Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1938 — Page 4

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1 Clawed by Bear Faces Loss of Eye, Plans to Continue Career|

CLEVELAND, Nov. a (U. P)— + Sympathetic Clevelanders and the ‘WPA are ‘rallying to the aid of the , girl artist who was clawed savagely > a polar bear she was sketching when the animal dragged her into

< FORMER BANKER : LIKES WP WPA JOB

once Earned ed $18 000 Yearcy Now Content With 3%. 50 a Month.

| CLEVELAND, “Nov. 4 (d. ByI— Pot an -$18,000-a-year bank vice president to a $93.50-a-month WPA = warker isn’t exactly a success story, 3 but Archibald R. Fraser thinks it ] =v »*

! one way to make a comeback.

“I'm. happy,” the :former vice president of the now-defunct Guar~dian Trust Co. said. “I've paid my “debt to society, and I am trying to 3 “make a, living for myself and wife

ears back: EC 1935, Sh. Fraser pleaded guilty “charges that he had embezzled ..$3000 in bonds. He was paroled aft- - {= -“@r serving a year and 10 days.

Now he is employéd as an accountant on Project -17013,.a WPA inventory of city-owned ‘property. His {fellow employees, for the most part, do not know that they + are working with a. former bank « pfficial. “Naturally, I try to keep this a secret,” said the chubby, pipe-smok-ing Fraser. “I am trying to make a comeback: the. best way 1: know how. ” The man who once sat behind a

the: city’s: leaders now works ‘over

city: efuipment. ‘One of 102 men and ~women counting, card-index-

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9 -and gppraising 200,000 items of oe pt ranging from garbage cifrucks tod X-ray machines, he feels he is doifg a useful task. His proj#egt.. superintendent, E. G. Perry, “raises Fraser. i “He is’ a loyal émployee and very wfficient, * Mr. Perry: said. “I wouldn't want. ‘him to leave: the project, as y his: varied knowledge of accounting and inventories is very useful.” Mr: Fraser, a short time before he went on WPA, filed a voluntary bankruptcy: petition showing lia-

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“My new job isn’t a case of cour#ge, or: determination at all,” the former .banker said; “it’s. just a tase of necessity. » in

“MENACE; CONTROLLED

Central Plant Heats About 70 Buildings.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 . Bl . Miles of underground passageways ““honeycomb the foundations of the ; famous = triangle of Government . buildings in Washington. : Not a precaution against air raids, * théy are, very undramatically, the : «conduits for a giant central heating : plant, largest in the United States ;.except for New York City, accord- . ing to Charles H. Peters Jr., assistEH ant chief of‘ the National Parks 5 Service. # One of the decisive reasons for * bringing a central heating plant into : operation was the disfigurement of ¢ .the white limestone public buildings “which were each equipped with its 5 own plant. Smoke disposal of the 2 central plant was worked out with uv great care. The stacks rise only a ¢ few feet above the roof and are < masked with ornamental ‘chromium « grill work. Fly ash and smoke pre- . cipitators effectively prevent air +. pollution. First put into operation four years ~ ago to serve 46 buildings, the service - has been expanded continuously and - now heats about 70. The tunnels Z extend from the Home Owners Loan Corp. near Union Station down below the triangle, branching out to , heat the White House and old Treasury Department Building, down to the new Federal Reserve

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rial, Six Boilers Used

Enclosed in a handsome modernistic building occupying an entire -- city block, six 2500 horsepower boil- © ers generate up to 1,000,000 pounds of steam heat per hour, using 160,000 tons of coal g year. Each furnace has 480 square feet of grate area and is as tall as a five or six-story building. Manned almost entirely by electricity, the ‘plant requires a maintenance staff f 80 men, ‘working in three eight"our shifts 24 hours a day. The coal is delivered on two railroad sidings and after being dumped into the great bins, is not touched by hands until it emerges as ashes. to be hauled away again. "A complete System of automatic stokers delivers the coal to the furnaces.

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mahognay desk and conferred with.

A battered school desk, checking| ards ‘fegeribing the condition of]

hilities ‘of $122,939 and assets of|* 2 .

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: Bdilding opposite the Lincoln Memo-

its cage, but the girl, prim, 31-year-old Julia Zemnick, is “sorry to have caused everyone so. much trouble.” ” “I'll get along all right some way,” she said from Her hospital ‘bed, “all I want is to Pe back to my art

work.” Miss Zemnick still is being ireated for the serious injuries she received, and may lése an eye. She said that she would continue her artistic career “as soon as I'm able to get up.” The sissistant Ohio - state cdmpensation officer, J. Carroll Wolfe, revealed what compensation Miss Zemnick is entitled to receive from WPA. as a result of the rare accident. : He “enid ‘that all the artist's medical and hospital bills are to be

working on a WPA art. project at: the time of her injury. -. “Miss Zemnick can receive com-pensation-up to $50:a month for 140 weeks if she loses the sight: of ‘one eye. This is in addition to payment of her..hospital and medical expenses,” Mr. Wolfe said. “Other compensation will be

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granted for additional: permanent injuries. 3 - Sympathetic’ persons, Yeading of the girl's ill fortune, have kept: her supplied: with flowers and candy and -offered her’ other assistance.”

The compensation’ officer said that the injured girl will receive temporary total compensation until she recovers. : “Then if she returns to WPA employ, she will be permitted to work| ‘overtime to earn the difference. be-|' tween her salary and the compensation for 15 days of her abserice,’ x "Mr. Wolfe said.

“I love to sketch wild-animal life and had been looking forward to doing studies‘ of the polar bears,” §| Miss Zemnick said. “Those animals are so fascinating to draw—for all their seeming clumsiness they really are very agile and lithesome in their movements.” “But my. interest now is gone: “in sketching any more. ‘polars.’ wild animal life studies are going to be restricted to rabbits and other more timid beasts,” she said.

When the accident occurred, Oct.

26, Miss Zimnick was sketching

Silver<a. female polar béar—irom 2, perch ‘atop a ledge overhangini maging Hie Brookside Zoo: ‘bear . pits.

whith was: in the corner: of ‘her:cage} grabbed the sketcher’s ‘dangling. legs and pulled her into the ‘cage.

It took 10 minutes for the head

climbed - up ‘on ‘a Water trough] bear.

ENGINEERS TO HEAR OF CHICAGO BUSWAY

Vinee Special i LAFAYETTE, Nov. 2 . Settler {evil engineering students at Purdue University and members of the Indiana section of the American So- |S ciety of Civil Engineers will attend a dinner meeting in -Chicago tonight to hear Phillip Harrington, engineer in charge, - fiscuss the, Chicago subway project.. ‘Mr. Harrington “will orisin the background and engineering problems encountered in:the work, soon to be started as a PWA project. This meeting is part of the annual four-day inspection trip of the students to the Calumet and Chicago ‘industrial areas.

200 kecpez, Capt. Curley Wilson, and his’ aids to rescue the slight, 100Veripound ertist, from. the. -4800~-pound

Silver's. claws shredded ‘the: gips scalp, ‘slashed “down across. her face and lacerated her throat. ‘Captain “Wilsoh -said that the Koaoer were extremely lucky. to get Miss Zemnick out of the bear pit alive. “The polar.bear is just as fero{cious as the tiger, which most peo‘Iple believe: to be ihe Tosh vicious of beasts,” he said, “cv "Although Capt. lon emphasized that the girl hae ne.permit to be sketching where she was perched, he has - bégun investigation of whether additional protection to visitors should ‘be ‘provided about the bear -cages. - Capt. Wilson said that persons could be admitted where the girl was sitting, high, but inside the bars, only by a permit from the city, The zoo is a municipal institution. A WPA spokesman ‘explained Miss Zemnick’s duty at the zoo.

~-«She ‘was preparing sketches of

the Sonus trom which” ‘ceramic

images could be made,” he said,’ ‘He said that the ceramic images then were to have been distributed free to. schools and other: institutions, :

PENSION TEST CASE

ASKED IN MISSOURI §

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Nov. 4

(U. P.) —Atty. Gen. Roy McKittrick |§ today studied a request from the }#

Social Security Commission, asking him to get a test case of the old

age assistance statute before the :

Missouri Supreme Court.

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tomato after eight years:of experie IS CALLED SWEETER Haale, bhp Dr. Clark described the tomato SAN JOSE, Cal, Nov. 4—(U. P.) |as “absolutely white, about the same —Dr. Jonas Clark, 85-year old Gilroy shape as the ordinary tomato, bub physician and farmer, said today|much sweeter.”

The commission’s action followed | Sil

a decision of the Springfield Court of Appeals holding that Houston C.

Price of Neosho should go back on the pension roll. His name was struck off by the commission on the grounds that he was not in need. The commission has removed almost 7500 persons from the rolls.

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