Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1940 — Page 2

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Edwin B. Swope . . . to direct Terre Haute prison.

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3 Times Spevidl WASHINGTON, March 19.—Ed- "| win B. Swope, former warden of the U. S. Penitentiary at McNeal Island, Wash, ant of the New Mexico State Penitentiary, has. been &p-

spointed warden of the new medium security penitentiary to ‘open in July at Terre Haute, Ind. The United States Department of Justice in making the appointment said: “We have selected Warden Swope because 6f his long and successful experience in the field of prison administration.” The new. penal institution will , | house - approximately * 1050 adult Federal prisoners from the Middle {hi st ‘dissatisfaction was shown [West who have not committed C . | serious crimes of violence, "It will $2 ¢ |include those prisoners who are not . criminal on an habitual level and whose conduct ‘and character indicate that they can profit from the facilities for rehabilitation which have been incorporated into the plan of the institution. The new prison will have’ no massive interior steel block, no wall and none of the elaborate locking devices which have characterized many American prisons, the department explained. Warden Swope is a native of New Mexico. .

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WPA DESCRIBES | C2

WORK IN STATE

18,000 Miles of Highways Improved Since 1935, ‘Survey Reveals.

built, repaired and reconstructed more than 18,000 miles of Indiana highways since 1935.

The information, distributed

"| through the State WPA coffice here,

is part ‘of nation-wide survey of WPA achievements. In Indiana the WPA’s largest single contribution has been in the development. of transportation ‘facilities. The work-relief agency has im-

proved 15,266 miles of #tarm-to-market roads to aid Hoosier farm: ers; . built and repaired 2655 miles of streets and alleys; built 467 bridges and viaducts and repaired 2001; ‘built and reconstructed 20,000 culverts and installed 2629 drainage ditches. 1 The WPA built 557 miles of sidewalks and paths of which 491 were paved. It installed 419 miles of curbs and 114 miles of gutters. To promote highway safety, the WPA put in 1167 light standards and repaired 925. It also landscaped 311 miles of roadside, removed 54 miles of .car and railroad tracks and cut 21 new tunnels. ; Improving air transportation facilities, the WPA built three landing fields and improved seven others. It' laid 48,000 feet of runway of which 31,000 feet were/;paved and built 15 airport bulfingt. WPA workers put 182 light standards on airfields and repaired 164 standards. About 460 airway markers also were installed. At Indianapolis’ municipal airport, the WPA built four and one=half miles of 20-foot highway pavement in runways, installed three modern instrument approach systems and helped install a radio field traffic control system.

|| The WPA today released an in-|-ventory which showed that ‘it has

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WPA ROLLS 10 DROP

700,000BY JULY 1

| WASHINGTON, March 19 (U. P.). —WPA rolls will shrink by about 700,000 persons to a total of silghtly more than 1,600,000 by\Jyly 1, officials indicated today. The reduction is necessary in order: that the agency stay within the

limits of its $1, 477,000,000 appropria-

tion for the 1940 [fiscal year, which ends June 30. : Latest figures on WPA employment showed 2,323,000 on the rolls March 6. The total will be cut to 2,120,000 by April 1. Successive reductions of ahout 250,000 are expected for May and June. :

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January, 1941.

in ‘The American Legion 1041 ensa Welware Conference | of 12 Mid- § western states will be held here in January, it was announced today. - According to Otto F. Walls, child welfare chairman of the Legion in Indiana, Indianapolis was chosen || from six cities which sought the convention ‘at the 1940 conference recently held in St. Paul. Two" the competing cities were C cago and Cleveland. "The meeting will attract eA

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iary members,. the Indianapolis Convention and ‘Publicity Bureau believes. It was last held here ‘in 1935. “Another child welfare group, the midwest: regional conference of the Child Welfare League of America, also is being invited here. The 1940 convention will be in Milwaukee 512) 5 14 to 20 March 28 and 29, and the Indianapolis Council of .Social Agencies, the Indiana State Department . of Public Welfare and the Convention Bureau will extend the invitation. This conference, which attracts about 500 welfare workers, yee last held here in 1930. 1 in 1930.

NLRB Jang HEARING SET HERE FOR THURSDAY

The National Labor Relations Board will hold a public hearing in the House of Representatives Chamber at the State House Thursday in the Republic Creosoting case. Three unions, one A. F. of L., one C. 1. O,, and one independent, claim jurisdiction, according to Robert H. Cowdrill, regional NLRB director. Tomorrow, a hearing will be held at Frankfort, Ind. in connection with rival claims of C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unions to jurisdiction in the Jngtam-Richardson Co. {plant there.

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“s STATE POLICE LEARN LECTURE, TECHNIQUE

Police officers are going in blic speaking on a larger

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Stat for te scale. | Twenty-five picked men from the department were given a special training course at’ the Indianapolis Athletic Club yesterday in the art of lecturing and the use of! motion pictures for illustration of crime prevention and safety... State. Police Superintendent Don F. Stiver said the department last | year sponsored 672 lectures before 102,000 persons. Instructors at the school yesterday were Lieut. Don. Kooken, Robert Borgenstein, chief technician of the Criminology Laboratory, and Dr. R. N. Harger of Indiana Tniversity, inventor of the ;drunk-o-meter. {

MUNCIE TO APPEAL

pa for various types of the [same uct, such as No. 2 red wheat,

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| MUNCIE, Ind., March 19 (U, P).

to, appeal a decision by Superior | Judge Claude C. Ball t the city had illegally cut the'salary of firemen and policemen during thé depression. ’ The decision, made yesterday, affected only two men, Joseph Herdering, a former policeman, and Glenn Butts, but it was a test case and would apply to 40 policemen and 52 firemen. °° Under the decision the City ‘would be forced to .pay $38,335.94 in re- | ductions plus 3 per cent interest to

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“WAGE CUT RULING

Bids. on the paving of 31 miles of state roads in eight counties at a

mission April 9, Chairman’ T. A. Dicus said today. Three of the projects will extend

the State's mileage of dual-lane highways. Two of them are on ‘Road 40, west from Plainfield through Belleville: and another on Road 41 north of Evansville. The Commission yesterday awarded. a contract for paving mare than three miles of Rqad 1, completing the widening projects be- | tween Bluffton and Ft. Wayne. The contract was awarded to the Moel-| lering Construction Co. on a low] bid of $133,754. | Paving work listed in the bidding, ‘|due April 9 will be in the following! counties: Hendricks, Vanderburg, | Huntington, . Bartholomew, = Grant, Fayette, Carroll and Delaware.

—The City of Muncie today planned |

bring the total to approximately;

‘KIDNAPED’ SEAL FOUND IN HARVARD

Municipal Judge Joseph T. Zottoli today issued a warrant charging “John Doe” with larceny of a trained seal found in the bathtub of a Harvard student. The warrant was issued on petition of Mark Huling of Kingston, N. Y., who does an act with the seal in a current musical comedy. The seal, valued at $4000. was found in the suite of Jesse iranklin Cleveland of Spartanburg; S, C., a fresh-

‘man. ¥ " Bangs’ Board" Bill Paid Jail

4% HUNTINGTON, Ind. March 19

(U. P.).—Edward Smith, receiver ¢ for the defunct municipal electric | utility operated by former Mayor | C. W. H. Bangs, today had for- | warded a check for $36 to ‘the | Allen County Jail at Ft. Wane to

| pay board fees for Bangs and J. | Clayton Brown, former city con- | struction foreman.

Bangs and Brown are held in :

| contempt of court in connection

with the disappearance of $4300

| from the outlawed utility's funds.

They were committed .to jail Feb. 21 and Mr. Smith at that time paid $36 to keep them there a month. Meanwhile a petition by Luther Orr, a creditor of the utility; to prevent Mr. Smith from ‘“dissipating’ assets of the company by further paym nt of the board bill awaited a “hearing. The date for the hearing ha not. been set by Special Judge McNabb of Ft. Wayne, who must rule on the case.

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BIDS DUE APRIL 9

cost .of about $1,300,000 will’ be re-! ceived by the -State Highway Px

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