Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1940 — Page 24

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SCHOOL COSTS Antarctica May Be Livable SLASHED $9000) Some Day. Wilkins Believes

Ice is receding on the Antarctic Washington High Cafeteria cay be livable, Sir Hubert Wilkins,

with first and second-degree mure der and manslaughter in connection

Brig. Gen. Joseph M. Cummins, of the 76th Field Artillery at the A Vermillion Circuit Court jury to- trial was completed yesterday when formerly in command of Fort de Presidio of Monterey, Cal, was day was expected to begin delibera- the State rested after presenting Lesseps at the Panama Canal Zone, transferred to Purdue University at| tions of the case of Mrs. Mabel Witnesses regarding her husband's today was ordered transferred to the Lafayette, Ind. Houston, 43, of St. Bernice, charged character during rebuttal testimony,

[Continent and that land may some- ! {veteran polar explorer, said here Contracts Are Let By Board.

i Estimates of the cost of enlarging the Washington High School cafeteria were down $9000 today after letting of the first three contracts for the job | At a special meeting vesterday the School Board passed a resolution reducing from $30.000 to $21.000 the amount of bonds to be) issued for remodeling and equipping the cafeteria The contract for general construction was awarded to the Service| Construction Co.. 417 Castle Hall Building, on its low bid of $12397, | The heating, ventilating and plumb- | ing contract went to Hayes Bros. | Inc. 236 W. Vermont St. on a bid | of 82762 and the electrical contract to H. M. Stradling Electric Co., 353 Massachusetts Ave, for $364. The bonds, which will cover these contracts and others to be let later. | will be dated June 10 and will be] sold after bids have been advertised | for. The State Tax Board approved | the issuance of the bonds on May 3 after a hearing on April 29, with | no taxpayer protesting. A total of $189,000 in bonds were sold by the School Board vesterday| to the Harris Trust & Savings Bank | of Chicago. The bonds were the second in the $2,172,000 series which will be used by the Board for refunding bonds this year. The Harris bid vesterdav was 15 per cent with a premium of $2720. The bonds refunded vesterday bear 4% per cent interest

ENGLISH LIFEBOATS BUSY

LONDON, May 8 (U. P) —In the first six months of the war, lifeboats along the coast of England have saved 1774 lives—a higher total than that of the last four years of peace. The average has been 68 lives a week.

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| War Memorial last night, said that |

British territory, Sir Hubert said, but it is in the American territory between the two Byrd bases in| which Capt. Wilkins expected the most commercially valuable territory to be found. {

Recalls ‘Race’ to Pole : In contrast to the Antarctic, the lg dT

explorer said that the North Pole | Pole. 1s. WhTreiesymg plate. 1s “one of the least interesting parts {explorer said, predicting that after of the world,” because there is no the war is over Arctic and Antland and because it is neither the arctic weather stations would make center of the Arctic Ocean or the jong-range weather forecasting acArctic ice mass. Sir Hubert said curate for two to three years in adthat. the “exaggerated” public in- vance. ] terest in the North Pole was the re- i 5 sult of the excitement of the “race Cites Argentine Station

to the North Pole.” At present this is not possible, Sir He said that polar exploration | Hubert said, because there are not had gone through four phases. The enough stations. There has been first he called the “adventure” , gration financed by the Argentine vg Wee Which explorers Government on Laurie Island in the ere Just ‘searching out” the Arc- ma jkjangs group inside the Antarctic without knowing anything of tic Circle for 35 vears and Capt what they were seeking. In the illcitne <ak te | » : second or “mercantile” Wilkins said this had proved how

phase, he , sald that merchants were seeking | Aluable there stations to be. When | “Had the war not come,” he said,

ways, Sir Hubert said that polar [lished three stations. South Africa exploration entered the *‘sporting”| Wouid have set up one, Chile one phase and became a race to the and Argentina another. These all two Poles, a race between Peary would have worked with the Laurie and Cook for the North Pole and |Island station and the two set up between Scott and Amundsen for | by Byrd. the South Pole. | “Im the Arctic, stations could be The present phase of polar eX- ot yp by the Russians in Fridjof ploration is an economic one, the nangen Land, Northern Land and the New Siberian Islands. Spitz-| | bergen, Greeniand | | | Land also could be used for stations

| Islands and Elsmere Land. it was | marine base, north of Point Barrow, ! (600 miles from the Pole.”

War Halted Plans |

Sir Hubert said that the war had prevented his going forward with [his plans for a submarine weather | station, not only because neither Norway nor Spitzbergen (Norwegian) could be used as a base, but also because the war had stopped observations in most of the cther Arctic stations. The explorer said. however, that his submarine expedition would be undertaken when the war is over,

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Chosen for Butler Commencement.

DeWitt S. Morgan, superintendent of the Indianapolis Public Schools, will be commencement speaker at [Butler University June 10. The Rev. Roy Ewing Vale, pastor ‘of the Tabernacle Presbyterian) (Church, will deliver the baccalauIreate sermon June 9. | These activities were announced today for the closing of Butler's 85th | school year. The 35th annual summer school session will open with | registration June 11 and instruction | will begin June 12 under 71 faculty | members of 30 departmetns, teaching 215 courses. : | Dr. Morgan has been Superin|tendent of Schools here for two years. Before his appointment he was Technical High School principal. Dr. Vale came to Indianapolis this winter from the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, De-| troit.

Blue Key to Elect Campus King

Satirizing the numerous ‘‘queens” |elected during a school year on the | Butler University campus, Blue Key, senior men's honorary fraternity, will elect a “king of the campus” at |its annual Coronation Promenade | Friday night. | Pledges of the society will present ‘their annual flor show during the event, which will last from 9 p. m. until midnight, and will assist in “crowning” the king. Steven Hack and William Crawford are co-chair-man.

Economics Society Initiates 22

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and Elsmere yniversity College of Business Ad-

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R but there is no land in the vast pjoyd, head of the university's acL | expanse between the New Siberian counting courses, were among the

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ciety recently. Dr. Ross was presented with a set of economics books for the university library. Other initiates were Miss Valora Bechtel, William Crawford, George Dick, Charles Frederick, Richard Helm, Burgess Hind, Miss Estelle Mayer, John Noel, Miss Tual Smyrnis, Miss Elizabeth Tripp and Miss Mary Tripp, juniors, and Miss Ethel Bailey, Rex Blacker, George Calvert, Robert Carey, Frederick Engle, Miss Esther Katz, Miss Betty Noonan, Miss Elizabeth Lockert and Thomas Ferrell, seniors.

TRAILER FACTORY CLOSED BY STRIKE

ELKHART, Ind, May 8 (U. P) — The Shulte Trailer, Inc. factory, picketed since last week by the : United Automobile Workers Union, ! a C. I. O. affiliate, was closed today : on recommendation of William J. §

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§ * Crepes and Print Sunsuits, 7-11 2 : i MEXICO CITY, May 8 (U.P) — i Finance Minister Eduardo Suarez § late last night that ! President Lazare Cardenas had : signed an agreement to pay the : Sinclair oil firm $8,500,000 cash to

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SALESMAN ROBBED OF $33

An automobile salesman, John Williams of Zionsville, Ind, was robbed of $33 today by three men

Senate Ave. when Ive returred to it after a business appointment, police reported.

HOOSIERS NAMED TO MENNONITE BOARD

Timer Special JOHNSTOWN, Pa. May 8. —Three Hoosiers were elected to the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities of the World at the church's annual convention which closed here last night. Delegates from the United States, Canada, India, Africa and Argentina attended the convention, which was held near Holsapple. The Rev. J. Norman Kaufman of Peoria, Ill. formerly a missionary to India, was named board president. The Rev. S. C. Yoder of Goshen, Ind., was named secretary, the Rev. E. C. Bender of Elkhart, Ind., treasurer, and the Rev, D. E. Miller of Middlebury, Ind., a member of the

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FILM PLOT’ AGAINST TELEVISION CHARGED

WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P) — The Radio Corp. of America, in a brief to the Federal Communications Commission, accused certain motion picture interests today of lattempting to sabotage development of television. Such action has resulted. the R. C. A. alleged, from the “practical if not theoretical control” by Parameunt Pictures, Inc, over Du Mont | Laboratories, a television manu{facturer. | “The motion picture interests which are financing Du Mont Laboratories have a much greater financial stake in the movie indus-

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