Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1934 — Page 9

DEC. 25, 1934

$319,480,208 SPENT BY PWA IN 15 MONTHS Peak Reached in July When 624,286 Was Employed on Projects. WASHINGTON. Dee. 25. The Public Works Administration, looking forward to an even bigger job in a program expanded by the President and Congress, glanced back today to count up 561.530.271 man-hours of work it has provided on actual construction sites. During PWA s 15 months, its pay rolls aggregated $319,430,208. the average pay being 56 cents an hour; $612,476,024 was spent for materials, providing an unestimated amount of additional labor in private industry. Peak Reached in July Starting with 4699 construction jobs in August. 1933, monthly PWA employment totals continued to grow until July of this year, when a peak figure of 624.286 was reached. • Since July the number of jobs has m fallen. In November there were f 469.876 men working. PWA material purchases reached their peak in March, when contracts totaling $69.334408 were placed. In November this figure had dropped to $56,274,511. PWA orders for cement have totaled $70,000 000; for steel and rolling mill products, $80,000,000; for freight cars $35 000.000; for lumber and timber products, $30,000,000, and for electrical machinery and supplies, $35,000,000. 300.0H0 Employed by CCC In addition. PWA allocations provided work for 4,000.000 persons during the Civil Works Administration, and made grants which kept more than 300.000 employed in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Other Federal funds used for employment purposes during the past eight months include those from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and and Federal Emergency Relief Administration. In November. 16.500 persons had jobs arising from RFC funds. This represented a decrease from October. when 18.000 were employed. RFC-made employment reached a peak in July, when 19,000 got wages from its loaned funds. Jobs Increased Steadily Starting with 870.000 persons on work relief in May of this year, following the clean-up of CWA activities, the FERA has steadily increased the number of relief jobs. In November the total reached 1.500,000, with an estimated 2.000.000 working lor cash wages in December. Still another branch of the Federal service has provided jobs. Grants to states for road construction have aided materially in cutting down unemployment. The high point of this type of employment was reached in September, when 250.000 men were at work on highway construction. Six Bombs Exploded in Hanava By United Press HAVANA, Dec. 25.—Six bombs were exploded here during the night. Damage was slight.

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155 Conventions Booked for Indianapolis in 1935 $5,000,000 in ‘New Money’ to Be Spent Here During Year, Publicity Bureau Declares. Christmas greetings to Indianapolis business houses from the Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau come this year in the form of the announcement that 1935 will bring a record amount of “new money’’ spent by convention visitors in this city.

This new money—money earned elsewhere and spent in Indianapolis by convention delegates will amount to approximately $5,000,000, it is said, an amount equivalent to the pay rolls of 50 average size industries. This estimate is based on statistics compiled by the International Association of Convention Bureaus, of which the local bureau is a member. While more than 78,000 persons were registered at 293 conventions in Indianapolis during 1934. the bureau's records already show bookings of more than 155 conventions for the future with a total estimated attendance of more than 77,000, not including the attendance at such events as the 500-mile Speedway race, the Indiana high school basketball tournament and the Indiana State Fair. Outstanding among 1935 conventions will be the National Association of Retail Grocers, scheduled for June 16 to 20, expected to bring more than 8000 persons to this city; the Indiana Department of the American Legion, estimated attendance, 10,000; Supreme Guardian Council, Order of Job’s Daughters; National Public Links Tournament of the United States Golf Association, 1000; National Paving Brick Manufacturers’ Association, booked for February; third annual Indianapolis National Poultry Exposition to be held in December; National Co-operative Milk Producers’ Federation, estimated attendance, 2000; International Association of Gyro Clubs, 600; National Association of Special Delivery Messengers.

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away from work. So other employes in the roundhouse bought him the easy chair he is shown sitting it. It was a Christmas gift.

The North Central Music Supervisors’ Conference will meet here in March, attracting approximately 2000 school music educators from Mid-Western states. Other groups which have selected Indianapolis for 1935 include the Western Table Tennis Tournament, National Building Officials’ Conference; District No. 2, B’Nai B Rith; American Millers’ Association, International Association of Public Employment Services, Associated Traffic Clubs of America, the International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers and the Indiana Federation of Clubs. More than 8000 persons are expected to attend the general Grand Chapter meeting, Order of Eastern Star, in 1937. More than 300 Indianapolis business houses are members of the convention bureau. Officers are Clarence E. Crippin, president; George Vonnegut, treasurer, and Henry T. Davis, secretary-manager. The annual membership meeting will be held late in January, at which time new officers will be elected. Thieves Unload Corn By Times Special MARTINSVILLE, Dec. 25. Thieves spared Homer Rhea, Morgan County farmer, the trouble of unloading three wagons filled with corn. The wagons w r ere removed from a shed during the night and the loads of corn placed in trucks.

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46 UNBELIEVERS IN SANTA GLAUS GIVEN FREEDOM Old-Timers Get Mild Shock When Judge Turns Them Loose. Forty-six men who don't believe in Santa Claus got Christmas presents yesterday. They were oral gifts, and came in two words: “Case dismissed." The 46 old men had been in court before; 46 old men guilty as charged —drunk and disorderly. Bedraggled, clinging to a life they plainly found distasteful If they had any opinion about the matter; they had, in fact, gotten drunk the day before Christmas. A Sad Awakening They got drunk mostly because, through some miracle, they had liquor to drink. That was in the nature of a Christmas present, too, but they didn't believe in Christmas, so it was “the breaks.” The liquor was so rotten that they became crazy, hilarious, and then rough and beastly. It worked that way. Then they awakened in jail, foggy in memory, wTacked with hangovers. Jail again! Probably the prison farm. Maybe just more and more jail. Oh, well, better than a flop house that cast them a part of what they could pick up on the streets bumming. Receive Mild Surprise So, they filed their dingy way into Municipal Court again, and they pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly. They knew they had been drunk, and they wouldn’t dispute the disorderly charge. They -were mildly surprised the judge turned them loose. It had been done before, but generally there was a lecture or a small sentence or some punitive measure. What’s that about Christmas? Oh, yes. They had forgotten Christmas. No use recalling much about it, either. Free Until the Next Time Well, so they got their Christmas present. “Case dismissed.” And they trudged out into the rain and the snow and the sleet of freedom, and they wondered whether they could pick up enough for a flophouse bed for the night and maybe some more for a bit of liquor—just for Christmas’ sake. And 46 old men, who didn’t believe in Santa Claus, took Christmas presents with their swollen tongues in their cheeks. Next time they’d get jail or the prison farm, and they knew there would be a next time. IMMIGRANTS ENJOY CHRISTMAS PROGRAM Elsie Janis, Opera Stars, Entertain Persons on Ellis Island. By United Pres* NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Those unfortunates detained on Ellis Island, the famed immigration station in New York harbor, were not forgotten by Santa Claus. Each inmate received a gift and che entire group was entertained by Elsie Janis, comedienne, and members of the Metropolitan Opera Company.

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