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6 M. PAYROLL | UP MILLION IN CITY FOR 1939

$3,987,601 Paid in Wages Here, $23,146,914 in All Hoosier Units.

Indianapolis employees of the General Motors Corp. earned wages

and salaries of $3,987,601 last year, a gain of $1,019,779 over the preceding year, it was announced today. The annual report of Chafrman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. to the company's 386,000 stockholders revealed that employees in four Indiana cities drew a total of $23,146,914, an increase of more than seven million dollars over 1938. The payroll for the other cities were: Anderson, $14,811,596; Kokomo, $1,267,282, and Muncie, $3,680,435, General Motors units in Indian-

apolis are the Chevrolet. Commercial Body Division, Allison Engineerin

ance Corp., General Exchange Insurance Corp. and the Chevrolet and Oldsmobile zone offices. ‘Those in the other cities are: Anderson, Guide Lamp and DelcoRemy plant; Muncie, Delco-Remy battery plant and Chevrolet gear and axle plant, and Kokomo, Delco radio plant. :

Payroll Third Highest

The annual. report also revealed that the company’s payrolls for all operations last year totaled $386,292,203, the third highest in the history of the corporation. This figure was exceeded only in 1929 and 1937. During the year, the average number of the corporation’s hourly workers in the United States increased 29,929, or 23.8 per cent, to a total of 155,765. . Its hourly wage payrolls were increased $74,949,002, or 39.7 per cent, to a total of $263,848,703. Hourly wage employees worked an

year compared to 31.2 hours the previous years, increasing the average annual earnings of regularly-em-ployed hourly wage employees from $1342 in 1938 to $1503 last year.

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NEW SOCIETY TOBE STUDIED

State Businessmen and I. U. Faculty to Meet May 13 ~ At Bloomington.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. March 18. —Hoosier businessmen and Indiana University faculty members * will meet here May 13 to formulate plans for an Indiana Business-His-tory Society. The group will study the possibilities of preserving important documents and developing interest in the preparation of histories of individual business firms in Indiana. The meeting is sponsored by the I. U. School of Business and the departments of economics and history. Dr. N. S. B. Gras, professor

Sales Gain 29 Per Cent

Mr. Sloan reported sales of the company’s products last year throughout the world totaled $1,376,828,337, a 29 per cent increase. The number of cars and trucks produced and sold during 1939 was 1,727,086, up 32 per cent. Net earnings available for dividends were $183,290,222. Dividends on the common stock increased from $1.5¢ a share in 1538 to $3.50 a share last year. Mr. Sloan reported that $23,027,468 of the year’s earnings were retained in the business for its pro-

of business history of Harvard University, will speak. Businessmen who are assisting with the Society are Walter R. Beardsley, vice president of the Miles Laboratories, Elkhart; Robert L. Moorhead, Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis; Frank Bernard, Muncie; Robert Batton, Marion, chairman of the] Indiana Commission for Financial Institutions; Henry Ostrom, president, Ostrom Realty Co., Indianap-

tection and expansion, and that the net working capital at the close of last year was $434,172,831, compared to $387,243,513 at thé close of 1938.

CUSTER'S NEPHEW DEAD

~ ALBANY, March 18 (U. P.).— William B. Custer, nephew of Gen. George H. Custer of frontier fame, died yesterday in his 66th year. He was born at Monroe, Mich., and often related stories the General told him prior to the massacre at Little Big Horn, Montana.

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Somewhere in Indianapolis today is one little jack-in-the-pulpit, a tangible evidence of spring gathered yesterday by a member of the Hayward Barcus Troop 83, Boy Scouts, on the first hike of the season. It was found by the scout in Clifty Falls. State Park, carefully dug up, and brought home in a box. Nearly all of the 56 scouts who made the * trip found some evidence of spring, including those who went wading. The party left Indianapolis in cars furnished by members of - the sponsoring Hayward-Barcus.Amer-ican Legion Post, and the luggage was taken in a truck furnished by Phi! Caito. The overnight camp was made in the shelter house and side hikes were taken Saturday night and yesterday.

Past Reviewed By B'nai B'rith

The “past” of 34 past presidents of B'nai B'rith was revealed in lights anG¢ snadows last night at the order’s annual past presidents’ dinner at the Beth El Teém-

ple. The formér presidents saw themselves in baby pictures which were flashed on a screen. While most of the past heads saw themselves bedecked in the swaddling clothes of childhood, Municipal Judge Charles J. Karabell saw himself as a mustachioed youth of 20. Six menorahs, the sevenbranched candlestick of the Temple, were presented to past executives who had not previously re-ceived-them. They were Dr. Har- - ry Jacobs, J. B. Kammins, Edward Cohn, Leon Mazur, Jules Medias and Raymond Kiser. Presentations were made by Louis J. Borinstein, Saul Munter presided and Eph Levin directed the entertainment.

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fairs, Federal and State authorities today remained without a clue to the whereabouts of Charles F. Tucker, alleged manipulator of a large scale insurance swindle. Federal officials, seeking the former insurance agent for questioning concerning his use of the mails, said they .had had “several inklings to where he is, but none of them worked out.” Walter Myers, Indianapolis attorney, today began his work as receiver for the missing agent. Mr. Myers was appointed in Federal Court Saturday by Judge Robert: C. Baltzell after a hearing on an involuntary bankruptcy suit.

24 ILLINOIS COEDS TO INSPECT LIBRARY

Twenty-four University of Illinois coeds will start tomorrow on an intensive three-day survey and study of the Indianapolis Public Library system. The girls are students at the University library school at Urbana. Miss garrie E. Scott, Library children’s” work supervisor, will be in charge of the study. ‘The group will visit Central Library Wednesday and branch libraries throughout the eity tomorrow and Thursday. They will also inspect the Indiana State Library, Butler University Library and other

special libraries in the city. :

SURVEY AUTHORIZED FOR FLOOD CONTROL

Times Special : WASHINGTON, March 18. — A survey of Lost River in southern Indiana with a view toward a flood control has been authorized by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress projects committee. The work will cost an estimated $86,155,150, but the. cost of each project was not estimated. ~

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Council Will Act on Annual Financial Pledge at + ~. Meeting Today.

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week-end in Clifty Falls State Park on its first overnight hike of the

Tho5h 83 Visits Clitty Falls And Finds Signs of Spring

Arthur J. Williams is scoutmaster and Delbert O. Wilmeth is chairman of the troop committee. Membership in the troop is restricted to boys living within the downtown mile square. The troop has headquarters in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where the whole basement has been turned over to the troop. Driving cars to carry the scouts 50 Clifty Falls ‘were Mr. Wilmeth, Scoutmaster Williams, Ernest Lindenberg, Claude McLean, John Knox, Arthur G. Gemmer, Charles Emmons/and Gordon Montgomery. A good many of the scouts passed fire building, tracking, astronomy and compass tests on the hike. This was the 19th overnight hike taken by the troop in the last two years.

GHESS PLAYERS TRIM ‘PURDUE TEAM HERE

A team representing the Central Indiana Chess Association defeated Purdue: University’s chess squad, 4'2-%, in a game played here yesterday. played here April 14 against a Dayton, O., team. - Sixteen teams which have been playing match games under the auspices of the association will conclude their season schedules April 2. All chess players in Indianapolis and vicinity are eligible .to play in a city tournament during April. Eight sections will be formed and each will play the week of April 7 to determine the strongest player in the section. Section winners will play the following week. A prize set of chess

‘will be awarded the final winners of

most games. The Engineer’s handicap trophy will be presented to the team showing the greatest improvement in the past year. ; Entries may be filed with team captains or with Daniel B. Luten, 940 Consolidated Building.

SEVEN FACE COURT IN ANTI-LOTTERY CASE

SANTA TE, N. M,, March 18 (U. P.).—Mrs. Oliver Grace Harriman, wealthy New York welfare worker and philanthropist, and her six associates in the Harriman Institute for Social Research today appears in Federal District Court to plead to charges of violating national antilottery laws. . She, Frederick Benduhn, national director of the institute, Harrison

per, Joseph F. Delaney and Frank B. White were indicted specifically on charges of: Ordering 1,500,000 lottery tickets, transporting part of them from Albuquerque to Chicago, conspiring to sell exclusive brokerage rights to the tickets and “falsely representing” themselves as having no other interest in the proposed lottery than to “obtain necessary and actual expenses.”

CONVICT MAY ESCAPE TRIAL IN ‘KIDNAPING’

VALPARAISO, Ind., March 18 (U. P.).—State’s attorneys indicated today that the trial of Richard Sweet, State Prison convict charged with kidnaping, would be indefinitely postponed because of a doubt that a jury willing to vot&®the death penalty. could be obtained. Sweet, already serving a life prison term, was scheduled to go on trial March 25.- With Alphonse Skusewich and Earl Niverson, also convicts, he is accused of seizing and holding as hostage Mrs. Ruth Joiner, a Crawfordsville welfare worker whHo was making a tour of the prison. Mrs. Joiner was. freed when state police and prison guards stormed the room in which -the convicts held her prisoner.

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pected to pledge financial aid to the Safety Patrol Officers’ Training Camp at a meeting today at the World War Memorial, Mrs. George L. Clark, president,

{was to ask for a motion that the

Association, as in former years, provide funds for sending boys from the safety patrols of their schools to the camp. Charles W. Youngman is camp commandant. The camp will be held from Aug. 26 to 30 this year at the Indianapolis Boy Scout Camp. The camp, held annually since 1937, is sponsored by the Indianapolis Safety Education Council, an organization composed of representatives from. public and parochial schools, the P.-T. A, the Kindergarten Association, the Police Department and the Hoosier Motor Club. Teachers and principals serve on the same staff without pay.

Reports Safety Progress

Sergt. A. C. Magenheimer of the Police Department, who spoke on “Safety in Our City,” reported a 32 per cent reduction in traffic fatalities in 1939 over 1938 and a 50 per cent reduction in deaths of grade school pupils. : “Our goal for 1940,” he said, “is to keep the traffic toll under 40 lives.” Sergt. Magenheimer said that safety officials are asking school pupils to teach their elders the traffic laws. Parents must give more attention to what their children do after school, he said. He stated that all deaths of grade school pupils last year occurred while the children were under the supervision of their parents. Speaking on “A Background for Safety Education,” William A. Evans, safety director for the public schools, urged a scientific approach to the accident problem. “Accidents are not acts of God,” he said. “They are the results of our own stupidity.” Cites High Speed Factor :

" Mr. Evans traced the history of the safety movement from the time of Moses ito the .present day. In 1800 there were 4000 automobiles in the United States, Mr. Evans said and today there are 30 million With the increase in number has come an increase in speed which further complicates the products, the safety director said.” The economic loss through automobile accidents annually totals more than the national bill for public education, Mr. Evans said. Nearly three times as many persons meet death on the highways each year as are murdered and more Americans are Killed in.any given period of 18 months than in.the year and one-half during which the United States was in the first World War.

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Pointing .ouf that traffic accidents account for only one-third of 94,000 accidental deaths yearly in the United States, Mr. Evans stressed importance of guarding against fatalities in the home. Accidental deaths in the home, he said, reach nearly as high a total each year as traffic deaths. Mr. Youngman, principal of School 8, showed a film of‘ last year’s Safety Patrol Officers’ Training Camp. Leroy J. Keach, president of the Indianapolis Board of

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Banquet to. Honor’ Civic ~ Achievements. by Indiana Clubs.

Tom Reif], national executive vice president. of the U. S. Junior Cham-

ber of Commerce, will be one of | the "principal speakers April 19 at

the achievement banquet in Bloom-

ington in connection with the Ninth Annual Jaycee State Convention. ; a : ~The banquet is named in honor of civic achievements by all Indiana clubs,” J. Russell Townsend, local club president, said. All cities competing for the outstanding service award. present their: qualifications to a state committee. Those not eliminated compete at the banquet, Gary was the recipient. last year ard Terre Haute the winner in 1938.

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MUSIC CAMPAIGN. DIRECTORS LAUDED

The Indiana music appreciation campaign, in which symphonic recordings are being distributed, §is one of the most successful in the country, officials of the National Committee for Music Appreciation

Edward Tingle, national director of the committee, who spent several weeks in Indiana in connection with the campaign, told leaders of the local movement in a letter that it is attracting national attention. “When members learned of the wide distribution of symphonic récordings they were more than gratified,” Mr. Ingle wrote. “They were most enthusiastic in’. their praise of the Indiana ‘committee headed by William H. Ball. “Undoubtedly you are making the dreams of the National Committee

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INDIANA PSC WORK TOPIC AT LUNCHEON

Duties of the Indiana Public Service Commission were desribed today by Ralph “E. Hanna, public counselor for the Commission at a noon meeting of Sigma Delta Kappa alumni at the Canary Cottage. William F. Piers, president, announced the 1940 committee ‘chairmen. They are Judge Dan V. White, publicity; Robinson Hitchcock, program; Harold E. Behrman, attendance; Herman, membership; Robert Chenoweth, auditing; Wesley Wilson, constitution and by-laws; Arthur K. Group, hospitaligy; George Diven,

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masses a ‘deeper appreciation and understanding of fine music.” The current record set being released in the campaign is Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos 2 and 3. They are the fifth set of classical compositions released. Five more

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OVER WEEK-END

Homes, Grocery, Church Are Entered; Two Holdups: Net $28.

‘| - Burglars broke into a downtown

office building and looted" seven offices .over the week-end. Two homes, ‘a grocery ‘and church were entered and two holdups which netted $28 were reported. Police today were endeavering to determine the value of loot obtained at the Holliday Building, 241 E. Ohio St. Offices entered were those of the Modern Woodmen, the Socialist Party of Indiana, the Life Insurance Co. of America, the Modern Drug Co., the Atlas Insurance Co. the Wittone Sales Co. and the United Insurance Co. When Mrs. Clarence Johnson returned to her home, 1412 N. Holmes Ave, Saturday night, a suspected burglar fled through a rear door. He ran through the rear yard of 1409 Warman Ave. the home of

officer Paul Blgrkgel, just as the ; ing "out.

officer “I'll . shoot,” the fleeing man threatened the officer who fired at him three times but missed. The suspect was arrested later in the neighborhood along with his housee keeper. Both were released on their own recognizance. A prowler found in a bedrbom at the home ‘of Mose Marmald, 909 Union St., leaped 20 feet to the ground from a second-floor window and escaped on foot. . Awakened by a burglar who ene tered the rear of a grocery at 842 Bates St., George Hildiver was warned, “Don’t move or I'll shoot.” “And don’t you move or I'll shoot you,” He challenged the intruder, who fled. : Custodians of the Merritt Place Methodist Church, California and W. New York Sts, found a 16-year-old prowler in the church basement. They said the youth tried

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