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THE DAILY CTJNTOXIAN, CLINTON, INDIANA Wednesday, September 25, 1940 Page Two Vet Thanks Hero Years Later Australia Acts to Streamline Armed Forces for Action Invents New Diatonic Torpedo Fairview Youth Visits Parents Andrew Guriel, Here From Detroit for Week's Stay, Other Late Items FAIBVJKW Andrew Guriel (Continued from pagel) Mecca News of Current Date Mrs. Charles Miller to Indianapolis Saturday; Several Visit at Coloma JUKCC A Mrs. ejM-nt Saturday in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs.

J. urjthy and family, Mr, and Mrs. Cissjii and Mr. and Mr. H.

M. (jsnlt and of IMlroit. ia siR'uding the wefk hj 9 vs v. I -1 v-, I 7 I urtiW'tfitiii ftiifiiii' ii Ti i 1 1 i rria ii "Mil hi i iifc i i and fast camp life with emphasis on drill, but frequently go night and day on maneuvers. Major-Gen.

J. Northcott Is acting chief ui the general staff and bead of the Australian army. His tank is en two fronts, to Insure proper defense of Australia and to provide all the possible for the Australian Imperial Forces. For servire abroad, Australia has dispatched one division to Palestine Mid unolher is ready to sail. A total of 1 00,000 are under training for i vreditlonary work.

Home defense it ealcula'cd to require 250.000 men to gai-mon coastal ana internal stations. Iiecurds show that one division, of some 14.000 men can be mustered from 000,000 population for iirs; line duty, so the continent, with a total population of only 7.000,000, faces a low recruit limitation point. Penguin Insured Youngstown, Ohio, college doesn't want to lose its new mascot, Pete, a sprightly penguin. It has been insured against fire, lightning, wind, cyclone, tornado, explosion, theft, burglary, holdup, mysterious disappearance, riots, strikes and transportation hazards. DR.

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Warner Alter 23 years, MUo J. Warner of Toledo, right, meets the man who saved his life on the battlefield in France. The occasion is the American Legion convention in Boston and the hero is Chester L. Candiford of Boston. Warner today is one of the leading candidates for the post as national commander of the American Legion.

Cigarette Tax Revenue stamps attached to cigarette packages yield up to a year to the United States government. with Ills parents, Mr. and Mrs. An drew Guriel. Donald Guriel returned home after spending geverai weeks fn De troit.

Mrs. Mary Turbeville and children Donald and Mildred Ann. are spending the week with relatives In An derson. Mr. and Mre.

Arthur Ellis and bou Waller Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Iieai, and Mr. and Mis. Frank Wal lace spent the weekend with tbeir mo.

her, MrB. Marion Fox, and at tended the wedding of their brother, Henry Seward. Enrlisb Language Sounds The English language has only 26 letters to represent 40 or more sounds. China Elephant Dr. William W.

Chrisiley, Corydon, dentist, found a tiny china elephant in the debris of the 1937 Ohio river flood. He kept it. Since then, he has collected more than 700 toy elephants, big and little, in every kind of material from ivory to sponge. Be keeps them in his office. Marco Polo He was an Italian traveler and trader representing some of the great Venetian merchants.

In 1298 he was captured by the Genoese and imprisoned. While in prison he dictated to another captive the story of his adventures. This account, later published under the title of "The Book of Marco Polo," revealed to Europe the wonder and tr.agnifi-cence of the Eastern world. Longest River The Mississippi-Missouri, general ly considered one river by geographers, is the longest in the world. From the fountain-head of the Missouri, to the Eockies on the southwest border of Montana, ts total length is 4,221 miles.

From the source of its other branch at Z.ake Itasca in northern Minnesota, the so-called Mississippi proper is 2,553 miles long. The second longest river is the Mile, 4,000 miles from its remotest headstream. the Kagera, which flows into Lake Victoria. The Amazon river in South America has the greatest basin 2,772.000 square miles. Inventor J.

Robert Fish of Springfield, Is pictured In New York with diagrams of his "diatonic torpedo" which, if proven successful, would be a powerful weapon for the nation using- it. When used as a mine, the torpedo sinks to the bottom and stands upright at an angle, anchored by an aircraft-type anchor. By using a secret timbre, protected vessels may pass over the mine area safely, but an unprotected ship would release the torpedo by its vibrations the spinning propeller unscrewing the eyebolt holding the torpedo to its anchor. son Joe Lee wjr' pu'Ms Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles MK-own of Coloma. Mr. and Mrs. Ed OrockHt and Mr and Mrs. Hill CrockHt and daiiKh tr of CiawfordSvilh wen? fines) Suaday of Mr.

and Mrs. Virgil Smith and daughter. Mrn. Clara Hudson of Hymera was a gnvKt Thursday of Mr. and Mrs.

Herman Fuiikliourwr and ton Ned. Mr. and Mrs. H. M.

Gossrtt and Mrs. J. C. Murphy tponi Friday In Chicago. Mr.

and Mrs. Kvrpit Ross of Indianapolis spent the weekend with lelatii-etj here. Mr. and Mrs. Den man Daniels pnd children of Grand Ledp.

pent the weekend with Mrs. Eliza Tt'omas. Mrs. Thomas returned liome with them to spend a eonle of weeks. Mth.

Omar Smith of Terre Haute called on Kaibyleeu Cook Friday evening. 1 Mr. and Mrs. William Hrookbank. Harry Cook and Mrs.

Ann Cook epent Wednesday in Chicago. Mrs. Lee Lawrence spent Friday in ludianapoliB. Mr. and Mns.

Claude Cundiff moved Thursday to the R. B. Kendal) property in the north part of town. Joe McDowell is confined to hi? dome with illness. Mr.

and Mrs. H. L. Gilderland and daughter of Bockville called on relatives here Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. Keeveg Thomas of 1 Indianapolis spent the weekend vi'h Mr. and Mrs. Scott Kendall and Judith Richardson. Mrs.

Pete Engule and children visited relatives in Bloumingdale this weekend. Talniae Williiite. Dorothy Murphy. 'iila Hodge and Paul lioss spent Saturday in Terre Haute. Rosemary and Julia Erugia of Clinton spent the weekend with Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Frasca. Mr.and Mrs. Hull is Richardson of Whiting was a weekend guest ol Mrs. Cora Richardson.

Mrs. Charles Kelsheimer called on Mrs. Claude Cundiff Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred Phipps were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Sam I Cog an and family (tf Clinton. John McCune is ill at his home. Miss Kathyleen Cook spent the! Carbon Monoxide Tests have shown that carbon monoxide gas is present in measurable quantities in six of every ten automobiles now on the road.

Tension Crows ia France Today Over Dakar 'Incident' Bible Society May Expand 1'roduclioii For Draft Forces Continued l'om l'age Seven years later a number oi liese men formed the American Bible Society, which, next to the Hritis-h and Foreign Hible Society. the world's largest. Gyroscopic Cars Gyroscopic motor cars, with only one front and one rear wheel, have been successfully operated. Penny Post Card Governor Dickinson, of Michigan, whose hobby is economy, once used penny post card to send instructions to his office while he was out of town. Tube Resurrected The first deep level tube railway in the world is to be resurrected from its long rest and used as a London air raid shelter.

The tunnel, running 80 feet below ground along a half a mile of South London, was abandoned 48 years ago. It will accommodate 8,000 persons in comfort and IT PAYS To alt end evening claBWii on Mondays ami Thursdays for stenographic, iKtokkeepina, (secrXsrial, dli'taplione, reporting, and civil service courwes. The proft'HKional amounting group meets on Monday evenings unly and attract office managers, bookkeepers, and other office axsistailtK. The work in personally HUperi'iscd by a public accountant, and there Ik no delay or waiting for solutions corresKnd-nec. Increase jour future pay checks by spending one night a week with this group.

TERRE HAUTE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, INC. Keventb and Ohio Trou-ford 2738 Behind the Seen Arithmetic Revised I mm HOLLYWOOD tUftf a. 3 v.ekend in Twre Haute. Mr. and Mrs.

B. O. Cook and Mr and Mrs. W. B.

Murphy and daugh ter Rosemary were guests Sunday evening of Mr. and Mrs. Parke Leu-man and son of Dana. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Richardson aud family of Montezuma called on Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lawrence Sunday evening. Dallas Dickey of Whiting and Mary Elizabeth Dickey of Terr- Uaute were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.

Logan Cunningham. Mrs. OrvaJ Montgomery called on Mrs. Pressely Daniels Sunday evening. 'Brass Tacks' Many years ago on the counter of a general store, there were brass tacks arranged in regular order to indicate a yard or fractions thereof.

When material by the yard was sold, the saleswoman literally "got down to brass tacks" to measure the material. Owtn go inic. has jXdjtou ari ho i pTung a black eyr rjuii of a boxing bout with a aJ. The cast of "Chariot's Revue" (for the British War Relief) is so loaded with celebrities that the management at the El Can it an has sent out for a batch of guld stars and has put one up on the door of EVERY dressing-room. One door (the room is to be shared by a number of masculine performers in a skit) is plastered with 10 stars.

Cable from England informs Nat Pendleton that his brother, Edmund, a well-known Parisian composer, has been released from German custody. He composed a patriotic song after the outbreak of the war and the Gestapo picked him up after the fall of Pans. Understand his release was effected through a German official who had been a friend of the late George H. Pendleton, uncle of the two brothers and U. S.

ambassador to Germany under Grover Cleveland. Comes the finish of "Flight Command" and Walter Pidgeon will be ofT with his brother, Charles, to look for a ranch in northern California or Oreeor. Property of about 400 acres is sought by Wal ter. He says it must be self-sustaining. Bette Davis is now in New York on a clothes-buying spree and expects to be back in Hollywood in about three weeks.

Eddie orris is teaching Simone Simon to fly She'll have to hurry because he turns his plane over to the government the first of next month. The Wesley Kuggies, who leave for Central and South America as soon as he finishes cutting "Arizona," will be gone for three months. Prod Crawford has been shopping for wedding nnps at a Vine street jewHer. Kay Gritbth is the girl. The Norman Taurogs are leaving soon for the east.

hile there, he ll fulfill a lifelong ambition and buy a farm in Connecticut. If you know Norman, ask him what he told the studio visitor about the portable dressing rooms on the "Little Nelly Kelly" set. Tip to a cer- tain San Francisco late spot- Cesar Romero says he has cnly one brother, Edward, and tliat he is a senior at the University of California, studying to be an electrical engineer. Leif Enck-son will be on the coast soon to make a movie. Dorothy La-mour's cute secretary, Patti Mccarty, will play a bit role in "Chad Hanna," Dorothy fixed it for her.

(Continued I'rom Page 1) civilians wounded, it was said. An official source here asserted that ramifications of the free France movement extended throughout France, that members of the army and government officials were jimong its agents and that free France propaganda was circulating widely. Free France tracts are even ht'ing left with superintendents at 1'aris office buildings and apartment houses for distribution to tenants, it waA said. A spokesman warned that agents of the free France movement were kit Mm tu suw-iaj, court -martial which might senTruce iheiiPTo uTe within 4S hours without hope of appeal. To Fight for Ifciknr was evident that the government intended to make a bitter fighl to re til in Dakar.

Official informants said the French raid on Gibraltar was th-imiKt serious that Dritisb base ever bad suffered. It was emphasized of Ucially also that this reprisal action not necessarily the provid id ihat attacks on Djkar continued as. according to advices, they did to day. In announcing the Gibraltar raid, offii -iaiF paid that the German and I reports had reported it sev eral hours before it actually took place. Printed Bible The printed Bible was made official in England in 153a.

The proclamation is as follows: "That ye shall provyde one boke of the holy byble of the largyest volume in Englyshe and the came set up in sum convenient place wythin the said church that ye have the cure of, where as your parishioners may moste commodiously resorte to the same and reade it That ye shall discorage no man prively or apertly from the readynge or ner-ynge of the sayde bybie." Budgeting Budgeteers Most cities use a budget system, according to the National Consunt-ers Tax commission, but the problem in many cities is getting the city fathers to live within their budget. Most common error is the assumption that the full levy will Le collectible when experience shows that from 10 to 50 per cent will be delinquent. Baths in Rome Visitors to Rome may see in the ruins of the Baths of Diocletian and Caracaiia famous examples of the Roman love of bathing- At the Diocletian bath 3,200 persons could bathe at once, while in all the establishments in the city 62.000 could be accommodated at one time. Warm liBoleajn Linoleum that is allowed to warm and expand thoroughly before it is laid is less likely to break. How To Ease Tired Burning Feet rt-H aii fwtnforui.

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and hfipm boftt-n alh'uxM. And iwi tmm -coHi il iv yomr iret. C-t MhMMaM Ice-Mmt UMikj iiucn tfrucipaL By HARRISON CARROLL U.img fettim ftjmdieat; Writer HOLLYWOOD. Ce. All cn her own, Georgia na Young, Loretta's kid sister, has landed berself a job in No No Nanette." She answered a call for artist model types and McClelland Barclay picked ner and two other girls out of 46 contend era.

It isn't just a walk-on, either, it's a Bpeaking part- Georgians is now ltJ. She signed up with UariisoD Carroll David Belznick a year or so ago and applied herself to dramatic lessons. When Belznick closed hop and took a long vacation af ter T. Georgian was released. The Carole Landie-Willis Hunt reconciliation blew up wiUt a bang and she suddenly filed suit for divorce.

A few hours later, she left for San Francisco. The actress told friends that, tiiis time, there is absolutely no chance of a get-together. Understand the Mischa Auer rift is no closer to healing, either. He was at the Cocoanut Grove with a pretty blonde. Too bad about the Auers.

They bad just completed an expensive new home. In fact, the separation came right after the house-warm ing. Brenda Marshall has a plane on call and expects to leave any minute for San Antonio to be with her Bister, Mrs. Ruth Kelly, when the latter baby is born. Only a short time ago, Brenda and Bill Holden were bemoaning the fact that be had to go to San Antonio on location for a picture.

Now Bill is back and Brenda is going there. It won't gum up any film schedules. The starlet just finished East of the River." Judy Garland has been entertaining her three-year-old niece aad namesake. The other night. she told the youngster: "I'm go- ing to fix you a bath just like the movie stars take." So she prepared a bubble bath.

Her niece looked at it, saw it foaming. "Say," she demanded "what's cooking?" Looks wry funny days when Brenda these days Joyce and I ALL COSTS HAVE GONE UP, BUT ELECTRIC RATES HAVE CONE DOWN! How docs it happen, this strange kind of arithmetic? Whether you know it or not, yon had an important part in it. Part of the reason lies in iucreased efficiency and trimming down the cost per unit of electricity. But at the same time you and your neighbors have used more and more electricity. This helped make possible the increase in efficiency brought the savings that mulled in rate reductions.

Within certain limits, electricity, like many other commodities, costs less when produced in quantity. And small savings, when applied to large use, become large savings. Without widening use, even the moat hupuiiaut trfUn'ml improvements and increases in efficiency could scarcely nave kept pace with rapidly rising costa of taxes and wages. By making more use of electricity you've helped us saaie sts sue cost you less. Northern Indiana Power Company.