Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1940 — Page 16

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ST.LOUIS

PA 4

SRULES OUT DIRTY FUEL

IN SMOKE FIGHT |

Clean Coal to Be Required ~ Under Ordinance to Go In Effect by 1942.

By VIRGIL FULLING {+ Times Special Writer = ST. LOUIS, March 25.—Mayor

Bernard Dickmann expects that by| uis | ~ will be solved and blackouts will noj - blur the repu tation of the

1942 the smoke problem in St.']

longer Mound City. A new smoke ordinance, just in-

troduced before the Board of Alder-|

men, must

provides that smokeless fuel ‘betused after a date not as

eyet set definitely, but which will be|-

< ho later than 1942. e ordinance “also empowers the city itself to-sell and distribute such fuel if it is not made available through private channels.

3 Phases in Problem

“There is no reason why St. Louis has to put up with this smoke

bids use of smoky fuel and there is

no ‘reason why we should stand

for it.

“Our problem has bitin distinct | | industries, and

phases—railroads, small |Home owners and renters.

owners ‘are giving trouble.’ They ‘have fuel, and soft coal| from nearby Illinois fields is the cheaper kind. Anthracite is much more expensive. “By| 1942, we feel ithere will be sufficient processed coal ‘at ‘prices which the small home owners and renters can afford to pay. !

Plan Public Hearings . “The Illinois coal operators can

regain vast markets, particularly in | they provide ||

the Chicago area, if smokeless fuel. It’s up to them. If they won't provide us with smokeless fuel, ihe city will be compelled| to. | “There will be publta hearings on the new ‘ordinance but I feel sure he people will approve it and a ouble which has harassed us for 0. years will be me i

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Herschel McKee oe

By LEO. DAUGHERTY Indianapolis’ “man who wquldn’t die” may have ‘another rendezvous with: death. } 1 Herschel McKee (“Cocky” they call hin, World War aviator who survived three wopnds, a 200-foot leap ithout - parachute from a flaming plane, a crash into a Speedway wall and even a tong war, has a chance to fight in the

clouds af¥ain.

“Cocky” was=awaitihg a reply from the Finnish legation- on his application * to go to Finland as “a civilian ° aéronmaufical instructor” when the Russo-Finnish War ended. He resigned himself ‘to continue the quiet life of an auto salesman. But— “Cocky” now has an offer from an old friend, Col. William Bishop, Air| Marshal of Canada, to join the King’s fighting air forces. Col. Bishop, a fellow member in the International League of Aviators, knows: McKee’s record—4229 air hours in this country and no one knows how many more in the war, and the grounding of a dozen German planes.

Prizes U. S. Citizenship

e thing about the offer which thers Lieut. McKee (that’s his in the U. S. Army Air Corps Reserves) is that if he goes he might have to pledge allegiance to Crown and hé doesn’t want to inquish his U. S. citizenship. ut if he can get a disposition

'Man Who Wouldn't Die’ Asked to Join Allied Fliers|

« thrives on thrills,

call at Manual High School one day back in 1916. A few months later he turned up in France and joined the French Foreign Legion.

Joined Escadrille

He spent 10 months with the Algerian Cavalry at the front and then succeeded in becoming a member of that select group of air fighters, the Lafayette Escadrille, and upheld its valor by grounding those w enemy planes. He absorbed anti-aircraft fire a

him out of commission for long. Then came his first rendezvous with death.: He was shot in the head

and he came down unconscious behind the German lines on Feb. 8, 1918. After four weeks in a hospital he was taken’ to a German prison camp where there were 32,000 others, including Tommy Hitchcock, the polo player. Lieut. McKee was in on a plot with Hitchcock to escape, but the signals got crossed and Hitchcock left too soon and the peters stayed behind. 3

Escaped to Switzerland

But a few days later “Cocky” and a companion cut the fence and beat it for Switzerland, the trip taking eight days. He néver was caught and at the close of the war he came home with | citations from the Belgian, French and English Governments und a craving for more adventure involv-

+ wast ings on the Patman chain-store

would be. multiplied by the number

couple of times, byt it didn’t: keep | :

Proposal. 2

By CHARLES: T. LUCEY "Times, Special Writer :

NGTON, March 95. Hear

1, which would fax Slmost 0 tence some of the:country’s = far-flung retail “organizations, w Wednesday before: a House Ways and . Means subcommittee headed by Rep. John v McCormack Mass.

Wright Patman aroused widespread controversy mong. individuals and groups repreenting farmers, consumers, shippers, bankers, building owners and others. It has spurred the chain .groups.to an elaborate defense of their position. - The bill would. impose a tax. of $50 a store on chains having 10-to 1% retail outlets; $100 a store on chains with 15 to 25. outlets; $200 a .store on-chains. of -25 te 50 units; $300 a tore where there are 75 to 100 units; $450 a store if the units number 100 to :200; $600 a store if 200: 10 :300; $750 a store if 300 10.7400; $900 a store if 400 to 500, and $1000 a store on ‘chains with more. than 1000 outlets. The tax in each bracket would apply only to stores in that. bracket.

Provided for Multiplication, Then, on: top. of that, the - tax

of : states in which . the -chain operates. - - It-has been estimated that the tax on the more than 11,000 stores of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. would be about $460,000,000 a year. . Mr. Patman, however, has objected to claims that the chain-store systems of the country would be destroyed. The first nine stores would be exempted, he points out, and he contends that the tax on a large number of stores in any one state would not be unreasonably high. “I frankly admit,” he continues, “that if the concern. attempts: to spread out all over the nation and take all the “privileges and opportunities: of the people all over the the nation, . eventually, giving the concern -time to liquidate, a -prohibitive tax. ‘will be placed "upon stores outside of the state.”

‘Names Supporters,

The tax would: be put into effect slowly so that chains’ could close up stores which, as Mr. Patman says, “would unprofitable after the second year. ” Mr. Patman will be the- first wit ness for his bill Wednesday. -Other supporting witnesses, he said, will include: Theodore Chivictinnson, | Chicago, public relations counsel, National Association of Retail - Druggists; George Schulte, St. Louis, editor, “Interstate Merchant”; * A; L. M.

pearing as an individual - and not representing the Association) ;- Benjamin Du Bois, Independent Bank-

ciation of Retail Grocers. The Ways and -Means: Committee is receiving a heavy mail -from pers Jans and organizations opposing the bil. y

year of her sleep today.

p.| ing "| nothing. She shows little response, has only moving her head slightly when

Wiggins, Hartsville, S. O., chairman |i of the legislative committee of the |} .| American Bankers Association (ap-

ers of America, and Gerrett Vander | Hooning, President National Asso-|§

ELMWOOD PARK, Ill, March 2

fw. P.) ~Four-year-old - ‘Mary Ellen

‘| Reardon today heared the end of {the second year of a mysterious

‘léhd only with death—or a miracle for ‘which thousands of ‘devoat # | throtighout the’ world have been praying. | 3 4 ‘Science’s pronduncement was that the end would be death, but Mary

| Ellen's parents cling to the hope of

entered “the third She lies ine in her bed, her development |: that only of a ‘two-year-old. She was stricken in March, 1938, by sleeping sickness after an attack of measles. “During afternoons’ and nights

ing mornings she opens them, starlistlessly, apparently seeing

touched on the arm. er ousands of ‘Chicagoans-are attending tual novena in honor of th owfil mother for her. Her mother has received letters of sympathy and prayer {from Canada, pe and India. She said Mary Ellen has grown a little sifice she was stricken, but that her weight is about the same. “We have ever given up hope,” she said. e know Mary Ellen will be well and playing around the house again some day. We pray every day for her recovery.” °

3] medical ‘experts said -would|

her eyes are closed. Sometimes dur-|

hs Mother of Girl Asleep for 2 Years Expects ‘Miracle’

Only Mary Ellen's mother, er father, Daniel, her brother, Daniel Jr., 2, and immediate: relatives | hee her. The’ “family physician said there is no chance of recovery. “Scar tissue has formed on he brain,” he said. “Medical science has not found hcw it, can be removed or how the diseased tissue can be replaced. Only a miracle can save her.” Mary Ellen's mother had an answer for that, “We know a miracle will occur, » she said.

DIAMOND DRILL USED

IN OWEN TEST- WELL BIDS RECEIVED FOR

is being used in Owen County to obtain earth specimens which, the Conservation Department will use to obtain data for future oil opérations in that part of the state. - Ten oil companies are financing the work, Virgil M. Simmons, department ‘head, said. A core of earth two inches in diameter will be turned over to the department for analysis. The well will be drilled to about 2000 feet. Similar experiments were conducted last year in. Wargick County. The ‘cores from the Owen County will are expected to be more complete because of the ‘modern drill used.

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VALPARAISO, Ind, March 25|

(U. P.).—Fifty talesmen were to] appear today for possible jury service at the trial of Richard Sweet, a le Prison convict charged with naping in connection with 8 futile escape atfempt last June.

Sweet, .Alphonse Skusewich and|™

Earl Niverson face charges for holding Mrs. Ruth Joiner, a Crawfords-

ville welfare worker, as’ hostage|

while they bartered with prison officials for freedom. Mrs. Joiner was freed when - police burst into the room in which' she was: being held

prisoner,

The state was. \é¥pected to ask that Sweet be sentenced to death since he Siteady is Serving a life prison term. :

“INDIANA PoSToFtce

Times Speciat | WASHINGTON, D. Cc. March 25. —Bids are being received for con-= struction of the proposed Postoffice

at’ Cambridge City, Ind. Bids will};

be opened publicly here at 1 p. m on April 19 in the office of Federal Works Administrator John M. Carmody. An allotment of $70,000 has been made under the Federal - Public Buildings Appropriation Act of 1938 to include the purchase of the site,

construction and administrative costs. Torr oi

HE MORRIS

| inttfos yoo

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$50,000 Progot

.| county project. considered.

‘25 (u. Pt ste

'nunt for : children—but it ended up. in a: rapid-fire attempt to” ‘keep ithe. children close enough’ ~ “behind the egg hiders to let them have an eve, brea with the:

The hunt, sponsored ashually - a hotel, was ready tq start ‘when an investigator ed

id : 2 IGH RIVER.

GRIFFIN, dh March | 25. a raise a two-mile’. section of she New ny-Grif= . fin Road to permit its use when the Wabash: River: overflows is being

plannéd. as a joint. Federal-State~ A spillway. also Bs; being of According to plans, the cost: of : the right-of-way would be met by

. TO AVOID

! vines Special

the county, with the State and Fed~ .

eral Governments providing the remaining funds. Posey County ¢om- ' missioners = already have started:. proceedings to Aire the: neces= :

“| sary right-of-way.

>| from doing so—Kermit Roosevelt —well, Lieut. “Cocky” McKee may dare danger again. ‘With a war going on and aviation playing & major, role, anyone knowing “Cocky” McKee would expect him to get in the play. He thrives on thrills. “Cocky” didn’t answer the ‘roll

ing speed and daring. Stunt flying and auto racing seemed to be the answer. He almost lost life and limb in a race crash at Los Angeles in 1922, He thought the skies would be safer. The next year at the same place his stunt plane burst into |flames at 200 feet with no chute available. It was a case of dive and pray. - ' ‘By that time a large portion of his body had been made over and the Speedway drivers needed me chanics. Up turned “Cocky” as chanic and relief driver. ig] | Then another thrill. In 1937 he and the late Jimmy Snyder plowed into the brick. wall, but cheated | ‘| death again. Sometime in between there “Cocky” was instructing a number of Chinese in Chicago how to fly. Hatchets swung in a tong war one night and four Chinese were annihilated. Next day the police nabbed him because of his Chinese business associations. He was released and dismissed the incident as just a “minor experi-| ' ence.” :

| DISEASED TEETH and GUMS

don’t cause all human ills. But believe me, they - JLause a plenty. MORAL—A visit to the dentist ‘beats a trip to po the undertaker Over 39 Years all hollow. , Here

DRS. EITELJORG

SOLTIS AND FRAY

DENTISTS

a. E. Washington St. RI-7010 ’Opnosite New Woolworth Bldg.

" Gives His Argument. One of Mr. Patman’s arguments; is that the chain grocers “have{} ganged up on the farmers and have |} forced them. to sell for very low |i prices. “They brag. about this to city consumers. They say. in effect, “ ‘We have such buying power we can : L ’ it make, :the farmers sell 1o us for ett

Fol | 110 EAST v As SHINGTON

not; we will go out.and destroy. the - JUST THREE DOORS EAST OF PENNSYLVANIA

“feel and look like myself dain”

ERTS Appetizer

NT Ta Is £2

- | market.” Mr. Patman will grant, for argument’s sake, that chains may sell at lower. prices than other grocers, but he insists: “It’s not real economy. to save: a dollar as a.consumer if .it takes $4 as a taxpayer. to make: up-for .the damage done in ' social consequences.” He says that the chains, by. injuring. local institutions, have contributed to Wnemployment and Telief problems. .

Chain Stores Reply.

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Our new and m more spacious offices a are moderly

and more efficient ;

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equipped to provide faster

v / wt The chains reply that they pay $heir . 1,000,000 ' employes. higher service for our customers. . The sincere desire of

average .wages than the independ- : : I oy do; that some chains work on j ad ‘ - : profits as low as 1 per cent; tha The proposed tax Is unconstitutional: every g officer and etiployec of the Indianapolis that hurting the chains would disrupt a quick market at fair prices for nearly one-third of American farmers’ foodstuff -production. : “This bill,” Rep. Celler (D. N. Y.)

x : > eS Ee A en? | 1] an of helpfulness and service which has mide © iis don’t. dare avow that ifs we B o eB : : ahr Ch bo Fu

openly. If we break up business in- St : he many of our customers dursfeien FY

| Morris. Plan is to provide Ho riety pit . i Si

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to small units, won't we have the same problem as in agriculture—an infinite number of small concerns which cannot fend. for themselves and which will have to be given | more, care: by ‘the Government?”. “The chain. stores, he ‘argues, : act ; as a check to keep ‘down: prices: to consumers,. and ‘if ‘they. are. driven disappears.

MONDAY and TUESDAY

March 25- 2%

“Office Hours: 4 to 4

out of business this cheok

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