Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1942 — Page 3
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Registration and. Committee Meetings Begin Tomoffow Afternoon; Veterans’ Program Is at Claypool; _ Auxiliary to Convene at War Memorial. Natiosal defense will be the theme . of the American
Legis here Saturday and
Sunday in ‘its first Indiana
department convention since the U. S. entry into the war. Some 5000 legionnaires and 40 & 8 members, along with
‘The first general session
opens at 9 a. m. Saturday. The legion auxiliary will open its meeting at 9 a. m. Saturday at the Waj Memorial shrine. The 40 & 8 will begin their sessions at 4 p. m. Saturday. The 8 & 40, women’s auxiliary to the 40 & 8, will meet at 7:30 p. m. Friday at the Hotel Lincoln for election of officers and at 10 p. m. they will hold ® candlelight service. The national orzanization of world War nurses will hold eleciion of officers at 9 a. m. Sunday, its first session, at the Columbia club.
Await Sullivan Welcome
The 24th annual Indiana convention of the legion gets under way at 1-p. m. tomorrow when the early elegates register at the Claypool. ‘Convention committees will meet throughout the day to prepare resolutions for the general session Saturday. Mayor Sullivan will welcome the fegionnaires Saturday morning. The keynote of the convention will
{ be sounded by the national com-
mander, Lynn U. Stambaugh of Fargo, N. D., who will discuss “The
American Legion’ s Part in the War.”
Army Officer Unable to Come
Clarence A. Jackson, civilian defense director of Indiana and past state department legion commander, will explain the legion’'s duty to the “home front.” Convention officials today were
. seeking a speaker of national promi-
nence to replace ‘Col. Paul H. Griffith of the war department. . Col Griffith telegraphed the state headquarters here yesterday that his Yheduled address Saturday’ had een cancelled by the war department. mn the regular army \ by Col. Walter 8. Drysdale, commander at Ft. Harrison, and the marines’ greeting will come from Capt. Ralpn E. Boulton.
200 to Take Navy Oath The afternoon session will fea-
"ture induction ceremonies of navy
recruits’ in the legion convention
- class. Although some 500 recruits . were signed by the legion in the
campaign which started late last month, 200 will form a representa-
-< tive group for the ceremonies.
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politics,
IN INDIANAPOLIS—VITAL STATISTICS
- Albert, Helen Wing, at M - Dwight, Mary.
The induction will bé followed by greetings from the navy by Comm. R. H. G. Mathews, in charge of navy recruiting in Indiana. “The FBI and National Defense”
. will be discussed Sunday morning \. by J. M. Lopez, special agent in
charge of the FBI in Indianapolis. Hear Prize Winning Orator Other talks at the Sunday morning session will come from Governor
Schricker, V. M. Armstrong, national vice commander, and from
| Edward H. Madden of Gary, gover- - nor of Hoosier Boys’ state.
Frank Greenwald, Gary high achool youth, will deliver the oration which won him the state oratorical eontest sponsored by the legion. A memorial service for the dead of world wars I and II will be conducted by Ralph E. Klare of Indiapapolis. Election and installation of offigers will conclude the convention.
NAMED DELEGATES TO DENVER PARLEY
Harold V. Darnell of Indianapolis and Stephen Badanish of Gary, secretary and president of the Indiana Pharmaceutical association, respec- ‘ tively, will represent the state organization at the 90th annual national meeting to be held at Denver, Colo., next week. Many other Hoosier pharmacists “probably will attend, Mr. Darnell
: ERT LAUDS FDR SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug. 13 (U. P.) —Attorney General John J. o> Bennett Jr, opposed by the presi- - dent for the Democratic guberna-
" torial nomination, hailed Mr. Roose-
Tar: tadey a1 2 “man of destiny” at the opening of the state American
Legion convention.
Bennett avoided any reference to
their auxiliaries, are expected to register tomorrow and Saturday at convention headquarters in the Claypool hotel.
MIDWEST AREA
IS BLACKED 0UT|
Test Involves 12,000,000 Persons and 50,000 Square Miles. ©
CHICAGO, Aug. 13.(U. P.).—The largest area blackout yet held in the United States, involving 12,000,000 persons in a 50,000 square mile industrial area bordering on Lake Michigan was a success, army and civilian defense authorities said today. Despite scattered criticism of violations, . spokesmen said the ‘blackout test was “95 per eent effective.” . Traffic halted and lights winked out’ suddenly last night as sirens wailed in the war prodyction centers of Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, steel cities of northern Indiana and surrounding territory.
Infractions Are Minor
The 41 counties of southern Mich igan blacked out first, from 9 to 9:30 p. m. (Indianapolis time), 36 counties of Illinois, ‘nine counties in Wisconsin and three townships in Lake county, Indiana, faded into darkness an hour later. A half million civilian defense workers went into action for the first time. They reported only minor infractions of the rules. -~ Office of civilian defense observation planes circled over the blacked out areas spotting lights and sending radio reports on them to headquarters. Mayor Edward J. Kelly, OCD co-ordinator of the Chicago metro-
“| politan area, said the blackout was
“not maximum perfection but it reflected co-operation and achieved results.”
‘Spot’ Chicago From Air
An army officer remarked that despite the blackout “we could find Chicago from the air.” Factories, steel mills and railroad yards were the most. noticeable, but they were authorized to keep war production on schedule, ; Detroit's fourth and longest blackout test was described by Mayor Edward J. Jeffries Jr. as “the best we have had.” Capt. J. R. Sheffield, U. S. navy chemical warfare division, said: - “As a spectacle, blackout was impressive, but as a practical blackout, it was miserable.”
UNAUTHORIZED USO
SOLICITING CHARGED|
Complaints have been received throughout the city of persons making unauthorized solicitations for the USO war fund. campaign which will not officially open here until October. At that time the USO along with other organizations will conduct their drive. Until then any person solicited. for USO funds should con tact J. J. Kiser, chairman of the Marion . county USO council, at MArket 2481. But in other sectors of Hoosierland the drive is in full swing with 41 cities, towns and counties oversubscribing their quota, To date $345,000 has been collected toward the state goal of $832,000. The fall campaigns will raise approximately $432,000.
A CAPITAL IDEA
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13 (U. P.).
.|—The tabloid Philadelphia Daily
News announced today that it would no longer CAPITALIZE the words jap, japan, japanese, hirohito, mussolini, hitler; german, germany, italian, nazi, italy, etc. “We don’t feel their place in the sun warrants such classification,” Publisher Lee Ellmaker said. “They
just go in lower case, which Bb more
‘scribes himself as an
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By FREMONT POWER Times Tomato Editor
THE HARD-WORKING, sweat
ing, praying tomato growers of this city may find it rather discouraging to learn about the case
‘of John A, Hook and his 200: |:
wild tomato plants. .. Some people Just seem to hit it lucky. Muggs like me have to labor: and dig and practically. practice
voodoo to get their tomatoes to |
thrive. But with people like Mr. ‘ Hook, the fates smile, and presto! tomatoes #hring up all over the .place. - Last May Mr. Hook’s gardener of 15 years’ standing, Joe Harrieder, decided to ‘fertilize the flower gardens at th€Hook home, 6109 Spring Mill road. He 4pplied manure to the beds and waited for beautiful BOTgecks, flowers to blossom forth. Well, what blossomed forth was!
in the middle of the flowers, on the edges of the flower beds, in the rock garden—fact is, they're all over the place. Mr. Hook told Mr. Harrieder:
“Let’s leave ’em there and have |
a combined victory-flower garden.” And thus it was.
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The Ladies Were Wrong
THE LADIES of the garden club came around and upon seeing the tomatoes, promptly opined “They'll never grow well.” Joe, though, kept them -cultivated nicely and staked up, biding his time. ‘Tomatoes began to form, The ladies came around again ang, undaunted, handed down another decision: “They’ll be too acidic to eat.” At present, the ladies haven't been heard from, but the ‘tomatoes are delicious. The proof is in the eating, which is what I did the other day, via a saucer, nap-. kin and salt shaker served up by Mrs. Hook.
PROBE HEAD OF MARCHING UNITS
‘Executive Minister’ Denies He Ever Had Dealings ‘With Pelley.
CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (U. P)--A federal grand jury opens an in-
vestization today of Edwin Paul]
56, .who -de“executive minister,” and the seven marching and quasi-religious groups he heads. Federal Judge William J. Campbell issued: a subpoena yesterday asking Richter to appear before the grand jury which has been conducting an inquiry into sabotage and sedition in the Chicago area. The subpoena also ordered the appearance of Martin J. Higgins, head
Emmanuel - Richter,
of the Patrick Henry Forum, who|
already has testified once before the jury. Asked for Records Richter was asked to produce rec-
ords of his organizations and correspondence he may have had with
William Dudley Pelley, former Sil-|
ver Shirt leader who was sentenced 15 years on sedition charges yesterday. Richter denied he knew Pelley. FBI agents seized files in Richter’'s office last night. He heads the - American Rangers, the Allied Christian Management Army, Inc., Christian Ministry College, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church Fourth and the Allied Christian Management ‘Army Christ Church, First, Second and Third. “Our organizations,” Richter said last night, “are interested in. only one thing. That's the well-being of our country. We have always encouraged the elimination of our
| enemies.”
WARREN G. 0. P. CLUB WILL MEET SEPT. 9
The next meeting of the Warren township Republican club will be Sept. 9 in the home of Mr, and Mrs, Spencer Askren. Speakers at a covered dish supper of the group last night in the home of Mr.-and Mrs. Robert R. Hamilton included: Henry Ostrom, county chairman; Mrs. E. C. Rump- | P
ler; Hezekiah Pike, candidate for
judge of superior ccurt 2; Judge Dan V. White, candidate for the county probate court; Emsley Johnson Jr., candidate for superior court 3. Samuel Montgomery, candidate for assessor, and Will Ayres;
than they deserve.”
Here Is: the Traffic Record], Sigma Nu, “luncheon, Columbia ~elub,
1 | FATALITIES “ 3! tsetse tinen: 24 ' 54 |
: County. BME oon 41 Te=—Aug. gd . Injured hn W] Arrests. Accidents ... 13 | Dead . 9 WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT
City. Total BE 8],
ores 2RG[ EEN 8
meta. aaets Pi, luncheon, Canary cote|” tage, n
MEETINGS ‘HOMORROW a department, American Legion, an a jon, legion hend-
quarters, all nd Forty, American Legion auxmeeting, Hotel Lincoln, all day. Indians State Bar association, annual mebtiag, 3 Hotel Lincoln, all day. erican. Legion ‘auxiliary of Indiana,
Cases Convic- Fines —_ convention, business meetings at war|Ind
Tried tions Paid
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amitual informal tse enter.
of ington, 7:30%. m
memorial, all day. North Xa End -Gardeg olub, picnie, Holliday |.
Gh yg 7 weosan, meeting, Hotel WashMthagtapliers alem, meeting; Hotel pressman’s union n, meeting, nme Sever, 1:30 7:30 p.m. 40, Faplevmns: ew Seourity division, uncheon, ‘Exchange club, luncheon, Claypool - hotel, Sign Chi, - luncheon, Board of Trade, Delia Theta, luricheon, Canary cot"moon.
sandidate for county commissioner.
sso, school. 28, 931 Fletcher ave,
MARRIAGE LICEN SES
These lists are from official records in|
the county . court hous. The Times, therefore, is mot responsible for srrers in names and addresses.
mm—— James Harold Kirkland, 28, of 5432 Wil-
kins; Marcella Blue, 19, of 542 W. Wilkins. |
Charles P. Culver, 36, Grand Rapids, Me Florence Lillian Gi Grever, 25, of sa17
ilovd Thomas Donaldson, 35, Vincenn ; Beunia Mae Henson, 25, Yhoanass,
Richter, 36, of 851 Lincoln;
to ‘Emil q Mo Valerie Bybee Hill, 33, of 861 Lin-| - coin. . Arthur Peacock, 10, of 1015 Cen-|Char ~ Ehrman
traut, 19, of ' 2416
vid Qumner Jr., 31, U. 8. Navy, ; ‘Mary BE Wolfley, 18, of
tral; ean Ds 4 N.Y Nex rks
troy Robson; » 20, of MT N.
bert Bugene Bass, 22, of 5010 W. 14th; - Dodds, 31, Pennsylvania
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at Bt. Vin-|.
200 tomato plants.: They grew up |
Joseph. Virginia Woetaker, at St Vin: i
Mr. Hook shows one of his by-chance tomatoes to the incredulous tomato editor, M are growing in the midst of a flower bed.
How this all came about is recounted by Mr. Hook something in this manner: The man who furnished the manure for the flower beds used to grow tomato plants for sale, merely throwing the seed into the manure, which acted as an incubator and nurtured the seed along. Obviously, when he ‘delivered the fertilizer to Mr. Hook’s home, he also delivered quite a numbex of tomato seeds, too, unbeknownst perhaps even to himself. Mr. Hook's business is drug stores, as anybody who ever bought a milkshake or box of ‘aspirin probably knows. But I've an idea that Mr. Hook is giving his business less and less attention as the tomato plants grow
. 5 Divorces Mate r : Ly Who Hibernated MADISON, Wis, Aug. 13 (U. P.).—Mrs. Sadie Miller, 55, won a divorce on ground her husband, Walter, 65, “hibernated.” In her complaint, Mrs. Miller charged her husband “would. not ‘speak, shave or bathe for weeks at a time, would refuse to eat meals I cooked for him, and would sit around all day in his pajamas. ‘In other words, he hibernated.” ‘ In addition to the divorce granted yesterday, she received a
$2500 cash settlement,>a car and a sewing machine.
ASHER PETITION IS TURNED DOWN
X-Ray Publisher - Loses First Step Adainst Extradition. ©
Unless his attorneys convince U. S. Commissioner Howard S. Young Sr. otherwise, Court Asher, Muncie publisher, will have to go to Washington to stand trial on charges of conspiracy to commit sedition. Mr. Young yesterday refused to accept a petition from Asher asking that he be allowed to withdraw the waiver of examination he had signed when taken into custody and be allowed to surrender here. Asher js seeking to be tried in his home
district rather than in. Washington.
‘No Jurisdiction’
Mr. Young ruled, however, that since Asher had posted a $5000 bond to appear in Washington on Aug. 10 (a thing he failed to do) he had no further jurisdiction in the case. Attorneys for Asher, Clarence E. Benadum and Morton S. Hawkins, said they expected to submit legal data to Mr. Young yet this week which they hoped would cause him to change his mind on the matter. Asher was indicted July 23 after his weekly paper, X-Ray, had been barred irom the mails,
ADMITS WRECKING TRAIN
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 13 (U. —Robbery has been established as gos motive for the derailment of three cars of the fast Illinois Central railroad streamliner, Panama Limited, last July 14, Pery B. Wyly, head of the Memphis office’ of the| FBI, said today. A section hand has confessed to pulling spikes to derail she train and then loot it.
Meyers, at ot tat. William, Virginia Barnett, at Methodist. Maynard, Ruth Doolin, at St. Francis Mose, Idabelle Callihan, at St. ig Fredrick, Marion Madison, at Boulevard Place. Albert,
Gertrude “Cook, at 345 'N. Wal-|
cott. DP, Nettie Kennedy, at 1110 N Senate. Boys Lawrence, Jean Fulmer, st Methodist.
les. : - ; : : Lambert, Toy Monday. at 1256 Roosevelt. | Exes DEATHS Lacy J. Gallagher, 69, at 1043 Blaine,
Jolin PB. Myers, 14, at. Riley,’ acute osteomyelitis. Delia X: Dugan; 53, ot 337 N. Addison,
Benjamin X. Newton 53, at 1331 W. z ronche eumonia. 'dchults, 15, at 1334 Charles,
i (Tr x Deve Bobrovits, 8, at 351 Prospect,
ard Watson, 20, of 3 EB. hem 853 cerebral.
Robert C. Baltzell.
“I'qeiving prison sentences for failure
taller and taller, in some cases towering high over the harassed flowers.
SINCE iim TOMATO department issued a communique last Saturday concerning large tomatoes and tall sun flowers, the
terthwaite i cultivated fi If you'd Mr. Satter! a half mie rison on got 200 o- |
ower. The tomatoes
ieves hadn’t been:
‘at least 10 years. e to see all this,
nite lives two and north of Ft. Har-
gent’s road. He's:
plants.
wl ve wo ome out got ‘ twice as many tomatoes’ . eight others planted regular.”
- plant.
giant at 1246 N. Alabama st., re~
sig I've got one out here it as
Mr. Tuttle said there must be about 27 tomatoes on the special
- Every day, if it hasn't rained, : Mr. Tuttle puts the hose down the pipe running to the corn cobs and gives it a very long drink. He thinks that’s the secret. ® 8 a
Us? We’re Neutral!
IN THE SUN FLOWER department, it seems that Mrs. Nancy Wallace’s 12 foot 2- inch
ported last week, isn’t. the biggest in town by any means. - Because: , Mrs. J. L. Lynn, 3154 N. Capitol ave, wrote—“What do you mean a sun flower 12 feet 2 inches is the tallest? Out in my. neighborhood, we really _grow ‘them tall. We have one 12 feet 4 inches and it has about 20. flowers on the one stalk.”
Mrs. Herbert Bateman, 1510 Edmonson ave., wrote—“The lady who wrote you in the Saturday Times thinks she has a record holder in her 12 foot 2 inch sun flower. Sorry, but we have one that reaches 12 feet 10 inches
toward: the sky. Can you a that?” % Well, ladies, ‘Mrs. o. = Bam ilton ‘of 2202 Eastern ave., éalled to report she’ has one 1 feet oven, Mmmm. &
protests, denials apd challenges ‘have been pouring in daily. M. N. satterthwaite, ruarl route 13, box 168M, came in with two of the whoppin’est big tomatoes I ever saw, Both weighed three pounds, he said, and by measurements executed in the office, they were found to be six inches across the top and three and a half inches deep. : These particular ones, the beefsteak variety, were grown on a strip of ground which Mr. Sat-
OBJECTOR GETS 5-YEAR TERM
Sixth Jehovah Witness to Be Sentenced by Judge Baltzell.
A conscientious objector who refused to go to an objectors’ camp in Ohio was sentenced to five years in federal prison yesterday by Judge
The man, George Urquhart, 25, of 1145 N. Haugh st., contended that as a member of the Jehovahs Witnesses religious sect he was also a minister of the Gospel hd as such was exempt not only from military service but also from service in the work camps. i Sixth Conviction
Federal court attaches said that the Urquhart case was the sixth of its ‘kind here, all six objectors re-
to go to the camps.
Urquhart, who: ved trial by
jury, testified that he had quit al
job as a telephone repairman lately because he was asked to buy war bonds which would have made him Soptrtbuts indirectly in the war efort. ’ The defense was based also on the contention that Urquhart, who came
to the U. S. from Scotland in 1929"
and had never been naturalized, was an alien and as such was not subJeet to the. selective service law. After taking: out first citizenship papers, he made: na further effort to become a citizen, District Attor‘ney B, Howard Caughran said,
WORK HARD, OSTROM ADVISES GOP GROUPS
In winning an election, there is no substitute for hard work, Henry E. Ostrom, G. O. P. county chairman, told party workers of Decatur and Warren townships in addresses last night. Mr. Ostrom said the county Republicans had four hurdles to get over in the coming campaign: The 90-day poll now being taken: registration of voters; the#30-day poll, and the election-day job of Betting voters to the pels. The Warren to meeting was held at the home of R. R. Hamilton, E. Washington - st. ‘and the Post road, and the Decatur township meeting was held.at the home of Hoyt Moore.
SPONSOR PET PARADE A pet parade will be a feature of the program for children at 7 p. m tonight in Willard park. A water carnival in the park’s pool at 8 p.m. is also on the program arranged -| by the city recreation department.
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From the “Department of Utter Confusion”
A HIGH SCHOOL GIRL— (An artist no doubt) reveals her mental state as she considers her college clothes!
She attempted to portray her ndiay state of mind—after a siege of reading and listening, and ooking— and being the target for quizzes, nd “thou shalts" and “thou shalt nots! etc., etc, : Her drawing is not apt to crowd out any master paintings in the Metropolitan Museum or in the Hoosier Salon. . ., Her slang— - is presented without comment— But her reaction—and herline of. ‘reasoning—and her’ destination— =~ are based on SOLID’GROUND! , ... © She is taking the first step to insure a successful and hearty: adventure _in Life-and the Pursuit of Higher,
1 Learning!
/ v2 “Note Pleas: We have no special “cite Shop” as such! Ours is a college shop ‘the year ‘round .'. . its heart and. soul are campus and tailored clothes, oo. 3 course at this time of year its presentations are broadened—it gives you one of the smartest, beth wilted, mast appealing selections of College | Clothes . . . between the Un g - Southern California . . . and ! Bennington. (Second Floor.) 1