Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1938 — Page 2
Special § Session Adjourns After House Lifts $10 Provision in Jobless Aid Law; | ~ Enacted Program Satisfies. Townsend
$20, 000, 000 Made valle: ble for Recovery in - State, He Says.
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above. ‘those paid 4 the first 5 cents in. the property fax rate. Marion County, under the Plas adopted, will receive $308,538 in
State ‘funds next year dng Bill
The" Institutions ! originally called for an appropriation of $5,400,000. By cutting out two arm projects and ‘adding $70,000 for an Indiana University Extension Building in Lake County, the Legislature finally appropriated $5,329,750 for the program. Revisions. in the original” Tuber-
culosis Hospital Bill were made by
_the Senate, but they were of a minor nature,
Assessments Under Study
Lieut. Gov. Henry PF. Schricker named five Senators to the commission required to - Sudy Hethogs of equalizing property assessmen eh terms: of a resolution passed at. this session.. This commission is to. report its findings to the 1939 Legislature. ~“Those named: -were: Senators John Bright Webb (D. Indianapolis); Walter ‘R. Arnold (D. South Bend), Harvey J. Post (D. Hammond), Howard V.. Johnson (R. Mooresville) ‘and- O.- Brucé lane .(R. Bainbridge). Those Senators who are not -returning to the next session, then were called upon to give “swan song” addresses.
Site Committee Named
Governor Townsend - this after‘noon -appointed the committee - to select the site for-the new southern Indiana tuberculosis hospital, intentionally haming RO one from the area affected. <p .Those named were Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Board director; Murray A. Arbaugh, Indianapolis Indiana Tuberculosis Association secretary; Dr. L. A. Pittenger, Ball Btate Teachers. College ' president, Muncie; Thomas O'Mara, Terre Haute, and Arthur Sapp, Huntington.
Labor: Seeks Change
Introduction of the Unemployment Compensation Act amendment came as ‘a surprise move by majority members in the Senate just as the Legislature was nearing adjournment Thursday. It was done at the request of State labor leaders. The bill was passed by the upper chamber under suspension of the rules but the House balked on “railroading” the measure after William Book, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, told House. majority. members ‘at “a caucus that employers were to-the revision and asked a public hearing on.the matter. .
Proponents Cite Benefits
At ‘the hearing, held: ‘yesterday: afternoon in the House - chambers, labor leaders urged. the removal of the restriction which requires that an employee must have earned at least $10 since April 1 to be eligible for benefits on the grounds that: 1. Most of the people who now are disqualified by the $10 clause are on relief and are drawing Government funds in one form or another. : 2. The compensation fund is not the employers’ money but belongs to the workers. 3. Although $4,000,000 has been paid ‘from the fund already, an equal amount has replaced it. 4. Approximately $5,000,000 would be put into circulation and business and industry would reflect better conditions. Arguments of business leaders who opposed revision of law were: 1. A person now employed on the WPA would have to give up that source of income if he bécame eligible a unemployment compensation
2. Once a person draws on the fund, he abolishes his future claims to benefits until he secures re-em-ployment. 3. By reducing the employers’ in--dividual reserve accounts, some :of the incentive to maintain stabilized employment would be taken away, The amendmeént passed second reading in the House last night after the House Committée on Public Expenditurés had recommended its passage, Then Rep. Frank G. Thompson (D. Bluffton) majority floor leader. moved that constitutional rules be suspended and that the bill be brought up for third reading at once, instead of lyihg over until today as required by law. If the bill had passed oh third reading last night, the special ses. sion would have ended thén. Howevér, only 49 Representatives voted . to suspend rules, short of the twothirds majority requiréd. The bill then automatically went over to third reading today. The 13-man Public Expenditures Committee votéd unanimously to recommend the bill for passage, but added a resolution suggesting ht employers be aided in meeting th extra bénéfit load the bill is pected to create, if it becomes law.
Claim 50,000 to Benefit
The Unémploymént Compensation Division estimates it will distribute $7,600,000 to 50,000 persons, accord ing to Clarence A. Jackson, division director.
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Snsion of the present petiay: provision applicable to. employers who
may exhgust their reserve accounts after Jan, 1, 1940, to a date beyond 1940.”
Rep. Tho in making his
mpson, ‘motion. to suspend rules, told House
members they could “save the taxpayers $1500 to $2000” by passing the bill and adjourning last night. Rep. James M. Knapp (R. Hagerstown), minority ‘ floor ‘leader, ' rose to ask “what ’the hurry is?” Rep. Joseph ‘Andrew R. Lafayette) said: “There is only one bill ‘pending before this House, but we will settle a greater question tonight—whether or not we will keep faith with the people, Urges Limit to Program’
“The Governor asked us to limit ourselves to the program for which this special session was: called. “I ask the House to k “faith with the -people by keeping within limits of the Governd’s program. “I'm not saying or denying there are merits to this bill. But I want it done open and above board. Let's see that legislation in this session is carried on in a legal manner.” . Rep. Martin J. Downey (D. Hammond), Administration spokesman, asked the House to suspend rules and pass the bill. By suspending rules and adjourning at once, he told House ‘members, they- would “save money by spending money.” Rep. Benjamin. F.. Harris (R. Richmond) read from - the State Constitution regarding suspension of rules, and asked . “where is the emergency?” Spokesmen for both business and labor groups testified on the proposed amendment to the Unemployment Compensation Act at the public hearing yesterday afternoon before the House Public Expenditures Committee.
Business Makes Protest
.They estimated variously. that this amendment would affect between 20,000 and 50,000 persons now disqualified by the “$10 clause” and
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them of between $3,000,000 and $7,500,000 in benefit payments. Employers. protested against the suddenness with which this proposal was being considered by the Legislature and said it would exhaust the. individual reserve accounts in the unemployment compensation fund and produce a drain on the general pool account.
Charging that the present restriction was “unjust,” labor leaders defended the amendment. as. Being a “humanitarian - measure which would place money inte eirculation.” - This amendment would remove the clause from . the: present ‘act
troller of the General Electric Co., Schenectady, 'N. *Y., said he" would not like to see ‘the Legislature “spoil this compensation act when it TE only four months old.” “Since most of the people who have failed to qualify for benefits now are averaging $70 a month on WPA, the Legislature would not be doing them a favor by removing _ this clause,” he said. “When a man is qualified for Unémployment Compensation, he is removed from the WPA rolls. Thus instead of getting his $70: a month, he would receive only about $45 8 month in benefits,” he continued. “Two years 480, you gave employers two years warning. "Now you are giving employers no warning at all, and actually are taking away one year and four months of the warning you already have given them. = _ Fears Forced Benefits
“Obviously even those persons disqualified for unemployment benefits who are not on. WPA have some form of cash income. That may be in the form of savings. “By amending the act to remove ‘this clause you will force these people to accept benefits. Once a person draws on the fund, he abglishes his future claim to benefits until he secures re-employment.” % C. D... Alexander, '* Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce prey ery and Henry - Cochrane, ; IndianaManufacturers’ Association secretary, said they didn’t-see the reason for the swiftness with which this .measure was being considered by the Legislature. It was passed by the Senate Thursday under suspension of rules a few minutes after it was’ intreduced, but the House decided a public hearing should be held before final action was taken. .-This stood in. the way of adjournment’ of the special session yesterday. - Asking that the Legislature consider “this money in the fund 0 a trust,” Mr. Alexangier said: :
Opposes Swift Action
“This whole thing has been brought out as an afterthought. If it is an afterthought, is it hecessary to rush this bill through in one day?” “When the new law was enacted,
ers that something now was being held out to encourage them to stabilize employment,” Mr. Cochrane said. “We have gone along with this program and co-operated with the Administration. Before this special session started, IT was assured that it would limit its consideration to the bills in the Governor's, .pro-
which requires unemployed persons | gram
to prove-they have earned $10 since April 1 before they can qualify for jobless benefits, Maximum benefit payments are $15 a week for 15 weeks. The Unemployment Compensation
.| Act now provides a sliding scale
under whieh: employer payments: are reduced as accumulations in his individual reserve accounts rise in comparison to his total payroll.
Rate Cut Estimated
Thus in 1940, if an employer's reserve account in. this fund is equal t0 7 per cent of his payroll of the proceeding year, the rate of his payment to the State for this fund will be reduced from -2.7 to 1.7 per cent. When the accumylation is up to 12% per cent but less than 17 per cent, his State payment. is reduced to .7 per cent and is gbolished when the accumulation reaches 17% per cent. Employers said the amendment, by reducing their individual reserve accounts, would take away some of the incentive now provided businessmen in the act to maintain stabilized employment, Labor groups have attacked at previous sessions the employer reserve account and have asked for inclusion of all of the ymoney in the general pool fund, tead of one-sixth as is now provided. “I have worked éver since \ihis session started to get this ‘$10 clause’ eliminated from the present act,” Carl Mullen, State Federation of Labor president, told the committee, Cites Old Opposition’
“In this public hearing today. you have listened to the same groups opposing: this amendment who op: posed “the act when it passed in previous sessions. “This fund does not represent the -employers’ money. , It is the money of the workers. I want to clear myself for ever having agreed to this ¢lause when the act was passed. I did it at that time as a compromise to get along jwith the. employers.” _ Frank B. Cliffe, assistant con-
“Then without ‘warning this bill was brought into the Senate. We should have been givén ample time to prepare facts and. figures. doubt if these facts could be odllested in less than 30 days. ” 9 ‘Emergency, White Sos
Explaining “the Seriate’s. speed in voting on this bill, Senator E. Curtis White (D. Indianapolis) said the proposal was an emergency. “Having been in the Legislature for 10 years, I have seen bill after bill pass, some of them appropriation measurés, without any: more consideration than is being given to this measure,” he sald. © “This is not one of the bills we agreed to consider when the session was called by the Governor. Hows éver, the emergency is so great that we think the measure should be passed now.” Alex Gordon, labor - leader and: Unemployment Compensation Board vice president, said- funds
totaling more than $4,000,000 had been paid out by the Division since April 1, but that contributions equaling that amount had been received by the Division. “In other words, we have approximately as much in the fund now ag when we started,” he said.
: Aid to 55,000 “By Sept. 15, approximately 55,000 workers now receiving ‘these payments will have been given their full quota of benefits. “If 35,000 workers, who would be qualified if this amendment 1s adopted, then were to begin réceiv-
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ing Basments for the next 15 weeks, | it would cost the fund approximate- |
ly $5,000,000. - But we would be receiving approximately. as much money as we ‘are now paying out, and again we would have approximately the same amount of money we had when we started, or, in
round figures, $28,000,000. : | Martin H. Miller, legislative offi-
cial of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, presented four men to the Committee who are disqualified
for benefits now because of the “$10 |
clause.” “If this amendment: is passed, it will put into circulation from three to five or six million dollars and every business and industry will reflect better conditions,” he said. Mr. Jackson, compensation division director, said passage of the bill’ would create a peak period of work for his Sifie staff. |
Poison Arrows Are Defended For Bushmen
‘CAPETOWN, July 30. (U:. P)— Unless they are allowed to use poison ‘arrows to shoot game, Africa’s Stone Age men, the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert, will die out from starvation. ‘This is the contention of the Bushmen Preservation Committee, on which the British Government, the South African Government, the Southwest Africa Administration and the University of South Africa are represented. The committee was formed as a result of the inat created when a group of the
| “little brown people” came to Cape-
town last year to pay homage at the Coronation, - The trouble is that there is an international convention for the preservation of Africa’s fauna and flora, ohne clause of which forbids the use of poison for hunting. “If ‘they are to be stopped from ing poisoned: arrows, then they must be provides wiih Blears if they are no e of s on. a would be extremely inadvisable,” Senator Boydell, a member of the committee, declared. Senator Boydell contends that the bushmen could not possibly use enough poison t0 make any real difference to the fuana of Africa, and hopes that the committee may
be able to obtain a special reserve | tion for them, where they can live as |
they have for 16,000 years.
AUTO THIEVES MISS
‘OWNERS $287.CACHE
BANGOR, Me, July 30 (U. P).— Although Dennis Stubbs values his automebile at only $50, he had $337 worth of worry when theives stole the machine. For Stubbs had hidden $287 in cash under one of the seats. But the car was recovered, with the money intact.
AGED PAIR FAVORS PLANE FOR TRAVEL
PAULDING, O., July 30 (U. P.).— Myr. and Mrs J. A. Betts, respective82 and 73, recently took their 1a airplane ride. “That's the way to travel. We're going again socn, they said.
-robins “ganged-up”
* ‘Motorists wete going about the job of taking off the windshield gadgets today. The Governor signed’ the gadget law repealer yesterday. The law carried an emergency clause which made the repeal effective with the chief executive's signature, -
NOLAN WRIGHT NEW |
YOUNG G. 0. P. HEAD
Frank Livengood | Appointed Veterans’ Chairman.
”~ dpi iis Nolan Wright, 31, Anderson, today succeeded James M. Tucker, Paoli, as chairman of the Young Republican Organization of Indiana, it was announced by State Chairman Archie N. Bobbitt. Mr. Tucker is the Republican nominee for secretary of state.
Meanwhile, appointment of Frank
E. Livengood, 436 N. Sherman Drive, Stafford Engraving Co. secretary, as chairman of Republican Veterans of Marion County, was announced by Carl Vandivier, . Marion County G. O. P. clairman. Mr. Bobbitt also announced appointment of John D. Hughes, 28, Indianapolis attorney, as. executive secretary of the organization. Mr. Wright is vice president eof the Wellington Milling Co., Anderson, and has served as 11th District chairman of the Young Republicans. Mr. Hughes, a native of Terre Haute, has lived here 18 years. He is president of the Indianapolis DePauw University Alumni Associa-
Mr. Livengood, who succeeds William Riley, field artillery, 38th Division, during the World War. and also served during the Spanish-American War: He is commander of the Irvington Post, American Legion, d has been chairman of tHe Ninth Ward Republican Veterans.
ROBINS ROUT HAWK
HERKIMER, N. Y., July 30 (U. P.)—A chicken hawk attempted to rob a robin’s nest in the eaves of a house here, but a flock of angry on the marauder. The red-breasted birds swarmed over their larger foe and drove it off.
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- Left to- right are Rep. “Emory Carter . (D. Fairmount); Rep. Frank Thompson; (D. Bluffton), majority floor leader; Hassil Schenck, Indiana Farm
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CONT, FOR DARBARA PACT
Waives Right to Share of - Heiress’ Estate.
LONDON, July 30 (U. P.).—Count
‘} Court Haugwitz-Reventlow ~ was {quoted by a friend today assaying, | after he had signed a separation
agreement with his wife, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Revent-low, $40,000,000 5-and-10-cent store “Thank God that's over. I hope this statement will dispose of hideous reports suggesting that I was
after Barbara’s money.” In the agreement Count Haug-
.| witz-Revéntlow waived any. right he
might have had under Danish law to half of the Woolworth heiress’ estate. A substantial sum was sete tled, under the agreement, on their son, Lance.
EX-STATE OFFICIAL TO HEAD COLLEGE
MUNCIE, July 30 (U. P.).—The Rev. William Graham Everson, former Indiana Adjutant General, today announced that he will become president of Linfield College’ at MeMinnyille, ores: effective Sept. 1.
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Chancellor A. E. Mitchell signed the transfer order, Dr. H. A. Morgan, now chairman of TVA, and Director David E. Lilienthal of the Authority are named as defendants in the suit. »The action was fire filed in the State courts as Dr. Morgan also séeks judgment of $2916 he contends is due him in salary. Suits to originate in Federal Court must seek $3000 damage.
‘$900 KILLING GOES TO JURY ‘WAYCROSS, Ga., July 30 (U. P). —A jury today deliberated the fate of an 18-year-old waitress accused by her lover of entering & corispiracy with him to slay his 12-year-0ld son for 8800 life insurance. Judge M. D. Dickerson ordered the Jury lockéd
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