Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1933 — Page 9

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DEMOCRATS TO GET BERTHS IN FOREST CAMPS Decision to Continue Work for Another Six Months Will Help Many. SOUTH WILL BENEFIT Operations Will Be Shifted From North When Cold Weather Comes. BY KENNETH WATSON Timm Spatial Writer WASHINGTON. Aug 22-Presi-dent Roosevelt's action in authorizing continuance of the civilian conservation corps camps for another six-month period is scheduled to furnish employment for hundreds of job-seeking Democrats At the request of PostmasterGeneral James A Farley the Democratic national committee has notified , Democratic congressmen to submit names of constituents capable of holding positions as forest camp foremen and superintendents. Each of the 1.450 camps now in operation has six such positions, paving from *1 440 to $2,660 annually. While the bulk of present jobs are filled by Democrats, many foremen and superintendents are Republicans a pointed through influence of Republican Governors. While administration officials disclaimed any plan of turning out any Republican incumbents on Oct. 1. when the first six-month period ends, it readilly was admitted that any vacancies are to be filled by Democrats. Turnover Is Expected "With resumption of private lumbering operations and starting of public works operations, many of our foremen and superintendents plan to return to more remunerative jobs. This turnover naturally will cause many vacancies," one admmstration official declared. Meanwhile. Robert Fechner. director of the C. C. C.. and other officials were completing plans for early transfer of more than 90.000 forest workers from northern and western states into new camps in the south. "About 450 camps will have to be moved from states where cold weather will impede operations." Director Fechner said. "Some of the camps in Montana. Idaho and Wyoming probably will be moved, commencing Sept. 15. “We have requests for about 1.400 new camps from officials of southern states and selection of many sites will be made this week," he said. Many to Go South At least 5,000 and possibly more of the forest recruits will be placed in the Tennessee valley. Thousands more are to be placed in Texas. Alabama. Mississippi. Louisiana, and Florida. The National Forest Purchase commission is to meet soon to consider the purchase of cut-over pine lands in the south, where valuable reforestation work can be carried out. Dr. Arthur Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, is having a survey made now and expects to report soon on just howmany men can be used there. The minimum number will be at least 5.000. Director Fechner said that the latest check shows 296.000 youths enrolled in regular forest camps and 14 000 Indians engaged in the w’ork who still are living on their reservations. TRUCK RATE PROPOSAL AIRED BEFORE BOARD 7 Per t ent Return on Investment Advocated at Hearing. Establishing of truck common carrier standard rates below railroad rates, on a basis of operation cost plus 7 peer cent return on valuation, was advocated by shippers' representatives at a public service hearing begun Monday The commission has held several hearings of interested groups in an effort to fix standard rates R B. Coapstick represented the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce at tl>e hearing. About sixty other representatives of shippers attended. Coapstick urged the cost plus 7 per cent basis, asserting that trucking lines can operate at lower rates and more efficiently than railroads on certain types ol short hauls. Also, he recommended uniform bills of lading. At a previous hearing railroad representatives recommended that the same rates as for railroads be set for truck lines WARNS ON BEER SALES Sellers Without Restaurant Permit Face License Revocation. Retailers who have been dispensing beer on the premises without a S3OO restaurant permit today drew a warning from Paul Fry. Indiana beer czar. Fry said hr had received numerous complaints that grocers and other establishments having only a SIOO retailer permit were serving beer on the premises without the additional license necessary. He added that his investigators have been instructed to be on the watch for such violations. Several violators already have been ordered into his office to show cause why their licenses should not be revoked ESCAPES BOYS' SCHOOL Youth. IS. Was Serving Term on Vehicle Taking Charge. Police were informed by officials of the Indiana Boys' school at Plainfield Monday night that Alfred J Oedy. 18. had escaped. Parents of the youth live in Ft Wayne, from where he was sentenced for vehicle taking.

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f). F. Culbertson D. Frank Culbertson, of Vincennes will officiate at the laying of the cornerstone at the George Rogers Clark Memorial, Sunday afternoon. Sept. 3. Culbertson has been one of the chief promoters of the memorial and has been in charge of the legislative program of the movement which secured for Indiana this national memorial, commemorating the winning of the Old Northwest. The interest which he aroused in congress has resulted in the passage of no less than five acts relating to the memorial.

TAX RATE UP TO COUNTY COUNCIL Budget Slashes Expected at Meeting Set for Aug. 29. The Marion county council is scheduled to meet informally on Aug. 29 to consider the county budget and tax rate. Slashes in the budget are expected by county officials at the hands of th council, to bring the tax rate near the present levy of 40'; cents. Reduction in property valuations new state laws requiring old age pension and registration of voters, and budget increases have placed the tax rate between 68 and 70 cents. Following preliminary meeting, the council w’ill meet again on Sept. 5 to act formally on the budget. Walter C. Boetcher. former council president, has resigned after being named president of the city board of works. The council will accept Boetcher’s resignation at the next meeting and decide on his successor. He will not aid in the budget pruning. Cost of the old-age pension and ihe new election registration law arbitrarily will almost increase the county's tax rate 10 to 12 cents, despite council slashes, it is said. The original amount requested for old age pension was $400,000 and council members have intimated that this request might be cut in half to bring down the tax rate. LUTZ IN RULING ON OLD AGE PENSIONS Attorney-General Holds Man. Wife Each Are Eligible. Interpretation of provisions of the state old-age pension law regarding married couples drawing the monthly aid was given today by Philip Lutz Jr., attorney-general. Lutz ruled that both man and wife are entitled to the pension, provided that each is more than 70 and meets other requirements of the law. Total amount of pension to eaeh person is set at a maximum of sls. subject to discretion of county commissioners. Lutz said that it is not necessary for both man and wife to receive equal sums. CLUB IN MELON FEAST Matson. Srhutz on Program of Irvington G. O: P. Club. Members of the Irvington Republican Club will attend a watermelon feast in Carr's hall. 5436 East Washington street. Monday night. One hundred melons have been ordered Speakers will include J. Raymond Schulz of Manchester college; former United States Senator James E Watson; Raymond S. Springer of Connersville and officers of the state committee and of the Eleventh and Twelfth districts.

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DRIVE TO OPEN ON VIOLATORS OF NRA CODE Survey Will Be Launched by National Officials Within Week. PENALTY TO BE SEVERE Many Complaints Received: Local ‘Probe’ Agencies May Be Formed. BY RUTH FINNEY Tim Sptrial Writer Aug. 22.—The recovery administration will start checking up on violations of the blue eagle agreement within a week. Machinery is being whipped into shape in the branch of the NRA in charge of temporary re-employment for investigating complaints of "chiseling" and evading terms of the Presidents re-employment agreement. It may take the form of a number of local agencies, presided over by some nationally known man.! General T. S. Hammond, executive director of the PR A, believes the time has come for action. During the first few weeks of the blue eagle drive. Administrator Hugh S. Johnson said he thought it was important to concentrate all efforts on bringing employers under the blue eagle agreement and that punishment of violators would come later. 1,500,000 Employers Sign Now it is estimated that at least 1 1.500.000 employers have signed the blue eagle code. One hundred thirty industries have pledged themselves to operate under the agreement, with slight modifications. Fourteen industries are under permanent codes of fair competition, including four of the biggest industrial groups. A constantly swelling tide of complaints that blue eagle firms are violating the spirit if not the letter of the PRA has been manifest here and there is a general feeling that unless the accused firms are either punished or cleared of guilt, general distrust of the blue eagle may result. So far. complaints received here have been investigated only by writing or wiring the accused employer and asking him if charges j against him were true. No employer has confessed to a violation. The new machinery will provide for actual investigation of complaints. Violations Are Charged Workers have charged, among , other things: That men and women receiving a wage higher than the minimum were dismissed and hired back on the same day at the minimum wage. The agreement specifically forbids salary reductions. That work hours are being staggered to avoid employment of additional workers under the short-hour provisions of the code. That workers are being required to take three-hour lunch periods. That restaurants have been charging employes for meals, in effect reducing wages lhat apparently were raised. That business concerns of w’hich members of the recovery administration are directors are not living up to the terms of the agreement. That stores have been shortening hours of operation to avoid hir- ! ing more workers. Reprimands Are Issued Administrator Johnson already has issued several sharp reprimands in connection with these practices. A general order a few days ago called to the attention of restaurant owners the fact that meals must not be charged for unless it were a practice to do this before Juhe 16. j Indiana retailers were warned specifically about early closing hours. General Johnson has left no doubt, in his various public utterances. that violators of the blue eagle agreement, when found guilty after a thorough investigation, will meet with severe punishment—lass of the blue eagle and resultant "economic death."

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY. AUGUST 22, 1933

LIFE OF CUBA DEPENDS ON SUGAR

Fate of Island Hinges on Price of Principal Product

Th* nrfid*n; of* ‘hwni mur- f .Jff " “v conceived that thp hour of son d*r* U :n rx:W Hi* deposition ** ’ _ a x , , , , . * , accomplished bv diplomacy not formal g \ disorder, seed bed Os revolt, hs revolution Politically. Cuba is purced > arrived 0 Bjit ac ;hf Vc’onom.r lf ton m- In 1932. the revolutionary mill elude ownership and control of 90 per 1 ,* . , , . r*nt of the Wand * oroductlv* sugar _ t *V w ™ ,n New \orx. headed by lhr vpill arrragi- nrarlv all th* banks utilities. fdSSwjßw - * - rated and exiled rec'Or of It railways, iron, rrmem ronDer and to- MRU - ’-Aw -s*. V V*i JiU'r *- m- ® uu <ula Pxuea lec or 01 11 bacco bv American interests remain to V.-.igw V. . -g**'*V*. . National university. Dr. CarlOS < fircSJnHKd “ b “; k - 'jmmn. mm la Torrr - h - rak * d the *™ a i < What does o the for K day. *or^ n than* In*** 189*. when the 3k ' The terroristic acts of the AB< H?*the h finaY* article* ofI’a 1 ’ a s?r r A n n“the Y„ W&W ‘ a singularly effective secret boti Je* , the rl wer.r t br^ > üban r -Amercan* , re- Jl UK of *** BY FORREST DAVIS j Machado, a band of cut-thro? 1 J JAVAN A. Aug. 22.— Behind the h s{ v ® na to war on girl students, an turned by Havana to Yankee tour- honorable Creole and Spar on* the Vedado and in Marianao, IjclL i Jgfc Jjf| Roosevelt's courtly ambassado built during the profligate 1920 ' ,v' M -]§*£ admired for his excellent Spar "dance of the millions’—lies the MHhI : " % ' it" iggg ish - his manners and his fa grim, workaday fact of sugar. BMEjB dealing, found in July that mei nomic life of Alabama, wheat of 'M' . 4 Mr Welles had obtained conce* Kansas. The statement is truistic. - r sinn after concession from ih Underlying politics, the Platt . J&: WHBI wily president The National uni amendment. American interven- versify and lower whools. ,-lose tion. and Machado's ruffianly sup- f foe,three years, would Ije reopene siigar dictates the J tonomous Civil^libert^ were'" reap the zafra and make up the D UT **y July it became appar rural backbone of the island. ./ ent that the time had com In 1932 sugar at the centrales, ft •, f ° r a NcW 0031 in Cuba alsoor grinding mills, eached the all- What form will the New Deal t

Th* •■prßsidßnt of * thousand murders is >.n fxi'* Hi* deposition *as accomplished bv diolomacv not formal : revolution Politically Cuba is purged of Machadoism But the econom.c factors, which include ownership and control of 90 per rent of the iland * Droduc'lve sugar acreage nearly all the banks, utilities, j railway*, iron cement, copper and to- ! bacco bv American interests, remain to ! plague the government Cuba is bankrupt. Cubans pauperized What does the New Deal hold out for a people who find themselves in 1933 in worse estate thßn in 1398. when the Spanish were driven out’ Forrest Day is. in the final article of a series on the Cuban crisis, attempts herewith to analyze the trend of Cuban-Amcrlean relations under Roosevelt. BY FORREST DAVIS Times Spetial Writer HAVANA. Aug. 22.—Behind the prismatic, voluptuous facade j turned by Havana to Yankee tour- , ists—the harbor fortresses, the palms and festivals, the Jockey Club, the Casino, the white palaces on the Vedado and in Marianao. built during the profligate 1920 “dance of the millions —lies the grim, workaday fact of sugar. Sugar is king in Cuba—similarly as cotton predominates the economic life of Alabama, wheat of Kansas. The statement is truistic. Underlying politics, the Platt amendment. American intervention. and Machado's ruffianly suppression of dissent, the price of sugar dictates the terms of life to Havana importer, merchant, and botega proprietor as well as to the hundreds of thousands of mestizo and Negro peasants who yearly reap the zafra and make up the rural backbone of the island. In 1932 sugar at the centrales, or grinding mills, cached the alltime low of .57 cent a pound. Whereupon it became certain that the bespectacled assassin Machado presently would be on his way. No ruler—saint or demon—could have held office with that weight on the backs of his people. When Gerardo Machado—last

in the deteriorating line of Presidents since liberation—took office in 1925. sugar brought 2.24 cents a pound. The island prospered. During the World war. when prices soared, Cuba became briefly the richest country in the world as to per capita wealth—although the bulk of the corporate and sugary property belonged to Americans, not to Cubans. In 1920, sugar brought 22 cents a pound in New York for a short time. It is perhaps no coincidence ti at the lowest ebbs in Cuban life, economically, occurred in 1395 and 1932, preliminary to struggles which overthrew the political masters. a a A COLLAPSE in the ever-whim-sical puce of sugar—"the lottery of the West Indies”— brought on panic in Cuba in 1895. Out of the panic, with collateral causes, naturally, playing a part, grew the rise of Maximo Gomez, the incredibly brave mulatto Maceo and the poet Marti, which eventuated in the American expedition of 1898. Sugar had declined to one-half its fairly stabilized price in that year. The United States, in 1895 indifferent to Cuba's internal welfare. in 1933 mentor of the republic it created, helped to bring on both crises. The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930. with its 2 cents a pound duty on Cuban sugar, beggared the island in the interest of Louisiana. Michigan and Colorado producers. as well as planters in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. In 1931. sugar averaged 1.09 cents a pound—less than production cost. In 1894 Cuban sugar, already handieaped in world market because of the competition of "protected" beet sugar in Europe.

felt the added burden of import duties in the Wilson tariff bill. Spain refused to relieve the Cuban planters of discriminatory import tariffs by which all external necessities sold in Cuba at exorbitant prices.

Battle Over Child Taken to State Supreme Court Battle between a father and a grandfather over custody of a 5-vear-old girl today had been transferred from the county courts to the Indiana supreme court, with issuance of a w'rit of prohibition by the court re- ; straining enforcement of a juvenile court order.

Principals in the litigation arc the father, Thomas Doney, and the grandfather. Tvaiche Doncff, with Ellen Doney, 5. the object of the dispute. The supreme court writ prohibits Juvenile Judge John F. Geckicr from enforcing an order giving custody of Ellen to her grandfather and ordering the father to pay $2 a week for her support. Hearing will be held Sent. 6 to determine if the writ shall be made permai nent. First litigation in the case came | when the grandfather sued the father for support of the child in superior court 2. Judge Jaseph R. I Williams ordering the child returned to the father. Dcncff filed child neglect charges 1 against Doney in juvenile court and Geckler ordered the child's custody given the grandfather, with payment of *2 a week support. When Carl Wood, judge pro tern, in superior court 3. held he had no i authority to revoke Geckler s order. Doney applied for and obtained the I high court writ.

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Scene on a sugar plantation, which industry precipitated the Cuban sugar boom, with resultant prosperity, under Machado —and the revolution. The sumptuous portico of the Havana American Jockey Club, built as a prodiset of the boom period, and above—caricature of Gerardo Machado, by S. Robles, staff artist of La Prensa.

THE effect was to deliver the i raw materials for an army into the hahds of Gomez, Marti et ai. So. the Cubans fought in 1895 for their economic lives. In New York. Marti and Estada Palma i

STORE PICKET IGNORES COPS: ARRESTED TWICE Harry Waters, 40. Nabbed After Protesting NRA “Violation." Police today admit they have met the mast persistent law violator. Squads were sent to North Pennsylvania street Monday morning to warn Harry Waters. 40. of 823 Maxwell street, that he must halt his march in front of a store and stop his verbal accusations that "this store is unfair to NRA." Waters agreed, but later police returned to find him pacing and talking in front of the store. He was arrested on a charge of violating the city picketing ordinance. Within a short time he was released on bail provided by a professional bondsman and returned to the store. His second arrest brought the added charge of vagrancy and he was released on bond again late Monday afternoon. Police are watching the district again today, admitting they would not be surprised if Waters returns.

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Entered Second Os** Matter ■t PoslofTice. Indlanspolta

conceived that the hour of social disorder, seed bed of revolt, had arrived. In 1932. the revolutionary junta in New York, headed by the venerated and exiled rector of th£ National university. Dr. Carlos dr la Torre, heralded the arrival of their day. The terroristic acts of the ABC. a singularly effective secret body of revolutionists, sowed the seed of social col.apse Between the dreaded Porra of Machado, a band of cut-thro?is who armed the prostitutes of Havana to war on girl students, and the ABC. led by youths from the most honorable Creole and Spanish families, the civil life of Cuba lay paralyzed by fear Summer Welles. President Roosevelt's courtly ambassador, admired for his excellent Spanish. his manners and his fair dealing, found in July that mere reform would not do. Machado must go. Mr. Welles had obtained concession after concession from ihe wily president. The National university and lower schools, closed foi>three years, would be reopened and the university rendered autonomous. Civil liberties were to be restored, a vice-president installed in the succession. nan T>UT by July it became apparU ent that the time had come for a New Deal in Cuba also. What form will the New Deal be shaped into? Will President Roosevelt, rapidly

resolving the industrial economy of the United States into a disciplined organism, extend that form of reorganization to the William H. Woodin-Percy Rockefeller railroad interests, the Morgan utilities, the Chase and National City bank sugar holdings In Cuba? The basic problem is economic. Machado's elimination is merely a start toward Cuba's regeneration. May we expect a sugar allotment plan, guaranteeing a major part of the Cuban crop a market, with the reciprocity features that the President's kinsman. Theodore. executed to Cuba's great benefit? nan r T"'HAT course leads to an economic intervention of a sort never before attempted—the interposition by the American government of itself between the greed of absentee owners of Culms agriculture and industry and the importunities of planters in other dependent islands and several states on the one hand and the real interest of Cuba on the other. The Roosevelt government may strive to bring Cuba into our economic union. That is good national strategy, preparing us against another world war. when our tropics again will loom as important factors in a self-contained economy. Otherwise the government may determine to withdraw politically and economically from Cuba, leaving the problems there to a government freed of the Platt amendment's enchainment and an economic order forced to make terms w'itn a native political regime. THE END.

DEEP SLASHES ARE MADE IN CITY EXPENSE Tax Increase Is Faced, Though Officials Struggle to Effect Savings. POLICE JOBS CUT OFF General Equalization’ of Salaries Ordered for Municipality. Mith the city of Indianapolis faced with a 5-ccnt increase in the tax rate for the coming year, although $343,721.37 was lopped off current expenses for the 1933 budget by Mayor Reginald H Sullivan and Evans Woollen Jr., city controller, the city hall gang began to voice disgruntled rumblings of "favoritism'' today. Fifteen jobs were stricken from | the pay roll of the police depart nv*nt, which have not been filled for a year, seven other positions in various departments were eliminated, while a general "equalization" of salaries was contained in the new budget introduced in council Monday night. The budget must be adopted by that body before the first meeting in September, or it becomes legal anyway. The total budget calls for city expenditure of $6.960.539 04. greatly reduced by cuts and adjustments made berau.se of the *43.000.000 lost in valuation, and represents an income from $511,162,710. the present valuation of the city. Other Losses Shown i Other losses were sustained by gasoline tax. miscellaneous tax. and the 7 per cent delinquencies in tax payment for the last half year. Last year's budget was based on a valuation of $556,000,000 and the budget for 1932 was drawn against a | valuation of $691,000,000 Thirty thousand dollars will be saved by elimination of the fifteen policemen. Other eliminations of pasitions included, chief draftsman | for the city plan commission. $2,400; clerk in the Barrett law department, ; $1,593; sinking fund clerk in the city controller's office, that had been combined with job of sinking j fund clerk for the school board, $570; claim clerk in the legal de- | partment. $1,083; first assistant zoning clerk and one inspector in the building commissioner's office, *1.795 and *2,052 respectively, and attorney for board of health, $1,795.50. Stenographers’ Pay Sliced Stenographers were reduced to $1,200, except those requiring special training, as in the legal department and the health ooard, these will be $1,320. All school nurses will receive ! a flat $1,200 a year and many clerical pasitions which are held by women were slashed to S9OO. The $4,000 cut in the building . commissioner’s office represents the largest slash in any one department. but four executives, including Mayor Sullivan, took a S3OO a year j cut in their salaries, although they were fixed by law The mayor's salary will be $5,700. Evans Woollen Jr., city controller, will receive $3,300; Herschel N. Tebay. deputy city controller, will ! get $2,700: and Walter C. Boetcher, president of the board of works, will recevie $2,700. Mast of the cuts have been in effect since early last year, when the mayor called for a voluntary 5 per cent reduction in all salaries. However, increases in wages were j contained in the new budget for ; some members of the law department. though the grand total was ; reduced from $15,794.50 to $14,438.12. These benefittiug bj the increases are the corporation counsel, from $4,325 to $4,500; city attorney, from $3,560 to $3,600; assistant city attorney. from $2,250 to $2,500. Cuts was made in the salary of deputy prasecutor from $1 387.50 to sl,318.12. Other Reductions Ordered The purchasing agent's salary was cut from $4,325 to $3,600. and that of the assistant purchasing agent from SI,BOO to $1,510; chief clerk. SI,BOO to $1,710: inspector and storekeeper. $1,620 to $1,500; bookkeeper, $1,140 to $1,080; one stenographer $960 to S9OO, and two clerks. S9OO to $355. Salary of the secretary-engineer of the city plan commission was reduced from $2,700 to $2,565; draftsmen, $2,250 to $1,425; one draftsman eliminated, saving $1,500. Henry O. Goett, city clerk, also was given a reduction from $2,700 to $2,400 and his deputy clerk was reduced from $1,620 to $1,500. No salary cuts were made for present members of fire or police department. Saving Near *IOO,OOO Members of the board of works no longer will draw two separate checks, as heretofore, one from 'he city proper and the other from the gasoline tax fund. They will be combined and a general reduction in salaries of the personnel was madp. Total saving of nearly *IOO.OOO was made in the works board, which includes offices, administration, salaries of board members and clerical help; public buildings, including city hall and market house; assessment bureau, civil engineer, street commissioner's office, and municipal garage. Salary cuts and elimination of the dental clinic of the board of health administration reduced this budget by more than *36.000. This includes all divisions of the health board and maintenance of the city hospital. Grand total for the health board this year was placed at *629.339.67. Although as expected by many close to the administration, instead of the budget of the department of public parks being slashed to thu bone, some increases in wages wer* allowed and very few of the personnel were dropped from the payroll. Salary of the auditor was increased from *1.782 to *2.052 The assistant auditor also was increased from *1.260 to $1,452 and the board s attorney received a substantial boost . from $1,890 to $52,565. *