Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1941 — Page 20
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1041
Lewis & Winkler to H
At State House—
LAW SHAKES UP BEVERAGES UNIT
Many Democrats to Lose Jobs Under Change to Bi-Partisan Basis.
By EARL RICHERT . The State Alcoholic Beberages| Commission today began preparations te place its personnel, now averwhelmingly Democratic, on a strictly bi-partisan basis, It announced that it will receive applications, beginning today, for members of the excise police force and for office employees. The action was taken in accerdance with the new Stout Liquor Law, which went into effect today. requiring all employees of the Division to be equally divided politically, all members of the excise) police to be placed under a merit system and all other employees to be given a merit rating.
May 31 Is Deadline
Applications may be obtained by mail or in person at Room 225 at the State House and all applications must be on file by May 31 to be considered. The employment of all the present 80 job-holders in the department terminates on May 31, and the Commission will rehire present employees or hire new ones on the | basis of examination grades. The Commission is planning to increase its excise police foice from 27 to 50 men. Weight and health qualifications have been set up for | the excise officers and those who cualify will be given a mental examination.
High Grades Count
The men who make the highest grade will be appointed and after they have been selected they will attend a training school. All excise policemen will be assigned permanently outside their home district and they will work in pairs, one from each political party. Men and women office empioyees, auditors and field men will have
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N. SIDE STORE WILL BE USED
Showroom to Remain Open Nightly; Visitors May Drive Cars.
Dewey H. Lewis and Louis G. Winkler, both Indiana born and as
Hoosier as fried chicken, today be-|
came the distributor in this area of a Hoosier product—the Studebaker. Their partnership, Lewis & Winkler Motors, Inc., at 1525 N. Meridian St., since 1936 has been the Nash distributor here. In handling Studebakers, the location, personnel and officers will be the same. Officers are Mr. Lewis, president; Mr. Winkler, secretary-treasurer; William (Bill) Hittle, used car mana-
ger; Joseph Burriss, new car manager; R. H. Christman, bookkeeping department head; Bert Lambert,
HURRY UP KIDS! DEADLINE NEARS
Entries for Times-City Marble Contest Must Be In by Monday.
By RICHARD LEWIS Monday will be the last day for boys and girls to sign up for The Indianapolis Times City Marbles Tournament which is offering a free trip to Asheville, N. C,, to the City marbles champion this year. Sectional tournaments will be held at public and parochial séhools and recreation centers Monday afternoon after school until Saturday, May 17, when the district semifinals will be held. At the public schools, the sectional play-offs will be under the direction of a physical education teacher, according to Emil Rath, Schools Physical Education Director, who is chairman of the tournament committee.
Same Plan at Parochials
Similar arrangements are being made at parochial schools under the direction of the Rev. Fr. Richard Langen, Catholic Youth Organization director. City Recreation supervisors will have charge of play-offs at the recreation centers which are under the direction of H. W. Middlesworth, City Recreation director. WPA recreation centers are being supervised by A. J. Thatcher, County WPA Recreation director. A complete list of sections in the City-wide tournament will be prepared tomorrow and will be published in The Times. All boys and girls under 15 years old are eligible for the tournament. If a boy or girl is 14 and nearly 15, he is eligible if the 15th birthday does not come before July 12 of this year. The age limit will be enforced in the tournament, because no boy or girl who is 15 may participate in the Scripps-Howard Regional tournament at Asheville or the national tournament at Wildwood, N. J. which is July 11.
REPORT MEDICAL NEED
CHICAGO, May 1 (U. P.).—The Journal of the American Medical Association warned today that by
Dewey H. Lewis . , + Louis G. Winkler
Charges Hodge-Podge Crew Sends Army Costs Sky-High
WASHINGTON, May 1 (U. P.).—]|job about five weeks, the third was
Rep. Albert J. Engel (R. Mich.) said |3 lobster fisherman and the fourth at was actually a carpenter,” he said.
service manager; Franklin Young,
special application forms and will {parts manager; and Frank Grose,
also be given examinations in keeping with their type of work. While used car reconditioning manager. Lot under a merit system, they will | At the main store there will be a be given a merit rating and pro-| complete Studebaker parts departmotions will be made irom within ment operating in conjunction with | the department. |the paint and metal shop, the serv-| The bi-partisan provision of the jce department, the used car reconnew law will cause a number of|djtioning plant and the lubrication the. present Democratic employees | department which was used by the to lose their joos. Alemite Corp. in a motion picture on » proper lubricating methods.
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Plan Special Showing
Jessup on Vacation
WILFRED JESSUP, director of] Ine used car lots at 1535 N. Me-| the Employment Security’ Division, ridian St. adjoining the office, and today left on a vacation without at North and Pennsylvania Sts., will any deeision being made by thel.ontin Employment Security Board as to a | CONtinUeE to handle all makes of| SUCCESSOTs used cars. Mr. Jessup submitted his resigna-| In connection with its becoming | Hoh several weeks ago because of a Studebaker distributor, the firm is_ health and the Board asked gin hol speci howi pl that he continue to hold his present | wv Si a Spin) showin, ST EES |
post until a successor could be models including the recently an-
a inted. | nounced Skyway Series. ‘The showpo Gordon. Board head. said|Toom will be open each night until 9 that the group would probably de- O'clock and visitors may drive the
cide upon a man to take Mr. Jes- NEW Cars. uk up's Dh within a short time. | The Skyway Series are additions!
Everett Gardner, chairman of the | to the Commander and President Review Board of the Division, and | lines and are offered on either the Mark Ogden, public relations direc- |X OF eight-cylinder chassis in the tor of the Division, are reported to|SiX-Passenger body styles. They were have strong support for Mr. Jes-|G¢siened by Raymond Loewy to acsup’s position which pays $6000 an- | Cent long, low, graceful lines. Standnually. : ard equipment on the series are rear | wheel shields, front fender parking lights, whitewall tires, concealed |
Road 40 Contract Awarded running boards and deluxe front |
bumpers with winguards. ANOTHER STEP towards mak- A wide range of exterior color ing Road 40 all multiple lane pave- combinations features dark tones on | ent between Indianapolis erre Haute was taken vesterday lighter shades of the same or har-! by the Higliway Commission. monious colors on the body. Inte-| The Commission awarded a con- rior upholstery tone is governed by tract for paving nearly four miles exterior colors. . of dual-lane highway on Road 40
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and the top to the window line with |
today that construction costs Camp Edwards, Mass., have jumped | from an original estimate of $7,-| 240,462 to more than $29.000.000. He declared that facilities at the camp will be only 22 per cent great-
jer than was originally planned al-
though construction costs have risen 300 per cent. This was the fourth in a series of reports Engel has made to the House on his one-man investigation of cantonment construction costs. Rep. Engel said 60 to 65 per cent of the men drawing carpenter's pay on the project were not carpenters. “One of the foremen was an R. F. D. carrier, one was a day
“The lobster fisherman foreman had a crew consisting of himself, a bond salesman, an insurance man, a meat cutter, a gas station attendant, three laborers who were not carpenters, one good carpenter and one rough carpenter.” He charged that 13,000,000 feet of lumber were delivered at the camp site before the contractor, Walsh Construction Co., had car-
| penters or “help of any kind.”
“No one with any business sense in the construction of a job would permit anything of this kind to occur and responsibility must
ficials and the construction quartermaster, and not upon the con-
laborer who had worked on the
tractor,” he said.
WAYNE TO BEGIN FIRE MEETINGS
Township Seeks Equipment For Volunteers: to Get Cash Next Year.
The first in a series of community meetings to organize a volunteer fire department for Wayne Township
{will be held Monday at Flackville.
Plans for the community meeting were made this week under the leadership of Richard McKinney, chief of the volunteer group. Chief McKinney appointed Robert Long of Maywood as his first assistant and Gordon Harker of Ben Davis as his second assistant.
Perhaps It Was Force of Habit
be | placed squarely upon the Army of- |
1944 the Army will need 3000 more Medical reserve officers than are available, unless medical students
are deferred from military service.
Health Day at Nurseries
Marion County's four WPA nursery schools are observing “Child Health Day” today with “open house.” One hundred children of preschool age are attending the schools. The are located at the Rhodius
CONGRESSMAN IS DEAD MOUNT AIRY, N. C, May 1 (U. P.).—Rep. A. D. (Lon) Folger (D, N. C.), director of finance for the Democratic National Committee, died in Mount Airy Hospital last night of automobile injuries suffered earlier in the day. He was 53.
You Are Cordially
Invited to Attend
A Fashion
CHICAGO, May 1 (U. P).—
police sirens in front of his home early today. Without waiting for a summons,
similar to several during recent investigation of violence in the cleaning and dyeing industry. “Where's the murder?” asked Lieut. Redmond Gibbons of the Detective Bureau. “Not here,” promptly. “What murder?” “We got a phone call . . . murder at 7110 Bennett Ave. . . . your house,” said Lieut. Gibbons. But when a dozen squads
Murray (The Camel) Humphreys, | ex-convict and former Al Capone | aid, heard the familiar sound of |
Humphreys dressed and went to the door, resigned to another visit |
said Humphreys |
and Saturday at 1
between Plainfield and Bridgeport | to William D. Vogel, Indianapolis+ contractor, for $272 885. The project is scheduled to be completed by Nov. 15, 1941.
In Business Many Years Mr. Lewis said that he and Mr. | Winkler had been friends with je dianapolis and Indiana buyers for
so long that “now we are happy to|
handle an Indiana-made car which
couidn’t find any murder in a 45minute search of the neighborhcod, they decided the call was a false alarm. They went away. went back to bed.
Indianapolis Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy said the township eventually should have equipment and 16,000 feet of hose, costing approximétely $100,000. Herbert McClelland, township trustee. said that there are no avail-
and guest mannequins.
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Park Community Center; the NYA Work Experience Center at 25th St, and Keystone Ave.; J. T. V. Hill Community Center; and the Northeast Community Center, Schools are opened from 9 a. m, until 3 p. m, The schools are open fo visitors all day today.
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LEAR TO REVIEW 201ST INFANTRY
Methven to Lead West Vir« . ginians Before Second Army Commander.
Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear, commande er of the U. S. Second Army, with Tenn, will formally review the 201st Ine fantry regiment at Ft. Harrison at 9 a. m. tomorrow. The 201st, a Federalized West Virginia National Guard regiment, is attached to the Fifth Division, Ft. Custer, Mich, for training pure poses and 1s a part of the Second Army. Maj. Thomas J. Randolph, memw ber of the Second Army staff and Capt. J. C. Snowden, aide to Gen, Lear, will accompany the Army come mander to Indianapolis.
Reception to Follow
The formal review and inspection of the regiment will be followed by a reception in honor of Gen. Lear at which all regimental officers will be presented to the general. ! It will be the first inspection of the unit since it completed its basia training carried out since January. The regiment was inspected and tested for its combat efficiency on Monday and Tuesday hy staff ofe ficers of the Fifth Division, The troops of the regiment, some 2000 strong, will pass in review une der command of Lieut. Col. Theron 3. Methven, regular regimental come mander. Tours All Units
Following the reception Gen, Lear will be guest at lunch at the 201st Infantry officers’ mess. Gen. Lear is making a tour of inspection of all units under his command. The 201st and other Second Army units are scheduled to go South to North Carolina this summer for giant war maneuvers,
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SEMI-ANNU AL SALE!
‘ ” ’ FREEZES BEQUESTS we long have respected.” | able funds at present for equipment T0 ITAL! AN TOWN Mr. Lewis, who is 42, entered the but that next year’s budget would automotive field here 20 years ago, include $20,000 for two pieces of apPROVIDENCE, R. I, May 1 (U. as a retail salesman for the old E.|/paratus and sufficient hose. P) «Secretary of State Cordell| W. Stinehart Co. distributor for| Mr. McKinney said that while the Hull's approval was awaited by a Cadillacs, Chevrolets and Oldsmo-| township has no equipment now it Superior Court Judge today in con-| biles. Later he was a salesman for| Was deemed wise to organize the Bection with his ruling which Jones & Maley, and also was presi- | Personnel of the fire department so froze” $22000 bequeathed to two! dent of Lewis Motors, Dodge-Plym- | that when the equipment is purItalian towns. : outh dealer. Born in Delphi, he is chased there will be no delay in Judge Charles A. Walsh said yes- married and lives at 5429 Winthrop | placing it in operation. terday he would not a jpreve the be- | Ave. : More than 100 men in the townSpests ry Mr. Hull pave his| Mr Winkler was born here and | Ship have vo.unteered their services I pot soi prorat, AtieH lives at 2521 Carrollton Ave. For 12/and the community meetings vill be soney to Ttaly Re be oo Cd Cerican years before entering into a part- | held to establish working schedules bullets and machines of war that| nership with ME. Tews lie Wiss Con. onl SEE § mer Gleam. might be turned againet the bodies | ected with automotive firms in the lL oo of American boys” Judge Walsh | sales end and in mechanical engisaid. (neering and manufacturing. For The funds were bequeathed to the | 200Ut 15 years before that he was towns of Perugia and. Assisi by the |.» the auto parts and accessories| Rev. Alexander Mercer of Newport | f1€d- . in equal shares for poor workers. |
CHECK ‘CONFESSOR® | OF LEVINE MURDER
SALT LAKE CITY, May 1 (U. P)). —Police said today they would hold . a N tailor, who had | unts confessed the kidnaping And slaying of young Peter Levine, | B ABY Tn hey I check the mental {hstitutions sich he had been | held for the last few years. Jacket They said, however, the Federal y ; : Bureau of Investigation was satis- | SHOP 3 fied the story of the tailor, Nathan! Solishansky, 37, was “pure fantasy.” | Solishansky said he had met ; _ Devine in downtown New e, N. Y., and persuaded him to for a walk in the woods. He aid he had killed the boy, tied the body with copper wire weighted it. and sunk it in Long Island Sound.
CHYRGES PROFITS IN YACHT SALES TO U. S.
WASHINGTON, May 1 (U. P) — ; Harry 8S. Truman (D.| Mo.) of a Special Senate Commit- | tee investigating the defense prom, said today that his group will investigate reports that dollar-a-year men in the Federal Government have made “large profits” by boats to the Navy. Truman declined to disclose the names of the men who purporliedly have made profits on the sales of their boats. “I do not know whether the information is or false, but the committee to investigate these rumors,” |
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