Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 262, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1931 — Page 11

MAKCH 13, 1931.

HOOVER MOVES ! TO QUIET UNION LABOR CRITICS Names John R. Alpine as Doak Aid, Orders Jobs Service Extended. By Vni\i Prut WASHINGTON, March 13.—Extension of present federal employment service, without the addition of new machinery, was announced by President Herbert Hoover today as his answer to critics of his veto of the Wagner unemployment bill. The expansion, concretely expressed In terms of half a million dollars expenditure, was looked upon also as an attempt to placate the forces represented by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. The President selected John R. Alpine, New York A. F. of L. leader, as assistant secretary of labor in charge of the broadened employment activity, Alpine was Green’s choice for secretary of labor, and the differences that arose between him and Mr. Hoover over the appointment led to a sharp rebuke of Green by the President at the time of his choice of William Nuckles Doak. Extend Jobs Service Designation of Alpine to the new post was xiewed today in the light of a gesture of peace toward Green. The President said Alpine would begin extension of the employment service at ‘once by the addition of several divisions, and the establishment of a system of co-operation with existing public agencies. These divisions, he said, will cover mining, building, metal trades, transportation, needle trades, textiles, office and mercantile, seamen and longshoremen. A general study of the question of free public employment agencies also is proposed, with special attention to the problem of technological unemployment. The service to be organized by Aipine will have at its disposal a total of SBBO,OO0 —the regular fund of $380,000 plus the additional $500,000 included in the second deficiency bill as an alternative to the Wagner measure. The latter would have appropriated $1,500,000, nearly twice as much. Criticised Hoover Veto Mr. Hoover’s veto of the Wagner bill has been criticised severely on many sides, by labor leaders, economists and politicians. The charge has been made that the bill was unacceptable largely because Senator Robert F. Wagner (New York), its sponsor, is a Democrat. The Wagner bill would have set up a nation-wide system of employment agencies under state supervision, but financed on a fiftyfifty basis by the states and the federal government, following out the same plan as has been in effect for some years in the case of state highways. EGYPTIAN CHILDREN HAD JOINTED DOLLS Hair Was Fastened on Head by Pegs, Archeologist Says. By Science Service PRINCETON, N. J., March 13. Dolls with real hair were treasured by children of ancient Egypt. Hair was fastened on to the doll’s head with little wooden pegs, Dr. Kate McK. Elderkin of Princeton explains in a report tracing the ancient history of jointed dolls, in the American Journal of Archeology. Dr. Elderkin found available for her study a varied assortment of jointed dolls belonging to children of Egypt, Greece and Rome. Some of these are in existence in museums today because of the rather pathetic old, old wostom of burying a doll in the grave of a child who had loved it. Other dolls have been found in the ruins of temples. According to Greek customs, girls who were about to be married took their dolls and doll clothes to the temple to dedicate them to Artemis or some other protecting goddess. The oldest jointed dolls known are made of pottery and of wood and are from Egypt, Dr. Elderkin states. These date from 3000 B. C. to 2,000 B. C. They are adult feminine types, as was characteristic of dolls throughout antiquity. ART I STS’ CLUB TO MEET Portrait Will Be Sketched of Ferdinand Shaefer. Ferdinand Shaefer, noted Indianapolis music leader, will sit for a forty-five minute portrait sketch at the meeting of the Indiana Artists’ Club tonight at the John Herron Art Institute. Simon P. Baus, prominent Indiana artist will make the sketch in oils. Shaefer is director oi the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra which ia in rehearsal now for its season-end concert, April 19, at Caleb Mill^hall.

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ROXY HONORED RY FIRST ’GANG,' BOYHOOD PALS Theatrical Ace Returns With Mme. SchumannHeink to Home Town. By United Prut STILLWATER, Minn., March 13. Samuel L. Rothapfel, New York theatrical entertainer, who built up “Roxy’s Gang,” came back today to

the first gang he ever knew—his boyhood pals. Most interested of till Stillwater citizens who welcomed him for his second visit in forty-three years was his father, Gustav Rothapfel. There also were his 6andlot baseball companions and his first “audiences.” Roxy left here at the age of 12 to try his hand at baseball and theatrical work in Minneapolis. “The most exciting* of those days was when a gang of boys raided an island in the St. Croix river as pirates,” Roxy recalled. “One of the ] boys had a .22-caliber shotgun. He fired it or it went off somehow. One fellow was shot in the tummy. Then it was a mad scramble for shore. That was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me In Stillwater.” Roxy revealed that even as a boy he managed a circus which toured

Stillwater and neighboring farms, showing Its menagerie of geese and chickens. “I got a cent a person for admission. And the day’s receipts weren’t bad either,” he chuckled. “Oh, I sang some, too, but I’ve forgotten mostly about that.” His success in New York, where he has been for nearly twenty years, was climaxed by his unofficial appointment by Mayor James Walker as “mayor of the radio city.” Duly invested with his rights of office, Roxy announced the appointment of Mme. Ernestine Schu-mann-Heink as chief of police for the vast radio city which is being developed in New York City by the Radio Corporation. “Mme. Schumann-Heink dotes over detective stories,” Rxy explained. “Isn’t that enough qualification for the appointment? Even

a radio city must have Its pplice chief.” Mme. Schumann-Heink accompanied Roxy on his home-coming trip. “He’s the greatest man in the world,” she said. Roxy blushed. To quiet his embarrassment she gave him a kiss. Cameras clicked. Roxy continued to blush as the singer

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said, “Well have to do it again for the cameras.” They did. Kick of Horse Fatal By Timet Special MANILLA. Ind., March 13. Funeral services were held Thursday for Fred C. Lowe, 24, who died of an injury inflicted when a horse kicked him on the head March 4. He never regained consci~Jisness.