Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1950 — Page 11

uman lives should be above political patronage and maneuvering. “Indiana should have a. nonpartison (or at least a permanent bipartisan) traffic safety commission to develop an over-all plan ‘or improving i . Such a commission, free

political could devote full time to the proolems ‘onfronting us. Such a commission could earlessly inte: “ONE-—The need for revision and modification of our present traffic code. “TWO-—-The need for raising the standards of our present system of courts with the possible abolishment of the Justice of Peace courts, providing for better supervision of our courts by a state department or official to insure greater uniformity in the manner in which the hundreds of. judges handle their responsibilities in their various communities. . “THREE--The advisability of establishing a’ Motor Vehicle Bureau staffed by qualified employees hired on a nonpartisan, or again, a bipartisan basis, rather than placing them on a salary as a reward for work done in their rewards and precincts. The highly publicized and still ineffective Driver's Records File, the Driver’s Examining Section, the Financial Responsibility Division and Driver's Licensing funetions are. among the activities concentrated in one state agency. All these activities are at present performed and supervised by individuals who are of necessity subject to political pressure and influence. ’ “It is a proved fact that accidents can be prevented, lives saved, property preserved by concentrated action along plans designed by qualified personnel.” Jack E. Gunnell, director of the Indianapolis Safety Council, has three suggestions: “Limit the privilege of driving to those citizens who have demonstrated they will respect the lifénse given them.

Stop . . . by observing the rules we could make driving a pleasure again.

“The penalty for deliberately driving without a valid license should be mandatory imprisonment.

“Only uniformed state police should give beginning drivers their examinations. “The arrest record of individual drivers on traffic violations) which is now housed in the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, should be transferred to the Indiana State Police. They have the accident reports, thus it is logical that the arrest file should be with the accident records. “The entire judicial system in Indiana, as it applies to handling traffic violations, should be overhauled. “State criminal laws in Indiana should be revised to make it easier for law enforcement officers e legal arrests in cases of drunken driving, hit-run driving, reckless driving and other traffic violations which result in accidents.”

Reporting Violations Urged

WILLIAM HALEY, Camby; Ind., suggests that we get the license number of a violator and send it to the state police with a description of the violation. A driver getting reported 10 times, Mr. Haley says, should lose his right to drive. Ray Butterworth, 5118 W. 14th St. wants all the highway “clowns” and “funny” boys and girls to join an automobile thrill show and get paid for their antics. Thanks, my friends, for your interest. T sure wish we could do something so a person can go on the open highway and enjoy the luxury of driving once again, Now it's a gamble, sort of a survival of the fittest.

Government Girls

By Thomas S. Haney

WASHINGTON, July 11—One result of big government has been the establishment of an _ ever growing group known as “the government girls.” By the tens of thousands young women have converged on the capital since the early days of the New Deal. They come .from all over the nation to do the typing, take the shorthand, file the records and run the telephone switchboards of the vast bureaucratic expanses. Only a comparatively few find permanent careers in federal service. For most of the girls it's a man-less existence here. The ratio of women to men in Washington is about six to one.

Competition Tough THIS LEADS to loneliness and the realization

5 that the continued presence of each one is only making the competition tougher.

In groups, they land one, then keep moving around town because always there's a “cuter” apartment somewhere else. Recently, a 19-year-old from the Midwest, serving as a typist in the Navy Department's executive offices, described her schedule this way: “Always 1 oversleep. I get up.at 7:15 instead of 6:15. So I have to dash for the bus. The trip takes about 40 minutes and I just get in the door of the office right at 8. “Then I have to eat breakfast before I can start work, I generally do that in the office cafeteria. About 9 everybody in the place stops for coffee and doughnuts. ” “After that it’s work right up to 4:30 with half an hour off to lunch, Pat usually gets home before I do and cooks supper. When she cooks, I do the dishes and clean up the apartment afterwards,

“Once in a while we have some company In Davenport, officer in charge.

but we go to the movies a lot. There's a new show|

¢ Indianapol

Over 100 Men Crowd Offices In First Hour

New Enlistment Peak Seen at 34 Stations in Indiana Today

i i | By GALVY GORDON | | A draft call for 20,000 men and {week-end Korean reverses today| spurred recruiting in Indiana to a ‘new peacetime peak. { | In Indianapolis, headquarters, for most of the Armed Forces re-| cruiting in Indiana, more than 100 eager youths crowded recruiting]

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1950

Reverses Spur Recruiting Her

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Up in Air Looking for Ghosts

offices in the Federal building at, 2

opening hour this morning. i | Some 40 enlistees at the joint) | Army-Air Force recruiting station ‘were already taking screening [tests at 8 a.m., the first step to{ward getting into uniform, i Expects New Peak Lt. Robert M. Guidice, USAF, |officer in charge of the joint re|cruiting station, sald today’s enlistments from 34 stations in the state would top the 60 mark of]

last Thursday, the previous 12- §

month peak. Here is the way lines were: shaping up as offices opened this morning:

! Army-Air Force—40 men al-|

ready being processed with 18! §

sworn in yesterday. Of yester-| day’s total, seven were from In-| dianapolis, in comparison to the! normal pre-emergency rate of 3 {to 5 a day. Several WACs com-| pleted pre-induction yesterday and, their files were being reviewed by| Fifth Army headquarters. I | Marines—A ~pecruit was lcutting thro red tape prepara-| itory to enlispment.this morning |as seven others mikde inquires| {about joining the service. One {woman Marine was sworn in yesiterday. Enlistments expected to! {reache eight or 10 today in com-| parison to normal volume of 1! to 3 recruits. - 10 Sworn In i Navy-—Four men were waiting {to take tests at 8 a. m. after 10 men were sworn into the Navy | yesterday from Indiana's 12 rejcruiting stations. More than 50) {men asked for application blanks! |yesterday. Pro-Korean enlist-| iments ran close to five a day. {Five Indiana women applied for) {the WAVES yesterday in com-! | parison to the usual three or four ia month, said Lt. Comdr. IL. ’

The two men caught climbing in the WFBM.TV tower yesterday were looking for television “ghosts.” Engineer Louis Bergenroth is near the top of the 298-foot wind-swept mast which is built on the roof of the 195-foot Merchants Bank Building. He found that lightning had damaged 50 feet of copper tubing, causing double images (ghosts) on TV screens.

U. S. Checks Loan Lovie Fletcher in New Yo

Ask $200,000 For Juvenile - Activity Here

By BOB BOURNE A total appropriation of nearly . $200,000 for 1951 was announced today by the Juvenile Court and {the Juvenile Center. Broken down, {the figure ‘would mean $126,646 for Juvenile Court and $69,830 {for Juvenile Center, | A total increase of $23.076 is {requested over this year’s budget. | Workers in the Juvenile Court

|are requesting more than $7000 {to begin a retirement fund. In {their request, the court employees point out that the retirement plan is especially important to them because of ‘low salaries, An additional appropriation of $4880 has been requested for sals ary increases for 23 employees of the court. ;

Do Much Extra Wark Charles Boswell, chief probation officer, said of the requested ine [crease “Married men employed by {the Juvenile Court are forced to {seek employment during the evening hours to supplement their in= come so their families can at least ‘|meet minimum living standards. “Our college-trained child wels fare workers are now receiving salaries which keep their standard of living lower than many of the families which they are called upon to serve,” Mr. Boswell said. A request of $2250 is asked for the Marion County child guidance clinte. ‘ ’ “This is a service we have n had, but which will be very ot portant to us,” Judge Joseph Hoffe mann said. “It will be vital in straightening out the emotional and psychological problems of youth who go afoul of the law [because of psychiatric troubles.” $5000 Food Rise Because of an average increase of 37 per cent in the population of the Juvenile Center, a boost of $5000 has been requested for food

alone for the coming year. Population of the Center has risen

from 46 in January to 59 in May. Most of the total increase re-

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thikes for key personnel,

Records Here

Army-Air Force recruiting was

The appropriations are subject

‘ So thoughts of a home back home and a career . of a different sort usually get the upper hand in * the end. One day the girls are gone as quietly as they arrived. Most of them come right out of high school when they receive letters suggesting they take Civil Service tests. Parents have some qualms, but they give in in time. ha “Really I wasn’t scared at all except maybe for a few minutes when I realized I was actually . on my way,” is an often heard statement among every group of new arrivals. They start life here usually in a sprawling,

i” v | right near ‘our apartment. Then” we get to bed glowed yesterday, Lt. Guidice said.| ! Off Hat to Times Reporter around 22 9 1 o'clock. [by customary Monday morning Audits Use of Funds: Miss Flefcher Gets Peep at Tina Leser's

Nearly $3000 a Year el remain tS er rndl Given 1c Plan Works Apartment, Finds It and Tina Real Nice

|awaited processing at closing! | FOR THIS they make close to $3000 a year. hour, . 3 . y . | DEAR BOSS: New York, July 11. fs os A They buy lots of clothes. Saturday afternoons this| An even greater surge of en- iy DAVID WATSON i New York designers are nice people. If you've heard hove] 2 U. S. Newsmen Ca time of the year they generally wind up on one/listments was expected as Lt.| City records of loans made bY high-hat, don’t believe it. Look what happened to me yesterday.... | ' . NC a of Chesapeake Bay's many Maryland beaches. — [Guidice announced the receipt of| the federal government for mu-1—" 500" ona time I've wanted to see Tina Leser's apartment nore. Killed mm Korea Heard she’d made an old tenement into fancy living quarters. But TOKYO, July 11 (UP)—Two American war correspondents

After a year or two, though, the whole bus-| “voluntary recall” order’ for en- hicipa) sefyice planning were ex. listed reservists and Air Force 8Mined by U. 8. auditors today. |qy,, planned on being at Fire Island this week instead of at home. Just the same, when she heard were killed in the Korean fight ing yesterday, front reports said

to approval of County Council Commissioners and will be sub {mitted to the County Council

| September.

iness palls. The boy back home gets the nod. Very, { i few find mates here and almost all are ready to reserve officers having critical Purpose of the audit was to] what I wanted, an invitation to) Ben Reig, Trigere, Nettie Rocome over yesterday was relayed senmstein, . .

give up on that project after three or four years. military occupation ratings. learn the Jata of Oe $334.59 Nobody in Washington cares much. There are| Seek Reservists Ii guvance and made lo com

government-operated dormitory development. But

> all of them have one thing in common—a love of

~ “cute” apartments.

Uncle Buys a Car

always others coming along to take the vacant places. 5 “Copyright. 1950, 55 THe Lhdianapolis Times ~~ and the Chicago Daily News, Ine.

By Frederick C. Othman

. WASHINGTON, July 11—We will now consider the shiny new sedan of the Rev, Tommy A. Hodge of Temple, Okla. which was financed in its entirety by you—and me. . The Rev. Mr. Hodge, a World War veteran, is a pastor of the Church of Christ. What he needed was a motor car so that he could call upon his flock. He'd read how the government had financed trucks for thousands of veterans who wanted to go into the hauling business. Wasn't it reasonable for Uncle Samuel to put up the cash for an automobile to be used in perhaps the most important work of all? :

‘Gels $1600 from RFC

SO HE applied to the Reconstruction Finance

~ Corporation for a loan of $1600 to pay for a fourdoor sedan. On May 15 the Oklahoma City office of the world’s greatest banking corporation approved the loan and the dominie got his vehicle. Presumably, he has put it to excellent use.

This transaction struck me as interesting. Chairman Harley Hise of the RFC ‘knew nothing

about it, but he said—facetiously -perhaps—that

he didn’t see how anybody could complain about a loan for a purpose as worthy as this. = Director Harvey Gunderson had heard of the loan to the Rev. Mr. Hodge, but he wasn't familiar with the details. He put me in touch with an official who was. f My question was simple enough. Why didn't the government let the Rev. Mr. Hodge finance his new car like the rest of us? J “Well,” said the man, “probably he didn’t have the money to put up the down payment.” : So the Oklahoma churchman got his car, under a 50 per cent GI guarantee. This means that the Veterans’ administration will put up

Seek Action

Times Washington v WASHINGTON, July 11 -—

_ perjury charges be preferred Edward A. R

They will be based on an al$25,000 contribution made organization from

dures.”

$800 of the loss, in case he can’t meet his payments. ‘These, however, will be small. They won't include any of those trick eftra charges extracted by some finance companies, but will go along for the next several years at straight 5 per cent interest. This is a rate lower than most people have to pay -to buy houses. » L

I couldn't discover exactly how long the minis-|-

ter will get to settle for his sedan. Under the law he could have up to 10 years, but the deal was made in Oklahoma City, and headquarters” here wasn't sure as to its terms, My man said he supposed that it would run for three or four years. The Rev. Mr. Hodge probably won't have much automobile left after four years of bumping it along Oklahoma's back roads. That leads to still another question. I asked what collateral the government had demanded of the Rev. Mr. Hodge to secure the loan. E : i “Why, we have a mortgage on his car,” the RFC man replied. i :

Not Entirely Happy : HE WENT ON to say that Washington wasn't entirely happy over its deal to bring the ministry to the people of Oklahoma and that it had

ordered a full report from the Oklahoma City

plete plans for sewer lines, im-

A letter from the Department to me. Not only

All the “greats” among New

today. :

{of Defense, Office of Public In-

formation. urged immediate “vol. 11sposal plan, additions to Gen-!

{untary activation” of such enlisted reservists as cooks, power(men, medical technicians, radar! operators, airplane armored gunners and radio repairmen. Active service would be fore one year in the grade held prior to last separation from service. Officers sought navigators, bombardiers, ntists, weather observers eteorologists, and aircraft tenance specialists. a. Enlistment “sales resistance” of Hoosier youth, .which was never great in this time of need, was further lowered when Fifth! Army and Headquarters, Indiana Military District, promised they could enlist in the branch of service of their choice.

Openings were available in. Alr-| borne unassigned, Armored Cav-| alry, Corps of Enginders, Coast| Artillery Corps, Far Eastern Command unassigned, Field-Ar-! tillery; Infantry, Regular Army,

provements to the city sewage.) . + she said

‘eral Hospital and construction of hed be there:

| herself. : two bridges. Howmanybusy | Total cost of the projects would people would do

{be about-§9,130,045 if all are that. And Tin

completed. is busy, all right. What action will follow the ys addition to decompieted audit was not disciosed: ‘signing women’s _ The advances on loans were clothes for Edmade to city departments under win Foreman Co. Public Law 352. By it the federal she does seven government finances the drafting) collections a year of plans for non-federal public of oS dons d ye Miss Fletcher works in municipalities. ities for Signet. Darned good-look-How It Works ling ties, too, it I may say so. The government, however, does! Tina's apartment is over on not foot the bill for actual con-|{E. 83d St. near First Ave. With struction. {the fine disregard many When construction is started by Yorkers have for a snooty adthe city, the loans become due for dress, it is planked down in the repayment without interest. {ungenteel Yorkville area.

The law also provides that the federal government may demand immediate payment of loans if construction is not started within three years after the loan or an advance is made. Some federal loans have been pending since 045

plicit instructions to taxi right to

153 Pharmacists

| tivities — will | through next Sunday. Look for

New,

With my invitation came ex-.

| ‘The guest was Santha Rama 1

| York designers are on view They were identified as Ray this week in Louise Fletcher's fashion stories from the country’'s fashion capital. Miss Fletcher is there to sift out significant style news for Times readers. Tomorrow she'll tell you about the Reig, Trigere and Rosenstein collections, More stories on fashions— and on a fashion writer's acappear daily

News Service, and "Cpl. Ernie Peeler of the Pacific edition of the service newspaper, StaF# and Stripes. United Press War Correspond- - ent Robert C. Miller reported

with GI's who said they had seen the bodies of the two newsmen. The witnesses told Mr, Miller one of the slain newsmen wore a Stars and Stripes patch on his clothes and the other was—"a gray-haired man” Mr. Peeler, about 38, from San Bernardino, €al., wore such a

them today on Page 4.

the door: to take no charices on other means of approach. Ij taxied. (Who's afraid of taking chances? It was raining.) patch. Richards was a ay Classy Apartment haired veteran of the Hearst 1 saw the apartment and it is| STEanization, originally from really wonderful. T'll tell you eRVer. about it sometime. But it turned!

out that Tina hersell mere mien AF Cadet Trains On 2-Engine Craft-

|esting. | Aviation Cadet Harry E. Litchs field, 30 N. Mount St. has been

{Rau, a girl born in India and| {brought up in England. Both

Richards, 56, of the International

from Korea that he had talked =

unassigned and the regular Alri" yw... .r 11 jobs planned here

Force unassigned. l : Reservists, enlistees, and those Nave been stymied in legal action the bonding

Take State Tests

The largest Hoosier crop of her

on the draft roles were being as-| V1ich questions sured of their re-employment rights if they should elect active

ipower of various city depart-

ments. budding phramacists since depres-

{Tina and Santha made round-ithe-world trips not long ago. | Santha has written a book on two - year trip, Home,” by Harperis:in October.

“Bast of)

and it will. be published,

Against Rumley

Halleck, Rensselaer, Republican, ; {the Lilly contribution may well Benedict F. Fitzgerald Jr, coun-,,.. .overed book sales which #el for the House lobby invest-\y,. po ey refused to disclose. gating committee yesterday de-| yn. pajjeck is a minority mem-

« clared that he will recommend, . .¢ the House committe which

member of the House Committee, have been constant critics of what they call “highhanded proce-

Mr. Halleck said he would

office. This has not yet arrived, but he said he believed that if the top men of the federal lending agency had been consulted, the Rev. Mr. Hodge's application would have been turned down. I am glad, myself, that he got the loan. With a car in which to travel, he can do great good. I do not begrudge my smail share in the financing thereof. I have only one small question left: If Uncle can buy motor cars for preachers, why not also for doctors, dentists and newspaper reporters?

service. | Members of the reserves of all branches of the armed forces who! may be recalled to active duty] (voluntary or _involuntary) as well as inductees and enlistees, | have full! re-employment rights) under federal law, said John Rog-| ers, field representative of the Bureau of Veterans’ Re-Employ-| ment Rights.

Drunk Driver ‘Glad’ He Went To Jail . ..

® Jailed in Detroit for drunken driving, a Detroit motorist tells his own story of seven days "on a prison farm , . of his gratitude f “hard” justice. ® Now the motorist warns: ““I think people who drink should do their drinking i at home —and not before ‘. The company, he said. supplied gr} : ‘the Committee on Constitutional]

{Government of which Edward A. {Rumley is executive secretary. . Mr,” Eveleigh said the Lilly company gave the money to the Rumley organization for the distribution of literature. 3 This included John T. Flynn's “Road Ahead,” “Keys to Pros iperity,” “For Americans Only,” | “Compulsory Medicine” and “The {Paul Revere Messages.” Mr. Eveleigh said his company} was one of 166 firms the Buichanan committee got after, and that the Lilly company did reply to the committee, saying the’ money was given and specifying’ it was for literature. i

or

op-

je committee that no contri-[pose the citing of Mr. Rumley for! Government with a mailing list. °o the committee or his i

organization .|contempt of

ton,

Neither the Health nor the Sanitation departments can start work until a decision is returned by the Indiana Supreme Court on a suit filed against the City of Hammond. Outcome of that action will

sion days -- 153 potential drug-| gists —lahored over state exam.|, The wo of them got off on the inations today in the Statehouse.!3)) "design. They both say If successful, they will become|that all basic design stems from licensed pharmacists for prac-| Asia, not from Europe as many tice in the state of Indians. ‘people think, .

have direct bearing on the operation of departments in Indianapolis.

City Rights at Issue In effect, the action before the {Supreme Court questions the {right of city departments to issue

programs. Of the loans granted to Indianapolis for planning, only the specifications for a $366,815 addition to General Hospital are in-

and Home Financing Agency, Washington. this job was listed a t$13,380. The city has repaid

been completed.

Loh

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Although these

further action is not

bonds to finance their bullding)

complete, according to Housing

The advance planning loan for

: $9406 loaned for planning two bridges at the Indianapolis Water Co. canal intersections at Central and College Aves. These projects have

The most recent application for planning loans was submitted by the Works Board for three major sewer lines to cost an estimated with advance loans

applications in Washing-

Twelve women and 141 men; Adapt Asiatic Ideas

jammed the Senate and House of| no Europeans, Tina said, took | Representatives chambers, where, Asiatic ideas and adapted them.

| four written tests were given yes-| ber in Tina and Santhat

|terday and today. - | rly rth and Spal exam wili|2rSument was that, even if you

i {go back as far as ancient Greece ibe given tomorrow in 1abora- |, 4 consider Grecian drapery, tories 2 Bitier Cap etaity- \you've got to admit it was inust ‘Swea ? spired by Asia. : | Shen, the 153 embryo Dharm Grecian drapery, they said, yas cists, 0 have prepar em- a “steal” from the costume draselves with four years of college pery of India. That was just one training and at least one year of of the ideas they cited as being practical experience, will have to|snitched from the East by the “sweat it out” ‘for another month West. . Auntil results are announced. Wouldn't you think, with all Maximum number of fallures that “thievery” going en, Europe probably will not exceed 15, ac-/and the West could have copped cording to Ira V. Rothrock, sec- some ideas for foot comfort? retary of the Indiana Board of Pharmacy. | He is one of five men who sup- perfume. The bottle from which erv the examinations grade the results. {in her The four other board members mansion. iB Lig By Br pape BER BR hret ish, Pa # - $ \ ley and Wilfred Ullrich. :

CHURCH RALLY

assigned to twin-engine aircraft |training at Reese Air Force Base,

cadet enlisted in

Mr. Litchfield vanced phases mY Cadet Litchfield will {commissioned a 2d Heutenant

| forces.

Man Kills Mother Of His 11 Children

_ And by the way, Mrs. Mayor|life. | O'Dwyer uses Coty’s L'aiment|

and this conclusion is drawn reposesia p bathroom in Gracie}

maid,

E, Litchfield, the