Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1934 — Page 3

DEC. 13.' 1934

3 BILLIONS SPENT BY U.S. AGENCIES IN 19 MONTHS FAIL TO GIVE ADEQUATE RELIEF Only Bare Necessities Provided by Huge Sums Expended by Private and Public Groups, Nation-wide Survey Reveals. The Indianapolis limn brrcallh prnrnli the second m the serie* of Mi article* e.per tall* prepared for The lime* and other Scrippv-Howard newspaper* eoneerninr the administration of relief in 21 representative cities fr-ira coast to roast. Today's article deal* with the stupendous costs involved in this mammoth undertaking a a a BY ROBERT S. BROWN Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Two and a half billion dollars, a sum equal to about one-third of the nation’s stock of money, has been spent by the Federal Government ors relief since May 23, 1933. The 1934 expenditure will exceed $1,285,356,787 —or more than the pre-war national debt. These Federal figures do not reveal the complete scope of relief costs. States, counties, cities and private charities have added their share, about 40 per cent of the Federal outlay. A grand total for the 19-month period since May, 1933, including Federal funds, CWA allotments, state, county, city and private charity expenditures, is in excess of $3,250,000,000.

The average monthly expenditure by the Government in 1933, exclusive of CWA, was $16,331,212. In 1934 it jumped to $107,113,065. The increavse tells the story of state and local authorities’ inability to carry on. The Scripps-Howard newspaiiers’ relief study in ?, representative eitie/from coast t* coast shows: 1. Despite the enormous sum spent for relief, it is still short of supplying the neeay with those things which go with normal American living. 2. The most acceptable form of relief is work for wages. But it is also the most expensive. 3. The great majority of all relief persons are on direct home relief. 4. Direct cash relief, or the money dole, can be used only in handpicked cases. 5. The cost of relief in all classifications is increasing. 6. The cheapest form of relief is the “warehouse system,” with wholesale purchasing and “breadline" distribution of commodities. 7. There is no standardization of relief expenditures, the cast varying widely between states and between cities. food Item Largest The greatest part of direct reliet money is spent for food, on a gro- | cery-order basis. Shelter, clothing, 1 fuel and medical care follow in that < sequence. Special discounts are given relief clients by food retail- j ers in about half of the cities surveyed. The discounts bring the price of food to an average of 12 per cent above cost. Shelter is provided in a haphazard manner. In Cleveland the relief admin- 1 istration pays a first month's rent, | and lets the landlord worry about future payments. In New York City the current monthly budget for shelter is $2,408,748 Clothing is both purchased and manufactured by relief units. Where it is bought, bids are required i.l | most instances. Many cities provide material*, relief women fashioning the clothing into garments. Fuel is purchased wholesale. Lump Sum for Medicine A lump sum is usually allotted for medical care and pro-rated among physicians iyd hospitals. Cast of relief commodities has advanced steadily in the last 90 days j The rise in 1934 as compared to 1933 was about 15 per cent. Constant re- I vision of family allowances is neces- j sarv to keep pace with rising prices, j Each person on direct relief in \ Akron receives 22 cents a day for food. In nearby Cleveland the allowance is 30 cents, while in New Mexico it is only $3 98 a month. In October an average Cleveland family on direct relief received ■ $21.01 for food. $1 81 for shelter, 14 cents for fuel. $2.60 for clothing, 53 cents for furniture. 6 cents for transportation. 3 cents for medical care and 2 cents for other commodities. New York Costs Doubled An average Memphis family received sl4 72. or 32 cent* less than a vear ago. The Denver family received s3l and the Washington family S2O 71. Relief costs in New York City have more than doubled in 1934 due tc more adequate relief, a rent-pav-ing policy, provision for single persons. and an increased load. In October the cost was $17,948,241 as against $7,354,325 a year ago. Os the more recent figure. $4,691,201 went for food. The average New Yorker . on relief received $9.72 a month. In San Diego County. California. ! a family of five receives a minimum of $57 64 monthly, of which $36.20 is for food While the relief load is now double last year's, the cost is , nearly four times as grAt and still ! rising. 118 Per Cent Increase The average Youngstown family with 4 6 members is gi anted $22.06 a month. This budget includes 25 cents a weeic for insurance. In Buffalo and Erie County. New York, the relief allowance a person is slightly under $5 a month. Relief costs In Birmingham increased 118 per cent from October, 1533. to October. 1934. while the load was increasing only 46 per cent. The increase was due largely to expansion of work relief, which covers 16.158 persons this year against 8828 in 1933. Work relief brings an average of s2(l monthly to a family of four and analf persons, while a

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similar family on direct relief gets | only sl2. In Pittsburgh and Allegheny County the October relief bill was $1,804,601 up $56,000 from September and $638,000 higher than October, 1933. Pittsburgh paid $30,677 for shelter in October, landlords being given only enough to cover taxes, water rent and insurance. Alien Chiseling Reported El Paso, with an acute problem of alien chiseling, is spending $2,000,000 this year on relief, plus great quantities of meat, pork and clothing shipped in by the Federal Surplus Relief Corp. The average relief family has received $358. Costs rose from $72,983 in September to $82,396 in October. Ft. Worth had a relief bill in October of $213,505 a rise of $35,943 in a month and of $128,517 in a year. The monthly average to one person is $3.63. In addition, the city and Tarrant County have received more than 150 carloads of FSRC commodities. Negro and Mexican families received about one-fourth less than white. In October Cincinnati and Hamiltor County spent $866,180, nearly SIOO 000 less than in September. The drop was due wholly to a reduced bud ;et of Federal and state funds. Warehouse in Cincinnati Cincinnati was one of the first cities to establish a warehouse system of relief. This was discontinued following protests of merchants. Grocery orders and cash relief were inaugurated. Officials estimate the increased cost at 25 per cent. The average cost of relief an individual is $4.08 a month. The average wage of a man on work relief is $9 a week. In San Francisco, relief costs sl.000.000 a month, of which the state pays one-fourth, the county oneeighth, the city one-tenth and Uncle Sam the rest. Nearly all employables on relief rolls are employed on work projects. Direct relief cost $413,000 in September, while $416,000 was paid out as wages. Iff 34 months, Harris County, Texas, including Houston, has had a relief bill of $6,000,000, of which the Federal Government, has supplied $4,520,000. Direct relief families get an average of $3.60 a week, plus other supplies. On work relief the family receives $5.40 weekly. Tennessee Valley Bright Spot Knox County and Knoxville, Tenn., report a decrease of 35 per cent in both the cost and the number on relief since July. This area’s report was the most encouraging produced in the Scripps-Howard survey. Due to the operations of the Tennessee Valley Authority, relief costs are decreasing monthly. October's cost of $63,639 was $907 less than September. Evansville is spending $2,500,000 in 1934 for relief—as much as the annual pay roll of the city's largest industrial plant. Federal relief poured into Oklahoma in the last 18 months would be enough to run the state government for four years. Since last May the monthly grant from FERA has totaled a million dollars. In November it rose to $1,250,000. Next—The Administration of Relief.

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With only fragments of walls standing above the smoldering ruins of the Kerns Hotel in Lansing, Mich., where a death toll that may exceed forty was taken when fire swept the four-story hostelry, search is being pressed for dead and injured. This picture shows the shell of the hotel, with debris littering the bank of the Grand River, where a police boat is seen dragging for victims’ bodies. The river is immediately behind the hotel and many guests, trapped by the blaze, leaped from windows into the ice-coated stream.

CLUB RECALLS SHRINE HISTORY Caravan Group Conducts Prelude to Jubilee Celebration. Members of the Caravan Club were to observe a Shrine history day at their luncheon at Murat Temple today in preparation for the Temple’s 50th anniversary ceremonial tomorrow. Speakers for the luncheon were to be William Rich and Charles Hutchison of the first Murat class. Harry K. Stormont will give a history of the temple and other speakers will give a history of its uniformed bodies. The Chanters will sing. Information has been received by Carson B. Harriss, general golden jubilee chairman, that Antioch Temple, Dayton, 0., will send its j 25-piece oriental band for the an- ! niversary celebration. Many officers and members of Antioch Temple will accompany the band. The jubilee parade, which will begin at 2, will be made up of at least eight Shrine temples, including all Murat uniformed organizations, organizations from Kosair Temple, Louisville, Ky.; Antioch Temple, Dayton; Hadi Temple, Evansville, Ind.; Zorah Temple, Terre Haute, Ind.; Orak Temple, Hammond, Ind., and Mizpah Temple, Ft. Wayne, Ind., and the famous Tuxedo Patrol of the Logansport Shrine Club. There will be special cars for distinguished

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STATE TRAFFIC GROUP TRUCK PLAN INDORSED Indiana Highway Department Approves Safety Move. Indorsement of the Indiana Motor Traffic Assn.’s 1935 truck safety campaign was expressed yesterday by the State Highway Department and the Indiana Department of Safety at a meeting in the Lincoln. Meeting with the association safety committee and the advisory safety committee, J. D. Adams, chairman of the Highway Commission; Loran W. Warner of the Accident Prevention Bureau of the Safety Department, and Frank Finney, Bureau of Motor Vehicles commissioner, heard plans to hold driver “no accident contests” and fleet safety contests, together with awards for “no accident drivers” and trophies for truck fleets that make the best safety records. visitors including Dana S. Williams, imperial potentate. Specal trains bringing the delegations from Evansville and Hammond are expected to arrive at Union Station at 11:30 tomorrow. The Murat band and marching organization will escort the visitors from the trains to the temple. Ft. Wayne and Terre Haute organizations will arrive by traction at noon and the Louisville delegation also will arrive some time during the noon hour. The Logansport Shrine Club is expected to come by special busses. THE HAPPY—CLOTHE-A-CHILD DONORS.

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COUNTY CLERKS CONVENE HERE Ralston Heads Committee to Draft Program for Legislature. Organization of a legislative committee in preparation for the coming session of the Indiana General Assembly was effected yesterday at a meeting of county clerks of Indiana at the Claypool. Glenn B. Ralston, Marion Circuit Court clerk, was named chairman. Other members are Jack Lenhart, Brazil; Miss Alma Reed, Ft. Wayne; George Fisher, Peru, and Harry Ferguson, Plymouth. Landess L. White, Marion, president of the clerks’ organization, was authorized to appoint a secretary to succeed Elmer Crull, Richmond, resigned. Speakers at the meeting yesterday were Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend and Lawrence Orr, deputy chief examiner of the State Accounts Board. Alleged Shoplifter Held Miss Opal Treece, 30, who police said gave several fictitious addresses, was charged with grand larceny today for alleged shoplifting.

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CHURCH YOUTH OF INDIANA TO CONVENE HERE Speakers Listed for State Methodist Parley Tomorrow. The Indiana Council of Methodist Youth will meet tomorrow afternoon and all day Saturday at the Edwin Ray Methodist Episcopal Church, Laurel-st and Woodlawn-av. Registration will open at 4 tomorrow afternoon and the evening's program includes a supper at 6. worship service at 7, and discussion groups headed by Dr. Blaine E. Kirkpatrick. Dr. W. C. Barclay and Owen M. Geer. At 8:30 Saturday morning, a worship service will be held, followed by group discussion as follows: “The Christian Philosophy of Life,” led by Dr. H. F. Legg, Evansville College; “War and Peace,” led by the Rev. Wilbur D. Gross; ’’The Christian Economic Order,” led by Miss Hazel Funk; “Temperance,” led by Dr. Stewart D. Patterson, Washington, D. C.; “Recreation and Leisure Time,” led by the Rev. Amos L. Boren, Princeton. Ind.; and “Race Relations,'’ led by t)r. Percy S. Julian, DePauw University. A dinner at noon, reports from the various groups in attendance and a closing worship service at 4:30 will conclude the Council’s meeting. Miss Miriam Patrick is chairman of the Council and the Rev. Charles R. Lizenby will have charge of entertainment for the visting delegates. $2,500,000 SPENT ON FRAUDULENT LOTTERY Cops Hold 3 Men, 600,000 Tickets Valued at $1 Each. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—American* have paid $2,500,000 for tickets in a fraudulent sweepstake lottery, police charged today. They held three men and 600,000 tickets, valued at $1 each, in “The SIOO,OOO Sweepstakes of the Quebec Hospital fund under the auspices of the Catholic Big Sisters of Quebec.” While there is such a hospital and such an organization, neither has had any connection with sweepstakes or lotteries, police said. OVERCOME” BY~FUMES Truck Driver Is Revived After Collapsing at Home. Clarence Hutt, 31, of 1540 Ash-land-av, walked into his home last night and told his wife fumes in the cab of his truck had been exceptionally bad that day. Then he fell unconscious from them. He was revived by a fire department first-aid squad and sent to City Hospital.

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EARLY donors to The Indianapolis Times campaign to Clothe-A-Child are going into city stores to shop for their boys and girls. You'll se them everywhere. Call Rilev 5551 if you, too. wish to give a child warm clothing for Christmas and the New Year. Ninety-four children have been clothed by the following: Delta Theta Phi Sorority, ilrl. Golden Link Sunday School class. Capitol Avenue Methodist Church, three children. Indianapolis Naval Recruit Station. Officers and Enlisted Men, girl. In Memory ol Father Gavisk, two children. Indianapolis Times carriers, sub-sta-tion 3-C, boy. Delta Phi Theta Fraternity, boy. Pcnnhoff Grille, Patrons and Employes, bov and jtirl. three Girls in State Gross Income Tax Office, girl. Credit office. H. P. Wasson 4 Cos., girl. Mr. and Mrs. Orbrav Jones, bov and girl. Hillcrest Country Club Bowling League. Pritchett allevs. bov and girl. Flo Mary and Julia Ann Foreman, girl. Mr. and Mrs. North Delaware-st. girl. Friends, boy. The Miracle Man. girl. Cast of Sahara Grotto and Ladies, girl. In Memory of Mother, from M. P.. a girl. Alias Santa Claus, a boy. In Memory of Lefty Lee, boy. Illinois Building Goodfellow. boy and Omega Phi Tau Sorority, Alpha Chapter. bov and girl. G. T. Club. boy. Anonymous, boy. Mrs. East New Vork-st, girl. L. S. Avres & Cos.. Downstairs Store Relief Club. 10 children. Employes of Fuller’s Friendly Barber Shops. Inc., boy and girl. Delta Sigma Sororitv. Beta Chapter, boy. George J. Egenoff Maeh.'ne Company, boy and girl. From a Red-Headed Santo, boy and girl. The Friendly Club on the South Side, bov- „, . Two Misses Who’ll Start Girl in School, girl. . . , , In Memory of Mama, boy and girl. Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Indianapolis Caledonian Club, girl. _ Indianapolis Bowling League. Pritchett Alleys, boy and a girl. American Legion Auxiliary. Indianapolis Post No. 4. boy. In memory of Miss Dorothy Helen Farber, girl. Employes. Public Service Company of Indiana, seventh floor. Traction Terminal Building, five children. Employes. Indiana National Bank, second floor, three children. Fish and Game Division employes. State Conservation Department, girl. Man Who Wants Betty Again, girl. Artist and Wife. boy. A City Official, boy and girl. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. B girl. Employes of Roy S. Steele. Inc., two boys. Little Jack, boy. Mr. and Mrs. North Delaware Street, cared for one rhild and too* another. Boosters Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, boy. Jeanne Miller, girl. Employes of Superior Sheet Metal Works, iwo boys. Employes Association. Commercial Department, Indiana Bell Telephone Cos., four children. Employes, Second Floor. Indiana National Bank, cared for three children and took another boy. Reformed Church Bowling League, bey. United Dental Laboratories, three bovs. A Salesman Santa, two boys. Job's Daughters, Bethel 11, girl. Employes of Matthews Manufacturing Cos., a boy. Roosevelt Recreation Club. boy.

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RELIEF COSTS UNDER STATE HELOTOO HIGH Trustees Study Resolution Attacking Present Method of Aiding Idle. Increased costs and decreased efficiency in state administration of p>oor relief are charged in a resclu- ; tion scheduled to go before the | forty-fourth annual convention of the- Indiana State Association of Township Trustees today. The trustees group also will consider a resolution denouncing the tendency of the state administration of Oov. Paul V. McNutt to concentrate governmental powers “in a few bureaus in Indianapolis." Opposition is pledged by the trustees' resolution to “any legislation calculated to transfer the functions of local self-government to more distant centers or remote bureaus.” In dealing with the Governor's Commission on Unemployment Relief. headed by Wayne Coy. the resoi lutions call attention to the constitutional requirements in Ir diana 1 “that the trustee is charged by law with the oversight and care of all poor persons in his township as long as they remain a charge.” “The necessity of township government has been demonstrated by the efficient man-to-man. economical contact of trustees.” the resolution reads, “whereas distant administration of local affairs including poor relief has already shown that savings are not passible, that costs have materially increased and efficiency has not resulted, and that such distant administration is not conducive to good government.” THIEVES STEAL LINEN. CLOCK Draperies, Dress. Bedspreads. Also Go With Prospective Housekeeper. apparently with an eye to setting up housekeeping, last night visited the apartment of Mrs. Mary Chappelle, 60. of 1202 N. Cap-itol-av, and departed with 15 sheets, 24 towels. 24 pillow cases, four bedspreads five sets of draperies, 18 cans of corn. 18 cans of string beans. 12 one-quart cans of tomatoes, a clock and a black satin dress. FORGERY SUSPECTHELD “Boy Wizard of Wall Street” Just Out of Federal Prison. By United Press ATLANTA. Dec. 13.—Charles W. Greenhaus. “the boy wizard of Wall Street,” was held in Fulton Tower today, awaiting arrival of New York detectives, after completing a threeyear term in Federal Prison for using the mails to defraud. Local authorities said Greenhaus is wanted in New York on forgery charges involving millions of dollars in bogus travelers’ checks.