Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1942 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1942

SECOND SECTION

~ Hoosier Vagabond

TUCSON, Ariz, April 8.—I supposé she might be termed a neat little trick, this Esther Henderson. She sure ain't bad to look at, and to top it all off she’s got brains. She's just the kind of girl some good man should come along and marry, and that’s just what Chuck Abbott did, darn his hide.

Esther Henderson came to us’

in Oak Park, Ill, just a couple of jumps more than 30 years ago, I would say. Her mother died about the time she finished high school, so she and her father moved to the resort town of Alexandria, Minn. Esther was pretty and she could dance like a fool, so she took some extra lessons and then went on the stage. For seven years she was a show girl. She danced on Broadway, she toured with Franchot & Marco, she organized and traveled with her own act. Her father went with her, always. They were great pals. He never really kicked on what Esther was doing, but it was a hard life, and it wasn’t what he raised his daughter to be. So at the end of seven years Esther decided to cut loose while the cutting was good. She liked the life of the stage, but she saw she was about as far as she could go.

How Esther Trained Herself

ONE MORNING IN New York she got the telephone book, turned to the classified section, and started going through the lists to see what a girl without a college education could do to make an independent living in this world. The only thing she could find was photography. That day she went down and bought a camera, and enrolled in a three-month photographic course. Then for a year and a half she went on the road

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

GOVERNOR SCHRICKER was in Kokomo Saturday for a speech and while there heard that his oppcnent in the last election—Glen R. Hillis—was ill. So the governor drove over to the Hillis residence and called on his one-time opponent. They chatted about an hour. The governor told Glen to “hurry up and get well and I'll turn the job over to you for about six months while I get myself some sleep.” . . . The idea of having the public trade in®a used tube before being permitted to purchase a new tube of shaving cream, tooth paste, etc. is being credited to our own, or rather Barbasol's Frank Shields. . . ." Near the top of the Indianapolis Medical society’s list of unfinished business is the matter of acquiring a home for the organization. They have a nest egg sufficient to buy a site as the result of Mrs. Mary Kimberlin’s generosity. Now all they need is a donation or two to pay for the building. Prospective contributors may confer with Dr. Goethe Link, president.

Had Your Honey?

SEVERAL MEMBERS of the Netherlands East Indies purchasing commission who were here pretty much under cover earlier in the year, are back arter a several weeks’ absence. And this time theyre a little less under cover. In fact, theyre in the N.E. I uniform. now. It resembles the British uniform. . We'll bet most of you don't know what week this is. We wouldn't either, if we hadn’t received a postcard from the American Honey Institute notifying us that we are right in the midst of Honey for Breakfast Week. . . . You can’t break an old dog of old tricks. For instance, Harry Morrison who was doing sports for The Times until a couple of weeks or so ago, now is in Uncle Sam's army. He writes the city editor a postcard announcing he’s now in the air

From China

CHUNGKING, April 8.—Even the vaunted American volunteer group is now suffering from a shortage of planes. The A. V. G. has been gradually whittled down, although in so doing it has established a heroic record for quantity of Japanese aircraft destroyed. The successes of the A. V. G. are the talk of all Africa and Asia. I have heard its praises sung everywhere I have been. But now the group will probably soon be worked into the U. S. army air forces. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, its founder and the master-mind of its successful tactics, would be given an important air command. While the A. V. G. has served a highly useful function as a freelance air force, it is now considered that with America in the war the situation is different, leaving no place for an individualist group. It is hoved that most of the men of the A. V. G. agree to their induction into the army air forces, and that they can be retained as a separately recognized unit in order to conserve the morale value that has been built up by their highly successful operations. The secret of the A. V. G. success has been in tactics, rather than in quality of aircraft. Their. planes are inferior in maneuverability to those of the Japanese. The A. V. G. pilots overcame this handicap by the use of diving tactics. The Jap fliers have been unable to cope with the combat techniques studied out by Gen. Chennault.

Paid Well—Plus Bonuses

THE MEN OF THE A V. G. are mostly adventurous youths who volunteered from the army air

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—It is curious how one can live near people one wants very mich to see and still see them rarely. Last night, I finally succeeded in having Seeretary and Mrs. Morgenthau here to

dinner. I have been trying to see Mrs. Morgenthau ever since I returned from the West. Our only other guest was Judge Robert Marx, Cincinnati, who is in Washnigton for a day or so. After dinner we had a newsreel and a movie called “On the Shores of Tripoli,” a picture about the marine corps. We were, therefore, able to induce the president to stay and see it. It proved te be a good picture and very entertaining, but I don’t know whether we were wise to beguile the president away from his work, because I found him still at his desk at 1 o'clock this morning. We have left spring weather behind us in Washington and are right in the middle of summer. Our flowering bushes are too beautiful for words. Someone remarked to me this morning that the weather was so lovely one could not be annoyed with anyone. I am not sure that this is entirely my feeling. The effect on me

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. By Ernie Pyle

again—not dancing this time, but working as a lackey and helper in photo shops, to gain experience. She worked in New York and New Orleans and San Antonio. All the time she was looking for a place to stop and set up in business. When they came to Tucson she decided this was it.

She and her father had some money, so they bought a corner lot out in the residence section, two or three miles from downtown, and built a nice southwestern house on it. She built a studio and small darkroom in the house, and then hung out her sign. Esther decided not to start off humble and work her way up. First-class or nothing, was her motto. So she set her prices high, and her location was exclusive.

What Six Years Can Do

SHE WAITED SIX weeks for her first customer. When he finally arrived, Esther was no nervous she almost collapsed. But she didn’t, of course, and everything went off all right. That was six years ago. Today Esther Henderson is one of the finest photographers in the southwest. She has put her profits right back into the place. The house has been added to and added to. She has the best-equipped studio between Los Angeles and Kansas City, and how do you like that for an ex-show girl, out on her own? She is so successful that now she accepts only two sittings a day, five days a week. No matter how badly you want your picture taken, you fit yourself to her hours and her schedule, or else you wait. And she takes four whole months off in the summertime! Esther's father died two years ago. She carried on alone, without companionship. Less than a year ago she married Chuck Abbott. I'll tell you about that tomorrow. Tomorrow, too, I'll try to tell you what Esther's like as a person, for she’s really a little buzz-saw on wheels.

corps, and then passes along a tip for a news story here in Indianapolis. He got the tip from one of the boys at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. All right, Harry; youre now our official Jefferson Barracks correspondent.

This Hockey Business

NOW THAT THE ice hockey season is over and Indianapolis’ Caps are the league champs, some of the doubting Thomases are “wondering” if “the boys fixed it so the series would go the full five games.” If you want our honest opinion, ‘taint so. In the first place, the players split a “pot” determined by the league before the playoffs start and thus there's no financial incentive to “stretch out” the serids. In the second place, if you ever dropped in at the dressing room of either the Caps or the Hershey players after they've just lost a game, you'll find gloom thick enough to cut with a knife. Youll find long faces and dejection just as you would among the losers in a high school basketball game. Our Mr. Earl Richert, who lived with the team all through the last two weeks, got so angry when we asked him that he just spluttered. So there.

On Guard Duty

THE CITY'S CROP of small boys had a field day Monday with all the troops and army equipment in town. The youngsters swarmed over the plaza inspecting tanks and other equipment, playing soldier and driving the troops crazy with questions, many of them too technical for the soldier boys to answer. Some of the spectators were amused by the antics of three small boys who were “helping” an armed sentry on guard duty in front of some tents on the north end of the encampment. As the sentry marched back and forth, the small boys marched with him. He appeared utterly oblivious to their presence, even when one of the youngsters, attempting to imitate his “about face,” stumbled and fell in a puddle of water. The youngster, his ardor undampened, jumped up and fell to marching again. Heck, what's a little water to us soldiers!

By Raymond Clapper

corps back in the days of American neutrality. They are paid high salaries by the Chinese, and they receive in addition a bonus for each enemy plane shot down. One person, in discussing the advisability of bringing the A. V. G. into the army air forces, pointed out that regular army fliers have been left at a disadvantage in comparison with the bonus payments, free discipline and individual character of the A. V. G. The situation poses a delicate problem, but every effort is being made to adjust it to the satisfaction

STORE LOSSES MUST BE MET IN PRICE CURB

U. S. and Business Likely To Absorb Higher Cost of

Replenishing Shelves.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 8. — A lag of one billion to three billion dollars—the difference between present “shelf prices” and what retailers must pay to replenish their shelves with similar goods—would have to be absdorbed by business or government under the tentative price-wage-rent control plan under consideration here, it was disclosed today. Some of those familiar with the anti-inflation blue print now being drafted in the office of price administration say it would squeeze virtually all the profits out of doing business. To keep this one to three billion dollars from being added to present living costs, business probably would be expected to take part of the loss and government subsidies would be paid to offset part of it.

Protection for Retailers

As the plan is being developed, retailers, whose present commitments for replacement of stock are at higher prices than those which will be. fixed if a price-wage-rent control order does come, might be permitted to “roll back” part of this lag to the manufacturers. A tentative decision has been reached, it is learned, to freeze prices, rents and—if authority in law be found—wages, as of a date in March. President Roosevelt, incidentally, acknowledged yesterday that such a control plan was under consideration. C. 1. O. President Philip Murray, in a letter yesterday to Price Administrator Leon Henderson, pointed out that there had been no in-dustry-wide wage advances since last spring, although he said prices had advanced since then an estimated 15 to 20 per cent. New wage negotiations in several basic industries are just ahead. Display Price Lists Plans have been developed to assure consumers, once price ceilings are set, that they will not be overcharged. This would be done in part through price lists displayed in stores. Those whe have studied the plan make a distinction between price fixing and price freezing. It is not planned to set maximum prices on specific articles, but to freeze prices as they were in each business establishment as of a certain date. Thus, a price differential on the same article between two stores might be maintained after the living cost control had become effective. No decision has been’ reached as to inclusion of professional services, such as fees of doctors or lawyers, under a price ceiling. Canada, which adopted a plan jnonths ago for price-wage-rent control, exempts the professions. Some Exemptions Likely Nor has a decision been reached as to whether gas. electric or telephone bills would be controlled. Likewise such services as those of barbers and clothes pressers—one of the latter was involved in a celebrated NRA case—also are still in the study stage. As has been the case in Canada, most seasonal products, like fresh fruits and vegetables, probably would be exempted.

of all hands, and especially to save the services of these talented fighters who have already done so much—not only so much actual fighting, but so much to uphold American pride and prestige. The loss in the A V. G's airplane: strength is typical of the situation in China at the moment, a situation which it is hoped can be overcome in the next few weeks—and which must be overcome if China is to be held in the war.

Planes Are the Essentials

IT IS NOT necessary to think of this as a possible area for a major offensive The difficulties of trans-, port are so great that it seems doubtful if this can

ever be a decisive theater. But iv is most important that the Chinese continue to hold and harass the Japanese, tieing up large enemy forces that otherwise could be released for other campaigns. The continuation of China in the war is most essential for that reason. Even if heavy weapons cannot be brought in, fighter planes and bombers are the most essential things. A few more of them would make a big difference. The record of the American volunteer group show. what can be done with small numbers of new plane

By Eleanor Roosevelt

much action of any kind, but that doesn’t imply a completely kindly attitude toward the world in general. I put the top of my car down and went to meet the train at noon. Unless I have something which really must be done, I don't feel that tires or gas should be used. But, since trains nave to be met, 1 enjoyed the drive ard had a nice chat with some soldiers, who came up to my car when I parked near the station. They asked for autographs and told me they were on their way to receive training. One boy told me he had just come in and hoped that he could do a good job. The usual crowds of scnool children were in the station, but this year there have been far fewer than usual in Washington. Some of them have written me shat they had given up their trips to buy defense stamps and bonds. Others probably found it impossi< ble to find any place to lay their heads. Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, attorney general and minister of state for external affairs of Australia, and Mrs. Evatt came to lunch, accompanied by Mrs. Felix Frankfurter. It always seems to me that the Australians nave a point of view very much akin to our democratic aspirations. This afternoon I am going to the sale for the bene-

1 enjoyed very much talking to them.

Under the Canadian plan all salaries and wages are frozen, and so are bonuses except where bonus systems prevailed prior to establishment of the “basic period.” But one official commented here that profits are to be squeezed so tight there just will not be any money for bonuses.

BURNS CITY PLANT BUYS WAR BONDS

_ Employees at the naval ammunition station at Burns City are turning $55,000 a month into war savings bond under the payroll allotment plan. It is the first of the big government armament projects in the state to set up the payroll savings plan. In addition, a blue and white pennant of public works flies over the construction office building, signifying the highest peak of efficiency among the 36 largest navy construction projects. A chart in the office of A. Tonini. office manager, shows that 70.8 per cent of the employees are buying bonds. To handle the money a banking office has been installed. Personnel of the Russell B. Moore Co., field engineers and architects for the project, are signed 100 per cent, as are the civil service employees under the public works office of the navy department. The payroll allotment plan has been in effect only three weeks, The “bond bank” is supervised by a committee comprised of Mr. Tonini, H. K. Huffman, chief account. ant; Donald J. Cameron, chief clerk of the bond department; Omer Deweese, chief field e r; Curtis de Forest, employment manager; John Downey, assistant to the field superintendent, and John Billingsley, chief timechecker.

MUST PAY COMPENSATION The supreme coutt ruled yesterday that the city of Humtington must pay compensation to the dependents of firemen killed while on duty

fit of the Scottish clans evacuation plan, ‘will be some guests at tess

and gd + the provisions of the works

Lieut. Hess

A Hoosier “down under” with Gen. MacArthur in Australia writes home as follows: “Keep your spirits up and we will try to finish our job out here as quickly as possible.” Second Lieut. Edward W. Hess, who won his air corps commission at Lowry Field, Denver, is the author of those words to bolster civilian morale back home. His letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Hess, 5934 N. Crittenden ave., goes on: “The people have a decided ‘Cockney accent’ and feel very friendly to the Americans. We work right with the Aussies and they are very easy to get along with.”

UAW. DEMANDS 3% PROFIT CURB

Income of Individuals And Price Fixing.

DETROIT, April 8 (U. P.).—The United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.), having accepted the abolition of double pay for Sunday and holiday work, demanded today that profits be limited to 3 per cent of invested capital, and asked President Roosevelt to see that they were. An emergency U. A. W. conference approved by voice vote late yesterday an executive board *victory through equality of sacrifice program,” which union leaders had urged because of rising anti-labor sentiment in congress.

Ask Food Rationing

The program, which Mr. Roosevelt was asked to support, included: 1, Limiting profits to 3 per cent on actual invested capital; 2, limiting the income of a family or individual to $25.000; 3, rigid price fixing on food, rent, clothing and other necessities and lowering of unfair prices; 4, immediate rationing of food, clothing and other necessities; 5, wage increases to bring wages to last year’s level with a raise of $1 a day in “sub-standard industries’; 6, Guaranteed living wage for dependents of men and women in the armed services; 7, a moratorium on debts for workers unemployed through conversion of industry and those in the armed forces; 8, creation of a labor division of the war production board to “survey, encourage and recommend to the board all. suggestions which hold the possibility of increasing war production;” 9, immediate formation of a post war planning agency of government, labor, industry and agriculture; 10, upon adoption of all foregoing points the U. A. W.C. I. O. agrees that wages exceeding 40 hours a week shall be paic in war bonds. 7-Day Double Time If a worker were employed seven consecutive days, he would still be paid double time for the seventh day, as well as time-and-a-half for all work over eight hours a day, 40 hours a week and the sixth consecutive working day. R. J. Thomas, president of the U. A. W. had read the 1400 conferees, “representing more than 700,000 men and women in war industry,” a letter from Mr. Roosevelt assuring them the government would ‘“re-negotiate contract with the employers wherever necessary to insure that the savings from the relinquishment of double or premium time go not to the employer, but to the nation.”

Urges $25,000 Limit on

HINTS DRAFT LAW SYSTEM IN WAR JOBS

Security Board Chief Sees Need for Allocation Of Manpower.

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.)=— Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the social security board today predicted eventual application of the selective service principle under a single manpower authority to all non-military phases of the war effort. Such an authority, like British Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, would be authorized to exercise general control over the selection of men for industry, agriculture and other essential civilian activities, as well as for the armed forces, Mr. Altmeyer said.

Policy-Making Agency

But he emphasized: 1. That the directing authority should be a “policy-making and enforcing agency, not an operating agency.” 2. That “total manpower mobilization does not mean the government would tell every man, woman and child what he must do to help win the war.” 3. That this authority should be designed to - exercise “minimum control,” allocating manpower by compulsion only where all other means had failed and only as regards the war program. He said the purpose of a manpower authority would be threefold: To achieve maximum efficiency in distribution of the labor force; to avert labor shortages in critical war industries; to avoid a “tug o'war” for men between industry and the armed forces.

Directing Agency Unnamed

Mr. Altmeyer declined to discuss what federal agency may be chosen to administer a total selective service program, nor would he suggest candidates to direct the job. Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt has been mentioned as a possible choice. He presented this picture of the problem facing the employment service if it is to meet industrial manpower needs for 1942: At the end of 1941, approximately 7,000,000 persons were employed by war industries. By the end of 1942 this figure must be raised to 17,500,000 in order to meet President Roosevelt's production goal. Two million additional war workers can be recruited from today’s estimated 4,000,000 unemployed, 500,000 from groups heretofore outside labor force—such as women, youth, and the physically handicapped—and the remaining 7,500,000 from non-war jobs.

Services Need 2 Million

Simultaneously, the army, navy and marine corps must recruit approximately 2,200,000 to meet this year’s military manpower goals. This undertaking in itself would indicate the need for compulsory allocation power, if it is to be accomplished most efficiently and rapidly. Mr. Altmeyer said the most pressing immediate task facing the employment service is that of shifting to war jobs the millions of men whose emplcyers are not converting to war production. This group represents a sizable portion of the 7,500,000 men the employment serve ice hopes to recruit this year from non-war occupations.

PYTHIANS WILL GIVE PARTY FOR SOLDIERS

Fifty soldiers from Ft. Harrison will be entertained Friday night by the Pythian Service organization and the USO in Castle hall, 230 E. Ohio st. ; Officers in charge of the entertainment are George Huff, Indianapolis lodge 56, K. ot P., president: Ralph Cutshaw, Olive Branch 2; George Sundling, Capitol City 92; Roscoe D. Todd, Arion 254; Nellie Houldson, Banner Temple 37, Pythian Sisters; Arial Stapp, Myrtie 7; Ruth McDuff, Monitor 244, and Alberta Uppfalt, Irvington 411, vice presidents; Georgia Grant, Banner Temple 37, secretary, and Reuben L. Robertson, G. K. R. 8. of the grand lodge, treasurer.

HOLD EVERYTHING

Road Togethe

PITTSBURGH, April 8 of the nation—divided for s

Green of the federation and Phil promise of record-breaking production with a warning that labor will sacrifice none of its gains without a fight. The meeting marked the first time heads of the rival organizations have appeared on the same platform since the issue of industrial unionism split the federation’s ranks in 1936. Mr. Green and Mr. Murray bitterly assailed congressmen and others who, they said, “impugn the patriotism of labor.” They were joined in defense of labor by Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, who appeared as administration representative at the rally. ” 8 » “WE AND THE millions we represent, propose to go down the long road hand in hand, working together, toward the attainment of our nation’s objectives,” Mr. Murray told the cheering workers.

Philip Murray

Unity for Victory’

Green and Murray, From Same Platform, Pledge A.F. of L. and C. I. O. to March Production

r During War.

(U. P.).—Organized workers ix years by internal strife—

today were pledged by their leaders to “unity for victory.” More than 4500 members of the C. I. O. and A. F. of L. crowded Syria Mosque to capacity last night to hear their presidents, William

ip Murray of the C. I. O, join a

William Green

“I am willing and determined to stand with President Murray and his associates in this crisis,” Mr. Green declared. “I ask our friends and workers throughout the nation to do likewise.”

Mr. Green called upon con=gressmen to “cease making war on labor and join with labor to win the war.” “I join with President Green in pleading with our legislators in

Washington to have confidence in American labor and not stab labor in the back, but join with labor to win this war,” Mr. Murray declared. “Labor, and particularly its leaders, have had their motive impugned by those without and within the ranks of labor,” he continued. “I don’t give g tinker’s dam who impugns my motives. I am going to support the president of the United States in the effort to win this war and let those who want to fight him, fight him. I believe that the president is the greatest friend American labor ever had and I'll stick with him.”

On U. S.-

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ; Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, April 8—~The fortunes of war and the ever-ready hand of Adolf Hitler have once more combined to muddy the waters of Pranco-American relations, resulting in a new and perhaps serious crisis. . Furious over American recognition of Equatorial Africa as a Free French area, the Nazi-controlled press in Paris has lashed out against both Vichy and Washington. It angrily demands that Vichy break off relations with the United States

‘| immediately.

Simultaneously comes word from Vichy that Marshal Petain, the 85-year-old chief of state, has instructed the French ambassador at Washington, .Gaston Henry-Haye, to protest against the recognition.

Delicate Task for Envoy

The French ambassador had the delicate diplomatic task of delivering, almost simultaneously, this protest and a request for help. The request for help which Hen-ry-Haye is making concerns his long-standing desire to obtain permission to send food to the children and war prisoners of France. He had arranged an appointment with President Roosevelt for today to discuss the food application. The ambassador may arrange to see acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles later in the day to deliver the protest on Equatorial Africa. Behind these developments are the makings of a serious situation.

Crisis Is Not Likely

That Marshal Petain should file a protest is not surprising. He could hardly do less, inasmuch as Vichy naturally holds to the fiction that France's colonial possessions are still ruled from the French capital. On the other hand, the protest should not necessarily lead to extremes, France's position being what it is. Nor is it likely to, if the marshal remains even a reasonably free agent. But Hitler may not permit such quasi-freedom of action. “It is impossible,” roared ParisSoir, a German-controlled daily, “to imagine for one moment that Roosevelt can have an ambassador accredited to Vichy and at the same time be represented &t the rebel headquarters at Brazzaville. Can the victor of Verdun allow himself to be put on the same level as the traitor he condemned to death? France must now put an end to this hypocrisy.”

More Presure on Vichy

(Gen, De Gaulle, head of the Free French, was tried for treason and condemned to death, in absentia, for breaking away from the Vichy government.) For several weeks now, Berlin has beeen increasing its pressure on Vichy. Thing may soon reach a

radio charges that the sd States 1s interfering not

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France's external affairs,

Hitler Places New Strain

Vichy Relations

into Marshal Petain’s cabinet. Hite ler blames Washington for this rebuff. For months the Nazi authorities are said to have been doing their utmost to force the French chief of state to install Laval in some important post.

PASSIVE PATRIOTISM AT END, LACEY SAYS

The time of passive patriotism is over, W. H. Lacey, state commane der of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said today in a letter to all posts in Indiana. The letter called on the posts to participate in the patriotic rally at Tomlinson hall May 3. “If you veterans want to show your patriotism,” Mr, Lacey wrote, “bring your post to Indianapolis 100 per cent strong and bring a band or drum corps with you.” Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York will speak at the rally. Maye~ ors of all Indiana cities have been invited. A state-wide committee appointed by Mr. Lacey to handle arrangee ments for the rally includes the fole lowing Indianapolis veterans: Roy Jackson, Harry Whitescide, Guy C. Day, Frank J. Monahan, Clair N. Beck, Martin Nannan, Mark W. Rhoads, Justin G. Schmitt and H. A. Culbertson.

PERMITS TOTAL $385,210 The value ot building permits issued by Marion county Building Commissioner William N. Harding for construction outside the city | limits totaled $385,210 during March, Of this amount $338,630 was for new residences,

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1—Some army officers wear the pictured insignia. Its multiple ar= rows would make some people think of our Indians. Is the officer de= tached for sere vice on an Ine dian reservae tion? 2 — President Roosevelt and congress have been talking a lot about “Sea Otters” Are they referring to one of our fur-bearing animals? 3—Lieut. Gen. A. G. L. McNaughe ton warned that the Japs might attack Panama or Alaska. Is he a top officer in the American, Aus- ° tralian, Canadian or British army?

Answers 1—The insignia indicates the offi cer is attached to the Bureau of Insular Affairs, 2—-"Sea Otters” are a type of care go ship intended to be built quickly and cheaply and powered by gasoe line engines, geared to a vertical shaft driving a propeller below the middle of the vessel.

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commanding er of Canadian troops in Brite