Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1939 — Page 22
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V.F.W. TO FIGHT
DISCRIMINATION ON BASIS OF AGE
New Commander Terms It Un-American and | Un-Christian.
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Opposition to the “policy of dis-| eriminating against the man over) 40” will be part of the program of! the Indiana Department of the Vet-| erans of Foreign Wars, according to| Merville Ray of Evansville, newly! elected commander. | “The veteran must go squarely on record in a very positive way against the un-Christian and un-American practice of discriminating against) the man over the age of 40,” Mr.| Ray said. {
Asks Positive Stand |
“It is just as much un-American| and un-Christian to discriminate] against men over 40 as it is for Hit-| ler to discriminate against the Jews or Stalin to discriminate against religion. We must, by positive legislation where necessary and by pubiic appeal where this is not available, take a stand against this prac-| tice. “These insurance companies that discriminate against a man over 40 because he is an increased insurance hazard must be stopped by proper laws or put out of business. If they won't stop it voluntarily they will soon see a rise in public wrath that will repeal the very laws that gave them life. Others must be shown that it is bad economics to] discharge or refuse to hire a man because he is over 40.
“That's Bad Economics”
“It would do no good to cripple even an enemy if you know you have to pay his doctor bills and feed him the rest of his life. That is bad economics. But if you do discharge a man or refuse to hire him because he is over the age of 40, that is just what vou are going to do. If vou give the elderly man a job, he does not want 2 pension. If vou don't give him a job, you are going to give him a pension. A blind man living in Indianapolis last week could have seen this.”
RAILROAD LOSES IN DAMAGE SUIT PLEA
The six-vear-old of Miss Ruth Thompsen of Winchester, to collect $8000 damages from the New York Central Railroad had been won today in the Indiana Supreme Court. Damages awarded by a Hancock Circuit Court more than five years ago for injuries received by Miss Thompson when she was struck by a New York Central train in Winchester, were affirmed. The railroad attorneys had appealed the case on the ground that the jury verdict was based upon insufficient evidence.
GETS 10-YEAR SENTENCE
KOKOMO, Ind., June 28 (U. P) Raymond Tolley, 39. of Kokomo, today was under a 10-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to robbery and auto banditry charges in Circuit Court. He was charged with holding up the Hansell Coal Co. here.
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Job? Sure, It You Are Hub Cutter
If vou are a hub cutter or a mule skinner, you can probably get a job. In fact, there are 26 other special jobs awaiting someone who can fill the bill, according to George J. Smith, Indianapolis district manager of the Indiana State Employment Service. Eighteen of the jobs are in Indiana and the others are in states from Ohio to Texas. The hub cutter job is open in Texas and the mule skinner job is in Indiana. Indiana employers are seeking a French interpreter, die designer, designing draftsman, salesman of floor coverings and draperies, machine and tool designer and stage director. The Indianapolis office is seeking a hand knife cutter, locksmith, composing room lockup man, machine embroiderer, Gorton operator and plastic mold maker.
WPA TO BUILD § DAMS IN STATE
Expected to Make 3000 Acres of Lakes; Largest In St. Joseph County.
State Conservation
to construct six dams expected to, create nearly 3000 acres of lakes in| Indiana. |
The dams, to be built with WPA | labor, will be at North Liberty in St. Joseph County: Hobart, Lake] County: Crawfordsville, Montgom- | ery County; Frankfort, Clinton County; Farmersburg, Sullivan! County, and Jasper, Dubois County. | The largest lake—850 acres—will | be that formed by waters of Potato Creek at North Liberty. The city! of Jasper will be furnished drinking water from the proposed Jasper
| Lake on a tributary of the Patoka
River. The lake at Crawfordsville
(will be 250 acres; Farmersburg, 250
acres; Frankfort, 85 acres, and Hobart, 45 acres.
Since 1936 WPA workers have built 409 dams in Indiana. There] are 88 now being constructed and 59 others are planned.
SNEAK UNNECESSARY AT FRIDAY'S CIRCUS
Small bovs accustomed to sneaking into circuses will be a little disappointed if they attend the Indiana Bovs Town three-ring circus Friday night at the State Fair Grounds. ! The reason is that there is no
| point in sneaking in, since the cir-
cus will have no admission charge and no ticket takers. More than 40 acts are scheduled, seven of them featuring professional circus entertainers who have donated their services. A downtown circus parade will be held Friday morning, with 12 miniature circus wagons as a fea- | ture. The circus, to be staged in the Manufacturers’ Building, is being given by Indiana Bays’ Town under sponsorship of the Marion County WPA recreation division, the Northeast Community Center and the Park Board.
BRIDE IS CHARGED WITH KILLING MATE
Mrs. Polly Audell Arthur. 23-year-old bride of two weeks today, was charged with murder following the death of her 34-year-old husband vesterday. The husband, Charles Arthur, died at the City Hospital of bullet wounds. Police quoted Mrs. Arthur as saying she inflicted the wounds accidentally ‘during a domestic quarrel in their home at 437 E. New York St. a week ago. The bride told police, they said, that her husband struck her, knocking her down, before the shooting.
FARM CONSERVATION LEADERS AT MEETING
Times Special | LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 28—Indiana Agricultural Conservation committeemen and farmer fieldmen | are atfending a regional meeting at The Dells, Wis, this week. | State committeemen from 10] states, and national and regional AAA officials are attending the, meeting. Provisions to be included in the 1340 Agricultural Conserva-| tion program are to be discussed. L. M. Vogler, Indiana AAA commit- | tee chairman, is to speak. |
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