Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1938 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA

Trend Turn Noted; |

~ Big Decline Shown Against 1937 Figure

City Firms Report Fall in Employment for Month But Slight Upturn in Wages; Net Loss Found For All Companies Reporting.

Indians factory employment and payrolls in May showed small gains over the preceding month for the first time in seven months, Martin F.

Carpen

ter, Indiana State Employment Service director, said today.

Nonmanufacturing industries, however, lost enough for the month to cause a net loss for all industries studied, he said.

The report was based on statements from 2400 manufacturing and nonmanufacturing establishments participating in a monthly survey conducted by the Employment Servjce in co-operation with the TU. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. : Preliminary May indices for Indiana manufacturing industries indicated decreases of 30.6 per cent in employment and 423 per cent in payrolls as compared with May, 1937, the survey showed.

512 City Firms Report Five hundred twelve Indianapolis

establishments reported a decrease of 6 per cent in employment in May this year over April, but an increase of 1.7 per cent in the average weekly

payroll. The totals for all establishments covered showed a decrease of .9 per cent in employment, but an increase of .6 per cent in payrolls from April May 15. re in in factory employment followed a succession of decreases for a period of seven previous months. Durable goods manufacturers showed a decrease of 2 in employment, but an increase of 2.1 per cent in payrolls, while nondurable goods manufacturers reported employment expansions of 15 per cent and payroll gains of 1.6 per cent.

Seasonal Trend Noted Most of the changes in manu-

facturing employment were of a seasonal nature, Mr. Carpenter said. The exceptions were contraseasonal increases in the important machinery group, not including transportation equipment, where employment and payrolls increased 26 and 44 per cent, respectively, he said. Employment in the chemicals group increased 3.7 per cent, and payrolls gained 52 per cent, he said. Other increases, he added, were foods and kindred products, employment 3.7 per cent, payrolls 52 per cent; rubber, employment 3.3 per cent, payrolls 9.9 per cent, and lumber, employment 2.2 per cent and payrolls 2.3 per cent. The nonferrous metals products group, by increasing the length of the work week, increased payrolls 14.1 per cent, but decreased employment 2.3 per cent, he said. Some Heavy Decreases The most important decreases in manufacturing industries from April to May, Mr. Carpenter reported, were transportation equipment, employment 4.6 per cent, payrolls 2.1 per cent; iron and steel, employment 3.1 per cent, payrolls 8 per cent; paper and printing, employment 2.4 per cent, payrolls 3 per cent, and leather, employment 89 per cent and payrolls 10 per cent. Employment and payroll changes in Indiana cities during May this year were: Employment Weekly Payroll Per Per

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SPONSOR ART DRIVE IN RHODE ISLAND

PROVIDENCE, R. I, June 4 (U. P.) —A project to stimulate creative interest in the arts among residents of towns and villages lacking galleries and museums is being sponsored by Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. A series of varied exhibitions are displayed in store windows, libraries, schools and manufacturing plants of a dozen communities. Fach community has & special weekly exhibition, Material for the so-called “art caravans” is contributed by Rhode Island professional artists, art teachers, painting and sculpture connoisseurs and art enthusiasts. Exhibits include specially selected oils, watercolors, pastels, pencil sketches, woodcarvings, block prints, jewelry, textile designs, pottery, hand-loomed rugs, stageset and dolls.

ASK STATE AID IN DECATUR FIRE QUIZ

DECATUR, June 4 (U. P.)—The State Fire Marshal's office today was asked to assist in an investigation of the $30,000 fire which destroyed the Central Hoop Co. plans here. Officials reportedly blamed a “firebug” for the blaze, Decatur’s second large fire loss in the last two months. The Krick-Tyndall Tile Co. was destroyed by fire on April 6. Damage at that plant was estimated at $200,000. Eighty men were thrown out of work by the blaze.

BOURBON MAN DROWNS

WARSAW, June 4 (U. P.).—The body of Ward Harman, 26, Bourbon, was recovered from Tippecanoe River early today after a two-hour search. Harman drowned when the rowboat in which he was riding overturned. The widow and a child child survive,

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City Recreation Department

Names Instructors And Matrons.

Appointment of matrons and girl instructors at local playgrounds and pools for the summer were announced today by Wally Middlesworth, City Recreational Director. All appointees will receive $50 monthly for two and one-half months. Forty-one playgrounds, 22 wading pools, five swimming pools and one beach will open June 15. Matrons are: Mrs. Nora Brown, Hattie Beamon, Mrs. Margaret Bright, Mrs. Ella O. Bugger, Joana Clark, Emogene Cosby, Minnie Corya, Mrs. Sue Chadwell, Lillian Day, Esther Draher. Lois R. DuValle, Georgianna G. Francis. Martha A. Horn, Mary Jefferson, Reba Johnson, Sally Hogg, Agnes Lamb, Mrs. Florence McFeeters. Esther Noonan, Miss Alyce M. Oland, Cora Perry, Mrs. Helen Rafalco, Mrs. Lenora Scriven, Mar-

garet Taylor, Effie Vincent, Susie |

Vance, Alice Wheatcraft, Cora Wilson. Girl instructors are: Marguerite Clark, Marjorie I. Goldsmith, Betty Hatfield, Mary A. Lynch, Clara M. Naumsek, Agnes McCammon, Helen Kern McConnell, Wilma Jean O'Connor, Betty Jane Skinner, Mary L. Wilson, Helen H. Webster, Marjorie White.

ROTARY NAMES NEW DISTRICT NOMINEES

Formal Election to Be Held In San Francisco.

BLOOMINGTON, June 4 (U. P). —District Governor A. E. Cole of the Indiana Rotary Club today announced the nomination of chief officers for the three new districts in the state. They are: District No. 154, northern Indiana, the Rev. Paul Chalfant, pastor of

the Presbyterian Church of Columbia City; District No. 155, central Indiana, John Stemm, Lafayette, general superintendent of the Monon Railroad, and District No. 158, southern Indiana, Dr. Paul Crimm, Evansville physician. The new unopposed Indiana nominees will be formally elected at the national convention to be held at San Francisco, Cal., June 19 to 24. The new state setup is to become effective July 1. The Rev. A. E. Cole, who retires July 1, will be the last Governor to administer over Rotary affairs of the entire state, The three new districts will contain an equal number of clubs. Indiana delegates to attend the national convention will be the Rev. Cole and the three new district nominees.

EXTORTION LETTERS NET MAN 7 YEARS

ST. LOUIS, June 4 (YJ, P.).—Austin Thorncliffe Poe, 35, of Clarkton, Mo., was under sentence today to serve seven years in prison after pleading guilty in Federal Court to charges of sending extortion notes through the mails.

He admitted writing one letter to Dr. John E. Cochran of Holcomb. Mo., demanding $100, and another to Harlan Skidmore of Clarkton. demanding $300. Both letters threatened the recipients with death unless the sums were paid. Poe's arrest resulted from an anonymous letter he had written a Clarkton minister. The minister had objected to Poe's attentions to his daughter so Poe, intending ta improve his status, wrote the letter, pointing out his own good points. The letter was turned over to the police and the writing was found to be identical with that in the extortion notes.

FISH SEES F. D. R. AS RECOVERY OBSTACLE

LAKE MAHOPAC, N. Y., June 4 (U. P).~—Rep. Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y)) said today if Franklin “Deficit” Roosevelt “were removed.” the chief obstacles to recovery “would disappear.” Rep. Fish spoke at the annual luncheon of the Women's Republican Club of Putham County. He said the only way to put the unemployed back to work was to “restore business confidence by putting an end to the bitter attacks and punitive laws that hamper and harass business and prolong the depression.”

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Miss Dorothy Quackenbush, who is an aspirant for title of “Miss American Aviation for 1938” in contest at Birmingham, Ala. air She represents the TWA Air Lines.

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AMERICAN ELECTED DIRECTOR OF I. L. 0.

GENEVA, June 4 (U. P.).—John G5. Winant, former New Hampshire Governor, was elected director of the International Labor Office today to succeed Harold Butler of Great Britain. Mr. Winant got 28 votes. There was no opposition, though two blank ballots were cast. It was reported here that Mr. Wi(nant's election was partly due to President Roosevelt, who took an active interest in his candidacy.

ICKES 1S ISSUE IN HAGE CASE

Civil Liberties Attorney Asks If Cabinet Member Could Speak.

NEWARK, N. J, June 4 (U. P.) — | The question of whether Interior Secretary Ickes would be permitted | to make a public speech in Jersey | City, raised yesterday in Federal Court, was left unanswered over the week-end. Before the witness, Daniel J. Casey, Jersey City public safety director, could reply, Federal Judge William Clark adjourned court un-

til Tuesday morning. Charging that the Jersey City administration of Mayor Frank Hague has curtailed constitutional rights, the Committee for Industrial Organization and the American Civil Liberties Union are argu"ing for an injunction to prevent interference with their rights to assemble, speak freely, circulate handbills and to guard them from illegal search and seizure. Mr. Casey directs Jersey City police who have refused permits for liberal organizations’ meetings, broken up unauthorized meetings and deported speakers including Rep. Jerry O'Connell (D. Mont.) and Norman Thomas, Socialist Party head. Mr. Casey was summoned as an “unfriendly” witness. He said permits had been denied for liberal meetings because they might have incited violence, and that speakers had been deported to “save them from anti-Communist crowds.” Morris L. Ernst, C. I. O. attorney, asked whether police could not protect constitutional rights in spite of “mob threats.” “Suppose Secretary Ickes, a member of President Roosevelt's Cabinet and an active member of the Civil Liberties Union, wanted to speak and there was a protest, would you give him protection?” he asked Mr. Casey. Judge Clark called the adjournment and it was announced that Mayor Hague would “speak for himself” as a witness next week.

VANNUYS, 7 OTHERS ARE GIVEN AWARDS

WASHINGTON, June 4 (U. P.) Senator VanNuys (D. Ind.) and seven others who opposed President Roosevelt's Court reorganization plan today held awards from ‘The Wheel of Progress” for “maintenance of democracy.” Previous winners of the award were Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Capt. George Fried, hero of several rescues at sea.

POPE PRAISES AMERICA

CASTEL GANDOLFO, June 4 (U. P.) —His Holiness Pope Pius XT received a group of pilgrims from the Budapest eucharistic congress today. Addressing 120 Americans among them he said: “The United States is geographically distant but always spiritually near to our heart, because of its immense treasure of Christian memories and Christian hope for a greater Catholic life in the future.

—————— WATCHDOG HIS PAL LYNN, Mass, June 4 (U. P).— When James Hogan, 38, was arrested on a charge of burglarizing a restaurant, police found with him the restaurant's watchdog.

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VETERANS OPEN MEETING HERE

Rainbow Division’s Annual Convention Attended by 200 Members.

Two hundred members of the Rainbow Division Veterans Association gathered at the Hotel Washington today for the opening sessions of their annual two-day convention. Minneapolis veterans were to be guests of honor at the conclave sponsored by the Division which was headed “over there” by Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall of Indianapolis. Registration of delegates opened at 10 a. m. and informal reunions were held during the luncheon hour. Stuart A. Tomlinson, Indianapolis, president of the organization's Marion County chapter, extended the official greetings to the delegates. Election of new officers was to be held at 4 p. m. and a business session was to follow. The annual banquet will be held at 7 p. m. The Rainbow Division Room in the Indiana World War Memorial Building will be formally dedicated at 10 a. m. tomorrow, followed by a trip through the Scottish Rite Cathedral at 11 a. m. and a picnic dinner, Mrs. Robert Lincoln of Minneapolis, president of the national auxiliary, will be the principal guest of honor of the auxiliary members of the state.

REVISED PLANS

FOR SEWER CUT WPA JOBS HALF

Boetcher Believes Tunneling Proposal of Steeg is Cheaper Way.

The construction of the proposed 38th St. sewer by a tunneling method as recommended by City Engineer Henry B. Steeg would reduce by more than half the number of WPA men who would be employed on the project, Carl Kortepeter, Marion

County WPA supervisor, said today. Under the original plans, he said, about 200 men would be employed. Under the tunneling plan, he said, only between 7 and 10 men would be employed at each of the drilling points. There would be about six such points, he estimated. Mr. Kortepeter said it was his opinion the new method would prolong the work and increase the number of man hours. Meanwhile, Mayor Boetcher said the Works Board would act soon on Mr, Steeg's proposal.

Called Cheaper Method

“I personally am satisfied that the tunneling method recommended by Mr. Steeg would be feasible and cheaper than the surface-cutting method originally planed,” Mayor Boetcher said. He and Mr, Steeg inspected a similar project near Crawfordsville yesterday. ‘It was a revelation to fe,” the Mayor commented. “However, of course I have asked Mr. steeg to let us have more definite figures on the saving.” Mr, Steeg's 11th hour decision yesterday caused the Works Board to return unopened the only bid it received on the project. He recommended the change in plans because, he said, the substitute method of tunneling under the street “would save the City from $50,000 to $70,000.” Mayor Boetcher said he thought the proposed method would eliminate piling up of dirt on the street to the damage of 38th St. business establishments.

Little Delay Seen

He said he did not think the change would result in much delay since, if ordered to do so, Mr. Steeg coudd draw up new specifications “in a few days.” The project has been under consideration several months. A $225, 000 bond issue to finance it. was sold. But the City Council failed twice to muster the necessary twothirds of its membership for special meetings called to appropriate proceeds of the bond sale. Appropriation now must wait until the Council's regular meeting Monday night. When Mr. Steeg announced his discovery of the alternate method at yesterday's Board meeting, Robert K. Eby, Board member, asked why the tunneling method was not specified originally. Mr. Steeg replied the idea had not occurred to him until he read an article in an engineering magazine,

Mr. Eby asked how the saving

Baby Tumbles

Downstairs; Just Measles

Sixteen-month-old Arnold Smart fell down a flight of stairs at his home, 336 N, Blackford Ave. and landed on his head. His frantic parents rushed him to City Hospital and physicians dis covered that no bones were broken. There were serious cuts and bruises, But doctors found that the boy

had measles, which the parents had not known until then.

POLICE CLAIM DOUBLE MURDER CONFESSION

LEBANON, N. H, June 4 (U, P), —Seized by a posse in his hideout in a mill-yard, John Henry Gray, a pint-sized woodchodper reportedly confessed today to the ax slayings of a man and a boy at nearby Canaan. “I don’t know why I did it,” he said. Police Chief C. W. Wright, said he had been unable to sscertain the motive for the killing of Paul Barris, 24, and his 9-year-old brother-in-law, Arthur Cullen, both formerly of Lowell, Mass., and both related to the slayer by 11arriage. A 20-man posse trapped the 54-year-old woodsman 12 hours after the slayings, which occurred in an isolated farmhouse 15 miles from here,

that the tunnel would be cut deep enough so that it would not be necessary to disturb existing water, gas and sewer connections and street car tracks. He said money also would be saved on replacement of sidewalk and street pavements which a surface cut would tear up.

Officials to Discuss Grant for Elevation

City and county officials are to go to Chicago next week to discuss with PWA regional authorities the possibility of obtaining a Federal grant to help finance South Side track elevation, Mayor Boetcher announced today. City engineer Henry B. Steeg will head the delegation, which probably will be comprised of the same works board members and county commissioners who made a previous trip to Chicago for the same purpose recently. Application for the grant, which would cover 45 per cent of the City and County shares of the $3,500,000 cost, cannot be made until President Rosevelt’s recovery bill 1s | passed by Congress.

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ART PUPILS WIN SCHOLARSHIPS AT JOHN HERRON

12 to Enter Winter Course At School; Two Teachers Are Appointed.

Twelve of 70 contestants in the John Herron Art Institute's annual May competition of high school students were awarded scholarships and will enter the regular winter school for the first time in September, Donald M. Mattison, director, announced today. Winning scholarships were Fred Rash, Jane Palmer and: Lee Grubaugh of Shortridge High School; Eloise Linnemefer and William Bur-

den, Technical High School; Violet Carpenter, Columbus; Jane Hewitt, Richmond; Martha L. Payne, Fair mount; Thelma Lake, Franklin; Joe

Reelsville, and Margie Lee Reeves, Greencastle, Mr. Mattison also announced the appointment of Edmund Brucker, Cleveland School of Art, and John M. King, Dayton Art Institute, to the faculty, Mr. King will be part-time in-

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SCHRICKER UPHELD

IN ELECTION RULING |”

Right to Campaign While in Office Held Legal. |

The Indiana Constitution will not | prevent Lieut.-Gov.

cratic nomination for U. S. Senator | while holding a State office, Atty. | Gen. Omer Stokes declared today. The Constitution says that “neither the Governor nor Lieutenant Governor shall be eligible to any other office during the term for | which he shall have been elected.” | The memorandum issued yesterday cited several instances in which Indiana officials were elected or appointed to Federal offices. Fred C. Gause, Republican member of the State Flection Board, said the Constitution clause applied only to those seeking another State office. He said that a State constitution cannot fix qualifications for a member of Congress, that only the Federal Constitution can do so. Mr. Schricker, who is in Washington contacting members of the Indiana Congressional delegation, is reported planning to announce his candidacy formally at a Democratic rally at Bass Lake Thursday.

HOLLYWOOD FLOOD VICTIM IDENTIFIED

HOLLYWOOD, June 4 (U. P) — The body of a victim of .the March |

2 flood, found in a street excava- [i

tion on the Hollywood outskirts, was |

identified today as Miss Agda Phil- |}

lips, 43, excelsior, Minn. She was drowned in Big Tujunga | Canyon and her body washed 10 | miles. Identification was made by | George E. Welles, who rented cabin to the woman and to Mrs.

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structor in still-life painting and Mr. Brucker will give classes in first and second-year composition and portrait painting. Commencement exercises will be at 8 p m, June 14, at which time the winner of the scholarship for travel abroad from the Mary Mil. liken Memorial Fund will be announced, Meanwhile, it was announced tha five Herron pupils won prizes in a national contest for a poster to publicize “For Freight or Trips, Use American Ships.” The Propeller Club of the United States was sponsor, Winners were Robert Allen Bil lingsly, Lebanon; John Rhoads, Terre Haute, Charles E. Barnes, Robert L. Randall and Earl Noffsinger of Indianapolis, pupils in a commercial design class taught by Paul Wehr.

Crippled businesses not only do not pay profits they do not pay wages, We have heard a lot about certain businesses that have grown too powerful. And yet it remains an undeniable fact that a business must maintain a state of reasonable power and good health in order to render a real service, pay good wages and assure genus ine security to its em. ployees.

Good, strong, healthy businesses have never been the cause of economic instability in America. The exact opposite is true. American business, with all its faults, has been the greatest and most prac. tical benefactor of hu. manity the world has ever known,

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