Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1942 — Page 5

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| employees and $3200 from em-

apolis Police

POSTAL STUDY

‘to discuss problems of business mail

| auspices {Chamber of Co

‘and officials from: the Indiana,

“and answer period following.

. wage scale found in the factory or

' service committee, pointed out in

Il. the handling and preparation

George Stevens Has 3 Sons in y Armed Services

B. Rowe, 945 Mid-

‘Stevens of Indianapolis! Ste told Mr. Stevens that’ ue vols oodruff Place; Joseph

1s the ther of three sons in the d ; , two of whom are an,

LG. Bis) Stevetia, 34, has been . the Navy 12 years and he wrote |C

‘his father that when the Japs | struck Pearl Harbor he’swas in the|:

‘midst of the attack. ‘Seaman Ste-

‘vens was stationed aboard a lighter | §

‘which was tied up alongside the Arizona when a Jap sui-

‘battleship. : ‘cidé pilot in a torpedo plane crashed Sito She side of the haitlethlp Sea~ :

harbor of bodies and wreckage. p wife, Marie, was evacuated from the island a few weeks ago and she spent several days here ih her father-in-law before going fo live with an aunt in Chicago.

INDIANA BELL GIVES $6444 TO RED CROSS

The local Red Cross drive, within sight of the $350,000: goal, has received contributions of $6444 from the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. and |;

ployees of L. S. Ayres & Co. Other gifts included the IndianDepartment, $564; Western Union Telegraph Co. employees, $138; Pilgrim Laundry Co., $111; Knights of St. George, $100; W. D. Kibler Trucking Co., $146, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman W. Kothe,

on was done to Honolulu confining their opera op Wren Son mili Ta Stevens, the = a a member of the Army Air He is stationed on the West

is a radio oper-

ron. Radioman Stevens has written his father that he spends most of the day on patrol. Béfore;

: : service two years Ercell Stevens ago he was em-

Co, ‘as an electro chemist. His sq on is stationed at San Ber- * shi Cal. e youngest son, Paul, is 26. He just entered the Navy and is now in training at the Great Lakes Naval Training School. Before entering the service two weeks ago he was employed at the Central Motor Parts Co. All of the sons were born at Ben Davis. and attended school thére.

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New Enlistments

New enlistees announced by the Indianapolis Army recruiting station include 12 Indianapolis men. They are: Otis C. Logsdon, 630 N. Jefferson

$100,

OPENS TONIGHT

Indiana’s

roblems. Caused By W r Discussed In Series.

« The first of a series of ‘meetings

will begin here tonight under the of | the indiana State rce. The special [short|course for. mailing department employees will be held at the Board of Trade Building from 6:30. 8:30! p. m. tonight, Wednesday, iay and Tuesday and Thursday nights next week. Subjects to] be covered will be classification of mail, first-cl mail, third-class mail, hy i mail and special postal service. Representatives of business s postoffice will lead the discussion. ‘The course will be conducted on the basis of a lecture with a question

“Operations of the Selective Service Act plus the generally higher

production field have combined to reduce the number of capable people available for the important work of dispatching business mail,” Leo J. Martin, chairman of the postal

explaining the purpose of the meetings. . “The possibilities for both savings and increased efficiency through a better understanding of postal laws and regulations are staggering when viewed on the basis of a year’s operation of a business,” he said.

qIndiana’s Oldest Credit Jewelers’

TIAA TN ER Do You Know That We Honor All Credit Cards Regardless of Firms Issuing Same?

Ave.; Leland P. Hilton, 509 N. Illi-

ployed at the Climax Machinery |

8t.: We dle Drive,

i The temporary promotion lieutenant, junior grade, to leutdns|

t0|D, Maloy, R. R. 18, Box 343; Daniellant, U.S.N.R., has been approved|

W. Hood, 538 E. Ohio St:; Wayne for Glendon D. Williams by Presi-| d son, is H. Oxley, 2147 Central Ave.; Lin-ldent Roosevelt.

ville A. Baker, 740 S. Alabama St; Gerald M. Wadleigh, 3330 N. Dela-

Coast, where he {ware 8t.; Dennison A. Ireland, 2953

N. Chester St.; Edgar R. Staples,

mert K, Plunkett, 4126 E. Washington St.

o » Serves in Engineers Pvt. Robert (Rocky) Abell of In-

entering the dianapolis is lerning the roll of an

‘Army engineer at Vancouver "Barracks, Wash. He is tize son of . ‘and Mrs. vin Abell, 1711. [Br oadway. Receiving his pri-’ mary training at Leonard ol Ma., he iwas transferred to the West Coast and he is [ES. ‘now receiving instructions on Robert Abell how to build a pontoon bridge, construct roads, fell trees and all the other duties of an engineering corps, He visited his parents here last week for a few days. Before entering the service he was employed as an apprentice pressman at the Indianapolis Times. He is a graduate of Tech High School.

Lieut. Williams’ home is at 3541 N. Meridian St. : EJ = 2 A two weeks’ leave is over William E. Stone onl he: hag

ator in the ob+{110 N. Pennsylvania St.; George E. turned to his servation squad-'Whitted, 40 8 LaSalle St., and Em- ship for duty.

He is the son of - Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stone, 24 S. Dearborn St. e Seaman Stone

|holds the’ rank

of coxswain, He entered the service in August, 1940, and was stationed at Pearl Harbor for nine months. He is a graduate of Tech High

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NUYS’ SON JOINS CIVILIAN AIR FORCE

Times Special

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 og teen-year-old “Billy” VanNuys, - of - Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.), has passed all tests and been admitted to the Civilian Air Service at George Washington University here, the Senator reported today. “He is going to learn to fly, because he feels that good fliers are going to.be needed by our country for some time to come,” the Senator said.

Ww. E. Stone

Gray, Gribben & Gray Started Their

Oldest Credit

“Jewelers Opened in 1884 Here.

Back in 1884 two young men started going from door to door selling rings on credit. That was the beginning of Indiana’s oldest credit jewelers, Gray, Gribben and -Gray. Albert Ross Gray and the late David S. Gribben had come from their father’s farms near Madison to work in Indianapolis at the Kingan meat packing plant. They

obtained 100 rings on credit from a trusting wholesaler, put them on a string (50 apiece) and started making the rounds in the young city. For three years they used their rooms in hoarding houses as their “store.” Then they opened a store at 90 N. Illinois St. in a building that is still standing. As business prospered they moved to 92 N. Illinois St., which was later changed to 154 N. Illinois. In 1904 the two merchants moved into the old Y. M. C. A. building at 37-39 N. Illinois. Later they moved to the “point” at Ohio, Illinois and Indiana Ave. where they were tor 14 years. They were at 151 N. Illinois for 18 years and moved to the present location, 103 N. Illinois, just over a year ago. The first credit sale recorded in Gray, Gribben and Gray's old leather-bound ledger was on Nov. 25, 1884. It was a chair, $1 down and 50 cents a week. They also sold . bedsteads, carpets, stoves, safes. “Why, we. even sold a load of coal one time,” Mr. Albert Gray recalls. ; Mr. Gray remembers that he pawned his own watch in those early days in order to buy two cheaper watches to sell. In the fancy writing of that first ledger are many names now prominent in Indianapolis business and civic life. “And now,” Mr, Gray says, “the grandchildren and sometimes even the great- store.

[ Be Scrap Conscious"

Don’t think beca you only have a hundred pounds ‘or so, that it is not important. Bring it all to .us whether it be a pound, ton or carload. We speedily prepare it for mills and foundries engaged in 100% war work. There is not a facility that we ldck for

of all types of scrap.

J: KASLE & SONS, inc.

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EVANSVILLE FIRM ILL GET NAVY ‘E'

e Hoosier Lamp and Stamping . at Evansville gmill receive the

ceived the Navy “E,” two in South Bend, one at Indianapolis and one in Ft. Wayne.

NORTHWESTERN LIFE REPORTS INCREASES

The. Northwestern! Mutual Life Insurance Co. today reported that sales of new insurance under 62,601 policies’ in 1941 totaled $236,009,899, a gain of 18 per cent gver 1940. Total insurance in_force on Dec. 31 consisted of 1,092,393 policies for $4,044,674,863, a gain of 23,844 poli-

FIREPROOF WAREHOUSE

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cies and $95,942,131 in amount.

BRIC-A-BE $

CRIT 7434; 4: Evedings, MA. 5

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tom-laid Linbleum Floors and Sink Tops, x -made Venetian Blinds ?

The new store is a far

grandchildren of our first customers come to trade with us. We have great satisfaction in . servirg the third and fourth generation of our first customers.”

The store, too, has changed greatly from those early days. There was a tinie when they placed the safe in the window because they had very little else

Business Selling Rings From a String

: |pointment of a young man who has

cry from that first one,

to. show, Now, the windows of

the new store gleam with diamonds, fine watches and clocks. Display cases are filled with many beautiful patterns of Siverware and chinaware. The Grays and Gribbens still are in the store. Mr. Albert Gray’ is president, his son Paul A. Gray is secretary and manager, and his younger brother, Asher W. Gray, is vice president. James C. Gribben, son of David S. Gribben, maintains an interest in the store.

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Accountants

Plan Tax Quiz

Indianapolis accountants will hold an formation Please” prograin at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Tax men, who will attempt to answer questions on the Federal Income Tax Act of 1241, include

| Troy G. Thurston, Carlton N. Car-

ter, James L. Rose and Charles Murray.

CONNECTICUT LIFE HAS LARGEST GAIN

The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. made the largest gain in insurance in force last year than during the past 11 years, George K. Jones, general agent here, said today. Insurance in force reached the all-time high of $1,135,915,272, a gain of $51,079,479 for the year. New life insurance protection was $108,238,955, a gain of $6,290,648 over 1940. Assets increased to $423,093,718.

Library Offers Defense Service

A new defense and contract service, published by Prentice-Hall, is now available at the Indianapolis Public Library's Business Branch,

#{ Meridian and Ohio Sts.

Miss Ethel Cleland, branch head, said the service is 8 guide on problems arising from priorities, pricefixing, pools; allocations and other defense measures. The publicatipn,

BURG TO ADDRESS SALES STUDY GROUP

C. T. Burg, general sales manager of the Tron Fireman Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, will speak on “Three Bogeymen” at the Indianapolis Athletic Club ballroom at 8 o'clock tonight. Mr. Burg’s address is the third to be given by outstanding sales executives in the course being conducted under the Indianapolis Public Evening Schools distributive education program in co-operation with the Executive Sales Council of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. More than 250 are expected to hear the address which will follow a dinner meeting of the council.

JOHN HANCOCK CO. SETS NEW RECORD

BOSTON, Feb. 16.—President Guy W. Cox announced today that the

ance Co. of Boston passed the five billion mark in insurance in force last year. An increase of $464,746,466 in 1941, which compared with an increase of $263,139,806 - in the previous year,

to $5,078,564,528, highest in the company’s history.

LARGEST TREE-SNAIL SHELL QUINCY, Mass. .(U. P.).—Mrs.

malacologist, owns one of the world’s finest shell collections. Pea-

= WILSON ‘KICKS’

[Gites Case of Messenger

‘|ciency of employees in Washing-

— WHEELER GIVES NAVY

Hoosiers in Washington]

IN THE RECORD

Boy Unassigned for Four Weeks, _ By DANIEL | M LL RIDNEY

WASHINGT Al of the fuss kicked wp le by Rep.| Earl (Curfew) Wilson (R.' Ind.) grew out of a proposal for $50,000,000 for defénse ‘housing in the District of. Columbia. i - Rep. was emphatically in favor of the bill, he said. But when | the ‘time came to vote for it, he was: back home in Indiana making speeches against speech making. Knowing that such would be the case, the self-styled “Hick ‘from Huron” made the following statement in the Congressional Record:

rangements for speaking engagements out in my district this week, I shall be unable to be present on the floor of the House tomorrow when the bill concerning housing for the District of Columbia is considered. “I am, of course, in favor of the passage of this bill as one of the 10. points for relieving congestion in the District of Columbia. “As the members of the House may know, I have introduced a resolution authorizing the Speaker of the House to appoint a select committee to investigate the effi-

ton. “Last Saturday I made an inspection tour of some of the offices in the District. I visited the pool (stenographic) ‘and interviewed 10 people. One of the boys had been here four weeks and four days, having been brought here for messen-ger-boy service, and he has not yet been assigned.”

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Compliment to Halleck

Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.) received the following letter from the office of the Superintendent of the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.: “I am sure you will be glad ‘to know that your appointee, Midshipman Alden Webster Whitney, of the class of 1942, was awarded the following prizes which were presented to him at the prizes and awards ceremony on Dec. 18, 1941: “(a) The Commander James Edward Palmer wrist watch, for great est proficiency in practical steam engineering. “(b) The John Roach sword, for greatest improvement in weighted average mark for first class year over that of second class year. “The Naval Academy is grateful and indebted to you for the ap-

demonstrated so clearly that close application to his studies will result in greatly increased benefits derived from the course at the Naval aval. emy. ” Midshipman Whitney is the son of Maj. C. A. Whitney, who is on the staff or Culver Military Academy. - EJ

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An Erring Clause

While New Deal largess often has been referred to as coming from [Santa Claus, the White House or Postoffice Department staff still doesn’t know how to spell it. For when the name of Oscar L. Phillips was sent to the Senate for approval as postmaster at that famous Indiana town, the place was spelled “Santa Clause.”

» » » When the fan-dancing in OCD was under discussion in the House,

Hoosier Congressmen received this telegram:

“Mr. Speaker, due to previous ar-

Masonic Guest

G. Haven Stephens

Past Grand Master Speaks

At Calvin Prather Lodge Banquet Thursday.

G. Haven Stephens, Danville, Ill,

past grand master of the Grand Lodge, F. & A. M,, will address the

Calvin Prather Lodge at a Washelon Birthday Banquet at, 6:30

p. m. Thursday, College Ave. and

42d St.

Entertainment will be furnished

by the Marvwel Trio and the U. 8. Naval Training Choir under the direction of L. J. Neville.

The banquet committee includes

Oscar Lackey, chairman, Harry W. Boetcher, Dan .C. Bradshaw, Harry King, and Alfred C. Sutton.

Reservations may he made with

the members of the entertainment committee, its chairman, Fred G. Buskirk, or any officer of the lodge.

At 6:30 p. m, Friday the entered

apprentice degree will be conferred on candidates.

David H. Noble is worshipful

master, Miles W. Hockett, senior warden, junior warden.

EDITORS TO STUDY

and George A. Kelly,

TASKS DURING WAR

The difficulties of publishing a

newspaper under war-time conditions will be discussed when members of the Hoosier State Press Association hold their ninth annual convention here Friday and Saturday.

The keynote speaker will be

Branch Rickey, [vice president and general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and executive chairman of the Missouri Defense Saving Staff. Experts in various phases of the newspaper business will speak at the Hotel Lincoln Friday, after the convention is opened by the association’s president, J. Frank MecDermond Jr., Attica.

Walter Fuller, Philadelphia,

president of the Curtis Publishing Co., is to address the Hoosier publishers Saturday.

Following the convention, mem-

bers of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association will hold their annual banquet. association’s luncheon will be held Friday

M’ARTHUR RESCUE

The Democratic

meeting and oon

"URGED IN BATAVIA

BATAVIA, Feb. 16 (C. D. N.).--

The immediate need for withdraw; ing Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the most, successful Allied leader in the! eastern war theater, from the Philippines before it falls into Japanese, hands, circles here.

is emphasized in military

Gen. MacArthur can be rescued

as other indispensable American officers have been from Bataan and, although reluctant to leave his troops, he would doubtless accede to such a command if emanating from Washington, these circles say:

“We urge OCD appointment for Gypsy Rose Lee. Eleanor has her Mayris. Bubblers their Sally. But we back Gypsy Rose Lee to her last stitch.” It was signed: “Gee String Club of Indianapolis. »

BINOCULARS OF 1918

The Navy today issued a call for civilian binoculars and promptly received a pair of glasses which have had direct dealings with the enemy.| | W. O. Wheeler, president of the Wheeler Restaurant chain, gave up the binoculars to the Navy office and announced that he had taken them from a German sniper in World War I. Mr. Wheeler was in the trenches of France with the A. E. F. at the time. He said he ‘hoped the glasses would be used ‘to hunt other German snipers. The Navy wants only six and sev-en-power binoculars made by Zeiss or Bausch & Lomb Co, Civilians will receive’ $1 for binoculars accepted by the Navy and when the war is over the Navy will resell the glasses to the original owner for the

{lars of the type required are

John Hancock Mutual Life Insur-

brought the total insurance in force|

same amount. Persons with binocu-

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WAR PROBLEMS

State Association to Hold 49th Annual Parley Next Week.

GOES A W.0. Le JOIN

ICEMEN TO SCAN

U. S. MARINE CORF

BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 16 (U. P.

—The U. 8S. Marine Corps recrul - ing station here announced today the enlistment of a Canadian 'sol= dier from Fremont, Neb., who went

A. W. O. L. at the suggestion of commanding officer to join his ow country’s armed forces. :

Icemen have their wartime problems, according to members of the Indiana Association of Ice Industries, who are to hold their 49th annual convention in Indianapolis Wednesday and Thursday. Plans for the solution of these problems:

of ,the City Ice Service, Inc, South Bend, will : speak on “Con- Miss McCannon sumer Education: in Schools” | Wednesday to association members, who will meet«in the Severin Hotel.

Officers and directors are to precede the convention with a dinner tomorrow evening. A. C. Lemons, South Bend, is association president. Other officers are: Benno Scheidler, Attica, first vice president; William H. Jonson, Brazil, second vice president, and A. C. Goll and O. P. Fauchier, both of Indianapolis, treasurer and executive secretary, respectively. The organization’s annual banquet will be held at 7 p. m. Thursday, followed by a dance, Exhibits) of ice equipment and accessories will be held.

FRENCH DOCKS BOMBED LONDON, Feb, 16 (U, P.).—British bombers attacked the docks at St.«Nazaire on the French Atlantic coast and bombed Axis supply ships off Norway last night. The air ministry said no planes are missing,

No matter ‘what you do your job is important to National Defemse and since this is so you need good vision. Faulty vision can slow you down and meke your work inaccurate. Be sure you are doing your part by having your eyes examined today.

RHC Tobruk

optometrist

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