Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1941 — Page 22

3 PAY FINES IN ‘CAFETERIA’

Motorists Like New Plan; Even First Objector Changes Mind.

. "When the City’s new cafeteria- . style traffic violation bureau opened Monday a week ago, the first customer balked at paying the routine fine and asked a court trial instead. :

Last Friday, however, the bureau’s number one customer changed his mind. He paid the $2 assessment for driving the wrong way in a one-way alley and saved himself the S SSperience of sitting in traffic co ot "Chief Clerk Ann IL. Brown, that action appeared to be the final test of the new bureau’s acceptance by the public. Last week, the first week of the bureau’s operation, 1508 Indianapolis motorists came in fo pay $2 for a series of parking and minor moving violations. Under the new bureau system, they had the option of paying the fine immediately or of appearing in court.

Only Six Ask Trials

They chose to pay the fine. Only six motorists arrested last week pleaded not guilty and asked for court trials. During its first week's operation, the bureau took in $3016 in fines. Under the old system, a total of $2659 was collected during the week of Sept. 1 to 8—the last full week before the new bureau opened. Under the old system, motorists paid $1884 in parking sticker fines at the clerk’s window and $775 in traffic court on minor violations. Only one violator so far under the new system has paid for two violations. When he paid the $2 fine for the first offense, his license was punched. The second offense cost him $3. A third offense will cost $5.

Frank W. Spooner

Spooner Re-elected, Fall Season Opens With Dance Oct. 25.

Frank W. Spooner has been reelected president of the Fifty Club for the 1941-42 season. Other officers include Dr. C. E. Morgan, vice president; Joe A. Freihage, treasurer, and Wendell V. DeWitt, secretary. Thomas J. Farrell, Paul Kettner and Ding Isgrigg have been named directors; Warren P. Todd, publicity chairman; Charles C. Wenz, master of ceremonies; Courtland C. Cohee, Dr. Alan A. Sparks and J. V. Farrell, music and entertainment; A. D. McCarrell, T. A. Lanahan, Edward W. Schneider, Billy Grimes, A. Krebs and Walter F. Maloney, reception, and Elmer Singer, A. A. Stein, W. R. Henschen, William Eckhart, Leo P. Gauss and R. L. Lambert, membership. The club will open its fall season with a Hallowe'en dance Oct. 25 and a Thanksgiving ball Nov. 22. The annual New Year's party wil be

given at Hotel Severin,

DOUBLE HOUSES

Bel-Rose League Claims Structures Decrease Property Values.

Amendment of a new ordinance |}

that permits construction of small rental houses in the area bounded by Ralston Ave., 44th and 49th Sts

and Keystone Ave. will be sought

by the Bel-Rose Civic League.

More than 50 residents. of that!:

area attended a mass protest meeting sponsored by the League at School 91 last night. They voted to bring pressure on City Council to change the ordinance so that no more small double houses can be erected. Shortly after an ordinance was passed to modify zoning restructions, construction of 15 .three-room doubles was started on Hillside Ave. C. Titus Everett, League president, said small doubles will lower property valuations in that area. “Residents of the area will fight construction of this type of building because 95 per cent of them own their own homes and small rental properties will injure property values,” he said. Possible action to condemn, by court action, the 15 new doubles under construction was discussed by League members but no action was taken. “First we want to see that the ordinance is amended before taking any action on those already being built,” Mr. Everett said.

7 COUNTIES SEND 233 HOOSIERS TO ARMY

Seven counties sent 233 men to Ft. Harrison today as part of the 15th Selective Service call. Selectees reported from Clay, Elkhart, Hancock, Jay, Lake, Randolph and Vio counties.

PL LT AEE

__ WHERE THE FASHION WISE ECONOMIZE

Not just a handful

lected styles. . . but every $2 and 2.50

Hat in. our stock styles included! women.

EVERY

All headsizes for

IN OUR STOCK...

Another great fashion group . . . featuring every $3 hat in our stock... every new style success . . . every new color . . . all headsizes for women.

5th ANNIVERSARY!

[ERY 2, 2.50 FALL HAT

IN OUR STOCK...

. . . not just se-

best selling

3.0

FALL HAT

b6 i

CHOICE!

3.98 FALL HATS

ENTIRE STOCK

3.606

5.00 FALL HATS

ENTIRE STOCK

4.66

Only nine hours affer Kay Weber, 26, had eloped to Dubuque, Towa, with Lee Sherman, 24, and returned to Chicago, she was shot and killed by Ronald Toft, a rejected “suitor” who committed suicide after the shooting. Inquest revealed that Toft was married and ‘had a 16-month-old child.

U.S. ARMY GETS ‘LANDING MATS’

‘Portable Airports’ Made of Steel Plates; Easy to Move About.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.— The Army is getling ready to cart “portable airports” around the country—or into any other area where the air forces may be drawn by future developments. This information, at first regarded as a military secret, was released today by War Department officers on the basis of official reports that steel “landing mats” were being manufactured in Pittsburgh under a $276,000 contract with the CarnegieIllinois Steel Corp. The mats consist of any desired number of steel ‘plates, five feet long, 15 inches wide and one-eighth inch thick. The plates are locked together in numbers sufficient to form a steel carpet big enough for an airplane to land on, or take off from, rough, rocky, muddy or swampy ground, or ground deep in Snow.

Easy to Move

The landing strip can be taken apart and loaded into trucks or railroad cars. Engineers who developed the device at Ft. Belvoir, Va., emphasized that it was still experimental. Only two orders have been placed—one for the steel plates from Pittsburgh and another for a second type to be supplied by the Irving Subway Grating Co. in New York.

sion, is a wire mesh of extremely strong construction, to be supplied and transported in rolls like chicken wire. The steel-plate type is reported strong enough to cushion the impact of any kind of airplane, even a flying fortress. However, it is expected that the mats will be used mainly for smaller planes. A feature of the strips is that holes of 2%-inch diameter are punched in them at 4-inch intervals.

tation to show or grow through them, as camouflage. Both the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force are reported to have experimented with the same general idea. .

MAYOR DRESS BETTER

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Sept. 23 (U. P.).—Mayor William H. Dress of Evansville today left St. Anthony hospital by ambulance for Evansville after his recovery from pneumonia. Mayor Dress was stricken during the Indiana Municipal League convention here Sept. 3-5. He is president of the group.

A third type, still under discus-|SP

These are intended to allow vege-

Dual Lanes on 40, 31 To Be Extended.

The construction of a new highway between Martinsville and Bloomington and the dual-landing of approximately 58 miles of Roads 40 and 31 close to Indianapolis have been placed on the Highway Com-

| mission’s 1942 program.

The new Martinsville-Blooming-ton road, long sought to facilitate the growing volume of traffic between Indianapolis and the Indiana University town, will be 22 feet wide and ‘will be: built “off center,” James ‘D. ,K Adams, Commission chairman, said. This will make it possible to make the road dual-lane later, if it is deemed advisable, Mr, Adams added. The dudl-laning of Road 40 between Indianapolis and Richmond is to be completed. This involves about. 23 miles of scattered sections of the highway.

Widen 40 This Year

When this new work is completed, Road 40 will be dual lane, two lanes separated by a parkway, all the way from Richmond to Terre Haute, with small exceptions where the road is already multiple lane. The dual-laning of Road 40 between Indianapolis and Terre Haute is scheduled to be completed this year. : On Road 31, the Commission plans to extend the dual-laning north of Indianapolis to the junc-

| tion with State Road 47 and to ex-

tend the dual-laning which now

City on to Columbus. The former project will be about 10 miles while the latter will be between 25 and 30. Parts of the old roads may be used on these projects. Laid Out From Air

The Martinsville - Bloomington road, which will be about 20 miles long, will be laid out from aerial photographs which already have been taken of the region, Mr. Adams said. The cost will be above $1,000,000, he.said. Mr. Adams said that the road would be built “according to the latest standards and designed to give the motorist the maximum amount of safety.” Many fatal traffic accidents have

Bloomington road and the chief agitation for the new route has come from parents of Indiana University students and football fans.

Extensive Program

Mr. Adams said that in addition to the road building scheduled for this vicinity, the Commission has adopted an extensive program for the remainder of the state. He said that the roads scheduled would be built unless something such as “gasolineless days” were imposed which would cut Commission revenues. : The 42 work will begin next ring and most of it will be completed by late next year..

LINKS 76 AND ’41 IN

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (U. P.), —President Roosevelt proclaiming Oct. 11 as Gen. Pulaski Memorial Day, drew a parallel between the perils of the present crisis and the dangers of the Revolutionary era. “In this grave crisis, when our precious liberties are gravely menaced by the spread of conquest and tyranny abroad, we gratefully recall the efforts and sacrifices of those who helped establish this as a free nation,” the President said yesterday. ‘Count Casimir Pulaski, Polish general who helped the American Revolutionary Army, was killed on Oct, 11, 1779, at the siege of Savannah, Ga.

BARGAIN

iin

—Just as Pictured!

©® Beautiful all Walunt Bentwood Cabinet. :

@ Powerful 3-Tube amplifier.

@ Self stalling. rim drive heavy duty mo

; 0 41%” oon dynamic speaker. t t crystal pickup wide ® LE aseney” response. ® Plays 10” and 12° records.

«Swing-Master”

Combination

$59.95 Rion

Just Received . . . Another New Shipment of the Famous

STATE PROCRAM

[Highway to Cost Million;

runs to Greenwood south of the f

Dry and Mild]

Amateur Prophet Bases Winter Forecast on Equinox

FORECAST: Generally dry except for local rains today through October; generally dry and mild through the winter. ; That is the long-range forecast of Bert Oyler, 940 Woodlawn Ave., Indianapolis’ free lance weather prophet and it is made today, the

first day of fall as the seasons are measured by the stars. It is at the autumnal and the vernal equinoxial periods that Mr. Oyler gathers his material for the forecasts by using his eyes, ears and - feelings and some secondhand factory smoke. He has been doing this for 38 years, and claims to have a record for accuracy. He figures there will be no fall rains this year until late October or early November. He learned it from an old friend of his father way back when he was a boy. This friend claimed that whatever kind of weather we have in the equinox sets the pattern for. the next six months. “I never forgot that and I've watched it every since, and it’s always been right. “Now you take Sept. 20, 21 and 22. That's the fall equinox. ‘And the wind’s been blowing almost steady from the South. Wind will blow mostly from the South for the next six months, and that means a warm and open winter.”

INJURED ROUTING BANDIT

BOSTON, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—Rather than obey a bandit’s order and remove his trousers in the presence of his girl friend, Harold Olsen, 38, ought early today and wound up in a hospitai with face and head cuts. The bandit escaped.

Use

Pa Our Ea

£3 Yment P| y

an Here’ eS Beauty for you, too.

Smiling eyes are healthy eyes. Correctly glasses enhance your appearance while t tect your sight.

DR. PAUL W. SCHMIDT

[1 E. Ohio St. Across From the Post Office RJ-1633

[roscribed and fitted ey correct and pro-

Transparent Dental Plates The Most Natural Plates Developed No Odor—No Taste—No Discolor ® Easy Careful Extraction ® Missing Teeth Replaced : in a Few Minutes ® Plates Repaired While You Wait

e Ill-fitting plates reset and rebuilt— 3-hour service.

DR.FORSHEE

22/2 N. Qh

Hours: 8:30 to 6 P.M. Daily Sunday by Appt.

5708

been attributed to the winding na-| ure of the present Martinsville-

EYE

"SETTING PULASKI DAY| |

LOANS NO ENDORSERS

Cost Reduced 14

on the Entire Amount of All Loans ‘of $500 or More to

| pet $100 per year*

You may borrow $75 to $5,000 or more and take 6 to 18 months to repay. Payments need - not start for 6 weeks. Many loans are made

on Character or. Auto WITHOUT ENDORSERS.

Insist on Morris Plan's New TL Policy When You Finance Your Next Car