Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1946 — Page 2

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Ordinance Is Viewed as Aid To Stamp Out Fire Hazards Made by Patrons, Employees

City officials today considered an ordinghce banning smoking in all Indianapolis merchandising stores, having 36 or more employees and

300 or more customers a day.

The issue of fire hazards created by patrons and employees smoking in stores handling inflammable materials was presented to fire prevention bureau heads sometime ago by the Merchants’ association,

Harry H. Fulmer, fire chief, and Michael J. Hyland, fire prevention director, said they intended asking the board of safety at its meeting to send a no smoking ordinance to city council, 5 Certain It ‘Will Work’ Chief Fulmer, though apparently in favor of the step, said: “The only way we could enforce such a law would be to make an example of someone. I don’t know whether we would want to do that.” Murray H. Morris, head of the merchants’ organization, asserted that a no smoking measure “will work.” “It's working in New York City”

The proposed ordinance would

vided for that purpose. Violators would be fined a maximum of $25 for each offense. Chief Hyland said he thought the “measure would be “the greatest single step to prevent fires since of the anti-fireworks act” if it could be properly enforced.

DROP 495,500 EMPLOYEES WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U. P.. ~The civil service commission reported last night that 405500 fulltime employees were dropped from

federal payrolls during the year? ending Sept. 30, leaving 2,154,000 &

persons still employed.

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LOSES BOTH FEET IN EXPERIMENT OF YOGA

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 (U, P.).~—Douglas Frederick Birch, a 30-year-old student of Yoga in Brisbane, Australia, heard a voice commanding him to stand in fire, He obeyed, Radio Australia reported. In great pain he crawled a quarter mile to a highway and was taken to a hospital by a passerby. Today surgeons amputated both his feet.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau All Data in Central Standard Time ov. 20, 1046 Sunrise. .... 6:40 | Sunset..... 4:29

Precipitation for 3¢ hrs. ending 7:30. .00 Total precipitation since Jan. 1.....30.52 Deficiency since Jan. 1 .............. 6.42 The following table shows the temperature in other cities:

High Low A111 T SE SE Se anes @ 48 Boston 4 4 Chicago .... 53 17 Cincinnati . 60 - 30 Cleveland 48 136 Denver .....isvsseve 88 35 Evansville ......... 58 32 Ft. Wayne ..... 48 12 Worth 67 47 Indianapolis (city) een 85 25 Kansas City ..... 66 32 Los Angeles ... 7% 8 Miami ‘a 7% 7 Mpls.-8t. Paul . 38 14 New Orleans .. 65 62 New Yor! >a ress 48 44 Oklahoma Oty .....covvnvsveenss 65 +40 QIMARA .ovvicorssrrisrasrisnrsres 57 26 Pittsburgh .. . 48 MN t. Louls .,... 70 46 San Antonio . 4 45 n_Prancisco . 08 38 ashington, D. 0. .....ooocuein 8 4

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of San Francisco to the Canadian border and scattered showers in Idaho and western Montana. Snow is called for in the Dakotas, spreading eastward to northern Minnesota by Friday evening and to upper Michigan border areas. Los Angeles and Miami will have the highest morning minimum temperatures cities listed on the map. Portland and Atlanta will have about 46 degrees each; San Francisco 48; Washington a celd 32; Kansas City 34 degrees. Below freezing minima are forecast at New York, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Omaha, Ohicago, Detroit, Mil-

erally fair weather Friday night. However, Florida and portions of the extreme southeastern states will ‘be cloudy with rain or showers, where mild, ocean air ecirculates inland and drops some of

24-HOUR FORECAST S8UMMARY: Below freezing tempera~ tures are forecast throughout New England tomorrow morning. extreme northeast will have readings near Zero, New England's coastal area temperatures will be around 20 to 28. A new cold-air invasion which swept over northern plains and upper lakes region will move farther east and southward and extend its influence from Nova Scotia to Virginia and westward to Kanasas along the cold air

High pressure forms a ridge from the Carolinas to Texas, then swerves northwestward and across northern California to the Pacific. The fair weather usually associated with a high pressure system will be general over this area. Overcast skies are expected in most parts of the northwest and northern plaing states, accompanied by occasional light rain along

The presence of relatively dry, cold air over most of the eastern

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Safety Chief Points to High Cost of Vandalism. (Continued From Page One)

who charged that police had “invaded” their homes and had ordered the boys to “get your coat and come with us” without adequate explanation, The four arrests were made’ on the basis of information supplied by two other boys who had been caught throwing stones on a porch, Vandalism Costly

All four boys were later released to parents after spending several hours at the juvenile aid division. The safety board president said breakage by juveniles ran into $2000 to $3000 a month on Indianapolis Power & Light Co. equipment alone. The city has lost nearly 500 red

2 PLEAD GUILTY TO VEHICLE CHARGES

Two men pleaded guilty in 'federal court today to charges of transporting stolen vehicles across state lines in violation of national! vehicle laws. They were, Norman F. Stevens, 22, of Evansville, and Farl J. Stephens, 25, of Columbia, Tenn. Sentences were deferred.

Organizations

The Marine Corps league auxiliary will] meet at 7:46 p. m. today in the world

half of the U. 8, insures gen- | the Pacific coast from just north | waukee and Cleveland.

war memorial. Mrs. Violet Bowe, presi-| dent, will be in charge.

lantern markers at excavations as(to cope with.. Headway against 1s, a result of juvenile pranks and that |he said, has been slow,

: + Too often, he said, policemen the false fire-alarm rate is. still |g... 0 oo lik ig inn who

running 50 a month, ing to handle complaints are criti. Police, Mr. Remy sald, can make |cized by residents whom they are arrests directly, acting on informa- | trying to protect. . tion. They are forced to act on| He said he would the their own responsibility in making case of the arrest of the four boys quick decisions, he said. last week before making any come Mr. Remy said that juvenile van-| ment on whether the officers ine

dalism is one of the most serious|volved had exceeded their authore .

problems the police department has|ity.

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