Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1940 — Page 11

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DAY, JUNE 11, 1940 Joseph Weber Retires as Musicians’ Head

STREET FUNDS * ARE INADEQUATE

City Financially cially | Unable fo Halt Deterioration, Survey Shows.

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taining both improved and unimproved streets is now prohibitive, as far as the present City budget is concerned.

The gas tax maintenance budget this | year for 673 miles of paved |:

streets is $172,120, the report showed This is equivalent to $256 a mile fa year, including sidewalks and curbs. Mr. Johnson asserted that

the repairdg this amount would |;

finance would be of such a minor nature that little if ny improvement could be made in mile after mile of broken asphalt and concrete streets.

Of the City's 673 miles of paved |:

streets, 300 miles are more than 25 years old.

The City Streets Commission re-| ceived $113,200 this year- from gas:

tax funds with which to grade and

-Tepair 536 miles of unpaved streets. |: The amount budgeted a mile a On a monthly basis, |:

vear is $216. $18 is allotted to. the care of each mile of unimproved roadway, while | $1.80 is apportioned to the maintenance of one City block each month In, addition, the Streets Commisgion can spend ony $1.80 a block a month to keep the 673 miles of paved streets clean and free of obstructions. In the gas tax budget for streets, $7200 is provided for maintenance of 100. bridges within the City limits. Only minor repairs can be afforded, Mr. Johnson said. No funds are budgeted for new bridge construction, which must be financed by bond issues. The Park Department received £66,100 this year of the $65,300 total gas tax funds alloted to the City. Of this amount, $10,000 is budgeted for new boulevard construction. The sum would finance only part of a mile of 40-foot boulevard. Only $484 is budgeted for regrading -and resurfacing while most of the re-

tenance. Under the gas tax funds, three motorcycle policemen are employed! at $125 a month to keep heavy

' trucks off boulevards and thus pre-

serve the pavement, Mr. Johnson estimated that if | the entire amount of gas tax Jungs, now received from the State were! used exclusively for resurfacing of the streets 25 years old or older, would take 10 years to complete i program, provided no streets were

‘widened. :

'P,) —James ‘F. Wilkinson,

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Joseph N. Weber . « » “Remain liberal.”

FALL IS FATAL TO PURDUE EMPLOYEE

LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 11 (U. 60, an employee of the ruraue uNiveisivy physical education department, was fatally injured today when he fell from a truck and his head struck the curb of the street. His skull was fractured and his neck broken. Mr. Wilkinson was riding on the rear end of the truck which was carrying a large metal casting. As the truck turned a corner the cast. ing slipped and pushed him off.

SULLIVAN, Ind., June 11 (U. P.). Nixon, 39, a . Shelburn farmer, died in a hospital today of suffered about midnight ‘when he was struck by a C. & E. 1. {passenger train as he walked along the tracks. SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 11 (U. {P.).—Raymound Rose, 28, of ‘South Bend, died in a hospital today of a tispine injury suffered last Sunday in an automobile accident north of | ‘here on. U. S. 31, Five others were injured.

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William Green ., . . Pledges Iahor to U. 8. defense.

{lll Health Causes Leader

For 40 Years to Step Down

. Joseph N. Weber has relinquished active leadership in the American Federation of Musicians, after serving for| 40 years as president. + The venerable labor leader told the 45th annual A. F. of M. convention at yesterday's opening session in the Indiana Ballroom that iil health had forced him to step down from the post. “My physical condition does not permit me to accept the honor of this position for even one more year,” Mr. Weber said. “No statement of my whole life has been so hard to make. I have grown up with the American Federation of Musicians. Forty years of incescant struggle have given us ‘the position to which we were entitled.” The |gray-halred piesident sald he was not stepping out of the Federation, and that he would con-

| tinue to assist the union in every

way possible. “The | policies which made the maintenance of our © organization

possible must be continued,” he said. “Remain liberal in your deliberation and your laws.” The delegates and guests rose to their feet at the end of Mr. Weber’s statement and gave him a prolonged ovation. The demonstration left Mr. Weber visibly moved, and there was a considerable amount of eye-|— wiping to be seen among the delegates.

JULIANA, DAUGHTERS REACH NOVA SCOTIA

OTTAWA, Ontario, June 11 (U. P.).—Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and her two children

arrived in Halifax, N. S., today, ref-

ugees from war. Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King’ announced the arival of

Juliana and the young princesses—

Beatrix, 2'4, and Irene, 9—and said they would come here later as guests of the Earl of Athlone, new governor general of Canada.

GREEN PLEDGES ‘NID IN DEFENSE

Musicians’ Delegates Cheer As Leader Promises Support of A. F. of L.

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into the war, he said, “If there ever was a traitorous blow struck, it was this dirty, reprehensible blow struck by Mussolini yesterday. “We are willing here to go the limit to do everything to aid the Allies, short of actual war,” the union president continued. “We demand that the United States Government give to the Allies all the lielp they ‘need, even though materials be shipped without compensation.” Here the delegates rose to their feet and cheered for two minutes. Mr. Green inferentially charged John L. Lewis, C. I. O. president, with being “a dictator with powers as dictatorial as the heads of some European nations.” He did not, however, mention Mr. Lewis by name. He also charged that the C. I. O. leader has refused the request of Fresident Roosevelt for further conferences to settle labor’s differences. He predicted that the C. I. O. mem-

bership will desert their leaders and || return to the A. F. of L., unless lead- |

ers act to heal the breach immediately. “The A. F. of L. has stood willing to meet tonight, tomorrow or at any time with the C. I. O. to settle their. differences, Mr. Green said. “The responsibility for the break in labor’s ranks rests with one man.” Speakers at yesterday’s first meeting included Goverhor M. Clifford Townsend, Chief Michael F. Morrissey, who. spoke on behalf of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, and Hugh J. Gormley, representative of the American Pederation of Labor. They were introduced by Abe Haminerscyiag, secretary of Indianapolis Local 3, A. F. of M. Mr. Weber presided. The first _order of business fol-

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Free Swimming Classes Opened

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