Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1941 — Page 14
TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 1041
GOP OFFICIALS
\, GUESTS OF CLUB]
Dawson, Tucker, Givens to
Be Honored at Dance On Saturday.
Three Republican State officials will be guests at the Washington Township Republican Club Wash-
ington birthday dance Saturday.
Sponsored by the young Republicans in the township, the dance will be held at the clubhouse at
61st St. and College Ave. : Special guests will be Lieut. Gov. and Mrs. Charles M. Dawson, Secretary of State, and Mrs. James M. Tucker, and State Treasurer and Mrs. James M. Givens.
Two Direct Arrangements
Co-chairmen for the dance are Richard Lowther and Miss Anna
Mae Myers. They have appointed the following committees: . ‘ Reception: Messrs. and Mesdame Edward I. Long, John Persons, Richard Rardon, Davis Harrison, Addison Dowling, John A. Bruhn end G. F. Kleder, Tickets: Mrs. Jane Pegg, Miss Marjorie Larr, Mr. and Mrs. James Rohinson, Royer Brown, Mrs. Elsie Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Abbett, Mrs. Lurine Palmer, R. F. Kerbox, Oscar Harvey ahd Miss Ethel Fesmire. - : Floor Show: Messrs. and Mesdames Frank Sisson, John G. Dyer, Donald. Ream, Paul Rhodarmer, Paul Crimmons, Judson Stark, Mark Rhoades and E. U. Pauley, and Messrs. John Niblack and W, G. Huston. Plan: Refreshments Refreshments: Messrs. and Mesdames Herbert C. Krauch, George Arnold, Madison Talbot, James I. . Veach, George Jeffery and Wilbur . Royse. i Music will be in charge of Richard C. Fields. Other aids include Paul : Talbot, special dances; John M. ' Miller, master of ceremonies, and . Mrs. Hollie A. Shideler, publicity. «Club president is Harry L. Gause.
NOMINATION CONFIRMED
‘" WASHINGTON, Feb, 18 (U. P.).|
~The Senate yesterday unanimously confirmed the nomination | of Clark Squire, Seattle, to be Col- - lector of Interna] Revenue for + Washington.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Nights, February 26, 27 and 28
in the Auditorium, Eighth Fioor, at 5:45 to 6:45
In our past "one night stands," many of you were, of necessity, turned away. Many others had to stand, Many, many more had to sit in the Tearoom where you couldn't see the stage at all... So this Spring we're repeating the same show for 3 nights, in the ‘Auditorium only,
so you can all be seated comfortably and easily.
Admission by Ticket Only 60C tickets will be issued
for each showing. And we're sorry, but to give: everyone an equal
chance, we can take No telephone or mail ordors. We do advise
your stopping by for yours’, + , at your earliest convenience.
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Mrs. Alvin M. Owsley, president of the Bundles for Britain, Inc., serves Mayor Sullivan a bowl of soup from one of the new portable soup kitchens that will be sent to the war zone from here. Workers are attempting to raise $5000 through collections to purchase five of these mobile units, which will. serve 50
GARNET REGARDED AS LUCKY JEWEL
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (U. P.).— The garnet birthstone for January, possesses the power to ward off plague, preserve health, reconcile piqued friends and keep thunder at a distance—or some people still believe. > In addition, it is considered in some circles as generally lucky for the possessor, according to Natural History, magazine of the American Museum of Natural History. - In one instance, however, the gem proved unlucky for British soldiers fighting the rebellious Hanzas of India in 1892, the magazine reports. - The Hanzas, having run out of ammunition, shot the British with garnets used as bullets. In the American Southwest gar-
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nets are “mined” by ants, the magazine reveals. :
. Hoosier Goings On
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people each. A dance will be given Saturday in Tom Devine’s Music Hall to help swell the fund.
' THE INDIANAPOLIS
{LEGAL CURB ON
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FEES IS SOUGHT
House Group Hopes to End Union Collections at’ Defense Jobs. By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.— The House Judiciary Committee. will
{continue tomorrow its hunt for
some legal means of stopping what its leaders call a “holdup” and a
_| “racket”—the collection by building-
trades ynion of fees from temporary workers on defense construction bs
jobs. William S. Knudsen, head of the
Office of Production Management, |» is. scheduled to testify tomorrow; |:
Sidney Hillman, labor’s main representative in the defense organization, Thursday.
Complaints Pile Up
The Committee was told yesterday by Thurman W. Arnold, Assistant Attorney General in charge of enforcing the anti-trust laws, that his division had received hundreds of complaints on the union initiation fees—“sometimes they are installments on memberships, and sometimes they merely pay for licenses to work”’—but that the prac-
- 1 tice is not covered by the anti-trust
"House Mother Real Friend of Pledges; Muncie Man Forgets Wife's Name
TURN ABOUT IS fair play, believes Mrs. Pearl Mead, house mother for the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity at Franklin College. After watching freshmen pledges gulp down nothing but beans
for several days during an initiation period, Mrs. Mead decided
even tliings up.
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She announced a St. Valentine’s Day dinner for the active mem-
ing but mush, with toothpicks to eat witli. The pledges were feted in high style. i #2. 8 . An elderly man walked into the Trustee’s Office at Muncie and applied for Federal surplus commodities. * While filling out a questionnaire, the office girl asked his 'wife’s name, . A puzzled look crossed his face,
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and scratching his head, he ad- . mitted: ; “Don’t know, I guess I forgot.” He was questioned again but could not remember. Finally the girl said, “What do you call her. You must call her something.” The elderly gentleman perked
up. “Oh, 1 just call her sweetheart,” he replied. 8 2 a ° THERE WAS A unique birthday party down in Shelbyville recently—unique in the fact that the combined ages of the eight guests present amounted to 625 years. The men, who. have been friends . for many years, were present to celebrate the 84th birthday of George Runyan, the oldest of the gang. The youngest member is Abe Walker, Mr. Runyan’s broth-er-in-law. He is 72. F- ” ” IT HAD BEEN the habit of a janitor of a downtown Muncie building to sneak into the mop closet, during the slack part of the day, and take a little nap. The other day some one locked the door while he was snoozing and when he awakened he found himself a’ prisoner. At first he whispered little calls for help, hoping, some friend would hear and let him out with no one else the wiser. But that didn’t work and he had to yell This brought help, a posse of the curious, and at least one representative of the management. He was freed—a sort of conditional freedom. ” 2 » AT RANDOM: For the week’s_| most confusing headline, we offer this one from an Indiana paper: “LEFT TURNS SHOULD BE MADE TO RIGHT OF STREET CORNER.” . . . The Brazil Times has been taking stout ribbing on its recent headline: “CHAMBERLAIN EXPRESSES BELIEF THAT HITLER MAY STRIKE WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.” ... the next day the Times publicly acknowledged that Mr. Chamberlain is not living at the present time. . . . Students of Lincoln may be interested to know that a file of Civil War papers, the property of Bernard Benson, is on display in the lobby of the St. Joseph Valley Bank, in Elkhart . . . the big bound volume has hundreds of copies of the New York Herald, Harper's Weekly, Frank leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, New York Times and New York World . . . the Weekly has a wood block illustration of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. . . . Next Sunday the ’coon hunters committee of the Shelby County Sportsmen’s League will release 23 raccoons and the public has been invited to see the event.
7 HOOSIERS ENLIST FOR NAVY SERVICE
Seven Indiana men, two of them from Indianapolis, enlisted here Saturday in the 'U. S. Navy and will be transferred immegliately to the training station at Great Lakes, Il. The Indianapolis are Ora Eugene Neal, 144 W. 33d St., and
laws, and therefore his division can do nothing. Assessment of dues, Mr. Arnold said, is “none of our business,” but he added that it might be if the demand for them unlder a closedshop plan were accompanied by union efforts to prevent interstate materials from reaching the construction job.
Example Given
Mr. Arnold gave one example of the complaints his office has received—in one cantonment 300,000 pieces of glass had to be installed with the glaziers’ union able to fur-
nish only 20 members, each of whom
had paid a $1500 initiation fee. - To get enough glaziers it was finally arranged that temporary men in-
stalling glass should pay $2 a day|: to the union—“which seems to us|;
a bit rough.” Committee Chai n Hatton W. Sumners (D. Tex.) gave as his opinion that “it was a cold-blooded rake-off.” Mr. Arnold emphasized that strong construction - unions have an advantage over weaker unions, particularly if they can form an .alliance with the “bottleneck” teamsters’ union, which delivers the supplies.
NEW CANTONMENT
WILL HOUSE 20,000 §
EL PASO, Tex., Feb.'18 (U. P).— |i!
On the outskirts of El Paso a city is being built, a city designed to ac-
commodate 20,000, and it will be |i: complete’ in every detail and wwill 2
have every modern convenience. The city will house more 20,000 National Guard troops and regular soldiers to be stationed here. The material being used in construction work on the cantonment is shipped to the site in staggering quantities. One carload of nails is used every day. They are driven by 4800 workers, many of whom work overtime every week. Hundreds of miles of sewer, gas and water pipe, mountains of gas stoves, bathtubs, shower bath fixtures and electrical appliances are being used to make the barracks and quarters secure and comfortable.
The appropriation for the con-}: struction is more than $7,000,000, |:
40 per cent of which goes for labor. The cantonment will stretch for dozens of blocks east of Fort Bliss..
Editor ard 6 of Staff Drafted
HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Col. A. H. Stackpole, publisher of the Harrisburg Telegraph, and six members of his newspaper staff were inducted into the Pennsylvania National Guard yesterday for a year’s military training. Col. Stackpole is commanding officer of the 104th Cavalry, Pennsylvania National Guard. The others inducted were Maj. Bion C. Elker, 104th Cavalry, editor; Lieut, Noble : L. Prank, Troop F, columnist; Maj. Wilbur Halbert, ' assistant, 28th Division staff; Private John C. Conlin, Headquarters Troop, sports edi--tor; Private Robert B. Light, 105th Anti-Tank Battalion, reporter, and Private John Fissel, Headquarters Troop, advertisin solicitor.
SCIENCE CHAIR ENDOWED COLUMBIA, Mo, (U. P)~—A chair of science or mathematics at the University of Missouri will be established under the terms of the will of Mrs. Cora Eitzen Defoe, widow of the famous university pro-
James Foster White, 1528 Montcalm St.
Many Easterne
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON, N. J. Feb. 18.— Are American cities and towns about to go .in for experimental ‘“blackouts,” as many European cities did in the months before the war? Public demand for practice blackouts has already reached substantial proportions in some areas of the country, a survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion shows, but many Americans still Sortsier such steps “unnecesi) sary,” ‘just a PUBLIC OPINION sign of a lot of : con fusion,” or “not. worth - the . trouble.” . Nevertheless, as some American communities . embark on - practice blackouts this spring, the idea may spread. Further Institute checks will be made: to see Whether the present number favoring such tests grows or not. ; Spurred on by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, New York City will
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fessor, Luther Marion ‘Defoe.
rs in Favor
Of Experimental Blackouts
men and women in all sections of the United States—was as follows “New York’ City is planning to have a practice blackout shortly. Do you think all towns and cities should
months?” The replies were:
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Seaboard, for instance, to the plains of Kansas.
of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri and the Dakotas an average of almost one person in, three said he thought practice blackouts were very much in order. Here's, the percentage of individuals in the principal sections of the country who favor trial blackouts: New England, Mid-Atlantic siservasruessessDB0 East Central ....cccc00000.. 34
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CRASH OM ICY ROAD KILLS CLINTON MAN
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Feb. 18 (U. P.) —Englebert A.«Duve, 35, Clinton, Iowa, died yesterday of injuries received in an automobile-truck collision on Road 52. Four other Clinton persons were injured in the crash blamed on the ice.
The injured were Bernard. G.
Williams, 33; Harold Bondick, 32, driver of the car, and Mr. and Mrs. John Bodnick, both 22. The men were employees at the Charlestown, Ind, Government powder plant project. They were en route to work after spending the week-end in Clinton.
Victims raffic Jam
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VICHY, France., Feb. 18 (U. P.).
—Reports from Dunkirk today said that millions of herring were running ashore, committing suicide, to escape bigger fish in a
traffic jam caused by over-popu-
lation. With the requisitioning of trawlers and the suspension of fishing in the English Channel, herring had reproduced in such quantities they were overcrowding the water, it was reported. Several tons were said to have been picked up from the beach, and some sent to Paris.
PAGE 13 GARAGE CHIMNEY RESEMBLES LIGHT
NEW: BURYORT, Mass., Feb. 18
(U. P.).—Motorists passing “along U. 8. Route 1 will soon see a chimney flue rising from the reservation strip in the middle of the road. ' Bids have been received by the State Department of Public Works for -the erection of the flue as part of the new heating plant in the state garage located under the Me#rimac Street bridge. The chimney will resemble a bronze street lighting pole and will be nine feet high with an ornamental flue in place of the globe.
than
have practice blackouts every few
Naturally the amount of curiosity |2 and enthusiasm for practice black-|7 outs. varies widely from section to|i section—from cities of the Eastern |
But even in the Midwest states|:
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