Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1938 — Page 16

HOMECOMING AT 1.U. WILL START FRIDAY EVENING

Purdue Veterinary Short

Course Will Open Tomorrow.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 17.—Annual homecoming activities, to be held in connection with the Kansas State-Indiana football game Saturday, will get under way here Friday evening with a “Powwow” banquet in the men’s gymnasium. Preceding the banquet, a huge bonfire, traditional signal fire for the Homecoming program, will be lighted in front of the gymnasium. Allen G. Messick, vice president of the General Household Utilities Co. of Chicago, will be toastmaster at the banquet. Two picked freshman teams then will stage the annual Homecoming freshman game at the Field House. The Association of Women Students and the Indiana Union will sponsor a dance to be held in the Union Building after ‘the freshman game. A Law and Medic softball game _ will be held Saturday morning, followed by judging of decorations at fraternity and sorority houses. An alumni guest luncheon will be held at 11:30 a. m. and the football kickoff will be at 2 p. m. After the game, the Union Building will hold open house beginning at 4:30 p. m. The Phi Delta Theta law banquet and initiation, the meeting of the Indiana section of the American Chemical Society and a dance will follow. .

Purdue Veterinary Short Course Announced -

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Oct. 17.—The annual Veterinary Short Course at Purdue University will open tomorrow and continue through Friday. All phases of veterinary work will be discussed. Hog, poultry, small animal and general clinics will be held. Topics to be discussed are calf vaccination for Bang’s disease, Bang's disease control, problems relating to disease .and heredity.

Professor at Franklin To Be Honored

Times Special FRANKLIN, Oct. 17.—Dr. Charles A. Deppe, professor of zoology at Franklin College 27 years, will be honored at a banquet at the annual fall homecoming Saturday night. Dr. R. Chester Roberts, head of the chemistry department, Colgate University, will be guest speaker.

STATE COUNCIL CONVENTION SET:

1500 Expected to Attend Conference Opening

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George D.. Bailey, Detroit, will discuss “Accounting Policies for Inventories,” before the Indianapolis Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants Wednesday night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. A. L. Prickett, professor of accounting at the I. U. School of Business Administration, is program chairman. ;

Dr. Warren H. Gardner will discuss “The Hard of Hearing Child” before the Indianapolis League for the Hard of Hearing at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the clubrooms, 318 Board of Trade Building.

Dr. W. E. Kennedy will discuss planting of indoor and outdoor fall bulbs before the Indianapolis Dahlia. Society at the Brookside Community House at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Dr. A. E. White will talk on methods of storing Dahlia tubers for the winter.

John L. Goldthwaife, an engineer at the Allison Engineering Co., will discuss “Modern Trends in

|Aviation Engines” at the lunch-

eon of the Scientech Club in the Board of Trade Building teday, according to Bert L. Combs.

Robert M. Bowes, president of the Bowes Seal Fast Corp. who returned recently from a business trip to Europe, will speak at noon today before the Service Club in Hotel Lincoln.

Hip Injured in Grid Game

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Robert Cutter, 13 (above), of 1522 N. Rural St., vowed today that he has given up football for the season or at least for a few weeks. He is confined in bed at his home with a dislocated hip received in a game at Brookside Park. Another football victim is Harold Jessup, 20, of 1644 Kelly St., who received a broken right ankle in a game at Gar-

THE CITY

The Indianapolis Bar Association was to hold a memorial meeting in honor of the late Clarence W. Nich-

ols today at the U. S. District Court Room in the Federal Building,

An organization meeting of the Parents Council of Troop 83, Boy Scouts of America, will meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. .The troop is sponsored by the Hayward Barcus Post of the American Legion.

Dr. Christopher B. Coleman, director of the Indiana State Library and secretary of the Indiana

Historical Society was tc speak at noon today before the Indiana University Club luncheon in the Columbia Club.

Dancing can be a rigorous pastime, police reported today. They said Miss Grace Pardue, 24, of 1407

E. Washington St., received a dis-|

located right ankle while dancing at an E. Washington Street ‘tavern Saturday night.

The Sabbath is a poor day for fishing and certainly no time for gold |

fishing, officials of a nurses’ home at 1232 W. Michigan St. told police today. They complained that gold fish have been stolen from the sunken gardens at the home each Sunday for the last several weeks.

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REPORTS DROP IN STATE CORN

Crop 23 Per Cent Lower Than 1937 but Above 10-Year Average.

LAFAYETTE, Oct. 17.—Indiana’s estimated 1938 corn production of 163,904,000 bushels will total about 23 per cent less than the 1937 crop,

|| according to M. M. Justin, Purdue

University’s statistician in co-oper-ation with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. . Despite the drop, this year’s production is 14 per cent higher than

the 1927-36 average, he said. The 1938 oats crop was computed | slat 36,634,000

bushels, 28,208,000 bushels of which were still on Indiana farms on Oct. 1. The average yield was 26 bushels per acre, about a bushel lower than the 10year average. The potato crop, estimated at 4,845,000 bushels, is 90 per cent of last year’s total. Soybeans are expected to produce 6,462,000 bushels, 180,000 bushels more than indicated last month.

Hay Yield Tops Average

Although pasture conditions dropped during September because of aging grass and drier weather, it still was 14 points above average, Mr. Justin reported. The hay crop reached maturity with yields above average, he said. The alfalfa yield was placed at 1.35 tons per acre while all tame hay was computed at 1.41 tons per acre. Hay production is set at 3,098,000 tons, or 50 per cent above the 10year average. : ; Egg. production was considered seasonally high and milk production reflected . good pasture condition, Mr, Justin said. The hired labor

while the demand was less.

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More than 1500. are expected to. attend the 69th annual convention of the Great Council of Indiana,

Improved Order of Red Men, opening tomorrow at the Knights of Pythias hall. Edwin Southern, French Lick, great sachem, will preside. The program includes formation of plans to further the Americanization program adopted at the national convention held here last month. Fraternal and benevolent projects also will be discussed. Charles Levi, Rushville, will be advanced to the office of great senior sagamore. Edwin C. Wilcox, Dayton, great senior sagamore of the Great Council of the United States, will speak representing Edgar C. Levey, San Francisco, great incohonee. Sessions of the Daughters of Pocahontas, Red Men auxiliary, will be held Wednesday.

MINER AMPUTATES FINGERS WITH CHISEL

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 (U. P.). —Hammer-and-cold chisel surgery of Jim Watson, a 65-year-old gold miner from Death Valley, amazed surgeons today. : Watson walked into the emergency hospital and held up one hand. Two fingers were missing. “I amputated them with a hammer and chisel,” he explained. | “That was all I had, and I had to | do it. I got my hand tangled in a | buzz saw. I wanted to know if I! did it right.” Surgeons said Watson did an excellent job.

TRANS-CANADA FLIGHTS MONTREAL, Oct. 17 (U. P.)— A commercial monoplane took off from St. Hubert Airport today westbound on the inaugural flight of a trans-Canada airways express service between Montreal and Vancouver. The Lockheed will pass thz east-bound flight near Winnipeg.

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With the major part of state highway construction and improvement projects completed and de-

tours eliminated, the State Highway Commission’s dfficial detour bulletin will be issued biweekly throughout the winter months, T. A. Dicus, chairman, said today. Bulletins were issued weekly during the summer months when heavy construction was under way. : Mr. Dicus said there were less

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