Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1928 — Page 2

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NO HOPE SEEN OF WIPING OUT UNEMPLOYMENT Surveys Show Numbers Vary Under Changing Economic Conditions. This Is th- third of a series on the na'ional unemployment situation, its causes and possible remedies. BY DEXTER M. KEEZER WASHINGTON, March 6.—With the automobile industry expanding its production, steel production on the upgrade, and business activity picking up generally, it is probable that the army of the unemployed will be substantially reduced during coming months. It is not at all likely, however, that unemployment will be eliminated. Advances made in the efficiency of American industry during recent years are only a beginning. The process of replacing workers by machines is going to continue rapidly. Unless something is done about it there is going to be a continuing problem of unemployment, and possibly one becoming increasingly more serious. Booms Arc Aids In times past recurring waves of unemployment have been absorbed in subsequent “booms.” Now the emphasis of business and industrial leaders is in the direction of stabilizing economic activity to avoid booms and the disastrous hangovers of depression which follow. Consequently the remedy for unemployment can not be found in whistling and waiting for boom days. Some systematic scheme of handling the problem must be devised if the army of unemployed is not to keep on mounting and ultimately bring economic disaster to the country as a whole. Unemployed people are not only miserable themselves, but are a dead weight on the community. They consume and do not produce. They take purchasing power from those upon whom they are dependent and thus cut down the demand of those supporting them for products which our factories are capable of producing. Far Below Capacity

At present our farms and factories are not producing at anywhere near capacity. The reason given is ) hat there are not enough orders. And the reason there are not enough orders in turn is not that the products are not needed but ‘hat the people who want them have not the purchasing power to buy them. The shortage of purchasing power, in turn, is at least partially due to v're large volume of unemployment. What is the way out of this vicious circle? An abstract answer is obvious. Give the unemployed jobs ;:o that they can get some purchasing power to buy the products of our industries. The practical wbrking out of this answer is something cur country has never tackled. In 1921, when from 3,500.000 to 5.000.000 people were unemplayed in the United States, temporary relief was provided by making large expenditures for public works: Must Mobilize Workers That method is suggested to cope with the present situation, but it is frankly a makeshift and unlikely to provide more than a temporary relief from the unemployment problem we face today. Something must be done to mobilize the displaced workers and to finance permanent producing projects at which they can make a living. At present the financial resources of this country are virtually unlimited. Billions of dollars are being loaned by interior banks to New York stock speculators. This is not being done because the interior banks are wedded to the idea of stock gambling. It is being done because there is not enough local demand to absorb surplus funds and the bankers want to make something on their money. Resourses Eying Idle While funds are being shipped across the continent for use in stock speculation ih New York, resources are lying idle and men are looking for jobs. How can these men and these resources be brought together in productive enterprises that will utilize the financial resources of the

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Students Awarded Arts Prizes; Exhibit Public

Work of 250 Now Displayed: Arsenal Tech High Has Most Winners.

Seventeen local high school students were named winners of the annual Scholastic Awards contest by judges Monday night. The high schools art funds will be given duplicate amounts of each prize awarded. Approximately 250 students have work on exhibition on the seventh floor of L. S. Ayres Company today. He will be open to public inspection until Saturday. Arsenal Technical High School leads in number of winners. The following students from the three large hgih schools will receive awards: Pictorial arts, Ralph Craig, Technical, sls; Elizabeth Stone, Shortridge, $10; John Waltz, Shortridge, $5; D. W. Hynes, Manual Training, $5; George Figg, Manual Training. country for something more useful than a stock market betting be^> Any one who knows the answer knows how to solve the unemployment problem. Unless the problem is tackled, eminent economists freely predict that within a few years we will be faced with staggering Unemployment. Will the Government, the only agency competent to handle it, face the problem? And, if so, what can be done? This question will be discussed in a concluding article.

INDIAN FACES CHARGES ‘Chief’ White Eagle Is Accused of Carrying Razor. “Chief White Eagle,” 26, Piute Indian, who lived at 538 Chadwick St. before his arrest Monday, was to be arraigned in Municipal Court toqfay on charges of carrying deadly weapons. White Eagle told police that he made a living selling blood medicine. He said the medicine show business was not so good this time of the year, so he came here to find employment. A razor proved his undoing when police searched him at Union Station. REED SPEAKS IN UTAH Appeals to Both Parties to Unite Against Corruption. By United Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 6.—Speaking before an audience of more than 5,000, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, presidential candidate, made a stirring appeal last night to both Democrats and Republicans to unite in a supreme effort to save the Government from destruction at the hands of corrupt politicians. The Senator was greeted here by a reception committe of prominent Democrats and was the guest of honor at a dinner given by party leaders. BEER, PORK, LONG~LIFE Former Bricklayer, 106, Also Credits Daily Pipe of Tobacco. LONDON. March 6.—A pint of beer daily, plenty of roast pork and a pipeful of tobacco when one wants it is what enabled William Walker to become 106 years old, he said on his latest birthday. Walker, who was a bricklayer, quit work at the age of 86 because his foreman threatened to reduce his wages by one cent an hour. Man and Wife Seek Political Jobs By United Press CHICAGO, March 6.—James H. Richmond and his wife between them have great political ambitions. The husband filed for State auditor, State representative and for senatorial committeeman on the Republican ticket. His wife for State representative on a Democratic ticket.

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$5, and Mary H. Seward. Arsenal Technical, honorable mention. Sculpture, Mildred Pyles, Arsenal Technical, sls; George B. Figg. Manual Training. $10; Ralph Craig, Arsenal Technical, $5; George Figg, honorable mention for a second piece of work. Design applied to textiles. Ruth Pahud, Arsenal Teclincal, sls; Glen Smith, Arsenal Technical, $lO. Graphic arts, Kenneth Payne, Arsenal Technical, sls; Carrolton Gibson, Arsenal Technical, $10; William Hickson, Arsenal Technical, $5; Ann Martin, Arsenal Technical, $5. Metal craft, James Gilbreth, Manual Training, sls; Ann Martin, Arsenal Technical, and an unnamed Shortridge student will receive $5. Wood carving, Violet Carter. Shortridge, $lO. No civic arts awards were made. The judges were Margery Stowers Hiner, C. B. Dyer. Elmer E. Tafliger, Clifton Wheeler. Bell Schofield, Ralph B. Cooney and Robert Davidson. STILL IS CAPTURED IN . RAID BY CITY POLICE Three Men Are Arrested; Fifty Gallons of Whisky Taken. Police confiscated an eighty-gal-lon still and arrested three men at 467 S. Pine St. Monday night. The men, who gave their names as Frank Sgro, 467 S. Pine St.; Guy Martinelli, 925 S. State Ave., and Joseph Giardina, 3965 English Ave., were charged with operating a still, blind tiger and vagrancy and held for Federal authorities. Besides the still, police confiscated the following: Fifty gallons of whisky, 1.000 gallons of mash, 500 pounds of corn sugar, 200 pounds of cracked corn, eight empty barrels, two sacks of corks and numerous jugs.

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LINDY STAGES NIGHT DASH BY AIR TO CAPITAL Flies to Washington From St. Louis; Journey Is Surprise One. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, March 6.—C01. Charles A. Lindbergh flew here from Belleville, 111., during the night. He! dropped down to Bolling Field at 6:30 a. m„ unexpectedly. His pres-| ence did not become known generally until around 9 a. m. At the field it was not disclosed who accompanied him from Belleville or where he went after leaving his plane. The famous flier left here yesterday for the airfield near St. Louis and at that time did not say he planned to return. Lindbergh is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor at President Coolidge’s hands March 21. The honor was voted him in recognition of his New York-Paris flight, B<j United Press MT. CLEMENS, Mich., March 6. The huge monoplane in which Edward A. Stinson and George A. Haldeman planned to take off in an attempt to shatter the world’s endurance flight record, oroke through the ice of Lake St. Clair today. The propeller and front wheels were broken. The accident occurred while Stinson and Haldeman were taxiing across the lake, testing the ice, preparatory to taking off. The ice was about four inches thick at the place. The wheels crashed through, dropping the plane on the fuselage. The propeller was shattered when it struck the ice. Plans were made immediately to make repairs and the fliers said they hoped to take off on the en- ; durance flight late this afternoon. I CHICAGO, March 6.—Capt. Dieudonne Costes and Lieut. Joseph Lej brix, French trans-Atlantic fliers, hoped off at 6:43 a. m. today on a flight to Cheyenne, Wyo. After reaching Cheyenne, the French aviators will proceed to San Francisco, whence their plane will be shipped to Tokio. BELLEVILLE. 111., March 6. Arthur Goebel, Dole flight participant last year, resumed his western | air trip from Scott Field here at i 7:30 a. m. today. He arrived here | late yesterday from New York.

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WEAPON OF DRY LAW TAKEN OUT j BY COURT ROLE Seizure of Liquor Cars Is Limited When Autos Are Mortgaged. An important weapon in the hands of prohibition enforcement officials, sometimes used in Indiana, has been destroyed by the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, holding seizure of an automobile used to “transport” intoxicating liquor can not be made under an old section of the internal revenue laws. The decision insisted that in such cases, forfeiture must be under the Volstead Act Owners’ Rights Protected Under the internal revenue laws, such cars were libelled and confiscated without allowing rights of persons holding liens on the cars. The practice under the Volstead Act has been, in cases where there is a lien or mortgage on the car, to forfeit it as far as the liquor defendant is concerned, but to permit the person holding the mortgage or lien to recover the car on payment of costs. George L. Wingler. deputy dry administrator. explained that but few machines are confiscated in Indiana under the internal revenue laws. Confiscation Possible “When there is criminal prosecution in such cases, as there usually is. the confiscation, according to law, must be under the prohibition law,” he said “Where there is no criminal prosecution, the car cannot be confiscated under the prohibition law and the internal revenue law has I been used. “Such a case occurred last month | when the defendant was released, ! because officers who seized the car 1 and liquor did not have a search ; warrant. The car and liquor were ! ‘libelled,’ the liquor destroyed and I the car ordered sold.” A. A. A. Gives Approval I American Automobile Association officials hail the court decision as "a death blow to the practice whereby prohibition enforcement offices confiscated such cars without | granting innocent owners an op- | portunity to recover, on the grounds | that it was being used to evade payj ment of tax due the United States.” | “The owner of a car used to trans-

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till United Press LOS ANGELES, March 6.—Colorless testimony bearing on the mental condition of William Edward Hickman may keep the joint trial of Hickman and Welby Hunt for the murder of Ivy Thoms, from the jury until the end of the week, it was indicated today. One dramatic incident enlivened yesterday’s session. Frank Dewar, jailer, testified that Hickman, under

port liquor without his permission will have to prove only that use for an illegal purpose was not authorized.” the A. A. A. statemena said. “The decision is of far-reaching importance to the individual car j owner who has been innocent of wrong-doing and whose car was either stolen or used without permission. It also protects property rights of financing companies who retain title to approximately threefourths of the cars sold annually on deferred payments. “The case on which the decision was based was appealed from Federal Court in the State of Washington, where a financing company intervened in forfeiture proceedings and alleged it had no knowledge the car, purchased under conditional sale, w r as being used in violation of the law.” 0. S. JULIAN IS BURIED Services Arc Held for Veteran Railway Mail Clerk. Funeral services for O. S. Julian, 59, railway mail clerk for the last thirty years, were held at the home, 4131 Boulevard PI., this afternoon and were followed by burial at Crown Hill cemetery. He died at the home early Sunday. Mr. Julian was a native of Henry County, near Newcastle, and taught I school there for thirteen years bei fore becoming a railway mail clerk. ■ He had lived here for the last fifteen I years. | Surviving are the widow, two | daughters. Mrs. Lena Conoway, of i Indianapolis, and Mrs. Golda Dun- ! can, of Greenfield, Ind., and three Isons, John E„ of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ora V., of Greenfield, and Lester 0., of Indianapolis. Extra Rib Causes Headaches Bit l imes Special TIPTON. Ind., March 6.—X-ray examination has disclosed Mrs. L. R. Lee has an extra rib which pressed against a nerve center, causing severe headaches.

sentence for the murder of Marion Parker, had planned an escape. Two assistant jailers were asked by Hickman to take him to the outside of the prison, where he would show' them more about the Parker case. The two, however, conferred with Dewar, who in turn obtained an admittance from Hickman that he intended to escape, Dewar said.

INDIANA TAXES FOR 1928 GAIN EIGHT MILLION 6 Per Cent Increase Shown Over 1927; New Budget Law Is Blamed. Indiana taxpayers will pay 496.619 into State and local colters this year, and increase of $8,357,235, or 6.32 per cent over the amount for 1927, the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association announced. Taxes will be higher in eighty-one counties, only elevn having reported that their costs will be lower this year, according to compilation of Harry Miesse, secretary of the association, from abstracts filed with the State auditor. The State tax total would have been approximately $13,000,000 higher, but for the action of the State tax board in lopping off $4,605,886 from the preliminary budgets of the counties, Miesse said. Miesse blames the tax increase on salary increase laws of the last Legislature, and a law by the same body permitting the formation of private holding companies to build schools, auditoriums and gymnasiums and lease them to municipal corporations so they may evade their constitutional debt limitations. The general election this year also adds a slight amount to the taxes, but the principal item is the new budget law', Miesse said. Asa result of the measure prohibiting officials from transferring money from one fund to another without approval of the State tax board, many officials estimated their budgets high so as to avoid the possibility of running short, he said.

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LEAGUE POWERS MOVE TO MEET U. S. PEACE PLAN •Big Five’ Envoys Confer Today on Kellogg Treaty to Outlaw War. BY HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA. March 6.-League of Nations leaders hoped today to coordinate United States plans lor treaties outlawing war with obligations already undertaken by league members. Aristide Briand. French foreign minister, has conferred with Sir Austin Chamberlain, British foreign minister; Gustav Stresemann, German foreign minister, and Baron Adatchi, Japan, regarding France’s reply to the latest note from Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. Seek Some Agreement These four will confer tonight w’ith Italian Delegate Vittorio Scialoja. It is hoped that suggestions offered too Briand by the other four representatives of the “Big Five” league powers will permit France to offer a basis of negotiations reconciling league ideas with those of the United States. Tire United States proposal is for a treaty among the leading powers declaring war outlawed as a means of settling disputes. France, with whom correspondence so far has been conducted, has pointed out that as a member of the League of Nations, it is pledged to assist other members of the League, in certain circumstances, if they are attacked. Two Experts Called Sir Ronald Lindsay, new' British permanent under-secretary of foreign affairs, and Philippi Berthelot, General secretary of the French foreign office, have been called in as experts to assist in the effort to find mutual United States-League of Nations grounds for an anti-war treaty. It is thought probable that France may propose reservations in a treaty that would give it and other League members liberty of action to fulfill their prior pledges. Woman Ends Own Life Bn Times Special NORTH VERNON, Ind., March 6. —Mrs. Sam McGladdery, 50. committeed suicide by hanging at her home due to despondency over ill health.