Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 213, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1933 — Page 3

JAN. 14, 1J933

,ROOSEVELT TO CHANGE ENTIRE FOREIGN POLICY Mew Regime Will Seek More Practicable ► Approaches. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srripp*-Howard Foreitn Editor WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.—Changes In the foreign policy of the United States of utmost importance to the e.ntire world, but particularly to France a r o now regarded as certain after March 4 The changes will involve the '■hole field of war debts, disarmament, world security, tariffs and other trade barriers, the writer understands, the spirit of the Roosevelt administration being to seek new and more practicable approaches. France, it is said, will not be isolated because of her default in December. If she really is looking for an honorable way out of her present impasse, a way will be provided. That is to say if she wishes to confer with the United States on the subject of war debt, the door by no means will be slammed in her face. Agrees With French Stand Secondly, President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt is understood to view' the problem of disarmament very much as France does. The French thesis is security before disarmament. With this the incoming President is understood to be in sympathy as a sheer matter of practical world politics. Nations can not be forced to disarm against their will, unless defeated in war, and no nation afraid for its security will weaken its national defense. It is expected, therefore, that President-Elect Roosevelt will leave no stone unturned to bolster up the world’s peace machinery so that nations will feel safe in disarming. Among other things, his closest advisers indicate, he will take steps to implement the pact of Paris outlawing war and seek to pledge this and other great powers not to aid an aggressor—at least, not without consultation of warning in advance. Efforts So Far Failures The policy of the United States lip to the present has been that disarmament purely is a technical matter. The whole world simply might agree to cut down their arms by one-third or one-half, and still remain relatively as secure as ever. This may be absolutely true, ft is observed, but unless, and until, all ,the major powers admit it, it will remain an impracticable basis for disarmament. $ And-so it has proved. France, key to European, and, therefore, world disarmament, steadfastly has refused to admit the truth of the American contention, thus every effort to limit land and air armament signally has failed. The more practical approach attributed to President-Elect Roosevelt is seen as putting new hope into the movement. It was not until the nine-power treaty, concerning China, the fourpower pact of the Pacific and other far eastern political problems had been solved that the naval limitation treaty was signed at Washington. “Firm F'orcign Policy” Similarly, Mr. Roosevelt is said to hold that until some of the political problems affecting international security are gotten out of the way, real progress in world disarmament w r ill be impossible. It now is thought that an international conference on tariffs and other trade barriers may be called to meet simultaneously with, if not actually a part of, the coming world economic conference. The "firm foreign policy” demanded by the Democratic platform, it is said, will be followed to the letter by the United States after March 4. but Colonel House is quoted as saying that it will be - done “as a responsible sovereign member of the world society,” readily ceding the rights of others, and demanding its owm.

MANY LIVES SAVED IN RILEY OXYGEN ROOM More Than Half of Patients Recovered, Hospital Report Shows. More than half of the critically ill patients treated last year in the Riley hospital oxygen room recovered, Dr. Edwin T. Thompson, Indiana university hospital administrator, said in a report Thursday at the annual meeting of the Riley .Memorial Association. Dr. Thompson also reported increase of 497 in number of patients treated, as compared to previous years. Average cost of $2.95 for daily care of each patient is a decrease of 15 cents, he said. Research committee of the organization made special gains in field of spinal meningitis treatment and prevention through use of $17,500 in funds available for the year. Total fund held in reserve for the work is $275,000. The association re-elected Hugh McK. Landon, president; James W. Fesler, vice-president; Arthur V. Brown, treasurer, and James W. Carr, secretary. Directors re-elected are: Fesler. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch and Samuel D. Miller. ‘THEY SHALL NOT PASS’ State Senate Keeps Space Inside Railing as Sacred Ground. ‘ They shall not pass” became the slogan in the Indiana Senate today so far as the space inside the railing concerns the public. inside the railing only senators, other officials, employes, and newspaper men are permitted. Back of the railing there are two groups of seats, one to the east being for the general public while about fifty seats on the west are reserved for those having cards signed bv Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford Townsend or a senator. Addeed lo Clinic staff Dr. Harry B. Murry has been added to the staff of the Drs. Holloway and Klein clinic, with offices at 800 Test building, it is announced. Dr. Murry will specialize in foot ailments. He is a graduate of the Columbia Institute of Physiotherapy at Washington. He has been practicing in California.

Hertz Cuts Millions Off Movie Expenses; Retires

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Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hertz. Above, Mr. Hertz is shown with the famous race horse, Reigh Count, which is owned by Mrs. Hertz.

Yellow Cab King Is More Proud of Reigh Count Than of Financing. BY JOSEPH MITCHELL Times Staff Writer NEW YORK, J;.i. 14.—John D. Hertz, former Chicago police reporter and manager of prize fighters, who placed yellow painted taxicabs in the streets of 800 cities and then became interested in race horses and Fifth avenue buses, discussed today his reason for resigning as chairman of the finance committee of Paramount-Public Corporation, after cutting its operating expenses by $39,000,000 in forty-eight weeks. Mr. Hertz, who would rather be known as the owner of Reigh Count than as America’s taxicab czar, deserted polo in November, 1931, to assume financial contfol of the cinema company. Both Adolph Zukor, president of the company, and Kuhn. Loeb & Cos., its creditors, requested him to enter the photoplay business. Soon after he became chairman a series of withdrawals and resignations began. Notables Quit Board Among those who resigned were Sam Katz, vice-president; Sidney R. Kent, sales manager, and Jesse L. Lasky, production manager. Since last fall, reports persisted in Wall Street that Mr. Hertz would withdraw and that Mr. Zukor would assume financial control. ‘‘Yes, the bankers are satisfied,’ said Mr. Hertz, “and Paramount is satisfied, and I’m ready to go home. Everything is O. K. I'm going to Chicago in a couple of days. Then I’m coming back east and then I’m going to Miami to spend the winter with*, my family.” Asked, how he cut the operating expenses of the cinema company, Mr. Hertz spoke of lease cancellations, lease reductions, cuts in production costs. “I’m proud of it,” he said, "but I was nothing but a surgeon.” Out of His Line "The moving pictures are out of my line,” he said. “No, I w r ent *to Hollywood only twice. I think I met one or tw’o of the actors, I don’t remember.” He smiled and jingled a handful of coins in his pocket. Behind his chair hung a painting of Reigh Count, the champion 3-year-old and Kentucky Derby w inner. Sometimes the newspapers refer to the horse as “owned by Mrs. John D. Hertz, wife of the multimillionaire taxicab magnate.” Hertz smiles and says, “Yes it’s in the family.” So is Anita Peabody, champion filly of her day. So is Our Count, colt of Reigh and Anita, which is the hope of the Hertz stable. (In the midst of business-slump conversation Hertz sometimes says, "We racing people remember that no owner of a yearling colt ever committed suicide.") Born just north of Budapest,

Bridge Party Mystery Still Baffles Sleuths Memphis Society Matron Left Gathering Two Years Ago; Never Seen Since. By I'nitrd Press MEMPHIS. Jan. 14.—Mrs. Harry Long. 24, social matron of Memphis, left a bridge party at 5 p. m. two years ago, thus creating a "perfect mystery” that has baffled police. Her whereabouts have not been discovered since she drove away from the home of Mrs. W. Cole Early, to go home and feed her 2-months-old baby. That was Jan. 4. 1931. Her disappearance is just as baffling to police now as it was when they first were called into the case. Her husband, an insurance broker, has reconciled himself to the theory that Mrs. Long drowned herself in the Mississippi river—although he can think of no reason for such an act.

But police Inspector Will Griffin, who has solved many mysteries, believes that some day she will appear. He has no evidence to support that belief—lt is just a hunch. When Mrs. Long failed f8 appear at her home that night to care for her baby son. her husband notified police. Some hours later, her automobile was found on the Harahan bridge, which spans the Mississippi river. It stood near a small flight of steps that led down to the river bank. Mrs. Long’s coat, gloves, cigarets. purse, with $7.57, and her hat were neatly piled on the automobile seat. There were no signs of a struggle. The key was in the ignition lock.

Hertz was 4 when brought to this country by his father. Restless, he ran away from his Chicago home at 11, sold his school books, became a copy boy on the Chicago Daily News. He later became a police reporter and assistant sports editor. He managed Benny Yanger, the lightweight; became an automobile salesman; acquired a fleet of sec-ond-hand cars and formed a cab company which grew into the Yellow Taxicab corporation—the greatest fleet of cabs in the world; went into the omnibus business and improved the Fifth avenue buses. He is 53.

PRESS BILLS TO AID WANDERERS Three Measures Providing for Transient Relief Before Congress. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Presure from afflicted states demanding federal help in the care of homeless wanderers is having its effect upon congress. No less than three transient relief measures now await committee action. Thee are: The Cutting bill, hearings for which are arranged for January 23. This measure appropriates $15,000,000 from the R. F. C. funds for grants to the states, provided for minumum standards to be administered by an expert board, paves the way for w'ork camps such as California now maintains. The Couzens bill, authorizing the use of army, navy or marine camps to house, feed and shelter wandering transients. The Wagner bill, one section of w’hich provides for a $10,000,000 grant to states for transient care. In support of the Cutting bill, Brigadier General Pelman D. Glassford. former Washington police chief, left today to inspect railroad yards, “jungle” camps and other makeshift arrangements in southern cities through which transients are swarming in huge numbers. He will return in time to tell the senate! manufacturers committee his experiences. AIRPORT FLOOD LIGHTED Landing at Night to Be Made Safer in Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, Jan. 14.—Allegheny county airport here is being flood-lighted to make landing as safe at night as at noon. The airport, with its length of 3,600 feet covers more than 148 acres. These will be illuminated with five sixteen-inch and twelve twenty-four-inch floodlights. Tw r enty-five items are included in the contract for lighting the field.

With daylight, detectives found a womans footprints in the mud between the river's edge and the lower end of the steps from the river. A pair of Mrs. Long's shoes fitted the tracks perfectly. Strangely, the footprints led to the river's edge. There two prints stood even and close together, as if the person who made them stood contemplating the muddy waters. Then these footprints turned and trailed back toward the car. Whether Mrs. Long decided to leap from the bridge instead of jumping into the river at the shore level is only conjecture. .

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DENY VETERANS’ GOST GAIN OUT OF PROPORTION Legion Points Out Expense Higher, Relatively, in Past Years. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER I'nited Press Staff Correspondent (CoDvrieht. 1933. bv United Pressi WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.—Spokesmen of the American Legion have dug out the information that the relative cost of veteran aid has been much higher in the past than it is now. Veteran costs are running 20 to 25 per cent of total government expenses. Thirty years ago pension costs reached 40 per cent of the federal budget. Throughout the gay nineties, they ran more than 30 per cent. Due to the concentrated fire of the United States Chamber of Commerce and the National Economy League, the impression has been created that the veteran bureau expenses have shot up out of all proportion. Call Criticism Unwarranted Actually, analysis of figures show that the whole government structure has been honeycombed with airpockets from the White House out to the hills of South Dakota where the federal government is paying men to carve some pictures on the side of a gigantic rock. That expense was loaded on the nation’s taxpayers by the combined efforts of a senator, and a sculptor with an eye to business. The legion figures of past pension expense give the peak as 1893. Pensions that year ate up 41 per cent of the federal budget. In 1890, they accounted for 33 per cent. In 1898, they were down to 32 per cent. Then, as the immediate Spanish war cost ran up the general expenditures, pensions dropped to 28 per cent, sliding slowiy down to 23 per cent in 1908, according to legion tabulations. So that legion spokesmen feel the veterans are being subjected to some unwarranted criticism for taking advantage of the generosity of congress to the extent of 20 to 25 per cent of the federal budget. Injustice Is Charged They feel that the United States Chamber of Commerce and the national economy plea in demanding a cut of $450,000,000 in veteran costs, have ignored inflation of other government costs and attempted to heap the burden entirely on the veterans. The legion has a special committee studying the possibilities of economies though it is not expected to report for some months. Meantime, Legion spokesmen oppose flat horizontal cuts of say 10 per cent. Their reason is that the man who lost both legs at the front, is deserving of more consideration than the man w'ho never left his Washington boarding house during the war, but is drawing disability allowance anyway because he happened to be drafted for duty in Washington, and maybe last year was in an automobile wreck and broke his arm. Make Savings Intelligently They believe that the war widow who lost her husband in the fighting, and w'ho may draw only S3O a month, with $lO extra for the first child and $6 for each additional child, should net have 10 per cent of that pittance taken from her. Men, who are holding lucrative jobs in private life, draw from SIOO to S3OO a month as retirement penj sion for having served as emergency I officers, and having been able later \ to obtain rulings granting them dis- | ability ratings of 30 per cent. The average man more than 40 probabiy | is at least that much disabled, comj pared with a youth of 20. If there are to be economies, legion spokesmen feel they should be made intelligently, and not blindly.

CITY OF TOLEDO MAY ADOPT SCRIP SYSTEM Issuance May Be Necessary to Meet Municipal Pay Rolls. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance TOLEDO, Jan. 14.—Short on income because tax receipts are about 30 per cent delinquent, the city of Toledo is considering the advisability of issuing $500,000 in scrip currency to meet half of the municipal pay rolls during the next few months. The plan, which has tentative indorsement of prominent merchants, who have agreed to accept the scrip as legal tender at their stores, practically would place half of the expense of city government on the people of the city in the form of an extra tax. Each of the scrip certificates of a face value of $1 would be subject to a weekly tax of 3 cents, to be affixed to the certificate in the form of a special municipal stamp by the person who happened to be in possession of the certificate on Wednesday cf any week. The certificate w'ould remain in circulation for thirty-five weeks or until it bore thirty-five stamps, w T hen it w'ould be redeemable in cash at the city treasury. In the last few months, eggs have oeen the only farm product selling at prices higher than the prewar average.

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Sears, Roebuck & Cos. to Have Own Building at World’s Fair

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By Timra Special CHICAGO. Jan. 14. —Sears, Roebuck & Cos. will have its own building at the Century of Progress exposition on the Chicago lake front in 1933. Plans have been drawn for a modernistic building to be used as a general service headquarters for those who visit the fair and also as an exposition building. The building will be located across the street and just a little south of the Administration building of the Century of Progress and will face east across the lagoon, which will be one of the principal attractions of the exposition. The building is on a plot of ground 370 feet long by 230 feet wide just east of the north end of Soldiers’ field. Design Is Modernistic Modernistic architecture in keeping with the outline and plan of the exposition buildings has been follower in the Sears’ building. The building will cost in excess of $150,000, but this does not include any of the exhibits, interior furnishings or fixtures. It is estimated that the total expenditure will be in the neighborhood of $300,000. It is for the accommodation of all people who visit the fair. Large rest rooms have been provided for men and women. There will be a large exhibition hall and a very large lobby in which friends may gather before beginning their tour of the fair. Structure 300x190 Feet The building itself is more than 300 feet long and 190 feet deep. The tower in the center which rises above the mezzanine level is thirtyseven feet square and 140 feet high. The main exhibit hall, at the back of the building, is eighty-six feet wide by eighty-one feet deep. The wings on either side of the tower are thirty feet high.

New Legislators Plan to Help Farms Drafted by Legislator

Clinton county sends to the 1933 session of the Indiana legislature a representative interested in immediate enactment of an old age pension act and Wright law repeal.

James V. Kent Jr., Jill is burg farmer, is 45. He has been a farmer all his life and has an agricultural plan by which he hopes to reduce the quantity of Indiana products of the soil by 25 per cent. His reduction idea is to make 25 per cent of agricultural land tax free, so long as that land is used for pasture pur-

poses. Kent’s political experience has been limited, but he has been a steadfast Democratic worker and has served for the last ten years as secretary of the board of education of Johnson township, Clinton county. % A dairy specialist explains that gelatine in ice cream serves two purposes. It prevents the sugar of the milk from forming large granules and it prevents formation of large ice crystals.

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Bankruptcy Reform Bill May Pass House Monday

Committee Will Attempt to Report Measure Out Today. By Scripps-Howard Xctcspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.—An attempt to report the new bankruptcy bill today, and bring it up for passage in the house Monday under suspension of rules, will be made by the house judiciary committee. Long sessions of the committee, Friday, resulted in agreement on some of the points at issue in regard to relief for individual debtors, both mortgaged and otherwise, and corporate reorganization; but the committee is not yet in entire accord as to reorganization of railroads. The bill now under consideration before the committee combines the McKeown bill for relief of individual debtors, the Hastings version of corporate reorganization, and a modified La Guardia bill, affecting railroad reorganization. La Guardia’s new' plan for the railroads is a compromise between Senator Hastings’ desire that the matter be left entirely with the federal courts, and his first bill putting the matter almost entirely in the hands of the interstate commerce commission. It provides that trustees ap-

COUNTY REGROUPING BILL IS INTRODUCED First Consideration of Proposal From Senator. First consideration of the proposal to provide ways and means for working out consolidation of counties and townships came from Senator L. L. Shull (Rep., Sharpsville), when he introduced two bills in the senate Friday. County commissioners, acting upon their own initiative, or on petition of at least fifty resident freeholders, must call an election to decide upon consolidations of neighboring counties. Colombian Ayiation on Gain By Vnitrd J’rcas BOGOTA, jan. 14.—Recent reports indicate an up trend in the commercial aviation activities of Colombia. During the first ten months of 1932. over 6.055 passengers were carried a total distance of 472.802 miles. Over a million and a half pounds of merchandise were transported.

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pointed by the judge to take over the properties involved must be approved by the interstate commerce commission. However, instead of having hearings before the commission on proposed reorganization plans, it provides for hearings before one or more of six special referees appointed by the President with the consent of the senate. Plans approved by two-thirds of the creditors, and by the special referee, would receive final approval from the judge; but issues of new securities under the reorganization, w'ould be issued only when approved by the interstate commerce commission. The bill w'ould specify further that the commission might hear all questions affecting equity, financial advisability and public interest, and fix maximum compensation to reorganization managers and others for services renderd.

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BERMUDA Where Summer Lasts All Year ’Round If you are planning a vacation this winter, we suggest Bermuda, where summer lasts twelve months out of each year. There are sights aplenty, including the Magic Cave, the w'orld-noted Aquarium, Spanish Rock, Devil’s Hole and the choicest beauty spots of the south shore, Harrington sound or St. George's parish. Or perhaps you would prefer a round of golf, a game of tennis or a dip in the ocean. Details on Various Bermuda Cruises May Be Obtained From RICHARD A. KURTZ, Manager Travel Bureau The Leading Travel Bureau of Indianapolis HuNION TRUST* SfejL orpfjj "120 E. Market St. Riley 5341

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QUICK FARM AID ISSUE IN DOUBT Political Considerations Confuse Senate Action on Allotment Bill. By Scrippa-Hovard XcKapaprr Alliance WASHINGTON. Jan. 14. Political considerations today confused the senate plan to deal with the domestic allotment bill for farm relief. There is a general fear of a veto at the hands of President Herbert Hoover, in which event this Democratic proposal to increase farm prices might encounter large public prejudice, even before the prospective special session. Thus with many advising delay until the Democratic President takes charge with his Democratic congress, the final decision as to whether the bill will be passed still is in doubt. Henrv Morganthau Jr., agricultural advisor to President-Elect Roosevelt, conferred with house and senate leaders, and left the impression that Mr. Roosevelt wants the measure passed and quickly. Morganthau also is said to want it amended so to cover only wheat, cotton, tobacco, corn and com as hogs. This would leave out rice, peanuts, dairy products and butter fats which were put in by a votetrade in the house.

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