Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1932 — Page 5

APRIL 20, 1032

VETERANS ASK CASH; OPPOSE WAIT TILL 1945 I Organization of U. S. Finance Corporation Stirs Action by Ex-Service Me (Continued from Page 1) nomics to raise money through such financing to be loaned to corporations where no committment exists, the soldiers are of the opinion that it likewise would be not unsound nor uneconomic to use the same plan to pay them where a definite commitment does exist. The question is not whether the government will pay the remainder on certificates held by veterans. The sole question is when payment will be made and how the money will be raised. Ask Similar Plan If the reconstruction finance bill had not been passed the demand of the ex-cervice men probably would not. have received much consideration at the hands of the present congress. But since this law was enacted, and now is being operated, and funds in sums reaching into multiplied millions are being loaned to railroads, banks and other forms of industry to pay interest on outlanding bonds, to pay interest and principal to banks, and other forms of operating and overhead expenses, the ex-service men demand that congress employ a similar plan of financing to raise funds to pay them the balance due on their certificates. A committee of the house of representatives. composed wholly of ex-service men, is sponsoring the legislation and presenting demands of the veterans. Position of this committee is that while the ex-service men are in dire need of the balance due, and while .such veterans are practically unanimous for the full payment, yet unless a plan for financing similar to that used in raising funds for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation can be adopted—and further that unless it can be shown that full payment in cash will be of substantial benefit to the country—the committee will not insist that the legislation be enacted. Millions Are Loaned The records show that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has loaned approximately 5300.000.00f1, and that the Federal Reserve system is buying government bonds at the rate of some 525.000.000 a week. These activities are presumed to be placing additional money in circulation. But the treasury report shows that during March, $150,000,000 in currency was retired from circulation and canceled. It is contended by proponents of this legislation that the same economic law which controls the price of commodities such as wheat, corn, cotton and livestock, likewise controls the buying power or value of money. When commodities such as wheat and cotton are plentiful, they are cheap. When they are dear, they are high; hence, the contention is made that when money is plentiful, it is cheap; when it is scarce, it is high. Hence, the present practice of the federal reserve board in reducing the amount of money in circulation is claimed to be responsible for the continued fall of commodity prices, stocks, property values, and the downward trend of business generally. Public sentiment throughout the country is crystallizing behind a demand for an increase of the amount of money in circulation and the consequent expansion of credit. Benefits Are Seen Proponents of this legislation are demanding that the money in circulation be increased within controlled bounds, and to the end that such increased circulation shall reach every state, every county,

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WOMEN are in politics in Indiana with a vengeance, it begins to appear, as primary tangles are straightened out and it becomes possible to learn what’s what. A few w'eeks ago this column discussed Mrs. Virginia Jenckes of Terre Haute, wet candidate for the Democratic congressional nominai tion in the new Sixth, against the incumbent, Courtland Gillen of Greencastle, reported to be dry. Up in the new First, composed | only of Lake county, nine Repubj lican candidates for congress realize j that the one they have to defeat is a woman, Miss Ora M. Riggs of ! Griffith. Developments of the last few days have brought the feminine aspirant ’to the front in the race for the ; SIO,OOO post, and the reason for her j ranking position is the fact that she 1 will get the undivided support of j the Lake County W. C. T. U„ and 1 also w’ill be the choice of the Lake County Better Government League. mho It’s a laugh, at. that. Support of I the dry groups ordinarily would be | considered a heavy load to carry in Lake county, but with the liberal j vote of the Republicans split among ; the nine wets. Miss Riggs may touch home before the others reach first. (Blame the pink edition for that simile.) every hamlet through payments to the more than 3,650.000 veterans, accomplishing those purposes by; 1. Liquidating the debt heretofore acknowledged and still due the exservice men. 2. Through paying such debts by cash and not by credit, it is contended that money will be made more plentiful and thereby cheaper, and, to the extent that the buying power of the dollar is reduced, commodity prices of all kinds thereby will be increased correspondingly. (In further articles, Senator Thomas will discuss other phases of the subject.)

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Until this move on the part of the drys, it was believed that Oscar Ahlgren, state representative in 19271929, had the edge, because he was thought to have little opposition in Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago, where he is on the North township slate. However, because of the factional differences there, the dopesters are giving the call to the woman. She was unknown to the Calumet cities until she was entered in the present campaign by Sam Woods, a farmer. Like Mrs. Jenckes, she gives an impression of dynamic energy, they tell me. Miss Riggs is the publisher of a weekly newspaper at Griffith which she founded nine years ago, is former principal of a Chicago public school, university graduate, business woman, church worker, and a student of politics. n n n The women are playing smart politics down at Terre Haute in the Republican ranks, also. For some time there has been strained relations between Mrs. Noble Johnson, wife of the Republican aspirant for the congressional nomination, and Mrs. Bertha Zimmerman. 1929 member of the house of representatives,' w'ho is said to lean toward the cause of Fred Purnell. candidate for renomination. They tell me that to keep Mrs. Zimmerman from being the only woman candidate for representative on the G. O. P. ticket there, Mrs. Johnson entered as her opponent Mrs. Walter Denehie. When the heretofore unknown appeared, Mrs. Zimmerman and some of her friends did some quick thinking and just before closing time for the filings Mrs. Denehie brought here, withdrawn as a candidate for state representative, and refiled for congress as a “wet Republican. ’’ Thus Johnson will have moist opposition in his own county. Strange how quickly the women learn the ins and outs of politics.

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MORE BEER AND LESS HOODLUMS, CICEROOUTLOOK ‘Hard-Boiled Chicago Cop’ Is Chief of Ex-Capone Stronghold. BY ROBERT T. LOI’GHRAN j United Pres* Staff Correspondent CICERO, 111., April 20.—A new era of “more beer and fewer hoodlums’’ dawned with today's sun on Cicero, often termed “the toughest town in America.” A hard-boiled Irish-American police lieutenant from Chicago became chief of police and issued this terse ultimatum to gangsters: “Get out and stay out or take a dose of your own medicine. This goes for Capone hoodlums, too.” Cicero probably is the biggest village in the world. Although it has a polyglot population of 66,000, village government still prevails. The suburb, w'hich edges into the physical pattern of Chicago on the west, always has howled dowm annexation proposals. Tuesday the old regime—in power during A1 Capone's gang heyday, when Cicero was his stronghold and his word was law—went out of office. Anew administration, headed by Joseph G. Cerny, village president, j took hold, with a big broom of roses on exhibit in the village hall as exemplifying the “cleanup spirit.” Cerny’s first official act was to appoint as his police chief gruffvoiced, broad-shouldered, 46-year-old Lieutenant John L. Sullivan, for twenty years a Chicago policeman. Sullivan, who has won commendation for his work on many important Chicago criminal cases, including those involving gangsters, said: “I’m going out there and clean that place up,” he said. “I don’t know the village president, don’t even know his first name. I don’t know where the police station is. I’ll ask a policeman where it is and then walk in and go to work.” Thug Shoots Motorist in Heel Bii United Press DETROIT. April 20.—Earl Morris, 25, Peoria, 111., was wounded in the i heel Tuesday night when a thug, who just had robbed a grocery, shot ias he fled past him. Morris was repairing an automobile tire in the i street.

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KAY FRANCIS IS NOW A SOCIETY EDITOR TV/fAN WANTED,” the first Warner Brothers picture made by Kay IVL Francis, turns the tables on the “beauty and the boss” type of story, it is said, by having a smart society woman editor fall in love with her male secretary. The new film opens at the Apollo Friday next for a seven-day engagement. The new picture gives Miss Francis an opportunity to display her fashion sense and dramatic ability to an unusual degree, the story having been written especially for her, according to reports from the studio. Miss Francis plays the part of a very wealthy society woman who

turns to business as her prime interest, eschewing the idle pastimes of her husband and others in her set. The story of “Man Wanted” involves the infidelities of the husband of Miss Francis, played by Kenneth Thomson, her resulting unhappiness, and the separation which drives man and wife into other arms. David Manners appears as the handsome secretary who becomes indispensable to Miss Francis, in business and affairs of the heart. Claire Dodd appears as the siren who charms Thomson into another infidelity. Andy Devine, remembered for his portrayal in “Spirit of Notre Dame,” and Una Merkel, who appeared in "Impatient Maiden” recently, furnish the comedy relief of the new film. Short subjects round out the program. Stuart Walker started the theattrical training of Kay Francis in

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WARNS AGAINST! BONUS PAYMENT Judge Garvin Says Public Favor Must Be Guarded. Assertion that preservation of government is of first consideration in the question of payment of soldiers’ bonus was made by Municipal Judge Thomas E. Garvin in an address Tuesday night at a meeting of ex-service men in the Garfield. park community house. The meeting was sponsored by the

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National United American Veterans. “Let’s not overstep the bounds of reason in this matter of payment of the bonus. We have had public opinion with us in the past and must not do anything to turn It against us now,” Garvin stated. Among other speakers was the Rev. W. E. Peeman, Civil war veteran, who urged payment of the bonus by sale of government bond. Receives Belated Divorce Bu United Press CHICAGO. April 20.—Thirty-three years after leaving his wife In Italy, Dominico Baffa, 59, today had won a divorce from her which he sought in order to legalize a common law union formed in this country twenty-two years ago.