Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1943 — Page 2
ess gm ‘Third of Extra
Appropriations Are Granted.
- Warned that the county may “go 3 broke” this year, the county countil today allowed. only $14,400 of deirimental. requests for extra apriations totaling $50,000. dg action eliminated all but a mall fraction of township assessors’ requests of $24,700 for depuwage increases. The council - allowed only $2473 for extra assessors’ pa, 10 per cent of the original [11 eS! The request of James Cunningham, Center township assessor, for $13,600 was eliminated entirely and $3400 request by Paul Teagarden, Washington township assessor, was to $217. "Both Mr. Teagarden and Mr. Cunwarned the council that this cut would cripple their depart- . ments in getting new property on * tax books and that the county would lose thousands of dollars of additional revenue. Requests of other departments for materials and pay increases were reduced similarly. The drastic trimming of appropriation requests followed a report on the county's financial condition yesterday which revealed that the eounty general fund will have only ‘an estimated balance of $37,000 and that requests at this week’s session
The $14400 approved by the council today will leave only $22,600 working balance for all emergencies during the remainder of this
“We will have to stay within this ‘balance, regardless of what happens,” declared Addison Parry, council president. ‘The law specifically prohibits a bond issue to cover operating expense and therefore county officials are going to have to pull in their belts.”
BARBER EXAMINERS ARE REAPPOINTED
Governor Schricker today reappointed the three members of the ' state board of barber examiners "whose terms expire on April 1. They are Frank McKamey, Indi- ~ anapolis; Kenneth Smith, Muncie, and Fritz L. Roberts, Terre Haute. ~ They will serve for a term of three
years.
Walter S. Greenough, Indianapolis; 3 was reappointed today by Governor . Schricker to a three-year term on the state egg board. ~The governor also named Clarence Schmidt, Crown Point, as & . member of the board to succeed * Louis Schmidt, Logansport, who has - resigned.
27 TO GET AWARDS AT TRAINING CENTER
* Certificates wil be presented to_pight to 27 boys and girls of the Keystone war production training genter who have completed the in- - dustrial training course here. Miss Mary Stuart Anderson, reA - NYA director for Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, will present "the certificates at 6:30 p. m. in the Mt. Zion Baptist church. A ban_guet will precede the ceremonies. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, na‘tional division director of the NYA, will be guest speaker. The Rev. R. T. Andrews is chairman of the sponsoring committee and F. B. Ransom will act as toastmaster. . ERA SRR
REALTORS TO HEAR JACK G. MESSMER
Jack G. Messmer, Indianapolis building contractor, who was born
in Germany and served in the|
‘kaiser’s army, will speak before the dianapolis real estate board at Hotel Washington at 12:15 p. m. tomorrow on the subject, “Why 1
Mr, Messmer was graduated from 8 Hamburg high school and holds an architectural engineer's degree from the University of Munich. In 1017-1 8 he was in Shaige of combat
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Naval Officer
W. Leonard Johnson
W. L. JOHNSON IS LIEUTENANT
State Personnel Chief Was Legislated Out of Office.
W. Leonard Johnson, who was legislated out of office by the Indiana legislature, today was commissioned a lieutenant (s.g.) in the U. S, navy, and ordered to report for duty in Washington Saturday. : : During the battle in the legislature over the state’s merit system, Mr. Johnson was attacked along with Rowland Allen, member of the state personnel board. Subsequently, the director and the entire board were legislated out of office. A new director- has not yet been. chosen. A native of New Jersey, Mr. Johnson served in the New Jersey state civil service commission, later was sent to Arkansas to install that state’s merit system, then was employed by Michigan to install its new merit system. He was later drafted by the public administration service to set up a merit system for all city employees in Kansas City, under the reform #diministration which followed the Pendergast regime. Kansas City followed this step by employing him as the director of its merit system. He came to Indiana from Kansas City and began his operations here on July 1, 1941, Het met with almost constant political opposition from the beginning, a resistance that built up steadily, and was climaxed by the legislature's action, and the govérnor’s naming of an entire new board. Lieut. Johnson will leave for Washington tomorrow.
'Meet Your Navy' To Originate Here
THE “MEET YOUR NAVY” broadcast of April 9 will originate at the Cadle Tabernacle here during the opening meeting of the second war ‘loan drive at which Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox will appear. Included in the Great Lakes Naval Training station show will be 151 blue jackets—a 55-piece .military band, 60-voice choir and’ 36 artists, among whom will be Lieut. Comm. Eddie Peabody and his banjo.
SELECTIVE STOPS FOR I. R. R. BUSSES
A schedule of selective stops for Indiana Railroad busses will go into effect Sunday.
being distributed by agents and drivers on the lines affected. They are the Indianapolis - Muncie-Ft, Wayne, Indianapolis-Noblesville-Kokomo, and Indianapolis-Peru-Ft. Wayne reutes. On the latter route the Indiana Motor Bus Co. will use the same stop schedule. The arrangement is made in cooperation with the ODT to save rubber.
GET FUNERAL CARDS
Belgian government reported today
‘that nearly all the Belgian pro-axis {officials in Brussels have received
i iy; printed funeral cards announcing "| their deaths.
ARMY.
NAVY ‘ACCESS’ ROADS ¥
Plans Near Completion for Concrete Highway Through Bloomfield.
Plans for construction of nine “gecess” roads to defense - plants now are being drawn by the state highway commission at the request of army and navy authorities. Nearest to completion are plans for the construction of a 22-foot concrete pavement from Scotland through Bloomfield to Road 67. This will connect with Road 45 and will serve as a military’ road to the Burns City naval ammunition depot. At Lafayette, a road to run past the aluminum plant, connecting Road 52 with Road 53, has been requested. Army authorities have asked for constructios..of a road from Madison to the Jeffersonville proving grounds. 6 at Anderson Six roads are to be constructed at Anderson. One will run from the new Chevrolet plant to the new Road 9; the second .will be an improvement and widening of the present east-west road connecting the old and new Delco-Remy plants; the third will run from Anderson to the Ward-Stillson plant; the fourth will complete construction of the road south of Anderson running to the Guide-Lamp plant; the fifth will run on the east side of the city from Road 32 down to the new Delco-Remy plant and then on to Road 67, and the other job will be the widening and improvement of Road 32 from the junction into the city. The federal government will pay approximately ‘75 per cent of the costs on all these roads.
NELSON NEARLY GOES (OVER SIDE IN CHUTE
CHICAGO, March 31 (U. P.).— Donald Nelson almost became a member of the Caterpillar club last night when he prepared to para-, chute from the disabled plane bringing him to Chicago. | With four other Washington officials, the chairman of the war production board was approaching Chicage’s municipal airport in the navy, plane generally used by Secretary of Navy Frank Knox. Shortly before the ship was due to land, a worried co-pilot announced that the retractible landing gear had jammed. He told the party: they could stick with the plane for, a crash landing or strap on parachutes and take their chance hitting, the silk. | The officials took a vote,, deciding . in favor of the parachutes. eantime, the plane’s mechanic was working. on the landing gear while the ship circled. Before Nelson and his companions were steeled to the jump the mechanic wa% able to release: the wheels, so they stuck with the craft and landed safely after 15 nervous minutes. With Nelson - were three other. WPB officials, Sydney J. Weinberg, Harry M. Gustafson and Merrill C. Meigs, a former WPB official.
RAILWAY ROADBED JOLTED’ INTO RIVER
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, March 31 (U. P.). — A slight earthquake! caused a long section of the Boston | & Maine roadbed to slump into the Connecticut river today, putting the, northbound main line temporarily out of service. " There were no casualties.
[INSTRUCTOR PILOTED PLANE THAT CRASHED
Lists of the selective stops are;
LONDON, ‘March 31 (U. P.).—The
Kelse McClure, 3115 College ave., was not piloting the plane which crashed near Sky Harbor airport Monday, as published yesterday. Robert Clay, was demonstrating a forced landing to Mr. McClure when the plane went out of control and crashed. Mr. McClure was taking a final checkup flight for a pilot’s license.
FIRST AIDERS TO DRILL First aid workers of district 35
room of Jordan hall at Butler university for casualty station practice. Miss Aileen Ketzner and C. A. Tharp of the Emergency medical
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The. ‘strangest. case of. wife ‘trading in the ‘history of Indiana courts] was revealed in the records of superior court 3 today. The case came into court as an| ordinary petition -for support of Children but when testimony was tarted before Judge Emsley John- . the story of an unparalleled extra-marital contract between two Indianapolis husbands and their wives began to unfold. : The couples involved are referred to as Mr. and Mrs. A and Mr. and Mrs. B, their real names being withheld. : : Mrs. A had brought a petition for, the support of two children. against: Mr. B. Mystified, “Judge Johnson began to question Mrs. A. or Then it all came out in a ieee of testimony by all concerned. According to their ‘stories, the whole thing started about four years ago. after: the couples had been visiting -each other for several years. Mr. and Mrs. A. had three chil-
dren ‘and the other couple had none,
The latter couple had ex-|
after a search of all orphanages they failed to find a suitable. baby for adoption. ‘Then Mr. B suggested trading
Sresied as to have hildren i
wives in order that his home could ‘tition in superior court, demanding Methodist church, near Romney, that Judge Johnson order Mr. B!
have some children, too. | Both couples admitted ‘that a written contract. was drawn whereby Mrs. B would go to live with Mr. A while Mrs. A. would live
with Mr, B “until such time as the mony that some other men might Thomas L. Stovall, superintendent B home would have two children.” have been involved with Mrs, A'of the district, will preside. during the time she lived with Mr.| iq. Benson, superintendent of the
Arrangements were completed and the couples lived that way for three years, during which time Mr. B and Mrs. A had two children, they all testified. The terms of the contract had been carried: out in full at this point and Mrs. A—now the mother of five children—packed up er things to go back home to Mr. A. But here the original agreement began to break down because Mrs, A refused to give up:her two new children and took them back home with. her, demanding, in addition, that Mr. B support them.
Tas original three children.
overt breaking the. conlract by. taing the children away from him and asking him ‘to support them also.
Mrs. A had her lawyer file a pe-
'to support the two children, now in the A home with Mr. and Mrs.
the 76 churches. in the Crawfordsville district ' of thé Methodist church will convene at 9 a. m. to-| morrow in. the Jackson Heights
for their apnual spring conference. Dr. John P. Edwards, pastor of
the Broadway Methodist church,| Indianapolis, will deliver the closing
“There was some indirect testi-
B,” Judge Johnson sald.
“If there had been no other men, in the lives of either of the couples
II. would have had to order Mr, B to support the children but the;Lebanon.
evidence being as it. was I threw the whole case out of court-and refused judgment to anyone” "
PROBE WAR AGENCIES WASHINGTON; March 31 (U.P.),
subcommittee has begun an inves- | tigation of the seven major war agencies, Chairman Harley M. Kil- |
Indignant, Mr. B raised a rumpus
gore, D., W, Va, announced today.'
—A special senate military affairs
address of the morning session. Dr.
Other speakers include Dr. John
. Methodist hospital, and Mrs. John 'C. Coons, supervisor of the Indiana ‘Methodist Children’s. home of
FIND INFANT DEAD + A dead infant was found early today by Mr. and Mrs, Walter Johnson on the porch of their home at 657 Muskingum st. The body was wrapped in a newspaper. Dr. Hubert Collins, deputy coroner, said the baby had had no medical care. 'The body was sent to city morgue.
claimed “April to 3 “Let's Sing Week” ad wen ft Any connect on between. ‘the two is purely coincidefftal. 4 The mayor urged: at ‘least 15
minutes be devoted to © singing at luncheon a r
organizations, church groups and
defense units during the week. = The. mayor’s bass, meanwhile, ¥ will not be Joining in on the chorus. des .He was bound this afternoon ; for Harrisburg, Pa., where he will. attend a meeting of the National. Guard association. He will represent the fifth service command at three days of sessions, 4 P. 8. “Who will be mayor,
" meanwhile?” the reporter wanted
to know. Well, the mayor didn’t know. In case you're concerned, the city controller can take over in the mayor's absence.
280,564 TROOPS THEN A total of 280,564 troops served
with the United States army in the Spanish-American war.
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