Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1939 — Page 5

MONDAY, DEC. 4, 1939

EX-KLAN CHIEF Catholic Women

FIGHTS RETURN ~~ TOPRISON CELL

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Attorneys Argue State's Motion at Hearing In Noblesville.

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NOBLESVILLE. Ind, Dee. ¢ (U ) Attorneys for D. ©. Stephen son, former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Kiux Kian, were to argue In Hamilton Ci today against a State motion to remand the former Klan leader to the State “enitentiary at Michigan City until hearings are held on two motions Seeking his release Stephenson was sentenced to life In 1925 for the slaving of Madge Oberholtzer, a State House stenographer, and since has made 11 attempts in court to gain freedom. His last attempt was down by Judge Cassius M. Gentry in Hamilton Circuit Court last month. Two Writs Asked Pending motions ask for a writ of error coram nobis and a writ of habeas corpus. The latter motion is based on allegations that StephenSON was prevented from testifying In his own defense by pressure of the Ku Klux Klan and threats | agamst nis life and that he was not given a fair trial, The State moved to return him to the prison and, due to the crowded court calendar, Judge Gentry post poned hearing on any of the three motions.

Hold Diocesan Parley

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Timex Phats, Officers of the Indianapolis Diocesan Council, National Council of Catholic Women, discuss the coun. cil’'s convention being held at the Claypool Hotel today. They are (left to right) Mrs, David Allerdice, press and publicity committee chairman, Mrs, J, L. Russell, diocese chairman, and Miss Bess M, Bigane, parliamentavian,

BANK'S BRANCH | Zarmer Sets |SUMNERS - BILL ULTRA-MODERN Cor Record GETS, SPOTLIGHT

‘Backers Call It Counterpart Of Roosevelt Plan to Shorten Campaign.

Delay Indicated

If Judge Gentry rules against the State, Stephenson will be held at the Hamiiton County Jail, where he was brought from the prison I midSeptember, until a hearing is held on the habeas corpus appeal. Judge Gentry has indicated that he would be unable to hear the petition for a writ of error until the next term oi court.

Uimes Special NEW CASTLE, Ind, Dec, 4 New Features Incorporated Ralph Harvey, farmer living north | Of Nh

ere, shattered all existing In Merchants National Henry County corn-growing recs W. 38th St. Unit.

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HOOSIERS ASSIGNED DIPLONATIC POSTS

bushel per acre on a five-acre plot, County Agent William G. Smith announced today The previous record was 1445 bushels per acre, made bv Fred Hardin in 1936 on his farm near Knightstouwn

Several features new to branch banks are incorporated in the Merchants National Bank's recently. | opened branch at 21 W. 38th St Times Special |aceording to Ralph A. Prange, manWASHINGTON, Dec. 4--Warden | ager. McK, Wilson, Indianapolis, Ameri-| can Consul General at Genoa, Italy, | split p has been named First Secretary of |Onial structure, built of red the American Legation at Lisbon, |and trimmed in stone, has a Siva] Portugal, the State Department an- 100m near the main entrance for nounced today | the convenience of customers wait. | Bawin P. Keeler, alto from In-| OR for friends, Customers no longer | diana. has been designated Agricul Are forced to stand while writing out tural Attache at Rio de Janeiro, Checks, Mr. Prange said, as three Brazil, the announcement stated. He : x ; 1 0 ‘ed ym roreieon Service Offi« | ave been placed in the carpeted / a I a . oe area off the marble-floored lobby | has received the support of the In-|{g0 on as usual with their national Cer AassIRl 0 the Stat PAR - | EEE EL dry . oy AY: x x n y ment and detailed the Depart-| Other features of the bank ine diana State Federation of Public conventions ment of Agriculture [elude a clubroom in the basement. School Teachers in the CAMPRIEN to - — complete with a fireplace, which is Make him president of the N. E. [to be used by civic and charvitable| Mr. DuShane, former president of lorganizations, Mr, Prange said, De-|the Indiana State Teachers' Assopositors are afforded the convenience |Clation, was voted the unanimous inof a night depository near the main dorsement of the Federation during | entrance. i the group's winter meeting at the

THIS OPTIMIST WEEK . The branch has a safoty deposit Claypool Hotel Saturday (campaign period, and at the same

Mavor Reginald H. Sullivan today | . " NTA . 1 oP ‘BRS roclaimed this week as Optimist Vault, three small private booths for| The annual convention of the time bring other useful results proci . hain . N. E. A, at which time the election date the election in better weather

Week, oe] io he May oa Mgr i i Jurger one win be held, will take place in Mil-|for the Northern states, and oe i oem! av WOT groups, A large vault is used for Waukee, Wis, next July, y (lengthen the “dangerously” short. “The world is now confronted with | storing bulky valuables. The sec Miss Virginia Kinnaird of Ft. ened period between election day a number of grave problems and ond floor of the building is partially wayne was et wat & the and inauguration conflicts. not only between nations. | finished and will be rented as office Federation, New committee Clair The Sumners Bill would simply but between classes and races with- space, Mr. Prange said. men appointed were Edwin Ze tter- amend existing law to provide that in the various nations . . . it is of| —————— — burg of Munei, resolutions, Miss “The electors of President and Vice the utmost importance that we re- ACTRESS ASKS SUPPORT |Gdil Hadsell, Indianapolis public President shall be appointed in each fuse to succumb to fatalism and de- school teacher, press; Paul Hartley state, on the Tuesday next after the

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. ¢ (U.P) =| \ : ‘ (of Muncie, N.« E. A; Miss Helen first Monday in October, in atism d se pressing times, arl for ‘fe actress, | 2 ; ’ featism during these pressing Charlotte Burford, movie actress Manual High! fourth vear succeeding overy selec

bl Haynes, instructor at but continue to meet each problem | today asked $445 a month temporary : ’ i | a . x IX x ! dav pF y , rie Mak]. with courage, confidence and a will | support from Donald K. Lieberman, AAT Rig ue Hon to a President and Vice Presi ingness to co-operate in a friendly film executive and Philadelphia | “ CE 1 at way to bring about a solution.” broker,

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 of Rep. Hatton W. Summers Tex), chairman of the House diciary Committee, have a ready answer to President Roosevelt's suggestion that the two great party conventions of 1940 be held later in the year than is customary, in order to shorten the campaign,

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SUPPORT DUSHANE FOR NF. A, HELM

" y “Al + Donald DuShane, Columbus, su- Their preseription is, “Enact the perintendent of schools and chair-[Sumners Rill advancing the presi

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National Educational Association, |let the Democrats and Republicans

Chandler Backs Troposal

Rep. Walter Chandler (D, Tenn) a member of the Sumners Commit. tee sald today that the Texan's proposal would mest the desire of the President and others for a shorter

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BUSINESS TRENDS TOPIC FOR PARLEY

Present Yaw Cited

The present law provides that the “appointment” of presidential elec. tors shall he “on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in Novem { ber." The Sumners bill has been intro duced in every Congress since adop- ; (tion of the “lame duck” amend Lincoln! Min ‘ h ment, which moved the inauguration

(from March 4 to Jan. 20,

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discussed at the seventh annual convention of the Hoosier State Press Association at the Hotel here Feb, 23 and 24. Group meetings will be arranged — for advertising managers anc publishers of daily and w

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the publishing business in an effort | to build up leadership of the newspaper in its community by showing | methods of how the newspaper can| Relatives of Clarence William be helpful,” Foster W, Riddick of Peterman, 25, of 958 N. Oxford St. Columbia City said, missing since Friday morning, sald today that they feared he may have met with foul play. Mr. Peterman was carrying a large sum of money Friday, accord. Ing to a report to police by his | father, Adam W, Peterman, 311 N

ET. WAYNE TO HEAR YULE CAROLS AGAIN

Times Special { Temple St FI. WAYNE, Ind, Dec 4. The missing man is married and Christmas carols will ring out over has five children. He was described downtown tarffic noises in It, Wayne [by relatives as being about 5 feet, for the fifth year begininng Dec. 10 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds \ [1 | He is a blond, has blue eyes and was ‘| From huge sound amplifiers atop | wearing glasses, a dark green suit, one of the city's buildings, tele. green hat and gray topcoat phone lines will be extended to driving a 1934 black Ford victoria [churches in the city to carry songs| sedan, > (sung by the church choirs, Other leivie groups also will sing over the system, The programs are to ex- { (tend to Jan. 1.

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“WORKS BOARD LETS CONTRACT FOR TIRES

The Works Board today awarded a contract for 54 truck and automobile tires at $737.50 on the bid | of Jake Feld Co, 115 E. New York St. The Feld Co. offer was low among the 13 bids received Leo FP. Welch, board vice president, said the contract award was | tentative pending examination of the eight different types of tires to be supplied,

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Security Mapped for Those Excluded From Old-Age Insurance System.

By THOMAS I, STOKES Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec, ¢ Presi (dent Roosevelt has manifested in. | | terest fn proposals that the Governs ment sell at cost old-age annuities similar to those purchasable from | [private insurance companies, bul with a relatively low maximum | {monthly pavment, Such a plan as expected to offered’ at the coming session of Congress by Senator Wagner (D (N, Y.) as an amendment to the So [efal Security Act, for which he was (the original sponsor The aim is twofold=to give pers | gongs now excluded from the com [pulsory old-age insurance system an [oportunity to build up security for [old age, and ag supplementary se-| [curity tor those meluded in the sys [tem who want to provide additional | income for old age.

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| Details are still being worked aut (Tt has been suggested that a maxis (mum of $100 a month be fixed for| the annuity, A $50-a<-month maxi | Je was suggested in 1035 in the report of the commiltee on eco-| nomic security to President Roose- | | velt, | { This report was prepared by Sees retary of Labor Frances Perkins! [Secretary of the Treasury Hentry | Morgenthau, Attorney General Homer Cummings, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and | | WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins, | | with the assistance of a group of | experts, | | Under plans now being discussed, the annuities would be gold at post. | offices, with general administration under the Social Security Board, No rdditional outlay would be required! by the Federal Government There are between 11 and 12 mil- | { lton persons in employed groups not (now covered by the social seenrity | Program, including farmers, farm | laborers, domestic servants, seamen, | [professional and independent works | ers, and employees of unincorporated businesses,

See Opposition Yessened

The House Ways and Means Come | mittee eliminated the voluntary

jouble writing desks with chairs Man of the tenure committee of the | dential election about a month, and annuity plan from the original 8o. Crown Hill

cial Security Bill because of apposis | tion from insurance companiae | Sponsors of the plan sav now that! mnsurance-company opposition is not | expected to be impelling, since (he! feompanies co little of the smaller. ! [type annuity business proposed, | That the bulk of the Government | annuity business would be for small | Sums 18 suggested by Canada's exe perience. The Canadian system, ine stalled in 1008, originally provided | A maximum of $5000 a vear. This! was lowered to $1200 fn 1031, an in-| fluence being the fact that only 4.4 per cent of total contracts in force | (In 1030 were for more than $1200 | annually Nearly 84 per cent of those written in 1030 were for less than $600 Relatively few persons have pur chased the Canadian annuities Only 16304 contracts had been written from 1008 to 1038, according to a report published by the Social [Security Board here, and 14,400 were in force in 1933

Annuities in 2 Classes

Under the Canadian system. Cloves ernment annuities are in two classes, | deferred and immediate, the latter being for persons who have Savings and want to invest lump sums in annuities | The Canadian annuities may be purchased at 50, 55, 60, 65 and 70 (years of age, at the option of the annuitant, "The advantages set forth by the | Canadian Government annuities,” [the report says, “are: Their security; their exemption from tax ation; that they are payable for life, that they are nontransferable: [that they cannot be lost, stolen, for | feited or seized or garnished by law jor courts; that they require no med. leal examination, and that the sge [eligibility ranges from 5 to 83 years,"

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limes Special LOGANSPORT, Ind, 4 Robert J, Grant, rural mail carrier on Route 1 here, has retired after | 39 years of service, Mr, Grant was| noted for his punctuality, Many | farmers told the time of day by his arrival and they "guess now they'll ‘have to buy new clocks.”

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By RICHARD D. M'MILLAN “I'd Tike to g back to Armentieres| JO¥ePh M. Artman, editor of British United Press Stat Correspondent [ta be with them.” she said, “But it | ‘Character and Citizenship,” publi SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Dee.|1 ean't do that I'd like to serve the cation of the National Council on i Mademoiselle from Armentieres, iTommies again. I love them all.” | ®ducation for Character and Citis amour girl of the soldiers of the| It was a quiet job at the old Oafe " ¥ b . World War, is here in a village be-|de 1a Paix, fn 1014, until the Beit. |7eP%hiD, Will speak before the hind the present lines—49, a grand- [ish Tommies came, Mme, Marceau Monthly meeting of the Indiana mother, with a care«lined face and | said Then, in October, the Germans Schoolmen's Olub next Saturday at \ wracking cough which 1s the got within a few miles of the town. (ne Claypool Hotel, legacy of a gas attack when the “They began shelling and the first | PYAAR Germans captured Armentieres in lone hit the cafe Oct. 13, 1914,” she| He Will talk on "Character Bus 1917, satd, “Shells roared, but we took our | cation in Today's Schools.” The woman of whom millions of chance with the soldiers and lived Pollowing his adcress, the teachs British and American soldiers rang | through it, [are ‘a dink ih the 1014-1018 War Was petite, “I was gassed on the night of July, t'> “iI Participate ih a panel diss brunette Marie Lecoq, lively and 92, 1017. I still cough from it, but CUssion on "Evaluating the Results courageous, when she inspired sometimes it's not so bad.” | Obtained in the Oharacter Wducas= ‘Mademoiselle Appia Buy Be Uttiann of fe tion of Our Youth in the Publie most famous song of the war hen | British ixpaditionary orce, 8 | " ’ war broke out in 1014, and her (lieved how to be manager of a Lon. loon Of Our State.” Leaders sweetheart went to the front, she don movie, wrote "Mademoiselle In the discussion will be Dr. W. W, worked in the Oafe de Ia Paix, in From Armentieres.” He was organ. Wright, A. L. Treaster, Donald Dus the Rue de la Gare in Armentieres, izing a concert for troops near Ar= Shane, Dr. 1. R. Bartlett, James : met hey a NE ur oe ie and wanted to get a topis o parmer and Merle, Abbott, village Ww ent ! ‘nere cal sot . p y she now lives, and she told me how | He heard troops talking about he After a luncheon, Rodney Howe, the famous song about her was in-|Oafe de 1a Paix and the girl (here |lecturer in the University of Tilis spired ["Mademoizella From Armentieres.” nois College of Medicine, will talk “Tt was a very nice song when it He composed a song about her with= on “Child Welfare, a Joint Res wag first written,” she commented, in an hour, | sponsibility 4 “But I Am told (hat ReVORA] Nis | Se Re — versions came afters]

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ward.” Marie rweetheart, leave from the Worla War and her daughster, Pauline, was born during the war, Now she has two grandchile dren,

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MISS CLARA MUNCH, GREDIT AID, IS DEAD

Miss Clara Munch, employee in the eradit department of the Star Store for 31 vears, died of a heart attack vesterday at her home, 816 WW. 20th St. She was 47 She graduated from Manual High School and went te work In the Star Store at the age of 16. Except for partielpating in the ac. tivities of the Zion Evangelical Church, her n= ferasts wera cens tered in the department store Survivors ins clude a brother, | George Munch, Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Queisser, Tne dianapolis, and Mrs, Harry Williams, | Elkhart, | Funeral services will be conducted 10:30 A. m. Wednesday at Hisey Titus Mortuary, with burial in

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