Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1931 — Page 12

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RUM RUNNERS WANT PAY HIKE; 60 ON STRIKE Depression Spreads and Gotham Moans for New Kind of Drought Relief. BY HARRY FERGUSON Lulled rrrui Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. April 30.—The business cycle— that dreaded series of events that sales managers have been trying to control ever since Marco Polo set out from Venice with a classy line of silks and woolens—- ■ truck the rum running industry today, and this evening New York wails for anew kind of drought relief. Two thousand of the craftiest buccaneers on the seven seas struck Tor higher wages, the city’s 32,000 speakeasies began to eye their dwindling slocks dubiously and a mighty cheer from the throats of prohibition agents rocked the coast lines. Captain Randolph Ridgley, commanding the New York division of the coast guard, lolled in his swivel fhair and his smile was one wide beam of contentment. He was, in effect, on vacation, and so far as he is concerned the anebnt struggle between capital and labor can go on indefinitely. Leaves Rum Runners Helpless. •'Unofficially, I have heard of some dissension among the rum runners,” he said. “One thing is certain. Their activities have practically ceased in the lest few weeks. “Our patrols report that they have not seen a single ‘contract’ boat — the boat that brings the liquor ashore from the supply ship—in almost a month.” So intricate and carefully planned is the rum-running schedule off New York thiit if even the contact boat men <rike, the rum runners arc helpless. Federal agents say the supply ships ply between St. Pierre-Miquclon and the Bahamas, unloading here beyond the twelvemile limit and allowing the men who convoy the liquor to shore in speedy motor boats to take all the risks. Run ‘‘Too Many” Risks And these risks, according to a rum-runner of seven years’ experience who stipulated his name should be withheld, are the reason for the demand for higher wages. “It’s not the fault of the men on shore,” he explained. They can’t pay any more money, but the fact remains that we’re not getting enough dough for the risks we run. The men who run the speakeasies had to reduce prices because of the competition. It must be part of the general business depression.” Meanwhile, many New Yorkers feared they would find themselves in the position of the legendary Irishman who complained bitterly to neighbors that his wife had gone out and spent, all the money for groceries and there wasn’t a drop of liquor in the house. 70 MANUFACTURERS TO ATTEND CONCLAVE First Quarterly Meeting to Be Hclrl at C. of C. Friday. More than seventy Indianapolis manufacturers are expected to attend the first quarterly meeting of the manufacturer’s division of the Chamber of Commerce in the chamber Friday noon. Howard T. Griffith, president of the Udell Works, will be in charge. Speakers and their subjects arc E. H. Voges of the Prcst-O-Lite Storage Battery Corporation, “Territory Analysis;” K. W. Atkins, vicepresident of E. C. Vitkins & Cos., "Sales Quota Analysis;” C. E. Stevens of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, “Sales Costs,” and W. R. Spurlock, department head for Eli Lilly <fc Cos.. “Sales Methods.” Discussions will follow. Chaplin in Spain By United Prtsg .JEREZ, Spain. April 30—Charlie Chaplin arrived here today from Gibraltar. He was greeted by Belmonte and other noted bullfighters.

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(Continued from Page 1) shaken hfm as a terrier shakes a rat. But the practice of restraint kept j her standing silent, waiting with; bated breath for Irene's answer. Irene laughed—a dramatic, taunt-1 ing laugh. Then, “That's all there j is to it, is it? Just like that! ‘lrene,' will you come with me?” she j mocked. “You've got a nerve,; Tommy Wilson, to ask me that \ when all Ive heard out of you for j keeping me waiting here is a lot of j crazy talk about a gang of kids i kidnaping you. A hot one, that! is!” She paused and turned to Beryl. “But if I'd known that you were mixed up in it, I'd have believed him if he'd said wolves had got him.” As Irene faced her sister, flaming with outraged pride, Beryl’s anger against Tommy abated. She could not blame him so much, after all. Irene was magnificent when in, a rage the only time that she was anything but insipid, in Beryl’s j estimation. Her blue eyes were J dark and flashing, and there was ] life with a thousand facets revealed j in her furious gestures, in the play j of emotion upon her features, in j the red of her mobile, trembling' lips. “If only he were not equally In-. fatuated with the marshmallow | Trene, I could forgive him,” Beryl J thought. “Well,” she said to Irene, “now; that you know it was all my fault, j why don’t you go with Tommy?” ; She was suddenly weary. If j Tommy couldn’t be stopped—he j couldn't. It was all up to Irene now—and it would be a relief to know how it was going to end. “I’ll tell you why!” Irene exclaimed, her lury still at a hign pitch. But now she was directing her attack at Tommy. “You wouldn’t tell on her, would you?' Just a gang of kids! “I might have known whose j gang,” she added bitterly, a whole j album of memories in which Beryl’s j young friends had played a part j rushing to her mind. rt tt a BERYL looked at Tommy. Queer, j funny Tommy. So he had tried j jto shield licr. Her eyes thanked him. though he did not see it. For him there was no one in the world but Irene—lrene who, for a runaway marriage, had dressed herself in pink chiffon and a picture hat and looked for all the world like, a Dresden doll. (Or at least she would, when her anger subsided.! “Let’s go.” Tommy begged, “we'll be 100 late to catch a train to New York at all.” ‘You can take Water Baby,” Beryl offered, pretending to forget, that Irene had vowed never to ride in the ratllety old car. “Anyway, where are you going in New York? You can’t be married tonight.” Her voice was earnest, and Tommy answered her. ‘We’re going to a friend of Irene's,” he said, “so we. can get down to city hall and hr married first thing in the morning.” ‘Oh, we arc. are we?” Irene jibed “Well, were not. You can't treat me like this and get away with it..’’ "Poor Tommy.” Beryl murmured softly, “just, because you wouldn’t tell on me.” Tommy’s temper, which until now had been dormant, was slight!ly aroused. “Don’t be foolish,” lie said sharply to Irene, and right there his chance of coaxing her into a good humor went glimmering. To have him anything but humble and pleading in Beryl’s presence was more than Irene would tolerate. It all ended with the elopement being indefinitely postponed and i Tommy going home, torn between disappointment and anger toward Beryl. She offered to drive him back, hut he ignored her completely as he strode out of the room in high dudgeon. The sweet scents of the night and the serenity of a pale moon meant nothing to him as he stalked moodily down the tree-lined street to his aunt's house. Os course Irene had shown a lot of temper—but who could blame her with a sister like that? The kid always had been bossed and i badgered by the older sister, j Why, if only half the things she | told him were true he wondered that she hadn't left home to make her own way in the world, long ago.

WHEN he reached home he saw a light in the living room and j guessed that his aunt was waiting up for him. He hid his suitcase under the porch hammock before he went in, then forced himself to assume a cheerful air. “Early to bed and early to nse,” he began, and “For some old ladies, is very unwise,” she finished lor! him. “But relaly, Aunt Em ..." “Come, let’s have a snack of lemonade and gingersnaps,” his Aunt Em said, getting up heavily from the armchair that Beryl had covered in chintz during the short! period that she was a professional decorator. The business had been going quite nicely, too, but it didn’t synchronize with her duties as cashier in Everett's grocery. Between the two even Beryl saw that 1 it would cause less disturbance gen- j erally to let the interior decorat-' ing go. And anyway, she’d only spent a small amount of money for the • mail order course she’d taken to learn what she knew' of the profession. While on the other hand, as she pointed out to herself, “Look at, the years I’ve spent learning the grocery business.” “I wonder, is there anything wrong at the Everetts'?” Mrs. Hoffman remarked when she and Tommy sat down at the kitchen table for their “snack.” Tommy gave her a startled look, j “Wrong?’’ he repeated in alarm. She nodded. “Mrs. Everett called me up about an hour ago,” she said, “and asked for you. Said it wasn’t anything important, but I thought it was strange, her calling like that. If it had been one of the girls ” “I guess nothing's wrong,” Tommy interjected. “I was there a little while ago. Kinda late. Met j some of the boys and went for a ride with them.” “None of that tought Larkin outfit, I hope, Tommy?” Tommy grinned. “Naw. These i kids are all right.” His Aunt Emma sighed. “It's so 1

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easy to make a mistake,” she said gently, “and when you're young is when your mistakes count for so much. Sometimes you have to live with them all your life.” nan TOMMY Stirred uneasily, and swallowed the last of his gingersnaps. “I think I'd better be going to bed,” he said when he’d washed the

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gingersnaps down with his lemonade. “You, too, Aunt Em; you look tired.". Mrs. Hoffman usually complained of feeling tired when she’d lost sleep. Tommy quite often saved himself a lecture by talking her into going to bed. She got up now' and lumbered about, putting the dishes In the i sink for the girl who came in to

help her, to wash in the morning. She, herself, couldn't do much housework any more, but there was no need of it, for she could afford a maid. This fact drew attention away from her growing helplessness and no one realized that she really was a sick woman—not even Aunt Em herself. (To Be Continued)

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