Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1934 Edition 02 — Page 2

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—Conservation— FILTHY WATER FORMS MENACE TO SWIMMERS Virulent Bacillus Abounds in Indiana Streams as Pollution Result. BY WILLIAM F. COLLINS Times Special Writer We are facing the greatest drought in the history of the country. The streams of the middle west are at the lowest ebb in years. Torrid temperatures extend from coast to coast. Thousands flock to the old swimming holes. That part of the population of the country that is blessed with swimming holes free from sewage pollution will be thrice blessed this fall when they find themselves free from sinus infection. I have developed a theory that remains to be indorsed by the medical fraternity that we are in the sinus belt because we are in the pollution belt. The flat lands of the middle west with their sluggish streams grossly polluted by every municipality, form a breeding ground for that virulent bacillus sterptococcus aureus that starts the formation of boils, pus infected wounds and even general septicaemia. When the Lord created the human being, He made a land dwelling animal out of the material on hand. The nasal, aural, and vocal openings were left wide open.

Water Enters Passages On creatures that inhabited the waters of the earth, he placed quick closing valves preventing the ingress of water when the creature dived into its native element. Because of that deficiency in the human being, it is not possible even with the most experienced swimmer to keep water out of the nasal passages. When that water is infested with any of the forty odd variety of pathogenic or disease-producing bacteria that thrive in midwestern streams during the summer, merely a drop of it retained on the nasal mucus membrane for thirty minutes plants a marvelous growth of pus formers that can develop into almost anything, depending on the general physical condition of the host. When bacteria are bred for scientific investigation in the laboratories, a watery solution of blood or blood serum mixed with agar jelly to stiffen it is sterilized then inoculated with the bacillus and incubated for a short period at a temperature approaching the human body heat. The terrific ability of pathogenic bacteria to multiply by division soon clouds the entire solution. Refuse Pours Into River Today, I visited one of the large packing plants within the city limits. Out of the slaughtering pens a stream of water two feet wide and three inches deep was running directly into White river. The water was red with the blood and serums of killed animals, a perfect combination for the propagation of dis-ease-producing germs. Enough of this culture medium is pouring into White river daily to make that stream a deadly menace to human life for miles down. With the advent of breweries and distilleries in Indiana, we are confronted with another potent source of stream pollution. The state health department, after a survey of the Wabash river below Terre Haute, discovered that the two new distilleries established in that town have increased the pollution of the Wabash to the same extent as if the city had added to its population 3,800.000 souls. The pollution of a stream can be as readily accomplished by spent beer or whisky mash as by municipal sewage. Both are fertile foods upon which disease-producing bacteria thrive. Menace in Swimming We will not have an end to this most disgraceful of all outdoor desecrations until the people of Indiana awaken from their coma of indifference and demand that the industries. the cities and the state join •hands in cleaning our filth-laden streams. We must bear in mind constantly that the art of swimming in Indiana is a very dangerous pastime. Indulging in it. as I have discovered to my own personal sorrow, may mean forfeiting one’s health for an extended period. Os all the forms of sport we are interested in during the summer months this particular one of swimming in disease-bearing waters will prove the most costly to you and to your family not only in terms of health but in terms of dollars. Dollars spent for doctor and hospital bills, for time out from your daily task and possibly for an extended vacation from the state in a section where there are no streams to be polluted, that country where our doctor advises us to go to recover from a septic sinus, the southwest.

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As jolly as the jolliest tars in Uncle Sam's navy were President Roosevelt and the two other ‘‘big guns” of the great review of the fleet in New York harbor when this striking photo was taken abroad the Indianapolis during maneuvers. Pictured with the President (center), who himself was assistant secretary of the navy, are Claude Swanson ileft), present secretary of the navy, and Josephus Daniels (right), former secretary of navy and now ambassador to Mexico.

STOCK MARKET BILL IS PASSED Control Measure Aproved, Awaits Signature of Roosevelt. By United Press WASHINGTON. June 2. —The battle of the stock market control bill, expected to go down in legislative history as one of the stiffest of recent years, was over today but for the President's signature on the act. The measure, a keystone in President Roosevelt’s arch of new deal legislation, finally was approved by both house and senate yesterday with only a few final words of discussion. The chief executive will find the bill on his desk when he returns to Washington Monday. Taking effect July 1, it brings for the first time the nation’s securities exchanges under strict federal control. It represents the administration’s strongest effort to protect investors against wild speculation and sharp practices. A companion bill, the securities act, was passed last year and certain modifications of it are included in the new law. Hope of the framers of the act is that it will end for all time such orgies of speculation which led to the debacle of 1929. No other measure initiated under President Roosevelt's regime has been the subject of so much controversy. The act has been revised again and again to meet objections. The central fight occurred over administration of the act and the requirements for trading on margin. In final form the bill sets up anew federal agency, a commission of five members to handle the new law. Margins are required to be at least 45 per cent cash, but may be changed at the order of the commission. Brokers’ loans are to be controlled by the federal reserve board.

SUFFOCATING HENS RESCUED BY POLICE Officers Arrest Owner of Suffering Fowls. In a tightly slut attic where the mercury stood above 100 degrees, police last night found nearly one hundred chickens suffering in the intense heat. Standing guard over the suffocating roost, Earl Adams, 46, of 1537 1 2 Madison avenue, belligerently attempted to thwart police officers in their efforts to relieve the fowls. On the floor, panting for breath, lay several chickens too weak to rise. As policemen aided the chickens on the perch by pouring water on their beaks, health officers discovered that many of the prostrate chickens were too weak to drink. Sergeant Kruse ordered Adams arrested on charges of cruelty to animals, violation of the housing laws, violation of the liquor law and resisting an officer. On a lower floor of the Madison avenue house the raiding party discovered Mrs. Adams lying critically ill in her room. Paralyzed below the waist, she is a helpless invalid. A woman roomer promised to care for her while Adams is under arrest. CORD REFUSES^WORD ON KIDNAPING THREAT U. S. Industrialist in Seclusion on English Estate. By United Presx LONDON, June 2.—E. L. Cord, American motor and airplane industrialist, continued today to refuse to discuss reports that he was taking refuge in England with his family because of kidnap threats made at his California home. Friends said, however, he was considering hiring a guard for his country home to prevent invasion of intruders. The gates now are open and any one can enter unchallenged. AS the result of publication of news of the kidnaping threats, more than 200 begging letters arrived at his home in fourteen hours yesterday. One was from a football club, seeking a subscription; another from a woman whose husband is in jail. Sportsmen to Hold Picnic Annual picnic of members of the Marion County Fish and Game Association and their families will be held tomorrow at the Riverside fish hatchery. Bait casting and fly casting tournaments have been arranged.

THREE ‘BIG GUNS’ ENJOY THEMSELVES IN REVIEW OF FLEET

Education Chiefs to Address 4-H Members

Training Conference Will Be Held at Scout Camp Next Week. Educational leaders will address members of the 4-H Club at the third 4-H Club junior leaders’ training conference to be held at the Marion county Boy Scout camp next Monday to Friday, inclusive. Dr. Z. M. Smith, state 4-H Club leader, and Walter I. Fegan, governor of the Indiana district, Kiwanis

LAW STUDENTS AWAITDEGREES Commencement Exercises to Be Held Monday at Columbia Club. Forty-three members of the senior class of the Benjamin Harrison law school will hold commencement exercises Monday night in the ballroom of the Columbia Club. Frederick K. Landis, Logansport editor, will be the commencement speaker. A dinner at 6 will open the exercises. William R. Forney, acting dean, will preside and confer the degrees. A dance will follow the exercises. Joseph M. Howard is class president. Members of the class --are: Norbert H. Basey, Robert E. Browm, John M. Burke, Raymond Cook, Charles D. Corwin, Lewis D. Dellinger, Frederick A. Doebber, La Verne K. Feichter, William R. Fogarty, Harold C. Gray, Arthur H. Group, Harold C. Hansen, Cale James Holder, Joseph M. Howard, H. Gregory Hurst, Frederick G. Jeffrey, Harold K. Jones, John M. Kelley, Madge W. Kretsch. Ernest E. Laughlin, Eugene F. Ley. Charles W. Long. John W. Lyons, Elmer E. MacGrogan, John J. McVey, Richard B. Maxwell, William McFeely, George M. Ober, William G. O'Nan, Marylou C. Patterson, David Probstein, Bernard W. Schotters, Frank Z. Sims, Marion E. Slocum, Alden J. Smith, Paul R. Smith, Richard G. Stew'art, Walter E. Vasbinder, Joseph C. Wallace, Hollis P Warner, Judson H. West, Glenn T. Williams, and William F. Woods.

FOUR SEEK POST ON BUTLER PUBLICATION Student Council to Name Business Manager for Drift. Four members of the sophomore class at Butler university have announced their candidacy for the position of business manager of the 1935 Drift, junior class annual which will be published next June. They are Kenneth Harlan, nonfraternity man; Bertram Behrmann, Butler independent association; Harry McClelland, Sigma Chi, and Fred Ryker, Phi Delta Theta. Selection will be made by the student council Monday night in Arthur Jordan memorial hall at the final meeting of the year. Installation of new members for the 193435 school year will also take place at the meeting. The new members are Karl Stipher, president; Edgar Baum, Nathaniel Fick, Mildred Grayson, Olive Steinle, Ann Doudican, John Hutchens, Ora Hartman, Esther Hoover, Betty Kalleen, Albert Mendenhall, Luther Marohn and Louise Rhodehamel. 36 NURSES GRADUATED FROM CITY HOSPITAL Mayor Sullivan Included Among Speakers at Exercises. Thirty-six nurses were graduated from the city hospital nursing school last night in the hospital auditorium while 400 friends and relatives looked on Dr. Charles W. Myers, hospital superintendent, presented diplomas to the young women. School pins were distributed by Miss Beatrice Gerrin. Speakers included Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Russell Wilson, school commissioner, and Miss Velma Riley of the graduating class. STATE HAYMAKERS TO ATTEND CONVOCATION About 600 Expected at Annual Meeting of Order. !,,,, About six hundred members of the state Haymakers association were expected to attend the forty-second annual convocation of the order in the Lincoln today. An auxiliary organization to the Improved Order of Red Men, the association will decide by vote today whether to admit men to membership who are not members of the parent order.

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Internationale, will address the group on Monday night. T. R. Johnson, Purdue university publicity director, and Mr. Smith will be the speakers Tuesday at the morning session. On Tuesday afternoon, Dr. G. C. Brandenburg, head of the department of education. Purdue university, will speak on “Family Relationships.” In the evening Albert Stump, Indianapolis attorney, and T. A. Coleman, assistant director of agricultural extension, Purdue, will give an address. At the night session Wednesday, Noble E. Kizer, Purdue football coach, will speak on “The Value of Athletics in a Community.” A. B. Graham, United States department of agriculture, also will speak. His subject will be “The Agricultural Adjustment Act.” Floyd McMurray, state superintendent of public instruction, will speak at the night session Friday. A round table discussion on the psychology of leadership will follow Mr. McMurray’s speech. Auto Tools, Radio Stolen Automobile tools valued at $125 and a small radio valued at S4O were stolen last night from the garage ol' A. D. Nieman, 3607 Rockville road. Mr. Nieman's garage is located at 1413 West Washington street.

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NUTRITION GAMP OPENSJUNE 20 Thirty Boys to Be Sent to Bridgeport for Stay of Five Weeks. Thirty boys will enter the seventh annual summer nutrition camp of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association at Bridgeport June 20, for a five weeks’ stay. At the end of the five weeks, thirty girls will be sent to the camp. Plans for the opening camp were completed yesterday at a meeting of the nutrition camp committee in the Lincoln. Miss Lois Parker was appointed recreational director to succeed Miss Stella Glasson, who resigned after six years’ service as director, to be married. Remedial defects are corrected by medical supervision, extra rest, good food and outdoor play. Only children from homes where the care will be continued are selected for the camp. They are undernourished and have a history of absence from school because of illness, are recovering slowly from an illness, or are tuberculosis contact cases, sufferers from cardiac diseases, chorea and minor nervous tendencies.

WILLIAM PIEL SUCCUMBS TO SHORmNESS Starch Company Director’s Funeral to Be Held From Home. William M. Piel, 50. of 5204 North Meridian street, died early today at the Methodist hospital, where he had been a patient for a week. Funeral services will be held at the residence. The time of the funeral and the place of burial have not been selected. Mr. Piel was born in the old Piel homestead, which stood at East Washington street and Southeastern avenue. He was educated in German Lutheran parochial schools in Indianapolis, and finished his education in Brooklyn, N. Y., where the family moved. He returned to Indianapolis in 1903, and entered the starch business with his father, uncles and brothers. At the time of his death he was a director ajid secretary of the Piel Brothers Starch Company. Surviving him are two brothers, Elmer and Alfred Piel, and a sister, Mrs. Alex Metzger. Former Resident Dies The body of James Alexander Duthie. 71, Chicago, former resident of Indianapolis, was to be brought to Indianapolis for funeral services in the Wald funeral home at 2 today. Burial was to be in Crown Hill. Mr. Duthie died Thursday in his home in Chicago. He was a buyer in the wholesale branch of Marshall Field & Cos. until his retirement two years ago. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Carrie Johnson Duthie, and three brothers, Archibald Duthie, Memphis, Tenn., and Robert and William Duthie, Indianapolis. George W. Fewell Dies Funeral services for George W. Fewell, 3004 North Gale street, were to be held at 2 today in the Pilgrim Holiness church, Thirtieth and Gale streets. Burial was to be in Memorial Park cemetery. Mr. Fewell died in his home Wednesday, after a two years’ illness. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Sarah F. Fewell, and two sons, Rolland Fewell, Madison, and Ernest Fewell, Indianapolis. DOOMED MAN WINS STAY Murderer of City Detective Granted Third Death Delay. Third stay of execution for Richard Perkins, Negro, who is under death sentence at the state prison, was granted yesterday by the state supreme court. Perkins is charged with the murder of Carl Heckman, detective. He was to die June 8, but the stay Is effective until Oct. 1.

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Frank Gardner Surrendering to police yesterday, Frank Gardner, local restaurant proprietor, faces murder charges in connection with the death of Thomas Sargent, Civic theater actor, alleged to have been killed by a blow r from a blackjack in Gardner's restaurant, 250 South Illinois street, on the night of May 25.

TOLEDO LABOR WARISENDED Union Electric Workers Win Restoration of Pay Cuts. By United Press TOLEDO, 0., June 2. Toledo’s labor war, which for a time threatened to be a focal point for labor disturbances all over the country appeared on the verge of complete settlement today. 1 The union electric workers signed an agreement with the Toledo Edison Company which cancelled a strike that would have cut off power and light to 500,000 consumers and set off a general strike involving all Toledo organized labor. Representatives of striking -workers of the Electric Auto-Lite Company and company officials were in conference which government mediators believed would result in settlement of a dispute that led to a week of rioting put down only after a national guard had killed two and wounded twelve others. Troops were evacuated from the vicinity of the wrecked Auto-Lite plant during the night and today only a few remained on guard there. Peace efforts culminated suddenly, calming a situation that twentyfour hours before had been so serious labor appealed to President Roosevelt, for direct intervention. The Edison company agreed to restore the pay level of June 1, 1932, which meant restoration of two 10 per cent cuts. The union demand for a closed shop will be compromised through arbitration.

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THREE CHILDREN ARE TREATED FOR DOC BITES Ordinance Many Require All Animals to Receive Inoculations. Despite police warnings to children to avoid stray dogs during the hot spell, three more children suffered dogi bites last night. An ordinance is being prepared at city hall to compel all dog owners to have their pets treated with an anti-rabies serum before licenses are issued for the dogs. Helena Brumet, 5, of 935 Spruce street, was bitten in the right thigh by a police dog owmed by Raymond Vick, 933 Spruce street. The child was playing in the yard of her home when the dog bit her, according to the police. She was sent to city hospital. While playing in front of her home at 316 Forest avenue, last night, Pauline Fair. 3, was bitten on the cheek by a dog owned by a neighbor. She sent to city hospital. Robert Wilkens, 11, of 1012 East Ohio street, while playing in the yard of the home of Leslie Moore, 134 Herman street, was bitten on the lower lip by a dog owned by Mr. Moore, according to police. Robert treated at city hospital.

MARY PICKFORD TO PRESS DIVORCE CASE Reconciliation Rumors Shattered; Doug Still in England. By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 2.—Reconciliation of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, rumored and reported by their friends for months, went aglimmering today as Mary pressed for action on her pending divorce complaint. She won a court order that permits her to serve notice on Fairbanks of her'divorce action by publication. Miss Pickford submitted an affidavit that her husband left California May 23, 1933, and had not returned. ED EISNER IS NAMED TO DEMOCRATIC POST Gets Sergeant -at - Arms Job for State Convention. Announcement w-as’made today by Omer S. Jackson, Democratic state chairman, of the appointment of Ed Eisner, Seymour, as sergeant-at-arms of the Democratic state convention on June 12. Mr. Eisner is an attorney and a former member of the Indiana senate. In 1932 he was a candidate for Democratic state chairman. L. N. Savage of Rockport will be a candidate for judge of the appellate court, southern district.