Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1934 — Page 18

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RELIEF FUNDS UP IN SMOKE, SURVEY FINDS 235.000 Transients Given $1 a Week for Cigarets and Incidentals. fiV r nitrd /'rm WASHINGTON, Oct 26—Thousands nf government dollars are going up In smoke weekly—blue smoke from cigarettes of transients receiving relief The FERA allots transients SI a week for ‘ incidentals,” but “on any Riven dav, there are about 235.000 transients on the rolls.” and. said one official, "many of them enjoy smoking ” At the rate of $1 a week. 235.000 transients would receive $12220,000 a year to spend as they deem best. Transients like to indulße in luxuries, however small, the official said, and “many of them consider smoking a necessity.” There is no restriction on the maner in which the money may be spent. “They mißht buy stamps, razor blades, or cigarettes and candy,” was the ofifical comment. “We don't keep track of their expenditures, although a good part of the money goes through our canteens.” Until recently, the transient's weekly allowance for incidentals was 00 cents. The figure was hiked “because if was a mathematically difficult matter to disburse 90 cents a week to thousands of men,” the United Press was told. “And we and like to give them more, but are limited by the state of our funds." There are hundreds of transient centers in the United States. To receive his SI a transient must remain at a center for one week. For his lodging food and clothing, he is required to work an average of between twenty-four and thirty hours a week. POLICE OFFICER HELD Beech Grove Top Arrested After Crash Here. William Hert, 26, of 60 South Ninth street, Reerh Grove, police officer, is under arrest today for disobeying an automatic traffic signal. He is alleged to have driven a police car at a high rate of speed through a Prospect street signal and to have struck a car driven by Ralph De Boor, 23. of 1610 Lawton street. Mr. De Boor was sent to city hospital suffering from infernal injuries. Lafayette Girl Killed By I mih <1 Vrcmm LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 26.—Injuries suffered in an automobile accident were fatal late yesterday to Muss Jane Fox. 21. Lafayette, former Purdue university student.

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TRIO ARRANGES FOR HAUPTMANN'S MURDER TRIAL IN EAST

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Facing a long, bitter courtroom battle, these three men, who are guiding the legal phase of the trial of Bruno Hauptmann on charges of murdering Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., nevertheless have amiably settled some of the most important preliminary details. They agreed the trial would start Jan. 2, and that Hauptmann would not ask a change of venue. Left to right are Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck Jr. of Hunterdon county. New Jersey; James M. Fawcett, defense attorney, and Robert Peacock, assistant attorney-general of New Jersey.

HALLOWEEN IS NO GALA OCCASION FOR CITY SCHOOL CHIEF

If tlfere is any citizen in Indianapolis to be pitied around Halloween time it is Paul C. Stetson, city school superintendent. It seems that prankish children select the home of their school chief to litter with broken pumpkins, gravel and tin cans. Last year the genial superintendent w r as bothered by scores of bellringings. “At first I would go to the door and hear pattering feet and whispered gigglings, but after the first twenty times not even my best friends could have gotten in,” Mr. Stetson said. ■Y’ MEMBERS SCHEDULE HALLOWEEN PROGRAM Meeting to Be Held at Indian Lake Country Club. Halloween hikes, with a group meeting at the Indian Lake Country Club, will feature programs of junior members of the Y. M. C. A. this afternoon and Saturday. Members of the city's Hi-Y clubs will meet at 4 today in Ellenberger park for a hike. Games, open-fire cooking and surprise Halloween events will feature the program. At 4 tomorrow seventy-five junior “Y” members and their fathers will hold a campfire meeting at Indian Lake Country Club. The group will meet at the Y. M. C. A. and go by auto to the country club.

CLUB TO HOLD DANCE Masquerade Ball Set for Saturday by John Keed Group. A masquerade ball will be held by the John Reed Club tomorrow

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■ night at 320 Columbia Securities building, 143 East Ohio street. A chicken supper will precede the ball with a pageant given at 10 p. m. by the Workers Theater group. Joe's Triangle Trio will play.

STOOPS URGES SPECIAL FUND TO AID_POLICE Hoosier Motor Club Official Assails 'Raid' on Tax Money. “How the motorist is taxed for a special purpose, only to have the special tax money used for other purposes in later years, best is shown by the fate of the auto theft fund,” Todd Stoops, secretary-man-ager of the Hoosier Motor Club, said today. “The auto theft fund was created in 1921 and was sponsored by the Hoosier Motor Club,” Mr. Stoops continued. “All money received from the sale of certificates of title, notary fees, duplicates and containers was to be kept separate and known as the auto theft fund. “It was to be used to create and maintain a state police which would have power to arrest auto thieves in any part of the state. “Since 1921 the state has collected $2,845,725 by this means. The motorist created and paid for a state police force to look after his interest. Automobile theft insurance rates were reduced. Everything was fine. “But in 1925 the state needed

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constant, comfortable temperature in the cabins of transcontinental air liners, is the latest achievement of aeronautical engineers. The heater, appearing for the first time on the new Douglas planes of TWA, Inc., is a miniature boiler in which water is heated by the exhaust of the twin engines. The control holds a steady degree of heat though the ouside temperature may fall far below zero. Cabin air 13 chanced every two minutes.