Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1938 — Page 1

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The Indianapolis Water Co. can |

be purchased by the City for approximately $25 000.000, persons heve said today

But C. W. MeNear, Chicago

Evansville Choice of State And Defense.

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vestment broker who is in Imdian- Criminal Court Jurist Says

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estate, oxmer of the company, that neither this nor any other specific price had been discussed as yet | n the City “The company should be acquired the City only it can Pay for of its eamings.” Mr. Me-

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want (0 find out tee named by City Council, if [the company ¢an be purchased on a — where it will be a self ndating project.” he explained. 1 should pay for itself out of its O%Mm earnings without increas. present yates and have enough over to take care of the tax to the City, resulting from its sition by the ity. plus renewals replacements of plant property wipment.” Plan for Ce Under

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He Will Rule on Action Tomorrow.

§ rE Cirenit Judge Johm W. Spencer Jr, of Evansville, today was selected to preside as special judge in the cases of 92 persons indicted on the Indiana election laws. Judge Spencer could not reached to learn whether he would |

with any com- accept the appointment.

Six defense attorneys and deputy prosecutors agreed upon the immediate selection of Judge Spencer. Their action will eliminate the selection of a panel of attorneys through Supreme Court procedure | and prevent about two weeks de- | lay, defense attorneys said If Judge Spencer declines to serve, another judge will be selected, attorneys said.

The agreement followed a confer- sibility of guarding school children Secon d day:

ence with Criminal Court Judge Judge Baker pre-|

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Someone delivered two live wild duck: to the office of Frank Wallace, State entomologist, today and then ran. No one in the office knew where they came from. who brought them, or why. No one. knew what to do with them Fish and Game Division employees in the office next door heard the guacking and indignantly protested They also notified Mr. Wallace he would have to get a permit to keeDd the ducks. and said permits were awfully hard to get. Things were the same way thiz afternoon. Mr. Wallace wouldn't talk to anyone and a (eneneass settiled over the whole office as twilight deepened

SCHOOL SAFETY - CHARGES AIRED

Safety Board Claims Lack| Of Co-operation by | Education Group.

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School officials were charged by a Safety Board member today with failing to co-operate In the responagainst traffic hazards The charge. voiced by Board Mem-

payed to DIES ak, Nor MeNear aid viously had disqualified himself in ber Edwarg Fillion. was made as 20

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for Favors Sale This Year He said he believed should buy the company this year if the proposal shosn © be financially sound. for two reasons: i. The possibility that Congress may tax municipal bonds next year, and thus depress the bond market to a point where the projected local Ie oon be sold. 2. The present tax rates on the {property are known and can be used lay a basis for figuring the | price The Indianapolis Water Oo. is one of two large utilities In the Geist estate, Mr, MeNear said, the other being the Philadelphia Suburban Water Co Acting for Executer Gent formerly owned

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“did not originate with litical aid “I would like to see it kept i cent out of politics,” he added.

TOSCANINI BELIEVED HIDING BEFORE TRIP

ROME, Oct. 4 (U Toseanini was believed i! at hizx home in Milan. behind locked doors and shutters It had been repor in Milan that Sig. Toscapassport had been taken up. presumably to prevent him

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the City defendants,

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“al of gas properties, most of | to the United |

ice president and genera) CATION secretary,

City officials and is not a po~| MeNear |

from famous Soviet women aviators, lost| leaving the country because of his for more than a week near the! ouspoken anti-Fascist attitude. but Arctic Coast had gained DV airplane today in a dense swampy Ministry forest 160 miles northwest of Komrestrictive, | somolsk.

d go today to Le Havre and sail safety, for clothing, he has an engage- canoes to conduct a series of radio party hoped to reach the women in scaffold at Ray St. and Eagle Creek

the cases and yesterday named a pane] of 39 lawyers from which the nudge was to be selectad. The names of these attormevs will be withit was stated, if Judge Spen1

Legality Is Doubted

However. legality of today's agree-

apolis Water Co. can now be! action he will take when the agree- what we can | purchased, where heretofore it was ment is presented to him tomorrow. | i 4 {fendants in today's

agreement Frank Symmes for t and James Deery for the Democratic defendants The first step by the defense, following qualification of a judge, will be the filing of a motion to quash all the indictments, Mr. Symmes

said. He declined to say what point |

of law would be argued in the motion.

TAXPAYERS’ GROUP

Fight Against Restorations In Budgets Pledged.

tion will not tax rates set Indianapolis,

seek further cuts in for townships inside | Harry Miesse, Assoald today. “We will appear before the State Tax Board when it hears Marion County budgets Oct. 18 to prevent | ‘any restorations of items eut out by the County Tax Adjustment Board,” he said. outside that think |

the City we

100 could be cut lower and we may] | urge that be done at the hearing.”

| Meanwhile, the County Auditor's |

|office prepared for certification today all budgets as recommended by | the Adjustment Board Saturday. ! That Board set a rate for Center! Township Indianapolis at $3.19, one oent below the 1938 levy.

{ Attorneys who represented de-;

were | he Republican school officials had refused a Police had been invited to speak

| William | director, who said he spoke for the

Irvington residents demanded police traffic protection at School 37. Ritter Ave. and Washington St., and School 77, Pleasant Run Bivd. and Arlington Ave. Safety Board members told the | delegation that the “Police Department Is handicapped by lack of

manpower,” but agreed to confer

Judge Baker said. with Chief Morrissey and Accident with

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do.”

Fillion

Scheel Officials |

Mr told the group that Department request that they use school janitors as guards where police are not available, *I do not see why the school Janitors could not be used in such cases,” he said. “We even tried to officials to co-operate in placing safety signs throughout the City, and they would not do that.” Informed of Mr. Fillion's

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School Board, asserted: Says Janitors Not Trained

“We believe that it function of the Seliuols {0 assume the responsibility of the Police Department. We are Sa to the use of janitors because they are not [trained to direct traffic. they have no police authority. and the protec-

is not the

sponsibility of the police.” The East Side delegation. headed by Mrs. John Paul Ragsdale, president of the Irvington Union of Clubs, also represented Parent Teacher groups. Victor R. Jose, atiorney. father of a child attending School 57. told] the Board that with the opening of

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| the new super-highway on U. S. 40, “There are a couple of townships | the Ritter Ave. crossing had become | months ago

“twice as hazardous.” He said out-of-town motorists frequently cross the against the traffic signal, noticing the red light. Urges Adult Guards

Mrs. Thomas SRiemer, 3813 E New York St. said: “I hold my breath when I send my 12-year-old

without

{ boy to guard the school children at

| that intersection.”

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FLIERS ARE ARE FOUND

MOSCOW. Oct. 4 (U. P.).—Three

i of Siberia. were located

Two of the women were sighted on the wings of their plane. The

pelieved | third was some distance away. where he she apparently

had parachuted sto bottle, warm and rubber The land

A thermos medicine

were dropped

two or three days,

wy explained her son is a memr of the schoolboy patrol. “I feel as though we ought to {have colder people than children of 12 guarding the safety of children {at that corner,” she said. Board members told the delegation the Board had placed police at school intersections not con-| wolled by traffic signals, but that no police were assigned to crossngs protected by traffic lights.

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HURT BY FALL ING TANK

Arthur Ferguson, 34, of 1300 W. Troy Ave, was at City Hospital today with internal injuries received when a gravel tank fell frem its

‘vesterday and 1 rolled on top « of { him.

| neeps the doctor away.” This apple was wax. The convention

Batesville, left, and Dr. George Row, Osgood, laugh at sessions

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Dr. A. S. Newell, Converse, inspected a scientific Indiana State Medical Association Convention got un

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MAKE PEACE,

F.D.R. ADVISES LABOR RIVALS

Strife ‘Bound to i te ire the Workers Themselves,’ President Warns.

SENDS LETTER TO A. F. o

Four Ousted Officers of U. A. W. Readmitted To Board.

BULLETIN CONVENTION HALL, HOUSTON, Tex. Oct. 4 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt's first public move to end organized labor's three-year internal struggle teday was followed by a new declaration of war by President William Green of the American Federation of Labor against John L. Lewis, rival C. I. O. chieftain.

CONVENTION HALL. HOUSTON. v Oct. 4 P.). — President | Roosevelt today appealed to the warfac organized labor to make peace, warning that continued strife “is bound to injure the workers themselves.” In a message to President William Green the A. F. of L., read at the session of the organizaconvention, the Presithe meeung “will possible door of

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n¥ rnng cuions of

of tion's annual dent hoped leave open every access to peace: png progress in the affairs of organized labor.” Without refe a directly to the rival C. I. O. headed by John Lewis, the message said: “If leaders of organized make and keep the peace between | Various opinions and factions with- | in the labor group itself, it vastly increase the prestige of labor the country and prevent the reaction which otherwise 10 injure the workers themselves.’ Garner Writes Green Green also received a Vice President Garner, 0

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Mr, from the convention, declined. “I have been honored with many invitations, but none has been more appreciatea than yours.” the letter seid. “However, I have made a policy to decline all public apDERTEAOSS while I am Vice President, and having adhered to this course for tie I last five years, I hope to continue it to the end.” It was the first time since the A. F, of L.-C, I. O. feud began three Vears ago that Mr. Rceosevelt has so urged publicly they bury the hatchet and unite to further the economic objectives of the nation’s workers. His labor advisers repeatedly have urge ed him to Keep hands off the explosive issue.

Four Officers ¢ of | U. A. W.

that

The Indiana Taxpavers Associa~- tion of school children is the re- Are Reinstated

WASHINGTON, Oct Four expelled officers of the United Automobile Workers were formally reinstated today at a peace meeiing igned 10 restore harmony in the powerful C. I. O. union. The U. A. W. Board accepted the recommendation of an arbitration committee for full reinstatement of ti four members expelled two

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John L. Lewis, attended

C. 1. O. chairman, the board meeting and

intersection made a plea for harmony within the | Ruffing to open the series.

union. His address was cheered by the board and followed unanimous

acceptance of the recommendations!

of the arbitration committee. The four officers reinstated—Vice Presidents Richard T. Frankensteen, Ed Hall,

and Secretary-Treasurer George F.| Addes—took their seats with other] had

members of the board. They been Waiting at a hearby hotel.

BUREAU FORECASTS OVERCAST SKIES

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tonight and toslightly warmer weather tonight, was forecast bv the! Weather Bureau today. Last night's| low temperature of 34 was several! degrees above normal.

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PAPER PLANES SET

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HOSPITALIZATIO INSURANCE PLA BEFORE DOCTOR

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House of Delegates Gets Recommendation

For Appeal Boards to Review

Disputed Medical Fees.

GAIN IN SYPHILIS FIGHT IS REPORTED

‘Public Demands Action,” Special Committee Says as Convention Opens; Health Officers Adjourn.

Have Health Insurance?” Page Nine: Auxiliary Story,

Page Four.) By JOE COLLIER Warned by a special executive committee that “the public demands action,” the House of Delegates of the Indiana State Medical Association prepared to assemble this afternoon for “its most important meeting in history.” Each delegate was handed a copy of recommendations of the special committee, which included proposals for oroup hospitalization insurance, and the creation of local boards to which the patient could appeal doctor bills he believed too high.

LEE WILL START “FOR CUBS IN 1ST

Red Ruffing Is Likely Yank Mound Choice: Gabby Hurt Again.

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The special executive coms= mittee, composed of all present association officers, all living past presidents and the regular executive committee, ‘has developed the recommendations after two months’ sessions. The committee, formed after the summer meeting of the National Health Conference in Washington, {met during the special session of the | American Medical Association House |of Delegates in Chicago in September. Recommendations of the A. M. A. House of Delegates were much the same as those of the 1. S. M. A. special committee to its House of Delegates. Health Officers Hear Two

Meanwhile, Indiana public heaith P.) —Big officers concluded a two-day confer=ence this afternoon with talks by J. P. Leake, U. S. Public Health

BULLETIN CHICAGO, Oct. 4 (U, P.).— Manager Joe McCarthy of the Yankees today announced he would send Red Ruffing to the mound in the series opener.

CHICAGO. Oct. 4 (U. Bill Lee, a giant with a buggy-whip

right arm and the outstanding deity on “Epidemiology of Polio= itcher in the National League, will melitis,” and by Dr. William J. Me= pitch for the Chicago Cubs in the Connell, New York, on “Pneumonia

; —A Public Health Problem.” S World Series with Revi game of the od 5 | Earlier Dr. Norman Beatty of the the New York Yankees.

.._ {Marion County Medical Societ; Manager Gabby Hartnett definite- 3 y

3 , "~~ committee for the control of syphilis ly announced today he would wave reported that three times as many Lee to the mound tomorrow after- cases of syphilis now are under { noon. . |treatment in the County as were For the Yankees? when the program began 21 months Well, it looks like Red Ruffing. » A.

ithe giant from Nokomis, Ill, who ago. [has been the despair of the seven other American League clups ever since spring came north again this year. U. S. Weather Forecaster J. R. Llovd predicted fair skies for the| first games but advised fans today —bring a topcoat.’ | The Yankees, rested and relaxed after coasting inte the American League pennant, rolled into town on a special train this morning and every indication was that Manager Joe McCarty would call on Red

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (U, P.-.—Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the U. S. District Covrt today summoned a special Grand Jury to investigate alleged monopolistic practices in American medicine, After a conference with U. S. Attorney David A. Pine on the Justice Department's request for such an investigation, Justice Wheat said he was convinced it was justified by the “exigencies of the public interest.” Hartnett Reinjures Finger

Thus the first game brings to-| The complete text of the recom= gether the two greatest right-hand- mendations, which willfor m the ers in baseball—strong. big fellows basis of House of Delegates deliber= with blinding speed and jug-handle ations in the battle against social= curves. ized medicine, follows: The Cubs took to Wrigley Field| “During recent months, much dis= for batting and fielding practice this cussion has occurred concerning the morning, and Hartnett, with two distribution of medical care and the Ibad fingers on his throwing hand, part government should play in this immediately got into trouble. The | field. The National Health Confer{nail on his third finger was torn ence held in Washington recently during the Cubs’ drive for the pen- and the resulting publicity has given nant and the wound was reopened a sudden impetus to this discussion in today's practice. A few drops throughout the Nation. Adverse cri(of blood fell from the finger, but ticism of the medical profession by Hartnett insisted he would be in many of the representatives at that {there to catch Lee tomorrow. conference and by leading period- | Up until this morning Hartnett icals throughout the United States was keeping the identity of his Since then, and the suit threatened starting pitcher secret for fear that against the American Medical Asthe news would upset the man who sociation by the U. S. Attorney Genhas to go against a murderous bat- eral, present to the medical profesting lineup. sion a most serious challenge. Reports are that the Yankees are Your subcommittee has studied 12 to 5 favorites to win the series. carefully and varied aspects of this

ies ie eis sree | problem and after careful consider EDUCATORS ATTACK ation recommends that the Indie ALEXANDRIA SCHOOL

| tion, state chairman of the organ-

lana State Medical Association approve the following program of action: | 1=Maintain Patient-Physician ReBLOOMINGTON, Oct. 4 ( (U. lationship. P.).—Alexandria High School may That we continue by every means (ve dropped from membership in| at our command to resist vigorously the organization of principals of | changes in the practice of medicine the North Central Association of which we believe detrimental to the ‘Secondary Schools because of “un-| public welfare and to the progress | satisfactory school conditions and] of good medical care, namely, the ousting of Superintendent right of the patient to choose his it was announced own physician, and the traditionai | confidential physician-patient reProfi. Carl G. Franzen of the In-| lationship. We oppose any attempt | to influence the choice of the phy- | sician on a political basis. We as1aation, made the announcement. |sume a progressive attitude, realize ing that progressive social change necessitates corresponding changes | in medical practice, and we set our= FIRE TO AWNINGS ' selves to the task of directing the solution of new problems in medical | care. We insist that the medical When Mrs. Shirley Hunsaker,| profession by experience and train= proprietor of a beauty shop at 106| ing is best prepared to solve this 'W. Jom ane Spensd her establish- | situation. | ment ay she found that several] . boys had climbed the ladder to the| 2=-Prblicity by A. M. A. de roof, set fire to paper airplanes and | To this end the State Association sailed them out over the street. is urged to appeal to the American Some of the planes lit in the awn- | Medical Association immediately to ings of the shop, starting blaze that| adopt a program, national in scope, did $25 damage, she reported. and dignified in character, to refute On the front door of her shop she | the eroneous claims and statistics ‘found a sign: | which are flooding the national

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