Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1940 — Page 8

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Clerks May Ask Re Ask Recoding of Election Rules; Auditors <. Rap Fund Interest.

="A definite legislative program began to take form today out of the welter of resolutions being discussed at’ the Indiana County and Town-

Ship Officers Association convention

8} the Claypool Hotel. «The Association, itself, adopts no

resolution, leaving this subject to!

the individual groups affiliated with it. But when they get down to acting on resolutions tomorrow, the “best bet” in each group appeared today to be the following: The County Clerks’ Association will urge odification of election laws and laws covering registration and central ballot counting. . The County Treasurers’ Associa-

. | tion will come out for & four-year

term for all county offices. Some are on a two-year basis now.

Auditors Seek Changes

The County Auditors will renew their fight for a change in laws covering their handling of the State School! Fund. The auditors now are required to pay 5 per cent, interest on all School Fund money allotted to them, regardless of whether the auditors ‘have been able to loan it.

They also are held responsible for|§

any losses throuzh bad loans. The Township Trustees will seek legislation . to, meet the problem raised ‘by demands of county welfara departments for additional aid to welfare. recipients when the townships have no money budgeted for such exigencies. The Trustees’ resolutions committee yesterday tentatively adopted another resolution assailing tax adjustment boards for seiting poor reHef budgets below needs and thus forcing the issuance of bonds to get the deficit."

- : Bus Drivers Want Fees Cut

= Zirhe School Bus Drivers tomorrow ask legislation reducing the east of their bus licenses on a pro fata basis for the time during the ar the busses are in service. They will ask that they be paid for fhe number of days contracted for during the year, regardless of . Whether the busses are used. that many days. bk * While the County Assessors are not in session, they have indicated Rey will ask the Legislature for a general reassessment of all property in the state on a uniform basis, vith the work being done by local (@.cials on a county-wide basis. The Trustees today heard a. discussion of the “legislators’ viewpoint” by Senators Claude B. McBride, Jecersonville, and - William E. Jenner, Shoals, and Reps. James M. Knapp, Hagerstown, and Robert H. Heller, Decatur.

Attack Bond Issues

“In its discussion of. inadequate relief budgets, the Trustees’ resolutiphs committee attacked the prac- - fie on the basis that’ the ensuing bond issues impose unnecessary ads ditional cost through heavy interest payments. If this resolution is adopted tomorrow by the Trustees, a bill will be drawn asking the Legislature to relieve the adjustment boards of their arbitrary powers. « “Trustees also are expected to go on record for revision of laws covering indigent migration so that indigents may not migrate to Indiana and put an unfair relief burden on the state.

SUSPECT JAILED IN

“FORTVILLE SHOOTING;

. A 33-year-old Fortville, Ind., man fvas held in the’ Hancock County Jail at Greenfield today on an open charge following a shooting early tbday in Fortvilla in which Damon Cook, 34, was struck in the side by 8 blast from a shotgun. . Mr. Cook is in a critical condition fn the Ft. Harrison Hospital. Mr. Cook was brought to the post hospital shortly after midnight by -a woman alleged to _have been with him when the shooting occurred, Don Stiver, superintendent of State Police said.

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Officials Draft Plans

‘Shall Do My Part to Build Defenses,” He Tells South Bend Club.

‘SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 5 (U. P.).—Senator-elect -Raymond E. Willis pledged himself to “aid in every way in keeping this. country

: out of war” in an address to the

Leaders of the two largest groups represented at the Indiana County and Township Officials’ Association convention met today to compare and co-ordinate plans for their organizations. They are (left) Dr. Odell Archer of Clinton, Township Trustees Association’ president,

and Kenton W. Russell of Grecnfield. County Clerks’ association

head.

The County Commissioners after voting yesterday to demand extension of the auto license plate deadline, called a recess to refreshen.

President is Ralph Biery (left) of

Lafayette, and secretary-treasurer

of the organization is William Brown of Marion County.

CLAIMS ‘POLITICAL RACKETEERING’ GONE

Indiana, unde the Republican program, will have a' government “free from the political racketeer,” declared State G. O. P. Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt before the Indianapolis Women’s _ Republican Club today. The chairman referred to recent resolutions in which Republican majority leaders in the Legislature said they will sponsor bills tb take State institutions and the liquor business out of politics. Mr. Bobbitt said the Republican program will bring the ‘government

closer to the people, taking it from the hands of the few who were centralizing power, a dangerous thing in these days of tendency toward dictatorship.” He reiterated party policies that new legislation will not interfere

‘| with the “normal functions of gov-

ernment.”

APPROVE SALE OF RICHMOND. UTILITY

The Public Service Commission today approved the sale of the property of the Indiana Gas Utilities Co.

at Richmond to the newly-formed Richmond Gas Corp. for $550,000. The Commission authorized the new company to issue $400,000 in first mortgage bonds, $50,000 in notes, $50,000 in preferred stock and $149,000 in common stock, to obtain funds for the purchase and pr gvide a working capital. ;

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Dix Hostesses?:

The Army has -selected three hostesses to make life homelike

for the soldiers at Ft. Dix, N. J,, but declined today to reveal the officer whe did the picking, lest the wrath of “hundreds” who applied but were not chosen, fall upon him. Miss Bonnie B. Hawthorne and Miss Ernestine E. Latimer, of New. York, both youngish:and attractive, were named junior hostesses, at annual salaries of $1620. Mrs. Ethel Keech Logan of Delanco, N. J., was appointed senior hostess, Under the Army’s policy of selecting a mature, prominent. woman living near the post for that position. She will receive hd a year.

CONSERVATION AID. "AT EXCHANGE CLUB

Henry W. Moesche Jr., field rep‘resentative of the State Conserva-

| tion Department, will address In-

dianapolis Exchange Club members at their weekly luncheon meeting tomorrow at the Severin Hotel. Slides will illustrate the {talk which will cover Conservation activities from forests to fish hatcheries.. The club will accept a new American flag, donated by Wallace L. Shilling.

TOWNSEND CLUB TO MEET Belmont Townsend Club No. 4 will meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the home of William Ash, 47 S. Holmes

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Rotary club here yesterday.. “I shall do what I can to help

bring an adequate national defense

and shall do my part to re-establish traditional American Philosophy ‘in |In our national affairs,” he said.

lature, “the outlook for better government is good,” he asserted. . During preliminary discussions on

members of the Assembly, “I observed . . .

ernment.”

economic burden which will by our people due to the

of defense. “I saw those men seek a sound method for administering relief and

service in’. conservation,

lent’ institutions in the state.” .

WILLIS PLEDGES | NO-WAR' STAND

-| .With Republicans: in. control ‘of both Houses of the Indiana Legis-

proposed legislation with Republican

a very serious determination to’ improve the people’s gov-

“I saw in their discussions demonstrations of the spirit of economy and ‘a sensitiveness to the serious faced

pt to put the nation in a a,

to bring about more efficient ‘highway construction, and the administration of penal, correctional and benevo-

At the State House--

State fo Build Long-Delayed

Memorial to

By EARL RICHERT One hundred and twenty-two ‘years after her death, Indiana is building a $100,000 memorial to a

Kentucky woman who lived in the State only about 24 months. That woman is Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of the 16th President. The memorial will be a low structure of Indiana limestone and Sf. Meinrad sandstone to be built onequarter of a mile south of Mrs. Lincoln’s grave in the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial at Lincoln City,

The memorial will be only a short distance from the cabin where Mrs. Lincoln taught her young son about the Bible by fire<light. Mrs. Lincoln died at the age of 35 oh Oct. 5, 1818, two years after the Lincoln family moved to In a, The Lincoln family lived in the State unjit 3520 when it moved west to Illino! The memorial will include two 7)|buildings, joined by a cloistered walk, One building will house the chapel and .the other a public lounge and rest rooms. Scenes from Lincoln’s life will be portrayed on the walls of the ‘walk connecting the building, S. ee tion of the memorial is to be. completed by Nov. 18, 1941. It is being financed jointly by the Indiana Lincoln Union and the State Conservation Department... The general construction and elec-|a tric ‘contract for the structure has been. awarded fo W. A Armstrong,

tors “to be adequately prepared for

Nancy Lincoln

Terre Haute, for $65,660; the plumb-

ing and heating contract to the Tri-|

State Plumbing & Heating Co, Evansville, for $11,848, and the stone contract to the Sare-Hoadley Stone Co., Bloomington, for $20,750. Construction of the memorial will complete | the development program of the Lincoln State Park and Naney Hanks Lincoln Memorial at Linco City, according to Virgil M. Simmons, -Conservation Department Commissioner. ’ #

Prisoner, 81 , Paroled

Berry Hudson, 81-year-old Daviess County man who was sentenced to life imprisonment in:1923 on a charge of first degree murder, was paroled yesterday by the State Clémency Commission. Hudson was sentenced in connection with’ the fatal shooting of William Gilley following’ an argument at a meeting of a miners’ uniofi® | ; | ”» » 8 School for Conciliators

Anxious that there shall be no lengthy tie-ups of defense industries in Indiana by labor difficulties, State officials are drafting a plan to traifi a: number of labor concilia-

any emergency.” The plan, while still very nebulous, calls for the: establishment. of

school at which a number of men,|-

| whitens and LV V2)

oli have knowledge of labor prob-

dems, will. be given intensive: train-

-|the men.

conciliators in labor disputes. ‘The school would be cond the State Labor ent and

ling fo prepare them to serve ‘as| men. training d by The State has only

Departm probably would ot be held for “ n long-|R. Hutson.

er than a month, Tr secretary to Governor ‘Townsend, said, He said no plans had formed as to how to select the men for fraining. The formation of such a school, of course, would depend upon “the Legislature. That body would | ve to provide the funds. for tr 2 Mr. Coffin said that. the

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