Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1944 — Page 15

Dec. 28. -— somes back next nfronted with a ake a more re=tive part in the ? a constructive, d 'y to combat the al of power poli-

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the creation of d down by the on Oaks, Then 1m, Italy, Greece ‘ y that organizae determined by J f Great Britain 1d.

pinion ot definitely dee that they introe ations now able an organization, - . , Great Britain, s, to which the governments are Ud take up come

hicle for debate, ssure. of - confidence in it can affect the ated in the hure 1ill and Foreign settlement of the itish public and

that the United ce as it should, 7, with the result 1 at the top, or percolates down

felt, would ges that smacks of ic too little cone

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rican people are political matters ed to wash their confronted with ready arisen. d, and for this

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THURSDAY, DEC. 2,

COUNTY WARS

"45 CONTRACTS

Little Competition Given|

Bidders on Materials And Services.

The contract for black top road | |

materials, largest of the annual Marion county awards, has been let to the Grady Brothers Construction Co. by county commissioners. County purchasers of bituminous materials next year is expected to total about $95,000, commissioners said. The only other bidder on black top was the Indiana Asphalt Co. Commissioners explained that the Grady brothers bid was $1.50 ‘to $2 a ton lower in most classifications than the Indiana Asphalt bid. Grady brothers also were awarded the 1045 contract for tar materials, submitting a bid which commissioners said was a fraction of a cent lower than one ‘submitted by the Allied Bituminous Co.

Bidders Share Award The contract for bridge steel was divided equédlly between the W. J. Holliday Co. and the Hugh J. Baker Co.,, the only bidders. The Spickelmeier Fuel & Supply]

Co. was awarded the 1945 contract for cement. The only other bidder was the Advance Block & Material Co. which submitted a bid only for carload lots. Commissioners said they couldn't buy it by the carload lots, 8ix firms were awarded contracts to share in the county’s purchase of sand and gravel next year, They are the State S8and and Gravel Co, American Aggregates Corp., Builders Sand & Gravel Co., Brown-Hoflstet-ter Co, Roads Materials Co, and the Indiana Gravel Co.

Nine Offer Gas Figures

The gasolitys contract was awarded to the Capito] Oil Co. on a fixed price of 13.6 cents per gallon for regular gasoline and 14.6 cents a gallon for high test fuel. Eight other oil companies submitted bids, but subjected their prices to the current tank wagon Quotations, “We cannct award contracts on * fluctuating market prices,” Commissioner William T. Ayres explained. The coal contract was let to the Leonard Coa] Co., nosing out of the picture the Pittman-Rice Coal Co. which has had the contract for the last two years.

Delivery Service Wins

Commissioners explained that the Leonard bid was slightly higher than Pittman-Rice but “we feel that the Leonard firm can make better deliveries.” The contract included coal for all county buildings except the county tuberculosis hospital and Julietta infirmary. The fuel contract for these two buildings was let to the Interstate Coal Co. The courthouse window washing contract went up $35 over last year. The only bidder was the Indianapolis Window Cleaning Co. whose offer was $85 compared to the usual $50 for once around the building. The Service Construction Co. was awarded the contract to repair the court house skylight on a bid of $7827. The William P. Jungclaus Co., submitted an offer of $8440 for the job.

SERVICES HELD FOR CLAUDE CAMPBELL!

Claude M. Campbell, 1101 N.

Hamilton ave. was buried in Crown |.

Hill Saturday. He died Thursday in City hospital. He was 6}. Mr. Campbell was born in Bowling Green and was a salesman here. He was married to Miss Georgia Wilson, who. survives, in 1927. Mr: Campbell was a member of the East 10th Street Methodist church. Surviving besides his wife are a brother, C. C. Campbell; two half brothers, Paul and Ira Campbell; a half-sister, Mrs. Lena Stevens; six children and seven grandchildren, all of Indianapolis.

OTTO MIX SERVICES SET FOR TOMORROW

Otto A. Mix, 606 N. Denny st, died yesterday in St. Francis hospital after a twp weeks’ iliness. He was 67. Mr. Mix, a member of the Gethsemane Lutheran church, was employed at the Pennsylvania railroad roundhouse. He is survived by his wife, Lula. Services will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Dorsey funeral home with burial in Washington Park cemetery,

ICE BLAMED IN DEATH

BEDFORD, Ind., Dec. 28 (U. PJ). lee, which glazed a coal car he elp unload, was blamed toa or a fall in which Dall Cornish, 44, suffered Tatal injuries. Cornish, an ice and fuel company employee, died in a hospital a few hours after falling yesterday.

State Deaths

RIA—Prank Glaocki, 74. Bur-

{wife of the late Charles White Mer-

{Propylaeum.

19044 Rites Saturday

Services for Carl A. Grummann Sr, 3645 Kenwood ave, who died Tuesday, will be held at 3 p. m. Saturday in the Flanner & Bu-. chanan mortuary. The Rev. F. R. Daries, Zion Evangelical and Reformed church pastor, will. officiate. Cremation will follow.

CELINE MERRILL S DEAD HERE

Rites for Publishing Co. Official’s Wife to Be Saturday.

Mrs. Celine Lodge McKee Merrill,

rill, secretary-trecasurer of Bobbs~ Merrill Co., died today in her home, 1321 N. Meridian st. She was TT. Born in Madison, she came to Indianapolis when she was 8. She was the daughter of the late James Robert and Mary Lodge McKee. Mrs. Merrill was a member of the First Presbyterian church, the Indiana Historical society and the

Services to Be Saturday

Survivors are three nephews, Lt. Cmdr. Hiram Wasson McKee, Indianapolis, now stationed in the Sauth Pacific; Maj. Edward L. McKee of Santa Monica, Cal, and Benjamin Harrison McKee, Greenwich, Conn.; a niece, Mrs. Mary McKee Reisinger, New York, and several great-nephews and greatnieces. Seryices will be conducted Saturday at’the Kregelo & Bailey funeral home with burial in Crown: Hill.

JOHN E. DORSEY

Rites for John E. Dorsey, 55 Frank st, who died today in City hospital, will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday in the Voight mortuary, 1632 S. Meridian st. Burial will be in New Crown cemetery. A member of Olive Branch Christian church, he was 77 and before his retirement 10 years ago, was a millhand at the Brannum-Keene Lumber Co. Survivors are a son, Elmer, Indianapolis; three daughters, Mrs. Lillie Herzberger, Indianapolis; Mrs. Mamie Sprinkel, Greenwood, and Mrs. Maude Coffin, Indianapolis, and a grandson, John George Herzberger, Brownville, Tex.

SAMUEL LIBOWITZ

[administer the oath.

. |lived .in Indianapolis 28 years and

3 TAKE COUNTY

Claycombe, Blue, Petit to Enter Office; Wetter Is. Appointed.

Three them newly-elected—will be sworn into office Monday. They are Lloyd D. Claycombe, new judge of the Marion county circuit court; Prosecuting Attorfley Sherwood Blue and Sheriff Otto Petit. Mr. Blue and Mr. Petit were reelected. Ceremonies attendant to Mr. Claycombe’s inauguration will be held at 11 a. m. in the circuit courtroom. Republican County Chairman Henry E. Ostrom will preside and Criminal Court Judge William D. Bain will

Blue Ceremony at 8:30 A. M.

Mr. Blue will be sworn at 8:30 a. m. in his office. No time has been announced for Mr. Petit’s inauguration. Judge-elect Claycombe has announced the.appointment of Paul C. Wetter, Republican, and J. Emmett McManamen, Democrat, as magistrates for the eastern and western halves’ of the county, respectively. Both are attorneys and will serve three years. Mr. Wetter is presently filling out the unexpired term of Ira’ Ma Holmes, who resigned from the eastern area judgeship. Mr. McManamon succeeds Jacob L. Steinmetz, Democratic appointee under Judge Earl R. Cox, retiring circuit court judge. Another appointment announced by the judge-elect was of William Hinkle to serve as chief clerk for the circuit court, He has been chief clerk of the criminal court.

Court Staff Named

Other members of the court staff include Miss Frances Cameron, court reporter; Otis Pratt, bailiff, and ‘Mrs. Mabel Duvall, assistant bailiff. Mrs. Joyce Loomis, 28 E. 54th st., Republican, and Alex Vonnegut, 5033 N. Pennsylvania st., Democrat, have been appointed jury commissioners. William Huse, sg of County Treasurer Frank Hus® has been named secretary of the jury commission.

ARTHUR C. BROECKER, NEWSMAN, IS DEAD

Arthur CO. Broecker, 246 S. Emerson ave., died yesterday in Methodist hospital. He was 56. A native of Kankakee, Ill, he had

was a display advertising salesman for The Indianapolis News. He previously had been local display advertising mandger for The Indianapolis Star. He was a member of the Irvington Masonic lodge, 666 Survivors are his wife, Dorothy; a daughter, Mrs. Philip Ross of MecCordsville; a son, Arthur, who is

Samuel Libowitz, a retired mer-| chant, died today at his home, 39 N. Jefferson ave. A charter member of Monument Masonic lodge, he was 74. Rabbi David Shapiro and Cantor Abraham Portnov will conduct serv-| ices at 11 a, m. tomorrow at the Aaron Ruben funeral home. Burial will be in Shara-Teflila cemetery. Survivors are two song and three daughters, Bertram, Clarence, Cecelia, Mrs. Abe Klapper, Mrs. Aaren Trattner, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Harriet Shaffner, Los Angeles, Cal, and six grandchildren.

MRS. MAY MARSHALL

Tentative services for Mrs, May Marshall, 5844 Ralston dr, who died yesterday, have been set for 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Moore and Kirk funeral home, College and Fairfield aves. Burial will be in Crown Hill. A member of the Eldgewood Methodist church and the O. E. 8, she was 69. Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Cornelia VanDeWalle and Mrs. Vivian Schaefer, Indianapolis, and Mrs: Pauline Thompson, Los Angeles, Cal.; a son,’ Lt. James F. Marshall, Washington; three sisters, rs, Nellie Marshall, Mrs, Walter Spahr and Miss Anna Weaver, all of Indianapolis; a brother, Benjamin Weaver, Indianapolis, and three grandchildren.”

| Mrs. Bertha Langham of Cincin-

stationed in Great Britain; six sisters, Mrs. Meta Kelly of Chicago,

nati, O.; Mrs. Thomas Rodebaugh (of Upper Sandusky, O.; “Mrs. Clara Berry of Los Angeles, Cal, Mrs. Fred Grundler of Elyria, O., and Mrs. James Goutchey of Santa Fe, N. M., and two brothers, Fred of Rockford, Ill, and Harry of Los Angeles.

PLAN GOLD STAR RITES FOR SOLDIER

Gqld star services for Pvt. Oscar Hill, husband of Mrs. Mildred “Hill, 5 W. Raymond st., will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday in Olive Branch Christian church. The Rev. Benton Miller and Dr. Ephraim D. Lowe will officiate. Pvt. Hill, an infantryman, was killed in Germany Dec. 7. Survivors besides his wife are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hill Sr. of Edinburg; four brothers, Arthur and Frank of Indianapolis: Ott of Edinburg, and Capt. Edward Hill Jr, in the navy, and two sisters, Mrs. Florence Barker and Mrs. Ruby Pruitt, both of Edinburg.

‘OATHS MONDAY

county officials—one of|-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Services for Mrs. Emma C. Vonnegut will begat 2 p. m., Saturday

‘MEAT HOLIDAY’ IN N. Y. POSTPONED

NEW YORK, Dec, 28 (U.P.).—| New York's retail meat dealers | agreed today to reopen their shops

until Jan, 10. They hope for government action to relieve the pinch between uncontrolled livestock prices and retail ceilings. The holiday, scheduled to start the day after Christmas, had been only 25 per cent effective over the two-day period. Police reported 2142 of the city’s more than 10,000 shops closed yesterday,

in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary with burial in Crown Hill Mrs. Vonnegut was the wife of | Pranklin Vonnegut, retired presi- | dent of the Vonnegut Hardware Co.

EMMA C. VONNEGUT'S SERVICES SATURDAY

{She died Tuesday in Methodist hos- |

and postpone a “business holiday” pital.

HIT LAUNDRY OVERCHARGES WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (U. P). ~The OPA moyed today to halt overcharging .by laundry and dry cleaning establishments by forbidding them to charge higher prices for so-called “new services” that are in reality only “dressed-up” old services. |

In State

wviors: Wile, Anna; da aughters, Mrs. Runen Sienskiewles and. Mrs, Helen is.

ANDERSON--M:s. dna Gustine Bevel, “a3. Survivors; Husband. Iris; sons, has.

state department of education. chiefly to hike salaries of rurdl in-

struction, said the populous urban centers genes.

Selva! ally are receiving above-the-mini

cases, probably wouldn't be effected.

The recommendation is intended

= | structors, Dr. Clement T. Malan, state superintendent of public in-

mii wages at present and. in most

Bill Proposes Pay Boost

Teacher Scales

Legislation to increase by $200in the state department of educaannually all teacher wage scales in Indiana was proposed today by the

tion, Approval by the state board of

ings and facilities and employment of a school buildings’ consultant, A total over-all levy of $1.50. for special "school and tuition funds,

2 pointed out that teachers in cents for each. fund as now specified.

education of all new school build-|.

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