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6 Northers Kadlson Courty'f Greatest Advertising, Medium TRADE IN ALEXANDRIA Keep Tour Money at Bom Aladdin Mantle Lamps FOUNDED DEO. 10. 1885 No. 199. PHONE 180 ALEXANDRIA, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUG.

21 1935. U. P. LEASED WISE TEN CENTS A WEEX England Asks U. S.

VICTIMS AND PLANE IN MOUNTAIN AIR DISASTER JMinDurg pcnooi Man Issues Letter Stating Reasons For Resigning To Review Its Policy Toward War Threat Llexandria. Best Little Citv In Indiana: noma- of Bock Wool BIKERS MAKE QUICK TRIP That bicycling is a speedy method of traveling is the belief of three Alexandria boys. They rode from Alexandria- to Wabash last Saturday, a distance- of 44 miles, in two hours, 40 mlnues, for a high This trio of "cycle sharks" Included Neil Perry, Irvin Latchaw and Malcolm Chapman. After staying all night at the home of Mr.and Mrs. Jack Whitenack at Wabash, they returned Sunday.

Jack Whitenack, accompanied them for a short visit here. PROCLAMATION This Commonwealth having lost a beloved citiEen in the passing away of Ball, who was) the founder of one of the most Important Industries of tills community, and who has served the City In an official and civic capacity; Therefore: Carl W. Jones, Mayor of the City of Alexandria, Indiana, feel that It Is an honor and a privilege to Issue a Proclamation asking that all business be suspended and all City Offices be closed from 1:45 to 8:45 p. m. Thursday, August 22nd, 1985 to commemorate his memory.

CARL W. JONES, Mayor of the City of Alexandria, Indiana. Attest: FLORENCE E. MADDEN, Clerk-Treasurer of the City of Alexandria, Indiana. hmii.ii,,,,, inn Wi ii nit in, n.

British Opposition Parties Join With Government In Crisis NEUTRALITY" MEASURE For Consideration By Congress Before Adjournment On Saturday WASHINGTON, Aug. 91 (U.R) Administration leaders recognised the European war crisis today by adding neutrality legislation to the bill they hope to enact before adjourning congress. Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson, after, announcing his Intention to have the senate consider a bin designed to keep -America oat Of war compiles- tlons, said he still hoped that congress could adjourn by tomorrow night. Steady progress toward that end was made yesterday, although -the neutrality Issue was thrust forward In a way which endangered adjournment' unless prompt action were taken.

Should prolonged debate ensue on either' the neutrality bin or the Guffey'BOft coal bin adjournment plans would have to be rearranged. Burnslde Smith, Mis. Arnett, Dick Arnett; below, plane Three prominent' Indiana' residents lost their lives' when theli plane, Peak, near Glendo, Wyo. Occiiriants of the plane were Burnslde Smith, transfer company and owner of the ship; Dick Arnett, 28, manager of the his bride, Eleanor Arnett. wnen tne airplane crasnea a oursi into names, Marriea recently, the Arhetts were returning east from a leisurely aerial C.

C. Hall Tells Story of Second Statement Is Made By Dewey Manuel NAMES LIST OF JUDGES One of Which Will Hear Injunction Suit The formal resignation of Dewey Manuel, of Edlnburg, appointed superintendent of schools here Monday by the city school board composed of G. J. Armstrong and Chad Nicoson was announced here today by Mr. Armstrong.

The formal resignation was contained in a letter addressed to Mr. Armstrong and dated today (August 21.) In a telephone communication with Mr. Manuel at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon The Times-Tribune was advised by Mr. Manuel that Mr. Armstrong obtained the letter from him this morning at Edlnburg.

Mr. Manuel's original resignation was announced in The Times-Tribune yesterday after a telephonic communication with Mr. Manuel' in which he stated that he had telephoned his resignation to Mr. Armstrong yesterday morning. In Mr.

Manuel's letter of resignation today he stated his only reasons for resigning, were the unpleasant conditions which will necessarily obtaifi over the school situV Uon here and the reluctance of the Edlnburg school board to release him. In a telephone conversation with Mr. Manuel yesterday The Times-Tribune was advised that his (Mr. Manuel's) reasons for resigning were "I was fearful that I was dealing with an illegal board and I could not afford to gamble On the, matter." In the telephone conversation with Mr. Manuel this afternoon he substantiated the above statement as having been made by him to The Tunes-Tribune yesterday.

Mr. Manuel's letter of resignation, handed to Mr. Armstrong today, follows: 'Mr. G. J.

Armstrong Alexandria, Indiana. "Dear Mr. Armstrong: "I hereby tender my resignation as Superintendent of the Alexandria Ctty Schools, I wish to assure you that I have every confidence1 in you and Mr. Nicoson. I know that In every act you are working for the best interests of the schools there.

Some time ago I was approached by Medskeron the proposition of exchanging positions. Arrangements were made' for him to meet the Edlnburg School Board, but he refused to do so. The unpleasant conditions which will necessarily obtain over the school situation and the reluctance of the Edlnburg School Board to release me, are the only reasons for me taking this action. "It is impossible for me to express my thanks to you men for the confidence you placed In me in electing me to this position, and I regret very much to lose the opportunity to work with you in solving your school problems. "Respectfully yours, (SIGNED) Dewey Manuel" Acting today in Madison County KncK wool Founder -of One of Alexandria's "He Began And Carried To Success, Under Great Difficulties.

His Vision of Bock Wool Insulation ITALIANS FACE FOUR YEAR TASK British Experts Believe, In Determination to Conquer Ethiopia BUILDING OF ROADS Regarded As Necessity Before Mussolini Objective Is Realized By Frederick Kuh United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright, 1935. by United Press LONDON, Aug. 21 U.R Italy Intends to attack Ethiopia on two fronts during the first in October and Will be prepared for a (our-year campaign, according to expert military opinion. Italy will, have the finest military equipment ever used in war. Ethiopia will have 1ft its favor its formidable mountain barriers and Its wild, steaming, disease ridden lowlands.

Information In the hands of the British military intelligence is that Italian military leaders themselves, believe it will take four years to conquer the country. That it can be conquered, there seems to be no doubt but at a great cost in blood and money. The estimate of the time Is reached by the experts on the conviction that, the Italians will wait for. between two and three weeks after the rains which started full force in June have begun to subside. The Italians are expected to attack almost simultaneously froip Eritrea, their northern colony, south, ward toward Addis Ababa, and from Somaliland, west-northwestward toward Addis Ababa.

In order to wipe out the "bitter memory of their defeat at Adowa when Ethiopian warriors cut to pieces an Italian expeditionary force, killed or wounded 7,600 men and captured from 2,500 to 3,000, it is believed that one of the first Italian objectives will be Adowa, near the Eritrean frontier. With airplanes, tanks and motorized artillery cooperating with infantry, the Italians are expected to strike southward from the region between Asmara, Eritrean capital, and Agordat. It was that a flanking column might advance southward from the neighborhood of the Gulf of Zula. In theft advance from the Asmara front toward Adowa the Italians will be confronted by the first great natural barrier of Ethiopia a gorge approximately feet deep which (Please turn'to page f) Late Flashes of -(By UNITED ENDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 21.

a accompanied by smith, a close mena. KINDERGARTEN TO OPEN SEPTEMBER Mrs. Stafford Will Conduct School at Home Announcement of the opening of kindergarten for children of five years, to be conducted at her home at 305 East Monroe street, is made today by Mrs. Grace Stafford, for many years principal of the Central grade school and teacher of the primary classes -there. The term will open the first week in September, coincident with the opening of the school term, and continue through the winter, its sessions being helcj in the forenoons only on five days each week.

Mrs. Staff ordhas had a wide experience in the teaching of children, in kindergarten as well as primary school work, and is installing new and mpdern equipment at her home for use in connection with the class work. The tuition fees for the sixteen children who will be enrolled will include their transportation to and from school each day. Mrs. Stafford, who may be reached by calling phone 349, will be glad to give any information parents may desire regarding the scope and purpose of the work, and its cost.

REVEAL KARPIS THREAT WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. U.R) Al-vin Karpis, long sought public enemy No. 1, has sent a communication to Director J. Edgar Hoover of the federal bureau of Investigation, threatening the life of the chief "G-man," the justice department revealed today.

The threat was received by Hoover about a month ago. Today9 News PRESS)- U.R Appointment of Harvey Hire, Western Yearly Meeting of the which the camp here will be made proposal, offered by the youth group of of eabins and dormitories. Anna Urban, 18, walked around: a Monon passenger train here today a TOWNSHIP RATE GOING BACK UP Following; Exhaustion of Cash Surplus Built Up In Former Tears LARGE SAVING MADE To Taxpayers During the Year That the Levy Was Cut To 82 Cents A tax levy of $1,244 for each $100 of assessed valuation in Monroe township is proposed in the annual notice to taxpayers, which Is published today In The Times-Tribune. The proposed rate, the budget of expenditures for 1936 and an estimate of township funds to be raised will be submitted for approval to the township advisory board on September 3 by Trustee WItliam Cunningham. The total amount of money to be raised is $45,777.00, divided as follows: township, tuition, special school, library, $1,000 and bond, $5,750.

The proposed levies follow: township, tuition special school, library, and bond, .16. The levy on polls proposed is 50 cents each for tuition and special school fnuds. The net taxable property assessment which will produce operating revenue totals $5,761,850 for the city and township. Township valuations outside the city of Alexandria amount to Commenting upon the Increase In the rate, which is a Jump of 50 as compared with the current rate, Trustee Cunningham quoted the rates which were effected for the year's 1932 and 1933, when the township rates were $1,427 and $1,252 respectively. During these years a large cash surplus was built up, and.

the trustee Was able to cut the rate to .82 cents for 1934, by using this cash surplus. It was realized at the time, however, that the .82 cent rate could not.be continued, but it served to effect a large saving in taxes for that year. Now, with the cash surplus expended, It is necessary to go back to near the old rate, the figure for 1935 being fixed at $1,244. One source of extra expense to he met through the 1935 levy is $800 which is required for school building repairs, and the employment of an additional school bus for the transportation of pupils. The budgeted 1936 township fund is listed at $2,685 The largest single Item of the total budget is the appropriation of $16,800 for the salary of Monroe township teachers It-is estimated that the.

tranafecaf to other school cities or corporations will cost the township $8,000, making a total tuition fund expense of $24,800. The special school fund Tor operation and rnalntenance-af the schools is Set at $19,240.. Required money for retiring bonds, including interest, is fixed at $5,675. The sura of $3,000 Is listed in the special school fund for school transfers. Trustee Cunningham was able to report an actual balance as of July 31, 1935, of $24,605.61, the total for the township, special school, tuition and bond" funds.

HAD TONSILS' REMOVED Miss Mable Louise Millen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller. 106 East Sixth street, submitted to an operation for the removal of her tonsils and adenoids Tuesday at the office of a local physieian. Miss Miller is a daughter of the forelady of "the FERA sewing room.

In which they crashed. 'shown below, crashed into Laramie 47, president of -a large Indianapolis. Indianapolis municipal airport, and cnarnng tne ooaies or tne victims. honeymoon on which they had been rinneemne uaxs Basic Industries Relates How farm in" Berkshire county, Massachusetts, on July 3, I860; his graduation from Westfield high school and of Worcester Technical School; his temporary connections before a period of employment in a steel works in St. Louis, his association with the engineering department of the St.

Louis water and his resumption with the steel works as a chemical engineer. From this point the letter continues in part: "In 1887 I went to southern Ohio to take charge of a small steel plant. From there I went to Belleville, Illinois, to another steel plant and rolling mill, first -as superintendent and then as manager. This plant was moved to Alexandria in 1895. I had charge of the removal and re-arrangement.

"The natural gas was the reason for locating at Alexandria. No steel Was ever made in Alexandria, the plant being bought by one of the steel trusts formed about 1898, so the plant was dismantled and removed to Youngstown, Ohio. "I had analyzed the rock at Alexandria in connection with its pos-(Flease turn to page 3) BUSINESS HALTS DURING FUNERAL The city will pause in its pursuit of the dally routine of business Thursday afternoon from 1:45 to 3:45 o'clock during the funeral of C. C. Hall, local Industrialist, who died late Monday night at his home here.

Myer-art -Jones- teday-issued -a proclamation (printed elsewhere) requesting a general suspension of business activities while the community "pays final tribute IcT one of its leading citizens. Offices at the city hall will be closed, and most of the stores will close their doors during the specified time to accomodate employes who wish to attend the rites and to pay tribute to one whose Ingenuity and courage gave to the city one -of Its principal industries. By mutual agreement of officials of both concerns. operations at' the General Insulating and Manufacturing Company and the Johns-Manville Products Corporation will be suspended for a period of five minutes at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon in tribute to the man generally recognized as the founder of the rock wool Industry. By Frederick Kuh United Press- Staff Correspondent Copyright 1935, by United Press LONDON, Aug.

21 Britain has appealed to the United States government to review Its policy toward the Italian-Ethiopian dispute in the light of acute danger of war, it was learned officially today. Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary, made the appeal personally last night to Ray Atherton, Charge D' Affairs of the American embassy, in a 45 minute conference at the foreign office. News of Hoare's appeal came after Ramsey MacDonald, Lord President of the- council and until recently prime minister, said on his arrival from his home at Lossiemouth, Scotland, for tomorrow's emergency cabinet meeting: regard the present situation as the most serious we have had to face since. 1914." Representatives of the chief opposition groups in Parliament and of Australia, New Zealand and Canada, were called into consultation with Hoare and Anthony Eden, minister of league affairs. It was understood that an emergency session of the cabinet's foreign affairs committee was called for 5 p.

m. today (11 a. m. EST) to consider decisions for tomorrow's full cabinet meeting. Hoare told Atherton that as the result of the failure of the Britlsh-French-Itallan conference at Paris, Great Britain was determined to pursue a strong policy at the League of Nations council meeting at Geneva September 4, and at the assembly meeting five days later, The cabinet was ready to reconsider its attitude in the crisis, Hoare said, and he asked that the American government do likewise.

There was every indication that no leader thought MacDonald was overstating tne gravity oi uie situation when he said it was the most erlouajlnoft1914u George Lansbury, leader of tho Labor party, and David. Lloyd George, leader of the Liberty party the two biggest "opposition figures In parliament made separate visits to-tke Foreign, office. Not for many years has a situation of the sort The crowd in little Downing street, site of famous "No. 10," the Prime Minister's official residence, and the foreign office, increased, as the day advanced. Jd- OFEN BIDS' BlStl JUIOlSIiiU VI INDIANAPOLIS, Aug.

.21. (U.R) Bids on construction of 14 bridges In five counties, estimated to cost $40,000, will be received by the state highway commission September 10. The projects will be located In Wa-bash, Vigo, Madison, Huntington and Wayne counties. MARKETS AT A GLANCE Stock' strong and fairly active; bonds irregularly curb stockg higher; call money 1-4 of Foreign-', exchange: dollar firm. Grains: wheat 1 -S to 1 5-8c higher; corn irregular; oats higher; cotton 25c a bale higher; rubber 4 to 15 points higher.

The death of Charles Corydon Hall, father of the rock wool Insulating industry, serves to justify publication of part of a letter which the late industrialist once wrote to representative of The Times-Tribune, who was then a student of the University of Wisconsin. The letter written 7, ,1930, was In response to a request for information about Mr. Hall's work with the mineral product, and it was used as a basis for a paper which the recipient wrote in connection with his class work at the university. Various- sections of the five-page letter will be especially interesting and revealing to Alexandria folk and those familiar with the rock wool industry because of the courage and pertinacity with which Mr. Hall pioneered in a field fraught with discouragement.

Coming directly from the heart of the well known Alexandrian the letter is valued by its owner as a primary source of biographical information. The first few paragraphs of the letter recite facts of Mr. Hall's early life. They mention his birth on a JOHNSON QUITS POSTAL SERVICE New Bids For Postoffice-De-pot Route 27th Omer Johnson, an employe of the Alexandria postoffice, has resigned hid nnnitlnn as a carrier of United States to. rom.

v. thTioafe office and the Big Four and Nickel Plate railroad depots. His resignation will become effective October 1. 'Postmaster Otto Hennefent today carrying the mail will be received, at. the local postoffice on August 27, 1035, after'- Which a successful bidder for the position will be named by postoffice department officials at Washington, Vhere- the bids will be sent The bids must give a yearly compensation rate for the work, and the successful bidder must provide his own automobile or truck.

A bidder who does not live within, the territory regularly served by the local postoffice must file with his bid an agreement to do so. An advertisement announcing that bids would be received and giving other details of the job has been posted, In the lobby of the local Lafayette, as acting lieutenant in charge of the Indiana State Polfce detective division was announced safety -director. PLATNFIELD, Aug721. Friends today had approved a plan into a year-round church.center. The tne organization, would permit ouiiding HAMMOND, Aug.

21. 0I. lowered crossing gate Into the path and was killed instantly. (U.B by of Circuit Court, Judge Charles- B. Smith appointed three possible Judges to hear the petition for a temporary restraining order filed August 7 by members of one of Alexandria's two school boards in which they seek to restrain the members of the other school board from administering or Interfering In the transaction of public school matters here.

The" petlMsowssflled. by 4he- hoard composed of J. Armstrong, Chad Nicoson, and G. R. Lindley; who since the filing of the action has re- 1 lf.MnM nf ftu lUDfralTIPlI (Please torn to page 2) OUR DOG SAYS The Weather: Fair tonight and Thursday; cooler east and south portions tonight i The' human character has many traits which are not altogether commendable, but one of the most to be despised Is that of ingratitude.

Si Ap-pleblossom The heaviest "white man's burden" Is himself. V-TrV dm ROCHESTER, Ind, Aug. 21. (U.R) One man was killed and another was injured critically when a 65-foot concrete silo on the Otto McMahan farm near here collapsed. The victim was Ed Evans, 48, and Lloyd Reese, 42, suffered back injuries.

SOUTH BEND, Aug. 21 (U.R Negotiations toward settlement a strike of street car and bus operators which has tied up transportation here for four days were thrown Into a stalemate today after union leaders refused to meet with company officials. Aug. 21. flJ.B An Indiana delegation of approximately 200 will leave here tomorrow -by special train for Milwaukee for the national meeting of young Democrats.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 21. U.R Retirement of M. DeJarnatt as chiet of the income tax division of the Internal Revenue department in Indiana was announced today. DeJarnatt has been in government service for 23 years..