Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1939 — Page 7
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1989 Old-Timer' at Traction Throttle
. FEDERATION OF LABOR GOES T0 POLLS IN JUNE
Incumbents of State Organization Are Renominated.
All
The Indiana State Federation of
Labor's biennial election will be held! in June, with returns being tabulated July 5, officials here announced today. | Nineteen candidates will be voted, upon for nine posts, tellers ans nounced after tabulating nominations from the locals. All incumbents were renominated.
Adolph J. Fritz, 721 S. Noble Ave,
secretarv-treasurer of the Federa-|
tion for 28 years, was nominated for| re-election without opposition, re-| ceiving the indorsement of 248 locals. | Nominated for president were Carl H. Mullen, Hammond, incumbent; Stanton A. Sweeney, South Bend, and Charles Lutz, Indianapolis.
Other nominations follow:
First vice president: Stanton A.l Sweeney, South Bend, incumbent]
and Virgil Morris, Terre Haute.
Second vice president: Earl DeWitt, incumbent, and John Martin,
both of Evansville.
Third vice president: Alexander Martin, Anderson, incumbent; John Acker, Lafayette, and Walter Pfaller,
Ft. Wayne.
Fourth vice president: Edward P. Barry, Indianapolis, incumbent, un-
opposed.
Fifth vice president: Mary Garner, South Bend, incumbent, and D. E.
Evans, Terre Haute.
Three tellers: Fred Lutz and John
E. Smith, both of Indianapolis, and C. 0. VanHorn, Ft. Wayne, all incumbents, and John Sullivan, Anderson, and Tom Cavanaugh, Lafayette.
All persons nominated are re-
quired to file a declaration of their
candidacy before their names can be placed on the ballot Mr. Fritz said. Declaration blanks will be sent out this week. Officers will take office next January for two-year terms.
SMASHED PINBALL MACHINES SEIZED
The wreckage of 16 pinball machines was seized by police early today in the basement of a vacant building on E. Maryland St, 200 block. The demolished machines were found by Sergt. Martin Fahey and two patrolmen who visited the building on information that gaming devices were stored there, The officers were trying to learn the identity of the owner and whether the machines were demolished by persons who broke into the building.
FRANKLIN ‘QUEEN’ TO BE ANNOUNCE
Times Special FRANKLIN, April 20—The winner of the Franklin College prom queen contest, selected by the men students, was to be announced today. Candidates include Miss Frances Hyde, Pi Beta Phi; Dekle, Delta Delta Delta; Miss Margaret Golden, Delta Zeta! Miss virginia Guyer, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Miss Marian Kiefer, independent. Hal Lieber and his Indiana University orchestra will play for the prom, to be held May 5 at Holloway Hall, Masonic Home High School here,
TWO RE-ELECTED BY WEIGHTS INSPECTORS
SOUTH BEND, April 20 (U. P)— Rollin E. Meek of Greensburg was
re-elected president of the Indiana |
Association of Weights and Measures inspectors at the closing session of the 26th annual conference yesterday. Herbert G. Meyer of Brazil was re-elected secretary-treasurer. A. Edward Snyder of Terre Haute was chosen vice president and William A. Springer of La Porte County and Mrs. Beatrice McQuilkin of Rast Chicago, the only woman inspector in the state, were named to the executive committee.
JUDGE IS APPOINTED
IN RECORDER'S CASE
PRINCETON, Ind, April 20 (U. P).—Sherman P. Davenport, former judge of Knox Superior Court, has been named special judge today to hear the case of John P. Ballard Jr, Gibson County Recorder against whom impeachment proceedings have been filed by County Commissioners. Judge A. Dale Eby disqualified himself in the case.
PORTLAND MAN DEAD PORTLAND, Ind, April 20 (U. P). — Funeral arrangements were being made today for Noah Ernest Schroll, 55, who died yesterday from a shotgun wound in his chest, He was believed to have committed suicide.
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It is yielding to the lure of busses and trucks and their more economic operation. - The company proposes to substitute busses and trucks on the Terre Haute and Jeffersonville | routes as it has on other routes already abandoned.
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If the most recent requests are |granted, the company Wwill® have electrical cars operating only between here and Ft. Wayne and between Indianapolis and Seymour. When the Indiana and other interurban lines started to operate at the turn of the century, there were { practically no hard roads, no auto- | mobiles, no trucks or busses and the steam roads were enjoying a virtual monopoly. No wonder the electric [lines blossomed like dandelions all over the Midwest!
The Indiana Railroad kept pace!
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with like companies and reached the zenith between 1910 and 1920. Something like 14 different lines fanned out of the terminal here and in every direction.
Had 3000 Miles of Track
could travel from here to New York, except for the last 75 or 100 miles down the Hudson River to the metropolis.
The Indiana Railroad was interlaced with trackage which measured 3000 miles or more.
On the momentum gained during these boom years, the interurbans coasted along on financial smoothness, but automobiles appeared in
1929 and there were red signal lights for the interurbans, just as | there were for all other businesses. | It was then that the Indiana | Railroad decided that the best way {to fight the depression and increas{ing competition on concrete high- | ways was to cut down operating expenses. Competition Too Stiff
All the lines entering Indianapolis, with the exception of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & East lern and the Indianapolis & South- | western were absorbed into the for-
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Once Proud Interurban System Slowly Crumbles
By LEO DAUGHERTY
The Indiana Railroad, which once operated the largest interurban system in the United States, is sounding the death knell of its interur-
If the Public Service Commission grants its requests to abandon lines between here and Terre Haute and between here and Jeffersonville, it will have left only about 200 miles of operating traction lines.
mer Insull organization under centralized management. Then came new and one-man cars and greater speed. Even so, the interurbans couldn't keep up with the competition of railroad and truck shipping and the Indiana Railroad found itself in receivership. Typical of the company’s substitution of busses and trucks is this: When the last interurban rolled over a recently abandoned line, 10 modern, 23-passenger busses and an equal number of tractor-trailer type truck units made their appearance on an almost parallel route. The company makes the pledge that modern busses and motor truck service will be offered as operators make the final “barn only” run and quit the controls.
CONCLAVE DELEGATE
George Doup of Columbus, president of the Indiana Rural Youth organization, has been selected by the American Farm Bureau Federation as a representative to the National Youth Conference at Washington April 24, 25 and 26. The conference is sponsored by the major organizations interested in rural youth problems. The speakers will include Edward A. O'Neal, American Farm Bureau Federation president, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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CHILD WELFARE GAIN REPORTED
Number Placed in Boarding Homes Increases 3§ Per Cent in Year.
The number of children in supervised boarding homes in Indiana has increased more than $5.1 per cent in the last year, according to a State Department of Public Welfare survey completed today. This increase is the result of a new program instituted by the Children's Division, which attempts to place indigent children in private homes so that the individual home atmosphere may be maintained,
| officials explained.
Thurman A. Gottschalk, State Welfare administrator, has emphasized that there is no attempt through this new procedure to eliminate institutions from the field of child care. Pratses Institutions
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long periods of time in institutions because of the lack of social plan ning, is being thoughtlessly deprived of his fundamental rights as a child in a democracy. «Phe fact that parents have become the largest single source of applications for child guidance points to a wholesome appreciation of the value of child welfare services and supervision on the part of the general public,” Mr. Gottschalk said.
Case Number Jumps
The total number of children under care grew from 8623 in January, 1038, to more than 10,000 last month. Almost 3000 of these were children in their own homes. No wardship was established in 10738 of the cases in which the children received supervision or services only. The children cared for at boarding homes are designated by the County Welfare Boards under supervision of the State Department of Public Welfare. According to the Welfare survey, children are recommended for boarding homes as follows: 13.7 per cent by parents; 11.1 per cent by judges; 9.9 per cent by probation officials; 7.9 per cent by relatives other than parents; 43 per cent by neighbors; 3.9 per cent by township trustees; 3.8 per cent by school officials; 3.3 per cent by police; 1.2 per cent by Public Health nurses; 1 per cent by doctors; .60 per cent by churches; 28.5 per cent by private agencies and 108 per
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