Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1940 — Page 21

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CTY T0 DECIDE ACTION ON GAS

UTILITY TODAY

Appeal to ‘Supreme Court On Validity of Lease May Be Voted.

City and Utility District officials ‘were to meet today to decide the City’s - future course of action in acquiring the Indianapolis Gas Co. ‘properties. ; : Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, City Controller James E. Deery and Corporation Counsel Edward H. ‘Knight were to represent the City, while directors and trustees of the Citizens’ Gas & Coke Utility will .xepresent the Utility District. * The officials were expected to decide whether to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court the decision of U. S. District Court of Appeals that the lease between the Indianapolis

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Gas Co. and the old Citizens’ Gas|§g&

Co. binds the City. The Appellate Court’s decision, given last week, reverses the ruling of Rederal District Judge Robert C. Baltzell that the City was not bound ty the lease, executed by its prececessor. The effect of the Circuit Court’s ruling would;-be to confer a property value on the lease which the City has coniended is invalid. The value would be taken into consideration’ in a determination of the valuation of the Indianapolis Gas Co. properties in the event the City goes ahead with the condemnation proceedings to take over the property. Condemnation proceedings were spproved by the City Council last year, after Utility District officials declared that the acquisition of the Indianapolis Gas property had become a matter of public necessity.

Four men escaped serious injury today when the car in which they were riding was struck by a train at the Big Four tracks and S. Sherman Drive. They are Claude Jacobs, 38, of 1334 Cruft St., the driver; Sidney Sebastian, 29, of 222 Sanders St.; Arthur Magan, 47, R. R. 5 Box 81, and Harry Hidinger, 47, of 1043 Sumner St. The auto was rolled along the tracks for 70 feet and demolished. Kato R. Powell, 15, of 637 W. 11th St., received a fractured right leg last night when he was struck by an automobile while crossing 10th and Camp Sts. He was sent to City Hospital. : Dempsey Ranard, 56, of 5226 E. St. Clair St., was struck by a bus as he alighted from a streetcar toaay at Harding and W. Washington

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James C. Petrillo (left) was elected president of the American Federation of Musicians today, succeeding Joseph N. Weber who is retiring, after being president for 40 years. Ball®Som and Claypool Hotel will' end tomorrow. .

The convention at the Indian

LINKS PROGRESS TOAVOIDING WAR

U. S. Can Go Ahead Despite Foreign Situation. -

The United States can make a great deal of progress above present economic levels despite unsatisfactory conditions abroad, M. Albert Linton, Philadelphia, president of the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co., declared here today. Mr. Linton spoke before a joint luncheon meeting of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the Indianapolis Association of Life Underwriters in the Claypool Hotel. He explained that the general economic conditions could bé improved because the U. S. with its ngtural resources and funds avail-

economic unit so large and well supplied that it can go ahead regardless of the [foreign situation. He based this statement, however, upon the provision that|the qountry stay out of the European conflict.

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Parker Is Hi-Y Leader—V. D. L. Parker, boys’ work secretary of the local Y. M. C. A., will serve as one of the leaders of the third National Hi-Y Congress at Oberlin, O., June 20-24. He will lead a delegation of Hi-Y members from Indianapolis and Marion County. - At the congress Mr. Parker will head a discussion group on boy and girl relations. »

A drive against the careless littering of streets with paper plates and napkins, particularly in the vicinity of summer refreshment stands, was inaugurated yesterday by the Mayor's Civic Pride Committee. ! The members appealed to owners of such stands to ‘co-operate in collecting the discarded debris before it is blown or scattered to neighboring lawns. The committee also appealed to the owners of vacant lots to cut weeds. High weeds at intersections, it was pointed out, might prove a traffic hazard as well as being unsightly.

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RELIEF RUSHED 70 1500 TAKEN OFF WPA ROLLS

Aid Follows Demonstration _ At Bedford; Further Reduction Likely.

Unemployment Relief Commissioner Dudley Smith today sent trucks laden with food to the relief

WPA workers who were unable to obtain immediate direct relief fol-

lowing their dismissal from WPA rolls. The former WPA workers and their families, slashed from the WPA rolls in a State-wide reduction of the WPA quota, demonstrated at Bedford yesterday, demanding immediate relief. Investigators from the Bedford and Bloomington offices of the Commission were ordered to make hasty arrangements for the relief of the workers with township trustees in Lawrence County. Mr Smith said the distribution of food from warehouses in the County will be suplemented by lard, butter and powdered skim milk being shipped from Indianapolis. State WPA Administrator John K. Jennings ordered Frank Heinaman, WPA District manager at Evansville, te look into. the situation. Mr. Jennings said, however, he believed the matter was purely local.” ’ “There is nothing we can do,” he said. “We were ordered to reduce our rolls in the State. We're doing There probably will be further reductions at the end of the month.”

SEEKS REOPENING ~ OF MONTCALM ST.

Riverside Civic League officers told the Works Board today that the league would demand reopening of Montcalm St., between Burdsel Parkway and 25th St. which was vacated by the Board in March, $1938. League officers said that they had noticed barricades set up on the street several months ago, but had though it was going to be paved. They said they did not know the street had been vacated. City Councilman Harmon Campbell accompanied Mrs. H. P. Willwerth, league president; Clayton Gwinup and Mrs. William Taylor, league members, to. the meeting. Board president Louis C. Brandt, explained that the street was vacated at the request of the Big Four Railroad and the Standard Paving Co., both property owners along the thoroughfare. At the time this action was taken, no remonstrances

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Leads Scouts

Homer T. Gratz . . . back to Indiana.

SCHOOL BOND INTEREST CUT

Rate 214, Per Cent on $1,319,000 Debt.

The interest on the bonds covering the Tech High School shop and | power plant and- Schools 22 and 26] has been reduced from 43; per cent! to 2% per cent. : A check for $1,307,000 was written by A. B. Good, schools business director yesterday, paying off all but $12,000 of the remaining 43% per cent bonds outstanding. The money for the check was received from the syndicate which bought the $1,319,000 refunding bonds at the lower rate. The check went to the Irving Trust Co. of New York to pay off the old bonds, issued June 15, 1920. The other $12,000 of the bonds is held locally and will be paid off here. Members of the new syndicate are Estabrook & Co., Paine Webber & Co., Bacon Stevenson & Co. and Roosevelt & Weigold, Inc. all of New York, and the Equitable Securities Corp. of Nashville, Tenn. Another $50,000 bond issue on June 25 will complete a $2,172,000 bond refunding program of the schools this year, which has reduced interest rates on the whole sum from 43. per cent to an average of 2 per cent. The total indebtedness of the School City has been reduced $49,000 this year and $4,063,000 since July 1, 1929, Mr. Good said. He said that only one issue of

NEW EXECUTIVE DUE IN AUGUST

Successor to Belzer Started First Troop in Speed, Ind.; Praises ‘Chief.’

Homer T. Gratz, who started the; first Scout troop at Speed, Ind. and who has been Scout executive at Wheeling, W. Va. for five years, will become Scout executive here in August. The anouncement was made yesterday by the Indianapolis - and Central Indiana Council after an executive board meeting at the Spink-Arms Hotel. The new executive will assume the duties of F. O. Belzer, now executive emeritus. Mr. Belzer has been scout executive here through the 25 years of the Council’s history. In his telegram of ‘acceptance, Mr. Gratz paid tribute to Mr. Belzer by saying: “While I was camp director and scoutmaster in Southern Indiana I knew well the great leadership afforded by Chief Belzer and it became my personal privilege to be associated with him seven years ago at the world jamboree near Budapest. “I am looking forward to being with the Scouts and Scouters of the Indianapolis Council because in my estimation it has one of the finest reputations of any council in the United States.” The Scout jamboree to which Mr. Gratz referred was the one of 1933 in Hungary, at which he was assistant executive. He was chief of the service staff for the American contingent at the jamboree at The Hague, Holland, in 1937. The camp to which he referred was the camp near Milltown, Ind, where Mr. Gratz was on the staff for five years. The troop at Speed has been one of the most active in Southern Indiana. Mr. Gratz was born in Louisville and was an Eagle Scout and Sea Scout there. He graduated from the National Training School for Scout Executives in 1926. He now is 33 and is married and has a 13-year-old Girl Scout daughter. Educated at Ohio State University and Muskingum College, he is a member of the scouting fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, the Rotary Clubs and the Presbyterian Church.

COURT DISMISSES APPEAL BY BANGS

HUNTINGTON, Ind. June 14 (U. P.).—An appeal to gain the release of former Mayor C. W. H. Bangs and J. Clayton Brown, former city construction superintendent, from a jail sentence in Allen County on contempt of court charges today had been dismissed by the Supreme Court. The dismissal occurred because of

the 43; per cent bonds remains, one for $488,000 due June 30, 1955, issued

SHELBYVILLE WPA PROJECT CLEARED UP

The question of sponsorship of a $44,280 WPA sewer project for Shelbyville was cleared up today. When the project was announced as approved by the State WPA

office, Shelbyville City officials said they had never heard of it. It was discovered, however, that the project,” a continuation of a previous sewer program, had become con-

fused by Shelbyville officials with a streets project.

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Builds Community Center—The Indianapolis Slovenian National Home Society is building a. new $18,000 community center at 10th St. and Warman Ave. It will take the place of the present center at 726 N. Holmes Ave. The brick and limestone building with stage and ballroom is being designed by Maurice E. Thornton, architect, and constructed by A. V. Stackhouse Co., assisted by many members of the

Scientech Club to- Rear Supple— Graeme B. Supple, of the American Blower Co., will address the Scientech Club on “Some Engineering Aspects of the Purdue Music Hall” at the meeting Monday noon in the Board of Trade Building.

Coal Men Pledge Defense Aid— The: directors of the Indiana Coal Merchants Association have adopted unanimously a resolution offering the services of the organization “in co-operation with sll proper Federal and State -agencies in meeting any fuel emergens cies which may develop from the present world crisis.” Copies of the resolution were sent to Governor M. Clifford Townsend, the chairman of the Federal War Resources Board and other agencies co-ordinating the defense program of the State and Nation.

Sheffer Family Report to Be Given—Middlewestern members of the Sheffer Family, claimed to be one of the largest families in the United States, will meet Sunday at the Y. W. C. A. to hear Dr. Charles Lober, family geneologist from Phe central offices of the family at Stanton, Va., and to discuss business affairs of the family. George Washington Sheffer, 3311 Graceland Ave., will preside.

WILLIS CRITICIZES F. D. R. STATEMENT

Times Special ? CANNELTON, Ind., June 14.— Raymond E. Willis, Republican Sen-

atorial candidate, lashed out .vigor-|} ously here last night against Pres-|}

ident Roosevelt's foreign policies He said the present Administration is “traveling the same route which we took back in 1915, 1916 and 1917, but at a higher rate of speed.”

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tremely open in his proclamations of hatred for Germany, Italy and Japan,” Mr. Willis said. “He has declared, on his own responsibility, that we shall do everything in our power, short of sending soldiers across the sea, to aid the Allies. “There are many who fear that if we continue these policies, we shall find no stopring short of war.

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curred across the sea have brought home one thing—the fallaciousness of the New Deals ‘economy of scarcity.’ ”

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