Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1940 — Page 5

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 25, 1940

~ WILLIS CHECK BUT ~~ PART OF SALARY

In Addition to $10,000 Cash, He’s Allowed $15,000 for Office Help, $125 a Session for Stationery, Free Office, Haircuts and Parking Space..

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WASHINGTON, Dec. -25.—When Raymond E. Willis]

officially becomes the junior U. S. Senator from Indiana, he

will become heir to a long list

of conveniences and assistants

. that are the right of a member of Congress. Senator Willis will be ensconced at once in a spacious, three-room suite of offices, air-conditioned against the heat of the sweltering Washington summers. His suite assignment has not been made yet, but he may be given the office

of retiring Senator Sherman Minton, his defeated Democratic opponent. Newcomers, however, have little choice in the matter, since the selection of office suites also is governed by seniority as is all else on Capitol Hill. So Senator Willis may land in the basement instead.

$15,000 for Help

The $10,000 annual salary which Uncle Sam pays his lawmakers is just a fraction of the legislative upkeep. Senator Willis will have an annual appropriation of $15,100 to spend for office help. Under the law, this sum must be divided as follows: : Secretary $3900; one assistant secretary at $2400 and another at $2200; two stenographers at $1800 each, and. two clerks at $1500. For travel to and from Angola each session, Senator Willis will receive the customary 20 cents per mile. He will be given $125 each session for stationery and the franking privilege which permits him to use the mails free for all official business.

- Free Shaves, Too

Free .shaves and haircuts also come with the Senatorship and the Hoosier’s name will .he. recorded in gold-leaf on his own special mug in the Senate barber shop: - Nor will he be-required: to drink tap each day he will get furnished several bottles of mineral water, either bubbly or still, gs. he desires. .

Should Senator Willis decide that

he doesn’t wish to use the private

diinng room reserved for Senators:

in the Capitol, he can get the legis-

_ lative equivalent of room service

and have his luncheons: delivered to his private office.

He also will find that he has privileges not accorded other Federal servants in the Capitol. Three rings of an elevator bell will get transportation for the Senator regardless of whether other previous passengers .are going up or down.

Free Parking Service

Another bell provides express service on the miniature ‘underground trolley which .connects the _Senate office building with the Capitol. rere Bo aie Free parking service will be supplied the Senator in an underground garage, with attendants to get the car in and out.. . A corps of knic stockinged pagé boys will be at his call for errands. and special messenger service will bring him light or heavy reading from the Congressional Library. Should he choose to. visit the latter, he will find he can do his reading’ in‘a beautiful room from which all persons of lesser rank are barred. Since Senator Willis is both a Republican and junior. Senator he will have no patronage to. distribute ‘and thus save himself many headaches. 15,000 Farm Bulletins

The Department of Agriculture will supply him with farm bulletins to distribute to his rural constituents at the rate of 15,000 a year. These leaflets, ranging in subject - matter from the building of hencoops to eradication of boll-weavils, are nrailed free to any address the Senator may supply. . He also will have 400 free copies of the Agriculture Yearbook, which retails at $1.50, to distribute to his farmer friends. He will be able to -zend out 80 free subscriptions to the Congressional Record. Senator Willis also will be permitted to nominate four candidates for each of the service academies, West Point and Annapolis, each year.

* DEFENSE TRAINING GETS JOBS FOR 115

The Public School Defense Training course which closed in Sep-

° tember aided 115 of a class of 379

in finding employment, H. L. Harshman, administrative research director for public schools, announced today. Of the class, 48 others are employed at the same jobs they held before the training, and 27 obtained different jobs after the instructipn, Mr. Harshman said. He reported only 99 were not employed. The remainder are em-

ployed by NYA or WPA.

The third group of Defense Training School courses at V/ashington, Tech, Manual -and Crispus Attucks

_ High Schools have just. closed, with

‘507 adults completing the training. A total of 1420 men have been trained in the program, which started last June. Mr. Harshman said the fourth g2-week instruction period will open about Jan. 6 when 500 are expected to enroll for defense training.

SCHOOLS’ BONDED. INDEBTEDNESS CUT

The bonded indebtedness of the Indianapolis public schools was reduced from $9,114,000 to $7,941,000 Good, business director, reported today. A total of $2,173,000 in bonds were refunded or retired during the year, Mr. Good said. He said the reduction saved the School City $160,000 in debt service costs during the year.

—————————— + ¥,M. C. A. OPEN HOUSE The Central Y. M. C. A. is arrang-

ing a six-hour program for its an-

nual open house Jan. 1. A special tnvitation has been issued to the public by Fermor S, Cannon, ¥ pres-

TAX DIVERSION, SAFETY LINKED

Stoops Says Motorists Willing to Pay Special Levies for Roads.

Todd Stoops, secretary-manager of the Hoosier Motor Club, today accused the diversion of motor vehicle taxes of being partly responsible for the bad safety record in the state. “Hoosier motorists,” he said, “are willing to pay special taxes to finance safe roads, and bridges, but they are averse to any diversion of these funds for the benefit of all tax payers in general.

‘May Be $2,000,000 A Year’

“It is impossible to figure how much of the motorists’ money has been diverted since real estate and general levies paid for all the roads, but is safe to say it will run into millions, “Even at present it is impossible to say how much is diverted but it is probable it will run as high as two million: dollars a year. “If all the special tax money paid by motorists were used to widen and protect our streets, highways and ‘bridges, ‘it still would take a long time to get around to the unfinished business.” What They Favor Mr. Stoops said ballots voted by Hoosier ' motorists - show ' that they favor: So : Farts 1. Return of the $2,000,000 taken from the highway fund in 1932 and legalized by the General Assembly in 1933. 2. The use of all motor car taxation and license fees by the State Highway Commission for road building and maintenance. 3. Repeal of the present statute calling for the diversion of $1,250,000 of auto fees and taxation a year to the general fund. ; 4. Amendment of the law providing for the return of a certain amount of the gas tax to counties and municipalities as will prevent such diversion.

U. S. ISSUES CALL FOR METALURGISTS

: _ By SCIENCE SERVICE * ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—If you know a metallurgist or metallurgical engineer, tell him that the United States Government wants his services to help in defense work. “Difficulty is being encountered in filling positions in the Bureau of Mines in connection with the National Defense Program .for the development of strategic metals,” says an announcement issued here by the U. S. Civil Service Commission. “An insufficient number. of eligibles for filling these positions resulted from the examination which closed in September, 1940.” As a result, applications for such positions, with salaries from $3200 to $5600 per year, will be accepted through 1941. Applicants must be under 60 years of age, and have had a four-year college course with major study in chemistry, geology, mining, physics, engineering or metallurgy, as well as professional experience or post-graduate study. No examination will be given, but applicants will be rated on their records. Further Information regarding the examination and the proper application forms may be obtained from the Secretary of the Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners at any first or second-class poste office, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. : Ca

LEGION CHIEF’S SON SEEKS ‘AIR TRAINING Times Special : > TOLEDO, O. Dec. 25.—Milo J. Warner Jr. of Toledo, O., the son of the national commander of the American Legion, has applied at Fifth Corps Area headquarters for training as a flying cadet in the U..S. Army Air Corps. Upon applying, young Warner said: “I wanted to enlist because I realize the Army needs ablebodied young men—and especially because I want to learn to fly.”

300 TO ATTEND LOCAL SESSION

90 Chapters of Alpha Phi Omega to Have Delegates At Meeting.

Nearly 300 delegates from 90 chapters of Alpha Phi Omega, national service organization, are expected to attend the eighth biannual national convention this week-end at the Hotel Antlers.

. Jack .Evard, president of the Butler University chapter, will be host to the convention, which will open at 9 a. m. Saturday. Wallace O. Lee, local scout executive and advisor for the Butler chapter, will deliver the opening address. Hoosier Units Help Co-operating in arrangements for the session which will use the theme “Prepare the Way For Greater Service,” will be chapters from Indiana, DePauw and Purdue Universities, and Evansville and Indiana State Teachers’ College. Governor M. Clifford Townsend and ~Governor-elect Henry PF. Schricker will address the banquet Saturday night. Marion R. Disborough chairman of the general convention committee and a former Butler student, will give the welcome for all host. chapters and H. Roe Bartle, national president of the fraternity, will preside.

Texan Gives Keynote

The keynote speech will be given by Dean Arno Nowotny of the University of Texas. He is a member of the fraternity’s executive committee. The luncheon meeting will pe addressed by Dr. Ray O. Wyland, director of education of the Boy Scouts of America.

REPORTS ARGENTINE “SALES TO GERMANY

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 25 (U. P.). |—The Standard, an English lang-

uage newspaper, reports that Argentine firms are shipping large quantities of wool, leather, and hides to Germany via Russia and Sweden. Thousands of bales of wool were shipped recently to Sweden at the prohibitive freight. charge of $500 per bale according to the Standard’s survey, Businessmen reported that Soviet buyers were active in the Argentine and Uruguayan markets, the newspaper said. : The Greek ship Corinthiakos and the Swedish ship Annie Johnson sailed recently for Vladivostok with cargoes of hides.

FIRMS HERE RECEIVE 2 ARMY CONTRACTS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.— Army contracts were annouriced for two Indianapolis concerns by the War Department today. C. B. Cones & Son Mfg. Co. received a $106,000 contract from the Quartermaster Corps for 120,000 denim working trousers. EH Lilly & Co. was awarded a $14,279.16 contract for capsules for the Army Medical Corps. : OtheY Indiana awards included a $43,780 contract to the Montpelier Glove Co., Montpelier, for 40,000 pairs of heavy leather gloves and $5664 for electric refrigerators to the McCray Refrigerator Co. Kendallville.

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.— Evidence that as late as the seventh century the birth of Christ was still celebrated on Jan. 6; instead of the

modern Christmas date of Dec. 25, has been dug-out of ancient chronicles at the Catholic University of America here, by Dr. Martin Higgins, a member of the University faculty. This celebration of the Feast of the Nativity on what is now known as Epiphany seems to have been the custom for sbme time in ancient Constantinople under the imperial successors of Constantine, The clue to the different date was found, ironically enough, in accounts of a riot. The disturbance was caused by shortage of bread, and the angry mob threw stones at their monarch while he walked, barefoot in a night procession commemorat-

Christ's Birth Celebrated on Jan. 6 Until Seventh Century

eon with the Christ-Chyd-whely he was brought to the ple in jthe arms of his mother, 40 days after his birth. : This riot - occurred: on Feb. 14, A. D, 602. Figuring backwards, this would throw the Feast of the Nativity on Jan. 6. ~~ The same feast that caused the poor Emperor all his trouble is now celebrated as the / Feast of the Purification, or ndlemas Day, on Feb. 2, when candles to be used in the church for the ensuing year are blessed. The distribution of candles in seventh - century Constantinople had a different and more direct significance, Dr. Higgins notes, since they were used immediately by the marchers in the .procession as. it moved through the dark. streets. An article on Dr. Higgins’ finding will be published in the 1941 Yearbook of Liturgical Science, which is issued in Muenst Be

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Need a Room? See Mr. Bobbitt

Times Special - WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.— Should some Hoosier Democrat want room reservations at the swank Mayflower Hotel here for inauguration Day he might confer with Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican state chairman,

It was learned today that Mr. Bobbitt, in a burst of pre-election optithism, made room reservations at the Mayflower so that he could attend what he believed would be the inauguration of Wendell L. Willkie as President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1941.

Since the reservation request was written on Indiana Republican State Co ittee stationery, the Mayflower management reportedly has written Mr. Bobbitt to inquire if he still wants the rooms—or should the reservation be canceled?

OMEN FELONS RARE IN STATE

Only 33 Listed Among the 1367 Committed During ’39 in Indiana.

Times Special : WASHINGTON, Dee. 25.—Out of 1367 prisoners in Indiana penal institutions received from courts in 1939, only 33 were women, a Census Bureau report disclosed today. There were 1332 male felony commitments, 81.1 per cent of which were native white persons. The largest numbers by age: groups were 255 young men between 21 and 24; 240 were from 18 to 20; 216 from 25 to 29, and 112 under 18.

The 33 women were sent to prison for felonies, while two of the 1334

atory for misdemeanors. - Felonies for which the 1332 males were convicted included 18 for mur-

der, 50 manslaughter, 133 robbery,

51 aggravated assault, 302 burglary, 476 larceny, 135 forgery, 45 rape, 27 other sex offenses and 85 other offenses. 7 “In addition to the age groups already mentioned, 165 were 30 to 34, 127 from 35 to 39; 75 from 40 to 44, 51 from 45 to 49, 89 were 50 or over and two not reported. The median age of those reported was 26.3.

native white, 18 foreign-born white, 233 Negro and one other race, the report sets out. In addition to the 81.1 per cent native whites, there were 17.5 per cent Negro, 1.4 per cent foreign-born white and .1 per cent other races. *

FIRM LOSES APPEAL “ON ORDER OF NLRB

ppeals yesterday denied an appeal y the McQuary-Norris Manufacturing Co., from a National Labor Relations Board order to recognize Local 226 of the United Automobile Workers of America (C. I. O.) as collective bargaining agent for employees at its Indianapolis plant. “The NLRB issued the order in 1938 after the C. I. O. union had obtained contracts -at the St. Louis and Connersville, Ind., plants. The order accused the company of unfair practices for the, refusal to recognize: and bargain with the union ab the Indianapolis plant.

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could not be reached for comment.

BURFORD AWARDED PRINTING CONTRACT

A contract for printing House and Senate bills and calendars during the coming legislative session was awarded to the Burford Printing Co., Indianapolis, by the State Printing Board yesterday. Park Beadle, board secretary, said the Burford Co. bid was the low one of two bids received. The contract for providing legislative supplies, such as pens, pencils, inkwells, waste paper baskets and engrossing paper, was awarded to Stewart's, Inc., Indianapolis, the only bidder. ? :

BAR TO HAVE LUNCHEON e Indianapolis Bar Association will have a luncheon meeting Friday at the Indianapolis Bar

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males were sent to prison or reform- |

The male felons numbered 1080}

CHICAGO, Dec. 25 (U. P.)—A}.

McQuary-Norris Co. officials here

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which this week concurred with the House Republican majority leaders on a bill for a five-division setup for executive control of the State Government, will be called into caucus again next week to agree on other Republican legislation. They are (left to right) Howard V. Johnson of Mooresville; William E. Jenner of Shoals, Senate majority leader; Harry M. Shull of Auburn, Thurman A. Biddinger of Marion and Albert Ferris of Milton.

DYKSTRA OPPOSES DRAFTEE SYMBOL

Draft Director Clarence A. Dykstra is opposed to the idea of designating some official symbol for display by the families.of men selected for military training, local draft officials were notified today. Several persons have proposed the adoption of some symbol, as an incentive to voluntary enlistment for selective service training. “I would hesitate to encourage anything that, in spite of worthy intent, would commercialize the performance of a patriotic obligation,” Mr. Dykstra said. “As long as the country is at peace, and as long as men inducted

|for military training remain in

camps in this country, I am opposed to any symbol or emblem to designate the families of those engaged in military training.”

. Direct Majority Part

Repuvblican majority leaders in the lower House will meet with the Senate committee again before the Legislature convenes Jan. 9 to work out further details of the State House Reorganization Bill, designed to divide the powers of government among all elected officials. They are (left to right) Frank T. Millis of Campbellsburg, majority floor leader; : Speaker of the House James M. Knapp of Hagerstown; Howard Hiestand of Kentland, and Roy J. Harrison of Attica,

CLEVELAND, Dec. 25 (U. P.).— ‘Much to his disgust, Louis Hocevar was released from jail® this week for a three-weeks period, but ‘threatened to come back and said he wanted to “stay for life.”

Since Oct. 31 when he was cited for contempt after refusing to pay $112 in alimony to his divorced wife, Mr. Hocevar has lived contentedly in his jail cell. Common Pleas Judge Samuel Kramer decided he had too great a liking for the surroundings and decreed a temporary release. But neither the court nor Mr. Hocevar’s lawyer could change his opinion that jail was preferable to alimony payments. With the immediate problem disposed of, Judge Kramer suggested in desperation that the only final solution may be to have Mr. Hocevar appointed a Deputy Sheriff assigned to the jails and deduct the

STRAUSS SAYS: TODAY “He opens his

Strauss gift box first”

Disgusted Prisoner Leaves "Alimony Alley’ for Holidays

alimony” payments from his wages. “I like it here,” the prisoner said. “I don’t have to tend the furnace. I eat regularly. The people are pleasant and the work is not hard. I'm going to stay for life.” The judge wasn’t quite ready to concede that. | “Since you seem to like jail,” he ‘told. the prisoner, “I'm goigg to let you suffer the discomforts of the outside world until Jan. and if then you still refuse to pay, you'll go back to-jail.” Mr. Hocevar shriigged, said he would return promptly on the date fixed. r

0. E. S. PARTY FRIDAY Golden Rule Chapter 413, Order of Eastern Star, will hold its annual Christmas party Friday night at the Masonic Temple, North and Illinois

Times Special : WASHINGTN, Dec. 25.— Cone’ struction of the $6,000,000 Naval ord nance plant will get under ‘way in Indianapolis “within two months,” Rear Admiral W. R. Furlong, chiet of Navy Bureau of Ordnance, de= clared today. : Declining to name the exact site of the new plant, he did say that it will cover 100 acres, employ bee tween 1000 and 1500 men and be running full blast before 1942. ! Administration . buildings and shops will be so constructed that “all types” of naval ordnance may be constructed there, the Admiral

declared. This includes huge guns, mounte ings and mechanisms, it was exe

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plained.

TODAY HEAVEN VISITS THE EARTH—WARMING IT WITH KINDNESS, FLOODING IT WITH GENEROSITY AND GOOD WILL, GIVING

APPLY IT TO ENRICH HIS DAILY EXISTENCE.

TODAY (TO BRING THE SCENE INTO CLOSER FOCUS) CERTAIN GLOWING BOXES ARE OPENED FIRST. THIS IMPULSE, WIDE-SPREAD IN INDIANAPOLIS, EXTENDS TO NEIGHBORING STATES, AND TO FAR:REACHES OF THE EARTH AMONG PEOPLE WITH HOOSIER LEANINGS. . . . THE FACT THAT AN ALL-TIME RECORD NUMBER OF GIFT BOXES HAS GONE FORTH, IS INTERESTING BUT NOT IMPORTANT. WHAT BRINGS US PLEASURE BEYOND MEASURE EDGE THAT EVERY BOX CARRIED GENUINE WORTH (CUM QUALITATE}— "WITH QUALITY"—AND NO ONE CAN WISH YOU A HAPPIER CHRISTMAS

THAN THIS THOUGHT BRINGS TO US...,

AND SO—STRAUSS savs—MERRY - CHRISTMAS

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