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EXPERTATP.T. PARLEY MAPS CHILD SAFETY

Parents Told to Teach Caution Against Traffic Perils.

Q. AND A. SESSION HELD

Resolution on Survey of Alcohol and Narcotics Is Offered.”

VOLUME 49—NUMBER 35

‘Houtrage’

Gable’s Accuser Says ‘’E Must Tyke Care Of ’is Own.’

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By United Press

OS ANGELES, April 21.—The

Government produced witnesses

today to prove that Clark Gable was a lumberjack in Washington 15 years ago when Mrs. Violet Wells Norton says he was seducing her in her cottage in Billercay, Essex. Mrs. Norton claims the actor is the father of her daughter, Gwendoline. Federal Judge George Cosgrave today denied a motion for a directed verdict of acquittal. Mae West was expected to become today’s star witness for the prosecution. She, like other figures in the movie colony, received mail and

The Indiana Ccngress of Parents | and Teachers this afternoon went into a question-answer session on the troublesome aspects of its basic problem—children. Dr. Ada Hart Arlitt, University of Cincinnati chiid psychologist and National P.-T. A. adult education chairman, dealth individually with the questions of a large group of the 600 or more delegates who today continued a three-day convention in the Claypool Hotel. During the morning session, resolutions on legislative and policy matters were considered and officers were elected. Dr. Joseph M.

other communications from Mrs. Norton and Jack L. Smith, a private detective, whom the Government alleges were using the mail to defraud in efforts to get money from Gable. Mrs. Norton listened to Gable testify yesterday and then, in rich cockney accents, expressed what she said was her profound indignation.

nN —3 n # IT'S a blinkin ’houtrage,” she said. “That's what it is, that a mother ’as to hendure this in defense of ’er own rights and the rights of ’er hoftspring. I'll see that he tykes care of ’is own.” The 47-year-old kuxom house-

Artman, Chicago, national P.-T. A. | character chairman, is to speak at a banquet tonight.

Question—Answer

Dr. Arlitt’s session went something like this: : Q@ (By a pareni)—Isn’t it bad to teach fear of traffic as a means of keeping children safely out of the streets. A—Yes. You should teach them to be cautious. A good way is to take their hand on crossing a street and have them look both ways. Q—How can I make my child eat? A—There are -50 reasons why children will not eat. They are too involved for casual discussion. First thing to do always is to have the child examined by a physician. @—Are nursery schools good for children? A—Yes. Much progressive education has comes out of nursery schools. In a good nursery school, the teacher fincs the environment

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wife's double chins trembled as she

' spoke.

The movie idol denied that he ever was in England; that he ever had seen Mrs. Norton until he came to court; that he knew her daughter Gwendoline; that he ever used the name Frank Billings. When the movie star walked into the courtroom yesterday Mrs. Norton cried out: “That's ‘im; that’s ‘im. It's Frank Billings.” The jury comprising 12 middleaged men, listened with interest while Gable said that at the time Mrs. Norton was having her alleged romance with Frank Billings he was a lumberjack in Washington.

PLAYGROUND'S

suited to the’ individual child and | then puts him in that environment. | Q—What pressing problems have the city parents? A—First, that the | child is underfoot and gets too much | supervision. Children would do well to play without supervision in a safe place for as long as two to three hours. Second is the matter of health for the child, a tendency to lack of exercise. Many parents take the child for a walk, which is the least natural thing for the child. The child should have a sandpile, or blocks, or even smooth mill ends to play with for exercise. Q—Should I take my child downtown often. A—It is overstimulating for the chila and bad. Sunday Auto Ride

@—1Is a Sunday auto ride a good thing. A—Just merely seeing the landscape is no sport for a child and it is punishment for them to have to sit still. A picnic is a fine thing. Q—How many rules should a child be required to observe. A—Enough to make a satisfactory living compromise with the rest of the family. @—What about. spanking? A— (Turn to Page Three)

BOB BURNS

Says. April 21.—A

strong woman who will not only be a wife but a pardner is a mighty handy thing to have around the house. ; There's many a successful busi- | ness man who wouldn't have amounted to a hill of beans if he hadn't had that kind of wife. I've. got uncle my Uncle Dilly— who is looked up to by everybody down home as a : smart man, but I happen to know that he never made a decision in his life without first consultin’ his wife. I'll never forget the day they was married. He couldn't make up his mind then without gettin’ al little bit of help from her. The preacher asked him, “Will you take this woman as your lawful wedded wife?” and Uncle Dilly started to hem and haw and sputter. Then Aunt Flutey cut in and says, “Sure [you will—didn't we thrash that all out last night?”

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PROSPECTS DIM

Mayor Tells West Side Group Budget Won't Allow New: Field.

Twenty delegates from the West Side Neighborhood Council today appealed to Mayor Kern for establishment of a playground in the Haughville area. ; The Mayor, declared himself in sympathy with the plea, but said that inasmuch as the playground budget for the year had been prepared he did not think the City could provide the funds necessary. J. L. Dunn, Council president and spokesman for the delegation, agreed that in that area there already is a 95-acre park, but pointed out that to reach it children are required to go a distance of about a mile and that the walk is hazardous. He asked that the playground be cstablished by the City in a 30-acre tract which it would have to acquire between 10th and 16th Sis. and Ketchum St. and Kessler Blvd. The Mayor pointed out that playgrounds for the City are an imperative and important need, but

| cited that one of his first acts after

taking office was to approve acquisition of the park site in that district. ] Mayor Kern assured the delegation that in the future there might be seme hope of providing funds to fulfill the request.

HEFTY BLOW FOILS

PURSE SNATCHER|

A would-be purse snatcher, who got nothing but a hefty wallop on the jaw for his trouble, was hunted by police. today. He encountered Miss Mabel Robertson, 34, of 901 N. Beville Ave. last night. Miss Robertson not only retained her purse in the scuffle but tore loose with a ‘haymaker” which went a bit wild but landed with enough effect to-send the young man scurrying- through a vacant lot without any loot. .

VALLEE IS CONVICTED

OF ASSAULT CHARGE

By United Press BOSTON, April 21.—A Municipal Court judge today convicted Rudy Vallee, radio crooner, and his publicity agent, Harry Paul, of assault

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on a newspaper photographer.

FIRST SERIOUS RIFT IN DIVINE CULT APPEARS

Negro Evangelist Argues With ‘So-Called Wife’ Over Property.

BREAK AFTER STABBING

“Faithful Mary’ Refuses to Give Husband Deed To Hotel.

Ly United Press NEW YORK, April 21.—The first serious schism in the amazing cult which holds that Father Divine is God appeared today when Faithful Mary, whom the Negro evangelist calls his “so-called wife,” admitted they had broken in a dispute over | property to which she holds the deeds. od Faithful Mary, a middle-aged mulatto who often has said that she led a sinful life until she met Father Divine, «is technically the owner of much of the vast properties of the sect. In her name are scores of “heavens,” peace missions, “promised land” farms, dress shops and “glory-be-to-Father Divine restaurants.” Next to the pudgy little Negro, who is regarded as a new { messiah by thousands of Negrces {and whites, Faithful Mary is the most, powerful figure in the cult. | She admitted the disagreement | from a hotel she owns in High Falls, IN. Y. It came, she said, soon after |a disturbance Monday night at one |of the “heavens” in which Harry | Green, a white contractor of Wee"hawken, N. J, as stabbed and beaten | when a process-server friend of his | tried to serve Father Divine.

Demanded Hotel Deed

| Before the evangelist life the city, {and while police were looking for him in connection with the stabbing, there was a conference at which he demanded that Faithful | Mary turn over the deed to the High | Falls Hotel and 165 acres of prop- | erty surrounding it. “He tried to get that away from | me,” she said. “but I refused. I left town right after.” Although in countless confessions at meetings and in Divine publications she has sworn that she! considered the evangelist as God and that he had cured her of “whisky and loose-living,” Faithful Mary sneered at this belief today. ‘He Ain't God’ “He ain't God,” she said. “He's just a man. He ain't no more God than you're God.” An attorney for Father Divine denied that his client had promised to surrender today in connection with the ctabbing. The attorney, A. Arthur Madison, added that police had told him there were no charges against Father Divine although Mr. Greene, is in Harlem Hospital with internal injuries and a body wound. Police insisted, however, that Mr. Madison himself had infermed them the pudgy little Negro had telephoned from his farm, “The Promised Land,” at Stone Ridge, N. Y., that he would appear at the District Attorney's office today for questioning. “I didn't hear from Father and I don’t know where he is,” Mr. Madison said. “I talked to the police and they sy there is no charge against him. How foolish the police would look if they locked up a man for nothing.”

FARMER DIES IN FIRE By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. April 21.— Levi Davis, 66, living near here, was burned to death today in a fire which destroyed a barn on his farm.

By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa. April 21. — Senator Lewis (D. Ill), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Pennsylvania State Legislature today that the United ' States must declare a policy under which “there shall be no further lending of money to foreign nations.” He contended that loans of American money to European nations made it difficult for the United States to remain neutral in event of conflict abroad.

‘Accused of Abandonment in

WEDNESDAY, APRIL

Saxa-phony ‘Blows’ With

2 Instruments

A man who had plenty of brass of his own, succeeded yesterday in building up the reed section of a hypothetical orchestra through trick, deceit, fleetness and general journeymen rascality, police were told today. Paul Rinne, proprietor of the Indiana Music Co., 133 E. Ohio St., told officers he received a telephone call yesterday from a man who said he was a local band leader. Mr. Rinne said he was asked to lend a saxophone to the musician for. the evening. A short time later a man brought | a note requesting the instrument be given to the bearer. About 5 p. m. another phone call came. The band was short another instrument and would Mr. Rinne please lend another saxophone? The same man returned, this time in a taxicab. Mr. Rinne insisted on accompanying him back to the band leader's office. : Arriving at the office, the man got out of the cab and ran east on Washington St. with the instrument. Mr. Rinne said he caught the man behind the Columbia Club. The man then asked to be allowed to send a telegram. : Mr. Rinne told police he took the man to the telegraph office where he broke lose and escaped.

REQUESTS POST FOR GREENLEE

Minton Asks President to Give Hoosier $10,000 Coal Commission Job.

Times Special WASHINGTON, April 21.—Senator Minton has requested President Roosevelt to appoint Pleas Greenlee to one of the seven $10,000 commis-

sioner posts to be established under the new Guffey Coal Control Act, it was learned today. While Scnator VanNuys stated that he had not joined in such a request, it is understood he would approve any position which the junior Senator may obtain for the former McNutt organization chief and one-time patronage dispenser. Mr. Greenlee left the State House to conduct an unsuccessful race for

the Democratic nomination for Gov- |

ernor. He was supported by Senator Minton and since recommended by him as Indiana Works Progress Administration. The latter post went to John K. Jennings, then Deputy Administrator at Evansville.

JOHN D. M. HAMILTON IS SUED BY HIS WIFE

Maintenance Action.

By United Press TOPEKA, Kas., April 21.—Mrs. John D. M. Hamilton today filed suit for separate maintenance against the chairman of the National Republican Committee. She asks continued custody of their two children. : Mrs. Hamilton charged abandonment, gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. . The children are Dan, 20, a student at the University of Kansas, and Laura, 12, in junior high school here. Mr. Hamiiton is believed in Washington. He has 30 days in which to answer the suit. In Washington Mr. Hamilton said

Ban on Loans to Powers Urged by Senator Lewis

he would not contest the suit.

By United Press MADRID, April 21.—The Rebels loosed a terrific light artillery bombardment on Madrid today, killing at least 32 persons and wounding 60. Deadly shrapnel shells, apparently fired from anti-aircraft. guns, sprayed the main thoroughfares.

By United Press ; BAYONNE, Southern France, April 21.—The British freighters MacGregor and Hamsterley got up steam today and were reported to be preparing to run the Spanish

Rebel blockade tonight into Bilbao

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AX HINTED FOR 560,000,000 FLOOD AID BILL

Roosevelt - Studies Proposal As First Task in His Economy Drive.

BASED ON ARMY REPORT

Omnibus Measure Result of Recent Activity Due to Ohio Disaster.

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 21.—President Roosevelt's first task in his budget economy drive, it was learned today, is the consideration of a new authorization of more than $600,000,000 for flood control projects, approved by the War Department. He faced also, a drive launched by a group of House liberals seeking a work-relief bill carrying $2,500,000,000, or $1,000,000,000 more than he proposed. Eight leaders of separate House “blocs,” headed by Rep. Maury Maverick (D. Tex.) decided at a conference to circulate a petition for support. In line with the move Rep. Jere Voorhis (D. Cal.), introduced a $2,500,000,000 relief bill in the House. It was expected that the proposed authorization which is in addition to a $550,000,000 authorization ap= proved by Congress last year will be reduced sharply as a result of White House study. The new omnibus flood control proposal is one of several congressional projects calling for some $1,000,000,000 in new spending which must be killed or. curtailed if the economy drive is to reach objectives of yesterday's Presidential budget declaration. The flood measure is up for White House study at a moment when legislators are informally discussing a flat automatic cut of 10 per cent in all appropriations at this session. It was learned that Army Engineers have completed the proposed omnibus bill containing recommendations for scores of projects for flood control. Informed congressional sources said that Maj. en. Edward M. Markham, chief of Army Engineers, had attached his approval to the huge proposal and dispatched the measure to the White House for checking and possible economies. The White House has sent it to the National Resources Board. The bill, considerably larger than the similar measure passed by Con(Turn to Page Three)

‘COOLER WEATHER

~ MAY FOLLOW RAIN

-LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a. m... 4 10mm... Yacm... 5% 11 h.*m... 8 a. m... 60 12 (Noon) 9a m.. 62 1p m,.,,

62 61 60 60

Keep the raincoats on today, then change them to topcoats for tonight and tomorrow if you want to be prepared in accordance with the predictions of the Weather Bureau. i The bureau says: 2 “Cloudy and cooler tonight, followed by fair tomorrow.”

W. FORBES MORGAN DEAD IN OHIO CTY

Ex - Democratic Treasurer Was Kin of First Lady.

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By United Press COLUMBUS, O.. April 21.—W. Forbes Morgan, president of the Distilled Spirits Institute and former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, died early today of heart disease. He had collapsed just before midnight at a hearing of the Ohio House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. He was 57. : He was born in New York City nd was a nephew of Banker J. P. Morgan and a relative by marriage of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“Afraid to Love,” The Times’ new daily serial, begins today on Page 22.

| with cargoes of food.

Entered as Second-Class Matter Ind.

INTERURBAN FIRM ASKS T0 ABANDON NONPROFIT LINES

Bowman Elder Requests Superior Court : Order; Declares Labor Troubles Played Part in Cutting System's Income.

at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

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O. K. Put on Wagner Act As It Stands

By United Press : WASHINGTON, April 21.— Organized labor leaders and industrial spokesmen who attended a collective bargaining conference called by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, agreed to delay suggestions for immediate amendment of the . Wagner Labor Relations Act, it was learned today. Almost all of the 30 conferees at the meeting were willing to “hold off” on recommending changes in the law at this ses-. sion of Congress, it was reported. No official stand, however, was taken and no recommendations were made. Miss Perkins called the session as the first of a series of similar meetings to discuss collective bargaining and methods of averting costly industrial strikes. One of the conferees said - that both factions of organized labor and most of the industrial spokesmen had agreed to oppose immediate attempt to enact compulsory arbitration legislation.

HINT AF. OFL RIFT ON OUSTER

Council’s Delay in Calling Parley on C. I. 0. Gives Rise to Rumor.

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 21.—Delay by the | American Federation of Labor executive council in calling a special convention to expel unions affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization’ today started reports of opposition to the move, The federation high command, after all-day sessions Monday and yesterday, failed to act on a proposal to call federation unions into special session within a month. William - Green, federation president, said that the council ‘would continue its sessions tomorrow. Speedier action on the special convention had been expected. Mr. Green and John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chairman, met face to face yesterday for the first time since last fall at an industrial-labor conference called by Secretary of Labor (Turn to Page Three)

MANUAL COACH AND TEACHER DIES HERE

Ray Ankenbrock Graduated From Purdue U.

Ray Ankenbrock, Manual Train-

ing High School science teacher and track coach, died at 11 a. m. today at his home, 3719 N. Ruckle St. was 48. - Mr. Ankenbrock, a native of Indianapolis, had been a teacher at the South Side school for 11 years.

Ind, and in Iowa. . He. was a graduate of Purdue University, class of 1913, and in 1934 received ‘his masters degree at Butler University. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta. .Mr. Ankenbrock is survived by two sisters, Miss Charlotte Ankenbrock, with whom he made his home, and Mrs. Sidney Robertson, also of Indianapolis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

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Merry-Go-R'd Movies .ioees Mrs. Ferguson 13 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Music . 23 Obituaries ... 4 Pegler’ cseses. 14 Pyle 1isveress 13 Radio ... 23 Scherrer .. 13 Serial Story.. 22 Short Story.. 22 Society «..... 11 Sports 16 State Deaths. 4 Wiggam ... 23

Books Bridge Broun .ssseese Comics

13 10 14 veeven 22 Crossword «22 Curious World 23 Editorials . 14 Fashions v: 10 Financial 18 Fishbein 13 Flynn 13 Forum 14 Grin, Bear It 22 In Indpls..... 3 Jane "Jordan.. 10 Johnson 14

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PRICE THREE CENTS

Receiver Says Some

Bowman Elder, receiver,

profitable,” the petition read,

RUNAWAY PERU GIRL FOUND IN CHICAGO

By United Press : CHICAGO, April 21.—Celia Russo, 19-year-old girl who ran away from her Peru, Ind. home because her father didn't like her boy friend, was being cared for today at the police matron’s quarters. When Celia's father, a grocer, tried to spank her, she left home Sunday and hitch-hiked to Chicago “to see the sights and get a job.” She was found last night sleeping in a hallway on the South Side. She had no money or extra clothing. Police did not hold her except to give her needed food and rest.

COUNTY GETS OPTION ON INFIRMARY LAND

Site Adjoins Land at Julietta Hospital.

County Commissioners today had signed an option to purchase 160 acres‘of land for $16,000 on Highway 52 in Warren Township, for the proposed new County Infirmary at the Julietta Hospital site. The land adjoins the present Julietta grounds and would be acquired by the Commissioners as additional farm land to be cultivated by the infirmary management. Signing the option was the first step taken by Commissioners {oward transfer of the infirmary from its present Tibbs Ave. site to Julietta. Plans for the transfer were

He | made possible by a legislative act

| which’ provided that the State take | over patients in Julietta in exchange for the present Tibbs Ave. site. Commissioners plan to build an addition to and eventually modernize the present Julietta structure.

CHICAGO IS SHAKEN BY FIVE BOMBINGS

Labor Trouble Blamed for Night Explosions.

By United Press CHICAGO, April 21.—Five bombings, causing more than $12,500 damage and endangering nearly a score of persons, shook Chicago and

two suburbs last night and early today. Police said they believed the blasts originated in recent labor troubles. The explosions partially destroyed three residences and the Lake Shore Country Club and tore a gaping hole in the roof of the Kedzie Creamery Co. The Chicago homes of Anton J. Imhahn and F. J. Landvogt, officers of the International Union of Operating Engineers, were targets. The Wilmette home of Perry L. Smithers, head of an insurance brokerage firm,

also was bombed.

DAYTON ROUTE MAY BE FIRST TO GO

Units May Continue

Operation and Provide Revenue; Jurist ¢ Asks Detailed Information.

today asked a Superior Cpur

order to abandon and liquidate such of the nine units of the Indiana Railroad traction system as are “unprofitable.” \ “During the closing period of 1936, labor troubles de% veloped, which, together with other unforeseen eventuali=’ ties and factors beyond the control of the receiver, have not only rendered the operation of the system asa whole une

“but have created a situation

which, regardless of any effort which the receiver may

*make, offers no reasonable hope or prospect for future

improvement.” Judge Herbert E. Wilson said he will not act on the petition until detailed information has been presented to his court. He said the first unit to be abandoned probably would | be the interurban line from Indianapolis to Dayton, O. by way of Newcastle and Richmond.

438 Miles of Tracks

Other units in the system, which employed 1400 under the receivership and which operates over 438 miles of track, are Indianapolis to Terre Haute; Indianapolis to Pt, Wayne, by way of Kokomo and Peru; Indianapolis to Ft. Wayne, by way of Anderson and Muncie; Muncie to Newcastle; Indianapolis to Louisville; the street car and bus systems in Terre Haute, Anderson and Richmond. : The petition said that Mr. Elder became receiver of the system, June 27, 1933, when it was operating at an annual loss of approximately $400,000. It said that in August, 1935, the system showed a profit which was gradually ine creased. : On Nov. 18, 1936, an arbitration board granted employees a-20 per cent increases in wages after demands made by the Amalgamated Associgtion of Electrical Railway Employees. A month later, Mr. Elder filed a petition in Superior Court asking an abandonment order, effective Jan. 9. Shortly before that order would have been actionable, 90 per cent of the employees signed an agreement to’ accept a 12%; per cent wage hike. A month ago further salary trou ble resulted in strikes which have halted the operation of interurban lines between Indianapolis, Andere son and Muncie, between Indiane - apolis, Newcastle and Cambridge City, and the city transportation system in Anderson.

Wages Sapped Profits

Mr. Elder said: “The wage demands of the strike ers have been the final straw that broke the camel's back. The previous wage increases to all employees cf the receivership, which amounted to nearly the entire operating profit of 1936, coupled with loss of revenue and c(xtraordinary expense occa= sioned by floods, strikes and other conditions beyond the receiver's control, have made the outgo exe ceed the income for 1937. “As a receiver, under bond to the Court, I cannot permit the assets of the trust to be dissipated. For nearly four years, every effort was made to continue operations, and so long as there was co-operation from all parties concerned in the operations, we made = considerable progress. There are only two alternatives; to sit by and watch the assets drain away, or to plug the leaks by aban= doning unprofitable operations. The latter course is the only logical one.” Mr. Elder pointed out that it may not be necessary to abandon all the units of the system, but that certain: of them may continue to operate at a profit. He said he would presens to the court from time to time de= tailed information for the court te determine which should and which: should not be abandoned.

DIES IN COLUMBUS

Funeral service for W. Forbes Morgan, who died last night in Columbus, O., will be held Friday

in Washington.

M’NUTTS STOP OFF AT

Former Governor McNuti{, Mrs.

HONOLULU . o . »

? .—Acme Photo. McNutt and their daughter, Louise,

(right), are pictured aboard the, President Hoover as they stopped at

Honolulu, en route to Manila.

Upon arrival, Mr. McNutt will assume

his duties as High Commissioner to the Philippi

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CELEBRITIES ROMP AT BURLESQUE BALL IN GOTHAM |

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Gloria Baker, daughter of

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; the banking family, pictured in demure peasant costume with Robert A. Glaenzer at the Burlesque Ball, the gayest dancing party of New York's “little season.”

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Among the masqueraders was Helen Hayes in a costume reminiscent of the role of Queen Victoria which she is now playing.

Charles MacArthur.

With her is her husband,

PHYSICAL E

DUCATION LEADERS

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Edna Munroe of Indiana University. (left) chats with’ Rosahnd Cassidy, Mills College, (center), and Ruth Atwell, George Washington University, at the National Association of Directors of Physical Education for College Women, confershe in New York. =

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