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AF.L PARLEY TORN BY SLAP AT NEW DEAL
| Delegates Sidetrack Report
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Charging Trend to ‘Socialism.’
THE LABOR SITUATION HOUSTON—A. F. of L. shelves report on New Deal C. 1. 0. Rally here to hear Van A. Bittner. DETROIT—New Martin-Ben-nett talks expected. 2200 auto plant workers strike, SAN FRANCISCO—Hint progress in strike talks, WASHINGTON —Lewis mine union leaders, HOUSTON, Tex The A. F. of LL, vention session today, upset its pol-| sidetracked a re-
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makers and port charging that the present pol- | icies of the New Deal are pointed toward “socialism.” The report, which did not eriticize President Roosevelt, but sharply assailed the trend of New Deal poi-| icles toward increased state control | over lives of the people, was referred to the Federation's Executive Council There is cone agam scheduled Friday Vitriolic debate preceded the first which the powerful resolutions committee, headed by Matthew Woll, has suffered in years. |
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George Q. Lynch, head of the Pat-| tern Makers, led the attack. He shouted from the floor that the report would be construed as a sweeping assault on New Deal and that it represented only the views of Mr. Woll and John P. Frey, head the Metal Trades Department secretary of the resolutions He demanded that it be the Executive Council William Green showed He described the analvsis of and politics,” that 1 a He complained that the to place the Federa-| tion on record In opposition to the; Rorah-O Mahoney Federal Licensing| Act which the A. F. of IL. previously | had indorsed. ! Mr. Woll jumped to his feet pro-| tes that Mr. Lynch was in error and that the report represented the views of the entire committee. Mr Frev vigorously denied that it was n attack on the licensing bill and t it, sought merely to recommend a policy of caution,
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The unexpected revolt threw the convention into confusion. Mr. Green locked down at delegates In amazement and finally recognized Edwar Gainor, president of the Letter Carriers. from among those clamoring for the floor. In his shirtsleeves, Mr. Gainor strode to the platform and made a heated plea for “rugged inBut he defended Ad istration’s economic and social reforms, protesting that had to be done” Some delegates were uncertain when Mr. Gainor concluded whether he was for or against the report. With delegates milling about the fall and with the convention in tumult. William MecSorley, Cleveof the Wood, Wire and Lathan amendment to the report which would shunt the report back te the Executive Council from which it will not emerge until next if then.
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DUSHANE TO HEAD | SANATORIUM BOARD
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Donald DuShane of Columbus been named president of the newly appointed Board of Trustees for tha proposed Southern Indiana Tuberculosis Hospital, Thurman A Gottschalk, State Institutions supervisor, announced today The new hospital is to be erected on the site of the present Floyd County Sanatorium at New Albany Other officers are Harley Williams of Muncie, vice president; Dr. Augustus P. Hauss of New Albany, secretary, and John P. F. Thurston, Summittville, treasurer,
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Today's Discovery Day; Columbus Arrived
By JOE COLLIER NTOP us if you've heard this, but Columbus sailed from Spain to America 446 years ago, arriving Oct. 12 with the aid of a magnetic compass. Today. being Columbus Day, is as good a time as any for you to know that, and a better day than most for employees in banks, the State House, Court House and
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to work. Columbus did not navigate blindly. According to Prof. Walter J. Seeley, Duke University, who disclosed to Science Service this vear that Alexander Neckam, who died in 1217. wrote the following in his book De Natura Rerum: “The sailors, moreover, as they sail over the sea, when in cloudy weather they can no longer profit by the light of the sun, or when the world is wrapped in the darkness of the shades of the night, and they are ignorant to what part of the horizon the prow is directed, place the needle over the magnet, which is whirled ‘round in a circle, until, when the motion ceases the point of it (the needle) looks to the North.”
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the world was round was not uncommon, according to recent evidence Nevertheless, Columbus still has an enviable niche in history as the celebration of Discovery Day exemplifies. A Columbus celebration the Clavpool Hotel, starting at 7:30 o'clock. Several patriotic speeches will precede a program of music and dancing, according to Dominic Palamara, chairman of the committee,
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PLEA RENEWED FOR AUDITORIUM
Fair Coliseum Not Planned For Big Conventions, Davis Says. Officers of the Indianapolis Con-
vention and Publicity Bureau today told bureau members that the pro-
‘posed new Coliseum at the State act of the Adjustment Board is un-
Fair Grounds will “in no manner solve the problem of this City in
ventions.” In a statement signed by Henry T. Davis, secretary-manager, the of-
ficers said that they have been in-,
formed by the members of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture vhat the new building will not be built with facilities to care for conventions and that the Board does not anticipate any convention revenue from it The statement said that the City adequately is provided with places for large meetings, but none of these is equipped for large conventions. What the City lacks, the statement small meeting halls and exhibition space all under one roof and close to the business district. Bonds for $625000 soon will
State's share of the estimated £1.000.000 cost of the Coliseum. PWA will furnish the remainder. building is to be ready vear's fair. The statement
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said that Indianapolis lacks convention facilities “found in 25 or 30 other cities throughout the United States,” ing “The large conventions,
and more desirable the large trade and professional groups. will not sider facilities located at tance (Fair Grounds) from the center of the business district because of transportation difficulties, the problem of feeding the delegates. and the fact that, In case, these conventions are conducted in connection with a large trade show which provide income for the expenses of the convention.”
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DOWNSTATE CRASH
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JEFFERSONVILLE, Oct. 12 P).—Three men were killed today in an auto-truck crash 25 miles north of Jeffersonville. A fourth man was injured seriously. Those Killed were B. C. Norris, 44, and Charles Olson, 50, both of Indianapolis, and O. C. Miller, 65, New Albany. Carl Reed, 30, New Albany, driver of the produce truck, received serious cuts and bruises but is expected to recover. Norris and Olson were en route to Indianapolis after visiting friends in Jeffersonville. Miller was riding with Reed in the truck. Authorities said the drivers apparently became blinded by the lights and crashed headon.
BULLETIN
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (1, P.).—Seeretary of State Hull said today it was understood the British Government would make no final decision regarding further admission of Jews to Palestine until Nov. 1 or after. Several thousand telegrams from American Jews have been received by the State Department, asking diplomatic action to keep Palestine open for the Jews,
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TAX HEARINGS ARE DELAYED
With Postponement, Zoercher Says.
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Morrissey, School Board to Ask That Budget Cuts Be Restored.
Philip Zoercher, State Tax Board chairman, * today announced the] {| Board's consideration of Marion County budget requests would not begin until Nov. 14. The hearing originally was scheduled for Oct. 18. Mr. Zoercher said the Board | “simply didn't have time” to hold | the hearing before that date. | He said the postponement had nothing to do with the election Nov. 8. Mrs. H. Benjamin Marks, vice president of the Citizens Tax Protest Committee, when informed of | the postponement said: “That is terrible. I'am surprised | | at the postponement.” |
Representatives of other taxpayers’ associations and of the Cham- | ber of Commerce could not be { reached for comment,
Seek Budget Increase
Meanwhile, Police Chief Morris{sev and the School Board announced they would earry their | fights for increased budgets to the {| State Board. Items in the budget lof each were reduced by the Marion | County Tax Adjustment Board. | Mr. Zoercher said that Charles Benjamin, a Tax Board member, {is to attend the National Association of Tax Assessors at Cincinnati] Oct. 19, 20 and 21, and that he and! Marshal Williams, other Board members, are to attend the National Tax Association conference in Detroit, Oct. 24, 25 26, 27 and 28 “Not only that.” he said. don't have all the reports from {Marion County that we need. {told the County Auditor what we neeaed yesterday.” Chief Morrissev will ask for $4000 with which to install two-way radio! communication in squad cars, and the School Board will ask for re- | storation of three cents cut from the | prospective levy on the ground that | ‘the cut would impede its building program | The School Board passed a resolution last night, claiming that “the
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‘bidding for large and desirable con- of the General Assembly of Indiana |
{of 1937.” The resolution further stated that the three-cent “reduction is con-| trary to the best interests of the School City of Indianapolis and that it will jeapordize the progress of the | needed building program.” If the police radio slash, made by (Continued on Page Three)
BRITISH WARNING T0 JAPS REPORTED
IN THE FAR EAST
LONDON—British warning to Tokyo reported. HONGKONG Japanese begin drive on Canton, IN EUROPE JERUSALEM — Arabs battle Rritish in new clashes, KOMARON — Czechs, Hungarians, reported near accord. PRAHA — Labor camps for jobless announced. ROME -— Continued defense measures hinted. PARIS — Report envoy to Rome selected, PERPIGNAN Ex-Loyalist commander on trial,
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LONDON, Oct. 12 (U. P.).—Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassa- | dor at Tokyo, has warned the Japanese Government that BritishJapanese relations might be imperiled by a Japanese invasion of | Southern China, it was said au- | thoritatively today. | Lord Craigie’s representation was {made at the Japanese Foreign Of- | fice in the last few days. It was {understood he reminded the Japanese Government of Britain's economic and political interests in Hong Kong and South China generally, pointing out the risk of im{pairment of relations which might result from any “incidents” during Japanese operations in South China, | which were reported started today.
Japs Cut Railroad
In Drive Toward Canton
HONGKONG, Oct. 12 (U. P).— Japanese naval, land and air forces | invaded South China today, cutting! the important Kowloon Railroad and (Continued on Page Three)
REPORTS SEEING MAN RESEMBLING DUVALL
Harry S. Allison, 618 E. 30th St. reported to police today that he saw a man resembling Raymond Duvall, sought on charges of slaying an Indianapolis foundry operator. | on the commons along Fall Creek | north of the 30th St. bridge. Duvall is accused of the holdup murder March 23 this vear of Clayton Potts. owner of the C. and G. Potts & Co. 816 Washington Ave. and is accused by the Federal Government of participation in the
Mr. Hull revealed.
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Mrs. J. H. Smiley, general chairman of the Methodist Woman's Home Missionary Society convention here. confers with (left to right), Miss Ruth Esther Wheaton, Cincinnati, editor of the Women's
SPEAKER URGES Calumet Cheers Van Nuys; UNITED COUNCIL Ek hart to Hear Knox
Willis Visits Bloomington, Senator to Push Fight for Spends Busy Day on | Antilynching Bill, He I. U. Campus. Says at Gary.
TOM OCHILTREE Times Staff Writer GARY, Oct. 12.—-Lake Counlisher and Vice Presidential candi-| ty Democratic leaders today indate in 1936, is to address a Third | formed U. S. Senator VanNuys that Distriet Republican rally at Elkhart he could expect the overwhelming Oct. 24. Richard James, State speak- support of Calumet’s industrial ers bureau head, announced today. Population. usually the deciding Although plans factor in all elections in this area. : While Republican spokesmen conhave not been completed, Col. Knox ceded that the Democrats probably will deliver the only major address would carry this county, which on the program, Mr, James said. forms the First Congressional DisArt ments for the Third Dis- | trict, they predicted the margin rrange Gi would be much smaller than the trict rally are in the hands of Frank |two-to-one majority which the and the Methodist Protestant divi- Smith, Elkhart County G. O. P. pemocrats received in 1936. sions, which Mrs. Goode termed chairman. | State Democratic leaders were Publisher of the Chicago Daily trainin gtheir heaviest barrage this |News since 1931, Col. Knox rode week on Lake County. Following an Pleading that women be given an With Theodore Roosevelt's Rough| address last night at Hammond, opportunity to work in the new Riders during the Spanish-Amer-| Senator VanNuys addressed a meetMethodist Church. she advocated ican War and served as a colonel) ing here today sponsored by Negro that the three denominations have of the 365th Field Artillery in the voters. Senator Minton is to speak lay delegates, World War. tonight in Crown Point. He is a former member of the U. : {S. Board of Indian Commissioners Assails Mob Action the organization's quring the Administration of Presi-| In his address here, Senator Vanpurpose as a promoter of world con- gent Taft. He served as chairman Nuys promised to continue to fight sciousness, not as Americans, Chi-/of the Republican State Committee for passage of the anti-lynching nese or English, but as Christians. |i, Michigan for two years and in bill. “We are thankful not to be in 1912 was named chairman of the| “I have a horror of brutality, and war, although ashamed of the terms new Hampshire delegation to the of the persecution of minority of peace, because of our belief that 5 © Pp, national convention at Chi-| 8r0uPs by mobs, and I believe the there can be no peace until there is | majority of the American people are a righteous peace based upon the | with me,” the Senator said. rights of man,” she said. “This anti-lynching bill is deSpeaking of the unification pro- signed to protect Negroes from the gram, Mrs. V. F. DeVinny, St. Paul, frenzied and unreasonable hate of
Minn., corresponding secretary, said mobs, and it this afternoon: (Continued on Page Four)
‘Willis Spends Busy “We shall face many lex T; : : problems in i Time in Bloomington
union; but the things we now have Times Special in common far outweigh our dif-| BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 12. —Rayferences and in spiritual objectives, mond E. Willis, Republican Senawe are already united. Let us en- torial ince. b a visage the strength of more than BS nominee, ran : four million Methodist women in the round of meetings and receptions United States. Let us leave the beat-| with Indiana University officials, en path and blaze new trails.” faculty and students here today Mrs. E. L. Freeman was named after speaking at a Terre Haute local chairman of tellers this morn- rally last night. ing. Indianapolis women to assist| He will give a Columbus Day adher are Miss Eloise Miller, Miss (Continued on Page Four)
Eloise Palmer and Mesdames F, G. pi — Synuwwed on Poze 1) SHOWERS, COOLER WEATHER FORECAST
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Methodist President Decries Munich Pact, Asks Co-ordination.
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Home Missionary Society, today recommended establishment of a united board of mission strategy in the opening address of the organization's 37th annual meeting at the Roberts Park Church. The sessions are to through Tuesday. More than are expected to attend The plan to unify all women's missionary organizations is an outgrowth of the pending consolidation | of the Methodist Episcopal Church, | the Methodist Church of the South |
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LOCAL DEMOCRATS T0 RALLY TONIGHT
Meetings to Be on North and South Sides.
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Democrats, waving torchlights, will march through North Side | streets in an old-fashioned political parade tonight, preceding a twin rally program. Shortly after a North Side mass meeting gets under way at 7 p. m. under a huge tent at 34th St. and Central Ave., another Democratic campaign meeting will open at Morris and Madison Sts. on the South : Side. week | Showers tonight and tomorrow | The principal speaker at both forced were predicted today by the meetings is to be Charles West, a few | Weather Bureau with cooler weather | President Roosevelt's Congressional | forecast for tomorrow afternoon. | (Continued on Page Four)
FLIERS HOP OFF AGAIN Times Specinl RICHMOND, Oct. MecDaniels and Russell Morris hopped off at 7 a. m. today for! their third attempt to set a new endurance flight record for lighter airplanes. Two attempts failed last when mechanical trouble
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Munich Pact Failed to Lay Basis For Permanent Peace, Public Thinks
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP
American Institute of Public Opinion
NEW YORK. Oct. 12.—Incomplete ITHIN one day after the four-power conference in Munich
sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, the American Institute of Public Opinion began a nation-wide survey of the attitude of American voters. Incomplete returns are summarized below.
“Do you believe that England and France did the best thing in giving in to Germany instead of going to war?”
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“Do you think that Germany's demand for the annexation of the Sudeten German areas in Czechoslovakia was justified?”
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the Czech crisis show that a ma-| jority of American voters believe that Hitler's demands for annexa-| tion of Sudetenland were not justi-| fied, but that England and France| did the best thing in giving in to] Germany rather than going to war over that particular issue. The survey also finds that at a time when European chancellories were proclaiming a new era of peace, American public remained skeptical, the majority believing the Czech settlement has not laid the basis for peace in Europe. | The survey to test American sentiment was begun by the Institute within 24 hours after the fourpower conference in Munich which ended the war crisis by partitioning the Czech state. Through a nation-wide staff of
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“Do you think that this settlement (agreed to by England, France and Germany) will result in peace for a number of years or in a greater possibility of war?”
WAR
|was a deep-seated horror of war.| But among voters who have a
Six voters in 10 said they thought definite opinion as to what the fu-
more than 600 : sti England and France acted wisely oe a or a field investigators, in avoiding bloodshed over the ture may hold, a majority of nearly 3 to 2 say the Czech settle-
the Institute canvassed the opinions Czech issue of a cross-section of American vot-| ON : ment has not removed the possibility Typical comments on this ques-| of war.
Their predominant reaction was! tion were: “It saved a lot of lives,”| This sentiment, which is also said one of sympathy for Czechoslovakia, “Czechoslovakia was not a big{to be growing in the capitals of evidenced by a vote of more than 7 enough issue for a world war,” and |Europe, was reflected in such comto 3 that Hitler's demands on the “it hurt the Czechs but England ments as “Hitler won't be satisfied,” little republic were not justified. {and France were not ready for ajand “He's puffed up with success But overshadowing this sentiment world war.” and will want pore." 3)
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STATE AND U.\. TRADE INDICE SHOW UPSWING
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Additional In Last Half of 38 Predicted.
BUILDING IN LEAD
Million Go Back to Work in Period of Five Months.
(Copyright, 1938, by Unlted Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—Business is gaining momentum at a pace which indicates that national income for the final six months of this year will be about five billion dollars more than in the first half. That would he the largest secondhalf expansion in more than a
Indiana Increases 30 Millions.
JOBS, WAGES UP
Postal Receipt Jump Another Indication Of Recovery.
Taxable business income in In= diana for the second quarter of this | year gained an estimated 3012 mil|lion dollars over the preceding three months, it was reported today. A 6 per cent increase in employ= ment and payrolls in State indusetries from mid-August to mid-Sep= tember; an all-time record number of placements by the Indiana Em-=
decade, but the figure for the full year will be well below those of 1936 and 1937. All major lines of business have improved substantially irom year's low and economists and businessmen estimated today that the final three months would be marked by further recovery. Increased industrial activity has been reflected in employment. Current estimates are that more than one million persons have gone back to work in the past five months. Economists for the Alexander Hamilton Institute believe that na|tional income produced in the last |six months of 1938 may reach $30,600,000,000, compared with $25,400,000.000 in the first six months, {when the total was the smallest since 1934.
Better Than Expected
| On that basis, the year’s total of '56 billion dollars would compare | with $69,817,000.000 last year, highest since the 1929 record of $81.- | 128,000,000, with $63,466,000,000 in 1936 and $55,186,000,000 in 1935. The showing for the final half would be considerably better than anticipated early this year. | In May this year, according to fig{ures of the National Industrial Con- | ference Board, 11,362,000 persons | were without jobs. Since then, more than a million persons have gone (Continued on Page Three)
SMOKE BOARD MAPS PLANS FOR WINTER
City Officials Invited to Meeting Tomorrow.
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The Indianapolis Smoke Control Board today invited Mayor Boetcher and other City officials to discuss with it tomorrow plans for the fall and winter antismoke campaign. J. J. Liddy, Board president, said he had invited Dr. Herman G. Mor‘gan, Health Board secretary, J. Ww. | Clinehens, City Combustion Engineer, City Council members, the Safety Board, George R. Popp Jr. Building Commissioner, and Chief Morrissey. The discussion will be general, Mr. Liddy said. “We are calling the meeting to map plans because this is the be- | ginning of the period when smokecontrol becomes a real problem to Indianapolis,” Mr. Liddy said.
OPENING HOUR NEARS IN FUND CAMPAIGN |
700 Women Organized Into Residential Division.
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The 19th annual Indianapolis Community Fund campaign will be opened at noon tomorrow with a meeting at the Claypool Hotel of more than 500 of the 3000 volunteer
workers. The meeting will be addressed by
| Dr. Donald H. Tippett, Columbus, | O., president of the Columbus and | Franklin County, O., Council of So- | cial Agencies and a director of the Columbus Community Fund. Goal of the drive is $711,633. Fund | workers expect to complete solicita- | tion work by Oct. 25. The first re- | port meeting is to be held Friday noon at the Indianapolis Athletic | Club. The residential division, a new department in the campaign, is composed of 700 women from the various | neighborhoods in the city. | Mrs. James L. Murray is general division chairman. Her area chair{men are: West, area, Mrs. H. P | Willwerth; south area, Miss Kath- | erine McPherson; east area, Mrs. | Walter Krull; northeast area, Mrs. 'M. Earl Robbins, and north area, Mrs. William B. Schiltges.
BOARD RE-ELECTS HOKE
Fred J. Hoke, vice president of |
Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing
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third term as president of the Indiana State Welfare Board. Mrs. Richard Edwards, Peru, was reelected vice president for her third term.
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ployment Service last month and a [jump in Indianapolis postal receipts |also were viewed as barometers indicating an upturn in Indiana busi= | ness. Since the gross income tax is {levied principally on the volume of business transacted, its collections prove a reasonably accurate barometer of business conditions, according to Clarence A. Jackson, tax divie sion head. The collections show In=improvement “has since Jan. 1,” hs
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gained impetus said. Collections Up 10 Per Cent
The gross tax report also revealed a 10 per cent increase in the cole lected revenue in income taxes for the fiscal vear ending June 30, 1338, over the preceding year. The business volume estimate was made on the basis of a $304,061.06 increase in collected gross taxes from Indiana industries during the sec=ond quarter of the year over the first quarter, a jump of approxi=mately 8.03 per cent. Mr. Jackson predicted on the basis |of preliminary reports ‘a further increase” during July, August and September over the preceding thres months. During the second quarter of the year approximately $4,091,643 in gross taxes was collected by the | State.
6430 Jobs in Month
The State Employment Service reported that through its activities 6430 workers were returned to pri= vate employment in the state last month, the greatest re-employment record since 1933. All employment gains are not re=flected in the Employment Service, however, Mr. Carpenter said. Employment and payrolls in 2313 Indiana establishments which covered 132,496 wage earners expanded 6.1 and 6.3 per cent respectively from mid-August to mid-September over the preceding period. | Reports from 835 factories employing 92874 workers in September [showed increases of 7.6 per cent in employment and 8.7 per cent in payrolls, the Service report showed. Martin F. Carpenter, Service director, said the normal manufactur{ing gain for this period is 3.6 per |cent. | |
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Other Increases Expected
A 2.7 per cent gain in employment and a .7 per cent gain in payrolls [in 1477 nonmanufacturing indus= tries was shown in the report. | “The gains have been so pro(nounced that corresponding in|creases are anticipated in other industries not yet reported,” Mr. Cars= penter said. An earlier report covering activ= {ities of all types of industries in | August as compared to July this |year showed the automobile business on the upswing. Employment land payrolls in this industry ine creased 6.5 and 11.4 per cent ree spectively. Building trades showed a seasonal marked increase in employment and payrolls during August. The increases were 20.3 per cent and 36.7 per cent respectively. Retail trade showed continued steady gains with increase of .3 per cent in employment during August. However, payrolls during that |month fell off a fraction of 1 per | cent.
Postal Receipts Ahead
Postal receipts, usually considered a business barometer, showed an in|crease in Indianapolis last month of $19,338.39 over the same month a | year ago. In the report for activities one month later, September over August the most noteworthy employment gains were shown in rubber products, 28.9 per cent; nonferrous metals and products, 16.7 per cent; transporta= tion equipment, 15.1 per cent; foods {and kindred products, 14.1 per cent; lumber and allied products, 9.4 per cent, and machinery, 6.2 per cent. |All the industries showed payroll | gains.
DUROCHER NAMED DODGERS’ MANAGER
NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (U., P).—= Lippy Leo Durocher, fiery captain and shortstop, today was named manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, replacing Burleigh Grimes. The announcement was made by Larry MacPhail, executive vice president of the Brooklyn club, at a luncheon for baseball writers. Durocher was signed for one year, The salary was not announced. Babe Ruth, who coached Brooklyn part of last season, will not be back. 3