Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1939 — Page 5

Mra a ee Interstate Conference Opens

FUND WORKERS TO HEAR OHIOAN AT ATHENAEUM

Welfare Leader to Address 300 Volunteers at Rally . This Evening. Dr. Donald H. Tippett, Columbus, O., widely-known welfare leader, will address more than 300 volunteer

Community Fund workers at a

meeting in the Athenaeum at 6 p. m. tonight. | - Dr. Tippett is one of several na-

. tionally known speakers who willl”

come to Indianapolis in connection with the 20th annual Comniunity Fund campaign which opens Oct. 9

with a rally at the Murat Theater. - Sanford Bates, New York, executive director of the Boys’ Clubs of America and formerly director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, will speak before the Individual Gifts division of the Community Fund, at 6 p. m. Thursday in the Athenaeum.

Rally to Open Drive

Charles -P. Taft, Cincinnati, O. will be the principal speaker at the - Monday night rally meeting which will open the drive. Perry W. Lesh, general campaign chairman, will preside. Governor M. Clifford Town- |. send and yor Reginald Sullivan will attend. The Indianapolis Symphony Choir

* of 200 pieces will furnish the music

at the opening rally. Preparations for the campaign are gaining headway, with 2000 of the 3000 volunteer workers already enlisted, Mr. Lesh said. A special precampaign meeting of the special gifts division workers will be held tonight at the home of Charles W. Chase, president of the Indianapolis Railways. Mr. Chase is serving as special gifts division chairman.

Legal Group Meets

The legal division, a new group in the drive, held a pre-campaign

- meeting at noon today in the Co-

lumbja Club. Clarence F. Merrell, president of the Indianapolis Bar Association, is chairman of the division and Roy O. Johnson is vice chairman. Captains’ of the division are Charles D. Babcock, Judge Dan V. White, Isidore Feibleman, Judge Smiley N. Chamber, John -Rocap, Edward J. Fillenwarth, Carl Vandivier, Elbert R. Gilliom, Anthony J. Klee, Edwin. Steers, Davis Harrison, Ralph W. Husted, Robert Lee Brokenburr, and Freeman B. Ransom. ~ “We have every reason to hope that this year’s drive will reach its goal in record time,” Mr. Lesh said.

- “Seventy thousand persons contrib-

uted to the Fund last year. We hope

to increase the number this year. We are sure the citizens of Indianapolis will give whole-hearted sup-

port to the campaign.”

AL SMITH STANDS BY F. D. R. ON EMBARGO

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—Alfred E. Smith, critic of many New Deal policies, urged in a nation-wide broadcast 'last night support of President Roosevelt in his fight to amend the present Neutrality Act which “does not work.”

The only way to keep the United States out of war, Mr. Smith said, is to “keep American ships and American passengers out of trade with belligerents.” The former Governor spoke over a Columbia Broadcasting System network. “It is because I firmly believe in my heart and soul that the amendments suggested oy the President are best calculated to save us from the scenes - that we witnessed in "1917 when our American boys weére starting for France that I am at this microphone. tonight, appealing to the American people to stand solidly behind the President because he is so clrealy right, so obviously on the gide ‘of common sense and sound judgment of patriotism that only those who lack an understanding of the jssue will oppose him,” Mr. Smith said. :

NEVER A COMMUNIST, SAYS HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (U. P.).— Heywood Broun, columnist and president of the American Newspaper Guild, denied today that he is, or ever has been, a member of . the Communist Party. His statement was an afiswer to testimony by Joseph Zack, former Communist Party member, who told the Dies Committee in Washington Saturday that Mr, Broun had belonged to the party for two years.

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NATION TO HEAR (CHOIR ON RADIO

City Symphonic Unit to Join Roosevelt, Taft in Fund Opening Oct. 9.

President Roosevelt and Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati will be joined by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir in a program broadcast by the three major networks Oct. 8, which will launch the 1939 Com-

{munity Mobilization for Human

Needs.

direction, and Mr. Taft, national mobilization chairman, will be heard from the Murat Theater, while the President will be speaking from Washington. The broadcast is scheduled for 9:30 p. m. Preceding the national campaign’s opening, the 20th annual Indianapolis Community Fund drive will be opened formally with a meeting at 8:15 p. m. in the Murat. Mr. Taft will be principal speaker on the pre-broadcast program, and the Choir also will give a short program before its radio appearance. The broadcast will be the starting signal for approximately 500 Community Chest campaigns throughout the country. This will be the first time that Indianapolis has

The Choir, under Elmer Steffen’s|

been selected as the inaugural point of the nation-wide drive.

LOCAL TEAM SECOND IN HORSE PULLING

TROY, O. Oct. 2 (U. P.).—The team owned by Charles B. Kiehl of Bradford, O., held the world heayyweight horse pulling championship today. The Kiehl team pulled 7000 pounds three feet six inches. The team owned by Ralph McCormick of Indianapolis was second and the team owned by the Cedardell Farms of Plano, Ill, 1938 champions, was third. In the lightweight competition, the team owned by Hubert Baldwin of Leesburg, O., was first. -

$159 OF KUHN'’S $50,000 NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (U. P)— Seven hundred members attending a Sunday rally of the GermanAmerican Bund contributed $159.16 to the bail fund of leader Fritz Kuhn, who is held in jail on grand Jarceny charges in lieu of $50,000 ond.

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A span of nearly 5000 miles separates the home of Clemens J. France (left) and Howard Wiig (right), but they met today on come mon soil at the third annual four-day Interstate Conference of Unemployment Compensation Agencies at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mr. France is chairman of the Rhode Island U. C. Board and Mr. Wiig is director of Hawaii’s division. They were welcomed by Tom Quin Jr, (center), counsel for the Indiana division.

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[OFFICIALS DINE oN

CHAMPION STEER,

Governor M. Ciifford Townsend headed a delegation of State offi-}-

|cials who were among guests of the

Wm. H. Block Co. today when the store began selling meats from Hoosier Boy II, grand champion Indiana 4-H Club steer. The 785-pound steer, raised by Frances June Wilbur, 15, Veeders-

burg, was purchased by the store at

auction during the Indiana State

"Fair for $1.75 a pound. Miss Wil- | bur and her parents were among the

guests, Others invited included Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker; State

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Curtis White, Harry Templeton, State Fair manager; |P. L. White, Levi Moore and Harry Caldwell, State Board of Agriculture members; J. C. Ralston, Purdue UniverCounty agricultural agent; K. V. Smith, William Price and William J. Jaus of Armour & Co. S. B. Walker, store controller, and

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lu S. Supreme Court's

1 50th Year Opens T oday

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (VU. P)—

The Supreme. Court of the United States, including four New Deal appointees, convened today: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughs announced the beginning of the Court's 150th year of deliberations. Today's was a brief, routine session to be followed by a week of conferences preliminary to the first decision day, Oct. 9.

Court chier T. Perry Lippitt called |

the traditional “oyez, oyez” as eight justices filed into the chamber. Associate Justice Pierce Butler, one of the conservatives who helped outlaw New Deal legislation during the momentous sessions of 1934-35, was seriously ill. His physician reported last night that Mr. Butler had shown “quite a bit of improvement,” and yesterday experienced one of his best days|-‘ since entering the hospital for treatment of a bladder ailment. Some 430 cases are pending before the 1939-40 session.: The Justices will begin to determine this week in

conference which of them they deem worthy of review. At 5 p. m., they will make a courtesy call on President Roosevelt at the White House So mtorm him that the Court is in :

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GRID TEAM THROWS

SUSPECT FOR LOSS

‘A 30-year-old thef: suspect who was downed by the entire Crispus Attucks High School grid team after a 200-yard cross-field run Saturday, was to be questioned today about recent burglaries at several local schools. The man made the tactical error of climbing out of a window of Crispus Attucks High School just as Coach Alonzo Watford and members of his team were piling out of {a bus in front of the school. They were returning from their game Friday at Gates, Ky. The team gave chase and threw the man for a loss at Missouri and 12th Sts. In his pocket was $10.23. Police said the suspect, being held on a vagrancy charge, admitted taking $5.23 from desks in the high school but said the other $5 was his own money. Among the recent burglaries in which the suspect was to be questioned was the theft of $3 from Cathedral High' School Friday night. The suspect was scheduled to. be |arraigned in Municipal Court 3 to-

day, but police said they ‘would ask a continuance.

Fabric Recalls Hoboken Plays

“HOBOKEN THEATRE” a printed fabric designed by Dorothy Trout, which is on exhibition at the John Herron «Art Museum, bring back memories to many Hoosiers who attended performances at the Hoboken Theater which flourished several years ago under the* sponsorship of Christophere Morley and Cleon Throckmorton. The black cotton fabric depicts the scenes from the “blood and thunder” melodramas which were ! so popular in the theater at that time. Among the plays were “The Black Crook,” “Bertha the Sewing: Machine Girl,” “Asleep at the Switch,” and many others. The major part of the exhibition, which is in Sculpture Court, is formed of foreign prin of the museum's permanent collection,

HELD IN MUNCIE SLAYING

MUNCIE, Ind, Oct. 2 (U. P).— Police today held Charles Booher, 42, pending investigation of the death of Ocie Butler yesterday from bullet wounds. Officials said her had confessed shooting Bugler ‘with -

a shotgun.

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