Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1939 — Page 11

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LAWYER LAUDS RELIEF SETUP

Smith Says Indiana’ Township Plan Is Best Ever Tested in Actual Practice.

The Indiana township system of

administering relief is the best method ever proposed or tested in actual practice and is the ‘envy of other states, Leo X. Smith, attorney for the Indiana. Township Trustees’ Association, declared today. In a lengthy statement, Mr. Smith, who also is Center Township attorney, defended the Association against recent criticism of its lobbying activities to control legislation affecting the townships. ° Township trustees, he said, are underpaid, and give more for each dollar spent than any other group officials.

of Claims Laws Improved

The statement said that laws governing poor relief in Indiana have been modernized and improved from time to time, but admitted there is still room for imvement. “To say that these laws are now perfect would be utterly foolish,” Mr. Smith's statement declared, “but they do provide a system which is the envy of other states which have become almost bankrupt and at times have been obligated fo

cease relief activity because of a|

lack of funds.” The present relief system, the attorney claimed, saves Hoosiers more than $3,500,000 a year in administrative costs, compared to other states’ systems. Mr. Smith denied that poor refief has been responsible for high taxes. ' “Since 1928, the cost has risen,” he said, “but the peak was reached in 1932 when Federal funds were used under a combination StateFederal setup over which townships have no control, even though some,

" township funds were used.

Highest Cost in 1933

He said the largest poor relief expenditure for any one month was in February, 1935, while a State commission was in charge. The Trustee Association, according t6 Mr. Smith's statement, “always has had a -constructive program,” sponsoring such legislation as the law punishing relief chiselers and a law permitting recovery of money paid for relief where the recipient dies leaving an estate. It caused to be enacted, the statement continued, a law requiring three years residence in Indiana as a relief qualification, “notwithstand, ing the opposition of welfare workers. ”»

The association also. sponsored, Mr. Smith said, the 1935 county reJef bond law which he credited with saving Marion County taxpayers $135,000 interest a year by

- Jowering the bond interest rate from

an average of 4! per cent fo an average of 2 per cent.

Says Aims Consistent

“The Trustees Association has been said to have a super lobby at sessions of the Legislature,” Mr. Smith commented. “The fact is that any success attained has been

due to the consistency of their |S proposals in behalf of good govern- =

Jment.

“Many proposed laws which have: been opposed and defeated by the|E Association would have promoted E some selfish interest rather than the |=

public good.”

The Association’s lobbyists, he|Z addzd, have “given freely of their|: time without any pay except actual |S expenses.” He, himself, has served |E

as one of its lobbyists.

contended,

taxpayers generally have been in-

flicted with greater ‘tax headaches’|E than has been experienced in =

Indiana. Close to Those Governed

easily discovered and corrected.”

He declared the association “is|Z and will continue to be untiring in|

its efforts to discover and correct

any discrepancies existing (in the § - present relief system) and to pre-|§ vent ghy weakening of the system |g until and unless honestly convinced |S by actual and not theoretical test|E that some other system will enable |S the taxpayers to give the same relief |

at less cost.” : PICKED THE WRONG POP

WILLOUGHBY, O. Nov. 10 (U.|E

P.).—Short short story: A 15-year-old boy made a double mistake. He stole a bicycle which belonged to

James Corey, 9, whose father is a|E

with muzzle up.

Young Cumberland Hero Still Goes Unrecognized

The Indianapolis

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1939

Nor for a cane, § at them. §

Cumberland, on the east edge of Marion County, has a hero and apparently doesn’t realize it. But Charles H. Koehl, of Columbus, O., a Pennsylvania Railroad engineer, knows the hero by sight and would like to learn his name. In a letter to a friend, Mr. Koehl said: . “I think ths is the most remarkable thing that ever happened to me in my railroad experience of almost 40 years. Somewhere in Cumberland is the quickest thinking and the bravest boy in the world. “I was on my regular run, first No. 67, “The American,” on Saturday, Oct. 21, 1939. The train consisted of engine 3775, 10 Pullmans, diner and a buffet car. “Fireman G. J. Eickholt, Special Duty Man M. B. Chaffin and I were on the engine and all saw what happened. We were running about 80 miles an hour as we came into Cumberland when I saw a boy about 10 years of age run across the track in front of the engine, then another little fellow about 5 or 6 years old

STUDY CHURCH

MERGER PLANS

United Brethren, Evangelical Groups Confer During Sessions Here.

Commissions representing the United Brethren and Evangelical Churches held separate sessions at the First Evangelical Church today to study proposals for a church merger which were presented at a

joint session yesterday. The U. B. group studied the drafts of “discipline” prepared by the Evangelical group while the latter studied the proposals of the U. B. representatives. Another joint session is scheduled for this afternoon. Leaders in the merger said that there are differences on only a few points and that an agreement to unite the denominations, separated for 150 years, will be completed by tomorrow. > More than 600 of both denominations are expected to attend a fellowship dinner at 6:30 o'clock tonight at, the First United Brethren Church. Speakers will be Dr. I. F. Bergstresser, Allentown, Pa., secre= tary of thei Evangelical Commission, and Dr. Gordon Howard, Dayton, secretary of the U. B. Commission. Bishop. H. H. Fout, Indianapolis, senior bishop of the U. B. Church will preside. Discussions will eontinue through tomorrow. The uniting conference will close with a “Field Day” Sunday when pastors of each denomination will exchange pulpits in Indianapolis churches.

+ ANCIENT ELEPHANT DIETS

BOSTON, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Waddy, 76-year-old elephant at Franklin Park Zoo, is on a diet. Her present limited menu of beets and carrots was selected because Waddy only

If you like your friends, don’t let your gun point

that followed fell across the track right in front of the train. “He made no effort to get up and had no chance to get away at the speed we ‘were running, and’ here is where the bravest act I ever saw took place: The boy that ran over ahead of us ran back in front of our train, threw the little fellow off the track and then jumped right out from under the engine, ” “1 have been trying to find out who the boy is, I would like to shake his little hand and tell him what a brave little fellow he is and what it really meant to me. “The picture of that little kid in a one-piece overall suit, lying across the track in front of my engine and the next second seeing him thrown clear of the train and the other boy saving himself after will never be erased from my mind. “If I ever find out who this little hero is I'll tell you and whoever the little fellow is he almost threw his life away to save, probably his little brother. We may never learn.”

EX-CONVICT HELD IN GIRL’S KIDNAPING

—Donald W. Harper, 35, a former convict, was held in jail today accused of Kkidnaping a 17-year-old high school girl and other crimes including the holdup of a gas station and abduction of its attendant. Leona “Tiny” McNichelas of Star, Ida., whom Harper allegedly held captive for 12 hours as he drove through the desert countryside in a stolen car, was not harmed and could give no reason for her abduction. She had attended a dance with him

9 BROTHERS HURT IN TRAFFIC MIXUP

Garnet Cook, 21, of 5001 Massachusetts Ave., was seriously injured last night when he fell out of a truck. His brother, Kenneth, was injured as he tried to aid him. Garnét fell from a vehicle driven by Dale Hill, 17, of 2606 Sherman Drive, as it turned a corner at Brookside Ave. and Rural St. Hill drove to the injured youth’s home, where the latter’s parents asked Hill to take their son to a doctor. The parents and Kenneth got in their car and overtook the truck. They found it stopped for an intersection, and Kenneth climbed onto the side. Hill, not knowing Kenneth was there, started and Kenneth fell, breaking a wrist. Both Garnet and Kenneth were taken to a doctor and police sent them to City Hospital. Garnet was reported to have a fractured skull. Joseph Schmitt, 10, of 917 N. Alabama St., was injured when he was struck by a car last night in the 800 block of IN. Pennsylvania St. The car, police said, was driven by Margaret Carfield, 22, of 656 Marion

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GUNMEN LOOT 2 DRUGSTORES

Take $62 in Holdup on Central Ave. and $35 on East 20th St.

Forcing a clerk and a 75-year-old customer to lie on the floor while they rifled the cash register, two

armed bandits last night obtained:

$62 in the holdup of a North Side drugstore. Two other armed bandits took $35 from the owner of an East Side drugstore. : A gunman wearing a handkerchief across his face and another hiding his face with the palm of his hand, entered the Bunch drugstore, 2302 Central Ave. at 7:30. o'clock.

The ordered the clerk, Carl Cross,

6215 E. 38th St., and the customer, George Overhiser, 2244 Central Ave., to walk to the rear and lie down,

Loot Register of $60

Having difficulty opening the cash register, the bandits asked Mr. Cross to get up and open it before them, but before he reached the register they got it open and took $60. As they were leaving, they forced Mr. Cross to give them his billfold containing $2. “Leave me the billfold,” Mr. Cr asked. e “We will throw it in the door sometime when we are passing,” one gunman said. :

Second Store Robbed

An hour and a half "later, two bandits, one of whom was armed,

Use the right size shell, or if may blow back

in your face.

A shotgun barrage echoed over Indiana today as the hunting season opened and thousands of nim-

rods took to pastures and woods in search of rabbits, quail, cock pheas-

imes

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Don’t Be a Hunting Victim

branch might catch the trigger.

Don’t dig with your gun, even in bushes, A might backfire.

As the hunters thronged to the| 1. Make sure you are shooting at open spaces, State Conservation De-|game, not at another hunter or a

partment officials urged hunters to|domestic animal, observe the following precautions

2. Walk with the gun open at the

for their own safety and that of|breach so that it can’t go off ac-

others: /

In the case of re-

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Don’t put muzzle in mud. It

peaters, keep the safety on until a shot presents itself. * 3. Keep the gun unloaded until

actually in the field ready to hunt. 4. Unload the gun while crossing fences ‘or creeks.

ants and Hungarian partridge.

CREDIT TERMS

YOUR CONVENIENCE

held up Carl Combs, 4224 Broadway,|

while he was alone in his drugstore at 3201 E. 20th St. and forced him to give them $35 from the cash register. Yeggs broke open a safe at the Oeftering & Litzelman Coal Co., and Sine $296 in cash and checks for $203.

SKIRMISH WITH BEES BRINGS VICTIM $8000

Times Special NEW CASTLE, Ind, Nov. 10.— Owing to the fact that a swarm of

bees attacked him in 1937 and he|

broke an ankle trying to get away from them, Vernie F. Ramey today was $8000 richer. A Henry County Circuit Court jury awarded him that much in the damage suit against the Indiana Railroad, Inc. An employee of the company at the time of the acci-

dent, he claimed the company was|

negligent in allowing the bees on its property. ; :

POLICE INVESTIGATE RUSHVILLE SHOOTING

RUSHVILLE, Ind., Nov, 10 (U. P.). —Forrest Craig, 25, of near Rushville, was held today while police investigated the shooting yesterday of Mrs. Catherine Beamer, a divorcee. Craig surrendered to police several hours after the shooting. He had driven to the home of a brother in Waldron and then returned. Mrs. Beamer was not injured seriously. :

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