Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1939 — Page 12

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BIRTHS GOUP AS

DEATHS DECLINE IN STATE IN "38

U. S. Figures Show Infant Fatality Rate Dips; 2804 Killed.

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~~ The Indiana birth rate rose and the death rate dropped in 1938 as compared with 1937, the U. 8."Commerce Department census bureau announced today. » A total of 60,192] births put the birth rate at 17.3 per 1000 estimated population as compared with 16.1 in 1937. The death rate of 11.1, ‘based on 39,573 deaths, represented a decline from the 1937 rate of 11.8

per 1000 estimated population. The 1938 infant death rate was

425 per 1000 live births compared

‘to 49.7 the year before. Deaths from tuberculosis and + motor vehicle accidents showed a decline but there was an increase in cancer deaths. | The 1938 tu nlosis death rate was 40.4 deaths per 100,000 estimated population, ‘compared to 48.4 in the previous year. The motor vehicle accident death rate was 33.4 compared to 41.7 in 1937. The cancer rate rose from 1142 in 1937 to 119.3 last year. Two sets of triplets and 617 sets of twins were born in Indiana last Accidents claimed the lives of 2804 persons during the year, of whom 1853 were men and 951 were women. "There were 166 drownings, three of which occurred -in the homes and falls in homes caused 238 deaths. The motor vehicles toll was 1161.

MASONS PREPARING FOR OCT, 21 MEETING

" The annual tri-state Masonic meeting sponsored by the North Park Masonic Lodge will be held Oct. 21 at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, Martin G. Hodapp, worshipful master, announced today. Participating in this year’s meeting will be the Preston Lodge of Louisville, Ky., and the Pyramid Lodge of Detroit, Mich. The local . lodge will exemplify the entered apprentice degree, the Louisville lodge, the fellowcraft degree, and the Detroit group, the master Mason de-

gree. . The meeting will open at 2. p. m. and a banquet will be given at 6:30

p. m. Reservations may be made |

at the North Park Temple, 30th and Clifton Sts., or with E. O. Burgan, Masonic Temple, North and Illinois Sts., Mr. Hodapp said. C. A. Landes, 837 N. Illinois St., is chairman of the entertainment committee,

8 HOOSIERS JOIN IN MEDICAL MEET

Eight Indiana physicians will take part in the three-day joint convention of the Southern Homeopathic Medical Association and the PanAmerican ° Homeopathic Medical Congress opening in Cincinnati toMOITowW. They are Dr. John D. Coons, Lebanon; Dr. Arthur | W. Records, Franklin; Dr. L. E. Brackin, Columbus; Dr. Wilber K. Bond, Green Fork: Dr. Roy C. Fisher, Arcadia; Dr. J. M. Hicks, Huntington; Dr. E. R. Wallace, Aurora, and Dr. W. H. Eikenberry, Peru, President of the Southern group is D. W. LeRoy Bonnell of Chic , Okla., while Dr. Lester E. Simeon, Cleveland, O,, heads the Pan-American Congress.

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Watér colors and oils done by Manual High School art teachers are being exhibited in the school corridors. Miss Gladys Denney is showing two water colors, “The Stone Crusher” and “The Gossip.” The former won the second place ribbon in water color landscapes at the State Fair. “The Gossip” is a still life including a tea caddy, potted plants, a Chinese poresialn duck, cow and lamb. “Jungfrau,” a water color by Miss Betty Foster, was painted several years ago in the Swiss Alps. Her other picture, “Blue and Gold,” is a still life of forsythia and a Chinese

1200 PHONE USERS MOVE LAST MONTH

Thirty days hath September—and all of them are moving days in Indianapolis, according to Indiana Bell Telephone Co. records. Last month the company transferred 1200 telephones from one address to another within the city, thereby breaking an all-time record in its history. The migratory urge strikes citizens hardest in April and May, and again in September and’ October. But even in February and August, the most stable of residential months, there are seldom less than 600 phones to be transferred. And

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torquoise figure set before a dark blue drapery. Manuals jewelry teacher, Oran Davis, is exhibiting two oils—“Marigolds” and “Deep Purple.” The latter is an arrangement of bluegreen pottery, blue glass, and a plaster Greek head. Louis Finch is showing “Indiana Fisherman” painted along the Ohio River. Charles Yeager's ‘Pear Still Life,” which was awarded first prize in the water color still life division at the Fair, also is being shown. Mr. Yeager’s other painting is an oil landscape painted at Woodstock, N. Y. with the Catskills forming the central motif.

Ghosts, Goblins Due in Decatur

Times Special DECATUR, IND, Oct. 9.—Goblins, witches and other fearsome characters will take over Decatur’s downtown streets Oct. 31. The city will observe its annual Callithumpian parade and festival sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce.

HAHN WILL ADDRESS

SOCIAL CONFERENCE |

Dr. E. Vernon Hahn, neurological surgeon, will lead a discussion on “Mental Health” at a meeting to be held Nov:-3 in ccnnection with the Indiana State Conference on Social Work, Allan Bloom; conference president, announced today. The meeting will consider mental health as related to schools, home, community, religion, childiood development and the law, Mr. Bloom said. Dr. Hahn is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Central States Neuropsychiatric = Association and . a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

A. J. RUPPEL DIRECTS

(GRACE CHURCH CHOIR

Albert Jackson Ruppel, Arthur

Jordan Conservatory faculty member, is the new choirmaster of the Grace Methodist Church. | Mr. Ruppel is a native of Baltie, a graduate of the f that city and of the University of Pennsylvania.

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90th Annual Session Opens

Tomorrow in Ft. Wayne: Lasts Three Days.

Times Special : FT. WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 9.—With al three-day program of lectures, business and entertainment scheduled, the Indiana State Medical Association will open its 90th annual session tomorrow at- the Shrine Theater. 2 ;

Business conferences of the council and house of delegates are included on. the first day, with golf, trap shooting, archery and other en~ tertainment arranged for other delegates. The scientific program will open the following day. Speakers Wednesday will be Dr. Joseph Felsen of New York; Dr. E M. VanBuskirk of Ft. Wayne, State Association president; Dr. Byrl R.

Galbraith of Toledo, O., and Dr. E. PF. Horine, University of Louisville. The afternoon session will consist of essays and discussion, with a paper by Dr. Raphael Isaacs, University of Michigan Medical School. Honor guests and principal speakers at the annual banquet on Wednesday night will be Dr. Nathan B. VanEtten, president-elect of the American Medical Association, and Dr. George Lang, University of Alabama philosophy professor. The concluding scientific program Thursday will bring addresses by Dr. Joseph E. Schaefer, Chicago; Dr. Paul D. White, Boston; Dr. Edmund L. Keeney, Baltimore; Dr. Henry B. Orton, New York Polyclinic Medical School and: Hospital, and Dr. Willis C. Campbell, University of Tennessee Medical School professor.

PUPILS GET FIRE HAZARD LESSON

Lectures in Grade Schools Feature Observance of Prevention Week.

National Fire Prevention Week was in full swing in Indianapolis today as members of the Fire Prevention division of the Fire Department toured the City’s schools addressing pupils on fire hazards.

With City and State fire officials co-operating, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce's Fire Prevention Committee began to pick “fire marshals” from local business firms who will co-ordinate fire prevention activity with officials. One “marshal” will be picked from the personnel of each Indianapolis business and industry, according to the committee’s plan, and will serve the ykar around. “These fire marshals will fill the gap between industrial management and the Fire Department,” R. D. MacDaniel, committee chairman, said. “The marshal will be responsible for fire prevention activity at his firm and will notify officials whenever a fire hazard is found.” Chief Bernard A. Lynch of the Fire Prevention division was to address classrooms and assemblies at several grammar schools. Officials said the fire prevention campaign also would be carried on in high schools and among civic and fraternal groups. .

HOWE HOME ROOM LEADERS SELECTED

Presidents of home rooms at Thomas Carr Howe High School for the fall semester were announced today by school officials. They are Floyd -Bicknell, Room 27; Ann Holloway, 28; Marjorie Harvey, 120; Harold Heitz, 122; Beatrice Whitaker, 126; Robert Harvey, 127B; Ralph Toney, 127E; Mary Elizabeth Donnell, 128; John Minatel, 130; Cortland Shea, 226; Robert McMullen, 228. Clyde Holder, 230; Margaret Richardson, 132; Robert Woerner, 220; Phyllis Lawrence, 224; Lucille Reénnard, 232; Richard Godfrey, 234, and Mary ‘LaShorne, 236.

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SIX SHOWS in three weeks]. That exclamatory statement merits a line all for itself, for it represents the crowded state of English’s calendar from the season’s opening on Oct. 26. Excluding Sundays, the theater will be open every night but one until ,Nov. 16. Happy days, as some one "has remarked; are here again. After the precarious condition of “the road” and the unavoidable feast-or-famine nature of English’s bookings in recent years, Indianapolis’. theatergoing public can’t ‘be- blamed if it tossés its coHective hat over the nearest windmill, Decidedly more important than a‘ quotation of numbers and days is the promised quality of the opening schedule. First off, on Oct.- 26, we are to see Dennis King, Vivien Siegel and Karen van Ryn in the successful Rodgers

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FOLLOWING, ON OCT. 30, comes the first performance anywhere” of Maxwell Anderson's “Key Largo,” which marks Paul Muni’s return to the stage after 11 years in Hollywood. Though no word has come through as to the new play's nature, it is safe to assume that, with such distinguished names as Mr. Anderson’s-

and Mr. Muni’s to: recommend it,

“Key Largo’s” opening will be one of the important events of the Broadway as well as the local season. : Ethel Barrymore brings us another pre-New York offering in Noel Langley’s “Farm of Three Echoes,” opening Nov. 2. Close on its heels comes the appear-

T ance of Taylor Holmes in Paul

Osborne’s “On Borrowed Time” on Nov. 6. Then another Hollywood = prodigal, Edward Everett Horton, will be with us beginning Nov. 9, in a revival of Benn W. Levy’s popular “Springtime for Henry,” in which Mr. Horton toured the summer circuit the past months.

And finally, to end the first |

dramatic flurry comes “Mamba’s Daughters,” by "Dorothy and Du-

Bose Heyward, and with Ethel

Waters as the star. This is the play in which the famous Negro. revue singer made her “legitimate” debut last year, and reaped a batch of critical laurel.

SO THERE IS THE initial outlay, with the promise of more to come. And the question naturally arises, why this sudden splurge of activity? Well, for one thing, general business seems to be slightly better—though as an economist I scarcely know a war baby from Shirley Temple. For another, there were enough good plays on Broadway last year to give a nucleus to the provincial season. Still a third reason, and an elusive one, may be explained briefly by saying that there is now some factual basis to the faint and wishful cry: “The road is coming back.” The most cogent reason, however, may be found right here at home. And the ‘agency is that supposedly inartistic body, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. This reason is. given by no less a person than Vincent Burke, English’s manager. Not only has the Chamber's activity spurred local business, but it also has made Broadway producers take notice, with the result that we already are getting bookings here

that might have passed us by in |

other years. ” INCIORNEALLT. the Citizens Theater-Goers” Committee was not the result of theatrical prodding. Rather the idea cams to the local Chamber of Commerce from

its brother organizations in St. |

Louis and Cleveland, which had stirred up interest in the living theater to the advantage of all concerned. The fact that the Chamber also is lending support to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra . is doubly heartening. It is entirely to the point that a resident orchestra ee a full theatrical sea-

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Bidu Sayao, the attractive South American soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, will open the Martens Concerts season at English’s on Oct. 23. Single seats for the Sayao recital will be put on sale Thurs. day. Other artists on the series will be Vronsky and Babin, duo pianists; Fritz Kreisler; Vladimir Horowitz, the Ballet and a Joint recital by Rose Bampton and Nino Martini.

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WHEN DOES IT START APOLLO “$1000 a Touchdown,” with J Brown and Mart tha Te at 11, 5 a 4:34, 7:26 and 1 “Full a 2 "with Victor Mce

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