Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 180, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1934 — Page 3

DEC. 7, 1934

CHRISTMAS TRADING SHOWS 16 PER CENT GAIN AS U. S. SHOPPERSGETEARLY START lYule Business Nearly Doubled in Many Cities, Survey of 25 Centers From Coast to Coast Reveals. •Copyright. 1934, by United PreM) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 7.—Christmas stockings will sag under a load some 16 per cent heavier this year than last. The holiday spirit is pulling itself out of the morass of necessities, and again will find expression in red wagons and climbing monkeys, silks and ties, diamonds and silverware.

A United Press survey in, 25 cities from coast to coast j and Ix>rder to border shows j that Christmas trade is run- j ning as much as 53 per cent; higher than it was last year.' The average estimate by mer- j chants was 16.8 i>er cent. Already the festoons of holly, the | figures of Santa going down a chimney, are in the windows. The i crowds look, they go in to buy. Purse strings hitherto held taut by sterner needs are loosening for a more substantial greeting than the gayly-colored Yule cards have been carrying.^ 30 Per Cent Gain Shown Where a plaid dress sufficed last year, an evening gown will be on the tree this season. Oriental rugs, furnishings, lamps, Jewelry and leather goods were in demand in the New York metropolitan area. Retail sales there were estimated to exceed those of the corresponding week last year by 12 to 15 per cent. In Washington, Christmas business started 10 days earlier than in 1933 and trade was running ahead es much as 30 per cent above 1933. Toy buying in Chicago was reported the heaviest since 1929. Stores already have put on more clerks to handle the rush. Particularly impressive was a demand for ''quality ’* merchandise. One concern in San Francisco indicated its volume of trade was “nearly double” that of last year- “ Substantially greater” was the tenor of reports which merchants declined to make more specific. Trading Starts Early Two. of Atlanta's largest department stores reported trade about 25 per cent ahead of 1933. The most sensational report came from Memphis, where five department stores reported sales from 20 to 53 per cent better than at this time last year A Dallas department store whose sales were $305,000 last November, took in $446,000 in the same month of 1934. Christmas trade began before Thanksgiving. Last year it was not general until two weeks before Christmas. Other reports: Birmingham: Five stores report I

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I gains averaging 25 per cent. Labor- | ing class buying particularly sig- ! nificant. New Orleans: One store reported ; sellout of medium priced toys. In- ; crease attributed to re-employment and better prices for cotton. Buying Gains Mentioned Pittsburgh: 31 per cent increase for week ending Dec. 1 as compared with previous week. Sales generally higher. Kansas City: Officials estimate increase of 15 to 22 per cent over 1933 Buyers want either highest or lowest quality with middle trade vigorous. Sale Lake City: Six to 7 per cent sales increase over 1933; buying gathering momentum. St- Louis: Estimate increase of 10 to 15 per cent over 1933; total December volume estimated ahead of 1933 and 1932. Cleveland: Up about 15 per cent; 800.000 checks now going out—sl2,000.000 Union Trust Company dividend payoff; $3,500,000 refund from East Ohio Gas Company, and sl,600.000 from Christmas savings clubs. Philadelphia: Ahead by “appreciative amount”; one executive reported pickup “more rapid than in a long, long time.” Luxury Items Show Gain Denver: Pickup several weeks ahead of last year. Estimate 15-20 per cent ahead of 1934. Detroit; 20 per cent above 1933. Portland, Ore.: 24-30 per cent higher. Boston: Pickup beginning. Des Moines: Gift buying will exceed 1933 by 15 per cent. Los Angeles: 10 per cent above 1933; more persons buying; furniture, wearing apparel and domestic articles show largest increases. Milwaukee: Up 20 per cent. Biggest toy business in three years New trend toward “sentimental” merchandise. Butte; Increases range from 15 to 31 per cent over 1933, said to represent 65 to 90 per cent of 1929 volume. St. Paul and Minneapolis: Sale of luxury items “surprisingly big”; far ahead of 1933 in quantity and quality.

TRAIN SENATE’S BIG GUNS ON ARMS MAKERS

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New and startling revelations were expected as the Senate Munitions Inquiry resumed its hearings a Washington Left to right are the committeemen and their aids: Senators Arthur Vandenburg, W. War ren, Barbour, Gerald P. Nye, chairman; Alger Hiss, investigator; Senator Bennett Champ Clark; Stepher Raushenbush, committee counsel, and Senator James F. Pope.

U. S, IN 5 MONTHS SPENDS 3JILLIONS Gold Stocks at Record High; Income Increased. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.—Government spending for this fiscal year —now in its fifth month—today crossed the $3,000,000,000 mark. The Treasury reported that its gold stocks had reached an all-time record high of $8,161,195,872. At this level they were $1,142,931,946 above Feb. 1, and $160,673,304 above Oct. 31. For current fiscal year to date the Treasury reported it had spent $3,033,368,006. compared with $2,029.808.055 in the corresponding period of last year. The income of the Government so far this year was $1,517,437,316, against $1,185,206,750 in the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. This left the Government “in the red” for the first five months and five davs of the current fiscal year $1,515,931,690, against $844,601,305 in £he corresponding period of the last year. Included in the $3,033,368,006 expenditures were $1,604,743,266 in “recovery” or “relief” costs and $1,428,624,739 for ordinary Government costs. OHIO PASSES SALES TAX Estimate Shows Law Will Yield More Than $60,000,000 Annually, By United Pregg COLUMBUS. 0., Dec. 7.—A 3 per cent general sales tax, estimated to yield more than $60,000.00 annually, today had been passed by the Ohio House and Senate, barring a motion to reconsider in the House, awaited approval by Gov. George White.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

EMPLOYER HOPES TO HIRE 3 EX-SENATORS; G. 0. P. PREFERRED

By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—-An anonymous advertiser today offered employment to “three ex-United States Senators, preferably of Republican leanings.” The advertiser said he could assure 10 weeks’ work at “substantial” wages with a reasonable possibility of a year’s contract. Nothing was said of the nature of the work, beyond the assurance that it was of “honorable and respectable nature with remarkable chance for advancement in anew and exciting field.” DENVEfI WOMAN TAKES OVER TREASURY JOB New Assistant Secretary to Handle Welfare, Public Health. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Miss Josephine Roche of Denver, one of the country’s leading women industrialists and humanitarians, took office today as Assistant Secretary of Treasury in charge of welfare and public health. Ranking second only to Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, among the women in the Administration, she is the third woman to be, given an important treasury position. German Dance Master Divorced By United Press MILWAUKEE, Dec. 7. • Mrs. Johanna Kroll, today had been awarded a divorce from George Kroll, Berlin, Germany, internationally known dance master and member of the family which founded the Kroll Opera House there.

TEACHERS' SESSION WILL HEARJRESTER State Athletic Director to Speak at Conference. By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., Dec. 7.—Sessions of the tenth annual Indiana conference on supervised student teaching were resumed today at Central Normal College here with addresses by A. L. Trester, state high school athletic commissioner, and Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck. research director, University of Southern California, at Los Angeles. The conference opened yesterday and will close today after bringing together more than 400 representatives of fifteen Indiana colleges' and universities. Departmental sessions under the direction of prominent Indiana educators were to be held this afternoon. HOO VOTES DISCARDED IN FT. WAYNE RECOUNT Pluralities of Republican Victors Increased in Tabulation. By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind.. Dec. 7—Scores of ballots cast in the city election here Nov. 6 were continuing to go into the waste basket as the recount board checked each ballot for incorrect marking. With 15 of* the 54 precincts already tabulated in the municipal recount, called by defeated Democratic candidates, a total of more than 1400 ballets have been thrown out as incorrectly cast. The pluralities of the Republican victors have been increased by the recount.

MRS. SAUNDERS EXAMINED BY SANITY BOARD Jury Selection Proceeds as Outcome of Test Is Awaited. By United Press LEBANON. Ind., Dec. 7.—Three Lebanon physicians today tested the sanity of Mrs. Neoma Saunders, 35, Wabash, while selection of a jury to try her on charges of murder was resumed in Boone Circuit Court. She is accused of plotting the slaying of her husband, the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders, former Wabash Methodist minister. He was found dead in his automobile on a North Side street in Indianapolis, Feb. 2. Although Mrs. Saunders is charged with first and second degree murder, Prosecutor John J. Kelly indicated the state will be satisfied with a life sentence rather than death. The sanity commission was appointed by Judge Paul Laymon after Merle N. Walker, chief defense counsel, announced he would base his plea for Mrs. Saunders’ freedom on ground that she was temporarily insane at the time of the slaying. The sanity commission consists of Drs. W. H. Williams, E. A. Rainey and W. H. Spieth. Judge Laymon ordered them to report their find- : ings this morning, if possible. Eleven Jurors Selected Eleven jurors, all farmers, had been approved tentatively by the prosecution at conclusion of the first day’s session of the trial last night. Fourteen veniremen were questioned and three were excused. The jury is expected to be completed by this afternoon when a recess will be taken until Monday. Theodore Mathers. 19, Coalmont. accused of the actual slaying, is being held in jail here pending trial. The state contends that he killed Mr. Saunders with a gun purchased at Mrs. Saunders’ request. She gave the youth $lO to buy the weapon, the state contends. Illicit Love Charged In his opening arguments yesterday, Prosecutor Kelly said he intended to prove that an illicit love affair between Mrs. Saunders and Mathers and a desire to collect the minister’s insurance provided a motive. Mathers and Saunders were students and roommates at an Indianapolis embalming school when the shooting occurred. Basil Roe. 20, a lifelong friend of Mathers, who accompanied him on the death ride, is being held at Indianapolis awaiting trial as an accessory. He is expected to be used as a state’s witness in Mrs. Saunders’ trial.

SOVIET LEADER SLAIN

Slain in Leningrad by “an enemy of the working class,” Sergei Mironovich Kiroff (above), member of the political bureau of the Communist party which rules Soviet Russia, became the first important victim of political assassination in the U. S. S. R. since 1918.

ENDURANCE FLIERS' GAS SUPPLY IS LOW Women, in Air Seven Days, Move to Dallas. By United Press DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 7. —Jean Larene and Henrietta Sumner, women endurance fliers, circled apprehensively over Love Field here today, hopeful that a refueling plane from Oklahoma City would arrive before their supply of gasoline was exhausted. Weather conditions caused the fliers to leave Oklahoma City during the night. The women dropped notes asking for a refueling ship. There being no facilities for refueling the endurance plane here, C. E. Harmon of the Dallas Aviation School telephoned Kenneth Hunter, the flight manager, at Oklahoma City. Today was the seventh day of the endurance flight. INCOME TAX NOTICES FOR QUARTER MAILED Installments on Corporation and Individual Payments Asked. Notices for the fourth quarterly installments on Federal corporation and individual Income tax payments, due Dec. 15, have been mailed, Will H. Smith, Indiana United States Internal Revenue Collector, announced today. He urged taxpayers to pay these installments on or before the date due to clear their accounts in the internal revenue office and avoid interest charges for failure to pay promptly.

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TOXIO DELEGATE BACKS DEMANDS FOR SEA PARITY Reply to Davis Includes Admission on Manchukuo Responsibility. By United Press LONDON. Dec. 7.—General con- * currence in the outline of United < States naval policy by Norman H. Davis was followed today by a Japanese defense of the case for re- * vision of the naval treaties. Vice-Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. ‘ chief Japanese technical delegate in the London conversations, analyzed the officially approved Davis ! speech and expressed disagreement J with its conclusions. In doing so he admitted tacitly ' that the formation of the state of ’ Manchukuo from Chinese Man- • I churia was not absent from the .* minds of Japanese statesmen when *, i they decided to denounce the * Washington treaty and demand rb- • solute naval equality. “I do not consider.” Admiral t Yamamoto said, "that Manchukuo i was the immediate reason for Ja- * pan's demand for revision of the treaties. However, as sponsor for . Manchukuo. we feel the responsi- ; bility for protecting Manchukuo ; from possible Russian and Chinese • encroachments.” Mr. Davis based his speech on * the “equality of security" princi- * pie. That is, that a nation with long sea frontiers and far away island possessions needs a larger { navy with much to defend \ : m own ", property and citizens than does a nation, like Japan, whose inherent * national interests are confined within a small area. Repudiation Expected By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.—State ! Department and Navy officials who f , have been pulling together closely j at the London naval conversations, I | were getting ready to go their sep- J ! arate ways from the date on which j ; Japan denounces the Washington t> | and London naval treaties. | Both departments anticipate a ' “building lull” during the two-year * period from the date on which * Japan denounces the treaty until l the end of 1936 when the treaties J actually expire. During that period, r however, the course of the two de- ; partments lies along entirely differ- J ent lines. J Sfate Department officials plan to * use the “lull” for intensification of ; efforts to find some basis on which * principles of naval limitation can be • continued. Navy Department offl- - cials will attempt to learn what J Japan plans to build when the trea- J ties lapse,, and will draw plans for * American construction. The Navy Department, it was in- I dicated. hopes to a leaf from the preachments issifed by Japan * during recent months, and build the kind of navy which this nation requires.”