Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1941 — Page 11

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THURSDAY, JUNE 12

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COSTS PROBED:

Million Paid for Supervision * In 2 Southern Camps, House Group Told. By MARSHALL McNEIL

oo Times Special Writer . WASHINGTON, June 12—Figures showing that the Government paid about a million dollars for architectural and engineering work on two Louisiana cantonments, in addition to a $70,000 fee paid the former Oklahoma WPA official who ‘handled this work, will be placed ‘before the House subcommittee in‘westigating War Department construction. The architect-engineer on these “jobs—Camps Livingston and Polk— was William L. Benham, whose “Benham Engineering Co. of Okla‘homa City was not a “full, going “organization” when it got the first of these jobs, the committee has been told. ~ Mr. Benham was described in Ls committee hearings as a colonel in F: the active Army reserves, but he ‘was hired as a civilian, not being “called into the Army. ~ Rep. Ewing Thomason (D. Tex.), “committee chairman, said that shen hearings are resumed next -week he intends to make a full in“quiry into these special architec--tural-engineering costs.

: Officer Did This Job ~- Col. James A. Alfonte, construc-

~tion- quartermaster at Ft. Benning, _.Ga., has told the committee that a “first lieutenant in the reserve corps “handled all the duties of architect“engineer on construtcion at Ben“hing, that he hired all his surdraftsmen and assistants under civil service, and was paid “his Army salary and allowances of _about about $260 a month. = A. W. Perry, committee investi- - gator, pointed out that general plans “for the layout of the camp were “furnished by the Army, and Maj. -PDaub said he got a “general Army plan, the general requirements, and Mr. Benham and his engineers ~adapted them to the ground condi“tions.” = Maj. Daub testified that the Benham company could not have got “the type of men it employed for “the rates that could have been paid -under civil service. He said men “of the caliber the Benham com“pany employed “wouldn't work for “that money.” But a committee member said £Col. Alfonte at Ft. Benning got his “men under civil] service, and ‘he “apparently did as good a job as Benham did, at less price.”

: Harness Questions Hiring

Z The Benham company pay roll -and expenses were met by the -Government, after vouchers had “been. turned in by the company. “This is where the million-dollar ‘cost comes in. In addition, there “was the fee. = Maj. Daub also testified that at “Camp Polk a wire fence was built _at. a cost of about $24,000, by “Stiuctural-steel workers paid $1.50 -an hour, instead of by common labor at 40 cents an hour. “Under your contract, you per- . mitted structural-steel workers at $150 an hour to do the work of tcommon labor?” asked Rep. Forest ‘A. Harness (R. Ind.). “Yes,” Maj. Daub replied. “That agreement was made between the “contractor and the unions, and they threatened to strike if it was not “allowed and they supplied the actual ~evidence to provide that it had been: done in that vicinity previous to this

examination.” » ays CARRIERS R ‘MOSQUITOES’

x WASHINGTON, June 12 (U. P.). ~~—The House Naval Affairs Commit“tee Joaay asked the Navy's General “Board to survey the feasibility of * building special carriers to launch “mosquito” torpedo boats into ac‘tion on the high seas. - The committee acted after Rep. ‘Melvin J. Maas (R. Minn.) read a .letter from Admiral Harold R. ‘Stark, chief of naval operations, stating that the proposal did not seem practicable, Rep. Maas said no study had been made by the General Board,

and asked the committee to back|

up his request for a further survey.

‘NEW YORK SCHOOLS “TO HOLD RAID DRILLS

NEW YORK, June 12 (U. ‘P.).— A conference of 2000 New York City public school principals and presiding teachers will be held June 30 to July 2 to plan air raid drills Jor the fall school term, John E. ‘Wade, deputy superintendent of “schools, annouriced today. ; Army, Navy, fire and police offi“eials will explain how children can ‘best be protected from incendiary .and explosive bombs. The plan calls for an escort system to conduct “children in the lower grades to ~their homes.

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Just Friends

Dodging questions about reports she would be Jack Dempsey’s next fiance, Mercedes Marlowe, tennis star, poses for photographers at Chicago airport. Miss Marlowe was flying east to play at Forrest Hill in the National Tennis Tournament.

DIABETES TEST URGED ON U. 3.

Americans Asked to Carry ‘On Work Started in Canada.

By Science Service CLEVELAND, June 12.—A request to American doctors to carry on war-interrupted efforts of Canadian scientists to test on humans a promising method of diabetes pre- - | vention was made by Dr. C. H. Best of Toronto, co-discoverer of insulin, and his associate, Dr..H. E. Haist, at the meeting here, for the first time anywhere, of the newly organized American Diabetes Association. By giving insulin, a diet high in fat content, and also by fasting, the Canadian scientists have succeeded in preventing diabetes in dogs. By any of these procedures the amount of insulin in the dog’s pancreas is reduced, indicating that the in-sulin-producing cells of the pancreas are being given a chance to rest. Overwdrk of these cells with consequent breakdown of insulinproducing ability ‘results in diabetes. The hereditary tendency to diabetes has been so well established that Dr. Best and his associate believe the measures which prevented diabetes in dogs should be tried, under carefully controlled conditions, to protect children of diabetic ancestry from developing the dis-

ease. They have not been able to make such a trial, Best explained, because war has called to England for military service the doctor in the University of Toronto medical faculty who would be able to make arrangements for the trial. Dr. Best’s own activities are limited to laboratory research. A means of diagnosing diabetes in its early stages is badly needed, Dr. Best declared, pointing out that at present doctors do not see diabetic patients until most of the insulinproducing cells in the patient’s pancreas are destroyed. The death rate from diabetes is rising “at an alarming rate” and so is the number of cases, in spite of efforts being made to fight this disease, Dr. Cecil Striker, of Cincinnati, president of the new association, declared in outlining methods by which the association hopes to aid the three-quarters of a million diabetics in the nation.

REFUGEES RAISE | A BIG PROBLEM

Uprooted Millions to Bring Harvest of Trouble, Experts Predict.

By Science Service NEW YORK, June 12.—The enforced migrations of millions of people who are being shuffled about war-torn Europe will bring a harvest of serious problems. This is the gloomy warning forecast by population experts of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Hatreds, frustrations and poverty of the uprooted people will be “not the least of the problems,” it is foreseen. " Marshaling latest available figures which show the huge scale of Europe’s permanent semi-perma-nent, and temporary migrations, the statisticians report: More than two million foreigners, prisoners and civilians have been put to work in German factories and on farms. About one-third of these are civilians, and these include many who accepted employment in Germany because of stark need. Unoccupied France still has an army of refugees estimated as hign as 2,500,000. Hosts of them have no prospect of returning home, and many may never get home again.

300,000 Leave Germany

Since 1933, ‘more than 300,000 refugees have left Germany itself, and unknown thousands have fled from the area since conquered. One of the many transfers has affected Finns—500,000 according to report—who lived in the area ceded to Russia in 1940. Russia is

reported to have shifted large numbers of persons from the areas she has taken, particularly from eastern Poland. Censorship veils the extent of Russia’s transfers, but the statisticians cite one report that 500,000 have been involved. About: 400,000 were involved in the “repatriation” of Germans living in Baltic, Polish and Bessarabian areas occupied by Russia in 1939 and 1940. Many of these families ha dnot lived under German rule for generations, the statisticians point out.

Thousands in Balkans

The Balkans have tens of thousands of refugees, mainly from Poland, but some from Rumanian territory that became Russian. Ironically, the statisticians add, other thousands moved in the opposite direction, choosing Russian - rule rather than German. The majority of Spain’s half million men, women and children who fled the country for political reasons after the civil war, have since returned. France mdy soon repatriate most of the remaining 180,000, and a few thousand have moved permanently abroad, chiefly to Latin America. Evacuation of civilians from thickly settled areas threatened with bombing has shifted about one million people in England and considerable numbers in Germany.

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