Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1938 — Page 7

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Days Earlier This Year, Is Report. | | ii The Christmas rush, which came

about five days earlier this year than last, is setting new records eyery

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ay. | A total of 850 extra men have been put to work to handle the increased volume of mail passing through the postoffice, an extra man being assigned to each of the city routes, Mr. Seidensticker said. For the first 15 days of December, the postoffice handled 20,653,358 pieces of mail, an increase of 652,028 over the same period last year, and

cash receipts are $11,504.33 ahead of |,

the same period in 1937, he said. The rush is expected to ease off Sunday and Monday when all but a skeleton force will be given a double holiday, Mr. Seidensticker said. Only special deliveries will be made Sunday, and Monday specials ard “gift parcels” are to be delivered. A holiday schedule will be nbserved on collection and deliveries of mail to hotels and the dispatch of

ORPHANS TO BE LEGION GUESTS

Holliday Post and Auxiliary To Stage Party for Rnightstown Girls.

Members of the John H. Holliday Jr. Post and Auxiliary of the America Legion will hold their annual Christmas party for girls in Division 2 of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Home of Knightstown at 6:30 p. m. today at the D. A. R. Hall. ]

dianapolis this afternoon in a special bus, accompanied by their chaperon, Miss M. Lyda Sparks. They were to be met by members of the auxiliary and taken through a downtown store toyland. At the Christmas party this evening the girls will be entertained by recitations and songs and accordion selections by Miss Juanita Timmons of Knightstown. They will be led in singing Christmas carols by Paul Whipple, accompanied by Mrs. Carl R. Switzer.

Following the program will be a turkey dinner provided by members of the auxiliary. : Members of both organizations have been asked to bring gifts of canned goods, toys, games, books or soap to be put in baskets which will be given to needy families.

EMPLOYMENT CHIEF TALKS TO CHEMISTS

Jobless Are Perennial Problem, Smith Says.

Unemployment is a perennial problem, George J. Smith, Indiana Employment Service district manager, told the American Chemical Society. Speaking at a luncheon in the Severin Hotel yesterday, Mr. Smith said that “unemployment has been with us in varying degrees almost since the beginning of time.”

over show that even while total employment is increasing at present 3.56 workers are separated each month for each 100 industrial jobs. This means that in American factories alone, 285,000. workers each month, or more than three million each year, have to seek new jobs.

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