The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • 12

THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1936 12 UPPER STORY the blaze, which at first threatened to destroy the entire building. W. W. Abernathy, assistant superintendent of boy transients un City Thanks Fire Chief Barney Houston ORDINANCE May Fix Fee System LOAN MEN To Meet July 22-23. der the County Welfare Department, Of Building Damaged For Long Service-Bids Him "Carry On!" and Robert Keltner, a department employee, reported the fire.

They fled from the building to sound a fire alarm, then aroused 27 transients asleep in a bunkhouse near by. They busied themselves removing furniture and fighting the fire with hand extinguishers while awaiting the arrival of Ciiicinnalians To Be Hosls At Sfate Convention. Fire Causes $2,500 Loss To (iolf Clubhouse At California Place 109 Years Old. For Charging For Special Uses Of Streets Official To Study Practices Elsewhere. state association will be host Joseph G.

Love is President and J. F. Early Secretary of the local organization. Allen W. Heyl is General Chairman of the Convention Committee.

He is being assisted by the following Committee Chairmen: J. F. Eh-ret, Entertainment Committee; C. B. Lair, Finance; George S.

Schu-ler, Program; A. P. Zuflucht, Reception; Edward E. Beyer, Registration, and J. R.

Lear, Publicity. Ohio's small loan law, outlawing unlicensed lenders and establishing the business on a uniform basis, was enacted in 1915. Revisions have been made from time to time. In this connection it has just been announced that B. Frank Thomas, Assistant State Director of Commerce and chief of the State Division of Securities, has sent to every personal finance company in the state blanks on which they are to report their business operations for the year ended December 31, Consumer Credit Problems Are On Slate For Personal Finance Company Heads.

g- 1 vtLj ikl fa. STARTS TWELFTH SEASON. For the twelfth successive season Gregory J. OLeary, 1138 Iliff Avenue, Price Hill, yesterday was sworn in by J. A.

Gayman, Deputy Collector of Customs, as Navigation Inspector on the Ohio River. O'Leary's duties are to enforce navigation laws, particularly those requiring motor and other boats to carry fire extinguishers, lights, and other safety equipment and to check the number of passengers carried by excursion steamers to prevent them from carrying more passengers than the quota assigned to them. He is to serve from July JiJ 1 to September 7. The attic and roof of a 109-year-old, two-and-one-half story house on the California Golf Course was damaged by fire of undetermined crigin eaily yesterday. The loss was placed at $2,500.

Acquired a year ago by the Recreation Commission, the home was being made into a clubhouse. A man named Joseph Johnson built the home in 1327, it was said. Marshal Louis Schraffenberger, first to arrive, called additional companies in charge of Marshal Harry Gesselbracht. It was necessary for firemen to stretch 1,200 feet of hose to get at mas. The officers of the state association are W.

W. Hamilton, Columbus, President; Colonel D. H. Pond, Cleveland, Vice President; J. Fred Anderson, Springfield, Secretary, and J.

P. Michael, Columbus, Treas- CINCINNATI New Vice President Study of revenues obtained by other cities from charges for minor street privileges, with a view of drafting an ordinance in Cincinnati to establish fees for special street uses, is being made by Ed. F. Alexander, Assistant City Solicitor. Alexander was requested by John D.

Ellis, City Solicitor, to prepare a report on street privileges after Councilman Herbert S. Bigelow indicated a desire to have an ordinance drafted on the subject. A report of the New York State Conference of Mayors in 1935 advocates dispensing of street privileges at market values, as against any plan to raise revenues by charging fees for city services such as garbage collection, Alexander indicated. Pontiac, with population of 65,000, receives $15,000 a year from fees for special use of sidewalks granted to business concerns. In 1929 John B.

Blandford completed a report for Colonel C. O. Sherrill, then City Manager, in which study of possible income from fees for use of tunnels, pipe lines, overhead bridges, sidewalk loading platforms, sidewalk vaults, and other street privileges was discussed. Alexander will study the broad field of many reports before the City Solicitor's office and Bigelow discuss what street privileges in Cincinnati might be taxable under an ordinance to be submitted to council. YOUNG WOMAN SENTENCED For Theft Of Detective's Purse In Department Store.

A twenty-two-year-old girl who pleaded guilty to the theft of a woman detective's purse in a department store at Fifth and Race Streets was sentenced to 30 days in the Workhouse and fined $200 and costs yesterday on a charge of netit larcenv in Municipal Judge Of Display Men St. Louis Man Reelected Head Speaker Emphasizes Humor In Ads. City Manager C. A. Dykstra (right) is congratulating Fire Chief Barney J.

Houston after presenting a commemorative diamond-studded Fire Chief's badge to him. Mrs. Leon L. Wolf is seated at Glee R. Stocker, St.

Louis, was reelected President of the International Association of Display Men at the afternoon session of the dis- ALLEN W. HEYL, play men's convention yesterday at the Hotel N'ctherland Plaza. SXX ON I HUKWAV Phone PArkway 3800 Useful ax a Useful as an Useful as a jgsj Chair Ironing Table Stepladdcr Assured that, with air-conditioned comfort, Cincinnati is as pleasant in mid-July as the shores of Lake Erie, long the scene of its conventions, the Ohio Association of Personal Finance Companies is preparing to hold its two-day convention here July 22-23. The convention, devoted largely to problems of consumer credit, the Fire Department nearly SO years ago. At that time Father Welch was assistant pastor of St.

Edwards Church. He was a 'u-miliar figure at the fire engine house at Laurel and Cutter Streets. Leon L. Wolf, General Chairman and "Chief" of Box 13 Associates, presided at the dinner. George Puchta, who was Mayor in in 1916 when Houston was appointed Chief, sent a congratulatory telegram.

Puchta was to have been one of the speakers, but was called out of the city. Dancing concluded the program. the diamond-studded badge, Chief Hotiston began his speech of thanks. Later he declared -he was "taken in," because "my mother taught me to believe everything that a policeman said." Houston praised the work of his subordinates in making the Fire Department what it is. He expressed the hope that progress in the next two decades would be as great as in the last 20 years.

Rev. William C. Welch, who pronounced invocation last night, gave Houston a recommendation that obtained his first appointment to I New officers are Vice President, J. W. Teter, Cincinnati; Second Vice President, E.

W. Quintrell, Dayton, Ohio; Third Vice President, T. Wil-lard Jones, Shrevcport, Treas-: urer, Frank Bingham, South Bend, Directors, Ray Parks, Manchester, N. Gilbert Brown, Philadelphia; Donald Springer, Jack-jsonville, F. E.

Witelam, De-Itroit; L. E. Summerton, Memphis, High tribute, was paid to Fire Chief Barney J. Houston who yesterday celebrated his twentieth anniversary as head of the Cincinnati Fire Department, given in the Hotel Gibson roof garden last night at a testimonial dinner. Box 13 associates, a group of Cincinnati professional and business men interested in the work of the Fire Department and a citizens' committee, arranged the testimonial.

Chief Houston was congratulated upon the many improvements made in the department under his leadership, and upon the reduction of fire losses in Cincinnati effected in part through his promotion of fire prevention activities. Clarence Goldsmith, assistant chief engineer of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, told the 500 persons at the dinner that Houston was known as the "Boy Chief" at the time of his appointment 20 years ago. He pointed to the great change in fire-fighting methods that has come about in will be held at the Hotel Nether-land Plaza. There will be a dinner and dance the night of July 22. Executives and managers of small loan companies from virtually every county in Ohio will attend the sessions.

The speakers will be Cincinnati men prominent in banking, commercial, educational, philanthropic, and governmental pursuits. The Cincinnati chapter of the IP R. O. Johnson, Chicago; i Joseph Chadwick, St. Louis; O.

W. jBud Bennett, Stillwater, R. A. Staines, Tulsa, R. H.

De Jung, Spokane, and J. R. Stewart, Los Angeies. Tony Sarg, New York, illustrator, was the principal speaker at the afternoon meeting. He stressed the William E.

Handley's Court The girl registered as Jean Vernia, alias Martha Travis, alias Marjorie Long, Hotel Metropole. She was arrested Tuesday by Dorothy Cunningham, detective in the department store. Miss Cuningham said she recognized the eirl as one who had been On TNI RKWV It's Th nome Needs In One Phone PArkway 3800 QUALITY KOI MAXIMUM FIRST iray HEAT importance of humor in advertising. Humorous slogans are the ones that are remembered, he said. Kay Kament, representative of Walt Disney Enterprises, and C.

L. Arnold, Kroger Grocery and Baking Company, spoke at the morning session. Arnold dwelt principally upon the increasing importance and position of science and service in merchandising as it effects display. The annual dinner-dance was held last night at Castle Farm. The convention will be adjourned today following final inspection of exhibits and visit to the Procter and Gamble Company plant.

OMULS' arrested six time for shoplifting. Miss Vernia asked to be permitted to use a telephone, then pretended to make a call. Miss Cunningham, observing her actions, said she saw the girl slip the purse beneath her coat. Trailing her to the dressing room, Miss Cunningham waited until the girl came out. Miss Cunningham then went into the dressing room, where she found her purse, emptied of $3.80 and other effects.

She caught the girl on the sidewalk near the store. ALWAYS ALERTI Instantly Convertible Into Either of Three Useful Home Needs Pocahontas and Bituminous By-Product Coke 405 Traction Bldg. MAin 0409 COAL COMPANY For the first time in the history of the Fire Department, all of the Fire Marshals were "off duty" at the same time to attend the testimonial dinner to their Chief last night. Fire Captains substituted for the marshals during the dinner. However, had there been a "ten blow" the Fire Marshals and Chief Houston would have responded.

Just for such an emergency, a telephone line was set up direct from the Fire Tower to the Hotel Gibson Roof Garden, where the dinner was given. The Fire Tower reported no f're calls of any kind during th3 entire program. FOR DAY-IN-NIGHT-OUT Summer Wear Palm Beach is the Yearly Choice of Men! This handy home need is light in weight but at the same time sturdily built it can be moved about without the hard work necessary for the average clumsy, heavy kitchen combination furniture. Imagine a comfortable chair, a safe kitchen step-ladder and a well-padded ironing table for $4.95. Ainu ft Boepke Third Floor S3 the two decades since Houston took charge, contrasting the horSe-drawn equipment, some of which was still in use in 1916, with motorized equipment of the present day.

A diamond-studded Fire Chief's iTrnrnirrnn badge, the gift of Box 13 Associates and the citizens' committee, was SB Phone PArkway 3800 presented to Chief Houston by City Manager C. A. Dykstra, who paid particular tribute to the fire-prevention work accomplished by Chief Houston and the city's fire men. Our Sandal Shop On the Main Floor Offer Just the Proper Type of Sports Footwear for Your 4th of July Outing White Calf Sandals "Their 1ob is to get themselves out of a job," he said. A wrist watch was presented to Mrs.

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