Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1943 — Page 18

policy scheme, $50 to $100; adultery and fornication, $50 to $100, and assault and battery, $50 to $250.

Some Are Reduced Reductions were for issuing

fraudulent check for $100 or over!

$1000 to $500 and for issiing a check for $35 or less, $500 to $250; drunk, $100 to $25; gaming $50 to $30; driving while drunk, $1000 to

More than 250 toys of all kinds were on their way to children in the neighborhood of the Fletcher Avenue mission today 1 the Caravan club's annual Christmas luncheon and party at the Murat Temple,

Looking over the gifts brought by club members are (left to

Salvation ‘Army which received s° $500 Christmas check from the Murat Temple, and Sgt. Lovell Drake, wounded aerial gunner now at Billings Geenral hospital who spoke to the club members.

so mene + wee 0 =| GIFTS OF BLOOD $25: violating the siot machine act,}

$500 to $100; speeding, $100 to $50, and ‘visiting a gaming or house

Services Clubs Hear Pleas To Aid Service Men With Pledges.

SCOUTS SEEKING

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America’s wounded service men—

The Scouts are trying to obtain five donor pledges each to meet {their quotas. Five young Cubs were scheduled to speak to service clubs, appealing to members to see that!

; ; .employees were given donor pledges. EPISODE IS DEA The canvass will continue through Dec. 31. | Yesterday, Ray Stewart of Pack : 3 Dec {U.P 4 PN Bax DEG, cal Gsinard a 68 addresséd the Rotary club, and square-jawed skipper of the freight David Thomas of Pack 66 spoke to er City of Flint during its epic en- Gyro club members. Today, Don counter with the German navy in South of Pack 38 was to appear on : Harold

Jand and blood. investigation for home hazards

; the Kiwanis club program; early the , died last : CE : . {Laut of Pack § was to talk before

His wife, Ethel, was at his hos-! pital bedside when he died. Other] survivors include a brother, Capt.| F. A. Gainard of Kerney, N. Y, a! civilian pilot, and a sister, Mary Gainard, Dorshire, Mass, schoolteacher, The body will be taken to Melrose, Mass, his home, for services. ‘In command of the freighter ‘when it was captured and taken to Murmansk by a German prize crew, Gainard cautioned his men to offer no resistance. Repaired in a brief stop at Murmansk, the ship was sailed to Haugesund, Norway, where Gainard and his crew took contro} of the craft from the Germans and were backed up by the Norwegian government. The war was barely four months old. on The Norwegians formally rejected Germany's protest over seizure of the ship and Gainard brought it into New York harbor Jan. 27, 1940, for a tumultuous home-coming wel-

the Junior Chamber of Commerce, and Hax Sample of Pack 8 before the Lions club.

Pledges Requested

“Two industrial plants already have asked for pledges for their employees as a result of these appeals,” said Ted Captelen, executive in charge of Cub scouting. Ralph W. Hook, war service chairmain for the Central Indiana council of Boy Scouts, urged citizens not to wait until Scouts asked them to “give life,” but to make their own appointments hy calling the Red Cross blood donor service, Li. 1441, Thesnational quota for 1944 is 5,000,000 pints of blood. The Indidnapolis goal has not yet been as signed. “. The national goal of 4,000,000 pints last year was met by the 33 blood donor centers and their mobile units a month ahead of schedule. “Already reports from combat zones show that blood plasma has

“|piled by Pred R. Farnam of the

come. helped reduce the mortality rate ; among the wounded to less than half that of the first world war”

CAVE-BROWN-CAVE said Norman H. Davis, chairman of DEAD IN LONDON ‘he American Red Cross.

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| Safety Council Warns | | Of Perils of Holiday Season.

CHICAGO, Dec. 24 (U. P)— The National Safety Council said

Christmas is at home, but even homebodies = are subject to accidents. To make sure of a safe yuletide, .the council said, conduct a special

such as cluttered stairs, skidding rugs and unlighted stairways. " Keep. Christmas package wrappings aways from matches and flames. - If no safe tree lights are available, do without and above all else don't use candles or frayed, wornout light sets. Be sure to disconnect tree lights when leaving the house. Show the children how to play safely with their new toys to avoid cuts, burns and injuries. And to avoid parental accident, induce them to keep their toys off the stairs and floors where people can fall over them. Don't travel unless it is absolutely necessary.

URGE FARM LAND FOR THE INFIRMARY

Additional farm land to provide more crop acreage for the Marion county infirmary was recommended today by the state welfare department in its annua] inspection report on public institutions. The report on the infirmary, com-

state department, stated that of 457] acres of land available for county farm purposes here, 150 acres were rented. from private owners on a ¢rop-sharing basis.

“It appears strange that the county farm of the most populous

inadequate in crop acreage as fo make it hi to rent land,” the report stated.

RoNDON, Dee. 3 (©. rs: SCHRICKERS VISIT

_ baronet, once well known for his | KNOX RELATIVES

stable of racing horses, died yes- { terday. He was reputed to have lost| Governor and Mrs. Schricker will much of his fortune on the turf,|spend Christmas visiting with Mrs.! and in later years lived in a simple |Schricker'’s mother, Mrs. Emma M.| flat in London. Brown, at their home at Knox THe baronetcy, created in 1641 by| This will be the first Christmas | King Charles I, will pass to a, that none of the Schrickers’ children! nephew, Clement Charles Cave- has been home. Henry Jr. and Brown-Cave, who will become the George are in the army and navy 15th baronet. The latter married respectively and the daughter, Mrs. an American girl Dorothea Plew- Margaret S. Robbins, is living in man Dwen, daughter of Robert San Antonio, Tex. | ~ Greene Dwen, of Chicago, in 1923. |

Tee PRAISES STAND ON MARSHALL! OBSERVE WAKE'S FALL WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U. P.). PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 24 (U. P). {—The Army and. Navy Journal to=The U. 8. army and navy and |day praised the decision to retain hundreds of civilians joined U. 8.|Gen. George C. Marshall as chief marines yesterday in observing the {of staff in Washington ang place

second anniversary of the fall of | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow - Wake island. th a

11 Best Dressed Women List

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (U. P).—|Rosalind Russell, screen act Eleven mink-coated matrons today | “It's a woman's duty,” Lily Pons. Were chosen as 1943's best dressed, who favors junior miss, pint-sized ‘but the two top-rankers, Congress- | styles, said, “to look her best in Woman Clare Booth Luce and the! wartime.” Miss Pons said she's Duchess of Windsor, declared they | just bought her Easter clothes, but hadnt had anything new for friends said that she was saving a months, while the 11th, Rosalind | chinchilla fur, valued at $50,000, for - Russell, said she's rather be a pin- | post-war wea because “you : ” shouldn't overdress right -now.”..... The Duchess of Kent, usually clothes in the last few high on the list of global fashion blond Mrs. Luce, who, plates, was missing from this year's ‘the duchess, rarely wears hats. list because she is in mourning for these days, but I've no| Madame Chiang Kai-shek replaced her as an international newcomer to the fashign field, Out-

| mand of the cross-channel invasion.

Clare Luce, 'Wally' Head New||

The report also recommended a complete rewiring of the infirmary plant to conform with national eleetric code standards and urged that an institutional elerk-auditor be provided at the infirmary for a more “business-like office management.” To

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% The star of Bethlehem that has guided us thru the ages burns ever brighter now in the-darkness of the world . . , our _promise for a happier—better tomorrow.

We are thankful that Christmas, 1943, is one Christ. mas nearer. that day when peace and freedom and goodwill are sure to return to the universe.

Our wish for you, our friends, is that another year— another Christmas—may again bring you the pleasure of hearing familiar voices shout that old, old greeting . .. . “Merry Christmas.” AE

CHRISTMAS EVE....TONIGHT A 7:30 P. M. “MEET YOUR NAVY” — - [The Great Lakes Choir "featured in o special program of Christmas

9:30 P. M. T H E INDIANAPOLIS MAENNERCHOR —Chorus of 70 woices bringing you favorite Christmas songs you love

11:00 P. M. CANDLELIGHT SERVICE —A full hour of beautiful Christmas music direct from Tabernacle

music. to hear. Presbyterian Church, CHRISTMAS DAY ... TOMORROW | 1% 7:15 A M. ; 11:30 A. M. 7:30 P. M. 7 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE CHRISTMAS ~ CHORAL : .

TO AMERICA from the . MUSIC — Mixed chorus

THE BOSTON SYM.

Archbishop of Canter- of 100 voices with your ; 7 bury. iy favorite Christmas songs. _ PHONY ORCHESTRA i : : Dr. Serge Koussevitsky, * 9:15-10:30 A. M. 1:00 P. M. Conducting. A METROPOLITAN OPERA Es 7 SRT Ee ~— Trans-Atlantic broadcast Sievers, Sas Matton, “SPECIAL CHRISTMAS Z with hook-up between Muse. a : ‘MUSIC — Progroms fea- 7

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