Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1940 — Page 15
‘WEDNESDAY; OCT. 0 1940
“CUT IN FIRE LOSS SPURS PREVENTION
Chiefs Kennedy and “Lynch Cite 50
In Damage During 1930s; Volunteer Groups Organized in Factories.
If the citizens of Indianapolis had deposited a dollar for every one they lost in fires from 1931 to 1939, they now would have in the bank the tidy sum of $4,000,000. This accumulated fire loss during the 1930's, however, is less than half the $9,000,000 burned up in the City from 1922 to 1930, according to the records of Fire Chief Fred C.
Kennedy. And this 50 per cent iit in fire loss gives Chief Kennedy and his Fire Prevention Bureau head, Chief Bernard
A. Lynch, room for hope. They and 60 trained firemen are out to bring the annual fire loss down, by inspection, instruction and general vigilance. They are * touring industrial plants and residences as part of National Fire Prevention Week. 3 Convinced! that most fires are easly pre- § ventable, both $ chiefs are work- |} jne on the eory . that a Fire Department Mr Kennedy has as mugh_ business preventing fires as in putting them out.
Volunteers Organized
_ In industrial plants, keyed to defense production, the firemen are forming volunteer. on-the-spot fire brigades, instructing workmen in methods of prevention and looking for fire hazards. _ But the Department is not forgetting the home of John Q. ‘Cflizen, where last year 56 per cent of all fires and 60 per cent of all injuries from fires occurred. At fire headquarters, the records ‘tell some strange tales of fires and how they were started. By far the mose frequent cause of fires is the simple act of lighting a cigaret, a cigar or a pipe and throwing the match away.
Flue Sparks Are Peril
An elderly gentlemen did this last year, as he lay in bed reading. He threw the match away, and it fell on a pile of newspapers by the bed. He was burned seriously. Another frequent cause, most frequent in the case of residential fires, is defective flues. Sparks fly up, sometimes ailighting on the roof... This caused 175 fires last year. Carelessly thrown matches and cigaret caused 286. In addition to these, improper heating plants, overheated stoves, overheated pipes, trash accumulations in basements and bonfire sparks caused most of the fires in Indianapolis last year and the year before. There are other causes, some so rare the public seldom hears about them. A hot sun shining through a curved. window pane has been known to set afire drapes. It's the same principle as in concentrating the sun’s heat with a magnifying glass.
Carelessness Dangerous
Static electricity may set a roomful of aluminum dust or a grain elevator filled with wheat dust aflame. Lightning, too, accounts for some fires. ? But the vast majority of fires, particularly those that bring injury, are caused by carelessness of the threwn-away match type. People also have been known to fall asleep with lighted -cigarets in their fingers. One young woman was seriously burned this way when the cigaret set fire to a couch. Looking into automobile engines by the flicker of a match or cigar lighter is almost certain, to cause trouble. Especially if the flame goes near the carburetor, whether the motor is running. These are the kinds of fires Chiefs Kennedy, Lynch and their men are to prevent. They think they can prevent a good many if the public will lisen to them.
TEAMSTERS’ HEADS ARRESTED IN MIAMI
MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 9 (U. P.).—Edward Murphy, general organizer of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs (A. F. of L.) today investigated the arrest of Joseph Capparelli and Anthony Florio, president and business agent of the Miami local, -on perjury charges. He came here last night. They were jailed yesterday a few hours after they had testified before the County Grand Jury which is investigating labor racketeering. The union had called a taxi drivers’
strike, and last week Police Chief H.|, Leslie Quigg had urged William
Green, A. F. of L. president, to remove them from their ‘union offices, because they had criminal records.
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Keeping Idealism Alive Is One of Women’s Jobs, First Lady Says.
NEW YORK, Oct © (U. P.).—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt warned the nation’s women yesterday that they must decide whether they are willing to pay the price of liberty—a “pretty heavy” price. ‘ “A part of this price deals with
the cost of preparedness,” the wife of the President said, addressing members of the Business and Professional Womens League at a tea aere. “But equally important is the cost of 'democracy—of making our country fit to be defended.”
VOTES SPENDING! CASH FOR YEARS
Congress Approves Sum Five Times Above U. S. Treasury Income.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P).—
E | This session of Congress has voted
since Jan. 3 to spend approximately
of the United States Treasury. But in voting so much directly, indirect-
neither intended nor expected all of it to be spent in a single year. Some of the spending—especially for the Navy—will be over a period of six or seven years. Total money appropriations by Congress, including funds for national defense, were $16,900,000,000.
There was an additional item of ap- |}
proximately $4,000,000,000 covered by Congressional authorizations for na-
tional defense and other agencies |§
of Government to sign contracts for future expenditure. Beyond that there was a Congressional authorization for the Navy to expand. That authorization was for $4,586,000,000. Another authorization—no money voted, but a formal Congressional commitment to
provide it in the future—was $400,- |g
000,000 for civil agencies of the Government.
YEAR'S SUPPLY OF TIN READY FOR U. S.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P).— Edward R. Stettinius Wi chief of the Defense Commission’ terials division, says the IU. S. has more than a year’s supply of tin on hand o rreadily available and manganese stocks sufficient for two years. Both estimates take into account unusually heavy demands resulting from the defense program and include stocks currently ‘held by in-
those afloat. from Cuba is also included. CHILD, 2, DIES OF BURNS
WILLIAMSPORT, Ind., Oct. 9 (U. P.).—Clarence Swishes Jr. 2, died yesterday of burns suffered when he poured kerosene over live coals in the kitchen stove.
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Women must think through their creeds, she said, and decide “from day to day what we must do for peace in a war-torn world.” She said that American women will want to “take the responsibility for some of ‘the human suffering and alleviate as much human suffering as ‘e can,” and that one ot their most important services would be to keep idealism alive in. the world while men occupied themselves with material affairs.
THE, INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ___
Probe of Nazi Investments
In U.S. Is 'Touchy' Question
By BRUCE CATTON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—If Senator Burton K. Wheeler gets the Senate to okay his bill for an investigation of German control of U. S. defense industries, look out for fire-
Works. .
The National Defense Advisory
Commission is inclined to oppose the probe, fear ing what the excitement might do to the defense program, and certain Administration liaison men have been quietly lobbying against it. Stoutly favoring the investigation is the anti-trust division of the Department of Jus- : tice, where, in tact, the whole Senator Wheeler idea was really born.
Nearfy a year ago Thurman Amold notified the War Department that he had good reason to suspect that German interests had made agreements with U. S. pro-
ducers which had the effect of throttling the U. S. capacity to produce certain essential war materials. Reveal Obligation
Later, the famous Bausch-Lomb case showed how a maker of secret U. S. defense equipment was under
obligation to reveal such secrets to,
a German concern. Points which especially worry
E| those who have been close to the §| situation are these:
The suspicion that whole or part ownership of certain American corporations is actually supplying Germany with the money that pays for espionage work 1n this country. Ownership is carefully disguised, usually via banks or dummy cor-
f| porations in Switzerland.
Fear Data Not Secret
The fear that various patent and trade control agreements between U. S. and German producers give Germany accurate, day-to-day information about the kind and extent of war material the Government is buying. - The belief that under-production | and too-high prices in certain important defense industries are due to similar agreements.
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BRITISH TO GET
FAST AIRACOBRA
Delivery to Start in November; Writers See Test of Plane.
BUFFALO, N.Y. Oct. 8 (U. PJ). —The first of the new 400-mile-an-hour Airacobras, believed the equal in speed and firepower to any inter-ceptor-pursuit planes now possessed by the Germans, will be delivered to the Royal Air Force in November. The Airacobra, now in production at the Bell Aircraft Co.'s plant here, was put through its paces at Buffalo airport for aviation writers in the first public demonstration of the craft since large orders were placed! by the British and U. S. The British are to get an export version very similar to the plane now being built for the U. S. Army. It was estimated that the company has orders for 1600 of the Airacobras, about half for the British and half for the U. S. Army. The plane is equipped with a cannon that fires through the propellor hub. In addition, it has four machine guns synchronized to fire through the propellor. In order to concentrate this fire-power in the nose of the ship, the Allison engine is mounted behind the pilot.
State fo Honor Liev Eiriksson
A PROCLAMATION honoring Liev Eiriksson, the Norwegian explorer who 940 years ago set foot on the coast of Massachusetts, was issued by Governor Townsend today. 7 This is the first wegian has been- honored throughout the State. President Roosevelt and Republican Candidate Wendell L. Willkie have issued statements in commemoration of the explorer’s voyage. The Norway Club, which last year held a banquet and celebration in honor®of Leiv Eiriksson, has abandoned the idea this year in order to send all available help to aid war refugees in Nor-: way.
year the Nor-
RUSSELL IS' DENIED | RIGHT TO INTERVENE
ALBANY, N. Y, Qct. 9 (U. P.).— The Court of Appeals yesterday refused Bertrand. Russell permission to intervene in a court suit testing] whether he can teach in a New| York City College. The decision was unanimous and without opinion. Mr. Russell had sought fo intervene in a taxpayers suit to protect his own interest. Lower courts have prohibited him from taking a position as professor
in a New York college supported by
ADVANCED METHODS "IN T. B. FIGHT SHOWN
A short course on tuberculosis will be held for Indianapolis doctors Oct. 16 at the Sunnyside Sanatorium under sponsorsnip of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association. The advanced methods of treatment will be demonstrated. The program will begin at 1 p. m. and end with a 6 p. m. dinner.
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“ras A DANDY IN HER DAY
the thrill that came from “breakneck” speed at 35—-from safety on high pressure tires—from riding under a leaky “California Top”-—belong to his-
tory.
results every time or do you put up with occasional failures? Are you doing “Model T” cooking—or do you enjoy the advantages of a streamlined modern 1940 gas range?
“Model T” transportation belongs to yesterday, today you're living in a modern age and riding in modern 1940 streamlined cars.
SURE. YOUR OLD STOVE STILL COOKS
« « « but can you depend on it for perfect results every time and truthfully say that cooking is fun? Sure, your old stove
still cooks, but can you keep its exterior sparkling with cleanliness ... can you turn a valve for instant heat? Sure, your old stove still cooks, but can you be sure of perfect baking
‘Modern gas cooking means fast burners that give you speed when you need it and a simmer flame when you want waterless cooking; it means non-clog burners with side openings which prevent boil-overs and spilled food from clogging the burners; it means a smooth porcelain enamel surface, easy to keep shining like new, with no seams or joints to catch dirt; and it means many other time, fuel and food saving features. Sure, your old stove still cooks, but can you truthfully say “Model T” cooking is fun?
HEAVY INSULATION FOR COOLER KITCHENS
‘No longer need your kitchen be
the “torrid zone” in your home. A
heavy blanket of fibre glass oven
and broiler insulation keeps the heat IN the range and OUT of the
kitchen.
means a saving in fuel.
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