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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
FORD BOOSTS
WORKERS PAY
DOLLAR ADAY
933 Employees in City Are
Affected by General
Increases.
EFFECTIVE LAST SUNDAY
Five Per Cent Is Hike for
Those Making More
Than Minimum.
EFFECTIVE LAST SUNDAY
BIZ United Press

By United Press
DETROIT, Dec. 3.-The Ford
Motor Company will spend $780,
100000 a year to raise the mini
mum wages of it's workers from Sc to
ST a day, Edsel Ford announced to-
day.
Wages of those workers who were
receiving more than the Sc mini
mum wage will be increased per
cent.
The raises we're effective Dec. 1.
They will cost the Ford company
approximately $1,628,000 a month on
the basis of the October pay roll,
which will be increased greatly when
spring production gets under way.
To Follow Suit
Only workers in the Ford plants
of the United States are included in
the increase, but Ford Corporation
is expected to follow suit, as it has
in previous wage and price changes.
On the basis Of october pay
rolls, 24,32O employees who were
making Sc day now will receive 81.
And approximately 115,640 workers
now receiving ST to $40 per day will
be advanced per cent of their
daily wage.
The SIS wage given to probation
ary workers" and apprentices is in
creased to $6.
Edsel Ford'S statement came little
more than week after Henry Ford
announced at President Hoover'S
conference in Washington that Ford
wages would be increased generally.
Pay Rolls Listed
Ford assembly plant pay rolls for
August, 1929, showing the number
of men to be affected by the In
creases follow:
Atlanta, 976; Buffalo, 1,457; Char
1otte, 1880; Chester, Pa, 3,494; Chi
cago, 2,903; Cincinnati, $50; Cleve-
land, 947; Columbus, IT'S; Dallas,
Tex, 1885; Denver, 908; Des
Moines, $50; Fargo, rs; Houston,
817; indianapolis, 933; Jacksonville,
Fla, Gil; Kansas City, 3,042; Kear-
ney, Neb., 5,296; Los Angeles, 1909;
Louisville, 1859; Memphis, 1885;
Milwaukee, 1893; New Orleans,
1000; Oklahoma City, 1,443; Nor
folk, 1876; Omaha, 1,017; Pitts
burgh, Las; Portland, 446; st.
Louis, 1899; Salt Lake City, SO;
San Francisco, 1898; Seattle, 976;
Somerville, Mass, 1858; Washing
ton, 80; st. Paul, 1,940.
Besides these assembly plants,
the workers in the Ford coal mines
and other subsidiary industries will
| be affected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
Nation Is on Steady Economical Keel, Hoover
Declares, in Asking Relief From
Any Further Uncertainty
IMMEDIATE TAX REDUCTION ASKED
Suggests Codifcation of Laws Relating to
Prohibition; Technical Defects Should
Be Cured, Chief Recommends.
BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Renewing his recommends
tion limited tariff changes outlined to the special
sion last April President Hoover his first annual
congress- today urged to relieve business from further
uncertainty by prompt action the revision program.
"It would be most helpful if action should be taken at
an early moment especially at time when business
and agriculture both cooperating to minimize future
uncertainties the President declared t just that they
should know what the rates are to be-
his first comprehensive survey of the domestic and
international position of the nation since he entered the
White House. the President outlined broad program for
dealing with the problems of growth and progress which,
he declared the chief problems confronting the
seSsi of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
FIND RACKETEER
SHOT TO DEATH
Police Think Crime Is Beer
Battle ReprisaI.
BB United Press

81 tHtcd Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-The body of
Pat King, alias Walter Merkle, was
found today in the fourth floor of
a building on the edge of the loop,
over the Club Royale night club,
where Tex Guinan entertained for a
few weeks recently.
King had been shot three times,
and apparently had been lured to
the execution place. The room
where his body was found was I'M
occupied but recently had been used
as a gambling hall. 1t was closed
in a raid.
King had a lengthy record in po-
lice circles. He was up several times
in connection with burglaries and
robberies. A charge of kidnapping
and robbing a druggist last March
was pending. He also was head of
the Theater Ushers' Union.
Police believe King may have been
connected with the shooting of Ted
Newberry, beer mob leader, Monday.
The theory is that King was one of
the members of the gang that shot
Newberry and that he had been
lured to his death as repriSal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
HOOveriSmS
Taken From
Message

ITO pressure internal order and
freedom from encroachment Is the
first purpose of government" h."
y
"fhe problems with which we
are confronted are the problems
of growth and progress"
n
Il also have appointed a volun-
tary committee of distinguished
membership to assist in a nation
wide movement for the abolition
of illiteracy."
n
"Our laws are made by the peo-
pie themselves; theirs is the right
to work for their repeal; but un-
til repeal it is an equal duty to
observe them and demand their
enforcement"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
PRESS SEARCH
FOR LOST FLIER
Mail Pilot Thought Down in
Hill Country.
BY United Press

Search by land and air for
Thomas P. Nelson, air mail pilot,
was pushed today as veteran fliers
became more convinced that he had
been forced down in the treacherous
Pennsylvania hills.
Nine planes working out of Cleve-
land Clarion, Pa, took up the hunt
at daybreak for Nelson, who has
been missing since early Monday.
Two clews aided the searchers.
One was that two women reported
they had heard a sound as though
a plane were crashing at Stoneboro,
east of Clarion. A report that two
flares had been seen near Oil City,
Pa, also guided searching parties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
COUNTY OFFICIALS TO
RE-AWARD CONTRACT
Consideration of Guardians Home
Project Object of Session.

County commissioners and Coun-
ty Auditor Harry Dunn were in
executive session today to consider
awarding a contract for an i'm
provement to the Marion county
board of children'S guardians home.
They had before them a letter
from the state tax board which ap-
proved s139,8O0 bond issue, suf-
ficient to permit construction if
contract is awarded to a low bid
Ger Commissioners previously had
awarded contract to the second low
bidder. The board refused to allow
the bond sale unless the contract
was given to the low bidder.
Commissioners may rescind their
action and abide by the boards
order or may abandon the project
altogether.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
BIZ Times Special

OH 4 tUtf1 CDtttUt
VXTEST POINT, N. Y, Dec. 3.
w --Alonzo Parham Of Chi
cago, Negro cadet at the United
States Military Academy, has
seen so signs Of discrimination
or prejudice against him, he told
the United Press In denying pub
lished reports that other cadets
never talk to him and that his
relations with them are strained.
ST realize that orders can not
be issued govern ing friendships
and that such tier is purely
personal" Parham said. State
ments to the effect that cadets
have been ordered not to talk to
me are false.
"All the officers are giving me
square deal. I have partici-
pated in every activity with
other fourth-class men from the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03

With confidence restored in
business, the President said,
| in reviewing the achievements
of the recent White House
conferences with the coun-
try's leading financiers, labor
leaders and business men, the
nation is on a steady economic
keel.
"I am convinced that through
these measures we have re-estab-
lished confidence" he said. Wages
should remain stable. A very large
| degree of industrial unemployment
and suffering, which otherwise
would have occurred, has been pre-
vented. Agricultural prices have re-
f1ected the returning confidence"
Asks Immediate Action
Among the Presidents recommen-
dations for legislative or executive
action are:
/. An immediate tax reduction of
l per cent on both individual and
corporate incomes for the calendar
year 1929.
2. Renewed efforts to realize a
railroad consolidation program.
8. Studies looking to reduction Of
a continuously mounting" military
outlay.
4. Ratification of the world court
protocol under the terms of the
Hirst-Root agreement.
S. Immediate increase in the in
land waterways appropriations from
100000 to $55,0O0, 900 annually.
6. General revision of air mail
rates upon a more systematic and
permanent footing"
z. Expansion of the United States
merchant marine through award of
sustaining mail contracts on four
teen new routes calling for 100000
tons of new ships at a cost of
$3.50 100000.
8, Revision of the national bank
ing laws, to care for vastly altered
conditions growing out of the ex-
pansion of chain banking.
9. Reorganization of the federal
radio commission as a permanent
agency of the government.
TO- A beginning on reorganization
Of the government departments, in
cluding concentration of the prohi-
bition enforcement machinery in the
department of justice.
Gratified at Awakening
Coupled with his specific reconi-
mendations for invigorating the
federal prohibition enforcement
machinery, the President again
pointed to the nations need for
better law observance generally.
ct have been gratified at the
awakening sense of this RESPONSE
bility in our citizens during the past
few months" the chief executive de-
clared, land gratifled that many
Instances have occurred which re
fute the cynicism which has as
serted that our system could not
convict those who had defied the
law and possessed the means to re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
EluSiUe Nh: Brobhy Once
More Has Em GUESSING

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-ReportS
IN here today said that Rich
ard G. Brophy, former business
manager of the Byrd expedition,
who was found in Omaha under
an assumed name, had disap-
peared again.
Brophy was due in New York
today from Chicago, but neither
his wife nor Captain H. H. Raj
ley, New York manager of the
Byrd expedition, knew his
whereabouts.
Shortly after his return to
this country Brophy disap-
peared, leaving a note in a both
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03

house at Coney Island that he
intended to commit suicide. That
was the last heard of his here
until he was found working on
an Omaha newspaper.
Mrs. Brophy, still suffering
from the shoe of her hus-
bands faxed suicide, said to-
day she owuld mae not attempts
to effect a reconciliation.
Il am going ahead as if moth
ing had happened" she said.
81 do not care to see my hus-
band. If he wishes to see me,
he must make the first over
lures"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
By United Press

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Tom and
Frank McManus, brothers of
George, now on trial accused of the
murder of Arnold Rothstein, offered
to produce George for detectives
immediately after the shooting, but
refused to reveal where he was or
to give police his home address, De-
tective Paddy Flood testified today.
They had come with Hyman
Biller to Room $40 of the Park Cen
trail hotel where the state alleges
Rothstein was shot. There they en-
countered Flood and other detec-
tiveS.
The detectives demands, Flood
said. for McManuS' address or in
formation as TO his whereabouts
we're Steadfastly refused.
Flood said he had sought Nc
Manus for several days in .all the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
Canada to Follow

BIZ United Press
WINDSOR, Ontario, Dec. 3.-The
Ford Motor Company of Canada,
employing approximately $500 men,
will follow the lead of its parent
organization in the United States
and increase wage schedules in
practically the same scale, as an
nounced by Edsel Ford, president of
the Ford Motor Company, it was
learned from an authoritative source
this afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
HIT BY CAR; INJURED
Driver of Racing Sulky May Have
Fracture of Skull.

Andrew Schickitanz, 10, Of 1929
Leonard street, was injured seriously
when a racing sulky he was driving
was struck by Garfield street car,
at Madison avenue and Delaware
street at noon today.
City hospital physicians say he
may have skull fracture. The
sulky was demolished, but the horse
was not injured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
Burglar Gets S1,378

GREENCASTLE, Ind, Dec. s.
A burglar took $1,378.84 from a
strongbox in the j. c. Penney store
here in one of the biggest robberies
in Greencastle's history. Theft in
surance will cover the loss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
TALLULAH GOES OVER
American Actress Makes Big Hit in
Play at London.
BV United Press

BIZ United Press
LONDON, Dec. 3.-Scenes like
those at the close of a successful
full-length drama were enacted on
the stage of the Palladium theater
Monday night, when Tallulah Bank
head, American actress, appeared IN
a new vaudeville sketch, 1.-THE
Snob," by Edwin Burke.
The actress was deluged with
flowers and responded to the au-
dience's demands with a curtain
speech.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
Entries Close

The entry list in The Times
Lyric-Sylvania Foresters' radio
listeners endurance contest, to
start Wednesday night at 7:30,
scared past the hundred mark
Monday night. AS a result OF
the flood of entries, the judges
were forced to declare the
entry list closed ahead Of the
time specified, Tuesday mid
night. No entries received to-
day can be accepted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
TREASIIRY STATENIENr
In the Stock Market
by Thomson & McKinnon)

NEW YORK, Dec. with nego-
t1ations under way involving a
merger between our largest mail or
der house and a representative
chain store system, as we'll as the
plans of Bethlehem Steel to acquire
additional plants, it may be truth
fully said that big business has re-
Sumed the normal activities which
were temporarily interrupted by the
break in security prices. The re-
vival of confidence on the part of
these larger organizations should
and probably will, spread gradually
to the smaller units, all of which
will do much in minimizing the ex-
tent of any possible business recess
sion. The Stock Exchange loan re-
port due today. anticipation Of the
quick passage Of the income tax re-
ductfon measure, and an optimistic
address by the President should all
be of material assistance in bring
ing about the return of an atmos-
phere of confidence. To us the
whole financial picture looks de-
cidedly more cheerful.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
No Hatchet
White House Cherry
Trees Blamed for ORR
entail Moth Plague.
GIFT of cherry trees to a

A GIFT OF cherry trees to a
IA President Of the United
Statesmen George Washington
is responsible for an uprising of
horticulturists of the nation, it
was revealed today at the sixty
ninth annual convention of the
Indiana Horticultural Society in
the Lincoln.
For it was charged by John N.
Dyer, Of Vincennes, president of
the body, that the offending trees
planted on the White House
mall in Washington. D. C.-bred
the Oriental fruit moth which has
damaged peach crops of the
country in the past twenty years.
1.-THE trees" Dyer charged,
were given to President William
Howard Taft by the Japanese
government"
LaxneSs of the government In
combating the pest attributed to
the presidential trees was scored
by Dyer.
He forecast official action by
the Indiana horticulturistS by
urging that a resolution be framed
petitioning congress for an ade-
quate appropriation to fight the
moth.
And you apple growers have as
much to fear as those who grow
peaches, for the Oriental moth
works on apples when he can't
find peaches" he warned.
The Society's meeting ends
Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
Deaths

George Kern. so, Big Four railway &C
Helen i lean Br if6g}dt, months. Metho-
Thomas Jones. Is, $40 Ogden, lobar
Fleeta Bell Simpson. 26. Methodist hos
Clifford N. Grower. mo-, Riley hos
pital intestinal obstruction ooo co-or,a
" o eai Perry. 81. i22O centr1, endo-
Alice Anna Gilbreath. Sc. 1924 North Ala
bama. chronic endocarditis.
Commodore Underwood. 81, city hospital.
infant Hsddex, / day 42s Indiana,
James G, Miller. ST. 41S North Senate.
James W. Laniek. 10. 1915 South Perish
ing. lobar pneumonia.
Edwin Ralph Wbelan. As, 1923 West
Twelfth, mitral insufficiency.
Rose Giblin 81. city hospital. acute
John G. Faulconer. "a. so4 South Ran
dolph. cerebral hemorrhage.
John C. Ferneding. 81. SIS East Thirty
first. mitral insufficiency.
Pheby Emaline Profit. Sc, s16 South
Missouri lobar pneumonia.
Thomas. Madden, 80 1887 Guilford. eere-
bral apoplexy.
Mildred Henry, %. Coleman hospital,
John Ross Williams. Sc, 1927 Yandes.
Harry Tompkins, so, 1853 Blaine. car
Harry Harry Long 60, Central Indiana hospital,
Bert Huivey. 40. 228 North Senate.
Lena Brandt, %. Methodist hospital.
France Frances shafer. 10. Methodist hospital,
John Staub. 81 Christian hospital. &C
cidental.
hyuostatic pneumonia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
WHEAT PRICES
CLIMB HIGHER
IN TRADE BOARD
Strong Foreign Cables Are
Chiefs Factor in Grain
Market.
Bill nited Presa

~ I NtttO BTc5S
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-Wheat prices
jumped upward as the Board of
Trade opened here this morning
under the stimulus of general buy
ing induced by the strong foreign
cables. Liverpool and Buenos Aires
were both much higher, though
Liverpool reacted fractionelly from
the top. Small world shipments
was the chief factor at Liverpool.
Corn and oats trailed along with
wheat.
At the opening wheat was Is to
rs cent higher. corn was up Is to
q cent and oats was $s to Z cent
higher. Provisions were steady.
Liverpool opened rather higher
than had been expected and the
prices continued to climb during
the morning. About noon they
stood sharply higher at gains Of
21s to rs cents. Buenos Aires also
opened strong 13s to rs cents up.
Corn was very firm Monday be-
cause of the lack of deliveries. The
weather is still extremely sold and
is acting as a hindrance rather
than an aid to the farmers.
Cash interests are taking Deem
Der oats and selling May, while
locals and commission houses are
buying the other way. The strength
of corn is a factor. The pit is still
quiet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
BOY TO TELL
OF MOTHERS
DEATH BATTLE
Seven Year Old Son tC
Testify in Trial of
Stepfather.

A 7-year-old boy will be called on
by the state to describe death
struggle between his mother and
stepfather, when Charles Brown,
829 South Illinois street, is tried in
criminal court this week for the
murder of his wife, Mrs. Alma
Brown, in their home Aug. II.
Questioning of prospective jurors
was under way today. Two special
venires of fifty talesmen each we're
ordered to appear today and
Wednesday. Judge Thomas E. Gar
vim of municipal court l will sit as
special judge.
The defendant, accused of shoot
ing his wife five times while the
son looked on, has pleaded insanity
He faces life imprisonment if con-
victed.
Two days following the crime,
Brown was captured by police while
trying to flee the city. Police
records show he was cornered in his
brothers home and beaten to the
draw" by Sergeant Frank Reilly.
Brown is held at county Jail with
out bond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
Marriage Licenses

Perry DruSchel. IS. of sos East Thirty
second. salesman. ana Ellen Keryan. 81 of
s240 Ruckie
FLOYD c. Carpenter. 26, Of 2720 West
WASHINGTON. booklSeeper. and Artie NJ Glib
son. 10 Of the Spink-ArmS. bookkeeper.
Charles Z. MeCleaf. 81 of 1924 North
Delaware. engineer, and Mary Henderson,
-. of 500 North DreNel. bookkeeper.
Hubert Simmons. "a OF 1912 Olive.
printer. and Alberta Hungate. 81 of 1910
LAwton. clerk.
Joseph 9. Charpie. 20. Of Louisville. en-
ylnser. eud Katherine L. Hinshaw, 10. OF
2T37 Bellefontaine.
Emory r. Cain. 81. of Peru buyer. and
Doris u. Jensen. IS. Of SIS South Lyons
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
AUBURN AUTO
UP so POINTS
AT MID-SESSION
Stock Trading Picks Up in
Activity as Market
Prices Advance.
Average Stock Prices

Average Of twenty industrials for Men
day was PATIO, up AIS. Average OF
twenty rails vas l44.6l of 1.2S. Average
OF forty bonds was 9413. up .O8.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Stock trad
ing picked up in activity today and
prices advanced, featured by Specu-
lative railroad shares. Toward noon
the list was up l to Is points, the
best gain in Auburn auto.
TlckerS were eight minutes late
near the end of the second hour
after sales had run under Monday in
the first half hour at 372, 500 shares.
compared with Mondays AGA 400.
Confidence appeared restored
throughout the list from the open
ing. Traders eagerly awaited Presi-
dent Hoover's message to congress
and many bought on the strength of
Its expected influence on the mar
ket. Auburn automobile was a dis
tlnct feature in the motor division
IL made the best gain of anv issue
on the board. In the early afternoon
the issue rose to 100, where it was
up 80 points.
Inc lower priced railroad shares
were III urgent demand, monopoliz-
ing the tape. They gained 4 to 7
points. Near noon Western Mary
land was at 29il, up So: Western
maryland second preferred 29%. I'D
I; MiSsouri-Kansas-T Texas 425s, up
4l2; Wabash 4924, up 6A: st. Louis
southwest Cos, up SIS: Kansas CITY
Southern 81, up 4; st. Paul preferred
42H, up 2"s; Chicago Great West
ern ii, up II; Great Western pre-
ferred 1875, up A.. Atchison rose
5h points to 1921, and B. & o.
firmed up fractionally, while Penn
Sylyania eaSed Is.
Missouri Pacific scared 6 points to
75Ia. Allegheny Corporation rose
nearly 2 points to 241I.
Buying in the rails was in antici-
patton of early action by congress of
plans for railroad consultations.
The 1. c. G. is expected to announce
a complete merger schedule before
the first of the year and 1t is be-
lieved that congress will push
through new bill making the mer-
gers possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-03
REVEAL JAIL KILLING
Sing Sing Show Delayed by
Murder Within Walls.

BU United Press
OSSINING, N. Y, Dec. 3.-The
annual Christmas fund show is be-
ing presented at Sing Sing prison,
after days delay occasioned by a
feudist murder within the walls.
A day of continued investigation
of the Stabbing to death. Sunday,
of Reuben KaminSky had created
an atmosphere Of tenseness about
the prison which spread to the spec
tators.
James Steele, a Negro, was
charged with the murder of Kamin-
sky, after Warden Lewis E. Lawes
had completed his questioning of
convicts. Two other Negroes were
held in solitary confinement after
knives had been found in their pos
session.