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FOUNDATION URGES SAFETY ENGINEERS

Necessary in Cities of 50,000 or More If Mounting Traffic Toll Is to Be Cut, Director Says. Offering 7-Point Program.

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ASHINGTON, March 13.—Full-time safety engineers| for all cities of 50,000 or more population are necessities, Norman Damon, Automotive Safety Foundation director,

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Sergt. A. C. gate to a school safety patrol belt.

URGES CARE IN Questions and STHDOL TALKS

Sergt. Magenheimer Works

WASHINGTON, March 13 (U. P) Here are some questions and answers designed to clarify operation of the lenc-lease program: |

Q What is the

the purpose of

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Selling Safety to First-

Magenheimer, police safety officer, introduces First-graders John Turpin (left) and Wilma Fu.

Operation of Aid Program

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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1941

AMERICA SHORT OF MAGNESIUM

Government Invests Another 8 Million in Effort to Break Bottleneck..

By MARSHALL MecNEIL Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, March 13.—The Government has just invested another $8,000,000 in magnesium, in |a further effort to widen a buttleneck that affects the manufacture | not only of airplanes but also of bombs, The defense plant corp, an RFC subsidiary, has agreed to spend

| $8,000,000 constructing new facilities lat Freeport, Tex., for extracting this lextremely light metal from - sea water, The plant will be operated |by the Dow Chemical Co., which has

{just started producing magnesium

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the same process. Within the last few weeks the [RFC has lent $9,250,000 jisbutiovs Henry J. Kaiser, Coast engineer and builder, to| create a California plant for producing magnesium by another proCess.

Shortage Remains

But even when all these facilities {are in operation, and with the | Dow Company increasing production | al its plant in Midland, Mich, there appraently this metal. At the OPM it was said there was no estimate of what the eventual needs for magnesium might be. In an effort to boost American [production further, the OPM is de«| negotiating with two more com- | panies in an effort to get them to

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third Safety Director.

and M. Clifford Townsend, was ed yesterday by Governor Hen- § ry M. Schrick-

bers of State Board were by the Governor as his first act under

State government created by Legislature, This bi-partisan board | includes Bloomington, and Eugene Pulliam Sr., Indianapolis, Republicans, and Clarence and Claude Crooks, Lebanon, Dem- |

|for a police school at Bloomington [this to the patrolmen as provided in the new high of 1939 is a display of couraze

West | budget.

PLANT LOCATES

will still be a shortage °f Brass Company to Name

cartridge case manufacturing plant |

Stiver Renamed WILLIS PRAISES

Safety Director,

Donald F. Stiver today began his | ter as Indiana State First named in 935 by Governor Paul V. McNutt! renamed g Governor

H LEGISLATURE

Terms Budget Cuts ‘Display Of Courage’; Lauds Merit System.

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 13.—Sena[tor Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) be=(lieves that the Indiana Legislature did such a fine job that he intends ite: call it to the attention of Senate |colleagues, he set! today In a formal statement press gallery, Senator clared: “I am deeply gratified io learn that my home state apparently the first in the nation to recognize the demand of my people for a reversal of spending policies whi h have drastically increased govein ment expenses in this country in reJasper, cent years. ‘Display of Courage’

“The action of the Indiana General Assembly in slashing approprinew ations far below the all-time record

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(and fortitude which must comma |the respect of the people. : “When one understands the im {plications of huge appropriations now being made here in Washingt for ‘national defense,’ the action of the Indiana General Assembly becomes patriotic. The more we c reduce local expenditures, the mo: we are prepared to increase € ‘penditures for defense “Already the action of the Indiana General Assembly on expenditur has begun to attract national attention, and I sincerely hope that has established a precedent whicl [may be successfully followed throughout the nation.

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Contractor for 11 Million Factory Soon.

The proposed $11,500,000 brass | Lauds Merit Law

“It is my intention to call the

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On iy ‘ 3 ait \ t, ss Co. wil : program? A--No. The President may give build or operate magnesium planis.| 33 the Bridgepor Bras So. UI De attention of my colleagues to the

Also ‘necessary if the mounting national traffic toll le | is to be curbed, Mr. Damon TRAFFIC UR of 13,000 additional specially! GED trained city traffic police, | twice the present number of |psurance states, and a traffic safety en-| Resolution After Harger gineer for every state high-| Outlines Need. way ar | : : v department. Establishment of a city-wide creases in traffic accidents and fa- i talities have paralleled the rise in| ‘vision of a full-time safety enindustrial employment index and|gineer” is recommended in a resourged commensurate expansion of dianapolis Accident & Health Inall phases of accident prevention surance Club, The club, which ordered the rescweek, will act on it at its 8 o'clock breakfast March 24 at the Columbia Club. The breakfast will inaugInsurance Week, or vehicle administration. en- . Ihe resolution was ordered after nt, engineering education,| PF; R. N. Harger, chairman of the The program stresses, under Mayors Trafic Safety Advisory legislation, the creation of a co-| Committee, told the club that cocrdinating committee of state offi- Ordination of safety activities and form vehicle code, bringing all traf-| would do much toward reducing In. laws up to a uniform standard.) dianapolis’ heavy traffic toll. “It is not that traffic! Meanwhile, police continued their

said touay. said, are a national increase ie Club Orders state highway patrolmen in! Mr, Damon said that sharp mn- safety council "under the supernational defense activities and | lution ordered prepared by the Inlution drawn at a meeting this urate National Accident and Health personnel training and research enforcement subcommittee of the ials and the adoption of the uni- the services of a trafic engineer

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laws in any municipality or state War on traffic law violators, arrest- dianapolis street at any place ex- | other nations

be reasonable,” the Foundation said. Ing 57 in the 24 hours ending at 6 ‘They must be uniform. Motor| 2 Mm. today traffic wipes out city and state Three speeders, all clocked at 50 lines and motorists should not be Miles an hour or more, were hauled expected to change their driving t© police headquarters in patrol habits when they cross state lines.” wagons and their cars were imThe heavy artillery of motor ve- pounded. One was charged with hicle administration includes uni. driving 68 miles an hour on Michform and adequate accident report- igan St, another at 55 on Keystone and analysis, examination of Ave, and the third at 50 at Fletcher new drivers, and the power of sus- Ave. and East St. One was arrested pension and revocation of driver li- on the speeding charge a block or two after being stopped for runnin~ Adequate Reporting a preferential street, The foundation suggested that For the first time in weeks, no the most vital part of the adminis- | traffic injuries were reported within

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tration program is an adequate ac- the city limits overnight, although |

cident yorting system, since in it nine accidents were reported. The bound up the educational, the only injury in the county occurred engineering and the enforcement outside the city limits, programs The victim, 4-year-old The Foundation said that many Ewert, 3650 Creston Drive, was repolice forces are undermanned, and | Ported to have walked against the

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need relief and reinforcements. Po- Side of a truck driven by Lee Wil- Speak at 108 public and parochial

lice are the “first line of defense” !son, 226 W. 31st St, in front of her in the war on accidents, the report home. stated. It urged four traffic officers -

a a "WIFE OF EX-CHILE PRESIDENT IS DEAD

SANTIAGO. Chile, March 13 (U. P.) —Early last December, President

{ol cities, Fuli-time traffic engineers are needed in every state highway police department and by all cities of 50,000 or more population. the Foundation said. “The emplovm tion in service trained police,

raffic engineers, safety teachers,| 0: trhecH driver license examiners, statis Of "800d neighborliness™ by blacing

ticians, and others eventually will|? United States bomber at the disgive us control of the traffic prob. posal of Mrs, Herminia Arrate Dalem,” the report stated. vila, who was gravely ill in the U. S. Research is the means whereby &fter a series of operations. Her whole safety program is kept husband, Carlos Davila, formerly abreast new problems with new Was president of Chile. meet them, the report; Doctors advised her to seek the milder climate of Chile, her native problem is so com- land. Mrs. Davila reached Santiago is impossible to say on Dec. 8 two days after a refitted a sit activity or legislative “fiving fortress” took off from New has reduced accidents,” the re- York port said It i= possibie, however, It was the first time a U. 8. to make ‘before’ ana ‘after’ studies bomber had been placed at the disthat show in some measure the re- posal of a civilian for a foreign sults of certain specific work.” flight.

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Speaks Daily,

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cept exactly at an intersection is Sergt. A. C. Magenheimer If he broke a traffic rule there |are, roughly, about 60,000 people (who would be deeply hurt. They are school children. Most know the

safety rules, by name. They could recognize him in a crowd of blue coats, All week long Sergt. Magenheimer rides the school eircuit, talking himself hoarse to children. He speaks as often as five times a day.

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Starts Second Lap With the second school semester under way, the sergeant, who is an Accident Pre-

ond lap of his “lecture tou Between now and June 1 he will

grade schools and 22 Kindergartens. bv William A. Evans, school safety director, Besides his talks at schools, Sergt Magenheimer also is in charge of a radio program once a week, He

public

speaks to P.-T. A. groups three or {he President deems vital to the de. Ships engaged in minor conflicts, |

four times a month. To put it mildly, Mr. Evans points out, the sergeant is a busy man. Armed with charts and statistics

dren as good business. He tells them that most of the people in-

jured in Indianapolis traffic are pe-|

destrians. He also tells them that most of the pedestrian fatalities occurred because people did not cross at intersections. Works With Bovs Sergt. Magenheimer works closely with the 2310 traffic boys who protect children on their way to and from school. After speaking to the school pupils, he holds a special meeting with the patrol boys i He and another police sergeant, {Walter Houck. who has charge of tthe safety work in high schools, keep a complete book of statistics on traffic accidents and fatalities. This book tells them where accidents happen, how and when. If a number of the accidents afTect young people in a certain area, the two sergeants organize a verbal “blitz” in the schools of the neighborhood to save more school children from the same fate. Sergt. Magenheimer’'s work among school children not only helps to save lives, but it encourages children to like, instead of fear, police men. The sergeant gates accidents children. A Policeman 14 Years When any of them are hurt, he feels it as a personal blow. death the other night of two chil-

personally

affecting school

dren made him {eel especially un-|

happy He has been a policeman for 14 years and has spent the last six at his present duties. There is one thing that bothers him about the job. He says that he has thought up about all the different speeches he can for the school children. He's working on some new ones

URGES TIME HEARINGS

WASHINGTON, March 13 (U.P). —Rep. Donald H. McLean (R. N. J.) has urged Chairman Clarence F. Lea (D. Cal.) of the House Interstate Commerce Committee to start hearings on the national daylight saving time bill and said today he expected an answer shortly, The

bill would provide for turning the |

nation’s clocks ahead one hour from the last Sunday of March to the last Sunday in October.

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A=To make the United States {the arsenal and larder of the world's democracies: to speed weapons and

One man who can't cross an In- other war materials to Britain and 10M

battling the Axis

powers. Q—What steps can the President take immediately to help the anti AXis nations? A—The President empowered to release at once up to $1,300,000,-

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teaches them 000 worth of Army and Navy equip- terminated by

ment,

Q—Has the President any immediate aid? A—He has approved an Army Navy list of equipment which is to be sent to Britain and Greece, some of it in a few days and the rest [over a period of weeks and months.

Q—Is the total amount aid limited to $1,300,000.000?

A—No. That limit applies only to

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hand or on order,

| Q=—Will the President ask fo more than seven billion dollars to aid the democracies? A—Supplemental requests may be sent to Congress from time to time,

Q—To what specific nations ma) aid be sent? A—To “any country whose defense

fense of the United States.’

Q—Is the aid limited to weapons such as planes, warships tanks and

Roosevelt gave a practical example he sells the idea of safety to chil- guns?

| A=No. It may also include food, raw materials, cargo vessels and virtually any commodity useful in

WAR OBJECTORS!

~ STATUS DISCUSSED

Indianapolis and Midwestern re-

ligious leaders of six denominations today discussed the status of conscientious war objector at meeting at the Y. W. C. A Conferees included Dr. Thomas E tJones of the Friends Church, Dr Charles F. Boss, Methodist Church: Dr. James A. Crain, Disciples Christ; the Rev. Mennonites; the Rev. Robert N. Zigler, United Brethren; the Rev. Lenn (Latham, Presbyterian, and Rcbert {Belcher of the Fellowsh# of Reconciliation. | Lieut.-Col. Robinson Hitchcock, State Selective Service director, was to speak to the group on “Responsi- | bility of the Churches for Selective [Service Camps” at 2 p. m. Sessions to discuss the problems of the conscientious objector are to be tomorrow at First Friends Church, 1241 N. Alabama St.

BEAVERBROOK HINTED FOR SHIPPING POST

LONDON, March 13 (U. P) Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, may take over the shipping ministry and the vital task lof keeping Britain's supplies flowing across the seas despite German submarine and airplane attacks. it was reported by parliamentary quarters today. It was said that either Lieut. Col J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, Transport Minister, or Col. J. J. Llewellyn parliamentary secretary for the aircraft production ministry, would succeed Beaverbrook in his present post. Llewellyn might be made | Transport Minister if Moore-Braba-zon took over the aircraft produc- | tion. | Dispatches from Sydney asserted that Ronald Cross, shipping minister, was going to Australia as high! commissioner.

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'Out of the Night’ Author

Faces Deportation Action

WASHINGTON, March 13 (U

P.).—A high Justice Department |

official said today that deportation proceedings would be brought] against the 4uthor of “Out of the] ! Night"—whe uses the pen name] Jan Valtin—because of his admitted radical activities as a selfstyled former Communist Party agent and member of the Gestapo, German Secret Police. The official disclosed that the immigration and naturalization service already is “Valtin,” who claims that his dis-

closure of international intrigue in|

a recently published book would

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real identity were known. It was understood that "valiin”

investigating |

immediate assassination by | | Russian and German agents if his]

told his story personally to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who contacted him several months ago. The Justice official emphasized that the FBI never has used the writer as an informant in its counter-espionage campaign. | The Government's action, the official said, probably will be based | principally upon a provision of the) 1940 Alien Registration Act requiring deportation of aliens who were found to be affiliated at any time with an organization advocating overthrow of the U., 8S. Government by force or violence. This was the statute cited by At-| torney General Robert H. Jackson in ordering deportation proceed"ines started against Harry Bridges, Australian<born C. I. O, leader,

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The OPM would not identify these | the President accent | concerns. : oe I ent At its existing Freeport plant,| ow % a '|Dow is producing at the rate of ™ Abe about 18,000,000 pounds of magera ra J nesium a year. When the new ro og un for a gum, £8000000 plant is in operation, R ship a ship, output there will be about 36,000,e program re- 000 pounds a year, The present arrangement with the Kaiser company calls for it to a simple majority Prodiige So pg ‘ote of Congress before that time, |Y¢al, usig Iu HSS Yote of Congress before thas time. fo". je “suceessful, to" quadruple gi the Presi- the output.

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'of Minnesota St. and east of Stout | Field.

W. Dodge Corp. a firm dealing in construction reports. apolis office is in charge of Thomas Tod who said he did not know the | tical expediency.” exact size of the tract upon which : the plant will be constructed.

Conn.) soon the contractor for the plant| explosion at the Monroe Coal Min= which, when in operation, will em- |ing Co. mine at ploy nearly 2500 persons.

object lesson now given other states, “The Legislature performed other wonderful service to the State of Indiana by establishing a merit system for all the service institu{tions of the State. They placed the {welfare of the needy citizen above

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FOUR DIE IN MINE BLAST EBENSBURG, Pa. March 13 men were Killed in

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The Bridgeport Co. (Bridgeport, is expected to announce|P.).—Four

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thority for use | Weighs Less Than Aluminum «broad? {ur orogs But Henbeys of tie House Pri A==No. The bill merely provides |Propriations Commiliee who have that none of its ay shall | recently discussed the maghésium, affect existing laws on such move |POttieneck with OPM officials In-| ments. The Selective Service Act] dicate that as much as 156,000,000 and the National Guard mobiliza - | POUnds ® year We prin A tion act prohibit the use of draftees | Magnesiin 5 3a ut one-iaire or Guardsmen outside the Western | 11€ weight of aluminum. It iy Hemisphere tS, possessions, | Used in many airplane parts, and There are no such restrictions on |i CASINGS for incendiary bombs. the use of the Navy or of the Chairman Emil Schram of the rezulalr Army. RFC, who handled the negotia-| = tions leading up to the Govern-| precedents for ment’'s total investment of more | Army or Navy than $17,000,000 in magnesium pro-| a declaration | duction, explained that the metal of war by Congress is relatively new, and indicated | A=American history has many that he did not know what the] instances in which U. S. troops and | final needs for it would be. Germany is reported to produced approximately 16,500 metric tons of magnesium in 1939, and one source estimated that its present output was about 25,000

tons.

PRESERVING LIBERTY IS TERMED WAR AIM

“To restore and preserve our| civilization of free men is our war aim,” Raoul Desvernine of New| York last night told the Indianap-| olis Purchasing Agents’ Association! at a banquet in the Columbia Club. “This war is a conflict of philoso- | phies and is more of a political and | social revolution than a war,” the| president of the Crucible Steel Co.| of America said. He told the 250 persons who at-| tended the banquet that unless the| philosophy of the dictator nations, | as promulgated by the exponents of | Hitlerism and Stalinism, is eradi-| cated, “we will lose our souls and |

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