Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 177, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1934 — Page 3

DEC. 4, 1934

35-CENT BOOST IN DIRECT i RELIEF MONEY FOR FOOD 1 GIVEN JOBLESS IN COUNTY Increase Result of Administration Transfer From Township Trustees to State Unemployment Commission. BY ARCH STEINEL Timet StS Writer “Wrap a pound of butter and throw in a box of matches, Mister Grocer. Here’s the 35 cents.” And that’s ju3t the weekly difference, figuratively speaking, between what a Marion County family on direct relief today gets and what the same family received in March, 1933. It is the difference between the administration of direct relief, receiving weekly aid in grocery orders and not wages, under state and Federal control through the Governor’s Unemployment Relief Commission, and the same relief under one of the nine township trustees of the county in 1933. Slightly less than one-half of the county's 19,000 relief families are on direct relief and receive an average, exclusive of the issue of surplus Government foods, of $3 84 a week in grocery orders—not cash. In March. 1933, the sam<; family received $3.49 weekly for necessities. Approximately 10,000 families are on work relief pay rolls today. They receive an average of $10.40 a week, out of which they must pay rent and fuel. But in March. 1933, work relief was negligible. The full relief bill for 15,000 lamilies was paid by taxpayers in the township for mass food distribution through grocery orders under supervision of the township trustees. The Governor's commission stepped into tl e picture in July, 1933, with both hands filled with bags of Federal money. Today the state commission pays one-fourtji of the direct relief bills in Marion County and stamps "Paid” on all wage relief projects. Direct relief’s apportionment in Marion County and the state for the last three months and in September, 1933, follows: INDIANA Relief by Type*— Sept.. 1933 Aug.. 1934 Sept., 1934 Oct., 1934 pnnd 5533.Mt.74 SIX* 616.34 *448,501.24 *1X7,658.53 y uf | IX 0.5'.20 12,995.32 27..568.97 121,468.91 Shelter' 12,001.00 30,539.14 30.686.00 37,682.75 riothtnr 61.541.38 57.848.11 107.612.63 13.59*.96 Medical care 68,062.59 95.259.10 84,494.07 83,58^^8 other aid "..""1 106.327.92 95.513.04 152.768 96 117.677.96 Total* 5799.311.83 *780.771.05 *851,631.96 *951.669.89 MARION COUNTY Relief by Type!— Sept.. 1933 Au*.. 1934 Sept.. 1934 Oct., 19.34 IZ* ,10R *!fls * "SS * * S&£ Shelter ".’.WWW.’.’.* 2.128 72 * HU U 969 12 Clothing 9.195.79 r V, ..81 J I*'.'..:::::::::::::::: tS U&S bag ToUta *126,792.48 *137,763.34 *102,987.79 *136,568.08 Huge work relief expenditures show in the above table how direct relief has been kept at the same ratio with 1933 in Marion County. But direct relief has increased in the state at large, due to tax de-

linquency in many countips and the necessity for the state to assume all relief bills as the relief lines grow longer. Grocers Forced to Wait Grocers, fuel dealers, are forced to wait from five to six months for payment of the township trustee s 75 per cent portion of the direct relief bill. A $1.50 maximum tax levy law, passed during the administration of Gov. McNutt to quiet the howls from tax reduction organizations, forced merchants into the courts to collect the just bills due them for providing county and township relief. It is necessary to declare an emergency to levy taxes above the $1.50 limit. The merchants band together and sue in one man’s name for a township Judgment to collect their bills. The judgment granted, they must wait for a ready market and sale of the poor relief bonds. Inability to sell the bonds in Center Township. the city's major unit under the trustee system, and other townships, has resulted in relief bills being carried for as long as two years on the books of grocers and coal dealers. Taxpayer Will Fay The archaic relief method under the trustee and the maximum tax law continues in its vicious circle by forcing the wholesale grocer to carry the retailer's bills until the judgments are satisfied, and the bills paid by the trustee. The grocer can offer to pay onefourth of his bill out of the onefourth paid by Government money, but the wholesaler knows that three-fourths ol the groceries issued to the needy go into the retailer's ledger under the heading of credit extended to the township trustee alongside that of Mr. Blank, who will pay in the end, as taxpayer, both bills. In October, the direct relief's food and fuel for the months of May, June and July were paid to merchants. The bill totaled approximately $185,000. Anew suit for the months of August, September and October will be filed for the township. 1932 Bills Tnpaid A typical lengthy wait for the payment of relief bills is in a $15,000 suit of Washington Township. The bills date back to 1932. It was not worth while going to court two years ago. One fuel company is owed $llOO and the bill is yellbwed with two years of waiting. Creditors in this township must pay approximately $l5O, or 1 per cent, to collect the $15,000 in groceries and fuel that nourished and warmed the township's poor months ago. Placed in the hands of a trust agency, as one township relief bill was placed, and the collection charge would be three times the amount which creditors of Washington Township will pay. “It isn't worth the time and trouble waiting for payment of the bills,** declares a prominent coal dealer. “If it wasn’t that it helps keep our own men on the pay roll, a community service, and our gambling that the men we service with coal today will trade with us when they get a job in private industry - , we’d quit today," he asserts vehemently. Private Customers Wait “We must make our private customers wait when the call for an emergency relief coal order is phoned to us. Many days it costs us overtime for our men to service relief families—and our profit—well, if we make 5 cents a ton on the hauling charge we're lucky." he added. Coal is one of the major relief Items and one of the major savings to taxpayers under the Governor's relief commission. The coal is bought at the mine at $1.98 a ton with Federal money. The same coal purchased by a coal dealer would cost $2.20. Freight

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rate of $1.13 brings that ton of coal into the yard of a city dealer at a cost of $3.11. At this juncture, the township trustee becomes a co-partner with the Government in paying a $1.50 hauling charge for each ton to the retailer. Trustee Pays $1.13 Miss Hannah Noone, Center Township trustee, who pays the major portion of the county’s direct relief bill, is charged with $1.13 of the hauling charge, while the Federal portion is 37 cents a ton. The Federal money is paid promptly. The trustee can not pay her portion with the result the 10 cents a ten discount on payment within thirty days is lost to county taxpayers as well as the Government. The coal that goes into the firebox of relief homes of the city and county costs $4.61. The same coal delivered to the average consumer would cost $5.46, or a saving of 85 cents a ton. All coal is purchased from Indiana mines to stimulate state employment. Coal operators find in the relief coal sale the only means of legitimately cutting price under the NRA coal code. For instance, an operator has carloads of coal on a siding but no orders. He can not cut the price and sell on the open market to keep his mine operating, but he can ship the coal as relief coal and sell direct to the Government at a 10 per cent reduction. Miners Kept at Work The coal is shipped. His miners are kept at work. The Government benefits in cheaper coal price and in the grade of coal. The relief family benefits in receiving a better grade of coal to burn than it had when coal w - as purchased by the township trustee. In one instance, a well-known Hoosier coal that sells at $6 a ton was shipped to the state fuel director for distribution, through coal dealers, to relief homes. The only sun that shines on the cash register of grocery and fuel firms providing poor relief in the county is that the long waits for township payment of direct relief bills is balanced somewhat by the cash paid by one-half of the relief families who are on wage relief and buy their own groceries and coal. Next: The Relief Line and the Social Worker. Probation Tests Scheduled Probation officer examinations will be taken by ninety-eight persons Friday and Saturday at the Statehouse. Dr. Francis McCabe, state phobation director, announced today. Rupture Disappears As If By Magic Doctor’s New Discovery Wins Applause of Thousands Kansas City. Mo.—Dr. A. Kaiser. 6230 Koch Bldg.. 2906 Main St., of this city, has discovered a newer rupture method' that is so successful hundreds have thrown their trusses away—all signs of rupture gone. This method goes away with leg straps, elastic belts, binding springs and harsh 'pads. Every week more and more letters are received from users telling how they now go without any support. Those who do not wish to undergo the knife should investigate this discovery. The doctor offers to send his inexpensive method to any rupture sufferer for 30 days’ use and make no charge if you are not pleased in that time. If you are ruptured be *nre to write Doctor Kaiser tonight for his trial offer.—Advertisement.

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CITY POSTMEN TO START CHRISTMAS SEAL DISTRIBUTION

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Kern Attacks Bossism, Deplores Factionalism Mayor-Elect Tells Cosmopolitan Democrats at Victory Party He Stands for Government of Law, Not Men. A warning that factionalism in their party necessarily will bring decay with it was sounded to members of the Comspolitan Democratic Club last night by Superior Judge John W. Kern, Mayor-Elect, at the club’s Victory dinner in the Hotel Claypool, The judge, who promised that he would avoid factionalism when he

DEMOCRATIC FORWARD WORKERS ORGANIZED New National Political Group Is Formed Here. The formation of anew national political organization, the Forward Workers Democratic League of America, was announced today by Frank L. Martino, founder of the movement. The object of the organization will be to preserve safeguard the interests of the workers in their relation dnd devotion to the Democratic party, Mr. Martino said. The league’s headquarters will be in Indianapolis with offices at 501 Illinois Building. CHARTERS ARE SOUGHT BY THREE CITY FIRMS Organization Papers Are Filed With Secretary of State. Organization papers for three new local firms have been filed with the secretary of state, it was announced today. They are the Morton Manufacturing Cos., Inc., which will manufacture electrical products under the direction of Morton Murphy, 2445 College-av; Toggery Service, Inc., 16 N. Pennsylvania-st, which will operate shoe repair and cleaning and pressing shops, and International Merchandising Corp. of America, 629 N. Noble-st, which will manufacture vending machines.

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takes office Jan. 1, said: “The Democratic party stands for a government of law rather than of men, and of principles rather than of personalities. I am happy to say that the Democratic party has no bosses but, instead, capable and fearless leaders. "It is difficult to.avoid factionalism, but, when it creeps in, in comes decay as well. I say again that good politics means good government, and we are responsible to the electorate for that.” Dr. Will H. Smith, Cosmopolitan president, presided. Other speakers were Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, August G. Mueller, Secretary of State; Omer C. Jackson, Democratic state chairman; Mrs. Hannah Noone, Center Township Trustee, and Sheriff-Elect Otto Ray. Several other public officials and party leaders also were introduced. MYSTIC TIE MASONS MARK ANNIVERSARY Lodge Observes Silver Jubilee of Temple at Dinner. Celebration of the silver jubilee of the Masonic Temple, 525 N. Ulinoisst, continued last night with special observances by Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, Free and Accepted Masons. R. Norman Baxter, worshipful master, presided at the dinner and the program which followed it, and speakers included representatives of the Masonic Temple Association and the Masonic Relief Board. The Master Mason degree was exemplified for three candidates.

C. M. CRAMER RITES ARE SET FOR TODAY Hunting Accident Victim to Be Buried in Memorial Park. Funeral services for Clarence Matthlw Cramer, 5874 Julian-av, who accidentally shot himself while hunting Saturday, were to be held at 2 today in Shirley Brothers’ Funeral Home, 5377 E. Washington-st. Burial was to be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Cramer, who was hunting with his brother, William Cramer, 1284 Russell-av, was 38. He slipped and discharged the gun which he was carrying, two shots entering his body. He was taken to City Hospital, where he died a short time later. Mr. Cramer was a member of' the Masonic Lodge and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. Surviving are the widow; a daughter, Patricia Ann; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli N. Cramer; two brothers, William and Earl Cramer ,and four sisters, Miss Louise Cramer, Mrs. Pauline Gaskill, Mrs. Hattie Bailey and Mrs. Florence Roembke, all of Indianapolis. BELGRANO APPLAUDS MILITARY DECISION Compulsory Training Is Essential to Peace, Legion Head Says. The decision of the United States Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of compulsory military training in land grant colleges today was applauded by Frank N. Belgrano Jr., American Legion national commander. Mr. Belgrano characterized the decision as a “crushing defeat for the small element which holds the dangerous and foolish theory that peace can be preserved by destroying our. national defense while other nations build up their armaments.” “America never will seek a war,” Mr. Belgrano asserted, “but an unarmed America only invites attack.”

3 INDICTED IN MORRO CASTLE FIRE TRAGEDY Negligence Also Charged to Firm: Capt. Warms Is Accused. By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 4.—Willful negligence was charged this afternoon against the ranking officers of the holocaust ship. Morro Castle, its operating company and one of its shore officials, a federal grand jury j investigating the disaster that took 1 124 lives, handed up seven indict- j ments. The indictments named Acting i Captain William S. Warms. Chief j Engineer Eben S. Abbott. Henry E Cabaud. executive vice-president of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Cos., and the company itself. Early trial was promised. Specific charges against the two officers were that they failed to live up to precautions against fires at sea as prescribed by Federal shipping laws. Cabaud and the companj/ were charged with knowing thesq laws were being ignored and in aiding in their abridgement. All the individuals were named in separate indictments. The outcome of the trial will have a strong influence in the settlement of damage suits filed by almost all of the 230 passengers who survived that now total more than $1,000,000. The company has sought court sanction for a limitation on liability; should any or all of the accused be convicted, its success would be unlikely Warms was accused of failure to divide his crew into equal watches; failure to keep himself informed of the extent of the fire; failure to have the passengers aroused; failure to see that passengers were provided with life preservers; failure to maneuver his ship properly during the fire; failure to take steps to protect life; failure to organize fire fightipg; failure to send an SOS promptly; failure to order passengers to life boats and to order their lowering; failure to control and direct the crews of the lifeboats after they were lowered. CONFESSION CLAIMED IN REICHSTAG BLAZE Nazi Leader Who Was Purge Victim Admitted Crime, Paper Claims. By United Press PARIS, Dec. 4.—The Journal today published a purported confession of Karl Ernst, Nazi Storm Troop leader, who was executed in the June 30 “purging,” that he and two comrades set fire to the Berlin Reichstag Building. The alleged confession said that Ernst did the burning by order of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda, and Herman Goering, Prussian premier. ERROR IS CORRECTED Mistake in Police Radio Report Gives Wrong Description. Mrs. Nellie Sheehy, 832 Chad-wick-st, today asked The Times to correct a statement in Friday’s edition which, in describing a trolley accident, said that she was a Negro. Mrs. Sheehy is not a Negro. The mistake was made by the result of an error in a police radio squad rej port filed at police headquarters.

LABOR SPEAKER

■■pi? . IL#* jsSSj Verne L. Reynolds Under auspices of the SocialistLabor party's local organization, Verne L. Reynolds. New York City, will deliver a public lecture at 7:45 tonight at 29 S. Delaware-st. He will speak on "Capitalist Anarchy vs. Socialist Order.” Mr. Reynolds was Socialist-La-bor candidate for president in the last two elections.

COLLAPSE OF WOMEN RIVALS IN $24,000 SUIT DELAYS TRiAL

Two women, one the plaintiff, the other a defendant, in a $24,000 damage suit in Judge Joseph R. Williams’ court, collapsed late yesterday while waiting in court for Ralph B. Gregg, defense attorney, whose own illness had delayed the trial. Mrs. Charles A. Huff, who, with her husband, is defending a suit brought by Mrs. Mary Stewart. 1310 N. Beville-av, suffered an attack of heart t asase and was sent home in an ambulance. A few minutes later Mrs. Stewart, who claims she received permanent spine injuries in a fall down a flight of stairs in an apartment house owned by Mr. and Mrs. Huff, collapsed. C. OF C. OPPOSES PWA SLUM CONTRACT POLICY Business Group Favors Seeking Proposals on Unit Basis. The Chamber of Commerce and the Public Works Administration at Washington are at odds over the method of letting the contract for the slum clearance housing project near city Hospital. The chamber has urged Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes to take bids on the project in three or four units, and as a whole, to determine the lowest cost method. Many Indianapolis contractors contend they will be shut out of consideration, if forced to bid on the whole project. The PWA, however, prefers the one-bid plan and has suggested that contractors' combine in submitting bids. POPE FLAYS MEXICAN CHURCH PERSECUTION Addresses 19 Missionary Students in Rome. By United Press VATICAN CITY, Dec. 4.—The Pope deplored “the heinous persecution the churcn is undergoing in Mexico” in an address today to 19 students of the Mexican Missionary College of the Holy Ghost in Rome.

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PEOPLES OPENS HUGE STORE IN CITY TOMORROW Company's Larger Quarters Evidence of Faith in Future. Officials of the Peoples Outfitting Company were making last-minute preparations today for the formal opening of their new store in the nine-room story Sommers Building at Capitol-av and Washington-st tomorrow. From 9 a. _m. until 9 p. m. the public has been invited to inspect the new store's numerous departments. An orchestra will play for the visitors-while they wander from Duncan Phyfe reproductions to the latest in chromium pipe, leather upholstered chairs with their UltraTwentieth Century look. The Peoples Outfitting Company sales staff will act as guides to show guests from floor to floor and describe stocks on display from the first to the ninth flocr of the new quarters of the firm which began business in 1893 at 133-35 W. Wash-ington-st. Increasing business and confidence that this increase is indicative of future trends is the reason why the People Outfitting Company has moved to its shining, whitetiled new home, according to Edward R. Green, company treasurer. The new location occupies more than twice the floor space of the old, boasting 72.000 square feet. Gift Section a Feature In addition to the increased floor space, the company has added new departments and enlarged old ones. A complete gift section on the main floor containing all types of appropriate Christmas prents is a timely addition. A complete men’s furnishings department has been added, also. The main floor, with its controlled ventillation. will house the general offices, radio department, special sales merchandise and miscellaneous items The mezzanine over the main floor will be occupied by Edward A. Miller, credit manager, and’ his staff. The second floor is devoted to men's ready-to-wear and tailored clothing and footwear. It is one of the most attractive floors in the building, with its colorful Venetian paintings, novel lighting effects and wine-colored carpet. On the second floor mezzanine, model rooms will display suites of furniture just as they appear in the home. . Ju\’enile Department Attractive The third floor is occupied by the rug, draperies, curtain and linoleum department. Kitchen and bathroom equipment will be housed on the fourth floor. The fifth floor is one which should prove of great interest at this time of year particularly, for it houses the juvenile department with its captivating furniture for diminutive nousekeepers. Living room, bedroom and dining room suites are located on the sixth, seventh and eighth floor respectively while the ninth floor is devoted entirely to auxiliary stock. From the basement to the roof, nothing has been spared to make the building a fitting display setting for the Peoples Outfitting Company stock. Minton on Way to Capital Senator Sherman Minton and Mrs. Minton left by motor yesterday for Washington.