Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1933 — Page 11

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NEW DEAL FOR KNOXVILLE IN POWER COSTS Southern City Votes for Municipal Light Plant. K. W. H. RATE 2 CENTS Charge to Average Local Domestic User at Least 5 Cents. By Srripp*-H award \V wspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—The Muscle Shoals power experiment has won its most important test in the largest city in the Tennessee valley basin. Knoxville within a few months will receive cheap government-gen-erated power over the lines of the j Tennesee Valley Authority, and domestic, commercial and industrial j consumers there will receive the j concrete benefits of this vital phase | of the new deal. The city Saturday, by a 2-to-l vote, approved a $3,225,000 bond issue, the proceeds of which will be used to erect a municipal power distribution system. This is regarded here as the actual start toward that “electrified America” that, is the goal of the Roosevelt administration, and TVA which the President helped create. May Pay Even Loss The city will receive power over a line being constructed from Muscle Shoals, on the Tennessee river in Alabama, up to Norris dam in east Tennessee. It will nay on an average of 7 mills a kilowatt hour for power and distribute this to average domestic consumers at a rate of about 2 cents. This charge is considerably lower than is usual in cities of like size. In Indianapolis, for example, a much larger place, domestic consumers pay rates ranging from 6'4 to 4 , i> cents a kilowatt hour. The TVA's contract will provide, among other things, that as production, transmission and distribution costs come down, consumers will pay less; and of equal importance will be the provision for scaling rates down and up as living costs fluctuate. This city, of more than 110,000 population, will see the new deal's power yardstick applied to it in the provisions of its TVA contract which will call for uniform accounting, and the allocation of various sums for operation, retirement of the j bond issue, reduction in rates, re- I serves, etc. j Big Issue at Stake Knoxville proposes to put up the j bonds just voted with the federal j public works administration for a j loan and perhaps a grant: and since j the White House and Public Works Administrator Harold C. Ickes re- i gard these loans as on the “pre- | ferred list.” quick action on the application is expected. The Knoxville vote was of national importance not only because such j figures as Senator Norris <Rep„ j Neb.* and Senator Bone 'Dem., Wash.) took part in the fight, but also because the whole question of ! the co-operation of Tennessee val- | ley cities with TVA was at stake, j Earlier, Birmingham, Ala., voted j down municipal ownership. But j while this marked a setback to the Roosevelt power program, the fact that Birmingham is not within the Tennessee valley area made that j defeat less critical. TVA has contracted to deliver power to Tupelo, j Miss., and the public works admin- I istration had made loans to Sheffield | and Tuscombia, Ala., to enable them to erect distribution systems and j buy Muscle Shoals power. SCREAMS OF GIRL. 12. FOIL ATTACK ATTEMPT Shabbily Dressd Young Man Is Sought by Police. Screams of a 12-year-old girl prevented an attempted assault last night and today police were searching for a shabbily dressed man, 23 years of age, who is believed to have perpetrated the alleged outrage. The girl was delivering newspapers at Merrill and Alabama streets when a man approached her and asked her to leave a paper on a porch in the neighborhood The residence was vacant. When the girl started to put the paper on the porch, the man seized her. The girl screamed. The man fled. DR. KISTLER RESIGNS AS PASTOR TO WRITE Fairview Presbyterians Select Group to Pick Successor. Resignation o' Dr Edward Haines Kistler as pastor of the Fairview Presbyterian church was accepted at a meeting of members of the church. The resignation was tendered by Dr. Kistler. who presided at the meeting, in order that he may devote all his time to literary work. The resignation will become effective Dec. 31. Dr Kistler has served the church since its organization Jan. 1. 1924 The group named a committee to select anew pastor. TWO HELD IN ATTACK City Man Struck on Head With Cue at Pool Room. Two men were held under vagrancy charges today as result of head injury sustained' by Willis Doss. 30. of 407 East Ohio street, when he was struck on the head with a billiard cue in a pool room at 24hi South Illinois street last night. Thoa arrested were Robert Roberts, 80d North Delaware street, and Fred J. Backenstoe. 32, of 132 North New Jersey street. Doss was sent to city hospital and ordered held on intoxication charges.

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Alcohol Is Energy Food, but Fails as Substantial Body Builder

Whisky manufacture, booming as never before with repeal to be a fact after Dec. 5, is an intricate and scientific process, requiring years of experience of those employed in the distilling business. The progressive steps taken in its manufacture are shown here, in pictures made in the famous Schenley distilleries of Pennsylvania. Above, you see (1) grain being ground before

This is the first of two articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on the effects of alcohol on the human body, the results of moderate and excessive drinking, how alcohol mav boos benefit to the drinker and how it may prove deadly. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of .he American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. Repeal is an accomplished fact, after thirteen years of prohibition, and from every direction come questions about the effects of alcohol on the human body. In answering these queries, of course, two types of effects must be taken into consideration—the effect of moderate drinking and the effect of excessive drinking. Alcohol, in not too large doses, is oxidized in the human body, and thereby furnishes energy which helps to keep the body warm. It replaces other nutritional substances in the diet. It helps in the performance of muscular work. If alcohol is taken into the body

Stratosphere Explorers Relate Flight Thrills

Unusual scenes at Backneck, N. J., as Lieutenant-Commander T. G. W. Settle, U. S. N., and Major Chester L. Fordnev, U. S. M. C„ tell of their epochal flight into the stratosphere, are to be seen in the current issue of The Times-Universal Newsreel. Graham McNamee, noted radio announcer and the screen's Talking Reporter, describes this and the other events in the reel. Attaining a height of 59.000 feet, less than a mile lower than the world's record set recently by Russian scientists. Settle and Fordney landed in a bog where they were stranded during the night while hundreds of police and farmers searched for them. Both officers describe the stratosphere in an interview. made soon after they landed. Other important events included in the current issue are scenes in Havana, Cuba, as President Grau San Martin inspects the armament

Municipally-Owned Light Plant Is Salvation of State City

By United Press . XTTASHINGTON. Ind., Nov. 28. ' " —A municipally-owned electric plant is carrying the major portion of this city's fight against depression. And. although unemployment hasn't been erased, the utility is aiding residents make great progress toward normalcy. Primarily, the revenue from the electric plant, rates of which are among the lowest in the state, has permitted reduction of the city tax rate frpm 51.12 on SIOO property valuation to 11 cents, in three years. In addition, surplus funds of the utility have been used to provide suitable buildings for two local j

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going into the mash tub. f2) carefully weighed and (3) inspected, after which it is put into the mash tub cooker (4). There it is cooked (5). Fermentation completed, the cooked mash is piped (6) on its way to the still (7) shown to the right of the workman who is reading the gauge showing alcoholic proof. A copper (8) and girl attendants at the bottling machines (9) prepare the containers that take it on its way to the consumer.

in addition to the usual diet, it adds an excess of calories which has to be burned up or else the body will put on weight. The eminent authority, Francis S. Benedict, points out that seventy-two grams of alcohol, equivalent to about two and onehalf ounces, provides 500 calories of energy to the human body. ** When it is realized that the average intake of calories necessary to life and growth for most human beings is about 2,500 to 3,000 calories a day, the effects of alcohol are estimated easily. Alcohol is burned up more completely in the body than any other substance, except pure sugar. Os course, some alcohol taken into the body escapes through the breath. Moreover, the effect of the alcohol is to cause dilatation of the superficial blood vessels, with a feeling of warmth, and it is possi-

on the roof of the presidential palace to thwart any new uprising against his government, while crowds, unmindful of the crisis, flock to see the opening of the racing season in Tropical park, in another part of the city, tense views of Austrian troops going through wartime maneuvers at Salzburg, Austria, only a short distance away from the border where Nazi troops stand guard; unusual views in Sidney, Australia, in one of the world’s most modern kindergartens; views at Brussels, Belgium, where anew heliocopter is tested; hectic scenes at Aberdeen, Scotland, as opposing collegiate factions clash in a flour battle; scenes at Kansas City, Mo., during a cattle show; exclusive pictures of model airplanes with real gasoline engines being used in novel safety tests at Newark, N. J„ and exclusive pictures at Hidalgo. Tex., where a huge international bridge collapsed.

factories, as pay rolls for unemployed relief in construction of a sanitary and storm sewer, and repair of city streets. Enthused over the successful operation of the electric plant, the city has purchased its own waterworks and street railway system. All surplus water revenue is being used to pay for the $600,000 plant bought last year. After the debt is retired, in about ten or fifteen years, the surplus revenue from the two utilities is expected to operate the city’s government without a tax levy The street railway system makes no profit, but is operated as a necessary convenience for residents.

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ble that some of the energy taken is dissipated in this manner. THEREFORE, alcohol must be considered as a food for the human body. There are, however, certain functions of food that it can not replace. It does not provide any essential substances, such as the proteins, necessary for tissue repair and body growth; neither does it supply the necessary mineral salts and vitamins needed for the human body. It is purely a substance for providing energy. It is also a drug, with certain definite actions and results. The chief value of alcoholic drinks in small amounts is to make people feel better. Alcohol is a dring which people used to take to drown their troubles. It gives a feeling of well being. Hence, it is used particularly by the aged, who sometimes feel depressed, and it is of special value in certain diseases in which there is a feeling of depression difficult for the patient to overcome. The excessive use of alcohol can not be defended successfully by any one. Used in excess, it produces serious damage to the human body in the way of changes in the tissues. It destroys co-ordination. It renders the user susceptible 10 accident and exposure to the elements, resulting in disease. Everyone can remember when hospitals were thronged with* cases of pneumonia, representing drunkards thrown out of saloons who had lain in the gutter and from exposure had developed the disease. There is plenty of evidence that alcohol taken in excess actually injures the germ plasm; the children of chronic alcoholics are notoriously likely to be both physically and mentally defective. A person who has taken alcohol excessively loses command of his own judgment, his inhibitions disappear, and he is altogether a menace to society. NEXT—Moderate use of alcohol is not harmful. Europeans and Americans differ greatly in ways of drinking. Drinks help to make eating a pleasure.

Much of the success of the light plant's operation is attributed by citizens directly to John W. McCarty, mayor for twenty-one years. a a a THE mayor is a Democrat, as are the council members and most of the city employes, but "successful and economical operation of the utility is proof that graft and political plundering has not taken place,” citizens proclaim. The electric plant was bought by the city in 1900 at a nominal cost. Since then improvements have been made and it now has an investment value of $600,000. Citizens would not part with it for $1,000,000. The two factories held here

It's Smart to Be Legal

OAKER URGES LIBERALITY IN BEER,WINES Rigid Administration Needed for Hard Liquor, He Adds. BEHAVIOR IS VOLUNTARY Plea Is Voiced to Restore People's Sympathv in Law and Order. BY NEWTON D. BAKER Written for The Times CLEVELAND, Nov. 28.—The human..race has struggled throughout recorded history with the problem of police regulation of private behavior. The pendulum swings from unefforceable severity to unendurable laxity. We have just emerged from an experiment with indiscriminate prohibition, ana found that the resentment it created threatened to destroy the whole respect for law upon which orderly society must rest. Ninety-nine per cent of the good behavior of the world is voluntary. The police forces are busy trying to enforce the other 1 per cent. When the spirit which enforces the other 99 per cent is weakened, the additional burden thrown on the police power breaks its back and every sort of evil grows out of it. This is the explanation of the bootlegger, the racketeer and the general lawlessness from which we have suffered. The problem of liquor legislation, therefore, is to restore the 99 per cent of voluntary law observance. That can best be done by making it legal to satisfy the reasonable wishes of the 99 per cent and securing their sympathy with the police power in its task of enforcing sound social behavior in the 1 per cent area. The recommendations of the Rockefeller Foundation are based on the principles I have stated. Manifestly, beer and light wines must be disassociated from hard liquor both as being classified as intoxicants and also with the method of administering their regulation. Great liberality with regard to beer and light wines and rigid nonpolitical and incorruptible administration of the dispensing of hard liquor seems to be the best form for legislation to take. With that as a basis, education in temperance is possible and in the long view education must supply the answer by gradually transferring more and more conduct to the area of voluntary compliance.

LIQUOR ADVERTISING APPROVED BY LUTZ State Papers May Accept Ads at Once. Liquor advertisements may be accepted by Indiana newspapers at once, providing delivery of the products is set after actual repeal of the eighteenth amendment, it was declared today by Philip Lutz, at-torney-general, in an unofficial opinion given to the Terre Haute Publishing Company. He said the actual nation-wide legalization of liquor would enable state newspapers to take advertisements for brandies, whiskies, gins, cognacs and other spirits. GYMNASTIC COLLEGE WILL HOLD REUNION Three-Day Homecoming Celebration To Open Thursdy. Annual homecoming of the Normal college of the American Gymnastic Union will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Athenaeum. Classes from 1893 to the present will hold their reunions Thursday with open house at the girls’ dormitory and the fraternity house. Friday morning instructors will hold a session with an alumni luncheon at noon, instructors’ sessions and basketball game in the afternoon. At night a getacquainted dance will be held. On Saturday, demonstrations of class work will be given. 300 FEE CASES FILED City Prepares to Collect on Licenses for Sign Owners. Three hundred affidavits have been drawn by the city attorney’s office at the direction of William E. Hurd, building commissioner, to serve on sign owners of the city who have failed to pay license fees on signs on buildings and framework. The licenses must be paid by Dec. 4to prevent legal action. The licenses range in cost from $1 to $25.

j through funds of the plant are the Reliance Manufacturing ComI pany and the Cor-Cor Toy Comj pany. Between them they employ ] nearly eight hundred persons, al- | most 10 per cent of the city’s nine j thousand population. Nearly two years ago the Re- ; liance company prepared to move from the city-because a suitable factory building was not available. Under a proposal by Mayor McCarty a mutual building corporation was formed. Surplus funds of the light plant were used to buy $20,000 in stock, and employes, citizens and the company subscribed to enough for construction of a j $92,000 factory building. ‘ At that time the firm employed

M'NUTT CUTS HIMSELF SOME CHEESE

Governor paul v. m nutt is just about to cut himself a piece of cheese at the behest of | the National Cheese Institute ! which* is sponsoring National i Cheese week, Dec. 11 to 16. The huge hunk of coagulated ! milk weighs 150 pounds, is a yard wide and a foot high. It will be | donated to the city soup kitchen | after the Governor gets his. Indiana has become the fifth | state in the United States in raisj ing of dairy products. It has come from thirteenth in the last few years. States ranking ahead of Indiana are Wisconsin. Illinois, lowa and Minnesota. v

Governor paul v. m’nutt .jjgpf is just about to cut himself '<HSI a piece of cheese at the behest of f* the National Cheese Institute ' which- is sponsoring National f % ’fjpt Cheese week. Dec. 11 to 16. [ The huge hunk of coagulated * milk weighs 150 pounds, is a yard ¥ \ wide and a foot high. It will be jjiMjgKr donated to the city soup kitchen jsIS after the Governor acts tis jgjfj Indiana has become tl e fifth 4v‘ v state in th United States m rais- •••":. ing of dairy products. It has 4 JPrxffi com? from thirteenth in the last few years. States ranking ahead of In.diana ar- Wiserir.'.m l \ -■ A and Minnesota.^

Too Much Spring Talk Helped Stop Notre Dame The Sensations Who Never Gained a Yard Didn’t Know What They Were Walking Into.

BY DICK MILLER Times Staff Writer Soon after the opening of spring 1 football practice at Notre Dame this year, word began to emanate from the Irish stronghold that another j great team, possibly another national j champion, was in the making. A second set of “four horsemen” I was to be sprung on the horizon in | the autumn. Because it is well known that large schools who abide by the fresh- * men rule, really mold their grid teams in spring and merely brush j up on team play and conditioning j in fall, announcements from South j Bend were both interesting and convincing. Football at Notre Dame, as at sev- ! eral other large schools, is a milliondollar business. Advertising in con- \ nection with such a business hardly j can be termed ridiculous. Any news from Notre Dame was j good news and word of a winner I meant heavy ticket purchases. Showman Built It Up Football has proved a benefactor ; not only to Notre Dame, where it has produced the revenue for anew j stadium paid for, fieldhouse and j campus building which probably | never would exist otherwise, but it; has done likewise for the schools ! which have scheduled the Ramblers. The late Knute Rockne proved j himself a great showman. His teams j carried out the act and to have I Notre Dame on their schedules j meant much in the way of revenue to any school. Naturally, when the Irish got j away to & poor start this fall, the I ticket demand dropped off and much of the criticism leveled at the up- j state team and coaches came indi- j rectly from the opposition camps. | Likewise, the gamblers who long j ago adopted the policy of getting on j the Irish bandwagon and riding it j through for financal gains were j quick to turn the poison gas on the j coaches. Too Much Talk In spite of the fact that most of the fine players of 1932 had graduated, an unusual amount of sum-mer-time interest was manifested in this so-called second edition of the four horsemen. The midwest knew of Big Don Elser, the Gary boy, who had been one of the greatest prep players in Indiana history. Chicago folk talked about Andy Pilney, who had been one of the Windy City’s greatest ball carriers. Mike Layden was a brother of Elmer, of original four-horse fame, and Tony Mazziotti, hailing from the same part of New York as the great Frank Carideo, easily could be pictured as a great player. A summer-time illness removed ; big George Melinkovich from the ■ squad and big Dick Pfefferle of Wisconsin found it impossible to return, but these happenings were overlooked, as were other withdrawals. There’s Always a “But” In looking over the 1933 squad, ! as “Hunk” Anderson assembled it this fall, one could see opportunities to write much pessimistic copy, and that would have been just what other schools or Knute Rockne would have done. It has been charged that the wave of publicity sent out about the sophomores who had yet to gain a single yard for the varsity got under the skin of the veteran members of the squad, and that isn't hard to imagine. Yet persons close to the situation declare that splendid feeling exists on the squad. Still, no captain was elected for the 1933 season. Coaches and scouts for opposition i

250 persons. Now 640 persons work there. non TN addition to the pay roll to local citizens, the city receives SB,OOO a year from electricity and water used by the factory and $1,200 annually as interest on its stock investment. Financial difficulties threatened to close the toy factory. A $7,500 loan from the city enabled reorganization and now 150 persons are employed there. The tax reductions were made possible by using $40,000 annually from the light plant revenue for , operation of the city government, i This year, $90,000 was transferred

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elevens were quick to realize that the major ball-toting assignments would fall on the shoulders of the much talked of sophomores and they were able to plan defenses for them, instead of learning about them from surprise touchdowns. Notre Dame has had sophomore sensations before, just as lowa had Crayne and Southern California Warburton, but they had proved it in varsity competition. * Take Terrible Beatings Notre Dame's sensations took terrible physical beatings from every opponent, listened to jibes, and were inspired to the point of trying too hard. Anderson had only two tried veterans, Krause, a tackle, and De-1 vore, an end, as a nucleus for his 1933 forward wall and Krause was at midseason before he looked like himself. When Mazziotti injured his knee in the early season that injury un- j doubtedly carried with it a ruinous | effect because it is in the early | games that an eleven develops team play, precision, and confidence. And Notre dame was sorely lacking in | good quarter backs this fall. As it is, the Irish in their game against Southern California, last Saturday looked woefully weak on blocking, forward pass defense, and on timing of their plays and shifts. They hardly resembled a Notre Dame team. With errors and weaknesses cropping out everywhere the talk has shifted to the coaching staff and a j popular question now is: “Did Anderson hire all his assist- j ants and is he in complete charge?” The answer, so far as we can learn, j is “yes” to both. A Mistake by “Hunk” The opinion is that Anderson’s best bet would have been to hire as veteran backfield coach a technician of long experience—one who had been a blocker and who could develop the timing and precision for the characteristic Notre Dame ■ touchdown plays. Too, there is raised the question of which psychology Rockne used on his players before the game and I between the halves. That he used ! plenty of it is well known. In fact, j he was in a class by himself and no ! one can expect Anderson or any one else to be his equal. However, some alumni charge that Anderson uses little, if any of it and that ideal situations Rockne would have capitalized on pass unnoticed by “Hunk.” Anderson is an entirely different individual from every angle and his successes or failures came from different methods, except that his football training came under Rockne. Since football is a business at any big school it is reasonable to assume the Notre Dame administrators will meet the problem the same way as j would an auto manufacturer who places anew model on the road only ! to find that it lacks speed, durability and performance. The manufacturer checks up to find if it is the fault of the general manager, the engineer and assistants, or all of them. The same ap- j plies to football and the answers will be the same. N*;xt: A change is due. Psychologist to Speak A series of six metaphysical lectures stressing the fundamentals of health and life enrichment as they are affected by psychological factors will be delivered by Edward C. Pottsmith, Dayton, at 2 and 8, today, tomorrow and Thursday, in the Severin. The talks will be free to the public.

from the light plant to the general fund. Since 1931 more than $45,000 has been spent to augment federal loans in the emergency sewer construction and street repairs—a part of the unemployment relief program. Despite the depression revenue from the plant has continued to increase. Profit last year was 5121.000. Asa result city officials have se- . cured permission to reduce elec- : tricity rates by approximately $20,000 annually next year. J. P. Adkins, plant supermtenden, believes total revenue will be ; held up to its present point i through increased consumption.

‘NEW SPIRIT’ IS POINTED TO BY ROOSEVELT •Dark Days’ Passing, He Says in Thanksgiving Proclamation. •GIVE HUMBLE THANKS' Document of President Is Free From Usual •Whereases.’ In answer to manv requests received by The Times, the Tbanksirivine proclamation of President Koosevelt is today reprinted. By United Preps WARM SPRINGS. Ga.. Nov. 28. In' a proclamation expressing his gratefulness for "the passing of the dark days,” President Roosevelt has called on the nation to observe Thanksgiving Thursday. The document, free of the usual “whereases” and "be it resolved,” cites the courage of the pioneers of the land, points to anew spirit of dependence on one another, friendship between capital and labor and “for a clearer knowledge by all nations that we seek no conquests.” The proclamation read: “I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America. do set aside and appoint Thursday, 'the thirtieth day of November, 1933. to be a day of thanksgiving for all our people. “May we, on this day, in our churches and in our homes, give humble thanks for the blessings bestowed upon us during the year past by Almighty God. “May we recall the courage of those who settled a wilderness, the vision of those who founded the nation, the steadfastness of those who in every succeeding generation, have fought to keep pure the ideal of equality of opportunity, and hold clear the goal of mutual help in time of prosperity as in time of adversity. “May we ask guidance in more surely learning the ancient truth that greed and selfishness and striving for undue riches can never bring lasting happiness or good to the individual or to his neighbors. “May we be grateful for the passing of dark days; for the new spirit of dependence one on another; for the closer unity of all parts of our wide land; for the greater friendship between employers and those who toil; for the clearer knowledge by all nations that we seek no conquests and ask only honorable enI gagements by all peoples to respect | the lands and rights of their neighjbors; for the brighter day to which ! we can win through by seeking the | help of God in a more unselfish striving for the common bettering of mankind. “In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.” APARTMENT OWNERS TO HEAR MAYOR SULLIVAN Problems of City Government Will Be Subject. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will discuss problems of the city administration in a talk before the Apartment Owners’ Association at a luncheon in the Washington tomorrow. Members of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board and civic groups have been invited to attend by William P. Snethen, executive secretary. Report will be made at the meeting by a committee named two weeks ago by President H. H. Woodsmall to study the slum clearance program. T. D. McGee is chairman. TWO GARY_ MEN HELD Motorists Tell Police of Tampering With Parked Autos. Charles D. Mclntire, 20. and Ralph Thompson, 25, both of Gary, are held today by police on vagrancy charges after their arrest last night near Thirty-eighth and Illinois streets. The two, according to Cary MeMillen, 30, of 245 West Thirtyeighth street, were molesting his car which had been parked on Illinois street. WORKS PROGRAM ENDS Action of Huntington City Council Makes Forty Man Idle. By Times Special HUNTINGTON, Nov. 28, —Lack ol funds for materials has resulted in city council ordering work stopped on three street resurfacing projects under civil works program. The order will result in forty men being cut off the pari roll with little hopes of being re-employed in other work as quotas for other improvement projects have been filled. ARMY VETERAN RETIRES Regimental Review at Ft. Harrison Honors Sergeant John Brennan. First Sergeant John F. Brennan, sendee company, Eleventh infantry, who is retiring from active service, was honored with a review of the regiment yesterday at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Colonel Oliver P Robinson, commandant, took the review with Sergeant Brennan. DEATH FOLLOWS FALL South Side Man Suffered Injured Head in Stairs Accident. Ralph Banks, 42, of 642 South Meridian street died at city hospital today of head injuries sustained early today when he fell downstairs at his home. Police, who investigated, reported that Mr.. Banks had been drinking.