Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1937 — Page 9

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TRAFFIC FINES AVERAGE $10.03 IN SEPTEMBER

Figure Is Increase of 400

Per Cent Over June, Survey Shows.

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13. per cent. Judgment was withheld or suspended in 13%z per cent of the cases last month, a decrease of 33 per cent under the May total. Chief reason for the high September average was the severity with which Judge Charles J. Kara-

- bell dealt with drunken drivers and

the inauguration of the “dollar-a-mile” system of fining speeders. The average drunken driver paid $22.29, while 273 speeders were fined $3682, or an average of $13.12 each. A total of 512 days in jail was imposed against the drunken drivers, exclusive of sentences for supplementary charges of drunkenness.

- Reckless Fines Average $9.42 " Fines for reckless driving averaged $9.42 last month. Other averages were: Running red lights, $8.16; running preferential streets, $9.56; improper lights, $3.38, and miscellaneous offenses, $6.27. ‘The number of traffic fatalities

compared with monthly fines aver-

ages were: May, six deaths, $4.11 fines; June, 12 deaths, $2.42 fines; July, nine deaths, $7.61 fines; August, four deaths, $8.12 fines, and September, six deaths, $10.03 fines. . Only major offenses were included in the survey. Improper parking, no driver's license, improper license plates and similar minor charges were omitted.

Figures Are Listed

The miscellaneous item includes offenses such as riding four in the front seat, leaving the scene of an accident, illegal left turns, driving through a safety zone and passing a street car on the wrong side. ‘Figures for the last five months: * May—-743 convictions; $3065 paid in fines; costs suspended in in 382 cases, or approximately 52 per cent; judgment withheld or suspended in 246 cases, or 33 per cent; all but 58 of the cases heard by Judge Karabell; the others in Judge Dewey Myers’ Court 3. > June—889 convictions; ‘$2417 paid in fines; costs suspended in all but 51 cases, or 94.3 per cent; judgment

. withheld or suspended in more than

50 cases; 534 cases heard by Judge Myers, 56 by Judge Karabell and

299 by judges pro tem.

July—1381 convictions; $10,511 paid in fines; costs suspended in 501 cases, or 36 per cent; judgment withheld or suspended in 237 cases; 1336 cases heard by Judge Karabell, 45 by Judge Myers. August—1202 convictions; $9771 paid in fines; costs suspended in 389 cases, or approximately 32 per cent; judgment withheld or suspended in 92 cases; all but 61 cases heard by Judge Myers, the rest by -Judge Karabell. September—1116 convictions; $11,194 paid in fines; costs suspended in 145 cases, or 13 per cent; judgment withheld or suspended in 153 cases; all but 40 cases heard by Judge Karabell, the rest by Judge Myers. X

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC » DEATHS TO DATE

cea TRAFIC ACCIDENTS Oct. 5

Accidents ......... Injured ............ PRA TRAFFIC ARRESTS

Speeding Running red light Running preferential street. Reckless driving ......co0e0 Drunken driving Improper parking ......c.000 Others ........... Cessrasans

Days Designated In Safety Campaign

Police traffic department officials today designated separate days next week for campaigning against each type of traffic law violator during Accident Prevention Week. Lieut. Lawrence McCarty, Accident Prevention Bureau head, and Capt. Lewis Johnson, Traffic Division chief, also planned an educational program designed to prevent accidents. Careless motorists were warned of this campaign: Monday, against drunken drivers; Tuesday, speeders; Wednesday, reckless drivers; Thursday, failure to stop at preferential streets; Friday, red light runners; enforcement of hand signal laws. Each night officers will be on the lookout for cars with bright lights or only one headlight and that each day they will look for cars bearing

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. bent or marred license plates, it was

said. : Injuries Show Decrease

Traffic officials cited records showing that during the year ended July 15, 1036, 1153 persons were injured in traffic here while during the year ended July 15, 1937, there were 1376. They cited also that during the year ended Oct. 3, 1936, the number injured was 2169, while during the

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Accident Fatal

ENGINEER DIES IN TRAIN WRECK

Indianapolis Man Pinned Under Cab; Two Others Are Injured.

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about 40 or 45 years, friends said. Born in Vigo County, he had lived most of his life here and in Terre Haute. Six: Survive Him

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Gladys Webster; a son, Byron; a daughter, Mrs. Marie Moore; his brother, Charles, and two grandchildren. Albert Dixon, 3716 E. 35th St, injured slightly in the train wreck, is married and has two children, June, 15, and Alfred Jr. 12. William Jett, 833 N. Tacoma Ave., also was injured’ slightly. He is maried and has four sons, William, Theodore and Daniel Jett, all of Indianapolis, and Frank Jett, stationed in China with the U. S. Navy, and a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Stoneburner, 2115 Bosart Ave.

year ended Oct. 3, 1937, the number was decreased to 1963. The reduction was credited to law enforcement and co-operation of the judiciary and press. The educational program is to stress safe driving pointers for rainy and snowy days. Officials said that a new ordinance is planned which. would control the operation of trackless trolleys. It might establish zones at curbs for loading and unloading, they said. At present, neither City nor State laws govern operation of these carriers. Attention of motorists was called to an ordinance which prohibits parking within five feet of driveways. Capt. Johnson said that 28 motorcycle officers now are on traffic duty, but eight of them spend part time near schools. He said that it is the division’s aim to patrol the streets with motorcycles 24 hours a day when equipment is provided.

31 Drivers Draw $7.03 Average Fine

Municipal Judge Dewey Myers today fined 31 persons an average of $7.03 on traffic violation charges. Seven speeders were fined $65 for an average of $9.28. Sixteen were fined $85 for running preferential streets and eight who ran red lights were fined $46. Among the speeders were three Shortridge High School students. Judge Myers assessed them. $1 and costs each for driving about 40

AGREEMENT AT

LINK BELT ENDS UNION ‘STAY-IN'

Milk Driver Walkout Seems Less Likely, State Officials Say.

Following settlement of the oneday “stay in” strike at the Link Belt Co. Dodge plant, 515 Holmes St., the State Labor Division today attempted to avert threatened walkouts of union milk wagon drivers. State conclliators reported there

t | was little possibility of a general

milk strike here, but added disputes may arise between the Milk and Ice Cream Drivers, Salesmen and Employees Union 774, an American Federation of Labor affiliate, and individual dairies. John T. Williams, union business agent, said efforts would be continued to obtain signed labor agreements with each Indianapolis company. He reported that the local union, which is reported to have 500 members, has voted approval of a general strike. None is anticipated immediately, Mr. Williams said, although if negotiations fail, a strike may be called at each company where an agreement cannot be reached. The union is to hold a mass meeting in the Athenaeum at 7:30 p. m. tonight. Don Spugnardi, Indianapolis Milk Council president, said he understood copies of agreements the union wants signed have been distributed to dairies, but that so far the union has made no effort to open negotiations. ) In answer, union officials reported they had difficulty arranging conferences with some dairy officials. The Link Belt agreement was reached following a four-hour conference between company union officials and Assistant State, Labor Commissioner Arthur Viat. The pickets and “stay-ins” who had remained inside the plant for more than 24 hours left the premises last night after they were told of the “agreement. Under terms of the settlement, according to Mr. Viat, the company agreed to immediate reinstatement of a heat-treating departmént employee whose layoff was said to have precipitated the strike. J. 8. Watson, company vice president, ‘said of yesterday's conference: : “We just talked things over. I gave a statement to the Labor Board .and they copied it and I put notices on the bulletin board It said differences between the company and Local 1150 had been satisfactorily adjusted and operations would resume Oct. 6.”

Patterson Shade Co. Employees Walk Out

Approximately 80 employees of the Patterson Shade Co. 1142 N. Meridian St., walked out today and established picket lines. The strikers, members of an American Federation of Labor Federal union, notified the State Labor Division that they were seeking a signed contract, wage increases and general improvement of working conditions. The Division said it would attempt to arrange a settlement.

miles an hour on N. Meridian St. near 34th St. He warned them to tell their schoolmates that any other Shortridge students caught speeding would lose their driver's licenses. Herman Lowe, 38, of 2829 Harris St., was treated for bruises in City Hospital after the car in which he was riding collided with another in the 1200 block of Oliver Ave. Francis Dunlap, 30, of 1252 Standard Ave. the other car driver was uninjured.

REHEARING ASKED ON COSTER ESTATE TAX

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (U. P.)— Executors of the estate of Mrs. Emily Pell Coster today petitioned the Board of Tax Appeals for a redetermination of an alleged estate tax deficiency of $286,760. The petitioners, Lewis Spencer Morris and the United States Trust Co. of

New York, contended the Internal Revenue Commissioner erred in including in the gross estate $1,158,184 properties held by the trustee under

the will of Mrs. Coster’s husband, |

Charles Henry Coster. Mrs. Lucille Brian Harrison, Evanston, Ill, asked the board to redetermine an alleged income tax deficiency of $20,806 for 1931.

38TH ST. TUG OF WAR CONTINUES

City Indicates Dredging Will Begin ‘Soon’ by Some Means.

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ect that there was not enough work for the dredge and that this project would keep the dredge busy. Mr. Jennings said yesterday that other projects already approved could occupy the dredge .for 12 months but that it was planned, because of lack of funds, to cancel next month's contract under which the dredge is used by WPA. ; Mr. Jennings said the project could not be approved, anyway, unless it complied with the new WPA rulings which require that not more than $6 a month per mar be expended in anything but wages. A steam dredge project would require a number of trucks to haul the dredged dirt away to the west bank lowlands, where it would, according to the plan, form a foundation for the proposed roadway.

FUND'S GAMPAIGN T0 OPEN ON FRIDAY

Instructions to Be Given Tomorrow.

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More than 2000 volunteers, weeks of preparatory work completed, today stood ready to launch the 18th annual Community Fund campaign for $721,287 Friday. Final instructions are to be given during a rally in the Claypool Hotel tomorrow night. This year’s campaign quota, to provide” for activities of 38 welfare and relief agencies in 1938, is 3 per cent more than the 1937 goal, but $90,000 less than agencies’ requests. Represented in the increase is a contribution to a new agency, the Goodwill Industries, 625 Fletcher Ave. Pledges were obtained last year from 65,000 persons. Cam leaders said that to attain this year’s goal, it will be necessary that new contributors be signed and that old ones increase their pledges.

CIRCLE STORE TO EXPAND

The Shaw-Walker Co., office furniture and equipment firm, today planned to enlarge its storeroom space at 55 Monument Circle. It has leased 6000 square feet in the first floor and basement of the Circle Tower, Rex C. Boyd, man-

ager, said.

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AF.L.LAWYER ASKS U. S. AID AGAINST C. 1. 0.

Proposes Amendment to Wagner Act Protecting Craft Unions.

DENVER, Oct. 6 (U. P)—A demand for amendment of the Wagner Labor Relations Act to protect the American Federation of Labor craft unions in their war with the C. 1. O. was voiced before the Federation’s annual convention today by Joseph A. Padway, Milwaukee labor attorney. Mr. Padway’s demand—reflecting the attitude of the federation leaders—followed the reading of a letter written from his prison cell by Thomas J. Mooney, sentenced to life in the Preparedness Day bombings at San Francisco. A sharp conflict over Federal regulation of wages and hours devel-

oped. . “The big fight of the convention probably will be over organized labor’s policy toward the wages and hours bill,” George Harrison, execu= tive council member of one of the most influential union leaders, predicted. “I think there is an economic necessity for Federal regulation—for putting a floor under wages in the sweated industries—but there are valid grounds for objection to the bill pending before Congress.” There was a wide difference of opinion among federation leaders. Some objected to any Federal regulation. The campaign ito expel the John L. Lewis C. I. O. unions will get its first test when a vote is demanded on refusing to accept the credentials of Charles P. Howard, International Typographical Union president and C. I. O. secretary. Other developments included: 1. Charges by Daniel J. Tobin of Indianapolis, teamster president, that the “doctrines” of some C. I. O. leaders—spécifically Harry Bridges, West coast director—might resuit in “revolution, necessitating our Government being forced to shoot down innocent men and women in order that the flag of our country might still float in freedom throughout the land.” : : 2. Rumors that President Roosevelt again was interested in efforts to patch up the feud between the A. F. of L. and the C.I. O. Similar reports were “denied some months ago and most authoritative sources discounted the new rumors. 3. A defiant declaration by Frank Hefferlyn, Colorado State Federation of Labor president and a Lewis aid, that President William Green of the A. F. of L. is “a cream puff, who is unreliable and apt to doublecross anyone.” Mr. Hefferly assailed the federation officials, referring in particular to the fact that William D. Hucheson: of Indianapolis, carpenters’ president, spoke of Lewis as a “louse.”

NORTHEAST LEAGUE FAVORS COLISEUM

The Northeast Civic League today was on record favoringwuilding of a municipal coliseum. Allen Wingenroth is chairman of a committee which plans to investigate coliseum proposals. He was named at last night's meeting by Ray Bolander, president, and is to be aided by Clark Gordon. :

SERMONS SCHEDULED The Rev. E. G. Homrighausen, Carrollton Ave. Evangelical and Reformed Church pastor, is to open a series of Thursday night sermons tomorrow night. “Results of the Oxford Conference” is to be the theme.

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JOLIET, 111, Oct. 6.—(U. P)—The lure of steaming coffee and beef stew is overwhelming Stateville

their hunger strike, Warden Joseph

Ragen announced today. About 1200 accepted cereal, toast and coffee after 24 foodless hours, Warden Ragen said. During the second day of the strike, several hundred more gave in to hunger. - More than 1000 of those who paraded before steaming pans of cereal and piles of toast this morn-

Monday morning. They had refused food since then in protest against sternness of the State Police Board in granting paroles. :

$900,000 FLOOD AID FUNDS WAIT

Most Cities and Counties Decline to Ask State Help.

Almost $900,000 of the $1,000,000 appropriated by the 1937 Legislature to repair January flood damage in southern Indiana may not be used for this purpose because cities and counties are handling the problem without State aid, William P. Cosgrove said today. : Mr. Cosgrove, State Accounts Board Chief Examiner and Municipal Loan Board secretary, said only two 10-year loans have been made since the act went into effect in March. One of these was for $50,000 to New Albany, the other was $40,000 to Clark County. Clark County also may receive an additional $20,000 loan when and if it needs it, he said. Unless loans are made by Dec. 31, this money, Mr. Cosgrove said, is to revert back to the State general fund. No other requests for funds have been filed. He reported that Jeffersonville City officials would like to receive a loan but that city already has reached its constitutional debt limit. In such cases loans can be granted only upon a petition of 51 per cent of the taxpayers. :

FILENE FORTUNE AIDS FUND

BOSTON, Oct. 6. (U. P).—The will of the late Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant prince, was filed for probate today, disposing of an estate of more than $2,000,000 which

remained undistributed at his death. The bulk of this money goes to the Good Will Fund, a recently incorporated charitable and educational foundation.

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