The Indianapolis times. [volume], April 01, 1936, Final Home Edition, Page PAGE 4, Image 4

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OFFICERS FIND
SECRET STILL
BENEATH YARD
Swinging Walls and Hidden
Doors Lead Way to
Chamber.
While Carl Dierklng, 70, today
prepared to pay $l7O in fines, police
officers discussed the discovery of
a still hidden by secret doors and
sliding walls In a chamber under
the back yard at 2139 Barth-av.
After being called to the Barth-av
address on March 6 on a complaint
of an unlawful alteration of gas
lines, police officers and gas com
pany officials detected an odor of
alcohol. It was particularly strong
around a wooden case of shelves
containing fruit jars.
Convinced that the odor did not
emanate from the fruit, officers
told Mr. Dierking’s wife, only one
home at the time, to show them the
■till.
Mrs. Dierking pulled out a por
tion of the wall shelves and all.
Then she pushed an iron pipe into
What appeared to be another \vall
and led the way down a narrow
passage to another room. There
officers fond what they said was
apparatus for brewing liquor.
Dierking stated in court yester
day that he did not know “making
a little liquor for home consump
tion was a violation of the law.”
He also admitted that he had stolen
a dollar’s worth of gas for every
dollar’s worth he paid for.
Police officers estimated that the
secret chamber had been in ex
lstance for more than 15 years.
Dierking, who said that he was
an interior decorator and never had
been arrested before, was fined SSO
and costs for the gas line alteration
and SIOO and costs for violation of
the 1935 beverage act.
NEXT REFORM STEPS
OUTLINED BY MIESSE
Taxpayers’ Association Secretary
Speaks io I. U. Group.
Timet Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind„ April I.
The next step in governmental re
form must be the abolition or con
aolidation of antiquated units of
government, Harry Miesse, Indian
apolis, secretary of the Indiana
Taxpayers’ Association, warned in
an address here.
Speaking to seniors of tbe Indiana
University School ol Administra
tion and the economics department
yesterday, Mr. Miesse said the hard
est task faced by the Taxpayers’
Association “is to persuade people
to use the tax limitation and con
trol laws enacted in their behalf.”
He commended the Indiana plan
of taxation, but warned against the
tendency to restore high property
rates after broadening the tax base.
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Ohio River Retreats From New Albany
Residents of New Albany waited today as the Ohio
River retreated slowly from their homes and streets. The
stream was reported falling at all Indiana river towns, and
is expected to be back in its banks soon.
Business Alarming, Says
Local Gamewell Bureau
Playful Query Results in Explanation That This Division
Has Hands Full,. No Time for Play.
BY JOHN MURPHY
This is a message to the unidentified young woman who called into
the Gamewell Division of the City Fire Department and said:
“Can you tell me the name of a street.”
“Perhaps,” replied the operator
courteously and a little puzzled, “if
you will tell me what street.”
“That," was the quick, sweet re
ply, "is what I don’t know.”
“Well, if you tell me where it is
or what way it runs, I may be able
to help you.”
“I don’t know that either; that’s
why I'm calling you. In case you
don’t know the street I'm thinking
about. I thought you might name
all the streets. I’m sure I would
recognize the one I have in mind if
you named it.”
The operator pointed out that
there is a great number of streets
in the city and that he was a busy
man, with chances that he’d be a
lot busier at any moment. He didn’t
get to tell her how the Gamewell
Division was run, so he asked The
Times to do so.
Young lady, the Gamewell Divis
ion is not operated by the city to
play guessing games, despite its
name. It is a place where fire
alarms are received.
All still alarms (telephone re
ports) and box alarms from the en
tire city come direct to the office
in the fourth floor of City Hall.
After a fire is reported, the switch
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
The drive for relief funds continued, however, and the
Indianapolis chapter, American Red Cross, announced to
day it was nearly $20,000. Chapter officials hope a few
more thousand dollars will be subscribed.
board operators, who are firemen,
act as dispatchers and direct the
nearest fire fighting apparatus to
the scene of the blaze.
After dispatching the first trucks
and pumpers they keep in touch
with the status of the fire until the
apparatus is back in the engine
house. Should additional equipment
be needed they order it out from
other stations.
In tnis city fire alarms are given
one of four classifications. A still
alarm, and one, two and three
alarms. A two-alarm fire is re
garded as quite serious, while, of
course, a three-alarm fire amounts
to a conflagration.
The division gets its name from
the type of its alarm system which
is known as the Gamewell System.
When one of the city’s 422 boxes is
pulled the location of the fire is
designated immediately on a paper
tape in the office. The operator
fireman then relays the alarm to
the station nearest to the fire, over
what is known as the “joker sys
tem,” a part of the general alarm
equipment.
The relay operation was auto
matic prior to 1921, when regula
tions adopted by fire insurance un
derwriters brought about a return
to the manual system.
The equipment here was installed
in 1902 during the administration of
Thomas Taggert. Although it never
has happened, it is possible for 16
alarms to be received simultaneous
ly. Every alarm box is tested each
month despite the fact that when
one gets out of order a signal light
automatically goes on in the office.
An average of 12 alarms is re
ceived daily for an annual average
of 4380. False alarms average
slightly less than one a day.
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SEEK DE PAUW
SCHOLARSHIPS
100 Successful Applicants
to Be Announced
on May 1.
Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind., April I.
De Pauw University will award 100
Rector scholarships May 1, Dean G.
Herbert Smith, director of the schol
arship foundation, announced today.
Dean Smith said that more than
400 applications have already been
received and that some personal
interviews have been held.
Competition for president’s schol
arships, he also announced, will be
held here May 16, and awards will
be made on a basis of competitive
examinations and personal inter
views. Fourteen scholarships, each
valued at S2OO, will be awarded and
are to be applied on tuition the
freshman year.
To Entertain Applican4s
This is the second year the pres
ident’s scholarships have been
awarded. Applicants will be guests
of the university May 16. Last year,
when the scholarships were in
augurated, high school seniors from
widely scattered areas visited the
university.
The Rector scholarships, valued
at SIOOO, are drawn from a founda
tion established by the late Edward
Rector, De Pauw Alumnus, and cov
er tuition expenses for the four
years in the liberal arts school.
Anew plan this year will sup
plant the old one in awarding Rec
tor scholarships. The old plan
called for grants to be made in
eight payments of $125 each.
Under the new plan, a freshman
is to pay $l5O on his $250 tuition, a
sophomore is to pay SSO, a junior
is to pay no tuition, and a senior
is to receive a surplus equal to the
amount of tuition he paid his first
two years.
Matanuska Has Newlyweds
PALMER, Alaska, April 1.
Betty Herman, 19, became the first
bride of the Matanuska Valley col
only when she married Herbert
Onkka, 21, also a colonist, recently
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EASTERN YOUTHS HELD
ON CAR THEFT CHARGE
Two Admit Taking Auto, Federal
Officials Say.
Two youths from Newark, N. J„
are held in Federal row in the coun
ty jail today on charges of violating
the motor vehicle theft act. Unable
to make SISOO bond each, George
McSweeney and Raymond A. Mues
sig, both 22, were returned to jail
after a hearing before Commissioner
Howard S. Young yesterday after
noon.
The young men have made a writ
ten statement, a Department of Jus
tice official said, admitting stealing
a De Soto sedan from the Trinkle
Motor Cos., New Albany, and driving
it to Kirksville, Mo., near where
they were arrested by the Missouri
State Highway Patrol.
The boys said they were on their
way to Texas by freight train and
the thumb route when they took the
car. They were going to get jobs in
the oil fields, they said.
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-APRIL 1, 1936
CLAIMS SAVING
OF 53,178,638
IN PROBATIONS
Dr. McCabe Gives Report;
12,268 Criminals Free
Under System.
The state was saved an institu
tional cost of $3,178,638.80 by hav
ing 12,268 criminals on probation
last year, figures released by Dr.
Francis D. McCabe, state probation
officer, indicated today.
Os the total probationers 8113
were adults and 3155 juveniles. In
dividual cost if they had been kept
confined would have been $269.10,
Dr. McCabe reported.
Probation for 288 adults, or 4.7
per cent, was revoked. Os this num
ber 272 were men and 16 women.
Probation of 106 boys and 44 girls,
or 3 per cent of the total juvenile
cases, was revoked.
Two hundred and thirty adult
probationers, or 2.2 per cent, and 71
juvenile probationers, or 2.5 per
cent, absconded and moved from the
jurisdiction of Indiana.
Os the 3164 adults discharged with
satisfactory conduct records. 2887
were men and 277 women. Os the
1048 juvenile probationers dis
charged, 705 were boys and 343 girls.
Dr. McCabe pointed out that In
diana has an agreement with Mich
igan whereby Indiana probationers
living in Michigan can be checked
by Michigan probation officers.
Lenten Sermon Scheduled
The Rev. F. R. Daries, Zion
Evangelical Church pastor, is to
speak on “The Romance of Cross
Bearing” in a Lenten sermon at
7:45 tonight at the church, New
Jersey and North-sts.
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