Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1939 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1939

‘Hoosier Vagabond

FOUR CORNERS,” U, S. A, July 26—Tve been . Belding my breath for fear Mrs. Roosevelt would beat, me to this spot. But, as far as I know, I made it first.

' "his is the only place in America where four states

Please, please don’t any of you write in and! say, “What of it?” for I don’t know any answer. Way off here in the mountainous desert, at a tiny little mathematical pin-point, the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona

come together,

and New Mexico all touch each

‘other. h There's nothing out here except: a concrete post and two swallows that keep flying around. Nobody but some screwball like ‘ me would think of coming cut here to write about it. : We drove out here in the car. But, if any of you should decide to follow our example, I'd suggest you bring a saddle. Also a shovel and water and a great’ ‘capacity for gazing at nothingness. You get here by driving 30 miles west from Shivrock, N. M,, on a dirt road. At 30 miles you turn right, onto: couple of tracks. You follow these tracks another eight miles. . i

It takes you three-quarters of an hour to go the last eight miles. It’s uphill, and full of rocks and gritied sand. You may have to stop and boil, as we id | When you finally get‘here, you'll find a concrete ‘post ‘about two. feet high, put up by the Government. On top of ‘it is set a bronze plate, not quite as big as a saucer. Stamped on this plate are two little lines, about an inch long, crossing in the middle. Those are the boundary i between the four states.

The Silly Guy! rr

We got kind of silly when we got here. First

thing. I had to sit on top of the post, which made

my rather scant bottom repose in four states simul-

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Back in 1895, Dr. John N. Hurty had his drug store on the northwest corner of Pennsylvania and Ohio Sts. A little farther west on the same side of the street in what was then known as Doctors’ Row was the office of Dr. William N..Wishard. The Postoffice was on the southeast corner of Market and Pennsylvania Sts., Albert Sahm was the postmaster. William H. Hawkins, the U. 8S. Marshal, had his office in the same building. The Model Clothing Store was on the southwest corner of Washington and Pennsylvania Sts.; the Bates House on the northwest corner of Washington and Illinois Sts. All of which is by way of setting the stage for Prof. Paul Alexan-

der Johnstone, a professional mind reader who came

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all the way from England to show us his tricks. Prof. Johnstone said somebody had told him that Indianapolis was made up mostly of skeptics and that he was going to-do something about it. Accordingly, on the afterncon of the day before he was scheduled to appear at English’s, Prof. Johnstone invited a group of representative citizens to meet him at the Bates House, When he got them together, he proposed that they form two groups, one of which was to remain with him. As for the other group, he invited them to go to a physician of their own picking, get him to write a prescription, and have it addressed to some druggist. That done, they were to place the sealed letter in a lock box in the Postoffice, and hide the key. After which Prof. Johnstone promised to drive. through the streets blindfolded, find the key, ‘get the letter, deliver it to the druggist, and fill the prescription himself.

Getting Everything. Ready

The committee went to Dr. Wishard and had him write a prescription. Anything he pleased. It was don Dr. Hurty’ 's drug store. Albert Sahm, the postmaster, gave the.committee ‘the key to Lock Box 40, and into this was Placed the sealed envelope

- Washington

~ WASHINGTON, July 26.—One of the most important and revealing appointments by President Roosevelt—that of his confidential economic assistant —slipped by with barely routine attention the other day because it occurred while everyone was gaping in astonishment over the glamorous anointing of Paul McNutt as Federal Security Administrator. The relatively unnoticed appointment was that of Dr. Laughlin Currie as one of the six “anonymous” White House assistants provided for in the Reorganization Act. You won’t hear much about Dr. Currie, for he hds the true “passion for anonyrjty” ‘(which was prescribed for: uy intimate, confidential work. though well-known among economists, and a former member of the Harvard econcmics faculty, he does

not appear in “Who's Who.” He even looks anonymous.

Gray, although only 36 years old, slight of build, quietvoiced, he melts unobtrusively in appearance and manner into any group. It is only when you get him off in a corner and talk with him that you discover, after all that he is not a routine Government clerk. Yet he is one of the boldest land most aggressive economic thinkers in Washington, a protege of Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, and one of the heavy brains behind the recent economic hearings of the temporary National Ecoriomic Committee. on savings and investment which developed the economics behind the current Government “investment” or lending program. :

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Personal ron Man

In his new assighment, Dr. Currie will ‘be Mr. Roosevelt's personal liaison man on New Deal economic matters. pifterty speaking the post has

HYDE PARK, Tuesday.—One has to read the ‘newspapers to find out what is happening, even in a house in which one lives part of the year! A news item this morning mibrms me that some enterprising person is Selling to tourists, for $1 each, the cards issued by Congressmen and Senators to their friends and constituents free, and which entitle them to see rooms in the White ‘House usually not open to the general public. There has never been any charge for seeing the White House. There are restrictions as to days and hours, but the service offered is part of the White House expense. ‘It requires, of course, much more cleaning and, during visiting hours, a maid has to be on hand to check people's “pelongings. But no charge is ever made and it’ is strange that this fact has never sufficiently entered the public's consciousness enough to prevent tourists from being victimized in this way. The Secret Service - will undoubtedly eventually catch the “clever” person ‘who thought up .this scheme, whoever it may be,

but, in the meantime, many tourists will Have paid an extra dollar for their sight-seeing.

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By Ernie Pole

tenebualy. I don’t care how big you are, you can't do better than that. After that; I leaned over the monument, and had my picture taken with one foot in Utah and one in Colorado, one hahd in New Mexico and one |-

in Arizona.

Then we got out our sandwiches, and I sat on the post eating in one-twelfth of America all at once. When we finished I threw a handful of banana peels and pieces of bread up in the air, and they fell into four states at once, desecrating them with refuse. The dirtiest tourist in the land can’t out-

desecrate me. «CHF 2 8 8

A Colossal Achievement! For about 30 feet around the marker post there

- are circles on the ground, where tourists have driven

around and around. Of course, I had to do it, too. So my friend timed me, and it took just 10 seconcls to circle the post, cutting the wheels as short as they would go. That gave me two and a half seconds in each of the four states.. A colossal achievement, my friends, a colossal achievement! It is not especially nice right here: at Four Corners, The monument is set in the center of a little plateau, a block or so square. From -there the land falls away, or rises, into the vast, rolling, desolate, windy country that is this part of the world. The sight is majestic in all directions. But it is not gentle.

Not 100 yards from the marker post are the crude stone walls of a crumbled building. There is no floor, no roof, no doors. We were told that somepody tried ton start a tourist hotel here. But we learned later it was merely a trading post, which went

broke.

The idea of building a hotel out here sort of intrigued me—until I got here. But I am now of the opinion that I'd think a long time before trying to entice the gay public out to Four Corners. I doubt I could stay here myself long enough to get the foundation built.

By Anton Scherrer

“containing the prescription. The key was hidden in

the back room belonging to the U. 8. Marshal.

On the committee’s return to the Bafes House, Prof.|

Johnstone was blindfolded and a copper wire was attached to his wrist and to the wrist of one of the members of the committee. Everything was now ready for the ride through the stseets of Indianapolis with the blindfolded professor and the manacled citizen on |: the driver’s box. Into Washington St., the team went on a run, Jim Corrigan, the corner cop, thought the proceedings a trifle irregular and tried to stop the hack, but the horses were too fast for him. They went at a breakneck speed down Washnigton St. At the Model corner they met another carriage with a driver who wasn’t looking where he was going. Quick as a flash, Prof. Johnstone threw his horses to the right and missed having a collision. A moment later, the blindfolded driver yelled to some newsboys to get out of the way. At this point, one of the committee members in the back seat ‘begged to be let out.

He Found the Key All Right

Finally, Prof." Johnstone, with Mr. Lehman six lengths behind, stopped at the Postoffice. Here he left the hack and led the committee to the U. S. Marshal’s back room. Sure, he found the key—right

away, as a matter of fact. With this he proceeded to

Lock Box 40, and pulled out the sealed envelope. Mr. Sahm looked on bug-eyed. Whereupon the drive was resumed. Entering Dr. Hurty’s drug store, Prof. Johnstone asked the druggist to read the prescription to him. Immediately, Prof. Johnstone with the committee at. his heels went to the prescription].

‘counter. Before. Dr. Hurty was hep to what was

going on, Prof. Johnstone found all the necessary bottles. He was still blindfolded, mind you. He weighed the quantities carefully and in no time at all had the prescription filled. He even wrapped the prescription using two kinds of colored paper. It turned out that Dr. Wishard had prescribed a dose of Seidlitz Powders. Wonder why nothing like that| happens Howadays.

By Raymond Clapper

nothing to do with policy. Dr. Currie is not supposed to issue orders, make decisions or indulge in public statements, but to remain completely in the background, assisting the President in obtaining information concerning economic policies, and communicaiing the President’s ideas, wishes and policies to the Government officials concerned. Dr. Currie was born in Nova Scotia and is now an American citizen. His wife is a sister of Mrs. Philip La Follette. He taught economics at Harvard and worked there with Dr. Alvin Hansen, who was the chief expert witness before TNEC recently on the necessity of Government investment as an offset to current excessive savings out of the national economy. 8 2 »

Joined N ew Deal in ’3}

Dr. Currie came into the New Deal in 1934 as one of a small brains trust under Jacob Viner in the Treasury Department, specializing in -monetfary matters. There he met Marriner , Eccles, then an assistant to the Secretary of Treasury. He went with . Mr. Eccles to the Federal Reserve Board as assistant director of research and statistics, and became one of the newer New Dealers.

Testifying ketore TNEC,; Dr. Currie said that the problem of maintaining full employment is the problem of securing sufficient outlets for the savings that will accompany full employment. ’ “It is not implied in this analysis, as is sometimes believed,” Dr. Currie said, “that there is something uneconomic or antisocial in the act of saving. From the point of view of ‘an individual it is a natural and prudent act, and from the point of view of the economy as a whole it is necessary in order to provide a source of funds for the replacement and expansion of our plant and equipment.” Without exaggerating the influence which Dr. Currie will have over policy, the fact remains that Mr. Roosevelt reached into the Eccles-New Deal group tao get his confidential economic contact man.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

are given their vacations, so it has meant much additional work for those: on duty. In addition, many people come with a’ firm: determination to see the rooms in which the King and Queen slept and the ushers have a very difficult time, explaining to visitors “that their cards do not entitle them to see rooms on the second floor of the White ‘House. No one, except on the invitation of someone’ actually living in the White House, is entitled to go up on the second floor. One can understand the desire to see the part of the White House which is really lived in, for I ‘think it is historicaily much more interesting and has far more atmosphere.

The state rooms, used for entertainment alone, cannot “possible avoid being a little like a museum. Of course, if visitors were allowed to go through the second floor, there would be no privacy for the family occupying the White House. ven row it is a bit like being a goldfish swimming in his glass , and that is why getting to oné’s own home ch a joy. We left Hyde Park at a very early hour this morning. I am going to try to pay a short visit:to the New York World's Fair this afternoon with Johnny and Anne, and Anne's mother, Mrs. Haven Clark, besides doing a number of personal errafids. This evening we are going to preview the movie “They Shall Have Music,” given for the benefit of the Greenwich House Music School and the ool of usic and. Art. I tell 3

As Savior

ing wives are “chiselers.”

By Edwina Austin Avery

or early thirties.

or, if not started until the thirties, will be limited. materially in size. Today the nation is spending -as much to edu-

cate its girls as it does its boys. To insist that a girl, in whom several thousand dollars has been invested in training as a business person, a professional person or a scientist, do only housework or be a nursemaid— neither of which she is fitted for by training and both of which she may be absolutely unsuited for temperamentally—is the essence

nomically unsound. We will have only ourselves to blame if we compel our girls of tomorrow ,o0 choose between a marriage that means living a subnormal life—or a normal life without marriage.

of absurdity besides being eco- :

Hamburger Lovers -Get Health Board Warning

Persons with a yen for hamburgers were advised today by Dr. -Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the City Health Board, to wait until the fall or winter months to satisfy their appetites.

Working Wife Hailed

of .

Family Life

This is the second article of a debate on “Should wives be permitted to hold jobs outside the home?” Yeste Birmingham, president of the Massachusetts Women’s Club, declared work- . Today, Edwina Avery, a prominent Wash- . ington attorney, replies. Tomorrow, John T. Flynn will discuss the question from the Snpreladived viewpoint of the economist, ;

¥, Florence

HE America of today faces the hard fact that it is next to impossible for young men. to be earning enough money to afford marriage and a family by the time they are 25, the normal marriage age. ' : If society ever insists that girls must become financial burdens immediately upon marriage, then there: will be nothing to do but postpone marriage until the late twenties

This means that the family will not be started at all—

RESENT-DAY marriage, for the city girl, no longer offers financial security. The farm woman and her children have always contributed sub- . stantially to the family income, and this without criticism from anyone. Furthermore, the Government in: numerous ways subsidizes the farm family. A good bit of today’s legislation is devoted to helping the farm family. And this is fine. But why should society so savagely attack the urban woman for doing only the same thing the farm woman is doing? . . The city woman is not asking any help from Government in the shape of subsidies. —411 she is asking is a chance to work and earn ‘her own subsidy in open competition with every other worker. In a 5-to-2 decision, handed down June 30, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts held that ‘“mar-

. “We are getting several complaints daily of : sickness from eating

MAP FIGHT ON

Indiana Merchants’ Group Will ‘Meet in August To Plan Action.

ence is to meet next month to map its fight against the truck tire tax law, G. Don Sullivan, Conference secretary, said today. ~ Organized June 8, the Conference ‘now represents 18 trade groups with 2 membership of 30,000 to 50,000. ‘The group was formed to ‘“co-or-dinate activities of Indiana merchants,” according to Mr. Sullivan. The organization at a meeting Monday commended the Indiana Motor Traffic Association for its stand opposing the weight tax.

Tells Merchants’ Plans

“We have committed ourselves to work for the repeal of this law if we cannot find relief through the courts,” he said.

Mr. Sullivan explained that the campaign against the much disputed law will be carried to each local community and that candidates for the Legislature will be asked their attitude on the law.

“This law was formed primarily to finance the maintenance and building of State highways,” Mr. Sullivan said. “The tax hits not only those who use the highways but those who have small trucks that never go beyond the City limits. It is inequitable and we are going to do everything in our power to have it repealed in 1941.”

COUNTY AUDITOR'S

Rearrangement in the County Auditor's office to make room for new bookkeeping machinery was underway today. In addition, Auditor Fabian Bie-

mer said, consolidation of all offices related to the Auditor's division is planned. { This includes transfer of the county draftsman’s office from the basement to a rear office of the Auditor’s “quarters. ‘The basement will be used to house the new bookRowing equipment to be purchased within the next few weeks. Th hinery is designed to modern e tax duplicate system. Also, the bookkeeper's office, which has adjoined the County Commissioners Court will be moved | to the transfer clerk’s quarters, Mr. Biemer said. Employees of the transfer eoffice will be moved to a rear room with the draftsnian, ‘The {front office, adjoining the Commisisoners Court, will be oceupied by the relief auditing, division which has been situated on the third floor for & number of years.

CONDUCTS ARSON PROBE COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. July ‘26 (U. P.).—Sherift John Ballard today sought to learn whether arson was responsible for a fire at a Coesse residence. ‘Members of the

Sunday night reported oil and keropread throug

bout [sene had ‘been

TRUCK TIRE TAX

“OFFICE REARRANGED

bucket brigade who fought the blaze

hamburger meat,” the doctor reported. “Most all of it is caused by unscrupulous meat dealers and merchants who sell deteriorated meat that

has been made to look fresh by the use: of sodium sulphite.” ‘Dr. Morgan said Department in-. spectors . are checking complaints. Seven merchants were charged in I Court last week in con.

hamburger meat as a result ‘of an

late this week and early next month. Meat Itself Blamed

the chemical that made the persons eating hamburger meat become sick,

"|but rather the deteriorated meat it- .} The Indiana Merchants Confer-

self. A good motto for’ the hamburger lover, Dr. Morgan said, might be: “Beware of a bargain in hamburger at any season of the year, but particularly in the summer time.” “It is not reasonable to assume,” he said, “that with good meat scraps selling at wholesale from 12 to 15 cents a pound, that'a merchant can grind up this meat and sell its as hamburger meat at retail from 10 to 12 cents a pound. Often some old leftover meat is ‘doctored-up’ to make hamburger’ meat and this causes the sickness.”

_ Issues Restaurant Order Yesterday, he said, investigators found a restaurant that had no facility for washing dishes and glasses except one spigot. The owner was ordered to install proper facilities for washing dishes, as the law provides, Dr. Morgan said. The Department also almost daily comes. into contact with the oldfashioned merchants who wants to display bakery goods and foods of all types on an open counter, unprotected from the flies by even so much as a piece of mosquito net. These merchants are ordered to get coverings for their food, or else not display it where flies can get to if, he said.

U. S. AGRICULTURAL JOBS ARE AVAILABLE

Competitive faminations for several positions in the Agricultural Marketing Service of the Department of Agriculture were announced today by the U. S. Civil Service Commission. Positions open include: Tobacco inspector, $3800 a year; associate tobacco inspector, $3200 a year; and assistant tobacco inspector, $2600 a year. Employment also is open for a principal seed technologist, $5600

year; seed technologist, $3800 a year; associate seed technologist, $3200 a) year, and assistant seed technologist, $2600 a year. Applications must be on file in the co ion’s office, Washington, D. C., by Aug. 21,

PRESIDENT PREPARES FOR SEAGOING TRIP

‘WASHINGTON, July 26 (U, P.).

vacation this summer after describ-

inner New Deal circle seeks the ouster of James A. Farley as Postmaster General and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He said yesterday such -reports were baseless and that Mr. Farley,

_ |who has been reported to oppose a|

third term for the chief executive, will retain his Cabinet post when he retuins from a European cruise ajon which he embarks today. Mr. Roosevelt said that his vaca-| tion plas call for a far into the. North

nection. ith selling dete en

investigation by the Health De- | partment. Their trials are scheduled

The doctor said that it was not

a year; senior technologist, $4600 a|

—President ‘Roosevelt today pro-|’ ‘ceeded with his plans for a seagoing

ing as “tommyrot” reports that an|”

Prohibition against paid employment for wives ‘means that “the family will net ‘be started at all—or . ‘will be limited materially in size.” = © : :

ried women are not by reason of being married excluded from citizenship” and “like other citizens they are entitled to the benefit of the Constitutional guarantees against’ arbitrary discrimination.” » » »

O widely is this feeling shared that for the first time in the history of the women’s movement almost all of the great national organizations of women are united in one solid front to defend the right of the working woman te marry and the married woman to work. They realize that to say arbi-: trarily that certain members of their sex may or may not do. certain things deprives them of these precious Constitutional guarantees of citizenship.

- Further, if the rights of minor- :

ities can be abrogated so easily,

what assurance can majorities ’

have that the essential guarantees of citizenship for either men or women are safe? Thus the struggle between these two schools of thought is tremendously important— 1. Because of the Constitutional questions involved; 2. Because: it is engendering class = hatred and intolerance;

3. Because women who are thrown .

out of jobs must readjust their lives ‘and those of their dependents to a lower standard of living and their own mental approach to a society which casts them so ruthlessly out of the - confines of its protection, : 2 #2 =n i URTHER, in the heat and bitterness of argument, we may fail to realize’ exactly the ends to . which “the crystallization of this idea of “no paid employment, for, married women” would lead.

We are failing to realize that .we may be sowing a whirlwind

that will reap us a harvest of

‘racial deterioration the like of which ‘no civilization has = ever been able to face and survive. A return. to normal, sane thinking is imperative—a return to the American way of thinking, where individual effort and self- reliance is ‘not only encouraged, “hut €Xpected.

Through stich thought we will

not only preserve today our democratic form. of government with its = Constitutional guarantees against discriminations... We also will encourage our young city people to marry and have the ‘children necessary ~ to preserve that form of government for. future generations.

TOMORROW: John Flynn. will discuss the third aspect in. the

; _ problem of working wives.”

{LOCAL DEPUTY'S

CONDITION ‘FAIR

Injured in Collision, Woman And Daughter Also Hurt; 4 Others Bruised.

Deputy Sheriff Charles McAllister, injured in an auto collision yesterday; was reporied in fair con- | dition at City Hospital today. Six ‘others were hurt .in seven over_inight traffic accidents. Deputy McAllister received cuts and a back injury, it was reported, in a collision, with a car driven by ‘Mrs. Viola Evans, 959 ‘Albany St, at Allen and Summer Sts.

was, taken to Methodist Hospital. Her daughter; Mrs. Viola Tyner, 1964 Park Ave. a passenger, was injured less seriously. - Mrs. Mildred Stalling, 34, of 18 S. Grace St., and her 10-year-old: son, Leslie, were injured when a taxicab was knocked against them as they crossed Washington St. at Rural St. ‘Police said a car driven by Margaret Winter, .1515 Ringold St., struck Lester Martin’s taxi while he was waiting for a green traffic signal, throwing the machine against the mother and child. Lena Ann Arbuckle, 2-year-old daughter of Mrs, Mildred Arbuckle, 62 S. Rural St. bumped her head when her mother’s car and one driven by Dr. Howard Kenecke, 404 N. Kealing Ave. collided at Illinois and Washington Sts.

MARS APPROACHING} PEASANTS SCARED |

MEXICO CITY, July 26 (U.P.).— Peasants of Jalisco State prepared for the worst today as Mars approached the earth. Dispatches indicated that they were ready for anything from an earthquake to the end of the world. ; Police raided the premises of a house at Tlapquepaque where they found 60 witch doctors, squatting before a pile of skulls of snakes and cats. The witch doctors explained they were holding a state convention to discuss “calamities which might: befall the earth tomorrow when Mars reached its closest point.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—-Name the capital of. Puerto Rico. 2—Why was the Arc d’ Triom- : phe in Paris built? 3—What are deciduous plants? . 4—In which round did Max ' Schmeling knock out Adolf. Heuser in their recent bout? + 5—~What is the purpose of the North Atlantic iee patrol? 6—Which State named its capi- - tal’ city in honor of Abra=- - ham Lincoln? ~ T—What does the legal term locus delicti mean?

Answers 1—San Juan.’ 2—To commemorate the vies y tories of Napoleon. 3—Those. .which shed their leaves in winter. : 4—First round. 5—To safeguard shipping from icebergs. 6—Nebraska. 7—The place where an offense “was committed. F 4 ” “

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Pig Escapes, Drivers Shy, ‘Posse’ Runs

Times Special _ EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 26. —This is a, story of a piz which went to market the hard way. In the downtown " scation, amid much auto traffic, this 250-pound pig clambered over . the side of the truck and began broken-field running around and past cars. . Cars gave it a hasty path and the truck driver took after it. Last seen, thé pig was Suburbs-bound, with a nice lead. Y

FLEES FROM HOME IN MORRIS ST. FIRE

Andrew Burns was -forced to: escape through a front window of his home, 4930 W. Morris St., today when a fire that started in the rear cut off other avenues of escape. Mr. Burns lives alone. The fire did more than $500 damage to the home and garage, destroyed ‘a ‘car belonging to Volna Spray, next door neighbor, which was parked in Mr. Burns’ garage,

land damaged the’ paint on Mr.

Spray’s house. Mr. Spray fold deputy sheriffs he made an effort to wheel his car from the burning garage but could | not because the brakes were locked. The fire was of undetermindd orgin.

MRS. MARY. HOWARD, - SHELBYVILLE, TPEADS

Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind. 5 July’ 26.— “| Funeral services will be held .tomorrow for Mrs. Mary A. Howard, who died yesterday .at' her home south of here. She was 69. 2 Mrs. Howard and. her’ busbar | Othor, had planned ' to. celebrate their golden, wedding anniversary next fall. She was a member of the

Eastern Star.

Pythian Sisters and the Order of

DIL PRODUCTION

port Shows; 4,500,000 ‘Acres Under Lease.

Sof eekmimmeint

started on 90 others, Virgil M. Simreported today.

year has been

report stated.

lease for. drilling in Indiana, an increase ‘of ‘1,500,000 in: the last year. “However, - recent : months have witnessed a I operations which boomed throughout the southwestern and south central counties af

year,” Mr. Simmons said.

and Whitley Counties. “Considerable prospecting and

three northern tiers of counties, ex-

mons said.

INTEREST GAINING IN RILE Y HOSPITAL

Bequests and visitors

30 .indicated -an increasing interest

morial Association and Indiana University trustees’ said today. . Bequests announced by Hugh McK. Landon, committee chairman, amounted $14,000. of which $12,000 came from the estdte of Mrs. Lenora, Sproule; $1000 from the estate of Mary J. lawson and. $1000 anonymously. i 2: ‘A total of 3773 registered as visi-

Mrs. John W. Cra¥ens; hostess, said.

Jade to ‘the hospital during the’ ‘year,

Eighteen states besides Indiana and five foreign/ countries were: oRepIe.)

sented.

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Everyday Movies—By Wertman

GAINS IN STATE | |

Doubled in Past Year, Re-

‘Fifty-two producing oil and gas wells were drilled. in. Indiana during the last six months and work was.

mons, State Conservation Director, .The production of oil in the last doubled while the gas. output has increased 25 per cent, the

It is estimated that there are about 4,500,000 acres of land under ‘

ning of the leasing

the state early this ,

One of the major recent ‘developments has been renewal of activity | in northeastern Indiana, including Blackford, Adams, Huntington, Jay |

some leasing is. in progress ‘in the :

tending across the state from IMinois- to the: Ohio: line” Mr. Sim-:

inthe institution, the joint execu-: . " [tive committee of the Riley Me-~

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