Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1930 — Page 13

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HIGHWAY BODY SEEKS HELP IH POLITICAL TILT Taking 600 Miles of Roads Into State System Bid for Power. ADVANTAGE TO ENEMIES Management and Expenditures Provide Easy Target for Democrats. BY BEN STERN Somewhere back in the dim era of antiquity, Johnny Stone-hammer held out some edible dainty to the creature he desired to trap and then when the dinosaur or whatever it was reached for the sweet—socko on the head. Politicians have used this same trick through all of the ensuing centuries and this week found the •Indiana state highway commission offering a sop to its critics in the form of an announcement that 600 miles of locally maintained roads will be taken into the state system. The commission based its proposal to take over the mileage on the fact that most of the roads are located tn districts which maintain the appearance of desiring to throw off the Republican yoke, or is in bailiwicks of men who will serve in the next legislature when the question of a full investigation of the highway department is sure to be raised. Includes Strey’s Road A case in point is that after two years of delay the commission announced that it would take over the Hills and Lakes highway, asked by State Senator Charles Strey of Wabash. Senator Strey recently declared that he would propose a probe of the department in the 1931 legislature and would also favor passage of a statute reorganizing the body and setting up a full time-three-man commission. Highway moguls authorized inclusion of Strey’s road but the senator has announced that he will go through with his program. While the commission is frantically endeavoring to find friends, its own records have provided ammunition for the critics. Highway department overhead expenses have increased $1,226,239.12 in the past fiscal year and this boost can, in the main, be attributed to the orgy of salary raises and reckless spending of money in the maintenance department. Inability of department heads to do simple arithmetic has resulted in bankruptcy: and mounting debts, it is charged. Salaries Much Higher Salaries have been increased 33 1-3 per cent during the first fiscal year of the John J. Brown regime while taxpayers over Indiana, distressed by poor business and drought, are clamoring for tax reductions. If the opposition party would not use the inefficiency, gross mismanagement and extravagance of the highway commission as campaign material, it would be guilty of poor political judgment. Democratic strategists meeting here at noon today decided to level attacks at the highway department, expenditures from the Governor’s emergency fund, gas tax collection ecandals and oil inspection shortages. “We will let the Republicans wage a campaign on national issues. Present conditions of the nation are the best answer to the G. O. P. arguments—this is a state campaign and the voter should become acquainted with conditions in the state under Republican control,” one leader said. Depression Theory Adopted Plans for the final weeks of the campaign were discussed by Republican candidates at a meeting with State Chairman Rogers, Thursday. It was decided that a vigorous defense of the state administration will be made, but to stress as most important the fact that the national administration is Republican and the state should remain in line. In support of waging the campaign along national lines, outstanding G. O. P. leaders have been called upon to speak in the state. The two most important party leaders, outside of the President, Vice-President Charles Curtis and Senator Simeon D. Fess, national chairman, speak at the National Guard Armory here tonight, and will discuss national issues. The burden of the defense of the state administration has fallen on the shoulders of the candidates and they confess themselves inadequate to the situation. From all reports and appearances, national issues will not win the election in Indiana, so far as an appeal to support the President goes. The Hoosier laborer and farmer can not find any bond of sympathy between the national administration and his own sore straits, despite the appeals of oratorical rhapsodists. They do not want to hear about the tariff and this is evident in the First district where several weeks ago it was conceded that the Democratic congressional nominee. John Boehne, would defeat the incumbent, Harry Rowbottom. But Boehne, his own friends declare, has one set speech—on the tariff—and he isn't getting any place with it. If Boehne wins, it will be because the Republican organization is engaged in a war within its ranks. Motorcyclist Killed Mu United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 10.— Collison of a motorcycle and an automobile resulted in the death of Logan Stewart, 16, rider of the motorcycle. His companion, Philip Royer, 17, was injured critically. Police said that Clyde Skirvin, driver of the auto, would be charged with manslaughter and driving while intoxicated.

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Fifteen Years’ Failure to Pay Support Charged

Bu l imes Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Oot. 10.— William T. Carr of Indianapolis is in the Bartholomew county jail here charged with being behind fifteen years in paying support money for his first wife, Mrs. Mildred A. CarrBrennan, and their children. The charges were filed by Mrs. Brennan who claims that she reared, educated and made school teachers of their two daughters. Two Indianapolis banks are named in a case against Carr in an effort to collect $3,027.69. Mrs. Brennan charges that Carr concealed and secreted his real and personal property to

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Whose? Bu Times Special PERU, Ind., Oct. 10.—The case of Oscar Lassond, Wabash, has provided a legal nut for cracking in Peru city court. The point at issue is whether a person who picks up walnuts which fall from a tree on private property to a public road is committing theft. The charge was filed by Eli Dawalt.

STADIUM READY AT NOTRE DAME Structure Costing SBOO,OOO to Be Dedicated Saturday. Bu Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Oct. 10.—A dinner tonight will open the program of dedicating the SBOO,OOO stadium of the University of Notre Dame. Speakers will include United States Senator James E. Watson, Rear Admiral S. S. Robison, superintendent of the United States Naval Academy; Knute K. Rockne, Notre Dame's famous coach, and the Rev. Charles L. O’Donnell, president of the university, who will be the host. The words dedicating the stadium wlil be spoken Saturday afternoon just before the Notre Dame-Navy football game, by Frank E. Hering, South Bend, president of the Notre Dame Alumni Association, the first non-Catholic to hold the office. He was one of the early athletic coaches of the university in which he was a student and which he has served as a faculty member and trustee. He is a former national president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, now editor of its magazine, published here, and head of its national old age pension commission. FLAY JUDGE LYLE Bar Membe r s Vote Against His Re-Election. Bu United PressCHICAGO, Oct. 10.—Municipal Judge John H. Lyle, leader in an organized drive to rid Chicago of crime and gangsters, was condemned today by sixteen former City Bar Association presidents as “lacking a judicial temperament and capacity for judicial office.” The sixteen attorneys, members of the committee on candidates of the bar association, declared in a report to the organization that Lyle was one of the five municipal judges who "should not be reelected.” BANQUET CALLED OFF Manufacturers’ Day Observed at Exposition. Manufacturers’ day was observed at the first annual Indiana Industrial Exposition at the state fairground today with leading manufacturers of the state attending the exhibit. Due to illness of W. A. McCurry, managing director of the show, the banquet scheduled for tonight as a feature of Manufacturers’ day has been called off. The exposition closes Saturday with Educational day as the feature. Students from over the state will be guests and special educational features are planned. Purdue, Indiana and Butler universities exhibits at the show will hold for the spotlight for Students’ day. CHILD FOILS HOLDUP Screams Rout Bandits in Bank Robbery. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 10. The screams of an 11-year-old girl today saved the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn branch of the National City bank, from being robbed by two bandits, who had tied the watchman and five employes. Mimi Saonetti went to the bank on her way to school to deposit ssl for her mother. She entered the bank and saw the bandits lining their victims against a wall. Before they could seize her, Mimi ran to the street shouting “Help, murder, police.” Her screams created such alarm the bandits fled without taking any money. Clothing Stolen From Car Theft of clothing valued at SSO from his car while parked downtown, Thursday night, was reported to police today by R. S. Bailey Jr., 21 West Forty-second street

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escape complying with a court order made at the time of a divorce fifteen years ago. The divorce was granted June 4, 1915, and the court ordered Canto pay $4 a week for twenty-six weeks after the granting of the divorce, $5 a week for the next twenty-six weeks, and $3 a week thereafter. The plaintiff states that he paid $43 and then discontinued payments. She claims that in order to keep from making the payments he placed his property in the name of his second wife. Mrs. Brennan alleges he has large deposits in the Fletcher American National bank and in the Meyer-Kiser bank of Indianapolis.

Members of Two State Societies Plan WeekEnd Bus Pilgrimage. Starting from the Indianapolis public library at 8 Saturday morning, members of the Society of Indiana Pioneers and the Indiana Historical Society will make a twoday bus toffi of the southern part of the state. The tour will include the following points: Salem—Luncheon in high school auditorium, visits to graves of Judge Benjamin Parke, first president of the state historical society, and General Marston G. Clark, cousin of George Rogers Clark. Clark County State Forest—Stop will be made for walking in 4,800 acres of trees. Corydon—First capital city of Indiana. The first Capitol and grounds have recently been restored to their original condition. Wyandotte Cave Opportunity will be afforded for exploration. French Lick and West Baden Saturday night slop will be made and tourists lodged in hotels. Spring Mill Park—Tract of 1,100 acres of timberland, a part of the state park system. Committees arranging the tour are as follows: For pioneers society, Herbert Foltz, chairman; Kate Milner Rabb, Donald Morris and Elam Y. Guernsey. for the historical society, Jesse C. Moore, chairman; Esther McNutt, Thad R. Baker and Richard Lieber. JANE AUBERT LOSES GROUND TO HUSBAND Nelson Morris Wins Another Step in Paris Legal Battle. Bu United Press PARIS, Oct. 10.—Nelson Morris of Chicago, won another step in his long legal battle to keep his actress wife, Jane Aubert, off the stage when the appeals court today postponed for two weeks Miss Aubert’s appeal from a verdict forbidding her to touch the $40,000 banked in her name here on the day of their marriage. Miss Aubert is appearing in a production in New York. Morris said he hoped by successive legal victories to “wear down” the determination of his wife to continue her career on the stage. 121 EMPLOYES WILL BE AWARDED BADGES Milk Company Employes to Show Appreciation of 6-Day Week. Presentation of service badges to 121 employes will be made by S. O. Dungan, Polk Milk Company president, at a dinner in the Butler university campus club at 5:30 today. In appreciation of six-day week given them by the company, employes will present silver loving cups to the president and J. D. Dungan, general manager. Fifty extra workers were necessary to give the employes a six-day week, first established by any Indianapolis milk business. STUDENTS LEARN CAR IN WRECK IS THEIRS Owners Discover Stolen Auto on Way to Report Loss. Emmett and Russell Lam, students at the Indiana university school of medicine, were en route to police headquarters Thursday night to report their car had been stolen. At New York and West streets they saw a large crowd gathered around an auto that had been driven over the curb. It was their car. Witnesses said four men ran from the auto after the accident. MASTER MASONS START WORK ON HIGH DEGREES Nearly 100 to Start Through Grades for First Section. Annual fall exemplification of higher degrees will be started by the Indianapolis Scottish Rite at the cathedral with nearly 100 Master Masons starting through grades for the first section. Ceremonies will continue weekly leading up to the annual state meeting, Dec. 1-4. David C. Fyke, Indianapolis, will preside at conferring of the fourth degree, following assembly of candidates at 4 p. m. for credentials.

HELP THE TIMES FIND THE ‘SWEETEST GIRL IN TOWN’

MEN, women and children, from all walks of life, are helping The Times in its search for "The Sweetest Girl in Indianapolis.” Mothers have been nominated, “best girls," workers in stores, factories, restaurants and schoolrooms. A prize of S2OO, offered by candy dealers and manufacturers of Indianapolis, awaits the girl or woman chosen for the honor by a committee of judges to be selected tomorrow. And the person who nominates the victor will receive aa a ward of $25,

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LAPORTE FIRM BOOKS ORDER FORj7OO,OOO Indiana Product Will Be Used in Building Hospital at Los Angeles. NEW INDUSTRIES LISTED Airplane Motors to Be Made at Newcastle; Insulation Plant for Wabash. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times An order for hollow metal products, entailing an expenditure of $700,000 and one of the largest of the kind ever placed, was noted in a business and industrial survey ol Indiana for the week ended today The order was placed with the Metal Door and Trim Company of La Porte by the Los Angeles County General hospital, Los Angeles, Cal. Officials of the La Porte company announce production on the order will start after Jan. 1 and extend over a two-year period. C. E. Wilson, Detroit, a vicepresident of General Motors Corporation, while in Anderson inspecting the corporation’s subsidiary, the Delco-Remy plant, predicted a gradual improvement in business conditions. New Affiliation Announced Officials of the Ulen & Cos., Lebanon, engineering and construction concern operating on a national scale, announce its affiliation with Ames, Emrich & Cos., investment bankers, with offices in principal cities, of the United States. Conditions in various cities of the states are shown in the following summary: Newcastle—Air plane motors will be manufactured in the former plant of the Charde Lathe Company, according to Fred R. Shore of the General Airplane Corporation of Buffalo, N. Y., who bought the property at a receiver’s sale. He hopes to have the plan in operation about Jan. 1. Andersoon—The plant of the Everyboody Oil Company is to be remodeled at a cost of $15,000 for use of the Hason-Van Winkle-Mun-ning Company. Loogansport—The city of Evansville has placed an order for four large fire trucks with the Boyer Fire Apparatus Company here. Delivery is to be made in sixty days. Bloomington—An option has been closed by J. L. Torpy of the Shawnee Stone Company on forty acres of stone land, owned by Felix Lantz and located ten miles south of here. Coal Mine Produces Clinton—Operations have started at Crown Hill Mine No. 6 of the Ferguson Coal Company. Recently the mine was remodeled making it one of the most modern in the Indiana field. Huntington The Mid-West Asphalt Paving Company will establish its principal office here after Jan. 1, and removal of property from Wabash and Frankfort is already under way. Ft. Wayne—The Dudlo Manufacturing Company, one of the oldest and largest industries here, has become a unit of the General Cable Corporation of New York. The plant employs nearly 3,000 persons. Decatur—The busy season has opened for the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company plant here and will continue more than two months. The plant is being operated day and night. Wabash The Rock Insulator Company, capitalized at $50,000, is ,the newest industry here. A plant 74x160 feet will be built and equipped with the latest type of machinery for fabricating rock wool into all types of insulation/ HELD FOR RACKET Collector for ‘God’s Army’ Ready to Quit. When Claude Mcßae, solicitor for “God’s Army,” tapped on a front door to solicit funds and there was no answer to his light knock, he beat at the panel so fiercely that several housewives were frightened.' One called police, and Mcßae was arrested at 61 North Audubon road Thursday on vagrancy charges. “This is a bum racket,” he told Judge Paul C. Wetter in municipal court four today, displaying thirtyseven cents in a tincup, the receipts of Thursday’s work. “I’d like to go back to the country.” Wetter discharged the case on Mcßae’s promise to return to the farm. FIND STOLEN CLOTHING Police Hold Woman as Suspect in $720 Lebanon Robbery. Mrs. Hazel Mae Hopper, 39, of 3C4 East Walnut street, was held today as a fugitive from justice for Lebanon authorities, who may question her concerning men’s clothing valued at $720, found in her possession here Thursday. The suits were stolen in Lebanon.

Beauty in character—that’s what counts. This is not a beauty contest, in the ordinary, shopworn sense. The woman or girl who puts the welfare of others ahead of her own, who bears her sorrows and hardships with a smile, whose thought ever'is of aiding others—that woman or girl is qualified for the reward. Yoir mother, your wife, your sister, your grandmother, the neighborhood good Samaritan, the store or office employe, the school teacher—any of them may win. And it’s up to you to nominate

Faith, Hope and Charity Blend in Community Fund Campaign

n 1,1 '■ ' UI - ———• i ffr ft 4*. J|H IfS ill "iMM. w I.— A najor revolt, spreading like a forest Ire, is taking place in the Repub- jjSkißl S If TO ican party in Pennsylvania, open- . >J iftf t! IK ftl tt U> ng the possibility that a Democratic lllWUUtll Vi IV jovernor may be elected for the lap __ aaftifairw" SSAAI It is directed entirely at former -I : uL I iflUu I jovernor Gifford Pinchot, again the Republican candidate. Not even in ...... ..... he Roosevelt bolt of 1912 was there l ThOUSdndS Will WltneSl nore upheaval and desertion by the i uiiars of the party. Saturday Grid Game, Prohibition is the big surface is- ' f fii ;ue. Pinchot is dry and his Demo- | jn Timrs special •ratio ODDonent. John Hsmnhill is BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Oct. 10.-

G. 0. P, PERILED IN PENNSY ROW Gigantic Revolt Menaces Pinchot’s Chances. By United Press PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 10. A major revolt, spreading like a forest fire, is taking place in the Republican party in Pennsylvania, opening the possibility that a Democratic Governor may be elected for the first time in forty years. It is directed entirely at former Governor Gifford Pinchot, again the Republican candidate. Not even in the Roosevelt bolt of 1912 was there more upheaval and desertion by the pillars of the party. Prohibition is the big surface issue. Pinchot is dry and his Democratic opponent, John Hemphill, is for repeal of the state enforcement act, the Volstead act, and the eighteenth amendment. Underneath it also is a fight of tremendous utility and business interests, hitherto powerful in influencing Republican state administrations, against Pinchot. The powerful Vare organization controlling Philadelphia, has revolted against Pinchot and is supporting the Democratic candidate. W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, one of the most powerful single political influences in the state, has resigned as Republican national committeeman for Pennsylvania to support Hemphill. Numerous influential Republican business men, such as Samuel M. Vauclain, head of Baldwin Locomotives works, have bolted from Pinchot. Almost alone among the biggest Republican regulars, Senator Joseph R. Grundy, former tariff lobbyist and representative of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association, openly is standing by the Republican candidate. FORMER lOWA CHIEF TO SPEAK IN STATE Leslie M. Shaw to Assist in Indiana G. O. P. CampaignFormer Governor Leslie M. Shaw of lowa will be brought into Indiana to assist the Republican speaking campaign, it was announced at headquarters today. Shaw was secretary of the treasury under President William McKinley. The complete itinerary for Everett Sanders, former secretary to Calvin Coolidge, was announced as follows: Elwood, Oct. 24; Kokomo, Oct. 25; Rockville, Oct. 27; Brazil, Oct. 28; Clinton, Oct. 29; Greencastle, Oct. 30, and Danville, Oct. 31. SPURN JOBLESS ALIENS American Consols Adopting Hoover Plan on Entry. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—President Hoover’s policy of keeping jobless aliens out of the United States rapidly is being effected by American consuls abroad, according to the state department. No statistics are available yet to guage its numerical result.

your favorite, for she’ll be too modest to sing her own praises. Write a letter of not more than 300 words to the Sweetest Girl Contest Editor of The Times. See that it is mailed in time so that it will be postmarked not later than midnight Saturday, Oct. 11. The judges will get busy next week and announce their choice at their meeting Oct. 16. The winner’s name will be printed in The Times on Oct. 17. Then the grand climax will come on Saturday, Oct. 18, which will be celebrated nationally, as "Sweetest

"ChaHty suffereth tens, and Is kind; charity envteth not; charity yaunteth not Itself, is not puffed up . . . And now ahideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” I Corinthians XIII :13. And so today these biblical lines in old English script are pondered upon in city orphanages, homes for the aged, the Salvation Army’s hotel for the “down-and-out,” as plans are being made for the annual Community Fund drive, Oct. 17 to 27. In the top right photo * Mrs. Sarah J. Smith, 88, the oldest inmate of the Indianapolis Home for Aged Women, 1731 North Capitol avenue, sits by her window with her Bible and rereads the Apostle Paul’s message to a world torn and worn by its years of living. She knows and has faith that Indianapolis will not fail to provide the $865,000 necessary to care for her and care for— Little bow-legged Mary with her braces, in the top left photo, rocking to and fro at the Indianapolis Orphans’ home, 4107 East Washington street. Or to provide milk for Luella, 14 months old, as she peers out of her looking glass—a window at the orphans home—at passersby. And that the city will answer Billy’s appeal, in the lower right photo, as he holds out his arms to be fondled. She’s even sure that the city will help the unemployed, like C. A. Roberts, 60, as they count their few dimes in the areaway of the Salvation Army’s hotel, 26 South Capitol avenue, as he did today. “Never been out of work before in my life. I’m an interior decorator. It’s the first time I ever asked for charity,” Roberts muttered as the photo was snapped. While by her window Mrs. Smith repeats: “ . . . . faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest is charity.” APARTMENT IS LOOTED Chairs Valued at SBO Stolen From Lobby During Night. C. W. McCracken, manager of the Oxford Gables, Thirty-eighth street and Washington boulevard, reported to police that thieves stole chairs valued at SBO from the lobby of the apartment Thursday night.

day,” under auspices of the National Confectioners’ Association. In addition to the S2OO prize given the Indianapolis winner, she also will have a chance in the national competition. For the national winner, the association has posted a prize well worth winning. It's a trip to Havana for the midwinter carnival, with all expenses paid. Maybe you can win this fine trip for one of your friends. Sit down now and write your letter to the Sweetest Girl Con teat Editor of Hit Tapes.

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INDIANA 11. TO BE SCOUT HOST Thousands Will Witness Saturday Grid Game. Bv Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Oct. 10.— Indiana university Saturday will be host to hundreds of visitors for the annual Boy Scout day and parents day, in connection with the Indi-ana-Oklahoma football game. The scout program is expected to draw an attendance of 7,500 boys from all parts of Indiana. Activities opened today with registration in the fieldhouse, followed by organized play under the direction of the Scout leaders fraternity. Swimming in the men’s gymnasium pool, group games and contests on the university’s many athletic fields and courts followed. The first fifteen troops registering with 100 per cent attendance will be awarded crimson pennants by the university. Tonight a court of honor will be held in the fieldhouse, at which time numerous awards will be made to individual Scouts and troops by Scout executives. Hundreds of boys will sleep in the gymnasium and fieldhouse while others will spend the night ’in fraternity houses. The annual meeting of the Indiana University Parents’ Association, of which all parents of I. U. students are automatically members, will be held at noon in the Student building, with Fred I. King, Indianapolis, president of the association, presiding. President William L. Bryan of t' c university will address the meeting. Henry C. Smith, chairman of the committee sponsoring the program, will speak for the students. GUILTY IN FIRE PLOT James Geier Is Convicted in Arson Conspiracy. Convicted Thursday by a criminal court jury of conspiracy to commit arson, James Geier, 36, 1514 Central avenue, is held in the county jail today facing sentence of two to fourteen years at the Indiana state prison. Geier was convicted of attempting to burn the residence at the Central avenue address to collect $4,0G0 insurance. $300,000 SWINDLE CHARGED TO 13 MEN Fake Mail Case Engineered Through Radio Advertising, Jury Declares. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Oct. 10.—A $300,000 mail swindle engineered through radio advertising, the first case of its kind in the west, was charged to thirteen Los Angeles men today in secret indictments returned by a federal grand jury. J. K. Carden and S. M. Kams, radio announcers, were among the men indicted. It was charged the defendants operated as the Cash Finance Corporation and two subsidiary concerns and that shares were sold to persons who applied for “easily arranged loans.” The Cash Finance Company, which, postal inspectors said, had 1,200 clients, recently closed its doors. t

WHOLE NATION MOVES TO AID JOBLESS MEN Highway Work, Municipal Projects Are Extended to Help Idle. CONFERENCES CALLED Several States Prepare to Combat Unemployment This Winter. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Work was sought for the workless in many American communities today. Governors, mayors, business men. public-spirited citizens and charitable organizations at many points gave thought to the problem of relieving distress and to providing wages instead of charity in soup kitchens and bread lines. A United Press survey showed cities such as New York, Cleveland and Detroit were undertaking to provide funds to systematize unemployment relief work through special bureaus, but while this aided, there remained an overflow of workmen seeking jobs. In New York state. Governor Franklin D. Roosesvelt has recommended creation of local employment committees and co-operation between these and the state advisory council on employment, it was expected an unemployment conference at Rochester today would act on his suggestions. Illinois Calls Conference New York City, with 235,000 unemployed, has established a municipal employment bureau, which will remain open until next summer. It has had 35,000 applications for positions, including 31,000 men, but so far has been able to place only 9,474 persons, including 7,011 men. Governor L. L. Emmerson of Illinois has called a conference for Monday of labor officials, employers, charity workers and others to consider ways of alleviating unemployment. Governor C. C. Young of California and hi s council will meet Oct. 28 to speed up public works and to stimulate private construction projects. San Francisco supervisors are considering barring alien workers on city projects, and the cry of giving work to native Americans rises elsewhere. Cleveland Helps Jobless The city of Cleveland has a $200,000 emergency ordinance designed to employ 500 to 1,000 men for forty days and the city council will consider appropriating $500,000 more. Toledo has proposed a $750,000 bond issue for street construction and repair and Akron will undertake a $500,000 program of water system' improvement. Detroit, center of the nation’s auto industry, has started registration of the unemployed, and proposes direct relief to the most needy while it seeks to have employers cut the time of the employed so some part time may be given to the unemployed. Missouri reports that the state highway department is pushing work on regular fall projects and proceeding with some 1931 projects. On Oct. 1 there were 8,000 men at work on 346 projects, and it is estimated 1,000 more, Including some farmers, will be at work as soon as further contracts are let. Colorado is heavily engaged in highway construction. Kansas is proceeding with highway work, and an extra $2,000,000 in contracts has been awarded through anticipation of tax revenue which ordinarily would not have been let until ing. State to Aid Idle Nebraska is looking to state works to alleviate conditions, and the Lincoln community chest has raised $149,240 for the needy. In Utah the Mormon church has requested well-to-do members to undertake building activities as soon as possible. Memphis has inaugurated a five-day week in its engineering department to maintain employment. The Kellogg Company, manufacturers of cereals, Battle Creek. Mich., will put its employes on a five-day-week basis immediately to relieve unemployment, it was announced today. Officials say it will be possible tc give work to 300 more under this plan. Salary la Shared Police and firemen of New Britain, Conn., are giving 2 per cent oi their salaries until Christmas for a relief fund to aid the jobless. Mayor George A. Quigley proposed the plan. Louisiana voters will decide Nov. 4 on a constitutional amendment and bond issues which would bring $135,000,000 expansion program to the state. Included in this worktended to alleviate the unemployment situation—is a $60,000,000 road project, $21,000,000 bridge over the Mississippi river at New Orleans, $15,000,000 in dock works in New Orleans and various public schools and public market projects. It was estimated that 15,000 persons would be given employment. LESLIE TO SERVE AS HONORARY CHAIRMAN Governor Accepts Post in Navy Day Observance on Oct. 27. Governor Harry G. Leslie today accepted honorary chairmanship for Indiana’s observance of Navy day, Oct. 27, upon request of the Navy League of America. Observance will be statewide under active chairmanship of James E. Fischer, Indianapolis, governor-elect of Kiwanis International, Indiana district. Joe Rand Beckett, Indianapolis, was announced as state vice* chairman.