Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1940 — Page 5

. MONDAY, DEC. 30, 100. ames After 50 Yore as Towel John O. Spahr Is Retiring

2 CIVIC GROUPS T0 OFFER BILLS T0 LEGISLATURE

Broader Power Asked for

Juvenile Court; Negro Guard Unit Sought.

- Civic organizations have started drafting their bills for introduction in the Legislature. The Indiana Citizens Committee on Child Welfare Legislation met today at the Columbia Club to outline bills that broaden the powers of Juvenile Court in handling delinquent children and improve child adoption procedures.

The Committee will seek to incorporate in a bill, provisions granting Juvenile Court all state resources in handling its cases and raising to 18 the age limit for the

Court’s jurisdiction over boys. No. boys over 16 are now handled in

Juvenile Court. Bill Passed in 1903

" The Commitiee also will sponsor a bill designed to remove the social stigma from children born .out of wedlock. Committee members reported that * the law under which the Juvenile Court operates was passed in 1903 and that conditions have: changed considerably since then. Starling W. Jones, president of the Federation of Associated Clubs, Inc., announced that his organization will recommend several bills in the Legislature. ’ They include measures providing or: : ~ 1. Control of all public school athletic associations by the State Board of Education with all proceeds used for the public school system.

Ask Negro Guard Unit

2. Appropriation of funds to maintain a Negro unit of the National Guard. 3. Social security benefits and protection for domestic servants and odd-job laborers. 4. Repeal of all obsolete laws “which tend to humiliate and stigmatize the integrity of Negroes.” 5. A law to make it mandatory for one of the employees of the State Board of Education be a Negro. . :

TOLL BRIDGE BOARD PLANS TO SPAN OHIO

The Indiana Toll. Bridge Commission, which has failed so far in its plans to buy the New Harmony toll bridge, today began making planis to build a bridge over the Ohio River just south of Mauck-

port, Ind. Commission officials said they ‘would visit Mauckport soon to select Y a site. The span’s estimated cost of more than a million dollars would be paid by a toll revenue bond issue. Edgar Miles, Commission member, said the bridge had been indorsed by Brig. Gen. Adna R. Chassee, head of the new U. S. Army panzer division at Ft. Knox. Mr. Miles said the Army wanted the bridge so that troops could move from Ft. Knox north through Indiana without going through Louisville.

John O, Spahr ... a lawyer's duty is to find all the facts.

SERVICES TOMORROW FOR TRAFFIC VICTIM

Services for Fred Murbach, killed in a traffic accident Saturday night, will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Edgewood Methodist Church. Burial will be at Round Hill. Mr. Murbach, who was 70 and] lived at R. R. 6, Box 807, was injured fatally when he was struck in the 4900 block of Madison Ave. by a car driven by Claude ‘Shickles, 31, of 2616 Station St. Mr. Shickles stopped and got out of his car, but before he could reach Mr. Murbach, the victim was run over by another car driven by William R. Thomas, 43, of 926 E. 49th St.

C. H. WILLS, FAMOUS | METALLURGIST, DIES

DETROIT, Dec. 30 (U. P.).—C. Harold Wills, who began an illustrious automotive career with Henry Ford in 1903 and became one of the nation’s outstanding metallurgists, died today. Mr. Wills, who was 62° and a native of Ft. Wayne, Ind. left Mr. Ford in 1919 to found the Wills-St. Claire Automobile Co. Six years later this project was abandoned and Mr. Wills devoted his efforts toward metallurgical research. He was credited with development of vanadium steel commercially and with the use of molybdenum steel in automotive construction.

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4 | Facts vary. It is the duty of every

By HARRY MORRISON

Along about the turn of the century the so-called “grave-robber cases” were being tried in the Marion County Courts.

Sentiment against doctors in colleges in Indianapolis who had bought bodies from grave robbers for research was running high. On the day the jury was chosen, spectators were amazed to discover that a young attorney for the defense, only 10 years in the practice, seemed to know ahead of time what every juror thought. The jury returned a favorable verdict, and the stage was set for the legal distribution of bodies for medical research.

Retiring After 50 Years

That young attorney was John O. Spahr, Now he is retiring. He

the Indianapolis Bar, Medium sized, gray haired and with a smile, he is still very much a legal man, -He explains that knowledge of the jury so long ago this way: “The law remains the same.

attorney to learn all the facts about his clients’ cases. “I was in charge of getting the evidence and selecting the jury on those grave-robber cases. I set up a system of precincts in the city with a doctor heading each division.

Listened to Conversations

“We listened to all conversations —almost everywhere—in all public places. When the time came fo find out if a prospective juror had actually made up his mind against us, I could go back to a night perhaps months before and challenge him—word for word—with what he had said. “We didn’t get many’ persons on that jury who had decided beforehand that our clients were guilty.” Mr, Spahr is a native of Indianapolis. His grandparents came here from Virginia on horseback. He ‘still has the side-saddle his grandmother used. Fifty years ago, a lad with not much money got his schooling the hard way. Mr. Spahr read law books in the office of his cousin. |He was trying cases before a year was out, and made $300 that first year. Recalls ‘Rooker Case’

At first he went into the criminal law principally because it sharpens the wits. One of the cases he re‘members most is the ‘Rooker Case,” a murder trial. He asked a change of -venue and his petition consisted of a brief seven inches thick with nothing but newspaper clippings calling for conviction of his client. He got ichange of venue, Mr. Spahr, who is 75 and lives at 5125 N. Meridian St. has had: all kind of fees, from $100,000 fo! nothing. Early in his career he established] the rule that anyone who lacked | money but had a cause of action could get help from him. He considers it his duty as a lawyer. From 1899 to 1920—the greater part of the time he practiced here— he had offices in the Law Building (now the People’s Bank Building). Now he has an office in the Majestic Building, where he handles only cases for old clients and tries to sell his law books. In the corner, by the window, is an - old overstuffed leather chair with the ticking coming out at the head. It was a gift from the widow of Charles Bookwalter, former mayor. ;

That Money. You Received for Christmas

Wouldn't it be nice to spend it for something practical so every member of your family could benefit.. . . something practical like a modern gas range? Wouldn't you like to be able to say: "Well, | sure know where that gift money went this year." But better still— this year and every year, a modern gas range in your kitchen continues to remind you how wisely you invested your Christmas money in 1940.

A modern gas range benefits every member of your family, because it is designed to operate more efficiently — to save time and food fer the cook, and to save fuel for the fellow who foots the bills. What's more, a modern gas range assures perfect results every time and works wonders in saving the tasty, healthful vitamins and juices of your foods.

Now for you folks who would like to make an extra good buy with your Christmas money, we are closing out one particularly fine model of Magic Chefs. It's called Model 4301-14 and formerly sold for $89.50 with your old stove—but NOW it is only $79.50 with the trade-in. This Magic Chef is truthfully up to date in every respect. Before the first of the year, arrangg to buy this modern gas range on convenient terms. Remember

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of wine on the shelf.

happened to be in the cafe. 2 ” 2 Mayor Franklin Buckner of Bluffton tried to aid the “underdog” the other day, and, as a result, is now nursing a sprained ankle. According to the mayor, he came upon two large dogs attacking a smaller one. He decided to help the little pup and aimed a hefty kick at the other two animals. The kick missed. He sprained his ankle. 1 2 o MR. AND MRS. L. S. TURNER of Cowan have a huge log in their home, but it will never be used for fuel. The log, with a dainty red ribbon tied around it and a tag which reads, “Not For Fuel,” is part of the heart of an old elm tree which once was used as a_ postoffice in Delaware County during the Civil War, The elm, which stood in the Mt. Zion churchyard, southwest of Muncie, was uprooted some time ago and the historic log was salvaged. : 8 aT | THERE SEEMS {o be some sort of a desire among elderly Hoosiers to take their first ride in an airplane. John Everett, 87, of Decatur,

Hoosier Goings On

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Wine Proves Trap for Burglar; Mayor Hurt Helping Underdog

By FRANK WIDNER A 29-YEAR-OLD MAN down in Bloomington probably will be glad

He broke into one of the town’s cafes, where he spied a quantity

When police arrived to take him into custody, they found him sitting at the bar, sipping the wine, too “hazy” to remember how he

year.

a Christmas present from his great-nephew, Clarence Hertel. Then, there was the first flight . of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Stoner of Ladoga, who went up in an airplane the other day to celebrate their 56th wedding anniversary. Mr. Stoner Is 84; Mrs. Stoner, 80. ” ” ” SHERIFF BURTON B. FOQULK was called to investigate a burglary at the summer cottage of Earl Wrightsman of Kokomo, at Tippecanoe Lake recently. When he arrived he found the window pane shattered and inside the house a huge hawk that had been dead sometime. The sheriff said he believed the bird apparently crashed through the window after seeing its reflection in the glass and then starved to death after a futile effort to find a way out.

OLDS CAUSE JURE T THROAT

Ind. received his first flight as

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FUNERALS

OPPORTUNITIES OF "41 PICTURED

Prominent Americans Say u. S.. Must Prepare for Any Contingency.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (U. PJ. —A group of prominent Americans from Government and private fields last night pictured 1941 as a year of opportunity and a year during which the United States must make a supreme effort to prepare itself for any contingency.

The group, speaking on the Mutual Broadcasting System’s American Forum 'of the Air program, comprised Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson; Assistant Secretary of State Adolph A. Berle Jr.; Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins; Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt; George B. Parker, editor-in-chief of t h e Scripps-Howard Newspapers; Walter Fuller, president of the National Association of Manufacturers; Neville Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, and Everett Clinchy, head of the National Conerence of Christians and Jew. Topic of the discussion was ‘Americ&’s Outlook for 1941.” Mr. Parker, speaking on “The Outlook for the Press,” called on the nation to “realize that never before in our history has there been such a need for clear and

one of us; for such an exercise of wisdom in the written and spoken word; for such complete tolerance towards the other fellow’s right to have his say; for such an uurestricted working of that process of free discussion by which we in the end find the right, ‘as God gives us

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Auburn A. Ress . . | tonight Auburn A. Ross will be installed as worshipful master of Marion Lodge 35, F. & A. M. at the Masonic Temple tonight. Other officers to be installed include Carl F, Whide, senior warden; Charles W. Hess, junior warden; James G. Drummond, treasurer; Harry J. Stambaugh, secretary; George

C. House, senior deacon; Thomas A. Twigg, juniof deacon; John Gray, senior steward; George S. Weiser, junior steward; and Samuel A. Witthoft, tyler.

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SEEKS FUND AFTER FIRE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (U. P.). —Alagkan | Delegate Anthony J.

Dimond said today that he would %

seek a $350,000 Congressional appropriation to rebuild the Federal court house and jail which burned

to see the right.’”

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AWAIT CURTISS | OFFICERS HERE

Two Aeronautical Aids to Hunt Office Space for New Plant.

Two Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Corp. officials are expected in*Indianapolis the latter part of this week to arrange offices of the new propellor plant the firm will open here soon. The officials are Robert L. Earle, a Curtiss-Wright vice president, and R. J. Sneider, who is expected to head the Indidnapolis division. The firm, which will employ 4000 persons in making electrically controlled variable-pitch propellers for military planes, have been offered temporary offices in Stokely’s central building, 941 N. Meridian St. THe Curtiss company is expected to begin a $400,000 renovation of five structures on the 14-acre plot formerly occupied by the Marmon Motor Car Co, in the 1200 block of W. Morris St. early in February, Five organizations using the structures for garage and warehouse space will vacate the buildings.

HULL ASSISTANT QUITS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (U. P.).— Assistant Secretary of State Henry PF. Grady has submitted his resignation to President Roosevelt in order

|to assume the presidency of the

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TROCKEFELLER DOCTOR WINS LILLY AWARD Wilworth Wayne Woolley, a native

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