Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1938 — Page 6

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George S. Olive | ,

Seven new directors of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce will take office Jan. 1. They are: oward ‘Griffith, president of thé" Udell Works; D. M, Klausmeyer, general manager | of the * Chevfolet Commercial ody; Disisionn of General Motors; George _ 8. Olive; Paul Richey off Promo- = tion Appraisals, Inc.; James H. Ruddell, vice president and treasurer of the Cemtral Rubber & Supply Co.; Edward Zink, Eli Lilly & Co. sales manager, and _ Joseph Daniels, attorney. :

SPUD-SPURNER IS JAILED

FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 15 (U. P.) —Heinrich Schmidt was sen‘tenced to six weeks in prison today for refusing a job digging potatoes, iven him by a labor exchange, and nding himself “another and easjer job.” \

H. T. Griffith

Joseph] Daniels

Paul Richey

D. M. Klausmeyer

James Ruddell

Edward Zink

STATE MAYORS TO MEET HERE

Indiana Municipal League Calls Conclave Tomorrow On Legislative Plans.

- Indiana's 101 mayors {have been|:

invited to participate ih a confer-

League at the Claypool Hotel at 2 Pp. m. tomorrow. Possibilities of introducing the League's legislative program inthe Legislatures will be considered. Telegrams. were, sent to mayors and to town officials yesterday by Mayor W. Vincent Youckey, Crown Point, secretary of he League. The legislative - program to be considered centers around the “ home rule” demand of the League; which seeks ‘greater autonomy gor ‘Hoosier municipalities. : Meanwhile, more than a score of Indiana mayors have accepted the invitation of John (K. Jennings, State WPA administrator, to attend .a conference tomorrow on municipal work relief problems, a

Similar to Last Week's

The conference. according to Mr. Jennings. will be similar to one held last week with newly elected Re-

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Doctor s Will. Leaves Burp To Poster: ty

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 15 (U. P)~The| will of Dr. Arthur J. McLean, brain spe‘cialist, filed foil probate today bequeathed: | “To 95 per cent of Portland's medical practitioners and their ethics, and the whole local organized medical profession, a lusty, rousing oeich. “To Portland's thieving pa- . tients, the' haphazard care they will receive for their chiseling “‘tawdriness. “To my name, oblivion. I specifigally forbid its use or association in any prospective fund, memorial, scholarship or trust of any nature. I desire that Dr. Warren Hunter perform the necropsy; that there be no funeral service of any . sort: that the 11th stanza of Swinburne's ‘Garden of Proserpine’ and the entire ‘Thantopisis’ of Bryant .be read aloud over my: 90%y by a lay person; = that | cremated body's ashes Be en by. a paid employee on the waters of the Straits of San Juan de Fuca.” . Dr: McLean: died Dec. 7 in an automobile accident. The estate, exceeding $100,000, went to his widow. His library was given to the University of Oregon Medical School. =

publican State Representatives. Those who have already .signified " their intention of alieneing the parley, Mr. Jennings said, ar Dr. E "V. Bull, ras Thomas L. Cooksey, Craw a Conrad Kellner, Rensselaer; Robert | Ray, Gas City; R. W. Castle, Con-| nersville; arl F. Barney, Marion; | John R. Britten. Richmond; Harry | _E. DeMoss, Alexandria; W. Slough, Jasonville; Homer G. Vater, | Jeffersonville; James A. Brown, Co-, lumbia City: City; _ J. Bufkin, New

J. A. Broman, Plymouth; Sam | Castle; John W. | Charles A.! Eviston-Attica;. ira J. Wilson. Mun- . cie, and George M. Bonham, El‘wood.

WPA Rolls in Indiana Show Decrease

Times Spee inl

CANADA SENDS FOOD or. TO DROUGHT SECTIONS

REGINA, Sask., Dec. 15 (U. P.).— More than $300,000 worth of foodstuffs, gathered from almost every section of Canada, is being sent to Saskatchewan for disgribution

Oliver G. Gist, Union | {among needy families in'the drought

areas;

Apples from British Columbia,

| beans, cheese and fruits fram On-|"

tario, and Quebec, fish from Nova Scotia and potatoes from New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, are being rushed by rail under federal government superThe distribution of the food will

i be handled by the Saskatchewan de-

TWO CLUBBING DEATHS AT ASYLUM (LUM PROBED

IONIA, Mich. Dec. 15 (U. P)—| State Hospital officials sought today to determine what caused Reps)

McNeary, 37-year-old patient, to go| berserk, club two inmates to death:

| with the leg of a chair and seriously pos a guard.

McNeary, a dangerous paranoic suffering from. delusions of persecution, ‘killed Stanley Krasowski with a single blow ang so severely {clubbed Leon Cantor, 36, another inmate, that he died last night without regaining consciousness. William Jorgensen, 22, an attendant, 'also was Beaten but will recover.

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By Science Service IRVIN, Pa., Dec. 15.—A giant new group H ef steel finishing plants, equippftl with the latest in equipment for turning out a wide variety of finished steel products, the backbone of an industrial nation, was formally opened today here by the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. a U. S. Steel| subsidiary. Marking the most ambitious undertaking in U. S. Steel's expansion program following the shutting down of obsolescent plants

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AID FOR COTTON:

AREAS DRAFTED

U. S. Commissioners for Corn and Wheat Also Suggested.

$7 NX

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 15 (U. P.). —Senator John. H. Bankhead (D. Ala.) today outlined a legislative program designed to.aid the cotton

farmer and reduce the Joan surplus. Author of the Cotton. Control Act, Senator Bankhead told delegates to the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federa-

tion he also would recommend that

Congress create a cotton commissioner to look after problems of the South's - largest crop and said he

$110,000,000 to be derived’

Y, DEC. 15, 1038 was willing to_spensor similar offie cials to represent the corn and wheat areas of the North.’ His plan called for the sale of from four million to five million bales ‘of the present 10-million-bale surplus held by the Government— approximately: one-third of the “normal 12-million-bale- yield on the allotment plan.” Receipts from the sale at current market prices - would be given to those 1939 cote ton producers who agreed to plant only two-thirds of their 1938 acreage to cetton. : He said that among the funds al=

ready appropriated and which could be used as credits to balance the Government loan account were the

1$86,000,000 set aside under the re=

lief bill for the cotton price adjust= ment in 1939 and $70,000,000 to either from. the Adjustment Act or some addifional levy for continuing pay-

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ST. JOSEPH, Mich, -Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Mrs. Fern Patricia Dull resumes from the witness stand to-

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TOLEDO, O., Dec: 15 (U. P.).— Lireat Lakes ports have received more than 20,000 tons of potash . from Germany and France this “year. “The shipments included a cargo to be used on Ohio, Indiana and Illinois farms for corn and

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