Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1938 — Page 7

| FRIDAY, D Shih aii : ae DIA Governor: S Committee to Ask Legislature

sald, “that the Republican organ- |i ization asked that 19,000 names be removed from the registration lists in this county. - Later, the investi-

o. P. candidate for House Speakwill preside’ at the meeting of | ators and ‘Charles W. Jewett, 12th District Congressional candidate, will: speak at the mayors’ con-

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if passed, would take effect,

For Hygienic Antisyphilis Marriage Law

Hearings to Open on Liquor Statutes.

Steps were being taken: today for preparation of a bill to be introduced in the Legislature which would prohibit megrriage of persons afflicted with syphilis in a communicable stage.

This action was approved yusters

- day by Governor Townsend's Special | Marriage Law Study @ Comrnittee

‘composed of professional, civis, edu-

cational and church leaders and |

public officials.

Meanwhile, a second committee named by the Governor to investigate the mechanics and administration of the State Alcoholic Beverage Act announced that it would begin public hearings Wednesday. Representatives of brewers, distillers and liquor dsslers and others interested in control legislation from an economic standpoint have been invited to attend this meeting.

On Thursday the five-man Liquor Study Commission is to hear | testimony from representatives of parent-teacher associations, bar associations and. church and civic groups. | To Report to Governor

Both committees are to prepare reports for Governor Townsend, who, in turn, is to include these findings in his recommendations to the Legislapure which convenes Jan. 5 In postponing for further consideration suggested changes in the marriage law dealing with residence requirements the Marriage Study Committee decided to ask

the Governor to perpetuate its, or-

ganization until the 1941 Legislature and request the 1939 Legislature to appropriate sufficient funds to sup-

port a sociological study of the

marriage problem. Committee members decided to recommend a “hygienic marriage” bill which would follow closely the provisions of the New York law described by Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health director, as “the most workable statute on this subject in the country.” Specific provisions agreed upon by the Committee would: r 1 uire medical examinations marriage license applicants with the | provision that laboratory blood tests be given for syphilis. Examinatio would be given by private physicians not longer than 30 days before the license is issued, The physician would ' certify to county clerks that the applicants are free from the. disease in a communicable | stage. 2. Authorize the State

Health

‘Board and the pathological division

establish or detailed

of Indiana University rules and regulations

administration of the law and to

standardize laboratory technique. 3. Judges of circuit or juvenile (courts to authorize issuance of li'censes in specific cases of emer- | gency. 4, Require that blood specimens

be sent to the laboratory and 1e-

(turned by mail, thus automatically

placing a “waiting period” in efiect

which would prohibit “haste or cocalled gin marriages.” Without making a definite decision of the date when such a bill,

Dr. Verne K. Harvey (eft),

the recommendations of Governor

mittee members explained that proper administration of the measure probably could not be set up before January, 1940.

The measure itself is to be prepared by Herbert P. Kenney, State Legislative Reference Bureau director, and Dr. Harvey, who also is to appoint a steering committee to guide the bill through the Legislature, Charles R. Ettinger, Marion County Clerk-elect, blocked final consideration of residence requirement proposals after some of .the other committee members suggested re- — of the 1852 act which requires that the license be issued in the county of the bride’s residence. An Indiana Suprelpe Court decision last January upholding provisions of this act halted operation of “marriage mills” in northern Indiana counties, Mr. Ettinger said. Other committee members said that the county of issuance was not particularly important if the applicants had conformed to the

{new provisions and declared that

the present law results in commission of perjury by many couples. This question, committee members said, is to be decided at.a meeting of the group to be called ‘after the Legislature is in session.

Prof. Harvey J. Locke, Indiana University sociologist, said complete studies could be made of such problems as common law marriage, child marriage and illegitimacy if the committee was allowed to continue in operation for two more years with an appropriation to pay survey expenses. Explaining that the new proposal does not prohibit marriage of per-

sons whose syphilitic infection is in, -lan arrested stage, Dr. Thurman B.

State Health director, and Herbert P. Kenney, State Legislative Reference Bureau director, are to draft in bill form

Townsend's Spe- | statute.

Rice, State Health Board member, said that in most cases it was possible to render the disease noncommunicable after a few months treatment. After holding its initial meeting yesterday with the Governor, the Liquor . Law = Study Commission elected William H. Settle, Petroleum, president and Prof. Pressly Sikes, Indiana University; secretary. Telling the Commission not “to pull jts punches” in its investigation of the administration of the liquor law, the Governor said it should check closely on the importer provision of the present statute and study objections raised by other states to the Indiana statute. He warned members against becoming involved in controversial issues of broad policy such as local option, the State liquor store system and by-the-drink regulations. “Take the principles now established and see if the mechanics and administration of the present law are as good as they should be,” he said. Threatened with loss of out-state markets because of objections raised to the Indiana importer system, brewers are expected to recommend that this feature of the law be abolished.

Governor Wins Praise For Liquor Move

Times Special WASHINGTON, Dee. 23.--Ap-pointment of .a Liquor Law Study Commission by Governor Townsend in Indiana was praised today by Dr. Wesley A. Sturgis, executive director of the Distilled Spirits Institute,

Press Building here.

Pres headquarters in the National

Dr. Sturgis also is Professor of

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INCITY DEC. 29

Legislative Program to Be Sifted; More Fraud Is Claimed.

Sixty-seven Republican wosmibers of the Indiana General Assembly will confer here Dec. 29 on a - tive program for the coming session, it was announced today. At the same time, A Republican

' |mayors-elect will meet to discuss

municipal problems and outline a

i program of co-operative action be-

tween the State Committee and municipal officials.

James M. Knapp of Hagerstown, purely partisan and political,” Dr

‘| Sturgis declared.

“The Institute will gladly co-

| operate with them in supplying sta-

tistical data or anything else that is within our facilities,” Although he is familiar “in a general way” with ‘the Indiana liquor laws and particularly with the con-

E | flicts that have grown out of the t [beer importer system and. resulted f [in the Michigan law suit now be-

fore the Supreme Court here, Dr.

| Sturgis said he could only make

general suggestions for: ‘any possible changes. “I do not know. the Indiana law in detail and from . my present knowledge I should say that the restrictions resulting from the importer system apply more to beer than to distilled liquors,” he said. “However, the Institute feels that any use of the state law to lay embargoes or erect tariff walls are likely to prove unwise in the long run. For sych interference with the general flow of commerce results in retaliatory measures by other states and while designed to ‘aid home products finally result in merkly restricting their field.” Putting the liquor business into

politics always proves fatal, Dr.}

Sturgis declared, and predicted that

no “citizens committee” will ever ;

recommend it.

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chairman, ‘will address roth groups. © Claims More Fraud :

. Meanwhile, Mr. Bobbitt disclosed that furthér evidence of alleged 8 election fraud had been

Nov.

- P, State

gators say, 7000 of the names were replaced. “In that county, a Republican election official was beaten so 2h ously that he was taken to a pital. Democratic election officals selected another man to take ns

gathered by investigators to show place.

that in one county 7000 names, which had been removed from registration lists on the protesis of Republicans, had been reinstated

Mr. Bobbitt

prior to election day. “I am informed,”

“It was some time before ‘the G. O. P. workers at the County headquarters learned of the incident. Then they protested and placed a successor to the man Who was beaten on the job.

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