Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1940 — Page 13

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PLY OF FREE | ~ ARMS FOR HOME GUARDS LIMITED

U. S. to Make Equipment “Available for’ Only - Handling Charges.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U. PJ). —The War Department disclosed ~ today that only a limited amount of free arms will available for Home Guard pe in the

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various states to replace National Guardsmen called to active Federal service. In a letter to Army corps area commanders, the Department said it would allow each state 1917 Enfield 30-caliber rifles, 1907 gun slings, 1917" bayone and bayonet scabbards. These will be distributed at a rate of not more than 50 per cent of the enlisted strength of the state’s National Guard as of June. 30.

Pay Only Handling Charge

The guns and their accompanying equipment will be made available at no cost other {than handling charges, the Department said. General equipment which may be, bought by the sates at prevailing prices include . cartridge belts, canteens and covers, mess equipment, haversacks | land first-aid packets. Ball cartridges will be available up to 10 rounds a rifle. However, no uniter are available, “the Department said

Instruet te

The Department galled upon the corps area commanders to instruct the various governors as to the amount of equipment available and the procedure which should be followed in SrEsnichie the Home Guard units. The Department said that while the strength and Hin of the Homie Guard units are to be determined by the states, it recommends that the crganiations consist of infantry or| ilitary policy except in states which may have laws requiring other |types of units such as cavalry. “World War experience indicates that state requirements will be best served by battalions) p [tne statement

said. coLD HALTS BATTLE

TO SUPPRESS BEETLE

Continued cold weather and frozen ground has forced suspension of Japanese beetle control treatment Virgil |M. Simmons, conservation commissioner, reported today. About 65 acres remain to be treated in Indianapolis, Richmond ‘and. New Castle in areas where

It From Their Own, Fireside.

By JOE COLLIER A few years ago there was an abanddned, and considerably ramshackle carpenter shop-barn at 5228

Winthrop Ave. It was so ramshackle it was little more than a sieve for the winds and rains, but it was pretty big. Today that carpenter shop is a combination home and manufacturing ‘kitchen for the Herman 'W. Kapherr family, and it is snug and tight against the winds, and clean and thoroughly comfortable. The living room is long and the ceiling is high. There is a {fireplace at.the side and in front of the fireplace, like as not, will be the family’s * beautiful black cat. In front of the fireplace yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. Kapherr and daughter, Jacqueline, and this is the story they told.

Misfortune Frowns

Mr. Kapherr is an artist and in 1929 he came to Indianapolis, his family to take a well-payifig’ jo as a specialist in insurance advertising. In the minds of all members of the Kapherr family—including that of Mildred, another daughter, who is a student at Butler University— the stock market crash of 1929, although first, played & weak and scratchy second fiddle to the Kapherr crash. Only a few months after they moved. to this, a strange city, the family had no income whatever. Their savings and life insurance soon went for living expenses. And they were broke. Mr. Kapherr was trying to sell an insurance sales service to general agents over the state, but it was strictly ‘a commission ' proposition and too often it. was strictly a nosale, no-commission arrangement, with the traveling expenses and the home living expenses. doing grotesque things to the budget.

Then Came a Suggestion

Clearly something had to be done but there was nothing at all clear about what could be done until a bridge game one Saturday night. One of the players mentioned that Mrs. Kapherr made such delicious French dressing from an old family recipe. The monologue went something like this: : “I should think, my dear, that you coud sell it—I'll double that no-trump bid—that is, of course, if you could make it in quantities— well, it’s up to your partner... .” The idea stunned Mrs. Kapherr. She tought about it and Monday she borrowed $1 from Mildred’s penny bank, bought the ingredi= ents, and ‘began a business which very comfortably supports the Kap-

But the o Kaphatre Still ore

Mr. and Mrs. Kapherr and daughter, Jacqueline , , they stifle at the record of the first nine desperate sales. -

eral states, and is growing at the rate of about 35 per cent a year.

The Sale Starts

The first day she sold nine bottles to people in the -apartment house where they had taken a one bedroom, kitchenette apartment for economy. Not long after: that, Mr. Kapherr found ' his commission ' pay-as-you-travel business. was, apparently, absolutely no go. . A family conference “was held “and: it was decided to try the salad. dressing. as the chief bread winner. A strict ‘budget was made out. Mr. Kapherr was ‘to make the dressing and deliver it. Mrs. Kapherr was to sell it by phone directly to housewives, selecting’ exchanges Which her husband could reach by 00 It was hard going. Mr. Kapherr actually delivered by foot only six weeks, but Jacqueline was genuinely astonished yesterday when she heard ‘her father make that statement. \. “It seems like years,” she said. "Ny Sain by Phone Their.. customers repeated their orders. Mrs. Kapherr who took her meals at the telephone table, grew expert in her sales talk and one day sold 79 housewives who never had heard of the dressing before. The business soon was too big for pedestrian delivery and high school and college boys with cars

were hired to make the deliveries. They had about 5000 customers.

from the kitchenette and they found and contracted for the : carpenter shop. Mr. Kapherr used his spare time weather-proofing it and making it both workable and liveable. For a man who always had had a janitor put up a shelf before, hh developed a ‘surprising ability with

the hammer and saw."

The business now is done mostly by direct mail, although there ‘are some ‘agents here’ and there. Stores in more than 50 -cities ‘and towns in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan and New. York handle the

product now.Sold in 50: Stores

No outside: capital is - involved: Mr. and Mrs. Kapherr have kept scrupulous. books on: all - transactions, including the first nine sales that Monday. The business is set up, they say; so that even if sales should fall off instead of gain, the family still will have an income. Mr. and Mrs.

personally. No ‘one outside the family is employed, ° except the agents. And the books show that the only loss is 25 cents. That was for a bottle. delivered in the early pedestrian days, to a North Side home. The lady of the house was out. Only Unpaid Bill

because he needed it, and because

it became a matter of stubborn principle. But the lady of the house

was always out.

Kapherr still maKe the product

state "House—

esi6: 0. P. CHIEFS «WILL INSPECT ‘CHARLESTOWN

\Schricker to Accompany

Party Dec. 18; Coffin’ . Outlines Program.

- By EARL RICHERT

Republican legislative leaders, who after the first of the year will as-

|sume control ors the state’s: defense

| plans through the party’s control of the legislature, will be given a. firsthand view of the Charlestown situation Dec. 18.

‘A party composed of Governor-

Frank T. Millis, House floor leader,

land Tristram Coffin, secretary to '|c@vérnor Townsend, will visit the

Southern Indiana “poom town.”

‘The Republican leaders, with the

{exception of Mr. Knapp who ‘was lout. of town, were given a general d [outline of the plans for state cooperation with the national defense

program yesterday by Mr. Coffin. Urges Naming Committee

tive leaders that.the National Defense Council had suggested. that all defense bills be handled through the Committees on Inter-state Co-Op-eration in each house and that the appointment of the committees as soon as possible was advisable, The state’s part in the defense program, as seen by the Democratic

burdens of the defense “boom towns” which have no funds to build sewer

of their increased populations. Attorney General Samuel D. Jack-

" {son ruled Saturday in an informal

opinion- that no state funds can be allocated to a specific municipal corporation unless a law is passed providing for some state-wide system of allocation to needy towns. ‘Defense Fund Hinted Other Democratic officials at the State. House, however, expressed the opinion that the state could spend funds wherever needed “in the interests of defense.” On plan now being given some consideration would be to have the legislature set up a defense fund of $500,000. Then a state department such as the Health Board could certify to a State Administrative Coun-

.|cil that a sewer system was needed ‘ |in one of the “boom” towns. Mr. Kapherr returned again and again to collect the quarter, both

After . that, the Administrative Council would determine whether

Mr. Coffin informed the legisla- |:

systems and schools or to buy fire | | engines necessary for the protection | ;

- SOUTH BEND, ‘Ind. Dec. 10 (U. P.) —St. Joseph Circuit Judge Dan Pyle said today that sentence would be passed Monday on Nicholas J. Kowalski, 28, who pleaded. guilty yesterday toa charge of ‘second de-| gree murder. ' Kowalski had been on trial since last Thursday on a charge of frst degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting Feb. 14 of Joseph

"SOUTH BEND. KILLING|2=,

| plead guilty. to ‘the gio Desits by mistake when. he took

him for a man who had beaten him; in a fist fight. :

CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 10 (U. P.).~Willlam E. Chappelle, 94, one of Vigo County's four surviving Civil War veterans, died yesterday |g after a week’s illness.

IN THEFT OF AUTOS

charge. It was alleged that Kowalski shot |

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 10+ (U. P.).—Police today held three ‘Elwood youths whom they said con= fessed the theft of three automoe biles during the past week. ' Police arrested them following a wild chase through city streets which: ended when their car went out ‘of control and crashed into a tree. The car had been stolen from ‘local filling station owner, police said.

leaders, will be to help share the:

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the expenditure was in the interests of defense, and if it found it to be so, could recommend the allocation to the State Budget Committee and

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beetles were trapped during the summer. ~ One day the maid, regretfully informing him again that the lady

of the house had just left for down-

the Governor which would make the actual allocation. Mr. Coffin said that the Federal

herr family today, extends over sev

Then it was necessary to move with leather uppers. Brown, wine or Blue.

Doll Hi Chair — Stands _ 28” tall. In maple finish, 1.00. I :

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..Bfoom, mop, dust . pan, carpet sweeper, Brillo and Bon Ami — even an apron! 1.00, 3

4-Room’ Srhin Cotage.” Doll house with 4 empty rooms that they can furnish. ed =

Doll Furniture—For 4 rooms—bathroom,living room, kitchen and om. 2.00,

Baby Doll oft little ‘coat and

LITTLE MOTHER

Teach Her to Keep Her Little House in Order

1. Table and Chair Set. — Maple "finish, antique edges. Two matching tub-back chairs. Table is 24x 18. 5.00. 23-pc. Tea Set—1.19,

2. Doll Stove — 4 burners, oven that opens, shelf for cooking necessities. 2.00. .

3. Doll Bed —Crib type, with _rockers. 1.00. Mattress for bed 50c.

Canvas Doll Carriage: —Sturdily built, nice size | carriage. .2.00,

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“If I.had a qaurter, I'd pay that | bill myself,” Incidentally, the Kapherr family seems now tobe just as cheerful as the fireplace fire, and just as contented as the beautiful big biatk

Government already has spent $164,000,000 sin the state on- its defense progrim and that the Selec-

month. He pointed out that with this income it would only be fair for the state to spend some money to help the small “boom” towns.

tive Service payroll alone is $39,000 a

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GIFTS

SMALL RUGS

Snowy White Mohair Fur Rug — The sturdy lining makes it extra strong and longer wearing. 155.

American Regency

Rug—Washable string rugs.

Jackson, yellow green, Franklin

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Bathroom Rug Set—Pas-

blue,

rose,

hill Bali So-Ry and seat covers. In 6 colors. 330. _ California Hand-Made Bedroom Rug— Soft ‘bedroom pastel ; ‘shines, 216, 495; 2x42, a; 20x45, 95.

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