Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1932 — Page 3

SEPT. 10, 1932_

SHIPPING TREND UPWARD HERE, SAY OFFICIALS Industrial and Commercial Firms See Business Gain, Is Conclusion. Business of local freight express firms is increasingly on the move, literally and figuratively, officials of raiway and trucking organizations said today. Increases in shipments handled by the Indianapolis offices of the companies can not be laid to seasonal trends, but are regarded as definite indication that commercial and industrial organizations are planning for more business this fall. “We have handled numerous shipments of blue-prints and patterns," said J. W. Dill, general agent of the Railway Express Company, which represents all railroads in the country with exception of some southern routes. Going Out After Business s “The nature of these express shipments indicates that tool and machinery companies are going out after business and that there is a demand for new eqiupmont,” Dill asserted. Express volume in the last two months "has shown increases beyond any anticipated spurt,” he added. Trucking shipments are increasing, according to Sam Smock, office manager of the Old Trails Express Company, Inc. Gain Shown in Volume “Shipping volume in June, July and August this year is much larger than In the corresponding period of 1931,” Smock said. “Handling less than carload shipments, the company recently has been carrying shipments of bulk oil in considerably larger volume than earlier in the year.” Next month will show a large increase in the volume of shipments handled by the Pacific fruit express, C. P. Burks, freight clerk, said. The company is anticipating that grape shipments from California will swell October volume, Burks said. According to estimates on the Pacific coast, approximately 69,000 car loads of fruit of all varieties will be shipped east in the next twelve months. A large proportion of the cars will be handled and routed by the local office, Burks said.

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Panring at Sky Harbor, so named because of its proximity to municipal airport, will continue through the winter months. Heating and ventilating equipment have been installed in preparation for colder nights. Speaker in a serviee Sunday afternoon in Cadle tabernacle will be the Rev. Harry B. Ferrell, Louisville, W. Va„ evangelist at large for the Baptist church of Virginia. E. Howard Cadle will speak on Sunday 1 night, on “For Sinners Only." State Senator J. Clyde Hoffman, Indianapolis, will address the North j Side Federation of Clubs Tuesday j night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. | George Q. Bruce, 2815 Sutherland j avenue, on the sales tax introduced j by Hoffman at the recent special session of the legislature. George Garner, tenor of international reputation, will sing, in a re- j cital Tuesday night at the Phyllis ! Wheatley braneh. Y. W C. A., under auspices of the branch's music department. Recently he sang in the Chicago civic opera house and for three years was soloist of the Second Christian Science church, London. England. Mrs. Garner will be the accompanist. Program will be presented by the Indianapolis Children's Civic orchestra at the first fall meeting of the Brookside Civic League Monday night at the Brookside community house. The orchestra will play Saturday night. Sept. 17, at a celebration of the widening of Sixteenth and Illinois streets, to be held at the intersection. Sates increase of 22.9 per cent for eight months of 1932 over the corresponding period of 1931 is reported by the Indianapolis agency of the Union Central Life Insurance Company. The company also showed a 13.1 per cent for August of 1932 over last August for the entire United States. Full credit for Polish language classes in accredited Catholic high schools was granted Friday by the state board of education. Request that Polish be given a high school rating along with German and other foreign languages was asked by the parochial schools of northern Indiana cities. George Wilding, Cleveland. 0., resident of Indianapolis until a few months ago and an employe of the Nickel Plate railroad for thirty-two -years, is a guest of Joseph Markey. connected with the railroad's legal department. A son was born Friday to Mrs. Allen _ Moorhead, formerly Miss Lenore Roche, at 5665 Broadway, home of her late father, Patrick Roche, city detective, who died last week. Andros, one of the Bahama islands, has a lake which generates its own soap from its alkaline limestone bed.

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MAGAZINE BAN HITS SOCIALISTS Political Pressure Alleged in Postal Order. By I fitted Press CHICAGO, Sept. 10.—The Social- | ist party charged Friday that postal authorities at Washington have prevented circulation of the party's national campaign magazine by raising “technical objections of a completely extraneous character.” Party leaders said they had been led to suspect that the magazine was being denied second-class mailing rights because it attacked President Hoover and his policies. An open protest against the delay was issued at Socialist national campaign headquarters after Edward Levinson, editor Qf Norman Thomas’ magazine, "America for All,” reported that he was unable to get this publication admitted to the mails. “Application was filed early in August,” Levinson said, “and all requirements were met.” On Aug. 18, he said, the postoffice department asked him again to submit his original orders and evidence that all copies sold in bulk were actually resold. Several other “technical” delays have since occurred. Levinson said.

FINAL ASSESSMENT ON * 16TH ST. JOB PASSED. Reduction of $108.25 in Cost Is Made; Contract Let for $543. Final assessment roll covering construction of the sidewalk on the north side of Sixteenth street between Illinois street and Capitol avenue was approved by the works board Friday, following reduction of $108.25 in the cost of the work. Contract for the sidewalk was let for $543.04, at the time of widening Sixteenth street elimination of the jog on Illinois street. The Indianapolis Power and Light Company assumed $108.25 of the cost because of tearing up the original sidewalk during maintenance work. AUTO THEFTS DECREASE Record of Recoveries Now 94 Per Cent, Hatfield Points Out. Brightest spot in the fight against criminal activity is the decrease in automobile thefts and the record being made in the recovery of stolen cars, according to Frank Hatfield, president of the Hoosier Motor Club, which is affiliated with the American Automobile Association. There were only 36.430 auto thefts in seventy-two cities during the first six months of 1932 as compared with 43,838 thefts in the corresponding 1931 period. Hatfield pointed out. The record now on stolen car recoveries is 94 per cent, he pointed out. LAUDS LICENSE LAWS Drivers’ Requirements Cut Traffic Mishaps. Todd Stoops Asserts. States without requirements for drivers licenses are showing the greatest increase in traffic fatalities, Todd Stoops, secretary-man-ager of the Hoosier Motor Club, affiliated with the American Automobile Association, said today. States that license operators of motor vehicles after an examination and test have had an average increase of 139 per cent in motor fatalities in twelve years as against an Increase of 249 per cent in states with an optional examination or fee payment. Stoops asserted.

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Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross to Speak Three Times for Democrats. Both major political parties have arranged a busy schedule of meetings next week. High point on the Democratic program is the visit to Indiana of Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Governor of Wyoming, and vicechairman of the national committee. Three appearances have been arranged for her. She speaks at New Albany Wednesday, and at Matthew Grove in Vermilion county Thursday afternoon, and at Terre Haute that night. Paul V. McNutt, Governor candidate, will accompany Mrs. Ross. Democratic state candidates will meet here Sunday to make arrangements for the formal campaign opener. Senator James E. Watson ad-

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Returns From Washington and Plans New Tours; ‘On Go’ for Years. BY SHELDON KEY Home again in the Hoosier capital, his favorite city, George L. S. Banes, 87. farmer, traveler, and collector of curios, today searched travel books and musty library records for “new worlds to conquer." He already has proved that a man never is too old * to satisfy his wanderlust. Yet, he wants to "take to the road" once more. The octogenarian, with flowing chin whiskers, pongee suit and walking staff, arrived from the east, after visiting Washington and other large cities. This summer he spent two months studying historical landmarks and shrines in Washington, D. C., always walking and refusing to take a street car. "Climbing Bunker Hill was grand.” he asserts. “I always had yearned to see the famous battlefield I had read so much about.” Son of a mjller, a towpath boy and woolen worker in his youth. Banes tilled a Hoosier farm for half a century, then set out to satisfy boyhood ambitions. He wears spectacles and must use a reading glass at the library, but says that he eats anything and is in prime health. He claims West Lafayette as his real home. His residence is filled with curios. He possesses fifty canes of historical significance, about a quart of ancient coins, and a seventy-two-pound seashell. which he says is the second largest in the world. He purchased it at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. When at home, he rests by rock-’ ing in a chair which Jesse James, famous desperado, is said to have used. The chair was acquired from James' mother, tvhose acquaintance Banes made while traveling through Clay county, Mo. Occasionally he abandons his walking stick for a cane said to have

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dressed the Indiana Women’s Republican Club luncheon here at noon today, while Raymond Springer, Governor candidate, spoke at the Kiwanis state convention at French Lick. McNutt appeared on the same program. After a speech at Michigan City Sunday night, Springer will make five speeches. His schedule follows: Monday, Floyd county rally, New Albany: Tuesday, Corydon in afternoon, Salem in evening; Wednesday, Madison; Thursday, Indian apolis. , McNutt will speak at a meeting in Decatur county while Frederick Van Nuys, senatorial candidate, will address a meeting in Elkhart Saturday. Monday. Van Nuys will speak at Veedersburg and Tuesday at Greentown. He will appear at Petersburg Wednesday and Clinton Thursday. McNutt will speak in Noblesville Wednesday noon before going to New Albany. Friday, McNutt will address a Starke county meeting at Kntfx.

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Mr. Fixit—The weeds on English avenue from Sherman drive west to Dearborn street are so high that people have to walk in the street. Please do something’ before some one gets killed or crippled. A TIMES READER. Tour request has been filed with the street commissioner’s office and will he placed on the schedule of a weed-cut-tin*: *an*. Mr. Fixit —There is a vacant lot south of 5516 North Pennsylvania stret where weeds are taller than your head. M. D. The street commissioner’s office has been notified of the condition you mention. Mr. Fixit—After grading of Fourteenth street between Bosart and Linwood. the dust almost is unbearable as the traffic is very heavy. We would appreciate it if you would see that this street either is oiled or cindered. J. S. L. Tour request has been referred to the street commissioner. Sunflower Reaches Toward Sky KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. Sept. 10.— The sunflower W. -W. Sproule has in his backyard must be trying to climb to the sun. It is not full grown yet, and already it has attained a height of sixteen feet. It bears thirty-six blooms.

AL LIKELY TO 1 BREAK SILENCE ON VOTE RACE Harmony Note Expected to Be Sounded by Smith in Sunday Statement. By l itited Petr* WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Alfred E. Smith is about to break his si- j lence, which has disturbed Demo- , cratic leaders and has delighted j Republicans, in a public statement which party leaders believe will sound a harmony note. Democrats have reason to expect that this statement, which prob- i ably will be made Sunday, will line up Smith solidly behind the Roose- | velt forces in New York state and against Ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City, and such lammany j support as still clings to Walker. Thus his pronouncement would have the effect of healing the party | rift due to the coolness between Roosevelt and himself, and, at the j same time, minimize the Walker affair as a source of trouble in New York. Smith was moved to break nis long silence, it was learned today, by a group of leading Democrats who conferred with him last Sunday. They included mutual friends of himself and Roosevelt. POSTAL RECEIPTS KEPT SECRET BY MAIL CHIEFS Comment in Washington Aroused by Withholding of Information. By Scripps-Hoicard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Failure of the postoffice department to make public the postal receipts for July and August has aroused comment here. The monthly compilation of postal receipts is regarded as a business barometer, and suspension of publication is unusual. Inquiry of Third Assistant Postmaster Tilton today elicited the information that on orders of Postmaster Brown, the statistics will be withheld indefinitely. Publication is discretionary ■with the post-master-general. "The operation of the new rates can not be determined by the results of one or two months,” said Tilton. "It will not be until Christmas that a comprehensive idea can be obtained as to their i effect upon revenues.” The new rates went into effect j [ July 6 and the statistics for two i months under the increased sched- \ ules therefore are available now for j comparison by the department with ! postal revenues under the previous | rates. ANTS REVERSE SYSTEM Find Way Home Through Maze With Food in Experiment. 1 B,y Science Service ITHACA, N. Y., Sept. 10.—When psychologists want to test the intelligence of an animal, they wait until he is hungry and then see how quickly and well he can learn j to find his way through a maze at | the end of which lies the coveted ;food. That is, this method works with ants, Dr. T. C. Schneirla of New ! York university, reported to psychologists here at the meeting of the J American Psychological Association. Dr. Schneirla gave a standard | maze problem to two groups of ants jin two ways. The first lot learned the maze in successive trips, un- ! laden, from the nest to a food-place. | The others learned it in a series of | trips laden with food, from the foodi place to the nest. j The latter group learned the maze I more efficiently and in fewer trips j than did those going toward their I food.

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Rio Grande on Rampage

Flood waters of the Rio Grande, from the gulf to a point above Eagle Pass, Tex., caused upward of $2,000 000 damage. Nuevo Laredo, across the river from Laredo, Tex., suffered heavy damage. Buildings near the river front were covered. The circled part of the picture shows re.scue operations. Officials fear several bodies may be found when the flood recedes.

Strive to Force Action on Barrett Fee Shortages

State Board of Accounts Prods at Office of Attorney-General. Effort was made by the state board of accounts today to obtain action against county treasurers from the attorney-general's office on Barrett law fee shortages which have been pending now for several years. The list of those against which j such shortages are charged includes James O. Leek, former Vigo county j treasurer, and now a candidate for j state auditor on the Republican ticket. Report of an alleged shortage of $1,442.23 was made against Leak by Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts, Dec. 15, 1930. It then was certified to Attorney-General James M. Ogden for court action or collection and has reposed in Ogden’s office since. Action has been urged repeatedly by the state board of accounts on this and other cases and today Walter Owen, deputy chief examiner, conferred with Charles Edwards, deputy attorney-general, who has the cases. Following the conference, Edwards said Owen was not discussing the Leek case in particular, but a similar shortage of $1,854.86 charged against Miss Marcie H. Barton, former Madison county treasurer. Leek is alleged to owe the money to the city of Terre Haute and Miss Barton to Anderson. Both reports

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SHORTER WORK WEEK PROBED BY U. S. BOARD National C. of C. Launches Survey as Probable Long-Time Policy.

By Scripps-N award Newspaper A Wanes WASHINGTON. Sept. 10—New impetus was given the short work week movement today by announcement that the United States chamber of commerce will make a special investigation and report on the subject, considering it as a :ong time policy as well as an emergency measure for relief of unemployment-. A special committee, headed by P. W. Litchfield, president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, will make the study, and repo|t preliminary findings to the board of directors of the chamber late this month. Litchfield said his committee particularly will interest itself in the effect of establishing shorter working hours in establishments where it has been tried, and will seek to determine whether a general policy may be enunciated applicable to all types of industry. Litchfield's own company began spreading work by reduction of hours some time ago. Hours per shift first were reduced to six. Working days per week then were reduced from five and one-half to three. Last winter all of the company's employes were working eighteen hours a week instead of forty-five hours worked in 1929. The same hourly and piecework rates were paid under part time operations as under full time, and salaried employes were cut 12 ’ = per cent. During seasonal increases of production. the company has been run- | ning five six-hour shifts a week. Litchfield does not intend to operate more than forty hours a week as long as there are unemployed workers in his territory capable of doing his work. Rose island, part of the Samoan group, has the distinction of being the most southern land to which the United States has undisputed 1 possession.