Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1937 — Page 9

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tainment. David C. Pyke, high priest, is to be

THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937

UTILITY WANTS Welfare Leaders to Convene Here

RIGHT TOFURNISH [IP Edd GAS TO 4 TOWNS

vey in an article published today ni

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES the Indiana Employment Review.

FACTORY OFFICE |=: nism mor”

clude George Schrieber, Ralph K. § same period, his survey disclosed, | factory wages advanced from $22.57 { {| L. Harrod, Russell J. Ryan, Fermor Indiana Employment Report puted from reports of 569 firms em- Master Marshall Springer, John C. Hobson Degrees to Be

Substitution of Natural Fuel

| toastmaster. Speakers are to in=vanced from $27.46 a week in Februp lary last year to $28.71 a week in | | Smith, Frank G. Laird, Ralph I, | $26.25. |S. Cannon, Fred R. Clark, Lewis F, ploying 8724 persons. |and Charles F. McCormack. Shows Wage Gains |

oas | clude George M. Spiegel, past high | priest, and Harry E. Vernon, Goshen, February this year. During the | The reception committee is to inTHAN WORKER | Routzahn, Arthur L. Ballinger, C, Office workers’ wages were com- | | Malcolm, Walter J. Twiname, A. Mark and Past The 402 office workers in 18 of Reservations are to be accepted

Would Save Consumers $33.300, Claim.

The Public Service Co. of Northern Indiana today filed a petition with the Public Service Commission asking permission to service Frankfort, Lebanon, Ulen and Mechanicsburg with natural gas. The company says in its petition that consumers in those communities will be saved approximately $33,300 annually by substitution of natural for artificial gas. A comparative schedule of rates was not given, but the company said natural gas could be supplied for 23 cents a 100 for the first 800 cubic feet, 10 cents a 100 for the next 1200 and 7 cents a 100 for the next 3000.

CONSIDER CHANGING RELIEF HOUSE RENT

An Indianapolis Real Estate Board Property Management Division committee today was consid-

here May 23 to 29.

held here. 1916.

An estimated 10,000 welfare leaders in the United States and Canada, and delegates from several European nations, are expected to attend the 64th annual National Conference of Social Work meeting

It will be the third time the confeernce has been It convened here in 1891 and again in

Arrangements are being completed by a commit tee headed by Hugh McK Landon. National con-

(left to right):

—Times Photo.

ference leaders, here to further the plans, included

Howard S. Knight, Columbus, O,,

National Conference of Social Work executive secretary; Raymond F. Clapp, Indianapolis Community

Fund manager and a vice chairman of the local con-

ference committee; Miss Jane Chandler, Columbus, O., assistant to Mr. Knight; Mr. Landon, civic and

welfare leader, and C. C. Ridge, assistant manager of

the Community committee.

Fund and secretary of the local

PUPIL DEBATE CHIEF FOR COUNTY NAMED

Un United Press

ing a readjustment of rates on houses rented by township trustees for people on relief. At a luncheon meeting in the Hotel Washington yesterday, the division adopted rule changes which provide that nothing less than one month's rent could be accepted. | BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. March 18. Changes made at the meeting | © ©. Shoemaker. Shortridge High raise the key deposit from 25 to 50 |guhool, Indianapolis, has been cents, provide that door screens will | not be provided for houses renting | for $20 a month or less and shades | will not be furnished for houses | renting for less than $25 a month. = . ta % . Tenants will be required to leave | Bittner is in charge property free from trash and ashes| The county meets are scheduled upon vacating | tomorrow and district meets March

ho SPI | 26 to April 2. Winners of the disGENERAL TIRE PLANT | trict meets will meet at Indiana OPENED AT WABASH

Indiana University. Mrs. Adela

champion high school orator will be selected.

| University April 16 when Indiana’s — “Government

Ownership 2 . | Operation of Electric Utilities” is WABASH, March 18.—Production | the subject for discussion.

ACTION IS RUSHED

By United Press

of a wide variety of rubber products | for the automobile refrigeration industries has been launched at the

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ber Co. here. | o The tire concern recently acquired | p, rrnited Press he factory site from the Service| Motor Truck Co. and | WASHINGTON, eral months in remodeling the! plant and installing new machinery. | Tires will not be manufactured at | the local plant, according to present plans, company officials said.

new mechanical rubber goods fac- | | tory of the General Tire and Rub- | ON NEUTRALITY BILL

tion on the McReynolds Neutrality Bill designed to keep America out of war through restrictions on trade with warring nations.

| Vsuent up for possible amendment

URGES WHOLESOME | breasly "for possible am ACTIVITY FOR BOYS

ready approved by the Senate might result in a move for a one-year extension of the present temporary Neutrality Act.

NATURE CLUB TO MEET

Boys should be allowed uncurbed | liberties to follow any wholesome | activity, Dean Lewis H. Dirks, De | Pauw University, said in an address at a Ladies’ Day program of the Kiwanis Club in the Columbia Club vesterday. He said that to permit a boy to follow his own desires, if wholesome, enables him to develop originality, resourcefulness, imagination and aggressiveness,

the Children's Museum, Meridian St.

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Men of the Mounds.”

it was learned that sharp differences be- | tween it and the Pittman bill a!- |

named Marion County chairman of | the 24th annual State High Schoo! | Discussion League contest sponsored |

SWINE LABORATORY T0 BE ESTABLISHED

Indiana to Participate in Regional Research. |

By United Press

| methods. and |

| ating unit and headquarters for a

through the application of breeding | |

The laboratory will be a co-ordin- |

| regional program in which the Corn | | Belt states experiment stations are

| to participate.

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t March 18.—The | oo : spent sev- | pouse moved today toward final ac- | Oni0, Oklahoma, South Dakota and

States which have approved the | program in co-operation with the laboratory are Iowa, Illinois, IndiKansas, Michigan, Missouri, | Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, |

| Wisconsin. |

As the controversial measure was |

EX-CONVICT IS HELD ON CHECK CHARGE

By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind, March 18.— Police held today for authorities of other cities French Melville Hoback, | 27, a former Indianapolis convict |

! Navy

NAVY ASKS BIDS FOR BUILDING BATTLESHIP

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ed Press WASHINGTON, March 18—Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson has sent out calls for bids from private ship yards for the construction of a 35,000-ton battleship. The bids will be opened at the Navy Department June 2, and construction is expected to begin about July 1. The bids are for one of the two new capital ships that will be constructed under the 1937 building program. The other ship is expected to be constructed in a Navy yard. This is the first time in more than 20 years that a Secretary of the has sent out advertisements for bids for battleship construction. The Washington Naval Treaty in

| 1922 halted battleship construction,

and no new ships have been started since then. The new ships are ex-

| pected to cost approximately $50,-

000,000.

LA GUARDIA-HITLER DISPUTE OVER, HOPE

By United Press

WASHINGTON, March 18.—State

| Department officials today expressed | hope that they have seen and heard the last of the Mayor La Guardia-

Chancellor Hitler affair of unpleasant words. They pointed

to Secretary of

| whom they arrested last night after | State Cordell Hull's rebuke to all

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he is alleged to have tried to cash | two worthless checks for $1015. | Hoback told police he had cashed

The Indiana Nature Study Club large fraudulent checks in Ander- | is to meet at 8 p. m, Saturday in| son, Ind, Cleveland, and Decatur, | N.| lll, they said, and that Mrs. Hugh H. Hanna | served a term in the Federal prison | would be to the best interests of is to lead a dicussion on “The Old! at Chillicothe, O., for violating the | both countries if the affair were ‘ Mann Act.

he had

parties concerned in the controversy—urging them to “find other subjects which can be discussed more temperately’’—as indication that Mr. Hull would be glad to drop the whole matter. Mr. Hull said it

ended forthwith,

More than 200 attended the

luncheon. Roy Bair, president, prasided.

MEXICAN JOB BILL GOES TO SENATE

By United Press WASHINGTON, March 18.--The House has sent to the Senate the | William T. Schulte (R. Ind.) bill to prevent habitual commuting of | Mexican and Canadian workers into this country. Before passage, the House struck out a section which would have appiied the prohibition to United States citizens residing across the | borders but working in this country. |

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The average weekly wage paid by | Indiana manufacturers to office | employees increased 4.6 per cent during the 12 months ending Feb. | 15, 1937, as compared to a gain of | 163 per cent for factory workers, | according to Calvin F. Davis, In- | diana State Employment Service statistician. He revealed the findings of a sur-

| Indiana's transportation equipment | manufacturing plants were the i highest paid group of those studied. {| The average weekly wage was $32.38, an increase of 12.5 per cent over a year ago, when it was $28.77. Iron and steel was found to be paying the next highest average wage for office workers, the rate being $31.65. All of the lines mentioned showed they had increased the number of office workers and the total payroll during the 12-month period, Mr. Davis’ survey disclosed. Nonferrous metals group made the greatest!

Conferred.

The annual inspection of Oriental Chapter 147, Royal Arch Masons, is to be conducted at 4 p. m. Saturday at the lodge hall, Central Ave. and 22d St. Herbert A. Graham, grand lecturer for the grand chapter of Indiana, is to be in charge. All grand chapter officers are to attend the ceremony, a feature of which is to be the conferring of mark master and past master degrees. A dinner is to be held in the lodge

percentage gains.

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Now, As Always,

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Our selection includes glen plaids, overplaids, windowpane sharkskins, birds-eyes, the newest checks, stripes, twists, cheviots ... all loomed of 100% virgin wool by the country’s leading mills, all tailored in our own famous shops, all sold in our own stores, from our factory to you without middleman'’s profit.

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ARSONIST IS SENTENCED By United Press MADISON, Ind., March 18.—Lue {cian Hughes, 31, today was under | sentence of one to three years at | Indiana State Prison after pleading guilty to arson in Jefferson Circuit | Court.

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