Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1933, Page 25

EMPLOYMENT GAIN SHOWN BY SURVEY ralysis following the banking holidsy in March the total number of persons placed at work through the employ- ment offices of the State Department of Labor in Syracuse would have been greater than last year. A decided improvement was shown during April with more persons placed during the last week of the month than any other week this year. January and BRITAIN NOT TO QUESTION U. S. PAYMENT ON BONDS Sir John Simon Says He Knows Nothing of Plan to Use Cheaper Currency. By the Associated Press. in currency which is not based on the gold standard value. & in any case,” Sir John said, “I do not think it would be proper to make 1epresentations to the United States Government on this matter at present.” ‘The questioner had asked whether the prepared to make the American Gov- ernment with a view to obviating loss to British holders of American Govern- ment bonds. DARROW MAY HELP IOWA FARMERS’ DEFENSE m President of Holiday Association Returns From Chicago With Conditional Promise. By the Assoclated Press. Iowa. "76-year-old Chicago attorney, announced retirement has been by numerous returns to the bar fense of persons who have maae ) Is to him, however, made dependent upon his state of Meanwhile, 92 prisoners were still in custody in the barbed wire bull pens set up by National Guardsmen at Le NEW SNOW HALTS HUNT Search for Youth, Missing Since April 26, Abandoned. YOSEMITE, Calif, May 8 (#).—, Search for Godfrey Wondrosek, Chicago youth missing in the Half Dome regmn: of Yosemite National Park since April brother told C. G. Thomson, park superintendent, he was satisfied everym thing possible had been done in Ih{ attempt to locate the missing youtf Fish's Marvelous Feat. CHICAGO (P).—Chicago fish are tough and travel far. A small perch flopped out of the nczzle of a hose at= Mars and Denison following farmer CHICAGO, May 8.—Milo Reno, pres- | outbreaks. - ident of the National Farmers' Holiday 2 e s G A e TG Association, was back in Iowa today| Since the plant patent law became with the conditional promise of Clar- | effective two years sgo Luther Bur- ence Darrow to help in the defense of | bank has been granted seven post- farmers held by the military for an at- humous petents on plants. | tached to a city water faucet at a rug cleaning plant. Loren D. Gayton, as< ?hs([anl city .ginexer. said the fish's 3 |feat was a “miracle” in that it wenf Anton Wondrosek, brother of the|through the city water system \‘\:1E missing youth, who had aided in the harmed. It had to go through twe search, left for Chicago yesterday, ac- | screens, through the pumps, and finally companied by a sister, .Josephine. The |syrvive a doss of chlorine. February records were better than the same periods in 1932. Mercantile establishments and restaurants have in- creased employes, but there has been little change in the manufacturing line. Little decrease has been reported by city and county officlals in the welfare relief load. PALAIS ROYAL MAY UNDERPRICE SALE Amasing! Fine All-Steel 50-Lb. Refrigerators 26, was sabandoned yesterday as a storm brought several inches of new SNOw. Ex-Envoy Dead in 1, ROME, May 8 (#).—Senatof Marquis Obizzo Malaspina, aged 77, former Ital- ian Ambassador to Constantinople, died today. Many Returning to Jobs and Appeals for Relief Are Decreasing. LONDON, May 8—Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, told a ques- tioner in the House of Commons today that he was unaware of any specific de- cision by the United States Government to pay foreign holders of Liberty bonds (Dopyright, 1933, = North_American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) The employment trend is upward throughout the country, with slight ex- ception. Jobs are opening. People are going back to work. Appeals for un- employment relief are slackening. This is shown in reports obtained in numer- ous cities through the North American Newspaper ~ Alliance. ~ The reports Tollow: ATLANTA—A decrease of 8 per cent in unemployment, affecting approxi- mately 4,500 people, in April, is reported by W. E. Mitchell, chairman of the Spe- cial Relief Committee of Fulton County and Atlanta. The committee also reports some im- provement in the textile situation, by which a number of people were em- ploved. BOSTON—The dropping from the Bosten lists of 200 people who have found jobs between the middle and end of April “is not a substantial but an encouraging sign,” according to Walter McCarthy, executive secretary of the 's Overseers of Public Welfare. In normal years, Mr. McCarthy says, the seasonal drop comes in March. Last year there was no drop until late in August. This year, the drop in April comes four months earlier than last yea:, Buffalo Conditions Improve. BUFFALO—April showed a slight up- ward trend in employment in the steel mill: foundry and metal working plants, and lumber and planing mills in Buffalo. it is reported by agencies deal- ing with employment and personnel The gain in employment during the month checked a_deciine in employ- ment recorded in March. The Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, the Industrial Aid Bureau and the In- dustrial Relations Association report most of the men returning to work are employes who had been furloughed. CHICAGO.—Chicago's jobless are go- ing back to work. Requests for un- employment relief were constantly in- creasing until the peak was reached early last Fall. By that time most of the jobless or their families had been absorbed into the public welfare work set up because of the national unem- ployment emergency. The shaving of the relief rolls since | § that time has been a fairly slow proc- ess, but with the coming of May a real drop was discerned. the largest since the emergency relief work became necessary. “Requests for May are nearly three- quarters of a million less than for April,” says Wilfred S. Reynolds, execu- tive secretary of the Illinois Emergency Relief Ccmmission. Favorable Trend in Cleveland. CLEVELAND.—Although scme $200,- 000,000 in deposits are still tied up in unlicensed Cleveland banks, April re- | ports of employment and relief agencies here show the most favorable trend in the last 12 months. In his report for the month, B. C. Seiple, head of the State-City Em- ployment Bureau, said acceleration of the stecl, automotive and brewing busi. s during April resulted in a 44.8] cent increase over March in job| placcments. Mr. Seiple said that in| April his office received its first calls in several years for electricians, chippers and engineers for lccal steel companies. LOS ANGELES.—Increasing employ- | ment, apart from that artificially sup- | plied through unemployment _ relief funds and Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans, is noted here, ac- cording to a statement from the Los ngeles County Employment Stabiliza- tion Bureau. A recent bureau report showed about 27,000 persons employed daily through placements in unemployment relief and R. F. C. jobs, or an average of around 70,000 monthly through the work rota- method. ~Increased building act; has been providing work for a con- siderable number of artisans. : LOUISVILLE.—Men are returning to | work in Louisville due to seasonal re- sumption of manufacture of bath tubs and plumbing fixtures, automobile bodies, boxes and automobile assembling, and a pick-up in railroad operations and construction. 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On the whole, there is a small improvement.” G-Hour Day Successful. PORTLAND, OREG.—Seasonal em- ployment and the recruiting of men for w in national forests have eased the strain on unemployment reclief agencies here. Several industrial stituting a 6-hour day which has re sulted in re-employment of men laid off on account of slack business. This division of labor may be expeécted to create further jobs for men on unem- ploved lists. Executives of industrial plants are| optimistic that a betterment of condi- ' EH ticns is on the way, their hope being based largely on the rise in stock and commodity prices. ST. LOUIS—Increase in demands for unemployment relief has been checked in St. Louis for the first time since the depression set in, according to E. G. Steger, director of the community fund =and the Citizens' Committee Relief and Employment. While there has been no actual de- crease in relief demands, Mr. Steger said the checking of the increase in- dicates some gain in employment. 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