Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1933 — Page 13
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U. S. INDUSTRY URGED TO AID CODE ADOPTION Major k 'fits May Be Asked to Lead Way on 35-Hour Week. sl4 Minimum. HEARINGS ARE CALLED Delay Seen as Danger to Recovery: Roper Issues Warning. BY RUTH FINNEY Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON. July 13. Large Industries gathering here next week for hearings on their codes of fair competition may be called on by the administration to lead the way toward establishment of a temporary thirty-five-hour work week and sl4 minimum wage for men. Various ways of putting the plan into effect are being discussed. Under one of these, a few leading indutries would announce agreement to observe the general schedule pending effectiveness of their own codes. Other industries then would be asked to follow these leaders. The temporary schedule plan is being delayed for a few days because of a feeling that unless some industries are pledged definitely to it at the time it is announced, difficulties may be experienced in getting it observed generally by voluntary agreement. Plan Up Monday The plan will be considered by the national industrial recovery' board Monday and by the President’s new super-cabinet council Tuesday. Meanwhile, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper, chairman of the recovery board, has issued a new warning of the dangers that go with delay in adopting codes. "Every effort should be made to prevent distortion of existing conditions by speculation,” said Secretary Roper. "This speculation may take either of two forms. First is speculative advance buying against prospective demand. This form serves only the selfish purpose of the speculator. It contributes nothing substantial to the relief of existing conditions. Code Hearings Ret On the contrary, it reduces the consuming power of the scant wages now being paid. The second form, advancing production against prosspective future demand, is shortsighted. It contributes nothing to the need for increased purchasing power.” Three code hearings already are set for next week, with a possibility that a fourth may be added. The codes of the shipbuilding and ship repair industry and the electrical manufacturers’ industry will be heard July 19. The lumber code hearings begin July 20. The shipbuilders’ code proposes a forty-hour week and minimum pay of 35 cents an hour in the south and 40 cents in the north. Electrical manufacturers propose a thirty-six-hour week and 35 cents an hour minimum for most of their employes, with certain exceptions.
FRIGIDAIRE TO START ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN Summer Drive Will Aim at Seasonal Buying: Slump. Launching immediately of one of the largest summer newspaper advertising campaigns in Frigidaire history to counteract the so-called summer buying slump, was announced Wednesday to a meeting of sales managers, dealers and salesmen of the Indianapolis trade area. H. J. Walker Jr., manager of the public utilities division of the Frigidaire Corporation, refrigeration and air conditioning subsidiary of General Motors, and other executives came from headquarters at Dayton, 0.. to address the meeting. Walker said household Frigidaire production in June surpassed any thirty-day period in the company's history and he believed results of the summer program facing 15,000 Frigidaire dealers and salesmen would vindicate increase of the factory personnel to a point nearly equal to that of the 1929 boom days. TAX DEADLINE STAYS Extension of Time Not to Be Granted, Says Collector. No extension of time on gross receipts tax payments will be granted, it was announced today by Collector Clarence Jackson. Deadline for payment is Saturday. All persons or firms taking in more than $166.67 during May and June have been asked to pay the tax. The law provides penalties for failure to pay quarterly installments in excess of $lO.
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DRIVER HURT IN HIT-RUN CRASH Car Overturns in Accident; Operator of Truck Is Injured. Police are seeking the hit and run driver of an automobile, which sideswiped a car driven by Fred Drexler, 1302 East Market street, as he was going north on Keystone avenue, Wednesday night. Drexler was injured. Drexler’s car ran into a ditch, where it overturned. He suffered severe lacerations of a hand and other injuries. He was taken to city hospital. Drexler said another motorist following him pursued the hit and run car. A truck driven by James Kersey, 20. of 3007 East Tenth street, collided with a car driven by Mrs. Frank Dennie of 5346 Park avenue, Wednesday, at Broadway and Fortyninth street. Police gave Kersey first aid treatment and took him to city hospital. Neither Mrs. Dennie nor Hick Haraka, 21, of 3503 East Sixteenth street, passenger in the truck, was injured. Police patrolling East street, near Washington street Wednesday night found an abandoned car which had struck an iron post at the railroad elevation. They later arrested Glenn Beman, 3346 Carson street, owner of the car, charging him with drunkenness.
Railroad Men, Residing in Indiana, to Pay New Tax
An odd point was raised in an inquiry regardless the state income tax in a letter received by The Times Tuesday. A railroad man. working on a division which is half in Indiana and half in Illinois, stated that he earned income about equally in both states, and spent about the same amount in each. Both states have income tax laws and he asked whether he should pay in both and on what basis. The letter, submitted by The Times to the income tax division, was answered as follows: "If legal residence is in Indiana, the full amount of tax must be paid here. If in Illinois, the rail-
Rapid Progress Made by Pupils in Times-Broad Ripple Swimming Class
THREE lessons, given under direction of Earl Montgomery and his fourteen assistants, have been all that was necessary to teach many of the entrants in The TimesBroad Ripple pool swimming course to swim. Coupons published daily this week in The Times entitle readers to the free course. Only cost is the admission fee to the pool. A complete review of each previous lesson is given daily, in the three classes. A class is held each morning at 8:30. one at 3:30. and one at 8:30 at night. Following the review, Montgomery' gives directions for the new lesson. Personal supervision of each pupil is taken care of by the group of instructors working with him. At the end of the week, tests will be given, and swimmers passing will be awarded certificates, authorized by the Red Cross. Three hundred i persons received certificates last
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RULES REVISED FOR CHOICE OF POSTMASTERS More Liberal Regulations Will Speed Up U. S. Appointments. AGE LIMIT PUT AT 66 / Interview System Dropped; Residence Requirement Cut to Year. BY MARSHALL McNEIL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. July 13. Slight liberalization of rules under a presidential order just written probably will see the patronage mill grinding out Democratic postmasterships faster than heretofore. Under the new order, these changes will be made: Applicants for postmasterships of the first, second, and third class | will notify Washington of their qualifications by sworn questionI naire and a saving will be effected !by discontinuance of the practice \of having special agents from the | postoffice department and the civil service commission interview appli- | cants. The maximum age limit has been j increased from 65 to 66 years. Residence Limit Cut The minimum residence requirement has been decreased from two years to one year. Officials at the postoffice department reported that congressmen j were "tickled to death” with the new regulations. In the future, as in the past, the civil service commission will rate the applicants for jobs, certify three to the postmaster-general, and he and the Democratic congressman in whose district the postoffice in question is located, will decide the appointment. “Contrary to the general public impression, there never has been in the case of presidential postmasterships of the first and second classes a real civil service examination,” Postmaster-General James Farley said. "In other words, the candidates never have been assembled to stand a written examination.” No Examination Planned No such examination is planned now. Mr. Farley said that one reason the change was made was that “the large number of applications for appointment which have been filed since March 4 made it evident that if this plan (the old plan of having agents interview applicants, were to be followed there would be great added expense and much delay in filling vacancies. That future changes are contemplated to take postmaster appointments out of politics was indicated by Mr. Farley. He said that his department would prepare legisla- ! tion to suggest to the next session of congress to put all, postmaster- ; ships under civil service. An official at the civil service said that the new rules would not make the appointment of postmaster easier, but explained that there was “precious little difference” between the new and the old plans. A. T. & T. DENIED CUT State Tax Board Refuses to Slash Valuation $2,000,000. State tax commissioners today refused to accede to a request from ! the American Telephone and Telegraph Company that its Indiana holdings be cut in assessed valuation by $2,000,000, it was announced by Philip Zoercher, chairman. The company owns the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, which is : taxed separately. Present local and state assessment for A. T. & T. is a little more than $19,000,000, Zoer--1 ch°r said.
road man's income is not subject to the Indiana tax.’’ In reply to another letter of inquiry, the division replied: “Partnerships should file a return showing gross receipts of the firm as well as the divisional share of each partner. “A partnership is required to file a return showing gross receipts regardless of whether any distribution of dividends has been made. This is because the tax is upon receipts, without regard to the factors of profit and loss.’’ Citing its ruling that receipts from sale of goods outside Indiana, but made in the state, are taxable, the division states that as this point is in litigation, need not be reported as income until January, 1934.
They're "in the swim" at Broad Ripple pool this week. Dozens of children and adults are taking advantage of the free swimming lessons
summer m a similar course of instruction. j Special diving instructions for exI perienced swimmers are given by i
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933
Millions Will Pour Into Pocketbooks of Workers Under Gigantic U. S. Navy Plan
Labor to Have Huge Share in Laying Down of 32 New Ships. BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON. July 13.—Nearly a quarter billion dollars will jingle in the pocketbooks of expert American shipbuilders during the next three years because the United States, has a sailor President. That would be labor’s share in the $238,020,000 to be spent in building thirty-two new naval ships, the $9,362.000 to be spent on 290 new naval planes, and an additional $75,000,000 that may be spent on modernizing existing ships. For Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the house naval committee, calculates that 85 per cent of the money spent on new ships goes for labor, and a large percentage of the remodeling expense and plane cost would reach the same destination—the pockets of skilled workers. 32 Ships in Year These thirty-two new ships are all to be laid down this year, Navy Secretry Swanson has announced, in addition to the seventeen ships now building. Nearly $50,000 000 will be spent this year. Sixteen vessels will be built in the government yards at New York, Charleston, Mare Island, Bremerton, Portsmouth and Philadelphia. Bids will be opened July 26 from private yards for the other sixteen ships, with Colonel H. L. Roosevelt, assistant secretry of the navy, emphasizing that such bids must be “satisfactory” or practically all the work will go to government yards. Already Portsmouth navy yard has been awarded two submarines, and New York and Charleston yards a small gunboat apiece. By Aug. 1 it is hoped to have most of the others allotted and the work well under way. The work, Secretary Swanson points out, will employ "many thousands” directly, and “many more thousands” indirectly. Many Trades Affected Sixteen major trades and 100 smaller mechanical trades in many states are affected. Steel, iron, lumber, cork, rubber, metal fixtures, fittings, valves, electrical equipment, brass, lead, zinc, paint, interior decoration, insulation, tiling, furniture and furnishings. galley and pantry equipment, hardware, tools, castings, all these lines should feel almost immediately the stimulation of the navy’s program. Important as the navy building program is because of its immediate effect on business and employment, it is even more important as a definite step in naval policy. It has been a foregone conclusion that Franklin D. Roosevelt as President would bring into play the knowledge of the navy during the war. and be influenced by the natural feelings of a skilled sailor who loves the kick of the wheel and the roll of the deck. The fleet today depends on restrictions laid down in the treaty of Washington *1922) and the treaty of London (1930). The treaty re-
EXCESS RAIL INCOME ORDERS DISMISSED Formal Action Taken on 20 Lines by I. C. C. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 13.—The interstate commerce commission today dismissed orders directing twenty railroads to pay to the treasury money which was recoverable under provisions of the old transportation act. The dismissal was a formal proceeding, undertaken in accordance with provisions in the emergency transportation act repealing the excess income provisions of the interstate commerce act. TIRE MEN TO FROLIC Indianapolis Dealers to Hold Third Annual Celebration. Third annual outing and golf tournament of the Tire Dealers' Association of Indianapolis will be held Friday afternoon and night at the Broadmoor Country Club. Golfers will compete for three cups offred by Indianapolis newspapers and for prizes donated by various tire manufacturers. There will be an entertainment program during the tournament and at a banquet at night. E. B. Oscars is general chairman, assisted by F. M. Bancroft, H. E. Scott, ack C. Carr and E. E. Short. Fire Destroys Wheat Crop. By United Press LAPEL, Ind., July 13.—A cigarette stub dropped by a wheat thresher on the Ellsworth McClintock farm, southeast of here, ignited a fire which destroyed five acres of wheat before the Lapel fire department could bring the blaze under control.
Arno Wade. "Some members of the classes who didn't know anything about swimming before their first lesson
I' i I SHIPS TREATY RATIO ACTVALLY IN COMMISSION j SOaJdMBiJ&UKL | jmdLii hL. 149 | 9 8 / U STATES I JW. t. r~@ - ——
Full speed ahead, with “a bone in her teeth” —the U. S. S. New York . . . The chart graphically illustrates the contrast between the actual ratio of the naval fighting forces of three great powers today, as against the ratio that would exist if the three navies all were built up to their full treaty strength.
suiting from the Washington conference was the first ever to limit naval armament. It was signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy. It remains valid until ended by one of the contracting powers cn two years’ notice. Under it the nations scrapped hundreds of ships, built, building, and authorized. The United States itself scrapped
Artificial Production of Babies Is Not 'Right Thing to Do,’ Doctors Say
E,y Science Service ARTIFICIAL insemination is the scientific term for the procedure by which synthetic babies are produced, like the three daughters of Mrs. M. A. Hommel of Los Angeles, now the,subject of publicity in connection with a lawsuit. The procedure has been used in human cases and also in stock breeding. It is a usual custom in horse breeding. But a recent survey of physicians who successfully had practiced it showed them to have decided to stop recommending it. Possibility of infection was given as the principal objection by one of these doctors. The others did not consider it was the right thing to do. The survey was undertaken in connection with a proposed scheme for procuring donors for artificial insemination. The question of such donors raise many interesting problems, it recently was pointed out in the Pennsylvania Medical Journal. It would be assumed that permission of both husband and wife first must be obtained. The donor
MILL'ONS SPENT BY WORLD FAIR VISITORS Report Shows Almost §4,500,000 Expended at Exposition. By United Press CHICAGO. July 12. Nearly $4,500,000 was spent by the 3,961.927 persons who visited the World fair up to July 7, it was announced today. The exact total spent of the fairground was $4,421,956.40. divided as follows: Shows and spectacles, $1,046,000; restaurants, $1,300,000; refreshments. $491,000; rides and amusements, $454,000; souvenirs, $374,000; transportation and utilities, $526,000; games and vending machines, $86,000 and miscellaneous, $24,000. Each person spent an average of $1.12, of which 33 cents went for meals, 13 cents for transportation and 12 cents for refreshments.
in The Times-Broad Ripple pool course, under the direction of Earl Montgomery and his instructors. Here they are shown, lined up for the lesson.
Monday actually are swimming now.” Montgomery says. “They need practice, of course, to gain ease and better form, but they have learned
twenty-eight battleships and battle cruisers, more than it kept. It gave up much to this treaty, for at the rate of building as the World war ended, it would have had by 1924 easily the first navy in the world. The United States, equipped with a fleet at the end of the war that had no equal, rested on its laurels. The ships grew old and out-of-date.
must be free of venereal infection of any kind. Drunkards would not be acceptable, nor would those giving a family history of hereditary diseases. Naturally, the fertility of the donors would be known definitely. Legal as well as medical questions arise. Who would be the father—the donor or the husband? The question of inheritance also might arise. Artificial insemination has been practiced successfully between husband and wife in certain cases when it was otherwise impossible for them to have children. In such a case, of course, fraud might be practiced on the wife by an unscrupulous physician and husband, a donor becoming the father of her children instead of the husband. One of the most interesting applications of this method was the suggested attempt at crossing ape and man. So far as known, this experiment never was actually made, but the plan was to inseminate artificially a human potential mother, in the hope that she would bear a child whose father was an ape.
Auto Accident Victim Dies; 1933 Traffic Toll Is 64
An appalling year-end auto fatality toll for Marion county was indicated today as the death list since Jan. 1 reached sixty-four. The sixty-fourth casualty was Miss Mary Lomax, 70, of 1220 Central
avenue, who died at 4:35 a. m. today at city hospital from injuries suffe r e and Wednesday when she was knocked down at Pennsylvania
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and Washington streets by a car driven by George Hassenzahl, Beech Grove. Witnesses told police the traffic signal was in Hassenzahl's favor. He
the essentials of the crawl stroke, and are able to swim about twentyfive feet.” In ten years of experience as a
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New Building Program to Put Nation Nearer to Treaty Allowance. In 1930 came the London treaty, signed by Great Britain, the United States and Japan. This conference was needed because the limitations imposed at Washington were not sufficient. The ratio of 5-5-3 for capital ships ii. e.. battleships and battle cruisers and plane carriers) had been established, but no agreement had been reached on limiting smaller types of ships. At London this was attempted. Not only did the three powers agree on a holiday in building of more capital ships until 1936. but actually adopted a scale of building for cruiser, destroyer and submarine classes. Japan drew a slight advantage from these negotiations, and the big three emerged from the conference with a ratio of Great Britain 10, United States 9.8. and Japan 6.3. But the United States failed utterly to build even up to the standards set at London. The magnificent fleet of detroyers turned out during the war had deteriorated, ready for the junk yard without new ships to replace them. Subs Are Obsolete We have no destroyer leaders, and not one destroyer that can cross the Pacific without refueling. Many of our older submarines are obsolete, and we lack modern plane carriers. Other nations have not so neglected their treaty quotas. Japan has already built up to within a few ships of her allowed London treaty strength of 1936. And in certain classes of smaller ships is definitely superior to the United States in both numbers and modernity. In addition, she has officially announced that in 1935, when another conference meets to determine the naval future, she will demand naval equality with the United States and Great Britain. France. Britain. Italy, Germany and Russia are speeding up their naval construction. Russia, with practically no navy, has ordered the largest submarine in the world, and four cruisers. Worried by Germans The German fleet was destroyed after the war, but its new “pocketbattleships” have European navy men worried. Britain’s program is expanded for 1933, and is such as to make complete her replacement program according to the treaty by 1936. Construction of all thirty-two ships of the new 1933 program (2 plane carriers, 4 light cruisers, 20 destroyers, 2 gunboats, 4 submarines) in addition to 17 ships now building, will still leave the United States fleet “considerably under limitations,” says Representative Vinson. Os our 251 destroyers, only four today are “under age.” The others are already over the treaty age for replacement. So even with eight building and twenty in the new program, the United States will be woefully behind in this important class, japan today has seventy-one “under age" destroyers.
swerved his car to avoid hitting the elderly woman, but she stepped against the side. Miss Frances Yount, 19, of 1617 Kelly street, a witness, fainted, and had to be taken home in a police car. Miss Lomax’ body was taken to the Hisey & Titus funeral home, but funeral arrangements have not yet been made. She is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Martha Morton, Miss Augusta Lomax and Miss Jessie Lomax, all of the Central avenue ad- ; dress, and a brother, Joseph A. Lomax, Long Beach, Cal.
swimming instructor, Montgomery says he never has found a person who could not learn to swim if he wanted to. He urges persons who have not taken advantage of the first lessons to enter the classes now. All work is reviewed each day, so that it is possible to enter the class late, and still keep abreast of the lessons.
Learn to Swim This clipping entitles holder to a free swimming lesson in The Indianapolis Times-Broad Ripple Learn to Swim class. Learn to swim week is July 10 to 15. This does not include admission to the pool. The price will be 25 cents for adults and 10 cents to children.
THOUSANDS IN CHICAGO FOR INDIANA DAY Hoosiers From Every Part of State at Fair for Celebration. M'NUTT HEADS THRONG Governor Plays Prominent Part in Ceremonies of Afternoon. BY MRS. MAURICE MURPHY Times Staff Writer CHICAGO. July 13.—Indiana day at the Chicago world's fair today will be perhaps the biggest state day to be observed at the exposition, not only because Indiana is adjacent to Illinois, but because Hoosiers have entered whole-heartedly into the task of making it an outstanding celebration. It is expected that Governor Paul V. McNutt will head a delegation of more than 35.000 Indianians coming to Chicago from every section of the Hoosier state. Ten bands, two seventy-five-piece orchestras and three singing groups, all from Indiana, will be featured on the program. Many notables will attend, among them being Meredith Nicholson, author. speaker of the day; George Ade, John T. McCutcheon, Franklin Booth and Will Vawter. artists, and Mrs. Kin Hubbard, widow of the cartoonist who created “'Abe Martin" sketches. Ceremonies Start at 1 Others who may come for the occasion are Booth Tarkington, Kenneth D. Hogate, editor of the Wall Street Journal, now of New York and formerly of Danville, Ind. and Gaar Williams. The ceremonies will start at 1 P- m., when the Governor will be lecened with military honors in the Court of Honor at the Fourteenth street entrance of the fair. The reception party will be composed of the Governor’s group, officials of the fair, and of Tri kappa sorority. After reviewing the troops, the Governor and his party will be escorted to the Illinois Host building to register, and then, accompanied by exposition officials, will go to Pabst s Blue Ribbon casino, where a Hoosier luncheon will be’ held. Mrs. Merrill Davis. Marion, Tri Kappa state art chairman, will lead the reception committee at the casino and will be assisted by Mrs. Walter Hadley and two other Tri Kappas from Gary. Parade Is Scheduled At 3:30 p. m. Governor McNutt will head a parade which will start at the Fourteenth street entrance and proceed to the court of the Hall of States. Upon his arrival at the Indiana building, he will preside at an official reception. At 4:30 p. rn. massed bands will play a processional march. The Governor, his party, and the speakers will march from the Indiana exhibit to the rostrum of the Federal Building. Ushers for the aisle of honor at the Court of States will be three members of the Tri Kapp? sorority —Mrs. L. A. Cortner, Knightstown; Mrs. Carl Houston, Marion; and Mrs. Casper Rhetts, Marion. Chairman of the platform committee is Mrs. Jerry Torrance, Madison. Maids of honor to Mrs. McNutt, chosen from one chapter in each of the eight provinces of Tri Kappa, are Mrs. Harry Mayfield, Paoli, province 1; Mrs. Paul Judy, Salem, province 2; Miss Rachel Crowder, Sullivan, province 3; Miss Betty Bryant, Shelbvville. province 4; Mrs. oam ue 1 Barnes, Montmorenci, province 5; Mrs. Catherine Trueblood, Kokomo, province 6: Miss Anita Sievers, Valparaiso, province 7, and Miss Evelyn Bales, Ft. Wayne, province 8.
Speeches on Radio Speeches of the Governor, Mr. Nicholson and all others on the program will be broadcast over WGN, Chicago, in a nation-wide hook-up from 4:45 to 5:50 p. m., Chicago time <3:45 to 4:50 Indianapolis time). Other speakers include A. Murray Turner, chairman of Indiana’s commission to A Century of Progress; Richard Lieber, director of the commission and chairman of the Indiana day program; Mrs. Chalmer Schafer, grand president of Tri Kappa sorority, and Rufus C. Dawes, president of the exposition. The Governor’s address will mark the end of the official afternoon’s program. The Arthur Jordan Conservatory a capella choir, of which Max Krone is director, will sing the invocation and the Berne choir the response. At 5:50 the Elkhart high school band will play, then the Frankfort high school orchestra, the Columbia City high school band, and the Hammond Technical high school band. From 8:30 to 10 p. m. the a capella choir will give a program. Reception in Evening An invitational reception in honor of Governor and Mrs. McNutt and Hoosier notables will be given in the federal building reception room by Tri Kappa sorority. The Indiana building will remain open all afternoon and evening. Tri Kappa representatives at the Indiana building this morning were Mrs. O. M. Kinnison, Goshen; Mrs. Ray Marr, Columbus, and Mrs. Irene Mueller, Terre Haute, members of the grand council of Tri Kappa. The concert program in the Court of States began this morning, when the Muncie Boys band played. From 1 to 4 p. m. music will be by Indianapolis News Newsboys band, Butler high school band, Jennie Lind choral of Whiting. Berne choir, and Goshen high school band Bands will play the 'Viking March,” by King, and the fanfare will be repeated three times as the governor leaves the Indiana building for the rostrum.