Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1936 — Page 1
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37 AUTO SHOW IS T0 REFLECT BUSINESS RISE
All Space Taken for New Car Display Opening Here Tomorrow.
RECORD SALES SEEN
Exhibits Will Add New Chapter to History of Industry in State.
BY JOE COLLIER The Indiana automobile sales and service industry, accounting for the economic support of perhaps 200,000 persons in the state, opens its annual show tomorrow noon in the Manufacturer's Building, Indiana State Fairground. All space has been sold. The cars are in place. The building has been decorated in graduated colors with a streamlined motif. More space could have been sold—if there had been more space. Thus the business enters the show with high hopes of a smash attendance and impressive sales.
, Sales on Increase
Indianapolis and state auto dealers believe the depression, at least for the auto Industry, is over. Their sales graphs are climbing and they have left, they say, the blue years just past for good. They, and others—call the industry brave and daring and say that in the teeth of economic gloom and despair, the manufacturers spent money. to produce better cars for less money. :In 1924 a certain make of car, which was so much the flash of the industry that the Prince of Wales ordered one to ride about in when he visited here, sold for $1795. For less than a third of that, company men will tell you, another car built by the same company today is better, safer, roomier and sounder. So it is with other lines. Indianapolis Automotive Trades Association sales records go back only as far as 1923, but a study of them will give you an idea of how big the business is; how hard it was touched by the depression; how gallantly it Samd back. Dassenger In Septem new cars numbering 653% were sold In Indiana; 1039 in Marion County. In September, 1936, the total reached 8195 new passenger cars sold in Indiana; 1222 High Reached in 1929 Highest in’ between was in September, 1929, when 16,177 were sold in Indiana; 2043 in Marion County. Lowest was in 1931, when. but 4063 . were sold in Indiana; 772 in Marion County. The most depressed sales month of the depression was in November, 1932, when state sales amounted to only 819; Marion County to only 171. Yearly sales for since 1928 gre:
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10.504 . 15,288 There are ‘local dealers who predict that sales records this year will be even greater than for 1929 in the state and county. But the depression was not the only frustration in the history of this great industry. The barest kind of a story of its beginnings must contain details of some of its reverses at the hands of unbelievers, fate, prejudice and bankers. Here's a go for it. ‘Indiana was the spark plug of the auto industry during its infancy. The first successful automobile in America was built by Elwood Haynes at Kokomo, Ind., and thereafter the industry centered in Indianapqglis for years. "Started Back in 1760
But the beginnings of the automobile go back to 1760 and 1770 in France, when Capt. Nickolas Cugnot
PREDICT FAIR AND WARMER TOMORROW
HOURLY “TEMPERATURES
RES - §ers
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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 212
‘Miracle’ Baby or Not, Mate’s Faith Is Firm
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(Copyright, 1836, by United Press)
PEARL RIVER, La., Nov. 13. —The parish physician comes here today to establish whether a big black dog came trotting out of the pine forest with" a baby for Mrs. Louis Crawford or she gave birth to the baby herself —surreptitious= ly, to deceive her husband. Residents of the one-room shanties in the scrub pine forests—all poor in the extreme, many illiterate and superstitious—refused to believe her confession of motherhood. To most of them, the infant still was a miraculous babe brought out of the woods by a kindly dog, and Mrs. Crawford had concocted her story to regain possession of it. But Mrs. Crawford insisted grimly that the “shame” was on her. In the presence of her young husband, she named the child’s father, described its birth “out behind the woodshed,” and insisted she wanted her baby back from the authorities who had taken it to a New Orleans hospital. The husband’s grimy, lined face was a mask of misery. He shook his shaggy head and his gdrawling voice boomed: “That's all right, honey. I'll stick by yuh through hell and high water.”
FUND REACHES $402,300 MARK
Four Days. Remain to Raise $342,700 Needed to Reach Goal.
Still short of their $745,742 goal by $342,795.26, Community Fund campaign workers were to meet at the Caypool Hotel today noon to give their fifth report. Yesterday's report of $97,548.57 in néw pledges brought the total to date to $402,946.74. The campaign is to end Monday. Increases over last year's pledges
ery Electric Co., Rink’'s Store, Inc.; Miller's and American Hosiery "Mills, Indiana Lumbermen’s Mutual Insurance Co., Rough Notes Co., Ins! § Reséarch and Review Service, Lieber Brewing Corp. Wadley Co. Among large gifts announced yesterday were Henry Holt, $1200; Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc., including executives, $6325; Star Publishing Co., $3500; Citizens Gas and Coke Utility Co., $8500; Mrs. Elizabeth C. Marmon, ' $5000; Peter C. Reilly, $3600; Indianapolis. News, $5000; Cooling-Grumme-Mumford Co., and Indiana Insurance Co. and executives, $1053; Banner-Whitehill Co., $1400; W. J. Holliday & Co., $1000; Hook Drug Co. $1000; Indianapolis Life Insurance Co., $1000; Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Marmon, $1000; F. W. Woolworth Co., $540; Shell Petroleum Oo., $500.
JUSTICE BRANDEIS IS 80 YEARS OLD TODAY
(Another Article, Page 25; Editorial, Page 26) ab
By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. —Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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WELFARE FUND UNDER ATTACK
IN TAX HEARING
Book Seeks Red Reductions in Children’s Assistance and Pensions.
CONSERVATIVE, IS REPLY
County Disputes Assertion improved Conditions Will Lessen Burden.
The welfare department budget, largely Tesponsivie for the 6-cent levy increase in the proposed 44cent tax rate, was discussed at a State Tax Board hearing today. Declaring the welfare estimates were conservative,'I. C. Spencer, assistant county welfare director, said: “We do not want to be a party to any bond issue to finance this progranr. We "have. an honest budget that is not padded, and we are not going to ask for any more.” The . department, through - Joel Baker, director, has asked an’ appropriation of $852,984 for children’s assistance and $1,092,000 for old-age pensions. Only part of those appropriations are, to be raised by county property tax. The rest is to be furnished by the state and Federal governments.
The children’s assistance would provide $18 a month for mothers who are to be taken off other relief rolls and put back in their homes, it was explained.
Book Seeks Reductions
William Bock, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, asked that this figure be réduced to $15 a month, and that the old-age appropriation he reduced to $900,000. ‘The business upturn which the city is experiencing should bring a decline in the number of cases asking for aid, he said. This can be anticipated in the - budget, he added. Taking "exception to Mr. Book's
statement, Mr. Spencer said the opposite was true. bring an increase, he claimed.
Winter - would As fixed in Mr. Bakers: budget, old-age appropr er Jo
le average
en civil city a is sided to be reviewed this afternoon, and hearing on the school city estimate is to. be held: tomorrow morning. The 1937 tax rate for Indianapolis residents living in Center Township has been fixed by the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board at $3.01 on each $100 of taxable property. The total current rate is $2.78. Appeals from the county tax a: decision were - taken to the state board hy two groups of taxpayers under leadership -of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Taxpayers Association.
COLLEGE-AV PAVING PROJECT APPROVED
The Works Board today approved paving of College-av from 34th to 38th-sts at a cost of $30,000. Henry B. Steeg, city engineer, promised a delegation that truck trafic would be routed off Collegeav on to Keystone-av as soon as work on the latter is completed about Jan. 1. The board approved widening of Meridian-st from the Vermont-st intersection 275 feet north, and the widening of Vermont-st from the Mgetidian-s Intersection 127 feet
PARALYSIS CLOSES INDIA SCHOOL
By. United Pecss. T
N 0 Change in |p Welfare Act,
F.D.R. Says
By United Press < WASHINGTON, Nov. 13— President” Roosevelt said today that his Administration planned no important changes in the social security - program, strongly intimating he would militantly oppose any attempt by Srganized labor or business in to shunt old-age De terssts taxes shared jointly by employers
and employes to the employers
alone. President Roosevelt's déclaration against any change in the ambitious security system came only .a few days before the American Federation of Labor considers at its Tampa (Fla. convention next week a proposal to ask Congress to make business the full brunt of the old-age pay roll tax, =
By United Press TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 13 —Presi-
dent William "Green prepared.
for an epochal American Fed-
PHONE CALLS
b a duns the day.
Humphies, -+4ing of W. yesterday was:s case of murder and: at- " icide.
eration of Labor convention today with a ringing declaration that the John L. Lewis rebellion would collapse and the A. F. of L. would “step in and.do the job” of unionizing America’s unorganized workers.
DELIGHT KING
Edward Has Private Line for Conversations With Mrs. Simpson.
By United Press LONDON, - Nov. :13—Two big mo- | ments in King Edward's day occur when he picks up a private line telephone ‘and talks to Mrs. Wallis Simpson, it was learned today. He makes the first call between 10 a. m. and noon, the second in the ‘évening after dinner. The postdinner call sometimes lasts€or nearly half an hour. . The post-dinner call is not made when the King dines with Mrs. Simpson, which is several. times a week; but there are odd-times calls
Friends: he ihe King, who favor
switéhboards, 50 that no chanag that a volunteer Lhe
in will hear anything.
LATEST -CLEW TO BRADY GANG FADES |
The latest clew to ‘lew to whereabouts of the fugitive Al Brady and his twe henchmen, that they were coming| to Indianapolis from Columbus, Ind.. proved false, Sheriff Ray and state police reported today. They received reports last night that Brady, who fled the Greenfield (Ind. jail with his two - panions “several weeks agq James Dalhover,- hocompanied ad two girls, were driving here a a coupe bearing a Michigan license Col. Mark O. lichisan superintendent of New. Jersey police, par years today there apparently was no con- | nection between the kidnapers of State Trooper William A. Jussibul |! and the prisoners who escaped a month 280 from the ‘Greenfisld (Ind.) Jadl. :
VERDICT OF MURDER - "HINTED BY CORONER
Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., Nov. 13_ Deputy Coroner S. F. Towner said believed the Seadth of Mrs. 5. 50d derions | Th nd gerions.
the battle, asserted that six vebel planes were brought down and two loyalist planes were lost.
| Great Montana barracks, in west Madrid, “it;
general loyalist offensive was started at dawn today along the entire | Madrid front, and that the battle was progressing favorably to the loyalist.
ad to.be striking at the rebels along their lines of communication south of Madrid.
inspired loyalist troops moved on the offensive, Madrid was electrified by the air battle. There had been other meetings between loyalist and rebel single planes about Madrid. But this was a battle of the air, in which 1,500,000 people watched two war fleets fight over the shellscarred streets of a world capital.
terrible picture of the ‘war of the twentieth’ century.
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First Encounter of Kind Over
World Capital in History, Is. Claim.
Phantom’ Column of Toval: ists Reported. . Battling ‘Rebels South of City.
(Copyright, 1936, by United Press) MADRID, Nov. 13.— Rebel and loyalist airplanes fought a battle in the air over Madrid today, the first of ‘its sort in history over a world capital, and the loyalists claimed a resounding . victory. An official bulletin, announcing
One rebel plane fell near the
was “asserted, and. another near the- ‘Vallecas bridge south: of the city: ~ The same bulletin announced a
Simultaneously, a “phantom” column of loyalists from Valencia was
But for the moment, as- the newly
It lasted half an hour, a beautiful,
British Program ram for i: War Drafted ;
LONDON, Nov. 13.—Prime
Halian-Russian. | Relations | Strained Over Spain
LONDON, ' Nov. 13. —Diplomati relations between Italy tidied Russia. were strained . tos
furious denunciation” bf each ‘oth- [With 325 fast. er's activities in the ‘Spanish civil #3
War. The recriminations: were expressed in violent remarks made before a
WAYFLLIT POST =
The ‘possible sppeininent of Ote<p cuit Judge A. J. Stevenson, Hendricks County Democrat, as attorney | the
| $500,000 - {EIGHT SHIPS [DOWNED
$43,860, 000 IN
Bankers Encouraged, Recall
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PRICE THREE CENTS
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SHARE
AS YULE SEASON NEAR
in "on. Christmas Savings Checks Will | Swell Total Here.
IN. NATION
Slump Nearly Wrecked Thrift Plan.
Approximately $500,000 is
to be available for Indianapolis Christmas shoppers after Christmas Savings Club checks are mailed the last of the month, bankers estimated today.
‘The $500,000 to be received by In-
dianapolis residents is to be part of approximately $43,860,000 the Indiana State estimates will be mailed to mere than 1,000,000 persons throughout the nation.
Bankers Association
Encouraged by increases in the
number of savings accounts this
year, rs are planning cam- . increase club enrollments ‘for 1987, they said. Next year’s ac-
counts are to open Dec. 1.
“More checks for more money are
to be mailed than have been issued at any time during the last five years, bankers here said.
Average Check for $41 The average individual check is
to be for approximately $41.
the field in Indianapolis
is the Fletcher Trust Co. with approximately 8000 ‘club members who are to receive more than $300,000. This represents an increase of Spproximately $60,500 over last according to
year, Ainis- | company ry. ney AL the, Ep Trust Co. 1600
. A. Buennagel,
are to feceive approximate-
year about. 1000 depositors revel {J Vi | ¥50,000,
At the Union Trust Co. deposits
ma uit the 10 $31,000... M $14,500
- DESPITE ILL HEALTH
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Bu United Press - -.VATICAN CITY, Nov. 13 ~—Pope Pius XI, despite his failing health, ‘insisted on continuing his duties to-
CASS His. has soins. Gifficuty: ii was carried into the “Hall on a papal throne addressed 3000 tes to the
Congress of the Missionary Union of
Fe POAT takia toe meaty an
e | on missionary opus in low and Masfating veite,
EX-CONVICTS HELD
IN INDIANA. THEFTS
SALES ABROAD OF U.S. STOCK HELD MENACE
Roosevelt Sees Threat to Stable Currency; Hints at Legislation.
(Editorial, Page 26)
By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—President Roosevelt said today studies had been undertaken by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles and Securities and Exchange Chairman James Landis with a view to ‘legislate to regulate foreign purchases of American securities on this nation's stock exchanges. Mr Roosevelt said he regarded present huge purchases of American securities by foreign buyers as a potential threat to stabilization of currencies and said he believed legislation was necessary to control the situation. The danger, he indicated, would become immediate should the foreign. holders suddenly decide to dump their securities on the market. The President did not state what type of legislation he believed necessary, characterizing the Administration's present position as still in the “stu 23 stage. The President characterized the foreign security holdings as akin to “hot '—in that, by sudden selling the foreign holders could influence materially currency relationships as well as domestic values.
He said that present gold export the
tended to control the sit-
Increases Affect Wor From Coast to Coast, ‘Survey Shows.
MANY
GET BONUSES
Extra Dividends Declared ir Last Seven Days Top $160,000,000.
(Copyright, 1936, -by United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 13.—More than a million dollars # n “raises” —first of $130,00 0,5 000 they will get in the ‘next 12 months—will shower the pockets of America’s dustrial workers tomorro
pay day. A United Press survey showed {0s day that wage and salary increas announced in the last 16 days add $130,000,000 in one year to income of more than 1,000,000 mé and women in factories, stores an business institutions {from coast
announced as a means of higher living costs. The move IY started Oct. 28, leaped suddenly er the general election Nov. 3, showed no signs today of halting 1 it had swept the ' nation. Ele large companies ann@unced increases yesterday alone. Swelling the regular income be at least $25,000,000 in C : bonuses and special paym Thousands of workers will sh too; in the extra stock dividends ¢ clared by the owners to avoid p alties from ‘the undivided profi tax, Extra, dividends announced |
regulations GER As TE uation but that this did not afford
" BRANH 1S is HINTED
"The Indiana Bell Telephone Co. today was reported considering conslruction of a new exchange, to be known as “Broadway,” at 59th-st and. Colicge-ay,
of the city and
The officials, however, would not
confirm reports that tenants of |
property on which the new exchange may be built had been given removal notices. Nor would officials confirm the report that plans and specifications for the building ‘are being prepared by the company’s engineering department. . It was reported that the new exchange, a dial system, may take Soue of ‘the load from the Hemlock
WATCHOUT--TTIS " FRIDKY THIRTEENTH
“He Prot he pd rns no. decision yet gs t0 whether: he
d{ “The new project is being consid- | ~~ ered at this time due to the rapid 3 easeq one development . that area,” company officials said. is an increase of about 100 accounts
and represents $2500 more in sav- | ings, he said.
) POPE PIUS SPEAKS.
va Increases: or 10. were announced by: United 8
ing independent companies foll suit. The steel boosts affected than 500,000 workers and iny
The Chrysler Corp. announc $4,000,000 bonus for employes; eral Motors announced a 5-¢i an-hour increase for 200,000 we amounting €o $20.000,000 a yea addigion to.a bonus of $10,000,0
Corporation of America of a 10 per cent increase to its employes, adding about $900.0 the pay roll. The American Wi Co. gave increases of 10 per c 15,000 workers and other New Jand mills took similar action.
HIGH COURT PONDER ~ PRICE-FIXING Ci
By United Press
Sonsteuticnnity of the ios B8 Tradé Practices Act, involving gt tons of price fixing which &