Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1938 — Page 3

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Year-Around Public * Health Units Urged In Fight Against T. B.

Minimum of 2500 Beds Required, State Association

Told at Convention Here; School Programs Expanded; Marion County Wins Seal Cup.

Adequate and full-time public health departments as the best means of fighting tuberculosis were urged here today by Dr. C. C. Applewhite, Chicago, U. S. Public Health Service. Dr. Applewhite will address the 27th annual Indiana State Tuberculosis Association convention at Hotel Lincoln tonight. :

In an interview today, he said that most public health officers now realize the need for full-time departments. “But the public must realize that doctors and nurses and sanitarians need special training in the public health field in. order to insure a successful public health program, Dr. Applewhite said.

Praises Harvey

“Indiana is one of the few states that have put a good, well-trained officer (Dr. Verne K. Harvey) at the head of their public health service.” Dr. Applewhite said he was not familiar enough with Indianapolis conditions to comment on Marion County’s high tuberculosis mortality rate... The rate here is 74.1 per 100,000 population, compared to 55.4

in the nation and 47.4 in the state.

Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health Board secretary, has said that Indianapolis’ smoke menace “undoubtedly has a direct bearing” on the high rate. Dr. Applewhite pointed out that coal miners as a group have a high tuberculosis death rate. He said the so-called “tuberculosis belt” runs south of Indiana, including Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Kentucky and Tennessee. At a noon luncheon for the Indiana Conference of Tuberculosis

. Secretaries today, Miss Brittie M.

Baker, Albion, talked on “Developing Community Co-operation,” outlining five agencies through which to seek co-operation. They were clubs, community leaders, schools, newspapers and an active lay board.

Relates Flood Experiences

At the same luncheon, Mrs. Jessie S. Meranda, Jeffersonville, related her experiences during the Ohio River flood last year and urged a continuous tuberculosis program. She attributed southern Indiana’s relatively high death rate to low per capita wealth and a lack of comprehensive health programs. Opening the convention today, Dr. C. J. Mcintyre, Indianapolis, Association president, declared that more hospitalization is necessary to reduce Indiana’s tuberculosis mortality rate. He said the rate had declined slightly in 1937 but said that while Indiana now has 1649 beds for tuberculars, a minimum of 2500 is needed. “The need is greatest in the southern part of the state where hospitalization decidedly is inadequate,” Dr. McIntyre said. School health activities during the past year constituted a large part of Dr. MciIntyre’s report, for much of the battle against tuberculosis is fought on that front.

Expand Fight in Schools

He said advisory service was rendered, curriculum reconstruction in health education encouraged, lectures related to specific health needs given before teacher institutes and meetings, conferences with superintendents, principals and individual teachers held, and school health libraries augmented. In the Christmas seal sale, Marion County received a cup for having the highest percentage of increase over previous years among counties

-of over 50,000 population.

Dr. McIntyre is to speak at a

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WHITFIELD CLOTHES FOUNDINN. Y. HOTEL

Plane Used ‘by Carnegie Nephew Still Missing.

NEW YORK, April 20 (U. P).—

Clothes and documents belonging to |’

Andrew Carnegie Whitfield were found today in a hotel room vacated Friday morning, a short time before Mr. Whitfield took off for a 15-minute flight in his plane and vanished, A man resembling Mr. Whitfield had taken the room early Friday, left it nine hours later and never returned. Mrs. Whitfield said her husband left home at 9 a. m. Friday, after telling her he would return “in a few minutes.” Federal agents, police and aviators have searched Long Island for the 28-year-old nephew of the late Andrew Carnegie without finding a trace of him or his plane, which was not equipped to travel more than 150 miles.

$8872 IS APPROVED FOR LEVEE REPAIR

Expenditure of $8872 WPA funds for repairing the Buck Creek levee from - White River to Harding St. has been given Presidential approval, it was announced today. Four “other Indianapolis WPA projects costing $95,730 were among 19 in Indiana given final approval, according to State WPA Administrator John K. Jennings. Total cost of the 19 is to be $453,174. The Indianapolis projects are for “white collared” workers. They are: Indexing of books, periodicals and historical material pertaining to the history of Indianapolis prior to 1936, $23,760; cleaning, repairing, transcribing, cataloging, binding and indexing collections of books and historical records for the State Library, $24,060; assisting in preparation of an index of maps and historical material for the State Library, $20,940; cataloging of books for the Indianapolis Library, $26,790.

RAY ALLEN NAMED CITY FORD MANAGER

Ray Allen, associated. with the Ford Motor Co. 23 years, today had been named manager of the company’s Indianapolis branch. He succeeds R. A. Hayes who has been transferred to the Chicago branch. For the last four years, Mr. Allen was branch manager at Jacksonville, Fla. He was also employed by the company at St. Louis, Dearborn, Mich., and St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn. Harold W. Spooner has succeeded N. C. Sears as Indianapolis office manager.

banquet tonight and is to preside at an 8 o'clock general session when the two speakers are to be Dr. C. C. Applewhite, Chicago, U. S. Public Health Service surgeon, and Dr.

Robert G. Bloch, Chicago University Department of Medicine.

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Here Is the Traffic Record

County Deaths 14 (To Date)

1937

Speeding ....

Reckless ceeesves.92 | Driving ...... 1 City Deaths (To Date) - 3938 ..........28 1937 ...

Running Preferential Street.. 8

Running Red Light ..... viv 4d . (April 19) Accidents ... Injured Dead ........ Arrests .......43

Drunken

Driving ..... 5

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MEETINGS TODAY Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon.

Lions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon.

Inter Club Bowling League, dinner, Hot Washington, 7:30 ox m. xn ote

Beverage Credit Group, luncheon, Antlers Hotel, noon.

Indiana Tuberculosis Association, vention, Hotel Lincoln, all day.

Young Men’s Discussion Club, ai A TMC A. 6D. m sinner.

Purdue Alumni Association, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. 12th District American Legion, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indianapolis Real Estate Board, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. : Indianapolis Conference of Bank Auditors, dinner, Hotel Washington, 6;30 p. m. Indiana Tuberculosis Association, convention, Hotel Lincoln, all day. Advertising Club of Indianapolis, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. : Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade,

noon. Amerioan ‘Business Club, luncheon, Colum-

a Club, noon. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington,

noon. Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat Temple,

noon. Indiana Motor Tragic Association, luncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon. Radio Engineers Guild, meeting, Hotel Antlers, 8 p. m. ©Qil Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin. noon. Construction e of Indianapolis, uncheon, Architects and Builders Building, noon. . > Indianapolis Camera Club, meeting, 110 _E. 9th St.,, 8 p. m. Fedoral Bisinessmien, Hotel a on, noon. 3 Alliance Francaise, meeting, Hotel Washington, 8 p. m.

‘MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records tn the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in aames or addresses.)

luncheon,

: nD, Pounds Av toihy Cecilia Riehert. 17, of 3611 Byram A James pien 70% a elen Lucille Gross, 25, 0 . 31s y - John Ward, 27. of 1024 Guilford Ave.: Beatrice Harrison, 26, of 1024 Guilford

Ave. Charles V. Curbeaux, 21, of 6104 W. Washington St.: Martha Clara Mote, 18, of 6104 W. Washington St. _ & Charles Herbert LecClier of 1211'W. 30th St.: DeEllis Margaret

0. 38, of Plas, Hotel; Emily

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BIRTHS

Boys Gordon, Louise Clark, at St. Francis. Claude, Mary Richey, at Coleman. William, Bertha Hancock, "at City. Paul, Francis Dunn, at 5701 E. 32d. Paul, Adele Weber, at 623 S. West. Albert, Alma Black, at 1033 Union. Calvin, Doris Crooks, at 1101 Bacon. Girls Lee, Florence Carter, at Methodist. James, Ethel Clegg, at St. Francis. Thomas, Alberta Maley, at St. Francis. Albert, Mary Bradley, at Coleman.

DEATHS

Ruth Summit, 40, at 627 Warren, uremia. Louise Klier, 69, at 911 Sanders, car-

noma. Ethel Melvin, 53, at City, SeDuicaennia, George O. Godard, 65, at 3156 N. Capitol, coronary occlusion. William Martin Comer, 76, at St. Vincent's, carcinoma. William Edgar Drake, 56, at 1536 N. Sherman Drive, acute cardiac dilatation. ary A. Masters, 78, at 3540 Hovey, chronic myocarditis.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

| _ United States Weather Bureau...

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Mostly cloudy and somewhat colder tonight; tomorrow, cloudy with possibly showers.

aeeres 5:00 | Sunset ......6:28

TEMPERATURE —April 20, 1937—

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Sunrise

BAROMETER 7Ta.m......29.83

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Generally fair in north, mostly cloudy in south with showers in extreme south portion and somewhat colder tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy with possible showers in south portion. ‘Illinois—Generally fair in north, mostly cloudy in south with showers in extreme south portions and somewhat colder tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy with possible showers in south portion. Lower Michigan—Considerable cloudiness and cooler tonight; tomorrow generally fair and continued cool. Ohio—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; much cooler tonight; probably light frost in north portion tonight. Kentucky—Cloudy and much cooler with showers in extreme south portion tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.

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Chicago Cincinnat Cleveland

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Plutburgh Portland, Ore. ...... San Antonio. Tex, .. Francisco ....

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Four high school pupils who won the Indiana Tuberculosis Association’s state-wide health poster contest were (left to right) Arthur Clark, New Car-

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lisle; Geneva Head, Salem: George Whitcomb, Central of South Bend, and Geraldine Groh, Misha-

Schortemeier Favored One Primary Candidate, He Explains.

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not go to the representatives of big industry—big business—for candidates to go on our ticket in the November election,

Wolff Wins Backing

Other Republican political developments included: 1. Attacking vice conditions in the city, Mr. Peckemeyer today pledged a cleanup drive. He said if elected he would make a complete overhauling: of the Police Department “from top to bottom.” He added that elimination of vice conditions is one of the major problems to be solved in eliminating waste and in creating wholesome City government for In-; dianapolis. 2. Formation of a young voters club to- support Mr. Wolff's mayoralty campaign, and indorse-. ment of Mr. Wolif by H. C. Atkins, president of E. C. Atkins & Co, were announced. In an address last night, Mr. Wolff outlined his program for solving juvenile problems. 3. William O. Nelson, Anderson, candidate for 11th District Congressman, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the. McKinley Club at 2217 E. Michigan St. at 8 o'clock tonight. Several other Republican candidates also are scheduled to speak. Discussing law enforcement, Mr. Teckemeyer said: “Every thinking citizen knows there simply cannot be a winking at law violations, pretended enforcement of the laws and tacit permission to offend public decency without the connivance of the officials in power who are chargeable with enforcement of those very laws. “When the youth of any city can find dives wherein to gamble and throw away their school money on phoney slot machines, is it any wonder that, in later years, those same young men and women finally end in Criminal Court charged with crimes born of the seeds of avarice and wantonness planted in their immature years spent in an unwholesome, crime-breeding atmosphere? : “Indianapolis needs a complete scouring along this line and will have it irnmediately if I am nominated and elected. “The place to start, of course, is in the Police Department, which should have and will get a complete overhauling from top to bottom. I feel sure that somewhere within the ranks of our policemen there are good, solid souls who know what a Police Department is supposed to do and will do it without fear or favor. Such a person should be sought out and given a free hand to clean house. °

Urges “House-Cleaning”

“But, that type of house-cleaning can never come about unless the good citizens, the church people, the fathers and mothers of our children go to the polls at this primary and select men who mean business and have the courage to keep their word.

G. O. P. Head Tells of ‘Harmony’ Plea In Move to Reduce Mayoralty Field

@® hs an open primary if they want

it to be that. How? Simply by studying each candidate and voting for men who are seeking office on their merits rather than as the chosen representatives of any group or clique. - “And, on primary day, pay no attention to hand-picked slates—voie for common-sense, honesty and economical government in Indianapolis.” Wolff’s Record Lauded In indorsing Mr. Wolff, Mr. Atkins said that the candidate’s record as a citizen is one of “unquestioned integrity and business ability.” “I have every confidence in Mr. Wolff’s ability and determination to carry out policies which will be of benefit to the citizens of Indianapolis, and I feel sure that should he be nominated and elected he will give the city an honest administration, a business administration, and a high type of city government.” The Wolff young voters group is headed by William S. McMaster Jr., grandson of a former Mayor John L. McMaster, who headed the City in the late eighties and later served 16 years as a Superior Court judge. Organizing members of the club were announced as follows: Fred A. Ryker, Porter Williamson, Gilbert L. Baumann, Emsley W. Johnson Jr. Donald H. Ellis, Edwin Steers Jr., J. B. Gardner, John McCurry, Charles L. Aldrich, Eugene M. Fife Jr.,, Gordon Clancy,

‘George D. Anderson, C. Whitney

Slabaugh, Thompson Kurrie, Clarence Campbell, A. W. Richter, William S. Speicher, Curtis C. Plopper, Harry Kirkwood Yockey, Byron Otis LaGrange, Fred Jeffery, Paul Noland Phillips, Pat Warmoth, Inlis Young, Laurence Ridley, Mary< lous DeVanney, Dorothy Worrell, Lucille Crozier, Harriet Ruth Chenoweth, Alberta Jarvis, Stella Stapp, Magdalene Adams, Harold Smith, Clifton Conn, Mrs, Edith Lake, Mrs. Florence Holland, Mae Martin, Mrs. D. S. Connor, Louise Kimberlin and Marie Wasson. Favors Youth Program Speaking at Red Men's Hall, 29th and Clifton Sts. last night, Mr. Wolff said: “The subject of the welfare of our children is one that is close to me. If I am nominated and elected Mayor and do nothing else during the four years in office I will put into operation a-program that will help build the minds and bodies of our youngsters and educate them for good citizenship.” “While I am not a reformer in the accepted sense of the word, at the same time the Scotch-Irish part of my temper boils when I think that a United States District Attorney recently had to step into Indianapolis and remove over 40 obscene and unfit magazines from the newsstands. Previously, for years, these magazines had been on display on newsstands and in large magazine shops. “The trouble with these ‘cleanups’ is always the same. As soon as the ‘heat’ dies down the practice begins again. These magazinse undoubtedly will be back on the stands. as soon as the District Attorney has forgotten about them. They'll be back there selling the adolescents of Indianapolis a bill of goods on vice and moral corruption.

“The voters can actually make

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Strawberry Shortcake With Glorified:

We may be a bit old-fashioned— but three strawberries daintily stuck on a piece of sponge cake does NOT mean Strawberry Shortcake in OUR language. We make a richly-shortened, sweetened bisshortcake, t in juice-dripping, red-ripe CRUSHED strawberries.

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Mayor we will have a public incinerator for such trash and anyone offering it for sale will find himself suddenly wishing he were several hundred miles away from our, city. “As for our taverns, well, under the law every adult has a right to his or her beer in them as he ‘or she sees fit, and that is a legal privilege. But it is not the legal privilege of tavern proprietors to sell. beer to young men and women I pledge. to you that if I enter the Mayor’s of-

will be strictly enforced. “The growing children in every walk of life in Indianapolis deserve a chance. I Want a place of recreation for every growing child in the city, regardless of race, creed or color. “There should be several times the number of playgrounds now in existence and there are many ways to obtain them. . . . ) “Lack of understanding on the part of our municipal government has created, in so many cases, predelinquents who eventually find their way into Juvenile Court. It is my firm conviction that future John Dillingers are never found on playgrounds.”

fice the laws governing such things:

Repeal of Profit Tax Demanded;

TVA Probe in Nebraska Urged; Southerners to Battle Wage Bill

Lobby Inquiry Subpena Is Defied by Aid Of Rumely.

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business interests, which formerly demanded outright repeal of the tax, and the conferees of the Senate, which voted such repeal. Some Senators who voted for abolition of the tax recently have heard from corporation constituents who have discovered that their income-tax liability would be greater under the 18 per cent flat rate in the Senate bill than under the modified undistributed-profits tax of the House measure. These Senators have suggested to members of the conference committee that they yield to the House and permit retention of the undis-tributed-profits “principle,” which is about all that is left of the once complicated tax form imposed by the New Deal.

Roosevelt Broadens

Business Aid Program

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt broadened his

aid to business program to include public utilities today, while Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins asked Congress to launch the new $4,512,000,000 recovery drive with a $1,250,000,000 appropriation for relief. Mr. Roosevelt drove his recovery program forward with fast-develop-ing activities both on Capitol Hill and at the White House. - Mr. Hopkins, chief New Deal spender, carried the executive program to Congress, - informing a House appropriations subcommittee that the new relief fund was needed because WPA expects 200,000 persons to be added to pelief roils, bringing the total relief burden to 2,800,000 persons. Developments im the relief-re-covery drive against depression: 1. Mr. Roosevelt discussed with Reconstruction Finance Chairman Jesse Jones plans for RFC purchase of public utilities .segurities to finance new utility construction and provide new employment.

Relief Rolls Growing

2. Mr. Hopkins told the appropriations subcommittee that relict rolls still were growing and that the requested $1,250,000,000 would suffice only until Feb. 1, 1939. One member of the committee predicted another $1,000,000,000 would be required after Feb. 1, but Mr. Hopkins refused comment, 3. In House and Senate, Republicans and dissident Democrats began organizing for a drive to im-

pose restrictions on spending of the

huge appropriations by which Mr. Roosevelt hopes to check business depression and unemployment. 4. Secretary of Commerce Daniel

‘C. Roper said spending of new re-

covery appropriations should be “very gradual” and that the Administration should keep in the middle of the road” in pouring out money in the pump-priming drive. There were reports from: Detroit that the President would confer shortly with Henry Ford, multimillionaire automobile manufacturer, on the business situation. But

no confirmation of these reports

came from the White House. Two of the group conferring at

the White House controls auxiliary

facilities by which Mr. Roosevelt seeks to spur recovery. Mr. Jones will administer - the $1,500,000,000 made available to the RFC for extension of credit to business and governmental subdivisions. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William O. Douglas is in charge of the move to aid private enterprise by relaxation of restrictions of new securities issues.

Bridges Seeks to Include Nebraska in TVA Probe

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. P.). —Senator Bridges (R. N. H.) urged extension of the Tennessee Valley Authority investigation today to include public power developments in Nebraska, the home of Senator Norris, “father” of the TVA.

F. D. R. Approves Housing To Cost $40,728,825

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. P.. —President Roosevelt today approved U. S. Housing Authority allotments totaling $40,728,825 to six projects. The funds were approved for two New York City projects at a. total of $33,333,000; one in Louisville, Ky., at $4,734,000; one in Jacksonville, Fla. at $1,140,625 and two in Augusta, Ga., at $1,521,200. The New York contracts represent the most comprehensive low-rent housing program ever attempted in this country, Mr. Straus said.

Demands Prosecution 0f Former HOLC Aid

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. P.). —Rep. Ralph Church (R. Ill.) demanded today that the Attorney General's office and the Postoffice Department prosecute Horace Russell, general counsel of the Home Owners Loan Corp. who resigned after being accused of “soliciting” business for a former associate at the Government's expense. “Some action should be taken,” Mr. Church said after charging that

Russell ‘had franked out “a million or more” letters which praised the qualifications of O. B. Taylor, for= mer associate general counsel for the HOLC. Russell's resignation was accepted by HOLC Chairman John H. Fahey less than an hour after Church had made his charges on the House floor yesterday afternoon.

Southern Democrats To Fight Wage Bill

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. P.), —Southern Democrats opened an attack on the new Wage-Hour Bill today as Administration leaders sought Republican support to win clearance from the House Rules Committee and bring the measure to the floor for consideration.

Rep. Robert: Ramspeck (D. Ga.), member of the Labor Committee which drafted the new measure, filed a minority report charging that the bill was unconstitutional, arbi< trary and discriminatory to th South. :

The minority report heralded a defectigpn of Southern Representatives, complicating’ Administration hopes to win a rule from the Rules Committee to bring the bill out cn the floor. Rep. Joseph Martin (R. Mass.), assistant House Minority Leader, was viewed as the controlling factor in the fight to jam the bill through the Rules Committee. Of the three Labor Committee members who voted with Mr. Rams= peck against reporting the measure, stripped of provisions for a southern differential, only Rep. William P. Lambertson (R. Kas.) indicated he would sign the minority report. Mr. Ramspeck contended the “ese calator” clause, providing a 40-cent hourly wage minimum and 40-hour maximum work week within three years, violated the due process guarantee of the Constitution.

Rumely’s Aid Defies

Senate Subpena

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. PJ). —Sumner Gerard, treasurer of the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, today defied a Senate lobby committce subpena to produce records of the constitutional committee. Dr. Edward Rumely, executive secretary of the committee, previcusly had refused to submit rec ords of the organization despite the issuance of two subpenas by the committee. : On advice of Counsel Elisha Hane son, Rumely denounced the come mittee action as a “fishing expedi« tion” and refused to comply with the subpenas, The lobby committee reopened its inquiry today into activities in the bitter fight over the President’s proposal to reorganize the executive departments.

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