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deemed qualified . . . to assume po-|. sitions and responsibilities of regular teachers | . . are denied contracts and the minimum wiges established by law.”

Board Denies Practice

Spokesmen for the Indianapolis school board denied the practice, saying, “We are following the letter and the spirit of the law in the best interests of teachers and pupils involved.” H. L, Harshman, administrative coun assistant fo Superintendent of Schools Dewitt 8, Morgan, explained that prior to the enactment of the temporary contract law, the school 2 board may have kept a substitute at substitutes’ wages for more thah six weeks. (~If there is no law against shooting rabbits on Sunday, you shoot | rabbits on Sunday,” he said, However, he explained that a teacher was not retained indefinitely on substitute wages. He said he had not seen a ‘copy of the ethics committee report and declared that there are five or six large cities in Indiana that could have been the ones referred to in the report,

Name New President

Accepting the report of the riominating committee, the association named Miss Virginia Kinnaird, Ft Wayne high school teacher, new president. The new vice president is H. ©. Sherwood, president of the Burris Consolidated school at Mitchell, T. B. Hargrove and Robert H. Wyatt, Indianapolis, retained their posts as treasurer and executive secretary. Chairman of the nominating commites is William B. Decker of Vincennes, ' The assembly adopted resolutions proposing legislation to organize all federal educational functions and assistance to states under the United States office of education; to extend the 1943 textbook law to.elementary grades; to make the “office [y because the federal governmen of state superintendent of public instruction a statutory office with a four-year term.

Predicts End of War

This afterncon, Erika Mann, war correspondent for Liberty magazine, who recent has returned from England and the Middle East, predicted the end of the European war in a year, followed by complete occupation of Germany for some time, The wind-up session at 7:30 p. m.

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. He announced that the League of Nations is “very much alive, and no matter what is done it cannot be done without the present league as the only trained staff of interna-

In Mr. Hambro's opinion the axis tries, particular Germany, will have to be under occupation “until they are educated to inter-

responsibility.” “However, they will have to edu“We can

He opined that educators should have a place at the peace table, but advocated an ‘international educa-

“Textbooks of history. are so imbued with nationalism and national prejudices as to be dangerous,” he

Mr. Hambro now lives in Princewhere he divides his time

in exile and looking after League

With King Haakon and other cabinet members he escaped from Norway in June of 1940 on a British

In his inaugural address H. B. Allman, superintendent of schools at Muncie, urged fellow-teachers to teach their students Americanism and to demand federal aid for

tional opportunity may be available

“State and federal governments must open their treasuries and place financial support on the line for asserted. “State control will not be lost, mere-

finds the money wherever it is and uses it for the children wherever . Some form of federal ald will come eventually, just as certainly as sunshine follows rain. It should come now, and will if you

Miss Sara C. Ewing, Indianapolis, was presented the traditional gold key as retiring association president, and following Mr. Hambro's talk the

| BRIN ian ons rinsocinsin Bias Rains AEE Nar tases at Cadle. will feature Max Hill, | schoolteachers traipsed to the state E : former chief of the Associated Press| house for a reception and ball. | AOAPeSB ..icuviiiiiiiiiiiiiiticiitiitirntitontrnrernens Tokyo bureau, who will tell about| Following district elections yesterz | “Japan, Our Enemy in the Pacific.” day afternoon the newly-named vice J Oy iii tesastonee Addressing the Hoosier educators president, nominating committee Che. [7] Chk. [7] C. 0. D. MN at their first general assembly last| member and National Education asTEE Sar a WE Wn Se S— W— — — w— —

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L. T, Buck. Mourer Named

In the ninth, 10th and 11th districts, members on the executive committee also were named. The ninth district named Harry: Mourer, executive committee; Otto Hughes, nominating committee, and Will B. Wilson, NEA delegate. Executive committee member from the 10th district is Arthur H. Hines; vicé president, Anna Stewart; nominating committee, George Bronson, and NEA delegate, Rosella McGill The 11th district election results are Russell Julius, executive committee; Hollis Adams, vice presi-

dent; ‘Hazel Bonke, nominating committee, and Gail Haen, NEA delegate,

Elect Miss McComb

Miss Gertrude McComb, Terre Haute, was elected president of the state federation of public school teachers yesterday afternoon. Other officers are first vice president, Mrs. Gladys Townsend, Muncie; 2d vice president, Field Snodgrass, Jeffersonville; 3d vice president, Henry L. McHargue, Gary; recording secretary, Mrs. Eugenia Hayden, Indianapolis; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mary Gill, Michigan City, and treasurer, Fred Stultz, Indianapolis. The group adopted resolutions recommending a minimum school term of nine months in all com-| munities; that all teachers be! granted a specified sick leave; that

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King of Italy Gives Up Titles

NAPLES, Oct. 22 (U. P).—King Emmanuel of Italy has decided to drop his titles of emperor of Ethiopia and king of Albania acquired during the Fascist regime, well-informed quarters said today. The Italian royal family also will drop titles which arose from

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Fascist activities and Marshal Pieiro Badoglio, premier of the armistice government, was understood to have relinquished the rank of “Duke of Addis Ababa” given him by Benito Mussolini,

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URGES ALLIES AVOID “SPIRIT OF REVENGE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (U. P).— | Archbishop Francis J. Spellman to- | day urged the allies to avoid -the | spirit of revenge—“Nazl tactics"— if they would win the war without destroying their victory. In another series of letters written to his father during battlefront tour and published in Collier's magazine Spellman said: “If we could keep the spirit of revenge out of our actions, if we could continue to concentrate our operations on military objectives, if we could punish the guilty, responsible leaders who have brought disaster on their own peoples and on us, we should have an easier task of reconstruction after the war.”

'BOASTFUL PAIR MAKE GOOD THEIR CLAIMS

LOGANSPORT, Ind, Oct. 22 (U. P.).—Last year Robert Poynter, 19, and Kelly Albert, 23, pretended they were R. A. F. filers and described their exploits before civic! clubs in several midwestern cities) until they were exposed here. Mass County Prosecutor Kenesaw | | Landis did not prosecute, deciding | to give them a chance to make] | good their imaginative forays. To-! day Landis received word that Poynter and Albert are on active duty overseas, Poynter in the Canadian tank corps and Albert in ‘the American armored forces.

POLES EXECUTE 3 AGENTS OF GESTAPO

By UNITED PRESS The Polish underground has executed three more Nazi gestapo agents after a week-long reign of terror during which the Germans shot and killed scores of Poles in the streets of Warsaw, the British radio said today. The broadcast, heard by C. B. 8. in New York, said gestapo agents began a wholesale roundup of hostages in Warsaw a week ago,

7-Year-Olds Wreck Train

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The first Indianapolis woman to free a leatherneck officer for fighting, 2d Lt. Mildred N. Cooke of the marine corps women’s reserve, home this week on leave, Lt, Cooke received her commis-

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Tech. William Lentz Woundee In Italy, Reported Recovering

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years and was employed by the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. before enlisting. He is a graduate of Ben Davis high school. . |

west Pacific, recently. They are 1st Lt. Fred R. Ment-

the allied air forces in the southzer of Mishawaka, who was given

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She is visiting her | in India; sister, Mrs, John Elling, 631 E. 56th | New York, and. Pvt. st., and will return to Camp Lejeune | |

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PYTHIAN SISTERS MEET Banner temple, 37, Pythian Sisters, will meet at 7:30 p. m. Monday in Castle hall for a business meet‘Img and social hour.

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| the air medal, and the 1st Lt. Victor N. Gibson of Loogootee, a second oak leaf cluster. » » . CAPT. GEORGE E. ELLIOTT Hs * of Richmond was awarded the dis-

THREE HOOSIERS wounded in | action in the Middle Eastern war | Lngulshed flying cross today for

zone are Pfc. Willard Ely, son of A Participating in more than 200 Mrs. Mary Ely, Dupont; T. 5th | hours of operational flight misGr. Prank Noblock Jr., son of Mrs. | sions in the Southwest Pacific. Frank H. Noblock, Anderson, | and Pfc. Hugh J. Tanksley, 1 DEAD AS ATTO HITS TRUCK nephew of Alfred L. Spurlock, FRANKLIN, Ind, Oct. 22 (U. B.). Bloomington. —Mae Snow, “Trafalgar, died last 2 = =» night of injuries sustained when Honored the automobile she was riding in

{collided with a truck on a bridge TWO HOOSIERS have been {near here. Two other occupants of presented ’ awards by Lt. Gen.

{the car and the truck driver received George C. Kenney, commander of -\ minor injuries, =

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BEN DAY HIGHES

Awards for t in the Ben Da scription drive eight students scription dance Winners are Miller, - Robert Blanch, “Conn Brinley; Dorot Mary Ann | were sold to t tion, An Americal each of the tw of the school | Muse accepted of Mrs. Lora Fred Kantner Wilma E. Jay's

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