Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1936 — Page 9

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pets Exhibited IN ‘HOBBY FAIR' AT SCHOOL 62 Pupils’ Priced Possessions. Displayed- to Show Outside Interests. All those trey sand motley collections nearest ja child’s heart were on display at the sixth annual Hobby Fair of School 62, 4715 E. ldlh-st, yestrpday afternoon and last night. Told to bring to school the things they prized aL home, the children responded with an enthusiasm that proved embarrassing in two cases. A rabbit that was “galumphing” about was sent home, because he wandered over! the auditorium, and some pet chid tens had to be removed for feat the cats would cat them. “This way \we find out what our pupils really are interested in,” Mrs. Elizabeth It. principal, said. “We see a aidt: of them here that they would newer reveal any other way. It is riijficult, sometimes, to find out what, a child’s deepest enthusiasms really are.” Whatnots on Display A tjur about the room revealed that the enthi isiasm of one precocious 1-B was the collecting of movie stars’ pictures. A model of the school, N|oah’s ark with the animals moldet 1 in clay, fancy work, stamp collections, swords, airplane models, minial ure sunken gardens, and cartoons 'were on display. The object cf the Hobby Fair, according to the school paper, was to bring the school and home work of the punil int 4 closer relationship, to show the possibilities of hobbies, and to give the children an opportunity to express their individuality by the work ofj their own hands and minds. An annual jOivcnt, the Hobby Fair is sponsored my* the Parent-Teach-er Association), which Mrs. Emerson Gilchrirst heads. Mrs. Paul Clark and Mrs. Ralph May were chairmen of > the hostesses’ committee.

PROFIT HELD EXCESSIVE ON TELEPHONE RENTALS Instruments >ait Profit of 14 Millions, FCC Trobcrs Say. h';/ TJnitrrt Pram WASHINGTON, April 23.—Fcdrral CommumAcations Commission investigators.' today charged the American Telephone and Telegraph Cos. with making huge excess profits on rental of telephone instruments to subsidiaries.' and with selling the instruments in. 1927 at another profit of more than, ,$14,000,000. In a 150-page report prepared by special investigators working under Commissioner Paul A. Walker, the A. T. and T. was accused of making excess profit, si between 1902 and 1927 on telephone‘rentals. It was alleged profits ranged! from $50,000,000 to $210,000,000 in excess of a 6 per cent return on gross book costs and from almost $63,001.0000 to more than $229,000,000 ii* excess of 6 per cent on net book costs. POJTE~THUG HUNTED AFTER $6.47 HOLDUP Randit Chatsi With Attendant; Tulls Gun; Takes Cash. A polite handit was object of a police search, today. This robber “dropped in” for a chat with John Duncan, 21, attendant at a filling station at 5269 E. Washington-<st, last night. After discussing the weather and European situation, the bandit drew a gun and todik $6.47. He made Duncan walk south In Hawthorne-In while he fled. BURY G. 0. P. CHAIRMAN Grant Fitch, Kokomo, Was Organs izer for Modern Woodmen. 7 tmr* Fprrinl KOKOMO, April 23. Funeral services for J. Grant Fitch, Howard County Republican chairman and state organizer for Modern Woodmen of America, were to be held at’ 2 today at the Grace M. E. Church. Mr. Fitch, who was 67, died Tuesday after a brief illness.

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Thelma Ellis, 58, School 62, was afraid her kittens would catch cold if she took them out of the box, but the idea of having their picture in the paper overcame her worries about their health. Thelma's kittens were one of the mast popular exhibits of the sixth annual Hobby P’air held yesterday at School 62.

FACES CHARGE AFTER THREE-CAR ACCIDENT Newspaper Man, G. O. P. Publicity Staff Member, Figure in Crash. Scott Waldon, 27, of 3205 Suther-land-av, newspaper reporter, today faced a charge of failure to have a driver’s license after his automobile was involved in a three-car

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crash at New Jersey and Ohio-sts last night. His passenger, Joe Schelcen, 32, of Shclbyville, Republican State Committee publicity staff member, was treated at City Hospital for head lacerations. A taxicab, driven by Morris Bridges, 24. of 1314 Leonard-st, knocked Waldon’s car against a third auto, driven by Francis Murphy, 403 Massachusetts-av.

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TRAIN TO TAKE ORDINARY RUN AT TOUR'S END Streamlined Unit Pauses in Indianapolis on Exhibition Trip. The Green Diamond, new streamlined train of the Illinois Central System which passed through here yesterday on its 7000-mile exhibition tour, goes into regular service between Chicago and St. Louis next month, it was announced today. Built at a cost of $425,000 the train is a five-car unit, mounted on roller bearings and completely air conditioned. It accomodates 120 passengers. The unit consists of the power car, mail and baggage .oar, two chair and one lounge-observation coaches. The power plant is a 1200-horse-power Diesel oil engine. There is an auxiliary oil engine, a generator for supplying electrical current, air compressors, heating boiler, batteries and electrical control apparatus and water and fuel tanks. Seating Arrangement Explained There are 56 passenger seats in the first car. The second has 44 seats and 16 places at four dining tables. Twenty portable chairs, eight dining seats at two tables, and two desks with chairs are in the lounge car. Air conditioning on the train is reversible. During the cooling season, air is supplied through overhead ducts and returned through floor ducts to the cooling department. In winter, warm £.ir is supplie dthrough floor duct'., and the overhead duct serves for the return. Fresh air is drown through the sides of the car. The driver’s cab is on the “nose” of the power car, surrounded by wide windows of safety glass. Operation of the power car is under “dead man” control. The moment the driver breaks contact with his power lever, the train automatically comes to a stop. English Actress Is Bride HOLLYWOOD, April 23. —Rian James, author and scenario writer, and his bride, the former Ann Andre, English actress, were to leave today on a honeymoon trip to the coast of Mexico aboard James’ yacht. They were married last night.

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The new Republican research organization, which will match the Democratic “brain trust” and will analyze the New Deal for the public, will be directed by Dr. Oliji Glenn Saxon (above), professor of business administration at Yale. G. O. P. Chairman Fletcher denies the new group is a “brain trust.” MERCHANTS TO PUT CANDIDATES ON SPOT Retailers to Fight Gross Income Tax at the Polls. : By United Press KOKOMO, April 23.—Retail merchants denounced the state gross j income tax law and pledged themj selves to vote against candidates ; who will not promise to work for its ! repeal at a mass meeting here last 1 night. Walter J. Mercer, Indianapolis; jJoe Guidone, Indianapolis; C. J. jStiess, Fort Wayne, officers of the 1 Indiana State Retail Grocers Association, urged that retailers contact their customers and explain •the alleged tax injustice in an effort to present a strong lobby at the 1937 Legislature.

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ART EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY I MANUAL HUPILS Harvey Emerich, Graduate, Has Two Oil Paintings on Display. Harvey Emerich has two oil paintings on display in the art exhibition at Manual Training High School. The display is sponsored by the art department. Mr. Emerich, who was graduated from Manual in 1904, has taken prizes in Indiana and national exhibits. Four other Manual graduates,

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Frances Bernhardt. Georgianna Amt, Harold Hawitz and Fay Daria, have mnrals and etchings in thp exhibit* Miss Anna Hasselman, curator at John Herron Art Institute, has a group of water color pa int - j ings cm display. Manual pupils in senior art 111, and TV are showing a collection j of drawings. Pupils whose work is included are FredA erick! Baker, Evelyn Jacob. Ravinomi O’Neal, John Preston, Harry Walter, Charles Erouhard, Donald Ash, Rosemary Lang and Vida Lee. Pupils in arts and crafts II have made painted and shellacked soap carvings. These pupils are Byron Corey, Kathleen Sponsel, Ernest Mader, Marcus Goldman, Mae Jones, Wancia Spurgeon. Delores Bannon, Marjorie Roempke, Mary Brunh, Dorothy Bruns, Bonnie Jacobs, Dorothy Strelow, Doris Nickels, Nornxa Adams, William Alte. Alma Morris, Mary Monroe, Catherine Bainbridge, Lelia Harlan, Louise Koss. Catherine Carroll and Broner Boatman.

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