Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1931 — Page 11

APRIL 17, 1931

BABSON TELLS HOOVER TRADE WILL PICK UP Business ‘Has Turned the Corner/ Expert Assures President. Bv Vnitrd Press WASHINGTON, April 17. A promise and a warning regarding what he termed the new upturn in business activity has been given President Hoover by Roger W. Babson, financial writer. Business “has turned the corner,” he told the President late Thursday during a call at the White House. He added that commodity prices —which, in some cases, have dropped nearly to pre-war levels—may be expected to continue low for a long while. He ascribed the present stock market decline to “the reaction following an exuberant rise due to the adjournment of congress.” Predicts Labor Shortage He went so far as to venture a prediction of labor shortage before Christmas, although the monthly summary of the department of labor, covering fifteen major industrial groups, reported no change in the March situation over February, with approximately 6,000,000 Jobless. “There is no ground for alarm, but on the other hand there is no basis for exaggerated optimism,” said Ethelbert Stewart, commissioner of labor statistics. Secretary James Doak, however, continued optimistic, citing an aggregate increase of 10 per cent in factory pay rolls. Freight Loadings Gain Babson pointed out that railway freight loadings, an index to which financial experts attach much importance, at last have shown an upward turn. Likewise chain store earnings are increasing, he said. The financial expert believed that prices of wheat, rubber and lead have reached rock bottom. Regarding oil, another basic commodity, he was not so optimistic. The government’s efforts to secure voluntary restriction of production can have only a temporary effect, he thought. “The next era of speculation,” Babson predicted, “will be in commodities, not in stocks.”

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BLACKSMITH HOPEFUL By United Press BOSTON, April 17.—The rising tide of motor vehicle popularity has failed to remove the century-old shop of Boston’s only downtown blacksmith. Cornelius Cronin still wields his five-pound hammer at his forge in his Creek Square horseshoeing establishment. Moreover, business is good, according to Cronin. , WINS ART SCHOLARSHIP Ralph Montgomery, art department student of Arsenal Technical high school, has been awarded a scholarship in the Art Students’ League of New York. Montgomrey will take up his work in New York the first of October.

HOLDS ENTIRE CRIME JUSTICE SYSTEM BAD ■■ ■ Thorough Overhauling of Machinery Needed, Says Wickersham. By United Press CINCINNATI, April 17. A thorough overhauling of our whole system of criminal Justice is needed. George W. Wickersham, chairman of the national law enforcement and observance commission, said Thurs- j day night at a dinner of the Cincinnati regional crime committee. Attacking "a public attitude toward law that encourages lawbreaking,” Wickersham made a general criticism of the administration of Justice in this country. He conceded that some improvement had been attempted here and there by unofficial bodies such as bar associations, but said legisaltors were slow to follow exposure of the evils with remedial legislation. “In the desperate effort to compel obedience to law, experience has shown that those charged with the high functions of enforcing the law sometimes stoop to attain their ends by means as illegal as the acts they seek to punish or suppress,” Wicki ersham said. He did not mention prohibition specifically. UNION BOAT DEPOT By United Press LILIE, France, April 17.—The first waterway union station in the world is being constructed here at the crossing of the waterways of Europe and soon all the canal boats will tie up at quays in a great central station, with quays for express barges and other wharves for slower freight carriers. The new union station is on the site of demolished fortifications which once walled in the city. The station will be nearly a mile long, with a basin 110 feet wide and deep enough to accommodate 600ton barges. In northeastern France, where rivers are navigable and canals have been used for freight carrying for centuries, the barges carry a greater tonnage than the railways. To further this traffic, inother great canal is to be built between St. Omer and the sea at Dunkirk.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

T oy Bandit A bandit with a toy pistol met a Tartev Thursday night in Homer Cox, 3625 Crescent avenue, a taxi driver. Near Troy and Carson avenues the passenger pressed a gun into Cox’s ribs and demanded his money. Cox wrench 1 1 the gun away, discovered it was a fake, and drove to a phone to call police. The bandit leaped out and escaped. More than one hundred dresses were stolen from a ladies’ store at 224 South Meridian street, L Simon, manager, told police early today.

EVEN STORKS ‘MODERN’ NOW Scandalous Triangle Leaves 'Hubby' Out in Cold. Bn Science Service BERLIN, April 17.—Even storks, traditional dispensers of the most domestic of all domestic matters, seem to be ‘going modern." A triangular tragedy involving a stork family is the story coming in from a village in the eastern part of Brandenburg. For many years the storks’ nest stood upon a bam, occupied by the same pair, the male bird being easily identifiable because of a deformity of his left leg. \ Last spring, while the female stork was sitting on her eggs, a strange stork appeared on a neighboring roof and was attacked immediately by the old stork. The younger bird was victorious, however, and drove the older one off, immediately thereafter taking up with the female. On the third of May, the five eggs lay broken upon the ground. On May 30 the new pair agaitf were in possession of five new eggs. Two of these eggs they threw out of the nest. The modernized “birth-control-ling” stork raised three young birds, however, which grew up and departed, shortly after their parents, on the fall migration early in September. STAMP AUCTION CALLED Annual Sale to Be Held at Hotel Lockerbie by Indiana Club. Jndiana stamp club’s first auction of the year will be held in the Lockerbie at 8 tonight.

BAKER SLAPS TRIALDELAYS Attorneys Are Warned by Criminal Judge. Technicalities whereby attorneys attempt to delay court procedure were condemned today by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker after he had refused' to delay two cases Thursday. j Baker appointed another attorney

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when Wilbur A. Royse, attorney, attempted to obtain a delay in a jury case. Another case in which Samuel Blum was attorney, also was tried despite protests from Blum. “Attorneys must realize that this court will not sanction delays of cases that have been set for trial when the attorneys come in here at the last minute," Judge Baker said. SUPERSTITIOUS NATION! BRIDGEPORT, Conn., April 17. A survey among window washers, painters and others who use ladders revealed here that nine out of ten persons are afraid to walk under ladders.

’DEVIL'S ISLAND’ PRISON URGED Death Penalty Would Be Abolished by Doctor. By United Press BUFFALO, N. Y.. April 17—Dr. Amos Osborne Squire, chief physician at Ossining for thirty years, has made the suggestion that a Devil’s Island prison be constructed in the depths of the Adirondacks to

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replace the death chair at Sing Sing. Dr. Squire said that fear of the chair does net halt criminals. “In all my yea s at Sing Sing I do not recall ever having to carry a man to the chair. Men are not afraid to die,” he declared. “Electrocution, I fear, has not proved the deterrent to murder its advocates hoped it would. “Take away visiting privileges, writing privileges. Lock them up in an isolated place in the Adirondacks. Make them work and support their dependents in the outside world. And keep them there until they die: That’s the answer ”