Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1941 — Page 17

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VOGLER HEADS DEFENSE UNIT

Named by Wick Wickard, New Farm Co-ordinating Bureau Chief.

Times Special

WASHINGTON, July 7—L. Marshall Vogler, Indiana director of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, today was named head of the newly created Agriculture Defense Board for Indiana by Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard. Secretary Wickard, serving as chief of Agricultural Defense Relations, a post to which he was appointed over the week-end by President Roosevelt, is creating agriculture defense boards in each state for the purpose of co-ordinating agricultural activities with the defense #” program. Agriculture defense boards will be set up by the state boards in each county. Mr. Vogler is expected to begin setting up county boards in Indiana when he returns from his vacation next week.

Defense Put First

Serving with Mr. Vogler on the Indiana State Board will be representatives of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Farm Security Administration, Soil Conservation Service, Farm Credit Administration, Surplus Marketing Administration, Agricultural Marketing Service, Forest Service, Rural Electrification Administration and the State Extension Director. . “National defense is the first order of business in the U. S. Department of Agriculture for the duration of the mergency,” Mr. Wickard explained in his order creating the various state boards. ; Congress appropriated $1,202.917,719 for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year beginning July 1, and authorized Mr. Wickard to borrow an additional $270,000,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. This makes Mr. Wickard the first |S Hoosier in history with more than a billion dollars to spend in one year. .

Seek ‘Aroused Consciences’

Officials here said Mr. Wickard’s program was intended, in" part, to “arouse the consciences of farmers” to the need for speedy all-out defense production and aid to Britain. Mr. Wickard said the boards will be responsible for Keeping the department’s field personnel fully informed on defense needs. The farm program already is meeting increased defense ‘demands, including supplies of food and fiber to Great Britain.

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Services for two young drowning victims, one a Harvard University student who died trying to save the other, a 10-year-old girl, were being arranged today. The victims were Clifford Sterling Meier, 22., of 3768 N. Emerson Ave., and Betty Jewell Crandall of 606 Ingomar Ave. They drowned when a boat containing six persons nosed under the water on the East Branch of White River near Huron, 11 miles south of Mitchell, Saturday as an outboard motor on the rear of the boat was started. Services for the girl will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow at her home, and burial will be in Floral Park. Mr. Meier’s services will be at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow at Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary and burial will be in ‘Memorial Park.

Plowed Below Surface

Eye-witnesses on the river bank said the flat-bottom -boat appeared too light for the heavy outboard motor and the boat plowed below the surface as soon as the motor was started, immersing the occupants. Mr. Meier attempted to save the little girl, who clutched him about the neck. They both sank immediately and the bodies were not recovered until three hours later, about 15 feet from where the boat sank in deep water. Others in the boat were: Mrs. Nolan Petty, 1833 W. Washington St., Apt. 5, the girl's aunt; Hughes Smith, 3802 Emerson Ave. close friend of Mr. Meier, and Vincent Crandall, 14, and Emil Crandall, 13, brothers of the drowned girl.

Bought Camp Recently The tragedy occurred near the river camp purchased recently by Mr. Meier’s father, president of the Clif Meier Coal Co. here, where young Meier and Mr. Smith were vacationing. The Crandall girl had gone with her family on a motor trip and they stayed overnight Friday with the Pettys, who were at a farm near the river. Mr. Meier, who knew Mr. Petty, invited the group to take a boat ride. ‘The girl, a fifth grade pupil at the Ben Davis Grade School and a member of the Westbrook Church of the Nazarene, is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Crandall. Mr. Crandall is a heat treater

MALAN APPOINTS 7 ON COMMITTEE

A seven-member committee was named today by Dr. Clement T. Malan, State Superintendent of

Public Instruction, to work out a program for the teaching of religion in the public schools of Indiana. The committee will meet soon, elect a chairman and begin work. Named to the committee were Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht; I's. J. H. Smiley, president of the Indiana Council of Churchwomen; E. T. Albertson, general secretary of the Indiana Council of Christian Education; Msgr. Henry F. Dugan, chancellor of the Indianapolis Diocese of the Catholic Church, all of Indianapolis; John S. Hussey, Hamilton County superintendent of schools; M. C. Darnall, superintendent of city schools of Crawfordsville, and Dr. Edward R. Bartlett, professor of religious education, DePauw University. Dr. Malan discussed the possibility of teaching religion in public schools recently with representatives of various church groups and all of them were reported to be in favor of the adoption of such a course of study. The task of the committee appointed today will be to work out a course of study which will be agreeable to all church groups.

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at the Schwitzer-Cummins Co. Other survivors are seven brothers, Rex, Max, Allan, Vincent, Emil Dale and Glenn Crandall, and one sister, Doris.

Mr. Meier was a graduate of Tech High School, where he was a cadet major in the R. O. T. C. He was graduated from Purdue University, where he was known to his friends as “Stubby,” and had been attending the Harvard University school of business. He was head yell leader at Purdue.

Following his graduation from Purdue in 1938, he had spent one summer working in West Virginia coal mines and had traveled widely. He was a member of Alpha Kappa Lambda Fraternity and the Prentice Presbyterian Church.

He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford S. Meier, and a brother, Lieut. Hix W. Meier, serving with the U. S. Army in the Philippines.

HURTS DEFENSE

Leavenworth ‘Sit-Down’ for Overtime Affects Orders For Army.

LEAVENWORTH, Kas. July 7 (U. P.).—The shoe and brush factories at the Federal penitentiary

were idle today, closed by the na-|.

tion’s strangest strike affecting national defense orders. Eleven hundred convicts who manned the machinery turning out work brushes and 2000 pairs of shoes daily for the Army were on strike, protesting a Bureau of Prisons’ order July 1 increasing their work week from 39 to 44 hours. Warden Robert H. Hudspeth said that the strike began Thursday when the convicts sat down at their lathes and refused to work. There was no demonstration and after lunch the men were returned to their cells. - There has been no further attempt to operate the factories, he said. ‘He was investigating the prisoners’ demands for double pay for all work exceeding 38 hours a week, increases in the nominal pay which is credited to their accounts and paid upon their release from prison, and additional allowances of time off their sentences for good behavior. His report will go to Director of Prisons J. D. Bennett at Washington and Hudspeth said Bennett had ordered the factories to remain closed until he could study the reports and recommend action.

WOMEN ARE ELIGIBLE FOR LIFEGUARD JOBS

BUFFALO, N. Y. (U. P.).—For the first time in city history, women will be eligible to compete in tests for lifeguard appointments at the city’s numerous swimming pools. The Municipal Civil Service Commission said the step was a necessary one to release young men for defense production.

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Poll Reveals Inequalities In Rise of National Income

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N. J, July 7— Does the average American consider himself better off financially today than he was a year ago? Despite the fact that billions of dollars are being pumped into the national economy for defense production, and that factories are running night and day and new jobs opening up, ‘a nation-wide survey shows that the new prosperity is by no means evenly distributed throughout the population. For every three persons who say they are better off financially, there are two who say they are not so well off now as a year ago. To measure the psychological factor as well as the general improvement in income, the Institute conducted its survey among persons in all income levels on the following issue: “Financially, are you better off, or worse off than last year?” The national results are:

Better Off ........... “aware Same Worse Off .........cvvrvnees

Translated in terms of individuals in the voting population, the results would indicate that roughly 18,000,000 are better off, 30,000,000 have been unaffected, and 12,000,000 actually claim to be worse off. - Especially significant are the geographical and occupational differences in the prosperity picture today. The situation is not unlike that which prevailed in the fabulous 1920’s. While the nation as a whole was enjoying an unparalleled prosperity, great farm areas in the Middle West were experiencing a hard and bitter depression, with farmers going bankrupt and smalltown banks in great numbers closing their doors. The sectional results for the survey are given below, eliminat-

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HOTEL CLERK AND JEWELS MISSING

CARMEL, Cal, July 7 (U. P.) — A missing hotel clerk and $100,000 worth of jewels belonging to Mrs. Edwina Kimsley Mandel of Chicago were sought throughout the West today. Police Chief Roy C. Fraties of Carmel broadcast a request to other police to arrest Leonard Steinert, 40, who disappeared from his post at a resort hotel desk here shortly after accepting “at least 15” of Mrs. Mandel’'s jewels for safekeeping.

BRIDE WEARS ’CHUTE THAT SAVED HUBBY

BUFFALO, N. Y. (U. P.).—When Richard K. West made a forced landing several years ago, he never dreamed that the parachute he used would one day become the gown of his bride. But it was. Miss Betty Lingle, Evanston, Ill, wore a bridal gown made from the parachute when she was married to West.

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COUNCIL SCANS PAY INCREASES

to Boost Fireman’s Pay Forecast.

An ordinance that would authorize a 15 per cent increase in pay for all City firemen was scheduled to be given thir dreading before City Council tonight. Opposition to the ordinance was expected to develop among Councilmen, some of whom have suggested that the increase be put into the Fire Department's budget for 1942 instead of by ordinance now. City Hall officials predicted defeat of the pay increase ordinance. The Council also was to give final reading to an ordinance

automobiles for the Police Department, the total price not to exceed $3870. Another ordinance asking appropriation of $5000 to the Park De- | partment for various additional] recreation facilities also was scheduled to be given to Councii. Final reading on other ordinances to fix parking limitations on several streets were due to be acted upon.

HOGS REACH 4-YEAR TOP Another record in hog prices was

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