Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1931 — Page 5

JULY 13, 1931_

GO-OPERATIVES SAVING SMALL RET AILSTORES Band to Meet Competition of Chains, Federal Board Reports. By Scrippt-liward Xcictpaper Alliance WASHINGTON. July 13.—The corner grocer and the neighborhood butcher are combining to meet chain store competition. In a report to the senate today the federal trade commission Misclosed that 53,400 retail dealers throughout the country have banded themselves into 395 co-operative grocery systems which did a total business during 1929 estimated at $600,000,000 to $700,000,000. The report is the first of a series to be submitted under a resolution passed three years ago. The investigation was sponsored by Sena- 1 tor Smith W. Brookhart of lowa, j who plans to introduce further legislation to regulate chain stores. Seek Advantages The commission found there are between 55,000 and 57,000 centrally owned chain grocery stores. In a letter to the senate the commission explained that it forwarded Its report on the co-operatives in advance of the report on centrally owned chains because of “the emphasis which has frequently been placed upon the idea that the cooperative chain may be the salvation of the independent retailer." The co-operative chain is defined as an association of independent retailers acting co-operatively either by themselves or with a wholesaler to obtain advantages in buying, advertising and other merchandising activities. Extend Manager Service A large majority of the reporting co-operative chains require or recommend uniform store signs or uniform store fronts. More than 65 per cent of the grocery co-opera-tives extend managerial services to their retail members. Less than 43 per cent of the cooperative chains use supervisors. In the case of each one of these centralizing features the wholesalerretailer organzations report greater activity than do the retailer groups. The co-operative movement among independent retail grocers had its first definite beginning in 1887. The early co-operative efforts of the retailers consisted merely in buying as a group, or buying and warehousing, in order that they might purchase merchandise directly from the source and save for themselves at least some part of the charges formerly paid to the wholesaler for his services. WITHDRAW CUTTERS IN ICEBERG ‘FAMINE’ U. S. Guard Takrn From Atlantic Patrol in "Light” Year. By Science Service WASHINGTON, July 13.—Due to the continued absence of icebergs in the North Atlantic, the United States coast guard cutters Mojave and Poritchartrain have been withdrawn from the international ice patrol work for the season. The General Greene, which has been scouting off Newfoundland, to the north of the steamer lanes, will proceed up the coast of Labrador as far as Resolution Island, to the Northward of the entrance to Hudson Strait, making a scientific study of oceanographic conditions as they affect drifting ice. The present year has set an alltime low record for icebergs. It is a record which it will be impossible to break, because to date not a single iceberg has been seen on the steamer lanes nor anywhere near them. In ordinary years there are dozens of bergs, and in bad years hundreds of them. CADLE PUTS 'DEVIL’ BRAND ON KNOCKERS Carries on Subscription Drive to Regain Control of Tabernacle. “When the devil finished making pests and venomous creatures he had a little poisonous material left and he made ‘knockers’ and ‘tattletales.’ ” With this declaration and the assertion thjjit “If I were the devil I would first gain control of the preachers,” E. Howard Cadle spoke at Cadle Taberacle Sunday afternoon. Cadle is seeking to regain control of the tabernacle through public subscription. His subject ‘was “If I Were the Devil, How Would I Run Indianapolis?” The mixed quartet of the St. Paul’s Methodist church sang. Services will be held at 2:30 p. m. next Sunday. Mental Sufferer Hunted By Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., July 13. Ministers here are , aiding in the search for Miss Ruth McChesney, Ellijay, Ga., who fled from the home of her aunt, Mrs. Peter Capelle of Evansville. She was brought here after escaping from a hospital in Cincinnati. Miss McChesney, relatives say, is mentally deranged due to a blood clot on the brain, the result of an injury received in an automobile accident. Golf Ball Injures Man By Times Special ANDERSON, 2nd.. July 13.—A severe head injury was suffered by Bernard Tebbe whea struck by a golf ball at a driving range. Hemorrhoids How to End Painful Piles Without Salves or Cutting. 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BY BEN STERN. PATRONAGE, patronage, what multitudinous evils and troubles are contained Li that word. F’rinstance. When the Democrats won the county election here last fall the party leaders were stormed by approximately 12,01)0 applicants for jobs, all fighting to get to the trough. Down in Vanderburg county the Democrats turned a clever trick by jetting a majority of county commisioners six months before one of the Republicans was due to go off. Because of this change, eighty additional jobs have been made available to the organization. Here’s the yam: The newly elected Democratic county assessor, Andrew Garrison, died a month ago, md it was up to the county commissioners to fill the vacancy. a tt a Democrats, seeing that by Garrison’s death they could gain control of the commission six months ahead of time, engineered the deal whereby the short term Republican commissioner John Stark would be appointed to the vacancy. Fearing that the Republicans might hear of the swap before it was consummated, Stark was kidnaped (willingly) by Bailiff Frank Kanowsky from Saturday until the commissioners met the following Monday morning. This permitted one of the newly elected Democratic commissioners to take office immediately giving that party two votes to the Republicans’ one on the board. Firing of G. O. P. henchmen began at once and it is reported Highway Superintendent Matt Foster, seeing the writing on the wall, has acceded to demands of the Democrats that he replace his workers with those of their party. Now there are 1,200 applicants lor the eighty jobs. Patronage, patronage. an tt Losing jobs on all sides the Vanderburg Republican organization had to get into a squabble concerning which local architect should be appointed to draw the plans for the addition to the veterans hospital there. Appointment of a local architect meant an Evansville contractor who in turn would employ laborers living in that city. Every G. O. P. architect began pulling wires when announcement of an addition was made, while war veterans in need of medical attention were being turned away because no roorp. was available at the hospital. While politicians there were in a deadlock over the architect, the treasury department, irked with the delay, announced that government architects could do the work as well. Now the Evansville contractors lose the work, laborers don’t get the jobs and further delay is necessitated. That’s politics.

Spends Mother's $3,000 Savings in Four Hours

Boy Indulges in Orgy of Ice Cream, Pastry; Won’t Be Whipped. By United Press CHICAGO, July 13.—Mrs. Rose Amato is disgusted with her 13-year-old son, Johnny, who took her life savings of $3,000 and spent $2,908 of it in four hours on ice cream, pastry, bicycles, roller skates and coaster wagons, but “his heart is in the right place” and he won’t get a whipping when he comes home. Johnny was detained at the Maxwell street police station where he was taken after his orgy of shopping. Police were attempting to salvage part of the money from playmates to whom Johnny with a lavish hand passed out $lO S2O and SSO bills. “All my life I’ve worked hard and saved $3,000,” Mrs. Amato said today. “Every week, I put a couple of dollars in a roll of bills I kept it hidden on a top shelf behind the canned tomatoes. Last Friday, the money was there—the next day it was gone. Then two of Johnny’s friends walked into Mrs. Amato’s store, bought candy and paid for it with a $lO bill. As they walked out, Johnny came in bearing a package and shouting: “Look, Mama, I bought you some roller skates for a present.” In his pockets was $92, all that was left of the $3,000. However, he had opened an account at a neighborhood candy store and placed $550 “on deposit” and Mrs. Amato hoped to get some of that back. “No, I’m not going to whip Johnny when the police let him go,” Mrs. Amato said today. “I’m disgusted, but anyway he bought me some roller skates, didn't he? That shows his heart's in the right place." FREED FROM CITY JAIL Alleged Participant in Ravenswood Melee Released on Writ. Habeas corpus writ in superior court two today gave Robert Reed, Ravenswood, opportunity to obtain his freedom from city prison without posting SIO,OOO bonds. He was charged with vagrancy and blind tiger after an alleged brawl in Ravenswood last week, and the bond was boosted when police said they believed he was wanted in Detroit for murder. Judge Joseph R. Williams granted the writ and then set the bonds on the vagrancy and liquor charges at SI,OOO. Heat Killed Many Horses Farmers suffered heavily from losses of horses during the heat wave in the early part of July, according to reports to county farm agents. The toll mounted to more than 100 in each of several counties.

BLIMP. RIPPED FROM MOORING, TOTAL WRECK Mayflower Is Destroyed by Flames; Pilot Badly Burned. By United Brets KANSAS CITY, July 13.—The Goodyear blimp, “Mayflower,” was a total wreck today after being torn from Its moorings and blown across high tension wires at municipal airport. Its pilot, C. E. Brannigan of Akron, 0., is in a hospital, critically burned. The explosion which wrecked the $60,000 airship occurred after the blimp had been forced to land Sunday night because of a sudden wind storm. A gust of wind tore it loose from its moorings and carried it across the wires. R. H. Hobensack, Brannigan’s copilot, first noticed the blimp was loose. He leaped to the ground and yelled for help. It crashed against a hangar and Claude Hendershod, mechanic, was hurled overboard. Three of his ribs were broken. The ship then struck the high tension wires, bursting into flames. Ray Horton, another mechanic, jumped through the flames and landed unhurt. Brannigan was tfapped in the cabin and fell with the ship. Hobensack dragged him from the wreckage, saving him from probable death. The “Mayflower” was on its way back to Akron, after an exhibition flight through the middle west. It was to have gone on to Akron today. The Mayflower wa3 in Indianapolis overnight ten days ago, en route from Akron, 0., to Belleville, 111. The blimp was moored at Hoosier airport and several flights were made over the city. 104 COURSES IN BUTLERS PLAN Classes Are Changed to Semester System. One hundred and four courses will be offered by the college of education of Butler university when the fall semester opens Sept. 14. The college has been changed from the quarter plan to the semester system of classes. A mid-spring term beginning May 1 is announced. Twenty-two instructors will teach in the college during 1931-1932. Special lecturers during the year are: Dr. Lewis Brown. Dr. G. H. A. Clowers, Dr. Stanley Coulter. Dr. C. B. Coleman. Luther Dickerson. Rabbi Morris Feueriicht, Dr. Jean S. Milner. Meredith Nicholson. Wilbur D. Peat. Dr. W. A. Shullenberger. Mila Stuart. Mayor Aeginald H. Sullivan. Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks. Evans Woollen. Paul C. Stetson and Harry E. Elder.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Everett Furgeson, 523 Coffey street. Dodge coupe, from West and Washington streets. Earl Berry, Acton. Ind., Oakland coupe, 755-893, from IH6 North Capitol avenue. Paul Caudell, 531 North Concord street. Star roadster, from North and Meridian streets. Frank Hundley, 3319 Robson street, Whippet roadster, 25-504, from 3319 Robson street. Richard Madden, 1226 North Illinois street, Oldsmoblle coupe, 89-536, from Fifty-ninth street and College avenue. William Douglas, A. A. 14, Box 345 E, Pontiac coupe, 86-222, from Capitol avenue and Market street.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Ford sedan, 735-697, found at Twentieth street and Columbia avenue. Ford Tudor, no license plates, automobile stripped of radiator and hood, found at 1030 South Capitol in the rear. Thomas Johnson, 1225 Edgemont street. Essex coach, found at Michigan street and White River boulevard. Tom Johnson, 1720 Yandes street, Essex coach, found on White river bridge at Tenth street. Aged Woman Dies By Timet Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 13. Mrs. Jeanette Fisher, 73, is dead at her home in eastern Hamilton county. She was a resident of this part of the state seventy years. She leaves her husband, Asbury Fisher; a son. Porter Fisher, Lapel; a daughter, Mrs. Rose Brown; a brother, George Durant; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. •

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