Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1940 — Page 20

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'MANTON EXPOSE

~ WINS REPORTER ~' PULITZER PRIZE

S. Burton Heath of New York Honored: Steinbeck Gets Novel Award.

Garand 'a Darn Good Gun,’ Says General Who Fired One

Tests Have Proved It Better =—— Than Old Springfield, re Gen. Harris Claims.

By DAVID MARSHALL Despite other reports, U. S. Army tests have proved the Garand rifle superior to the regular Springfield

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NEW YORK, May 7 (U. P.).—S. rifle, Brig. Gen. Charles T. Harris Jr.|

Burton Heath of the New York

World-Telegram and Otto D. Tolischus of the New York Times were

awarded the two top Pulitzer prizes

yesterday for outstanding newspaper reporting during 1939. Mr. Heath received a $1000 prize for a series of stories exposing the financial manipulations of Judge Martin T. Manton of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Manton now is in the penitentiary. Mr. Tolischus’ prize of $500 was for his “distinguished service as a war correspondent.” He is Berlin correspondent of The Times. Story Balance Recognized The citation accompanying the award said preference was given for “clearness and terseness of style” and for “fair, judicious, well-bai-anced and well-informed interpretative writing.” Honorable mention was given to Lloyd Lehrbas of the Associated Press for his dispatches from Warsaw, Bucharest and Ankara. The award for distinguished reporting—preferably for news stories “prepared under the pressure of edition time”—was given to S. Burton Heath of the New York World-Tele-gram for his “exposition of the frauds perpetrated by Judge Martin TI. Manton.” Mr. Heath was cited for a series of stories that “redounded to the credit of journalism.” The award was for $1000. Other prizes in journalism: The Waterbury (Conn.) Republican and American, a $500 gold medal, for its campaign “in exposing municipal graft.” Honorable Mention: The Francisco Chronicle for its part in settling the waterfront strike of 1939, Steinbeck Wins Prize Distinguished editorial writing, with “due account taken of the volume of the writer's work during the year”—$500 to Bart Howard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The prizes in literature and the drama: Novel: $1000 to John Steinbeck for “The Grapes of Wrath.” United States history: $1000 to Carl Sandburg for his “Abraham Lincoln: The War Years.” American biography: $1000 to Ray Stannard Baker for his volumes 7 and 8 of “Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters.” Drama: $1000 to William Saroyan

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of the U. S. Army said here today | in an interview. Gen. Harris is chief of the indus- | trial service of the Army Ordinance Department and formerly was director of the planning branch in| the office of the Assistant Secretary | of War. | He was here to speak to the] Rotary Club and inspect the Alli-| son Engineering Co. air-cooled aviation motors plant. | It was reported last week that the Garand had proved inferior to the] | Springfield in tests by the U. S. Marine Corps. . . “Industry is prepared.” “I don't know anything about re-} bie ported Marine Corps tests of the!lion men is being built because inrifle,” Gen. Harris said, “but the dustry cannot produce new material Garand has proved very satisfactory under six to eight months after a to us. I've fired it personally dur-|war starts, the general explained. ing the past several months and it’s| “Paper planning which has been a darned good rifle. It’s better than going on for the last 18 years will anything else we've ever had.” save us some nine month in the Industry in the U. S. already is event of war,” he said. prepared . . “on paper” in the! Gen. Harris refused to comment event of war, Gen. Harris said. on the present war, possible U. S. He declared that 10,000 U. S. in- censorship in the event of our pardustrial plants have been allocated ticipation, the battle for superiority (to their war-time jobs. Educational between air fleets and battleships orders totaling $500,000 to acquaint and politics. {industries with their war-time jobs! Asked what he thought of Fedhave been .issued in the Cincinnati eral Security Administrator Paul V. area which includes Indianapolis, he | McNutt as President, the General | said. replied: A reserve stock to supply a mil-! “He's a very handsome man.”

7094 HOOSIERS ASK | New ‘Wheyfers' FOR REASSESSMENT| Made of Cheese

: WASHINGTON, May 7.—The Hearings on about 250 of the 7094) newest candy is a by-product of cheese, It was developed by B. H. Webb and C. F. Hufnagel of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Rairy Industry and is called “Wheyfers” because it is made from wheyfi a waste product in cheddar of Swiss cheese manufacture. The new candy is not cooked, but is dried hard and crisp. Sweet pasteurized whey and sugar are evaporated together under vacuum to a thick, smooth consistency. Then air is whipped into it until it is light and fluffy. Chopped nuts or cooked cereal is added and the mixture is rolled out into a thin layer and dried. Then it is cut into wafers and dipped in chocolate.

relief through reassessments will be ‘held by the State Board of Tax Commissioners Friday, according to Edward D. Koenemann, Board secretary. | The State Tax Board does not {make reassessments but has the | power to instruct township assessors to reasses if they deem it necesary. The total amount of reduction {sought by the petitioners amounts {to -$16,108473. Of the petitions on file, almost 2000 are from Marion County property owners.

I. U. IN DRILL MEET BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 7.— | Seventy members of the Indiana | University R. O. T. C. will compete lin the annual Pershing Rifle Third

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ing Tuesday morning. Competitive conditions in the retail coal industry will be discussed during the afternoon sessions. Talks {will be given by J. E. Tobey of | Cincinanti, O., fuel engineering {manager of the Appalachian Coals, Inc., and Walter Knox of Kearney. N. J., Koppers Research Association director. An open forum will be led by K. C. Richmond of Chicago, editor of “Coal Heat.”

HIGH HONOR PUPILS NAMED AT BEN DAVIS

Ben Davis High School pupils named to the high honor roll for the second grading period of the second semester are: Dean Good, Bill Haeberle, Dorothy Alvey, Martha Wimer, Edna Fisher, Robert Seeman, Robert Dickison, Betty Rippy. Helen Grant, Betty Lewellen, Thomas Forsha, Jeanette Hawk, Jean Karl, Violet Kelly, Benny Syphers, Mary Jo Weaver, Harriet Schuh, Frank Haeberle, Grace Whyland, Mary Elizabeth Bland, Patricia McKinney, Margaret Hoffman, and Beth Traub. Charles Reimer, Mary Kernodle, Margie Glick, Alice Jean Kemp, Velda Phillip, John Serak, Ruth Sproat, Mary Watkins, Mildred Dishman, John Dean, Anna Lou

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DANNER MADE PRESIDENT OF CHURCH GROUP

Elected by Federation at Annual Meeting to Succeed Foster.

Henry R. Danner, Indianapolis civic leader, took office today as

| president of the Church Federation of, Indianapolis. Mr. Danner was elected at the Federation's annual meeting last night at the Pirst Presbyterian Church. He succeeds Eugene C. Foster, who had been president for three years. Mr. Foster automatically became one of the four vice presidents, all former Federation presidents. The | treasurer's position, held by Mr. Danner for six years, was filled by Russell R. Hirschman of the Broadway Evangelical Church. Ralph L. McKay was re-elected recording secretary.

Executive Committee Named

Members of the executive committee named for three-year terms were the Rev. U. S. Clutton, pastor of the Tuxedo Park Baptist Church; the Rev. E. A. Piepenbrok, pastor of the St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church; Dr. Gino A. Ratti, dean of the college of arts] and sciences at Butler University; Dr. Lyman R. Pearson of the First Friends Church; and the Rev. Harry E. Campbell, assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Dr. Ralph L. Holland, pastor of the Carrollton Avenue Evangelical and Reformed Church, was named to complete the unexpired term of the Rev, Ephraim D. Lowe, pastor of the Olive Branch Christian Church. The Rev. Mr. Lowe was elected an honorary vice president. The unexpired term of A. C. Waggoner who resigned from the executive committee, was filled by Dr. Carleton W. Atwater, First Baptist Church pastor. ' : Dwight S. Ritter of the Federation’s Inter-racial Committee, was awarded the annual certificate of! recognition for distinguished service in furtherance of inter-racial good will in Indianapolis during the last year. The certificate was presented by Miss Mae Belcher, secretary of | the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A,

Conferred With Ettinger

Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel, in his first report as executive secretary of the Federation, pointed out that an outstanding piece of work by Mr. Ritter’s committee had been the sponsoring of “Good-will Sune day” Feb. 25, in co-operation with the Jewish Federation and Catholic authorities. Dr. Baumgartel also paid tribute to Dr. Ernest N. Evans, former executive secretary who died last year. Dr. Baumgartel's report said that a survey will be finished this month under direction of Prof. James Peel-| ing of Butler University as to what | denominations should enter “a certain rapidly growing suburban center of the city.” He said that the Federation’s public relations committee had conferred with Charles Ettinger, Marion County Clerk, “in regard to the sale of unauthorized marriage certificates” and that its findings would appear

soon. Long active in church affairs, Mr. { Danner is an elder of the Second | Presbyterian Church and is presi- { dent of the Indianapolis Y. W. C. A. | board of directors.

TARKINGTON GIVEN DEGREE BY PURDUE

An honorary degree of doctor of | humane letters was to be conferred {upon Booth Tarkington today by | Purdue University, where he was a | student in 1890-91.

The exercises were to take place

{at 3 p. m. in the Tarkington home | and were said to represent the first time a university has presented such ‘an award away from its campus. Ill{ness prevented Mr. Tarkington's | making the trip to West Lafayette for the ceremony. President E. C. Elliott of Purdue came to Indianapolis today to confer the degree in the presence of the university's executive committee. James W., Noel, Indianapolis attorney and Purdue trustee, a longtime friend of Mr. Tarkington, was to read the citation, which calls Mr. Tarkington: “Master interpreter of Hoosier life, biographer of the universal boy, long-time ambassador-at-large from America to the world of letters.” After attending Purdue, Mr. Tarkington studied at Princeton University. He twice won the Pulitzer prize for literature and in 1933 was awarded the gold medal of the National Institute of Arts and Sciences.

PUBLISHER ACCUSES 2 OF FALSE EDITION

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 7 (U. P.).—A $50,000 damage suit against Vigo County Prosecutor Leonard P. Kincade and A. Jackson Jewett, a printer, was on file in Circuit Court

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today. The plaintiff, Mrs. Mayme Presnell, publisher of the Wabash Valley Post, contended that they circulated a “false and phoney” edition of her paper fraudulently apologizing for articles which her publication had printed. Her suit charged that the sheet was distributed for effect on voters in today’s primary election. Mr. Kincade is running for a third term. The Post, circulated without charge, for several weeks has attacked Mr. Kincade's two terms in office and accused him of allowing pin games, slot machines, keno games and bookmakers to operate

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TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940

BOYS WILL BAKE FIRST 4-H GAKE

Castleton Group, Second of Its Kind in County, Meets Thursday.

The second Marion County boys’ 4-H Baking Club will bake its first cake Thursday morning at the] Castleton High School. | The first boys’ baking club was, started in Decatur Township last year by a group of boys around Valley Mills. This spring this club sent one of its boys to the County 4-H Demonstration Contest and he showed a lot of girls how he makes biscuits. Ten Castleton boys then asked Miss Louise Apple, vocational home economics teacher in the Lawrence Township schools whether they could start a similar club. She helped them organize the club last week and will be in charge of the first regular meeting Thupsday. Club officers are Marvin Hicks, president; Robert Seymour, vice president, and Donald Cox, secretary. Mrs. A. L. Lowdermilk, vocational home economics teacher in FrankATTENDANCE GROWS lin Township, has announced the officers of three girls’ 4-H clubs > which will have meetings this week. The Children’s Museum of Indi-| “mye New Bethel Live Wires with anapolis, at 1150 N. Meridian St.,' 40 girls enrolled under Mrs. E. G. had the largest attendance of visit- Brown as local leader and Misses ing groups in its history tor one Lucy Hittle, Nina Wheatley, Marmonth during April, A. B. Carr, garet Apel and Leta Cunningham

Becomes Judge

Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach (D. Wash.), who was nominated yesterday by President Roosevelt for United States district judge for the eastern district of Washington, and confirmed within two hours.

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

{museum director, reported yester- as junior leaders, were to meet at | [1:30 p. m. today. Miss Wheatley is

day. The report was made at the president, Miss Hittle is vice presiannual meeting of the board of | dent and Doris Willsey is secretrustees, at which Fred Bates John- tary. son, board president, presided. The Acton Boosters will meet at Mr. Carr said that 85 groups|{1:30 p. m. tomorrow. Mrs. Earl visited the museum, coming from Shaeffer is local leader and Maras far as Mattoon, Ill. There were | garet Adcock president, Helen seven groups from Johnson County | Daugherty vice president and and two from Columbia City, Ind. | Eileen Nolting secretary. There are Others were scattered from all over 20 members of this club. the state and included 13 from| The Bunker Hill Bunkerettes, Indianapolis schools. with 19 members, will meet at Mr. Carr also reported to the 1:3¢ p.m. Friday. Mrs. Bert Woleois board that the museum had been and Mrs. Hugh Leming are loca given the collection of the Boys’ leaders. Marjorie Wolcott is presiSchool at Plainfield, Ind, which dent, Shirley Tuttle vice president, recently closed its museum. land Edith Rode, secretary.

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