Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1939 — Page 18

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CHIEF REMINDS POLICE TO KEEP HOLIDAYS SAFE

Gives Instructions to All Officers to Help Cut Traffic Accidents.

With the holiday season ap-

proaching with ite crowded streets

Police Chief Anichael ¥ today issued a general order remind. ing police officers of precautionary measure: ta keep Indianapolis street: safe He ordered: 1. Enforce speeds afier dark that are proportionate to the reduced visibility. 2. Give atiention net only ta the arunken, but to the drinking drive) Prosecution should follow in all case: where the blood alcohol content exceeds 135 per cent 3. Wateh for drunken pedestrians 2 major hazard 4. Enforce light! violations, partieniarly one headlight, insufficient headlighting, operating with parking lights or lack of rear or warning lights 3. Enforce the law requiring drive ers to use a traffic beam when meeting oncoming cars, 6. Get pedestrians to cross intersections with traffic lights and remind them that although thev can see the ancoming car they are not necessarily visible to the driver, The general order was modeled after a resolution drawn up at the recent mtermational Association of Chiefs of Police in San Francisco. Chief Morrissey said his order was designed to “keep up the good work of the Police Department” in keeping down the number of traffic fa talities in Indianapolis, During the first 11 months, he said. there were onlv 47 fatalities as compared to 66 in 1938 There were 2113 injuries this vear As compared to 1892 last vear, That therease, according to Traffic Capt Lewis Johnson, is due te the fact that police are now investigating all traffic accidents and reporting all miner injuries There have been $423 accidents investigated this veay as compared ta 4005 last vear, he 210 These that strict toes pay human lives” ciared.

figuret indicate clearly traffic law enforcement large dividends in saving Capt, Johnson qe.

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School 11, Once Pride of Indianapolis, HOME OF SEVEN |

To Be Razed to Add to Site's Value FAMILIES BURNS

City’s Elite Attended Classes There in Early Years, ‘Bad’ Boys Later.

Ry LEO DAUGHERTY Lew Wallace School, or “Old 117 at 14th St. and Capitol Ave, which

the Schodl Board It going te sell for junk to better the price of the cite, started out as “the eream of the city’ and enaed service asx “the bad school.’ Nevertheless, its amd pupils regret the passing of the f7-vear-old structure which hat Been closed for nine years and has deteriorated into a boarded-up Dats’ nest, The changing Indianapolis scape was responsible for school's checkereq career, When it wax built. and for many veare after, its pupils lived in the area boundea by Delaware St and Senate Ave. and Narth and 19h Sts. In that area were some of the finest mansions of Indianapolis, owned by some of its most prominent families,

Miss Moran Recalls Structure

Miss Mary Moran, teacher at School 14, who taught at Lew Wallace from 1916 to 1928 is among those who hates to see the building come down, “It used to be the cream of the City,” she said. “It was a handsome structure, too. John Frenzel and Otto Frenzel Jr, the bankers went there. So did Dr. Bryan Kil. gore, David Kilgore, Norman Perry, Horace Garvin and the Meadors, “Mrs. Martha Blake Kessler was the principal while I was there,

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that, Others were Jessie Smith Alice Alexander. Addie Wright and Mrs, Angeline Moler, “As I recall. the changes started about 1920. This district changed Factories moved in and pupils included children of families Who lived in rooming houses,

In and Out Pupils

“Those childien would he In school one dav and the next they'd move out of the neighborhood ® Sehool authorities said teachers at that sehool during its jast years probably had move problems than those at any other, Some pupils even of grade school age, would stay out all night, go to school next day and fall asleep. With the erection of Schools 2 40. 17 and 23 the need for “Old 11" became less and less During itt last two school was desighated as a “truant school.” and was attended only by naughty boves from all aver the city

years the

Manual Training Stressed

Tt was just the next thing te corrective institution. Manual train. ing was stressed to interest the hovs and steer them along the right track. Schoo! officlals recalled that Miss Wright, who since has died, did a splendid job as principal during one of those vears, She made the bovs walk the straight and narrow, but they liked it They tell the story of a boy who stole a bundle of papers and then destroyed them. He was asked to explain his act. He replied: “So I'll be sent to the ‘had school.'”

Recame a Warehouse

When the late Paul VV, hecame superintendent of he was opposed to operating a school.” He said the truants and other offenders should attend the schools in their own neighborhoods and the corrective measures applied by the teachers in them. So “Old 117 was closed to become a warehouse for vocational education equipment.

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REC OVERS OLD RING VAN WERT, O, Dec. 14 (U P) Thirty-seven vears ago Daniel J. Evans Jost his mother's wedding ring, when she gave it to him to amuse himself. Recently he found it buried about a foot deep in the ground when he was digging a diteh

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Former Merom College Dormitory and All Furniture Destroyed.

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MEROM, Ind, Dec, 14 (U, P) —

A former college dormitory, now used to house seven families of a rural co-operative colony, was destroyed yesterday by a fire which caused damage of SpproRimaiely| £50,000, The building, formerly the main| dormitory of Merom College, which has not been operated for years, was used by the colony sponsored by the Christian Congregational Church and directed by the Rev, Shirley Green of Chicago, It housed the families of the Rev, Mr. Green and six other workers in the project, The furniture of the

geven families was lost, | Future of the co-operative was doubtful following the fire. The experimental project was started about 18 months ago to pro-

vide work for half a dozen families, |

most of them from the Merom terjritory, The members farmed, did jodd Jobs and entered co-operative {ventures to supply about 35 pare | teipants, { Doubt was expressed that other buildings of the old college could be converted to their use.

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THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1939

| BOOKMOBILE SERVES COUNTY the cream-colored truck visits 32 | PITTSFIELD, Mass, Dec, 14(U. cities and towns, bringing “good | P.) Berkshire County boasts a reading to people not near publi “bookmobile.” Carrying 800 volumes, libraries.”

Mail Is Heavy At Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM, Conn, Dec. 14 | (U. P.) The posimark of Bethlehem was being stamped on a | |

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record valume of mail this vear, it was announced today. Thus far nearly 5000 Christmas letters and cards have been sent here for fore warding. “Peace on earth, good will to | men” messages, it was reported, | were being sent to European war- | ing nations in large numbers, |

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A telegram urging that next Sun. day be observed as Finland Day in Indianapolis churches has heen received here by the Rev. Harry J Baumgartel, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Church Federation, from Herbert Hoover, head of the | Finnish Relief Fund, The Rev, Mr, Baumgarte!l said the local federation would take no action on Mr. Hoover's request. This, | however, would not prevent indi-| vidual church action, he said, The telegram said that “after consultation with the officials of the Federal Council of Churches in America, the Finnish Relief Fund is requesting all churches to observe Sunday as Finland Day to Suppors a national appeal for funds.” The telegram urged ministers to! offer prayers this Sunday for Fin-| land, emphasizing the dire needs for aid in that country, |

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