Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1941 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA

SEEK SAFETY AT RAIL CROSSINGS

Washington High School Group Acts to Protect Trespassers.

As link in ther wide campaign to protect lives of school children, members of the Washington High School Seti Committee have opened negotia-| tions with railroad officials designed | to keep youngsters off the rail right-of-ways. At the same time, committee members said pupils were crossing tracks at places other than intersections because of lack of sidewalks in some sections of the com-

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munity, Miss Francis G ton safety director, said that and

caused

Moder, Washingrain have the

warmer temperatures

many approaches lo

school fa become extremely muddy. Will Name Trespassers

Working with Max W. Kelso of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Thomas F. Delaney, Indianapolis Union Railroad, and E. F. Cline and G. W, Sears, New York Central Railroad, the committee obtained a! promise that the railroads would furnish the school with names of youthful trespassers. The school’s student association is to decide what will be done with the offenders, Miss Moder said. Miss Moder pointed out the dangers to pupils who crossed the railroad tracks at places other than marked intersections. One Washington boy lost a leg several years ago when he was struek by a train on the south side of the school,

Urges Education

Miss Moder also pointed out that railroad tracks eross through the community on all four sides of the school, although tracks to the east are elevated, She said that she believed the potential danger to school pupils could be minimized by safetv education and by obtaining paved sidewalks. Negotiations have heen opened to secure sidewalks along S. Belmont Ave. and Tibbs Ave. Miss Model SAla,

HENRY FORD Il IN TOP. DRAFT CLASS

DETROIT, Henry Ford

Anrll 8 U. PH — 1, grandson of the founacr of the Ford Motor Co. today was classified tentativelv in Class One, available for immediate service, by his local draft hoard. The Board announced that the heir to the automobile millions “would in due course be ordered! to report for medical examination. He did not claim exemption on grounas of dependency.” Young Ford, 23, is married and his wife gave birth last week to a daughter. His unmarried brother. Benson, 21, was exempted from military service last month through failure te pass the physical examination,

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Getting Ready for the Nation's Call

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Instructor Paul Nelson, left, clicks out the messages while students Charles E. Abney, Kenneth R. Glidewell and George

Merritt practice

learn next to take messages down on a typewriter,

SPECIAL RATINGS Radio Hams Seek Speed In Sending, Receiving Code

“ARE OPEN IN NAVY

Special enlisted ratings in the!

{aviation and hospital corps of the

Reserve in addition to! vacancies in the regular naval! service for apprentice seamen are available to young men between 17 and 28, the Navy Recruiting Service announced today. Youths who are graduates aviation, vocational or aviation trade

of

schools, or who have equivalent ex-

perience through employ -

ment, will be considered. They will receive aviation duty and training at an aviation school or naval aviation flight activity. Two years of college with half the credits necessary for a degree are required for appointment as aviation cadet. However, those who have. completed one quarter of the required credits and have heen emploved three vears in a responsible position in civil life will be considered. Men between 17 and 50 who are graduates in pharmacy, graduate maie nurses, qualified medical technicians, men with experience in minox, surgery and hospital orderlies, may be enlisted for hospital duties

MAL SMITH NAMED ON I. US FACULTY

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April 9.— Maj. Roscoe Smith, who served as assistant professor of mathematics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, has been appointed to the military faculty at Indiana University. He received his 7reserved commission while a student here. Sergt. Daniel Thomas, a member of the mmiversity R. O. T. C. staff since last September, has been ordered to Ft. Thomas, Kv. with a commission of first lieutenant,

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By SAM TYNDALL Twist your radio dial over to the

amateur band some night, You will} Club, one of the pioneer amateur

hear the language of the Indianapolis radio amateurs. But it's not the chit-chat over the ether waves of former days. The “hams” have gone back to school. Hour after hour they practice clicking off messages with their Morse keys and practice decipiering messages. The instructor broadcasts from his amateur station in the basement of his home. The pupil takes the message down on his set in longhand or on the typewriter. The students send in their papers, the instructors grade them, It's just like any school except that it's voluntary, established by radio amateurs and they defray any expenses. The goal is the perfection by each amateur of his self taught ability to send and receive code. They want to be able to handle both the sending and receiving end with speed and accuracy. All this is preparation for a vital role that the “hams” mayv be assigned should the United States hecome involved in a war. Uncle Sam has informed the 55.000 amateurs that he may ask them to establish a vast organized communications network for home defense. The celebrated radio “ham” is accustomed to emergencies. Many times he has been the hero in national disasters—often the “last contact” between quake-torn and floodravaged communities and the outside world. If war should come, the amateurs would be organized as a vast airraid warning service, supplementing other forms and facilities of communication of the armed forces. In Indianapolis there are about 100 of these radio “bugs” who just for the love of it have spent around $200 to build a radio short. wave set, studied to pass rigid Federal amination= to receive an onerator’s

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BLOND OBJECTS ©

T0 SHIP SEARCH

Divorcee Plans Protest to

U. S. on Treatment In Bahamas.

NEW YORK, April 9 (U.P). —|

Mrs. Margaret S. Starr, 25-year-old

blond divorcee,

said today she

would protest to the State Department that British authorities in

| Nassau,

Bahamas, accused her of

being a German spy, stripped her and made a thorough search of her

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Kenneth Cole, They will

(left to right) on the receiving end,

license and who think nothing at all

of talking to one of the radio oper-' ators with Byrd at the South Pole. Members of the Indianapolis Radio

radio organizations in the nation, have organized a code school. On five nights a week they operate from their own basements or attics. Most of them, if they are experienced amateurs can receive about 15 words per minute via Morse code, But if they are to organize a warning service for the home defense forces, they will have to receive at least 35 words per minute and put them on paper.

One night a week, Wednesdavs,

the school goes formal and students meet the instructors around a table at the club offices at Olnev and St. Clair. The instructor clicks out the words and the students take them down.

NEWS SERVICE HEAD T0 SPEAK AT INDIANA

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April 9.— Kent. Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press, will deliver the Foundation Dav address at Indiana University May 7 in celebration of the 121st anniversary of the university's founding. A native Hoosier, Mr. Cooper is the son of one of the university's first women students, Sina Green Cooper, He attended Indiana from 1898 to 1900 and worked on Indianapolis newspaper before joining the Associated Press. His selection, according to President Herman B. Wells, is in aeccordance with a university custom of inviting distinguished alumnus of the school to speak on Foundation Dav,

belongings before she was released. Indignant, Mrs. Starr discounted a jesting remark by a friend to a British guard that “she’s only a German spy” as heing responsible for her detention. “I certainly intend to make a protest to the State Department as soon as I find out how to go about it,” she said. “The treatment I received was very humiliating.” Mis, Starr said she wag detained as she was about, to sail for home aboard the 12,000-ton cruise liner Evangeline on March 26. The boat's sailing was delayed 50 minutes while three British agents, a police matron and the ship's nurse searched her cabin and person, she said. The divorcee said the day before before the sailing she had visited an old fort in Nassau with William F. Ladd, a New York broker and another acquaintance. When she began to take several pictures an armed guard objected, she said, but Mr. Ladd laughed, “Oh, why don’t you let her do it? She's oniy a German spv.”

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hoir Will Sing At Blind School

THE STUDENT CHOIR of the Central Studios of Music will | present a program of Easter | music over the Singing Tower of the Indiana School for the Blind at 3:30 p. m. Sunday. The choir directed by Ciifford D. Long, glee club directer at the Third | Christian Church. The program will be presented in the school auditorium and will be amplified over the Singing Tower to the school campus and community, Choir members are Martha E. Stephens, soprano; Robert Bruner, violinist, and Anita Meggenhofen, accompanist.

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INDIANA U. TEACHER

GRANTED LIFE AWARD

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 9.— Ben W. Miller of the Indiana University Department of Physical Education for Men, hag been granted a life membership in the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, The membership was given to Mr. Miller for his services during a twoyear term as secretary-treasurer of the Mid-West Physical Education Association of which he recently was elected vice president. Awarded at the close of the 28th annual convention of the association last Saturday in Charleston,

CHURCH SCHEDULES CANDLE LIGHT RITE

The Centenary

| Church’s annual Candle Light com- { munion service will be celebrated

at the church, 11th and Oxford

{ Sts., at 7:40 p. m. tomorrow, There

will be a processional by the adult choir, At 6:30 p. m. Friday, Dr. Will J Moore of the Butler University College of Religion will address the Women’s Council of the church at a sacrificial luncheon, which will be sponsored by the council.

GO NORTH

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1941

GETS PURDUE POST

Times Special

LAFAYETTE, Ind. April 9.—Dnr,

of Michigan has

been

Christian William L. Ayres of the University

appointed

head of the mathematics departe as part of the Holy Week services ment at Purdue University, He suc=

ceeds Prof, William Marshall.

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