Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1936 — Page 5

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Si DECLINE IN RELIEF LISTS

~ Returns to Self-Supporting . Basis Exceed Seasonal Drop, He Says.

An increasing number of persons are going off relief rolls and reestablishing themselves on a selfsupporting basis, Wayne Coy, Governor's Commission on Unemployment - Relief director, announced * today. . Although | there is a gradual seasonal decline during warm weather in the number of relief cases and the amount of relief per case, recefitly the decrease has exceeded greatly the normal Seclie, Mr. Coy said. According to figures covering aid granted by Indiana township trustees from local public funds, the number of relief cases declined from 48321 in March to 36,918 in May. During the same period, the number of persons on relief dropped from 155254 to 113,831 and relief cost decreased from $733,320.70 to $530,732.67.

Average Cost Decreases

The average cost of relief per case dropped from $14.18 to $13.18 during the two months. “The percentage of single persons receiving aid from township trustees is increasing,” Mr. Coy said. “The probable explanation of this trend is that these single persons, who in May equaled onefourth of the total number of cases, compose to a large degree the underlying strata of unemployables to be found in any relief group.” The cost of relief declined at even a greater rate than the number of recipients, because of smaller relief requirements during the summer, illustrated specifically by the almost total elimination of the fuel item, Mr. Coy said.

Pay Rolls Down 12 Per Cent

“Figures on the number of persons from relief rolls employed by the WPA reveal a substantial decline,” Mr. Coy declared. “The pay rolls for May show a total reduction of 12 per cent since March. While spot checks in some of the larger counties appear to indicate that about one-fourth of those released from WPA employment find their way back on the relief rolls, the actual percentage in the state as a whole is believed to be far less because of the greatly improved situation in counties with lesser populations.” Substantial gains’ in industrial employment coupled with the improvement in rural areas indicate a marked decline of unemployment among all classes’ of workers, Mr. Coy concluded.

INDIANA ADOPTS WPA PREVAILING PAY RATE

Tentative Schedule for State. Announced by Coy.

Adoption of a tentative schedule

- of prevailing wages on all Works

Progress Administration . projects throughout the state in accordance with the provisions of the Emergency Relief Act of 1936 was announced today by Wayne Coy, state PWA director, ! The prevailing rate of pay has been established tentatively for the various” classifications of labor. on each of the 2000 projects in operation in Indiana, Mr. Coy said. Pay per hour may vary within a county, Mr. Coy pointed out, due to the fact that the prevailing rate of pay may vary in rural and urban regions in the same county. =

REVIEW OF C. M. T. C. IS SET FOR JULY 25

Former Cincinnati Judge to Speak at Assembly Afterward.

July 25 has been set as the date for the principal review at the C. M. T. C. camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Brig. Gen. W. K. Naylor has made thousand visitors. Maj. Gen, William E. Cole, Fifth Corps Area commander, is to make the review.

S. A. Roettinger, fornier judge of

the Court of Common Pleas, Cincihnati, O,, is to speak at the as-

sembly of soldiers and guests fol-

wing the review.

SHEET METAL GROUP SETS PICNIC DATE

Annual Outing of Trade Organization to Be Held July 25.

The annual picnic: sponsored by the state ‘and city associations of the Sheet Metal, Warm Air Heating and Roofing trades open to mem‘bers and non-members is to be held

at Longacre Park, Saturday, July

25 at 10 a. m. General arrangements are in charge of W. S. Waters. O. Voorhees is reception committee chairman.

State Trailer Plants Busy Times Special ELKHART, Ind. July 14.—Three factories, employing 150 men, have ‘been established here to supply the demand for auto trailers. Combined ~ production is pout 30 units a week.

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Earl Montgomery

Local Swimmer Engaged by Movies to Perform His

Spectacular but Dangerous Sea Stunt.

BY JOE COLLIER A Bahama caper, done for his own amusement, may yet turn Earl

Montgomery, sharks.”

Indianapolis swimming star, into a movie “Tarzan of the

Twenty-eight years old, hale and hearty, but now in drydock at St.

Vincent's Hospital, Earl this October is to be featured shark rider in an |

undersea drama of the South Seas. If he rides the shark in protected waters, such as a bay locked in with a sand bar at low tide, he will earn a handsome sum. But if he rides the shark into the open sea, he will make more money, because the shark might get transAtlantic ideas with Earl astride, or some other sharks might start a game of deep sea polo for keeps.

Find Imprisoned Shark

In either case, Montgomery and a movie company ar: to film a story off the Bahaman Coast, near the site .where Earl first mounted and tamed a shark of the species which usually behaves very flighty toward humans.

- He and a party of three, together with eight natives of Andros, most primitive island of the group, were hunting specimens of sea life for a New England museum a couple of years ago, and they came across a nine-foot shark imprisoned at low tide in a bay.

They prodded the fish to a shallow place and grounded him. Montgomery got the idea of riding him and gingerly got astride, holding a gill in each hand. “He shoved off into deep water and sure enough the shark swam easily with him. To get the shark to dive, he pushed its snout into the water. To get it to rise, he lifted its snout.

Fish Tries to “Collect”

When he got tired he steered the fish to shallow water, jumped off and ran, while the shark unsuccessfully sought to collect his left leg as a “fare.” That's all that happened until last winter when his boss, manager of the Miami Biltmore swimming pool, was hard put to find a new thrill for the weekly water carnival. Earl suggested his shark riding stunt. He was taken up and a shark was borrowed from an aquarium. Newsreel men and reporters came from far and wide.

The pool was lined, The shark was’

plaeed in the water. Earl dived in. It was more than a minute be-

CAB COMPANY SUED IN TWO COMPLAINTS

Damages Totaling $11,000 Sought as Result of Mishap.

Two suits against the Red Cab Co., asking damages totaling $11,000, were on file today in Marion County Superior Sourt. The plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Horne, 4125 College-av, alleged they suffered painful injuries on May 1 when the taxi in which they were riding was ‘in collision at Meridian and North-sts. As a result of the injuries, the compliant asserts, Mrs. Horne had to undergo an operation.

FILES SUIT FOR $25,000

Plaintiff Asks Sum for Alleged Injuries Received Jan. 18.

Karl H. Schneider filed a $25,000 damage suit in Marion County Cir-

cuit Court yesterday against George | V. Josephine, William’ and Virgil

Altes, operators of a store at 460 virginia-av. The complaint alleges that Schneider was injured seriously Jan. 18, 1935, when he fell over a barrel hoop which had been left in front of the defendants’ place of business.

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fore Earl came into vision at the top of the water, but when he did he was riding high on the shark. The shark dived almost immediately, and Earl stuck with him. This went on until the shark had put so many miles on himself he was beginning to tire. Neither was injured during the game, and the shark was returned to the aquarium. Immediately the movie offers came. One other, besides the October project, Is in the offing.

Wife Is Former Resident Here

A promoter at the Texas Centennial offered him $300 a week to ride a shark daily there, but had no concrete suggestion as to how to keep the shark alive for days on end in fresh water. That {fell through. Earl had the second installment of an appendectomy about a month ago and is recovering. He has lost 50 pounds in the month and now weighs 156. When he is strong enough he is to go to Lake Wawasee, where he is swimming instructor. When in the city, Montgomery lives with the parents of his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Smith, 1049 W. 36th-st. His wife Rowena was an ace swimmer here for some time, especially known for her instructing at the Y, W. C. A, Earl has been lifeguard at nearly every Indianapolis beach and pool, and for two years was a football player at Butler University, e can't remember learned to swim. “It just seems that it's one of the things I've done for a long time,” he said.

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T0 NAME ICKES TO W'GARL JOB

Political Independence Cited by Friends of Former G. 0. P. Liberal.

BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 15.—President Roosevelt is being urged to appoint Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes as controller general, succeeding John R. McCarl, who retired July 1 upon completing his 15-year term, § The boom for Mr. Ickes is being promoted on the ground that he is ideally ‘suited by temperament and experience for the post of checking government expenditures. His friends cite the very rigid check that he has kept on expenditures under the Public Works Administration, his careful scrutiny of all proposed projects to determine whether they could be adequately financed and the government’s in-

upon the letter of the law in spending money appropriated by Congress. So meticulous. is Mr. Ickes, as a matter of fact, that he frequently has angered the pork-barrel type of policitian who was all for turning on the spigot for his constituents in order to perpetuate himself in office. d ally, Mr. Ickes has been independent. He belonged to the progressive wing of the Republican Party for years and joined up with the New Deal when appointed to the Cabinet. His political independence is cited by advocates of his appointment as one of his chief qualifications.

PUBLIC MISLED ON’ FHA, BUILDERS SAY

“Low Cost” Dwellings Declared to Be Unsatisfactory.

THe public is being misled as to the actual cost of Federal Housing Administration projects, members of the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association charged at a meeting last night at the Hoosier Athletic’

Club. Material costs and the requirements of the modern family make it impossible, the builders said, to construct a dwelling that is satis= factory and still within the “lowcost” group. Association members voted to visit the Purdue University housing research project at West Lafayette July 28. George R. Popp Jr., City building commissioner, reported on a Yovent visit to the Purdue experiment.

Cardinal Binet Dies in France By United Press. BESANCON, France, July 15. — Cardinal Binet, one of France's greatest chaplain-heroes of the World War, died today of uremia and. cerebral congestion.

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