Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1936 — Page 16

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Hoover 564,713.

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ISSOURI SAFE IR

ROOSEVELT,

WILSON THINKS

Landon Is Gaining, However and Still Has Chance, ; Writer Claims.

BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO, Mo. Oct. 5—Repubficans and anti-New Deal Demots are cutting deeply into Roose“welt strength in this border state.

. They are butting their heads

_ against.a Roosevelt stone wall in

~ morthern Missouri but report betfer success in the southern part, #south of the river,” they call it, rewhich "meanders across Missouri from

west to east.

. I believe President Roosevelt will

garry this state but by a tremend‘ously reduced majority compared to A series of good campaign

Alfred M. Landon.

City, the state capital,

“politics with a cold, expert eye for

‘the St. Louis Star-Times, says his |

town will give Mr. Roosevelt a majority of 50,000. Kansas City (Jackson County), is commanded by Thomas J. Pendergast, the most syccesstul Democratic ‘poss in the nation. It will give Mr. Roosevelt a useful majority to fend off trouble elsewhere. But the Republicans are making it a fight “throughout the state. . They are hauling up oratorical big guns. Gov. ‘Landon and Frank Knox will be there this month. :

Business Is Good

Mr. Roosevelt undoubtedly has lost some strength even in north Missouri. . Mexico is farm town. Business 1s eX is the capital of Audrain and a Democratic citadel. If Democrats were walking out . in large numbers it would be evident here. 1 found Democratic restlessness but no mass promenade away from the New Deal, Mr. Roosevelt will carry this county but by a reduced majority. In 1932 the county vote was Roosevelt 7301; Hoover 2037. The state vote: Roosevelt 1,025,406;

a manufacturing and excellent. It County

Opposed to Roosevelt

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|. Miller is introduced as superin-

tendent of the A. P. Green Fire ek Co. He is a Republican. Dr. &. = Jolley, transplanted Kansan, is a Democratrand so are Col. E. Y. Burton and lawyer David Robertson. Consensus is that the town, county and state look safe enough for Roosevelt—the town and county sure for him. Later at the hotel you learn that lawyer Robertson, formerly of Mexico, is now practic-

~.dng in St. Louis and is state organ-

told me. . in St. Louis and South Missouri.

Jer for- the National Jeffersonian Pemocrats, the only formally organized anti-Roosevelt movement

among members of the President's party.

“I believe we can carry Missouri for Gov. Landon,” Mr. Robertson “But we will have to do it

This northern part of the state is a dead spot. .I figure there is a 10 per ‘cent defection from. Roosevelt up this way but we can't get it organized.” Mr. Robertson predicted a Landon ma jority of 50,000 votes in St. Louis

and promised the Governor would

carry Southern cities. He and the Republicans to whom I talked are banking heavily for votes on rural antipathy to Mr. Pendergast, who §8 extending his political interest into other parts of the state, “notably St. Louis. © Another factor is William Hirth, ~ ex-president of the Missouri Farmers’ Association, who was defeated in the Democratic primary by Maj. Lloyd C. Stark of Louisiana, Mo. Mr. Stark was Mr. Pendergast's candidate >for the gubernatorial ‘nomination. Mr. Hirth carried this “gounty and some of his followers “here are bitter against Mr. Pendergast and Mr. Stark. 2

| officers.”

{ “farmer,” the Governor

for

The magic of air mail, which

whisks| your letters from coast to

coast in 15 to 20 hours and speeds to your newspaper pictures from far corners of the country, holds no mystery for this trio inspecting the air mail exhibit at the National Association of Postmasters’ convention in Cleveland. At left is Charles P. Graddick, superintendent of United States air mails; and his attractive listeners are Margaret and Marjorie Stuecken, 24-year-old twin hastesses for Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc, who look so much alike they confuse the pilots

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Indiana Is Biggest Farmer,

McNutt Tells

State. Farms Produced $618,732 Crop in 1935, He Says.

“Indiana itself if the largest farmer in the state,” Gov. McNutt said in a radio address last night in which he described “the business administration of the largest corporation in the state, and gave the citizens of “that corporattion an accounting of the stewardship of the the state is a explained that Indiana's. five hospitals for the insane, feeble-minded school, epileptic village, soid:ers and sailors’ children’s home, state sanitarium, three penal institutions, the boys’ and girls’ schools own together 16,000 acres, 11,000 of which are farmed. ; “Produce from these farms during the dry year ending in June, 1935, had an estimated value of $618,732,”

Declaring that

the Governor said. All this produce «& used in the maintenance of these

The Governor presented state’s financial picture for the current fiscal year, stating that assets total 840,721,000. According to figures he presented, the assets include a balance of $10,892,000; property tax, $2,263,000; inheritance tax, $1,084,000; insurance tax, $1,930,000; gross income tax, $16,600,000; oil inspection fees, $470,000; auto theft fund, $300,000; drivers’ license fees, $466,000; stere licenses, $616,000; professional board fees, $98,000; miscellaneous receipts, $956,000; state’s portion of auto license fees, $1,740,000; liquor licenses, $3,236,000. The major item in liabilities listed by the Governor was $13,598,000 appropriations. The second largest expenditure was given as $10,100,000 for teachers’ pay. Other liabilities listed were ‘excise department appropriation, $200,000; welfare department, $350,000; old age pensions, $3,240,000; blind, $150,000; mothers’ and childrens’ aid, $1,000,000 and per capita and statuatory appropriations, $250,000.

. $11,833,000 Balance Listed

The Governor's figures show the state with a balance of $11,833,000. The Governor explained that the personal service item in the appropriation for the current year is 35.4 per cent of the total appropriations for state government, or $4,811,185. He defended the personal service appropriation as not being high: in the face of complexities of governmental functions. Gov. McNutt decried low appropriations for state institutions, asserting that they “have been deprived of sufficient money to pay proper and sufficient salaries in personal service and to maintain the physical - property in an economic manner.” He defended the executive budget

Radio Audience

system as “the only type that definitely places responsibility for the financial plan of the state.”

School Needs Cited

He said that under this plan “it was recommended that authority be vested in some one to see that the plan was carried into effect under direction of the Governor. These recommendations were not made elfective until the present adminis=tration.” The Governor stated appropriations for state schools total $3,602.500. He said Indiana University portion is $1,490,000; “Purdue’s, $I 450,000; State Teachers’ Coll $343,500, and Ball State Coll $320,000. He said that “due to the registration of students this year these appropriations are inadequate (oO maintain the standards of these schools and the next Generaal Ase sembly will be faced with the proposition of increasing these approrriations to meet the growing needs of these schools.”

AID FOR REFUGEE

institutions, he stated. | |

Puts Assets at $40,721,000 | the |

JEWS PLEDGED HERE

Renewed support te the movement to aid persecuted Jews in European countries was urged hy Rabbi Elias Charry at the first [all meeting of the Indianapolis Zionist

District last night in Beth-Fl-Zedeck Temple. . Help for refugees who attempt a return to Palestine was pledged afler the group heard spsakers who described conditions of discrimination against Jews which they said existed in many countries. Among the speakers were Ahraham Goodman, Shelbyville; Jacob Solotken, Jacob Weiss and Max Katz. Officers elected included Daniel Frisch, president; Mr. Weiss and Rabbi Charry, vice presidents; Philip Grenwald, treasurer; Meayer Gallin, secretary; Mr. Katz, treasurer of the Jewish National Fund, and Daniel Harrison, fund secretary. Cantor Myro Glass, named honorary vice president, led group singing.

TEACHER TO SPEAK ON WAR SITUATION

Charles J. Wilkerson, head of the Shortridge High School English department, is to address_the school’s

Fiction Club tomorrow a:ternoon on Europe.” .

weeks in England and two weeks in Germany last summer, said that expectation of a European war is so prevalent abroad that the common attitude is one of pessimism and alarm.

W. B. STOUT TO GIVE

ILLUSTRATED TALK

William B. Stout, transportation designer and president of the Stout Engineering Laboratories, is to give ‘an illustrated lecture at the October fieetinig of the Society of Automothe

Engineers Thursday night at |

Athenaeum, The Stout "House on Wheels” is to be on display in the first floor

entrance. Mr. Stout i§ to speak on!

“Research for the Next Great Industry.” The meeting is to be held jointly with the Indianapolis section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Reservations may be mailed to Harlow Hyde, In- } section secretary.

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1500 Indiana Doctors Due at Convention Tomorrow, Association Reports.

|. Times Special | SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 5— i The vanguard of 1500 Indiana doc- | tors and their wives began arriving i here today for the. three-day con- | vention of the Indiana State Medi- | | cal Association opening tomorrow. | Registration, bfisiness sessions, a | golf tournament, trap shooting and . other entertainment are on the pro- | gram for tomorrow, with scientific discussions set for Wednesday and | Thursday. 4 : Dr. R. L. Segsenich, South Bend, association president, is to open his part of the program with an address Wednesday at 9 a. m. ,

Others to Speak

Others to lecture Wednesday include Dr. Byrl R. Kirklin, professor of radiology. University of Minnesota: Dr. Lincoln F. Sise, Boston; Dr. Rusell L. Cecil, clinical medicine professor, Cornell University; Dr. Frederick A. Coller, professor of’ surgery, University of Michigan. On the program of the medical section Wednesday are Drs. Lall G. Montgomery, Muncie; B. M. Edlavitch, Fort Wayne; J. T. Witherspoon, Indianapolis; C. A. Stayton, Indianapolis; ‘Paul J. Fouts, Indianapolis; John Eric Dalton, Indianapolis; M. K. Miller, South Bend; M. V. Kahler, Indianapolis; H. K. Cooper, South Bend; B. E. Ellis, Indianapolis; Lyman R. Pearson, Indianapolis; B:. G. Keeney, Shelbyville; H. F. Beckman, Indianapolis, ‘and F. R. N. Carter, South Bend. Surgical section: Drs. James FP. Balch and William N., Wishard Jr., Indianapolis; O. O. Alexander, Terre Haute; Don F.:Cameron, Fort Wayne; W. D. Little, Indianapolis; M. C. Wygant, Mishawaka; Same W. Litzenberger, Anderson; R..G. Ikins, Lafayette; Franklin E. Hagie, | Richmond: R. N. Bills, Gary, and William Donald Davidson, Evansville. Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Group Ear, eye, nose and throat section: Dr. C. P. Clark, Indianapolis; B. N. Lingeman, Crawfordsville; E. L. Bulson, Fort Wayne; H. C. Waurster, Mishawaka; E. W. Dyar Jr., Indianapolis; L. L. Nesbit, Anderson; E. O. Alvis, Indianapolis, and E. L. Rigley, South Bend. ®

Anesthesia section: Drs. George

’ | M. Rosenheimer, South Bend; Rich-

ard B. Stout, Elkhart; Roy A. Geider, Indianapolis; Goethe Lin, Indianapolis; F. T. Romberger, Lafayette, and Dr. Sise. A round table discusion is to be led by Dr. Charles N. Combs, Terre Haute. Nationally-known ' medical men are scheduled to speak Thursday, headed by Dr. J. H. J. Upham, Columbus, O., American Medical Association president-elect; Gordon Laing, University of Chicago professor, is to speak Thursday night on “Are Doctors Human?”

TECH HIGH STUDENTS TO AID FUND DRIVE

A group of speakers comprised of members of Charles R.. Parks’ public speaking classes at Arsenal Technical High School has been appointed by Edwin Tomlinson, presi-

dent of the Demegorian Alumni Association, to speak in Indianapolis churches: and schools on behalf of the Indianapolis Community Fund. Speakers are Guy Carpenter, Adelaide Carter, Homer Huesting, Thel= ma Hunter, Charles Knowles, Kenneth Mansfield, Dorisann Johnson, Ann Calvert, Eldeen Blair, Mary Agnes Dunwoody, Alan Grips, Rovena Smith, Thelma Kasting, Esther Mall, and James Runyan.

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1936 DISTRICT GROUP MEETING

of Knights Templar Gathering.

Knights Templar, of the Central Indiana District hold their 1936 group

asylum of the Raper Commandery, Illinois-sts.

nent Sir Harry S. Wambaugh, Indiana Commandery grand commander, and other state officers. The annual banguet is to precede the degree work. Mrs. Bert Cordle heads a committee of wives of past and present officers of Raper Commandery planning a reception and entertainment for visiting women. A program of music and readings by members of Indianapolis Alumni Club of Mu Phi Epsilon has been arranged by Mrs. Clyde Titus. Those appearing on the program are to include Mrs. W. T. Randall, Miss Mary Moorman, Mrs. Howard Stitt, Mrs. Titus, Mrs. Bernice Reagan,

Walter Rice to Be in Charge

Eminent Sir Walter Rice, Terre |§ Haute, is to be in charge when |

meeting tomorrow night in the |j in the Masonic Temple, North and Guests are to include Right Emi- | §

States on constitutional law. .

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A discussion, on “The United States Supreme Court—Its True Function,” to be followed by an address on that subject by Henry I Bates, University of Michigan Law School dean, is to feature the October meeting of the Indianapolis Bar Association in the Columbia Club Wednesday. The Bar Association has invited

members of the Indianapolis Law- , Thespis, Butler University dramatic |

yers’ Association, Indiana Supreme and Appellate Courts, and the United States District judge and attorney to atend the diner meeting. The Michigan Alumni Association is to have a luncheon for Dean Bates in the Columbia Club the same day. Hubert Heckam, Bar Association president, said that Dean Bates, Michigan Law School dean since 1920, is considered one of the leading authorities in the United

Dean Bates is former president of the Association of American Law Schools and commissioner on uniform state laws.

HOOSIER STUDENTS GIVEN FELLOWSHIPS

Exchange fellowships enabling Americans to study abroad have been awarded to five Indiana college students, the Institute of International Education anounced foday. Awards were granted to Leroy Brunig Jr. Indianapolis, De Pauw University, fellowship to the University of Bordeaux; Author J. Whallon Jr., Richmond, Hanover College, to Lycee de La Mans; Carl McGee Meadows, West Lafayette, Purdue University to the University of Heidelberg; Prancis Galton Peacock, Richmond, Whittenberg College, to University of Hamburg, and Albert E. Highley Jr. Lafay-

Miss Ruby Winders and Miss Louise Swan. ,

ii he conferring of the Illustrious rder of the Red Cross by a Raper Comniandery cast. y Pe

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BUTLER THESPIANS ADD 39 MEMBERS

Thirty-nine new members of

society, have been announced by Dave Thompson, president. They are Virginia Blackley, Betty Breech, Dorothy Bricwiddy, Martha Commons, Nettie Marie Delberger. Alice Elkins, Helton Pequetta, Elnora Hartman, Jane Kelly, Margaret Laughlin, Jane Ludwig, Mrs. Henretta Minton, Grace MecDowell, Louise O’Hara, Margaret Parrish, Ruth Rehm and Gene Roderick. Others chosen include Gene Ward, Glendon Bowers, Morton Decker, Gene Dynes, James Hawkins, Jac Ochiltree, William Merrill, Carl Scheidker, Charles Haug, Clifford Scholey, Michael Bagnoli, Lowell Gano, Dorothy Shepperd, Augusta | Swackhammer, Jeanne Settles, Ramona Winfield, Philippa Schreiber, Winifred Andrews, Louise Edwards, Betty Harger, Helen Ellis and Jean Lou Foley. ' “The Marriage ‘Proposal’ by Anton Chekhov is to be the first production Oct. 3D.

JOHN F. O'DONNELL HEADS NEWMAN CLUB

John F. O'Donnell, senior, has been elected president of the Butler University chapter of the Newman Club, Catholie students’ organization. Other officers are Miss Betty

Dr. Paul B. Allen (above), Indianapolis, is program chairman for the thirty-eighth annual convention of the Indiana Osteopathic Association to be held at

Hotel Lincoln Wednesday and Thursday. Newest developments in osteopathic diagnosis, technique and therapy are to be major topics. of discussion.,

HOOSIERS WIN SAFETY AWARD

Motor Traffic. Association - Retains Cup for Second Year.

The Indiana Motor Traffic Association has retained for the Second consecutive year ‘the silver cup awarded in the National Association Safety contest. The cup is given for the best safety campaign conducted by any truck

association in the United States, according to word received here from the national association. During the 12-month contest period, more than 2000 drivers -enrolled in the Indiana association’s campaign drove 170,000,000 miles

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