Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1939 — Page 4

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TAILERS GET

BIDS TO ATTEND |

IT MEETING

Newly Formed Group Is to Hold Luncheon Here

Feb. 24.

FLAG STILL WAVES | | BUT FEUD GOES ON

Tenor Offers to Take Fight Over Anthem to House.

WASHINGTON; Feb. 17 (U. P.) — Frederick Jagel, Metropolitan Opera Company tenor who is feuding with Rep. Fred L. Crawford (R. Mich.) over the merits of “The Star Spangled Banner,” offered today to take

“lof Represe!

the tives. +1 5H, 2 In a letter to Speaker Bankhead, Mr. Jagel said he offered to sing the national anthem at any time for congressmen. He would stop at various points, however, and defy any of the legislators to go on with either the words or the music. The battle between Mr. Jagel and Mr. Crawford began over Mr. Jagel's contention that the music of the anthem was a rewrite of the “Anacreontic Song,” a drinking song “popularized by roisterers in taverns in 1780.” He charged tbat it was a “third-rate poem and a

i en Jagel 7 be charge that Mr. Jagel may be famed for reaching | tes in operas, “but he struck a new low. note in disrespect for an anthem that has thrilled Americans for a. century and a quarter,” . PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17 (U. P.). —The infant mortality rate last year was the lowest in Philadelphia history, according to figures compiled by ‘the: public. health - department. Only 40.3 of every 1000 babies born

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: VETERANS PROPOSED

| Hospital Expansion.

Larrabee Backs Legion on

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Rep. William H. Larrabee (D. Ind.) ‘today wrote Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, chief of the Veterans -Ad-

died, compared with 44.6 in 1937.

| ministration and chairman of the

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$80, 1 un add the - ‘plans for the U. 8. Vetsrans’ Hospital at Indianapolis. - Eep Larrabee -inclosed osed a letter froin the 12th District American Legion, signed by Paul Gastineau; adjutant, advocating the inclusion lof such a recreation room for con-

" “I have engaged in medical practice for many years,” Dr. Larrabee wrote Gen. Hines, “and I am well aware of the value of proper recreation as a very desirable aid to convalescence.

| to request that every effort

to revise the present plans inorder that satisfactory facilities may be rovided for the occupation of the time of convalescents, Le “If I can be of assistance to the Veterans - Administration in pursuing this matter to favorable com-

| pletion; I shall be glad to have your tions.” ts

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WINS BOOK PRIZE

MORBERLY, Mo., Feb. 1T (U. P.) —Billy Frank Nelson. won a prize for reading 91 books last summer, The prize was a book.

fourth-rate song.” He further ob-

“I feel that the request of the

~All retailers have been invited to attend a dinner meeting of the newly organized Retail Credit Granters of Indianapolis at 6:30 p. m. Feb. 24 at the Hotel Washington, it was announced today by Robert ©. Bonner, president.’ : : The association, a: unit of the National Retail Credit Association, will hear an address by L. S. Crowder, St. Louis, general manager of the national association, on “Making Credit Profitable.” Besides Mr. Bonner, who is with LI. S. Ayres & .Co., officers of the group are R. B. Stokes, BannerWhitehill Co., vice president; John F. Raney, William “H. Block Co. secretary; Harry E. Watson, L. Strauss & Co., treasurer, and Allison P. Koelling, of the Merchants’ Association, manager.

Four Named Directors

Directors are B. K. Heitkam, Pearson Co. Inc; H. J. Kennelly, Indianapolis’ Power & Light Co.; P. K. Lawall, Morrison's, Inc; L. E. Martin, the Fair Store; L. C. Sparks, Standard Oil Co. and the officers. “The association will be host March 19-21 to credit managers of the Fifth end 13th Districts of the national association. - Nearly 500 credit men and women from Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,. Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ontario will . attend. Purposes of the association, it was announced, are to “encourage the broadest use of, consumer credit consistent with sound business principles; to educate the public in the proper use of credit; to counsel end protect customers against the tragedy of going into debt beyond their ability to pay; to cultivate more friendly social and business relations between the members engaged in various lines of retail business.”

THAT ‘PAIN IN NECK’ BECOMES A REALITY

NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (U. P.) —So you're “sick” about that deal in which you lost some dough? Dr. W. H. McCastline, Columbia Univarsity medical officer, said today you well may be—literally. He said the “ever-increasing financial stress” had caused a marked .increase in several disorders at the school. They include gastro-intes-tinal diseases, disturbances of muscles and joints and nervous conditions.

TWO HOOSIERS NAMED SECOND LIEUTENANTS

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — Two Hoosiers have been commissioned second lieutenants in the Army Reserve Corps, the War Department announced today. They are Lieut. Harry Charles Block Jr., 1918 N..Delaware St., Indianapelis, infantry, and John Raymond Weber, Jeffersonville, quartermaster corps.

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PWA SEEKS PROBE |} AS BULDING SINKS

Plaster Cracks in 20-Story New Orleans Hospital.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (U.P.)— | E Assistant Public Works Administrator Howard A. Gray today had re-|& quested the board of the Charity |S Hospitdl of New Orleans to engage |Z a group of expert consultants. An inquiry is sought into reasons why the new 20-story, $12,598,000 struc- |S ture. has sunk nine inches into the |: ground. HH 2 Mr. Grey made the request in a |S letter to Charles J. Rivet,.vice presi- |= dent. of the board. PWA officials |S said that the hospital's design was worked: out by the hospital board and its architects. PWA made a grant of $3,600,000. : Daniage to the building as a result of “sinking,” PWA officials said, consists - principally of cracks and fissures in plaster and foundations. "The damage, they said, is not “particularly serious” and is quite common in the New Orleans area because of the soft ground in the Mississippi delta.

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