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FRIDAY, ae 1042 oss So ™ INDIANAPOLIS TIMES mT m———— TT AT ALLIES FE AR N ATI UGLY DUCKLINGS Easter Both Religious and Meteorological, US. SEERS PAPERS mae a oie ibrar ganizations, will permit internment ARRIVE IN EGYPT Falling Near Spring Equinox and Full Moon _ssneron sen x oe). tor ine dusion of the we of Ger.

ceedings against disloyal foreign-|showed that their true allegiance

PUSH P AST D AK AR s—— $ ‘By DR. MORTON MOTT-SMITH last supper, According to leading next day is Sunday, that day is/born citizens will be instituted in and fidelity was to a foreign nation. ®' Mak Im British: Science Service Stat Weiter authorities, this occurred in the|Baster. March 22 is therefore the| federal courts next week, justice| Attorney Generzl Francis Biddle : | aKeup impresses Briusn; earliest date on which Easter may|department officials said today. said that 30 cases were ready for

Baster is truly a harbinger of|{year 30 A. D, and astronomers, i fuli Bring Items Needed in [sPrine. in addition to being a re-|reckoning backwards the times of Lerare equinox, the first full mon] 1 For “med partioulatiy|action. Vest-Pocket Gibraltar May Become Springboard for ! : ligious festival. Its date is fixed by full moon, have decided that the after the equinox will occur 29 days War Against Axis. the vernal equinox, the astronomical (day was Thursday, April 6. The|later. If that day should be Sunday,

Sweep Down West Africa in Case Vichy Copyright, 142, by The Indighanolls Times beginning of spring, and the time next day, Friday, Good Friday, was|it will not be Easter because it is ) & ; 4 AV F

he Chica of full moon. This year, Easter Sun- the day of the crucifixion. The fol-|Passover. Easter will come one . s . “ A week Yields to German Pressure. ALEXANDRIA, March 27 (Re-|day falls on April 5, 16 days after|lowing Sunday was the first Easter. |later. layed) —The first of the American the equinox and four days after F By PAUL MANNING merchant marine’s “ugly ducklings” [full moon. Christian worshippers, inally Reached Accord April 25 Latest Date _ Times Special Writer i to take to the water under the|after solemnly rejoicing in church,| During the first few centuries,| This adds up to April 25 as the ; FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, March 27 (By Radio).— [emergency shipbuilding program|may put on their Easter bonnets/the Christians celebrated Baster|latest date on which Easter can THAT ONE PAIR OF EYES “Dakar is a time-bomb, due to explode southward, when has fSaehen Alexandria with ajand join the Easter gia rejoic- on the same day as Passover, and|occur, and that in fact is the date ——— German-Vichy collaboration becomes more open.” cargo of assorted items designed to|ing in the hist warm air of spring, |the converts from Judaism wished{on which it will occur next year, LL . give pain to the enemy. weather permitting. to continue to do so. But the Gen-|[1943. The last time this happened 1 No appointment necessary—We

That's what Freetowners here tell you. Out of Baltimore with a 10,000-] But Jews as well as Christians|tile Christians wanted to celebrate|was in 1886, and this is the only toke ol of time § In this African port there ig but one topic of conversa- [ton cargo under Capt. Richard Bilis, have a double reason to rejoice at|Easter always on Sunday, because other time between the years 1801 ake plenty of time for a thorough

: : tah the freighter skirted Africa, slipped [this season of the year. On Thurs-|it had been on that day originally./and 2000. The earliest date, March + examination. tion—the peril that nearby Vichy-held Dakar holds for the, 0)" the sue: canal and day, April 2, begins the feast of|The matter was finally settled at 22, occurred in 1818 and will not allies, particularly the “life line” of Brush neriesn ship-| churned the water of the dangerous [the Passover, which celebrates the|the famous Council of Nicaea (Nice) |occur again before the end of the D R ping down the coast. Here, Mediterranean without encounter. |liberation of \ the Hebrews from|in 326 A. D.—in favor of the Sun-|present milleniufh. r. nN. J. WE LDON | ing trouble. Egyptian bondage. This festival [day observance. The council also] The present date, April 5, which Reg. Optometrist

they wonder w hat day Amer-| Once berthed in Alexandria har- [which lasts for seven days, begins established that if the paschal full|ls in about the middle of Easter's ican troops will arrive to take| “ FRENCH | bor the duckling’s popularity spread (immediately after the first fullimoon occurred on a Sunday, Baster|35-day range, is rather common, ONE-DAY over Dakar. | | fast. British naval officers, sta- moon after the vernal equinox—thejwould be celebrated on the follow-|having occurred already five times © OPTIOAL DEPARTMENT Is the threat of Germans andl AME! A (BR) Ww (tioned on neatby warships, who|paschal moon. Baster is celebrated ing Sunday, so that the two festi-|during the past 100 years. But it SERVICE © ESTABLISHED 20 YBARS French. but not French slone, mov- b | paid curiosity calls to the Amer- the following Sunday. : vals should never coincide. will only occur twice again during O NORTH MEZZANINE Ing southward along the West Afric urs AFRIC A ican vessel's Louisiana skipper, were| Faster is therefore closely linked| If full moon occurs on the day|the remainder of this eentury-this CONVENIENT can hump, seizing Bathhurst, Free- shown around and came away With the feast of the Passover, as of the equinox, which has been ar- year and in 1053. RR town, Takaradi, Accra and Lagos, SIERRA | warmed by cups of American coffee, | well it might be, since it was on bitrarily set at March 21, although On the other hand, March 24, the ARRANGEMENT that Freetowners font were impressed by the duckling’s|the first day of this festival that astronomically it may occur one date of Easter in 1040, is one of EOR PAYMENTS locks ; : E @R) makeup. Chriss and his Gseipie se Ee rio even Wo days earlier, and he the rarest dates, N If that ever happens, then Brit- |i Ll - a. : - : i ain’s Middle and Far East war effort LIBERIA ends.

Capture Is Neo Cinch

Te capture Dakar today would not be easy. The rash say one ship 10: Taka i with 2000 men could do the job Accra, L < easily, but wise heads believe other- : wise. Since that ill-timed attempt in 1941, when British naval forces Here's the threat from Dakar

tried seizing Dakar with guile and| that allies in Africa féear—a comGen. de Gaulle, the place is report-| bined France-German sweep down ed to have become a vest-pocket| the vital west coast of Africa. Gibraltar. It lies at the end of a 20-mile- | long cape, flanked by the small NORTH SIDE SCOUT

island of Goree. The waters around

Goree are one vast mine field. DISTRICT FORMED Goree, the sentinel isle, is itself a

heavily armored fortress, with enor- i . The organization of the north Ins emplacehous subterranean gun emp dianapolis boy scout district has PE. S. y > been completed with the election of Behind the town the land rises|g 5 panshurg, chairman, and Paul into a ridge of hills, and along these | sy itt vice chairman, S i chain of forts a8 heavily! The first meeting of the district] » SE, , { armored as Goree. was held recently at the Broad Rip-| TONIGHT

15-Inch Guns on Guard ple American Legion post head-| »

quarters. Harry T. Ice, council : All this, plus the ald of the 18. president, and Delmer “Skipper”| » UNTIL : A Wi

inch guns of the battleship Riche- Wilson, scout executive, spoke at|

lieu, which still les at anchor, : 2 i bal , ! would make abortive any frontal the meeting. J 9 k Buys Any attack by sea. And Maryland The north district is the second attresses - C bombers, shipped to France before|in the city to organize under the n Group Shown the capitulation, now stationed in|neW four-district city plan. Chair- chi North Afriea and Dakar, would/Mman for the six operating commitbomb the road approaches eease.|iecs of the district were named at ® BED ® PRING # 2 PILLOWS R U is ih UT F § T the meeting. They are:

lessly from their well-equipped airdromes, making any land attack] Mr. Ransburg, organization and | ine i Regular

trom Bathurst necessarily lage. extension; George H. Lil, egder REGULAR $34.95 VALUE ~~ Genuine innerspring mat. $54 Val qiue

scale effort. Théfe i vet 110 that Ger- camping and activities; Mark Ferree, tress, with many, many ] proof advancement; Ralph L. Hook, tiny comfort coils, sturdy

man troops are stationed in Dakar, ! 8 lie er ite % All F ve metal bed, rustproof coil

but that makes no difference, for h h ealth and safety. : : : French resistance would be fierce spring and pair of pillows.

. Committeemen at large, elected enough, Dakar has been so thor r p oughly saturated with axis propa-|BY the 29 organizations which spon- je¢es ganda that says Britain and Amer. |SOr the district, are Merle M. Harica are bent on seising the remain-|YeY, Edward J. Dowd, A. E. Kuerst,

! ons that| VW. J. Moore, Doyle Zaring, Judge ing French colonial possess W. H. Bradshaw, F, H. Henley, Ems-

is not today, in Dakar, there sing ley Joh oN. DN. Henley, But but hatred and jealousy towa e Wau he SE n 2 two western democracies. Moffett » g Lemaux an ul

French Planes Shot Down

And if German propaganda in'3 FROM HERE CHOSEN

Feeent downing of two vicny om. FOR PHI BETA KAPPA|

ers by British planes didn't help re- Times Special lations between the two camps. GREENCASTLE, Ind, March 27. For weeks Dakar Marylands had| Seven Hoosiers, including three . been coming over Freetown on|from Indianapolis, were included in reconnoissance, Out of the Ssun-|28 members of the 1942 senior class down, almost rooftop height, theéy|at DePauw university who were would dart as anti-aircraft batteries elected to Phi Beta Kappa, highest tried ineffectually to bring them scholastic honor to be obtained on

down. the campus. \ Ne Poe = i SRR 3 : Two Hufricane fighters finally] They were David P. Guthridge, R SEG ; AXMINSTER

were unpacked from a cargo ship; William H. Horne and William H. = : . one night, and the following day, Riker, all of Indianapolis; Bruce «IB > RR ; Ly g when those French planes returned, Barnes of Evansville, Marguerite “x SL IN NR N\ NEE RUG and \ PAD they were dead ducks. One crashed Brendle of Greencastle, Evelyn N J Pe NN \ WN GN \ NBR ' flaming into a hillside. Two fliers|Louise Glick of Columbus and S WR Wh So 2 : who managed to bail out said they|Janice Marie Wills of Linton, : nw, Sa Wk qe . +. and 2 standard size throw were very annoyed, indeed. Tie Smiers wite diectsd ot a ! tS rugs, all for $39.95. Axminster special chapel yesterday. Prof. Je- AE CSTR , WHERE TO REGISTER |rome Hixson of the university Eng- Sa rug is of heavy pile in colorful new lish department spoke on “Imag- spring designs.

NEXT THREE DAYS ineering.” Prof. H. E. H. Greenleaf

is president of the DePauw chap-

Branch offices for the registration, of voters will be open the next few ‘ days at the following places: MAYOR MAKES TRAFFIC PINCH - © Tomorrow and Sunday 1

.| EAST ST. LOUIS, ml. (U. P)— Fire station, 1000 E. Wast ington: | yop 1. romper or Bast St Tok,

fire station, 2060 Kenwood; a ran through a stop sign and crashed N , TRIN ; tion, Madison and Prospect; into another car. He was arrested \ A 4 : station, Tibbs and Washington; fire |p aro vor John T. Connors who was { NA 8 \ J “1 C inn erwa r e et : & "

station, 1575 Roosevelt; main office, | i ivine behind Temper. Temper § nN room 3¢, CO pleaded guilty and paid a fine. \ \ TERR " Ug . onda i ; em $32.50 Would

n township school, Franklin ig \ mE rd and Washington st; Ben Davis| EN RACLARF AIR I x B= WT N =~ 5240, Wonl school, 6220 W. Morris; Lawrence ; Ng Aaa a : pro A school, Lawrence, Ind.; bog sVER ; : TN NS Q \S Ne ) ae school, Wanamaker, In Ty R pi, Naki 0) tH] Share NE ! § : tomoot 35, 1410 rh : po Rl, F. iJ Dinette Alone school 34, 1410 Wade st; main office, room 34, courthouse.

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