Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1943 — Page 13
IN ALGERIA — (delayed) — Some people coilect stamps for a hobby. Some people carve battleships out of match sticks. Some send themselves postcards «from ‘all the foreign cities they visit. But I have a hobby 3 ‘that is much more interesting and ambitious than any of these: 26.400k shape tn my mind many years ago when I was lying, ‘wretched and miserable, with dengue fever in Mexico. Since I ‘was a traveler anyhow, my new hobby fit right in with my work. The great goal that formed in my ~head was to be sick in every country on the face of the eatth, before finally cashing in my checks ron home soil. ~ T've made gratifying progress in the past half dozen years. I've “been sick in Panama, Peru, Chile, French Guiana and the Bahama islands I nearly died once in Alaska. Hawaii and Guafémala have heard my moans of anguish. Portugal contributed its aches and pains. Ireland blessed me with a high fever and. violent chills. Even dear old England made me sick at times. And then I came to Africa. For a while it looked as though things might bog down here. I felt perfectly fine, 1 felt alarmingly good. But my worries are all over now. Africa is under my belt. I'm just arising from 10 days of the African fiw. I burned, chilled, coughed, ached and cried out in agony.
Call It the “A \ Pip”
MY ILLNESS was what is known colloquially among us boys as the “African pip.” It is really nothing more than old-fashioned Chicago influenza. But upon this is superimposed a special type of sore
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JACOB ‘SCHNEIDER, who runs a grocery and meat market at Michigan st. and Eastern ave. had an unusual experience Tuesday. Mr. Schneider went to the store at 6 a. m. to open up, and as he did so, & man got out of a car parked at the curb and fol- ‘ lowed him into the dark storeroom. As Mr. Schneider reached for the light switch, the man said gruffly: “Don’t turn on the light —just keep on walking to the back room.” Without turning to see if the man had a gun, Mr. Schneider obeyed instructions. Once in the back room, he peeked out and saw the man grab three one-pound packages. of coffee, lay something on the scales, and run out the door. Mr. Schneider followed bus failed to catch the license number of the get-away car. Then he went back to the scales and found $1.25. That was 17 cents more than three pounds of the coffee (Koweba) sells for. The only thing lacking was the coffee coupons. j Washington's Example WE'LL: BET we are among the first 2 million people to motice that Uncle Sam chose George ‘Washington's birthday—Feb. 22—to start the registion for canred food rationing books. George, ‘Il remember, could not tell a lie. . . . One occupation women aren’t likely to invade n this kind of weather is the professional window washing business. It's too ‘hard on. hands. We noticed one of the professionals’ wo! on a downtown office building the other day, handling a dripping wet sponge in his bare hands, And his hands were red as auto tail- } lights. . « . A youthful newsie with the stand at the nortkeast rner of Market and Pennsylvania was ‘amusing passersby with his extemporaneous shouts based on the Tuesday's headline. “U. S. to draft fathers in April,” he shouted. “That gets my three other brothers. U. S. tg draft fathers in April. THat makes 13 members of my family in the service. U. S. to draft pe in April. Ill be the last to go in my family.’
Washington
Ww. aro Feb. 4—When Woodrow Wilson left. the country to go to the Paris peace conference, a howl went up. ‘Some of the_ brethren wanted to declare the presidential office vacant and shove the Vice President into it permanently. We used to think there was some impropriety in an American president leaving American soil—some idea that one who ‘did was thinking that America wasn't good enough for him and why couldn’t whoever he wanted to see come to America? We made our presidents prisoners within our territorial limits. : Cleveland was careful when he went fishing in the ocean not to get across the three-mile line. v's day it would have been political suicide across the international bridge at El
In even to s Paso. - We finally weakened so that Taft could go and look at our own Panama canal without inviting too . much criticism.
Airplane Changing World Habits
WE HA CHANGED our minds gradually about that sort of thing and have taken on a more ‘cosmopolitan attitude, so that now President Roosevelt jumps _to- Africa and back and receives only acclaim for-his enterprise. ~And why not? Why shouldn't the airplane, which gets you from here to there in hours instead of days, change the habits of p: ents since itis changing all other. habits in this world? Why shouldn’t presi-
dents take advantage of this easy and swift mode of
travel to go out for first-hand handling of what needs to be handled? You ‘could. not hear President Roosevelt describe
i My Day
WASHINGTON, Wednesday~I filled three speaking engagements in New York City yesterday. At 1 o'clock I spoke at the Cosmopolitan club, and af 4 o'clock ‘at the English- Speaking union. ‘They have a busy: “workroom in their rooms at Rockefeller center and they make very nice clothes for children and adults. I saw the results of their work in the “storerooms in London ready for
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of hours which people had worked and I must say some of the women ‘must be very proud, for they have rolled up as many as two or three thousand hours. Of course, they wanted to hear ‘about ‘my visit to their London headquarters.
they have a room where American and assigned to British officers.
3 Hoosier Vagabond
| distribution. They read off a list
“At the British headquarters
By. Ernie Pyle
fotout uativs. Lo. tose Parton’ mach 50 Sebutalins in its violence that it was awarded the Medaille Sorum Throatus d’honneur ‘at the Paris Exposition of 1896. aganist sore throats from all over the world. If the army never does anything else for me, I'll always contend that the army saved my neck. They gave me better than I'd have got if I'd been paying for it. In fact, among all my touring illnesses I've never had better treatment than here in darkest Africa. I lay in a perfectly good bed in a perfectly nice room in an old hotel taken over by the army. The army doctor who tended me happened to live in the adjoining room, so all I had to do to call him was to throw a glass or an ash tray against the
opposite wall and he would come dashing in withf
stethoscope swinging. My meals were served at bedside by white-coated army waiters right from the general's own mess.
Sulfa Drug Does Trick
"IT WAS A SULFA drug that put me on .the road to health again. I wish they'd start selling sulfa drugs in grocery-store packages, so I could write a testimonial about them. For I'm becoming quite an exhibit of the .benefits of sulfa-this and sulfa-that. In previous foreign illnesses I've had sulfanilamide and sulfathyzol. This time they gave me sulfadiozine. The doctor said it would probably make me sick at the stomach, but it didn’t. It merely made me
keenly aware of the most remarkable people all}
around the room, saying the most remarkable things. After a day or two these people all packed up their bags and left, and then I was a well man once more, albeit a weak one. So I'm in circulation, the vacation is over, the record is complete, and now I might as well pick up my bedroll and move on to India or, someplace.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
Around the Town
J. BRADLEY HAIGHT, the new Indianapolis director of the war manpower commission, is passing out the cigars. He’s the father of a daughter born yesterday at Methodist hospital. . . . Photographer's Mate 2/c John B. Strack, who has been assigned to the naval recruiting office here a year, reports Feb. 26 at the Life Magazine armed forces photographic school in New York. Before he leaves, he will be wedded (Feb. 13) to Mary Lee Kixmiller. . . . Mrs, Ada Clark, teacher at School 66, who slipped on the ice and Lurt her face recently, has just discovered a broken rib. Because of the shortage of substitute teachers, she’s continuing with her classes.’. . . Another teacher at the same school, Mrs. B. M. Frazer, is ill at her home with pneumonia. . . . Mrs. Carrie Sissman, 3805 E. 11th st., received by express this week a large antelope, frozen and weighing about 150 pounds, from her 17-year-old grandson, Clyde Sissman, at Casper, Wyo. She had quite a time finding a butcher to prepare it.
Unexpected Passenger
DRIVING TO WORK the other morning, Ray Smith, secretary to the governor, puiled up behind another car at a traffic signal. He noticed the other driver was Don Stiver, state safety director, and blew his horn. Don turned around to see who it was, and then waved. An elderly woman standing on the corner, waiting for a bus, thought Don was waving at her, and she opened the car door and climbed in. Don took Ler downtown. me, get a young, good looking babe,” he told Ray laters . . . A couple of Cathedral grade school pupils did a big favor for Donald Reagan, of Lebanon, yesterday. On the sidewalk in front of the school board offices they found an envelope containing Mr. Reagan’s gas rationing book, tire inspection sheet, a string of bus tickets good for nine trips between Indianapolis and Lebanon, and other papers. The boys turned the papers over to Mrs. Lydia Grider in the board offices and she mailed them to Mr. Reagan. The thoughtful boys wefe Jokn Riester, 1620 S. Meridian st, and Jamés Traub, 1542 N. Rural st.
By Raymond Clapper
his African trip at his press conference this week without being astonished at what the airplane does. Mr. Roosevelt spent his first day out of Washington reaching Miami by train. From then on it was Trinidad the second day, Belem in Brazil on the third, and Bathhurst on the coast of Africa, near Dakar, on the fourtk day out of Washington. On the afternoon of the fifth day Mr. Roosevelt was in Casablanca. Coming back he left Africa the night of Jan. 27 and was in Natal, on the hump of Brazil, the next morning. He spent the next night in Trinidad, and reached Miami the next day. It was a trip of 16,965 miles—and the traveling time in each direction was about five days. It can be done in much less than that.
Did F. D. R. Reach Some Conclusions?|
THE VOLUME of airborne traffic from America tol:
the fighting fronts in both directions is likely to expand rapidly. This plages additional strain on facilities for ro ducing and transporting gasoline. The use of cargo planes does not eliminate the need of shipping gasoline. As bombing raids increase, the demand for highoctane goes up rapidly. - You have to put in between 2000 and 3000 gallons of gas to send up a four-motored plane. The fuel demand for big raids—for thousandplane operations—is obvious. A whole tanker load might be needed to fuel a Cologne raid. So the president’s flying trip to Africa has dramatized again the speed and comparative safety of air travel, and the uses toswhich the airplane can be put. It should stimulate interest also in the uses to which the airplane can be put after the war, in development/| and palicing. Did Mr. Roosevelt, flying back overnight from Africa to the western hemisphere, reach some new conclusions about the new place in world affairs tiat must be made for the airplane?
By Eleanor Rovsevelt
ments at my apartment, a very pleasant dinner with | a. friend and then a meeting at Essex house, where I spoke. I was surprised to find a crowd of women out~ side, and when I did get in, I discovered that this meeting, called as a joint meeting of the auxiliaries to the A. F. of L.,, the C. I. O. and the railroad brotherhoods, had reached unexpected proportions, - I was deeply impressed by the interest and evident desire of the women to find ways of doing war Sok This great gathering is an answer to 4 g had been asked of me who ‘said, “Do you think the British : some particular quality which is Jong have the greatest admiration Tor the v
I took the midnight train back to Wi oSErived iiss Hols Jater lo fing Mr. and
“Next time.you honk at]
the last two years. Even this figure,
lier in the day by woman, | 4
‘By NORMAN E. ISAACS
America’s worst prisonbreak record! Smuggiing of guns . , . knives . . . liquor. Idle gangs of 500 men loafing together. No educational facilities whatever. . . . Prison industries shut down by, the ‘federal ban on sweatshops. : A parole system held up to national scorn. All this—and more—at the {institution of correction and “rehabilitation” which spawned John Dillinger, Roger Touhy, Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, Walter Dietrich, John Hamilton—the list can go on indefinitely. : It was the Indiana State Prison in the days when Rep. Jess Andrew, author of the bill to bring back this state’s former parole procedures, was serving as a memsber of the board-of trustees that controlled the prisdn. » » ”
The ‘Sundown Parole’
THOSE WERE the days of the “sundown parole” —“Get out of the state by sundown and we'll give you a parole.” Mr. Andrew was a member of the prison ‘board for 21 years. He was not reappointed when his term expired in 1937. He refers to himself as highly skilled in penal affairs. During his last six years on the board (1931 through 1936), 23 of the most dangerous criminals ever in the prison went over the walls at Michigan City. Seventy more convicts escaped from the prison’s farms and adjoining grounds—a total of 93 in the six years. This at a time when the prison ‘population totaled approximately 2000. The federal prisons have a . total of 16,000 inmates and in their worst ygar—1938—Ilost only a total of 15 prisoners by escape and these from farms and grounds. ”
Smuggling Prevalent
DURING THIS period, the men assigned to the farms and adjoining grounds at Michigan City worked outside the institution's walls, slept inside, Smuggling was widely prevalent and the constant importation of liquor, guns, knives, etc., was common. . There
CIVIL DEFENSE FUND STUDIED
Measure Asks $495,000 For Operations During Next Two Years.
BY ROBERT BLOEM
Members of the house ways and means committee today grappled with a $495,000 civilian defense problem, ‘most important of the as yet unbudgeted appropriations proposals which threaten heavy inroads on Indiana’s treasury balance. The civilian defense bill, which sets up the state’s civilian defense organization for another two years, heads a list of more than 20 measures, not included in the biennial budget, which call for possible additional appropriations estimated at around $3,000,000. As it now stands, the budget calls for an outlay of $79,892,281 for the 1943-45 biennium, a cut of more than $5,000,000 below the budget of
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according to budget experts, means a $4,000,000 reduction in the present comfortable treasury balance.
Cites Sharp Cut
At a ways and means hearing yesterday, Clarence Jackson, state civilian defensé director, explained to the committee that the amount called for in the defense bill already had been cut sharply by the majority steering committee. He
the civilian defense organization in the state and gave committee members accounts to emphasize the need of leaving the &ppropriations intact. - The bills would allow $295,000 ‘for necessary defense activities, including $60,000 needed to finish out the current biennium. It also sets up an emergency reserve fund of $200,000. Both amounts, according to Mr. Jackson, would be expended under the supervision of the bfidget committee and the governor. He indicated thal. unless a grave emergency should arise, the $200,000 fund would not be drawn upon. ‘At the same hearing, Maj. Walker ‘Winslow, Indiana wing commander of the civil air patrol, asked that the committee consider adding another $25,000 to the civilian defense appropriations for air patrol use. He told the committee his organization needed $15,000 for vital full-
next two years and an additional $10,000 for the purchase and maintenance of a wing staff plane. ‘ Sees Hearing Delay
Major Winsolw’s request, if J granted would. set the bill, up to
explained the growing activities of |.
time employee payrolls during the|
The Prison System Th:
“Smerica's worst prison-break record. « so» Idle gangs of 500 men Malling. « + « Industries shut down because of the tederal . Not even a primary class for the more than 10 per cent illiterates. . . .
sweatshops. . .
which spawned John Dillinger, Roger Touhy, Harry Pierpont, Charles
Makley, John Hamilton. . . . The
Four bleak gray walls—and a void inside those walls. . . . That was the Indiana State Prison.”
was no scientific search made of incoming men. Almost anything - could be smuggled in. The prison was operating its shops on the contract-labor basis. It signed contracts for giant orders of shirts, pants, overalls, furniture, etc., and then drove its labor at a terrific pace at “salaries” ranging up to 25 cents a day. "The birth of NRA and the federal restriction on sweatshops closed the Indiana State Prison industries almost automatically. And for years thereafter, the men at the prison had nothing to do, nothing but to loaf—and plof. Nothing to do because the prison had made -no provision for any educational facilities whatever. +R ” ” THE MEN spent 15 hours a day
in their cells—cells five feet wide,
seven feet long, seven feet high.
' They were permitted to borrow only a book a week from he prison library.
The library had 4000 volumes,
all of them donated from kindly persons’ attics. of 1890 love stories, ancient westerns, and many, many copies of
Dog-Bite Ratio Nearly Perfect
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Feb. 4 (U. P.).—Charles Bell, secretary of the Missouri Letter Carriers association, ‘told the state's lower house yesterday that the dog-bite casualty rate of Missouri postmen was just eight bites shy of 100 per cent. , Bell, testifying in favor of a bill to make dog owners liable for damages, said that of the 4000 postmen in the state only eight escaped being bitten by a dog last year, The proposed measure would make the dog a criminal for one bite. Rep. Morris Osburn thought that was too harsh. “Every dog is entitled to one bite,” he told the legislators.
INCREASED PAY FOR STATE POLICE URGED
Malone Bill Proposes $100
As 1st Year Minimum.
Around 230 members of the state police department would get substantial raises if a bill introduced by Rep. Wesley Malone (R. Clinton) gets legislative approval. The measure would revamp the present monthly salary schedule in this manner:
Now Proposed First year .......... $100 ° $125 Second Year ...ece.. $125 $140 ‘Third year ......... $135 $150 Fourth year . « ¥ve sre $135 : $160 Fifth year . . $150 = $170
No change ‘would be made by the bill in the present system: of allowing each - state policeman $35 for maintenance. ; Rep. Malone said that salary raises were needed to maintain morale in the department which he charged is low now because of inadequate salaries. “The state police departinent is one of the most important departments of state,” he said, “and if salaries are to be raised anywhere ‘to meet increased living costs they should be raised there.”
A Bll that would permit Prose: tor Sherwood Blue to spend an additional $15,000 a year to hire more
_ |investigators has been introduced in
the house by Reps. Bernadine Ma-
meyer. (D. Indianapolis). The present. limit on the
It was made up
| state’s recipients.
“What Every Young Boy Should Know. ”» If an inmate had chosen a book he didn’t care for, he had to wait another week before he could pick another. But he couldn’t go to the library to choose. He had to pick his book by title from a long printed list. Of the 2000 prisoners, more than 10 per cent were absolutely illiterate. And yet there wasn’t even a primary class to teach these men how to read or write. No, not foreigners. Americans. Less than % of 1 per cent of the prison population was foreignborn, ! The Indiana State Prison was four bleak, gray walls—and a void inside those walls,
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THERE HAVE been some
changes since Mr. Andrew left .
the board. The prison industries are back at work. . . . There are no idle gangs. There are 97 educational courses open to inmates, 32 courses in vocational training, 36 in Indiana university high
OLD AGE FUND
Measure Would Establish ‘A Monthly Minimum of 20 Dollars.
senda Fait te
Opposition to the bill introduced:
in the house yesterday to fix the minimum old age assistance benefits at $20 a month was reporisy developing today. Rep. Howard S. Steele (R. Knox), author of the bill, said the purpose of the legislation was to insure applicants for pensions that they would receive sufficient benefits to cover the necessities of life. However, state welfare officials and taxpayers’. groups indicated they will oppose the bill, pointing out that it would add several million dollars to the pension costs in the state.
Would Benefit Many
Welfare officiale—said the minimum would provide increased benefits for more than half of the It was pointed out that most of the payments are fixed much lower than $20 a month because the recipients receive ‘outside income. The average old age benefit payment is about $19 a month, with a few receiving the $40 maximum provided by the 1941 legislature. Welfare officials pointed out that the $20 minimum would raise the average considerably. 2
‘Also some attorneys discussed the possibility that the minimum might
cause a conflict with federal welfare policies, resulting in withdrawal of “ |federal funds. : The bill, as. written, eliminated the $40 maximum provision provided under the 1941 law, but Rep. Steele said this was an oversight and that it would be put into the bill by amendment in committee.
NAME FRENCH CHAPLAIN
PHILADELPHIA Feb. 4 (U. P.). —The appointment of the Rev. Marcel Jean Brun, executive vice chairman of France Forever, as chaplain of the Fighting French forces of Gen. Charles De ‘Gaulle
linka (D. Gary) and Earl B. Tecke-
a an
was announced today.
Bill Asks Extra $15,000 for
Blue to Hire Investigators
$20,000 a year for investigators, giv~ ing the prosecutor full power to fix the salaries and extra compensation of edch investigator. The measure would make .it mandatory for the county council to appropri-
specifies so long as the total remains within the $20,000 limit. At $2500 a year each, the prosecutor, Soul te a total of eight in-
ating. J So li dons fo si
- No More Idle Gangs -
| contributors,
tion of one-half cent each from the
listen to’ the music of the masters : ate whatever salaries the prosecutor fb} geval
school correspondence courses, 24 academic “courses on elementary levels, and: a complete five-part commercial course, . . . A man can do homework in his cell. . i + He can borrow a book from the library every day if he
. wants to. . . . And he can go to
the library himself. . . . The prisoners are permitted to
go out on the recreation grounds
to play softball, horseshoes, volley ball, baseball and other games. . » » And, still, there hasn't been a single: break over the walls in at least three years. It isn’t what prison experts call perfect, but they're trying, all the way down from Warden Alfred Dowd to the newest merit-system guard. : 8 2 8 NEW, TOO, is the so-called parole, training course. Here inmates are schooled in the state's parole system, how it works, functions, who supervises parole, and what is expected of the man who wins parole. Mr. Andrew's bill, which has passed the house and today rests ir the hands of the senate’s judi-ciary-A committee, would change
; The Indianapolis, Symphony. or chestra today * released “statements praising the current moves to strengthen the orchestra’s financial structure through a new group of the Friends of the
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and through a bill to place the orchestra on the school city and civil budgets. Theodore 'B. Griffith, president and general manager of L. S. Ayres & Co., spoke of the bill which would make permissive a contribu-
civil city and school city tax levy toward the support of the orchestra: “Indianapolis as a good place to live and bring up a family,” he said, “would be made more secure by ‘the passage of the bill enabling the civil city and school city to add their support. to the Indianapolis symphony. If our young people come through the war period with strength of spirit, understanding and vision to meet post-war conditions successfully it will be because we have realized that our educational program must be concerned not only with the development of the mind, but also with the full development ' of emotional stability. In this whole connection, no less warrior than Napoleon once said, ‘Music, of all the liberal arts, has the gredtest influence over the emotions and is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.’ Called Cultured Asset
Powers - Hapgood, labor leader, wrote: “The symphony is something: all of us in: Indianapolis need. I know. from personal experience and ‘from the interest my children show, how much good the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra has done for all of us.” Speaking on behalf of the local orchestra’s welfare and by inference in favor of any means to insure it,
Marmon-Herrington, wrote to Dr. G. Hd. A. Clowes, president of tie Indiana state symphony society: “In this time of war when: our efforts are totally directed to the production’of things for destruction, we should all of us hesitate and see what, if anything, we can do for the world of tomorrow.
which is nat the property of any one small group of our citizens. It is| a civic, cultural. asset which we cannot afford to lose and which ugk be preserved at all costs.
| | War Cannot Destroy Music “Whereas in the last war,” continued, “we foolishly refused: to
The ‘institution of correction and rehabilitation’
Col. A. W. Herrington, president of |
BIA ban on
list can go on indefinitely, . . w itd
‘the state’s entire parole wi back to what it was when he served on the board. It |would eliminate the need for the| clem=ency commission and abolish’ the present controlling pow of paroles held by the state depart ment of public welfare. | It would place final a sole paroling authority in the hands = of the prison boards. : This was the paroling which the Wickersham c : sion held up as a national dis< grace in its report to President Herbert Hoover. “In reaching 95 decisions in four hours,” said. (the Wickersham report, “the board gave just two and a half minutes to each case— and this included studying the docket, interviewing the man, and deciding whether to grant parole or not; hor does the two and a Half minutes make allowance [for the time wasted by the en-
try and exit of fos e
and in other ways. . . . present the above as scriptive of a very bad fu role ii
New Graap Praises Move :
BILL OPPOSED!
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making this for all of us to Allan D. Vestal, editor of the Pauw, DePauw university publicas ™ tion, voiced the ‘opinion of students regarding the safety of the tra in a letter which said, in part: “I certainly feel that the or holds a place of importance musical world generally and especially in the Middle We We can ill afford to allow an organization of its caliber to disband... . If there is anything we can’ do, please feel free to call upon us.” “Interest in good governme nt includes concern for the general wel= fare of the community,” wrote Mrs. John K. Goodwin, president of the Indiana League of Women “The presence of music has been considered necessary i civilized state. We are fight maintain a civilized state. It i duty, and we should consid privilege, to keep the great orchestra we have, and which is now call« = ing upon us for help. In my opinion, the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra is indispensable.” | :
Praised by Critics |
Richard S. Davis, music editor of the Milwaukee (Wis. Journal, | where the Indianapolis Symphony ¢ orchestra played a concert afternoon, Jan, 31, praised {
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showing ‘wha other cities our city’s musical taste:. “Again it was demonstra wrote, “that the visiting orc is a most capable organizat: has capital string sections woodwinds likewise are In ‘this concert the first flut first. oboe = were
good city of Indianapolis proud of its musical spokesmen.” Persons interested in guaranteeing the continuance of the Ir apolis orchestra are asked the Society of Friends of Indianapolis Symphony Orc estha by sending contributions of a pi amount to the orchestra offic in. the Murat theater. A membx card will be sent to them.
HOLD EVERYTHING
“Our Indianapolis Symphony ; or- 1 chestra is ‘one of those finer things
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