Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1939 — Page 24

0s 3, SPENDING IN STATE PUT

AT$73,13 133.952

Manion Gives| Fi Figures for

- Fiseal Year; Total Since 1935, $269, 515 889.

The Federal Government spent $73,133,952 in Indiana during the * iast fiscal year which ended June 30,' according to Clarence Manion, State director of the office of Government Reports. "The total spent in Indiana by the Government out of emergency relief appropriation act- funds is now $269,515,889, which covers the period since April, 1935. - | Most of the money spent in the last fiscal year was {for employment through the WPA which totaled $66,263,231. ‘Other expenditures are Farm Security Administration, $2,950,212; National Youth Administration, $1,711,799: War Department, $588,422; Department of Agriculture, $391,344; Bureau of Public Roads, $295.438; Department of Interior, $314,136; Public Works Administration, $18.182+ Treasury, $336/115; Corps of Engineers, $5050; and other organizations, $240,019. | All agencies and departments on June 30 had unspent balances totaling $5,066,192, Mr. Manion said.

BACK-TO-FARM MOVE PRESSED IN FRANCE

PARIS, July 3 (0) 1 28 wo, P) a Edouard Daladier meets with |his Cabinet today to decide how to get French boys and girls “back on the farm” where they can raise more wheat, potatoes and babies. Fifty decrees devoted chiefly to measures intended to halt the exodus from rural to urban communities, to stimulate the birthrate and to unsnarl the domestic wheat problem will be examined and probably signed at the Cabinet meeting. The three problems are inter- , related and of major importance to France in today’s Straggle between the so-called democratic and totaliGis blocs in Europe. Finance Minister Paul Reynaud will broadcast to the country tonight an explanation of the Government's program for meeting | the problem which has been emphasized by statistics showing a reduction of the rural population by 4,000,000 persons in the past 40 years and by a declining birth rate. Special grants are | expected for deserving families in |which there are a large number of children. Special “motherhood” grants also may be made as has been done in Italy.

LINCOLN DOCUMENTS FOUND IN KENTUCKY

WASHINGTON, July 27 (U. P.).— The National Park Service reported today that its historical experts had rescued from oblivion |documentary proofs of Thomas Lincoln’s ownership of the farm at Hodgenville, Ky., where his illustrious son, Abraham Lincoln, was born. | Acting Director A. E. Demaray said that his experts made microfilm copies of the documents pertaining to the Lincoln family on file in the Larue County Court House, Kentucky, and that they will become a part of the Federal archives. The records are the only existing documents attesting the elder Lincoln’s legal ownership to the land on which he built the crude log cabin where the Emancipator was born. The records show that the land, known as Sinking Spring Farm, comprised 348 atres' and was acquired, by Thomas Lin¢oln in December, 1808, for $200.from Isaac Bush. The elder Lincoln closed the deal by making his mark onthe - paper.

POTTED ROSES

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Robert (left) and Joseph Lynch are shown at top. Below, Justin (left) ahd David.

Two More Expect to Join; Parents Proud of Letter From Swanson.

Next to their nine children, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Lynch, 1030 N. Sterling St., are proudest of a letter

from the late Secretary of the Navy Swanson congratulating them on having four sons in the Navy at one time. The letter came only a short time before Secretary Swanson’s death, and immediately after the fourth son, Joseph, 18, passed the Navy physical examinations early this summer. The letter has been placed in a box along with other family treasures. It congratulates Mr. and Mrs. Lynch on “your patrictism”. in sending four boys to the Navy. The other three sons, Justin J., 23; David W., 21, and Robert, 19, are all with the Pacific Coast fleet. Justin, is now on the battleship Maryland; David on the New Mexico and Robert on furlough from the West Virginia. Joseph, is to join Justin on the Maryland next month. “I guess the boys just wanted to see the world,” commented the fa-

Seafaring Lynch Family IN Sends Four Sons to Navy

PLANES 10 or Y

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Mark 30th Anniversary Of First Purchase.

Army airplanes from Chanute

i | Field, Rantoul, TI, will fly over In-

dianapolis in formation shortly after 10 a. m.' next Wednesday. They will be ‘part of the 1200 to 2000 Army planes which will take off simultaneously from military airports. throughout the country in observance of the 30th-ahniversary

. lof the Army’s first airplane pur-

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ther, a salesman. “After the first one joined and liked the Navy, it was only natural for the:others to want to join.” . Mr. Lynch said that his two youngest boys, Danny, 10, and Brian, 8, have already made up their minds to join the Navy when they get to be 18, and that his three girls, Ve-

ronica, 16, Theresa, 12, and Jean].

Ann, 1, all wished they were boys so they could join the Navy, too. The three oldest boys were graduated from Technical High School, while Joseph completed the junior year this spring. The older boys en-

listed shortly after their respective

graduations. Mr. Lynch said that while he himself had never been a sailor, his ancestors had been seafaring men, his father being the master of a merchantman Salling out of Dublin, Ireland.

State Library Is Quiet But Far From Listless

Activity in the Indiana State Library, like that in an ant hill, should not be judged by the amount of noise produced. Dropping in casually, one might think that the staff was spinning cobwebs or catching up on its knitting. But if the visitor stays around

for awhile,

he will discover that the librarians quietly and efficiently

are serving as tne bucket brigade for the human -thirst for knowledge.

For instance, there is the traveling library and Braille. division, tucked away in a corner room on the street floor. The room will be almost deserted, but the two or three workers will be serving thousands of readers. Last year this division sent out 800 collections, totaling 45,800 volumes, by train, bus, cattle truck and private ayto to isolated communities and individuals. In addition it is continually enlarging its library for the blind, with WPA assistance.

- ==And Those Questions

And then there is the morning mail with its inevitable batch of questions. Like the persistent and pervasive inquiries of the average 10-year-old, it gmbraces everything under the sun. Questions of a general nature go to the reference department, which receives in the neighborhood of 500 queries each month. Those more specific go to specialized departments.

When is Indiana’s next showboat performance scheduled, and what is the status of the redskins’ fishing rights in the state this season? The reference librarians may spend a minute or a day seeking such information. But, being literary Gmen, they usually get their answer. A New York woman, who read about Indiana showboats in a 1925 magazine, wrote the other day .to learn about aquatic melodramas this season. The library has provided material for both sides in a con-

troversy between fish and game,

authorities and the Miami Indian in Indiana which goes. back to the old treaties.

z Club Requests Aplenty Requests for help from clubs and study groups are numerous, of

course. But there also have been recent orders to fill for a woman n

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Wyoming who i writing a book about ‘the underground railroad in

Pennsylvania man who wanted pictures of two Civil War generals. When the city of New Castle parted its name in the middle, it was the State Library which provided conclusive proof that the separate spelling was in accordance with the original version. The library also found out when the grading for the old railrcad between Madison and North Vernon was completed, thereby providing a customer with a clue as to when his fathér bought a farm, along the right-of-way. Early this year, the library decided to list some daily reference questions as a commentary upon mankind’s curiosity. On Jan. 26, for instance, the list included requests for information on wiring houses, water-color painting, plastic mold-

scores of three Beethoven symphonies.

Happens Every Day

Another day that week, people wanted to know about Michelangelo,

the raising and care of guinea pigs and a trip to Walt Disney’s studio. When Feb. 1 rolled around, it brought, among other things, re-

trends of popular music, crusaders and saints, mercy killing, taxidermy and Victor Herbert.

working days of the year, and you receive an idea of what goes on beneath the State. Library’s quiet exterior. Library users, of course, are as diversified as their questions. Cne correspondent, for instance, is serving a life term in a penitentiary. He wants plays and books on playwriting. Another, whose interests run to agriculture, -home-making and child care, orders books trcm the traveling library for the Southern | Indiana = co-operative farm where he lives. Naturally, there are scholars, authors and historians by the doZens. About the only patrons who try

~ |librarians’ patience are the picture-

contest addicts. Hundreds of them will ask for the same rare and expensive volumes, just to be sure they aren’t grafting Coolidge’s nose on Buchanan’s chin to make a final likeness of Jefferson. Doubtless the reference experts’

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DRAMATIC TEAM AT CLOVERDALE TONIGHT

‘Members of the dramatic team of Capital City Lodge, 97, Knights of Pythias, will present the dramatic form of the lesson on the “Friendship of Damon and Pythias,” at the

}Cloverdale High School auditorium.

tonight. The presentation will be a feature

ress. Team members will include William H. Richardson,

McCrory Jr.

, GOSSETT REUNION SUNDAY - The annual Gossett reunion will|

be held Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Merritt, Brownsburg, it was announced today by Estelle

Philips) Brownsburg, secretary. ME

ing? gypsies and the conductor's |-

Calvinistic and Armenian faiths,|

quests for further knowledge on}

Multiply these examples by the|:

of the Cloverdale Pythians’ centen-| i nial celebration, which is in prog- i

particieipating 7

Charles L. Peggs, Harry J. Vollmer,| Justus -.E. Dodson and William 3 CH)

chase. War Department officials said it will be’ the. greatest’, .demonstration of Army plane ever held in the country.” Maj. Kenneth C. McGregor, contmander of the reserve air corps unit at Pt. Harrison, said his squadron would’ not participate. The 38th Division National Guard Air Squadron at Stout Field here also will not participate. The air observange. will. start with a radio signal: from. Washington. | Immediately the ‘planes will take off from 11 widely separated’ military aerodromes throughout the country and fly over nearly every major city in the United States. ~~ -

‘was one of the biggest: rallies I ever

Mrs.

By JAMES THRASHER J] ‘«1¢ 1 could only remem Mrs. Amelia Hays chuckled, as she scratched her head, “1 could write a book.” + As it is, Mrs. Hays does very well or one who will be 96 on Aug.'5. Sitting in her apartment at 766 West Drive, Woodruff Place, where

she lives with her daughter-in-law, A

she summoned up a good many ex-

|citing and interesting recollections|

of a life which began on ‘a Jackson County farm in 1843. Mrs. Hays supppses she * should have been born in a long cabin, but she can’t remember. Her family moved from her birthplace to Waukegan, Ill, when she was 4. A return to Indiana followed, then several years in Kansas, back to In-

Hays, 96, Didn’ t See Lincoln and She Doesn vt Expect to Live to Age of 100

diana in 1900, and, a residence ing

Indianapolis since 1928. “No, I didn’t see Lincoln,” Mrs. Hays admits, “but I almost did. I went to a big rally in Brownstown when Lincoln was campaigning.

They had a six-horse wagon loaded | £3

with logs, and they made the chips

fly splitting rails. Yes, it was sort |#*

of a campaign slogan. “But Lincoln didn’t get there. Maybe he was detained, or maybe he never intended to come. But it

saw.”

Mrs. Hays, eldest of four sisters

and a brother, ran the fagily farm while her father went to war. She

§|gan’s cavalry rode up into Indiana,

: with their belongings.

: | ollections is of an accident on her

i{secret of her long life, *unless it is

{a %: | health, she says, has been better for 2% | the past 20 years. Except for her eyes % | and feet, she is in good health today. | She is neither thin nor wrinkled, : |and her mind is alert.

|1s not particularly interested. She ‘But if she does, she Setamnly is go

remembers the fright when Mor-

and sent the residents around Brownstown fleeing to the woods

When Mrs. Hays was 24 she mart and after his| death, Edward Hays, a second cousin of the movie star. . One of Mrs. Hays’ most vivid rec-

return from Kansas in 1900. The

Ever after that she walked across

Mrs. Hays doesn’t quite know the

that she is a stanch Methodist and rock-ribbed Republican. Her

As for livingito be 100, Mrs. Hays doesn’t really expect to, she said.)

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Board's Purdue Meeting to Be First Under New

Chairman. . | LAFAYETTE, Ind. July 28.—The Indiana State Planning Board is to meet here Monday “to take stock of past planning in the State,” Prof. George E. Lommel of Purdue University and Board chairman, said today. This is the first meeting to 'be called by Prof. Lommel since his ape pointment to that. position recently, He succeeded Virgil M. Simmons, director of the Indiana Depariment of Conservation. Invited to aftend the meeting are President E. C. Elliott of Purdue; David E. Ross, president of the Pure due Board of Trustees, and Dean A, A. Potter of the engineering schools,

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