Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1936 — Page 3
ITY COUNCILS ~ BUDGET STUDY
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Finance and Ade Administration Department Seeks $11,358 Gain.
One of the first departments to be considered by the City Council today at its first budget study session in the City Hall may be the Department of Finance and Administration, which-asks an increase of $11,358.31 from the 1936 request. This division includes, according fo tile budget outline, the departments of the Mayor's office, city clerk, controller, Barrett law, city plan, legal and purchasing, as well ms the Council itself. The Department of Finance, itself, psks less than it did in 1936, the increases coming through greater budget requests from the legal, plan and purchasing department, the budget schedule shows. Mayor's Office Asks Increase
An increase of $1101 is asked for 1937 by the Mayor's office, with $601 of the amount accounted for by restored salaries. The salary item is $11,801. Last year it was $11,660 for the whole department. The City Clerk’s department reQuests a $300 increase, with all items except the salaries remaining the same as in 1936. The City Council salaries, established by law, remain the same this Yyear—$600. In the financial department, the controller's office asks $3765.23 less than last year. The 1936 request was for $320,254.41, but for 1937 asks $316,489.18.
_ In the Barrett Law Division, the Increase asked is $205.53. Reductions In other sections of the department budget allow an increase
in salaries here of $590.53 for 1937. Salaries in the City Plan Commission account for $7750.38 of the $8830 sought for that department, the proposed scale shows. This is an increase of $480 over 1936. One ot the largest increases in the finance and administration of the city government for next year is in the Legal Department, where the request was raised from $37.836.12 in 1936 to $49,883.10 for next Year. An increase is asked in every item of the legal department budget, including salaries, which would raise fro m$20,786.12 in 1936 to $21,083.10 next year. There is an additional ite mof $1800, part of ‘which may be used to pay costs of recodification of the city ordinances.
$10,000 Increase Proposed
Largest single increase in this de- \ rtment is in the current charges “for refunds, awards and indzmnities. It would be increased from $15.000 in the 1936 budget to $25,000 next year. An increase of only $1008 is asked in the purchasing department, where salary raises of $697.50 would pe included. The city tax rate for 1937, according to the requests now to be considered b ythe City Council, would be $1.243 to raise $6,196,760./8. Gasbline taxes would add an estimated $566,000 in addition to the poll tax pf $25,682.
CENTURY BUILDING OWNERSHIP SUED
A $30,000 damage suit was on file in Marion County Superior Court Room § today against the Century Building Corp., 36 S. Pennsylvaniast. The plaintiff, Miss Gladys Inclenrock Sanders, alleged that on July 2 she fell down a flight of iron stairs in the building and suffered permanent injuries.
HAUPTMANN TAXES PAID By United Press— ALBANY, Aug. 20.—Income taxes bf $1847 owed by Bruno Richard Hauptmann have been paid to the Federal government by Mrs. Hauptmann.
Purdue Experts, Officials Study Problem of LowRent Homes.
(Editorial, Page 14)
A two-fold program designed to |
solve the slum-substitute building problem in Indianapolis and In: diana moved forward today, with the State Planning Board at the helm, The program was outlined yesterday at a seminar discussion of the problem by civic leaders, individuals and representatfves of agencies interested in slum clearance from its social and health aspects. A committee composed of those who attended the meeting in the Claypool is to be appointed to draft legislation which would enable planning groups to function better in that capacity.
Research Study Continues -
The Purdue Housing Research Project engineers continued their exhaustive study of building material and labor costs in the hope that they can build dwellings that will rent for between $5 and $10 monthly. The rent, they specify must pay taxes and .upkeep and amortize the construction investment within 14 years. The houses must be sanitary, weather proof and well ventilated. L. F. Moorman, State Planning Board project director, said an experimental house is t6 be built before fall on a lot owned by the Marion County Commjssioners.
Purdue Construction Site
Frank Watson, Purdue project director, said that when his studies are completed, the design and specifications settled upon, and the material money supplied, he would have the house built in laboratories at Purdue, keeping strict account of the costs as they would be to the private builder. He then would load the house on to a truck, haul it to the site in Indianapolis, and put it together. All phases of planning and economics were discussed in the plans for the dwelling, he said. They are to be portable and of a high salvage value, so that they can be dismantled when a section is cleared of substandard structures, and the planning board in the city decides to raise the zoning standards, and moved to new slum areas.. « @
Property Owner Obligated “The person who owns real estate,” he said, “has an implied obligation to society to see that it is habitable and sanitary; that it does not contribute to the social services costs of the community; that it is not a direct contributory of citywide bad health. “Unless the builder of a house can be quite certain that it will, in 142 years, be sanitary, inhabitable, and reasonably efficient, then he is creating a social problem by building it. Because replacement building in the United States, statistics show, occurs once in every 142 years. “We at Purdue do not believe that the house we have designed is a decent standard of living. We do not believe that it will remain forever the standard of living these people must have. But we do think that it is a place to start, and we feel that some sort of housing evolution may come of it. “For too long, now, we have been waiting for some sort of gigantic
subsidy that will automatically solve the housing problem, and it
IN INDIANAPOLIS
MEETINGS TODAY
National Rural Letter Carriers’ AssociaHon, convention, Hotel Lincoln, all day.
Indianapolis Real Estate Board, lunch®on, Hotel Washington, Joon, Speaker, vy Dunham, subjec “Locks and Sigma Nu; luncheon, Hotel Washington, Advertising Club of. Indianapolis, lunchPon, Columbia Club, LL nsering Society. mitheon. Board of Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade, Ame rican Business Club, luncheon, Indit. noon. rd of Trade, noon.
a, y Indiana Hotor Teatro Association, lunchfon, Hotel Antlers, neon...
MEETINGS TOMORROW
National Rural Letter Carriers’ Associaconvention, Hotel Lincoln, all day.
session. Exchange Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Esi De Deity Theta, luncheon, Columbia 0 Theta Pi. luncheon, Board of Trade, n “Sahara Grotto, luncheon, Grotto Club, Reserve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Batiboo Inn. noon. rvard Club. luncheon, Hotel: Lincoln, Doon.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES {Incorrect addresses frequently are given te the Marriage License Bureau deliberately. The Times in printing the official Bet assumes no responsibility for such addresses.)
Carl B. Bockersiith. 26. of 804 N. Hamnav, of 56 Su r, and Margaret V. Can-mner-st, bak Smploye. 35, New Ci gn ‘Gladys Eile 32,
Walter, 32. of 2618 N. contaas : Nellie Broe, 32, of 2620
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DEATHS. George Butts, 3, at 743 N. Warman-av,
cereb. at 335 N. Bancroft-st, at 1451 Hoyt-av, ren, di og City H ital, » , & 08 myocarditis. y > » Charles H. Metsker, 69, at City Hos-
pital, encephalities. John H. Whit 32 at St. Vincent's Patric s, 11 days, Hau icin broncho pheumoni ia. e Hosnital, skull fracture. Methods} wa oN on E. Freeman, 8i, at 3103 Broadde Iimote ot, po ® myocarditis
Hospital, 4 2sphyxiation at 446 N. ward Carska on, 70, at anteriosclerosis., rer, 82, i 3245 N. (Building Permits, Page 18)
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Here are pictured two cardboard models of low-cost houses developed by the Purdue Housing Research Project for the State Planning
Board in ‘an effort to solve the slum problem,
They were displayed
yesterday by Frank Watson, project director, when he addressed a group
meeting in the Claypool Hotel.
has not come. It is time to do something about it. “This is purely an experiment, and should be so regarded. Whatever figures we find will be made available to all who want to inspect them; whatever house - we build will be available to all who wish to inspect it.” Lawrence Sheridan, State Planning Board consultant, pointed out that the experiment is hoped to solve the statewide problem.
HOWES DISCLOSES BIG POSTAL PROFIT
Cleared $12,000,000 Last Year, Carriers Told.
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American Road Builders’ Association, also addressed the carriers. Rep. James M. Mead, New ¥ork, House Postoffice Committee chairman, credited the Administration with numerous improvements in the postal service. He said democracy had increased in the department.
“Ten years ago a postmaster would not have been seen in employes’ groups. Today there are many postmasters who have" from the ranks,” he said.
Harllee Branch second assistant
postmaster general in charge of air mail, was to be today’s chief speaker. John A. Brennan, Parcel Post director, also was to speak. Election and installation of officers is to feature the closing session tomorrow. Mr. Howes in his address also pointed to large increases in the amount of air mail being handled. He revealed that 15,377,993 pounds of mail had been carried by plane so far this year as against 6,741,788 in 1933.
The figure for 1936 represents an
increase of 42 per cent over the same period for 1935, he said. Mr. Howes praised the work of the air mail service, stating that it was a definite encouragement to -a strong national defense. v “Air mail service gives work, and
experience to many pilots who later | §
may learn to become efficient- in the handling of bombers,” he: stated. He praised the Administration for maintaining a distinctly “open door” policy toward organization of vaFlows groups within the postal servce. “The institution of the 40-hour week in certain branches of the postal department added more than 10,000 men to the Postoffice pay roll and is a good example for private industry to follow,” he asserted. Mr. Howes touched onthe Federal relief problem, saying that while there was some criticism of the present relief system, “it is known
that those on relief do not hoard
their money.” »
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supporter than an active participant. He denied a break with Trotzky in the period after the fifteenth party congress in 1928, when it was generally bbelieved that the Zinoviev and Trotzky groups had split. “This was not true,” Zinoviev, said.
and never betrayed our alliance with his group.; We did, however, deceive the party by playing a hypocritical role, on the one hand pledging party loyalty and on the other hand fighting the party with the same weapons as Trotzky, only in a different manner. There simply existed a division of labor between us and Trotzky. “Wé were actually a branch of Trotzky’s foreign organization. What he did outside more openly, we .did ‘here secretly. We pursued
the same purposes but employed | diterets mabphod » “I admit that that Maxis and: ihe.
dividual terrorism. are § Meompatible but - the evolution of our. struggle against the party itably led to terrorism. The year 1932 appeared to Trotzky as a favorable moment for intensifying our activities. We hoped the country’s economic difficulties would grow steadily.”
“We never did break with Trotzky |
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Printing and Press Union Chiefs Protest Labor Council Action.
Ly United Press
SEATTLE, Aug. 20.—"“Responsible
| labor organizations and businesses
of Seattle” must assure a restoration of “law and order” before the Seattle Post-Intelligencer resumes publication, the newspaper’s management announced today. = The strike was called last Thursday by the Seattle chapter of the American Newspaper Guild because two members had been discharged. Seattle’s oldest daily newspaper, suspended for ven consecutive days, will not publish again until picket lines are dissolved, it was indicated. The Central Labor Council of Seattle placed the Hearst publication on its “unfair list,” and soon after the editorial workers walked
| out, approximately 500 members of
other unions, most: of them longshoremen and timber workers, were around the plant. 3
Protest Council Action
Charles P. Howard, president of the International Typographical Union, and George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union,
protested yesterday against the ac- [
tion of the Labor Council in placing the Post-Intelligencer on the “unfair list.” Mr. Berry has asked William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to require the Seattle council “to desist from its interference with members of our organization in fulfillment of their contractual obligations to the PostIntelligencer.” Mechanical workers — printers,
stereotypers, engravers and press-.
men—all members of unions having contractual relations with the newspapers, refused to go through the picket line~saying they felt it was dangerous. The newspaper then suspended: publication and has made no effort to publish since,
though the picket line has dimin- |’
ished until yesterday it comprised approximdtely 40 men. The Seattle Guild Chapter claims that 43 of the newspaper's 80 editorial workers are on strike. The newspaper places the number at 26. The Guild charges that the dis-
missed men were discharged for
Guild activities. The management denied this. Mr. Berry's request came . soon after W. V. Tanner, the publisher, rebuffed an arbitration suggestion from Mayor John F. Dore. Mr. Tanner said that “the only question involved is that of maintenance of law and order and I do not see. anything to discuss about that.”
“The strike simply simmers down
to this,” said Harvey James, gen- | e Hearst:
eral counsel on labor, for telligenpublication indefinitely until responsible labor organizations and businesses of Seattle assure that law and order will be restored, thus assuring orderly pro-
duction and delivery of our news-|
pérs. and free movement of our
mployes.”
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Rescue workers are shown in the shaft of the Esry coal berly, Mo., where they are battling fire, gas, water and a cave-in to reach four men who were trapped by fire and a cave-in Tuesday afternoon. Rescue leaders say there is a slim chance of the men being found
alive,
GARAGES LOOTED IN RAIDS ON NORTH SIDE
Burglars got loot worth $225 in a |
series of raids on. North Side garages last night, according to ‘police. Radios and other equipment were stripped from all cars. Garages entered were those of Dr. Daniel R. Tucker, 3311: CoMege-av; Abby Lehner, 2832 Park-av; and R. H. Mohr. 2821 Ruckle-st. John Blue, Y. M. C. A. resident, reported that a thief entered his room while he slept last night and took jewelry worth $130. Ray .Chalfant, another resident of the build-,
-Zutt, Central Glass Co. vice presi-
es
: line at Mo-
ing, said his wallet was stolen from his room last night.
HEAD OF GLASS RIRM ‘DEAD AT EVANSVILLE
Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 20.— Funeral services are to be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow for John C.
dent, was 70. He is survived by the widow, Elise; sons, John H. and Daniel J.,
who died yesterday. He
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Loyalist Officials Warne Germany . Will Resist ~ Halting of Ships.
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lot the rebellion) by. the Almirante
Valdez had been settled, the cruiser Liberated yesterday afternoon fired on the German steamer Kamerun outside of the Spanish coastal zone in the open sea and forced it to follow behind, and had it searched by armed soldiers. “This action against the German . steamer is a breach of the law of free shipping on the open sea. I am not disposed .to tolerate such acts of force. I have ordered naval units under my command to ans- = wer any unjustified act of force £ by your ships with force.”
Report Mexico Sends Arms to Loyalists
By United Press MEXICO CITY, Aug. 20. —More /than 30 railway car loads of war munitions are en route to the. Spanish government from Mexico City, reliable informants said toe ay
Confirmation of the destination,
to the Left Wing government of | Spain came from the Left Wing gove ernment of Mexico would be calcu= ated not only to shatter any hope
volt, but to enrage Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, leaders of the Fascist-Nazi governments of Italy and Germany. What their response might be was conjecturable. : It was learned definitely that the munitions, arms and ammunition,
two special trains yesterday. 3 They are due there today and in-
and a daughter, Elizabeth..
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