Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1937 — Page 21
TURSDAY, JULY 15,
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PRICE INDEX AND COMMODITY QUOTATIONS
DAILY PRICE INDEX
NEW YORK, July 15.—Dun & Bradstreet’s daily weighted price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (1930-1932 average equals 100):
145.75 | Year ago ..... 146.79 | 1937 high (April 5). 158.26 141.46 | 1937 low (June 21)..141.12
Yesterday Week ago Month ago
daily price index.
Commodity — Wheat, No. 2 red (bu). ..ce.... Corn, No. 2 yellow (bu.)...... Rye. No.3 ud. ...... 008 ve Oats, No. 2 white (bu.)...... ces Flour, spg. pat. (196 Ib. sk)..... Tard, prime steam spt. (Ib)... Coffee. Rio 7s spt. (1b.)......... Sugar, raw 96 test (Ib.)...... . Butter, 92 score (1b.)........... Hogs, avg. most sales (Ib.)..... Steers. ave. most sales (1b.)....
FEDERAL SHARE OF PWA COSTS IS 468 MILLION
Indiana’s Portion of U. S. Outlay Is Set at $10,000,000.
By United Pres: WASHINGTON, July Public Works Administration has expended an average of 31.56 per cent toward completion of 9286
Todav $ 1.25% ve 1.29 98 Sih 8.25 0212 091 0350 32 A175 0600
non-Federal projects throughout the | after 20 years.
[telope and no calf crop—for the
United States and its possessions, estimated to cost $2,428,322,604, according to a special report to Administrator Harold L. Ickes. Computations were based upon the Government's share of total costs incurred on projects either completed or under constructic® during the four-year period of the Public Works Administration, created by Congress June 16, 1933.
Actual costs incurred closely parallel the grant average of 30.28 per cent on non-Federal projects. To date PWA has granted $735,275,572 for its three non-Federal programs which make posible labor-creating construction estimated to cost $2,428,322,604. Reported costs incurred, as of May 31, 1937, are $1,428812,817. The government's share of the total cost incurred is $468,077,006. These actual expenditures do not include railroad loans amounting to $200,974,500, all of which has been expended to date.
Indiana Share Listed
A breakdown by states showing the costs to the Federal government for PWA construction to May 31, 1937, as prepared in the office of the chief accountant, follows:
Total Reported Costs
Share of Total Costs
Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut
Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland _....... Massachusetts .. Michgian Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada : Se New Hampshire.. New Jersey .... New Mexico .... New York ...... North Carolina . Noith Dakota ..
io Oklahoma Oregon JANN Pennsylvania ... Rhode Island ... South Carolina.. South Dakota .. Tennessee Texas Utah
62,188,878 23,429,953 32,923,846 21,631,108 51,616,287 10,784,631 29,528,852 1,964,738 5,692,847 33,745.329 4,632,679 279,106,087 18,009,865 6,016,367 62,968,644 17,885,330 15,034,960 73,350,572 15,314,658 12,952,062
Virginia . Washington webs West Virginia ... Wisconsin Wyoming he Dist. of Colum... Alaska Hawaii 365, Porto Rico ...... 749,135 Virgin Islands .. 112,732
. $1,482.812.871
329.231 111.939
Total $468.077.006
LAST TRIBUTES PAID
TO GEORGE GERSHWIN
| State College entomologist, told me
By United Press NEW YORK, July 15.—Prominent members ot the stage and musical world paid final tribute today to George Gershwin, one of America’s greatest contemporary composers. Funeral services for the man who composed “Rhapsody in Blue” and thus made jazz respectable were held at Temple Emanu-El. Simultaneously another service was held in Hollywood where Gershwin was working when he died Sunday of a brain tumor,
$40,000 FUND FOR
PLAYGROUND ASKED
The Neighborhood Council, a civic organization today requested the Park Board to seek an appropriation of $40,000 in the 1938 budget to buy a tract of land for a playground. The tract under consideration is bounded on the north by 14th St. the south by 10th St. the east by Ketchem St., and the west by Concord St.
SAFE IS LOOTED
Theft of $150 from an open safe and $28.50 from the cash register of a restaurant at 3425 E. 10th St. was reported to police today by the proprietor, Miss Thelma Kirk. She lives above the restaurant. She said someone had broken through a locked screen in the rear while she was out buying meat early today.
Following are the commodity prices used in compiling the
15. — The | i Herds of antelope and unnumered
| thousands | those fertile lands with a rollicking ‘calf to nearly every cow.
| reproduce. | mained of those countless herds {were merely shriveled hides over
Government |
1087
Commodity— Hides, native heavy
Cotton, mid upland Jan on 10S
Copper. electrolytic Lead. spot (bh...
Week Ago $ 1.27% 1.30% 95 53 8.25 1225 0914 0345 313% 1240 0610
Year Ago $ 1.08 13% J8% A 7.455 .1082 07% 0370 34 1045 .0635
Steel, scrap Chi.
Douglas Fir, rough
"Hoppers Form
Lambs, avg. most sales (Ib) .. $ Wool, fine unwashed comb. (ib.)
Silk, 13-15 deniers Jap. «(Ib.).... Rubber. spt. smk. rib Ib.) .....0
Zine, spot (Ih) ..... ... Tin, straits spot (Ib.)....
Pig Iron, fron Age comp. (ton) Coke, Connelsville (ton). ....... Cement, dom. Portland (bbl)... Yellow Pine. 6-in. base (m ft.)..
Gasoline, tank wagon (gal.).... Crude Oil. 40 gravity (bblL).....
Source of quotes—Chicago: scrap and hides. Boston: Wool. nelsville: Coke. Tulsa: Crude oil.
Year Ago $ .0935 J1% 35% .13%0 1.73% JA6% 09% 0460 0490 A3% Ady 13.25 18.84 3.50 2.55 50.00 38.00 092 1.18
Ago A175 .16 41 1285 2.00 1921 a4 060214 06624 593% 44% 16.00 23.25 4.60 2.25 60.00 52.50 095 1.27
Today 075 08 A6% 41 A279
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23.25 4.60 2.25 60.00 52.50 095
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Grains, livestock, lard, steel East St. Louis: Zine. ConNew York: All others.
Brown Coat
On Ravaged Colorado Farms
The following account of the grasshopper scourge in southeastern Colorado was written for the United Press by Harry Galbrath, a citizen of Colorado Springs who has observed the gradual deterioration uf the once fertile plains land.
= By HARRY (Copyright, 1937,
2 2 GALBRAITH by United Press)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 15.—Several years ago the now
common drouth brought affliction
and discouragement to the fertile
prairie acres of eastern Colorado. Then the endless, rolling blankets of smothering dust—and now a plague of grasshoppers to complete the destruction of vegetation in the region.
As a boy cowhand, I rode the plains country for 10 years. Year after year the knee-high grass stretched away to all horizons.
of fat cattle roamed
Yesterday, I drove out there again There were no an-
cows had not sufficient vitality to What few, cattle re-
walking skeletons. The once green prairies dotted with brilliant wild flowers are all
la brown desolation worse than a
desert—for a desert has color. No living vegetation was visible except the spiked cactus. Even the stems of plants below the surface of the ground have been destroyed. Far Worse Than Dust There is life, however, in untold billions of crawling, rustling grasshoppers. They, too, stretch away to all horizons—a smothering blanket far worse than the dust. Many of the old buffalo wallows,
| three to four feet deep in the cen-
ter, are level full of a sickening, heaving mass of insects. A few of the spring-fed water holes, bankdeep with clear, sweet water in the old days, are covered with a brown scum of grasshoppers. Some are dead, but most of them still squirming. The once grass carpeted slopes
{around the holes are hideous with
the brown death. The thing started in the rich gramma grass country of Lincoln County when a colony of migratory hoppers laid eggs near Carvel, Colo., in the fall of 1936. From that small peginning on a few acres, today more than 4000 square miles of land are infested.
Streets Covered in 1897 In recent years there have becn five epidemics of grasshoppers in eastern Colorado—1893, 1897, 1921,
1934 and 1937. One of the worst of these was in 1807 when a total of 700 square miles was ravaged. During this epidemic the streets of Colorado Springs were sO completely covered with hoppers that the fire department horses were rough shod with long calks, so they could travel through the slippery mass. The 1937 plague is at least eight times worse, though the cities have not been bothered. Around some of the weatherbeaten buildings on the homesteads the hoppers are piled to a depth of three feet—these having been killed on the roofs and walls with gasoline blow torches.
Poisoned Sawdust Used
Untold millions more have been exterminated by poisoned sawdust and bran, but in nine Colorado counties the insects still continue to
destroy all living vegetation. Sam C. McCampbell, Colorado
409,000 pounds of poison left the mixing stations today to be spread by field workers. He said 117 trucks from the National Guard, Forestry Service, State Highway Department and the Soil Conservation Service were hauling sawdust to the mixing plants, and the finished poison to the workers in the field. Many county and private trucks also are in operation in the grasshopper battle.
Situation Looking Better
“We have a full day’s supply and by tomorrow another day's ammunition will be ready,” McCampbell said. “Perhaps there will be a little reserve as some of the mixers are working night shifts. “Bach day a check is made of bran and sawdust and the sodium arsenate poison, and so far we are ahead with the situation looking very good. “There is but one disquieting
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Treasury Snickers at Would-Be Silver Burglars.
By United Press ASHINGTON, July 15.—Attention, burglars. The Treasury issued a picture today of its new shed at West Point, N. Y, where it intends to put about 70 tons of silver in dead storage. This structure will have no secret tunnels nor automatic poison gas dischargers nor flooding arrangements like the gold depository in Ft. Knox, Ky. In other words, burglars, the bullion warehouse will be comparatively easy to crack, if you're interested. It's made of concrete, with heavy, double walls, but a good charge of dynamite ought to make a hole in it. There'll be a few guards around, but nothing like the army of sharpshooters maintained at Ft. Knox. It should be possible to take care of the silver guardians. ”
O there you are, burglars. The guards are out of the way, the hole is in the wall and all you've got to do is walk in and take the silver. There'll be $900,000.000 worth of it, a big enough haul for anybody. And that, burglars, is why the Treasury is snickering at you. The haul is too gosh-awful big. It is so exceedingly big—almost 1,750,000 pounds—that nobody but the Government has the facilities to handle it.
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"TRAVELS 6710 MILES
ON TEACHING TOURS
Times Special TER R E HAUTE, July 15— Hortense Hurst, Indiana State Teachers College's itinerant home economics teacher trainer, travelled 6710 in covering her 19 counties in the southwest district during the past year. She helps school teachers with special projects, conducts county and district conferences and extends vocational guidance to high school seniors.
thought,” McCampbell told me. just received a telegram from Greeley (150 miles northwest of the | stricken area) where they have | been mixing about 35,000 pounds of | poison a day for the local, or native, hoppers. “The telegram states that the migratory variety now has reached that section.”
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947 CARELESS STATE DRIVERS LOSE LICENSES
341 More Permits Revoked In Six Months Than Last Year.
Licenses of 947 careless drivers were suspended during the first six months of this year, the State Motor Vehivle Bureau announced today. This was an increase of 341 over the number suspended during the corresponding period of 1936, it was said. Bureau officials attributed the increase to the enforcement drive being carried on in connection with Governor Townsend's safety program. More than 700 drunken drivers had their licenses suspended. Other suspensions were for reckless driving and speeding. 26 Denied Licenses
Twenty-six applications were denied this year, as compared with 12 last year. Fifteen surrendered their licenses voluntarily due to physical disabilities. A law passed by the Indiana Legislature at its last session provides: “1. An operator’s or chauffeur's license shall not be issued to any person under 18, and a public passenger chauffeur’s license shall not be issued to anyone under 21. “2 No license can be issued to anyone whose license has been suspended, and no license can be issued to anyone whose license has been revoked until the revocation period has expired. “3. No license can be issued to an habitual drunkard, drug addict, feeble-minded, epileptic or insane person, one suffering from a physical or mental disability which will prevent him from exercising reasonable control over a vehicle or one who can not understand highway warnings or direction signs.”
G-MEN INVESTIGATE DOWNSTATE KILLING
Seek Suspect Charged With Unlawful Flight.
Federal and State officials today probed events leading to the killing of Clarence Amster, New Albany (businessman, in a Jeffersonville tav-
ern. | ‘Governor Townsend has ordered ‘an investigation of alleged gambling activities in Clark County. Harold H. Reinecke, Indianapolis G-Man chief, and his men are investigating possible violation of the Federal law prohibiting flight across a state line by a person charged with murder. Joseph Clark, Jeffersonville, is sought in connection with the slaying. Mr. Reinecke said a Federal warrant charging him with unlawful flight had been issued. Mr. Amster was slain recently in a bar operated by Walter Maddox. Authorities have charged a gambling war led to the killing.
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Jinx Again Foil Bridge Work
Nine Months Hard Luck Climaxes in Washout When Concrete Is Poured.
s Shelby St. as Stream Rises
~~ By WILLIAM FORTUNE The best thing City Engineer Henry Steeg could say for the Shelby St.
bridge over Pleasant Run today was:
Mr. Steeg is supervising the construction of the new bridge work, .
commenced last October.
“It’s jinx.”
From that day until now the new bridge has given the engineer
nothing but headaches, fits of in-
digestion and nightmares, he said. To begin with, the City first thought money could be saved by | repairing the old bridge. Workers | spent a month trying to make it serviceable, but found that it was like “patching an old pair of socks,” Mr. Steeg said.
Funds Granted
Then the City sought funds for the construction of a new bridge. Money finally was obtained from the WPA and the Works Board,
the former furnishing $75,000 in labor and materials and the latter $25,000. Work had not progressed far when a shortage of labor occurred as officials tried to maintain the prevailing wage scale rules set by the WPA. A bricklayer can make only so much, the rules said, so when he makes that much he must cease work. At the same time, the WPA office in Washington announced its | policy of reducing the relief roils.
Ready for Concrete
Mr. Steeg then got the additional workers needed and everything was progressing smoothly until workers were ready to pour concrete into the foundations a week ago Monday. The rains struck this time, and mud poured into the moulds instead of concrete. They were ready toc pour again last week-end and had scheduled 60 hours of steady work for this, but again the rains fell, the heavens shook and work stopped. The skies were fair and all hands ready at 4 p. m. Tuesday afternoon to commence the long, arduous race with the elements. Mr. Steeg gave the order, “Pour.” Hours passed with only the ripple of the stream and the slush of the concrete and the voices of the workingmen to break the silence of the night. |
Stream Overtlowed
But slowly the muddy water be- | gan to mount. It was not raining, | but rains in the East were filling the stream. Soon the water had overflowed the foundations. At 3 a. m. Mr. Steeg called to his battalions to “cease firing.” We gave up the fight,” he said. Now workers are trying to level off the angles in the concrete | caused by the swirling waters so | that they will have a flat surface to work on in case Mr. Steeg again orders, “Pour.”
COUNTY'S BANKERS ARE TO HOLD PARTY
The Marion County Bankers’ Association is to hold its annual party and election of officers tonight at 6:30 p. m. at the Athenaeum. Robert Smith, Merchants National Bank, is chairman of the entertainment committee. This year’s association president is Robert Hoffman, head of the New Augusta State Bank.
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CITY SETS 6-MONTH CONVENTION RECORD
171 Sessions Bring 62,182 Here Since Jan. 1.
All records for convention atin Indianapolis were
broken during the first six months of 1937 when 62,182 delegates and visitors attended 171 conventions, according to Henry T. Davis, Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau manager, Mr. Davis said this was the largest number during any six months’ period since the Convention Bureau was established in 1924. Fifty were national or regional conventions, 121 were state sessions. Heading the list were the National Conference of Social Work, Kiwanis International and National Federation of Music Clubs. The Young Democrats of America, booked for Aug. 19-21, will be the biggest convention of the summer, according to Mr. Davis. About 8000 delegates and visitors are expected. In September, the triennial meeting of the Grand Chapter, Order of Eastern Star is to be held here, and Dec. 27 to Jan. 1, the American Associatibn for Advancement of Science and 25 affiliated scientific organizations are to convene.
SECRETARY OF STATE COLLECTIONS RISE
Reports of the Secretary of State’s office today showed an increase in receipts of $64,332.89 for the fiscal year ending June 30 over the previous fiscal year. Secretary of State August G. Mueller said receipts of his department for the year ending June 30 totaled $175,009.18, compared to $110,676.29 for the year previous. Receipts include fees from corporations, notaries public, warrants on requisition, trade marks, fertilizer licenses, certified copies, domestic reports, foreign reports, court reports, lobby licenses, acts, detective licenses, railroad police and car equipment.
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‘BUDGET FUNDS
ARE RESULT OF RECENT RAINS
City Sewage Workers Now Can Be Put on 40-Hour Week.
Recent rains not only have benefited the farmers and cooled the general populace, but also have aided Street Commissioner Fred K. Eisenhut in obtaining long-sought budget funds. The State Tax Board yesterday granted an emergency appropriation of $4500 to the commissioner, This will enable hi mto hire his sewage workers on a 40-hour week basis, instead of on a 32-hour week schedule, it was said.
Last year the State Tax Board ruled that a 32-hour week was sufficient to care for sewers during heavy rains and allowed reductions in the department's budget. But heavy rains over the week changed the minds of some of the board members, it .was reported.
‘Can’t Predict Rain’
Until yesterday, Mr. Eisenhut said the department was forced to go without sewer workers three days of the week, Friday through Sunday, in order to comply with the 32-hour week provided for in the regular budget appropriation. “You can’t predict the rainfalls,” he said today, explaining the need for additional funds.
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said, to answer calls to clear out stoppages in the inlets. Sometimes they have to go down into the ground to find the trouble. At other times the accumulation of water in the streets is so bad that educators, of which there are four in the department, have to be used. These pump the water into & tank mounted on a truck, and this excess water then is transported to other sewers that are not overs loaded.
STATE FOREST FIRE LOSS DROPS IN YEAR
A 60 per cent reduction in forest fire loss in Indiana was announced today by Virgil M. Simmons, Conservation Department Commissioner. Losses in the first six months of 1937 totaled $8653 compared with $20,330 during the same period last year. A total of 57 fires were reported during the 1937 period, burn« ing over T14 acres.
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