Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1941 — Page 20

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Wat Holds Up Up Contract off

Co To High Bidder After

a Firm Protests. me first phase of the $225,000

Hospital reconstruction protoday

hit a

r contract to the highest of three|

idders was held up by Mayor SulSE iva mn. 5 %The Mayor intervened in

#ward, made to the Otis Elevator]

€0. on its high bid, when the West-

fnghouse Electric Elevator Co. per-|

‘Sénally protested the rejection of ,- its. lower bid to the Mayor. arMayor Sullivan immediately asked the Health. Board to. reconsider its

getion last week in ‘making the} award and asked the representative | “of Westinghouse as well. as the} Warner Elevator Co., lowest bidder,} ’0 appear before him and the Board

tomorrow night. > Low Bidder Indignant .

At Chicago, H. W. Balfanz, West- |

$ighouse Elevator Co. district mandger, said the Boards ¥geemed terribly irregular.” “It doesn’t seem to be in keep-

ing with good business,” he said.|

“Nothing like this ever has hapned in the work we do for the Brae Government. Even if we're} $1. lower than our competifor, we'd get the contract on the| ‘basis of a low bid. “Our bid is lower than the suc‘eessful bidder in this instance. We _ have met all thé specifications and We maintain’ full and complete service in Indianapolis.” :

o Otis Bid of $69,976 + The Health Board awarded the

contract for seven elevators to.rePace obsolete equipment at the

to the Otis concern on its}:

Bign Sal, of $69,976. The Westingouse bid on similar equipment was 940 and the Warner concern stibmitted the lowest bid, $67,535 The award Was made on the second Series of’ bids received by the Health Board, Elevator bids were first taken 2 but were rejected at - the advice of City Attorney Michael B, Reddington who asserted that Westinghouse at that time did not meet specifications in its bid. £In the first bid series, Otis was high at $85,451 and Westinghouse low with a bid of $69,470. The Warfier fompany | submitted a bid of me, Red said that ‘WestIn hl had submitted € low bid gecause the company figured the use of old motors and SqWipinent at the hospital. Bids Investigated “The second series of bids on which the Board acted was opened Oct. 17. «There followed an investigation of each bid by a municipal eommittee composed of Dr. George W. Kohlstaedt, Health Board president, and Frank G. Laird, member; Br. Charles W. Myers, hospital superintendent; Albert F. Walsman, business manager, and Dr.. Herman G. Morgan, City Health Officer. and Board secretary. | It was on the basis of this investigation that the Otis company received the bid, according to Mr. Ko! who to | the d's reasons for rejecting thei two lower bids. | | “I prefer not to make any statement,” he said, until we have met Friday night to go over this matter. It may\be that we may have to retract. I don’t know.” Mr. Walsman, however, said the Otis bid had been chosen because the company maintained Yio: Hos most complete service station in Indian gpolis of the three bidders. He said _ Otis elevators in the new F Wing rd proved satisfactory.

"ALGER SEEKS WRIT . TO OBTAIN RELEASE

Gene Alger, former convict who was held.under a $5000 bond following his arrest on a r traffic charge recently, has filed a habeas corpus petition in urt, demanding his release. ‘He was arrested following a traffic accident in which he was inJured. Equipment which police said was designed for burglaries and safe blowing were round in his car. Alger now is in the oy Hosplial detention ward.

award|

: voted to return to work today.

Farrington of Corunna.

‘Women are playing an important, part in the Farm Bureau's 23d anhual convention here. At Tomlinson Hall ‘this morning were lett To Wight) Mss, Mabel Emme and Mrs. M. L. Ault of Butler and Mrs. Earl

GROUP TO HEAR O'NEAL TONIGHT

Delegates Visit New Home Following Program by . ‘Rural Youth.

Edward O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau, ‘will address members of the Indiana Farm Bureau at tonight’s session of -their|: 23d. annual. convention in: Tomlinson Hall.

delegates toured the Farm Bureau's new home at 47 S. Pennsylvania St. following | a program sponsored by. the Rural Youth. President Edward. C = Elliott of Purdue University was the principal speaker. Other speakers included Paul Foster, state Rural Youth president, and George Doup, past president, Tomorrow ‘morning’ s program will be featured by addresses by Mrs. Lewis Minion, Home and Community Director of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation; ‘Lieut.

Clark, Food and Drug Administrator for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The: resolutions committee will report at the closing session Saturday after which election of officers will be : held.

SOUTH BEND EDITOR

been ill since May Mr. Horst was ‘widely. known in

and he was ‘also prominent ‘in - sonic affairs, having served as gr master of. Indiana | Masons in

Temple.

survive.

became managing editor in 1912. The funeral has been set: for Saturday. =

‘WELDERS RETURN TO WORK LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13 (U. P.). —One hundred fifty striking welders at Lockheed Aircraft Corp.. and its subsidiary, Vega Airplane Company,

Baby’s Nite Guard

+) drawstring type Yates lion plenty of arm : freedom, byt the covrs can't be kicked off. ‘Warm ik Hlamnelefte in pink or blue. Long Talon. futon. :

This afternoon the \ convention. :

{Indianapolis Judge - Sherm Seventh U. S.| Appeals as “on

: ‘|dents of law I have ever known” at WZ. \ ® banquet here last night.

instrumental ‘in the erection of|eager to accomplish jus}i South Bend’s: milion dollar Masonic wisdom and judge righteously,

His widow, the former Elizabeth spirit and mind; Faulkner of Covington, O., and one|to the use of son, Gilbert, of Connersville, Ind. |to see clearly; in régerd to the use : of his ears, he|is anxious to hvar Mr. Horst joined the staff of the distinctly; and in regard to what he Tribune in 1898 as a reporter, and Soups, he is anxious to question others.” ’

Adee 15 Years; “Modern Rip Dies SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Nov. 13

(U.P.).—H. William Lord, 67, who for 15 years remained in a Rip

Van Winkle-like sleep from which - “he wakened only twice at long-

separated periods, died ‘yesterday. Victim of no known accident and seemingly in: perfect health until he.died, Lord’s eyes closed and his tongue was - stilled Oct.. 26, 11926. Brain specialists examined him after-he ‘was stricken, but none could diagnose the malady. At ‘his wife's command in French, Lord would eat, drink and smoke. . The senses of touch, taste and, to a lesser extent, hear-. ing, remained. ‘In 1938 he awakened, but three months later again lapsed into the trance. His last wakeful spell was in 1933 when he was more or less normal for 45 days.

STUMP PRAISES JUDGE MINTON

Gov. Charles M. Dawson and J. O. ‘Finest Student of Law Pve

Known,” He Asserts at Chicago Banquet.

Times Special CHICAGO, Noy. 13.—Albert Stump, torney, described Minton’ of the Circuit .Court of of the finest stu-

He was introducing Judge Minton,

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 13|former:U. S. Senator from Indians, (U. P.).—Rudolf Horst, 64, manag- to the Chicago Bar Association. He ing editor of the South Bend Tri-| further recalled [that William Howbune since 1912, died this morning ard Taft, on thef Yale University law at his home in South Bend. He had |faculty when Judge Minton was a student there, described him as one

students he ever

Indiana for his newspaper work, had

“Shay Minton,” he said, “brings to

‘the -service of (the country as a .|Judge ‘of the He was a 33d degree Mason and was Appeals a capable mind and a heart

Circuit Court of ce with ‘ “He. has the independence of

and so in regard eyes, he is anxious

SURANCE Y SPEAKER

Cincinnati, O.,

who ‘this rioon addressed the . In-

dollars, and tha the average Nidow. {children or o whose protec Jusually is owne perienced

DENESAEF.IS

sw - TAX HE} RINGS

i oc Says Projer Legal

4 school and township ax rates for 11942 have been reset by the State

RECRUITING AIM SHEPARD HEADS UNIT

‘ON ADMINISTRATION

feys on farms t an in any evicus November. At the last

: attering.

- Notice Not G ven to County Resi lents. Hoarings on Marior County, city,

Tax Board for ' uesday and Wednesday. The Learings, orig nally scheduled for this week, v ore called off yesterday by the Stat Board when it was discovered ti at there had beer; no proper lega notice given the taxpayers of the hearing. The State Board thought the county auditor had = dvertised the heai'ings and the c¢ unty auditor | hough the State Bc ard had done

New. Enlistments. Sought to Get Men for Bases, ‘Marshall Says.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. P).

for rumors that we are “preparing troops for a possible expedition to Africa or other critical areas outside this hemisphere. »

—Gen, George C. Marshall, ‘Army Chief of Staff, said today that there is “no foundation whatsoever”

Virgil Shepard, head of the Public president of the new Indiana chapPublic. Administrators at the Naval Armory last night,

Sikes, professor of government at

Sam. Craig, agent here, were chosen as -di-

Assistance Division of the State 1f tor was ‘to advertise the hearings Welfare Department, was elected todsy, thus givi ne td vers

ter of the American Society for|Suficient legal ‘notice

' Pe a Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey [529 on the 1942 rates. was elected vice president. Pressley Ship} budgsie will be ¢ bBo next 3 Indiana University; Ear} Beck, head County, county welfr 'e and Center of the, State Personnel Bork, jo Township poor reli f rates next Federal procureraent|Tuesday afternoon a d the Indianapolis civil city arn | Indianapolis

| enlistments of selectees and na-|:

|serted .that some of the stories

IE. L BARR ELECTED

jrectars #5 to.namie a seurétary.

statement regarding published accounts ‘of the: War Department’s|: recruiting campaign for three-year|:

tional guardsmen in the regular |: Army for overseas service. He as-|:

were “calculated to give the impression” ‘that Ashe Army is build-|: ing up “an expeditionary force.” He explained ‘that the War Department over the past year has|: been seeking to increase the num- |; ber of volunteers or three-year men |; to meet the need of men for present overseas bases such as Panama, Hawaii and ‘the new Atlantic strongholds.

Time Too Short

ritorial possessions. The new move

spokesmen said.

Army in providing necessary manpower for emergency use at outly-

Hemisphere. The 30-month limitation a ‘serv-

has made it unwise fo time for their release.

service, the Army would be able to send large groups of trained reguJars wherever they might be required. The plan also would give e Army a larger reservoir of wellCaine manpower.

"KIWANIS PRESIDENT

wholesale lumberman, president for the year, at their annual election last night at the: Columbia Club. He succeeds George H. Lilly.

Hueslein, first vice president; Charles T. Coats, second vice president; Carl V. Spickelmier, treasurer, and Oscar H. Koster, George O. Jackson and C. Slicer, directors. Outgoing officers of the club August F. Hook, first vice president; Frank J. Langsenkamp Jr., second vice ' presidegt, and Jackson A. Raney, treasurer. The board of di-

Gen. Marshall issued ‘a formal rectors.

Present, law forbids sending selec- : tees and guardsmen outside the|: Western Hemisphere or U. S. ter-|:

is ‘designed -to ayoid any difficulty|: that might arise from the law, ;

It was pointed out that statutory|: limitations’ have handicapped the|

ing posts, even in the Western: i

Spokesmen said that with aj:

three-year enlistment term and an|: advance - agreement ' for overseas).

Other new officers are: Robert J.|-

school city on Wed: 2sday.

he advertising. The county audi-

Tne hearings will ¢ Ter local taxfor a ral

morning; the Marion

L S. AYRES & CO.

Members of the Kiwanis Club| | elected Ernest L. Barr, Indianapolis :

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