Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1943 — Page 8

‘SEEK TO LESSEN

CLERK'S POWER

Proposals Revived for Change in Control Over ' Registration.

The grand jury’s recommendation for repeal of the voters’ registration . law revived proposals today for removal 4 the registration from control of county clerks. A law passed by the 1941 legislature created a bi-partisan commission for registrations but it ‘was de-

clared unconstitutional on technical grounds, | | thus putting the depart-

ment back in the hands of thej.

clerks. | The jury stated that the registration law in its present form permits “illegal registrations in Wholesale numbers and has the effect of legalizing floating voters.”

New Law Urged

Although the jury’s report recommended enactment of an entirely new registration law, it did not state specific details of what provisions a new law should contain.

It was learned, however, that the jury, during its three months investigation of 1942 election irregularities, found that the main weakness of the present law is its concentration of control in the clerk’s offices. Deputy prosecutors who worked with the jury in preparing the report said the present law gives county = clerks enough power to keep any one from checking signatures of registrations in the files. Can Deny Access “You can ask the county clerk to see a specific signature on a registration and he'll show it to you but when an outsider seeks to check any or all signatures in the files, the clerk has legal authority to deny access to the files,” declared Saul Rabb, chief deputy prosecutor. Another weakness found by the grand jury, according to Mr. Rabb, involved lack of specific instructions on how voters,should be registered. The jury found many voters had been registered in their homes instead of designated branch offices but examination of the law revealed that the law doesn’t prevent a clerk from registering a voter at his home if he wants to take that trouble.

Attorneys Interested

Several attorneys and others interested in improving election machinery against loopholes that encourage voting frauds, have agreed that creation of a new unit known as the county department of elections and registrations should be considered by the legislature, espe- : cially for the larger counties. This department, they agreed, should be headed by a bi-partisan commission, with equal control of all election machinery distributed fairly to both political parties and

' The 1943 campaign to raise funds for the benefit of infantile . paralysis victims, was launched in Marion County today. Don Keller, fund director of the county chapter, announced that more than 60 civic and club organizations will participate in an effort to enlist the financial support of every man, woman and child in Marion county during January.

AMARANTH COURT | INSTALLS OFFICERS

Mrs. Ralph Wurz will be installed -as royal matron of Indianapolis court 1, Order of the Amaranth, Thursday night at 8 o'clock in the Chateur room of the Claypool hotel. M. Curtin Johns of Gary, the supreme royal patron of North America, will be the installing officer; Mrs. Lillian Johns, Gary, deputy supreme royal matron of Indiana, the installing marshal, and William H. Faust, past royal patrol, marshal’s aid. Other officers to be installed in-.

clude Mr. Wurz, royal patron; Mr

and Mrs. Whitney Reeves, associate patron and matron; Mrs. L. G. Jones, conductress; Mrs. Harry F. Hergt, associate conductress; Mrs.

| Gayle Steele, secretary; Mrs. Mae

Dunbar, treasurer; Mrs. Lydia Hunt, standard bearer; Mrs. Mary Ann Leas, marshal in the east; Mrs. Zelda Tolin, marshal in the west; Mrs. Eva Clark, prelate; Mrs. Lelia Slagle, historian; Mrs. Laurence Gronauer, truth; Mrs. Gertrude Martin, faith; Mrs. Grace Miller, wisdom; Mrs. Mable Baugh, charity; Mrs. Mildred Trieb, organist; Mrs. Mable Heller, warder; Irvin Hessel, sentinel; Mrs. Anne Hessel, choir director, and Mrs. Florence Herman, past royal matron, chairman of

candidates.

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ee’s New Year's Greeting is meant not only for all those of you we serve in Indianapolis every and the U. S. A. that are

Victory is ours!

day . . . but those sons and daughters of Indianapolis Best Wishes for their safe return . . . Good Luck until

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on far off war torn shores,

Closed Saturday . . —0Open Monday I2M. to 9 P. M.

Mrs. Lowell F. Fisher, representing the Indianapolis Council of Women, Lloyd D. Claycombe, a past potentate of Murat Temple and Mrs. Morris Paynter, health chairman of the American Association of University Women (left to right), plan for the sale of tickets for the Jan. 30 parties.

The Marion county chapter is one among 2900 county chapters throughout the nation that will sponsor a fund raising campaign climaxing on President Roosevelt's birthday, Jan. 30. The Marion county chapter has sponsored nine annual campaigns, making gains each succeeding year. Last year the total reached was $23,523, of ‘which 50 per cent

“peculiar” one.

the 61-day session, it looks now as it Mr. Gates is right. There seems to be no disposition whdfsoever on the part of any Republican members of the steering committee to pass legislation to strip othe governor of any sizeable amount of patronage. And there are a number of Republicans who think that there are several state departments they could take by legislation despite the supreme court’s decision

age legislation of the 41 session. The G. O. P. attitude now seems to he to recognize the governor as the state’s chief executive and to let things remain pretty much as they are, It isn’t long until 1944.

Changes Planned

THERE ARE some changes the Republicans intend to make, however. And most of these changes they hope to effect by agreement with Governor Schricker. 2 2 2 For example, the Republicans hope to get the governor to agree to turn the hearing judge division of the public safety department over to them. This formerly was a division of the now Republicancontrolled motor vehicle license bureau. But when the bureau was turned over to the Republicans in 1941, the hearing judge division was transferred to the department of public safety where it would still be under Governor Schricker’s control. The Democratic view=point was that the office was not a purely administrative one and should belong under the governor. The Republicans, however, think that this division which has around a score of employees, should come under the control of the motor vehicle license director.

KLEE and COLEMAN SAYS

A

HAPPY NEW YEAR

TO ALL

And if through the coming

critical year of 1943 you find

relaxation and pleasure through

partaking of the beverages we .

sell, we shall be very grateful.

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"BY EARL RICHERT

Ralph Gates, the man who should know, says that the coming session df the legislature, which opens a week from today, will be a

By that he means there will be practically no legislation of-a controversial political nature—Republican vs. Democratic. And while no one can predict accurately what will pop up during

went to the national foundation and the remaining ‘$11,761 went into the chapter treasury here, From the chapter treasury substantial amounts have already been allocated this year to the Riley hospital, Indianapolis City hospital, the James F. Roberts School for Crippled Children, and school 26 to -carry on rehabilitation and treatment.

invalidating most of the patron-

G. O. P. leaders too believe that

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the 11 deputy attorney generals now employed by seven Demo-cratic-controlled state departments should be under the control of the incoming Republican attorney general, James Emmert. They likely will pass a law to effect this change. 2 »

Plan Hopper Crop

Present G. O. P. plans are merely to be ready at the opening of . the session to drop bills ‘covering the party’s platform planks into the legislative hopper. Probably the most interesting of these bills will be one establishing a free textbook system. The bill that is being drawn now, at the instruction of the party steering - committee, simply provides for the purchase of free textbooks for the elementary grades at such times as the present adoptions run out. There are no new elementary textbook adoptions until 1944. Such a law would put the system into effect gradually. The Republicans also are drawing up a new civilian defense bill which would leave the system pretty much as it is at present. The present law expires on March 15. No consideration is being given to the highly controversial bill written by the council of state governments which would give the governor vast wartime powers. No appropriation amount has yet been decided upon for the civilian defense program and Republican leaders indicate that they will demand a breakdown from Clarence Jackson, state civil defense director, showing the manner in which the $200,000 appropriated by the last session was spent. Present indications are that the unemployment compensation payments will be raised from $16 for 16 weeks to either $18 for 18 weeks or $20 for 20 weeks and the request of labor for the extension of the unemployment compensation law to cover employers of four or more persons will be rejected. Only employers of eight or more persons are now subject to the act. Chairman Gates also predicts that there will be a great amount of legislation sponsored by special groups.

RURAL YOUTH CLUB

C. L. Dyer, head of the department of .education for the Indiana farm bureau, will speak Monday at 8 p. m. before the Marion County

bureau, 47 S. Pennsylvania st. A discussion of “What Our Rural Youth Can do for 1943” will be led by Miss Louise McClelland. . New officers of the club will take over. They are Miss Ann Jordan, president; Miss Gladys Schuh, vice president; Miss Martha John, secretary; Miss Margaret McClelland, treasurer; Mrs. Irwin Sutton and Miss Maudellen Chappell, recreational leaders; Mrs. Smalley, reporter; Miss Phyllis John, pianist; Miss Laura Dowling, song leader, and Miss Ruth Young, devotional leader.

If Your Child Is Coughing

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APPOINTS AID

Carl Winter. Is Assistant Director of County Organization.

Carl G. Winter was named assistant director of Marion county civilian defense today and Lawrence H. Bowers was appointed director of organization and training by William E. Munk, county director. Joe H. Niesse will serve as assistant to Mr. Bowers. : In addition to his new office, Mr. to serve as chief county air raid warden, a post he has held since last April. He also has served as director of township organization and training. A supervisor of claims for the State Automobile Insurance association, Mr, Winter is a former reserve army officer. He was gradueated from the Indfana university law school. He lives with his wife and daughter at 6001 Ralston ave. Mr. Bowers, who also will be township fire officer, formerly was assistant director of organization and training, A local insurance representative, he studied at Butler university and Hanover college and is married and has one daughter. His home is at 519 E. 58th st. Formerly a captain in the first armored division of the U. S. army, Mr. Niesse now is branch manager of the Ilg Electric Ventilating Co. He is a graduate of Purdue university, is married and has one son. He lives at 5837 Winthrop ave,

‘Stinger’ Sharp, But Hairy, Too

By Science Service

NEW YORK, Jan. 1-Tiny hairs so small that 400,000 of them side by side would measure only an inch have been revealed onthe side of a mosquito’s “stinger.” Though these hairs are too small to be visible under the best microscope of the ordinary type, they are clearly seen in the new General Electric electron microscope which was shown here to a group of scientists and writers. Electron microscopes previously available have been complicated: adn bulky objects, requiring permanent installation and special pump connections. Instead of this, the G-E device, which was developed by Dr. C. H. Bachman of the General Electric electronics laboratory, is mounted on casters and can easily be wheeled from room to room and plugged in much like an electric fan or sewing machine. Various knids of mosquitoes were examined under magnifica-~ tions far higher than can be obtained with conventional microscopes, which form their images with light instead of electrons. © Curious “feathers” consisting of hairs connected by cross links like the rugs of a ladder are visible along the edge of the wings of one species.

BRAZIL NAVY JOINS ATLANTIC GONVOYS

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 1 (U. P.). —President Getulio Vargas said yesterday that Brazil's navy was participating in trans-oceanic convoys of men and materials to war theaters. “The use of our coast as a base of operations for transportation of men and arms to the theaters of war has been made possible by the magnificent ecampaign in North Africa—the first step toward a greater victory,” Vargas said in a speech at an army-navy luncheon.

ticipating not only in coastwise but also in trans-oceanic convoys, while Brazilian aviation participates in all tasks for vigilance and protection, alraedy having engaged enemy units several times. _ “Meanwhile the army is rapidly preparing. to fulfill its mission of defense of the national territory and other missions which eventualities may come to demand.”

BEEKEEPERS GROUP TO HEAR WAR TALK

“Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. 1.—G. H. Cale, editor ‘of the American Bee Journal, Hamilton, Ill, will speak at the two-day convention of the

tion, Jan. 12 and 13, at Purdue university.

Production of Beeswax and Honey as a War Effort.” Another talk on production will be given by B. Elwood Montgomery of the school’s faculty. Herbert J. Link will outline the group’s work. in wartime at the Wednesday session and five-minute talks will be given by three of the state’s prominent beekeepers.

WANT YANKS’ MAIL TYPED IN CAPITALS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (U, P.).— The Japanese have asked that letters to American prisoners of war be typewritten or printed in block capitals and be kept as brief as possible, the American Red Cross announced today. : The International Red Cross committee in Geneva, through whom the request was relayed, said the recommendation was designed to facilitate censorship and speed transmission ol ‘mail.

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mse! Fabien Sevitay (center) goes over the program the Indianapolis Syme ; mnday for Indianapolis Railways, Inc., employees with a group of transit o; sed by the company as a mew year’s greeting to its employees, will fea ‘ercy Grainger. Seated (left to right) are Forest Hobson, Louis Bauke, Mr, Standing (left to right) PWalker, Voyle Wills, Virgil Raney and Howard Nicholas.

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ROTARY WILL HER FREEDOM LECT JRE

Dr. Ruth Alexandar, ecco nist, author and lecturer, will / iscuss “Formula for Freedom” 3 the Tuesday noon meeting of fl : Rotary club at the Claypool hwo il, Past prseidents of the ch » will conduct the meeting, with athur E. Krick presiding. Mark R (iray will receive the 1942 atte cance award for perfect attendance since Dec, 31, 1935. Dr. Alexander is a traine . economist, having taken four 1 aiver= sity degrees at Northwester university. Researches for her « ootorate thesis on “The Value an . Distributional Theory in the UU S. R.” provide the basis fo her knowledge of the econcini and

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DEVOSS NAMED TO DECATUR CITY JOB

Huber M. DeVoss, outgoing Democratic appellate court judge, has been appointed city attorney of Decatur by Mayor-elect John B. Stults. The judge also will practice law at Decatur in partnership with his son, John L. DeVoss, who was elected Adams county prosecutor in November, Judge DeVoss, who was on the appellate court for one term, previously served as Adams circuit court judge for six years.

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FISHING BOAT CREW EARN $145 A WEEK

GLOUCESTER, Mass. Jan, 1 @, P.).—The meat shortage helped the nine crew members of the dragger Olivia Brown earn the largest, amount of money ever received by fishermen in Gloucester’s 300-year history. 2 Each fisherman received $762 1 for the year—an average of i week for 52 weeks—and'in

CIRCLE TO INSTALL = Ramona Grove No, 63, of the Woodmen’s Circle, will hold | an ine stallation of officers at a regular meeting at 8 p. m. Monday in a hall, 230 E. Ohio st. Mrs. |Alving -IDuvall is guardian.

and a Victorious one!

| Was :on’s takes this opportunity to thank its many frien ds for their patronage which has served as a

consi ant inspiration during the past year.

It is Vasson’s desire fo continue £6 merit your zood . + ta strive to bring you quality merchandise at the 1 ‘ices you want to pay. . .. and, despite wartime curta Iments, to give you: the kind of service that

make: you feel “you’re always welcome at Was-

Bes! vishes for the New Year—may it be a happy.