Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1941 — Page 13

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coat but: friends said that larger: purse was missing. Mrs. Stumph’s husband, Ed Stumph, died Jan. 11. She is sure vived by three brothers, Will Watson, Harry Watson and Ed Watson, all of Indianapelis, and a sister, Miss Helen Watson, Cincinnati.

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The body of Mrs. Marie Watson Stumph, 41, was found early today by police in a vacant lot a short distance from her apartment home,

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Legal Aid Office Settles 12 _ 0f 13 Test Cases Out Of Court.

By HARRY MORRISON The cheapest way to handle a

dispute involving a small amount |.

of money is to settle it before it ever gets to court. This is doubly so When the litigants have so little money that the court costs might be almost ruinous, win, lose or draw. The Indianapolis Legal Aid Society, a corporation sponsored by the Indianapolis Bar Association, has been set up to take care of this strata of the City’s disputants. It has offices at 224 N. Meridian St., and already has handled 13 preliminary cases, settling all but one out of court with no court costs involved. : The 13 cases were handled last week as the society’s general counsel, George Ww. Eggleston, sought to find out what some of their problems ‘will

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be. Society officials believe that within a couple of years the office will be handling 10,000 cases annually. . They expect only about 4 per cent will get to the courts. The remainder, they figure, will be settled by common sense, a telephone, and by removing the fear of the law from the people, One of the cases Mr. Eggleston heard last week involved a $69 gro--cery bill. The family income was $70 a month,

Make Out Budget

The housewife and Mr. Eggleston made ou} a budget. It left seven dollars a’ month for food. She had offered to pay the grocer 50 cents a week and he wouldn’t take it. . When ‘Mr. Eggleston called the grocer he thought better of suing, and said he would wait awhile. Meanwhile the Society, will hold the 50-cent weekly payment until she has enough money to make an acceptable down payment on the bill. Another family was being sued to recover furniture bought on time. ~ It owed $4.45 on a much larger bill. If that money wasn’t paid the family would lose all its furniture. . The Family Welfare Society, when it heard the case through the legal office, advanced the $4.45 and the furniture company was satisfied. Most of the cases are expected to be ejectment cases, where rent hasn’t been paid; other small bill cases, or requests for plain advice. Louisville had 11,000 such cases last year, Mr. Eggleston said. The Society won’t take certain cases. The Criminal Courts have pauper attorneys, so criminal cases generally won't be handled. Divorce cases won't be taken because they aern’t considered a prime necessity.

DISCIPLES’ ASSETS SHOW $106,000 GAIN

The Disciples of Christ board of church extension faces 1941 with additional assets of $106,242 and prospects for increased church building, according to John H. Booth of Indianapolis, board executive secretary. Total board assets are $2,785,728, Mr. Booth reported at the annual meeting yesterday at the Hotel Severin. He hailed 1940, “reviewed from its most essential features,” as the best year in a decade. - A total of 23 churches paid their loans in 1940 and new loans were made for 71 churches. The new loans totaled $544,600 and helped to create or saved: properties valued at $2,515,900, Mr. Booth said. , Officers re-elected include Oreon E. Scott of St. Louis, president; Mr. Booth, executive secretary; A. Heid Liverett of Indianapolis, secretary, and William T. Pearcy of Indianepolis, treasurer. The Rev. 8S. Grundy Fisher, University Park Christian Church pastor, was elected . vice president to succeed Dr. Ephriam D. Lowe, Indiana Christian Missionary Association secretary.

U. S. TO PHOTOGRAPH FORT WPA WORKERS

The 275 WPA workers at Ft. Harrison will take time out for a few minutes this week to get their pictures taken. It's by order of the War Departntent, which wants all workers at Army posts cataloged with their photographs as a defense measure. Each picture will cost 20 cents and WPA officials are putting through 8 requisition to pay the charges. Employees at the Allison plant, ®. who already carry cards bearing their pictures, also will face the camera again, it is reported. This time their pictures will be stamped on identification - buttons, which must be worn at all times.

Mr. Eggleston

PORTRAIT GIVEN

It Will Be Shown Pupils In Other Cities After Exhibit Here.

Hoosier pupils of Dr, Ferdinand Schaefer, founder and conductoremeritus of the Indianapolis Syimnphony Orchestra, now haye opportunity to see the musiq rhaster’s favorite portrait. The portrait, by Dr. Schaefer's old. friend, Simon Baus, has been purchased for him and is on |display at Central Library. Plans are being made to take it to Bloom~ ington, Lafayette, Muncie dnd other Indiana cities where Dr, Schaefer teaches. The conductor learned about the gift in a surprise performance Saturday when he made his annual guest appearance as ‘conductor of the Symphony. Characteristics Depicted After the performance g big, deep easy chair was brought out for Dr. Schaefer and he was asked to sit down. Leonard A. Strauss, Kahn Tailoring Co. secretary, started with a speech and ended by presenting the portrait. "It was painted about three years ago. Its chief characteristics are the glowing white hair and the red tie. Dr. Schaefer likes red fies and wears them all the time. It would almost have: fo Lave been a portrait by Mr. Baus. He and Dr. Schaefer are great friends. They both belong to the Portfolio Club. Dr. Schaefer has posed for him several times. The first time was at the Herron Art School several years ago. That portrait had to be done in one hour, Ii was a public showing of skill. In Old Orchestra Mr. Strauss made the presentation because he used to play the violin in the old co-operative Iadianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He often said he was the only actual “amateur.”

b Word got around that Dr. Schae-

fer liked one of the Baus portraits exceptionally well, Mr. Strauss decided then Mr. Schaefer should own it and interested other members of the qld ' orchestra. They (got the money from an old account in an Indianapolis ‘bank that had closed in 1933. Right after the presentation of the picture, Fabien Sevitzky rushed onto the stage to present Dr. Schaefer with his personal score. of ‘Don Juan.” Dr. Schaefer had used it to conduct the last number of the concert.

LION'S CONFERENCE T0 OPEN TOMORROW

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Feb. 19.— Nearly 400 Lions and their guests, including a delegation from | Indianapolis, are expected to attend the district conference of “ll Lions Clubs in Indiana District 25 C South at Indiana University fomorrow. Among the principal speakers will be Melvin Jones, secretary general of Lions International. Mr. Jones will be met inn Indianapolis tomorrow morning by District Governor R. D. Garriott, Past Governor Claude Rich, and Dr. Williami E. Bodenhamer, Indianapolis Club president, and w. 11 be the guest of honor at a breakfast at the Claypool Hotel. Among those from Indiariapolis planning to attend the confzsrence here are Mr. and Mrs. Bodenhamer, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daniel, Mr. anc | Mrs. Robert Pritchard, Mr. and Mrs, Walter Shirley, Mr. and Mrs. Tec Liebtag, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Thorhburgh and Edward Kepner.

'l| Ask You to Consider What You Would Have Done’

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 (U. P.) —The witness ‘was Jean Collins, a 25-year-old street walker, telling a jury why she killed her man, Tony Barcelona. She said she had given him her earnings for eight years, ahout $38,000, ske estimated. She had bought | him two night clubs, and spent $15,000 on him when he becams tubercular. He had beaten her unmercifully, but she "couldn’t leave him. “He told me: ‘If you ever leave me, I'll tell your family youre a hustler girl’” she said, crying bitterly. On the night of Jan. 9 he was wtih her in her 13th floor -apart~ment, and threatened to throw her from the window. She shot him four times, she said, to save her life. “It was the first nice thing I ever did in my life,” she said. As she finished her story yesterday, Prosecutor Joseph Garry waved her from the witness chair. “This man Barcelona was a violent man,” he said. “I have per‘sonal knowledge that he was a vio-

lent man.”

After this statement, unprecedented in San Francisco courts, he turned to the jury and continued: “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. “This is not murder and by

stretch of the imagination could Th

be called murder.. it could only be involuntary manslaughter.

“I am not asking you to compromise your verdict. You must find her guilty or not guilty, according to the evidence. Tony has been as "pictured, and as I have sfipulated a panderer, a debaucher of young girls, an assailant of defenseless woman. “I ask you ladies of the jury to consider what you would have done in this girls’ placé. ‘What would any reasonable woman of the small size and frail features of this tiny|® girl have done if placed ir .the same position by a man. six feet, two inches tall and weig! ning 218 pounds?” ’ The jury of -seven men and five women ,all crying, hardly listened to the defense attorney’s argument. They ac uid her in 13 minutes. .

T0 DR. SCHAEFER

the portrait of Mr. Schaefer.

| Sacrifices Curly

Locks to Enlist

DENVER, Feb. 19 (U. P.).— Tommy Roberts, 24, surrenders his 14-inch blond curls to the barber. today, in the interest of national defense. He is a guide from the mountains, where it gets extremely cold, and he has let his hair grow four years, because it keeps his ears warm. ‘He fears, however, | that the utility of curls won't be “| appreciated in .the Army. That was demonstrated yesterday, when he walked into a draft board office. = Several . draftees, undressed for medical examinations, hastily sought cover. “May I. help you,. Miss?” an officer asked. “I want to enlist,” he said, in a bass voice, When the officer recovered his aplomb, he told Mr. Roberts it probably could be arranged—after his local draft board approved his application and he got a haircut.

DOUBTS GREEKS YIELD TO HITLER

Washington Says Balkan Shift Not Disastrous To Britain Yet.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—All the stories about Hitler getting Greece for the asking and having Britain on the run, because of the BulgarTurkish friendship declaration, are premature. Such is the assurance of persons here in close touch with the Balkan enigma. Informed Washington opinion challenges propaganda statements from the Balkan-German capitals and also from London. The former say that Turkey has joined Bulgaria in blessing Nazi acquisition of Greece; that Athens is ready to take a Hitler peace in preference to quick destruction and that Britain, bereft of allies, must retreat from the northeastern Mediterranean.

Britain Must Act Quickly

London, after swallowing two or three times, blurts out that this major Nazi diplomatic victory in the Balkans is “meaningless.” - It is true that non-aggression declarations are a dime a dozen in this war; and the Sofia-Ankara pact has a convenient escape clause which nominally leaves the Turk-British alliance untouched. But it is net true, in Washington’s judgment, that this makes the Balkan shift meaningless. That shift is not yet disastrous to Britain, as Berlin hopes. But it certainly can be unless Britain does a lot about it—quickly. Hitler’s temporary success is not in getting the Sofia-Ankara “piece of paper,” which is worthless in itself, but in controlling the Bulgarian road to the Aegean.

Seek to Divert Invasion

Hitler is playing for Balkan peace and Britain is playing for Balkan war, because Hitler wants to concentrate on the British Isles and Churchill wants to divert him. Hitler, by his characteristic all-out preparedness, hopes to force Greece and Turley into peace. The reason Washington is not ready to agree with the European reports that Hitler already has won this Balkan game, is that Britain has many blue chips left and is expected to play them. That Britain might lose a Balkan war is possible, but that she would simply default to Hitler when a diversion front was so important to home defense seems inconceivable here.

TRUCE SIGNED IN

RICHMOND STRIKE [73

RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 19 (U. P).|}

—Picketing and Proviesion at the International Harvester Co. plant were halted ‘today following announcement of a company-union truce by Thomas R. Hutson, State o (Labor Commissioner. Action followed two minor outbreaks of violence yesterday when union pickets and police clashed as non-strikers attempted to enter the plant. The State Labor Board intervened following an appeal by the Farm Equipment Workers Organizing Committee, which called the strike Monday in demand for higher wages, job security for draftees and elimination of piece work. Nine of 11 workers seized by police in the scuffling yesterday will be arraigned ‘in City Court’ today on charges of rout and riot. ' They are at liberty on their own recognizance. It was not known when ‘unioncompany meetings would start. Mr. Hutson earlier reported F.E. W. O. C. and Harvester officials might confer on the dispute in conjunction with conferences on ‘two other strikes affecting Jarvester plans in

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Death Percentage in 1940 Lowest in Decade; ‘Sulfos’ Praised.

By RICHARD LEWIS Indianapolis’ birth rate was the highest and its death rate the lowest in 10 years during 1940 as the infant and maternal mortality rates and the pneumonia death rate con-

“|tinued to decrease, Dr. Herman G.

Morgan, City Health officer, reported today.

While the Health Department’s

11940 vital statistics survey showed

a general health gain in the City, Dr. Morgan pointed to a diphtheria which has not dropped despite improved medical facilities for dealing with the disease, The City’s birth rate was 18.9 per 1000 while the death rate was 13.09. Dr. Morgan said the margin between birth and death indicated favorable health conditions and followed the upward trend of births throughout the nation.

Rising for 5 Years

Last year’s birth rate showed a gain of three tenths of a point since 1930 while the death rate was one point below. the 1930 figure. The gain in births from 1939 was almost one point while the drop in deaths was almost one and one-half points. A glance at City vital statistics over the past decade shows that the birth rate declined in the first five years. In 1935, for instance, the birth rate had dropped to 15.7 or about’ 2.3 points below the 1940 figure. Although the birth rate appeared to vary with economic. conditions, Dr. Morgan said he did not believe the depression and subsequent recovery had any positive - influence. Throughout the decade the death rate remained around 14 per 1000 persons, dropping to 13 only last year. Infant Mortality Cut

Indianapolis’ infant mortality rate was 49.2 deaths for each 1000 live births. Twenty years ago the rate was about 100, the Health officer said. The maternal death rate was 4.3 last year for 1000 births, compared with a rate of 6 two decades ago. Dr. Morgan said that both of these rates showed progress of medical attempts to cut down childbirth mortality. Prenatal care, improvement in methods of infant feeding and generally better sanitation conditions in the City—especially the abatement of the fly nuisance— were factors tending to lower these mortalities. Last year’s pneumonia death rate stood at 87 for each 100,000 in the City’s 387,000 population. The rate

‘+was 116 in 1938 and 148 in 1938.

New Treatment Cited

The improvement was ascribed to increased use of new | tréatment methods by the health officer. He cited the new “sulfa drugs” which have come into general use in the past two years—sulfanilamide and sulfapyradine. “With public atceptance of the necessity of early diagnosis of pneumonia,” he said, “it is possible to reduce the rate to a much lower figure.” ~ Dr. Morgan expressed his dissatisfaction with the City’s diphtheria mortality rate of 2.5 per 100,000. It is too high, he said. Ten years ago, however, the diphtheria death rate here was 40, Health Department records showed. The leading cause of death in Indianapolis as in the nation is heart disease. Last year, the mortality rate from this ailment was 315. The cancer death rate was 148.3 per 100,000 and the tuberculosis death rate was .55, the records showed.

550 NEW MEMBERS OBTAINED FOR “Y’

An additional 91 members were reported in the Y. M. C. A. annual drive at a campaign meeting last night. : This brings the total to 550. The goal is 745. The division exceeding its quota was the South West District Branch which reported 328 members, 28 over the quota. Harry C. Good, Indiana Central College coach, and W. IL. LeMasters, assistant chairman of the young men’s division of the “Y,” spoke. The next report meeting will be held tomorrow noon and a victory banquet will close the campaign at 6 p. m. Friday.

Sophia Gerson, above, has the leading role in the Washington Birthday Revue and Dance to be held at 8 p. m, Sunday in the Kirshbaum Center, 2314 N. Meridian St. Jack Maurer will be master of ceremonies. MuePrle Levan is pianist. Other members of the east are Mildred Stein, Ben Blieden, Hyman Grande, Peter Obermeyer, Ben Shalansky, . Sam Marcus, Libby Maurer, Edward Levinsky, Mollie Cohen, Francis Sher, Marvin Stein, Harry Vinstein, Henry Feldman and Ida Celender.

HOME DEFENSE PLAN MAPPED

Roosevelt to Give Every American Chance to Aid In Re-arming Nation.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt will give every American within a few weeks an opportunity to “do his bit” in We national defense program. He revealed at his press conference yesterday that he soon would outline a broad “home defense” program—a voluntary plan to reach every man, woman and child not now participating in the effort to rearm. Plans already are being formulated for operation of the vast

program within the framework of the Federal Security Administration. As outlined by Florence Kerr, assistant to the director of the Works Projects Administration, the tentative program sets as its objectives: 1. To mobilize millions of volunteers for service on the home front. 2. To set up a nationwide volunteer organization trained to perform quickly any needed service in ‘‘any situation.”

National Unity Sought

3. To provide a channel through which all existing organizations and agencies can be utilized to help meet particular problems in home defense. 4. To centralize responsibility for home defense for America. 5. To prevent duplication of effort in home defense tasks. 6. To keep all efforts for home defense on the right track. 7. To create and uphold the morale America needs. 8. To achieve true national unity. 9. To make explicit the meaning of democracy by translating into action- and service the American ideals of democracy. Mr. Roosevelt's discussion of the program was the result of an inquiry by an ex-marine. In Cleveland, the former marine had written a letter to a newspaper asking, in behalf of the millions beyons draft age or outside defense industries: “What is our part of the current job? What can we do?”

Local Leadership Planned

The President's answer “home defense.” The tentative program has not been approved by him but its prospectus, drawn by Miss Kerr, proclaims that “there are social defense jobs to be done in every home town in America.” Mr. Roosevelt said the plan would merely establish ideal lines of activity, leaving to the states, counties and local communities the problems of administration and promulgation. But within a few months, it was learned, young men and women, and those beyond conscription age may. be volunteering for “home de-

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fense work.”

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 19.—Last autumn in the state of Massachusetts 30 of 40 Senatorial districts voted favorably in a referendum to establish state-sponsored lotteries to pay the cost of old age pensions and other governmental items. . In many. parts of. the . country from time to time there has also been discussion of govern‘ment - sponsored lotteries for other purposes, such as naI tional defense. * These discus- | sions have 8 stirred up much heat. Dr. Gallup "Cr; determine where public opinion stands on the government-sponsored lottery controversy, the Institute has just completed. a ' series of surveys throughout’ the country. The questions and replies in the survey are as follows:

“Would you favor lotteries in this country run by the Federal Government to help pay some of the cost of national defense?” CFB viirrnnriirsrarirergs 51%

No ...... No opinion .e...o0000ee..s 11

“Would you favor otteries in your state run by the state gov-

seve Recess

Lottery to Help Pay Defense Costs Favored by 5 51 oi in Poll

. 45%

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No opinion .....ie0000000 14

The Massachusetts referendum, in which approximately 71 per cent in 30 districts voted in favor of government lotteries, stirred considerable discussion in tig state, although' most observers feel that a lottery bill will not get far in the Legislature. Governor Saltonstall, in opposing the lottery idea, said: “I would be surprised at myself if I ever recommended it.” Nevertheless, the lottery idea is more popular in the New England and Middle Atlantic states than anywhere else ip the country, according to today’s survey results.

tion of the country where voters approve the old age pension lottery, and it also shows a much higher vote than other sections in favor of the defense lottery.

LOTTERIES FOR OLD AGE PENSIONS?

Yes No Orn ‘New & Middle Atlantic States 59% East Central 40 West Central.. 36 South ........ 3 51 18 Far West...#. 43 43 - 14

LOTTERIES FOR DEFENSE? ' : No

31% 44 51

10% 16 13

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City Delays Indianola Ave. Improvement Until Residents Agree.

Two groups of North Side residents appeared before the Works Board today to debate a petition for sidewalks on Indianapolis Ave. from 61st to 63d Sts. The Board postponed action on the proposal until March 26, pending settlement of a dispute between the property owners. One group of residents who built

for the sidewalks, asserting their children had to walk to Broad Ripple schocl in the street. Opposing the sidewalks, a group of ‘older residents said they did not want their lawns and trees mutilated by sidewalk construction. Representing about 20 residents in the group opposed to construction of walks, Mrs. O. H. Tooley, 6120 Indiancla Ave., contended that the walks would convert one-half the lawn in the front yard of her home to cement. Eugene M. Howard, 6215 Indianola Ave., representing thcse favoring the sidewalks, said the present condition of the thoroughfare without the sidewalks was hazardous. Speaking for the Works Board, Leo F. Welch, vice. president, informed the groups that the City will not continue to maintain cinder walks any longer on this thoroughfare. The maintenance is a financial burden which should be. reHoven by permanent sidewalks, he said.

FDR TO GO HOME WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt is planning to spend the week-end at his Hyde Park, N. Y., home.

132% Virginia Ave. The coroner.and police investi-

| gated and Dr. Hubert Collins, dep-

uty coroner, said she died of exposure. A purse containing more than $2

AMERICAN FLIER SAFE LONDON, Feb. 19'(U. P.).—The

Ministry for Aircraft Production said today that Earl Orthmann, American aviator with the Royal Air Force who was reported in the United States to be missing, is still was found in the Tooke, of her fur in training and is safe.

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