Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1931 — Page 5

DEC. 11, 1031

CITY'S IMPORT DUTY RECEIPTS SLUMP BADLY Both Depression and High Tariff May Be Cause, Says Foiand. Depression or high tariff? Both, probably, in the opinion of George M. Foiand, customs collector here, may be responsible for a decrease in import duty receipts in this district this year. What should have been the banner months of the year, insofar Ss import duty collections are concerned, fell off badly when compared with the average monthly collections ot 1929 —most lucrative year in the history of duty collections—but also were well under the average pre-depression and pre-high tariff months prior to 1929. September and October invariably lead the other ten months of the year on import collections, Foiand says, because it is during that time

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I that large stores import their Christmas merchandise. However, those two months of 1931 showed a slight gain over the corresponding months in 1930 —so perhaps the optimists are right, and prosperity is just around a corner. In 1929 import duty collections in this district, including Indianapolis and Evansville, were $884,000, or about $73,000 monthly on a general average. In 1928 they were in excess of 5600.000, or about $50,000 monthly. The high figure in the last season B. P.—before the panic—is accounted for. Foiand says, by large importers clearing goods in bonded j warehouses, notably tobacco and ! nuts in Indiana, to escape the Smoot-Hawley tariffs which went • into effect that year. Then in 1930 collections dropped, and even in the peak months of September and October they totaled only $21,515.81 and $21,811, respec- : tively, in the entire district. Last September the collections in the district were $29,874.53, of which $26,091.90 were collections here. In October the figure went down to $19,904.01 for the district. “It may be the tariff, or it may be ; the depression, or it may be both,” Foiand said. “However, I don't 1 think the tariff has been given a 1 fair trial, going into effect as it did just before the depression set in.”

HISTORY GROUPS MARK INDIANA'S 115TH BIRTHDAY Annual State Conference Opens With Luncheon at Claypool. Observing the one hundred fifteenth anniversary of the admission of Indiana to the Union, the thirteenth annual Indiana history conference was opened today with a luncheon of the Indiana Historical Society at the Claypool. The conference is being participated in by the historical society, state historical bureau, Society of Indiana Pioneers, and the history and social science section of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. Principal speaker at the luncheon, which was presided over by James A. Woodburn, Bloomington, was Anton Scherrer, Indianapolis architect, who recently spent several years in Europe. Scherrer discussed the small colony of Swiss transplanted from

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i Vevay, Switzerland, to Vevey, Switzerland county, Indiana. , The luncheon was followed by 1 the annual business meeting of the society. William R. Teel, archeological section chairman, reported on sur--1 veys and excavations in Porter and ' Green counties last summer. A report on steps taken to preserve old wooden bridges remaining in Indiana was made by R. B. Yule of the state highway department, timber bridge committee chairman. Election of officers, scheduled to close the afternoon's program, was ! expected to result in re-election of present officers. They include Evans Woollen. In- ' dianapolis, president; Richard B. j Wetherill, Lafayette, first vice-pres-I ident; Mrs. Harvey Morris, Salem, second vice-president; Arthur G. Mitten, Goodland, third vice-presi-dent; John G. Rauch, Indianapolis, treasurer, and Christopher B. Coleman, Indianapolis, secretary. The executive committee is com- : posed of Lee Burns, Indianapolis, chairman; Mrs. Morris, Otto M. Noblitt, South Ben V Mrs. Eva Neal Beck, Franklin; L. N. Hines. Terre Haute, and Amos Butler, Indianapolis. Stanley Coulter, Lafayette, will preside over a dinner tonight at the Claypool. “America and the World Tomorrow” will be the address of the

principal speaker. John J. Haramy, Indiana Central college professor. The society will close its part of the conference with a general session at 8:15 tonight. High point of Saturday’s program will be an address by Claude G. Bowers, New York City, noted orator, author of political works and Democratic leader, at the Society of Indiana Pioneers’ annual dinner. The Pioneers' society also will hold a luncheon, presided over by William H. Insley, Indianapolis, president, and a general session Saturday. Other events on Saturday's conference program will be a breakfast for college teachers at 8 in the University Club; meeting of the history and social science section of the Indiana State Teachers' Association at 10, and the section’s luncheon at the Claypool. James A. Collins, former Marion criminal judge, will speak on “The Juvenile Court Movement in Indiana” at the luncheon. Auto Crash Fatal FRANKLIN, Ind., Dec. 11.—Fatal injuries w'ere suffered by Willoby Marshall, 28. Clermont, and his brother, Perry Marshall, 365 Congress avenue, was severely hurt when the automobile driven by the latter collided with one driven by Omar Oliver of Morgantown on a road southwest of here.

GIRL FINED $lO FOR TURNING IN FALSE ALARM Story of Being Forced by Men to Drink Fails to Impress Judge. Defense that she had been “shanghaied” by two men in a car, and forced to drink in a north side apartment today, tailed to save Miss Clara Sheafer, 18. of 1727 Woodlawn avenue, from conviction on a charge of turning in a false fire alarm. Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer fined her $lO and costs and placed her unde' probation for a year on the call count. He dismissed drunkenness and malicious trespass charges. The young woman testified she became ill in the afternoon of Nov. 23 and was walking north on Meridian street when two men offered to take her home. She said they drove to an apartment in the 1700 block North Meridian street and said another

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