was derailed here last night. The injured: Otto Rost, 64, Ft. Wayne, engineer, suffering from “serious” burns; W. G. Priddy, Ft. Wayne, fireman; Samuel Issac, Nashville, Tenn. a Negro ‘believed to be a transient; and William McPartland, 71, Quaker Hill, Conn., a passenger. Attendents at St. Joseph Hospital said MecPartland was suffering from a heart ailment induced by shock. George J. Alter, 61, Ft. Wayne, one of the crowd estimated. by police at 5000 which was drawn to the scene of the wrecked train here last gn, suffered a heart attack and died.

Y. M. TO CONDUCT - WELDING CLASSES

Electric and acetylene. welding classes are to be included in the Y. M. C. A. trade school which opens Friday for semi-weekly classes during a 12-week period. The classes will meet two hours each evening. C. J. Miller of the Sutton Garten Co. will be in charge of the class-

ing class. The course will include work, in metals of ‘ various gauges and alloys. tri Ci ‘The ¥. M. C. A. as an agency of the Community Fund, conducts: 49

school work, business college courses and other trade school subjects. Enrollment may be arranged this week in all classes. :

NORRIS DAM FISHING FILM TO BE SHOWN

How to land the big ones in Tennessee during October will be shown

to Lions Club members at their weekly meeting at noon tomorrow in

the Claypool Hotel. The fishing pic-

Lions Club State golf ‘Country Club. Dr,

‘Chicago meeting, vestigation by the committee.

and these are being advanced to.

‘| Sheriff’s

room and shop sessions of the weld-|

classes, .including: complete high}

tures were taken at the Norris Dam| and are in natural color. Indianapolis ashington The annual -Barvies Bureau, 0 13th Sty N. t. 21 in Gary at Wa.

of the subject at once and. hold hearings in St. Louis early in Noe : vember at which public officials, industrialists and union representae tives will he invited to testify. Meanwhile he is getting in touch with aids of Mayor William H. Dress of Evansville, Ind. who has called

meet in Chicago next Friday to dise cuss the matter. Mayor Dress hime self is seriously ill. He will propose that certain ‘specific data be cole lected from those = attending the for fuller ine

Study Defense Migration The Tolan Committee has been

emergencies created by concentration' of workers in a few limited areas. This month it.is going to Detroit for a look at the shift from defense to non-defense production in the automobile industry. “Priorities unemployment, shite. downs of ‘small business, dangers of creating stranded come ‘munities are new and pressing problems of the ' defense program

about,” Rep. Tolan said. “Shortages of materials are threatening the industrial backe bone of the non-defense -industries and the communities. where they produce autos, refrigerators, heate - ing and cooking equipment, -house- : hold - utensils and all’ the thousand and one articles utilizing metals of one sort or another.” Preliminary ‘investigation by the | Committee indicate that approxi mately 1,700,000 factory workers may be laid off in various manue facturing industries because of the

added, they estimate, some 300,000

|salary workers in the same plants

and possibly 2,000,000 workers in the service industries who depend on the earnings of the first group for their business. 2

Total of 4,000,000 That-would be a total of 4,000,000

defense expansion, and committee officials believe it would be much greater, perhaps double if defense production should be speeded up to any great extent. They point out, however, that all ] these persons would t be uneme ployed at any apetine .as the change-overs will take /place in dif ferent communities fat different. periods. Estimates of ' the number of workers in each industry who may be thrown out of work by priorities or shortages range from 10 per cent in textiles .forest products, and stone, clay and, glass to 55 per cent in industries dependent on nons. ferrous metals. For machinery and transportation equipment the estie mates are 40 per cent. Committee figures show that only 50,000 workers are employed in the manufacture of refrigerators, and 10,000 in the manufacture of washe ing machines. Other industries ine cluded in the “machinery” classifie cation are agricultural implements, cash registers, machine shop proe ducts, pumps, radios, scales and = balances, sewing machines, textile machinery, typewriters. : : IDENTIFY DEAD WORKER The body of a man found dead in the rear of a house at 8444 N. Mee ridain St. Sunday has been identie fied as Omer Stillwell, 44, of 125 E, St. Joe St., an employee of Allison’s, The. identification was made by the and Coroner's offices through the man’s fingerprints and a key found in his pocket to a locke er at Allison's.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

© 1—Complete the following verse by Robert Louis Stevenson: In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light, 2—What feminine personal name is also the name of a bird sometimes called pe-wit or 3 pewee? ° 2 3—Which two states in the United : States end in the letter Y? 4—What name personifies the Enge list nation? 5—What is the name of the ace curate clock carried on ships. for use in navigation? - : 6—The musical scale that includes - half notes is called ch - = - - tic? 7—Do all the states require a blood - test before issuing a marriage lie cense? ; 8—For what Federal Government agency . do the initials - OEM ' stand? 9—What war was called the “Great War of Liberation?” © Answers

1—In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. 2—Phoebe. 3—New Jersey and Kentucky. 4—John Bull. 5—Chronometer. 6—Chroma

tic. 7—No. 8—Office for Emergency Manages

ment. : 9—The Allies Sgaing. Napoleon. : » s ‘

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material shortages. To this must be -

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