Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1942 — Page 9

MONDAY, FEB. 9, 1942

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Hoosier Vagabond

TIMBERLINE LODGE, Ore, Feb. 8.—Skiiing is hard work. The altitude is high and the exercise violent. You use a great many muscles you never knew you had. Long-unused muscles get mighty sore. Skiing consists about as much in being in good physical condition as it does in skill. My skill at the present writing is hidden under some otscure bushel. And my physical perfection would undoubtedly take the booby prize of all Oregon. So vou can imagine what a pitiful, broken thing all this violent skiing exercise has made of me. But fortunately I kept right at it, and didn’t let my tortured muscles get “set.” I kept them working. And now at last I'm beginning to get conditioned. Finally the aches have begun to abate; my wobbly ankles have strength in them now; I throb with such new inner energy that I stand before a mirror and twitch my arms, admiring myself. I'm aware again that I've got something in my wrists and shoulders besides soup. Even my shiny scalp feels muscular, I believe today I should knock the average woman down with ease.

Earns His Ski Clothes

IT'S FUNNY how your feeling about yourself changes as you progress with your skiing. Most people stay in their ski-clothes all day; eat in them and sit around the lounge in them. But I was so selfconscious about mine I'd go change before coming back to eat. I felt this way—here’s a guy who falls down while standing perfectly still on skis, so isn’t he a fine spectacle parading around the hotel in ski clothes? But on the third day I thought to myself, “Well

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE IDEA is slowly beginning to penetrate that Indianapolis draft boards are being, of necessity, coldIv realistic about meeting the Army’s man-power requirements. Reasons that seemed ample for deferment six months ago no longer are adequate. The boards are scrutinizing especially those 3-A cases where the wife and children do not need the husband's support. That takes in men with working wives. It's quite a shock to some who felt they were safe. It’s also creating additional problems for industry. Plants no longer feel safe in placing even 40-vear-olds in key positions. Reports indicate that the boards are being fair but firm in their judgments. It all adds up to the fact that people everywhere are just now beginning to realize the harsh steps necessary to win this most brutal of all wars.

It Happens Every Time

THEY'RE TELLING an amusing incident involving Myers Whitaker, an employee of Mouldings, Inc. 741 E. Market St. Myers, according to the yarn, was playing with a pair of handcuffs belonging to a watchman. One of the cuffs accidentally snapped shut on Myers’ wrist. The watchman couldnt unlock the cuff, so police were called. While waiting for police to arrive, Merrill Ludwig inquired how it had happened. Myers started to show him, demonstrating with the other cuff, and sure enough, he got the other wrist handcuffed, too. Police finally arrived and liberated the victim after threatening to take him to heéad-

quarters. Mature Judgment at 6

CURLY-HAIRED Bobbie Moore was celebrating his sixth birthday the other day with a cake and candles. His father, Ruell Moore, the insurance man, told him that if he made a silent wish and then blew

out all the candles, the wish might come true. Bobbie,

Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—How can people take civilian defense work seriously when it is being so cluttered at the top with this rhythmie-dancing stuff? James M. Landis, executive of the Office of Civilian Defense, said the other day that many communities on the coasts are not organized to deal with bomb attacks and are unwilling to join in co-operative protective measures. The reason, he thought, was that the people have not awakened to the fact that the United States is at war. Several factors may contribute to this dangerous complacency. For instance, favorable war news is emphasized to such an extent that many people think we are winning the war in the Pacific when the cold fact is that we are losing it fast. Among other factors also must be the widespread disgust and even bitterness that the wife of the President should play with an official agency of the Government as she has played with OCD, allowing it to become a personal parking lot for pets and proteges.

And You Can't Blame Em

NEWSPAPERS report that the Central Labor Union here has already raised $82,000 as a gift to local civilian defense authorities. Seven thousand members have each pledged one day's pay, as an outright gift for civilian defense expenses, such as financing blood banks. But after discovering that Mrs. Roosevelt's protege was drawing $4600 a year from the Office of Civilian Defense to encourage rhythmic dancing among children, officials of the Central Labor Union

My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—Our day in Arthurdale, W. Va, on Friday was really very satisfactory. Our object was to be there for the giving of contracts to the people who qualified to purchase their houses and land. We arrived in time for lunch and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., who was there all morning, had time to go.over to : Scott's Run to see the community house there. She was delighted to find that the young couple directing the work now have a very busy little lending library, a well furnished kitchen used by all groups, and a charming apartment which serves 88 & model for all the people up and down the run. They have worked so hard and been so earnest in their desire to help in that region, I am delighted to have this good report on what they are doing. In the afternoon, we visited the NYA project, where boys were studying radio work, welding, sheetmetal work and woodworking. We saw their infirmary and the community building, which they have done over for their own use as well as that of the community. The boys come from all parts of West Virginia and are a fine group of youngsters. Some of them already have gone to work in one

By Ernie Pyle

now I've been out there trying and working as hard as anybody, and not falling down any more than some others I could mention. I guess I've earned my ski ciothes now, so I'll just wear them all the time, t00.” So I'm doing it, and I feel as nonchalant as a man lighting a Murad. You see some of the oddest skiing outfits up here. As in golf, the snazziest outfits usually don’t belong to the best skiers. You can ski in almost anything. This morning I saw one boy (a good one, too) skiing around bareheaded and in a grotesquely long overcoat. And a girl skiing in shorts, her legs bare.

Shucks, No Sunburn

PRACTICALLY everybody who skis wears dark glasses or goggies, or a cap with a dark isinglass shield suspended from the bill—for the glare of the sun on the snow is often blinding. Also, friends had warned me to put on lots of sunburn lotion, for the reflection of the sun on the snow 1s a treacherous thing. But I was anxious to get sunburned, for I've lost all my good New Mexico cowboy color. So I skied with my sock-cap pushed way back on my head, in order to gets lots of sun. And so far I haven't burned even faintly. I still look like a hothouse flower. I've been hoping I might get lost in the snow, so they'd have to send a St. Bernard after me, with a keg of rum strapped under his neck. The Lodge has two St. Bernard's, named Bruhl and Lady. They are the most stupendous dogs I ever saw. Somebody gave them to the Lodge when they were pups, about four years ago. But even if I did get lost, the St. Bernards probably wouldn't come after me, For they are merely ornaments, They love to be fed and petted. They just lie around all day. The ski instructors say they're so lazy they wouldn't get up out of the snow themselves. I'd sure like to have one though,

we're told, thought a minute, and then, puffing out the candles, said in a loud whisper: “I wish I had a wife like Betty Grable.” It loks like there’s not much chance to have a big defense bond celebration at the Speedway May 30. President Eddie Rickenbacker writes Norman Perry Jr. that he likes the idea but that it would be almost impossible to get the Speedway ready for such a program. It would take, says Eddie, as big an organization to handle the crowd as it takes for a 500-mile race. Besides it would cost a lot for heavy insurance against fire and damage, plus the cost of cleaning up. Well, it was a good idea while it lasted, wasn’t it?

Hosiery Shenanigans

AN ENTERPRISING CHAP who asserts he's taking a survey for the “American Hosiery Association” to show Washington there's plenty of silk in the country has been doing a nice business, according to the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau Bulletin. The chap asks such questions of our femmes as how many pairs of hose they wear a year, what size, etc. Then, just to prove there's plenty of silk in the country, the Bureau reports, he lets you buy, at a special price, some silk hosiery direct from a mill that’s a member of his association. After collecting a cash deposit and giving a receipt signed “C. Smith,” the Bureau says. he disappears.

A Weighty Problem

BETWEEN VANDALS and priorities, it may be a long time before that well-known institution—the' L.. Strauss free scales—is seen again around these] parts. A year ago last New Year's Eve, some slightly (at least) feeble-minded roisterers kicked the scales over and broke them. It took quite a while to get! them repaired. Strauss officials didn’t think lightning would strike twice in the same place, but it did—the night of Dec. 31, last. Well, the scales had to be sent back to the factory again and with priority difficulties, it looks like Strauss scales patrons are going to have to keep on hoofing it down to the George J. Marott scales (also free) for quite some time yet.

By Raymond Clapper

announced that they did not want any of the wages pledged by their members to be used to pay fan dancers. How can it be but a chilling experience to any

man, after pledging a day's wages, to find that OCD is throwing away an Army major’s salary on some girl dancer that Mrs. Roosevelt happens to like? Yes, it’s a trivial thing and the girl shouldn't be crucified. But it is just this kind of thing that embitters men and women who are making very hard sacrifices because their Government asks them to. It is bound to embitter them to find the First Lady of the land playing so lightly with matters which members of the Central Labor Union here are taking seriously enough to donate a day's wage each.

Rhythmic Dancing Not Necded

I HAVE never felt that much of the eriticism of Mrs. Roosevelt's varied activities was justified. She does a great deal of good. When she goes around the country, helping the underprivileged, bringing their wrongs to public attention, it is a real public service. But it is something else to tamper with a most serious public agency to feather a nest for friends. Nothing can be more fatal to national morale than this sort of thing. Because it comes from a high quarter is not a reason for ignoring it. On the contrary the fact that it comes from a high quarter only magnifies the deplorable effects on public morale. At best the civilian protection task is difficult. It requires much technical work and guidance of local communities, and very little rhythmic dancing by the children. Local groups must have complete confidence in the direction at the top. How can there be any in face of the public spectacle at headquarters here? It is a rule in any organization that morale at the bottom reflects the morale at the top. Here at the top it stinks.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

of the factories at Scott's Run which makes radio cabinets. It seems to be flourishing and Mr. Kahn is proud of his achievements. The inn is very attractive and I always enjoy my stay there. We had a very good dinner after the advisory committee meeting in the late afternoon, and then went over to the ceremonies. Congressman Jennings Randolph, Clarence Pickett and I, who have all been interested in the project since the beginning, said a few words of congratulation before handing out the contracts with our good wishes to the couples who were able to come up and get them. Some men are

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Hoosiers in Washington—

ASSIGNING OF LABOR MAY BE UP TO NUTT

Former Indiana Governor Mentioned for Control Of War Workers.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Paul V. McNutt may shortly draw the toughest assighment of his political career. For the Federal Security Administrator is being mentioned as the man who will be charged with working out a priorities system for labor. That will mean legislation giving him control over all ablebodied men and women, except those in the armed services, to use as the Government sees fit for war work. Others mentioned as possibilities for this post are Sidney Hillman, WPB labor division head, and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Willing to Try

Since the bill was drafted in the Federal Security Agency, Labor's Non-partisan League already has pointed the finger of scorn at Mr. McNutt. But the former Indiana Governor is ready for the assignment nevertheless, “This is no time to be turning down jobs just because they are tough,” he snapped when asked regarding it. “However, the whole mater remains to be thrashed out by President Roosevelt.” The latter also would be the deciding factor in determining whether or not Mr. McNutt might succeed Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of War, This Cabinet post is again being mentioned for the Hoosier in the papers here. But he says he knows nothing about it, Denies Quiz as to Car Use

He vehemently denied a story saying that he had been called before the House Appropriations Committee to explain his use of a Government car for trips back to Indiana. “The fact is that I never have made a trip back home in any Government car, so naturally I wasn't asked about it,” he declared. He declined comment on the letter sent to him from the Treasury pointing out that 20 Harding College students were trying to give their NYA allotments to the Government for war purposes.

New Youth Program?

Aubrey Witliams, NYA director, had scoffed at the offer. Both NYA and CCC are under Mr. McNutt's jurisdiction. They are expected to be merged in a general youth program, but Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Val), is trying to abolish them and save $150,000,000 in nondefense expenditures. An assignment of which Mr. McNutt is sure of shortly is handling the enemy aliens rounded up for evacuation from defense areas— particularly the Japs on the West Coast. “Justice and the War Departments have asked us to do this and we are ready to do it,” Mr. McNutt declared. o

Surprise to Hoosiers

Hoosiers here were surprised to learn that Rep. Joseph B. Shannon (D. Mo.) received a letter asking him to suggest names of persons for stenographic and other office positions at the Farm Security Administration regional office at Indianapolis. The reason why a Kansas City Congressman should get such a request was explained on the basis that it came from Robert M. Moore, special assistant in FSA, a Missourian. The jobs pay from $1260 to $1440 the letter said. But Rep. Shannon, who was against a third term for President Roosevelt, doesn’t intend to make any recommendations, his office reported.

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Has Slim Audience

With the exception of Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.), no Hoosier Congressman remained on the floor when Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind.) made his “voluntary curfew” and “parasite passport” speech on Tuesday. As Chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on Postoffice and Treasury appropriations, Rep. Ludlow stayed to carry out final passage of his bill.

MEN'S CLUB TO HEAR EX-AID TO M'NUTT

Leo M. Gardner, Indianapolis

now working on the night shift and could not be there. In one case, the son in the family had to come for the contract, because his mother was in the hospital and his father was at work. War work has brought larger incomes to many people on the project, but last year their gardens were better than ever before and we hope they will continue to take an interest in improving their land. * We took the night train back to Washington. Yesterday I shook hands with a large group of high school students before going to the Office of Civilian Defense for the fest of the morning. At lunch, I had a number of young newsboys, who had come to Washington to receive their awards from the Treasury Department,

attorney and legal adviser to Paul V. McNutt when the latter was High Commissioner to the Philippines, will speak at the annual Lourdes Day dinner of the Men’s Club of Our Lady of Lourdes Church at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday. More than 300 members and guests are expected to attend the meeting in the school hall, 5319 E. Washington St. Mr. Gardner will discuss the Philippines from his observations. Other speakers will include Richard Foster Mills, attorney. James Ma-

for having sold a large number of, defense savings stamps.

han will be toastmaster,, Fred

_'Schoettle is club president. :

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Survive American Sub Disaster

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sion with another U. S, Naval vessel on the night of Jan. 24 off Panama. They were thrown clear of the bridge when the ships collided. Other members of the crew perished. The photo shows three of the four men .who were on the bridge at the time of the sinking and who They are examining the buoy released by the men in the sunken submarine with Capt. Robert E. N. Lieut. Comm. Earle C. Hawk, Saugerties, N. V., submarine commander; Capt. T. J. Doyle, in charge of (U. S. Navy official photo from Acme.)

were rescued.

T. J. Doyle, in charge of rescue operations. Left to right—Lieut.

rescue operations, and Seaman Joe B. Hurst, Ada, Okla.

S. Navy Saturday announced that the United States Submarine S-26 was sunk in a colli-

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There were three survivors.

Ward, Antioch, Cal.;

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ABEND

Chapter VII—Our Pacific Bastion

IN HONOLULU, in the early autumn of 1941, as in the Philippines, in Malaya and in the Netherlands East Indies, the great questions were: “What will Japan do

next?” and “Will we have to fight Japan?” Had the questions been “Where and when will Japan strike?” and “How can we keep attack away from the Hawaiian Islands?” then the disaster of Dec. 7 could not have occurred. Even as late as the first week of last November the degree of complacency which existed in the : Hawaiian Islands was astonishing, and filled me with foreboding. The wives and children of Army and Navy officers and men were still being permitted to go to Honolulu to spend the winter. There was no restriction upon the tourist trade. In fact, when I protested, both Army and Navy officers told me: “This is the safest place in the world. The Japanese will not dare to attack us here.” Repeatedly I urged friends of mine who were Vi in Honolulu from the mainland to take Hallett Abend the first available ship back to the United States. But complacency was so widespread that no one listened. In fact, complacency was so general that Hawaii had no air raid shelters for civilian inhabitants!

Honolulu, the territorial capital, has only 154,476 people. But Hawaii in terms of strategy increases the “reach” of our navy by a little more than 2000 miles. In other words it can operate effectively more than 2000 miles southward, westward and northward from Pearl Harbor than it could if based on any of our seaports in California, Oregon or Washington. And “reach” to a navy is even more important than it is to a boxer in the ring.

With Pearl Harbor as a center, a circle drawn with a radius of 2000 miles would have a diameter of 4000 miles, and in all this huge circle, containing 12,500,000 square miles of water, there is no continental soil nor coastline. That vast area of water is more than four times as large as continental United States (excepting Alaska), and within that area no other power had a sea or land base of any kind, until the Japanese took Midway and Wake Islands away from us.

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Think About Food

THERE WAS, however, some mild debate of two questions which quickly became vital: “What about the loyalty of the tens of thousands of Japanese in Hawaii?” And, “How will we feed ourselves if the sea lanes between here and the coast are interrupted?” The “fifth column” activities on Dec. 7 answered the first questicn, and the great convoys of supply ships which left the Pacific Coast between Christmas and New Year's answered the second. Pineapples and sugar cane are, after all, not a sustaining diet. At Honolulu last October the slogan, the general aim and purpose of preparedness measures, was to become ready to fight anybody or everybody at the earliest possible date. From the point of view of physical equipment, nothing was being left undone around Honolulu, and all over the island of Oahu, to make Pearl Harbor an impregnable land fortress to shelter the great naval base,

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Fleet Caused Rejoicing

THIS POSITION makes Pearl Harbor unique among the naval bases of the world. It was on May 7, 1940, that Admiral James O. Richardson, then Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, announced the decision to “keep the fleet indefinitely in the Hawaiian area for further tactical exercises and training.” This news was of immense strategic and political importance. Japan was chagrined and a little bit aghast. England, facing the imminent debacle in the Low Countries and in France, was immensely relieved. The American decision meant at least a respite

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Whole Group Is Small

THE IMPORTANCE and value of Hawaii to the defense of the United. States, and to the maintenance of our safety and prestige in the Pacific Ocean and in the Far East, are really almost incalculable. Collectively the total land area of the whole group of islands is only 6407 square miles.

larger. The population of the Hawaiian Islands according to the last census is only 414,991, and

for Hongkong and Singapore. The East 1lndies, Australia and New Zealand felt a new sense of security, both as to the safe maintenance of their sea lanes to India and to Britain, and as to possible attack direct from Japan if Germany succeeded in invading England. The Pearl Harbor naval base was built to fuel and supply the Navy and keep it in perfect repair at any time of the day or night, And these repairs may range all the way from replacing broken ropes or fixing up a hole in a navy plane's wing to doing things to a 16-inch gun that only an expert would understand. The American public was told how many ships the Japanese sank at Pearl Harbor, but the extent of damage to repair facilities and the destruction of supplies has, very properly, not been revealed. On the ships, of course, the important men are those in trim white uniforms. But ashore at Pearl Harbor it is the men in

The War and You—

GASOLINE CURB IN CANADA SEEN AS U.S. TIPOFF

Munitions Minister Says It ‘Will Not Be Worse

Than in States. By JOHN W. LOVE

Times Special Writer CLEVELAND, Feb. 9.—Canada’s rationing pian for gasoline, to go into effect April 1, is probably a portent for this country. The announcement of a restriction on one side of the border is often a tipoff for the other. The liaison between Ottawa and Washington is close. The argument for rationing gaso= line in this country will be a double one—a genuine shortage of tankers (not an Ickes shortage), resulting from the recent sinkings and the needs of the war in the Pacific, and the importance of conserving our remaining tires.

Seven Categories

Canada's rationing plan divides gasoline users into seven categories. Least essential users will be allowed 300 to 380 gallons a year, depend ing on the weights of the cars they drive, and this gallonage will be available in books of coupons. Most cars in that class are expected to be able to go about 5400 miles a year. United States tourists will be on a par with Canadians after the rationing goes into effect. C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and supply, is quoted as follows: “I am sure our American friends, who are marching shoulder to shoulder with us in this war, will recognize that ‘business as usual’ is no longer possible.

Hints U. S. Action

“But they will also find that the restrictions in Canada will probably be no more severe than they are in the United States.” Is Mr. Howe forecasting similar restrictions for the people of the United States? Or just what does he mean by “will probably be no more severe than they are in the United States?”

J. S. Wants Glycerine

In Kitchen Wastes

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P).— Garbage may help win the war. The War Production Board today is studying a plan for recovery of glycerine from food fats, table scraps, grease and lubricants. The glycerine extracted from these common Kitchen wastes would be

overalls who count, for the harbor itself would be almost useless to the ships without the experts ashore who service those ships and keep them fit for sea or for battle.

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Expanded Rapidly

GEOGRAPHICALLY and for administrative purposes the 14th Naval District includes not only Pearl Harbor but all of the Hawaiian Islands, Johnston, Palmyra and Midway Islands, and all of their adjacent shoals and atolls and headquarters for these far-flung and important

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corr 1942 BY NEA “What do you mean, I picked a good air-raid shelter? I li$2 here!”

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dots upon the map are at the naval base. The rapidity with which the base was being expanded and strengthened is shown clearly in comparative expenditures and appropriations. In 1939 a total of $14,436,000 was spent there. In 1940 total expenditures jumped to $21,412,000, and on Dec. 31st of 1940 there was on hand an unexpended appropriation fund of $62,518,600, which in 1941 was laid out for graving docks, industrial shop buildings, a central power plant, quay wall and wharf, naval fuel depot, temporary warehouses, dredging of new and old channels, communication facilities, aviation, housing and recreation buildings. The construction of underground storage fuel tanks ate up $5,160,000 of this total. The Navy also has its own air base at Pearl Harbor, occupying all of Ford Island. On the island were constructed a maze of streets and great masses of buildings— hangars, shops, storehouses, armories. There are magnificent runways and a fine large landing field. Ford Island and Hickam Field, the great Army airfield nearby, bore the brunt of the Japanese sneak attack. Had the destruction of these airbases been complete, our war effort would have been set back at least half a year.

NEXT: Hawaiian Defenses.

used in making explosives for the many battlefields of the united nations, production officials explained.

Civilian Army Nearly Equals Fighting Force

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P.. —The Government's civilian army of workers almost equals its soldier army. The number of civilian employees today is 1,650,000—an all-time rece ord high. On Nov. 11, 1918, there were only 917,760 civilian employee. The army today numbers some 1,800,000 men, but the goal for 1942 is 3,600,000 men. The biggest increase of Govern=ment workers has occurred here where there are now 200,000.

Threaten Allocation

Of Clothing Supplies

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P.).— The War Production Board has threatened to allocate clothing supplies to check apparent hoarding by wholesalers, jobbers and ree tailers. Wholesale and retail inventories of men’s, women's and children’s clothing are growing rapidly, it said, and small retailers may be at a disadvantage in the fall because of inability to finance pre-season purchases.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

|1—What American national hymn

was written by Samuel F, Smith? 2—What British battleship, besides the Prince of Wales, was sunk on the same day by the Japanese in December, 1941? 3—Francis B. Sayre, U. S. High Commissioner in the Philippines, is a son-in-law of which former President? 4—Iceland lacks two of the fole lowing: Railroads, automobiles, trees, agricultural lands, fishing

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BEELER TO ADDRESS 400 CLUB AT HOWE

A. D. Beeler, professor of European history at Butler University, will address the Men's 400 Club of Thomas Carr Howe High School at 7:45 p. m. Wednesday. A former American consular of-| ficer in France and Italy, Prof. | Beeler will talk on “The Diplo-| matic Backgrcund of the Current |

| | Conflict.” |

Claude L. Thomson will be in-| stalled as president of the club along with the following other officers and chairmen: H. H. Arnholter, vice president; Ralph W. Smith, secretary; Dwight ' W. Casey, treasurer; Samuel J.| Jacobs, membership committee; | Duke E. Hanna, program; R. W.| Weber, athletics; Donald Masters, | projects; Robert Mannfeld, hospi-| tality, and E. Merrill Lawrence

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5—Ceramics

industries. Which are they? is the art of basket weaving; true or false? 6—Does China belong to the United States? T—Which state has the longest Pa= cific ocean coastline?

Answers

1—“America” (“My Country, "Tis of Thee”). 2—Repulse. 3—Woodrow Wilson. 4—Railroads and trees. 5—False. 6—No. T—California. ”

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