Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1943 — Page 3

ed and thousands of dollars worth

; gern weeks ago into county con-

contracts for supplies to Sunnyside

: ; construction work at Julietta in-

reshegule for March 6 when offi-

a Attorneys for the firm's officials

a could reach the scene. Twenty others were driven from the barn, but

barn on the farm of Martin Con-

distance away, called Indianapolis

use a 500-gallon water supply to

the ‘heating plant was the origin.

Community center, 1004 N, Penn-

_ The flames were extinguished with-

Ir yeide Probe Almost Forgatten but It's Been Contin‘uing and Grand Jury Will Resume Hearings Next Week.

By NOBLE REED

The city’ s vast gambling syndicates awere paralyzed § week in a series of whirlwind thrusts by rival law en-

ent agencies maneuveri ery.

i Prosecutor Blue's raids and investigations one day were tehed or outdone the next day by city hall’s Police Chief

r, both striking at the] shots” in the lottery and

machine rackets. As a result, most all the known psors of all types of petty ling in Indianapolis yere raid-

of * equipment confiscated. gee . Contracts Forgotten

I has been estimated that the sources of big capital and supplies for more than $2,000,000 in gaming schemes were wiped out in the raids. The gambling cleanup was 50 spectacular that everyone almost the half a dozen or more started by Prosecutor Blue

iol are still going on, nut the ents are being withheld from the public. The grand jury will resume hear- + witnesses next week on county

um and other witnesses will be called soon to sift the circumstances surrounding five years of

firmary at a cost far exceeding original estimates. Then There's Gravel

Also covered up in the maze. of investigations and raids is the jury's projected inquiry into Ew contracts awarded by county oners in the last two years. : first court action in the multiple county contract probing is

of the Golden Guernsey Farms, Inc, are to be arraigned on charges of selling “watered” milk to Sunnyside sanitorium.

d they would block arraign- * ments of the dairy firm officials by motions to quash the affidavits,

150 HOGS DIE IN ~ FRIENDSWOOD FIRE

"One hundred and fifty hogs valued at $5000 were destroyed by fire

last night on a Hendricks county farm before Indianapolis firemen

10° were burned so badly they will have to be destroyed. The blaze occurred in the heated

rad at Friendswood. Mr. Conrad, whose home is some

firemen. No. 26 pumper in charge of Lieut. Arnold Phillips made the run, but arrived only in time to

prevent spread of the flames to a nearby larger barn. Mr. Conrad estimated loss of the hog barn at $1000. Firemen believe

PRACTICE OPERATION

ng for control of the G. O. P.

DEADLINE NEAR FOR 1943 TAGS

Drivers to Face Arrest After Midnight Tomorrow,

Stiver Warns.

Today is the last day to buy 1943 auto license plates and drivers’ licenses, and State Police Superintendent Don F. Stiver warned that police would begin arresting persons driving with old plates after midnight tomorrow. Tomorrow midnight is the legal dead line for purchasing the new plates and licenses, but practically none of the auto license bureaus

plans to be open tomorrow. In commenting on his arrest order, Mr. Stiver pointed out that the licenses have been on sale since Jan. 1, and said that “there can be no excuse for operating motor vehicles on streets or highways after the official dead line has.expired.” Public officials cannot, under the law, order an extension of the time for buying the licenses. Persons driving a motor vehicle without an operator’s license after tomorrow midnight are guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, are subject to a fine of from $10 to $500, six months imprisonment, or both. Chauffeur’s and public passenger chauffeur’s licenses for 1942 expired Dec. 31. The state police superintendent urged car owners to attach the new 1943 strip license plate well above or below the 1942 rear plate in order that numerals on the latter are not obscured. The larger numerals of last year’s plates will be used for identification purposes. Troopers are demonstrating the correct method of mounting the plates where incorrect attachment is observed.

2 JAP-HELD TOWNS BOMBED BY R. A. F.

NEW DELHI, Feb. 27 (U. P.)— Fighter-escorted Blenheim bombers blasted buildings and set large fires in an attack yesterday on the Jap-anese-occupied village of Minbya, 30 miles northeast of Akyab in western Burma, a British communique said today. On the previous afternoon, the communique said, another Blenheim formation kindled large fires in a three-minute “thunderbolt” attack on Rathedaung, 25 miles north of Akyab. All planes returned to their bases from both attacks.

IS PLANNED IN D-31

A practice operation for district 31 casualty station will be held at 7:30 p. m. Monday at the Catholic

‘sylvania st. Miss Mary Ball, district chairman, sald that all first aiders and those persons who plan to take first aid instruttion should attend the meeting. The casualty station is for persons living between College and Capitol aves, and St. Clair and 13th’ sts.

; FIREMEN SAVE MILLINERY

Coverings spread by the fire|L department salvage corps saved ~ millinery stocks from water damage when a small fire broke out ; last night on the roof of Fahnley-

a, Inc., 240 S. Meridian st.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

All Data in Central War Time Sunrise. ..... 7:22 | Sunset TEMPERATURE (Feb. 27%, 1942)

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7: 30 a.m. Total precipitation since Jan. Deficiency since Jan. 1

The following table shows the a ture in other cities:

Atlanta Boston Chicago ; Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Evansville . Warne Indianapolis (city) .. Kansas Shy. . Miami,

New Orleans New York. Oklahoma City .... Omaha, Neb. Pittsburgh San Antonio, Tex. St. Louis

Victory Garden No. 12

Proper Care in To Needed

This is the last of 12 articles, offering expert advice to this year’s victory gardeners. It is suggested that you clip and save each installment for future reference.

GETTING THE most out of the victory garden means not only getting the best possible yields and a continuous supply of vegetables, but also using them in such a way as to get the full nutritional value of both fresh and preserved products.

To save the food value of fresh vegetables and get the most of the vitamins and minerals, proper care and cooking are necessary. If vegetables must be held they should be kept cold and covered, but not soaking in water. Vegetables should be served raw when possible. Otherwise, they should. be cooked rapidly and only until tender. : The common way of cooking vegetables is boiling. The correct way of boiling i$ to drop the vegetable in a small amount of rapidly boiling, slightly salted water and boil until just tender. Soda should not be added. The cooking water should be served on the vegetable or in a soup or sauce. Boil green and strongflavored vegetables in an open kettle, others in a covered kettle. Steaming and baking are suitable methods of cooking all but green and strong-flavored vegetables. Cooking in the new pressure saucepan conserves most of the food values.

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Limit War Canning

FOR LATER use, garden products may be preserved by canning, drying, freezing, brining, pickling and storing. Present information indicates there will be an adequate supply of cans, jars and sealers for the needs of home gardeners. However, in view of the wartime shortages of tin and rubber,

RED CROSS LOADING SHIP FOR PRISONERS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (U. P.) .— The International Red Cross said

yesterday that a “mercy ship,” the 4250-ton S. S. Caritas .I, is being loaded in Philadelphia with food, clothing and medical supplies for prisoners of war in axis-held countries of Europe. The ship, owned by the Swiss foundation for Red Cross transports, a subsidiary of the International Red Cross committe in Geneva, will go . directly to Marseille, France, from where, under International Red Cross supervision, its cargo will be sent to various prison camps.

Urge Scholarships To Save Colleges

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27 (U. P).— Men with 4-F classification, and women and men under military age should be awarded government scholarships to save scores of colleges and universities from going bankrupt, the higher education department of the national cation department of the National Education ‘association decided here yesterday. The group voted support of a movement to ask $100,000 from congress to preserve higher education facilities in this country. If $400 scholarships are awarded to’ 250,000 students, schools will survive the current. withdrawal of students into the war effort, said department members.

. RAIL CONDUCTOR KILLED RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 27 (U.P.).

5 —Robert Lisle, 56-year-old Colum-

bus, O., Pennsylvania railroad conductor, was injured fatally yesterday. when struck by. a passenger train as he stepped from a freight

out damage.

Washington, D. C.

train to inspect a defective wheel.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

RATIONING DATES

: JAR--Coupon 11 fis Food for three “ pounds through March ~ Coffee—Coupon 25 good ash March 21. ~ Gasoline—A book—Coupon 4 good for four ‘gallons through March 21. ©Oil—Coupon 4 good for 11 gallons through April 12. ‘Tires for h:lders of A gas books cted & paren 31. Tires d T books must by Aor.

pon} 1 good for one pair

Good am A, B and C good Monday through March 31.

r ghation Book 2—Registration ends to-

EVENTS TODAY Republican Editorial association, ng and banquet; speaker at dinner, Robert McCormick, publisher of po Tribune, Claypool hotel, all day. Democratic Editorial association, ng, Claypool hotel, all day. mail, lecture, Mme. Suzanne Silver“Life, Art and Sculpture,” h eater, 11 a. m. basketball tournament, Techhigh school, afternoon and evening. ‘Society of Sons of American pn, luncheon meeting, hotel, noon. lis = Home Furnishings Hotel Severin, 12:30 p.

EVENTS TOMORROW 3 Caps vs. Providence, Coliseum, Pp

Spink-

Stub,

{ np a orchestra, indusconcert for RCA Victor employees, tabernacle, 3 pm, Open Forum, speaker, Mar“Shoo goting the "pr. “Kirshbaum ‘Service, Inc., meeting, p. m.

securities

MARRIAGE LICENSES

These lists are from official records in the county court house. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses. :

James Mitney, 38, of 1356 Bridge; Geneva Sturdevent, 35, of 927 N. Cheste:

Russell C. Myers, 30, of 903% a on: Lois Jean Schumacker, 20, of 1226 N. Oakland.

Lieut. Stanley A. Sulak, 22, Camp Atterbury; Rita Jane Tolle, 22, of 21 W. 28 Lee William Van Der Moere, 19, of 1538 Asbury; Evelyn Jean Armstrong, 19, of | Dr 142 E. Ohio. Call; "ne Vi eS Tae

lank, 5939 Evanston rgess, 27, of 441 N

a tea Walker, 18, of 233 8S. State; ad Ellen Slinkard, 19, of 1624 Hoy

Norbert Christian Waterman, 31, R. R. LE ho x 137; Frances Irene Sullivan, 21, e

X or nty. Russell Y Miller Y Whitcomb, 33, Ft. Harrison; Constance Barbara Hale, 26, Mon-

roe, ch. John Paul Whitehead, 24, U. 8S.

Capt. army, bar of 48.0 330. Mary Lou Lara1050 King;

bee, 24 4 of 48 Raymond Lee ne, 44. of Erie G. Hicks 30. "1038 Virginia. Robert Ernest Kiefer, 20, of 1400 N. Winfield; Kathryn Jean Harps, 21, of 33 W. 27th. Henry G. Miller, 37, of 1535 Madison; Agnes B. Senior Strenlow, 39, of 14 13 8. New Jerse Joseph J. Miller, 17, of 644); E. . Marke ts Norma Ellen B. Tucker, 17, of 210 Concordia P. Taylor Evans, 69, of 2524 N. ‘New Jorseys ; Elizabeth Herod, 62, of 1343 N.

Gra Tee Albert Foshee, 30, of 2402 E. 16t Shirley Elizabeth Draper, 1, of Ties Jy i Ga 21, Glady: I Deitz, 18, an, s of Detroit, Mich. Robert Earl Gray, 20, of 1241 Lee; Loretta Hazel ies 2 of 1044 N. Garfield d Lester D. Banker, 27, of 2955 N. Delaware; Dortha Eileen Rosencrans, 21, of 510 N. Sierigian, 101 Si8.5

p= is the anniversary of date of mps available from sounty

Chester Harper Moore, 25, of Ellen Eiizahein Beasley, 25, of 1733 N. Meridian, 3

‘I Max Eugene Clark, 21, of 318 Eastern;

Betty Ruth Wise, 20, of 438 N x Temple: Robert Luther Elder, 18, of "1142 Illinois; Mildred Marris Davis, 17, 4 233) N inois.

BIRTHS Girls Charles, Pauline Webb, at St. Francis. Ben, Carrie McVay, at St. Francis. Richard, Mary Worrland, at St. Francis. Robert, Juanita Shrake, at City. % Francis, Betty Duncan, at Coleman.

th. | Christ, Mary Blackwell, at Methodist.

Oran; "Jessie Hensley, at Methodist. H. T., Mary Moore, at. Methodist. - Howard, Anna Wilson, at Methodist. MOryS, 2249 rse! Daniel, RY ial Martin, at 2417 Ryan.

Boys

Charles, Delorac Foster, at St. Francis. Wallace, Katherfne Franklin, at St. Vin-

cent’s. Robert, Iris Craig, at St. Vincent's. Dorris, Evelyn Christy, at Methodist. Samuel, Irene Goldberg, at Methodist. James, Minnie ‘Lanham, at Methodist. Clyde, Elizabeth Shimer, at Methodist. TEomas, Ethel White, at Methodist. Arthur, Anna Winters, at 2226 N. Meridian.

Syrreatha King, at

DEATHS - ? Mary, Margaret Goss, 1, at City, masto William R. Sims, 61, at City, cerebral hemorrhag: : Frank L. Northern, 42, at City, lobar pneumonia. : F. Cicero Hitch, 63, at City, general paralysis. Bruce Thomas, 81, st. City, arteriosclerosis. Vasil Yovanovich, 63, at 373 N. Holmes, arteriosc! is. Julia ‘Belle Middaugh, 61, at 1532 S. Belmont, y SHETOstler0sls Elizabeth Olmstead, 632, at ‘Long, cerebral a . Mary E. Stewart, 93, at 3330 N. Capitol, arteriosclerosi Robert L., a: 50, at 2310 Fairview,

uremia. Riley Miles, 0, at 1034 8. Pershing, hyper-

Sardis vassulas

.

rani Grainy, O'Reilly, 90, at 520 .B.. Vermont] ....

canning may be limited wisely to those garden products that cannot be preserved successfully by other methods. Tomatoes, green peas, aspara=gus, green beans, lima beans, corn and fruits are favorites for canning. Fruits and tomatoes are the easiest to handle because they require no higher temperature than boiling for safe keeping. These products may be packed hot in jars and then processed in a boiling water bath or steamer, or they may be canned directly from an open kettle. Almost all vegetables extept tomatoes must. be processed un--der steam pressure in order to get the high temperature necessary for safety. Gardeners who do not have the use of a steam pressure canner will be wise to preserve all vegetables except tomatoes by some method other than canning. § Storing is the cheapest and easiest way to keep many vegetables. Many of the root vegetables and onions, pumpkins, and winter squash hold their flavor better when stored than when preserved in any other way. Others that may be kept by storing include beets, late cabbage, carrots, late celery, parsnips, potatoes and sweet potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, winter radishes. ” un ”

How to Store Crops

CROPS THAT NEED cool, moist storage include cabbage, carvots,

To Get Full Value From Crops

beets, parsnips, salsify, turnips, rutabagas, winter radishes and celery. Potatoes keep best at a temperature between 40 and 50 degrees F.; sweet potatoes between 55 and 60 degrees. Squash and pumpkins need warm and moderately dry storage; onions and dried beans, cool and dry storage.: Turnips should not be placed in the basement as they give off odors that penetrate through the house. Freezing and storage at freezing temperature is the newest method for preserving home garden products. Packaged frozen vegetables and fruit can be held either in the lockers of refrigerated warehouses or in special cabinets for home freezing and storing.

Home Drying Methods

HOME DRYING is important especially in wa e because it requires neither sugar nor metals, rubber and ‘other scarce materials. Vegetables commonly dried are sweet corn, shelled mature beans and peas, peppers and okra. Other vegetables added to the list in recent years include beets, leafy green vegetables, green peas, snap beans, pumpkins and squash. Beet tops, kale, dandelion greens, and turnip greens are at their best when fresh. Information on canning, storing, and other types of vegetable preservation may be obtained from publications of the U. S. department of agriculture, state agricultural colleges and from food specialists. The following are available from the U. S. department of agriculture: “Green Vegetables in Low Cost Meals.” “Root Vegetables.” “Potatoes in Low Cost Meals.” “Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables.” “Home Storage of Vegetables." » “Homemade Pickles and Relishes.” “Making Ferment Pickles.”

Careful Planning Urged by

Irwin for Victory Gardens

By A. A. IRWIN Horticulturist,

Agricultural Extension Service Vegetables and fruits are pro-

tective foods that are rich in essential vitamins and minerals. This year, about the only way you can be.sure of having the variety of vegetables you have been accustomed to is to grow and can them yourself.

Canned food rationing will limit the amount of canned vegetables and fruits we are able to buy. With transportation facilities overtaxed as they already are, we cannot depend upon getting trainloads of fresh vegetables from distant parts of the country. The department of agriculture has already announced that there will be less cucumbers, lettuce, cauliflower and other winter vegetables for the simple reason that there won't be enough refrigerator space for hauling these long distances. The local commercial vegetable growers will be unable to increase their production to any appreciable extent, due to shortages of manpower, equipment and supplies. One of the first secrets of production, whether it be in the garden or in the factory, is planning and organization. The first thing

” ” 2 Vegetables and fruits for fresh use and for canning and storing. Leafy, green or yellow vegetables. . . (Use 104-160 pounds) Leafy (Use 40-50 lbs.)— Choice of endive, kale, lettuce, mustard, spinach, beet tops, swiss chard :

Dark green and yellow (Use 60115 lbs.)—

Asparagus Green lima bean.........sess»Green bean.......i.v...,

“tsetse rRsI Ise sess.

Broccoli, Chinese ganpage..

Tomato (Use 140-150 1bs.)— Potato White (Use 150-200 1bs.)....... Sweet (Use 30 lbs.) ..... tiae Other vegetables (Use 125-180) Cabbage Vavivesenms Corn Beeb .iveiiiiocive Onion .. Parsnip i. casos ihiasievia ai . Pumpkin ...:...;... - Turnip ~ Cauliflower, celery, pepper, - parsley, radish, cereriac, rhu- - barb Dried beans and peas (Use 7 1bs.) Small fruits Currant ..

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.50 feet .50 feet .100 feet .25 feet .4 plants ....Enough for

to consider when you start to plan your victory garden is what you will need. You may not have sufficient space to grow what you need for your family. However, a budget of your vegetable and fruit requirements will aid you in planning the garden and purchasing your seed, plants and canning supplies. Obviously, the kinds and amounts of each vegetable you plant will vary according to your personal likes and dislikes. If you prefer green beans to peas, you may want to double the suggested planting of green beans and not plant any peas. If you have soil that is especially adapted to certain vegetables or if you can grow these vegetables better than others, it will not be necessary to plant the suggested amount in order to get the desired production. For good nutrition it is recommended that your daily diet include one serving of leafy, green or yellow vegetables, one serwing of tomatoes, one serving of some other vegetable, one or two servings ‘of potatoes and one or two servings of fruit. Based. on this fact the following planting budget will give you the suggested amount for one person for one year.

an 8

Plant 150 feet

~ Can 25 quarts °

Can or freeze 12

pints of greens

100 feet

8 crowns 4 pints ~ 8 pints 8 quarts 8 pints " % bu. 1 peck 1 peck variety 25 plants : 25 plants 50 quarts -

150 feet

..30 feet

.15-20 plants ..100 feet «.20 feet .50 feet .25 feet

10 pints

2 hills 25 feet Enough for variety

100 feet

en eign? plants

2 plants .2 vines

: pa plants

Berries’ Strawberry Sr aieensn vinnie " Tree fruits Peach, plum, pear, apricot,

«ees. .20 plants

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{nearly 130,000,000 Americans in one

mated at about 12 points.

Officials Find No Way to Control Rise Under New Rationing. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (U. P) — Government officials admitted today that the beginning of point rationing of canned and processed foods and the near 50 per cent slash in supplies of rationed foods .o hotels and restaurants next week

may mean skyrocketing restaurant

prices in the near future. Officials said they have found no practical way of preventing or controlling such a situation. The chief difficulty, it was said, was to find a way of standardizing dishes or of preventing restaurant owners from cutting the size of portions if maximum prices were fixed.

nominate him.

Declarations Are Low # =

Nation-wide registration for point rationing of canned foodstuffs ends today. Some local rationing authorities—in the New York area, for example—extended the deadline to the middle of next week. OPA officials said vegistration of

week—one of the biggest organizing jobs in history—has proceeded with a smoothness exceeding expectations. Declarations of stocks of cans were considerably smaller than expected. One family in Philadelphia, Pa., -declared 4500 cans. A Pitts-’ field, Mass., woman declared 1500 and one in Washington, D. C. declared 1200. It was estimated that the Pittsfield woman would take until 1960 to work off the excess cans in coupons deducted from ration book .2.

Answers Hoarding Cry

Answering criticisms that fixing an eight-point value for excess cans merely sets a premium on hoarding, Deputy OPA Administrator Paul M. O’Leary asserted it constituted the “fairest possible way of making these stocks a part. of the family ration and of the nation’s available food supply.” ' He said it was. administratively impossible to determine the exact. point value of each can on hand and tear the exact number of stamps from ration .books. “The common sense alternative,” he said, “was to set an average value for all cans, regardless of content and size, and to set the average at a figure fair to the greatest number of persons.” The average of the most con-monly-used cans, however, was esti-

ready divided

Democrat. xn

STRAUSS

Turn to Propaganda

THEY FIGURE that if Willkie could carry the state by 25,000 votes in 1940 that, considering the 125,000-vote majority the Repub- ® » oa licans rolled up last November, that he might well carry the state. next year by 200,000 votes. There 1s little they can do, except in a propaganda sense, about the whole matter. And they are using the propaganda technique to the fullest extent. This is’ shown by the way practically every Democrat from top to bottom praises Mr, Willkie whenever the opportunity occurs to do so publicly. By this strategy, they hope to do their little bit to keep the al“enemy” They hope that all the praise will keep the old-line Republicans thinking that Willkie still is a

divided.

What Schricker Said

TYPICAL OF THE type of comments the Democrats make publicly about Mr. Willkie is what Governor Schricker, the state’s topmost Democrat, said in introducing him to the Republican legislature early this month. + “I want to present to you,” the - | governor said, “ a man who typifies the spirit of Abraham Lincoln himself in my opinion; the man ‘who has won the love of millions of people; a man who can lay aside political prejudices and who in time of peril can say to the president of the United States, “You can count on me’.” It is statements like this com-

BY ‘EARL RICHERT

THIS FOURTH TERM talk ‘coming from Democratic circles in the East is of very little interest to Indiana Democrats. They take it for granted that President Roosevelt will run again if the war is still going on next year. And they have no doubt that it will be, in some parts of the world at least. Their chief interest in 1944, in fact, is in what the Republicang ‘do with Wendell Willkie.

They are hoping against hope that the Republicans will not re-

ing from Democrats that make the Harding-Coolidge Republicans stay awake nights wondering.

For they think that with him : # » leading the G. O. P. ticket, they won't have a ghost of a chance of winning a state office. The Democrats still blame Willkie for the 1940 defeat of their entire state ticket, with the exception of Governor Schricker who squeezed through by some 3000-odd votes in an election in which 1,700,000 votes were cast.

The Willis Viewpoint |

U. S. SENATOR Raymond Wil= lis, here for the Republican edi= torial association meeting today, reports that the chief difficulty of Republican leaders in Washington now “is to keep our boys from going too far.” . He says, however, that most of the Republicans, particularly those in the senate, are putting the welfare of the country above purely political interests and that he does not think “things will get out of hand.”

Tough Going

HAVING UNDOUBTEDLY the most troublesome career of any of the G. O. P. steering coms mittee measures is the bill to take the store license division

from the Democrat - controlled state tax board and give it to Republican State Auditor Richard T. James. After this bill was passed by the house, it was assigned by Lieut.” Gov. Charles Dawson to the senate patronage committee— a very unusual procedure since the patronage committee custo= marily handles only the appoint« ments of pages, secretaries, ete. Then, apparently succumbing to pressure from party leaders, Mr. Dawson reassigned the bill to the senate Judiciary B committee. This committe, however, appar= rently didn’t think so well of the bill either for it reported it out without recommendations—a very unusual action for a G. O. P= controlled committee to take on a party-approved measure. Dissension over the bill comes from the fact that some party members in the senate think it is purely a patronage-grab measure. Mr. James contends, however, that it is an economy measure in that he can operate the department more cheaply than it is now being run by the state tax board. Only 14 jobs are involved.

Entire contents copyrighted, 1943, by L. Strauss & Co., Inc.

Vol. 1—No. 33

Dear Fellows—

| I I THIS HAS BEEN a crazy week. | More things going on. . . . Just like a threering circus. . . . First came announcement, | of food rationing points. . . . Folks let out Su a whistle. . . . | Then they ; grabbed for seed catalogs and | started sharpening garden tools. | . Garden seed and imple- | ment dealers have been driven nearly crazy by the oo demands of back-yard gardeners. . . . Youd almost ‘think spring was. right upon us. . . . The shoe repair shops have been swamped, too, by folks who dug out every old pair of shoes they could lay their hands on. . . . Speaking of spring, several families around town have tapped maple trees already and have sap buckets hanging on them. . . . Planning. to add to their sugar supply. . . fought a big grass fire the other night north of town and between College and U. S. 31, . . And more and more folks are seeing the first robin.

i Eo

Hats off to the Fellows—

THE HOME TOWN is proud of the way the fellows have been making a name for themselves. . Lieut. Robert H. Fechtman has received the Silver Star for helping capture an enemy ; tank. . . . T/Sergt. Bernard A. Stellhorn, former R. C. A. engraver, has received an air medal . . . over in England. . . . Lieut. Henry A. Carter Jr, formerly of Indianapolis, won the Oak Leaf cluster for second recognition of gallantry with the air forces In Great ‘Britain... . And S/Sergt. James A. Burgess got an air medal, also in Great Britain. . . . Pvt, Chester Critney (1511 Pleasant st.), who ‘worked at Marmon-Herrington, was a member of an infantry battalion which was encircled by the Nazis in Africa but fought its way out. . . . Lieut. Edward C. Brennan (1932 N. Talbot) calmly released his bomb

load over the Nazi target even after an

enemy cannon shell had smashed the bomb bay doors. . . . Capt. Nelson N. Kauffman, former local physician, is a prisoner of the J5pS in the Philippines, + o + S0 is Melvin

Saturday

later. . .

. And farmers -

again tonight. .

Feb. 27, 1043

Nuckles Jr. (1505 Lawson st.)

« « « Mark William Gray, an attorney, has been commissioned a second lieutenant at Ft. Benning. . . Home on leave with some brand new bars is Lieut. John R. Spicklemire,

% % Yr Net Tourney Starts—

THE CITY (and the state, too) has gone plumb net nutty, what with the state tourney sectionals getting under way. . . . The fans have been hanging from the rafters in the Tech gym. -. In the opening session, Lawrence Central - ORG a beat Warrén Cen-_ tral, Ben Davis shaded Broad Ripple and Shortridge doubled Crispus Attucks. . More results . Frank Widner, Times sports writer, picked Teca to win the state—if they get hot. . , . Harold Harrison, of the A. P., turned around and picked the big Green, too. . 1 U, with one loss, still is playing second fiddle to Illinois, with no losses, for the Big Ten title, . . If Northwestern trips the Illini Monday, I. U. can win. . . . I. U. and Purdue tangle Johnny Fehr bowled a 300 the other night at Pritchett’s. . . . It was his fourth in 23 years of bowling. . . . Our Caps made it three wins out of four on their current road trip. .#. . Connie Brown turned the old “hat trick” in defeating Washington. . . . Suppose you noticed that the Big Ten has decided to permit freshmen and military service trainees to participate in varsity athletics. . . . The ruling virtually assures the loop of a full athletic schedule next year... . . Oh, yes; Wabash college

champion of the Indiana college net

conference after drubbing DePauw 38 to 35, * Freak : * % %

Pigeon Potpie— AN UNSUSPECTING pigeon flew into the Press Club through an open window the

other day. .-. . It wound up in a pigeon potpie. . . _ Butler students will go all-out next week i “stamp” out the axis, . They're going to elect a “Stamp Sweetheart.” . Every cent spent on the campus f war bonds and stamps will count «as o vote. . . , Members of five Butler fraterni are moving out of their chapter hotiges ¥ to make room for the army's air . . + Those affected are Sigma Nu, §

‘Chi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta

and Delta Tau Delta. . . . We've deluxe traffic handling all over the n side this week. . . . The army took over give. training to military police, . . .

a mighty snappy lob they did, too.

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