Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1935 — Page 3

DEC. 31, 1035

HOUSEWIVES MAP FIGHT AS MILK CONTROL BODY STUDIES REQUESTS FOR HIGHER RATE

Council of Women Says City Dealers Should Absorb Increase. R3 lIK LEX LINDS A V Indianapolis housewives today took the first step in a fight. against a possible retail price increase, in resolutions adopted by the Indianapolis Council ot Women board of directors. Directed to the State Milk Control Board, thr resolutions said the board favored the increase to farmers but believed it should be absorbed by Marion County distributors. The resolution asked that the control board, before granting the petition, 'make public aggregate schedule of cost which indisputably ; how that costs ol distributing are ir. excess with no present margin of profit to the distributor.'’ Refer to Hearing The board members, in their resolution, called attention to the publie hearing Dec. 30. "At. that hearing inadequate and insufficient schedule of distribution costs were offered by the distributors, which data did not convince the consumers present that a 1-cent increase per quart of milk was justifiable and necessary inasmuch as distributors of Ohio had absorbed the increase given to the producers of Ohio, they said. Resolution, were adopted following a report by the economics' committee, of which Mrs. O. E. Mehring chairman Boycott Is Ilinteri Preparations which may develop into a boycott of milk dealers, should the increase be made, followed protests voiced by more than a dozen women, representing civic, patriotic, and school organizations, who attended the hearing before the Stale Milk Control Board yesterday. Indications were that the Housewives’ League, organized for price fighting after the World. War, is to be revived. Mrs. W. H. Hart, league president, and secretary of the Butler Fairview Civic League, asked women attending the meeting to name a representative to the league \from each organization interested \in milk prices. jl The league was instrumental. Mrs. Wart, pointed out. in preventing a ■lead price increase shortly alter /flip war, when one of its members Miaked a loaf of bread to show the Fair Price Commission that an increase asked in bread prices was unnecessa rv. Asks for Figures Mrs. B. R. McDonald, representing the Indianapolis Council of Women with Mrs. C. W Foltz,, asked that, milk distributors’ figures be given the housewives. "We want to be shown that such an increase is necessary,” Mrs. McDcfiald said. "We want fair dealings with the public." Mrs. Joseph Uolles. Brookside Civic League secretary expressed confidence in the control board. "Our league represents 250 people. We feel that this board is going to be fair to the farmer, the distributor. and the consumer. We hope that this increase will not. be necessary.” Children Need It "Our children can do without meat, but they can t do without milk, yet that is what a retail price increase will force them to do. Mrs. George W. Horst, representing ihe Elsa Huebner Olsen Club, told the board. "I never have operated a business, i but I have managed a home. I think milk producers and dealers should j be able to operate successfully on the present rate, by exercising the i same economies that housewives I have had to practice in home manI agement. "You milk dealers have advertised what an important food milk is. and we women agree with you. But, regardless of its importance, there ate families in Indianapolis which will have to cut down on their milk supplies if this increase goes into eflect.” Asks Thorough Consideration Difficulties of parent-teacher organizations in providing milk for needy children under the present rate will become aggravated to the j point of exclusion for some districts. Mrs. Horton Oliver, representative of the Indianapolis Council of Parents and Teachers advised the boivrd. "We ask you to consider the necessity of milk for undernourished children before you raise the price of milk again,” Mrs. Oliver said, in her protest. "There will be a difference in Ihe contents of relief baskets under such an increase, too. In some instances, where the number of children in relief families makes milk an absolute necessity, oilier staple foods will be reduced in quantify Her prophecy was substantiated by lhat of Mrs. Joseph Weber, president of the P.-T. A. organization ai School 50. COMMUNITY CENTER ON NORTH SIDE IS OPENED Mies Jeannette Tobry Is in Charge of Npu Quarters. Citizens Fraternity announces that quarters for us? as a community center now are open at 40th-st. and Capitol-av. with Miss Jeannette Tobey. 3824 Graceland-av. in charge. The National Youth Administration is to be one of the occupants of the building during January. February and March, when 250 boys are to receive training. A social room, auditorium and basketball floor are available for rent. LOOT IS VALUED AT $25 Burglars Take Merchandise, Cash From Filling Station. Filling station operated by David Kelch at 1501 W. New York-st was found ransacked by burglars today. Merchandise valued at $23 and $1 in cash was taken Merchanadise included cigars, cigarets. candy, chewing gum and flashlights. A window in a cleaning establishment at 31 S. Tllinois-st was __found broken today by Dennis Mil“ler. proprietor, but notmng was missing, he told police. I il

Rise Needed to Prevent 15Cent Rate Later, Says Official. Members of the State Milk Control Board today are studying' financial statements of milk distributing companies in an effort to determine whether an emergency should be declared and a retail price scale fixed which would moan 11-cents-a-quart milk to consumers. The board recently granted a pnee increase to producers of from $lB5 to 52.20 a hundredweight on Class 1 milk. Both distributors and consumers testified yesterday at a public healing on the distributors’ pioposal that the board declare an emergency and fix resale prices The distributors, through their spokesman, Winfield Hunt, executive secietary of the Indianapolis Milk Council, declared they can not. pay the $2.20 price to the farmer without raising the retail price of milk. Chiseling and price cutting have brought about a chaotic condition in the Indianapolis marketing area, they insist. Price Termed Necessary Figures are to be presented to Indianapolis housewives, to convince them that a milk price increase is necesary, Mr. Hunt, said today. Distributors are aware that an increase probably will work a hardship on the relief families in the county,” Mr. Hunt said. But they do not feel that because there are these numbers of needy families the burden of supplying them with milk should rest on the shoulders of 26 distributors. “If this slight increase is not granted, we are threatened with a 15-cent quart of milk next year, and probably with a milk strike. Farmers no longer can produce milk at the prices which they are getting. Dairy Cattle Sold "Many of them now are selling their dairy, cattle for beef. Housewives may realize this by calling the stockyards and learning of the numbers of dairy cattle which are being brought in daily, to be sold as beef. "The trend of Marion County and the entire state is out of the dairy business. More than a 1-cent increase now is going to the farmers in order to keep them in the dairy business.” Mr. Hunt quoted figures to show that distributors were operating "in the red." Explain- Three Qualities "The consumer does not realize what Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3 milk means,” he explained. "It does not mean that they are different in quality. When milk is bottled, 85 per cent of it goes into Class 1. Milk which is left over, and is the same quality as that which goes into the bottles, is placed in Class 2. It. is sold as cottage cheese and other by-products, at a lower price than that in bottles, but it is the same milk, from the same cows. "Twelve per cent goes into Class 2. and a quantity of the same milk —3 per cent—goes into Class 3, at an even lower price. "If all milk could be placed in quarts, a break-even price would be $2.13 for 100 pounds of Class 1 milk. Through the loss in bottling it in smaller containers, the $2.20 price ordered paid producers is not possible without this retail increase.” Figures Are Cited Mr. Hunt called attention to evidence given before the board yesterday bv William O. Wheeler, restaurant proprietor. "Mr. Wheeler showed in figures compiled over a period of years that while food costs in general had increased 8 per cent, to restaurants, milk had increased only .008 per cent. In those figures is the explanation of why distributors ieol the housewives should understand that this increase in necessary.” VINCENNES HIT BY FIRE Blaze Causes $25,000 Damage and Destroys Half Block. By 1 iiited. Press VINCENNES. Tnd., Dec. .31—Fire which started in the attic of a twostory building here last night destroyed a half block of small business houses and caused damage estimated at $25,000.

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False Alarm Puller Favorite Hate of All Firemen; Brave Soul Usually Has His Fun With Mercury at Zero

Footprints in Snow Often Only Clew to Pest. Veterans Say. BV JOE COLLIER It was zero, so someone pulled a fire box. just for fun Fifty men in seven open, unprotected trucks whistled through the night. At West and Ohio-sts they learned there was no fire. In the snow they saw the prints of a man's foot. He had stepped from an auto —probably closed and warm—three plops in the snow, pulled the box and stepped back into his car. Naturally he was not around. If there had been a crash of the trucks on the icy streets, he would not have seen it. He apparently didn't even love a parade—he didn't stay to see it. But if he had stayed, there were 50 sputtering firemen there aching to interview him and make something of it. Another Phoney Alarm! Well, this particular company returned to its house and. bang! there was another call —to Capitolav and Ohio-st. Out into the cold .again they went, and learned this, too. was a phony. Again there were the footprints of a man who had momentarily descended from an auto, minced over to the box. pulled it. returned and departed. The general suspicion was that it was the same man who had done them bolh. Again he was not in sight. No one has the slightest idea why he did it. unless it would be a psychologist and no one'" talked to a psychologist about, it. Just Hide and Seek! Least of all has Capt.. Shank of Company 13 any idea. Capt. Shank hasn't even ever talked to a false alarm box puller. The best way, he says, to call the fire department, anyway, is to phone. But if you really must pull a box, when there's a real fire, don't lose your head by immediately running back to the scene of the fire. That’s just so much hide and go seek. More than once firemen had answered a box alarm, decided it was false when no one and no fire appeared to be around, and then had to return to a much worse fire. Whoever pulled the box hadn't stayed around to point out the fire —which might have been several blocks away—to the firemen. Children know' more about correctly turning in a fire alarm than any one else, he says. They also know more about fire prevention. As for the cold wave—Company 13 answered between 18 and 20 alarms in sub-zero and near zero weather. After each run. fire or false, they have to clean the equipment which takes 30 minutes if everybody works. Nobody ever has thought of taking fingerprints off the box when a false alarm is turned in, or at least Capt. Shank doesn't know who it would have been. They go only about 30 miles an hour when streets are like this. And by the way. Lieut John Doyle, ■who on Friday, Dec. 13. lost a boot from truck 13 from Engine House 13, found his boot again. A Western Union messenger, seeing the story of Mr. Doyle's predicament in The Times, called him yesterday and said he had found it. Mr. Doyle went to get it. GOV. M’NUTT INDORSES HAPPY NEW YEAR CLUB Plans by Which Some Needy Person Is Given Dinner. Is Lauded. Investment in a "hospitality ticket '’ to the Happy New' Year Dinner Club was urged today by Gov. McNutt in a New' Year's eve message. To become a member of the club, you need only buy some needy person a dinner on New' Year's Day. Terming the propect "a fine, publicspirited plan.” the Governor said: "As Governor of Indiana, I wish to indorse this plan to propose that those who are financially able participate in it. New Year's Day will take on anew meaning. The host will establish a precedent in giving that will be repeated many times throughout the year and the guest will be fortified to face the future with renewed confidence.”

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"Oh! Wise guy in the crowd, eh? Turning in false box alarms in zero weather! Well, buddy, stick around next time. There’re a few things I'd like to say to you. Don't mind the ax. I don't.” Thus speaks —and looks —Private Cecil O. Richardson (above) of Company 13.

ATHLETIC, COLUMBIA CLUBS GET SSO FINE Penalized for Possession of Unstamped Whisky. Fines of SSO each have been assessed against the Indianapolis Athletic Club and the Columbia Club for the possession of unstamped w'hisky, it w'as announced today at the Alcoholic Beverages Commission. Club officials explained that the w'hisky found by commission inspectors, originally had been stamped w'ith the old Excise §tamp. These stamps, which are not like the unremovable stamps now' used, became loose and dropped off the bottles. The board revoked seven licenses in the state. In Indianapolis it took Frank Turk's, 969 N. Holmes-av, for selling liquor on Sunday; Edward T. Smith's, 249 E. llth-st, for selling W'hisky with only a beer license. It also took licenses from Sandi & Son. Logansport, for selling to drunkards and minors; Bessie Hollingsworth, Kokomo, because she failed to close a dance hall she had in connection to the tavern; Roy Hill. Hymera, because he bought the permit for someone else; Rose City Motorcycle Club, Newcastle, for selling on Sunday; Harry Elliott, Jeffersonville, for selling w'hisky w'ith only a beer license. The board fined Paul Russell, Terre Haute, SSO for keeping open on Sunday and entertaining friends at a beer party. ASSUMES NEW DUTIES S. H. Thomas Named Manager of Central Inspection Bureau. S. H. Thomas, Indianapolis, will assume his new duties as manager of the Central Inspection and Weighing Bureau tomorrow with headquarters in Chicago, Eugene Morris, chairman of the Central Freight Association, said today. Mr. Thomas has been with the bureau 23 years. He takes the place left vacant by the retirement of George Merkl.

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Abbot Pi'edicts Study of Sun, Air by Rockets BY DAVID DIET/ Scripps-Honard Science Editor. ST. LOUIS. Dec. 11. —A few hundred thousand dollars invested today in the scientific development of rockets would pay the nation dividends amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars in the next two decades, Dr. C. G. Abbot, worldfamous scientist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, declared here today. In an exclusive interview with this writer. Dr. Abbot, who is here for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, pointed out that he is not thinking of the rocket as a means of transportation at this time, but as a scientific tool for exploring the upper atmosphere and studying the sun. Once perfected, he believes that the rocket, would yield information which would lead to vast increases m the accuracy of weather forecasts and the perfection of longrange forecasting. Accompiisnrnent of these objectives would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to aviation, agriculture, industry and shipping, he said. The rocket would prove less expensive than stratosphere balloon flights, Dr. Abbot said, and would be far more useful since the rockets could go higher and many rockets could be sent aloft for the cost of one balloon flight. Dr. Abbot was prompted to discuss rockets by the fact that late this afternoon Dr. R. H. Goddard was to tell the assembled scientists of experiments which he is carrying on with rockets at Rosell. N. M., under the auspices of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Carnegie Institution. Hoover Speech Scheduled By I t>ited Press LINCOLN. Neb.. Dec. 31.—Herbert Hoover is to discuss the Administration's farm program in an address at the University of Nebraska Coliseum Jan. 16. Chairman Lyle Jackson of the Republican state central committee said today.

UNITED ACTION ADVOCATED TO PRESERVE U.S. Church Forum Delegates Hear Union Leader Urge Co-Operation. (Continued From Page One) liberal declared in an 'arlier iddress today. "The only solution to the constant threat of international warfare is international co-operative trade based on a non-profit motive,” Dr. Kagawa asserted. League Need Outlined Unless th° League of Nations is re-established on an international co-operative trade basis, it wiil fail. Dr. Kagawa declared. If set up on that basis, he continued, it could stabilize currency internationally. But the situation today, with conflicting economic enterprises among nations, will bring war, he predicted. Christian peoples must assume the leadership in the co-operative movement. Dr. Kagawa said. Touching upon the mechanics of co-operative trade, the speaker declared nationalization of industries without a co-operative basis will not succeed, and pointed out that it had failed in Japan. Archbishop of York Speaks Discussing "Thp Cross of Christ and the Need of the World.” the Archbishop said, in answer to the question. "What is the matter with the world we know?": "It shows some kindness, some heroism, also some conflicts—the bitterness of one man against another. What spoils love is this bitterness. "We know with our minds that we are not. the center of the picture. Most of us have not gone far enough to see into the distance. It is not sufficient to say that we are good. That is quite damnable. Some of you will make good resolutions that will have been broken before night. Spiritual pride is not sufficient. We must have in our hearts the will to better ourselves." An attempt to raise the living standards among Negroes in the industrial center of Gary, Ind.. by co-operative buying was described by j. L. Reddix. president Consumers' Co-Operative Trading Cos., of Gary. “In co-operation the Negro has found anew hope after the bitter disillusionment of the depression,” Mr. Reddix declared. Outlines History “During the quarter century prior to the economic collapse, the race had made beginnings tow'ard success in an individualistic and capitalistic way. But being on the fringe of the present economic system, the Negroes’ efforts were swept away by the depression.” Mr. Reddix said. In the early part of 1932 with 10.000 Negroes unemployed in Gary, a few' Negro families started a system of co-operative buying with capital of $24, and this has grow'n until today the Consumers’ Cos Trading Cos., operates a modern store and meat market and had a 1935 turnover of $35,000, Mr. Reddix stated. The co-operative has a five-year plan which is to provide for three branch stores in Gary, branches in neighboring cities, gasolines station, bakery and dairy, the speaker explained. DR. HERMAN MORGAN'S MOTHER-IN-LAW DIES Mrs. May Lerkner, 73, Became 111 Christmas. Sent to Hospital. Mrs. May Leckner, 1470 N. Pennsylvania -st. mother-in-law of Dr. Herman G. Morgan. City Health Beard Secretary, died this morning in Methodist Hospital of pneumonia. Mrs. Leckner became ill Christmas and w'as taken to the hospital Saturday. She was 73 and is survived by a son, who lives in the East, and by Mrs. Morgan. Her husband has been dead for several years. German Ambassador Dies PARIS, Dec. 31.—Roland Koester. German ambassador to France, died in ihe American Hotel here today of pneumonia.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER —t nitfd State* XVeathrr Bureau.

| TEMPERATURE f>rr. 31. UU4 ' *- m ..... 30 1 p, m. 31 —Todar—f * m ■ '.'l 10 . m ;< ' *■ m M 11 a. m 2l # - m .’I l-J \non > •; *■ m -1 I jv m ?8 PARO METER * *• m 30.37 1 p. m 30 3.x Procipitguon 24 hr ending Tam no rotal precipitation since Jan 1 37 -3 OTHER CITII AT 7 A M Station. Wei he: Bar Temp Amarillo. T>\ etc,id’ "l so 3* Btsmarck N n . Clounv 3(1 04 8 Boston .... c ; O2 r 30 '4 10 Chicago Ram 30 3’ ■> Cincinnati Clear 30 44 12 Denver Clear 2 s ’ "2 Donee C.tv K.s- • C.o iclv 21011 34 Helena Mon - . .... Clear 29 34 32 Jacksonville. Fla. C'.oudv 30 32 36 Kansas Ci Mo. . Cloud' 30 : < 32 Little Reck Ark. ... Cloudv 30 28 32 Los Angeles PtCldv 3(1(18 -2 Miami. Fla PiCldv 30 16 32 Minneapolis . PiCldv 29 94 23 Mobile. Ala Ram 31 26 36 New Orleans R.un 30 24 90 New York Clear 30 34 14 Okia Cl!v. Okla. . Run 30 12 34 Omaha Neb Ctoudv 30 08 30 Pittsburgh Clear 30 4 1 in Portland. Ore . Clear 30 08 46 San Antonio Te\. . Cloudv 30 08 411 San Francisco PtCldv 30 20 46 S: Louis Cloudv 30 >8 '6 Tampa. Fla. .. Cloudv 30 22 33 Washington D C Clear 30 44 22 ELIAS JACOBY DIES AT HOME City Attorney. 81. Passes Early Today After Short Illness. (Continued From Page One) the Riley Hospital," Mr. Jacoby wrote. "If my long-time friend. Charles S. Barker, is alive and willing to perform the services. I desire that he conduct the Blue Lodge burial service. without responses, at the cemetery. "During my life I have given as liberally as my means would permit to charities—private and public, churches, fraternities and educational institutions.” Barker Will Fulfill Request Mr. Barker, who is recorder of Murat Temple, said today that he will carry out Mr. Jacoby’s wishes. Mr. Jacoby was a thirty-second degree Mason. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, a Knight Templar, a member of the Order of Red Cross of Constantine, former high priest. Keystone Chapter 6. Royal Arch Masons; grand high priest. Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons of Indiana; M. I. Master. Indianapolis Council 2. Royal and Select Masons; e. Viceroy. M. P. sovereign and grand imperial sovereign of the Grand Imperial Council. Order of Red Cross of Constantine. He was instrumental in organizing the Indianapolis Masonic Temple Association, drafted the law' authorizing its organization and was its president for twm years. Hold High Offices Mr. Jacoby formerly was chief rabban and illustrious potentate. Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and was for more than 28 years head of the Murat Temple Association directors. He served as imperial potentate of the Shrine order during 1918 and 1919. He was born on a farm near Marion. O. Jan. 10. 1855. the son of Michael and Elizabeth Worline Jacoby. He taught school when he was 18 and later attended Ohio Wesleyan University and University of Cincinnati law school. During his collegiate days, Mr. Jacoby w'as editor of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity journal, master of the local chapter and an editor of the Ohio Wesleyan College Transcript. Married Classmate in 1884 Mr. Jacoby married on June 12. 1884. his college classmate. Miss Julia L. Eaton, Delaware. 0.. who died March 10. 1932. Mr. Jacoby became associated with Charles W Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States, in the legal profession, soon after his graduation from college. Private funeral services are to be held at 2 Thursday in the Hisev A: Titus Funeral Home. 951 N. Dela-ware-st, with burial in Crown Hill.

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CITY READY TO GREET 1936 IN NOISY FASHION New Year’s Revelry Here Is Expected to Reach New Peak. (Continued From Page One) section, it is important that bad drivers be reported to authorities in order ihat thev not be a menace on the highways.” Closing Law In Miik Special instructions ha>e been broadcast to state police and local authorities to be on the alert for accidents New Year's eve he said The excise enforcement officer* have been instructed by Paul Fn\ state director, to ngidlv enforce the : closing law which requires that all places selling liquor close promptly at 1 a. m Revocation of licenses and fine will be exacted for any ini fringement. he said. and no excepj lions are to be permuted. Clubs and hotels are to be taxed to capacity as revelers continue to make reservations At the Columbia Club more than 1100 persons have already made reservations. The Indianapolis Athletic Ciub has thrown open the third and fourth floors for their party and expect a crowd. The Hoosier Athletir Club is to entertain 500 members and guests and the Athenaeum has ar- ! ranged for a similar number. Dinner Dance at Club The Elks. Eagles and Shrine Patrol have planned for crowds which are to tax the capacities of th'ur lodge halls. Hotel accommodations have increased and large parties are expected at the Marott. Lincoln. Cla’ - pool. Washington. Harrison. Severin and Spink-Arms. Indianapolis Country Club is preparing for 150 to attend its dinner ; dance. Breakfast is to be served Parties numbering 150 arc ex- ; petted to take part in the WoodI stock Club celebration. Following | ihe dinner dance, breakfast is to i be served the guests. Marott Arranges Party For the first time .since its open- ; ing nine years ago. the Marott Js to celebrate the Npw Year with a j supper dance. Reservation list. | limited to 200. includes parties ar- ! ranged by hotel residents and their I guests. The celebration dinner is scheduled for 9. Dancing is to follow. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are to hold a party at | the Food Craft Shoppe 230 S Pennsylvania--; Veterans of Foreign Wars. Post No. 908, and its auxiliary are to hold a party tonight at its hall. Walnut and King-sts. with the drum and bugle corps serving a goose supper to members and guests. Harry Ferris. commander, and Mrs. Bessie ; Logan, president of the auxiliary, j are in charge of arrangements. I Riviera Club is to mark the advent of the New Year with a danro l for members and their guests. COURT WORKERS FILE SUIT FOR BACK PAY Three Stenographers. Clerk anil Investigator Plaintiffs. Suit is on file today in Circuit Court to collect alleged back salaries for three stenographers, a clerk and a Juvenile Court investigator. County Commissioners, County Councilmen and Charles A. Grossart. County Auditor, are defendants. Those filing the suit and tb* amounts asked by eacli are: Miss Amy Herman and Miss Helen Moroney. stenographers, $206 each; Benjamin C. Reed, investigator. $936; Frances Fisher, clerk, $356. and Mrs. Margaret O'Connor, stenographer. $672 JUDGE WHITE PICKS AID >i iss Bertha Wooldridge to Stireeed Mrs. Francis Kinsel. Appointment of Miss Bertha h. Wooldrige, 240 E. 9th-st, as v>erptary, was announced yesterday by Judge Dan V. White of Municipal Court 2. to succeed Mrs. Franc;; Kinsel, who resigned recently.