Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1938 — Page 22

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IT TRAINING

REGISTRATIONS

~ SET AT 60,000

ecreational Work Expan- ~ sion Also Predicted in_ Indiana WPA.

7 WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—An at-

ndance of 60,000 in WPA adult

ohn A. Linebarger, State WPA ed-

ucation director, who is attending a ‘national conference here today. +. A vastly expanded program of 1c] activity likewise is : ed for the State, according to Quentin K. Hartke, State WPA recreation director, who also is attenddng the conference. “Vocational guidance, “adjustment, family living,

vocational home

making, good citizenship and “func-|

tional literacy” will be stressed in|

. the Indiana .adult education pro-|

‘grams, Mr. Linebarger said. literacy,” he

who can

ex-|.

to handle the tools of life in the| modern world, such as reading books | =

‘and newspapers intelligently, writ-|:

ing letters and the like.”

There now are 643 teachers and|:

* others employed in the WPA educa-

» tion division in the State, includ-| % ing the adult education classes and

the 25 nursery schools, Mr. Line-

Aliens Most Eager

Foreign-born illitcrates are the most anxious to learn and make most eager students in the citizen-

~~ ‘ship classes, he declared.

.. “One of our big jobs will be to - teach adults who have lost their employment how to transfer their skills to some other field where. new openings are available,” he asserted. “When they learn that they are

+ ‘capable of performing new tasks,

- it gives them a new sense of social

SEN sand civic responsibility.”

- Expansion of the recreational program will include the introduction of “recreational therapy” intd the

state hospitals for mental cases, ac-

cording to Mr. Hartke. . This has been done with consider-

‘able success in New York State by the WPA recreational department

~~ ‘there, he explained.

~~ There are 1500 WPA workers now ‘employed on the Indiana recreation+al program, which is earried on in

+"800 communities and occupies 591

school buildings from one to five ‘nights weekly, he declared. The

WPA has converted 120 vacant + buildings into community centers,

‘he said,

SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR ABDUCTING GIRL

\ BOSTON, Nov. 18 (U. P)— . George E. Nawhall, 24, Winchester truck driver, was under sentence of

- “one and one-half years in a Federal penitentiary today after he

pleaded guilty to a charge of ab-

* @ucting Shirley Smith, 18, a Win-

chester playground instructor, last

summer.

Pe Newhall and Miss Smith were

found in Lexington, N. C., after the girl wrote to a Winchester bank for funds she had there. The truck gariver pleaded guilty to a charge’

Miss Smith nor Newhall’s estranged wife, Mrs. Phyllis Hunter Newhall, ‘was in U. S. District Court when

. sentence was pronounced.

However,

IT WAS THUMB FUN AN JOSE, Cal., Nov. 18 (U. P.) .—

hen Police Sgt. Kenneth Jordan!

8 ed to fingerprint Gabriel Santana, he ran up against a new complication. Santana had two thumbs on each hand, and the fingerprint ecards only had provisions for one. sufficient printing was done to establish that Santana was 8 parole violator on a vagrancy charge. : ;

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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18 (U. P)

and jeered. Her opponent got 193 votes. made Germany a great:force for peace and order in the world,” she said. The audience booed. Her opponent was Vice Admiral E; O. B. S. Osborne, who denied her argument that Herr Hitler had never de-

LONDON, Nov. 18 (U. P.).—Unity Valkyrie Freeman Mitford, 24-year-old daughter of Baron Redesdale, got nine votes last night in a

of Germany. She also got booed “National socialism has

Boy, 14, Sees ‘Boys Town’ and

e to Be Member

~—Fourteen-year-old Johnny Davis

of Jersey City, who achieved the distinction here of being the only boy to run away from home for an orphanage, today was en route back to Jersey City—and the report card that prompted his departure. -

such a hot one when the school grades were handed out last Monday. The previous Saturday he had seen the movie, “Boys Town,” and He decided he had better get on out to Nebraska to join the institution that recently was a motion picture subject. Police picked him up here when a motorist who had given him a lift talked about him to a hotel manager. The manager advised the Detective Bureau and he was located. The Travelers’ Aid Society put Johnny on a train for home last night. .

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FALL FATAL TO HOOSIER RICHMOND, Ind., Nov. 18 (U. P.). —Funeral arrangements were made today for William T. Morton, 79, who died yesterday from injuries suffered in a fall. He was a nephew of Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's Civil War Governor.

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AND 2 OLDUPS ARE REPORTED

Trackless Trolley Operator And Filling Station Crew Robbed.

Two holdups, a robbery and five

| burglaries reported overnight were

being investigated by police today. A masked man armed with a shotgun took $5 in change at a filling station at 885 Virginia Ave. and fled, it was reported. s The manager,

station when ‘the holdup man entered. oe Charles Kennedy, 30, of 1820 N. Harding St., a trackless trolley operator, said an armed man held him up and escaped with from $10

William Dausch, and a clerk, Roy Boone, were in the}

Ss. it. last night. . Dr. Fred Hamilton, 41, of 335 N. East St, a v arian, reported the ‘theft of a $235 diamond ring from his office. | i Helen Jarred, 34, of 915 Broadway, reported the ft of $84 from her home while she was preparing supper. Fo Aye Police reported the attempted theft of 32 cases of cigarets from the C. A. Schrader wholesale grocery house at 101 S. Pennsylvania St., early today. They said. that Howard Egolf, 57, of 1207 ‘W. 30th St., the night wa , frightened the burglar away. William Imel, 24, of 2142 N. Talbott St., reported the theft of $75 worth of clothes and $5 in cash from his apartment. | : Mrs. Eleanor Taylor, 33, of 719 N. California 'St., reported she was standing on the porch of her home

band, when & man struck her and seized her purse containing $10. Police reported that a burglar who had apparently stayed inside the Lido Theater, 785 a i Ave., after it closed last night, took an empty cash drawer out of the box office, then broke a glass door to get out. : : Police reported the attempted theft of 100 old guns from a ne museum at 814 Middle Drive Woodruff Place. They were found stacked on the cellar stair landing, apparently ready to be taken away.

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