Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1940 — Page 6

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ACCIDENTS DROP

RRES

S GAIN

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Report for May Bears Out Theory of Inverse Ratio; Mis-

haps 19 Less Than

in April, Convictions

Increase 435.

An increase in arrests and convictions for traffic viola-

tions in May comp Indianapolis traffig ported to the Safe

ared with April resulted in a drop in the| , accident rate, the Police Department re-| ty Board today.

The report is one of a series of Police Department traffic analyses which show that accidents rise or fall in an in-

verse ratio to the number of arrests and convictions. There were 592 motor vehicle accidents during May, 19 less than the 611 reported in April. Of the May accidents, 188 resulted in injuries, as compared to 213 in April. Only four fatalities were recorded for May, but there were 10 in April. | Arrests Up Aft the same time, arrests rose from 1693 in April to|2183 in May, an increase of 490. Convictions in Municipal Court rose from 842 in April to 1277 in May. However, the number of convictions attended by penalties in May

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pended penalties, trend for every January. A total of 1265 perspns paid fines or costs or served days on the May convictions, but 1623 suspensions of fines, costs and days and judgments withheld were recorded. Judgment was withheld in 624 cases. Charges against 213 persons arrested during the month were dismissed. In April, 923 paid fines, costs or served days, while there were 1262 fines, costs and days suspended and judgments withheld. The number of withheld judgments was 563 that month. Only 205 arrested were dismissed. * Convictions Decline

Compared with May, 1939, last month showed a slight decrease in accidents, especially those resulting in injuries, and a marked increase in arrests. However, there were 110 less convictions last the same period a y

pared with 596 for injuries compared wit

that month since 1937 and the number of accidemts resulting in| injuries, the lowest. However, convictions were substantially below the number for May, 1938, when there were 1416 convicted. : The police report | showed that about one-fourth of the total number of persons arrested last month were charged with |speeding. Of the 593 arrested for speeding, 519— 87 per cent—were convicted. The report does not show [what the sentences were. Last month’s police traffic net caught more speeders than in similar periods in 1939, when 301 were arrested for speeding, and in 1938, when 170 speeders were caught.

Below Year| Ago

While there were | more convic-

tions in May than in April, the total number of convictions recorded for the first five months| of 1940—from Jan. 1 to May 31—dropped to almost cne-half of the total number of convictions recorded for the first five months in 1939. In the first five months of this year, there were a total of 3897 convictions recorded. compared with 7099 in the same period a year ago and 6689 in the first [five months of 1938. i The lessening f . convictions parallels a drop in arrests for the dve-month period over 1938, 1939 and 1940. Over the| same periods, however, accidents rose from 1826 in the first five months of 1938 to 2932 in the same period this year. There were 2397 accidents in the period last year. Police and City officials have explained the figures show an accident rise as a result of new methods of accident recording, rather than a slackening in enforcement.

| Tor the second time in two days, detectives are confronted with the problem of finding] a “wounded” man, following twg reports that an had been shot hear the downtown area. : | Last night, police, detectives and lan emergency squa went to the . Acme-Evans Co., 852 Washington Ave., on the report of a prowler shot by the night watchman. Archie Garther, 848 Indiana Ave. ' the watchman, told |police he fired two shots at three [men ‘who were fleeing with sacks of flour. One of ‘them staggered against a fence and {fell to the ground, he said. |" When the watchman returned | from ‘ealling police, [the “wounded” ‘man was gone. The flour and a man’s hat were found where the man fell, police said. On Thursday, a| man was re- | ported shot in a “gun battle” in ‘the

rear of 200 N. Illinois St. A witness told police two other men in, the fight dragged the “wounded” man down the alley after the shooting. No trace of the “victim” was found. | A man seen entering a taxi with ortly after the

n in his hand 2 gu estioned by po-

shooting, is being qu lice.

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE NO. 2 DEATH CAUSE

diana’s No. Two killer is cere-

‘bral’ hemorrhage, commonly known

‘as stroke or apoplexy, the “bulletin of the Indiana State Medical As-

|sociation said today.

bulletin is one of a series of The th the State’stberation of the Methodist Church

pamphlets dealing leading causes of hemorrhage ranks

~ In 1938, a total of 8420 deaths resulted from heart disease and 433% from cersbral hemorrhage, according to the bulletin. The hem- ~ orrhage, the .bullefin said, occurs because of a small rupture or rent in the blood vessel wall. It may be the result of diseased blood vessels

of a arteriosclerosis

death. Cerebrad second to heart

‘| people

FIND NEED FOR HOME WORKERS

Factory Employees Also Hard to Obtain Here, State Reports.

Factory and domes‘ic workers are the two kinds of employees most difficult to find in Indianapolis, statistics released today by the Indianapolis sfield office of the State Employment Service showed. The figures revealed that ef the 147,000 applications on file in 23

1, about one in five, a total of 28,860, were registered at the Indian-

apolis office. The same figures showed, however, that only one in seven of the semi-skilled production workers seeking jobs in the state were registered at Indianapolis. The ratio was 5221 here to 38,864 for the whole state. Among professional and clerical workers and sales persons, one in four who was seeking a job through the state agency on April 1 was registered at the Indianapolis office. The figures for these classifications, in which Indianapolis seemed to have more of an abundance than the rest of the state were: Professional workers, 1041 here and 4219 in the state; sales persons, 2434 here and 10,583 in the state, and elerical workers{ 2680 here and 9636 in the state. Indianapolis ‘was about on a par with the rest of the state in the fields of domestic work:and skilled and unskilled labor. The ratio of skilled workers was about 1 to 5'2— 4805 registered in, Indianapolis and 26,200 in the whole state. The ratio of unskilled laberers was about 1 to 5, with 7136 registered here and 36,514 in the state. Among domestic workers, there were 1754 registered here and 8268 in the whole state, indicating about one in five of such workers seeking jobs here,

{0 TONS OF DRUGS CRATED FOR ALLIES

NEW YORK, June 15 (U. P.). — Ten tons of life-giving vitamins, hormones, drugs, foods and medical instruments were hastily packed and crated today for shipment to the Allies on the first available boat. The - supplies, some of them so modern they have not been placed

on the market for general use, were donated to the Allies by 400 leading

American pharmaceutical and medical supply firms. They were on exhibit here at the 91st annual convention of the American Medical Association which ended yesterday, after the 117,000 physicians and surgeons in the associatian pledged their availability for medical mobilization. A ‘committee of 15 drafted a plan of medical mobilization for use in event of war or other emergency. Recognizing the ‘need of surrendering a measure of freedom under military necessity,” the House of Delegates accepted a plan for registering doctors and distributing them strategically in time of emergency. The mobilization plan was one of the outstanding developments of the convention, said to have been the largest medical gathering ever held anywhere. A total of 12,765 doctors attended the five-day meeting. Two hundred and fifty papers and reports of medical and surgical progress were read and 260 exhibits valued at $3,000,000 were displayed at various centers throughout the city.

WOMEN OPPOSED TO ROAD 31 RELOCATION

Existing Road 31 will become “a neglected| county road” if the proposed relocation of the highway ‘materiali es, a group of 15 women from Southport, Edgewood and

Greenwood told Governor M. Clifford Townsend yesterday. The group called on the Governor to ask for the improvement of the existing road. Mrs. William Rubly, 5911 Madison Ave., a member of the delegation, said that the Governor gave no assurance | that the improvements would bel made, but that he recommended hem to the Highway Commission. She said the women opposed the relocation because “it will take the highway from us and give it to whe are using it for a real estate development.”

METHODISTS PLAN NEW CORPORATION

GREENCASTLE, [Ind., June 15 (U. P.).—The Northwest Indiana

terday decided to form a new cor-

to be known as the Methodist Church, Inc. The session decided, however, to retain the old corporation, the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the present, as all conference property is listed under that namé. The meeting accepted a report recommending discontinuance of the Monnett Methodist School for Girls at Rensselaer at the close of the school year,

field offices of the service on April |

Methodist Conference meeting yes-|

Milton A. Roe. Indianapolis Railways operator . . . won individval safe-driving prize.

TEE NDANATOLIS TIMES ____ Eternal Vigilance Watchword in Safety Contest

General Baking Co. fleet captains (left to right) Robert Dean, Russell Stanford and William Pugh.

By JOE COLLIER Times Staff Writer JASPER-PULASKI GAME FARM, June 15.—The electric power went off for two hours one night this week, and a dozen grown men paced the pheasant delivery room floor like SO many papas. Twenty-six hundred baby pheas-

ants were due out of incubator No. 2 the next morning at 8 a. m. and the 10 hours immediately preceding are very critical in the life or death

of the new pheasant.

And the power was off! That meant that the heat in the incubator was off. And that, of course, meant that the incubator was gradually getting cooler in spite of good insulation.

2600 Separate Worries These men, members of the State Conservation = Department, think

quite a lot of a baby pheasant, and 2600 times that much about 2600 of them. Besides, they were scheduled: for delivery next day to a conservation club, which was expectzsd to place them in a brooder, rear them io the age of 5 weeks and liberate them in the woods. A thunderstorm, particularly vicious, had struck a vital point somewhere in the utility system that supplies power and the whole game farm had been plunged in darkness. Finally the electricity came back on and the worried conservation ment went back to bed ito dream discouraging dreams about the pheasant birth rate.

Two Hours More Heat

They decided, next morning, to allow the éggs to stay in the incukator for an extra two hours and quite a while before 10 a. m. they couldihear the faint little cheepings coming through the door. ‘At 10 a. m. they opened the incubator and took out and emptied the trays, one by one. The crop was pretty good. Some of the birds failed to come out and some died at birth, probably because of the failure of power. But the percentage was pretty satisfactory. The birds were packed in boxes, 100 to

‘Hold Herron

shown above.

temperature is kept constant at 97 degrees. Then they were hauled away to the clubs. ¢ This, power failure, happens many, many times: here at this season of the year. Both pheasant and quail eggs are hatched artificially and distributed to contracting conservation clubs for rearing. About 160,000 will be delivered this year for rearing by 750 clubs having brooders, and the Department is preparing for even more next year. The Department is to increase from 6000 pairs of breeding quail to perhaps 9000 pairs. A record of performance is kept for each pair. Most of the pairs will be in new houses next year, too. The holding pens are little things with a fencedin yard and a little bungalow-type shelter. They have been built of wood. New ones now are being built of steel. They are very nice and homey, contain a nest and a perch and a feed trough. Captive quail eat a lot of lettuce and find that It agrees with them. They are frightened of anyone in a white shirt. Their handlers, whom they know well, wear blue shirts.

GRIFFIN PLEA STUDIED BY CLEMENCY BOARD

The State Clemency Commission was deliberating today on a plea for a parole made in behalf of J. Barton Griffin, milk salesman, servinug a four months’ sentence on a charge of filing alleged false relief claims in connection with the Center Township relief fraud cases. His parole was asked at a formal hearing before the Commission yesterday when F. P. Griffin, 1616 E. Vermont St. brother of the priscner, appeared as the only witness. ’ Although Griffin will not be eligible for parole until July 27, the petition in his behalf asked that he be released immediately upon payment of a $50 fine. Griffin was sentenced in Criminal Court here April 15 after he plead-

the box, and put in a truck whose

Summer classes at the John Herron Art School will open Monday for a six-week session. The Outdoor Watercolor Land-

scape class again will be conducted by Edmund Schildknect and there will be a class in drawing

under David Rubins and a class

ed guilty to the false claim charge.

Scholarships

RES

Five of the city high school graduates who have been awarded tuition scholarships to the John Herron Art School next year are They are (left to right) Garo Antreasian (Tech), Elizabeth Flagg (Tech), Bonnie Wolfe (Washington), Harvey Wiegand and Forest Stout (both of Tech). ; :

ir commercial art under Paul Wehr. Both of them are members of the regular winter faculty of * the school. A class for children of grade school age will be held for four weeks with Miss June Woodworth as instructor. It also opens Monday.

except for the disturbing

Times Photos.

“There it is fellows,” says Clayton Marsh, fleet captain of the Kuhner Packing Co., showing the InterFleet Safety Contest plaque to his fellow drivers (left to right) Raymond Pence, A. J. Werner, John Nickum, John McGoran and William Owens. The Kuhner Packing Co. won one of the three grand awards.

Blackout Keeps Staff Awake At State Pheasant Incubators

FLEET DRIVERS FIND CARE PAYS

Get Prizes, Certificates, Bonuses; Firms Benefit - On Insurance.

What's the answer to accidentfree driving? Let some of the 800 drivers who were awarded “no accident” certificates and cash prizes in this year’s Inter-Fleet Safety Contest tell you: “It’s just level-headed driving and the practice of safety every hour, every day.” ‘ This year’s grand awards were won by the Kuhner Packing ‘ Co., the General Baking Co. and the Ajax Brewing Corp. e drivers for those . companies operate heavy, hard-to-handle -trucks in the toughest kind of congested traffic for thousands of miles ‘each year and they do it without so much as scraping a fender. ‘Safety Always’

The General Baking .Co. believes in “safety always.” In the drivers’ room is. a huge blackboard: which reads: “Safety. Talk it, think it, practice it. Every day.” The company began an intensive campaign on July 25, 1939, when Russell Stanford was named safety supervisor. He has cut down accidents. The firm’s 50 drivers drove 1,200,000 miles during the contest with only minor accidents. Seventeen finished without an accident. One, not entered because he is a wholesale rather than a retail salesman, has a record of 130,000 miles without an accident. The Ajax Brewing Corp. has no driver with less than five years’ experience. “Level-headed driving” is their. solution to safety, Ao Dickerson, fleet captain, says. The firm's 11 trucks were driven 75,000 miles in the contest without an accident. This was their second year of accident-free driving.

Runnerup Last Year

The drivers this year “entered tg win,” according to Clayton Marsh, fleet captain. “When you're driving you should be thinking about ry says. “Trouble

nerup last 5

begins when you do one thing and think about another.” Henry C. (Kuhner, president, has been giving bonuses for several years to his drivers for their safety record. One of their drivers, John Nickum, has driven between 85,000 and 90,000 accidentless miles, in eight years. This year’s annual individual safe driving prize went to Milton A. Roe, operator for the Indianapolis Railways. He has operated a streetcar or bus through the most congested streets in Indianapolis for 18 years and has driven 608,650 miles without a chargeable accident. Mr. Roe’s formula is to “watch the other fellow and anticipate what he is going to do.” Whatever the pay big dividends, panies find. Not only in safety awards but in actual cash from lowered insurance rates, car depreciation and’ compensation to their arivers. a

13 COMPLETE STUDY OF DRUNKOMETER

Thirteen more State Police troopers - have completed the one-week course in the| inrticacies of the drunkometer given by Dr. Rolla N. Harger at the Indiana School of Medicine here. . The latest troopers to get their schooling in of the alcoholic breath-testing device join 19 other “trooper-technicians,” bringing to 45

to giye the tests © them

the number of officers now qualified and to testify con-

The Kuhner Packing Co. was run- | |

company |:

answers, the results || alil the com- ||

Ao Dickerson, Ajax Brewing

ing is just level-headed driving.

ERNEST BROWN, LAWYER, DIES

Held Democratic and County Offices; Funeral to Be Monday.

Services for Ernest T. Brown, Indianapolis attorney, will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the New Bethel Baptist Church with burial following at Crown Hill. .Ar. Brown was active in DemoYratic circles and was associated politically and in business with: the late Thomas Taggart Sr. Mr. Brown died yesterday at his New Bethel residence. He was 60. He was Democratic County Chairman in 1910 and 1911 and was Marion County prosecutor in 1912 and 1913. He was a native of New Bethel, attended Butler University and graduated. from the Indiana Law School. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and the Masons. Survivors include his wife, Margaret; two sons, William and Herbert; five daughters, Esther, Anna, Mary, Joan and Patricia, all of Indianapolis. A brother, Raymond A. Brown of Canada also survives.

Mrs. Mabel C. Daugherty

Services for Mrs. Mabel C. Daugherty, who died yesterday in the

hom erty i E. 46th St., will be held at New ‘Castle. She was 78. Mrs. Daugherty was the widow of James A. Daugherty and a native of Cadiz, Ind. She was a member of the Methodist Church, Order of Eastern Star and American War Mothers at New Castie, where she had lived for several years. Survivors, besides the son here, are another son, Walter of Pampa, Tex., and a granddaughter.

James A. Carr

Services for James A. Carr, of 1428 E. Washington St., were to be held at 2 p. m. today at the Tolin Funeral Home. Burial will be at

Washington Park. Mr. Carr died yesterday at City Hospital after a three weeks illness. He was 76.

Corp. fleet captain . .. “safe Se gional meeting of the American +Chemical Society at Purdue Univer-

of her son, Elwcod. Daugh-

FOR FARMS I SCIENCE TOPIC

Easy Method of Measuring Moisture Described at Purdue Session.

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind. June 15.—Any farmer can now determine || the amount of water in his soil with a block of plaster of Paris as large as a match box, some wire and a simple electrical apparatus. This was announced today by George Bouyoucos of Mich State College to the Midwest

Dr. igan re-

sity. Reports on many advances in the science of chemistry as it appliés to industry, agriculture and the |arts were heard. ; Method Is Discussed

The new water testing method consists in burying a block of plaster of Paris with wires attached in the ground and allowing it tol absorb water until an equilibrium between it and the soil is canines By then using an ordinary piece of electrical equipment known |as a Wheatstone Bridge, a measurement can be taken of the amount of resistance to electricity offered by the block. Since water contained in readily conducts electricity, | the greater the amount of water present, the: greater amount absorbed by the block and the less resistance. Many absorption blocks may be distributed over the growing area at varying depths to provide a complete picture of water fluctuations and movements within the soil.

soil

Explains Readings

The wires leading to the block can be buried below tillage depth. The “bridge” is portable and can be uced on all blocks. “A study of many different soils indicates that when the resistance of the absorption block becomes constant at about 400 to 600 ohms, the unit for measuring resis nce, the soil in which it is inbedded is holding about the maximum amount of moisture desirable for the growth cf most plants,” Dr. Bouyouco|said. “The optimugn condition for plant growth exists” somewhere between those limits. At a certain range, possibly between 100 and 4000 ohms there is plenty of moisture present tor plant use, and at the same] time soil aeration is satisfactory.” Dr, W. L. Burlison, University of Illinotis agronomy expert, predicted there will be a steady increase of soy bean production in the Middle West. Predicts New Outlets

He pointed out that the U States production of soy bean increased from 4,875,000 to 87,4 Lushels in the last 15 years. cdiana’s production increase i time has been 35 fold, he said Dr. Burlison predicted that atories now doing research on the uses of soy beans probably will find riew outlets for the crop and pointed

nited s has 09,000 Inthat

abor-

SATURDAY, JUNE 15,1940.

WATER GAUGE

Circling RLY

Parents to Be Guests at Camp — Local Y. M. C. A. boys attending Camp Tecumseh on the Tippecanoe River at Delphi, Ind., will entertain their parents tomorrow. Parents will attend chapel service and will be entertained at dinner and a campfire program. Special events include canoe tilting, log rolling, boat and swimming races and a fae ther-and-son softball game.

Gets 25-Year Emblem — Roy R. Ruark, 2145 S. New Jersey St. an Indiana Bell Telephone Co. cable man, received a gold emblem yesterday recognizing his 25th annie versary in the telephone business, Mr. Ruark was among Indiana Bell men who assisted in restoring communication lines after the New England hurricane and flood .in September, 1938. :

Family Welfare Society Willed $3000—A $3000 legacy from the late Oscar Stuart Martin was accepted yesterday by the board of directors of the Family Welfare Society. = Herbert 'S. King, board president, described a program of. evaluating the agency’s work which soon. will be started. Dr. Hazel Stevens, staff psychologist, spoke on psychological Services| in the ‘community.

Rotary to Hear Rotary Head— William Gear Spencer, president of Franklin College, will speak on “The Tools of Rotary?’ at the Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel.

James to Discuss Laws—Richard T. James, chief deputy Secretary of State and Republican nominee for Auditor|of State, willyspeak“on “Administration of Corporation Laws” Monday noon in the Canary Cote tage at| the final luncheon meeting of the Indianapolis Alumni Chapter of Sigma Delta Kappa. Samuel D, Jackson, Attorney General of Indie ana, will be introduced.

Dodrill to Address Townsenditesie The Rev, R. M. Dodrill, Broadway Baptist | Church pastor, will’ address Townsend Club 9 when it meets Monday at 7:45 p. m. in the I. O, all at Hamilton and Washe«

Bel-Rose Meets Tuesday — The

Building 10, to discuss the improvement and paving of several streets in the vicinity. C. Titus Everette, organization president, will preside,

Postal Movie Booked—IL.ocal 130 of the National Federation of Postoffice lerks will be shown the movie ‘‘Men and Mail” at its meeting tonight at 8'clock in the World War Memorial.

Boy Burned by Cinders—Eight~ year-old . John . Richards, 951 Church St., received severe burns on his feet yesterday when he jumped into a pile of hot cinders at the rear of the Indianapolis Drop Forging Co., 1300 Madison Ave. He was treated at the City Hospital.

DEWEY OPENS OFFICE NEW, YORK, June 15 (U. P.).— District} Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, candidate for the Republican Presidential ndmination, opens his headquarters in the Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, today. The Republican

out that 80 per cent of all soy bean cil now is used in the. food industry.

National Convention starts in Phile adelphja June 24.

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