Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1934 — Page 2

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SENATE SHOWS SLIGHT REGARD FOR WATERWAY St. Lawrence Project Lost Unless Roosevelt Acts, Is Belief. BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—There is little likelihood that the St. Lawrence treaty with Canada will be ratified unless President Roosevelt “turns the heat'’ on Democratic senators. An informal poll of the senate today indicated that many more than the thirty-three members necessary to defeat ratification will vote against the treaty if the President rests his case on yesterday's message. Weakness Admitted Several unfriendly Democratic senators who live in states where sentiment is neutral admitted, however. that they could be persuaded to give support should the President force the issue. Proponents of the treaty privately admit their weakness. Floor leadership of the opposition forces will be in the hands of two Democrats, Senators Royal S. Copeland of New York and Huey Long of Louisiana, and their principal oratorical backers will be three other Democrats. Senators Robert F. Wagner of New York, Bennett Clark of Missouri and J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Although nominal leadership of the pro-treaty forces will fall to Senator Key Pittman <Dem.. Nev.i, foreign relations committee chairman. the actual leadership will be supplied by three Republicans—Arthur H. Vandcrberg of Michigan, Robert La Follette of Wisconsin and William E. Borah of Idaho. These three are the only members of the senate who profess anything like enthusiasm for the waterway and power project. Opponents Seek Delay Although confident they have the votes to defeat the treaty, opponents will pursue a strategy of delay. They want, if possible, to prevent a vote, so that timid opponents will not have to break with the administration. Senator Copeland has announced that he is prepared "to speak for a week.” and Senator Long has said he will talk for two weeks. In the opposition ranks will be a solid block of senators representing the Atlantic seaboard states. No amount of presidential pressure will win over any of these eastern senators, because the chambers of commerce and shipping interests in Atlantic ports have stirred up local opposition to a point where a vote for the treaty is politically dangerous. REQUESTS INDICTMENT FOR KILLING PRISONER Sheriff Seeks to Clear Himself of 1902 Killing. By T'nitrd Prc** VICTORIA. Tex., Jan. 11.—Sheriff Robert S. Weisiger of this county killed a man thirty-two years ago In the regular discharge of his duties as deputy sheriff. Today he was under indictment at his own request. The killing occurred in the Garcitas community near here on Jan. 14, 1902. The victim was a Negro named Spot North. North was said to have offered resistance when the officer shot him. There are no living witnesses to the shooting. Weisiger said he sought the indictment in order to have himself cleared of the charge.

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America and Russia Join in Searching for Peace Soviet Unions’ First Ambassador to U. S. Pledges Support of Any Move to Check War. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. Jan. 11.—In a world reeling drunkenly along the edge of the abyss of war, the United States and Russia plan to co-operate actively to preserve international peace.

“We can not only dream of peace or talk of it,” Alexander Troyanovsky, the Soviet Union’s first ambassador to Washington, said today in hi-, first statement to the press since his arrival. "We must do something for it, be active for it, struggle for it.’’ This, the Soviet envoy said, W’ould be his foremost objective here, and in accomplishing it he was convinced that it would be in accord with the aims of the government of the United States. Pledges Support of Cause He said whatever would advance the cause, he would support. In the furtherance of this subject, he recalled, Soviet Russia has already concluded several pacts of non-ag-gression, both political and economic, and if such a pact between his country and the United States would be deemed helpful, he would be for it. In line with President Roosevelt's Wilson day dinner speech in which he proposed that “from now on war by governments shall be changed to peace by peoples,” Ambassador Troyanovsky said that unquestionably “the vast majority of mankind ardently desires peace.” And it is his hope, he declared, “that our great countries will contribute positively” to its promotion. The significance of the continued reiteration of the words “world peace" in the pronouncements of both Russian and American statesmen in connection with the new association of the two powers is not lost on observers here. Negotiations Stress Peace The phrase occurred most prominently in the original messages exchanged between President Roosevelt and President Kalinin of Moscow. It is uppermost in the reports of conversations between the American President and Soviet foreign commissar Maxim Litvinoff during recognition negotiations here. William C. Bullitt, our first ambassador to Moscow, stressed it when presenting his credentials at the Kremlin, and President Kalinin, replying, again urged the point. While officials in Moscow’ have openly and repeatedly warned of the danger of conflict between Russia and Japan. Ambassador Troyanovsky refused to discuss that topic. In recent months the peace policies of Washington and Moscow have seemed to converge to a marked degree. Both have made it known that they are not contemplating joining the league of nations, the weaknesses of w’hich they have pointed out. Both have officially stated, however, that they will co-operate with that body whenever possible. Both stress the vital need for disarmament. Early Trade Urged Concerned action between these two powers, whose combined population reaches approximately 300,000.000. admittedly would be a potent influence for peace without the necessity of political commitments entangling them in each other's private difficulties. Trade negotiations between his country and the United States should get under way very soon, the ambassador said. Russia stands in great need of the things which is best qualified to supply. How much she will buy here depends, first, upon how much she can pay for—for she intends to pay—and, second, upon the nature of the trade terms offered.

MAIL SUBSIDY BUDGET FACES RIGID SCRUTINY i Senate Committee to Make Careful Study Due to Disclosures. BY G. SANFORD HOLMES Times Special Writer. WASHINGTON. Jan. 11.—The 1 postoffice budget for ocean and airI mail subsidies for the coming year will be scrutinized with more than usual care, Senator Kenneth McKellar (Dem., Term.), ranking member of the senate appropriations committee and chairman of the committee on postoffices and post roads, said today. The postoffice department is asking for nearly a million dollars more for the next fiscal year than is being paid out for air and ocean mail subsidies this year. Subsidy Increase Sought For foreign mail transportation, ! both by air and water, the budget estimates call for an appropriation of $38,485,410 for the next fiscal year, as against an expenditure for this year of $38,295,290. For domestic airmail transportation and subsidies, the department is asking $14,000,000 this year. The amount being asked for 1935, however. is far below that expended for the last year of the Hoover regime, when airmail subsidies cost the government $19,454,981. Increased foreign mail costs are attributed to new ships put into service, for which the government is obligated, and the increase for domestic airmail is attributed to the necessity of paying for services still being maintained by operators for w’hich. during the last year, they received no compensation, owing to government economy. Whether the postoffice department will be granted the funds it asks in view of testimony already brought out by the Black investigation. is regarded as highly problematical. The fact that no cancellations, curtailments or abridgements of either class of mail have been made by Postmaster-General James A. Farley since taking office has disappointed critics of the subsidy system. McCarl Decision Cited Under a decision by Comptroller General McCarl in the so-called Winnipeg case, made in 1931, it was ruled that the postmaster-general i has no right to make major exteni sion or to let contracts without com- ! petitive bids. Testimony before the | committee, how’ever, shows that j through indirect methods lines have i been enlarged far beyond their orig- | inal length. This was done under j the regime of Postmaster-General I Walter Brown, but some senators | believe the decision opens the way ; for abandonment of these contracts. Flying at an altitude of over 2,000 feet between Jamaica and Miami, 1 Fla., pilot Roy Keeler encountered | so much dust that his plane looked las though he had driven down a | dusty country road.

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‘do something; WALLACE PLEA TO U. Agriculture Secretary Urges Nation to Make Up Its Mind. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. —The American people have not yet comprehended the full extent of the j changes they must go through either in the w r ay of acreage re- | duction on the one hand or in- ! creased imports on the other, Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, told the United Press today in an interview discussing farm problems. Mr. Wallace, vigorously outspoken executive, has tackled a problem which defeated the best minds of three Republican administrations. “We have been postponing making up our minds since the war,” Mr. Wallace said. “We can’t delay much longer. The people of this country must find out what all this is about, and make up their minds on it. “The danger I see is that some of the people w r ho are affected by the processing tax may get it into their heads to start a drive against processing taxes without being willing to go down the line on an effective substitute.” Mr. Wallace has his own ideas of the manner in which agriculture should work itself out of a corner, but he is not committed to an extent that rules out the ideas of others. Discussing an effective substitute for the processing tax, Mr. Wallace suggested there were five alternatives: 1. Taking from the general treasury money for benefit payments in consideration of control of production. 2. An extensive program of government land purchase. 3. A sufficiently great increase in imports to take care of the interest on debts owed the United States by foreign nations and foreign nationals and in addition to pay us a decent price for our surplus cotton, wheat, lard and tobacco. 4. Price fixing, accompanied by licensing of every plowed field and compulsory control of every farmer’s marketing with rigid differentials between domestic markets. 5. Let things drift as they drifted in 1931-32. Mr. Wallace believes the country should continue with the processing tax until someone of the first four alternatives or some combination of them has commended itself to the American people and to congress so that they are willing to embrace such a policy sufficiently to obtain accomplishment of the work now being done by the processing tax. However, the problem may be worked out. Mr. Wallace believes it will involve a certain amount of governmental control of some kind. U. S. EXPENSES MOUNT $3,000,000,009 Mark Passed in Costs Since July, 1933. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The cost of running the United States government passed the $3,000,090,000 mark today for the fiscal year which began July 1, 1933, and rushed toward the $9,403,000,000 expenditure estimate of President Roosevelt. Total expenditures from July 1. 1933. to Jan. 9, 1934, amounted to $3,006,128,528, of which $1,452,061,327 was classed as "emergency” expenditures. \

Patronage Rule Revolt Showers Ire of Democrats on Postmaster Farley

Republicans Fill Vacancies, Petition in Congress Declares. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer. WASHINGTON, Jan. ll.—Long smoldering resentment against Postmaster-General James A. Farley’s patronage rule broke into open revolt today when a group of house Democrats, mostly fledgelings: from the middle and northwest, were successful in forcing a party caucus to air their grievances. These concern primarily the delay in rewarding ‘“deserving Democrats” and the filling of some vacancies with Republicans. This has served to diminish the reputation of congressmen in their home districts. they say. Responsible for the long-expect-ed attack on Mr. Farley, which, it is carefully explained, does not involve President Roosevelt, is Representative Terry McGovern Carpenter, a pleasant-appearing young man of 34, who hails from Nebraska, wears spectacles and does not look fierce, though he has plenty of energy.

Necessary Names Obtained Capitalizing on lenient Democratic rules, he circulated a petition which today was the necessary twenty-five signatures to force a party caucus. The date for it has not been set. Mr. Carpenter wants the caucus to pass a resolution setting out a bill of complaints which a committee would take down to the White House and lay before President Roosevelt. Undoubtedly party leaders will seek to squelch any such move, though they can not stop the caucus. The chief complaint in the petition concerns the farm credit administration. Protest Republican Jobs “We believe,” the petition declares, that in a great many cases people are being employed who are unsympathetic both with the intent of the law as passed by congress and with the administration of the same to the detriment of the Democratic party and the program of the President.” Mr. Carpenter protests not only that Republicans are being appointed to jobs in his locality, but that some are "standpat Republicans.” “We would not object to progressive Republicans,” he declared. Similar Move Checked * Signing the petition were members from Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, Illinois, Colorado, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Michigan, Virginia, South Dakota, lowa, Pennsylvania and Texas. Postmaster-General Farley appeased a similar revolt last June by a personal appearance before assembled house Democrats. Whether he will choose to undertake another personal appearance remains to be seen.

JAPAN TO BE TOPIC IN CHURCH LECTURE A. W. Place to Be Speaker at Fellowship Dinner. Principal speaker at the Northwood Christian church mid-week fellowship dinner tonight will be A. W. Place, Fidelity Investment Association manager, who will discuss “Japan and the World Crisis.” Mr. Place spent, several years at Tokio university £md is known as the American who introduced baseball to the Japanese. The game since has become the nation’s national sport. Richard Funai, a Japanese student at Butler university, will be chairman. The Rev. R. Melvyn Thompson will lead the devotional service. Dr. George Wood and members of the church choir will have charge of the musical program. The women's council will serve dinner. URGES REAL ESTATE AS GOOD SECURITY Property Owners Called “Heroes” of Depression by Lawyer. “Real estate, as a home and as an investment, must return to the classification of good security,” Miss Bess Robbins, attorney and state representative, toid members of the Apartment Owners’ Association at a meeting yesterday in the Washington. “Property owners who furnished homes to persons unable to pay rent, w'ere the real heroes of the depression,” she said. Pointing out that ways of loosening commercial credit will occupy an important place in the attention of congress during the present session., Miss Robbins praised a bill introduced by Representative Ludlow Jan. 3 which would provide for a broadening of the loan bases so that the RFC might lend directly to approved industries funds to be used as working capital. Relief Corps to Install Alvin P. Hovey Women’s Relief Corps No. 196 will hold a public installation of officers for 1934 at 2 Friday at Ft. Friendly, 512 North Illinois street. Mrs. Mary Mayo will take office as president.

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High Rate Foe Praises Times’ Light Cost Fight

T. E. Groninger Says Water Has Its Uses, but Not in Stock. "Water is beautiful going over Niagara Falls, but it loses its charm when used for electric power and light making purposes.” This was the statement made yesterday by Taylor E. Groninger. member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, long a leader in the fight against public utility “write-ups” in property values as a means for procuring higher rates. Mr. Groninger will be remembered by many as the attorney who made the courageous fight against the purported over-valuation of property in the Indianapolis Water Company case two years ago. “The Times is using exactly the proper method in its campaign for lower power and light rates,” asserted Mr. Groninger. “I should know; I have fought these battles many times before. The water must be squeezed out before conditions can be remedied, I most heartily approve of this intelligent effort to establish the money investment in a public utility property as the only fair rate base.” “I know of no reason why a public service corporation, enjoying monopolistic privileges granted by the state, should earn money on anything other than actual dollars invested in property used to serve the public. By reason of these and other privileges conferred by law, the utility is taken out of the field of competition in which speculative returns might be justified. "If it were in my power to make the law pertaining to the fixing of rates, I would adopt the proposal made by Louis D. Brandeis, chief

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Dorothy Stahr. 811 Virginia avenue, Apt. 43, Plymouth DeLuxe. U 6-422 (34), from Olive and Prospect streets.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: • Mrs. Margarete D. Sullivan. 1431 North Meridian street, Packard coupe, found in a garage in the rear of a vacant house at 907 North Pennsylvania street, automobile stripped of some parts.

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QUICK PASSAGE FOR MORTGAGE BILL FORESEEN Measure to Guarantee Farm Bond Principal Wins Strong Support. By United Prr WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Congressional leaders prepared today to give right of way next week to a bill carrying out President Roosevelt's proposed guarantee of principal as well as interest of $2,000,000.000 in authorized farm credit bonds. Early action was sought so that the administration's program for aiding mortgage burdened farmers may be speeded up from its lag, caused according to some, by reluctance of mortgage holders to accept the bonds, on which only interest has been guaranteed. Chairman Marvin Jones of the house agriculture committee predicted that the measure would immediately accelerate the refinancing movement. Meanwhile signs of Republican oppostion arose in the house to such principal guarantees, based on belief that the trend might lead to such a bond guarantee structure that the market for federal securities would be adversely affected. The bill, introduced’ by Mr. Jones yesterday after the Presidents message on the subject was read, sets up a Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation to supervise the financing. Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act authority was given for issuance of $2,000,000,000 of farm mortgage bond®. Mr. Jones and other agriculture leaders of the house predicted that the principal-guarantee provision would have the effect of requiring in a short time all of the authorized issue.

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