Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1929 — Page 4

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STATE INDUSTRY SHOWS GAINS IN TOTALFORI929 Automobiles Set New High Record; Building Hits Low Mark. In 1929, most lines of trade and Industry in Indiana registered gains according to the Indiana University bureau of business research. As compared with 1928 there were gains of 8 per cent in coal output, 13 per cent in pig-iron production, 18 per cent In auto accessories and parts, 1 per cent in building limestone and 10 per cent in electric power. Automobile output was 10 per cent off, petroleum production dropped 6 per cent. Industrial employment averaged considerable higher than in the previous year. Sales of automobiles set new records with a 26 per cent gain for new cars and 17 per cent gain for used cars. Gasoline sales increased 13 per cent. Chain drug stores sales Increased 15 per cent, retail hardware, 1 per cent, and department stores, 4 per cent. Bank clearings in four cities gained 8 per cent, bank debits in six cities gained 10 per cent, life Insurance sales made a new’ record with a 15 per cent gain, and savings deposits averaged 1 per cent more. Business failures were fewer in number and liabilities were much smaller. Building permits in seven cities declined 24 per cent, but contract awards increased 6 per cent in value as a result of large industrial and commercial building projects which offset declines in residential and ‘other classes, the report said. THEY ARE AWAY AHEAD Britishers in Catham Islands Usher In New Year Quite Early. By United Prr.se WELLINGTON. New Zealand, Jan. I.—lt already is 1930 in this section of the world. In fact, people here were celebrating the new year when most people in the United States had not started breakfast. The first people to greet 1930 were a couple of hundred Britishers in the Catham islands, 414 miles southeast of here. They were ushering in 1930 at 6 a. m. (central standard time, Dec. 31), and by the time whistles and sirens shriek the United States, these islanders will be shaking cocktails and preparing for New Year’s dinner.

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SCOTCH SWARM TO LONDON FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE Thousands to Gather at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Whisky on Hips. BY ROBERT C. DOWSON I'nited Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 31. —Thousands of Scotsmen, northern England folks and foreigners will join a comparatively few Londoners in celebrating the birth of 1930 at midnight tonight. Generally speaking, the New Year celebrations of Londoners are confined to welcoming the day with a quiet drink or two, but Scotsmen and foreigners pour into the ■ city from all parts of the world to bid good-by to the old year and extend a glad hand to the new one. For the past couple of days a tremendous increase in broad Scotch accent has been noticed around hotel lounges, on the streets and in the subways. To the Scotsman, New Year’s is the big feast time of the year, but he has to come to London to celebrate it. Countless thousands of them will gather tonight around St. Paul’s Cathedral, many wearing their picturesque national costumes and the majority of them with a bottle of whisky on the hip. This will be

anybody’s whisky for “Mac” Scot makes all strangers his friends on New Year’s and feels insulted at a refusal to take a sip from his bottle. Cathedral Site Nobody knows quite why St. Paul’s cathedral should be chosen as the center of the principal gathering in London, although it is generally admitted that th# tolling of the bells of all the great churches in the city can be best heard from this point, high In the center of the business district. About 10 tonight streams of people of all ages, classes and nationalities will begin to converge on the cathedral and the streets in its immediate vicinity from all points of the compass. Men and women in evening dress from the west end will rub shoulders with shabbily clad residents of the east side, while outnumbering them will be the Scots, some in kilts and others in ordinary, everyday clothes. Auld Lang Syne Immediately the great cathedral clock has boomed out its midnight chime the whole mass of people outside will attempt to make an

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endless chain of clasped hands while they sing "’Auld Lang Syne," to the accompaniment of several sets of bagpipes. Then the bottles will be passed around, just to give the New Year a good start. Songs and more bagpipe music will follow, Scotch reels will be danced, and 1930 will be several hours old before the last of the revelers leaves the vicinity of the cathedral. Founding to Be Observed TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Dec. 31. The fifty-ninth anniversary of the founding of Indiana State Teach-

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ber of the University of Michigan faculty, will be the Founders’ day speaker.