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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28

Sunday visitors at the Riley
Daugherty home were Mr.. and Mrs.
John Reidlach of Columbus; Mr..
and Mrs. Jas. Cox and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Daugherty, Miss
Dorothy Daugherty, all of Marietta;
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin White and fam
lily of Stockport route, and Donald
Daugherty of Chillicothe.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
ReinerSville

Mrs. Lois Walter and little daugh-
ter Janet are spending Christmas
vacation with the formers father
Postmaster S. l.. Hill, and sister,
Mrs. Alice Stephenson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldon Drummond
of Cleveland spent Christmas with
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
Germans Invade Poland
S1--Iefmany opens '
SEPTEMBER

3-Britain and France declare war on
British Ship Athena torpedoed off coast
of ireland, 1.400 aboard, 43 lost
Germany blockaded by British navy.
5-Germans shell Warsaw; government and
citizens flee.
President Roosevelt proclaims U. S.
6-PoIes appeal to Britain to rush aid.
7-Nazi torpedoes sink five ships:
8-French planes bomb Segfried line.
i10-German counterattack haits French on
western front.
Russia rushes reserves to Polish border.
12-German forces shut a wise on Warsaw.
13-Big British army lands in France With
out loss.
/ Polish defense cracks; Nazis move east
ward
1e-Russian troops invade Poland to pro.
tect minorities."
t17-Warsaw decides to fight on after truce
talk fails.
/ Poland's defenses collapse under Nad
| Russian army drives so miles into Po-
land.
Polish Ukraine.
23-French repulse wave after wave OF NaZi
25-French defeat Germans in two big air
battles: lombard whole length of Sieg-
fried line; bomb Zeppelin works.
N-Warsaw surrenders to Germans after
20-day siege.
war.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
OCTOBER

britain calls $50 900 more troops.
| 4-Daladier says France will fight until
victorious.
| 7-Hitler makes peace proposals to Britain
| and France: seeks armistice.
| o-Hitler sets aside area in Poland for
/ Germans to be transplanted from other
countries.
10-French premier spurns Hitler's peace
terms.
I Finnish civilians ordered to leave dan
ger zone near Soviet frontier:
| 12-Britain refuses peace based on Nazi
conquests.
14-British battleship Royal Oak sunk by
sub, 786 lost.
16-Nazi raid navy base in Scotland: 16
killed
17-German planes raid Scapa Flow: Iron
Duke. training ship, damaged.
20-Bfitish repel another Nazi air raid
over Edinburgh
23-British report three U-boats sunk.
Germans capture American ship City OF
Flint and take it to Soviet port.
24-Four British, one Greek ship sunk by
| Germans.
T Nazi sea raiders slip through blockade:
prey on shipping.
! Belgians demand British ease blockade.
26-American ship City of Flint, turned over
to Germany by Russia, sails from Rus
Sia.
28-Germans claim lis foreign ships sunk
since war began.
31-Soviet demands raise new crisis in Fin
land
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28

JULY
13-France .jails two newspaper executives.
charged with receiving pay from Ger
many.
1s-Ipanzig political police purge city of
24-Chamberlain promises Britain will stay
out of Japan's way in China.
26-Four bombings in England blamed on
Irish Republican army.
AUGUST
3-Britain offers to mediate Japanese-Chi-
neSe war.
6-Spain executes So persons for completely
in Staying of civil guard officer
public.
SEPTEMBER
2e-French cabinet decree ends Communist
party in France.
27-Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Russia.
28-Constantine Argesanu appointed premier
of Rumania.
OCTOBER
2-Delegates of 81 republics at an inter-
American neutrality conference fixed a
safety zone around two Americas.
3-Japanese admit loss of $4,000 men In
fighting Russians.
5-Chinese halt Japanese drive In Human
province; report 10000 slain.
10-Soviet returns Wilma to Lithuania.
11-Britain and Russia sign trade agree.
ment.
27-Pope Plus in encyclical assails dictators.
23-Thousands arrested as Czechs and Nazis
battle in Prague.
NOVEMBER
2-Slovak mob wrecks shops and news
papers in Bratislava, Hungary.
British threaten to abolish sef-rule in
India.
20-EX-kaiser narrowly escapes death in
storm at Doom.
DECEMBER
3-Japan faces scarcity of food this winter.
Peru opens great new port facilities to
Callao.
11--Italy quits league of nations.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
FEBRUARY

4-Britain increases plane orders in U. S.
TO $50.
5-Spanish loyalist army of 100000 fees to
France to escape trap.
6-Japan refuses to give up inundated is
lands Germany lost in war.
1.-Two hundred thousand move past bier
of Pope Plus in st. Peters.
14-Pope Plus buried in tomb beneath St.
Peters cathedral.
l8-Spanish loyalists offer to surrender.
France occupies African area once
ceded to Italy.
20-Italy moves to place colony Libya on
war footing.
23-General Franco hands Britain final
terms for peace with Spanish loyalists.
2+Britain and France decide to recognize
Franco government IN Spain.
Polish students attack German embassy
in Warsaw.
2s-Commons approves Chamberlain's o. x.
of Franco.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
JANUARY

1-Chinese dictator "purges'' government
ranks of 200 peace party leaders.
3-Japan's cabinet resigns over policies in
China.
Spanish rebels report capture of Artesa.
5-NeW Japanese premier declares war in
China must go on.
6-Hungarians and Czecho -Slovaks fight
along border.
10-Britan promises to support France
against Italy in clamor for part of
French empire.
15-Spanisn rebels take Tarragona in drive
toward Barcelona.
18-Madrid rusheS fresh troops to defense
of Barcelona.
22-AIl citizens of Barcelona called to dig
trenches.
24-Spanish rebels bomb Barcelona.
26-RebelS take Barcelona without battle.
30-Hitler demands return of colonies.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
FOREIGN

RUSSIA FACES VEST Die
tator Josef Stain, hauing completed
pact soith Germany, conquers
part Of Poland and moues into Es-
tonia, Latuia, Lithuania-and then
into Finland.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
MARCH

1-College of cardinals convenes in Rome
to elect a pope.
2-Franco requests Mussolini to withdraw
Italian troops from Spain.
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected pope on
third ballot: takes name of Plus XII.
S-Leader of Spanish loyalist army seizes
control of Madrid government.
e-Communist leaders flee Madrid zone:
General Mlaja. new loyalist chief. asks
worthy peace
7-Gandhi won political victory for democ-
racy in India, forced by four-day fast;
accepts invitation for consultation with
Loyalist planes bomb centers of commu-
mist revolt in Madrid.
e-Francos fleet blockades all Spanish 10y
alist coast.
12-5OO, 900 witness coronation of Pope Plus
XII.
21-Lithuania returns Memel to Germany.
22-Rumania and Germany sign trade pact.
23-Madrd offers to surrender to General
Franco.
27-Japanese capture Nanchang.
28-Madrid surrenderS. ending Spanish civil
war.
2s-France fatty refuses Mussolinis colonial
demands.
30-Russia rejects British plea to join front
against aggresSor nations.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
DECEMBER

Films disable Russian cruiser with 500
aboard
Russians capture Finnish port.
New cabinet takes over Finnish govern.
n1ent.
2-Finnish rebel regime cedes territory to
Regular Finnish government orders
evacuation of all southern towns.
Sweden tightens its defenses.
3-BritiSh planes attack German naval
base and score hits on German war
ships
Firms shatter Red troops in Arctic
battle
League of nations summoned to hear
Finnish appeal for aid.
Britain puts blockade against German
exports into effect.
4-German pocket battleship sinks British
steamer Doric Star in south Atlantic
5-Finrish flyers inf1ict heavy casualties
on Soviet troop concentration:
6-Finns repulse Russian army OF 100000
7-Russians to blockade Finnish coast;
warn shipping.
British lighting planes beat off German
s-Finns repel offensive on Karelian
isthmus.
1o-Finns report Russian attacks repeled
11-League of Nations requests Russia to
cease hostilities against Finland.
Prussia rejects league of nations pro-
posal to mediate conflict with Finland.
German liner Bremen runs British
:, blockade to home port.
l3-BrItlsh ships disable and chase Ger
man raider Graf Spec into South Amer
lean port
14-Russia expelled from league of nations.
Uruguay gives Graf Spec 70 hours to
make repairs.
16-Finn coast artillery sinks Russian de-
stroyer.
18-Germans scuttle Graf Spec outside
Montevideo harbor rather than risk
fight with British ships waiting outside.
19-Huge Red forces storm Finns noun
tain positions.
Germans claim "a ont of "A pri+icb
planes shot down in battle over Heligo-
land.
British claim sinking of German cruiser
and damage to two others.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
FEBRUARY

7-President makes new demand for $50
millions more for PWA after signing
appropriation bill with that amount cut
off.
9-House passes bill making state and nu-
nicipal employees subject to income
tax.
13-Justice Brandeis retires from the u S.
Supreme court
15-House approves s376. 900 600 defense bill.
25-James j. Hines, Tammany Chief con-
victed of violating lottery laws.
27-U. S. Supreme court rules Sit-doWn
strikes illegal.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
JANUARY

2-Former Gov Frank Murphy of Michigan
takes oath as u. S. attorney general.
Harry Hopkins sworn in as secretary of
commerce.
3-Seventy- congress convenes.
5-President sends to congress $40, 600, 000.-
900 budget for 1910 fiscal year.
Felix Frankfurter nominated for U. S.
Supreme court.
12-President in message asks 552 millions
more for defense.
16-President asks extension of social secu-
rty benefits.
19-President asks legislation to end tax
free public salaries and to levy on all
securities
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
MARCH

2-Ex-Judge Martin T. Manton indicted by
federal grand jury in New York as bribe
taker.
7-Senate passes 1888. 600. 900 army exten-
sion bill.
8-House passes bill giving President re-
stricted authority to reorganize depart
mentS.
16-Lieut- Gov. Lauren D. Dickinson sworn
in as governor of Michigan to succeed
the late Frank D. Fitzgerald.
18-U. S. puts penalty tariff on German inn
ports
23-James J. Hines, Tammany leader. SEN
fenced to serve four to eight years in
prison.
27-U. S. Supreme court holds federal and
state governments may tax salaries of
each others employees.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28

13-Germany and Italy establish policy on
Danzig: Polish attitude called unbear-
able.
15-Nazis declare Danzig must return to
Germany before August 27.
18-Germany takes military possession OF
Sovakia.
21-Germany announces nonaggression pact
with Russia.
22-German troops massed near Polish cor
ridor.
23-Germany and Russia sign nonaggression
pact.
25-Britain and Poland sign war alliance.
Japanese cabinet abandons Rome-Berlin
lineup.
29-Poland asks British help under new rnu-
+tyoI a51 o+
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
AUGUST

1-Army's flying fortress flies coast to
coast in 9K hours.
House kills Presidents lending g-spending
bill.
4Senate passes third deficiency bill OF
189 millions.
Agreement reached OF social security
amendment cutting pay roll tax $780,
600, 900 in next three years
5-Congress adjourns after appropriating
more than $13 900. 900, 900.
7-Former Governor Leche of Louisiana
and two others indicted in hot oil quiz.
14-President advances Thanksgiving day
,s @ 1ne week, naming Noyember onn oao 23 orers
S50o0,0 600 a month. New York fair asks
bondholders for 81, 800 900 to meet debts.
16-Mayor of Waterbury, Conn, among 20
guilty in 81 100000 graft.
18-U. s. and Canada sign new pact for
air service.
20-Louisiana oil czar, Dr. J. A. Shaw, wit
ness against ex-Gov. r. w. Leche. kills
self.
24-President pleads for peace; cables Hit
Ter. Poles, and king of Italy.
29-German liner Bremen held up at New
York for search
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
EUROPEAN WAR

MARS GOES TO YORK
French poilu puzsles ouer street
sign IN captured German uillage.
Hitler Still Grabbing
MARCH
12-German troops mass near border of
13-Czecho- -Slovakia submits to Hitler's de-
mands for further breakup of the Czech
l.. state.
/ Slovakia and becomes independent state
under German protection
! Hitler SEXES Bohemia and MoraVla,
vaiRiaie'ins vaRiaa. Su0'ec''0" 0' ozeeH0''io'
16-Hitler absorbs Slovakia. Hungary an
nexes part of Carpatho Ukraine.
27-Germany puts pressure on Poland.
28-Poland refuses German demand for
pathway to East Prussia.
APRIL
4-Poland joins British in war alliance.
17-Germany pushes drive to take Danzig.
French fleet guards Gibraltar. British
fleet sails to Malta.
| MAY
7-Nazs plan plebiscite in Danzig.
8-Pope invites FIVE powers to Vatican par
ley to settle Polish-Cerman dispute.
20-Germany fortfes its eastern frontier
against Poland.
JUNE
Hitler pledges Germany will support
JugoslaVia's border.
2o-Gernfan troops move to encircle Poland.
28-Britain appeals to Germany to settle
dispute by negotiations.
JULY
6-Warsaw reports 5000 Polish families in
East Prussia are forced to move away
from border.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
DOMESTIC

u. S. GUARDS NEUTRALITY
Special congressional session insti-
tutes "cash-and-carry neutrality as
americans rush home from Europe,
aiUay from Uar zone.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
APRIL

&C. I. O. union ordered to pay Apex
Hosiery company SILL $3.50 damages for
sit-doWn strike.
4-Jack Benny. radio comedian. fined
$4,000 for Smuggling.
William o.. Douglas confirmed for Su.
preme court.
10-Senate rejects amendment to give WPA
SO millions more, then passes original
bill.
15-President addresses peace plea to Euro.
pean dictators: asks 10-year peace guar
antee.
18-War department assigns Charles A.
Lindbergh to study U. S. aviation facili.
ties.
25-President makes first transfer under re-
organization act; creates three super.
agencies.
N-President asks 1.762 million more for
relief.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
Finnish guns kill four Russian soldiers.

Finnish guns kill four Russian soldiers.
Soviet charges.
demands Films remove soldiers
from border: Finland offers to negotiate
border issue; Russia threatens war.
denounces nonaggression pact
with Finland Finland declares Russian
reports of border attacks false.
Germany claims British cruiser sunk by
submarine: Britain denies.
troops invade Finland after
breaking off diplomatic relations: Firms
stunned by break.
claim 10-mle advance into
Finland: bomb Helsingfors.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
JUNE

ed national debt limit above Soo'ooo''
100000.
2-Contract for "a warships costing $780,.
100000 awarded by navy department. !.
3-Former Judge Manton found guilty OF
bribery.
5-House rejects plan to make Hyde Park
home a memorial to President Roose-
welt.
liking George and Queen Elizabeth Of
Niagara Falls; officially welcomed by
Secretary of State Hull.
8-KIng and queen Of Great Britain vel.
coined to Washington by President
Roosevelt; attend state dinner at White
House.
1o-House votes big slash in payroll taxes:
benefits are increased.
liking and queen end u S. visit.
l2-Senate votes 1925, 900 to department Of
commerce to employ experts. -
L,;,,s: Y S: monetary gold stock passes 10
13-House votes drastic limitations on future
operations of IVA.
liking and queen sail for home.
19-House passes tax bill of 1,844 millions:
retains nuisance taxes. but revises lev
les on corporations.
20-Senate committee boosts pork barrel bill
from $8S, 84S@; @ 100. as passed by the house'
21-Widespread WPA graft charged in Lou
isiana; Governor Leche resigns.
F. Ryan Duffy nominated for federal
25-Fraud barred at Louisiana university.
26-Governor Leche steps down and Lieu
tenant Governor Long is sworn IN IN
$500 900 fraud laid to President Smith
Of the louisiana university.
@-senate adds 70 million to relief bill and
29-House hands administration defeat Of
neutrality bill: endorses embargo on
arms shipments.
by preventing legislation to extend.
! House passes. neutrality bill barring
arms shipments.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
NOVEMBER

3-Norway frees City of Flint and interns
German prize crew; Finland dehes So
Wet threat ready to fight.
7-Belgium and Holland offer to mediate
peace between warning, nations.
baeT ceaT @ P0s ano bast nreg in 50 Munich
9-Dutch open defense dikes: clash at bor-
der with Germans.
10-French repulse two German attacks.
15-Four more merchantmen sunk in sea
warfare.
17-Gernans shoot nine Czech students,
seize 1000 and close academies for three
1s-Dutch liner hits German mine in North
sea; sinks with l40 lives
19-Four more ships sunk by German mines
off England.
20-Germans extend war at sea: 10 vessels
sunk since November lS; 1873 dead or
missing.
2l-Gern any charges Munich man with beer
cellar explosion; arrests two British
Britain declares unrestricted blockade
of Germany in reprisal for illegal mine
warfare: forbids neutral nations to trade
with Germany.
22-British destroyer sunk, 40 missing.
Nazi bombers raid Shetlands. no DAM
age done.
French report torpedo boat sank two
subs
23-Eight more vessels sunk; total for six
days, 25.
France and Britain claim 20 air vic.
b. tories in three days on western front.
Exiled Polish government begins func.
tioning in France.
|24-British cruiser damaged in port by blast
from mine or submarine.
25-Berlin claims bombers hit four British
warships; London denies.
Six nations protest British ban on Ger.
man trade.
26-Two hundred eighty.seven die In Brit.
Il ish armed ship. Germans fight back
M British planes attempting to raid Kiel
NJ canal. I
q Britain fights for new Europe. Cham.
-
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
APRIL

2-Britain offers to protect Rumania.
Japanese kill 5000 Chinese in three bat.
ties.
4-Turkey asks for part of Syria; French
5-Albert Lebrun reelected president of
France
s-Italian troops invade Albania.
8-Mussolini sets up puppet government In
s-British and French fleets reported
massed off coast of Greece.
13-Massing of troops near Gibraltar causes
alarm: British barricade road to Spain.
18-Hitler appoints Franz Won Papen ambas-
Russia faces famine; 80 per cent of
grain crop destroyed.
23-General Franco orders return Of prop
former King Alfonso.
24-President of Bolivia assumes dictator1al
27-Serbians sign pact with Croats, ending
Jugoslavias S biggest internal problem.
30-Paraguay elects General Estigarribia,
Chaco war hero. president.
MAY
3-Lityinov, dismissed as foreign commissar
6-King, and queen of Great Britain sail
for Canada.
14MoscoW short of food; army ordered to
save on motor fuel.
16-Twenty million dollars reported paid to
49, Hitler to release Baron Louis Rothschild.
A1-klng ana queen OF Great Britain well
coined at Quebec
18-King and queen start on tour of Canada.
One, hundred Jewish youths injured in
clashes with police in Jerusalem.
22-Dionne quintuplets greet queen with hug
and kiss as British sovereigns visit
Toronto.
M-German troops in Spain leave for home.
25-Bil setting up dictatorship over industry
introduced in British parliament.
29-New border war develops between Japan
and Russia in Manchukuo.
JUNE
10-Bombs In mail in England injure seven
persons.
14-Japan presents Britain with new de.
mands as troops tighten blockade at
Tientsin.
0-King and queen given tremendous re.
ception on their return to England.
26-Soviets repulse Jap air attack on Mon.
/ gol border; shoot down Is planes.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
JULY

5-Senate adopts conference report on re.
viving Presidents money powers.
6-W, P. Buckner given two years in prison
on Philippine railway bond charges.
10-President gives Paul v. McNutt of Indi.
ana JOB as head of the newly created
Federal Security administration.
13-Senate votes to fix payroll tax at per
cent until 1943.
14-President signs bill giving war depart
ment power to hide secret new equip
ment from spies.
20-House passes bill to curb bureaucrats
in politics.
24-House committee shelves Presidents
$500, 100000 housing program.
Nationwide lottery sWindle using name
of viii Rogers exposed.
25-One killed, seven shot, in battle over
nonunion labor at Boonville, Ind.
26-United States scraps trade treaty with
Japan.
Francis B. Sayre nominated for high
commissioner to the Philippines.
31-Senate lops 81, ,615, ,00O, COO from spending
bill and passes it.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
MAY

1-U. S. Supreme court denies appeal OF
miners convicted of Illinois bomb out
RACES.
11-Coal conferees agree on new contract
with operators
Senate passed record-breaking s1.218..
666, ,572 farm bill.
12-PreSident names Admiral Leahy cover.
nor of Puerto Rico.
16-House votes each congressman another
clerk at annual cost of $658. 500 without
a roll call.
17-Senate kills New Deal Florida canal bill.
18-Senate passes 100000 naval appro'
priation bill.
Jerome Frank elected chairman Of SEC.
2o-Yankee Clipper flies from Long Island
to Europe, opening transatlantic air
mail service.
22-Boss Pendergast of Kansas City given
Is months in federal prison for income
tax evasion.
23-House approves farm appropriation bill
as passed by senate.
25-Fritz Kuhn. .Nazi bund leader, indicted
in New York on theft charges.
Draft Dodger Bergdoll returns to the
United States from Germany and is
made military prisoner.
27-Yankee Clipper returns from Europe.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
H0pewell

Newell Kane of Columbus spent
Sunday with his uncle, w. G. Chap
pelear.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
pdIIIW dy
APRIL
AUGUST

6-Warsaw reports 5000 Polish families in
East Prussia are forced to move away
from border.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER

26-French cabinet decree ends Communist
party in France.
27-Bulgaria seeks trade pact with Russia.
28-Constantine Argesanu appointed premier
of Rumania.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-28
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER

3-Japan faces scarcity of food this win
Peru opens great new port facilities
Callao.
11-Italy quits league of nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-07
Wheeler Will Lead
Metropolitan Unit
OF Chest Drive
To Direct Mobilization
Of 1000 Volunteer
Workers 70, Campaign

William w. Wheeler, assistant to
the vice president Of the chesa-
peake &, Potomac Telephone Co.,
will lead the Metropolitan Unit
for the second successive year in
the annual Community Chest cam
paign. Chauncey G. Parker, jr. gen.
eral chairman, announced today.
Mr.. Wheeler will direct mobiliza-
ton of 1000 volunteer workers in
IL geographical areas of the city,
five in the Northwest section, three
In the downtown district, one in the
Northeast, one in the Southeast
and one in the Southwest. Top
leadership appointments are now
being made, Mr.. Wheeler said.
1--WE expect to follow a policy of
reappointment and advancement of
the past campaigns unit officers
to key positions, and by promotion
from the ranks will fill the posi-
tons vacated the unit leader ex-
planned.
Under Mr.. Wheelers direction
last year, the Metropolitan Unit
obtained 81 per cent of its goal.
Mr.. Wheeler has participated in
the past II campaigns. He is
member of the Chest Board of
Trustees, treasurer of the Social
Hygiene Society, a director of the
Boys Club, board member of the
Health Security Administration and
Is on the editorial board of the
Council of Social Agencies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-07
TwizzIer Answer

The Dark Dasher won the race.
The Clipper Comet was IS feet be-
hind the Flying Flash. The Blue
Blaster was IS feet behind the Dark
Dasher. The Eager Electric was
las feet ahead of the Awful Arrow.
The Awful Arrow was 100 feet be-
hind the Flying Flash. The Clip
per Comet was 100 feet behind the
Eager Electric.