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FOR SUNSHINE lated for Failure to Have Driver's . ‘Is City’s Greatest in

Sea Foam Green,” Gray, ssey Says; Ghost of Lew Shank - 10 Years.

cM Beige and Sun Tone Have ppears and Is Quashed. After 10 years of comparative Places in New System. > y : quiescence, Indianapglis in 1940

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threw off the last shackles of the depression and resumed its growth as an industria] giant.

By EARL HOFF

Sea foam green, sun-tone, dove gray, beige.

ew Year's Day or thereafter until furChitf Michael F. Morrissey. : this department policy clear yesterday he two deadlines for driver's licenses — and license plates. While the “ |deadline for plates has been extended to March 1, the dead- , line for operator’s licenses exIpired last midnight. - © A previous Police Department order that any motorist arrested for a traffic violation from ‘today on who did not have an operator's

| license or plates has been rescinded, the Chief said. ‘ :

That sounds like a misplaced ad line from the Society Page, but it isn’t. It is the chant of a public school painter plotting the color scheme of a modern school building. The scheme .is one to trap every possible ray of winter sunshine for heretofore dark corners of class= rooms.’ Most of the school year is during winter months when the sun’s beams slant from the south, and north exposure rooms get little light, Ray Wakeland, superintendent of buildings and grounds, explained. To counteract this, Mr. Wakeland said, schoolroom walls on the north are being painted in sun-tone (a yellowish buff). All Ceilings White

East. and south exposure rooms are painted a sea foam green and ,. the west exposure rooms dove gra s The ceilings in all the rooms ares. white. So far, about 10 schools in the City have received this new paint treatment. As other schools need” paint, this motif will be used, Mr. Wakeland said. Other innovations are substitution of pastel colors for the flat whites in ‘clinic rooms and the ominous, dull colors in principals’ offices, and beige for corridors. The now out-moded color matif for schoolrooms celled for a dark “dado” on the lower half of the walls to mask handmarks made by pupils. In the new color motif, the entire walls are painted the same color and the lower half covered by a washable varnish. The James E. Robert 1 for

On all points of the compass, its metropolitan boundaries expanded as more than 1000 new homes arose against the residential skyline. And with the home building boomlec which began in 1939 came: the first rumble of an industrial boom. “In 1940, nearly $14,000,000 in new construction arose in the City. It was the City’s greatest building year since 1930, when the valuation totaled $18,000,000. It was a greater year than 1939 by nearly $300,000.

Defense Program Helped

The new building vitality that coursed through the City came in the wake of a revival of commerce and industry. The building upswing was accelerated in the last half of the year by the surge of the defense program. As preparedness orders began filtering into the City, eleven industrial plants expanded at a cost of $3,000,000. Following the industrial upswing, the acceleration of home building became pronounced. Approximately 1200 new homes, most of them for sale, were built at a total cost of $5,000,000, ~ New business enterprise was launched, calling for the construction of more than $1,000,000 in business buildings. Repairs, remodeling and new additions to old structures achieved a 10-year high in valuation.

E. M. Demlow . . . new lodge high priest.

E. M. Demlow will be installed as high priest of Oriental Chapter, F, and A. M,, at 7:30 p. m. jomorrow ‘at the lodge hall, 22d St. and Central Ave. Other officers who will be installed are Clyde Harman, king; Faun Pherigo, scribe; E. L. Goldsmith, captain of host; Carl Innis, principal sojourner; Royal Colby, royal arch captain; John Colby, master of third veil; Harvey Cunningham, master of second veil; Carl F. Waggy, master of first veil; W. E. Gentry, secretary; Ralph I. Rautzhan treasurer; Ferris Deputy, chaplain, and Edward Schuler, tyler.

URGES WORK FOR SMALL JOBBERS

Tool Engineer Says PayProduce Plan Would Raise Plane Output.

Hundreds of motorists going to and from Beech Grove will be saved an average of 20 minutes a tip when a new span goes in this spring over the Big Four Railroad . tracks on. Sherman Drive (shown below). Cars that now wait for the' trains, then turn around for anather route, will secon pass uninterruptedly over a bridge almost a mile long. The new bridge will be much like the one at 38th St. (above), west of Road 67, except that the riew one will be made of reinforced concrete, whereas the old one is made of steel I-beams. The new bridge will be much longer, with 13 spans, and its approaches will ¢ach be about a quarter of a mile in length.

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Fight on Again—. Not for Long ~~

Buried for more than 14 years, or one of the most bitter City Hall und truck ifights in the last generation was ‘Harvester | resurrected at the Safety Board .Imeeting yesterday. The Board promptly buried it again. { The controversy goes back to 1926 when the Safety Board was hotly | contesting’ mass Police and Fire department appointments by Mayor Lew Shank’s administration. In the case of 12 appointed firemen, the Board set aside the appointments as “illegal” on the grounds the budget did not provide for them. Ten of the 12 firemen accepted dismissal, but two kept on fighting for their jobs. ‘In a subsequent {rial before the Board, both men were dismissed. One of the men

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For 14 years, according to legal department records, nothing more of the cases of Mr.| ‘| Kennedy or any of the others. The whole thing became a dim memory. _ Two weeks ago, a letter came for Leroy J. Keach, Safety Board presi- =a “Ident. It said that Mr, Kennedy was, ; ‘demanding back the Fire Department post he lost 14 years ago. Unless reinstated, the letter said, he

«I am still and have been fit, lable. ready and willing to serve as ra fireman.” the letter said” and call to your attention again ‘my claim that the suspension against ‘me was without charge against or notice to me, witheut hearing and

Safety Board members read the letter and then the opinion on the | ’| case” submitted by Oscar C. Hagethe differ- 3 > There isn't a chance of reinstatement,

A record in official thrift has been! set by the divisions of the Safety | Department . which have turned | back $97,209.94 as an_ unexpended balance to the City’s general fund. The savings, good news for officials trying to make up a $300,000 budget deficit, was accomplished chiefly by economies in personnel. “The Police Department turned back $60975 of the total, most of which. was saved by allowing vacancies which have occurred in the department in the past two years,| - Reviewing the enfora to remain unfilled. | This year, how- ord. the expert found ever, the vacancies will be filled | sysiem promptly by a new class of rookies. | Courts. A $22,668 Fire Department saving |fenses rated as was accomplished in the same manIn addition savings ‘in fire

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By RICHARD LEWIS A City alarmed by a near 100 per cent increase in its traffic fatalities looked forward determinedly to a safer 1941. | During 1940, 9. persons met death in the Indianapolis traffic juggernaut. The City slid back almost to its 1937 high of 94 traffic deaths. Aroused by the slaughter, Indianapolis citizens acted late|in the year to set the stage for a| preventive campaign of education and enforcement. A plan to consolidate numerous safety organizations into a single, full-time super group under the direction of a traffic expert was launched by the Chamber of Commerce. The National Safety Council pledged its aid in the fight.

City Is Warned |

A Safety Council expert who visited the city warned officials that unless drastic steps were taken the’ City's traffic toll would [continue to mount. His prescription (was enforcement, and more enforcement. ¢ment recthe traffic Municipal ed for of1 causes of t fines or

weak. in. the Drivers arrest commo accidents received ligh were not fined at all. The number of traffic violation re-

City Looks fo Safer 1941 as Deaths Rise 100%

sharply, deaths declined fg four— half the monthly average. | As the flow of fraffic thickened, petty parking violations : | became more apparent as traffic hazards. Double parked cérs and trucks downtown bottlenecked thé flow of cars. die il Acting on this problem, the Safety Boatd decided fo remcye safety zones downtown which sdrve only trackless trolleys, after rejecting a plan to allow traffic to drive left as well as right of all-the zones. The Board also planne( to install parking meters for a tridi, to see if ‘that would. eliminate, parking hazards. The parking meter installation will bel! made sometime this year. j to An attempt; earlier in jthe year to curb parking evernight by enforcing a tail-light| ordinahee failed

in an uproar of public disapproval. ' Presents Budget Problem

As the city's traffic tangle grew worse during the year, sziety committee executives| and fome City officials concluded that wnat was needed was a traffic engineer, The National Safety Council expert had warned | that js city the size of Indianapolis could ill afford to be without one, But ai City Hall | the traffic engineer proposal pre-| sented a budget [problem ‘which of- | ficials did nol; cate to tackle.

Legislative Leaders Will Decide Who's Boss Of What.

By NOBLE REED

The jig-saw puzzle of who should te boss of what State Government functions will be decided finally by the Republican majority Steering (Committees of the Legislature tomnorrow and Friday. “The G. O. P, leaders more than a week ago ratified tentative bills, proposing five. State executive di‘isions, with Republican officials in ¢ontrol of four of them. leaving Democratic Governor-elect Henry 1. Schricker boss of only one division, » - Just what departments of government will be set up under each of these five divisions was not determined by the Republican leaders at that time. Meanwhile, a. committee of Rehublican attorneys has completed drafts of the entire reorganization measure and the Steering Committees are to ratify them tomorOW. : It has been rumored that Lieu-

‘enant Governor-elect Charles M.|

Dawson will have the lion’s share of executive powers among Republicans. > At the same time, Rep. H. H. Evans (R. New Castle), reportedly leading a minority, insurgent faction among G. O. P. Legislators,

said he would introduce a rival re-

organization bill and oppose the executive setup proposed by the Republican majority. leaders. His bill would propose eight executive divisions instead of five and divide most of the executive powers equally among the Republican elected officials.

LOCAL ATTORNEY IS FRATERNITY LEADER

Charles W. Holder, Indianapolis attorney, was elected national grand

$14,000,000 worth of building in 1940, it would do more in 1941, they said. City Building Commissioner George R. Popp Jr. predicted increased industrial expansion with residential building at least holding its 1940 pace. Indianapolis, he said, can absorb 1000 new houses a year at the rate its population is growing. Overbuilt when the depression struck, Indianapolis in 10 years of ebbing construction exhausted its surplus of dwellings. And when its industrial-commercial pulse quickened, it found itself underbuilt. An influx of workers to man the expanding defense industries spotlighted the lack of dwellings. Indianapolis began building again. With this upswing, however, came problems of planning. At City Hall, Works and Zoning Board members foresaw in some new developments the creation of future slums unless steps were taken to halt “wildcat” development. Particularly- concerned by the construction of new, low-cost homes without sewers or streets, city officials decided to turn to the Legislature for broader powers to control the new residential developments.

R. C. A. Plant Biggest

At the same time, a number of organizations began a campaign for more Government slum clearance to supplement the United States Housing Authority’s Lockefield Gardens for Negroes. Federal slum clearance, its proponents argued, would improve property values besides eliminating the evils of slums. The largest single industrial expansion was the $400,000 addition to

‘the Radio Corp. of America plant at

LaSalle and Michigan Sts. The Vonnegut Hardware Co. erected a new $185.000 building at Maryland and Missouri Sts. and the Coca-Cola bottling plant instituted a $110,000 expansion at Ninth St.’and Massachusetts Ave. Marmon Herrington expanded by $164.000 in new construction; Schwitzer-Cummings, $25,000; P. R. Mallory, $125,000, and International

DETROIT, Jan, 1 (U, P.) —President Roosevelt’ has been informed that Detroit has sufficient skilled workers to produce 5000 warplanes daily “if the Government will do the things. that are necessary. to start the wheels turning.” President J. J. Griffin of the Society of Tool and Die Craftsmen presented Mr. Roosevelt with a ey as produce’ plan to permit ork by small jobbing shops on defense projects as he asserted that “thousands of highly skilled mechanics - (are) walking Detroit streets.” The American Society of Tool Engineers maintains there is a shortage of skilled workers needed for preparedness orders and is promoting training programs in many parts of the country. Mr. Griffin's plan for adding from 100 to 250 small tool and die job shops to the defense roster was two-fold, his letter to the President showed. He proposed that the Government ‘ease financial burdens of the small establishments by making a 10 per cent contract payment on its award and adding to this sum as production advanced. He also would eliminate the current bidding system, which he termed a time and money waster, and have orders granted to shops with adequate facilities to speed output.

N. Y. INTERESTS BUY “PHILADELPHIA PAPER

PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 1 (U. P.). —Sale of the Philadelphia Evening: Public Ledger by trustees of the Cyrus H.' K. Curtis estate to a company headed by Robert Cresswell, former treasurer of the New York Herald-Tribune, was announced today. Terms of the transaction were not announced. ~ C. M. Morrison, who resigned as editor of the Ledger in 1939, will return as editor under the new ownership. :

Crippled Children was the first in the City to receive this newer, more pleasant paint treatment.', The Broad Ripple High School addition ts the latest, with painters now at work there. A. B. Good, School business director, brought the idea of making school rooms more cheerful from Cleveland where extensive experiments have been made with ecolor.. “It doesn’t cost any more t0 paint schoolrooms one color than another,” Mr. Good pointed out,” and we might as well make schools as pleasant as possible.” Lights Are Rearranged

He said that in about five years more every public school in the City will have to have new paint and the new motif will by that time be uniform. Mr. Wakeland said that his department also is improving lighting in. schoolrooms by adding more fixtures and arranging existing ones in different patterns. It would be toolexpensive to re=place all the present fixtures with more modern ones, he said, but much the same results can be obetained by the rearrangement,

SAMUEL LYONS, 62, VETERAN, IS DEAD

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the West Side Church of God for Samuel Lyons, Spanish-American War veteran, who died Monday in the Veterans Hospital, Burial will be in $M6ral Park. i Mr. Lyons, who was 62, was born in Mt. Salem, Ky., and had lived in Indianapoli$ 16 years. He served in the Philippines and was a member of the West Side Church of God. He was a blacksmith by trade and lived: at 275 N. Elder Ave. ‘ * Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Nance

Lyons, and three daughters, Mrs.

Grace Short, Mrs. Beulah Falcon

berry and Mrs. Edith Taylor,

Meanwhile, the traffic 1ecord shot secretary of the legal fraternity of up to a two-year high of 7421 acci- Sigma Delta Kappa today at the. dents, in which a total of 2654 per- | convention in Louisville. He sucsons were injured, | ceeds L. W. Horning, New York, who That's the 1940 record, For 1941, | has held the post 15 years. The nacitizens were detérmined to cut this tional office will be moved to Indown. Ble ; | dianapolis. :

. Police Use Flying Squads .

Police adopted the policy ‘of selective enforcement when Bove in the

equipment purchases were "effected, according to Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy. : i Even the dog ‘pound saved money — $1141.49 to be exact... And the ISafety Board members themselves —‘they somehow saved up $265 to give back to the City. 1 .

Machine, $40,000. Col. Roscoe Turner, noted pilot, built a $100,000 hangar building at the Municipal Airport. The Indianapolis Water Co. remodeled its Millersville Road pumping station at a cost of $230,000 and the municipallyowned Citizens Gas & Ccke Utility erected a new $650,000 gas holder at 21st St. and Northwestern Ave.

New Apartments Go Up

New apartment buildings went up on the immediate North Side. At 13th and Delaware Sts., the $185,000 Windsor Court went into construction. . At Fairfield and Central Aves. a $216,000 program was started for the Fairfield Colonial Apartments. A $174,000 apartment building was begun at 1215 N. Pennsylvania St.

peaters increased in the courts. The lack of a full-time traffic court and assembly-line trials in packed courtrooms were held partly] responsible for the fact that arrests and convic-. tions were not effective deterrents.

Hoosier Goings On BROKEN UP

| Hammond Man Finds Home Wrecked;

Brother Arrested on Trip to Jail, accidents. pt

i By FRANK WIDNER Rapidly shifting police activity POLICE IN THE '(/ALUMET district have reached the conclusion from one part of town to another

shot that someorie has a grijvance against O. W. Bodie, Hammond photoggave the appearance of police blitz-| rapher, who lives near ;he Marquette Park pavilion. kreigs,” but at headqu Arters Chief That “someone” is 4 phantom ax-man who has given law enforceMichael F. Morrissey denied his de-| ment officicls quite & turn with his house-breaking activities during partment was promoting traffic the absence of owners. | : “drives. : When Mr. Bodie rejurned home Consistent enforcement,| he said,| the other night, he dis¢overed the is the only method that brings re- hl

: . following had happened. sults. - The shifting concentrations Every glass fixture of breakabld of motor patrols the Chief described| ornament had been stashed; 14 as “selective” enforcement, ; from Massachusetts to Olney Aves. i

glass window§ had bedn knocked ! Traffic Problem G on the north side from 7 to 9a m c

out; the furniture was ip splinters! | . all tHe ornaments on the Christ: and on’ the south side from 4:30 At City Hall, memh the| mas tree were brokenj the floor to 6 p. m. i © |Safety Board were confronted with| was scratched; the radio smashe —_— a traffic problem ever growing In : | complexity. Accidents were increas-

Lo and in the| yard three trees TRADE TREATY EFFECTIVE Ling. Statistics showed that 5000

chopped dow [1 . L 1 Mr. Bodie | estimated .. ROME, Jan.'1| (U. P).—A nhew more cars were operating in the r j County than in 1939 and that State

man was in fhe home for at least Italian-Bulgarian| trade treaty regu- 1 19: 10 hours, for several 10-hour canlating commercial exchanges between gasoline consumption was| up by 36| dles had burned to the holders, the two countries became effective | million gallons, | | : The increased number of cars plus £ » A

today the increased number of miles trav “Where’s the jail?" a 25-year-eled—as shown by the gasoline fig-| old Anderson youth gsked police ures—was ascribed as [the leading| officers at New Castl¢ the other cause of .the accident and fatality | day. “I want to see my brother” increase by Chief Morrissey. To Police showed the ‘youth to a combat it, the Chief concluded, more | cell where the brother, 20, wis traffic police were needed. ; awaiting trial. Once inside tle The month of December afforded | cell the police locked -it from thie the opportunity for experiment and | outside. . | | the Chief placed every man avail-| The elder brother had been inable downtown. Result! Despite| plicated in a burglary=job by bis the greatest holiday rush in the| brother's statement.’ City's history, accidents dropped Lp a

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More Space for Drivers

| 1n its 1941 effort to prevent traffic jams, police are working on the theory that the rush-hour tie-ups can be eased by moving traffic out of the downtown area as quickly as possible. Hence, police have decided to open up new traffic lanes on arterial streets by keeping parked cars out of the way. || The Safety Board has submitted | ton Council proposals. to ban parkling, on the west side of Capitol Ave. from 7 a. m. to 9 a. m. between 38th ‘st. and Indiana Ave. for inbound traffic movement and on the -east side of the street between 4:30 and 6 p. m. for outbound traffic convenience. H The same idea |is being proposed for E. 10th St. |busy East -8ide artery. Parking would be banned

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year the traffic chart s owed fatalities were running eight a month, two dead almost every week. Into areas where accidents were numerous sped patroli cars and motorcycle men who made wholesale arrests for violations which statistics showed were causing the

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SHELBY CCUNTY officers who sped to the Ira Pritchard farm near Shelbyville recently to capture “thieves” ended up a bit redfaced. ; They found two very disguste Franklin young women, standing beside their car’ which had bogged in the mud. The officers helped free the car and departed. =

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