Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1937 — Page 18
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Clearing House to Open For Direction of Help to Poor During Yule Season
H. S. King to Lead Bureau's Efforts to Avoid Duplication of Gifts; Donors Asked to Register Names
Of Needy; 7800 Families Aided Last Year.
Individuals and organizations today were urged to file with the In- | §
dianapolis Christmas ‘Clearing House the names of needy persons they planned to aid this yule =xeason. @ The request was made by H. S.)of ‘gifts’ will be avoided if this King, Clearing House chairman | channel is used,” he said. since its founding 25 years ago. The Clearing House, with head“Much duplication in distribution quarters at 113 E. Vermont St., is to | open Monday morning. It was founded in 1912 by the old INSURANCE HOLDINGS Charity Organization Society which by the present
| was succeeded
| Family Welfare Society. HIT ALL-TIME 5 Directs Distribution
He explained that the Clearing House, a welfare institution operated
Leaders Also Report Health withqut profit, is able to direct the | distribution of gifts to the needy Of Nation Improved.
with a smaller number of duplications than organizations and in-
” | dividuals working independently. NEW YORE, Dec. ¥ 2a —An| “More than 7300 families were
all-time record total of life insur-| imum by Americans and] aided last year with a min it, uit in the na-| number wl NE tion's health were noted in ad- | said. oi a i? dl Co month.” dresses prepared for delivery today SADR eg Lce is in no sense at the 31st annual convention of the | | a place appeals should be made for un of Life Insurance Presi- | | aid, : he said. “Tt is entirely an institution for registering the name B i an ee aon of the of persons and families whom Saiz) chairman of the convention, told | agencies, CHS: clubs, schools the 500 delegates that by the end | and other ‘we are. " of the year “Americans will carry | | have decided to help life insurance totaling approximate. | ly $110,000,000.000.” 'MENTONE RESIDENT “This is the largest amount of life insurance over il in United | NAMED BY D. A. R States legal reserve companies,” he | i dsintap— | said, adding that by the end of the| Mrs. F. R. Burns, Mentone, today year life insurance policy holders | assumed her duties as central diswill number approximately 64, 000,- | trict director of the Daughters of 000 the American Revolution. She was Mr. Nollen estimated that legal | elected last night at a dinner-meet-reserve life insurance companies in | | ing in the Columbia Club to sucthis country will have paid out ap- | ceed Mrs. C. A. Woodruff, La Porte. proximately $2,400,000,000 in benefits | by the end of 1937. m=Watch and Jewelry Re get The conclusion that “the country | is enjoying extraordinarily good health” was voiced in an address | prepared by Dr. Charles L. Chris- | tiernin, medical director of the Met- | ropolitan Life Insurance Co. He predicted the “most favorable mor- | tality experience” in seven years for | 1937 and said that “a Saving (OF |" ees————"—_—_—_—_-——— 57,000 lives may ‘be calculated dur-
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Number of C Catholic Aids Still Face Trial. |
BERLIN, Dec. 2 (U. P)—Hans| Kerrl, Reich's Church Minister, announced statistics on immorality trials of Catholic priests, monks and nuns in a speech yesterday at Hagen, Westphalia He said 45 priests, 176 monks and | nuns and 21 employees of Catholic orders without clerical standing had been convicted and sentenced. He said cases were pending against 93 priests, 744 monks and nuns and 118 employees. Cases | quashed or in which the defendants | were acquitted involved 29 priests, | 127 monks and nuns and 32 id ployees.
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