Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1938 — Page 16

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NEW TELEPHONE |

EXCHANGE T0 60 INTOUSE JAN. 7

Distribution of 110,000 Di , rectories to Begin First i |- Of Yeah ©

.. The new “Markers phone exchange will be placed in use Jan. _ W following distribution of 110,000 "new directories, Indiana Bell Telephone officials announced today. The new books, which contain an increase of about 3500. listings, were

sent to the printers this week and will be distributed after Jan. 1, it was said. ; | The new directories are not to be used until 10 p. m. Saturday, Jan. 7, when the new “Market” dial exchange will be placed in operation. The company hare that many

customers already have called new ‘numbers, causing confusion and inconvenience to both subscribers and the company. Joon Compilation pf the new book necessitated almost 46,000 changes and there are approximately 3400 new listings which will raise the total of individual and company names 10

about 82,000. New Data Included

Emergency riumbers will be listed on the cover as befor®. “New data | deemed . helpful to users has been included and every effort has been directed toward making this important section of the new book even moré understandable and legible,” company officials said. { | Because the present directories must be in use until the “cutover,” they will not be collected by the company. | ! After the new exchange is in serv=ice, the old directories should be destroyed to avoid confusion in plac.ing calls, the company said. Main purpose of the new exchange, according to phone officials, is to provide relief in the downtown district. Many rotary lines now . working through the Lincoln-Riley - offices will be transferred to the new exchange and some Drexel lines will be transferred to the Market and Lincoln-Riley offices.

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EXTRA $95,000 IS GRANTED REA

Portion Will Be Used for Defraying Cost of Initial Operations. |

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Times Special } <1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Additional allotments of $96,000 for Rural Electrification Administration projects in| six [Indiana counties were announced today. 1 A $46,000 [grant was made for a

project covering 380 miles in Kosciusko, Fulton and Wabash counties. The original! allotment for the project was $367,000 made last July 7. Approximately 1400 members will be served with electricity by the project, REA officials said. |

Project to Serve 529 _ Another $50,000 was granted to a Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties’ project, which originally received $108,000 Aug. 14, 1937. This project is [expecged to serve 529 members. | |

Part of the added allotments will |

be used to defray expenses connected with initial operations of the project which ¢annot be covered by the construction, loan, officials said. Labor and engineering for the! projects is| provided by the Rural Electric Mémbership Corp. wth offices in. cpunties throughout the state. Approximately 17,000 man hours off employment in direct labor alone is expected to be provided in the construction work.

MCRAY FUNERAL SERVICES THURSDAY

Messages of Condolence Come From Many.

Funeral services for Warren T. . McCray, former Governor of Indiana, will be held tomorrow afternoon at Kentland. Burial will be at Fairlawn Cemetery following funeral services at 1:30 p. m. at the Kentland Presbyterian Church. Mr. McCray died Monday while eating me’ at the time he was preparing to retire from his duties ing his 2640-acre farm. Messages. of condolence came to the Orcherd Lake farm today from throughout the United States. They came from friends and business associates of Mr. McCray. He is survived by the wife, Mrs. Ella Ade McCray, a sister/of George Ade, noted Indiana author; three children, Mrs. W. P. Evans of Indianapolis, Miss Marian McCray and George McCray at home, and a sister, Mrs. Fannie Comparet of Kentland,

- SUNMAN, Ind, Dec. 21 (U. P.)— Fire destroyed five buildings on a farm owned by Galbraith and Son, hardwood lumber dealers, east of here last night with an| estimated $10,000 damage. { In the buildings were five cattle, 15 hogs, a horse, chickens, several thousand bushels of corn, 500 . bushels of wheat and farm imple- . ments. None of the livestock escaped.

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Marriages Show Greatest Gain in 15 Years at 11 in Every 1000.

CHICAGO, Dec. 21 (U. P)— American divorce courts did a record business in 1937 despite a sharp slump iw the number of marriage ties shattered in Reno’s famed divorce mill, Estimates made public today by two University of Chicago sociologists showed the divorce rate last year at an apparent all-time high. At the same time marriage license bureaus were obliging couples in greater numbers than at any time since 1923, The study listed the 1937 divorce rate at its highest known figure, 1.93 per thousand population. The previous peak was 1.84 in 1936. For 1937 the marriage rate was reported at 11.03 per thousand population, the highest mark in the past 15 years. The highest rate on record, 1196 per thousand, was reacHed in 1920. : Dr. Samuel A. Stouffer and Lyle M. Spencer, said the rise in divorce rates in the last five years was more than four times as rapid as that in any similar period before the predepression high of 1.66 per thousand in 1929. Over a 17-year-period, Prof. Stouffer said Nevada's divorce rate increased 400 per cent compared with 50 per cent for the nation. Divorces at Reno slumped sharply in the last two years, however, he said, while the rate for the rest of the country continued mounting. Nevada divorces in 1937 were 6 per cent below the 1936 figure and 7 per cent below that for the preceding

ear. Dr. Stouffer based his divorce statistics on reports from 16 states. He said Florida registered the greatest increase in 1936 and 1937 with a rise of 50 per cent in its divorce rate in the two-year period. The second largest gain was reported in Michigan where the 1937 rate was 14 per cent above that for 1935. Michigan, whose population is 14 per cent greater than Massachusetts, granted almost 300 per cent more divorces. South Dakota and the New England states were listed as reporting the fewest number of divorces in proportion to population. Marriage statistics in the survey were drawn from reports of 24 states with Maryland recording the greatest rate of increase in marriages. Dr. Stouffer said the figure in Maryland was boosted by out-of-state marriages at the Elkton “Gretna Green” but suggested recent leg-

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The “richest and dumbest cat in town” gets another meal of For two months this Exchange Club kitty has been stuffed with dollar bills by club members who will entertain 60 needy children with a Christmas dinner purchased with the proceeds. “Kitty Committee” chairman (left), and Roy C. Coats serve “dinner”

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Divorce Rate in County Is 3 Times U.S. Estimate; Reno’s Business Drops

All-time High Established Here in 1937 With: 7.09 Decrees Per 1000.

The divorce rate in Marion County since 1935 has been more than three times greater than estimates of the national rate, statistics clisclosed today. The Marion County rate in 1937 was 7.09 divorces per thousand population, an all-time high, while a survey conducted by two University of Chicago sociologists showed the national rate at 1.93 per thousand during 1937. : The rate here in 1936 was 6.6 per thousand as compared with the es-

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Heaviest Filing in History

Last year there were 2980 divorce suits filed in Marion County, the largest number in the history of the county courts. In 1936 the total was 2800 as compared to 2360 in 1935. \ Divorce court judges could give n reason for the 440 increase from 1935 to 1936. So far this year there have heen 2708 divorce suits filed, or 6.4 per thousand population. The complete 1938 figure is not expected to equal last year’s mark.

MOONEY’S HEARING SET FOR JANUARY

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (U. P)— Gov.-elect Culbert Olson of California said today that he would hold a hearing on a pardon for Tom Mooney some time during the first two weeks of January and that he would issue a pardon unless new evidence of guilt is presented.

FALSE LEG DIVORCE CAUSE CLEVELAND, Dec. 21 (U. P.).— Common Pleas Judge Samuel H. Silbert gave Frank J. Glover a divorce today from the wife who left him in 1932. Mr. Glover told the Judge that his wits left him a month and a half after their marriage when she discovered he had an artificial leg and became ‘“extremely. irritated” over it.

islative restrictions might curtail the output of that marriage mill. Idaho, Iowa, and California, among the other states, recorded the greatest rate increase in marriage, while Connecticut, Alabama, Mississippi, North Dakota and South

Dakota reported declining rates contrary to the national trend.

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