Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1941 — Page 6
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". the new registrants with the old.
8 : until the new boards are appointed.
Which Way, Japan?
ON INSPECTIONS
Bulk of Million - Dollar| 2 Health Appropriation - Finances Hospital.
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needed. There is a record rush for birth certificates for nationad defense jobs. In addition, new social security forms must be filled out with death certifications — which doubles the work. : : While the allowance for: administrative personnel is skimpy, the big appropriations are made for the medical services and City Hospital appropriations which receive 95 per cent of all budgeted funds for the Health .Department. The City operates one of the best municipal hospitals in the nation. It provides free and part-pay clinics, a school health service with 43 nurses and 15 physicians and maintains a tuberculosis sanitarium for indigents.
The Budget Ax Falls
These services are regarded as indispensable. Periodic waves of economy at City Hall mercifully have passed them by. The budget ax which the politicians grind noisilyhas to chop something, however. So it falls annually on the administrative end which is less spectacular and more elastic than the medical services and the hospital. In 1930, $60,000 was spent for sanitary inspections, clerical help and administration. The amount appropriated this year was less , than $52,000. The administrative Substion of the Health Department is vulnerable' to the budget ax because of the political and non-technical nature of its operation. Highly specialized and technical, the medical services remain beyond the pale of alteration by laymen. Hence, they are Ssmune from budget retrenchment.
Political Hiring Must Go .
When the budget comes before the Council each August, the City Fathers eye administrative expenditures skeptically. They know that every clerk, every inspector and every typist is a political appointee. A request for more money is viewed as a political gesture and it seldom gets to first base. Health officials now are beginning to feel that if the City’s inspection service is to operate effectively, not only must personnel be added but the political method of hiring must be abolished. s» Years ago, when a man was hired as an inspector, it was taken for granted he knew nothing about the work of a sanitary officer. He had to be “broken in” by an old timer who had learned the ropes . from another old timer. The work was hard, the pay poor, the incentive negligible. These were predisposing factors to laziness and incompetence. By sone process of evolution, however, the Health Department has developed a squad of seasoned and highly efficient sanitary inspectors. There are men who have served 10, 15 and even 20 years. They know their stuff. SE . Milk Inspection O. K. But there is nothing to guarantee the efficiency of any new men who may be hired as inspectors. The only Health Department function which approaches a merit system is the new milk inspection division, now ‘being set: up. Under the new milk grading qrdinance, inspectors must pass Federal examinations. Years ago, however, City milk inspectors were raw recruits from the polling places who knew less about
Japanese Hint They
‘None in New Draft Likely to May Strike Sibai
Be Called Within Next Six Weeks.
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thelr draft status as a result of the lottery should first find out their local board serial number. Serial number lists of the new registrants have been posted at all local draft board offices. All boards except Local Board 8 are located in || ~~ the Knights of Pythias Building, Massachusetts Ave. and Pennsylvania St. Board 8 is in Room 230 || in the Federal Building. = Serial numbers up to 800 will be |; ~~ drawn in the lottery, but since no | ‘Marion County board has more than | , 246 registrants, no serial number |. drawn above 246 will count here. Thus, for instance if the first
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246 and the fourth serial number . drawn was 120, then those local youths who held number 120 would | get what is known as sequence number one in their local draft boards.
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And the next holders of a number below 246 would get sequence number two. Some boards do not have as many as 246 registrants and in|, drawn + above the highest number of their registrants will not count. After the sequence numbers of each local board's registrants are determined by the lottery, the local board will then begin integrating
‘Boards will have to wait until they get an official sequence number list ‘from Washington before they can start this work. They will have to wait a few days for this list to be completed. The new registrants are integrated on the old order number list in the proportion of the number of new registrants in each local board area to the number of registrants left on the old order lists as of June 30. Thus, if a local board had 200 old registrants and 100 new registrants, the new registrants would be placed on the list in the ratio of two to] | one. The new registrant holding .sequence number one would be placed on the order number sist following the first two of the remaining registrants and the person with sequence number two would be placed on the order number list after the next two or the old registrants and S0 on. For another example of the way the integrating will be done, supse that a local board had 1000 old registrants yet untouched by the draft and 100 new registrants. Then the new registrants would be integrated with the old in the ratio of 10 to one.
SCHRICKER MAKES ‘TWO APPOINTMENTS
Governor Schricker .today apted W., J. Eberwein, Indianaplis, as administrator of ‘the Motor Vehicle Weight Tax Department, one of the divisions of the Motor Vehicle License Bureau retained by + the Democrats. ~ The Governor also designated Samuel C. Hadden, Indianapolis, as . chairman pro tempore of the State Highway Commission to serve in case of illness or absence of Chairman James Adams. It was reported the Governor was nearly ready to announce the appointment of new boards of trustees of the state. institutions and an| Sight-member state board of educaon. Atty. Gen. George Beamer advised State Auditor Richard T. James today that he should continue to allow expenditures by the present institutions’ boards of trustees and the present State Board of Education
This map shows the situation in the Far East as Japan changes its Cabinet, seeking a “strengthened policy in the face of changing world conditions.” The reported closing of Kobe, perhaps to cover troop movements, has been denied by Japan and by American consular officials.
Radio, War and FBI Unite Brothers After 40 Years
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eight nephews in the Army and As the ship headed for America, Air Corps. firey SSoiced bo try 3 locate . Jac ut didn't know where he Alfred explained he served in | yo. He did know Jack was in the British submarine service | rndianapolis in 1923. So the steel during World War I and on UD | company operator who received to last February, when he was
the radio call from the ship got transferred to mine laying service | the aid of the FBI in locating Mr. under a rule relieving submarine
Booty. > commanders after they Became 41. The brothers spent two days toNow Alfred is-<a high ranking
gether in Baltimore before they naval officer, serving as naviga- | had to part. tion chief for & number of mine Altogether, it was a pretty layers. He was in Baltimore, his | thrilling experience for Mr. Booty, first trip tc America, for minor | and he’s looking forward to anrepairs to his ship, a converted | other meeting with his brother liner.
after the war—if not sooner. Our St "2 Police
DENY PAROLE ASKED To Go. er fats | BY DRUNKEN DRIVER
: i The State Clemency Commission ting new hats, distinctive hats, 50 |today denied a parole for Jess John- IT and UAEY Saniincon. than toe that John Public can identify {son, former Marion County WPA |farmers they were supposed to ine them more easily. worker sentenced in Municipal | spec From next Sunday on, you will
Court here last March to a 180-day see the troopers in stiff-brimmed,
term on the State Farm and fined $100 on a charge. of drunken driving. dark blue felt hats. The new headgear which is worn by most State
Testimony at the trial was that Johnson’s car had struck 3-year-old and Federal enforcement officers in the United States and Canada
Garry William Kinnick, 1046 High St., fracturing both the child’s legs, is more practical and more becoming than the police caps the boys
Judge John L. McNelis recomhave been wearing, according to
mended that Johnson, who has an artificial leg, never again be granted Don Stiver, State Safety Director. They also have their practical
a driving license by the state. side. They shield men from the
The Commission paroled William Ashby, who has served 24 years of sun and rain better. Troopers will wear a light blue hat braid and
a life term in the State Prison for murder. Ashby was convicted in officers blue and gold or plain gold braid,
Montgomery Circuit Court in SepThe new hats will be worn at
tember, 1917, and in 1935 his senthe review of cadets in the State
tence was commuted to 25 years to life. Prison authorities said his zecPolice Training School at Bloomington Sunday.
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be P Except for the veterans, the sanitary, food ang meat inspection service is now about at the level of efficiency milk inspections were six years ago. ’
' THE PERILS OF PEACE BOSTON, July 17 (U. P.).—Harold J. Ennis of Dorchester lost considerable hair while showing civilian fire fighters here how to douse an incendiary bomb. The bomb burst and Mr. Ennis ducked, but not in time to avoid a thorough singeing.
CONFER ON FAR EAST WASHINGTON, July 17 (U., P,) ~ President Roosevelt today arranged to discuss the Far Eastern situation with Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles.
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UTIE IS SPENT Twin Threats oF Starvation and Disease Faced.as Europe Nears 3d Year of War
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emergency - section of the League's health committee sent
‘out warnings to several countries.
It is a tragic irony that while typhus may have been held down, since most of the refugee movements came in the less dangerous summer months, infant mortality, closely related as it is to feeding, weather and water supplies, has skyrocketed in the wake of the migrant columns. * Eastern Bugs and northern Africa. remain the danger zones for typhus. Health maps showing white where no cases of the disease are reported, shade ominously towards the Russian border, and health experts suspect they would show black on the other side if the figures were available.” Bessarabia was such a black spot until its reports were cut off by the Russian occupation and the Baltic States long have been considered as epidemic regions or places where the disease always exists. Some 500,000 persons have been transferred in these eastern European areas as a result of the Nazi resettlement policies, and while they: have been quarantined for weeks in interim camps, to guard against outbreaks, the danger persists. Reports this spring showed a considerable increase in the number of sporadic cases in the Warthegau and the General-Government, but notheing which health experts yet cone sider an epidemic. 8 ” 8
AMONG THE unknowns, however, are the walled ghettoes of Warsaw, Lublin and Cracow, where hundreds of thousands of Jews are crowded into areas that can accommodate only a fraction German-
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there were only 324 cases of tyus in Warsaw, of which 180, e newspaper said, were inside the ghetto. The German authorities are carrying on extensive investigations in the control of the disease, among other items offering Jews a few zlotys to permit lice to feed on their bodies for the purpose of the experiment— almost the only way the Jews can €arn money. Another of the medical mys teries of Europe is the fate gh the thousands of refugees fled the German Army as it moved into Poland, only to be engulfed by the Red forces from the other direction and Jeoauiably compelled to" spend the - ter with what little money and clothing they were able’'to bring them into a 2 Npen Where us is n None but nd Retially kriow the answer to this. *
Typhus is a disease of winters
time when people wear heavy clothing—and lice—and it reaches its peak in March or April, largely disappearing in the summer, It is the early spring of next year which the experts will watch most closely. It is related, also, to another European problem—that of fats. No soap, no baths, lice, typhus—the cycle is a dangerous one. . o 8 ” NORTH AFRICA'S TYPHUS, in ‘Morocco and Algeria, seems to stem more directly from the problem of food. Each time there is a reduced diet, with its corresponding reduction in people’s resistance, the reservoir of disease breaks through to the surface. This occurred already this spring
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and the food situation there has not improved. There were sufficient cases reported, even in Spain, last and May, so that
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the mortality. Both Germahy and Italy are preparing these in large quantities. The other is the control of most of Europe by an iron-handed police power in the German Army and health authorities which are perfectly capable of taking and will not hesitate to take measures which may appear nece essary,
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