Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1941 — Page 11

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1

NEW DEAL GAINS DEFENSE POWER

Now It's Time for Industry To Take Lower End of See-Saw. By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 21. — New Dealers have strengthened their influence within the national defense set-up in important and strategic

posts in the last few days in a shifg| | of power emphasized by protests] |

from spokesmen of conservative in-| terests. Both sides were quick to appreciate the designation of Harry L. Hopkins, close friend and adviser of the President, ag administrator of the lease-Liend Act, and appointment of Leon Henderson, staunch New Dealer and general utility man in New Deal economic policy, to the highly important job of price controller, or, officially, head of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, the OPACS, as it is called. This represents another stage of the conflict which has bubbled here from the start of the national de-

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fense program On the one hand, New Dealers have watched jealously and | anxiously the descent upon Wash- | ington of business leaders they once | had pilloried to assume roles in| national defense, fearing that these men would take over and nullify | the social and economic reform pro- | gram achieved over eight years of struggle,

F. D. R. on Both Sides

On the other hand, business and | industrial interests have followed every step, every delegation of] power, every appointment to im- | portant posts of new dealers with the fear that the defense emergency would be capitalized to exténd controls over them, As throughout his administration, | the president has moved now this] way, now that, now to the right now to the left, balancing one group against the other skillfully. From the ouset the President resisted proposals that he set up an independent central agency with broad powers, Instead, he first created the National Defense Advisory Commission, a loose sort of organization, and later created other agencies, notably the Office of Production Management which was hailed a the time as the big over-all agency to get defense going at top| speed. In this he divided authority between industry and labor, with power shared by Willlam S. Knudand Sidney Hillman,

MacReynolds Is Co-ordinator

Subsequently, however, he pulled : the various agencies together under White House supervision, including OPM, under the so-calied Office of Emergency Management, OEM, with one of his secretaries, W. H. MacReynolds, acting as a co-ordinator. The OEM is a sort of service agency and clearing house The Hopkins lend-lease office and the Henderson price control bureau likewise will be under OEM, though they will operate independently as do the others and apparently will not have any supervision by the OFM, in which business and indusfry are so largely represented. his set-up now has drawn the fire of Senators Robert A. Taft (R 0), and Ralph O. Brewster Mr. Brewster, a member of the special Senate committee investi-| gating the progress of the defense program, advocated a “single-hand-ed’ set-up Knudsen is going to be the goat anyway if anything goes wrong.” he said. “Therefore, I am in favor of giving him the authority and centralizing the responsibility.”

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Senator Taft, a spokesman of conservative interests, seems particularly disturbed over the price control agency, claiming that it has no legal authority, and urging thas Congress immediately should pass legislation for price control, specifv-! on what kinds of produets prices ean be fixed and under what conditions The set-up as it exists today he called a “super-bureaucracy.” contending that instead of power being concentrated, as he said it was supposed to be under the lease-lend act.” it Is becoming daily more complicated and confused.” He also deplored the status of OPM which, he said, was supposed the time to be the centralized office from whieh the defense pro-| gram was to be run. but ‘as a mat-| ter of fact. today it has degenerated into a very small branch of) thi: whole defense set-up. We are,” he said, “steadily chipping off such powers as Mr. Knud- | sen had, and dividing them up| among a large number of bureaus. I say that the Senate should now be considering the question of the creation of a war resources administration with properly limited legal powers, and with all the authority that ought to be given to such a war resources board Opposes Creating Bureaus We are getting back to the same old condition we had in the Advisory Council for National Defense. which we had seven different men, without a chairman, something that everyon& agreed we should get away from | There may be legal authority for | the creation of such a super-bu-reaticracy, but I doubt whether Congress intended that the Presi- | dent should have power to create! ew agencies. We certainly have | never intended that without au- | thority from Congress a special bureat shall be created in the Government ! If the President can do it in this manner, then he can create any kind of bureau and apparently give it any Kir d of power

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t. 8 TROOPS AT BERMU DA

HAMILTON, Bermuda, April 21 (U. P)—Men and equipment were landed at daybreak today from] the troopship American Legion to| establish the first United States Army garrison in Bermuda's history. | The troops will occupy Castle Hare bor Hotel, which has been converted into quarters for them.

UKRAINE SEES AIR THREAT MOSCOW, April 21 (U, P) —Dispatches from Kiev said today that the Ukrainian Air Raids Precaution Society is training 500,000 elvil- | fans and home guards under the] command of reserve officers. The ewspaper Soviet Moldavia said that: “The international situation compels the Soviet Union to pregare for any surprise.”

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At the Hotel Commodere in New York City attending the annual Jackson Day dinner, were (left to

Edward J. Flvan, ministrator; Thomas Meeks, tee chairman.

BEADLE DOUBTS |

PAPERS MISSING

Suggests Printing Bureau

Records May Be Misfiled; Favors Audit, However,

director of today

Parke Beadle, former the State Printing Bureau declared that as far as he knew no records are missing from the Bureau’s files His statement was issued to Cooper C. Clifton, new Republican Bureau director, who asserted last week that some records are missing and said he was asking for an immediate audit of the Bureaus accounts “There may which have

records misfiled,” Mr. Beadle said, “but in case requisitions cannot be found, copies are available in the departments which submitted the orders “Each month a complete tabulation of all bids received together with the specifications was sent to the members of the printing board themselves, and any information which cannot be found can be located by checking the members recoras.” Mr. Beadle said asked for an audit before former Governor Townsend went out © office but that no auditors had been sent over “I think the should be audited,

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ADMITS ATTACK. BUT

DENIES KILLING GIRL

TERRE HAUTE April 21 (U. P) —A 24-veal Terre Haute vouth admitted

Ind -old West

today that

he attacked 12-year-old Edith Idel

and left her on reek but denied Policeman

Barton last night that he killed the girl, Noble Watson said today The girl's body was found at 4:30 a. m. today partly submerged in water near the creek bank and Cozzie Merrill Jones Jr. wayward son of an unordained minister of a missionary group. was arrested on the road to Paris, Ill, eight miles west of Terre Haute Terre Haute officers State Police headquarters to determine subjected to a lie detector test and indicated the suspect would be taken there this afternoon Detective Thomas Welsch said the girl was employed by Jones’ father and mother to care for his sick sister yesterday afternoon while they went to Terre Haute While the wag alone with the girl. he reportedly made an engagement to take her out last night They left early in the evening and was seen alone in a West Terre Haute restaurant about 9 ip. m. He returned home ag 10:30 p. m, and then left again on foot. Mr. Welsch said that young Jones was sentenced Nov. 2, 1939, to a term of 1-10 years in the State Reformatory at Pendleton for automobile theft.

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Democratic National Committee chairman: Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Adi National Democratic Club president, and James A. Farley,

former Commit-

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| Roosevelt

Circling The City

Utility Employee Honored—Frank |

BEAT FRANCE

J. Kalb, the third person to ever | abhor Reform Not at Fault, in

reach the 50-year mark of continu- | ous service with the Indianapolis | Gas & Coke Utility, was honored Saturday with an “open house” at the Utility's offices More than half of the employees of the company contributed gifts | presented Mr. Kalb. An engraved | watch and a well-filled wallet were

He Tells Jackson Dinner Guests.

Times Special WASHINGTON, April 21 -—Federal Security Administrator Paul {V. MeNutt is on record today as

Mr. Kalb, paymaster at the com- pointing to “reaction” rather than pany since 1913, began working for «goeial reform” as being the basic the company April v0, 1891 cause of the fall of France

He was | In addressing a Jefferson Birth-

then storekeeper for the old Indianapolis Gas Co, predecessor of the 'day dinner in New York City Saturday night, the former Indiana

present utility. Mr. Kalb lives at 819 Isiviera Dr. Osteopath on Program—Dr. Orren Governor took issue with those who E. Smith, Indianapolis osteopath, [would shackle labor in the war will be a principal speaker before epiis or curb the social gains of the the Osteopathic Manipulative Ther- |New Deal. apeutics Section of the 45th annual] He condemned the theory that it convention of the American Osteo-|was progressivism that caused pathic Association, which will be prance to capitulate to the Nagis. held June 23 to 27 in Atlantic City,| “pyance seemed strong—internally N. J. Dr. Smith will speak onjang externally,” Mr. McNutt said. “Special Research on Manipulation.” «piled into a mistaken feeling of and will discuss and demonstrate security, she let her democracy slip. osteopathic technique for the treat- ghe abandoned, one by one, her ment of sciatica \great social reforms. The land {which was once the cradle of liberty, equality and fraternity, became hard and calloused. “When the danger became apparent, it was too late for the Nightning readjustments which were necessary. The hand of reaction had a death grip on the body and soul of unhappy France. “In contrast to this tragedy are Britain's gallant efforts to defend |the birthright of Englishmen and to rededicate itself to the democratic way of life. England, too, had all but forgotten about democracy.

DINE METHODIST AID FOR 20- YEAR SERVICE “The liberal England of the early | Twenties had given way to a selfish,

Hazel Funk's 20-vear serv- hardboiled land of appeasement. secretary in the Methodist But when the blow fell, the reaction Church Area office here was rec- was immediate. England began to ognized today at a testimonial din- look after ‘her democracy.” ner at the Indianapolis Athletic] Housing—in bombproof shelters— Club. About 50 ministers and their food to make them fit—all these wives and other church officials at-|things neglected before are now betended ling provided for workers in England Miss Funk. a Shortridge graduate and their morale is high, despite and an honor graduate of Butler | the terrific onslaught of total war, University, began her secretaryship Mr. MeNutt declared. shortly after leaving college under| Referring to the “home front” the then Bishop Frederick D./here he argued that increased soLeete Subsequently she served|ecial benefits and better working under Bishop Edgar Blake, and conditions should be constant goals, now is secretary to Bishop Titus despite the crisis. Lowe | “Astounding suggestions are beCommendation for Miss Funk's|ing made in Congress and elseservices was voiced by Dr. Logan| where” Mr. McNutt said. “It is Hall. Dr. J. G. Moore of Rushville, |said that strikes must be outlawed Dr. Henry L. Davis, Dr. John G./and strikers punished. It is a

Phit Psis Meet Today—The In-| dianapolis Alumni Association of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity will hold | its April meeting meeting today in| the Hunters’ Room, Marott Hotel. Taylor E. Groninger, Indianapolis attorney, who was a member at Indiana University in 1890 and is a charter member of the alumni as- |" sociation, will be the principal speaker

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Benson and Dr. O. W. Fifer. Bishop | choice, we are told, between defense Lowe presided jana the closed shop. - | ‘After 150 years of effort to insure labor against the worst abuse PROCLAIMS MAY a" | of the capitalistic system, we are now told we must give those efforts AS ‘AMERICAN’ DAY up because we can't have them and | defense too. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan to- | “I don’t believe it. The argument day proclaimed Sunday, May 18. as [starts from the wrong assumption. “I Am an American” day in Indian- | It can not be that one man's apolis in accordance with a similar | democracy is another man's poison. national proclamation by Presidess] “Will a free labor movement, protected by the law of the land, “The condition of world affairs be more productive than slave brings all of us to a solemn realiza- labor? Or are we caught in a tion of the blessings of living under | dilemma in which we must either a democracy.” the Mayor's procla- adopt Nagi tactics or succumb to mation said Nazi domination?" '

SAYS ‘REACTION

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES McNutt Defends Rights of Labor

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ARMED BLOW AT AXIS DEMANDED

Glass Heads Group Pledged To Do What's Necessary For Hitler's Defeat.

NEW YORK, April 21 (U.P).— Formation of an organization dedicated to military action against the Axis, with Senator Carter Glass (D. Va.) as honorary chairman has been announced. The organization, called “The

Fight for Freedom Committee,” said it “accepts the fact that we are at war” and pledged itself “to do whatever is necessary to insure a Hitler defeat.” In a bristling manifesto, the Committee declared: “The time has come for the vigorous use of our full resources. We must win the battle of production. We must use our shipping, our Navy, and our air force to help safeguard the transportation of vital supplies across the ocean. We must throw our full weight now into the fight for freedom, knowing that if this means war, it also means the surest and swiftest road to peace.” By accepting “the fact that we are at war, even though it may be undeclared,” the manifesto said, “we shall at last find a peace within ourselves which can never come as long as we seek safety at the cost of others’ sacrifice.” Head of the Committee is the Rt. Rev. Henry W. Hobson of Cincinnati, holder of the Distinguished Service Cross won in the World War and now bishop of the Episcopal diocese of southern Ohio. Among the more than 200 memstates claimed by the

Committee were listed the follow= |

g: Col. William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan; Joseph P. Lash, General Secretary of the International Students’ Service; Rupert Hughes; Herbert Agar, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal; Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation; Edna Ferber; Louis Adamic; Dr. L. M. Birkhead, head of Friends of Democracy; Barry Bingham, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal; Robert S. Allen, Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Record; Kenneth M. Crawford, Washington correspondent of PM; Maxwell Anderson, playwright, and scores of educators, industrialists, political leaders, and professional men and women. “We still are largely blind to the fact that there 1s no lasting choice between war and peace,” the Committee manifesto said. “We still think in terms of keeping out of a war in which we are already engaged in every sense except armed combat.”

BRITAIN SEEKS 1000 YOUNG U. S. DOCTORS

WASHINGTON, April 21 (U. P). —One thousand young American doctors today were asked to volunteer for service in Great Britain to meet ‘desperately’ acute needs of British military and civilian hospitals. President Roosevelt and the British Red Cross made the appeal, Mr. Roosevelt acting in his capacity as president of the American Red Cross. The American Medical Associa tion's Journal, in an editorial, assured Britain of “every possible assistance,” and revealed that the A. M. A has supplied the Red Cross with lists of eligible young doctors. It recalled that 1300 Amerfcan doctors went to Britain in 1917. The A. M. A's committee on| medical preparedness will aid in

selecting the volunteers and pass on their qualifications. The Division | of Medical Sciences of the National | Research Council has established a | special subcommittee on medical | personnel for Britain. { Chairman Norman H. Davis of | the American Red Cross said that | the plan had been approved by Secretary of War Henry L. Stim-| gson and Surgeon General Thomas | A. Parran, both of whom believed the United States “can and should” provide doctor doctors for Britain.

3 BEN DAVIS PUPILS | TAKE LATIN HONORS

Three Ben Davis High School | pupils won honors at the final of the state high school Latin contest held recently at Indiana University in Bloomington. Mary Elizabeth Bland, competing in the second division, won a gold medal for third place. Billy Rigot and Robert Konrad, both in the first division, won hon-|

| orable mention.

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73 Per Cent Still Opposed to Another A. E. F.;

Opposition to War Is Stable, Gallup Poll Finds

RINCETQN. N. J. April 21

How are the American people reacting to the latest events in the European war? The American Institute of Public Opinion has put a series of questions to men and women in every corner of the United States, in order to answer the following questions and others Have recent reverses for Brit ain and her Allies increased or decreased the American public's desire to help? What has been the trend of U. 8S. thinking on convoys? How have the average Americans views of the length and probable outcome of the war been affected by the latest events? = » » HILE the Institute's survey finds that a majority of are opposed to fighting even a “limited” war in Europe, probably no picture of U. 8S thinking is complete today which does not take the following phases of public opinion on the war into account: First and most important is the attitude on sending an army—another A. E. F.—abroad to fight.

From a score of surveys the Institute has found that the term the war” generally only one thing to the

voters

moans

American public—the dispatch of

men as in 1917. And on this ques-

These are the men and women who say “we shoulnn't send troops abroad now.” or “not at this time.” or “Churchill and Roosevelt both say the British need guns and tanks—not men.” But Washington observers and military writers have mentioned the possibility the United States might wage a “limited war" on the Axis, using either warships manned by U. S. seamen, warplanes with U. S. pilots or both.

How would the public respond to such proposals?

The results of the Institute's survey indicate that when the idea of American participation is limited to “part of our air force,” the 17 per cent willing to send men increases to 24 per cent. When participation is limited to “some of our warships,” the 17 per cent becomes 27 per cent. Here are two important phases of the public's attitude, hitherto unrevealed: “Do you think the United States should send part of our air force with American pilots to Europe to help the British?"

Favor Sending Part of Air Force ..... defetisitvs AU

Oppose Seading Part of Air Force

Undecided 7 “Do you think we should send

tion majority American opinion change later

continues to register an over. whelming “ne”

Opinion on the question has been remarkably stable so far, no matter what events have occurred in Europe. It is true, of course, that Americans have thus far been able to find numerous measures “short of war.”

Yet even at the height of Hitler's blitzkrieg in the West last spring—and at the peak of his raids on London in September— the Institute has never found quite a fifth of the voters of the country in favor of a “shooting war” with troops. The newest Institute tests show that this attitude has been holding firm. “Do you think the United States should send part of our Army to Europe to help the British?” men and women in a cross-section of the voting population were asked. Replies from every state in the Union show more than four out of five opposed:

Favor sending part of Army. 17% Oppose sending part of Army 79

HILE most voters show by their comments that they are opposed to sending troops on principle, many who oppose it in some of our warships manned today's survey indicate their with American sailors to Europe opinions might be subject to to help the British?” Wn

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| 1 | Favor Sending Some of | Our Warships Oppose Sending Some of Our Warships ‘is Undecided Noteworthy in today's tests is the division of opinion in different sections of the United States. The Midwest remains most non-inter-ventionist, while the relatively belligerent South votes 25 per cent for sending part of the Army, 36 per cent for sending air squadrons, and 40 per cent for sending U. 8S. warships manned by American sailors. The sectional vote:

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SEND PART OF ARMY?

Yes No Unde. New England and Mid-Atlantic .. 15% East Central ... 16 West Central .. 13 South ... 25 68 7 West ........... 1% 8 3 SEND PART OF AIR FORCE?

Yes No Unde. New England and Mid-Atlantic .. 229% 7% East Central ., 21 7 West Central .. 20 Sou sic 36 56 West . 26 67 SEND PART OF NAVY?

Yes No Unde. New England and Mid-Atlantic .. 24% Bast Central .. 27 West Central .. 21 South ..... ... 40 West SRR BARRY 20

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"Line Up

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PACE in to View Model Homes

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Present and prospective home owners were lined up all day yesterday, more than 100 deep, outside the three model homes at the Indianapolis Home S how in the Manufacturers’ Building at the State Fair

Grounds.

A part of the crowd waiting to see the medium price home, “The Home Marker,”

is shown

(foreground) while in the upper right is a group lined up beside “The All-American Home."

GARDEN GROUPS ATTEND SHOW

‘Mrs. Charles W. Sewell Is

Speaker at Luncheon; 1st Day Draws 15,000.

Members of the Garden Clubs of Indianapolis thronged the Manufacturers’ Building at the State Fair Grounds today as the 10-day Indianapolis Home Show, which opened Friday, cbserved “Garden Club Day.’ The members, who were responsible for the beautiful flower gardens which, with the three model homes, form the centerpiece of the show. held a luncheon at noon in the gardens. More than 400 were expected to attend. Mrs. Harold Hayes was the general chairman. The principal speaker was to he Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, Chicago, administration director of the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Inc. Meanwhile, J. Frank Cantwell, show manager, and other officials reported that attendance the first three days of the exposition was several thousand higher than for the same period last year. “All-Indiana Day” yesterday brought nearly 15,000 visitors from at least 31 Hoosier counties and from Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Missouri. The mecca of all the show visit ors is the “midway” where are located the gardens and the three model homes. The show will continue through next Sunday, with the doors opening at 11 a. m, and closing at 10:30 p. m. The admission is 40 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. Tomorrow has been designated as “Construction League and Architects’ Day."

| Davey of the Kolene Corp., Detroit,

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

T. B. Expert Will Speak—The 27th| Grotto Committee Meets — The annual meeting of the Marion telephone committee of the Wome , County Tubercu- en's Auxiliary of Sahara Grotto : Josie swuistion will meet at 12:30 p..m. tomorrow t the Hotel Lincoln [at the home of Mrs. Inez Crowley, will be featured 640 E. Drive, Woodruff Place. BY or a 2 The auxiliary is sponsoring a card baker Carlisle of |Party in Block's auditorium at 1:30 ! South Bend. (p. m. Thursday. Mrs. Charles P, a | Beckham is chairman. of Mrs. C. Wilbur Foster, 340 Kenyon,

Mr, Carlisle, : past president Tue! : will entertain the hospitality come perculosis Associa- | peo with a luncheon at 1 p. m,

the Indiana tion, will discuss Friday She will be assisted by The Spotlight [iC Emil J. Reinhart on Tuberculosis. x y : Two hundred persons are expected to attend. Three directors will be elected.

Mr. Carlisle

Medics Meet Tomorrow—The Ine dianapolis Medical Society of Mae rion County will meet at 8:15 p. m, tomorrow in the Indianapolis Athe letic Club. Speakers will include Chapter 364, O. E. S., will hold a Drs. T. E. Courtney, H. J. Weil, C, stated meeting at 8 p. m. today in|w pay, BE. O. Asher and W. Kelly, the Irvington Masonic Temple, 5515]. : y E. Washington St. An affiliation ceremony and anniversary party will be held. Nell M. Polk is worthy matron and Ralph Guthrie is worthy patron,

0. E. 8S. Group to Meet—Irvington

Grand Army Ladies Dine—The A. B. Streight Circle, Ladies of the Grand Army, will have a covered dish luncheon Thursday at Ft, Friendly.

SCHRICKER NAMES 2 TO SAFETY BOARD

Governor Henry F. Schricker day named Fred Eichhorn, chaire man of the Public Service Commis« sion, and James Adams, Highway Commission chairman, as members of the State Safety Committee Other members of the committee are by statute, Don F. Stiver, Stata

Dry Cleaners to Meet—J W, will be the guest speaker tonight at a meeting of the Insured Synthetic Dry Cleaners’ Association of Indiana at the Hotel Washington Mr. Davey will speak on “Metals

and Solvents.”

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K. of P. Past There will be a Marion County Council of Past Chancellors of the Knights of

Pythias at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the

Grand Lodge parlors. Safety Director; Ed Stein, Commis« Drill Team Plans Party—The drill sioner of the Bureau of Motor Ves

team of the Degree of Honor Lodge hicles and Dr. John W. Ferree, will give a luncheon and card party [State Health director. at noon tomorrow in the Food| The Committee studies

Officers Meet meeting of the

and coe

Craft Shop, 220 Century Bldg. Mrs. | [ordinates State highway Thelma E. Deer is chairman. | problems

traffie

Will Stage

formal dining

MARJORIE THORSH of Chicago is a celebrated interior decorator and originator of the ''Per. sonality Chart" as a guide

to home decorators.

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TOMORROW at 2

In two acts and three scenes presenting the art of in-

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INDIANA STATE LIBRARY

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Auditorium, Eighth Floor

Helen Sprackling

HELEN SPRACKLING of

York, nationally known lecturer, aus

New

thor, and authority on entertaining, Mrs. Sprackling will be available for consultation Friday from 10:00 te 12:00 and from 2:00 to 4:00; Sate urday from 10:00 to 12:00 only, China Dept., Fifth Floor

WEDNESDAY, April 23rd

Marjorie Thorsh vil stage

“Mirror Your Personality in Your Home”

Three scenes using live models to show persone

ality types J

THURSDAY, April 24th’

Helen Sprackling

will present

“The Live Dinner Party”

A formal dinner served on the stage with coms

ments by Helen Sprackling

SEE THE “HOME WEEK” DISPLAYS IN ALL HOME FURNISHINGS DEPARTMENTS

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