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~ Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

EVERY MEMORIAL DAY sino Han watched the “500” at the ce 1946 I've

1 .. This year on May 30 I'll be on a shi i ay y ‘Atlantic. P in the middle of the

There are a lot of people who don't particularly care whether they see the “500” or not. Some citizens even prefer to get out of to ¢

of peopl , about the Memorial- people Wro are nuity

the Speedway ‘again.

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He'll Miss This Year's

Memorial Day Race

leaves you breathless. That's the fastest you've ever seen a car go around the oval. Too bad Walt Brown couldn't coax more than 131.907 out of his car. ’

There's something exciting and unexplainable

about speed. And not that you want to be going

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of our noses when “We knew that

y Day Classic. I'm one of them -~ —) : == : VV & We get that way sometimes wif] : .' wheels you'd find out. ; = / =U (= —\] ——— | [= == 30 fo 5:00! = There's no explanation. Soy oot Rowing Sng. It's interesting to look into garages and: see rs Bag L =A IE SEE a 3 Se y around the track and watch. " e to--hang the speed wagons all torn apart. There's a small = = = —— mE mr = Sm! ee The other day 1 went out. With 1000 details thrill to be able to walk up and stand around ACRO S | H E PAC I | C N A ' RA FT to take care of before leaving town, it's improb- with a group of drivers and listen to them talk, \ : : : ~ able that I'll make it to Ly ea) kid one another. : . : :

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DON'T GE see the race than go on a five-w i week writi assignment in Europe: That's not it. You ar : der ‘what will happen on May 30th. Who will. win the race? When will: I' find out who won? Will the ship have the latest news? 3 The day at the ‘track: I know about thg sport. What a shock to conclade

you Know nothing, Oh, there are f . , > are familiar faces and cars but that's about all, ’

Some guys can argue motors

T the impression that I'd’ rather °

+L got to thinking. what

ED WINTERGUST, thie Mayor of Gasoline Alley, is always a fine guy to shoot the breeze with for a few minutes. He makes you feel smart, “you know the fuel So-and-so used last year

and got such-and-such speed. Well, this year pos an

changing it.” the Shell Oil expert will say. + Then ‘you say, “Well, I'll be darned. I-thought

with the Mayor of Gasoliné-Alley all afternoon, sound real gmart, never get: tripped up. He lets

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[vv "CHAPTER FIVE .

E WERE still not sur¢ of the sea. We were still uncertain whether it would show itself a friend. or an

of the waves and waited

enemy in. the hitignate proximity we ourselves had sought. e Kon-Tiki calmly swung up her stern and rose .. skyward unperturbed, while thesmasgsés of water rolled .

» talk + ; ES ol he had his fuel problem figured out” 1 ean talk 7%), par sides, Then we sank down again into the tegen

and relieve one of the two men

in a second the raft would go over the top and flatten out the foaming ridge like a steam roller; while the heavy threatening mountain of water only lifted us up in the air and rolled v ‘groaning and gurgling. under . the floor?* > ’ n n » THE OLD masters from Peru knew what they were do-

specific : t traight man well. i g 5 rteords, aston, ari sholors, eel fos Hions, me play the s gh! 3h we for the next big sea. The 1% leering 4¥, 0 ing when they avoided a holtrack. Race cars and horses are two things this EVERY TIME I meet a driver who occupies biggest Seas often come worse, the s ve per Ly Winels couy 3 wy 2t 20 fan doesn't pretend to know anything about. If a a spegial list because of the tough luck he has | two or three in succession, with , 0.0 "0 going down. Two ft world not take the SE ore 4 to 42 Ter {aus to qualify or a horse stops to eat grass had or simply because he's a good Joe, I wished | a long series of smaller seas In. pours on end of struggling with BY ol saat rote ’ ® homestretch, that's all there is to it, him luck. | between. It was when two big {}, steering oar was too long; that was®what the balsa raft Y Lr.» Duke Nalon is one of those drivers. In 1949 | seas followed each other t00 ,.man was not much use in the amounted to. YOU" HOPE and pull for every man who is he cracked up and was burned. When I saw him | closely that the second broke couonq half of his watch, and Erik took our position at noon wk trying to qualify, Duke Nalon's qualifying speed later in the hospital he looked as if he’d never | on board aft, because the first ,, gaag got the better of us and found that, In addition to tyle sketched: : drive another car. Then last year he was held | was still holding our bow in the 344 hurled us round and side-

rent of colors.

back by mechanical trouble. Today he has the pole position and a good hold on track records. > oo @

THE IRON DUKE was sorry I was going to miss the race. He said it was going to be a good one. Also Duke was sorry he wasn’t going to Europe. Talked to Champion Johnnie Parsons. He was rained out last year after completing 345 miles of the 500. So was I in my tree house on the southwest turn. Johnnie wasn't around the garage area, I was told. Snappy Ford, AAA press-radio liaison man, said he was observing a driver's test on the northeast turn. “What do you want with Johnnie?” +» “Just want to talk to him and wish him luck.”

air. When a really big sea came, the men at the helm left the steering to the ropes and, jumping up, hung on to a bamboo pole from the cabin roof, while the masses of water thundered in over them from astern and disappeared between the logs or over the side of the raft.

~ o n THEN THEY" had to fling themselves at the. oar again before the raft could turn 'round and the sail thrash about. For, if the raft took the seas at an

ways, while the water poured on board. Then we changed over to one hour at the helm and an hour and a half’'s rest. ® =» = ! SO THE FIRST 60 hours passed, in one continuous struggle against a chaos of waves that rushed upon us, one after another, without cessation. High waves and low waves, pointed waves and round waves, slanting waves and waves on top of other waves. The one of us who suffered worst was Knut. He was let off steering watch, but to com-

and night into watches of two

The steering watch. The crew of the Kon-Tiki divided the day

hours. Althaugh the waves often

towered round the raft as high as its mast tops, the Kon-Tiki aiways rode over them in style. The author is at the steering oar:

our run under sail, we had made a big deviation northward along the coast. We still lay in the Humboldt Current just 100 cea miles from land. The wind was still blowing straight from southeast. We hoisted the sail, turned the raft stern to sea and continued our steering watches. We were now so accustomed to having the sea dancing - round us that we took no account of it. What did it matter if we danced round a bit with a thousand fathoms of water under us, so long as we and the raft were always on top? It was

“” - i > h il 5.95 flop in tie car. 1 hapten inTefoinz to he AS right jig a pensate for this he had to sac- only that here the next question . op northeast turn. HN es | cabin. When they came from rifice to Neptune and suffered arose—how long could we count JOHNNIE was HAPPY to see company. He | astern, they disappeared be- Sen SEONIAs IN § corner b te on keeping on lop? : said “there can’t be rain this year” and he'd be | tween the projecting logs at . parrot sat sulkily in

ite, Wheat, ural, Black, , or Pastels.

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'500' PREVUE—JOHNNIE PARSONS, ob. serving on the northeast turn, gets help from “Mr. Inside," who will miss the classic this year.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW: YORK, May 17—Gen. Douglas MacArthur’'s being urged tq take a position heading a foundation or university—rather than with Remington Rand with which he has agreement—so he can speak freely and often. (RR would doubtless say OK.) If he did, he might give up Connecticut and

in there trying. me." . I may not see the race but anyone who will listen aboard the America, three days out of Southampton, will hear about it Memorial Day. Here's hoping it's fast, thrilling and free of accidents.

Doug Being Urged To Head University

B'WAY BULLETINS: Herb Shrinerll do “Talent Scouts” for eight weeks when Arthur Godfrey vacations. Groucho Marx calls Shriner “petter than Will Rogers.” . . . “20 Questions” will switch to Dumont TV. . .. Derriere Wiggler Diosa Costello's likely to take over the Juanita Hall Bloody Mary role in the New York “South

“Thanks for hoping Lady Luck will ride with |

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forward as the cabin wall. The round logs astern let the water pass as if through the prongs of a fork. The advantage of a raft was obviously this: the more leaks the better. Through the gaps in our floor the water ran out but never in. We clung like flies, two and two, to the steering oar in the darkness and felt the fresh sea water pouring off our hair while the oar hit us till we were tender both behind and before and our hands grew stiff with the exertion of hanging on. We had a good schooling those first days and nights; it turned landlubbers into seamen. For the first 24 hours every man, in unbroken suc-

its cage, hanging on with its beak and flapping its wings every time the raft gave an unexpected pitch and the sea splashed against the wall from astern The Kon-Tiki did not roll excessively. She took the seas more steadily than any boat of the same dimensions, but it was impossible to predict which way the deck would lean each time, and we never learned the art of

. moving about the raft easily,

for she pitched as much as she rolled. 5 . 5 ON THE THIRD night the sea went down a bit, although it was still blowing hard. About four o'clock an unexpected deluge came foaming through the darkness and knocked the

IT WAS EASY to see that the balsa logs absorbed water, The aft crossheam was worse than the others; on it we could press our whole finger tip into the soaked wood till the water squelched. Without saying anything I broke off a piece of the sodden wood and threw it overboard. It sank quietly beneath the surface and slowly wvanished down into the depths. Later I saw two or three of the other fellows do exactly the same when they thought no one was looking. They stood looke ing rgverently at the waterk piece: of wood sinking quietly into the green water. We had noted the water line on the raft when we started, but in the rough sea it was im-~ possible to see how deep we

i remain _at the Waldorf. Son Arthur's likely . Pacific’ June 6. _ . i cession, had two hours at the __. "=. ANG Beers “lay, for one moment the logs to enter exclusive St. Luke's Prep, New Canaan, ar ms | helm and three hours’ rest. We = Pound Sesame te hap- were lifted out of the water and if they go to Connecticut. EARL'S PEARLS: Joan Bennett heard of a | arranged that every hour a .. .. ./ Ty. «afl thrashed the next they went deep down ES \ oi itertigly sn moron actress who, learning of a projected fresh nan showy lieve Pu against the bamboo cabin and : Ina i But; I we drove a Jults to 18 risi . ; . Howard Hughes movie concerning Pontius Pilate, | of the two s 0 : . os n e timber, we saw to our nes DRED Visits George Seliles regularly a Hath a g¥es movie making another airplane | been at the helm for two hours. threatened ao) ro ah the Before the supply of fresh fruit ran out, the Kon-Tiki had en- joy that the wood was dry an sé ea : y y hall (Du, 3 4.8 = » surf, front tne INS days in Columbus, 1 Tow assoclate . Pioture? aaa EVERY SINGLE muscle in All hands had to go on deck ‘ered waters where fish abound. Food was cooked on a couple of inch or so below the ace.

ol baskettel shades.

very color.

ed. in charge of articles at the American. . . . MGM pays Vic Damone half his salary while in uniform. . . . The upstate Waldemere Hotel has tailor-made shows (they're booked by well-known tailor Irving Heller). . . . Gov. Dewey, eating in Reuben’s reminisced with a captain, Joe Danfels. In 1924, when Dewey was a law student, they played handball at the West Side Y. The “young fan” of Hopalong Cassidy's TV movies who had to shake hands with him at Le Pavillion was—Bernard Baruch. The Lee Mortimer slapping at El Mdrocco by a Washington woman was on the first anniversary ° of his nose-punching at the Riviera. :

8 o » GERTRUDE Lawrence's leading man, Yul Brenner, who must appear bald in “The King and I,” really has hair, and , therefore must shave his skull every afternoon. Miss Lawrence says, “He's the only man I know who gets §

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “An optimist is a fellow who thinks his wife has given up cigarets when he starts finding cigar butts around the house.”—AIl Bernie.

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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Hear about the’

nudists who got divorces? Been seeing too much of each other.

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THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Rita Hayworth’s recent escort, Prince Mahmound Pahlevi of Iran, went back to the U. of Michigan, where he’s getting his MA. . .. The Duke & Duchess of Windsor were hand-holding, honest, at lunch at the Carlyle . . . Comedian Billy Vine’s mother died. He TWAed here from Kansas City for the funeral and planed back to do a dinner show at Eddi Supper Club in K. C. . . . Hope Hampton showed up at the successful “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” opening wearing—pearls!

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STRANGELY ENOUGH, a race track is the

the body was strained to the uttermost throughout the watch to cope with the steering. When we were tired out with pushing the oar, we went over to the other side and pulled, and when arms and chest were sore with pressing, we turned our backs while the oar kneaded us green and blue in front and behind. When at last the relief came, we crept half-dazed into the bamboo cabin, tied a rope round our legs, and fell asleep with our salty clothes on before we could get into our sleeping bags. Almost at the same moment there came a brutal tug at the rope; three hours had passed,

and one had to go out again

About People—

to secure the cargo and haul on sheets and stays in the hope of getting the raft on her right course again, so that the sail might fill and curve forward peacefully. But the raft would not right herself. She would go stern foremost, and that was all. The only result of all our hauling and pushing and rowing was that two men nearly went overboard in a sea when the sail caught them in the dark. The sea had clearly become calmer. Stiff and sore, with skinned palms and sleepy eyes, we were not worth a row of beans. Better to save our strength in case the weather. should call us out to a worse °

primus stoves which stood on the bottom of a wooden box, and the crew generally had their meals on the starboard side of the raft in front of the entrance to the cabin.

passage of arms. One could never know. » » » S80 WE FURLED the sail and rolled it round the bamboo yard. The Kon-Tiki lay sideways on to the seas and took them like a cork. Everything on board was lashed fast, and all six of us crawled into the little bamboo cabin, huddled together, and slept like mum--mies in a sardine tin. We did not wake till well on in the day, when the parrot began to, whistle and halloo and

dance to and fro on its perch. Outside the sea was still running high but in long, even ridges and not so wild and confused as the day before. The first thing we saw was that the sun was beating down on the yellow bamboo deck and giving the sea all round us a bright and friendly aspect. : What did it matter'if the seas foamed and rose high so long as they only left us in peace on the raft? What did it matter if they rose straight up in front

We calculated that, if the water continued to force its way in at the same pace, the raft would be lying and floating just under the surface of the water by the time we could exe pect to be approaching land. ' But we hoped that the sap further in would act as an ime pregnation and check the absorption. TOMORROW — What life is like in a world where fish don’t have to be caught, but come right up on deck as if they were eager to get im the

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5 o'clock shadow on his last place to find horse sense. , , That's Earl, G C S M ° o 17 Y Besa brother: Gary Coopers Separate; Marrie ears : WE One of Hollywood's longest marriages went on the | As Basis for Big America na Even oron Can. See irocks yesterday when Mrs. Gary Cooper admitted she and|

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, May 17-— The curb on meat prices, which technically went into effect Monday, seems to be the full and final flower on Washington jabberwocky, in which arms are waved, double-talk is spoken, and nothing very effective happens. It is nearly impossible for & the mind of man to grasp the = fruits of this new stroke of Ei brilliance. I make it out roughly E as follows, with considerable = liability for error. Wholesale prices got frozen last week. Retail prices are

Through Meat Controls

The few restaurants which were able to offer decent steaks were playing cute little games with their ration allotments, And getting the stuff from the stores for home consumption “dwelt largely in the hollow-laugh category. * & & THE BEEF people are as sore as a boil. In face of what they believe is unfairness by the government, and faced with financial loss if they stay honest, they are not apt to co-operate for the

public good. In the hit-or-miss control system of Mr. Truman’s tame witch-doctors, the government

{her slow-talking actor husband have separated.

‘began filtering through the

film colony after Mr. Cooper made |

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The brunet socialite said a property settlement was in| the offing, but refused to say if divorce is ahead. She gave |up a brief screen career to marry Mr. Cooper in 1933. They | [have a daughter, Maria, 13. Rumors of marital breakup

“The Fountainhead” with Patri-|

cia Neal. He has never admitted [university falling in love with Miss Neal, but Wives, President Wildman was,

she said, “Could be.” Queen

were honored last night at green | castle on the eve of his June re-| [tirement

after 15 years, After a dinner attended by °° staff members

{letters and an oil painting.

|presented with a bound volume of

Miss Carol Reddington, junior

Crosby Falls |

Industrial Change

By Science Service WASHINGTON, May 17—A second industrial revolution Is promised for the future by the development - of ‘electronic come puters, Dr, 8. N. Alexander of the National Bureau of Standards said here recently. Mass production technics will be applied to the world's paper work,

just as mass production technics are now used to manufacture mae

now attempts to trol beef, a single commodity, | : . frozen as of Monday. Some re- a MEAT without ry the a cost, which (and education major at Butler (lark Gable toppled Bing, terial things, he predicted at a girls. Solid tailers had their prices con- PRICE oes into the production of beef. |University-John Herron Art In-|crosb from his five-year rch! meeting of the Industrial Ree d . led at higher rates than CURB g P {stitute, will rule as queen Satur-| y y pe search Institute here. These “fact red, navy or gea A 9-year-old moron could tell you by now that |4 0" (Car the 27th annual Little. as favorite movie lfactories of the future” will result J others. At the moment, the con- NEWS (day annua e star of American {factories o : sumer gets no help from the it Is Jasossile to igi op hg thing. 3 |State Track Meet at Butler. hogsewives. thre {from the concerted effort to build ge can e me $ on- | { ’ » . y Isuch hines. Much of the § freeze. He just keeps on Sau Js usual pousd sumer standpoint, if you don’t control the prices He Said It All | annual Women's SUCH ac es already been ace a of platinum for his pound of meal, y ' of raw material, such as feed, and the labor which | Home Compan-| | orn! a llback is due on Aug. 1, which might ». | A worried mother in Pulaski, {quired. wo children, a rollback is 8g. 1, grows the controlled-price steer. People just ain't [Tenn who hadn't heard f perl fon popularity #3 save us a nickel a pound or so, and another is 4. ho © eR Yio a re I poll revealed to- Although in scientific circles, a slated for Oct. 1. I favor the idea of rolling back the price on | finall . d day. mechanical brains are known as 3 Sw y got a letter. It read: digital t th Ha " ” . ; everything we buy today, including the raw mate- “Dear Ma-—Aint' dead. Ain't! The magazine electronic digital computers, they ® & IF—big uppercase if—if Congress doesn’t ex- i515 that go into preparation for war. The hard hurtin’. Here to kill or get Killed. | said Bette Davis can actually do much more than #5 tend its defense production act beyond June 30, goods of preparedness, such as guns and planes [And ain't got time to write.” "y took first place compute. The main thing they 2/, yards 3 leaving the Office of Price Stabilization—that's, & and ships, are already 100-plus per cent above the . : in the women’s do, he said, is process informae hoe? A joke, son—free to clamp down oh mea!, Madsme cost of producing them when we were fighting a Scholarship os division, wit hl tion automatically and with tree wf Housewife will never see a rollback. An ere two-front war, | John C. Raines, Shortridge June Allyson sec-! mendous rapidity. . " Mr. Gable : { een él is Plenty pressure on Congress to junk meat * 2.9 high Sebel senior and son of "= ". oo Ingrid Berge “ contro. THAT'S the answer to your inflation, because |Methodist Bishop and Mrs. Rich-| : * . * o Cattlegrowers already 3% in open rebelligh, to date it has been impossible to mass-produce the |ard C. Raines, 4014 N. Pennsyl-|the first time since the poll was, Printers Re-elect J 4 They claim they pay ajou a 2 poun the - Necessities of war simultaneously with civilian |vania St. has been awarded a started in 1945. | L S i T2-inches & deliver a marketable steer on : > beet at a [Fivols without driving up the over-all cost of |scholarship to €arleton College, Scout eo 0D. aumann wide! ¥ Folbacic Will Jose eR vee) To de living. But you just can’t put a leash on one while |Northfield, Minn. acouter Leo §..Baumann, Indianapolis b costlier figure than the others romp free. | Erle Cocke Jr. national com- > : ¥ the céiling. th I would love to think that the weird tribal Who, Us? mander of the American Legion, Printing Co., was re-elected presi 4 I am told that these seasoned spivs of the ceremonies they have performed so far in Wash- | Thousands of Ohio State Uni-|and a former Eagle Scout in At-| .E dept of Local’ 1, International 4 meat black market are already squeezing into the ington would put more and cheaper meat on my versity coeds in Columbus be- lanta, Ga., will deliver the prin-| APART—Gary Cooper and his wife have separated. | Typographical Union, last night, " picture, that many legitimate packers are unable aphle, put the outlook is slightly grim. came confused and puzzled when cipal address Saturday at the ™, Sader he hopes. the a5 Independent Party. candidates 4 to accommodate a normal demand because beef We are faced with paying the going, inflated, [they received application blanks 41st annual meeting of the Boy New Trustee $1000 po on Spex Dn pendent y. can ! already is being forced into dllegal channels. noncontrolled prices if Congress quits on con- |fOr Selective Service tests. |Scouts of America in Chicago. Ravinond He. Reiss. New York 3 re urn 0 ; m ea won by a landslide over Progres £ There is no easier commodity to pervert, as you trols, and the higher, black-market assessment Dean of Men Joseph A. Park ” i y : iss, or SUS told, OVE JO Yi sive Party opponents. f will remember from the all-out control days of if Congress bucks the meat Interests and at- calmed the draft-exempt females VIPs City, executive vice president of mount ol ok th Following wi Other officers re-élected = for » ' the recent war. tempts to make the rollback stick. today by explaining it was| = a0 ch. B. Ridgway has [i588 Manufacturing Corp. has|d a IS SE er sage two-year terms were Byron V, p- ! cheaper to send blanks -toall{ aery that ail aa been named a member of the{SuEgesis bill and pars it to work Thiesing, Indianapolis Newsstudents than separate men from yes) gr Honor winners passing|’2"CClate Board of Lay Trustees so tpg Lord.” papers, Inc., vice president; Clif RIES Just Ask Us omen on the mailing list. through Tokyo en route to the of Notre Dame University. ford W. Stanley, Indianapolis J

U. 8. be treated as “VIP” (very Full Dress Rite Born in Dory y important persons). |

Grave Error

Bernard Kelenski, 40, was senQ—Are any of the original markers of the tenced to 30 days in a Detroit jail

Newspapers, Inc. recording secretary, and Herbert S. Smith, Ine. dianapolis Printing Co., ' secres tary-treasurer. Three delegates elected to the national convention for 1951 at Atlanta, Ga., were Fred Butsch,

{| Mrs. C. M. Adcock, Spenard, | Strip teaser Winnie Garrett, 27,| Alaska, gave birth to a baby girl

Holders of the award for was married New ! yesterday to ew Tuesday night in a dory trapped Mason-Dixon Line still standing? |for soliciting beer money from his bravery will be put up in plush york architect Harry Eisen, 36. by low tide on a muddy flat near -

A—Yes. The monuments marking the boun- friends by telling them he needed hotel rooms, furnished a. sedan The bride wore a nav daries are remarkably intact and every effort is cash to pay for his wife's funeral, and chauffeur, meet the Supreme trimmed in ite ay Dive suitiancho ans fisherman husbeing made to restore the lost markers. The is wife is very much alive. | Commander and board a luxury | Joana ‘was bringing her to the nos-| square monuments, about five feet high and a H f P airliner for the U. 8. ¢ Come and Get it | pital when a wave hurled the| Indianapolis Newsphpers, Inec.; foot wide, were set up every mile of the Mason- F1ONOrs Tor rrexy So far—only one of the Korean In Eldorado, Ill, the Rev. Frank small craft onto the mud. Mother Len O, Royer, The Indianapolis - Dixon Line and at five-mile intervals on the older | President and Mrs. Clyde E. War medal winners has lived to Mease was giving away $1000 in/and the 4-pound, 3-ounce baby Times, and Harry Isenthal, Cor. - Colonial boundary, Wildman of DePauw University receive the award. |$10 bills today to his parishioners. |are. ‘doing fine.” Inelius Printing Co. / a. y : . *

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What U. S. Senator was sald to have been President for a day? A—Sen. David Atchison succeeded to the pres{dency automatically, on Mar. 4, 1849, because Zachary Taylor refused to be sworn in on a Sunday. Atchison who was President pro tem of the Senate was President of the United States from noon Mar. 4 to noon Mar. 5, 1849, when Taylor took the oath of office.

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