Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1940 — Page 4

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‘BAIN REPORTED AT POSTOFICE

Sale of Stamps Drops but Meter Mail Makes - Up Difference.

: [Indianapolis Postoffice selling fewer stamps but makin;

e second successive month tamp sales were small than March, 1939, according figures released today by Adolp Seidenst + decrease was more than offset the increase in metered mail. Postal; officials said that an in creasing number of firms are usi meters; | :

- $4380; [the gain in permit mail was $6676. : izeghle

chang | newspaper and periodical postage. | . Total receipts for the month were $405,369.69, an increase of 1.08 per cent over last year. : | : : BARNARD AVIATION MOVES "NEWARK, N. J., April 3 (U. PJ). —Barnard Aviation Equipment Co, Inc, today announced that it has contracted to move to larger quarters at WilkesiBarre, Pa., where it will treble its present production capacity. :

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What’s wrong with this street sign? You guessed it, Sutherland Ave. is misspelled. Nobody knew how this occurred at the office of City Engineer M. G. Johnson. But it won’t matter much, anyway. The sign is partly rustel away and will be replaced soon.

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BREAK GROUND FOR "40 CROPS

Oats Only Late Planting, Irwin Says; Land on 200 Farms Tested.

Spring is in| the air this week and plows are in the ground. Plowing: is late this year but not too late in Marion County, employees of the.County Agricultural Agent’s office say. A. A. Irwin, Assistant County Agent, said today that the only planting which is late is oats. He added “there | isn’t much oats raised in the county any more.” He said that since most Marion County farmers use tractors now, they can plow the land more rapidly than formerly. |: Mr. Irwin said he had tested 200 samples of farm land in March to find what crops would grow best on it. He predicted hé would test another 200isamples this month. “Everybody 1s gardening,” Mr Irwin said. “And I even saw two corn-planters out this week.” :

MONTAGU NORMAN RENAMED

LONDON, April 8 (U. P.).—Montagu Norman today was re-elected Governor of the Bank of England for his 21st term. B. G. Catterns was made deputy governor for his fifth term. :

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ZEBALLOS, British Columbia, April 3 (U. P.).—A diary found between the shriveled bodies of two trappers told today how one, weak and - gasping from hunger, had watched his partner die of slow starvation. But the one who had survived the longer could not die the same death. He shot himself. All but two pages were written by Lloyd Coombs, 27, who had been flown to lonely Vancouver Island last autumn with James Ryckman, 56. They had not been seen since last August, when they disappeared into the wilderness. A searching party found their bodie§ yesterday after an airplane pilot had sighted them. It was Mr. Ryckman who starved, Mr. Coombs who ‘committed suicide. : _The last entry in the diary was aste March 17, the day Ryckman ed. “If I do anything I shouldnt, I hope that it will be forgiven,” Mr. Coombs wrate. “I'd like to have my Bible. It’s in| the bottom of my packsack. I'm | too weak to get it. Tq Uke to have said a prayer for J 2 I - It was after that, apparently, that

rels after their food supply ran out, how they killed an occasional duck and. grouse and wild canaries and had. burned fungus from trees in the hope of attracting attention from a passing airplane.

for one man. . . . and some squirrel

Trappers’ Diary Tells About Slow Death, Vain Efforts to Attract Passing Planes

“Had five grouse and small duck today (Jan. 30), our first taste! of food for days,” the diary read. “The whole works hardly makes a meal

soup and duck bones for a breakfast. “Both of us got so damn weak (Jan. 30) it was hard work to carry a pail of water or an armful of wood.” . | “It 1s useless to try to walk out (to civilization),” said an undated entry. “Water is too high. Our trouble was the fault of no one but ourselves.” ui Provincial police said: the diary indicated that Mr. Coombs took to his .bunk on Feb. 22 and was able to get around little thereafter. “Lloyd still in bed,” Mr. Ryckman wrote on Feb. 28. “Caught seven canaries on the doorstep today. My legs are badly swollen to the hips.” Next day, the diary related, they

caught 20 more canaries in a net. |

“I am so weak I had to crawl from the lake with water,” Mr. Coombs wrote on March 9. “Starvation gives the most suffering on earth.” The next day’s entry said he had caught more canaries, “but I can’t think straight so I don’t know how many. This is the most hell either of us have been through.” Two days before the final entry, Mr. Ryckman wrote that he was uriable to leave his bunk. “I don’t kriow how long we will stick it out,

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but if we don’t get help before long it will be too late,” he ‘wrote. It was too late. Fog swirled day after day over the western coast of the island and prevented an airplane chartered by their worried relatives from searching for them. Mr. Ryckman and Mr. Coombs had left with 1500 pounds of supplies and food. They apparently had walked to their destination and were trapped by floods.

COLUMBUS’ OLDEST GROCER ~ RETIRES

Times Special. COLUMBUS, Ind, April 3.—Columbus’ oldest grocer. F. W. Fehring, has retired from business and his store, one of the oldest in the city, is to be sold. Mr. Fehring, 82, has been ill with a foot infection for several weeks. The grocery was opened 51 years ago by J. P. Sohn, who sold it to Mr. Fehring 36 years ago. During the entire 51 years, Simon Gressel has been a clerk there.

MISSES 44 VACATIONS COLUMBUS, S. C. April 3 (U. P.) —City Jailer M. P. Kramer is one person who believes in doing his work thoroughly. He has been on the same job 44 consecutive years without a vacation. : :

G. OF.

APPRENTICESHIP

Industrial Group to Report With View to Possible Assembly Plea.

A sub-committee of the manufacturers’ committee of the Chamber of Commerce is studying apprenticeship training problems with a view toward possible legislation to be presented to the 1941 Legislature, 17 The sub-committee, appointed by

dent, is headed by Guy A. Wainwright of the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing. Co. ~ The committee includes employers having apprenticeship problems and those interested in apprenticeship education. A report of the sub-com-mittee will be presented to the general committee for submission to the

board of directors before the 1941 Legislature.

are; D. W. Alexander, H. C. Atkins, James H. Carnine, Clarence E. Crippin, I. W. Davies, Brodehurst Elsey, Edward Green, G. F. Hoppe, Fred W. Jungclaus, Herbert M. Kessel, D. M. Klausmeyer, O. T. Kreusser, B. PF. Orr, John M. Smith, Stowell

C. Wasson and J. 8S. Watson,

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Members of the sub-committes

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