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The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 16

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16 THE IXDIAXAPOLIS STAR, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1940. Mr. Ryan said he will order the work done and charge it to the i property owner on his tax state i ment Succumbs at 80 I BIDS RECEIVED ON ROAD JOBS 1.112 miles on Ind. 51 southeast of Austin, 1.222 miles at Austin and .821 southwest of Uniontown. Bontrager Construction Company of Elkhart, for eon-struct ion work in La Porte and St.

Joseph counties, including 4.597 County to Clean Drainage Ditches Farmers Held Responsible for Renovating II. P. Wasson Co. Basement Fashion Shop BRAND-NEW 1940-41 STYLES! CHOICE OF THE MARKET! CARMON A. BELL.

Carmon A. Bell, 33 years old, 432 North East street, a resident of Indianapolis 18 years, died Sunday in the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital at Sunnyside after one and one-half years of illness. Mr. Bell, a native of Bethpage, had been employed by the New York Central Railroad 13 years before his illness. Survivors are the widow, Mrs.

Frances Bell; a son, Robert Ray Bell; a daughter, Marjorie Ann Bell, all of Indianapolis; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bell of Tennessee; three sisters, Mrs. Jennie Martin of Tennessee and Mrs. Effie Perry and Mrs.

Marjorie Barns, both of Los Angeles, and four brothers, Charles Bell, Odie Bell, Leo Bell and James Bell, all of Tennessee. Funeral services will be at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Jordan funeral home. Burial will be i 1 '''tan. -J i miles of dual lane on Ind. 2 from ithe iunction of Ind.

2 and 20 to a luuiiiy iuitr. McMahan Construction Company of Rochester, for surfacing 2.580 miles of county road from the junction of Ind. 23 and southwest in St. Joseph county, and $50,957.85 for surfacing 3.66H miles of county road from Ind. 25 to Nyona lake in Fulton county.

Meshberger Brothers Stone Com- 'Pny of Linn Grove, $118,328.50 for surfacing and widening 5.856 miles on Ind. 114 between Ind. 15 and North Manchester. The low bids totaled $917,374.17 against the estimate of engineers bids submitted. jWPA Workers to Get ray tvery lwo Weeks Marion county WPA workers will receive their pay checks every other Friday, beginning July 26, under the new 13-month year the home of his daughter, Mrs.

inaugurated to somplify pay roJljAbert Furrnan 2165 North Hard- ()av the pav days will be in effectless. JOHN E. Mct'RAY. John E. McCray, 80 years old, -of Cadiz, who was born on what now is the site of the Indianapolis 1 Motor Speedway, died yesterday in ung street, after three months III- Mr.

McCray had operated a farm at Cadiz. He and Mrs. Emma McCray were married in Indianapolis in 1883. The couple moved to Cadiz 10 years ago. Survivors, besides Mrs.

Furman, are the widow; three daughters, Mrs. Elmer D. Cox, Mrs. James Pedlow and Mrs. George Cass, and jtery.

iXx also in Benton, Lawrence, Morgan Ohio and Warren counties. Pay roll periods for the counties will end every other Thursday starting tomorrow. Checks will be received by the employes eight days later. The same schedule will continue throughout the year. Annual wages of all workers will he the same.

They will receive three sons, Winfield McCray, Rob-their checks every 14 days instead I ert McCray and Emmett McCray, of twice monthly, giving them 26 all of Indianapolis, checks in the course of a year-in- Funeral services will be held at stead of 24. Each check will be for 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in a slightly smaller amount, allowing the Royster Askin funeral home, the annual wage to remain at the Burial will be in Crown Hill ceme- t. GARY COOPER Outstanding star who scores again Samuel Goldwyn's Production of Own Channels. Marion county drainage ditches, many miles of which have not been cleaned since 1933, are to be renovated by Oct. 1 and the county will clean its share, John Ryan, county surveyor, said yesterday.

Under the law, farmers are responsible for cleaning ditches which drain their property and the county is responsible for cleaning the ditches that drain county roads. Until this year, however, the county has lacked funds to clean its share and farmers have pointed out that an entire ditch must be cleaned if it is to be effective. Farmers will clean more than 20 miles and the county will clean 3.21 miles. The farmer will be allowed 60 days in which to clean the ditch servicing his property. If a ditch is not cleaned by Oct.

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MRS. SAM SCHENSUL. Mrs. Leah Schatz Schensul, 33 years old, of Kalamazoo, a former secretary at American Legion national headquarters and the United States Veterans Administration Hospital here, died yesterday in Detroit, where she was visiting. Mrs.

Schensul was employed at the headquarters seven years and at the hospital four years ago. She was born in Rushville, Sept. 22, 1906. Survivors are her husband, Sam Schensul; her mother, Mrs. Hattie Schatz; three sisters, Miss Dorothy Schatz and Miss Libby Schatz of Indianapolis, Miss Frieda Schatz of Greensburg, and two brothers, Harry Schatz of Rushville and Aaron Schatz of Houston, Tex.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon in the Aaron-Ruben funeral home. Burial will be in Indianapolis also. llii very Elwood Project to Be De layed Until After Will-kie Ceremonies. The State Highway Commission yesterday received bids on resurfacing Ind. 13 in Elwood, but an nounced that work would be de layed until after the ceremonies in which Wendell L.

Willkie will accept formally the Republican presidential nomination next month. The Middle West Roads Company of Indianapolis was low bidder on the project, which was included In a group of projects in the Fort Wayne and Greenfield dis tricts. The bid of $127,980.49 included the following: Elwood, 1.3 miles on Ind. 13 from the city limits to North street; I'eru, 1.25 miles on Ind. 31 and 6.85 miles on Ind.

14 east from Ind, 9 to he Allen-Whitley- county line; Bluffton, .34 of a mile on Ind. 116. Low In Crawfordsville District. David Jarrall of Frankfort, was low on projects in the Crawfords-ville district with a bid of 18,535.75 for paving of 1.41 miles on Ind. 40 in Brazil connecting with the dual lane sextions east and west of the city limits.

Other low bidders were as follows: Harris Construction Company of Fort Wayne, $9,863.10 for surfacing .27 of a mile on Ind. 26 from Sodalia west in Clinton county. U. R. Price of Blooming-ton, $196,538.49 for paving in Scott and Jackson counties, including ill ft 9 1 William Sheafe Chase, Episcopal Canon, Dies Kings Park, N.

July 16. Episcopal Canon William Sheafe Chase, 82 years old, former crusad- jing leader of Christ Church in Brooklyn, died suddenly of heart i disease at his home today, He had been retired for several jvears and at his death was president of the Religious Union for World Peace. MRS. DAISY MARTIN. Mrs.

Daisy Martin, 66 years old, 140 West 44th street, a resident of Indianapolis since 1917, died yesterday in the Methodist Hospital. She had been in ill health one and one-half years. Mrs. Martin was born in Col-burn and had lived in Lafayette most of her life. She was a member of the Fairview Presbyterian Church here.

Survivors are a son, Charles A. Martin of and a brother, William E. Smock of Chicago. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. 1 axoUnelx 4JILjr.M Put the Tooth to Sleep.

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Blanche Pollock of Pittsburgh, who survives him. Survivors, besides the widow, are a son, Dr. Fred B. Wishard of Anderson; a daughter, Mrs. Howard Sargent) of Akron, live grnndchildren; a brother, Harry W.

Wishard of Los Angeles, a sister, Mrs. Alice Williams of St. Petersburg, and several nieces ancl nephews. Funeral services will be held this afternoon in Wooster, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery here tomorrow. MRS.

MARY BROOKS. Mary Brooks, 7S years old, 1137 Park avenue, died Monday night in the City Hospital of complications which resulted from injuries she suffered in a fall May 17. Dr. Donald E. Wood, deputy coroner, said death was caused by complications which set in following the fall in which Mrs.

Brooks suffered a fractured leg. Mrs. Brooks was born in Webster county, Kentucky. She had lived in Indianapolis 27 years. Survivors are a son, Lave Brooks, a city lireman; a daughter, Mrs.

Bessie Minton of Henderson, two sisters, Mrs. Lola Barnett of Henderson and Mrs. Siha Armstrong of F.vnnsville; two brothers, Lee sCozart of Evansville, and William Coart of Nashville, and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in the C'onkle funeral home. Burial will be in Glen Haven cemetery.

MRS. WILLIAM DRKXI.KR. Mrs. Marguerite G. Drexler, 45 years old, 5056 West 14th street, died Monday in the Methodist Hospital after an illness of six months.

Mrs. Drexler was born in Indianapolis nad was a member of the Carrollton Avenue Evangelical and Reformed Church. Survivors are the husband, William Drexler; four sisters, Mrs. Harry Link and Mrs. Fred Sehoenemnn.

both of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Ralph Rockhill and Mrs. Herman Koekhill, both of Fort Wayne, and a brother, Herbert Guntz of Indianapolis. funeral services will be at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Speaks Finn funeral home Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. CLARENCE WAMI'NER.

Clarence Wampner, 41 years old a former resident of Indianapolis, died yesterday in Hammond, his home during the last live years. Mr. Wnmpner was born here had lived here before going to Hammond, lie was employed by the Ford Motor Company and was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Hammond. Survivors are (lie widow, Mrs.

'Verna Wampner; his father, John H. Wampner; two sisters, Miss Marguerite Wampner and Miss Wampner and three brothers, Norman Wampner, Edwin Wampner of San Francisco, and Herbert Wampner of Torre Haute. Funeral services will be at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon in the G. H. Herrmann funeral home.

Burial will be in Seymour. MRS. ROSE C. SCIIAIB. Mrs.

Rose C. Shaub, a resident of Indianapolis 30 years, died yesterday in her home, 937 North Rural street. Mrs. Schaub was born in Greensburg. She was married to George C.

Schaub in 1915. Mrs. Schaub was a member of the St. Philip Catholic Church and its Altar Society. I Survivors are her mother, Mrs.

Johanna Demer of Hamilton, two daughters, Miss Rita Mae Schaub and Miss Anna Marie Schaub: three sons. Hur. man Schaub, George E. Schaub i 1 a ana naries a. schaub, all of In-idianaoolis: two sistprs bert Conlon of Hamilton and Mrs.

Richard McNamara of Indianapolis, and a brother, Joseph Demer -i. namnion. jne westerner A nob Dr. John Wisliard Succumbs In Ohio Dr. John G.

Wisbard, 77 years old, of Wooster, a native of Indiana, died Monday nfternoon In his honip. Dr. Wishard was born in Danville and was graduated from Indiana Medical College in 1888, practicing a short lime in Minnesota after his graduation, lie accepted a cull from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in 1889 to go to Teheran, Persia (now Iran), to take charge of the American Missions Hospital there. Before going to Teheran, he was assigned to Mosul, Turkey, for a year, after which he went (o Teheran as superintendent of the American Hospital, a position he held 20 years. Wishard later resigned his mission work, returning to Wooster, where he resumed medical practice in 1910.

Dr. Wishard was a member of the Wooster Board of Health and of the Wooster Medical Society, a member of the permanent judiciary rommittee of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, the Wooster Lions Club and chairman of the finance committee of Wooster College. Author of Book On lYrsia. was the author of "Twenty Years in and "Remi niscences of a Doctor," and also contributed several articles to the Journal of the American Medical Association. Wishard's first wife, Miss Annabette Bryan of Indianapolis, died a few years after their going to Iran.

Mrs. Harriet J. Wishard of Indianapolis, to whom he was GOING SUNDAY SHELBYVILLE .75 BATESVILLE 1.50 Leave 7 a. m. GREENSBURG $1.25 CINCINNATI 2.50 Leave 4:20 a.

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Beauty operators with following- see tod-y'a STAK WANT ADS, t'lassia-caiion 17. Many other Hems of great Importanee sr. listed today throughout The Star's Want Ads. For eomplet details, turn now tm tha Want Ada. W6I 7v ism you can count on the best in smoking pleasure.

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