Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. RETURNED YANKS GET JOBS Government Reports Show That Indiana Has Found Positions for Service Men Numbering 17,118. Indianapolis, March 19. —The magnitude of the task which confronted the country in reabsorbing its fighting men into peacetime industry is shown by a government report covering the employment of service men during the past year, which was received by Harry B. Smith/ adjutant general of Indiana, from rflie assistant secretary of war, in charge of the re-employ-ment of soldiers and sailors. During the past year, according to the report, 1,299,365 men have applied for employment at the bureaus maintained by the various governmental and welfare agencies. Of this number, 919,754 have been placed, or 71 per cent of all seeking employment. In the central states, 467.143 men have registered, and 340,293 have been secured employment, or 73 per cent of the total. The statistics for Indiana follow: Registered. 467,143; placed, 17,118. “It is estimated that about 75 per cent of the more than 4.000,000 of our demobilized men went back to their former positions, or found employment without asking assistance,” said Lieut. Col. Mathew C. Smith, general staff of the service and information branch, which now handles all the problems of discharged soldiers and sailors.

Carpenters Ask Raise'. Goshen. March 19.—Goshen carpenters, recently unionized, are demanding 85 cents an hour and an eight-hour day\ Contractors are willing to pay 75 cents an hour, with a ten-hour day. Although between 100 and 200 houses are badly needed in Goshen, none are being built, the high cost of. material and labor being held a barrier. The Goshen Housing corporation offered to loan money to home builders at 7 per cent interest, but there were no applicants for such loans. Yearly tenants are fighting advances in rents, on the theory that landlords are required to give 90 days’ notice before the expiration of the current year, before they can raise rents or obtain possession of premises. Still Owner Pays SIOO. Evansville, March 19. —Bart McGregor, owner of the North Side Produce company, who was arrested, along with his employees late Monday, when the police searched his store and found a still,, a barrel of sour mash and some home-made beer, was fined SIOO and costs jn the city court and sentenced to the county jail for 80 days. The jail sentence was suspended by Judgy E. H. Ireland. The other defendants were released. Whether the men are to be tried on federal charges later will be determined by J. A. Pierce, who has charge of the enforcement of the national prohibition law in this part of the state.

Ba£k Taxes Collected. Indianapolis, March 19. —During tin last six months the state has recov ered from Insurance companies $34,141.56 in back taxes due the state unjer the reciprocal insurance law, ac cording to a statement issued by Jess:

E. Eschbach, state examiner of the board of accounts. The report shows that the total charges brought against the companies amounted to $168,581.71 and of this amount $11,367.73 was dismissed after investigation. The amount pending after settlement in the office of the attorney general or in the courts i5>5121,639. A Child Fatally Injured. Lebanon, March 19. —Mabel Marie Morrow, six years old. daughter of A. L. Morrow, was fatally injured when she was struck by an automobile, driven by Roy W. Adney, a prominent local attorney. The child was on her way to school. Alighting from her father’s machine, she started to cross the street and ran directly into the Adney automomile. She was taken to the hospital, but died in a short time. Her skull was fractured. Hurty Speaks in Florida. Indianapolis. March 19. —Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, who is spending a leave of absence in the South, addressed the Florida State Conference sot Social Work at Jacksonville last week, according to a letter received by Dr. William F. King, assistant secretary of the board. Left His Wife in Town. Greenfield, March 19.—Caleb Moncrief, a farmer near this city, who came to Greenfield on a business errand, was accompanied by his wife. Completing his transaction, he drove home alone, forgetting his wife had accompanied him. Mrs. Moncrief hired a taxicab and charged the bill to her husband. College Teajcher Dies. Evansville. March 19. —Miss Ethel Burton, head of the department of education in the Evansville college, died at a local hospital following an operation. Her body will De sent to her former home at Sandburn, Knox county, where her parents live.