Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1936 — Page 3

‘NEW HOSPITAL

SERVICE WING

Plans Approved by Health |

Board Turned Over to WPA.

.A $141,336 service wing may be added to the City Hospital Unit, according to Earl Wolf, business manager, No natn ced the approval a project plans the Board of Health, Pp by plans are to be presented to PWA and a bond issue to pay the thes part of the cost must be au-

. before the unit may be : i

built, Mr. Wolf said.

The p , 200 feet

by 67 feet and two stories high, is| 7

to house a kitchen, din room, paint shop, barber shop ine, other sesvie facilities, according to the The proposed new structure is to be of yellow brick and is

pital building, Mr, Wolf announced. It is to be situated on the south side

of the main corridor of the present traction costs are estimated ‘

at approximately $115,000, while the new kitchen equipment in the pro-

posed Pullding is expected to cost

about $20,000

STATE POSTMASTERS’ CONVENTION TO END

Election of Officers to Wind Up Two-Day Session.

The second and closing day session of the Indiana state convention of National League of District Postmasters opened at the Severin today. Hon. Owen A. Keen, Postoffice Dept. chief clerk, was to make the principal address this morning. Ora Stiver, Mrs. Bertha Dorton, Mrs. Byrd E. Ferguson, state secretary, and Arthur Lockwood, state president, also were to speak. The convention is to close .this afternoon with reports of committees and election of. officers. Owen A. Keen, Washington, chief clerk of the Postoffice Department, told the postmasters last night that revenues of the department during the fiscal year ended June 30 increased more than $45,000,000 over the preceding year. Other speakers yesterday included | Adolf Seidensticker, Indianapolis postmaster; Arthur Lockwood, state league president; George J. Ress, inspector; E. F. Brown, finance superintendent; John T. Clapp, national president, and Mrs. Myra I. Warcup.

RUTH BRYAN OWEN IS TO WED TODAY

American Minister to Become Bride

of Danish Officer. By United Press

HYDE PARK, N.Y, July 11—|. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, minister to}.

Denmark and daughter of William Jennings Bryan, will be married to a captain of - the - Danish. King’s guard, Boerge Rohde, here at 5 Pp. m. today with President and Mrs. Roosevelt as wedding guests. The ceremony will be read in St. James’ Protestant Episcopal Church by the Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker of New .York City, who called on Mrs. Owen in Denmark last year while on a European tour. Following the wedding the couple ‘will be supper guests of President and Mrs. Roosevelt. It was understood attendants would be Fannie Hurst, novelist, ang Robert Lehman, Mrs. Owen's son-in-law and a cousin of Gov. Herbert H. Lehman.

FORD SEEKS INDIANA PLANT SITE, REPORT

Tract in Bartholomew County Said

to Be Subject of Negotiations. Times Special EDINBURG, Ind. July 11.—Negotiations were said to be under way today for’ the purchase of a 160acre tract in Bartholomew County as a site for a Ford Motor Co. plant. Mrs. Katherine Death, owner of the land, would neither affirm cor deny that the negotiations were under way, but said dealings were being carried out by a real estate firm. She did deny that the Ford Motor Co. was a party to the deal. The purchase price asked was said to be $300 an acre.

Laxative Tablets Are Fatal By United Press : ORLAND, Ind. July 11.—Eleanor Malone, 3-year-oid daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Malone, died here last night after eating nearly all the tablets in a box of laxatives. The pills contained strychnine.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

L_United States Weather Bureau... 4:35 | Sunset ........T:15

_ TEMPERATURE 5 —July 11, 1985— : Tam... wes BE 1p. Mm cvsienes 90

Precipitation 34 hrs. Cp a m.

Deficiehey since Jan: 1

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to replace |: the old red brick original City Hos.

the center of a hot city.

No foolin’, this winter-like scene was taken at 2p m. yesterday on Monument Circle. That “snow” you see isn’t snow. It isn’t cotton, either. It’s just an optical illusion—a mirage of a relief oasis in

All you have. to do to get a cooling picture like

That’s

—Times photo by Wheeler,

this is to equip your camera with infra-red ray plates. That's what The Times photographer did. These plates photograph green: and gray as white. why Christ church ‘and the surrounding

lawn and sidewalks appear snow-covered.

Inviting looking, isn’t it?

72-Year-Old, Woman Is

Latest Victim of Searing Heat.

(Continued from Page One)

Park swimming pool and was cut on the chin, elbow and knee. His condition is not serious. Deputy Coroner E. R. Wilson today reported that ‘an incomplete autopsy into the death of Millan Batic, -14, who yesterday died after being struck by his brother, Emil, 11, at their home, 1017 N. Warmanav, was due to shock, heart disease and the heat. The heat has cost Indianapolis more than $5000 for street and sidewalk repairs, Henry B, Steeg, City Engineer, said today. No permits are to be granted for use of ovens in city parks, A. C. Sallee, park board head said. Permits already issued are to .be cancelled. The ban is to last until rain eases the dangers. of fire. Pumps that fill city bathing pools are doing heavy duty jie recreation department announced. The heavy demand during the heat wave comes when children desert the playgrounds for swimming and wading pools, H. W. Middlesworth, recreation director said. One good comes from the hot weather, according to Val B. McLeah, secretary engineer to the cityplan commission. Asphalt roofs tend to patch themselves when the gummy covering melts and runs. On the state, outside [Marion

struction companies halted | operations to relieve workers. A garm \rment

TERMS. NO

| THE om

CAPITAL SURPLUS

County, several industries and con-:

Food Prices Are Reported on Rase Here; Crops Are Hard Hit

factory at New Albany and officials of an improvement project at Bluffton dismissed workers and told them to report again Monday. Claude Remsey, Hammond business man, complained of the 100degree heat, went into an adjoining room and shot himself to death. Stanley Sopowich, also of Hammond,

died from heat prostration while

landséaping a lawn. : Barbara-Jean Congd 0 n, five-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Congdon, Michigan City, died of acidosis, attributed to the heat. John T. Reynolds, 85, Brazil; William H. Phares, 86, Shelbyville; Britton Smith, 66, South Bend;

Perry March, 53, Plymouth, were {

heat prostration victims.

* Drowns in Ohio River Harry Bennett, 55, Markland,

drowned in ghe/Ohio River when his |

fishing boat hit a dam naer Vevay. Rains fell at Bloomington, Kendallville, and parts of St. Josep

and Elkhaft Counties. Kendallvills/

had a violent combination of wind, rain and hail and several thousand dollars’ damage was done. Spontaneous. combustion, caused by the excessive heat, did untold damage in various sections of the state. Thre fires were reported in Montgomery County, the worst of which did $10,000 damage at Brown’s Valley. Approximately eighty-five bushels of wheat were destroyed by fire at Seymour. a 17-acre wheat field near Straughn, Hamilton County, were destroyed by fire caused by the sparks from a passing locomotive. A barn near cato, Pike County, was déstroyed by fire at a loss of $500. Motorists were warned today by

Real Estate SS :

WE SOLICIT APPLICATIONS FOR FIRST MORT- itl GAGE LOANS ON| PREFERRED INDIANAPOLIS {if PROPERTY. CALL AND SEE US ABOUT LOW IN- Hi TEREST RATES AND LIBERAL PAYMENT

ION. : Pr TRUST C=) 2 000,000.00 _

RUST COMPANY IN INDIANA

Half the crops of |

the State Highway Commission to slow up when they see signs indisating a road explosion due to the eat.

In the last two days, 13 such expansion blow-ups have been reported to the department. Maintenance trucks are sent to the scene as soon as possible and repairs begun, highway officials said. Flares are being used at night to show the position of trenches in the road caused by the two edges of the pavement grinding together when they expand. Most of the explosions occur’ in the afternoon ‘between 1 and 4 o'clock, officials’ said. '

Explosions have occurred on Road age pensic rift 1 efi rently to ‘meet the cost, Eoin of “thi 3 ‘themselves, or whose families can't

41 north of Rob Roy, at Stone Bluff and north of Sterling: on Road 34 west of Road 63; on Road 31 south of Peru and south of Road 18; on Road 13 south of Sidney: on Road 30 east of Warsaw, and on Road 15

| eral grants for the needy

Political sig ice was read further into Mr. Aldrich’s address. A exhaustive treatment of social security from all angles, because the material for it was gathered and prepared by: Benjamin M. Anderson; Chase Bank economist who went out to Topeka to confer with Gov. Lan-

don before the latter's nomination.

Purther than that, it" might be out that the proposed s0-

: cial security amendment of the

Kansas Constitution is in two parts, one to authorize _acceptance of Fedaged, the other embodying unemployment in-

: surance. .and contaibytory -old-age nsions.

pe It was felt, it has heen explained, that the farmers might defeat the old-age retirement program and un-

employment - insurance, so the - aid Jil

{for the needy aged was separated to guarantee its adoption. This would pave the way for this sort of aid in Gov. Landon’s own state if the Re-

publican ticket is elected and the

present Federal system revised. Gov. Landon, in his message, did not discuss the merits of any particular social security system.

_ New Deal Program Condemned

Mr. Aldrich spared no: words in his condemnation of the Roosevelt program, which he en as eventually building u a huge reserve fund for old-age pensions—a fund which: he said would reach $47,000,000 in 1980 according to the Senate Finance Committee’s own table. This he: saw as a reservoir which Congress would tap from time to time for all sorts of wild schemes. He suggested that the fund for

11-Member Sineme coun, No

na, duly 1 het Harvey Cie Por ts presidency

of the Indiana State Bar Associa-

84 Sn rNMEGGS, Jada anal oo

A nominating com-

| mittee wil] report names of candi-

Sates 60 days before the annual ed -Gavit, secretary of the Indiana Judicial Council, reported results of a questionnaire sent to more than 4000 state lawyers opinions on legal re-

asking to- | forms. His report revealed that

lawyers favored:

Urge Court Abolition ~ Increasing ‘membership of the State Si Court: to 11 members er a recently adopted

- . |amendment ‘to the state Constitu-

a ei be rebuilt and, “I'll come back some day and give you a real show.” She boarded th TWA liner for New York. Mrs. Odlum was known as Miss ‘| Cochrane on her first visit here, but her’ to Floyd B. Odlum, New York investment broker, .

announced folowing her first crash.

matter of unemployment insurance, though we should. encourage the states to develop the system of un-

employment insurance, ” Mr. Ald-

rich said. _

“Let us abolish both the 3 per cent’

tax on pay rolls and the 3 per cent tax on wages directly paid by labor, in getting funds for old-age pen-

~.. Would Tax $500 Incomes ..“Let us limit the old-age pensions to cases of need, and raise the funds for them by a widely distributed tax on all classes of population, say a tax at a low rate on all incomes, including corporate incomes, ' above $500, making large use of the principle of collection at the source on small incomes from wages to simplify ration.” In proposing to scr the Roosevelt old-age -age pens , Mr, Aldrich strikes at. certain fundamental theories involved, not only in the Roosevelt program itself, but in the whole “economic process which led to its adoption. ‘For one thing, the Roosevelt proStam recognizes the right of a citi-n-to be assisted, ier ‘he reaches

: aged ‘which: he Jecou) ;

that neither Germany nor England ever set up any reserve fund as contemplated. “In saving the good of the Pederal Social Security Act let us drop

both 0h north and south. of Warsaw.

the co-ercion ‘of the states in the

Capitol Clo fers Shop

tak ecare of them, and on a pauper basis. !

‘was

ton hand -abolitich of the Appellate

SH etion of judges on nonpartisan tickets and opposed Judges. A change in the law to permit seating of alternate jurors in criminal cases for duty in event of ill-

Zachariah Chafee Jr. of the Harvard University Law School. told the attorneys in an address at the annual banquet that recent surveys have demonstrated that the jury system in criminal cases is not the weak: link it was supposed to be in the enforcement of law. He cited figures in a Chicago survey revealing that fewer than 10 per cent of persons arrested never

‘| ness of one of the regular:

was | come before a jury.

“Obviously the proper points for improvement are the district attorney’s office and the so-called inferior court to ‘which the prisoner is brought immediately after arrest,”

The committee on: criminal law |

in a report to the association com-

‘mended members of the association

for securing passage through the state Legislature of ,268 new laws dealing phases of criminal law and said that a general satisfaction with: these newly-enacted laws generally exists. The laws were: (1) An act for securing attendance of witnesses from within and without the state in criminal proceedings; (2) An act for extradition of criminals; (3) An act authorizing the arrest and custody ‘of persons closely pursued in this state by peace officers of other states. The fact that the committee invited suggestions from judges, prosecuting attorneys and other law enforcing agencies for law changes was construed by the report as meaning that the criminal laws of the state are fairly satisfactory and that emphasis should be put on administration. A lessening of crime in the state and a more Stern attitude on the part..of law enforcement agencies by the committee. The ~ was signed by Attorney General Philip butz Jr.. chairman; -B. Howard Caughran, William Fitzgerald Jr., Ben Scifres ang Bimss ley Johnsom:" :

appointive |

The coalition, organized July 1 Toledo under the motto of “a mil lion women by Nov. 1, is to hold a state organization : jo day in the Hotel Lincoln. - Mrs. Kin Hubbard. national chairman and temporary state ch man, and Miss Lililan Harris, N York, are to direct the organiz of the Indiana division. Mrs. Mabel Eichel, New nationa] director, als is to be’ Monday to assist in setting up Indiana unit.

Pledged to Back Landon The coalition is pledged “to : and vote for the election of Alfred M. Landon as President and ' for

“We are appealing to many 1 en who never have participated politics before,” Mrs. Hubbard ss “Furthermore, the new organiss tion is not interested in state local politics. 2 ‘Our fight is being carried on cause we believe in the Principles of our American form of government as tested and developed throu 1 more than 150 years of Amert civilization and progress,” Hubbard said, “and that the therance of these principles is best assurance of safety, happint and prosperity to all citizens of t United States.”

Committee Is Selected Local committees have bel named for Monday's meeting. The arrangements committes members are: Mrs. Fletch Hodges, Mrs. Russell Fortune

Mrs. William H, Wemmer, Mrs. Jo H. Kittle, Mrs. Harry -E. Barn , Mrs. Edson /T. Wood. Mrs. Con Ruckelshaus, Mrs. Irving Fau Mrs. Russell McDermott, Mrs. erick. Matson, Mrs. John Ruc haus, Mrs. Wilbur Johnson, Haute Booth Tarkington Jameson Mrs. Archer Sinclair, Mrs. ; nard W. Schotters, Mrs. on Lemcke, Mrs. William Ray Adams, Mrs. Thomas Madden, Mrs. J miah Caddick, Mrs. Ray Sh ker, Mrs. William H. Morrison .

Roemler, Mrs. Wolf Sussman, Mr Wallace Tomy, Mrs,” Telford Orb son, Mrs. Robert Frost Daggett, Mrs, David Ross, Mrs. M. Mendenhall. Mrs. W. D. Little, Mrs. Will Rockwood, Mrs. 'S’ B. Walker, William A. Atkins, Mrs. ¢ Wood, Mrs. E. J. Boleman, Mrs. . Frank Lahr, Mrs. Fred Ma Mrs. Augustus Coburn, Mrs, field Moore, Mrs. A, Sims, M Elmer Sherwood. Miss Kath:

Brown and Miss Florence Tha