Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1928 — Page 2

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SURVEY SNOWS BUSINESS TREND > UPWARD IN U. S. Decrease Is Seen in Number of Unemployed Within Few Months. This is ' t-ha first of a series of four articles which will appear in The Times on unemployment, its cause and cure—if any. BY DEXTER M. KEEZER Times Special Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—There is a very large volume ol unemployment in the United States at presenet. Except tor the jobless, this is not an evidence of hard times. Although these are not boom toys and some industries are in bad shape, the economic condition of the country is good and promises to become much better during the coming months. If it is true that the country is in good shape economically, what accounts for the large army of unemployed? And what can be done about it? These questions, giving serious concern to communities in virtu-1 ally all parts of the country, will be! discussed in this and following ar- j tides. Just how many people are unemployed in the United States at present no one knows and there is no machinery for finding out exactly. Various estimates recently made range from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000. Estimates Vary ' The Labor Bureau of New York, Which does economic research for labor unions, places the total at 4,000,000, but concedes that this is little more than a careful guess. At American Federation of Labor headquarters the number of idle wage workers is placed at 2,000,000, with somewhere near an equal number working only part time. Various State industrial commissions have partial figures, which indicate that a reasonable guess of the number of people unemployed in the United States at present is about 3,000,000. It is estimated that there are always about a million working people temporarily unemployed, moving from job to job, taking time off or striking. That leaves about 2,000,000 people—about 5 per cent of the working population of the country—who would like to be working and cannot get jobs.

Conditions Improving In spite of this very large volume of unemployment, the economic condition of the country is good, and improving. There was a sharp slump in manufacturing and trade activity during the last few months of 1927, but industrial production for January of this year showed an increase of about 6 per cent over December and is decidedly on the up-grade. In 1927, the year so widely heralded as one of “profitless prosperity," it is estimated by David Friday, well known economist, that business profits aggregated about $6,000,000,000, only slightly less than those of 1926, a record-breaking year of industrial activity. And the department of labor estimates that the hourly wages of union laborers in 1927 were about 2.5 per cent higher than in 1926. Wages, Sales Optimistic With no two experts agreed on what constitutes prosperity, there is no possible way of proving that the country is or is not prosperous. Certainly for the 2,000,000, more or less, who are beating the streets looking for jobs, talk of prosperity is a mockery. But if such things as volume of production, wages and profits and sales are any guide, the country is not suffering from any severe economic depression. Conditions could be very much better. They always can, but for those who are lucky enough to have jobs these are far from “hard times.” If it is true that the economic condition of the country is good, how is it possible for the fact that an army, pomparable in size to the American Expeditionary Force in France, is beating the streets of cities and towns looking for jobs? That question will he considered in the next article. Miner Fatally Crushed Bn Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Feb. 27 Eight tons of slate crushed the life from J. E. Johnson, 50, while working in Ingle Mine No. 8. Two years ago his son, Verner, was killed at Atlas Mine No. 1 here in a similar

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Deputy Prosecutor John L. Niblick, who will announce his candidacy for State Senator tonight.

NKUU SEEKS SENATE BERTH Will Enter Race Tonight for G. 0. P. Nomination. John L. Niblack, deputy prosecutor, will announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination for State Senator from Marion County at a meeting of the Irvington Republican Club tonight in Irvington Masonic Temple. Niblack, 30, is a native of Wheatland, Ind., Knox County, where he taught a country school for a year prior to entering Purdue in 1917. In the spring of 1918 he enlisted in the Navy. After the World War he entered Indiana University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1922. He is a member of Sigma Nu, Sigma Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. From July, 1922, until Jan. 1, 1926. Niblack was reporter for The Times. Two years of this time he attended night sessions of the Benjamin Harrison Law School. He was graduated in 1925 and admitted to county, State and Federal bars. As reporter, Niblack covered the 1925 State Senate. On Jan. 1, 1926, he was appointed deputy by Prosecutor William H. Remy and has worked with grand juries and in Criminal Court prosecutions since that time. The candidate is unmarried, resides at 22 W. Sixteenth St., and is a member of Irvington Masonic Lodge, Columbia Club, Central Ave. M. E. Church, the John Holliday, Jr. American Legion Post and tlip Seventh District Legion executive committee. BLIND PREACHER GUILTY OF ATTACK ON WOMAN Asks for Death Sentence in Circuit Court at Lawrenceburg, Bp Times Special LAWRENCEBURG, Ind., Feb. 27. —James lies, 65, a blind preacher, is under a five-year senetence to the Indiana State prison for criminally attacking a feeble-minded woman, 35. His home is in Harrison, Ohio. The defendant asked for a death sentence. Tried and convicted by Judge William D. Ricketts in Dearborn Circuit Court here, lies told the court after the guilty finding: “I am as innocent as you are, and if you are going to take five years out of my life for a crime of which I am not guilty, then I ask you to sentence me to the electric chair and let me die.”

Prosperity! Bp Times Special SHOALS, Ind., Feb. 27. Here's a prosperity note. The Martin County commissioners have decided to sell the present poor farm of 417 acres and buy one of only sixteen acres because there are not enough inmates to warrant a large place.

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MOTOR MISHAPS KILL 1, HURT 14 OVER WEEK-END Youthful Drivers Figure in Accidents; Eight Persons Are Arrested. Four youthful motorists, all 18 or under, figured in local week-end traffic accidents in which one man was killed, three persons injured seriously and eleven hurt. Eight drivers were arrested. Qscar Barker, 46, of 856 College Ave., died at City hospital late Saturday of injuries suffered when a rtailer broke loose from a truck driven by Purdy Chisley, Negro, 1232 E. Seventeenth St., and struck him at Massachusetts and College Aves. Police decided the accident was unavoidable after hearing testimony of several eye-witnesses, while Coroner C. H. Keever ordered Chisley arrested on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. The body was taken to Summerset. Ind., where funeral services were held today. Plainfield louth Hurt George Hamblin, 19, Plainfield, is in a critical condition at Indiana Christian Hospital after an automobile in which he was riding collided with a truck driven by Hugh Flayers, 5050 W. Washington St., and was overturned at Washington and Morris Sts., early today. Chester Storms, 18, Plainfield, driver of the automobile, was not held. Mrs. Donnie Gamble, 71, of 811 N. New Jersey St., suffered a fractured skull Sunday night when struck by an automobile driven by Norman Glover, 16, of 1229 E. Thirty-Second St., at Thirtieth and Annetta Sts. She was taken to city hospital. Glover was arrested on charges of assault and battery and vagrancy. Negro Boy Run Down Carl Bradford, 13, Negro , 2338 Sheldon St., is in a serious condition at city hospital today following an accident Sundya night at Twen-ty-third St. and Martindale Ave. The boy was injured when he ran in front of an automobile driven by Perlia Phillips, 37, Negro, 2826 Hillside Ave. Phillips was charged with assault and battery. An automobile driven by Earl Mabre, Negro, Rushville, Ind., plunged across the front lawn and demolished the front porch of the home of E. RrGunion, 1002 Cornell Ave., late Sunday when it collided with a car driven by Myron Koehee, 18, of 846 N. East St., Babre told police that a third automobile, which drove away, sideswiped his car, hurling him into Koehee’s car and then into the porch. Seek Hit-Skip Driver Miss June Anderson, 22, of 1205 Sturm Ave., was injured Sunday when struck by a hit-and-run motorist at Illinois and Ohio Sts. Miss Anderson, who was crossing Ohio St. with Miss Anna Adelien, 401 N. Illinois St., was taken home by police. Other week-end traffic victims included: Mrs Matilda Clemons. 47, of 809 E. Sixteenth St.; the Rev. and Mrs. William Burrows, 1535 Central Ave.; Nate Curl. 34, of 1434 W. Maryland St.: Clarence Walker, 21. Negro, 2069 Boulevard PI.: Robert Wilson, 25, of 2102 N. Meridian St.; Miss Helen Martin, 18, of 414 N. Walcott St.; Mark Langfirzt, 35, of 3360 N. Meridian St.; W. C. Stafford. 22, of 504 Davidson St.; Miss Mabel Bishop, 19, of 914 Marion St.

CANDIDATE RAPS G. 0. P. Abraham Lincoln, Alive Today, Would Spurn Party, Says Murray. “Abraham Lincoln, if giving in Indiana today, would vote the Democratic ticket as a rebuke to the Republican leaders because of their betrayal of the people" declared Raymond F. Murray, candidate for the Democratic nomination for prosecuting attorney, Saturday night. Murray addressed a meeting in the Columbia Theater at TwentySecond St. and Martindale Ave. William Benaur presided. Unrequited Love Causes Suicide Bp Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 27.—Walter Jarrrett, 20, farmer, is dead, a suicide, because a 17-year-old girl would not return his love. His body, with a bullet wound in the head, was found in his automobile Sunday on a road near the girl’s home.

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Is Thirty the Love Deadline? There's No Age Limit, in View of Dorsey, Who Cites Proof.

By GEORGE A. DORSEY, PH. D., LL.D. man over thirty can fall in love.” Isn't that just like a philosophaster? But perhaps Dr. Durant never said it. Or perhaps he was merely trying to establish an alibi. I don’t know the facts in his case, but I can see how a man married at thirty-one and cooled off at thirty-two might counter his wife's “You don't love me any more” with “I try, but I just can’t; I never did love you, I only thought I did. No man over thirty can fall in love.” Why is there no fool like an old fool? Because he was a fool to fall at all. but the older he is the harder he falls. Five years ago I met an old friend on the fast St. Louis-New York train I had known him all my life, but never had I seen him so radiant in countenance or so resplendent in new clothes and shiny shoes. My random “you must be on your way to your wedding” made his old pink cheeks (he was only sixty-five* crimson, and, caught in the act as it were, he could only stammer: “How did you know?” I didn't know, but all that I know of human nature and of the significance of being born human led me to believe that this nice old widower hadn’t blossomed out for nothing. I could think of nothing but love that could drive him out of his jrut and rusty and routine into fine raiment and an excess fare train to New York. u n u A FEW weeks later T met the bride. She could not have been more than sixty, but she was as radiant as had been her lover on his way to claim her. Today, after five years, they are as much in love with : each other as ever, and —note this point—his devotion is such as would 1 tickle the vanity of the most exacting girl of eighteen married to a youth of twenty. I said “note.” It is bad enough to say that no man over thirty can fall j in love, but to add that he cannot become devoted to a woman is to salt the wound to human capacity. More is known about what man can do than about what he can’t. In fact, to put an arbitrary limit on man’s capacity is to disclose the limits of one’s understanding of human nature. An ordinary man of thirty can grow no taller; the pituitary gland normally sets limits on increase in stature after twenty-five. The exceptional man can grow taller after he is thirty; his pituitary has not yet limited his growth. Normally, and speaking biologically, man can fall in live till they are fifty or sixty, a few till they are sixty or seventy, but some reach sex senility before they turn thirty. There is no arbitrary or fixed limit to the functioning of the love impulse—certainly no arbitrary limit at thirty years of age. The depth of a man’s love for a woman could well be believed to be greater at forty than at thirty, or at fifty than at twenty. The usual flare-ups of youth have been well styled “puppy love”—playful, fleeting, hesitating, ephemeral, and too often deaf, dumb and blind. Even savages recognize the fact, and some do not consider a man fit for enduring love and whole-hearted devotion until he is thirty years of age. They think, and not without reason, that love cannot ripen until the man has matured.

st m m CANNOT fall in love? Speak for yourself. Dr. Durant. Some can, I know. How do I know? lam reminded of the man who called up a lawyer to explain his trouble with the officers of the law. “But they can’t put you in jail for that,” replied the lawyer. “Maybe they can’t; but I’m in!” I’m in—for life, committed at the age of fifty-five And as for “true devotion,” perhaps I’m not the one to speak; but if forced to answer, would ask first: Just what do you mean by “devotion,” Dr. Durant—if you really said it? Conjugal fidelity? Or such constancy for the welfare and happiness of a loved one as amounts to a zeal only to be surpassed, if at all, by devoting to a helpless child? If the former, age has nothing to do with it; if the latter, I don’t know how old a man would have to be not to be able to become truly devoted to a woman. Why don’t I know? By the same token that prompted the old colored woman who, when asked how old a woman had to be before she could no longer fall in love, replied: “I dunno, honey; you’ll have to ask somebody older ’n I is.” (Copyrighted 1928. Bell Syndicate. luU

FINANCIAL AND AIR PROBLEMS FACE LEAGUE i Committee Considers Projects for Greece, Bulgaria and Portugal. Bp Vniied Press GENEVA, Feb. 27.—The financial reconstruction of three European countries was on the agenda of the League of Nations permanent financial committee when it convened here today. The committee is in charge of Monsieur Posposil, governor of the National Bank of Czechoslovakia, and is composed of eight of the leading bank and financial authorities of Switzerland, Italy. England, Spain. Belgium, Germany, France and Holland. The committee at the meeting which began today will pass principally upon projects in behalf of Greece, Bulgaria and Portugal. As regards the Greek project, the latter already is being carried out, an international loan of $30,000,000 having been floated under the auspices of the league. The committee will therefore deal principally with the details of the execution of the project. Bulgaria and Portugal also are asking funds. The problem of co-ordinating the ever-increasing aerial navigation of the world was the principle item on the agenda of the League of Nation’s transit and communications committee when it convened. The committee will endeavor to solve the problem of organizing on the most rational basis and with the collaboration of the greatest number of States possible international cooperation on air navigation. The committee also will establish the details for the equipping of the League of Nations itself with a wireless station and with an aerial port for use in all international emergencies and threats of war. Action also must be taken by the committee on a large number of problems relative to increasing press facilities, referred to it by the league’s international press conference of last year. 1 Celebrate Red Army’s Birthday MOSCOW. Feb. 27—With airplanes soaring overhead, and the Kremlin cannon booming salutes below, the tenth anniversary’ of the army as a communist institution was ceelbrated Sunday.

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GIVES UP IN KILLING Conscience Brings Negro Out of Hiding Place. Clarence Meadows, Negro, 439 Minerva St., sought by police for a week as the slayer of Robert Boyd, 50. Negro, 622 N. California St,, gave himself up to Lieut. Otto Pettit at police headquarters today. “I tried to hide, but during the week my conscience bothered me so that I couldn’t stand it. So here I am; lock me up,” he told Pettit. Boyd was killed the afternoon of Feb. 21 after an argument with Meadows in a cleaning shop at 752 Indiana Ave., police said. Books Bare of $5,000 Entry Bp Timt special SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 27.—Five thousand dollars, which Lewis Storey gave to James M. Lang, missing president of the Citizens Trust Company, can not be located among entries in the bank's books, according to Thomas D. Barr, deputy bank examiner. The money was to have purchased bonds.

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SIX OF FAMILY KILLED T. H., I & E. Interurban Car Strikes Automobile at Centerton. Bp Times Special CENTERTON, Ind., Feb. 27.—Six members of one family are dead here as the result of an automobile being struck by a Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern traction car Saturday. The dead are: John Buckner. 31; his wife, 27; their two daugkhters, Genevieve, 10, and Katherine, 9; his mother, Mrs. Anna Thacker. 48, and her daughter, Hazel, 13. All were residents of Brooklyn, Ind. $500,000 PLANT BLAZE SHELBY VILLE, Ind, Feb. 27. Fire which destroyed the local plant of the Fame Canning Factory after burning all day Sunday, caused damage estimated at $500,000. A stock of canned corn valued at $300,000 was destroyed in addition to the $200,000 plant, considered one of the best in the middle west, Practically none of the machinery can be salvaged. An overheated stove is believed to have started the fire.

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STORMS DELAY $4 SALVAGE UNTIL APRIL 15 Six Bodies Still Aboard Submarine; Hope to Find Diaries. BY ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The task of raising the submarine S-4. which lies in 100 feet of water off Prcvincetown, Mass., will not be accomplished before April 15, the Navy Department announced today. Salvage work done by divers is now 65 per cent complete. Water has been forced from all compartments except the battery room, badly damaged in the collision with the Paulding, but pontoons and chains are yet to be lowered and attached. Weather Delays Salvage Frequent stormy weather has i greatly delayed the salvage fleet of | seven vessels on duty at the scene I under Capt. E. J. King. The latter supervised the raising of the S-51 several years ago. The work has been facilitated by anew telephone arrangement by which divers can converse with one another, through a switchboard on the S. S. Falcon. Formerly they could communicate only with the surface. By invention of a special heater, navy experts have ended the problem formerly caused by stoppage of the diver’s air lines when air condensed into moisture and froze in the hose on cold days. Six Bodies Still In Sub All bodies have been removed from the sunken submarine except those of the six men who lived for three days, trapped in the torpedo room. This compartment will not be opened until the S-4 is raised and towed to Boston Nay Yard, a officials hope they will find farewell letters or diaries therein. These may throw some light on the accident. Senate conferees who are demanding a Congressional investiga - tion of the S-4 disaster met agaia with House conferees, but are apparently as far apart as ever.

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