Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1940 — Page 15
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 15
TOKYO CHURCH Youngest and Oldest of 4 BOMB SIGHTS FOR PLAN MODIFIED ~~ Generations Party Guests ENGLAND URGED
Onl Protestant Proje t Friends of Empire Also Are y ey Donald Scott Herrin, 1,
Considered for Time Are: Hi d Negotiating for Entire re Honored. Pon : . | Being. Nha ode U. S. Tank Output. The ous) a Oicrest o Jou J | NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (U. P), — os Tat a ore American friends of Great Britain a A nf go PA A XY now are negotiating for the secret 2 . ™ . St : sil American bomb sight, for the entire ie guest or Margaret output of American tanks and half the output of flying fortress homb-
Buser, who was 78 yesterday, and b - her great-grandson, Donald Scott ers, for the use of Texas and CaliHerrin. who will be 1 vear old fornia airports to train British Sept. 25 fliers and for 250,000 more rifles, it Yonald is the son of Mr. an S. was disclosed today ped y i Fr. and Mrs Clark M. Eichelberger, executive Mrs Buse: despite her advanced director of the Committee to Defend age is still active in the Order of America by Aiding the Allies, in list= Eastern Star and takes an interest was hee reduiements, Sud livre in the Wheeler City Rescue Mission, abou letting Britain have them o BY aon oA < « ’ believe that the Japanese are closely | Mrs. Buser has two daughters and but that “negotiations for them are watching Rome and Berlin for cues, |# SON, Mrs. Washburn, Mrs. John L now proceeding.” and that actions of its Axis partners Duvall, mother of Mrs. Herrin and He said the turning over of 50 toward the Vatican will become the |W. C. Buser. Le over-age destroyers to Britain in ex= pattern for Japanese attitude. It will be one big family dinner, change for air and navy bases in the The new plan is expected to be| Mrs. Duvall said. “There will only be Western Hemisphere was little cause put into operation on Oct. 17, when |One birthday cake, however. We for a furor, since the United States the all-Japan Christian Confer- dop’t know whether we can get 78 already had shipped Britain 80,000 ence meets to celebrate the 2600th candles on it, but at least that machine guns, 700 field guns, 500,000 anniversary of the founding of the | figure will be in the icing. rifles and “mountains” of ammuni= | — — "
Japanese Empire. - —— tion, and German secret agents American and European mission- knew of the shipments by the Japanese for the pamed NEARLY FREEZES IN ; g . ol ow | ) : MIDST OF HEAT WAVE
aries in China have been blamed ready for a birthday Mr. Eichelberger said his figures . party. Left to right are Mrs. On the munitions shipments came Chinese resistance to Japan's in-| Margaret Buser, Mrs, Johkn I. [rom John L. Balderson, the coms |vasion. Henceforth, Christian mis- | Duvall. Mrs. Donald FE. Herrin Mittee’'s Washington observer. Since isionaries in territory dominated by P.) the Japanese will find the going emdeath of
and Donald Scott Herrin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has announced that rough. | One of the first to feel the
2,000,000 men now stand armed to (wrath of the Japanese military is a
defend the British Isles against ine Almost an hour later, Elmer Wil- vasion. Mr. Eichelberger said. it may | British-born missionary, Alan Ben- liams, a street cleaner, passed the he assumed that one out of every son, arrested by the Japanese a!rvefrigerator at the plant where he few days ago in Kalgan, Mongolia, is the lone night employee, he be
plant and heard Langdon's feeble four of the British defenders 1s calls for help. He investigated and carrying an American-made rifie, on charges of espionage and con-| came imprisoned when the door ar spiracy. | cidentally locked behind him. The
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, 1940
DRAFT WEALTH. Millard Fillmore Kennedy's 270 Pages of WALLACE ASKS "Neat Script’ Tell of 19th Century School Days
Brands Industrialists Who 3 Generations of Teachers MYs,. Margaret. Buses, 73,
Put Profits First as Are Described in ‘Slackers.’ Hoosier’s Book.
SPRINGFIELD, Ni, Sept. 5 (U.| BY SEXSON E. HUMPHREYS P — Henry A. Wallace today | HEN Millard Fillmore Ken-
branded as slackers manufacturers nedy, then teaching school § | in Johnson County. was offered who refuse to co-operate with the
v | 50 cents a day more in a neighGovernment in national defense | horing township. he accepted the and the Government should |
Job—and got married have the ight to conscript indus-| But when he was offered a job Iv as Yeadilv as men teaching in Illinois at the highest ry as readily as men. | salary he ever received, he reHe challenged Republican Party fused—angd retired from teaching leaders to make a campaign issue | He didn't want to leave nof conscription of industry and said | 4; Tm Zita ; : : A te iana. The Kennedys, four genthe Democratic Administration does : 8 not propose to “raise another crop”
erations of them, have lived since 1860 on 80 acres of J of millionaires on defense funds. Olson Wendell L. Willkie,
Republican County land halfway between i 3 “11 Trafalgar and Morgantown. The nas ayy houses of all four generations are Si ; St “| still standing, althoug s dustry would “Sovietize” the United | Sen 5, 2h he ni States, and demanded that Presi- |
of the log cabins is now a ‘“‘sugar- : house” and the second i y= dent Roosevelt state his stand on| pain 9 ds Ran the proposal. ™ ati : 8 . | Three generations of the KenMr. Wallace, the Democratici neqys were schoolteachers, for Party candidate for Vice President, o brought a crowd ef 3000 to their
nearly a century—from 1820 to feet cheering in the Galesburg, Ill. 1919, M. F. Kennedy tells the armory last night with the demand | S'O'Y Of these three generations for conscription of industry. He | In his book, “Schoolmaster of will travel to Jacksonville, Ill, for| Yesterday,” on sale today in Inspeech this afternoon and to| 41ana and to be offered to the Il1., tonight on a “scout-
| rest of the nation beginning next of the Middle West be- |
By JOHN THOMPSON Times Special Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5--Jap-anese plans for formation of an allJapanese Christian Church now are being modified with a proposal to create, at first, only a unified Protestant Japanese Church, to replace American and European missionaries with Japanese and to re{issue the Bible with Japanese in- | terpretations. The idea of Catholic Church has been given up for the time peing. Nothing further is being [said about Catholicism, but insiders
sald
the setup
including in the new
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Getting
Belleville. week, fore he goes to Washington to con-| “ nn with President Roosevelt on HOMAS Kennedy started for the major campaign | teaching school in Kentucky, without ever having been to colcent Ol the manufacturers are! Wry Sg i a a operating whole heartedly in the | Si
: , itv ‘ defense program,” Mr. Wallace said | a Sg oe n Fede al was offered his first log
Government should | the right to force the other | School ay the age of 20, Wectuse 0 per cent to take a reasonable he had learned to cipher up to , the rule-of-three and ‘spoke what the neighbors considered real
ne tour . . » sd: . : ’ Miliard Fillmore Kennedy . . . writing his neat “schoolmaster script.” IOLA, Kas. Sept. 5 (U. Gene Langdon, 22, creamery ployee here, almost froze to on one of the warmest nights the recent heat wave
While placing meats in a large
ley and Union Townships—for the — first 10 years of his teaching career, he never taught the same school two successive terms, He began teaching after two months in Franklin College aad retired in 1919 when he was principal of Trafalgar High School. He turned down the Illinois job that year, His book was written in collaboration with Alvin F. Harlow of New York and is
strength to whip a big boy against his wiii.” Nevertheless, QCaroline found schools to teach most vears, until like many another schoolma'am, she got married. : Her brother Ben had the most schooling of anyone in the family, two Vyears at Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw), He left Putnam County after a
temperature in the relrigeraton
plans rategy 10 degrees below zero I am to
glad say that 90 per | r
The dragged Langdon stiff and uncon-|from the shipment of 500000 Ieee have scious from the cold. | Enfields 1 profit
BOOK ANGERS ACTOR. |
SUES FOR 2 MILLION HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5 (U . : phi 000 York
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damages from two New publishing firms for a book he charged made light of his Spanish Civil War activities. ° - Flynn filed suit in Federal Court re against Harcourt, Brace & Co., Quinn and Baden, Inc, of “In Place of Splendor,”
ana
lishers
the autobiography of Constancia de | la Mora, prominent woman Loyalist
leader Attorneys for the actor charged author depicted Flynn as
that the
> Lo Spain during the revolt for | thus cast- |
ity purposes only, him in a ‘wickedly licious light.
wrongfully
ARKANSAS RIVER RAGES TULSA, Okla, Sept. 5 (U. P). I'he Arkansas River was ahove flood on a 100-mile stretch in eastern Oklahoma today, but engineers a serious mundation would be rted unless there is another
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star Errol Flynn today sought |
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book English.” In 1836. he moved to Bainbridge, Ind., and he taught near there the rest of his career. He was the first teacher in the high school there and for manv vears was the whole high school faculty. When he retired in 1860. he and his son bought the farm on which the family still lives Two of his children taught school The daughter, Caroline, had a little difficulty getting jobs The State Superintendent of Pubiic Instruction said in 1852: “Females are not only apt to learn, but they are particularly apt to teach. Tt is natural for them. their instinctive propensity to love, cherish, caress. amuse and instruct the voung. It is equally natural for children to love females, te vield to their influence and he persuaded by them to
obedience.”
Caroline had a job because agreed with tendent and nor Noble “the prime teaching-
difficulties getting many people disthe State Superinagreed with Goverthat women lacked requisite for schoolnamely the muscular
few vears because too many Kennedys were “cluttering up the county school rooms.” So in 1856 he went down to Johnson County to get a job in the Doty School in Union Township. He was only
| 24 then, although he had taught
seven terms of school. on ” on FOary vee vears later, he taught his last term, again at the Doty School; in the meantime he had started the high schoois at Morgantown and Trafalgar and had been Johnson County's first school superintendent. He retired more than 40 years ago, but every October his pupils have all-day meetings at the Beech Grove Church in Hensley Township, like a group of McGufTeyites, The president of the Uncle Ben Kennedy Old School Reunion is now 80 vears old and the secretary is 82. Millard Fillmore Kennecy, Ben Kennedy's son, and now 77, taught for 18 years in the school that used to stand bv the Beech Grove Church. He also taught in a great many other schools in Hens=
published by Whittlesey House of McGrawHill Book Co., which has sold many a schoolbook to Indiana's rural schools. Mr. Harlow, wellknown author of several other biographies, attended high school at North Vernon, Ind. and is a Franklin College graduate. Autographing hooks yesterday in the bookstore at 1, S. Ayres & Co., Mr. Kennedy said that the Kennedys weren't like other schoolteachers Grandfather Tom Kennedy though he taught in the half of the 19th Century didn't believe in the axim of “No lickin’, no larnin’,” and never used the corporal punishment by which school order was Kepl for many vears later Father Ben Kennedy believed in judicious use of a rod, but he preferred one-room country schools to the high schools like Morgantown's “Arnold University.” M. F. Kennedy was unusual in that he wads chosen by the Trafalgar High School girls to be their baskethall coach He also coached bhovs basketbail, coaching the Trafalgar and Morgantown teams at
alfirst
the same time, " » » UT M. F. Kennedy savs there
; is one way in which the fi <choolteaching Kennedys were L ® S ” AY H E S & C 0 M PA K Y ETB) bie-they DeYved In Be I i finite worth of the pupils Mr,
Kennedy boasts that net one of his former pupils is now “on re= lief.” There seemed to he another way in which the Kennedys were alike As Mr. Xennedy autographed books vesterday, it was in the same neat ‘schoolmaster script” in which he wrote 270 pages of closely handwritten copy for Mr Harlow’s revision Tt. was neat handwriting that helped Ben Kennedy get his first Johnson County school teaching 10h. The sentence he was asked to write hy the county examiner was “The good alone are great.” “Very neat writing, plain, legible,” said the examiner. ‘'“You appea to be a competent instructor. 111 give vou a trial license.” A vear later, Ben Kennedy was examined for his permanent license bv Judge David Banta of Franklin, “Give following nouns,” “Boys.” “Masculine.” “Girls.” “Feminine.” “Children.” “Common,” “Books.” “Neuter.” “You'll do, Mr. have your permanent pe sued right away »
me the genders of the the judge asked.
Im is=
Kennedy. license
B CONGRESS 15 LIKELY | T0 QUIT THIS NONTR
H | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (U.P) — BE Increasing signs of a desire on the BE part of both Republicans and DemE ocrats to adjourn or recess Congress BE late this month were seen today EE After a White House conference yesterday, Senate Democratic Leadfer Alben W. Barkley said there was
no reason why Congress could not 'dispose of the remainder of the national defense legislation within | three weeks. : quickly by Acting Senate Republic-
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| FEAR EIGHT LOST AS ® LINER, BARGE COLLIDE
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