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INDIANA. As expected, popular, tobacco-chewing Democrat Henry F. Schricker, 65, who made a good record as governor from 1941 to 1945 but was barred by Indiana's constitution from a second consecutive term, defeated frosty Hobart Creighton, one of the country's biggest poultrymen but a shy campaigner...
...Jenner had his showdown. To head him off, Governor Gates (who could not legally succeed himself), had lined up three candidates. On the first ballot, Jenner ran far ahead. On the second, Governor Gates ordered the other three to pool their strength. Jenner wound up well behind Nominee Hobart Creighton, hefty Speaker of Indiana's House, famed among farmers as the biggest chicken & egg breeder in the U.S. (TIME...
Candidate Creighton looked just like what Indiana Republicans like: a native Hoosier, American Legionnaire, father of four, solid churchgoer (Evangelical United Brethren), a self-made rich...
...favorite study at present seems to be the blood (it used to be the skull). Dr. Victor E. Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, used blood tests to determine where Eskimos came from. In blood groups, he said, Eskimos are practically identical with American Indians. Therefore they are not descendants of Europe's ice-age population (as one theory maintains), or recent immigrants from Siberia. They are probably Indians who moved north and developed their peculiar culture. This theory, said Dr. Levine, is supported by the fact that ancient Eskimo-like relics have been reported as far south as Manhattan...
Replied Bishop Creighton: "Bishop Manning may be assured that Canons 17 and 18 have been rigidly enforced...