Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1934 — Page 27

DEC. 21, 1934_

CIVIL SERVICE IS URGED FOR POSTMASTERS Tests for All Permanent New Deal Agencies Also Asked. B'l Srnppt.H'i’rnrtl \ e uepaper Alliance. WASHINGTON. I>r. 21.—Postmasferships for qualified civil service employes in ell cities, instead of political henchmen, were advocated by the United Scares Civil .Service Commission today in Us annual report. Extension of civil service regulations to cover all the emergency New Deal agencies which the next Congress decides to make permanent also was advocated. New Deal jobs have more than doubled the "spoilsmen's huntingground in the last two years. There are 214000 United States workers outside of civil service compared with 100 000 before March, 1933. Senator George W Norris, Nebraska progressive, is planning a campaign to extend the civil service merit system to these employes. Extension of merit system in the present permanent federal service, as recommended by the report, includes first, second and third class postmasters and other non-policy-determining offices specifically “collectors of customs, collectors of internal revenue and most positions of attornev.’’ Deputy collectors of internal revenue and deputy marshals also should he restored to the competitive service, the report said. Other Changes Suggested An executive order by the President, to enforce the Civil Service Commission's orders against political activities also was proposed. This amendment of present regulations would require heads of executive departments or commissions to carry out action recommended by the commission against violators of this rule. Other recommendations for legislation: 1. To limit veteran preference to those honorably discharged after war service or injured in line of duty at any other time, to their widows, and to their wr.es as defined in the law.

2. To authorize the commission to investigate and conciliate differences —arising out of removals, reductions or suspensions—between employes and their superiors. 2. To establish a uniform optional retirement, ace of 60 years after 30 years’ service. 4 To provide annuities for employes retired because of physical disability who recover before reachmc the automatic retirement ace and who fail of reinstatement throuch no fault, of their own within the 90-day limit provided by law. Promotions Are Urged S. To establish an adequate statistical unit in the office of the commission. “Postmasterships,” said the report, “are purely business offices. They have no relation to politics. “The commission is stronely in favor of filling postmasterships through the promotion of worthy subordinates wherever possible. It is convinced that such a practice would benefit the service, both by insuring the appointment as postmasters of persons experienced in postal business and by providing a further interest and incentive to subordinates.” The commission argued that extending civil service to the New Deal would add to efficiency and to economy. MUCK GROWERS GROUP TO HOLD CROP SHOW Event is Scheduled for North Judson Next Autumn. ROCHESTER. Ind., Dec 21.—The Sixth annual northern Indiana muck crops show will be held at North Judson next fall, either late in October or early in November, it was decided at a meeting of officers of the Northern Indiana Muck Growers' Association, held yesterday. Announcement of the decision was made today by E. L. Mitchell of this city, president of the organization. The show was held this year at Churubusco. and invitations for the 1936 show were extended bv both Akron and Columbia City. George Keller, of Hamlet, was named superintendent of the 1935 show. 3 KILLED IN BLAST AT DU PONT PLANT Explosion. Heard Five Miles Away, Destroys Pressroom. B i I nitrd Pres* SCRANTON. Pa.. Dec. 21 —An explosion at the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Cos. works at Jessup last night killed three men and destroyed a pressroom The blast, accompanied by fire, was heard nearly five miles away, ilt wrecked the pressroom where the victim were employed, and broke windows in several buildings.

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Uncle Sam Puzzles Aged Woman by Razing Home Building, Which Included Store in Slum Project Area Furnished Her With Livelihood for 54 Years.

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'T'HE United States of America said it was ramshackle, so it must have been. It was unpainted, and some of the boards were decayed. The roof leaked. A window or two was cracked. It was surrounded by other structures just as decrepit. So today it was torn down to make wav for the Federal Government's $3.(100.000 housing program. Three million dollars is a lot of money and not to be questioned. But Mrs. Katie Handlon today did question both the three million and the Federal Government. Why, she asked relatives with whom she is staying, should she

FOUR DILLINGER DIOS GIVEN PRISON TERMS Heavy Fines Also Imposed for Harboring. By United Prrxx DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 21.—Four minor figures of the broken John Dillincer gang, convicted of harboring fugitive outlaws, awaited transfer to Federal prisons today. A Federal jury convicted Thomas Kirwin. William Gray and Mrs. Marie McCarthy last night shielding Homer Van Meter, slain gunman, for almost a year before his death. Marie Conforti, once known as Dillinger's sweetheart, pleaded guilty to similar charges and gave state’s evidence against the other three. Jydge Robert C. Bell sentenced Kirwin to two years in Leavenworth Penitentiary and a SIO,OOO fine; Gray to 18 months and a SSOOO fine, and Mrs. McCarthy to 18 months in the reformatory at Alderson, W. Va.

YULE PARTY SCHEDULED AT COMMUNITY CENTER Churches, School Pupils and Scouts to Give Entertainment. Churches, school and Boy Scout units will present a program of vocal and instrumental entertainment featuring a Christmas party at the Hawthorne Community Center, 2440 \V. Ohio-st. at 7 tomorrow night. A capacity crowd is expected, C. G. Baker, center superintendent, announced today. Numbers comprising the program and those in charge are: Kindergarten singing, Mrs. Helen Massey; musical. School 50, Mrs. Marx Coffin; playlets, Boy Scouts, Robert Groth, and West Park Little Theater, Kenneth Lemons; special music, Washington M. E. choir and Boy Scouts Brass Choir. F. O. Belzer, and community singing and special quartets, C. E. Hogue. Slayers Denied New Trial By l niti il rr> ss BOSTON. Dec. 21.—Murton and Irving Millcn. young Boston brothers facing the electric chair for a double murder in the Needham Trust Cos. holdup, today were denied a new trial by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mrs. Katie Handlon

be dispossessed of the property that has been her home 54 years? And, if you're good at questions, why should she be thrown from the store that has been her livelihood for many years. She's 86 and the store was at Blake and Walnut-sts. Her husband built the store. That was progress in those days, building a store and starting a business and paying your bills for 54 years and being respectable. Now they tell her it’s progress to tear the store down and destroy the business. She's 86 and not used to precipitous changes like that and today she asked why. But it was a frail “why” and it wasn't answered.

FREE YULETIDE BEER IS BANNED FOR HOBOES British Officials Take Step to Cut Down on ’Guests.’ By I'fitted Prrxx WORCESTER, England, Dec. 21. —Christmas day in the workhouse won't be the hoboes’ delight it used to be here this year. It's going to be a bone-dry. soft drinks occasion as a result of the workhouse authorities’ decision to put a ban on free beer as an aid to the Yuletide festivities. Time was when the “aristocracy of the road.” who put in at the workhouse h a :e on Christmas day, could count on a tankard of beer with their dinner. The inducement became so strong that tramps from Land’s End to John o’ Groats made a bee-line for Worcester o Christmas -week. This year the authorities decided that if they continued to offer free beer the number of “guests” might be more than they could cope with. So all the hoboes are going to get with their Christmas dinner this year is soft drinks, tea, coffee and tobacco. 5 PER CENT OF YEAR'S PAY GIVEN AS BONUS West Virginia Firm Also Presents Extra Day’s Wages. By United Prexx WELLSBURG. W. Va., Dec. 21. All employes of the Hammond Bag and Paper Cos. here will be giver a check for 5 per cent of their year's wages and an extra day's pay as a Christmas present. Company officials said the loyalty and co-operation of the employes and general business conditions have enabled them to make the Christmas bonus.

G. 0. P. MAY LOSE POSITIONS IN HOUSE Democrats Consider Taking Committee Posts From Minority. j B’j l n ited Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—House Democratic leaders plan to “crack down'’ on the Republican minority in the next Congress, depriving them of strength on important committees. House Majority Leader Joseph W. Byrns <D., Tenn.), virtually “Sneaker designate" of the next Congress, said today he favored such a move in the interest of the preponderant Democratic majority. Under the plan. Republican repre- | sentation on House committees would be reduced to give important committee asignments to Democrats. DOCTORS NAMED TO HOSPITAL VACANCIES Drs. Moser and Foreman Succeed Plane Mishajv Victims. Dr. Rollin H. Moser. 4129 Park-av, and Dr. Harry L. Foreman. 3835 Washington-bv, were named to the Methodist Hospital's medical advisory board yesterday by the hospital's executive committee to fill the places of Dr. Arthur M. Mendenhall and Dr. John W. Carmack, distinguished India .lapolis physicians killed two wee*'® ago in an air crash at Richn\’‘j. Ind., in which Miss Evelyn Mendenhall. 24-year-old newspaper woman and daughter of Dr. Mendenhall, also was killed. Bandit Gets SISCO Pay Roll By l nit id Press WOBURN, Mass.. Dec. 21—A lone bandit held up President Elihu R. Lyman of the MassachustUs Gear and Tool Cos., forced him to drive to nearby Burlington, robbed him of a SISOO pay roll, and escaped. Spain's Diilinger Garroted By United Press BARCELONA. Spain, Dec. 21. Andres Aranada, known as "Spain's Diilinger,” was executed by the garrote today for numerous bank robberies,

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NINE DETOURS REPORTED ON STATEMADS Only Four Are Serious, Is Claim; Highways in Good Condition. Good news for holiday tefurists was contained today in the last 1934 issue of the State Highway Commission's Detour Bulletin, which showed only nine detours in effect throughout the state system. Four of the nine detours are over city streets, while two of the remaining five are merely cautions, one to motorists to drive slowly over new pavement; the second, a weight limit for trucks and busses on a bridge. The only major detour is on Road 18. east of Fowler, and is seven miles long. The Highway Commission, which will issue its next regular detour Bulletin Jan. 11, has given road maintenance employes orders to keep the highways open and in good shape throughout the holidays when this is at all possible. Detours due to construction are as follows: Road 13—Detour over city streets in Wabash. Road 18—Detour six miles east of Fowler is seven miles over gravel. U. S. Road 20—Detour just, west of Chesterton because of the New York Central Railroad crossing is 1.4 miles for westbound traffic; 2.2 miles for eastbound traffic. U. S. Road 41—Detour in Hammond over city streets. Road 44—Bridge construction in Connersville, detotir one-fourth mile. Road 56—Drive slow from Faoli to eight miles east, unfinished shoulders. Road 58 —Four-ton load limit on bridge two and one-half miles west of Heltonville. Road (>2—Short detour in Jeffersonville over city streets. CLOTHE-A-CHILD—WHERE HEARTS MEET.

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Indiana News in Brief

ft'/ Times Special FRANKLIN. Dec. 21.—Either citizens of. this city have greeted repeal with far more than the expected enthusiasm or the state excise board has made a mistake. The fact is that Franklin is receiving larger checks for its share of the Indiana liquor tax than it is for its gasoline tav share. Enthusiastic tippleds have earned for this city so far $9,40’..50. approximately twice as much as the most optimistic had expected, while tax returns on gasoline sales have amounted only to $5,388.87.

, B B B Airport to Be Lighted By I nitrrt fins* RICHMOND, Dec. 21—In an effort to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy which took three lives recently, officials of the Richmond airport announce the field will be lighted from night landings. Absence of lights caused a plane crash last month in which two Indianapolis physicians and a local newspaper woman were killed. Night lighting of the field has been approved by the Depaitment of Commerce and equipment will be installed when landing lanes, runways. and other improvements are completed next spring. Approximately $60,000 is exp’Cted to be spent under a Federal Emergency Relief Administration project, John Nizon. Centerville, and Wilfred Jessup, Richmond, owners of the field, said. B B B Try Boy for Murder By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Dec. 21.—The trial of a 15-year-old boy on a murder charge is in progress here today. The boy, Lon Hartfield Jr., 15, Negro, is charged with having shot and killed Charles Languell, Gasport farmer, when the latter caught him in a melon patch last summer. The prosecution claims that with the boy at the time of the crime were his father, Lon Hartfield Sr. and Frank Deming, a white man. Charges also have been preferred against the elder Hartfield The two cases were brought to Monroe Circuit Court on a change of venue from Owen County.

tt a tt It’s an ‘Eleven* Baby By 1 mu s Special NOBLESVILLE. Dec. 21.—Toney King of this city claims an unusual ’record in parenthood and is willing to share some of the glory with his wife. The eleventh child child in the King family was born recently The child was born on the 11 minute of the 11 hour of the 11 day of the 11 month and weighed 11 pounds The baby boy has 11 letters in his name, Toney King Jr. a ♦ tt tt Campaign Succeeds By I imes Special CRAWFORDS VILLE. Dec. 21. Evidence of returning prosperity in Montgomery County was afforded by the success of the recent Red Cross membership drive in which SISOO was collected, as against approximately SIOOO collected in a similar effort last year. Besides better times the unusual success of the camnaign was attributed to public appreciation of the relief service given by the Red Coss last winter to citizens of the county. tt tt tt Fight for Office By Times Special MARION. Dec. 21. A bitterly contested battle for the office of sheriff of Grant County, which began at the polls in November, was no nearer settlement today as with only two precincts remaining to be recounted. Orville Wells, Republican candidate, held a lead of 23 votes over Bert Renbarger. Democrat. The election board will file its report with the Circuit Court this

.• cek, but regardless of who is declared winner, the fight will go on peal to Supreme Court. Mr. Renbarger is acting as incumbent as a result of the first returns It appears certain, however, that Wells will be judged victor in the recount. tt O tt More Taxes Paid By V im< ■''pedal COLUMBLTS. Dec. 21.—A sharp drop in tax delinquencies in Bartholomew County for the past six months compared to the same period last year was revealed today by tax return figures released from the county auditor's office. These statistics show that only 5.78 per cent or approximately $24,000 of the current taxes are listed as delinquent. In 1933 at this time. 19 per cent was in arrears.

NRA POWERS WILL BE DECENTRALIZED Branch Offices to Be Set Up in Six Cities. By I'nitee! Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 2iAa farreaching plan for decentralization of NRA control was disclased today by the National Industrial Recovery Board. The board will setup immediately subordinate regional offices at New York and Chicago to handle NRA matters in those regions. Within a short time additional headquarters will be established in Boston. Cleveland, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The plan is in line with the decentralization of NRA compliance announced yesterday by Compliance Officer Sol Rosenblatt. The NRA board announced that the new regional headquarters would be manned by trained full time personnel selected from code administration members. '

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WINTER DUE IN CITY JfiMfiPROW AT 6:50 A. M, Old Gentleman Is Later This Year But There Is a Reason. Because there are more than 365 days in most years, winter will arrive in Indianapolis, among other places, at exactly 6:30 a. m. tomorrow. Last year winter arrived at 12 53. almast a quarter of a day earlier, and a quarter of a day is how much longer this year will be than 365 days. Every four years leap-year comes along and sets things right again. It's all a man-made error, because the sun. stern about his habits, will rise this year on the first morning of winter at 7:04. He rose last year on Dec. 22 at 7:04 and the year before at 7:04. The time does vary a few seconds, but for three years these seconds have not added up to a minute. Winter is the exact moment the sun enters the Tropic of Capricorn, and thus it's the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. The sun will knock off work at 4:23 tomorrow, after having ridden the heavens only 9 hours and 19 minutes. Last year it did the same. The exact moment the sun reaches its farthest point in its wintry southern journey—and thus the moment it becom/s winter—is calculated by the Na\a) Observatory in Washington. Winter will end Mairh 21. at the bc'-’nning of the vernal equinox, and the Weather Bureau could give you the exact moment when that will happen too. but you probably would forget.