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the manufacture of gas. “The amount that is released is very minute and would in no way harm a person. It has been our experience that the discoloration on the houses will wash off with the first good rain.” To Conduct Tests This morning, Mr. Wolf, Dr. Gerald Kempf, city health director, and a member of the State Board of Industrial Hygiene were to visit the area and conduct tests. X Tests were made yesterday after irate citizens bombarded city " ofricials and newspaper offices with reports of the damage done to their property. Yesterday's tests disclosed the damaging agent probably is a sulphide, more commonly recognized as sulphur. > Identification was made by Hans C. Aamot, technical director for the Perfection Paint & Color Co., who was called in to aid in the probe. Residents near the gas plant long have complained of fumes, ‘but only in recent years have their homes beer affected by any discoloration. Owners of trim little homes went to bed Monday night, their houses clean. Yesterday morning hundreds awoke to find their homes transformed. : ‘Exactly what shade the discoloration took, depended upon the base color of the house. Pri-

La Porte Group May Buy War Housing Project LA PORTE, Mar. 17 (UP)—A group of 84 La Porte residents today considered the purchase of a war housing project. The Kingsford group was formed recently to consider buying the Kingsford housing project, used during the war to serve

employees of the Kingsford ordnance plant.

The Public Housing Authority last week said the project would be priced at $359,000.

—IN_INDIANAPOLIS _ EVENTS TODAY

St. Patrick’s Day. : Indiana Association (through Thursday ypool Hotel. Kiwanis Club—Hotel Antlers, Liens’ Club~Claypool Hotel. Branch Offices Onge the ration of Fotos to A hoch 5 and 29; filling station, 30th and Sutherland, . and fire station 32.

YMCA Orchestra Concert—8 p. m., Central “Y.”

Survey of the Public Scheels—By special ts aRpoinied by the Indiana School! Study Commission. }

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lation of Cost A Dinner meeting, Hotel Lincoln.

EVENTS TOMORROW ,

Mayor Feeney’s address to the Patrons and Associate Patrons Association of the Marion County OES — Brookside Chapter House. Branch Offices Open for the Registration 8 Joters—2 to 9 p. m., ools 37, an 5

urple Residences” On Southeast Side

Officials Seek Source of Fumes Damaging : Homes; Utility to Make Tests in Area

PETERSON into the investigation of fumes

engineer, Marily the houses took on a purtoday in an effort to determine|Ple hue. :

{that the present condition is the worst to date. They said dis-

| faults, to race into divorce, leaving children fatheriess and un-

The current situation is not the first for this area. Neighborhood records show that the same

Condition Grows Worse Residents say that the discoloration began years ago, but

coloration appears only when there are low hanging clouds and rain, Some persons complained that fumes in the air were particularly heavy Monday night. ~ Many said that often the odor, creates a stinging sensation in| the nose and makes breathing] difficult. More than one has been awakened during the night by the odors. . :

attacking the house paint.

IDENTIFIES FUMES — Hens C. Aamot, technical director for the «Perfection Paint & Color Co., yesterday said that sulphides in the air are responsible for the discoloration of homes in the neighborhood of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility Prospect St. plant. He was called in to assist the city to determine what is

IRATE CITIZENS — Mrs. Carl Laakman, 432 S. Gray St., points out damage to her home done overnight. The house took on a purplish cast. With her are Mrs, O. B. Wagner, 434 S. Gray St. (center), and Mrs. Anna Miller, 438 S. Gray St. The Millers and the Wagners recently put a composition siding on their homes to prevent such discoloration.

Ask Mrs. Manners—

Opposed to Wedding

a — MY BOY FRIEND'S ACTIONS prove he loves me. We want to get married. I'm 15 and he is 22. . My parents don’t mind but his parents are dead-set again it. family but mine isn’t the best. We don’t want to hurt hil

folks but I'm afraid of the consequences if we don’t get married immediately. What should we do? TROUBLED. Hmmmm-—spring is here. Some actions prove love—some don’t. Win over the boy's parents and then see if he still wants to marry you. You can make good morals shine above your family’s reputation if you try. You're just too young to marry. Date some other boys, concentrating on friendship and activities, not on emotions. Run-

ning away from some things is a good idea—and you'd better run fast.

‘Are You Sour, Old Maid?’

I READ YOUR COLUMNS and they interest me very much. The letter headed “What Can I Do When He Makes Me Nervous” interested me. It seems to me from your previous letters that when anyone, especially a wife, writes you for advice that you invariably take sides with the husband. Are you an old maid and is the Mrs. Manners just a pen name? Don’t get me wrong. I have a very wonderful husband and I think that husbands are the grandest things in the world but it seems to me that some of them that you have upheld are not good. ~-I have noticed that you upheld drinking although you have never come out and told anyone to get drunk—yet how does this sound to anyone who is inclined to drink? Quoting from this letter from this wife that was complaining because her husband wouldn't divide their money with her and drank, you wrote: “Do you frown at a beer now and then?” : a s Here is my reason for writing you—are you a Christian woman? Reading your letters I can’t say that I have ever noticed anything that would say that you were. I hope that you are, but if you are not, why in the world would you put yourself in a position to help people with their lives? I just wondered if you ever answered any of those letters and gave them advice to read their Bible or go to church, or ever say a prayer for them. You are in a position to do a lot of good, but on the other hand you can also do a lot of help for the devil. : MRS. H. W. I wonder about the devil. Would he attach himself to the good man who stayed good for years, drinking a “beer or two,” or to the wife who made him miserable and doubtful if virtues have rewards. You and your husband apparently don’t like beer —and that's convenient. What if he lked it—would you leave him? The nian who sneaks a drink sneaks a big drink, you know. He may take an equally big “gulp” of freedom if too provoked. I'll be glad to cite my many “Christian” references you must have missed. Nearly every day I stress the need for religion and decency and the need to obey parents. I repeatedly urge people to confer with the Church Federation and church groups, and with social agencies. I tell women nut to marry heavy drinkers. I try to keep homes intact. . Would you have me tell wives, listing only their husbands’

supported, and themselves brokenhearted? Would you have me tell them to leave these husbands they love enough to write and worry about—these men whose faults they kncw when they married—without first correcting their own faults? Aren't kindness and tolerance part of Christianity? Understanding a man and getting along with a man whom a woman

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Driver Sentenced In Death of Child

An Indianapolis man, charged with manslaughter and failure to stop after an accident, today began a two-to-21-year sentence in the State Prison.

I fear I'm the cause. He comes from a fine|"

A jury in Criminal Court 1 found Wilbur C. Howard, 32, of

1420 Oliver Ave., guilty after less! than an hour of deliberation. !

1 Howard was accused of driving a car which killed 10-year-old Helen Barker while she was on an errand for her mother, Mrs. Elnora Phelps, 653 8. Illinois St., May 20, 1946. Contradicts Witnesses Yesterday one of the state's witnesses, Mrs. Evelyn Pelphrey, 734 N. Capitol Ave. gave testi-| mony which contradicted that of other witnesses.

Mrs. Pelphrey, a waitress, testified that the child, who was pulling a small wagon, dashed in front of the car. Her statement Ctoncurred with that of Howard.

Other witnesses for the state said the child was standing in the ‘gutter and that the wagon was still on the, sidewalk when she was struck by the vehicle. Paid $600 Expenses It was brought out during the trial that Howard had paid the girl's family $600 funeral and burial expenses. Howard was sentenced by Specidl Judge Dewey E. Myers on a change of venue from Judge William D. Bain. The case was one which the prosecutor's office sought - to venue from Judge Bain in keeping with its policy of not allowing the judge to preside in any fary trials

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