Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1933 — Page 1

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BAYONETS BARED, lOWA TROOPS HUNT JUDGE ATTACKERS Arrest of 35 Suspects Ordered by Soldiers’ Chief; Martial Law Prevails on Two Fronts in State. BY W. H. MILHAEM I'nitfd Pres* Staff Correspondent LE MARS, la., April 29.—Infantrymen of the national guard paced northern lowa’s rich agricultural ground on two fronts today quelling uprisings of farmers who deserted their plows to fight against mortgage foreclosures. Machine guns were mounted on the courthouse here and 2.">0 troopers patrolled the streets enforcing martial law. Military rule also prevailed at Dennison, sixty miles south, while Colonel Glenn Haynes, in command of the militia, ordered the arrest of thirty-five men who attempted to hang Judge C. C. Bradley. Colonel Haynes, veteran of the Rainbqw division, conferred with Sheriff Ralph Rippey, and said he obtained names

of the men who jerked Judge 1 Bradley from his bench in Plymouth circuit court, placed a noose about his neck, and spared his life only after he knelt in a roadside and prayed. Then the military authorities struck their first retaliatory blow against the rebelling lowa farmers toda.y by arresting John Kounkel, accused of participation in the attempted hanging. Detachments of national guardsmen, sent to five farms, found only Kounkel at home at 8 a. m. The others will be arrested if they can be found. Colonel Haynes said. Throughout the night, militiamen with fixed bayonets patrolled the streets in this city of 5,000. An air of civil war prevailed as hundreds of belligerent farmers, in whose hearts revolt against mortgages and declining milk and grain prices has smoldered more than a year, massed at the nearby farm of William Durband, whose land is listed to be sold under foreclosure. Farmers Attack Deputies They openly defied the troopers, but dared not attack them. A detachment of militiamen was rushed to Dennison late Friday after fifty special deputy sheriffs were repulsed by 200 angry farmers at a foreclosure sale. Six deputies were cut and bruised ns the farmers swing their fists freely and preceded their onslaught with a barrage of sticks and stones. The battle followed an attempt to sell the farm of J. F. Fields. A checkup of hospitals showed that more than a score of farmers were hurt and nearly as many deputies were treated for bruises in fights here and at Dennison. Brick Hurled Into Home General Matthew A. Tinley led a command of troopers from Council Bluffs to Dennison. H. R. Schultz, farm lian appraiser for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, disclosed Friday night that an attack had been made on his home. A brick was hurled through a window, barely missing a divan on which ho sleeps. Schultz was in Omaha. Neb., when the attack occurred. A note attached to the brick read: “If the Durband brothers are forced to leave their farm, you and Becker will be shot on sight.” Side With Authorities Schultz is co-administrator of the Cart Becker farm, on which the Durbands reside. The brothers had been ordered to leave, but have refused. While tension and unrest prevaded the farm communities surrounding Le Mars, citizens of towns settled down to the comparative peace nnd quiet which martial law brought after ten months of threatening violence. Most of the city's residents were inclined to side with authorities in opposition to revolting farmers. A resolution pledging assistance to Colonel Haynes and Governor Clyde L. Herring was issued by the chamber of commerce. It was signed bv George V. Pew, president, and H. H. Cannon, secretary. Branded as Agitators The statement urged “all good citizens of Plymouth county to join with the troops in their efforts to restore orderly government which has been broken down by a small group of men who by threats and intimidation have attempted to take into their hands by force the authority delegated to regularly elected officials. “We emphatically condemn the cowardly attack upon Judge Bradley as a disgrace to this county and demand the speedy prosecution of Its perpetrators by the proper authorities.” Chamber of Commerce officials were emphatic in their belief that the farm si rife is caused by a small group of agitators, not representative of lowa farmers. Judge Remains in Home Judge Bradley. 54. tall, dignified dean of northern lowa jurists, remained in the seclusion of his home. He refused interviews and photographs. “It's a mighty poor way to treat a judge,” was his only comment on the attack which nearly cost him his life. Judge Bradley has presided in Plymouth district court for fifteen years. He is unmarried, has gaunt, deep set eyes, and is determined and conscientious.

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 303

PLEDGE REPAIRS T 0 1,000 HOMES More Than $1,331,000 Will Be Spent in City’s Modernizing Drive. Property owners have signed pledges to repair and remodel 1,000 homes in city-wide modernization campaign, drive leaders announced today. This was shown by a tabulation of cards on which pledges totaling $1,331,206 have been reported. This amount is 53.2 per cent of the $2,500,000 goal. The campaign will continue through May 5. Workers reported majority of home-owners wall make repairs immediately to take advantage of low material and labor prices. Cards indicate new' porches, garages, general repairs, painting, plumbing and landscaping are included in home-owners’ programs. In addition, thousands of dollars’ worth of repairs have been pledged on factories, business places, offices and apartment buildings, campaign leaders said. Several hundred tradesmen already have received jobs as a result of the campaignft they stated. New' pledges reported to campaign headquarters. Chamber of Commerce building, Friday, totaled $225,223. HEARING ON WATER RATES OPENS MONDAY Attorneys for Company Will Attack Rate Schedule in Federal Court. Rate schedule on which Indianapolis consumers have been paying water bills since Jan. 1 will be attacked in federal court Monday by attorneys for the Indianapolis Water Company. Albert Ward, former United States attorney, will sit as special master in the case. An injunction is sought by the water company to prevent enforcement of the public service commission’s rate schedule, which based the company property valuation at $22,500,000. The schedule increased the minimum charge to water consumers from SI.OB to $1.25 a month. Water company attorneys will contend for a higher valuation. Before the public service commission, city attorneys argued the valuation for rate purposes should be as low as $19,000,000. POSTAL CLERKS FAVOR RETIREMENT MEASURE 30-Y’ear Compulsory IMan, Now Before Congress, Given Approval. Resolution favoring the thirtyyear compulsory retirement bill now r in congress, has been adopted by Indianapolis local 130, National Federation of Postoffice Clerks, it was announced by Secretary' Edward Grimes. The local also favored increasing the employes’ contributions to the retirement fund rather than reducing annuities. A statement issued by the local pointed out that, contrary to public opinion, retirement annuities are not paid by the government, but by a fund created by a 3’- per cent deduction from employes' salaries. The statement set out that the thirty-year retirement rule would aid the employment situation, but would place younger men on the pension lists, requiring a heavier assessment or reduced annuities because of their longer life span after retirement. Today’s Short Story If you have vacant property, be sure and have it listed in The Times Rental Guide, published twice each month on the first and fifteenth. Hundreds have found Times Want Ads the most economical means of renting their vacant property. The cost is only 3 cents a word, the lowest want ad rate of any Indianapolis newspaper. IF YOU ARE MOVING, Get your copy of The Times May 1 Rental Guide FREE at Want Ad Headquarters, 214 W. Maryland St., or at any HAAG Drug Store, (23 convenient locations).

WIFE STABBED TO DEATH IN ALIMONY ROW Chemist, Purdue Graduate, Inflicts Fatal Wounds With Pocket Knife. ‘SAW RED/ SAYS KILLER Three Transfusions Futile; Slayer Sits in Car to Await Arrest. Two years of domestic discord came to a tragic end Friday night, when Dallas H. Dice, 32, Purdue graduate chemist, fatally stabbed his estranged wife, Berniece’ L. Dice, 27, after a w r rangle over support money at their home, 1923 North Harding street. Then while his wife lay dying in city hospital, futilely undergoing three blood transfusions, Dice clamly narrated to detectives Morris Corbin, Stewart Coleman and Fay Davis the events leading up to a divorce suit filed by the wife in circuit court in January. Dice, who had been residing with his mother at 1704 East Tenth street, had gone to the North Harding street home to discuss alimony payments with his wife and to pay her S2O obtained as rent tor a house they owned jointly. Stabbed With Pocket Knife Dice, in his statement to detectives, said his wife first refused to leave. Then she demanded it, he said, and he, in turn, refused, saying he would give it to his mother. “If you do, I'll get a court order to get it from your mother,” Dice quoted his wife as saying. “I saw ‘red’ and got my pocket knife out and stabbed her,” Dice’s confession continued. With several arteries in her neck severed, Mrs. Dice ran into a yard next door and was picked up by her sister, Miss Helen Anderson, of 1527 Pruitt street, who had been a witness. Rushed to Hospital Dr. Charles Walker, city hospital interne, was passing in his car and he and Miss Anderson took Mrs. Dice to the hospital. Walker applying thumb pressure to the wounds in an effort to stem the flow of blood. Dice seated himself on the runnuing board of his car and waited until he was arrested by Sergeant Roscoe Wilkerson and Patrolman Otto Burke. At city hospital, blood futilely was given for three transfusions by Miss Anderson; another sister, Mrs. Jonas Frye, 1527 Pruitt street, and a neighbor, Mrs. Martha Shaw, 1916 Koehne street. Mrs. Dice died at 11:30. The Dice romance began more than eleven years ago in Lafayette, wen Dice was a student at Purdue and Mrs. Dice was attending West Lafayette high school. Married in 1922 They were married in 1922, when Dice was graduated, and came to Indianapolis in 1925, when he obtained a position with an Indianapolis laboratory as an analytical chemist. Dice, in his statement to detectives. said his salary was $230 a month and that he had been paying $65 a month on court order for the support of his wife and their 6-year-old daughter, Phyllis Anne. Today, Phyllis Anne is at the home of one of her uncles, unaware that her mother is dead and that her father is in city prison facing murder charges. Her only concern was attention to her demand: ‘‘Read me the funnies.” Her aunts are postponing the moment when they must tell her that her mother is dead. The Dices had separated several times during the last six years, but Dice told detectives their married life before that had been one of contentment. Divorce Action by Wife The divorce action filed by Mrs. Dice, still pending, charges Dice often beat her and, on one occasion, threw knives at her. Action on the divorce decree had been held up by an effort to arrive at a property settlement. Saul Rabb, Mrs. Dice's attorney, said today. Mrs. Dice is survived by her father. Guy Anderson, Lafayette; four sisters. Miss Helen Anderson, Miss Ruth Anderson, Mrs. Jonas Frye and Mrs. Merijamin Frye, all of Indianapolis: and three brothers, Guy Jr.. Glenn and Dale Anderson, Lafayette. Her mother died six years ago Local funeral arrangements have not been made, services and burial will be in Lafayette. HOGS RULE STEADY AS WEEK CLOSES AT YARDS Cattle Nominally Unchanged; Vealers Move Up 50 Cents. Hog prices ruled steady as the week closed at the Union Stockyards. The bulk. 160 to 300 pounds, sold for $3.80 to $3.85. with an early top of $3.90. Weights of 300 pounds up made the market at $3.70 to $3.75; 120 to 160 pounds. $3.40 to $3.70. Receipts were estimated at 3.000. Holdovers were 166. Cattle were nominally steady on receipts of 100. Vealers were 50 cents higher, selling at $5.50 down. Calf receipts were 150. No test of the market was made in sheep. Bulk of shippers sold late Friday at $5.50. Spring lambs brought from $9 down. Receipts today were 100.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1933

SENATE PASSES INFLATION BILL; HOUSE WILL SPEED ENACTMENT

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With four thousand veterans already reported in Washington as an advanced guard of 500,000, the Capital faces a new' threat of a cash bonus army. Above is a deelgation of ex-soldiers as they presented their demands to congressmen. At the right is Harold Foulkrod, legislative representative of the 1932 B. E. F. In an interview with Louis McHenry Howe, White House secretary, he promised to withhold for two weeks a call for anew march on Washington.

TRIAL TANGLED BY CONFESSION Ex-Copper Admits Perjury in Scanlan Case, Prosecutor Says; Jury Out. James C. Scanlan, president of the 4 C. Scanlan Auto Company, today was convicted of grand larceny in a sealed verdict returned today by a jury in criminal court. The verdict was reached at 8 p. m. Friday night. Conviction carries a mandatory penalty of 2 to 14 years in the state prison. Purported confession of perjury by the chief defense witness, while a deadlocked jury was voting 11 to 1 for conviction, is a complication to be settled in criminal court today in the trial of James C. Scanlan, automobile dealer charged with conspiracy. Melvin Lee Hindman, former policeman, and also under conspiracy indictment, is said to have confessed in a. written statement late Friday night, that his testimony regarding purchase of a car from Scanlan was false. The defense case, presented by Thomas McGee and Fred Barrett, attorneys, was built around Hindman's testimony, to refute the state charge that Scanlan discounted fictitious contracts to finance companies. Hindman has been in jail since his bond was raised from SI,OOO to $7,500 by Special Judge Clyde Karrer Thursday. Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson is said to have obtained Hindman's confession that he "never bought an automobile from Scanlan, but signed a lot of false contracts.” AIRPLANE PARTS STOLEN Property Worth S4OO Is Taken From T. F. Holliday Warehouse. Airplane parts and parts of Liberty motors, valued at S4OO were stolen Friday night from the F. T. Holliday warehouse, 500 West Fourteenth street, according to a report to police. Loot obtained by a burglar from the office of the Jewish Educational Association. 749 Union street, included $9 in cash and checks for $26. according to a report to police by the manager. Meyer Gallin. New York Stocks Opening (By Abbott, Hoppin & Cos.) —April 29 Am Can 76 John Mansville 25 1 i Allied Chem.,. 89 1 2 Kroger 28 Air Red 64>,Lig & Mvers B 78'i Atchison 48V Monty Ward.. 19 3 , Anaconda 12 NY Central ... 23 s , Am For Pwr ... 9‘,S Amer 23 3 , Am Tel & Tel. 96'e Natl Cash Reg. 12 s , Auburn 45 ! . Penn R R 20 Byers AM 16‘s Packard 2 7 Case J I 54Ti Radio 6 Cities Serv ... 2% Cons Oil 7Tb Du Pont 49 ! 2 St Oil of N J.. 34 Fox Film A.... 17,I 7 , Texas Corp 15'i Gen Foods .... 31‘,U S Steel 44 7 , Gallette 11 s , United Corp ... 7' 2 Gen Motors ... 19 5 s Un Aircraft ... 26>a Gen Elec 18 Un Carbide 32 Goodyear 26 7 * Vanadium 16 5 % Gold Dust 13's Westinghouse ..33 7 , Gen Am Trans 22 s , Woolworth .... 34 3 < Int Nickle 13 5 , Western Un ... 34 Int Harv 29 3 , Times Index Books , 11 Classified •.... 9-10 Comics 11 Crossword Puzzle 8 Curious World 8 Dietz on Science 9 Editorial 4 Financial 8 Heywood Broun 4 Hickman Theater Reviews 6 Industrial 2 Radio 9 Serial Story 11 Sports 12 Taiburt Cartoon 4 Woman's Page 5

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MOTORISTS WARNED ON TRAFFIC OSTRICHES Pedestrians With Heads Buried in Umbrellas Are Held Menace. By United Press HARRISBURG, April 29.—Spring showers bring ‘‘traffic ostriches,” declares Walter M. Matthews, chief of the safety division, Pennsylvania department of revenue. ‘‘Traffic ostriches,” Matthews explains, "are pedestrians with heads buried in umbrellas and view blocked who calmly make their way through traffic possessed of a strong faith in the motor driver and his brakes. Such pedestrians are accident hazards on the sidewalk as well as on the street,” Matthews says. CONFESSION CLAIMED IN KNIFE MURDER Lebanon Man Claims He Killed in Self Defense. Charged with the knife murder of Guy Giberson, 36, rear of 906 Dale street, George Sinen, 40, Lebanon, Ind., is held in city prison today. Detectives announce Sines has confessed slaying Giberson with a knife, and has asserted he acted in self-defense. Giberson advanced upon him with a beer bottle Wednesday during an argument over payment for liquor at the Giberson home, the prisoner declares. According to Lebanon authorities, Sines was released only a week ago from the state penal far mwhere he served a sixty-day term for drunken driving. trialTdate to be set Select Judge fo r Mellett’s Suit to Regain Anderson Mayor Office. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., April 29.—Date for trial of the quo warranto suit filed by J. H. Mellett in an effort to regain the Anderson mayor's office, will be set next week. Judge John Craig, Decatur circuit court, has been selected as special judge, replacing Judge Charles E. Smith, who disqualified himself. Mellett seeks to oust Harry R. Baldwin as mayor. ASKS $20,000 DAMAGES Woman Charges Permanent Injuries in Automobile Accident. Charging she was injured permanently in an automobile accident Feb. 11, Anna Brady, 717 Chadwick street, Center township poor relief investigator, today sought $20,000 damages in superior court three. She filed suit for this amount Friday against the Gem Coal Company, the Blue Diamond Coal Company and Benjamin F. Danfordt, driver of a truck. The complaint alleges Mrs. Brady was struck near Roosevelt and Commerce avenues. Hit by Golf Ball; Sues By United Press EL PASO. Tex., April 29 —Charging that Leon Rosenfield Jr., failed to yell “fore” before making a drive, Rebecca Kyriacopulos, struck by the golf ball Rosenfield hit, has filed suit for $10,244 damages. Her left eye was permanently injured, she claimed. Chicago Stocks Opening ißv Abbott. HoDDtn & Cos. I —Abril 29 Ben.dix Avia... 124 Houd Hersh 8.. 2'a Bore Warner... 11 Lib McNeil Prod 3* Cities Serv ... 2 3 Prima Beuer... 17 Cord Coro .... 9h Quaker Oats ...ino'a Cont Chi com., 2 Swift &Cos ... 15 3 Cont Chi 01d... 18*2 Swift Inti 22 L 2 Comm Edison.. 57 Walgreen Stores 14

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TROLLEY CARS ARE REROUTED Convenience for Patrons Effected; Change Will Be Made Sunday. Rerouting of Illinois-Shelby, Prospect and Minnesota dow r ntown street car lines, at request of patrons, was announced today by J. P. Tretton, general manager of Indianapolis Railways, Inc. The changes are effective Sunday. New routes have been chosen to make it more convenient for patrons to reach downtowm stores. The new routes follow: Illinois - Shelby Northw est on Virginia to Maryland, west ort Maryland to Illinois, then north on Illinois. Southbound and IllinoisUnion depot cars will not change routes. Prospect—Northwest on Virginia to Maryland, west on Maryland to Meridian, north to Washington, east on Washington to Virginia, then southeast on Virginia. Minnesota—Northwest on Virginia to South, w'est on South to Illinois, north on Illinois, east on Washington, south on Meridian, west on Georgia, south on Illinois, east on South, and southeast on Virginia. Free transfers will be issued to passengers wishing to transfer between Illinois cars to Fairground, Butler, Mapleton, Shelby and union depot cars. Transfers will be honored at Maryland and Illinois streets and at Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: South wind, 12 miles an hour; temperature, 70; barometric pressure, 29.94 at sea level; general conditions, high broken clouds, lower scattered; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 10 miles.

CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., April 29.—The opening of the track today no doubt will bring long shots to the front. The best looking proposition on the program is Shepard Boy in the fifth if the track stays hard. Colonel Hatfield would be tough on a soft track.

Am looking for Osculator to step out and show some heels in the big race of the day. Waylayer, from the west coast, and Sazarac will be tough eggs to beat. A good thing is whispered in the second. Chief Pilot is reported around the barns as fit and ready. Chene looks like he could win all the way in the last and Jolly Pilot doesn't look like any slouch in the sixth. Over at Havre there are going to be plenty of tight fits before the day is over. Broadway Lights was hot the other day and looks like the good thing on the card. Con Amore looks like he could take the fast Character into camp in the third. At Churchill Downs—1. Back Log. Rusty. Cayuga. 2. Chief Pilot, Angon Bridge, Howard. 3. Dr. Freeland, Peggy Lehman, North Mill. 4. Full Tilt. Mr. Jpmes, Rego. 5. Shepherd Boy, Colonel Hatfield, Strideaway. 6. Osculator, Waylayer, Sazarac. 7. Jolly Pilot, Votan. White Legs. 8. Chene, Ogigia, Wirt G. Bowman. Best—Shepherd Boy.

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Unprecedented Measure Gives Powers to President Unmatched in Modern Legislative History. FARM RELIEF IS PROVIDED Administration Also May Act to Boost Commodity Prices, Control Yields of Agriculture, Cut Debts. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 29.—Early final enactment was assured today for the omnibus inflation-farm relief bill in which the senate has voted, 64 to 20, President Roosevelt powers unmatched in modern legislative history. The unprecedented measure empowering the administration to inflate the currency, raise commodity prices, control agricultural production, and reduce farm debts now goes to the house. Senate approval was given Friday night by a three-to-one majority.

On the Spot! The bangtails are off today at the Churchill Downs track and from now until Derby day Times racing fans will be watching them with especial interest. Adding to the race news service which The Times has been featuring. O. Revilla, who has been picking ’em for galloper fans in the Capital edition and writing a column on the sport page, has gone to Louisville to dish up all the news and gossip at the Kentucky track. His selections, hot off the pan, will appear every day on Page 1 of the Capital edition and his news from the track on the sport page.

64 TO PLEAD IN 0. S. COURT TODAY Two Postal Employes Are Included in List. Two post office employes and two alleged mail robbers will be among the sixty-two defendants arraigned before Judge Robert C. Baltzell in federal court today. Vira E. Beeman, postal carrier at a north Indianapolis station, is charged with having taken a letter addressed to a religious magazine and mailed from Crothersville. The letter, containing money, is said to have been “planted” by postal inspectors investigating mail thefts. Robert A. McGinty, postmaster at Bridgeton, Parke county, is charged writh embezzlement of S3OO in government money. Herman Brandenberg and Walter Schraner are charged with robbing postoffices in Doolittle Mills, Perry county, and Beechwood, Crawford county. A total of $116.64 was taken in the two robberies. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert T. Young, former disbursing officer of the Indiana national guard, charged with embezzlement, and Marion B. Rutherford, charged with forging veterans’ compensation checks, are among the other defendants. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a. m 58 Ba. m 68 7a. m 60 9a. m 70 10 a. m 74

RACE TRACK Selections BY O. REVILLA 4 1

At Havre De Grace—1. Race Street, Dessner, Mixed Party. 2. Vishnu, Fiddler, Contribute. 3. Con Amore, Character, Miscrophone. 4. Labrot Entry, Stepinfetchit, Jimmy Sutro. 5. Projectile, Mr. Khayyam, Coe Entry. 6. Broadway Lights, Royal Ruffian, Eva B. 7. Kneehigh, Modem Times, Potentate. Best—Broadway L’ghta.

More Service! Starting Monday. May 1, the Capitol edition of The Times will carry the complete new list of New Y’ork Stock Exchange quotations The market will be given at 11 a. m., eastern daylight savings time. Most subscribers to The Times home edition will receive the complete closing list of the exchange, made possbile by the new time schedule in effect in New York and other market centers.

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

The farm crop mortage sections of the measure already have passed the house as sepal ate bills. Leaders promised swift action on the composite bill with the new inflation section added by the senate. House and senate will reconvene Monday after a week-end recess begun Friday night. Os the three sections of this extraordinary bill, two merely are permissive-tarm relief and inflation. The other section for scaling down and refinancing farm mortgages is mandatory. The extent of discretionary authonty given President f!? d n A B n culture Secretary Henry Wallace almost is unlimited in its citizens 31 effeCtS upon their fellow Help Given to Farmers Wallace is empowered to give farmers a pre-war return on the crops through a system of bounties and rents. These would be paid in exchange for acreage reduction to eliminate surplus production and drive prices upward. Money for the bounties would be raised through taxes levied on processors of foods—taxes to be paid in the end by housewives buying groceries at the corner store. A $2,000,000,000 federal land bank bond issue is authorized for refinancing of farm mortgages at a reduced scale and on a long-term basis. Senator Elmer Thomas (Dem Okla.), sponsor of the inflation section, believes it will transfer $200,000,000,000 of purcnasing power from those who have to those who have not. T 1 \t statement on the senate floor shocked conservative opponents of inflation. Internationally Significant , The inflation section also has tremendous international significance. It offers a potential 30 per cent debt reduction on current and defaulted installments. Another section authorizes the President to revalue the gold dollar within a 50 per cent range. Remnants of the Republican old guard bugled themselves into battle against inflation. Their opposition proved feeble. A series of tests produced as many smashing administration victories. A senate overwhelmingly inflationist for months had found an opportunity to follow a leader, who would take responsibility for currency expansion. Warning that President Roosevelt would not pay veterans’ adjusted compensation, even if authority were written into the bill punctured a bonus boom which threatened for a time to succeed. Amendments Are Numerous Amendments showered on the bill as the voting hour approached but Vice President Gamer put them to a vote and the senate sent them to the waste basket as rapidly as they could be offered. A few minutes after 6 p. m., the senate voted 64 to 21 to empower the president to inflate. Within an hour the omnibus bill —farm relief, currency inflation, mortgage reduction —finally was ap* proved by a vote of 64 to 20 and the senate called it a week to meet again Monday for consideration of the Roosevelt program for government operation of Muscle Shoals and development of the Tenr>6see valley. Consideration of the inflation bill was costly to the administration in one respect. Senator Carter Glass (Dem., Va.), Mr. Roosevelt's first choice for secretary of the treasury, broke openly, bitterly and perhaps finally with the President. On the inflation roll call, only two other democrats, Bailey and Bulkley, joined Glass in opposition. Republicans agains t were Austin, Barbour, Carey, Dale. Fess, Goldsborough, Hale. Hatfield Hebert, Kean, Keyes. McNary, Metcalf Patterson. Reed Schall, Vandenberg and Walcott. The lineup on final passage of the bill was the same, except that Clark joined the Democrats voting ‘‘no’’ and among the Republicans, MsNary and Schall switched to •'yes.”