Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1932 — Page 5

APRIL 13, 1932

OFFICERS GIVEN ! SPECIAL FAVOR: GY CONGRESS Emergency Group Allotted Plum for 'Service’ in World War. (Continued from Page 1) make a life career of their profession. while emergency officers return to civil life when war ends. A few members of the senate made a minority report on the bill saying: ! “In Justice to the enlisted men, who are Just as patriotic and deserving as the officers ... in Justice to the widows and orphans of those who 1 made the supreme sacrifice ... in justice to the taxpayers of the United States, on w hose shoulders j the burden of these expenditures would rest, we respectfully dissent from the views of the majority.” Objections Swept Aside Their objections, together with those of the President, were swept aside. Congress was aware at the time it enacted this legislation that it already had provided for all disabled service men, regardless of rank with a generosity which now has run the bill up to a total of $1,000,000,000 a year. Twenty-eight per cent of the retired officers are physicians, 1,730 in number. The only group exceeding it are 2,251 infantry officers. No other combat branch of the service approaches in numbers the medical men on retirement pay. Yet there were proportionately fewer doctors in the army than there were combat officers. Some Justification for this situation lies in the fact that medical officers averaged a higher age than other officers. prior to the passage of this law, many of these officers were receiving regular disability compensation along with former enlisted men, and on the same scale. Compensation Is Boosted Average compensation per month per man for this group was $52. When congress approved the new j scheme, it jumped the average compensation by 270 per cent. * Although congress took no account of the financial needs of these ex-officers, a study of official records reveals the fact that at, least 420 of them now have full-time jobs in various federal departments. These were divided as follows: Veterans, administration, 289; state department, 7, war department, 21; department of agriculture, 20; department of justice, 11; treasury department, 41; department of the interior, 11; department of commerce, 13, and the navy department with two in Washington and others not enumerated in the field. Names and addresses on the retired list of emergency officers shows that hundreds of additional ones in civil life give business addresses, indicating they have jobs. Given High Pay Pay of the cx-officers now in government service runs, for a few, as j low as $1,200 a year. The majority j get from $3,000 to $7,000; a few others get from $7,000 to $9,000. j Retirement pay adds from $lO6 to j $2lB a month to this. The majority of those in the j employ of the veterans' administration on retired officers’ status i are doctors. Their duties include I rating and passing on character and extent of disabilities. The law thus puts these phy- ' sicians in such position that they j can decide whether their friends and associates employed in the: same government department with them are entitled to retirement pay. It has been a definite policy of these articles not to single out individuals by name for the purpose of citing examples; but there is one case which illustrates perfectly the workings of the emergency pfficers’ retirement act. This incident is the granting of retirement pay of $187.50 a month to William Wolff Smith, who is drawing $9,000 a year as general counsel to the veterans’ administration. The Case of Smith Smith's rase has been discussed publicly in congress and the courts, and for that reason mention of his name here is felt justified. Representative Thomas L. Blan- j ton of Texas, recently introduced a bill for the repeal of the emergency officers’ retirement act and fully reviewed the Smith matter. Here is the story Blanton told hisi fellow-congressmen: “That Smith entered the service in 1918 as a sanitary corps cap-i tain thirteen days before the armistice, but that examination showed him to be unfit for combat duty, since he had a hernia, defective vision and three missing teeth. “That in 1920 he was appointed captain in the regular quartermas-i ter corps after another physical I examination showed him to have the ' same defects, and that he was discharged from the regular army in 1922. the record showing at the time that he had no wound, injury or disease, whether incurred in the service or otherwise. Given Retirement Pay “That Smith joined the veterans’ administration in 1923 at a salary of $4,000 a year: that on Oct. 27, 1927, he was examined for a major's com- j mission in the reserves, at which ; time it was noted there was no sign of hernia, although he had some mild throat trouble. “That the day after the emergency officers’ retirement act was passed, he applied for retirement, on the ground of 30 per cent service- j connected disability. He was turned down. He appealed his case several times and finally was granted retirement pay." Some of the lay testimony offered to prove Smith’s disability is interesting. A subordinate of his said that since she had known him “he always has carried more than the usual number of handkerchiefs." But Captain Watson B. Miller, chairman of the rehabilitation committee of the American Legion, gave some of the most impressive testimony. It had to do with the "scores of times” he and Smith had played golf together. Conduct Within Law “I have seen him walk a long distance over the holes with golf club in one hand and his other pressed on his lower left side,” swore Captain Miller. “Major Smith and I j are about the same age and weight; i

Odd Jobs—No. 7 Snipping Scissors Waft *.Fame * to Wondering Small Towners

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Miss Vivian Day, 336 South Hamilton avenue, snipped paper dolls as a girl and now her adeptness with scissors pays her a weekly wage. —-

BY ARCH STEINEL “TkA-RS. BELINDA BLANK has been ailing the last week with lumbago. She’s better at this writing.” Do you remember lines similar to these in the local column of your home-town paper? Then do you remember how you’d see Mistress Belinda after her illness? Then she’d tell you, in wonderment, that someone must have read she had lumbago and gave her name to a company selling cures for ailing limbs, and how she was being deluged with printed matter to buy a bottle of “No-Rub,” or some liniment. But now Mistress Belinda can be told that her neighbors were in no wise to blame for reporting her frailty to a patent medicine company. The blame—and you can not call it that, if your rheumatism or neuritis persists in getting in the local columns of your paper—is placed squarely upon forty woraecn in Indianapolis, who make it their business to search for human aches and pains with a blue pencil. tt tt tt THE women are employes of the Central Press Clipping Service. 912 Knights of Pythias building. They read and clip 5,000 papers weekly in the states of Wisconsin. Michigan. Ohio;" Illinois. Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana. And it’s just one of their oddest of odd jobs, thus looking for illness in the town’s personal notes. Daily papers in large cities are poor fields for these hunters of rheumatics, but the small-town weekly is virtually a gold mine. Twenty misses in the clipping bureau blue-pencil the town’s sickly; watch for mention of various products of corporations bids to be let for street lighting, waterworks, fire trucks, and even notes for publicity-hounds who buy the clipping service. The blue-ronciled papers then are given to six misses who do nothing but snip the paragraphs from their columns and paste them to folders. u tt t THE misses who read for items will average fifty to sixty papers a day, while the clippers, with their sharp sheftrs, will wade through 250 to 300 papers daily. The clipped paragraphs are folded, filed and mailed to the company or invidual subscribing for the service. The readers read for everything under the sun in serving clients. “Serial stories and the comics in daily papers are my hardest trials,” says Harry W. Dragoo, owner and manager of the bureau. ‘‘They’ll stop their reading for the company sometimes long enough to peruse a serial story. That’s when I wish every serial story was in the bottom of White river. Or, they’ll be clipping at a good pace and then they’ll stop long enough to see what Major Hoople is doing or read Polly and Her Pals,” Dragoo says. Dragoo is the city’s largest newspaper subscriber. He pays out an average of $6,000 yearly for subscriptions to newspapers that his misses cut into shreds. K tt tt BUT just think of all the money he makes selling the waste paper,” you may remark. Wrong! for Dragoo actually pays money to have the waste papers hauled away. A job as a reader or clipper means that the employe has a recess twice daily during work hours in addition to lunch hour. “I’ve found a ten-minute rest in the morning and the afternoon is conducive to more efficiency,!’ he says. But if the misses who read and clip should tire cutting out the illnesses of others and become de-

on twenty-five or thirty occasions, when we have been doing similar things, he has had to quit before I did; on one occasion, when we were playing golf, he got as far as the seventh hole and quit, and didn't say why he quit, but he had some reason for doing it; it may have been associated with his service connected disability.” Smith got his money, but he had in no way violated the law in doing so. Nor had the veterans’ administration in granting it to him. His conduct was entirely .within the meaning of the statute as promulgated by congress, and the courts fully upheld him in a lawsuit brought by a taxpayer. This particular case is prominent only because of Smith’s position with the veterans’ administration. Many prosperous ex-officers in private life have taken full advantage of their pension opportunities in precisely the same way that Smith has.,

pressed, they always can perk up at the knowledge that they’re insured, for Dragoo has provided a SI,OOO insurance policy for each of his employes payable to any beneficiary she may name. And you ask one of his readers

BURGLARS HUNTED Six Escape in Series of Robberies; Loot S2OO. Two burglar suspects were cap- ! tured and six others who were routed are sought by police as a result of several thefts Tuesday in which loot totaled more than S2OO. Two Negro boys were held today at an orphans’ home after being j captured Tuesday night following : theft of goods from a pharmacy at | Twenty-fifth and Station streets. Owner of the store told police he , would not prosecute. Awakened early today as a prowler entered their bedroom, Mr. and Mrs. John K. Anderson, 1302 West Thirty-fourth street, routed the in- , truder, who escaped through a window. Personal belongings of | unestimated value were stolen, they I told police. Attempt of a Negro thief to enter a home at 938 West Thirty-second street early today, was frustrated when Mrs. Clara Morris, occupant, screamed. Chased through the downtown district Tuesday afternoon, after stealing six dresses from a department store, two Negro women escaped from pursuers. Other thefts reported to police are: Prank J. Koesters. 527 Terrace avenue, sls: Kroger store. 4488 West Michigan street, unestimated; Sam Levine, 22 west Thirtv-eighth street, $45. and Ronald Roberts. R. R. 12. Box 204. S2O.

PAVING TO BE LET 500 Miles to Be Contracted by May, Says Sapp. By Times Special TELL CITY, Ind., April 13.—Five hundred miles of paving will be contracted for by the state highway department by May, Arthur Sapp, Huntington, state highway commissioner, told members of the Chamber of Commerce here Tuesday night. This will put the state paving program two months in advance of last year and increase the total mileage fifty miles over the 1931 program, he said. In addition, 1,000 miles will be made dustless by oil or calcium chloride treatment, Sapp explained. FACES TRIAL FOR ARSON Man Charged With Firing House in Which Wife’s Body Was Found. By United I’re** Portland, ind., April 13. George Bowers went on trial in Jay circuit court here today on a charge of having set fire to his home here about a year ago. The body of his wife was found in the house after the fire, which started under mysterious circumstances. Bowers was arrested on an intoxication charge while an investigation was made by the state fire marshal's office. Subsequently it was disclosed that Mrs. Bowers died of suffocation, presumably while she attempted to save some papers which were kept in a closet. Bowers was indicted by the county grand jury on a charge of arson. He has been in jail, since his arrest in default of bond. MUDSUNGING IS BANNEP Democratic Candidates Warned Against Slanderous Attacks. Democratic primary candidates were informed concerning the financial provisions of the corrupt practices act at a meeting in Democratic headquarters, State Life building, Tuesday afternoon by Howard Coughran, committee treasurer. * H. Nathan Swain, county chairman, told the candidates the committee would tolerate no slanderous attacks on other candidates and instructions would be given sponsors of various rallies that if any one became vituperative in his address, a halt would be called instantly. Chicago Editor Will Speak Charles E. Snyder, Chicago Daily Drovers Journal editor, will be the principal speaker at the annual Founders' day dinner of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity, at 6:30 Thursday in the Columbia Club. Snyder is national president of the fraternity.

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what she does with her spare evenings at home and she’ll say, “Read.” And you ask one of the clippers in hope of another retort, and you like as not will get, “Snip paper dolls for my niece.”

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to oolice as stolen belontr to: Harry Hudson. 1881 Shelbv street. Ford coupe, from 209 South East street. Carl L. Larsh. 1935 Arrow avenue. Chevrolet coach, from Sheldon street and Roosevelt avenue. Baxter Auto Comoanv. 1142 North Meridian street. Studebaker Dictator sedan, M-797. from rear of 1142 North Meridian street. Hugo Sommer. 1132 Pleasant street. Pontiac sedan. 18-492. from in front of 1132 Pleasant street. BACK HOME AGAIN 1 Stolen automobiles recovered bv police | belong to: Citv of Indianapolis, oolice souad car No 44. Plvmouth Tudor, found at New York : and Lansing streets. Dean Havnes. 1149 North Meridian street, found in front of 1611 Shelby street. SIO,OOO FRONT FOOT L Assessment Is Placed On Downtown Property. Property on the south side of Washington street from Illinois street to the alley east of Meridian street is the most valuable in Indianapolis, according to the final assessments of John C. McCloskey, Center township assessor. The property has been valued at SIO,OOO a front foot, and from the alley to Pennsylvania street at $9,500 a front sot. McCloskey completed his assessment of property in the mile square Tuesday, revising appraisals by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. Land fronting the Circle is assessed at approximately $4,22(5,000. SUE ON NOTES TO BANK Wild & Cos. Receiver Seeks to Recover $83,350. Promissory note suits for $83,350 were on file in county courts today, after their filing by Richard L. Lowther, J. F. Wild & Cos. bank receiver, had been authorized by Judge Smiley N. Chambers. The defendants and judgment ! asked dre: Samuel E. Rauh, $31,375; i Albert P. Smith, $13,275; Henry H. Hornbrook, $31,000. and Fred G. : Appel, $17,700. The notes were executed in 1921 1 and 1922. the suit charges, and were cancelled by bank authorities without authority. All of the notes were | for one year. POOL TICKETS SEIZED Cops Also Confiscate Liquor in Indiana Avenue Raid. Raiding an alleged gaming room jat 327 is Indiana avenue, Tuesday j afternoon, as the baseball season | opened officially, police arrested two j men and seized 600 pool tickets and j a small amount of liquor, they said. Richard Gaddie, 32, Negro, of 306 Edgemont street, was charged with operating a lottery and gift enterprise, and Clarence Brent, Negro, | of the Indiana avenue address, was charged with operating a blind tiger after he is alleged to have tossed a jug of whisky through a window as police entered. SORE MUSCLES UMBER (IP QUICKLY One application of Musterolg often bring* relief. Uteaonc* every hour for 5 hours thi* coun-ter-irritant'’ should give complete l jw^^^coinfort. iEßfisfli TRUSSES For Every Kind of Rupture. Abdominal Supports Fitted by Expet ts HAAG’S 129 West Washington Street

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JAPAN'S TROOPS KILLED, MAIMED IN TRWBLAST White Russians Blamed for Dynamiting; Manchurian Situation Tense. By United Press TOKIO, April 13.—Fourteen Japanese soldiers were killed and fifty injured in the wreck of a troop train dynamited on the Chinese Eastern railroad east of Harbin, ah official announcement today said. Reports to Japanese newspapers said Chinese guerillas had attacked Japanese soldiers at Mudken. The Nippon dempo agency said Communists of “a certain country” were being sought in connection with the wreck of the troop train. Dispatches from Changchun quoted officials of the C. E. R. as saying they had obtained material evidence against agents of an unnamed foreign country as instigators of a plot to blow up the Sungari railway bridge. The attack at Mukden was repulsed after half an hour’s fighting. Recent dispatches to the United Press from Moscow reported Soviet charges that white (Czarist) Russians in Manchuria planned to damage the Chinese Eastern railroad and involve the Soviets and Japan in a Manchurian quarrel. General Ma Heads Revolt By United Ptess SHANGHAI, April 13.—General Ma Chan Shan returned to the support of China today and announced proclamation of the independence of Heilungkiang province from the new Manchu state of Manchukuo. General Ma became a national Chinese hero when he opposed the

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CARROL EDGREN, insurance man, stood beside his Pontiac parked in front of his St. Paul home, to add 40,500 and 63,000 and note that they totaled 103,500. "That’s not the census of the Twin Cities,” he said as he displayed the result to the inquiring reporter. "It's my mileage on IsoVis Motor Oil . . . And I’ll bet the cars in last year’s road tests never came anywhere near that figure.” "It’s all Iso-Vis mileage?” demanded the reporter. Mr. Edgren nodded. "All of it,” he stated with some emphasis. "The 40,500 miles is on the speedometer of the Pontiac right here. The other 63,000 was the total on my other Pontiac when I turned it in. I figure I’ve covered the entire 103,500 miles in a little more than four years.

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Washington Last City in U. S. to Feel Depression i ’ By Unit€d Prtss WASHINGTON, April 13.—Washington perhaps more than any other single American city has escaped the full force of the depression. This Is easy to understand. Washington Is devoted entirely to the business of government. It has no industries and wants none. Its only nongovernmental business is that connected with the feeding, clothing, transportation, shelter and amusement of the thousands of government workers who live here. So. when industry, agriculture and finance go to the bow wows, it means little to the general business prosperity of Washington itself, in fact it may even make a little more work here.

Government employment actually has increased slightly during the last three years, partly due to the efforts of the government to stimulate business. Salaries of government employes never are high. They average approximately $1,250 a year. He gets no more during a boom than during a depression, but he has a steady job. m n m RENTS here remain at about their usual level. Prices of goods in restaurants are little changed. Department stores get only a little less than they ever

Japanese advance at Tsitsihar in the first Manchurian fighting. Later he appeared as the head of anew Tsitsihar government created by the Japanese. Thousands of indignant Chinese patriots disowned him. Tense at Harbin By United Press HARBIN, Manchuria, April 13 Reported dynamiting of a Japanese troop train on the eastern line of the Chinese Eastern railway added to tension among the Japanese military and Soviet officials of the railway. The Japanese used the line to transport troops for operations against Chinese irregulars alleged to be menacing Japanese. Troops of the Manchuku govern-

"A car to me isn’t just a sort of perambulator that you use to give the kiddies the air. It’s nothing but transportation. And I make it work. "I started to use Iso-Vis the first day it was put on the market in St. Paul. My friend at the, filling station gave me a sales talk on it and I took it for what it was worth. Then my repair bills hegan to give me a sales talk and I’ve stuck to it ever since. You can quote me on

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did for the things they sell, although recently prices have shown a greater tendency to totter—to the benefit of the government workers’ dollar. But now the government worker for the first time is taking with exceeding seriousness the proposals to cut his pay. The depression at last has hit him, and it hurts. , It is a serious thing for a man or woman making an average of $1,250 a year to face the alternative of either having that salary reduced, or of working only eleven months instead of twelve.

ment defeated a force of disbanded Chinese today at Taolaichao, on the southern branch of the Chinese Eastern railway seventy-five miles south of here, killing 300 and wounding 150. DIVORCE COURTS BUSY 30 Decrees an Hour Were Granted in U. S. in 1929, Scholar Finds. By United Press NEW YORK, April 13.—Thirty divorces an hour were granted in the United States during 1929, according to Dr. Alfred Cahan, whose doctor’s thesis has just been published by Columbia university. More than one in every six American marriages ends in divorce, Dr. Cahan's work revealed.

Carrol Edgren , insurance man of St. Paul, talks about transport tation—tells Casey how to drive 103,500 miles with minor repair bills.

DEATH SCENE IN i HIJACK KILLING IS IDENTIFIED Cops Press Hunt for Slayer of George Gardner, Rum War Victim. With locating of the spot wher# George Holland (Hots) Gardner, Indianapolis gangster, met death in a hijack war early Saturday police here and in Greencastle today pressed the hunt for Gardner's killers. Gardner's widow Tuesday identified a cap found on Rockville road eleven miles northwest of Greencastle. as her husband's. The headpiece lay near a pool of bicod, where neighbors said a running gunfight between two autos ended as one of the cars plunged into a ditch. Police believe Gardner was standing on the running board of his small roadster during the exchange of shots, and that he fell to the road when shot, his car veering into the ditch. Witnesses said the second auto returned to the scene as Gardner's car plunged off the road. There, they said, several bulky packages were shifted from one car to the other. Two hours after the shooting, a Joliet (111.) gangster known as “Mickey” ran into 'the Gardner home at 225 North Holmes avenue and notified Mrs. Gardner her husband had been shot. Gardners body was found slumped on the seat of the roadster which had been parked near his home. “Mickey” escaped after notifying Mrs. Gardner. Mrs. Gardner, another woman and two men were arrested following the slaying, but police indicated none of them participated in the shooting.

that if you want to. And get the total right —103,500 miles.” ♦ ♦ ♦ Mr. Edgren’s 103,500 trouble-free miles prove again what Iso-Vis has demonstrated in laboratory tests and in A. A. A. tests on the Indianapolis Speedway Positive Lubrication Protection. Iso-Vis (a Standard Oil product) will not thin out from dilution. See the Ball and Bottle Test at Standard Oil service stations and dealers.

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