Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1939 — Page 10

TUESDAY, OCT. 24, 198

Don't Say ~ Mac Didn't |

Novice

~ WarnNavy

Clemson Tigers Are Red Hot And Their Mr. McFadden Can Really Travel.

By HENRY M’'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent "ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 24.—Notes on Southern football, where the game is hotter than the insite of a4 baked yam and tougher than a fied hand full of corn hy Navy had better have all decks cleared for action and every man at hig battle station when Clemson reaches Annapolis on Saturday, because the Tigers are a red hot team. . +» In one Banks McFadden they have one of the great backs of the country—a long-legged traveler who gained 369 yards last year, completed 10 of 20 passes for 169 yards without an interception, and had a kicking average of 40 yards. Coach W. A. Alexander of Georgia Tech, member of the National Football Rules Committee, will urge that august body to restore the rule making a punt a free ball, saying that it would be a great help to the offense and add to the spectacular gaiety of the game.

Pennsylvanians Plentiful

‘Alexander does not believe the riles committee will heed his suggestion, however. . Pennsylvania players operating in tHe Southeastern ‘Conference, and at Duke, North Carolina State, and North Carolina. Pennsylvania, you know, is to the production of football players what| the Kimberley Mines are to diamonds. . . . The coaches in the conference, and those at the three North Carolina schools really have set their trap lines for players over a far-flung area. . . . The rosters of the teams list men from 32 states and the Canal Zone. . The next thing you know they'll be tapping Ellis Island for broad-shouldered immigrants. New York City is likely to get. a look at its first barefooted Kicker when Georgia takes on N. Y. U,, in the Polo Grounds ths week. . Jimmy Fordham, Georgia fullback, learned to kick minus , shoes at Graymont-summit, the Eton and Harrow of south Georgia. and he is good for 50 yards a whack. . All Southern coaches are eyeing young Bobby Cifers of Kingsport, Tenn. -a high school boy whose record tops that of Bill De Correvont. . . . Kentucky has the inside track on , his services, despite the fact that he has a brother playing end for Tennessee this year... That's Southern Hospitality ‘Homer Hazel, Rutgers all-America pack of some years ago, has two sonk on the University of Mississippi varsity. . . But the best brother ‘act in football is at Duke where George and Wesley McAfee are running wild, especially George. . . ‘Ossie Solem, Syracuse coach, said . after the game with Duke last Saturday that it was impossible to construct a defense capable of checking George. . . Tulané’s 225pound tackle, Bill Kirchem, has been - timed in 0: 235 _ for the 220-yard dash—and he is second string. .. If you want to see Southern hospitality at its fried chicken, corn pone, and barbecue pest, then turn

sportswriter and go to Knoxville to cover a game. . . . The folks there

'won’t actually, kill you with kindness, but they'll cripple you. . . .

Bowling—

Johnny -Murphy sét the .pace in joeal bowling leagues last night, registering a 654 high on games ‘of 229, 208 and 217. He performed in the Optimist League at the Pritchett Alleys. The list of “600” pinmen: Johnny Mirphy, Optimist 0.00.00 - E.- Heckman, Frategnal .e Carl Shertzer, Indiana Bell: ....v.. L. Brandt, Indianapolis Charch.. Weisinan, Lions Sarsbne, South Side Businessmen's. Jake Freije, Holy Cross Bob Hartman, Courthouse .........e00 628 Dossey, North Side Businessmen’s 626 Joe Falta, Fraternal C. Smith, Solitaire y F. Lawton, North Side Businessmen’s.. 621 Peterson, Transportation ..... essTreee 620 E. Brehob, Evangelical “Haug, Lions .. c.i...c.iieceieins cesses 619 Stuart, North Side Businessmen’s O0...E. Hudlin, Little Flower..... eevee Kelly, Eyangeliéal .......... Teese cee C. Wray, Indianapolis Chureh......... Paul Sylvester, Holy Cross....... tase

Miller, F atennal Hickey, urthouse Tegler; Fvangelical

“Universal pi 3

Miles, South Side I Pa Businesses 's GOI! Steve Oslos. Lifhoztaphers . ceeass 600 Legan, South Rid de Businessmen’ s Pane Bs ] Service Clubs Clubs A 420-scratch 'h handicap sweepstakes, known as the E. C. Teter doubles tournament, is to be staged Saturday and Sunday at the Pennsylvania Alleys, with the first squad taking the drives at 6 p. m. Saturday. A $75 top prize is Suaraniesd if 100 or moré teams compete. In addition to cash awards, merchandise prizes will be cfered. Handicaps are to be figured on the basis of 80 per cent of the difference between 210 and’ league averages, and entrants will be permitted to roll as often as they change part= ners. For. further information call RI. 0078 or Dan Abbott at LI. 6760.

Escobar Moves Into - Featherweight Ranks

NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (U.P.).—Lou Brix, manager of 8Sixto Escobar, announced today that the bantamweight champion would fight as a featherweight from now on. “There is no money in the bantamweight class now,” Brix said. “The class is dead.” Brix said he was notifying the New York Boxing Commission and the National Boxing Association that Escobar was vacating the title.

Howe Seeking Third “Cross-Country Win

Howe High School's cross-country team will be after its third straight victory when it meets Washington tomorrow ' afternoon on the Continentals’ course. Floyd Bicknell, Jack Whited, Robert Alexander, Robert Winter, John Milam, Alan Crapo, Bob Schneider, Richard Sharp and Howard Moore will e Hornets.

Manager Herbie Lewis (left) of

bers of the squad during a practice session at Detroit, . There are 32| right wing; Archie Wilder, left wing, and Les Douglas, center.

on lce From the Boss

the Indianapolis

hockey {eam drops a few words of advice to three mem-= ’ Players shown are flett't to” right) Joe Carveth,

‘39 Brings Bumper Crop of Sophomores

Who Stand Gridiron Fire Like Veterans

BY JERRY BRONDFIELD NEA Service Sports Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—The sophomore blight, an épidemic which may include anything from the blind staggers to a bad case of jitters or chronic fumbleitis, isn't so much in evidence this year. Instead, there’s a brilliant crop of newcomers who have established themselves as key-men on their respective varsities. Pqssibly the prize package of the group is Jimmy Nelson, the Alabama beauty who may wind up as the vest of a long line of Crimson Tide backfield greats. A 180-pounder, Nelson operates from the right halfback spot. ” A crack ball-carrier who can run to either side, he makes a dangerous threat in the Notre Dame system of play used by Frank Thomas. Ram Soph Sparkles

Jimmy Crowley, meanwhile, sees Jim Blumenstock as the bright. spot of a season which started disastrously for the Ram. The 178-pound Rutherford, N. J. halfback is a true triple threat who should cause

.la lot of trouble. for Maroon foes

for the next two seasons.

Mike Refuses

To Risk Louis|

So Belief Grows That Joe Is Ripe for a Good Puncher.

NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (U. P.)— Promoter Mike Jacobs’ perturbation over heavyweight champion Joe Louis’ proposed exhibition tour stimulates the belief in cauliflower canyon that the first top-flight heavy who comes along will wrest the title from the “Brown Bomber.” Louis was tentatively slated to give exhibitions in nine American cities during October and November, put Jacobs has called the whole thing off—with the exception of a four-rounder at Flint, Mich., on Oct. 27, and another four-rounder at Richmond, Ind., on Oct. 30. Jacobs cancelled the tour because some promoters—like the one at. St. Louis—were matching the Bomber with a fair third-rate opponent and

6| advertising the scrap as for the

world title. John L. Could Do It

John L. Sullivan may have gone barnstorming about the country, but not Joe Louis, who stuns a bit too easily. when walloped in the head. Promoter Jacobs is taking no

31 chances with his precious bit of box09 | ing bric-a-brac.

Uncle Mike is willing to let Louis

bs tisk his crown against anybody in

{the world when the gate promises to 2 be more than $100,000 and when Uncle Mike has a five-year contract on the challenger before said title bout. Jacobs will have that contract with Arturo Godoy of Chile when Godoy fights Louis for the crown at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 9, and for all future title bouts. He will have it on the next “Golden Boy” of the heavyweight division. And who i§ that “Golden Boy’— that gold mine on the hoof, who will lick Louis?

Mike Likes Billy Conn

Promoter Jacobs and his matchmaker, Johnny Attell, believe Billy Conn of Pittsburgh, current light heavyweight king, will succeed Louis as heavyweight champ. But most experts along battlers’ bund insist that Patrick Edward Comiskey "will be the next heavy ruler. Comiskey of Paterson, N. J., who will be 19 years old on Friday, seems to be the hardest punching leather-tossér in the ring today. And punchers are the lads who publicized the champion’s great weakness. Billy Conn is a fast, smart boxer. Bob Pastor was smart and fast, too. Pastor lasted 10 rounds by running away-in the first Louis meeting, and he was knocked out in the 11th in their second when Bob surprised everyone in Detroit by making & fight of it. They Stay Down

That’s why most neutral observers believe that Comiskey—the tall, rangy Irishman with the piano punch—will ultimately take care of Louis. When Pat hits ‘em - they stay down. He belted out 20 opponents in 22 professional fights. He'll be ready for Louis about a year from now. Meanwhile you can take faststepping Billy Conn, or wait for “iden boy” your choice of the: DEX Nama

Attracting a lot of rave notices on the coast is Frankie Albert, Stanford’s 160-pound runneér-passer de luxe. He ‘has speed to burn and poise that goes with a veteran. A rampaging Creek Indian named Jack Jacobs will be scalping Okla= homa opponents for two years to come. Jacobs returned the kickoff 65 yards against Southern Methodist on his first play as a varsity man,

Mustang Newcomer Nifty

.S. M. U, has a nifty newcomer in Preston Johnson, reputed to be able to hit a gnat on thé hose at 40 yards. Down in the bayous they claim Ken °~ Kavanaugh, .-pass-snatching end, can catch anything thrown ih the same state. But he doesn’t have to go to those - lengths, Sophomore Leo Bird from Shreveport, La. forms the pitching part of the battery which . makes the Bengal . Tigers the most feared aerial team in Dixie. Notre Dame will attest to the fact that Johnny Bosch, Georgia Tech’s 145-pound ‘scat back,” is as hard to grab as a greased pig. He

You probably won't see Bernie Crimmins listed in the starting backfield very often this year, but this Notre Dame sophomore halfback: is expected to take up where Lou Zontini leaves off néxt year. Dr. Eddie Anderson, rebuilding at Towa, is fortunate to have Al Coupee, 190-pound quarterback from Council Bluffs, available for two more campaigns. Bruce Smith, a 1%5-pounder, crashed Minnesota's starting eleven with plenty to. spare. Sheldeon Beise, Gopher. backfield coach, cofifided to us that this boy needed only a couple more games’ experience before he’s ready to burst loose. : Westfall Fills the Bill

Doug Renzel, a 195-pound fullback, is supplying a major part of Marquette’s offensive punch. Over at Ann Arbor, Fritz Crisler = was wondering who he’d team up at the fullback post with Evashevski, Kromer and Harmon. - He stopped wondering when Sophomore Howard Westfall filled the bill perfectly. These boys may not crash the All-Americas ‘this trip, but they're

can. throw that ball, too.

Calls Maroons National Joke

CHICAGO, Oct. 24 (U. P). — Two of the worst defeats in major football history on successive Saturdays .stirred the University of ° Chicago student daily today to editorialize that the university “looks silly” in the eyes of the American people. Chicago lost to Harvard, 61 to 0, a week ago and to Michigan, 8&5 to 0, last Saturday. “Events of, the last two weeks bring us against some of thé unpleasant facts of life,” The Daily Maroon editorialized. ‘While American social convention expects universities to provide good football shows, our school has become a bénevolent institution furnishing material on which newspaper writers from all over the country may practice cleverness when they have nothing better to fill space. “The result is that we are getting to be a big joke in the eyes of the American public and a sore spot to our alumni. . , . The alumni have their problem.”

Amateurs—

BASKETBALL

Goldsmith Secos and Boren Bombers will meet in a Warmup Tournament gam=2 at 8:30 tonight at the Pennsy Gym. In other games Furnas Ice Cream and Yellow Jackets will clash at 7:15 and Texaco Fire Chiefs and Pure Oil will play at 9715. Last night's results: Shawnee A: C., 26; Stokely VanCamp, 24 (overtime). Inland Container, 85; Gém Coal, 28. Eli Lilly, 2%; Citizens Gas, 22,

Fountain Square Athletics scored a 17-14 victory over First Presbyterian. For games in the 15-17 year class call Drexel 2383-R.

Coach Everett Case will use his

onstrate rule changes at the basketball clinic to be held Wednesday, Nov. 1, at the Fortville High School gym. The Frankfort team will meet the Anderson Davis Dacors in an exhibition game at 8:30 p. m. feollowing a 7:30 preliminary between the R. C. A. girls and the Hoosier A. C. girls.

Teams desiring to enter leagues playing Monday and Friday nights at the Dearborn gym are asked to contact Everett Babb at the EmRoe store.

Harriers to Compete

PLAINFIELD, Ind, Oct. 25.—The Boys’ School cross-country team will run against Wiley of Terre Haute in & meet over the local

champion Frankfort - five to dem-

not far off.

Harmon Airs Grid Opinions

Maybe Vols’ Lost Bowl Bid By Being Too Good.

By LESLIE AVERY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Notes from a football press box: Tom Harmon of Michigan is training to become a radio sportscaster. He analyzes Michigan games weekly over a Detroit station. . Duke Coach Wallace Wade calls Joe Hoague of Colgate one of the best fullbacks he has seen, . . . Tennessée’s Vols may have played themselves right out of a Rose Bowl bid by beating Alabama 21-0. ,., They don’t like ’em too tough. . . Writers and coaches used so many superlatives in describing Neyland’s boys that Tennessee probably will wind up in the Sugar Bowl against the best Eastern eleven. . . . Beating Carnegie Tech gave N. Y. U. suppotters their first chance to cheer very loudly since the Violets derailed the great Fordham express of 1936. .» « N. Y. U. has a better line than

was suspected. . . .

What bowl would like to have Chi-

- |cago vs. West Virginia Wesleyan.|.

. + « Their -6pponénts have scored 318 points this season. . . . Michigan Coach Fritz Crisler should be indicted for matricide for that 85-0 plastering the Wolverines handed his alma mater, Chicago. Ralph Heikkinen, almost unanimous All-America tackle from Michigan last year who couldn't make the grade with the pro Dodgers, has joined the University of Virginia coaching staff. . .. V. M. 1. was supposéd to be a “breather” for Columbia this Saturday but after the Cadets came through with wins over Davidson, Vanderbilt and Virginia, Columbia fans are” beginning to fear it will leave their Lions “breathless.” . . . When the Columbia press agent sought some information frem V. ME to ballyhoo the game he was old . .. you. want except don’t mention ‘Brother Rat.’ ” .. . It seems that the West Point of the South is still being kidded ,about the movie, “Brother Rat” filmed at V. M. I. last year. Va

Ben Davis to Face | Seymour Gridders

Ben Davis High School’s football team will be gunning for its third victory of the season tomorrow night

the Owl eleven. The game is sched= uled for 8 p. m. The Giants have a record of two victories, three losses and a tie, and they defeated the Boys’ School, 12-0,

course tomorrow af ternoon.

their last time out.

SALE . .. J Men's

Topcoats & Overcoats

Thete ny Sterilized vOuBY me of unredeemed garments. Small

—onagPll hoigs! = fe Mar Clothing Depariment—

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. OUT-OF- PAWN |

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Others $5. oe and gleaned—must not be co en

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

1BARY NARCOTIC ARRESTS START|

“Say anything about us| -

when it travels to Seymour to meet| "§

NATIONAL HUNT

(indiana Raids Put: Agents

On Trail of Large Ring; 0 Persons Held.

The. sprest of 10 persons in Gary over the week-end for allegedly peddling and using narcotics has started a coast-to-coast probe of a large narcotics ring, Gene ar State narcotics inspector, declared here today. Mr. Ryan said that evidence

found on the persons arrested and

in’ the raids disclosed connections with individuals in several large U. 8. cities. He said the information

{had been turned over to the Chi

cago office of the Federal Narcotics Bureau, and that several more arrests are likely within a Short time. The Gary roundup began Saturday night with the arrest of a 5l1-year-old woman as she stepped from her au obile, with several bundles of narcotics, Mr. Ryan said. By Sunday noon. the other nine were in

arrests followed a three-

| jail.

The .

‘| month “investigation by Mr. Ryan,

and Detective Sergeants Matt Tetek and Ted Milakovich of the Gary Police Department.

heroin, morphine tana eocaine, ‘Mr. Ryan said. Most in automobiles,

28 HONORED FOR | KINGAN SERVICE

Meat Packers Institute to Award Buttons to Plant Veterans.

Twenty-eight employees of Kingan & Co.

length of service to the company.

button, while. 27 others, one a woman, who have completed 25 years, will be awarded silver buttons.

Served Since 1889

Mr. Courtney, 270 BE. Michigan 8st. has been in the employ of the company since 1889. Employees who will get silver buttons are Mrs. Katherine E. Sinclair, William Alexander, James Andrews, Harry Austermiller, James H. Bates, John Boyd, George Bryant, Alex Clark, William Dowtin, Carl Engelking, James H. Faulk, Charles P. Gregory, Stephen. Johnson, L. R. Keener. Walter Kunkle, F. J. McEvoy, william J. Mclllwee, George A. Mielke, George C. Munce, Tom Nich ols, Ws ‘J Nimmo, Alex Oslos, Ervin] “Rylé, C. A. Btearts, ‘Charles A. Taya’ 1§or, Ben A. Turner and James Weir. On Gold List

Also on the gold button list of the Institute this year are Theo Well, president of the Weil Packing Co, Evansville, and George Hoetaer of C. P. Vissman & Co., Louisville. The gold button winners who attend the 34th annual convention of the Institute at Chicago this week will receive their award§ from Paul I. Aldrich, Chicago, editor of the National Provisioner, a magazine of the meat packing industry. Others will- receive their awards by mail.

PUERTO RICAN DIES AT RESCUE MISSION

Demetiio 3. Garrero Ruiz, 54-year-

‘lold ‘transient from Rincon, Puerto |Rico, dropped dead today while

working in the woodyard of the Wheeler City Rescue Mission at Fulton and Ohio Sts. Death “was believed to Bags been due to heart disease. Mission officials said he came here last Wednésday from St. Louis. Word of his death is being sent to his wife, Esperuza, in Rineon.

The Gary narcotics traffic was in.

it was smuggled

will receive service buttons): trom the Institute of Meat Packers Chicago this week, honoring their:

John Thomas Courtney, who has |. completed 50 years of continuous. service will receive a gold service |:

| Sen.

‘Pay - - as-You 60" Senator To Speak at Local “Group's Dinner.

Senator Styles Bridges ®. N .

fispapelis As 3 at the Columbia Club. In announcing the dinner Dwight Sherburne, Association esident, said although Senator Bridges had been mentioned as a Presidential that “this is not to be a political meeting. 3 “Mr. Sherburne urged all busitiessmen to bring their wives, whom he

called “the real purchasing agetits of 1

America.” OC. Walter McCarty, Indanapolis News Fanaging editor, will be toastmaster. Senator Bridges, ‘elected in 1936, had been a county agent and a public service commissioner, and later was elected Governor of the State under the slogan: “Pay as you go.” : Officers of the Ascbelalion are Mr. Sherburne, « ;Dresicent) J. ©. Moore Sr., first vice in ‘A. Ww. Macey, second vice president, and Roy Sahm, treasurer.

CIRCLING

Mrs. Marvin Neesi, 815 Fletcher Ave,, is chairman of the Italian

’ spaghetti supper to be served by

the Women’s Club of the Holy Rosary Church from 5 to 8 p. m, Thursday in the church hall,

Hold Hallowéen Party — The members of the Indianapolis Liederkranz will hold their annual Halloween Party Saturday evening at their club rooms, 1417 E. Washington St. Adolf Widmer, Presiden; will have charge.

Replace Woodruff Posts—Cast iron posts which for nearly 80 years stood at the entrances to Wood-= ruff Place are being replaced with Indiana limestone portals. Morris, Board of Trustees member, said many of the old posts were “dangerous” because they had rusted away inside and the tops were gone. The new ones are & “much needed addition,” he said. About a dozen of the old posts will be replaced.

downsend Club Marks, Founding— The Belmont Townsend Club, No. 4, will meet at 6 p. m. Thursday at 2621 W. Washington St. to celebrate its fifth anniversary. The program includes a supper and entertainment. B. J. Brown, Indiana Townsend Clubs director, will speak on the Townsend old-age pension movement.

Attend Press Conclave—Ten members of the Manual Training High School Booster staff, bi-weekly school publication, are to attend the

Association convention Thursday at Franklin College. Delegates’ are Dorothy Speicher, Sarah Rusie, Walter Rafert, Jean Rafert, william Kniptash, Donnie Douglas, Mary Jane Roeder, Josephine Stoddard, Ione Colligan, and Paul Davison. Miss Gretchen A. Kemp, editorial adviser, will accompany pupils to

' Rumesuin iad se¥ital

the college.

will be guest speaker at the jal di. : : | ner meeting of the Indiana " i| sociation of Credit: Men

Murray |:

annual Indiana High School Press]

Bridges Will Address Credit Men Here on Nov. 3

possibility, he. Wished to make clear §

Senator Styles Bridges. . oo “Pay a8 you go.”

are Robert O. Bonner, William P. Fiynn, we. MD Cc. Grauel, - J. Hamerin, Walter J. Hubbard Jr. L. M. Hues‘mann, G. C. XHippel; J. 5 Solomon, L. C. Sparks, Ww. Steeg, J. B. Stilz and R. B. Co.

THE CITY

NYA Director to: Speak—Robert Richey, state .directos of the National Youth Administration, will address the Junior Chamber of Cominetrce at its weekly meeting tomorrow noon at the Canary Cottage.

Dlectors Fields;

- | He will discuss “Thé Youth Problem

of Today.”

Civil Service Tests Set — The United States Civil Service Commission today announced éxaminations for positions of assistant production supervisor in the Army Air Corps at $2600, and aircraft radio electricians in the Air Corps at $1620 and: $1860 annually. Applications must be on file at Washington before Nov, 8. Information may be obtained from C. P. Bernhart, in Room 522 Federal Building.

Linemen Retovering—Two Indianapolis Power & Light Co. linemen, burned Saturday by high voltage wires, were reported in good condition at: Methodist Hospital today. The men, Chestér Vetch, 32, of 1304 Blaine Ave., and Oscar Smith, 39, of 307 W. Morris Ct., were burned when two high voltage wires shortcircyited on a utility pole on which they were working in the 600 block Kentucky Ave. They were burned on the bodies and legs. |

Paul G. Barrett, first assistant meteorologist at the Municipal Airport weather Bureau since it was opened in 1930, has been pro=

moted to the Evansville station to become junior meteorologist. Escal S. Bennett, airport observer, has been promoted to Mr. Barrett’s position - and . Sheldon J. Peirce, assistant observer, has been promoted to Mr. Bennett's position, Harold L. Malone, of the Evansville office, will fill Mr. Peirce’s place; ’

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Indiana Central Grads to Dine— Alimni-and faculty members of Indiana Central College will meet for a dinner at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in the Gold Room of the Hotel Washington. The affair is held annually in conjunction with the State Teachers Meeting. The Chinése Room of the Hotel Washington . will be open throughout Thursday to former students, faculty mémbers and friends of Indiana Central College, Justin Marshall, président of the alumni association, said. ot

Townsend Club 53 to Meet—Mem-= bers of Townsend Club 53 will have a Chicken supper at 5:30 p. m. tomorrow at 3809 W. 10th St. A busi-

‘ness meeting ‘will follow, according

to Mrs. Ansel Ferguson, president.

Injured in Fall—=Ralph Waggoner, 45, Gilbert Hotel, electrical worker, was injured when he fell from a utility pole today at 10th St. and Dorman Ave. He was treated for a cut at Methodist Jiospual.

FETE OFFICIALS “FOR ECONOMY

i Judge. Bradshaw ‘to Sneak

At: Dinner of Perry Businessmen.

The Perry Township- Businessmen,

| Ine, will hold a special Ladies’ antl

Guests’ Night dinner.at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow at the University Heights grade school. The principal speaker will be Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred Brad shaw. His topic will be “Youth in the Community.” Township officials will be guests

- |of honor in recognition of their co~

operation in reducing the township tax rates for 1940, A report on tax reduction will ba made by Elmer E. Houze, chairman of a special committee of the Businessmen, formed in August of this year to study the tax situation in Perry ‘Township. - Township officials to be guests: include John W. George, trustee; Forrest -C. Huntington, Charles »; Bohne and Charles Lockwood, advisory board = members; Carl. E; Smock, assessor; and -W. E. Elling=

_ |ton, Justice of the Peace.

‘The dinner will be served by ladies _ of - the Glenn Valley Methodist Church. The Indiana Central College music department will furnish entertainment. R.O. Nabring, Busi~ nessmen's- president, will preside.

ARRANGE FETE FOR RICHMOND

Civic Groups Méet Tonight To Plap Centennial Colenraiion,

Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 24. —Rich« mond is getting ready for the 1940 celebration of the centennial of itsincorporation. Mayor John R. Britten has invited committees of civic groups to co-operate in make ing arrangements. A meeting will be held tonight in City Hall at which time the organization will be completed. Dele~ gates also will discuss the type of celebration to be held. Late in 1839 the Indiana Legis lature made provision for Richmond to become an incorporated city and on Feb. 18, 1840 the following ap-. peared in the City Council minutes: “Resolved, that : thé clerk. be directed to procure a copy of the charter. of the City of Richmond és assed by the present session of .the' gislature and the cost of procuring the same to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated not.exceeding $5.” wa : Thén there was an election on whether the people. of Richmond ‘wanted to become incorporated and City Council awarded the sum of $1 to BE. H. Buckley for acting as elections clerk, . On. the first Mon= day of May, at the Engine House in the Third Ward, citizens gathered to elect a mayor, eight councilmen, a marshal and a treasurer, . John Sailor was elected mayor with 152 votes.

MASQUERADERS ROB. ICE AGENT OF $50

Two men - wearing Halloween masks -éntered the Polar Ice and Fuel Co. substation, 4325. BE. Michigan St., last night and asked Harry, Leach, the mahagér, for some érushed- ice. As he turned about, one of the men slugged him with a revolver,

| knocking him to the floor. The men

took $50 from -his pockets and fled to an auto parked nearby. Mr. Leach staggered to his feet and - called ‘police. \

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