Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1940 — Page 9

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"HOUSTON, Tex, Jan. 2—In a garage here in

‘ ‘Houston,. the young man who brought my car down

the ramp from an upper floor stepped out and said: “Say, that car certainly runs beautifully to have 57,000 miles on it.” So I said yes, and that that was be- : cause I was such a wonderful driver. One word led to another, so we kept chatting while I got

in and handed him a half-dollar |

for the storage. : : + ‘And then as he went to shut ‘the door, the half-dollar somehow slipped out of his hand and tumbled into that little crack between the window-glass and the wall of the car door. : It went rattling on down inside till it hit the bottom of the : door, and there it was. And | : there it still is. I don’t know of any way to get it out. Supposing I-have a garage . man take the door apart—the bill would be more than 50 cents. bry

-. After leaving, I got conscience-stricken and sent |

the young man 50 cents in stamps. So when the

day finally comes to trade this car in, the dealer |

will have to allow me 50 cents more than the quoted price. I'm going to get that half-dollar back even if I have to go on a diet to live that long.

Schoolboy Patrols a

* The schoolboy patrols in the South Texas town of

Falfurrias have a wrinkle that looks pretty good |

to me, f -of getting out in mid-street in their uni-

forms and making motorists mad by officiously -hold- |

ing up their hands, they do it this way: A boy stands on each side of the street. Each one holds a bamboo | pole—just a regular fishpole, I guess, about 15 feet long. It is wrapped in colored bunting, and has a red flag on the end. * "The boy stands it straight up in front of him when he isn’t using it. But when children get ready to cross, each boy lowers his pole across the street, and the two ends meet in the middle and - form a barrier, like the gates at a railroad crossing. It stops cars without any fuss. When the children are across, the boys raise the poles.

WHILE SILLY, LIGHT-HEADED people were blowing horns and breaking bottles (pop) at the hour of midnight of New Year's Eve, I spent my time run- . hing. down a rumor to learn whether there is any truth in what people are saying about Luther Dickerson. ‘The rumor has different versions depending more or less on the person to whom you're listen-

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nd By Ernie Pyle | eo

| You always think of Texas being either flat prairie full of mesquite, or downright desert of sand and cactus. i : aot But there is coun about 50 miles no of San{Antonio so rolling . wooded and beautiful that TI bet if you were taken there blindfolded, when /the blinds were removed you would swear you were in Pennsylvania or Virginia, | It was while passing through this country that I |saw (within 30 seconds of each other) two things [I'd never seen before. . | One was a wild turkey—an honest-to-goodness |wild turkey—flying across the road right ahead of the car. Its legs were folded up and it actually was | graceful. : | The other was a sheep, a common ordinary sheep, | standing with its front feet way up on the trunk of |a tree, like a dog. I hope no proud Texan writes in land tells me that Texas has sheep that sleep in trees. ; # 2 » z

There Ain't No Justice

| The other day we saw this road sign: “This is God’s country; don’t-drive like hell.” fn . So I said to That Girl: “Let’s remember that and |I'll put it in the column.” And then last night I | bought a Reader’s Digest, and there was the very | same thing in the magazine. Scooped again. How can I hope to make a living with the magazines working against me like that? : ® 8» °

| In the town of Franklin, La., they have a huge | red-and-white banner stretched across Main St. Tour- | ists have to drive right under it, and they must have many a laugh. For the sign is a political exhortation to vote for the proper man, and it says: “Dr. Guy G. Aycock is the: right guy for shrieff.” The letters are two feet high. Now I have nothing against Dr. Aycock, and I'll bet he’s brave and honest and diligent. But do you think we should have a transposer in office? A man who would arrest people and book them something like this: “Jhno Simth, thfet—signed, Dr. Guy Acyoke.” . Should we have that? thosuadn tmies on.”

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By Anton Scherrer

Mr. Crani was a great authority on anything connected with Medieval culture and earned his living practicing architecture—more spedifically, ecclesiastical architecture. He made a very good living because he had a way “of persuading people that a church couldn’t possibly be good unless it was wrapped in Gothic architecture. Indeed, he had some people believing that classic architecture—the kind with Greek columns and the like—wasn’t good for

ing. One version has it that Mr. Dickerson spends his work- _ ing hours in “the world’s most beautiful secular building.” Another story classifies the Indianapolis Library as “one of the | 15 ‘greatest pieces of archi-

tecture,” which less imaginative | He Really Meant I ¢

people sometimes qualify to include only those buildings on | ‘this side of the water. Still | apother version, the latest to come to my attention, | classified "Mr. Dickerson’s office as “one of the three | * finest libraries in the country,” a rather loose phrase when you come to think of it because it leaves you | wondering whether to tip your hat to Mr. Dickerson | or to the architect. 2 | ® = .=

Easy for the Judges |

. I-believe I can: clear up everything. The In- | dianapoli# Library was the subject of a national architectural competition which was won by . Paul P. Cret of Philadelphia, the same architect who later built the Herron Art School back of the Museum, to say nothing of the Pan-American Union and the Folger Library in Washington. The plan he sub-. mitted was outstanding and I distinctly remember that Frank Miles Day and Benno Jannsen, the Judges picked to adjudicate the competition, were quite beside themselves to find such an original solution of the problem. As a matter of fact, Mr. Cret’s plan commanded so much attention at the time that not much was [said about the’ architectural treatment of the building. : The Library) was finished and dedicaed in the | . fall of 1917—on Riley’s birthday, to keep the retond | straight. In the following spring Ralph Adams Cram blew into town and, right away, things began | to pop. { I

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—As the new decade opens, President Roosevelt could well start it off by calling businessmen and labor leaders here for a recovery conference. I have seen many conferences come and go and leave nothing behind. I share the skepticism of the well-in-formed regarding the usefulness of the typical sweetness-and + light-let’s-all-co-operate confer- ~ ence. Most such conferences ar called only when conditions ar , badly out of hand, when a crisi exists, when the hard facts are too stubborn to handle. It take more than such a conference bring about a fundamental tides turning. : But we have no such giganti x turn-about to achieve now. Th economic snow-ball: is rolling. What primarily needed is a litile more team-play to help it along. Industrial production in the last quarter of 193 equalled the best quarter of 1929! There is you starting point. The machine is moving ahead, throb bing with eriergy equal fo the best year that th good old days ever knew. . Then why, you might ask, bother to do anything Let me give you the other statistic. There ar still 9,000,000 or so unemployed! t # ” 8

A Haunting Challenge ; | Those men, with their families, constitute a fester ing core of want in the midst of thriving busin activity. . They stand as a haunting challenge. : - Note these most significant figures issued by th American Federation of Labor in its ‘carefully pre pared monthly survey of business;

My Day 1

WASHINGTON, Monday.—We had a very pleasan dinner last night, after which Miss Cornelia Stable gave us some delightful monologs. Her long one o “The Refugee” was particularly touching. I think all of us were glad to have it followed by a very ligh ; hearted comparison of a girl say ing good night her moth after a party in fhe Eighties Nineties, and a present-day girl doing the same thing in quite different way. ; Afterward, Mr. Pare Lore showed oy movie which he h written g&nd directed. and whi is taken from Dr. Paul De S book, . “The Right to Live.” I found the picture interesting, but _ I doubt whether it will have a ; — great popular appeal. However, IE ey for the sake of the interest which we should sll have in this subject of maternity and infant care, I sincerely hope that large audiences

Cee it.

When the President offered his annual toast to the United States on the stroke of midnight, many of us drank a little private toast, I think, in gratitude to|a kindly t to spare the na-

Mr. Cram turned up in Indianapolis for no other reason than to address the Contemporary Club.. On the day before his lecture, a group of his admirers treated him to a luncheon at the University Club, the one they just tore down. Mr. Cram ran his eyes over the hundred and one items of the bill of fare and chose, of all things, a dish called “saute kidneys.” Apparently he liked it because I remember that he cleaned up his plate using his bread to dunk up the last drop of gravy. :

After the luncheon, Mr. Cram was taken for a ride in the course of which he was shown the new Library. Soon as he saw it he pronounced it “as perfect a piece of modern [classical architecture as I have ever seen.”

Mr. Cram’s enthusiasm had everybody ‘guessing not because the building didn’t merit such praise, but because it came from Mr. Cram, an architect who up to that time had never been known to say a kind .word in behalf of classic architecture. I remember how it surprised me. While I'm at it, I might as well confess everything and admit that I was mean enough to suspect the University Club’s chef and that ‘he, more than Paul Cret, was responsible for Mr. Cram’s’ enthusiasm that dag.

I was wrong, though. The sauteed kidneys didn’t have anything to do with it. When Mr. Cram re“turned home (Boston) he wrote a piece in the course of which he said: “I can not think of any similar Steioime in any part of the world that goes beyon os i

By Raymond Clapper

In October, 1929, the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production stood at 118. There were 47,000,000 persons at work. In October, 1939, the index stood at 120, two points higher. There were 44,000,000 persons at work— 3,000,000 fewer. ~ There is the cold record of 10 years of technological improvement. At the price of 3,000,000 workers displaced. . More than*that. Ten years ago the average workweek was 50 hours. Now it is 40 hours. ‘That shortening of the work-week took up some of the unemployment slack. The A. F. of L. estimates that if hours had not been reduced, 6,000,000 would have been displaced instead of 3,000,000.

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Durable Goods Lead Rise

~ The present unemployment total of 9,000,000 is composed as follows: 3,000,000 displaced by techBojogical Imphovemenis} 5,000,000 new workers addeZ 0 the working ulation; 1,000,000 une 1929—total 9,000,000. : pd = No one ‘seriously advocates throwing out improved processes in order to make more oe Working hours can be shortened some—but thefe are limits to that. The handiest way out is further increase in production, - A level 25 per cent above 1929 would, the A. F. of L. estimates,-give jobs to all. The big jump in recent production was in producers durable goods. Heavy industries took on 242,000 employees in October and November! Consumer goods production increased only slightly. Heavy industries hold the key. Let leaders in these industries meet here. Let Mr. Roosevelt call in, among others, Wendell Willkie, who is eloquently preaching tolerance and co-operation and who has a considerably better record in this respect than some other portions of the utility industry. And let the New Dealers pull in their horns.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tion from participation in war and, therefore, in mass tragedy. Personally, I was grateful for two fairly narrow escapes in our own family. Ethel is practically well again, though she is still hobbling ‘a little. about the house, and Franklin Jr., who acquired a little cold to add to his discomfort, is still more or less an invalid. Both of them, however, will look quite presentable in the course of the next few days and feel much more like themselves. 3 Our party here is beginning .tb break up. Maj. Hooker left this morning. Johnny and Anne are going back on the night train to Boston. Anna and John are taking the midnight train and going to work in New York City. The family is growing smaller, though some of them remain and return off and on, and the grandchildren will be with us for some time. I must tell you of a number of interesting books which haye come to me within the last few days. One of them is particularly delightful and has impressed me because of my necessity to think a good deal about food. This is a small book called: “Honor Among Cooks,” with some recipes in it which I have been anxious fo obtain for some time. Then, to jump to something entirely different, there is a new Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, which should be extremely

COUNTY MOVES

FOR $800,000 LOAN ON TAXES

Ordinance Up Tomorrow; Four Officials Sworn Into Office.

In its first, meeting of the new

year, the County Council today took the first step toward borrowing

$800,000 to tide over the County and|

Welfare Department until the spring

tax collection is distributed late in|

May. ¢ : The ordinances providing for the temporary loans were introduced today will be acted on tomorrow. The money is to be borrowed after bids on interest rates are received from banking institutions. The County Genera] Fund and the Welfare Department need $400,000 each for operation until the tax money will be av 1 ble.

Explains Effect of Slash The first echoe:

justment Board last fall were heard in today’s meeting when County Auditor Glenn B. Ralston submitted an ordinance asking a $2700 emergency appropriation for salaries of an additional clerk and other help in his office. Auditor Ralston explained that Adjustment Board cuts in the extra help items placed his office below adequate capacity, Also introduced were two ordinances requesting new salary schedules for the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital and the Treasurer's office. The revisions, which were minor, were made within appropriation limits and were necessitated, - department heads said, by budget salary cuts last fall. Final action on all these ordinances will be taken tomorrow.

Goett Administers Oath

Four County officials were sworn in at inauguration ceremonies in the Court House yesterday. : They were Walter C. Boetcher, County Treasurer; Harry F. Hohlt, County Commissioner; Mr. Ralston, County Auditor, and Municipal Judge Louis A. Weiland, who was reappointed. : ‘ Superior Court Judge Hefity O. Goett gave the oath of office to Mr. Boetcher, who was greeted by. scores of friends including Frank E, McKinney, former Treasurer. Former Auditor and Chief Deputy Auditor, Fabian Biemer, gave the oath of office to Mr. Hohlt, who was sworn in after filling the unexpired term of Dow W. Vorhies, who died two months ago. B Mr. Ralston, who succeeded: Mr. Biemer in the Auditor's office, was given the oath of office by Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox.

' Re-appointments Made

Judge Weiland, who was reappointed by Governor M. Clifford Townsend, was sworn in by Prosecutor David M. Lewis. At the same time County Commissioners’ President William A.

Brown announced the reappoint-|-

ment of virtually all of the 87 employees under their jurisdiction. Major reappointments are those of John PF. Linder, County Attorney; Leo J. White, County Highway Department Superintendent; Dr. O. D. Ludwig, County Health Commissioner; Harry E. Barrett, superintendent -of the County Infirmary at Julietta; Mrs. © Anna Pickard, Juvenile Detention Home Superintendent, and Glascoe Knox, Courthouse Custodian.

TRAINING OF YOUTH SPURRED BY LANDON

Money spent in the training of boys and girls is the safest of investments, Hugh McK Landon, Indianapolis sponsbr of the National Recreation Association, declared today in a letter to local citizens asking their renewed support of the association. Mr, Landon quoted Congressman Bruce Barton in support of his view-

point: “Men {alk about buying stocks at the bottom. When you invest in a boy or girl you are always buying at the bottom. You are sure that the youngster is going up, there is no telling how far. “I predict a great future for ‘Childhood Preferred.’ It has an investment merit combined with the most exciting speculative possibilities. You are sure to get a man or woman—you may get a great man or great woman.” Mr, Landon added: “In contributing to the National Recreation Association, we are making such a substantial and satisfying investment in boys and girls.” The National Recreation Association is an agency for the extension and improvement of community recreation facilities and activities.

PASTOR AT RICHMOND GETS LUTHERAN POST

Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 2.—The Rev. C. Franklin Koch, St. Paul's Lutheran Church pastor here, has been. appointed executive secretary of the Board of Social Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America. The Rev. Mr. Franklin has been pastor here since 1929. He will assume his. new duties in February at the board’s New York City offices. \ He is vice chairman of the Indiana State Pastors’ Association. Since 1931 he has been chairman of the Religious Educational Board of the Indiana Synod. He is a past president of the Richmond Ministerial Alliance. ; :

PRIZE COWS DIE IN FIRE

MARION, Ind. Jan. 2 (U. P).— Damage estimated at nearly $50,000 was caused by a fire which raged through the milking barn of the Marion Pure Milk Co. yesterclay and destroyed 26 cows, several of them prize winners. Twenty-four of 50

interesting to anyone wanting authoritative information on the Jewish people and their seligion. = |

of 1940 budget| cuts made by the County Tax Ad-|.

: : Ti Photo. Yowd never know it to.look at them now, but these two citizens held bg Nurse Virginia Kilfoil at St. Vincent's Hospital each have certain temporal distinctions. At the left is Carole Ann, daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Redman Watts, 2533 N. Alabama St., who was the first New Year’s baby in the City, born at 12:24 a. m.

yesterday.

The girls may have the advantage the rest of the year but they started Leap Year 1940 at a numerical disadvantage. Eight boys and

hospitals New Year's Day. ‘The first baby born was “Miss 1940,” a girl to Redman and Viola Watts, 2533 N. Alabama St., at St. Vincent's Hospital at 12:24 a. m. yesterday. A boy ajso born at St. Vincent's at 1:32 a. m. to LeRoy and Mildred Hum, 726 Cottage Ave. was second. :

VETERAN UNITS INDUCT FRIDAY

Harold C. Megrew Camp 1 And Auxiliary 3 to Hold Joint Services.

A joint public installation of officers will be held Friday night by Maj. Harold C, Megrew Camp, 1, United Spanish War Veterans, and

Auxiliary 3 at Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois St. : Earl T. Talbott, who served with the infantry in the Santiago Campaign and the Philippine Insurrec-tion;-will be installed as the: 31st ‘Conimander of the Camp. Mrs, Virginia Martin will be the new president of the Auxiliary.

Faye Senior Vice Commander

Other officers of the Camp are: Charles Faye, senior vice commander; William A. Weaver, junior vice commander; E. L. Miller, adjutant; Frank Grey, quartermaster; Norman Johnson, officer of the day; O. E. Rundell, officer of the guard; Dr. Ira H. Jordan, surgeon; Dudley Lowry, chaplain; Andrew Soofs, his torian. . Carl Adams, sergeant major; Roy Heath, quartermaster sergeant; Louis H. Mackay, senior color sergeant; Evan E. Woodward, junior color sergeant; William H. Collins, chief musician; Horace George, sergeant of the guard; Sam Plaskett, patriotic instructor; Claude H, Faulkner, B. B. Love and S. L. Ping, trustees. . Auxiliary Officers

Auxiliary officers include: Alice Goodnight, senior vice president; Ora Love, junior vice president; Catherine Weaver, chaplain;. Vere Goffey, historian; Agnes Wiley, patriotic instructor; Evelyn Shannessey; guard. Cecelia M. Brooks, assistant guard; Florence Grey, conductor; Beatrice Heath, assistant conductor; Nora Heinrichs, captain of the floor team and secretary; Pearl Krause, treasurer: Edith = Kernen, musician; Goldie Andrews, reporter; . Luella D. Porter, installing officer.

FALLING WALL KILLS WRECKING FOREMAN

William Barbour, 2758 Martindale Ave., a foreman engaged in razing the Shiel Apartments at the corner of Illinois St. and Indiana Ave., was killed * yesterday by a section of falling wall. He was 62. Mr. Barbour was struck by the protruding end of a pipe reinforce'thent when the wall fell. He had been employed for 30 years by the New Wrecking Co. He also had been engaged as a contractor and was known widely among the Negro citizens of Indianapolis.

On the coldest day of the year, county and district fair officials from throughout the State assembled today in the Claypool Hotel to discuss a purely summer-time activity —the Hoosier fair circuit. Also present at the hotel were concession salesmen, whose attractions

throughout the state as main features of county and district fairs. With photographic displays of their shows, they have taken over almost the entire eighth floor-of the Claypool. The hotel is placarded from the fourth to the ninth floor with posters advertising their show.. Although the two-day convention of the Indiana Association of

County and District Fairs is called|

yearly for showmen to discuss their problems, between sessions they will start dickering ‘with concession

salesmen and many contracts for

COWS in the barn were led to safety.|this

five girls were born at Indianapolis

St. Vincent's also was the birthplace of :the boy -that just missed being a New Year's baby. He was born at 12:38 a. m. today to Harold and Mary Chloupek, 5845 Broadway. Other New Year's Day babies are a girl to Arthur and Dorothy Lego, 1767 Lynhurst Drive, at 1:56 a. m. yesterday; a boy to Francis and Mary Clark, 1745 8. Dawson St. at 2 a. m.; a boy to Wesley and Mary Hardwick, 1306 Pruitt .St., at 3:40 a. m., and a girl to John and Capitola Martin, 1446 N. Illinois St, at 7:58 a. m.

Despite the efforts of accident their lives in Indianapolis in 1939.

for 1939). Capt. Johnson, aware of the difficulties that lie ahead, knows that he must “fight the human element.” He explained that his department is smoothing out engineering problems, erecting new signs and mapping plans for new and more rigid law enforcement, “But when we eventually have our traffic perfect as far as engineering is concerned and carry out our enforcement, we still are faced with the one factor that causes the majority of our accidents—the human element,” he said.

Cites Four Accidents

“It is the freak accident that has us worried. For instance, in De cember we were going along fine and then we had a series of accidents that probably no one could prevent. “For no reason I can find, a car strikes a wagon and the driver falls off and hits his head and dies. Then a little boy runs into the street and falls under the rear wheels of a truck. The next week another child walks backward into a truck. Then a fire truck hits a chuckhole and a fireman is killed.” During 1940, the accident prevention department plans to establish speed zones which will fix the speed at 20 miles an hour in the mile square and 30 miles outside, except where otherwise posted. “As soon as we have sufficient warning signs posted we are really going to enforce the speed laws,” Capt. Johnson said. “Speeding in itself does not cause very many of the accidents but an accident in which speed is involved has a much greater chance of add-~ ing to the fatality toll. It is the powerful crushing impact caused by excessive speed that kills and maims our citizens.”

Act Against Jaywalkers

Dangerous intersections in the City will be corrected by posting additional signs, and in extreme cases the danger spots will be completely revamped by the construction of wider streets and electric safety signs. The most dangerous intersections already have ‘been blueprinted and given to the City Engineer’s office to be corrected as soon as money is available, according to the bureau. “In an attempt to cut down on the number of pedestrians who are killed. we are going to enforce the new State law which prohibits pedestrians crossing the street against the traffic lights,” Capt. Johnson said. : i “We believe that educating the

next summer will be bill-boarded| §

pedestrian without making arrests

The showmen were welcomed to the City this morning by Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker at the opening session ‘of the convention. Hassill ‘Schenk, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, discussed “Rural Youth and its Relation to Fairs.” . B., Scott,. Johnson County farm agent, spoke on “County Aid for 4-H Club Work.” 1 From 2 to 3 o'clock this afternoon group meetings were held of fair presidents, fair secretaries, concession superintendents and speed superintendents. = Resolutions introduced at the group meetings were presented to the resolutions com-

Be oT. ihettin to be held 4 p. m. meetings are to be he WT and

by Northern, Eastern, Sou ] A floor show will be presented for

Southeastern Indiana Fair the showmen at 7 p. m. by concessioners. Lo Ee 4

On the right is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Chloupek, 5845 Broadway, who was the first ‘baby born in a hospital here this year NOT to be born on Jan. 1. He was born at 12:38 a. m. today.

Others are a boy to Thomas and Elizabeth Rushmore, 5112 Carvel Ave, at 8:30 a. m,; a boy to Cecil and Mildred Dennis, 914 English Ave, at 11:01 a. m.; a boy to Frank and Viola Koesters, 5470 N. Illinois St., at 1:50 p. m.; a boy to John and Rozelle Misner, 5826 E. Washington St., at 4:01 p. m.; a boy to John and Marion Power, 1619 E. 32d St., at 5:15 p. m.; a girl to Dexter and Alice Crane, 3214 Newton St., at 6:45 p. m., and a girl to Fred and Dortha Penn, Rockville,

at 8:40 p. m.

Police Map ‘Crack Down’ In Drive to Cut Auto

By TIM TIPPETT:

Toll

prevention officials, 66 persons lost

Capt. Lewis Johnson, Chief of the Accident Prevention Bureau, fears the city may be reaching the “saturation point” in preventable accidents. In the past several years the total annual decrease has been smaller than the preceding year (103 in 1936, to 85 in 1937, to 75 in 1938, to 66

may be our best course of action, But whether or not arrests are made we must someway cut down the fatalities.” . The following is a chart compiled by Capt. Johnson's office showing the total number of persons Killed in traffic and the type of accident from 1936 to 1939. The 1939 figures include only 11 months of the year. The figures in parenthesis represent the number of persons injured. 1936 1937 1938 55 50 51 77) (690) (698) 24 9 (1225) (904) 6 7 @1) (28) 2 5 (16) (58) 5 (128)

1939 45 (668) 2 (957) 2 8 (36)

Pedestrians ....

Moving Vehicle. 3 (788)

6 . (14) 1 (40)

Train-Auto .... Streetcar-Auto.

Bicycie-Auto ... 3 2 (136) (135) v1 2) Fixed Object ... . 9 « (200) One-Car Crash .. 4 15%)

Wagon-Auto

: @ 1 ne 136) (D 1 2 (64) (185) No. (17) (eo Total Dead 85 5 66 Total Injured ..(2605) (2133) (1895) (2088)

The Bureau also has discovered through statistics that the majority of the accidents accounting for the most deaths and injuries occur between 7 p. m. and 9 p. m. and again between 4 p. m. and 6 p. m. : Sheriff Al Feeney is in favor of a top speed limit of 50 miles per hour as a step toward cutting down the County traffic death toll. .

Reckless Driving Hard to Prove

“We have no speed limit now’ he said, “and the minute motorists cross the Indiana line from Illinois or Ohio and see that there is no speed limit they start bearing down on the gas. y“We can only arrest them for reckless driving and that it too hard to prove in Court,” he said. The - death toll in the County, which includes City deaths, totaled 99. The most dangerous spots in the County, according to Sheriff Feeney, are: W. Washington St, Road 29 and U.-S. 52. On these thoroughfares most of the County fatalities are recorded. At least one County danger spot may be eliminated in 1940. Through co-operation of the City Council the State Highway Department plans to widen the narrow High School Road leading to the airport from Wash-| ington St. to the south boundary of the airport. ‘The twisting bridge

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over the Pennsylvania Railroad| |

tracks also will be replaced.

Year’s Coldest Day Finds County Fair Showmen Planning for Next Summer

’ At 10 a. m, tomorrow, the Indiana

elect new officers to control the 1940 Indiana State Fair. Lieut. Gov. Schricker, Commissioner of Agriculture, will preside. At 2 p. m. L. B. Clore of Franklin, Indiana’s first national corn king, will discuss “County Fairs—Then and Now.” A general discussion on fair problems will be held, resolutions will be passed and new officers elected. . : The annual meeting of the United States: Trotting Association will be held from 4 to 5:30 p. m. tomorrow with Frank L. Wiswall of Albany, N. Y, in charge. Second District representatives of the board of directors will be elected. © Tee cat antes a : cipal speaker at the annual banquet of the Fair Associa-

Board of Agriculture delegates will|

tion to be held at 7 p. m. A floor|

_ REPORTS DROP

IN PNEUMONIA DEATHS HERE

Weather Are Responsible; - Cold May Bring Rise.

The number of pneumonia deaths

{in Indianapolis from Sept. 1 to

Dec. 31, 1939, was 50 per cent below the mortality figure for the same period in 1938, Dr. Herman G, Morgan, City Health Officer, res ported today. : At the same time, . Morgan warned that the cold wave will raise the number of pneumonia deaths. He said strict precautions should be taken by persons with colds and other respiratory infec tions to guard At the develop= ment of pneumonia. Trebled Since November : Since November, the number of pneumonia deaths has frebled, chiefly because of the cold weather, THE principal cause cited in the reduction since September was the increase in the use of two recent medical discoveries in combating the disease—serum and sulfapyrie dine. : : : - Dr. Morgan said the mild weather of November and December also helped account for the decrease. He advised immediate steps: to learn | the type ‘of pneumonia. so that advanced technique in |treat= ing the disease may be plied without delay. v ‘Quick Treatment Best

- “It is possible to reduce the death rate greatly by giving treatment within the first 24 hours of the development of the disease,” he said. From Sept. 1 to Dec. 31 there were 88 pneumonia deaths in Indie anapolis, compared to 188 for the same period in 1938, Dr. Morgan said. | & In both years, the greatest nume ber of deaths occurred in December. There were 49 deaths last month, compared fo 74 in Deceme ber, 1£38.. The pneumonia mortalit}h for.the last four months last year was: | September, 15; October, 11; November, 13; December, 49.

KINDELL WILL FILED: VALUE OVER $10,000

The will of Miss Katie Kindell, former matron at the Riley Memorial Home, 528 Lockerbie St., was filed for probate today. She died New Year's Eve. Miss Kindell left an estate valued at approsimately $10,000 in addition to real estate of an unestimated value, The Union Trust Co. was named executor, The greatest portion of personal property was bequeathed to rela tives. The Central Christian Church receives $1000 and the Riley Home, where Miss Kindell was ‘a housee keeper for more than 25 years before James Whitcomb" Riley's -death - in 1916 and where she was matron until 1933, receives valuable antique furniture. The will was drawn in October, 1938. Funeral services for Miss Kindell will be at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary and burial will be in Crown Hill.

INDIANA TO SHARE U. S. HIGHWAY CASH

Limes Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.— Indiana’s share of the $156,000,000 Federal roads fund for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1940, will be $3,« 911,053, Federal Works Administra tor John M. Carmody announced today. : Regular Federal aid accounts for $2,788,741 of the State’s total; secs ondary and feeder roads $363,749, and grade crossings $758,563.

M'NUTT CLUB OPENS DRIVE IN WISCONSIN

MADISON, Wis., Jan. 2 (U. P.).<= The Wisconsin - McNutt-for-Presie dent Club started its campaign for national Democratic convention delegates today by flooding the state with literature. George Ogle, executive secretary of the McNutt committee, said dele gate candidates have been selected but that announcment of the slate will be made later.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1--On which continent is the Libye an Desert?

2.~Name the Representative from Michigan who died recently in New Orleans? 3—How long is a “hand,” used in | measuring the height of horses? 4--What is the annual salary of

5—Of which State is Little Rock the capital? ia @—A scalene triangle has two sides equal, all sides equal or no sides equal? | T-—-What is the name of thé anie mals that live in colonies and ' build remarkable dams?

8§--Name the Secretary of War

: Answers 1—Africa. 2--Carl E. Mapes, 3—It is a measure equal to a hand's breadth, or 4 inches. 4---$15,000. : 5---Arkansas. 6-—No sides: equal. 7—Beavers. 8--Newton D. Bakef.

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