Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1941 — Page 10

E. T. TAYLOR, OLDEST

ISIGN FOR DEFENSE To Help Cupid GLASSES TONIGHT| HOUSE MEMBER, DIES

RIC. IND, Va., Sept. 4 (U. Rep. Edward T. Taylor (D. Colo.), P.).—The State C orporati on Com- Registration for the 11th defense oldest member of the House of Rep-

Jesse Pritchett Stricken on

Way Home From Office THNKING LEVEL’ CAN'T KEEP

BALL MUST PAY GRANDMA IN

IN FEDERAL SUIT

Financier Held Liable for ‘Certain’ Debts of the Van Sweringens.

George A. Ball, Muncie manufacturer and financier, has been held liable by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell for certain labilities

of the Van Sweringen partnership in the defunct Mid-America Corp. The amount of the liabilities will not be determined until after adJudication of two other similar suits now pending against Mr. Ball and the George and Frances M. Ball Foundation. : The ruling yesterday came in a suit filed last January by Rodney P. Lien, Ohio superintendent of banks in charge of liquidating the Union Ttust Co. Cleveland. The case dates back to the financial difficulties of the Van Sweringen partnership resulting in partnership pledging certain securities to a Morgan syndicate as collateral for a loan. Unable to pay the debt, the partnership so notified the syndicate in May, 1935, and the securities were advertised for sale.

Entered Into Agreement

The Van Sweringen brothers— ©. P. and M. J—then went to Muncie and entered into an agreement with Mr. Ball for the formation of Mid-America Corp. to buy in the securities. Judge Baltzell held yesterday that the partnership had an interest in 8250 shares of stock held in escrow by Mid-America for the partnership at the time the brothers died—in 1935 and 1936. Mr. Ball, under the ruling, now must turn back to creditors of MidAmerica the value of the 8250 shares as of April, 1937. This value will be determined after hearings following adjudication of the other Ball suits.

10 SENTENCED IN PARIS

BERLIN, Sept. 4 (U. P.).—An official news agency dispatch from Paris said today that the “special anti-Communist court” there had sentenced 10 persons, including one

Jesse C. Pritchett, nationally known bowling champion, who had racked up‘ more records than he could remember, died yesterday afterron after he was strf*ken on the way home from his office. Mr. Pritchett, who was president of the recreation company bearing

his name at 37 E. Maryland St. became ill and stopped in at the apartment of a friend at 1226 N. Illinois St. He died a short time later. In ill health for the past three years, Mr. Pritchett was 57 and lived at 1125 Pomander Place. He was born near Cataract Falls in Owen County and had lived in In- | dianapolis since childhood. It was 43 years ago that Mr, Pritchett first started to establish himself among the bowling’s “greats.” At that time he began to develop his own style of bowling

leagues at 15. Perfect Game at 19

He was the first in Indianapolis to average 200 in league competition. When he was 18, he led his team with a 617 in a tournament at Buffalo. At the age of 19, Mr. Pritchett achieved what every bowler strives for—the perfect game. He rolled his 12 consecutive strikes in one game at Tomlinson Hall. Since that time, Mr. Pritchett had repeated his “300” game at least 11 times. He attended almost every American Bowling Congress since the classic started in 1901. Among the records that brought Mr. Pritchett’s bowling stock tothe attention of the nation’s army of pin topplers were: A 778 score in the Midwest tourney at St. Louis in 1933; one of the largest individual totals ever piled up in a major tournament. A three-game score of 813 rolled here. A perfect game—300—in the Elks’ National Bowling Tournament at Cleveland, one of the few perfect scores bowled in a tournament. Mr. Pritchett was known here in sport circles in his youth also as an amateur baseball player. He

woman, to terms of from two to 12 years in prison.

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also played with the old WisconsinIllinois League. He was offered the managership of a Green Bay, Wis., baseball club in 1913, but refused in order to take a business position here. He was president of the Indianapolis Bowling Alley Proprietors Association and the International Bowling Alley Proprietors Associaon. He also was a member of the Optimist Club, Mystic Tie Lodge, 398, F. & A~M, the Elks Lodge and the Memorial Presbyterian Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Pritchett; a son, Jesse C. Pritchett Jr.; a sister, Mrs. Bunie

Pritchett III, and Duane Pritchett, all of Indianapolis. " Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the McNeely & Sons Mortuary, 1828 N. Meridian St. - Burial will be in Crown Hill,

STATE REFUSES 5 PAROLE PLEAS

Commission Grants One to Life-Termer Since 1926.

Parole pleas of five Marion County inmates of the State Reformatory were rejected today by the State Clemency Commission. They were Clarence Ikenbrands, sentenced March 4, 1938, to 10 years in connection witk a filling station holdup; Clyde Sheridan, sentenced Jan. 4, 1937, to a term of five to 21 years for assault and battery with intent io rape; Ernest Rutan, sentéhced Dec. 24, 1940 to one to 10 years for grand larceny in connection with the holdup of a grocery; Grant 3 Paroles

Byron Carnine and Harry Steven-

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year terms for robber Th 8 2 a series

larceny in connection of ‘holdups. The Commission granted three paroles. One of them was to Homer Northerton, who was sentenced in 1926 to a life term for second degree murder in connection with a aice-game killing. Northerton, who was 21 at the time of the murder, was convicted of the fatal stabhing of McKinley Williams with: whom he became involved in an argument, - The Clemency Commission stated that he had maintained a ‘good record at the Prison and had been a trusty for five years. He was sentenced from Vanderburgh County.

RITES ARE SET FOR OTIS I. MASTEN, 61

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in Shirley Brothers’ Central Chapel for Otis I. Masten, who|a died Tuesday in Methodist Hospital. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mr. Masten, who was 61 and lived at 710 Laverock Road, was owner and Eoperaior of the Masten Printin Er are his wife, Mrs. Hazel Masten; two sons, Otis N. Masten and Fletcher Rahke; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Ross and Mrs. Marvin Miller, and his mother, Mrs. Dora O. Masten, all of Indianapolis.

SHEEFERS RITES HELD

Funeral services for Mrs. Barbara Scheefers were held at 9:30 a. m. today at the Flanner and Buchanan Mortuary, and at 10 a. m. ‘in SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral. Burial was in Crown Hill. Mrs. Scheefers died Monday at her howe, 421 E. 19th St.

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Tests Show Graduates Here Now Are Far Ahead of Those in 1919.

The level of thinking of three-

| fourths of present-day Indianapolis

high school graduates is on a par

with the top one-fourth of the 1919]

graduates, DeWitt S. Morgan, super-

' | intendent of schools, said today.

He told 2000 teachers, assembled for the annual school opening meeting, that tests given seniors of 1919

proved this.

“The thinking citizen says ‘Train|

our children to think.’ And we answer ‘We are.’ ” Dr. Morgan said.

level of thinking of the generation which preceded them.” He also pointed out that the schools have also kept a larger per cent of all present-day pupils in school that in the last generation.

Progress Measured

Dr. Morgan said the test of high school students in May this year was a comprehensive survey of their achievements in reading, spelling, arithmetic, language usage, English, literature, grammar, science, history and social studies. To measure the progress of the last 20 years, the pupils were given a test that was given 22 years ago to 5700 seniors of the high schools of Indiana by Dr. William F. Book, then professor of educational psychology and director of the psychological laboratory at Indiana Unive

High Achievement Level

The ability of the 1941 seniors in reading, spelling, arithmetic and language usage was measured by a nationally recognized and standardized achievement test. “Of the 2745 pupils who took the reading test, 1806 proved they had reached a level of achievement that is distinctly and significantly high in reading ability,” Dr. Morgan said. “On the spelling test, 1445 pupils proved they had reached a similarly high level. In arithmetic tests the number reaching that high level was- only 784, but it is significant that the ability to do arithmetic reasoning was higher than the ahility to do actual computation. This likely is in keeping with the facts revealed in the test of ability to reason logically and to perform other general mental functions. “In language usage, 1288 of the 2745 reached the same high level of achievement attained by the 1860 in reading.

Seniors a Busy Lot

“These seniors of 1941 were and are a busy lot; they were and are active in very ‘much of community value. “Seventy-three per cent hold a church membership; 30 ‘per cent were employed for wages while going to school; 34 per cent play a musical instrument; 16 per cent were in activities outside of the school which were preparing them for a definite occupational place in the community, and 81 per cent were active patrons of the public i-

“Definitely it is a group with purpose and aim. Only 2 per cent of all these 3000 people failed to give positive indication of a definite plan for the future. “Twenty-nine per cent plan to enter college this month; 18 per cent more plan to work now and go to' college later on. And all of the others have plans which are equally definite, according to means and inclinations. “It is in the slow building of the towers of youth that we make our fundamental contribution to democracy. “Upon a nation of people who will think for themselves, who reason, who understand the true meaning of the spoken and written word, who discern justice, who understand what a struggle it is to achieve it —upon people of qualities such as these, and many more, we must rely to save democracy now and to build a @afe society for the future.” ans Woollen Jr. school board president, greeted the teachers with brief address. :

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