Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1939 — Page 9

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“TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1939 |

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Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie: Pyle

' 'CHACO CANYON, N. M,, July 25—We are in a Walley in northwestern New Mexico. Our valley is 10 miles |long and a mile wide. On each side of the nyon rim rises abruptly to the mesa top a hundred .- ‘Once upon a time, 10,000 people lived here. That was nearly a thousand

ment houses. One of them was so big it was never equaled in ‘size anywhere in the world until 40 years ago. =i You can come here today and see, still more than half standing, this amazing apartment house of our early Indians.

OGhaco Canyon is a National '

_ Monument. I used to think a ational Monument was a big statue or marker put up to honor | something. It isn’t. It's a large trac aside by the Government because of its historic or scenic value. It is actually a No. 2 National Park. | / The Southwest is full of , National Monuments. Some’ are scenic phénomena, such as the -natural bridges, volcanic craters, bad lands: and painted deserts. Others contain the remnants of the civilization that once existed here. Chaco Canyon is one of these. Indians lived and farmed and built in this 10mile valley for some 200 to 300 years. They started building around the year 900. Their last building was about 1130. | = This valley at thdt time must have been very fertile. A flowing river ran through it. Today there - is only a dry wash. They cut trees on the mesa tops that were two feet across. Today anything bigger than a sage brush clump makes your eyes stick out. At that time things were fresn and green and pleasant. Today all is dry and harsh; the wind blows unmercifully. On the mesa top you can scream and not be heard six inches away above the wind.

2 2 » 2% Three Acres—800 Rooms

‘Pueblo Bonito is the apartment house tourists are ost. likely to see if they come here. It is in a D-

‘Mother, I remember, statted taking the Ladies Home Journal as early as 1889. Which is to|say that 1 was living my jmpressionable years when I came

under the spell of Edward Bok, its editor: |

.Any appraisal of the Nineties must necessarily ini clude Mr. Bok, for any way vou look at it, he was a sign and a portent. For one thing, he was the -most distinguished example - of the doctrine that, if a man has any reason for living, it is to boss women. I was too young at the time to figure it out for myself, but now that I know a little more about such things— a lamentable little, to be sure— I begin to realize why Father hated the sight of -the Ladies “Home Journal. It wasn’t because he objected to Mother's reading a woman’s paper. Not at all. It

- was because Mr. Bok usurped a husband’s prerogative.

Mr. Bok was a Dutchman by birth, didactic by nature with some of the crusader and not a little of the schoolteacher in his make-up who used his office to give advice to women on every conceivable subject. He was the first, I remember, to invade the affairs of the heart and render counsel to the lovesick. He - did this by way of a column run by Ruth Ashmore, if I remember correctly, who offered advice in matters extremely feminine which simply left a 10-year-old boy gasping. Up to that time I never had “alized that women could get themselves into such awful predicaments.

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I remember, too, that it was just about the: time I

- was beginning to have my doubts about women that

Mr. Bok published Kipling’s “The Female of the Spe-

WASHINGTON, July 25.—The military airplane, which has altered the character of warfare and the strategic ‘values of empire to an almost revolutionary degree, is ‘but 30 years old. : On Aug. 2, the Army Air Corps and the aviation industry will observe the 30th anniversary of the Army’s purchase of its first plane. Few industries can show such a complete growth within the active adult life of one generation. One of the Army officers -who learned to fly on that first plane is still in active service, Col. Frank P. Lahm, now air officer of the Second Corps Area at Governor's Island, New York. Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the Air Corps, was one of the first five officers taught to fly. These men have lived to see growing out of that small beginning great air forces in every large country, powerful that the very fact of their existence affects the course of empire as the German air threat did at Munich a year ago. This new weapon has canceled out Gibraltar, put a ball and

chain on' the British fleet, and caused millions of

homes in Europe to be equipped with air raid shelters and gas masks for the whole family. “It was on Aug. 2, 1909, that the chief signal corps officer of the Army signed the papers accepting the y's first plane from the Wright brothers.

"A Study in Contrasts \

Contrast that frail 800 pounds of wire, pamBoo and cloth with its wheezing little 25-horsepower engine, to the giant flying fortresses of today, weighing 30 tons, with 4000 horsepower of engines. The Army required the Wright plane to have a

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My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday—We had a rather interesting ceremony this morning when the President: signed the deed turning over to the Government the land for the library which is to be built from private funds. The archivist, Mr. R. D. W. Connor, received the deed for the Government and Mr. L. A. Simon, supervising Architect of the Procurement Division, was present with the blueprints of the - building itself. Besides the newspaper people, the Postmaster - General, Mr. Frank Walker and our various households; the supervisor of . the village of Hyde Park, Mr. Elmer Van Wagner, and a few neighbor: were present. | .

~ For| the first time many of us heard the President describe just what the library would have of interest to the public, outside of his books and papers which will, of course, be historical records covering a period of 40 years. He is apparently planning to put in one room a good part of his naval collection, which includes models, prints and books, and in another smaller room will be all the pictures and historical materials which he has dealing with the early Hud- . son River days. | He will also include various things which have been given to him at various times, which he feels are of such historical interest that they should uot he given to any member of the family and thereby ph 3

| masonry work. years ago. They lived in apart- |

of It?

' shape. The flat side of the D probably was low, but ' the curved part ran up to five stories high. The build- | ing covers three acres and had about 800 rooms. It is built of the flat stones found lying on the ground in . these parts. There must have been billions of stones ‘in this vast pueblo. The Indian women did the

The earliest construction was poor. | years later, they reached a very commendable state ‘of masonry work. And then the later buildings were

{poor again. Why? I'll bite. Why? ° ‘

You can’ wander through this old ruin, and put

| your hands up and feel of logs and even reeds that

‘have been right there in the ceiling for 1000 years. It

| is misleading merely to say the wood is well-preserved. |

It is as good as if it were cut 20 years ago. The doors to all the rooms are very low—about two feet high. Which might indicate they were little people. Yet the ceilings are so high a seven-footer could stand upright. ’ : 4 > ® 8.8

A Lost and Desolate Sensation

Only those who are really interested come here. Youre on unpaved road for 60 miles in each direction, and it is a townless, forbidding country. There]

‘were 90 visitors last month. ; 2

I think I shan’t go see any more Indian ruins. For they are exasperating. They raise a question, and leave it unanswered. a . 3 At Mesa Verde, the Basket-Makers disappeared. Ncbody knows why or where. And here at Chaco Canyon, the two great questions are, “Where did they come from? Where did they go?” You ask wifh tiredness and resignation, for there is no answer. Nobody knows. You have sort of a lost and desolate sensation here, and a vague fear, and you feei as if you

want to get started away a couple of hours before|

dark. The Government has plans for building a road up to the mesa top, and erecting a modern lodge up there. When that is done, tourists can come, and sit on the. mesa rim by the hour; and stare down at the amazingly intricate and vast apartment where once

- 1200 human beings lived and worked and loved and

disgppeared. Just as we ourselves will do. And what

By Anton Scherrer

cies.” That settled it. For two years after that; I was too scared to look at a girl. ; One year, too, Mr. Bok did his level best to get the women of America to wear clothes to suit him. As near as I recall, Mr. Bok’s sartorial philosophy embraced a belief that the more clothes a woman wore the better she would look. The better she would feel, too, for Mr. Bok had an idea that completeness of covering was an outward manifestation of an inner rectitude. Mr. Bok didn't get to first base with his ideas, as you probably know without my telling you.

He Beat Father to It

Nor did Mr. Bok get very far when he tried to persuade women to cease decorating their hats with aigrettes. = After pursuing this crusade for four months, he discovered that the sales of aigrettes, instead of diminishing as he had hoped, had more than quadrupled. He had the last laugh, though. He went to the legislatures and had them turn the trick; with the result that from that day to this, women had to stick to flowers and ribbons. With that crusade out of the way, Mr. Bok started printing plans and specifications showing how to get rid of mosquitoes. The less said about it, the better. On the other hand, Mr. Bok was surprisingly successful with some of his other reforms. For example, he did more to clean up the backyards of Indianapolis and turn them into gardens than anybody else I know. And he had just as much to do with transforming the ugly interiors of American homes. At any rate,’ I ‘doubt very much whether Mother would have got around to discarding our three-piece red plush parlor set as early as she did had she not been a regular subscriber of the Ladies Home Journal. Father, I remember, raised quite a fuss when he heard what Mother was up to. He didn’t mean a word of it. - At any rate, I have reason to believe that Father wasn’t particularly attached to our red plush outfit. What got him sore was that he hadn't thought of getting rid of it before Mr. Bok did.

By Raymond Clapper

cruising radius of 125 miles. The new Boeings, which probably are superior in speed and striking power to any bombers of comparable size in the world, do better than 200 miles an hour—the actual speed is a military

) secret—and the light pursuit planes, with 1100 horse-

power Wasp engines, have speeds well over 300 miles. The first Wright plane did about 47 miles an hour and the Army insisted upon a minimum speed of 835. Specifications required that the first plane be so constructed that it could be knocked down and loaded into an Army wagon and set up again within an hour. It had to be able to carry two men and stay aloft for one hour.

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Original Plane Preserved

The first machine tried. out at Ft. Myer, near Washington, in 1908, crashed, killing Lieut. Selfridge, the Army's first flying casualty, and severely injuring Orville Wright. But the following summer the Wrights came back with another plane. This one made the grade and was accepted by the War Department on Aug. 2. It is now preserved in the Smithsonian Institution. ~ From that beginning,. we now have an Army Air Corps of 21,000 enlisted men, 1500 regular officers, 2300 planes and an authorized program to bring the active strength up to 5500 planes and double the personnel. force. Only 12 years ago Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. The other day President Roosevelt was presented with a necktie that had been purchased in Paris two days before, and flown to this side in the Yankee Clipper.

We have regular five-day passenger flying over the Pacific.

If politics and statesmanship have developed as!

Tapidly as aviation, this would, indeed, be a different

By Eleanor Roosevelt

The historians .on the committee feel that it is well to scatter documents of historical interest, partly for the sake of safety and partly because it allows people to see things in different parts of the country. This awakens their interest, so that, in visiting other places, they will be keener to see whatever that section has to offer from an historical point of view. In talking to Mr. Norman Littell yesterday, I was much interested to find that when he was a student at Oxford he had spent one of his holidays study-

Mr. Gladstone left his bodks, which consisted of a very good historical library and a religious library, to the British Government. His home, Hawarden Castle, has also been left as a museum and near the library has been built a small and simple “hostel” where students who use the library and are recommended by the deans of their college, may stop at very slight expense. £ I wonder if, in the future, we will have places similar to this? A museum of course, would be visited by a great many people. But to keep the library part of it a place where people can do serious work, and to make it particularly available to students, seems a real contribution to education. After the ceremony was over, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., Mr. Walker; Mr. George Allen, Mr. Connor and Mr. Simon, together with Johnny and Anne who arrived toward the end of the ceremony, had lunch with us. The Postmaster General, who is sailing Wednesday on the same ship with Johnny and Anne, left at once with Maj. Hooker for New York by motor. He sounded as though he had a good

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‘Working

This is the first article in a debate on the topic: “Should wives be permitted to hold jobs outside the home? Tomorrow Bdwina Austin Avery, prominent Washington attorney, will answer Miss Birmingham’s challenging article with one equally outspoken. Thursday, John T. Flynn will view the question through the unprejudiced eyes of an economist. Miss Birmingham is president of the Massachusetts Women's Club and an advocate of national legislation to bar married ‘women from employment.

By Florence Birmingham 1 7ORKING wives are a menace to the general welfare, to the public health and to the morals of our nation. ' The avenue of employment is a one-way street, cluttered ' with married

women. - In America today are thousands of people on the dole with no member of their family unit . working, while thousands of married couples on public payrolls receive double income. : ¢ A married woman’s place is in .the home if her husband can sup‘port her. Man was meant to be the protector and supporter of the home; spirit of it. : A married woman takes on a new legal personality with marriage. She does not retain her ‘identity as does a man. There is a change in her duties to the general welfare. In addition to new ‘responsibilities, rights accrue to her in law; her right to support while her husband lives; on his ‘death, her dower and homestead rights, known in the South and Southwest as the community property law. ” ” 8 > HE single girl, on the contrary, has to look out for herself as nobody is legally bound to keep her when she. reaches maturity. : Working wives should find the self-expression of which they prate through the career which they choose of their own frée

the printing expenses.

of the codifiers that the code wou

BUTLER FRESHMEN T0 HAVE SPONSORS

A Freshman sponsorship program will be installed with the beginning of the fall term at Butler University. Each freshman is to be provided with a friend or sponsor on the faculty who will assist him in adjusting himself to college life and its problems. 7 Freshmen will be advised on problems in health, religion, psychological difficulties, speech defects? reading difficulties and curriculum problems, : Dr. M. G. Bridenstine, program director, said the new program is not. to be a substitute for the academic and curriculum advisory bodies. Work of these two groups will be carried on in the usual manner. A record system on each entering student will be established as a part of the new program. The individual's record would include a personnel sheet, test scores, high school record, letters from high school principals, and letters from parents. The records will aid in academic advising, vocational guidance and placement of graduates.

267,000 IN STATE GIVEN COMPENSATION

Since job insurance became ‘effective in Indiana 16 months ago, 267,000 persons have filed claims for payments and 33,000 have filed a second claim, it ‘was announced today. ’ In the Indianapolis district, the total is 40,000, of which 4000 applications were repeated. There are 660,000 insured workers in the State

land 137,000 in this district, accord-

ing’ to Lester. Kassing, Unemployment Compensation Division director here. ; Benefits paid in the State total $23,000,000 and $2,750,000 in this district, Mr. Kassing said.

U. S. AGENTS HUNT

Federal authorities today searched for persons believed to have taken ‘more than $350 of Postoffice receipts, hidden in a tobacco can under the tracks of a deserted switch near Shelburn, Ind. Postal authorities allege the money was originally found by Robert Buick Wilson, 55-year-old unemployed coal miner, on the tracks of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad near Shelburn. C. A. Parkin, postal inspector here, said

which fell out of a pouch which

on May 17 at Shelburn. Mr. Parkin said Wilson spent $18 of the money at Terre Haute, hid the re er in the tobacco can belie to have been stolen by -ac-

was to be held in Terre Haute today

TOBACCO CAN CACHE

ing for a history exam in Mr. Gladstone's library.|

; Interna the money was in registered ‘letters ture at Rome, told the American|

Association: of Agriculture College|. Editors at a meeting at Purdue Uni- :

for economic su-|

ripped during an automatic pickup’

quaintances.. A hearing for Wilson|la

Vife Is Bra nded as

woman, the guiding :

‘Chiseler and Deserter’

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SECTION: |

The Working Wife .. . . “She is a deserter from her post of duty, ~ the home.” ; * Sy

The Home Wife . . . “A married woman should be proud to

give herself to her home.”

will—matrimony. They are a threat to the public welfare and morals by their own act in (generally) denying children to state and nation, and by forcing single girls and jobless graduates into wrong paths of life. ; These young girls, denied their right to a job, are not permitted to develop their lives and have homes of their own, but . are forced into degradation. There is no advancement for women while - thousands are driven to prostitution through economic necessity. Not 'béing the superwomen they pretend, working wives can. not do two jobs well. They neglect either home or job. As they

City Code Nearly Ready— ' But-No Money to Print It

The City code will be ready for publication this fall or.next if someone in the Legal Department can find money in the City budget to pay

As matters stood today, there was considerable doubt in the minds

ld be published this year—or even next year. : The new code would list and in-

in the last 100 years. It would replace the 1925 code, now out of date. - i «For. three years, various legal department members, headed by Adolph Emhardt Jr., Assistant City] Attorney, have been trying to get. the recodification of the City ordinances published, but there has never been any money in the budget for it. The process started in 1935 land: each year has had to be revised as new ordinances were passed and ‘publication was delayed. : 3 > Mr, Emhardt, when asked abou the recodification, flashed a quick smile and said: ;

have it ready by fall this tine. We have been working on it for quite a ‘long time and we've never been able to publish it because somehow there just hasn’t heen any money. “If we can’t get it published this fall, I guess we'll just have to start all over again because City Council ‘will: keep on passing ordinances and, we'll have to revise cverything we've done.” ; Lack of an up-to-date code book has handicapped City officials in transaeting business whicn necessitates looking up old: Council - Proceedings. Officials explained that money has been put into the budget each year, but has been taken out by adjustment boards or Las been transferred to other funds.

16 70 GET DIPLOMAS FROM 0Y§' SCHOOL

Times Special, +. ‘PLAINFIELD, Ind, July 25.—8Sixteen boys at the Indiana Boys’ School will receive high school diplomas here Friday night at the-an-nual Commencement exercises. Judge A.J. Stevenson of the Indiana Appellate Court will deliver the» main address, speaking on “Gentlemen.” Homer American" Legion Americanism director, will. present the Legion's m i to the best all-round student in the class. The award is lon scholarship, character, attitude and leadership. - - £3 e program will also include enent by the school’s band chestra.. Wiese

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WAR NO SOLUTION, "EDITORS ARE TOLD

\ war’ would leave unsolved ssent international economie

L tional Institute of Agricul-

versity last night. ‘He said a fight ( nacy has been in progress since

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dex all, the city ordinances passed |

“I think we're really going tol

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AYETTE, Ind, July 25 (U.]:

ties. J. Clyde Martin of the|

1918 and added that a policy of iso-|

‘bear a double burden, they are not as competent as single women. They cannot be dignified by the name of workers. They are chiselers, deserters from their post of duty, the home.

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N the Federal Government, as .well as in every state, city and town, are thousands of childless wives employed at a salary sufficient to maintain an entire fam- | ily while their husbands also draw a handsome stipend from | the public trough. Employment of both is a wrong allocation of jobs that cannot be justified when | there is so much unemployment. |

LESS POLUTION | IN STATE NOTED

Health Chief Credits Heavy “Rains With Helping “Stream Condition.

Indiana. streams are more free from polution this summer than for many years, Dr. Verne K. Harvey, state health director, said today. | Unusually heavy rains during summer months when dry weather usually prevails have diluted streams to where the danger of pollution is almost negligible, he said. . : 5 “However, we are continuing to make regular tests of water in all Indiana streams, and are watching constantly for bad water conditions,” Dr. Harvey said. Several anti-pollution projects were started last ‘summer and in 1937 as result of stagnant. water that would not carry off sewage. HA ‘Last year the sanitary engineering department of the Health Board ordered sewage disposal projects in ‘Northern Indiana areas. < “This year,- however, we have not found it necessary to issue antipollution ‘ orders against factories using streams for disposal-of refuse matter,” Dr. Harvey said. |

$380,000 ALLOTTED KNOX COUNTY'S REA

Times Special : WASHINGTON, July 25.—The Rural Electrification Administration has. allotted an additional $380,000 to the Knox County Rural Electri-

‘| fication . Co-operative, it was an1916.

TEST YOUR | KNOWLEDGE

1—<What is an ammeter? : 2—In. which. country .is_the lira | the unit. of coinage? 3--Name. the mountain chairron | ‘the border between Spain | and France. | 4—What treaty ended the U. S. war with Mexico? 5—Which U. S. Supreme Court | Justice was the Secretary of | State in the Harding Cabi- | net? ~~. | 6—Is the name of Alice Marble associated with the game of | golf, tennis or skiing? T—Which state of the U. S. has | the largest water area? | : Ug ci ‘Answers 1—Instrument used to-measure the itensity of an electric current. ; ; | - 2—Ttaly. --3—Pyrenees. Hidalgo. ‘ 5-—Charles Evans Hughes,

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ASK THE TIMES = | Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information The napalis Times | Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13th' St, N, W., -Washington, D. C. Legal and medical

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"Three million families

| terialism.

. Economic ~. conditions have changed due ‘ to -thousands of women who neglect their main duty, motherhood and home mak= ing, for jobs. In 1930 there were.

well over three million married women working. . Today there are . well over five: and a half million. -

based on the estimate of the job census of “John D. Biggers, who claimed wives are working today

| who never worked in 1930.

. In the nation there are more than’ 11,000,000 jobless and 26,000,000 employed only part time, with 3,000,000 upon - WPA ‘and 300,000 young men in the CCC. in the United States are being supported by relief. The life of the nation is menaced by selfish couples who marry merely to pool their salaries and cut. down on expenses. Such marriages ‘are: based on complete ma#.8 8 i HE American Government ‘should be striving to raise the wages of the husband, legally the head of the family, instead of.

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to work outside to supplement the family income. : - When married women, through economic necessity, are obliged to seek outside employment, we retrograde to the savagery, for example, of the Indians, who forced

_ the squaws to do all the work. -

A married - woman should be - ‘proud of giving herself to her home instead of priding herself on holding a job in a little office. No genius of the arts, sciences, literature, painting, sculpture

mourned the infinite. amount of .

‘time and strength expended in producing ‘a masterpiece, and no really understanding, intelligent mother - complains of her hard-

". ships. For a healthy child is the

supreme self-expression of any woman. :

Tomorrow—The Case for the Working Wives. ¥

Park Concerts Popular But Funds Seem Scarce

A C. Sallee, City Park superintendent, and other Park Board members today were conducting an unofficial search for music lovers with

money to spare.

Results, also unofficial, seemed to. show that the most ardent music lovers are not affluent and “a majority of likely prospects are away on

vacation. :

There also was an underground suspicion among Park Board mem-

bers that taxpayers’ organizations which demanded a. budget paring last year came under the first classification: At present the Board has. ennugh money for two more free park concerts by the: Indianapolis: Concert Band, directed by William Schumacher. The original appropriation was increased by the gift of $125 from Mrs. Anna S. Elliott, Spink Arms Hotel. ’ x The opening concert by the Indi-

anapolis - Concert Band at Garfield

Park Sunday night drew 8000 persons and three postcards addressed

'to Mayor Sullivan.

Two of - the cards stated: “We want’ more band concerts in our city parks.” Ln gn The other read: “We would like to have more band concerts in our city parks, please.”

CROWELL SERVICES SCHEDULED TODAY

FRANKLIN, Ind., July 25 (U. P).

| —Funeral services will be held to-

day for Melvin Elliott Crowell, 88, retired physics and chemistry pro-

| fessor at Franklin College. He died

at his home here Sunday night. Dr. Crowell retired from teaching 15 years ago after ‘being: connected with - the college for 17 years. He was acting president: from ‘19098 to

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1911 and ‘was dean from 1908 to

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HOOSIERS TO ATTEND TRADE CONFERENCE

Five representatives of Indianap-

tend the National Association of ‘Trade Executives annual conference at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill, Aug. 13-19. They are O. P. Fauchier, representing the Indiana Association of ce Industries; C. W. Hunt, from the Indianapolis Milk Foundation; Roland ‘Slagle, Indiana Lumber and Building Supply. Dealers; Charles P. Ehlers, Indiana Bakers Association, and G. Don Sullivan, Indiana «Coal Merchants’ Association. : Delegates are to report on the conference before the Aug. 21 meeting of the Indiana Merchants’ Association. :

BODY RECOVERED IN INDIANA MINE POND

SULLIVAN, Ind. July 25 (U. P.). —The body of Everett Helton, of Sullivan, was recovered yesterday from a mine pond near Shelburn by Sullivan firemen. ‘Mr. Helton was drowned when he dived from a boat in the pond Sun-

day.. He was 25.

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