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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 198

FORECAST—Fair and slightly warmer tonight and tomorrow.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28,1938

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Public Health Association on Record as Favoring Broad Objective.

FISHBEIN RAPS ‘WASTE’

Paralysis Research Needed Before Trying Prevention, He Declares.

- KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 28 (U. P.).—The American Public Health

> Association ‘today approved the

broad general plan of the controversial $850,000,000 national health program proposed by a committee of physicians and governmental representatives. . In a resolution expressing its atfitude on the program generally but not specifically mentioning the five proposals included in the plan, the association said: “We offer our co-operation to the governmental agencies, which may be charged with the proposed expansion of health services in the United States and we stand ready to collaborate with other professional and scientific organizations having similar principles and objectives to the end that at the earliest possible date in every area un-

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States the whole population may] have the benefit of ‘the best that public health service can bring them.” .

Half Medical Doctors

Of the 600 members of the health association, more than half are

- medical doctors.

The resolution was indicative of the course pursued by the health association in the past and its expected future policy. It previously had approved group medicine plans that drew vigorous opposition from fhe A. M. A. - Dr. Edward S. Godfrey Jr., Albany, N. Y., was chosen as presi-dent-elect for 1940 to succeed Dr. Abel Wolman of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. The 1939 convention of the association will be held in Pittsburgh.

Fishbein Charges Funds Wasted

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28 (U. Py Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Society, charged here that any funds provided now for prevention of infantile paralysis, gonorrhea and other crippling diseases would be wasted because of lack of knowledge about the maladies. Dr. Fishbein made his charge in an attack n the national health program, which proposed expenditure of $850,000,000 in a 10-year pub-

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provisions for prevention of infantile paralysis and disease with similar effects. “Until we learn more about it through intelligent, well-directed research,” said the medical director, any program which contemplates prevention of infantile paralysis is

. a& bogus campaign.”

Hitting at the compulsory health insurance feature of the National Health Program, Dr. Fishbein alleged that it is a political move and said that consultation with medical ministers of a dozen European nations had convinced him that compulsory health insurance is the “beginning of a change of government, ~ toward a totalitarian state.”

Believes U. S. Escaped Paralysis Epidemic

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U.P.).— The U. S. Public Health-Service said .today that it is safe to predict that the United States this year, for the first time since 1932, will escape an infantile paralysis epidemic. The incidence of infantile paralysis .was the lowest recorded in the four-week period ending Oct. 8 in the decade for which the data are available. ¢ “As the summer rise of this disease usually reaches its peak in September,” the health service said, “it is now apparently safe to say

' that 1938 wil be free from an epi-

demic of this disease.”

BUREAU FORECASTS FAIR AND WARMER

TEMPERATURES 6a m...40 10 a. m.... Ya m...143 a.m... 8 a. m.... 47 12 (Noon)... 57 9 a. m.... 50 1p m...5

The Weather Bureau’s prediction today was continued fair and slightly warmer for tonight and tomorTOW. A heavy fog was noticed today in rural sections surrounding the city. A light fog blanketed the city early today.

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Just a Halloween Gag—

HERE House Indianapolis’ most notable dogs.

This Tale of the Tail That Wagged the Dog

By JOE COLLIER

a solemn legend that over the labyrinths of the State useum there presides whimsically the ghost of one of

This dog was a _ Great Dane and belonged, in life, to Carl Fisher when he headed the Speedway Corp. here. When it died, Mr. Fisher extracted the skeleton because it was such a very large Great Dane, then assembled it with wires and presented it, standing up in

a glass inclosure, to the Museum. The curator assigned the dog to a position on a side corridor near an office which at that time was used by the State Entomology Department. The skeleton stood there very patiently for month after month without attracting any special attention. Then one day near Halloween several years ago it made an unprovoked attack on a museum visitor who was nervous anyway, sending the visitor yammering out of the building never to return. It seems the skeleton had wagged its tail and snapped its jaws at the visitor, in the order named, which, if it had been a

real dog, would have been against canine rules and sharp practice. And those jaws, according to all reports, really snapped. The. tail would begin wagging gently but occasionally nearly wagged the dog.

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HEREAFTER, repeated reports were heard that the skeleton wagged its tail and snapped its jaws at perfect strangers, time after time no matter whether it was Halloween or not. State authorities became annoyed at a skeleton that snapped at taxpayers and

decided to see what was what.

(You've got to remember that the

tales of this neurotic skeleton had been pretty well authenticated by

this time.)

So a research party surrounded the thing and found rubber bands around its jaws, and black, almost invisible, threads leading from the tail and jaws through a crack into the entomologist’s office.

So many odd things happen to Frank Wallace, State Entomologist

that it seems to be almost fictional coincidence that he was then the State Entomologist and tnat since his office has been moved to the State Library Building this wolf of a curio has been quiet as if

afraid of the dog catcher.

Mr, Wallace today said that he remem-

bers the day the research party found the black threads leading from the skeleton to his office and he remembers wondering how in the world they got there. He said he never did find out. He said it was the sort of thing that might happen to anyone on Halloween. Then he began talking to a bug that happened to wander into his office

by mistake.

Fiber Made From Coal Called ‘Rival’ of Silk

(Copyright, 1938, by Science Service)

WILMINGTON, Del.,

was made here today by the E. I. made from a new material, “nylon.”

Oct. 28.—First official announcement of a new synthetic fiber which will be a major rival for silk in the hosiery field

du Pont de Nemours & Co. It is

For half a year rumors of “Fiber 66” have traveled in chemical and textile trade circles but.no official admission of the new fiber’s.gxistence was made, even though—it is now disclosed—a pilot plant was in operation in Wilmington producing small quantities of the new fiber.

RIGHBERG RAPS NLRB ‘CLUBBING’

Deplores Compulsion, Urges Mediation Substitute < For Wagner Act.

By LEE MILLER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28— Donald R. Richberg, who wrote the Railroad Labor Act and NRA'’s famous Section 7A, said in an in-

terview today that he favored not only amending the Wagner Labor Relations Act but virtually replacing it. As a substitute, he would apply to all interstate industry the mediation technique through which the Government today is grappling peaceably with the threat of a general railroad strike. Mr. Richberg, now practicing law here, is a former head of NRA and of the National Emergency Council, was for years counsel to the rail(Continued on Page Three)

15 REPORTED DEAD IN MARSEILLES FIRE

MARSEILLES, France, Oct. 28 (U. P.).—The Nouvelles Galeries, a large department store, was in flames today. Unconfirmed reports were that 15 persons had died in the fire. Hundreds fled from the building.

WEATHER CHANGES, BUREAU, TOO . . . . RAIN TO FALL JUST THE SAME . «wee

The new synthetic fiber has been created from coal, water and air and it has the strength of steel coupled with the fineness and beauty of silk, the du Pont company declares. The fiber is claimed to be one of the greatest achievements of industrial research.

Work of Many

The new fibre is the work of many chemists, but patents for its production are in the name of the late Dr. W. H. Carothers, du Pont chemist. Basic Carothers patent is No. 2,130,948 with 56 broad claims, which dis-

closes eight specific ways of creating the fibers. Chemically the nylon fibers are polyamides. Like natural silk they have a protein-like structure. Filaments finer than silk or rayon can be spun. The filaments have amazing elastic recovery and great strength. These properties, plus the ability of the fibers to take common dyes easily, forecast the chemists’ goal of making sheer, two-thread hosiery with the wearing characteristics of the four-thread, servicevariety. But hosiery is not the only application of the new nylon fiber. Because its diameter can be controlled at will it can be produced for a variety of products like brush bristles, racquet strings, fishing lines, woven dress goods, velvets, knitted and woven underwear. It can also be employed as a transparent wrapping film, for plastic composition, textile firishing agents and coated fabrics. Toothbrushes with the synthetic bristles are already on the market. Construction of an eight million dollar plant at Seaford, Del., for the production of the fiber, will start in December, the du Pont company announced. - Production from this plant will probably start in about a year.

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NEW PROBLEM IN” ELEVATION PROJECT RISES

Grade Determination Delays Railroad Action on Plan, Steeg Says.

PWA DEADLINE PASSES

Engineers’ Report; City Gives 0. K.

Last ‘midnight’s “deadline” for

definite acceptance or rejection by|

the City’ of the PWA grant for the South Side track elevation project was described as “meaningless” by City Engineer Henry B. Steeg today. The offer, which was for 45 per cent of the total cost of the proposed million-dollar project, was “definitely accepted a week ago by the Works Board,” Mr. Steeg said. Previously, Mayor Boetcher had stated that a definite answer on the project by the Oct. 27 date depended on the decision of the Indianapolis Union Railroad. Up to this time, the railroad has not indicated that it will proceed with the project. Dec. 7 Is Work Deadline

The only actual deadline now remaining, as provided in the grant which has been accepted by the City, is Dec. 7, the date construction must begin, it was said. Mr. Steeg said that the City has taken all formal steps required on its part, and that the final decision now rests with the railroad. No decision will be made by the railroad, Mr. Steeg said, until all construction details have been

~lworked out by City and railroad

engineers. Holding up further progress at this time, he said, is determination of the grade of elevation at a point near Madison Ave. The Pennsylvania freight trains which use the tracks at this point at. present have a “determining grade” of one-half of one per cent.

Two Payment Plans Given

The tracks cannot be elevated at the Madison Ave. point without imposing a steeper grade, Mr. Steeg said, and the question for the railroad to answer is how steep a grade can be negotiated. The City has offered the railroad two possible methods of financing its share of the cost of the project. One is for an outright payment. The other is an offer by the City to loan the amount to the railroad by bond issue, the amount to be paid back to the City over a 10-year period. Of the 55 per cent of the total cost remaining after deduction of the Government’s 45 per cent grant, the plan provides that the railroad shall pay 50 per cent, the City 34 per cent and the County 16 per cent.

STREETON GUILTY, GETS 1T0 10 YEARS

Involuntary Manslaughter Is Voted in Callahan Death.

Charles Streeton, 38-year-old carnival performer, today was sen-

tenced to 1 to 10 years following his conviction by a jury of involuntary manslaughter in the slaying of Bert C. Callahan, Indianapolis real estate man, four years ago. The jury, which began its deliberations at 10:30 a. m. yesterday, reached a verdict at 3:30 a. m. today but the verdict was sealed and read in court later in the morning. Sentence was imposed by Criminal Court Judge Frank P., Baker immediately after the verdict was read. During the trial, defense attorneys argued that Mr. Callahan was shot accidentally during a - fight with Streeton in the former’s N. Illinois St. apartment, April 6, 1934. The State charged that Streeton had planned a “perfect crime” and had the fatal weapon with him when he went to the Callahan

apartment.

Decision to Await

Waneta (left) and Oveta Rice, twins, are attend-

ing the Indiana State- Teachers: Convention here. Britons Oppose Hitler's Colony Plea, Poll Shows

(The Foreign Situation, Page Five; Another Story, Page 12)

a By DR. GEORGE GALLUP rigan: Institute of Publis Opinion Director NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—Evidence of a stiffening of public opinion in England toward Hitler's drive for territorial expansion is revealed in a survey just completed by the British Institute of Public Opinion, affiliate of the American Institute. + ‘This study’ shows that an overwhelming majority of Britons is not only against giving back to Germany any of her former colonies, but would actually fight rather than hand them over, Moreover, sentiment against the return of the .coloniés has been. increasing, for ‘the current survey shows a greater percentage of opposition than did a similar: survey taken a year. ‘ago—before ‘Hitler grabbed Austria and ‘annexed ‘the. Sudetenland. ‘The - British Institute, whose reports appear in England. in the London News | Chronicle, asked - a cross-section . of British voters in’ the latest ‘survey: “Are you-in favor -of ‘giving back any former German: colonies?” For. Returning; Colonies. sou .oa0 cnsvinecerepsninsee 3% Those’ who Voted ‘against. the return were asked: rather fight than hand them back?” The vote was: XEB o.oo. ccnecicvnusnnsnssrasineienrr essences: 1300 NO ceninernnsos A year ago the vote on returning colonies was 24 per cent for, 76 per cent opposed. The solid wall of votes against return of the colonies is especially significant at this time because it is reported that Hitler soon will present emphatic demands for the Reich’s lost possessions, the licn’s share of which went to Great Britain in 1919. This would bring him up against public opposition in England. The question remains whether Prime Minister Chamberlain can afford politically to negotiate with him on the colonies question in the face of disapproval at home, The rank and file voters of Chamberlain’s own party are against the return of the colonies by. just about as large a majority as the voters of the Opposition parties. Those voters who favor the present Chamberlain government are more than 8 to 2 against return. Favor Against Return Return Government .....cece000000000000000000-17% 83% Opposition 13 87 According to reports of Chamberlain's speech in the House of Commons Sept. 28, the Prime Minister discussed briefly with Hitler the colonial question, and the implications seemed to be that the subject was still open for further discussion. But Chamberlain declared in the Commons that Hitler had told him the issue of the colonies was not one over which Germany would go to war. Judging from the British Institute survey, however, it is « question over which & majority of British voters say they would take up arms, Although the United States took none of the former German colo‘nies after the war, public opinion in America is almost as opposed to seeing them returned to Germany as public opinion in England. The American Institute of Public Opinion conducted a survey early this month in the United States and found a vote of 22 per cent for return-

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DAYTON CLOSES SCHOOLS TODAY

Funds Gone, 34,000 Pupils, 1200 Teachers Face Long Vacation.

DAYTON, O., Oct. 28 (U. P).— The city’s 34,000 public school children and 1200, teachers start an indefinite vacation at the end . of classes today. The School Board was broke; its credit exhaustéd. A holiday of at least “six asks was in

prospect. If the Board receives: its $240,000 share. from the State School Foundation, schools, may.reopen Dec. 3. It -not, school-is out for the rest of the year. Citizens gathered - at two mass meetings last night, voted to send a committee of five to Columbus to see

new ‘ideas for raising money. Seek Special Session

The School Board blamed its situation on defeat of several tax proposals this year, dwindling tax receipts, and the refusal of banks to extend further credit. Funds have been coming from bonds, based on certificates of indebhtedness issued by the School Foundation Fund of the State Department of Education. Dayton banks and merchants have accumulated considerable of these bonds and refuse to take more. Teachers ate being paid with the last of the School Board's money today. The Board hoped that the Legislature would be called into special session to restore the credit rating of the State School Foundation certificates. If this is done before Dec. 3, when the next baich of certificates - is due, the crisis would be ended at least temporarily. If not, schools will have to stay closed until the next State tax ton Jan. 1. The schools. here operate on. a 36-week. basis. If the term is shorter than. that, pupils are unable to advance or graduate, as their credits are not recognized. It.was believed that, as a result of the holiday, classes would have to be maintained . into next summer to make

ing the colonies, 78 per cent opposed.

BUT. WIND BLOWS DIFFERENTLY

up the 36 weeks.

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Ammerman Named as Candidate for President.

[VOTE AT HOTEL

Ex-Belgian Premier On Program This. ~ Afternoon,

(Photos, Page 14; Another Story, Page 27)

With six candidates in the field, delegates to the Indiana State Teachers Association convention here were voting this afternoon ab

|{the Lincoln Hotel on a new execu-

tive secretary. Nominations for that and other offices were made in a prolonged session in Cadle Tabernacle this | morning. Before nomination, however, the teachers voted that the- new secretary would not be permanently in ‘stalled, as in the past, but would serve a three-year probationary period, and then be subject to bal=lot every five years. ‘Nominees for the position are Miss Rose Boggs, Association president, Richmond; Robert H. Wyatt, Ft. Wayne, Indiana Federation of Public. School Teachers president; Albert Free, Spencer; O. J. Neighe bors, Wabash, and D. W. Nicely, Indianapolis, all of whom were. nominated from the floor, and J. R. Mitchell, Seymour, nominated by the Nominating Committee. Gerald Alexander, Rockville, was nominated by the Committee for president and Karl V. Amrmerman, Broad Ripple High School princi pal, was nominated for the office - from the floor. Mrs. Anita Olden, Knightstown, waé the only nominee for vice president, and Ed. B. Wetherow was the only nominee for the newly created office of treasurer. Boake Carter to Speak Meanwhile, Mayor Fiorello, La Guardia, New York City, arrived to address the teachers tonight and it was announced that Agnes Mace phail, first Canadian woman in Pare liament, had cancelled her address for the afternoon and would be replaced by Boake Carter, newspaper columnist. This afternoon, sessions also will be addressed by Paul Van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, and Dr. Jesse Adams, University of

| Kentucky.

The election of a secretary has created more excitement among the 16,000 teachers visiting Indianapolis than any other convention business. Last night, at the first general - session, the teachers heard three speakers, including Miss Boggs. Miss Boggs, asked that the State School Support Law be revised. She made her inaugural address at the opening general session last night at Cadle Tabernacle. : “Changes in the school relief proe gram and in the basis for distribu tion of teacher support such as. pupil-teacher ratios and different ° types of school personnel ony be made,” she said. Woman Editor Speaks She also urged that equal pay be established for teachers with a “minimum comparable to other professions”; that the association em- - ploy counsel during the General Assembly, and that adequate proportion of the State budget be ale lotted for education. - She said that provision should be - made for adequate study of various plans for reorganization of educa tional units, and that the. State Teachers Retirement Act should be studied by each individual. ; - She concluded with the plea that the new buildings being erected not overshadow the pupil’s importance. Miss Lena Madesin Phillips, presi dent of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, and associate editor of Pictorial Re= - view, said in part: : “We must return to the fundamentals from which we have drifted (Continued on Page Five)

SEPTEMBER INCOME

UP, ROPER REPORTS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U. P.).— | Secretary of Commerce Roper re-. ported today that -income received ' . by persons in the United States ine creased in September—the fourth consecutive monthly increase. The index of income payments in«

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eight per cent below the recovery hight of 90.2 recorded in August, During the first seven months 1938, national income payments,

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The Weather Bureau office was in new quarters this afternoon in the Federal Building. The switchover was made at moon. J. H. Armingten, chief meteorologist, inspects a new machine which measures wind, sun and rain Sutounatiealy,

Warrdn Rice . assistant, Sorntinizes. th the Hbriry in“the‘new ruments in the new new location, Mr. Armingion said, w Ro at all in ship

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