Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1939 — Page 14
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CRIME RECORD |
IN CITY WORSE THAN AVERAGE
Slinht Decrease in Murder Rate for U. S. Shownin FBI! Report.
Indianapolis has a much worse, record in some classes of crime than, the average city of the same size in this area, according to 1939 nine-month figures released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Indianapolis Police Department. The average per 100,000 individ- | uals in North Central cities with al population of 250,000 or more follows: Murder, 3.8, Indianapolis, 3.7; | robberies, 949, Indianapolis, 87.2; | aggravated assault, 293, Indianap- | olis, 58: burglaries, 252.4, Indian-| apolis, 449.5; larceny, 645.4, Indian- | apolis, 1251.2; auto thefts, 96.4, Indianapolis, 267.2. | The Indianapolis figures are based on an estimated population of 400.000. Since this figure is slightly too high the results are more in favor of Indianapolis than they should be.
Resembles Pacific Coast Town
Statistics for Indianapolis are] similar to figures for a Pacific Coast town ot like size. The characteristics are a fairly low murder rate and, a high larceny and auto theft ratio. | FBI figures revealed a slight decrease in murder over the country, an increase in rape and robbery, and a definite decrease in auto | thefts for the first nine months of 1939 over 1938. Indianapolis stayed just about] even in all categories of crime with] a decrease in aggravated assault and a slight increase in all other categories. Auto Thefts Increase
Auto thefts reported increased 155 in the same period of 1939 over 1938. Most of the thefts were oo the police call “joy-riding thefts”;
that 1s, the cars were recovered| within a 24-hour period. The 19-year-old age group had] the largest number of arrests.) About one-fifth of all persons ar-| rested were under 21 and almost] half of those arrested had been| arrested before.
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Roy Trester . .
Roy Trester, 18-year-old shipping clerk, is averaging $5 an hour from his hobby, trapping. During the first five days of the
present trapping season he caught one mink and 19 muskrats in his traps placed in a heavily wooded area of about two square blocks
in the fork of a creek three miles |
north of the city. The pelts were worth $25. And it takes him only one hour a day to make the rounds of his trapping line. Roy gets out of bed every day at 5 a. m. at his home north of the city and drives about a mile to the trap line. He collects his catch and is back home for breakfast at 6 o'clock. He goes to work at 7 o'clock and skins the animals
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his trapping profits. He traps because he likes to and “the money makes life easier, too,” he says. He has been trapping as a hobby for the past four years. Last year he made $110 du ing the two-month season, and he expects to make much more this year, if his present good fortune continues. Ee has 66 traps set on the land, which belongs to a friend. There is comparatively little excitement about it, he says. Most of it is just routine, About the most excitement occurred one dark morning when he felt something dart past him and a big muskrat jumped into a trap directly ahead of him. “But all in all, it's a lot of fun,” he says. “And if I could catch
| Writer Finds Gasoline Sol
DEBUNKS U. S. ‘MYTHS’ ABOUT LIFE IN MEXICO
d By Government Is 0. K.; Trotsky ‘Harmless.’
By WALKER STONE Times Special Writer
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 5 (U. P).— |Seventeen days is hardly enough
time to scratch the surface in this strange and confusing land where things are not what they seem. A visiting reporter of necessity is limited to writing his impressions and observations and to sifting and recording what is told him by people who ought to know. However, very little time or perception is required to debunk some popular American myths concerning Mexico. One report current in the United States is that, since the Government’s expropriation of the oil properties, Mexican gasoline is no good. The answer: Judged by American standards, it never was. The octane | content is lower than in the gasoline | sold at the better service stations in the States.
Negotiate Steep Highways
But it propels the motors. All the, automobiles in which the writer rode, and others which he observed, | | mov ed along with great celerity. In| | congested city traffic they stopped ‘and started without sputtering, and | along the steep and sinuous high-
Creditable speed. On the political side, a popular conception which has been given wide publicity in the United States is that Leon Trotsky, Lenin's general of the armies in the Russian revolution, now in exile here, is the sinister figure behind Mexico's assaults on the property rights of landowners and oil companies. In an effort to find some fire behind all this smoke, the writer asked | the same question of scores of men, in and out of the Government, friends and enemies of President]; Cardenas, servatives, businessmen and news-| paper correspondents.
Trotsky Called Harmless
Always the same answer: Trotsky yg is not directly, nor indirectly, nor| even remotely, responsible for what |} has been happening here. He has| given no advice to Mexican Govern-
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Troubles With Relief Setup Not New; British Had Similar Problems in 1535 TAVERN P PERMIT
By LEO DAUGHERTY The poor relief system in Center and other Indiana townships is basically identical with that used in England more than 400 years ago.
And there were abuses then. In
| fact, things got so bad that they
cut off people's ears, even hanged them for violating relief laws. The authority for those statements, is Prof. Louis Evans, in charge of the training course for social workers, a graduate department of Indiana University at the I. U. Medical Center, Delving into histories of social work, Prof. Evans discovered the parallels. Back in 1535 Parliament passed a law to prevent beggars from going outside their own parish, just as Indiana has its laws governing the residence requirements of indigents. Under the English law passed in the time of Henry VIII, a beggar found soliciting alms outside his
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own parish was whipped and ordered home. He was given food and lodging every 10 miles of his journey. But if he loitered on the way, he was subject to having his right ear clipped off. If he offended again he could be hanged.
Under the Indiana law, an indi gent must be a resident of the state for three years and a resident of any particular township for six months before becoming eligible for relief. If he is ordered back to the community from which he came, and then returns to Indiana and |asks relief before meeting residu:nce | requirements he can be sent to jail. In 1601 England passed its Elizabethan Poor Law, setting forth provisions for public responsibility for the poor through taxes. And the poor master, the predecessor of the Indiana township trustee, became the relief dictator in each parish. If the able bodied were willing to, | work for their assistance, he bought |
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materials such as flax and nemp! and put them to work, just as the trustee in Indiana can compel the indigent to work on the road for his groceries.
The poor master determined who was eligible for assistance and how much he should receive, just as does the 1939 trustee. The poor master bought and distributed food on a commissary plan, using his home as a commissary. He was the only person who investigated and determined the need of the applicant. England's regulations were adopted by the American Colonies as early as 1647 when the General Court of Elections of Rhode Island adopted a law identical with England’s. In 1771 Pennsylvania enacted a similar poor law. The Northwestern Territory adopted the Pennsylvania statute in 1790 and when Indiana became a state in 1816 it adopted | the territorial statue.
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Only 7.5 per cent of those arrested were women but in an average| group of 100 women arrested more] were charged with murder, assault, | violation of narcotic drug laws.| prostitution, commercialized vice and] other sex offenses than in an average group of 100 men arrested.
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Kd ment officials nor to the radical la- | bor leaders. His counsel hasn't been sought. Even oil company representatives, | who might wish to believe and to have others believe that some ev ig Russian brain is operating behind | § the scenes, say Trotsky is just al¥ ¥
more mink, I would make more than $5 an hour out of it.”
when he returns in the evening. J He has no particular goal for
Lilly Gift Speeds Ulcer
Research at Stanford U. DIRECTORS FRIDAY | By Science Service = chicks Rn now under way | ~~ * ld » ported. It is home-made.
es eh Ra. oul Dec. Si have already disclosed. Gastric re iS Howe } dial. 3 earch for a stomach ulcer prevent- ye most effective radical in| ing substance in human foods, to be juice in chicks is similar to that in Mexico politics today is Vicente and by experiments with pombardo Toledano, head of the] S
made in studies of chicks, will be Man, speeded with the aid of a $1000 re- chicks Dr. Cheney hopes to be able, 'Confederation of Mexican Workers. | | He dislikes being called a Commu-
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[refuses to yield to Lombardo Tole- | dano. The President is proud of his| record on matters of civil liberties, | of which Trotsky's asylum here: ols a symbol. For many months Trotsky lived] in a house belonging to Diego Ri-! vera, the Mexican revolutionary | artist, but a short time ago this beautiful friendship ended in a violent personal quarrel, and Trotsky | moved into another home. | Trotsky, Lombardo Toledano, Ri- | vera—few other cities in the world | boast three such vociferous and headstrong radicals. Working together, they should be able to turn most any country inside out. But | one of the comic reliefs of Mexico | City is the active hatred of these three for each other. What they [think of capitalists, by comparison, is complimentary.
250 HALED TO COURT BY SIGN INSPECTORS
| Two hundred fifty operators of business places were ordered to ap-| pear in Municipal Court today to! answer charges of failure to pay City fees for signs. The affidavits were issued yesterday to H. C. Carmichael, Chief Sign Inspector, in Municipal Courts 3 and 4. Mr. Carmichael said employees of the City Building Commissioner had | inspected 48,000 different sign lo- | cations during the year and that | each of the store owners who had| failed to pay the fees had been | warned three times. The city fees are $1 for each sign | flat against a building and $1.50 for signs projecting from the building. | The fees are payable to George Popp Jr, Building Commissioner, Mr. Carmichael said most of the delinquent places of business are liquor stores and taverns.
MIXED DANCES BARRED MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 5 (U, P.).—The 1939 state Baptist convention has banned “mixed dancing” among its young people at Judson College, Birmingham, since it was “against the wishes of many of our leaders.”
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