Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1940 — Page 6

BN i

Over Mid-Yea r Planning | ~ Meeting in First Church|

Ministers and Laymen From 160 Congregations and

Ohio Headquarters + District Lead

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER

= Ministers and laymen from “Brethren White River Conference

meeting all day Thursday in the First United Brethren Church. ‘Bishop H. H. Fout of Indianapolis, senior bishop of the denomination, will give the opening address on the conference purpose and preside

~~ throughout the meeting which will . includes, conferences in Illinois, ‘Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota

s as well as Indiana.

The Rev. Virgil G. Hunt also of

| Indianapolis, superintendent of the

White River Conference, will give a “Review of Past Achievements and Requirements for Completing the ‘Unfinished Task” and make closing remarks in the afternoon. District leaders from all over Indiana who will report include the Rev. George

~ _F. Snyder of Indianapolis, host

pastor. : President I. J. Good of Indiana Central College will bring news of the college and Prof. Ralph Webber, also of the faculty, will lead devotions. Three six-minute talks by laymen will include one on “The Laymen’s Debt to the Worn Out Preacher,” by U. E. Bethel of Indianapolis. sii Ty From the United Brethren headquarters in Dayton, O. will come Dr. D. T. Gregory, Board of Administration executive secretary; Dr. S. G. Ziegler, Board of Foreign Missions general secretary, and Dr. U. P. Hovermale, Home Missions and Church Erection general secretary. Present also will be Dr. J. Balmer Showers, denominational publishing agent, and Dr. O. T. Deever, Christian Education general secretary.

City Baptist

0 Attend Conference; ; ers to Report.

the 160 churches in ‘the United will hold their mid-year planning

begin at 9 a. m. Bishop Fouit’s area

Methodists: To Convene Nominations for Missions

Board to Be Made at Session Monday.

“Will. an Indianapolis woman be elected to membership in the new Board of Missions and Church Ex-

tension of the Methodist Church?” is being asked by local Methodists, especially the feminine contingent. Dr. William C. Hartinger, district superintendent, has called a provisional district meeting for women to be held Friday at 2 p. m. in the Roberts Park Methodist Church. Nominations for the board will be made. : It will be the second local step toward the selection of nominees for the national board, which is to be 50 per cent women. Each church in the Indianapolis Methodist district has selected three women delegates to the provisional district meeting, which will make a total of about 150 attending. Nine of these delegates will be elected to attend a provisional conference

~ Meeting Set

Christian Chfitar Leader of

New York to Speak.

Dr. John M. Hestenes of New. York, director of Christian Center work for the Northern Baptist | Convention, will meet with local| Baptists Wednesday in the Y. W. C. A. : Race relations and Americanization will be discussed by the execu-|

tive committee of the Indianapolis Columbus includes Mrs. Baptist Association and Dr. Hes-| tenes’ at the all-day meeting be- Orien W. Fifer, R. G. Skidmore

ginning at 10:30 a. m. The Rev. Samuel W. Hartsock will lead the discussion. «Work done by the Rumanian Church, of which the Rev. Vasile Prodan is pastor, will be presented

meeting. Dr. Hartinger will’ speak on “United Planning for a United Church.” ; :

A Pi

J.B. WHITE RIVER SESSION

Cheston L. Heath . . . directs

ae Times Photo, choir in Haydn's “Mass in D.”

Woodside Church To Note Founding

The Rev. D: W. Noble, first pastor. of the Woodside Methodist Church, will be present af its all‘day silver ‘anniversary celebration tomorrow. Bishop Titus Lowe of the Indianapolis Area will speak at 10:45 a. m. and Dr. William C. Harfinger, district superintendent, at the after noon session beginning at 1:30. There will be a basket luncheon at noon, special music at all services including the school at 9:30 ia. m., and short talks by former {pastors in the afternoon. The Rev. Meed H. Reynolds, present pastor,

Committee Announced | The provisional conference mest-

/ing, called by Bishop Titus Lowe |

of the Indianapolis area, will be March 27 at Columbus, Ind. Both the latter meeting and the provi-

sional district one are in accordance with a universal plan throughout Methodism for the selection of nominees for the national board. The committee arranging for the provisional conference meeting at Gertrude Bettner, chairman: and Mesdames

fand L. T. Freeland of Indianapolis; and Mrs. S. L. Martin of Columbus. | At Columbus, 63 women, or nine | delegates from each of the seven | | conference districts, will be present. ‘From the 63, three delegates will

will be in charge.

Missions and

Good Friday Goal Defined

Catholics and Protestants Urge 'Reverent City."

Indianapolis Catholics and Protestants are working toward. the goal “A Reverent City on Good Pri-

day,” March 22. James F. Lynch, last year’s Good Friday committee chairman, will serve again this year. The committee met yesterday in the Y. W. C. A. to pian services available to all Indianapolis people whatever their occupations and wherever their residence sections. : Services are to be from noon until 3 p. m. in English’s and B. PF. Keith's Theaters under Protestant sponsorship. The Knights of Columbus will again have charge of the Catholic Way of the Cross de-

Retreat Set

Catholics to Note Laetare Sunday Tomorrow.

Missions will open at 8t. Francis de Sales and St. Patrick’s Catholic Churches and a retreaf will be held at Marian College tomorrow, Laetare Sunday. Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent, provides a break in

by Mrs. A. G. Woodmansee .and pe elected to a provisional -juris- the solemn mood of the season.

others. That of the Bright Street ' Baptist Christian Center will ‘described by Mrs. E. O. Wood and a standing committee. Other matters to receive attention are stewardship and missioaary giving; the attendance crusade sponsored by Baptist Men, Inc.;| plans for the spring association

membership on the new national Board of Missions and Church Ex-| tension and one nominee for pos- | sible membership in the Jurisdic-| tional Board of Missions and! Church Ezxtension.

The provisional jurisdictional

| dictional meeting. Three nominees |Gladness is symbolized by the rosebe also will be suggested for possible

colored priests’ robes substituted for the penitential purple worn on other Sundays of Lent. The keynote of the mass is sounded in the words from the introit chanted in all Catholic. churches tomorrow: “Rejoice! . . . Rejoice with joy, you that have been in sorrow.”

meeting April 1, in charge cf the meeting will be held after the| The note of contrition will be re-

Rev. L. H. Lindstrom, moderator, | and the state B. Y. P. U. convention. : Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, the, Association will welcome the Rev. Floyd F. Smith, formerly of Dana, Ind., as new pastor of the Em-

‘manuel Baptist Church. The Rev.!

Mr. Lindstrom and the Rev. Carl A. Metz, Baptist Pastors’ Council president, will speak.

The Rev. Mr. Smith will perform

his first pastoral duties at a unified Bible study and worship service at 9:30 a. m. and preach at 7:30 p. m.

The Week of Sacred Song will |

open March 10 in the Garden Baptist Church.

Debut Today for

New Publication

A new church newspaper, The Voice, published by the Irvington Presbyterian- Church, makes its bow today. ~The Voice carries a description of all the congregational activities and organizations including the - school, orchestra, The Mummers, Boy, Girl and Cub scouts, Brownies and Women’s Circles. Coming events are announced and those holding permanent positions with the church are introduced. The editorial staff includes John Gigax and Misses Peggy Gordon, Dorothy Troutman, Anne Whitcomb, Virginia Reese, Margaret Bayless and Laura May Hart. Reporters are Ned Perkins and Mrs. Harlan W. Haworth. Miss Winona Arrick is staff adviser and Christian education director of the church.

DR. YALE GIVES FIRST SERMON

Dr. Roy Ewing Vale will preach his first sermon as the new pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian

«When Something Comes Alive in Your Heart” will be Dr. Vale's sermon title. He will preach again fonda, at the Indianapolis Ministerial Association (interdenominational) meeting beginning at 10:15 a. m. in the Roberts Park Method{st Church. The Methodist Ministers Association will hold ‘a business meeting just before the interdenominational

association session. ~~ ‘CHRIST JESUS'

- All Christian Science Churches “will study the lesson-sermon subject, “Christ Jesus,” tomorrow. The Golden Text is “God Who Commanded the Light to Shine Oui cof Darkness, Hath Shined in Our Hearts, to Give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in he Face of Jesus Christ.” 11 Cor. 4:6.

Lt rt ~ SPEAKS AT MISSION The Rev. D. J. Perry, superindent of the Lighthouse Mission, ge Hauie, will be the Monday ng - speaker yl at tine Wheeier

General Conference adjourns and before the jurisdictional conference! convenes. The General Conference will open June 24 in Chicago. At the provisional jurisdictional] meeting, the names of as many. women as are entitled to membership on the national Board Missions and Church Extension | from" that jurisdiction will be se{lected from ‘the total number of nominees from conferences in the jurisdiction. Afterward at the jurisdictional conference, the nominees thus selected must be officially {elected to become members of the national board.

Representation Arranged

The number of nominees from! each jurisdiction will be according to the ratio of two women for each , 450,000 members or the fraction in | the jurisdiction with no jurisdiction having fewer than four women. Indiana is in the North Central Jurisdiction of the Methodist Church which includes nine states. The { United States is divided into six | jurisdictions. 3 Mrs. Fifer and Mrs. Hattie Asbury {of Indianapolis are delegates to the | jurisdictional Conference and Mrs.

| Asbury will go to the General Con-|P

‘ ference. ; | The elaborate process of \ pro- | Visional district, conference and | jurisdictional meetings to glect (women to the national board is ‘necessary because the woman’s work {of the new Methodist church is not {as yet united. It still exists as organized by the three denominations that merged last spring. Each of the three had a different setup for the woman's work. The three former churches were the Methodist = Episcopal and Methodist Protestant Churches and the Methodist Church South. { The united work of the new church will be in a “Women's Society of Christian Service,” under the Woman’s Division of the Board of Missions and Church Extension.

DePauw U. Choir To Appear Here

The DePauw University Choir and Dr. Van Denman Thompson, organist and director, will be presented in recital tomorrow at 7:45 Pp. m. in the North Methodist Church. : . The recital will open with Bach’s “Sinfonia to ‘Wir Danken dir, Gott’ ” played on the organ by Dr. Thompson and close with Kodaly’s “Evening” sung by the choir. Dr. Thompson also will play “Two Chorale { Preludes” by Bach and Schumann’s

sumed after tomorrow and culminate in Holy Week.

Two Conduct Retreat

The Rev. Fr. J. B. McCartin, O. M. I, and the Rev. Fr. Paul Rust, O. M 1, both of Lowell. Mass, will conduct the. two weeks’ mission at St. Patrick’s Church beginning tomorrow and ending Palm Sunday. Services each evening at 7:45 will be for women the first week and for men the second. There will be the rosary, sermon and benediction the first five evenings of the week and special

Saturday evenings. At St. Francis de Sales Church, the Rev. Fr. Cyril George, O. F. M., of Oldenburg, Ind., will conduct a two-week mission beginning tomorrow. The first week for the women will close at 3 p. m, March 10 and the second week for men will close March 17 at 7:45 p. m.

Special Busses Scheduled

Special busses for retreatants will leave the Monument Circle at 8;20 a.-m. tomorrow for Marian College land return from the campus at 4:30

Me The retreat, called “Recollection Day,” will be in charge of the Rev. Pr. Bernardine Shine, O. S. B., of St. Meinrad’s Abbey, an Indianapolis native.

CHOIR IN CONCERT

The Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church Choir will present its annual sacred concert in the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. tomorrow at 6 p. m. William Keen will direct and Mrs. Myrtle Stephens will play the organ

oblate ceremonies on Friday and |

votions in the War Memorial Plaza from 2:15 to 3 o'clock Good Friday. In addition to Mr. Lynch, the Good Friday committee also includes Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel, William H. Bradley, Dr. Guy O. Carpenter, A. B. Cornelius, Miss Dorothy Eller and the Rev. Fr. August Fussenegger. Serving also on the committee are George Joslin, Frank C. Jordon, Paul E. Just, George W. Klein, Wallace O. Lee, the Rev. Arthur L. Mahr, Culver S. Miller, the Rev. W. C. Nelson. Humbert P. Pagani, James H. Peeling, Arthur D. Pratt, F. B. Ransom, the Rev. Judge I. Saunders, the Rev. Joseph B. Tieman and the Rev. Allen K. ‘Trout.

Church Leader's Wife Will Speak

Mrs. Sam Higginbottom, wife of the moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., will deliver the first of a series of addresses here tomorrow evening. Mrs. Higginbottom, who is on a speaking tour of the country, will address young Presbyterians of the city tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in the First Presbyterian Church. She will describe 36 years of missionary work among the lepers and farmers of India, the status of Indian women and educational work carried on by her and Dr. Higginbottom at Ewing Christian College, Allahabad. , She also will speak at the women’s meeting in the Memorial Church, Monday afternoon and at a business and professional women’s dinner in the First Church Monday at 6:15 p. m. She will speak and consecrate officers of the First Church Woman’s Missionary Society Monday. at 2:30 p. m. and talk to Indianapolis Presbyterian ministers and their wives Monday evening in the residence of her hosts, the Rev. and Mrs. Harry E. Campbell.

CHURCH WILL GIVE WEEKLY BROADCAST

A new weekly 30-minute broadcast by the North Side Church of God will begin tomorrow at 11:30 a. m. and continue for 26 weeks over WIBC. The programs will include sermons delivered from the North Side pulpit by the Rev. P. B. Turner, pastor, solos and group singing. The Rev. Mr. Turner will speak tomorrow

accompaniments.

on “The True Church.”

After dinner in the Second Presbyterian Church Thursday evening, the membership will go in cars to Mayer Chapel to see the annual exhibit of work. ‘Mayer Chapel, op the South Side, at 448 W. Norw St, is the religious social settlement supported by the Second Church. Those sponsoring the trip to the exhibit are Dr. Jean S. Milner, pastor, and a committee . including Dr. James Huckelberry, Edwin G. Plum and Herbert Tope. Horace Shonle is chairman of the Mayer Chapel board of control. The new toy library opened recently by the Wheel and Distaff

| “Canon in B minor.” i Among the other numbers sung by ‘the choir are “O Domine Jesu . Christe” by Palestrina; ‘‘Motet for Double Choir” by Bach; and “Jesu, | Friend of Sinners” by Grieg."®

EDUCATOR TO SPEAK.

Frof. J. Raymond Cope, of the Indiana University philosophy cepartment will. address the Adulf Forum tomorrow at 9:45 a. mm. in

Group of the D. A. R. will be shown, {also the kindergarien with sufficient children to give a demonstration. It will be impossible to have the entire class of 42 present because of the lateness of the hour, Miss Blanche Main, the director, said today. Women of the homemakers’ club, which has an average attendance of 200, will be-Weaving rugs on looms made by the boys’ handcraft class;

All Souls Unitarian Church.

boys Wil pe building mode! airplanes

Church Members to View Projects at Mayer Chapel

and the junior choir will give an informal recital. Samples of knitting, baskets, dresses, slips, wooden and paper articles made by different age groups also will be displayed, Guests will be taken on a tour of inspection covering the sanctuary, where about 350 attend Sunday school, and gymnasium and the quarters occupied by dental and medical clinics.

missionary societies of the Second Church assist with nearly all the classes and clubs of Mayer Chapel, and either as groups or individuals supply the necessary funds for maintenance. Mrs. H. R. Goens, Second Church member, is chairman

homemakers’ club,

The five women’s circles and two

of the committee sponsoring the|

Eau Claire in Noon Pulpit Rt. Rev. Frank E. Wilson To Preach Next Week On Circle.

The Rt. Rev. Frank Earl Wilson,

|bishop of Eau Claire, Wis., who is

on the commission studying the prospective organic union: of the Protestant Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, will be the Christ Church noon day speaker next week. The church also has scheduled a traditional observance of ‘“Mothering Sunday” for tomorrow at 8 a. m., and the singing of Haydn's “Imperial Mass in D” by the choir of 50 male voices: directed by Cheston L. Heath at 4 p. m. Bishop Wilson will speak Tuesday

on the general theme, “Christ Raises the Question,” and Wednesday evening, at the Church of the Advent, on “Be Sure of Something.” The Monday noonday speaker at Christ Church will be the Rev. R. PF. Thornton of Lafayette, St. John's Church pastor.

Authority on Church History

The guest bishop is an authority on church history and the author of various popular manuals of instructions for church people. His daily topics at Christ Church in order are “What Do You Think of Christ?”; “What Kind of Faith Have You?”; “What of the Future?”, and “Have You Convictions?” The- proposed Episcopal-Presby-terian Concordat now being studied by the commission of which Bishop Wilson is a member, leaves the organic nature of both churches unchanged. It provides a method by which the two churches shall cooperate and by which the ordination of ministers in each church shall be accepted by the other, Whole families are expected: to receive Holy Communion together at the 8 a. m. service tomorrow in Christ Church. The day also is known as Refreshment or Gaudete Sunday. A traditional Mothering Sunday - breakfast featuring oldfashioned Simnel Cakes will be served at the parish breakfast afterward. Day to Rejoice

Gaudete Sunday in the Episcopal Church corresponds to Laetra Sunday in the Roman Catholic Church. “Gaudete” and “Laetare” are both Latin words meaning “rejoice”; they are the first words of the introits used in the Latin mass on the Third Sunday of Lent. The “Imperial Mass in D,” composed by: Haydn after Lord Nel-

Germany and by the former name in England, according to Cuthbert Hadden, Haydn's biographer. The mass is expressive of great joy in explanation of which Haydn is supposed to have said: “When I think of God, my heart is so full of joy that notes gush forth as from a fountain.” ; Soloists tomorrow afternoon will be Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs, William B. Robinson andgPaul Leslie Raymond. :

On Up-Grade; Writes Bishop Kirchhoffer

The Rt. Rev. Richard Ainslee Kirchhcffer, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis, writes from Ojai, that he is “really on the up-grade, feeling very well and gaining every day.” Bishop Kirchhoffer with Mrs. Kirchhoffer, went West in the fall to rest and regain his health, which was impaired by too strenuous work, : His letter was released today in the diocesan paper, “The Churchman.” Bishop Kirchhoffer comments on a number of church business matters and ends with the following devotional message: “Let us be quiet this Lent. “It is easy to attribute the sources of our individual and world unrest to external conditions. For the most part the unrest is within us, «vs “Let the church help you this Lent. Go to the services, regularly, partake of the Sacrament, share in the. worship, bear part of the burden. But first of all be still, be quiet, listen that you may perceive and know what to do and then God will give you the will and the strength to do it.”

Young Churchmen, To Elect Officers

Young Episcopal Churchmen of Indianapolis will meet tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in the Cathedral House to elect officers for the coming year. A proposed constitution will be read by an executive committee member; the Rev. J. W. Yoder, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church vicar, will speak, and Miss Carolyn Gillespie, field secretary of the House of Churchwomen, will preside.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Meridian and Vermont Streets Carleton W. Atwater, D. D,, Pastor

Worente, 3050 A° 3p ing Cal " p, 10: . M.—“Fac alvary.’ Worship. 7:30 P. M.—“The Bains That Crucified Jesus.” Thursday, 6:15 P. ner and votional Service. Evangelical and Reformed

ZION EVANGELICAL

North and New Jersey Streets Peet BE Tr ore Braun, Associate 9:45 A. M church f hool. ' .. Service, oul”

9:00 : : Berman actor Daries, Wednesday—17:45 BA onan Service. SECOND PRESBYTERIAN istoric Too Jie Suen, 2 Wyk, Sone Vermont and Pennsylvania Streets.

JEAN S. MILNER, D. D., Minister Morning Worship, 11 a, m.

. Sermon: “Critics of the Shristian ,Chureh” Church School, 9:45 A. M. Supper-Lecture, Thursday, 6:00.

The Bible of the World |

- All Souls Unitarian

‘Judeo-Christian Scriptures’ ‘Rev. E. Burdette Backus Chueh, 1453 N Alabama St.

5th Sermon by

Sunday at 11 :

SBE

URSDAY|

Bishop From |

through Friday at Christ Church|

_| ling and

son's visit to Eisenstadt, Austria, in|e 1798, is. called “Nelson's Mass” in| RE NF

M.—Fellowship Din-

5 un.’ CE +o M—Engiish * Services

Club to Hear Tech Teacher—Miss Helen Elliott, Tech High School history. teacher and member of the Governor's Commission on New Harmony restoration, will describe early history of New Harmony at the Scientech Club meeting in the

Board of Trade Bldg. Monday noon.

The “Granddads’ Club” at the Brookside Community House has run out of competition. JFrom 1 p. m. to 4 p. m. every day “rain or shine,” the Granddads meet at the community house ‘and polish up on their checker playing, according to Miss Norma Koster, recreation director. . Last week they. challenged the Rhodius checker fans and won by a score of 31 to 5. ; “Our Granddads are badly in need of opposing checker teams and any age or number are welcome,” Miss Koster said. As a gentle warning, one granddad is reputed te play six games at once,

Get $60 in Holdup—A bandit last night obtained $60 in the holdup of a filling station at 2406 E. 30th St., police said. Deane Devaney, 25,

.| Noblesville, Ind., was the attendant.

Butler Head to Speak—Dr. Daniel S. Rcbinson, Butler University president, ,will speak on “The Future of Butler University” at the regular monthly meeting of the Indianapolis Bar Association at 6:15 p. m. Wednesday in the Columbia Club.

. Townsend Clubs Meet “Tonight— The Townsend Clubs of Marion County will hold their regular meeting at Tomlinson Hall tonight. Former meetings-have been held at Castle Hall, but attendance has. increased beyond the capacity of the old meeting room, officials said.

Rail Group to Meet—Indianapolis Unit 2 of the International Association of Retired Railroad Employees will meet at 2 p. m. Mon-, day in Room 904, Big Four Office | Building, 130 S. Meridian St.

Loot Home of $57—Thieves last night broke in a window at the home of Russell Henderson, 814 Layman Ave. and obtained $42 hidden in a closet and $15 from a small bank. A stepladder was taken from the garage to climb into the house, police said.

Maturates to Hear Professor— The Indianapolis School of Maturates will meet at 2 p. m. Monday at the Y. W. C. A. to hear Prof. W. S. Hiser talk on “Life Begins in 1940.” The class study on “Tired Nature’s Calm Restorer” will be led by the Rev. Charles M. Fillmore."

Princeton Alumni Elect—Officers of the Princeton Alumni Association . of Indiana for 1939 were reelected at a meeting of the association at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, They are Donald M. MecLeod, president; Thomas C. Werbe of Anderson, vice president, and John C. Appel of Indianapolis, sec-retary-treasurer. Dr. Robert Kilburn Root, dean of Princeton, re-

viewed campus life at the meeting.

Ho0SIERS

‘a test census to

ALFORDSVILLE—William W. Miles, 88. Burvivors: Wife, Cecelia; son; daughter.

ALQUINA-—William Crist, 29, Survivors: Wife; daughter; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crist.

ANDERSON—Mrs, lena Evans Barker, 73. Survivors: Husband, Fred; daughters, Mrs, William Hosier, Will KimmerMiss Thelma Barker: son Fay brother,

Evans; sister, Mrs. Frank Parr; Lewelllyn Stingley.

COVINGTON — Mrs. Minnie Kathryn Richardson, 65. Survivors: Husband, Howard; sons, Dean and ssell; - daughter, Mrs. Leona Lewis; sister, Mrs. Anna Miller; brother, Pearl Orahood.

ELKH , 82, Survivors: Daughter, Miss Alpharetta Bigam; son, A. Wilson Bigam.

ENGLISH—MTrs. Hattie Adkins, 63. Survivors: Husband, John; son; daughter.

EVANSVILLE—John W. Heyns, 65. Survivors: Sisters, Mrs. Mayme Lennert, Mrs, James Carfon and Mrs. Antoinette Walz. Mary Viola Lankford, 71. Survive ors: d, Elza; daughters, Mrs. William T Leach, Mrs. Silas Barnett, Mrs. Earl Scott and Miss Lilly Lankford; sons. Raymond, Dewey, Sherman and Bert; sisters, Mrs Haley Balwin, Mrs. Vada Martin and Miss Lilly Julian; brothers, John and Ed Gore. FT. WAYNE—Miss Velma Hankins, 30. Survivors: Mother, Mrs. Della Lamphere; brothers, Bd Leslie and Aford Hankins: half-brother Virgil; sister, Miss Lillie Hankins. . A.

GENTRYVILLE -- Mrs. Margaret . Survivors: Husband, Alvah; ar, Wallace and Juerels; brothell.

. Survivors: ~ Husband, Joseph; sons, Ear! and - Charles; daughter, rs. Qrs Brounhard; half-sister, Sirs. Lydia ott. ’

MARION-—Billie Chambers, 17. Survivors: Brothers, Paul, Virgil. James and Willard: sisters, Mrs. Irene Stephenson and Miss Betty Chambers. illiam L. Watson, 85. Daughter, Miss Grace Watson; sons, Ray, Earl, Ernest and Roy. Mrs. Agnes Wilson, 90. Survivors: Daughter, Miss Anna Wilson; sons, Alred, Vint and John, MOQRELAND—Mrs. Mary Luella Bird, 2. Survivors: Sons, L. E. and Hugh; daughter, Mrs. George Brown; nalf-bro-

Survivors:

STATE DEATHS

ART—Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bigam, |i

ther, Doc Thornburg; half-sister, Mrs. Jennie Jennings.

NEWTONVILLE—Sylvester David Morris, 61, Survivors: Wife, Anna Mans son, George; daughter, Mrs. Omer Patmore; brothers, Henry, James and John; sisters, Mrs, Margaret Cox, Mrs. Charles Thrasher and Mrs. Walter Rowley.

OAKLAND CITY—Charles M. Keeton, 66. Survivors: Wife, Cora; sons, Guy, Ova and Gaskel; daughter, Mrs. Paul Carpenter; rothers, Ellis and Edward; sisters, Mrs . J. LeMasters, Mrs. William Dorsey, Mrs Walter Robinson and Mrs. Dadolthis Mason. : . OSCEOLA — Mrs. Rose Vanderford, 79. Survivors: Daughter, Mrs. Edgar Teeter; son, Raymond; brother, Charles W. HutchSs. =

ti M M It

. SHELBYVILLE — Robert Pettit Sr., 58. Survivors: Sons, Thadd, Russell and Robert Jr.; daughters, Mrs. Catherine Clark, Mrs. Margaret Hopkins and Mrs. Martha Martin; sister, Mrs, Alfed Collins; brothers. Frank and Charles. TELL CITY—Joseph Henry Goffinet, 76. Survivors: Henry; daughters, Mrs. Theresa rs. Clara Laurent; ters, Mrs. Cathesite Sol k Goffinet an

s. Harold. Vann, Wilburn and Armand. WASHINGTON—William Brown, 65. Survivors: Wife; son; daughter.

PEARL IN THE STEW? DON’T GET EXCITED

CHICAGO, March 2 (U. P.).— Here's bad "news for people who look for fortunes in restaurant oysters: Clifford I. Josephson, president of the American Gem Society, said tonight that “no pearl of any real worth is ever found in the North American variety of edible oyster; they lack the luster of the true

gem.”

= |

DEATH NOTICE VULTURES . . . Capitalize Upon Sorrow

SIERS CALM ON CENSUS QUIZ

Varied Opinions Given in South Bend Area Where Test Was Made.

SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 2 (U. P.).—While Senators and citizens argued how much census-takers should know about the financial and personal backgrounds of the people they survey, residents of St. Joseph and Marshall counties today told their reactions to the questions when they served as “guinea pigs” for the Census Bureau. ; Residents of the two Indiana counties were, surveyed last year in etermine what questions should he asked in the regular census this year. “Although the Census Bureau did not reveal the results of the test census, except to report that rural population had increased and urban population had decreased, it was reported that many of the questions asked had been eliminated from the census forms. W. L. Welch, a policeman, said that his reaction .to the questions wds that he “didn’t give a damn” what the Census Bureau wanted to know about his income, mortgages, age or other personal affairs. . F. C. Carlisle, newspaper photographer, said that “It didn’t bothep me if they knew what I made.” J. H. Kelsey, a real estate dealer, said he “did not particularly like to. answer but I felt that it was the law.” : - Some women have said that they would go to jail rather than answer the census questions, but Mrs. G. K. Smithin, farmer's wife, said thas she “felt. that the Guestions were all right if a study of them would allow development of programs te aid people.” . : Joseph A. Avery, an attorney, said that he did not think the census was the proper method of obtaining such information because there was “too much chance for a

_|lot of broadcasting.”

F. J. Walker, a laborer, sald, “I didn’t think much about it.” Support for Tobey’s

Census Attack Seen

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. PB), —The first week of debate over the

-11940 census ended today with indi-

cations that a majority of a Senate commerce sub-committee may supe port. the campaign of Senator Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H) to

eliminate questions about personal incomes. one Senator Tobey, whose one-man fight has created the major cone troversy of this session of Congress, was confident that the sub-commite tee would report his resolution favorably. It would not eliminate

: [the questions from the census, but

would put the Senate on record as opposed to asking citizens about their income. Such a move, if approved by the Senate, probably would result in elimination of ine come questions by the Census Bue reau. “This is another Boston Tea Party,” Senator Tobey said as the sub-committee recessed until Mone day. : Committee Chairman Josiah C. Bailey (D. N. C.) has asked the Census Bureau to submit a brief on

the legal aspects of the questions

early next week, He hoped to have a report -ready for the full come merce committee by Tuesday.

The appearance of this Information Message In these columns is evidence that this publication subscribes to the prineci= ples of the Better Business Bureau, and co-up-erates with the Bureau in protecting the public even to the extent of re- . fusing to accept the advertising of firms whose advertising and sales ° policies are proved by the Bureau to be contrary to the public in- - terest.

the time of the funeral.

Recent complaints to the Better Business Bureau _indicate present operations in Indianapolis and elsewhere, of what we choose to call “death notice vultures.” They are concerns sufficiently unscrupulous as to use the death notice columns for a prospect list.

Relatives of deceased persons report that they are receiving various articles of merchandise addressed C. 0. D. to the deceased. The package arrives about Jt may be a 10c fountain pen, a bottle of cheap perfume, a cheap Bible, or even a phoney package. Relatives, believing the merchandise has been orderd by the deceased, pay the exorbitant charges and later discover they are the victims of a racket.

Other schemes which are similar methods to take advantage of bereaved relatives are those that work biography, photography, real estate and stock promotion schemes. They know that intense grief at the time of death dulls the relatives’ sense of caution, and they capitalize upon this situation.

If you have death in the family, do not transact any but the most essential business until you have gotten over the shock and regained your balance. Any transaction that involves the payment of money, a commitment, or an obligation, should be checked carefully, and if you have no record of merchandise ordered or commitment made, any legitimate concern will be glad to present the evidence upon which their charges are based.

‘The BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU, Inc. || 711 Majestic Bldg. INDIANAPOLIS This Bureau is an incorporated association, not operated for pecuniary profit, supported by more than 600 Indianapolis Business concerns, and .

has for its purpose the promotion of fair play in advertising and selling, especially where there is & public or competitive interest involved.

Lincoln 6446