Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1939 — Page 8

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John McNelis, Gamewell superintendent, takes a turn at the i : : a ‘ switchboard which is kept open 24 hours a day. The switchboard ; : 7 | operator on duty is commander of all movements of fire apparatus.

BOYS’ STATE IS SET

Merryle Stanley Rukeyser, econo‘t mist, critic the Marriner S. Ec- ‘| cles policy “conscious and deliberate Governnient spending” as an “unreal : apprcach to the nation’s economic protléem” when he spoke last night before the Indianapolis Open Forum. : Mr. Rukeyser spoke at Kirshbaum Community Center and predicted that “economy .in government may reach hysterical proportions unless we plan to spproach the problem intelligently.” ath ! ‘He . cited the recent $150,000,000 §

Ya ‘Bonus on Zenith’ and ‘Philco’ Radios

Then Operator Arthur Leonard flashes the signal to all fire stations in the City through this transmitter, which works like a dial telephone. If the signal is “25,” Station House 25 responds.

FORM COUNCIL | 105, Native

Zo Fire. Inlo the Gamewell Division comes the signal from the fire = alarm hox. Operator George E. Bailey watches the box number as it

is punched out on the ticker tape. : Auto Harder

Than Gun on

¥ * : = be dean of counselors. George Huish | Ha of East Chicago will be assistant \ ENGINE M camp director, Homer L. Chaillaux,| E : Legion Americanism director, said. Officials expect 600 boys at the

camp this year. The Boys’ State is

LIKE CHESSMEN

Operator ‘Spots’ Location Of Blaze on Maps, Speeds Aid.

In an obscure wing at City Hall is the pulsing, mechanical “brain” of

" * the City Fire Department, a mass of.

electrical equipment through which the fire-fighting forces are directed. This is thé& Gamewell Division, named for the concern which manufactures its complex equipment. From its master switchboard, like a vast nervous system, stretch 541 miles of electric cables connecting every fire box and fire station in the city. ; What happens between the: time vou pull the alarm and the time the fire engines race out from the station in your district is a story of what happens in the Gamewell Division. Lights Show Lecation

When the handle of the alarm box is pulled, a light flashes on a large board upon which glass bulbs mark the district to which the apparatus is to go. : At the same tige, a ticker begins

to punch out the number of the fire station assigned to cover the district where. the alarm box is located. The numbers are recorded on ticker tape.

Gamewell operators, on duty 24 hours a day, immediately flash the signal through an electrical transmitter which is hooked up to all

fire stations in the City. _

Br'er Rabbit

There were, records revealed

today, more than 12,000 auto-

rabbit crashes in Indiana in 1938, with the rabbit the loser in each case. ‘A count of dead wild life along Hoosier highways for the year indicated, the State Conservation Department said, that the auto is more deadly than the gun. : In addition to the 12,000 rabbits killed in traffic, the following other victims were tabulated: 930 oppossum, 422

squirrel, 399 skunk, 200 quail, -

116 pheasant,. 65 racooon, 61 muskrat, 35 fox, 28 Hungarian partridge, seven mink, five groundhogs and one wolf.

O'DANIEL EXPLAINS EXECUTION DELAY

Reprieve Part of Capital

Punishment Fight.

AUSTIN, Tex, Feb. 6 (U. P.)— Governor W. Lee O’Daniel said today that his first explanation for postponing a Negro murderer’s ex-

ecution for.30 days so the Negro could suffer the more, had been designed to arouse public opinion against capital punishment. “It electrified the feelings of those who read it in such a manner as

OF EDUCATION

State Groups Organize Here . To Co-ordinate Work Of Members.

The Indiana Council on Education, an association of 25 educational societies throughout the State to promote progressive education.

was organized today. Representatives of education groups formed the Council at a

- {meeting in the Hotel Lincoln over].

the week-end. Dr. H. L. Smith, dean of the education school. Indiana University, was elected president; Dr. F.. B. Knight, dean of the education division, Purdue University, vice president, and E. B. Wetherow, La Porte Schools superintendent, secretarytreasurer. Miss Rose Boggs, past president of the Indiana State Teachers Association; J. Malcolm Dunn, Marion County Schools superintendent; Miss Erie Mark, South Bend teacher, and Dewitt S. Morgan, Indianapolis Schools superintendent, were named to the executive committee. -The Council will co-ordinate the activities of member groups and establish a research and fact-finding agency to analyze State educational policies and programs, according to a statement released by the organization. A program of future activity will be outlined at the next meeting of the Council, to be called by executive officers next month.

NEPHEW OF GRANT

Of Indiana, Celebrates

UNION CITY, Mich., Feb. 6 (U. P.) —Honesty ‘and “hard, hard work” are the requisites of longevity, Mrs. Abbie Randolph said. today: on her 105th birthday. . Mrs. Randolph, who finds pipe smoking one of her greatest pleasures, displayed her family Bible to prove she was born in Madison County, Indiana, in 1834. She has lived with her brother here for 15 years. Mrs. Randolph is mother of nine children, four of whom still are living. . She ‘has 13. grandchildren, 26 greatgrandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. Her hus- » band died in 1861. i

SURGEONS COLLEGE ‘WILL CONVENE HERE

Sectional Meeting Is Set for March 22 to 24. |

‘The American College of Surgeons will hold a sectional meeting in the Claypool Hotel March 22 to 24, Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachern of Chicago, associate director, announced today. The program will include speeches by outstanding surgeons and medical leaders, clinics in local hospitals, hospital executives’ conferences and

FOR JUNE 177024

National Conference Decides: Date at Meeting Here.

The third annual Hoosier Boys’

State will be held June 17 to 24,|

it was decided yesterday in a national Boys’ State Conference ‘in American Legion national headquarters here. John Mueller, Technical . High

School teacher, will be director and

Howard Meyer of Indianapolis will five children survive.

a mythical 49th state in which members make and enforce laws, form political parties and hold elections. Nineteen states. were represented at yesterday’s meeting. - Boys’ States will be conducted by 25 departments this year, Mr. Chaillaux said.

WAGON INJURIES FATAL BRAZIL, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—Fred Niswonger, 73, Harrison Township farmer, died Saturday in a hospital after he was crushed when his team of horses bolted and threw him un-

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Three pumpers, two truck com-

panies and a rescue squad are im-

mediately on the way to the fire box location, with the battalion

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turned in the alarm is waiting at the box to direct firemen to the scene.

Telephone Is Used

In. recent years, more reports of fires have come in by telephone than through fireboxes. Last year, according: to Gamewell Superintendent John McNelis, there were 2304 telephoned reports of fires and 880 box alarms. “A great many people think that they save time by calling the fire station in their neighborhood,” he said. “But they don’t. They waste time, because no equipment moves until the signal is flashed from this division.” : The Division operator on duty is commander of the City’s firefighters. Chief Kennedy: himself cannot countermand the operator’s order directing fire apparatus to the . scene of a fire. RE “Centralization is the key to effective fire fighting in a city as large as this,” Mr. McNelis said. “We ow where every man is located while on duty and where every piece

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the Division. was 27 years ago. The electrical apparatus. is old-

fashioned. - It was installed 30 years ago, but is kept in good condition with frequent checks on its opera-

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ts the Personnel of includes 16 whom have seen active hat is, all with possible

years an opponent of capital punishment. He granted a 30-day reprieve last week to Winzell Williams, saying that Williams could “suffer this dreadful punishment . . . of seeing certain death staring you in the face day and night for 30 days.” He explained how he reconcile the reprieve with the Golden Rule, which was the platform on which he was elected, in his weekly radio talk yesterday. 3 “Public opinion,” said Governor O’Daniel, “remained in lethargy. Nothing was done to arouse that public opinion until I stated bluntly how it appeared to me. . , . Yet ‘as I stated I did not want a man’s blood on my hands, and even though -I realized that to grant this man a reprieve of 30 days, with no power to help him at the end of that 30 days, would accomplish no purpose in my mind except to make him suffer the torture of the damned during that remaining time. . .. If IT have contributed in this small way to cause men and women of Texas to think dee n this perplexing problem, I am indeed happy.”

ASSESSORS TO HEAR INSTRUCTIONS FEB. 27

Instructions to deputy assessors who will start the annual appraisal of personal and real property March 1 will be given by County Assessor Albert Goeppert, Feb. 27 at the Courthouse. x ‘There are about 350 deputies to be appointed for this work by township trustees, including 225 in Center township, 35. in Wayne, 33 in Washington and 15 in Warren. Their work must be: completed by June. on Possible changes © in instructions from the 1938 appraisal depends upon the action of the Legislature

DIES IN POVERTY

General’s Relative ‘Too Proud to Ask Relief.’

CHICAGO, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—Jesse Root Grant, 74, a nephew of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, former President, died in poverty last night at the County Hospital. His - death was caused by exposure. :

He was removed tothe ‘hospital Saturday from an eight-room home

in suburban Wilmette where he had|

lived for 15 years with ‘his son, Ulysses S. Grant, 38, apparently too proud “to seek relief. He had been found in a coma on a shabby cot near an unlighted furnace in the basement. y The house was cold and almost barren of furniture. Four of the elder Grant's pet cats were found in the basement, hungry and cold— the remainder of 14 which he kept in 1936 until neighbors filed a com-

plaint against him, charging the]

cats were a public nuisance. He was found guilty and paid a fine of $5. “The son said he has been unemployed. since 1931 when he lost a job in a Chicago bank. He said his father had lived in the basement in recent weeks because a leg ailment had made it difficult for him to mount the stairs. The son was wearing an overcoat in the: house when newspapermen talked to him.

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