Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 148, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1931 — Page 32
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PROPOSAL FOR SALARY SLASH IRKS CONGRESS Will Wood Reconciled to Becoming Capital’s Most Unpopular Man. BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. —Congressman Will Wood of Indiana is reconciled to being the most unpopular man in Washington. He couldn’t expect to be anything else when he decided on a crusade
for a reduction of all government salaries. The chances are that Wood will not be able to put over his program unless the administration becomes much more desperate for economies than it Is now, but Wood presumably will hold his old powerful post as chairman of the
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appropriations committee —if the Republicans control the house—and he will attract enough support to stir up a mean fight. Congressmen “in Hole” And when the fight is over, one fears, his name will be a hissing and byword for hundreds of thousands of the boys and girls who work for Uncle Sam. Wood says he has already had promises of support from fifteen or sixteen members of congress, but the fact that he proposes to reduce congressional salaries along with the rest may give an idea why he seems so surely doomed to disappointment. Even if Wood were proposing to exempt his colleagues they wouldn’t have the nerve to slash the incomes of stenographers, clerks and other workers while leaving their own SIO,OOO salaries intact. Veto Regarded Certain The other big stumbling block which Wood faces is the opposition of the Hoover administration itself, of which the Indiana congressman is ordinarily one of the staunchest supporters. Although the administration has come to realize that it has been powerless to avert wage cuts in private industry, Hoover is in no position to sign a bill to reduce the government’s own salaries. He has been committed so thoroughly to the policy of maintaining wages and his party propagandists have made so much capital of his widely commended stand that even if congress were to hand him such a bill—and even if a considerable amount of public opinion had come to favor it—a presidential veto would be certain. An election is coming along and that fact is borne in mind constantly both at the White House and on Capitol hill. Hoover Salary Hit A while ago Wood urged a general salary reduction beginning with the $2,500 salaries. But now he has changed his mind and will attempt to hit all salaries from $1,200 a vear up. He realized after his first blast that 80 per cent of government salaries were below $2,500 and feels that to benefit the country the reduction must be of wider scope. He would make reductions of 5 per cent in the $1,200 to $2,500 class, 8 per cent from $2,500 to slo,ooo’, and 10 per cent on everything above SIO,OOO. That would bring the President’s salary down to $67,500, those of senators and representatives down toward $9,000, and those of VicePresident Curtis and the cabinet members to $13,500. EIGHT NEW PACIFICLINERS BEING BUILT *President Coolidge,’ First to be Launchod, Costing $8,000,000. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 30.—Passengers with Pacific coast points of destination, or embarkation, will have the choice of eight new vessels. costing $46,000,000, for their travel by the end of 1932 or early in 3933, local shipping companies have announced. The new ships, which will include some of the fastest and most luxurious of the American merchant marine, are all under construction, or keel laying ceremonies will be held them in the near future. First of the new liners to make its appearance will be the President Coolidge, $8,000,000 sister ship of the President Hoover, which recently completed its maiden voyage to the coast. The vessels are turboelectric powered, 653 feet long, of 33.000 tons displacement, and have accommodations for 1,260 passengers. TURKEY CROP SLUMPS Scarcity of Birds Is Reported From Colorado District. By United Press LA JUNTA, Colo., Oct. 30.—The Holbrook district, east of La Junta, long renowned for its many and fine turkeys, will not have so many tof the Thanksgiving and Christmas birds this year. Cold, damp spring weather was disastrous to the young turkeys. The scarcity of turkeys, however, will be made up in superior quality of those which survived. The grasshopper invasion of early summer provided abundant feed to fatten the poultry'. INSECTS EAT CHECKS Civil War Veteran Finds His Money Chewed to Shreds. By United Press POMEROY, 0., Oct. 30.—Josephus Bellows, Civil war veteran, once had lost money in a bank which failed, so he preserved his federal pension checks under a rug. He had SSOO in the checks and turned back the rug to add another SIOO to the collection. Insects had eaten the checks to shreds. Bellows forlornly raked up the tiny bits of paper and mailed them to Washington, in application ior a re-issue of the money.
This Is How the Money Is Used
It was luncheon time at the Indianapolis Orphans Home when the camera man found this towheaded lad lustily enjoying his noonday meal after a morning at play. At four tables in the little room set aside for them, forty other youngsters of sub-school age ate with him; upstairs babies slumbered in their nursery after an earlier lunch; in the main dining room the older children scraped clean their plates and made ready to go back to classrooms. Fortune’s ill winds drifted sor-
lianapolis Orphans Home when age, but the charity of a civilized he camera man found this tow- community has tempered their • caried lad lustily enjoying his grief by giving them a home and toonday meal after a morning at providing for them food, clothing At four tables in the little room mM which they are unable to obtain et aside for them, forty other pjf gr mkffj M. ? for themselves. •oungsters of sub-school age ate i'-i That they may go on to happivith him; upstairs babies slum- ness and successful citizenship the >cred in their nursery after an mm Community Fund this week is askarlier lunch; in the main dining mm ing Indianapolis to contribute to oom the c’der children scraped pry a fund that must reach more than lean their plates and made ready mzjjk * Jgp* 1 $1,000,000 in order to care for all o go back to classrooms. Cit "* S unfortunates durin S
WAYNE P.-T. A. HE AOS TO MEET Local Presidents, Members Invited to Ben Davis. Presidents of all Wayne township local Parent-Teacher Associations have been called to attend the regular meeting of the Wayne township P.-T. A. at 2:15 Monday at Ben Davis high school. Each executive has been asked to invite members of their organizations. Other Marion county P.-T. A. meetings next week are: Regular meeting of Cumberland P.-T. A. will be held at the school at 1:30 Tuesday. Miss Carrie E. Scott, supervisor of work with children at the Indianapolis central library, will speak. A fall festival will be Riven Nov. 6 at the Cumberland community house. Fleming Garden association will meet at 7:30 Tuesday night in the school gym. Third grade children will entertain under the direction of their teachers, Miss Gladys Jones and Mrs. Mary Dell. The regular monthly baby clinic will be held at Fleming Garden school from 9 to
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row into these lives at an early age, but the charity of a civilized community has tempered their grief by giving them a home and providing for them food, clothing and other vital needs of life which they are unable to obtain for themselves. That they may go on to happiness and successful citizenship the Community Fund this week is asking Indianapolis to contribute to a fund that must reach more than $1,000,000 in order to care for all of the city’s unfortunates during the next year.
Owl Attacks Children BRISTOL, England, Oct. 30.—An Owl attacked and slightly injured the four children of Austin Hicks of Breau, near here, when they climbed into an apple tree in an orchard where the bird was nesting..
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JUDGE ‘FIXING’ CHARGE PROBED BY BARGROUP Committee Attends Trial es Negro Bond Runners for Contempt. Members of the grievance committee of the Indianapolis Bar Association are investigating charges that two alleged “runners” for a professional bondsman told a police prisoner they could “fix his case with the judge.” The committee Thursday afternoon attended the trial of Ed Thomas and Henry Sleets, Negroes, cited for alleged indirect contempt of court by Municipal Judge Cliften R. Cameron. The two Negroes were accused of soliciting R. W. Webster for bail business, in defiance of a court order against bondsmen, within a few feet of the entrance of police headquarters after Webster’s arrest on a charge of drunkenness. Webster, son of C. A. Webster, former mayor of North Vernon, Ind., was held with Lardaman Black, of Gary; after the automobile in which they were riding, was in a crash with a police car. Both young Webster and his father testified that Thomas, one of the two Negroes, told them that there were “only two lawyers in the city who could talk to the judge” in order to fix the case. He
said that a bond could be arranged for SSO, it was charged. Further evidence was introduced to show that the young Webster, on the advice of Thomas, went to see an attorney, who told him that it would cost about $l5O to fix the case. However, before a bond was arranged, Webster was released on his own recognizance by Judge Cameron. Questions that would have identified the two attorneys named as “fixers” were overruled by Judge Cameron on objections of Dewey Myers, deputy prosecutor. Judge Cameron overruled a motion to supress the evidence in the contempt case, and gave the defendants until Nov. 5 to complete their defense. At the close of the contempt hearing, Cameron lectured Webster and Black on drunken driving and released them after withholding judgment in their cases. Silver-tinted grease-paint is becoming popular for adorning the rims of the yes in Paris. The new fad is for evening dress only.
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ber of the faculty of the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, It was anounced by Mrs. James Starr, college president.