Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1931 — Page 3

rULY 9, 1931

$200,000,000 IN GOODS SOLD INCITYINI929 .Census Report Puts Food Total at $47,000,000, Largest in List. More than $200,000,000 In sales! More than $28,000,000 in wages to employes! Those figures are outstanding in the preliminary report of the census bureau of the federal department of commerce given to Indianapolis following compilation of records of local retail stores during 1929. During that year 4,920 Indianapolis retail stores of all types sold merchandise totaling $220,456,834. The yearly pay roll in these stores totaled $28,381,795, with 23,153 men and women employed full time. Part time employment statistics have not been compiled, 4,920 Stores Included Merchandise in stock for sale at the end of 1929 shows a cost value of $26,643,212. The total of 4,920 stores includes •,453 single store independents, 217 units of two-store multiples, and 58 Krlta es three-store multiples. There were also, according to the report, 472 units of local chains, 176 units ©f sectional chains, and 396 units of txatinnal chains. Sales of these three types of Chain organizations and four branch gystem units aggregated $57,364,211, or 26 per cent of the total retail business, while sales of the singleItore independents amounted to or 64 per cent. Autos Hold Second Place Leased departments reported by department stores and included in the figures submitted by them are Hot counted as separate establishments by the census bureau. Those reported Independently by their proprietors are shown as separate establishments. There were twentyfour units of leased department Chains in Indianapolis. Below is a table showing a summary of the principal retail groups In Indianpolis. Detailed study of their organization will appear Friday. Num- Ember of ploves Net sales stores (full (1929) time) pood group 1.757 2.793 $47,246,271 Automotive croup 769 3.161 42.326,052 General merchandise croup.... 197 5,721 41.511,701 Apparel croup. 263 1.981 16,848.309 Furniture and household croup 124 2.065 13,174.589 Lumber and bulldlnc croup.... 221 1,238 12.547.700 Restaurant, and eatlnc Places ... 584 3.108 9,013.618 All other retail stores 1.005 4,089 37.788,594 Total retail stores 4.920 23.153 220.456.834 BOSSON CLUBS’ CHIEF Attorney Becomes President of North Side Federation William Bosson, attorney, today became president of the North Side Federation of Clubs, succeeding Oscar Smith, who resigned after his election as president of th Federation of Community Civic Clubs. Harry Shopp was re-elected vicepresident and J. Raymond Cox was renamed secretary-treasurer. The group discussed steps to obtain better street lighting on the north side.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Charles W. Miller, 624 North Capitol *venue. Oakland sedan, 755-896 from in front of 624 North Capitol avenue. Julius Ehrgott, Southport, Overland sedan, 226-344, from Washington and OeisendorH streets. George Thompson. 4280 Atlas street. Chevrolet touring. 753-029, from 2400 Couth Emerson avenue. John Wise. 1033 North Meridian street. Buick sedan. M 676. from 1033 North Meridian street. William G Utlev. 3331 Prospect street, Ford touring, 755-217. from 3331 Prospect street.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: John Kent. 1315 West Thirty-first Street. Chrysler roadster, found in rear Os 849 Indiana avenue. Charles McCartney. 814 East Sixteenth Street, Bulck coach, found at Kansas Street near railroad tracks. Chrysler coupe, 75-919 found in rear of tl9 Blake street. Ford coach, model A. no license plates, ho certificate of title, found at 200 McCrea street.

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These Daisies Neither See, Hear—Nor Tell

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Butler Co-Eds Vow to Ritz Sorority Rushees All During July. v "See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil,” is the rule with Butler university sorority girls during July. Here we have three co-eds demonstrating the dictum: (Left to right)—Frances Brusch, 620 East Fifty-eighth street, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Marjorie Carr, 5753 Washington boulevard, Delta Delta Delta, and Harriet McGaughey, 2927 Broadway, Kappa Alpha Theta.

INDUSTRIAL SHOW PLANS ANNOUNCED

Exhibit Space Alloted by Board to Twenty Indiana Firms. With all officials selected, the board of directors of the annual Indiana Industrial Expoistion today announced completion of preliminary Tpilans for holding of the show at the state fairgrounds, Sept. 28 to Oct. 4. The board of directors, composed of Indiana industrial leaders, includes Marshall T. Levey, chairman; H. F. Fries of the Do-More Chair Company, Elkhart; E. S. Harter, Universal Brass Works; William F. Kruger, Western Newspaper Union, and W. E. Williams, president Merchants Trucking Corporation. W. A. McCurry has been selected as managing director and will take care of all matters pertaining to the actual staging of the show. He announced today that he already has received confirmation of exhibit space from more than twenty Indiana manufacturers. These include: Hoosier Coal Sales Company. Universal Brass Company. Do-More Chair Company. Merchants Trucking Corporation. NoblittSparks Industries. Industrial Center. Century Paper Company. Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Indiana Railroad Company. Central Aernoautical Corporation, Universal Gear Corporation. Hollingsworth Tool Company. Independent Concrete Company. Western Newspaper Union. Zimmer Paper Products Company. Stafford Engraving Company. Godfrey Conveyor Company. Elkhart. Ind.: South Bend Lathe REPORTSONAIDWORK Salvation Army Activities Reviewed at Board Event. Major James Murphy, Indiana divisional commander of the Salvation Army, announced Wednesday at the monthly luncheon of the advisory board at the Lincoln hotel, that 529 families totaling 2,052 persons were cared for from January to June this year.

A pan-hellenic ruling at the university states that no sorority member may speak to or have any contact whatsoever with prospective rushees until Aug. 1 when the ban goes out of effect, and from then on it’s “every man for himself.” In other words “silence” now Is in effect on the Butler campus with all the little high school girls being left out in the cold as far as Butler sororities are concerned. However, it won’t be long until the tables will be turned and the rushees will find themselves being dined, teaed and partied by those who now find them so “contemptible.”

Works. Auburn Rubber Company. Auburn. Ind.. and Thornton Levey Printing Company. The show will be staged in the Automobile Building at the fair grounds and is expected to be the most comprehensive exhibit of Indiana industrialism yet presented.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MAIL SCHEDULE CHANGED FOR 44-HOUR WEEK Postal Employes to Go on Program on Saturday. Indianapolis postoffice carriers and clerks will go on the shorter week schedules Saturday in accordance with the law enacted by the last congress, which became : ffective July 1, 1931, cutting the working week from forty-eight to forty-four hours. The following schedules for Saturday mail deliveries were announced today by Postmaster Robert Bryson. There will be two deliveries by carriers in the business district and one in the residential districts during the forenoon. Special delivery matter will be carried throughout the day as usual. Classified stations will close at 2 p. m. and the stamp, money order, postal savings and registry windows a t the main office and at the Illinois street station will close at 4 p. m. Stamps and money orders may be obtained and letters registered at the main office parcel post windows from 4 to 8 p. m., when these windows, both downtown and at the Illinois street station, will close. Inquiry and general delivery windows also will close at 8 p. m. A. window will be open at the main office every Sunday from 8 a. m. until 10 p. m. where stamps may be bought, parcels mailed and letters registered. The oldest painting of the Virgin and Child In existence, done about 150, Is now on a wall In the famous Priscilla catacomb in Rome.

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Jimmy Doolittle needn’t worry about the family reputation in aviation. Jimmy Jr., shown here, is quite adept at handling an airplane. At 8 he learned to fly, and at 9 he took off, flew and landed a ship without assistance from his father, who was at the dual controls. The 10-year-old lad is anxious to solo now, but his mother just can’t see it that way. BANDITS HEAD TO CITY Police Asked to Watch for Trio of Gas Station Robbers. Indianapolis police today were asked by Dayton (O.) authorities to be on the lookout for a bandit trio that fled toward this city after a filling station robbery. The men are in a car stolen from a Bellair (O.) coal company, according to the report.

GAS ATTENDANT IS HELD UP BY YOUN6BANDITS Thieves Break Into Home, Escape With SSOO in Household Goods. Youthful bandits robbed Fritz Morrell, 1202 West Thirty-third street, attendant at a Sinclair nil-

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FARM TRUSTEE NAMED Union City Man Appointed in Post at Patnamviile Prison. Clyde N. Chattin, Union City, has been appointed to succeed John B. Jones, Plymouth, as trustee of the Indiana state farm, Putnamville, it was announced today. The appointment is made by Governor Harry G. Leslie for a fouryear term. Jones' term has expired. Chattin is a Democrat.