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1 CLASSIFIED ADS. SECTION The South Bend Tribune. MISHAWAKA NEWS SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1939. SECTION TWO. PASTORS GO ON RECORD FOR NEUTRALITY Food Dealers L.ash Gross Tax.

Indiana's gross income tax took a food. dealers in the Progress club president of the National Retail Food the photo are, left to right: Howard T. tion; Mrs. R. M.

Kiefer, of Chicago, Chicago, field representative for the Schmidt, Crown Point, president R. Frepan, South Bend, of DELEGATES HERE FOR K. OF P. MEET Registration Opens for Three-day Conclave. Registrations opened this morning in the Oliver hotel, headquarters for the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias and Grand Temple of the Pythian Sisters annual state conventions, when the first group of more than 1,000 expected delegates began arriving for the day meet.

Precedent is being broken' for the second time in 71 years by the conventions here inholding, Indianapolis. The convention will close of the term of William F. Qualls, South Bend, who was elected last year in Muncie. Official business will be transacted this afternoon at a meeting of the board of directors of the Indiana Pythian home. Approximately 500 guests are expected to attend the annual banquet of the grand lodge and grand temple tonight in the Oliver hotel where Floyd O.

Jellison, South Bend attorney, will be the toastmaster. Pavey: to Extend Welcome. Mayor Jesse I. Pavey will welcome the delegates and Mrs. Eva Landick, most excellent chief of Moonlight temple, South Bend, and Circuit Judge Dan Pyle will extend a welcome on behalf of the Knights of Pythias.

The annual fall ceremonial of Kal Mura temple No. 184 will be held in the castle hall of Crusade lodge No. 14, Jefferson boulevard and Lincoln way, tonight. Business sessions of the two conventions will open at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning with the grand temple meeting in the Rotary room, Oliver hotel, and the grand lodge holding sessions in the Odd Fellows building. Both business meetings will recess at 10:30 o'clock and members will assemble in the First Christian church for a memorial service, honoring the memory of members who have.

died since the last convention. The grand lodge will hear reports of its officers and board of directors in an afternoon business session. Grand Temple to Elect. The annual election of officers of the grand temple will be held Wednesday afternoon in the Oliver hotel. Mrs.

Nina Mills, Marion, is slated to be grand chief for the next year, succeeding Mrs. Stella Continued, on Page 12, Column One. lashing Monday night at a meeting of district retail Garrett VanderHooning, of Grand Rapids, association, was principal speaker. Shown seated in president of the Mishawaka Food Dealers' associaof the national association; Arthur S. Zackman, as sociation; Mr.

VanderHooning, and Clarence C. Indiana Food Dealers' association! Standing is Henry Joseph Valley Food Dealers' association. -Photo by Tribune Staff Photographer. Art Objects Enter Bendix Assets Case verbal auditorium. Dealers' Dielmann, secretary national of the the St.

Lloyd Maxwell, Chicago advertising executive who was associated with Vincent Bendix in forI mation of the Bendix art foundation in the Potter Palmer house, Chicago, admitted that he "doesn't know an awful lot" about art while under questioning Monday afternoon as creditor attorneys probed for remaining assets in the estate of Mr. Bendix, who has filed a petition in federal court here for voluntary bankruptcy. Mr. Maxwell, who was on the stand practically all afternoon, was generally jovial. Only once or twice, when Joseph Schwartz, Chicago attorney who is doing the interrogating for the creditors, tried to corner him did he become ruffled.

When asked how and why the foundation was formed, and what were its objects, Mr. Maxwell replied: "To' utilize as far as we could objects of art, to avoid taxes on them, and to endear Mr. Bendix to the hearts of the Mr. Maxwell then if peoplesked he knew the names of any of the artists represented in the collection at the foundation. He refused to answer, saying "I might appear awkward; after all I went to college 25 years During the questioning it was brought out that last February, when the Bendix bankruptcy was contemplated, all the objects of art in the foundation were gathered together, and now are in storage in Chicago.

For a time many of the pictures were in the Bendix home here, Mr. Maxwell said, and early last year were shipped to Englewood, N. where they were kept for a time without being unpacked. They then were. returned cago.

Mr. Schwartz asked how much insurance was carried on these pictures at that time. He replied that none was being carried on them then. Under questioning he admitted that he did not know how the pictures were handled nor where they were packed when taken to Englewood, even though he was a trustee of the foundation to which the pictures Hold $175,000 Insurance. He said that after Bendix decided to go into bankruptcy they a blanket insurance on $175,000 on the collection, which still is in force.

Later in the afternoon Mr. Schwartz attempted to air the financial dealings between Mr. Maxwell and Mr. Bendix. Mr.

Maxwell recalled most of them, but had some difficulty in recalling a 896.05 transaction until he was Continued on Page 12, Column Three. MOVE TO ANNEX AREAS FOUGHT Rumors Cause Two Suburbs to Form Defense. Unofficial rumors that a movement may be started to annex suburban territory near South Bend to the city Monday night prompted the Maple Lane and Wilmette Civic association to prepare a defense against annexation. The association, representing the two northeastern suburban additions, heard John J. Lechner, deputy county assessor, describe means of combatting annexation procedure.

He advised them that 75 per cent of the residents in the area to be annexed must protest with signed petitions in order to defeat annexation. Mr. Lechner said today his office had not been advised that annexation steps were being contemplated and was unable to clarify the rumor, He said, however, that persons in the Wilmette and Maple Lane sections reported hearing rumors that the annexation attempt may cover an area within five miles in all directions of South Bend. In his talk to the association members, Mr. Lechner said the incorporation of the Maple Lane and Wilmette districts would be the most powerful.

weapon against annexation. meeting was held in Stuckey school auditorium on the Ironwood road northeast of South Bend. J. D. Douglas, president, presided.

It also was reported at the meeting that city bus service to the two additions could not be obtained at the present time. GIRL, SIX, VICTIM OF CAR MISHAP, SOME IMPROVED Improvement is reported today in the condition of Loretta Krull, aged six, of 2601 South Miami street, who suffered a possible skull fracture at 6 p.m. Sunday when she fell out of an automobile driven by her father, Emil, on U. S. highway No.

31, a halfmile north of Lakeville, this county. The child is in St. Joseph hospital where her general condition is reported to be fairly good. The girl and her mother; Florence, thinking the family car had stopped, started to step out of it. The mother was bruised and also received treatment at the hospital.

Pythians Gather for State Convention. Converging on South Bend from all parts' of Indiana, members of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias and Grand Temple of the Pythian Sisters were registering at the Oliver hotel today for a three-day convention here. Here Mrs. Myrtle Wilson (left), of WALTER WINCHELL On. Broadway.

MAN ABOUT TOWN. The editor for an opposition, paper gave us this That two weeks this "scoop" ago, the London ace for a New York gazette cabled (with permission of the censor) that the Bremen was a British prize of war If true, it confirms the column's item of weeks ago The censors okayed it, goes the legend, cause the British gov't the York W. WINCHELL paper "have long been sweethearts" However, when a British statesman (probably Chamberlain) learned leak- transatlantic telephoned the publisher here and persuaded him to kill the we asked the oppos.tion editor why he gave the news beat to us and why he didn't use it himself, his explanation was plausible He said: "In the last war many editors learned that by offending the Britishthey ran the risk of having their transatlantic cable rights denied" Berlin could easily prove that the Bremen was safe at a neuRussian port, as claimed. tral, not send American papers a photo of it with the crew being greeted by the Russians? Such a could hardly be faked picture, Germans and Russians only recently married and the Bremen had never before visited a Russian port Let Berlin "debunk" this lone. This, perhaps, explains why Winston Churchill told the press last week that he "believed" the Bremen was at Min, sansk, Russia If the British admit they have it at one of their portsit would invite nazi bombers- which would prefer the Bremen at the bottom of the sea--instead of allowing the British to transform the Bremen into another Courageous plane-carrier.

The column received that information last night from a source who once rode the Bremen and claims to have seen it in the British Isles last week. Bea Lillie's 18-year-old son, Robert Peel, has joined the British army, and the star is deep in gloom Chums suspect that Georgie Tapps, the dancer, and Virginia Verrill, the thrush, are secretly- sealed Vincent Whitman, the animated cartoonist, filed a suit in Federal court against Disney, RKO, and Technicolor for five million damages. He alleges patent infringement in the filming, of "Snow White" and "Pinocchio" Another will be chucked at "Oz" J. Hylton Smyth, editor of "Living Age," is at Medical Arts hosp Frances Farmer, estranged from her actor groom, and Playwright Clifford Odets, parted from Luise Rainer, are collaborating. Tip to editors: Be careful, about certain show girl and chorine statements.

Some of you were used to "even matters" Walters, of the Int'l Casino choir, and Lief Erickson, the actor, are swapping babystares The Dep't of histice has intercepted messages evealing. that "every effort" ill be made to stir up trouble between U. minorities. It may happen in six weeks or six months George Brent and. Ginger Rogers have been seeing a lot.

of each other. They've been ducking hot spots in favor of the hideaways. The aftermath of a recent mag "expose" directed against the president is terrific. The man most burned up about it isn't F. D.

but Herbert Hoover, who communicated privately to the president- that net considered it "the most indecent thing I have encountered in my public life" Hoover told F. D. R. that there were 22 inaccuracies in the part that dealt with him -on a preliminary survey only. He assumed, he said, that the ratio for the entire thing did, not vary The white house will not reply But Francis Bacon- -whom the author frequently quotes- was by an intimate of F.

D. R. as follows: said: 'We welcome the treason, but despise the traitor'." Continued on Page 12. Column One. FOOD DEALERS' CHIEF IN SLAP AT GROSS TAX Charges Chains Have 'a Monopoly on Garrett VanderHooning, Grand Rapids, president of the National Retail Food Dealers'.

association, assailed what he called injustices of the Indiana gross Income tax on merchants and an apparent monopoly of produce held by national chain store ormeeting of ganizations retatalkrod, a dietrict, Monday night in the Progress club auditorium. According to Mr. VanderHooning, one national grocery chain has such absolute control of fruits and vegetables throughout the country that it can virtually con-. market price of commodities. Investigation Under Way.

An investigation is way between the national grocers' association and the department of in Washington to establish evidence against these companies, Mr. VanderHooning said, adding that he believed it would take several years to build a strong da case. In attacking the gross income tax as unfair the national president pointed to Michigan sales tax as a "much fairer" solution of the tax problem. In Michigan the merchant is a tax collector, Mr. VanderHooning stated, taking the tax on each purchase and in turn paying to the state at the close of various periods.

Under the Michigan law, the speaker said, a merchant is not compelled to pay the tax from his small profits received on sale of his; goods, but instead the said this method removes the burpurchaser is 5 taxed. The speaker den of taxation from "the small merchant with the small profit." Grocers' Week Planned. Mr. VanderHooning outlined a out the nation during National program to be. followed throughRetail Grocers' week, beginning Oct.

16. Guests, from Laporte, Plymouth, Lakeville, Elkhart and Goshen, attended the meeting, which was sponsored by the St. Joseph Valley and Mishawaka chapters. A dinner was held in the Hotel Hoffmann before the district meeting honoring Mr. VanderHooning; Mrs.

R. M. Kiefer, Chicago, national secretary, and Clarence Schmidt, Crown Point, state president. OUSTED, WALTER PLANS REPORT Commissioners Send Word to Scheer and Jackson. Albert Walter.

against whom Circuit Judge Dan Pyle. has issued an order removing him as justice of the peace of German township, will have a report on money collected from fines imposed by him in about 10 days. Cited by the county, commissioners Monday for failure to present a report, Mr. Walter said Monday night that a fire which destroyed his home recently burned all his records. He said, however, that he had an additional report which is being checked and which will be presented soon.

The county commissioners Monday said Mr. Walter had failed to make a report the first Monday in July and has failed to turn over to the county treasurer the money collected in fines. Deputy Prosecutor James E. Keating has begun an investigation upon order of the commissioners. INJURED IN FACTORY.

Erwin Klotz, aged 34, of 1415 North O'Brien street, suffered an injury to his right hand Monday night while working in the plant of the Bendix Products corporation. He was treated at Epworth (hospital and released. National Parent-Teacher Week to Assist Youth National Parent-Teacher week, now being observed by the South Bend Council of Parent-Teacher Associations, is intended to enroll the public in a movement promoting the welfare of youth and raising the standard of the home and school, to Mrs. Paul K. Fitch, "president of the council here.

"The organizaticn has stood the test of 42 years because the sincere purpose of its foundshe said today. In an article prepared by Mrs. Donald L. Henry, past president of- the council and director for district 3B in the state organizalion, she writes: CHRIST CALLED WAY TO CURE WORLD'S ILLS Rice Talks on Crisis, Opening Crusade of Religion. A portrait of a Christ was drawn Monday night in First Methodist church for several hundred members of churches affiliated with the Council of United Churches of St.

Joseph county in the opening service of a two-week religious crusade being sponsored by the council. The speaker was Dr. Merton S. Rice, pastor of the Metropolitan church, Detroit, and one of the nation's noted clergyman. He spoke earlier in service in First Methodist church, Mishawaka.

The services will continue nightly in the same two churches, at 7 p. m. in Mishawaka and 8 p. m. here.

Using as his text the words of Jesus, "If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto Dr. Rice said: "We are in a crucial moment the history of the world. This a day of crisis. People are scared to death. Our responsibility is to see, to state, to study and to solve the problems of our day.

"I am convinced personally that there is just one way to solve the world's ills. There is one way home. Jesus Christ as Saviour of world is God's answer. "If the church has anything to say, let it say it now! Let us present the Christian gospel without apology. Christ defied the enemies of righteousness to kill him.

I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto This great big defiant Christ confronts our world today. If the world gets out of this present orgy of evil it will be through the way of the cross of Christ. Christ must become the world's Savior! "The greatest tragedy of the world is not war. not death. It is sin.

Every other tragedy is a minor one. There is only one release from sin. Christ crucified for the sin of the world is God's answer. "The gospel of Jesus Christ the power to reform the individual the evil it sets out to do. It has the power to reform the individual and the world.

It has a most marvelous recruit power over those who would live unselfishly for others. It has a magnificent power of organization of all human life and social living. "Christ challenges us to follow Him. Do we have the courage and faith to follow? He leads us in a great crusade for a better world, the building of the Kingdom of God on earth. He carries a cross as His banner.

That cross of death becomes His throne of life. He was lifted up on His cross. Let us do our best to lift Him up faithful witnessing and lives dedicated to His service until the earth crowns Him Lord of Lords!" Rev. J. Archibald Holmes, D.

pastor of the host church, presided. Joseph Lincoln, a lay member -of the church, directed congregational singing and presented a vocal solo, both with Robert Hammond at the organ. $46 AND LIQUOR STOLEN AT INN A tavern operated at 1405 Portage avenue by Joseph and Martha Burnecki was entered early this morning by someone who pried open a rear window and took $46 in money and liquor valued at $123, police were told. Terre Haute, reports to the registration committee, which includes, left to right, seated, Mrs. Sylvia Hartman, Bedford, chairman of registration, Mrs.

May C. Thornton, Bloomington, and Mrs. Hassel Darlymple, Knightstown. -Photo by Tribune Staff Photographer. Resigns.

I A. B. THOLANDER. The board of public safety today announced acceptance, effective Oct. 1, of the resignation of Patrolman A.

B. Tholander, who has 25 years and three months of service to his credit on the South Bend police department. He is scheduled to be placed on the pension list, PAY ROLL GAINS AHEAD OF STATE Employment Total Rises During Month. Atthough the entire state made more than seasonally expected gains in pay rolls and employment in September, South Bend and Mishawaka exceeded the gains made by the rest of the state, according to a statement released today by J. Bradley Haight, acting director of the Indiana State Employment service in Indianapolis.

Mr. Haight's state report is based on information received from 806 manufacturing plants employing 122,347 workers in September. This was an increase 5.5 per cent from August employment in identical plants. Factory pay rolls advanced 5.5 per cent in the same period. During September South Bend and Mishawaka, gained 3.3 per cent of this year in employment and 6.4 per cent over September last year.

In pay rolls South Bend and Mishawaka gained 9.5 per cent over August and 19.1 over September, 1938. Elkhart's employment gained 1.9 per cent over August and 23.5 over a year ago while pay rolls fell 2.5 per cent from August's level but increased 19.3 per cent over September last year. Employment in Goshen gained 1.5 per cent over August and 17.5 per over September of last year while pay rolls dropped 3.6 per cent from August but increased 23.4 Laporte per cent fell over all a along year the ago. line. I Employment in the city fell sixtenths of one cent from August and 10.3 per from September of last year.

Pay rolls dropped 4.3 per cent from August levels and 11.2 per cent from September, 1938. Michigan City showed great increases over last cent over August and year. Employment was upri4 per cent over September last year. Pay rolls were up five per cent over August and 62.3 per cent over September, The general nature of the current expansion is indicated by the among major groups of manufacturing industries studied, 12 expanded employment while 10 groups increased pay rolls. 1,000 FLOWERS TO BE BLESSED One thousand red roses will be blessed and distributed to the faithful at 7:30 p.m.

today in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church at the conclusion of a triduum for peace. The roses are symbolic of St. Theresa of Lisieux, a recently canonized saint, who promised that after her death. she would send "a shower of roses" to the earth, meaning spiritual favors.

The triduum has been in honor of Theresa, whose feast day is today, Wendell P. Corcoran, S. pastor, who has been conducting the novena, said. VOTE AGAINST ALL WAR; HIT AT ARMS SALE Dealing in Munitions Opposed After Argument. 10 Need for maintaining American neutrality and opposition to the sale or barter of munitions were expressed in resolutions adopted this morning by the St.

Joseph County Ministerial association, which met in the Y. M. C. A. building.

The resolutions commit the association to a policy of complete pacifism. One states: "As ministers of religion we reaffirm our deep and abiding conviction. that all war is un-Christian-that it is stupid, futile and destructive of all the higner interests of life." That places the association unalterably on the pacifistic side since it deplores all wars, defensive or otherwise, was emphasized in discussion by Rev. Jerome E. Webber, pastor of Ridgedale Presbyterian church, who said that agreed with the intent of the passage, but wanted the association to be aware of what it was doing.

Differ on Arms Sale. The group maintained unanimity of opinion on all points except that of the sale of war muInitions. On that issue the group argued for more than an hour and one resolution on that point was thrown out and another substituted. Argument centered over whether the United States should abandon trade with all nations in order to prevent war goods from entering belligerent and whether the group align countries, itself with any particular faction in the present war. Rev.

J. Archibald Holmes, D. pastor of First Methodist church, and Rev. Charles Tupper Baillie, D. pastor of First Presbyterian church, expressed the belief that the question of arms embargo is so many-sided that the group should not attempt to arrive at a definite conclusion.

Most of the ministers, led by Rev. William C. Zimmann, pastor of Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran church, took the attitude that it was the duty of the ministerial profession to take a firm stand on the sale of the implements of war. Unanimously Adopted. The statement unanimously adopted by the group states: "1.

That we commend the president the United States for his declared purpose to keep America out of war. That we call upon our church people and others to keep themselves free from war hysteria and war propaganda that we may avoid the conflicts which arise therefrom. That as ambassadors of peace we. encourage our people to believe that God is able, through consecrated human effort, to es tablish world order, justice and peace. That we pledge the use of our churches to the cause of world peace and will guard against the use of church property, church sacraments and church blessings for the agencies of war.

Other "5. That we greet other faiths and all other groups who are working for world peace. We join with them in prayer and purpose in accomplishing our common goal. That our churches seek to cooperate with agencies of mercy which minister to prisoners of war, to the sick and hungry in civilian populations overrun by war and to all the people of any country who by the ravages of war are left homeless and destitute. That it is our conviction that the United States should be neutral in relation to all foreign wars and it is not our desire to align ourselves with any political arguments concerning methods of neutrality but we stand unalterably opposed to the sale and barter of munitions of war." After the business session -Dr.

Merton S. Rice, Detroit, spoke on the place of the child in the church. Sun's Eclipse Seen as Ill BY FRANCIS K. CZYZEWSKI. Next week's total eclipse of the sun is seen by astrologers, men who read fate of persons and nations from the stars, as an ill omen to Germany.

The position of the sun in Virgo the time of the total eclipse forebodes a revolution in Germany, they contend. The will take place Oct: 12 but will be visible only over south Pacific ocean and the Antartic then regions. This is the second solar eclipse, the astrologers claim, which is most unfavorable to the nazi regime. The last one, which occurred on April 19 as an annular eclipse but which was visible in South 7 Omen for Nazi Germany "Education is a preparation for living. It is an all-time process beginning with the birth of the child and ending only with death.

If teachers and parents are to do a good job of education they must plan together a definite share of the responsibility, each understanding and appreciating the other's part in the plan. Together they must work toward a common objective, the building of healthy bodies, trained minds and good- character in the children of today, who will be the citizens of tomorrow. "The Parent- Teacher association is a folk movement. As such Continued on Page 12, Column Une. Bend only as a partial one, they claim, dooms Hitler's reign over the third reich.

This eclipse, it is pointed out, occurred when the sun was very close to Hitler's place among the stars on his birthday, April 20. Mars, the -planet of war, bloodshed and unrest, so say the astrologers, will transit the place of the last eclipse in the sky next February. This, according formulae of ancient Babylonian and Egyptian priests, makes the threat a double one. Either Hitler will perish himself in some bloody event, or his rule will end, it is claimed. Some set the date as Feb.

2, some between that and Feb. 14..