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"And snotheér one said: “Oh, captain, tell us about jour most thrilling moment at sea.” © And still another one said: “Captain, I'm from the steamboat inspection service. Let's see your pers.” Just like a girl, isn't it? oy And I personally thought up this crack: “Captain, ear captain, are you master of your fale?” But we ly didn't use that one, because I couldn’ fember whether it was “master of your fate” or ter of your soul.”

‘Call Me Poul

"THE CAPTAIN didn't answer anyhow, so we got lout: the long boats and we rowed against the wind, man and boy, for three days and a half, ‘About ‘that time the mate walked by and I said jo’ him: “Mate, how's your scuppers?” _ The mate said: “Don’t call me mate. Call me

“this time we Were three score and ten minutes out of Long island, and you couldn't see a bit of jand—unless you looked out the window. So I said

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Old Man Saw Red

JUST THEN the captain walked by. I sald: “Captain, where's Connecticut” at? I'm feelin’ a little green around the gills.” “We sure had the Old Man seeing red, and he was going to have us put in chains, but while he was down in the engine room looking for them. we rammed into the dock at New London. The old boat just stood right up on her nose and dived for the bottom, carrying the women and children down first. As 1 went down for the third time, I saw the captain standing on the bridge, holding a pistol to his head. He fired twice and missed both times. Then, with a mighty oath, he stomped off onto the deck, got in a taxi, and went home for supper. My watch had stopped at 7:13, daylight time. That was the end.

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(Confidential Note to Editor: The above is slightly exaggerated, for dramatic effect. It took us an hour and a half to cross, the Sound was just like a floor, the people on" board: were: all stupid, and I never did see the captain. I don’t think there was any captain. You might ask the Steambuat Inspection Service.)

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

“. MATTHEW M'CARTY, who works at a power and Night substation, had bad luck while playing “good samaritan” the other day. On his way to work he noticed that Dr. 'W. E. Mendenhall was having trouble starting his car. So Matt laid his lunch box ah akg on the running board of a car

parked nearby and helped get the

car started. Then he looked for his ‘lunch and found it gone. Someone had driven away with it still on the running board. . . . Mrs. D. E. Dobson, R. R. 10, thinks we ought to say something about “all the stray dogs lying around downtown, sick and homeless.” She writes: “I thought you might let the people know that if they 1. J will go to the phone and call the EE vy dog pound, they will get in touch with the police who will come within 15 minutes and pick up the dog. . . , The dog pound number is MA. 0486.” . . . Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer, president-elect ‘of the American Medical association, was the spebial guest yesterday at the luncheon of the state medical association. Dr. Charles R. Bird, the chairman and toastmaster, had thé names of the guests ort small ‘sards, carefully prepared by Tom Hendricks, secretary of the association. Dr. Bird introduced all the lesser guests but completely forgot the special guest ~DF. Krétschmer—and didn’t realize it until the juncheon was over. He said he lost several of the name cards under the table, including Dr. Kretschmer's, (Maybe he just didn't know how to pronounce the name.)

Knowledge in Installments : GREENE, librarian of the John Herron

| museum, answered the phone. A youthful, giggly

a famous altarpiece?” “You probably mean the Ghent ) * said Miss Green. “Who did it?" “Van ~ Eyek™ ‘A minute later the phone rang again: “I'm ~ awfully sorry to bother you again, but what nation-

Nashington = RL

ASH ON, Sept. 30. — Every family knows

now in shopping, in

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- Workmen found 480 holes in the floor.

ality is Van Eyck?” “Flemish.” “Thank you." —Another minute, another phone call: “I beg your pardon, but - where would a Flemish person live?” “In Flanders?” “Thank you.” Then a fourth ring: “It's me again,” she giggled. “And where is Flanders?” That ended the calls. . . . The magazine Safety Education, issued by the National Safety Council, intro-

“diced” thie “"Axees"=the gremlins -of accidents. The.

name is a combination of “accidents” and “Axis.” The members of the Axees family are Pyro, who causes ‘fires; Sly, who trips people; Zany, who éncourages horseplay and foolish antics; Elec, who tampers with eleciric equipment, and Blinky, thé dope who is too lazy and sleepy to know what is going on about him. Some of the descriptions sound vaguely familiar, :

No More Cold Feet

MANY PATRONS of the Indianapolis Symphony complained last winter about having cold feet. The Murat theater was warm enough—everywhere except near the floor. The mystery was solved this week. It was recalled the holes had been drilled in the floor eight or 10 years ago during i tation in air conditioning and never had been plugged. They're being covered now. . . . There's an elderly man who calls on some of the smaller downtown establishments from time to time, offering to sweep out the place for a nickel or a dime. He usually hands out & quar. ter's worth of entertainment for every nickel he earns sweeping. He describes his occupation as: “I'm a sweeper and a cleaner and a preacher and a teacher.” While soliciting a sweeping job in the WAVES office. he reminisced a bit and confided that the police in a neighboring town picked him up once and charged him with being drunk. “But I wasn't drunk,” he explained. “I had my rubber heels on and I was Just bouncing about a bit.” . , . The postoffice has prepared a book showing the zone numbers for every address and is sending copies to firms with large mailing lists in order to facilitate the placing of zone numbers in the addresses.

By Raymond Clapper

production men, such as Henry J Kaiser, and with others - concerned. « Child care centers, not free, but underwritien in part, are needed wherever large numbers of mothers are working. Medical and dental facilities are needed near war plants for employees and. their families to eliminaté time-consuming trips downtown. Shopping facilities especially are needed near plants. Banking facilities are badly needed near war

plants, not only to deposit and cash checks, but as

a means of paying rent, electric light, gas, milk and all other regular family accounts for services.

EMPLOYERS SAY that women workers are held in the highest esteem. But women must purchase, cook and provide food for their families, do the house-

Satellites Irks Goebbels.

“By PAUL GHALL

J eehyright. 1943, by the Indianapolis Times Pak Tne Ine.

Chicago Daily News,

German diplomats, faithfully supported by Dr. Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda ministry are bracing their energies to counter-attack the political effects of the Wehrmacht

Nazi diplomacy, as shown by the latest political developments on the continent, is pursuing two aims:

Italy’s capitulation the Nazis still have. friends and the tripartite pact still exists. 2. To encourage Germany's wavering satellites by proclaiming the value of German chances of vice tory. ; Happily for Joachim von Ribbentrop, sly Nazi foreign minister, the anniversary of the signature of the Italo-German-Japanese pact (Sept. 27) followed fairly soon after the announcement, Sept. 8, of Italy's armistice, and he was quick to seize the opportunity to dilute the reverberations of Rome's defection. So He Got Busy y He transmitted messages to the peoples of the eight signatory powers in which, despite evidence to the contrary, he affirmed that the countries united by the Reich form an “unbreakable unit.” These peoples, of course, are incapable of expressing their own feelings, but their governments did it for them, some with remarkable lack of enthusiasm, Berlin's Balkan satellites, instead of associating themselves with the Nazi, so-called crusade for- the welfare of Europe, made far less am< bitious statements ‘which were purely nationalistic in tone, Von Ribbentrop’s desperate efforts to enumerate Germany's friends have been no less obvious in the “Mussolini case.” It is certain Nazi diplomats have exercised the utmost pressure on satellites and even neutrals, for open recognition of their puppet Italian regime. The results have been disappointing as was the little echo aroused by Von Ribbentrop’s enthusiastic celebration of the tripartite pact. The neutrals, it appears, did not even discuss the Legations Disaffected Italian legations in neutral countries—even in Berne where the Italian minister -is Count Galeazzo Ciano’s brother-in-law—have re‘mained firm for the king and Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Germany's satellites have recogpized the Fascist government, but somewhat reluctantly, and Hungary had to be specially goaded. Not until yesterday did Budapest join the chorus, after, as reported in a Berlin dispatch yesterday, the Wilhelmstrasse had expressed disappointment over “Hungary's delay.” As regards the second aim of German diplomacy, the Nazis continue to spread the impression that the colossal struggle on the Russian front soon will end in a SovietGerman understanding and that, indeed, the whole war soon will be terminated by agreement with the allies. This maneuver has a two-fold object: To encourage the moral resistance of the satellites, and embitter relations among the aliles on the eve of their three-power corfference. . Competent political observers here are convenced that the maze of rumors on that score emanating from Ankara and Stockholm by way of Bern are figments of Nazi propa-

DR. BUTLER URGES

STUDY OF HISTORY

Tone of Testimonials From

1. To show the world that despite]

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A Congressman’ Discusses

By WESLEY E. DISNEY Member of Congress, Oklahoma WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—As a congressman from Oklahoma, I have cast this series of articles in terms of how to get permanent

|farm. prosperity — a prosperity at

least as good as we have today— without having 0 gus fight a war to get § 4 it. J The theme,

farm prosperity i can’t be isolated § or quarantined—§ that it's part of

| prosperity ‘is maximum em- Rep. Disney ployment of our population at wellpaying, productive jobs. That puts it up to industrial and commercial management, yes, and to labor leadership.

Eliminate Alibi

“This is a proposal that congress devote itself to taking the brakes off business enterprise. In a very

ness be given no alibi in the postWar years, There must be no post-war depression. We can't afford one, and it might ruin our whole civilization. And there should be no. opportunity for anybody in business to say: “Well, the excess profits tax law

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{land renegotiation i | didn’t give us a chance to lay up | anything against post-war produc wi | tion. It’s the fault of congress.”

real sense, it’s a proposal that busi- yea

Rumor Has It That Somes one Went Too Far to Get A Bit of Publicity.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (U. P), —"Not 1" sald Senator Mead (D, N. YO. “Not 1, quoth Senator Brewster (R. Me), ; *Not 1” was the word from Senator Russell (D, Ga). Thus did three of the five senae tors who have just completed an around-the-world inspection of the battlefronts decline the nominae tion as the senator who reportedly posed, kneeling, for a picture in a North African military cemetery,

Denied For: All Nor was it a couple of other fel

Four Butler university classes are “at war” among themselves to help win the big war. They are competing in a war bond and stamp sale conlest. The contest which ends tomorrow is limited to an attack force of five members from each class. Sales to date total $6251.81. score. Talking over campaign progress with Eugene Pulliam, state chairman of the war finance committee, are (left) Donnie Douglas, senior, of 3279 Winthrop ave, and Betly Jo Morrison, freshman, 4024

Sophomores lead with a $3000

Tomorrow's Job— ~~

Farm Prosperity Depends Upon Welfare And Employment of the Nation as a Whole

Rep. Wesley E. Disney (D. Okla,), author of this series of articles, has been a member of the house ways and means commitice for many years, and _is chairman _of lis subcosnmittee on renegotiation of war contracts. This is the fourth of the series.

of contracts

Let's vs. Look’

Let's take a look at what it takes to. make the kind of war prosperity which puts around 20,000,000 civil fans to work on war jobs and gives) us a new high level for all employ- | ment, : It takes a vast aggregation of “tools” in terms of plants and equipment. It has taken around 18 billion dollars added to our plant and equipment. investments to afford the 18 to 20 million war jobs. Spread that over three years of war production and it averages six billions a

r. Compare that with only about $2.300,000,000 put out in “tool money" from 1022 to 1020, and you get some idea of what was the matter in 1029. Anyhow, if we are going on with maximum employment and maximum production, there is going to be a vast bill for tools and prepara-

‘NO LABOR FIGHT, SAYS LEGION LEADER

| STOCKTON, Cal, Sept. 30 (U. |p.) ~Warren Atherton, in his first |public address since his election as national commander of the American Legion, denied last night that there is any friction between the Legion and organized labor, Addressing his home post, Atherton charged that recently “someone tried to split the home front by sicking a fight onto union labor and the American Legion.” Such attempts will not succeed, he said,

because both workers and veterans; it

KingNazi Dog, : To Become Ally

CAMP EDWARDS, Mass. Sept. 30 (U. P)~King, a 150-pound Newfoundland dog, won't be destroyed as planned but will be nursed back to health and perhaps later will see service against the Germans who trained him in canine warfare, it was revealed today. ; Because of a leg injury, King was siated to be destroyed, but Cpls. Theodore Fisher of Dover and Leonard Reilly of Meriden, Conn., intervened. They argued that his leg injury was merely &

The emergency district 15 will meet at 7:30 p. m. today at St. Paul's Lutheran school, 743 Weghorst st. Mrs. Irene Flick, district chairman, has appointed

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Mrs, Annetta Crane, co-chairman;

~t strictly -and aggressively its. proper.

tion of markets. Somebody is going to put up that money, and certainly I'm not proposing that the government put it up, Lists Objects I'm proposing. that business itself put it up—that congress exercise

function of making these reserves possible. : This is no.place to go into just what measures congresi: should pass. The study of renegotiation of contracts, now being undertaken by the ways and means committee of the house, is going into the. details of a possible program, But these are the objects on which we should ‘level our sights: 1. To see that renegotiation of contracts doesn't block possibilities of providing legalized reserves for post-war development, 2. To see that all commerce and industry is given. an opportunity to set up adequate reserves for post-war purposes ahead of taxes, and that those reserves are safeguarded so that they can’t be used for purposes other than preparation for full production and full employment, When that has been done-—-when we have adequate provision for legalized reserves—then it will be up to the private business of America to see that, as never before in peacetime, we have a prosperity «for this country which makes another depression im-

C. OF G. HEAD URGES POST-WAR JOB PLAN

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (U, P)~The American people, without assurances of full employment after the war, may turn to some” other form of government in seeking security, Eric A. Johnston, president of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce, said last night, The situation is a challenge to business management to develop a free enterprise system that . will guarantee stabilization of post-war industry employment, Johnston told

association, “We must understand,” he sald, “that the rank and file of the people might be willing to relinquish freedom and a democratic form of government if that is the only way to obtain security. That is not

have to look beyond our own doorstep to Europe for proof. It was provided for us here in the United

post-war actuality.”

the manpower stabilization confermanagement {

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (U, BJ.

lows. Senator Lodge (R. Mass) {and Senator Chandler (D. Ky). {also members of the party, have not returned to Washington, bu’ {the three who did return said the {didn’t believe either of these did it Not only was ‘there denial tha the senators had gone in for any such demagoguery as has piquec Washington curiosity for weeks, bu’ belief was expressed that no suck incident ever occurred, Unofficially,

whole business was cooked up by « disgruntled soldier with a vivik imagination. The story of the cemetery hat been recounted thousands of time: here amce John Steinbeck firs wrote it weeks ago.

Steinbeck Story

In one of his dispatches, Mr, Steinbeck portrayed the distressing lot of an army photographer borec stiff with his assignment of taking pictures of the senators while they were in the North African theater, - Dut fed up especially with one pars ticular, and very particular senator This senator insisted, the Steins beck dispatch felated—always quote ing an army sergeant—that his pic lure be taken in a cemetery. So the photographer took the senator to # cemetery where were buried 28 men killed when a train was wrecked, The senator, as Mr. Steinbeck told it, wanted the picture taken sc the cemetery would Jook like a big one-so that the point where the crosses stopped wouldn't be plainly shown. The photographer—it's still his story—mounted to the top of the auto and shot down on the crosses, Then, as the dispatch had it, the senator got down on his knees and asked whether this wouldn't make a good .picture.. The photographer fired away with about 20 pictures, And, said the army sergeant, they drove back to with the senator complaining because they might be late returning.

. Who Was It?

The story started the capital on a guessing game, Who was it? 1t certainly would not be senator this. It certainly would not be senator that. To do an honest job of reporting, it must be chronicled that very often, indeed, guessing finally centered on one senator. But the first three senators ree turned yesterday and sald it wasn’t 80. A check had been made at the war department, it was said, and no picture of a senator kneeling in a cemetery had ever come through. ‘And, officially, the story was told of an army photographer who had been “busted” from his sergeancy about the time the incident was supposed to have occurred. It was suggested that he might have led his imagination go to work, There were pictures in cemeteries, the senators said. But none, as far as they know; that fitted dee scription of the sergeant’s \

NON-ESSENTIAL FLAGS [publicity chairman. ‘OUT, WPB DECREES!

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