Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1931 — Page 3
AUG. 18, 1931
BUSINESS GAIN REPORTED BY HOOVERBOARD Upward Trend Especially Favorable in East, Committee Says. My United Preen WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Slight improvement in business and employment conditions in some parte the country, particularly in New England and in some southern and vestern sections, was reported toaay by President Hoover’s emergency employment committee. Various construction projects, private, state and governmental, are absorbing small groups of unemployed, while some Industries give assurance of increasing their pay rolls because of prospects of increased fall business. Nearly every reporting city ad'lsed the committee of emergency plans under way for taking care of ; he unemployed this winter, with •some unusual methods adopted for improving business and employment. These include a plan in Jacksonville, Fla., to assess users of electric current an adidtional 10 per cent on their bills to provide a relief fund of $9,C00 a month; creation of a relief fund in Houston, Tex., by collecting 50 cents from each wage earner and a fall buyers’ week, late in August in New Orleans. Cities generally report a determination on the part of local agencies to confine their relief activities to residents. 117 MEDICS PASS~TEST 1* Fail to Make Passing Grade in State Examinations. One hundred and seventeen out of 131 taking the state medical board examinations have passed the test and will be licensed to practice in the state, it was announced today at the office of the board in the statchouse. Fourteen failed to make a passing grade. Highest grade was made by Dr. Donald Reed of the Indiana university school of medicine. Second highest honor went to Dr. Frank E. Doddridge, graduate of the Kirksville college of osteopathy. PIN CH SUSPECT ED PAIR Two City Men Held in South As Auto Thiefs. Two Indianapolis men were arrested in Chattanooga, Tenn., today, charged with the theft of an auto following a north side holdup Sunday night. Those held are R. W. Patton, 27, of 6207 College avenue, and D. W. Roberts, 30, of 6416 Bellefontaine street. They will be returned to Indianapolis Wednesday, local police said. The car in their possession was stolen from C. D. Hoyt Jr., 5157 North New Jersey street. He also was robbed of an expensive watch and fraternity pin by two bandits. PROPOSE WAGE CUTS Moorman to Extend Paring Plan to State Purchasing Board. John Moorman, Indiana state prison trustee who is attending a meeting of the state purchasing committee here today, declared that he plans introducing a wage reduction resolution before the committee “some time, but not today.” Moorman is the author of a wage reduction resolution pending before the prison trustees. He will seek to have the purchasing committee go on record for wage reductions for all public employes as a matter of public policy, he said. CANADA HIKES TARIFFS New Import Duties to Bar Many Other Foreign Products. lly United Pri ss OTTAWA, Ontario, Aug. 18.—New import duties practically will bar foreign radio sets, hats, hams and bacon from the Canadian market, well-informed quarters understood today. Several other commodities will be given arbitarary values for duty purposes, it was understood. Creation of high import duties was forecast within a short time. GIA NT CONTRACTS LET 13,000 Miles of Copper Wire to Be Laid in Gotham's Radio City. :.!/ United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Contracts for 15.000 miles of copper wire and 200 miles of brass pipe and other copper and brass products have been let for Radio City, New York's proposed amusement center. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company received the contract for the copper wire, It was announced Monday. CHILDREN'S DAY IS SET To give all Indianapolis school children an opportunity for a glimpse into the inner workings of Hoosier industrialism, the board of directors of the annual All-Indiana Industrial Exposition today voted to allow all children free admission one day of the show. The exposition plans continue to go forward rapidly and more than forty exhibitors already have agreed to show their products.
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Jack Predicts Another Big Victory for Himself in Divorce Court. By United Press RENO, Nev., Aug. 18.—Adopting again the ring parlance which he used when lie was heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Dempsey declared today he just was “sparring around” so far in his divorce action against Estelle Taylor, his actress wife. “When the time comes ’lll open up,’’ said the Manassa Mauler in much the same manner he predicted years ago how he would whip Jess Willard, Louis Firpo and others. “I can’t tell you the details of the
ML WALKER’S DAUGHTER DIES Succumbs at Her Home in Asbury Park, N. J. Word of the death of Mrs. A’Lelia Walker, 46, daughter of Mme. C. J. Walker, Indianapolis Negress, who became the first million"'‘"e of her race, at her home in Asbury Park, N. J., Monday, was received here today by officials of the Walker company. Mrs. Walker was married several years ago to a physician, but recently obtained a divorce, resuming her maiden name. She has an adopted daughter, Mrs. Mae Walker Perry, of Indianapolis, who will become president of the company and inherit the real estate that was handed down from the estate of Mme. Walker. Funeral service for Mrs. Walker will be held in New York. Mrs. Perry and her husband are en route east and F. B. Ransom, manager of the company, was to depart today. Estate affairs will be handled In Indianapolis in the next ten days, Ransom said. Mme. Walker built her fortune through invention of a product that removed kinks from hair. REPUBLICANS_TO FROLIC Irvington G. O. P. to Hold Annual Watermelon Feast Aug. 31. A special committee to complete arrangements and select a site for the annual watermelon feast of the Irvington Republican Club to be held Aug. 31 has been appointed by Bert Morgan, president of the club. Members of the committee are: Judge Dan V. White, Frank Brown and Alfred M. Hogston, state fire marshal.
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Two lieutenants were demoted in a police shakeup announced today by the safety board. They are Marion Van Sickle and Leonard Forsythe, both of whom were reduced to patrolmen. • Sergeants Ralph Dean and patrolman Edward Shubert were made lieutenants. HURL ‘REVENGE’ BOMB Infernal Machine Thrown on Porch of Business Bureau Aid. By United Press TOLEDO, 0., Aug. 18.—A bomb, believed thrown in a revenge plot, early today exploded on the front porch of Homer E. Frye, secretary of the Toledo Better Business Bureau. Frye, his wife and two daughters were unhurt. The blast shattered windows in the Frye home and in the adjoining home of Mrs. Belle Hoffstadt and Mrs. Hattie Klein. Police said the bomb was of crude manufacture. It exploded within five feet of the bedroom in which Frye’s daughters, Mary, 19, and Julia, Belle, 16, were sleeping.
cruelty charges,” Dempsey said. He smiled over reports from Los Angeles that Miss Taylor said the trial would develop into the “battle of the century,” a term which the late Tex Rickard coined in advertising some of Dempsey’s fistic battles. Dempsey said he was unwilling to show his strength until the preliminary bouts were over and he actually was in the ring. “It would give away my case to Estelle, but they will be plenty to give me a decree in any court where there is justice,” he said. “I’m going ahead with my suit, regardless of what action she takes in California.” “I made a property settlement with Estelle which she later attempted to repudiate and I am asking the Reno courts to affirm that property settlement.” “She wants me to buy the house I gave her and I made an offer, but she wasn’t satisfied. I’m going away on my barnstorming tour this week, as I planned.” Dempsey has been training in a local gymnasium for his tour. He is seen frequently at local night clubs, but never drin’-.s. The spinning roulette wheel has a fascination for him, however.
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HOOVER RULES AGAINST CALL TO MESS No Special Session for Any Purpose, Is Decision of President. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 18.—President Hoover has no intention of calling a special session of congress this fall for unemployment relief or any other purpose, it was learned officially at the White House today. The President’s views were made known in connection with recently ! published rumors that he might' summon congress Nov. 15 to permit early organization and thus clear the way for unemployment relief legislation. The British army is technically the best, and the French the best trained, according to General von i Seeckt, German ex-coifimander-in- j chief.
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AERIAL ‘TAXIS’ PLANNED “This Gyro to the Races” Will Be Cry in Downtown Cleveland. By United Press CLEVELAND, Aug. 18.—National air race officials plan an aerial ferry between downtown Cleveland and the airport during the races Aug. 29 to Sept. 7. Distinguished guests and notables will have a regular ferry service, they declare. The ferrymen will be autogiro pilots.
DETROIT PLANS SUBWAY;COST 200 MILLIONS Huge Project Would Give Employment to 30,000 Workers. By United Press DETROIT, Aug. 18.—A subway system for Detroit costing from $180,000,000 to $200,000,000 is being proposed by New York and Detroit capitalists, and will be placed before the city council for approval before being submitted to the voters on Nov. 3, Colonel Sidney D. Waldon, president o fthe rapid transit commission, said today. The construction would give employment to 30,000 men, its sponsors said. The project for construction of forty-four miles of subway and elevated lines and would follow the original plan of the rapid transit commission for a four-line system. A modification of this scheme to
It’s in Cards By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 18.— The depression apparently has made it more popular to spend quiet evenings at home playing card games. A treasury report today showed an increase in taxes on cards. They totaled $4,993,559 in the fiscal year ended June 30, compared with $4,819,292 in the previous year. The revenue from playing cards was the only kind of federal tax that increased. The drop in tobacco taxes was slight, the totals being $444 - 276.502, compared with $450,339,060.
build a single line linking Grosse Pointe and Dearborn, extreme east and west suburbs, was defeated by the voters two years ago. If accepted by the voters, con-1 struction of two of the lines would begin this winter at a cost of SIOO,000,000. It is estimated the plan Fould give work to 15,000 men on its construction and to another 15,000 in providing the materials. Only Detroit labor and Detroit- j made material would be accepted, it j is said.
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PATROLMAN IS FIRED Ned Hoagland Is Discharged for Poolroom Scrape. Patrolman Ned Hoagland today was discharged from the police force after the safety board upheld charges that the officer had been involved In a poolroom scrape several weeks ago. Hoagland was one of the eighteen police officers indicted in federal court in the liquor conspiracy case.
344 Years Ago Today Virginia Dare, the first child born in America of English parents, was born August 18, 1587, on Roanoke Island. Va., which is now a part of North Carolina. 2lkx£do HOWt 0> ThOUOMTTUI StivcF~l^^ Funeral Director* 1619 North 1222 Illinois Street Fnlon Street TAlbot 1876 DRexel 2551