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EXPOSE ENDS IN OUSTCR OF OHIOJURIST Columbus Probate Judge Is Convicted of Extortion in Morals Case. 1,443 SIGN COMPLAINT Bitter Fight on Corruption Won by Scripps-Howard Newspaper. /.’/ Scripps-Hnvcnr<T Vcicspapcr Alliance COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 24.—For the first time in the nineteen years since Ohio’s present Constitution was adopted, a public official has been ousted from office under the laws enacted in obedience to that Constitution. The official is Homer Z. Bostwick, judge of the Franklin county probate court since 1917, Three years ago Bostwick was re-elected for a fourth term by the greatest majority ever given a candidate in this county, which includes the city of Columbus. This week he was removed from the bench by the unanimous decision of three common pleas judges from other Ohio counties, who found him guilty on charges of gross immorality, moral turpitude and misconduct in office. The Bostwick case attracted wide attention in Ohio because of the strenuous but futile efforts to save the judge from exposure and removal made by his friend, Harry P. Wolfe, banker, shoe merchant, newspaper owner, and potent figure in local and state politics. Reveal Gifts to Woman Taking the lead in the fight to oust Bostwick was the Columbus Citizen, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, which initiated the successful court action and employed Newton D. Baker of Cleveland and Charles S. Druggan of Columbus as attorneys for 1,443 residents of Franklin county who signed a formal complaint against the judge. According to testimony in the ouster hearing, Bostwick, a married man of 55, became acquainted early last May with a young woman then known as Mrs. Opal Walker, 24. During the next six weeks the judge gave the young woman a number of costly gifts, including an automobile and a diamond ring, which she valued at $2,300. On June 22 Mrs. Walker was married to another man, George Eversole. She testified that, after she had applied for a marriage license In BostwiclC’s court, the judge called her into a private office and demanded the return of his gifts. She refused to surrender them. Jail Threat Is Bared Bostwick then enlisted the services of Franklin Rubrecht, at that time chief assistant prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, who sent a probate court employe to Mrs. Eversole’s home and had her brought to his office, where he informed her that she might be sent to the penitentiary for a year on a charge of perjury because, in applying for a marriage license, she had sworn to only one previous marriage. In reality, she had been married three times. Rubrecht told Mrs. Eversole that the case might be settled if she would return Bostwick’s automobile and diamond ring. Again she refused to give them up, and without any legal process, the assistant prosecutor ordered her placed in the county jail and instructed deputy sheriffs to let her talk with no one but himself. The deputies, suspecting something wrong with this procedure, permitted Mrs. Eversole, after she had been in jail for two hours, to call her husband and a friend.

Ouster Appeal Published She was taken before Rubrecht and agreed to surrender the diamond ring. Judge Bostwick agreed to accept the ring and let the young woman keep the automobile, title to which was registered in her name. Bostwick was attacked by the Citizen and. failing to resign, the Citizen employed Attorneys Baker and Druggan and had them prepare an ouster complaint under the laws enacted in obedience to the 1912 Constitution. Only 1,000 signatures to this complaint were needed, but 1.443 persons signed it in response to a published appeal. The seven common pleas judge in Franklin county hastily and voluntarily disqualified themselves. Chief Justice C. T. Marshall of the Ohio supreme court then appointed three nonresident judges Walter D. •Jones, Miami county; James C. Oglevee, Carroll county, and William P. Vaughan, Morrow county. Offense Deserves Removal The three judges.heard testimony and arguments for a week. Newton D. Baker concluded the case for the prosecution with an eloquent address, in which he emphasized the need for integrity on the bench, and charged Bostwick, Rubrecht and others who had assisted in obtaining the diamond ring from Mrs. Eversole with being guilty of a criminal blackmail conspiracy. Bostwick’s attorney, Clarence M. Addison, refused to call any witneses for the defense, and three judges announced their decision. Bostwick, they said, was clearly responsible for the methods employed by Rubrecht, and that Bostwick's part In this conspiracy constituted gross immorality, moral turpitude and misconduct in office, justifying and qemanding his removal. Branded Grossly Immoral * They branded Bostwick’s relations ‘ with Mrs. Eversole "highly, if not grossly, immoral.” Bostwick has announced that he w ll appeal to higher courts within thirty days. Governor Goerge White will appoint his successor.

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THOUSANDS TO SEE AERIAL THRILLS AT PORT’S DEDICATION

Indianapolis today prepared to cast aside its daily cares and witness the thrills of the municipal airport dedication Friday, Saturday and Sunday, when some of the nation’s most spectacular fliers will perform. Awe-inspiring aerial stunts, races participated in by accomplished speed merchants in fast planes, contests and other aviation events are on the dally program. More than 100 daring army, navy, marine and national guard fliers are scheduled for death-defying stunts and military maneuvers Saturday afternoon. Latest entry in the list of spectacular fliers is Miss Dorothy Hester, 19-year-old dare-devil pilot, who thrilled crowds at the Cleveland air races. Miss Hester and her famous flying instructor, Tex Rankin, will vie with Major Jimmy Doolittle, one

ARREST LAWYER FOR BOGUS COIN Lafayette Man Surrenders Counterfeit Plates. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 24. Charges of counterfeiting today were filed against George S. Rainey, 45. Lafayette attorney and Nickel Plate railroad telegraph operator. Rainey was arrested Wednesday night by federal operatives and Lafayette police. Bond was set at $3,000 in the court of United States commissioner Morris R. Parks. Authorities said Rainey turned over to them more than twelve plates used in printing false $5 bank notes, a printing press and printing supplies The Lafayette attorney, who never before has been in trouble and was a respected citizen, would split a bank note, making two faces from a single bill, it is charged. The two legal faces then were pasted to false bills and the finished note was real on one side and false on the other, police said. Rainey admitted passing twenty of the counterfeit bill in Lafayette, according to authorities.

Weather Sage? There Is No Such Thing, Says Arming ton

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STAND by, amateur weather broadcasters, and listen to the words of wisdom from the oracle of heat, cold, sun, snow and rain. You have been figuring how many tons of coal you will need this winter. You have sat on the front porch hot nights and repeated that you :new it was going to be a cold, cold winter. You are sure it’s to be the type of winter that Uncle Tom and Little Eva would have enough ice to do figure eights during their escape. Yep, it’s going to be cold—you say. But j. H. Armington Is the fellow to heed. He’s the man the government pays to let us in on the secrets of the weather. Os course, once in a while, Armington slips on his daily forecasts. Why not? But, at least, he’s smarter than most of us. He won’t even hazard a prediction on the winter’s outlook. In fact, he’ll let you know how much time and worry you’re wasting trying to figure it out. 000 THE amateurs were basing their prediction of a cold wunter on the winter of 1917 and eighteen when nineteen below zero ceased to be a novelty and there was snowplenty of it. The amateurs said that winter followed a hot summer, such as the past one. But listen to “Oracle** Armington; "Well, in the first place I d*n*t know what the winter’s going to be. In A&e second place, you’re all

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of the nation’s greatest aerial aces, and his partner, Jimmy Haizlip, in electrifying spectators with a program of sensational stunts. Fliers from all sections of the country began assembling here today in preparation the dedication. The 973-acre airport today was being decked in gala attire for the event and finishing touches were being placed on the grand stand, boxes and refreshment stands. Several fliers who have arrived are seeking fast planes to enter in the various speed events on the program. Majority of the entrants, however, are not expected to reach here until Friday morning. Tickets are being sold at the special downtown dedication headquarters, 130 Monument circle, and at all Hook drug stores. Girl to Stunt Daily Miss Hester, a shy blue-eyed girl, acclaimed as the nation’s most daring woman flier, has been signed to stunt for the crowd each day. Rankin also will perform. Miss Hester, who after a short period of training set a record for women fliers of sixty-two consecutive outside loops, and one for both men and women of fifty-six inverted barrel rolls, will attempt to shatter both of these records here. She also may try to break the men’s record of 124 outside loops, held by Roy Hunt. Among the forty-two stunts she performs, some of them never attempted by any other flier, will be the double roll, vertical roll, tail spin, spiral glide, falling leaf, Immelman turn, reversement, figure eight, perpendicular whipstall, flying on her side, vertical outside and inside figure eights, chanelles, wingovers, and many others. New Entries Announced New race entries include: Eugene Carnahan, Niles, Mich., Eaglerock; E. M. Murphy, Indianapolis, Curtiss Junior; Northside Chevrolet Inc., Indianapolis, Eaglerock; Francis Ashley, Sibley, 111.. Waco F.; Eldon Getman, Battle Creek, Mich., Waco F.; Harry Boggs, Hoosier airport, Travel Air. Clyde Shockley. Kokomo, Waco; Roger Rae. Lansing, Mich.. Curtiss Challenger; Lieutenant H. J. McKee, LaGrange, 111., Carleson sport; Walter Bagnik, Lansing; Lou Strickler. Teterboro, N. J.; Captain L. L Aretz, Lafayette, and Dick Arnett. Waco and Buhl. Five bands have been engaged to play for the dedication program. These include Shortridge high school, Friday; Butler university and Washington high school, Saturday, and Cathedral high school and ;he Negro Y. M. C. A. Sunday.

wrong about the cold winter following a warm summer.” And he brings forth from his archives percentages and averages to prove his assertion of the dimness of an amateur’s memory and the lameness of his predictions. “The winter of 1917-18 was the coldest in the history of the weather bureau here,” he said. “The temperature average 23.1 degrees for the season. “The summer before that wasn’t especially warm but the 1916 was hotter than the ordinary with an average temperature of 74.8. It was the hottest since 1874 when it was 78.6 and was followed by a fairly cold winter the average of which was 25.6.” Armington is emphatic in the assertion that, “you can’t judge one season by another or by several, whether it comes before or after.” Figure that one out. amateurs. In other words you’re all off center. # u tt THE weather bureau will predict conditions a week in advance, but no more. So, while you’re figuring on your coal, just remember the official forecast, which might be wrong, is, at the best, only a mere seven days ahead.

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BRINKLEY TO TELL TIMES READERS ABOUT AVIATION

"IYTHAT do you want to know * ▼ about aviation? Are you seeking information concerning some phase of this modern mode of transportation? If so, this is your opportunity to obtain correct information concerning airplanes, engines, instruments, airports, airlines, records, schedules, flying schools and actual flying. Asa special feature service to its readers. The Times has arranged, during the three-day airport dedica-

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INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1931

STATE TAX TO REM FIXED AT 29JCENTS Legal Loophole Sought for Transfer of $2,000,000 From Road Fund. ‘RAID’ IS ONLY WAY OUT Jab at Democrats Is Taken by Leslie as Auditor Urges Economy. A committee of three, appointed by Governor Harry G. Leslie, was busy today trying to find a legal loophole for transferring $2,000,000 from the state highway department into the general fund to keep the state tax rate at 29 cents. That it will stay at 29 cents was decided at a session of the tax board, auditor and Governor in Leslie’s office Wednesday afternoon. The highway commission was called in to consider the $2,000,000 donation plan. It is based on the idea that the state highway department got more than that amount in inheritance tax from the general fund through a statue of 1923 being declared unconstitutional. Leslie for 28 Cents When the meeting opened Leslie declared: “I think we ought to take a pot shot at 28 cents.” But Philip Zoercher, veteran tax board member, produced figures to show that it would b- necessary to take $2,000,000 of highway funds to keep the rate at 29 cents. Highway commissioners agreed to the plan, but neither Director John J. Brown nor Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, wanted to take the responsibility for the shift. Eventually, the Governor appointed the committ'- to consider ways and mean. Membership is composed of William P. Cosgrove, deputy state auditor; Arthur Sapp, state highway commissioner, and Zoercher. Cut General Fund Levy In the effort to keep the rate from increasing, the general fund levy was cut from the present 15.85 cents to 15.30 cents, a reduction of 5V 3 mills. Williamson had a lengthy economy resolution to read at the meeting, similar to one adopted at a meeting of state Democrats recently. When he finished reading the Governor took exception to the idea. “I wish you Democrats had held that meeting before the legislature,” Governor Leslie declared. “The legislature put 3% mills on the state levy and then you turn around and ask us to reduce the levy. Its t a political move, to put in a thing like that and I don’t like it.”

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In supporting the plan to take $2,000,000 from the highway funds, Pliny Wolford of the state tax board pointed out that department revenues are estimated at $24,000,000 next year and the $2,000,000 will not be missed. Since assessed valuations of property are $100,000,000 less than last year, the problem is complicated. A fund of $500,000 is expected to be derived from the new inheritance tax law, and the chain store tax, if it becomes operative, also will add to the revenues. The 29-cent levy will be composed of the following: State tuition tax, 7 cents; state soldiers’ memorial tax, 6 cents; board of agriculture, 35 cents; forestry, 2 cents; educational improvement tax, 2 cents; library building fund, 1 cent; George Rogers Clark memorial, 15 cents; general fund, 15.3 cents, and state teachers’ retirement, 2.4 cents.

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the calender. It’ll do you just as much good to consult a mail order catalogue. “Your guess is as good as these on the almanac,” Armington said. “There are certain general averages for warm, cold and rainy spells, and the field is open to all contestants.” But Armington is positive of one thing in addition to the point that no one knows what the winter will be. It’s this: That the summer ended at 6:24 Wednesday evening when fall stepped on the stage. From now until next June weather amateurs can worry about cold, snow, sleet and coal. And when June rolls around, call up Armington and he’ll tell you exactly what kind of a winter and spring we had back in 1931-32.

tion program, starting Friday, for Russ (Skyball) Brinkley to answer avaition questions sent in by Times readers, via the loud speaker systhem installed at the speakers’ platform. Brinkley, an aviation expert of twelve years’ active affiliation with all branches of aviation, ia recognized nationally for what he has done to educate the public concerning aviation. This specialist is acquainted with practically every airplane, engine and aw a tion unit.

!Always Had a Streak of Bad/ Boy Killer Says; Thief at Seven

By Timet Special CROWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 24. "I guess I always had a streak of bad in me. I stole sls from a teacher when I was 7.” These are the words of James Perry swank Jr.. 15-year-old slayer of Eugene Duckworth, 65, filling station operator. The boy killed Duckworth in the course of a robbery, which he said w r as for the purpose of obtaining money to buy books so he could attend Lowell high school. The boy appeared alone before Justice John Krost today and waived preliminary hearing. No One With Him No attorney was present to enter his case. Neither parents, relatives, nor friends were with him. “I’ll not plead now,” said Perry, matter-of-fact and smiling. “I guess I’ll wait and see what the grand jury does tomorrow. If they indict me, I’ll plead guilty in criminal court.” Justice Krost bound the boy over to the grand jury on a charge of first degree murder. Perry then was taken back to jail. Swank, confined in the Lake county jail here, shows no remorse, according to Sheriff Roy Holley. He refers to his victim as “the old man” and “old Duckworth.” Stole Deadly Revolver Shortly before the robbery, Swank broke into a store in search of money for the books. He found only a revolver. Sunday night, he say, he decided to use the revolver. While his parents, six brothers and sisters were attending a church service, he went to the filling station. Duckworth was alone. *“I pointed the gun at him and told him to stick ’em up. But he didn’t do it,” the boy confessed. “He’d be alive now if he had done what I told him to. But instead he reached for his hip pocket and so all I could do was pull the trigger. I hit him right in the head and he fell over backwards.” The boy turned the body face down to reach hip pockets. From one he removed a wallet containing S3O, from the other a revolver. Burned Empty Wallet He tossed Duckworth’s gun into a creek while on the Way to the church to join his family. He burned the emptied wallet in the church furnace. When the services ended and the congregation took to the streets, Swank walked out with his father. “There was a lot of people on the streets,” the boy said, “and my father wondered what all the excitement was about. Without thinking at all, I told him there had been a stickup. Os course, it was a mistake to say that, because he might have asked me how I knew. But he didn’t, and we all went home.” The boy hid his revolver under

LABOR CHIEF BITTER ON STEEL CO. WAGE CUTS

Green Cites Huge Salaries and Dividends Enjoyed by Higher-Ups. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Administration officials regard the wave of wage cuts just announced in the steel and other industries as deplorable in their individual hardships, out they hope some compensating benefits will result to help the general business situation. Organized labor, however, is far less resigned. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor issued a bristling statement declaring the wage reductions “indefensible,” proposing that the tariff protection be taken from the steel industry in retaliation, and throwing some pointed barbs at the huge salaries and stock dividends which have been spooned out to higher executives and stockholders. Green Is Bitter Green indicated bitterness that the workers, excluded from the mellon cuttings in time of prosperity, are being asked to sacrifice 10 per cent of their wages in time of adversity. Railroad labor leaders are watching the situation uneasily, because they are the next big group which might be hit. The interstate commerce commission is completing hearings on the railroads’ application for a flat 15 per cent freight increase. Though officially denied as the intention of the roads, it is reported persistently that if the roads do not get higher rates, they will have to pay lower wages. The situation is taking a turn now which is expected by many to sharpen the agitation for higher income and inheritance taxes on the upper brackets. Wants Rich to Pay More One of the most conservative house leaders, Representative Isaac Bacharach, (Rep., N. J.) recently declared there was soms warrant for the statement that the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer. He advised the wealthy to assume cheerfully a heavier share of the tax burden before the matters were taken out of their hands.

He is reputed to know more aviation people than any other person in the world. In his daily travels, he constantly is meeting new people and becoming acquainted with new machines as they appear. For twelve years, his educational articles have been appearing in the leading aviation magazines, several of which he has owned and edited. Brinkley, who will act as official announcer and master of ceremonies during the airport dedication program, has spent several

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a bush in the yard of his home and went to bed. The next morning he saw Deputy Sheriff Joe Martin approaching the house. “I figured he must have found out. I hurried into the kitchen and burned old man Duckworth’s money in the stove,” the boy said. “I guess that’s all.” Sally Fish, 12-year-old schoolgirl, gave the tip which resulted in Swank’s arrest. She saw the boy leave the filling station. She told her father and he reported the matter to Sheriff Holley. The boy’s father believes the light

Shaemas Is Out to Do a St. Pat on Dial Phones By United Press NEW YORK Sept. 24. —Shaemas O’Shiel offered himself today as the leader of a crusade against the dial telephone. It was last spring that Shaemas O’Shiel’s wrath against the dial telephone rose to unsupportable limits. Either the New York Telephone Company would have to remove the “fool contraption,” or he would not pay his bill. Quietly, the company discontinued his service, whereupon O'Shiel brought his case before the public service commission. And so it was that for the last two days the commission’s halls have resounded to the musical brogue of Shaemas O’Shiel, pouring his scorn upon the telephone company. He contended that when he dialed a number and got an intercepted operator it was the operator’s duty to complete the call and not order him to redial. In rebuttal, the company introduced evidence to show that O’Shiel was a peevish fellow anyway. “On June 2, 1931,” C. E. Ryder, counsel for the telephone company, read into the record, “The complainant called Lexington 7850. The operator asked him if he meant Lexington 2—7850, and he replied, ‘What the h 1 do you think it is?’ ” “On June 18, 1931, complainant refused to dial a number for the second time. The operator remonstrated. Complainant said, ‘Shut up and get the number for me.’ ” Ryder cited several other similar outbursts. Finally Shaemus had his say. “I would assure any operator who may have heard me use profanity,” he said, “that I was not swearing at her. I was swearing at the company.” During the recess, Shaemas left the room to call his wife. He returned pale and trembling. “I dialed for my wife,” he said bitterly, “and I got an operator.”

CHARGE CROWDING OF SCHOOL BUSSES

“Children are forced to stand in the aisles or sit on laps of other children because of dangerously crowded conditions in township school busses,” an investigating committee told members of Garfield Park post, No. 88, American Legion, at a meeting Wednesday night at 810 Vz Virginia avenue. Pupils living in the vicinity of University Heights get into the busses at 6:15 and have to travel all through the community before arriving at school two hours later, members were told. At Perry township school, seven-ty-two pupils jammed into one bus were counted by the committee. At School 9, Vermont and Fulton

thousand hours in the air and has traversed every air line in the country. He has served his apprenticeship at airports, factories, and in the air. The vast practical information and data he has collected, permits him to answer the most difficult questions. If you are seeking information concerning any phase of aviation, write your question on a slip* of paper and leave it at the Times office or &L the airport official stand. c ,

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sentence given Virgil Kirkland for the death of Arlene Draves, Gary high school girl, attacked during a liquor party, inspired the slaying of Duckworth. “If the jury at Valparaiso had sentenced Kirkland to the chair or to the penitentiary for life, this awful thing never would have happened,” the father declares. “Perry followed Kirkland’s trial for the murder of Arlene Draves daily in newspapers. I believe that the jury’s verdict made a hero of Kirkland in Perry’s eyes.”

streets, eighty-six children arrived, packed “like sardines,” while members of the committee were present, it was reported. Two and one-half minutes were required in clearing a bus containing seventy-one pupfls. Investigation began when, on the first day of school, the finger of a child adopted by the post was crushed when the door of a bus closed on her hand. Under the direction of Walter C. Rothermel, adjutant and Americanization officer, the investigation will continue and steps will be taken to eliminate the hazard. PENS BOOK ON AIMEE By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Aimee Semple McPherson, west coast evangelist, is analyzed, as by a laboratory investigator with a dispassionate interest in dissection, in a “biography” published today by Doubleday Doran. Hitherto unpublished details of her disappearance into the desert in 1926, and its strange sequel of charges and counter-charges of kidnaping, forgery, false testimony, comprise a greater part of the volume, written by Nancy Barr Mavity, producer of a number of mystery stories. v

SURVEY SHOWS U. S. BUSINESS IS ON UPTREND Gains in Many Lines Bring Most Cheering Note in Months. OPTIMISTIC SWING SEEN Clothing Industry Leads in Groups Making Steady Progress. BY ELMER C. WALZER United Press Finanrial Editor (CoDvmht. 1931. bv United Pressi NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Plus signs along the broad highway of business are increasing. The minus signs are decreasing slowly. This improving tendency was shown today in a United Press business survey which pictures several lines as considerably better, and the spirit of business throughout the country turning more optimistic. Clothing, textiles, hats, shoes, refrigeration, jar making and radios are among the lines where the uptre-'’ 5 ~ -r>ted most. Added to this is a feeling in many quarters that the denression has touched bottom definitely, and that henceforth the general trend is likely to be upward. There may be interruptions in this trend, authorities agree, yet the present psychology points at the moment to greater cheer than in many months. Many business men believe that wage readjustments will have the effect of making business better, though labor Inclines to disagree with this viewpoint. Clothing Is Leader The clothing industry leads in the list of those businesses making progress. Clothing factories are adding men daily in several centers; hatters are working overtime; shoe plants report a substantial gain; woolen mills and some cotton textile plants are picking up. A distinctly more optimistic trend of thought was noted in messages from various sections of the country. Efforts are being made to relieve unemployment, which still is a big problem, by increasing public works projects. The hat industry takes the lead in the industries which are operating above last year. * Danbury (Conn.) hatters are producing 10,000 dozen Empress Eugenie hats daily and are operating night and day. 1,100 Tailors Employed Rochester, N. Y., reports employment of 200 additional tailors and continuous work for 900 others ordinarily on part time during the winter as a result of one of the large firms going into quantity production of summer and sports wear clothing. Hercules Clothing Company of Columbus, 0., announced immediate expansion of its plant for additional production of trousers, with resultant employment of 600 additional men.

Associated Apparel Factory at Gary, Ind., is employing 700 more workers and anticipates a pay roll totaling 2,000 before the end of the year. Harrisburg, Pa., reports shirt factories working overtime in central Pennsylvania. Word from Detroit is that industrial employment there in the first two weeks of September showed a sharp increase over the end of August and is at the highest point since June 30. „ Many Called Back Many workmen have been called back on the night force of the Chrysler plant at Newcastle, Ind., to work on the company’s free wheeling unit. Murray Wood Products Company, huge Memphis (Tenn.) automobile body manufacturers, announced plans to resume full-time operation, employing 3,000 men as a result of a contract with Ford to furnish wood parts for cars. Murray officials said further additions to the force were to be contingent on output of automobiles. In the textile group, a bright spot is the American Woolen Company’s mills in Fulton, N. Y., which are running at top speed. According to one authority, the index of veo? production has risen since the first of the year from 65 to 130, the latter figure anew high for five years. Shoe Production Prices The index of shoe production has risen from seventy last November to 111, the highest since 1926. St. Louis reports the principal shoe companies there operating on large volume. According to Frank C. Rand, chairman of International Shoe, his company is manufacturing between 180,000 and 184,000 pairs of shoes a day, or 10,000 pairs daily above the corresponding period of a year ago. Standard Statistics Company today stated the carpet and rug trade is making considerable headway in emerging from the acute depression which prevailed during 1930. Earnings in this industry, according to Standard, are expected to exceed last year. Jars Demand Is Huge Home canning has generated huge demand for glass jars, and Owens-Illinois Glass Company reports demand for glass jars ten times larger than at any time since 1920. Icebox Sales Low Despite the depression, householders have continued to discard the old ice boxes for new mechanical units. Thus far in 1931, Standard reports, between 700,000 and 800,000 household models were sold, against distribution of 770,000 all last year. Many sections of the country report large numbers of men employed on building projects. Philadelphia has let contracts for a $30.000,000 subway. Cleveland reports 1,000 men employed at 50 cents in hour doing road work in Cuyahoga county. The Ford Motor Company, it waa reported, is planning anew plant at Painesville, 0., valued at several million dollars. A