Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1936 — Page 8
ROP DOOMED, SURVEY SHOWS
ins May Improve Late Crops in Area, Weather Bureau Says. °
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) to complete failure pracHoma oro oblcte Toh) the Central Plains, Southwestern and EastCentral areas, the United States Weather Bureau reported today. Late corn, however, would show great improvement if good rains fall hin the near future, the report The spring wheat crop is mostly - poor or a failure, while winter wheat yields are better than at first ex-
pected east of the Mississippi River, |’
. the Bureau said. A water shortage in a great part ~ of the corn and wheat region, even in the extreme east, was reported in the survey. In the central and eastern sections the oats crop is _ better than forecasters expected and late hay, although generally poor, - was saved in good condition, ‘the Bureau said.
Truck Gardens Hit
Gardens and truck crops are very - poor or a failure in most places, and fruit crops are short in Michigan, according to the report. . Temperatures for the week ending today ranged from 1 to 14 degrees above normal, with moderate temperatures gradually settling over the Midwest. Many places in the Southwestern, North-Central and Northeastern portions of the Midwest had the highest temperatures ever experienced. The highest reported was 120 degrees in Oklahoma. Moderate to heavy rains were reported from almost all sections except Kansas and Nebraska.
DRUG, FOOD, HEALTH GROUP HAS PARLEY
State Association Opens Annual
Meeting at Manitou.
Times Special . ROCHESTER; Ind.,.July 22.—Indiana Food, Drug and Health Association officials opened their twoday summer meeting at Lake Manitou today. -Speakers are to include Harry Garret, Chicago district chief of the » United States Food and Drug Administration, ana John A. J. Funk, Galveston, State Board of Pharmacy member. Martin L. Lang, Indianapolis, State Food and Drug Commissioner, © Is organization president. Other of-
. ficers are Dr. Herman G. Morgan,
Indianapolis Board of Health secretary, vice president, and Berniece G. Davis, Indianapolis, secretarytreasurer. New officers are to be elected.
_ SETTLEMENT IN I. U. LABOR FIGHT SOUGHT
Dispute to Be Considered by U. S. Officials in Washington.
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BLOOMINGTON, July 22—F. M. Logan, state PWA director, announced today that settlement of labor controvery between Leslie Colvin, Indianapolis contractor, and laborers on Indiana University buildings, is to be sought in Washington, D. Laborers Ge seeking an increase from 40 to 50 cents an hour. Hod * carriers are asking 672 cents an hour. This latter, Mr. Colvin said, he was willing to pay, but he re- . mained adamant in his refusal to pay common laborers more than 40 ~ cents,
TAXI DRIVER ARRESTED
~ Argument Over Five Cents Leads to Fight, Police Say.
‘An argument over five cents led to a fight between a taxi driver, J.
- Malcolm Polley, 28, of 101 N. New|
~ Jersey-st, and James Kinbred, 34, of 800 N. New Jersey-st, his passenger, early today, police said. Polley was arrested on an assault ‘and battery charge after he is alleged to have struck and knocked down Kinbred, police said. The con- ~ dition of the injured man is not _ serious.
PICK WRONG MOTORIST
Detroit Men Punished for Crowding Sheriffi’s Car Off Road. Times Special DANVILLE, Ind. July 22.—Louis Lapeer, 37, and Theo Lapeer, 40, both of Detroit, crowded the wrong
3 a $25 fine for intoxication. Lapeer was fined $25 for intoxication. bs
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of John M. Penny, truck driver.
CONDITION OF BLAST VICTIM IS SERIOUS
{| Pittsboro Man Is Burned in
Prest-0-Lite Accident.
Elmer Downs, 30, of Pittsboro, burned yesterday in an explosion at the Speedway City plant of the Prest-O-Lite Co., was reported in a serious condition today at Methodist Hospital. Three other men were injured in the blast. They are Chester Tucker, 44, of 1210 Carlton-st; Clyde Wist, 27, of Jamestown, and Herman Schooley, 48, of 1038 S. Sheflield-av. Tucker and Wist were treated at the plant, and Schooley was taken to the hospital. Their burns were not serious, physicians said. Gas fumes escaping from a boiler valve and ignited by an acetylene torch were believed to have caused the explosion. Employes said the blast was not violent, but that flames enveloped them before they could escape. Automatic sprinklers extinguished the blaze.
PENNSYLVANIA NEEDY BEGIN HUNGER MARCH
Insist They'll 1 Stay in in Capital Until Relief Is Voted. By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa. July 22. = Their unemployment relief grants cut off through legislative differ-
ences, more than 1000 “hunger marchers”’—men, women and. children—were here today, .determined not to go home until the Legislature acts.
(on formally sentenced Harry F. Peats, business agent of Teamsters and Chauffeurs Local 135, to a 2-to-21-year term yesterday in connection with the death
bench above)
EXPERT OPTIMISTIC ON HOUSING FUTURE
Dodge Corp. Sees 1936 Building Doubling That of 1933.
By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, July 22—Construction totals for 1936 -will double those for 1933, Truman S. Morgan, president of the F. W. Dodge Corp., predicts in the current issue of The Magazine of Wall Street. He believes the construction industry is firmly on the road to recovery. The Dodge company compiles construction data for the 37 states east of the Rockies. According to these figures construciton totaled $3,000,000,000 in the first six months of 1929. + By 1933 it had dropped to $430,000,000 for the first six months. The year 1935 showed a 50 per cent gain over 1934 and the first six months of 1936 showed a 60 per cent gain over the same period last year.
STORES AND OFFICE LOOTED BY BURGLARS
Thefts Reported by Druggist, Grocery and Refrigerator Firm,
Two stores in the 3800 block Eng-lish-av and the Refrigeration Equipment Co., 931 N. Meridian-st, were entered by burglars last night, according to police. Merchandise valued at $125 and $4 was stolen from the Kahn Drug Store, 3811 English-av, and $10 in merchandise was reported missing from the Hunter Grocery, 3813 Eng-lish-av. Breaking a glass on a second-floor door, burglars entered the equipment firm’s offices and knocked the combination off. two safes. Fifteen tiollars were reported taken from one safe.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD + By William Ferguson
RANGE IN SIZE FROM
A SPECK THE SIZE OF A PIN HEAD TO GIANT GROWTHS
SNAKES ARE LATE-COMERS AMONG THE REPTILES/ THEY APPEARED ON EARTH MANY MILLIONS OF YEARS AFTER THE REPTILE AGE...
Today, when reptiles are mentioned, one instinctively thinks of snakes, but they were not even present upon the earth during the millions of years when reptiles ruled the planet. Fossil snakes have been found in no deposits earlier than the middle Cenozoic era, long after the great dinosaurs and other reptile kings had disappeared.
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Left to right in front of the bench are Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer, Fae W. Patrick, defense counsel; Peats and Frank A. Peats was convicted of voluntary manslaughter.
Symmes, defense co-counsel.
MERGER ANNOUNGED FOR HOLG OFFICES
Agency to Take Former Law School Quarters.
State and district offices of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. are to be : consolidated in the former quarters of the Indiana Law School in the Insurance Building about
Sept. 1, Jack Strickland, HOLC state manager, announced today. State offices now are located in the Peoples Bank Building and district offices in the Farmers Trust Co. Building. Approximately 9000 square feet will be available on the sixth floor of the Insurance Building, Mr. Strickland said. The consolidation is in the interest of economy and efficiency, he added. Indiana collections for June were more than 100 per cent of the billings for amounts due on loans, he said. The HOLC has closed 48,830 loans totaling $112,177,732.568 in Indiana during its period as a lending unit.
PRINCETON DOCTOR SEES QUINTUPLETS
Dr. Dafoe Visits With Hoosiers Who Stop at Dionne Hospital Times Special PRINCETON, July 22.—One smalltown doctor visited another small | town doctor in Callender, Ontario, Canada, recently.
One was Dr. O.'M. Graves of this city. The other was Dr. ‘Allen Roy Dafoe. ™ Dr. Graves, with his wife and
children, touring Canada on .a vaca-
tion trip, stopped in Callender for a view of the Dionne babies and a chat with Dr. Dafoe.
‘HONORARY’ OFFICER HELD IN SHOOTING |"
Gary Deputy, 70, Faces Charges After Slaying of Industrial Officer.
Times Special GARY, Ind. July 22. — Charles Wilson, 70-year-old “honorary deputy sheriff,” was held here on manslaughter charges after the fatal shooting last night of John Brackman, 58, industrial poligéman. Coroner J. E. Doty sald there was evidence that Brackman provoked the shooting. Witnesses said the two were arguing over who was “the better G-man.”
4-H LEADER IN COURT
Dr. Z. M. Smith Accused of Being Hit-and-Run Driver. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind, July 22— Waiving preliminary hearing Municipal Court yesterday on a charge of leaving the scene of an 10-year ola accident in which two Year-o boys were injured, Dr. M. Smith, state 4-F Club leader. 2) bound over to the September term of Circuit’ Court by Judge Thomas Moran. The accident occurred July 12. One of the boys, Keonard Musgrave, still is confined in a hospital.
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“ON FLU GERMS |
Harvard Researchers Tell |
of Experiments With Violet Rays.
By United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass; July 22.— Two Harvard University scientists announced today that they have discovered a means of killing in
fluenza germs by violet ray and] }
hope eventually to perfect a technique that will remove the disease from among man’s major scourges. Dr. W. F. Wells, instructor in science at the Harvard Health, and Dr. H. W. Brown of the London School of Tropical Medicine have been
Workings veat on the experiments,
tank. Virus. from the lungs of BE ror mrt the \AmE, ‘then drawn off in test
Suggest Air Treatments Ferrets given the treated virus failed to contract the disease, while those that breathed the untreated virus immediately developed influenza. “In view of the proved possibility of infected matter being carried by air,” Dr. Wells said, “reasonable efforts to free air supplies from living micro-organisms are justified in the light of general sanitary principles. . The effectiveness of ultra-violet light for such purposes would also seem to be demonstrated by our experiments. “The great reduction of intestinal disease through water purification since the turn of the century might prompt us to hope that some of the diseases which are transmitted through the respiratory tract may be checked by methods of purifying air supplies.”
Lengthy Preparatory Work
Special precautions were taken to prevent the germs from escaping from the tank into the outside air around Harvard Medical School, as they might have caused an epidemic among the students. The air in which: the virus had been sprayed had to be burned after the experiments. The virus is fine enough to pass through the smallest filter. The original material for the experiments was obtained by field workers of the Rockefeller Institute in Puerto Rico during an influenza epidemic. Preparatory work before the actual experiments could be started took five years. The germs were brought to Harvard suspended in liquid.
—— [STATE POLICEMAN T0 ATTEND SCHOOL
One of 15 Selected for for Training at Harvard Aug. 17-29.
Theodore Lovelace, Indiana State Police patrolman, is to go to the Trafic Officers Training School to be held at Harvard University Aug. 17-29, Donald F. Stiver, state safety director, announced today. Mr. Lovelace is one of 15 police officers in the United States chosen to take the course by the International ‘Association of Chiefs of Police, The school is sponsored by. the association and the Harvard Bureau of Traffic Research. .
ABC DENIES REHEARING
Michigan City Club Operator's License Ordered Revoked. By United Press
Application of Jack Nahas, operator of the Club Monarch at Michigan City, for a rehearing of a case in which his liquor license was revoked, was denied today by the State Alcoholic Beverages Commission. Naha’s license was revoked after he pleaded guilty to public intoxication, an infraction of ABC regulations.
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Democratic U. S. Senator Ahead of Monaghan; Returns Few.
By United Press BUTTE, Mont., July 22 — Senator James E. Murray and Rep. Joseph P. Monaghan battled on even terms today for the Democratic nominae tion to the United States Senate. On the basis of scattered returns
B | from the state's 1237 precincts Sene | ator Murray held a slim 10-vote i'|lead over Rep. Monaghan. Two
—Photo by F. M. Kirkpatrick.
Being a soldier is not all drilling and rifle practice for members of the Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Harrison, as the above scehe indicates. The recruits were snapped during one of their recrea-
tion periods at the camp.
Heavy Traffic in City Inspires ‘Unique Pedestrian Safety Plan
Corridors Under Washington, ington, Meridian-sts, Reached by
Escalators, Proposed by Unemployed Man.
ag cars as he attempted to cross the busy intersection of Me-
ridian and Washington-sts, Morris maker, had an idea.
E. Selby, 32-year-old jobless lard
The idea taking shape in his mind, he went to public libraries and studied almost every available tome on fraffic problems and engineering.
An H. G. Wells movie is a proper setting for drawings Mr. Selby made of his $250,000 project. Picture yourself going down by escalator into a 20-foot wide corridor running north and south beneath the street at the intersection of Meridian and Washingtonsts. On each side of the corridor are shops. Mr. Selby proposed to excavate the entire intersection and place an up and down escalators at the north side and at the south side. The escalators would be. 72 feet wide or 15 feet at each end.
‘Would Cost Nothing
So the project would be no added tax burden, Mr. Selby proposed that it be operated under a 20-year franchise. The revenue, which he estimated would bring a return of 15 per cent on the investment, would be obtained from rental of the shops. Street car passengers would enter guarded loading zones by stairway from the underground corridor.
“With an Indianapolis Exposition planned for 1940, the world could see the most modern answer to the pedestrian traffic problem if the project were undertaken,” Mr. Selby
said. Mr.
For the last four months, Selby has been going from office to office attempting to peddle his project. Now, he believes, he has scme= one who is more than mildly interested in the plan.
HOOSIER BANKER DEAD
Alvin Ulrey, North Manchester, Also
Was School Board President. Times Special NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind, July 22.—Alvin Ulrey, Indiana Lawrence Bank vice president, died yesterday of apoplexy. Mr. Ulrey, who was 65, was president of the North Manchester school board. Two children survive.
1, C. C. TRUCK RULE IS LUNCHEON TOPIC
Opposition Plans to Be Drawn Up at Meeting.
The Interstate Commerce Com-
| mission’s recent ruling for a 45-mile-
an-hour speed limit for trucks is to be discussed at a meeting Friday noon in the Hotel Antlers, sponsored by Howard T. Roe, Bruce Dodson Co. safety engineer, Kansas City. Donald Stiver, Indiana safety director; Delmar Mitzner, Indiana Motor Traffic Association secretary; Sergt. Ed Moore and Capt. Lewis Johnson, Indianapolis Police
‘Traffic Department, are to attend.
The PUrDgee of the meeting, Mr. Roe said, is to draw up plans to oppose the I. C. C. ruling permitting interstate trucks to travel 45 miles an hour on highways. The
former speed limit was 35 miles an hour.
NIAGARA
other candidates trailed. Gov. Elmer Holt took an. early commanding lead over Rep. Roy B, Ayers for the Democratic suberna~ torial nomination. J. J. O'Connor, Butte, dominated : the field in the race for the Demo= cratic congressional nomination from the First district. H. L. Hart, Republican, was uns:
opposed. i Mike Holland, Great Falls, held a slim margin over James T. O’'Connor, Livingston, for the nomination for Democratic congressman from: the Second district. Frank Hazelbaker outdistanced: Robert Pauline, state Senator from Kalispell, for the Republican gubere
. | natorial nomination.
F. A. Stockdal, Billings, led the field of five in the Second District Republican congressional race.
One hundred and forty precincts gave:
Democrats:
Senator—Murray, 7421; Monage han, 7411; Chief Justice Walter B, Sands, 1008; Associate Justice S. V,. Stewart, 5519. Governor—Holt, 8764; Ayers, 5451} Miles Romney, 5360; H. L. Maury, 1983; Frank F, Hayes, 225.
One hundred and six precincts gave:
Republicans:
Senator—T. O. Larson, Choteau, 1656; L. Ray Carroll, 1202; Jess Stevens, 660; Hugh Egan, 467. Governor -— Hazelbaker, 32053 Pauline, 295. Issues were mainly local. The candidates put forward by the Democrats all favor President Roosevelt and the New Deal, and all have gone on record for some system of old-age pensiofi payment,
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