Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1938 — Page 4
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bill as now drafted would require the . Budget Committee to proceed with the entire program once it was started. He said his proposal was designed to prevent an unbalanced budget by 1941. nator William D. Hardy '(D. Evansville) attacked the proposed amendment on the grounds that “the special session was called ‘to provide recovery and relief.” Senator Vermillion said he would resign from the Budget Committee if the Legislature placed on that committee the responsibility of determining whether the State can afiord the program “That is your responsibility, ? he ~ shouted.
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providing for an addition to the St. Joseph County Tuberculosis Hospital also was defeated.
Study Tourist Attractions
The Senate passed a concurrent resolution creating a seven-man commission to study methods used by other states to attract tourists. The @mmission would serve without expense to the State and would report to the Governor before Jan. 1, 1939. The resolution was introduced by Senators Alfred H. Randall (D. Ft. Wayne) and Harvey J. Post (D. Hammond). A motion seeking to secure adjournment of the Senate “to prevent it from plunging the State into debt which our grandchildren can’t pay” was introduced by Senator Perry Johnson (R. Atlanta). Republicans demanded a roll call vote on the motion hut Democrats claimed the motion was out of order on the grounds that it must be presented to both houses. The chair ruled this was the case and the roll call vote was not held.
Refers Budget Measures
A resolution to memorialize Congress to balance the budget was introduced by Senator Albert Ferris (R: Milton) and was referred to the committee on Banks and Tru Companies. Senator Ferris said he was not introducing this measure “to embarass the majority” but was concerned that the national budget had been out of balance for nine years. : The House convened at 10:30 a. m., half an hour Joie passed two resolutions and received three new non-Administration bills. A bill introduced by Rep. Theodore J. Spurgeon (D. Ligonier).to appropriate $275,000 to match PWA » funds for construction of Unit C of the Indiana War ‘Memorial here, was referred to Judiciary B Committee. ; Asks Marijuana Ban . A bill introduced by Rep. William J. Black, an Administration supporter, making it illegal to smoke or sell cigarets, cigars or tobacco containing the marijuana drug, was referred to the Committee on Swamps and Dikes. A bill introduced by Reps. Ira J. Anderson (D. Cannelton) Charles H. Bartley (D. Jasper) to create an Indiana State Toll Bridge Commission, would empower it to acquire existing bridges and right-of-way, build new bridges and issue’ bonds to finance them. It was referred to the Committee on Roads.
Labor Wants Projects
On protests from labor leaders and representatives of individual counties, the Administration has decided to leave in the instilations bill the Indiana and Purdue projects and possibly the teachers’ colleges improvements, it was learned. The reduction in the appropriations will be less than $500,000, if any, leaders said. At a caucus of Senate Democrats yesterday an amendment was drafted to be written into the welfare bill at second reading today. It was * doubtful, however, if the revision would prove satisfactory to the House, Senate leaders said. Under the new basis decided upon at the caucus the State would return to counties a flat 40 per cent of their welfare costs, excepting those costs paid for by the first 10 . cents in the local property tax levies.
Limited to 1939
The proposed amendment would make the bill operative only during 1939. Since the proposal bases the distribution on the 1939 county welfare budgets every unit would receive some reimbursement from che State, State Welfare Director Thurman Gottschalk said. As an example of the new reimbursement system, Senators explained that a county having a 25cent tax rate to pay welfare costs would receive from the State 40 per cent of the amount raised by a 15cent rate. The ‘Administration’s “sliding scale” proposal which would have based State payments to counties on the ability of these counties to carry this load unaided was killed by the House, which also sub-
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return. (Four Resolutions Offered
Resolutions introduced in the . Senate yesterday were to: 1. Oppose attempts to secure a third term for President Roosevelt. 2. Investigate the passage and administration of the gadget law. 3. Study the Alcoholic Beverages Act with “model” liquor bill to present to the 1939 session. 4. Exp uction of the bill to prohibit Sunmovies and professional baseand football games. This measure been killed in committee. The Senate voted down the resoution dealing with President Roosevelt’s future and referred the others to committee. *
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of the 1937 gadget law and study of the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Act were referred to the Senate committees of Public Safety and Public Policy respectively. Introduced by Senator Lawrence E. Carlson (R. Huntington) the gadget law probe resolution proposed appointment of an investigating committee of three Senators and three Representatives. “The committee then would be asked to investigate the passage of this act by the 1937 Legislature, the contract that was. let whereby the State secured these windshield title card holders which it sold to motorists, the amount of money collected by the State and the cost of manufacturing this article,” Senator Carlson said. © “The purpose is to get a complete check into this thing. If evidence was found to substantiate charges, it would be turned over to the grand Jury.” Law Killed by House Both houses in this special session have acted to kill the gadget law. The House passed a measure which according to the Attorney General's office left the State without any title card regulations. This House bill has been amended by the Senate to provide: “Said receipt of registration shall be inclosed in a container which shall have a protective, transparent face covering of substantial material through which such receipt may be read without removal of the receipt from the container. Such receipt shall, at all times, be carried on . . . vehicle while the same is on any public highway in the State and shall be exhibited on demand of any peace officer.” The original Administration proposal on this subject’ was considered ambiguious by the House and was killed. The amended House bill now up for pasasge in the Senate. If pased, the House will be asked to concur-in Senate amendments. Under terms of the liquor law resolution, a 12-man bipartisan commission composed of six senators and six representatives would investigate the State control system and recommend a model alcoholic beverage act to the 1939 reg~ ular session.
Present Law Attacked
The resolution charged that the present law “sets up political control of the liquor - business . permits sales to minors . . . causes Indiana to be involved in disputes with her sister states.” “Don’t let Paul V. McNutt, the home bey down,” Senator William E. Jenner .(R. Paoli) shouted in de= tense of his unsuccessful resolution to oppose any attempts to secure a third term for President Roosevelt. “There isn’t a citizen of Indiana or a member of this Senate who believes that a man should perpetuate himself in office forever,” he said. “Dictatorships in- European countries always started that way with a popular leader. And Roosevelt is a popular leader.” His last statement brought cheers and handclapping from the Demniocratic Senators, but Senator Jenner held the floor. After Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker had restored order, he shouted back: “Ladies and gentleman, I hope Pam McNutt didn’t hear that handC ap ”» This brought Hoots from the Republican side. Then he said: “You Democrats went on record in your State convention as favoring Paul McNutt for President in 194. Now don't let the home boy down.”
‘Tough Spot,’ Jenner Says
After the resolution, which condemned as “un-American any attempt to elect a President for a third term,” was defeated by a voice vote, Senator Jenner said: “I had them in a tough spot there. Anything they did to that resolution would have been wrong.” The bill to prohibit Sunday nfovies and professional baseball and football games was not introduced with “ulterior motives,” Senator Raymond C. Sohl (D. Dyer), coauthor of the measure, said in his resolution which was referred to the Senate Committee On Swamplands and Drains. Senator Sohl and Harvey J. Post (D. Hammond) introduc to invoke “blue laws” last week, but it was killed in committee after a delegation of theater owners came te protest, but stayed long enough to hand out movie passes to all the Senators but the bill’s two authors. The resolution introduced yesterday was designed to explain the original bill. It said that granting of movie passes would not sway Senators from their duty.
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$33,294 VOTED FOR SCHOOL GONTRACTS
Board Appoints 15 Teachers And Clerks.
The Indianapolis School Board today had approved ‘contracts on school supplies and’ equipment costing $33,29446 and appointment of 15 teachers and clerks, following resignations of six. Appointed to high school staffs were: ; Shortridge, . Barbara Ballinger, stenographer and telephone operator; Manual, Donald G. Moore, teacher; Tech, John W. Varley and Lucy A. Balch, teachers, Ruth C. Smith and Doris Deal, office assistant and junior clerk, respectively. Washington, - Elliot C. Hutton, teacher, Mildred I. Ross, teacher; Crispus Attucks, Thelma E. Freeland, teacher; Thomas Carr Howe, Beldon C..Leonard, teacher. . Appointed to elementary schools were: Grace L. Jamerson, Wilbur W. Barton, Betty A. Ritchie and Pauline T. Banks, teachers; Ernestine Sutton, clerk. At its meeting last night, the Board also approved the sale of two temporary buildings at Washington | High School for $200. It adopted a) resolution to appoint a committee to work with Federal and State boards in determining the classification of labor and wages in the construction of the Broad Ripple High School addition.
CITY MAN ELECTED JEWELERS’ OFFICER
MADISON, Ind., July 27 (U. P.).—
‘Irving Chayken, Hammond, today
assumed his duties as Indiana Retail Jewelers Association president after the election of officers at the closing session of the annual con-
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Other officers named were R. S. Rowe, Indianapolis, first vice; president; Robert Koerber, Ft ayne, second vice president, and G. Elmer Loddie, Lafayette, secretary and treasurer. © More than 150 delegates™from Indiana, Kentugky and Ohio attended the meeting.
HEAT WAVE BLAMED IN MT. VERNON THEFT
MOUNT VERNON, Ind., July 27 (U. P.) ~—Weatherman Guy Green had his official Government thermometer back again today after it was stglen yesterday as a heat wave struck "this area. The thief evidently became hot under the collar when the mercury in the official meter rose to a new season's high and traded it for a cool, soft drink at‘a filing station. The station operator returned it to Mr. Green.
SEARCH COAST FOR 2‘MISSING IN BOAT
NORFOLK, Va., July 27 (U. P.)— The U. S. Coast Guard today patrolled the Atlantic Coast near here in a search for Bob Peterson and Buddy Tepper of Plainfield, N. J,, who have been unreported since Saturday. They left Mantoloken, N. J., Saturday in a 26-foot motor sailer for Virginia Beach. worried when they did not arrive and notified the Coast Guard.
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today. > Clarence A. Jackson, Division director, attributed the decline to “better business conditions.” Division statisticians said the decline, which began June 18 when 7783 filed claims for compensation, has continued steadily. While the drop in claims followed the statewide trend, benefits paid out in State and Marion County reached peaks last week. Record Payment Made
For the week ending July 23, Hoosier unemployed and partially employed received $708,885.11. The previous weekly high throughout the state was $632,735.96, paid during the week ended July 16. - The Indianapolis district, which is virtually Marion County, may go higher than the record $65,320.82 in benefits paid last week, officials said. Previous high for the district was $57,338.27, paid the week ended July 16. Last week’s peak in State and Marion County benefit payments will continue as a‘ plateau for several weeks, Mr. Jackson predicted. It will be followed, he said,a general decline in payments reflecting both the decline in claims that began June 18 and a gradual increase in the number of beneficiaries who will have exhausted their benefit rights. Officials explainéd that the State and county-wide highs resulted from an “abnormal load” of beneficiaries who were thrown out of work in widespread industrial shutdowns in May and tHe early part Nof June. Two Factors Responsible : Statisticians pointed to two factors effecting the drop in claimants. They were: 1. July re-employment in State and county. . 2. The increase in working hours of part-time workers, whose previ ous wakes had been below their weekly benefit amount and had Shins entitled them to compensaon. Re-employment indications were further substantiated by a drop of 1685 beneficiaries from the compensation rolls during last week. Of these, 382 had exhausted their benefit rights. ‘The remainder either were re-employed or received increased hours of work. The State Employment Service reported a gain of 267 jobs filled last week in Marion County over the previous nine weeks’ average of 205. In the State, the gain was 1119 last week over a nine-week average of 1086. Cut Fund $500,000 Increased benefit payments-in the State caused a drop of about $500,000 in the unemployment compensation fund balance, it was reported. | The balance was 26 millions when compensation benefit payments began in April, rose to $27,152,641 in the first half of July, and has decreased to $26,500,000. Mr. Jackson indicated that the fund would pick up again in August when benefits payments are expected to show a
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me alone; I must thinn this thing out by myself.” = It his problem had to do with his hopeless love affair, he said nothing Nor did his Inotier amplify her statement. Repeatedly, as though from the depths of an overwhelming feeling of inferiority, Ward mumbled something about hating to be “a quitter.” Once he said he was “embassassed by all those people.” But nothing any one could say appeared to solace him in the slightest. Three hundred policemen, 100 firemen, four physicians, his sister, his mother, a number of his friends and a priest had worked desperately to preverit his killing himself. Friends said today that all their efforts, all their pleadings, all the prayers of the approximately 100,000 persons who, during the 11 hours yesterday, had looked up from the street gt the dizzy height where he was perched, all the ingenuity of the technicians who devised half a dozen schemes to save him, had been doomed to failure from the beginning.
Made Up Mind Weeks Ago
* He had made up his mind weeks ago that he was not fit to live. He had tried twice before to kill himself. If he had been frustrated and had failed, he would have succeeded another time.
But he did not fail. As police rigged a ship's cargo net on the 16th floor in which they hoped to enmesh him, as peddlers moving through the crowds below crying, “Hyah ya are! Get your binoculars hyah,” he said to the policeman leaning out the window pleading with him: “I have made up my mind. I wish you- could convince me that life is worth living.” He stood on tip-toe and catapulted himself out into space like a diver. “There he comes,” screamed from the crowd.
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raphers’ bulbs outlined the slender figure, no longer in a dive, bu
weight. If struck the marquee of the hotel, breaking the glass and denting the steel, and bounced off into the gutter. Shrieks, screams and moans came from the crowd. Women fainted and were trampled. A hundred policemen had been holding it back, but they were swept aside like straws. The crowd gathered in a thick circle; more women fainted, and, at last, the police fought the crowd back. For 11 hours Ward tied up trafic,
plunging like a dead, inanimate.
| the business of the fashionable shops below, engaged the attention of hundreds of policemen, disrupted the routine of the old-ultra-conservative Hotel Gotham. His death cost the merchants $100,000, the city of New York $30,000, the hotel. several thousand. Ward, the son of the American Express agent at Southampton, N. Y., was intelligent, wellmannered, but his depressive mania made him seem “strange” and a year ago he lost his job as teller in the | Southampton bank. Neighbors of the family, the Patrick A. Valentines, gave him a job tutoring their children. The: changed environment did not improve his outlook, and, after his two attempts at suicide, he was placed in the Central Islip Hospital for
the Insane. He was released last month and his depressive mania was said to have been “arrested.” To complete the cure, Mr. Valentine and his e took him and his sister, Mrs. Catherine Bull, on an outing to Chicago.
Twists Remark Into Indictment Monday night they returned and spent the night at the Hotel Gotham, where the Valentines main-
tain a town apartment. Yesterday morning, the four of them were chatting in the Valentine living room. A remark was passed by Mrs. Bull that was so trivial that no one remembered it. But it was not
an indictment, and, without a word, Fushed to the window and stepped ou Mrs. Bull thought. he had jumped into the street and hystericahy telephoned the hotel clerk. But he had merely stepped out onto the ornamental ledge, 18 inches wide in front of the windows, 12 inches wide between them. Mrs. Bull leaned out the window, assured him of her love, told him that he had character, that he had more character than anyone she knew, told him that he was wonderful and she wanted him to live. He looked at her with tear-moistenea eyes and said he wanted to work it out for himself.
Street Packed in Two Hours
Ward had left his coat in the room and his white shirt and dark trousers against the dulled limestone of the building made & vivid silhouette. Someone saw him and
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son, then another and another joined the first. Within five minutes there were several hundred. Within two hours the street was packed from curb to curb and the crowd spread out for several blocks to the north and trafic had to detour. An inspector - arrived with an emergency detachment—men trained to cope with such emergencies as this one. Soon another police inspector, several fire bat-
control the crowd, came on the quick. Ward was standing carefully between the two windows where he couldn't be reached, leaning against the side of the building,
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calnly surveyed his rowing sudls ence, smoking, cigarets and flipping the butts into the crowd. Mrs. Bull's emotions at length exhausted her. She gwooned, was revived, and put to bed. The Valentines used every device they could think of. Mr. Valentine even leaned out the window and said: “Oh, come on in, John. Let’s forget it. game.”
little, said: “Who’s playing?” “The Cubs (Chicago) Dodgers (Brooklyn).” “I'd rather jump than see the Dodgers.” At last they sent for Patrolman Glasco, a young man with a reputation for eloquence and charm. He took off his coat, his cap, his badge, his SWa-everyihing that marked him as a policema leaned out the window, and cr Look at me, man! Have I ever done anything to you? Then why do you want to ruin me. I'm the clerk of this hotel. I have a wife and three children. If you jump, people will say its my fault and I'll lose my job. Then what'll happen to my children? Come on in, man, and let’s talk it over.” “I Can’t Disappoint Them” Ward seemed touched. He explained sadly that he had no wish to harm anyone, that he couldn't ‘make up his mind. “Look at all those people down there,’ > * he said. “I can’t disappoint
oo talked on and on and though he did not overpower Ward with his eloquence, he did those who were in the room behind him. Deputy Mayor Henry Curran, tears in his eyes, exclaimed that he had never seen such excellent police work. The technicians at last devised a schéme. On the sidewalk below they stretched out a cargo net borrowed
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side to ropes that had been surreptitiously lowered from the floor below Ward's ledge. They worked slowly afraid that Ward would see and be impelled to jump. Policemen went among the scores of photographers, urging them not to take flashlight pictures lest they illuminate the net rising slowly up the side of the hotel. But the flashes: went off anyway and Ward surely saw. At the h floor one side of the net was mi fast to the side of the building. the other side were attached ropes lowered from the 18th floor, one floor above Ward. The plan was to pull up the net and trap Ward between it and the build-
I'll take you to the ball | Ward, a baseball fan, brightened a
ered in bosun’s chairs from the 19th floor, ready to grasp the net when it was pulled within reach. Two seconds more and the life of the phsycopath who was determined to kill himself would have been saved— 5 a time. Ward glanced down, saw the net. “I've made up my mind,” he said, Then he dived.
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