Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1939 — Page 7

TUESDAY, DEC. 5, 1039

HIGHEST HONOR | OF FUND GIVEN

A. L. RUDDELL

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Businessman Has Served Since "19: Drive Called ‘Best in History.’

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and Raymond Neff, R. Norman Baxter and Mrs. John A. MacDontld, elected for the first time Mr. Hoke resigned his directorship after 20 years service. Austin V. Clifford resigned because he has moved from Indianapolis | Raymond F. Clapp, Fund manager, made a report on the state of the Fund and the advances made | bv the agencies it aids. | He named modernization programs and a series of surveys as the concrete improvements in the agencies’ 1939 program “The agencies have had a rebirth and a streamlining to the satisfaction of all concerned,” he declared. “In the past year the agencies have |

their's and the City’s needs. “The individuals who acted as di- | rectors and assistants deserve trib-| ute. Special commendation is due the increasing use of psyehiatry in children’s work and note should be taken of the proposed psychiatry division for children’s work at Riley Hospital.” He said that the individual gifts division of the collecting portion of the Fund's work had been highly successful. He complimented Virgil Martin on his handling of the new unit plan system for the drive Mr. West acted as master of ceremonies. The invocation was read by the Rev. John B. Ferguson, Irvington Presbyterian Church pastor. |

U. S. AMBASSADOR TO CUBA DIES AT 62

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 5 (U ~- Joshua Butler Wright, 62, United States Ambassador to Cuba and a diplomat for 30 years, died suddenly last night following an operation Mrs. Wright and their two daughters were at his bedside in the Anglo-American Hospital when he died They announced tentative plans for funeral services herve Thursday, after which the body will be taken to Washington aboard a United States warship for servfeces and burial in the National Cathedral. Mr. Wright was a native of Irv-| ington, N. Y. He was graduated | from Princeton University in 1899 |

inerease is hearings will decide whether or not it will become permanent.”

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= . 200 at State Board Session Hear Attacks on 1-Cent Increase.

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! l covered by his office in the past, | Mr. Coller said, adding that “most of these companies are out of business now due to their malpractice” Mr, Wetter asked if it would be uniawful for a qistributor to give! more than 4 per cent milk fat con- | tent in milk, and was informed that it would be. Mr. Coller said several physicians had told him that 3 or 3.5 per cent butterfat content milk was better for babies than 4 per cent, | During Mr. Coller’s testimony, W | [.. Baldwin, Coatesville, Ind, milk producer, arose and shouted: | “As far as I can remember, I only got 10 cents a gallon for my milk} last vear. I think it is an outrage) and I have the utmost sympathy for| these town people who must pay the}

11 Cents Right Milk Price For City, Scientist Says

DEFENSE BEGINS | King Battles

By RICHARD M'MILLAN | British United Press Staff Correspondent [in remote villages to the rear, to

| | WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDI- front line pillboxes and forts held TIONARY FORCE IN FRANCE, by various British regiments. | ! ¥ Dee. 5—King George VI was with] Tanks, armored cars and all sorts | | | ree |

his soldiers in front line positions of guns, from the efficient little Bren {facing Germany's Siegfried Line anti-aircraft guns to big howitzers

Road Projects ‘Legal As Far today |were on display for His Majesty. | . | The King left the general heads | It wae raining fairly hard when As Know, Says |quarters of Viscount Gort, com- he awakened in a chateau near the D b hi |mander-in-chief of the British general headquarters. Clouds were eroysmire. | forces in France, this morning on low and there was little hope of betSS —— | his first day's tour of the front line. ter weather for his tour, which will Lord Gort and other staff officers last three days. accompanied him. | The party visited all sections of

| busitiess director, and Dr. Carleton] PENNSYLVANIA WRENS Y LY A ind

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|B. McCulloch. Miss Naomi Whitesell, 6050 Car-| roliton Ave, a stenographer in the Attorney General's office and | formerly a WPA stenographer, said

i | that it sometimes would be a month ' & | put into effect locally. J

{before a Washington order was

She testified that the order stop{ing work on undeveloped areas like | the Derbyshire Subdivision was re- \

Paul C. Wetter . . . fights milk | ceived from Washington after Mr. |

price increase.

| Kortepeter resigned from the WPA in February. She said it was her

price they do. What I want to Know |. meetings ih the last geveral | practice to read all state bulletins

is where does the money go?” “That,” Mr, Collar replied,

omists.” C. W. Hunt, Indianapolis Milk Foundation secretary, told the In-| dianapolis Couneil of

forum that distribution cost took up| Marmon-Harrington United Auto Workers, price paid the farmer and the price adopted by the Lauter group yester-) when the rolls were at their peak.

most of the spread between the

paid by the consumer. Union Waits Decision

Mr, Wiest said representatives of | cussed the possible strike with representatives of eivic and housewives’ groups and had their support.

Decision on whether to vote on a 44, Sugar Grove Ave. and 21st st, | jury. general strike will not be taken un-|ys discuss the milk ordinance now before City Council. At last night's City Council meet- fied for the Government.

til after the Milk Control Board takes final action on the price in-| crease, he added. He said the union|

is wholly “on the side” of the milk ing, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City consumer and housewife in the dis-| health officer. and Harry S. Shepard, | 4720 College Ave, described the proConsumer critics hoped, at today's| posed ordinance as one of the most {Control Board hearing, to outweigh important health measures the City ). the arguments in favor of the price| has considered for many years. rise advanced at the previous hear-| rob ing by producer representatives. Last week's hearing lasted all day, | after May 16 and today's hearing was set after SAY feivie

pute,

leaders asked more time

“temporary and these

Clubs Meet in Protest Distributors say that last spring

After working in banks, on ranches they took a voluntary price cut of

and serving in the New York National Guard, he was appointed sec-

tion at Tegucigalpa 1909. Later he held diplomatic posts in Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Havana, Dio De Janeiro, Petrogad (Leningrad), London, Hungary, Uruguay and Czechoslovakia. Then he was promoted to Assistant Secretary

dor to Cuba July 13, 1937,

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Honduras, in cents a

1 cent, and that with the advent

quart, Civie leaders pointed out that]

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“jg a Weeks and several organizations i, order on subdivision work was

3 question which is facing all milk ad- have passed regulations prope | in March or April, come to a better understanding of \ninistrators and many of the econ-|the milk strike.

Last to adopt such a resolutio was the ‘Lauter Civic Club. The gai because a large number of Women's | resolution, ®dopted earlier by the men could be used with very little

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posed to the milk price increase is to hold a meeting tonight at School | into evidence and handed to the

The ordinance would prohibit sale lof all but Grade A pasteurized milk

Dr. Morgan said he believd that ! Y 10 within five years after its passage, | argue against the price rise order.|ihe mdianapolis infant mortality) At the hearing last week Board|..q tuberculosis death rates would) members admitted that they had | ye decreased materially. He asked issued the order before having the) g agoption of the measure without hearing but said that the present substantial revision. Mr. Shepard contended, however, [that it should be amended to re-| [quire a full description of contents | [on milk bottles,

Urges Inspection Change

Criticizing the present practice

lof winter and rising production costs, Whereby more than half of the retary of the United States lega-|they wanted the price returned to 12) City's milk inspectors are paid by the milk industry, he said: “I believe milk inspections should they had no fight with the farmers he entirely divorced from the in- erty, laid out the roads and staked and believed that they should get dustry. more for their milk but that they to inspect their own meat believed the distributors could “well more. it should not be left to an in<| WPA foreman, said he had taken afford to pay the farmer more with- gpector employed by the industry to between 40 and 50 men and begun | out taking it out of the pocket of the have the final word on which pro-| Work on the roads Dee. 6, 1938 of State and was named Ambassa- consumer.” | ducers can sell and which ones can- | Was ordered there by his superine Many eivie elubs have held pro- not. Inspectors might discriminate "| tendent, he =aid

Riverside League to Meet

The Riverside Civie League, which! WPA investigator who headed the the Milk Drivers’ Union had dis-|ja¢ also gone on record as being op- | inquiry which resulted in the pres- | (has al !

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She said that subdivision road pn | building was one of the most im- | portant parts of the WPA pro-

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WPA Investigator Testifies

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Bernard H. Benckart, WPA superintendent, said he started work on orders of his superior. He said he had stopped the work in February after he realized that the | work was in violation of WPA regu- | lations, \ Twice during the day witnesses [testified that papers now important to the trial disappeared at the time o. the investigation last July. | Read info the record, upon agreement of Mr. Nolan and the defense, | was a stipulation that papers dedicating the road land to Marion |County had disappeared from the Court House, | A motion asking that the jury be taken to see the two roads was overs ruled by Judge Robert C. Baltzell, [who said he believed the jury had la good picture of the land in question, Claude C. Mason, 5444 Winthrop Ave, a WPA civil engineer, said he had plotted the subdivision and laid out the roads at the request ot Mr Kortepeter. He surveyed the prop-

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His Majesty was expected to take his meals with the troops. The King's route today covered

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