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VOLUME 2,3—NUMBER 52.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1943.

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Willkie’s St. Louis Speech Murks Him GOP Cundidute

PUBLISHER’S WIDOW WEDS. Gleipnbrook, Nev.—Mrs. Robert P. Scraps, widow of the publisher, and H. W. Hawkins, chairman of Ihe board of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, were married yesterday at Minden. Announcement of the wedding was made today at the Scripps home jj.ere where the bride and bridegroom said they expected to spend the next fortnight. Mt'S. (HaWkins’ first husband died in 1j£8 while on a fishing trip off Lower California. Hawkins’ first ,w1fe died in 1932. alXba1vi.a STRIKES SPREAD Birmfcbgham, Ala. — Alabama’s bitter *^nine-day-old coal strike spreadptoday, closing the last of the state’s principal mines, which had managed to stay open and produce fuel for some industrial plants^ through last night. This put every union-manned minff out of production except a tew scattered,^shafts cutting commercial coal for domestic use. Of the state’s 22,000 union diggers, it was estimated that "possibly 1,000" are at work. ;•% *’ CLASH IN BERING SEA. Washington—-The Navy disclosed today that a.Navy Catalina bomber had battled with, a a Japanese medium bomber in the vicinity of the Russian owner Komandorski islands in the Bering Sea. * J The engagement, in which both planes scored hits, occurred yesterday afternoon. TEe action was broken off after< an exchange of shots. The Catalin suffered no personnel casualties and “no material damage.” ♦ o PENETRATE NAZI LINES. London—The German radio said today that “great masses” of Russian troops attacking on either side of Melitopol had* penetrated the German lines at several places along a 60-mile front. CONFERENCE IN 4T,H DAT Moscow—Secretary of dell Hull is expected to talk with Premier Josef Statin soon, it was understood today as the tripartite conference of American, British, and Russian foreign ministers entered its fourth day. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was received by Stalin at the Kremlin yesterday. V. M. Molotov, Soviet foreign cimmissar and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Were present. ———o SUGGESTS LEGISLATION. Washington-JSen. John A. Danaher, R., Conn., today suggested legislation which would prevent income tax reduction of money spent for newspaper advertising unless advertisers spent 50 per cent of their advertising budget in small newspapers. Danaher presented his proposal, which he said he made “seriously.” during hearings before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee on the Bankhead bill to provide paid government advertising in newspapers to spur war bond sales. ikte? ■' ——o LABOR UNIONS PROTEST Pittsburgh.—Thirteen Pittsburgh labor unions united today in a orotest to War Production Chief Donald Nelson and other government officials anainst further reductions in newsnrint allotments as a peril to “the full news service.” The uo|pns. includinn CIO, AFL and Independent Crafts, wired tiiwjL, Protest' to Nelson, Paul V. W<3®|itt, War Manpower Commissioner, and Rep. Lvle H. Boren, chairman of the House commitee ■"investigatino the paper and pulpwood industries. TO SPEAK FROM ALGIERS Washington.— Secretary of the Treasury Momenthau and Gen. t Owinht D. Eisenhower will be heard in a short-wave broadcast from Algiers tomorrow at 5 o. m. * fCWT) fever a nationwide network (CBS), the treasury announced today. CONDEMNS SCHOOL BOARDS Indianapolis. — The ethics committde of the Indiana State Teachers Association today condemned the school board of a large city, renortedlv Indiananolis. for hiring teachers as substitutes for lono reriods as a subterfuoe for paving *'t less than the state minimum wane. Sookesmen for the Indianapolis . school board denied the charge of unethical practice, saving that “we are following the letter and the spirit of the law in the best interests of teachers and pupils involved.”

-vPart of Address Would Indicate a Good Democratic Campaign Speech—Demos Are Pikers Compared To Willkie In Preparation of Propaganda and High Pressure —Democrats Should Appreciate Tribute Paid Them By Mr. Willkie-Who Admits He Likes Policies But Not FDR. V Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 22.—Wendell Willkie, Indiana’s barefoot boy who made good in Wall street, tipped off the Republican party’s campaign strategy in his speech at St. Louis the other night and apparently frankly admitted that the G.O.P. criticism of the administration and the conduct of the war is purely political. “Even if it was good, I wouldn’t like it or admit it,” Mr. Willkie said, except he dressed it up in these words: “Even if I agreed with all the policies of an administration that has held such power for so long, I would think it vital to terminate that power ... I am dedicated to the removal from office of the man and the group who exercise it.”

We thought much of Mr. Yv r ill- ; — kie’s speech, particularly the laist

half of it, was very much all right —much of it, in fact, sounded like a Democratic campaign address, for it called attention to the weakness of the Republican party and the dangers of returning to the old ways which the Republican party advocates. We could not agree, and we doubt if many of hie listeners did, with the words or the reasoning in the first part bf the speech. Mr. Willkie opened his address by haying 12 years was too long for any political party to govern the nation. That’s strange statement from a man who wants to be the Republican candidate for President. We didn’t check with the research division of the Refeneve tne itenublican party with Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur was in power 16 years, during which time President Grant sought a third term. Then with McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt and Taft, the Republican partv had another 16 years before Wilson came to the presidency. And certainly, if you remember the campaign speeches, the Republican party didn’t think 12 years was too much for one political party after Haridng, Coolidge and Hoover—as we remember, there was quite an effort to stretch that to 16 years. Mr. Willkie’s reference to pressures and propaganda was most amazing. Any one who has ever seen the Chicago Tribune or similar G. O. P. newspapers, or some of the leading national magazines, or heard some of our redio commentators must know who’s doing

propagandizing. It’s never been any secret that the Republican party, directly or indirectlty, controls a major share of the nations press and radio. The Democratic press in Indiana, for example, is outnumbered nearly four

to one.

Besides, look who's talking about presures and propaganda—none but the master himself. Never in the counutry’s history, political or otherwise, was there such a job of pressuring or propagandizing as that which won Mr. Willkie the presidential nomination—the packed galleries, the thousands and thousands of telegrams financed by the utilities. Even if they had the facilities and the linaces, which they haven’t, the Democrats would and propaganda compared to Mr. Willkie. It was with such references as this in his speech that we found fault. The Democratic party should he appreciative of the tribute paid by Mr. Willkie to its program of social security and post-war planning. Although a great believer in “free enterprise,” he admitted that it was necessary to have restrictive laws “irrespective of whose toes are tramped upon.” He condemned the Smith-Connally act, which President Roosevelt vetoed, but attempted to put a Democratic tag on the legislation. He made a hid for the farm vote, but agreed the administration was right in its soil conservation program and its efforts to open new markets at home and abroad for the farmer. He admitted that in times of stress and in the “violent swings (Continued On Page Two)

FARM BLOC BIG BUSINESS FRONT

SAVAGE BATTLE RAGES IN RUSSIA

Next Major Soviet Triumph Will Mark Start Of Nazi Disaster

Recently Printed Book Is

Expose’ Of Capitol

Group

Who consitutes the “farm bloc” which has figured so prominently in Washington news in recent years? What is it, how does it function, who makes it tick? are

questions that many, including

London, Oct. 22.—Great, savage battles in Russia reached a decisive stage today with the Rod army pounding through frantic but failing German defenses halfway across the enemy’s rear lines in

the lower Dnieper bulge.

Russian reports said the finish fight was at hand, indicating the next major Soviet triumph would mark the start of a Nazi disaster. One report said the German lines were falling apart in the eastward hend of the Dnieper. The bulge represents the area lying to the feast of a line drawn from Kremenj chug, in the north, near which the [Soviet break-through occurred, and

have befuddled jNikolayev, on the lower Bug river farmers them-inear the Black sea. Thousands of

Walkout Stops Production At Local Warner Gear Co.

PARTY LEAOERS Delayed Action On Wage Increases to Part

BACK SCHRICKER

i German troops may be trapped the .there and in the Crimea to the

1 south.

In Italy, Allied armies were cutting ahead toward the new Gorman line with American troops holding a four-mile gain by crushing an enemy counterattack and capturing two towns on the ruined roads

in Italy.

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selves.

An attempt to clear away

mystery is made in a book just printed, “The Farm Bloc,” by Wesley McCune, who for years has been agricultural writer on the Washington staff of “Newsweek”

magazine.

Coming from that quarter the book’s disclosures are extremely significant as well as sensational. MeCune asserts that the farm bloc —with the exception of one group; the Farmers’ Union—does not truly represent American farmers, but is a false front behind which Big Business operates “in a virtual conspiracy” to increase living costs to American consumers. "It is, indeed,” he says, “a conglomerate crew which sails under the flag of

agriculture.”

The farm bloc, the author says, consists of officials of .a dozen or more organizations, some of them

anonymous. The kingpin is the Most of the demand for the proAmerican Farm Bureau Fedora- section of. free enterprise comes tion, which represents the| "aria- f rom those who are actually bent tocracy” among farmers and is U j )0n jt s destruction—the Fascistheaded by Edward A. O’Neal, who rr.indeVl few, the monopolist mighinherited a 1,200-acre plantation in ty. Free enterprise to them means Alabama and is interested largely free enterprise for themselves in maintaining a surplus of farm [alone at the expense of the Little

workers from which he can obtain ; Man.

plantation hands at poverty wages. [ Examine the argument of the Then comes the Grange—“a com- j man who howls loud and long for bination of insurame and fnitflmal ,t ;• Qf faHi

THE REAL GOALS OF ENTERPRISE

Talk Of Freedom Comes From Those Who Are Bent on its Destruction

NO MORE STEEL PENNIES Washington. —The treasury announced today that manufacture of the new xlnc-coated, steel pennies will be stopped Jan. 1. It will then resume coinage of one-cent pieces made of a copper alloy, which was discontinued last F-ebruary.

TRIBUTE TO THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADMINISTRATION REMARKS OF HON. JOSEPH F. GUFFEY OF PENNSYLVANIA (In the Senate of the United States) Mr. GUFFEY. Mr. President, from a source to which no political significance can be attached, I offer a tribute to the President and the present administration for their management of the war and the home-front activities—a page ad appearing in the Washington Times-Herald, and sponsored by a local store. This ad, I might say, is characteristic of other ads apearing throughout the country, and they are all genuine tributes to the management of the war. Ths commendation is shared by the majority of the American people not actively engaged in political propaganda. Statements are made in this ad that the President is doing a splendid job in the direction of the war on the battlefields, as well as on the home front, in the supervision of the war agencies, control of the cost of living, direction of war production at amazing peaks, and the moving of troops and material on schedule. In my opinion, if there is any fault-finding from the standpoint of the management of the war or of economic conditions, such criticism does not emanate from the average citizen, but is prompted by political prejudice. The contribution of billions of dollars to the purchase of bonds for the management of the war is a tribute in itself. The spontaneity and the willingness of the people to buy is a vote of confidence in the management of the Avar. The patriotic fervor exhibited at the bond meetings, the eagerness of the people to enlist and participate in the war activities, and the stoic reserve with Avhich the people have met the casualties of close relatives or the few reverses of battle, are all conclusive evidence of the wholehearted support of the American people of our great President and his assistants. There being no obiection. the advertisement Avas ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as folloA\ r s: Mr. President, we think you’re doing a swell job, not only on the battlefields but on the home front as well. It’s easy to criticize, easy to censure, easy to call those war agencies of yours so much alphabetical nonsense, but facts speak for themselves, and it is by facts that we can measure the value of these agencies. It’s a fact that the O. P. A. has, after more than 20 months of war, kept the cost of living far lower than it was after 6 months of the last war. It’s a fact that the W. P. B. has helped plan and control in such a manner as to keeo war production at amazing peaks. It’s a fact that the O. D. T. has helped keep war transportation smooth, with troops and materiel constantly on the move. It’s a fact that these and the other war agencies are fulfilling their functions. These agencies cost money. It’s a good investment in our own futures to sunooet them. They do their part. Let’s do curs. Let's back the attack with everything we’ve got. Buy more War Bonds today. This space contributed to the Third War Loan drive by: MORTON’S FASHION . STORE. 31J Seventh. Street NW„ Washington, D. C.

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Senatorial Campaign For Chief Executive Is Underway (Itv ( nitcU la-ess AA’ireA Indianapolis, Oct. 22. — Indiana Democrats predicted today the Governor Schricher for-S e n a t o r campaign would have endorsement of party leaders from more than half the state after tAvo district meetings to be held soon. Resolutions approving Schricker for "hgiher office,” conceded to be that of senator, have been adopted by lour central and southern districts—the sixth, seventh, ninth

and 10th.

Further approval of the chief executive, tagged as the one most likely to win the senatorial nomination from incumbent Frederick Van Nuys, was expected at eighth and 11 th district meetings soon. The governor Avill be the principal speaker at a banquet Nov. S in Indianapolis for ’Marion county and 11th district workers. The banquet meeting will not consider the resolution, hoAvevef, Democratic observers said. “We don’t need to pass a resolution,” said one party leader. “After this meeting, the Avhole state will knoAv Avhere we stand—behind the governor.” An Eighth district meeting at Cannelton was planned Avithin the next two weeks and there were no indications that Schricker’s bandwagon Avould be stopped by the southern Hosiers. Meanwhile, Democratic eyes turned toward the remaining districts Avhich have not stated their views for the record. Fred F. Bays. Democratic state

of Employees Brings Complete Shut-

Down By War Producing Industry; Conferences Within Next Few Days Expected To Bring Settlement Among Officials; No Disorders Reported From Workers

Leaving Machines Thursday. v- A ‘

A walk-out of workers at the local Warner Gear plants, which started Thursday morning : o’clock, continued to stop production of that try on Friday also and it was believed that sei days would elapse before a settlement wouji reached and work resumed by the approximate 2§00 employees of the four plants. It was announced that officials of the union had not sanctioned the striHe although a strike vote had been conducted here earlier

this month in favor of such action.

The failure of allowance of Avage , -. U. .U*' 'v r

GALLUP POLL CITES ISSUES

Economic Readjustment

Is FoumL Chief Issues

increases to approximaetely 800 Avorkers Avhich Avas agreed upon in September 1942 is said to have been responsible for the walk-out on Thursday. The Avage increases had been submitted to representatives of the National War Labor Board Avho notified the company that it Avas compelled to disallow the same due to the President’s “freeze order” on Avages. Since then issues and grievances were presented before Edward Rees from the U. S. Department of Labor Avho Avas in session all day Wednesday here Avith company officials and union representatives. Leslie R. Turner, international representative of the UAWA-CIO,^

Speakin,

Gallup poll mine Avhat believes Avill

ant issues in tial campaign,

said jobs and the

justment of the

sfies,: a recent nade to deter■'■'on's citizenry e most importnext presiden-

cy majority omic read-

CdjjUtry Avas the

is in charge of the union negotia- | most important liSng-range issue, lions here and it has been report- Th* liAiber t\\oMssfic was the. i ed that he' has requested a meet-! problem of drawing up a lasting

Lake County (first j, o£

he addressed this ■

Bays’ speech ;tdvo-

joint meeting of the Travelers Insurance Company and the Elks.” Next in line of importance is the National Milk Producers’ Association—“representing the biggest of milk distributors, who impartially rob both farmers and consumers,” followed by the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives—“which is about as agrarian as the NeAv York Stock Exchange.” The "coop” is dominated by Charles C. Teague, California banker and backer and “financial angel of the infamous Associated Farmers, which terrorized unionists and persons Avho looked as if they might want to be-

come unionized.”

These four organizations, according to McCune, work cheek by jowl Avith the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Highway Users’ Conference and the National Industrial Informa-

tion Committee.

The activities of the Chamber and the N. A. M. are so Avell known that they scarcely need repetition. McCune reveals the HighAVay Users’ Conference as a lobbying or-

n;ent interference.” He does not Want the government imposing regulations on his activities that Avould preA'ent him taking unfair advantage of his Aveaker brother. He is against the curbing powers of the anti-trust laws for he is in favor of monopolies, the great

combinations of Avealth.

For many years there has been no absolute free enterprise in this country affecting all people. There cannot he under any capitalistic system. What man with only a few hundred dollars can get into the steel business, the chain store business, the transportation business? On the other hand, who has a right to prevent the man with limited capital from operating a small farm, from opening a barber shop, from running an independent grocery store? But there is a point at which free enterprise for the Little Man stops and

SAvings over to capital.

The great and rapid development of commerce and industry in this country Iras been made possible by free enterprise of capital. Had it not been so Ave would still be plodding along in the pioneer

er backing at district) rally weetflPklary.

rated a fourth term by President Roosevelt and Avas the earliest opening campaign speech in history preceding a late county pri-

mary.

Lake county observers believed Bays A\ r as coming out early for Mr. Roosevelt to leave a clear field for the Schricker campaign. The fifth district Avas seen as the first northern district Avhere the “higher office” resolution Avill be presented. A later meeting in the third district Avill give a chance for state politicians to check reports of some hostility in the area. A party gathering in the fourth district Avill afford an opportunity to test Schricker strength and a chance to measure sentiment for Fort Wayne political aspirants, particularly Samuel D. Jackson, Fort Wayne lawyer and former attorney general, a potential ’44 gubernatorial candidate of the party. — o

representatives

ganization for Big Business. It is j stage. But this does not mean free financed by General Motors', The opportunity to plunder. In the

duPonts, and other industrialists to the tune of $150,000 a year. Its president is L. T. Taber, former past master of the Grange, and its paid director is Chester H. Gray, erstwhile lobbyist for the Farm Bureau at Washington. The Industrial Information Committee is an adjunct of the National Association of Manufacturers. It is headed by J. Howard Poav, Pennsylvania oil mogul and bitter foe of organized labor; Ernest T. Weir, union-busting chairman of National Steel and C. M. Chester, chairman of the Morgah-OAvned General Foods Corporation. Pew is also publisher of the reactionary “Farm Journal and Farmer’s Wife,” which claims to have the largest circulation of any farm publication and Avhich the author says is the “Bible of the big Avigs in the farm bloc. McCune tells hOAV business representatives even sit in at meetings of the farm bloc at which legislative matters are considered. It Avas at such joint conferences that campaigns were mapped out against the Farm Security Administration and other agencies which were created to give little farmers a “break.” McCune’s startling disclosures are supported with names, dates, street addresses and about the most complete array of evidence ever assembled on pressure lobby-

ing.

Ooe of the most interesting chapters in the book is devoted to the National Termers’ Union, which is portrayed as cooperating very little with the “big four” group. • y ' The Farmers’ Union.-McCune as? sens, is the only organization toak(Continued' On Page Two)

mand, Ordnance Division, together I with local officials immediately ! Avith the hope of reaching a quick I settlement. The walk-out did not occasion any disorders. The Avorkers remain idle awaiting further

developments.

The local Warner Gear plants are producing vital Avar materials

and it is anticipated that there

will be a resumption of produc- cisni isn’t as widespread tion within a very few days. Plant G. O. P. speakers indicate.

main the great industrial organizations that have made this country have been conducted honestly. Therein has laid their success. Free enterprise of capital honestly conducted is just as important as unrestricted individual tree enter-

prise.

There is a definite dividing line and a point at which Big Business should stop. We cannot permit Big Business to combine and run the small farmer, the barber and the little grocery man out of business. If the greedy, grasping Big Rich are permitted to go along unhindered it will not be long until there is no free enterprise fof - ' the Little 'Man anywhere. Then Ave shall have a Fascist system in very fact. And a Fascist government to back it up. There is a real American Fascist conspiracy to gobble up every form of business activity. There are those who have visions of the professional man, the artisan, the laborer and the farmer Avorking on salary for the feAV Avith big capital. We have seen that plan being pushed within the doors of Congress Avhen the big industrial farmers have sought government help in driving the little farmer out of business and making a farm hand of him. The Fascists were openly active in this country before Ave got into the war. They had no connection with the European Fascist Organizations; they planned an American Fascist government. But they escfiressed a marked feeling ior the European Fascists and Hitler and Mussolini Avere their idolfs. They were so active that they succeeded ,J)y devious ways in invihg these dictators aid through the attitude of our government. (Continued On Page- Two)

Schricker To Speak At Outdoor Rally

Richmond, Ind., Oct. 22.—Governor Henry F. Schricker Avill be principal speaker at a Wayne county Democi'atic meeting to be held at Beech Wood Park Sunday, it U'a.s announced today by Robert Johnson, county chairman. The park is located one and a half miles A\'est of Centerville on U. S. 40. Other speakers at the meeting Avill include Fred F. Bays, state chairman and Mrs. Edna Bingham, state vice-chairman. Center ToAvnship Democratic Women’s Club members Avill be hostesses. An old-fashioned basket dinner will be held at 12:30 p. m., Avith the program scheduled for 2 p. m. o LIQUOR STILL FOUND IN BELFRY OF CHURCH

Bradentown, Fla., Oct. 22.—A moonshine liquor still, complete Avith a 10-gallon iboiler and copper Avorm, but no mash, awys found here in the bell tower of Christ Episcopal church in dOAvntown Bradentown. Rev. Frank M. Brunton, rector, said Frank Middleton, sexton, found it when he was sent into the tOAver for an inspection of the church hell and rope. The rector said he had no idea how and Avhen the still Avas secreted in the tower, Avhich had not been inspected for three or four years.

officials and union representatives are said to be in continuous meeting attempting to adjust the situation in order that the employees Avill return to their machines and soon resume the plant production of such materials needed for Avar purposes. It has been agreed by both the company and the union that the labor conciliator should determine Avhether or not the issues iirvoWed should be submitted to the War Labor Board for final decision. It is suggested by the company that the Avorkers return to their jobs and permit the proper government agencies to make a fair settlement of the dispute. So far, the government agencies have not acted except to disapprove the Avage increase originally submitted to them for approval. It appears that the union also favored such procedure hut is not satisfied Avith a complete disapproval when both the union and company were Avilling to accept the proposed Avage increases of OA r er a year ago and have received nothing but delayed action since such agreement. For the benefit of the public, the Avorkers, the industry, and in behalf of the war efforts, it is hoped that the strike Avill be brief and that local conferences Avill soon lead to the announcement that a back-to-work order has been willingly accepted.

issues about which .ioav are doing the e rated the least important by the voters. Food problems, for instance, AA’ere rated number one by only six per cent of the people, and even that six percent said the Democratic party Avas best suited to solve any postwar problems in the food supply. The bureaucracy issue Avas listed number one by only three percent of the people, so perhaps the crit-

as the It was

interesting to note that on the first two issues—a lasting peatie and security after the war—the _Democraitc party already is Avay out in front Avith programs and the polls have shown the people Avould rather trust these issues to the Democratic party than to the Republicans. y ffb-^ Find the Man Who Has Ever Met a Gallup “Poller.” To the Editor: An editorial in a jrecentt'issue of LABOR propounded this question: “Has any of your readers ever s4en any of the agents Dr. Gallup is supposed to send out when he takes a poll?” May I say in reply that I am not prominent but quite accessible. That is also the statais of mtfny 1

Avork Avith.

I have done a little canvassing among my associates. They hax'e never met a Gallup man. They do not know any one avIvo has, I have never seen a Gallup man and 1 have never met any one who has. Arvada, Colo. ffe : R.

PETS MADE SAFE.

Camp BoAvie, Tex.—Members of Company C of the 64th Aledical Regiment at Camp Bowie haVe odd pets. They found Iavo skunks while on a recent field problem. The post veterinarian “deodorized” the pets.

Captivating Charm and LovelilUss Are High Points in the New Series Of Paintings, “Flower Girls,” by the Well-Known Artist, Henry Clive. Don’t Miss “Wild Rose,” the First of the Series, with. Verses by Phyllis McGinley, on the Front Cblor Page of The American Weekly, the Magazine Distributed with Next Week’s Sunday Chicago Her. old-American.

OFFICIAL PORTRAIT GOV. SCHRICKER The official portrait of Governor Henry Frederick Schricker was added to the state’s collection of portraits of its governors in September. The portrait was provided for in the appropriation made by the legislature in 1939 to the Historical Bureau for other operating expenses. The Library and Historical Board and Governor Schricker concurred in the selection of Marie Goth, of Nashville, to paint the portrait. It was conpleted last spring and accepted by the state after approval by the governor. f ’ It has been framed by the H. Lieber Company, of Indianapolis, and was on exhibition for several days in September in the company’s window at 24 West Washington Street. The painting represented Governor Schricker seated, turned somewhat toward his left, his right arm resting on the arm of a chair and his left arm resting on his left leg. The figure and the face stand out lifelike against a fairly dark background without any accessories. Though Miss Goth has painted portraits of many Indianans in public life, in educational institutions, and in private Ifie, this is her first contribution to the collection of governors' portraits in the State House.—Indiana History Bulletin. ... ■, . . .

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