Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1938 — Page 17

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300 Historians Meet Here Tomorrow for

Three-Day Sessions,

Nation’s Story From Earl

y to Present Times Will Be

Reviewed at Forums of Mississippi

: Valley Unit’

s Conference.

Three hundred Midwestern historians are to meet here {omorrow for sessions of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association’s 31st annual con-

ference. The nation’ history from early authorities at meetings starting at 10 a. m. and continuing through Saturday morning. Speakers will include Purdue and Indiana University faculty members. Governor Townsend will welcome the visiting association members at a noon-luncheon Friday at thef Claypool Hotel. Most of the forum sessions are to be held at the Claypool. The Teachers’ section of the Association and the American Society of Church History are co-operating in the three-day meeting.

U. S. Aid Is Study Topic

The first discussion session will be on “Government Aid to Historical Research” under the chairmanship of Paul M. Angle, Illinois State Historical Society. At that Torum Prancis S. Reynolds will speak on the National Park Service. An association executive committee meeting is to be held at 2 p. m. to be followed by the second and third conference sessions. The afternoon meeting will cover “The Beginnings of the American Regime in the Old Northwest.” Speakers are to include: L. C. Helderman of Washington and Lee University; John D. Barnhart, Louisiana State University, and Milo M. Quaife of the Detroit Public Library. At 2:30 p. m. a forum is to be held to discuss “The Problems of the South in Relation to Other Sections.” The meeting is to be under the direction of Howard K. Beale, University of North Carolina.

Dinner at Claypool

The annual association dinner is to be held at 7:30 p. m. in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel. The dinner is to be presided over by Prof. Albert L. Kohlmeier of Indiana University. The principal address will be delivered by Dr. Clarence E. Carter, association president, who will speak on “The United States and Documentary Historical Publication.” A meeting qn “Education and Reform,” presided over by Dr. Louise B. Dunbar of the University of Illinois, will open Friday's session. A paper on “Was Robert Dale _ Owen a Reformer?” will be read by Richard W. Lecpold of Harvard University. Other Friday sessions will cover such topics as “Modern Political Leaders,” “Western Folkways and . Speech,” and “American International Relations.” The final day session will open with a joint meeting of the association and the American Society of Church History. The association will then join forces in a conference with its own Teachers’ Section. The first joint meeting will be directed by Charles Lyttle of the Meadville Theological School, Chicago. The second meeting with the Teachers’ Section will feature talks by Paul Seehausen of Shortridge

High School and Charles H. Money.

of Washington High School.

ROOT STOPS PLUNGE CLEVELAND, April 27 (U. P.)— Mrs. Ruth Burke suffered only from shock when her dress caught on a projecting tree-root, halting halfway her plunge down a 60-foot cliff.

to present days is to be reviewed by

LOCAL BANKERS ARRANGE PARTY

400 Are Expected at Annual Dinner-Dance at L A.C. Tomorrow.

More than 400 bank and trust company employees of Indianapolis and central Indiana are expected to attend the second anual dinnerdance of the Indianapolis chapter of the American Institute of Banking tomorrow night at the Indianapolis Athietic Club. Herman B. Wells, Indiana University president, and several Indi-

to be honor guests, Thomas B. Montgomery, chapter president, announced. Dr. Harry C. Sauvain, University investment research bureau director, is to be principal speaker at the dinner. - President Wells is scheduled to discuss the growth of the A.I B. Delegations of bank employees from other cities who have been attending classes of the Indianapolis chapter at the University’s Extension Division Center here have. been invited. to attend the dinner-dance. Plans for expansion of next year’s classes are to be announced at the dinner.

INDIANA T0 JOIN IN N. Y. WORLD'S FAIR

Arrangements Committee to Be Selected.

Plans were being formulated today for Indiana's participation in the 1940 New York World's Fair. After a meeting with Indiana businessmen, Governor Townsend said he would appoint an IndianaNew York World's Fair Committee. « The meeting was held yesterday at invitation of Arthur V. Brown, Indiana National Bank and the Union Trust Co. president. Governor Townsend said, “I am ready to do anything I can in an official capacity to further the interests of Indiana through an ex‘hibit at the New York World's Fair.” He added he would confer with State Highway Commission and Conservation Department officials to see if those departments can give financial assistance to an exhibit.

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5 AT ANDERSON HELD IN LOOTING OF STORE

* ANDERSON, April 27 (U..P.).— Five Anderson residents, returned here from Louisiana, today faced charges of conspiracy to commit a felony and grand larceny in .connection with the theft of merchandise at the Joe Albert general store. Those held are: Albert's wife, Francis, 25; Jack Roach, 21; his wife, Bertha, 18; Juanita Weaver, 17, and James. Mears, 22.

PAUL BARTLETT GETS AWARD FOR CHEMICAL WORK

Shortridge ~Graduate Will Receive Society’s $1000 Prize.

Dr. Paul Doughty Bartlett, Shortridge - High School. graduate and Harvard University assistant professor, today had been named winner of the $1000 American Chemical Society prize in pure chemistry for 1938. ‘Dr. Bartlett, who- is 30, is to receive th eaward at the 96th meeting of the society at Milwaukee in September. - He is the son .of Prof. George Bartlett, former Purdue University faculty member. His mother lives at West Lafayette. After graduation from Shortridge, Dr. Bartlett was employed for a year in. the Indianapolis Water Co. research laboratories.’ He was graduated cum laude from Amherst College in 1928 and received M. A. and Ph. D. degrees at Harvard.

The award, announced at New|.

York, cited Dr. ‘Bartlett's “notable progress in the important borderline field between organic and physical chemistry.” He has received wide recognition for his work in terpene chemistry, concerned with volatile oils produced by distillation of plants, and in organic magnesium compounds.

SWINDLER IS SENTENCED

LA PORTE, April 27 (U.. P.) —E. C. McPherson, 47, of Indianapolis, who worked a rural directory swindle in three Midwest states, was

‘sentenced to six months at the State

Penal Farm and fined $25 yesterday

by Judge Wirt Worden on charges

of obtaining money under false pretenses. He sold advertising in a

srural directory which ..was' never

published.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES 10 YEARS GIVEN FOR

THEFT OF 25°CENTS |

: PERU, April 27 (U. P.).—A scntence of 10 to 20 years was received for the theft of 25 cents by Leroy McIntosh, 23, of Kokomo who was convicted for robbery by Circuit Judge Hal C. Phelps. Two Peru couples charged that McIntosh and three companions, armed with pistols, held them up early Sunday. and. stole 25 cents.

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attempted hold up of Ernest Perry, 54 of Peru. Two men, allegedly members of the gang who were arrested at Kokomo for robbery of a filling station, are in jail here.

FOUND DEAD IN SHED ' Marion Wilson, 60, of 345 S. Randolph St., was found dead, hanging by a clothesine in a shed at the rear of his home today.

SCHOOL COUNCIL PARLEY MAY 28

Fifty Groups Further Plans To Perfect Indiana Education Work.

. Plans for a conference May 28 of | -

representatives of 50 educational groups to perfect the Indiana Council on Education are to be made at a meeting tomorrow in the. office of Floyd I. McMurray, State Public Instruction : Department tendent.

Those planning to attend include Mr. McMurray, Charles O. Williams, Indiana State Teachers’ Association secretary, and Henry Le Smith," In-

superin- ,

diana University education department dean. : Created Saturday at a meeting here of 11 Indiana educators, the “supercouncil” was designed to “coordinate policies of all education .| organizations.” Karl V. Ammerman, Broad Ripple High School principal, is chair-* man of the May 28 conference. At

the conference, delegates are to dis-

cuss operation methods.

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