The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 17

GENERAL NEWS EDITORIAL WASHINGTON NEWS FEATURES SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1948 Lack Of Balance In Distribution Of Teacher Force Brings Warning The Indianapolis Star Mothers Told Lottery Ticket Buyer Helps Police And Loses Once More Grade Schools Get Short End To Help Fund $15,000 Needed Yet Hy March Of Dimes A lottery ticket buyer, angered at losing $30 on pick 'n' win tickets, went to police about it yesterday and wished he hadn't. After telling of his loss. Earl McGuire, 36 years old. 829 Villa Avenue, led three policemen to two Prospect Street taverns where he bought some more tickets just to show how it was done, they reported. Experts Say Birth Rate Increase Is Cited Following Commission Hearing An acute shortage of elementary school teachers and a corresponding overage of high school teachers is threatening Indiana's educational system, the State Commission on Teacher Training end Licensing warned yesterday.

AT THE FIRST PLACE, Prospect Tavern, 2135 Prospect Street, police arrested Mrs. Lena Morris, 876 West Drive, Woodruff Place, on charges of operating a lottery and gift enterprise and keeping a gaming house. At the next stop, Art and Jack's Tavern, 2027 Prospect, they arrested Arthur D. Donovan, 48, of 1403 Cruft Street, on the some charges. THE FAY-OFF came at the end of the tour.

McGuire was charged with gaming. At about the same time, Richard Smith forgot to make a hand signal turning at 21st Street and Capitol Avenue. Police who halted Smith, 3.3. of 970 Mills Avenue, said they found lottery tickets and $3S0 in cash in his car. He was charged with failure to give a hand signal, having no operator's license and operating a lottery and gift enterprise.

Police quoted him as saying he did not know the identity of his Stice Gets Life Term For Murder A last-minute appeal by tht Marion County Chapter of the Infantile Paralysis Foundation to mothers of Marion County for contributions was issued last night as the March of Dimes campaign came to an end with more than $15,000 needed to equal last year's total of $68,000. Mrs. Bert C. McCammon, chairman of the women's division, urged all mothers to consider the ravages of infantile paralysis and to mail donations to the chapter's office at 129 East Market Street. Officers and executive committee members, including former Governor Henry F.

Schricker, chairman of the 1948 drive, visited a series of entertainments and dances held last night for the polio funds. Schricker expressed the thanks of the Marion County chapter for the support the drive has received. The group attended a songfest at the Murat Theater staged jointly by the Knights of Columbus, Athenaeum and the Murat Shrine and dances conducted by the American Syrian Lebanon Heavy wartime and postwar Increases in the birth rate have Increased the need for more grade teachers, the commission said following a hearing in the Statehouse on teacher needs and Harry Stice, 43 years old, convicted of second degree murder in the fatal beating of Mrs. Olga Schwinn, 46, in his flat at 1020 East Washington Street, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Pro Tern Frank A. Symmes in Criminal Court, Division 1, training.

The hearing was attended by directors of student teaching in several Indiana colleges and universities and officials of the Indiana State Teachers' Association. i 'SuM BORDEN R. FURCELL, of field service and placement National C. Of C. Officer To Speak Ralph Bradford, executive vice morning.

Crushed beneath the engine's weight is the car in which Robert Leffler, 26 years old, was killed when the locomotive overturned. (Star Photo by Dan McCormack.) ENGINE FALLS ON AUTO A derailed Pennsylvania locomotive lies on its side in Southeastern Avenue with two of the four cars which it struck after it left the rails early yesterday Brotherhood, Sahara Grotto and the Elks Lodge. yesterday. Judge Symmes overruled a motion for a new trial made last week by Slice's attorney, John O. Lewis.

Lewis charged that a miscarriage of justice had been performed as some of the jurors had signed a petition to Governor Ralph F. Gates asking for stricter law enforcement and could not have entered the case with open minds. Stice yesterday said he would appeal to the Supreme Court and filed a pauper's affidavit asking the court to appoint a lawyer to present his case. Stice was convicted Jan. 15.

Mrs. Schwinn was beaten last May. 'Shipper All Gone Mourns Missing Dogs Little Master '49ers To Hear Pogue Barton Rees Pogue, Hoosier philosopher and author, will speak to members of the Forty-Niners Business Men's Club at their Tuesday luncheon in the Washington Hotel. president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, will speak at a Lincoln's birthday luncheon meeting at noon Feb. 12, in the ballroom of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, H.

T. Prichard, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the sponsoring organization, has announced. Bradford's talk, third in the 1948 series of business planning messages to be offered by the Chamber, will be on the subject, "The Last Best Hope of Earth." All Indianapolis businessmen have been invited to attend. In co-operation with other Chambers of Commerce throughout Indiana, the meeting will serve as a feature of the Indiana Commercial Secretaries' Associa tion mid-winter conference. for the association, said that 3,600 additional grade teachers will be needed during the next six years in Indiana schools to cope with the birth increase.

Contrariwise, Purcell said, the low prewar birth-rate has reduced enrollment in Hoosier high schools and caused an over-supply of high school teachers. The college and university teacher training directors recommend broadening of the licensing regulations for grade teachers in order to encourage more trainees In that field. The commission following the hearing also reaffirmed its stand on maintaining high qualification requirements for Indiana teachers. It proposed to the State Board of Education that high Pay Raise Given In Milling Case A pay increase for more than 200 employes of Acme-Evans Company, millers, was announced yesterday when a contract was renewed between the company and Local 84, Food and Tobacco and Agriculture Workers of America (CIO). Miss Jessica Rhine, union regional director, said the contract will become effective April 1.

There were no other changes. Residents cf South Side can place Their Star Want Ads at The Star a South Side Office. 1042 Virginia Ave. at mm Dr. Ralph Tirey, presi-Indiana State Teachers' school principals and superintend-j versity; ents be required to take 60 se-ldent of mester hours of training beyond College; Ira L.

Huntington, Jas-the bachelor's degree. per County superintendent of The commission is composed of schools; Edith Spray, South Bend; State Superintendent of Public Margaret Sweeney, Jeffersonville, Instruction Ben H. Watt, chair- and Dale Morehead, Tipton, all man; H. B. Allman, Indiana Uni-1 teachers.

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Sax, has refused to eat since "Skipper's" unexplained absence. Friday the child became ill; yesterday he stood for hours looking out his bedroom window, hopeful that his canine pal might return. And "Skipper's" disappearance has created quite a problem for Mr. and Mrs. Sax.

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