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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

U.S. TOEXTEND | POWER SYSTEM

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CHILDLESSNESS [One Year After Montreal’ s Mas: Marriage IN NATION GAINS ‘Happiness Score’ Is Still 100 Per Cent

: ‘Babies Born to 20 of 105 U. S. Birth Rate Drops 10%, Couples; 57 More From ’30 to "35, Pro-

Expecting Stork. fessor Reveals. MONTREAL, July 25 (NEA) .—One CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July 25 (U

year ago this week 105 couples PJ) .~Dr. Carle C. Zimmerman. Har: knelt before 105 priests in the sun-| vard Associate Professor of So. | drenched Montreal baseball stadium ciology, said vesterday that the and repeated the French equivalent] “movement toward childlesshess)Ol "1 40" while 20,000 persons and anti-familism in America has looked. on. The first mass marriage on this

increased rapidly since 1930.” | t a it fiset : Bad continent, it was designed to oflise Ne told the pens Session Orie “the unfavorable publicity marriage ew England Conference on To- |g getting in the world's divorce |alreadv financed by the Rural morrow’s Children that in 1930 courts.” While the crowd cheered nord d at | Electrification Administration averv 1000 women between the ages and a borrowed church bell pealed,| § .~ a& . a ea A | The primary purpose of the loans of 15 and 44 gave 87.5 births while the 105 cduples walked arm-in-arm 8 : - will be extension of electricity to an in 1935 the birth rate was only 77.3, Refow a red and bite a a rh ‘additional 300,000 farm homes, but 8 deciifie of mote than 2 per cent [Peat ihe marriage vows simul REA officials said construction loans taneously. will be so allocated as to form a

& pear. “ ines : | A year has passed and the couples ot Co Bs: Drother ton aon : : . p wo o ecentralized power The farm family, which com have celebrated their first anni-| Jehwork : d Pp | JONESVILLE—Mrs. Flora HN T Ii. 53. |Betz, 74. Survivors: Husband, August;

prised 22 per cent of all our families : Survivors: Husband, Albert: f .|sons, John and Albert: daughters, Mrs. in 1930, contributed 38 per cent of versary. How are they getting on?| Lauded by Wallace [ter Beulah May Landis: brothers, “James George Schmelz, Mrs. Albert Sprauer and | all families more than four chil Have they survived that perilous] J {and John Merritt; sister, Mrs. Mrs. Alphonse Koch; brother, J. B. Baron. | ¢ . | first year? How many deaths? How “Such resources, with the power | | facilities for vital communications,

. | Carver. VINCENNES— Miss Julio Duesterberg, 89. ! dren,” he said. 4 : Le blond d many diverces? How many babies? | for large scale electrical and me-

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KOKOMO--Thomas H. Wikel, 68. SBurviv-

DALEVILLE—Robert Laboytaux, 96. Sur-| Wife, May: sisters, Mrs. Jennie Ren-

vivors: Sons, Arthur and Harry, sister, ors: | Mrs. Louise Heath. Imier, Mrs. Leona Kyle and Mrs. George EVANSY LLB Joh Wesley Douglas, 32. [Hays | Survivors: Wi uth; daughter, Bias, hit Mrs. Matilda Sharp, 177. Survivors: |Sryiv De a and Mrs. James Doug- Husband, Charles; sons, Clarence and Fred (Las: sisters, Mrs. Frances Smith and Mrs. | Coy; sisters, Mrs. Mary Houser, Mrs. Susie | lira Johhson: brothers, Andrew. Arthur | Kerby and Mrs. Stella Shackleford; broth- | Lay Luther. er. Milton Gullion.

Si George L. Brown Sr. 52. Survivors: amuel J. Tichner, 31. | wie, Lola; daughters, Mrs. Roy Akerman| MACE-—Mrs. Dora Bruce, 68. Survivors:

Defense Program Carries and Mist Eileen Brown: son, George Jr., Husband, Ernest; sons, Earl, Leslie, James

Hundred Million for | brothers, Roy and Rollie. and Arthur; daughter, Mrs. Jake Roberts;

Expansion. Joseph V. Gerth, 63. Wife, | brothers. John, George and Arthur Smith; | Lena: sisters. Mrs. Mrs. | sister, Mrs. Thursy Bowman, Margaret Leingang an rs. Payton! NEW ALBANY--Mrs. Sarah Frances Mix, Smith: brot thers, William, Albert and 72. Survivors: Sons, Emil and Marvin Vincent, i Smith; daughter, Mrs. Ebylena Mauck. Mrs. Anna Groeninger, 50. NEW HARMONY -Mrs. Louella Cowgill, Husband, Fred: father. Henry Hubert; 79. Survivors: Husband, Cornelius; sons, sister, Mrs. Tillie McPherson: brothers, | Ernest. Fred, Marshall and Walter: daughWilliam, John, Gilbert, Edward and Carl ger, Mrs. Nora Atterbury; sister, Mrs. Will r ates | General Grant Dixon, 76 Survivors: | Wife, Lula; daughters. Mrs. Auguest Kerk-| NEW PITTSBURG hoff, Mrs. Louis Orth, Mrs. Alfred Osch- ren. 179. Survivors: sons, mann, Mrs. Inez Jourdan and Mrs, Ro- 2nd Leslie; daughters, Mrs. land Baston; son, Samuel. baugh and Mrs. Myrtle Lewis. FRANKFORT Mrs. Ella Kingery, 68.| PETERSBURG Robert Survivors: Daughter, Mrs. Bertha Young; Survivors: ns, “Robert L. Benson, —ul Leroy: daughters, Mrs. Emma DeWeese,

brothers, William and James Sheets. HUNTINGBURG -- Milton Behrens, 57. Mrs. Edith Drew and Mrs. Laura A. Bald- | Win.

Survivers: Wife, Linnie: son, William; sisters, isses Lula, : Helens: & 8, Edna and Nora) ROACHDALE- Milton Eggers, 83 Se ERSONYILLE - John A Russ, 60. | Bartiett; sister, gg ey Derirutte if aude; sons, Banave dnaslier aude; ons. Harvey and | RUSHVILLE — Janet Joline Sterrett. 15. Mrs. Dorsev Dunn and Mrs. Donovan | Survivors: Parents, Mr. and Mrs. tarry Gibbs: sisters, Mrs. Edward Diedrich. Mrs, | O: Sterrett: sisters. Lois Katherine and Cora Denzler. Mrs. Anna Ewing and Miss | Norma Jean: brother, James Orville. | | SCHNELLVILLE—Mrs. Mary Catherine

Survivors: Anna Gempler,

WASHINGTON, July 25 (U. P). —The Administration's national de- | fense program provides for a | $100,000,000 expansion of electric power facilities within the next 12 months. Most of the money will be lent to farmer co-operatives for the |construction of 100,000 miles of power lines to be added to the network of more than 250,000 miles

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rapidly. Juennesse Ouvriere Catholique | efforts,” Secretary of (Young Catholic Workers). | Henry A. Wallace said. Twenty couples have already wel- Extension of power lines and comed their first arrivals; 57 more the building of new generating are “expecting.” | plants will permit a decentralizaDeath, too, has touched the par-| | tion of defense industries and make | ticipants. sates tse wl Cs re it more difficult for an enemy to | | One of the husbands, M. Paradis id AL, cripple the nation by attacking cenof Montreal, died only a month [tralized areas, Mr. Wallace said. after the ceremony. He was ill for of the mass marriage were Henri and | Mr. Wallace asserted that the some time before the wedding day, | | dictators “have definite designs on and there was speculation about] |the Western Hemisphere, and that his being able to attend. He left | peace can be assured in this before the benediction, returned to a 3 |hemisphere only through “the uthis sick bed { A most of preparedness, quickly and | One of the efficiently brought to pass.” - ———— | Harry Slattery, REA administrator, in a report to the Council lof National Defense, said the expansion of electric power lines will (contribute toward strengthening {the United States in “the most critical hour that America has ever

3. Catholic birth rates are deelining faster than protestants. | 4. The nation’s total population faces a decline in a decade which will result in a heavy proportion of oldsters.

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