Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1940 — Page 15

MONDAY, SEPT. -23, 1940

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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* INDIANAPOL NOW - 20TH IN COUNIRY

City" s ‘Present ee Is Placed at 386,170, Increase 01 22,009 in Past 10 Years; Ft. Wayne Second in State; Evansville Under 100,000.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Indianapolis, with a 1940 _ population of 386,170, now is 20th in rank of U. S. cities, the Census Bureau reported today in giving the total population! ~ of the nation at 131,409,881. | In 1930, Indianapolis’ population was 364, 161 and it was 21st in rank. The decennial increase of 22,009 amounts to 6 per cent, as compared with 5.5 per cent for the state as a whole. The 1940 Indiana population fig-|T TITS ure is 3,416,152 as compared

with 3,238,503 in 1930 F D. R. BIVES OY In the decade 1920-30, however, COMMITTEE JOB

Pipe Squeak the Pig Disappears

Pipe Squeak, the pig, is gone—

pignapped and possibly the victim

of foul play. So reads a report at Police Headquarters furnished by H. W. Carter, 1551 Roosevelt Ave, Pipe . Squeak, guinéa-pig, belonged, he said, to his 10-year-old daughter Phyllis, who was very fond of her pet and kept it in a backyard pen.: Sometime Saturday Pipe Squeak disappeared, with- the connivance of persons unknown. The pig was named Pipe Squeak because it squeaked like Mr. Carter's - pipe when he smoked it.

$23, 000, 000 JOB GOSHEN, Ind., Sept. 23 (U, P.).—

| Walter Michels, 34-year-old hearWASHINGTON, Sept. 23. — Al- ling devices salesman of South Bend, ‘though construetion of the new Was being held in the Elkhart $25, 000,000 duPont powder plant at County jail here today after alleg- | Charleston, Ind. is just getting €dly confessing the Friday mid-day ‘under way, the War Department robbery of the Wakarusa Exchange

already has granted the works a State Bank. : i. $23,050,000 contract for smokeless| The confession came after Michels powder, it was announced today. es Joken iio | Sivedy, L Elkhar ounty reri alp ogan The item, listed for the Indiana |: Aided by two state police deOrdnance Works, Charleston, Was|iegives and an FBI-Man, the sheriff included in contracts amounting to captured him at his South Bend $386,279,499.91 which have heen |

office. cleared by the National Defense |

County and Federal authorities Advisory Commission and awarded ere scheduled to confer today to by the War Department.

decide whether prosecution would Twenty-four firms were repre- he in a state or Federal court.’ sented in the contracts made pub-| The lone masked bandit entered Ilic today. « the bank at Wakarusa, eight miles

STATE PLANT GETS

Salesman Held i in Wakarusa Bank Robbery

| | southwest ot Goshen, and forced, at his office. When captured, he | R. O. Bechtel, assistant cashier, and {had $292 on his person. Paul Weaver, a customer, to lie on| Police said that the remainder of the floor while he went through the the loot had been mailed to a city tills and scooped up $2550. in Illinois where Michels planned

. As he departed, .he hit Bechtel to pick it up. and Weaver on the head | with the butt of his blue-steel revolver, leaving them unconscious, while he made his escape,

LEMONS IN OKLAHOMA

OKEMAH, Okla., Sept. 23 (U. P.).| Bechtel told police that he _The tender care of G. W. Whitthought the unusual eyes that go1q for his lemon tree has porne peered at him over the mask seemed | f ; familiar. He later identified them fruit as large as oranges. Whitfield as belonging to Michel, who had inserted the halfibarrel in which been in the bank a few days prior [the tree was growing in a box to the holdup in an unsuccessful | equipped: with: wheels, and attempt to cash a check. every cold night last winter he| Acting on this information, the rolled it into the wash house. The police officials set a trap for Michels | result was about 100 lemons.

land guidance, and Dr.

3 NYA AIDS NAMED ON STATE PROJECTS

Joseph Moles, former director of the in-service training program of the WPA recreation division, has

been appointed superintendent of the newly opened National Youth Administration work experience project at’ Greenwood Lake, near Burns City. \ Other appointments inclde Paul Ritterskamp, Knox County NYA supervisor, director of personnel Carl Helm, of Shoals, camp physician. Approximately 150 boys from all over the State have enrolled in the camp and now are rehabilitating the property and installing equip-

| ment.

the Indianapolis increase was 15.9 Chief Executive Favorably

per cent and the state's 10.5. Cities exceeding: Indianapolis, acReceives Hoosier’s Draft Viewpoints.

cording to size, are New York, Chi- | Times Special

cago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Baltimore, St. Louis, Boston, Pittsburgh, Washington, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Buffalo, New Orleans, Minneapolis. Cincinnati, Newark and Kansas City. . : i WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Wayne Houston, with a popuistion Coy’ s appointment’ to the six-mem-$o6.150, Now occupies Zist Diser : [bet national advisory committee to The Marion County population is |co-ordinate conscription plans was 456,663, an increase of 34,003 or 8| <3 | 2 |a personal selection. by President per cent from 1930 to 1940. The z ; : Roosevelt, it was learned today. 1920-30 increase was 21.4 per cent. TI : i [Other Indiana cities on the st The 36-ycar-old aid to Federal Security Administrator Paul V, Mc-

f those with 100,000 or over and o e ‘Nutt has been sitting in at White their rank are: |

Ft. Wayne, 70th, 118,193, a 2.8 per | 77 haus & bibters "cent increase; Gary, 78th, 110,863, fense plans and up 10.4 per cent, and South Bend, his | contribu88th; 101,410. a 2.7 per cent de- tions have been crease. | favorably ‘reWhile the population figure for ceived by the Evansville was previously given as Chief Executive. 111,034, failure to annex certain | Of all persons areas contained in that figure have! connected with put the total: below 100,000, the the postponed Bureau reported. McNutt-for-Gary was one of 17 cities in the President boom U! S. to have a population increase Mr. Coy long of 10 per cent or over. The 1930-40 has been the faincrease at Gary was 10.437. | vorite with the Other cities in the Indiana line- ‘New Deal high command up are:

Anderson, 41,450. up 4.1 per cent; | Native of Delphi

East Chicago, 53.379, down 2.6 per| iv i . 2 cent, and Michigan City, 25995, 2 native of Delphi, Ind, Mr. Coy : first came into prominence in In-

down 2.8 per cent.

Houston Now Is 21st of i

Mr. Coy .

California Gains stad : |was appointed secretary to GoverThe 1940 figure of 131,409,881 for! ‘> SPIO HCG FEcte Ay 6, Covel the nation as a whole. represented utt. He promptly took charge, of most of the social wel-

an increase of 8.634835 over the 1930 population of “122.775.046, or 7 fare programs of the McNutt administration and was a regional di-

per cent. The rate of increase in the 1930-40 decade was less than rector of the Works Progress Ad-one-half that shown in any pre- ministration when Mr. McNutt revious decade since the first census tired from the Governorship in 1936. in 1790. Under his direction ‘were such The District of Columbia, with ani,qn, 16,5 states as Illinois, Indiana. increase of 36.2 per cent, grew faster | Pennsylvania and West Virginia. between 1930 and 1940 than any of | Because of the efficient manner in ow i I Tita Towing which he weathered the difficulties lin various places, Mr. Coy became of 273 per cent, Ioliowed by New la great per Cy friend of Hore L. Mexico, with 24.9 per cent, and California, with 21.1 per cent. Hopkins. then WPA head. Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota,|, But he Yeyished his post and Oklzhoma, South Dakota and Ver- | turned down another hig Federal mont lost population between 1930 iob to go to the Philippines when and 1940. The first of these states Mr. McNutt was appointed High are located in the Great Plains Commissioner, ] and constitute a tier of states in| When the latter resigned that the Dust Bowl extending from Can- | Post to become Federal Security ada to Texas. In no previous ‘decade | Administrator, Mr. Coy, who came ‘have more than three states lost| 'to Washington in advance of Mr. population. po took the position of AdDelaware, the District of ‘Colum- ministrative Assistant. This was bia, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, la $9000 Federal Security Agency Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New | position which was especially creHampshire, New Mexico, South|ated for him. He will rontinue to Carolina and Virginia have grown! hold it while acting on the advisory more rapidly in the past decade committee, he said. than in the. preceding one,

U. S. Figures Rise

Lives in Suburb

2 “My contribution will be to try In absolute amount. the increase to make all agencies of the FSA of population in California was con- contribute to the conscription. prosiderably greater than in any other qram.” Mr. Cuv explained today. state, being 1196437 as compared; “The Social Security Board. Emwith 791556 in New York, the next! njoyment Service, NYA. CCC and state in this respect. ‘| Public Health all have very definite All of the 1940 figures presented contributions to make and all are are based on counts made in the|,eady and anxious to do 50.” field by the local superyisors and Confined to the Marine Hospital are subject lo revision when the|.i pajtimore dwing the greater final. count of the census returns. nayt of last year. Mr: Coy has reDo one mise ln» covered so that he feels fully able hi * i wr acei of 131409881 for the United States| '®pandie this new assihmers includes not only the sum of the Mr. Coy lives in a quiet suburban preliminary figures annouhced state section in the nearby Virginia hills. by state for the 48 states and the gp. 7, District of Columbia, but also an Al allowance of 125.000 for supplemen- | tary returns not yet allocated by | states.

PLAN MILLION-BUNK AIR RAID SHELTERS

CARDENAS IS ARBITER LONDON. Sept. 23 (U.P) .— MEXICO CITY, Sept. 23 (U. P.).— Plans to put 1,000,000 bunks in President Lazaro Cardenas was in “dormitory air raid shelters” for Tampico today, attempting to settle homeless persons and others were a disagreement between oil workers | | disclosed today by William Mabani, and the Mexican Government. He Parliamentary Secretary of the wished to iron out the. details before | Ministry of Home Security, as an turning over the Presidential office important phase of © the battle to "his successor, Manuel Avila against German aerial bombardCamacho. ment.

Time Capsule Sectod Today:

Who Will Dig It Up in 69407?)

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—] Electroplast, 23.500 pounds of The Time Capsule at the World's which) was © poured around the Fair packed with data for the edi- | Time Capsule at high noon, is a fication of scientists of the un- special compound of pitch. chloriimaginable future, was put to bed nated diphenyl and mineral oil. It today for 5000 years. {will protect the capsule for hunThe capsule, containing. every- dreds ‘of years from the -assaults of thing Its designers could think of nature, according to scientists. that ‘might throw light on this, The Time Capsule itself is made civilization to archaeologists in the Of 99.4 per cent copper, .5 per cent year 6940 A. D., was lowered into, chromium and .1 per cent silver, a a well outside the Westinghouse | mixture- as resistant to corrosion as exhibit at the fair two years ago! pure copper while being as tough but the well was left open until as mild steel. today. Archeologists of 6940 A. D. will Sinee that time nearly 4.000.000 find the capsule—assuming they persons have squinted into the come across it in their excavations open hole and wondered what | —such things as fountain pens, cigmanner of men may one day find |arets, cosmetics, razors, a woman's the capsule. | hat, specimens of money, a zippered will they be vastly more intel-| | tobacco ‘pouch and the like. ligent| beings than now inhabit | * Perhaps the most exciting thing the earth, creatures living co-op- ito the men of the future will. be a eratively in peace with each other hump of coal: By 6940 coal may be and working together Io harness 1.arer than that other form of carnature to man’s needs? Or will; | bon—diamonds—is Now.

humanity - by that time have re-| “The Time Ca i psule also contains verted to the beast-like qualities: essays in microfilm, specially pre-

of man’s forebears? 2 ny event, the Time Ca sule ‘pared for permanence, on our life In any bt They represent more

will be there for the “futurians’ and times. whether they have or haven't the; than 23,000 ordinary book pages and wit to read the meaning of its con- more than 10,000,000 words, and intents. 1t is made of a material; \clude hundreds of pictures. A called | “electroplast,” resistant to | microsccpe was inclosed to enable electrolysis and impervious to|finders to read the film.

. . tyr s |aiana Democratic politics ‘when he

moisture, with which to seal it in.| That's all until 6940.

What's

Have you taken a swing around

the city lately, Miss Indiana?

A

“Home buildin’ "’

. . » that's what's'going on here! North, south,

east and west . . . a single home here, three or four there and over

here twenty or thirty in a block, fresh, clean, new, resplendent in

still wet paint; some sturdy red brick, some soft gray stone still un

scathed by winter.

We're told that since Januray 1, 1940 seven hundred and eight-

een new homes

having a value of $4,805,000 have been built

in and around Indianapolis. :-

It's a good sign, isn't it? Not the statistics, but the fact that in a

topsy-turvy world your neighbors and ours are looking ahead to

good living . . . planning up to the American standard.

But it's typical of us Midwesterners. We've grown, we're grows

ing; we'll plan, we'll build for the future because, come what may,

we Hoosiers believe in America, in Indiana and in Indianapolis.

‘What's going

"HNere?

We at Ayres’ are doing a bit of "buildin’,” too! Have you seen our four new elevators i..and more like them to come. They're fast, they're efficient and they're glass fronted so you can see the things you came in to see. They are a symbol, too, of our belief in keeping pace with a state and a

city that's growing.

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