Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1939 — Page 18

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STORE TRADE IN

CITY IN JANUARY ~ ABOVE YEAR AGO ig

Gain of 2.5 Per Cent Best|g

In Reserve District, Survey Shows.

Department store trade in Indianapolis during January was 2.5 per cent greater than in January of 1938, the largest gain registered by any major city in the Seventh Federal Reserve District, a survey of the district showed today. Compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the report stated: ‘“Compared with a year ago when the level of business activity was declining, current conditions in, the Seventh District are considerably improved. : _ . “However, January business activity failed to maintain the rising trend of the later months of 1938. “Industrial production for the most part was down; the merchandising of commodities showed more

E24 ian seasonal declines and employ-

.. creased

ent and payroll volumes de-

Decline in Chicago Stores

"A 46 per cent decline in department store trade at Chicago, was chiefly responsible for the small loss in Seventh District trade compared with January, 1938, the report said. Detroit and Milwaukee showed increases along with | Indianapolis. District trade declined 57 per cent

in January, compared with December, a greater than seasonal decline.

“The steel industry was operating at a slightly higher rate in the middle of February than a month previous and production was well above a year earlier,” the report said. “However, there has been no: decided expansion in the volume of incoming business.” Building construction, though still far above a year ago, fell off more than seasonally, and the movement of materials was slow, the report said.

Auto Sales Decrease

In the aytomotive industry, production was moderately lighter than in December. An 80 per cent increase was reported in the number of passenger automobiles manufactured compared with a year ago.

Automobile wholesale sales during the month showed a seasonal 20

per cent decrease, and retail sales

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a 33 per cent drop.

Agricultural products in general followed the trend of decreased proSales increased, however, and inventories accumulated less than seasonally. The movement of -wheat and corn’ at interior markets was lighter in January than a month earlier and the corn movement was much below January last year.

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| Local Firm ‘Seeks to ‘Bring

Kentucky [Fuel to State.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Hearing on the application of the General Gas Pipe Line Co., Indianapolis, for permission to construct a natural

‘ gas pipe line from Hart County,

Kentucky, to Hamilton County, Indiana, was scheduled for March 27, by the Federal Power Commission today. The company proposes construction of a 20-inch pipe line approximately 180 miles long to transport gas from the Kentucky fields to sell to industrial concerns and public utilities in Indiana. Approximately 40 miles of 3, 4, 6 and 8-inch field gathering lines also are proposed. A War Department permit has been obtained for a double pipe line crossing under the Ohio River near Louisville, the application states. Operation of the proposed project will require construction of one 2400horsepower compressor station. Officers of this newly formed Indiana corporation are Albert Kalo, Indianapolis, president and board chairman; Elmer E. Boone, Whiteland, vice president and assistant general manager; Ethyle Fahrson, Indianapolis, secretary and Chelsea C. Boone, Elkhart, treasurer.

DETAILS AWAITED IN “TYPICAL BOY’ QUEST

-Details of the search for the “most

by F. O. Belzer, Indianapolis Boy Scout executive, in a radio talk at 4:45 p. m. today over. WIRE. To enable-six boys from different parts of the Uhited States to visit New. York on a orte-week tour and a preview of the World's Fair, the Typical American Boy Association has been formed. The Boy Scout organization is co-operating to find the six boys between the ages of 7 and 17. Entries muct be submitted by March 5. I

W. G. ABEL, 101, DIES AT MARTINSVILLE

MARTINSVILLE, Feb. 27 (U. PJ). —Wilford Green Abel, who lived 101 “years and was Morgan County’s oldest citizen, will be buried this afternoon, He died following a lingering illness. Born in Orange County, Mr. Abel spent his entire life in Indiana. When he was three years old his parents moved to Spencer and in 1844 he came to Morgan County. Surviving is a half-brother, Roscoe Abel of Indianapolis. .

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SAFETY AWARDS DUE AT BANQUET

County and City Officials of State to Get Plagues In Traffic Cantest.

Officials of five Inciana counties and six cities will be presented first place plaques in the Indiana Traffic Safety Contest for 1938 at a banquet, March 9, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Two other counties and 98 cities will be honored with certificates. The banguet, given by the Governor’s’ Co-@iginating Safety Committee and $ghe Indjana Safely Council, sponsors of the contest, will be in charge of Paul G. Hofiman, president of the Indiana Traffic Safety Council. Governor Townsend will present the plaques and certificates. I Sheriffs Are Invited The plaques, which symbolize lowest traffic accident and fatality rates for the year, will be presented to Case, Bartholomew, Ripley, Lagrane and Switzeriand| countics and to the following cities: Fg. Wayne, Elkhart, Coniersville, Tell City, Columbus and Danville. A cup for the lowest traffic death rate for a State Police post area will be presented to troopers and commanding officers of the Ligonier Post by the Indiana State Police: Board. A second place cup will be presented to the Pendleton Post. Sheriffs and circuit judges of all counties in the State and mayors and police chiefs of all cities have been invited to the banquet.

Forty-Plus Club’s Only - Aim Is Jobs

The Forty-Plus Club of Indianapolis, an organization devoted to helping members past 40 find jobs, has elected temporary officers, it was an--nounced today. E. L. Olsen was named president, Joseph F. O'Brien, | vice president, and R. A. MecLeod, secretary. There is no treasurer, club members explained, because no money is collected. Members co-operate in finding jobs for each other. The club .was organized here after thie idea had been successfully demonstrated in New England.

LINDLEY WILL SPEAK WEDNESDAY AT I. U.

Times Sbecial BLOOMINGTON, Feb. 27.—Ernest K. Lindley, biographer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and New York Herald-Tribune’ correspondent at Washington, will speak at the In diana University convocation Wednesday. His subject will be “Covering Washington Today.”

KILLER IS EXECUTED BELLEFONTE, Pa, Feb. 27 (U. P.).—William McKinley Blackwell, 46, Whitaker, Pa., Negro, died in the electric chair at Rockview Penitentiary today for the murder of his common-law wife’ and the man he

women of all walks of life slip into the reading information on their business or profession. |

But She Has 2 Query |

Miss Ethel Cleland gets a different slant on the City’s business When they consult her theyre asking

at the Indianapolis Public Library.

Business Branch, Ohio and Meridian: Sts., are attracting about as many readers as the fiction thrillers, according to!

librarians. Men and

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y Asks Her Questions, f Her Owni§

Miss Cleland is head of the Business Branch of the Public Library and she plays a true and false game day in and day out with people from practically every business in the area. :

Some of the questions are sound, some of them are sort of speculative

It was nearly incomprehensible, for instance, when the secretary of an important Indianapolis man called

that it was urgent. He got on the wire, i “I want some pictures,” he said. “Not just ordinary pictures. I want some that will inspire me to write poetry.” ok Miss Cleland .can’t recall what pictures she| sent and she doesn’t remember seeing the verse in any magazine of national circulation. But it goes to show how varied her daily experiences are.

Plenty of Pictures

Someone called the other day and wanted pictures of high-button shoes. Somedtne wanted pictures of bathing beguties. © Someone else wanted pictures of people’s hands. The branch has more than 40,000 photographs, All manner of pamphlets and books containing technical information are filed and used as references. A list of new business books is prepared every | week and mailed to businesses asking for the service. Arrival of the list brings many calls for the books. ihe Up-to-date | statistics on business subjects are kept on file and newspapers are clipped for business and scientific’ news stories. By mail, by phone, by messenger the questions roll in. “What color scheme is good for a filling station?” “Does ait here can artificial

fingernails?” | “Where can we buy oversized rubber bands?” “Who makes mechanical street sweepers?” “Give us the name and address of every concern in the country manufacturing and marketing beer.”

She Asks Questions, Too

“One of the hardest questions we ve had lately,” Miss Cleland said, “forced us to translate the specifications of a French patent for a motorcycle gearshift.” Now, if all [you people will listen closely, Miss Cleland has a question to ask. Ready? Why,” she asks, “doesn’t some rich man or a group of the business concerns which the branch serves, provide the money for a new building for the branch?” The quarters, at the School Administration | Building, are so cramped that they hamper sérvice, she said, :

LOCAL FIRM GIVEN $183,771 CONTRACT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—MillerBaxter ' Co. Inc. Indianapolis, has been awarded a $183,771 construction contract by the AllenWells County Rural Electric Membership Corp., Ossian, the REA announced today. : Total cost of the project, including meters and overhead, will be $208,902 REA [officials said. The contract with the Indianapolis firm is for 227 miles of line to serve 812 farms. Total average cost will be $920 per mile,

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Miss Ethel Cleland, Business Branch librarian, hunts an address in Oakland, Cal. for P. T. Blake, 460 E. Washington St. The shelves are filled with directories from nearly every city in the United States. Miss Cleland said more than 1000 persons call every month for information from the out-of-town directories. :

and said he wanted to speak to her, |

In another section there are hundreds of the latest publications on finance, credits, advertising, retail trade, markets, insurance and

many other subjects. Miss Frances

ant librarian, helps O. A. Alford, 26 N. Bosart Ave. find some

latest publications on business law.

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Students on Juvenile Court

Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw said today he favors a plan whereby Indiana University graduate students in psychology would work as court investigators as part of their field training. The plan, which would provide the Court with full-time student psychologists, was outlined to Judge Bradshaw yesterday by Dr. C. M. Louttit, director of the university’s psychological clinics. :

+ Dr, Louttit said that although there are no graduate psychology students available for such work at present, the psychology department could arrange to attach students to the Court for six-month periods. The students would serve without pay in the capacity of investigators and advisers in delinquency cases involving severe maladjustments, Judge Bradshaw said. - “The use of several full time student psychologists at the Court would vastly improve our service,” Judge Bradshaw said. “We have no psychologist attached to the Court now. “The students would serve what might. be called an internship here and would handle the psychological

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74th Annual Convocation Will Be in Cathedral March 27 to 30.

The 74th annual ‘convention : of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Indianapolis, will be held March 27 to 30 at the Scottish Rite Cathedral. ; Degrees from the fourth to the 32d will be exemplified during the afternoon and evenings. Business meetings will be conducted during the morning sessions. The convocation will include four groups, each of which will have a separate ceremony. The Adoniram Grand Lodge of “Perfection will convene March 27 for a full program during which degrees will be communicated. The following day Saraiah Council Princes of Jerusalem will assemble. Fifteenth and 16th degrees will be

| awarded.

Shortridge Band to Play

The Indianapolis Chapter of Rose Croix will also meet March 28 for the awarding of 17th and 18th de-

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sembles March 29 and 30. The Shortridge High Band will play at the reunion banquet March 30. George Buck, 32d degree Mason and Shortridge High School superintendent, has arranged the program. \ Annual election of officers of

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