Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1939 — Page 1
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CITY TO EFFECT CONSOLIDATION OF PURCHASING
New System, Set for Jan. 1, Will Save Thousands Each Year, Losche Says.
By RICHARD LEWIS A centralized bidding system under which City Departments purchasing .the same commodities will advertise for bids jointly is to be instituted at City Hall Jan. 1. The new system will replace present practice of City Departments in purchasing gasoline, oil, coal and other commodities separately—and frequently paying different prices for the same commodities. The practice of separate bidding was criticized by the Tax Adjustment and State Tax Boards and taxpayers’ organizations recently as an “extravagance.” The new system is being drafted by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and department heads.
Losche Predicts Big Savings
An annual saving of several thousands of dollars will be possible under the new plan, according to Albert H. Losche, City Purchasing Agent. Mr. Losche described the present practice of separate bidding as “wasteful.” “The City has a central purchasing department which handles more than $4,000,000 a year worth of City business,” he said. “It also should have a centralized bid system so that ouldn’t have to pay different oi for the same things.” A study of gasoline purchases this year by the Works, Safety and Park Boards show that each department is paying a different per gallon price and receiying a different tankwagon discount for gasoline of similar octane rating.
Firms Got Contracts
No one bidder, the study showed. is consistently “low” on bids submitted to these de ents. * The -Park Board received a low bid. from the Associated Service Co., Indianapolis, for-10,000 gallons of premium and regular gasqline
The low bidder on 18,000 gallons of gasoline for the Safety Board was the Campbell Oil Co., Indianapolis,
“.~while the Crystal Flash Petroleum)
Corp. of Indiana was low bidder on 3X0 galions gallons of gasoline for the
In 2 Board. contracts gwarded last February for 1939, the Works Board received :a tank-wagon discount of
58 cents per gallon on premium]
gasoline and 49 cents a gallon for Tegulas gasoline. bids submitied to the Park Bond last week, the lowest bidder offered a 5.3 cent discount for premium and a 4.5 cent discount. for regular gasoline per gallon. The Safety Board receives a 52 cent discount on premium and a 4.5 * cent discount on regular gasoline per gallon. Wagon Prices Standard
Tank-wagon prices on gasoline are standard and the higher the discount the lower the net price of gasoline to the consumer. On the basis of recent {anik-wagon prices of 188 cents a gallon for premium and 16.3 cents a gallon for regular gasoline, the following net cost per gallon fur fuel of a similar octane rating is:
Works Sofety Board Board
13.556 : 12.30 Thus; the Works Board is paying $60 less on each 10,000 gallons of premium gasoline it purchases and $40 less on each 10,000 gallons of regular than the Park and Safety Boards, The Safety Board is paying slightly more than the Park Board for premium, but both boards are the same for regular. At the Park Department’s rate or consumption of about 5000 gallons a month of premium and regular gasoline, it is paying at least $240 more a8 year than the Works Board. City officials believe this disparity could be corrected with a saving for all departments through joint bulk purchases of gasoline by the three departments.
DR. SMITH REMAINS IN CRITICAL CONDITION
BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 17 (U. P.) —Dr, James Monroe Smith, former president of Louisiana State University convicted of embezzling state funds, was in a critical condition today from loss of blood following a suicide attempt. He was discovered in his jail cell yesterday with a bleeding foot.
Park Board
13.50¢ 12.30
Sheriff Newman H. Debretton said|P€
he had slashed an artery with a
. Smith was to have been taken Angola State Penitentiary today begin an eight to 24-year term. also must serve two and a half in a Federal prison.
Don't Put Off —
buving that home vou have been dreaming
about for months and
VOLUME 51—NUMBER PAL
CAA May Stretch Rule For Coed Who Stretches To Become Student Flier
KANSAS CITY, Mo, "Nov. 17 (U. P.).—The Civil Aeronautics Authority, working on the. theory that one good stretch deserves another, indicated today that it might stretch its tape measure for Kathleen Hildebrand. She is the 19-year-old red-
wants. to take student pilot in-
struction so badiy she nas almost strétched herself out of joint trying- to attain a height of 5 feet 2. That's the CAA’S minimum requirements, and Kathleen, despite all her efforts, was a half inch short of the mark this morning.
which produced a quarter of an inch of temporary added height before the swelling subsided. The CAA’s medical man, Dr. Paul Platt, will give Kathleen her final test this afternoon. : 8s 8 = “I'M GOING TO AN osteopath and have him crack my back,” she said. “That may do the trick, but I'm not sure. If that fails then my only hope is that nice man in Washington who said he admired my pluck and might let me into the class anyway.” Richard Boutelle, CAA safety regulations chief, is the Washman. In this case, he may have Kathleen taken up to see if she can handle the fopt gadgets and see over the side of the cockpit. That, at least, will be something for Kathleen. She’s never been in a plane aloft. Kathleen grinned today as she rubbed the sore spot on her head which she had bumped deliberately in order to add artificial height. “I knew it wouldn't work,” she said sheepishly, “but.Z thought the scheme was worth trying. I'd do anything to’ get that pilot's license.”
haired ‘ junior college girl who
That despite a bump on the head
Kathleen Hildebrand . . . she’s Just stretching to fly. ,
Balmy Weather To Stay Awhile
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES 54.0, 417 0a. m. .... 58 7am....47T llam. - 8 am .... 48 12 (noon) an. . 53 o . Sn
BALMY SPRING-LIKE weath“er greeted Indianapolis again today as temperatures rose far above normal for the third consecutive day. > The Weather Bureau pedibied warmer temperatures tonight with mostly cloudy skies tomorrow. Temperatures - today started out several degrees above yesterday, when they reached a high of 66, which is 12 above the season’s normal.
BUSINESS CUT FOR QUINN'S FAVORITES
Campaign Leader’s Claims Drop 30 Per Cent.
Center Township Trustee Thomas M. Quinn reduced the grocery order business given his former campaign manager, Dan R. Anderson, approximately 30 per cent ‘during the second half of October, it was learned today. Mr. Anderson, who was arrested on a charge of filing false relief claims, operates the Martindale Market and Andersons Markef, both top-heavy favorites in the distribution of the relief business. At the same time, the claim for October filed by the Model Creamery, Mr. Quinn’s favorite dairy, reveals its relief business was cut .approximately 40 per cent under that of September. The Model Creamery is one of the two dairies: for- which Mr. Quinn’s son-in-law, John Barton Griffin, operates routes. Mr. Griffin also was arrested on charges of filing false claims. The claims for these two firms were among the last filed with the. trustee, most of the other vendors having presented their bills a week ago. Seven new groceries’ were added to the Trustee's list during the month. Martindale Markets claim for the last half of October was 50, compared to $4084.75 for the first half of the month. The Anderson Market claim for the second half of the month was $1375.45, a reduction of ionly $71.50 under the first riod. Model Creamery’s claim for Oc(Continued en Page Four)
CLAIMS MISS UNITY, ‘CRAZY OVER HITLER’
NEW YORK, Nov. 17 (U. P.)— Miss Unity Mitford-Freeman is “just crazy in love” with Adolf Hitler, Stanley Richardson, British poet and author, said today. Mr. Richardson, one of 60 passen-
gers ing on the Cunard White Star liner described a meeting he
wa, AD yee
arriving after an 11-day cross-|
$182,000 FRAUD
Late Paint Firm President, Priests, Woman Victims, a jury Told.
testimony that T. J. Kelly, Advance
$182,000 which was his er for which he was trustee, in an alleged Indiana mail fraud scheme.
' The testimony was given by John
St., trustee for the Kelly estate, as trial continued this morning. for two of four persons accused in the purported swindle. Of the $182,000, Mr. Royse said
other $60,000 belonged to three local priests and a local woman, for all of whom Mr. Kelly was trustee.
Money Lost on Terminal
Mr. Royse also testified that an Evansville terminal allegedly owned by the defendants, was held under lease. The terminal eventually was sold to another firm in no way connected with the companies of the four defendants, he said. The $60,000 was secured by a mortgage on the terminal which eventually reverted to its owner and thus cost the original investor his $60,000, it was testified. On trial are Edward J. Harten-
cago, and John K. Knapp, 2703 Washington Blvd. Two other defendants, Mrs. Ethel Pitt Donnell, 3707 N. Meridian St., snd Robert D. Beckett, 5520 College Ave. have plea ied guilty and are awaiting sentence. U. S. Attorney Val Nolan introduced in: evidence” a block of 117 checks which were payable to clubs, hotels, drugstores and amusement companies fn Indiana, Kentugky and - Illinois. The Government charges that the checks were used to pay for the entertainment of prospective investors at week-end parties, prize fights and horse races. Mr. Nolan also introduced in evidence photostatic copies of the income fax returns of three of the four companies involved.
Four Points Emphasized
The prosecution today sought to prove that:
LOSS IS CLAIMED
post-war crash w.
A. Royse, attorney, of 415 E. 52d,
$122,000 belonged to Mr, Kelly, his} ‘wife and the paint company. The
feld of Henderson, Ky. and Chi-|
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 199°
KEEP U.S.00T |_ OF WAR, 5000 FARMERS ASK
Bureau Session Ends Todd; Reduction Is Sought in ~ School Loan Rate.
By EARL RICHERT Five thousand Indiana. farmers today asked State and ‘national officials “to use all their power” to keep the U. S. free from foreign entanglements. The resolution was passed at the
closing session of the Indiana Farm Bureay convention in Tomlinson Ha Another of 32 resolutions adopted urged the Legislature to reduce the interest rate on school fund loan money and designate a department of State government to take over administration of thé fund. The resolution said that an annual loss is incurred because the law limits the interest rate to the county to 5 per cent and competing agencies loan at a lower rate.
All Officers Re-elected
All officers were re-elected. Hassil E. Schenck, president, and Larry Brandon, first vice president and secretary-treasurer, will serve twoyear terms. Mrs. Lillie D. Scott, second vice president, will serve a one year term. Among other resolutions adopted were those urging: 1. Continuation of the present agricultural programs,- with such changes as needed 2.-Passage of laws prohibiting issuance of poor relief bonds and re-
‘quiring able-bodied indigents to
work for relief. ‘3. Passage of laws fequiring a pay-as-you-go basis on relief. . . 4. Defeat - of any attempts to get the State to establish a State workmen’s compensation fund. - 5. Passage of a law providing that all taxes collected on a -State-wide| basis should be distributed in a like manner.’ :
Price Resolution Killed
A resolution, proposed by several Bureau members and favoring the of farm defeated in the resolutions committee and will not be brought before ‘the. gonvention, 1 aia
A Federal Court Tay today heard} A Paint Co: president now dead, /lost| ‘8%
for relief, he “Ple-Splitting” Feared
resolution against a State works men’s compensation fund was aimed ‘at preventing a potentiall, “political pie-splitting fund” in which workers faithful tothe party in power might get larger benefits than those of the other party. He said that a large number of farmers also believed that funds] \ (Continued on Page Three)
RELATIVES BELIEVE
Missing Cruiser May Be in ‘Qut-of-Way Port.
- While the Coast Guard searched the Gulf of Mexico today for Mr. and Mrs. John Nusbaum, 5 Eastern Ave. relatives and business associates here believed they were safe in an out-of-the-way Florida port. Mr. and Mrs. Nusbaum and an
ago on a 460-mile voyage from New Orleans to St. Petersburg, Fla. They
réported . for nine
days, Coast
the Gulf. Lloyd St. John, 1814 W. Michi-
1. False entries were made in the|w
books of the’ four companies involved. 2. Notes outstanding were not entered upon the books when it was learned that Reconstruction Finance Corp. inspectors were lo audit the records. 3. Properties represented as being owned: by the four companies acally were held only under option. Properties the company did (Continued on Page Four)
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CHARGES RELIEF NEARS ‘RACKET"|
Notre Dame Professor Tells Civie Session Public :
LOCAL COUPLE SAFE|=
Lie uti and Mrs. Edward 'W. Littler moran;
Mr. Thomas explained that the cong
sieht at a, a an 1-4 presi-
nual banquet, was re-elected
unidentified pilot started. 10 days|local
were traveling in a 36-foot eruiser,| minim “Victoria,” purchased at New Or-|and $35 leans Nov. 7. When they were un-|
Guard boats were ordered fo search ber of
of Mrs. Nusbaum, believed: the trio
15 Franklin Students Offer Blood
dent of the league, The conference, | :
| companies were convicted ‘wh
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Sold the City Man to the ee |
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. Times Photo.
A city. man’ and a farmer got together. in the. c obby. of the: Hotel’ Severin today. ' The farmer, Lloyd Nickels of Connersville (right), here to attend the Farm Bureau convention, said: “We farmers have to have parity with other industries.” The city man, Clarence A, Dykstra, president of the "University. of Wisconsin and the National Municipal League, replied:: “The Biggest problem. is that o Wiking out a fine ‘coe operative life; we: are split ‘into so many. group.”
: Automobilitis’ Wins Divorce |
Superior Court Judge ‘Henry 0. Goett today granted a divorce ‘on the grounds of ‘“automobilitis. A 25-year-old wife testified ‘that her. lie mason a aid nok SliteSutomonilecn’ a hay Pry : “Hy troup see. to bo duo. snobilitis,” Judge © . “Divorce raiea ”
i Detense Lawyer Says. Vor Bn
dict in South Bend Trust -
fines of $5000 each upon the General Motors Corp. and
‘| three affiliates convicted. on charges “lof havin
conspired “to violate the anti-trus laws. In addition to General Motors, the fines were imposed on the General Motors Acceptance Corp., the Gen-
Indiana. Cost. of the trial, estimated as at
co-defendants, - ‘all officials of :
verdict last night after 17 hours and 15 minutes deli tion, marking
pid ‘another viaay for the Justice De-ilin; its anti-manopaly of- | ta
partment in fensive. The individuals scquitteq Alfred P. Sloan, G. M. C. board chairman, and William 8. Knudsen, G. M. C. president, two of | Sudteys Toading duftrialists
A Hive: a. M. G, the individuals snd
the General Motors Sales Corp, the
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Case Will Be Appealed. : [i d
“SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 17 pe Storm |P) —Pederal Judge Walter C. Lind‘ley today imposed.
leral Motors Sales Corp. and the |General Motors Acceptance Gorp. of
rin
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2 Neville Chariate, Prim pees 00K | Edouard. Daladier announced es | inge, 1 supl
: _|nouncerhent followed a estislg of
The Government charged
GERMANS QUELL PRAHA RIOTING
5000 Rush to to City, Take ‘ Ay Gorn Ry
3 by She the student. one
Yesterday, 12 persons Sod been in a Czech Fascist demon-
® | injured | stration in Wenceslas Square, heart lof the city, and the day before,
‘mation and took almost an hour to get to barracks prepared for them at the opposite end of town from the university. There were bellev to be 5000 of them. - Czech police; nominally in ‘charge ever since the German occupation of Bohemia-Moravia, - dealt: with yesterday's demonstration in -the square. - About 300 Czech Fastists had turned out for a meeting called | by a newly-formed. right-wing group defiance of an’ order by .the Czech Government: forbidding the
meeting. The Fascists refused : to disperse and- their leader, named : Rys, shouted: “Away with the Government which is being paid: by | ‘the Egan”,
“22 BRITAIN AND FRANCE
MAP DUAL WAR PLAN|
Mies Council Meets. 3
LONDON, Nov. 17° (U. P) —Britain and France have agreed to com-
~./mon action in’ aviation, munitions,
raw naterials, food, hb ipping arfare, Minist “{joint statement today. The . a . of; ‘the : e Gounel was atinded by
el 1, oe Minister Chamberlain, ‘who *.|left his official “residence at’ No. 10 ‘| Downing Stree* for the first tim
ein
~~ nine days. He has been confined fo|r
his room because of gout. The anplane flight. here of M.
eduled meeting in Paris of the 2 Sched Council of Ministers. —_———
(STOCKS ADVANCE; BUYING SELECTIVE|—
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"By UNITED PRESS New York: stocks gained fractions
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Food, Shipping;
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DISLIKE GIVES BALKANS HOPE
i Distrust May Stay Advances
Rumania Prefers Nazis To Russia.
"By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. The complete distrust which
' |the partners, Herr Hitler and
Stalin, feel for each other is not. only affecting the course
lof the war on the Western {Front but may prove a life * |saver for Hungary, Rumania land the Balkans. :
Should Soviet Russia SR to
“| partion Rumania, dccording to relia -
able sources in Bucharest, the Gove ernment, as a “last resort, would: ale
‘ | most certainly invite. the Germans
to come to Rumania’s rescue. As between being taken over by: the Red Army and falling under the protection of the Reich, the informe ant said, “the - Rumanians would :
choose the lateer.’ ‘Both Have Eyes on Rumanis :
Both Germany and Russia still have their eyes on Rumania. Ruse sia wants Bessarabia for herself and
the Dobruja for Bulgaria, whose friendship she has never to cultivate. + VAY; which needs and must have oil, grain and other vital mae terials from Rumania, is opposed to the Russian Scheme. Even if supplies continued to materialize, loss of Bessarabia and the Dobruja would endanger the mouth of the Danube and all but cut Rumania off from the Black Sea. And that would not be in Germany's interest. Similar - clashing ambitions are staying the hands of Herr Hitler and Stalin elsewhere in that part of Eue rope. Germany has been exerting pressure for increased deliveries. of { foodstuffs ever since the i i gan, especially on Yugoslavia and
‘Bulgaria. gris: bigarvien Mathers too fas ‘=| she may drive those Slavic countries
| to appeal to Russia for
thus create further Io appert | Berlin abd. Moscow.
‘Play Into Italy's Hands
“This situation—for the time being at least—plays. directly into the hands of the: little nations of Cen. gal and Southeastern Europe and e hands of Italy. For whats nie. ; future relations of Herp ‘Hitler and Stalin may be, Russian penetration. of the Balkans would
anne ES ne
ng- only. spell trouble for Premier Rew | Li nito. Mussolini, who is seeking to
strengthen. his economic position in that area.
. Fear of further Russian advanbes :
| toward Scandinavi field guns. They rode in close for-|kans Avia and the
also is staying Hitler's hand in ‘another direction.’ - Nearly three years ago, it is said, Hitler became perturbed over Soviet activities along the Finnish frontier ahd the Norwegian coast and warned the governments of Finland, Nore ay; 2y;, Sweden and Denmark against A
Not Much Impressed ™
Stalin, according to Hitler's ene Voys, was seeking an opportunity to acquire an outlet to the Atlantic in the region of
At the time, the Scandinavians
» | were only mildly interested.
They accepted the warnings as interesting propagalils, They were not very | came more impressed when there almost daily reports of “phane : (Continued on Page Three) ———————
EX- CROWN PRINCE'S ARREST REPORTED
"LONDON, . Nov. 17 (U. P).—The Daily Mirror said today in a. dise patch from Paris that Adolf Titles had sutimoned the former German "Crown Prince to his chancellery and commanded him to sign a pro-Nazi declaration and that thé {former Crown. Prince had refused, sa. his father, the former Kaiser, | forbidden him to do so.
Blazing with anger, the dis sats ‘said, Herr Hite ler roared: “Death will be the pune ishment. for every traitor.” e dise patch said the former © Prince was escorted back to his estate near Potsdam under open ‘arrest.
. PROCLAIMS TRADE PACT WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U. ‘BY, —President Roosevelt today pro claimed a reciprocal trade agrees ment between the United States and Venezuela in which Ger products specifically were . bli listed from receiving any sions in tariff rates.
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