Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1939 — Page 12

PENSION SOUGHT

Ohio » Vote on Proposed

$50-a-Month Plan for : Persons Past 60.

COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 29 (U.

. P).—The Bigelow old-age pension

plan, calling for $50 a month for every single person over 60 years and $40 a month for each member of a married couple; will be submitted to Ohio voters at the Nov. 7 election. Secretary of State Earl Griffith today certified that petitions requesting that the pension plan be placed on the ballot contained enough signatures to put it before ‘Ohio voters. Signatures Now Sufficient

County: election = boards which have been checking supplementary petitions filed by Herbert S. Bige16w, 69-year-old Cincinnati min-

ister-politician, reported on the validity of the signatures today. The pension plan needed 241,288 signatures to get it on the ballot and to date 252,003 signatures have been credited. The present Ohio pension law provides an average of $22.50 a month for pensions over 65 years.

Differ Widely on Cost

Opponents of the pension plan, grouped under an organization known as the Ohio Emergency Committee, have charged that enactment of the Bigelow proposal would bankrupt the State. The Committee estimated the cost at $381,000,070 a year to start with and $560,000,000 a year by 1950. Mr. Bigelow. estimated the cost of operation at $56,000,000 a year. Pension financed by a special 2 per cent tax

of Driv Bui ding and Dangle. Fr rom Top Ledge| 0 I l AIS

Slips Caused Death of All} But One Other, Who Retired, He Says.

By JOE COLLIER Johnny Woods, who says he is

the last of the “human flies,” duef

to architecture over which they had no control, was in Indianapolis today for [a performance. Insisting he is a scientist and not a daredevil, Mr. Woods intimated that the passing of the “gingerbread” era of building made the human fly science too hard for the profession. All but one other, he said, had fatal accidents trying to climb buildings of modern design. Compared to the Hotel Washington building, which he will climb starting at 7 o'clock tonight, the old county seat court houses which human flies used to climb for the edification of small boys were so any grand staircases.

Believes Future Awaits

The other surviving fly, he said, is retired at the age ‘of 70 in Washington, D. C. Mr. Woods, who is 44, says he hopes to continue climbing until he is 60. The human fly business has not been so good since 1929 and Mr. Woods believes that is mainly due to the “condition of ‘the country.” He now climbs about once every two. weeks, whereas before 1929 he climbed so many buildings so often that {he should have had to help carry elevator passengers, he said.

Started at School Muscles are the chief tools of a human fly, he said. After he has climbed the 17 floors of the Hotel

toes from the outside ledge. This

“I wanted to get into the business,” he said. "He has developed his ‘control over this impulse during the years so that he now climbs only when sponsored. The most he ever earned for a single performance, he said, was $816 when he climbed the Woolworth Building, New York City, in 1927. Compared to climbing buildings, mountain climbing is a; parlor trick, he said. “Why they have those son rods they stick in the mountains,” he protested,” a they are all roped together, too. “I don't have any safety devices whatever when I climb,” he said.

SEEK TO BOLSTER

COTTON INDUSTRY

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29 (U. P). —An attempt to bolster the South’s cotton industry is being made in the

laboratories of Mellon Instituté of Ihdustrial Research here. Eight research scientists are engaged in attempting to develop new uses for lint, seed and cotton

| stalks, Dr. Lawrence W. * Bass, -as-

—Times Photo.

Johnny Woods . . . going up.

toes, he said. He usually weighs about 200. pounds. “There’s awful strength in those

sports oxford. “You have to push

on land exceeding $20,000 an acre in|will be easier than usual because hard with them. I can hold a 200-

value and an income tax of onefourth the Federal income tax.

he has lost some weight through an illness and won’t be so heavy on his

pound man on that big toe. turns right from pushing.”

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Mr. Woods said he got into the human fly business years ago when he and some other boys were play-

payments would be| Washington, he is to hang by his|toes” he said, flexing a foot in a|ing football and the ball landed in|through

an eave of the school building. While some one went for a lad-

It| der, he climbed the building and{an

retrieved the ball, and at that time

-Very Easy Terms No Carrying Charge i if Paid in 90 Days

sistant director of the institute .has announced.

~ “Faced with huge ‘overproduction

and large inventories plus severe competition from substitute materials,” Dr. Bass explained, “cotton has no other hope for regaining economic health than-to dig up! some new jobs for itself.” . Already, the program, handled! the Cotton = Research! Foundation, ‘is said to have developed an oil-free cottonsed meal and effective sweeping compound from seed hull bran.: “

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Role as Home-coming Is Celebrated.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 29.— This city presented a gala appear ance today as Indiana University alumni returned to the campus for the 24th annual home-coming and Indiana-Nebraska football game toMorrow. Fraternities and sororities vied with each other in their house decorations but all had trouble with one thing—the color scheme. Nebraska's colors are cream and scarlet and Indiana’s cream and crimson. Part of the crowd were newspaper editors, writers and business managers who were to meet at noon in the first session of the annual Hoosier Journalism Conference. It is sponsored by the University Journalism Department and the Hoosier State Press Association. Secretary of State James M. Tucker will be “chief” ‘and toastmaster at the. football “pow-wow” tonight. Speakers will include President Herman B Wells, President Emeritus William Lowe Bryan, Athletic Director Z. G. Clevenger, Coach Alvin N. '(Bo) McMillin, Dean of Women Kate H. ‘Mueller, Leroy Sanders of Indianapolis, president

of the “I-Men’s” Association, and]:

Alex Campbell of Ft. Wayne, presi-

ference sessions, Sigma: Delta Chi|guests from Indiana's ‘high schools,

reunion dinner, reunions for foot-|attending the. university’s annual

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