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FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1940

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Hoosier Vagabond

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 5.—~In. planning these : columns on the 100 years of The ‘Commercial-Appeal, I had an idea I might dig’ up some old-time Mem~Jphis newspaperman and do a column on him as a © sort of symbol of the great age of the paper. So I mentioned it to the editor. The first thing I knew I was completely surrounded by old-timers, and not able to get in a word edgewise for all the 1880 conversation shooting around the room.

There was Joe Curtis, youngest of the bunch, and he’s 70. He’s the river editor of The Commercial-Appeal, and writes semi-fiction stories about the river on the side. And there was Henry Hanson, who has spent 62 years on Memphis Newspapers and still isn’t old at all. He reads proof on The Memphis Press-Scimitar. And there . Was Billy McVey, who didn’t even come up here from Arkansas till he was already a veteran, and then worked 42 years on Memphis papers. Finally they had to take a ball bat and drive him into retirement on a pension. . Joe Curtis says his main claim to fame is being the man who ‘didn’t start The Tulsa World. - He didn’t start it because the man who was going to furnish his press got killed on the way over to see him. If that man hadn’t been killed, Joe Curtis would be a millionaire now. But he doesn’t care, for his mind is full of more pleasant things—such as silver dinner sets on the old packets of the lush river days; and pilots who could navigate with their eyes shut; and showboats and captains, and Tver siories he’s sold.

Recalling the old Days | |

Henry Hanson was born in Memphis, and has always lived here. He started to work on The Appeal a couple of months after Joe terrible yellow fever edipemic of "78. He was just a kid then, but he remembers it vividly. Bill McVey is a white-haired Irishman who looks perpetually as if he’s just ready to bust | ous into a

Our Town

MY RESTLESS SEARCH for c took me to the Herron Art Inst across the work of Bruce Rogers, master book designex, You bet my eyes popped when I saw a brochure labeled “Impressions—being a paper read by Mary E.| Steele before the Portfolio Club on the evening of the sixteenth of March MDCCCXCII1.” (1893). The brochure is the only item in the exhibit that reveals the part Indianapolis played in shaping Bruce Rogers’ career. Mr. Rogers came to Indianapolis in 1890 by way of Lafayette to be an illustrator on The News. He had 5 wna from Purdue that

lean entertainment itute where I ran

spring and had some extra-cur-ricular aghievements to show for it. In his spare time he had designed the covers for the 1889 editions of The Exponent, The Souvenir and Debris. And oldtimers credit him with the cover of Purdue’s catalog. He came by these jobs honestly enough for it is no secret that he was one of the two males in the art class at Purdue. John T. McCutcheon was the other. George Ade and Boofh Tarkington thought some of joining the class at‘one| time, but nothing ever came of it. They just soldi make up their minds. ’ a 8 8

Noise Drove Him Away |

On The News, Rogers was given a low partitioned cubicle next to that of Meredith Nicholson, but he didn’t stay long. It was too noisy, he said. He stayed long enough, however, to meet Joe M. Bowles, who ran an art store at the time, and| this meeting probably had as much to do with Shaping Bruce Rogers’ career as any other one thing. They first met at the Portfolio Club. At that time the Portfolians met in the old remodeled church on the northwest quadrant of the Circle where Henry Ward Beecher had once preached. i Shortly after their meeting Bowles lost track of Rogers. The fact of the matter is that Rogers, driven away by the noise in The News, had gone back home to Lafayette, with’ the intention of staying there for

~ Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Presi ent Roosevelt devoted much emphasis in his annual message this year to the purpose of convincing the country that the European war is our war and that Allies are fighting our fight. The President and many in

Washington are looking ahead to the coming months when they believe the war in Europe will become intense, with Germany and Britain fighting to a show.down to determine which is to be master. | As always, Mr. Roosevelt wishes to do every-

thing, short of war, to support the Allies against the aggressor dictators. e spurns—and this time with withering phrases— those .who argue that this is Europe’s war and of no concern us. Isolationists—ostriches, Mr. Roosevelt calls them—were pictured as wishfully, through “innoeence or ignorance or both,” burying their heads in the sand—a practice which the President said was not good for the ultimate health of ostriches. Carefully the President stopped short of any talk of intervention—except in peacemaking —but he put the case for the i Bio such terms that

! when the deep crisis comes in ope we are going to feel like slackers who are not doing our share. = 2 8 4 Scanning the Possibilities * Mr. Roosevelt does not believe the United States can live happily inside its own barriers if the rest of civilization, commerce and culture are shattered. He asks all Americans to look Jo at the possi-

bilities for our children: 1. If the world comes to be dominated by concen- |

) My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday. —Going up to Congress ~ yesterday crowded two things out of “My Day” swhich I still want to speak about. On| Tuesday afternoon, at the musical, Mr. John Carter sang delightfully and Miss Anne Simpson proved to be one of the most charming dancers we have ever had at the White House. Her costumes were simply bewitching. veryone greatly enjoyed both artists. My mothér-in-law and I attended the concert given by| the Philadelphia; Orchestra hat same eve in Constitutional Hall. We Te the marvelous orchestra, which is now Gtonducted by Eugene Ormandy, and ‘the atiditional | Pleasure of having Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist, : play the Br: ’ Concerto in D with the orchestra. The Postmaster-General, Mr. | Farley, dropped in . for dinner last night and was, usual, a cheerful and deisnifin guest, We went into the President's study af er and I was struck by the fact that the President still has many of Christmas presents # ‘spread around where he can look at them, I thought

he needs d a sctoen fo his c cottage, so I had one

: By Ernie Pyle

snicker. He was 6 when the Union Soop came marching past his folks’ place near Holly Springs, Miss. There is a story that he thumbed his nose at Gen. Grant. Mr. McVey helped put out the very first edition of The Commercial-Appeal. That was in 1864, when the famous old . Appeal combined with the new and thriving Commercial. These three old printers like to tell stories about the days when editors and reporters did all their writing by hand, Mr. Hanson said: “There was an editor our shop who wrote in a solid line. His words just looked like long dashes. Hardly anybody could read iti at all. “So one night a printer started to set one) of his editorials. 'He worried with it for a long time, and finally he just laid the paper down and started filling his stick with type. What he set up in the t stick was this: “‘T've tried this copy right side up, upside| down, sideways, backwards, and every other way, and can’t make a bit of sense out of it!’

“Then he put the stick of type down on the sheet|

of paper, put on his coat, walked out of the office, and never did come Yuen » :

Taking No Chances :

The boys recalled the time an editor and body else were going to fight a duel. Mr. Hanson said the editor was walking up and down the street, and the tails of his frock coat were stuffed with guns.

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His adversary was walking up and down the other| |

side of the street, with newspapers rolled up [under his arm, and guns stuck inside the newspapers, The duel didn’t come off because somebody came and took the guns away from them. “No,” said Mr. McVey, “it wasn’t that way lat all. They couldn’t fight in Memphis, so they took a train down to Mississippi. What caused. it to be |called

off was that the managing editor had been appointed |

the chief's second. And when he found out that he’d have to step in and fight if the editor got wounded, he just telegraphed ahead to the sheriff in Mississippi to arrest them all when they got off the train, And that’s what happened.” At any rate, nobody got shot.

Next—Some Milestones,

By Anton Scherrer

good. For some reason, though, he was back in 1893. When Rogers returned to Indianapolis, Bowles was a salesman for the H. Lieber Co. with a secret enterprise on the side. Seems that during Rogers’ absence Bowles had found time to start an art magazine. It was a handsome illustrated quarterly called “Modern Art” which at that time meant Whistler, Monet and Aubrey Beardsley, as difficult to understand as Picasso and Dali are today. Rogers was probably in Lafayette when the first number appeared in January, 1893. At any rate, there were no contributions by him in that number. Beginning with the title page of the second number, however, Modern Art was full of Bruce Rogers’ work. Enough, anyway, for Louis Prang, the Boston publisher, to come all the way to Indianapolis and take Bowles and Rogers back with him. When Modern Art, under Prang’s management, ceased %ublication in 1897, George Mifflin grabbed off Rogers for the Riverside Press, }

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Achieves Fame in England

In 1917 Bruce Rogers went to England—to the top of the ladder, too. Today he belongs to that small aristocracy of craftsmen whose work is certain to be classed for our time with Caxton, William Morris and other great printers of the past. The brochure now on view at the Herron (until Jan. 13) is the printed version of a Portfolio paper written by Brandt Steele’s mother. It records her impressions of the days back in the Eighties when Theodore C. Steele, William Forsyth and J. Ottis Adams, later to be known as the Hoosier Group, spent several years in Germany to take advantage of the famous artists then feaching in Munich. The paper made such a hit the evening it was read that the Portfolians ordered it printed at their expense. It was Carl Lieber who suggested that Bruce Rogers might be a good man to handle the job. - It was just about this time, too, that Bruce Rogers designed the pretty label with the two dolphins which the H. Lieber people use to this day. Brandt Steele also remembers that, during his Indianapolis period, Bruce Rogers turned out a label for the Van Camp people to use on their tomato cans. It was a picture of the juiciest tomato he ever saw, says Brandt.

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By Raymond Clapper

trated force alone—even though we are a great and

powerful nation.

2. If all the small nations throughout the world have their independence snatched from them. 3. If most of the world is compelled to worship the God imposed by a military ruler, or forbidden to

Times Special

Veoh Sound New Deal Liberal

ASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Frank Murphy long has been

known as a liberal of the streamlined type.

He has served as Chief

missioner to the Philippines, Governor of Michigan and, finally, U. S. Attorney Gen-

eral, the post he now holds.

An ardent New Dealer, he has been on intimate terms with the President.

Mr. Murphy was swept into the political spotlight in Detroit in 1920 when, after war service, he was appointed Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Eastern | District of Michigan,

In 1923 he was elected judge of the Recorder's Court and soon

jurist. He was elected Mayor of Detroit seven years later in the wave of reform which had followed the removal of his predecessor, Charles Bowles. He became Governor in 1937 and U. S. Attorney General a year ago.

A bachelor, he was born at Harbor Springs, Mich., on April 13, 1893. 2 =

‘RANK MURPHY'S stature has been growing from the day he began as a night school teacher in the Rumanian and Hungarian settlements of Detroit. He decided then to pursue law. He graduated from the University of Michigan and then left a $5 a week job in a Detroit law office to go to war. In France he really began his career as a mediator. There in the course of official duties, he defended soldiers at courts-martial. He succeeded so well, it is said, 5 was transferred, finally, to other duties. The war over he returned to Detroit to become Chief Assistant Ul, S. Attorney. He prosecuted a series of war time cases and achieved a reputation that brought him first a term on the

established himself as an able

His appointment to the United States Supreme Court climaxes a distinguished public career.

Assistant United States At-

* torney, Detroit Recorder, Mayor of Detroit, High Com-

Recorder's bench. then nomination and election as Mayor. The day he was inaugurated, Detroit City Hall was jammed with unemployed—wretched, hungry, sullen thousands. Murphy said afterward the scene vivified for him everything that he had read about the French Revolution. So he gave them bread, spending at one time, $1,000,000 a month for relief and compelling no man to “earn or go without.” He summoned leading industrial-

ists, including Edsel Ford, to help

with the job.

He was serving his second term as Mayor when President Roosevelt appointed him Governor General, later High Commissioner, of the Philippines. There he achieved a brilliant social program, starting slum clearance work, revamping the penal system, creating a department of labor and setting up public health standards. Lastly, he saw the woman’s suffrage

: - through the island lsgiglanure, a

8 a” 2 is generally believed that Murphy resigned this post at the request of James A. Farley to run for the Michigan governorship in an effort to strengthen the President’s chances in Michigan. As it turned out, Mr. Roosevelt won in a landslide and this was unnecessary. Mr. Murphy had relinquished an $18,000 job for one paying $5000 yearly and what was to prove a stormy period in his career. Very soofh he was busy with the sit-down strikes which tied up the autmobile industry. Criticized from many quarters for not forcibly ejecting the strikers, he staunchly defended his attitude, pointing out that he had sent in the National Guard but with instructions to protect life as well as

Times-Acme Telephoto.

Frank Murphy poses tor the photographers after his nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court.

property. He told them to be

" neutral. He said he did not want anybody killed. He sought re-election in 1938 but was defeated in the conservative swing of that year and many observers said that the unpopularity ‘of the sit-down strike technique was a factor in his defeat. » ” 8

UT Mr. Murphy was not idle ‘for long. Homer 8S. Cummings had resigned as Attorney General and Mr. Roosevelt named the former Governor to the " Cabinet. As Attorney General Mr. Mur--phy’s regime has been marked by a drive against crime, particularly of the political variety, and in anti-trust prosecutions, especially in the building field. He has sought and obtained indictments in several large cities against

large contractors and union

leaders.

He is generally credited with

pressing the prosecution that led to the downfall of Boss Tom Pendergast in Kansas City and in lifting the lid on the unsavory Louisiana situation,

He summed up his attitude on’ the anti-trust campaign in his annual report to the present Congress when he said, “the country has been suffering from the absence of a referee in the competitive game.” In this report Mr. Murphy also pointed out that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been designated by President Roosevelt -as the clearing house for cases involving espionage and sabotage and said that the agency must be given adequate funds to insure effective operation.

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He also called attention to the need for additional judges.

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URPHY' will be the second youngest member of the court | in age. Associate Justice William O." Douglas, the youngest court | member in 100 years, is five years younger. Appointment of Murphy makes the average age of Mr, Roosevelt’s five appointees only 50 years. , Of medium height and build, Murphy is just dapper enough in his dress to be smart without going Jimmy Walker. His keen blue eyes look out at you beneath extraordinarily bushy red eyebrows. He neither ‘drinks nor smokes. He appears nervous, fidgety. Yet he is perennially cool under fire. He isn’t a joiner, yet his ready smile makes him tremendously popular.

BISHOP RITTER SHIFTS GLERGY

Vice Chancellor May Be Named Soon Following Pastorate Changes.

The Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, Bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis, is expected to announce the appointment of a new vice chancellor soon following a number of pastoral changes and appointments yesterday. The major appointments were those of the Rev. Fr. Clement M. Bosler, pastor of St. John’s Church, as pastor at St. Joan of Arc Church, and the Rev. Fr. Bernard Sheridan, vice chancellor, to the pastorate of St. John’s. The appointments are effective Jan. 12. Father Bosler, a native of Rockport, Ind. will succeed the late

Rt. Rev. Msgr. Maurice F. O'Connor as pastor of the North Side church, the largest Catholic parish in the city. Following his ordination in 1917 he was named assistant: at St.

worship God at all; if the rest of the world is forbid-|Augustine’s Church, Jeffersonville.

den to read and hear the facts—daily news of their own and other nations of the truth that makes men free. 4. If world trade is controlled by any nation or group of nations which sets wp that control through military force. 2

Not Our War, rai

There, in stark terms, Mr. Roosevelt has sketched the kind of world he thinks ‘we shall face if Germany and Russia win. He sees the extermination of democracy, of religion, of tree speech and free knowledge. Note this passage: “Of course, the peoples of other nations have the right to choose their own form of government. But,we in this nation still believe that such choice should be predicated on certain freedoms which we think are essential everywhere. We know that we ourselves will never be wholly safe at bome unless other governments recognize such freeoms.” Thus Mr. Roosevelt has seized upon and delineated a world issue in which he cannot see America as an indifferent neutral. He draws the issue in a way that identifies our national interest with that of Great Britain and France. It is Woodrow Wilson’s issue of making the world safe for democracy, eome to life again in the second generation. Mr. Roosevelt still voices loyalty to the idea that America must keep out of the war. But how can one believe very strongly in keeping out of the war if he believes that our future is at stake in it to the extent that Mr. Roosevelt suggests in his message to Congress?

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

Parson MacDonald. She came up to Hyde Park last summer to look at the room where it was to go, and then studied old Hudson River prints so that it would be suitable for the President’s cottage, set high up on a hill overlooking the Hudson. Mrs. MacDonald’s colors are lovely and I think it is one of the most successful screens I have ever seen. I am glad to say that the President seems to like it as much as I do, for he has it set up in his study so he can look at it While he awaits to have it taken to Hyde Park. My young petple were augmented this morning when Mrs. Roberti Baker arrived with her son Bobby, on her way from Fall River, Mass., to Urbana, Ill. Bobby and Buzzie were thrilled to be invited: by Capt. Jones to lunch on the Potomac this noon.

At 3 o'clock, Sistie and the boys went with me to the christening of one of the new airplanes which inaugurates a new service by the Pennsylvania Airlines out of Washington. The children were very much interested in going over the ship after the brief ceremonies, I was interested in one or two improvements, such as the double windows which minimize noise and keep one’s vision clearer in frosty weather; the Shims instead of the buzzer to call the hostess, and the color scheme of gray and red which is really very attractive. The safety record is most impressive. They pave heen flying 14 years. RE had no

He came to St. John’s as assistant late in 1918 and was named pastor Nov. 23, 1932. He has been synodal judge since May 14, 1937. Father Sheridan, a native of Indianapolis, was ordained in 1916. He

'|has been vice chancellor and notary

in matrimonial court since May 16, 1934. Father Sheridan previously was pro-synodal examiner and director of the Catholic Charities Bureau here. His pastoral work was at Jeffersonville, as assistant at St. John’s and pastor at St. Frances de Sales here. Other appointments announced by the bishop were: The Rev. Fr. Bernard Riedford, Evansville, a diocesan consultor; the Rev. Fr. Fintan G. Walker, Terre Haute, to the board of synodal examiners; the Rev. Fr. Albert Busald, St. Philip Neri, Indianapolis, and the Rev. Fr. James M. Downey, St. Catherine’s, Indianapolis, to the diocesan board of charities; the Rev. Fr. Thomas Schaefers, ‘st. Benedict’s, Indianapolis, to the diocesan music commission. The Rev. Fr. Charles Schoettelkotte was transferred from the Catholic Charities Bureau here to direct charity and Catholic Youth Organization work at Evansville. The Rev. Fr. Maurice - Dugan, formerly of Evansville, was assigned to the charities bureau here. His residence will be at the Holy Trinity rectory and he will administer to the ou Lady of Peace parish at Danville. Assistant pastors named were the Rev. Pr. John Vincius, St. Mary’s, Evansville; the Rev. Fr. Cyril Conen, to Assumption, B. V. M., Evansville, and the Rev. Fr. Clarence Lindauer, to SS. Peter and Paul Church, Haubstadt.

LOCOMOTIVE BLAST KILLS 3 TRAINMEN

WHITTINGTON, Il, Jan. 5 (U. P.).—Three trainmen were killed last night when the locomotive of a Chicago and Eastern Illinois freight train exploded and derailed 15 cars loaded with coal. Parts of the locomotive were blown 100 yards from the train and the engine boiler was forced 200 feet ahead of its trucks. The dead were Engineer Lee Bollinger, Pireman W. Hayes and Brakeman C.

Blackwell, all of Salem, Ill. Cause|

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Music Is His Life, Artist Says; Uncertain on Future Movies.

~ By JAMES THRASHER Jascha Heifetz upset all pre-

cert violinists today when he re-

marked that he'd like to have a haircut. He also expressed desire for a shave. However, the eminent virtuoso was unable to give his undivided attention to tonsorial matters. For one thing, he had a rehearsal with the Indianapolis: Symphony Orchestra this morning, and. an appearance with them at this afternoon’s concert. He also is appearing at the concert tomorrow night. Sometime Saturday he intends to catch his breath and see a barber. Mr. Heifetz’ arrival in Indianapolis was a bit hectic. His train, like almost all other conveyances on this icy morning, was late. Mr. Heifetz thought he was later, since

‘he had forgotten to turn his watch

back an hour at the State line. On top of all that, he couldn’t find a taxi when he finally did arrive. All this left him very little time to talk about sloops and movies. Constance Hope Associates, Inc., who supervise his extra-musical utterances, had assured the press that he had something unique to say on either subject. But it was much too cold to think of sloops. And as regards movies, Mr. Heifetz wasn’t too sure he would make another one. 5 - He was satisfied with the recording of his playing in “They Shall Have Music,” but was somewhat less enthusiastic about the story. “I was given carte blanche in musical matters,” he said, “and they had carte blanche as regards the story. That was the bargain. If I ever make another picture— and it’s a big if—I shall have more to say about the story, perhaps complete supervision.” He spoke glowingly of the children’s orchestra which appeared with him in the film, and assured any skeptics ‘that it dctually was the youthful players whose music was heard. He said they achieved

Plans for opening the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of Providence in the United States were completed at a conference at the chancery of the Indianapolis Catholic Diocese yesterday. \ The celebration, the scope of which will be confined to the diocese, will begin Jan. 23 at the mother house at St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind, and will be concluded Oct. 23. Arrangements for: the solemn opening were completed when Sister Eugenia, dean of St. Mary-of-the-Woods . College, and | Sister Teresa Aloyse, also of the college, conferred with he ‘Rt. Rev. Henry cellor. PDugan, OT 22, 1840, that Mother Theodore Guerin and five members of the community came from France at the invitation of the Most Rev. Celestine Hailandiere, second Bishop of Vincennes. The nuns were quartered in a section of a farm house near Terre Haute. A short, time later the mother house and the college were established. ° oe ;

Heifetz Shatters Violinist Wants a Haircut

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Times Photo. Sascha Heifetz . . . no time for

sloops or barbers.

the rather remarkable feat of getting a satisfactory recording of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto’s last movement after only three tries. And speaking of children, Mr. Heifetz said his son and daughter were musically talented—his daughter to quite a remarkable degree, and his son “normally.” Both are studying piano at present, but not violin, Unless a miracle occurs, Mr. Heifetz said, his children will not become professional musicians. He is just. as well satisfied. “Music has always been my life,” he explained. “It is a pleasant and interesting one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way. But I can think of more normal lives. . After all, I think one musician In the family is enough.”

Sisters of Providence Plan to Note Founding

Illinois, Maryland, North

diana, Oklahoma

Carolina, Massachusetts,

and China and the college has an|

enrollment of 270 girls. The order in 1903 began a movement to obtain the canonization of Mother Guerin. The Rev. Fr. Thomas Kilfoil, Bloomington, is vice postular of the movement. Bishop Joseph E. Ritter of Indianapolis will pontificate at the high mass opening the celebration. The Rt. Rev. Raymond R. Noll, rector of SS. Peter A Paul Cathedral here and vicar general, will be celebrant. . Nineteen postulants will be professed into the commuhity and nine others will receive the habit and become novices. Other major events of the celebration: will include pageants in May, the commencement on June 11, a summer program for the nuns who will be at the mother house for vacation and a fall program which will include a pageant depicting the history of the order written by Sister Teresa Aloyse. The commencement speaker is to be Bishop.elest John F. O’Hara, » president % of Notre Das

: | Indianapolis sculptor, showing the i [Civil War President as he appeared

: weighs 400 pounds and is 26 inches

piece of work,” Mr.

-| Sweet Briar Collége near here. Rising to reply to all the tributes,|

EXHIBIT DANIELS # BUST OF LINCOLN

peat Acclaims Work of Local Sculptor for Scale And Conception.

A bust of Abraham Lincoln by an

between 1840 and 1850, has been unveiled at the Indianapolis Central Library, Meridian and St. Clair Sts. E. H. Daniels, 4913 N. Pennsylvania St., carved the bust from especially quarried Alabama marble. It

high. The work is acclaimed by Wilbur Peat, John Herron Art Institute head, as the “best piece of sculpture that Mr. Daniels has made.” “The inspiration the subject and the challenge of the block of stone has resulted in| an impressive eat said. “It has breadth, not only in scale, but in conception. ¢ The forms of the head have been treated in such a way as to bring out the character of Lincoln most effectively. It shows|t the sculptor has gone to a good deal of trouble to learn all he could about the personality as well as the physical appearance of his modzl.” Among other busts Mr. Daniels has made in recent years is one of Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, which is now at Indiana University.

GLASS IS HONORED ON 82D BIRTHDAY

LYNCHBURG, Va., Jan. 5 (U. P.). —Senator Carter Glass remonstrated last night that neither age nor sentiment can temper his political fury. The celebration of his 82d birthday brought felicitations from Democrats and Republicans alike, some calling him the No. 1 American statesman and a financial wizard, and the high point was reached at dedication ceremonies for a chair of government to bear his name at

Mr. Glass seemed at the point. of tears. “Surely it cannot be expected thatl” I may find it possible to express adequately my thanks and appreciations,” he began. “I have heard for the first time tonight that I am a great man. I have never known it before but I must confess it is pleasant to be so assured.”

ALL’S QUIET ON NEWS FRONT, F. D. R. SAYS

- WASHINGTON, Jan. § (U. P.)— For the first time since President Roosevelt took office lack of news cancelled his regular bi-weekly press conference today. Mr. Roosevelt explained that presentation of his message to Congress on the state of the Union and the 1941 budget left no news in immediate prospect. Cancellation of previous press conferences always has been due to sickness.

PETERS WILL GO TO GARY NEXT MONDAY

R. Earl Peters, Federal Housing Authority State director, will go to Gary Monday for a housing conference and will be the principal Jackson Day speaker there. Mr. Peters will confer with construction industry leaders, bankers

and ‘lenders of more ‘than. a dozen

Stork Avoids Michigan City

Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Jan. 5. —Theories are still being aired here on just why the stork failed to reach here for the first three days of the new year. As is the custom in several Indiana towns merchants present the first baby of the New Year with gifts. They're still- wailig' for the first arrival. i

JOB SITUATION HELD PROGRESS BARRIER

The unemployment problem must be solved in order to continue our social and economic advances, George J. Smith, Indiana State Em= ployment Service director, told EH Lilly & Co. division heads today. « Mr. Smith spoke at a luncheon meeting at the 740 S. Alabama St. building ‘of the company. “Most unofficial estimates of unemployment in this country place the figure at about ten million,” he said. “National production must be increased by solving the unemploye ment problem.” Mr. Smith declared that employe ment services contribute to the lowe ering of unemployment by reducing the labor turnover. He said this was accomplished by placing individuals in jobs for which they were fitted,

SISTER WILLS ONLY “$1 TO MARY MINTER

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5 (U. P.).— The sum of $1 each was left to Mary Miles Minter, blond darling of the silent films, and her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, by Mary's sister, Margaret Shelby Fillmore. Mrs. Fillmore, who died a month ago, had been estranged from her mother and sister. The rest of her $12,000 estate was left to Elsie Brosten, Mrs. Fillmore’s former maid and “kind friend.”

"TEST YOUR _ KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the national anthem of Canada. 2—What is a bissextile year? 3—What strait separates the State - of Was Vancouver Island? = 4—With what sport is Wayne Mile ner associated? 5—A ‘malleable metal may be pounded into a thin sheet, will melt at a low temperature, or if extremely brittle? 6—What is the correct pronunciae tion of the word cadmean? T—How soon after it is rendered does a decision of the U. S. Sue preme Court becorne effective?

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Answers

—"“The Maple-Leaf Forever.” 2—A leap year. 3—Strait of Juan de Fuca. 4—Professional football. 5—Pounded into a thin sheet. 6—Kad-me’-an; not kad’-me-an. Immedia

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