Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1940 — Page 12

INDIANAPOLIS TIM! FRIDAY; FEB. 23, 1940

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BUSY IN CAPITAL

Boost His Candidacy With Democrats in Senate And House.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—With Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt on a speaking tour, plans were completed here today to boost his Presidential candidacy with the 69 Democratic Senators and 261 Democrats in the House. First step is to be a meeting next week of Senators Frederick Van-

Nuys, Sherman Minton and the five!

Hoosier Democratic Congressmen With Oscar R. (Jack) Ewing, Eastern manager for the McNutt cam- - paign. ‘Rep. Louis Ludlow will arrange for the meeting, Mr. Ewing said. He returned to his New York law offices last night after spending several “days here outlining plans for trying to capture Capitol Hill support. Yesterday afternoon he went over

_ state’ with Senator VanNuys. It was decided that both Senators will introduce him to their colleagues and the campaign will be carried on

through that sort of “personal mis-"

sionary work,” Mr. Ewing explained.

IN LOVE SLAYING

Hired Hand and Widow Who Killed Husband Pray On Gallows.

MONTREAL, Feb. 23 (U. P.)— Achille and Mary Louise Grondin, a prayer on their lips, were hanged in the Montreal jail yard today for the poison murder of Mrs. Grondin’s former husband. A black flag at half mast over the walls of Bordeaux Prison in the

morning twilight and the tolling of chapel bells signaled the end to a

was the Canadian counterpart of New York’s Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray case. : Achille, 44, and Mary Louise, 40, had murdered her former husband, Villemond Brochu, on his farm near the village of Beauce. Together, they poisoned him slowly over a period of weeks and then, after his funeral, were married. Grondin died. first. At 7:01 a. m. Grondin was pronounced dead. Nine minutes later Mrs. Grondin, her lips moving in prayer, mounted the scaffold. Grondin was a hired hand on Brochu’s farm. He and Mrs. Bro-

love tragedy which in many respects]

. Two little girls and a record . . . Martha Curry (left) of 3931 N. Delaware St. and Mary Jo Mooney of 4301 Central Ave. fourth grade pupils in St. Joan of Arc School, hold a record of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, one of the recordings being distributed through the music appreciation campaign headquarters, 245 N. Pennsylvania St. The campaign in parochial schools is being handled by Mrs. George A. Smith, .3632 N. Pennsylvania St., working with Mrs. H. H.

The Indiana Congressmen will carry on in like manner among their fellow House members, he said. Senator VanNuys, who still is anti-third term but admits that President Roosevelt can be renominated if he wants to run, said that

chu fell in love. ‘They killed Brochu and got married five weeks later. The fact the widow did not observe the customary period of mourning and. other circumstances aroused the suspicions of neighbors. Police

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Mr. Ewing's report showed great - strength for Indiana’s favorite son “particularly among the state leaders who favor him as second choice, if Roosevelt doesn’t run.” : No final decision has yet been reached regarding the possible entrance of Mr. McNutt in the Ohio primaries and the matter now is being studied by Frank M. McHale, McNutt’s campaign manager who is on tour with the former Indiana Governor in several Southwestern states.

ACTS TO REPLACE CIRCUS EQUIPMENT

ROCHESTER, .Ind., Feb. 23 (U. P.).—Zack Terrell, -co-owner of the Hoosier Circus Corp., operators of the Cole Brothers and Robbins - circus whose winter quarters were destroyed by fire Tuesday with loss estimated at $150,000, today was en route to Florida to arrange purchase of new equipment,

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Dr. Peter W. Dykema, professor of music of Columbia University, was the guest of honor today at a luncheon given by the Indiana committee of the National Committee for Music Appreciation at the Claypool Hotel. Dr. Dykema is touring Indiana in the interest of the state-wide music appreciation movement at the request of William H. Ball, general chairman or tue Indiana group. The luncheon is a Hoosier recognition of Dr. Dykema’s position in the world of music. He is one of the foremost educators and a noted author of a number of books pertaining to music. During his stay in Indianapolis he will inspect the work being done by . the music department of the Indianapolis Public Schools of which Ralph W. Wright is director. He attended the children’s symphony concert given by 'the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, ' Fabien Sevitsky conductor, in the auditorium at the Arsenal Technical school this afternoon, Guests at the luncheon included members of the Indiana committee sponsoring the campaign here, heads of music schools and conservatories, directors of various choral units and orchestras and instructors, supervisors and teachers in the schools of central Indiana. “Indiana is very fortunate in having Dr. Dykema here in connection with our music appreciation program,” said Mr. Ball. “Dr. Dykema called the Indiana program the most successful of its kind ever con-

ducted. The opportunity which it

Dr. Dykema Honor Guest at Music Committee Dinner

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collection of great symphonic music is, in. Dr. Dykema’s opinion, a. great forward step in educational and cultural development of the state.” Thousands of Hoosier families already have obtained their records of Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B Minor and Beethoven’s Symphony

arsenic Grondin’s were tried and convicted.

FIVE IN WPA CASE

banker, and four others indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the

Government through WPA irregularities, are to be arraigned before Federal Judge Robert C.

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No. 5 in C Minor from the music{at 10 a. m. tomorrow.

appreciation headquarters, 245 N. Pennsylvania St. Beethoven's Symphony of four double-faced 12-inch records costs only $1.59, an amount which is about one-fifth of the

mercial records.

Dr. Dykema, who is head of the ,dent of the Indiana National Bank and the Union Trust Co., were:

music department, Teachers College, Columbia University, has been an outstanding figure in music education more than 25 years. He began his musical career as a singer, studying voice fist with Franz Arens in New York and theory with Frank Shephard. He also studied in Germany and began his distinguished career as a teacher in Middle Western schools. He took charge of music at the

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in 1901, and remained there for 13 convicted on similar charges by a | Federal Court jury several ents} ago.

years. The University of Wiscon« sin called him to a music profes« sorship in- 1913 and he became chairman of. public school music and Choral Union. His contribution to war service included an appointment as song leader and supervisor of singing in the students’ army training corps. ° Contributions of Dr.. Dykema to education literature are: “Pestivals and Plays,” “School Music Handbook” and “Modern

tional Bank teller and Eickhoff in the . United States for| Realty Co. president; Carl F, Kortepeter, County WPA co-ordinator; Charles E. Jefferson, ,and former Flood Control Board member, "and Miss Elizabeth C. Claypool, 1734 N. Penns$lvania St., owner of land involved in the investigation.

The five, indicted Jan. 31 by a

Federal Grand Jury, are alleged in the indictments to have con--spired to divert WPA labor and, money to the development of | privately-owned subdivisions.

Indicted with Mr. Brown, presi-

Arthur F. Eickhoff, Indiana Na-!if .

Southport, former Marion

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Mr. Kortepeter and his father--law, Gurney G. Derbyshire, wera

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