Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1936 — Page 3

at Technical, Washington Held Necessary.

Structures

Indianapolis public school officials . today were taking steps to provide additional classroom facilities by adding four buildings to the “port- ~ able” colonies at Technical High School and two at Washington High Sehool.

‘The building program is being undertaken because of the overcrowded conditions in those and other Indianapolis high schoels. Latest figures show that total gh school enrollment at the end the present year was 18,800 students, an increase of 1236 students over a year ago.

Irvington Fund Voted

A. H. Seilken, superintendent of school buildings and grounds, and

= A. B. Good, business director, are

. proceeding with plans approved by the school board Tuesday night to re-erect the “portables” from those torn down at three elementary schodls.

With the addition of the four buildings, Technical will have 30 classes housed in “temporary’! structures in a total of 15 wooden buildings. Washington already has four “portables;” the addition of two ‘more will place a total of 12 classrooms in six wooden houses, The school board has appropriated $875,000 in its proposed budget for’ 1936-37 for the erection of a new Irvington high school, an addition to Washington High School, and an addition to School 26, 1301 E. 16th-st, as its «first steps toward improving the high school housing conditions. The buildings will not be available for use this year.

Over-Crowding Is Reported

The board's building committee, Which made a series of seven reports on housing needs, estimated that $2,000,000 would be necessary to provide proper classrooms for high school students. The addition to $ichool 26 is planned to bring some pelief to the overcrowding at the Crispus Attucks High School, by adding facilities to School 26 for ninth-grade Negro students from the northeast section of the city. Crispus Attucks now has seven classrooms in the por¥able houses. The committee recommended also the construction of a $275,000 addition to Crispus Attucks; an $800,000 classroom building, to he known as the Milo H. Stuart Memorial Building, at Technical, and 8 $150,000 wing to house a combined auditorium - gymnasium and a fisteria at Broad Ripple High

Beliodt the buildings are crowded is a by the following table of estimated original building capaciYes and the present enrollment. - Enrollment 2251 2320 3896

Capacity

ictivities in. Technical are conacted in unsatisfactory bulge

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husband, fuzzy-eyed from affection.” MacArthur testified in the trial of the $100,000 alienation of affections suit brought by his first wife, Carol Frink, Chicago movie critic, against his second wife, Helen Hayes of the stage and movies. Miss Frink’s counsel introduced letters written by the newspaper man-turned-playwright to his first

riage. “Yes, that sounds like me in 1920,”

Plaintiff's counsel was introducing these letters to show MacArthur was intensely in love with his wife before he met Miss Hayes at a cocktail party given by Neysa McMein, artist, and offered her peanuts with the statement “I wish they were emeralds.” | Written on a Chicago newspaper's stationery with the printed question “What do you want?” across the top the following literary gem was introduced:

He Answered the Question you, so bad I'm going crazy. Dear-

ask me if I want a month to think it over. mad charges down to the office in the hope you would be there, the frantic barren hope that sometime you might like me—a little and now | the desperate hope that I can make you like me forever. “I wish you were here keeping '{ wishing it. It’s a different life I'm ‘| leading now and I'm thoroughly committed to it and happily secure.

Playwright Admits Terming Self 'F uzzy-Eyed Husband’

Charles MacArthur Seems Uncomfortable as He Identifies Letters in Chicago Alienation Trial.

CHICAGO, July 2—Charles MacArthur, whose hectic career as a | newspaper man has become something of a legend, reluctantly admitted on the witness stand today that in 1920 he termed himself a “fuzzy-eyea

wife in the early days of their mar-: §

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HUNT REJECTED SUITOR

Kidnaped Girl From Her Home, Police Charge. By United Press NORWICH, N. Y., July 2.—State police were enlisted today in the search for two men, one a rejected suitor, who are said to have kidnaped Miss Orra Wager from her bedroom last night. . She was to have been married Saturday.

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Representatives of 10 Big Groups Gather for Council of War.

By United Press ASHINGTON, July 2.—Repregentaives of 10 powerful labor nions with a million members meet today at a council of war in a militant campaign for organization in the steel and other industries.

Decisions reached at the meeting in the office of John L. Lewis may affect the whole course of organized American labor. It may move toward healing the breach in labor ranks, or toward two separate groups Three vital problems faced the grim, hard-bitten labor leaders who have joined with Lewis in formation of the committee for industrial organization and in launching a campaign to unionize the nation’s 500,000 steel workers. Problems Are Outlined 1. An answer to an “invitation and request” from President William -.Green of the American Federation of Labor to attend a meeting of the Federation's Executive Council here next wek. 2. Plans for prosecution of the steel campaign, which threatens a major industry-labor conflict. 3. Proposals for expansion of the industrial unionization campaign to include textile and rubber workers. : The 10 unions sending representatives are members of the C. I. O,, an “outlaw” group within the Ameorican Federation of Labor. For months they have resisted Green’s demands that they disband. Showdown May Come A showdown may come before the executive council if Green's summons is accepted. A compromise was believed possible. If the C. I. O. modifies its demands for spread of industrial unionism, Green may join-in the battle to organize steel workers. The second problem—the steel campaign—is expected to engage the major attention of the conference of C. I. O. officials. They expected a hard fight, but the militantly united front of steel officials has complicated the situation. A plan for mass action in the event the steel drive culminates in open strike warfare with mill operators will be decided upon. The possibility of other unions joining in such a strike—seriously crippling industry—will be discussed. Murray to Make Report On one point all C. I. O. officials appeared agreed—the steel campaign will be carried forward despite the nature of opposition and whether the A. F. of L. extends its official co-operation. There can be no turning back now, one official said. Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers and chief aid to Lewis in the steel campaign, came from Pittsburgh to make a detailed report on the first week of open campaigning. He has sent 200 organizers into mill towns.

INDUSTRY’S USE OF SPIES TO BE PROBED

Senate Group. Inquiry Spurred by Threat of Steel Strife. By Unitea Piess . WASHINGTON, July 2.—Spurred on by impending strife in the steel industry, investigators for the Senate Committee on Education today planned a sweeping inquiry into the use of spies and firearms by major industries. Senator Robert M. La Follette (P., Wis.), who sponsored the recently enacted law prohibiting the transportation of strike breakers across state lines, was expected to announce his plans for the inquiry shortly. Investigators already retained by the committee are accu-

mulating evidence.

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~ Firecracker

Age, Is Report

| 197 Boys and Girls in This Class Injured Last Year,

Survey of. u. S. Reveals.

(Fis is the last of 2 sefles on Fourth ol: July Hams) BY JANE STAFFORD (Copyright. 1936, by Science Service) WASHINGTON, July 2—From 11 to 168 years is the dangerous age for July Fourth accidents, a committee of the American Museum of Safety found in its study of the kinds, causes, and results of casualties of the “Battle of the Fourth of July.”

No age is immune, from the toddler of a year and a half to his

great-grandfather at 80. In the 3000!

accidents last July Fourth studied by this committee, 797 boys and girls between 11 and 16 years were injured. Boys, of course, led in the ratio of 638 to 159." In this group, 60 suffered eye injuries, 10 losing their sight in one eye and ‘three more having an eye removed.

“These seem to be the tragic ages for children,” comments Dr. Leland E. Cofer, chairman of the committee.

Mothers should. keep their children under 5 indoors during the Fourth of July season, Dr. Cofer advises, or at least send them for the day of the Fourth into some in-

stitution devoted to the temporary

or permanent care of children. Last year 146 little children between 1 and 5 years old were injured and nine were killed. “=

Besides the loss of life and serious injuries occurring during the annual firecracker tragedy, Dr. Cofer called attention to the probable end-results of July Fourth accidents.

“For example, there were 2295 cases of burns out of.the 3000 cases now being reviewed. How many of these burns have left permanent deformities? “There were +611. injuries to hands, 634 to legs, 214 to eyes, 303 to the body, 653 to fingers, 456 to face and neck, 382 to arms, and 78 to feet. What effect will these injuries and the scars and defects left by them have on these children in the shaping of their

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careers? A slight burn of the fingers tends to produce scar tissue which may prevent a person from usi a typewriter as efficiently as e one else. The law of competiti must be faced by every one.” One pf the difficulties of preventing firewor accidents seems to depend on child nature. The idea of limiting the use. of fireworks to experts in the handling of pyrotechnics - probably would not do much good because “it is not in the line of human nature for children to be content with watching or listening to other people set off fireworks. Children will insist on purchasing their own fireworks and firing them with their own hands.” Dr. Cofer pointed out that even if “the use of high explosives be eliminated in the manufacture of fireworks, they will never be safe for children, who are too primitive and fearless by nature to listen to the many don'ts which are necessary while fireworks are being handled.”

ANDERSON MAN GUILTY

Prison Sentence to Follow Jury's ‘Verdict in Death Case. Times Special

ANDERSON, July 2.—John Ivy, Negro, faces a 2-t0-21 year prison

sentence for the death of Mason

Hilderbrand here last fall. A Madison County Circuit Court jury last night returned a verdict of guilty on manslaughter charges.

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Police Now Say They Don’t

Believe He Saw His Mother Killed.

By United Press CHICAGO, July 2. — Jimmy Thompson, 7, was freed today of all

suspicion in the killing of his mothe

er, Mrs. Florence Thompson Castle, pretty cabaret girl. time police advanced a new theory to explain Jimmy's fantastic account of the murder. “We have eliminated all possia bility that the boy killed his mothe er himself,” Police Capt. William

O’Brien, who first advanced the possibility, announced. “My candid opinion now is that the boy Dever woke up at any time during th

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saw the boy. He is a little fellow and the room was dark. Else why wouldn't the killer have struck Jimmy with the brick? “I believe now that the boy is too small and frail to have wielded the brick with sufficient force to split At in two. I believe further that Jirnmy’s story is all a dream. I don’t think he saw the killing as he says he did. He has an overs developed imagination.” While O’Brien spoke, Jimmy was with his father, Mrs. Castle's divorced first husband, James Bertram Thompson, of Revere, Mass. Thompson came here to aid poe lice in straightening out truth and fantasy in Jimmy's tale.

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