Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1938 — Page 14

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WPA WORKERS

CARRY PROTESTS TO WASHINGTON

E epreseritalivis From 26

States in Capital to

Object to-Cuts.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P)—!"

: Forty Works Progress Administra- : tion workers from 26 states arrived . in Washington today to protest re-

: lief cuts within 24 hours of an . official anouncement that WPA : rolls declined 45,514 during the week

' '! ended Dec. 10.

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: ¢ conference

5 ifire engines whiz

: Highly educa-

+ WPA Administrator Hopkins an- : nounced yesterday that WPA enroll- * ment was 3,139,045, compared with : the all-time peak of 3,262,669 : reached Nov. 5, 1938. : Hopkins’ announcement provoked

: a vehement ; protest: from David] . . Lasser, president of the Workers’

. Alliance, an organization which he

_ . claims represents 400,000 WPA work-

. ers. “Mr. Hopkins said at: his press last week that no * arbitrary cuts were being made, but . our files are chocked with protests i irom every section of the country,” - Lasser said. * “Hopkins asserted that cuts were . not being made, that workers were ! being dropped only when private in- + dusiry absorbed them, but our in4 formation is to the contrary. : “Either Mr. Hopkins doesn’t know © what he is talking about or he is - kidding the country.” " The 40 delegates of the Workers’ . Alliance planned to interview : Deputy WPA Administrator Aubrey . Williams and other officials. Lasser : said the men and women who will © particpiate in the conferences -are = “typical WPA workers.”

Fund Runs Low

They also will protest current wage i scales, geographical wage differ- © entials, “inadequate” number of

= unjust” labor relations steup % Meoanwhile, evidence:mounted tha: - Congress would have to act early ‘te provide WPA with funds, as - Treasury figures disclosed that the : relief agency probably would run : out of money about Feb. 15. : From March 1 to July 1, 939, . WPA’s operations will be financed “hy a deficiency appropriation. Be---eause of diminishing funds it was : believed that the deficiency appro2 * priation instead will be requested for ¢ the period between Feb. 15 and June’ I 50, the end! of the fiscal year. General optimism prevails at the moment regarding WPA rolls. Hope has been expressed that they would

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‘The other] Government “pump- : priming” agency, the Public Works ! Administration, is expected to ab- : 80 on thousands of WPA enrollees

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MINNESOTA INDIAN "MOUNDS ARE STUDIED

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 15 (U. : P.).—Dr. Lloyd Wilford, head of the : University of Minnesota anthro- : pology department, is studying re- : sults of excavations of Minnesota : Indian mounds in an effort to trace : cultural developments of Minnesota - Indians. | A WPA grant assisted in the . : work, done by Dr. Wilford and four . : students. + At Spring lake in northern : Minnesota, the group often found * mounds in the front yards of hdmes : of more recent Indians. One of the : mounds contained 40 skeletons, of : which one was found in a sitting : position.

: LAW | RESCUES OPOSSUM VINITA, Okla., Dec. 15 (U. P.).— * Night Police Chief Hugh Martin in- = terrupted the “crucifixion” of an * opossum, Pedestrians reported that : a live opossum was being mistreated . and on investigation Chief Martin : found the animal alive, nailed to the : back of a. truck. Two large spikes - were driven through the animal's tail. Chief Martin released the ani- : mal and lectured | the truck owner.

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t drop as low as the record minimum [ = of 1,448,411, established Oct. 2, 19317.

New Swiss Head

State Councillor Phillip Etter, youngest member of the Swiss government, becomes President of Switzerland this month.

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TO MEET TODAY

Noffsinger Will Speak on Education; Two Films To Be Shown.

The Indianapolis Safety Educaition Council was to meet today in the World War Memorial. Guest speakers will be Dr. PF. R. Noffsinger, of Washington, educational corisultant of the American Automobile Association, who will talk on problems in safety education as jelated to courses of study_in safety in schools. Chairmen of safety committees of the various civic organizations: of lIndianapolis and representatives from City high’ schools were to at-

tend. Two safety films will be shown

in the city, inra fe Em polis Council of Parent-Teacher Associations, the Rindergarten Mothers’ Club, public and parochial schools, the Accident Prevention Bureau of the Police De.wieng and the Hoosier Motor Club. Dr. Noffsinger spoke at 10 a. m today on general safety problems before George Washington High School students.

FRENCH LIFER GIVEN TEN EXTRA MONTHS

PARIS, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Armand Spiler, “king of jail breakers,” who is serving a life sentence for murder, has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for destroygovernment property. Spiler, who earned his title by twice escaping from Devil's Island and four times from French prisons, was brought into court and accused of destroying an iron bar in Sante prison on the occasion of

‘| Frederick P. Keppel,

CARNEGIE CORP. AID

By Science Service NEW YORK, Dec. 15—The Carnegie Corp. of New York distributed $3,830,135 “for the diffusion of knowledge” in the United States and the British dominions and colonies m,|during the fiscal year 1937-38, president of the corporation, announced here today. Grants made totaled 224 out of 1329 proposals for aid submitted to the corporation. Recipients of the Carnegie funds included Radcliffe College, Barnard College; Columbia University’s School of Library Service, Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning of the National Research Council, 8 Siiceion University, Phillips Academy, American City Planning Institute, Brookings Institution, Rockford College and Antioch College.

COON OUSTS SQUIRRELS CONNEAUT, O., Dec. 15 (U. P.).— A raccoori took advantage of “squatters’ rights” by taking possession of a squirrels’ nest, in-an oak tree

and a propose] for dividing the city

Holidays Coming!

Make sure you've got a goodly supply of our tasty Family’s Recipe tucked away!

mighty pleasing things said. Well, Our Family’s been

Many’ s the time you’re going to be tickled with your: self over having set aside a plentiful supply of Our, Family’s Whiskey against the coming of the holidays.

‘There’s no such thing

as having too many tasty eats

and drinks on tap. Suppose a bunch of folks show up at your house without so much as ringing you up ahead of time —and you slip to the whole lot of

them the exact same

whiskey as us distillers enjoy

amongst ourselves. I'll tell you you’ll hear some |

his last escape in 1936.

here and refusing to move out. :

I never smelt anything lovelicr than our cellar

at holiday time!

This picture of us toting everything down to the cellar don’t show you half what we’ve got hid down there. There’s so many jars of pickles and jam and soup you got to wiggle your

way sidewise. Harry E. Wilken

at it something over 50 years now, and if our personal recipe weren ’t something pretty extna special, I don’t know what would be!

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