Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1941 — Page 3

"TEACH SCI SCIENCE,

TRUSTEES TOLD fj

Needed to Prepare Pupls|

For Jobs, Educator Says; - Act on U. S. Aid.

By NOBLE REED More progress in rural schools of

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Indiana was urged today at the an-|

nual convention of the State Town-

ship Trustees Association at :the|.

Claypool Hotel. : Trustees were warned by Prof. F. B. Knight, Purdue University Education Department director, that they must seek a “rebirth of science ; teaching in high schools. “The teaching of science in high

schools, especially in smaller com-|

munities is going to ‘pot’,” Prof. Knight said. “Educators and industrialists are beginning to cooperate in a program to raise the science teaching in schools to equip the. youth of the nation to meet the future mechanical age.”

. Favors County-Wide Plan

Prof. Knight also urged trustees to develop township school programs on a county-wide basis for the most effective results in. progressive education. “County school superintendents under the present setup are the forgotten men of the school system,” he'said. “There are a dozen experts holding the hands of the county agricultural agent that there is nobody to counsel the school superintendent.” Prof. Knight warned trustees that they must guard against the “creeping cynicism among teachers who are becoming discouraged as the gap between their salaries and the cost of living closes. Close attention should be paid to salary adjustments.” Wants Job Preparation

Prof. Lark Horovitz, head of the Purdue Physics Department, urged trustees to co-operate with educators and government officials to bring science ‘to the citizens. “The most important responsibility of the schools is to prepare pupils for jobs and a higher standard of science teaching is the best way to achieve preparedness,” he said. . Robert H, Wyatt, executive secretary -of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association, warned trustees that they must guard against the drainage of teaching .talent from rural schools.

Cities Call Teachers

“Most of the best teachers in rural schools are gradually being @taken by larger city schools, leaving the township schools with lower standards,” he said. Mr. Wyatt said the most important duty of trustees and teachers is to ‘turn out men and women who will make democracy work.” O. M. Swihart, St. Joseph County

Mrs. Buenaman

A pamphlet issued by the Ine diana Historical Bureau for “Indiana Day” will be distributed throughout the public schools by the auxiliary to the Bruce Robison Pest Unit 133, American Legion. The pamplet has been published

DUAL-LANED 40 OPENS IN WEEK

Only Mile Between Here And Terre Haute Unfinished; East of City Next.

The long-awaited dream of many motorists and Highway Commission officials—a multiple and dual-lane highway" from Indianapolis to Terre Haute—will be virtually realized by a week from tomorrow. Highway Commission officials said today that Road 40, which has been closed to through traffic since last March for the dual-laning of 18 miles between Plainfield and Bridgeport and Brazil and Putnamville, i will be opened to traffic again. All of the dual-laning will be complete except for one mile between the State Farm and Putnamville

School superintendent, said there|ynere construction work is still go-

are three fundamentals for the maintenance of home rule. “There must be free thought and expression, representative governA and private enterprise,” he

Asks Welfare Test

Virgil Sheppard, assistant admin- - istrator of the State Welfare Dee partment, asked trustees to withhold their judgment as to the “suc cess or failure of the Welfare Department’s administration of the new medical aid legislation until welfare units have had several months experience.” He was disc details of the new 1941 law providing for county welfare departments to take over medical aid for the needy. Some trustees previously had declared the new law was vague and _ unworkable. “The act has not in any way restricted further the township trus-|n tees in supplying medical care for the needy,” Mr. Sheppard said.

State Offers Help

Trustees can legally continue to furnish the aid, he said, but the law provides that welafre departments should take over the service trustees are financially unable to provide. © | Mr. Sheppard pledged: the “fullest co-operation” of the Welfare Department to the trustees in administering the program, Harry Miesse, secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers Association, was to give a speech urging trustees to keep down tax rates by strict economy policies because of heavy Federal taxation. The Trustees’ Association resolution committee today was considering a tentative draft of proposals to be voted on tomorrow. One resolution would oppose the acceptance by trustees of Federal grants for township schools on the ground that such appropriations would result in eventual control of - local. education by the “Federal Government.

Oppose Welfare Move Another resolution will oppose plans of the State Welfare Depart ment to take over certifications for|, WPA, surplus commodities i Stamp Plan of distributing food to: the

needy. 7 _ Meeting st the same convention |

the trustees were 11 other or=| Fanitions of the Tans Gout | ) Officials Association.

and the

ing on, Commission engineers said. Call for Bids Dec. 16

Motorists going over the road will find practically all of the highway between the two cities dual-lane, two lanes separated by a parkway. Only a very small portion of the road is three-lane. Highway Commission officials are now turning their attention to the dual-laning of those portions of Road 40 east of the city which have only the regular 22-foot pavement. Bids are to be received by the Commission on Dec. 16 for the dualIaning of six miles of Road 40 east from Greenfield. Three bridges will be built on these six miles of road. Bids will be taken for dual-laning other portions of the highway later. The Commission also will receive bids Dec. 16 for the paving of four and one-half miles of Road 534, the new access road to Ft. Harrison from Road 413.

STUDENTS NAMED™TO BUTLER COMMITTEES

The oppointment of eight : students to serve on Butler faculty committees was announced today by}. Herbert Schwomeyer, president .of

the Butler Student Council. They are Virginia Poe and Rathleen Shockley, to serve on the religious activities committee, headed by Dr. Ross-J. Griffeth, and Robert Jacoby and Robert Pittenger, serving on the Men’s Council, of which Dr. Henry ‘G. Nester is chairman. Ruth Becktenwall and Louise Balay will serve on the Women’s Advisory Board under the chairmanship of Dean Elizabeth B. Ward, and Herbert Spencer and Mildred Reimer have been chosen to work with the Sadent publications committee in charge of Dr. C. Mervin Palmer. fh

Mr. Stinebaugh

in observance of the 125th anniversary of Indiana’s entry into the Union next Thursday. Mrs. Ralph R. Lynch, chairman of the .auxiliary’s Americanism Committee, presented the pamphlet to Virgil Stinebaugh, assistant superintendent of public

321 Clothed

$277 More Helps Swell Children’s Fund To $2338,

CONTRIBUTIONS totaling $277 were added to The Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child fund yesterday as 52 e children were clothed to bring the campaign total to 321 children clothed. The largest cash contribution was from J. W. Mull Jr. for $150. The total contributed to date is

$2338.15. Of the 321 children already clothed, five have been clothed directly by donors. One was clothed yesterday by . Rosemary Redding of The Times staff. Other cash contributions were: City and County Relief As-'" sociation

Mrs. Lynch

schools, yesterday as Mrs. Walter Buenaman, auxiliary president, looked on. Mr. Stinebaugh is chairman of a8 Gestiberaey committee whose" purpose is to re-emphasize the teaching of SemoeIacy in the schools.

CLEAN HOUSE

"LABOR WARNED

Tobin Says Factions Must Heal Own Wounds; Hits Smith Bill.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—House passage of the Smith anti-strike bill should be a “warning to organized labor to clean its own house of crooks and Communists,” Daniel J. Tobin of Indianapolis, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs and, Helpers,

said today. Mr. Tobin, a vice-president ¢ of the American Federation of Labor, is here representing his union before the Defense Mediation Board. Yesterday he was a luncheon guest of |

| President Roosevelt, and they con-

00 [ferred for an hour and one-half.

0.00 Golden Rule Auxiliary, O.E.S.- 5.00

MORE WITNESSES IN HITCH TRIAL CALLED

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Dec, 4 (U. P.) —Additional witnesses were called by the State today to testify in the first-degree murder trial of Paul Hitch, 39-year-old highway laborer accused of the fatal shooting of Scott Gerald . (Bunny) Carver. after a drinking spree Sept. 13. Eight witnesses were called yesay, including ‘Montgomery* Corolf Br. T. Z. Ball. . He testified to g Carver's bullet-shatterad body lying hefore his squalid home in Crawfordsvilles Shantytown settlement. According to an’ alleged confession State Police claim Hitch made, the shooting climaxed .a love triangle - involving Mrs. Mary Knee, |2 28-year-old Shantytown woman, whom. Hitch said gave him the gun to shoot Carver. The woman is also awaiting trial on a murder charge.

WATCH PICKET LINE AFTER UNION SLAYING

FLINT, Mich., Dec. 4 (U.P) — Fatal stabbing of a C. I. O. union

organizer prompted police today to great

impose close guard over a C. I. O. picket line protesting the Hotel

Durant’s contract with the rival A.}.

F. of L. culinary workers’ union.

Samuel Waters, 30, an automo-{;

bile worker engaged as an organizer

for the Allied Service Workers (C.|: I. 0), was killed last night in aly scuffie with- Otto Druhg, chief cook|

Of the hotel and head of the A. F. of L. union.

{never be approved by the Sena

~The bill passed by, the House will |my opinion,” Mr. Tobin said. “But lit 4s such things as the ill-timed strike in the captive coal mines which brought on this drastic re-

action, Seek a Warning

“There is a ‘shortage of labor now, and the mén are determined to demand their. rights. But it is the bad effects from the crooks and Communists in a few unions which injure all organized labor. vote should be. a waming to clean house. “On the other hand, when unions like ours spends days here trying to win a just decision from the mediation board, when we could probably win with a strike in'about 24 hours, that also should be taken into account by Congress.” Mr. Tobin pointed .out that radicals recently ousted by his union ab lis were convicted only this week of subversive activity, en the President asked me about ‘the Murray plan for defense councils in each basi¢ indusfry; consisting of labor, management and

gins practicing as a physician,” Tobin said.

Let's Clean House “IT am a long-time friend and admirer

i Lothain Teetor of Hagerstown, Per-

: elected 3 Chamber’s

3 : bia Club. Rep. John W. Boehne Jr. |alone sing,” the co-ed said last

| Borinstein of Indianapolis, head of |: ’ adopted singing as her career, mostly

This Wayne, Indiana Service Corp. presi-

Philip |ernor from among Albert Herzog,

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uthenburg of po ; New President; Chamber ~ Asks Spending Limit.

Servel, Inc., president, was the new head of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce today. He succeeded|¥

fect Circle Co. president. ‘The Evansville manufacturer was yesterday by the State directors after a general membership meeting a

president of the Northern Indiana Public Service Co., was elected first vice-president; George F. Olive of Indianapolis, head of the accounting firm which bears his name, second vice-president; John W. Crise of Ft. Wayne, executive assistlant of the General Electric Co., third - vice-president, and Louis J:

the A. Borinstein Co., treasurer.

Spending Limit Urged The Chamber adopted resolutions urging limitation of both defense and non-defense expenditures to essentials, opposing federalization of unmployment compensation, expan ‘social insurance and asking Congress to revise the National Labor Relations Act, the Wage-Hour Act and the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injuction Act. The Chamber also askéd the limitation of any price control legislation approved by Congress to the defense emergency only and limitation of State and local tax loads. Looking into the future, the Chamber predicted that a shortage of consumers’ goods: during’ the deferise emergency may “whet the public’s appetite” for more goods after the emergency is ended.

Deny Depression Likely

It expressed the view that after th war, production can resume its normal course and American industry can win back foreign trade. The idea that a post-war depression of 1929-32 proportions is an inevitable result of this war, the Chamber regarded as “ridiculous.” New directors named for three years are Charles H. Buesching of Fort Wayne, Lincoln ‘ Natjonal Bank and Trust Co. president; Berry Cooper of Anderson, DelcoRemy Division comptroller; C. A. Keller, Corydon, Keller Manufacturing Co. president. Qtto Frenzel of Indianapolis, Indiana Trust Co. president; Paul Kerr of Elkhart, Weis Manufacturing Co. president; Paul W. McKee of Hartford City, Overhead Door Corp. vice president; A. W. Metzjs|ger of Indianapolis, Kroger ‘Grocery and Baking Co. branch manBe and J. E. Otis Jr. of MishkDodge Manufacturing Co. laut Hi _ Directors Re-elected

Directors WHO were re-elected for three-year are: Benjamin Blumberg | erm Terre Haute, M. Blumberg Co. James F. Carroll, of Indianapolis, Indiana Bell Telephone Co. president; William H. Myers of Terre Haute, Wabash Fibre Box Co. executive, and Mr. Ruthenburg. Directors élected for a one-year term are Paul M. Bogart of Terre Haute, Merchants National Bank president; Marshall Dale, of Ft.

dent; J. C. Johnston of Greensburg, Charles H. Johnston & Son Co., and Charles S. McGill of Valparaiso, McGill Manufacturing Co. cal,

YREKA, Cal, Dec. 4 (U, P)— Delegates - of four rebellious California and Oregon . counties - today will select a provisional governor of the proposed 49th state of Jefferson. Delegates from the - counties of Trinity, Del Norte and 8iskiyou, be | Tas and Curry, Oregon,

‘lto draw attention to the alleged failure of the states to construct roads to valuable but remote mineral deposits, will choose a gov-

78-year-old mayor of Yreka; Edwin Regan of Weaverville, district at‘torney: of Trinity County, and Judge John C. Childs of Crescent City, Del Norte County, : “Horssiien today today placed barricades across U. B. Highway 99 to’ stop motorists and inform them of the

gericAL WE

Lous Futhenburg of ‘Evansville, Bram sponsor,

‘49TH STATE’ ELECTS| ITS FIRST - GOVERNOR|

| which launched the secession move i

Miss’ Phyllis Wilcox, Indisnspolis) § Joosed at Indiana University, has been notified of her selection as one of three finalists in the “Hour of Charm” radio audition contest. She will receive a

national honors at New York, Dec.

Pe Phyllis, a 19-year-old coloratura, wins the national contest, she will be given $4000 to be used in establishing music fellowships to be awarded in her name.

She’s Excited “I'm so excited, I can’t talk, Tet

night when told of her selection. She came a long way before she even got a chance to appear on the national program contest. She sang her way through a lot of Indiana University competition before be‘ing selected to represent the University in natjonal competition and sing with Phil Spitalny’s orchestra on the “Hour of Charm” program. Petite and pretty, Miss Wilcox has

because she-does it so well. For the past three years, beginning when she was a senior at Technical High School, . there has been an evergrowing demand for her appearances around town at teas, luncheons and club meetings.

Won 1. U. Scholarship

It was natural, then, for her to abandon her original ambition of becoming a librarian. She did that i when Indiana University. gave her a Year's scholarship to Say) music, Miss Wilcox is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Wilcox of 36 N. Webster Ave. She began singing as most singers do, around the house. Then she started singing in the Irvington Methodist Church choir. At Tech, she sang in the campus glee clubs. Her first public appearance was at a church tea. She was 17 (that was two years ago) and she said her knees shook. She sang “My Hero” from the Chocolate Soldier. “I really enjoyed it so much that I wanted to continue,” she said, “and so I was delighted when I was asked to sing Which is a frank statement from a young lady who genuinely wants to sing because she loves it. That's evident from her charming stage presence.

Sang in Glee Club

Last year, as a freshman, she sang in the Girls’ Glee Club at I. U. and this year she is singing in the Concert Choir. She has been taking singing lessons intermittently since she was a senior in High School both here and at the University. Last summer, Miss Wilcox was working in a downtown department store - when she was notified that {she had been chosen with 10 other girls in the music department to try out for the “Hour of Charm.” ‘She practiced: a little and when she went back to school, she sang in the local contest. She and two other girls were chosen to make records by three members of the orchestra. ‘When the records were played before the entire “Hour of Charm” orchestra in New York, Miss Wilcox

$1000 award] from the Great Bietizle CO. pro-| and will compete for|

ve over a nation-wide radio hook- |

“In 'Hour of Cl Charm Finls|

Phyllis Wilcox

was chasen to represent Indiana. She was the first of the 10 contestants to sing over the radio and her number was “The Last Rose of Summer.” That briefly is the story of a young Indianapolis soprano who has pinned her hopes on a musical career and is seeing them come true. - Since her radio appearance, the Blues for her performances have increased, not only because of significance attached -to such a debut but because a number of people heard her and liked her, Her accompanist is another Indiana sophomore co-ed, Doris Millen of Evansville, whose ambition is to become a professional accompanist. Miss Millen is rooting for Miss Vilcox in the “Hour of Charm” contest. o is Indianapolis.

SEEK WAY TO SPEED WAR AID TO RUSSIA

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (U. P.).— Delivery of the war equipment to the Soviet Union is lagging behind United States commitments made at the recent Moscow conference and Administration officials have begun ga survey of transportation facilities to correct the situation, it was disclosed today.

patched under the lend-lease program was described as “substanJ The survey is being rushed, presumably at the request of the White House. It will seek to iron out two major problems in the transportation bottleneck: 1. Insufficient numbers of ships for the Russian assignment. 2. Inadequate landing, storage and fransportation, facilities: at the northern of Archangel and along the’ a Gulf route from ‘Basra. The third possible route, via Vladivostok, is threatened PY. the Far Eastern crisis.”

ADVISES DUTCH TO LEAVE HONGKONG, Dec. 4 (U. P.). — The Netherlands. consul general foday advised Dutch nationals to evacuate Hongkong. Similar action was taken by the United States

Consulate General last week,

Shipments to the Russians have] been below our promises for 60 days,| although the amount of aid dis-|

DENTIST FR tl IN CHECK CAS

Evidence Lacking Since Was Written to ‘Cash,’ Prosecutors Say.

An ‘affidavit charging Dr. Hugh M. Enyart, dentist, with issuing fraudulent check, was dismissed Municipal Court 4 today by Depu Prosecutors Wilbur Royse and gene Fife. : Mr. Royse explained that the cs was dismissed because of insuf cient evidence due to a technicality, “The check in question was is sued to ‘cash’ and not to an ind vidual or firm, therefore we ca make a case on the evidence,” Royse said.

Seized on Vagrancy Charge The deputy prosecutor said his

|office did not learn of the techni-

cality in the case until after the case had been called for trial. 1 Dr. Enyart: had been held on a vagrancy charge. Yesterday, the | vagrancy case was called in Municipal Court before Judge Pro Tem Edwin H. Smith who dismissed it when detectives failed to appear. The detectives were in the Prosecutor’s ‘office at the time obtaining the new warrant, which was signed by David Klor, jeweler. When the officers told George R. Jeffrey, Dr. Enyart’s attorney, that the latter was wanted, the dentist surrendered” and was released under $500. bond ‘to appear today. The dentist told police that the ‘check on which the warrant was based was “an old case,” that he had made it good and had a receipt » for it. Police said Mr. Klor told them the receipt was for another= check but that the $8 check on 3 which the warrant was based never = had been made good.

Witness in Alger Case

Dr. Enyart was a witness for the Government Tuesday in a hearing * before a U. 8. Commissioner in the : case of Gene Alger and Thomas M. Alford, both charged with the burglary of ' the Lawrence Pos 3 Aug. 12. The dentist was questioned about his admitted purchase of an auto : at a discount for Alger’s sweetheart, : and about a note found in Alger's. apartment. t

Officer Mueller Goes fo New Job

PATROLMAN GEORGE G. MUELLER, a member of the Police Department for more than 20 years, today submitted his resignation to Chief Morrissey to accept a position with Grapho - Products, Inc. Patrolman Mueller, who lives at 2239 College Ave., has had a varied career on the police force and worked a long time out of the detective division, As a member of the homicide squad, he worked on two murders here, the slaying of Lafayette Jackson, head of fhe £ ‘ Standard Co., and th shooting of Lieut, Lester Jones. Patrolman Mueller was injured last year when the emergency car overturned while making a run. Since his _recovery, has’

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