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SCHOOL SUIT To Supreme Court. 'Appeals Ruling Conflicts With Fifth District. Sturtevant Company Lien Upheld As Only Valid Claim On Contractor's Account. Court of Appeals yesterday held that the B. F.

Sturtevant Company has a valid lien for the full amount of its claim in an action to collect $1,247.50 from the Cincinnati Board of Education on a school building contract, but. ordered the case certified to the Supreme Court for final action because the Fifth District Court of Appeals has returned a conflicting decision. The Sturtevant Company, which furnished materials to a contractor installing ventilating equipment in school house, filed a claim with the board for $1,247.50 as a balance due. The company also recorded the claim with the County Recorder. None of the other creditors on contracts for building materials filed claims.

The contractor agreed to have the Board of Education hold a balance due him to be disbursed to creditors who had furnished materials to the contractor. Other materials men then sought to come in for pro rata shares of the fund. Common Pleas Court held the Sturtevant Company had a valid lien, and the only lien. The case went to Court of Appeals. That court finds the Sturtevant lien is valid, that the Sturtevant Company has a right to the full amount of its claim, prior to all other, claims.

Gus Skulky lost his reverse a conviction on a charge of manslaughter on which he was sentenced to 1 to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentiary when Court of Appeals upheld the verdict of Common Pleas Court yesterday. Through Dudley M. Outcalt, Assistant County Prosecutor, the state charged Skulky with seconddegree murder in the death of James Prince. Skulky injured Prince fatally by beating Prince's with a brick last October 16, it was testified. Skulky was convicted of manslaughter.

In the case of Alexander M. and Sinclair Bain, awarded a judgment by Common Pleas Court for $1,100 against the Hamilton County Commissioners, as damages to the Bain's property by the improvement of the Loveland-Madeira Road, Appellate Court affirmed the finding. The court in its opinion says it upper considers the verdict was excessive, but by reason of the constitutional involving weight mitationdence, the judgment, must be affirmed. Other Decisions Given, Other decisions handed down by Court of Josephine Appeals M. Whiting to construe the yesterday, were: will of Estelle C.

Brockman, petition dis missed as the Court was without jurisdiction in the case on appeal from Common Pleas Court, Alice Meeks vs. Sardah Plotkin, Common Pleas Court Judgment for $4,500 damages for personal injury ordered held reduced to be to excessive, the amount $3,000. or new trial will be A. granted. Strohfeldt, Mary Meyung vs.

William verdict for defense instructed by Common Pleas Court reversed and new trial ordered. Domhoff and Joyce Company vs. SlossSheffield Steel and Iron Company, Judgment affirmed. Evelyn Westrich vs. Ohio Industrial Minerva Whalley vs.

American Life and Commission, judgment affirmed. Accident Insurance Company, judgment affirmed. Joseph Hawkins vs. City, affirmed, Harmon. Hays vs.

Eva Bruggeman, et al, Judgment affirmed less a credit ordered by Court of Appeals, Movie Actor On Way For Visit In Norwood, Don Brodie, Hollywood motion picture actor, who, while attending school, was an Enquirer newsboy, and later played in the Stuart Walker and Civic Theater Companies, will return June 15 for a brief vacation at the home of his mother, Mrs. Lottie Brodie, 2037 Maple Avenue, Norwood. Brodie recently appeared with Jean Harlow in "Reckless" and Paul Muni in "Black Fury." When not free-lancing in pictures he directs "little theater" productions in Los Angeles. He formerly was employed in the main offices of the Procter and Gamble Company. APARTMENTS ROBBED.

Clothing Valued At $201 Stolen From Dry Cleaning Truck. Two apartments on the third floor of the Maude Miller Flats, 2457 Maplewood Avenue, were ransacked yesterday by thieves who forced doors with a "Jimmy" to gain entrance. Katherine Bullock and Zella Smith, occupants, were unable to report their losses until they completed a check of household articles. Three ladies' dresses and two pairs of trousers valued at $201, stolen yesterday from a truck of the Fenton United Cleaning Company, 2243 Gilbert Avenue, at 2651 Gilbert Avenue. Frank Baber, 1252 Sunset Avenue, driver, told police the articles were stolen while he was making a delivery.

Thirty-five brass bushings valued at $200 were stolen yesterday from the Torson Construction Company, Gest Street and Millcreek. BC Eases Headache In 3 Minutes also neuralgia, muscular aches and pains, toothache, earache, periodical and other pains due to inorganic causes. No narcotics. 10c and 25c packages. THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, TUESDAY, JUNE Terror Sterilized Out Of Disease Ward; Dread Pest House Fades From Memory Pest house; It 1 is gone now, like the pestilences that scourged nations and made the phrase a terror.

But it is still fresh enough in the world's memory. No need to go back to the dank crypts, the thin pallets, the despair, and the appallingly lonely deaths that fell to the lot of the medieval plague victim. No need to go back so far to revive the frightening associations that the phrase evokes. Young men and women today can remember standing outside some great hospital and looking up at the mottled, bewildered, unhappy faces of children peering down through window glass at a group of women in the street below; heartbroken, sobbing women, women of almost abandoned hopes -mothers whose little ones just had been confined in the dreaded pest house. But the pest house is gone now, and with it has gone much of the unhappiness of its inmates, a very large part of the danger to their lives, and most of the disagreeable connotations it had for those who shivered as they passed its gates, or who stood outside its gates and wept.

In place of the pest house is the contagious ward of a modern hospital. We go into contagious ward at General on chop Hospital, that part of the ward which just has been highly modernized an expenditure of $84,000, including a $9,000 Federal grant. If we were a relative of one of the patients, making one of the several visits allowed us each week, we would be swathed white gown, without or 'armholes sleeves and with its hem touching the floor, even before we entered. Our hair would be tucked under a close-fitting, sterile, white cap. So prepared we would be allowed to sit at the bedside of our loved one.

Were his condition critical we might stay, though other visitors left, for near relatives are allowed to keep watch during the darkest hours of the course of a disease. But we are not visiting a patient. We are just looking into the ward with Dr. H. Harlan Langdon, Acting Superintendent of the hospital, see what resulted after Dr.

A. Graeme Mitchell, Chief of the Pediatrics Department, and his assistant, Dr. Frank Stevenson, prepared plans for a highly efficient ward for the treatment of persons suffering of contagious diseases. It is night, and the only light when we enter is at a desk on our left, where a nurse sits marking reports. There are shadows in and beyond the walls of glass that are everywhere in the place, walls that separate the a entrance hall and the nurse's little "office" from the rest of ward.

The "office," unwalled on the entry side, is a desk, chair, and a cabinet or two perched on a concrete platform rising more than a foot from the floor level. From this vantage point the nurse can look down into the emergency cubicle just beyond the glass wall in front of her, can look past it into the other cubicles in the row, can look across the aisle to her right into the cubicles that line the other side of the ward, which is divided in two by an airtight glass partition running down its center. She can look onto twentyodd beds, most of them in individual cubicles. The glass partition separating the right half of the ward from the left half virtually makes two wards of one. The principal use of this division is to separate measles cases from chicken pox cases, for those two diseases, while not the most dangerous, are the most difficult to control in respect to contagion.

Therefore, although the many other safeguards characterizing the ward would make the spread of either disease nearly impossible, the room has been halved as an ultimate precaution against cross-infection, Since many diseases besides measles and chicken pox are treated in the ward, separation of patients into one side or the other of the ward is not always easily accomplished; nevertheless, segregation is possible in a surprising number of cases. For instance, if a child who has had measles is admitted for treatment of diphtheria, he is put in a cubicle an the "measles side," since his previous attack has made him immune to that disease. If he has had chicken pox, but not measles, he is placed on the side of the room where chicken pox cases are under Foot Pedal Efficiency. Doors in the partitions open automatically by electric power, controlled by pedals in the floor. Foot levers are the order throughout the ward, since it is a point of safety for both patients and staff to touch as few things as possible with the hands.

The faucets in the washbasins outside of every cubicle (the doctors and nurses wash their hands immediately after leaving the cubicle) are operated by pedals marked "Hot" and 'Cold." Cupboard doors, the lid of the vessel in which instruments are sterilized by steam, the door to the soiled linen chute--all are moved by the ubiquitous pedals. While we stand at the nurse's desk we receive a demonstration of what is probably the most interesting and the most modern of the ward's many remarkable accessories. From a black case resembling a radio cabinet on a of the desk comes a child's voice: "I want a d'ink!" We look slightly startled, so Dr. Langdon explains. little girl who wants the drink is Violet, a mumps case over in the right side of the ward (the nurse knows Violet's voice and points her out to us a little five-year-old sitting up in bed in the shadowy room beyond two thick glass partitions).

When Violet decided she was thirsty and called out her orders Her voice registered in micro- 11, 1935 9 SCHOOL BONDS Ordered In Norwood. Board Authorizes $22,000 Issue For Building Improvements With Federal Aid. Norwood Board of Education last night passed a resolution to issue $22,000 in bonds for construction of 8 two-story addition to Norwood View School and improvement of other school buildings. H. J.

Shirley, Superintendent of Buildings, was authorized to submit plans for the project to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Estimated cost of the proposed addition to the Norwood View School is $34,000. Under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration plan, the city would put up $15,000 and the Government would provide half the material and labor, leaving $7,000 of the bond money for improvement of other buildings. It is planned to begin work on the project in July, if possible, and to complete the addition to Norwood View School before September, Shirley said. Norwood citizens have protested for more than a year that the schools are overcrowded, he said.

Other schools which would be benefited by the project are Norwood School, Sharpsburg School, Williams Avenue School, and Alllson School. CINCINNATI ARTIST WEDS. ENQUIRER BUREAU SPECIAL DISPATCH. New York, June 10-Herman B. Temple, 24 years old, artist, native of Cincinnati, and Esther Schiffman, 23, New York City, were married here today by the Deputy City Clerk, Philip A.

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phone near the center of the room and was carried by wire to the receiving set on the nurse's desk. The nurse reaches out, presses down a small switch in the black case, and speaks into another microphone: "All right, dear, I'll get you a drink." As she releases the pressure on the finger switch it snaps back to its former position, SO that any sounds from the glassed-in rooms again may be carried to her desk. The switch is held down only long enough for the nurse to reply to a patient's call. As the nurse's reassurance reaches Violet through a soft-toned "loudspeaker" in the ward we watch the child sink back, comforted. There is a microphone loudspeaker set on each side of the center partition, so that patients on either side may be 'heard and may hear easily.

Some day, those in charge of the ward hope, there may be a microphone at the side of each bed so that the nurse at the desk can hear each patient's breathing and judge whether the patient is resting or is having difficulty and needs aid. The cubicles are booth-like, glasswalled rooms, open at the front, just large enough to hold a hospital cot and a cabinet. Each cubicle is equipped with heavy white curtains which may be drawn along the transparent walls when a patient's condition is such that he will be more greatly benefited by privacy than by the silent sociability of the ward. Sunroom For Convalescents. The cubicle immediately in front of the nurse's desk is used for emergency cases.

It contains special instruments, such as those used for opening a clogged windpipe. There is a sunroom at the south end of the ward with several beds for patients whose cases are not serious. Fresh linen is supplied to the ward through a two-way cabinet somewhat similar to the serving cabinets connecting the dining room with the kitchen in some homes. One door of the cabinet opens into the corridor along which the orderlies come to deliver the linen. 'The orderlies need not enter the ward, since they can place the linen in the cabinet through a door on the opposite side.

The most impressive precautionary measure is a small thing--a clip board on the ward side of the glass separating the nurse's desk and the ward proper. Near the nurse's desk, but in the ward, is a smooth, metal-topped desk at which the physicians and nurses make out their records. These record slips are put in the clip board, the board is turned to face the nurse's desk, and the nurse, reading through the glass, transcribes the records to the proper forms. Then the original record slips are taken from the clip board and destroyed. They never leave the ward, although every bit of the information they contain does! Older Wards In Use.

The bicameral first-floor ward we visit with Dr. Langdon is duplicated on the second floor. As we start back on the long walk to his office at the Burnet Avenue end of the group of buildings we stop in for a few minutes at one of the older wards set aside for contagious diseases. A few years ago it, too, was the last word in modernity, with its separate cubicles and its numerous devices to prevent spread of contagion. It is still in use, effective and sanitary.

But we look for the bisecting partitions, for the automatic doors, for the nurse's lookout platform, for the soft-loud-speakers. They aren't there. Comparing the medieval pest house with these two contemporary contagious wards is, of course, analogous to comparing a cesspool with twin springs of pure water. But comparing the twinsWell, we'll take our diphtheria with plenty of glass, thank you. Genuine it Your fragration lifts are Something to Use or to Wear TALI GLOVES, sophiscleated net ones.

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