Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1938 — Page 9

MMURRAY ASKS FREE TEXT BOOK OR RENTAL PLAN

Urges Parents to Bring First Pressure on Heads of Schools.

Floyd I. McMurray, State superintendant of public instruction, today urged adoption of a free textbook plan or gz rental system for local school units. A rental system now inh use in some Indianapolis grade schools costs each pupil an average of 77 cents per year, Mr. McMurray said. “Parents should take the initiative ‘and bring pressure upon their local school officials to get rental or free textbooks,” he said. The two courses of action are available under Indiana law, he pointed out.

Defends School Board

A free texthgok system requires a petition and election, he said. Under this system school text costs are included in the regular school budget and the school children use them free. Property tax and | other sources for school revenue are used to pay for the texts. Only action iby Hie school board is necessary to inaugurate a rental system, he said. Under this system, texts are bought by the school corporation and rented to the children at a nominal sum, he said. Mr. McMurray defended action of : the school board which recently announced that new textbooks adopted for all grades except the eighth ~ grade would be 5 to 28 cents higher. Only two of the texts now used in the schools were readopted. “The increase in price is in line with the general price trend,” he said, “and the texts which were not readopted hac been in use at least 10 years” | | 2

BUILDS ELECTRIC CHAIR TO KILL SELF

CHICAGO, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—John . Hersh, 39, a radio technician, was disappointed in love after an eight-year courtship. Yestérday he constructed a makeshift electric chair, turned on the ' curren: and killed himself. His former sweetheart, Mrs. Nell Lane, 35, a widow, accompanied by a friend, Charles Smith, found Hersh’s body in his workshop. It lay on a canvas folding chair. Police Capt. Edward Kelly said Hersh had connected a radio transformer to an ordinary wall plug, stepping up the normal 110 volts to approximately 5000 volts. Two wires led fro mthe transformer, one taped to Hersh’s bare left arm and left leg. The other he held tightly in his right hand, When Mrs. Lane entered the workshop she found the page of a calendar pinned to Hersh's shirt. It bore a printed warning: “Danger! Turn electricity off before you touch me.”

HEIRESS TO GOULD FORTUNE DIES AT 71

' . ROXBURY, N. Y,, Dec. 21 (U. P.). —Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, the former Helen Gould, philanthropist and

daughter of the late Jay Gould, |.

pioneer railroad builder, died early today. She was 71. She had been ill two months after suffering two apoplectic strokes. Funeral services will be held tomorTOW. Although she had dispensed most of the $10,000,000 inherited from her father, who died in 1892, in various charities, shie had invested the remainder so judiciously that by 1927, when she resigned as a trustee of the family estate, she had tripled her original inheritance. .

DOYLE DEPORTED: LEAVES HIS MOVITA

SAN PEDRO, Cal., Dec. 21 (U. P). Jack Doyle, the Irish croonerboxer, was aboard a ship bound for Italy today by orders of the Immigration Department because he entered the country illegally from Canada last month. Left behind sighing, “We are, coh, so fond of each other,” was Movita, dark-eyed Mexican actress who said they will wed when Doyle returns a year hence under the Irish quota laws. Doyle refused to tell whether they had already used the marriage licensey obtained at Ventura last week but his fiancee said they had not.

HANOVER STUDENTS HELP BATTLE FIRE

HANOVER, Ind, Dec. 21 (U. P.). —When fire broke out in'the roof of the Hanover College gymnasium building late yesterday, students quickly organized a bucket brigade

and aided firemen in extinguishing

it. Damage was estimated at $3000. The next basketball game is Jan. 6 with Valparaiso, but school authorities said they did not know whether the gymnasium would be reconditioned by that time.

VETERANS LAUNCH MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

A membership drive under ‘Ralph C. Jones of Brazil, depaftment " chief of staff of Indiana, has been started to group all service men and former service men in the Regular Veterans Association, it was announced today. The organization was established in 1934 tc unite men who are serving or. who have. served in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. FOOD MARKETS BLOCKADED BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 21 (U. P.). —police squads detailed to prevent ‘violence in a strike paralyzing the city’s food distribution system were reinforced today as dealers prepared to send trucks through picket lines blockading major markets.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U. P)). —The State Department announced today that Norwegian Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha will visit this country next April as the guests of President and Mrs. Roosevelt. It was announced that Mr. Roosevelt invited the royal visitors to stay at the Roosevelt mansion at Hyde Park, N. Y. The visit of the Norwegian Prince and Princess will precede by a few weeks the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain.

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Chamber of Commerce Hears Plan for Group Health Aid.

FT. WAYNE, Det. 21 ¢U. P.).— A group health plan was proposed here last night by Dr. M. R. Lohman at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. The plan is elnilar to others started recently in various parts of the country and will offer, for a set monthly fee, medical service, hospital care, and even dental treatment. The plan proposed the incorporation of a nonprofit organization that would collect the fees and pay doctors and hospitals When needed. Dr. Lohman indicated that he plan was being given serious consideration and might be acted upon within 10 days.

W. J. MONEY ESTATE 1S VALUED AT $70,000

Will Leaves Bulk of Fortune To Son, W. J. Jr.

- The estate of William J. Mooney Sr., president of the Mooney-Muel-ler-Ward Co., who died last week, was valued at $70,000 in the will on file in Probate Court today. The bulk of the estate was left to a son, William J. Mooney Jr., who was named executor. His grandchildren ‘were ieft $2500 each. The will provided that a sister, Miss Bridget E. Mooney, and a._brother, Lawrence J. Mooney, be provided with a home during the remainder of life.

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Gets $20 Under Threat He’ll Kill Youth’s Father; Alleged Thief Nabbed.

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by police today. The boy was Joe Lawson Jr. He scooped $20 out of the cash register

in his father’s store last night at 402 W. 25th St. as the gunman stood in front of the counter and snapped:

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ITALIAN AUTHORESS DIES ROME, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—Marchioness Elena Morozzo Della Rocca, noted writer died today. She was the wife of Gen. Federico Rocco, a World War veteran who won the gold medal for bravery.

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MICHIGAN CITY, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—George Nahas, reputed head of a northern Indiana slot machine syndicate, today prepared to appeal a sentence and fine imposed by . Judge Russell W. Smith in La Porte

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