Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1934 — Page 2

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SPOKESMEN FOR U. S. LABOR GREET 1934 WITH OPTIMISM; OUTLOOK IS CALLED ‘BRIGHT’ ‘Abundant Evidence of Renewed Courage and Revived Hope on Every Hand,’ Says A. F. of L. Head. CONFIDENCE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT New Year Will Be Happy One for Nation, Thinks Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce. By 7 mu'll f-pertnl WASHINGTON, .Jan. I.—Hiprh government officials and labor spokesmen greeted the new year with reassuring utterances, pledging allegiance to the administration’s program for economic recovery and expressing belief that a sound basis of stability is being developed rapidly.

Grouped together, the expression of accomplishment and hope served to convey to President Roosevelt a symbol of public confidence in his spectacular drive to carry disorganized depression into organized prosperity. Although it was emphasized that the recovery program yet remains in a transition stage and that its various branches are moving slowly toward a degree of crystallization, evidence was given that 1934 may bring an approximate return to normal economic and industrial conditions. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor said the outlook for the new year was “bright and reassuring.” Unemployment, he pointed out, has been reduced, “business of all kinds shows marked improvement, and on every hand there is abundant evidence of renewed courage and revived hope.” ‘‘Better Foundation Laid” “Through the application to industry of codes of fair trade practices,” he said, “many basic industries have been placed upon a sound and stabilized basis, a better industrial foundation has been laid, and an economic order in keeping with mass production requirements has been applied to future industrial development.” Daniel C. Roper, secretary of commerce, asserted that the nation's financial structure "has steadily improved.” “This last year,” said Mr. Roper, “has been one of great accomplishment in the economic field. On the threshold of the new year we find almost every major indicator of business conditions moderately above the level of a year ago, and a number of them substantially higher. Agriculture on Rise "" “There is much evidence that the recovery program will proceed aggressively, that our remaining problems will be slowly but surely surmounted, and that consolidated gains for 1934 will bring about a substantial measure of improvement in all segments of our economic life.” It was noted that agriculture was emerging from the emergency bounty stage and working toward controlled production designed to fulfill all needs without excesses and provide the farmer an adequate recompense with buying power. Speaking for the railroads, R. H. Ashton, chairman of the board. American Railway Association, asserted that financial results from operation had improved in 1933. Freight Traffic Gains Increased freight traffic during the ! year, combined with a decrease in j operating costs, he said, brought Class I roads an operating income in 1933 of $465,000,000, or 1.77 per cent of property investment. Freight handled in 1933 was 252,000,000.000 revenue ton miles, an increase of 8 per cent over 1932. In anew year summary, the recovery administration observed that ! the basic nay of nearly 20.000,000 persons in factories, stores and j mines had been raised and that I drastic reductions in maximum work I hours had been accomplished. Warning Note Sounded The statement, coming in advance of a congress which promises to review NRA activities with severe scrutiny, listed among accon\plishments of the recovery administration abolishment of child labor, increased pay rolls, elimination of cutthroat competition, and unfair practices, and settlement of more than 200 major industrial disputes affecting 400.000 employes. The NRA, it was said, brought reemployment to 4.000.000 in addition to 4.000.000 employed under the civil works program. A note of warning was sounded by John Dewey, president of the Peo- ' pie's Lobby, who declared that congress must make “at once" an “appraisal of the real effectiveness of the legislation and measures j known as the 'new deal' ... in i order that congress, still a coordinate branch of government, may know what legislation is needed to prevent disaster." BANDiT TRIO GETS sl3 Hural Route Resident Held Up on West Side. Luther O Banion. R R 18. Box 354, was robbed of sl3 by three bandits who held him up at Lyndhurst drive and State Road 34 last night, he reported to police. He said the bandits drove north after robbing him. The stars Arcturus and Vega are much brighter than our sun; Vega is flfty-one times as bright and Arcturus is 112 times as bright.

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Wet Holiday Many Film Stars Hold ‘Open House.’ By Timet Special HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 1. New Year's eve was a gala but wet occasion for the film stars. Almost | as many could be found at home as out celebrating, but they enterI tained friends at gay parties. The Charlie Farrells. Victor Jorys. Dorothy Wieck, Clara Bow and Rex Bell and Sylvia Sydney were among those who kept open house at their homes. . . , Ruby Keeler and A1 JoLson spent the holidays at Palm Springs. . , . Peggy Shannon and her husband. George Davis, were at Agua Caliente, as were Clark Gable and his wife. . . . Doug Fairbanks Jr., spen* the week-end with Alan Vincent at the latter’s ranch. . . . William Powell was the guest of Walter Lang at Big Bear Lake. . . . Elissa Landi celebrated the new year at 4 o’clock, the witching hour in London. . . . Celebrants at another house party included Constance Bennett, Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Dorothy Mackaill and the Townsend netchers. . . . Fredpric March and his wife, Florence Eldridge, partied until nearly dawn, then braved a downpour to rush to Los Angeles harbor where friends gave them a blasting sendoff to New York. REPORTER IS BADLY INJURED Fred Hedges, Times Staff Man. Critically Hurt by Automobile. Fred Hedges, 24, of 857 South Pershing avenue, police reporter for The Indianapolis Times, suffered concussion of the brain and severe scalp wounds late last night when he was struck by an automobile at Sheffield avenue and Morris street. He is at the city hospital in a critical condition. Mr. Hedges stepped off the curb directly into the path of an automobile driven by Harry Wenz Jr., 23, of 1163 North Gladstone avenue, who was driving west on Morris street. Mr. Wenz stopppd his car within ten feet after striking Hedges and : was exonerated of blame by radio j patrolmen McNeil and Keely, who I investigated. Mr. Hedges lives with his widowed mother at the Pershing avenue address. She was not at home at the time of the accident and police were unable to notify her, when it was feared her son might have been injured fatally.

Bandit Is Outwitted by Gas Station Attendant

Shell Employe Turns Over Money to Customer; $l5O Stolen. Quick thinking by Robert Wade, 20. of 207 West Twenty-ninth street, attendant at a Shell Oil Company station at 1503 Prospect street, enabled him to outwit a bandit last night. The gunman drew a pistol and demanded Wade's money just as Gilbert H. Etchencamp. 1206 Evison street, drove into the station. While servicing the latter's car Wade slipped all his money into Etchencamp's hands. Etchencamp returned with the money after the infuriated bandit had left. Not so successful in his efforts to frustrate three Negro gunmen Saturday night was Morris Olshan. 3028 North Capitol avenue, who owns a grocery at 437 West Fifteenth street. When the three Negroes entered the store, one of them drew a pistol, another drew an iron bar, and Olshan was forced to give $l5O in cash to the third. Calvin Hanson. Negro. 27, was arrested yesterday when he was alleged to have been caught looting the grocery store of Ralph Orr, 1235 Bellefontaine street. Paul Rhodes. 913 East Thirteenth street, reported the burglary to police when he heard a window crash and saw Hanson entering the store. Hanson was arrested on a burglary charge. Three youths were arrested yesterday when they were alleged to have been in possesion of plumbing

‘SHOULD MRS. ROOSEVELT BE LIKE THATT Does the First Lady Need Any Defense? That’s the Question

Here’s Mrs. Roosevelt with two “Buzzie” Dali, on the lawn of the This is the first of a series of articles on Mrs. Roosevelt. BY MARTHA STRAYER i Copyright. 1934. Scripps-Howard News papers.) WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—ln the voluminous mail of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a letter came to the White House from an American woman living in a European city. “I am having great difficulty In defending you to my friends here,” wrote the American abroad. “I wish

‘Big Ten’ of ‘Der Tag' Low Numbers Go to High Places as Democrats Ladle Out License Plate ‘Gravy.’ THE mythical state license auctioneer knocked down the prized No. 1 1934 license to Governor Paul V. McNutt this year, as is customary with state executives. The list this year reads like the Governor’s political ratings with Senator Frederick Van Nuys issued No. 12 and Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, state Democratic chairman, No. 3.

Harry N. Timolat, the Governor’s father-in-law was awarded number 4. Reading down, the numbers were given to Pleas Greenlee, adroit patronage dispenser; Paul Fry, state beer potentate; Harry Fawcett, manager of the French Lick hotel where the Governor spends many vacations; Paul Feltus, Bloomington newspaper man; George C. Cole, state eduaction commissioner, and Bowman Elder, ex-Legion treasurer. Official starred licenses from one to ten went to the Governor, Mrs. Frank Mayr Jr., wife of the secretary of state;' LieutenantGovernor M. Clifford Townsend, Earl Crawford, speaker of the house; .William Storn, state treasurer; Paul Fry, Tom Taggart, former Democratic national committeeman; Attorney - General Philip Lutz, Virgil Simmons, public works director, and Frank Finney, vehicle license commissioner.

fixtures taken from a vacant house at 317 North Holmes avenue. Two of the boys, both 14. were taken to the Marion county juvenile detention home. Charles Tillsbury, 16, of 1432 Everett street, was held at the city prison on a vagrancy charge. AMERICANS PASS UP CHAMPAGNE IN PARIS Slump in Dollar Value Accounts for New Year's Beer Drinking. By l nited Prctfg PARIS, Jan. I.—Today was a beer holiday rather than a champagne festival for the American colony, who have been hit so hard by the depreciation of the dollar that much of their usual celebration was curtailed. Hundreds of celebrants stood at American bars and ordered the milder drink instead of paving from $6 a bottle up for bubble water. Thomas Edison’s brain was worth $15,000,000,000 to the business world: that amount was invested in America alone in industries based on, or stimulated by. his inventions.

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of her grandchildren, “Sistie” and i'hite House, you would confine your activities to entertaining and opening charity bazaars, the proper functions of a President’s wife.” A million American bridge tables, from Maine to California, might have dictated almost an identical communication. America has been born and brought up on a certain tradition about the wives of Presidents and how they should conduct themselves, and with this tradition the

Sniffs Fray Vice-President Pines for Real Action. By United Press TTtrASHINGTON, Jan. I.—Vice- ’ President John Nance Garner described himself today as “silent partner” in the “firm of Roosevelt and Garner,” and indirected he would like to return to his old job as Democratic leader in the house. Refreshed by a long vacation at his Uvade (Tex.) home, Mr. Gar ner said he was "fit and ready” for action. “But,” he added ruefully, “we don't get action over here in the senate.” He declined to discuss economics, or world problems and told newspaper men: “The Chief does all the talking for his company." Something was said about the Republicans. “Why, I can’t understand those fellows,” Mr. Garner exclaimed. “They're all in hiding somewhere. I can’t find out anything about them.” He recalled his work on the house ways and means committee, starting point for much important legislationo, and as minority leader and later speaker, he sighed. , “I like an active life and always have. There’s not much to do now, but I guess I can’t repudiate this job. It wouldn’t look right.” ROB NORTH SIDE MAN Three Youths Take $35 Watch and SSO, Police Are Told. B. J. Carney. 35, of 2251 North Illinois street, reported to police that he was robbed early today by three youths at Pearl and New Jersey streets. He lost a wrist watch valued at $35 and SSO in cash, he said.

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wife of President Roosevelt fails to conform. The question has been agitating and agitated, ever since last March 4: “Should Mrs. Roosevelt be like that?” She drives her own car, as skillfully as the wife of a bank president who used to run out to the club for golf in the pre-bank-failure days. She walks when she wants to go somewhere within a dozen blocks of the White House. She has been seen scooting across busy streets, near the treasury department corner, completely unaccompanied except for her little old black Scottie, “Megge,” with Meggie straining at her leash and almost dragging her mistress under the wheels of hurrying autos. # e SHE has opinions and expresses them. She makes public speeches and the front pages of newspapers. She writes for magazines. Her book is in its second edition. She holds press conferences almost like her husband. She is known to have been directly responsible for various constructive policies of the new deal administration, and is suspected of more. There was the time when talk of j turning into tankage the little pig | surplus bought from farmers by the I government was providing anti- ; Democratic material for Republicans. Mrs. Roosevelt is said to have asked various government officials why the meat should become fertilizer base when millions on relief rolls would be thankful to have it on their diet lists. That question seemed so pertinent that a great government corporation grew up to feed the surpluses to the needy. “Nothing is ever one person’s idea.” Mrs. Roosevelt later said, disclaiming credit for thus feeding the multitude. But those in the know kept right on believing she at least precipitated that particular modern miracle. There also was the first federal farm-factory project, launched to rehabilitate, long unemployed soft coal miners in the vicinity of Morgantown, W. Va.—and incidentally, this fulfilled a prophecy which had amused the First Lady at one of her press Conferences. a a a Her conferences are so informal that often she entertaines the thirty or forty newspaper women who call on her weekly by the happy habit of sharing with us some of the most striking or interesting bits that arrive by voluminous mail or parcel post. Consequently, we

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feel free to bring along any laughs we may run across in our travels. One day a particularly smart cartoon hit the news stands and at least a half dozen of the thirty or forty newspaper women “came to class” with the magazine that contained it. The country then still was literally gasping over the brand new idea of a President’s wife who might show up anywhere, by land, water or air, and the artist aptly hit off this national amazement by showing two coal miners gazing up aghast at their tunnel opening. “My God,” said one of them, “here comes Mrs. Roosevelt!” Mrs. Roosevelt did delve into West Virginia mining districts incognito, with a welfare worker in a battered flivver. She observed. She asked questions. She gathered a mass of first-hand information. Weeks after the project of a postoffice furniture factory combined with subsistence farming on an old plantation near Morgantown had apparently leaped, full-fledged, from the public works administrator, we wangled the true story from Mrs. Roosevelt. a a a THIS type of village is an idea my husband had a long, long time ago,” she explained, with simplicity and directness. “It was why | we built at Hyde Park a small factory in a rural community. “The Society of Friends had the same idea in connection with the unemployed miners, and when I went down there and got their idea, I came back and told my husband.” But she had laughed like the rest of us at the cartoon in the smart New York weekly! A camp for unemployed girls and women operates at Bear Mountain, New York, because of her interest. She assumed responsibility for announcing the White House policy on serving 3.2 per cent legal beer and has said she will do likewise about legal liquor, instead of allowing that burden to rest upon the shoulders of her husband. Repeal is still not effective in the District of Columbia, pending special legislation by congress for liquor control in the capital. She was the only woman at the first meeting which discussed plans for aiding unemployed artists under the civil works program. She is a member of the citizens’ committee which will pass on lowcost housing projects for the District of Columbia, under the public works administration. a a a SHE remembered mothers’ problems when she went to Beltsville, Md„ near Washington, to look

over the site for another subsistence project, at the government agriculture experiment station there. “What about stores and schools?" she asked, on being told that it was proposed to locate the small subsistence farm homes on a pair of wooded ridges, half a mile apart. “Why not put them all on one ridge?” She talks from her own knowledge of tenements in New York City when she speaks of the terrible homes from which garment workers will move to a factory farm project in New Jersey and she adds that there is one garment workers' cooperative apartment building in the Bronx to which she always likes to take visitors interested in housing. It is owned and occupied by members of the Women Garment Workers’ Union. But all this is very different from the recipe for a President's wife, according to our best American tradition. It has been a sort of unwritten law that the mistress of the White House should be seen and not heard publicly. She smiled graciously for photographers; in certain administrations she even was known to follow her husband into a car or through a door, strict P”esidential etiquet decreeing that the President shall be preceded by no one. Very, very rarely did she allow herself to talk in public or even innocuously at a women’s luncheon; practically never for publication; certainly never with an opinion on any subject of public interest. No wonder the exasperated expatriate put pen to monogrammed stationery and wrote a letter to the White House!

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CAMPAIGN FOR SAFE DRIVING STARTSTODAY 131 Meet Death in Au* Accidents During Past Year. With Marion county auto traff. fatalities mounting to the appalling total of 131 for last year, an in crease of thirty-five over 1932, Chie* Mike Morrissey today opened a strenuous campaign for careful driving and reduction in number oi accidents. Eighty-one of the total for the county occurred within the city limits. “This terrible toll of human lives, every one of them snuffed out because of someone's carelessness, should have the effect of making the public, motorists and pedestrians alike, stop and think.” said Chief Morrissey. “With the return of liquor, the police department is faced with an even greater problem in preventing traffic accidents.’” Following the year 1931 when an all-time record of 176 fatalities was set. a vigorous campaign was waged, resulting in the toll being cut nearly in half, to ninety-six for 1932. Five of the fatal accidents this year snuffed out lives of children, four in grade school and one in high school. December, with eleven deaths, took the heaviest toll within the city limits. In the county and city, heaviest months were August, 18; December, 15; March, May and November, 14 each, and January, 12.