Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1936 — Page 9
BY JOE COLLIER : Times Staff Writer * VINCENNES, Ind. Aug. 5.—Three $s ago last winter, Mrs. Thomas : re, a Hoosier born, gave birth to . & baby in a tent situated on the banks of the Wabash, between the: levee and the river. The tent was one of the; more Spastentious of the dwellings that e up Pearl City, Nobody knew much of the latest arrival in the .Poore family. They nam him Tom. At that time Mr. Poore, the father, had been without a regular job since 1929. The Vincennes Red Cross chapter helped out the family some. The Poore family might still have been living in that tent if it had not been for a series of events, most of which they probably to this day know nothing about. As it is, however, they are comfortably quartered in a two-room brick house, with a concrete floor and hard-plaster finish walls that the cook stove kept so warm last winter “that we didn’t know there ‘was a winter.” At the rear of their new home they have a new chicken house, and ‘chicken ‘yard, a new coal shed and a sanitary toilet. Mr. Poore has a -$44-a-month Works Progress Administration job. Tom Junior is a husky lad. The family is one that was moved from Pearl City to Sunset Court. by
“CITY CHURCH GROUP TO ATTEND RETREAT
Annual Catholic Event to Begin : Tomorrow at Notre Dame.
* An Indianapolis delegation is to go to Notre Dame University to“morrow to attend the eighteenth “annual Catholic Laymen’s Retreat, “Which is to be held tomorrow, Frirr Sday, Saturday and ‘Sunday. The Rev. Patrick H. Dolan, ©. 8. C, of Holy Cross ‘Fathers, is ~ .retreat director. Assisting him are to be the Rev. William A. Bolger, ‘the Rev. John B. DeLaunay and ‘the Rev. Frederick Schulte, Holy Cross priests.. - Every state in the Middle West is expected to be represented. Cons ‘ferences and religious functions are ‘to be held under trees surrounding the Lourdes Grotto.
P. S. C. AUTHORIZES OAKLAND CITY PLAN
Municipal Water Plant Plant Purchase to ; be Made by Bond Sale
. The Public Service Commission yesterday approved the purchase of ‘the Oakland City Water Co. by Oakland City. The commission also approved articles of incorporation of the Wayne County Rural Electric Membership Corp. Oakland City has been operating the water company on a lease, and its purchase involves the retirement ‘of $38,000 worth of outstanding stock which it proposed to do by the sale i of 4 per cent revenue bonds to ma‘ture in 10 years. The Wayne County organization is & non-profit power company organized to provide electricity for
SIMS DESCENDANTS’ REUNION ARRANGED
Annual Meeting to be Held at Riverside Sunday
basket dinner is to be followed an entertainment program. Mss. Maud Jones, Indianapolis, 1s ; presiden
the Vincennes Sotial Welfare Foundation, Inc. The Poores “are proud of their home; the Foundation is proud of the Poores. Every one connected is proud of the profuse flower garden and the nice green lawn Mr. Poore has been able to raise in this, a drought summer. “Mister,” he said, “I'll bet I've pumped and carried 2000 gallons of water to that garden.”
Here's What Happened
This is what happened to the Poores that they haven't inquired into. The City of Vincennes, Knox County, the State of Indiana and
the Federal government decided to build for more than $2,000,000 a monument to George Rogers Clark, and the city decided to landscape the part of the city that contained Pearl City. Razing buildings to make way for the monument and its grounds, the George Rogers Clark Memorial
Association collected a large number
of used bricks. Meantime, the city bought .for $250 an acre a tract of 50 acres, 38 of which adjoined the cemetery and which were intended and an expansion to it. - The other 12 were across the tracks and unsuitable for a cemetery and were bought only because the owner would not sell anything less than the whole tract.
Meantime, also, the Vincennes
$263,000 INCREASE NOTED ON IMPORTS
District Customs Bureau Reports 1926 Gain.
An increase of $263,000 “in the value of merchandise passing through the Indiana district office of United States Customs here dur< ing July over the same month a year ago, was reported today by customs officials. During the last fiscal year, “collections totaled $7.369,359 which, officials said, put the Indiana district in thirteenth place among 48 districts of the department. The Indiana district exceeded such large ports as Michigan, Ohio and Florida, which have customs stations on waterways that are used extensively in international commerce, officials said. The value of merchandise passing through the local station last month was $554,886 as compared to $291,091 a year ago, the report stated.
40,000 ETHIOPIANS MOVE ON ITALIANS
Ras Imru, Warrior Chietain, Reorganizes Huge Army. By United Press GORE, Western Ethiopia, Aug. 5. —Ras Imru, warrior chieftain, has reorganized an army of 60,000 men and 40,000 of them are marching eastward toward the Amhara district of which Addis Ababa is the chief city. Ethiopian sources assert that the advancing column is inflicting heavy damage in attacks on Italian posts on its way to the capital. : The elder son of Ras Kassa, for-
has been assigned by the provision-
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PASTOR NAMED TO POST
The Rev. Grant Lewis to Fill Mission Position in Arkansas.
The Rev. Grant K. Lewis, 27 8S -avV, department of church development and evangelism in the United Christian
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Emergency Relief which wds composed of staunch citizens and which handled the food and clothing relief needs of the indigent, found the state and Federal governments taking over the financial burden of relief. It so happened that the committee had recently put on a drive and had about $12,000 on hand, which it conserved. Thus, when the city wanted to move Pearl City for landscaping purposes, the raw materials for Sunset Court were on hand. The city deeded over the 12 acres to the Foundation, which was formed from the old relief committee. The Memorial Association gave the Foundation all the bricks it wanted.
20 Brick Homes Built
With its $12,000 in the treasury, the Foundation was able to build, with WPA labor, 20 brick houses, with coal sheds, chicken houses and toilets. All new material for each of the “homesteads” cost about $350. In-
cluded in the purchased materials were concrete, sills and doors, windows, lumber Ior roofs, coal sheds, etc., and asbestos roofing. There are 12,000 bricks in each of the two-room dwellings; 15,000 in the three-room dwellings. The walls are eight inches thick; the concrete floors nine inches.
Houses Built to Last
Guy R. Dunphy, vice president of the Foundation, said that the houses are built to stay. “They are durable,” he said, “and can be kept clean easily. All new material was used in the outbuildings because we intend to have them last. We will paint them next year again. “We haven’t had .a case of serious illness in any of the families
ple, most of them, have taken pride
in them. - We sign leasés now for
‘only six months, andthe ent is $1 for that period. ; “We have built a community house and the Vincennes Ministerial Association conducts Sunday morning services. Attendance is compulsory.
The ‘Children Come First
“The most serious, social troubles we have had are quarrels started among the children and taken up by the adults. They have been easy to adjust. “We are interested principally in the children, and there’s not.a child in. the court that doesn’t look healthy. In fact, all of our relief work has been pointed toward the children of the families.” The “we” in the case are, prin. cipally: W. H. Hill, an attorney, Foun dation president; Mr. Dunphy; Mrs, Helen Phillippi, daughter of a socially prominent physician, secretary; Ira D. Schaffer, president of
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INDIANA RELIEF TAKES BIG DROP
One in 31 Got Poor Aid in June; One in Eight a Year Ago.
One out of 31 residents in Indiana received poor relief from township trustees in June of this year, compared to one out of eight persons receiving assistance in June, 1535, it was reported today by officials of the Indiana Public Welfare Department. The department also pointed out
| a decline in poor relief aid by trus-
No. 1 shows Guy R. Dunphy, Vincennes Social Service Foundation vice president. No. 2—A street scene in Sunset Court. No. 3—A bedroom in one of the houses. No.
4—Ritchen.
No. 5—Children- watering flowers in the
front lawn of one of the houses.
the American National Bank, treasurer; Mrs. Helen Bierhaus, wealthy and socially prominent widow; Mrs. W. A. Stein; wife of the manager and vice president of the Ebner Ice and Cold Storage Co., one of the largest such concerns in the state; Mrs. C. E. Travis, wife of the president of the Vincennes Transfer Co.;
= Mrs. Dexter Gardner, whose hus-
band’s family has been prominent in social and business circles in the city since 1816.
Others Active in Work
" E. L. Clark, an insurance man; M. D. Gould, an auto dealer; Thomas B. Coulter, former Superior Court judge; Dr. G. D. Pielemeier, prominent dentist; William H. Willmore; W. H. Zwilling, superintendent of the Vincennes branch of the Brown Shoe Co., all of whom are Foundation members, and Mayor Joseph W. Kimmel, who, as ex-officio member, lent city partment heads to the committee when they were needed. Has it worked?
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court. What Mr. Poore Thinks “It has worked so well that we
‘are going to build some more, when
we get the money,” he said. Has is "worked for Mr. Poore and his family? “Well,” “Mr. Poore said, “we never did have nothing, and for that matter we don’t have nothin’ now. But we have a house, and it's warm, and we aren't always being sick. We have food, and we don’t have to worry about being put out if we can’t pay the rent. “We just had electric lights. put in, and we have a radio. We're safe and were happy.” .
tees from one in 18 persons in January of 1936 to the present figure. The caseload during June was 34,050 against 108,247 cases in the same month last year, a reduction of 86.5 per cent. “One of the interesting features of the report is the rapid decline in cases of families receiving unemployment relief and the relatively small drop in single cases,” the bulletin said. “Family cases were responsible for 82.1 per cent of the decline in June, while single cases were only 17.9 per cent. One explanation advanced was that most families contain one or more employable persons, whereas most of the single cases are unemployable.” The bulletin declares the size of
families- -on relief have grown smaller with the average family receiving relief in June, 1935, containing 4.2 persons, while in June of this year the family average was 3.7 persons. Relief administration obligations have decreased, the bulletin said, with June’s obligations totaling $486,761.30 or a decrease of 8.3 per cent from May compared with a 7.8 per cent decrease in caseload.
Too Much Fun
By United Press ROCHESTER, Aug. 5.—Four-year-old Virgil Bryant played “horse” with his companions, but he failed to use “horse sense” when required to eat leaves or grass during the course of the game. oung Bryant unknowingly nched poison ivy leaves, Today he received treatment at a hospital for internal ills and external eruptions.
ASSERTS INNOCENCE AS HE DIES IN CHAIR
Convictéed Slayer Prays for His Executioners,
By United Press TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 5.—Edward Metelski, 26-year-old murderer, died in the electric chair last night |praying that God would forgive his executioners for “murdering an innocent man.” * He was convieted of killing State Policeman Warren G. Yenser last November in flight from a Philadelphia cafe hold-up. He insisted that a companion fired the shot.
Find Three-Legged Frog Times Special BEDFORD, Aug. 5.—A full-grown bull frog with three well-developed front legs is being displayed: here. It was caught by George L. Raraden. The extra leg has five toes instead of the usual four.
BOY DODGES AUTO, STRUCK BY ANOTHER .
William Gabbei, 9, Knocked Down, - Receives Injuries to Body. Dodging out. of the way of one auto, William Gabbei, 9, of 825 E. Georgia-st, stepped into the path of another driven by George Sprague, 22, of 1658 N. Delaware-st, at Georgia and East-sts late yesterday. He was knocked to the pavement and received body injuries. Clarence House, 13, of 416 W. 14the st, was injured last night when his bicycle collided with another at Smith and Missouri-sts.
Bargain Week- End Trips
Next Saturday CLEVELAND .$5.00
Leave 10:00 p. m.- Return on any train until 2:35 a. m. Monday. Coach service, Visit the Great Lakes Exposition.
DETROIT ............$5.00 TOLEDO .............. 425 SANDUSKY ........... 500
Leave 10:00 p. m. Return reach In. dianapolis not later than Monday morning following. Coach service.
Pay a visit to the Henry Ford exhibit at historic. Greenfield Village in Dears born, near Detroit.
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