Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1941 — Page 16

THURSDAY, FEB. 20,

1941

U.S. AID TO STATE UP MILLION IN ’40

Year's Total Placed at $11

,417,370 in McNutt’s Annual

Report; 128,454 Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Accounts Settled.

By DANIEL

M. KIDNEY

Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb 20.

—Federal grants-in-aid under

the Social Security Act increased $1,344,619 in Indiana during the fiscal year 1940, Federal Security Administrator Paul VV. McNutt disclosed today in his annual report.

The 1940 total was $11,417,370 as compared to $10,072,751 in 1939. Social security payments amounted

to $9,239,391 in 1940. These

* included $6,647,058 for old-age assistance; $2,296,566 in aid to dependent children, and $295,767 aid to the blind. Unemployment compensation administration amounted to $1,711,508 in 1940. The Public Health Service spent $225,088 in the state during the fiscal year and $241,381 was spent by the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor.

Aid Crippled Children

The latter sum consisted of $80,gon for maternal and child health service; $121,155 services for crippled children, and $39,278 child welfare services. On June 30, 1940, Indiana had a balance of $39,492,313 in its unemployment trust fund. Deposits durdng the fiscal year amounted to $20,927,795 and interest $849,269. Withdrawals for benefit payments amounted to $9,450,000. There were 128,454 old-age and . survivors insurance accounts established in Indiana during 1940, bring"ing the total on June 30 to 1,300,507. The fifth annual report of the Social Security Board was prepared under the direction of Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer and forwarded to Congress by Administrator om

Hit at Unsound Plans

Tt recommends that equal-match-ing public assistance grants be replaced by variable-matching grants determined by the economic capacity of the State so that adequate assistance could be granted to applicants on the basis of their need rather than in accordance with the resources of the State in which they reside. Social insurance, the Board suggests, might well be extended to provide protection against wage loss due to physical disability. Extension of coverage under oldage and survivors’ insurance would tend “to diminish pressures for unsound and inadequate pension plans,” the report said. Federal old-age and survivors insurance, the Board believes, might. well bring in most of the major occupations still excluded such as charitable organizations.

Changes Suggested

For consideration as possible steps toward more nearly adequate unemployment protection, the Board suggests certain changes in State laws. They include: . 1. Reducing the waiting period to one week, establishing minimum benefits of at least $5 a week for total unemployment; increasing the maximum weekly benefit, now fixed at $15 a week in most states, increasing the weekly benefit sate, which in general does not exceed 50 per cent of wages, in contrast with the usual rate of 66 2-3 per cent under State workmen’s compensation laws and increasing the duration of benefits. In addition, the Board recommends payment of benefits for partial unemployment in states which now have no such provision.

TOBEY SAYS QUAYLE LIED ON PARTY LOAN

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U. P.). ~Senator Charles W. Tobey (R. N. * H.) charged today that Oliver A. Quayle Jr., former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, “lied brazenly and unhesitatingly” about a $100,000 loan made by Richard J. Reynolds, tobacco magnate, to the New Jersey Democratic State Committee. He made the charge in a one-man minority report of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Investigating Committee. The full committee has not yet submitted its report. Mr. Tobey alleged that Mr. Reynolds, who succeeded Mr. Quayle, exceeded the Hatch Act’s $5000 limit on individual political contributions by lending the New Jersey group $100,000 last fall to finance radio broadcasts by President Roosevelt and Senator George W. Norris

NJOSEPH SCHNEIDER, WAR VETERAN, DIES

Aseph H. Schneider, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, died

toady at the Veterans’ Hospital |

after an illness of one year. He was 58. Born in Paris, France, Mr. Schneider had lived in Indianapolis for nine years. He had been employed as a salesman. Mason and was a member of the Beth-El Zedeck Temple. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rose Schneider, and two ‘sisters, Miss ah Schneider and Mrs. Charles Feibel’nan, all of Indianapolis.

Services are to be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Aaron-Ruben Funeral Home.

EX-DUTCH PREMIER REPORTED AT HAGUE

LONDON, Feb. 2 (U. P.).—Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer, . former Netherlands premier who had been reported kidnaped at Lisbon by Germans and flown to Germany, has been in The Hague for some time, the Netherlands Government--in-exile said today. (In New York the National Broadcasting Co. heard the official radio Berlin say that de Geer was not -and. never had been in Nazi hands.) The Dutch Government in London described its report that de Geer had been in The Hague for ~ some time as “unofficial.”

He was a|,

FOR VETERANS

Legion Asks That Disabled Head List; Labor Seeks

Insurance Changes.

Amendments to both the Senateapproved merit system bill and the Unemployment Compensation bill were being considered by the House

Judiciary A Committee today. American Legion representatives urged an amendment to the merit system bill that would put disabled war veterans at the top of the preferred list for all jobs under the merit system. William Sayer, State Adjutant of the Legion, said of 2500 State employees, only about 3 per cent of them would be disabled veterans under his amendment. His proposal would give disabled veterans a 10-point preference advantage on their examination grades and a 5-point preference for other veterans, wives of disabled veterans and widows of veterans. Their names would go at the top of the preference list.

Stout Opposes Change

William Stout, representing the | Merit System Association, opposed the amendment on the ground that it would prevent young and capable workers from getting started in their merit system careers. “I am sure that the percentage of disabled veterans getting first jobs under the merit system would be much more than 3 per cent,” he said. In' a hearing on the Unemployment Compensation bill, labor leaders presented amendments that would reduce the waiting period for collecting job insurance from two weeks to one week and said they were willing to permit a shorter period of payments.

Favor Shorter Periods

Under the pending bill, the paying period would be 17 weeks instead of the present 16, but labor leaders said they would agree on 16 weeks if the waiting period were reduced. , These leaders, including Carl Mullen, president of State Federation of Labor, and John Bartee of the C. I. O., said they also favored an aendment to include under provisions of the law, employers having four or more workers instead of the present eight or more now provided. The Judiciary Committee is expected to report both bills out for passage this week.

4000 STATE NURSES REGISTER WITH U. S.

Miss Helen Teal, special Indigna agent of the U. S. Public Health Service, announced today that 4000 of Indiana’s 10,000 licensed nurses have offered to co-operate with national defense plans. “With more and more nurses enlisting for service in the U. S. Army, we must know the total amount of sufficiently skilled nursing service in the civilian coms munities,” Miss Teal said. Professionally inactive nurses who are capable and competent are registering for possible service in their own community. All those who are licensed but have allowed the license to elapse are being urged to co-operate in the inventory sporisored by the Health Service.

ASK MERIT JOBS

School | News—

STATE NEGROES T0 AID DEFENSE

Attorney Here Heads New Organization to Push Participation.

Henry J. Richardson Jr., Indianapolié attorney and former member of the State Legislature, today announced the formation of the State Council on the Participation of Negroes in the National Defense Program. He will be state director. The council includes chairmen of local defense councils throughout the ftate and other interested citizens appointed by the State director, ‘Mr. Richardson said. It will work with local allied couricils as an intermediate State organization, a part of the co-ordi-nated allied councils throughout America, under the supervision and direction of the National Committee ‘on Participation of Negroes in the National Defense Program in Washington.

Councils Investigate

Each local allied council will gather (factual evidence regarding discrimination against and integration. of Negroes in the industrial and military defense program in local communities. The findings will make up the issues which will be presented by the national council to the Federal Government, he said. Finarces for necessary legal action to integrate Negroes in the deferise and military service on popu-

lation-ratio basis will be raised by

local and state councils. lLavdls Service of Race

“Every intelligent, courageous and liberty-loving citizen will readily recognize the need for this effort and tne responsibility for organing and co-ordinating our forces in our common cause in revitalizing

democracy,” Mr. Richardson said.

“The personal interest and active help of every citizen throughout the State, regardless of social or economic status, will add impetus to the program and assurance of its ultimate success. It cannot be denied that this is a democratic program, with the-purpose of making democracy a reality to all in our democratic way of life,” he said. Mr. Richardson said that the Negro must benefit with equal opportunity in proportion to his sacrifice and service to his country if the unity of national defense is to beconic a reality. “I: cannot be said that the Negro, as a citizen, is not patriotic,” he gaid. “By his past service he has

proven this to his state and couniry.”

Insulting Wires ~~ 'Tap' Nazi Till

NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (U. PJ). ~—Insulting messages to Germany, sent at Germany’s invitation and expense, swamped the transAtlantic facilities of R. C. A. Communications, - Inc., today. The bars were let down last night, according to J. B. Rostron, traffic manager, when German officials replied, in response to an R. C. A. inquiry as to whether it should forward insulting mes= sages, to forward all messages, re= gardless of contents or the cost, until further notice. The messages started going Tuesday afternoon shortly after the German short wave radio station announcer asked Americans for program suggestions an criticism, good or bad, up to 2 cabled words, at Germany's expense.

PASS AID BILL, LARRABEE ASKS

Defeat Will Be Invitation for Invasion, He Says in Congress Record.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Refusal to pass the Lease-Lend Bill would be inviting invasion of the western

hemisvhere by the dictatorships, Rep. William H. Larrabee (D. Ind.), asserted today in the Congressional Record. Having voted for the measure in the House, Rep. Larrabee cited the Senate delay in passing the bill as a concrete example of its necessity. “Many weeks will have passed before the bill will have reached the stage of final enactment,” Rep. Larrabee pointed out. ° “Obviously, if we are to be effective in any degree in our efforts to protect ourselves through the medium of extending material assistance to our friends—those nations who are repelling invasion and fighting aggression—such delays must not occur in the future. “The passage of this bill, we believe, will eliminate the necessity of such future delays. Citing the danger to Canada in a Nazi victory and the efforts now being made by the dictatorships to alienate South America Rep. Larrabee concluded: “To refuse to enact the so-called Lease-Lend Bill would be to say that we are perfectly willing to leave to chance the decision as to whether or not our hemisphere and the borders of our own nation are to be invaded or at least attacked.”

' New fluorescent lights have been installed in the William H. Block]

showing of the Hoosier Salon which

opens Monday. Elmer Taflinger and Randolph | Coats, both well-known Indiana artists, expressed their approval of! the new lights, which were tried experimentally over . Georges La Chances’ painting “Kids.” This picture won the Orphan Annie prize given by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gray, Muncie. “This is excellent and a valuabl: improvement,” Mr. Coats remarkec. “It accomplishes additional illuini nation with uniformity, minus bb jectionable spot lighting. “Neither do I feel the customary color distortion so noticeable on . Paintings with artificial light, All ie :

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exhibiting artists will be - deeply grateful, I am sure.” Mr, Taflinger commended Block's on the light and remarked that it is superior even to daylight. Installation was in charge of E. W. Snyder, the store’s service superintendent, -and John Hill, electrician. “Daylight changes not only at

in different localities, while fluorescent light is constant,” Mr. Taflinger said. “It is possible that fluorescent light may bring about an in-

| ternational agreement on the lighting of paintings.”

An invitational dinner and preview of the salon will be held Saturday night in the Terrace Tea Room and auditorium of the store. This, as well as the exhibit itself, is sponsored again by the Art Department of the Woman's Department

Artists Praise Fluorescent Light

Inspecting the new lighting system are (left to right) E. W. Snyder, Wm. H. Block Co. service superintendent; Elmer Taflinger, artist; John Hill, electrician, and Randolph Coats, also an artist.

Club, of which Mrs. Clayton Ridge is president. Mrs. H. B. Pike, chairman of the Art Department and actively in charge of arrangements, has been assisted by Mrs. Leonidas Smith, Hoosier Salon counsellor, and the fgllowing committee chairmen: Mrs. R. O. McAlexander, invitations; s. George A. Vandyke, program; Mrs. John Berns, dinner; Mrs. Willard M. Clute, gallery tours; Mrs. William L. Sharp, club hostesses, and Mrs.. Merritt Woolf, sales. Exhibiting artists will be special guests of the store at the dinner and Mrs. C. B. King, Hoosier Salon founder, will come from Chicago for the occasion. Miss Ethelwyn Miller, art authority, will give the principal address. The exhibit will be open, beginning Monday, from 9:30 a. m.

to 5:30 p. m. daily through Ma¥ch 7,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Ready to Vote for ‘Governor’

Deloris Jenson (left), chief clerk at School 46 election... gives final instructions to Lawrence Dunnick, Betty Jean Pryor and Paul Babbitt for the “Webster State” vote next Tuesday.

‘STATE’ SET UP AT JUNIOR HIGH

Webster Pupil Will Rule on Tuesday Mornings Until June.

By EARL HOFF

“Webster State” is about to acquire a new Governor. His term of office will run until early June. He will govern a domain of exactly one classroem, with a population of 35, and he will rule only on Tuesday mornings. That's because “Webster State” is a governmental unit only in the eyes of junior high school pupils at Daniel Webster School 46, 1702 Miller St. Founded by Miss Maude Van Riper, social science teacher, its only purpose is to make the study of Indiana government more interesting.

City in First Semester

In the first semester of the school |

year, the group, formed into a club which meets during the club period

each Tuesday morning, is formed into a city unit. In the second semester the state government is the model. Later on, Miss Van Riper said, the pupils will form a Legislature and learn the process of lawmaking. They may take several trips to the Indiana Assembly before it adjourns to see how the regularly elected legislators operate. Right now the pupils are engaged in the old American practice of campaigning. Two slates are vying for the elective positions. On the Minute Men ticket are Ilene Wallen, Governor; Lois Ramsey, Lieutenant-Governor; Rosellen Stevens, Secretary of State; Barbara McClain, Treasurer-Auditor; Robert Wessell, Superintendent of Public Instruction; Dorotha Alexander, Attorney General, and Maxine Smith and Edith Cowger, Supreme Court judges.

On Loyalist Ticket

On the Loyalist ticket are: Paul Babbitt, Governor; Amelia Grindean, Lieutenant-Governor; Margaret Bohannon, Secretary of State; Virginia Hale, Treasurer-Auditor; Georgianna Shelton, Superintendent of Public Instruction; William Rather, = Attorney General, and Lawrence Dunnick and Louise Young, Supreme Court judges. To make everything authentic, the pupils have a state constitution, a state pledge and even a “Webster State Song.” The campaigning is on a nonpartisan basis—that is, the pupils are urged to consider each candidate on his merits rather than his party. The election is next Tuesday. Miss Van Riper is making no predictions.

LUNCHEON HONORS 10 FROM LEGISLATURE

Ten members of the Legislature who are graduates of Purdue University were guests of the Purdue Association of Indianapolis at a luncheon in the Hotel Severin yesterday. They were Reps. Charles Miser, Garrett; Roy Harrison, Attica; Edward Chubinski, East Chicago; Howard Steele, Knox, and Lee Reynolds, Liberty, and Senators Calbert Ferris, Milton; Bruce Lane, Bainbridge; Floyd Garrott, Battle Ground; Howard Johnson, MooresVille, and Robert Miller, Bloomingn. * Approximately .70 persons attended the luncheon. A motion picThe American Way,” was

Dr. "E. C. Elliott, president of Purdue; Tom Johnston, publicity director; Mal Edward, athletic director, and Eth Baugh, alumni secretary, attended the luncheon.

LOSES $5000 SUIT AGAINST COLISEUM

Miss Dorothy Peterson, Shortridge High School teacher, yesterday lost a $5000 damage suit against the Indianapolis Coliseum Corp, based on injuries received when she fell on the‘ice there Jan. 20, 1940. Judge Herbert E. Wilson of Superior Court 5 upheld a motion for a directed verflict for the defendants, He said that one who takes part in such sports accepts the dangers that inhere in it as they are obvious and necessary. Miss Peterson alleged a group of boys playing on the rink ran into her from behind and that Coliseum guards had “ceased to be alert and watchful.” Judge Wilson said that seeing them and yet remaining and Sng Miss Peterson assumed the sigs of IY. i

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OFFER NEW PLAN FOR COURT MOVE

County Studies Proposal to Keep Juvenile Hearings In Downtown Area.

County Commissioners have taken

.lunder advisement a compromise

proposal to settle. the dispute be-

‘tween the Juvenile Court and Irv-

ington residents.

The compromise plan is to move the Juvenile Court from the Court

|House but to keep it downtown.

Commissioners and Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of the Juvenile Court hope that the plan will meet the approval of Irvington residents. The dispute arose when the Juvenile Court announced a plan to move the Court, the Welfare Department and all those awaiting hearings to the Children’s Guardians” Home in Irvington.

Injunction Pending

Under the proposed compromise children awaiting hearings would be sent to the Irvington Home, the Welfare Department would stay in its present quarters at Senate Ave. and W. Washington St., and the Children’s Division of the department would be housed with the Court at downtown quarters. An injunction suit filed by Irvington residents to stop the original plan is pending in Superior Court. Residents object to delinquent children being brought into their community and to the establishment of a welfare center there. They contend that a traffic problem would result.

Seek Amicable Solution

“We don't think there's any chance of a permanent injunction being granted in the case of the Welfare Department or of those awaiting hearings,” Commissioner William T. Ayers said. “But we're not so sure about the court removal. Therefore we're trying to reach some amicable solution.” The Baker Building on Washington St. opposite the Court House, is now being considered as a possible Juvenile Court building. It formerly was used as Democratic County headquarters. “With this move wé would solve two other problems as well,” Mr. Ayers said. “We would give the Juvenile Court much-needed room and at the same time make four additional rooms available in the Court House for other Offices here.”

OPPOSES NEW LABOR LAWS

Hillman Calls Strikes Rare Exception in Testimony To House Group.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U. P)). —Sidney Hillman, associate director

of the Office. of Production Management, told the House Judiciary Committee today that additional labor legislation is not needed because “strikers are the rare exception in defense industry.” “With the emphasis on strikes in the daily press,” he said, “the man in the street can hardly fail to conclude that strikes are increasing greatly. This is simply not true.” He warned the committee against any action that might destroy the existing spirit of volunta cooperation and urged that labor and management be allowed to “improve and perfect that method of voluntary co-operation.” The committee called Mr. Hillman to discuss the defense labor situation. It is considering various anti-strike and compulsory mediation proposals for defense: industries. OPM Director. William 8S. Knudsen yesterday opposed legislajin that would restrict labor activities. Mr. Hillman said the last seven months “stand out sharply in the following respects: “1. For the first time in our industrial history, employment has increased sharply without an increase in the number of strikes. . . . The number of man-days of, idleness by reason of strikes in the last half of 1940 was 40 per cent less than in the last half of 1939. “2. Less than half as many persons were involved in strikes during 1940 than in the corresponding

war years of 1917 and 1918. “3. The amount of idleness caused by strikes in 1940 was less than onequarter as great as the time lost because of industrial accidents. “4, The strikes that have occurred during recent months of ever-en-larging industrial activity have been small and of short duration.”

GONAS’ BILL URGES VETERANS’ PENSIONS

Only a few minutes after House Democrats slipped through the amendment yesterday to raise the minimum old age ‘assistance to $40, Senator John Gonas (D. Mishawaka) offered a bill in the Senate for a State soldiers’ and sailors’ pension. His bill would provide for the payment of bonuses ranging from a $20 minimum to a $250 maximum to all Hoosiers who served in the armed forces during the World War. The amount to be paid would be determined by a Service Recognition Board composed of the Governor, Auditor and Adjutant General. Funds would be obtained, by a general tax on property. The measure provides, however, that the bonus matter must be put to a vote of the people before payments are made. Republican leaders asserted there would be no “slip-up” on this Democratic vote-getting measure. It probably will never get out of committee, they said.

NOTED VIOLINISTS WARNED NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (U. P.).— James C. Petrillo has notified instrumental virtuosi—among them Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Heifetz and Albert ‘Spaulding—that they must join his organization by March 1 or, presumably be denied the services of the American Federation of Musicians, it was learned today. Such virtuosi now belong to Lawrence Tibbett’s American Guild of Musical Artists which has been feuding with

period of emergency in 1916, or the

H arvard Editor

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 20 (U. P.).—After “hexing” and burning Adolf Hitler in effigy, members of a masked “suicide squadron” of Harvard students apologized today to a senior they kidnaped and unintentionally singed. Joseph Philip Lyford, an editor of the undergraduate daily newspaper, “The Crimson,” accepted their regrets, remarking he “was plenty sore from the funny joke.” The “suicide squadron,’ comprising about 20 members of a “Crimson Cult,” said young Lyford had disclosed secrets of their organization. A year ago a story by him about a group known as “Red Shirts, a Fascist Organizatipn,” resulted in the barring of the allegedly antiCatholic club from Harvard Divinity School’s social service center. To mumbled incantations, an effigy of Hitler was strung on a rude gallows near Weld Bathouse on Memorial Drive. Pins were stuck into the life-size figure and then it was fired with a torch. Members of the anti-Hitler cult explained they were “invoking all the occult methods of the ancient and modern alchemists, the methods of astro-dynamics, thermo-dynamics, geography and economic hallucination” in hope of bringing misfortune upon the Nazi leader. One cultist said their curse would cause Hitler to die within a “twelvemonth” from a “schizophrenic spasm.” Mr. Lyford, kidnaped as a “human sacrifice” to add to the incantation's power,” was swung like a hammock over the burning remains

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navy costumes.

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Getsthe Heat

As Hitler Is Burned in Effigy

of the effigy when it dropped from the gallows. The ceremony was halted when the rope binding Mr. Lyford's feet caught fire, and he was released. s—————————

DADS, SONS TO HEAR BOYS’ SCHOOL HEAD

E M. Dill, superintendent of the Boys’ School at Plainfield, will speak at the Central Christian Church Father and Son dinner at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow in the church. The program theme will be the spirit and meaning of Washington's birthday. A musical program will be given by Miss Oreta Bossert and Glen Speckman and the Indiana Central Male Quartet. Fernald F. Mills, leader of music in the adult department of the Central Christian Sunday School, will lead group singing. Kirkwood Yockey will preside and Dr. W. A. Shullenberger will give the invocation. The sponsoring committee, appointed by the church Youth Council, includes Paul Beam Jr. Ned Smith, John David Williams and Janet Morgan, who will be in charge of the hostesses, Miss Nellie C. Young is. advisor,

FDR’'S SON DUE IN VENEZUELA CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 20 (U.

said John Roosevelt, the President's son, and his wife, were arriving by boat today at Laguaira, the Port of

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