Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 3 March 1939 — Page 2
THE POST-DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1939.
Sips Of Tiie Times • « « Comments, Politically and Otherwise, on Present-Day T epics mm ■■ i w UMimimi ■■■■■ It has been some days since Herbert Hoover’s address at the $25-a-plate Lincoln Day dinner in New York City. For some reason or other. we cannot get over the criticism- he made of the President at the dinner. They stick with us and rise to rankle us at movements when life should be serene and complacent. In vain we try to throw off the thoughts of Hoover’s words. There seems only one thing to do to get the mental pain out of our system—and that is to w r rite a column in answer to Mr. Hoover. So. kind reader, our column today will be devoted to replying to his speech.
Do you remember a poster showing a large-eyed child with sunken cheeks and legs deformed from malnutrition, and an appeal “Help the Armenian Refugees”? It impressed thousands among the most generous people on earth. You and I gave—gladly—tv the Armenians and many other victims of the economic and political dislocations of the war. Men were found who moved heaven and earth to accomplish seeming miracles of food distribution. All over Middle and Eastern Europe and Asia Minor there were American hospitals, American^ soup kitchens, American clothing depots. No decent man carped or criticized. Post-war relief is one of the most glorious chapters in American history. Now, Mr. Hoover, we have refugees of our own, men, women and children driven out of our economic system. Dispossed share-crop-pers sit along a Missouri high-way. Jobless factory workers exist ■Week after week on a dole that barely sustains them. But many of those w ho gave freely to the American relief agencies in Europe lead today a chorus of criticism directed against the efforts of President Roosevelt to aid our own refugees. They resent the 3,000,000 on WPA. They resent the 7,000,000 or more on various forms of direct state local relief. Why are they less deserving of our help than the Syrians. the Russians, the Germans we helped after the war? At its peak the American Relief Admi istration under Herbert D .,er w T as feeding 10,491,000 Ktr i .as, 1,315',000 Poles, 1,000,000 Germans (through the Friends Service Committee), 548,000 Czechs and Slovaks, 128,000 Finns, 150,000 Rumanians, 84,000 Esthonians, 110,000 Hungarians and 200,000 Jugoslavs. The total fed by A.R.A. at its peak was nearly 15,000,000. The A.R.A. disbursed a total of $1,600,000,000. This does not include nearly $100,000,000 that we spent for Far East relief.
At its present rate the WPA takes nearly a year to spend as much. And what we spend for WPA stays in our economic system, keeps circulating through our own channels of trade from which our taxes come. What change has come over us—over Hoover who at that dinner denounced WPA? Have our hearts become hard? Or is it that suffering can only be appreciated when seen by a telescope? It is not generally realized that government aid of various kinds was mounting very rapidly in the United States before the depression began in 1929—and mounting withodt any complaints—but it was. In 1911, for instance, governmental expenditures for “outdoor” relief amounted to 4 cents per inhabitant a year in New' York and 23 cents in Detroit. By 1919 it had risen to 45 cents in New York and 47 cents in Detroit. Then came the “Coolidge prosperity” era. But the per capita governmental expenditure for relief continued to rise. By 1928 it reached $1.18 in New York, 29 cents in Philadelphia, and $2.08 in Detroit. By 1931 the figures hit $3.12 for New York, $1.75 for Philadelphia and $9.17 for Detroit.
In addition to the huge sums that were spent without a grumble for relief both foreign and domestic in the 1920s, the American people kicked in billion after billion in foreign loans. This money was used for bridges, for schools, for housing projects, for business enterprises, abroad. Of it, $8,000,000,000 is now estimated to be in default. Not does this count the $11,000,000,000 defaulted war debts. We mention these things for they come back to us when Hoover gets up and assails the great program of our President who has promised that no American shall starve to death. Why can’t we show a like spirit toward our own people? They, too, are refugees. If we don’t help, who can or will? Certainly, not Mr. Hoover and his ilk. 0 -— COLLECT FOR DAMAGE TO ROADS, BRIDGES
From ten to twenty thousand dollars is collected annually by the State Highway Commission tor damage to roads, bridges, equipment and injury of employes by careless motorists, T. A. Dicus, chairman, said today. Damage to bridges or roads usually results from the operation of trucks with a gross weight in excess of the posted load limit while the damage to highway equipment or the injury of employes is frequently the result of careless driving or failure to heed warning signs. o ; Four thousand termites have been counted in a single cubic foot of wood.
PREPARE PLANS FOR FLASHER SIGNALS AT 80 MORE CROSSINGS
Preparation ot plans for the inslallalion of flasher warning signals at approximately 80 railroad grade crossings on state highways and county roads, was announced today by T. A. Dicus, chairman of the State HighWay Commission. Completion of the plans and other preliminary steps will require ’everal months before bids can be taken on the materials and assembly of the signals started. A partial ist of grade crossings to be protected by the Lasher signals has been tentatively approved by the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads but announcement of the locations will be withheld until final approval is obtained. Since this type of protection for motorists was initiated several years ago, the State Highway Commission has provided for the erection of flasher signals at 300 railroad grade crossings or for the modernization of existing signals. While a majority of these have been at inetrsections of railroads and state highways, a number of the signals have been placed on county roads ahd some on city streets. Under federal regulation^ the Highway Commission selects with the cooperation of the railroads, the grade crossings to be protected with flasher signals. If this list is approved, plans are prepared and bids are taken on the major materials required for assembling the signals. These materials are delivered to the railroads to be assembled by the railroad signal engineers and installed by them. Maintenance of the signals after installation becomes the responsibility of the railroad. Widespread use of flashing signals at railroad grade crossings has become an important part of the Commission’s program for increasing the safety of motorists on the state highway system. — _o OPERATOR LOCATES MAN ‘SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE’ Completes Connection With Aid of Clues From Four Nations On Two Continents
“Somewhere in Europe.” That Was all the information a long distance telephone operator in Charleston, W. Va., received when she was asked recently to reach a petSou who was known to be travelag in Europe. New York Refers to London The traveler’s itinerary was on file at a bank in New York City. But it was a Sunday, and/ banks are not open on that day. How r ever, the operator called up the bank in New York and found the janitor on duty. He gave her the telephone number of one of the vice presidents. This man, in turn, placed the operator in touch with the manager of the travel bureau, and from him it was learned that the person desired was supposed to be at a hotel in London, England, on that day. A Call was then put through to the London hotel, where it was found that he had left seveVal days previously for Paris. The hotel did not have his Paris address. Reached in 2 1,2 Hours The operator then called Paris, and, through the office of the Perfect of Police, was informed that the person desired had departed the day before for Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva was then called and. with the aid of the Prefect of Pf Police there, the party was located at a hotel and a call w r as put through. “When you consider that this man was traced across the ocean and then over three countries and finally connected with me on a pertect line, all in the space of two and one-half hours,” said the Charleston man who placed the call, “it excites my admiration not only from a technical standpoint, but from a human standpoint as well. I think the persistence and resourcefulness of the operators who worked on the call cannot be complimented too highly.” o FOREST FIRE CONTROL CAMPAIGN IS MAPPED
Plans ior a more vigorous forest fire prevention campaign were mapped last week during a threeday school arranged by the Division of Forestry, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department Of Conservation, said. Through educational programs, forestry officials hope to reduce the number of spring forest fires— many of which occur when fields are being burned over. Burning of brush and other debris is another menace to the forests unless proper precautions are taken to prevent spread of the flames. Participating in the school were members of the fire warden force which has been organized throughout the southern part of the state and has proven a valuable agency in the control of forest fires representatives of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which also has done effective work in forest fire control; and officials of the Division of Forestry. o— CONSERVATION EXHIBIT AT SPORTSMEN’S SHOW The Department of Conservation will have an interesting exhibit at the annual Indiana Sportsmen's Show which opens at the state fairgrounds on March 4, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner, said today. The exhibit will feature some of the major activities of the department and the properties it operates. A number of the conservation clubs will also have exhibits at the show.
ACTING LEADER OFUAWLIKES TRANQUIL LIFE
R. J. Thomas, 39, Says He Was Typed As a Conservative.
Detioit.—R. J. Thomas, acting president of the United Automobile Workers union, has never known if he has a middle name or not. He is pretty Well satisfied, however, that if he has one it can be spelled merely “J.” “I like the sound of ‘R. J.’ anyway,” Thomas said. Thomas’ first name is Roiland, nut his friends and most everyone else call him Tom. Thomas was born Jan. 9, 1900, hi East Palestine, O., where his father, Jacob Williams, was a railroad Worker. When he was 14 years old his parents moved to Youngstown, □., where he was graduated from high school. Attended Wooster College His mother Wanted him to be a Presbyterian minister and decided that he should attend Wooster College. Thomas was active in track and basketball at Wooster, “but I never went in for the hop, step and jump (Martin was an Olympic hop, step and jump champion). “My specialty was the mile and two-mile run in track, but I never won any nationwide recognition for my achievements in these events.” He Was graduated from Wooster with a Bachelor of Science degree ahd took a job with the Ohio Bell Telephone company. From there he Went to Western Electric and in 1923 lie came to Detroit as a body welder in the Fisher Body Fleetwood plant. In 1933, Thomas organized the Automotive Industrial Workers Union in the Chrysler plant where he had become a close friend of Richard T. Frankensteen, UAW vice president. After the UAW convention at South Bend, ind.. Thomas took his group into the UAW and at the Milwaukee convention he was elected international vice president. Lost City Council Vote In 1937, he ran for a post on the Detroit city council and polled 152.000 votes, but was defeated. Thomas is husky, 5 feet, 10 inches tall and of the “down to earth, homespun” type. His voice is rather thick-tongued and a gold tooth flashes brightly when he speaks. He lives with his wife and adopted daughter, Dorothy, 21, in an upper flat on Detroit’s east side, close by the Chrysler factory. He likes to play poker. He spends a great deal of time with his family. JADE TREASURES DECORATE HOME Pittsburgh. —A $750,000 collection of Chinese art treasures stands casually on tables in the home of a retired Pittsburgh business man. Jade bowls, two of them forming one-sixth of the total rhoavh treasures of this type, porcelain vases and delicate ivory carvings, finer than most museums can boast, are owned by George H. Taber, retired oil company executive. In an upstairs room of his home stands a table holding delicately carved jade screens and bowls. An incense burner, filling the room with its heavy odor is the “whitest, purest piece of jade ever imported into this country,” Taber said. On another table are the two jade bowls, a deep glowing green. He explained that they were of Yunnan jade. Only 12 known pieces have ever been cut from that particular kind of jade. Value, however, is not Taber’s criterion of his collection. He said he collects Chinese treasures as he would books, because of the enjoyment he gets from studying them. Taber has never been to China. He formed the hobby when he was a small boy. Two young cousins of his returned from China, where they had been living. With them came an old Chinese nurse. Taber remembers the nurse wove for him a pair of embroidered slippers, his first Chinese possession. He still has a portrait more than half a century old that shows the Chinese nurse with one fair-haired cousin on the nurse’s lap. o— OBSOLETE BRIDGES ON STATE highways Factor in safety
Hundreds of obsolete bridges On the state highway system, with a replacement cost of more than twenty million dollars, are one of the factors faced . by the State Highway Commission in its program to increase motoring safety. T. A. Dicus, chairman of the Commission, pointed out today. Surveys have shown that there are approximately .1,900 bridges on the present state highway system Which have a roadway of 20 feet •w less dr a load carrying capacity too low for present traffic demands. Engineers estimate that the replacement of these obsolete structures would cost between twenty and twenty-two million dollars. Many of these bridges are so located that curves or sharp turns add to the hazards faced by njotor-
jsts traveling the highways on which they are located. A majority of these obsolete bridges were constructed by counties and townships prior to the establishment of the state highway system, at a time when there were comparatively few automobiles and fewer trucks. These bridges were not designed to carry either the volume or the type of traffic which moves over the state highway system today. For the past several years approximately two and a half million dollars has been spent annually in bridge construction on the state highway system, with special attention given to the building of Wider bridges, having a load-carry-ing capacity of twenty tons or more, and with safe approaches. Scores of such obsolete bridges have been replaced but addition of county roads to the state system has added more bridges which must be modernized for motoring safety. If funds available for highway construction are reduced, the program of replacing obsolete bridges must be curtailed. Most of these bridges are on state Highways which are not eligible for improvement with federal funds and the entire cost of building wider, stronger bridges must be paid, entirely with state funds. Under a plan for distribution of motor funds now before the General Assembly, the share of the State Highway Commission would be reduced approximately four million dollars annually, limiting construction and other steps in modernizing the highway system to make it more safe for present-day motor-
ists.
POLL OPPOSES PUNITIVE IDEA AS WAR BASIS
GROSS INCOME TAX DIVISION
Indianapolis, Mar.4—With total gross receipts reported for taxation of $102,807,086, Delaware county ranks 8th in a comparative tabulatin of Indiana and non-resi-dent taxpaying units recently completed by the Gross Income 'l ax Division, Clarence A. Jackson, state director, announced today. An insight into the general business picture is provided in this analysis which reveals that Delaware county’s reported receipts in 1937 were 119.18 per cent greater than the $46,906,35'5 reported from that county in 1934. Comparison is made with 1934 since it represents the first full year of the operation of the gross income tax law which became effective May 1, 1933. “The steady increase of gross receipts reported in Indiana is an index to better business conditions but it also reflects the vital role tax revenue from this source now plays in. meeting the cost of our public schools and Welfare programs. Mr. Jackson said in pointing out that the operation of the gross income tax has saved Delaware county property taxpayer's a total of $1,109,987.24 during the past five years. The analysis show that the amount of gross receipts reported and the tax paid in any county corresponds closely with the county’s proportion of the state’s population. However, Delaware county’s increase in gross receipts of 119.18 per cent from 1934 to 1937 compares with the average state gain of 87 per cent. The record of the county is as follows: 1933 (8 months), 8th place among the 92 counties with $28,907,785 in gross receipts reported for taxation; 1934, 8th place with $46,906,355 ^in receipts; 1935, 8th place with receipts of $58,993,568 1936, 8th place with receipts of $78,038,029. Marion county has headed the list in all years and its total receipts of $868,462,298 reported in 1937 marks the hig-h point in this period of steady advancement. Combining all non-resident taxpayers into a group designated as “Coujnty 93” forms and eatry which has consistently been in second place, although it has grown rapidly to a 1937 total of $476,956,743 in gross receipts. o — DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON Representatives of farm organizations and Government agencies met in Washington recently to make preliminary studies of the questions to be asked in the 1940 Census of Agriculture. Dr. S. H. DeVault, Head, Department of Agricultural Economics of the University of Maryland, is chairman of this advisory committee. Other members include Mr. William F. Callander, Chairman, Crop Reporting Board, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, who is chairman of the Census Advisory Committee of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; Mr. Fred Brenckman, Washington representative of the National Grange; Mr. Harold F. E. Jennet, representing the Argicultural Publishers Association, Philadelphia; Mr. H. G. Keeney of Omaha, Nebraska, Vice President of the Farmers’ Educational and Cooperative Union of America; Mr. W. R. Ogg. Director of Research. American Farm Bureau Federation; and Mr. Ole A. Negaard, special consultant. Central Statistical Board. This advisory committee will review all of the suggested questions which have been submitted to the Census Bureau. Hearings will be held also to enable interested persons or organizations to present their needs. After all the points have been weighed and discussed, the committee will draft tentative argriculture schedules, draw up instructions for field enumeration, i-ecommend forms of tabulation and the methods for presentation of the results.
Scientific Survey Tests General Attitude In California. San Francisco, Cal., Mar. 3.—A five-point policy program has just been formulated by the Commonwealth Club of California. The basis of the program was a scientific poll of members of the club’s section of international relations, embracing representatives of virtually every business, trade, profession and range of income in the United States. The poll and resulting prograrii demonstrated that, while there are two points of American foreign policy on which the United States is ever ready to fight, there are three Which are not regarded that seriously. The program presumes that before the United States has recourse to arms, every effort will have been made to settle a dispute by diplomatic and other conciliatory means. Definite Questions Asked The five points of foreign policy passed upon were as follows: Invasion of the United States. Violation of the Monroe Doc-
trine.
Injury to trade, property, or citizens abroad or on the high seas. Violations of treaties . to which the United States is a party. Propaganda against the United States and its institutions. On the question of armed defense of the Continental United States, there Was only one dissenting voice—presumably a conscientious objector. On the question of the defense Of Alaska, Hawaii, the Canal Zone, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, ihe dissension was or'y nominal. For the defense of Guam, Wake Island, and Samoa there was a light dissent but the noli wa; overwhelmingly in favor of fighting. The question of defending the the Philippines brought out a sharp cleavage of Opinion. As long as the Philippines are part of the
COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES AID GENERAL HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC
The first directory of London had a royal origin. It was started by Charles I, who wanted a list of citizens who could loan him money.
To improve and preserve the health of the people, both physically and emotionally, is the general aim of the public health nurse. Public health nursing is a modern movement that has developed along with needs, and has not been an especially directed movement. The doctor and nurse, although their fields of endeavor are separate, must work very closely together. The doctor diagnoses and treats, while the nurse interprets and cares for the sick. In other words, she makes the patient understand what the doctor is attempting to do, and carries out his instructions in the care of the pat-
ient .
The doctor is^a very busy person who does not have the time to instruct his patients in the details of isblation, need for immunization, and correction of unsanitary conditions, preparation of food and child development. The doctor who is accustomed to hospital equipment and skilled nurses and interns to carry out his every wish, is at times helpless in the home where disorder is likely to be apparent, especially at a time of sick ness; where the patient does not understand the need for absolute cooperation, and where equipment to care for the patient is lacking. The public health nurse has the time to find ways and means to bring order and to find facilities, and to prevent the spread of ill-
ness to others.
Since March, 1936, the Indiana State Board of Health through Federal, State, and local appropriations, has been able to extend public health nursing services to 18 counties in Indiana. In 1936 the ratio of public health nurses to the rural population of Indiana was 131,500, while on January 1, 1938, Ihe ratio was 1:17,009. In March, 1936, there were 41 counties in Indiana which had no public health nursing services within their borders, either private or public. Today through the assistance of the State Board of Health and appropriations of local funds 69 counties are provided with public health
nursing services.
Thus the State Board of Health has aided in equalizing public health services of the population of Indiana. Only nurses who are especially qualified by public health postgraduate education are accepted for these positions. The demands for these qualified public health nurses has exceeded the
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negative. » The poll on the question of violations of the Monroe Doctrine
demonstrated, a distinct difference of opinion, depending on how close
to the United States the violation
nr'ght take place.
For the seizure or invasion of Canada, Mexico, the republics and : slands near the Canal Zone, the ole ^as overwhelmingly for their fefense. This was also the case in he question of any attempt by a orefoii power to establish fortifimtior.s or naval bases in those
areas.
When it came, however, to the Fatih American countries farther 30uth (han Colombia, Venezuela and Guiana, the votes showed a distinct falling off, totaling from one-third to one-half against armed tfeSistance by the United States.
SNOW REMOVAL ON HIGHWAY ROUTES IN CITIES BOOSTS EXPENDITURES Scenes such as this in many Indiana cities during the past few weeks show how thousands of dollars of state highway funds afb now being expended—on the highway routes through cities and towns, T. A. Dicus. chairman Of the Highway Commission, pointed out. today. When the General Assembly in 1937 provided that the State Highway Commission should maintain highway routes through approximately eighty cilies and towns, it added 397 miles of city streets to the state highway system. Maintenance of these routes requires a large slice of highway funds. In addition to the necessary repairs and imrpovements on these streets, the Commission is now responsible for snow and ice removal, for cleaning, for traffic regulations, establishment of parking regulations, and similar operations which were formerly paid for by the cities. During the present winter, heavy snowfall in various parts of the state has added to maintenance pioblems ahd costs. In some cities, highway officials have employed hundreds of emergency workers and scores of extra trucks to meet the demand of motorists for immediate cleaning of the streets and the unimpeded flow of traffic. This was the case recently when northern Indiana was blanketed by the heaviest snow of the year. Out of the cities the snow can be shoved off the pavement onto the shoulder into trucks ahd hauled away. The picture above was taken along the Road 55 route in Gary during the heavy snow this winter and shows some of the emergency workers shoveling snow which had been moved out of the center Of the street by the snowplows. Reliance of motorists upon the state highway system for freight and passenger transportation at all seasons of the year, has increased in recent years and is due iu part to the discontinuance of other methods of trauspoftatin. Cleaning the highways of snow and ice and spreading abrasives on surfaces made slippery by snow or ice, is one of the services demanded by the motorists—and one that costs many thousands of dollars each j year.
credited universities which offe: training courses for public healtl
nurses.
Beginning with the fiscal yea) of July 1, 1939, any counties wish ing this type of public health sexvibe will be given an opportunitj to avail themselves of them bj matching with local funds the Fed ei’al and State appropriations foi
starting these sexwices.
o
LIBERALISM IS A PROTECTION TO LIBERTY
When President Roosevelt, ; few weeks ago, asked for a libei-a attitude of mind and for libera policies to govern in his own pax ty, he raised the question of whi are libei'als and who, as opposed
are conservatives.
The answer is found in the ver; recent retirement from the Si preme court of Justice Louis L Brandeis, after more than 20 year cf s-ex vice, Liberalism had few foi lowers when he was named to hi high office by President Woodrov Wilson. As a matter of fact, it wa almost as much in disrepute a Bolshevism is today. A liberal, bt lieved President Wilson, was on who interpreted the COnStitulion ii the light of the present. A eonsei vative is one who is wedded to th
past.
Brandeis had Made his reeon for defense b'f liberty in impopula cases. He had stood against th entrenchment of power by th great corpora lions. He, had warnethem of their own danger. His confirmation was oppose by I he Old Guard iu both parties and it was only after the most bil ter fight that the Senate final], voted to seat this man. Amon other things, the word was whif pered, but not openly stated, tha his race should bar him from sue; high position in the government. The nation has caught up wit: Brandeis and with liberalism. Hi many dissenting opinions when th court was ruled by the xeactionar elements will forever stand a beacons of danger, in' recen months the rbasoning he folloWe lias led the court to decide in fa\ or of many New Deal laws. Publi opinion, not Brandeis, had Changec UU his rellrement the ver forces which fought him regret hi retirement. They saw iimf a liberty, all rights of property. Ca be saved duly by applying ne' ways in a changing world. He rt chived praise from not only th masters of business and finance but from the labor forces of tlx nation. The summons of Presiden Roosevelt is a call to his own pai ty to lead the procession, not to low. It is an .appeal to obtain jus tiee ahd liberty iiiider the Const ttition. New days demand nei methods. The great protect io against radicalism is allegiance t liberalism of which Brandeis wa an outstanding example. Six hundred thousand Russiaxi now live north of the Arctic circle The fii'st really successful aut< mobile in the United States wa built by Charles Duryea in 1892. Sleet looks white because it cox tains air spaces. More than 200 pantomimes ar being produceel in Britain thi season.
BOUT FOR CONN IN HOME TOWN MAY BE NEXT
Pittsburg’s Forbes Field Favored With Rooney As Its Promoter.
Pittsbm-gh.— Along Pittsbui'gh’s punch and slug px-omehade today are heard rumors, reports and go'Ssip but the one received most kixxdly is that Billy Conxx’s next big fight will be before his home town followers. That catx’t ot. however, uxxtil some time in the spring when the outdoor season comes into its own. There is no indoor arena in Pittsburgh big enough to pay Conn the kind of money he received for beating Freddie Apostoli, the New York boxing commission’s middleweight champion. All of which brings the report that Art Rooney, px-esident of the Pittsburgh pi'ofessional football team, has decided to get into the boxing promotion game. Rooney, it is believed, would have the inside track in renting Forbes, Field, the home of the Pittsburgh baseball club, and incidentally the only place in the city big enough for a championship fight. Two Likely Opponents The ideal set-up for Rooney, if he decides to take out a promoter’s licexxse, would be to bring Conn home in a championship fight with John Henry Lewis or Melio Bettina, lecoguized as the’ lightweight champion by the New York boxing commission. * A Conn-Lewis fight for the 175pound title would be the best dravHhg card as Lewis, who xxxakes his headquarfexs in Pittsburgh, has a large following particularly from the Hill Distinct, Pittsburgh’s Harlem. After having his eyes patched here after the second Apostoli fight, Conn and his manager, Johnny Ray, started on an extended cross-country vacation trip. Both Cohn and Ray need the rest and it will give the fighter a chance to add some weight for his campaign in the 175-pound division. Zivic on Rise Again One more incentive for Rooney to gel into the fight game since Cohn has risen .to the heights is the fact that another Pittsburgh fighter, Fxitzie Zivic, a welterweight, is on the rise again after a seige of pneumonia which almost ended his lighting career. Zivic, a member of a family of good fighters, signed a contract to light Henry Armstroxig, the light and welterweiht champion after Zivic plastered Eddie Booker, for an eight round decision in the semi-final to the second ConnApostoli match It was Booker’s first defeat in 47 stx-alght lights. Zivic is a tough customer and there’s a good chance that he could take Armstrong. Zivic once fought Conn, gave away more than 10 pounds, and many inches in veach and, although Conn won the decision, there wex-e many who thought Zivic should have received the nod. Cohn was beaten severely on the face in this fight and it took a two months’ vacation in (he south to bring him back to normal. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Charles L. Bartel receiver under appointment of the Delawai'e Supei'ior Court of Delaware County, Indiana., In cause number 2190-S now pending in said court, has filed his final report as such receiver and that said report and all matters pertaining thereto will be heard and •determined by said court on Saturday, 18th day of March, 1939, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon. Within thirty days from the date of the filing of such report, any creditor, shareholder or other intei'ested party may file objections or exceptions in writing to such report and any objections or exceptions not filed within said period of thirty days shall be for all purposes forever barred. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 23rd day of Februaxy, 1939. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk of Delaware Superior court. Charles L. Bartel, Receiver. Blacken, Gray & DeFur Attorneys for the x'eeeiver. Feb. 24 & Mar. 3 o— NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND TO PUBLIC
Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the office of t'ie Boai’d of Public Works and Safety in the City Building, at Muncie, Indiana, at any time prior to and at a meeting of said Board to be held at 2:00 o’clock P. M. on Tuesday, the 7th day of March, 1939, for the fui’nishing of materials and equipment' to be used in the construction of a Sewage Disposal Works for said City of Muncie, Indiana. All such materials and equipment shall be in accordance with plaiis and specifications prepared by George B. Gascoigne and Associates and which plans and specifications are now on file in the office of said Board. All proposals shall be accompanied by non-collusion affidavit of the bidder, as pxovided by Section 95 of Chapter 129 of Die Acts of the General Assembly of Indiana of 1905. The Board x-e-
serves the right to reject or accept any and all bids dither in whole or in part. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY, OF MUNCIE, INDIANA. JOHN D. LEWIS, WILLIAM H. BALES, H. LESTER JANNEY. Feb. 24, March 3 o NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT OF RECEIVERSHIP
Notice is hereby given, that the Receiver of the case of ' Homo Owners’ Loan Corporation, vs. Jennie Weaver, et al has filed his xeport for final settlement of said cauke. All persons interested in .said Heceivex-ship are hereby notified 1o appear in the Delaware Superior Court, held at Muncie, Indiana, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1939 the same being the 66th day of the x-egular January Term of said court ,and show cause why Said account should not be approved. EARL EVERETT, Receiver Bracken, Gxay and DeFur Attorneys. Attest: Ai'thur J. Beckner, Clerk. Feb. 24, Mar. 3 _ 0 NOTICE State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: In the Delawai'e Circuit Court, Januax-y Term, 1939, Charles R. Morris vs. Reuben Strong et al. No. 12690. Notice is hereby given to the defendants in said cause, namely, Reuben Stxong, John W. Strong, Alfred B. Strong, Martin Boots, Rlxoda Boots, Elizabeth Strong, Melinda Strong, MinCrva Strong, Mary Strong, Napoleon B. Strong, Mary Ann Mills, Reuben Mills, Albany Land Company, Nathan F. Dalton, Max-y T. Dalton, Shelby Steel Tube Company, James L. Thurston, W. S. Bx-ammer, James R. Stafford, Sarah C. Stafford, T. A. Stone, North Baltimore Glass Company of Albany, Indiana, Isiah W. Richardson, Jr., Sarah Jane Richardson, Joseph F. Jewett, Celia E. Jewett, David C. Richardson, The North Baltimore Glass Company of Vigo County, Indiana, N. F. Dalton, Trustee, B. F. Binegar, J. S. Fudge, John S. Fudge, Martha J. Fudge, E. F. Kottlowski, Ernest F. Kottlowski. Anna Kottlowski, William T. Steele, Amelia L. Steele, Bottle W. Wingate, Wingate, wife of Bottle W. Wingate, whose given name is unknown, Isaac Mann, Mary L. Mann, Elizabeth A. Middlehurst, E. A. Middlehurst, Elizabeth R. Muddleherst, Nathan F. Dalton, Henry J. Swanders, Myrtle Montgomery, Merty Montgomery, H. R. Swander, Ed wain Oarl Swander, 'Wm. Roscoe Swander, The unknown husband, wife, widow, .widowex 1 , child, children, descendants, heirs, surviving spouses, ci'editors and administrators of the estates, deviseesj legatees, trustees, executoi's of the last will and testaments successors in interest and assigns, respectively, of each of the foregoing named persons, all of whom are unknown to plaintiff; All of the women once known by any of the names and designations above stated whose names may have been changed and who are now known by other names, the names of all of whom are unknown to the plaintiff, and the spouses of all the persons above named, described and designated as defendants in this action, who are married, the names of all of whom ai’e unknown to plaintiff, All persons and corporations wlxo assert or might assert any title, claim or interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint in this action by, under or through any of the defendants in this action named, described and designated in this complaint and above named, the names of all of whom are unknown to the plaintiff; that the plaintiff in the above entitled cause of action has filed his complaint in the Delawai'e Circuit Court to quiet his title to the following described real estate in Delaware County, Indiana, as against all demands, claims, and claimants whatsoever, and against said defendants, and each of them, and against any and all persons whomsoever and against the whole, world, towit: Beginning at a point in the line of the south side of the North hall of the Southwest quarter of Section One (1), Township Twentyone (21) North, Range Eleven (11) East, 315 feet west from the Southeast corner of said North half of said Southwest quarter of Section One (1) aforesaid, and thence west on said line 580 feet; thence north parallel with the east line of said quarter section, 836 feet; thence east 580 feet; thence south 836 feet to the place of beginning, excepting therefrom a txact out of the northwest corner thereof 198 feet north and south by 110 feet east and west, containing one-half aci’e, more or less, leaving in above tract after deducting said exception 10.08 acres, more or less, together with an affidavit that the residence of each of the above named defendants, upon diligent inquiry is unknown, and that unless you and each of you be and qfppear in the Delaware Cijrcuit Court, said County and State on Saturday, the 15th day of April, 1939, the 12th day of April Term of said Court at the Court House in the City of Muncie, in said County and State, the said causa will be heard and determined in your absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and seal of -said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie, Indiana, this iSth day of Februaxy, 1939. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Cleik of the Delaware Circuit Court (Seal) Elmer E. Botkin McClellan & McClellan Attorneys for Plaintiff. Feb. 17, 24 & Mar. 3