Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1940 — Page 6

1 S, NAY LINK STATE STONETO ARMS PROGRAM

5 ! Sis: Survey of Men “And Machinery in Bedford, - Bloomington Areas.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U. P.). =—Defense Commission officials said today they were making every effort to adapt the machine facilities of the Indiana limestone belt to the rearmament program. A preliminary survey of the entire area around the limestone producing centers of Bedford and Bloomington has been completed -and the facts forwarded to 500 holders of Army and Navy contracts for “farming out sub-orders.” Defense officials also have been advised that two industry committees, one at Bloomington and one at Bedford, are ready to pool their resources to handle defense orders.

‘Machinery Needed

The Defense Commission hopes that in the near future the facilities of the area, backed by a reservoir of 8000 workers with a skilled background, can be converted info the production of tank assemblies, gun barrels and other defense materials for which machinery is bad1y needed. Recently the Commission advised direct defense contractors that about half of the capacity of the W. F. Myers Co. Bedford. were available for sub orders on diamond saws, special tools and small machine parts. Facilities of the Showers Brothers Furniture Co. Bloomington, were also suggested as a source of ammunition boxes and wood fabrications /used by the Navy in ship

't yet cracked the nut how to \put the valuable facilities in Monroe and Lawrence Counties, Indiana, to full use,” a Defense Commission spokesman told the United Press.

37 Mills Available

“But we’re studying the’ situation carefully and we believe the answer will be found soon.” He said the survey showed that 25 companies operating 37 mills in the two counties have 1,271,000 square feet of floor space, much of which can be converted to defense work. Twenty-nine of the mills are operating at less than half capacity, the survey disclosed, and eight are idle.

H. A. CROSS HEADS MINING INSTITUTE

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Dec. 16 (U. P.)—H. A. Cross, superintendent of the Walter Bledsoe & Co. mine at Dresser, today headed the Indiana Coal Mining Institute, following his election as president to succeed R. A. Hamilton. . A. K. Hert, Terre Haute, was elected first vice president; F. M. Schull, Terre Haute, second vice president; David W. Jones, Princeton, third vice president, and Harvey Cartwright, secretary. Elected to the executive board were: H. M. Fergusen, Clinton; P. Conrad, Bicknell; Joseph Anstead, Sullivan; Crede Fitzpatrick, Birch Brooks and Fred Beeler, Terre Haute, and R. A. Templeton. The Clinton Coal Co. was awarded the John A. Templeton trophy for the year’s best safety record.

76 OF SECT FACE COURT JOLIET, Ill, Dec. 16 (U. P.)— Seventy-six members of a religious sect are to be arraigned today o charges of annoying citizens ov the week-end by distributing pamphlets, parading with placards and playing phonographs on front porches. A Lutheran minister complained the pamphlet crews had tied up traffic and delayed a Sunday evening church service.

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Gas and Cole Choris fo Sing For Rotary Club Tomorrow

Formed Seven Months Ago; First Appearance at Veterans’ Hospital.

Seven months ago the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility decided to ferm a male chorus from its rank and file employees. Farrell Scott, voice instructor at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, was engaged to audition those who wished to sing, and 27 tried out. Of them, 26 were chosen and they've been practicing diligenily once a week. The chorus will make its second public appearance tomorrow at the Claypool Hotel, -singing a Christmas program for the Rotary Club. Last year the club started a pra-

tice of devoting its last meeting of | °

the year to a Christmas program, at which a collection is taken to buy baskets for the needy. ’ The Gas and Coke utility chorus, made up of repairmen, an electrician, an assistant purchasing agent, etc., made its first public appearance last Wednesday at Veterans’ Hospital. Tollowing the Rotary Club appearance, the singers will entertain at their own company’s party for employees at the Indiana Ballroom tomorrow night and at another party for Negro employees Wednesday at Tomlinson Hall. Mr. Scott, the director, has been

Farrell Scott . 26 passed

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for 10 years a soloist in several Indianapolis churches and also has appeared with the Indianapelis Symphony and the Apollo Club and Symphony of New Castle, Ind. He is a radio artist, as well, and has given recitals throughout Indiana and in New York. He spent considerable time studying with Oscar Seagle in New York. Mrs. Dorothy Scott is accompanist for the chorus and Tinsel Miller of the company’s payroll department, is business manager.

BAPTIST CLERGY ASK OPTION LAW

Declare It Would End ‘Era of Lawlessness’ Due To Liquor. .

Baptist ministers of the Indianapolis area today added their appeal for a local option law inethe next Legislature. Meeting at the First Baptist Church, the Baptist Pastors’ Council of the Indianapolis Baptist Association charged there was a “growing protest against abuses in taverns and elsewhere.”

Indorse Campaign

The 16 ministers indorsed the campaign. of the dry forces to “secure passage in the State Legislature of a local option law giving citizens of township and counties the right to voice their protest at the ballot boxes.” . The resolution urged the law as a means to terminate an “era of lawlessness into which the liquor traffic has thrown us.” The Rev. William O. Breedlove of the Calvary Baptist Church moved that the resolution be adopted. The meeting was presided over by the Rev. Samuel W. Hartsock of the Tabernacle Baptist Church.

Before League Tonight

The Rev. Clive McGuire, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Baptist Association, said the same resolution would be presented before the Baptist Superintendents’ League tonight at a meeting in Baptist headquarters, 1729 N. Illinois St., and to the chairman of the committee on public morals at the next General Assembly.

BOY BURNED AT TABLE Three-year-old Perry King was about to have breakfast at his home, 441 Centennial Ave. yesterday. Instead, he pulled over a bowl of hot porridge on himself. Mrs. Joseph King, his mother, took him to St. Vincent’s Hospital where

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CORAL GABLES, Fla., Dec. 16. (U. P.).—Rested after spending a day in bed, the Duchess of Windsor was expected today to be able to make the overnight voyage, back to Nassau tomorrow. The Duke and Duchess planned to sail about 4 p. m. tomorrow aboard the yacht Southern Cross

despite the “slight complications” in the condition of her jawbone which developed late Saturday causing her dental surgeon, Dr. Horace L. Cartee, to order 24 hours of complete rest.

The complications were attributed to “activities attendant upon the move from St. Francis Hospital to the Miami Biltmore Hotel” Saturday, which included a brief Christmas shopping tour in Miami Beach.

SEEK SOLDIERS FIT FOR DECADE

Army Physicians Reject 30 Per Cent of Men Some Areas.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U. P.). Lieut. Col. Charles B. Spruit of the War Department’s general medical staff said ‘today that rigid physical standards are being required of trainees because the Army wants them to be fit for 10 years. Army physicians have been. re-

‘I jecting a high percentage of the se-

lective service volunteers on physical grounds, the figure running as high in some localities as 30 per cent, Col. Spruit explained that such standards would not be invoked if the Army merely wanted to use the man for one year. Under the program the trainees remain in the Reserve Corps for 10 years and the

Col. Spruit said that borderline psychiatric cases, involving men whose morale may break when removed from a civilian environment, are particularly troublesome in the service. “These cases are the biggest nuisances in the Army,” he said. “They disturb morale and discipline. They spend most of their time in hospital beds while in the Army and after they are out of the service. The Government has to take care of them and they cost the public huge sums of money.”

FRAUD PROSECUTOR WEDS

DES MOINES, Ia. Dec. 16 (U. P.).—Miss Wanda Johnston of Des Moines and O. John Rogge, Assistant U. S. Attorney General who prosecuted the Louisiana vote fraud and obtained indictments against high political figures in Michigan, were on a two-months’ honeymoon trip through the South today. They were married Sunday at the Central Presbyterian Church,

SLAYER GIVEN LIFE SOUTH BEND, Ind. Dec. 16 (U. P.).—Circuit Judge Dan Pyle today sentenced Nicholas J. Kowalski, 27, South Bend, to a life term in Michigan City state prison for the murder Feb. 24, 1940 of Joseph Desits, 30, South Bend. Kowalski pleaded guilty to second degree murder last week.

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[STATE SKS TH DEFENSE PLANT

Naval Ordnance Unit ‘Not One | Sought,’ Says Gov. Townsentl.

Governor Townsend said today that Indiana still was bidding for a big defense project. ‘Following his trip to Washington to see what was “in the cards” for the state in the national defense program, the Governor said Friday that Indiana was still in line for a “large” project. He declared to-

nance plant, which it was .announced Saturday will be built in Indianapolis, was not what he had in mind. There still are three or four plants which Washington hasn’t located yet, and it is one of these that Indiana is seeking, Governor Townsend said. He declined, however, to elaborate, explaining that to do so might stiffen the competition from other states. Defense Council Meets He was to.outline a detailed pro-

before a meeting of his emergency defense council this afternoon. The Governor was expected to discuss the legislation which will be placed before the coming General Assembly to set up a. state organization for co-operation with the Federal defense projects in Indiana. The Naval plant, which is to employ 2500 men in the manufacture of gun sight instruments, is the fifth major defense project in the state.

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Myron R. Green, industrial commissioner of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and the Governor both said that they had not been informed yet on the exact location | of the. plant here. Mr. Green said the plant would necessitate construction of a new building, that Indianapolis had no available building to house such an operation.

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