Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1938 — Page 6
EXPERT URGES BHT AGAINST SLUM DEATHS
oan Gives Five-Point Plan at Conference of Social Workers. Bleecker Marquette, Cincinnati ic Health Federation executive,
Indianapolis social workers here today that the death rate among
very poor of the Nation did not |{
during the last depression and “this might have been due to the ministrations of social workers. ‘He was addressing the Laura ly Study Courses which began ‘foday and will continue through Saturday in the Claypool and Lin‘€oln hotels. About 650 were in attendance. Mr. Marquette said that highest mortality rates always are among | the poverty-stricken, ‘because of their poverty, and there doesn’t seem to be anything to be done ‘gbout it at the present time. The fight against it, he said, must along five fronts: Improvement of income, elimination of slums, rovision of recreational facilities, more public health work and more - available medical services.
Favors Health Insurance
«Mr. Marquette said he favors Health insurance of types recently approved by the Indiana State Medical Association as one weapon in the fight for public health. The 13 courses with an average i enrollment of 50 persons each will | be devoted today and tomorrow to study of social problems ranging from child welfare to the duties of board members of social . welfare | agencies. Members of county welfare boards will be entertained by State Welfare Department employees at a reception and dance tonight at the Naval Reserve Armory. Among those scheduled to speak to study groups today were Miss Eileen E. Ward of St. Louis University; Dr. Minna Emch, Nortawestern University psychiatrist; Miss Leah Feder of Washington University, St. Louis, and Miss Sybil Foster, Child Welfare League of - America. { ~The opening general session of the conference will be at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the Claypool Hotel,
A with Miss Charlotte Carr of Chica-
[go's Hull House as the principal speaker. She will discuss “Social Legislation Affecting Children.”
Miss Puschner President
‘Miss Emma C. Puschner, director of the Child Welfare Division of the American J.egion, is president of the Conference. Other officers are Mur- { ray A. Auerbach, secretary of the i Indiana Tuberculosis Association, | treasurer, and Thurman A. Gott- | schalk, secretary. The conference is divided into seven divisions, each having its own officers and presenting its own program at the general session. The divisions and their chairmen are: _gPivision 1. Children, Dr. Harriet E. O'Shea. director of personnel for women, Purdue University, West | Lafayette. Division 2. Community organization. Louis E. Evans, Indiana University Training Course for Social Work, Indianapolis. Division 3. County charities, H.
Claypool Hotel.
LOCAL DEATHS
JOSEPH A. STEIDLE, who died yesterday at his home, 701 Park Ave., will be buried tomorrow at St.
Joseph’s Cemetery following funeral services at 8:30 a. m. at the Royster & Askin Funeral Home and at 9 a. m. at St. Joseph’s Church. He was 73. Mr. Steidle, who retired from active business many years ago, was widely known as a lover and grower of flowers. He is survived by two brothers, John and Peter, both of Indianapolis.
MRS. GRAYCE M. WITT, who died yesterday at Methodist Hos-
pital after an illness of several months, will he buried at Crown Hill tomorrow following funeral services at 2 p. m. in the Hisey & Titus Funeral Home. She was 55. Mrs. Witt, an Indianapolis resident all her life, lived at 3435 College Ave. The Order of the Eastern Star will conduct funeral services. She is survived by her husband, George M.; her father, Leroy B. Smith of Indianapolis, and a brother, William J. Smith of North Manchester.
‘LEGAL INSTITUTE’ LECTURER NAMED
Prof. Richard R. Powell of the Columbia University Law School will lecture at the Indianapolis Bar Association's second annual “Legal Institute” Nov. 16-18, it was announced today. Prof Powell, the Reporter on Property for the American Law Institute, will discuss construction of the Indiana Property Statutes and the related Indiana decisions.
Emanuel, executive secretary, Family Welfare Association, Evansville. Division 6. Health, Dr. J. W. Ferree, administrator, State Board of Health, Indianapolis. Division 7. Character and group work, Merle S. Carver, State boys’ director, Y. M. C. A, Indianapolis.
As Indiana's social workers gathered here today for a four-day conference, Randall Shake, conference assistant secretary, left, and Louis E. Evans, program co-ordinator, confer on arrangements at the
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ENDURANCE PILOTS SET NEW RECORD
LANCASTER, Cal, Nov. 2 (U. P.). —Three pilots who employed midair transfers to set an endurance flight record of more than nine days, were to decide today whether to try again for a better record. Their little cabin monoplane was forced down after 218 hours and 23 minutes late yesterday by a leaking fuel tank. The emergency disappointed Clyde Schleiper, Tominy Smith and Harley Long, who, after exceeding the previous light plane record of 136 hours, 10 minutes, had aimed at the unlimited class recorc of 653 hours, 34 minutes, set by Al and Fred Key, at Meridian, Miss.
MARRIED ONE DAY, FILES FOR DIVORCE
NEW ALBANY, Nov. 2 (U. P.).— R. L. Howard today had a divorce suit pending against his wife in the Floyd Circuit Court. They were married Dec. 7, 1931, and parted Dec. 8, 1937. Howard charged his wife with’ cruelty—during their one day of married life.
Several local independent finance men will take part in the fifth annual convention of the American Finance Conference at Chicago Nov. 10-11. Among the Indianapolis men who are to attend are: Donald Jameson, president of the Equitable Securities Co.; Fred L. Mahaffey of the Consolidated Finance Corp., Fred D. Norris of the Guaranty Finance Co. and Homer L. Archer of the Universal Finance Corp. Mr.
Jameson is a member of the conference executive committee.
Boy Scout Troop 21 will celebrate its 22d anniversary at a dinner meeting at 6 o'clock tonight in the Broadway M. E. Church community room. More than 300 scouts and guests are expected to attend. Frederick T. Cretors, Scoutmaster, will preside.
Miss Dorothy Ragan, advertising manager of Charles Mayer & Co, will address members of the Advertising Clup of Indianapolis at a luncheon meeting tomorrow in the Columbia Club. Her subject will be «Advertising to Women.” Fred Lahr, club president, has invited retail businessmen and women to attend the meeting.
Dr. Herbert E. Wagner will address the Beech Grove Lions Club on “European Conditions Today” at a dinner meeting tonight. R. L. Frame is in charge of the program,
Service Post No. 128, American
Legion, will sponsor a benefit euchre|.
and bridge party Friday night at the post’s headquarters in Oaklandon.
Burl Nicholson of Noblesville today took office as president of the
Central Photography Society. He was
elected last night at the organization’s dinner meeting in the Canary Cottage. Others officers named are A. Hartwell Coons of Rushville, vice president; L. J. Foster of Greensburg, treasurer; Miss Helene Lichtsinn of Indianapolis, secretary, and Clem Vorhis, E. A. Morris and Joseph E. Craven, members of the board of directors. Mr, Nicholson succeeds Mr. Vorhis,
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Fred W. Dickens, for five years director of physical education of the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. was feted at a farewell dinner last night at
the Central Y. M. C. A. Executives of the organization honored Mr. Dickens and family prior to their departure for Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he will take over new duties at the Foundation de la Juventud.
The Maj. Harold C. Megrew Camp 1 of the United Spanish War Veterans will meet at 8 p. m. Friday at
Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois St. John E. Hicks, commander, will preside.
Members of the Indiana Real Es-
tate Association are to hear a debate on licensing of real estate brokers at a meeting tomorrow noon at the Hotel Washington.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 2 (U. P.), —An anonymous §pecialist was to attempt today to restore the sight of two persons with the eyes of a dead man. The surgeon reportedly found that the eyes, {rom the body of John W. Deering, 40-year-old Utah murderer executed by a firing squad, were in “excellent condition” after their trip here by plane. They were packed in ice a later frozen in a hospital refrigerator. The corneas will be transplanted in the eyes of a youth and an elderly woman. More than 50 blind persons pleaded for the opportunity to see again.
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