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and weighs 222 pounds stripped.

| Despite that weight he looks slim, because he is so * tall, Steve is an

armorer in the 47th bombardment

group, He is 23, and comes from Monessen, Pa. He is good-looking

and good-natured, and always has

something to say. As he rides along in a truck he'll shake his fist at some tough-looking crew chief and yell at him, “You ugly bastard!” Nobody could possibly get mad at him. - Steve has been in the army

~ nearly six years, and is an excel-

lent soldier, He quit high school and enlisted when he was 17, and served one shift in Panama.

When his first three years were up, he stayed out

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“Yeah, I'll bet,” said another soldier. a 30-year man to me.”

then re-enlisted- on the condition

California. They did. Steve likes

he would stay in -the army after “No, the army’s. all right, but I've I've got 3000 coconuts in the bank, get some education after the war

“You look

‘We're Living Good Here STEVE HAS a good, calm philosophy about everything. He is even philosophical about his part in the

a little while

k after a little

b, only we're away from home. “It’s not like last winter in

, He says, “I tried to be a pilot—too big. Tried be a gunner—too big. So I'm anrarmorer. Okay, happy. What the hell.” He says further,

“This job is easy. We work hard every day, and then the rest of

day we don't do much. Any civilian could do this

training. It's just like a regular >

Tunisia when we

lived on British rations and damned near froze to

* death and got raided every day. Everything's differ- . ent now. We're living good here. Why, this is better * than it was back home in camp.” .

Steve doesn't go on missions. He's so big he'd be

‘Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

IP HE'S SOBER enough by now, a certain indi

vidual probably is

. to his $100. And " man walked up to the Indianapolis symphony box | office yesterday and shoved $100 in bills through the

quarters, Written

* keep it!"

wondering what on earth happened here's the answer: A very drunk

window. “What's this for?” asked Miss Mary Glenn. “I don't care,” was the reply. “Well, what do you want me to do with it?” “Oh,

name, which he gave her, and then he walked away. The money is in the safe and will be given to the man when he returns, sober. «+ +» « The United Aircraft Engine workers’ union (Allison plant) has a problem. The union had about 95 pounds of union buttons or badges — the kind the union's

do about it, so he phoned

h the coliinty salvage headquarters. They didn't know ' what to do about it, either, so they phoned old Inside. * And that makes it unanimous—we, too, don't know. How to Mix Drinks " ° THERE SEEMS TO BE no particular shortage of . Nquor over in England but some of the British bartenders apparently aren't so good at mixing drinks.

At least, that's the inference drawn from a letter received at the Veterans of Foreign Wars state head-

by Sgt. Dick Warner, it commented

that “since our arrival in September we have found it rather tough to get good cocktails,” and he asked

to have a cocktail

recipe book sent to him. He added

that such a recipe book “will resuit in some of us Yanks getting some of the drinks we used to get back

home.”

Charley Michael, state adjutant went right

over to Hook's, bought a book on mixed drinks and

sent it posthaste

to the thirsty sergeant. , . . The

Fate of Tyrol

WASHINGTON,

March 8-—Washington and Lon-

don are again pondering the fate of the Tyrol. There

is an excellent chance that it will be taken from

Italy after the war and returned to Austria. Until 1919, Tyrol was an Austrian province, a

region of dramatic beauty. Its rolling hills, its Alpine background, its woodlands, meadows and streams were unexcelled for sheer loveliness. ‘ The treaty of St. Germain, however, sheared it in two and gave the southern half to Italy And, President Wilson consented, despite his dictum of “self-deter-mination.” Later, he ‘confessed his mistake, saying it had been “due to insufficient study.” Even “Tiger” Clemenceau and the hard-

boiled Lloyd George regarded the award as an error. ‘With the Tyrol went 250,000 inhabitants, virtually a free people for more than a thousand years. Tyrolean farmers were freemen and entitled to

bear arms when tl serfs. Fascist rule.

| Unreasonable

he rest of Europe's peasants were

For them it was heartbreaking to fall under

Claim

PRESIDENT WILSON'S decision was all the - more incomprehénsible because the Italians at Paris never asked for the Tyrol on ethnological grounds. On the contrary, they based their claim on reasons of

national defense.

They had to have Brenner Pass

they said, to block invasion from the north. Even this argument, however, appears to have been faulty. Lord Bryce (later ambassador to the United

States) called the

Italian claim a “most unreason-

My Day

MIAMI, Fla,

Tuesday. —At 11 o'clock Sunday

morning we left Palm Beach for Miami. We drove

to the Coral Gables hospital, which is an air force

hospital, and we had lunch with the men at their

mess. The familia

EA at most four beds, which means that the men get

There are some you marvel at the : new

While at Palm is

r pressed out tin trays were before us., I could almost see the line at one of the mess hallszin“the Southwest Pacific, for I have not often eaten off similar trays since then. The food was good and the men seemed to be enjoying it. This hospital, like the hospital in Palm Beach, is very well adapted to the needs of the type

{ .of cases that are coming here. I

think convefted ‘hotel§ have one

great advantage for hospital use. The rooms only hold two, three or

quiet. very remarkable cases which make skill of the surgeons and the exscientific discoveries which have

topped at the victory Rea.- 1t is kept open

made such cures possible, . Beach, we s

in the way. “The plane of which he was armorer was|

lost several wéeks ago, so now he helps out the other boys. He sleeps in a tent right out on the line, in order to be near his job. - Steve is cool in the pinches. They tell about one thing he did over there. His plane came back one day with its fall load of bombs. When they dropped the unexploded bombs down to the ground, he discovered one of the fuses was on. : A few of the fuses that day had been set for 45 seconds’ delay, but he didn’t know how much of the

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Miss Glenn asked his’

45 seconds had been used up before he made his " discovery. The natural impulse would have been to run as fast and as far as he could before the bomb went off,

POST-WAR ERA

But Steve just sat there on the ground and un-

screwed the fuse _Wwith his hands and then tossed iti NEAR RE LIT

aside just as it went off—harmlessly.

Takes War as It Comes

SGT. MAJOR loves to travel. And I believe he gets more outs of it than: any soldier I've met. - You can drop him down at a new field in any old country, and within a week he'll know half the natives in ‘the adjoining village. : : ] Steve's parents were Austrian and Jugoslavian, and he speaks four Slav dialects. In Panama he learned Spanish, and over here he writes down 20 new Ifalian words every night and memorizes them. He gets along fine in Italian, On his afternoons off he gets a train or bus andj goes out by himseif seeing the country. Invariably he| gets into conversations with the people. Half the time he winds up going to somebody’s home for a meal. He says, “I've been in rich homes and poor homes over herey These are pretty good people, but they're so damned emotional. They get into the wildest arguments with each other over the most trivial things. But they're good-hearted.” Steve isn’t obsessed like the average soldier about | Sumption of oil by the mechanized getting home. He takes the war as it comes, and implements of the present war. doesn't fuss. He'd like to see home again, but he] TWO-—Stabilization of world curdoesn't want to stay even when he gets there, rencies to prevent peacetime ecoHis big worry is that he'll meet some woman who'll have him married to her before he knows what's ner of open military conflict. nappened. He doesn't want to be tied down. He| THREE—Plans to assure the wants to travel and be free and roam around the worlg. “freedom from want” and world, talking to ‘people, as soon as this little bombing «freedom from fear” through an enJob of his is finished. {lightened approach to labor problems and social security. FOUR~—Maintenance

Conferences Develop From ~ Diplomatic Gossip | Stage.

‘WASHINGTON, March 8 (U. P.). —A halt dozen international conferences on the intricate problems of post-war world reconstruction, many highly controversial in scope, are emerging from the stage’ of diplomatic gossip into reality. These conferences, designed to pave the way to lasting worlg peace, involve: ONE—~Maintenance of adequate

of peace {and order during the transition {from war to peace by providing rellief and rehabilitation in the libermail service from England seems to be pretty good ated areas. these days. Col. Richard Lieber received a letter] FIVE—Disposition of the world's Monday from Lt. Col. Jack Harding, over in England, shipping lanes and of .the- huge less than eight days after it was mailed. . . . The air| fleets created to move men and mail service to the Hawalian islands is pretty rapid, materiel to the fighting fronts in too. Dr. George M. King, the dentist out at 49th and! suet manner as to safeguard the College, sent an air mail letter Feb. 20 to his son, nations whose economy is built on naval Lt. William D. King, but the letter arrived there world shipping. after Lt. King had started home on leave. The letter Ni : was one of a hafdful that was returned to Indian-| A ud apolis last Saturday.- It had gone to Pearl Harbor, s..+ that in almost all countries a then to a nearby island, and made the return tip, | holitical issue is evolving around all in 14 days. Lt. King expects to end his leave here ic oun: right to dip into world air Saturday. . . . Elliott Peabody, former sales manager yoo and to compete for trade on of the gas company, has been promoted to major.|,, equal basis : He's at’ Randolph field, Tex., where he's assistant z : eR Announces Oil Parley

adjutant general. ' 4 The first meeting on oil reserves Most Persistent Patron was annognsed yesterday by Acting WHILE PRESENTING the Gilbert and Sullivan Secretary of State Edward R. Stetmusical comedy, “Pirates of Penzance,” last month tinfus.Jr. It will be held in WashCivic theater players noticed one patron who at-/ington soon and will be strictly

tended most of the nine performances. None of the!Anglo-American; although other |’

players knew who He was. But just the other day,! conferences will be. held at which the persistent patron walked into the office of C. M. other nations will be present. The (Moke) Davis, Ayres’ advertising manager who played first will deal only with near 2astthe pirate role. The stranger identified himself as ern reserves. Evan Reicheldoerfer, production manager of the! The monetary conference will inLadoga Canning Co. It turned out he’s probably the volve chiefly this country, the

By Eleanor Roosevelt

during the resort season are closed. It was crowded with men writing letters, reading and eating. There were some British boys and one from Santo Domingo. Later in the day, when we visited the recreation pier in Miami, which I had seen two years ago, we found many different nationalities represented.

In the middle of the afternoon we stopped at the USO which is run for colored servicemen: Not many of them come to this city and the community here is not very large, but they have taken a tremendous amount of interest and have a very fine place for men from ships or from shore stations who come in. I was glad to have an opportunity to see it. : In all of the hospitals I found Red Cross workers ‘helping with the craft work which the patients enJoy. They also do the contacting of families without having the complications which people oversed¥ suffer from in getting théir cables through. ‘At. 6 o'clock we reached my son Franklin's house, and met some of his friends, including Capt. and Mrs. McDaniels. Capt. McDaniels is the head of the "DETS (destroyer escort training school). ‘We had made a hurried trip to the school late in the afternoon. Looking into the mess hall and driving around the piers where the classrooms and practice ships are. Capt. McDaniels seems to have a gift for training ‘men, and I have never seen more enthusiastic stu- ~ dents, than those with whom I talked Sunday after-

nation’s No. 1 Gilbert and Sullivan fan. He's been pnited Kingdom and Russia. It is haunting Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for something gefinitely set for early spring. like 40 years, and has traveled as much as 400 miles! preedom from want and fear will he attended the Civics presentation seven nights and 1 ch would have been there the other two nights expt Philadelphia,” heginfiing Mar Wy {20, when the international labor for previous engagements. And he added he DeVEr | em.o holds its 26th annual meetmore zest and a more professional touch. . . , Six-| " + teen-year-old Peggy Campbell, 1314 S, Sheffield, {s an meg Ty Fide ope els vi fin, met her downtown Monday afternoon and bought (unemployment and social security. a nice Easter suit for her. Peggy went home on’ the Controversy Develops West Indianapoiis trackless trolley and got off at Bel- A second meeting of the united phoned the street railway and they checked the various! W. 1. trolleys, but the suit was gone, If the finder's| Tinistration council 5s lo in ’ suit to Peggy at the above address, Controversy is already develop ing over the extent of relief to be . * oJ * {extended freed enemy territory. The By William Philip Simms . {that the enemy be required to pay . ) {for its own relief “as far as posable demand which no strategic consideration can gible» but many nations want to defensive position as the gorge of the river at Klau- {them pay or do without. sen. (It is) far less strong than that which Italy! would have if she consented to . .. the true line of | German-speaking area . . . that is a place <= RED CROSS PLASMA Salurn.” . | The ethnographic boundary of which Lord mrvee| SAVES LIFE OF YANK spoke had long been recognized as one of arcation | that Vienna offered to cede the Italian-speaking area | . - even before the end of the war. (before a Nazi machine gun bullet {shattered his hip, but he had Red AFTER HITLER and Mussolini became partners | back to life. in crime, the tragedy of the democratic Tyroleans| The infantryman from Plymouth, deepened. They struck one of those inhuman bar- wis. is recuperating. at Billings his most striking language. {in the battle of Tunisia. He wears “Peoples and provinces” he said in his four the purple heart and the silver star, principles, “are not to be bartered about like chat- the latter for gallantry in action. But Hitler and Mussolini uprooted thousands of |Germans with his rifle after. his Tyroleans from homes which had been theirs [or machine gun jammed. During the centuries and drove them to seek refuge elsewhere. | German counter-attack, he was *will never forgive the Fuehrer as long as he remains |} ues under heavy fire before litter alive. bearers could reach him with the Restoration of the Tyrol, of course, will not cure vita) blood plasma. has only 7,000,000 inhabitants and a very limited area. The return of even a little land, and the quarter of a million industrious, progressive people would give larger Italy, with her 40,000,000 people, would not Truk From Ground be much the loser—territorially or strategically. PEARL HARBOR, March 8 U P).—Lt. (jg) George M. Blair, probably knows what Japan’s sprawling Truk naval base looks like better than any other. man. Flying a Hellcat fighter plane, Blair was forced down in a Truk lagoon on Feb, 17, after he was fire. He was seen going down ‘by other Ametican planes and a daring rescue mission was organized. U.S.N.R, of Summertown, Tenn., and - Aviation. Chief Radioman Reuben ‘Frank Hicman, U. 8. N., OS2U + scouting plane from a United States cruiser accompanying the attacking task force, middle of the lagoon. They picked up Blair and flew him back’ safely _to their cruiser. The Indianapolis Dental society will meet at 3 p. m. next Wednesday % Bilge Genel hospital

to attend one by his favorite cast. He told Mr. Davis ibe dealt with in a quasi-official way had “Pirat " ith | ad seen the “Pirates of Penzance” performed with | It will discuss and prepare unhappy youngster. Her grandmother, Mrs. Alice Grif- | ont and yard, forg i X. faa mont and How orgetting her suit box. Later she | nations relief and rehabilitation adconscience gets to hurting, he or she can return the, Montreal. Atlantic City resolution provides justify . . . the Brenner is not nearly so strong 2 cirike out this proviso and make demarcation between the Italian-speaking and the oldest afd clearest. So sharp was the demarcation Cpl. Robert Ardell got 18 Germans Inhuman Bargain gains against which Woodrow Wilson used some of ‘general hospital after taking part tels or pawns in a game.” He explained that he killed the For this alone, thousands of German-speaking people |wounded and lay on a hillside 34 all of Austria's economic ills. But it would help. She @ Naval Flier Saw her an immense lift. At the same time the much U S.N.R, of Sewickley, Pa, Blair landed on it. met by, intensive anti-aircraft Lt. (jg) Denver F. Baxter, "of Waverly, Tenn. flying an went down and landed in the EE ———e ee A i. DENTAL GROUP TO MEET

world petroleum reserves so that aj civilization highly dependent on oil 3 ican survive despite the heavy con- |’

nomic warfare, often the forerun-|

Cross blood plasma to bring him!

for!

crisis.)

These extra duties have no basis in law. Presiding

the deciding vote in case of a tie are still the constitutional tasks for -this officer. Two steps to give the vice president greater responsibility have been taken in recent times, with the idea of fitting him for a job to which he may suddenly fall heir. The first step was taken by President Harding, who invited

Theos. L. Stokes Vice President Coolidge to sit with

the cabinet. The vice presideni had never been so honored before. Charles G. Dawes, vice president in the second Coolidge administration, declined to attend cabinet meetings, but vice presidents since that time have been included. The other effort to build up the vice presidency was made by President Roosevelt, who made Vice President Wallace a member of various defense and war agencies and head of one of the most important, the board of economic warfare, Imposing additional responsibilities upon the vice president making him a really powerful official, was interpreted at the time as notice by Mr. Roosevelt that

By FLOYD TAYLOR NEA Service Writer

CHUNGKING, March 8.— “Everyone in Hongkong will die” said the Japanese soldier. “All the Chinese will die of starvation, and all the Japanese will fight until they are killed.” These words were spoken to a Chinese businessman who later escaped from Hongkong, where food was growing scarcer by the day, and the Japanese were increasingly nervous over the success of the allies. The businessman told of the conversation after he reached western China as an illustration of the declining morale of the Japanese troops stationed in China, and of the hardships of the Chinese people in the territorv occupied by the Japanese. The Japanese have so thoroughly stripped some sections of occupied China of food and other necessities that they are called “the locust army.” This phrase can be safely used in the presence of the Japanese because the words “locust” and “imperial” in Chinese sound the same, though written with different characters.

News Is Plentiful

News of conditions in enemyoccupied territory reaches Chungking frequently through government sources of information, stories told by refugee civilians and, occasionally, through the reports of prisoners who have escaped from Japanese prison camps. There are not many of the latter because the Japanese kill most of the men they capture. All of these accounts concern starvation and semi-starvation because of Japanese seizures of food, the spread of the opium and heroin traffic, the Jap attempts to break the morale of the Chinese, Jap transportation difficulties because of shipping losses, and the activities of Chinese guerrillas, the lack of anything but propaganda in the Japcontrolled press, the get-rich-quick schemes of the Japanese carpet-baggers, the hoarding of commodities because of the growing distrust of both Japanese and puppet-regime money, the Japanese efforts to raise puppet armies of Chinese to rélieve their manpower shortage, the Japanese cruelty in extracting forced labor from the Chinese, and the slowly declining morale of the Japanese troops. ~ Many Starve

The food situation in Peiping has been so bad, with many victims dying of starvation, that in some sections of the city it is unsafe to carry a ‘loaf of bread on the street. Rice and wheat are so limited that foods made -out of peanut skins and other waste materials are rationed. In sections of Shansi province, food shortages as a result of Japanese requisition are even worse, ‘with the result that a slave traffic has grown up. The use of opium and heroin among the Chinese seems to be encouraged by thé Japs’ everywhere, reports of this being es= pecially frequent from Shanghai

also encourage , from which they make large profits and which théy may be using, as

* WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1944

By THOMAS L. STOKES Scripps-Howard Steff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 8,—The vice presidency in recent years has become a somewhat more important office, sometimes through the personality and capacity of the incumbent, sometimes on the initiative of the President himself in finding more for the second man to do.

over the senate.and casting

and Peiping. Jap carpet-baggers

they do the opium traffic, as a.

Henry Wallace was his choice as successor. . Subsequently, in his BEW office, Mr, Wallace - quarreled bitterly with Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones over policy, and as a result was dropped in a reorganization which merged the BEW into a bigger agency. The vice president again was just vice president, and somewhat under a cloud. Just as his earlier elevation by the President had been taken as a happy augury for his future, so the President's failure to back him against Mr. Jones was interpreted as a sign that he would be dropped as vice presidential candidate. Conservatives were joyful.

Point Unsettled

During the Wallace-Jones dispute the theory of delegating executive authority to the vice president was challenged. It was argued that an unconstitutional mingling of executive and legisla~ tive authority might occur if the vice president was called upon to cast a vote in the senate to break a tie on an issue involving an agency in which he exercised executive authority. This constitutional point is left in doubt, awaiting perhaps another test by some future occupant of the White House. The Harding reform, fairly well established now, has created an

opportunity for the vice president .

to inform himself about the major problems of government and, at

y =.

Importance of the Vice Presiden

(This is the second of five articles by a Pulitzer prize winning. political reporter, relating the haphazard way in which some of our vice presidential nominees of the past have been selected, and raising the question whether this is not a dangerous procedure in a year of

& i Charles G. Dawes

times, to act as consultant on policy. President Coolidge commented in his autobiography about the value of the vice president sitting with the cabinet: “He may not help much in its deliberations, -and only on rare occasions would he be a useful contact with the congress, although his advice on the sentiment of the senate is of much value, but he should be in the cabinet because he might become President and ought to be informed on the policies of the administration.

Learned in Cabinet “He will not learn all of them. Much went on in the departments under President Harding, as it did under me, of which the cabinet had no knowledge. But he

will hear much and learn how to find out more if it ever becomes necessary. My experience in the

cabinet was of supreme value to ‘me when I became President.”

Vice President Dawes, declining to sit with the cabinet, held that if the precedent were established

Deep in Japanese-occupied territory, loyal Chinese carry on the war as best they can—Xkilling puppet officials, wrecking trains, planting land mines against enemy troops. *

puppet of the Japs in the Shanghai-Nanking area, recently issued an edict against drugs and

gambling, But everyone knew it ~ -was-not to be enforced, and the -

traffic went on as usual except" that indignant students in Shanghai, pretending that Wang's words were seriously meant, wrecked a few opium dens and gambling houses. The Japanese have done their best to recruit puppet armies of

DETAIL FOR TODAY B-19

TO THE SOLDIER, a B-19 is one of two things: a giant bomber or a gargantual gal. Nine times “out-of 10 it's the latter. Church socials and USO’s are good at digging up B-19s—unintention-ally, of course—for little soldiers who barely passed the physical. If a buddy's girl drools all over a soldier about the swell plind date ‘she has ‘for him and doesn't say a word about her looks, but raves about her terrific personali make way for a B-19! Some. soldiers prefer B-19s to anything else, but are nowhere to be found

when you have danced 14 con-B-19

dances with a B-19 and

from the activities of guerrilias—this being

Chinese to fight the Chinese national forces, and apparently have encouraged these troops to loot and plunder in the hope of causing as much confusion and dissention among the Chinese as possible. These troops are poorly equipped, however, and distrusted by the Japs, for no Jap can be sure that any Chinese is not basically a patriot. The Japs have ruined the cotton workers of Shanghai by foreing them to sell cotton goods at such heavy losses that there have been suicides among the brokers. There was one report of a mass suicide of 30 brokers in a hotel following a dinner at which they did their best to enjoy themselves before death. Recent reports tell of cotton goods still being held in

warehouses because of lack ‘of

shipping to take them to Japan. Jabs Control Coastal Area

Chinese students in Peiping and -

some other cities are forced to study the Japanese language and to take part in Japanese “victory” demonstrations which otherwise would be poorly attended. According to a report, 2700 students in the four northeastern provinces of China were arrested in 1942 on a charge of forming anti Japanese societies. Late last year, 1000 of the arrested students were executed. While the Japs control most of the large cities in the coastal areas of China, and most of the

railway lines, their influence is

not strong elsewhere. Hundreds

of miles behind the Jap front:

lines are many counties in which _the Chinese officials appointed at Chungking function just usual. Even. in Japanese-held territory the Japs are never safe

The

especially -| regions

cy Grows

‘it might embarrass some future President. “With it fixed,” he said, “some

future President might face the

embarrassing alternative of inviting one whom he regarded as unsuitable into his private conferences or affronting him in the public eye by denying him what had been generally considered his right.” 3 * :

Garner Fought New Deal

But ° Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt invited their vice presi dents to cabinet sessions. The idea, as a matter of fact, was not new with President Coolidge. William Jennings Bryan, in his third and last try for the Presidency in 1008, promised that if elected he would invite the vice president into cabinet sessions. President Roosevelt discovered that Mr. Dawes had a point. About halfway through his second term Vice President Garner began to. fight the New Deal behind the scenes in the senate and he was effective because of his knowledge of congress and his influence among many of its members as a result of his many years of service. He went so far as to become a candidate himself for the White House. The President ‘solved this problem by dropping Mr. Garner when he ran for a third term. The vice presidential role through the years has been a

_vague one, its character depend-

ing on the individual who held the office. Some have had influence. Some have had virtually none. In the early days of the New Deal, for example, Vice President Garner was a great help to President Roosevelt with congress. Later he used his influence against the President, and he must be given large credit for restoring some of the lost power and independence of congress. Mr. Wallace has been no help to the President in congress. He has no influence there whatever.

Next: How Gets There.

Refugees Reveal How the Japs Strip Occupied Territory In China Like 'Army of Locusts,” Leaving Natives to Starve

Japanese transportation, and in

laying land mines on roads used

by Japanese and puppet troops. Of all the recent reports from occupied territory, one of the oddest concerns a hoarder in Shanghai. This man invested $50,000 in firecrackers, which he carefully stowed away, explaining to his associates that firecrackers should be in great demand and exceedingly - valuable as soon as the time came to celebrate victory.

FESTIVAL OF PURIM OBSERVED BY JEWS

Indianapolis Jews will unite with those of their faith around the world in ofering special prayers for the success of the allied forces, as they mark the festival of Purim this week. Purim, the feast of lots, commem-

orates the story of the deliverance

of the Jews from complete destruc-

tion as planned by Haman, prime minister of Persia. The Biblical

story which is told in the Book of

Esther, the Megillah, will be read in all synagogs. Thus Purim recalls the Hitler of ardother day and illustrates the timeless universal message of the

Scriptures. At sundown today, at 6:45 p. m,, the fast of Esther will be-

gin, with services at which the Megillah will be read, in the Bethe El-Zedeck temple. Purim services will also be held at 7 a. m. tomorrow morning when the Megillah will be repeated. The “teen-age” group of the Indianapolis Hebrew congregation will present a Purim play the Megillah will be read; and a Purim party for the religious school children will be given Sunday afternoon at the temple.

CHURCH TO SPONSOR FELLOWSHIP DINNER

The young people of the Northwood Christian church will sponsor the monthly fellowship dinner at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow at the church.

Participating in the musical program will be Robert and William

Boone, Ruth Duggins, Hylda Smith,

Alice, John and Ruth Ann Hanlin, Robert Gonyea, Shirley Rose, Davis Reed and Martha Morrissey.

HOLD EVERYTHING

. “Throttlebottom”

ey 7 p>