Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1941 — Page 16

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26, 1941

9 MORE BILLS ON

WAY T0 GOVERNOR

All Are of Minor Character, Including One Increasing ]

Loan Limits for Building Associations; Schricker Veto of Oi Inspection Measure Overriden.

Nine more bills were on their way to the Governor’s|

office today with the approval of the Legislature. All of a minor nature, six were given final passage by the Senate and

three by the House yesterday.

Governor Henry Schricker vetoed his ninth measure, one which puts the State Chief Oil Inspector under control of a Republican-dominated board. As in the other eight

cases, the measure was passed into law over his protest. ‘The Governor, in addition to declarir.g that the bill's constitutionality is doubtful, stated that his main objection was the provision giving the chief inspector a fouryear term when the auditor who appoints him holds office only two years. The Governor signed three more bills, bringing to 40 the number he has approved since the session opened.

Fix Traveling Costs

The three new bills signed will: 1, Add newspaper carrier boys to the. list of minors exempt from working hour regulations and certain physical examinations. v2, Set up a basis of distribution to creditors having claims on assets of an insolvent estate. 3. Authorize state and municipal corporations to buy liability insurance for their automobiles. ; Three Senate bills passed by the House yesterday would: 1, Permit the State Budget Committee to fix State employees’ trav=-

eling expanses on a daily basis, other than transportation. 2. Amend the 1933 financial institutions act to increase real estate loan limits of buiiding and loan associations.

circumstances. House Bills Approved

the Senate would:

in towns having a population of between 2100 and 2500. Prohibit the use of white canes tipped with red by anyone who is not wholly or partially blind. Require cities to pay the medical

injured while on duty. Provide that 50 per cent of the owners of property abutting a ditch petition for cleaning or repairing the ditch, the county surveyor is authorized to rent equipment with which .to do the work. Permit signs of not more than four inches square to be posted on windshields and windows of an automobile. Authorize county auditors to release liens arising out of assessments for public improvements after five years of date of last install-

ment,

30 Bills Affect County

By NOBLE REED More than 30 bills designed especially for Marion County are in various stages of passage by the Legislature, with two already approved. A wide variety of subjects are covered, ranging from a proposal to repeal the law which prohibits Indianapolis from adopting daylight

saving time to the abolition of two

Superior Courts.

Revamping of the Welfare Department setup is proposed in several

bills, one of which would transfer ~ the power to appoint the Marion . County Board from Circuit Court Judge Earl Cox to the State Welfare Department, Of course, Indianapolis would he vitally affected by all the Statewide laws enacted. There are special provisions in others still on the way to enactment—special funds in the gasoline tax distribution measures, exemption from the Municipal “skip-election” bill postponing city contests for a year, etc.

Home Rule Sponsored

There also are several state-wide measures introduced by local groups as the result of local conditions, such as the series of measures introduced to tighten up the handling of relief funds and cases by the * township trustees. A “home rule” amendment which would permit any city or town to choose its own form of government is being sponsored by Indianapolis “groups interested in securing the City Manager Plan here.

Three bills sponsored by the Child Welfare Association also have state-wide provisions but were writen especially for Marion County’s situation. They would modernize the Juvenile Court laws, tighten up the adoption machinery and provide for the care of children born out of wedlock. Another Marion County measure which will cover the state is the bill permitting the naming of precinct election workers from any place in the township. Another would permit election board to increase the pay for precinct workers.

Abolishes Fee System

Some of the strictly Indianapolis bills, ‘introduced by Marion County legislators, in addition to thosed listed above, would: 1. Abolish the fee system in county offices, fixing maximum salaries for the chief officials and returning all fees to the county general fund. 2. Establish a metropolitan plan commission for suburban areas to control deveopments, *3. Impose stringent regulations on Marion County communities desir-ing-to incorporate, requiring at least 250 population and petition by 50 per: cent of voters, (Passed by both houses.) 4. Take control of voter registration from the County Clerk and place it under a two-man bi-parti-“san board. composed of the Clerk and a member of the opposite political party, to be selected by the county chairman. Provides for a full-time director. 5. Reduce registration fees on busses to encourage Indianapolis Railways, Inc, to extend service to suburbs. 6. Lift the ban on Sunday night

7. Increase salaries of Municipal Court judges from $5000 to $6000 a year. and provide $1200 a year for bailiffs in the two civil branches of the court. 8. Increase the minimum wages for policemen and firemen to $175 monthly. Police now are paid $170 and firemen $168. 9. Reduce court cost penalties in Municipal Court. cases to $3 prosecutor’s fees and $2 docket fee. Present court costs total $10. 10. Require the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility Co. to fill Indianapolis orders for coke before selling any outside the city. 11. Provide that all perspns on the Indianapolis police force must live within the city limits. 12. Ban the’ practice of “overcharging” couples for “fancy” marriage license certificates, fixing a standard certificate at $2. 13. Make the Marion County Treasurer the agent for automobile licenses in Marion County.

Increase Pension Tax

14. Increase the tax rate for police and firemen’s pensions from 2 to 4 cents. 15. Remove.the statutory limit of $60,000 for hiring deputy prosecutors. 16. Remove the limit on tax for special municipal funds. 17. Set Marion County coroner’s salary at $5000 annually and turn all fees of the office over to the general fund. 18. Give deputy prosecutors more powers to serve subpenas. 19. Authorize Mayor Reginald Sullivan to trade several parcels of land to the State for expansion of Riley Hospital grounds in return for some. state-owned land to be used for city park purposes. 20. Make the City schools business manager the chief executive officer of the Indianapolis City School Board. 21, Provides that no former member of the Indianapolis Police Department can be reappointed unless he has been a member of the police pension fund and can complete 20 years of service before his 60th birthday. (Passed and signed by the Governor). There are four bills affecting the control of the County Welfare Department, three in the Senate and one in the House.

Removes Cox’s Power

The summary of all of them, including numerous amendments, is that the appointing power over the welfare board would be taken from Circuit Judge Earl Cox and placed with the State Welfare Board. The local board in turn would be given the power to name its own welfare director. The court abolition bill would

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eliminate Superior Courts 4 and 5.

Fair Trades Bill Passed

Silent and unexpected opposition which developed in the House yesterday afternoon nearly prevented the passage of the “fair trades”

liquor bill.

When the bill was to receive final action by the tower chamber, Rep. Glenn Markland (R. Zionsville) explained that it was designed to promote temperance by preventing price-cutting and rebates.

He said .“fair trades” laws have been adopted by several states and have proved successful, Temperance is promoted, he said, by reducing

consumption through prevention of “cut-rate” prices. Rep. George Freeman (R. Kokomo) asked Mr. Markland if this might

not prevent competition, but this pas the only sign of opposition until e roll was called. The vote was z ir 25 in favor of the bill. Fiftyone .votes are necessary for a constitutional majority. The measure now goes to - the Senate.

Jobless Aid Is Revised

The Republican Steering Committee has agreed upon amendment: to the Unemployment Compensation Bill and the National Defense

Council measure.

In a two-hour conference, the Committee decided to support aii amendment to the job insurance bill to reduce from two weeks to one the waiting period for collecting benefit payments after the applicarit

loses his job. Members also agreed to another amendment in the same bill reducing from 17 weeks to 16 weeks the period for receiving unemploy-

ment compensation. Under the present law the waiting period is two

weeks and Faring period is 15 “weeks. ;

The committee agreed to amen: the bill creating a. State National Defense Council to raise the ajpropriation from $50,000 to $100,000. Originally the bill, as introduced in the Senate, provided for a $400,000 appropriation but -this was cut fo $50,000 before it was sent to tae 1 House, -

3. Legalize the acquisition and: ownership of property of state col- |: leges and universities under certain:

House bills approved yesterday by |:

Authorize the use of municipal : utility receipts for school purposes] :

expenses of firemen or policemen |:

Dietitian Dorothy Baker 4 the human

GUILD POOL ONE OF 11 INTHEU. S.

Premature Babies Benefit Most; Supply Is Available to All.

By. JOE COLLIER

After all these weeks, the infant Jarver ig getting to be quite a citizen indeed. She weighs four pounds and 12 ounces, now, whereas at birth, Nov. 20, she weighed but two pounds, 10 ounces. Since birth, she has become the most regular customer of St. Margaret’s . Guild human milk pool, without, which she very probably would rave died. She and all other prematurely born infants at City Hospital are

given this milk and, since the pool was established in 1937, the death rate for premature babies there has dropped. sharply.

Available to All

Moreover, the milk is available to all other premature babies, if their doctoi's decide they need it. It can

be purchased at City Hospital and it can ‘be ordered by phone or tele= gram by doctors outside Indianapolic and is shipped to them packed in dry ice, by bus. The St. Margaret's milk pool is one of 11 in the United States and the only one in Indiana. It was the eighth or ninth established in the nation. The milk is bought from mothers who ‘have an: over-supply. They come to the hospital and the milk is = extracted mechanically and pooled and frozen into wafers. In that form it will keep indefinitely. Doctors ‘have found that although the nermally born and healthy infan: can thrive on one or another of the artificial food formulae, premature infants need breast milk.

70 Ounces Per Day

The milk pool at City Hospital now has available about 70 cunces a dey. Prematurely born infants at City Hospital are placed on a diet of mother’s milk for two or three weeks, taking about four ounces a day at first, to about 16 ounces when they are put on a formula. There are. an average of about 10 premature infants in the hospital at all times. They have a room to themselves and are under constant bbservation. The milk is tested for fat, protein and. carbohydrate content and bacteria. While the fat, carbohydrate and protein contents may vary greatly among mothers, the pool tests are pretty close to constant. Prices for the milk vary greatly in the various stations. Mothers are paid all the way from four to 13 cents an ounce and it is sold for all the way from. 10 to 25 cents an ounce. )

Cruild Handles Deficits

St. Margaret's Guild supplied the money for starting the pool and the guild makes up whatever financial deficits are incurred. And there are a good many babies aiive and well today who without any doubt would have died shortly gfter birth had it not been for the ‘availability of breast milk through

this pool.

TRUCK-RAILWAYS

AGREEMENT NEARER

The first major legislative compromise between motor freight carriers an dthe railroads has reached the half-way mark in the State Legislature, A conference was called of representatives of the State Chamber of Commerce, the Indiana Motor Truck. Association, the Indiana Motor Rate and Tariff Bureau, the Association of Steam Railroads of Indiana and the Indiana Motor Traffic: Association. Rep. C. Otto Abshier (R. Indianapolis), author of a transportation bill, asked the House to pass his measure ! yesterday, pointing out that it will benefit the shippers in giving them the right to.designate the route over which their freight must move. It also provides that

the rates shall be made with respect

tothe “services performed.” The bill was passed by the House, 76 10:1, and sent to the Senate. Another bill passed by the House yesterday would renew the $10,000 appropriation to help the State

carry on its fight against inter-state freight rate diserimination. : .

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Organizations

Mullins on “Dad and Pal” Program — Virgil Mullins of the State Board of Education Friday evening will address a “Dad and Pal” meeting of fathers and sons of the East Tenth Street Methodist Church. Music will be furnished by a Boy Scout saxophone quartet and the Everson Quartet. A dinner will precede the entertainment. C. Walter Harris is general chairman.

“Reconstruction of Earth's Past,” Topic—What might have happened on the earth before recorded history will be discussed by Dr. Frank Welcher of Indiana University at the Indiana Astronomical Society’s monthly meeting Sunday. Dr. Welcher will speak on “The Reconstruction of the Earth’s Past.” Other speakers will discuss current constellations and the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. The meeting, open to the public, will convene at 2 p. m. in Cropsey Auditorium at Central Library.

Business Session Set—Belleview Townsend Club 49 will. meet this evening at the organization’s hall, 2308 W. Michigan St., for a business session.

0. E. S. Matrons Plan Session— The 1935 O.E.S. matrons will meet at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow at the home of Myrtle Bradshaw, 5641 Carrollton Ave. Leona Byrkett will assist in the arrangements for a dinner. Officers will be elected.

Gratz to Address Banquet—H, T. Gratz, Boy Scout executive for Indianapolis and Central Indiana, will speak at a Father and Sons banquet to be held by the Men’s Brotherhood of the Brookside United Brethren Church tonight at 6:30.

_ Plan St. Mark's Dinner—The Women’s Aid Society of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Prospect and Linden Sts., will sponsor a dinner from 11 a. m. to 1 p.m. and a supper from 5 to 7 p. m. tomorrow. Mrs. Harry Mendell will be kitchen chairman, Mrs. Raymond Barrows will be dinner chairman and Mrs. Oscar Denker is in charge of publicity.

White Shrine to Meet—Indianapolis White Shrine 6, White Shrine of Jerusalem, will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow in Castle Hall. Petitions for the Easter ceremonial will be received. Mrs. Irene Faust is the worthy high priestess and Heze Clark is watchman of the shepherds. Patrol 6 will give a chili supper from 5 to 7 p. m. tomorrow in Castle Hall. Charlotte Callon is president and Katherine Armbruster captain of the patrol.

Bethel 11 to Hold Supper—Job’s Daughters, Bethel 11, will hold a penny supper between 5:30 and 7 oclock tonight at the Lyndhurst Masonic Lodge. The committee includes: Helen Hamblett, Edith Spencer, Dorothy Faulkner and Lola Cadwell.

Card Party Arranged — Mrs. Maudie Shoults, chairman of the finance committee of the Women of the Moose, will sponsor a card party at 8 p. m. Sunday in the Moose Temple. Mrs. Shoults will be assisted by the following committee: Louise Hoover, June Spears, Cora Blue and Nellie Runyan, Atta McCammack and Alice Griffin, Helen Bonesteel, Terry Jessup, Kathryn Hansford, Clara: Neerman and Maud Rahe.

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BASE INQUIRY TOUR DELAYED

Price Fixing and Nature of Land Offered Slows U. S.- + British Trade.

‘By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — The prolonged secrecy over negotiations for United States bases in British Western Hemisphere possessions was lifted somewhat today, for some very interesting official revelations about the difficulties encountered by this Government. > But a new mystery developed. in another direction—over the plan of a House Naval Affairs Subcommittee to visit the British possessions for an inquiry. This trip, which had been sup-

posed to start this week, has been postponed. Whether it will ever come off now is a question, and behind that is a mass of rumors. The word has been passed among Committee members, whether justifiably or not, that the State Department frowns on the trip, for which it presumably had been making arrangements through the British Government, Some reports also put Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox among those opposing the venture.

Vinson Denies Trip Cancelled:

Rep. Carl Vinson (D. Ga.), chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, denied before leaving last night for a week in Georgia that the trip had been called off. “I'm going myself,” he said. “I'll take care of it when I come back.” From a statement on the House floor by Chairman Vinson and the debate it set off, and from testimony by Admiral Ben Moreell in an executive session of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, about which disclosures later were made by Senator David I. Walsh (D. Mass.), chairman, came the first public information about what has transpired since the exchange of 50 destroyers for the base rights six months ago. Senator Allen J. Ellender (D. La.) demanded information about the bases at the Senate Committee session as a result of a Senate debate last week, provoked by a ScrippsHoward dispatch reporting the difficulties which the United States was having in acquiring suitable lands.

Still Negotiate Over Price

Among facts developed yesterday in House and Senate were: The price of the private land to be bought for the Navy is estimated around $2,000,000, though the deal has not been closed on any of the base sites. The British Government has provided 4438 acres of crown land for the Navy at Newfoundland and Bermuda, and 26,274 acres of crown lands for the Army at Jamaica, Newfoundland, Trinidad and Bermuda. The Government is getting ready to begin work without waiting for final title.

Swamp Land Offered

Under the destroyers-for-bases agreement, which Rep. Vinson read to the House, the British Government buys the land from the private owners, and the United States Government buys it, or rather the right to use it for 99 years, from the British Government. At Trinidad the United States was offered swamp land which would have cost heavily to improve, but refused this offer and was given a more favorable site. The British Government sought to impose customs duties on materials shipped into the various possessions for building Army and Navy bases, but yielded on this point when the United States protested. A question was raised in the House by Rep. William P. Cole (R. N. Y.) as to whether the United States would have to pay taxes on the property acquired under 99-year leases. Mr. Cole said this appeared to be the case under terms of the agreement which Rep. Vinson read. Mr. Vinson disagreed.

Mrs. James W. Fesler (left) ”

Remodeling of Gives Herron

By HARRY MORRISON

About a year ago the John Herron Art Association decided to put

in a new heating plant and now it has a completely remodeled museum. The new museum will a with an informal ceremony .a week from Saturday. Goverhor Schricker and Mayor Sullivan will talk, but mostly visitors will be invited to see the museum’s first special exhibit—a showing of 40 British masterpieces lent by Hoosier collectors.

New Gallery Created

The remodeling has resulted in two new galleries, more room for finishing and storage rooms, new fluorescent lighting and, of course— the new heating and ventilating plant. The old sculpture gallery, which used to rise to the second floor, now has a ceiling at the first-floor level. Thus a new, large gallery has been created on the second floor between the two wing rooms. Where there was an open staircase before leading to the second floor, a second gallery has been built on the second floor. When the problem of a new heating plant became insufferable, the association leaders felt that while the building was being torn up they might. as well face the second problem of space shortage.

More Room Available

“We have countless pictures — really good things—that we have never had room to show,” said Mrs. James W. Fesler, association president. “Now we can find room for these things. We can also do justice to the traveling exhibits we want to bring here all the time.’ “As a matter of fact, though, if we had realized all the trouble it was going to be, I'm afraid we should never have started.” Mrs. Fesler said that what started to be a simple replacement job ended with a basement-to-ceiling remodeling. For the first time in many a year, too, she says, “we shall be absolutely clean.” Wilbur D. Peat, museum director, has directed the hanging of the British masterpieces. They include three Constables, three Lawrences, three Reynolds, two Romneys, two Hoppners, two Raeburns, nine Turner water colors and an example each from other outstanding English artists. The paintings come from the private collections of Booth Tarkington, Dr. G. H. A. Clowes, John G. Rauch, Frank B. Shields, Nicholas H. Noyes, Joseph E. Cain, William G. Irwin of Columbus, Frank C. Ball of Muncie, Roger G. Wolcott, J. K. Lilly Jr.,, P. R. Mallory and Kurt Pantzer.

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Heating Unit Needed Space

For the first time, the museum will. be able to have a permanent, planned place for its Indiana collection. To be known as the Indiana Room, it will house the works of pioneers in Hoosier art — George Winter, Jacob Cox, James Gookins, T. C. Steele; J. Otis Adams, William Forsyth, Carl Graf, Otto Starke, Wayman Adams, Will Vawter and others. The cost of the project was about $50,000. Most of it was made possible by a legacy recently realized from the estate of Josephine Farnsworth McDonald, wife of the former State Senator. ‘Mrs. Fesler is chairman of the remodeling committee. She was assisted by Miss Lucy M. Taggart and Anton Scherrer. Herbert Foltz, Indianapolis architect, did the redesigning. The entire building will now be lighted by a combination of fluorescent and incandescent lighting, said to be at tlre time of installation the latest thing in museum lighting. - Since that time, the company that made the lights has discovered a new system without using incandescent bulbs, but Mrs. Fesler says no one is worrying, because the lights they have installed are “as much like a north light as a north light.”

{CHICAGO LOOP SWEPT

BY 5-ALARM BLAZE

CHICAGO, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—Fire swept through a five-story building in the loop today delaying thousands of office workers on their way to work on elevated trains and streetcars. Traffic was blocked off

in the entire north section of the :

loop. windows Acrid smoke billowed from the

burning building when the flames spread to a paint company’s store.

Five alarms were sounded and spe-|f

cial apparatus was called twice.

Lieut. Patrick Shea suffered af

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U. S. LACKING IN

SHIP RESERVES

Mo Merchant Vessels Can Be Spared, Britain Is Informed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.). —None of the United States’ existing merchant vessels can be spared for Great: Britain, Maratime Commission officials said today. There is no way. of making any available to the British for the next nine months, they said, because all American flagships are needed to haul strategic materials for the defense program. In fact, they added, the United States needs at least 60 more cargo vessels of 10,000 tons each to meet. domestic needs.

Cargo Priorities Planned

The present merchant fleet consists of 1276 ships totaling 7,553,242 tons. These figures include sea=going, lake, coastal and military transport vessels. The foreign trade fleet includes only’ 331 merchantmen and 46 tankers. This country’s shipping situation has become so tight, these officials said, that within a week or so ship operators, at the Commission’s request, will institute cargo priorities so that defense industrial requirements will receive primary consider= ation. ; 130 Ships on Order

Efforts are being made to over=come some of the deficiency by reconditioning the remaining 21 ships of the laid-up World War merchant fleet and through charter or pur= chase of foreign vessels. Negotiations are proceeding between American and Danish operators for the charter of 36 Danish vessels tied up in the United States. If the negotiations fail, they said, the Maritime Commission will ask Congress for authority to charter the Danish vessels to this Government. The Maritime Commission now has 130 new ships on order. This is in addition to the 200 “ugly duckling” ships authorized by Congress but still to be ordered.

SEEK TIGHTER RULES FOR EXTERMINATORS

A bill was introduced. in the Senate yesterday which would tighten regulations covering insect exterminators. Introduced by Senators Harry Chaniberlin (R. Marion) and Thomas Hendricks (D. Marion), the bill was prompted by the recent death of an Indianapolis couple caused by gas used in fumigating an apartment. The bill makes it necessary for fumigators to post a $25,000 bond or have insurance covering that amount and be registered with the State Board of Health as well as paying $25 a year for a license.

FAMOUS ACTRESS BURIED HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 26 (U. P.) —Funeral services were held yes= terday for Mrs. Clara T. Bracy, onetime star of .the London-New York stage, who died last Saturday. She was 94. Irving White, chaplain of the Troupers organization, conducted the services.

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