Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1941 — Page 23
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DAY, FEB. 28, 1941
City Hall—
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g or Moril 1; Tests o ~ Determine Staff.
; By RICHARD LEWIS As another spring rolls around, the City Recreation Department is preparing to reopen its merit training school for the second year. ‘The Park Board yesterday au“hoped a 10-weeks’ merit school
summer recreation personnel Tentatively the school will open
1 at the Brookside Community |’
Applicants for summer recreation jobs will attend one night each week ‘for three hours. The free course
_ includes .the fundamentals of play--
~ ground management and recreation
“At the end of the course in midJune, the applicants will take examinations .on the basis of which they
will -be considered for playground }
-Instituted last year, the merit school struck one major snag. Be- ~ wcause of the comparatively low pay for instructors, applicants kept Dropping out as they found betterpaying summer jobs in other fields. Pe left a dearth of high scoring * applicants, limiting the scope of seJection. In several instances: low scorers were chosen. But they, as well as the school’s
top ‘ranking scholars, managed te|’
_ pull the merit system through its first, doubtful symmer. And when fall came, some of the City Hall “ folk who resented the new system _ because ‘it obstructed patronage in one. of the City’s biggest’ departments were sold on it. ” ” ”
: Compare Systems . How does Indianapolis’ recreation system compare with Chicago's? V. K. Brown, recreation director of the Chicago Park District, was to make the comparison today at a meeting of City and WPA recreation . employees at the Indiana World War Memorial. Indianapolis Park Department officials consider the Chicago recreation system one of the finest in the country. The system has operated : on a merit basis for years and has . built up a staff of trained, experienced playground instructors. Mr. Brown, who will be accomed: by Ernest T. Atwell, field representative of the National Recreation Association, will describe the Chicago system in.detail. : ® x =
Dienhart Hunts a Plan.
* At the Municipal Airport, Super- : intendent I. J. (Nish) Dienhart has been trying to devise a plan to enlarge the Administration Building, get a new hangar and make several . other improvements without spending any money. So far, he hasn't hit it.
‘But that doesn’t discourage Mr. Dienhart. The sun revolves about _ his airport and after years of nurs- | ing it along to the point where it
/ ranks as a major ‘municipal enter-
, he’s still bent on making it and better.
Wants More Space
Built in 1929-30, the Administration ‘Building is now too small to house the commercial as well as the municipal operations of 1941, he believes. He wants more office space and ‘a bigger lounge for passengers. ‘A new hangar is needed, he says, to relieve parking congestion of private planes. And in addition to
_ that, he’s counting on extending the
runways. zea this fits in with the Works plan to raise airline landing a Pa in order to make Theis port. self-supporting. The airlines themselves are willing to go along with general idea of the inerease, but have not yet come to terms with the City.
: Would Meet Budget
a the rates are raised and more revenue 1s .available, Mr. Dienhart that - the expansion ‘program would be a necessity. But the addi‘tional anticipated income would - cover only ‘the present budget outlay of $30,000 a year. “There would be no money for improvements. That's what has the genial superintendent sitting up nights figuring: how not to spend gmoney.
CLAIM DISCOVERY OF GERM-KILLING MIST
CHICAGO, Feb. 28 (U. P.) g—Four University of Chicago doctors reported today they had discovered a _gérm-killing mist that may be used widely. under wartime conditions to purify the air in army bararcks and air raid shelters. Drs. O. H. Robertson, Edward , Benjamin F. Miller and Zelma i ,-all of the University medical schol, reported their experiments § .in the magazine Science. They said ‘they had found that a mist of propylene glycol : appeared to have ‘no harmful effect upon human bebut rapidly killed bacteria d by coughing or sneezing.
Members and civic leaders hon=ored the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau yesterday, the 25th anniversary of its founding. Walter B. Morrow, secretary of the retailer advisory committee of the Council of National Defense, spoke at a luncheon in the Indianapolis Athletic Club.
Guest of honor and speaker was V ':lter Morrow, left.
dent; and W. M. Hutchinson.
Mansur B. Oakes, Franklin Vonnegut and Ernest Cohen, three of the nine bureau founders, were guests of honor. Officers and directors were reelected. They are A. W. Metzger, president: Ernest C. Ropkey, vice presiderit; William C. Grauel,
At the Better Business Bureau Lancheotrlefl to right, seated, Franklin Vomnesut, George E. Gill, who was bureau manager in 1919; Ernest Cohn apd Mansur B. Oakes; standing, Toner B. Overley, manager.
With him, center, A. W. Metzger, bureau presi-
retary and manager. Directors whose terms expired this year and whe were re-elected are Henry L. Dithmer, Robert Bonner, Mr. Grauel, Edward F. Roesch, William H. Roberts, Merle Sidener, John G. Kinghan, Joseph M. Bloch, Walter Montgomery and Fred Lahr.
MANSLAUGHTER RULING APRIL 1
Bride, 21, Is Accused Auto Collision Death Of Truck Driver.
Criminal Court Judge Dewey E. Myers will rule April 1 in the involuntary manslaughter case of a 21-year-old bride charged with driving the car involved in a crash Aug. 21 in which a truck driver was burned to death. Mrs. Ruth Strafford, of 4001 E. Washington St., testified in her own behalf yesterday. She said she had had “several” drinks before the fatal crash .in which John Rowley was killed. She said she and her husband had entertained a couple at their home that night and had then gone to a dance. When they dropped off the other couple, she drove off “to get another soft drink,” she said.
“There Was a Crash”
After driving a short time, she said she crossed Washington St. at Ritter Ave. and the next thing she knew, “there was a crash.” Mrs. Strafford was charged with failing to Stop at a through street and later was indicted by the Grand Jury on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Her husband, Glenn Strafford, a drug store clerk, said he could not say how many drinks Mrs. Strafford had that night, but that he talked to her on the way home from the dance and that she was not under the influence of liquor. He said they were married Aug. 1, 1940, and that they had not had time to drink much at the dance because “Ruth and I like to dance together so we danced all the time.” Blue Prosecutes
Police who investigated the accident testified that Mrs. Strafford was under the influence of liquor at the time of the accident and that she had the odor of whisky on her breath. She was not charged
in
with driving an automobile while|
under the influence of liquor. Sherwood Blue, Marion County prosecutor, conducted the State's case, assisted by Saul Rabb. Defense attorneys were Joseph W. Howard and William B. Miller.
EXCHANGE TO ENTERTAIN The Bxchange Club members will entertain their wives and women friends at a dinner at the Marott Hotel at 6:30 o'clock tonight. Following the dinner, which will replace the regular luncheon, Mrs. Bjorn
Winger will review, “Americans All Over,” by Jerome Beatty.
BUSINESS
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GRE
OCCASIONS
EETING CARDS Ai ALL
treasurer, and T. M. Overley, sec-
Stock Exchange Head Is Drafted
NEW’ YORK, Feb. 28 (U. P.).— Williant McChesney Martin Jr, president of the New York Stock Excharize, has been put into class 1A under the Selective - Service Act and is expected to be called
up for military training in May. Mr. ‘Martin, 34, and with no dependeris, passed his physical examination lest week. The rather lengthy period which will elapse until le is inducted led to belief in sonie quarters that his local board decided to hold up his entry into | military training until the annual elections of the New York Stock Exchange in May.
DETOUR EFFECTIVE ON 40 TOMORROW
Effective tomorrow, the State Highway Commission will place a detour on Road 40 between Brazil and Piutnamville, which will cause
west-bound Indianapolis traffic to follow iz 66-mile run-around over state routes. The highway will be under construction until fall. Other detours announced were: Indiana 2-—From U. S, 20, east 7 miles over U, S. 20 and county oil mat.
Indians 3-—from Markle to Ft. Wayne 26 miles over Roads 224 and 1; closed Tor truck trafic only.
Indians 9—rom Columbia City, north seven rniiles over Indiana 109 and county grave
Indiana 26--East of Fairmount, three miles over county gravel; east of Portland, 2'2 milés over city streets, gounty oil mat and stone; from Lafayette to Rossville, 22 miles over Roads 52, 38 and - effective March 3.
S. 36—Bridge out at Montezuma; detour Rs miles over Roads 71, 163, 63 an J
U. |S." 51--From the junction of Roads 6, 51 and 130 gonihy 82 miles over U, 8 6 ani ¢ity street
Indiana 60--From the junction of Indiana “3 to Bennettsville, 30 miles over Roads 435, 130 and 111.
Indiag # 64-—-West of Princeton, six Iles over county gravel, concrete and U. S.
Indialin 65--From Owensville to Tie ton, 15 niles over Roads 168 and 41.
1%2 miiés over county grav
Indiana 257—Just south of Washington, four miles over county grav
Indigha 318—From oe 303 to Iniana 1 8'2 miles over Indiana 303, county grave: and Indiana 1
Indiana 331—Five miles north of Lebanon, Lhree miles over county gravel.
Indizna 405—From two miles northeast of Speed to ihe junction of Road 3, near Charlestown, 6'2 miles over county gravel and Indiana 3
Indicna 456—East of Petersburg, two miles gver Indiana 61 and county gravel.
MUSICIAN ON STAFF OF SOCIAL CENTER
William C. Baum, former music direct for several Chicago schools, has Joined the staff of the Southwest Social Center, 1905-09 W. Morris St, MS. J. P. Dunn, chairman of the board of directors, announced today. Mr: Baum has served as summer playground director of the Sioux City, Ia., recreation department and has directed music at Garibaldi Institute and Abraham Lincoln Center at Chicago. The Southwest Center is a charter member of the Indianapolis Community Fund
TWO CLUBS FORMED EY BUTLER ALUMNI
The organization or two new Butler University = Alumni clubs at Pittsburgh, Pa., and Cincinnati, O., was announced today by Prof. George A. Schumacher, Alumni secretary. ‘This brings to 12 the number of out-state alumni clubs. The Pitts-
22 and the Cincinnati club membership is 40,
. BRITISH POST SHIP WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U. P,).—
have posted an examination vessel in the Gulf of Paria and any ship which attempis .to pass it without
Sheiing a Fropse ignal may be
India fin 108—Just south Is Wolf Lake,.
burgh Club has a membership of |
British naval authorities at Trinidad |}
BAR TO SIT WITH LOCAL JUDGES
Committee to Observe Procedure as Part of Inquiry.
Members of the Indianapolis Bar Association committee investigating Municipal Courts will sit with Muncipal judges during court sessions next week to observe procedure. Clarence F. Merrell, investigating committee chairman, said members would spend several hours on the bench beside the judges as observers. The time: for the visits, has not been set yet, he said. The committee’s decision to watch court procedure ‘first-hand followed the invitation of Judge Pro Tem George Rinier-at an open meeting conducted by the committee last night. The meeting, conducted as a public hearing, was held at the Bar Association Club rooms, 224 N. Meridian. About 12 persons appeared to offer evidence in the investigation. . Among them was Judge John L. McNelis of Municipal Court 3, who answered the committee’s questions for more than an hour. Judge McNelis appeared. voluntarily, asserting he was trying to co-operate with the committee. Following the court visits, the committee will confer with members of Mayor Sullivan’s Advisory Committee to the Safety Board, Mr. Merrell said. The Bar committee began its inquiry last December following criticism of Municipal Court practices,
: | particularly pro tem proceedings.
The group has been holding regular meetings to interrogate witnesses.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Bureau Turns a Quarter Century
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‘SKIP’ ELECTION
- Year to City Offices Except Here. The governments of all Indiana
in Indianapolis, will be given an
of a bill approyed yesterday by the
sent to the Governor. The measure changes the date for
‘| the next municipal elections in all cities except Indianapolis from No- |
vember, 1942, to November, 1943. It provides that city elections shall be held regularly every four years thereafter. Republicans will benefit by the “skip” election bill since they control administrations in over 60 per cent of the Indiana cities.
Democrats Had One in ’33
‘A similar law was put into effect by the Democrats in 1933 to make the city elections come at the same State and national elections.
Republican Senators explained in debate for the measure that they believed the election should come in
*|odd years so that state and national
issues would not confuse local ones. The Senate also passed the high-
ing the State Barber Board to fix hours and prices for barbers in any community in the State. : A similar measure enacted into law by the last Legislature was declared unconstitutional because it
- |left the matter of fixing prices and
hours up to 80 per cent of the barbers in any community.
Say Objections Met Proponents said that the bill
- {passed yesterday removed the ob-
jection of the Supreme Court to
‘|the other law since all. power was
now! placed in the hands of a State Board. The Barber Board, however, cannot fix prices and hours in a community until after it has conducted a public hearing. The measure passed by a vote of 32 to 13. The main opposition came from Senators from the rural areas. The G.O.P. printing board “ripper” bill ‘received the approval of the upper house and now goes to the Governor. It placés control of the board under the Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor and Reporter of the Supreme and Appellate Courts. The board members are to name a director of printing purchases whose salary is not™ exceed $3600 a year.
8 Bills Approved
.. Eight other House bills were approved by the Senate yesterday. They provide: For the increase of salaries of officials of ¥'t. Wayne and Anderson who are connected with the cities’ public utilities. The salary increases are to be taken from the utility funds. That the salary of clerical assistant in the probate court of Vigo County may be increased from $30 to $35 a week. That household movers must file rates and tariffs with the Public Service Commission. They are to be classified as common carriers. That Magistrates Courts be set up only in counties of over 40,000 population.
Fee on Fishing Licenses
That county clerks be entitled to collect a fee of 10 cents for each female fishing license sold. The county clerks have been collecting this fee but there has been some doubt as to whether it was permitted by law. The bill is designed to clear up the doubt. That driver licenses be sold from January 1 to March 1. The licenses must now be obtained before the first of the year. That cemetery associations established for 30 years or more shall have the right of eminent domain in acquiring property for new cemeteries. That watchers at elections may enter the polls 30 minutes before opening to inspect. machines and ballots and remain throughout the day.
GETS OLD VOLUME
FARMINGTON, Conn. (U. P.) .— A copy of what is said to he the
oldest book on harmony published in the U. S. (1779) has been given the village library.
BILL IS PASSED
|Goes to Governor; Adds a
cities, except the Democratic one|
additional year of rule under terms |
Repuhlican-controlled Senate and|
ly-controversial House bill empower- |.
“For Exhibit >A remodeled John: Herron Art. Museum will open March 8 with an exhibit of English mas-
ters lent by Hoosier collectors. William G. Sullivan, new exhibi-
tion committee chairman, took a personal hand in selecting some of the water colors for the inaugural exhibit.
BLUES
thought so.
But that was before Mayor William Dress heard of. it.
Someone, they won't say who,
12 automobiles and sock $250 in the kitty each month. That would bring about $3000 a year to be prorated among 130 officers to apply against the cost of new uniforms. + Well, they named the lottery the “750 Club.” And for a week, things seemed to be running smoothly. Then the Mayor stepped in. He beat a hasty path to the police station, ordered all officers to turn in their tickets and to buy back all they had sold. “And they were selling like hot cakes,” the police moaned.
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There was a real jam session in the Bloomington city hall the other day. Mayor Loba (Jack) Bruner kept his toe tapping to the rhythms of swing music while he received visitors and officials. A few queries brought to light the reason for the rhythmic strains. The policemen’s ball is next month and the boys had one of the local swing bands avditonmsg for the affair.
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IN THIS CASE, the laugh was on the thief who stole one of the prizes for the Ice Service Fellowship Club's bowling match in Evansville. The culprit looked the fancy wrapped packages over and picked out the largest box. By now he knows that the package contained the booby prize—a 5-cent lollypop.
NAVY SELLS SHIPS TO CANADIAN FIRM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U. P.) — The Navy yesterday sold two 19,080ton obsolete colliers to Sagunay Terminals, Ltd, of Montreal, for 9 $999 Sow British firm originally had bid $327,000 for the collier Proteus, and $260,000 for the collier Nereus, but offered the Navy a $10,000 bonus if it could obtain both vessels. The converted yacht Nokomis was sold to the Northern Metal Co. of Phila-
delphia for $8825.
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Hoosier Goings On
But Not Blue Uniforms Police Wanted; Swing Time at Bloomington City Hall.
By FRANK WIDNER
EVANSVILLE'S POLICE Department had a swell plan to help its officers buy their uniforms and equipment, or at least they
sell 1000 tickets at a dollar each every month they could give away
sean
thought that if the officers could
KORTEPETER TAKEN TO REFORMATORY
Carl F. Kortepeter, former Marion County WPA co-ordinator, today was taken to the U. S. Reformatory at Chillicothe, O., to begin a sentence of 18 months imposed in Federal Court for diverting WPA funds and labor to private use. Although his ‘attorney presented a physician’s affidavit alleging he was
too ill to make the motor trip to
the Ohio city, Julius Wichser, U. S.
Marshal, had a Federal physician check his condition today at the Kortepeter home. The physician reparted Kortepeter could make the trip without danger to his health, and he was ordered to do so. He was in custody of Deputy Marsha! Edgar Collins. Kortepeter was sentenced ia December, 1939, with his father-in-law, Gurney Derbyshire, Southport, who has begun his sentence in the Federal penitentiary at Terre Houte. After Kortepeter was acquitted recently of a similar charge in a Federal Court trial, Kortepeter's counsel asked the Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago for a new trial
VANNUYS FIRM FOR LEND BILL
Claims 90% of Americans Favor It as Best Method To Aid England.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U. P.) == Senator Frederick: VanNuys (D. Ind.) asserted today that the ‘“lease= lend” bill offers the best medium for giving England the assistance that “90 per cent of Americans” think she should be given. vx
“The time has come when ge land can no longer pay for her pur« chases of American armament and commodities in cash,” the veteran member of the Senate Committee
1 on Foreign Relations pointed outs
“The bill therefore. provides paye ment for purchases of future ore ders by means other than cash— tin, rubber and so forth. : Indiana’s other Senator, Raymond E. Willis, a Republican, recently issued a statement that letters and telegrams from his constituents ine dicated a 50 to 1 opposition to the lease-lend bill,
Writes Blank Check
VanNuys branded as false statee ments that the bill writes a blank
lcheck for President Roosevelt or
gives him dictatorial powers.
“The President cannot spend dollar nor enter into any contract for future delivery until Congress appropriates the money/or authore izes the contract in question,” Sena= tor VanNuys said. ' “Furthermore, the act by its own terms, expires June 30, 1943.” Persons opposing the bill on the grounds that it authorizes the cone voying of American ships by the American Navy to belligerent na< tions were referred to amendments expressly prohibiting this construce tion of the measure. However, Mr. VanNuys reminded = opponents of the bill that certain powers of the President as coms mander in chief of the country’s’ armed forces were constitutional and could neither be prohibited nor limited by statute. “If such power is unwarranted, he said, “the fault lies with the ° founders of the republic and not with Congress.”
Opposes to A. E. F.
Referring .to Senate rejection of amendments to prohibit the sende ing of American soldiers into fore eign territory, the Hoosier legislae tor said: x “I am as adamantly opposed to sending American boys into another foreign war as are the proponents of these amendments. But to tell Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Japan that we are not going to, simply ine vites more trouble.
$2,890,000,000 OF DEFENSE BILL PAID .
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U. P., —National defense expenditures during the first eight months of the current fiscal year ended today-—e actual cash paid out of the Trease ury for work done—were approXie mately $2,890,000,000. This is less than one-fourth of the $13,000,000, 000 made available by Congress for this fiscal year. Total Federal outlay on defenss since July 1 as of Feb. 25 was $2,828,560,693, and was running at the rate of approximately $21,000,« 000 each day. Net governmental receipts for thé same period were $3,755,971,691. With total Federal outlays for all purposes of $7,250,« 609,529; the Treasury had a gross
on the first charge. This was denied.
deficit of $3,494,637,837.
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