Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1939 — Page 15

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4 ne ISDIsWSPOLIE TIVES 800 GUARDSMEN

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FRIDAY, NOV. 10, 1939 __ :

10BOVERNMENT | New Church Official Welcomed Here

EXPERTS LISTED | sz oe te cov ee FOR TALKS HERE

of the Church Federation and his National Municipal League

wife were greeted by Dr. C. A. McPheeters and Eugene C. Foster. Will Open Three-Day Session Nov. 15.

They are (left to right) Mrs. Howard J. Baumgartel, Dr. McPheeTen authorities on government 5 3 Ma More than 800 officers and enlisted || men of National Guard units in In- |}

ters, Mr. Foster and Dr. Baumare scheduled to appear on the diana will move in on Ft. Harrison |

gartel. three-day program of the annual i conference of the National Munici- tomorrow for two-day field maneu- | vers.

pal League which opens here Nov. 15 at the Hotel Severin. The troops, which comprise special Senator George W. Norris of Ne- || and infantry units, will carry full braska, is to address the general field equipment. Intensive training session Nov. 16 on “Nebraska's Uni- is to include overnight marches. cameral Legislature.” : The maneuvers will be the first in C. A. Dykstra, president of the a series to be held by Indiana University of Wisconsin and former- | | Suapismen rt wonison during 2 : 3 - . men x city manager of Cincinnati, and has ordered seven days of field r. Herman B Wells, president of training for the National Guard beIndiana University, will speak at fore Jan. 1. : the banquet Nov. 16 at the Indian- The largest units to take the field apolis Athletic Club. will be two battalions of the 151st

try, - Debate to Open Conference Infantry, comprising companies lo

cated in small towns and cities The conference will open with a throughous the state, debate on “Proportional Represen-|

tation” between F. A. Hermens, pro- Take (Over Warm Barracks fessor of - politics at Notre Dame Infantrymen will move into

University, and Walter J. Millard, Times Photo. heated barracks which yesterday field secretary of the National Mu-| “The interdenominational, com-|gray in his heavy black hair even|cent book, “Seasoned Timber.” were vacated by a battalion of the nicipal League. munity-minded, good-at-listening” [though he has a son, Howard Jr, “We like it” was the hearty re-{11th Infantry “regulars” which left Scheduled to speak at the first| executive secretary. of the Indian-|in Yale. sponse when Dr. Baumgartel was|by rail for a four months’ intensive

' By the Sign of the Clock In the Middle of the Block

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general session are Murray Season-|apolis Church Federation is in the

good, former Mayor of Cincinnati, city today house hunting.

who led the successful fight for

the city manager plan in that city; | Howard J. Baumgartel, recently ap-| pastor.

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He has one personal friend in Indianapolis, Dr. George Arthur

sketch “of Dr.|Franiz, First Presbyterian Church

They were classmates at

Leslie M. Gravlin, state commis- | pointed federation officer, was given | Union Theological Seminary, Pittssioner of administration of Minne-|py Mrs. Baumgartel, who accom-|burgh. sota and the. first state manager in| panied him here. : They are considering living on the hobby is gardening, raising just the

the country, and Willard F. Day, manager of Henrico County, Va.

Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, son t of former President William How- Oo a y

in|bles.”

The new executive secretary's chief

North Side because they wish to|“common run of flowers and vegetatheir daughter, She is now a junior in|his college football team and reads

He also plays tennis, was on

ard Taft and brother of the Ohio high school in Ebensburg, Pa. froma ‘new book “now and then when

Senator, Robert Taft,

Nov. 16 on “A Practical Program for apolis Dec. 1.

Relief.” J. W. Esterline, Indianap-

committee on arrangements, also

will speak| whore they will mova to Indian-!he has time.”

He is a former president of the

. 3 Dr. Baumgartel is 6 feet 2 inches Phoenix (Book) Club of Ebensburg olis, chairman of the local general; jean pespectacled, and without and enjoyed Dorothy Canfield's re-

asked about his impression of Incianapolis “and I think the people I've met are most kind and thoughtful,” he added. The new secretary says he grew up with the idea that he would one day be a minister and that the whole atmosphere of his youth was religious, He feels that it is an “encouraging sign” that a World Council of Churches has been formed in spite of the war in Europe and that so many denominational mergers are being made. - Dr. Baumgartel and his wife were to leave Indianapolis at noon.

will dppear on the program, Pitkin Also to Speak

Walter B.- Pitkin, author of “Life Begins at 40,” will speak at the final

Britain's Defensive Walls in France

peace-time training at Ff. McClellan, Ala. : The remaining battalion of the 11th Infantry is not scheduled to leave until Nov. 20. The full’ field equipment for guardsmen was ordered out by the 38th National Guard Division com=

‘mander, Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyn-

dall, who will make a personal inspection of all contingents during the week-end.

Figure in Picture-Story

The maneuvers will have added significance this week-end. The citizen-soldiers will be photographed for a picture-story to be published in Life Magazine.

The 38th Division was selected by |=

the War Department at the most “representative” National Guard

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Stronger Than Hindenburg Line of 14 mem fa semision mote activities.

ference met in Indianapolis in 1898 and again in -1920 when Charles Evans Hughes, now chief justice of

the U. S. Supreme Court, Was presl-| pp ANGE, Nov, 10.—Defensive works county much stronger than the famed

dent of the national league. Civic leaders and state,

By WEBB MILLER

United Press Staff Correspondent

peditionary Force improved the strong lines they found upon arrival

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN and continue, hour by hour, to aug-

ment their strength, New multiple lines of anti-tank

and city officials from all parts of | World War Hindenburg Line pro-{obstacles (naturally, the number is the nation are scheduled to attend.|tect British positions on the French |a military secret) have been conDiscussions will center on current|frontier today.

problems of state and local units of government.

With many

structed in the month since I last

hundred thousand | visited the same sector. man-hours of labor, the British Ex-! Hundreds (I would guess) of miles

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of primary, secondary and tertiary trenches, with communication trenches, have been dug. At the bottom, duckboards a few feet above the trench floor keep the men’s feet out of any seepage water that drains in. The walls are covered with brushwood of wattling to keep them from caving in. ; The entire belt of defensive works is many miles in depth and is being added to incessantly. As a military necessity in case of attack, certain houses which today are inhabited by hard-working peasants are marked for demolition to give clear lines of fire. I saw several which will be blown up if the Germans attack, and there are many more. But the peasants persist in remaining until they are evacuated and continue to harvest their beets and cover them with straw and earth in huge piles.

Meantime, children play in muddy|

yards surrounded on every side by war-like preparations. Of course this whole frontier is already dominated by immensely thick and-well-constructed steel and concrete blockhouses. Each of them is as strong or stronger than some of

the Germans in 1916. These weeks of hard work in the open air, together with plenty of good food, have perceptibly improved the physique of the British troops. Their faces are ruddy and wind-tanned and they have that in-

In addition to the two infantry battalions, other units which will take to the field this week-end are the 38th Division special troops, including the headquarters company, medical detachment, signal company and division headquarters detachment; the headquarters com pany of the 76th Brigade, the headquarters company of the 151st Infantry and the 151st Infantry band. oni SR

1 INJURED, 4 JAILED

IN COMMUNIST RALLY |

DETROIT, Nov. 10 (U. P.) —Four men were in custody today and another was injured seriously following a fight that broké out at a Communist rally last night. Leon Curtis, chief steward of the United Automobile Workers Union, C. 1. 0, at the Plymouth division of Chrysler Corp., suffered a fractured jaw and possible head injuries in a skirmish that developed when 1500 - attending the meeting at-

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line outside the meeting hall. -Police said most of the pickets were war veterans.

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