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In the 47th group—A-20 light bombers — there is theoretically one armorer to each plane. But they're short now, and each armorer usually has two planes to

; plane as the pilot is. He calls it pi : A “my plane,” and when “his” plane fails to come back, he feels horrible. Among the armorers, everybody knows whose plane has the most missions, The armorers live in tents, the same. as all the other men in the squadron. Each morning & truck takes them to the area where their planes are dispersed. They start bombing up about an hour and

jasies are squipped

For really heavy bombs, the

with a lifting device, Smaller bombs, even up, to

800-pound ones, are lifted by hand. : To do this, the armorers of several planes form themselves into a team of four or five men, and go from one plane to another helping each other until

their little family is all bombed up. Roll Bombs With Feet

1 WENT around one day with a team composed of Sgt. Steve Major of Monessen, Pa.; Cpl. Vincent: Cline, Paragould, Ark.; Cpl. John Peoples, Alameda, Cal; Cpl® Robert Gerrie, Chicago, and Cpl. James La Barr, Dallas, Pa, Cpl. La Barr's plane, incidentally, has more missions than any other—123—and is going up by one and two a day. The bombs have already been hauled out, and are

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

YOU'D THINK four grueling basketball games within 48 hours during the sectional tourney-would be enough for anyone. But not for some of Shortridge's players. The afternoon of the day after the final game in which Shortridge was eliminated, some of the team, including Bill Kegley and Dick Light, showed up at a friend's home. Asked where they had been, they casually admitted they'd been over at another frjend’s house “shooting a few baskets.” Street scene~—-Two street urchins looking in the display window of a Pennsylvania st. music store and giving the “bird” to a picture of Frank Sinatra. . . . Been on College north of 38th Sunday: A man riding one of those old - fashioned high - wheeler bicycles. He was acting as though there was nothing ‘unusual about the outlandish vehicle. . . , Harold Porter of the U. S. employment service reports today for induction into the navy. ... A reader postcards the suggestion that we mention that “Tuesday, April 4, is a rare day—the way many busy people write ft: 4-4-44. This occurred in 1933—3-3-33—and won't occur again until 1955.” . . . The Rev. Fr. Joseph V. Somes says he has come to the conclusion that it's cheaper to park on the street and pay parking fines

than to park on parking lots. “I've been parking on flags. Clarence won't say “yes” or “no” to a query " he says, “and since last June I've had 855 t5 whether he’s a descendant of Gen. “Stonewall”

parking: lots, to spend $32 getting fenders straightened out.” And I wouldn't have had that much to pay for parking stickers.” : . Doing a Nice Job ONEOF OUR AGENTS repotts thal. Patrolwoman Artie Stockdale has been doing an outstanding job of directing traffic st Meridian and Ohio streets. We're told she operates in a very businesslike manner, both in protecting pedestrians from motorists—and from themselves. . . . Ruth Slinkard of the L. Strauss Distributing Co, 546 S. Meridian; celebrated her birthday Friday by giving a present instead of receiving one, She gave her seventh pint of blood to the Red Cross. One more and she's in the Gallon club. . . . That “Good Luck of London” chain letter

Policy Showdown By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, March 7.—Failure of the allies to agree on a European policy, and on the future of Germany, jeopardizes a just and lasting peace. Failure of the United States government to advance its . policy is partly responsible. As a result, the postwar settlement is being decided by default and by Russian policies ~-with the apparent agreement of Prime Minister Churchill, Therefore the announcement that Undersecretary of State Stettinius will soon go to London for negotiations, coupled with the hint of another Roosevelt-Church-ill conference thereafter, is good news. It will be even better news if these negotiations abroad involve prior consultation with representative congressional leaders of both parties. Though the President, unlike Stalin and Churclfill, has refrained from recent policy statements, thé American public's attitude is well known. That attitude was expressed in the Atlantic Charter and in the Hull Moscow patt, underwritten by the senate,

Depart From Agreements SINCE THEN, however, Moscow and London seem

to have departed from those joint agreements. Instead of the proposed free and strong Europe under

international organization, with equal rights for large’

and small states, victors and vanquished, the recent trend has been toward a Europe divided into Russian and British spheres. The President’s attitude toward this trend is not known. f British desire-to establish Western Europe as a British sphere or even as part of the British empire, to balance Russia's power in the East, has been stated by Churchill's close associate, Gen. Smuts. This would leave France a British satellite. Two weeks ago Churchill himself told commons that the Atlantic Charter did not apply to Germany.

My Day

MIAMI, Fla, Monday.—Exactly at noon on the fourth of March, Miss Thompson and I left Washington. It was raining. The President and Anna and one or two others came to see us off. I am glad that during this

trip there ‘will be some young life in the White House, as it makes it a more cheerful place for anyone who happens to stay there. Almost before we knew it, the skies. began to clear and by the time we reached Palm Beach, Fla, it was warm and sunny. Mrs. Donner Winser and my grandson, william, met us at the airport with General Alexander and * Colonel Deemer. We arranged to be at the hospital by 8:30 Sunday - morning. We had a quiet dinner. : Afterwards a number of Betty Winser’s friends me in. : : On the way down in the plane, I had a chance to

: ‘was a young navigator who had been on a bomber plane in the Philippin

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several of my fellow passengers. Among - He - was’ missing

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lying on the ground alongside the planes, when armorers arrive. This day they were loading 250pound demolition bombs. These were about three otk tome and 10 inches thick, and tapered sat both oh :

The boys roll them to the planes by kicking them along with their feet. They roll six under each plane, The bomb-bay doors are already hanging down open. The armorers crawl under them and then can stand erect with their heads inside the bomb ‘bay, ; One of them takes an 18-inch clamp from the bay wall and hooks 1t into two steel rings in the back. Then two of them grab the bomb and heave it up. As it rises, a third gets under it and lifts with his shoulders, The two others put it into position. It is good heavy heaving, Only the rugged ones stay on as armorers. Now and then somebody slips and a bomb falls on an armorer, but serious accidents are rare. After the bombs arg clamped inside the bomb bay, they put in the fuses. The bomb has a steel plug in each end. The boys unscrew these plugs, and screw the fuses into the hole.- I never knew before that our bombs had fuses on both ends. I asked what it was for. The boys said, so that if one fuse didn't work the other one would.

Propeller ‘Arms’ Bomb

EACH FUSE has a little metal propeller on it. When the bomb is dropped the propeller starts whirling, and ‘after dropping about 500 feet it unscrews itself enough to become a plunger and “arm” the bomb, as they call it. Then when the bomb hits the ground, this plunger is forced back and the bomb is discharged. There must, of course, be some guarantee thal propellers don't get to whirling inside the planes, So the boys take a piece of wire and fasten it into the clamp from which the bomb hangs. Then they run each end of the wire through two small holes in the propellers, thus locking them, . When the bomb is released, this wire remains fastened to the plane and the ends slip out of the little propellers, freeing them.

still is cluttering up the mails. One of our readers sent up a copy she received last week. - It contains the usual admonition that “those who break it (the chain) will have bac luck.” We've broken the chain a dozen times and have had nothing but good luck. ... A pageant written by Frances Westcott and Betty Crandall Drewry especially for presentation at the January meeting of the Indianapolis and Marion County Girl Scout council has been “requisitioned” by the national council's dramatic staff for use by other) councils. It's entitled, “Let Freedom Ring.” . .. Earl McKee, the veteran printer, is rushing the season by having his vacation now, He went to New York and spent the first day writing postcards back to everybody and his brother, Civil War Names THE NAMES of three famous civil war generals— Grant, Lee and Jackson—will be on- the program March 22 when the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. receives a national security award from the national office of civilian defense. Maj. Gen. U. 8. Grant III, chief of the protection branch of the national OCD, will come here to confer the award. He happens to be the grandson of the civil war general and post-war president. Wallace O. Lee, vice president of the light company and a descendant of the family of Gen. Robert E. Lee, will preside. Clarence A. Jackson, the state defense council director, will present the award

Jackson. . . . In Friday's column we referred to E. W. Mahoney, the advertising man, having been “drafted.” We've been asked to correct this as a misstatement. He wasn't drafted—had been a member of the army reserve 10 years, were told. He's a first lieutenant now at Pt. Francis Warren, Wyo. , . . A motorist drove’ up to the Texaco filling station at 38th and Meridian about 9:15 Sunday night and the driver jumped out and ran into the station, “Help—there’'s a woman in that car having a baby,” he shouted. Fred Lach, the station manager ran out out and found the infant had been born. Fred said he advised the driver to hurry the mother and the crying infant to St. Vincent’s hospital. A check was made yesterday at four hospitals but the traveling maternity ward had not been seen at any of, them.

He said there was no wish “to blot out Germany,” but added that he had agreed with Stalin “upon the need for Poland to obtain compensation at the expense of

Germany both in the North and in the West.” This]

is dismemberment of Germany. But last week a powerful and often semi-official British spokesman, the Times of London, opposed German dismemberment. It said: “In spite of the burning detestation of German oppression that fills Europe at this moment, it is still axfomatic, even with her victims, that Germany cannot be other. than an important member of the

European body politic and economic; and that, while |

the firmest measures must be taken to prevent aggression, Germany cannot be allowed to become a cancer at the heart of the European organism.”

Free Europe Is Vital ™

WE AGREE with The Times. Germany is essential to a healthy Europe. But The Times is much more vigorous in stating the problem than the solution. . It is “axiomatic,” also, that a united Germany— because of her geographical position and superior resources, and her larger population—will dominate a divided Europe. Neither a puppet Europe divided into Russian and British spheres, nor a Balkanized Europe, can be healthy or ‘strong enough to survive against a united Germany. Only a genuinely free and integrated Europe, built around a revived French republic and other democracies, can prevent a repetition of this war. A stronger, not a weaker, France must emerge. With such a Europe, the United States can cooperate in effective international organization. But this country never will underwrite a British-Russian balance-of-power system, which would invite another war with Germany again exploiting a divided Europe. The time has come for President Roosevelt, in consultation with congressional leaders, to reaffirm the Atlantic Charter and the Moscow pact and to stand by them in the forthcoming allied negotiations.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

such a long period of anxiety without word of any kind. . op He described calling up his family when he was back here and free to call them. He told them he would be home the following Monday morning. Then he said: “They met every train between that and when I arrived.” I can understand that. It must have been like having someone come back from the dead. He looked well, and I asked him if going through so many strange and varied experiences did not give him a tremendous amount of self-confidence. I should think that after having lived through so much, nothing would séem beyond one's powers. But like most of our American boys who have seen great

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adventure, he deprecated any suggestion that he had

accomplished anything extraordinary. Several of the boys brought their short-snorter bills to be signed, and one of them told me he had

been two or three times around the world. Another

passenger said he came from Washington and had a daughter named Mary Patricia Hanlon, whose mother would be thrilled to see her name in the paper. So wishes to Patricia. : ve been Impressed by the fact tha

lof Iowa, will hold public hearings

people who have

GOP PLATFORM WORK STARTED BY FARM GROUP

Republicans Try Something New; Plan Spadework Before Convention.

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March T7.—~Republicans are trying something new in platform-making this year which reflects the stern and changing times and a sense of responsibility in looking forward to possible control of the government. Already they are beginning to explore the issues, preparatory to outlining the party’s stand, instead of following the procedure customary in both parties of waiting until the convention assembles and then,

under tense and we conditions, throwing together a jumble of words that few read and fewsr pay

any attention to afterward. Eight Committees Named

This new procedure grew out of the Mackinac conference last September at which the Republicans’ post-war advisory council appointed eight committees to study various current problems and draft reports and recommendations for the guidance of the resolutions committee at the convention. Since that time a-crew of researchers has been busy. Over the week-end there came from National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler the announcement that the committee on agriculture, headed by Governor Hickenlooper

in Chicago April 3 and 4 in its search for facts. Assembled there to present their viewpoints and be questioned about farm programs and policies will be representatives of the National Grange, American Farm Bureau Federation, Farmers Union, National Council of Co-Operatives and National Co-Operative Milk Producers Federation. First of Series

This is the first of a series of such meetings by the eight committees. The others deal with foreign policy and international relations; social welfare and security; postwar enterprises, industry and employment; . finance, taxation and money; reform of government administration; labor, and international economic problems. Through this procedure the party has an opportunity to perform a real service, both to itself and the country, if it capitalizes upon the earnest work of the committees, and does not brush them aside as it did the work of the Glenn Frank committee several years ago. The late Glenn Frank, then president of the University of Wisconsin, headed a committee which drafted a comprehensive report—some 200 pages—on the issues of that time, with recommendations, but it was politely laid aside. It did have some effect through publicity of its findings. Open Hearings to Aid If the other committees this year follow the example set by the one on agriculture and hold public hearings, so that publicity may be given | their findings and recommendations, the convention may feel some effects through enlightenment and pressure that will make the platform an illuminating document that means something. The public seems in a mood this year to demand frankness and ex-| plicitness, with little patience for meaningless and glittering phrases. The Republican party might very well throw away what looks like an excellent opportunity to return to power if it does not follow through with this opportunity to make its position clear.

RED CROSS PLANS

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‘By 8. J. WOOLF ° NEA Staff Writer Pushing against a strong wind, unending lines of men, bent. by the heavy packs they are carrying, trudge down a long pier. It is night, and shaded electric lights cast strange shadows which give a touch of weirdness to the helmeted, - overburdened marchers. A band sitting in a partly sheltered corner suddenly strikes up a tune. It puts new pep into the lagging figures. Smiles break over thier faces. Their pace quickens. They plunk down their heavy G. 1. shoes with a firmer” tread. Some even start dance steps in time with the music, 26 Years Ago It was 26 years ago, to the day, on another troepship, that I left for France to sketch the army that was fighting to make the world safe for democracy. Now I am going overseas with the sons of men whom I saw at Seicheprey, Verdun and Cantigny. This new army means business. The men joke as their fathers did— and grouse, too. They also sing, but their sons have not quite the care-free swing of those of 1918. Their are no successors to “It's a Long Way to Tipperary,” “Keep the Home Fires Burning” - and “Over There.” I am writing this in a cabin not 50 feet from where several companies are quartered. They are singing these old songs, interspersing them with hymns. Sinatra’s repertoire has no place aboard this ship. This army is grimmer than the old A. E. F. From what I have already seen I would say it is better prepared for what it is going up against. The absence of delay in loading, the efficiency and care with which all materiel is packed and shipped, and the solicitude for the morale of the troops while they are awaiting embarkation gives them the right start.

Lolling on Bunks

Chaps lolling on their bunks or sitting in canteens tell stories of the staging areas of New York's port of embarkation, where troops are sent before they sail There they are processed, which means they are gone over carefully to make certain that they

1anapolis T

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1944

Bent by the heavy packs they

unending lines trudge aboard a troopship. at the New York port of embarkation by S. J. Woolf, NEA artistauthor, who sailed with the same convoy for England.

and their fighting equipment are in proper shape. Their training is continued, but at the same time as many diversions as possible are provided for them during the days of waiting to board ship. They climb down rope ladders from high platforms into boats which float on miniature ponds. They jump across trenches, hurdle barriers and climb high walls. They put on their masks as they go into gas chambers, and they practice inflltration tactics while shells are sent over their heads. Doctors pound their chests and listen to their hearts. Dentists examine their teeth. Small, dark Pvt. Moe F. Brown of Brooklyn, in telling about the way an aching molar was filled, said: “Gee, I went into a joint that looked like a swell barber shop in Times Square, only much bigger, and

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are carrying, soldiers in seemingly This scene was sketched

there were 50 dentists all drilling their patients.” “The thing I liked best,” Albert Rich, an enlisted man from Astoria, Ore. told me, “was the chow. Three big meals a day with plenty of beef and butter. And take it from me, those mess halls were something to write home about, Why your mess Kit got a Turkish bath when you washed it. And they had a toaster that made 2000 pieces of toast at once.” :

Praises the U. S. O.

“Don’t forget the U. S. O. shows and the movies,” interrupted Pvt. George E. Chase of Conway, N. H. “The camp we were at had five theaters and a recreation hall that looked like a big hotel parlor. It had pool tables and ping pong tables and separate rooms with

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George N. Hill: . . . “Two churches, five chapels.” °

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Albert Rich. .., “Plenty of beef and butter.

phonographs where one guy could play ‘Pistol Packin’ Mamma’ while another could turn on high-brow stuff.” “I had always heard that Brook-. lyn was the city of churches,” George N. Hill of Santa Paula, Cal., interjected, “but this place had two churches and five chapels right on the grounds.” “Sure the camp hid everything and we were treated fine,” added Paul Roy of Wayzata, Minn. {But the thing I liked best about it was its nearness to the Big City and the cinch it was to get a pass.”

ACCUSES MATE IN FATAL FIRE

Again Threatening Suicide, ‘Mrs. Ott Blames Husband

For Hospital Blaze.

LOGANSPORT, Ind, March 7 (U. P.).—Mrs. Aleen Ott, 41, Logansport state hospital attendant charged with arson in connection with fires at the institution, was guarded by deputy sheriffs in a hospital after she threatened a second attempt at suicide. / Mrs. Ott, recovering slowly from the effects of an overdose of sleeping powders, told Sheriff Harold Smith of Cass county that she already had “told the truth about the fires.” She was bitter when Smith informed her that her husband, James, 46, another attendant charged as an accessory, accused her of starting the $2,000,000 fire at the Evansville state hospital, which killed eight persons a year ago. She was not told that Ott was in jail. Physicians said it would be another week before she could be re-| turned to her jail cell. Smith said | he was convinced she would make another suicide attempt unless she were guarded constantly. William Hendel, chief investigator for the state fire marshal, said that agents of the National Board of Fire Underwriters were checking Ott’s story that his wife started

NEW APPEAL HERE

The 40 workers in the Red Cross war fund commercial division today received instructions for soliciting small business firms. Chairmen of the division, which will visit firms employing less than 100 persons, are Lyman Hunter and Ernest G. Ohrstrom. W. I. Longsworth, president of the local chapter, emphasized today that “If we are to attain our goal, it will mean that there must be an outpouring of generosity from our community,” . Workers in other divisions are making house-to-house canvasses and visits to war plants and factories. ‘ The $1,146,000 county drive will last through March 31.

HOLD EVERYTHING

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‘| mother lay near death in the house.

fires at the Evansville hospital, the Toledo, O. state hospital and the Logansport hospital and that she burned her home at Birdseye, Ind.|

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Probe Fifth Fire |

Underwriters’ agents also investigated a fire in a hospital at Weston, W. Va., where Mrs. Ott was employed before she came to Indiana several years 8go. Ott made a detailed statement after his wife swallowed a sleeping potion a week ago. He said that she started the fires after becoming angry at attendants of the various institutions where she and Ott worked. Investigators said, however, that Ott had not told the full story about the firing of his home at | Birdseye, on which the couple collected $1000 in insurance. The fire occurred while Ott's 83-year-old

His mother later died. At the time, the aged woman was removed to safety, but Deputy State Fire Marshal Hugh J. McGowan said neighbors reported that Ott “would not allow anyone to. throw water on the fire, which occurred upstairs over the kitchen.”

0. E. S. CHAPTER TO INSTALL OFFICERS

Lawrence chapter 384, O. E. 8, will~install officers Friday night at the Lawrence - Masonic temple. Officers are: 3

matron; John

retary: Mrs. Johnson, conductress; Kleinhelter, associate conductress; Mrs. Bertha Dickey, chaplain; Mrs. Emma Miller, marshall. Merle Hoot

Republican, Roosevelt administration measures

LaFollette Challenges GOP To Oppose Him if They Wish

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 7.— Rep. Charles M. LaFollette, Evansville who has supported

more consistently than his Demo=

cratic predecessor, John W. Boehne~

Jr., came out swinging as he an-

nounced his candidacy today.

He revealed no secret by saying he is a “Willkie Republican,” and then challenged the 8th district organization, or anyone else, to run someone else in the G. O. P. primary if they don't like his style. Declaring that he did his best to truly represent the majority interest of his constituency during his first term here, Mr. LaFollette

challenged:

Put Up or Shut Up’

“Those Republicans who disagree with that record are not only privi-

leged, but, in my opinion, obligated,

to evidence their dissent in the coming primary and not wait to denounce the candidates of their own party in November.” This “put-up-or-shut-up” paragraph was only a small part of what Mr. LaFollette had to say. Parts of his announcement statement follow: “My year here has clinched my previous fear that, except for an ever-lessening middle group of people who still remember that decisions in a democracy must be based upon principle if it is to survive, the country is being torn asunder by two groups of violently

| partisan people who either worship

the President so’ much they think he can do nothing’ wrong, or hate him so violently they think he can do nothing right. That is the soil

out of which totalitarianism and

class wars spring. ...

Charles M. LaFollette

“I am convinced that the funda-

INSURE POLICE CARS FOR THEFT

Council Acts to Protect Vehicles Owned by City.

Despite Police Chief Clifford Beeker’s jesting protest, city council last night appropriated funds with which to insure squad cars aginst auto thefts. Council action came in an ordinance appropriating $10,~ 789 to cover liability on city-owned vehicles under the new state driv er's responsibility law. Chief Beeker was asked to comment on Insurance Chairman C. A. Huff's recommendation that police and fire vehicles carry both theft and fire insurance. “I certainly wouldn't stand up

mental issue to be decided in 1944

social, economic and international progress by the hard way, through unemotional debate and by the democratic process of congressional enactment . . . or whether we shall continue the dangerous issuing paternalistic executive edic or presidential demands. . . . “Because I believe that Wendell Willkie has the truest understanding of the present need for progress by means of the hard, democracy building method which I advocate, I favor his nomination and elec as the best way to revitalize the democratic process. ... I feel obligated to state this preference and my reason for it to the Republicans of our district now, before the primary.”

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DETAIL FOR TODAY Spook

_ A SPOOK is a wary non-Com who sneaks up on unwary privates and presses them into service on some undesirable detail. Unlike most non-coms, who can. be spotted, a spook dodges around

corners, slides stealthily through .

barracks and walks on little cat feet. When his hand drops on’ a G. 1's shoulder it’s a terrifying experience for the G. I., espe-

‘cially when-he has gone to great ra

lengths find a spot to rest where he believes he'll be safe. Some G. I's have thought of setting bear traps to” snag the spook, but there are priorities to contend with. Many believe that e spook gets that way from

case against Indianapolis Railways, Inc., ‘was continued to March 28 yesterday by the public service commission. The continuance was granted to give the utility's attorneys an opportunity to study charts and depreciation figures compiled by the PSC engineering department. Hugh W. Abbett, chief engineer for the commission, was crossexamined briefly by Arthur L. Gilliom, head attorney for the railways, at yesterday's short session. Mr. Abbett was questioned in con-

.inection with his finding that the

“fair cash value” ‘of the utility as of last Sept. 30 was $8,200,000.

REPORT TO BE GIVEN ON JUNIOR CADETTES

| A report on the newly organized junior service cadettes will be given at a meeting of districts 45 and 46 of the OCD emergency medical corps at 8 p. m. tomorrow ‘at the Northeast Community center, . Lt. Catherine Brown of the WAC recruiting station in the federal building and her personnel will be guests.

MRS. HAESSIG IS HOST

is whether we shall, hereafter, make |

RAILWAY RATE CASE

The hearing on the rate reduction,

The U. 8. S. Sacramento club

here and suggest that police cars need insurance protection against {theft,” smiled the chief, “but I do urgently recommend fire coverage.” The insurance appropriation will | enable the city to protect each drivler ta the extent of $10,000. More {than 700 city-owned vehicles will be lincluded in the general coverage | policies. Mr. Huff's estimate on premium {costs was $10,000 lower last night {than it had been two, weeks ago. It | dropped considerably: after council {balked at the proposition to insure [city drivers up to $100,000, as orig[inally recommended. TT

Await Job Survey

| Council President John A. Schu{macher was elected to represent ine city legislators on the Indianapolis post-war planning committee. As an adviser to the committee, Mr. Schumacher said he would interest himself particularly tin financial phases of the various {projects since council * ultimately will be asked to pass on post-war appropriations. An ordinance which would have appropriated $3360 to defray gasoline and tire expenses of city building inspectors was stricken from the files, pending completion of a forthcoming council survey of municipal jobs and salaries. Also stricken from the files was a measure prohibiting parking on both sides of West 10th st. between Indiana ave. and Illinois st. Council . likewise refused to appropriate funds with which to employ two additional city hall janitors.

CENTRAL AUDUBON SOCIETY WILL MEET

The Central district of the Indi‘ana Audubon society will meet at 7 p. m. tomorrow at Shortridge high

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life in Action,” to be given by Olin 8. Pettingill Jr. of the National Au-