Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1939 — Page 2
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NEW METHODIST |
GROUP TO UNITE ||
EIGHT MILLIONS
Landon, Delegate to Kansas City Parley, Says World | Turns to Churches. |
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 25 (U{ PP). —A new Methodist Church mak- | fg up the largest Protestant denomination in the country will be} formed at a& uniting conference] which begins here tomorrow. : Delegates to the historic confer-
ence were arriving in large numbers | today to effectuate the union of she Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist | Episcopal, South, and the Methodist | Protestant Churches into one group | pf almost eight million members. . Alf M. Landon, 1938 Presidential} nominee and a delegate-at-large to] the conference, declared at a preliminary meeting last night that a world “sinking under a load of hate” | was turning to its churches. | " The membership of the thee branches will be represented by 900 official delegates, but it was ex-| pected that more than 20000 lay and clerical leaders will attend the! session of |
conference during the three weeks or more
Only Details Unsolved
The three church branches al-| ready have approved the general! unification proposal, leaving to the| forthcoming conference the task of| working out details and consolidat- | ing boards of missions, religious edu- | cation, pensions and hospitals. i Among the first church leaders] arriving today were Bishop Ray-| mond J. Wade of Stockholm, a Hooster native, and Bishop John L. Nuelsen of Geneva, Switzerland.
ains Are Reported |
Addressing a preconference meet | ing of the Roard of Bishops and the World Service Commission today, | Bishop Frederick T. Keeney of Chicago reported a gain of 30.000 in average attendance at Methodist Sunday Schools in the North. Bishop Keeney said the Methodist Episcopal Church had added 186.953; members in the last year, a gain of | 3982 per cent; the Methodist Epis-| copal Church South added 116.476.} an increase of 3.93 per cent and the| Methodist Protestant Church added] 12.224, a gain of 6.25 per cent.
Seek Welfare of All
At the centennial celebration of the Boston University School of Theology, Mr. Liendon said: “The world is hungry for the ex-| ample which we will set here in the next few weeks. | “We seek not the welfare of Meth-| edism alone, but the welfare of all| churches and sll peoples, and by | our success here let us hope to en-| courage other movements of this] kind. | “It almost seems as if we were! watching monstrous and horrible! phantoms, mad with desire for pow-| er, filling the universe with hate and! fear, while they poise for the next threatening blow. The world, sinking under this] Joad of hate—weary and in despair | —is turning as always to the de- | voted hands of its churches. Their] ways are different, but their ideals! are alike | “From this base . . . must come those Christian principles which . . .| in the end must reclaim the world for democracy and Christianity.”
2 SEEK NEW TRIAL IN STORE HOLOUP
A motion seeking a new trial for Joseph Melvin and Walter} Menges, who are serving 10-to-25-| vear sentences on robbery charges, was on file in Criminal Court today.! The motion, filed by the youths’| attorney Edward McEifresh.| charged that the decision of Special Judge Floyd I. Mattice in convicting! them in Criminal Conurt was con-| trary to law and based on in-| sufficint evidence. | Melvin and Mengus were con-| victed of holding up the clerk in! an East Side liquor store. |
HEARING SET FOR 2 UNIONS AT KINGAN'S
A hearing will be held Mav 4 be. fore a NLRB trial examiner to qe-| termine which of two unions represent Kingan & Co. employees. : Robert H. Cowdrill, NLRB region- | al director, said local 117 of the United Meat Packing Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate, petitioned the board on March 3 for certification as representing a majority of the employees. Local 165 of the Amal. gamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
| Persons Under 30. . 5 | Persons 30 to 49 _..
PURDUE TO FETE VISITING PUPILS
300 From 30 High Schools Expected at May 5 ‘Roundup.’
Times Special LAFAYETTE, April 5.-More than 300 pupils representing 25 to 30 high schools throughout Indiaha are expected to attend the annual industrial, vocational and industrial arts roundup at Purdue University Friday, May 5. The visiting pupils will exhibit handiwork in drawing, printing, metal work and wood work. While judges are selecting the
Above (right) Louis Greenfield, a New York man who chloroformed his son rather than see him suffer from what he believed to be an
incurable disease. Should “mercy ernment supervision?
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deaths” be made legal, under Gove
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Public Almost Evenly Divided on Question
Of Mercy Deaths
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By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Ins titute of Public Opinion EW YORK, April 25.—When a retired Army major suggested re« cently that persons on the relief rolls who are over 70 or 75 years old should be subjected to “euthanasia’—or mercy deathi—he started
an avalanche of protesting editoria
ls ang letters from the public.
While such a peculiar suggestion must be regarded merely as an eccentricity, and while there has been no backing for the major’s idea, a nation-wide survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion in«
dicates today that the country is
almost evenly divided on the quese
tion of legalizing mercy deaths for hopeless sufferers, of whatever age
or station in life, if the patient himself requests euthanasia and if carried out under the supervision of the courts. The question of mercy deaths is not new. Every year the newspapers report instances where relatives
ate Romeo PUBLIC admitted taking the life of a suffering patient when there was ho apparent medical remedy for his illness. Such “casual” mercy killings are not contemplated, however, by the Euthanasia Society of America, which has prepared a bill for introduction into the Legislatures of various states.
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stitute asked a carefully selected crosssection of American men and women in all parts of the country: Do you favor mercy deaths .
under Government supervision for hopeless invalids?”
The vote of the public is: For Mercy Deaths ........ 46% Against Mercy Deaths. .... 549% The public took a similar position in another Institute survey
| two years ago, indicating opposi« | tion to the idea of legalized eutha- |
nasia by a small margin. A special survey of doctors in the earlier test revealed that 53 per cent
favored mercy deaths, however— |
a contrast to the vote of the average man and woman.
In Great Britain, moreover, the |
principle of euthanasia is more familiar than it is in the United States and has more supporters. In a survey conducted by the Brit ish Institute of Public Opinion,
overseas affiliate of the American |
Institute, 69 per cent—or more
| than two in three—said that they
approved the proposal. ® = = AS envisaged by euthanasia adA vocates in this country, the plan would call for the concurrence of both the patient and the doctor and a petition for euthanasia would have to be made in
the regular courts.
Today’s survey shows that men are more inclined to favor the idea than women, and that younger persons are more favorable than their elders. The votes of these
| groups are:
MERCY DEATHS F
Against |
31% 58 48 56 59
44 Persons 50 and over 41
‘TIN-CAN MATINEES’
AID CITY CLEANUP
! Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, April 25.—“Tin- | can morning matinees” are to be shown free to boys and girls at theaters here Saturday.
Local theater managers have
agreed to admit children who bring 10 or more tin cans to the theaters gp
as a climax to the two-week “Clean!
or doctors have |
for | legalized euthanasia the In- |
MINTON VOTES T0 OUST EAKIN
Move to Stop G. 0. P. Park Chief's Pay Loses in Senate, 31-28.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-—Votes by members of the Indiana delegation in Congress on important questions decided by rolleall during the week ended April 21 are shown
below. IN THE SENATE
winners, Purdue staff members will give demonstrations in woed shop, forge shop, foundry and machine shop practices. There will be an ‘open house program for the visitors, a special review by the Purdue R. O. T. C and the first game of the Indiana« Purdue baseball series.
The 11th annual rural leadership school will be held at Purdue June 19-24, it was announced today by QO. F. Hall, director, There will be separate courses for mature leaders and those not so advanced. The 4<H Club Department of Purdue and the Department of Education of the Indiana Farm Bureau are co-operating in conducting the program.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Elliott Gets ‘Spanked’ on Garner Talk
FT. WORTH, Tex. April 26 (U. P.) —Elliott Roosevelt ad= mitted last night that he had been ‘roundly spanked” by fellow commentators and intimated that he would turn from radiocasts to writing a newspaper column. In his semiweekly broadcast he said he had taken a “whuppin’” over his references to Vice President John N. Garner as leading Presi« dential choice of Democrats for 1040. The President's second son quoted severe criticisms of himself and his opinions by columnists and said: “I might sometime join their ranks--at which time, if such occurs, we will all be in the same boat on an equal footing to give and take jibes as the occasion demands.”
LUTHERANS WILL BUILD
KENDALLVILLE, April 25 (U, P.) A $20,000 addition will be built on the Lutheran Old People's Home here, it was announced today by the Rev. Bruno Poch, secretary of the Home Board. The addition is expected to accommodate 26 more
|ACTION DELAYED ON
into Congressmen’s offices.
WPA INQUIRY PLEA
WASHINGTON, April 25.~No action on Indiana Republican Congressmen’s request for an investigation of the WPA in the state will be taken before next week, it was announced by House investigators today. . Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind), member of the subcommittee charged with WPA investigations, explained that Rep. Clifton A.
Martha Raye.
LOSES $2500 SUIT
LOS ANGELES, April 25 (U. P)).
—Judge Henry M. Willis today had ordered Peter Balma to pay Nancy Dixon, 21-year-old St. Louis girl, $2500 damages promise. Balma is stepfather to Martha Raye, film actress,
for breach of
The Court's order was based on
testimony that Balma had promised to marry Miss Dixon in January, 1938, but had broken his promise in the following month after Miss Dixon had drrived here from St. Louis for the ceremony. Balma married Mrs.
Peg Reed, mother of
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NICKELS OUT IN ITALY
ROME, April 25 (U, P.).—Italians began handling new two-lire and one-lire and 50 and 20-centesimi pieces today made of an alloy called “acomnital.” The former denominations made of nickel will be withe drawn and not minted in future in line with the autarchy policy of making Italy independent of ime ports of that metal. Experiments are going on with a coin alloy made of nonoxydizable steel.
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Woodrum (D, Va), wh ois acting chairman, has been called home and no meetings are scheduled this week. So far, committeemen have not seen any evidence in support of the Indiana charges, he said, except the letter signed by the seven Con-
gressman asking that the investigation be made. Meanwhile, hundreds of protests growing out of WPA dismissals in the state are pouring
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April 17—Committee amendment |
to provide that no part of an ap- | ;
|propriation for Great Smoky] Mountains National Park “shall be
CF ¥.
'available for the Payment of the |
| ‘ | [salary of the present superintend- |
ent.” iment, strongly urged by Senator | McKellar (D. Tenn.), was to terme inate the service of J. Ross Eakin, { Republican, superintendent of the park. Rejected, 31 nays to 28 |veas. Not voting, 36. Senator Minton voted for dismissal. Senator | VanNuys did not vote.
| The $173,500,000 appropriation ‘bill was subsequently passed withjout a rolleall.
IN THE HOUSE
April 18—Resolution to bring to the floor for consideration, under a | seven-hour limitation of debate, a | bill to extend the President's emer- | gency monetary powers and the | Stabilization Fund for an additional {two years. Adopted, 209 to 147. | Not voting, 74. Reps. Larrabee and Ludiow voted for the measure. April 21—Motion by Rep. Chauncey W. Reed (R. Ill) to recommit |the bill to the Committee on Ceine | age, Weights and Measures with instructions to strike out the section continuing for two years the Presi- | dent's power further to devalue the | dollar. Rejected, 225 nays to 158 !veas. Not voting, 47. Reps. Larrabee and Ludlow voted against recommittal.
The bill was subsequently passed | without a rolleall. Its principal pro- | visions continued for two additional years (1) the emergency powers granted to the President in 1934 to (alter the gold or silver content of {the dollar and to provide for unlimited coinage of either metal; (2) the operation of the two-billion-dol-lar currency stabilization fund.
ATTENDANCE RECORDS Senators
(Based on 115 quorum calls and 20 rolicalls since Jan. 3, 1939) Senator Minton was present 121 times and absent 14. | Senator VanNuys was present 93 | times and absent 42.
Representatives
| (Based on 23 quorum calls and 33 | rollcalls since Jan. 3, 1939.) Rep. Larrabee was present 53! times and absent 3; Rep. Ludlow | was present all 56 times. The “average Representative” was present 48 times and absent 8.
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FACES FORGERY TRIAL COLUMBUS, Ind, April 25 (U. P.).—Trial on a forgery charge today faced Joseph Richardson, 27, who was discovered in a Noblesville hospital Saturday after being sought for more than a year. He pleaded not guilty.
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