Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1938 — Page 13

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WPA TOY HOSPITAL ‘OPERATES’ . ./. . . DOLLSHAVEFACESLIFTED . . . . . . . DISCARDED PLAYTHINGS WELCOMED

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County ‘Grass Roots’

Conference Organizes

For New Regime and 1940 Drive;

Legislation

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tives will be set up soon by Marion County Democrats, it was announced today following a “grass roots” conference of County and City officials. In a two-hour “closed session” at the Court House yesterday, newly elected Democratic officials and party leaders “reorganized” for a new regime in governmental policies and campaigning for the 1940 election.

Also plans were discussed «for a County legislative program in the forthcoming session of the General Assembly next month, When several bills affecting County offices are expected to be introduced. It was reported some County offi“cials discussed the possibility of a readjustment of the distribution of State funds ‘to local units of government. Officials have complained that Marion County departments have not received their share of State tax monies. County Democratic Chairman Ira Haymaker said he may appoint a special committee to work out legislative reforms needed to modernize County and City governments “but there is nothing definite to say about it at this time.” : Mr. Haymaker said he will seek a site. for permanent headquarters in the vicinity of the Court House within the next few weeks and or- © ganize a full-time staff. “With scores of department heads and hundreds of public employees in the County and City administrations, a permanent Democratic headquarters is necessary. to co-or-dinate party activities,” he said. “I intend to make the chairmanship a full-time job.”

Hint Fee System Studied.

The County Democratic organization has maintained headquarters only during election years in the past. . Some problems in County and City patronage incident to the general shift of officials after Jan. 1 .also were discussed at the conference: \ With only a few of more _ than 400 appointments for the new 1938 administrations announced, new of ficials apparently are marking time with appointinents until the “go’ sign is given by party chiefs. : Rumors of disagreements on some appointments were reported. Several new officials said they have their appointments made but “can’t announce them publicly for a few days.”

STEEL FIRM BUILDS SCRAP BALING PLANT

Purchase of the site formerly occupied by the National Dry Kiln Co. at the northwest corner of Maryland and Leota Sts. by the American Compressed Steel Corp. was announced today by W. A. Brennon, Inc., realtors. 3 The corporation has started the construction of a concrete lock, one-story ‘building to house steel compressor machinery for compressing and baling scrap metal for shipping. Approval of the operation was granted by the City Board of Zoning Appeals Monday and the plant, representing an investment of $50,000, is expected to be completed in Six weeks.

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'L. A. DOWNS ELECTED BOARD CHAIRMAN

‘L. A. Downs of Greencastle has been elected chairman of the Illinois

Central System’s Board of Directors, ||

it was announced today. Mr. Downs formerly was president. J. L. Beven was elected to succeed Mr.. Downs at the same meeting at Chicago. ? Mr. Downs is a director of the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago and a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. In 1929 he received

the honorary degree of doctor of||

engineering from Purdue.

DANIELSON’S EDGE IS SET AT 20 VOTES

LA PORTE, Ind. Dec. 15 (U. P.),

. _ =Walter F. Danielson’s winning tnargin over Martin T. Krueger, vet-

eran Democrat, in the close La|

Porte County legislative race, to‘day was set at 20 votes by the re- , count board. . Mr. Danielson’s victory in the recount assured Republicans of a twomember majority in the House of Representatives—51 to 49. 3 Final official totals of the board . gave Mr. Danielson 13,081 and Mr. Krueger 13,061. Mr. Danielson had won by 48 votes, according to official figures following the election.

POLICE INVESTIGATE CCC SHOOTING, ROW

S CHESTERTOWN, Md.,, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Police® sought today to

‘establish responsibility for a shooting’ *and brick-throwing - melee directed at CCC members who were singing hymns at a soil erosion camp near here. Several CCC members were taken to a hospital for treatment but none apparently was seriously injured.

& BOY SLAYER CHAMPIONED LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 15 (U. P.).— The State Board of Pardons and Paples, headed by Governor R. L. Cochran, considered today a plea that Gary L. Ames, 14-year-old murderer be given a chance to start life anew at “Boys Town,” famous community for homeless and way-

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CLAYPOOL SALE HEARING JAN. 4

Bid of $262,980 by School In East to Be Up For Approval.

A hearing for final approval of the sale of the controlling stock in the Claypool Hotel will be held in Probate Court Jan. 4. Probate Judge Smiley Chambers set the hearing date after attorney’s representing Waddam’s Hall, a boys’ school in Ogdensburg, N. Y,, submitted the highest bid, $262,980, for the holdings. The stock involved in the sale is owned by beneficiaries of the estate of Mrs. Adelaide Lawrence, former president of the hotel, who died two years ago. Waddam’s Hall is the principal beneficiary of the Lawrence will, having received 37 per cent. of the million-dollar estate. * The only other bidder was Willia A. Atkins, representing the Severin Hotel Co. Hg offered $255,675 for the 2922 shares of common stock held by the estate. The appraised value-of the stock is $248,370, which is about 57 per cent of all the hotel common stock.

GADGET’ BASIS FOR CIVIL SUIT

Plaintiff Asks Accounting of Firm’s Monies and

Permanent campaign headquarters with a full-time staff of execu-

These toys, rebuilt and repaired by WPA workers at. the WPA toy hospital, 102 S. Capitol Ave., will make many underprivileged children happy on Christmas morning. Nellie Day places a refurbished wooden

dog on the shelf of completed toys.

headless, doll for repairing.

Floyd Sumner visits the doll ward to get a legless, and maybe The rehabilitated toys will be placed in a “store” where parents of needy children may make their selections, after being certified by relief authorities.

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Randall Stuck looks over the which will be completely repaired discarded toys may leave them at will collect them. “The Hospital”

Times Photos. pile of broken and play-worn toys before Christmas. Anyone having a fire station, where WPA workers may become a year-round project.

Assets.

Indiana’s erstwhile windshield gadgets, the subject of legal battles in State and Federal Courts the first six months of this year, were the basis of another court action today. George C. Clark asked an accounting of moneys and assets of the Visible Registration Card Holder Co., in a suit on file against M, J. Hanrahan, company president, in Superior Court 3 today. Mr. Clark charged that the company owes him 20 shares of stock for his part in “inventing the gadget.” The company sold them to the State which distributed them to auto owners at 25 cents each. The law requiring the gadgets was repealed during the special session of - the Legislature last summer. Company officials could not be reached for comment.

Frisco Employers Disband - Union-Baiting Organization

New Council Signifies Recognition of Labor’s Status and Willingness to Co-Operate.

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By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer

9 : rASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Another sign of the changing times ap-

pears in San Francisco.

The old and hard-boiled Industrial

Association of San Francisco, which has been the heart of the employers’ anti-labor union fighting for years, is folding up, and a new organization, prepared to recognize the new era in labor relations, is replacing it, under the name of the San Francisco Employers Council.

ft is a symptomatic change, reflécting the gradual acceptance by employers of a new status for labor, and -signifying a desire for a more co-operative attitude between cdpizal and labor. Mr. Roosevelt probably hasn't very many votes in this group and its hero isn’t John L. Lewis. Nevertheless the new councit is a recognition by San Francisco employers that labor organization is here to stay, that labor legislation is here to stay and that the main job now is to reach a working understanding which will reduce the heavy conimunity losses which San Francisco has suffered during years of Litter labor warfare.

One who is thoroughly familiar with the purposes behind the new San Francisco Employers Council explains the situation to me as follows: “We really think that we are going places here in the rearticulation of industry and business and labor with the new mechanism. You wil] note the absence of any ‘open shop’ or ‘closed shop’. principles or any attempt to save the Constitution by defending the rights of the workers to organize or not to organize. We are out with our coats off as an employers’ organization, formed for the benefit of employers on the basis of a fair shake for all hands. It’s my personal belief that the rest of the country will be following along the road during the next few years.” : : : ” 2 ” HE new organization is a natural development of the experiences which San Francisco employer's have been through in recent yzars. At the moment San

Francisco's labor relations prob- i

ably are: better than they have been since 1933 The city is at peace and business in fair shape, Employers are amused by reports which have pictured San Fran-

cisco as under the control of 100,000 C. I. O. men, when actually

the total organized labor strength’

probably is far below that. The new Employers’ Council was born, under the leadership of Roger Lapham, a progressiveminded San Francisco business man, out of recent negotiations with both C. I. O. and the A. F.

‘of L. which resulted in three-year

and five-year master contracts in the wholesaling industries as well as in better agreements on the waterfront. This in itself is regarded as a good omen because

‘employers’ organizations often be-

gan as strike-breaking, unionbaiting affairs born out of industrial warfare rather than out of peace negotiations. In forming the new council, the business leaders were inspired partly by reports of the Presi-

dent’s commission which recently studied labor relations in. England, where employers organized first to fight unions and later developed machinery by which employers could work out satisfactory agreements with labor.organ=izations. The gist of that report was that England found that strong employers’ organizations and strong .unions both were desirable—that relations were best when both sides were strongly organized. ” ”

UCH changes as are -taking 1) place among San Francisco employers do not mean that businessmen suddenly have undergone a 100 per cent conversion to the New Deal religion. When the National Association of Manufacturers last week took a more moder-

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ate position in its resolutions, it was only. after a rough fight against the die-hards who later slipped in a committee report de-

| nouncing New Deal labor lggisla-

tion and got it adopted by the association. Similarly, the effort of

San Francisco employers to take a more reasonable attitude will encounter die-hard resistance. Yet it is significant that leaders who want to take a more cooperative attitude are able to get the upper-hand in two such hardboiled employers’ strongholds as the N. A. M. and the;San Francisco Industrial Association.

LUDLOW QUITS FIGHT FOR 2-GENT STAMPS

Contends Postoffice Losing ‘Lot of Business.’

Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. /~ Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) said today that he doesn’t intend to renew his

fight for restoration of the 2-cent stamp for general first-class mail. Since the 3-cent stamp was first inaugurated for general use, on the grounds that it was needed for increased revenue, Mr, Ludlow, who is chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Postoffice. and Treasury, has been seeking to declare the emergency over and restore the 2-cent stamp to its former use, -It can now be employed for firstclass mail only on intracity letter deliveries. ; Mr. Ludlow has contended that the postoffice is losing a lot of business

which they could get from concerns

using direct-by-mail advertising in

[the 2-cent stamp days.

.But ~ since postal officials feel otherwise he has finally dropped the subject, he declared.

: ABDUCTION PROBED ! “Police today investigated a report that a man enticed a 6-year-old girl into his car as she was en route home yesterday from School 80, at 62d St. and Cornell Ave. The child

said the man told her he had been sent by her mother to take her to a physician’s office, but afte etting in the car, police were told, the girl became frightened and jumped out.

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