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"VOLUME 50—NUMBER 191

The Nation’ s No. 1 T raffic Expert Visualizes— BE in 1963

Dr. McClintock: “Traffic lights are a monument to the engineers’

inability to solve traffic problems. The Signal is a poultice they put on to make ie Shustion, tolsrable. Silvie: :

. McClintock Pictures City of the Future

By VINCENT JOHNSON

ssman looked af his ] lunch. If he had looked his desk he would “have noticed that it was October, 1963. “The date doesn’t have any bearing on Mr. Businessman’s appetite, of course. He could have been just as hungry back in October, 1938. But it does Syplam; What he did next. He walked down the hall from his office, ttopond into his automobile parked i in a garage in the core of the building, and then proceeded to whisk himself 10- miles to his suburban home in less than 10 minutes flat. He didn’t bump any fenders. He didn’t have to age trucks darting out of side streets. But this is Indianapolis in. October, 1963. ‘Remember? And Mr. Businessman was driving under the traffic conditions that Dr. Miller McClintock envisions for the city 25 years from now. _ Dr. McClintock is the man who directed part of the C. I. T. Indiana - Newspaper Semindr of Safety at the Claypool Hotel .this. week. He also is director of Yale University’s Bureau for ‘Street Traffic Research. This} is how Dr. McClintock sees: the Indianapolis ‘of: 1963, illustrated with fork and knife patterns on the breakfast tablecloth. It will be a city of a more concentrated business district and- more widespread residential sections at the outskirts. The downtown area will be encircled by an elevated or recessed street with elevated or sunken highways leading from it to the out-

skirts. Ramps will lead down or up from that circle to the streets. in -

the business area. That. circle will be known as a distributor ring. : “Garages will be built in downtown structures, permitting the busitiessman to drive right into his place of business.

The MéClintock Theory of Traffic Safety

“The roads leading from the ring will be limited-way. roads, with a jafety island or similar structure dividing them in the center. = Overhead or underground passes will take care of the cross traffic et intersections. - To understand the rest of the picture it is necessary lo understand Dr. McClintock’s theory on the traffic safety problem. He believes that friction, in four forms, is the cause of traffic acciNents. “Eliminate those and you have practically" licked the problem. ‘The first is intersectional friction, where one street crosses anther. : The second is marginal friction, where there is an impediment : (example: parked car) at the side of the road. The third is internal stream friction, where cars going in the same direction at different speeds impede: each other. The last is. medial friction, where two lines of opposing traffic are not separated and cars cap meet in head-on. collisions. . The limited roadways of 25 years tom now will tend. to eliminate those forms of friction, Dr. McClintock explained. If you're driving on one of these arterial highways you won't have to dodge side traffic. It will be passing above or below you. There still will be traffic lights and stop signs in certain sections but they will be timed in cycles that will permit a rapid-moving stream both ways... . - Along the limited way routes will be .turnoffs, built on the same principle that permits the siding of slow freight trains now to permit fast passenger trains to go ahead of them. ‘The majority of. streets will be like they are today; no wider.

“The wider ‘street isn’t the solution of the safety problem,” Dr. -

McClintock said. “It does permit more cars to pass through duriag a given period but it does not cut down fatalities.

‘Limited Way Route Is Knswoi’ 5 im

“The limited way route is the answer and. it-is inevitable. Perhaps peal won't like the idea of having elevated or recessed streets. They ®bject to the Chicago Loop and I don’t blame them. But to: believe that a modern street elevation is going to look like the Loop is like believing that the modern automobile looks like the horse and buggy.” «IT don’t know a great deal about this city but I understand it is of :a widespread construction,” he ‘said.- “The ‘problem of congestion. is not . yet. highly developed here.” ; The man who looks upon the traffic ats as “gp poultice’ the engineers -put onto make the situation tolerable,” believes the accident

problem’ “is on the run.” He said “traffic lights are a monument to 4

the" engineers’ ability to solve traffic problems.” . . : Dr, McClintock thinks the speed of traffic is going to increase. ' “THe essence of transportation 'is movement,” he Sxplained. “The, : problem: of motion and: safety are one and the same. - - = “Of course, in theory, we could eliminate accidents entirely just " taking the spark Plugs ut of every -car -in -the . “Souniey, But - that's

itch : at 20d desided on

FORECAST Fair and continued “cool tonight; fair and somehat warmer x tomorrow.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1088

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“To believe that a modern street elevation is going to look like the Loop is like believing that the modern automobile looks like the horse

and buggy. . « .

SPY TESTIFIES ONCODET!

Rumrich Tells; ; of Seeking

Into Ring.

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 (U. P).— Guenther Gustave- Rumrich, confessed German spy, testified in ederal Court today that Private Erich Glaser of the U: S. Army, who ‘was stationed at Mitchel Field, gave him part of a secret Army code book

for transmission to Germany. Glaser is one of three persons on trial on spy charges.

Rumrich, on the stand for the

fourth day, said Glaser gave him only two pages of a manual on ra-

dio procedure used . in contacting] ,

Army planes in the air and: that they discussed means of getting the rest of the code from - two y men known to have copies. - Finally, Rumrich said; he gave the two pages to Karl .Schlueter; payoff man for the German spy

' |network ‘here, and asked $40 for it.

He’ falsely told Schlueter, he said,

that the code was of more military}

importance than it really was. Rumrich said Glaser had given him ‘the names. of several soldiers and. that he planned to induce them to become sources. of information : for the ring. . In furtherance of this scheme he wrote a letter under Glaser’s. signature to a soldier named Gus Schmidt sug-

gesting he had some “very, very in-

teresting things ‘to tell you.”

Canal Photos Called Perilousto U.S.

CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Oct.20 (U. P).—Col. O. L. Spiller, com-

‘|mander of Ft. Randolph, testified.

today that photographs taken in the Canal Zone by four Germans pic-

tured national defense werks and|

could have been used by a foreign

power to the injury of the United

States. Spiller testified at a , hearing for the Germans, arrested on charges of illegally taking photographs near canal fortifications. They are Ingeborg Guttmann, Hans Schakow Gisbert Gross and Edward Kuhrig.

FUND AT $477,670,

TWO-THIRDS OF 60AL A

Workers Report Pledges of $36,572 at Luncheon. (List of donors, Page 12; Editorial, : : Page 18) Community Fund. workers today passed the two-third mark in their campaign, but faced .the necessity of raising an addition $233,963 to attain their goal by Tuesday night. - The workers reported vledges of $36,572.26. af their luncheon today at the Claypool Hotel, This brought the total of contributions.-thus far to $477,670.34, or 67.1 per cent. “To continue the pace set at the

start ‘of : the campaign, solicitors must . send the total well over the

‘ | half-million. mark tomorow. “It was

emphasized ‘that new gifts- and Pledges are. Radial from contribu-

Bo or Me ets Girl and Girl ‘Traps Boa

;DAVLAS, Tos: Oct. 20 (U.

$ (Sis). Dwyer “today affections ately patted the head of a'30-: . foot hoa constrictor which she - ‘recaptured as it gave side- - 'show* erowds an unexpected thrill, The python found its wire cage doar unlatched last night and "slipped under the floor boards of the Buck Museum of Monsters at the Texas State Fair. Mrs. Dwyer, comely 47-year-old snake charmer, located the huge snake that kills by its ‘crushing’ coils. She covered ‘the boards with heavy rugs and pulled the boards up, ~Jetting ‘the rugs fall over the boa. Then she reached under, grabbed its head and yelled to husky reustabouts: “Come and._get him.” . Six men leaped upon the powerful python, kept it from coiling and carried it back to its cage. . “He. -was Jost cold,” explained Mrs. Dwyer, “and crawled under the floor to get warm.”

MISSOURI OUTLAWS

FILM ize CONTEST

No Ruling Requested Indiana, Officials Say.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Oct. 20 (U.-P.)—The Attorney General's office ruled today "that the $250,000 movie quiz contest sponsored by Slm producers and theater owners was a lopiery in ‘Violation of the Missouri aws. ° itr

The Indiana Attorney General's office said today. it has had no request for an opinion-on the legality of the Movie Quiz contest.

‘MARY CARLISLE ILL HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 20 (U.P.)— Mary Carlisle, blond movie star, was reported in “very satisfactory

’ | condition” today after being rushed

to “Cedars of Lebanon Hospital last night for an emergency Bppendicitis operation.

Marion Rallies Cheer ‘Both Sides: Farm Vote Is T. ermed. Key Factor

(Photos, Page Three; National ‘Politics, Page Nine.) .

By TOM OCHILTREE Times Staff Writer MARION, ‘Ind., Oct. 20.—The vote of veterans, farmers and Townsend Old-Age Pension advocates is' expected to be the deciding factor in the Fifth Congressional District race, leaders. of both parties agreed today. 5 7 As this city of 25,000 returned to normal following - an evening of blatant bands, sputtering torch lights and table-pounding oratory,

|Republicans and Demoerats looked for new portents of success as they

rushed ‘efforts to: perfect thir organizations Judged purely as a spectacle, the

Democratic rally in” the’ National|1936 Guard Armory ind last night cing!

e Bompsting

“ot course, in theory, we could eliminate accidents iets Just by taking the spark plugs out of every car in the country, But that's

theory and not practice.”

TWD HELD N |

Ernestine, | qo

Ohioan ried $500 Sen-|

Bi: Auto Robberies.

The assistant manager of the Charles C. Peek, Inc., jewelry store. and - his alleged ‘accomplice were arraigned today in Municipal Court on charges resulting from the reported theft of $3300 worth of diamonds from the store. John Eder, 34, of 960 East Drive, Woodruff Place, the assistant manager, was charged with embezzle-

ment. Fred Murphy, 38, of" Brownsburg,

was charged with receiving stolén|-

property. Both were released after Eder posted $3000 bond and Murphy

$2000. Their cases were continued :

to Nov. 15. In another Municipal Court case today, Paul R. Martin, 28, of Dayton, O., was fined $500 and costs and sentenced to 180 days on the Indiana State Farm after he: had admitted the theft of mere than $5000 ‘worth of property from autos. He told Judge Charles Karabell that he and an accomplice burglarized cars over- a period of two months. He testified he -acted as a “spotter” of cars.and pawned most of the stolen articles, he said. His

partner entered the autos and took

the goods, he said.’ In the jewel theft arrests, detectives said they -Obtained state-

ments yesterday from beth men. |"

The jewels have not been recovered. The theft was: discovered by ‘| Charles C. Peek, head of the firm, several days ago, police said. A checkup showed 20. diamonds rings were missing Eder said . his statement that he stole the rings over a ‘period of eight months, according : to police. - He turned the gems: over to Murphy for disposal, police said: Murphy ‘is a former customer at the store who got behind in his ac-

S| counts, - detectives said. "Eder . had

been with the company nine years. FORD HEADS MINNESOTA U. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Oct. 20 (U. P).—Dr. Guy Stanton: Ford, dean of the graduate school at the University of ‘Minnesota, late yesterday was elected university: president to fill the vacancy caused by the death of President Lotus D. Coffman Sept. 22.

But many ofthe 2500 Democrats

lin attendance left at the conclusion

of the. vaudeville acts and as U. 8S. Senator Minton was beginning his speech, while all of the 1000 Republicans who came to hear ‘Raymond E. Willis, G. O. P. Senatorial nominee; stayed to cheer: until the janitors began folding up the chairs. ‘Democratic leadérs here seem to|C be more optimistic over Rep. Glenn

|Griswold’s chances for re-election than are the party strategists at the |

State headquarters in Indianapolis. They point to the claim that bettors are unable to find much Republican money. The Democrats have taken a district: poll and they: claim majorities in all but Wabash Ceunty, We only county. Bep. 2. Griswold lost in

day’s rain temperatures | ‘dropped : ‘19

‘both of them.

Second Olass Matter

Entered as at Postotfice, Tadianapelss

Photo. °

40-Ounce = ‘Iron Lung’ Baby Dies

Cr 5 WILLIAM, Ontario

+ |also ‘behind us.

born here 8 Ten: ine fantile paralysis victim insén - “iron lung” lived only a few. hours, officials of the Isolation Hospital revealed today. : The baby, born yesterday,’ weighed only 40 ‘ounces. Attending docvors, who said its birth in the “iron lung” was . the first such case in- their knowledge, announced that: it died last night. The mother, who has been confined to-an “iron lung” in the “hospital for more than: four months with paralysis of

the chest, was said today to be in “fairly good” condition. She is expected to live.

RISE IN MERGURY 1S DUE TOMORROW

Cold Snap to Be Brief, Is| Forecast of Bureau.

TEMPERATURES

6a. m... 43 10p m.... 46 Ham... 43 1l.a.m.., 48 8am... 4 12 (Noon). 50: 9a. m... 44 1pm... 53

The cold snap that brought out topcoats and furs in Indianapolis today will end tomorrow under fair skies, the Weather Bureau predicted today. : Fair and warmer weather tomorrow may send .the mercury to"a 75-degree ‘level, observers: said. Temperatures hovered in the low 40s early today Following yester-

‘degrees from 62 degrees’ yesterday at 6 a. m. to 43 this morning. = Rainfall in the city yesterday: totaled .98 inches. That raised total precipitation for the month to within .78 inches of the 2.78-inch horm ars £17 fiiches ahead of the yearly

didate must make 4 creditable ghowing or at least break’ close to even in

. Rep. Griswold’s majority in Grant County in 1936, when he ran against Benjamin J. Brown, was. 99. Democrats now claim ‘that polls show 8 10 per cent gain for their party in Sus County which Dr. G. E. Botkin, . O. P. County chairman, disputed, The Republican County poll shows their party has 12,537 voters, compared to 11,944 Democrats, while 6488 are listed as doubtful. ‘In ‘explanation, they expected between 30 to 40 .per cent of the County’s 1200 Negro vote, while in’ the last few years they have been getting only, 15 per cent, Democratic ‘majorities in . other

counties in the district, as shown in {the | the Demoreatic. poll, are ‘300 to 500 in: | Count, 1540 in

Hu its

p ostwar Level of

INEW CYCLE CITED

Depression Behind Us,

‘| WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (U. P.)— {Thomas 8. Holden, president of the

‘lto stimulate private construction. -lident of F. W. Dodge Corp., said |now in a new recovery cycle and

‘cent increase by 1943 over current

| those of 1922, 1923 and 1924, healthy

‘Republicans said in i

Ind.

Construction Seen In Five Years.

Keynote at Parley In Capital.

New York Building Congress, told the Construction Industry Conference today that the $4,800,000,000 annual construction volume of the postwar recovery period msy be attained within the next five years. ' Sponsored by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; the conference opened today and will continue through tomorrow. Leaders of the industry will formulate a program designed

Mr. Holden, who is also vice presthat the construction industry was visualized prospects for a 140 per

annual private construction volume of two million dollars.

Adjustments Made

“While the more: spectacular phase of the current upturn is. a new Federal public works program,” he said, “there is going on at the same time a revival of private building activity. “The great - depression is behind us, and many of the necessary financial - adjustments necessitated by the great deflation have been made. We have also reason to believe that the latest recession is

“This last recession has cost us

ive of the first setback. |: Now thé industry faces its future more realistically than it has been: able to do at any time during the past ten years.” He added that, while all obstacles to complete recovery have.not been removed, it appears that new opportunities have been created. Scans Potential Market

“While we do not now see on the horizon - any such extraordinary combination of circumstances as those which produced the great 1925-1929 boom,” he said, “it does | PR look today.as if volumes equal to

postwar recovery years may be at-|% tainable within the next five years, unless prevented by international conditions beyond the control of the people of the United States.” Mr. Holden said that the great potential market for housing in the moderate and low-priced fields offered the greatest opportunity for private enterprise.

BULLETIN

(Other Foreign News, Page Four)

"LONDON, Oct. 20 (U. P.). —A serious hitch has occurred in the British-United States talks on a trade agreement, - it was learned from an unim- . peachable source today, despite denials in Washington and London. The difficulties reportedly arose over Britain's unwillingness to grant further tariff conces.sions on American aufomo= "piles, silk stockings, hams, bacon, lard ‘and timber.

1.U, STUDENT SHOT IN MYSTERY ATTACK

Officials Believe _ Identity Was Mistaken.

BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 20 (U: PJ). —Police ‘searched today for 4 mysterious middle-aged man who last night shot six times at an Indiana University student ‘and wounded him severely in the right leg. Police said they believe the shoot-.

tity. The wounded youth is: Russell Regentine, who early today was taken

treatment. He told. police he walked out of his boarding house and started for his room ‘when ‘the as sailant followed him, produced a reyuiger and fired all of the bullets

La first,” Regentine said, “7 thought some one was shooting * a

felt blood running down my: leg. Then 1 1.staxtad tp vumr-and noticed

fo.his home in La Porte for medical |

u 8. ‘Billion Beliind -

As Dump-Priming | - Exceeds 1937, iz

co HAND IN HAND

Observers Believe it Indicates Broadened* Recovery Base.

WASHINGTON, : .Oct. 20- ‘wo. Pe ; The. gross Treasury deficit is abou} to hit one billion dollars today rr

business begins to move faster: with the flow of relief and pump-prime ing spending. YI Ta Because Treasuty figures 1g ‘n couple of days current’ counts it is quite le that, ne ceficit already has .exceeded billion ‘dollars for tii fiscal year Latest figures through Ot, ‘18 compare Trdéasury ‘fiscal year ace counts-of that date this year wed year ago as follows: 3 THE Yee CT i EXDenses ......csee..$ 2,601 450.37 Receipls -...coeeconses 1,684, ,499 Gross Deficit Erie, iam National Debt ...... 38,422 HY Last Year EXDenses ce.eocoecee .$ 2,348,712,088 Receipts senesvesveser 1, ,980, 481,732,001

Gross Deficit vscssces National Debt ....:.. 36,946,262708 Comparison - of spe in: the first 17 days. of October his “yeas with the first 17 days. of. October last year, however, more accurately reflects the increasing tempo of Federal spending as. the

Puinp-prming program ho 1 ».

take hold, Zeta : ry Biase Widens ¥ ravoraiie sins opments

Another Story, Page i)

f ; but 16 isa good thing jo | Such 38. & a. past the Oven of the first. recovery wave-aud the. excess- |!

a recovery base which many observers link directly to ins creased Federal spénding. ‘There are persons among both friends ahd Lisl of of the New Deal who find it significant that. the 1937-38 depression coincided: with & slackening of erhment spending and that the current business ups turn follows io behind: a TeRmIp) tion of pump-priming. That pump-priming is directly a Joos Treasury figures is indicate y ‘comparison of ‘October Agus for 1938 ‘and 1937. Ww One year ago President soi still’ was in’ the’ process of a) economy brakes. ‘The 17-day in in ‘spending, receipts and gross de ? ficit in October, 1938, compared wit October, 1937, show that the Admine istration is tremendously - iriére the expenditure rate His year.’ are the figures: * Be! oc. 1- 17, 1938

Spent ..ccervireeianein .$289,000,000 Receipts .....covivvncns 181,000000 Gross Deficit .......... 108,000,000 Those figures show that the Treasury is taking in less money this month than a year ago but is spending it much more rapidly. For that reason the deficit is moving fdr beyond last year’s figure and the national debt consistently is estalis lishing new record highs. : ar WPA Doubles Costs -g The Works Progress Administrie tion alone has put out more thah 600 million dollars so far in. this fiscal year—almost twice as. much as a year ago. It spent 110 milliofy dollars in the first 17 days of tober compared with 53 million |

~~ [tars from Oct. 1 to 17, inclusive, In

19317. I As business reacts to. if'reasury spending, some New Dealers ‘sed ) of accelerated recovery, Secretary - Commerce Roper’ bea lieves increased automobile employs ment will tend to broaden the the’ rex | covery base. : The fact that the budget remalng far out of. balance, Challenges the ibe Treasury and Mr. "Roosevelt; - hope that increased as tivity will swell tax revenue and - stantially reduce the deficit ot by a year from now. - : JET

COUNTESS WEDS BARON LONDON, Oct. 20. ¢U. £2 un of “divorced last

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