Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 219, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1935 — Page 3
NOV. 21, 1935
STATE EMPLOYMENT DOWN, BUT PAY ROLLS, MAN HOURS UP, INDIANA REPORT SHOWS Apparent Contradiction Is Due to Seasonal Drop in Low-Salaried Group, Gain in Higher Wage Class. I ho Indianapolis Employment Review of 1800 reporting firms tori ay indicated that the state's employment decreased 2.1 per cent from September to October, pay rolls increased 2.2 por cent and man hours worked advanced .8 per cent.
Employment in manufacturing industries during October, 19:V>, was approximately 1.4 per cent greater than during October, 1931, however, the report stated. The slight, decline from September to October is tr.-med seasonal and in line v.i'll expectations as reflected b\ national trends during the la.-.t 16 years. The review says that the apparent contradiction in trends is due to pronounced seasonal curtailment oi rmployment, in certain low-salaried industries and substantial gains in other and higher salaried industries. I,oss Overshadows Gain A decrease in employment in 4t Indiana canneries from 12.211 to 2631. a 70 3 per rent loss, overhadmved a gain in total in all other industries from 135,097 employes to 133 935. The report continues: Employment in manufacturing industries in Indiana during October was approximately 4.4 per rent greater than October. 1934. Pay rolls were 25.6 per rent above the like month a year ago. Manufacturing employment in the state declined 3 per cent during October. Tay rolls increased 2 6 per cent, and man hours worked advanced 0.6 pei cpnt. During the past 16 years in the United States as a whole, employment has decreased in manufacturing industries on the average of approximately one-fourth of 1 per cent, and pay rolls have advanced approximate 1 per cent, from September to October. Os the 30 minor groups of manufacturing industries studied, 19 showed employment gains during the month. Os the remaining 11 minor groups with employment losses, four were in the food and kindred products group. The durable goods group of industries increased employment 3.9 per rent, pay rolls 7.7 per cem nd man hours 7.2 per cent. Duri. g the past 12 rears the average gain In employment and pay rolls in the United States in the durable industries has been 1.5 per cent and 2.3 per cent, respectively. Os the 1.3 minor groups of durable manufacturing industries studied, only three suffered employment, losses during the month, and only one experienced a pay roll decrease. Employment losses occurred in the structural and ornamental iron work, brass, bronze, copper and the glass industries. The heaviest of the heavy industries, namely, the iron and steel group, experienced a 2.3 per rent increase in employment, and a 5.2 per cent pay roll gain. Auto Rolls Up Automobile and automobile part manufacturers in the state increased employment 11.2 per cent, and pay rolls 18.8 per cent, indicating that plant re-tooling now has been completed, and that the automobile industry is expanding with introduction of new models. Twenty-three railroad repair shops in the state reported an average employment gain of 9.4 per cent and a pay roll increase of 16.4 per cent. The brick manufacturers in thp state apparently are experiencing an increased demand for their products, as 24 brick factories increased employment 10.1 per cent and pay rolls 17.1 per rent. The non-durable goods industries rxperiptnred varied trends during the month. Os 17 minor groups studied, eight showed derreases and nine experienced increases in employment during the month. The consumers’ industries in total decreased employment, 15.4 per cent, and pay rolls 8.9 per oent. The major loss occurred in the canning and preserving industry. where a 70.3 per rent employment curtailment was made. Other lasses were small, with the exception of the beverage industry—--6.4 per cent, and the slaughtering and meat packing industry, where a 5 per cent decline was experienced. The largest gain was in the rubber products group, where 11 firms reported a 4.1 per cent increase in employment. I.ittle Change Os non-manufacturing industries studied, four reduced employment during the month, and six increased employment. The losses in some industries practically offset the gain in others, so that in total there was little change from September. General merchandising stores indicated a 2.6 per cent increase in employment and other retail establishments increased slightly the number of names on their pay rolls. Wholesale trade establishments made small employment gains. A general increase of 10 per cent in rates paid by coal mines to union mine workers in the state, plus a 2.1 per cent increase in man hours, resulted in substantial pay roll gains in the coal industry, and was reflected by a 7.2 per cent advance in average hourly earnings. For the second successive month, the quarnmg and non-metallic mining industry in the state made decided reductions in production schedules. The employment conditions in In-
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diana quarries are reflected by the fact that 33 quarries reported total employment of only 896 persons. "Forty-three hotels increased employment 3.7 per cent, and 12 banks reported a fractional percentage increase in the number of persons on their pay rolls. Laundries and dyeing and cleaning establishments reported 2 per cent and 4.1 per cent employment losses, respectively. Average hours worked per week in manufacturing industries increased 2 1 per cent to 33.9. Per capita weekly earnings advanced 5.7 per cent to $22.08. and average hourly earnings gained 2.2 per cent to $.565. The average hours worked a week in the manufacturing industries in the state, at 33.9, stood at the highest point reached during 1935. Per capita weekly earnings, at $22.08. were $.59 a week above the May average, which was the peak during any previous period of the year. The weekly average of 39.8 hours and $2.3.27 earnings in the durable goods group was well in advance of any previous month during the year.” LUDLOW ASKS HULL FUR WAR FIRM LIST 'Pitiless Light of Publicity’ Aimed to Curb Sales. / imes Spci ial WASHINGTON. Nov. 21. —Rep Louis Ludlow lias requested State Secretary Cordell Hull for a list of American firms selling supplies to belligerents in the war in Africa. He intends to give the list, if procurable, the “pitiless light of publicity,” Mr. Ludlow said. This, he says, will curb these sales. “I am sure Congress at the coming session will strengthen the neutrality law by prohibiting the sale of supplies of all kinds to belligerents,” Mr. Ludlow wrote Secretary Hull, ' but, a great deal of damagp will be rionp before Congress assembles un'iess the state Department acts.” ACCOUNTANTS ELECT CHARLTON N. CARTER Named President of Indianapolis Chapter a( Meeting. Charlton N. Carter was elected president of the Indianapolis Chapter, National Association of Cost Accountants, in a meeting at the Washington last night. He succeeded L. B. O’Loughlin. A member of the accounting firm of Spradling, Carter & Jordan Associates, Mr. Carter also is director of Management Institute, Indianapolis engineering and research organization. He is a former president of the Indiana Association of Certified Public Accountants. Provisions of the national securities acts have placed a greater responsibility upon accountants, F. M. Williams, resident partner of Ernst <fc Ernst. Cleveland, told chapter members. Hunt .Molester of Children Police today sought a man who is reported to have been molesting children in the vicinity of Union and Arizona-sis
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Bedridden Nine Years, Woman Sees Much in Life to Flout Mercy Death
BY IGF. COLLIER IN nine years of bedridden illness from which physicians have little hope she will recover Miss Grace Cook has found there is so much in life that she couldn't ask for death. Even so. the controversy that has swept the civilized world about the right of an incurable patient to a voluntary death interests Miss Cook and she admits ti might seem desirable to persons of certain temperaments. "I believe,” she said yesterday as she lav by a broad window, near the children's ward of City Hospital, “that peonle who ask for death are tortured with the idea that their helpless lives are a burden to others. Can't Adjust Themselves “They can't adjust themselves to their helplessness, I suppose, and it probably isn't their fault. Temperaments, I suspect, are born in people and there's very little one can do to change them. But I couldn't indorse such a thing, because, if persons with diseases never yet cured would ask for and get death, then physicians would cease to look for the cure, it would be the easiest way out.” tt a a MISS COOK, an exceptionally pleasant person, talks sincerely about this problem that is of such deep interest to her. H°r illness has caused a paralysis of the lower limbs that gradually is progressing to her arms and hands. Her hearing has been impaired. “So Much in Life.’’ By “so much in life" Miss Cook means astronomy, baseball, mythology. boxing, reading, children. and writing and any number of other things. In the summer on nice nights, they take her and her bed on to the doof of City Hospita land there she studies the stars, and identifies them in constellations. Internes are fond of going uo there for a breath of air to sit by her side and hear about the legends of the stars. She has a small telescope which she occasionally uses. Interested in Stars She became interested in the stars when children from the adjoining ward came to her bed at nights ad together they figured out the heavens. HER radio brings her the baseball games and she is now in a position to say that Lon Warneke of the Chicago Cubs is one of the verv best, pitchers in the game and Gabby Hartnett one of the very best catchers. Bv “adjustment” Miss Cook may mean such changes in plans as that which led her to write verse, which she does well. She wanted to write children's stories, always had wanted to. But her illness makes it impossible to write with a typewriter, hard to write with a pencil. So she writes the shorter verse instead of longer stories. CANCEL GERMAN STEEL FOR PROJECTS OF PWA Order Given lo U. S. Company at 25 Ter Cent Higher Price. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—National protest against use of foreign steel and concrete in projects financed by PWA funds has caused cancellation of an order for $20,000 worth of German steel pilings for use in the Triborough bridge. The order has been given to the Jones Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh at a price approximately 25 per cent higher than the German quotation. Officers of the Woodcrest Construction Cos., which had ordered the German steel, said they had no objection to the price of the American steel, a small item in a $1.579000 contract, but considered the foreign pilings superior.
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KIWANIS CLUB PLANS FOR INSTALLATION Ceremonies for New Officers Are Set for Dec. 30. Installation ceremonies for W. Henry Roberts, vice president of William Roberts & Sons. Inc., who was elected president of the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club, are to be held Dec. 30. Other officers to be installed are: Louis J. Sheer, first vice president; Chester T. Spriggs, second vice president, and Michael J. Spring, treasurer. New directors are Laurence J. Eby, Joseph E. Mattingly and Charles J. Gaunt. BAN ON LIQUOR URGED AT PURDUE-I. IJ. GAME “Cherish Honor of University” Is President Bryan’s Plea, By United Press BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Nov. 21.--An appeal that liquor be banned from the Purdue-Indiana football game and attendant ceremonies Saturday was made today by President William Lowe Bryan of Indiana. “If you cherish the honor of the university, refrain from using liquor w'hile enjoying this traditional rivalry and its attendant ceremonies," Bryan pleaded. PLEOG E TWO SE NIORS Purdue University Chapter Announces Honor for Two. Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 22.Pledging of two Indianapolis seniors to the Purdue University chapter of Tau Beta Pi. national allengineering honorary fraternity, was announced today. Those honored are J. Robert Pock. 1203 W. 36th-st, and J. A. Brossart, 1320 N. Jefferson-av. NEWHOUSE IS NAMED County Commissioner to Handle Estate of Anthony I’. Hartman. County Commissioner John S. Newhouse today was named executor of the estate of Anthony F. Hartman. Warren Township farmer, and bond was set at $35,000. Mr. Hartman died This month. His estate is estimated at $50,000.
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PARMER CONVICTED IN HOG THEFT CASE Son Sought as Thief; Parent Faces 1-10 Years. Times Special NASHVILLE. Ind., Nov. 21. While Frank Line, 54. local farmer convicted of receiving stolen property, today aw'aited removal to the state penitentiary, authorities in Marion and Brown Counties continued their search for his son, Russell. The elder Line faces a l-to-10-year sentence at Michigan City after conviction of receiving seven hogs stolen from the farm of James H. Evans near Acton. The son, arrested as the thief, disappeared after posting bond in Indianapolis. According to testimony given before a jury here. Line admitted to a neighbor that he was handling "hot hogs.” and said they were delivered in an automobile driven by his son. $25,000 SUIT IN COURT City of Evansville Defendant in Action by Will. B" T'nitcd Press* BOONVILLE.Ind.. Nov. 21.—Trial of a $25,000 damagp suit by the Standard Plaining Mill Cos. against the city of Evansville began before a. jury of 10 men and two women in Warrick Circuit Court today. The suit claims that a leaking sewer undermined property of the plaintiff, filling the basement of the N. Evans-av mill with water. BANDIT “PAIR “GETS S7B Armed Men Hold Up Garage Firm. Rif'e Cash Registers. Armed with a shotgun and a revolver, two bandits last night held up the Standard Grocery, 3901 Eng-lish-av, took S7B from two cash registers. and fled. Kenneth Miller. 104 N. Shermanrir, and Oliver Gwynn. 5127 Burgessav, employes, were forced to lie on the floor. A woman customer vanished.
UTILITY. FARM TESTS STARTED ON NEW DEAL Offensive Against Holding Act Launched as U. S. Acts for AAA. B* United Prr* The government was involved today in important developments in two tests of constitutionality of New Deal policies. Utilities—Holding companies began a wide battle against constitutionality of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. declining to register in important instances despite the Dec. 1 deadline set. by the law. The government. indicating it will fight out the defiance in Supreme Court, has power to assess severe penalties under the act for defiance of the law. Agriculture The government, fighting attacks on constitutionality of th*e AAA processing taxes, asked the Supreme Court to order processors to pay the tax first and contest their cases later. Meanwhile, John W. Davis and Nathan Miller, as attorneys for processors, asked to be allowed to intervene in the Supreme Court battle as friends of the court. WASHINGTON. Nov. 21.—A general offensive against the Public Utility Act of 1935 gathered here today with untility companies defying the deadline—Dec. I—for registration of holding companies and starting appeals to the Supreme Court to declare the act unconstitutional. The holding company measure was one of the most bitterly fought issues of the New Deal program in the last session of Congress. The most direct chalenge to the naw came when the United Gas Improvement Cos. at Philadelphia filed suit to enjoin the government from enforcing the act. This case was received generally as the direct test which will be fought out in the Supreme Court, probably as the most sensational batttle since the "trust busting” days of Theodore Roosevelt. In addition, the Delaware Electric Power Cos. filed a bill in District Court attacking constitutionality of the act and asking the government be enjoined from enforcement to avoid “irreparable damages” to the company. Also, in an amendment to the SEC registration statement of bonds of the New York and Queens Electric and Power Cos., the company said the company itself was not a holding company, but was advised iha t neither* Consolidated Gas Cos. of New York, its parent, nor any •subsidiaries, which are holding companies, intend to register under the act.
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NOTE TELLING ! OF SAFE ‘JOB’ READ TO JURY Flaherty Loses Attempt to Withhold It as Evidence. A written description of an attempt to rob a safe wax admitted in evidence todav in the trial of three agreed cracksmen in Criminal Court when the judge ruled that James Flaherty, who signed it, did so without police duress. Over the determined opposition of Flaherty and his counsel. Special Judtc James D. Ermston ruled that the signature was steady and written bv a hand that showed no emotional strain. Flaherty, who with Ernest Tats. and Donald Nve is charged with burglary. said he had been beaten by police before he gave the statement and signed it. and. moreover, that Deputy Prosecutor Edward Brennan had promised to "put hint on the bricks." which means get him out of the charge. Charge Denied Deputy Prosecutor Brennan denied this, and city jrolice deny locating Flahertv. The entire statement was read to the jury by the state. Late yesterday, the state placed before the jury a curious, triangleshaped tool, constructed, it was charged, to open safes. Charles F. Milligan. West Side machinist, said that Flahertv ordered the tool for use in "chemical" experimentation. A few hours after thp attempted burglary, the tool was found behind the case. Charles Hayman. restaurant employe. testified. Defense counsels fought bitterly every move of Mr. Brennan to introduce exhibits and place witnessejon the stand. ACCUSES MARKET EX-AID Warrant Issued for Arrest of Richmond Official. I nnrs Special RICHMOND. Ind.. Nov. 21 Warrant, for the arrest of Earl Bradford. former market master, on a charge of embezzling public funds, has been issued by Prosecutor John R. Britten. State Board of Accounts examiners who report, a $2600 shortage say Bradford failed to turn in all rental collections from stalls and concessions at the City Market House. Nab Alleged Blanket Thief John McNulty. 29. is under arrest today in connection with th# theft yesterday of a bundle of sheet# from the Federal Transient Shelter. 227 N. West-St.
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