Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1940 — Page 20
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SALLEE URGES USE OF SCHOOLS FOR RECREATION
Construction of New Parks, Play Centers Would Be Waste, Mayor Told.
A proposal that the Park Board and the School Board make a co=operative study of the recreational
needs of the City with a view to.
using school playgrounds and buildings for community activity was made yesterday by A. C. Sallee, parks superintendent. The progpsal was made in Mr Sallee’s 73-page annual report to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. The report said that even if funds could be found to build all the community
houses and playgrounds requested |! by groups over the city, the Board |
would have no funds for maintenance of these new properties without material increases in the pudget. And, even if that could pe arranged, he said, there would be instances where duplication of plant would be wasteful. Cites New York Program
Mr. Sallee cited the New York City program, where school buildings and plyagrounds are used successfully as recreation centers to augment the park system. “In Indianapolis there are a number of school buildings equipped with auditoriums and other -facilities suitable for recreation and so—cial purposes. These buildings are well located in proportion to community needs and they are owned by local taxpayers. “Under the present system of acquiring new playground sites and constructing new community houses jt seems like duplication, and in some instances, a waste of money.’
Need for Loan ‘Eliminated’
Total cash balances of Jan. 1, 1939, were $324,514.07. This amount added to receipts during 1939 of $804,44450 gave the Park Board a total to be accounted for of $1,128958.57. Total “disbursements for the year totaled $792,396.31. . This leaves the Board with a fund of $336,562.26 with which to carry through until July, 1940, when the settlement of taxes takes place. This condition ‘eliminates any necessity of an emergency loan,” Mr. Sallee said. The annual report shows that the “total income from all sources of golf course operation in 1939 was $59,570.40 as compared with $57,544.15 in 1933, an increase of $1726.25. A net profit of $17,964.32 was made in the golf department for 1939, the largest gain in any year since 1931 when the profit amounted to $18,136.74. The 1938 profit amounted to $14,052.22.”
Recreation Needs Up
In summing up the financial sittiation, Mr. Sallee said: “In recent years our budget has been $100,000 to $150,000 less than it was 10 or| 12 years ago. The need for recreation has increased out of all proportions to population and budget figures . . . there have been objections to any increase in taxa- - tion . . . if more park and recreation facilities are desired, and a fuller use of present facilities, approval of the additional expenditures required will follow.”
FORM BROKERAGE FIRM NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (U. P.).— Herbert P. Dammes and Levin R. Marshall today announced the formation of the New York Stock Exchange firm of Dammes & Marshall with offices at 40 Wall Street. Mr. Marshall wi. be the stock exchange member.
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Virgil Martin (above), assistant’ manager of the Indianapolis Community Fund, today became acting manager, succeeding Raymond
the Fund directors.
F. Clapp, who was granted a six-month leave of absence yesterday by
Griffith Rolls Up Sleeves |
“The Community Fund is a community project and I need the help of the entire city in my task,” William C. Griffith said today as‘ he assumed his duties as Community Fund president. Mr. Griffith, a soft-spoken, mildmannered man, noted for his ca-
,| pacity for hard work, congratulated
the community for its help in the past and expressed the belief that it will help him. “The community gets the benefits if the job is well done,” he said. “It must suffer the penalties if it isn’t.” The man who indirectly will spend $592,000 of the money of Indianapolis’ residents pledged that he
CASE DISMISSED--HE GOULDN'T READ
Fred E. Kingery’s inability to read today won his freedom from the toils of the Federal law. U. S. Commissioner Fae Patrick dismissed a charge of assisting in cashing a WPA check bearing a forged indorsement after Kingery testified he was unable to read and thus did not know that the name of the man to whom the check was made payable was not the man whom he was assisting to cash it. Kingery, who is 44, and lives at 347 W. McCarty St. was arrested Jan. 30 for aiding a man by the name of Harry Shields in cashing a $30.03 WPA check at a grocery store on Oliver Ave. Walter Rackemann, 816 S. Senate Ave.,, to whom the check was made out, testified that Shields grabbed the check from him and fled with it. The District Attorney's office said that Shields is under arrest in Chicago. Kingery was taken back to police station to face a drunkenness charge in Municipal Court this afternoon.
SEEKS AUTOGRAPHS FROM POSTMASTERS
COLUMBUS, O. Feb. 6 (U. PJ). —Postmaster Nathan McCoy has discovered a new method of obtaining autographs. He received a cardboard folder from Jack Glass of Philadelphia
which inclosed 50 stamped and
addressed - sheets. .He asked for Mr. McCoy's signature and instructed him to forward the folder to the next postmaster. The folder is being sent to the capital postoffices in 48 states, Postmaster General James A. Farley and the President.
1901 CHICKEN THIEF NOW PAYS OWNER $2
HOLYOKE, Mass., Feb. 6 (U. P.). —Henry J. Soutiere has just received payment for a chicken stolen from his icebox 38 years ago. A letter received said: “Back in 1901 when you lived in Mosher St. the knight before Thanksgiving 1 took a checken out of your ice-box. Hear is $2—if it is
more let me know.”
To Pilot Community Fund
would do the job well no matter how much time it takes [from his work as head of the Griffith Distributing Co. radios and refrigerators. He attended three meetings yesterday.
Calls Job Trusteeship
“This is a two-fold proposition,” Mr. Griffith said. “The first thing is to get the money and that’s a big job because more and more. is needed. The second is the proper spending of it. And that is a hard job. “I figure my job is a trusteeship. This is sacred money we have. Distributing it among the 37 agencies to the satisfaction of everyone is difficult. But I believe the Community Fund in Indianapolis has the confidence of its thousands of donors.” Mr. Griffith's election to the Fund presidency was a reward for meritorious service in the last 10 fundraising campaigns. “My work has been nothing more than I should have done for my community,” he said. - “As I said before, everyone should help. “There always will be unfortunates in this or any other community. Théy need help and must have it. The State and Social Security programs are taking more and more care of the elderly. There is a gradual transition in this work and I believe the emphasis, more and more, is changing to the characterbuilding agencies. “Recreation is a part of characterbuilding. Children must be helped and guided and a lot of our grief will be eliminated.” He regards the Fund as the good neighbor. “I don’t think there can be a subsiute for a good neighbor,” the Fund chief said. “Naturally there’s still a place for the helpful lady next door, the one who will bring in the bowl of soup to the sick family. The Community Fund in reality is just a great, big good neighbor. Its agencies are old friends to the entire community. “I like :this work. Some people like vanilla and some like chocolate and opinions differ, but I sincerely believe the Community Fund is the community’s grandest project.”
TRAVELS 28,000 MILES TO CLASSES
MADISON, Wis, Feb. 6 (U. P.. —James Crosby Jr., Elroy, will have traveled 28,000 miles to complete his education by the time he is graduated with a degree in agriculture from the University of Wisconsin next June. Mr. Crosby, son of a railroad station agent at Elroy, commutes to classes five days a week on a student pass. He leaves home early in the morning and returns on a noon train, a round trip of 160 miles.
‘TEEN DRIVERS RECKLESS SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 6 (U. P.). —Dr. F. R. Noffsinger of Washington, D. C., educating consultant for the AAA’s safety department, said while visiting here than 16-year-old automobile drivers are 11 times as great a hazard as middle-aged motorists.
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Silver Shirts’ Leader Appears Before Rules, Un-: - American Groups.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U, P.).— William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt leader, told the House Rules Committee that he neither wrote, composed nor signed any of the letters. used by Rep. Frank Hook (D. Mich.) in an attack on Chairman Martin Dies of the committee investigating un-American activities. The letters—testified by various witnesses to be forgeries—indicated some unwritten agreement between Mr. Pelley and Rep. Dies. The letters were placed in the Congressional record by Rep. Hook. The Rules Committee is considering a resolution that they be expunged.
Before Two Committees
Mr. Pelley has been hunted for months by the Dies Committee, which reported that its agent had been unable to find trace of him. Mr. Penney was called before the Rules Committee after he had been questioned at a secret session. of the Dies Committee this morning. - Mr. Pelley denied he had ever met Rep. Dies, talked to him on the telephone, or communicated with Rep. Dies about continuation of the Committee. He said he had known David Mayne, asserted forger of the letters, for a year and a half. He described Mr. Mayne as his Washington reporter. Mr. Pelley said he had never met Gardner Jackson, legislative representative of Labor's Non-Partisan League, or Harold Weisberg, former LaFollette Senate Civil Liberties Committee employee, who obtained the disputed letters from Mr. Mayne and gave them to Rep. Hook.
Letters First Interest
The Rules Committee was interested primarily in getting Mr. Pelley’s testimony about the letters. The Dies group questioned him also regarding the letters, but later will examine the whole scope of the Silver Shirts’ activities. The Dies Committee decided last night to turn over to Attorney General Robert H. Jackson testimony and exhibits concerning the attack on its chairman. The Dies Committee told the Attorney General that it had “indisputable evidence and testimony” that Rep. Hook's documents “are forgeries” and that they were being turned over to the Department for “appropriate action.” A third request for a Justice Department investigation of the controversy was made by Donald E. Montgomery, director of the Agriculture Department’s Consumer Council. Mr. Pelley was clean-shaven when he appeared before the Rules Committee. A well-trimmed van dyke beard which he formerly wore was gone,
CHARLES S. DENEEN, 6. 0. P. LEADER, DIES
CHICAGO, Feb. 6 (U. P.).— Charles S. Deneen, 76, former U. S. Senator and Governor of Illinois, who had- been a Republican Party leader in the state for almost 50 years, died at his home late yesterday. He had been ill w about a week, but his death was unexpected. | He had served as Governor from 1904 to 1912 and was a member of the U. S. Senate from 1924 to 1931. In the Senate he served at various times as a member of the Judiciary, Finance, Agriculture, Claims, Manufactures and Elections Committee. Earlier, he had served in the Illinois Legislature. - He was born at Edwardsville, Ill, May 4, 1863. He was graduated from McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill, studied at the Union College of Law at Chicago and was admitted to the bar in 1888. He married Miss Bina Day Maloney of Mt. Carroll, Ill, three years later. They had four children, Charles Ashley, Dorothy, Frances and Bina Day.
PRIZES CLEVELAND WATCH CONWAY, S. C., Feb. 6 (U. P.).— Uncle Bill McCray, 64-year-old Horry County Negro, has a watch he wouldn’t swap for love or money. It was a gift from the late President Grover Cleveland. Uncle Bill was President Cleveland’s favorite cook when the chief executive visited the Santee Hunting Club for duck
shooting.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jeb. 68 (U. P.).—Sze-Sze, the magnificent lion, came out of hibernation to-
day in the cause of charity; the extermination of bad devils, and to aid Chinese war relief. _ Cries of “Kung Hai Fat Choy” rang through San” Francisco's Chinatown, and wise occidentals replied “Congratulations! May you gather wealth!” The 20,000 Chinese of the settlement today began celebrating the New Year with firecrackers and gongs to drive out the evil spirits. Sze-Sze, borne by six boys, knocked at every door, opened his mouth to receive gifts of money wrapped in lettuce leaves, later to disgorge his gain to the elders for Chinese relief. This year funds raised will go to relief of countrymen made destitute by the Japanese conflict. San Franciscans close up shop to help their oriental friends celebrate, and wish that they, like the Chinese, could pay off their outstanding debts on the first of the New Year.
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MILWAUKEE, Feb. 6 (U. P)— The son of an honorary colonel on the staff of Gov. Julius P. Heil was reported in critical condition in Emergency Hospital today with a bullet wound he inflicted in his head after he shot and killed a graduate nurse while she waited. in a drugstore for a soda. Miss Marie Rose told police: how Harry S. Christiansen, former Purdue student, shot down her roommate in a booth of the soda fountain near the hospital at which they were employed. She said she had accompanied Mildred Biel, 22, t2 the drug store late yesterday and that they had met young Christiansen on the street. She said he had invited Miss Biel to get into his automobile and when she refused turned abruptly and walked away rapidly. Later he |j== returned and fired five bullets from a revolver into Miss Biel's body. Then he reloaded his gun and fired one bullet into his own head, she said. The youth had been arrested by Milwaukee and Lafayette, Ind. authorities on charges of carrying concealed. weapons. He was released both times. He attended Purdue University for one year, but quit school to work as a salesman for his father.
JUNK IS CONVERTED INTO ART DISPLAYS
BRIDGEWATER, Mass, Feb. 6
is being used by State Teachers’ College students here to provide window displays for local stores.
preciation coyrse and the displays are offered free to any storekeeper who wants them. One of the window displays consisted of old soup cans, which were dissected and then put together
(U. P.).—Junk from the dump yards!
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again in the form of two figures sipping soup from a bowl.
ADMISSIONS DIP AT BOYS’ SCHOOL
Breidenbaugh Cre Credits Drop
To Delinquency Prevention By Welfare Workers.
The success of welfare workers in ‘preventing juvenile delinquency
is reflected in decreased commitments to the Indiana Boys’ School at Plainfield, according to 0. J. Breidenbaugh, director of research at the school. Writing in “Public Welfare in Indiana,” monthly bulletin of the State Welfare Department issued today, Mr. Breidenbaugh said that not only has there been a decrease in the total number of boys committed, but in the number of those under 13 years of age. In 1935-36 almost 18 per cent of the boys sent to the school were under 13 while for the six-months period ending Jan, 1, less than 3% per cent were from this group. The total number committed declined from 266 in 1936 to 201 last year. The average age of boys at admission has risen from 14.66 years in 1936 to 15.25 years in 1939, his survey showed. School administrators welcomed this trend, the article said, because “they are of the opinion that the institution’s program is most effective for those boys who are nearing an employable age and who are mature enough to profit from the specialized vocational training provided at the institution.” Mr. Breidenbaugh attributed the drop in commitments of boys under 13 to the establishment of county welfare departments with specialized child welfare workers.
PNEUMONIA VICTIM
Neil F. Clemens, manager of the J. C. Penney Co. store at Bloomington, Ind. died last night in an ambulance on the way to the Methodist Hospital. He was 23. Dr. Hugh Thatcher, deputy coroner, said pneumonia was the cause of death.
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BARRYMORE PROTEGE
TO DIVORCE HUSBAND
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (U. P).— Doris Dudley, the 22-year-old blond protege John Barrymore forgot when he w reconciled to his fourth wife, Elaine Barrie, disclosed
today that she plans to divorce her
second husband, Jack Jenkins, Beverly Hills, Cal. restaurateur. : Miss Dudley is having to give up her role in Barrymore's play, “My Dear Children,” to Miss Barrie. She has another job, however, with the road company of “Margin for Error,” opening in New Haven, Conn.,, Feb. 16. She said she might gét the divorce when the play reaches Chicago,
HILLIS SAYS STATE AUDIT IS NEEDED
“What — needs is = audit to let her know where she stands financially,” Glen R. Hillis, Republican candidate for Governor, declared last night at an Ifvington Republican Club meeting at club headquarters, 5446% E. Washington St. He said it was “nothing to be ashamed of not | to know what the State's fixed expenses are.or her contractual obligations because nobody else does either.”
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