Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1933 Edition 02 — Page 3

FEB. 25, 1933.

PATMAN MAPS NEW PLAN FOR PAYING BONUS Expands Currency and at Same Time Cuts U. S. Expenses, Is Claim. BY MARSHALL McNEIL Timm Staff Writer* WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Representative Wright Patman (Dem., Tex.) has anew bill for pre-pay-ment of the bonus, whit_. he believes will result not only in an expansion of the currency under complete control, but also reduce federal expenditures by $112,000,000 annually. Under his proposal, the treasury would issue currency in the sum of $2,200,000,000 to pay the bonus to more than three and one-half million ex-soldiers. Patman will “insist,” he said, on the passage of his bill at the impending special session of congress. “The money issued,” the Texan said, “will not be fiat money, as it will have sufficient gold coverage. The plan will not violate the currency planks of either the Democratic or Republican platforms.” Saving Method Described The saving in federal expenditures involved would be accomplished, Representative Patman explained, by liquidating the sinking fund set up in the adjusted compensation act, and by eliminating the annual appropriation made to It. This yearly payment is $112,000,000. Five ways are set out in the new Patman bill to contract the currency “in the event of danger of inflation.” These arc: “1. National banks under the Glass-Borah amendment to the home loan bank act are permitted to deposit United States bonds with the secretary of the treasury and have issued to them currency—new money—in return. This privilege is permitted to the extent of about one billion dollars and the rate of Interest on the bonds may be 3-% per cent. A possible bonus to the bankers of $33,750,000 annually, the banks using the money and getting interest on the bonds deposited. If contraction is necessary, a portion or all of these bonds may be returned and that amount of money cancelled. How to Contract Currency * “2. National banks, under the old law, have placed with the secretary of the treasury about $700,000,000 in United States government bonds and have had issued to them $700,000,000 in currency. They are getting the use of the currency and receiving 2 per cent interest from the government on the bonds. A $14,000,000 annual bonus to bankers. If further contraction of the currency is desired, the secretary of the treasury may return these bonds, and receive the money issued on them and cancel it. “3. Under the Glass-Steagall act, the banks are permitted to deposit United States government boncks with the federal reserve agent and receive in return therefor federal reserve notes—new money—issued upon the credit of the nation. These "bonds may be returned and the money cancelled if further contraction is desired. Justified By Need, Is Claim "4. Federal reserve notes are issued on gold only. Further contraction may be had by limiting the use of this privilege. “5. If further contraction is desired, all federal reserve notes that are not issued in benefit of commerce, industry and farming may be retired.” Patman, however, believes that it will not be necessary to invoke any of his suggested plans for contracting the currency, for he is convinced that the •‘increase in our population, national wealth, national income and monetary gold stock during the last fifty years justifies the suggested increase in circulating medium.” INAUGURATION SPECIAL TO LEAVE CITY FRIDAY Official Democratic Party From , State Will Return Monday. The official party of the Indiana state Democratic committee will leave Indianapolis at 2:10 next Friday. to attend the presidential inauguration ceremonies at Washington. according to announcement of Wray Fleming, chairman of the t ransport at ion committee. Special cars from Terre Haute, carrying the delegations from Vigo. Boone, and other counties, will join the official party at Indianapolis. Arrangements have been made for attendance at the inauguration, the inaugural ball, a sightseeing trip to Mt. Vernon, and a return trip to' Indianapolis Monday. STOUT FUNERAL FIXED Rrakrman lo Be Buried on Monday at West Newton. Funeral services for Chester Stout, 42, West Newton, brakeman for the Belt railroad, train accident victim, will be held at 2 Monday afternoon in the West Newton Friends church. Burial will be in the cemetery there. Stout was killed when he was run over by a train while working Friday. Dr. John Salb, deputy coroner. Investigated and said witnesses told him Stout had stepped into the path of a train on a track paralleling that on which he was working. Surivors are the widow, Mrs. Corda Stout; two children, Margaret and Mildred Stout: his father. Logan Stout of Fortville. and two brothers, Floyd and Lowell Stout. CRAWFORD WILL SPEAK Speaker of House- to Give Address for Bible Class. Earl Crawford. Speaker of *he house of representatives, will address the Mens Bible class at Central Christian church at 9:30 a. m. Sunday. He is a member of the Christian church at Milton and teaches the Men's Bible class there. Education has been affected more seriously by the depression in the United States than in forty foreign countries, reports from abroad indi..cate, i

Housewives Make Bridge Tables Give Way to Art of Oil Painting

.asc's Pushing Easy Aces Out of the Lives of > % Some Indiana Women. Jr " Easy arcs are bring eased cut of ~ le life of many Indiana housewives \ ! v * v ° ascis * if %I* x The oily gabble of the bridge table I ‘ : \ m. &*■>*** ''' ,*f being traded for the oil on can- v s r L YT v ' *' W'% ' jßk . is. Yesterday's golf bunker is now rv m&C . W’fc' * mm model forhill a ho never has painted anything ex- j ■ f *pt her cheeks, may learn to pat . | JL : is on canvas without cost. m j Instruction Is Free *■' * f $ Instruction is free under the ■hool's head, Mrs Bertha Drake, \ • f

Easels Pushing Easy Aces Out of the Lives of Some Indiana Women. Easy aces are being eased out of the life of many Indiana housewives by easels. The oily gabble of the bridge table is being traded for the oil on canvas. Yesterday’s golf bunker is now a model for a first-class hill in a forest scene. And the desire of the crayon kindergarten days of women to be able to paint pictures is being given its outlet at the Escuela De Artes, Room 1,40 West Ohio street. In good American, the studio on West Ohio, is the "School of Arts,” but it is one of the few schools in the nation where a tyro, a woman who never has painted anything except her cheeks, may learn to pat oils on canvas without cost. Instruction Is Free Instruction is free under the school's head, Mrs Bertha Drake, and only the canvas and oil used is paid for by the student. Approximately sixty-five women of Indianapolis and the vicinity have sworn off card parties, sewing circles and golf tourneys to permit their artistic talents free rein. The fruit bowl of the dining room comes to life on canvas as the students are permitted to choose the subjects of the pictures they learn to paint. Mrs. Duke sketches in the scene they desire to reproduce. She instructs them in applying the oil. When the product is complete they may' have it framed and hung in their home for grandchildren to point at and say, “grandma painted that.” “Always Liked to Paint” Almost without exception the housewives who attend the school of art are answering an urge that was strong in childhood, but wiped out by the routine of living. “I always liked to paint as a girl, but I never had the time for it. Now, my children are growing up and don't need me so much, and I’ve got a chance to do what I've wanted to do.’ they say. The school is a “clubby” sort of affair. No rules. They work as long as they wish. If they’ve just got to get home to bake a cake for supper, they leave their canvas until another day. One 76-year-old woman comes from Jeffersonville to receive instructions. Off and on through life she's painted, but now in her winter years she feels the need stronger. lot Better Than Slam She has no desire of being a Gauguin, a Corot, nor does Mrs. Emmett Ralston, wife of the vicepresident of the Indianapolis Power and Light* Company, or Mrs. Charles Miller of Anderson, whose husband is with the Miller Tire and Rubber Company. Mrs. William F. Gansberg, 2468 North Meridian street, also is a member of the group. But they are painting things that will live at least in the minds and hearts of their friends and families. “And that’s a lot better than making a grand slam at bridge.” they say as they hurry from kitchen aprons or house frocks into painting smocks. MOORE PUSHES DRIVE Sets Eight Political Meetings for Next Two Weeks. Eight political meetings have been set for the next two weeks by Boynton J. Moore. Republican candidate for the mayoralty nomination, it was announced at his headquarters, 330 East Market street. Second meeting of organization leaders was held Thursday night at 19 'i East Ninth street, with Moore as the chief speaker. The meetings scheduled are: Tuesday, 2119 Martha street; Wednesday, 1355 Hiatt street; Friday, 711 Yoke street; March 5. Shiloh Baptist church. 650 North West street : March 6, at 5332 North New Jersey street: March 7, at 1956 Central avenue: March 8, at 442 North West street, and March 10 at 967 Udell street.

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Upper Left—The only touch, the flick of a brush, in the free art school where housewives are made oil painters without cost. Miss Bernice Tearney, assistant to Mrs. Bertha Duke, the teacher, is shown with poised brush. Upper Right—Miss Dorothy Youngholm, 4025 Washington boulevard. anew student, learning the proper amount of oil to squeeze on her pallette. Lower—Mrs. Duke instructing Mrs. C. L. Striker of Anderson, how to make her brushes bow to her color desire.

ASK SIOO,OOO FOR INSANITY Damages Sought for Youth, Trampled Under Hoofs of Horse. Friends of Ernest Weaver, 20, who is alleged to have become insane because he was trampled beneath the hoofs of a horse when he was 4, today sought SIOO,OOO damages for him in superior court five. In one of the most unusual complaints ever filed in this county, Andrew Weaver, guardian for Ernest, demands damages from the National Biscuit Company. A horse owned by the company is alleged to have run over Ernest while he played in front of his home, 137 Leota street, in 1916. . Permission to bring the suit was obtained from Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers, in whose court young Weaver was adjudged insane Jan. 30. Weaver suffered a crushed skull, a broken hand and other injuries when the horse escaped from a barn owned by the biscuit company, the complaint charges.

STOVE ENAMEL ‘GUNS’ PERIL WOMEN WORKERS Factory ‘Spray Jobs’ Bring Menace of Lead Poisoning. Hf/ ScriiniK-Hnward Xncspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.—Enameled stoves gracing the kitchens of American homes constitute a health menace which is proving serious to women engaged in their manufacture. the women's bureau of the United States department of labor discloses. A sraying gun has been invented to get enamel onto stoves and in many cases the enamel used contains lead. Workers engaged in spraying, particularly women workers, show' definite symptoms of lead poisoning after a short time at 4ork, the bureau found after making a study of fifty stove-enameling plants. Two remedies are suggested: First is substitution of a leadless enamel used in a few factories, which eliminates all danger to sprayers. The alternative suggestion is enactment of legislation requiring factories to protect their workers. Few states have taken any action whatever to protect workers engaged in processes where they are exposed to lead poisoning although the danger has been recognized for more than a century. SKATING AREAS BANNED Practice of Blockading Streets Is Discontinued by Police. Due to complaints from residents and school authorities, the police traffic department today discontinued the practice of blocking streets to permit protected skating for children. Captain Louis Johnson, head o£ the department, said the plan was "a mistake.” He said fights had been staged and some property damage had resulted. Eleven streets had been restricted for children. SPEAKER IS 52 TODAY House Members Rise in Observance of Crawford's Birthday. Speaker Earl Crawford of the Indiana house of representatives celebrated his fifty-second birthday today. In observance of the anniversary. house members rose on motion of Representative Edward H. Stein of Bloomfield, Democratic floor leader. Flowers sent by his family adorned the shaker s stand.

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WOMAN IS GIVEN POST Mrs. Hattie Bowers Named License Plate Head at Huntington. Mrs. Hattie Bowers, wife of a former Indiana state senator, has been appointed automobile license plate distributor at Huntington, it was announced today by Governor Paul V. McNutt. John Crosby, an appointee of Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr., was removed.

ILLINOIS MINERS’ WAR FLARES ANEW Troops Patrol Two Mines After Violence Outbreak. B it United Prcx* SPRINGFIELD. 111., Feb. 25.—National guards patrolled the Capital and Woodside mines today as violence flared again in Illinois’ mine war. Governor Henry Horner, who is in Chicago, ordered three companies of national guardsmen to the mine properties two miles from the statehouse after one miner had been wounded, four others injured and two deputy sheriffs hurt in rioting. The new outbreak came between factions of the Progressive Miners Union and the United Mine Workers. The four Peabody mines, in which men had been working this week, were closed until Monday so that the situation might quiet. Before the closing order was given, a bomb was hurled at the home cf Glad Phillips, *an employe in the Cora mine of the Peabody Company. Although a large hole was torn in the house and all the windows were broken, none was injured. Joseph Poder. Springfield, was wounded when a bullet struck his face as .it was fired by a Capital mine worker. He was in St. Joan's hospital. Others were hurt when bricks and stones were hur'ed by the two groups.

TWO ARE NAMED TO TAX REVIEW BOARD Jacob Ruennagel, Frank Brattain Chosen by Judge Cox. Selection of Jacob Buennagel. 3312 Central avenue, Occidental Savings and Loan Association secretary, and Frank D. Brattain, 753 West New York street, former Center township assessor, as member of the county board of tax review was announced today by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox. Buennagel becomes Democratic board member and Brattain Republican member. Other members of the board, which will be in session sixty days after work is completed by township assessors, are Charles A. Grossart, county auditor; Timothy P. Sexton, county treasurer, and Robert Slain, county assessor. The board reviews complaints on assessments and has power to make blanket reductions. NEW~HIGH Ts TOUCHEO Bill No. 527, Bank Collateral Measure, Is Given House. Number of new bills in the house of representatives reached 527 today. when Representative John F. Cory 'Dem., Gar, presented a measure forbidding sale, by banks, of collateral on loans until after thirty days from the date the debt becomes due, and providing notice of sale to the borrower.

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ONE IS KILLED, TWO SERIOUSLY HURTINCRASH Auto Smashes Into Tree, Overturns in West Side Tragedy. One man is dead and two are in city hospital with critical injuries as a result of an automobile accident in the 5000 block. West Tenth street Friday afternoon. James Roe, 31. of 435 North Warman avenue, died today after inf

curring a fractured skull and other injuries when the car overturned after striking a tree. His death brought the total in Marion county from

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traffic accidents to seventeen since Jan. 1. Fractured skulls also were incurred by Roy Flack, 29, living above 2625 West Michigan street, and Charles E. Edwards, 43, of 262 Bellevieu place. Slight injuries were suffered by Glenn Meloy, 38, of 604 North Tibbs avenue, a city fireman, driver of the car. and Harold Schumate, 24 of 3015 West Michigan street. Loses Control of Car Meloy told police he lost control of the car after it skidded on wet pavement. The automobile left the road and smashed into a tree. Roe and Flack were riding in the rumble seat. In an accident near Plainfield Friday afternoon, Lloyd Henning, of R. R. 16, Box 177, was injured seriously and was taken to Methodist hospital. Several bones were | broken, physicians said. .James Guy, 38, passenger in an 1 automobile driven by Clarence Waddell, 28, of 2185 North Rural street, received head and nose injuries when the car struck a utility pole after a collision with an automobile driven by Mildred White, 17, of 2252 North La Salle street, at Thirtieth and Wood streets. Two Others Injured Two passengers in the automobile of George Madden 19, of 5218 East Walnut street, were injured when the car skidded and struck a utility pole in the 1800 block. West Washington street. Madden was uninjured except for a finger cut. Wallace Quinn, 18. of 1104 North DeQuincy street, and Miss Mary McKidden, 18, of 549 North Emerson avenue, were taken to city hospital for treatment of bruises.

JUDGE DENIES REVENUE DROP Cameron Takes Issue With Figures Published by The Times. Denial that revenue in municipal courts three and four, criminal division, has dropped heavily, as result of the depression, is voiced in a letter received by The Times from Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron, room three. Cameron takes issue with figures printed in The Times Thursday, and states that the two courts collected $35,293.50 last year, instead of $26,162, as published. Room three had 9,091 cases filed last year with a total of 27,273 judgments entered, and room four had 13,097 cases filed with 39,291 judgments entered, making a total of 66,594 judgments entered in the two courts, Cameron said. He said his records show room three collected $18,742.50 in fines and forfeitures, while room four collected $16,551. Cameron also added the information that the municipal courts’ probation department collected $12,670 from probationers while costs of the department were only $9,112. There were 2,932 persons on probation at the close of 1932, with a daily average of 2,504 for the year. He said the cost of supervising probationers was 1 cent a day for each probationer. During the year 1,444 persons were received on probation, he added, and had these i been sentenced to serve forty days ! each, their imprisonment and transportation would have cost $37,544.

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Democrats to Name Head; ‘Split’ Threat Scorned

City Chiefs Plan to Elect Clauer: ‘Solid Front’ Is Goal. Despite threats that “the machinery will be wrecked,” leaders of the city Democratic party today were confident of presenting a solid organization to confront a Republican attack this fall. Reorganization of the city Democratic party was slated for 1:30 this afternoon, when 289 precinct committeemen and committee women meet at the Claypool hotel to elect a city chairman, chairwoman, secretary and treasurer. E. Kirk McKinney is retiring chairman. William E. Clauer, county treas-urer-elect, has the approval of party leaders, including the support of Mayor Reginald Sullivan, for the chairmanship. It is understood that Clauer also is acceptable to the court house faction, and that with his election to the chairmanship, many factional differences between the city hall and court house wall be ironed out. Clauer, it is agreed, will have sufficient time to devote to the organization, as he does not take office until January, 1934. He will be a candidate to succeed himself as treasurer, the following year, and it would be to his owm advantage to produce an active political machine to insure his own re-election. Others expected to be elected today include Mrs. William Owens as vice-chairmwoman; Frank McCarthy, as secretary, and Frank McKinney, employed at Peoples State bank and son of Battalion Chief William McKinney, treasurer.

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START WORK ON NEW WKBF TRANSMITTER Station to Be Switched to Single Tower in Three Weeks. Construction of anew transmitter for WKBF on the Millersville road, east of Keystone avenue, to replace the one now in use near Clermont, has been started, according to an announcement today by James Carpenter, station manager. The new transmitter will be ready for operation within three weeks, Carpinter said. It will differer from the usual transmitter, inasmuch as a single tow'er wall be used instead of two. The netv mast will be 150 feet high and will be constructed out of wood. A small artistic building, surrounded by landscaping will house the new transmitter. I. A. G. DIRECTORS RE-ELECT OFFICERS Joseph W. Stickney Remains as President. Officers of the Indianapolis Athletic Club were re-elected at a meeting of the directors Friday. They are Joseph W. Stickney, president; W. Ray Adams, first vicepresident; Robert Frost Daggett, second vice-president; Bowman Elder, treasurer, and Remster A. Bingham, secretary.

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LEGISLATION ON RAILWAY RELIEF TO BE DELAYED Bankruptcy Action to Be Limited to Individual Debtors’ Aid. BY RUTH FINNEY Timrs Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Opposition in both parties to consideration of railroad reorganization in the closing days of the session threatened today to limit bankruptcy legislation now pending to provide for relief of indivdual debtors and farmers. ' Senator D. O. Hastings, sponsor of the bankruptcy bill, has served notice that he will offer a plan for railroad reorganization different from any yet proposed, but according to present indications it will be refused consideration. The senate judiciary committee has given no attention whatever to the subject of railroad reorganization, and action on the floor under these circumstances is unprecedented. Both liberals and conservatives protested when Senator Hastings announced his intention. Blaine Denounces Bill The Hastings amendment would take from the interstate commerce commission the right to name either a trustee to take charge of railroad properties during reorganization, or p panel from which a trustee would be chosen. So far little opposition to provisions simplifying relief procedure for individuals has been evident, though Senator John J. Blaine 'Rep.. Wis.) denounced the bill as a "gesture, an unfair joke on the faimer, full of foolish, silly provisions that can not possibly bring any relief.” Senator Hastings told the senate in explaining the measure that the bill will “do nothing miraculous for debtors,” although its title has “misled people to believe it will.” Power Given to Courts As it stands the bill gives the federal courts power to approve compositions or extensions of debts both secured and unsecured, where a majority of the creditors consent. It omits a provision included in the house bill permitting a judge to grant extensions whether creditors agree or not. For farmers, it provides similar procedure except that concilation commissioners may be appointed in each county where fifteen farmers request, to help work out an agreement between creditors and debtors. The seriate agreed to a large number of technical amendments Friday, and may conclude consideration of the bill today. It must then go to conference with a committee of the house before final pasprocedure except that conciliation DOCTOR. 75. TO LAY DOWN HEALTH RULES Man Who Conquered General Breakdown at 50 to Talk Here. Health rules which have enabled Dr. Robert G. Jackson, Toronto physician, to bring himself from a semi-invalid at 50 to robust health at 75, will be described at a public lecture Monday night in Cadle tabernacle. A group of local physicians, headed by Dr. Oscar Jones, is sponsoring the lecture. Dr. Jackson is en route to California from his Canadian home. There will be no charge for the lecture, which will begin at 7:45. Dr. Jackson was suffering from a general breakdown and threatened with loss of his sight twenty-five years ago. His condition was due to overwork and the fact that he “was so busy taking care of others that he neglected himself. His lecture, “The Pathway to Permanent, Perfect Health,” has been given before audiences in various parts of the country. He is said to wear only light weight clothing tli year around, and never wears an overcoat despite the severity of Canadian winters.