Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1930 — Page 9

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STATE BOARD USES ‘HUSH’ ON HIGHWAY JOB Contract Is Awarded on High Bid and Publicity Is Shunned. $85,631.34 ABOVE LOW Three Types Are Specified to Meet Law —Blacktop, Blacktop, Blacktop. How the state highway commission received bids on three types of pavement—blacktop, blacktop and blacktop—and then let a $310,172.05 contract on a bid which was $85,631.34 more than the lowest bid received—was disclosed today through investigation by The Indianapolis Times. Bids were received April 22, but no publicity was given the letting of the contract to N. B. Putnam & Co-, Ft. Wayne. Ordinarily, new construction contract awards are announced through the state highway department’s publicity bureau. This construction, called the Motion road, is of Kentucky rock asphalt and now is under way. It extends from three miles north of Monon to San Pierre, a distance of 17.18 miles. Blacktop Is All Three Bids were taken on three classifications of blacktop construction. The law provides that bids must be taken on “three types” to insure competition. The classifications were bituminous macadam, bituminous concrete, and rock asphalt. Lowest bid received was on bituminous macadam. It was $224,540.61, .which was $85,631.34 less than the Kentucky rock asphalt contract award. 'Three bids on the bituminous macadam were all lower than the award, as well as two of the three bids on bituminous concrete. Reason for accepting the comparatively high bid was explained as being the commission conclusion that it really was “the lowest and best bid," as the law provides. Hinkle Stays in Saddle Putnam was the lowest of three Kentucky rock asphalt bidders, being $8,138.40 lower than nearest competitor in this classification and $42,903.01 lower than the highest bid received. Although the commission received a ruling from the attorneygeneral’s office that all new construction must come under the construction division, of which William J. Titus is chief engineer, the blacktop jobs continue under direction of A. H. Hinkle, chief of the maintenance division. Titus is termed a “cement man,” and Hinkle is listed as a “blacktop booster.” This new construction is all that the commission has allowed blacktop this season. Nearly 500 miles of cement construction will be built. In 1929 the average mile cost of concrete was $26,983.22. Action Is Criticised But the concrete constructionists contend that the stone base on many blacktop roads is built up by the maintenance division and not figured in the final cost. They criticised the Monon road project on the ground that there seemed to be secrecy surrounding . the letting; that there was no competition except in blacktop, and that since the contract was let on a highpriced classification, the three classifications could not have been considered comparable by the commissioners.” NEGRO IS ARRESTED AFTER AUTO CRASH Faces Drunk Charge; Held by Pair Until Police Arrive. After an automobile accident Monday night, William McKinney, Negro, 832 Torbett street, was arrested on charges of operating an automobile while intoxicated and with failing to stop after an accident A. R. Kennington. 320 Harlan street with whose car Kinney’s machine collided in the 1300 block Lexington avenue, and T. D. Edwards. 1334 Lexington avenue, held McKinney until police arrived. Jewell Lawrence, 16, of 923 Woodlawn avenue, was * bhiised when knocked from his bicycle at Prospect and Wright streets Monday night by a car driven by Paul Koebeley, 22, of 1104 North Hamilton avenue. Herman Hollingsworth, 1571 Spann avenue, and Miss Minnie Kline, 26, of 2717 Shelby street, were injured when Hollingsworth’s automobile struck a pole at Pleasant Run boulevard and Harlan atreet They were taken to city hospital. Hollingsworth’s arm was cut severely and Miss Kline's left leg was fractured. CITY POLICE ASKED TO SEEK MISSING LAD North Carolina Boy Disappeared From Home on June 6. Indianapolis police today were asked to seek Arthur Bradley, 15, of Greensboro, N. C., who disappeared from his home June 6, in a letter received by Chief Jerry Kinney from the boy’s father, V. C. , Bradley, chief deputy federal marshal. at Greensboro. Bradley said his son was dressed In tweed trousers and a green sweater, and was wearing no hat or captehen he left his home. The youth B six feet tall, weighs 130 pouadsTW ft tair complexion and

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Bu United Brest WASHINGTON, June 24.—Selection of Amos W. Woodcock, United States district attorney for Maryland, to become chief of the prohibition -unit under Attorney-General Mitchell after July 1, means that a fighting executive will direct the government's supreme drive for dry law enforcement. Woodcock, 46, is a lientenant-com-mander in the army reserve corps. He served on the Mexican border in 1916 and in the World war. For meritorious service in the front line he was promoted to lieutenantcolonel. Woodcock’s appointment, announced late Monday, was expected to meet little opposition in the senate. Senator Tydings (Dem., Md.), a wet, announced he would support the nomination. “I am for him,” Tydings said today. “He is very, very dry. and that is the reason that he should be selected. He is a good clean man and is well fitted in every way to be a good administrator.” Woodcock, has many years of legal experience. He was United States attorney and assistant attorney-gen-eral of Maryland.

SEWER SUIT IS HiTJY JEUF Case Blamed on Disgruntled Contractor or Politician. Suit to enjoin the city sanitary board from proceeding with the $450,000 sewer progiam on the contention it “benefits” the Indianapolis Water Company, today was blamed on a “disgruntled contractor o politician” by B. J. T. Jeup, city sanitary board president. “Attorneys for some contractors appeared before the board and warned us not to let the contract to an outside firm which happened to be the low bidder,” Jeup said. In answer to the charge in the complaint filed Monday that the sanitary board conspired with the water company bo the benefit of the water company, Jeup said: “The water company opposed the project because we go through its property. The water company really is damaged, if anything.” “I do some consulting work for the water company and if that’s a high crime I’ll just have to try and live it down,” Jeup declared. Petitions for the injunction were filed in circuit court by Henry LHarding, Jchn D. Brosnan, Simon S. Fox and Michael Sablosky, and asked that- the city be enjoined from carrying out the project. The Broad Ripple and Riverside district main interceptor sewers. Pleasant Run interceptor and Pogue’s Run sewer are under fire in the petition. Stove 31ast Injures Youth ANDERSON, Ind., June 24.—Donald Hunter, 18, was severely burned when a gasoline stove exploded in a refreshment stand at a miniature golf course. Hunter threw the stove out of the stand , and beat out the flames with a broom. His hands were burned.

BIDS RECEIVED ON STATE ROAD JOBS

Cost of Seven Projects Is Estimated in Excess of Million Dollars. Bids on seven Indiana highway department paving projects, estimated at more than $1,000,000 by de • partment engineers, were received at the statehouse today. Forty-three contractors took part in the bidding, which covered about twenty-six miles. Total low bids amounted to $927,059.08. Os the total sum, $740,069.79 is for construction of a Dunes relief highway to parrallel U. S. 20. The road will run from Gary to the Michigan-Indiana state line at Chesterton. Bids and projects were as follows: U. S. 20—North of Chesterton to onihslf mile west of Laporte county line, Ln Porter county, forty feet wide for 6-2 miles. Low bidder. M. D. Heinv, Gary, $262,941 31. Estimate, *339,089 74. tJ. S. 20— One-half mile west of PorterLaporte county line to two-flfths of a mile east of Trail Creek, south of Michigan City, in Porter and Laporte counties, forty feet wide for 8.467 miles. Low bidder, M. D. Heiny, $216,684.39. Estimate, *267,102.92. Road 13 and U. S. 30—Two-flfUu of a hmUejgast of Trail

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FRYING PAN OR FIRE FACED BY WHEATRAISER Prices on Toboggan, With Grain-Cutting Time at Hand in Southwest. SHORT CROP IN KANSAS Prospects Better in Texas and Oklahoma; Many Store Yield. BY GARRET PORTER United Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 24. Wheat farmers in the broad fields of the southwest were between two fires today. Fast-ripening grain demanded immediate cutting and low prices threatened losses to the farmers if they send the grain to market. July wheat touched 8214 cents in Chicago Monday, anew low since 1914. In Kansas City, July wheat sold at 82 cents. In some producing centers the price was as low as 70 cents. In the face of the threatened losses many fanners chose to hold their grain. The harvest was half completed today in Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Combined harvesting and thrashing machines started to work in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas counties this week. Binding operations in Kansas worked northward toward Nebraska, where the harvest is scheduled to open within a few days. Crop Is Short In addition to low prices, Kansas faced a short crop. Below normal yields were reported from some of the best wheat-producing counties of the state, and observers believed the crop might turn eut only a third of the expected yield. Ford county, which produced 7,000,000 bushels in 1929, was expected to yield less than 3,000,000 this year. The last report of the state department of agriculture estimated the acre yield at 11.7 bushels, but many fields that had been expected to produce twenty bushels to the acre are yielding only seven or eight. Damage in Kansas wheat fields was attributed to a severe attack of the fungus root-rot diseases by L. E. Melchers, plant pathologist at Kansas State Agriculture college. Better in Oklahoma Crop conditions in Oklahoma and Texas were somewhat better. The indicated yield in Oklahoma was as good or better than preliminary estimates of 32,000,000 bushels. The Texas total was placed at more than 25,000,000 bushels. Missouri, with a June estimate of 19,500,000 bushels, reported yields in many cases better than the expected thirteen bushels an acre. Nebraska’s prospects were better than average. Estimates placed conditions at between eighty and eightyfive per cent of normal, with acre yields of from 19.6 to 20.8 bushels. June estimates placed the total yield from Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri at 289,327,000 bushels, but this figure was made on the basis of a 137,000,000 bushel yield in Kansas. Grain Being. Held Elevators in the southern part of the grain belt were bulging with wheat, but the grain was not being moved to market. One elevator in Oklahoma, receiving 7,000 bushels in one day, sold only 200 bushels. The movement in Kansas also was less than expected. Reports indicated farmers expected to receive at least 20 cents more a bushel by holding their wheat. Short crops, low prices and a surplus of labor have brought reduction in wages for harvest hands. Nebraska farmers offered 35 cents an hour compared to last year’s $5 a day, and Kansas growers were reported paying the pre-war Vage of $3 a day. Two Get Flying Licenses Bjj Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 24.—Albert Dudley, Elwood, and Cletus Conn, Newcastle, students at Welch airfield here, have passed examinations for private licenses to pilot planes.

Hinsey & Dull, Arcanum, 0., $259,444.09. Estimate $313,829.52. U. S. 31 and Road 56—Pennsylvania railroad overhead approaches north of Bcottsburtr of U. S. 31 in Scott county, .8 mile. Low. bidder. Sherrill Blackwell Construction Company. Bedford. $28,461.65. Estimate. $34,145.95. Road 15—Gap one mile north of Warsaw and a gap at Leesburg. Kosciusko county, one mile. Low bidder. McClintock, Caiv ;U and Gordy, Syracuse, Ind., $30.518.12. Estimate. $18,196.96. U. S. 24 and U. S. 30—Ft. Wayne to south of New Haven, Allen county. 4.026 miles. Low bidder. Ray L. Harris. Ft. Wayne. *88.636.01. Estimate *114.875,53. Road 68—Warrick county line to Hatfield. in Spencer county. 2.703 miles. Low bidder. R. E. Harrison. Terro Haute, *39.572.51. Estimate *44.991. Cement for all projects is supplied by the state.

WIFE KILLS SELF, THREE CHILDREN OVER HATE FOR ‘OTHER WOMAN'

East san gabriel, cai., June 24.—Jealousy over the v'oman she thought had stolen her husband’s love, prompted Mrs. Edward Proctor to stir poison into the orange juice that she and their three children drank and died, investigators found today as tney delved into the fanjily gßSHnipnAor’a last gesture of l S Vat her husband’s admit- . .1

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1930

Amnesia Victim Found; Police Seeking Clews

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Police today sought to identify a man who was found wandering near fire headquarters, Alabama and New York streets, late Monday night. Police questioned him until early today, but the apparent amnesia victim only could remember he served in the army during the World war. He is at city hospital, where efforts are being made to restore his memory. The man was taken into custody by firemen after his aimless wandering caused suspicion. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, has light brown hair, sallow complexion and was wearing shell-rim glasses. He was wearing a blue suit with a pin stripe ahd a gray felt hat, carrying the firm name of Jay & Jay, Detroit. A small photo of a woman and child were found in his pocket, but he was unable to tell police the names of the persons in the photo.

FAMILY AIDED BYOFFICERS Stranded Tourists Provided With Gas, Funds. Human? officers provided gasoline and funds for a family of tourists stranded here today, en route from their home in New Albany, Ind., to Kalamazoo, Mich. Jack Reynolds, 42; his wife. Bertha, 41, and four children found without food or funds in/a tent on the bank of White river, vest of State Road 31, by Sergeants Thomas Bledsoe and Charles Quack, who investigated a police report. One of the children, a 3-months-old baby belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Garland Kettle, son-in-law and daughter of the Reynolds, took sick from exposure during the night and was treated by city hospital attaches. Kettle and his wife had come here with the family, but had proceeded to Kalamazoo Sunday, where Kettle is to work. The family started on their way again after officers put twenty gallons of gasoline in their car and gave them $2 for. food. LIQUOR IS DISCUSSED Problem to Be Taken Up by Doctors. 8 'DETROIT* 8 June 24.—The moot question of prohibition was scheduled to be taken up in executive session this afternoon by the ruling board’ of the American Medical Association, meeting here in annual convention. Dr. William Gerry Morgan, Washington, president-elect of the Association, said physicians from all sections of the country had written him on the subject, and that he intended to bring it up in today’s session. Dr. Morgan, however, refused to state his own attitude, or what he expected the house of delegates, ruling body of the association, to do on the subject. YOUNGROCKEFELLER, BRIDE TO SEE WORLD Couple to Live in $75,000 Mansion on Ending Globe Tour. Bu Times Special BALA, Pa., June 24.—Historic St. Asaph’s church was the scene here Monday of the wedding of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, second son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Mary Todhimter Clark, Philadelphia, before a group of social notables. * The bridegroom’s parents gave the bride a diamond necklace to match their son’s present of a pin set with a number of beautifully cut diamonds. The couple will reside in the $75,000 mansion built for them on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., after a wedding trip around the world. 844 Without Jobs CONNERSVILLE, Ind., June 24. According to figures released by Thomas I. Ahl, supervisor of census for the Ninth district, there are 844 persons out of employment here.

ted love affair with a divorceeemploye before she killed herself and three innocent victims, was one of hate A farewell note lay on top of a picture of Mrs. Vera Caplin, the “other woman.” It was addressed to her husband, Edward Proctor, superintendent of shipping in a biscuit company. “I hate you,” it 'rfid. “I can’t live* Try sot to blame me, I

BUY INDIANA CEMENT, PLEA TOCGUNTY Failure to Patronize Home Industry May Result in Plant Shutdown. 250 MAY LOSE JOBS Commission Urged to Give Fair Deal for Product Made in State. Failure of government agencies to urge patronizing of home industries in the buying of materials for public improvements, by way of combating out-state freight and price boycotts, may peril solvency of several major Indiana manufacturers. This assertion, with a declaration that one manufacturing concern will be forced into a temporary shutdown, closing its doors to 250 employes on July 1, because of out-state competition, was hurled at Marion county commissioners Monday, as result of the opening of the county’s $500,000 road improvement program. R. U. Van Degrift, salesman for the Lone Star Cement Company of Indiana, Inc., told commissioners that the $4,000,000 Lone Star plant at Limedale, near Greensburg, will halt operations because contractors refuse to patronize Hoosier manufacturers. Urge-i Home Product Use Government agencies should require contractors to use Indiana products in public improvements, Van Degrift asserted to the board. He produced evidence showing that other states, Illinois and Ohio in the main, make it imperative viia* bidders for government work uot. products of their respective states. He contended that Indiana government boards are lax in failing to require contractors to use products of this state. Present unsteady business conditions now make warehouse sales of material manufacturers a negligible factor, Van Degrift declared. He asserted that business obtained through government agencies is the one hope of Hoosier manufacturers to combat out-state industries. “Marion county’s improvement program alone entails 70,000 barrels of cement,” Van Degrift said, “and offers at this time probably the only revenue in which Hoosier cement manufacturers pan hope to share.” Prices Are Same He declared that bulk prices set by out-state cement manufacturers are the same as the prices submitted by Indiana dealers, but that local contractors will not buy Indiana cement because of freight rate complications. “The Lone Star company’s bid is in almost every case the same per barrel as the bid of out-state manufacturers. Because we will not knock off the difference in freight charges, contractors will not buy from us,” Van Degrift said. The final price, he stated, is ultimately the same. Shutdown of the Limedale plant will injure Indiana coal dealers, Van Degrift asserted, costing them the sale of thousands of tons of coal used in making of cement. He recommended that municipal agencies make it imperative for contractors to use home products, except in cases where price differences are extreme. The suggestion is being considered seriously by Marion county, Commissioner John E. Shearer said today. “What other states are doing to help home industries should be practiced in this state,” Shearer said. TIMES CHAMP LOSES Jimmy White Off Form in Marbles Tourney. Bu Times Special OCEAN CITY, N. J., June 24. A thumb injury sustained on a merry-go-round ride Monday night hampered Jimmy White’s play in the North Central League of the national marbles’ tourney here Tuesday morning, and the Indianapolis Times champion could win but two of his eight games. He dropped two straight to South Bend, split even with Youngstown and Ft. Wayne, and then dropped two games to Buffalo. However, the losses did not dampen the spirits of Jimmy, who is having the time of his life here. Boat rides and deep sea fishing trips were scheduled for this afternoon, but rain which fell immediately after the tourney was run off may cause a postponement. Jimmy is staying at the Delaware hotel and will make that his home until Friday when he starts his return journey. Aged Woman Dies B.v Times Special UNION CITY, Ind., June 24. Mrs. Ottie Goens, 61, is dead here. She was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church. She leaves her husband, W. A. Goens; her mother, Mrs. Mary O. Settle, Union City, and two brothers, Charles Settle, Muncie, and John Settle, Long.

should not have married you but you were so wonderful, and I loved you more than anything in the world." ana PROCTOR, who collapsed as his family died one by one from the poisonous orange juice, admitted that his love affair with Mrs. Capliahhad driven his wife to that once before

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Fire Tragedy Drove Her From Circus Work 20 Years Ago. BY ARCH STEINEL It took a dog-trainer twenty years to love dogs, and love them enough to scorn training them. And now she’s snapped at daily by the pups she loves but doesn’t train, and doesn’t mind their nipping teeth a bit. That is the kaleidoscope of the life of Mrs. Nora Slagle, aid in caring for the inhabitants of the city dog pound. But let’s go back twenty years, back of the scars Mrs. Slagle carries on her arms. It’s night near the railroad station in Rochester, Ind. A circus train with myriad cars stands on a siding. In one car are four dogs, one a poodle. Antique train lamps of years ago flicker in the windows of the cars. A woman in the car with the four dogs is filling her lamps. The woman is Mrs. Slagle—then “Frances, the good trainer.” She Tells Her Story But we’ll let her tell of it: “The dogs I’d worked hard on training were in the car. “Possum,” the poodle, who could dive from a ladder to my shoulder was one of them. “I got the lamps filled. I struck a match. There was an explosion. The car seethed in flames. I’d filled the lamps from the wrong can, the gasoline can. I tried to get my dogs out. The flames burned me. I ran for my life. I couldn’t save ‘Possum’ or the others. “The car burned and as the flames licked its sides, I could see ‘Possum’ sitting up in the flames on his hind legs. He was sitting just as I’d taught him to sit,” and her eyes flickered and went shut just as the lamps must have done in that car twenty years ago. “I never trained a dog after that. I couldn’t—and remember ‘Possum’ sitting there. Better Nearly Every Day “Dog trainers don’t like their dogs as other folk. They like them for the money they can get out of them. That’s the way I was until ’Possum’ died. Then I learned to love them. I learned not to mind their shedding hairs on my dress, or dirty feet trampling in the house.” Years passed and Mrs. Slagle left a photographic business in Terre Haute to take a position at the dog pound. “Have I been bitten in my work here? Why, every day. It seemed yesterday they all had it in for me. But dogs are like humans; they have their blue days, too; only I believe I understand dogs better than humans,” she added. Mrs. Slagle has taken treatments for “mad dog” bites on two occasions. She says the best way to handle a “mad dog” is to grab him by the scruff of the neck.

TICKET SALE GOOD FOR WAR DRAMA

Banquet for ‘Miss Victory’ Competitors Set for Thursday Night. “Armistice is declared.” On Nov. 11, 1918, this headline was spread by newspapers from coast to coast. Today in Indianapolis another armistice is “declared,” with the announcement the forty entrants in the “Miss Victory” contest of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will cease their battle for votes long enough to banquet at the Claypool Thursday night. “They’ll have to leave their finger nail files, hair brushes and mirrors at home that night and talk over the contest peaceably. No hairpulling,” warned V. T. Wagner, commander of Convention City Post, as he announced banquet plans. The “Miss Victory” contest is

The poison drink was prepared Monday. Proctor, before he went to work, noticed one of the children appeared to be ill and called Dr. H. B. West. Mrs. Caplin was divorced from her husband last March. According to Proctor’s statements to officers they h*l been attentive to each other Xorfthree aggk

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SUIT ATTACKS FEE COLLECTION Friendly Case Is Filed by Givan Against Robinson. Friendly suit attacking collection of demand and mileage fees by County Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson as part of costs assessed for redeeming property sold for taxes was filed today in superior court one by County Attorney Clinton Givan. Givan filed the action in behalf of County Auditor Harry Dunn, declaring that Robinson has no legal right as treasurer to keep the money as part of his fees. Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, recently held the collection to be illegal. Charges are made in the suit that Robinson “has failed to account for and turn said funds into said county treasury, and is not entitled to the funds as his own private fund, but that the money should be turned into the treasury as tax money.” The action is baaed on a statute promulgated Jan 1, 1930, providing that the treasurer is entitled to receive only one-third of the 6 per cent commission for collecting delinquent taxes, and that the remaining two-thirds shall revert to the treasury. o The complaint declares that Robinson has collected approximately $250, representing 150 demand and mileage fees since the law went into force.

HOLD LAST RITES Body of Henry B. Heywood to Be Cremated. Funeral services were held this afternoon for Henry B. Heywood, 65, of 408 East Thirteenth street, general insurance agency operator until his recent retirement, who died Sunday at the Morris hospital at Plymouth. He was taken to the hospital when he became ill at his summer home at Lake Maxinkuckee. Services were held at the Flanner & Buchanan establishment with the Rev. Fred A. Line, pastor of the Central Christian church, officiating. The body was to be cremated. Mr. Heywood came to Indianapolis from Chicago in 1898. He was a member of the Unitarian church and one of the founders of the All Souls Unitarian church. Survivors are the widow. Mrs. Jessy Wallin Heywood; a son, Thomas W. Heywood, o' Indianapolis; two daughters, Mrs. Montgomery Lewis, Indianapolis, and Mrs. E. R. Culver Jr. of St. Louis, Mo., and four grandchildren.

held in connection with the display of the ’’Siege of 1918,” a war drama, which will be given at the state fairgrounds July 19. The woman receiving' the most votes from tickets which she sells to the “Siege” will be crowned “Miss Victory” at the Indiana ballroom July 23 and will be given a Mar-mon-Roosevelt sedan by the Indianapolis sales branch of the Marmon Motor Car Company, Eleventh and Meridian streets. Dinner rings will be given other contestants. Arrangements are being made by the veterans for enlisting former soldiers to re-enact scenes from the World war in the “Siege.” Invitations will be sqnt former A. E. F. officers to attend a luncheon for the discussion of plans for giving the “Siege.” Advance sale of tickets to the spectacle—l2,ooo have been sold—indicates a capacity audience will view the drama.

FROCTOR wept as he answered questions of officers about his association with Mrs. Caplin. He said his wife kissed him before he went to work the day of the tragedy. Officers said he made no effort to conceal the fact that Mrs. Proctor had threatened to kill the entire family unless hgigMftUP

HEALTH BOARD AGAIN BEUYS HOSPITAL UNIT City Controller Elder Is Skeptical of Need for Immediate Action. CITY SHORT OF MONEY Flower Mission Ward ‘Not So Bad,’ Declaration of Official. Acting on advice of City Controller Wililam L. Elder, the city hralth board today delayed further a decision on the Flower Mission Society’s request to donate the city a $60,000 tuberculosis uait at city hospital. Although a committee of Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city sanitarian, and Eugene C. Foster, Indianapolis foundation secretary, was appointed to make a professional survey of the charitable cases at the mission's hospital, it was agreed by city officials I Monday that the solution to the problem was to “let things ride a while longer." Accompanied by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Elder appeared before the health board and urged that nothing be done on the Flower Mission matter at this time, because “finances are at low ebb," Elder Counsels Delay Elder reviewed the Flower Mission’s work on behalf of tuberculosis for the last quarter century, citing the fact that the city once tore down a hospital belonging to the society to make way for new buildings. * / “One member on the mission board has ruled things like a czar out there and no one was admitted without her sanction. I visited the mission hospital and found things better than I had expected," Elder declared. “I think you would find many hospitals in the state on a par with the Flower Mission ward," he said. “We’ve had this tuberculosis problem for fifteen years, and I can’t see why it can’t slide along a little farther, since the city’s finances are at low ebb. We’re going to have a lot of troubles of our own, anyway, completing this building program and working out the budget,” Eldqr said. Inspection Is Arranged Elder has arranged for the city building inspector, state fire marshal, and fire prevention bureau officials to view shacks along Coe street in the vicinity of the tuberculosis unit, with the view of condemning them as “fire hazards.” The Flower Mission hospital has been referred to repeatedly as a “fire trap,” but no steps are contemplated to condemn the dilapidated wooden structure where thirty tubercular patients are housed. Evans Woollen Jr, new board member, urged professional survey of the present cases, to show the number Os charitable cases. The board agreed there should be medical supervision of admission of patients by Dr. William A. Doeppers, city hospital superintendent, in event the gift is accepted. “The situation is no worse than it was six months ago. Why can’t they admit patients any longer?" asked Dr. -Frederick E. Jackson, board member. Ward Is Recommended “They say it is not suitable to house tubercular cases," Dr. Henry Leonard, board president, explainded. Dr. Leonard presented a report of the National Tuberculosis Association of December, 1924, recommending that the city start a 100-bed tubercular ward to serve as a clearing house for Sunnyside, county institution, and for advanced tubercular cases. Robert Frost Daggett, board architect, expressed doubt that $60,000 will-build a thirty-bed capacity hospital, as contemplated by the mission leaders. The board discussed the added cost of operating the $60,000 unit if it were accepted. RITES THURSDAY FOR PASSENGER AGENT Funeral Services to Be Held at Cathedral for Thomas Lanahan. Funelal services will be held at the Beck & Speaks undertaking establishment at 8:30 Thursday morning for Thomas Lanahan, 41, general traveling passenger agent for the Terre Haute <fc Evansville division of the Pennsylvania railway, who died Monday. He was unmarried and resided at tire Elks Club, his death coming at St. Vincent’s hospital, following an operation. Services at 9 at the SS. Peter and Paul cathedral will follow the early service. Burial will be in the Rest Haven cemetery at Edinburg. Mr. Lanahan served with the Lilly Base hospital unit in the World war. C. m7t. C. FORCES TO BE REVIEWED TONIGHT Inspection to Be Held at Ft. Harrison; Public Is Invited. Inspection and review of the First battalion of the C. M. T. C. forces at Ft. Benjamin Harrison will be held at 5 tonight. The public is invited to attend the review. Colonel Horace P. Hobbs will inspect the “rookie" soldiers. Monday, Major-General Dennis E. Nolan of the Fifth army corps area and Brigadier-General Edward L. King of the general staff inspected the candidates. On Wedneday General King will go to Camp Knox to inspect that j cantonment of the citizens’ military I training camps. 1. Home sickness, a disease which | afflicts the camp the first week, was