Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1937 — Page 13

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TUESDAY, AUG. 81, 1987

¢ MONDAY, AUG. 30, 1937

"SEPTEMBER JOB RISE PREDICTED THROUGH STATE

Month Is Normally One of

Best, Employment Bureau Head Declares.

Indiana swings into September |

with the optimistic knowledge that |

of several industries. Employment | in theaters moves sharply upward during September and registers a | normal total gain of 27.6 per cent! from July, the year’s low. Confec- | tioneries usually add to the number | of their employees by about 20 per | cent during September, while the | Ice cream, ice, and beverage plants | continue the downward curve they

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Veteran Awaits ‘37 State Fair

Silas Johnson gives a pointer on early Indianapolis.

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Silas Johnson Recalls First Exhibits Under ‘Rag Houses’

By JOE COLLIER Silas M. Johnson scored in the bright savings of children department in 1854 when got his first view of the first Indiana State Fair flected in the employment curves | set up under tents in what is now University Park. The team shied as the wind waved the canvas and 6-year-old Silas

“Look at all the rag houses.” Well, they were right, and the Fair itself was pretty ragged compared with that which | opens Sept. 4 here. Mr. Johnson, | now 89, has visited every State Fair

rag houses all ®

{and filling stations and things. He

was 70 then.

He said he would go to the State

! Fair this year and has bought 12 | tickets for that purpose. | since that first one, except one held | first to the cattle barn, next to the

He'll go

| and next to the heavy horse barn. | When he gets tired he'll sit down. He expects to attend Tuesday, | Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. | That'll be enough of it, he said. He'll look in on the machine ex- | hibits, too, he said. As a matter of | fact, he was the first man on the | North Side to own a mechanical | binder, and, although the experi- | ence turned out all right, it gave him some bad moments early one | harvest morning. “I bought one,” he said, “and there was an expert supposed to | come around and show me how to | work it. But the wheat was ripe | for cutting and he hadn't come. | “I had a man working with me, | and he had about as much sense in

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those days as I did. I told him one morning we were going to hitch up the horses to that thing and do our best. “That was in 1875 and I knew nothing about that machine. But we hitched up, let down a section of rail fence and drove it in the field. He said since it was my machine I had better climb in the drivers’ seat, and I did. “I started the horses going and the thing wabbled all over, but it worked. I looked back and saw it was binding the wheat all right, and I kept right on going for a square or so, “Then I stopped it and we went along and inspected the bundles and found they were tired tight enough and I climbed back on and cut wheat until 10 o'clock. The experi showed up and told me to keep on like I'd been, but to use plenty of oil.” Mr. Johnson said his farm extended from 46th St. to 49th St. and from the Monon Railroad to Central Ave. He said when he was a boy and drove to town, the first sign of a city on Central Ave. was at 10th St. where were situated the suburban homes of Robert Duncan and Thomas Morris, each centered in a square of lawn. Until Fair time, Mr. Johnson is preoccupied with an argument he

got in a while back with some other

old settlers in an outing at Broad | Ripple Park. | Mr. Johnson claims the first Court '

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HUNT BIG CORN EAR | FOR FAIR BARN RITES

should be sent to Wallace O. Lee, | committee executive secretary, or to! Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker’s of- | fice. |

Sts. thought differently. He has drawn a chart with red crayon on the cement driveway into | his own garage to prove his conten- | tion. You can see it there any day | it isn’t raining.

Some others |

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KIRKLAND CASE DEFENSE MADE

Klinger Authorized to Sign Release, State Welfare Director Says.

The parole of Virgil Kirkland was approved personally by State Welfare Director Thurman A. Gottschalk and not by John H. Klinger. Division of Corrections director in the State Welfare Department, it was revealed today.

Kirkland was released Friday after serving more than six years of a cne-to-10-year sentence in the Indiana Reformatory for the “gin party” death of Arlene Draves, Gary high school girl. Mr. Gottschalk said in a statement: “Indiana’s penal code, according to the Constitution, is founded on the principle of reformation and not of vindictive justice. It also forbids cruel and unusual punishment.” Describing the release a “routine matter,” Governor Townsend said: | “Kirkland is an intelligent boy and | ought to succeed. The only word I | could interpret as approaching an | objection to his parole came from | Robert G. Estill, who prosecuted | him Estill Wired Governor “Mr. Estill wired that he had some information on the case, and I instructed him to communicate his facts to the Welfare Board. What the information was I do not know, The case at no time was officially in my hands, not being a clemency case.” “Mr. Klinger did not act on his own authority in the Kirkland case or any other case,” Mr. Gottschalk said. “He meets with the classification committee and merely carries out their recommendations. The recommendations are directed to me, but because of the large number of them, some of them are returned to Mr. Klinger for action. However, in the Kirkland case, I signed the recommendation for a parole.” Since Kirkland has served more than the minimum term of his sentence, the State Clemency Comimission would not have to be consulted on the matter of the Gary youth's parole, it was said. Following announcement of the parole Friday, which was made by Mr. Klinger on behalf of Mr. Gottschalk, it was revealed that at least two members of the State Welfare Board had not been consulted on this ese. These members, W. A. Hacker and Rev. Marshall A. Talley, both of Indianapolis, said they did not learn of the release until they read of it in newspapers.

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