Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1933 — Page 9

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LIVING COSTS RISING; STILL BELOW 1929 Steady Increase Is Shown for April. May and June. FOOD PRICES MOUNTING Electric Rates Are Steady for Year; Lower in Other Cities. Indianapolis' hung expanses in June were 25.1 per rent under the boom day expenses of June. 1929. a report of the bureau of latx>r statistics, United States department of labor, reveals today. The report, issued by Isidore Luibn, commissioner of the statistics bureau, shows a 41 3 {>ei rent decrease for Indianapolis from June. 1920. and a 5.7 per cent decrease from June. 19.72, one year ago. Prices, however, compiled for April, May and June of this year, reveal a slow climb, the bulletin discloses. Wage earnings in Indianapolis are not listed in the report. Prices for Three Months Food prices in Indianapolis for the three months listed show the following; Aarii Mav June IS IS IS Cents Cents Cent Sirloin slra* Donnri .25 7 26 7 27 8 Round -teak iwind . 24 1 25 6 26 H Chuck roao pound . IS 0 15 4 15 :> Pork chons, notind . IS 5 17 5 16K Bacon notind . 177 is 4 20 : Ham notind . 27 4 3* * 31 5 l.aml) lea n! notind 22 7 23 0 24 5 Hens Round 21 a 2! S 20 Milk nuar' * 0 8 0 8 0 Milk noois S S3 S , Blitter no'tnd . 2fi 2 29 4 29 0 Cheese, notind .19 8 21 8 23 0 Laid, notind 6 8 8 2 9 0 Veoetable lard notind . 20 8 21 2 21 3 F.etf fresh do/rn 13.5 16 0 15 8 Bread, notind .4 8 4 8 .8 5 Flour nound .... 2 6 2 8 3 0 Macaroni nnund .14 6 15 4 15 3 Hire pound 5 3 5 9 6 0 Potatoes, notind 13 12 2 4 Sugar, notind . 5 2 5 4 5 8 Cofjr. nound 25 1 24 7 24 8 Prunes nound 9 0 9.6 9 8 While a few cities in the nation received cuts in electricity rates. Indianapolis was among the many to find electric rates steady from tile period Dec. 15, 1932. to June 15. 1933. • Cheaper in Columbus Indianapolis rates were given by the bureau as 6 3 cents for the first 50 kilowatt hours and 60 cents for tiie next 30 kilowatt hours. Compared to this was the rat*’ given for Columbus. O. at 6 0 cents for the first 50 kilowatt hours, and 5.0 cents for the next 75 kilowatt hours. A similar comparison was given for Baltimore, where the late was cut to 5 0 cents for the first 50 kilowatt hours, and 3 4 cents for the next 175 kilowatt hours. Another enmparison was listed as Washington. D. C. where the rate is 3 9 cents for the first 50 kilowatt hours, and 3 6 cents for the next 50 kilowatt hours. Rating of 128.3 The June. 1933. cost-of-living index. as computed by the bureau for the entire nation, reveals a rating of 128.3. has-d on 1913 as 100 Food is the only group that was lower than in 1913. the bureau asserted Basing 1913 as the 100-mark, the bureau lists the following index figures for the nation for June, 1933: Food. 96 7 per cent: clothing. 119 8: rent. 108 8: fuel and light. 148.4; hous’ furnishings and goods. 147.7, and miscellaneous. 194 5.

THIRD TRIAL SOUGHT IN ANDERSON MAYOR ROW Mellett Filrs Motion in Madison Circuit Court. Hu 1 nitni rrrtt ANDERSON. Ind., Aug. 8 A third trial of quo warranto proceedings filed by Jesse H. Mellett against Mayor Hatty R. Baldwin was sought today in a motion filed in Madison circuit court. Baldwin won his fight to retain the mayorship of Anderson in second trial of the charges here last month. Tin- first trial ended in a jury disagreement. A copy of the new motion. In which procedure of ihe second trial , and jury instructions of Special Judge John L. Craig weie attacked, was sent to Judge Craig at Greensburg. Mellett charges Baldwin unlawfully was appointed to the mayor - ship by the city council while the plaint iff was ill in an Indianapolis hospital. 5-DAY WEEK ORDERED Amercian Central Life Operates on New Schedule. Home office of the American Central Life Insurance Company. North Meridian street and Fall Creek boulevard. Monday started operation on a five-day-week standard Saturday work will be eliminated. A skeleton organization will handle the business of the reinsurance service on Saturdays, it was announced. The company announces itself in complete alignment with the NR A program FETE FOR SCOUT TROOP Parents Council to Sponsor Event at I.inwood Church. Parent council of Boy Scout Troop 48 will hold a lawn fete Saturday night at Linwood Christian church. East Michigan street and Linwood avenue. Knights of Pythias uniformed band will provide music. Max M Darmstandler. scoutmaster; Mrs Harry Byrkett. C E Scholl, and Mrs. Opal Fox are in charge of arrangements. Counterfeit Money Pavsed Indianapolis merchants and other residents today were warned by police to keep a keen watch for counterfeit money. A bogus 50-cent piece was passed at the Polar Ice and Fuel Company sub-station. Ray street ami Senate avenue, Monday. ,

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DRY AGENTS ON ANXIOUS SEAT FoLirteen Officers Receive No Word of Future Employment. Although the federal prohibition enforcement division will be done away with at midnight Wednesday, no word had been received in Indianapolis today concerning the jobs of the fourteen prohibition agents stationed here. After Wednesday, the enforcement of prohibition will be turned over to the investigation division of the department of justice. Basil H. Minnich. deputy prohibition administrator for southern Indiana, and O. ,1. Gettle. special agent m charge of the investigation division, received telegrams from Washington notifying them that services of the fourteen agents would terminate Wednesday, and that the agents re-employed by the bureau of investigation would be notified promptly. Both Minnich and Gettlp said no further word had been received from Washington and that the fate of their agents' jobs were uncertain. The prohibition bureau was abolished by President Roosevelt's order, signed June 10

CLOSER TRADE TIES ARE SOUGHT BY U. S. Union With Canada, Latin America Aim. fin Sr, ii>i>*-Hnirn>A \ ccnpnprr Atlinnce WASHINGTON. Aug. B. —A rapprochement between the United States. Canada and Latin America, looking to closer ties of trade and friendship, is about to be undertaken by the Roosevelt administration. Just back from the ill-starred London economic conference, from which he emerged with enhanced prestige. State Secretary Cordell Hull is expected to head this movement. Members of the American delegation to London are convinced that little improvement in American trade with Europe is to be expected soon. Economic self-sufficiency is more than ever the aim of nations or groups of nations in that quarter of the globe, and America does not enter very largely into the picture. In the Far East, the horizon is growing darker instead of brighter. Japan is seen as aiming at a further widening of her sphere of influence in Asia, and further conflict there is regarded as inevitable. China is in chaos from which there is little hope of escape, under existing conditions. for a long time. Even her partition is regarded as & distinct possibility. In such event, the bulk of the trade will go to those nations sharing in China's spoils. Economically and politically, therefore, far-sighted statesmen here are beginning to realize that improved relations between the United States and her American neighbors are increasingly important. RUNAWAY GIRL HELD Attempt of 15-Year-Old Miss to Thumb Rid- Lands Her in Jail. Attempt of a 15-vear-old girl to thumb 3 ride landed her in the city detention home today. \ She is Ruby Knowles. 15. of Charleston. W. Va.. who told police that she had run away from home. She was endeavoring to obtain a ride on White River boulevard when officers saw her.

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COAL BARONS BACK DOWN IN LABOR BATTLE Company Union Provisions Will Be Withdrawn From Code. ACTION UNDER PROTEST Warning Will Be Sounded by Gen. Johnson When Hearings Start. BY KI TH FINNEY Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Aug. B— Coal companies will withdraw the company union provisions in their NRA codes as steel men did at the first session of coal code hearings Wednesday. The recovery administration is understood to have received assurance that this action will be taken, but the coal men. like the steel men. insist that their surrender comes in response to a public demand by Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, not as a voluntary action. Accordingly, when the coal hearings begin. Johason will warn the coal men that the codes submitted by Northern Coal Control Association. Smokeless and Appalachian Coal Association, and other groups which have not recognized labor violate the national recovery act. After a recess and a quick conference. the coal men will agree to omit wording in conflict with the law. though probably they will announce their intention, as d*d the steel men. of doing all in their power to retain company unions in their mines. Reservation Is Made Thi code submitted by the biggest operating group in the industry. Northern Coal Control Association and Smokeless and Appalachian Coal Association, says, after reciting collective bargaining provisions of the recovery act: “The foregoing shall apply to each employer in his relations to his own employes, but no employer shall be required to deal jointly with other employers, or with representatives of any employes oth’r than his own. and any collective bargaining shall be on behalf of only those employes participating therein, the employer being free to deal separately with any other of his employes not so participating." The recovery act itself provides that “employes shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing and shall be free from the interference, restraint or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other eoncerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection." Miners Are Balking Elimination of all clauses in conflict with this provision will remove the mast serious barrier to agreement on a code or codes for the coal industry. The mast bitter opponents of labor unionization in the coal fields have been the coal company subsidiaries of United States Steel, and it was for that reason that the recovery administration arranged steel code hearings in advance of coal codes. This background of Steel Corporation opposition to coal miners' unionization is responsible for refusal of employes of the H. C. Flick Coke Company and other mines in Fayette county. Pennsylvania. to return to work under the truce arranged by President Roosevelt and the recovery administration. The Frick company, instead of signing the general agreement subscribed to by all other affected operators and John L. Lewis of ihe United Mine Workers, signed a separate statement, in which United Mine Workers was not mentioned at all. Employes of this company suspect that they are being asked to go back to work on terms somewhat less generous than thase accorded workers in other mines, and it is for that reason that Edward F. McGradv. assistant administrator and himself an organized labor man, is flying to Uniontown today to give the workers direct assurance from the government that their rights to '’Ollective bargaining are being protected. HITCH-HIKER IS HELD Boy. 17. Is Accused of Slugging Driver and Stealing Car. Police today held James Lloyd. 17. Star hotel, who is said to have admitted that he is the hitch-hiker who slugged Henry Leuklv”dt. 1211 East Ninth street, and stole his car Sunday night. The youth and a 13-yecr-old boy were arrested after a downtown chase by police. Lloyd is said to have admitted that he was alone when he attacked Leukrardt in Mars Hill. Lloyd was charged with vehicle taking and robbery and the boy will be tried in juvenile court on delinquency charges.

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8,000 Troops Wage ‘War’ in Hill Country of Kentucky; Maneuvers on Huge Scale

Indiana, Kentucky Guard Units Will Maneuver on Huge Scale. BV LOWELL NCSSBAUM Time* Staff Writer FT. KNOX. Ky.. Aug. B— The peaceful hills of Kentucky today resembled a miniature theater oi war. as the 8.000 troops of the Thirty-eighth dridsion, national guard, forgot their humdrum civilian roles and by a simulation of wartime conditions. The troops, 5.000 of them from Indiana, and the remainder from Kentucky, with a few staff officers from West Virginia, a personnel greater than Washington's army at Valley Forge, rolled into camp by train Sunday, with less confusion than ordinarily attends the seating of patrons at a theater. This lack of hustle and bustle was due to the training given troops during the winter, and to the perfect preparation and carrying out of plans for mobilization by advance details, some of which arrived at camp a week before. Clear Way for Maneuvers Monday was devoted to company organization and drills, clearing the way for start of actual maneuvers of an army in the field today. This 33.000-acre army nost is situated ideally for such maneuvers, w'ith its hills and valleys, forests and grass lands, ravines, streams, cliffs, railroads, paved roads and almost impenetrable jungle. For the remainder of this week, the guardsmen will engage, by companies and battalions, in such field maneuvers as skirmishes w'ith the "enemy,” forced marches, target practice, artiilery practice, with airplanes “spotting” for the ground troops, iaving of communication lines, bridge building. m'V'k airground battles and others giving the troops a chance to practice what they studied all winter in their armories. Brigades to Operate Next w’eek, similar maneuvers will be engaged in with larger military groups—by brigades The 576 officers encamped, together with certain headquarters troops, will take part in a tactical problem, the officers merely pretending to have the remainder of their tjoops with them. They w'ill pretend to encounter the “enemy,” w’ill set up communications system, including telephone lines and portable radio stations, and then will charge the imaginary hastilp force, in the hills and jungles of the reservation. The biggest event of the twow’eek encampment will be the final review Friday afternoon. Aug. 18, in which all troops and equipment of the division will engage. This will be the only spectacle of its kind in the country, inasmuch

PETERS AND BUSH TO SPEAK AT PICNIC ~ I Thousands to Attend Outing at Quincy, Ind. R Earl Peters, chairman of the Democratic state committee, and Edgar D. Bush, former lieutenantgovernor. will be speakers at the annual old settlers picnic at Quincy, Ind., Thursday. The picnic will begin at 10:30 a. m. and the speaking will start at 1:30. E. A McCarty of Indianapolis, and the Rev. Wiley S. Hastings of Salem, in charge of the arrangements, expect a large attendance thus year. More than 10.000 persons attended last summer. FREE COUNTY OFFICIAL Allen County Road Chief Absolved in Gas Tax Payment Case. R’J f nitrri Firm FT WAYNE. Ind.. Aug. B—Complaint by the state that Hadley O. White. Allen county road superviser. failed to pay gas tax was dismissed in circuit court here when the defendent produced a receipt for the amount allegedly unpaid. White operates filling stations at Decatur and Monroeville.

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First unit of the Thirty-eighth division national guard troops, mobilized at Camp. Knox Sunday for training, to receive actual combat practice was the division air squadron from Stout field, Indianapolis. W’ith the squadron just starting formation flying practice, the camp air field was instructed bv headquarters to assign two planes to reconnoiter in the vicinity of

as the Thirty-eighth division is the only division in the nation, either regular army or national guard, training as a whole, with every branch of the sendee encamped at one place at the same time. All other divisions arc split up for training, partly because only one other army po6t. Fort Sill. Okla., has facilities for such group training. Another reason is that most states, while not having posts with complete facilities, insist on keeping as many of their guard troops as possible at home to retain ex-

Slaps Baby; 60 Days Kavenswood Father, 60, Says He Was Trying to ‘Buggy Break’ His Child.

1 "'RYING to get her buggy-broke, judge!” This plea, that might have stayed execution of a sentence on charge of cniel treatment to an animal, failed to keep William Matlock. 60. of Ravenswood. from beginning servitude in the county jail today of a sentence of sixty days and $i fine and costs.

Matlock was sentenced Monday afternoon by Juvenile Judge John Geckler on a child neglect charge when neighbors and his wife— Mrs. Dorothy Matlock—said that he bruised and blackened the eye of his 8-month-old daughter, Pauline. Matlock declared that some of the blows that neighbors thought he w-as showering on the baby were slaps of a folded newspaper on a baby buggy, which he used in attempting to accustom the babe to the buggy. Matlock admitted slapping the babe. His wife said he became irritable when the baby fretted, because of "teething." She testified that he struck the baby on another occasion. a a a JUDGE GECKLER said: "A man of your age should dfc ashamed of himself, stnking an innocent little baby that could not make her wants known, that rould

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the Bunsen mines, near Clinton, where, according to reports, one man had been shot in a brush between miners and picketers, threatening resumption of the mine warfare. Lieutenants Matt G. Caponier and Russell Daniels carried out the assignment with official headquarters observers as passengers. Pilots of the squadron (above*

penditures within their home states. The review' will mark the passing of horse and mule-drawn equipment. as far as the division is concerned. as shortly afterward the division will be entirely mechanized, leaving it without livestock, except for riding horses. Major-General Robert. A. Tyndall, commanding the division, has invited as many citizens of Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia as can attend to witness the spectacle. A number of dignitaries, including Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, and Governor Ruby Laffoon of

not voice distress except through a cry, that could not defend herself. "If." continued the judge. "I ever shear of you doing that again, you're going for a long, long trip to the state penal farm You're lucky I' mnot sending you there now. "I don t want to hear of anyone trying to get you out of jail. I won't countenance it and they needn't try. You're going to serve all your time there—every day of it," said the judge as Matlock was led away. “Old Pals’ Reunion Sunday ‘Old PaLs reunion" will be held in the J. W. Huston grove, south of Ingalls, Ind . next Sunday. The reunion is of former pupils of Mrs. Mattie Brown Laufer and their friends.

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who are in camp are under direction of Major Oliver W. Stout, squadron commander. Only a part of the commissioned personnel, eight in number • center* was to fly to ramp, because of the limited number of planes, other officers traveling by auto. Activities of the squadron V the ramp are directed from field headquarters under canvas (lower* near the field hangar.

Kentucky, have oven invited. Special invitations have been sent to Mayor Reginald H Sullivan, Indianapolis. and thirty-one other Indiana mayors. The parade, which will be participated in by infantry, artillery, air squadron, signal and medical corps, and all other branches of the division, which is the smallest army unit containing all branches of the service—a complete fighting army in itself—probably will be reviewed by Major-Generai George Van Horn Masley, Columbus, 0., Fifth corps area commander.

FALSE CALLS RUSH CITY RESCUE SQUADS Monoxide Gas Poison Reports Untrue, Police Find. Anew tvpe of maniac is in action in the city. He has made three rails for police and fire department aid. reporting I that persons were victims of carbon monoxide gas fumes. Monday afternoon rescue squads and pohep rushed to 3715 North Illinois street, the third false report of its kind in three weeks. They found there was no such address and neighbors knew of no one being overcome. Two previous false calls of the same type were turned in recently, from Thirty-fourth street and Central avenue and Sixty-second street and College avenue. STUDY LIMESTONE CASE Federal Court Hearing Resumed on Company Reorganization. Hearing on the proposed reorganization of the Bloomington Limestone Company was tc be resumed in federal court today before Howard S. Young miaster in chancery. The hearing was adjourned July--27 to give time for preparation of ; regarding reorganization.

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VERDICT NEAR ON U. S. TRADE WITH RUSSIA Survey Committee Soon to Reach This Country to Study Situation. EUROPE AFTER ‘PLUMS’ America Will Have Strong Opposition in Race for Big Business. by WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scrum. Howard lumen Editor WASHINGTON. Aug 8 The future of Russian-American trade, once worth more than $100,000,000 a year to the United States, j* m the balance. The next few weeks , will tell the tale. Former Senator Smith W. Brookhart. of the agricultural adjuaiment administration, in an interview today, declared that Great Britain France, Spain, Italv. Poland and other European countries feverishly are striving to capture this trade and will do so unless the United iStates outplays them. About forty Soviet experts are about to embark for this country, to study the situation, with a view lo future purchases of cotton, industrial and railway equipment, aviation, automobiles and machinery of almost every variety. Trade Fate in Balance On their reports, and upon what sort of terms Amtorg. the Soviet buying agency in this country, is authorized to send back to Moscow, depends the fate of Russian-Ameri-can trade for years to come. The United States will have lo meet strenuous opposition abroad. The most important {lowers of Europe and Asia only have not extended recognition to the Soviet Lnion. but financially are backing I their nationals engaged in filling orders for that country. In one respect we are fortunate ” said Brookhart. “The Russians prefer American products in many cas°s, and as their great need is for almost all kinds of machinery and for raw cotton, we are situated ideally to fill their orders. Right now I could sell them 1 - 000 000 bales of cotton if I could give them the credit Europeans are Riving them. *A million bales of cotton at present prices amounts to about $55,000,000.1 Ready for Huge Orders “Under proper conditions thev would buy about SIOO 000.000 worth of railway equipment from us "Within the next five years I estimate that, given normal credit fa. nlities. wp easily .could sell them $300.000 000 worth of our products. And that is a lot of money in times like these. "My investigation proves the • oviet Union is a good risk Sinre coming into power thev have imported $4,200,000,000 worth of BOOds a,ld PX P° r, rd $3,650.000 000 worth of their own. Thev never have defaulted on a cent "The government stands back of every purchase made, and vast resources are back of the government Russia produces $50,000 000 worth of gold annually, more platinum than all the rest of the world put together, more oil than any other nation save the United States, and her timber reserves are the greatest on earth. And her entire foreign debt amounts to only 5350.000.000. Chance Is Here The other day. in London, Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinov announced that Russia was prepared to buy $1,000,000,000 worth of what the rest of the world was anxious to sell. Whether we get our share of this trade depends on the terms we are prepared to offer Certainly the next few weeks will be crucial ones for us. so far as our trade with Russia is concerned. Our chance to get in on th* ground floor is at hand. If we don't get in. other countries will."

STORM’S TOLL RAISED Rov - I*. Is Third Victim of (loud, burst Last Work at Rochester. ROCHESTER Ind., Aug. 8 A w;nd and rain .storm here last week had claimed its third victim today with the death of Charles Keller. 14. from pneumonia as result of a drenching during the j cloudburst. The boy was hitch-hiking from Chicago. A moi her and her 4-year-old ton • were killed instantly when lightning struck a corn crib in whirh they had sought refuge from the storm. PARK FETE SCHEDULED Church Sponsor for Triangle Festival and Supper Friday. Second annual Triangle park "Feast of Lanterns' will be held Friday night at Arsenal and Brookside avenues. The event is sponsored by the Woodruff Avenue Presbyterian church and parents of Boy Scout troop No 44 Supper will be served from 5 o'clock on. and a fifty-piece band will entertain. Harry Spurgeon is general chairman of the festival. The Rev. W. C Ball is pastor of Woodruff church. CIGARETS ARE STOLEN Case Valued at $36 Taken From Truck En Route to Warehouse. A thirty-six-pound case 0 f cigarets. valued at $36. was stoien fro.n a truck en route from the Cobur.v warehouse to the Smock Ti ucking Company offices. 437 East Louisiana street, police were informed today. The cigarets. property of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, were consigned to a Greensburg company. Trucking company employes said they believed the case stolen at Delaware and South streets.