The Indiana Journal, Volume 34, Number 9, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 July 1937 — Page 2

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Indiana Highway Officers Get Protection

PENSIONS FOR STATE POLICE ARE PROVIDED Full, Security to Be Given Officers by Program. (Special to The Journal) Indianapolis, July 1. Governor M. Clifford Townsend today announced the creation of a pension program covering retirement, death, disability and dependents’ benefit lor the state police department. Full security protc -lion for slate police officers, whose work is often ot a hazardous nature, is provided under the flexible pension prog am. Trust Effective. A pension trust agreement between the" state police department and the treasurer of stale became euecave today. The benelits ai< financed jointly by monthly wage deductions of approximately 6 per cent and state appropriations. ’ Although the social security program covers most civilians <nd military units and municipal police and lire departments a e protected by pension plans, heretofore no such service had been available to stale policemen. Retirement benefits, equal to about half the monthly salary, are payable at bo or after 20 years of service. If an officer is disabled in the line of duty, his benefit begins at the time of disability- If an officer is .disabled not in the line of duty, the benefit is limited to the time he has been employed by the department. Program Flexible, The flexible program permits retirement early than the normal retirement age on an adjusted basis. By taking -i reduced retirement income, the inember of the state police department may receive benelits during the lifetime of himself or his wife.If a member leaves the department he will receive a refund of his contributions plus 3 per cent interest. After live years service, he will receive in addition an increasing bonus representing part of the money appropriated by the stste. Dependents Protected. Pension payments will oe made to the dependent widow, children or parents of "a stale policeman who dies in the line of duty in addition to the proceeds of his group i&U.unce, wnkh are payable in event of death from any cause. .’lhe motaiiiy hazard is reinsured through a group insurance contract with an old line legal reserve Ijle insurance company.l usability. and dependent be. etits are paid from the Police Benefit Fund vfhich maintains a contingency reseive and an adequate margin cf surplus by appropriations. ~ | ‘ fy James Preston Coincidences sometimes are just coincidences but in Washington they ve y frequently are something more. ■ ’’lake, for Vice President Garner’s departure for Texas; rest, and fishing. Many times before, he has stayed in Washington while Congress sat through hot summers. fie did that last yhar. And he is in better health now than he has been for several years. So it can’t be either the h£at or his health. •Other things are different. Even though he says little about it., many persons know he doesn’t like the idea of enlarging the Supreme Court. He is what is ■khown as a “conservative Texan.” IF he were, to say in Washington, iC is hard to believe that he would work so ■ ~the platy He might even make uncomplimentary renfarks .about it, .Instead, he goes home. But not before he has time to appoint two new, special investigating committees one tb study tux evasions and the other to look ovef the whole relief set-up. chairman of the tax committee? he selects Senator Harrison of Mississippi, who, |bv virtue of his chairmanship of the regular Senate Finance Committee, is entitled to the post. Then Garner adds to the special committee. Senators King of Utah, George of Georgia and Walsh of Massachusetts. All these are Democrats known to feel that there is as much wrong with the recent helterskelter way of levying taxes as there is with those who try to avoid or evade taxes. Now. demands for an investigation of unemployment and relief have been' made for many, many months. Many persons wanted to know how many were unemployed, how they got that way, whether they would work if they got a chance, and what kind of work they would like if they could get it. The Commerce Department went so far as to recommend a special census. But every such proposal was squashed. Somebody apparently thought such a study migh

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SPECTACULAR AND COLORFUL are all the scenes of Billy Rose’s Aquacade, but the grand finale, seen here, presents vividly the gorgeous costuming and unusual staging tjqjical of the gigantic dancing, singing, swimming production which has won unstinted praise of the critics and the applause of the large crowds visiting the Exposition. The specially created train worn by the central figure in the scene cost 87,000 and its unusual

LONE INMATE OCCUPIES ALL OF INFIRMARY So Superintendent Must Get Livelihood from Profits of Farm. Indianapolis, July I.—A single individual, 79, constitutes thei total population of the Ohio county | infirmary, records in the office ofi Thurman A. Gottschalk, administrator of the state department of public welfare, indicate. This lone inmate of a twelve room institution and 104 acre farm has been receiving the undivided attention of-a superintend-' ent and matron since the death, of a companion inmate last January, at. the age of 92 years.! Care of this last infirmary in-’ n.ate costs the county nothing,. however, since Ohio county still uses the old “contract system” for maintenance of paupers. When there are less than two inmates in the institution the sup-i erintendent receives no salary! other than profits earned from the farm over and above the costs of maintenance. When there are more than two inmates he receives sls monthly for each additional inmate, lhe i matron is the wife of the superintendent. A unique provision of the original contract stipulates the commissi offers must provide for fence staples but not posts nor fence, i show the patient had been get-’ I ting the wrong kind of treatment;! lor, in other words, that soine nine (billion dollars had been wrongly I spent. The Senate took things in its: i own hands and approved a resolu-, lion for a special Senate Commit-j ! tee to study the whole problem. It would have been simple for' iGasner to pick a “whitewashing”, crew, as presiding officers so, ifrequently do. Instead, he selectled Senators Byrnes of South Cariol.na, Clark of Missouri and , Hatch of New Mexico' for the ma(jority side, and Senators Davis of Pennsylvania and Frazier of North Dakota for the minority I side. It was Byrnes who fought for tfie amendment calling upon states and localities to contribute •10 per cent of non-federal projects instead of letting the federal government go on paying 100 per cent. All five of the Senators are known to oppose the idea of , spending money without knowing where it goes or what good it does. Some of them object to letting a social worker with no business experience whatever, like WPAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins, spend billions without even having to account for them. I Is there anything more than coincidence behind Garner’s trip to Texas? Some sav he wants to find •shelter before the sparks fly. Informal surveys at the Capitol ] indicate that many members of Congress are beginning to see signs of agitation in the rural regions as John L. Lewis pushes his campaign of violence. The answer is simple. In the first place, , unionization of farm labor is the next step in the program of the unions. It has been a part of the procedure of the Communist party for years. Even more direct, however, is the effort of price increasing industrial wages. As the . present wave of forced wage raises I are felt in the price of farm impleTments, the farmer will find many - i of the present strikes really were it aimed at him.

PROPOSEROAD TAX RE USED ON HIGHWAYS Halt of Diversion Is Aim of Amendment Requested. Statewide support of a proposed amendment to the state constitution winch would prohibit diversion of funds raised by motor ve-l hicle, gasoline and similar taxes, from highway maintenance andj improvement use, was urged by Earl Crawford, chairman of the State Highway Commission, in a statement issued today. 1 The proposed amendment, adopted by me General Assembly, I must be approved at the 1U39 session and men submitted to the voters at a general ejection before it can become effective. The amendmenl would provide that all motor vehicle registration tees, licenses, gasoline license fees or I excise taxes and alt other similar I special taxes, duties, or exercises oi ail kinus on all kinos of motor vehicles, trailers, motor vehicle fuel or motor vehicle owners er operators, shall, after providing tnerefroin for lhe necessary cost of administration, be appropriat-i ed and used for laying out, con-: structing, reconstructing, main-, taming, repairing, improving and 1 policing public highways and bridges within this state, and snail oe expended under the ui- ! reclion of tne state department having jurisdiction thereof, ptoviaing mat when expended on public highways and bridges not within the jurisdiction of a stale department the same shall be niuue unaer me jurisdiction of the state department having juusdiction over state highways; and shad, not oe diverted, by transfer of funds, or otherwise, to any other purpose whatsoever. These taxes are imposed <n the theory that the user of the roads should pay, just as toil was collected on many of the early roads, and should not be diverted to' other purposes. Every motorist is a stockholder in mis highway, transportation system and must realize that unless the toil collected from the users of the highways is used only to maintain and ini- 1 prove this transportation system, : they will either be paying more than is necessary or that the sys- 5 ! tern will deteriorate. In dealing with this transportation problem, Mr. Crawford concluded, we must remember tnat our highways are on a strictly toll: basis and tnat we must give consideration to the traffic, where it originates and where it goes. The expenditure of these funds must be where the resulting improvement will serve the traffic. James Slane Hurt; Wife Dead in Crash Lafayette, Ind., July B—Mrs.: Grace Slane, 53, wife of James A. ' Slane, 55, secretary of the lte-| publican state central committee, was killed instantly and 1 er husband injured last night in an automobile accident on U. highway 152 near Wolcott.* Slane's automobile struck a pool cf water covering the highway and skidded into another ear driven by Raymond Schlosser, Greenwood, Ind., according to witnesses. s Slane, who was elected secrei tary of the’ Republican state com- . mittee only a few weeks ago in'a party, shakeup, was brought to the ■ hospital here in a serious condition.

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size is evident in comparison with the 160 foot floating stage of Aquacade. Typical of Billy Rose are the miniature battleships seen here plying the waters of Lake Erie. Yes, Canada is the backdrop. The Exposition continues open in Cleveland through Sept. 6. Stars of the Aquacade include Johnny Weismuller, Eleanor Holm and 500 singing, dancing, shimming beauties, and music for dancing by the audience is played by nine famous orchestras.

Dividend Equivalent Declared by Nipsco Hammond, Ind., July 1.-—The ! board of directors of the Northern Indiana Public Service company (today declared the equivalent of la full dividend on the preferred! stock of the company, payable! July 14 to Stockholders of record, tJuiy 3. Legally, the dividend all! applies on | accumulated arrear-l ages. With the payment of this divid; end,’ the company’s arrearages on, p:eieri;ed (stock will be $2,-1 754,937, the full dividend for two' years. ! ~ Countess’ i J L l» B* .'X I- - J■ • • ( : Roy Kupryanova (standing) son of “Countess” Anna Krupyanova, member of the Parsons’ household at Stony Brook, L. 1., buys a paper to read the story of the disappearance of Mrs. Alice Parsons.

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South Shore Lake Wawasee ANNOUNCES OPENING OF NEW Saib way Service (IN OUR COO L BASEMENT) Chicken and Steak Dinners Featured CHARLES DALKE, Proprietor.

UNCLE SAM’S FAMILY NUW TOTALS MANY Civil Service Shows More Employed by Government. Washington (IPS) JJncle Sam’s official family is larger now than at any other time since the world i civil service conimissiori i statistics show.’ ‘ _ •> I Employees on the public payrolls, not counting the personnel ■ the. legislative.,, judicial and milj. Sit-ary branches of government cbta.led 829,193 on Ap; i! 1 of this; year. The total includes both civil service ahd non-civii service officials and workers. The 829,193 total does not intclude CCC workers nor the perihs on relief. On June 30, .1033, lhe total was 572,091, makuig an increase of 257,102 in four years and of approximately! 5,000 in the last eleven months. I Since 1926, the number of civil service workers increased 18 per cent from 422,300 to 498,725. In( the same period non-civii service! i workers increased more than 200 per cent from 106,242 to 325,534. bince 1933, the number of noncivii service workers has risen 180 per cent while civil service employees have increased 10 per cent in that time. Old Age Pensions Apr roved for 290 The Kosciusko county welfare board approved eleven of thiiteen old age applications. Two hundred ninety persons are now receiving old age assistance in county. The total amount distributed last month amounted to $3,198. Central Hospital In Clinical Group Indianapolis, Ind. July 1.- The Central State hospital at Indianlipolis has been appointed by Surgeon General Dr. Thomas Parian of the U. S. Public Health Service as a member of the Coopera-

Relief Changes to Welfare Assistance Indianapolis, July I.— Changes in the case load of three types of public aid since April 1, 1936, show a shift from work and direct relief to welfare assistance. Indiana’s public welfare program, in effect 15, mouths, shows a present case load of 47,955. On April 1; 1936 it was 33,725. Smce that date WPA case load has dropped from 80,490 to less than 60,000. Township relief case load has dropped from 42,435 to 30,027. While the state’s welfare program is not responsible for all the decrease of work-relief and direct-relief cases, it> is known that approximately 46.8 per cent of all welfare clients taken on in April, 1937, formerly were relief cases. Governor Is Slated to Give Addresses (Special to The Journal) Indianapolis, July I.—Govern-, or M. Clifford Townsend is to be! one of the speakers at Purdue institute are to be Amelia Earhart, if she returns to this country in time, and Owen D. Young. Monday, July 5, Gov. Townsend is to address the national convention of the American Flint Glass Workers’ Union in Marion, and Thursday, July 8, he is to speak at the Columbus Foundation for Youth park dedicatory services. Dog Unwittingly Saves Cat’s Life Valparaiso, Ind., July , I.—At- ! traded by a dog barking at a (government mailbox, a g r °up of (wonjen here called police. Then in turn summoned postoffice employes who found, upon unlocking the box, a cat, apparently (imprisoned there by boys.

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BUSINESS FOR FIVE MONTHS IS INCREASED Gain of 15 Per Cent Noted in Forepart of This YearBloojnington, Ind., July 1. Fjfieen per cent more business ; was tJWsacjed In Indiana during thlT first flvp months of 1937 than I a year agd, the Indiana Business 1 Review, published at Indiana I University, reported in its current issue today. The increase brought business ! volume for the period to within 1 less than 9 per cent of the afl- > time record high set in 1929, the I summary declares. The general level of trade and I ind; istry in Indiana was a little | lower than for April, the business survey explains, but “May was the forty-eighth consecutive month during which general business conditions have compared favorably with the like period a year earlier.”

DISREGARD OF DANGER SIGNS CRASH CAUSE Some Motorists Even Fail toj Slow Down os They Pass Stop Posts. Failure to observe the caution and* warning signs placed along the state highways for the. protection of motorists is a fret(uent cause of accidents, Earl Crawford, chairman of the state highway cbmmissjon, pointed out today after studying a report from the.bureau of traffic. A recent survey by bureau, whieh was established ' several weeks ago to study trajflc problems on the state highway system and promote greater motoring safety, has shown that at oue intersection where? there have been several accidents and deaths, less than half of the drivers came tO| a complete stop before entering the intersection. ■ | Slore than 50 per cent of' the ‘ldrivers disregarded or only partl- ■ ally obeyed tne “Stop” sign placed some distance back from the 1 intersection. . Sume Drive Fast. ’ Some Os- the drivprS who did not 1 bring thbjr vehicles so a full stop, - entered the intersection at low speeds afid qcnlld Have stopped in > Case of an emergency but 10 per cent of "the traffic entered the ’ jnterseclion with nd regard for the stop and at too fast a speed so haVe stopped id any emergency." r *''■ ■ ■“ - " ~■ ”. 1 It is this class of drivers, dis- ) regarding caution and stop signs along the highways, that >is re- . sponsible for a majority of the aci cidehts reported almost daily, the f Bureau 6l Traffic survey discloses.

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Indiana to Enter Territorial Event Indianapolis, July 1. —Indiana will participate in the Northwest Territory Sesqui-Centennial Celebration commission announced today. The observance is in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the passage of the ordinance of 1787 and the subsequent settling over the vast northwest territory of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin tbd part of Minnesota.

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