Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1932 — Page 3

AUG. 2, 1932

BILL SLASHES EIGHT MILLIONS FROM PAY ROLL House Approves Measure to, Cut Pay of Officials and Employes. Second major retrenchment step of the house of representatives was on record today after passage Monday of a bill that would cut approximately $3,000,000 from salaries of Indiana governmental officials and employes. The measure, paring salaries from 5 to 20 per cent on a graduated scale, was relerrcd to the senate, where it is expected to pass. First expense paring act of the special session was taken last week, when the lowef house pased a bill reducing budgets of state departments and institutions 15 per cent. The salary reduction applies to supreme court and local judges, officers and employes of Purdue and Indiana universities, employes of Purdue and Indiana universities, employes of benevolent and penal institutions, and all state employes and executives, including school teachers. As the house plunged into the last two weeks of the special session, members were prepared to vote on a bill amended in the senate to suspend for three years the 2-crnt state levy for building funds of the state universities and normal schools.

The bill, as originally passed in the house, provided for a two-year suspension of the levies. Teachers who fought repeal of the teacher tenure law won a partial victory Monday in the senate, when the repeal bill was amended on second reading to exempt first, second and third class cities from its provisions. Salary cuts for Marion county judges would not become effective until Jan. 1, 1933, under provisions of an amendment passed by the house. The original bill stipulated salaries should be reduced immediately.

HOUSE DOWNS COUNTY COMMISSARY AID MOVE i Grocers Apparently Are Victors as Measure Is Amended. Move to establish a poor relief commissary in Marion county was defeated today in the house of representatives. Fight of grocers selling relief supplies to trustees for the needy apparently was won as the EganEllyson bill, providing for establishment of commissaries in townships naving a population of more than 250.000 was amended to eliminate Indianapolis.

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The giant Board of Trade building (above) straddles La Salle street in Chicago. When the Farmers’ National Grain Corporation complained that admission to the wheat pit was denied them, the federal grain futures commission ordered the board to suspend trading for sixty days, starting Aug. 8. The board appealed and plans to carry the fight against the cooperative group to the highest courts. In the A r Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southeast wind, ten miles an hour; temperature, 70; barometric pressure, 29.86 at sea level- ceiling overcast, lower broxen clouds, ligfu fog, estimated 1,000 feet visibility five miles.

DEFEAT EFFORT TO KILL TRUCK, BUS TAX BILL Measure Charged to Rail Lobby Hurdles One More Obstacle. Despite charges that the truck and bus tax bill ras written by the railroads to put their competitors out of business, the house of representatives today defeated by a 53-to-39 vote an attempt to kill the measure. A “bone” was tossed to the farmers in the form of an amendment which excludes their trucks, within a thirty-five-mile radius, from the 1 mill tax on the ton mile, but it was charged that this amendment is unconstitutional. Therefore, if the state supreme court rules out the amendment the drastic rates will apply equally to those engaged in agriculture, it was pointed out. Representative Howard S. Grimm (Rep.), Auburn, asked the bill be killed by indefinite postponement, asserting that where the trucks and busses bear 10 per cent of the national tax, the railroads only carry 4 per cent. “I believe that it takes unmitigated gall to introduce such a bill,” he declared. “I am opposed to this bill, but not a tax.” declared Delph McKesson of Plymouth, Democratic floor leader. “Every speaker for the bill has glossed over one point and that is that it places 100,000 .rucks in the state under the control of the public service commission. “In 1913 when the bill setting up the commission was passed, it was hailed as an added protection for the people of the state. “Yet, in this very session, we have passed some measures taking munic-ipally-owned utilities from under its control, because the public is not being protected. “Now we are putting every bus and truck in the state under its control. “It’s a mighty dangerous thing when you let the railroads set up the regulations for the busses and trucks, “This bill will wipe out many industries of the state which use their own trucks to transport products,” he said.

SEVEN TONS OF TINFOIL Thats Year Savings of Students as Aid for Hospital. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, Aug. s.—Seven tons of tinfoil, representing a year’s collection by school children of Medford, recently was delivered to Shrine hospital here, to be sold and the proceeds used for work at the hospital.

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Traffic Deaths in City 46 Per Cent Under 1931

Officials in County Record 53 Fatalities, Compared to 98 Last Year. Forty-six per cent decrease in traffic fatalities in Indianapolis and Marion county since Jan. 1 is shown in a comparison with fatalities in the first seven months of 1931. Including Aug. 1, there have been fifty-three fatal traffic accidents in the city and county, compared with ninety-eight for the same period last year, of which police records reveal that thirty-six occurred within the city limits this year, compared with sixty-six last year. If the same ratio of decrease in fatalities is maintained the remainder of the year, the city and county's total for the year should not exceed ninety-eight, as compared with 179 for all of 1931. Indianapolis in 1931 was tied with San Diego for eighth place among the 100 largest cities having the greatest number of automobile fatalities per capita, according to a government report just issued. The rate in this city was 42.2. Cities having a higher rate in 1931 were: Camden, N. J., 84; Miami, Fla., 52.4; Richmond, Va.. 48.8; Chattanooga, Term., 47.5; Jacksonville and Gary each 42.5. The report for various sections of the country indicates that in the more thickly populated centers fewer automobile accidents take place. Indiana reported 1,021 automobile fatalities in 1931, an increase of fifty-six. giving a rate of 31.3 fatalities per capita, compared with a rate of only 29.7 for the previous year. GENERAL SAYS CAMPS ARE GOOD INVESTMENT C. M. T. C. Recruits Cost Government 574 a Month, Asserts Drum. Each man in a citizens military training camp costs the government $74 a month, but it is a good investment, Major General Hugh A. Drum, commandant of the Fifth corps area told 1,600 men in training at Ft. Benjamin Harrison today in an address which was part of the closing program. The men will be paid at 6 Wednesday morning and leave for their homes. Heavy rain early today caused considerable curtailment of the closing program. Soggy ground prevented a series of competitive drills and a regimental review. The men found shelter in a hangar at Schoen field to hear Major General Drum and for awarding of about 200 prizes to winners in athletics and other camp activities.

Pikers City Leggers’Fixtures Are Spurned by ‘Feds’ as ‘Cheap Stuff.’

INDIANAPOLIS bootleggers are a bunch of pikers, or at least are highly economical, in eyes of the federal government. Asa result, federal dry agents find it unprofitable to take advantage of the federal statute permitting them to seize all furnishings in places where they buy liquor while armed with a search warrant. This was revealed today when John W. Morrill, deputy dry administrator, was asked why example of dry agents in Chicago and other larger centers in seizing lavish furnishings in bootleg joints was not followed here, Morrill explained that bootleggers here and in neighboring counties, as a rule, do not have furnishings worth confiscating. “The government would lose money in most cases,” Morrill explained, “because the furnishings are of so little value they would not bring enough at a sale to pay for storage from the time they were seized until the case had been settled in court. n u “ A ND if we did seize the fur--cV nishings, the bootleggers could replace them for $l5O or $200.” ' Indianapolis has nothing to compare with the lavishly furnished night clubs and other liquor resorts such as are found in Chicago, he said. Evee the bars in many of the “near beer” saloons in the large cities cost as high as $6,000, Morrill pointed out, and the loss of these makes it difficult for the bootlegger to start in business again. “But here, the average bootlegger has a cheap room, or rooms, with second-hand or cheap furnishings, which he can afford to lose and we can’t afford to confiscate.” But if any local ’leggers do decide to become “high brow,” and are caught by the dry agents, they will be minus their furnishings. Morrill warned. A GOOD BUSINESS SCHOOL Strong’ business, stenographic, secretarial and accounting courses; individual instruction in major subjects, large faculty of specialists In their respective lines. Free Employment Service. Fred W Case. Principal CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Pennsylvania and Vermont. First Door North V. W. C. A. Indianapolis. Ind

CIRCLE PARKING ACTION DELAYED - _ . Petition Fails to Reach City Council. City council consideration of business men’s petition for removal of the Monument circle parking ban was delayed two weeks when, through an oversight, the petition did not reach the council Mondaynight. The petition originally was received by the safety board, which referred it to city council without recommendation. The council delayed action Monday night on a proposed ordinance, supported by the Indianapolis Re-

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JOBLESS WORRY KIDS Use Pools in Such Large Numbers, Children Can't Get In. By United Prt st PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2.—The unemployed of the city are causing the municipal authorities considerable worry on anew front. While the problem of food and rent is acute, police officials said that the unemployed are using the municipal swimming pools in such large numbers that the children are unable to gain admittance. Asa result, patrolmen have been stationed at each pool.

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