Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1942 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1942

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Editor's Note: Ernie Pyle is in poor health and is taking a rest. Meanwhile, Tie Times. following readers’ desires, is reprinting some of Ernie’s betterknown columns.

JUNEAU, Alaska, July 6, 1937—I have superstitions about airplane pilots. For instance, I have complete confidence in a pilot who is bald-headed. And practically none at all in one with a mustache. So I knew the minute I laid eyes on Alex Holden, that I'd fly anywhere in the world with him. He hasn’t any more hair on his head than a water pitcher. And he’s been flying for 23 years, the last six of them in Alaska. Alex is a good name for an aviator anyhow. We took off in pontoons, in a six-place Bellanca. I sat up front, beside Alex, and as soon as Wwe were in the air he leaned over and pointed to a small reel alongside my seat. \ “You'll have to wind down the radio aerial,” he said. “It takes just 107 turns, so you’ll have to count them.” I leaned over and started winding and counting, feeling very serious and proud at actually being permitted to do something worthwhile in the world at last. By the time I had the aerial out we were far down Gastineau Channel and almost level with the high mountain ridges on either side. The air was very smooth.

The Famous Taku Glacier WE FLEW FOR about 20 minutes, skimming across the edge of a mountainous island, and then across another one, and then we banked around a bend in the channel and Alex pointed ahead. And up

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A ROBIN with more persistence than perspicacity has worried the R. Worth Shumaker family (3560 Forest Manor) for the last several days. The bird spends most of the daylight hours in front of a basement window, pecking away at its own reflection. Chasing it away doesn’t do any good. It comes right back. The noise when its beak hits the window can be heard throughout the house. It's hard to tell which will give out first—the bird’s beak or the family’s nerves. . . . Those new busses they're using on the north side feeder line will be ready for the junk pile before long unless the city fixes 52d st. between Illinois and Capitol. Bus patrons complain that it’s all they can do to keep the fillings in their teeth as the bus crawls along this particular stretch at about 3 miles an hour.

Aching Conscience

A FORMER kitchen employee of Fendrick's restaurant "visited Irvin Fendrick the other day, handed him a dollar bill and asked 20 cents change. She explained that while working there she had “borrowed” about a dozen napkins. Since then, she “got religion” and felt she had to ease her conscience. Mr. Fendrick gave her the change and she asked for a receipt for the 80 cents. She left with the receipt and a “peace be with you.” . , . Motorists passing the corner of 49th and Central yestemday saw an apparent case of suspended gravity. One of the school patrol boys stood on the curb, leaning for-

‘It We Must Die-’

BALBOA, Canal Zone, April 22.—Louis Blaison is dead now, forever entombed inside his command, the Free French submersible destroyer, Surcouf, the heaviest submarine ever built. The announcement of her loss by Free French navy headquarters in London officially ends Blaison’s glorious career in carrying on the fight against Germany until “my beloved France is free again.” A slight, dark-haired man in his late thirties, Blaison looked more like a lawyer, or a doctor, than a veteran seaman. He had only one major thought—to see France free again. Seated in his tiny office inside the vast maze of the Surcouf’s interior, a few months ago, Capt. Blaison told me: “If we must die, other Frenchmen will take our place, on and on. France, I tell you, will rise again.” « _ .. if we must die, other Frenchmen will take our place.” I remember those words and the zeal with which they were uttered. I remember the light in his eyes and the firm line of his mouth.

“It’s Your Turn Now”

AND I REMEMBER what Yves, the matelot cannonier, from Britanny said, as Capt. Blaison escorted me through the incredibly large compartments. Yves said: “I was a fisherman and so was my father before me. One day, after the Germans came, my father took me and my brother and some other boys and went down to the beach. He put us all in a launch and he said: “It’s your turn now. You go to England to fight for France.

By Ernie Pyle

there was another glacier. This time it was famous Taku glacier. I don’t know what it’s famous for, but it’s famous all right. It was like Mendenhall, only I think it was bigger and whiter and it ran down to the sea instead of stopping on dry land like Mendenhall. We came up to it at about 2000 feet and crossed the face of it right at one end. We bumped a little as went across, because of the cold air currents coming up from it. It was a weird thing, sitting up there above that ageless, gargantuan expanse of ice. We flew on toward the head of it, and the downward distance between us and the glacier became less and less as we went along. For the glacier’s surface rises as it goes back up the valley.

You'd Simply Die There WE FLEW ABOUT three miles back, over the surface of the glacier. Alex said that way back up there at the source, some 10 miles or so, it joined the head waters (or head ices, maybe I should say) of Mendenhall. In other words, the two great glaciers flow from the same source, in opposite directions. We didn’t fly on back there, for there were drifting clouds and a sort of white mist and Alex thought we'd better not. I was glad, for it seemed to me we had long ago gone past gliding distance back to water. And to be forced down on top of that glacier would be as bad as landing among a million snakes. If you could survive the crash-landing (which I'm sure you couldn't), I don’t believe you could move a hundred yards on the glacier tbp. You'd be hemmed in by straight-up-and-down precipices of ice. And I don’t see how rescuers could ever get to you. You'd simply die there, that’s all. And you wouldn't be very long about it.

ward at a 45-degree angle. Closer inspection revealed he had wired himself to a utility pole with a wire attached to his belt.

Around the Town

R. G. THOMPSON of the Ditto Sales Service was in line at the Union station waiting to buy a ticket. A young woman just ahead of him—apparently a college student—asked for a ticket to Madison, Wis, then discovered to her great confusion that she was a dollar short of the fare. Sympathetically, Mr. Thompson handed her a dollar bill and his card. She accepted gratefully, promising to mail the money back “the first thing.” Well, that was several weeks ago, and now he’s beginning to wonder. . , . C. M. (Chuck) Wilson, assistant national Americanism director for the Legion until a week ago Monday, has been named battalion adjutant at Camp Wadsworth. . + « Jack Atherton is back from Miami locking hale and hearty. He says it took only a few days te get rid of a bronchial cough he had when he left.

Plenty of Fish

THE TOWN'S most popular fishing spot these days seems to be White river where Lake Sullivan empties into it—about a half mile north of the 30th st. bridge. Whenever the weather's half way decent, you can find from 25 to 75 fishermen in the vicinity, And they all seem to be catching plenty of good sized crappies. Some of the boys say they can catch the limit easily in a couple of hours. . .. The announcer on Hook's radio program yesterday morning got his tongue twisted, we're told, while extolling the virtues of the store's ice cream. “Endoy a jish,” he suggested.

By Nat A. Barrows

“So we went to England.”

In the huge control room of the 4300-ton Surcouf, Capt. Blaison stopped before a framed inscription taken from the 19th century French historian Michelet. Under the crossed flags of England and France, it said: “It very well seems to me that this great England, in the face of Dunkirk and Antwerp in ruins . this last country of the old continent . . . is the heroic country, the eternal asylum of the banished, of energetic men. “All those who have ever fled from servitude— Druids pursued by Rome, Gauls pursued by barbarians—also have crossed the sea and found a country in the great isle.”

And Now They Have Died

EACH DAY every one of the 150 men in the Surcouf’s crew read that inscription. It was written by an historian but it was as much their own contemporary record as the Surcouf’s logbook. Those self-exiled Frenchmen had fled from their fishing boats and farms and stores and professional offices because they, too, were energetic men. “But now we are all one here,” Capt. Blaison asserted, as we paced the Surcouf’s deck. “We are all seamen ready to die to make. our France free from the enemy.” And now they have died—how, I am not yet permitted to relate. They are all at their stations, Blaison, the little man with the glowing eyes and Yves, the Brittany seaman-gunner, and the British liaison officer, and the two British sighalmen, and all that valiant crew including Musso, the canine mascot and the ship's four cats. “ ... And if we must die other Frenchmen will take our place.”

Editor’s Note: column will be resumed tomorrow.

Raymond Clapper is

on his way home by airplane. His daily

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday.—@ returned this morning from Nashville, Tenn., after waiting quite a time in the middle of the night for a delayed plane. This is the first trip I have taken where we have been

made to draw our window curtains at each stop. Most of the time it seemed hardly worth while to open them in between, so the plane was like a darkened room. One of the things I always enjoy most about flying is the feeling of being in the sky able to look at the clouds. But this enjoyment is evidently out for the duration of the war. Instead, we are just a group of people isolated in a machine which is flying through space. So far as we are concerned, we know nothing of the outer world or our direction. It is rather uncomfortable, pernaps too much like what is happening to most of us in the world today. Last night I presented the Thomas Jefferson award at the Southern Conference on Human Welfare to two outstanding southerners. Dr. Frank Porter Graham received it, with a citation which

C. OF C. QUERIES CANDIDATES ON FEE ATTITUDE

Favors Highest Possible Pay for Those Backing Law Voiding Grabs.

By VERN BOXELL

The Indianapolis Chamber — of Commerce today asked candidates for four Marion county offices to express their attitude on the 1041 law outlawing fee-grabbing in the offices which they seek. Pointing out that due to a possible technical defect in the law, the successful candidate may be forced to accept a minimum salary without fees, the C. of C. letter, signed by President George A. Kuhn, offered a possible solution which would provide the maximum salaries without

legal recourse.

Providing the candidates pledge that if elected they will accept only the salary and “no other remuneration,” the Chamber said it would

ask local bodies to set their salaries at the highest figure permitted by the 1941 act.

wtih New Salaries Set

The new law becomes effective upon the expiration of the present terms of the county treasurer, clerk,

sheriff and recorder. In eliminating

the collection of fees for personal uses by these officials, the legislature raised the salaries of these officials and established minimums of $7500 and maximums of $10,000 for the treasurer, clerk and sheriff with

a range of $4000 to $6000 for the recorder.

“In setting forth minimum and maximum salaries, the first section

of the law apparently does not pro-

vide in sufficient detail who shall set the salary within the limits pre-

scribed by the legislature,” the letter pointed out.

“Some may suggest that this invalidates the operation of the law. Competent legal authorities point, however, to the severability clause of the act.” Should the law be contested, they advise us that the sections eliminating the fee system legally may prevail. The net effect then would be reversion to the present salary schedule—much lower than that

set forth by the 1941 law—without

retention of the fee system.

Dislikes Fee System

“The Chamber of Commerce shares with the general public a

feeling of sineere dislike for the

fee system. It believes, however, that the persons holding the county

offices concerned should receive gs salary that would justify a wellqualified, competent person to give

full time to the operation of the

office.

“Through its duly appointed rep-

resentatives, the Chamber of Commerce is prepared, therefore, to ask

local review bodies to set the salaries of county officials at the maxi-

mum level prescribed by the 1941 act; elected for the county office concerned agrees to accept only that salary and no other remuneration of any kind or character for acts of an official nature, or involving official authority.”

provided, that the person

The “fee system” first was estab-

lished in 1932, permitting certain county officials high personal profits

for acts involving official authority. Some salary figures reportedly ran as high as $35,000 to $50,000 annually.

NATURALIST TO GIVE LECTURES ON BIRDS

Karl H. Maslowski, nationally known naturalist and lecturer, will appear here tomorrow and Friday under the auspices of the Indianapolis Science Teachers. He will show colored slides of bird and animal life at Howe high school tomorrow and at ‘School 22 on Friday. A group of junior high school pupils from each district will be assembled for the lectures. Mr. Maslowski has been associated with the Cincinnati Natural History Museum and the Ohio Division of conservation. He will also appear at 8 p. m. Thursday at Shortridge for a public lecture.

YOUTH FELLOWSHIP TO PRESENT PAGEANT

The Youth Fellowship of the St.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the country as a whole through his service on the war labor board. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune received it because she fights constantly for freedom and has done such a great service in the educational

field for her own people. Paul Robeson’s concert last night was a thrilling experience. He and the Fiske choir sang “I Am An American” by Earl Robinson. It always stirs me, but last night there was something peculiarly significant about it. It was very beautifully done. I was particularly impressed by Andrew Jackson Higgins Sr. of New Orleans, La, and his statement that, as a southern industralist, he was going to tap the great unused reservoir of Negro labor in the South, They will receive training, be employed on an equal basis with equal wages and will constitute 40 per cent of his new employees. I have just been told of a plan which Walter Damrosch, president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has announced. They plan to give grants of $1000 each per year to 10 gifted non-members who are doing creative work in art, literature and music. Of course, this is the time above all others to encourage the arts in this country. People everywhere need this kind of outlet from the tragedy of war and

Paul Methodist church will present a pageant of American history at 8 p. m. Friday at the church. Among the cast are Lois Lee, Doris White, Eleanor Buck, Annalou Klutey, Ruth Garver, Virgil Katterjohn, Margaret Liphard, Doliver Pagel, Thelma Miller, William Weest, Mary Jane Raab and George Richey. Others taking part include Emma Richie, Frances McCullough, Mary Alice Kirk, Dick Williams, Harold Hawthorne, Walter Mendel, Ray McCory, Kim Kramer, Don Henry, Ronnie Jones and Mildred Ehrensperger. Miss Betty McFall is general chairman.

DECATUR CENTRAL HONORS 150 PUPILS

More than 150 pupils of Decatur Central high school will be honored at a supper at 6:30 o'clock this evening for having participated in extra-curricular activities this year. Patrons of the school will act as hosts. The program consists of a speaker, Charles Sarback, instructor at

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By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer CHICAGO, April 22. — The Republican national committee wound up its session here with chunky, spunky little Joe Martin of Massachusetts, minority leader of the house, still sitting securely as national chairman. And thereby hangs a tale of political intrigue that gives a slant on the status of the Republican party. Powerful Eastern financial interests in the party were gunning for Joe. Their intention leaked out some days before the meeting started here, but not a peep was raised at the session, and Joe still sits. The congressman, though from New England, has been closer to the Western wing of the party than to the Eastern, big-business element. He was Eastern campaign manager for Alf M. Landon, the 1936 candidate from Kansas, and is identified generally with that branch of the party represented by Mr. Landon and Senator McNary of Oregon, minority leader of the senate.

Hamilton Boom Is Short-Lived WENDELL L. WILLKIE balked at continuing Joe Martin in the chairmanship at the beginning of the 1940 campaign, but finally accepted him. Joe had succeeded John D. M. Hamilton, whose chief asset was an ability to tap big pocketbooks for campaign contributions, but who had lost favor with more progressive leaders who wanted to shake the party loose from Eastern industrial and financial connections.

Mr. Martin’s elevation has never sat well with the fat-pocketbook boys in the East. Consequently, in recent months the easterners have been trying to put the squeeze on Joe by withholding financial support—by threatening, in effect, that they would not kick in until Joe was kicked out. Some have even been talking of restoring John Hamilton, who is now practicing law in Philadelphia and has associated himself politically with Joseph N. Pew, the oil man, who for so long was so generous with his contributions. This was just extravagant talk, for when Wendell Willkie was nominated he relegated Mr. Hamilton to a minor role and was never very polite to the Pew group until toward the end of the cams= paign, when Mr. Hamilton arranged a meeting between the

The Indianapolis Times Martin Still Rules G.O.P. Despite

Intrigue of Powerful Foes in East

Rep. Joseph W. Martin

SECOND SECTION

Jr. . . . still in saddle.

candidate and Joe Pew, to seal

_an alliance that might swing

Pennsylvania into the Willkie column. Chairman Martin also is identified rather with the isolationist wing of the party, or what was the isolationist wing of the party, which was probably a factor in the reported desire of Mr. Willkie to ease him out and install some one whose views are closer to his own. 2 t J 2 Finance Group Without Leader FOR SOME time the Republicans have had no chairman for their finance committee. Ernest T. Weir, the Pennsylvania steel man, quit this post after the 1940 campaign. This job usually goes to a big industrialist of Mr. Weir's type on the theory that such a man will be influential with others of his kind who have money for political campaigns. Joe Martin spoke out rather frankly during the meeting here, revealing his irritation at the backstairs fight against him. “They want me to go around asking two or three big fellows for money,” he said. “I'm not going to do it. That's not my job. This is & good time to put the party back in the hands of the common people. Perhaps we

can win this year without spend=ing a lot of money.” » » »

Compromise Hinted On Money Angle

HE VOICED similar sentiments at a press conference after a meeting of the Republican executive committee yesterday, which was chiefly devoted to the problem of how to raise money for the congressional campaign. The campaign this year, he said, will be on a small scale as compared with previous years. “It’s going to be a poor man’s campaign,” he said. : But Joe was talking rather idealistically, The party has got to have money, He said there was about $650 in the till when he left Washington, and that there were bills due amounting to about $10,000. At that, he said, the party was never better off financially at the beginning of a campaign, pointing out that in 1937, after the presidential campaign, the debt stood at a million and a half dollars. Compromise with the big boys seems to be in the wind, though just what is involved has not been revealed. Mr. Martin said he would appoint a new finance committee chairman in about a week. Most frequently mentioned is Colby M. Chester, chairman of the board of General Foods.

N. Y. HOOSIERS GATHER FRIDAY

Hershey to Receive 1941 Top Honor During

Annual Reunion.

The 1942 annual reunion of the Sons of Indiana will be held at 6:30 p. m. Friday at the Essex House in New York City. Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, will be presented the Sons of Indiana 1941 distinguished service award and will be the meeting's principal speaker. His “off the record” speech will not be broadcast. Hoosiers or adopted Hoosiers who will be honored with toasts at the dinner include W., L. Batt, Ivan Boxell, Wayne Coy, Homer E. Capehart, Senator James J. Davis, Edwin C. Hill, Mayor F. H, LaGuardia, L. Parker. Likely, Rep. Louis Ludlow, Paul V. McNutt, Cole Porter, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Col. William H. Rankin, Emil Schram, Senator Frederick VanNuys, Everett Watkins, George Wellbaum and Senator R. E. Willis. Memorial to Carole

The evening program includes the election of officers and the showing of the March of Time film, “Our New Army” and a memorial to Carole Lombard for distinguished service to her country and state. Special guests include Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, Maj. Gen. Sanderford Jarman, Maj. Gen. A. D. Surles, Col. Harry C. Kramer and Maj. E. M. Culligan. The program will end, of course, with “On the Banks of the Wabash.”

HOLD EVERYTHING

2 COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. 3

“Take it easy, Gertie! Do ya want me to catch the dickens from my wife again?”

ONLY 12 DAYS LEFT UNTIL TAX DEADLINE

Only 12 more days remain to pay your spring installment of property taxes to escape the delinquent penalties. County Treasurer Walter Boetcher reported that payments had slowed down in the last few days snd warned those who had not yet paid their taxes to do so at once to avoid standing in line during the last few days.

He announced that the treasurer’s office would remain open on Saturday afternoons, April 25 and May 2, until 4 p. m. to accommodate those who can’t get in during regular hours. The deadline is 5 p. m. Monday, May 4. After that all unpaid taxes will be listed as delinquent and

STATE BUSINESS AT 20-YEAR HiGH

Factory Payrolls Nearly 40 Per Cent Above 1941, University Says.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 22.— War industries are adding workers more rapidly than they are being released by curtailed civilian industries, the Indiana university bureau of business research reported today. In the Indiana Business Review, which reported a gain both in employment and payrolls in March, the bureau declared: “The transition of the state’s productive facilities from civilian to war production is progressing much more rapidly than is generally recognized. “Business in Indiana in March reached an all-time high for the period of more than 20 years covered by the I. U. bureau's index. Factory payrolls, bolstered by the expansion of war production, were nearly 40 per cent larger than a vear ago. Retail trade in dollar volume was nearly 15 per cent larger than a year ago.” (The Census bureau reported yesterday that March retail sales in Indiana’s independent stores were 25 per cent above March, 1941. Department store business, the Census bureau said, was up 40 per cent.) Other factors which raised the state index were 40 per cent higher farm prices and the largest physical volume of building construction of any March on record. Coal production was the best since September on a seasonal basis, but there was little change in the near capacity production of pig iron and generation of elec-

penalties added.

tricity.

WASHINGTON, April 22 (U. P.). —To keep sweet young things—and the Japanese — guessing, President Roosevelt is spreading the story that the bombers which blasted Japan last Friday were secretly based at Shangri-La. Shangri-La, in case you don’t know it, is a fictitious Utopia peopled by ever-youthful monks in Tibet, as pictured by James Hilton in his successful book, “Lost Horinn.” OM. Roosevelt was asked at his

press conference yesterday

the

okve bombings, which hel -

Japanese radio has attributed to American planes. The president replied that he had a few people in for dinner the other night, and some sweet young thing asked him in a very sweet voice— which he mimicked—for the full details of the Tokyo bombings. She wanted to know where the planes came from, where the planes went, he said. He told this sweet young thing that he thought it was a proper occasion to spill all the beans. Whereupon, he told her the planes operated from a secret new base in

Roosevelt Tells a ‘Sweet Young Thing’ Japan Was Bombed From Shangri-La

laughter when he was asked whether this was the same sweet young thing whom he told that Gen. Douglas MacArthur rowed a boat all the way from the Philippines to Australia. Finally, Mr. Roosevelt replied that the phrase “sweet young thing” was strictly a generic term and applied to sweet young men as well as sweet young women, just like he includes womanpower in the broader term “manpower.” In a more serious vein, Mr. Roosevelt said he was unable to confirm

LUDLOW PUTS WAR SALARIES IN SPOTLIGHT

Urges End to Cost-Plus Contracts Leading to

Payroll Abuses.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 22.—Rep, Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.), second ranking member of the house appropriations committee, today published in the Congressional Record a detailed showing of the wage and

"|salary grabs fostered by the coste

plus-fixed-fee war construction con= tracts. . The Indianapolis congressman urged that this type of contract be abandoned and inserted testimony from Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson backing this stand. Payrolls for construction come panies with cost-plus contracts showing names of persons whose salaries were increased 30 per cent or more were obtained from Controller General Lindsay Warren and published by Rep. Ludlow.

Some Increases 700% For the most part they are from the rush construction jobs in southe ern training camps. . “It is difficult to understand why employees suddenly became so vale uable to the government that they are entitled to double and treble the salary they were receiving just be= fore they came under the blankeg

tracts,” Rep. Ludlow commented. “Increases. of salary under this system revealed in the controller general's report reach as high as 700 per cent. Seventeen officials in one company whose salaries had previously ranged from $125 to $300 a month were all boosted to $450 a month. “Nearly 600 in one company received an increase of more than 30 per cent.

Cites Extreme Cases

“Extreme increases were: “A superintendent from $3000 to $7800 a year; another superintendent from $100 to $325 a month; an electrical superintendent from $1993 to $5400; a plumbing superintendent from $1820 to $4800 a year; a timekeeper from $36 to $9230 a week; 10 carpenter superintendents, who were drawing from $19 to $45 a week, promoted to $60 a week; 30 guards, who formerly drew from $360 to $1200 a year, all boosted to $1664 a year; gas attendant from $21 to $130 a month; field superintendent from $1400 to $4425 a year; carpenter superintendent from $19

$75 to $260 a month.” From this data, Rep. Ludlow drew the conclusion that the cost= plus contract, “in fairness to the American taxpayers, should be abolished and never again be re stored.”

LaGuardia Adds

Blackout Scare

NEW YORK, April 22 (U. P.).— Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia added some excitement to a Brooklyn blackout last night by turning in two false fire alarms and a highly imaginary report of a gas and water main break, all in two minutes. He succeeded admirably. Police emergency squads, fire fighters, hospital disaster squads and public utilities units burst upon surprised air raid wardens who a mo=ment before had been peacefully patroling the scenes of the supposed “disasters.” The emergency units, not have ing been forewarned, had to convince themselves that nothing was wrong. Mr. LaGuardia could see for himself how only one “disaster” was treated, and he roared off in his “war car” to the “gas and water main break.” He and emer= gency units arrived simultaneous ly. There was only one real casualty in the blackout, affecting more than 1,000,000 persons. Otto Wungling, 53, an air raid warden, died of heart seizure at his post.

MISSIONARY TO SPEAK

The Elder Jacob Halb, a missione ary for 35 years, will speak tomore row, Friday and Sunday at 8 p. m, before the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Ninth and Chester sts. Born in Germany, the Elder Mr. Halb is a natuaralized citizen.

e WAR QUIZ

1—-This flag—from top to bottom stripes are blue, white, red—belongs to a nation conquered by the Nazis, but still fighting on. Is it Jugo= slavia, Norway, Greece? 2—How has the town of Riom figured in the news? 3—Do you know how it happens that a number of officers in the American army either speak Chinese or Japanese?

Answers 1—Flag belongs to Jugoslavia. 2—Riom is the French town where Vichy tried former ministers

took the country into war when it was totally unprepared. 3—They were sent to China or

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