Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1930 — Page 15

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EMPLOYMENT INCREASED BY STATE FIRMS Site Leased for Garage in Anderson; Banks Are Consolidated. LIST MUNCIE BUILDINGS Several Firms to Transfer Plants and Forces Immediately. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Timet Resumption of full employment, increase in workers in many factories in Indiana and prospects of several large building programs within the next few weeks were the highlights in state business and development for the week ending today. The Ames Shovel and Tool Company, Anderson, is working a night shift in an effort to fill orders that have accumulated since the old plant was destroyed by fire in February. More than two hundred men are employed. In addition, construction is being rushed on the new plant, to be ready for occupancy by July 15. Garage Site Leased With leasing of the site of the former building of the Anderson Transfer Company, Charles Bolte of Wabash, announced a modern fire-proof garage, costing $40,000, will be erected. The chief bank activity of the state was at Anderson this week when the Citizens bank and the Farmers Trust Company merged. An increase in operations, amounting almost to duplication, will take place at the Hammond plant at the Central Railway Signal Company next month. This announcement followed recent reincorporation of the company. Under the new schedule 200 persons will be employed. Change Railway Hours Revision of the Monon railroad company schedule at Lafayette, placing workers on a five-and-one-half-day week instead of four days, was announced. The four-day program had been in force since April. South Bend city officials announced building permits, aggregating about $2,000,000, have been issued in the last sixty days. This includes the $240,000 permit for the Hotel Hoffman, which is to be completed this fall. The Greenwood' Canning Company reopened its factory this week, giving jobs to 150 additional \ orkers. The pay roll will total GLOOO weekly, officials said. Factory to Start Preparations for operation of a garment factory at Greenfield are being made. It is expected the company will employ about 200 men. The new $250,000 factory of the Kennedy Laundry Company of Gary was opened this week. The industry employs seventy-five persons and five branch stations have been opened in Gary. Approximately $150,000 is involved in two building projects which will get under way at Muncie within a few weeks. Dr. Will C. Mcore announced plans for erection of a twogfory office building, and the Walnut‘street Baptist church will build pn SBO,OOO church and parsonage. Conditions in other Indiana cities are shown in the following summary: , „ Hammond—The Ford Motor Company has obtained a permit to build a dock on its property along the Calumet river. The dock will be 750 feet long and will be built of concrete, capable of accommodating the largest Great Lakes boats. Richmond— Remodeling and enlarging of the Wayne Dairy Products Company plant was completed this week. Cost of the improvements was $35,000. Elwood—The Monticello Manufacturing Company will begin moving machinery to its new location here Sunday. Part of the factory force already has been transferred. Washington—The Indiana Board and Fillet Company will spend $50,000 building anew boiler room and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company will install a filtration plant Carlisle—Large scale operation of Dugger-Martin mine is contemplated here lollowing leasing of the properly foi ten years to O. W. and C. L. Turner of Hymera. Elkhart—The Leedy Manufacturing Company, Indanarolis drum making film, will be moved here this sunimej About fifty employes and their families will be transferred. The annual business of the company i* about $1,000,000. FEUD CASE IS TRIED •Silent Neighbors’ in Court After Alleged Pitchfork Battle. t.ii Time* Special MUNCIE, Ind.. June 13.—A feud of nine years standing was being settled by a Delaware county jury today. After James R. Peacock and Marion S. Tuttle had not spoken to each other for nine years, they met at a public sale on Peacock's farm on March 4. 1929. according to the evidence. Tuttle said Peacock ordered him off the farm and then struck him with a pitchfork. Peacock is charged with assault and battery. The men are neighbors. Elected to School Post By Timet Special PERU, Ind.. June 13.—Claude E. , Hile, Democrat, is anew member of the school heard, elected to succeed W. A. Hatfield, also a Democrat. Observe ’Blue Law* FT. WAYNE, Ind.. June 13. "Blue law” Sunday will be observed by Ft. Wayne car dealers. The order is effective immediately.

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William Kain, proprietor of a barber shop, stated today that he will have prepared for introduction in the next session of the state legislature a bill licensing barbers to extract teeth. BY ARCH STEINEL AND Kain has raised Cain in city and state today with his proposal to turn the “shaveries” and “bobberies” of 1930 into a battleground for bicuspids. He has raised not only Cain. Old | Ned, the Dodo bird, and Arabian j Nights, from the dental and medical j profession in the slate, but his own ! EAGLES SOUND PLEA FOR JOBS | Lodge Wants Work for All at ‘Saving Wage.’ Bu United Press ANDERSON, Ind., June 13.—Res- j olution pointing out unfavorable economic conditions in the United ! States and asking congress, President Hoover raid the grand aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles to use their influence to bring about the necessary surveys to aid in solution of the current unemployment problems in the country, was adopted by members of the Eagles order in s*ate convention at Anderson Friday The resolution stated that “the happiness of the wage earning group and the economic stability of our country is based upon the right of every American adult to work continuously at a caving wage.” The resolution was inspired by an address by Frank E. Hering, South Bend, former national president of the order. Major John B. Hudson of Lafayette was elected president Peru was selected as the 1931 convention city. SERVICE SUNDAY FOR MRS. EMMA MULLIN City Woman Received Attention From Lincoln When Child. Funeral services for Mrs. Emma j Mullin, 78, who died Thursday at j the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank J. Ward, 119 East Nineteenth j street, will be held at 2 p. m. Sun- j day at Alexandria, Ind. Burial will be in Alexandria. When a little girl Mrs. Mullin was singled out by Abraham Lincoln on a stop here Feb. 14, 1861, and from the President received a pat on the head and a smile. Surviving her besides Mrs. Ward are another daughter, Mrs. Ethel Crouse. Indianapolis, and four sons, F. P. Mullin of Rushville, Bert Mullin of Anderson, Carl Mullin of Twin Falls, la., and Joe Mullin of La Porte, Ind. RENEE ADOREE WILL RETURN TO WORK SOON Film Star Convalescing After Some Time at Sanatorium. Bu United Pn ss HOLLYWOOD, June 13.—Renee Adcree, motion picture actress, ex-

pects to return to the studios in another month or six weeks, she said here today. The actress was allowed to return to her home Thursday after spending some time at a sanatorium at La Crescenta with a pulmonary ailment. Miss Adoree was stricken after a series of colds which did not re-

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spond readily to treatment and caused her to go to the hospital when the affliction became serious. FINDS RELIGION FAILS TO MOVE PRISONERS White-Haired Chaplain Quits; Says Convicts Different Now. Bu United Press CANTON, 0., June 13.—Because, he says, prisoners don’t respond any more to the influence of religion, the Rev. Alfred M. Garner, 84-year-old chaplain of the Stark county workhouse, has handed in j his resignation. The white-haired pastor> who has preached to the prisoners for twen- ! ! ty-two year*, said: “Times have changed since I started here. Prisoners are surly now, and it’s impossible to move them to a tender feeling for God or couitry or home. All they care about is getting out. I have become more and more discouraged.” COMMITTEE FAVORS RAIL MERGER PROBE Senate Group Acts on Resolution for Quiz During Recess. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. July 13.—The senate interstate commerce committee orderea favorable report today on the Couzens’ resolution to authorize it to make an investigation of the railroad merger problem during the coming recess. The resolution authorizes an appropriation of $5,000 for a study of consolidation and unification of railroad properties and their effect upon the public interest. ♦ School Head-Elect Dies HARTFORD, Conn., June 13. j John A. Tinsley, superintendentelect of the Meriden State School for Boys, died at his home near Louisville last night of pneumonia, within a few weeks of the date he was to have taken charge of reorganization of the institutiojk, according to word received at the capitolftoday,

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crait enurns have no more hankering for a forceps than a dentist has for a shaving mug. Turning the "razz” part of the “razzo” on Kain, J. H. McCown, 2442 North Illinois street, president of the Journeymen Barbers local union No. 247, says: “We’ve troubles enough of our own raising hair without taking on tooth-pulling.” “Well, he might amend that bill to permit dentists and doctors to

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give shaves and massages,” suggested Joe Heath, 133 West Market street, veteran barber. “Say, we cause enough pain giving men a shave without adding to his miseries. Why, they wouldn’t stay in the chair long enough to get their wisdom molars yanked if they got a shave first,” objected Joe Glosson, manager of the Claypool barber shop. a tt tt IN turn, Dr. F. R. Henshavv, president of the Indiana State Dentists’ Association, declared his organization would “resist heartily” any effort made by barbers to go back to the days of leeches—the days when teeth were sacrificed via the doorknob or the big pincers. “Why, that’s going back to the days of the Dodo bird, when barbers were chiefly blood-letters. I know the barbers will resent the bill as much as we do/’ Dr. Henshaw said. “It’s ridiculous.” avers Dr. William H. Kennedy, member of the executive committee of the Indiana State Medical Association, “and of course, we would fight a bill of that kind. Many doctors could pull teeth, but we don’t. Dentistry is a specialized profession. Barbering is a trade and we have no desire to be barbers.” “When a patient has a throbbing tooth, he doesn’t care whether a

druggist, dentist, barber or doctor relieves him. He cares only that the extraction be skillful, without disastrous after-effects. “Extracting teeth is a scientific procedure and requires much study. Can a barber qualify and fulfill those requirements on the basis of being a barber? Unquestionably he could not,” concludes Dr. James A. Moag, member of the State Dental Society. SPY ACT REPEALED Senate Passes Bill Killing War-Time Measure. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 13.—The senate, it was learned today, has passed a bill to repeal the drastic World war espionage act. This action, accomplished quietly and without debate some time ago. apparently attracted no attention. The war-time bill provided prison sentences of twenty years for subversive activities and empowered any postmaster to bar from the mails newspapers which he regarded as seditious. The repealer was introduced by Senator Walsh (Dem., Mont.), Having been passed by the senate, it awaits house action. DOGS ATTACK CHILD Girl, 6, Savagely Bitten, Probably Will Die of Injuries. EVANSTON, 111., June 13.—Set upon and savagely bitten by ten police dogs, Lillian Meier, 6, was in a critical condition today in a hospital here. Doctors held little hope for her recovery. The dogs, which escaped from the kennels of Max J. Hartman in Niles Center, were viciously attacking the child when her father, Gustav Meier, truck farmer, discovered the tragedy and beat the pack off with a hoe. Bridge Collapses; Ten Drown Bu United Press . BUCHAREST, June 13.—Ten persons wers drowned today when a bridge at Ploysr collapsed with a crowd of spectators who were crossing immediately after dedication of the structure.

INDIANA U. OPENS SUMMER SESSIONS

F-ii Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. June 13. Forty-first annual summer session of Indiana university got under way here today with the registration of approximately 1.400 students. First convocation program for summer term students will be given next Wednesday, with Dr. E. A. Bryan, president emeritus and research professor of economics in State College of Washington, as the principal speaker. President W. L. Bryan of Indiana university Dr. H. B. Wilson, director of the American Junior Red Cross; Professor R. V. Gogate, professor of philosophy at the New Jersey law school, and C. W. Bailey, headmaster of the Holt Secondary school, Liverpool, England, will give convocation addresses this summer.

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ACCUSED OPEN DRIVE AGAINST D. S. CHARGES Government Lawyers End Case After Testimony of Three Days. FOUR OBTAIN FREEDOM Jurors Expected to Start Deliberations in Rum Case Saturday. Bu Tires Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 13. Defense attorneys today attempted to batter the government's evidence that has mounted against defendants in the trial of the Wabash valley bocze conspiracy case. The government rested its case Thursday afternoon. Several attorneys rested their client's cases, without submitting evidence, when Judge Robert C. Baltzell called the list late Thursday. John Carney, Terre Haute garage owner, who is alleged to have stored vats for the rum gang in his garage and moved them to still locations, submitted his defense today. Defendants Score Although Baltzell has not announced whether he will hold court Saturday, it is believed that if he does, the jury probably will begin deliberation Saturday. Defendants won a point Thursday afternoon when Baltzell struck out testimony given by Polic° Chief Fred Armstrong that George Aiducks murdered rum runner, had told Armstrong that Ray Foncannon, former Vigo county sheriff was paid SSOO monthly by the gang. Baltzell also upheld directed verdict pleas for acquittal as to Wilmot Connors, former Clinton police chief; Steve Carlevato, arrested at a still; Wayne Wence, who was charged with diverting corn sugar into bootleg channels, and Vittorio Bcnnucchi of Clinton, alleged sugar supply agent. Merchant Is Target The court said he had not found sufficient evidence against the men. Mario Bonicarsi, Clinton merchant, was the target of the government’s attack Thursday afternoon. Evidence showed he spent $285,000 for sugar last year. He purchased the sugar from ten different cities and testimony revealed he had bought ten carloads of five-gallon tins. Twenty-seven of the forty-six indicted men will av/ait the jury verdict. Three pleaded guilty before the trial opened, four recived acquitals and twelve are fugitives. The government, in its three-day case, showed operations of the gang in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky and revealed alleged tribute methods and protection activities of rum runners and politicians. londoiTtalks TOYUMA; WRONG NUMBER World's Long Distance Record fr? Phone Error Claimed. Bu United Press YUMA. Ariz., June 13—The world’s long distance record for wrong numbers was claimed here today by Frank J. Gilmore, who told the man at the other end of a 6,000mile telephone line that he had the “wrong number.” Gilmore, prominent Yuma citizen, was called from London concerning the marriage of Ruth Jane Mix, daughter of Tom Mix, movie cowboy. After a few questions, the Londoner asked; “Well, now, aren’t you Douglas Gilmore who married Ruth Jane Mix, daughter of Cowboy Tom Mix” “No, you’ve got the wrong number,” Gilmore replied. HOOVER OPPOSED TO MUSCLE SHOALS MOVE President Will Veto Bill Calling for Government Operation. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 13.—President Hoover was represented today by Representative Almon (Dem., Ala.) as opposed to any Muscle Shoals legislation providing for government ownership and operation. Almon called upon the President and asked him to intercede in the deadlock which has developed in conference on the Norris bill. Almon said the President refused and declared he would veto a bill providing outright government operation of the power site. The President, Almon said, did not say that he would veto the bill which may be arrived at in conference authorizing private operation of the power and fertilizer plants.

In addition to the university’s summer session at Bloomington, the annual biological station, will be conducted at Winona Lake from Saturday to Aug. 8, and the extension center will be given at Winona Lake Monday to Aug. 23. Personnel of the social committee for the summer session at Bloomington follows: Dean Agnes E. Wells, Dean C. J. Sembower, Professor Amelia Peters, Professor Clara Fedler. Professor George Finley, Mrs. Ethel S. Tudor, director of publicity; Frank R. Elliott, Dean C. J. Sembower, Professor George Schlafer, Professor E. B. Birge, Professor H. H. Carter, Professor Clare Barker, Professor J. W. Fiercy, Garland Crow, E. W. Arnett, and Audrey Carter. y

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James Renihan, Hollis Hughes, Ralph Coffin. Jim Shoemaker, Dick Agster and Robert Maas.

Betty White, Amelia Brctz, Mary Brown, Wilmi Barrow. Amy Wcsterhouse and Mildred Grill.

Robert Magill, Robert Slierfick. Frank Streightoff, Dick Clay, iidwin Dunnington and Seymour Gentry.

Dorothy Jean Bond, Rosalind Barrow, Marjorie Pendleton, Martha Foster, Eileen Miller and Julia Raymond.

Herbert Skillman, Taul Short, George McKamey, Billy Boswell, Charles Gregg and Herbert Toms,

Charlotte Built rworth, Emma Gene Tucker, Martha N rman, Martha Moore, Betty Thomas and Betty Finch.

Cecilia Klein, Louise Weissman, Mary Lockart, Kathleen Thistle, Joan Fahey and Raymond Feeley.

Ruth Myers, Dorothy Gorman, Martha Louise Boyd, Maude Mehring, Beatrice Urwitz, Irene Tillotson and Evelyn Pyle.

Ralph Denmark and Howard Walker

ACTION FOR DIVORCE FILED BY BILLY DOVE Noted Film Actress Complains Director Cruel to Her. Bu Scripps-H award Ncicsptincr Alliance LOS ANGELES, June 13.—Charging Irvin V. Willat with having been cruel to her, Billie Dove, motion pic-

ture beauty, sought a divorce from the film director in a suit on file in superior court here today. The complaint set forth that Willat was cruel; that on numerous occasions he threatened bodily injury, treated her harshly, and attempted to induce her to return after she left him. In addition, the complaint recited that when she for-

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gave Willat his repentence w’s short-lived and he would revert to his old practices. They were married Oct. 28, 1923, and separated last September. They ha-re no children.

MAN IS MUTILATED Hitch-Hiker Is Kidnaped and Attacked Brutally. Bu United Press OMAHA. Neb.. June 13.—A story of torturous mutilations by kidnapers was told police here today by James Ciark Kirk, who stumbled into a police station in a serious condition. Kirk gave his address at 1420 “I” street, Detroit, and said he was chloroformed and mistreated by two men from whom he accepted a motor car ride. He was hitch-hik-ing here from Des Moines, he said, and had been employed on an lowa farm. Mrs. Oler, 79, Is Dead B-” Times Sr.eC'af DUBLIN, Ind.. June 13. Mrs. Amanda M. Oler. 79, wife of James Oler, is dead near Green's Fork. She leaves the husband, a daughter, Mrs. Lola John; six grandchildren, Mrs. Mary Williams, Catherine Oler, Herschel Oler, Alberta and Elmer John and Mary King; four greatgrandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

10 U. S. Cities Gain 3 Million Population Chicago, Los Angeles Probably Will Show Greatest Increase in Last Decade, Census Indicates. By United Tress The nation's ten largest cities will show a gain of more than 3,000,000 in population during the last ten years, according to figures gathered by the Unites . .cs. Census ...ins are not complete from some of the cities, but incomplete retui..„ and estimates available indicate the growth. Chicago and Los Angeles probably will have the largest increase, the figures show. Los Angeles reported a gain of 655,057 while Chicago showed 673,043 over the 1920 figures. New York's official count may reveal a greater numerical gain than either of these, although estimates give New York 522,000 gain. The most notable change in the ranking of the first ten cities was made by Los Angeles, which stood tenth in 1920, but passed Cleveland, Baltimore, St. Louis, Boston and Pittsburgh to take fifth plate this year. The cities are expected to rank as follows, although revised figures later may affect the standings: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Los Angeles, Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, Boston and Pittsburgh. Baltimore is expected to pass Boston on the basis of preliminary figures, but the official Boston count has not been made. In the next twenty cities, numerous changes probably will be noted when the final count is in. Minneapolis may be found in fifteenth place, against eighteenth in 1920; Newark, N. J., dropped to eighteenth from fifteenth; Atlanta advanced to twenty-second from thirty-third, and Houston to twenty-sixth from forty-fifth. The following table shows the probable standings. It is drawn from preliminary announcements and from estimates where the check has not been completed. Later announcements from cities not reporting as yet and re-check of those cities reporting may change the standings slightly. (*) Indicates estimate. Figure after city’s name indicates 1920 rank.) Citv 1230 1320 Gain 1— New York (1) *6,142.189 5,.j20.048 ilio'nca 2 Chicago 1 2> 6 ia’2of 3 rPhilaoeiphia (3) *2,000,000 I -823.'<9 570'm 4 Detroit 1.064,397 993.0<8 5 LosAngJies ,10) 1.231.730 576.673 65.007 6 Cleveland <s l 901,842 J6,8-*1 7 SV Louis (61 817.334 772,897 44.437 8— Baltimore (8) • JUn'.li -lairn 22'?90 9 Boston (7) . 780.850 ,48.000 32.790 in Pittsburgh ,9) 644.795 583.343 11— San Francisco (12) £21.762 12— Buffalo 111) £22.813 in’2? 13— Milwaukee (13) 568.932 JSH-7 MHf* 14— Washington. D. C. (14) 485./16 437.5,1 48.14a 15— Minneapolis ,18, 64 531 16— New Orleans (17) £37.219 48 084 17— Cincinnati (16, ViVUI JSafi 18— Newark, N. J. 115 l , *39.506 414.524 14.98. 19— Kansas Citv. Mo. (19) 0.000 324,4 0 ,a.aSO 20 — Seattle. Wash. -20) 362.-26 3 a.312 4,.114 21— Indianapolis (21) jJnnJ 22 Atlanta (33) 30?.668 HKSiS 29 2OT 23 Rochester. N. Y. ■ 22> 32j.019 63509 24 Denver. Colo. (25, vva'vaa 40 834 25 Portland. Ore. )24> 138 276 152 535 26 Houston. Tex. ,45, 290.811 138.2 6 1a2.535 27 Toledo. O. ,26, \l-W. 28— Columbus. O. 128, 285.735 nalaiJa 36 185 29 — St. Paul. Minn. (30) 270.863 234,693 36.18a ,Nn estimate or official count available from Providence. R. 1., which had a population of 237°595 in 1920 and which mav displace Columbus and St. Paul.)

MRS. SPENCER IS DEAD Cousin of Former Indiana Author Succumbs at Home. Bu United Press MARION, Ind., June 13.—Mrs. Mary E. Spencer, 80, former Indianapolis resident and cousin of the late General Lew Wallace, Indiana author, died at her home in Marion Thursday night following a short illness. * She was the wife of the late Henry Spencer, prominent Marion merchant. She was reared in Brown county by the father of General Wallace.' Her nephew, Willis Van Deventer, is associate justice of the United States supreme court.

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FARMERS ATTEND PICNIC Governor Speaks at Annual Purdue University Outing. B.u Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., June 13.—Four thousand farm residents from southern and central Indiana attended the annual picnic at the Purdue university experimental farm, six miles west of Bedford, Thursday. County Agent J. R. Jackson presided at the afternoon program, when Dr. E. C. Elliott, president of Purdue, assisted Dean Skinner, head of the Purdue agricultural school, in dedication of a gateway to the farm. Governor Harry G. Leslie

CITY HOSPITAL PROBLEM PUT UP TOMAYOR Sullivan to Consider Plans for Tubercular Patient Care and Treatment. DELAY IS CRITICISED Abandonment of Project for New Yard Unit Is Held Inadvisable. Problem of caring for advanced tubercular patients at city hospital was expected to receive immediate consideration by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today on his return from a week's vacation with Murat Shriners at Toronto. The problem was created this week by the Flower Mission Society's decision to close its hospital on Coe street, a dilapidated frame structure in the rear of city hospital, because of the fire hazard and insanitary conditions. The action leaves the city without facilities for caring for tubercular cases. The mission proposed that its $60,000 fund be spent for the first unit of a mission hospital on city hospital property and Dr. H. S. Leonard, health board president, indicated the board will accept the offer. Criticise City Action Meanwhile, there was mild criticism of the Sullivan administration for temporary abandonment of the $1,044,000 ward unit which provided facilities for tubercular cases and other contagious diseases. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, veteran city health board secretary, recalled that the .01 cent mandatory tuberculosis levy created in 1914 was designed to create a sirfking fund which ultimately would build such tubercular hospital. The fund increased to $60,000 at one time and in an effort to make a reduction in current taxes, several administrations cut the levy and spent the accumulated fund, making it necessary to use the revenue from the tax rate for preventive medicine. Sunnyside, county tuberculosis hospital, does not admit chronic cases, making it necessary for the city to provide facilities to replace the mission hospital, which at present has thirty patients. Held City’s Duty Citing the fact that tuberculosis sti.l holds third place among causes of death, Dr. Morgan expresses belief that it is the city’s duty to care for tubercular cases the same as any other charitable case. v Some have asserted Sunnyside should admit observation and chronic cases, but it is conceded generally it is bad medical practice to combine hospitalization of the various degrees of the disease. The problem arising from the closing of the Flower Mission hospital, the only city agency which j has cared for advanced tubercular ! cases for the last quarter century, | has emphasized the need for a coni valescent and aged folks’ home to j relieve the city hospital of cases which do not need hospitalization. It is the opinion of medical aui thorities that the cost per diem of caring for such cases would be reduced greatly in a convalescent home if the city could afford the capital outlay necessary to establish such an institution. Conference Is Held Community Fund heads have conferred with city officials and express belief that the city, rather than a private charitable institution, should care for advanced tubercular cases, j The Community Fund opposed l private solicitation of additional | funds for the proposed mission hos- | pital on the theory that the comj m unity chest was designed to rei lieve all subscribers of further : charitable requests. The mission felt $60,000 was not ; sufficient to build a tuberculosis hosj pital for a city the size of Indian- | apolis, and suggested that several friends indicated a desire to contribute to the project. WAR ON FRUIT PEST Agriculture Department Resumes Fight on Mediterranean Fly. ! Bu United Pres * WASHINGTON, June 13.—The agriculture department today announced resumption of efforts to eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly, the pest which invaded Florida last year and is said to have helped boost the price of oranges to a near record mark. The work of exterminating the fly will be carried out on a limited scale, the department said, in cooperation with the Florida state plant board. Work will be confined largely to spraying citrus fruits and other “host” crops only where actual infestation has occurred. Celebration Abandoned B.u Times Special LINTON, Ind., June 13. The Greater Linton Club has decided to abandon preparations for a Fourth of July celebration, such as it has sponsored for twenty years. It was felt the inconvenience caused by detours in this vicinity would curb attendance. Accidental Shooting Fatal B§ Bu United Pres* TM| BEDFORD, Ind., June 13. Ray White, 15, was accidentally sh<S and killed by a companion, Este Browning, 15, near Bedford, whil® the two were returning from a crowH hunt Thursday. Traction Hearing Bu Time* Special KOKOMO, Ind., June 13.—Hearing on receiver’s petition for the Union Traction Company of Indiana to abandon the line between Kokomo and Logans port will be held next Friday at city hall her*. t