Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1942 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1942

Washington

WASHINGTON, June 10.—Without doubt the battle of Midway island was a clear-cui heartening victory for the United States but it does not mean, in

the judgment of informed persons, here, that the danger in the Pacific is over. Far from it. Japan undoubtedly will try it again. Japan was trying to capture Midway. Her purpose was fo use it as a base for bombing Hawaii and later attempting to take Hawaii, our main outpost, which must be held at all costs if we are to keep the Japanese navy from moving up toward the Pacific coast. Midway island is to Pearl Harbor what Pearl Harbor is to San Francisco. Therefore when American forces beat the Japanese off and sent them fleeing back to their bases, it was a notable victory in that it saved a vital foothold from falling to the enemy. But it was not a decisive victory because the Japanese escaped—with losses to be sure, but still with considerable force. If Japan were to let it go at that and make no further attempt then time would mark down the battle of Midway as a decisive turning point like the battle of Jutland, in which the German fleet escaped but lost its nerve and never ventured out again.

We Won With Aircraft

BUT WE ARE NOT assuming any such favorable break, and on the contrary are figuring that Japan will try to come back a second time. That is the only

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By Raymond Clapper

safe way to play it. Our forces surprised Japan this time and they are preparing to be equally ready for Japan if she attempts to return. Some might wonder why we allowed the Japanese force to escape, once we were on top of it. A fair guess from what has been officially revealed is that we beat the Japanese mainly with aircraft and submarines. There are limits to how far you can follow a retreating enemy at sea. Our own air forces must return to refuel and reload. Furthermore, if they attempted to gd too far they would come within range of Japanese shore-based aircraft and the advantage then would pass to the enemy. So much is at stake in the Pacific that the navy cannot afford to be reckless. It was on the alert. We had the reconnaissance and the Japanese did not have it. The situation was reversed from what it was at Pearl Harbor.

Sequels Still to Come

LITTLE HAS BEEN heard from Dutch Harbor for several days and the situation there still is unclear. Bad weather has interfered with operations of both sides. The action in that area may still be uncompleted. Again you have Dutch Harbor standing in relation to Alaska much as Midway stands in relation to Pearl Harbor. It would be a foothold for air operations farther in. Both are important and the Japanese are playing for both of them, hoping to get one or the other. Our commanders have to weigh the risks and chances and try to out-guess the Japanese. We appear to have done it very successfully this time.

Ernie Pyle, in poor health for some time, has been forced to take a rest. he is expected to resume his daily column within a short time.

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A WINDOW cleaner was squeegeeing the first floor windows in the K. of P. building, where most of the draft boards have offices. He was humming, The tune was: “Youre in the Army Now.” . . . Strauss’ store has a show window display of the various military insignia. It’s probably been fixed by now, but one of our agents reports that yesterday afternoon they had all the chevrons upside down. . . . Seen in a garage window on Illinois just north of 30th: “Summer suggestions—buy your anti-freeze now.” . . . Capt. Arthur C. Prine, recently of The Times advertising department, reports for active duty with the U. S. Marines probably next week at Quantico. . . The torrential rainfall the other day flooded a lot of basements, including that in one of our apartment buildings. As the water receded, various tenants sorted through their lockers, checking over the loss to excess furniture and other articles. One couple with the hoarding habit tore open the door to their locker, took one look, and moaned: “Look; five dollars worth of toilet paper ruined.” S'truth.

Cuffs? Sure You Can Get "Em

IF YOU SEE someone stepping out in a brand new suit with cuffs on it, don’t holler for the cops until you investigate. It might be one of those rayon affairs. We're told you can have all the cuffs you want so long as there's less than 5 per cent wool in the material. . . . One of our east side friends was complaining about spending more than an hour trying to find some cokes or similar soft drinks Sunday. Said he: “I finally had to give up and go buy some beer.” Tsk, tsk. . . . For the benefit of those who read in Monday's column about shooting pigeons and want to know how to get a permit, we have investigated the situation. At the Safety Board office in the City Hall, we were told you can get an application at the board office. You fill this out and present it, with one dollar,

to the city controller and get your permit. That's all there is to it.

From 1A to 4A

MYRON CURZON, the eagle eyed internal revenue examiner, is wearing the army uniform now-—all but the shoes. He reported at the draft reception center out at.the fort two or three days ago. His friends say he’ll probably be there at least eight weeks. The reason: He wears a long narrow shoe—quadruple A width—and it'll have to be made special. . . . Remember Dwight F. Morgan who used to have so much trouble over phone calls meant for DeWitt S. Morgan, the schools superintendent? Well, Dwight’s in the army now—an aviation cadet at Thunderbird field, Ariz., with more than 40 hours in the air. Incidentally, he probably doesn’t know it yet, but he was visited by bad luck this week. He left the family Pontiac with his wife, who is staying at her mother’s home, 1414 N. Tuxedo. A neighbor awakened her early Monday and said that two boys had just jacked up the car and made off with two wheels and two as-good-as-new white sidewall tires. It's a dirty trick to play on a soldier.

Bet a Nickel on the Blond

THE ENLISTED MEN helping handle the questioning of several hundred applicants for commissions in the WAAC Monday seemed to be getting quite a bit of entertainment out of their work. Mrs. Elizabeth Nall, secretary to Col. Everett L. Gardner, Indiana Employment Security division director, noticed that the soldiers would look at some particular feminine applicant, whisper, and then write something in a book. After some time—Mrs. Nall was waiting there from 1 p. m. to 8 p. m.—she discovered they were making bets on whether this or that woman would be accepted or rejected. As soon as the applicant came out from the examining room, one of the soldiers would rush up and ask if she had passed. Then he’d go back to the group and they'd study the book. Even the applicants got to enjoying the fun after they figured out what was going on.

A 52-Hour Week? By Helen Kirkpatrick

LONDON, June 10.—British industry's demands for more workers will be met by the compulsory institution of a 52-hour week in factories and a vast “combout” of potentially mobile women workers who are to be replaced by housewives and middle-aged women. Twenty-five million men and women, between the ages of 14 and 64, are now working in British war industries or essential civilian services, it is estimated. About 8.000,000 are directly affected by the essential-works order which prohibits an employer from dismissing a worker save for serious misconduct, this being judged by a labor tribunal. This order also prevents an employee from exchanging his job without permis- ; sion from the labor exchange. By April of this year, 1500,000 women who were tied to their homes had been drafted into nearby factories. Despite these seemingly impressive figures, more workers are required and more women needed in the women’s services. In the latter category the requirement can more easily be filled since only two age groups have been drafted.

All Single Women Eligible

ALL, SINGLE WOMEN, between 20 and 30 years of age, are liable to the service draft. Those over 30 are subject to conscription for industrial work. It will still be necessary, however, to comb out of fac-

tories in London, Newcastle, Birmingham and other big eities, younger women who have no household ties

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesdayv.—There was an article in ons of the Sunday papers, written by Dr. William Allen Neilson, which I hope a great many people read, One paragraph seemed particularly thought-provok-ing to me: “What is important and essential is that our teachers should keep vividly aware of the ends for which they work and resist the perennial temptation to content themselves with operating little devices inside a sequestered fieid. “Their duty is to society and their concern is with lives. If these are attended to, their students will not fail to value the institutions and privileges of the tradition they inherit.” So many students come out of school and college, and their first experience with life makes them question how honest their teachers were with them. Young people can value only the institutions, privileges and traditions which they inherit if their teachers have made them face the whole picture. This includes the responsibility which each person carries in a democracy and the realization that the objectives the people of a democracy must have are never won. They are constantly fought for with

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to immobilize them, and send them to new factories where there is no local supply. Their places must be taken by “middle-aged, the married and middle class,” suggests the London Times today. Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin’s plan for enforcing a 52-hour week in all factories, and a 48-hour week in offices has not been received enthusiastically by any means. The Times today carries a letter from a woman labor interviewer who points out the injurious effects of a 52-hour week on the health of girls of 16 and 18. Most of these girls leave home at 7 a. m. and get back at 7 p. m.

Shorter Week Just as Productive

“THE IMPRESSION which they leave with one is that they are work-dulled and have little interest in life, and that vitality . . . has suffered a depressing diminution,” the Times letter writer points out. She recommends two days of rest every fortnight. On this point, the head of an aircraft factory your correspondsnt visited recently, confirmed some of the ill-efTects of a 52-hour week. He found the girls in his factory capable of producing the same amount in a 40 or 46-hour week as in a period of 52 hours or over. But he has been unable to institute a shorter week without having the ministry of labor take some of his workers from him on the grounds that he could not need so many if he can shorten the working week. One of the reasons for enforcing the 46-hour week in offices is to release men and girls, now reserved as key workers. By this means, recruiting of married and middle-aged women, and a more careful check on those potentially mobile, Britain will be able to find the means to answer the increasing demands on manpower.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

new objectives developing out of the constant struggle. One thing that has been brought to my attention has deeply troubled me. We are told that there is no real reason why anybody should be unemploved today, but I receive letter after letter from older unemployed people. Some of them cannot adapt themselves to new jobs and their old jobs are wiped out under our war economy. Sometimes even the little businesses they are able to establish either disappear because they can no longer obtain the materials they need, or people are no longer buying from them. This is really becoming a problem of some magnitude in some communities. Employers would rather employ young people, who learn more quickly and easily. Some of the¢se young people even think if they accept lower wages they are fulfilling a patriotic duty. I am told that, in Detroit, some older women who have been employed in the automobile industry are still out of work. In some of the converted plants young college people have been taken on and are paid less than the union member women made and, naturally, want to earn again. These are puzzling and distressing situations. The public should know about them and think them through to a just handling.

India Adolf | H. 1 tler v + By Frederick C. Qechsner

Nazi Leader Judges Men

By Their Hands, Covets Their Brains for Science

In the third of his series of dispatches on the personal life of Adolf Hitler, Frederick C. Oechsner, who studied him at close range

for 12 years, reveals that the Nazi

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fect example of the “herrenvolk,” the master race.

By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER (Copyright, 1942, by United Press)

NEW YORK, June 10.—On a February day in 193 a half dozen men gathered in the front parlor of Adolf Hitler’s apartment on the Prinz Regenten platz in Munich. ; The Nazi dictator, out of his colossal

summoned a commission of leadership of the

bruck, to measure his head in order that

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and the affair was con-

ducted in great solemnity. The experts, who included specialists in phrenology and craniology, brought large and small calipers and tape measures. They measured the breadth of Hitler's skull above the ears. “Just like Napoleon's,” said one of the sycophants. ”

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A Profound Egoism

HITLER beamed, and ordered that all the measurements and comments should be recorded in writing. They measured the breadth between the pupils of his eyes, the distance from his chin to his temples, they recorded the breadth of his mouth amid exclamations such as “Just like Frederick the Great.” For more than an hour this went on with Hitler ordering them. “Yes, yes, write it all down.” When the report was finished, it covered 130 pages. A performance such as this would appear to spring from more than simple, petty vanity, but rather to manifest a profound egoism by which he is convinced that the flesh and blood materialization of A. Hitler should be preserved for all time. He is working to make the German race “ein herrenvolk” (a master people), and evidently sees himself as a perfect, present specimen thereof. In his library are many volumes on phrenology and craniology through which he searches for the material for a composite of the ideal physiogomy.

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Admires His Own Brain

A BOOK of his own original sketches of heads and faces entitled, “Ein Herrenvolk” develops his thesis that the Germans have been called to rule the world. It is interesting that the only other people to whom he concedes a place alongside the Germans as

BATTALION FIRE CHIEF CHOSEN

Capt. Dilger Appointed to Succeed Fred Fries, Who Died at Blaze.

The safety board has appointed Capt. Fred Dilger as battalion chief in the fire department to succeed Fred Fries, who died last week of a heart attack while fighting a fire. The board named Lieut. Joseph Hancock as a captain to fill the post held by Capt. Dilger. A delegation appeared before the board yesterday, protesting the establishment of a poolroom in the 2100 block, N. Talbot ave. but the board said the license had been issued two weeks ago and that it could not be rescinded unless there were law violations. Police Chief Morrissey explained that investigators had questioned businessmen in that district and found no opposition.

MATRON TO BE HONORED

Golden Rule chapter 413 and Daylight chapter 553, O. E. 8, will entertain Mrs. Ruth L. Morris, worthy grand matron of the Indiana grand chapter, with a dinner at 6:30 p. m. Friday in the Masonic temple, North and Illinois sts. A stated meeting and initiation ceremony will follow with Mrs. Lillie V. Gauker and Miss Ruth Cochrane, worthy matrons, and Emil V. Schaad and Aubrey Porter, worthy patrons, presiding. Daylight chapter will observe flag day at 1:30 p. m. Friday in the Masonic temple.

CANNING SUGAR CENTER

Applications for canning suga® purchase certificates are being

fense workers at 4141 College ave. The address of this defense center has been given as 42d st. and College ave, and many housewives have had difficulty finding the lo-

eation of the branch rationing office.

future generations might know the exact dimensions of his cranium. siders himself a perfect example of the “herrenvolk,” the master race, and he wanted to leave a pattern for posterity. Some of the more mature members of

Hitler con-

know, were privately a little

ironic about Hitler's almost childish enchantment with the proceedings, but others were typical Nazi sycophants

a superior people worthy of ruling are the English and that because, as he shows in his drawings, they are of Germanic strain. The sketches are of men and women, showing skull and face formations, with special reference to ears and noses. Another example of Hitler's con-

" vietion that his spirit and his body

are ordained by providence to remain forever a symbol and a guide for those who come after him, is the provision in his testament, which reposes in the Kehlstein, that on his death his brain shall be dissected. ”

Surgical Peeping Tom

ALL PREPARATIONS have been made for this in a laboratory in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem where there is already a considerable collection of dissected brains, many of concentration camp occupants, including numerous Jews. Hitler several years ago gave standing instructions to the sci‘entists heading this laboratory to conduct dissection and research into the brains of all type of persons to try to find some pattern which would reveal what creates faults and virtues both in the great and in the mentally deficient. This mania of Hitler's for brain dissection, it has often been feared, might very easily lead to the killing of persons for the simple purpose of studying their brains. Fantastic as it sounds, it is genuinely believed that Hitler has caused the death of some occupants of concentration camps to obtain their brains for the laboratory. It is known among his intimates that Hitler wants a law empowering a special commission to take the brain of anybody whom the commission judges a desirable subject, for dissection after death. This surgical prying into the secrets of human personality, of

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“Various generals and diplomats have wondered why Hitler, sometimes after starting a conversation in a cordial and friendly way, became cool as it went along and very often closed the discourse curtly, They learned later that Hitler had not been pleased by the shape of their hands.” Here the fuehrer is shown riding with Admiral Horthy of Hungary on one of the Nazi leader's visits to Budapest. There has been no report as to whether Hitler liked or disliked Hor thy’s hands.

talent and stupidity, virtue and sin, strength and weakness, is a dominant passion, apparently fed by Hitler's quest for “ein herrenvolk.” n

Racial Purity Killings

ANOTHER PHASE of this race purification is the activity of the euthanasia commission, headed when it was created by Rudolf Hess and Philip Bouhler, Up to June, 1941, the commission had destroyed 37,000 persons in Germany. Roughly, half of these were mgn and half women. Seventeen per cent came from concentration camps. In single issues of certain German newspapers, I have seen death notice after death notice revealing to the initiated that the subjects—mentally defective or suffering from some incurable ailment—had been killed by the Nazi state under Hitler's euthanasia program. These notices stated simply that such and such a person had “died” after being an inmate of some institution named. I have talked with the relatives of some victims. They do not want to say much, and the whole subject of euthanasia is one only for whispers. Hypodermic injections, in many cases containing a lethal overdose of some accustomed drug, seems to be the system often used. Presumably in each case a mixed medical and legal commission hag rendered a decision justi= fying the killing.

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Wounded Soldiers Slain

HITLER'S IDEA is that through euthanasia, as well as through sterilization, there shall, within 20 years, be no more need for insane asylums in Germany. It was pointed out to him that this policy of scientific destruction of unfit persons was full of danger and would put into the hands of unscrupulous physicians the power to get rid of people—for example, elderly persons of wealth whose heirs awaited large inheritances— but he was adamant.

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It is Hitler’s stipulation that no wearer of the golden party badge, or the blood order, (held by those who marched with him in 1923 in Munich) shall be destroyed by

* euthanasia under any circum-

stances. The case of an ordinary member of the party whose death the commission has recommended must be referred to the reich party headquarters beforehand. One application of euthanasia, which has had a strong psychological effect in wartime Germany, is the killing of hopelessly wounded soldiers, which has been applied in some known cases. Regular practice of this, obviously, could be a severe shock to the morale of both the soldiers and their families, The Bishop of Muenster, Count Von Galen, warned against this practice in a famous and courageous telegram

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Plans Race of Future

IN ADDITION to abolishing insane asylums within 20 years, Hitler also says he will have the breweries making only fruit juices and milk drinks, though the vineyards representing an investment in soil will be allowed to remain. Hitler's pursuit of the perfect human-type has led him not only to plan for the coming race but also to the development of one of his idiosyncracies, the judgment of men with whom he comes into contact by their hands. In his first conversation with some personality, whether political or military, whether German or foreign, he usually most carefully observes their hands—the form of them, whether they are well-cared for, whether they are long, stumpy, broad or narrow and the form of the nails, ete. Various generals and diplomats have wondered why Hitler sometimes after starting a conversation in a cordial and friendly way, became cool as it went along and very often closed the discourse curtly or abruptly without much progress having been made. They learned only later that Hitler had not been pleased by

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Auto Use Stamps Go on Sale; July 1 Deadline, Is Warning

New 85 automobile use stamps went on sale this morning at all postoffices and the offices of internal revenue collector. Motorists mush purchase them and have them affixed to their car windshields before July 1. Bach stamp will be serially numbered, gummed on the face, and will have space on the back for entry of the make, model, serial and license number of the vehicle, Will

YANKS APPRECIATE PORT OF SPAIN USO

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Copylighl, 1942. bv The Thdianapolis and The Chicago Daily News, In

PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD, B. W. I, June 6 (Via Airmail) — Keeping pace with the vast con= struction program by which the United States is improving its lend= lease sites here, the USO center in Port of Spain has just laid the foundations for a huge extension aimed at providing American soldiers on leave with every possible comfort of home. Already, the USO is serving a vital need with its large comfortably furnished leunging rooms where the soldiers and sailors may read newspapers from home, play ping pong, attend movies, dance, enjoy a snack at low cost, or even skate. Military visitors in from the outposts find that the USO has an= ticipated one of their first desires— showers with hot water. The extension, as explained by Associate Director Charles E. Robertson of Northampton, Mass. will provide meals at cost and sleeping facilities for men desiring to remain in town overnight.

CHIROPRACTORS MEET

The Indianapolis Chiropractors’ Luncheon club will meet at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Riley hotel to hear Dr. Joe Shelby Riley of Washington, D. C. Members of the

Indiana Chiropractors’ association | executive board will attend.

H. Smith, collector of internal revenue said. Mr. Smith said he had been advised by the office of price adminis« tration that in the event of gasoline rationing, the use stamp serial number will be an important identification in obtaining ration books. The collector also dropped a hint as to how to affix the stamps to the windshield. He said to dampen a spot on the inside lower corner, farthest from the driver and press the stamp against the glass. This, he said, was much more satisfactory than wetting the face of the stamp. He also suggested that each motor= ist make a record of the serial number which appears on the stamp in order that there may be some means of identification in connection with gasoline rationing in the event the stamp is lost. Postoffices will sell the tax stamps for cash only, however, collectors of internal revenue have been authorized to accept postoffice money orders, and certified checks.

HOLD EVERYTHING

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“No, you can’t be commandos now get out of that mud!”

100 TO BECOME U. 8. CITIZENS

Oath to Be Administered in Flag Day Exercise at Murat Temple.

More than 100 resident aliens of Indianapolis will be welcomed to Americal citizenship in a Flug day ceremony at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Murat temple. This week many of the citizens to=be are taking final examinations in the federal building under the national citizenship education program, a division of the WPA. The division has supplied 30 study classes weekly for citizenship applicants. Senator to Speak Headlining the program Sunday will be an address on “National Unity” by Senator and former Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, Indiana department, will co-operate in the program which is sponsored by the Indiana Committee for Vietory. ‘ John A. Linebarger, state supervisor of the education program, emphasized that the process of becoming a citizen is a difficult one. Those who achieve their aim must be thoroughly versed in the basic factors of American government and the structure of the constitution.

783 Take Courses Ten workers of the WPA program have been assigned to the educa-

tional division as part of the immigration and naturalization service

of the department of justice.

In all, 783 persons are studying Some are taking advantage of the 11 optional classes in reading and writing. The classes are held in libraries, public schools,

community centers and the World War Memorial,

the shape of their hands, ine credible as this may sound and incredible as it has seemed to some medical persons who knew Hitler. However, numerous men have found favor and advancement with Hitler, at least partially, on the basis of possessing hands which he regarded favorably. This was true of his favorite architect Prof. Ludwig Troost, whose bony, even gross, hands Hitler viewed as ideal, and who was given many very important architectural projects to carry out,

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Judged by Their Hands

GOERING’S HANDS are not up to Hitler's standards and are de~ scribed by him as “ipo fat and round.” When Hitler, in discussing this addiction to hands, wants to show what he considers an outstandingly good hand, he puts forth his own right, and in many of hig photographs he is pictured with this hand posed on his hip. In a special folio, Hitler has sketches, or reproductions of paintings of hands of many his« torical figures of all times, insofar as they are available, Among the hands which he ree gards as good are those of Hind« enburg, Mussolini, Franco, Wil« helm II and Beethoven. Among hands which he consid~ ers bad are those of the Jewish painter Liebermann, the first president of the republic, Ebert, the socialist leader Scheidemann, Stresemann, Lenin, and, interesting to note, Ernst Roehm, to whom Hitler was otherwise very closely attached in the early days of the party struggle, but whom he had shot in the blood purge of 1934. Hitler once said to a promineng English physician who visited him in the company of Sir Os wald Moseley that “the hand is the mirror of human character.”

NEXT: Hitler's wardrobe and the incident of the wax head,

356 Votes Draw Ralston Protest

THE VALIDITY of 356 ballots cast in the primary election have been challenged by Glenn B. Rale ston in the recount contest brought against him by Toney Flack, defeated candidate for the Democratic auditor nomination. Mr. Ralston charged that the vote markings on each ballot were so similar that they appeared to have been marked by some one other than a voter. The ballots will be presented in evidence at a hearing in circuit court following completion of the recount, In a recount of 77 precincts, Mr. Flack had gained 18 votes, Mr. Ralston was declared nomi nated by 841 votes by the cane vassing board.

What You Busy With WAR BONDS

Life “floats” are replacing life boats in many instances in our navy because of their greater safety and less likelihood to splinter or be affected by shell fragments. They are constructed of an elliptical portion of balsa wood, from which is suse pended the float proper, carrying from 10 to 25 people. :

There are provisions for food and water and some have automatie electric light equipment to aid im night rescue. The life float for 10 people costs about $185 each. You can provide this added protection for the boys in our navy by your purchase of war bonds and s regularly every pay day. Spend least 10 per cent of your income war bonds.

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