Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1938 — Page 1
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BALL COMPANY ASKS MILLION IN TAX REFUND
Muncie Glass Firm Files Appeal With Board In Washington.
SURTAX UNDER ATTACK
1932 Law’s Provisions Held Violation of Federal Constitution.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P.).—Contending that a section of the 1932 Revenue Act, which imposes a surtax on accumulation of surplus is unconstitutional, Ball Brothers Co. of Muncie, Ind., today asked the Board of Tax Appeals for redetermination of an income tax deficiency assessment of $1,036,295 for 1933.
The company held the Treasury erred in claiming that the company was subject to taxation under Section 104 of the 1932 Revenue Act, which imposes a surtax of 50 per cent on the net income of any corporation formed or availed of to evade imposition of a surtax on its shareholders by permitting gains and profits to accumulate instead of being distributed. The section is the legislative predecessor of the present undistributed profits tax.
Claims Section Is Void
The petition set forth that the company felt that Section 104 was unconstitutional and void and contrary to the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, Under the section, the petition charged, Congress attempts in the guise of a tax to exercise power to
regulate corporations incorporated under state law, “a power not delegated to the United States but reserved by the states.” Such a tax, the petition allegea, was in contravention of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution because it deprived the company of its property without due process ot law, imposed a “penal” burden dependent upon a standard which is “so vague, ind>finite and uncertain as to be incapable of ascertainment, imposes a tax or penalty having no relation in amount to the alleged purpose of the statute and imposes a penalty or tax which is arbitrary, capricious and confiscatory.”
BANK INSURER GETS DALHOVER’S LOOT
SOUTH BEND, Jan. 13 (U. P.). —Circuit Judge Dan Pyle ruled that $2631 in possession of James Dalhover, Brady gangster awaiting electrocution for the murder of a state policeman, belongs to the Maryland Casualty Co. of Baltimore, it was announced today. The money was found on Dalhover when he was arrested by Federal agents after a battle in which his compdnions, Al Brady and Clarence Lee Schaffer, were slain at Bangor, Me, The Maryland company had insured the Peoples Exchange Bank at Thorp, Wis., last August, which Dalhover confessed was the last bank robbery staged by the Brady gang.
SNOW, TURNING TO RAIN, IS FORECAST
TEMPERATURES 18 10 ‘a. 'm.... 18 1a. 'm.... 18 12 (Noon). 29 20 p.m... 30
Today’s sunlight is to fade as the sky becomes increasingly cloudy with snow turning to rain late tonight or Friday, the Weather Bureau predicted. From a low of 18 degrees today, the Bureau forecast the temperature would rise to about 27 tonight.
RELIEF UNIFICATION ASKED OF CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P.). —The Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today heard urgent pleas for a unified relief program to meet increased needs caused by business recession. Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, O., chairman of the committee of the Community Mobilization for Human Needs and Louis K. Kirstein, Boston merchant, supported the unification program.
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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 264
Appeals Tax
George Ball
CARDOZO SHOWS "SLIGHT GAIN’
Doctors Note Overnight Rally in Justices Condition.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P). —Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of the Supreme Court showed “a slight improvement” today, Dr. J. P. Earnest Jr. reported. The bulletin was the first encouraging word from Mr. Justice Cardozo’s physicians since they announced Sunday that he had suffered from a series of severe heart attacks during the last week. Dr. Earnest said a rally began late yesterday. He had reported, prior to this morning's announcement, a gradual weakening in the Justice's condition. Mr. Justice Cardozo first was stricken with attacks of grippe and shingles early last month. While still convalescing from these ailments, his weakened condition led to last week’s heart attacks. Dr. Earnest’s statement was issued after consultation with Drs. Worth Daniels and Thomas S. Lee, Washington heart specialists, who also conferred over Mr. Justice Cardozo's condition yesterday afternoon. Yesterday Mr. Justice Cordozo was too ill to receive President and Mrs. Roosevelt, who drove to his apartment late in the afternoon. They returned to the White House after leaving a bouquet of roses.
DOUBLING WIDTH OF RIVER IS PROPOSED
Additional Plans Given Board By Flood Group.
Additional flood control plans were submitted to the Park Board today by Henry B. Steeg, Mayor Boetcher and Carl Kortepeter, Marion County WPA director. They proposed doubling the width of the White River channel, from 30th to 38th St.; building levees on either side; extending the road on the east side to 38th St., and construction of a new road on the west side. Mr. Steeg, Indianapolis Flood Control Commission president, said the proposed levees would be four feet higher than the 1913 flood level. He added that gravel for the roads would come from the river channel and that the only cost to the City would be $2000 for oil. WPA would pay the balance of the entire cost. Plans were submitted to the Park Board because the project would affect the Riverside Park golf course. Nancy E. Shelby, chief adult probation officer, asked that a playground be established for small children between King and Holmes Aves. The American Settlement was granted use of the Rhodius Park Community House from 9 to 11:30 a. m. for kindergarten.
LAST TWO BODIES TAKEN FROM MINE
HARWICK, Pa., Jan. 13 (U. P.).— Penetrating a wall of deadly gas, rescue crews, equipped with gas masks, today reached the bodies of the last two men of the 10 killed yesterday in an explosion at the Harwick Coal & Coke Co. mine near here. Sorrowing relatives waited in snow and cold at the top of the mine as the rescue crews completed their task.
MRS. SCHULER ENACTS FIGHT FOR DEATH GUN
Cringes and Hides Face at First, Then Grapples With Attorney.
MRS. JONES SEEMS CALM
Chews Gum as She Looks On; 300 Crowd Danville Court Room.
By SAM TYNDALL Times Staff Writer DANVILLE, Jan. 13.—While Mrs. Etta Jones chewed gum and surveyed the 300 or more crowded into Circuit Court Room here, Mrs. Lottie Schuler today grappled with Attorney Bess Robbins to show how she said she disarmed Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Jones Is on trial charged with the murder of 13-year-old Helen Schuler in Beech Grove. Mrs, Schuler said that after her stepdaughter was shot, Mrs, Jones menaced her with the gun. Miss Robbins, attorney for Mrs. Jones, took the alleged death gun from the exhibit table and advanced toward Mrs Schuler “Will you step down from the stand and demonstrate with me just how you say you took the gun from Mrs Jones?” she said, and extended the gun toward Mrs. Schuler,
Cringes in Chair
Mrs. Schuler cringed in the witness chair. She put her hands before her face. “The gun isn't loaded, is it?” she cried. Al Lynch, Prosecutor's investigator, jumped up and demonstrated to Mrs. Schuler, judge and jury that it was not loaded. Mrs. Schuler and Miss Robbins then re-enacted Mrs. Schuler’s version of what happened after the shooting. ‘Walter Schuler, dead girl's father, testified that never at any time during his married life had he or his wife owned a gun or kept one in the house. Mrs. Jones, 38-year-old former Louisville rooming house operator, was unperturbed yesterday, too, as Mrs. Schuler told her story. Mrs. Schuler said: “I prepared breakfast for my husband and Helen. My husband was going on a business trip. After he had gone I left Helen alone and went to give a piano lesson. “When I returned, Mrs. Jones was standing on the next door porch (the home of Mrs. Jones’ nephew, William Kendall). “She came down to meet me. She said ‘Are you Mrs. Schuler? I'm Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Kendall's aunt. I would like to know about your prices on music lessons.’ “I invited her in. She was wearing a little black cape. “I asked to be excused and went to the bathroom to comb my hair.
Found Helen on Floor “When I put the comb to my hair
I heard gurgling sounds in the next
room. I hesitated, heard the sound again and opened the bedroom door. “I found Helen lying with part of her body under the bed and her face in a pool of blood. “I tried to pick her up, but I couldn’t lift her. I called to the lady who said she was Mrs. Jones and asked her to help me. “She must have fainted I said. As I stooped over to pick her up something terrible struck me in the head. “I looked up into a gun in Mrs. Jones’ hand.. I grgbbed her hand and we struggled. I pulled her out to the kitchen and finally grabbed the gun from her hand on the back porch. Mrs. Jones then ran next door north and I ran south and placed the gun on the table in a neighbor's home.” No apparent motive for the alleged killing was shown in the testimony. Mr. Spencer said the State would not attempt to offer a motive. Under the law there is no responsibility or burden upon the State to show any reason for the crime, he said.
CLAIMS CONFESSIONS TO 44 BURGLARIES
Two of five youths held have signed confessions to 44 burglaries in 16 counties, Sheriff Ray said today. A sixth alleged member of the gang was arrested today at his home where police said they found merchandise that might have been loot
from robberies.
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The Samoan Clipper was pioneering the new skyway route from the United States to Auckland, New Zealand, via Honolulu, as shown in the upper map. Leaving Pago Pago’s mountain-locked harbor, Capt. Musick and his crew of six had flown just two hours southward when
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 (U. P.).
He called himself Eddie Musick and | he'd ask “what's your name?” when |
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Six Inches, Searching Crew Reports.
(Editorial, Page 16)
(Copyright, 1938, by United Press) PAGO PAGO, Tutuila Island, American Samoa, Jan. 13.—The Sa-
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fathoms of water after an explosion so terrific that it strewed the ocean
The crowsfeet that came with his | with tiny bits of debris from the
squint were from seeing of the sun's glare against the oceans’ waters. He came from Missouri but his home was everywhere, wherever the Clippers went
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He flew a million miles or more, many thousands of them while blazing the trail. It was on a new Pan American Airways Pacific route that he died Tuesday morning—one that started at Honolulu, extended to Kingman's Reef, Pago Pago, thence to New Zealand. He explored that route only last manth.
Was Veteran at 43
An oily splotch on the surface of the South Sea marked Capt. Edwin C. Musick’s grave today, where in the water 1000 fathoms deep, he and his newest clipper came to journey’s end. He was the greatest aerial explorer of modern times, and one of the oldest veterans at the age of 43. His friends said he had been about ready to retire and take an executive job with Pan American. Capt. Musick undertook the perils of trail blazing with calm assurance but he was never a stunt flier. He took no chances with himself or the Clippers. Capt. Musick had his first crash as a schoolboy in Los Angeles, trying to imitate the Wright brothers in a floppy glider. He took a flying course at the age of 18 and the World War found him an Army Air Corps instructor. “Know He's Safe” He was one of the few men licensed to fly any kind of a plane, over land or ocean, and in his methodical work he had established 10 world’s records for commercial aviation. After the cial flying,
war he began commerIn 1927 he joined Pan American. He was immediately made the No. 1 pilot, and he grooved the routes, first across the Caribbean, then the Atlantic and Pacific and the South Seas. At home, Capt. Musick lived quietly with his wife in San Francisco. When Mrs. Musick first heard that the Samoan Clipper was missing, she said: “Ed’s been down before. he is safe.” But for the wasn’t.
BOETCHER TO TAKE REST
Mayor Boetcher today said he would go to Hollywood, Fla. next week for two weeks’ vacation on the advice of his physician. He said recent illness caused his physician to advise more sunshine for his health.
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searchers reported today. The old U. S. mine sweeper Avocet, only available boat at this remote South Sea island, returned late last night from an oily splotch of the sea 14 miles from the island where Capt. Edwin C. Musick and his six companions of the Clipper crew were lost Tuesday morning. The Clipper's watery grave was found 16 hours after the Pan-Amer-jean Airways sky boat disappeared on a flight from here to Auckland, New Zealand. The wreckage that was left, Chief Boatswain H. S. Bogan said, indicated that the Clipper was blown to pieces. “Bits of wood and paper covered the sea, They seemed to be fragments from the interior of the plane. All the pieces were from one to six inches square. We found nothing larger than that.” A small piece of the chart board was identified and the book of navigation tables was picked up. Boatswain Bogan was placed in command of the Avocet when Lieut. T. B. Williamson went aboard the ship's plane, for an aerial survey. Neither search produced any trace of the seven bodies. The Avocet crew took soundings and found the water more than a mile deep. Little more was known of the Clipper’s fate than that she burned and sank. Several things about her (Turn to Page Three)
BUILD ELECTRIC ‘EYE T0 SEE GIANT SUNS
Scientists Say Double Star Is Largest Yet Found.
CHICAGO, Jan. 13 ( U. P.).—Scientists at Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wis., today were perfectinz a specially designed electric re-
cording device with which they hope to “see” a huge double star—in reality a pair of giant suns—whose presence so far is known only by mathematical calculation. Dr. Otto Struve, observatory director, and Profs. G. P. Kuiper and Bengt Stromgren are credited with discovering the new star, Epsilon Aurigae, which has been determined the largest yet found in the heavens. It has a diameter 3000 times larger than that of the sun, and a radius of almost 2000 million miles. It is calculated to be about 3000 light years from earth.
Bear Facts Indicate 1 here’ s Fun in Fauna
By JOE COLLIER The mystery of Brown County fauna—particularly the more improbable fauna—was greatly complicated today by the receipt here of an unsigned postcard containing a veiled threat. As a result, Frank Wallace, State Entomologist, and a conservative in matters of Brown County fauna, is in a blue funk, trimmed in brown, complete with indirect lighting. It happened this way: Three years ago, Benjamin Douglass, Brown County gentleman, wrote Mr. Wallace and told him he had indisputable proof there were bobcats in this neighborhood. Mr, Wallace taxed the speed of the mails getting a reply back that the thing ‘was impos sible and that Mr. Douglass ought to take a vacation. Within a short time Mr. Wallace received from Mr. Douglass a cured and tanned bobcat hide
which he stuffed ‘into his desk until he had
the matter to ‘anyone until Inst year. He seemed to feel fairly safe then, but still wouldn't pooh-
This year, Mr. Wallace got haughtier and haughtier about the report and almost openly said he didn‘t believe it. Somehow this got around to Mr. Douglass in Brown County. Mr. Douglass is a patient man. So this week, there arrived In The Times office a postcard. It was unsigned. It said, “Believe it or not. I'm not talking.” It was postmarked from Brown County, And—a fact that sent Mr. Wallace back into his blue funk, banging the door behind him, it was faced with a snap shot of a dead bear. Mr. Wallace laughed a little shakenly over the phone when he was told of the card. “I wonder where he got that bear,” he said. Then he was silent. “I'll bet he wrote all over the country to get pictures of that bear.” That's the way things stand now on Brown County fauna—strictly between Mr. Douglass and Mr.
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16 DRIVERS PAY
$94 AND $179 IS SUSPENDED
10 Speeders Are Assessed $58 by Judge Pro Tem. Silas Lipman.
SIX CASES CONTINUED
22-Year-0ld Motorist Given 1 to 10 Years for Manslaughter.
Sixteen of the 50 drivers arrested overnight for traffic violations were fined $94 in Municipal Court today, the cases of six were continued, and judgment was withheld in the others Twenty more were to appear this afternoon. Nearly twice that much in fines and costs—&179—was suspended by Judge Pro Tém. Silas Lipman. Ten speeders were fined only $58. A 22-year-old driver began a one-to-10-year sentence to the Indiana Reformatory for killing a pedestrian. The driver, Trenna Edgerton, was sentenced yesterday by Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker for the death several weeks ago of Lewis G. Hirschy, Indiana School for the Deaf instructor, Mr. Hirschy was struck while walking on a Marion County road. “The innumerable deaths, the slaughter by autos in the city, county and state, call for drastic enforcement of our laws,” Judge Baker said, Mrs. Laura Bryant, Mooresville, died today in Methodist Hospital of injuries received in an auto wreck Jan, 8 near her home. She was 36. The accident did not happen in Marion County. Meanwhile, Lieut. Lawrence McCarty, Accident Prevention Bureau head, renewed warnings to drivers and pedestrians. Twelve persons have been killed in Marion County this year, 10 more than for the same period in 1937. In a few days, Lieut. McCarty said, an increase in the motorcycle patrol is expected. Today there were 23 traffic officers listed for duty, but five of them were unable to work because of injuries or illnesses, he said.
Boy Runs Into Path Of Car, Killed
EVANSVILLE, Jan. 13 (U. P).— Andrew Happe, T-year-old son of Andrew J. Happe, died today of injuries received last night on Road 62 when he dashed into the path of an automobile driven by Alvin Hahn of Evansville. Happe had halted his car to investigate a machine in the ditch when his son ran across the road into the path of Hahn's car,
RAIL SHOPS TO USE ANTISMOKE DEVICE
Dr. Morgan Is Slated for Re-election by League.
The Railroad Smoke Control Board reported today that all railroad shops plan to adopt a new device that cuts by 60 per cent the amount of smoke created when new fires are started in locomotives after they have been out of service. Meanwhile Dr. Herman B. Morgan, City Health Board secretary, was slated to be re-elected president of the Smoke Abatement League this afternoon at Hotel Washington. J. J. Liddy, Indianapolis Union Railroad superintendent, announced in a letter to Dr. Morgan he was resigning his position as first vice president of the League. The letter read: “In view of the fact that the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League has entered the political field, according to the League's attorney, apparenty for the purpose of seeking reprisals against the executive and legislative branches of the City government— and since the handful of members that the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League claim is bonafide can have no effect on the electorate generally speaking, and since I am not in accord with such proceedings if they could for the reason that the majority of citizens like myself are pretty well pleased with the manner in which the executive and legislative branches of the City government are being conducted, I am therefore compelled to give you this formal notice of my retirement from the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League.”
TRUCK HURLS STONE, BREAKING MAN'S LEG
Mack C. Germain, 76, who operates a toy shop at 3502 Rockville Road, received a fractured left leg today when struck by a stone thrown from the street by the tire of A passing truck. Mr. Germain was arranging a display in front of his shop at the time of the accident. He was taken to City Hospital.
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PRICE THREE CENTS
150,000 May Return To Jobs Within Eight Weeks.
FEW WAGES CUT
Midwest, Hardest Hit, More Cheerful in Outlook.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (U. P.).—Approximately 150,000 jobless men will find employment in the next six to eight weeks, and 10 of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts expect marked improvement in employment before April, a na-tion-wide survey of unemployment by the United Press indicated today.
The survey co-ordinated analyses of employment conditions in all 12 Federal Reserve Districts and in(Turn to Page Three)
JOB UPTURN IN INDIANA SEEN
Auto Plants and New Firms To Boost Employment in City and State.
(Another Story, Page Four)
. A gradual upswing in employment in Indianapolis and the State, starting now and continuing through the spring, was predicted today by M. F. Carpenter, Indiana State Employment Service manager, He based his prediction on the present return of Hoosiers to their jobs in the automobile industry throughout the State. “The automobile industry is the first to feel the effects of a falling off in employment,” he said, “and usually the first to enjoy the upswing.” Mr. Carpenter said that early this week, 14,000 men had been recalled to jobs at the Delco-Remy Corp. plant in Anderson, the Chrysler Motors Corp. at Newcastle, and General Motors plants at Gary and Muncie. He said it was his understanding also that men were being recalled to their jobs in the automotive industry in Evansville, Kokomo, South Bend and other Indiana cities,
WAGE BILL PASSAGE HINGES ON ROOSEVELT
Backers Want Pressure; Caraway Opens Filibuster.
By HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. —Passage of a wage-hour bill this year appears to depend largely on whether President Roosevelt “turns on the heat.” Congressional friends of such legislation want active pressure of the sort used by the White House to beat the Ludlow war referendum proposal — individual conferences, support from executive departments, and a letter to Speaker Bankhead on the eve of the vote, Chairman Mary T. Norton (D. N. J) of the House Labor Committee, which is drafting the new bill, said she “had some reason to believe” that the Rules Committee, which bottled up the original biil until a petition of 218 members pried it loose last November, would vote out a new bill if it was “reasonable.” Meanwhile, the Labor Commitfee is asking Attorney General Homer 8S. Cummings for a ruling on the constitutionality of a rigid 40-hour-week and 40-cents-an-hour bill, as proposed by the A. F. of L.
Senator Caraway
Carries on Filibuster
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P). Senator Caraway (D. Ark.) today substituted for Senator Glass (D. Va.) in carrying on the Senate filibuster against the antilynching bill. She charged the measure was designed to destroy the South politically and industrially.
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MORGENTHAU OPPOSES ANY NEW TAXATION
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RAPS SUBSIDIES
Ludlow Asks About Silver Purchase Policy.
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (U, P.).—Secretary of the Treas ury Henry Morgenthau Jr, outlining Treasury policy to a House Committee, expressed unequivocal opposition to new taxes during the business recession and indicated dis agreement with the Adminise tration’s silver program. Mr. Morgenthau's views were dise closed today with publication of the transeript of testimony on the Treasury Department appropria« tion bill for 1939. He testified at secret sessions of a House Appros priations Subcommittee. The Treas ury requested an appropriation of $2,186,595,399,
Secretary Morgenthau committee: 1. Because of the business setback “it is most important” that the present tax basis be maintained. 2. He opposes payment of subste dies to domestic silver producers or “any kind” of subsidies. 3. Overstocking by businessmen, based on the false assumption that the Administration could not check runaway inflation, was partly ree sponsible for the recession.
Asks Economy
4. Tt is “most essential” that the Treasury's stabilization fund be continued after its expiration, June 30, 1939.
5. Budget-balancing should be ace complished through economies rather than taxation. “With the business situation as ft is now,” Secretary Morgenthau testie fied, “we do not feel like recoms mending additional taxes over and above the present tax structure. think it is most important that
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the present tax basis.” The business recession could be blamed on two developments, the secretary said. He cited seasonal influences as one factor. The other, he said, was excessive inventories. “We will balance the budget if we spend $1,500,000,000 less than wa spent last year,” he said.
Ludlow Asks Question Secretary Morgenthau said the’ general credit of the Government is as high as it has ever been.
“How much longer, in your judge ment,” asked Rep. Louis Ludlow (D, Ind.) “can we operate with a deficit, and still maintain the Government's credit?” “I do not know,” the Secretary replied. “That is a pretty hard question to answer. Of course, we think we should balance the budget just as fast as we can, always keeping in mind that we may have an unemployment situation. If we do, the Administration will not let any body starve. Barning that situation, the chances of balancing the budget are excellent.” Secretary Morgenthau avoided res vealing his attitude toward the Silver Purchase Act by saying that he had made it a practice never to criticize any act of Congress. Taking the attitude that Govern ment payment of almost 20 cents an ounce more for domestic newly mined silver than for foreign silver represented a subsidy to American silver producers, Rep. Ludlow asked: “Is there any more reason why we should do this than to subsidize Idaho potatoes or Georgia peaches?” “We are doing that now for some commodities,” Secretary Ore thau answered. “I am o all subsidies of any kind. I an make that statement for the record, and will stand by BL ”
23,000 JOBLESS IN COUNTY, POLL SHOWS
Total number of Marion County persons who registered in the Feds eral unemployment census last Noe. vember was 23,347, it was learned here today. Of these, 15960 were men and 7378 were women. There were 8117 working on the Works Progress Ade ministration, National Youth Ade ministration, Civilians Conservation Corps and other emergency pro There were 7231 males and females. A total of 9275 registered as have ing some work and wanting more, of which 7163 were males and 2113 were females. The total unemployed and wanting work registered Indianapolis was 22,206, of 15,156 were males and 7140 were females. Indianapolis persons WPA, and NYA numbered males and 868 females; partly employed and wi work 6648
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