Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1939 — Page 9
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Business Leaders . Home Building Will
*{ Much of the increase in 1038 was | attributed - ‘financing of homes costing less than |
‘during the depression years but ' were forced to postpone their plans
. dance of mortgage funds available
~ Iments, he said.
..| issued this year up to Dec. 24, as
1single houses increased from 325 in
« | yaluation in- 1937 was $2,425,160 and
“lof permits,
+amounted to $7,864,047 for 3087 per-
11929.” ' (the fact that new building con-
. (while normally “construction drops
DEMANDED BY STATE
Restoration of Direct Ship-
Restoration of foreign shipping di-
. [Freight Conferences at a maritime
‘leigh commerce of the Great Lakes.”
igive absolutely no direct service to
shipping direct from Great Lakes
. RAILWAYS EMBARK
+4in the City was operated with mule
from Union Union Station to North St.
ICOLD DISCOURAGES
+a look at the snow when he was “Ireleased from a night's free lodging
YEAR HH | IN REAL ESTATE
Predict
Provide Spark.
The best year in a decade was predicted for the real estate busi‘ness and construction trades in 1939 as- building leaders reviewed the sharp upturn during 1938.
the advantageous
to
'$6000 by Federal and private agen‘cies. and this factor is expected to
play a great part in the expected)
real estate activity next year, according to prominent realtors. ‘Col. C. B. Durham, president-elect of : the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, said there is an accumulated demand for new houses. Many famLilies wanted to build new homes
because of financial conditions, he stated. Conditions have changed now to the point where there is an abun-
for home building and improve-
Realtors and developers, Col Durham said, once more are optimistic and planning for the future instead of merely for the present.
Permit Total Rises
Building Commissioner George R. Popp Jr. reported that permits for 1782 new houses in this City were
compared with 485 permits issued last year. Permits for one story
1937 to 587 in 1938,
An increase of $848,413 in the total valuation of residence permits in 1938 over 1937 was achieved. The
in 1938 it was $3,273,573. The total valuation of all kinds including new homes, apartment buildings, garages, busi‘ness, industrial and public buildings, alterations and repairs in 1938
mits, as compared with 2974 permits issued in 1937 at a valuation of $7,230,242, an increase in valuation of $633,805. : The Producer's Council, a national organization of building material manufacturers, predicted that 500,000 new homes would be built throughcut the Nation in 1939 and said that the coming year would be “the best home building year since
Realtors counted as a good sign tinued until the end of the year,
‘the last few months of the year.
FOREIGN TRADE PORT
ping Urged.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 2 (U. P.)— \reetly from Great LaKes ports was (demanded of the U. S. Maritime {Commission today by R. F. Malia as spokesman for the Attorneys General of Wisconsin, Michigan, Othiio and |. Indiana. ~ Mr. Malia transmitted to the commission their reply to representations made by the North Atlantic
hearing conducted in Milwaukee iast summer and subsequently. The reply denounced what it termed ‘“‘alleged illegal efforts of the North Atlantic Freight Conferences to regulate and dominate the for-
Mr. Malia added his remarks as representative of the Great Lakes port cities and secretary of the Great Lakes Harbors Association. “The Atlantic steamship lines
Great Lakes ports,” he pointed out. “Their effort to make the Atlan‘tic coast a toll gate through which Great Lakes shipments must pass is contrary to law and must end. “We expect the Maritime Commission to order the domination of the Great Lakes by the Atlantic coast interests to stop. Foreign
ports must be brought back.”
UPON 75TH YEAR
had |
The Jadianapolis Railways as,
embarized upon its . 75th year Indianapolis today. The company reported its 383 ve- | hicles transported an average. of| 225,000 persons on weekdays during the heavy riding months in 1938. The payroll listed 1050 persons. Operations covered 102 route miles in the City. ; Observance of the "5th anniversary of mass transportation in the City, will be held in June. The first ‘permanent car line to be established
cars and extended on Illinois St.
"MICHIGAN PAROLEE
~ CLEVELAND, Jan. 2 (U. P).— Frank Wiley, 47 and homeless, took
in Central Police Station. ‘Then he turned and hiked back up to the detective bureau. “I'm wanted in Jackson, Mich. as 8 parole violator,” he told Detective Arthur * Schultz, “And besides it’s cold outside. Please lock me up.” yi Petective Schultz dj
SCHOOL CONTRACT LET
Times Special LOGANSPORT, Jan. 2 —The general construction contract for oe new Longfellow School building has been awarded to the Lawrence J. Street Construction Co. of Indianfpolis on a bid of $66, 41, it was unced today.
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W 7ASHIN GTON, Jan. 2 (U. - P.). — Appoint-
ment by President Roosevelt
of stanch New Dealer Frank Murphy as Attorney General occasioned hardly a
ripple of surprise in official
Washington today.. Following his defeat for
re-election by Frank Fitz-
gerald, his predecessor, after one term as Governor of Michigan, Mr. Murphy had been mentioned prominently for the vacaney on
‘the Supreme Court as well
as for the Cabinet post held
by Homer S. Cummings. While indications are there will be some opposition in the Senate by conservatives because of his handling of the automobile sitdown strikes, the consensus is he will be confirmed. As Mayor of Detroit and Governor of Michigan during the troublesome economic era beginning in 1930, Mr. Murphy came
to grips, perhaps as much as any
man in America, with the ills of modern industrial civilization. Mr. Murphy was one of the first important public officials to espouse the highly significant principle that caring for the unemployed was a national responsibility. He fought for work relief. In 1937, he was the mediator of strikes in the automobile industry. To him fell the responsibility of dealing with a new: technic in American labor relations—the sit-down strike, He was the first “labor Governor” of Michigan, an historically Republican and traditionally conservative state. In two years, almost single-handedly ne captured the Democratic party of his state. The red-haired Irishman, who did so much in shaping the nation’s labor and relief policies, did not come from the city slums nor from the factory district. He spent his boyhood in Harbor Beach, Mich., a peaceful community of 1900 on the west shore of Lake Huron. His father and mother were Catholic Irish folk who gave him everything a boy couid want—a fine home and a college education. The family into which he was born on April 13, 1893, had known oppression. Mr. Murphy's sympathy for the ‘“‘under dog” came partly from his family background. © His grandfather ‘was hanged in Ireland by the British. His father, John Murphy, later Prosecutor of Huron County, was jailed at 16 for taking part in a Fenian disturbance in Canada. From his father, he was schooled in Democracy. From his mother, who was Mary Brennan at the time she met John Murphy, he
‘received help in forming strong
religious convictions. Frank Mur-
- phy always was an ardent Catholic.
In ycuth he won distinction in his home town as an athlete. At Harbor Beach School, he pitched
and played center field for the, |
baseball team, and was halfback on the football squad. At the University of Michigan, he was a quarterback on the freshman football. team but his chief services to Michigan athletics were his speeches at pep rallies. ° While Mayor of troit, Gever-nor-General of the Philippines and Governor of Michigan, he kept in good physical condition by boxing and riding horseback.
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R. MURPHY Was 17 when he |
entered the [university and before he was graduated from the law school in 1914 he had entered politics by campaigning for Woodrow Wilson in 1912. In 1916, he again lent his speaking ability— and no one ever |questioned the value of his oratorical talents — to the Wilson campaign. The three years immediately after graduation were lean ones for Mr. Murphy from a financial standpoint. During the day he was a clerk in a law office at wages as low as $13 a week. At night he earned extra money and gained the loyalty of some future constituents by teaching English to Hungarians in the Delray district of Detroit. When the United States declared war on Germany, Mr. Murphy eagerly joined the: Army. A captain in the Fourth Division
| in France, he made his presence
felt by courts martial. stice he took
defending soldiers at After the Armiadvantage of
A. E. PF. scholarships at Lincoln's -
Inn, London, and Trinity College, Dublin. He returned to Detroit in July, 1919, to become chief assistant to John E. Kinane, U, S. Attorney for eastern Michigan. Assigned to ‘prosecute war graft cases, he won three convictions and got his name in the newspapers prominently for the first time in his career. After a brief period of private law practice, Mr. Murphy ac-
cepted the invitation of minority
magistrates of the Recorder’s Court and campaigned for that office in 1922. He topped a field of 12 candidates in his first venture into politics. Recorder’s Judge Murphy, handling criminal cases, began putting into practice some of the theories he had studied in college and in his leisure time after graduation. He created a sen-
As he looked when he first took over the office of Mayor of troit in 1930. He was a Municipal Court Judge before he was 30.
During his unsuccessful campaign for re-election as Michi-
gan’s Governor in the fall of 1938.
tencing board consisting of himseif, a psychiatrist and a sociologist. 4 : ” ® ”
AN April 25, 1934, he made public his findings as a oneman grand jury, requested by Mayor John W. €mith, and recs ommended that warrants be issued for the arrest of 19 city and county employees and individuals doing business with the City. He made himself lastingly popular
with Negroes by his decisions in“volving members of that race.
By 1930, Murphy had become well known in Detroit. One of the newspapers there, desiring to back a popular, candidate in the mayorality election following the recall of Mayor Charles Bowles, induced him to enter the race. He won in a three-cornered fight and was re-elected in 1931. Those were trying days in Detroit. In debt more thar $400,000,000, the City found its auto-
-mobile fastories closing down, its
financial institutions tottering, its relief rolls mounting. = Sullen groups of unemployed men assembled at the doorsteps of the City Hall. Mr. Murphy attacked the problem boldly. He slashed City expenses and claimed a saving of $28,000,000 during his tenure as Mayor. In 1932, when the national Re-
publican Administration ‘was re-
luctant to finance relief on a large scale, Mr. Murphy called a conference of Mayors. His thesis was that the industrial depression, national in scope. had brought about a relief problem that could be met only by the Federal Government. He had an opportunity to express. his views to the Governor of New York, Franklin D. Rooszvelt. In the end he won his point. Under the New Deal, relief had become largely a responsibility of the Federal Government. And it was work-relief—the type of aid that Mr. Murphy had advocated. ‘In May, 1933, President Roosevelt appointed Mr. Murphy Gov-ernor-General of the Philippines. When the Islands gained commonwealth status, he remained as High Commissioner. Mr. Murphy often said the days he spent on the Islands were among the happiest of his life. He helped the Filipinos set up. the heginnings of self-rule, signed an eight-hour law for industry, induced the Philippines to adopt the century-old tradition of his own Ste*z in abolishing capital punishment, Later, when Mr. Murphy became Governor of Michigan he made light of his fiscal record on the Islands. The budget was balanced
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This was a happy moment for Mr. Murphy. The scene was enacted in a Detroit hotel as the 43-day _automobile strike ended and conferees crowded around him with congratulations.
by cutting $7,000,000 from annual expenditures. “It was not a difficult feat and little ‘had to be done,” he said. n ” ” President
N 1936, Roosevelt
called him home “on leave.” A
Presidential election was impending. The President's political advisers thought Mr. Murphy was the man to help, him carry Mich-
" igan.’ Loyally, Mr, Murphy entered
into the ¢ampaign for Governor. As it turned out, President Roosevelt didn 3, need help in
..Michigan. He ct. ried the State by . more. than 300,000 votes. Mr. Mur-
phy defeated. Governor Frank .D. Fitzgerald by some 48,000 ballots. By building up a tremendous lead in Detroit, Mr. Murphy had overcome the Republican trends of rural Michigan. He was the fourth Democratic Governor in Michigan in the 20th Century. Forty-eight hours after he took office on Jan. 1, 1937, a sit-down strike was called in the General Motors plant at Flint. The rest of the Murphy Administration was «plagued by labor difficulties. He was widely criticized for his handling of the situation. His opponents charged that his failure to take a “firm stand” against the sit-down contributed largely to the spread of industrial conflict. Mr. Murphy spent so much time mediating strikes during his first year in office .that he had little time for the ordinary duties of Governor. During his term, Mich gan became a highly unionized State. ; His No. 1 dictum in seeking io smooth out the difference between management and labor was to avoid armed conflict. Often when the Governor emerged from a strike conference .the only news reporters could get from him was: “There will be no bloodshed.” One of the results of his labor record was that he won the. support of both factions of organized labor—the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L.—or at least their leaders. ‘When the labor situation quiet-
ed down, Mr. Murphy’s activities
in other fields of State government were scarcely less spectacu-
- lar. ‘He fought a civil service law
through the Legislature, over the
- estimated ineome,
opposition of many 6f his party leaders. o 2 2 GNORING the demands of party chiefs, he appointed whom he pleased to important positions. One appointment particularly, that of Richard T. Frankenstéen, vice president of the United Automobile Workers, to the State. Relief Commission, caused his conservative critics to gasp. From the Legislature he won a
secret primary ballot, a basic
science act, an occupational disease law, a welfare consolidation law (later submitted to the eleclorate: by ' referendum) and a teacher's tenure law. : When ° the : Legislature appropriated $18,000,000 more than the Mr. Murphy promptly vetoed $3.000,000 of appropriations and slashed $12,000,000 from the budget. In the summer of 1938, because of a growing relief problem, he cut another $2,000,000 from the budget
BABY CHICK INDUSTRY ADOPTS NEW CODE
WASHINGTON, Jan, 2 (U. P).— The Federal Trade Commission made public today rulés of fair trade practice for the baby chick industry, drafted after conferences with the industry at St. Paul. The rules were divided into two
\groups and the Commission said
they were “designed to foster and promote fair competitive conditions in the interest of the industry and the public.” “They are not ta be used, directly or indirectly, as part of or in connection with any combination or agreement to fix prices, or for the suppression of competition, or otherwise to unreasanably restrain trade,” the Commission said. .
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"the ‘William and changed
. by reducing salaries from 6 to 15
per cent. In doing so Mr. Murphy accept- | ed a 15 per cent cut in his own salary, which was only $5000 a year, and a like reduction in his expense account of $5000. Mr. Murphy, a bachelor, was reticent about his private affairs,
although he was known to wise-
crack about his bachelorhood.
“I have absolutely no sympathy
for bacheélors,” he once said. He is a teetotaler and never uses tobacco in any form. But
- he opposed prohibition because |
he considered it a form of in-
tolerance.
Mr. Murphy was christened Francis William Murphy. Somewhere along the way he dropped the Francis to Frank.
» home state is deplorable.
| gives,
New Indiana GOP: Congressmen
Attack Layoff of
15,000 by WPA
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY - Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Reduction of Indiana
WPA by nearly 5000
in a week and “more than 15,000 since Election Day” was assailed here today by Rep. Forrest A. Harness, new Republican Congressman from
the Fifth District.
Declaring he will support the $750,000,000 WPA emergency appropria-
tion, Mr. Harness said he expects to join with other G. O, P
in the House in demanding a thor- 4-ough-going investigation of the past expenditure of WPA funds. “Congress voted ample appropriations for WPA and there is no reason why the funds should be exhausted and persons laid off in midwinter without any provision made for them or their families,” Mr. Harness asserted. “I am convinced an investigation will show the money was wasted playing politics with WPA in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Now Indiane pays the penalty, perhaps because the State elected too many Republicans in November. “There certainly is no reason why Indiana should reduce its WPA rolls by larger percentages and in a shorter period of time than any other state. Yet that is what the record shows.” Indiana WPA rolls stood at 91,811 on Dec. 17, after 4959 persons had been dropped during the week which began on Dec. 10, headquarters here reported. The total cut for the entire country that week was 55,938 and the Indiana reduction was exceeded only by 11372 in Pennsylvania, where 264,043 remained on the rolls. Mr. Harness and the other Hoosier Republicans will support the plan to return administration of relief rolls to the State and local governments with nonpartisan boards handling the Federal funds he said. In a statement calling for curtailed Federal expenditures, lower taxes and against a third term “for any President,” Rep. Raymond S. Springer, new Tenth District Republican, said regarding WPA: “Relief for the unemployed and needy must be continued until jobs can be obtained in private enterprises. But the present administratioh of relief funds has degenerated to the point of maladministration. * “Relief should be taken entirely out of politics and administered in a businesslike manner, not by a centralized group in Washington
{but by the several states, with Fed-
eral aid handled by nonpartisan and nonpolitical boards. This will insure that all funds allocated for relief will be used for relief only.”
Announcing his stand for the|
Ludlow War ‘Referendum 'Amendment, pay-as-you-go social security, high tariff and curtailment of emergency powers granted President Roosevelt by New Deal laws, Rep. George W. Gillie, new Fourth District Republican, stated:
“I plan to give my full support
to the movement for a thorough investigation info WPA and the unlawful use of relief funds for political purposes. The situation in I will
P. colleagues
favor any plany which will remove politics from relief. I believe such a plan should provide for the administration of relief by local hie partisan boards.” Rep. Gerald W. Landis, new Seve enth District Republican and advocate of the Townsend old-age pension plan, said he favors selecting WPA supervisors from the relief rolls and not| giving these jobs to “well-off land-owners who don’t need them.” Protests a have been rec gressmen and it be stopped Kokomo and said.
LIGHT INCREASE IN HOG RAISING
Purdue Experts Expect 16 Per Cent Gain Over Last Year.
Times Special | * LAFAYETTE, Jan. 2.—Indiana farmers will raise 16 pet cent more hogs in 1939 than in 1938, a Purdue University survey made in co-op-eration with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, indicated today. “If the number of pigs per litter remains at the 1938 level,” the report stated, ‘Indiana soon will be producing as many hogs as were produced when the season price was under $4 a hundred pounds.” During 1938 ° Hoosier farmers saved 13 per cent more pigs from the spring and fall litters than in 1937 and 89 per cent of the average of 1932-’33, the base years of the 1934 Federal Corn-Hog program. Meanwhile it was announced that the Indiana Horticultural Society will hold its annual meeting at Lafayette during Purdue Agricultural Conference Week, Jan. 9. G. S. Carpenter, manager of the Amergcan Fruit Growers, Inc. will speak on “Orchard Management and Marketing” and “Sprays for Aphis Control.” :
GEO. J. EGENOLF MACHINIST 181; Sas LI-6212
inst WPA layoffs ived by the new Conpetitions asking that came from Marion, Tipton, Mr. Harness
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