Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1933 — Page 8

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‘SLEEP BEAUTY' FIRST STRICKEN JUST YEAR AGO Illinois Girl Drowsed Off for First Time on Elevated Train. BY SAM KNOTT I niled Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—One year ago Thursday pretty Patricia McGuire of Oak Park suffered the first symptoms of a strange illness that dragged her a few weeks later into a sound sleep from which she never has awakened. ‘Pat, - ’ the 27-year-old secretary, who has become known throughout the country as "Oak Park's Sleeping beauty,” fell asleep that night on an elevated train. At the end of the line the conductor awakened her. She walked back a few blocks to her suburban home. Several days later her mother. Mrs. Peter Miley, noticed that “Pat" seemed drowsy, and that one of her eyelids drooped. At the office where she worked, Miss McGuire seemed listless. Her employer was mystified, because she nad been a "model secretary.” Miss McGuire complained of "seeing double.” She thought something was wrong with her eyes Found Mysterious Organism She felt so ill on Feb. 12 she went home, but leturned the next day. On Feb. 15, as she was getting ready to attend church, she went sound asleep. Dr. Eugene F. Traut, family physician, treated her, diagnosing the illness as sleeping sickness. Two nurses were hired. The mother and a sister, Mrs. Gladys Hanson, remained with her night and day. Months passed. Miss McGuire still slept. Traut found a myster- j ious organism in her blood, and ! announced he had isolated the germ j of sleeping sickness. The discovery turned the spotlight of publicity on the case. Let- j ters began arriving at the Miley home. Hundreds were from persons suggesting odd cures. Spe- j cialists wrote suggesting that one thing or another be tried. Many of these “cures” actually were tried. None cured. Has Gained Weight Mrs. Miley has kept several large, baskets full of the letters for Pat to read “when she wakes up.” She also keeps notes of important world events, such as the Lindbergh kidnaping,. and the last election —things “Pat" hasn't heard about yet. "We live on hope,” she explained. Several times. Miss McGuire has shown faint signs of reviving. She seems to know when objects are passed before her face, sometimes opens her eyes and seems to stare at an object for several minutes. But she never actually awakens, never speaks, never recognizes any one. Before the illness Mias McGuire weighed 120 pounds. She has gained to about 150. * Her complexion became even lovelier than it had been. Her beauty became more striking. Dr. Traut attributes this to the perfect care and diet furnished by the mother and sister.

HELD FOR DEATH QUIZ Prisoner Will Face Grilling; on Story Told by Youth. Earl Mann. 26, of 634 Washington avenue, is held by police on a vagrancy charge today for questioning in connection with the death of Jan. 9 of Norman Wilson of the Washington avenue address, who died in city hospital of a skull fracture. Although it at first was believed Wilson succumbed to injuries received in an accidental fall against a stove, new evidence indicated Wilson participated in a fight in the home, detectives said. Max Williams. 15, half-brother of the arrested man, in a statement to detectives, said Mann' struck Wilson, causing the latter to fall and strike his head against a davenport. TAKES LIFE WITH GUN Interior Decorator, Despondent Over Illness, Is Victim. Ervin E. Case. 60, of 3735 Kinnear avenue, interior decorator, ended his life early today in his homp bv shooting himself in the head with a ,32-calber revolver. Despondency over illness was given a# the cause. Dr. E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner, investigated.. Unmarried. Case lived with a sister. Mrs. Minnie A. Coverdale. Other survivors are two brothers, living in Wisconsin and in California, and another sister, living in Indianapolis. DEMOCRATS TO REJOICE Victory Dinner Will Be Held in Claypool Tonight. Democrats of Indiana will stage a victory dinner in the Claypool tonight. Members of the Democratic state committee will be honor guests. Henry E. White. Johnson county Democratic chairman, will preside. Arrangements are in charge of James C. Penman, Clay county chairman. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported to police as stolen Ret’. Russell O West 3225 North Cimtol avenue. Ford sedan. 117-459. from in front of 3225 North Capitol avenue. . 1 m J WtnninghofT. Chicago. Ford sport coupe from Meridian and South streets. BACK HOME AGAIN Stolen automobiles as recovered bv police highway commission. Chrysler sedan found at Capitol avenue and * , Mav t Dlxon e *Marß Hill Ford sedan, found Stale avenue and Pleasant Run boule'®H and Sheets. North Salem Tnd . Chevrolet sedan found at State avenue and Raymend st Clothes Save Bov's Life Bu X nilrd Prrtt UNIONTOWN, Pa. Jan. 20.—A basket of clothing at the bottom of a clothes chute saved Sandy Sincock, two and a half, from serious injury when he made an impromptu two-story slide down the chute. He received a broken leg.

Back to B&rter — No. 5 LABOR FOR SCRIP PLAN FAILS City Finds Method Costly; lowa System Works Well

Thin i* th* fifth of xix tnrie on the rromth of the “Bark to Barter” movement. BY ROBERT TALLEY, NEA Service Writer STRANGELY enough, the most successful attempts to make the unemployed self-supporting by enabling them to barter their labor for scrip or goods seem to have been originated and operated by the jobless themselves. The biggest such attempt by a city has been abandoned. After a two-year trial, the city of Grand Rapids, Mich., which until recently boasted “A job for every man,” is giving up its system of "made” relief work on public improvements and is going back to the old system of direct relief to the needy. High costs of these public improvements, approximating $1,500,000 a year, explain the change. Early in the depression, the city of Grand Rapids decided that since the unemployed had to be supported anyhow, it would be better to put them to work on municipal projects and pay them in city scrip, redeemable in food and goods at city welfare department stores. The wage was fixed at 40 cents an hour. Workers were enrolled and assigned to projects. These included beautifying public parks, grading streets, rebuilding curbs and faulty pavements, installing water mains and sewers, painting bridges, refurnishing public buildings, and improving municipal golf courses. Much of this work otherwise would have been undertaken by the city. The system was decided upon by the city government because it was believed that it would give the taxpayers some return for their relief expenditures. nan AS the number on the relief rolls increased, however, it was found that the cost of the plan was mounting out of proportion, and that direct relief probably would cost much less. Accordingly, the city commission investigated the social service department activities and methods of reducing the $1,500,-000-a-year cost. The city’s policy of created relief work, they found, encouraged family heads to regard such employment as a permanent job with the city, rather than as a temporary relief measure. Moreover, they found that the scrip plan was costing Grand Rapids more than direct relief would cost, even with 7,000 families comprising some 35,000 persons on the rolls. When the new system is worked out, persons receiving free relief may be called upon to perform some work in exchange. When cash employment is available, it will be spread among those who have shown willingness to work. The municipal wage scale has been cut to 30 cents an hour, so as not. to attract men to municipal projects when otherwise they might seek outside employment. The department has divided Grand Rapids into twenty-six service districts and in each a woman visitor will maintain close contact with families on the relief rolls. Free food will be distributed from five commissaries in various parts of the city. a a A DIFFERENT sort of scrip plan that involves created public improvements is being employed in Hawarden, la., and in several other small towns in lowa and Nebraska. It was designed by Prcf. Irving Fisher, noted Yale economist. The plan works like this: Needy men are put to work on public improvements and paid with scrip money. To spend a scrip dollar, the holder first roust attach thereto a special 3-cent stamp, purchased from the city. Thus, by the time a scrip dollar has changed hands thirty-six times, the city has received SI.OB for the stamps on its back and can redeem it with a real American dollar (the extra 8 cents covering the expense of printing and handling). In effect, this is a 3 per cent sales tax on the consumer. But the money goes to aid the needy. Stores accept the scrip money. Professor Fisher, who recently made a trip to Hawarden to see how the plan was working, declared it to be “the most interesting experiment I know of for combating the depression. nan IN Evanston, 111., city officials and the Evanston Independent Retail Merchants’ Association are co-operating in issuance of a scrip known as “Eirma money," designed to stimulate retail trade and raise funds for the purchase of city tax anticipation warrants. Each “Eirma dollar' is backed by a real dollar in the bank. The 2-cent city stamp affixed to it each time a transaction is made is paid for by the merchant. He later receives city tax anticipation warrants for this stamp money. In Dayton, 0., hard-pressed city officials are considering a scrip plan with a 2-cent stamp. In the process of thirty-four transactions, one of these scrip

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Professor Irving Fisher, left, famed economist, designed a barter system for Hawarden, la. A sample of its scrip money is shown below. Evanston, 111., also has a scrip plan that operates as a virtual sales tax. At the right is an Evanston merchant’s employe registering a scrip purchase.

dollars thus would earn $1.02 in stamps, whereupon the original would be redeemed by the city for $1 in actual money. Whether these stamps would be paid for by the public or by the merchants is yet indefinite. Dayton’s city welfare department already is operating the Dayton Mutual Exchange, an agency of barter for the unemployed, which functions with a modified scrip that represents merely a receipt for goods or labor. Farmers turn in vegetables and

NORTH JUDSON BANK BANDIHONFESSES Refuses to Name Others in Quiz by Sheriff. By United Press NORTH JUDSON Ind., Jan. 20. —Trapped at Gary through an underworld tip, Mike Kish, 24, faced charges today of robbing the American State bank here, Jan. 17. Sheriff Fred Hinz of Starke county, who returned Kish here from Gary, said Kish confessed his part in the holdup. He received $650 as his share of the $4,300 loot. Kish told the sheriff he was driver of the car in which the bank robbers escaped and acted as lookout. He refused to name four other men who participated in the North Judscn holdup. Bank officers and employes who witnessed the robbery identified Kish. FIVE JOBLESS PERSONS TO GET SCHOLARSHIPS Tests Will Be Held Jan. 30 by Indiana U. Extension Division. Five unemployed persons will be awarded part-time scholarships in Indiana university extension division, it was announced Thursday. Winners of the scholarships may enter any of the ninety courses given in the afternoon and evening during the second semester, which opens Feb. 6. Any high school graduate living in or near Indianapolis who is not employed gainfully more than four hours a day, and who has not attended any university or college, is eligible. The scholarships will be awarded following tests Jan. 30. in the extension division offices, 122 East Michigan street.

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other produce, get clothing or other goods manufactured by the unemployed in return. nan CHARLES F. KETTERING, vice-president of General Motors and prominent Daytonian, is a trustee of this exchange. It shoiiid not be confused with another Dayton group that is operating a system of “production units” for + he jobless under a plan devised by Ralph Bcrsodi, liberal New York economist, which employs no scrip or money and in which the proceeds of mutual la-

Lies Win Prize Truth Detector’s Inventor Gets Medal for Best Civic Work. By United Press /CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—Leonarde Keeler, 29, inventor of the “lie detector,” was chosen Thursday by the Chicago Junior Association cf Commerce as the young man who made the most outstanding civic contribution to Chicago in 1932. Men between 21 and 35 are eligible for the award. Keeler, staff member of the scientific crime detection laboratory affiliated with Northwestern university, aided in solution of eighty-seven criminal cases in this territory during the year. His investigations covered offenses from petty larceny to murder. Keeler invented the polygraph, or “lie detector,” in 1927 when a student at Leland Stanford university. During the last year he has perfected a “cardio-tachometer,” an instrument for recording pulse frequencies, that is expected to prove useful in crime solution. He will be given a medal tonight.

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bor are divided among the members solely on a basis of need. The little lumber town of Tenino, Wash., quit the scrip system recently with a handsome profit. When the town’s only bank closed some time ago, Tenino’s Chamber of Commerce issued $6,500 in scrip on thin sheets of wood. This “wooden money” made such a hit with curio collectors that when Tenino gave up the system recently only S3O of the scrip was presented for redemption. NEXT: How business and banking view the rise of barter and scrip.

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parlor operator, was found guilty on charges of first degree murder late Thusday by a jury in Floyd circuit court. The jury recommended life imprisonment. Courtney was accused of shooting Elmer Bossier, his brother-in-law, during a quarrel over domestic affairs last August. His was the first conviction on a murder charge in Fountain county in the last eighteen years.

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Town Has No Police Force ! WEIRTON. W. Va„ Jan. 20. Weirton, said to be the largest unincorporated town in the United i States, is without a police force now. The population is 14.000. SMOKING, Soothes the ) throat. Fresh- \ n^OH ens the mouth (I OVERCOMES BAD BREATH