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The State House—

| WORRIED HOOSIER

OFFICERS TELL ALL

Report That Vandenberg Planned to Criticize Them for,

Suppression of News Brings Complete Details of Indiana's Plan .if Conscription Comes.

By EARL RICHERT

Perturbed by ‘“‘grape-vine reports”

sion of news, Indiana officials today hurried to make public,

all details of this state's conscription plans.

Preparations have been under way for some time to put | ndi |

Indiana’s registration machinery into operation as soon as| Congressional action on conscription is completed.

| Last week, an important | h MORE POLIO meeting was held with key!

{representatives of the County | |

Clerks’ Association, but, unlike other states, the In] paper reporters “to confi-| Total in State Now 207; Crest May Be Reached, Harvey Says.

dence” before they would re-| Five new cases of

1 3 - ov veal their plans. As other states, the Indiana ysis were reported overnight in Inbring the total

plan calls for registration through iri . and rent outbreak to 207. a

state’s election ma-| | One of the new cases was that of House an 3-year-old West Side girl, who Vandenberg (R. Mich.) planned to was taken to City Hospital for denounce Indiana officials. Imme- + " mh +I aw soy "eo ee nen The others were fIOM gj tely, Mai. Bayard Shumate of | Dr. Verne K. Harvey said that the Indiana National Guard called the current outbreak appears to & press conference. have reached a crest and leveled off,| He spent two hours describing the but added that the history of such | Indiana plans, which were drawn up outbreaks indicates their span lasts several years ago by the Army and Navy. The committee already has arranged for the first conscription -registration. County clerks e been contacted and they have election officials ready to set offices in public buildings men who come under prescribed by law. |

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limit Divided in 154 Areas

The State also has been divided into 154 areas for the draft boards. | One draft board of three men will function for each 30,000 population. The problem of picking the draft board personnel is the most diffiin a family cult to confront the committee. A the disease, he said. Plan being considered by the few. if anv. records of Governor for the circuit court judge persons who attend and other county officials to submit | ffering from the disease. a list of names to him. He will in suggested that a com- turn submit a list of names to the, f flies and insanitary president, wno will appoint them. spread the disease, he Estimates of the cost of printing there have been recorded 350.000 registration cards and other| winter time. | material to be used in the con-! | scription process are to be called for by the State Printing Board today.

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age new theories have been pro-| he said. At one time and] another many theories on this have been brought forward and discarded. that the disease is person to person for least

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itary $50,000,000 in Indiana

The national defense program has turned nearly $50,000,000 into Indiana business channels. | The Army has spent most of this, | some $46,480,000. During the first 15 the Army contracted for rack chairs from the A. H. brand Co., Seymour; presses Logansport Machine Inc, l.ogans- ¢ port; sandblast barrels from the American Foundry Equipment Co Mishawaka, and equipment from the Smoker Lumber Co, New Paris all totalling some $35,000. The Navy contracted for $15,000] worth of trucks and spare parts from the Marmon-Herrington Co., Indianapolis. Also Jn line with the defense pro] nfantile paralysis outbreaks in- gram, the WPA allotted $150,000 for} the peak inci dence road work around the $25,000,000! one to every 1000 he gen- powder plant which is to be built popluation. The disease is at Jeffersonville, dered epidemic when it reaches . ITOROTton 12800 Study Mechanics Worse in Summer Some 2800 voung men are taking ; mechanics courses in Indiana high Dr. ols to prepare for jobs in national defense, Floyd I. McMurray, | ate superintendent of public instruction, reported today. When regular sc hool classes start next month, these classes will be! held at night, MT. McMu said. The courses include auto mechanics, t these aviation, ele trici heal eatment pattern making, welding, sheet

five outbreaks sin ce ited to Dr. Ha

Four or been atirint pplies, but ience never was able t theor; Infantile paralysis munities in cycles, like whooping cough, and t break had been expected lic health officers for tl eral vears, he added. While Indiana, Ohio, 1sin, Kentucky, We Virginia and the Washington all have outbt vear, 1 is, for exampl le, be myst Nobody WV more y it seems r 1 year in an cent

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No county in gaid, has had such an year. Indianapolis, which has had £1X cases reported since June 1, five of them in the last have to have more to be in a state of state would have to nearly 3000. Medical records show tha outbreaks seem 10 have neither {°c ‘and radio gained nor lost virulence as the years have passed and sanitation and. public health have been improved. attacks persons sparsely tled as well as urban areas, and although it occurs with most viole: nce in the hot dry months of late El rer, it has been known to strike in the dead of winter. is no record in Indiana of ver having becn the disease.

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NEW YORK, Aug (U, Customs authorities said today they did not plan any further unusual search of passengers arriving fon trans-Atlantic Clippers except twice at-|i, examine $100 bills to see if they lare part of the output of a counter{feit mill in Lisbon. The thorough search of passengers Sunday was attributed by officials to a desire to check on the number of fake bills passed on Americans. More than a routine number of cusoms officials were on hand when the Dixie Clipper arrived yesterday from. Lisbon but they did not examine passengers.

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| SHELBYVILLE MAN KILLED SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Aug. 27 P.).— Thomas Sims, 70, of ville,. was killed vesterday when a Big Four Railroad freight train crashed into his crossing here.

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TUESDAY, AUG. 27. 1040 | ¢

GALLS BOARD ON Newlyweds 1st Spat Brings

BALLOT DI DISPUTE

Townsend Sooke Decision On Whether Separation | Shall Be Ordered. |

| |

A special session of the State Election Board has been called by | Governor Townsend for next Friday |to attempt a settlement of the ballot | separation dispute. | The Board met two weeks ago to issue general ballot instructions, but ‘the session was postponed by the | Governor after Fred C. Gause, the i Republican member, raised a ques- | tion against placing the names of | Presidential candidates on separate

Maj. Frank H. Gamel . . . “char- [b allots from the State ticket candiacter 5 CUhiSEOuS. » | dates. |

| Subsequently, Attorney General ‘REVOLT’ MYTH. | Samuel D. Jackson issued a formal

| opinion, ruling that under the Staite laws, the ballots must be separated. Youngstars Shou Should Be Put On Self-Management Basis, Rotary Is Told.

In the face of the opinion, how“There

| ever, Mr. Gause maintained his| original position and the dispute 1s expectea to be resumed at the Friday session. The separate ballot question has revolved into a major partisan fight.! Republicans brought ‘pressure for { consolidation of the ballots on the {ground that the Hoosier popularity of Wendell L. Willkie, G. O. P. Presidential nominee, would help | ‘carry the State ticket. The Democrats have heen insist- | ing upon the separation on the {theory that many Willkie supporters would “scratch” their votes over | Frank H. Gamel told the Rotary to the Democratic ticket if the bal- | lub today. {lots were separated.

The consultant psycnologist of Willkie ‘Qualified *

Riverside Military Academy, Gains-Ex-Elwood Man Says

ville, Ga., asserted that “bad boys are merely boys whose fine instincts | have found unfortunate expres- | Wendell L. Willkie, G. O. P. PresiSigh, y | dential nominee, was described as | Each man has two main respon- | “highly qualified as an executive sibilities to youth, he told Rotarians | to be President of the United , Hie L iaynool Hotel. One, he | states,” in an address by Emerson Sa th is to be as [ine a man as Pos- Mills before the Irvington Repubsible and the second is to be 50 jjoan Club last night. close to a boy that he will “want ( orn : : Y : ' < | . ills n lv live 1 Jn to be good by imitation.” vo: Bs Jortmery ped. i BL He asserted youth should he put! 3 . ol £ tl 3 Ni g's ALY 2 on a basis of self-management and pr oi ~ hod 8 . pa ys ™ allowed to make their own applica- |, While Mr, vil fe has een oly. tions of good principles taught them ing big executive problems, he has by their elders. | been unknowingly serving an ap- | prenticeship for the job that lies

‘Character is caught, ; we get it by contagion, before him now,” said Mr. Mills. |

sion,” Maj. Gamel said, Maj. Gamel is conducting a fi: | BOARD RESTRAINED BY DOCTOR'S SUIT

ture course and clinic at the Salva- | Superior Court Judge Herbert

tion Army Youth Institute being | held at the Fresh Air Camp at| Oaklandon. Spencer today granted a temporary | order restraining the State Board of | M Medical Examination and RegistraPITTSBURGH, Aug. 27 (U. p../tion from hearing fraud charges| —Pennsylvania’s $70,000,000 super- against Dr. Heil Eugene Crum. highway stretching from Harris- | The board hearing, a result of a burg to Pittsburgh today bore the Petition filed against Dr. Heil Crum |approval of Congressional, military by Toner Overley, Better Business land industrial leaders following a Bureau head, had been set for Fri-|

swift preview of the 160-mile road- 9avyJudge Spencer set Saturday for a|

{hearing to make the injunction per-| in the 60-mile-an-hour journey over manent. Dr. Heil Crum asked for| four-lane hill-less highway, | he injunction after he had been which many believe is the fore. [Summoned to appear before the] runner of a system of super-roads [Boar RY thaipes wal he had criss-crossing the nation. were! een guilty of practices inimical to

the public welfare, | unanimous i the re . Hay lous in their praise of the The petition asked the board to

{void Dr. Heil Crum’s licenses. Dr I ny officials PDrenped the be- | Heil Crum charged that the Board €f that the highway would prove pag ng jurisdiction and is prejud liced | important “in war as well as peace- | aoqinst him. time.” The highway is expected to

be dedicated some time next month

ARMY TO TEST MINE IN NEW YORK HARBO

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (U. P).— Submerged mines guarding New|

is no ‘revolt of youth. merely confused by the high speed and complexities of the | world just as we adults are and it 1s our duty to help them,” Maj.!

not taught; not 1

SUPER-HIGHWAY WINS | DEFENSE APPROVAL

The 170 officials who participated |

REPORT MISSION RAZED CHUNGKING, China, Aug. 27 (U. | {P).—A Chinese news agency dis- | [ patch said today that the American | Church Mission at Chuanhsien, in | | Kwansgl Province, was destroyed by | | Japanese inne bombs Sunday.

Hancock, N. J..! filled with explo-| sive for 48 hours of submarine mine | service practice beginning at 6 a. m. | (Indianapolis Time) tomorrow, it| was announced today. The mines will be loaded with | (about one-fourth of their regular| charge. Troops of the Tth Coast | Artillery will control and discharge the live mines in their first actual] efficiency tests, if the weather per- | mits. The live mine belt will be oft Sandy Hook, about 800 yards from |

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| out six windows in the home of his

{about it I would give her something

Confusion, Violence, Trial

Love usually finds a way He did. {matter what efforts are made to| The sister-in-law said: “the first thwart{ it, a 44-year-old man and|I knew a window fell out and five |his bride of six weeks explained in| others crashed in rapid succession. { Municipal Court today. The man, charged with malicious| and besides, trespass, was accused of breaking door down.” Edwin H. Smith, judge pro tem,

sister-in-law “because they wouldn't asked the bride if everything was] let me see my wife.” | patched up between her and her The bride explained that she had husband. ; never told her sister of het mar-| Yes,” she replied, blushing. riage. The judge withheld judgment.

“My husband and I had a little] ———————————————a——

{spat and I left a note for him, saying I was going to my sister's home CAR REGISTRATIONS : My sister didn't know of my mar- . riage because she never did appr ove | 500,000 ABOVE '39 of my friends,” the bride said The husband who came home| DETROIT, Aug. 27 (U. P.).—The from work to find his wife gone, nation’s motorists registered

ent after he wel : 5 1130,600 new passenger cars during

“When I went up to the door of | my sister-in-law’s and asked for my | the first seven months of 1940, R. L. Polk & Co. announced today after

wife,” the man said, “she thought I didn't know what I was talking|/@ final count of July registration about. When I kept insisting she figures. For the corresponding was in the house, my sister-in-law period in 1939, 1,638,410 automobiles threatened to call the police. I told|were registered. her if that was the way she feit|

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31.51 total

an increase of the July, 1939,

tered in July,

to call the police about.” iper cent over

| We didn't know they were married, | he almost broke the |

Polk said 315,245 cars were regis- |

on the grounds that the Commig-

sion has the right to maintain roads only, and not to lay out a

new route. A hearing on his petition will be held Sept. 6. The suit was one of numerous | moves that have been made by resi- | dents along the present route, protesting the change. The Perry Township Businessmen, Ine, has protested to the War Department and the Governor, contending that the construction of the new road [would be “a waste of money.” They argue that the present road over [Madison Ave. should be widened al nd re- surfaced.

BIDS RECEIVED DESPITE SUIT

Ft. Ware Firm Low on Road 31; Garageman Seeks to Prevent Work.

The State Highway Commission {today went ahead with plans to [build a new Road 31 south out of | Indianapolis, despite an injunction {suit against the project pending in | Marion County Circuit Court [ The Commission received bids for the construction of almost five | miles of dual-lane highway from | one-half mile south to three miles northwest of Greenwood. The Grace Construction & Supply Co. of Ft Wayne, was the apparent low bidder, with a bid of $380.000. The engineer's estimate for the project was more than $445,000. The injunction suit was filed yesterday by Jesse A. Pickard, an Edgewood garage man, whose garage is on the present highway, He asks that the Commission be restrained from proceeding with the _construction of the new road,

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DRESSES $Jo0

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40 WOMEN’S SWIM SUITS

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25 GIRLS’ DRESSES

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75 CHILD'S PRINT DRESSES

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Original few

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SWEATERS

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3 Se.

Remnants of 6 ft. and 9 ft. Gold Seal and other heavy weight floor coverings. Floral and block for all rooms, Bring vour measurements,

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Children's 15¢ School ANLKETS

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20x27-1N. THROW RUGS

Made of high grade twist weaves and axminsters, larly 79c.

OCCASIONAL TABLES

End tables, lamp tables, and serving tables at exactly 5 price. 98c to $3.98.

REG. 39c BROOMS

4-Sewed, fresh corn stock. Painted handles. cial. No deliveries please.

72—70x80 BLANKETS

wool, fancy blankets, sateen hound. Choice of

5 36-In. 80-Sq. DRESS PRINTS

' 1500 yards of newest fall prints, also sheer wash 10

goods in printed dimities, Tawns, voiles and batistes, Up to 19¢ values. Tub fast of course

COLD PACK CANNERS ~ Boys $1.98 Sports Suits

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Sanforized suits with pleated, pants and in

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SHOES WOMEN *] 39

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Bedroom SUITES

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187 Yds. 36-in. plain color percale remnants, ____yd. Ge 348 Yds. 36-in. Panama unbleached muslin (48 Cannon part Tineh dish towels _____________ea de 120 17%34-in, Turkish towels (colored borders) __ea, 8¢ {50 Large size cannon dish cloths 47 Beautyrest mattress covers 76 36x72 painted cloth window shades (irreg.) ea 25¢ 36 80x 105 Krinkle colored hed spreads ea 49¢

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