Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1939 — Page 11

DIETS OF CITY * WORKERS POOR, SURVEY SHOWS

| of Families in Low Income Group Found Undernourished.

WASHINGTON; March 17 (U P.). Approximately half of the white mployed city workers “have insufficient diets, according to a survey of 43 industrial centers reSontly completed by the Govern-

From 40 to 60 per cent of the hite families and 60 per cent of the Negro families included in the nationwide survey had inadequate lets from the standpoint of nutrin. The survey of diets and food costs, the most comprehensive and detailed ‘ever made, was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Home Economics under the direc-

- tio nof Dr. Hazel K. Stibeling and

Esther F. Phipard. The Bureau selected “samples” of about 100 typical families of wage earners- and low-salaried clerical workers in each of the 43 cities. Each kept detailed food records covering the period of December, 1934, to February, 1937.

Food Biggest Item Most of the families studied spent between 25 and 40 per cent of their income for food. The percentage was highest among the low income Eroups. The amount spent for food was ound not to be an adequate gauge f an adequate diet. Expert houseves often were found to *set a ood table” on $2 a week per person where a neighboring family obtained an inadequate diet for $4 a week. ; Generally, however, the diet was ound to improve correspondingly to the cost. High expenditure groups were found to purchase more vegeables, fruits, poultry and dairy Produets, tending toward a balanced iet. | No white families siiceesded in obtaining diets which could be classified above the poor grade when they spent, a person a week, less than $1.60 in North Atlantic cities; $1.55 in East North Central; $1 in the East South Central, or $1.60 in Pacific cities. Highest Cost in East Food costs at which the average family was provided with a good diet were $2.75, a person a week, in North Atlantic cities; $2 70 in East North Central; $2.15 in’ East South Central, and $2 60 in Pacific cities. “The pellagra-preventive factor appears to be amply supplied except in the Southeast, where the deficiency among low income groups is serious,” the report said. Among more than 4000 families studied only about 12 per cent had good diets, 38 per cent fair and 50 per cent were classed as poor. A poor bhalance in the selection of foods was the principal shortcoming. “When the city housewife has a small amount of money to spend for food, the problem most obvious to her is that of satisfying hunger,

» and in her selection she emphasizes

foods with ‘staying’ quality,” the report said. Among families spending $1.25 to $1.87 a person a week for food, 80 per cent had a poor diet, 18 per cent fair and 2 per cent good. For from $2.50 to $3.12 a person a week, 53 per cent obtained poor diets, 38 per cent fair and 9 per cent good. With food expenditures of $3.75 to $4.37 a person a week, 20 per cent had

Mate to Handle Racio Key on Flight.

Times Special NEW YORK, March 17.-1t has nothing at all to do with Grover Whalen's enterprise out F ushing way, but: the projected -five-wees: vacation trip of a young Nev York City businesman and his wife wel may demonstrate a World of Tomorrow commonplace. : Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Giinbel, it was learned today, will leav: New= ark Airport soon in their own:

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Mr. Gimbel,

air, and he will be at the ¢ontrols. Mrs. Gimbel, the former Miss Doris R. Asiel, has been learning More at the RCA Institute, and will act

as radio operator. Mr. Gimbel, who was graduated

dent of Gimbel Brothers, Inc), seemed somewhat distressed today

flight had gotten out, and was quick to emphasize that it was in 10 serie a stunt. “It’s just a pleasure trip,” he sad, “not at all an attempt t> bre iE speed records, or anything 1 ke tht. We will use the facilities of tae commercial airlines all the ivay, fiy= ing from Newark ‘to Miemi aad thence over Central America aad down the South Americgn Wiest Coast, along the Pan American Airways and Pan American Grece routes. “At Santiago we plan to cut across the continent to Buenos Ares, aad thence up the East Coast to Rio. From there we will fly to Trinidad

poor diets, 55 per cent fair and only 25 per cent good.

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and then follow the Pan American Airways Caribbean course yia Pucr-

plane, a four-place Beechcra'l, on a 20,000-mile tour of South America. 26, is a transport pilot with some 1600 hours im the

Mrs. Bruce A. Gimbel, who has heen learning radio communica tions at RCA Institute, looks over f 1e map of South America, :

lto Rico, Haiti and Cuba back to

Miami.” “The flying distance will total from 18,200 to 20,000 miles, depend-

|ing upon whether we take short cuts {on the return leg of the trip. I from Yale University in 193{ and is : an executive at Saks Fifth Zve. (Lis| father, Bernard F. Gimbel, is preti-|

can’t say whether I'll use the short cuss; maybe we'll follow the coast.” Mr. Gimbel’s Beechcraft carries

{two-way radio and radio compass. It when he learned that wor¢ of lis

hes a cruising radius of about 1200 miles, and is, as Mr. Gimbel remarked when disclaiming any inteation of trying for a record, “a fairly fast ship.” : “She has a normal crusing speed of 208 miles an hour,” he said, “but I plan to cruise at 185 miles an hour, which amounts to just about helf of full power.” Mrs, Gimbel, her husband .said, hes “been ‘going to school ever since

Lezbor Day,” and can now operate]:

at a rate of 15 words a minute, Mr.

Gimbel didn’t think this extraordi-| “just about normal for the|

nary, practice she has had.” The business-pilot

has been

saving vacation time for the past|:

five years toward this trip. As. a youngster of 16 he saved his allow=

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Bruce A. Gimbel, Yale 136, who has 1600 hours in the air, stands before his four-place Beechcraft in which he and his wife will take

a five-week South American flight.

ance money to take flying lessons, and has been a pilot since 1926. In 1934, with John Saks, he made a 7000-mile trip to California and Mexico, flying a Warner monocoupe, for a total gas and oil} expenditure under $200. In 1936 he participated in the annual Sportsman Pilots mass flight, and after his marriage in April, 1937, flew with his ‘bride to Havana in his own plane on their wedding trip. Of late, however, pressure of

RACE TO END LIFE

ST. JEROME, Quebec, March 17 (U. P.) —Simone Roy, 18, today won a race in which the prize was selfwilled death. The girl, seeking to carry out an oft-repeated threat to commit suicide, was seen running along railroad - tracks towards a speeding train. A policeman began chasing her, calling for her to stop, while Jean Neveu frantically began signalling the engineer. The girl, several hundred feet ahead of them, sped on. The engineer saw Neveu’s signal and applied the emergency brakes, but the girl kept running. As the locomotive screeched along the rails, she turned her back to it and was crushed to death.

been ill and several times had threatened to kill herself.

ASSESSMENT ORDERED

The State Tax Board today had ordered a reassessment of all real estate in the city of Shelbyville following a hearing on a petition

tioners said a reassessment was needed because many of the valuations were too high.

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The girl’s brother said she had}

signed by more than 3 per cent of | resident property owners. The peti-}"

business has forced Mr. Gimbel to

_ | restrict his flying to evenings and

week-ends. And his present trip for all that it is “strictly pleasure,” involves a study of conditions in South America. Following his graduation from Yale, Mr. Gimbel went to work in the Gimbel store. Two years ago he transferred to Saks Fifth Ave, where he is responsible for the children’s department and for merchandise in the debutante department.

AUTO PRODUCTION SHOWS SHARP. GAIN

DETROIT, March 17 (U. P)~— Automobile production this week reached a level 50 per cent above last year’s, Ward’s Automotive Re-

ports said today. The week’s output was estimated at 86,725 cars and trucks compared with 57,565 unite in the same period last year and 84,095 units last week. All anticipations point to a spring selling season above expectations, Ward's said. Automotive News estimated production for March to date at 206,947 units. | |

HOLWP DEATH

Jones’ Life Sentence Is Cut To 18 Years; Cut Grimes’ ‘Sentence to Eight Years. A life cantons given William

Jones in Bloomfield March 3, 1924, in connection with the holdup Kill-

|ing of a bank cashier in Edwards-

port was. commuted to 18 years by the State Clemency Commission today. Jones was convicted with Ted Armstrong who, according to the Commission’s report, shot the cash-

ier during an attempted holdup.

The Commission stated that the

| {evidence shows Jones had no part ‘1in the actual killing. Imake Jones eligible for parole in

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February, 1942. The Commission also commuted from 20 to 8 years the prison sen= tence given Walter Grimes at Clinton on Feb. 1, 1934, for the holdup of the Perryville Bank. “ During his trial Grimes turned State’s evidence that resulted in the conviction of his accomplice, John Nolan, who also is in prison. * A parole was granted to Dwight Shephard, who was sentenced in Porter County for from one to five years on a fraudulent check charge. The sentence of two other Indi-

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ans prisoners also were commuted) ft

and the petitions of 13 others for Sh (Paroles were denied by the commison.

IRISH TOUCH IN GARDEN

CLEVELAND, March ‘17 (U. PJ). ~The Irish Cultural Garden, soon to be landscaped, will be laid out in ‘the form of the Celtic Cross, with the pattern of the walks set in slate and sandstone. Two heroic size symbolic figures are to be placed at the base of the 130-foot long Celtic Cross garden,

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