Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1942 — Page 3

PENSION CHANGE ALSO 1S SOUGHT

GOP Action DR riod After ‘Discussion of Problems By Safety Board.

Improvement of the Indianapolis police and fire department merit law may be proposed to the 1943 legislature, along with plans to revamp the pension setup of both departments, it was hinted today in Republican party circles. ‘This trend was emphasized yesterday when the incumbent Democratic safety board—with the approva: of Mayor-elect Robert H. * Tyndall—ordered police department vatancies filled during the war emergency with merit-appointed . men, At present, the merit law applies ohly to the entrance requirements for police and firemen and promotions within the departments are handled by inter-departmental promotion boards. Some Republican officials have expressed the opinion that minimum merit requirements may be set up for higher ranks within the departments.

Bare Need for Revision

The discussion of problems in-' cident to the present manpower shortage and the non-pension status | of civilian employees before the safety board yesterday revealed the need for revision: in the law. Seven police de partment radio operators threatensd to strike unless some action was faken to establish them under pens.on status the same as patrolmen. A suit Jas beer: pending in circuit .eourt for! a year to determine the operators’ rights, but it has not been adjudicated. The operators’ agreed to postpone thei» strike until after Jan. 1 to give city officials time to get a decision in fhe lawsuit.

However, 'Polica Chief Morrissey |’

said regardless of the court decision the pension laws should be amended by the legislature to specify the pension status of all civilian employees. Rowland Allen, head of the police merit board, added that while the subject of police pensions is being brought before the legislature, other reforms should be considered.

Many Retire at 40

Under present pension laws, any police officer whe has completed 20 years of service can retire on a pension. “This means that many officers can retire at th: age of 40,° just when they are in the prime of their service,” Mr. Allen said. “Many officers retire on pensions, then take other jobs, which is ri~ diculous,” he said. Mr. Allen submitted to“the safety board an outlire of the merit board’s short-cut procedure to hire gpecial policemen on a temporary basis for the duration of the wartime emergency. Applications wil be accepted from men up to 55 years of age who are in good physical condition and are Bo! less than five feet eight inches These temporary officers will be subject to dismissal when regular officers now in military service re- . turn to their jobs, : However, these men will be given “a reason in writing” for their dismissals “and ag copy will be kept on file with the board of safety.”

TOULON SHIPS SEEN AS - TARGETS FOR RAF

LONDON, Dec. 9 (U. P.).—Observers ‘believed today that the remaining French ships at Toulon may become targets for the royal air force bombers. It was pointed out that Toulon is within easy ranze of heavy bombers based either in North Africa or Britain. The distance from Algiers across the Mediterranean is 475 ¢ miles and from Britain about 600, approximately the same as Genoa. R. A. F. bombers, it was believed, + might be able to prevent the salvaging of the two damaged battleships Dunkerque and Strasbourg, which would require months of work even under ideal conditions.

ROOSEVELT IS HOST TO CUBAN PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U, P).— The United States today entertained President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba in a style that has become traditional for visiting heads of Latin American nations. Batista, the third Latin American ‘president to come here recently, was #n over-night ' guest at tie White House. President Roosevelt entertained him at tea. and a formal state - dinner after . driving to a

nearby airport to greet him per-|

sonally ‘as he stepped from airliner.

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BANDIT IS SHOT

Walks Into Trap at White Market but Escapes Despite Wounds.

The bandit, who has been ealling regularly at the James White market, 401 S. Warman ave, got a

shotgun charge in his neck last night instead of the usual - cash.

Employees of the market, who had taken the bandit’s abuse about long enough, twice within the last week, were all set for him when he barged into the place again about 12:30 a. m, today. They began preparing last Saturday when the gunman walked out with $322 after slugging Roy Swinehart, 47, of 4815 E, Washington st., market manager, because the latter had ‘called police too quickly,” in the previous holdup, Dec. 1. Cough Is Signal

This morning the same bandit walked in the.same way and with the same orders about the same time as the other two holdups. Mr, Swinehart and other employees complied with the orders the same as usual except that Mrs. Frances Merritt, cashier, coughed— into ‘a loudspeaker arrangement. This was a pre-arranged sifnal for Ralph Fisler, 52, hidden in the back room, to come out with a shotgun. Leveling the weapon at the bandit, Mr, Fisler said: “Drop that gun.” Mr. Swinehart and Mrs. Merritt dropped to the floor. : Baffled, the bandit started running and Mr. Fisler fired, most of the pellets striking him around the neck and shoulders. In his flight, the bandit jumped over Mr, Swinehart lying on the floor, and bolted out the door. Mr. Fisler and Mr. Swinehart ran down the street after the wounded bandit, but he 'escaped down an alley off Warman ave, east on Bertha st,

All-Night Search Fails

Police and the market employees searched the west section of the city about all night but never found any trace of the fugitive. Except, when they returned to the market they found a box outside the rear door. It was not there at midnight. “It looks like he came back and stood on the box to get a shot at us,” Mr. Swinehart remarked uncomfortably. Blood from the bandit’s wounds was found on the market floor and in the street.

Roy H. Swinehart, night butcher for the James White market and three times victim of a burglar’s threats, kept right on working foday a after the bandit was driven off last night by fire from the shotgun

30 TIME AROUND

BY EARL RICHERT

COMPARATIVELY FEW CHANGES are being made by Secretary of State Rue Alexander in the managerships of the 156 auto license branches throughout the state—the most lucrative political plums at the disposal of the Republican party. To date, he has made only seven changes. he said, were approved by the county chairmen. All but two of the

changes were made as the result of the changing tides of intraparty politics. (The Republicans. have had control of the license branches for the past 18 months.) As a result of a new G. O. P, faction winning control in Vanderburgh county, Mr. Alexander has named Ben Bartlett, prominent Evansville Republican, as branch manager there, succeeding Edgar Durre, former G. O. P, county chairman.

Other changes made were: James McShane, first district G. O. P. chairman, replacing Mrs. Edna Bobbitt at Hammond; W. T Melott, replacing Joe McCoskey ab Sallivan;’ Arthur Jaquese, replacing Mrs. Lillian Knowles at Poseyville; Paul Dougherty, replacing Mrs. LaRue. Chappell at Princeton; Mrs. Annonah Noble, replacing John D, Farrell at Hartford City; George Correll, succeeding William Moyer at Clay City. Mr. Farrell resigned recently to take another position and Mr. Moyer joined the army. Mr. Alexander ended a dispute over the Crown Point license branch managership by reappeinting the present manager, Miss Lillian Schmidt. The secretary of state also has discontinued three license branches in Randolph county, those at Farmland, Modoc and Ridgeville. He said this action was taken at the request of the county G. O. P. organization which felt that there were too many branches in the county. ‘Branches will be continued at Winchester and Union City. James Bradford, present Marion county auditor and former G. O. P. county chairman, will be retained as branch manager here. The branch managers get to pocket ‘a 25-cent notary fee for each license sold and receive 10 cents for each 50-cent driver's license sold. However, out of this money they must pay all expenses. Mr. Alexander said that only a few more changes in the managerships will be made before the license plates go on sale Jan, 1, » # #

Raise Pay in Assembly BECAUSE OF THE increased cost of living, Republican state legislators plan to raise the pay of the house and senate employees

And all the appointees,

$1 a day above what they received in the '41¢session. This will make the pay of most of the stenographers, the bulk of the employees, $6 a day during the 61-day period. But while the legislators are planning some financial relief for the employees, they find they can do nothing for themselves.

” 8 » Their pay of, $10 a day cannot be raised during the session. ‘They can, if they choose, however, raise the pay for the next session and there is plenty of talk of doing that. Most legislators and students of government. ‘believe. that, in the interests of good government, the pay of the general assembly members should be raised. - ‘A legislator can live at a hotel in Indianapolis on $10 a day, but he has to practically quit smoking to do so. Most legislators believe that their pay should be $20 a day for the session or $1200 a year. And they would put this into effect in a minute if they didn’t think the public reaction might be similar to that which resulted from congressmen voting themselves pensions,

MRS. LURVEY DIES IN HOTEL GRILL

Mrs. Frances Lurvey, wife of David Lurvey, owner of the Hatfield Electric Co., died this morning while at breakfast in the grill at the Claypool hotel. She was 52. She had been ill several days and made the trip downtown today to see her physician, her husband said. Dr. Hubert Collins, deputy coroner, attributed the death to a heart attack. The body was taken to the Aaron-Ruben funeral home. A resident here since childhood, Mrs. Lurvey resided at 5417 N. Meridian st. She was born in Chicago. SurvivorS, besides her husband, include two sons, Leonard, a pilot for the American Air Lines, and William, a student at the University of Illinois; two daughters, Rosalie, Washington, D. C., and Frances, Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Julian Schwab of Indianapolis, and two brothers, Edward and Leo Traugott,

WAR BOND SALE

HITS NEW PEAK

Harbor Anniversary

Pearl Sales Exceed Half Million Mark.

Indianapolis and Marion county

| residents flung more than a half | million dollars into the war effort

Monday ‘in’ buying bonds on the first ahniversary of the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor. It was the biggest single day of war bond sales in this war, according to Robert A. Adams, county executive chairman of the war savings staff. He said that purchasers of “revenge” bonds lined up at postoffices, banks and theaters and that two of the 92 issuing agents sold every bond they had on hand. Many other places sold all their $25 bonds by noon, he said.

Weekly Records Topped

With 89 of the 92 issuing units reporting, sales amounted to $444,778.50—which is more by several thousands dollars than many fullweek sales in the county, Mr.

Adams said.

“I have no hesitancy in saying we,

topped the $500,000 mark,” Mr. Adams said. 8

Meanwhile,

» 8 war bond sales are

| being boosted through the sale of

$18.75 bonds with which tickets to the Marjorie Main midnight show

Saturday at Loew's theater are

being given, Miss Main, the “hard-boiled” movie actress from Shelbyville, Ind., arrives here today and will be met by her mother, Mrs. Jennie Tomlinson, 5311 College ave. Tickets to the show are being given with the purchases of bonds at L. S. Ayres & Co, Wm. H.

/ Block Co., Sears Roebuck & Co,

H. P. Wasson & Co. and at the four radio stations here. The first tickets to Miss Main's show went to her cousin, Samuel Dungan, president of the Polk Sanitary Milk Co., who purchased $1000 worth of war bonds yesterday.

PACIFISM SEEN AS

POST-WAR DANGER

ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 9 (U., P.).— National Commander Roane Waring of the American Legion last night urged “a movement to start right

sentiment of pacifism he said would come in the post-war period. Speaking to Atlanta Legionnaires, Waring also warned against “things going on in Washington under the guise of the war effort.” “It will be our duty to challenge | after, and during, the war the trend toward regimentation and bureauracy,” he said. “The time has come for our government to take immediate action to force all labor unions to abandon, for the duration, the strike as a weapon for use in collective bargaining,” he said.

VERDICT AWAITED IN

9-YEAR-OLD MURDER

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Dec. 9 (U.

P.).—A St. Joseph county circuit

court jury of 11 men and a' woman

today deliberated the fate of Robert

J. Loftus, 44-year-old Rockford, Ill, ex-convict charged with the holdup murder of a La Crosse, Ind., bank cashier nine years ago. The case went to the jury late yesterday, the eighth day of the trial, after Prosecutor Arthur P. Sheer asked for a verdict of guilty and the death penalty. Loftus was charged with the fatal shooting of William E. Tennell, cashier of the State Bank at La Crosse, during the holdup in June, 1933.

DAVID MDIVANI DUE AT ARMY POST SOON

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 9 (U. P.).— Prince David Mdivani of the “Marrying Mdivani’s,” reports to Ft. MacArthur Friday as a private, it was disclosed today. Mdivani, former husband of silent screen actress Mae Murray, already has been inducted. He married Miss Murray in 1926.

both of Indianapolis.

They separated in 1933,

Here Is the Traffic Record : FATALITIES County’ 1941 ....oc0ees.. 60 1942 ..00eieeiin. 35 —Dec. 8 Accidents ..... 8|Arrests Injured ........ 4|Dead .. TUESDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Convic- Fines Violations Tried tions Paid

Total

126 17

City 66 - 82

coves. 136 0

Failure to stop at through street... 1 Failure to stop at

- Pleoxe et ¥ eo

EleBo

15

" Totals

“00 e000

EVENTS TODAY

Indiana implement dealers, Sonvention, Hotel Severin, ort PR ® a.m. patriotic

Curtiss-Wright ropeller lant, musical revue, Kuith's theater. 8 p.m otors truck 4nd coach and Jaotory officials, luncheon, Hotel Central Indiana NEE) society,, meeting, Rad € Severin 1llinois Dnarance Co., a nd ay Hotel Washing ton, 10 a. m.

ner, Hotel

Hotel 2 . m. Purdue alumni, luncheon,

oon. Sinclair Relining Co., Severin, 9 a Delta Tau, meeting, Hotel Severin,

od Title; Allied Mills, luncheon meeting, Hotel Severin, noon.

————— EVENTS TOMORROW

Indianapolis symphony orchestra, “pop” concert, Murat theater, 8:30 m, Indiana Municipal Claypool hotel. Indiana section, Society of Automotive EnSihters, dinner meeting, Hotel Antlers, m,

Amaranis, meeting, Washington,

Hotel Severin,

meeting, Hotel

league, convention,

Pp Indianapolis Real Estate board, luncheon, | Ma

Hotel Washington, noon. Indianapolis College of Pharmacy, dinner dance, Hotel Severin, 7:30 p

a Motor Rate and Tarr ‘meeting, | Ra

Hotel Severin, 10:30 a. Oil club, luncheon, Hotel § Severin, noon, National Federated Crane meeting, Hote: Severin, 7:30 p. Bookbinders U Union ss, meeting, Hotel Severin, 7:30 p.

MARRIAGE LICEN SES *

These lists are from official records in the ' county court house. The Times,

therefore, is mot responsible for errors|

in names and addresses.

Fritz H. Goldbach, a3, Ft. SAToline Ann epee. 20,

Leo Walton, 3 . Dotles Waid > 24, of 1 MN ry ar Hoffman, 30, R. Lue Donald Eldon Butler, lian Tho

Lil Fern mpson, 18, , Cit: Homer Floyd Spicer, 32, w= Hu Ruth Elain Madden, 24, Waukegan,

mill Neasbltt, 0 —

Chatles 885;

jen; Virgini Ruth Crain, 19, of 2815 ams,

Alvin Adams pen, 37, St. Louis, Jo. 3 Dorothy rouppen, ‘34, St. Louis, M

BIRTHS Girls

James, Lillian Anderson, at St. Francis. Edward, Patricia Sanders, at St. Francis. James, Marjorie Duke, at 8t. Francis. Robert, Marjorie Clephane, at City. . William, Juanita Johnson, at St. Vin-

cent’s. Melville, C Catherine Milford, at St. VinPreaefick, ‘Margaret Mehring, at St. Vis

Hail, Pay Page, at St. Vincent's. , iodist.

at Method h Chester, at 533 W. 24th. Alonzo, Mable Beasley, at 1708 Martin-

Dallas, Josephine Francis, at 3819 Fletcher, Alphford, Ru th Mogue, at 1549 8. New James, ‘Deanie McRoy, at 1150 8. IMinois.

Boys

Tolbert, Pauline Anweiler, at’ ‘St. Francis. Laurence, Edith Sanders, at St. Francis. tha Sines, at

William of Custer, ah Lala

at St.

nls. Arthur, Virginia Shaw, Pian e Mattox, 25, R. R. 3, Box|Siegel, BY, 2t Bb. Francis

25, Pt. Harrison;

1, Mary Bauger. Poo 8t. Vincent's. Amold, Elizabeth Wallin, at St. Vincent's. ra:

Emhardt. Sumner, ab 317 “Tents. [rn at 2003 Hovey. ta" Crops, at m E. St.

IN INDIANAPOLIS—VITAL STATISTICS

dons; Opal Brown, at 2625 Olney. Clovis, Flo French, at 3233 N. Meridian.

DEATHS Ida Yeates, 44, at Central, encephalitis. Harry Smith, 56, at Central, general paralysis. y Daniel Franklin Lineberry, 83, at 615 Division, anemia Elmer E. Merriman, 81, at 255 8. Audubon, cardio vascular renal. Clyde Elmer Bennett, 50, at Central, acute myocarditis. Laura B < Hughes, 69, occlus Grate Bo Rowland, 46, at City, ecar-

inoma. Carrie Moos, 78, at 264 8. Arlington, caroma. Lillian Holder, 51, City, cerebral Te. 68, at 5143 E. Washington, er, a a carcino :

ma. Andres F. Kapp, 65, at 2144 N, Spencer, uSSouis myocarditis.

at’ City, coronary

at

Mary Helen Taylor, 27, at 835 Elgene, Arias DopuumonIL. at Brevort hotel, Maude Ex Kinnear, 74, at Methodist, bowel Robert Bruce Bruce Corman, 40, at Methodist, Mary Berry, at’ 2020 Winter, cerebral Amos Gilbert Lines, 1, am = How as. Carden,’ 3%, at Myc Cruft, carcinoma. Mabie Feubods, 62, at 79 N. ‘Holmes,

William Prenkiin

mat =

named executive secretary, of the

ifleld fund for the last five years,

‘and other war relief agencies. here and now” to offset a rising | ,

Woodruff, 74, at Methodist, chronic

‘Ma Ann Wel, 3222 N. rida, sem: 41 at N. Me-|

Cora Watts, 73, at 373 NWN Holmes, |

Kenneth W. Miller Named Secretary of Local Fund

Kenneth W. Miller, formerly executive secretary of the Springfield, Ill, Community Fund, today was

Indianapolis Community Fund. suc-

ceeding Virgil Martin. Mr. Martin recently was appointed administrative director of the National Community Chests and Council. , Mr. Miller was appointed at a meeting of the local fund's board of directors in the Hotel Lincoln. He will assume his new duties here Jan. T. Mr. Miller has served the Spring~

directing annual campaigns there, four of which were “over the top.”

The new Community Fund secre-|.

tary is 36, a native of Fitchburg, Mass, is married and has two' children. He was graduated from Oberlin college in 1930 with

neva School of International Relations and in 1931 received an M. A: degree from the school of social ad-

sity. From 1932 through 1934, Mr. Miller was assistant secretary of the Community Fund and Council of Social Agencies at Providence, R.I. He was “drafted” to assist in public welfare work in 1935, serving first as assistant director of social service for the West Virginia relief administration at Charleston, W. Va., then as field representative for the FERA at Columbus, O., and for two years as administrative assistant of WPA in Ohio. Mr. Miller was chairman of the reorganization committee of the Illinois Welfare association in 1941, is a member of the American Association of Social Workers, the American Public Welfare association and the National Conference of Social Work. While serving as executive secretary of the Indianapolis Community Fund, Mr. Miller's services also will be loaned as secretary of the United War Fund which was created here last February and is headed by Arthur R. Baxter as president, The War Fund was formed to avoid duplication and a multiplicity of money-raising appeals. It’s $1,500,000 goal, which was surpassed by a quarter of a million dollars, was raised for such organizations as the USO, United China Relief, Greek War Relief Society, Russian War Relief, the Community Fund, British War Relief Society

an A. B. degree, attended the Ge-|

ministration at Ohio State univer-|.

Kenneth W. Miller

178 Clothed

Clothe - A - Child Gets $50 More for Total Of $1189.25.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Clothe-A-Child campaign provid-. ed warm outfits for Su youngsters yesterday to" wring the total of children clothed to 178. Cash contributions to the fund amounted to $59, with the total amounting to $1139.25.

Yesterday's contributors were: City Engineering Co. ...... $25.00 | In Memory of F. M. A Automatic Screw Products Co. Maj. Harold C. Megrew Camp No. 1, United Spanish War Veterans

ENLISTMENTS END, LONG TRIP FUTILE,

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 (U. P.).— Working on a South American construction project, Eddie Karolowicz decided he should return home to enlist in the army or navy. . He hiked over jungle trails to a river, then traveled by plane to Convencion, Colombia, to Panama, to Mexico City and to Los Angeles. When he arrived here, he discovered voluntary enlistments had

ILocal Firm's Chairman to

Be Made Life Member Of Society.

The Sons of Indiana of New York will confer an honorary life memes bership on J. K. Lilly, chairman of the board of directors of Eli Lilly & Co., pharmacy's “man of the year.” The presentation will be made either at the organization’s reunion dinner in New York next week or at its spring reunion. 1 Mr. Lilly is in New York, where

| | tonight he will receive the Reming-

ton medal awarded annually by the New York branch of the American Pharmaceutical society. The medal is named for Prof. Joseph P, Rem=~

‘ington, one of the outstanding pharmacists of his day and the

founder of ‘modern American, pharmacy. | The letter of the Sons of Indiana to Mr. Lilly said in part: “May we, the Sons of Indiana of New York—654 in number—who were either born in Indiana or had our state adopt them after residing there one year—join in the local branch of the American Pharmaceutical association in honoring you for your many accomplishments in the interest of pharmacy and the pres sentation of the Remington Honor z Medal!

Stress Aid to Suffering

“And may we add, you ha made the same Eli Lilly Co. and its products synonymous to the mark Sterling on the best silver-14k a

(the finest gold or Tiffany on

best watches or diamonds! Ind so, you have aided the good name and honor of our great state and its capital Indianapolis throughout the world. And in addition, and even more important, the products you have manufactured have aided the sick, the wounded and the ; in peace and war times during the past 60 years throughout the eld, » The pharmaceutical association’s dinner tonight will be in the Hotel Pennsylvania. Dr. John Gabbart Bowman, chancellor of the Univer-

sity of Pittsburgh, will speak on

“Josiah K. Lilly, the Citizen.” a Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, director of Memorial hospital, ‘will talk en “J. K. Lilly, the Pharmacist,” and Dr. William J. Schieffelin ‘will dis~ cuss “Josiah K. Lilly, the Individ- .

been halted.

ual.”

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