Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1935 — Page 8

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SEVEN CENTS 1 OUT OF DOLLAR! IS DRINK COST Three and One-Half Billions Spent to Quench Thirst of U. S. Yearly. BY RICHARD L. GPIDLEY Unttrd Prr* Staff Coi.nttondrnt WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Americans are spending about $3,500,000,000 yearly, or 7 cents of every dollar of their income, to quench their thirst for alcoholic beverages, figures showed today. This vast liquor bill was estimated from official Treasury Department tax figures, supplemented by statistics furnished by both wet and dry leaders. Proponents of repeal called this bill a factor in recovery. Prohibitionists claimed i was "extravagant waste" and a check on economic rehabilitation The Treasury disclosed that Americans drank the following; amounts of alcoholic beverages in the year ended June 30, last : Estimated Cost to | _ Number Gallons Public Beer 1,351 964.343 *1 730.501 559 Lnuora 65.544.931 786 539 172 Wines (estimated! . 25 000,000 50.000 000 Total cost of legal beverages $2,567,040 731 Say Bootleg Adds to Bill Dry leaders added $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 to these figures to take care of millions of gallons of liquor which they said still were flowing through bootleg channels. Since June 30, brewing and distilling interests said today, there has been a further increase in drinking. Wets asserted that the fast-grow-ing liquor and beer business was driving out bootlegging, giving employment to thousands of workers and providing a market for millions of bushels of grains. These claims were refuted by dry leaders, including O. G. Christgau, assistant to the general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, who said liquor was a drag on recovery. He said: Repeal Termed "Economic Folly” "The economic folly of repeal is revealed by the startling fact that in the last year twice as much money was spent for legal liquor as for relief purposes. In other words, money wasted for legalized intoxicants in one year was sufficient to have paid the entire cost of Federal relief for two years. “The same sum spent for milk, meat and other products of farmers would have been a tremendous boost for agriculture. Spent for manufactured commodities, shoes, clothing, furniture and household goods, it would have been a decided help to manufacturers and retail- 1

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ers and would have provided work for several million unemployed.” Despite the size of the current beer and liquor bill. It .s not much greater than estimates of the annual cost of bootleg liquor during the prohibition era. In 1931, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment estimated the public was paying $2,848,000,000 annually for its intoxicants.

State Deaths BARGERSVILLE— Amos Day 81. SurVI ors: Daughters. Mrs Ida Chesser, Mrs Ethel M’ers and Mrs. Flora Horton; sons, Jesse, Omer and Ira Day. BLOOMINGTON—Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Teague. 68. Survivors Daughter. Mrs. Maud Kelly; sons, Walter, Willis, Charles and Glen; brother. W. H H Parks; sister Mrs Martha Jane Rogers. KSr s. Ann Eliza Shanks, 81. Survivors; Son, Wm. C. Bhanks. FALMOUTH—Benjamin M. Perrv. 75. farmer Survivors: Widow; sons. Gano and Mauza Perrv: daughter. Mrs Walter Rees: sister Mrs Marv Whltton FORT VlLLE—Walter S Allford 70 farmer Survivors Widow Add:e; daughters. Mrs. Paul Tavlor. Mrs Norvin Beaver and Mrs Guv son. Ravmond: half-brothers. Herb and Raymond Allford; half-sister. Mrs. Cora Stottlemver. GREENSBURG Edward O'Day, 62. .termer Survivors: Widow; sisters. Miss Ella O'Day and Mrs. Marv Harmon, brothers. Joseph and James O'Dav. GREENWOOD—Mrs Lillian Esteb 46. Survivors: Widower, Emmett; three sons and six daughters. KOKOMO—Mrs. Sarah Abney. 62 Survivor:-;: Son: Fred. Walter and Everett Price; sister, Mrs. Minnie Devore. LEBANON—George W Shoemaker, 63. farmer. Survivors: Widow. Orilla Mae. sons, Clark, Russell, Chester and Fred Shoemaker; daughters. Mis Pearl Cox, Mrs. Dovie Sutphin Mrs. Mary Mercer. Mrs. Ruth Cline. Misses Dessie and Fairy Shoemaker; sisters. Mrs. Catherine Kellam. Indeolia, and Bell Peters and Mrs. Izora Leap. MT. VERNON—Mrs. Emma Donaldson Curtis, 68. Survivors: Widower, George; sons, Carl and Harlev; daughter. Miss Vera Curtis. SOLSBERRY—Mrs. Harriet Cook, 76. Survivors: Sons. Albert. Gus and Earl Cook: nieces. Mrs. Maud Bullock and Mrs. Eva Yoho. WASHINGTON—Mrs. Sarah Ella Johnson. 61 Survivors: Sons. Orell, Virgil and Clinton Johnson: daughter. Mrs. Robert Cross: brothers, Charles and Wallace Walker, sisters. Mrs. Lulu Maxcv and Mrs Marv Hoverlv. WILBUR - Mrs. Aria Goodman, 22. Survivors: Widower, Ira; parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Good. Bible Class to Hear Ludlow Representative Louis Ludlow is to address the Men’s Bible Class at Calvary Baptist Church at 10 Sunday. The meeting is under direction of Clarence C. Deupree.

LITTLE MONEY TO REMAIN FOR TRACKPROJECT City Controller's Statement Dims Hope for Work on South Side. Because he felt the 1936 budget had been whittled below a point of financial safety, Walter C. Boetcher, city controller, Declared today that only a negligible amount of money can be applied to a track elevation fund next year. His announcement, coming in the face of Mayor Kern’s promise that the city would pay for grade crossing separation if Federal funds were not received, apparently again dashed the 25-year hope of South Side citizens. At a mass meeting Wednesday, the Mayor explained there was little hope for a Federal grant since the proposal has a high material and low labor cost. Blames Tax Board Mr. Eoetcher said city officials had done their best to provide funds. In doing last minute “juggling” with

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the budget, they planned to set j aside $150,000 for track elevation! out of the anticipated 1935 balance of the general fund, he said. The city council, Mr. Boetcher claimed, made adequate provision for track money in putting through a budget calling for a municipal levy of $1.1566. He laid the blame at the door of the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board for cutting that levy down to $1.14. Holds Margin Too Small "Since approximately $259,000 of our balance is turned back to cut next year's levy, it is evident we will have a balance of only $160,000,’’ he said. "It is dangerous to operate a city of this size with a SIO,OOO margin. We intend to put as much aside af we can, but our financial position is not good,” he added. Although civic groups have requested budget cuts, Mr. Boetcher said it is impossible to have low governmental costs and still carry out municipal improvements. "Todav the city has requests for a West Side Park, for a swimming pool in Brookside Park and for 37 wading pools, but we have no funds,” he said.

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CAR COMPANY APPEARS SURE OF PWA LOAN Order Being Prepared for Submission to State Commission. Attorneys for Indianapolis Railways, Inc., were to meet today with counsel for the city and state to prepare a formal order for issuance of securities as collateral for a 53.120.000 Public Works Administra- | tion loan. Hearings on the petition recessed yesterday with the Public Service Commission apparently favorable to the street car company's petition. Instructions Given Perry McCart, commission chairman, instructed the utility to prepare an order that would meet with i the approval of James E. Deery,

city corporation counsel, and Fred Wiecking, public counselor. , The only questions he wanted settled before the commission finally acted were legal points involving the commission’s power to approve a transaction that may place the utility in a position where it can not pay its obligations, and hew far the commission could go in protecting the rights of the city, Mr. McCart said. Raises Rate Point At the opening of the hearing Mr. Deery presented memoranda asking the commission to phrase any order in such a manner that the city s interests would not be endangered He asked the commission to give

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