Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1944 — Page 17
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QicK PASSAG “OF G0 BILL DUE
Senate - Group Finishing
AY, MARCH 7,1
PASSAGE
~ Work on Benefits for ‘War Veterans.
WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P.). ~The senate finance committee prepared today to put the finishing touches on legislation designed to provide every post-war benefit except bonuses for veterans of world war IL : The way already has been cleared for senate adoption of the measure within a week. In anticipation of finance committee approval, Senate Democratic Leader Alben W, Barkley later yesterday obtained unanimous consent to let the committee submit a favorable report during th week-end recess. » Senator Bennett C.. Clark (D. Mo.) chairnian of the finance subcommittee on veterans’ legislation, announced that he would bring the bill up for a senate vote as soon as the pending appropriation bill is out of the way, possibly next Monday or Tuesday. 79 Senators Back Bill
Passage of the measure, jointly sponsored by the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars— the two largest existing veterans’ organizations—is assured. It was introduced in the senate last Monday with indorsement of 79 mem. bers, the largest group ever to sign a bill on introduction in the history of the body. | The sponsors included all but, four members of the finance com- | mittee—S8enators Harry F. Byrd (D.| Va), Peter G. Gerry (D. R. 1)! John A. Danaher (R., Conn.) and] Robert A Taft (R. O.). ! Even their failure to sign as original sponsors did not preclude; their voting for it after consideration in committee today. For example, Taft said he may indorse the measure after the com-| mittee has explored certain ques-| tions in his mind. ! What Bill Provides The bill would: 1. Authorize appropriation up to $500,000,000 for construction of additional - veterans’ hospitals. 2. Prohibit discharge of any disabled veteran from active duty until adequate provision for rehabilitation is made, 3. Provide tuition up to $300 a year -for veterans returning to school and allotment of $50 a month for a single person and $75 a month, for a married person while in school. i 4. Authorize loans up to $1000, at no interest for the first year and 3 per cent thereafter, for purchase of homes, farms or business property. 5. Provide up to 52 weeks of un-| employment compensation, ranging from $15 a week for a single man to a maximum of $25 a week for a veteran with three or more dependents. i
RETHERFORD WINS CONTEST OF LEGION
Charles Retherford, Technical high school junior, won first place recently in the Marion county American Legion oratorical contest. Pupils from six high schools participated. The winner spoke on “The Living Constitution.”
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Fifty sponsor rooms have reached their goal of 90 per cent as regular purchasers of war stamps and bonds at Technical high school.
Winston Churchill, Technical high school senior, has been reappointed president of the executive board of the Drama club. Other officers are Jack Reich, vice president: Nancy Tucker, - secretary; Harold Frvar, chairman of the board. and Beatrice Scureo, board member,
BISHOP OF KENTUCKY CITES CHALLENGES
“The joy of life is in meeting each challenge. How much time and, thought and skill and love we put | into our answer to nature's challenge to the baby's right to live.
By HELEN RUEGAMER The remnants of a 3000-book li- , a testimonial to the widespread interests, efforts and beliefs of a family which contributed much to the social and cultural development of Indianapolis, will soon swell the bookcases in many Indianapolis homes. : Some 500 books, all that is left of the vast Nicholson-McKay family library, were up for sale today at the All Souls Unitarian church where the family worked and worshiped for many years. Although none of the volumes is regarded as priceless, the antique bindings, worn edges, fine paper and unusual type will bring a gleam to any book fanciers eye. To Indianapolis’ oldtimers the names, Nicholson and McKay, are synonymous . with progressive edu-
cation, culture and social reforms ,
in Indianapolis. And their library, with its novels and classics and
volumes of philosophy and poetry, ;
Green and Roman art, religion and social experiments, provided their food for thought for almost 70 years.
Active in Social Life
The story of the Nicholson-Mc-Kay family and the way it is interwoven in the social and cultural life of Indianapolis today js told by Mrs. Brandt Steele, the only living descendant of the family who is dis-| tributing the library where it will do the most good. Mrs. Steele's parents were Horace and. Martha Nicholson McKay. With Mrs. McKay's two sisters, the Misses Mary E. and Elizabeth Nicholson, the couple came to Indian-!
apolis from Ohio in the 1860s.
In the Buckeye state they had be-! longed to the Unitarian branch of the Friends church. Arriving here their primary interest was to found a Unitarian church, This they did in 1868, but not long afterward financial difficulties beset them, and they joined the religious family of Indianapolis’ Plymouth church. This was led by dynamic, liberalminded Oscar C. McCulloch.
Seek Social Reforms
From then on the Nicholsons and McKays with other progressiveminded citizens worked tirelessly for social reforms, the advancement of philosophy and religion, and the development of mind and spirit. They joined Mr. McCulloch and other Indianapolis clergymen in organizing the city’s first plan of charity, the forerunner of the Family Welfare society. They banded together to form an| Indiana chapter of the National So-| cial Science association and laid the) groundwork for today's free kinder-' gartens, nursing schools, art asso-| ciation, and adult education. | Along the adult education line,
5) Books, Last of Vast Nicholson-
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made up the vast son-McKay family library are Mrs. G. O. Byrd (left) librarian All Souls Unitarian church where the books are on sale, and 8. C. Mock, president of the church's Jessy-Wallin-Heywood
the sale.
busy people.” The staff of teachers, which included Miss Mary and Mrs. McKay, conducted classes in literature, typing and stenography, languages and travel, Besides these extra-curricular activities, Miss Elizabeth was teaching art and drawing, Mrs. McKay was being a housewife and mother, and Miss Mary was making a lasting
tem, Headed Normal School Miss Mary was principal of the city's normal school which all school teachers attended before they took over classrooms. A woman of strong personality and remarkable ability, she was a great influence on her students for all that was good. Three of her pupils, well known in local educational circles, are Miss Mabel Keller, now prin-;
cipal of school 70, which was named!
in honor of Miss Mary; Mrs. Georgia Ldcey, principal of school 33, and Miss Anna Brochhausen, a retired Technical high school teacher. Undoubtedly there are others. t
Miss Mary was principal from 1885 to 1909. Then she retired, only. to be the first woman elected to serve on the school board. She held this position four years. Al] this time the two families were living side by side, The MecKay homestead was on the southwest corner of Broadway and 13th st.; the Nicholson home was next door. They bought books like they! bought groceries—novels by the
record in Indianapolis’ school sys-'
Lima, Peru, to help replenish the
| Henry and William James, Henry fWard r; the classics; books
{on the Quaker church and the New| | Harmony -movement; volumes of, | English poetry, from Beouwulf to, | George Bernard Shaw; philosophy, | from Plato to John FPiske—until there were more than 3000 volumes.’ | Books Offered Schools | Miss Elizabeth died in 1926; Miss Mary in 1928 and Mrs. McKay in| 1934. In the summer of 1942 Mrs. Steele offered the city, state and Butler university libraries their selection of the books. Some were reserved for the libraray at! school 70. Of those selected by the city library, some have been sent to
library there which was burned recently. Now, in case you've been wondering, heres where the All Souls church comes in. The Nicholsons ‘and McKay$s remained with the Flymouth church until 1903, when the American Unitarian association helped found the All Souls church. Mrs. McKay and Miss Mary imme- | diately turned their efforts to the! women's group of the church—the! Jessy - Wallin - Heywood Alliance--| which will receive the proceeds from the sale of the remaining 500 books. Yesterday church and Alliance; members made their selections. Today, tomorrow morning and Mon- | day afternoon, the rest of Indianapolis may browse through the
Mr. McCulloch established the Ply-!then contemporary authors, Emer-| pages that are. bound into Indian-
Congressman Desires Roach Exterminator
WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P).—Rep. George H. Bender (R. 0.) is asking a thorough housecleaning of the old house office building and he doesn mean political housecleaning, either. It's cockroaches he's after. Bender addressed the house vesterday to complain of “an organized cockroach” invasion and urge that the building maintenance appropriation be accompanied by a plea for a better clean-
ing job. “Some of. them are old settlers,” Bender said later. “There
are big ones and little ones and |
they've organized. I'm sure they are the same ones that were here when I arrived five years ago. It's not a new problem.” A similar protest two years ago brought nearly a score of remedies but none was effective, Bender said.
RAILROADERS HEAR CARL H. MULLEN
Carl H. Mullen, president of the
mouth institute as a “school for son, Lowell William Dean Howells, 2apolis’ history,
WILLIS BLASTS
UNRRA POLICY
Sees Little Hope in Halting Shipments of Farm
Machinery.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 17.—8en-
‘ator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) | sees little chance of restoring his ‘amendment against using united
inations relief and rehabilitation
| funds for promoting “religious, edu|cational or political programs,” he !said today. A unanimous conference report icame to the senate with the Willis {amendment dropped. He does hope {to have the senate go on record as
Istating that the $1,350,000,000 au-
thorized is to be used only for relief land rehabilitation, he said. After the UNRRA authorization
{is approved an appropriation bill
[will follow.
“I think that it is quite unlikely ‘that congress will approve giving! UNRRA $1,350,000000 in a lump; ;sum, however,” Senator Willis said. | i Headed by former Governor Her- |
Bo it is to thé end of life.” said | Indiana State Federation of Labor, bert Lehman of New York, UNRRA Bishop Clingman in Christ church [spoke at the annual meeting yes- has aroused considerable criticism at noon. {terday of the Big Four district of on the grounds that Uncle Sam will The Rt. Rev. Charles Clingman, the New York Central Retired Rail- foot the bulk of its bills. The bishop of Kentucky, spoke at the way Employees Association in Lie- $1350.000,000 was arrived at as be-
Lenten services this week which will continue at noon, Monday | through Friday, until Easter. |
LOCAL OPA OFFICE NEEDS EMPLOYEES
The Civil Service commission an- |
derkranz hall. New members were introduced and entertainment followed the dinner. Arthur Temmesseld played the piano and Ferdinand Bauer was chairman of the reception committee. J. E. PFilcher was chairman of arrangements.
nounced today that the posts wi HOLLOWELL HONORED
11 investigators, a food rationing
R. A Hollowell today received an
field representative, price specialists | emblem for 30 years service here and eight stenographers were open'with the Indiana Bell Telephone He placed a list of types of ma-
in the district OPA office here.
Applicants must fill
Co., and its predecessor, the Cen-
ling 1 per cent of the national! income during a peak war year. !
Lists Machines Rep. Calvin D. Johnson (R. Ill)
ENTERS STATE RACE
Lawrence A, Shaw, 5453 N. Capftol ave, an attorney, has an-
| | nounced his candidacy for the,Re- | publican nomination for state rep- ‘| resentative. =
He was a Republican nominee for
| | state representative two years ago. | He outlined his legislative platform
as follaws: ( 4 “Extension of the state’s welfare
‘| services, free school books, modern-
ization of the poor relief laws, modernization of the state's penal system by construction of new insti-
| {tutions and application of modern
techniques in the treatment of inmates, more support for the state’s probation system.” .
‘Blind Veteran LONDON, March 17 (U. P).—
A United States soldier, who lost the sight of both eyes during the
North African campaign, yester-
day was married to the young English nurse who’ for 14 months has faithfully helped him to adJust himself to a Iife of blindness, Otto Huttunen, of Warren, O,,
was wounded when a mine ex-
ploded in North Africa. “He lost the sight of both eyes, his entire left hand, and the index-finger of his right hand. He was brought to St. Dunstan’s hospital in England, famous for its rehabilitatiom for blinded war veterans. Huttunen was suffering from battle shock and would
not take any nourishment.
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DR. HARE “Then one day Nurse Ruth : 4 Curtis came to see him and began MADISON - talking to him at his bedside. She St would tell him stories .end- they would have tea together. Then, as Huttunen said: “The first thing I knew she had me ‘in the dining hall with the rest of the fellows. We have been having tea together ever since.” ‘ She taught him how to read Braille and use the typewriter with his remaining fingers. She kept encouraging him in his struggle to want to live in 8 world of darkness. Huttunen and his bride hope to leave for the United States within the next few days.
Marries Nurse
ML! th Dr. John H. Hare, superintendeng of the Evansville state hospital, has been given temporary charge of the Madison state hospital by Governor Schricker. Dr. Hare will superintend the Madison institution until a suce cessor to the late Dr. James W. Milligan can be picked by the ine stitution’s board of trustees. A number of applicants for this position are being interviewed. There are only 200 patients at the Evansville institution, the others being moved to other institue tions following the $2,000,000 fire . last year. The new Evansville hos« pital is expected to be ready for use this fall.
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‘complained in a house speech that | | while American farmers are suffer- | ;ing from lack of machinery in try- |
ing to meet wartime food produc- { tion goals UNRRA plans on sending
millions of dollars worth of farm —
machinery abroad.
chines and the countries to which
out the tral Union Telephone Co. He has they are to be sent in the Congres- |
standard form 57 obtainable at the charge of cable assignments in the! sional Record. | ; | “They propose to distribute ma-|
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RATIONING ‘DATES
MEAT—Brown Y and Z are good. | Both expire Monday. Red stamps | A8, BS, C8 D8, E8 and F8 in Book 4 good for 10 points each through | May 20. G8, H8 and J8- become good March 26 and expire June 18.
CANNED GOODS—Green stamps K. L. and M expire Monday. Blue stamps A8, Bg, C8, D8 and ES in| Book 4 good for 10 points each through May 20. Stamps F8, G8,
‘HS, J8 and K8 become good April
1 and expire June 20.
SBUGAR~—Stamp 30 in Book ¢ is good indefinitely for 5 pounds. Stamp 40 in Book 4 good for § pounds of canning sugar. Stamp 31 in Book 4 hecomes valid for 5 pounds April 1. =F SHORS8~stamp 12 in Book 1 expires April 30. No: 1 ‘airplane stamp. in Book 3 good indefinitely.
GASOLINE—Stamp A-10 is good for ® gallons through Tuesday. B-1 and C-1 good now for 2 gallons each: B-2, C-2, B-3 and C-3 good for 5 gallons until further notice. T good for 5 gallons; E-1 good for 1 gaHon: R-1 good. for 5 gallons. A, B, C and D coupons are not valid until they have been indorsed in’ ink with automobile registration number and state. Motorists should write both 1944 and 1942 numbers on book and on coupens.’
FUEL OIlL—Period 4 and 5 coupons valid through Sept. 30. All changemaking coupons ‘ and resérve coupons are row good. Consumers should have used not- more than 80 per‘cént of their rations as
of March 13: 3
TIRES —Next inspection due, A's by March 31, B's on or before June 30 and C’s by May 31; commercial 5000 miles, is first,
chinery among approximately
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{nations of ‘Europe, every one of
| which is at present occupied wholly |
or in part by axis forces” (Johnson said.
“Utopian Dreamers”
“Yet these utopian dreamers demand delivery of portions of this equipment by Aug. 1, 1944. “Thirty . thousand tractors are to be sent to parts of Europe, where in many instances the intended recipient has never seen one. “Thirty thousand plows are to be scattered all over Europe and paid for with American dollars. “Thirty thousand separators,” 50,000 mowers, 17,000 reapers, 22.900 horse-drawn hay rakes, 40,000 harrows and harrow-sections and 12,-
Mr.
members of congress have endeavored to obtain for-needy farmers.”
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