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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TRAFFIC DEATH

COUNT AT 104;

TOPS ’36 BY 2

Ed Billman, 66, Dies After Being Struck by Car While Walking.

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

TRAFFIC ARRESTS

Speeding Reckless Driving Drunken Driving Running Preferential Street .... Running Red Light Parking Others

Marion County's 1937 traffic death

toll mounted to 104 with the death in City Hospital early today of Ed Billman, 68, received when he walked in front of an auto Sunday.

arrested on speeding charges and six for reckless driving. Sixty alleged violators were to face charges in Municipal Court today.

Driver of the car which killed Mr. |

Billman was William Graham, 23, of 1110 Southeastern Ave. cident and New Jersey Sts. lived on S. Senate Ave.

Mr. Billman

A. J. Rook, R. R. 18, Box 338, was |

injured today when his car was In | Collision with a truck at Main and | 16th Sts.. Speedway City. The truck | are Clancy Long, 24, of Plain- | field, and a companion, Chester | Roney, 28, Plainfield, escaped injury. Forty-four motorists, many of | them from out of town, paid a | total of $247 in fines and costs in | Municipal Court today. A total of | $110 in costs were suspended. | Twelve speeders were ordered to pay fines and costs totaling $163. | Seven traffic signal violators were | fined $69. Five were charged with | reckless driving and paid $55. Four drivers convicted of running preferential streets paid $12.

Four Persons Killed In State Traffic

Four persons died in Indiana tralfic overnight. Two women, one of Indianapolis were killed yesterday when the car in which they were riding went out of control on Road 31, south of Fast Union, Ind. The dead are Mrs. Betty Thompson, 32, 3910 Camplin St., Indianapolis, and Mrs. Emma Anderson, 56, | Pontiac. Mich. Injuries received a week ago when the ear in which he was riding struck an abutment was fatal to 4-year-old Richard Camos, Ft. Wayne. | The child received a fractured skull | and fractures of both legs. | Mrs. Eva E. Sissons, 56, Lafayet te, | died of complications following in- |! juries she received June 23 when | the car in wheih she was riding was | involved in a three-way

collision. | She was the wife of John F. Sissons, Monon Railroad freight con- | ductor. |

Mourn Party’s ‘Little Doll’

as a result of injuries |

At this time | last year only 102 had died in traffic. | No accidents were reported last | night, although 16 motorists were |

The ac- | occurred at E. Washington

| Roberta was the “little doll”

{ poned for a month her mother said.

| several | at the Olive Branch Sunday School |

| 8 years old that day.

This is the Sunday School class which gathered for Jean Carder’s eighth birthday party. Roberta Searcy 7-year-old traffic victim, is on the left of Jean, who is holding her Ais cake. ”

‘Child Killed by Auto “Tried To Teach Safety to Mates

A group of littie girls—none of them over 8§—today mourned the | death of a Sunday school classmate, T-year-old Roberta Searcy, 2250 Union St., whose funeral was to be this afternoon. They sorrowfully recalled a birthday party a month or so ago in which of the class. It was then, when the cake had been cut and eaten, that the children received a lesson in traffic safety. Another lesson resulted Weanesuay when Roberta was killed by an automobile. - Early in July, Mrs. Louise Carder. | i “You can play with 1t in the back 2341 S. Pennsylvania St., bought her | Yard, but you can't take it out in daughter, Jean, a bicycle. | front. Jean disobeyed traffic rules

“Now, observe traffic rules. Don’t | 2nd she must be punisined,” Mrs.

Carder told them. turn around in the middle of the | ’ block,” she cautioned Jean. “What are traffic rules?”

f the little girls asked. But Jean disobeyed and she was lo punished. The bicycle gift was post- | | So Mrs. Carder grouped them

around her and explained the im- | portance of crossing streets care- ! fully. When she had finished, Carder asked the children they did when they came to sections.

one

‘Cute as a Picture’

On July 12, Mrs. Carder invited | members of Jean's class

Mrs. what inter-

birthday | who was |

to attend a party

“surprise” for her daughter,

children don’t run out street,” spoke up Roberta. | “And now the little girl who alAmong those who was | ways thought of the others is dead, Roberta Searcy. it's hard to believe,” said Mrs. “She was as cute as a picture,” | Garder, who, for 15 years, has adMrs. Carder said. vocated safety programs for chilThe children ride | dren. Jean's new bike. “Fifteen years ago my auto nearly

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CATHOLIC STUDY ON INDUSTRIAL ISSUES SLATED

Six Sessions of Conference To Be Held in City Sept. 21-22.

Committees for the Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems were named today. The Conference is to be held under the sponsorship of the Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, Bishop of Indianapolis, Sept. 21 and 22. The Right Rev. Msgr. John A. Ryan, professor of ethics and moral theology at the Catholic University of America, and the Rev. R. A. McGowan, assistant director of the department of social action of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, are among scheduled speakers. There are to be six sessions of the conference. Among subjects to he discussed are “A Survey of th= Present Economic Situation,” “A | Program for the Future,” “Social | Security and the Public Welfare,” and ‘Co- operative Relationships in Industry.”

COLUMBIA CITY BANK GETS U. S. CHARTER

CHICAGO, Soph. 5 3 (U.P.).—The

| Citizens State- Bank of Columbia | | City,

Ind., an unrestricted, non-| member bank, was admitted to the| Federal Reserve System at the di- | rection of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Reserve Bank of Chicago announced today.

WODEHOUSE WINS AWARD BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Sept. 3 (U. P.).—P. G. Wodehouse, English humorist and author, today held the Mark Twain award given annually by the international Mark Twain society.

ran over a child who ran from behind a parked car. Since then I've crusaded for safety.” Each Sunday, Mrs. Garder said, she concludes the Sunday School lesson, which she gives her boys’ class, with a safety lecture. “Safety education should begin with toddling babies. We can't afford to lose little girls like Roberta Searcy,” she concluded.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 3, 1937

BAR TO REQUEST UNIFORM AIR LAWS

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 3 (U. P.).—Uniform laws governing aeronautical activities in all 48 states will be sought by the American Bar Association at its annual meeting here Sept. 27 to Oct. 2. In preparation for the convention the association's aviation committee announced it had drafted a revised uniform state aviation law which it would submit at the annual meeting of the conference of commissioners on uniform state laws.

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Are Informed.

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 3 (U. P.).— Mental workers, tired after a long day of “thinking,” may now be re- | lieved by a new oxygen mask, Dr. | Arthur G. Bills of the University of | Cincinnati told the convention of | the American Psychological Associa- | tion today. Dr. Bills described the mask as | looking like a tightly rolled towel | tied over the mouth. It delivers to | Ue fatigued worker a combination |of 50 per cent pure oxygen mixed | with air. | The scientist said that use of the {mask cuts in half the number of | pauses per minute that come to pei- | sons engaged in brain work. The | pauses, he said, come to everyone Jang are attributed to mental fatigue —the brain taking a rest.

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TERM TO BEGIN AT INDIANA LAW SCHOOL SEPT. 13

Day and Night Classes Are To Be Offered by Institution.

Plans for the opening of the Indiana Law School of Indianapolis for its 43d annual school year next Tuesday have been announced by James M. Ogden, president. Registration will begin at 8:30 a. m. Tuesday and continue | throughout the week under the su-

pervision of a committee including Addison M. Dowling, registrar; Joseph G. Wood, dean of the day division; William R. Forney, dean of the night division and Mr. Ogden. Classes will begin Sept. 13. The registrar's office will be open until 5 p. m. each day next week and until 7:30 p. m. each evening during the week of Sept. 13 to accommodate night students. Twenty day courses and 17 night | classes will comprise the fall curric- | ulum. Two degrees, the doctor of jurisprudence and the bachelor of laws, will be available. Day classes

will meet during the morningehours and night offerings, for the most | part, have been scheduled at 6 p. m. and 7 p. m. First faculty meeting of the new | term has been set for 8 p. m. next | Thursday at the law school head- | quarters, 322 State Life Building. . | The four Greek letter societies | having chapters at the law school | have announced full programs for | the new year. They are Delta Theta Phi, Sigma Delta Kappa, Phl Delta Delta and Iota Tau Tau. Activities of the various debating and oratorical

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