Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1935 — Page 2

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BEN DAVIS H. S„ BUILT FOB 200. HAS 664 PUPILS Wayne Township Citizens to Study Problem at Mass Meeting Tonight. P.V EDWIN' OfiBORNE Tiran SUIT Writer Originally constructed with a 200-pupil capacity. th* 20-year-old Ben Davis High School building today bulges with 664 pupils. Home of the basketball team which won the Indianapolis sectional tourney a few weeks ago. it is a school wi'h a pitifully small and dark gymnasium and with no basketball floor. Because of these facts, and for the purpose of considering a course of action to relieve such conditions, a ir,a.s meeting of Wayne Township citizens wil be held at the high school tonight. Resolutions adopted and circulated last week by the Wayne Post, No. 64. of the American Legion and previous mass meetings of Wayne Township citizens have focussed attention of the entire county on the almost impossible situation at the Ben Davis school.

No Study Facilities There are no regular study rooms, and those who wish tr, prepare their lessons must seek seats in the auditorium or go home. Every classroom in the building is in use for recitations every period of the day. according to Charles H. Vance, principal. No lockers are available for coats and books, and students must carry their wraps from room to room with them as they gu. Science laboratories must also be utilized for classrooms, and thus experimental work is necessarily curtailed. There is, in addition, a shortage of equipment.

Ben Davis High School has no lunchroom, and those who bring their lunches must eat in locker rooms or. when the weather permits. out of doors. The locker rooms are small, inadequate and insanitary even for the purposes for which they were intended. Physical education classes are conducted in an entirely unsuitable and poorly liehted gymnasium. The roof is too low to permit basketball games and there are seats for but few spectators were such games scheduled. Ventilation is poor. The basketball team during the last winter has been using an Indianapolis gymnasium for its home games. Fire hazards are encountered when the student body of 664 crowds into the school auditorium which seats slightly more than 300. The only shop work possible is in carpentry’ and cabinet making. A small shop with as many as 59 in a class is pitifully madequate for those who desire this type of work. There is no storage space and partially finished articles must be taken home or stored away in corners bet wren classes.

Library Is Inadequate Facilities for only 10 persons are provided by the school library. This is far under the minimum set by the North Central Association of Col leges of Secondary Schools which requires that high school libraries seat at least one-tenth of the total enrollment. In. order to provide more rooms, several rooms of ordinary size have been divided by composition board partitions. Many of the class rooms, therefore, are too small and ventilation and lightii}g conditions are poor. This is particularly true in the commercial department. The Ben Davis High School building itself is badly in need of repair. Funds for the proper maintenance of this and other buildings in Wayne Township have not been available and in many rooms it is not uncommon to find large areas where the plaster has fallen from the wail. Floors are shaky and almost worn through in some places. Hemorrhoids Healed at Home! Dr O. A. Johnson. Dept. 611. 1324 Mam St.. Kansas City. Mo., a rectal specutiist for 28 years, has perfected a mild, painless, inexpensive home treatment for piles that is meeting with extraordinary success. This treatment, the result of Dr. Johnsons long experience as head physician of the Johnson Rectal and Colomc Clinic, brings to every sufferer the exact methods used so unwifully by Pr Johnson. If you hare piles in any form, be Mire an'l write Pr. Johneon today for free and rompV>fe information.—Advertisement.

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1500 TIMES' JUNIOR AVIATORS SEE THRILLING FLYING FILM

I-Ml-n hundred strong, members of The Indianapolis Times Squadron of the Scripps-Howard Junior Aviation Corps, paraded to the palace Theater Saturday morning to see the aviation movie. "The West P :nt of the Air." starring Wallace Beery. The junior aviators are shown as they assembled at Tomlinson Hall. The movie was the first ot a series of events arranged for the Junior aviators by The Times.

DEATH CLAIMS MRS. VAN GEYT Wife of City Real Estate Dealer Passes After Brief Illness. Mrs. Grace Mary Van Geyt, 3220 N. New Jersey-st, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. O. McAlexander, died last night at her home, after a three months' illness. Mrs. Van Geyt was the wife of Peter V. Van Geyt, Indianapolis real estate man. Her mother is president of the Woman's Department Club. She was born in Indianapolis, and was a graduate of Shortridge High School. She attended Vassar and received a Master of Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin. Mrs. Van Geyt, who was 42. was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority, and American Association of University Women. Surviving her are her parents, the widower, three children. Virginia, 11; Diana, 9, and Roberta, 4; a sister, Mrs. Russell Hughes Smith, Indianapolis, and two aunts, Mrs. R. B. Sanger Sharon. Pa., and Mrs. Carra Mil|er. Pasadena. Cal. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but services have been tentatively arranged lor Wednesday.

RED CROSS TO OPEN FIRST AID INSTITUTE Classes Start Tonight at Garment Shop On S. Meridian-st, Opening classes of the Red Cross first aid institute will be held at 7 tonight in the Red Cross; garment shop, 11l S. Meridian-st Classes will be conducted five evenings each week until a 30-hour course has been completed. Enrollment, according to Miss Agnes Cruse, secretary of the Indianapolis Chapter, American Red Cross, is 50 per cent larger than had been anticipated. Fifty-five men and women have registered for instruction, she said. Dr. W. J. Fenton. Washington, nationally known first aid instructor, arrived in the city Saturday to conduct the classes. 2500 TO VISIT CITY FOR STUDENTS' EVENT Religious Educators to Attend Session in December. More than 2500 college students and religious educators will meet in this city Dec. 28 to attend the 1935 quadrennial sessions of the Student Volunteer Movement of America, according to word received here by Henry T. Davis, secretarymanager of the Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau. General sessions will be held in the Murat Temple, and representatives from several foreign countries, including England's Archbishop of York, are expected to attend. Sherwood Eddy is the leader of the movement, organized 40 years ago by students under the leadership of Dwight L. Moody, who were preparing to do educational and religious work in foreign countries.

Charles Bach, Insurance Firm Official, Is Dead Rites for Assistant General Manager of Metropolitan Life Co. Here to Be Held in Schnectady, N. Y. Funeral services for Charles H. Bach, assistant general manager of the Indianapolis office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., who died Saturday in his home, 3365 Park-av, will be held at 10 Wednesday in Schenectady, N. Y. The body was to remain at Shirley Brothers Central

Chapel. 946 N. Illinois-st, until 3 this afternoon. Mr. Bach was 44. He had been affiliated with the insurance company more than 20 years, and had lived in Indianapolis three years. He was a member of St. Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Church. Surviving are the widow, two daughters, Rosemary and Kathryn; a brother, George E. Bach, Utica. N. Y., and a sister, Mrs. J. J. O'Hagan, Washington. Transfer Official Dead Requiem mass for Albert D. Prouty, general manager of the

FLYING With CAPT . AL WILLIAMS Chief of Air Service Scripps-Howard Junior Aviator

FROM what I hear, Junior Aviators enjoyed those yarns I told recently about the Coast Guard aviation unit. To me, the most thrilling feature of this type of work is that it is done off shore... For hair-raising excitement, just imagine yourself flying in bad weather over a remorseless challenging ocean. Like this case, for example: A Coast Guard plane cruising along, 30 miles out at sea, off the Massachusetts coast in mid-winter, sighted a man adrift in a small dory. Bitter cold, a rough sea ... the pilot swooped down for a close look. The dory was coated with ice, the man was lying on the bottom. The big seaplane swung around, the wind direction was checked, and down it came on the surface of the sea—bounding, heaving, plunging on the wave crests. The plane was taxied over as close to the boat as possible ... and while the fragile craft tossed widly, the crew edged out on the hull and took the man aboard. And then came the business of getting off the water. The experience of taking off rough water is one you’ll never forget. A seaplane will always lie heading into the wind like a weather vane. The pilot takes a last look around ... his mechanic nods "Ready" ... he braces himself, stiffens up the pressure on the rudder bar . . . then chooses the right moment to push forward the two throttle levers and open wide the big motors. Then off for the big ride! The first two or three collisions with the waves are heavy body blows. The great ship takes one last leap off the top of a wave and staggers into the air. And that's what the Coast Guard pilot must put up with all the time ... his mission ever dangerous. All the romance of the ages is wrapped up in the “flying lifeboat” operations of the Coast Guard. QUESTION: What does the abbreviation "b. h. p.” mean? This stands for ‘‘brake-horsepow-er.’’ the actual maximum power de-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Curtis Storage and Transfer Co., who died Friday night in St. Vincent’s Hospital, was offered today in Little Flower Roman Catholic Church. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mr. Prouty, who was 36, was born in New York, and had lived in Indianapolis 17 years. He was a World War veteran. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Helen Prouty, and three brothers, George. Frank and Edward Prouty, all of New York,

livered when the engine is tested on a brake that absorbs the engine power. STAY OUT OF WAR, IS COUGHLIN'S PLEA Urges U. S. Isolation in Arms Squabble. By United Press DETROIT, March 25.—America must remain aloof from the international armaments quarrel and must refuse to supply France, Italy or England with either money or munitions, Father Charles E. Coughlin declared yesterday. The priest, who devoted his weekly lecture to a defense of his National Union or Social Justice against charges of radicalism, said he “holds no brief for France or Germany.” “Nevertheless, I advance no defense for the pugnacious attitude assumed by the French Chamber of Deputies. America’s duty is to keep its isolated position and stay out of war.” 8 PER CENT GAIN IN STATE FARMS SHOWN Federal Farm Census in Indiana Is Half Completed. Returns from half of Indiana's counties in the Federal Farm Census show an increase of 8 per cent in the total number of farms over the 1930 census, John Lennon, area supervisor, has announced. Although 833 enumerators have finished their surveys and made final reports in the state, Mr. Lennon could not say when the census would be complete. Several enumerators in the Evansville district have been hampered by inundated farm areas and in other scattered districts work has been slow. Only 96 enumerators remain in the field. FARM LEADER NAMED, Hendricks County Woman Is Chosen as Bureau Official. Choice of Mrs. Lillie D. Scott, Hendricks County, as second vice president and director at large of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., to fill the unexpired term of Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, Otterbein, was announced today. Mrs. Sewell resigned to become administrative director of the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Harold Williamson 3671 Rockville-rd. Ford coach. 120-555. from 2546 S. MeridianSt. Blanch Cline. 3522 Guilford-av. Ford coach, from garage in rear of home. Horace Oglesbv. 1108 College-av. Ant. 11, Ford roadster. 92-340. from the rear of hom, Edward Boren. 412 Fall Creek-blvd , Auburn coupe. 986. from 34ih and Illlnoissts. Virgil Gaither 938 S. Missouri-st, Chevrolet coach. 36-778. from Meridian and Wilklns-sts.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: L V Thorpe. 427 N. Rilev-av Chevrolet coupe, found at 200 S. Sammlt-st. J. D Eastman Cos , 818 Dorman-st, Graham trucks, found at 1100 Bellefon-taine-st. C. I Brlees. Cutler. Plvmouth sedan, found at Rav and Meridian-sts. wrecked. William E Walker. 1809 Southeasternav. Chevrolet coupe, found in front of 1814 Southeastern-av. Vireene Sickle. 3916 Fletcher-av. Chev. rolet coach, found east of city limits. Leon Eaton. Brownsbure. Chevrolet sedan, found at Alton-av and 19th-st. stripped of five tires, battery and headlights. Adam W Miller. Anderson. Plymouth ccrach, found at Bridteport. C. W. Clever. 630 S Capltol-av, International truck, found at 4100 W. Washingtoß.StW. Durham. 2816 N. IlUnols-st. Plvmouth sedan, found at 21th and MeMlaMlh

INDIANA ARTISTS ARE LAZY, SAYS MUSEUM CHIEF Lack of Observation Laid to State Painters by Wilbur D. Peat. Indiana artists are lazy. This charge was made yesterday by Wilbur D. Peat, John Herron Museum director, in a gallery talk at the museum. “In the Indiana artists there is a lack of observation of the life about them,” Mr. Peat said, “and this is due to a certain degree of laziness.” The trouble with the still life painters in Indiana, according to Mr. Peat, is that they lack the human element in their work and the trouble with the landscape painters is that they have overdone one type of subject matter, too often selecting certain types of trees, seasons and atmospheres. Council Urged as Subject “We Indiana artists haven't enough feeling for the soil to paint great landscapes,” Mr. Peat stated, “although great landscapes have been painted by Indiana artists who have passed on.” “Portraits have been pretty well done in Indiana but we still haven’t gotten beyond the point of painting portraits which are merely likenesses of people, Indiana portraits lack characterization.” “I would like to see our City Council painted by Indiana artists,” Mr. Peat said in charging that local artists had passed up many opportunities for good subject matter such as basketball and football games, judicial scenes, pictorial interpretation of Indiana legends, industrial areas and a wealth of still life material. “Art Business Proposition” Art today, according to the Herron museum director, is a business proposition. The laymen should be more bold in their dictating of just what the artist should paint, because, according to Mr. Peat, work done under specifications is, nine times out of ten, better than free lance work. “The public has just as much right to demand of an artist just what it wants in a painting, as it does in buying any other commodity,” Mr. Peat claimed. “I have no sympathy for those who say that the artist should choose his own subject matter and paint according to his own ideas regardless of public opinion. “We are all pretty much up in the air as to just what to paint,” he added.

HOME SHOW HEADS TO COMPLETE PROGRAM Exposition Officials Push Work for Event April 5. Directors of the 1935 Indianapolis Home Complete Show, which opens April 5 at the Manufacturers’ Building, Indiana State Fairground, were to meet at the Architects and Builders’ Building this noon to complete organization of the exposition. The final drive will begin today to complete the houses, gardens, landscaping and exhibits in time for the annual exhibitors dinner and preview April 1.

FIRE REPORTS

Saturday Fire Address Time Loss 1262 W. Washington 11:24 A. M. $75 South and Illinois 6:03 P. M. None 25th and Yandes 10:13 P. M. False 3301 N. Arsenal 10:52 P. M. sls Yesterday 23rd and Park 3:10 A. M. False Millsh and Otterbein .... 3:47 A. M. False 3417 Clifton 8:08 A. M. $lO Post Road & E. 10th.... 9:10 A. M. $3 2912 Kenwood 12:C6 P. M. $2 2720 Clifton 1:14 P. M. $5 1516 Brookville 6:47 P. M. None 10th & Pershing 9:52 P. M. None Le Grande & Meridian ..11:38 P. M. None Today Miley and Vermont 12:57 A. M. None

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News Survey of Indiana

By Tim es Special NEWCASTLE, March 25.—While one prisoner plunked away on a banjo to drown out the noise of hack saws, Sheriff Ed Kirby and several deputies lay in wait in the early morning hours to frustrate a j; il break here. About 4 o'clock officers saw a small section of a barred window removed and they watched Harvey Keith. 26. and Donald Briner. 24. both of Muncie, attempt unsuccessfully to squeeze through the aperture. Keith and Briner were awaiting removal to the Indiana State Reformatory after having been sentenced from ‘.:ie tc five years for chicken theft. They pleaded guilty last week.

tt tt tt Suit Wins SIOO,OOO By Times Special MARION, March 25.—Judgment for sloo,ooo—one of the largest ever entered in Grant County—has been awarded here against the estate of Edward Bloch, former president of the defunct Citizens Bank of Jonesboro. Filed by Thomas Seward and other depositors of the bank, the action had been pending for more than three years, but judgment had been delayed by a ruling of the State Supreme Court in a similar case. It is expected to be the forerunner of like actions against other stockholders of the bank. tt tt tt Special Judge Chosen By Times Special KOKOMO, March 25—Harvey Cole, Peru attorney, has been appointed by Judge Joseph Herron to serve as special judge in the case of Taylor Township Board ol Finance against directors of the Hemlock State Bank, in which the plaintiff seeks recovery of $30,000 in township funds tied up in the institution. Mr. Cole’s selection came after former Judge Joseph Cripe, upon whom attorneys had agreed for special judge, declined to assume jurisdiction.

Missing Girl Traced By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, March 25. Jenevieve Wright, a 16-year-old former school pupil who has been missing for more than a month, is believed to be living in a New Orleans boarding house, according to her father, Lonnie O. Wright. Jenevieve is the second child in a family of 10 children, and formerly was a student at Bloomington High School. She left home early in January to join a traveling magazine sales crew. Becoming alarmed when no word was received from her, the father notified New Orleans police, but they found she had disappeared from her former residence there. After Jenevieve communicated by letter with her father, a Bloomington relief worker, he said he was undecided as yet whether he would have the girl sent home or allow her to remain in New Orleans. # # # Slot Machines Go By Times Special TIPTON. March 25.—For the first time in many years Tipton County is believed by officials to be rid of slot machines. Fear of a new law and reported hijacking activities in the county during the last 10 days are believed to have resulted in the disappearance of many machines previously in operation. Rumors of hijackers who carried away two slot machines at a service station near here recently after representing themselves to be state police and the slugging of attendants at another roadside establishment are credited by local authorities as being factors in curbing the machines. # # # Rate Dispute Ends By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, March 25.—Adjustment of differences between the city council and the Northern Indiana Power Co. relative to electric current rates required to operate traffic signals here has been announced. Rates will be based on a metered measurement and will be about $3 a month for each signal. Formerly signal operation cost the city $l4 monthly for each light. # # # Suit Asks $25,000 By Times Special PERU, March 25—Representative Glenn Griswold was to return to Peru today to join Russell J. Wildman, local attorney, in representing the plaintiff in a $25,000 damage

suit against the Nickle Plate Railroad. John H. Cathcart, former Nickle Plate employe, is seeking damages for injuries suffered two years ago. He alleges he was permanently disabled. COL. ALBERT RICH RETIRED BY ARMY First Instructor of Indiana Guard Ends Service. Col. Albert T. Rich, who was the first instructor of the Indiana National Guard following the World War, has been retired from active service, the War Department announced today. Col. Rich, at one time Ft. Benjamin Harrison quartermaster, had been stationed in Boston recently. Other department orders include transfer of Lieut. Robert P. Hollis, in charge of the Civilian Conservation Corps commissary at Ft. Harrison, to Philadelphia for Quartermaster School training; Major Russell C. Throckmorton, now at Culver, to command and general staff school, Ft. Leavenworth; Col. Frederick W. Van Duyne, Jeffersonville quartermaster depot, to Boston. Capt. N. W. Thomas, also stationed at the Jeffersonville depot, has been transferred to Boston after April 15; Warrant Officer Everet S. Thomas, Ft. Harrison motor transport, to transport school at Baltimore,

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3IARCH 25, 1935

SLUM PROJECT BIDSHERE SET $3,000,000 Contracts to Be Awarded by U. S. April 30. By Times Special WASHINGTON, March 25 —Bids for the $3,000,000 Indianapolis slum clearance project will be received by the Housing Division of the Public Works Administration here April 30, it was announced by Director Horatio B. Hackett today. Occupying 22 acres, the project will consist of 23 apartment buildings and 96 row houses accommodating 74S families.

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