Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1939 — Page 5

STATE JOB CAIN

OVER YEAR AGO

~ SHOWN IN JULY

Weekly Payrolls Also Up; Factories Hired 254,820 At Average of $24.58.

Indiana employment was up 195

| per cent, while weekly payrolls in-

creased 31.6 per cent during July over last year, the State Employment Service reported today. The Service reported that about 254,820 Hoosiers were employed in Indiana factories during July at an

, average weekly wage of $24.58.

This represents an increase of 41,000 workers employed over the same month a year ago, the report stated. Weekly factory payrolls in the State were $1,500,000 higher a month ago than for July 1938.

Seasonal Drop Noted

On the other hand the Service reported that Indiana manufacturing employment receded 1.1 per cent from mid-June to mid-July, while payrolls dropped 4.6 per cent. This was the result of seasonal influences, the Service reported. Seasonal indices show that a decrease in Indiana factory employment of 9 per cent would be considered normal for the June and July period. : The Bureau of Labor statistics show an average decline of 4 per cent for the entire country during the 20 years to 1938. The movement in Indiana was “slightly more” than the index figures, the decline amounting to approximately 1.1 per cent, the report declared.

Canning Plants Hire More

Canning plants showed an employment increase of 61.5 per cent during July, far greater than sea‘sonal expectations, according to the Service. Weekly factory payrolls calculated from mid-July reports were approximately $300,000, or 4.6 per cent lower than in mid-June. The Fourth of July holiday was considered the greatest factor contributing to the

payroll decline.

The Service reported that in accordance with the “usual cyclical pattern during recovery,” employment and payrolls expanded more rapidly in the durable goods manufacturing industries during the past year than in the non-durable group. The durable goods group employed in excess of 33,000 more wage-earn-ers last July than for the same month a year ago, an increase of 25.6 per cent,

Auto Production Off

Payrolls in the heavy goods industries were $1,326,000 per week greater last July than a year earlier, an expansion of 45.1 per cent. The non-durable goods group of manufacturing industries made a net gain of almost 8000 wage-earn-ers or a 9.7 per cent increase in employment from July 1938 to last month, : There were only two industries in which there were pronounced. employment and payroll losses from June to last July. They were 'automobiles, bodies and parts, and canning. The automobile: group, showed a seasonal curtailment of 10.2 per cent in employment and 15.2 per cent in payrolls, due largely, the Service said, to the “changeover” to production of 1940 cars.

Average Weekly Pay $24.58

The canning industry experienced a contra-seasonal loss of 32.4 per cent in employment and 29.8 per cent in payrolls. : The average weekly pay of Indiana manufacturing wage earners in July was $24.58, a decrease of 3.5 per cent from the June average. This reduction was due entirely to a decrease of 3.5 per cent in the average of hours worked per week. In the non-manufacturing industries, retail trade, with an employment decrease of 1.5 per cent and a payroll increase of .3 per cent, held up better than seasonally expected. The coal mining industry had a contra-seasonal employment expansion, but reduced payrolls largely because of the Fourth of July holiday.

AIRPLANE PIONEER ~ ON FLYING VACATION

‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (U. P). —QGlenn L. Martin, pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer, was en route to California today on his third plane trip in 15 years. Mr. Martin, whose plants have turned out thousands of planes, has been prohibited from flying by insurance and financial restrictions. These restrictions were removed yesterday. He and his wife took off from the Washington Airport at 11:45 last night for Los Angeles for a flying vacation.

Be It Ever So Humble, Census Cal Is

In Hoosier

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 18 (NEA). —Uncle Sam’s mammoth question bee show—the 1940 population census—is getting a dress rehearsal here as a cast of 174 interrogators practices quizzing technique on residents of St. Joseph and Marshall Counties. Already some surprising facts are coming to light.- One South Bend family contains so many children that the parents can’t remember

names of the kids without looking them up in the Bible. St. Joseph

County has a surplus of unwed 28-

year-old women. Many wives are older than their husbands. The average wife knows as much about her husband's finances as he does. In nine out of 10 homes, it’s the lady of thé house who speaks up with the answers. That goes even when hubby also is present. Not all of the subjects take kindly to this rehearsal business. A housepainter called it “a lot of foolishness,” declined to climb down off his ladder when an interrogator found him at work. One little old lsdy would only see the census taker through the window. Supervising the work is Gerald Ryan of Washington, D. C., U. 8. Census Bureau field director. He tells us why this particular area was selected for the test. “In these two counties,” he says, “are the answers to every question, sociological or economic, which the

SANITY TEST SOUGHT IN UPSTATE DEATH

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HOOSIER DIES OF GAS AS FAMILY SLEEPS

—Ernest Schultz, 42-year-old insurance agent, died yesterday after inhaling gas as his wife, two sons and a daughter slept in adjoining rooms in their apartment.

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Despondency over financial dif- =

Doris Pullman of the census army occupies a guest chair at a tin can mansion which voerlooks a dump head and quizzes Delbert Johnson, South Bend septuagenarian.

Into beauty parlor of Miss Sonia De Sonia of South Bend goes Conrad Shamel—not for treatment, but for census information.

It’s Wives Who Answer

Question Bee

census can raise. Marshall County is agricultural; St. Joseph County contains a large city population, The two counties provide an excellent cross-section of industry, agriculture, trade, and the professions.” The scene shifts from house to

house as the questioners—Hoosier schoolmasters on vacation, housewives, unemployed clerks, farmers, college students—do their door-bell

ringing. Purpose of the stunt is to

determine whether the planned census questions are acceptable as they stand or must be revamped before being shot at the nation next year.

Many of the questions are of a personal nature, And some of the census takers were a bit afraid of the results when they began sticking their noses into their neighbors’ business. Thanks to a pre-campaign publicity drive by the U, 8S. Census Bureau, however, the questioners-are being met, in most cases, in friendly fashion. Among the “danger zone” questions are: Is the family home free of debt? What was your age at last birthday? (Ticklish with the ladies only.) If not working or seeking work, what's the reason? How many times have you been

MAVERICK FIRM ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Refuses to Revoke Permit For Communist Meeting At San Antonio.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 18 (U.

er New Deal Congressman, refused today, in the name of civil liberties, to rescind his order permitting a Communist rally in the Municipal Auditorium Aug. 25. “I am catching hell,” he said, “put I will stand firm.” Organized opposition came from the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Lutheran and Catholic clubs, the clergy, the Ku Klux

Klan and several county commissioner courts.

Permits Rival Rally

The Elks Club petitioned for and was granted a permit by Mayor Maverick to hold an Americanism mass meeting in direct opposition to the Communist rally, but he denied it the use of the auditorium plaza on the grounds that it would cause trouble and protective measures were necessary to public welfare. Mayor Maverick assigned the Americanism meeting to the Alamo plaza, a historic shrine.

to help defray the expense of Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex.) of the House Un-American Activities Committee should he accept an invitation to address the rally.

Cites Constitution

The permit to the Communists was granted not by Mayor Maverick but by the acting Mayor while Mayor Maverick was out of the city. Mayor Maverick said that the permit manifested the true spirit of civil liberties. 1 “The United States Constitution is still in effect in San Antonio,” he said, “and will continue until further notice on order to the contrary by the Supreme Court of the United States. The decisions of

P.).—Mayor Maury Maverick, form- |

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JGIRLOF 18 WINS

DRESS CONTEST

Rosemary Miller’ Named as County’s Contestant At State Fair.

Rosemary Miller, 18 - year - old

|daughter of Sanford Miller, Edge-

wood, will be Marion County's representative in the state 4-H Club dress revue contest during the State Fair, = Miss Miller was designated after she was chosen Marion County champion in the county style revue held Tuesday at L. 8. Ayres & Co. auditorium. A A 4-H club worker nine years and last year’s county champion, Miss Miller won the contest this year wearing a rose sports dress she made herself for $4.55. Her record also includes three years’ work in food preparation and one year’s work in canning and a room improvement project. She is a Southport High School graduate.

The reserve champion was Mary Louise King, Warren Township, ho exhibited a linen dress costing .05. : Judges were Mrs. Howard Taylor, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Maryl Saylo: Zionsville. :

Thirst in Jail

Proves Costly

OOSE JAW, Saskatchewan, Aug. 18 (U. P).—Donald

Morrison, Moose Jaw lawyer, was.

fined $25 and costs after he pleaded guilty to a charge of “consume

ing liquor in a place other than a

dwelling.” The “place” was a cell in the city jail. : Police said they admitted Morrison to the cell to confer with two clients. A few minutes: later they heard gurgling noises from the cell and when they investigated, police said, they found Mor=rison and his clients quaffing two bottles of beer. oh

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® TODAY—We ask you a sonal question. If you at were forced to take car others who were sick and ou jobs; It you were spending mo than you earned; If your de were mounting greater every without hope of paying the would you go ahead building new home, beautifying yo grounds, buying a new car, tea ing your children that the w owes them a living? :

* * *x ® NOW—TODAY—Condition Marion County call for rigid ec omy and the utmost efficiency every department.

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‘® Comparing 1938 with 1922=

the expenditures for major loc units in Marion County rose * $23,057,063 from $13,544,639 or 70%. This was broken down follows: Civil City to $8,272,6i from $5,824,726: or 42%,: Schoe City to $6,923,603 from $5,210, 846 or 33%,: County to $5,011 126 from $2,465243 or 103%% and Township Relief from sod

—Taxes MUST be LOWER. i‘ : * * * wal

® Can expenditures be reduced? A year ago some very specifig

were made by the Marion Cou Board of Tax Adjustment. Wh

tions? * * * a ® For example, the adjustmen the rising cost of relief and wele fare. realize—as well as other publi¢

to the ability to produce taxes.

® + said there was widespread bes taining assistance who were nog

costs were excessive and thers

and clear-cut recommenda’ In the face of relief roll§

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suggestion must answer

adjustment board recommendas tions: One was for a joint puré chasing department for all the

.major units of government. Tha

board said such a department, well administered, could save a large amount. Why was nothing done about this? :

* * * ® [+ urged a nonpartisan survey

departments. The time has come for officials to DO something.

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state over the last several years has not been reflected in reduced

property taxes." Are they ree

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® Fix fair compensation for couns officers and turn all fees into the county {fsasuy to reduce the tax rate. What has been done about this Tax Board suggestion? * * ¥*% ® Here is the vicious Tax Circle— More Taxes—Less Business! Less Business — More Unemployment!

More Unemployment—More Re lief! More Relief—More Taxes!

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