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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5 5, 1941

§ WELFARE FUND

SLASH OPPOSED

: or. Sutherland Fears Blow To State Protective Services.

A group of public welfare, civic, religious and . education leaders from throughout the state today attacked proposed Legisaltive cuts in the State Welfare Department budget.

The House Ways and Means Committee ctu personal service items in

the Welfare budget by $95,000 and| ; the welfare leaders charged that|

if the proposed cuts go through the department will be force dto eliminate all functions and divisions except those supported by Federal funds.

‘Dr. Edwin H. Sutherland, director of the Indiana University socialogy department, said that the cuts would mean elimination of the division of medical care, curtailment of activities of the division of correction and abolishment of several

. Sees Return.to Waste

~ “Centralized and sicentific parole , services are extremely important in # maintaining a consistent and effec- # tive penal system for the protection “of ‘society,” Dr. Sutherland said in

“A curtailment of funds and facilities for these services would result in seriously damaging the protective services that Indiana has developed in recent years and would further indicate a return to =a

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wasteful and dangerous procedure.”

The Ways and Means Committee’s proposed Welfare Department cuts are a small part of huge slices in the state budget for next year, which if allowed by the House and Senate would, abolish more than 1000 state jobs.

“Another who joined in the protest was Joseph G. Wood, president of the City Council, who said that “so much progress has been made in the field of mental hygiene in Indiana in the past few years that surrender of this program would represent a backward step.

Dr. Backus Protests

“While budget cuts are necessary, they should not be so drastic as to eliminate entire departments or to cipple them and make them ineffectual.” Others who expressed their disaprroval in public statements of

the proposed cuts were Mrs. E. S.|

Carpenter, Hammond, president of the Beta Gamma sorority; Prof. Robert Lafollette, director of the soeial sciences department, Ball State Teachers College; Dr. E. Burdette Backus, Indianapolis pastor of- All Souls Unitarian Church; Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of the Marion County Juvenile Court; Miss Lucille Batson, vice chairman of the Indainapolis chapter of the American Association of Social Workers and Frank Flynn of the University of Notre Dame.

LEGION MEMBERSHIP

- The membership of the American Legion reached 870,014 today, a new high for this time of year in the history of the organization, it was reported at national headquarters. Indiana’s membership to date is - 32,884. . The new total represents a gain of 46,844 new members since last year for the same period. At the same time, Donald G. Glascoff, Assistant National Adjutant, in charge of membership, announced that the number of Legion ‘posts throughout the country has risen to 11,745, a new all-time high. Mr. Glascoff said that new posts are being chartered at the rate of about three each week. If the membership campaign results continue on the present scale, Legion officials predict that the all-time record membership for one

broken this year.

FRIENDSHIP PAYS $3000 TO STUDENT

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 5 (U. P) —John C. Braidford, 19-year-old University of Michigan freshman

lieved that friendship pays—but not until yesterday did he learn that its price might be set at $3000. Mr. Braidford, an aeronautical engineering student, was notified that his “old pal” James (Jim) Dewer, middle-aged bachelor who died two weeks ago, had _ bequeathed him $3000. “Jim and I were good pals for

plained. “We used to go fishing together, attend hockey games, and occasionally I'd vrash his car or mow his lawn. But I never dreamed of anything like this!”

NATIONAL DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ASKED

today proposed that the United States dust off the old World War national daylight savings system and add more sunlight working hours for speeding the defense program. Mr. McLean introduced a bill providing for national daylight saving time from the last Sunday in March to the last in October, each year. The present daylight savings system, used extensively in the East,

April to late September. Under the McLean bill, it would be two months longer.

BOARD 7 GETS CALL FOR ONLY 1 DRAFTEE

~ Marion County Local Selective Service Board No. 7 has been called upon to provide only one man for the fourth draft call on March 15. The foruth call, which will take 1200 youths from the state, was conSiitanly lower than originally exed. Members of Board 7 said they will have “no difficulty” in meeting the . March call. Approximately 30 Class

fied and physically examined and are available for service. A total of 101 men from Marion County’s 15

workers at Boston, Mass. recommendation for a $16 minimum ers.

threatened to dismiss any employe

FREE SCHOOLING "URGED FOR 100

Bill Lifts Tuition for Children of Disabled Veterans.

The Senate today unanimously approved a House bill permitting the sons. and daughters of disabled World War veterans to attend state schools without payment of tuition or matriculation fees. Senator Clyde R. Black (R. Logansport) said this would permit at least 100 young persons to attend college who are now unable to do so. The Senate killed a House bill which would have permitted the use of voting machines in primary elections. Several Senators asserted that the measure would have forced county commissioners to buy new voting machines as the present ones are incapable of handling the long lists of primary candidates.

Permit Liquor Discounts

The House-approved Fair Trades Liquor bill was amended by the Senate Policy committee to take out the’ mandatory feature which was ruled unconstitutional by the Attorney General. Senator John Van Ness (R. Valparaiso), committee chairman, said that this did not take the teeth out of the bill since the Alcoholic Beverages Commission gould refuse to issue licenses to those wholesalers and distillers who did not file price schedules with the State

Board. The bill as amerRiei oy The Sen-

ate committee also allows wholesalers to grant discounts on large purchases. Teacher Rules Changed Other House bills passed by the Senate would: Prohibit a public official from serving as a county councilman, Provide that teachers in eightmonth schools be notified by the township trustee within five days after the close of school if their contracts are not to be renewed and that teachers, once employed, must give notice at least: 30 days before the beginning of the school term’ if they wish to be released from their contracts. , Kill U. R. C. Amendment

The Upper House also agreed to strike out its amendments to the G.O.P. bill abolishing the Governor’s Commission on Unemployment Relief and transferring its duties to the Public Welfare Department, The amendments provided for the. appropriation of $1,250,000 to the Public Welfare Department for use in handling the duties of the abolished department. Senator Floyd I. Garrott (R. Battle Ground) said that an appropriation to enable the Welfare Department to carry out its added duties was made in the G. O.P. Welfare Department bill and thus was unnecessary in this measure.

TANSY, FOUNDER OF MILK FIRM, DEAD

Theodore Tansy, Ave., president of the Tansy Milk Co., died today at St. Vincent’s Hospital after a brief illness. He was 64. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Pieter Tanzi, he was born Feb. 10, 1877, in Achlun, The Netherlands. He| came to the United States in November, 1892, settling in Marion County. He founded the Tansy Milk Co. in 1901. Mr. Tansy was an elder of the Trinity Reformed Church. Survivors include his wife, Fay; a son, Theodore Tansy Jr.; a daughter, Miss Charlotte Ann Tansy; his mother, Mrs, Jessie Koldyke, and a grandson, Teddy Lee. Tansy. Services will be at 3:30 p. m. Friday. at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary.

GETS SPECIAL TRAINING James E. Sutterfield of Indianapolis was one of seven Hoosier soldiers stationed at Eglin Field, Fla., who will receive training in specialized Army servige. Mr. Sutterfield has

local boards will go into service in e fay call, i

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been transferred to Lowry Field,

Wear Masks to Guard Jobs

these two girls wore masks last night while testifying at a State Minimum Wage Commission hearing on wage proposals for office The hearing was on a special Wage Board’s

Commission Chairman Charles H. Cole permitted the masking after President Ann Prosten of the Boston Local of the C. I. O. United Office and Professional Workers Union .asserted that employers had

employers would discharge them, wage for experienced office work-

who attended the hearing.

Wanted: A Name For Sea Serpent

VANCOUVER, B. C., March 5 (U. P.).—-The body of a 10-foot “sea serpent’ with a horse-like head and hulbous nostrils, which was found on the beach near here, today defied icentification. Dr. W./ A! Clemens, F. R. S. C,, biology professor at the University of British Columbia and director of the Dominion biological station here, said: he was unable to classify the decomposed specimen. It had| a head resembling that of a horse; except that it had a cartilaginous, instead of bone, skull. The body was covered with bristly hair, Dr. Clemens said the cartilage formation was similar to that of a shark, but sharks are hairless. The hair resembled that of a seal, but seals have bone. Sea lions have neither hair nor cartilage.

istration boards in the seven largest counties, vote was 58 to 34. The Sénate acted

Governor:

petition of 25 per cent of the legal voters in a township, to construct

ture or domestic science” and to be used as a recration center.

mon carriers by requiring them to file rates and tariffs.

assessment of property abutting rights of way.

issue transfers for children of school age in tuberculosis hospitals and to pay cost of instruction not to exceed $40 a month.

owning or controlling a public cemetery, and control a public cemetery” to exercise Tight and power of eminent

13 MORE BILLS

One Requires Trustees of To Budget Direct Relief Expenditures. Thirteen more bills were signed

by Governor Henry F. Schricker to- |.

day, boosting to 94 the measures

passed by the Legislature which he|:

has approved. At the same time, the Governor vetoted the G. O. P.-sponsored bill

placing the State Accounts Board||

under the State Personnel Board. One of the bills signed today resulted from township relief scandals in Indianapolis, and was one of the measures sponsored by ‘the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to correct these evils. It requires the budgeting of all direct township relief expenditures the same as other public disbursements.

Mayors Get Extra Year

Another bill signed by the Governor gives 101 Indiana mayors, not including Indianapolis, an extra year on their terms. The new law postpones municipal elections from 1942 to 1943, with Indianapolis specifically. exempted. Seventy-two Republican mayors and 29 Democratic mayors are affected. In 1933, the Legislature passed a “skip election” law which put the local elections in the same years as state elections. This returns them to the former practice.

In the House today, another one 3 of the Governor's vetoes was over-|: ridden by the G. O. P. when they | fk 4

rejected his protest on ‘the Senate bill which sets up bi-partisan regincluding Marion. The

earlier to over-ride, 30 to 17. New Laws Signed Other new laws signed by the

Mandate township trustees, on

“room or building to teach agriculClassify household movers as comSimplify procedure in determining

Transfer powers, duties and records of Wilbur Wright Memorial Commission to the state conservation department. Authorize school corporations to

Authorize directors to association

“or persons desiring to own

domain Give Veterans Relief Award $1000 property tax deduc-

SCARIGKER 0.

URGES STUDENT POLL

—Senatolr Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) suggested that the Senate suspend debate for two weeks and take a students | t¢ decide whether the British aid bill should be passed.

terday af Senator Warren R. Austin (R. Vt), who read into the record a telegram signed by 24 college student chairmen of college chapters of the America by Aiding the Allies, calling on the Sengte to pass the bill.

of this bill would be willing to suspend further weeks™ and take a vote of all the college students, and let their vote determine whether this bill should pass,” Mr. Wheeler said. majority of these students are in favor of it, we-ought to pass it. they're not; we won’t pass it.

a referendum of any shape or form the Senator desires among all the people.”

suggestion ‘vould be a very effective way of filibusteting this bill.”

ON AID FOR BRITAIN

WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. PJ).

referendum of college

The challenge was directed yes-

Committee to Defend

“I'm wondering if the proponents debate for. two “If the If

“Or I'll go further and suggest

Mr. Austin retorted that Wheeler's

payments to vocational departments in public schools.

entering military service shall be reinstated in his original status. at

tion to honorably discharged veterans with service-connected disaility of 10 per cent. Include salaries and official travel of vocational teachers in state aid

Provide that any school teacher

the end of such service. Add vehicles carrying explosive to those authorized to carry red light visible from front. Authorize Circuit Court clerks to retain 10 cents for each female resident fishing license. Permit public transportation companies to use police radio receivers in emergency maintenance - trucks. recs Indianapolis Street Railway 0.

MRS. MESKILL, 85, ~ DIES IN HOSPITAL

Funeral services for Mrs. Kathryn Meskill, 3054 N. Delaware St., who died last night in St. Vincent’s Hospital, will be held at 9 a. m. tomorrow in SS. Peter and Paull Cathedral. Burial is to be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mrs. Meskill, who was 85, was born in New York State and came to Indianapolis when she was 15.

She was the widow of James T.

FT. WAYNE SCHOOL GIRL KILLED BY CAR

. WAYNE, Ind, March 5 (U. P.).—Juliann Noll, 8 years old, was fatally injured late yesterday when he was struck by an automobile driven by Herman Tutwiler of near Churubusco. Police absolved Mr. Tutwiler of blame.

Meskill, a painting contractor, who died in 1911. Mrs. Meskill was a member of the cathedral and active in its Altar Society. She is survived by three daughters, Jennie, Celia and Kathryn Meskill, all of Indianapolis.

SHIPS IN ADRIATIC BOMBED BY R. A. F,

William Wilcox

Two Indianapolis Boy Scouts will rise to the highest rank in scouting tonight when they receive Eagle badges at the March Court of Awards at 8 p. m. jn the Cropsey Auditoruim, Central Li-

brary. In addition, 272 merit awards will be made. The new Eagle Scouts are James LaMar of Troop 13 and William Willcox of Troop 21. Merle Miller, chairman of the advancement committee, will preside, assisted by Irving Willaims, co-chairman of the court.

METHODIST GHURGH LOSES NAME BATTLE

CHARLESTON, S. C., March 5 (U. P.).—A special referee has held that the 1939 merger of the three

branches of the Methodist Church was legal, but that the new church organization has no right to restrain use of names of the merged churches by other religious groups. The report of Referee Col. Nathaniel B. Barnwell applies to litigation between two factions in the little Pine Grove Church at Turbeville, S. C, but if upheld in court may have a far-reaching effect on similar disputes throughout the country. The plaintiffs had sought to enjoin the defendants from using the name Methodist Episcopal Church, South, one of the three branches of the church before the merger. A similar suit in Federal Court was dismissed last July for lack of jurisdiction. It had been brought by eight bishops of the unified church against nine members of the South Carolina conference of a “provisional” Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

405,000 Words But No Ballot

WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P.).—Chairman Sol Bloom (D. N. Y.), of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has supplied some statistics on Senate debate of the British Aid Bill. He figured yesterday that in 54 hours of debate, at 125 words a minute, Senators have spoken 405, 000 words on the bill. This, he said, is three times the total wordage of every inaugural address of every President from George Washington to Franklin D. Roosevelt's third term, the Magna Carta, the Habeas Corpus Act, the English Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, all the amendments, Washington’s Farewell Address, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. These total 137,702 words, he. said..

STRIKE DELAYS

SHIPYARD WORK

[Texas Construction Shut

Down; Wright Field Waits U. S. Move.

By UNITED PRESS

Labor disputes in national defense sindustries today halted work on a $5,000,000 shipyard project, an Army Air Corps testing center expansion program and on orders for material

parts to heavy:machinery. The Orange, Tex., naval shipyard construction project was shut down because of a shortage of steel that resulted from a strike of 350 A. F. L. shop workers at a fabrication plant.

Sit Tight at Wright Field

Officials of the contracting firm which employed 650 workers on the $5,000,000 ship construction project said considerable delay would result if it became necessary to ask for bids for steel from other fabricating firms. Lieut. Col. Lester T. Miller, commandant at Wright Field, Dayton,

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further instructions are received from the War Department at Washington on a strike of 400 A. F. L. building trades workers.

Hillman May Act

The strike was precipitated when the War Department in an unprec-

: |edented move intervened in a juris- : |dictional dispute and ordered -the : |construction company to [proceed

with the $1,550,000 expansion program at the Air Corps testing center. An official of the Dayton Building Trades Council said the dispute would be turned over to A. F. L. national headquarters at Washing-

‘| ton. It was said unofficially the Gov-

ernment would be represented at Washington by Sidney Hillman, associate director of the Office of Production Management.

16 MILLION IS SPENT ON WAR SUFFERERS

WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P.). —State Department figures showed today that $16,021,237 of $23,519,852 collected in this country for the relief of civilian populations in countries affected by the European war has been expended in 18 months. The report, covering a period of from Sept. 6, 1939, through January, 1941, said the bulk of the money was raised for Britain and for refugee relief in countries occupied by Germany. The British War Relief Society raised $4,884,209 while numerous other British aid groups raised a much larger aggregate relief sum, including Bundles for Britain which collected $830,776.

GENERAL TO RETIRE

WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P.). —Maj. Gen. Charles D. Herron, until recently commanding general of the Hawaiian Department, will retire from active service March 31, on reaching the statutory retirement age of 64. Gen. Herron, who has served almost 46 years in the Army, is a native of Crawfordsville, Ind.

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A glance at the above picture should tell you why Joan Fox was elected queen of the Butler Indoor Relays yesterday. While about 400 athletes skitter about at her feet in the Fieldhouse on the evening of March 15, Miss Fox will smile serenely from a throne, the choice of Butler's men students for such honor. She's the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Fox, 3842 N. Pennsylvania St., and she the seventh Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority girl to win the title in the nine years the Relays have been held.

MEXIGO FITTED INTO DEFENSE

|U. S. Discussions Aim at Joint Program With Neighbor Republic.

WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P.). —Discussion between Mexico and

the United States on plans for joint defense was regarded by informed diplomatic sources today as one of the most difficult diplomatic projects of recent years. These quarters believed that before a concrete policy can be decided upon, it first will be necessary to overcome much of the suspicion of “Yankee diplomacy” existing in Mexico. Announcement that the conversations are under way was made by the State Department last night. The Department emphasized that representatives of both Governments would observe “always the greatest regard for the principle of $he naiional sovereignty of the two States,” but officials declined to elaborate. Should the talks result in a concrete policy, the co-ordinate defense of North America—from Tapachula to Alaska on the Pacific Coast and from Trinidad to Greenland in the Atlantic—would become a fact. The United States and Canada already

y . __ PAGE 13 HOPKINS LIKELY | TO GET KEY JOB

He May Emerge as Liaison Man Between FDR and Defense Directors.

WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P), —President Roosevelt's machinery for administering . the British-aid bill ‘began to take form today with Harry L. Hopkins in a position that may make him the key figure in the program. It appeared likely that Mr. Hope kins, the President's confidant and recent personal emissary to Britain, would emerge as liaison between the two agencies destined to admin ister the program when it becomes law. Mr. Roosevelt and his secretary, Stephen T. Early, offered the first rough outline of the administrative plan—a dual, but closely integrated | setup.

Early Describes Plan

As described by Mr. Early, the work will be handled: 1. By a policy-making group come prised of Mr. Roosevelt, the Secre= taries of State, Treasury, War and Navy, the Army Chief of Staff, the Chief of Naval Operations, and other military, naval and fiscal ade visers. Significantly, Mr. Hopkins has sat as a member of that group. 2. By the Office of Production Management headed by Director General William S. Knudsen and Associdte Director General Sidney Hillman. © Also significantly, at Mr, Roosevelt's appointment, Mr. Hope

command as a member of its Pro duction Planning Board. It will lay the long-range production plans fon American and British defense needs and for replacing material withe drawn from American stocks for Britain. A

F. D. Rs Personal Envoy '

Mr. Roosevelt may not see fit to name any one man as administra« tor or co-ordinator of the lend-leasa program. But on the basis of Mr, Hopkins’ personal experience this year in Britain as Mr. Roosevelt's special envoy and his close associa= tion with the President, it seemed likely that he would function most importantly in the new set-upy unifying the work of the two groups. His status as a member of and as a conferee in the Cabinet group consultations placed him in a position as the one .man entirely familiar with the proceedings of both agencies and hence the logical liaison. He is living at the White House and is familiar with the President’s plans and objectives as

Britain’s war cabinet.

VANDALS DAMAGE COLLEGE

Vandals last night ripped 125 feet of eight-inch copper guttering off the roofs of the pumphouse and summer house at Marian College, 3600 Cold Spring Road, Mother Su= perior Sister Elzena reported Lo Sheriff's deputies. A truck was used to haul the guttering away,

have set up joint defense boards.

deputies who investigated reported,

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OPM’s Production Planning Board.

automobile accident school child in Ft. Wayne in more

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The girl’s death was the first fatal involving a

than three years.

COLLEGE HEAD HONORED NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind, March 5 (U. P.).—Dr. Otho Winger, retiring president of Manchester College, today became the second person in thé United States this year to be awarded honorary membership in Tau Kappa Alpha, national speech fraternity.

Among the national and state leaders of the American Red Cross meeting in a national defense forum here this wéek are, left to right,

Eugene C, Foster, chairman of the

apolis chapter; Everett Dix, assistant manager of the eastern division, Washington, and Dean L. Barnhart, chairman of the Goshen, Ind. chapter. More than 200 Red Cross officials are attending the sessions. They opened Monday at the Indianapolis Athletic Club and will con- | tinue through tomgrrow,

CAIRO, March 5 (U. P.).—Royal Air Force bombers, it was reported officially enemy warships in the Adriatic Sea between Chimera and Valena. The R. A. F. reported that two attacks were carried out on the warships, one off Valona and one off Chimera. The warships were escorted by a large formation of enemy fighter planes, the R. A. F. said, and nine of these planes were shot down off Chimera and others were damaged.

Defense Forum Leaders

"|Lillian Roth, red-haired stage and

home service committee, Indian

her moved her to announce her legal action.

—Mary Millicent Rogers, oil fortune heiress, today obtained a divorce

PILOT TO RESUME FLIGHT AFTER CRASH

RUSHVILLE, Ind., March 5 (U. P.) —John B. Armstrong, Montclair, N. J.,. pilot, expected to resume his Buffalo-Cincinnati flight today after crashing through a rural electric line in an emergency landing near Pepperton last night. Armstrong said he lost his way in a snowstorm but. picked up a bea-}| con from an emergency field. Coming in for a landing, the tail assembly caught on the neutral wire of the REMC line near the field and the ship crashed, but the pilot escaped injury.

LILLIAN IS TIRED OF RIGHTS TO THE JAW

HOLLYWOOD, March 5 (U.P.).—

screen actress, revealed today that she had enough of her “right to the jaw marriage” to Eugene Weiner in less than three months, and demanded an annulment. She said she sued last Nov. 8 for annulment or legal separation and asked for a restraining order to keep Weiner, a New York coffee importer, from “striking or otherwise inflicting bodily harm upon her.” Weiner’s surrender to the District Attorney on a charge of beating

HEIRESS GETS DIVORCE BOISE, Idaho, March 5 (U. P.).

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AND PARENTS OF BOY SCOUTS

Ayres’ Proudly Announces the Opening

of an Official Boy Scout Trading Post

Inthe Men's Store on the Second Floor

A new department, one of the finest and best equipped in the state of Indiana,

dedicated to all Scouts and to the service of Scouting.

James Kirkhoff, Eagle Scout, and one of the Minisino Scouts of Camp. Chank-tun-un-gi, will be your representative at the Trading Post. He is well qualified te answer any question or help you with any problem about equipment or. Sesufing, Come in, visit the Trading Post and meet Jim tomorrow, ¥ania. yi

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