Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1941 — Page 4

efense Jobs and

Army Take Many

Teachers; Some Courses May Have to

Be Curtailed,

By EARL

Although most of the state’s 3138 public schools are now|

Officials Say.

RICHERT

in their first week of the fall term, there are still 53 teaching

positions to be filled.

And unless the teachers with the right qualifications are

found soon, the schools will have to drop the course which

they had planned for these teachers to teach, Department

of Public Instruction officials d.

This teacher shortage is for

most part attributable to the

defense program, Ellis H. Bell, As- ‘ sistant Superintendent of Public Instruction, said. Many teachers have found better Jobs in defense industries and some of them, particularly the men physical education teachers, have been ealled to duty with the armed

forces. Lack Qualifications

While the shortage is comparatively small in view of the fact that there are 23,252 teachers employed in Indiana schools it presents preblems that gives the Education Department; officials “plenty of head-

oie course, there are more than enough teachers to fill the vacan- ~ cles,” Mr, Bell sajd. “But ‘most of them don’t have the necessary Qualifications to fill the teaching Jobs which we have open.” For example, there are virtually

scores of married women who taught

~ "once and are anxious to teach again, But most school boards don’t want married women for teachers or = teachers who haven't had any

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teaching experience for several 4

years. Most of the unfilled position are for persons who Tan teach physical education with various subjects and industrial arts with various subjects. There are also a few vacancies for elementary ‘and intermediate grade and music: teachers, Mr. Bell reported. Of these 53 vacancies, 18 are in City schools and 35 in rural schools. Mr. ‘Bell has contacted all the college teacher placement bureaus

‘1and- hopes to. have. the vacancies

filled soon. : 8g 8 8

Greene Row Dies Down

The verbal political squabble over the Greene Circuit Court judgeship has died down now, and the Democrats ‘seem content to let matters remain as they are, at least for the present. ’ Governor Schricker has taken no hand in the matter since he has not been officially notified that a vacancy exists in the Greene judgeship, held by Orval D. Hunter, a Republican, who was called to the Army early last month. A certificate that a vacancy exists must come from the Greene Circuit Cour clerk, a Democrat, before the Governor can appoint a successor to Judge Hunter. And Greene County Democrats are reported to be reluctant to have this certificate sent to the Governor since if he appointed a Democrat to Judge Hunter's seat, it would give the Republicans excellent campaign fodder next year. And, too, the Democrat who would be named could serve only until a successor was elected next year, The Republicans are satisfied with the present situation, Judge Hunter named a Republican pro tem to serve in his absence, contending that he could do this and thus take back the bench when he was discharged from the Army. Some Democratic ‘State House lawyers say that action will have to: be taken on the matter unless Judge Hunter *is released from the Army

soon. They say that the law pro-|-vides that no judge pro tem can oY

serve over nine months, 2 2 8

Religion . in Schools

The comfhittee name recent; Dr. Clement ; alan; State perintendent o Public Instruction, to work: out a religious education program for the State schools is to meet on Sept. 15. This will be the second meeting for the committee; the first being devoted ‘to organization and discussion. ——h TR

BIOFF TRIAL ON TAX CHARGES SET NOV. 17)

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 10 (U. P).] —William Bioff, western representative of the International ‘Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, will be tried on Nov. 17 on a charge of evading $85,000 in income. tax, the Federal Court. ruled today, ‘Bloff is scheduled to go to trial in New York next Monday on a charge of attempting to extort $550,000 from four studios by threat-' ening to call a strike,

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Arthur Bohn, one of the City’s leading. architects, has been preoccupied lately with the size of the new Citizens’ Gas and Coke Utility

gas tank at Fall Creek and; Northwestern Ave. He says it’s. pret tty big, much big-|-ger than it appears, ‘and when he puts it this way yoir’ll have to belicve him. | This 4s what he’ says it will hold: ‘The Fletéher Trust building, serving as a centerpiece. On. top of it

.| would be: three Roosevelt ‘buildings.

Two_otheér ‘Roosevelt. buildings, one of top of ‘another, would be at the back and two more, ‘also one on top: bf each other, at” the front.

Two Kahn buildings, one on top of

each: ‘other, would be at one side and two others at the other side. Moreover, none of the buildings would touch the side .or the top of the tank. The tank is 394 feet high, 218 feet: in diameter and 684 feet in circumference. - Mr. Bohn further figures. that although it would. be a little stuffy, actually there is room for 1,502,602 people in the tank, three and a half times the - entire population: of Indianapolis.- : He. believes. that people do not

realize the great size of the tank| because it is withSut the detail off

story heights and windows.

| |Bishop Titus Lowe.

APOLIS TIMES

IelFIVE EXAMINED

Theological Students - Ask Admission on Trial’ ‘as’ Conference Opens.”

Five “young theological “students were ‘being examined today: for -ad-]

‘mission on trial to the Indiana An-.

nual -Conference of the Methodist Church, which was to open its sessions this afternoon at the Merid-

{ian Street Methodist Church:

Today's examinations were for

f candidates who had been attend-

5 other applicahis Ie exa June. e’ conan board of ministerial: training and _the conference board ‘of education met this morning to make recommendations for ordination - to é The board of education is to conduct -tonight’s meeting of the COR-| tari ference, at which President Clyde Wildman of DePauw is to speak.

all sessions of the conference ex-

‘| cept the laymen’s session tomorrow

afternoon. The’ meeting will close Sunday afternoon with the ordination service and the reading of ministerial appointments for ‘the coming year. Laymen and ministers from about 300 churches in Indianapolis and the southern half of the State were to: be represented at the conference, which also marks the 120th anniversary of the formation of the first Methodist Church in In-

.| | dianapolis. From this church, on

the Circle,

the Meridian Street Church grew. a

|COBRA VENOM AND

B1 RELIEVE PAIN

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 10 (U. P.).—The venom of ithe Indian cobra, a deadly snake, may become an important substance in the treafment of sciatica and other

[forms of neuralgia, two Baltimore,

Md. scientists reported today to the American Chemical Society. The venom, when combined with thiamine chloride, popularly known as Vitamin Bl, has, in experiments on mice and rats, given marked relief from pain, Drs. David I.

the pharmacological research laboratory told the group’s 102d annual meeting.

By the way, Mr. Bohn designed the Roosevelt, Kahn and Fletcher Trust buildings. =

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“Together with the best architects he ‘could find, Mr, Dodge had de« signed a 110-room home that ‘was to have 24 baths and provide an acre of floor space within the ‘threestory stone exterior of combined ancient and modern architecture: ‘ But the building never was finished and .Mr. Dodge never occiipled it. He died in 1920. Although ‘he ‘had poured $2,592,000 into its construction, work on the ‘house ended then with much of the ins terior unfinished and paneless ‘windows’ staring blankly at the rustic surroundings. * Por 21 years the house lay deserted except for caretakers and an exclusive girls’ club which used a screened-in porch for a camping site one summer. - Weeds grew up in the ‘grounds inclosed by a steel wire fence and a new generation of children began referring to “the ghost of Dodge's castle.” Last week Mrs. Matilda R. Wilson, widow of the motor magnate, ordered wreckers to begin demolishing the structure. ' “The property probably will be more valuable when the house is torn down and the grounds cleared,” said a representative of the ‘estate. The grounds, which measure 376 by 1200 feet, has been listed for. sale for a number of years. : Mr. Dodge. had been determined to make his home a show. place of America. 110 stone masons who had worked on Andrew Carnegie’s Skibo Castle. The marble for the interior walls of .the vast halls was imported. On the first floor was a reception room large enough to hold a mod-

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