Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1938 — Page 2

The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 53

APS MASS FOR NEW INVASION IN SOUTH CHIN

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

SHANGHAI — Japanese mass troops to invade South China. RIO DE JANEIRO-—Seven officials of German bank arrested after revolt, GENEVA-—League tacitly recognizes conquest of Ethiopia. WASHINGTON — U. S.-South American axis proposed. HENDAYE — Spanish Rebels drive toward Valencia.

60,000 Japanese

Prepare for Attack SHANGHAI, May 12 (U. P).— Sixty thousand Japanese troops were massed on the island of Formosa while a large Japanese fleet steamed off the ports of Foochow, Swatow and Macao, prepared for a large-scale invasion of South China, it was reported here teday. With the occupation of Amoy, | Chinese island port, 125 miles west | of Formosa, foreign military observers said there was every indication that the Japanese intended to extend the occupation up and down the coast to Foochow in the north and Macao in the south. United States warships of the | Pacific fleet prepared to go to the | protection of Americans in the big Chinese ports. The U. 8. S. Edsel | already is en route to Foochow and |

the Asheville is standing by at| Nine New Members to Sit Emison

Amoy. Tt was expected that the Asheville would leave for Macao, Portuguese | possession opposite Hongkong, in| the event of hostilities. The cruiser | Marblehead probably would be dis- | patched to Swatow.

Great Battle in North

In the north Japanese forces Jaunched one of the greatest bombing attacks of the war along the |

FORECAST: Fair tonight and probably tomorrow; not much change in temperature.

4 Clarence Godfrey, 43, of 4608

after midnight.

The examination revealed Mr. appendicitis.

12:25 the father was wheeled in.

sides.

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OLUMBIA CITY, May 12 (U. fingers crossed. where he underwent

operation.

pital—for an appendectomy.

Rushes Son to Hospital For Appendix Removal, Then Has Own ‘Lifted’

FATHER who took his 11-year-old son to St. Francis Hospital for an emergency appendicitis operation early today, underwent a similar operation himself less than half an hour later,

critically ill from a ruptured appendix, into the hospital shortly As the child was rushed to the surgery room for an immediate operation, the father, who complained he was not feeling well, requested an examination of himself. At 12:20 a. m. the boy was taken from the operating room. At Father an& son lay side by side today,

critical and the father's fair, while Mrs, Anna Godfrey. who had accompanied them to the hospital, maintained vigil at their bed-

Don’t Blame Her for Crossing Fingers

Her son, Kendall, has just returned from a Ft. Wayne hospital, an appendectomy. home, his sister, Kathryn, entered the same hospital for a similar

Last week Mr. Kyler was burned severely. Yesterday the hired man, Robert Leffel, was taken to the hos-

E. 10th St, took his son Robert,

Godfrey was suffering from acute

the child's condition

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P.).—Mrs. Millar Kyler has her

Shortly after he came

G. O. P. Retains Bobbitt;

Democrats

On Democratic Committee Here Saturday.

Nine new members will sit on the Democratic State Committee when it meets here Saturday to reorganize. Six were elected at 10 district meetings yesterday and three at

Lunghai railway line in an effort | {wo earlier district reorganizations. to break through to Suchow. A doz-| Gv one dispute developed at

Ss ons, numbering 30 planes | ’ ; ; eh Squadrons, wu 8 X | yesterday's meetings. During the

, ; . [v each, blasted Chinese communica- |" To ; ? i str ee at Seymour, tions and munition dumps. Ninth District meeting at Se)

Chinese reported that Suchow Floyd BE. James and Zella Jones |

i ; i hairmanshi and vice | was bombed six times. Some of claimed chairmanship

; . “hair ship for Scott County. | the bombs, they said, blasted out | Chairmans wo xc holes 30 feet deep and 80 feet wide, | William 8. Griffith and Mrs.

{nice Houghland demanded

Devastating casualties were caused |

by ceaseless &ir raids on 10,000 Chinese troops. Chinese reports said that the most sanguinary fighting took place during the last 48 hours along =a | 100-mile front in the southeast Shantung sector. Using bayonets | and big swords the Chinese engaged | the Japanese in hand-to-hand fighting. The reports said that thousands | of dead and wounded were trampled | underfoot in the see-saw battle. Foreign naval authorities con- | firmed that the island of Amov, | once the world's greatest tea export center, was under the complete domination of the Japanese and that all refugees in the interna- | tional settlement were safe.

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Seven German Bank Officials Held in Revolt

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 12} (U. P,) —Seven officials of a branch | of a Berlin banking institution | were under arrest today, charged with participating in the abortive | Fascist green-shirt revolt to overthrow the Government and assassinate President Getulio Vargas. The suspects were members of the staff of the Banco Germanico America do Sul, a branch of the | Deutsch - Sudamerikanische Akti- | engesellschaft of Berlin. Police said | they were all members of the Integralistas and had been linked with the revolt. They were Harry Schaeffer, Arnold Federico Voige, Arnado Ethrat, Eugenio Lyria, Eduardo Pereira. Armando Luiz Carvalho and Cesar Menna Barreto. It was believed that all were Brazilians. The suspects were among more than 600 who were rounded up and faced trial. Newspapers were violent in their demand for the appli- | cation of the death penalty, per- | mitted for the first time under the | new constitution. Loyalist forces, under the Presi(Turn to Page Six,

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HUNT FOR MISSING | CHILD 1S CONTINUED

BRADFORD, Pa.. May 12 (U.P).

—The search for 4-vear-old MarJory West continued today with renewed vigor despite a growing fear that the child hardly could have | survived hardships in Allegheny | National Forest, where she disap- | peared Sunday. Mayor Hugh J.| Ray of Bradford, marshaled a force | of nearly 1000 men for another | search. The army of searchers came in response to an appeal by the Mayor for “men who are physically fit to hike through heavy brush for 10 miles.” American Legion Post 108, whose members have participated in the | search from the start, offered a $200 | reward for information leading to | discovery of the girl “dead or alive.”

DEAN, I. U. COACH, | MAY GET COAST JOB

PALO ALTO, Cal, Mav 12 (U. P.) —Everett Dean, head coach of basketball at Indiana University, and William Hubbard, San Jose State College coach, were candidates today for the basketball coaching position at Stanford Uni- | versity. . The Board of Athletic Control. ! seeking a successor to John Bunn, who resigned to become dean of men at the school, announced that | a final selection would be made! June 8. | Mr. Dean has been coach at Indiana for 13 years. [

| selected

their credentials be accepted. | When the latter group was de-| feated in a 16-to-11 vote. Mr. | Griffith said an appeal would be taken to the State Committee. The district re-elected L. E | Reeves, Columbus, chairman, and | Miss Eudora Kelley, Nashville, vice | chairman. Elections at all the meetings were | said to have been in accord with | the wishes of the State Administration. Harry P. Schultz, Lafavette, was | retired as Second District chairman |

in favor of George Stevens, while | Mrs. Margaret Affis, Delphi, was re- | named vice chairman. The Third District picked two | new members, M. Edward Doran, | South Bend. to succeed Orlo Deahl, also of South Bend, and Miss Flor- | ence Smith, to succeed Mrs. Anna | Gardner. Goshen. Chairmen Re-Elected The Sixth District aiso electad two new members. Rov Etter. Crawfordsville, was named to succeed Alden Baker, Noblesville, and Mrs. | Lawrence Arnsman, Lebanon, to succeed Mrs, D. Swinehart, | Clinton. The Eighth District re-elected | Ernest Weatherholt, Canneiton, but | Mrs. Mayme Koerner, Jasper, vice chairman to succeed | Mrs. Gertha Powers, Boonville. The First District previously had elected new state committee mem- | bers, Chester Foster, Gary, and Mrs. | Rose Emerson, Whiting. The | Twelfth District's new chairman is | City Controller H. Nathan Swaim. Mrs. Nannette Dowd has been renamed vice chairman. District chairmen and vice chairmen re-elected yesterday were: Fourth Virgil M. Simmons, Bluffton, and Mrs. Anna Grady, La- | grange. Fifth—Alex N. Purslev, Hartford City, and Mrs. Esther Fisher, Frankfort. | Seventh—Frank Finney, Martinsville, and Mrs. Sanford Trippet, Princeton. | Ninth—L. E. Reeves, Columbus, and Miss Eudora Kelley, Nashville. | Tenth Anderson Ketchum, | Greensburg, and Miss Dorothy Lambert, Connersville. Eleventh--J. C. Kuch, Anderson, and Mrs. Marcia Murphy, IndianReports are that the committee will re-elect State Chairman Omer | Stokes Jackson and James L. Beat- | tey as secretary. { Mrs. Beldon Lewis, Indianapolis, | is said to be slated for the vice | chairmanship to suceed Mrs. Emory Scholl, Connersville, and Clarence | Gremelspacher, Jasper, to succeed Willia Storen as treasurer.

BOY, 8, ‘FAVORITE’ | OF DOCTORS, IS DEAD

City Hospital staff was in mourning today because the 8-vear-old | lad who had been their ‘“pet” and | patient for more that two years was dead. i Ronald Lindner, admitted at the | hospital April 15, 1936, had been | undergoing treatment for an in- | testinal obstruction. Until three months, ago when his condition be- | came worse and he was confined to | bed. he was the mascot of doctors, | internes and nurses. | He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. | George Lindner, 338 Beautv Ave. |

U. A. W. AND G. M. TALK DETROIT, May 12 (U. P,).—Officialis of General Motors Corp. and | the United Autbmobile Workers’ Union meet around a conference table today to negotiate a dispute which has resulted in a strike vote at five plants.

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Are Uniting Faction umphs as Republicans Break Deadlock.

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The Republican State Committee |

today moved to heal sore spots with- | R.,

in its ranks as State organization control remained

Seventh District chairman. The Emison faction defeated the block headed by Ralph Gates,

own members when the committee voted to break deadlocks for Sixth and Eighth District chairmen and

| vice chairinan.

Settlement of the district disputes and election of committee officers came yesterday almost three nours after schedule. Caucusing began early in the morning and continued throughout the day. Only one change was made in the list of officers. Neil McCallum, Batesville, Indiana Republican Editorial Association secretary, was elected secretary to succeed James

| A. Slane, Lafayette.

Gates Supported Slane Mr. Slane, who had the sapport of the Gates faction and had made an early struggle to retain his post, was not placed in nomination. Mrs. Eleanor B. Snodgrass, Nashville, Ninth District vice chairman

| and member of the Gates faction, was

unopposed for re-election as state vice chairman. Felix McWhirter was re-elected treasurer without opposition. The entire slate of officers was elected by acclamation. Mr. Emison nominated Mr. Bobbitt. Mr. Gates nominated the vice chairman. Ivan C. Morgan, former state chairman and Ninth District chairman, nominated Mr, McCallum, and Ralph B. Gregg, new 12th District chairman, nominated Mr, McWhirter. As the 20 seated committee members met to settle the Sixth District tie, Mr, Gates nominated John C. Taylor, Danville, former State chairman, and Mrs. Esther Bray, Martinsville, vice chairman in Mr. Emison’s district, nominated Dr. Byron L. Jones, Lebanon. District delegates had deadlocked (Turn to Page Three)

in the hands of | Miami. Fla | Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt and & |a winter home She also was an ac- | faction headed by Ewing Emison, tive member of the Second Presby-

Ber- | Fourth District chairman, by mus- | Henry Lanctot of Buffalo, that | tering sufficient votes to seat its |

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1938

PIONEER LOCAL

WOMAN, SOCIAL

LEADER, DEAD

‘Mrs. Ella Martindale Was

Daughter of Van Camp Company Founder.

FUNERAL

Her Great-Grandfather Constructed First Frame House in City.

Mrs. Ella Martindale, widow of John T. Martindale and daughter

of Cortland Van Camp, founder of |

the Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co., died today at her home, 1354 N. Delaware St, Private funeral services are to be held at 10 a. m. Saturday at the residence. The Rev. Jean S. Milner is to be in charge. Burial is to be at Crown Hill Mrs. Martindale was greatgranddaughter of Isaac Wilson of Virginia, a proneer settler, whd came to Indianapolis in 1812 after serving in the Revolutionary War, Mr. Wilson built the first

present site of Riley Hospital. Mrs. Martindale was prominent for many years in the Indianapolis social and civic life. She attended the Girls’ Classical School of Indianapolis, Mt. Vernon Seminary at Washington and Mrs. Ely's School in New York. She was a member of the D. A Woodstock and Indianapolis Country Clubs, the Propylaeum, the Civic Theater and the Surf Club of where she maintained

Heavy Frosts Damage North

TEMPERATURES

55 56 57 56

10 a. m.... 11 a m.... 12 (Noon) 1pm... While Indianapolis chilled in the fifth consecutive day of subnormal temperatures, up-state farmers re-

IS SATURDAY |

frame | Tyj. house in the city in 1814 on the |

ported heavy frosts and some damage to their wheat fields. | The Weather Bureau forecast that temperatures would not be much higher tomorrow.

vicinity of South Bend, Angola and Lafayette, while residents of Cambridge City reported a killing frost. Although May frosts are not rare, {the average final date for freezing | temperatures is April 16, the Bu- | reau said. FRANKLIN, Pa, May 12 (U. P.).—~A May cold snap

brought a five-minute snowfall today to Franklin.

At the same time, Horace Abbott, Marion County agricultural agent, said that County farm land in crop production needs an inch of rain to (recover from a deficiency of precipitation that has existed since April 9. Mr. Abbott made a survey vesterday of County crops and reported that already the oats crop has been damaged 50 per cent and that wheat is at a standstill, threaten ing to head out short The principal trouble, he said. is | that heavy March rains packed the | topsoil and now hard clods prevent | planting of corn. Very little corn has been planted he said. and cannot be until a soaking rain softens { the clods.

Indiana Wheat

Entered as Second-Class Matter

at Postoffice, Indianapolis, In

KINNEY ASKS TATE PROBE

The heavy frosts occurred in the |

terian Church. | She is survived by a son, Elijah | NATIONAL AFFAIRS | APPROPRIATIONS record for | peacetime likely in Congress session,

SPENDING BILL

B. Martindale, and two nieces, Mrs. Rosamond Van Camp Hill and Mrs. N. Y. |

amendments

BUDGET LIKELY

GOVERNOR TALKS TO

PASTORS ON GAMING:

‘Delegation Asks Townsend

To Order Cleanup.

Eleven ministers today conferred with Governor Townsend, at his invitation, on complaints of gambling

in Indianapolis and other parts of |

Indiana. The conference followed an exchange of letters between ministerfal groups and the Governor in which the former urged a Statesupervised cleanup. The Governor repeated his ex-

| planation that State agencies were | ready to aid in cleaning up gamb- | threat to national solvency.”

ling in any city if requests were |

made by local authorities.

The ministers said they did not may aggregate close to eleven bil- |

meet the Governor as a committee representing any organization. They refused to say who acted as leader of the group.

6 DIE IN FARM FIRE

DIXON, Ky. May 12 (U. P).— Six persons burned to death in a farmhouse north of here last night it was revealed today. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Gibson and their four children. Another child, Helen Louise, escaped from the burnng house uninjured. The fire broke out while the family was asleep.

debated in House. WAGE-HOUR BILL defeat with amendments sought by Southerners. NAVY BILL conference report due for Senate vote today, MINTON attacks Dr. Frank in radio talk. TAX BILL sent to White House | by 242 to 89 House vote.

| 11-Billion Dollar

‘Appropriations Seen WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. P., | —President Roosevelt's spending- | lending program appeared today to | be establishing a new peace-time appropriations record of eleven billion dollars for one session of | Congress. The program was proceeding to[ward enactment today despite Re- { publican protests that it was “a

| Appropriations bills passed. pend{ing and prospective for this session

[lion dollars. That figure would in- | clude permanent reappropriations | aggregating $2,718,000,000. The [$2,516,425,000 of actual new appro- | priations for relief and recovery | probably will raise the appropria- | tions record for this Congress beyond the $10,336,000,000 appropri{ations voted in 1936. Appropriations dropped approxi- | mately one billion dollars last year | from the 1936 peak. But each of the last five sessions of Congress has appropriated sums in excess of any other years except 1917-18-19 when the nation was at war. Appropriations in 1918 added up to (Turn to Page Four)

IN FUND CASE

Requests Accounts Board Investigation in Alleged Mishandling Episode.

‘REPORT EMPLOYEE GONE

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Good by Treasurer and Books Balance.

Alleged mishandling of public | funds by a missing employee of the | Marion County Treasurer's Office was revealed today by William P. Cosgrove, chief examiner of the State Board of Accounts.

Frank E. McKinney, County Treasurer, requested the investiga{tion and made good the missing | funds, Mr. Cosgrove said. The | Treasurer's books are absolutely in

Mr. McKinney was reported out of town today and could not be | reached for comment, | Because the missing (was bonded to Mr. stead of to the State or County and because Mr. McKinney's books are in balance, no action has been taken against the missing employee, according to police. The man's wife, however, has requested City police to look for him as a missing person. The sum involved was said to have been $12,500 in one fund and $7500 in intangible stamps. Cosgrove Makes Statement

Mr. Cosgrove's statement lows: “My office is not report. discovered that this man was missing. I found, however, that the treasurer had made this cash good. I checked the cash book and found it was absolutely in balance. “The man involved is a bonded {employee but he is bonded to | County Treasurer McKinney and [not to the County or State. “The County Treasurer and not any of his assistants is the respon- | sible official in a case of this sort, |and the Treasurer is the only one |in that office under bond to the | State and County. | “As far as I know the Accounts [Board has no further jurisdiction {in the matter until such time as it | makes the regular routine exami- | nations.”

RAILROADS DEMAND

fol-

Action Starts Complex Medi- | ation Machinery.

WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. P). —American railroads today formally

notified railway labor that they will |

| reduce basic wages 15 per cent on | July 1. { The wage cuts, which rail labor | leaders have announced they will

| resist, would affect an estimated one

| million workers.

The action was announced by the joint conference committee representing the entire railroad industry and was said by the committee to be “compelled by conditions now confronting the railroad | industry.” | The action invokes the machinery [of a lengthy arbitration and media[tion system provided by the Rail- | way Labor Act. That statute provides for conferences between man- | agement and labor.

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FINAL

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employee | McKinney in- |

preparing any | I was called in when it was |

Asks Obliteration

County Administrativ

ELIMINATION OF 5000 ELECTIVE OFFICES URGED

Cosgrove, Indiana Accounts Board Examiner,

of Township Lines

Cosgrove Says Funds Made | To Become Effective in 1943,

roy ,

e Board Made Up of

Seven Constitutional Officials Proposed

As Sweeping Economy Move.

By TOM OCHILTREE Elimination of approximately 5000 elective local offices balance, Mr. Cosgrove emphasized. [through abolition of townships and reorganization of county

‘government was suggested today by William P. Cosgrove,

State Accounts Board chief examiner,

land improve administration o | . . . Agreeing that the princi

HUGHES URGES IMPARTIALITY

‘Raps ‘Inept’ Judges and Bias on Quasi-Judicial

—=& maintained,

Primary purpose of the plan, he said, is to reduce cost

f local government, ple of “home rule” should be Mr, Cosgrove said that all business now conducted by counties and townships would be centered [in the counties under his pro posal. “There would be no interference with home rule,” he declared. “The people still would have the same control over local aflairs they have

now, None of the rights, duties or

Bureaus. | privileges would be taken from the counties and given to any other 3 { governmental unit.” | WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. P). | Specifically, the plan provides Chief Justice Charles Evans (hat township lines would be oblit«

erated for all except the levying nt | Hughes of the Supreme Court ad- | (aves for the retirement of obliga= | monished Government quasi-judi-

tions incurred by the township | cial agencies today to temper their Prior to the effective date of the

change. As the bonded indebteds

WAGE CUT ON JULY 1

| actions with the “spirit of the just [ Judge” and urged a vigilant guard | against choice of unqualified persons as judges. : He said the bar should exercise [a “potent influence” for the selec[tion of “able and industrious” [.judges. The Chief Justice, who spoke without reference to his manuscript, | was given a standing ovation by | American Law. Institute | and interrupted by prolonged plause. It was

ap-

his Arst public

| dent, Roosevelt's Court Reorganization Bill and since the appointment | by Mr. Roosevelt of Associate Justices Hugo L. Black and Stanley F. Reed. | “Still the prime necessity in mak[ing the judicial machinery work to [the best advantage,” he continued, “is the able and industrious judge, qualified by training, experience and temperament for his office. Chief Justice Hughes’ warning to | quasi-judicial agencies followed by | less than three weeks his majority | decision which set aside | promulgated by Secretary of Agri- | culture Wallace for livestock serv-

| ices at the Kansas City stockyards. |

The court held that Secretary Wallace's procedure had not afforded the stockyards a fair trial. His address today came as the National Labor Relations Board-— the Government's newest quasijudicial agency—sought to withdraw some of its pending decisons from circuit courts. The Board believes that it may not have complied with the procedural requirements laid down by the Supreme Court in the stockyards case,

‘Nero Wo:

HEN a deep voice bids you enter, vou open the door of Rex Stout's room onto as elegant a set of trained whiskers as vou are apt to find this side of Russia, Rex Stout is the Indiana-born author who created the very fat and very lazy Nero Wolfe, champion swivel-chair sleuth. He was at the Indianapolis Athletic Club today with a troupe of American Magazine writers and executives who were hosts at a luncheon for Indianapolis industrialists.

Others in the party were Gene Sarazen, Betty Hapworth, who modeled the cover of the June issue of the magazine, and several others. At 10:30 a. m. Mr. Stout had just breakfasted in his room and was brushing his beard which is gray and about six inches long, trained in a sort of crescent that Mr. Stout must have made up out of his own head. Even for a one-night stand, Mr. Stout had everything in his room in a definitely ordered place. Nothing awry. That's because, he says, he was an accountant before he started writing and has “that orderly mind of an accountant.” » EJ » nu FTER I had made what was a good deal of money for me,” he said, “I retired and wrote so-called serious novels. Aldous Huxley praised one of them and I got a letter from George Bernard Shaw on another. “Then the depression came and I had to write some kind of book that would sell more than 10 copies. So I took up detective fiction. “I imagine that Nero Wolfe is a combination of characteristics

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Betty Hapworth, the

of many people I have known. He eats like a Count Rosetti I once knew in Paris. And I suppose he drinks beer all the time as an eccentricity that probably stemmed from the shots in the arm Sherlock Holmes always took. “He raises orchids because, after I decided he was going to stay at home and not run around all the

magazine cover model,

time, IT had to have something for him to do. So I had him grow orchids. I grow them. » 5 " EALLY, I like Archie better than Nero In mv next book, as vet unprinted, Nero gets to upstate New York because some fellow he doesn't like

Rex Stout, the author . .

claims to have him beat on orchid growing.” Mr. Stout said he was born in Noblesville ané¢ that his father once went to school under James His father and

Whitcomb Riley. | mother were Quakers and both | were graduated from Earlham | College. | “The best detective book ever

fe’s’ Creator Grows Orchids, Elegant Beard

Times Photos

. and his beard.

written in America, he said, was “The Maltese Falcon,” by Dashe jell Hammett. Any police reporter knows fifty thousand times more about solving a crime than he does, Mr, Stout readily admitted, He turns each book oul in under 40 days, writing five hours

and budgeting 2000 waygs & day,

members |

address | since the defeat last vear of Presi- |

rates |

ness was paid off, these taxes would be abolished.

County Board Proposed

All present County administrative offices except the seven provided for in the Indiana Constitution would be abolished. These seven officers, the auditor, treasurer. clerk, recorder, sheriff, coroner and surveyor, would be organized into a board of county administration

This board would be empowered to appoint administrative officers in | charge of schools, highways, poor ( relief, property assessment and | other functions | The offices of the three county | commissioners and county assessor | would be abolished. These offices are | not provided for in the Constitution, but were established by statutes No change would be made in the County Council which would re [main the legislative or appropriat= ing body. The county judicial SySe tem also would continue in its press ent form. A total of 368 elective offices would be abolished in the State's 92 | counties by this county reorganiza« (tion plan. Elimination of the 1018 townships would mean abolition of | that many township trustees and | three-member advisory boards, | Many townships also have assese (sors. Their duties would be come [bined into a county office Mr. Cosgrove's survey showed that (abolition of county commissioners alone would bring an annual Save | Ing to Indiana taxpayers of $125,580 in salaries paid these officials Sees Election Cost Cut

| In addition to the direct savings | through reduction of local governe | mental payrolls and office maine | tenance costs, Mr. Cosgrove said | Such a reorganization would result In a considerable decrease in eleg= tion expenses. “The legislation necessary to bring about the proposed changes should he very deliberate,” he said, “This plan proposes tha: while the necessary legislation could be taken in the 1939 regular session of the Stier) Assembly, the effective ate would be placed at . Ge I a Jan, 1, “Reason for this extended effec tive date is to permit all elected officials whose office might be effected by the change to fully come plete the terms for which they have been elected. >

“It also would afford the pecple an opportunity to study the pro= posed changes and through an ine tervening session of the Legislature modify or repeal the new plan.”

Explaining his reasons for seek ing establishment of the proposed boards of county administration, Mr, Cosgrove said:

“The seven elected officials who would be made to constitute the board are now provided for in the Constitution. Some are elected for four years and some for two years, All are located in the Court House (Turn to Page Three)

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