Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1939 — Page 9

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Today I've got something really precious to share

‘Rev. James Roger Shea, the first Indianapolis-born

he remembers taking

“equipped. It produced a stench so awful ths school had to be dismissed. I

until 2:30 a. m.

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‘boy to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest. “heard me. Father

You Shea, now 72 years.old, runs the parish at Brownsburg, but every once in a while he plays hookey to come to Indianapolis| and do his fishing here. | His favorite spot is the one in Eagle Creek in the hollow back of Delong Road where the Kirby family lives. | a Apart from his birth, the first big thing to happen to Father Shea was his baptis in St. John’s. That was back in the £ days when St. John’s was housed in ‘a building on Georgia St. It wasn’t until six months later, says Father Shea, that August Bessonies, the French priest, started building the present St. John’s Church. When it came ti 10. He was a holy t

, Jimmy Shea went to School or, he says. More than once : sulphur to school and hiding it in’ the big stoves with which every classroom was

And once he recalls being a member of the gang

Apparently, the boys didn’t : When the kids showed up next morning, Polly Colgan, the principal, expelled every one. To get back, the kids had to bring notes written by their parents explaining their absence. Father Shea’s mother didn’t] write a note, but made it her business to come to school jn person and learn what all the trouble was about. When she heard what her son| had been up to, she said she'd handle the case. She; did, too, says Father Shea. 2 ” 2 ’

The Teacher Who Knew

|The biggest surprise of Jimmy Shea's life, though, was the day Father Alerding of St. Joseph's parish asked him whether he wouldn't like to be a priest. Jimmy said he guessed he- would, and to start him off, Father Alerding gave him Latin lessons—twice a week. When Father Alerding had his hands full building his church in/:1880—the one on Noble St.— |

that walked all the way to the old State Fair Grounds to "see a sham battle. care. whether school! kept or not.

It Seems to Me

NEW YORK, July 22.—What with pld regulations and new ones -concerning broadcasting; it seems unlikely that the Martians ever will attack this world again. Orson Welles has been laid aside in lavender, and now even the tiny tots are ‘to be protected from . those ether melodramas which used to scare them out of their wits. - | As far as the tots go, it is probably just as well that they should not be frightened into fits. Indeed, I must admit that some of the more blood-curdling episodesMdesigned for growing boys and girls gave me bad dreams, “and there were nigats when I would jump a few feet in the air if somebody laughed suddenly just behind me. And, even so, I think it is a pity that the men from Mars will come this way no more. The intentions of Orson Welles probably included little beyond a desire to have some good clean fun by frightening everybody within sound. : But, in one respect he never has received some of the “eredit which” is due him. he gave America and the world |» great moral lesson.

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So, Comparatively Speaking Within a week or so some giant meteor missed king a poke at our globe by a comparatively narrow hog. As I remember, it was a margin of a mere 400, miles, which is a six-inch putt as far as astrondmers go. And there always has been the legend that some roughriding comet might meet us head-on and smash the old apple into smithereens.

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, July 22.--It is just as well, probably, that Congress is packing up to go home. Members are fagged, irritated and unable to concentrate upon anything except the politics of 1940. Administration leaders in both Houses have lost control of their majorities. The legislative process has degenerated intc little more than a series of feuds with President Roosevelt. It is almost as if members waited to see what the President’s position mwas and then took the opposité side. The boys, supposed to be big league caliper, are playing sandlot ball. Secretary of State Hull is so hurt and chagrined at losing the fight to repeal the arms embargo that he is brooding in semiseclusion. Mr. Roosevelt has taken out some of his irritation on the newspapers and at

: his press conferences is nagging theni more frequently

than ever. New Dealers are bewildered and disturbed over the new eminence conferred by the President upon Paul McNutt. With Congress out of the way, the tendency will be for everyone to quiet: down. H o 8

How It Works Out

The Senate, which is supposed to be a deliberative body, spends one minute, with not a word of debate or explanation; passing a most important bill concerning the relationship between the courts and administrative rulings of executive agencies, one of the most complicated and important questions raised by the expansion of Federal administrative machinery in the last few years. The Ameriean Bar Association was three years

| HYDE PARK, Friday.—I read a book last night That doesn’t happen very often to me nowadays. I start to read, sleep overcomes me and

I put the book aside with very little effort, but this

was reading galley proof, for the book isn’t out yet. If I were the publisher, I think I would be very proud of having acquired

it. It is real literature, timeless,

telling a story that is just an ordinary tale of living, but describing real people—and they are fascinating people. The title is “Again the River” by Stella E. Morgan. Originally I think she called it “River A'Rising.” I

liked that title better because

the river is a person to these people who live close to. it. : The river gives their lands its

“worth in spite of periodic devastation, for it probably

enriched the soit But it claimed a heavy toll from

. the people who would not leave their land. Each "> time the river rose ‘some member of the family was - taken by it, and yet the remaining ones kept on and

returned to their home. In character they are somewhat like the river they loved and feared. With all

‘their’ character traits emphasized ‘by their struggle

with the river, these proud, reserved, quiet, strong people are uniige their neighbors: who live out of

.the same boat.

Among other things"

By Anton Scherrer

he advised . his pupil to continue his Latin at the High School. That's where he got to know Emma Donnan, one of the most remarkable women he ever met, he says. Father Shea graduated from high school in 1884. He likes to recall a day 43 years later, in 1927, when he happéned to.be passing Shortridge. The kids were just coming out of school, and he remembers asking one about the whereabouts of Miss Donnan. The boy said she was still teaching, and so Father Shea went in and challenged her to guess who he was. She looked at him a moment and said: “You are James Shea of the Class of 84, You are now the priest of Brownsburg.” Not only that, but Miss Donnan knew the name and whereabouts of every member of the Class of '84. = ” ”

The Bishops Lost Their Bikes

Well, when James Shea finished high school, Father Alerding advised him to go to Bardstown, Ky., and begin studying for the priesthood. Father Alerding said he couldn't recommend St. Meinrad

because when he was a student there, the monks fired |*

him for smoking. It turns out that Dennis O’Donaghue was fired, too. For the same reason. He was

the priest who afterwards became pastcr of St. Pat-|.

rick’s. And to think, chuckled Father Shea, that

' both Father Alerding and Father O’Donaghue ended

up as bishops. | Father Shea says it almost broke Father Alerding’s heart—and Father O’Donaghue’s, toc—to have to give up their bicycles after they were made bishops. James Shea didn’t get to go to Bardstown, however. As luck would have it, the school was closed at the time, and so he went to St. Meinrad after all. He stayed there two years (he wasn’t fired), after which he went to Baltimore to continue his studies. In 1896, Archbishop Elder of Cincinnati ordained him. Up to that time, no Indianapolis-born boy had been ordained a priest. The Sheas had it ccming to them. They have been identified with Indianapolis almost since its foundation. .As far back as 1829, for instance, Father Shea's uncle settled here. He offered a horse for the block on which the State House now stands, says Father Shea, but the trader held out for two horses, and so the deal fell through. Except for that little mishap, the Sheas might be sitting pretty, said the beloved priest of Brownsburg.

(Ernie Pyle’s column will be resumed on Monday)

By Heywood Broun

As far as I khow, these possibilities are remote, but I would not have them disregarded, since international ‘unity depends upon a very lively recognition of the fact that each and every one.of us sails in Compared to the cosmos, this earth is little more than a life raft. And yet the survivors adrift upon this cockleshell continue to menace one another. . If some astronomer of note and reputation were to inform a waiting world that within a month an asteroid was going to bump with us there would be

- a sudden cessation of nationalistic enmities and am-

bitions. Quarrels over corridors and tiny kingdoms possessing seaports would abate. We would come together for the sake of our lives. We would be one facing the alien asteroid. Color and racial prejudice would die out. ” ”

Fear Would Make Whole World Kin

Hope makes the whole world kin, but, failing that, fear is not a bad emotion to bring men into a huddle. Anybody who despairs of the future of the world is traitorous to mankind. Anybody who is not frightened at the present aspect of affairs is a fool. . A general war beginning in Europe would shake this old earth more severely than any catapulting comet, Blood would run like spring freshets in fldod. And no corner of the earth could possibly be spared. And all this can be averted. It can be kept away

by unity of action. ‘In a sense this conflict is the|

Earth against Mars. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their planet. world, but all we have in hand. And we will be held accountable now and forever unless we can make

decent use of this garden which has been given to us.

By Raymond Clapper

working out the code and the Senate put it through literally without a word of discussion. Yet the House gave a whole afternoon to debating whether to accept the gift of the Roosevelt papers, grounds and building for a’ Roosevelt library, a debate which was featured by the most venomous personal denunciation of the President from the Republican side. x : The measure which currently symbolizes the issue of decency in politics, the Hatch Bill, was forced before a reluctant House only by the most persistent pounding from the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Even so, for many members the only question was how the measure would effect Roosevelt or Garner or someone else in 1940. # ” 8

Let's All Go Home! J at

Most irresponsible of all, even more & than the ill-fated deal with the conservative Republicans made with the silverites on the monetary bill recently, was the throttling of the arms embargo repeal by’ the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. If pressed to a vote on its merits, a majority of the Senate committee probably would have voted to recommend repeal. But the question came up on the point of postponing consideration until next winter and it carried, with the help of Senators who, if forced to a showdown, would have voted for repeal of the embargo. But in this way they could give the Administration a sharp rebuke. So, although it is fairly certain that a majority of the Senate actually thinks the arms embargo ought to go, the temptation to play politics, tp put the Administration in a hole, was too great to resist. The Senators are,willing to risk the danger that war will break out in Europe in the next few months in order to give Mr. Roosevelt a political trimming. When you get into a state of mind like that, ohViousiy the best thing is to knock off work and go away.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

ing. At 42 he had already lived as much as many a man lives in three score years and ten. Deeply religious, he met the blows of fate with uncomplaining strength. He never told his wife that he loved her, he never imparted to anyone how much he missed her, but his whole life displayed his love and the unspoken ache of loneliness was all the greater’because it was never expressed. So many of us come to think that words matter

so much. We want people to say things, forgetting

that it is what lies back of the words and not the

words themselves that count. This is one of the most.

stirring books I have read in a long time. It introduces us to a group of our citizens it is well for us to understand and know.

I congratulate Mrs. Morgan. I don’t know what F

the public's verdict will be, but she has given me something which makes me feel richer, I finished the mail just in time last night to get over to the big house and be on the dcorstep when my husband arrived from the station. My mother-in-law is always there to greet any of the family who come, so when she is away I should feel very guilty not to be on hand. ; ~ We had lunch today at my cottage and were joined by Dr. John Elliott of the Ethical Culture Society and Mr. Bart ‘Andress, who came to talk about the Good Neighbor Committee on the Emigre and the Community. I have accepted the honorary presidency, because I feel their approach is the one best suited to give us a better understanding of what we owe to the immigrant oi the past and, therefore, a better under-

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A Peek at

By David Dietz

Scripps-Howard Science Editor

nearer each’ other.

have approached since Aug.

about 10 p. m. Shining with the stars about it seem pale by comparison. It is the planet Mars. Each night, until Thursday, it will grow brighter. Astronomers welcome

this close approach of earth's fiery neighbor. It is their best” opportunity to seek the answers that scientists and laymen alike ‘ask. Is there life on Mars? What about the canals? Are the Martians smarter than we? What about that Orson Welles broadcast of the H. G. Wells story? Could such a thing ever happen? ” 2 ”

N Taylor Road hill, overlookJing the city. looking like some aricient temple in the dark, stands

NEW CHARGES MADE IN SECURITIES CASE

MARION, Ind, July 22 (U.P).— New affidavits were on file today against four men charged with violation of the State Securities Act in connection with a distillery promotion. One of the new affidavits charged conspiracy to commit a felony in that they “sold, offered for sale or caused to be offered for sale stock in the Glen Arbor Distilling Co., Inc.” stock which is not registered in Indiana as required by law. The second charged that they were not licensed dealers in stock. The men are Henry Behrens Jr, 31, Arcadia, Mich.; Victor A. Erickson, 32, Chicago; George B. Shaw of Cincinnati, O., and Charles Dornette, 54, a Cincinnati attorney.

GOVERNOR TO SPEAK AT MINERS’ PICNIC

* Governor Townsend is to be the principal speaker at the 23d annual picnic of the United Mine Workers of Indiana, Districts 8 and 11, at Memorial Stadium, Terre Haute,

Aug. 11, 12 and 13. The Governor’s address is scheduled for 2 p. m. Saturday, Aug. 12. William Hynes, Uniontown, Pa., president ‘of District 4, United Mine Workers of America, is to speak Sunday afternoon, describing conditions in the Eastern coal fields. Picnic arrangements are in charge of a committee headed by Otho Brown, Terre Haute. The threeday program will include professional acts sponsored by Fred Bays, Democratic State chairman. - Lloyd Howard, Terre Haute, is in charge af concessions. :

RICHMOND AVIATORS

RICHMOND, Ind., July 22 (U.P.). —-Robert A. McDaniels and Kelvin Baxter announced today they would take off from the Richmond Airport Aug. 3 in an attempt to set a new endurance . record for light airlanes. : Last year Mr. McDaniels and Ross Morris jointly held the endurance record until it was broken by Clyde Schleiper and Harley Long of Long Beach, Cal. The latter stayed in the air 218 hours.

FORMER LEGISLATOR DIES

P.).—Funeral arrangements were being made today for Dr. Bruce G. Cox, 55, former joint State Representative of Vanderburgh, Posey and Warrick Counties. He was a graduate of the Indiana Dental Col-

lege at Indianapolis, He died

TO SEEK AIR MARK|

EVANSVILLE, Ind. July 22 (U.

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Mars Rushing Toward Earth—Let's Take

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(CLEVELAND, 0., July 22.—Speeding around the sun at terrific rates, our earth and the planet Mars are drawing closer and closer this month, like two express trains which zoom along converging tracks. ; Each night this month the two will be 200,000 miles On next Thursday only 36,000,000 miles will separate them. This will be the closest the two

23, 1924, when the distance

between them was 35,000,000. It is the nearest they will be to each other for another 15 years. : If you watch the eastern horizon each night you will see a flaming, fiery stab of light come over the horizon at

a brilliant red glow, it makes

the dome of the Warner & Swasey Observatory of Case School of Applied Science. A long, narrow slit in the roof of the dimly lighted dome is open and through it the big telescope points at the planet Mars. The time is after midnight. - Perched upon the ladder-like platform at the eyepiece of the telescope are two observers, Dr. J. J. Nassau, professor of astronomy and director of the observatory, and the writer. Let us watch them and listen ip. DR. NASSAU, peering through the telescope and turning one of the control knobs—Just let me adjust the focus a little better.

Then you tell me what you see. I

want to know if you see the same things I do. i MR. DIETZ, taking his place at

got around to the Dobson Fly. As luck would have it, Mr.

ferocious it looks. “Are you sure?” : someone asked| as he flinched at a look at the creature. : : : “They are perfectly harmless,” Mr. Wallace said as he picked up the little fellow.

Keeps Finger Behind Table .

The Dobson Fly chose that moment to pinch Mr. Wallace near the nail on one of the fingers and for a harmless bug the Dobson Fly drew a good deal of blood. Mr. Wallace continued. to lecture. but kept his injured finger back of the table where no one could see. Finally a man asked if he could have the fly for a friend who was a good fisherman and would appreciate it as bait. : In spite of the fact that Mr. Wallace was then down to his last Dob‘son Fly he said the man could have it and again took the fly out of the bottle. y Beetles Taken From Bottle

The man came forward to get it, and happened to catch the blood on the tablecloth from ' Mr. Wallace’s finger. : “Would you mind putting it in the bottle?” he asked as he made a face as if he had seen two or three men from Mars. ] So Mr. Wallace took the other bugs from the bottle, put back the Dobson Fly and gave it to the man. The other bugs were some beetles which another man had found in an ash tray. He wanted to know if they were the same as some beetles he had found in a fishing pole.

KAPPES ST. PAVING ORDERED BY BOARD

‘The paving of Kappes St. from

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been ordered by the Works Board. Ten out of 17 property owners on the street requested the improvement, City Engineer M. G. ‘Johnson reported. ; _The Board awarded. the contract for reconstruction of Pine St. from Washington to St. Clair St. to the Hoosier Construction Co., Indianap-

bidders were the Union. Asphalt Construction and Roland B. Cooper, both of Indianapolis, who each bid $1760. a ;

MILL WORKER KILLED

— Lester Sailor, 35, a mill worker, was killed yesterday when he was

Morris to Howard St. today had |

olis, on its low bid of $1672. Other|

MADISON, Ind. July 22 (U. P).|

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David Dietz (left) and Dr. J. J.

the eyepiece—Yes, that focus is excellent. . . . Now just a minute until my eye accommodates itself, . .. It's a magnificent sight. . . . I'd say that the dominant color of the planet was orange. NASSAU—Yes, a rather deep orange, it seems io me. Now what else? DIETZ—The southern polar cap —1 suppose we can call it an ice’

“ cap—is very distinct, elliptical in

shape and fairly white in color. NASSAU—TI'd call it. yellowish white. : : ” 2 o IETZ—Just beyond the polar cap is a rather large dark patch . . . distinctly bluish-green in color. I suppose that could be vegetation. NASSAU—That view seems entirely reasonable to me. The melting waters of the ice cap would provide the needed moisture for the growth of vegetation. DIETZ—What season of the year is it on the southern

hemisphere of Mars now?

NASSAU—Late spring. - DIETZ—Have you noticed the ice cap getting smaller during the last few weeks? { NASSAU—Yes, it has shrunk a little during =the last three weeks. Se DIETZ—What would you esti~ mate to be the present size of the ice cap? : NASSAU—About 900 miles in diameter. ; DIETZ, looking through the telescope again—The bluish-green patch tapers: off toward the equator. And there is a similar patch near the equator. But I don’t see anything on the planet resembling canals. ‘In fact, I can't see any fine structure at all. How about you? . NASSAU—Not yet. But I think that within the next 10 days, as the planet gets nearer, we will begin to see some fine structure.

Dobson Fly Picks Wrong Moment to Bite Wallace

Frank Wallace, State entomologist, was talking about bugs to the Indianapolis Exchange Club yesterday in the Severin Hotel and ‘finally

Wallace happened to have a Dobson Fly with him and he was telling how it never harms anyone no matter how

FT. WAYNE REPORTS VALUATION INCREASE

Times Special : FT. WAYNE, Ind. July 22.—Total valuation of real estate improvements ¢nd personal property in Ft. Wayne and Wayne Township, exclusive of corporations, is $152,907,~ 640; it was revealed today. The new valuation is an increase of $1,216,100 over last year’s, according to Milo J. Sprang, township assessor. Assessed valuation in Ft. Wayne was reported at $147,374,730, an increase of $1,057,240 over last year. The assesed valuation in the township outside the city ‘was reported at $5,532,910, a gain of $158,860.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the political status of the Union of South Africa? 2—In liquid measure, how many fluid drams are in one gill? 3—Are Chinese admitted to the U. S. as immigrants? 4—At a dinner dance, should a man ask his hostess or his dinner partner for the first dance? . 5—0f which city was Tom Pendergast the political boss? 6—With what sport is the name of Johnny Revolta associated? » ” ”

~ Answers

1—1t is a self-governing Dominion, in the British Commonwealth of Nations. 2-32. i 3—No. : 4—Dinner - partner first and hostess later. 5—Kansas City. 6—Golf. ~~ ’

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Nassau at the eyepiece of the big telescope at the Case Observatory.

You will recall that when we watched Mars through this telescope at its last close approach in 1924, we did see some fine structure. st : DIETZ—Yes, I do. But I also recall that the lines on the planet’s surface looked rather disjointed to me. I didn’t get the. impression of straight lines. ” ” " ASSAU—Some of them seemed pretty straight to me. You know that is an important point. Lowell's insistence that the lines were canals dug by intelligent beings, rather than rivers or some other natural phenomenon, resulted from his belief that the lines were . perfectly straight. | : DIETZ—I think you and I both agree that ‘it is reasonable to assume fine existence of vegetation upon Mars. But how about animal life? After all, the vegetation might be some form of fungus that required very little oxygen. It might even be like the anaerobic bacteria which are able to live in the absence of free oxgyen. NASSAU—Let'’s try and evaluate the factors ‘involved. First of all, there is the size of the planet. Mars has about half the diameter of the earth and much smaller mass. Hence its gravitational pull is too weak to enable the planet to hang on to an extensive atmosphere. As you know, spectroscopic observations confirm ~this view. There is less ‘than one-tenth of 1 per cent as much oxygen over a unit area of Martin - surface ‘as there is over a similar ‘aréa 'of ‘the earth. DIETZ—In addition, it must be much colder on Mars. According to g¢he Mt. Wilson thermocouple measuruments the temperature at the equator rarely rises above 50

* degrees, Farenheit, while the night

temperatures are about 40 below Zero. :

150 MARION COUNTY STUDENTS 60 TOL.

Times Special © ; ; BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 22— One hundred and fifty-five Marion County students are among 1947 enrolled for the regular summer session at Indiana University, the registrar's office announced today. Students are from every county in Indiana, 37 other states and seven ‘foreign countries, Canada, China, Panama, Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, South America and Turkey. The special three weeks’ session during which teachers and graduate students will take intensive courses will begin at the close of the summer term, Aug. 9.

25-YEAR DEBT PAID | TO INDIANA FIREMAN

RUSHVILLE, Ind., July 22 (U.P.). —Dick Smith. a fireman, today collected an extra dividend from a grocery business he operated nearly 25 years ago. He received a letter which contained two $50 bills. A message said the sender “had owed him the $100 a good many years and was finally able to pay the debt.”

NASSAU—I'm afraid that live | ing conditions upon the surface | of Mars, so far as the atmosphere | is concerned, would resemble those in our atmosphere 18 miles | above the earth’s surface. Mare | tian life would be like living in’ our stratosphere. DIETZ—However, life on Mars may be much older than it is on earth aad so it may have adapted itself to such condition}. H. G. Wells, you will recall, limagined Martians mentally aheadlof us.

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” nn = ASSAU—You can make out J that sort of a case. Because of its smaller size, the planet Mars may have solidified a bil= lion years: before the earth did. Life on Mars might be millions of years older than it is on earth. DIETZ—Suppose Martian life were only a few thousand years ‘older. Think what a ‘difference that would make. Our whole civ lization is only about 5000 years old. Most of our scientific inventions have come in the last 50 years. Suppose Martians had done 100 years ago the things we are planning for the next 100. " NASSAU—Yes, but that is all speculation. Remember, we have *no scientific proof for it. DIETZ—But « it’s interesting speculation. We dream about rockets that would conquer inter planetary space. . Perhaps Martians have had such dreams for centuries. ‘Perhaps even now, 2s the two planets swing close together, the Martians are getting ready to . . . . : NASSAU—Hey, do you want to start another Orson Welles incident? Besides, we don't need the telescope for such speculating. Suppose we go move down to the ‘library where we can light up our pipes. !

Monument Magnet to ‘Outsiders’

The way things stack up at the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument in the: Circle, is that by far more out-of-town . persons take the ride to the balcony than residents. Already this’ summer visitors from every state in the ° union ‘have visited there. “It’s the first place these out-of-state - tourists make for,” a custodian said. “They tell us they always have wanted to go up in the Monument and some of them say they ° have driven io Indianapolis specially to make the trip.” . The fame of the Monument ' has spread even to foreign countries, they say.

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RITES FOR TRAFFIC VICTIM VINCENNES, Ind. July 22 (U, P.) —Funeral services will be. held today for Martin Rogers, 68, of Vine cennes, who died from injuries sufe fered when he walked into the path of a truck Thursday. .

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