Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1940 — Page 4
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CITY REFUSES MOTOR OIL BIDS
Specifications to Be Revised
Limiting Contracts to Refiners Only. The Safety Board today threw
out bids for Police and Fire Department motor oil and ordered
Purchasing Agent Albert H. Losche to revise oil specifications so that) only oil refiners can submit bids. The Board's action would eliminate small oil distributors who do! not refine their own products and| who purchase their lubricants from! jobbers. The action followed a conference hetween Board members and M. J Casey, wholesale department head] of the Indianapolis division of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Mr. | Casey advised the Board that the] purchase of oil from the major re-} fining companies would eliminate; much of the motor trouble which Board members claim has been caused by purchase of “cheap” oil. In a resolution proposed by Donald Morris, Republican Board member, the Board set up the following procedure in accepting oil bids: All bidders must be oil refiners as well as distributors; the speci-| fication that oil must be refined from Pennsylvania crude should be eliminated from City specifications] allowing oil refined from mid-con-| tinent crude to be considered; bids must quote prices on three grades of either mid-continent or Pennsvivania oil, and bidders must agree to furnish the services of a lubri-| cating engineer who would deter-| mine the proper grade of cil to be used in City equipment, { Only Board President Leroy J.| Keach and Mr. Morris were present |
when the action was taken. Board senior, who was awarded a Car- | York, 11.2. and St. Louis. 11.6. Member Frank B. Ross, Democrat, negie Medal last year for rescuing! Mr. Keach said that two children from drowning in Au- Duluth, Minn. 0.0, and Hartford, |
was absent.
‘APPLY BRAKES, COUNCIL WARNS
U. S. Traffic Toll Up 450 in First Three Months Over 1939.
CHICAGO, April 30 (U. P.).—The| National Safety Council today re- | viewed the sixth consecutive month 'of increasing death on the highways ‘with a caustic caution: | | “Apply the brakes.” American motorists were charged with 7200 deaths in the first three ‘months of 1940, which, the Council |said, was 450 more than the corre-| | sponding 1939 period. March was the sixth successive! month with a higher traffic toll {than the corresponding period of | | 1939, the Council said. The sharpest! ncrease was credited to February jand March, which contributed 400 {more deaths than the same two {months last year. |
| The council listed the traffic toll
Times Photo. Betty O. Schuck . . . will reign at Washington High School track meet,
Betty 0. Schuck, Carnegie Medal Winner, Named May Queen. Betty O.
Schuck, 18-year-old
|for the first three months this year and the corresponding months of, [1939 as follows: | 1940 1939 | January .....ce000000 2610 2580 February ....c.voees 2150 1970 March ....ccooueses 2440 2200
| | Ten states reported fewer lives |lost on the highways the first {quarter this year than the same quarter of 1939, while 12 states re-! corded fewer traffic fatalities last month than in March, 1939, | Delaware's 50 per cent reduction land Seattle's 48 per cent led the! states and cities, respectively, in the ‘three-month tabulations. Cities leading the safety council's {honor roll; by pepulation groups | (rating based on deaths per 100,000 population) : | | Over 500,000—Buffalo, 7.5; New|
| { | |
Over 100,000—Lynn, Mass, 0.0:
both Police and Fire Department gust, 1938, today was chosen May Conn. 2.4.
mechanics had reported that oil previously purchased by the Board |
Queen at Washington High School. With her attendants, she will
| Over 50,000—Lakewood, O.; Spring- | |field, O.,, and Atlantic City, N. J.,|
was inferior and that bearings had reign over the South Central Con- all 0.0.
been burnt out in several police ference Track Meet at Washington |
cars and fire apparatus.
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28 RESTAURANT MEN END 20-WEEK STUDY
Twenty-eight Indianapolis restaurant officials and three from outside the City were graduates today of a 20-week course in food preparation and merchandising sponsored by the | Indiana Restaurant Association. | The course ended last night, with home economics instructors from | schools and colleges over the state as guests. The meeting was held at| the Guaranty Cafe. At last night's session, Dick Stone, | restaurant merchandising counselor, spoke on grades and quality of beef. The meats used in the demonstrations were furnished by Kingan & Co. Managers and department heads from 18 hotel and restaurant organizations in Indianapolis and three outside Indianapolis have attended the course.
15 BARBER CASES AWAIT COURT RULING:
The State Barber Board has delayed action against some 75 barbers charged with violating the Board's regulations pending Su-; preme Court decisions,
on Saturday and later will preside at the high school's Strawberry Festival. She and her attendants were voted on yesterday by the entire student body. The ballots were counted today. To be candidates for the Queen and court the girls had to be honor students. Her attendants are Dorothy Asher, Charlotte Burkert, Virginia Burres, Maxine Christie, Alice Miller and Eileen Newby.
‘Seeing Stars’
To Be Explained
THE FACT THAT when vou see one star you actually are looking at two or three will be ex-
plained to members of the Indi- |
ana Astronomical Society at 2 p. m. Sunday by Dr. W. A. Cogshall, Indiana University astronomer, at Typographical Terrace, 28th and Meridian Sts. Dr. Cogshall will explain why “multiple stars” appear as one
star and how the use of high- |
powered telescopes has aided in studying them. A guest of the society will be Miss Margaret Ionides whose book, “Stars and Men,” was reviewed at a recent meeting.
1 JURORS CHOSEN IN
STUNTER JAILED
WITHOUT A JOB
Yanked From Trylon at N.Y. Fair After Threat to Jump. |
NEW YORK, April 30 (U, P) — An unemployed laborer, who thought he could get a job by threatening to jump off the 610foot World Fair Trylon, landed in court today. The charge placed against Roy Yost, 36, was disorderly conduct.! He said he had been out of work! two or three months and that he believed the best way to get a job! | was to create some excitement and | then cash in. The plan didn't work |so well. Yost took no chances on getting, | hurt during his aerial act. He car-| ried two parachutes and a dummy up the tall Trylon—a climb of about! | 40 minutes—when he sneaked into | the fair last night. Earlier he had notified news | photographers that he would jump | off, come 7:30 a. m. so there was a | crowd on hand—mostly skeptical— {when he appeared at 5:15 a. m.| Time) on a small
| (Indianapolis hich are expected in Me * POWER BLAST TRIAL pattem Be OD oe vows wae Se 3 | | He danced a few steps, waved at
The Board originally had set to-| morrow as the date for hearings on the alleged violations. The barbers, including 12 from Indianapolis, are accused of violating the hour and price order of the Board. i Board members said that all aetion will be postponed until the Supreme Court hands down decisfons on cases testing the hour and price provisions as well as other aspects of the State Barber Law.
INSISTS SHE SHOT HUSBAND IN DREAM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. April 30 (U.P). | Mrs. Lina Bittlinger, 20, insisted | today that she shot her husband
PLYMOUTH, Ind, April 30 (U. P.).—Seven jurors had been approved by the defense as the trial of John A. Marks of Michigan City was resumed today. Marks, a union business agent, is charged with conspiracy to commit a felony in connection with bombings of nine power line towers and poles in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan last year. A full jury had been approved tentatively by the State with little questioning. Defense attorneys, however, questioned the prospective jurors closely. The State contends that the conspiracy was formulated between Sept. 1 and 5 and the defense has indicated that it would attempt to
in the head while she was dreaming. | Prove that Marks was outside In-
Police charged her with intent to murder. Her husband, Harry F.| Bittlinger, 22, was unconscious in a hospital. Doctors said the visual center of his brain had been destroyed and that he would be blind if he recovered. “My father was killed some years ago when a spike was through his head in an accident,” Mrs. Bittlinger said. “On Friday night I was dreaming about my father and his accident. He kept calling to me in my dream to take the spike out of his head. I don't know what I did. I remember kissing my husband, but things are not clear about the rifle. I must have pointed and pulled the trigger.”
BOYS TRIAL MAY GO TO JURY LATE TODAY
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, April 3¢ (U. P.).—Roy C. Fenters, Fountain County Prosecutor directing the State's case against Thomas A. Boys, on trial in Montgomery Circuit Court on a firse degree murder
charge, opened the State's closing |
argument today. Mr. Fenters was to conclude his sddress at noon and during the afternoon the defense was to make
driven |
it at Harry's head
diana at that time. Marks’ trial was venued here from St. Joseph Circuit Court. He {is named in similar charges in| {Noble and La Porte Counties and in Federal Court at South Bend. { He is free on bonds totaliing $105,000. Three others also are held in connection with the case. They are Frank Lung of South Bend, whom | police claim also has admitted participation, Frank Yax of Kalamazoo, Mich, and Earl Freeman of | South Bend.
MISS TALLEY GIVEN CUSTODY OF CHILD
| NEW YORK, April 30 (U. P.).— Supreme Court Justice Sidney J. Bernstein signed an order yesterday directing Adolph Eckstrom to deliver his 5-year-old daughter, Susan, {into the custody of his estranged | wife, Opera Singer Marion Talley, tomorrow. The custody case has involved the | principals in a series of | actions. Miss Talley presumably will come | to New York from California to re- | gain custody of the child. The court designated Mr. Eckstrom’s home as
judicial |
the place at which the child is to
the crowd and then tossed over a dummy attached to a parachute.! | The chute opened only partly and | {that broke Yost’'s nerve, he said later at the police station. He was) as nervous as-a fan dancer in a| blizzard when he told about it. | | Soon after the dummy dived, Yost | | was vanked from the platform by Charles Nelson, World Fair steel inspector. | By the time Yost got down from his perch the area around the, Trylon was swarming with radio cars, fire apparatus and onlookers. | Yost was bundled into a police car {and taken to the station. | “Were you afraid to jump?” he | was asked. | “Oh, I wasn’t afraid but the para-| chute on the dummy didn't open| | right,” he said as he was taken to | court.
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Boys is charged with the attack slaying of 11-year-old Elizabeth DeBruicker at Attica last July.
FIVE OUNCE PUP SPRIGHTLY
NEW ORLEANS, May 30 (UP.).—
Dog breedsr and veterinarians here are amazed at Midge, a 2-months-
old Boston bull terrier who appears
normal but weighs only five ounces.
BULLET WOUND FATAL
LOGANSPORT, Ind. April 30 (U. P.).—Mrs. Lela Paddock died last night of a bullet wound in the head. She was 61.
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