Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 101, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1934 — Page 4
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$5,000 1$ DAILY GOVERNMENTAL COST IN COUNTY
Figures Developed by Tax Experts After Adoption of 1935 Levy. Marion county government in 1835 will cost the taxpayers approximately $5,000 every working day. Os this sum. nearly SI,OOO a day will pay off county indebtedness and another SI,OOO will go to operate the criminal and civil courts and allied agencies. These figures w*re developed bytax statisticians today following the adoption yesterday of a 30-cent county rate tax by county council. The new tax levy cuts 26 cents from the 1934 rate and represents slashes aggregating $1,000,000 from departmental requests. The largest reduction was in the appropriation for old age pensions. This item was reduced from $350,000 to S2OO 000. Council declined to appropriate $75,000 requested by the county commissioners to help maintain county roads. This action was taken despite appeals of the Hoosier Automobile Club for highway maintenance. Salary increases for county judges were refused. Rises from $4,350 to $5,800 a year were sought. Pay increases for court attaches were removed from the budget, and the council refused a request of Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker for funds to employ a reporter for the grand jury. A total of $352800 county bonds maturing in 1935 will be refunded. Sinking fund tax requirements were reduced an equal amount.
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Indiana in Brief
Bp Times Special BOSWELL. Sept 6—Warning has been issued to mortgage foreclosure attorneys and tax titla buyers that they must cease their activities in the counties of Warren ana Benton, by the Farmers Union of the two counties. A resolution, containing the warning, reads in part as follows: •We deprecate assaults upon lawyers and tax buyers, but neverthe,ess will back victims and their friends in picketing and using reasonable force upon such persons to induce them to desist. It is grossly unfair during the present depression to foreclose on farms or sell out farmers. Until congress and the state legislature can act, we ourselves must establish a moratorium ” Several farmers who attended the meeting at which tjie resolution was adopted, declareo present high prices for farm products are of little heneflt to them, as the drought reduced crops to a point so low that all is required for food for fanners and their families.
Canning Hampered Hy 1 >mr GREENFIELD. Sept. 6. Slowripening of tomatoes is delaying the annual pack by the Greenfield Packing Company, but good progress in canning green beans is reported. Quality of the tomatoes is said to be excellent and the size larger 4 than usual. m m m Club to Sell Books Bp r. met Special EDINBURG, Sept. 6 For one week beginning Saturday afternoon, the Mothers Club of Edinburg will operate a store dealing in used school books. The club will retain 5 cents from the sale price of each book. Teachers in the town schools are co-operating in the project. m m m Wed Fifty Years Hy '/ ii net Bperinl NOBLESVILLE, Sept 6.—Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Moore will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding Sunday at their home near Fishers where they have resided a quarter of a century. Mr. Moore, 74. still is engaged actively in farm work. Mrs Moore is 69. a a b Code Hours Abandoned Ay / imr * Special KOKOMO, Sept. 6.—Drug stores here have ended observance of a
code insofar as opening and closing hours are concerned. One of the larger stores recently notified its competitors of its intention to disregard hour provisions of the code, and all other stores followed suit. Druggists are reported to have stated that the hour schedule caused loss of business and was an inconvenience to patrons. a a a Jail Repairs Ordered B<j I <mes imperial SHELBYVILLE, Sept. 6.—The Shelby county jail here is to be repaired at a cost of SI,OOO, not including labor, which will be provided by the federal emergency relief administration. 1 ie project will include repair of the outer lock system, screening of windows with heavy wire, thorough cleaning and painting. BUB Closed Bank to Pay By Times Special HOPE, Sept. 6.—Beginning tomorrow, Morton Lamb, receiver for the defunct Citizens National Bank, will begin payment of a 3.98 per cent dividend, about $15,000, which will be the last money depositors will receive. The dividend will bring the total to 76.48 per cent, and is the fourth declared since the bank was closed Feb. 14, 1929.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
PHILOSOPHY OF FORD DEPICTED AT EXPOSITION
Auto Maker’s Views Told on 600-Foot Mural at Chicago Fair. Although actions speak louder than words, at least according to the old adage, it is to be wondered if all the thousands of tons of machinery, the hundreds of workers, the unending streams of moving metal and raw products w-hich in themselves tell an eloquent story of progress at the Ford exposition of the Chicago world's fair, speak louder than the quiet words of Henry Ford himself, which are inscribed on the 600-foot long photographic mural of the central rotunda dominating the automotive display. Here Henry Ford has voiced hi3 industrial, economic and social cerdo. He has expressed himself tersely and unequivocally on a wide range of subjects, some of them controversial, all of primary import, and, judging by the reactions of the crowds who visit the huge exhibit, the words, the thoughts behind them, and the thoughts they evoke, are as important and as dramatic as any exibit in the entire eleven-acre exposition. Interest Visitors The quotations are eighteen in number. They are so meaningful that the list which follows needs no explanation of why more questions have been asked about them by visitors than about any other single aspect of the entire exposition: Overproduction is a money cry,
INDIA-PENN OIL COMPANY USES GMC TANK TRUCKS
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Pictured above is one of the new GMC two-ton tank trucks recently put in service by the India-Penn Oil Company, distributors in the Indianapolis territory for Barnsdall gasoline and Quaker State motor oil. The India-Penn Company was organized several months ago, and is headed by J. L. Meihsner and F. R. Perkins, each well known in oil circles.
not a human cry; produce evermore. Individualism is what makes cooperation W'orth having. The farm and the shop each needs what the other produces. The recovery w r e need is of our American spirit of independence. Wages for work. Profit to make more efficient value for users. If w-e had more justice there would be less need for charity. A cheaply made product is too expensive to be priced cheaply. Industry does not support man—it is man the supports industry. Basic Jobs Enumerated Growing of food, making of tools, transportation—three basic jobs. High wages and best materials—the only road to low prices. Never yet has enough of any good thing been produced for use. The auto made roads and roads make commerce and civilization. If you stabilize anything, it is likely to be the worst thing. Progress comes from prosperity built by work, done in peace. It is not good business unless both buyer and seller profit by it. With one foot on the land, and one in industry, America is safe. Industry is mind using nature to make human life more free. One-third of a A Century of Progress produced the new Ford V-8. BEAUTY OF BUICK WINS FIRST PLACE IN SURVEY “Best Looking Car in Its Price Class,’’ Is Consensus of Opinion. By Times Special FLINT, Mich., Sept. 6.—That the Buick mould is cast in public opinion was emphasized in results of a current motor car style survey conducted by the General Motors customer research staff in which Buick was voted the “best looking’’ car in its price class. The impartial survey was conducted among thousands of motorists throughout the country on the basis of individual taste in motor car design. Buick received 23.7 per cent of all votes cast, more than three times the average of the other ten cars in the price class covered. In addition to the heavy vote cast in favor of Buick from a standpoint of beauty, it was frequently commented upon as being a design of lasting or “enduring appeal,” in keeping with the car’s reputation for service and dependability.
Three Increases Ordered in Pontiac Production
Demand Causes Addition of 5,869 Cars to Output Schedule. By Tima Special PONTIAC. Mich., Sept. 6y—lncreases in retail deliveries of Pontiac cars in June and during the first ten days of July exceeded so greatly the forecasts set up for these periods that manufacturing schedules were increased by 5.869 units for July and August, according to A. W. L. Gilpin, vice-presi-dent and general sales manager of Pontiac Motor Company. “June deliveries,” said Mr. Gilpin, “exceeded the forecast for the month by 1.302 cars and brought about an increase of 1,869 cars for the ensuing production schedules. Then when deliveries for the first ten days of July were reported it became evident that July would rim at least 1.000 ahead of our production. Therefore a second production increase, this time of 2,000 cars, was ordered immediately. “Upon advice of our regional managers from all parts of the country who were at the factory for their regular monthly meeting, the third successive schedule increase in two weeks was put into effect. Again the addition was 2.000. thus bringing the total up to 5 869 cars added to the July and August factory output.” Pontiac sales and deliveries are holding up so well, Mr. Gilpin says, because of the price reduction June 2 which only now is having its full effect, and the increasing public acceptance of the Pontiac product. A similar condition with actual increases in shipments holds true for Pontiac overseas business. Figures from Mr. Gilpin's office show that actual nor.cancellable orders for shipment up to Aug. 31 produced an increase in Pontiac's export shipments of 31.4 per cent Engine Made of Steel The newest development in Diesel engines is one made of steel. It is claimed to be several times lighter than the cast-iron type and weighs about twenty pounds per horsepower. Charcoal Gas Runs Car An Italian car. operating on charcoal gas. completed a 1.600-mile journey from Rome to Budapest and back at a cost of approximately (3.
School Opening Calls for More Care by Motorists
Safety Problem Becomes More Acute Because of Children. By Times Special WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept, 6. With the highway accident rate already at the highest peak in years, the American Automobile Association sounds a warning that the re-
SHAVER FIRM TOjEMOVED Nash-Lafayette Agency for Indiana to Occupy Larger Quarters. Extensive alterations have begun on business property at 961 to 967 North Meridian street to make it ready as state distribution center for Nash and Lafayette motor cars. W. A. Brennan, Inc., realtors, announce that the E. L. Shaver Com-
pan y, Nash-La-fayette distributor, now at 400 North Capitol avenue will occupy the property. Present plans call for opening of the new quarterabout Oct. 1. The property is a one-story brick structure facing Meridian street, with a two-story brick addition in the rear. Its frontage is more than
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eighty-nine feet, with a depth of 205 feet. The building has 23,000 square feet of fl-'er space. E. L. Shaver, president, announces that the change was necessary in preparation for increased business caused by the introduction of the Lafayette in the low price field.
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opening of schools, with 23,500.000 children going to and from classrooms, will greatly magnify the safety problem during the immediate months ahead. At the same time, the national motoring body, through its president, Thomas P. Henry, Detroit, appealed to all motorists to. co-op-erate with parents, police officials, school authorities and school patrols in order to provide the utmost protection for the school bound army of American youngsters. “Some 4.000.000 of these ch' 1 - dren,” said Mr. Henry, “will be going to school for the first f ime and wall be having their baptism of experience in the maelstrom of traffic. Millions of other children have for months been away from traffic hazards and will come back with an unwarranted feeling of security. For all of them, the first months of the school year are particularly dangerous.” T n connection with the organized effort to promote child rafety, Mr. Henry announced that for the coming school year, the American Automobile Association and its affiliated motor clubs had greatly extended their program for safety education in the schools, through regular lessons, safety posters, and schc-l patrols. His statement in part follows: “While progress has been made in improving the traffic fatality record among children,” said Mr. Henry, “the problem continues to demand t’ - help of every citizen. It is significant, however, that the children themselves are doing as much, if not more, than adults in the way of responding to traffic control and using care when on the streets and highways. This is largely response- for the fact that only 11 per cent of the motor deaths during 1933 were in the age group from 5 to 14, as compared to 70 per cent involving persons between the ages of 16 and 64. “The splendid record of the age group including school children may be attributed to safety education in the schools, to the effective work of schoolboy patrols in safeguarding children en route to and from school and the wide use of caution signs on highways near rural schools and on streets adjacent to city schools. With the reopening of schools some 250,000 A. A. A. schoolboy patrolmen will be at their posts in 2,000 cities and towns and A. A. A. motor clubs will sponsor the distribution of 1,500,000 safety lessons and posters during the 1934-35 school year. The extension of this safety program has been one of our major civic concerns during the present year.”
SEPT. 6, 1934
MILLION MARK RY PLYMOUTH MAKES RECORD
Precedent Lacking for Such Production in Period of Six Years. Setting an all-time record for tha automotive industry, Walter P. Chrysler has produced his first million Plymouths in six years. Never before in the history of tha industry has a manufacturer built his first million cars in so short a time. Figuring 1900 as the real beginning of automobile manufacture, it too* the entire industry twelve years to build the first million cars. This includes all makes of automobiles produced, the records show. Driven by Chrysler Introduced in IS<2B, the Plymouth gained steadily in popularity. When floating power engine mountings were introduced in 1931, Plymouth spurted to third place in the industry. a position it has held ever since. Led by B. E. Hutchinson, chairman of the board of Plymouth, and D. S. Eddins, vice-president and general manager, executives of Chrysler attended the ceremony when the millionth car rolled from the line. Mr. Chrysler, coat off, drove the car from the line while employes cheered. In commenting to newspaper men, Mr. Chrysler said: “I believe that the American public today is getting the biggest motor car dollar in the history of the automobile business. Expects Few Changes “I do not think that the changes in the low price field during tha next few years will be of a radical nature While I believe low price cars of the future will be even smarter, more modern, more economical, they will stay more or less within conventional lines. “I believe that conditions will continue firm in this country, and that the American public, accustomed as it is to better things, will continue to be able to obtain them. “We do not need to worry about progress in this country as long as industry is encouraged to advance and is permitted and is enabled to contribute to the social and economic development of the country, as it has always done in the past.”
PLYMOUTH SALES RISE Business During Week in August Exceeded 1933 Period. Plymouth retail sales for the week ended Aug. 25 exceeded those of last year, according to A. L. Millard, district representative of the Plymouth Motor Corporation. A total of 7,195 units were reported sold by dealers throughout the country in that week. This is 2.1 per cent more than the same period of last year. MORE LIGHTING URGED New York Official Asserts Accidents Would Be Diminished. Commissioner C. B. Hartnett of the New York motor bureau asserts that adequate lighting of the streets and highways of New York would result in prevention of at least onequarter of the motor vehicle accidents which occur at night. AUTO IMPORTS BANNED Ecuador Puts Temporary Order Into Effect. A decree published by the government of Ecuador temporarily prohibits the importation of a number of items, among which are included passenger automobiles. Busses Pay $30,000,000 During 1933 public carrier motor busses paid $30,645,700 in taxes.