Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1931 — Page 8

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SAYS HIS SON WAS KILLED Father Seeksslo,ooo From Warden Os State Reformatory Today Anderson. Ind., Sept. 24.—(U.R) \ dmrge that Robert McCurdy was beaten to death while an inmate of the state reformatory, was contained in a damage suit on file in Mad ißbn superior court here today. Th > suit, spoking $10.<•>«). was brought by Robert father, against A. !'. jtiles, superintendent of the in citation. .According to the complain'.. MeOirdy was reprlman li .1 for doing faulty work in the shirt factory On Jnne 2, a guard struck him with a blackjack, it was alleged. Several, days later Mrs. McCurdy was informed that her son was ill and was asked to postp ,ne a schedule 1 visit, she said. Mrs. McCurdy learned on June 12 that li.ar son w.is critically ill. The next day ho w removed to his home here and died June 17. | ” Death was attributed to brain , fever, alleged to have originated from a blow on the head. .McCurdy was sentenced from Jeffersonville. LEADERS STUDY REACTIONS OF WAGE CUTTING (CUNTINUaiD PROM PACE ONF. i i I has remained relatively placid ( through two years of depression. ( is showing the first signs of boil , ing up. The recent statement made to this writer by Assistant ( Secretary of Commerce Julius f Klein, who said that if there is . general wage slashing ‘there will he hell to pay," has been requoted repeatedly since the wag - cuts i r were announced this week. < The situation is-taking a turn’d now which is expected by many t to sharpen the agitation for high- s er income and inheritance taxes on the upper brackets. One of the: p most conservative house leader?. a

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■» W itBMHENS3UB9fInMMEJBKNOK I VtA* r ■ - ■■ -1 I S^ar^ 0111 to 1 I see ail the Hats in 4 I f Decatur, S - ;>' MtCHASU STEiN (XOTIUS l )l, t is as far as he got. r*e *''*• “I*< it‘ve me,” he told his family, “I’m going “rugby” •,. *° *** , * lc ** ats * n town before I buy one Sr,o No. 299 T&-' tfvPksJh this time.” And he did —at the first store he visited simply because it was the first store in hats. h^LlV f y ;*a S |igkX ,f v<)u ,h * nk >' our profile has possibilities that jgffi w feYa! to date have been undiscovered — try on a Fff IfJjLgT?* Ztf," ''fyjjj Paragon. I? r S 5 r 14 - «»\ Clf E i ou II look better in a Paragon and you’ll do A ;„i • . c j . . , better in price at John T’s— and with this A rugged style-ful winter oxford with tap sole. true, if you can think of any reason for going i ou woulu expect such style and value only in anywhere else—well—we don’t know what higher priced shoes. Brown Scotch Grain or Black <0 byScotch Grain with Calfskin vamp. We are now displaying many other new Fall and Winter models. other shoes # i.- 9 „ p t. -P4.0.J Toha-T-MyeuCo-Injc a CLOTHING ANO SHOES J FOA. DAD AND LAD~ r" DEC AT UK- INDIANA--

’ Rep. Isaac Bacharach, Repn., N.J., I recently declared there was some i warant for the statement that the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer. He; advised the wealthy to assume cheerfully a heavier share of the; tax burden before the matters ! were taken out of their hands. I President Hoover is represented as regretting the losses about to: Io inflicted upon individual earn-1 ers. Hut he appears to see nothing ' that can be done in addition to the moral suasion which has al-' ready been applied. He is appreciative of the efforts a number of large concerns have made to mantain wages. His understand-' ing is that this has been done in’ of much hostile banking pres-’ The president disagrees with ' Green in interpreting the state ! lent of employers at the White House wage conference in 1929.' He does not regard that action as a pledge binding indefinitely. It , was. he thinks, a promise by em-1 ployers to do everything possible; to avoid wage reductions. If that ' has been done, and he believes it] has in major instances, and still ■ more readjustments are required, whv then, according to the view here, it seems under the head of being "just too bad." Though it is a severe political reverse to the administration which was expecting to point to maiutainance of the pre-depression wage scale as a 1932 argument, hopeful points ar*’ discerned in the situation. These include an estimated $2,000,000,000 jump in the quoted value of New York stoc k exchange listings, the com-| ment of many business men that the wag - cuts will reduce produc-; lion costs and increase sales, and the factfthat while- wage reduc- 1 tions average ten per cent, the - cost of living index as figured by 1 the department of labor dropped < from 170.2 in June. 1929, to 150.3 I s two years later. i < — Washington, Sept. 24 —(U.R) — a President William Green of the -’ American Federation of Igibor to- t day vigorously protested against v the “indefensible action" of the < steel industry in reducing wages. «' In a lengthy statement. Green proposed that tariff protection Io wilhdrawn from the United States - " 1 ’ " “““ -.—

Troops Ready in lowa Cattle War Xr r mg* Miwvaim ■*- - • :.r* -ascXv .*«*■>* • ■ Im ■Lil ’ ‘ a ** * Satin rtwfc ' ’ ~ I ■ u ” * ; J f ... ■ 'Nt-s-vAx : xw4.r^‘MMUMK**mKMaHM*hJMWKdWaNMMMMl u Mb -*cMSMVr Some 2,000 National Guardsmen are quartered at Tipton. lowa, to enforce the state cattle test law a linst the embattled farmers of Cedar County. The above photo shows the troops entering Tipton. The m lit a was ordered out Monday night when state off rials went to the J. W. Ix-nker farm to protect the ■ ••■■’■liti.'fiaii’ in 111, ir Work, but were repulsed ." '> f-iimers. armed with clubs and pitchforks.

Steel corporation and other corporations wh:< h have announc 'd reductions. Green denounced the cuts as ‘‘morally wrong and economically unsound,*’ ar’l said “no greater blow than this has yet been struck against the forces which have been and now are serving to bring about a return of prosperity.” France Aids Amer can Church Paris. (U.R) The French government has made a contribution of, $40,000 to the new American Church' here in the form of tariff duties upon material imported for the con-! st ruction of the new edifice in the 1 Quai d’Orsay. The government is < legally entitled to these duties, but. I as a gesture of friendship for an i American institution, it passed I th tn all. Many of the stained glass f windows, parts of the organ and' r certain art objects were allowed to { enter France duty free. Many Aids to Teaching Harrisburg, Pa. (U.R) Supple- * mental aids to teaching in Pennsyl- ‘ vania schools are becoming more. plentiful, according to the State De-' partment of Public Instruction. The’ j latest compilation showed 285 bands. 7<>9 orchestras, 142 chorus 1 and glee c’ubs. 941 still projectors ’ and 257 motion picture machine;;; 1 in the 1.199 sta'e high schools. < q Rectifying “Lie” Fatal San Francisco.— (U.R) —Twenty years after Analecto Silva, waiter, divorced his wife, saying he had ; insufficient means to pay alimony, he rectified his “lie." Seeking her out, he told her he had lied about being unable to pay alimony and that he had in a savings hank. When she told the public* administrator, he shot himself. She* was given title to his estate. Source cf Debates Viowpcijiif is rli pl • wii tp argument ■ •

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2L 1931.

HIGH COURT TO HEAR CHAIN STORE FIGHT Appeal On Case Under Indiana Tax Law On Docket Washington. — (UP) —The great economic ami legal battle between chain stores and independent!; will I l e renewed in the Supreme Court ! next month. Last spring by a 5 to 4 vote, th ■ Court, with the so-called liberal members in the majority, upheld the Indiana chain store tax in a ease appealed by the late LaFayette Jackson. Under the Indiana law. chain stores were required to pay a tax proportionately higher than independents. Now the court, after a four-month vacation, will meet on Oct. 5, to find ' before it. not only a vigorous plea ’ for a re hearing by Jackson's ad-; ministrator. but two somewhat sim-1 ilar appeals involving attacks on similar laws enacted by North Car ' olina and Mississippi. In addition, the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company has brought up an appeal contesting validity of Virginia's law imposing a separate distributing house tax one each such house operated by: any merchant in the state. A three judge federal court upheld the Vir ! ginia tax. The Gr at Atlantic and Pacific Company also appealed the North Carolina ease, attacking a statute which taxes the ownership of two lor more stores and flatly exempts from taxation the ownership of a , single store The Missias ppi case involves a “ ~ 1 " ■ 1 I « -W —I II » »

1 state law imposing a tax of onefourth of one per cent on gross ■ sales of all tangible property, plus an additional tax of the same a mount on gross sales of persons I opi rating more than five stores. ( The Mississippi case involves a state law imposing a tax of onefourth of one per cent on gross i sales o fall tangible property, plus 1 an additional tax of the same a- ' mount on gross sales of persons op crating more than five stores. The North Carolina ami Mississippi ap peals wil Ibe argued the first week of the court term. The rehearing petition in the Jackson case hails last spring's decision as "the door of opportunity" 1 for state legislation "to destroy the > owner of two or more strrres commonly hut erroneously called chain stores." It claimed that there are .relatively few national chains of | stores but many independent mer I chants who own a few stores each. The petition asserted that 53 bills ' to tax ownership of two or more; , stores “at high and oppressive [ rates" were introduced in 25 state* . legislatures recently. PRESENT SLUMP JUST REPETITION OF ONE IN 1921 Newspapers Dealt With Situation In Similar Manner San Francisco, —(l'Pi—"D-.-ti-i tution. distress, bread lines, and soup kitchens in our larger cities . are predicted for the coming win- j : ter, because of the unprecedented I unemployment situation which the country now faces" one of the na- 1 tion s leading dailies said—just ten '

i years ago. Newspaper readers, who have concluded that such phrases as i "the depression.” the “buyers' strike", a business upturn" and the like were coined for the present economic slump be surprised | to look through the tiles of Sepiom.tier newspapers for 1921. for many of the most familiar terms of 1931 I business news headlines may be found in virtually all of them. The then secretary of labor, I , James J. Davis, estimated that there were 5.735,600 unemployed, i while economic losses to the nation | for the year ending Aug. 31. 1921. were estimated to be $6,500,000. Exports were declared failing, ami i were said to have reached reached the vanishing point. In October unemployed men were | | ‘sold" in Boston Common, while in i j New York hund eds of men joined i I the Spanish army for service ini ; North Africa against the Moors, at , 90 cents per day pay. j Then, as now, causes of the de- ’ pression were apparent)- a mystery with little unanimity on the quesi tion. Railroads were targets for; severe criticism, freight rates often 1 I being blamed for trade decreases; | the high price of steel and other building construction materials was frequently declared a fundamental cause of the depression. President Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce in President Hard-1 ing's cabinet, may well have taken ! , the lead for his present unemploy-1 ■ ment relief campaign from steps taken by Harding in 1921. Harding ’ called an unemployment conference | in Washington, and later appointed ' Col. Arthur Woods to direct a relief campaign, conducted in principle much the same as the current earn-I paign under Walter S. Gifford. ~o Gobbler Female Impersonator Mexico, Mo.- <U.R> —E. H. Vedder.l | farmer near here, has a turkey' I gobbler with motherly instincts.’ I The gobbler sat patiently on a settI ing of turkey and guinea eggs, I hutching 16. His family was taken ' : from him, however, because he was 'so heavy and awkward that he killI ied three of his brood.

U: S. YEAR BOOK GIVES STORY OF DEPRESSION ( harts And Diagrams In Government Publication Trace Trend By Thomas L. Stokes, I P Staff Correspondent Washington. S«p» € ’.—(U.R) The i history of the depression for future generations to ponder, with charts ami diagrams and detailed analyse . to satisfy the most exacting, is contained in a book prepared by the Commerce Department and published this month. Only a tew bright spots light up ! the otherwise dark story told in th--696 pages, which carries this, as every year, the prosaic title "Corn- ’ merce Year Book." It is an annual I publication and tells, this year, the developments of the depressing dur- : ing 1930, It is a facts and figures book, a mine of information for the economist and statistician. Nowhere in I its pages is there a mention of one of the most controversial issues of > the depres ion period, the tariff nor does it deal with unemploy - ment except as a ph ise of the gen- | eral situation. Series of Charts In a series of charts and lengthy | explanation of them, the book ; shows the downward trend in business and industry, in foreign trade. I in employment and wages, in agri I culture, and in price movements. The opening sentence sums up | well the trying experience through which tiris country and the world ;

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! has passed. "The recession In business activ- ! ity which commenced in the latter ; part of 1929 developed into a world depression of major proportions by j the latter part of 1930. accompanied i by the accumulation of large stock.; of raw materials throughout the world, extensive price declines, curtailment of industrial operations land growing unemployment, unsettled political conditions in many (foreign countries, the s eve re drought In the United St ites, the decline in the price of silver, and other similar developm- iits. " it, says I in a nutshell. Proof of Optimism Tile book gives proof that the optimism expressed in the early months of 1939 by President Hoovei and leading business men that the depression then was about to end was well-founded in develop ments at that time. In the case of many downward . Herds, the book cites figures to show that the trend readied lower

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