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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29
Mrs. Helen Grove Is Given
SIS Prize for Weeks
Best Letter.

A note of thTiftineSs was sounded
in the vacation letter Mrs. Helen
Grove, 1914 North Illinois street,
submitted last week, describing her
stay-at-home vacation with re-
newed interest in home and loved
ones and visions Of a full coal bin
and dinner pail"
To Mrs. Grove goes the S. award
for the weeks best letter 6cscrlb-
ing why I think my vacation was
best from the standpoint OF physi-
cal and mental benefits I derived"
Now another week is starting,
carrying with it the same oppor-
tunity. Send your letters-not over
100 words-to The Times Vacation
Contest editor.
The snow-capped peaks Of the
Canadian Rockies, the broad plains
of Wyoming's Cow country" the
rolling Cumberland's - such is the
vista pictured in letters published
today.
FROM MISS FLORENCE STRAIT
MAN. SOz NOItll SiCobCA "FSAANS'
TINE month of June on the west
i coaSt-a vacation in fairyland!
CALIFORNIA; palm-lined motor ways
and sun-lit beaches, the sheer beau
ty of Yosemite's glorious waterfalls
and precipitous walls, creating an
almost reverent admiration, the
keen, exhilarating mountain air OF
the northwest, with its spectacular
scenery on the Columbia river high
way-all united in making my trip
one of ever-appealing variety-a
cure-all mentally and physically.
We returned through the Canadian
rockies, whose stupendouS grandeur
in snow-clad peaks and glaciers,
Lake Louise, lovely. jewel-like, CHI
NAKED a vacation of unreasonable
pleasure and lasting inspiration.
FROM MRS. MAUDE MILBURN,
1908 South State avenue:
WE just returned from south
w ern trip, having stopped at
Bartown church. IIncoln'S old home
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29
Girl Escapes Drowning

BIZ United Press
LIT. VERNON, Ind. July %
Genevieve Moll. 16. narrowly es-
capped drowning at bathing beach
here Monday night. She was lying
in two feet of water, with only hel
face above the surface. Other bath
ers unknowingly pinned her under
water as they pushed a boat over
her. The girls father saw her pre-
dicament and released her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29
Army officer Assigned

"a Times special
KINGMAN. I'D, July 29.-Keith
H. Eubank of Kingman. graduated
this year from the United States
Military academy at West Point, N.
Y, has been assigned to duty at Fit.
Benjamin Harrison. indianapolis,
with the rank CT second lieutenant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29
BIKE GRIND ENDING
Final Laps Wednesday in
Bicycle Marathon.

Final laps today and Wednesday
in the east side boys l00-hour BIZ
cycle riding marathon were expected
to develop bursts of speed from the
four teams.
Six teams started the race, four
boys dropping out. Ray Healing
and Byron Conroy lead with 1853
miles covered, with James Bacon
and George Worley less than
twenty-five miles behind in second
place. and Robert Landlord and
Richard Bell holding third and Eds
ward Dahl and Art Davis fourth.
The race closes Wednesday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29

The transformer is one of the
most efficient pieces IF electrical
apparatus, having reached efficien-
cies of more than 80 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29
NeuIrueds 70 Go to China

81 Times Snccidt
Fl. WAYNE. Ind, July 29.-Fol-
lowing the marriage here Aug. II
Of Miss Ella NJ Rodenbeck and the
Rev. Lorenz A. Buck. they will
leave for China TO engage in mis-
sionary work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29
Child Killed by Auto

bW nife1 Press
ELWOOD, Ind. July 29.-The
visit of Carl Lewis, ?. with his
grandparents here ended fatally
when the child ran from the side
walk into the path Of an automobile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29
Auto Kills Aged Man

GkRY, Ind. July ga. J. Nc
Cormick, so. was killed when struck
here by az automobile driven by
Chester Gomolski. Chicago. Gomol-
Ski Is held pending an inquest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29
CHILD. 4. DIES
WHEN STRUCK
BY. AUTOMOBILE
Formal Inquest Will Be Held
Today; Girl Driver Is
Ordered to Appear.

Formal inquest was to be held
today into an automobile accident
on West Morris street in which
Edith Breedlove, 4, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Otto Breedlove, 1857 West
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29

In PUTTING THE CLUB q
SHOULD Be HELD A TRlFLE
9NEA MORE LOOSELY.
loosely. And then, in hitting the
ball, sway INTO it the least little bit.
Next-Lining up the putt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-29
THRIFT NOTE WINS
VACATION AWARD

and Mammoth cave in Kentucky.
Down through the mountains of
Tennessee, through the cotton and
tobacco fields of Georgia, on to the
beach at Jacksonville, Fla. Back
through the Cumberland mountains.
l think this an iGeal and ineXpen-
sive vacation After camping out
and visiting some of the mountain
GERS, one gets an idea of how the
other half of the world lives and
comes home mentally and physical
ly happy and thankful for home
and Indiana and can look another
year in the face with new vim and
vigor.
FROM MARY 10 COLENEAU,
Apartment 214, 1903 College ave-
nue.:
IRON May IS to July had a
Il most wonderful time vagabond-
ing from indianapolis to Denver, to
Sana Fe, to Los Angeles, to Salt
Lake City, to Yellowstone, to Chi
cago and home. There are hundreds
of beautiful, varied pictures in my
memory, of snow-capped Rockies,
different Indian tribes, desert
wastes of Arizona, Nevada and
Utah, the roaring Pacific, the beau
tiful national park at Yellowstone,
to the cow country" of Wyoming
My eyes actually were tired, looking.
Traversing 5000 miles, my pedom-
eter registered only one seventh
Believe it or not! I gained a raw
enous appetite, a popular sun-tan
and a peace of mind. Yet even now
my feet are yearning for the high
ways.
The transformer is one Of the
most efficient pieces IF electrical
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21
EIGHT HOURS FOR
FOR WOMEN

Washington.-Th vast majority of
women work more than eight hours,
according to a statement issued by
the United States Women's Bureau.
Contrary to general belief, wage
working women have no eight-hour
day, it is stated.
with the trend toward the five-day
week and suggestions of the six-hour
day, the eight-hour standard is
getting to be almost as old-fashioned
as a 1920 automobile" the bureau
states.
MANY women in factories have an
eight-hour day or less, but they con-
stitute the minority of all those in in
dustry, Uncle Sans Investigations
show. A work day of such length was
reported for only one-ffth of the
$4,000 women working in 2,700 fac
tories, stores and laundries scattered
throughout 16 states that were in
cluded in women's bureau studies
during teh period 1919-1928."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21

ment of labor, a reduction of 1877 per
cent in employment in the plants
enumerated, accompanied by wage
reduction of 27.7 per cent. The fact
that wages have fallen more sharply
than employment is taken as conclu-
sive evidence that there have been
wage reductions, although it is likely
that some of the drop in total wages
paid is accounted for through the dis
charge or lay-off of older and more
highly paid workers and the retention
of lower-paid workers. But the i'm
portant fact is that the total volume
of wages paid has fallen sharply. The
total amount paid in wage has fallen
by more than % per cent and the buy
ing power of workers has been thus
slashed at time when business and
industry need buyers What must be
the source of recovery has been hit
below the belt by those who control
industry. More than anything else
these figures reveal the stupidity of a
great portion of management and the
hypocrisy of a lot of employers.
Figures in Several Lines
The bureau of labor statistics re-
port, as of September, shows that in
the production of textiles and their
products the reduction in number en-
ployed has been 17.7 per cent as COM
pared with September, 1929, while the
reduction in payroll is 24.7 per cent;
in iron and steel and products, num-
Der employed reduced 21.2 per cent,
and payroll reduction 33.1 per cent;
lumber and products, employment le-
duced 29.8 per cent, payroll 81 per
cent; leather and products, employ
ment reduced 1876 per cent, payroll
26.9 per cent; paper and printing, en-
ployment reduced 68 per cent, pay
roll 8.5 per cent; stone, clay and glass
products, employment reduced 20.3
per cent, payroll 27.5 per cent; metal
products, other than iron and steel,
employment reduced 22.7 per cent,
payroll 34.5 per cent; tobacco prod
ucts, employment reduced Ga per
cent, payroll 34.5 per cent; tobacco
products, employment reduced ga per
cent, payroll AL per cent; vehicles
reduced employment 35.2 per cent and
payrolls 49, per cent.
Wage volume fell all along the line.
Some Gain Despite Slump
Meanwhile the Standard Statistics
| Company, Inc, accepted by business
as an authority, has submitted re-
port to Printers Ink showing that for
| 1880 some fifty corporations have in
creased their business and probably
their profits. Practically all of the
lines listed in the showing of gain
are competitive lines and the indica-
tion is, therefore, that even in de-
preston there are leaders shrewd
enough to win where others fail.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21
Labor's Attention Called
To Lockout in Cleveland
A. F. of L. Executive Council Asks Organized Workers
to Remember Situation in Ohio City, When Consider
ing Choice of Convention Place.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor, in a letter to all
affiliated labor organizations, directs
attention to the fight against union
ism now being conducted by big
Cleveland, Ohio, hotels.
The hotels are the Cleveland, Hol-
lenden, Statler, Winton, Olmstead and
Allterton. These are all members of
the Hotel Managers Association, that
locked out members of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees international
Union in July.
The lockout was put in effect when
the unionists were asked to sign
yellow dog" contract. They declined
to withdraw from the union and are
now on the streets.
The managers action was met by
withdrawal from these hotels of
union engineers, firemen and mu-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21
WILD COMPETITION
RUINS COAL INDUSTRY

New York.-Employers and work
ers discussed what is wrong with "the
shell-shocked bituminous coal indus
try" at round-table conference in
this city.
Van A. Bittner, representing the
United Mine Workers, declared that
lack of organization on the part of
miners an dcoal owners is a major
trouble. Railroads, he said, depress
the price of coal and competition of
oil apd natural gas are also response
BILE for present conditions. Coal own
ers, he said, "find it cheaper to oper-
ate and sell below production costs
than to hold the mines in idleness."
The trade unionist called attention
to the miners suggestion that coal be
regulated through commission SIM
liar to the interstate commerce COM
missions regulation of railroads.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21
Railroad Unions Open
6-Hour Day Conference
Eight Hundred Delegates Representing Five Big Organ
izations, Meet in Chicago to Discuss Proposal.

Chicago (ILNS)-Eight hundred
delegates, representing the five chief
railroad unions in the United States
and Canada, are meeting in closed
session here to discuss the proposal
for six-hour working day.
The session opened with a general
meeting of the delegates. A tempo
rary organization was perfected and
w. L. Schauberger, of Oil City, Pa,
head of the locomotive engineers of
the Pennsylvania railroad, was elected
chairman.
The organizations represented at
the conference called by David B.
Robertson, president of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En-
ginemen, were: The Order Of Rail
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21
CHICAGO BARRIERS
HOLD OLD RATE

Chicago (ILNS)-The request of
the Master BARRIERS Association that
the union BARRIERS minimum wage be
reduced from $32 to $50 a week has
been denied by Prof. B. NJ Squires,
who arbitrated the dispute.
Some adjustment was made in the
matter of commissions. The employees
are to be paid 60 per cent of all re-
ceipts over SAT instead of the present
rate of go per cent over Al. The en-
ployers wished to cut the "over-
money" down to so per cent over $50.
The number of working hours are
not to be increased.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21
UNREST is MENTAL;
PATIENCE URGED

New York.-The United States is
fundamentally sound, our unrest is
mental and "there is nothing to worry
about because things will right them
selves in time" was the advice of
Otto H. Kahn, New York banker, to
800 guests who were entertained at
his Long Island estate.
Mr.. Kahn, who recently returned
from Europe, said unrest in the
United States is largely mental. He
drew the comparison of man who
was physically fit but who imagined
he was sick.
Mr.. Kahn said condition in Europe
are much worse than here.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21
Governments Census Figures
ShoW Unemployment Cause
CHILD WELFARE
URGED BY SEC
RETARY WILBUR

Washnigton.-There are 45,00O,0OO
children in the country and 100000
have communicable diseases, said
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur in a
radio address. There is sufficient
knowledge and intelligence to wipe
out at least three-fourths of these
diseases, he said.
"We've contracted our living space
from prairies and plains and planta-
tions and farms to city lots with
bandbox houses and squeezed from
bandbox houses to pillbox apart
ments. Children need space"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21

way Conductors, the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen, the
Switchmen's Union of North Amer
lea, and Robertson's organization.
Delegates said the six-hour day was
the prime purpose for the meeting
and was necessitated by the general
unemployment situation and the re-
fusal of many railroads to furnish
trains with what, in the opinion of
the unions, was an adequate crew for
the protection of passengers and ship
ments.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21
RED TAPE is IGNORED
BY SECRETARY HURLEY

Washington. - Secretary of War
Hurley announces that his department
will aid in meeting the unemployment
situation by the issuance Of all avail
able cots and blankets to 'relieve con-
ditions of acute distress"
The secretary has no legal author
ity for such action, but he personally
assumes responsibility for issuing
this equipment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21

sicians, and the hotels are now being
operated on 100 per cent non-union
plan.
The managers, for II years, main
tanned relations with the unions. The
lockout was condemned by the Bos-
ton A. F. of L. convention, and union
lists are asked by the executive coun-
Gil to not give Cleveland favorable
consideration when convention cities
or other meetings are being con-
sidered.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21
DRESSMAKERS GAIN

New York-A wage increase of ST.
week was awarded children's dress
makers by DR.. I. N. Stone, impartial
chairman of the dress industry. The
workers are members of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union. They struck for So.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-21
Value Of Output Scars as Wages Lag Far Behind
Sweeping Pay Cuts in Ten Lines of Manufacture Since
White House Conference Declared Against Wage
SlasheS.

Washington, d. C. ULNS)-Com-
i plete reports of one vital phase of
| the United States census of industrial
plants just made public, taken to-
gether with figures issued at the same
time by the United States depart
ment of labor this week, show with
new authority the cause of present
unemployment and forecast continu-
| ing waves of unemployment. In ad-
dition it is shown that there have
been sweeping wage reductions in ten
enumerated lines of manufacture dur
! ing 1880, or since the White House
conference in which industrial leaders
pledged themselves against wage re-
! ductions
1t is reported by the United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics that in the
ten enumerated lines of manufacture
the total average reduction in en-
| ployment has been 1877 per cent, while
the total average reduction in amount
of payroll has been 27.7 per cent since
September, 1929.
The United States Census Bureau S
! figures, subject to final revision, show
continued increase in the value
added by manufacture-that is, a
given number of workers employed
produce growing volume of value in
| the form of manufactured output.
Substantial Gain in Value
! The census figures show that in
1927 there were 8,349,775 wage earn
ers in the plants enumerated and that
these produced a value added by
manufacture" amounting to $27 $685..
210,400
In 1929, 8,550,284 workers. almost
the same number as in 1927-pro.
duced "value added by manufacture
amounting to $31 1,095, ,855,410.
The census figures do not show
manufacturers profits. They show
numbers employed, wages paid, value
of products, cost of materials and
value added by manufacture. The
value of products in 1927 was $62,-
718,347 ,289, while in 1929 it had riser
to $68, ,453, ,486,51S.
i What Percentages Show
Put in percentages, as the census
bureau puts it, it is revealed that the
1929 value of output-at f. o. b. fac
tory prices-exceeded the 1927 value
by 81 per cent The number of wage
earners increased "a per cent. Wage:
increased 3.9 per cent. Value addet
by manufacture increased a per cent
The a per cent raise in "added value
means much more than the g.!
wage gain because of the enormousl!
large basic figures involved.
The census figures stop at 1929, bu
the department of labor supplies in
formation that carries the chain o
events forward into 1880.
The census shows that during 1872:
wages, on the average, were holding
their upward trend, manufacture wa
going ahead full blast, employment
was holding fairly constant, at leas
in the enumerated manufacturing es
tablishments. In the fall of 1929, to,
late to affect the employment aver
ages of the year to any marked ex
tent, the crash came.
Sharp Wage Reductions
From September, 1929, to Septem
Der, 1880, there was, says the depart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-27
THE EVENING STORY
One of WorId-F famous Works of Literature

coat reaching down to the thighs, buck
skin breeches, red wooden stockings,
heavy shoes with big silver buckles, and
long surtout coats with large buttons
of mother-of-pearl. He has pipe in
his mouth and a watch in his pocket.
He sits with his right leg upon his left
knee, wears a grave countenance and
always one of his eyes, at least, reso-
lutely bent upon a certain remarkable
object in the center Of the plain.
This object is situated in the steeple
Of the House of the Town Council. In
the steeple Is the belfry, where exists,
and has existed time out Of mind, the
pride and wonder of the village-the
great clock of the borough of Wonder
votteimittis And this Is the object to
which the eyes of the old gentlemen
are turned, who sit in the leather-bot
toned armchairs.
The great clock has seven faces-one
in each of the seven sides of the
steeple-So that it can be readily seen
from all quarters. Its faces are large
and white. and its hands heavy and
black There is belfry man whose
sole duty is to attend to 1t. but this
duty is the most perfect of sinecures-
for the clock of Vondervotteimittiss was
never yet known to have anything the
matter with it. From the remotest
period of antiquity the hours have been
regularly struck by the big bell Never
was such a place for keeping the trlIe
time.
There has been a long saying, among
the wisest inhabitants, that mo good
can come from over the hills" and II
really seemed that the words had IN
them something of the spirit of proph-
ecy. 1t wanted minutes of noon, on
the day before yesterday, when there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-27

appeared a very odd looking object on
the summit of the ridge to the east
ward. Such an occurrence, of course,
attracted universal attention and every
little old gentleman who sat IN leath-
er-bottomed armchair turned one of his
eyes with q stare of dtsnay upon the
phenomenon, still keeping the other
eye upon the clock in the steeple.
"A little stranger, fussily CARRIED in a
manner strange to the inhabitants,
rushed into the village, danced-with-
out keeping time, which shocked the
old gentlemen terribly-around the CEN
ter, rushed up into the belfry, seized
the belfryman and gave him a terrible
beating with a fiddle the stranger
brought under his arm.
There Is no knowing to what 7desper-
ate act OF vengeance this IInprincipled
attack might have aroused the tnhabi-
tar1ts but for the important fact that 1t
now wanted only halfsa-second of noon.
The bell was about to strike, and it
was o matter of absolute and pre- -enni-
nent necessity that everybody should
look well at his watch. It was evident,
however, that just at this moment the
fellow In the steeple was doing some
thing that he had no business to do
with the clock. But as it now began
to strike nobody had had any time to
attend to his n1Hneuvers, for they had
all to count the strokes of the bell as
1t sounded.
"One," said the clock.
"Von," echoed every little old gentle
man IN every leather buttoned arm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-27
By EDGAR ALLAN POE.

CEdgsr Allan Poe. lsos-is4s. was an Amer.
lean poet and story writer' sutnor OF I .h
Rue Morgue," Fall Of the House Of Usher
etcO
Everybody knows, in general way,
that the finest place in the world Is
or, alas, was-the Dutch borough OF
Vonderyotteimittiss. Yet 1t lies some
distance from the main roads, being In
q somewhat out-of-the-w situation.
It has always existed as we ind II at
the time of this story.
The site Of the village is IN q per-
fectly circular valley. about q quarter
Of a mile in circumference, and entirely
surrounded by gentle hills, over whose
summit the people have never yet VEN
tured to pass For this they assign the
very good reason that they do not be-
lieve there is anything at all on the
other side.
Round the skirts of the valley (which
is quite level and paved throughout
with fiat tileS), extends a continuous
row of so little houses. These, having
their backs on the hills, must look, OF
course, to the center of the plain, which
is so yards from the front door OF each
dwelling. Every house has a small gar
den before it, with a circular path, a
sun dial and a cabbages. The build
ings themselves are so precisely alike
that one can IN no manner be dtStfn-
guished from the other.
Right at the front door, in a high
backed, leather = bottom chair with
crooked legs and puppy feet, is seated
the old man of the house himself. He
Is an exceedingly puffy little old gentle
man, with big circular eyes and a huge
double chin. He Is dressed in a three
cornered cooked hat, a purple waist