Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1933 — Page 5

JUNE 28, 1933

LENGTHY HOURS NO TROUBLE TO INDUSTRY CHIEF General Johnson, Immersed in Duties, Neglects Appearance. Thla la another of the serle* on personalities of the men adminlaterinr the Roosevelt recovery plan. BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Frees Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 28-Briga-dier-General Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of President Roosevelt’s industrial control board, l s a soldier, an attorney and a manufacturer of plows. So busy has he been all his life that he never has had time to worry

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about his personal appearance. He gets to work usually at 7:30 a. m. Asa consequence, his neckties look worse than ClarDa r r ow's. He came out of the White House one midnight with a button of his shirt unfastened. Black eyebrows jut from his forehead. There is hair on the

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back of his hands. His mouth is grim, his face is lined and his voice is gruff. His job is one of the biggest any man in the administration of Mr. Roosevelt has tackled. He is responsible for a country-wide experiment in control of industry, a program which may change the course of the nation's history. Works While Others Play That explains why the general is at his desk while other citizens are eating breakfast and why he is still at his desk when the rest of us are emerging from the second show at the movies. General Johnson has no time to crack jokes with his secretaries, or to eat leisurely lunches at the Pennsylvania avenue restaurant w’hore Washington officialdom usually dines. Members of about 1.000 trade associations are in touch with him constantly. The general is called upon to make so many addresses that he is forced to use the airplane to reach all his audiences. The 51-year-old Johnson rode in a covered wagon to Oklahoma before the turn of the century. He was graduated from West Point, served in distinguished fashion during the World war and is credited with having orginated the selective draft, which tended to make drafted soldiers feel like patriots. Amassed Small Fortune In the meantime, he became a corporation attorney, amassing a modest fortune. With George Peek, administrator of the President’s agricultural program, he became associated with one of the large farm implement works at Moline, 111. Together Peek and Johnson wrote a book detailing their theories concerning agriculture and their belief that the farmer deserves as good a living as any other man. Johnson is a modest man, with simple habits. He likes to read. He also likes to putter in his garden. He has been able to do little of either since he took over the work which President Roosevelt believes will go far to turn the depression into a memory. Next— Don ald H. Sawyer, who administers the other part of the recovery art— the public works section.

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Huge Merchant Marine of Air Is Coming; Pilots and Officers Trained in Balloons

Experts Forecast Regular Transocean Service in Few Years. Thi* in the flryt of two itorie* on Amcric' future Merchant Marine of the Air.” BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Writer AKRON, 0., June 28.— Pilots and officers of America's future “merchant marine of the air” already are being trained here. That merchant marine doesn’t yet exist. It may be two years, or five, or ten before American airships of the United States Akron and Macon type are plying on lar freight-and-passenger schedules* to the Philippines and Europe. But it will come. President P. W. Litchfield of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation here, which built the Akron and Macon, is confident of it. “Recent disasters to airships have not dimmed our faith that they have a definite place in the commerce of the future,” Litchfield says. “The airship inevitably is going to be a factor in transocean trade. We are going forward with our part in that future.” Europe-Hawaii Service Two companies, the International Zeppelin Transport Company and the Pacific Zeppelin Transport Company, already have been organized to set in motion regular service to Europe and to Hawaii and the Philippines, respectively. They will operate much as the German Graf Zeppelin already is operating between Friedrichshafen and Pernambuco and Rio. Careful studies of Atlantic and Pacific weather over many years already have been made, courses charted, terminals planned, technical problems attacked, by these companies. The building and operating of such ships under the American flag now apparently waits only legislation needed to make the shipping laws on liability, mail contracts, dockage and similar elements apply to airships on approximately the same terms as they now apply to ocean shipping. Such legislation is pending, but was squeezed out in the hectic session of the recent congress.

Men Trained Now Evidence of faith in this future air merchant marine is .shown in the class of young technicians being trained here in the ways of a ship in the air. The company can not wait for orders for new ships. It must train men now. For the training of competent air officers to man these great ships is the work of years. No matter how well-built an airship may be, it must fail unless operated by men who not only know all about it but who have a long background of flying and an intimate knowledge of that great ocean that covers both land and sea—the air. It is precisely this background that many potential American air officers lack. Should a fleet of such air merchantmen be ordered built next year, operators would have to turn either to the navy or to Germany for competent pilots with necessary experience. Woik in Factories These “air merchant marine cadets” are picked men, young, ambitious, wel-educated, nearly all technical school graduates. There are Massachusetts tech, Purdue, Carnegie tech, Yale-Shef-field, Georgia, N. Y. U., Ohio State and Colorado among them. Their training, which already has been

For the future . . . regular trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific airship service . . . Goodyear-Zep-pelin, builders of the ships, is Already training the officers to man such ships . . . center, a crew of students getting practice in free ballooning, first step in their practical course . . . below, left, how the trans-Atlantic course would vary with weather conditions, taking advantage of favorable and avoid unfavorable winds.

going on for periods of a year to three years, is eminently practical. They have a regular schedule of lectures, assigned study, examinations. But these are sandwiched in between periods of shirt-sleeve and dungaree work in factory and shops of the Zeppelin corporation. They work on actual fabrication of ships. They learn to handle the present fleet of six non-rigid ships the company operates. They study airships from the designing on down through building and operating. Aerology, weather forecasting and interpreting, airship gases and their behavior, radio sending and receiving, engines, navigation are a few of their subjects. Anything from aerostatics to hauling a line with a ground crew landing a ship may be useful to these men in some future problem aboard a great air liner. In charge of the training course is Karl Lange, a tall, rangy veteran of airships since he trained at Pensacola during the World war. Lange has served at naval stations from Squantum, Mass., to Coco Sola, Panama, and is now a lieu-

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tenant commander in the naval reserve. He took his rigid-airship training at Lakehurst, the navy’s great New Jersey base, and was the first reserve officer to qualify as a Zeppelin pilot. Lange laughingly tells you he holds “some sort of a transcontinental record.” He did it by being blown across the Isthmus of Panama in a free balloon. Free ballooning is the foundation of airship work. Each of the trainees of the Zeppelin course must qualify for a license of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale as a balloonist. This requires eight balloon flights, one of which must be at night, and one solo. Balloon training is fundamental because a free balloon, floating in the air like a part of that air itself, gives you the feel of the “air ocean” as no other flying device can do. It is like the naval and merchant

Pauper Until Death Then Sympathetic Friends Who Fed, Clothed Him Find Cash and Notes.

ft ii Times Special BOONVILLE. Ind., June 28.—For years, James Garfield Wright, 60, of Tennyson, near here, has lived in abject poverty, depending on charity of his neighbors and wearing castoff clothing, with underwear made of flour sacks. Hearts of the neighbors were touched by his ragged clothing and bare feet.

Wright's death Monday night resulted in discovery that gll this sympathy was somewhat unnecessary. Administrator named to handle the supposedly meager Estate found the reputed pauper was worth more in cash and property than most of his neighbors. Cash and notes worth more than $5,500, two new suits of clothes, four new suits of underwear, thirty-eight pencils, seven pairs of rubber boots, two fountain pen and pencil sets, two sacks of Red Cross flour and some parched corn were found among his assets. In addition, another safety deposit box, which has not been opened, was found. Wright had started to work at a saw mill a few days ago. His hunger and undernourished condition won sympathy of fellow workmen, who divided their lunches with him. His appetite ravenous, Wright overate, resulting in his death. Only heirs are Charles T. Wright, Boonville, a brother, and a niece, Doliie Matthews, Evansville. FREED IN AUTO DEATH Youth Released After Probe of Accident Caused by Bee. DECATUR, Ind.. June 28. Joe Romizer. 17, Winchester, was released from the Adams county jail here after an investigation proved that he was not to blame for the death of Norma Brunner, 4, Ft. Wayne, and injury of two other smaK girls when his automobile careened on to the sidewalk after a bee stung him.

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marine training academies, which almost always use an old squarerigger as a training ship, even for officers, who never may see one again. It is felt that on a sailing vesseel they get an intimacy with the sea and a knowledge of its nature that they could never get on steamers. Further, an airship is only a free balloon with a propelling force and a design that permits guidance. Power falling, it becomes merely a free balloon. So, the world’s only training school for officers of a future merchant marine of the air begin their training literally from the ground up—in a balloon. Next: A reporter goes along on the first balloon flight of the young airship cadets, and tells you how it feels to make a quick forced landing against the side of a barn.

SLUMS BOARD NAMED Mayor Names Committee to Represent City at Parley. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan has appointed a committee to represent Indianapolis at the national slums elimination conference to be held in Cleveland July 6 and 7. The conference contemplates the borrowing of funds to replace slums wtih modern apartments. Sullivan probably will not attend due to city budget conferences. Those appointed are Joe Rand Beckett, Harmon Snoke, Herman P. ; Lieber, J. I. Holcomb, Lawrence Sherman, J. Frank Cantwell and Merritt Harrison.

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A, D. PORTER NEW SPANISH VETERAN HEAD Annual State Convention at Severin Closed: Gray Is Adjutant. Election and installation of Aubrey D. Porter. Indianapolis, as Indiana department commander marked close of the annual United Spanish War Veterans’ convention Tuesday at the Severin. Bloomington was named the 1934 convention city. Other officers elected were: Omer C. Bates. Hammond. senior vice-commander, and William F. Kreke, Terre Haute, junior vice-commander. Delegates selected for the national encampment next month in Los Angeles include Julius Hale and Joseph Cook, Indianapolis; August Larson. Valparaiso, and Charles Rosenstreter, Elkhart. Alternates will be Charles Dickerson. -Gary; Clarence Woodruff, James R. Walder and William Bradley, all of Indianapolis. City Man Is Adjutant Porter appointed Frank Gray, Indianapolis, as department adjutant; Curtis Johnson, Indianapolis, as department quartermaster, and William O. Louden, department chairman of national and state'encampment committee. A resolution commending Senator Arthur R. Robinson and Representatives William T. Shulte. George R. Durgan, Glen H. Griswold and Eugene B. Crowe for their stand on veterans’ relief and pensions was adopted, and another condemning Indiana representatives for Voting in favor of the national economy act failed of adoption. Auxiliary Names Officers Officers named by the auxiliary include Mrs. Elizabeth La Grange, Evansville, president; Mrs. Libbie Everett, Indianapolis, senior vicepresident; Mrs. Ocie Lehman, Warsaw, junior vice-president; Mrs. Bertha Rosenstreter, Elkhart, chaplain; Mrs. Clara Elser, Huntington,

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Who’s Hero? Congressmen Puzzled by Claims Over Who Saved Roosevelt.

By Brrippt.Hntrnrd \'etrpaper Allinnre WASHINGTON, June 28. A house subcommittee headed by Representative William L. Fiesinger <Dem.. O.), is gathering evidence to decide who saved the life of President Roosevelt in Miami last February. The committee was about ready to report a bill awarding a congressional medal to Mrs. W F, Cross of Miami, who the committee has been told, seized the arm of Zangara. But friends of Tom Armour, also of Miami, have sent affidavits to the committee which claim he is the hero. The committee, which has received transcripts of the Zangara trial and affidavits from eye-wit-nesses, will hold hearings to decide. NEGRO CHARGED WITH ATTACK ON WOMAN Prisoner Held for Striking and Threatening Victim. Dave Johnson, 28, Negro, 617 West St. Clair street, was arrested on a charge of attacking a white woman early today. Miss Leona Day. 30, of 1020 East Walnut street, told police that Johnson knocked her down in the rear of 825 East Washington street and threatened her with a knife. Miss Edna Foster, 24, of 221 East Michigan street, reported to police that a man entered her home by removing the screen in a side window early today. The intruder prowled about in her room carrying a flashlight, she reported. Her screams caused him to flee.

judge advocate; Mrs. Candice Shepherd. Greensburg, patriotic instructor; Mrs. Mary Dunn, Vincennes, historian; Mrs. Cora Keneippe, Terre haute, conductress; Mrs. Edna Harvey, Lebanon, guard, and Mrs. Katherine Paxton, Lebanon, assistant guard.

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HOME OWNERS I BEAR TAX LOAD, REALTOR SAYS Millions in Escaped Levies Carried by Property Holders, Charge. “Taxes of 15.703 small home owners in Indianapolis are required to make up taxes dodged by institutions and individuals and have taken advantage of a misapplication of the tax exemption laws.” Albert E. Uhl. chairman of the newly organized property owners' division of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, said Tuesday. He spoke at a meeting of the division. “The Center township assessor estimates that $40,000,000 of the $95,000,000 property escaping taxation, is income producing property, such as hotels, apartments, business buildings and others, exempted because of interpretation of laws granting exemption to property, the income from which is used for charitable, religious, educational or fraternal purposes,” Uhl said. “Under the current tax rate, this means a loss of $1,128,000 in taxes.” One of the principal missions of the new division, in which enrollment of 10,000 small property owners will be sought, will be to work for more equitable distribution of the tax burden, for the protection of small home owners.

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