Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1939 — Page 20

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county’s 1939 road building and re- . pair materials and trucking equipment, which amounts to more than| $100,000 annually, were awarded by]:

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Forty Bids Accepted but Four Are Rejected, Called Too High.

Forty contracts to furnish the

County Commissioners today.

Four bids were rejected because]: they were too high, commissioners|:

said. Ten firms were awarded con-

tracts to furnish gravel for County |; They were Charles Shan-j

‘non, Indiana Gravel Co.; BrownHuffstetter, State Sand & Gravel Co.: George Bixler, W. J. Sparks, Walter Berry, C. E. Foreman, M. D. Parr, Herbert Bloemker, Fall Creek Cemetery Association, and Omer Zook. Grady Brothers Construction Co. was awarded the contract for road repair materials. The bridge steel contract went to the Truscon Steel

Co. The Capitol City Supply Co. was awarded the cement and lime cons | tract. The Ohio & Indiana Stone Co. won the stone contract. The Shell Petroleum Co. will furnish fuel oil. : All bids on asphalt materials, culvert pipe and iron coating were rejected. Awards on tires and tubes were deferred until Friday.

State Lets Road Jobs To Cost $318,858

The State Highway Department today awarded three road construction contracts totaling $318,858 and received low bids amounting to $347,258 for construction of bridges throughout the State:

Road construction projects are ‘Jocated in Clay, Boone and Switzerland Counties. The Clay County project calls for grading and paving of approximately three miles of ad 40, from two and one-half miles east of Cloverland to Brazil at a cost of $186,462. Of the 15 bridge projects, four will be partially financed by Federal funds. Projects to receive Federal aid are located in Parke, Warrick, Hamilton and Madison Counties. Counties in which State-financed bridges are to be built are Huntington, Lake, Vermillion, Hendricks, Owen, Shelby, Knox, Vigo, Jackson, Spencer and Cass. A bridge having a 28-foot roadway and sidewalks, with four spans and a total length of 319 feet, is to replace a bridge with a bad aecident record just west of Morristown in Shelby County. Largest of the bridge projects, it will cost approximately $68,460.18.

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SIKESTON, Mo., Jan. 11 (U. PJ. —Bonfires gleamed along a 100-mile front today as homeless and landless sharecroppers gathered in makeshift camps along U. S. Highways 60 and 61 in the cotton belt of

southeast Missouri in a mass protest against being evicted from their homes. : The demonstration, sponsored by the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, started yesterday and gained in volume through the day, night and today. It was estimated that 500 families, with their ‘children, dogs, and ancient automobiles, trucks and wagons, were camped along the highways in the general vicinity of Sikestone, Charleston, New Madrid, and the Arkansas Line. Many of the sharecroppers had no choice but to join-the demonstration as they had no other place te go. Some said they were the victims of the Federal crop reduction program. It lightened the farm work {io be done. Also some plantation owners, faced with the necessity of sharing crop reduction checks with sharecroppers, preferred to drop the share crop system in favor of the day labor and refused to renew

Trapped Stage Star’s Crusade in Indiana Failure as Pelts Show.

By JOE COLLIER

EVERAL years ago the irrepressible Minnie Maddern

Fiske, stage star, bustled into the Indianapolis Public Library and ‘blistered the guest book with a - penned slogan that committed her to a one-woman crusade.

“The trap must go,” she wrote. Those who were there say that Mrs. Fiske wrote with such spirit, and left with such determination, that they fully expected her to turn into a she Daniel Boone and rid the state of traps singlehanded. There now is proof that Mrs. Fiske did no such thing. trapping industry today in Indiana is larger than it was in pioneer days, when it was a principal industry.

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CCORDING to State Conservation Department records, more than 700,000 muskrats, mink, possum, skunk, fox and a whole campus of raccoon, came into the hands of licensed Hcosier trappers last season, and this season promises to be even bigger. The business grosses annually ‘about $750,000. Last year, the Department’s recofds show, the score of pelts sold was: Muskrat, 433,116; opossum, 170,039; skunk, 49,582; raccoon, 32,296; mink, 19,234, and fox, 7624. The season closes at midnight Sunday. By then, the Department estimates, more than one million pelts will have been taken and sold. Their quality won't be as good this year as usual, because of the warm weather. In pioneer days, though, they trapped beaver at $30 to $40 a pelt. Beavers today are wards of the State, which does everything for them but sharpen their teeth and settle colony disputes.

WABASH MAN HEADS ~~ VETERINARIAN GROUP

Dr. D. D. Baker of Wabash had been elected Indiana Veterinary Medical Association president today as the three-day annual convention

opened in Hotel Severin. Dr. R. E. Kepner of New Castle was elected vice president and Dr. C. C. Dobson of New Augusta was re-elected secretary-treasurer, Dr. E. S. Hinkle of Centerville and Dr. J. L. Kixmiller of Inidanapolis were named board directors for three years. : Committee reports, lectures, banguet, floor show and the president’s nce were on today’s program. Dr. W. K, York of Indianapolis was chairman of yesterday's program which’ included a “small animal

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In addition to those evicted were many “stranded” familids. They came to this region, according to Hans H. Baasch, manager of the

This is an increase of 800 to 900

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Ousted Sharecroppers Camp Along Highways in Missouri

Public Schools Will Enroll | 60,000, Increase of Over 800

It is estimated 1400 new first graders will be received, while 1800 eighth graders will start classes as high school freshmen.

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Laforge Resettlement Project, in the hope of obtaining land on the project. He said 1000 farmers had applied for land but that the project had only 100 farms—all longs since taken. Stoves were set up in the open, and the refugees camped under the Sas Fortunately the weather was mild. . Leaders of the demonstration declared the campers would remain along the highway right-of-ways until aid is forthcoming. They felt confident that Washington and Jefferson City would respond.

Government Warning

Is Given Landowners

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (U. P. —The Agriculture Department threatened reprisals today against landowners who evict their tenants or reduce their status to day laborers. It ordered an immediate investigation at Sikeston, Mo., where it was alleged 1700 families had been evicted. Confidential reports to the Department showed that the practice is nation-wide. No exact figures were available as to the number of tenants affected but estimates ranged from 500,000 to 1,000,000 families.

Indianapolis public schools will have an enrollment of approximately i 60,000 the second semester of the school year, which commences Monday, | Jan. 23, according to Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan.

pupils over the present enrollment.

DEMOCRATS SCARED, TUCKER CHARGES

Fright Caused Introduction Of Reform Bills, He Says.

Times Special GREENFIELD, Jan. 11.—Democrats in the Indiana Senate have been frightened by the spanking they received from the voters in the last election, James M. Tucker, Republican, Secretary cf State, asserted here. Mr. Tucker addressed a meeting

of G. O. P. leaders last night. “Fright alone caused Senator Jacob Weiss (D. Indianapolis) to introduce liquor and election reform bills,” he said. “Pright also was behind the bill seeking to make the ‘Two Per Cent Club’ illegal. “The Republicans have been striking at that club ever since it was formed by Governor McNutt and his boy scouts back in 1933. If . « « the administration . . . recognized the evil conditions which they claim ‘they are attempting to correct, they should have corrected them as soon as they attained that realization. . “They should not have waited until the people, through the ballot, administered to them a spanking, which made them realize their wrong-doing.”

FUND IS APPROVED TO COLLECT DATA

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (U.P) .— Presidential approval has been given for expenditure of $177,474 of WPA funds in Indiana for the collection of vital statistics from 1850. fo 1920 under the direction of the Public Welfare Department, Senator VanNuys was informed today. A $27,560 WPA project for Marjon County was approved consisting of collection of mortgage data from

City high schools do not observe midyear commencements as a majority of high school seniors who complete their required credits in

until June. It is significant that the number entering high school is larger than the number beginning first grade, Superintendent Morgan pointed out.

which sociologists blame the depression. There were fewer children born in the period of economic stress. However, Indianapolis is less afMr. Morgan said.

41313 pupils enrolled in the ele-

had dropped to 40,901.

the next semester, it is estimated.

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tom step and going up they ars Lucele Bosler, Patty Hill, Betty Walsh, Mary Jane Warren, Jane Stettler, * Shirley St. Pierre, Rosemary Renihan, Ruth Showalter and Dorothy Jones. :

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fected by this than most large cities, | In the spring of 1936 there were |}

mentary schools here. The number |§ jumped to 41,808 in the spring of|f 1937, and last spring the enrollment |§ There will|§ be about 40,300 in the grade schools |}

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STEPHENSON HEARING IS PUT OFF BY JUDGE

NOBLESVILLE, Jan. 1% (U. P.). —Judge Cassius M.. Gentry yesterday postponed indefinitely a hearing in which D. C. Stephenson, former Klan leader serving a life sentence for murder, hopes to win a new trial, : No representatives appeared for either side at the January term of court opened yesterday. Stephenson, convicted of murdering Madge Oberholtzer of Indianapolis in 1925, seeks a retrial on the

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Five Instructors Are Added

To Howe Staff for Ex- ° . pected Increase.

-Pive new teachers are to join the

{Thomas Carr Howe High School

staff ‘in Irvington because of a 25 per cent anticipated increase in enrollment the second semester, the Board of School Commissioners decided ‘last night. - - In all, 26 teachers were hired as the ‘bord members, in their first

‘regular ‘meeting since taking of-

fice, approved the report of DeWitt S. Morgan, superintendent of One teacher is to be added to each of five other high schools and three junior high school and 13 elementary school teachers were appointed. The appointees to Thomas Carr Howe High School are Miss Ruth Marie Price,’ Lewis Gilfoy, Fred C. Lemley, Miss Thelma Cooley and Wayne A. Shrum.

Mrs. Manthei Is Trustee

‘The other high school teachers are Miss Barbara Ann Turner, Shortridge; Volney Ward, Manual; Wade. Fuller, ‘Tech; Miss Barbara Varin, Broad Ripple, and Miss Florence L. Graham, Washington. The junior high school appointees are Harold L. Snyder, Miss Alma L. Porter and Wilbur Chenault. Mrs. Carl J. Manthei was named by Earl Buchanan, board president, as a trustee of the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, and Evans Woollen Jr. was named a member of the board of Woollen’s Gardens of Birds and Botany Foundation. Harvey B. Hartsock was named 8 building committee member and Mr. Woollen a finance committee member. A. B. Good, City schools’ business director, and Mr. Morgan are the other members of the two committees.

. Ripple Contract Held Up

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three bids were received, due to a misunderstanding whether combustible or noncombustible material was required. -The board voted to refer the question to the State Fire Marshal

A house and garage

Mr. Good will attend the national meeting of school business execu-

tives at Lansing, Mich., Jan. 20 to| ca

24, and L. L. Dickerson, City librarian, will go to the National Library Conference at Princton, N. J. Jan. 30 Feb. 1, the School Board declded.

DEMOCRATS STAGE

JACKSON BANQUET

A committee of Democrats, organized recently to oppose control of the party by machine bosses during primary elections, will conduct. a Jackson Day banquet at the Spink Arms Hotel tomorrow night. : Leaders of the group announced the dinner will be the preliminary

step toward organization of a “Com- | Recent-| ly the group, headed by Bert Wil-|

mittee of 100 Democrats.”

helm, discussed plans to sponsor legislation designed to ban the picking of candidates by “machine

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Famed Speakers on Chapel Programs.

Times Special GREENCASTLE, Jan. 11.—Miss Betty Parker, Hinsdale, Ill, will be the first girl ever to serve as editor-in-chief of The DePauw, the university’s student publication, when she takes office at the beginning of the next semester. Miss Parker, member of numerous

of Theta Sigma Phi, journalistic honorary, sorority. She was elected editor-in-chief by the Publications Board of Control this week after she had served as city editor and society editor. : !

Ivan M. Gould, world-famous director of young people’s work, and Phyllis Bentley, renowned British novelist, will speak on DePauw chapel programs Jan. 19 and 24, respectively. Mr. Gould is director of young

people’s work at the Religious Education International Council, Chi-

edy.” She is the literary critic of the Manchester Evening Chronicle and has been a popular lecturer in England several years. :

Appointment of G. Herbert Smith, dean of DePauw freshmen men, to chairmanship of the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council, was announced today. Dean Smith has been a member of the executive committee of the National “Association of . College Fraternity Secretaries for the last two years and a delegate to the council the last 10.

EX-PORTLAND MAYOR ILL’ "PORTLAND, Jan. 11. (U. P.). — Dr. C. A. Paddock, former mayor, was in critical eondition today. He

is suffering from a heart ailment, Mr. Paddock once ran unsuccess= fully for Congress on the Demo cratic ticket. r

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