Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1950 — Page 24

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Spring's Gentle Zephyrs Blow Unemployment Rate Down =~

Active Here

Prices Decline

By HAROLD H. HARTLEY, Times Business Editor

IF -YOU DON'T think business sails are getting hard as iron under the steady spring blow, give an eye to the ;

unemployment figures.

_ They: should be aigreat pick-up to the boys with that bloodhound sag on their faces. Ty : ut of work who went around to the state to collect grocery.

The number of people o

money dropped 39 per cent kits and free merchandise in the - the first week in March, and Payoff. _ . that was down 68 per cent from

the same week in recession-mind- . Everett Gardiner, boss of the Indiana Employment Security Division, said only 4340 came around to sign up for state checks in the week ended Mar, 18,

s ” = JOB ORDERS are up, too, There's pink in the employment picture, like the sunrise of a better day. The big lift in the back-to-work picture came from Gary where the steel mills began to roll when coal trains began to arrive. And Richmond helped. Things haven't been too smooth over there in the last year, a little come-and-go labor trouble. = Another lift to the job picture will come from the bark of hammers and the slap ‘of cement trowels in the building industry,

gets good. That’s starting right now.

Tillie’s Take

HERE'S ONE which may stir

up a little powder room gossip. Uncle Sam's boys have been to town, asking questions of the take-a-letter girls. How much they're making and questions like at

25 to 50 Cents From Previous Day Hog sales were moderately active at the Indianapolis Stock|yards today, with barrow and {gilt prices indicating a 25 to 50lcent drop from yesterday's rates.

iray machines, beauticians’ too

Mme. Walker's

fastidious Negroes. Collector's Item

| whisky. : | David Bunim, who runs Schen

markets. Now, why? :

can re bonded

houses,

whoopee water get.

Lawrenceburg.

Word-Mix

{is using a stay-on-the-road line yearlings,

[ich sticks to the tongue.

‘doesn’t have something.

Insulite Names Representative

preparations | ‘hive gleaned sales millions from

SCHENLEY is letting go of its culls downward to $11. carefully - guarded eight-year-old :

iley, is’ shipping the lock-and-key stuff to all of the straight whisky

The goverpment has a rule that eight years is the limit whisky |

In Jntaran) SUVS 10 $14; 0dd choice to $14.50. Sows

about as old as distillers let tHE yesterday, with bulk good and

And Schenley turns out a Tot|y fr 13 to $14.50: choice of it here in Indiana, down at 8 from $ m0

H. 8. ‘EVANS, thinKer-upper for, always beiter when the weather Hogan Transfer & Storage Corp.,|

Bulk of good and choice 190 lito 250-pound weights, sold from $15.50 to $16. The early top price was $18. - oe Vealers trade also opened active and $1 higher than yestertday: —Good-—and--chotee grades:

{brought from $28 to $29.50; com‘mon and medium, $18 to

barrows and gilts selling from $15 to $15.50, and a_few near the 1260-pound bracket” at $15.65. Heavier weights- were scarce. Good and choice, 120 to 160pound stock, ranged from $12.50|

{were about "25 cents lower than

choice, 330 to 600 pounds, mark-

270 to 330 ‘pounds, $14.75 to ‘a | sparing $15. ; Se moderately. active with - price drops of 25 to 50 cents in some] instances, Odd head, good] sold from $27 to)

{ mostly medium yearlings mixed stock, ranged from $25 to $25.50, common grades priced! downward to. $21. Cattle under pressure of 50

The Bureau of Labor Statistics

stenographer here is dragging down $44 a week, less tax, less Social Security, less hospital in-

surance, and less other things, alllOntario Paper

of which-make it a little tough to keep peace with the landlady. - But that $44 figur ~—some aren't getting it, and they may be drawing a ring around this little eye-

_openet and leaving it on the boss’| Mr, A. : 7 > ‘native of Indian. ,apolis, has been

Bes, And that will make my phone ring. : |

Night Out _ |

ors will get together to smash the| maples, slice steaks, shuffle the pasteboards around, and clink the; cash next Tuesday. . T The boys bowl for exercise, eat] to get their strength back, then| peek at hole cards to get the price of their dinners back. . It's swell fun. They've been doing it for years. If you don't beHeve it, sit in one of those games, |

Garth R. Marine has

tive in central {Indiana by ‘the x innesota and

Co, M. C, Fair[feld, Insulite {sales . manager, jannounced today.

selling bullding materials in Indiana for 16

Mr. Marine INDIANAPOLIS Home Build- years, He replaces O. G. Norbeck, | Were just steady. Buyers were

who has been transferred to Fargo, N. D.

Garden Clubs To Aid Home Show

The Central West District Garden Clubs of Indiana will handle

advance ticket sales for the In- !0 $15, and common, downward

dianapolis Home Show, Apr, 21

and keep your shoes on, -or youiso 30

won't have any. .

78 Scholarships

KROGER'S DOES 3a little more than take in the green stuff at| the cash registers, It also takes a few boys and girls to college; 78 to be exact, Joseph B. Hall, Kroger presi. dent, said the company will put out the scholarships worth $200 each to students planning to major in home - economics and agriculture in 16 land grant schools, the ones built on land oo the-Goverament-gave-them:

It's Kroger's 12th year for the,

scholarship idea and it pays off, too. Notice how Kroger sticks to] the eating ..industry-—home eco-| pomics and food and stock raising.

Cinemabroad : FRANK BODWELL, who thinks no more of flying to Europe than he does of taking a N. Meridian bus, will show the Kiwanians a movie, “Wings to Vikingland,” tomorrow, ¥ The Kiwanians, In a Claypool Hotel luncheon, will tap three new members. — They are Rev. Laman H. Bruner Jr, Advent Episcopal. Chureh; “Rita Lo Barr, oi butrier- ais: tributor, and J. Russell Townsend Jr., whose dad was Kiwanis president last year.

Mme. Walker's 50

THIS YEAR the Mme ¢ J. Walker Mfg. Co., which cleaned

treatment, will be 50 years old.” ** ‘The company will have ‘a gold. en anniversary convention here Aug. 21-23 to touch off a sales

=--ooniest for d gents with U. B. and Glenn R: Slenker of Monti

Booths in downtown depart-

ment stores asd Hook's Claypool

Hotel Drug Store will be set up by the end of the week, Charles . Wagner, exposition chairman, said today. . The clubs met today to distribute tickets to members of 34 affiliated organizations and to

discuss landscaping commissions

around the 25th model home, District clubs will sell 40-cent tickets through Apr. 20. Door admission to the Silver Celebration Show will be 50 cents. Announcement of the advance sales was made by E. G. Péabody, show ticket chairman; Mrs, Henry C. Prang, club district direcs)r, and Mrs, E. L. Bohn and Mrs, John Donagh, garden club members on the show's board of directors.

anniversary

Jasonville Democrat To Oppose Noland

Rep. James Noland (D. Seventh District) faced opposition today in his campaign for Democratic renomination in the May primary election.

His opponent, who filed this

‘morning in othe Secretary of

State's office, was Willlam J. Powell of Jasonville. Mr, Powell was one of two candidates who opposed Mr. Noland two years ago for the Democratic nomination, but the incumbent Congressman outpolled both.

state representatives also. were among those filing for the primary election today. They were Paul C. Moellering. of Ft. Wayne

bonds, beauty equipment, violet

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7." SNOW SHOWERS

moved rather slowly. Early sales were weak to 50 cents down. Good beef cows were scarce, and odd head prices fell between $10.50 to $20. Bulls Scarce Common and medium stock sold from $16.75 to $19, canner and cutter, $14.50 to $16.75. Bulls |were scarce and little change in {price. Medium and good sausage

4bulls marked from. $19.50 -to| $21.50; good beef bulls, $18 to

1821; heavier grades, |downward. ’ | The sheep market was active, although slaughter lamb sales

$20 and

quality conscious. Load and choice ‘wooled western lanibs sold at $27.76. Truck lot, mostly good 90 - pound wooled natives were marked at $27; common and me{dium were eligible from $21.50 {to $26. Slaughter ewes

were steady. | {Medium to choice sold from $11}

{to $9. Estimated receipts were hogs, | 11,000; cattle, 700; calves, 400 and | sheep, 500. \

|On Speakers’ Panel Howard C. Greer of the Mo-

{conference of the National As-|

$28; .

i Sell at $15.50 Top i Other portions of the livestock picture showed 250 to 280-pound| :

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|This’ll Be Newest Marmon-Herrington Product ~~

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This is the new Ford motor. coach which will be manufactured and sold by the Marmon-H | rington Co., Inc. Stanley Miller (second from left), general manager of the Indianapolis Transit, Inc., hands the first order to H. W. McCarthy. Also shown are Col. W. W. Herrington, chairman

(right), and Charles O. Buernsey, vice president.

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Collegian, Felcoring: Howard Caldwell,

‘the opens tomorrow on. Fairview ET senior ance; Miss Alice a Robertson, Indianapolis senior, luncheon; campus. Channing Smith, Indisaapolis junior, banquet; and Don Shelby, Indianapolis junior,!

The one-day parley is sponsored { $27.50. Part load, high medium by the Indiana Industrial Editors “Safety is no accident” Say It and low good grades, near 1025 Association and the Butler jour-

a couple of times and see if it pounds, brought $26. Small lot, nalism department. and; Committee chairmen, named by sophomore, student

Dr. DeForest O'Dell, include: James Allen, Indianapolis senior,

cents “i; “ir, "i (fat? Rites Arranged Clemency Board

John Herbert (Bert) Henley

1 H. Henley Dies; Local Newsman

Star Financial Editor 34 Years

{ John Herbert (Bert) Henley, y |veteran Indiana newspaperman| Monon. Railroad Man and financial editor of the In-| |atanapolis Star, | Methodist ‘Hospital. Mr. Henley was 72. He had St. Joseph County, 1937, robbery non Railroad will be one of the'been ill five weeks, following an with deadly weapon; speakers’ panel of the regional abdominal operation. His death ended a 45-year ca- ond degree murder, and Lowell 'soclation of Cost Accountants in reer as a Hoosier newsman, 34!Clark, Kosciusko County, 1938,

in«| posters. vitations; Miss Marjean McKay, Indlan- senior,

died today. in.ty, 1936, attempted rape and as

norning convention session, | Other student committee chairmen in-| clude Frank Ward, Indianapoiia junior, | {first afternoon session: Fred Ferree, In-| dianapolis junior, second afternoon ses-| Miss Ann Montgomery, Indianapolis! and faculty registraRoss, Indianapolis freshman, Wayne senior.

sion;

on, a {exhibits k ters;

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ra. n. Mit . . Anderson summarization of convention.

Studies 35 Appeals

Nine Lifers Seek Term Commutation

for sentence commutation. Nine were life termers. Among the lifers seeking clemency, which would make them eligible for parole, was Richard Parker, former Indianapolis blacksmith, who has been .in {prison since 1930, when he was {convicted on a charge of rape. Others were Alvin Meadows, sentenced from Vanderburgh Tounty in 1934 for second-degree {murder; Kenneth Courtney, Floyd| {County, 1933, first-degree murder;| {Clint Graves, Vanderburgh Coun-! {ty, 1932, first-degree murder;| {James Tartagalia, Wayne County, 1918, rape. Ci Others Appealing Also Russell Lee, Shelby Coun-

habitual criminal; Merle Albright,

Charles {Henry, Shelby County, 1924, sec-

‘Heads Lamp Sales

Butler Schedules First | Industrial Conference

’ ,apolis senior, general registration: Robert division of Westinghouse, Adolph Steers and heifers were only! Butler University's in Suna) $ Senior, wens) redistation; Nodert

{named manager of the newly formed Indianapolis lamp sales

Frankel, northwest district lamp sales manager, announced today. Mr, company, lives at 34 N. Gray St.

The State Clemency Commis-| |sion today studied appeals of 35 prison and reformatory inmates;

{New Orleans, Mar. 25, Pittsburgh of Which had been spent editing rape.

| Apr. 21-22, and Davenport; Iowa, | Apr. 27-29.

{the financial page 'H

be climaxed with the associa-'A. Stuart, editor of the Star.

{tion's 31st annual international

jconference in New York June 18-/1877, in the Quaker community 10 to 25 years in 1946 for rob(21, Val Williams of the Indian- Of Carthage, the son of George hery; Robert Mathews, sentenced |W. and Celia Anne Baker Hen- tq 19 years in 1944 for armed rob-

|apolis chapter announced today.

Local Truck Grain Prices

No. 3 truck wheat, $2.08, No. 3 white corn, $1.38. No. 2 yellow corn, $1.21, No. J} eats, . No. 2 soybeans, $2.31.

‘Local Produce

| Bess—Current receipts, 55 Ibs. to case

dium, 24c; rade, 20c¢

Mr. Henley was born “Mov. 13

ley.

He moved to Indianapolis in 1945 to 10 to 25 years for rob11903 and the same year was mar- hery; James Tate, ~sentenced in {ried to Miss Grace Evelyn Miller. 1947 to 10 to 25 years for robbery; {Before entering newspaper work McKinley Mayweathers, sentenced

he was an agent for the Pru-in 1942 to 10 to 25 years for rob-| (dential Life Insurance Co.

Worked on News Also

In 1905-he became market page fOr burglary. 27c; Grade A large, 28c: Grade A me. Teporter for the Star and from | Grade B large. 24c. and no 1907 to 1910 he was employed in | Poultry—PFowls, 4% Ibs. and over, 22¢; | & Similar capacity at the Indian-

under 4's Ibs. and Leghorns. 14c: cocks @polis News.

and stags, 13¢, and No. 3 poultry, 4c iess | Butter Fat—No 1, S4c: No. 3 Sse.

U. §. Statement

| WASHINGTON, Mar. 23 (UPi—Governiment expenses and re¢eipts for the rent fiscal year through Mar. 31, (pared with a year ago:

{ This Year Expenses §- 38-933 331498 Receipts 27.028,872,143 28,358.230.602 Surplus 2,728.307.387 Deficit 1,904,899.052 | Cash Bal 5.443, 14 $:290.484,375 | Public Debt 255,083.725, 251,873,087.987 |. Gold Res 34.295,727.215 24,307.760.570

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; : i SCATTERED AFFICTED SHOWERS La AREA SURE SNOW

{publican n {from Indiana. . He returned to the Star as edijtor of the financial page in 1 INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING “mousy {20d has served In. that ‘capa bi . Toe SI since. :

..In.1910 .he became general «JO Hear Driscoll :

{signment reporter for the Terre = Haute Star, of which his brother, {the late L. W. (Jack) Henley, was — |managing editor,

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Gardening Addict

| _He resided in Indianapolis until September, 1948, when he purchased a country home near Carimel,

In his spare hours Mr. Heney was a gardening enthusiast. He was a member-of Hosbrook

fa F. & A. M, of New Augusta and belonged {Methodist Church of Carmel.

to First

He is survived by his wife,

Grace; a son, Donald C., Sheridan, a brother Morris I. and News agent in Carthage, and | five grandchildren. ~ Services will be held at 2 p. Saturday in Wald Funeral Home with burial in Washington Park.

KIWANIS TO MEET Frank Bodwell, American Air-|

Star

ine, will exhibit a color film,

“Wing to Vikingland,” at a noon meeting tomorrow of the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club in the Claypool Hotel. :

Attention:

AND FLURRILS

. TODAY AND TONIGHT—From the Gulf States into the Mississippi Valley and the northeast 9d : Wil be class fo setscael Mem wr the imeereanpE: Yaley winds. (Note arrow from the bottom of the fotocast). Meanwhile, a colder flow of north-

THE A. G.

208 W. Maryland St, Indianapolis, Ind. Ruse E. Donle is the local representative.

The latter was ern- [secretary of the: Indiana State from New Jersey's Gov. Alfred E. com- | Republican Committee and for a Driscoll. Last Year |time secretary to Will Hays, for-

916 Top ranking Republicans both CY and out of “sctive politics

~ Agents and Shippers: Allegheny Steel Band Co, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is now exhibiting steel strapping ‘accessories at the open open today through Saturday at

of the Star. Among the assorted felons) L (He was termed a “newspaper seeking clemency were six others) {~The regional conferences will man of-the-old school” by James from Marton County serving less

er ‘sentences. They were: | » - Richard Marshall, sentenced to!

bery; Jack Brannam, sentenced in

bery, and Garnet Quarles, sentenced in 1942 to 10 to 20 years

‘Hoosier GOP

Indiana‘ Republicans today hoped for some winning ideas for the coming election campaign

ight's * 61st annual “beefsteak dinner at the Columbia Club, citadel of Hoosier Republicans. in were expected to be ‘among the 500 [club members at the dinner. {political observers as one of the {national GOP'S top vote-getters. {While off-year elections last year {failed - to dent Democratic na[tional power serfously, Gov. Dris{coll put on a major reversal by joverthrowing the Democratic “Boss” Hague machine in New (Jersey. {| President Ben Bogue of

thé Columbia Club will preside at to{night's dinner. Gov. Driscoll will {be introduced by Eugene C.. Pul{llam, president of Indianapolis (Newspapers, Inc. y

onan DEPOSIT FOUND

i YUMA, Ariz, Mar. 23 (UP)— (Uranium oxide ore containing .05 per cent uranium has been found jon a claim 50 miles north of here iby prospector R. Peters. The

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Purchasing

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Shovel Sales Agent

William W, Wilkinson has been named sales representative for the Marion Power Shovel Co. in southern Indiana. He will work out of Evansville.

Arnold, 27 years with the

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