Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1940 — Page 19

JOHN V. BEAMER, . WABASH, HEADS SCHOOL GROUP

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THURSDAY, NOV. 28,

Administrators Propose Liability Insurance for Employees. John V. Beamer, Board of Education president at Wabash, today headed the Indiana Town and City

School Administrators Association. He was elected fyesterday at a

business session of /the group in the

Claypool Hotel. Other new officers are: Superintendent H. L. Binford, Bloomington, first vice president; H. E. H. Greenlief, Board president, Greencastle, second vice president, and Mrs. Lucille Frazee, Board president, Rushville, third vice president, C. V. Ha worth, Kokomo, secretary-treasurer.

Urge Insurance Plan "Two resolutions, both concerning

* finances, won the approval of the -. association.

One urged legislation to allow school boards to purchase liability insurance for all school employees and teachers from public funds. * The other: favored legislation to

provide retirement funds for non- f%

teaching school employes. Discusses Home Rule

Dr. R. W: Holmstedt of Indiana University discussed “Home Rule as applied to School Administration” during the afternoon session. Others who spoke in the wafternoon were L. J. Harwood, South Bend Board president, “Liability Insurance for School Administrators”; Superintendent H. E. Allman, Muncie; Mr. Beamer, Mr. Haworth, and Robert H. Wyatt, Indiana State Teachers Association executive secretary, who spoke on co-operation

between the two groups.

Dr. O. F. Hall of West Lafayette,

retiring president, was in charge of |till is almost empty now. And the

the annual meeting.

2 LOCAL DRAFTEES NOW AT FT. KNOX

PT. KNOX, Ky., Nov. 28—Two Indianapolis youths, in the first con-

_ tingent of 94 selective service draf-

tees to arrive here,- took up duties today with Uncle Sam’s. new first Armored Division. Samuel R. White, 2953 Talbott Ave. and Harold E. Bowman, 1205 Sterling St., along with other draftees from Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia, began a 12-week training course under selected instructors in military customs, ‘nfarksmanship, physical alertness and other basic topics for new soldiers. The draftees were welcomed by Maj. Gen. Bruce Magruder, com-

‘manding , general of the armored

unit.

1940 ot ake Confer on

ncreased Fees at Airport i

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lines using the Municipal Airport. Shown examining the proposed new schedule are (left to right) Landis, regional vice president of American Airlines; Joseph Bartles, Eastern Division superintendent of T. W. A.; Leo K. Welch, vice president of the Works Board; Louis C. Brandt, Works Board president, and Leslie P. Arnold, assistant to the president of Eastern Air Lines. /

Airlirks and Works Board officials opened negotiations yesterday on the Board’s proposal to increase fees

By RICHARD LEWIS

The pinch of poverty is being felt at City Hall as the City prepares, to end its fiscal year $350.000 in the red.

Overbrimming with cash at the beginning of the year, the municipal

City-has another month to run until payday, 1941, which is Jan. 1. The gloomy financial situation, the result of a $1,000,000 budget miscalculation, has officials worried. To keep the machinery gbing, they have decided to buy now and pay later. The lack of funds is being felt most acutely: in the Works Department. At the Sanitation Plant Superintendent Don Bloodgood has been obliged to buy coal on the cuff to keep up steam. } Yesterday, the Works Board ordered department heads to continue buying necessary gasoline on credit. Board members, after a heads-to-gether - discussion, concluded that funds or no funds, the municipal show must go on. y The question of how to buy without money has been sqlved at City Hall before in similar situations. The method has been tried and found reliable, according to! officials. The’ City merely infornis its cred-

itors it can’t pay. Money appropri-

ated in the 1941 budget cannot be used to pay for purchases made in 1940. So the City invites its creditors to sue. Armed with a judgment, the creditors. then come to collect. They don’t get clean crisp checks. They receive what is known as Municipal Certificates of Indebtedness. In addition to yielding an interest rate,

the certificates are as good.as cash.

Eye New Airport Fees

Works Board members unanimously were pleased at the reception

air line officials gave the proposal to quadruple Municipal Airport revenue—at the expense of the air lines. 2 : A new schedule of flight and landing fees and office rentals had been worked out by Superintendent 1. J. Dienhart. The new schedule, based on charges at other municipal ports, would yield enough revenue to make the airport. self-supporting for the first time in its 10-year history. Air line and Works Board officials sat down around the glass-topped table at the Hall yesterday, for the preliminaries in the negotiations which are likely to last several months. :

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Even AsYougnd |; the City's in the Red and Devising Schemes to Meet Its Overhead

The air line men, executives of Eastern Air lines, American Airlines and Transcontinental & Western Airlines, agreed with Board’s object in ‘rasing the rates. But, they

added, the 400 per cent increase suggested by the City is “a bit steep.” 20 The offfcials admitted that now their lines are operating “in black ink” and should pay. They said that future years would bring more business. They were sure of that, they said, because they ‘had great faith in the future of air travel. Reed Landis, vice president of American Airlines, predicted that in five years there will be a 250 per cent I wave) here. By 1950, he saigf”the increase will have reached 400 per cent over this year. Not only will there be more passengers, but more planes and much bigger planes. He suggested that on this basis, revenue could be increased. : “But the increase you gentlemen propose—400% a year roughly—is a little tough in relation to the business we now get,” he said. Leslie P. Arnold, assistant to the Presiden) of Eastern Airlines, and Joseph “S. Bartles, Eastern Division. superintendent of TWA, nodded.

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POLIS T _— REASSESSMENT IS BIG ISSUE IN "#1 LEGISLATURE

to Pass It but Many Will ~ Fight Plan. By EARL RICHERT

One of the hottest fights in the coming session of the Legislature is certain to result over a measure to provide for a general re-assessment of all real property in Indiana. The last State-wide assessment was made in 1932, and there have been a lot of changes in real estate values since. : Down-town property has generally decreased in value in the large cities due to the growth of suburban shopping centers, while factory and farm, property which could hardly be given away in 1932 has increased in value. And taxes are still being paid on the basis of 1932 valuations.

Taxpayers Divided

Those paying taxes on land which is valued too high will be for the measure while those paying on valuations fixed too low for present conditions will present a strenuous opposition. A considerable amount of opposition is expected to come from Lake County factory owners whose property valuations were set at a low figure during the depression and many farmers, too, are txpected to be opposed to the re-assessment. Governor-elect Henry F. Schricker favors a re-assessment as does the State Tax Board. The Tax Board has the power to order a re-assess-ment but its members feel that such action should be ordered by the Legislature, the elected represeptatives of the people. ‘Both major political parties had planks in their platforms advocating re-assessment, the Democrats favoring re-assessment in 1941 and the Republicans in 1942.

Wants It In 4941

Mr. Schricker said today that he believed the re-assessment should be made in 1941, a non-election year, to insure as fair an assessment as possible. He said he believed that the re-assessment should be done scientifically so as to make it uniform, : ” The Tax Board plans to make the proposed re-assessment “scientific” by adopting a manual setting up regulaticns for appraisement by the various assessors. . r

sessors to use the same 'system in assessing property and would do away with the old-time assessor who squinted at a building and then wrote down a figure he believed to be its worth, Tax Board members say. ” ”

Valuations Reduced

. The Tax Board has been making a considerable number of adjustments on valuations in Indianapolis on appeals from the County Board of Tax Review. ; - Yesterday the Board lowered the valuation on the west side of Illinois St. from . Washington to Maryland Sts. from $2000 to $1500 a front foot. A real estate agent who asked the reduction for property owners in the block said that most of the property was taxed so high that the income from the property is not sufficient to pay taxes. The valuation on two vacant lots on Ft. Wayne Ave, also were lowered from $100 to $70 a front foot. A representative of the realty firm which owns the property said that the two lots, from which no income is received, was assessed at $21,000 and that the company would be glad to sell both of them for around $5000.

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Another Engineer Quits

The Highway Department is virtually beirig “riddled” by resigna-

‘tions of experienced engineers to

take better paying positions in the national defense program. The latest to: resign is Al Richards, traffic engineer of the LaPorte district, who quit to take a position with the private engineering firm engaged in construction of the Union Center shell loading plant. Nearly 15 experienced engineers have quit the Commission so far, and the Commission is having extreme difficulty in replacing them, according to M. R. Keefe, chief en-

gineer. | Pive bridge design engineers quit

in a body early in the fall to. go to work for the Glenn Martin Aircraft Co. at Baltimore, Md., under fiveyear contracts.

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License Trouble

Yes, the favored few will get low license plates again this year. There have been requests for almost four times as many low license numbers as there are numbers, according to Frank Finney, commissioner of motor vehicles. While he is complying with the custom, he doesn’t like it. He thinks it would be better to start the license snumbers with 1001 so that there™vould be no low numbers. Mr: Pinney said that about the only way the practice could be abolished would be for the Legislature to take some action. Those applicants for low license numbers who received low numbers last year will receive priority on the 1941 plates, Mr. Finney added. The new plates will have white numerals on a blue background. /

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Revocation of Hiel Crum’s License Sustained; ~ Appeal Planned.

Terming his “etherator” a hocuspocus, Judge Herbert E. Wilson yesterday denied Dr. Hiel Eugene Crum’s appeal on the revocation of his license by the State K Board of Medical Regisjration and Examination. mined Attorneys far Dr. Hiel Crum, who has offices at {025 Prospect St., said today he woulll appeal the ruling.

tee appointed by the court that Dr. Hiel Crum had failed to affect either the hardness or iron content of water with the machine, The appeal was made on a ruling by the Board following a hearing on charges brought last August by the Better Business Bureau.

Writes Two-Page Statement

In a two-page statement, Judge Wilson said that’. “granting some cures by hocus-pocus, this did not warrant the court permitting .such fraud to continue.” =F He said that the case was one in which the court fcould not overlook testimony of expert witnesses on both sides, but that Board witnesses from Purdue, Indiana and Butler Universities had testified there was no healing power in the machine, there was no such thing as etheronics and that the machine had no power to give off anything but heat. . ii The judgment said it Was true that some of the persons who. testified for Dr. Hiel Crum were actually helped or cured by him.

~ Lacked Faith in. Doctors “That would be foolish fo deny,” it said, “but the court is convinced that these patients are what is commonly known as ‘hysteria patients. ” These people, the Judge said, went to Dr. Hiel Crum with a lack of faith in doctors. Ak “They would have been helped or cured just as easily if Dr, Hiel Crum had suspended a white blanket from the ceiling with several colored lights

'Etherator’ Hocus- Pocus, Judge Says Upholding Board

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Dr. Hiel Crum , . . etherator fails to impress experts.

behind it and chanted words into the blanket as he did into the etherator,” he added. : “Instéhd of calling it an etherator, he might have calied it a ‘carpet from the Orient.’ ” " The report concluded by stating that “if the etherator were not a fraud, you may be sure medical schools and hospitals would have used it long ago.” Judge Wilson, who was acting as a special judge in Cireuit Court, found Dr. Hiel Crum guilty of gross immorality, which was the charge brought before the State Board. The order of revocation of Dr. Hiel Crum’s license to practice elec-tro-therapeutics, chiropractic and naturopathy was declared in force. He was ordered to pay all costs. After hearing evidence on the appeal for several days early in October, “Judge Wilson appointed a committee to determine what the etherator could do under conditions agreed upon by both the committee and Dr. Hiel Crum. . Dr. Hiel Crum had professed to be able to effect cures. with his ethera-

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Shortage to Handicap 1941 Road Program He : Tells Contractors. FRENCH LICK, Ind, Nov. 28—

IT. A .Dicus, State Highway Commis|sion chairman, told the Indiana | [Contractors Association here yes-

terday that a shortage of engineeis:

lin the department is a serious handicap to the 1941 program.

The shortage began, he. said, when

{the 1938 Legislature cut the depart|ment appropriation -and has been

aggravated by the constant streaming of engineers from highway positions to defense positions which pay more, He also asked the contractors to help advise the next General Assembly in which, he declared, various groups may seek to alter the tax income of the department. He urged that a long term construction program be outlined 'so that work could proceed without interruption for a period of five to ten years. He pointed out the 123 engineers have been with the highway department for more than 10 years and added “I do not feel tha that investment (in training the engineers to highway problems), should be lost to the highway program simply on a political basis. .

. STRIKE AT TVA DAM : PADUCAH, Ky. Nov. 28 (U. P). —More than 2000 men employed on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kentucky dam at Gilbertsville on the Tennessee River remained idle today as the result of a strike of skilled workers.

tor by means of mental or spiritual waves capable of causing chemical changes. The committee, which included R. N. Harger, Indiana University School of Medicine professor; Neil Kershaw, Indianapolis Water Co. chief chemist, and Charles Ness, research engineer, reported they found no evidence of any such

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