Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1932 — Page 5

SEPT. 20, 1932.

HERE'S A CREDIT FIRM EASY ON MANY CLIENTS' County Courts Have $61,000 on Books; Do Not Bother Jobless. One Installment plan firm in Indianapolis has 2,500 debtors who owe $61,000 and never dun them for their paiments, if they're without jobs. And by the end of 1932 the “red” ledger of the firm will reach $65,000. The Arm could be called Misdeeds, In% if its real name wasn’T the probation department of the municipal courts of Marion county. It is a department that extends credit on punishment for misbehavior by permitting its debtors to pay at the rate of a dollar or two a week on offenses against the city ordinances. Accumulated Since 1928 The $61,000 in fines owing the department have accumulated since 1928. The depression and inability of the law violator to pay for his gin party or his beer bottle battle has resulted in the years of 1930 and 1931 increasing the red side of the department’s books. When 1932 opened, the department had $43,577 in unpaid fines listed in its files. The first eight months of this year have added $25,782 to that amount with but $8,097 collected in the same period. ‘‘We’ll get it all, or least most of it, when times get better,” declared Solon C. Vial, chief probation officer. $77,000 Is Collected Vial pointed out that despite the fact that lawless of the city are in arrears $61,000 for past misdeeds, extending over four years' time, that his department has collected 377,000 in the same period of time. "Collecting 60 to 70 per cent of the fines in these times is a good average," he says. He says the cost of each probationer is 1.9 cents a day and that he collects 2.9 cents a day from them. He estimates that in 1931 the taxpayers were saved $58,536 in feeding costs in the jail and $42,276 in the state farm by the installment plan of paying off fines instead of jailing them to serve time for nonpayment. "We’ve declared a moratorium on all those owing fines who are without jobs. Money merely is a byproduct of our office. Often I’ve asked some woman or man when he or she came to pay an installment on the fine, ‘Can you spare this dollar?’ ’’ Vial explained. Sometimes Refused "In fact,’’ he continued, "I’ve told them sometimes, when I knew they were slighting the food of their children, to take the money home and use it where it would do the most good and to come and pay us when they could afford to.’’ Each probationer is card-indexed with the amount of the fine owing. He is given certain days of the month for reporting on his probation and to pay off his fine. If he fails to report notices are sent to him, he is called by phone, and as a last resort a patrolman is sent with a warrant to bring him into court for failure to keep faith. Vial says of the 2,500 who owe for

Results In 1931 Marion County Building and Loan Associations reduced dividends to safeguard investors’ money. During the past three years they have increased their reserve funds. ®The laws of the State required them to put into effect the “notice of withdrawal” clause. Results? Yes. Investors’fund* have remained 100 % safe. Value of shares are still 100 cents on the dollar. . Building and Loan Stock is one which has been unaffected by fluctuation of other stocks and is still one of the best investments to be obtained. / THE MARION COUNTY of BUILDING 6- LOAN ’ ASSOCIATIONS Copy right. 193*. k. V. Orindle, Indianapolis, tart

Valveless Gas Engine Is Invention of City Man

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Four-Cycle Device for Boats May Revolutionize Motor Industry. After eighteen years work, John Irvine, 141 West Thirty-sixth street, has completed invention of a valveless four-cycle motor for boats that he claims may revolutionize the gas engine industry of the country. The motor on which Irvine obtained the first patents in 1914, has been perfected to such a degree that he forecasts it will use from one-fourth to one-half the amount of gas and oil used by other motors. Valveless motors of two-cycles are in use, but inventors have failed with four-cycle engines due to a sticking of cylinders. Irvine overcame the sticking, and

their misdeeds that only about 400 are actually without work and dependent on charity for sustenance. “The rest are working either full or part-time,” he said. Vial’s installment plan firm is bothered by “run-outs” just as commercial firms are. "Some leave town, but if they ever come back here they’re on our records. We have collected fines in full that have been owing for a period as long as three and four years,” he concluded. SUBMARINE-AUTO IS LAUNCHED BY INVENTOR Craft Geared to Ride on Ocean Bottom at 5 Miles an Hour. By United Press BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 20. A one-man submarine automobile, equipped with wheels, and geared to ride along the ocean bottom at a speed of about five miles an hour, was launched Monday by Simon Lake, inventor. After four weeks’ mor? work the craft will be taken to Montauk Point where Lake announces he will give a practical demonstration of its use in salvage work and for taking undersea movies. The submarine weighs ten tons and cost from $15,000 to $20,000.

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the model shown in the above photo has been tried on an outboard boat at Broad Ripple and proved successful. he says. The motor is water-cooled. It is capable of pushing a launch at the speed of forty miles an hour. Two other valveless motors, aircooled, have been manufactured by Irvine. He claims the valveless engines can be made in either type, air or water-coolod. Irvine plans to obtain financial backing to manufacture the motors for boats. He says that it is only a matter of time before the same type of a motor can be used for airplanes and automobiles. The valveless motors were built in the garage shop that Irvine operates. He was a former member of the old National racing car team of the Indianapolis Speedway.

JIM PLEDGES BONUS ‘WHEN IT’S POSSIBLE’ Cag’t Strain Nations Finance, Watson Tells Veterans. By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Sept. 20.—Declaring that the government would pay the bonus to World war veterans when the financial condition ol the country would permit it, Senator James E. Watson addressed a large crowd at the Monroe county courthouse here Monday night. "When we get able to pay the bonus without straining government finance, we’ll pay it,” Watson said. “The former service men are interested in the financial stability of the country because of their investments in their compensation claims.” Senator Watson was made an honorary member of the SpanishAmerican War Veterans who sponsored the meeting. Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion were guests at the meeting. The senior senator told the Spanish-American war veterans that their pensions would not be reduced. American transport planes are now flying on an average of 150,000 miles a day.

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BROOKHART BIDS FOR FARM AID IN DASH WEST May Run for Re-Election as Independent After lowa Parley. BY HARRY FERGUSON I'nited Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart sped westward today toward an: lowa cornfield to place his political future in the hands of 1,000 discontented farmers. Defeated in the Republican primary and apparently headed for private life, Brookhart may decide to gamble on running as an independent and riding back into the senate on a wave of agrarian dissatisfaction. His decision will be made Wednes- j day when he reaches a stubble field I outside of Moville, lowa. Already hundreds of farmery, j caught in the whirlwind of the de- I pression and the farm strike, are on the march for Moville. There they hope to find a Moses' to lead them into the promised land of prosperity, and indications were today that they were pinning their faith on Brookhart. In Homespun Words A telegram phrased in the homespun language of the farm belt, arrived at Brookhart’s office Monday. In twenty minutes he had cleared his desk and announced his intention of going before the farmers in one final plea for continuation of his political life. The telegram sent by Ed A. Ellison, farm strike leader, said: "We have been key-noted, sour- i noted, radio-hooked and Hooverized. We are sick and tired of hokum and hooey. Our families are underprivileged, our schools menaced, and we are mere caretakers of the farms we live on. “Every time an alleged farm relief plan is passed, its operation and manipulation is put in the hands of the same old bankerpolitical group. We are meeting, a thousand of us, Wednesday afternoon in a cornfield at Moville to devise ways and means to reach Washington militantly through you. You are our senator. You alone can start our battle and organize senators from other agricultural states. Answers Immediately "Have you got the guts to get out here by airplane and spend the night and day among us? We may seem aroused and angry. We are You get here Wednesday for this farm mass meeting and help us through coming sessions of congress. Answer immediately.” Brookhart said: "Your telegram sounds like real business to me. I am ready for the fight and will get there by plane.” Later Monday Brookhart took a train for Chicago, there to transfer to a plane for the rest of his journey. Brookhart was defeated in the primary by Henry Field, who freely dispensed chicken stew to the voters. When criticised for giving away food, Fields retorted: “Better have chicken stew than the old Brookhart boloney.”

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