Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1928 — Page 2

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POSTAL CLERKS WAIT PATIENTLY FOR SITUATIONS Substitutes Are Living on Hopes; Some Cling for Four Years. Some substitute clerks in the Indianapolis postoffice have been waiting four years for steady jobs, trying to support their families and buy homes on pay that seldom passes the S7OO a year mark. This condition was disclosed today by a group of substitute clerks, who, unorganized in the strict sense of the word, have banded themselves loosely in the hope that someone will come to their rescue. Between seventy-five and eighty substitutes are on the roll here. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson declares he is doing all he can for the substitutes, by putting them on as regular clerks as fast as vacancies through death or resignation occur, but economic conditions have been chiefly responsible for their plight. Told Wait Would Be Long Tire postmaster says that all substitutes were informed before they took examinations that they might have to wait two or three years before getting regular jobs. Some substitutes say that they understood from Government regulations that they might have to work irregularly for a fairly long period, but they were to be eligible for regular jobs after they had worked 1,224 hours, the eqiuvalent of six months, at eight hours a day. Others admitted that they understood they might not get a regular job for years, but they had hopes. Substitute clerks are subject to call wherever and whenever they are needed in the several arms of the postal service within Indianapolis. They are paid 65 cents air hour. Some days they do not work, others they may work from two to twenty hours, and repeat the trick the next day. They do not enjoy civil service regulations, giving them the eight-hour day, vacations with pay and sick leaves. Fear Loss of Chances The clerks hesitate to seek other jobs while waiting for permanent appointments, although Bryson says they are at liberty to do so, without losing their substitute standing. The clerks say they fear they would lose opportunities to get the permanent list if they had other employment. The regular clerk jobs, since salaries were increased, are attractive to them. Some of the clerks said that they believed more regular clerks could be hired if the postoffice department did not hire temporary laborers for work which clerks should be doing. Laborers’ pay is much cheaper than substitute clerks. Bryson said that in no case has a laborer been hired for clerks’ duty. Cites Business Condition "Business has not increased at the Indianapolis office sufficiently within the last three years to warrant placing any more regular clerks on duty,” said Bryson. ‘‘We protect our substitutes as much as possible. ‘‘We go so far as to place all former employes seeking reinstatement at the bottom of the substitute list, so seniority shall be enforced.” ‘‘Some substitutes who apply themselves intelligently and vigorously make very good livings.” New Probation Officers Recently appointed probation officers in Indiana include: George B. Walls, St. Joseph County; Luther Lane, South Bend City Court, and F. L. Cushiong, Pulaski County.

CHILDREN’S COLDS ENDED QUICK WAY

Hospital Tests Show Mothers How to Stop Colds in Family by Home Treatment A pleasant and inexpensive method—used with remarkable success in treating even the most extreme hospital cases—now makes it possible to end colds quickly. And hundreds of Indianapolis parents find, that it can always be depended on to give quick, r'tTxC relief—often in a few hours. Little Fannie Lee Barber, for instance, was confined to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Barber with a stuffy cold, which was settling in her nose and chest. Fearing pneumonia as the cold started down towards the child’s lungs, Mrs. Barber called the clinic, where doctors prescribed double doses of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral—a pleasant tasting mixture of wild cherry, white pine, terpin hydrate and other ingredients which hospital physicians have chosen as the safest and most dependable to end colds. Relief began In a few hours! By supper time the child ate heartily lor the first time in two days. That night she slept well without coughing or breathing through her mouth —and in another day or so, ths

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Water Lack Affects Sanatorium

IB? I . Mb sHii&i: i'a'wis:*'*!'' Some of the 155 beds at Sunnyside Tuberculosis Sanatorium (uppc :£{np photo) because of trouble with the water pumps of the type shown i: the lower photograph. Officials say it may be several weeks before th patients can be returned to the hospital. They can not return until th ■MM 3 wells, inoperative because of clogging and other difficulties, are fixec Meanwhile ’ they miLSt receive such makeshift treatment as is possibl I APPEAL FILLING I Not a Good One ****|s. lain! QTATinw paqp *. m r y j pEJ JBBH I u IHII UPS UHOC -^* e ed * a h t y a h n c |*\ e th an £jfc’4itlsßi illS&Ja ■ _ . , _ here. ‘‘l believe it was absent'M xs- fcjatJj paql I Warner. Denied Permit, mindedness.” it wasn't a good jjff |piSj|jj May Take Case Higher. three to five years in State Mil fl& rEr SlEii MUSCLE SHOALS BID irej|||Sl for ,1 " 10 northeast corner of Twenty- PRACTICALLY DROPPE JfcPSlI by the board of zoning appeals. House Members Already Are Tai - - I . Attorney Thomas A. Daily based in of substitute. lus argument for the permit on the ' fac t the board had granted a zoning n wa F 1 8 T 1 t arected a garage on Twenty-Seventh °t the American Cyanamid Cot 'S f " St. He pointed out council had pany for lease of Muscle Shoi v changed the classification on the practically has collapsed in t

STATE PRESBYTERIANS TO HOLD CITY PARLEY Religious Education to Be Discussed at Conference. Representatives of Indiana Presbyterian churches will gather at the Memorial Presbyterian Church Tuesday for a two-day conference on ‘‘Christian Education.” Out of State speakers Include Frank D. Getty, director of Presbyterian young people’s work, and the Rev. Paul F. Landis, work director, both of Philadelphia. The Rev. Charles F. Wishart. president of Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio, will speak at a banquet Wednesday night. GIR L HI KIN (Tt 0 COAST Miss Mira White, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Franklin White, left Sunday for New Orleans, on a “hitch-hiking” trip through the South and West to the coast. She plans to fly back. Passing motorists gave her “lifts" as far as New Albany. Miss White, after reaching the coast, will “hitch-hike” back as far as Texas, where she plans to obtain ,an airplane and fly home.

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doctor reports all traces of the cold had cleared up.

Note: See other case’s reported daily all certified by a member of the hospital clinic. Even siik children love (he pleasant taste of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Doctors recommend it because it is ns safe ns the purest food—made only of pure "did cherry, white pine, glycerin, terpin hydrate and other ingredients which they have found to be the quickest and most dependable to stop coughing spells and break up the cold. At all druggists (iOc, and SI.OO for hospilul size.

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Some of the 155 beds at Sunnyside Tuberculosis Sanatorium (upper photo) because of trouble with the water pumps of the type shown in the lower photograph. Officials say it may be several weeks before the patients can be returned to the hospital. They can not return until the wells, inoperative because of clogging and other difficulties, are fixed. Meanwhile, they must receive such makeshift treatment as is possible in the homes of relatives.

APPEAL FILLING | STATION CASE Warner, Denied Permit, May Take Case Higher. j Appeal to circuit court was ! planned today by E. L. Warner, who was denied a filling station permit for the northeast corner of TwentySeventh and Meridian Sts.. Tuesday by the board of zoning appeals. Attorney Thomas A. Daily based his argument for the permit on the fact the board had granted a zoning variance to the Marott Hotel which arected a garage on Twenty-Seventh St. He pointed out council had changed the classification on the west side of Meridian to permit business rooms. Several property owners including George Marott, hotel owner, protested. Frank Woolling, who appeared In support of the permit, declared a j hardship was worked on the propj erty owners who were forced to rej tain residential classifications. During his argument Daily, former State Senator, declared the Gover- ; j nor's mansion, Twenty-Seventh and I Fall Creek Blvd. looks “like a garage ! for the Marott Hotel.” i "I contended when I was in the i Senate that the State should build I a decent looking house. The present j home of the governor was donated i to the State,” he said. | George T. O'Connor, recently named on the plan comir xssion by ! Mayor L. Ert Slack, war elected j president. Mrs. Lelia Taylor was ; elected vice president.

SAID IT WITH LIQUOR; BARELY ESCAPES JAIL Gary Man Tried to Thank Men Who Helped Him With Auto. By Times Special PLYMOUTH, Ind.. Feb. B.— Two men who aided Paul Muller, Gary, when his automobile became stuck in a snow drift near Tyner, were offered liquor by Muller to show his gratitude. One of the men was Mearle Stoneburner, justice of the peace, and foe of strong drink. He yelled, “Arrest that man,” but Muller leaped into his car and escaped. Later he was arrested. Brought Into court here, Muller was fined SIOO and given a jail sentence of thirty days, the latter being suspended.

PUBLISHERS MEET HERE Problems Discussed by Heads of Seventeen Dailies. Publishers of seventeen Indiana dailies discussed problems of manat a session at the Indiana League of Home Dailies Tuesday at the Lincoln. George Saunders, publisher of the Bluffton Banner. presided. Papers represented were: the Bluffton Banner, Clinton Clintonian, Connersville News-Examiner, Crawfordsville Journal, Decatur Democrat, Frankfort Times, Greensburg News, Huntington Press, Newcastle Courier, Noblesville Ledger, Plymouth Pilot, Princeton ClarionNews, Rushville Republican, Seymour Tribune, Wabash Citizen, Washington Democrat and New Albany Tribune. Sheriff and Son Accused Bn Timm Special RUSHVILLE, Ind., Feb. B.—L. M. Coons, Rush County sheriff, and Alex Coons, his son and deputy, face charges of assault and battery filed by Byron Ball, Carthage, as the result of a fight there. It is alleged by Ball that he was beaten with a blackjack and revolver because he criticised the sheriff for the manner in which he performed his official duties.

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Not a Good One By Times Special ROCHESTER, Ind., Feb. 8. —Asked why he stole an automobile, Nathan Smith, Huntington, said in Circuit Court here, “I believe it was absentmindedness.” It wasn’t a good excuse. Smith was sentenced three to five years in State prison.

MUSCLE SHOALS BID PRACTICALLY DROPPED House Members Already Are Talking cf Substitute. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. B.— The bid of the American Cyanamid Company for lease of Muscle Shoals practically has collapsed in the House, and even its friends arc deserting it. While the House Military Affairs Committee will not vote out a bill until Thursday, or later, members already are talking of a substitute measure. One plan is to draw up a blank lease, setting forth the only conditions under which Congress will permit Muscle Shoals to be f urned over to any private concern. In case no company takes advantage of this lease, the House committee will provide that the Secretary of War operate Muscle Shoals nitrate plants for manufacture of fertilizer and sell excess power, manufactured at the hydroelectric plants. EARN! NG I LOSS SHDWN In 1927 City Street Car Company Was 5104.123 Below 1926 Receipts. Decrease of $104,123 in the gross earnings of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company for the year ending Dec. 31, 1927, in comparison with earnings for 1926 is shown in the annual report on file with the public service commission today. Operating expenses of the company were cut $243,535 during (>• same period. Comparative ope citing expenses are: 1926, $4,343,346, and 1927, $4,099,761. The number of passengers carried also decreased. The report shows 68.963.013, which is 1.319.686 less than the number carried in 1926. LEVINE’S HOP DELAYED Rain Prevents Take-Off to Havana for at Least Two Days. Fit l nitrd Prc/ts ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. I„ Feb. B. —Weather conditions will prevent the take-off of the transAtlantic plane Columbia for Havana for probably two days, Charles A. Levine, pilot of the plane, anno'tnced. Recent rains have made the landing field muddy and an early take-off would bo hazardous, Levine said. Wilmer Stultz, co-pilot, and Miss Mabel 8011, “Queen of Diamonds,” will accompany Levine on the flight.

ORDER CASKET CO. SALE Referee Approves Disposal of Richmond Company Assets. An order for public sale of assets of the defunct Richmond Casket Company, by Clyde S. Drifill, creditor’s trustee, at 10 a. m. Feb. 23 at Richmond was issued today by Carl Wilde, referee in bankruptcy. Appraised value of assets is about. $53,000, with only a nominal value on the company's option on its plant. Judge Robert C. Baltzell must decide whether the option on the old Wayne Works plant is among assets of the company. BOOZE PADLOCKS ASKED U. S. Proceedings Begin Against Residence and Poolroom. Padlock for the residence at 2326 Brookside Ave., occupied by John Klarich and Martin Junovich, serving jail terms for liquor violation, and owned by John Mack, 1065 W. Thirty-Fifth St., was asked in Federal Court Tuesday. A similar suit was filed against the poolroom- at 515 W. Washington St., operated by Gregor Oravsky, and owned by Burnham Kauffman, 1623 Central Ave. W. P. M ’ MAH ON IS~D EA D William P. McMahon, 53, of 3330 N. Meridian St., a salesman for the Frigidaire Corporation, died at the Methodist Hospital early today following a three weeks’ illness. Born in Terre Haute, Mr. McMahon had lived here fifteen years. Burial will be in Terre Haute. One brother, James M. McMahon of Zionsville, Ind., and the widow sur-

DROP IS SHOWN IN U. S. DEATHS OF ALCOHOLISM Peak Figure Since Adoption of Dry Law Past, Says Insurance Man. NEW YORK. Feb. B.— Alcoholism claimed thirty-five fewer lives among the more than 18,000,000 industrial policy holders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1927 than in the preceding year, according to Dr. Louis I. Dublin, statistician of the/company, with a consequent decline in the death rate from 3.7 per 100,000 in 1926 to 3.4 in 1927. The deaths numbered 603 last year, as compared with 638 in 1926. The 1927 rate, Dr. Dublin points out, nevertheless is higher than for any year since 1917, with the exception of 1926, and lower than for any year between 1911 and 1917 inclusive. In 1927, there were 1,168 deaths charged to cirrhosis of the liver, which closely is associated with alcoholism, as compared with 1,148 in 1926, but there was a slight decline in the death rate, from 6.7 in 1926 to 6.6 in 1927.

Wage Earners’ Rate High Acute poisoning by wood or denatured alcohol claimed twenty-nine victims, the same number as in 1926. “Os the 603 deaths charged to alcoholism in 1927,” said Dr. Dublin, 598 occurred among approximately seventeen million industrial policyholders in the United States, whereas only five were charged to more than one million policyholders in Canada. “Among the industrial populations, at least, the alcoholism death rate among American wage-earners was about nine times as high in 1927 as it was in Canada. “Much interest attaches to the matter of whether or not the increasing sale of alcoholic beverages, under Government regulation in Canada during 1927, has been reflected in an increase In the alcoholism death rate. "These figures show very definitely that so far as the industrial population is concerned there was no increase in fatal alcoholism during 1927 in Canada. Peak Has Been Passed "During the six-year period 19221927. there were reported 2,898 deaths from alcoholism among Metropolitan industrial policyholders. Among the more than seventeen million persons exposed to risk in the United States the alcoholic deaths numbered 2,868, whereas among something over one million policyholders in Canada only thirty deaths were charged to this cause. "It is still impossible to say whether the slight decline in the figure for alcoholism in 1927 indicates that the peak figure, since the establishment of national prohibition has been reached.” WATCHMAN PROVIDED Placed at Arlington Ave. Crossing by Pennsylvania Railroad. Pennsylvania Railroad today stationed a watchman at the Arlington Ave. crossing in compliance with a board of safety order. Irvington residents appealed to the board for protection of school children, Fred W. Connell, board president, said. Pennsylvania officials agreed to station the watchman until electric signals are installed.

Warns Against Colds New York Healt'i Authority Points Out Danger in “Common” Colds In a letter published in a recent issue of the New York Sun, the New York Tuberculosis and Health Associatior says this about colds: “This is the season for cole's—yes ‘common’ colds. But like many other tilings that are called ‘common’ because they arc so frequent, colds arc no trifle—far from it. “Colds take more dollars and cents out of the workers pocket in one year than any otbrr sickness. They are responsible tor a greater loss of time from school and work than any other single cause. “Colds lead to very serious diseases + * * * ' “Here are the big preventives: Plain, nourishing food; plenty of sleep; six glasses of water a day; frequent bathing (to train the skin to stand changes in temperature); sensible clothing; breathing through the nose: keeping the feet dry; plenty of fresh air by night as well as by day ’’**** t n \Y lien you feel a cold coming on. stop at a drug store and get a box of Hill’s Cascara-Bromide-Quinme, the tablets in the red box. Take a couple immediately and cold will Dreak up in 24 hours. Hill’s ends a cold quickly because it does the four necessary things at one time: Stops the cold, checks the fever, opens the bowels, tones the sy? tern. Costs only 30 cents.

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MANY PASS DRY TEST, THEN SCORN U. S. JOBS By Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. B.— A new obstacle to recruiting a prohibition army from the civil service list of eligibles developed today, when it was learned that many who passed the examinations last June had become lost, strayed or stolen, or had reached the conclusion they did not want a dry agent's job. In the eight months elapsing since the examinations were held, many successful applicants have obtained jobs, become disgusted at A change in the week-end rates on the T. H„ I. & E. Traction Company, effective Feb. 4, will provide for a fare and one-half for the round trip.. Tickets will be good going all day on Saturday or Sun- j day. Ask the Agent for further in- j formation.—Advertisement.

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KRESGE’S GIFT TO DRYS DRAWS FMWETS ‘Tainted Money,’ Charge of Congressman, Pointing to Trial Revelations. Bii Times Soccial WASHINGTON, Feb. B.— The Anti-Saloon League's action on the $500,000 contribution of S. S, Kresge, wealthy five-and-ten-ccnt store magnate, foirnd guilty of marital infidelity in the New York Supreme Court, furnishes a test of the sincerity of the professional drys, Representative John J. Boylan asserted today. His comment followed a statement by Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, head of the league, in which the latter minimized the evidence produced against the league financial angel. Mcßride said Kresge might appeal, and that the league would wait final decision before deciding to accept or turn back his donation. Other officials said the league would keep the money, because it had been given for a “specific purpose” and some of it had been spent. “It will be interesting.” said Boylan, “in view Os court disclosures of Kresge's private life, to see whether the league will keep this money. I understand Justice Tierney, in granting the divorce, characterized the drys’ angel as a ‘hypocrite.* Will they accept these tainted dollars and use them to make other people good? “To my mind, the league willingness to accept this contribution, and condone deeds that strike at the sanctity of the home, reveals the hypocrisy of the professional, organized drys. “Things like this bring contempt on all law, set an evil example for our youth, and help to break down the social order.” INSURANCE MEN TO CITY More than 100 Indiana agents of Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., are expected to atttend their annual convention in Indianapolis. March 26-27. Sessions will be held at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. W. L. Mooney of Hartford, vice president of the company, will be a speaker.

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