Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1938 — Page 12

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APPOINTMENT AS LEGAL AID

Fred Purnell of of Attica Is ‘Named to Staff of General Accounting Office.

Times Special

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. ~President Roosevelt's failure to obtain passage of a governmental reorganization bill or to appoint a Controller General has resulted in a -prominent Indiana Republican ob-

= taining a good Government job here,

~ it was learned today.

Fred Purnell, Attica, has been ap-

* pointed to the legal staff of the

General Accounting Office. The appointment was made by Richard

= N. Elliott, who has been actirg

Controller”General since the retirement of John R. McCarl mere than two years ago. Mr. Elliotv, who also served with

+ Mr. Purnell as a Republican Con- + gressman from Indiana, received a

lame-duck ‘appointment as assist-

“ant to Mr. McCarl under former

*_ President Hoover.

Mr. Purnell served in Congress for

. 16 years from the old Ninth Indiana £ District and when defeated was

ranking member of the House Rules Committee under the chairmanship of Rep. Bertrand H. Snell (R. N. Y.). This gave him the position of

- assistant kepublican leader in the

During the 1936 Presidential campaign, Mr. Snell was chairman of the Speakers Bureau of the National Republican Committee and assigned orators all over the country to talk on behalf of President Roosevelt's

* opponent, former Governor. Landon ‘of Kansas.

Having taken a position nee. Mr.

= ° Purnell declared that he had not yet “s+ cecided what he will do in 1940 but ~~ indicated that he may run for Con“gress again.

00-0P MEDICINE VOTE TALLY DUE

_ District of Columbia Doctors

Seek Attitudes on Proposed System. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (U. P.).

—'1ne District of Columbia Medical Society awaited today results of a

“ guestionnaire to determine whether

its members would co-operate ‘in a

* prepared plan te provide medical * ‘care for families with yearly in-

comes of less than $2500. “The move is the latest in a pro-

=~ longed quarrel between the society ~ and the Group Health Association,

an organization designed to provide low-income groups in the. national

capital with meaical care on a pre-|

paid basis, GHA has charged that the society discriminated against its members who were accepting GHA enrollees as patients, expelled GHA Doctors from membership, and tried to pre-

+ vent its expansion in other ways.

The Medical Society currently is under investigation by a Federal Crand Jury, studying charges of alleged viclation of antitrust statutes in connection with its fight against GHA. The American Medi-

_.. cal Association was named code-

.- fendant,

Limited Benefits Proposed The society's . proposed prepaid

plan calls for limiting benefits to - single persons earning a maximum

of $2000; married couples with an

~~ income up to $2500. For each de-

pendent, $200 income would be allowed. Eligibles would be limited to employed persons under 60, in sound body and mind and with no. known pending need. Monthly dues would be $1.50 single persons, $2.50 for

- husband and wife and. $350 for

- families, regardless of size.

The first $5 of medical care each year would have to be paid by the member, Members would be allowed their

2 choice of physicians. The plan would ~ not include hospitalization, but phy-

sician’s calls at home, in a hospital

® or at his office.

ODDS AGAINST WAR 32-1 LONDON, Dec. 12 (U. P.).—Lloyd’s insurance underwriters are quoting rates which represent odds 32 to 1

_. against Great Britain being involved

in war before Dec. 31, 1939, the

o. Daily Express reported today.

Robert Felix, also 15, of 1311 N. Tuxedo St., was shot accidentally s in the hip when a companion’s gun went off last night.

Times Photos.

Herschel Hendrickson, 15, sat on a wall near his home, 1864 Or-

| leans St. on Saturday night, fell backward and broke his left arm.

SLUM PROBLEM S MINOR HERE, MORGAN SAYS

3400 Unimproved Homes, ‘Found in Survey, Are

Called Hazardous.

Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Board secretary, said today.

Although there are many dwellings in Indianapolis “unsuited to human: habitation,” the City is not faced with a major slum and tenement problem of the kind confront- _ |ing other large cities in the nation, Health

Dr. Morgan asserted further that he agreed with the finding of the

Tough Break

12 Days Before the 25th Three Local Youths Meet Calamity.

WELVE more days before

Christmas: . And three Indianapolis youngsters today were hoping they will have time to get in shape to celebrate the holiday as they had planned—before calamity came. To each of these three young men, calamity came in a different fashion, but it brought each of them to City Hospital over the week-end. Eleven-year-old Theodore Brill was in a serious condition, following removal of a sharpened end of a reed spear from his left eye. It was not known whether he will retain sight in the eye. He was playing the age-old game of hurling spears yesterday with companions near his home at 402 N. New Jersey St. when one of the spears pierced his eye and broke off. 8 8 8 OBERT FELIX, 15, was at home at 1311 N. Tuxedo St., recuperating from injuries received in a more modern “war game” which he played with a companion in an alley near their homes. According to detectives, young Felix was wounded in the hips when a pistol was fired accidentally by his companion, Donald Fryar, also 15, of 1519 N. Tuxedo. St. 8 8 8 IKE Humpty-Dumpty, 15-year- + old Herschel Hendrickson sat on a wall Saturday night near his home at 1864 Orleans St., and fell to the ground. Unlike Humpty-Dumpty, however, the doctors at City Hospital set his left arm, which was broken in the fall, and released him.

SCOLDING LANDLADY KILLED CHICAGO, Dec. 12 (U. P.).—Sigurd Andersen, 47, a WPA worker, wept in his cell today after allegedly confessing he had stabbed and keat his landlady to death because she berated him for drinking too much. . “All the time,” he said, nag, nag, nag.”

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DURHAM HEADS REALTY BOARD

Member Since 19 Becomes City Organization’s 23d President.

C. B. Durham has been elected the 23d president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, it was announced today. Other officers who will take office at the annual dinner in January are: Louis S. Hensley, vice president; Walter M. Evans, secretary; Robert B. Kershaw, treasurer, and Joseph J. Schmid, sergeant-at-arms. Retiring officers are: George T. Whelden, president; Ford V. Woods, vice president; William Murray Huse, secretary, and Ben F. Claypool, treasurer. : President-elect Durham was graduated from Ohio State University in 1912. He then taught horticulture and landscape garden-

ing at Purdue University for four| years. He came to Indianapolis in 1917 to join the real estate staff of Emerson W. Chaille & Co., and formed his own real estate company in 1919. ‘He now heads C. B. Durham & Co. and is president of its subsidiary, Guardian Realty Corp. : He has been a member of the real estate board since 1918 and last year served on its appraisal committee.

KNOX DEMOCRATS CHANGE LEADERS

VINCENNES, Dec. 12 (U., P)— Mayor-elect A. B. “Bud” Taylor today held the Knox County Democratic chairmanship in an organization shakeup provoked by the defeat of six Democratic candidates by Republican opponents in the November election. Dr. J, L. Blaize, former chairman, resigned, reportedly under pressure from the State House Democratic organization, but will retain his post as head of the Auto License Bureau. Mr. Taylor defeated Circuit Court Clerk Paul Enmeier by one vote, 56 to 55, at the reorganization meeting

VETERAN EXAMINER DIES

George Burgess Magrath, 68, a reallife Sherlock Holmes who investigated 20,000 deaths during his 20 years as a medical examiner, died last night in Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 68.

Indianapolis Real Estate Board

'|human habitation in older sections = mountain near Newhall, Cal,

of town which have been demned,” he said. “But these places their tenants would have no other plaag: to go. Tracing the relation of housing to public health, Dr. Morgan pointed to a “disease trend map” of the City on which various colored pins represented death rates of diseases. The death rates ol disease such as spinal menengitis, diphtheria, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever and whooping cough, appeared higher in the lowest rent

“The infant mortality rate in these sections,” he added, “is higher also.”

$700,000 SUIT OPENS

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 (U. P.).— Osa Johnson, widow of Martin Johnson, jungle film-producing explorer, arrives today from Chicago for her $700,000 damage suit against an airplane company? The case will open in Superior Court Wednesday. It resulted from the crash of a

have not been torn down because

sections of the City, Dr. Morgan said.

Western ‘Air Express transport on & in January, 1937. Five of 13 persons aboard including Johnson were ‘| fatally Injured.

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housing committee that between 3400 and 5000 dwelling properties in the City do not have inside Tuning water. “There is no doubt,” Dr. Morgan] said, “that this condition is a public health problem. Housing is directly related to public health.” The Health Department, with the City Fire Department and the State Fire Marshal's office, he said, has condemned and ordered torn down a large number of dwellings every year. “There are still a great number of dwelling properties unsuited to

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