Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1940 — Page 12
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Details to Be Drafted Here
After Joint Sessions Of
Home, Foreign Councils
National Council of Church Women, Committee on
Ww omen'’s Work of Foreign Missions Conference and |
Council of Women for Home Missions Involved.
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Details of the merger of three major Protestant women’s groups
of the United States are to be drafted in Indianapolis following the joint |
meetings of the Home Missions Councils here beginning next Thursday. The merging groups are the National Council of Churchwomen, the
Committee
the Council of Women for Home Missions.
groups will be the last of a series of conferences, mostly on missionary problems, here next week and the following week. : The planning conference of the Interdenominational Missionary Education ent of the United States and Canada will begin the series on| Tuesday and Wednesday. Its sessions will not be open to the public. They will be devoted to the selection ‘of mission study outlines
"and books for missionary societies
of 24 Protestant churches. 400 Expected to Attend A joint meeting of the Home Mis-
. gions Council and the - Council of
Women for Home Missions will fol-
low. This meeting is expected to bring about 400 delegates to the city. After the joint sessions are finished, the Women’s Council delegates will remain for sessions of their own. Most of the Home Missions daytime sessions will be in [the Hotel Severin; popular evening meetings will be at the FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Immediately after the Home Mission meetings close the representatives of the three women’s. groups wil begin work on the merger, Mrs. E. H. Silverthorn of New York said in a letter this week to Mrs. Ralph J. Hudelson of Indianapolis. Mrs. Silverthorn is the president of the National Committee of Churchwomen organized two years ago to promote the merger. She said that formulating the detailed plan of union was expected to be finished by Jan. 19. al Ratification Will Be Sought
. The plan drafted here will be submitted to the three merging bodies, separately, for ratification. All three have authorized the union and when they have gone through the formality of ratifying the plan there will be one major Protestant woman’s group in the country. No name has been selected for it as yet. Among the women concerned with the merger are Mrs. J. H. Smiley, National Council of Churchwomen recording secretary, and Miss Dale Ellis, Council of Women for Home Missions member, both of Indianapolis. Guests who will help with it include Miss Mary C. Smith, National Council of Churchwomen president; Mrs. Augustus Trowbridge, president, and Miss Edith Lowry, executive secretary, of the Council, of Women for Home Missions, and Mrs. Fred Bennett, former president of the Committee on Womens Work of the Foreign Missions Conference. Mrs. Bennett also is scheduled to speak during the joint Home Missions Councils meeting. |
Economic, Social Problems to Be Discussed
The first open meeting for discussion of economic and social problems by Home Missions Councils will be Saturday evening in the FIRST | BAPTIST CHURCH. Mrs. Augustus Trowbridge will preside, . “Sharecroppers” is the subject for addresses by the v. Howard Kester and Hans Baasch Saturday evening. |“Homesteaders” will be discussed by Dr. Alva W. Taylor, and “Refugees” by Conrad Hoffman Jr. Miss Dale Ellis will give the opening prayer, and the film “Uncle Sam Builds Dams” will close the program. Famed for Work
The Rev. Mr. Kester, who will appear more often on the convention program than any other ‘speaker, has been much publicized for his work among Arkansas sharecroppers. Dr. Taylor is professor of social ethics at Vanderbilt University. In 1919 he investigated the steel strike, and is the author of several books, including “Christianity and Industry in America,” “American Children” and “The Man, the Machine and the Job.” J Mr. Hoffman Jr. is in charge of refugee ‘work for the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. He lived for a number of years in Palestine and was associated with Jews who are. building a homeland there. Miss Ellis is of the home missions division of the United Christian Missionary Society here. The open meeting of the two councils Friday evening will be an introduction to other popular sessions, at which the functions, history, goals and administration of the two Home Missions Councils will be explained. Sunday evening's popular meeting has been termed a high point of the joint conventions.
Exhibits at Hotel
There also will be literature, pubficity land church architecture exhibits for the public on the Hotel Seve balcony. Tea will be served to people viewing the exhibits by Indianapolis churchwomen and films will be shown each afternoon about 4:30. “Frontiers of American Life,” a book of 56 pages in the terabre . exhibit, sums up the basic home mission subjects to be discussed at convention sessions. It was written and delivered in part in radio addreses by Dr. Mark A. Dawber, ‘executive secretary of the Home ‘Missions Council, and published jointly by the latter and the Council of Women for Home Missions.
1 : Books to Be Accepted
For Publication
Many of the books accepted for publication by the Missionary Education Movement at its planning conference here will be produced * jointly with the Council of Women
for Home Missions.
Severs members of the planning
on Women’s Work of the Foreign Missions Conference and
The meeting of the three ‘Ride Circuit’ For Church
Methodist Advance.
In the role of a “modern circuit rider,” Bishop Titus Lowe of the Indianapolis Methodist Area “will take to the road” in the interest of the Methodist Advance movement this month. Bishop Lowe will. assist with bishops’ rallies in Texas and Lomisiana in January and in Florida in February. Rally Here Feb. 19
Indianapolis will hold an all-day bishops’ rally Feb. 19. This is one of 82 principal cities to be visited by groups of bishops during this month, February and March. . * The purpose of the Advance movement is to help Methodists of the recently united church to become better acquainted with each other and their church, to increase spirituality and for the discussion of present-day problems related to the church and the world.
Hailed As New Era
The Christian Advocate (Cincinnati), which dubbed the bishops “modern circuit riders,” says that the Advance signalizes a new era in the united church, formed last April as a result of a merger of the Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant Churches and the Methodist Church South. ; As a part of the Advance movement, church schools in Indianapolis and over the country are starting a “Win Three Programs.” The object of the program is to add three to the membership of all church school classes by Easter, March 24. Dr. A. H. Backus, religious education director, is in charge of the “Win Three Program” here and throughout the state.
Fairfax Has New Pastor
The Rev. Leon Weatherman will preach his first' sermon as new pastor of the Fairfax Christian Church tomorrow morning. The Rev. Mr. Weatherman was reared on the West Side and is a student af Butler, where he expects to receive his B. D. degree in June. After morning worship: a “welcome dinner’ ’will be served in the church followed by a formal induction service in charge of Dr. E. L. Day, executive secretary of the Christian Church union. Dr. Bruce Kershner, head of the department of ° New ' Testament at Butler, will offer the installation prayer. i Various Disciples ministers will take part in the service, .including the Rev. S. W. Hartsock, who will represent West Side congregations and ministers. .
Pastors to Hear Dr. Baumgartel
Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel, new Church Federation executive secretary, will address the Indianapolis Ministerial Association for the first time Monday. Dr. Baumgartel will speak on “The Living Church” at 10:30 a. m. at the Roberts Park Church. The Rev. Frederick G. Kuebler will lead the devotions and Dr. Errol T. Elliott, president, will preside. Preceding the interdenominational meeting, Methodist ministers will be addressed at 10 o'clock by Dr. H. H. Halley of Chicago, Bible lec‘turer.
FINLAND TOPIC FOR DR. WICKS
Dr. F. S. C. Wicks, All Souls Unitarian Church pastor emeritus, will address Lutheran Men of Marion County on “Finland and the Lutheran Church” Monday at 8 p. m. in Bethany United Lutheran Church. Dr. Wicks spent a part of the past summer in Finland. The problem of relief for war sufferers in Finland, 981. per cent of which is Lutheran, will be presented to the Lutheran Men of Marion County after Dr. Wicks’ address.
DISCIPLES TO DINE
Indianapolis Disciples of Christ Churches are to serve a 1940 Brotherhood Dinner Jan. 17 simultaneously with others of the denomination over the country.
conference will stay over for the later sessions. Three of the 50 conference members are from Indianapolis. They are the Misses Genevieve Brown, Rose Wright and Mabel Niedermeyer: of Indianapolis. Miss Brown is executive secretary of missionary education for the United Christian Missionary Society. Miss Wright is national director of young people’s work and Miss Niedermeyer, of children’s
work, for the Disciples of Christ.
Bishop Lowe, Others to Aid
tions from
Young Indianapolis Episcopalians, including Carlton V. Hadley and Miss Betty Gettins (above), will form a permanent diocesan organizaticn tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in the Advent Episcopal Church. The Rev. Frederick H. Arterton of New York, National Council of Episcopal Churches secretary for youth, and Miss Carolyn Gillespie, diocesan field worker, will speak at the meeting. John Eagleson will preside and Robert Southworth will conduct the candlelight service afterward.
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Mayer Chapel Prepares
hool Entrance
Nineteen of the 50 Mayer Chapel Kindergarten children are being
prepared to enter Public School 12 across the street from the chapel
when the new semester opens.
List Recitals By Dr. Halley
Chicagoan Memorizes the Books of the Bible.
Irvington churches will present Dr. H. H. Halley of Chicago in a series of Scripture Recitals to celebrate the Week of Prayer. Dr. Halley has memorized the Books of the Bible and his recitar them, together with original comments, are sdid “to make the Bible a new book for listeners.” ; 0 ; Recitals at 7:30 p. m. are ‘scheduled for the following evenings and churches: Sunday and Monday, in the Downey Avenue Christian Church; Tuesday and Wednesday, in the Irvington Presbyterian Church, and Thursday and Friday in the Methodist Church. There will be afternoon recitals at 2 o'clock Monday at the Downey Avenue Church; Tuesday and Wednesday at the Presbyterian Church, and Thursday and Friday at the Methodist Church.
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Lecture Monday
Miss Violet Ker Seymer, C. S. B., of Boston will lecure on “Christian Science: Humanity’s Friend and Emancipator” Monday dt 8 p. m. in Cadle Tabernacle. Miss Seymer will be sponsored by Third Church of Christ, Scientist, here and introduced by Lewis F. Malcolm. . |. - She is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. “God” is the lesson sermon subject for all Christian Science Churches tomorrow. The Golden Text is “Ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that T am the Lord your God, and none else.” Joel 2:27.
PLANS BOSTON TRIP
The Rev. E. Burdette Backus, All Souls Unitarian Church pastor, will leave for Boston tomorrow to attend the American Unitarian Association
Christian Science]
directors meeting.
The chapel, a religious neighborhood house supported by the Second Presbyterian Church, will not release its “hold” on the children after
they enter school.
One of the first things told a visitor to the neighborhood house is
‘that there is constant co-operation
between it and the school. The school principal, Elmer Norris, is on the board of control of the neighborhood house. Many of the kindergarten, children about to enter the first grade whom Mayer Chapel has been outfitting with school shoes and clothing and supplying with orange juice and cod liver oil still will be cared for by the chapel when necessary.
Make Home at Center They will be given milk lunches along with the school children now receiving it upon recommendation of the school nurse and treatment in the Chapel dental and medical clin. ic when needed. In addition to the kindergarten, Mayer Chapel maintains a full program of clubs and classes for all ages and both sexes in charge of Miss Blanche Maine, social service director. Worship services, church
school and the Christian Endeavor are conducted by the staff minister, the Rev. W. G. Proctor. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kemp are responsible for the p live there. Thus they cary q ideal of the true mneighh house that at least a part personnel make a home wi walls. - ’
Women of the Second
benefit of Mayer Chapel Friday evening at 8 p. m. in the church auditorium. Mrs. Mitchell, former Indianapolis resident and actress, will be remembered in connection with Scottish Rite events arranged by her and her husband, Horace Mitchell, during his lifetime.
Played on Broadway | “Family Portrait,” depicts the home life of Jesus in Nazareth although the character of Jesus does not appear in the play. It had a three-month run on Broadway. The newest Mayer Chapel organization is the junior choir of 30 girls directed by Mrs. William Bayte.
There also is a glee club, a model airplane building class, mothers’ group and a men’s fellowship. Children turn to basketball, the gymnasium classes and library in winter and the Vacation Bible School and cooling showers in summer. Dramatic, handcraft, woodworking and adult education classes all are WPA financed.
and Master.
selves, “Who say ye that I am?” The popular idea seemed to be that Jesus was the reincarnation of one of the prophets; but Peter’s response to the question of Jesus was clear and unequivocal, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” yin ; What did Peter mean by this? He meant primarily that Jesus was the Messiah, the Holy One whom devout Israelites had long been expecting. It meant that Peter saccepted Jesus as the incarnation and revealer of God, and it meant that to Him he gave his complete faith and allegiance.
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CAN THE CHRISTIAN’S confession of faith be less than this? But what does it mean thus to confess Christ? Surely it does not mean just to have some metaphysical idea of His divinity. Men have had that, and they have fought bitterly over definitions and distinctions in a way that belied all faith in a good and loving God and that constituted the worst treachery to Jesus and His teaching. But the truth never wins until it enriches and ennobles life. It is by the quality of our living and our devotion that we acknowledge Jesus as Lord and Master. It is meaningless and\worthless to call Him divine
if we clo nbt accept the divinity of
When Jesus asked His disciples, Man is?” His question was not one of mere curiosity. He wished to know what the people thought of His mission and His teaching, but He made the occasion also one for challenging the thought of the disciples them-
"SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Text: Matthew 16:13-24
By WILLIAM E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of Advance
OUR LESSON IS BASED upon Peter's confession of Jesus as Lord
“Who do. men say that the Son of
His life and teaching and strive with all our power and with all the power of prayer to emulate His example. ” ” ” THE WORDS of Jesus to Peter, following Peter’s confession, have been variously interpreted. One great branch of the church has taken them with some literalness and has regarded the word of Jesus to Peter, “I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven,” as constituting the authority of the church on earth, Others have interpreted these words in a less literal way; they have taken them to mean that the church is founded upon the experience of God in the hearts of men, and that Christians by their attitude and action have great power of binding or loosing. Thus some have’ seen in these words the expression of a great responsibility resting upon Christians for their conduct in daily life. It is
a sad ‘but vital {ruth that people like
ourselves can limit the spread of the Kingdom of God, but it is an equally noble thing to realize that feeble mortals, such as we are, have the Power of helping in the spread and growth of that om. To believe in the divinity of Jesus
is to believe that God has a divine
Dr. Nakarai To Pray at Doan Ritual
Missionary to Be Installed As Society Officer
Here Tomorrow.
Dr. Toyozo W. Nakarai, Butler University professor and former friend in Japan of Mrs. Mary Lediard Doan, will pronounce the invocation at her installation as United
-|Christian Missionary Society vice
president tomorrow. Dr. Robert M. Hopkins, Society president, will preside at the service at 3 o'clock in the Central Christian Church. : Mrs. Doan, who was a missionary to Japan, returned from the Far East early in December and spent Christmas in her native Canada. She arrived in Indianapolis yesterday to take up her duties in the
‘Downey Avenue Missions building.
Mrs. Doan succeeds Miss Lela Taylor who will pronounce the benediction at tomorrow’s installation service. “Canada’s Contribution,” a talk, will be by Miss Marian Royce of Toronto, the Canadian Disciple editor. Messages from home and foreign fields will be read by Miss Bertha Park, state secretary of women’s organizations in Ohio, where Mrs. Doan lived for a number of years. Others on the program are Dr. William ¥F. Rothenburger, United Society Board of Trustees, chairman, who will deliver the charge to Mrs. Doan, and Mrs. Effie L. Cunningham, who will give the prayer of dedication. Dr. William A, Shullenberger, host pastor and United Society Board member, will speak for the Society and the church choir will sing. A reception in the church parlors will follow the installation service.
Church Unity Octave Near
Catholics to Pray 8 Days, - Beginning Jan. 18.
Indianapolis Catholics and those around the world will play eight days, Jan. 18 to 25, for Christian Unity. During the prayer period, called the Church Unity Octave, the Blessed Sacrament Benediction may be given daily and the faithful of all ages are urged to say the official prayers, attend mass and receive the Holy Communion also every day. ® 8 = Today is the Feast of Epiphany which commemorates the revelation of Christ to the Wise Men who symbolize Gentile peoples. : Epiphany follows 12th Night and
/ is observed by liturgical churches.
Semi-Finals Near}:
In Peace Contest
Peace declamation semi - final contests will be held tomorrow and Wednesday at Indianapolis churches to help determine the winner of a year’s scholarship to one of five Indiana colleges. Participants are winners in individual churches. They chose certain declamations from a group offered by the Church Federation of Indianapolis, contest sponsors. The finals will be held Jan. 21 at the First Evangelical Church. Second prize will be a semester scholarship at one of the remaining Indiana colleges. Third prize will be $25 and remaining awards Will be books. The North Side contest will be held at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the North Methodist Church. Contestants are Maurice Frost, Mary Virginia Gammon, Gilbert Schaeffer and Mary Ann Sexson. The Irvington contest will be held at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Downey Avenue Christian Church. Participants are Beth Henderson, Margaret Antibus, Robert Seeger and Wilma Grabhorn. : Taking part in the Hillside Christian Church contest at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow are Emma Jane Williams, Charleen Sheppard and Roy Richards. The fourth event tomorrow will be held at 2 p. m. at the Eighth Christian Church. Contestants are
'|J. D. Small, Dorothy Alvey, William.
Bruder and Mary Benedict. The other contest will be held at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday at the First Nazarene Church. Speakers will be William Newlin, Charles Montgomery, Gladys Moyer and William Gommel.
Hebrew Groups To Meet Jointly
‘The Sisterhood, Brotherhood and|
Young People’s League of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation will meet jointly Wednesday at 8:15 p. m. in the Temple. The Foster Hall Quartet will sing spirituals and Foster songs and Victor R. Griffin will speak on “Amazing Australia.” » 8 »
Mrs. ‘H. PF. Grande will read a paper on the Hebrew poet, Chiam Nachman Bialik, at the Beth-El Zedeck Sisterhood meeting Monday at 2:15 p. m, in the Temple.
Dr. Roy Vale
Is ‘Honored’
DETROIT, Jan. 8 (U. P.) —“It is| a great honor to be invited to the pastorate of an Indianapolis church,” Dr. Roy E. Vale said hére today upon receipt of a call to the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. | “But I shall have no public de-
~cision“for a few days,” he added.
IN IN
are being formulated for the first gpa ‘alumni home-coming for Troop 69, Boy Scouts of America. The reunion will be held some time
in April and fathers will be invited, according to J. E. Biddinger, Scoutmaster. First arrangements were discussed Thursday at a meeting of the planning committee headed by Mr. Biddinger. : Others on the committee are John [jtley, Paul Richards and Charles Pahud. The troop has more than 300 alumni members. Those interested are asked to communicate with Mr. Utley, 3557 N, Capitol Ave,
Receipt of a 51000 gift from the estate of Mary J. Proctor to the Riley Hospital for Children was annoiinced yesterday by Hugh McK. Landon, joint committee chairman of the hospital. The gift was made upon the recornimendation of the Bankers Trust Co., trustees of the estate. The will provided the trustees shovid decide on expenditures for the benefit of underprivileged children.
‘Heads C. M. B. Class—Russell Lovelace will take office at 9:30 a, m. tomorrow as president of the
the Third Christian Church. Vice presitlents are Clarence McNeff, Cappy Poulter, Tom Wilcox, O. M. Crays and A. G. Phegley. Ted Wilgus will become secretary, Harold Kohlmeyer treasurer, Kenneth Golden bulletin editor, and Marion F. Clark announced of the class's WFBM radio program. Merle Sidener continues as leader.
. U, EXTENSION ADDS TO STAFF
Nine New Members Named Far Second Semester, + Opening Feb. 5.
Nine new members have = been added to the Indiana University Extension. Center here for the second semester, according to Miss Mary B. Orvis, executive secretary. Registration for the second semester has opened, but the term will not start until Feb. 5. . Faculty members from the Bloomington I. U. campus who will teach in Indianapolis for the first time next semester ‘are: Dr. Albert Haring, professor of marketing; Prof. John F. Mee, placement manager of the school of business; Mrs. H. L. Smith; Prof. J. W. French of the journalism department; Dr. Ruth |G. Strickland, assistant professor of education; Dr. Robert E. Walden, assistant professor of accounting. and Dr. Eugene W. Kanning, assistant professor of chemis-
ry. ¢ Other new faculty members are J. Harman Bjorklund of Indianapolis and Prof. W. E. Clauer of Purdue University.
Alumni of Dental School to Meet
The Indianapolis Dental Society and the Alumni Association of the Indiana University School of Dentistry will hold its mid-winter meeting Monday. ; ‘Twenty-seven clinics will be con-
ducted at the dentistry school during the afternoon. Dr. James W. Huckelberry, vice president of the dental society, is’ chairman of the
‘program. {
Dr. W. H. Crawford, new dean of ‘the dentistry school, will speak al a dinner at 6:30 p. m. at the
Indianapolis Athletic Club. Dr. F.
W. Leavell, alumni association president, will preside.
SCHWAB DIED POOR, NEWSPAPER CLAIMS
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 6 (U. P.).— The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said today that Charles M. Schwab, who, as head of the Bethlehem Steel Corp., controlled billions in the steel industry, died a “poor man.”
Former western Pennsylvania business associates of the steel mas-
iter have disclosed that the vast
Schwab estate had dwindled away before Mr. Schwab died Sépt. 18 in New York City. The newspaper says that agents of William J. Hamilton, Secretary of Revenue of Pennsylvania, were unable to find any personal or real property in Pennsylvania belonging to the estate.
DR. FRANTZ IS ON WIRE TOMORROW
Dr. George Arthur Frantz, First Presbyterian Church pastor, tomorrow will deliver the first of a number of Sunday sermons to be broadcast from his pulpit over WIRE at 11:30 a. m. - Tomorrow's sermon, “All Things New,” will be preceded by the Sibelius anthem, “A Morning Hymn,”
sung by the church Motet Choir. Dr. Frantz will continue the WIRE broadcasts until the last of February. They are sponsored by the Indianapolis Church Federation radio committee, and the Rev. Henry E. Chace, chairman,
1. U. LAW GRADUATE DEAD Times Special go ’ GREENFIELD, Ind. J 6.— Charles L. Tindall, local attorney, died at the home of his mother, Mrs. Golden Tindall, yesterday. Mr.
Tindall, who was 30, was a graduate of the Indiana Law School. Beside
his mother survivors include two sisters,
Troop 69 Alumni to Meet—Plans
Christian Men Builders Class of’
Evangelists Open Drive—Miss La Veta Ellis of Princeton, Ind. will give the se ns and the Lory Sisters will siig at the two-week evangelistic services in the North Side Church of the Nazarene beginning tomorrow. ®
Three to Be Elected—The annual meeting of the Knights of Columbus Home Association will be held at) 1305 N. Delaware St. at 8 m. Monday. Three new directors will be elected and the business report of the past year will be read.
Agents to Hear Renard—George A. Renard, executive secretary and treasurer of the National Associatiorr of Purchasing Agents will speak at a dinner meeting of the Indianapolis association at the Severin Hotel at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday. Members have been asked to invite executives of their companies to the meeting. :
Catherine Merrill Tent 9, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, will hold a business meeting at 1:30 p. m. Monday in Ft. Friendly followed by a public installation of officers.
Choir at Hospital—The St. Joan of Arc Choir will’ sing for the Catholic Vesper Service at 4 p. m. tomorrow at the Veterans’ Hospital. The Rev. Walter Nugent, chaplain, will speak.
Dentistry Dean Takes Office—Dr. William H. Crawford, new dean of the Indiana University School of Dentistry here, today assumed office at the Medical Center. Dr. Crawford was named in August to take the post held by G. D. Timmons, acting dean. Before his appointment tg’ the I. U. school deanship, Dr. Crawford was a professor of dentistry at Columbia University.
City Engineer, Secretary Wed
Indianapolis will be without a City Engineer for the next several days. ; M. G. (Ollie) Johnson, absent City Engineer, left yesterday with his bride, the former Miss Mary Josephine Hussey, 2101 N, Pennsylvania St. The now ‘Mrs. Johnson has been secretary to the bridegroom since he took office a year ago. She ‘previously had been secretary for Henry B. Steeg, former City Engineer. : ~The Johnsons will honeymoon at Miami, Fla., before returhing to their respective duties at City Hall. While the license was obtained under the cloak of secrecy and the marriage performed at some unannounced location yesterday, only a few people at City Hall did not know of the event yesterday afternoon. Before boarding a Miami-bound plane yesterday the City Engineer presided at a meeting of the Marion County Flood Control Board, with his bride at her old job as secretary.
LOCAL STAR GAZERS PLAN OPEN HOUSE
In preparation for the opening of the Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Ind. this year, the Indiana Astronomical Society will hold an open house at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Typographical Terrace, 2820 N. Me-
Victor Maier, one of the society’s founders, has been in charge of construction at the observatory. He will explain the studies being made of the winter stars and the schedule of work outlined for coming months. Astronomers from Indiana, DePauw and Butlér universities are to work from Link Observatory. Arrangements are being made to secure a loan library of museum editions of early astronomers like Galileo, Bacon and Newton. Mr. Majer will explain the conjunction of five visible planets to occur in late February in the western evening sky for the first time in many years. : ]
SAVE PAIR FREEZING : IN CHICKEN COOP
COVINGTON, Ky., Jan. 6 (U. P.). —Two impoverished and elderly spinster sisters who made their home in a chicken coop, were gaining strength in a hospital today after almost freezing in the subzero weather. < Hospital authorities reported the condition of Miss Elizabeth Dorsey, 76, and her sister, Marie, 80, to be “slightly improved.” They were suffering from severe exposure.
published Tom's months’ brought ridicule upon him. The prophecy came true, later. By pop-
bell asserted. in conference. There were seven or eight uniformed men seated around a table, but the only one I could identify was the Fuehrer. - Suddenly one of them drew a gun and fired. Hitler collapsed.”
were awarded to Seventy per cent of the paper toweling contract went to the lowest bidder, and 30, per cent went to another bidder, Mr. Walsman said.
ridian St. : roo > maiden sisters, a priest found the
frozen body:of Dr. Minda ‘McLintock, at 83 the oldest woman physican in - Kansas.
today. She died sometime after mid= night yesterday at which time she had arisen to kindle a fire in the small cook stove upon which the tiny house depended for heat. Ap-
DAY, JAN. 6, 1940
CIRCLING THE CITY SEER ENVISIONS
HITLER'S DEATH «
Best Friend to Assassinate Fuehrer ‘at Conference, Irishman Says.
LONDON; Jan. 6 (U, P.).—Tom Campbell, Irish ex-laborer who: claims occult powers and is known to Londoners as the “man with the news-reel mind,” predicts that Adolf Hitler will be assassinated by a “friend” who at present is his trusted adviser. Mr. Campbell also claims that his powers of “seeing” into the future tell him the European war will not last as long as the World War. He predicts it will end with the division
of Germany into a series of small
states. Predicted War
Last. May, London newspapers “war in five
time” prophecy which
ular request, the Irishman worked himself into a trance and “saw” the sinking of a British battleship (the
Royal Oak subsequently was sunk), the Russian advance into Poland pd the Russian invasion of Finand.
According to Mr. Campbell's latest
prophecy, unrest in Germany, followed by an armed uprising, will lead to restoration of the monarchy.
Seated at Table
“I saw Hitler's end,” Mr. Camp“Yes, sir. I saw him
Marshal Hermann Goering, No. 2
Nazi, also will be shot, although the time is not specified, according to Mr. Campbell. .
CITY LETS HOSPITAL
SUPPLY CONTRACTS
Albert F. Walsman, business man-
ager of City Hospital, today announced that contracts for supplies at the hospital amounting to approximately $135,000 have been lef by the Board of Public Health.
In all cases except one, contracts lowest bidders.
At the Board of Public Health
meeting yesterday, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary, said Miss Vincenia Connor had been appointed to, a vacancy in the school nursing division, and John Hough, bookkeeper for the would take over dutiés of chief clerk ° in the City Hall office of the Board of Health. .
CHARGES MOTORIST
department, also
SLUGGED HER IN CAR
A 26-year-old waitress was in City
Hospital suffering from exposure and head injuries after she was reportedly seized and assaulted by sa motorist early today. v
She told police that while shed was waiting at E. Washington and Rural Sts. for a streetcar to go to
her, home she was forced into an
automobile. She said the man drove out Road
52, slugged her twice, then put her
otu. The driver of an ice truck
picked her up as she was walking along the road and brought her to a drugstore at Rural and Washington Sts. where she collapsed.
WOMAN DOCTOR, 83,
1S FROZEN TO DEATH
' ATCHISON, Kas., Jan. 8 (U. P.).
—In a frigid bedroom of the three-
cottage she occupied with two
She would have been 84
ently, the fire went out shortly
after it was lighted. She was found late in the day by the Rev. Clement Nordus of St. Benedict's College.
MOTHER-IN-LAW
SLAIN ‘FOR NAGGING’
CHICAGO, Jan. 6 (U. P.).—Sam
De Lao, 49, told police last night that he beat to death his mother-in-law and stuffed her body in a trunk nagging me for not getting a job.” The trunk containing the body was found in a South Side alley.
“because she was always
He 'saik he clubbed Mrs. Nellie
Sharp, 65, after an argument early Thursday and had left the body in their apartment|all day. At night, he said, he crammed the body into the trunk and called Natale Pantro, | a junk dealer, to help him cart it away. unaware of the contents of the case. \
Pantro said he had been
Elizabeth Dorsey was found unconscious on the floor of their chicken coop home and Marie was in bed. Their makeshift home is on
Indianapolis Times,
Deaths—F unerals 1 Satur, Jan.” 6, 1940 |
a farm they once owned near Florence, Ky., eight miles south of Covington. :
3 HOOSIERS HUNTED AS ILLINOIS BANDITS
NEW CASTLE, Ind, Jan. 6 (U. P.) —Police today hunted for three youths believed to be accomplices of Clayton Wills, New Castle ex-con-vict who was wounded fatally at Harrisburg, Ill, last week during an attempted drugstore robbery. Meanwhile, . arrangements were being made for Wills’ funeral here. His body was returned late yesterday from Benton, Ill, where he died. Authorities said that a car owned by William Baldock of New Castle, stolen here last week and used in the burglary attempt at Harrisburg, had been abandoned here and that the three youths under suspicion had been seen here after the car was found. Lo Sheriff Tom Gram of Harrisburg said that Wills had admitted the robbery attempt before his death
and that he had implicated three others, Jui
DUCKETT—Earl T., entered inte
MoDONALD—Vivian, age 22 ears. of 2335
BAKER—Annie I. entered into rest Friday,
e 77 years. Sister of Albert C. Genung. se y HARR
Services Monday, 1 p. m., Y y MOORE YeHAPEL Burial Washe
RE ington Park Cemetery.
BROWN—Della Lou, wife of Henry Brown, |
mother of Rev. C. A. Brown rs. Paul : Bynes, Mis. Zarl Bewley, and Miss Doris rown, passed away eal aturday a Far 545 N. Belmont Ave. Servi
py call at resi-
Floral Park yrnes, 1212 N.
7: i dence of daughter, Mrs. Mount St.
'COX—Joseph A., father of Byrce C. and
J s C. Cox and brother of Ca As aie d Fr {tern pe
0X, D 1 . Mie gral, Chars. inols St. at loth . lends vited. Bur T. Ind. Friends may call at chapel after & Pp. m. Saturday.
Alice
C., mother of Harry J
DICKHUT—. . . of Richmond, Ind.; Maude M. and Ada
_ B., all of Indianapolis, passed away Fri~ day evening. Services FLANNER a BU~ AN, nday, 3 Bi m. Friends ine vited. Burial Crown Hill, e 41 years, husband of Duckett. Stentaphor "of Harol red Wayne Goodman, broth CS eo hero De ordain: ce oO. | | 8051 E. Washington St. Burial Mount’ Pleasant Cemetery. : gig
Shelby 8t.. daughter of Mrs. Josie Mc~ ister of Mrs. Ma n Rh ® McDonald and ar
S. § UCK NERAL Sou alan, yt a. m.; 1% % m. Burial St. Joseph Cemetery