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E FIRST READER. . . By

HE HOUSE NEAR PARIS. " “9% Schuster, New York. = $2.75.

Wie ] “HERE are some lovely, peaceful spots in the world and . "8 one of them is called Barbizon, on the road from Paris toMaybe’ you have stopped there, as 1 did;

Fontainebleau.

" maybe you were drawn to it Rousseau and the other painters of that famous school, and

maybe you found something where the gleaners still work as they did when Mille painted them.

Perhaps you, too, visited the innjbeen a best seller before, where Robert Louis Stevenson lived would not have received advance in the 1880s, and had lunch in the {orders for 48,000 copies from the

courtyard. Then it will be hard for | you to see “Barbizon as Drue Tartiere portrays it in The House Near Paris—a village with Germans snooping around and British and American fliers hidden in its peace-

ful houses.

= »

» THIS BUSINESS of hiding aviators was the logical result of their |

dropping on the fields around Barbizon, and Drue Tartiere took on the job with an astounding resourcefulness. She must be “completely without fear, for she shows no signs of it in the book she has written with

.the help of M. R. Werner. Not only |

that but she volunteered for work in which she could be useful, with out thinking about herself. | She is an American and was born Dorothy Blackman in Wisconsin, She lived her early life in| California and at one time played| the blond heroine in the Charlie Chan films; later she acted for the Theater Guild in New York and while with the WPA theater project met Jacques Tartiere, whom she | married. Tartiere was killed by weichery] in Syria after he had negotiated the surrender of the Vichyites at Damascis. She is now the wife of

(Published by ‘The Times Every Wednesday)

r ne-Time Blond Heroine in

t tion to Werfel's new book, a “trav-

Harry Hansen

By Drue Tartiere. Simon and

by what you knew of Corot,

familiar in the fields outside

elog” called Star of the Unborn, (Viking Press, $3.) If Werfel had not Viking

bookstores, Nor would it have paper ready for 25,000 additional copies. If booksellers had reld the book in advance nothing like this would [have happened. This book is travelling solely on the momentum of past | success. It is probably the longest bore in print—645 pages of it. : " " » AS AN intellectual with a lively imagination, Werfel thought about modern man walking around In the world thousands of years hence and looking back on his times. But he was interested in ideas, rather than facts, so he did not reconstruct a tangible world anew. He goes off into intellectual discussions, including several on religion, dealing with theories rather than faith. It becomes difficult reading because we have to take it on Werfel's terms, whereas most authors try to meet the reader's terms. As a story it is not substantial enough to haunt anybody. I tried at different times to'get interested in it, but finally concluded that my time could be better spent. As F. W. remarks in one place: “I had the suspicion that I was the victim of an illusion of a mental demonstration.” Whatever that is.

Geoffrey Parsons Jr. editor of the Paris Herald.

ss ® DRUE TARTIERE had been broadcasting to the United States

mation when the Germans came.

. She chose to live at Barbizon. She

was constantly in touch with the resistance and of great help to it. Her most difficult time seems to

ris and Barbizon Ripe in helping to hide and Americans began. he story of her adventures e thus occupied, of the effect of the Normandy invasion on the French and Germans and the arrival of American ‘troops is one of the best in the literature of the underground movement. I

_founhd it much better reading than

Paris Underground; more circumstantial and better written. The glimpses of how these villages punished the collaborators, men and women, are excellent; the author wag able to save one man from dire punishment because he had been falsely accused. As a result of her adventure I shall look on Barbizon with new interest, forget-

ting, perhaps, both the painters and |

Robert Mos Stepheneon,

"STAR OF THE UNBORN," By . Franz Werfel, Viking Press, $2.

“FRANZ WERFEL, the novelist, died in August, 1945. His novel on a religious theme, The Song of Bernadette, sold well over 1,000,000 copies, Charles M. Sheldon, author and r, died Sunday. His religious , In His Steps, sold anywhere from 18,000,000 to-22,000,000 copies. Franz Werfel should have made $1,-

movie rights to his various books, if the taxes didn't cut it down. Charles M. Sheldon had a modest living from various editorial activities but nothing commensurate with his sales. In fact, since In His Steps was not copyrighted,”all but one publisher romped gaily from book-

stores to bank with it.

THAT ONE publishing house was Grosset & Dunlap, It must have had hai 2 manager with a Sunday school upbringing when it directed that Sheldon should receive the

royalty for all copies it Only that would explain such

action in ‘what radicals call a] an i These figures have some rela-

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to May 31, 1939.) in Ww. -u a L “BACON SAID, ‘Reading maketh

{a Tull man’ If that is true, then I~

usually appear inebriated.” That's how Dr. F. 8B. C. Wicks, pastor emeritus of All Souls’ Uni-tarian-church; 14563 N. Alabama st;

humorously describes his interest in reading. His love for books has been lifelong. As a child, he read Bulfinch's “Age of Fable,” which, he says, en~ riched his imagination. "a 8 » “LATER, Dickens made me sym= pathetic to the sufferings of mankind,” Dr. Wicks added. “Then came George Eliot, who revealed to me the springs of human action. “Herbert Spencer gave me a deepened apprehension of the value of the individual. “Much later, .Freud made me realize that beneath our consciousness is a subconscious self that directs most of our actions. I think that's the most recent influence. o » » “NOWADAYS, Nietzsche is the most valuable reading for me, because he makes me defend all of my eonvictions,” says Dr. Wicks, alluding to Nietzsche's “superman” contempt for the Christian virtues | of humility and: charity. Among influential ‘books, Dr. Wicks "lists James Harvey Robinson’s “The Mind in the Making” for its valuable study of rationalization—the process by which ‘we’ substitute “good” reasons for “real” reasons in explaining and defending our behavior, He has also found Abbe Ernest Dimnet’s “The Art of Thinking” helpful. = ¥

tian. “I'm a devotee of the novel. From a good novel,

especially for the mind of a child. |

preme.”

interests marque’s

| THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES: DR. F. s, C. WICKS DESCRIBES ‘LIFETIME OF READING—

“Books That Influence People

Enthusiastic reader . ., . the Rev. Dr. F. 8. C. Wicks in his study at All Souls Unitarian church.

There's where Tarkington is surecent |

One of Dr. Wick's most Re- |

is Frich Maria “Arch of Triumph.” | “It's an accurate description of |

{the effect of war upon character. | It's good reporting,

” » nn “INCIDENTALLY, Theodore

‘An Amer- |

|ican Tragedy’ is simply a case of I get more [splendid reporting, with «he care- cratic city,” he says. __.~-

practical psychology than from a lessness you find in some re- | textbook. |porters.” “Tarkington is of value there,! Dr. Wicks knows aboufarer ting, |

naving worked for the Worcester, |

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Tips on Mysteries

By DREXEL DRAKE

The D. A. Breaks a Seal, by Erle Stanley Gardner. Doug Selby, former Madison City D. A., uses army leave in home town to take hand in will contest case that ties up with puzzling murder. That gives im a chance to wage legal tilt| with A. B. Carr, celebrated and wily defender of crooks. Story is slow on build-up but stage is neatly set for some brilliant work in handling witnesses in court trial. (Morrow, $2.) Love Has No Alibi, by Octavius Roy Cohen. Kirk Douglas was head over heels in love with night club dancer ‘whose husband - partner wouldn't give her a divorce, but that didn't explain why someone put $100,000 in Kirk's slender bank account, murdered a woman in his apartment,” and why a wealthy glamour girl made spectacular play for Kirk's affections. There was a second murder before Detective Max Gbld; with Kirk's help, dug out the answers. Lively night club atmosphere, good puzzle, fast pace. (Macmillan, $2.) Murder in Peking, by Vincent Starrett. American woman living in converted Buddhist temple near Peking was hostess to celebrities that included explorer, museum curator and famous mystery author, who, along with others, became suspects when a young womsan was murdered. In atmosphere clouded with sinister forebodings, there were more murders before ingenious detective work unscrambled clever deception and solved puzzle. Authentic setup of mystic pre-war China provides good at> mosphere for smoothly presented puzzle,

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To Austrians

“THE LIFE LINE," a novel. By Phyllis Bottome. Boston; Little Brown. $2.50.

MOST AMERICANS will never know what the war did to Europe. Veterans have seen desolation, countered the sullenness of the de-| feated.

But few of us know how much damage the Nazis did to the cor-| porate personality of Europe. “The Life Line,” set in Austria before! and during the war, shows how a charming, versatile and sWnsitive people were tyrannized and brutalized by their Nazi masters. * = = | THROUGH the eyes of Mark! Chalmers, a British schoolmaster | who has spent enough holidays in| Austria to learn the dialect per- | fectly, you see the story unfolding. | Admirably equipped, Mark becomes a British secret agent.

compel him.to assume the disguise of a maniac-deépressive patient in a| sanitarium. Ida Eichhorn, visiting| psychiatrist at the institution, and | Fr. Martin, a Jesuit priest, are in-|

Planer family of upland farmers— | simple-hearted, kindly but courageous unto death in the face of brutal

| Gestapo methods, give a good pic-!

ture of what Austrians endured and what many of them dared against | the tyranny. Despite . his injtial irritation at| in love with her, an attachment certainly under an- evil star. At the end of the book, Mark,! old of mind and broken of body from Gestapo tortures, has only a vague and mystical hope of future happiness. PHYLLIS ‘BOTTOME describes unforgettably the appalling contrast between life and beauty and love, on the one hand, and the death-in-life, on the other hand, which characterized Nazi thinking and methods. Anyorie who has spent ‘time in the Austrian Tyrol and knows the clean, alr and the wonderful, unspoiled

scriptions movingly reminiscent. She sketches Austrians, in trains and buses after the Nazi occupation, mutually fearful and hostile—the same people who had a cheerful |

. ” » ; “THE LIFE LINE” is not predominantly a war novel. It

sophical study of human personalities caught by the gospel of force and hate. As such, it has a valué transcending that of most fiction. It's more than entertaining. It | is, I should “say, profoundly instruc- |

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SCIENCE—

Book Rewals Facts Offer Fancy Fiction What War Did//n Anthology by Conklin

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STORIES WITH a scientific slant are in a special category. They

|are not murder-mysteries or detectiv | mysterious matters.

education. We have it on the word of John ing Science Fiction, -that “some of

bad.” Put the best is arresting and | memorable, and the title, The ‘Best | lof Science Fiction, a new anthology | by Groff Conklin, suggests that the best is here, (Crown, $3.) Whether the, human imagination exceeds human achievement in| this .atomic weather we doubt— | from now advantages, » ” BUT AS as as 1934 Don A. Stuart was writing “Atomic Power,” playing with the idea of what {atomic energy could do. It was prob- | {ably*more startling in 1934 than it is today-~for now we are convinced | that it will wreck everything. The constructive side is still to be

{are built up by destruction and vio{lence, not by construction. Mr. Conklin explains that many of the writers of science fiction

cludzd in the underground crcle. | publish only books and a whole Ho» 8 {group of purveyors of scientific OTHER characters, such as the {wonders — the “comic strip boys and run-of-the-mill pulpists”

{get his disapproval. 2 ” ” ALSO, HE says, it is impossible to mix sex and. science fiction, “any more than you can mix sex and the super-natural.” Would that be significant -in the scientific age to are heading—the age when

en? But Mr. Conklin found many scientific stories ta his taste. The book contains 40 stories, dealing | with the atom, wonders of ‘earth, dangerous inventions, adventures lin . dimensions - and “from outer | space.” A section on “the super-science of man” includes stories by Edgar |

Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.| G. Wells, Julian Huxley, the bestknown nemes in the book. Many of the other authors are lesser luminatries—H., H

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Avoid Jitters, Authors Warn

| "MASTERING YOUR NERVES." By Edith M. Stern and Larry Freeman. New York, Harper,

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[tion, rest the nerves and overcome tension. Since not all of us have [an abundant supply of common |

The..demalids of. super-secrecy | used as a theme, but then, thrills Sense; we must turn to Edith-M.| Jove

| Stern of New York and Larry Free{man of Northwestern university for | advice. They have plenty of it on display in “Mastering Your Nerves.” You will observe that the title says “your,” not “our,” nerves. What they say about the proper directing of energy info work and {play sounds so reasonable that you {may wonder. why yeu didn’t think of it before. Perhaps you did, in which case their printed word backs you up. They have the trick of speaking plainly. They do not befuddle you with scientific terms. 4 ” ” » THEY TELL you how to be efficient at your desk, at the bridge [table and at golf—for the proper ordering of your work relieves ten|sion as much as the moderate play | which you take up in order to relax. Our whole object is to use proplerly the energy we have and not be guided by another person's energy; to get the results we.-can reach, and not be subjected to the nervous | jitters because somebody else gets different «results. That's common sense, isn't it? -

n n o I ENJOYED especially their chapfer on high efficiency. (They do not mean superhuman or above-average

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individuals, Salesmen are

program of expansion and improve-|constantly confronted with the per-

| ment made possible by removal of |formances of rivals and of others There The well known reprint house Is is always an. incentive to top last and five|year's, or last week's, results. authors of this book say:

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FREEDOM .IN ATOMIC

CHICAGO, March 6 (U. P.). Robert Maynard Hutchins,

the United States will be atomic homb a secret. . “Atomic energy could bring un-

told blessings to ‘us and to all fu-

ture generations,” he said in a raaddress.

From the limited

lih their own organization,

The [Put your work within reasonab »| bounds.

only when

ol | moderation.”

mean,”

We are to set reasonable. goals, DEVELOPMENT URGED |conserve muscular energy by good — | working habits, finish the task we chan- | set—in order to enjoy the relief that cellor of the University of Chicago, |comes when work is well done; condalled last. night for the freest|centrate on one job at a time and possible research -and development of atomic energy and warned that, ‘but take them in our stride, and in| make .some allowances for

“gravest danger” If it considers the after work—which may be a game, lor the theater, or music, or whole: |

try for a minimum of interruptions,

some hearty laughter.

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“{the cause - and - effect connections

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With total sales of nearly 135,- sirable practiced in

” » THE AUTHORS want us to re-; member “the principle of the golden |

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{HISTORY VIEW—

Champion of

Common Man

"GROOVES OF CHANGE. A BOOK OF MEMOIRS." By Viscount Samuel. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill. $3.75,

TERPRETATTON" of “history “is a major intellectual problem, For, in St. Paul's phrases, we know in part and we prophesy in part. The meaning of events and of

between events must always remain obscure. Hence, memoirs, like autobiographical nov- p els, help towards §? understanding § history (social, political, individual) by giving us a series of dif ferent perspectives. The more often we can change the camera-angle, the more likely we are to see a variety of different but equally valid interpretations of the same events. That is the beginning of wisdom. ” o ” HITLER, in “Mein Kampf,” stuck to one hysterical method of interpretation, He sold an entire nation, already infected with diseased ambition, a disastrous bill of goods. “Viscount Samuel's temperate and rigorously honest memoirs by contrast represent the best in the legacy of British liberalism. They are the recollections of an enlightened and wealthy Jew who, early in his career, looked at society and found much out-of joint. A tireless worker in ‘good causes, Herbert Samuel aided in the d.velopment of social legislation, in campaigns against sweal-shops and low-wage Piage. ” ” PATI LY fighting genteel] British anti-semitism (which has]. probably had more to do with Palestine’s troubles than tactful Viscount Samuel will admit), he helped Chaim Weizmann and others found the Jewish state the strife-ridden Holy Land. Evidently able to subordinate personal ambition to the commonwealth, Viscount Samuel was repeatedly called upon to aid in conferences leading to settlement of such problems as the British gen-| eral strike of 1926. n

Viscoun{ Samuel

| bert,” Maybe we'll use ‘em all,

I have been doing a deep study of got it cornered. You realize I am handicapped. I have never been married to a _pyb:! lisher, or undressed publicly for | money. I have never been a movie | actor, international spy, or the] note-taking aid to a general, so I am a little short of source stuff. Also 1 am not pretty, so a picture of my kisser and torso on the dustjacket will sell no extra copies. But I have been tangling lately with Anya Seton's best-selling “Turquoise,” and before that I was a student of Amber's vagaries and the other volumes which deal with round-heeled dolls, and with a little light plagiarism here and there, I can bat out a tome that will chase me into the chips, fast. o » » THE FIRST step is to find out the name of the longest book ever written, and then write your two chapters longer, Then you hire the best ‘press agent in New York, and make sure that the publishers devote half a million bucks and six months to exploitation before the |

thing is launched. Before you write a line, you choose | your characters-with an eye on the| movies, and hack out the epic with | those people in mind. The three leading males will be Gable, Jim Stewart, and Ray Milland. I don’t fancy Milland especially, but he won the academy award, and you might as well ¢#%n in on it. Orson Welles~ stays the hell out of my movi®, A contest will be held to dreide which filly will be rt Lu, of a-herd composed of Goddard, Lake, Bergman and Col-

8 » . JUST FOR gags, Van Johnson will be cast as a hare-lipped hunchback. Margaret O'Brien is the villain, and ‘Dame May Whitty will win an award for her work as a scatsinger in a night club. Having disposed of the moyie an-| gle, you sit down and dream up a

title. { I am. tern between “So Long, M. de Gaulle,” “Degenerate Deborah,” | “Never Norah,” “Obscene Female,” “I Married a Black Marketeer, iq “The Aquamarine Nasturtium,” or “The Pigeon-Blood Ruby With the| Star in the Middle and the Fringe |

» » ”

s - THE MODEST tone of “Grooves of Change’ leads you to believe

tions were much greater than he| admits. His Palestine experience led to somber conclusions about people's inability to sacrifice cherished prejudices for the sake of humanity. And while he is not over-pessi- | mistic at the end of the book; any feader. scanning current headlines | can see the shaping of new forms! of familiar Soni » ASIDE from political reminiscence and sketches of British and | American leaders, the book con-|

the near and far East. And there lis a lot of good material on the development of Oxford university |

[to the present. Bobbs-Merrill has done a valuable service in making this book ilable to American readers,

‘Revised Version

Is a Best-Seller Meigs Publishing Co. 231 N. | Pennsylvania st., announces the sale in 10 days of over 500 copies of the Standard Revised Version of the New Testament. Published by Thomas Nelson, the New Testament,” which sells at $2, {has been a consistent best-seller.

2 Million Book® In Wllinois Library

Times Special URBAN A - CHAMPAIGN, Il, March 5.—Tllinois university has just added the 2,000,000th volume to its library collection here. The addition makes Illinois university . library the largest state university library and the third or fourth larges® library in the United States.

New- Fishing Guide {Has Angling Lore

A. C. Barnes & Co., announce the publication of the 1046 National ($1), compiled by William Voight Jr., with an introduction by Kenneth A. Reid, di-| rector of the Izaak Walton league.

i Fishing Guide

that Viscount Samuel's contribu-|

J Wall Street,

This 256-page, paper-bound book describes the best fishing spots in all states, with maps and pictures.

on Top.” |

MY HEROINE is a tempestuous, tumultuous woman of mixed blood, {with a flair for the occult and al fascination for men that leads *her [into danger and always into bed- | rooms. I will bounce her from bou- | | doir to boudoir in Funa Futi, Guan- | labacoa, Punta Arenas, Hoboken, | New York, Paris London, Buenos | Aires, Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, Pei-| ping, Woolloomoolloo, Antwerp, | Flushing, Pondicherry, Chihuahua, | {New Orleans, Babelthuap, Kansas) City, Marrakech, Weehawken, Yalta, | Malta and Gibraltar. ® The hero will be a man (played | by Gable). like Clark Gable.

tains some personal, though not ER {park in memory of Theodore Roose~ intimate, recollections. There are | IN MY Elegie heroine's | velt. short and vivid descriptions of background (her name is Grenadine The measure, introduced by Rep. travel—Europe, America, Africa and | Etching, and her father always | William Lemke (R. N. D.. also

asked lady friends to come up and | see her) is a dour Scot, a lovely Creole mother, a faithful black

common, sense to|from the days of Benjamin Jowett, servant and a sinister haif-brother. know when to relax, avoid irrita- [that greatest Master of Balliol, up |The plot will entail voodoo,-a mur-

{der she didn't do but was blamed for and one she did but wasn't, [three dukes, Diamond Jim Brady, Senator Claghorn; plague, famine, the slave trade, the revolution, the civil war, both world wars and the Boxer Rebellion, a ghost, a castle, opium, swing music, death taxes, Yorkshire pudding, | George V, and Clifton _Fadiman. #" ” ~ 1 HAVE eliminated some details, | but you can see the book is a cinch. Just before it comes out, I'll persuade a waspish critic .to knock |

body love it the more. In less than] a year my two-headed twins, Wink- | en, Stinken, Abercrombie and | Zombie, will be living off the fat of | the land.

Specialized List of

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The Hoosier Bookshop, 2135 N. Alabama st., has issued the first of la series of specialized lists of books. Dealing with engineering, -indus-

sions. this mimeographed list of 214 titles includes a variety of technical works on subjects ranging from aeronautics to ballistics, and from] television to beverages. With a stock of some 6000 books. | the Hoosier shop announces a policy of endeavoring to find rare and out-of-print books. for readers in specialized fields.

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Budding Author's Book Will

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By ROBERT C. RUARK dd | Seripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, March 6.—I'm going.to sit right-down.and write mys self a novel, and make believe it came from genius. from genius or the memoirs of a moron, it will still make money, because

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‘TODAY'S -STACKUP— Indianapolis’ Best-Selling Ratings

Ayres’, Block’ s, Stewart’s! Meigs’ and the Meridian Boo Shop give-the following title current best-selling ratiges:

* NONFICTION “Washington Tapestry.” Raymond Clapper. “The Egg and 1.”

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By Betty Madd

Donald. “Reveille for Radicals.” By sauy Alinsky. “Pleasant Valley.” By Louis Brom,

field. “Soldier of Democracy.” By Kene neth 8. Davis. “Atlantic War.” Edited by Cmdr,

| Walter Karig, U. 8S. N.

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“The King’s General.” By Daphne}

Du Maurier. “Arch of Triumph.” Maria Remarque. “The Gauntlet.” By James Street, “The Turquoise.” By. Anya Seton. “Forever Amber.” By Kathleen

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WASHINGTON, March 6 (U. P.),

| The house public lands committée’ vesterday approved legislation to set aside 35,000 acres of the North | Dakota “badlands” for a national

{would authorize the interior department to erect a $35,000 monument to Mr. Roosevelt in the village of Medora. Mr. Lemke told reporters that the proposed park will be located in the western part of the state around Medora. “None of these 35,000 acres® Cis suitable for agriculture,” “he said. “And yet it is the most fascinating place in the world. People have told me" that it is far more intere esting than Yellowstone.”

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Mrs. Edwin F present resoluti the organizatio May 13-15 at board ‘meeting Wednesday “in "The 1. P.. C. 9:15 a, m. ‘Marc hotel, A forum will be held. Speakers will Weirick, OPA service officer; state director « bond division, man, dean of high school an Indiana Consul mittee, A dis follow. : An invitation coungil will be p m. March mansion. Mrs. .be hostess, Mrs. Royer | arrangements by Mrs. Ted E. field, Mrs. Ev George A. Bows vided by Mrs Mrs. Manley E ville and Mrs. Assistant ho dames Lowell len, Francis A. M. Miller.

Scottis Plans |

Mr. and Mrs. chairmen of young people’s Saturday in t Myers’ “orche: will play. Other memt of the enterts ment commi are Messrs, a Mesdames R W. Capron, Ra T. Simon, My J. Austin, Ha ‘R. "Ball, Earl Beam, U. Adi Breting Jr., F M. Ehling, Jo R. Fensterma William M. H

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Beta Sign To Elect

Beta Pi cha sorority, will at a meeting rooms. Mrs, |] Miss Eileen charge of the Mrs. Wililia Miss Marian plans for the held next mor “4nson will pre: liamentary PF McFarland wi den” at the e