Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1931 — Page 1

THOUSANDS OF NEEDY RECEIVE YULETIDE JOY Santa on His Throne and Good Cheer Reigns in Every Home. ONLY SNOW IS LACKING County and City Prisoners Feast; Many Children Given Clothing.

Thousands of curtains were pulled aside in Indianapolis homes today, thousands of joyous-eyed children pressed their faces against window panes, and thousands of little hearts leaped in disappointment—- “ What, no snow? And it’s Christmas morning.’’ But that picture of jovial corpulency, sometimes known as St. Nicholas and Kris Kringle, but better known as Santa Claus, was happy to report back to his Master that this was the only really universal disappointment of the day and that the people of Indianapolis, wherever possible, took care of their own. First item on his report is that In 10,000 homes where there would have been no Christmas because of the lack of food will be found baskets filled with what it takes to make a Yulctide dinner. All Join in Giving There was not a benevolent, fraternal or civic society, not a church or social group, which did not distribute Christmas baskets to the needy today. “Item two,” continues Saint Nick. “Three hundred fifty children, some without shoes, others without even the slightest apology for winter clothing, were warm and snugly clothed. These weer the children benefited by The Times Clothe-A-Child campaign. Thousands of other children were clothed by neighbors. Then comes the report of the Christmas clearing house that toys, baskets of candies and fruit totaling far in the thousands were also distributed by benevolent Hoosiers. Rejoicing in Jail -JVnd it’s all because.it’s Christmas In Indianapolis. Even the prisoners in Sheriff (Buck) Sumner’s bastile know that it, is Christmas, by the holiday bill of fare. First of all, the 248 prisoners were permitted to receive gifts (files barred) and then the Sheriffs Christmas dinner was served. It called for stewed chicken as the main dish and its necessary corrollary, dressing, then came stewed vegetables, cranberries and candied yams, fruits, mince piece and coffee. The Christmas program in the jail was opened with services at 10 a. m. by the Wheeler City Rescue Mission. The inmates in the women s quarters had the same menu with an additional touch of cheeriness, in that they have trimmed a large tree. Children Get Tree A Christmas menu also was served at the city jail. Entertainment for thousands of poor children is provided for today, and Saturday at the Sheriff's Christmas circus at B. F. Keiths theater, w'hcre the orphaned and the maimed will be special guests today and Christmas candy and fruits will be provided. Fifteen hundred boys and girls were guests of the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club at two Christmas parties Thursday night, with Arthur (Turn to Page Three) FATHER OF 10 KILLED Walks Into Path of Train on Way to Christmas Celebration. By United Press RACINE, Wis., Dec. 25.—A passenger engine brought death to a Christmas eve party here Thursday night. Joseph Dederich. 65. Racine, was to have been the guest of honor of his ten children. On his way home to the celebration he was struck by a, Chicago & Northwestern train at a. crossing within a block of the house. . . , . Witnesses said Dederich walked under the lowered gates and into the path of the train. His body was hurled more than seventy-five feet along the right of way. Though the bodv was mutilated and the skull crushed. Dederich’s eye glasses w-ere found intact after the accident. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 37 Ba. m 38 *7 a. m 38 9a. m 38

Just Nasty By United Tress NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Sidney S. Lenz today received a Christmas present from Ely Culbertson, his opponent in the much publicized contract bridge battle. It was a copy of Culbertson’s book on contract. Culbertson, with the same cock-sure attitude that has characterized his part in the contest, inscribed a tribute in the fly-leaf to ”the grand old man of bridge, whose contributions to the game made the writing of this book possible." Culbertson is leading by 14,525 points with the contest more than half-way over. Oswald Jacoby, Lenz’ partner, also received a copy of Culbertson's ‘‘blue book.”

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 196

BANDIT IS SLAIN, LOOT RECOVERED, IN BANK HOLDUP

350 Children Given Joy in Clothing Drive

THERE'S a light a-shining today. It shines by day and by night. It will keep a-shining for the next year. It’s a light with a heart, a soul, and the warmth of humanity. It’s a light o’ love, of making ragged lads and lassies comfortable in new garb. It's the light that says “Merry Christmas” to you and “a Happy New Year” today. It’s the light that burns for you who have gone down into Poverty Valley and left the shine of Bethlehem’s star to rest among the unfortunates of 1931. And it's the same light that has blazed for a month in this city of ours, and in that month—through the Clothe-a-Child-for-Christmas campaign of The Indianapolis Times—made 350 boys and girls of school age safe from cold, illness and grief of deprivation. ana LODGES, sororities, fraternities, single men and single women, married couples, business firms and neighborhood groups brought the total to 350 children clothed in a year that finds "depression” on every lip. The campaign had more individual donors than the drive of 1930. The “white-collared” worker—the man with a job and even a sliced salary—was responsible for the campaign’s success as much as any other factor. * He dug deep in his pockets to give youth a chance to find a warmer path in life. City bowlers —with a score of twenty-seven children clothed — played Abou Ben Adhem on the list of donors. The Universal Club, with twelve children clothed, ranked second and took the pole position for individual organizations in clothing children. a a a AS for honorable mention—a weak method of giving laurels—the following groups and individuals deserve “thanks” from the city’s indigent as well as The 4 Times: AffiFfliiAtf Legion Monthly, six children;" Sigma Alpha lota sorority, eight children; Mr. and Mrs. William D. Vogel, five children; Lincoln office of Indiana Bell Telephone Company, seven children; Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., six children; Columbia Conserve ompany, five children. And as the campaign reached its climax on Thursday afternoon, a great big heart widened and, without asking “how many to go to make 350, just closed the campaign by taking enough children to make that number. The Great Big Heart incorporated other hearts in the form of employes of the office of Sheriff Buck Sumner. “We’ll take ten children,” they said, as they closed the campaign with 350 children. mam Approximately $4,500 was expended in the campaign. Many l groups and individuals of the 1930 campaign cared for their children of 1930 instead of seeking new names from the list of 1931. It is estimated that approximately 450 children received warm clothing through the year’s drive. Relief agencies of the Community Fund and the social service department of the Indianapolis public schools will be able to spread their relief budgets over a wider area, due to the cheery giving of the Clothe-a-Child men and women. The agencies and the Christmas Clearing House co-operated in investigating the'need of children in the campaign. The agencies thank you, Clothe-a-Child folk. The Indianapolis Times thanks you. The children—why they they’ve already thanked you by word and act. And as it’s Christmas day and you’ve all that you wished for, there’s nothing we can wish you except that—well, we wish that the light that shines today may always shine in your heart.

GILBERT SCORNS RUMOR Jack Thinks Remarriage Story May Be “Exaggeration.” By United Press BEVERLY HILLS. Cal., Dec. 25. John Gilbert, screen actor, was at his home here today, inclined to treat reports of a v visit to the east, in connection with a possible renewed romance with his divorced wife, Ina Claire, as an “exaggeration.” He did not comment on the reported romance, but made it plain it was physically impossible for him to spend Christmas with Miss Claire, who is in the east. Friends said remarriage plans were “just another rumor.” FOUR HURT IN CRASH Automobile Crash Spoils Christmas for Family. Two children and their parents were injured in an automobile crash on the National road near Plainfield early today and weer rushed to Methodist hospital here, where extent of their injuries as yet is undetermined. Roy Banta, his wife and two sons, Joe 7, and George 3, were in Banta’s automobile on the way to Plainfield for a Christmas day party, when the caripplunged off the road.

Three Accomplices Caught by Vigilantes After Dunkirk Robbery. By United Press DUNKIRK, Ind., Dec. 25. The Christmas eve robbery of the First State bank here brought swift death to one bandit and capture for the three remaining members of the robber gang. A few minutes after the gang had scooped approximately SI,OOO into pillowcases and sped out of town under a hail of rifle bullets from viglantes’ guns, they were captured on a farm nearby. The loot was recovered. The dead bandit was Tony Capitan, 35, Hammond. Those captured were Frank Trealetta, 32, Chicago; Lawrence Appotelli, Chicago Heights, and Lorenz Capelli, 23, Steger, 111. Police said the three confessed immediately to the robbery and attempts were being made today to connect them with other bank robberies. Abandon Car and Flee Entering the bank shortly before closing Thursday, the four men menaced Charles Fitzpatrick, cashier, and three employes, Florence Smalley, F. A. Littler and W. A. Littler, with guns. Forcing the employes into a rear room, the bandits gathered the available cash and fled. Fitzpatrick immediately rang a burglar alarm that aroused the town business men, armed for such emergency, who fired on the bandits from doorways of buildings. The robbers were driving an armored automobile said to have been stolen in Chicago. The gasoline tank was punctured by a shot fired by Hugh Barnett, war veteran, and a mile out of town, the automobile ran out of gas. Abandoning the car, the robbers discarded the money, fled to a field followed closely by a posse of vigilantes. Capitan became separated from the other and attempted to shoot his way to freedom. He was shot through the abdomen. The others ran toward a barn on the farm of Straus Steele and, when the posse closed in upon them, they surrendered without firing a shot. Linked With Other Holdups Charles Bolte of the state department of criminal investigation questioned the men today in an effort to connect them with other crimes in Indiana and Illinois. The dead bandit was said to have been wanted in New York for murder. Sheriff Lon Wehrly of Jay county said the three remaining robbers had confessed to other robberies, but he refused to disclose details of their confession. Witnesses of the robbery of the Citizens bank of Hartford City attempted to link the gang with that robbery, but failed. The dead robber, however, was identified as a member of the group that robbed the Hartford City bank.

YULE JOY FOR TWINS Sisters Are Celebrating 81st Anniversary Today. Twin sisters, Mrs. Anna Stangenberger and Mrs. Caroline Schwenk, will celebrate their 81st birthday anniversary with a Christmas party tonight for relatives and friends at the home of Mrs. Stangenberger, 17 East Caven street. The sisters were born in Germany on Christmas day, 1850. They have been residents of Indianapolis for fifty-nine years, and have lived in America since they came to this country with their parents seventythree years ago. Mrs. Schwenk, who lives at 2935 Manlove avenue, has two children, Mrs. Emma Kemp of New York and Mrs. Dan Mahoney of North Salem, and two grandchildren. Mrs. Stangenberger is the mother of seven children, Charles, Phillip, Louis and Edward Stangenberger; Mrs. Fred Elder, Mrs. Thomas Devere and Mrs. Harry Weiland; two grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

TEDDY LOSES DIGNITY, SPREADS FIRE ALARM Terrier Saves Lives, as Flames Wreck Building. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Dec. 25.—Teddy, Harvey Harvey’s fox terrier, is 11 years old, and dignified. He’d sleep all night on the first floor of Harvey’s tenement house. He never prowled, never howled, never scratched. All that now must be spoken of in the past tense. Today Teddy changed his ways. Harvey was awakened by a howling and scratching at his door. He opened it. Smoke rolled into the room. Teddy, his nose held low, was outside. Teddy ran ahead of Harvey to the door of another tenant, Mannis Langfeld, and repeated his alarm. The Lengfelds and Harvey aroused the other tenants and all escaped before fire wrecked the building. Firemen said Teddy should have a medal. “Never mind the medal,” said Harvey. “I’ll get him a big soupbone.” Business Man Kills Self By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 25. Illness and financial reverses are blamed in the suicide of Frank Sibley, 39, superintendent of the South Bend Foundry Company, whose body was found in the office of the company. He ended his life by shooting.

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SENATE FIGHT IS FACED ON 0. S. PAY CUT Jones of Washington Will Battle Plan to Slash Federal Wages. MOVE CALLED UNFAIR Obstacle Placed in Path of Congressman Seeking Reductions. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—The chairman of the senate appropriations committee, Senator Wesley Jones (Rep., Wash.), today threw the power of his office against proposals to reduce federal wages and personnel. Jones’ resistance to the growing move in congress placed a definite obstacle in the path of curtailment proponents, because his committee probably will decide the issue. It is understood generally that he has the backing of the White House. The dispute far transcends the mere reduction of salaries of federal employes. Government action might prove to be a deciding factor among those industries, like the railroads, which have maintained their wage scales. It involves also the strong position taken by Mr. Hoover a year ago against wage cuts in any industry. If federal salaries are cut now, the action might be considered an invitation to industry generally to do likewise. Cut Branded Unfair Jones opposes Senator Borah’s plan for a 10 per cent government wage cut on the ground that it is “unfair.” He questions the advisability of Senator Harrison’s plan for reduction of federal personnel, on the basis that personnel already has been cut. “If there are any useless employes, they ought to be cut,” Jones told the United Press. ‘‘But a reduction of salaries would bring an almost infinitesimal reduction of expenses. We must find more important reductions than that, if we are to cut government expenses. “I assume the budget is cut to the bone in the first place. We have not found any wasteful or extravagant proposals. If we think that the federal employes should contribute more, we can adjust the tax bill on that basis. Last to Get Increases “Federal employes are always the last ones to get increases in prosperous times. We delayed raising their salaries for too long a time. I do not believe they should be the first to be cut. “They have made their contributions to the present situation by giving money for relief. I should think they gave generally about what a 10 per cent reduction would cost them. “I can not see any justification in cutting them now.” Jones said he had written a letter to Pat Harrison, asking what the Mississippi Democratic senator had in mind in his pending resolution proposing a $300,000,900 reduction in the budget.

WOMEN DRIVERS HAVE FEWER AUTO CRASHES Comprise One-Fourth of All Motorists; in Mishaps. Although women comprise nearly one-fourth of all drivers, they are to blame for less than 7 per cent of accidents in the nation, Frank Hatfield, president of the Hoosier Motor Club, disclosed today. “Out of 36,806 drivers in fatal accidents, 94 per cent, or 34,671 were male drivers as compared to 5.8 per cent, or 2,135 women. “Whether the better record of women drivers as to fatalities is due to better driving, or not being behind the wheel for so many miles as men, is not indicated in statistics. All factors considered, it seems evident that women on the whole are proving most careful and capable drivers. CAR THIEVES FLEE COP Policeman Fires at Fugitives, but Loses Them in Chase. Two auto thieves escaped from a stolen car Thursday night as Police Lieutenant Leo Troutman ordered it to a halt, the crooks making their getaway amid a hail of bullets. Troutman lost track of the car thieves after a chase from Fourteenth and Illinois streets to Thirteenth and Pennsylvania streets.

Yule Tragedy By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—There was a Christmas tree in the John Hornik home today, but the father and mother and five children paid it no heed. John Hornik Jr., 10, brought the tree home. He begged it from a merchant when his father, unemployed for six months, said he could not afford much of a celebration. The lad was breathless, with excitement and exertion when he brought in the spruce sapling. They would have a bit of a Christmas after all, he said. On Christmas eve, the boy died—of a heart attack brought on by the exertion and excitement of carrying home the tree.

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NATION ENJOYS MILD WEATHER Mercury Far Over Maximum for Christmas. By United Press ' CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—1 t will be a green Christmas over the greater part of the central United States, weather forecasters said today. Though the recent unseasonable warmth which set strawberries to growing and bees to swarming has been abated somewhat, the weather remains mild. The government weather service reported that, with exception of northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, parts of the Dakotas, and upper Michigan, the central states were barren of snow. Temperatures will remain in the forties and fifties, far above the usual maximum, forecaster > said. Over most of the country fair weather was predicted. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Mild weather ushered in Christmas along the eastern seaboard today. Temperatures were the highest ever recorded for this time of the year in many places. Only in the mountainous districts was snow reported, and there only a trace. CITY DODGES WINTER Mild Weather Is Forecast for Tonight. No change in prevailing temperatures tonight and Saturday, is the United States weather bureau prediction today. There may be a drop tonight, officials said, but it will be slight. The skies will stay fair, the forecasters said, adding that rising temperatures are expected in the northern part of the state.

USE OF LEGS IS YULE GIFT TO PARALYTIC Minneapolis Man Wins Fight to Overcome Old Affliction. By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 25.—Paralyzed for three years after he broke his neck, Bernard Marks, 19, Minneapolis, today discovered that he can walk again. “I can't balance myself yet, but my legs will hold me up,” Marks said. Marks exercised his legs for the last three months, as much as possible. His aim was to stand erect on Christmas day despite the prediction of physicians that it would be impossible. The exercise, and massage by his stored some strength to his legs. “On New Year’s I’m going out for a long walk,” Bernard boasted. Bernard fractured his neck while doing gymnastics. He was near death for months. WIDOW TAKES POISON Mrs. Mary Coy Despondent Since Suicide of Husband. Despondent since the suicide of her husband a month ago, Mrs. Mary Coy, 41, of 921 Park avenue, this afternoon swallowed poison in an attempt on her own life. She was taken to the city hospital, in serious condition. Ora Coy shot himself in the chest in the basement of their home Nov. 17 after he had returned from a charity organization with food and money. He had been out of work several weeks at the time of his death.

EE, judge, we just got to VJhave snow on Christmas day." And Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams answered that boyish plea this Christmas morn to the best of his judicial ability, in a special and unprecedented session of court. His honor did the only thing he could after he left his home to hear the case of Robert Wyant. 11, of 1429 Terrace avenue, and his brother Carl, 9, and all the other little Carls and Bobs versus the weather. Robert and Carl appealed to the weather man Thursday afternoon. He made the sky cloudy, sent the mercury tumbling, and had brisk winds blow from the north, but —no snow. x x it “TUST look, your honor, Carl's J got a sled and I got these skates and .hockey stick, but we can't use any of them unless there's snow and ice," Robert pleaded. “Won’t you do something for us, please?” Williams dug into the archives and pulled forth the command of the law—an order mandating J. H. Armington, weather man, to “produce snow forthwith or before the sun sets this afternoon.” “Boys, that’s the best I can do,” Williams said. “I know how it is. There used to be plenty of snow and ice when I was a kid. But things have changed and I guess the weather has, too. You take that over to the weather man and tell him the judge wants snow as bad as you boys do.” JAM MANILA STREETS IN YULE CELEBRATION Filipinos Make Christmas Most Joyful Holiday of Year. By United Press MANILA, P. 1., Dec. 25. Filipinos and foreigners crowded churches of Manila and the provinces today for the observance of Christmas. Only the Mohammedans, a small part of the population, did not join the celebration. Beggars observed the custom established in the old Spanish days and congregated at the church doors. Thousands of Manila residents lined up in the streets leading to their respective churches early this morning. Mass lasting five hours was said in all Catholic churches. Festivities were lively in the provinces, where the Filipino makes Christmas his happiest holiday. CONDOLENCE TO IL DUCE Stimson, Other World Statesmen Offer Sympathy to Mussolini. By United Press ROME, Dec. 25.—Premier Benito Mussolini received the condolences of Secretary of State Stimson on Christmas eve on the death of II Duce’s brother, Arnaldo Mussolini. “1 am stricken at learning of the death of your brother, Arnaldo. I send you my sincere condolences, on your loss,” Stimson’s message said. Mussolini also received messages of sympathy from Henry P. Fletcher, former United States ambassador to Rome, and from statesmen and heads of governments throughout the world. SOVIET THWARTS~ PLOT Embassy Aid Linked With Conspiracy Against Japanese Ambassador. By United Press MOSCOW, Dec. 25.—Reports that a member of the staff of a "certain embassy” had been asked to leave Moscow because he plotted to involve a minor Soviet official in an attempt against the life of the Japanese ambassador were current today, but lacked official confirmation. Name of the embassy said to be involved was not revealed. It was said the Soviet official who was approached notified Soviet political police, who in turn informed the foreign office, p

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JAPAN TO SEND HANDS OFF NOTE Three Powers Will Receive Warning From Tokio. BY MILES W. VAUGHN United Press Staff Correspondent TOKIO, Dec. 25—While Japanese troops widened their drive against Chinese in Manchuria, the government of Premier Inukai today prepared a note to the United States and other world powers warning them against unwarranted interference in the conflict. The Japanese communication was understood to be a “hands off” warning in answer to notes from the United States, France and England, all of which expressed concern over the Japanese military operations against Chinese bandits. The operations have been considered a serious threat to Chinchow, in South Manchuria, where some 25,000 Chinese regular troops are concentrated. W. Cameron Forbes, American ambassador, visited the premier and reiterated the United States viewpoint regarding Chinchow. Inukai indicated thatt Japanese troops must drive all “disorderly” elements out of Manchuria. The French and British communications were in notes from Paris and London. It was understood the government was displeased by the attitude of the three powers and considered | their representations as impertinent and unwarranted. In reply, j the premier prepared to send notes j through Japanese ambassadors, ex- | pressing apprehension over the siti uation in the Chinchow area.

CHARGES HUSBAND USED GUN TO FORCE'WEDDING Springfield (III.) Woman Seeks to Have Remarriage Annulled. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 25. Charging that her divorced husband forced her to remary him at the point of a gun, Mrs. Helen Applegate, Springfield, filed a bill for annulment of the second marriage in Sangamon county circuit court here Thursday, The bill set forth that they were divorced last September in Logan county circuit court, but that Wednesday Applegate forced his former wife to drive with him to Riverton where the second ceremony was performed. Mrs. Applegate said her husband had a revolver pressed against her throughout the ceremony. Circuit Judge Charles G. Briggle granted Mrs. Applegate an injunction restraining her husband from molesting her.

SANTA GIVES TICKET IN CATERPILLAR CLUB Veteran Air Mail Pilot Takes to “Chute” Over Eastern Hills. By United Press CLEVELAND, Dec. 25.—Jimmy Johnson, veteran mail pilot, peeked down in his stocking this morning to find that Santa Claus had left him a membership in the Caterpillar Club. He earned it last night with a forced leap from his mail-laden plane over the “Hell stretch” section of western Pennsylvania, while en route from Cleveland to New York. The leap, forced by the crumbling of a wing, occurred three miles south of Kylertown, Cleveland airport attaches reported. Although the plane was demolished, the mail was not damaged. A relief ship, dispatched from Cleveland, took it aboard and few into New York for Christmas delivery. Johnson was a World war pilot and formerly flew a passenger route between Cleveland and Detroit.

Dead? Revives The dead man came to life—in a hurry. . He barely cheated the hearse, he probably believes today. At 11:50 Christmas eve, the police emergency squad was called to the rear of 632 North West street, on a report that a dead man was lying in the alley. The “body” was gone when the officers arrived. They learned that Herbert Willis op:rates an undertaking establishment at 632 North West street. Willis reported that he drove his hearse into the alley and started preparations for removal of a body from the hearse. The supposed “dead man,” roused from his dreams on the pavement, jumped up and fled, terror stricken.

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RELIEF BILLS ASK MILLIONS FORMLESS Costigan and La Follette Lead Fight to Aid Unemployed. HEARINGS NEXT WEEK Hoover Veto Is Expected to Halt Move for Federal Appropriation. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Senatorial enjoyment of the Christmas holidays is to be interrupted by consideration of a bill for federal relief to the country’s unemployed. Two relief bills are pending before the senate manufactures committee. Senator Costigan (Dem., Colo.) would appropriate $375,000,000 to help feed and shelter the jobless this winter and next. Senator La Follette (Rep., Wis.) sponsors a bill to appropriate $250,000,000. Hearings on these measures will begin Monday or Tuesday. Both projects are in direct defiance pf President Hoover’s policy that there shall be no expenditure of federal funds for direct unemployment relief. The hearings will offer opportunity for representatives of national organizations of social workers to state the degree of suffering now existing and the potential hardships confronting the unemployed throughout the cold month*. Aid Held Insufficient The first group of witnesses will be largely from New York and Philadelphia. A representative of the Russell Sage Foundation will present statistics on unemployment. These are expected by Costigan to demonstrate that local relief funds, such as have been sponsored by Walter S. Gifford in behalf of Mr. Hoover, will not be sufficient to cope with the relief problem in the r.ext seventeen months. It is estimated that from 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 persons are without work. A year ago, during the Christmas holidays, there were | senate committee hearings at which | Arthur Wood j, chairman of the President’s emergency committee on employment, testified that more than 5,000,000 persons were without work. Preliminary investigation by Costigan indicates that there has been no reduction in unemployment figures since that time and such in- | formation as is available suggests that the army of jobless has gained unhappy recruits in the last year. Beaten Last Winter Mr. Hoover’s congressional lines held firmly last winter against a j variety of proposals for unemployment relief. Congress contented itself with an appropriation for relief of drought areas. The Red Cross refused to accept administrative responsibility for federal relief funds and the policy of the Organization is stated by Chairman John Barton Payne, at that time, was that unemployment relief was not within the scope of Red Cross activities. During the last year, congressional enthusiasm for direct federal relief has increased. Some senators believe a majority of both houses will support a compromise relief measure based on the Costigan and La Follette bills and other proposals | contemplated. But there is no general belief that, | a direct federal appropriation could I be passed over Mr. Hoover’s veto, j In view of his determined opposi- | tion to direct relief, it is assumed on j Capitol Hill that the President I would veto such appropriation. Wants $125,000,000 for Relief Costigan’s bill is more detailed ! than La Follette’s. The Coloradan ! proposes appropriation of $125,000,000 for relief this winter and through the year to July 1. The additional $250,000,000 would be available during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933. Both bills would create a federal board for unemployment relief. Os the Costigan appropriation, To per cent would be allocated to the states in proportion to their population. The remainder would constitute a “reserve fund for emergency allotments.” The children’s bureau of the labor department would be charged with administration of the relief. To become eligible for participation in the federal appropriation, states would be required to set up i agencies to co-operate with the children’s bureau.

EINSTEIN SOON IN U. S. German Scientist on Way Back to Sunny California. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25.—Professor Albert Einstein, noted German scientist, is scheduled to arrive at Los Angeles harbor aboard the motor ship Portland next Wednesday evening on Thursday morning, officials of the Hamburg-American steamship line announced today. Professor Einstein and his wife are en route here by way of the Panama canal, and will come direct to Los Angeles. The scientist expects to remain four months in Pasadena, conducting scientific researches at the California Institute of Technology. Cars Damaged in Garage Fire One car was burned early today and another scorched slightly in a fire at a garage in the rear of 1416 East Raymond street. Allen Yates, occupant of the house, estimated the damage at about $375.

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