Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1940 — Page 7

THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1040 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

HAROLD THARP | He's Optimistic HOOSIER, 2 SISTERS Battered Pepper Now Stands Alone NAMED HEAD OF ~ WRITE FOR 45 YEARS

'modified his denial to “I never in-| tually done today in the tended to make such a statement, and Fascist i 'and have no recollection or con- NOW 8Pparently trying -

In Senate on Dictator Proposal|=oues miami: rms while Senator Robert Taft (R. 0.) Asati

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By FRED W. PERKINS to Pepper platform proposals, “and

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,even of Nero that the Senator from | Florida does not propose to confer

AMBRIPGE. Pa, Aug. 15 (U. P). "40 FUND DRIVE

—A 45-year-old promise to exchange

New Leader Has Been Active In Drive Since First Campaign in 1920.

Harold RB. ‘Tharp, Community Fund worker since the first drive In 1820, today was named geneval arive chairman by W. C. Griffith, president He will gart at once to select division leaders and recruit an army of 3000 volunteer solicitors for the campaign, scheduled for Oct. 7 to Oct. 24 Optimistic as to campaign results, My. Tharp said: “Peopls are going to be in a more thankful mood, and this will cause them to be more liberal in their gifts. I believe that the appeal will meet with more universal response than ever before”

Moved Up Through Ranks

The new general director has risen to his position “through the ranks” He was one of 300 workers in the Arsh drive mm 1920 In sueveeding drives, he hax served as a team eaptain, qistiiet chairman, head of the special gifts division with a responsibility of raising 80 per cent the goal, and for the 13st tao vears associate chairman MY. Tharp was a voluntesar in the Liberty Doan drive in Indianapolis ana later entered war service in the officers’ training school at Camp St. Joseph, Jacksonville, Fla. A department head for the last 26 vears in the Fletcher Trust Co he is a graduate of Butler University where he earned four fetiers in football Member of Fund Board

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He ik a member of munity Fund board of directors ana served three ars as Civic Theater president ana one term as Players © He is 4 membe: Dramatic Club. Soevery of Pioneers ang the Cantemparary Cink He was national Delia Tau Delia Years sna serveq fresxurer for nine vears ¢ He jt 2 member of the Second Preshyeterian Church

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LAWRENCEBURG Aug. 15, ft Pp) buried alive and three others narrowly escaped death yesterday when a tunnel they were digging under a Bal. timore & Ohio railroad track near here caved in on them, he dead are EARL C. DRYDEN the contractor WALTER DRYDEN, 20 hit son ROY NORLE JR af The tunnel it being constructed for the laying of a sewer which wil pass under the tracks and through & levee to the Ohio River At the point of the cave-in the tunnel ik about 2} feet below the level of the railroad tracks James Seymour, 20; Clayton SayJor, 23. both of Lawrenceburg. and Jo HH. Sutton, 28. of Dupont managed to escape when the tunnel began collapsing.

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Larceny by was the fegal name police gave it. but John W. Owensiev called it wholesale robbery by oratory Mr. Ownslevs track containing 25 watermelons was parked at the South Side Market vesterday afternoon. William Blair was on guard A rapid talking stranger stepped up and informed him that Mr Owensiey had sold the melons and that he. the stranger was to de. fiver them. Mr. Blair consented He didnt know he had been fleeced until emplover returned three hours later

GOODRICH CONDITION STILL IS CRITICAL

WINCHESTER, Ind. Aug. Ys James: PP Goodrich former Governor of Indiana, today was sll in & critical condition in Randolph County Hospital foliowing a par alvtie stroke Monday. He was taken to the hospital Monday night and hat been under an oxvgen tent much of the time since

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ROGERS’ HOME OPENED

HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 15 (U. P) The family of Will Rogers announced today that his rambling Santa Monita ranch home would be opened te the public: for three months for the benefit of the Amerfean Red Cross his favorite charity

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two letters each week gives thee sisters a record for long-time correspondence, It was in 1804 that Mrs. Harry Koerbel of Jeannette, Pa.; Mis. Ola, Lutz of Donura, Pa, and Mrs. Walter Bradford of Marion, Ind. agreed to write their weekly letters. Since then, two daughters of Mrs RKoerbel have joined the “round rabin”’ correspondence and thev es. timate they have exchanged 17.576 veces of mail The sisters began the marathon letter writing because they were forced to live in widely separated towns and they wanted to maintain contact. 5 The daughters of Mis. Koerbel, Mrs. Al A. Engstrom of Ambridge, Pa, and Mrs. A. D. Welty of Greensburg, Pa, joined the letter Trust” 17 vears ago The five women are proud uf the fact that in the 45 and 17 respective vears they've never missed a “post time.” On postage alone they estimated they have spent more than

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-—The Senate resumed its routine today on the Army draft bill after demonstrating that only one of its 96 members favors anvthing approaching a departure from the traditional check of Congress on whomever happens to be President. The victim of the demonstration was the Junior Senator from Florida. Claude Pepper, who was turned inside-out in vesterday's debate and wag shown to he merely a slight and mildemannered voung fellow of 40 who had ideas on the international situation that will make him either a prophet before his time or

a premature advocate of an Ameri |

can dictatorship. It all depends on Hitler——how far he gets. Notable was the fact that not one colleague of the academically beilicose Floridian arose to give him succor under such attacks as this from Senator Bennett Clark t(D. Mo.) “There is no power of Hitler or Mussolini or of Genghis Khan or

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upon the President of the United States in time of peace.” Senator Homer Bone (D. Wash.) laconically observed, “I never thought I'd live long enough to hear the Senate of the United States debating whether to vote supreme power to the President in time of peace” About this time late, and Majority Leader Alben Barkley (D. Kv.) asked that the Senate “suspend hostilities and declare a truce until tomorrow V The argument, which used up another day of the Senate's time on the Compulsory Military Service Bill, arose from recitation by Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) of portions of a radio broadcast by Fulton Lewis Jr, over the Mutual network, reverting back to ithe sessions of the platform cominittee at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The Chicago story, according to the radio reporter, was that certain platform committee members, in.

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‘dent Roosevelt a dictator.”

Senator Pepper said they came from |8round that “ihe logic behind it re- | said, quires a complete regimentation of!

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Senator Pepper was reported to have replied, "No, 1 only want to make the President a temporary dictator.” The Floridian asked the Montana member on the Senate floor if he tecalled any such discussion, The! record follows: | “Wheeler—1I do not remember it. The only thing I remember is that |

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Ghicago, and I said to the Senator! from Florida, ‘What you are seek- | ing to do, or what you are doing, is | setting up a dictatorship.’ The Sen- | ator’s reply was ‘only temporar- | ily.’ | “Pepper--My statement is that that conversation never occurred. ‘Wheeler—I do not wish to argue | with the Senator. I know that it took place.” After an interval Senator Pepper

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