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has lived in Alaska for 45 years, Pon most of tha time he has carthe mails—by dog team, by ' sled, on snowshoes, on skis, by truck. He has lived the toughest, hardiest life of anyone ‘my acquaintance. et today he is so tiny, and so “and so courteous, and he so meticulously and conhimself so. quietly, that “ever seen a malamute dog
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and soft drink fountains are fiteering in the matter of hik- | since rationing started, Alprice of “cokes” hasn't ins have hiked the price 100 per t—from a nickel to a dime a tle. 'The wholesalers are especially ked over the matter because they have been advertising CocaDolas at the old price in recent weeks. The customers don’t complain, as a rule, although they have good reason to complain against what many term an “out d out chisel.” Washington, incidentally, has asked consumers to watch for excessive price rises in products re- no shortage exists and where little or Ho in‘can be justified on any basis.
R Jes Are Rules
; NAVY BOOSTER DAY (next Sunday) rolls around, you'll find not the Navy, but the Army, ad, heading the parade. Some of the boys were g arrangements at a conference the other day. Jars regulations provide that in any land proces-
. Harrison, agreed to let the Navy boys precede his 600 Army troops. “No you don't,” interrupted
wp ve been busy teaching our boys the imce of always following regulations, and I'm ing to spoil it all by m an exception right Your soldiers are Soing, to e to go. first,
ind strial labor for war work until it can appease s¢ whose personal pride and prestige are involved. Thal mainly is what is holding up this most necessary move. «+ Nobody in the whole show doubts for an instant that the Government must steer our labor . supply if war production is to "have enough hands to do the
oi Sidney Hillman, labor director “of the War Production Board, says that to provide the manpower for the President's production pro-. gram this year, we must add (10 | ‘million workers to the five million | already in war production. Probably pother five: million will have to be added next _ year. To do that while at the same time supplying men for the Army and Navy will put the heaviest kind of a on our manpower. It [can’t be done it Jett to haphazard supply “and
d g. But when you try to get die makers, 0 the union rules which forbid the usi 8 | apprentice helpers unless the Gove that they will not be allowed to coh at that trade after the war, That's one illusof , To
ause of new mass production en wil in plane
ve Finger in Pie | OF thousands of men and women ed and placed os special kinds of war
and shifting of workers from oh will be tremendous. President s [that the Ford W Ww Run bomber autre 75, Yo 100,000 workers, Imagine
Day
SHI) GTON, day. —Saturday and Sunday in York City, I visited the Brooklyn naval hospital. aw, led all the ways of getting
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™ when you are in a hurry. did a number of errands, saw t many people and, among things, looked at quite a of apartments, because expect my husband to houses in New
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. he shaved only one side of his face, Johnnie is really
on the bottle—the whisky bottle, I mean. In all those | years behind the dog teams he never went on trail
‘His Closest Call
years ago he came out to get
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‘ his closest one that winter.
By Ernie Pyle
in such a hurry to get down to the lobby to sit that
a phenomenon. Although he is 76, he doesn’t look or act much older than I do. His health is perfect. Like most Alaskans, Johnnie was practically raised
without a quart of whisky on his sled. A quart a day, that’s what he used. Of course he can’t go that strong nowadays, but, as he says, he sure keeps|ing. UYIE. nies ’s home in Fairbanks is rented out for the winter. He was already in the States when Pearl Harbor happened, and he’s been fretting ever since about getting back to see about his business.
HE RUNS A SMALL trucking line, and holds several mail contracts. Things are pretty modern now
in Alaska. Hardly anybody ever takes a long winter trip by dog team any more. They go by airplane. Most of the winter mali is now carried by air. Johnnie made his last winter mail trip six years ago—and he was 70 then. . It was a run of 180 miles, and his schedule*was six days—30 miles a day. Johnnie has had a lot of clgse shaves, but he had He was breaking trail and somehow he got himself caught. He worked all day through|the snow; finally was so weak he could barely keep going; when at last he reached a trailside cabin they said he could not have lasted another 15 minutes. [As it was his hands were frozen and he lost his fingernails. But his hands are all right now. If there has ever been a kinder, nicer-minded man that Johnnie Palm, I have never met him. I ad-| ) much that I almost have a notion to get me a|team of huskies and a quart of whisky! for developing my own character. (Note to belligerent readers: Now don’t write me dirty letters about
The War and You
REPAIR PARTS
ASSURED FOR HOME RADIOS
Gas for Heating Ried Out
In 17 States; Hurry
- Sugar Ration Books. . WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P)—
Home owners of radios and me-| chanical refrigerators wi by the War Production day that they will be able to buy spare parts to keep these household articles operating after they are unable to buy new ones. | :
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Manufacturers have been directed
to turn ‘all their facilities to war work in the next few months, ‘except for production of spare parts.
Refrigerator production’ will stop
after April 30 so that the industry 3 can be converted to all-out war pro- 4 duction.
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GAS—Thinking about | installing
a gas heater? Well, forget it, if you tlive in one of the 17 states including Indiana where, on March 1, the Government has ordered a curtailment in the consumption of natural
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that. You know I'm joking. What would I do with a téam of huskies?)
Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
- the fund. It’s handled just like Social Security pay-
“agency.
ble, but somehow there seems
' feat and fight right on to victory.
head of the Indiana Gross Income Tax and Unemployment Compensation divisions, as well as a couple of lesser divisions. In those jobs, he was the boss of many hundred employees. Now, ‘many of these onetime employees are trying to gét Army or Navy commissions, Civil' Service jobs, or jobs in defense industries. And when they need references, the first person they think of is good old Clarence, The result is that he’s flooded with scores of reference requests. It’s gotten to be almost standard procedure for him to tell reference requesters: “Write your own lies and give 'em to Miss Campbell. If they're not too strong, she’ll type the letter and I'll sign it.” ”
Where Your Money Goes SINCE THE DISPUTE over federalization of the State Unemployment Compensation Division got started, many persons have become. curious over what happens to the money paid into the fund. At present, we're told, there’s something like 66 million dollars in
ments. The money all is deposited in the Federal Treasury and the State is given U. S. bonds in return. Thus the idle cash is doing its bit to turn out tanks, planes, guns for our military forces,
Around the Town
THE DUPONT paint store at 249 W. Washington is offering, in its windows, “blackout paint.” ,.. A store at 38th and Central, we're told, advertises on its windows: “Defense gum, 1 cent.” , . . Which reminds us that .one of our poolrooms has a most patriotic sounding name. It’s the “Old Glory Liherty Billiard Parlors,” at Washington and East Sts. . . . And while we're about it, the City Directory lists a “Clear Head” living at 2702 Paris Ave. . . . Anent yesterday's item bringing you up to the date on the Zyxwythe group, we neglected to name the two latest members of the “family.” They're Kay Gowdy and Walter Van Nuys.
By Raymond Clapper
the shifting of labor supply that one piant alone will involve. Free supply and demand breaks down under such dislocations, Labor supply and Army and Navy drafting and recruiting are all tangled into one complicated problem of manpower, as the British found when they took men put of industry for the Army and had to return s of them to their former jobs later when production ‘fell down, They placed labor supply and military manpower under one management in Bevin’s labor ministry. . Here several agencies have a finger in the pie n addition to the Army, Navy and the Selective Service system. There are the WPB’s labor division, the U. S. Employment Service, Vocational Education, the Department of Labor’s activities, and C. C. C.
Battle Has Been on for Weeks
- ALL AGREE THAT some centralized administration is necessary. But everybody wants to run it. Paul McNutt, head of Social Security, feels he has prior claim because the unemployment service, which would be the core of the labor supply machinery is in his He has developed a basic plan which, whoever gets it, will probably be adopted. But Hillman balks, His friends say that his fore mer co-head of OPM, William S. Knudsen, was recognized by being made a lieutenant general in charge of Army procurement. They think labor’s representative on the old OPM should have recognition. Labor representatives generally feel that manpower is their dish and that labor should be recognized by placing one of its own in charge as the British did in giving that job to Bevin. This inside battle has been going on for weeks, with the Army, Navy and Selective Service objecting to having their manpower supply included in the industrial labor supply scheme. This week President Roosevelt is expected to try further to get an agreement with his new “war labor council” composed of A. F, of L. and C. I. O. representatives who meet with him from time to time. As soon as everybody can be pacified the President can go ahead with this most urgent step.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
is real quality to it, for one can see it| over and over again and still laugh, and still be moved by the serious lines. Always, the phrase, “Making friends with pain,” strikes me as something we should all remember. I was distressed to learn that the author of “Claudia,” Miss Rose Franken, and her husband, had lost the barn on their summer place by fire last Friday or Saturday. I know they feel about their farm just as the man did in the play. Sunday afternoon thé news of ‘Singapore’s capitulation’ came to a great many people as a tremendous shock. I had talked with the President and he said} resignedly that, of course, we had expected it, but I know a ‘great many people did not. : . Perhaps it is good for us to have to face disaster, because we have been so optimistic and almost arro-|
gant in our expectation of constant success. Now we|
shall have to find within us the courage to meet de-
hs teats » steadiness of purpose and of wil Of Sur Stans ous. But; somehow,
and mixed natural-manufactured gas. The eliminations will go into effect in other states when and if necessary. Consumers now using to cook or heat water will not ected, regardless of where they
live,
RATION BOOKS—The OPA not
only ‘asked the Government Printing Office to get out 150,000,000 ration books, but OPA wanted them right away. single rush job ever undertaken in the United States, will begin this week. Sugar rationing will start around March 1. .
The job, the largest
SOAP—Buy in quantities with
neighbors for current needs only; take wrappers off soap to make it last longer in storage; save small pieces and make a soap. jelly; use a water softener if yours is hard, advises the consumer’s counsel of the Agriculture Department.
LEGS—There’ll still be as many
different shapes and sizes, but the war will make a big difference in the colors of the hosiery. over them. There probably will be only four shades of women’s hose from now on. There has been as many as 75.
MILK—Are dairy companies pass-
ing on delivery savings to consumers? The Agriculture. Department is investigating in 33 cities because it believes consumers should benefit by such sacrifices as milk delivery every other day. |
HEELS—Rubber ones are on the
Government's restricted list if made from crude. says rubber are on the way that will be serviceable but not equal to the old ones.
But U. S. Rubber Co. w ones made of reclaimed
GE INDUSTRIES OPEN SESSION TOMORROW
More than 400 are expected to at-
tend the 48th annual convention of th: Indiana Association of Ice Industries which will open tomorrow at the Hotel Severin for two days.
A pre-convention dinner will be
held at 6:30 p. ‘m. today to draft final plans for the meeting. Registration will begin at 9 a. m. tomorrow with A. C. Lemons, South Bend, opening the conclave at 10 with his presidential address.
Election of officers and commit-
tee reports are on schedule Thursday with a dinner dance and floor show to be held that night.
Speakers include O. P. Fauchier,
Indianapolis; W. K. Martin, Crawfordsville; Harry Imes, Louisville; John Ganzer, Duluth, Minn.; T. J. Beck, Pogue, Upland; Mrs. Allene Burns, Vincennes; Miss Nellie McCannon, South Bend; Miss Miriam Rogers, Lafayette; Emmett c Belzer, Indianapolis; George M. Wessells, Los Angels; Frank L. Duggan, Pittsburgh, and Mount Taylor, Washington, D. C.
Cleveland; Barton Rees
The Rising Sun To Outlast Japs
RISING SUN, Ind., Feb. 17 (U. P.) —Because the American dawn will far outlast the Japanese, the shrewd folks of this 144-year-old Ohio River town today lined up almost unanimously in opposition to any change in their Japanesesuggestive town name. # Mayor Albert B. Cooper the results of an unofficial among the townspeople and former resi-
+dents showed an overwhelming ~opposition to any change in name.
‘A Danville, Ill, woman and former resident, wrote that she ‘never liked the name anyway” and proposed that it be. changed to “MacArthur, Ind.,” in honor of the Philippine commander. But the mail from the nation continues to pour in, carrying not so many protests anymore but requests for the Rising Sun post. mark for stamp collectors. : One request from a Brooklyn, N.Y, stamp collector inclosed 50 letters .and asked that they be Dec. 17, 1941, at 2:30 . m.~the exact day and hour of or e Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. bi i
THETA CLASS TO MEET ‘ Theta Beta Class of the West
Side Clulstion Church will hold o class party at 7: RW, SueTow Slat 282 N. Addison St. en
On the firing line, men of Indiana’s 152d Infantry 'Regiment are squinting down rifle barrels and Many of the men are from Indianapolis. Shown here is a part of the regiment engaged in one of its daily practices on the 38th Division’s range. Maj. Gen. Dan I. Sultan, commander of the 38th has called for a division of men who can hit what they aim at.
going all out for the bull’s-eye at
Camp Shelby.
OPEN CAMPAIGN AGAINST DUMPS
Board of Works and City Health Officials Watch On South Side.
The Board of Works and the City Health Board today launched a joint enforcement campaign to clean up the South Side dumping situation. Louis Brandt, Works Board president, said all holders of permiits for dumping grounds will be warned that any violations of sanitary laws will result in arrests.
Inspectors will tour the grounds regularly to check on violations and report them to the City Health Board.
Health Hazard Charged
The action followed hearings before the Works Board last week when large delegations of South Side residents complained that the dumps had become a serious health hazard and that rats and insects were overrunning their homes from the trash holes.
Several residents also said they had been forced to flee from their
homes because of dense smoke -and
odors from the dumps. The Works Board and Health officials have ordered garbage and other * insanitary matter cleaned from the dumps. Recent investigations revealed that some poultry and fish markets have been dumps ing refuse into some of the trash lots.
Inspectors Issue Warning
“Health Board inspectors will visit every poultry house and fish market on the South Side to determine where they are dumping their refuse and all will be ordered to dump far away from the city,” Mr. Brandt said. “If the dumps can’t be kept within the sanitary laws of the city some of them will have to be closed and filled in.”
BUTLER SPEAKERS TO RECEIVE AWARDS
Cash prizes will be awarded Butler University student winners of eight minute addresses on “Democ-
racy at War” March 11 at a meet-|
ing in conjunction with the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Cash prizes of $25, $15, $10 and two prizes of $5 each will go to first, second, third, fourth and fifth place winners. Preliminary eliminations for the final group will be held Wednesday at Butler.
OPTOMETRISTS MEET
Dr. Reymond Sawyer of Columbus will speak at the monthly meeting of the Central Zone, Indiana Association of Optometrists, at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Hotel Severin. Dr. T. H. Cochrane, president, will preside.
Or Hoping to—Here's How |
(This is the Slat of of a series of are
ticles on Gin the card craze now sweeping the United States.)
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America’s Card Authority
GIN RUMMY is taking the rest of the country just as it took Hollywood where it has just about replaced movie making as the -town’s first interest. The game is simple. Two or more can play. Ard probably 130 million people are either playing it now—or want to. This and three articles to follow will tell you how to play the game. Gin Rummy began as a “minor” pastime in the New York bridge clubs, notably the Knickerbocker Whist Club, where duplicate bridge was first played in America. The “minor” games at bridge clubs are those two-handed and three-handed games played while waiting for a fourth to complete a table of bridge. Backgammon, a game as old as chess, but little played in this country, swept the country after it was revived in the card clubs. Pinochle, casino and piquet have all had spurts of popuilarity from the same cause,
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GIN RUMMY, as the name in-
Gin Rummy — No. |
130 Million Are Playing It
have this in common, however— the object of the player is to form his hand into sets or melds. Each set must comprise not less than’ three cards, .and there are only two kinds of sets that count: three or four cards of the same denomination, such as three queens, and three or more cards of the same suit in sequence, such as eight-nine-ten of spades. In some circles, a sequence is limited to three or four cards, so that it will not have an advantage
this is a “house rule.” The general laws of Rummy permit sequences to be built without limitation. ” ” » IT IS BETTER to use the term “sets” than “melds.” By melding is usually meant, the placing of some - cards face up, on the table to score points for. the combination. In many forms of Rummy, including Gin, there is no melding during the course of the game. Play ends when ‘one player can lay, down his whole hand, and then all hands are exposed. Two other terms should be understood before we go “into -the res, of. Sin. Rummy. By ‘odd bi { “the cards in 4 and which are - ad sets. By a “com-
dicates, is one form of the game | plete hand” we mean one with no of Rummy which is played in | odd all cards being formed. many different ways. All forms | into sets .
Beginning of
Tomorrow begins the annual 40da)’ period of penance by which a large part of the world prepares for the great feast of. Easter.
The day is called Ash Wednesday, derived from the ancient Christian custom of covering penitents with ashes, as a sign of humility, and still practiced in a modified form in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches. The day will be observed in several churches throughout the city, beginning at 7:30 a. m. in Christ Episcopal Church on the Circle, with Holy Communion services.
Kirchhoffer to Preach
be held following the penitential office at 10 a. m., and the Rt. Rev. R. A. Kirchhoffer, D. D., bishop of the diocese, will preach at the noonday services. Lenten services will be held in Christ Church each day at noon throughout the 40 days. Lutheran churches of the city will observe Ash Wednesday with services tomorrow evening. At 8 a. m. tomorrow, the ashes of palms left from the preyious Palm Sunday will be blessed. at the 8 a. m. mass in all Catholic churches of the
city, and will be administered at
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that servi e and at the evening services, AG
The Way of the Cross will followthe distribution of ashes at St. John’s Catholic Church tomorrow noon. This church also will have noon services throughout Lent.
The four Orthodox churches in the city—the Bulgarian, Greek, Rumanian and Syrian—this year will observe on the same days as other churches,
Because the Orthodox churches use the old Julian calendar, their feast days usually occur from one to five weeks away from those of the churches which go by he Gregorian calendar. Easter is a variable feast, figured on the basis®of when the Paschal moon is full, and may fall as early as the 26th of March, or as late as the 25th of April. Easter in 1943 will fall on that latter date. f In the year 325 A. D, the Council of the Christian Churches at Nice decided that Easter should fall on' the first Sunday following the Paschal full moon which happens upon or after the 21st of March, ° Pilgrims Needed Moonlight | The principal reason was that the pilgrims needed moonlight to travel on their way to the great yearly Easter festivities. Because of the wide fluctuation | made possible by this method (35 days), the British Parliament in 1928 attempted to establish Easter on the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April, which would reduce the varigtion to less than a week. The change was to await international consent, and that so far has not been obtained. When Lent was first observed, it|
‘later was changed to 30 days, fi-| nally to be lengthen to the time| that Christ spent fasting in the wilderness. The 40 days of Lenten do not include Sundays. Easter this year will be on April 5. tee ——————
GOES TO ARMY SOON HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 17 (. When film star William
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he ‘faces ‘a drastle salary cut under a new employer-—
Mr. Holden was scheduled “for
\PROFIT TAX ON | WAR INCOMES
| Vandenberg Aims Proposal
over three or four of a kind, but |
At Both Investments
And Salaries.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (U, P,) .~= Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) today proposed that excess profits taxes be levied on individual incomes—whether from’ salaries or investments—that have increased directly as a result of the war.
profits tax on individual earnings which are greater during the war period than they were during the pre-war period,” he said in an ine terview. “After all, the question
ing from the war.” He declined to. reveal details of his proposal or whether he would introduce such a bill, But he said
in ‘everyone—the man who lives from investments, the farmer and the wage earner.”
Would Tax Pay Raise
Presumably, such a plan, if it followed the excess profits tax on corporations, would, for example, tax a wage increase received during the war at a higher rate than te balance of income. A Supreme Court decision yese terday permitting the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. to retain huge profits it made during’ the first World War increased Senate de« mands for drastic limitations on income from armanent contracts. Chairman David I. Walsh (D. Mass.) of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee said his group had requested the Treasury and the Navy for recommendations on profits lime itation legislation.
Urge Profit Ceiling
The Government was directed by the, decision to pay a balance of $5,572,000 still owing to the come pany out. of total profits of $24 000,000. The Court said Congress has powers to set profits ceilings and to tax excess profits and that these powers had not been exercised at the time the contract was made, Senator Pat McCarran (D. Nev.) a member of the Senate Appropria« tions Committee, suggested that every future appropriation bill for ‘armaments should, contain a profits limitation clause. Chairman Walter ». George (D. Ga.) of the Senate Finance Come mittee said. cate shotla be espe= cf ps
|EX-DRAFT BOARD AID
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 17 (U. P.).—Joseph Nosek, 51, former Chicago lawyer and s local draft
year term in Terre Haute Federal Prison for accepting a draft bribe, lost a plea for freedom yesterday when Federal Judge Robert Balte zell dismissed Nosek’s writ of habeas corpus on ‘the grounds it should have been filed in the court which passed sentence. In his petition, Nosek contended that $35 he accepted from draftee Walter Kukovec was a fee in cone nection with his securing the ree lease on parole of the draftee’s mother from the Illinois State hose pital for the insane, and was not connected with Kukovec's deferment from service. The Chicago draft board chaire man was sentenced Aug. 4, 1941, by the Illinois northern district of fede eral court.
TEST YOUR "KNOWLEDGE
1—Who was nicknamed the “wizard of Menlo Park’? 2—A Kanka is a Japanese stew, a section of the Australian bush or a native Hawailan? 3—What was formerly the name of Istanbul, Turkey? 4—What is the missing word (name
“Where the — Begins”?
lishment was Donald M. Nelson formerly affliated? 6—"The -Spangled Banner” was dec! anthem by Act of Congress; true or false? 7—Name the parents of Esau and Jacob,
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