Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1931 — Page 3

SEPT. 10,1931.

BID TOO low; SO SCHOOL HEAD RULES J OUT Scott County Head Recommends High Offers Be Taken in Pupil Bus Cases. Because a bid was “too low,” Floyd E. James, superintendent of the Scott county schools, turned it down and recommended the awarding of the contract for hauling children to school in Lexington township to another men, the record on file in the office of the state superintendent of public instruction reveals. Complete and full airing of the manner in which the awards for school bus contracts were made in Lexington township to bidders, who were not low, is expected at the meeting of the state board of education Friday. Despite the evident disparity *tl bids, the state aid committee of the state board approved the recommendations of James. This resulted in taxpayers seeking an injunction from the circuit court after asking that Judge Frank Gardner be excused. Conflicting Stories Special Judge Thompson' who occupied the bench, ruled that if the contract had been approved'by the state aid committee, he would refuse the injunction. Attorneys for both sides then told conflicting stories. Mark Storen declared that when he called the state superintendent’s office he was notified that the contract had been approved, and Noble J. Hays, another attorney, declared that he had been told it was not approved. In the meantime James has appeared here several times seeking to get the state’s approval, inasmuch as the money to pay for the bus contracts must come from the state aid fund. In no instance did James ask that the contract be awarded to the low bidder. Takes All High Bids James asked that the low bid of $7.94, offered by Harry R. Sipe, be turned down because he is not a resident of the township and that instead it be given to Elmer Sheppard, whose bid is $9.25 a day. Sipe has protested that he not only owns property, but votes in Scott county. Although bids of $7.95 and $8 were submitted on Route 2, James has recommended that Dale Rensles be awarded the contract for $8.37. Thumbing down bids of $7.80, $8.50 and $8.95, James would have the Route 3 awarded to Leo Bonsett, who asks $9. Dare Watson is recommended for Route 4 with a bid of $8 when others offer to do the work for 15.95 and $7.50, while Walter Middleton, who asked $4.75, is preferred over a low bidder at $4.50 on Route 5. Writes “Too Low” After Name But it is on the sixth project that James surpassed himself. He wrote ‘“too low” after the name of W. E. Hutsell, whose bid was $2, and recommended that Forrest Arbuckle get the contract at $3. James has been under fire in his county for several years. His financial and political activities have caused considerable criticism and he has been the focal point of widetpread antagonism. The state board of education as a rule accepts the recommendation of the state aid committee, but it is expected that many protests will be heard when the Lexington township bus contracts come up for action. QUELL YACHT MUTINY I T . S. Consul Asks Police Protection in France for Society Man. NICE, Sept. 10.—The United States consul asked police protection today for Captain Gibson Fahnestock, prominent in New York and Washington society, after mutiny of the Chinese crew aboard his yacht. The Chinese made violent attacks on the yacht’s officers before police came aboard and quelled them. Fahnestock's yacht is one of the most luxurious on the Riviera.

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“Little girl, don’t you know school’s started? Why, you ought to be turned over my knee and spanked!” Thus did Benjamin Merman, 88, of 4059 Park avenue, scold Wanda, 16, the 600-pound fat girl of the D. D. Murphy’s side shows at

33,000 DIE YEARLY IN AUTO ACCIDENTS

Million Injured, Billion in Property Damage Is Cost to Nation. Thirty-three thousand men, women and children killed in auto accidents. One million persons hurt, many of them never to recover fully. That’s the horrible toll which piled up in the United States last year as millions of automobiles traversed the streets of cities and country roads. With those tolls went a billion dollars worth of property. Losses of those lives one-third of the number of people to die in the nation, of course, can not be measured in dollars and cents. That’s why The Times is conducting a two-week campaign for the safety of everyone and stressing the importance of protecting the lives of boys and girls attending schools. LOSE A MINUTE AND SAVE A LIFE. Toll Grows 5 Per Cent From all parts of the city today The Times was being commended for the efforts to educate children and motorists to the value a little slower speed, a less hasty step off the curb and observance of every law of safety and every precaution that will prevent Indianapolis,’ Marion county’s and the nation’s toll from mounting. The figures for 1930, compiled by the National Safety Council, reveal that auto deaths were 5 per cent higher than 1929. In Marion county the auto death toll for slightly more than eight months this year has reached ONE HUNDRED TWELVE. Traffic signal observance and stopping at preferential streets is one of the first lessons of safety to motorists to reduce the number of auto accidents. Hurrying Is Costly Hundreds in Indianapolis are hurt annually because every motorist probably has the inherent desire to “beat the light” or “there’s no use to stop at this street.” Due to the increased heat in the last two days, many of the city schools have closed and with each closing, responsibility of motorists has increased. When schools opened, motorists were warned to take special care in driving before school hours, during

the Indiana state fair, Tuesday. “Grandad” Merman was one of the G. A .R. veterans admitted to the fair without charge. He’s shown in the above admonishing Wanda, whose reply was “Go along Big Boy, you ain’t seen nothing yet.”

the noon hour and after 3 p. m., to protect these children. But with some of the schools closed for the day, the boys and girls are back on the streets as they were this summer and the safety measures must be doubled in order to prevent tragedy from striking their midst. The photo shows one of the most common forms of pedestrian thoughtlessness that brings death to many. Mothers and fathers are urged to teach their children NOT to commit this error. Educate them to cross streets only at corners and not try to “beat” traffic by darting into the thoroughfare in the middle of the block. Perhaps your child will be a few seconds late if he or she walks to the corner and looks both ways. But the loss of a minute is nothing. It is the loss of a life that never can be mended. LOSE A MINUTE AND SAVE A LIFE. ‘EMERGENCY’ TO FIRES Police Fast Wagon to Supplant Patrol Car at Blazes. An emergency squad will supplant the police patrol wagon at scenes of downtown fires in the future, Police Chief Michael Morrissey ordered today. The reason for the change, the chief explained, is that the emergency squad is equipped with radio and may be dispatched elsewhere from the fire scene more easily.

Motorists, Remember the Children! EvERY man and woman shrinks from the very thought of harm coming to children. To protect them from danger in any form is a common human impulse. Although children are being better safeguarded each year, thousands of youthful lives are still needlessly sacrificed annually in street and highway accidents. Last year this sacrifice included fully 5,000 hoys and girls—as dear to their parents as your own —and of this number around 700 were occupants of cars. Since most children live in a realm outside the world of realities, others older need to watch over them. The driver of an automobile, for instance, never knows when he may suddenly comejface to face with the stark actuality of a child darting out in front of him, either along country highways or in business and residential sections. There’s a twofold reason for motorists to remember the children: First, that their lives may be spared, and secondly, to set before them a good example of conduct Published in the Interest of Safety THE TRAVELERS L. Editukd 2 a cher. President THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY THE TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY THE TRAVELERS EIRE INSURANCE COMPANY HARTFORD CONNECTICUT These Companies have expended $37,781,43d for the prevention of accidents rFigures quoted here are hared on Federal vita! etatiaties andl L accident reports from areas containing 15 per cent of the population J

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TEXAS FARMERS 800 STERLING'S COTTMSPEECH Cheer Louisiana Executive’s Proposal for Holiday; Hoover Assailed. BY GORDON K. SHEARER United Press Staff Correspondent AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 10.—A demand by 7,000 farmers that immediate approval be accorded the plan of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana for a total cotton holiday in 1932 rang in the ears of Texas legislators today as they continued in special session. Adoption of a resolution demanding that the lawmakers pass a bill forbidding planting of cotton in Texas next year came amid cheers for Long and booes for Governor Ross Sterling of Texas at the conclusion of a stormy mass meeting which brought thousands of overailed farmers to Austin Wednesday night. Gathering in Woolridge park, the farmers roared their approval of the statement in a radio speech of Governor Long that the Texas legislators had within their power the presentation to Texas growers of $375,000,000. Sterling Heckled When Sterling rose to plead that growers “think for themselves,” to warn against the appeal of oratory, they drowned out his words with heckling. “If the lawmakers of Texas turn traitor to the trust imposed in them by the people and fail to prohibit cotton on Texas farms, the price of your crop will fall to two cents a pound next year,” Long predicted in his radio address, broadcast from Shreveport. The Long speech concluded, Governor Sterling took the platform. “When you take too much government into business,” he warned, “you’ll not be a free people very long.’ 1 The farmers answered him: “Hurray for Long. Hurrah for Huey.” Hoover “Spineless Cactus” As the cheers prevented the Texas executive continuing for several moments, Russell Long, 12-year-old son of the Louisiana Governor, smiled from his seat on the platform. He had represented his father, explaining that “papa couldn’t leave Louisiana because he was afraid Lieu-tenant-Governor Cyr might get into office and cause a mess.” Governor Sterling continued: “Long is right—like a fox. He is going at the wrong end of this thing. We should go to the fountain head—that spineless cactus at the head of the government in Washington. “Herbert Hoover and the Republican party have brought you here today.” FRENCH PRINCE IS DEAD 20-Year-old Nobleman Sucbumbs at His Mother’s Villa. By United Press PARIS, Sept. 10—Prince Louis Gaston D’Orleans et Bragance, 20, died Wednesday at his mother’s villa at Boulogne Sur Seine, near Paris. The prince was the son of Prince Louis D’Orleans et Bragance and a first cousin of the countess of Paris.

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WITHDRAW PLEA FOR MEMORIAL Northwest Civic League Acts to Curb Costs. Because of the necessity of curbing municipal expenses during the coming year, officials of the Northwest Civic League today announced withdrawal of their request for creation of Riley Memorial Gardens. The organization for some time has sought to have unsightly ground at Thirty-sixth street and Northwestern avenue filled in and a park built. Decision to push the request no further followed a meeting of the league at the Thirty-first Street Baptist church, H. H. Jones, president, said. “We are mindful of the fact that city departments must curb their expenses and refuse the purchase of additional grounds and property, as well as lower the cost of maintenance of the property now intrusted to them, to the minimum, if we are to have relief from taxes.” Copies of the resolution were sent to city department heads and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. E. NEW YQRK STREET PAVING IS ORDERED Works Board Adopts Resolution of City Plan Commission. Resolution of the city plan commission for paving East New York street from Highland avenue to Dickson street, was adopted by the works board Wednesday and plans and specifications ordered. This project leave only one section of East New York street, that extending from Highland avenue to Arsenal avenue, on which steps have not been started in connection with the plan of providing a wide thoroughfare from the business section to the east side. The section from Highland avenue to Dickson street, extending less than three blocks, will cut through Highland park to straighten a jog.

DRY SPEAKER GALLS REPEAL HOPE MREAM’ Prohibition Group Is Told 18th Amendment In to Stay. “Although wet interests secretly realize that the eighteenth amendment is in the Constitution to remain there forever, they are seeking by nullification to defeat its provisions.” This was the charge of Dr. Ira A. Landrith, chairman of the Christion Endeavor citizenship department, Wednesday at Cadle tabernacle. He was one of the speakers in the opening of a three-day campaign by the Allied Forces for Prohibition, which is conducting a na-tion-wide drive to rally the nation to the defense of prohibition. “The amendment is in the Constitution forever,” said Dr. Landrith, “and nobody who even thinks that he thinks believes it can be repealed. “Not Even Secret Hope” “It would take such a great majority to repeal it than no wet whose opinions deserve respect has even a secret hope of winning by orderly and legal processes. “Nullification, at first the secret wish of thugs and gunmen, later was whispered in the guarded councils of wet politicians, and now is advocated openly by a few unscrupulous newspapers and lawyers. Also it is favored by a host of men and women who think at secondhand ideas they find in print. “The program of our pro-alcoholic enemies is to seek repeal through violation. Their argument is ‘We can not be made to obey the law, so repeal it.”’ Sullivan Gives Welcome Grant M. Hudson, former Michigan congressman, and Robert C. Ropp, Boston, chairman of Allied Youth, were other speakers in the opening day program. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan gave a short address of welcome. Hudson urged strict enforcement of the eighteenth amendment and urged that booze interests be driven to cover by unfavorable publicity. Ropp appealed to young people to support dry workers. Speakers today will be Raymond Robins, social economist, and Miss Norma C. Brown, secretary of the Allied Forces of Prohibition. Meetings will be held at 2:30 and 8 at Cadle tabernacle.

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