Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1939 — Page 3

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APPROVAL FORECAST FOR U. S. REORGANIZATION PLA

F.D.R. Is \ By Most

Praised Leaders

On Bureau Shifts

Taber Introduces Resolution Disapproving Crea-

tion of Agencies Security and

to Direct Lending, Public Works.

By THOMAS IL. STOKES Timeas Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 26.—All the clamor which rent the Congressional heavens when President Roosevelt's Government-Reorganization

Bill was before Congress died down subinission of the first phase of the approval seems assured. However, Rep. John Taber N. Y), ranking minority member of the House Reorganization Committee, introduced a concurren resolution in the House today disapproving the creation of three new agencies to direct security, lending and public works activities. He said he knew the resolution would not receive favorable consideration by the Reorganization Committee. Senator King (D. Utah) was the only member of the Senate considering a similar move. Generally, Mr. Roosevelt was cothmended for what he called reorganization order No. 1, which sets up independent agencies for public works, security and credit, embracing now separated bureaus handling those functions, and co-ordinating within the President's office the budget bureau and a few other agencies.

Few Criticize Move

Senator McNary (Ore.), Republican leader, found nothing objectionable in a cursory review of the order. er has asked Senator Byrnes (D. C.) to call the special reorti committee together, but only to see where the President plans to achieve the 15 million to! 20 million dollar economies he claimed. “If it achieves economy and efficiency I can’t see where there should be any objection,” he said. “I will not treat this matter on a partisan basis.” The President revealed political shrewdness by lumping the four re-

organization schemes into one order. | Under the act giving him reorganiz- |

ing authority, Congress must take it or leave it, with no power of amendment. and therefore anyone who chooses to fight it must attack the whole scheme. “Nobody will be bold enough to stand up and fight the whole scheme.” one veteran legislator ventured. “Most everybody has gone on rec-, ord for reorganizing the government to promote efficiency and economy. This is what the plan is designed | to do. Congress gave the President the power and now he has sub- | mitted a plan that seems generally acceptable.”

Overhead Cut Visioned Under the act, the plan becomes law 60 days by either branch of Congress. Anyone who desires a showdown can introduce a resolution within 10 days of the plan’s submission, and this would automatically bring the plan before Congress for a vote. Economies in the reorganization plan will come from reduction of overhead, Senator Byrnes said. Some Government employees will

lose their jobs in the consolidation. |

Just how many mated. The President said that when the mergers are completed there will be fewer jobs.

Mr. Roosevelt avoided a frontal

fight with Congress when he aband-| oned an earlier suggestion to trans-| fer the Reconstruction Finance Corp., headed by Jesse H. Jones, to} the Commerce Department, along with other lending agencies. Mr. Jones’ friends in Congress, especially Vice-President Garner, | rebelled at this proposal and sent] word that this would cause a fight] in Congress that would endanger| the whole plan. Administrators of the three new

independent agencies will get $12, 000 |

a year, under the Presidents proposal.

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if it is not disapproved within]

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to a few minor squawks with actual program by the Chief Executive. Its

U.S. AGAIN TRIES

Steelman Continues Effort Despite Relentlessness Of Negotiators.

NEW YORK, April 26 (U. P)— Despite the uncompromising attitude of the principals, the Federal Government continued its efforts today to bring peace to the Appalachian soft coal industry, idle since April 1 because of a wagehour deadlock between representatives of management and labor. John R. Steelman, special U. S. mediator, hoped to bring leaders of the United Mine Workers of America and negotiators for some 2000 operators together before present coal shortages in the East become generally acute. John L. Lewis, U M. W. A. president, and John O'Neill, chief ne- | gotiator for the operators, assumed] the role of listeners while Dr. Steel- | man told them the Administration's views and plans. Although he would not discuss his proposals publicly, it was understood he told the negotiators that if the deadlock persisted the Government might appoint a three-man | mediation council to canvass the | situation from beginning to end. After an hour of joint discussion today, the miners and operators split into their respective groups. Dr. Steelman conferred with the miners while his assistant, James F. Dewey, | talked with the operators. Miners were as insistent as ever on a closed shop agreement, or some equally effective substitute, and the operators as unyielding. One ne- ' gotiator for the operators, who contend the union is demanding the | closed shop only because of threatened difficulties with the A. F. of Ls, asserted “were not giving in; there's too much between us.” An official of the U. M. W. A. expressed a similar determination. Unofficial sources have estimated the total number of men, including miners, made idle by the sus-

FOR MINE TRUCE

gress of Parents and Teachers. Mrs.

TRAFFIC DANGER CENTERS LISTED

Sheriff Will Concentrate Safety Drive on 20 Spots in County.

Sheriff Feeney today branded 20

traffic intersections or areas in the County as “dangerous” and ordered his deputy sheriffs to concentrate their safety law enforcement on

them. The Sheriff said the danger spots were determined by use of an accident map which has been kept by the Sherifi's office for several months. The intersections are: W. Morris St. and Lyndhurst Drive; Rockville Road and High Schoo! Road; Rockville Road and Lyndhurst Drive; Keystone Ave. and 75th St.; S. Meridian St. and Hanna Ave.; South Brill Road and Troy Ave.; Southeastern Ave. (Road 29) and Emerson Ave; Arlington Ave. and 30th St.; Madison Ave. (Road 31) and Troy Ave, and W. 16th St. and Georgetown Road (Road 3%). Areas Listed

The areas are: Road 40 through Bridgeport; Road 67 from Tibbs Ave. to Holt Road; Road 40 from Tibbs Ave. to Girls

School Road; Road 52 from 30th St. to 38th St.; Road 29 from 49th St.

pension at half a million or more.

RUSSIANS READY FOR 4000 < MILE FLIGHT

MOSCOW, April 26 (U. P)—A projected 4000-mile nonstop flight {to New York by the Soviet record

flier, Vladimir Kokkinaki, and two companions was disclosed at the last minute today when the fliers paraded to the airport for the take- | off, which was postponed because of ‘bad weather. The United States Ambassador | Alexander Kirk and 100 automobile loads of Soviet officials were in the | parade to the airport and it was | disclosed simultaneously in Wash- | ington that the State Department |had approved the flight and that other United States departments had been supplying reports on | weather and flying conditions to the {Soviet Government. Magnetic storms in the Atlantic

to 60th St.; Road 37 through Glenn’s Valley; Road 31 from Hanna Ave. to Stop 12 Road; Road 29 through New Bethel; Road 367 from | Emerson Ave, to 38th St, and W. 10th St. from Olin Ave. to Lyndhurst Drive. Intersections listed are ‘marked either as preferential streets or with danger signs, and the areas are zoned for speed limits. A war on speeders and other traffic law violators was ordered Monday by the sheriff following a week-end in which four persons died of accident injuries. He said he had rented two motorcycles to be operated by deputies from Friday nights to Monday mornings. Nine Are Hurt Meanwhile, nine persons suffered minor injuries in traffic accidents here overnight. Mrs. Zella Biemer, 35, of 4517 Winthrope Ave. wife of Fabian W. Biemer, chief deputy Marion County auditor, received back injuries when the car in which she was riding with Mr. Biemer collided with another driven by Joan Pinnell,

|oft Finland caused the postpone- { ment.

17, of 5275 N. Capitol Ave, at College Ave. and Watson Road.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County Deaths 4 {Te Date)

Speeding .... Reckless of driving .... | Running

City Deaths Jeeterentinl

> Date)

et CecLbaiin 20 Running Red

April 28 Injured 9 Drunken, Accidents .... 12| driving .... DEAR cic 8) Arrests ......

MEETINGS TODAY

ana Section, American Water Works Association, convention, Hotel Antlers all

“Parent- Teacher meetings, Ciavpool Hotel, all v Indiana obit Av a iment Owners Asseciation, lunc Wate! Washington, noo a Cub. luncheon, Columbia Chib,

31 Others

SS Semis

A font Club. luncheon Hotel Washington, &t.

Hn A A. Camera Club, meeting, Central Y. NM.

p.m. Young Mens gen Club, dinner, Yy.M C Purdue Alamni luncheon, verin Hoth istrict A Ametican Legion, luncheon, Board of Trade a Alpha

0 A Noha Taw, luncheon, Seville Tav-

TAscociation,

Epsilon, luncheon, Board of “ Delta

bai 7% operative Club of Hiftahasens, lunch-

Columbia Club, no SOndiana Motor Traffic "Association, luncheon, Hote Autlers. noon, indianapolis Junior Chamber of Com. merce luncheon. Canary Cottage, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

fndianapolis Real Estate Board, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Parent-Teacher SSeration; meetings, Claypool Hotel, all Advertising Cin Cub of eon, Columbia dkma Chi,

American Business Club, ub, noo Tambi® napolls Me Motor Thalteortation Club, dinner, Hotel Severin, 6:30

{ Tidianapotis, lunchno IPReon Board of Trade,

luncheon, Co-

Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington |

Caravan Club, luncheon, 14h, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. “BA chub, hu ea sague Indah apolis, | ICR Architects and Pd build- ¢ aisaghe s Camera Club, meeting. 110

Eta Theta BS Bi. luncheon, Canary Cot-

iE MR ny legal edu:

Murat Temple,

Acacia, luncheon, Board of ® Trade. noon. | Sigma

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records | in the County Court House. The Times, | therefore. is not responsible for errors 'n | names and addresses.)

George DeHaven, 51. of 1716 N,

Meridiax gt Marie Deliaven, 48, of 1717 Me dian t

N. Talbott Ear! Davis, 39, 13358 | William _ Bower, 29 Pauline Montgomery,

lawn Ave Leonard Hogue, 22 Clesta Hawkins, 18, of Kenneth Carpenter, 25 of mont St; Irene Crovert, 20, Vermont St. | Raymond Matheson, 34, o {velit St.: {velt St.

of Lindes Hotels of 1139 Wood-

nd.; St.

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{f 147 Florence Parker, of 147 Sanger Pistro, 25, of 950 N. St.: Shirley Montgomery, 19, Keyst one. Roosevelt Anderson,

mont St.., Beatrice Walnut St.

Fo srone of 511 N 4 of 525 W. Veriller, 32, 212 W. Joseph Burris. 37 of 438 W, 20th St. Kathern Grav. 235. of 3933 College Ave. John Warrick, 24. of Detroit, Mich.; Frances Jones, 19 of 1301 University iH James Miller, 22, of 1502 N. Sherm Dr: Ellen Patterson, Ly of 2262 Bellis | at Robert Dearing 22, 902 S, Delaware Rulkner, 8. of 821 Buchanan St

BIRTHS Girls Russel, Minnie Tuttle, at St.Francis.

Price Viola Beasley, at St. Francis. & Richard, Thelma Cummins, at Meth< oO st

Haiiy. Mary Inman, at Methodist: Vernon, Imogene Green, at 1877 Shelby. Boys Wade. Genevieve Hoiman, at 1423 Nelson. David, Rubv Anedrson, at City. Junior, Sparkle Grove, at St. Francis. Walter Adria Puscheck, at Methodist. al Trina _Caudeil, at St. cn Bud, Lillian Scriefer. St. Fran Lloyd. Marguerite Stanfield, at ‘Coteman.

DEATHS

Lovell Singleton, 70, at 3551 Ronlevard Place, cardio vascular renal disea Henry T. Brown, 78 at 911 E “WashIhren. Dronchopneymen

fosclerosis Fthe Lancaster, 41, cinom Alonzo Jones, 46, nephitiis.

at Coleman, ear-

at City, David Valentine, 47, | Hoarkins Disease Ora D. Wilson, 64 at St. Vincent's, toxic

| goiter jel W. Morton, hh od 2015 Brookside. pulmonary tubereul ors MacTcor, TS. at Central Indiana, chronic Ay i hh " nthe th Tsaa 0 - digna Medica ter. Fone 0 ronia. ft pan at Rebre jurem

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of Colle, Ave.: | { Frances Atherton, 28 of 1238 College Ave. By

FIRES Tuesday 7:44 A. M.—Automohile of Bell 102 8. Capitol, defective wiring,

7:50 A. M.—Jumes Sumner, mont, smoking furnace, no loss.

FYE, 1014 Edge-

2:35 PB. —~Robert Hopkins, 3119 Boulevard “Place cause unknown, $15. 33 P. M.—Automobile of John Strattar, Wayne and E. 10th, overheated brakes,

M.—Chateau Apts. 1501 sparks from incinerator, a

10:28 P. Magic Road.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. 8. Weather Bur

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Considerable cloudiness tonight and tomorrow; not

onia German, 46, at Veterans, arter-|Chica

chronic D 420 Agnes, i

-| much change in in temperature.

1:51 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE —April 26, 1938— 6:30 a.m. ... 53

BAROMETER 6:30 a. m.. 283

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 6:30 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan, 1

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Considerable cloudiness tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler north portion tonight. Minois—Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler tonight. Lower Michigan — Much cloudiness tonight and TONIIrIOW slightly cooler west and south tonight Ohio—Partly cloudy and somewhat eooler rece ed by showers in east nortion tonight: tomorrow generally fair with moderate temperature. Kentuecky—Partly Fioudy. slightly cooler in north preceded by showers in vast pore tion tonight; tomorrow mostly *loudy.

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Mrs. James L. Murray (center), Indianapolis, this morning was elected president of the Indiana Con-

(left), Frederick Conkle

Local Woman Heads P.-T.A. Congress

Times Photo.

Noblesville, was named first vice president and Mrs. John T. Brendel, Jeffersonville, secretary. The election was a feature of the annual meeting.

N.Y. Fair "To Censor Girl Shows

NEW YORK, April 26 (U. P.). —New York World's Fair officials set up a censorship committee today to review all girl shows signed to appear at the exposition opening this weekend. Concessionaires were warned by letter that the censors would reject any “obscene, lewd or vulgar” performances. The letter said widespread reports the Fair would run “wide open” had been “the cause of serious concern.”

LOCAL STRUCTURAL

STEEL MAN HONORED

J. Ralph Fenstermaker, new president of the Hugh J. Baker & Co, structural engineers, today had been elected president of the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute. Mr. Fenstermaker, who lives at 146 E. 44th St, was named presi dent at the Institute’s annual national meeting at Augusta, Ga. The Institute, whose national headquarters is in Chicago, is composed of representatives of the leading steel mills, fabricators and jobbers of reinforcing steel throughout the United States. The election of Mr. Fenstermaker marks the first time a local sectional fabricator has been selected to head the organization. Previous presidents have been steel mill executives.

ASSAULT ‘REPEATER’ GETS DOUBLE TERM

Municipal Court Judge John McNelis thought that inasmuch as Ernest Benshena of 63¢ E. Ohio St. previously had served 45 days for assault and battery, he ought to double the sentence when Benshena answered the same charge a second time. Today Benshena was accused of beating his sister-in-law, Dallion Floyd. The previous sentence was for bealing his wife.

CALIFORNIA TO VOTE AGAIN ON $30 WEEKLY

SACRAMENTO, April 26 (U. P). —California will vote again on a new $30-Every-Thursday pension plan. Petitions from Los Angeles County today bearing 156,038 signatures boosted the total number of petitioners for an initiative referendum on the subject to 233,627. The required number is 212,117. Proponents of the referendum will ask Governor Olson to call a special election.

By JOE COLLIER Fifty cases of pneumococci pneumonia were treated with sulfapyridine at City and Methodist Hospitals this winter and the group death rate was 6 per cent. of years the death rate from this disease here has been 40 per cent. This report was made last night to the Indianapolis Medical Society by physicians who were in charge of the cases. They explained the technique of the new drug's use. Health Board records show that about 100 persons die in each of the bad pneumonia months—De= cember, January, February, March and the first half of April—in Ine« danapolis. If the performance of the new drug remained consistent with the results of the first 50 cases, those deaths could be reduced to an avers age of 15 a month in the city. The City Hospital work was done through the Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research. Frankly declaring they were delighted with the drug as a new weapon against the disease which annually takes such a heavy toll of lives in Indianapolis, the physicians

Turged laymen not to consider the

pneumonia threat ended and not to suppose that all problems attendant, even to the administering of the drug itself, have been solved. They said, however, that the layman may consider that the new

drug weapon promises to be powerand, to i.

Over a long period |

2 KILLED AFTER INSULT PROTEST

Idaho Gunman Opens Fire When Knocked Down For ‘Remarks.’

SANDPOINT, Ida. April 26 (U. P.).—A slender gunman who wore a white handkerchief over his face killed two young men outside a roadhouse near here early today after they had knocked him down for insulting one of their women companions. James Turpin, 30, Sandpoint, was killed instantly. James McFall, 25, Priest River, died an hour later. The killer fled either on foot or in an automobile parked nearby. The slayings occurred outside Nita’'s Roadhouse and Beer Parlor

a mile north of Sandpoint shortly after the roadhouse closed at midnight. There were still several patrons inside. Mr. Turpin, Mr. McFall and two young women friends, driving around during the evening while awaiting returns of a municipal election, stopped their car at the roadhouse. The masked bandit, believed to be the same man who wore a white handkerchief mask earlier in the evening when he robbed Gus Wendt, Sandpoint, of several dollars, approached them.

G. 0. P. SEEKS BAALS FOR GOVERNOR RAGE

FT. WAYNE, April 26 (U. P).— The name of Mayor Harry W. Baals of Ft. Wayne was tentatively put on the list of Republican candidates for Governor today. Party leaders revealed a committee has been named to seek his approval to a campaign in his behalf. Mr. Baals was re-elected last November by a large majority, and his name was mentioned then as a possible gubernatorial candidate. At that time he was quoted as saying, “I still have a job to perform as Mayor.” His term expires Jan. 1, 1943. The committee of five was appointed at a meeting presided over by Dan C. Flanagan, county Repubs« lican chairman.

BOY IN CAB ACCIDENT AWARDED $15,000

A Superior Court today awarded a $15000 judgment to 1ll-year-old Robert Dashiell, for alleged injuries he received when he was struck last fall by a Red Cab near his home, 1226 N. Illinois St. The judgment was against the Red Cab Co. and the action was brought by the boy's mother, Mrs. Ethel Dashiell.

Times Photo. Mrs. Mabe! Skinner, one of the

pneumonia patients at City Hospital who was treated with sulfapyridine and who today was well on the way to recovery.

ments, strengthens the offensive against the disease considerably. The cases in which the drug was used were of the pneumococeic, or most virulent, variety. Treatment was begun in many stages of the

disease i the vatious cases, and in them

LEISERSON ‘AGE’ FAILS TO GHECK CRITICS OF NLRB

President’s ‘Top Card’ Popular but Foes Still Hope To Unseat Board.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 26.—A. F. of I. and Congressional critics of the Labor Board decided today to continue their efforts to unseat it despite the President's appointment of the popular and able William M. Leiserson to the Board.

He opposes general revision of the labor act but favors an amendment that would require arbitration of labor disputes over interpretations of collective bargaining contracts.

Hope to Halt Attack

Mr. Leiserson, a defender of the Wagner law, attributes much of the present difficulty to faulty adminis= tration, and also to the lack of a separate national mediation system supplementiag the strict law enforcement of the Labor Board. Friends of the Wagner law hoped that replacing Board Member Donald W. Smith with Mr. Leiserson would check the rising attack. But President William Green of the A. F. of I. tnday prepared a Senate amendment for a new Board, similar to the House Barden amendment. Mr. Green and Chief Counsel Padway of the A. F. of L. are expected to testify at the Senate hearings immediately after Chief Counsel Fahy of the Board finishes his testimony, late today or tomorrow. They will attack the alleged pro-C. I. O. bias of the Board, a charge which Chairman J. Warren Madden, Mr. Fahy and a four-volume Board report to the Senate Committee have sought to refute.

Feel Opposition Futile

The A. F. of L. will not oppose Senate confirmation on Mr. Leiserson, In any event opposition probably would be futile because of his brilliant record as chairman of the National Mediation Board, secretary of the NRA Wagner Labor Board, and his more than a quarter of a century experience as a labor relations expert. But, while keeping an open mind on Mr, Leiserson, A. F. of L. officials say that no one man could change the Board's administrative setup and methods to which they object. The President has played his ace card in the Leiserson appointment. For several months the President, Labor Secretary Perkins and Senator Wagner have hoped that he would accept a transfer from the National Mediation Board, dealing with railway labor, to the National Relations Board. The idea was that his ability and experience as an administrator and expert would supplement the legal ability of Chairman Madden.

Two Questions Raised

But Mr. Leiserson, happy and successful in his present job, has managed to keep away from the very hot spot of the Labor Board until the present crisis created by the A. F. of L. and employer attacks. Although Mr. Leiserson has been a vigorous advocate of the Wagner law, and a defender of the Board against some of the more sweeping criticisms, his methods are known to differ materially from some of those of the board. Two questions greeted the announcement of Mr. Leiserson’s appointment: Will it turn the balance against, the A. F. of L. amendment for a new Board? Will the appointment facilitate operating of the present Board, or split it as the communications commission is now divided? Of course no one can answer either question. Friends of the Board are optimistic, while the critics say it will probably lead to internal discord without saving the Board.

LINEMAN IMPROVES

George C. Patterson, 26, of 424 Birch Ave. power lineman, was reported improved at Methodist Hospital today. He was burned while at work yesterday. He touched a wire carrying 2300 volts while working on an Indianapolis Power & Light Co. pole at 30th St. and Gulon Road, Flackville. His safety belt prevented him from falling. Fellow workers lowered him to the ground

. |in tablets that

and applied artificial respiration,

Pneumonia Deaths Here Cut by Use of Sulfapyridine, New Drug, Doctors Told

Some cases were type three, for which there is no serum. The physicians observed that the drug killed pneumococcic germs

= regardless of their type and that in

nearly every case the temperature showed a return to normalcy shortly after the drug was given, The physicians explained that

[large doses of the drug must be

given to be effective and that it is extremely necessary for the physician to be in close attendance. The drug is a derivative of sulfanilimide, which is made of coal tar, and was used for the first time last year in England. It is relatively inexpensive, costing much less than even the new and cheaper serums, and is administered orally resemble aspirin tablets in size and appearance. Sulfapyridine sometimes produces a violent nausea, vomiting or severe headache. In other cases, it, like sulfanilimide, may produce a

' |dangerous decrease in the number

of red corpuscles. Thus, it is necessary for the physician to take frequent blood counts and give patients blood transfusions if the action of the drug becomes toxic. The anti-pneumonia properties of the drug are reported to have been discovered when some JAporatory mice infected with pneumonia go into some sulfanilimide and ved some time longer th wise would have, An English pk tore down s!

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Gets Film Role

HOLLYWOOD, April 26 (U. P.). —Lee Ya-Ching, beautiful Chinese girl who came to America to make an aerial tour, was the somewhat surprised possessor today of a contract to work for the movies. Several studios hurried to bid for her services. She accepted a Paramount offer to play a featured role with Dorothy Lamour in the picture “Disputed Passage,” film version of the best-selling novel, She took off on her nationwide tour from New York March 23.

CONFER ON WIDENING County Commissioners and Big Four Railroad officials were to confer today on purchase by the County of right-of-way necessary to widen Ritter Ave. to 50 feet at Troy Ave,

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DISAPPROVES OF POLITICAL AND UTILITY TIEUP

New York Engineer Says Condition Works Against Public Interest.

Keeping politics out of municipal utilities operation is of vital impore tance to the public, in the opinion of Reeves Newsom, New York conesulting engineer and president of the American Water Works AssOe-

ciation. Mr. Newsom, here for an address before the association’s Indiana section convention at the Hotel Antlers, said the Association is attempting to educate the public on the possible dangers resulting from political interference with municie pal water utilities. The head of the water utility, he said, has a large share in the ree~ sponsibility for protecting the pub=lic health, and he should not be replaced in his job with a new ape pointee with every change in ade ministration.

Municipal Estimate Made

Mr. Newsom estimated that more than 80 per cent of the water utilie ties in the United States are munie cipally owned. He declined to discuss the pro posed purchase by the City of the Indianapolis Water Co. Speaking before the sectional meeting yesterday afternoon, Mr, Newsom discussed “Current Water Works Problems.” Electric utilities, he’ said, create a problem for the average water company, by using water pipes to ground wires in homes and plants, Thus, a large part of the current distributed by the electric company is returned to the power house through water pipes, he said. In many cases, he commented, this increases corrosion of the pipes and sometimes affects the color and taste of the water.

Convention Ends Today

The convention was to be cone cluded this afternoon. Speakers on this morning's schedule included B. A. Poole, chief engineer of the Indiana State Health Board, and L. S. Vance, Louisville, Ky., Water Co. chief engineer, both on technical sube jects. Harry E. Jordan, secretary of the national association and fore merly an official of the Indiane

apolis Water Co., discussed “Effie ciency in Operation.”

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