Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-16
DECREASE
SHOWN FOR JULY
Wholesale Price Index Drops.
Alabama and Georgia
Lead in Work.
BY the Associated Press.

oy bhS ASSuSAabc0 EAtSSs
An increase during July in the DE-
mand for unskilled workers and farm
help was reported today by the De-
partment of Labor, together with q
slight decline in the wholesale price
index.
The employment bureau Of the de-
partment reported outdoor labor had
been increased materially by highway
construction, installation of natural gas
pipe lines, telephones and other utility
construction as we'll as farm labor but
that closed industrial plants and part
time operation continued to affect many
workers. Building construction work
remained below the level of previous
years.
Price Index Decline Reported.
The statistics section reported price
index decline of 2.8 from June to
mark of 90 for July. This figure, based
on the purchasing power of the 1925
dollar gave the July, 1880, dollar
comparative value of $l.19. OF $50
commodities compared, 81 showed in
creases for the month, while 236 de-
clined and 257 remained unchanged.
Farm products and food led the de-
cline, with 6la and Al per cent respec-
lively Lower prices also prevailed for
hides and leather, textiles, metals build
ing materials, chemicals and drugs.
HeRdTQlIK
the department said q majority of the
plants which had not reopened during
the latter part of July, following shut
downs for inventory, repairs, or holiday
periods, expected to reopen in August.
Alabama and Georgia Lead.
Meanwhile the national unemploy-
| ment count thus far completed by the
Census Bureau shows two Southern
| States, Alabama and Georgia, freest
| from that condition Of citizenry Of
| flcially described as without a job,
able to work and looking for job:"
BY percentages, lowest to highest u1-
| employment in the widely scattered
states ran: Alabama, s0.S; Georgia.
| 90; New Mexico, Is; Idaho, Ia; YER
mont, Is; Maine, 1T; Arizona, IL;
| Oklahoma, ID; Indiana, al: Colorado,
az; Montana, a. and Nevada, 81.
Minor laurels for low score went 70
Liberty County, Mont, where the UNI
employment roundup was 3 fat zero.
Not one of the 2,203 population COM
planned of being jobless when the emu
merator called. Nor could the census
| takers find a single stray situation
| seeking cowboy or sheep herder Sill
houetted against the sky; No other
county in the United states tnus Aar
| has reported no unemployed.
Liberty, a top-tier county touching
the Canadian border, had for its near
est rival Greene County, Ala, where
but two of the 1875 population were
out of a Job and looking for one.
Unemployment Capricious.
The partial returns, considered by
States and by counties, and, OCCASION
ally by cities, showed unemployment to
| be capriciouS, visiting the country as
well as the city; the sequestered noun
tain and desert district as well a. the
| fv1dt1cft-ial caT1fAPS
Nevada, least populous State, OF far
flung area, with the highest unemploy-
ment percentage GID Of any State thus
| far reporting, came scloSe proportionaly
| to that congested center, New York
| City, where the unemployment count
| totaled "a per cent of the population.
Alabama boasted eight counties In
which unemployment was less than
ne-tenth OF per cent; 81 more coliI1-
| ties in which unemployment was le8S
than l per cent and only eight counties
| in which more than one person in 100
was jobless In Jefferson County, where
Birmingham lies, two in every 100 were
looking for work.
Georgia, with 16I counties, had 1S1
in which less than one person in 100
was unemployed. Chatham County,
containing Savannah, had 1895 jobless
in its los, $50 population, or 81 per cent.
In these two Southern States and in
| Oklahoma unemployment percentages
were highest In the larger cities. Tulsa
County reported IL ,991 unemployed in
her 1S7,405 population, or 81 per cent
"a higher figure than New York City.
Some City Figures Low.
But in Idaho Arizona and Montana
| counties containing the largest cities
showed less unemployment proportion
ally than some country districts.
Ada County, Idaho. which includes
Boise, and Bannock County, which In
cludes Pocatello, had but 0.4 and IL
per cent unemployment, respectively.
Ada's figure was 169 unemployed in
| 81, 1872 population; Bannocks 335 UNI
employed in 31,256 population. But
Lemhi County, with but 4,6lS people,
/ had S8 per cent unemployed.
Only 3.3 per cent of the 2S7, 644 peo-
| pie in Denver County, Colo, were UNI
| employed, whereas San Juan County,
| population 1880, had the highest UNI
employment In the State, 81 per cent.
Four of Vermont'S II counties tailed
| less than per cent unemployed, ana
| 4 showed more than 2, -Four OF Ari-
zona's II counties Tailed less than l
per cent unemployment and tailed
more than 2. Unemployment in these
| two widely separated and distinctly ali"
| ferent States thus evened up fairly Wen.
Indiana, Midwest specimen OF the
group, had 81, 390 unemployed, among
3,225, 800 inhabitants. Marion County,
which includes indianapolis, had 40
per cent unemployment--a total OF
1904 jobless in a 416,250 population.