Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1933 — Page 3

APRIL 11, 1033.

9-POINT PLAN TO BE POSHED BY ROOSEVELT Program for Remainder of Congress Session Is Outlined by Byrns. RV RA TH FINNEY Timr* Special W riter WASHINGTON. April 11 President Roosevelt's program for the rest of the sesison of congress, as outlined by Joseph Byrns. Democratic house floor leader, is being scrutinized with particualr interest by members of congress alarmed at the deflationary nature of measures so far sponsored by the administration. The program contains nine measures. according to Byrns: Farm mortgage relief, securities regulation, the Wagner-La Follette-Costi-gan relief bill, banking bills, railroad legislation, Muscle Shoals, gasoline tax, tariff legislation ‘preparatory to reciprccal trade agreements) and a public works bill. The Black thirtly-hour week bill was omitted. While mortgage relief for home owners is not specifically mentioned, it presumably is included, since the President has indicated his desire for it. Rig Program Needed “We will, of course, have to know more about the measures proposed under these headings before we can judge their effort.'' Senator Robert M. La Follette ' Rep., Wis.t, said today. “In general, everything depends on how big the program to put people bark to work is going to be. The deflationary character of the program so far has been so great that; the rest of the program must go j farther in the other direction than! would be necessary if it had not been j enacted.” Public works and Muscle Shoals j proposals are the only two of the nine on Byrns’ list that promise to put men back at w'ork directly, and so far there has been no assurance that the contemplated public works program will be large enough to accomplish real results in reviving industry. Senator La Follette and other prominent liberals, some in the President's own party, see little hope that the farm bill will do much to restore purchasing power unless the ability of the city dweller to buy farm products at higher prices first is increased. Thousands to Lose Jobs Meanwhile, they point, out, thousands of workers are going to be cut off the government pay roll in reorganization of the government departments, the emergency banking act has tied up from six billion dollars or more in closed banks and reduced purchasing power by that much, the economy bill has cut the income of veterans and others between five and six hundred million dollars, proposed banking legislation may carry this process still further, depending on its final provisions for state banks, and railroad legislation under consideration may mean dismissal of large numbers of employes. Significance was attached to the omission of the thirty-hour week bill in the Byrns program. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins is discussing the matter today with members of the house labor committee, but so far the administration has given no indication that it will accept the . Black-Connery bill. Vote in Senate Today Fate of the measure probably will be determined by a vote scheduled to take place in the senate today, ■when Senator Park Trammell' < Drm., Fla.i will move to recon- ! sidcr the vote by which the bill was passed in the senate. The house committee will lay before Secretary Perkins today a proposal that the house bill containing this clause, together with some of the amendments adopted in the senate, be indorsed by the administration. The committee is notin favor of exempting newspapers from the short week, but would make exceptions for the handling of seasonal and perishable products. TWO DRIVERS HURtJn NORTH SIDE COLLISION Two Others, One a Pedestrian. Injured in Auto Mishaps. Tw o men incurred slight injuries j Monday when automobiles they were , driving collided at Thirty-eighth street and Carrollton avenue, and one of the cars turned over. Philip L. Davis. 12, ol 2245 Bellefontaitie street, incurred cuts and Clint D. Hardy, 58. of 6111 Crittendrn avenue, whose car was overturned, suffered an injury of the’ left arm. Injury of a knee was incurred by Robert Baines, 62. of 1542 North Senate avenue, when he was struck while walking at Illinois and Market streets by an automobile driven by David Bramlett, 35. of 2230 Ashland avenue, a city fireman. Raymon F. Abel. Chicago, was treated at city hospital for a severe cut on an arm incurred in an automobile accident near Flackville. CHORUS TO GO ON AIR Nurses to Sing; Over WFBM Tonight; Mrs. Burroughs Director. Fifty members of the girls' chorus' of the Methodist Hospital School for Nurses will sing over station WFBM from 9:15 to 9:30 tonight, under the direction of Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs The accompanist will be , Miss Helene Harrison. The chorus will present •The Star." 'Faith, Hope and Love." "Finlandia' and “Cedcho Flaekian."

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TWO NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH IN CROSSING CRASH

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Wreckage of a truck which struck a train today at the Morris street crossing of the Indianapolis-Vincennes division of the Pennsylvania railroad. Two men riding in the truck escaped with only slight injuries.

Two men were injured slightly today when a large truck crashed into the side of a gas-clectric passenger train on the Indianapolis-Vin-cennes line of the Pennsylvania railroad. The crash occurred at the Morris street crossing of the railroad, one-half mile west of Tibbs avenue.

RADIO TRAPS BOOZE SHIP

Code Is Deciphered; ‘Rummies Snared

Wirelqs* sivex thf coast guard invaluable information about the mysterious errands of the low. gray boats that hover off American shores, waiting so land their cargoes of liquor. The important role (hat radio nlavs in Running in the Rum Runners" is told in the following article, the fourth of six written for The Times. BY MORRIS GILBERT NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, April 11.— The Elsie K was hovering, a smudgy gray pencil-stroke on the immense blue circle of waters west of Bermuda. She had 2.000odd cases of Scotch aboard. Coast guard headquarters in Washington knew' all about her. Knew what rum syndicate, operating out of Newark, owned her. Knew that a

week earlier she had been trying to make contact with an American coastwise collier to unload her cargo. i That's a new dodge of the rum-run-ners, they say

here, and is increasingly fashionable.) Coast guard headquarters knew that the Elsie K had failed—and why. The reason being that radio instructions to the rummy had been intercepted and the cutter Acushment dispatched to picket her and thus prevent the transfer of contraband. Coast Guard headquarters knew that the same plan was to be tried again at a different rendezvous. A hundred sheets of code and cipher messages stack up fresh each day at coast guard intelligence here. In it the “fist of the Elsie K's radio operator was in frequent evidence. a a u FINALLY camp the order to contact a collier—name ungiven—at a position six miles east of—undecipherable —lightship at 6:30 p. m. The unnamed lightship probably was one of those off Delaware bay. coast guard intelligence figured. It was easy to shoot out a seaplane to take a look-see. But it was tough when the seaplane reported three colliers in the suspected area. They were the Moka Headland, the Percy Congreve, and another, identity undiscovered. The familiar “fist" ripped the ether that night: “Collier has 2.010 cases. Later, anew message, eventually the tip-off: “Man fell overboard from us and drowned. Man belonged to collier. We stopped and searched for him. Found and picked up his life buoy that collier threw over. Didn't find man.” But did the man "fall” overboard? The coast guard would like to know. He was last from “us”—the Elsie K—not from the collier where he “belonged." Note, too. that the Elsie V obligingly retrieved the life buoy of the collier, if not the man, who thus sank without trace. The coast guard bad a valuable clew, of course. The crew ol the collier carrying the liquor should be one man short. Meanwhile, the third collier seen by the seaplane was exonerated. Too far away. That left the Moka Headland and the Percy Congreve, both then pushing their blunt bows up the latitudes toward New York harbor. tt tt tt MUCH astonishment—if not pleasure reigned aboard these two vessels at the size of the official reception committee waiting for them at the Narrows. Setback for the coast guard: The crews of both ships were found, at first inspection, to be complete. That is. a count of heads agreed with the numbers listed in their papers. Next setback: The crews of both colliers presently were found to be actually one man short each. The skipper of the Moka Headland explained his ease by saying

Those injured are two brothers, Vernon McGregor, 25, who suffered a bump on the head and James McGregor, 23, who suffered an ear laceration. Both are from Cleveland. Vernon McGregor, who was driving, said air brakes of the truck failed to operate.

that a sailor failed to report on board at Newport News, but that a stowaway had turned up at sea. The stowaway turned out to be a real one—and that made it bad for Moka Headland, with one hand short. However, the Congreve had the liquor, as a search eventually proved. The sailor lost overboard from her had been replaced by a supercargo off the Elsie K. But the interesting thing about the whole case was the reaction of the Newark liquor ring to the capture. This also was gleaned by the coast guard through intercepted radio messages to the Elsie K. The liquor ring blamed the drowned seaman for the discovery and radioed: “Big row over that drowned man. Did you hear collier radio that news? Only that way, the land station figured, could the' force of officials which met the Congreve at New York be accounted for. Perhaps this disclosure of the radio interceptions will interest them. tt tt tt T'HE practice of picking up radio is the coast guard's supreme tipster, and the vastly important business of unraveling the numerous and complicated codes is in charge of a quiet, charming woman of 33, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Friedman, whose offices are in the intelligence division in Washington. She is one of the few r Americans who understand the art of crytography, having been a pioneer in this field in war-time. She entered government service at the age of 17, already an expert in the most fascinating of all puzzle-games through an interest in the cipher-writing of Sir Francis Bacon. Secret communications to and from rum runners on every coast bordering the United States pass through her hands daily. Not all the messages are strictly business. A short time ago, for instance, she “listened in” on a very human tragedy. It was this message to a notorious rum-running skipper in the Mexican Gulf: “Wife in hospital twins born." A day later came another: “Wife critically ill.” Then: “Wife died." Then: “Twins died." Then back to business. Another exchange between shore and rum-ship, cheerier: “Report to second mate baby girl born. Both doing well.” Answer from ship: “Must be some mistake. Second mate has no wife.” tt tt tt HERE, a plaintive picture of life in gale time in the North Atlantic: “Gee it's cold here. Fed up and far from home. We cut boom up today for kindling to try to keep warm. Everybody fed up and fighting mad. Well I will call you at midnight.” Perhaps the most entertaining of all recent messages—this between Pacific coast headquarters

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The truck was damaged badly and the locomotive, which was disabled, was stopped one-half mile from the crossing. The train carried ten passengers. W. G. Seibert, Cumberland, Ind., was the engineer, and H. E. Joslin, 34 j Ridgeview drive, was the conductor, j

for a liquor syndicate and a big mother ship for rum runners. From headquarters: “Bad report received of conduct of officers and crew r in port. Confirm report also give report of conduct now. Answer from the rum ship's captain: “Your information appears exaggerated. Had some cases drunkenness a?, is usual in foreign ports. Conduct at sea excellent. Held divine services last Sunday.” Next: An adventuge of the Customs Escadrille. SAFECRACKERS’ AUTO IS FOUND ABANDONED Machine, Containing Shotgun and Pistol, Left on City Street. Safeblowing equipment, a sawed- ! off shotgun, and an automatic pistol with a quantity of ammunition were found Monday night by police in an automobile with a Michigan license plate abandoned in the 1200 block, Broadway. Police had been searching for the car since they were notified by Sheriff Frank Hattery of Noblesville, that he had chased a gang believed to be safecrackers and lost their trail near Indianapolis city limits. The car first was abandoned near Cicero Friday, but w f as sneaked away by the gang when Hattery iaid a trap to arrest them. CHILDREN’S BOWELS NEED WATCHING! Let Dr. Caldwell help whenever your child is feverish or upset; or has caught cold. His simple prescription wall make that bilious, headachy, cross boy or j girl comfortable, happy, well in just j a few hours. It soon restores the ! bowels to healthy regularity. It 1 helps “break-up" a cold by keeping | the bowels free from sickening mu- I cus waste. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is j ideal for children. They like its syrupy taste. It does not gripe; never weakens them. It is safe even for a tiny baby. You have a famous doctor’s word for this laxative. Dr. Caldwell's rec- j ord of having attended over 3,500 births without loss of one mother or baby is believed unique in American | medical history. Get a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s, Syrup Pepsin from your drug store and have it ready. Then you won’tj have to worry when any member of' your family is headachy, bilious, ’ gassy or constipated. Syrup Pepsin is good for all ages. It acts quickly; doesn't sicken. It sweetens the bowels; increases appetite—makes digestion more complete.—Advertisement.

NO AMOS?_TAKE THAT! Hubby Choked Her Because He Missed Radio Program. Suit Claims. OKLAHOMA CITY. April 11.— Because she caused her husband, whom she now is suing for divorce, to miss an Amos and Andy program, he choked her into uncon-

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AUTO PIONEER IS DEAD William E. Metzger. Cadillac Cos. Organizer, Taken at Detroit. By l nited I‘ri DETROIT. April 11.—William E. • Metzger. 65, one of the organizers rs the Cadillac Motor Car Company, and the man who staged the first

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Detroit automobile show in 1900. died at his home here today after a lengthy illness. Tublish New Tax Rules Regulations regarding the new sales and gross income tax law will be published in pamphlet form and distributed by the -tate before the law goes into effect May 1.