Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1938 — Page 6

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SITE OF HOWE SCHOOL CALLED INACCESSIBLE

Records Reveal State Tax Board Ordered Use Of Location.

Location of the new Howe High School in Irvington on a site termed “inaccessible” yesterday by the « Works Board, was ordered by the State Tax Board in 1936, schools business office records showed today. Works Board members voiced opposition to expenditures for the extension, of Julian Ave. and DeQuincy St. to the new school yesterday when the School Board submitted plans for the project. The Works Board ordered Henry B. Steeg, City engineer to draw plans for the project, which would include a bridge, estimated to cost $30,000, over Pleasant Run Creek. A. B. Good, schools business director, said the land, which is owned by the School Board, would be deeded to the City following approval of the plans. The Works Board said cost of the

Three Shortridge High School

project should not be paid by the | City because the School Board located the building in an “inaccessible place.”

Tax Board "Gave Order

However, records show that the State Tax Board ordered construc-

WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P)

tion of the new school on the

take some of the leading roles in “Skidding,” senior class play to be staged at Caleb. Mills Hall tonight

Musicians Join in Plea Against Change in ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

—White House secretaries—and perhaps President Roosevelt—today were reading a handsomely embossed scroll urging that something be done quick to save the ‘Star-Spangled

pupils who will gan and Martin

school-owned site, Blthough advis-| ganner” from a threatened streamlining. It was brought to Washington yesterday by an indignant delegation

ability of the move was questioned | by the School Board. Following the School Board build- | ing committee's report of Jan. 28, | 1936, advising construction of a

of sical world.

musicians and was signed by an imposing list of leaders in the mu-

| Kay Kyser, chairman of the gre pretty sure who wrote “Alex-

$450,000 high school in Irvington, | group, said the move to streamline | ander’s Ragtime Band.”

the “Star-Spangled Banner” was started by Vincent Lopez, orchestra eader.

He wants, according to Mr. Kyser, to take the high notes out of the

by the School Board for the school | orchestration.

location in 1928 and to open the | question of location would lead to | controversies that were settled when | the ground was purchased.” | In its report on location of the | high school, made on Jan. 28, 1936, | the School Board building committee said: “While the committee does not at this time recommend the elimination from consideration of the site, | it does recommend that serious consideration be given to the advisibility | of constructing the building or build- | ings elsewhere.

No Direct Approach

“There is no direct approach to the site from Pleasant Run Blvd. or | Washington St., no easily available north and south bus or streetcar transportation . . .. not located | in center of population of the district—80 per cent of pupils live north of Washington St. “The site doesn't meet needs of proposed school as well as other | locations which could be selected. “Certainly we would not give | serious consideration to the site, | except that it is now owned by the | School Board and not to use it would mean a sacrifice of a con- | siderable investment with little pos- | sibility of substantial salvage. “On the other hand, wisdom of | erecting a building or buildings | costing several hundred thousand | dollars upon such a site offering | such decided disadvantages and | entailing additional expense, solely | to preserve the investment is ex- | tremely questionable to say the least. “The answer must depend, in part, upon the availability and cost of ‘more suitable sites.”

DOKE. PAROLED. PLANS NEW LIFE WITH WIFE

LODY, Cal, May 13 (U. P)— Judson C. Doke, twice tried and freed in the slaying of a University of California student and then convicted of embezzlement, prepared to- | day to leave for the state of Wash- | ington where he and his wife hoped | to begin life anew. Doke went to prison in 1934 for | embezzlement on charges preferred | by the city of San Leandro. When Doke was brought to trial for the shooting of Lamar Hollings- | head, love verses on which Mrs. | Doke and Hollingshead had | collaborated were read in court. The first jury disagreed; the second | acquitted Doke. | Mrs. Doke cooked dinner for Doke | last night.

ROCHESTER SCHOOL | HEAD QUITS POST

ROCHESTER, Ind, May 13 (U. | P.) —Abraham L. Whitmer, superin- | tendsnt of Rochester schools for | 31 years, resigned yesterday because of poor health. He was the oldest | superintendent in Indiana in length | of sefvice in one position. The School Board named Fred | Rankin, principal of the high | school here for the past nine years, | to succeed Mr. Whitmer. Mr. Rankin will take office June 1, Mr. Whitmer’s failing health resulted from injuries received in an automobile accident near Dayton, O., last fall. He was reared in South Bend and was graduated from Indiana and Harvard Universities. He came here from Spencer in 1507.

“That is unthinkable,” he said. “You will always have some jitterbug wanting to do something, even to putting it in swing time,” he said.

“I say play it as it should be |(n, «Star-Spangled Banner” into a |!

played. Play the ‘Tiger Rag,’ if that is the national anthem, but don’t change it,” he added.

“Maybe,” Mr. Kyser mused, “the | reason so many people don't sing |

the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ is because they don't know the words rather than because they can't hit high C.” He bemoaned the fact that there are thousands of people who don't know that Francis Scott Key was the author of the national anthem.

Most of them however, he said,

| He left his petition with Secretary [Marvin H. McIntyre. It was signed | by Walter Damrosch, Carl Hoff, Ben | Bernie, Virginia Simms and others.

‘Lopez Denies His Version Is Swing | NEW YORK, May 13 (U. P.).—

| Vneent Lopez, the orchestra leader, | denied today that he had turned

| modern swing song. He told Presi-

| dent Roosevelt so in a telegram. His message said: | “I have just learned from a news | dispatch that a group of musicians have sent a petition stating that I have streamlined the ‘Star-Spangled | Banner.’ “As a matter of fact, | merely carried out an invitation extended to me early last January by | Mrs. William A. Becker, recently | retired president-general of the ‘Daughters of the American Revolu-

I have |

are (left to right) Miss Jean Miller, Miss Joan Col-

Wirth. They are enacting a scene

that calls for reading election returns.

tion, to rewrite the anthem in 8 less difficult voice: range. “Mrs. Becker believes that a more singable version of the. anthem would stimulate wider use of the song among millions of triotic Americans whose untrain voices find the grand old song difficult to sing. Eliminate High Notes

“The changes I am advocating merely eliminate the difficult high notes ‘in the compositon. “The basic melodic lines of the song are preserved. “Not a single note. of syncopation is injected into it. “The changes are hardly noticeable after the song is sung a few times. “I have received many letters praising my idea, including one from the great, great granddaughter of Francis Scott Key, Mrs. Helen Key Stone. { © “In my humble opinion the Star- | Spangled Banner now is singable, | not swingable.”

DIARY IDENTIFIES GIRL SLAIN ON ROAD

LAWRENCE, Kas, May 13 (U. | P.).—Police today identified a young | woman hitchhiker whose body was found early Tuesday on a highway near here as Marlene O’Brien. | She had been beaten, criminally | assaulted and strangled to death, Coroner L. K., Zimmer said. The woman's identity was established through a diary.

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‘Bo’ McMillin and Pete DePaolo on Kirshbaum Center Program.

A. N. (Bo) McMillin, Indiana University football coach, and Pete DePaolo, race driver, are to head the list of speakers for the Fathers and Sons Day program at Kirshbaum Center Sunday The event is sponsored annually by B'nai B'rith, Beth El Men's Club, the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Brotherhood and the Jewish Community Center Association. Games for fathers and sons are to start in the gymnasium at 4 p. m. Several boxing matches have been arranged and scouts: of ‘Troops 50 and 65 are to demonstrate fire building and knot tying. Dinner is to be served at 6:30. A play, “Because He Loved David So,” is to be presented by a cast including Hadassah - Frisch, Byron Falender, Irwin Rose and David Blumenthal under the direction of Sol Blumenthal. Jerome Wachter is to lead group singing.

5 Race Drivers to Attend

Coach McMillin is to explain prob- | lems facing a football mentor, and | how boys may develop themselves to become football stars. Four other race drivers are to accom-| pany Mr. DePaolo to the dinner. | They are Bill' Cummings, Wilbur Shaw, Mauri Rose and CIiff Bergere. Arthur E. Rose, general chairman, is being assisted by the following committees: Afternoon program— David Sablosky and Sol Blumenthal chairmen, Jack Klappér, Dr. Charles

Bass, Lester Engel, Norman Weis-

Leibowitz, Leo Selig, Julius Medias, Theodore Dann; hospitality—Jack Kammins, chairman, Dr. Bernard Hyman, Sam Levinsky, Harry Alpert, Melvin Atlas, Douglas Brown, David Sablosky; prizes—Al Levinson, Leo Selig and Max Katz, Allan Bloom

man and Dan Strehle; evening pro- | gram—Sam Kroot, chairman; Doug- | las Brown, Flovd Beitman, Morris |

Exiled ‘Hexing’ Suspect Seeks Home on Farm

ROCHESTER, May 13 (U. P.).— Driven from the city because several people had claimed she had “hexed” them, Mrs. Irene Ray, 60, and her husband today hunted a small farm home near here. Charges against Mrs. Ray were dropped when she promised Police | Chief Paul Whitcomb she would | leave the community. | She disclaimed all accusations of | a strange hexing power which, one | family = maintained, caused their daughter to have ‘leakage of the heart. “The whole thing is wrong. I can't do anything like that,” the heavy, black-haired woman said. “If my accusers get right with God they won't need to put such things on me as I am living for the Lord and I intend to until I die.” “I won't do the work of the devil because witchcraft is the handiwork of Satan. I feel sorry for my accusers because they cannot think any other way.” At the home of Mrs. Georgia Conrad, 25-year-old girl confined with leakage of the heart, Mrs. Ted Knight, her mother, said her

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