The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
PREP ARE FOR
DEDICAT|ONOF
U. S. HOSPITAL
General Frank T. Hines to
Be Principal Speaker at
Rites Sunday.
100000 WING SOUGHT
$650,000 Institution Offers
Accommodations for 152
Disabled Veterans.

Disabled Veterans.
A living monument to the ma
tons wartime defenders, the new.
152-bed United States veterans
hospital on West Riverside drive will
be dedicated formally at 2 Sunday.
Dedication of the $650,000 hospi-
tai for treatment of i'll and disabled
ex-soldiers comes at a time when
strong pressure is being brought to
bear in Washington for ALLEGATION of
funds to build a 100-bed addition to
the present unit.
That the new hospital will fill an
urgent need is shown by the fact
that more than 400 applications for
bed space already are on file, al
though the hospital will not be ready
to admit patients before January.
Principal speaker at the dedica-
ton ceremony Sunday will be Cen
eral Frank T. Hines, veterans bu-
reau administrator.
Fort Band to Play
The program will open with selec-
tons by the Eleventh infantry
band, Fl Benjamin Harrison, fol-
lowed by invocation given by the
Rev. Raymond Noll, st. Philip Neri
church pastor and former army
chaplain.
General Hines address will be
preceded by introduction of Cover
nor Harry G. Leslie and Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivany who will make
brief responses on behalf of the
state and city.
After introduction, of official rep
resentatives of war veterans or
CARNATIONS, William Fortune, Indi-
annapolis civic leader who purchased
the 39-acre hospital site and gave it
On behalf of the city, will be in
troduced from the platform.
Ale to Direct Ceremonies
The ceremony will be concluded
with benediction by Bishop Joseph
M. Francis, wartime chaplain at
the Lilly base hospital No. 80,
formal flag-raising and inspection
of the hospital by the public.
The dedication will be directed
by John H Ale, who, as veterans
bureau regional manager in Indi-
annapolis, will serve as Superinten-
dent of the hospital.
The new hospital will contain all
of the most modern equipment and
facilities. 1t will be manned by a
large corps of skilled physicians,
surgeons and nurses.
Four Buildings in Group
Chief medical officer will be DR..
C. F. Bayer, veterans bureau re-
gional medical officer for several
years. DR.. H. F. MAGELLAN, trans
ferred here from federal hospital
in Florida, will be clinic director.
Miss Mary Culberson of Milwaukee
has been assigned as head nurse.
Four buildings are located on the
high bluff, overlooking White river
and the city, the hospital building,
three-story nurses home, service
unit and a storage building.
Parts of the first and second floors
of the hospital house regional Of
fees of the veterans bureau. Ex-
aiming rooms, laboratories, diSpen-
Sary and a small operating room
also are on these two floors. The
institutions 152 beds are on the
third and fourth floors, while the
fifth floor houses two large we'll
equipped operating rooms, nurses
work rooms and a recovery room.
Addition Is Sought
Dining rooms, kitchens and heat
ing plant are in the service build
ing.
Representative Louis Ludlow and
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
officials, who arc working to obtain
more funds for a wing to increase
capacity of the hospital by 100 beds,
expect to be granted hearing be-
fore the federal disqualification
board probably in January.
They point out that the last con-
greSs appropriated sufficient money
for veterans HOSPITALS to permit al
location of the funds needed for an
additional unit here.