Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1931 — Page 3

NOV. 5, 1931.

CLEVELAND CITY GOVERNMENT IS FACING CHAOS Dumping of Manager Rule Further Complicates Situation. BY LOUIS B. SELTZER Editor. Th* Cleveland Pres* CLEVELAND, Nov. s.—Cleveland again has changed its government. Ten years ago, Cleveland adopted the manager plan and proportional representation. Tuesday, some 115,000 of the city’s 245,000 eligible voters decided the manager plan had been a failure and voted in the mayor-ward council system. Tinkerers had beer, at the manager plan for four years. Three times they failed to knock out the system. The fourth attempt was successful. In the eight years of its operation, the manager plan never has been lrec of law suits or amendment elections. In addition, the city manager never has been free from political, influence. The first manager, William R. Hopkins, was selected through a bipartisan agreement by Maurice Maschke, Republican national committeeman from Ohio and local G. O. P. boss, and W. B. Gongwcr, Democratic boss. Tired, He Fired Him When Maschke tired of Hopkins, he turned him out of office through domination of the council, which hires and fires the manager. Then Maschke picked as Hopkins’ successor, Daniel E. Morgan, who now, at the command of the voters, must relinquish the office he has held since Jan. 27, 1930. Overturn of the government makes for the worst political confusion the city has experienced in its history. The manager passes out of office Monday and his law director becomes acting mayor. In two months mayoralty candidates will be pitted against each other in a run-off primary to decide which two will contend for mayor at the special mayoralty election Feb. 16. And More Lawsuits Lawsuits to test the validity of electing a mayor in an “even numbered year” impend. Ohio’s Constitution says municipal officers must be chosen in “odd numbered years.” It is expected that no contracts

i- tes Sspus m i s|i Rt| i % yL.lt Pi GROWTH- - EVEN IN 1931 j 0 The steady progress of Fletcher Trust Company is shown by the fact that in 1931, its resources —for the first time—passed the 30-million-dollar mark. 4f Letcher (Trust Company MAIN OFFICE Northwest Comer Pennsylvania and Market Streets NORTH SIDE BRANCHES WEST SIDE BRANCHES EAST SIDE BRANCHES 1541 North Illinois Street 474 West Washington Street 2122 East Tenth Street 3001 North Illinois Street 1233 Oliver Avenue 458 East Washington Street 1533 Roosevelt Avenue 2600 West Michigan Street 2506 East Washington Street 6233 Bellefonume Street BRANCH 5501 East Waahington Street 1125 South Meridian Street

Clinging Vine By United Pretn PEEKSKILL, N. Y., Nov. 5. —Fred Harer and Frank Finn drove up to the home of Miss Mary Ida Kane. Harer honked his horn three times. A rifle barrage scattered lead over the headlights and radiator cap. Miss Kane was charged with attempted assault on the complaint of the two alleged suitors.

can be let, no progress on city work be made and that all city business will be at a standstill, since contractors will hesitate to enter into any agreement, fearing it will be knocked out by the courts. Cleveland voted in the manager plan to escape the recurrent campaigns of mud-slinging mayoralty candidates and to do away with the wasteful extravagance of political administrations. Today’s victory was a case of the house of want trying to become the house of have. Republicans controlled the 10,000 odd jobs at the city hall because they had picked the manager; the Democrats wanted the jobs. The Democratic machine, working for the amendment, rode to victory on the wave of unrest that makes itself manifest during times of depression. The manager plan was beaten despite the fact that the city’s three leading newspapers campaigned against the amendment, holding that the manager plan, with all its shortcomings due to political manipulation, had given the city better government than the mayor system. About half the eligible voting populace did not bother to go to the polls, and of those that did go about 25,000 did not mark the charter ballots, turning in blanks. Two turbines, said to be the world’s largest, will be installed on the new Swedish government power station at Vaargon, Sweden, which is to be completed in 1933.

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FEDERAL HELP THROWN BEHIND BUSINESS BOOM Three Aid Projects Being Rushed by Hoover as Encouragement. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Administration reinforcements are being thrown in behind the improving business factors which have sent a new spirit of hope through the country. Three projects, each intended to reach to the man on the bottom of the economic heap, are being advanced by President Hoover: An effort to deter short sellers from making bear raids in the Chicago wheat pit that might check the rapid rise of wheat and other grains which are adding millions of dollars in values to farmers’ holdings, is under way. Wall street restrictions have been imposed, and Hoover believes short selling is under control. A plan to ease financing of small homes, and to help farmers and hard-pressed householders to carry through the depression without having to sacrifice everything, is being worked out in conference between President Hoover and representatives of building and loan associations and real estate organizations. The federal public building pro-

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gram is being pushed in expectation that the 50,000 men now employed will be doubled by Jan. 1. Washington officials privately are encouraged over rising prices in wheat, oil and other commodities and New York listed stocks. But having seen their previQUs predictions of returning prosperity turn out to be premature, they are cautious about public utterances now. Privately, many of them believe a turn in the long depression has begun and they are aiding it with all possible help here. In his home financing plan. President Hoover is hitting at one of the long-range difficulties which, unless dealt with, might harass the small householder for a long time after the main depression had disappeared. He estimates $1,500,000,000 is tied up in frozen real estate credits. The result is that pressure is so strong that the average small farmer and home owner, caught in financial difficulties, goes to his banker oi mortgage holder asking to be carried along and have his payments suspended for.a while only to receive a cold stare. Decrease in hoarding of money, apparently checked recently, is regarded as a hopeful sign. While the money in circulation has gone -

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MAIL SUBSIDIES TO COME UNDER CONGRESS QUIZ Big Air and Ocean Lines Reap All the Benefits, Critics Charge. Bn Scripps-Hotcard Xeicspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Charges of favoritism and waste of public funds in administration of annual appropriations of $56,000,000 for ocean and air mail has been investigated by agents of the house appropriations committee, and Chairman Will R. Wood will begin an exhaustive inquiry as soon as congress convenes. Wood, who recently charged that Postmaster-General Walter F. Brown had disregarded the law in awarding contracts, has received complete reports from the committee’s agents. These deal with charges that four

large companies have obtained most of the profitable contracts in the domestic field, and a single one —Pan-American Airways—in carrying foreign mail. Another inquiry may be conducted by Clyde Kelly (Rep., Pa.), ranking Republican on the house postoffice committee. Kefiy has criticised Brown and W. Irving Glover. ! assistant postmaster-general, for the handling of air mail contracts. What Wood and Kelly want to find out is whether commensurate benefits have resulted from the expendtiue of $56,000,000 annually, in the form of development of commercial flying and an American merchant marine. It is their belief that the Brown-Glover administration has not had this effect, especially in the aviation field. The four companies enjoying most of the domestic air mail con tracts are Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., American Airways Eastern Air Transport, and United 1 States Air Lines. Os the $20,000,00! subsidy, more than 90 per cent goes to the so-called “big four.” With respect to ocean mail subsidies, it has been charged that the law requiring companies obtaining contracts to build a specific number of ships in return has not been complied with fully. The government, it is alleged,

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