Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1936 — Page 5

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Party Is to Explore Lava Beds, Ruins of New Mexico.

Indianapolis sent out its annual party of explorers when the seventh trek of the Children's Museum began at 10 today. : Seventeen youths, under the leadership of Hillis L. Howie, Orchard 8chool director, were in the party. The party is to explore the lava beds in the Zuni Mountains and study plant and animal life as well a8 volcanic formations in New Mexico.

Base Near Thoreau

The base camp is to be at Cot-

tonwood Gulch near Thoreau, N. M.

The youths are to continue explora- | 2

tion of Zuni Mountain ruins which they discovered last year.

The commission from the Chil- | SSEESR

dren's Museum calls for collection of photographs, data and exhibit material of interest to city school children. Other party members were: Harley Rhodehamel, John Masters, John Osborne, Robert Merrell and Samuel Sherwood, all of Indianapolis; Richard Hart and Alfred Stern, both of Highland Park, Ill.; Haskell Torrence, Evanston, Ill.; Edgar Foster, Chicago, Ill; Randolph Coleman, Winnetka, Ill.: Thomas Wiener, St. Louis, Mo.: Edward Sichel and Austen Jenkin, both of New York City, and Daniel French, Summit; N. J.

COMMISSION DENIES TRUCK RATE CHANGE

Charges to Be Based on Mileage, Public Service Group Rules.

Petition of the Motor Distributing Corp., local trucking firm, to base freight rates on the shortest distance between cities rather than on routes actually traveled today had been denied by the Public Service Commission. The trucking company sought Lo base rates on railroad mileage instead of the road mileage its trucks cover on certified routes. In its decision, handed down yesterday, the commission held that the state motor vehicle act does not authorize granting of relief from the “loflg and short haul” clause to motor vehicle carriers to meet the _ sport line rates.of the railroads.

REDUCED TAX RATE REPORTED BY SMITH

Corporation Stock Schedule Set at $1 a Thousand, Collector Says.

Capital stock tax for the 1936 fiscal period has been set at $1 on each $1000 of stock value, Will H, Smith, collector of internal revenue, announced today. The previous rate was $1.40. Returns are to be filed in triplicate with the collector for the district in which a corporation’s place of: business is located, and are due on or before July 31, Mr. Smith said. Penalties up to 25 per cent of the fax interest at a rate of 6 per cent a year are provided for delinquencies. All corporations in existence during the period from July 1, 1935, to June 30, 1936, are to file returns.

SUIT ON RULING OF MILK BODY DROPPED

Three-Judge Hearing May Be Held on Litigation,

By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 25.— Suit for an injunction against enforcement of a State Milk Control Board emergency order in the Fort Wayne area was dropped in District Federal Court today in anticipation of a three-judge hearing. Judge Thomas W. Slick yesterday suggested abandonment of the pres- ° ent action with a proposal he would attempt to get three Federal judges to hold a hearing on the litigation in Fort Wayne next month. The Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. challenged the State Board’s ruling that an emergency existed.

3 HOOSIERS LOSE LIVES IN ACCIDENTS

Marion Woman Hurt Fatally When Hit by Auto.

Three persons were killed yesterday in accidents in Indiana. At Marion, Mrs. Frank J. Hitch, 40, was fatally hurt when struck by an automobile while helping her husband push a cart along a street. The driver, Walter Hillsamer, was not held. August’ Darrand, 83, Fort Wayne, county infirmary inmate, was killed by a switch engine. He apparently wandered on the tracks while pick- _ ing berries. Thomas Bronner, 73. was found dead, pinned beneath his overturned automobile on Green Mill hill near Madison.

Held by Police Rrank Wright, Negro, 805'2 N. Senate-av, was under arrest today in connection with an alleged attack on George Fuller, R. R. 11, Box 284C, June 17. Fuller is in Methodist

SALE o HOUSE PAINT

Seventeen youths, explorers of the Southwest,

left today on the annual Children’s

tion tour of mountains and desert lands. The youths

Museum explora-

were under the tirection of the above leaders: Left to right, Ross Olmstead, Gordon H. Thompson, Hillis L. Howie, trek director, and John W. Ragsdale of Princeton University. A

MERCURY TRAIN IS CHRISTENED

Visitors See Streamliner at Union Station Before Ceremony.

While bands played, crowds cheered and railroad officials beamed, Miss Louis Landman, New York, christened the New York Central's new luxurious streamline train, the Mercury today.

Miss Landman is the daughter of L. W.: Landman, general passenger traffic manager of the New York Central system. Preceding the christening, on the 8. Meridian-st elevated tracks, visitors inspected the streamliner. New York Central officials who attended the ceremonies include R. D. Starbuck, executive vice president; Martin J. Alger, vice president in charge of traffic; C. S. Millard, vice president in charge of the Big Four railroad; D. M. Bowman, passenger traffic manager; F. N. Reynolds, general superintendent of the Big Four in Indianapolis and Mr. Landman. Mr. Alger delivered the principal address, which was followed by an address by Louis J. Borinstein, former president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce.

CITY STUDENT HONORED

Betty Lou Myers One of 12 to Receive Certificates. Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 25.— Miss Betty Lou Myers, 4815 Wash-ington-blvd, Indianapolis, is one of the 12 students in the dietetics di-

‘vision of the I. U. Medical Center

to be granted certificates by the university. Miss Mary Jane O'Mara, Lalayette, and Miss Martha McIntyre, Newcastle, are other state young women to be so recognized.

Police Hunt Hoodlum

Police today hunted a hoodlum who attempted to attack Miss Madge Wessel, 22, of 1056 E. New York-st, as she was walking at Dorman and New York-sts last night. He slapped her, but Miss Wessel broke away from him, police said.

U. S. IS BEST FED NATION, PITHIN SAYS

Japan Second, England Third, Purdue Group Is Told. Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 25.—Because its citizens can begin the day with a square meal, the United States has more potential leaders than any nation in the world, Dr. Walter B. Pitkin told the Purdue University science and leadership institute yesterday. The institute is to close today.

The United States is the best fed nation in the world. Japan is second, Dr. Pitkin said, with England third. Dr. Thurman Rice, Indiana University, pointed out the need of scientific dealing with old problems.

APARTMENT GROUP’S OUTING IS DISCUSSED

Association to Hold Affair at Noblesville, Aug. 8. Program for the annual. outing of the Apartment Owners Association of Indianapolis to be held Aug. 8 at Forest Park, Noblesville, were discussed at the semi-monthly luncheon of the association in the Washington yesterday.

mittee chairman, announced that the following will assist the regular program committee in making arapgements: E.. H. Arnott, Johnson,

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