Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1940 — Page 26

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"+ more, workers employed than in {Bev . March, 1938, the size of the file had wisdom and ignorance ‘and the col- © grown from 120,420 to 147,998.

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APPLICANTS FOR SALES, CLERICAL JOBS INCREASE

State Employment Bureau Says Semi-Skilled Group Is. Largest.

The proportion of sales persons and clerical workers seeking jobs through the Indiana State Employment Service has, increased in the last two years and tip<spatio of skilled crattsmen, production’ workers and physical labor Jobseekers has declined. These changes were shown in the tabulations of the April 1 inventory of the 147,998 active application cards on file in the 25 employment offices of the service and their comparison with the last previous

inventory, taken March 26, 1938. Service workers changed little in

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the two years, comprising 14.2 per | cent this year. Many Semi-Skilled Apply skilled production workers” were the largest single occupational! formed 27 per cent of the active FOUNTAIN COUNTY file and this April 26.3 per cent. largest group each year, made up| T0 UNVEIL MURALS 26.7 per cent of the 1938 file gic cants this year. Skilled craftsmen, Cioation | sors Ind. Ma 1s the third largest group, accounted dedication | service -for the nes 17.7 per cent in 1940. Court House here will be held a: Clerical workers increased from | %: 30 Sunday. {eompleted, was a PWA project wit! | salespersons from 4.5 per cent to 7. 2/3omb = Scholer of Lafayette anc! from 2.4 per centto 2.8 per cent. ltects. The gnurals are b : y Eugen: J. Bradley Haight, assistant di-' savage and a group of assistant: said that no direct comparison be-| River Sketch Club. tween the total numbers on the ac- | Mr. Savage, a hative of CovingEmplo t U and European art schools, was th: mpioynen P muralist for the Elks World War) employers reported 13 per cent, are two canvasses 15 by 10 feet i: e vestibule of the Court Hous: .

cent of the 1938 file and 14.4 per; Applicants classified as “semigroup in both years. In 1938 they | Physical labor workers, the next) 24.7 per cent of the active appli- ne Spit for 19 per cent of the 1938 file and [Murals in the Fountain Count | “The Court House, also recentl’ per cent. Profess sional WOrKers rose y ic" Johnson of Attica as archirector in charge of field offices, wn, are members of the Wabasi: (ton who.|studied art in America: He said that although Indiana Memorial in Chicago. His murals ey depict honesty and dishonest: ,

lection wand disbursement of taxe:. Factors causing the growth, he! The murals by the assisting art- | \ists cover 46 by 8-foot walls in the

floor. These large murals represent

. in the working population and the {he spanish, the French, the En; -|

; fact that more employers are re-|jich and the United States.

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. cruiting their workers through the pictures also show pioneer and moci- |

. Employment Service.

‘ern settlements in the County.

arcella Smith.

Willkie Wants To Meet 'Champ'

EKA, Kas., May 31 (U. P)). Willkie, “darkhorse” Republican Presidential Repent, | conferred last night with Alf M | Landon, titular head of the party, -and told a crowd of 500 that met him at a railway station, “I don’t want to fight Galento; I want to meet the champ.” He said he would be “delighted to oppose President Roosevelt after Mr. Landon had introduced him as “the energetic and amaz= ing Mr. Willkie.” “We will be on the road to na-

~tional defense when we remove

‘restrictions on the flow of capital into productive enterprise,” Mr. Willkie said at a press conference in Mr. Landon’s home. “The United States has not been attacked and I do not believe it will be, but we may have only a few precious months, particularly, if the totalitarian states are victorious. In this period we need national unity.”

BOY DROWNS IN MINE BICKNELL, Ind., May 31 (U. P.). —Jack Phillippe, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John | Phillippe of Bicknell, was drowned yesterday when he dived into deep water of a coal mine pit near here.

Five sels of twins, includihg four identical pairs, will be among the 350 Manual High School seniors who will receive their diplomas at Cadle Tabernacle Tuesday night. and Harriet Peters (top left) ; Gladys and Louel William and Robert Mickel, "and . Charlotte and

Seated on the school steps are Albert Lane (lower left); Phyllis and Verna Juday (center) ;

{GARNEGIE OFFICIAL

RETIRES- AT GARY

Times Special GARY, Ind., May 31.—Charles P. Kimmel, assistant to the superintendent of the Carnegie Steel Corp.'s Gary’ works, retires today after 49 years of service in the steel industry. He was porn in Todianapolis 65 years ago, the son of an engineer of the old Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad (now Big Four). The family moved to Mattoon, Ill, when he was three and to Kansas City when he was 12. There he was a newsboy fop three newspapers. He finished only the seventh grade in school. He started to work in the steel business at Pueblo, Cal, when he was 16. He was an apprentice there, a roll turner at Paterson,

N. J., a !templet filler at Pueblo, roll shop foreman in Denver and then came to Gary in 1908, while the steel mill was still under construction. His future plans are uncertain, he

THE INDIAPOR TIMES Five Sets of Twins Among Manual Grads

STATE CLOSES

improved Edanomic Conditiaps Lessen Costs of Child Dependency.

Improved economic conditions in Indiana during March ‘resulted in the closing of 357 cases where State Welfare Department funds had been paid to dependent children, aged persons or the blind, the Department reported today. A total of 1493 cases were closed by the Department during the month, 357 of them because improved economic conditions had made the aid unnecessary.

that there was a total decline in case load for the month of 11 families.

Relatives Assume Burden . The largest number of cases af-

conditions was in the aid-to-de-

161 families, the .relatives of the children. became able to support } them. 3 | The Department reported that this type of aid had been stabilized

35,000 children receiving adverage assistance of $13.58 a month. Just as a number of the child aid cases were closed by the fact that

had reached the age of 16, most of the old-age-assistance closings were the result of the deaths of the aged persons.

the aged parents. In 53 instances,

public. aid. Aid 65,938 in March

month and there was a decrease from 65,978 persons receiving aid in February to 65,938 receiving aid in March. These payments now average $17.70 a month. Four blind persons

relatives became able to support the blind persons. blind persons received cash aid averaging $20.27.

ACCIDENTAL SHOT FATAL FAIRMOUNT, Ind., May 31 (U. P.).—James Hasty, 12, was killed accidentally yesterday when a rifle discharged as he and a friend were examining it. The bullet struck him in the head.

says.

1493 AID CASES.

At the same time 1482 new cases |} were opened by the Department, so| ||

fected by the improved business

pendent-children section, where ‘in ||

at about 17,000 families, with about ||

the youngest child in the family| |

In 134 cases of this type,| however, improved economic condi- | { tions made it possible for sons or |{ daughters to assume the support of | |

the elderly persons became self- || supporting and no longer needed

The old-age assistance total has { slowed down within the past few |! months to an average increase of} about one-half of 1 per cent a||

In March 2456 |i

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