Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1931 — Page 21

STAY 15, 1931

CAPONE'S BEER 'SHORT WEIGHT' ROUSESJNGER City Sealer Considers Turning Inspectors on Partly Empty Barrels. By United Press CHICAGO, May 13.—City Sealer Joe Grein, Mayor Antony Cermak's salaryless guardian of honest weight*, paused today In hl campaign to win full measures for housewives, and considered a suggestion that he turn his inspectors loose on Scarface A1 Capone's partly empty beer barrels. Chicago’s saloon proprietors are complaining bitterly that Capone la sending them thirty-two-gallon beer barrels, which are four or five gallons short, and using his most threatening tactics to exact payment In fun. Grein, who purged Chicago twenty-five years ago of butchers who weighed their thumbs for grocers who attached horsehairs to their scales so they’d benefit in ounces, heard the plaint of the saloon keepers with sympathy. Capone’s Business Bad He responded to Mayor Cermak's plea for "cent-a-year” men In public office by taking over the city sealer’s Job In which he created a nation-wide reputation back in 1903. But he still runs his Randolph street store, where the public can find all it wants in the way of malt, hops, bottles and caps, funnels and dealcoholized bases for absinthe, creem de menthe and other memories. As “mayor of Randolph street,” the word came to Grein that the beer business is so bad that Capone! not only is compelling his asso- j ciated saloon keepers to take short- j volume beer barrels, but is forcing upon them definite quotas, regardless of the consuming public’s demand. Something Should Be Done Ted Newberry, north side gang leader, one of the Capone conces- j sionaires, was reported to have moved five barrels of beer into one saloon and collected $55 a barrel, when the original shipment was unsold a week later, the Newberry agents stove in the barrels, rolled five more into the cellar, and collected again. “The slop that’s sold for beer j nowadays is bad enough,” Grein 1 commented today, “but when it ; comes to accepting it in short barrels, and having to force it down customers’ throats or else take a j loss, something ought to be done.”

LAKE COUNTY LEADS STATE IN MARRIAGES Brown County, Indiana's Lowest, With Only 4 Divorces. Anew victim to stock market crashes and economic disorders Joined the long list today, publica* tion of census figures on marriage and divorces in Indiana showed. In 1930 Venus lost 11.9 per cent of her 1929 batch of customers, taking a fall even in the Hoosier Gretna Green, at Crown Point, where annually thousands are wed. Lake county, of which Crown Point is the county seat, led all other counties in the state in marriages, with 6,117 in 1930. Marion county, last year, had 3,593. Ohio county was low, with 26, and Brown county was low in the divorce column with only four. Marion county led this figure with 1,373.

PAY HIKED MILLIONS IN STATE IN DECADE in'-rease of $100,000,000 Is Shown in Federal Statistics. Annual wages paid by manufacturers in Indiana increased more than $100,000,000 in ten years, from 1919 to 1929, figures of the department of commerce, released today, show. During the same period, the number of wage earners increased slightly more than 26,000. Marion county in 1929 had 917 manufacturing establishments, employing 51.141, with an annual pay roll of $57,713,063, while Lake county, in the heart of the Calumet industrial region, employed 50,732 persons in its factories, with an annual pay roll of $39,293,932, the largest of any county in the state. Indianapolis had $36 factories, with 47.545 persons employed, and a pay roll of $62,256,196 annually. HOOSIER MORTICIANS PLAN MEETING HERE Gathering to Be Held May 19-21; 500 Delegates Expected. Five hundred funeral directors from all Indiana will attend the annual convention and exposition of the Indiana Funeral Directors' Association at state fairgrounds May 19 to 21. About 100 firms manufacturing and dealing in funeral directors supplies will maintain an exhibit in the Manufacturers’ building. Business sessions will be in the Clinic building. Bert S. Gadd. Indianapolis, state president, will preside over the convention, and John Paul Ragsdale, secretary, is in charge of arrangements. Clyde E. Titus is chairman of the local reception committee. CITY WOMAN, 83, TO BE BURIED SATURDAY Mrs. Katherine Murphy, a Native of Ireland, Lived Here 61 Years. Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Murphy. 83, of 814 East lowa street, who died at her home on Wednesday, will be held Saturday morning. Service at the home will be held at 8:30, followed by others at St. Catherine Catholic church at 9. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery’. Mrs. Murphy was born in County Kerry, Ireland, and came to Indlanapolis when she was 17 and had made her home at ths lowa street address since that time. Survivors are three daughters, Mr*. Katherine Aismeyer and Mrs. Thomas F. McCormick of Indianapolis. and Mrs. Edward Marrin of Chicago

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U. S. MAYORS SAIL TODAY AS FRENCHGUESTS Nine American Executives Will Be Entertained for Courtesy to Fliers. By United Press NEW YORK, May 15.—Nineteen American mayors and officials representing four other cities gave their ia6t telegraphic instructions to their respective city halls today, sent their bags aboard the steamship lie De France, and prepared to leave the cares of office behind for six weeks. Guests of the French authorities on a whirlwind tour of France, together with two weeks in Paris, the mayors are being entertained as a return courtesy for the hospitality their cities showed the French fliers, Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte, on their good-will tour of America last year. Sailing today at 4:30 p. m., the He De France is expected to arrive at Havre May 21. Another group of mayors will join them later at Paris. “It may seem like taking a ham sandwich to a banquet,” said Mayor George L. Baker, Portland, Ore., “but you’ll notice that all of us who have wives are taking them along, too. “The party is sure to be dignified, and the ladies may lend some grace to an otherwise motley assemblage. All classes, kinds and politics are represented here. Eut we’re going to try to sink our political differences over there.” The mayors and their wives were guests Thursday night at a formal dinner on board the He de France, given as a “bon voyage” party by

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Jean Tillier. president of the French Chamber of Commerce. At 1 p. m. today the mayors were to te received by Mayor James J. Walker at city hall. Walker, who has been a frequent visitor to France, was called upon to give his fellow municipal executives seme choioe advice as to the paths they should follow. Mayor in the party are J. C. Porter of Los Angeles; Victor J. Miller of St. Louis; William F. Broening of Baltimore; Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee; T. Semmed Waimsley of New Orleans; Bryce B. Smith of Kansas City; George L. Baker of Portland, Ore.; James L. Key of Atlanta; Richard L. Metcalfe of Omaha; R. B. Marvin of Syracuse, N. Y-; J. F. Bright of Richmond, Va.; Walter E. Batterson of Hartford, Conn.; Frederick W. Downeily of Trenton; R. E. Thomason of El Paso, Tex.; Franklin D. Lane of Phoenix, Aril.; James P. Pope, Boise, Ida., and Alvin P. Gray of Pasco, Wash. Representing other cities are: Henri Prince, New York; Judge Frank M. Padden, Chicago; Sylvester Andriano, San Francisco, and X. Kirk McKinney, Indianapolis.

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