Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1934 — Page 3

JAN. 13, 1931

KEEPING UP WITH THE LATE NEWS OF CONGRESS

U. S. LAUNCHES NEW DRIVE FOR CHEAP LIQUOR Admits Canadian Flood in Campaign to End Bootlegging. BY WALKER STONE Timr* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—Realizing that a substantial number of drinking Americans are still patronizing bootlcgi'ers, the administration has decided to find out whether free competition can be used effectively to lower prices and improve the quality of domestic whiskies. Although no definite figure has been announced by administration spokesmen, it is indicated that the government’s new policy will be put- j sued until good, potable whisky can be purchased by the consumer at about $2 per quart—a price believed low enough to drive out bootleg competition. Steps already have been taken to carry out the first part of the program. Restriction Removed Thursday’s about-face maneuver, removing all restrictions on thq importation of American-type whiskies, was for the purpose of opening the American market to twenty-odd million gallons of aged whisky in Canadian warehouses, it is hoped the influx of Canadian whisky will influence American distillers and rectifiers to improve the quality of their whisky blends, and will beat down the price of bottled-in-bond goods, of which the domestic supply is less than one million gallons. At the same time, and for a similar purpose, the 10 per cent limit on beverage alcohol made from other sources than grains was removed. In the last few' weeks the limited supply of grain alcohol has been selling at exorbitant prices to blenders. Most of the supply is in the middle west. For the next few weeks large quantities of molasses alcohol, held on the Atlantic, Pacific and gulf coasts, will be eligible for use for blending purposes. Tariff Revision Possibility A further measure in contemplation to bring about a more even balance between supply and demand is a downward revision of tariff rates. The President's informal in-ter-departmental committee on liquor has recommended to congress that, if the one-column policy is continued, the rate on whisky be reduced from $5 to $3 per gallon, and in case a tariff-bargaining policy is adopted, the range in rates be from $2 to $5. If measures to free competition fail, the faca is prepared to reassert its powers of rigid control, fix prices arbitrarily and prescribe strict labeling regulations. Within the next few weeks, faca director Choate has announced, distillers will be asked to turn in a report on costs of manufacture and prices. If these figures reveal profiteering, he said, the faca will determine what prices are fair.

BY BRUCE CAJTON IF you haven't yet got around to reading •’Britain's Master Spy,” it might pay you to get hold of a copy. The story contains a pretty fair dose of thrills. Its central figure is Sidney Reilly, and the book consists of his own writings, edited and completed by his wife. Or perhaps one should say "his widow.” For where Reilly himself is no one seems to know. He may be alive, hidden in some Siberian prison: he may be ten years dead. Reilly was a British secret service agent, assigned to Russia during the revolutionary period. After the Bolsheviks seized power, he set to work organizing a coun-ter-revolution which would overthrow Lenin and get Russia back into the war on the side of the allies. In Moscow and Petrograd he laid elaborate plans. A corps of exofficers in the imperial army was organized. The Lettish guards about the Kremlin were to be bribed. Lenin and Trotski were to be imprisoned. Everything was ready—and then, at the last minute, the plot was exposed and stamped out. and Reilly had to flee Russia with a price on his head. For four or five years thereafter Reilly traveled about Europe and America, keeping in touch with anti-Bolshevik circles. Finally, in 1923 or 1924. he was induced to make another trip to Moscow. There he vanished, and nothing has been heard of him since. It generally is supposed that he was put to death: Mrs. Reilly is convinced that he still lives in some distant prison. This story—curiously dated, with its assumption that the Russians are history's worst fiends—is offered by Harpers for $2.75. CHURCH ASKS POLICE TO SPECIAL SERVICE Mayor and Safety Board Invited by M. E. Pastor. Special services in honor of the Indianapolis police department will be held at 7:30 Sunday night at the Capitol Avenue M. E. church. In a letter to Chief Mike Morrissey. the pastor, the Rev. E A. Clegg, invited all members of the department to attend. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and safety board members also will be invited. Mr Clegg will discuss the book. "You Can't Win.” by Jack Black, a reformed criminal. Mr Clegg is the son of a former police chief at Jeffersonville. II7H Is Loot of Thief Leaving no traces of forcible entry a thief entered the room of J. F. Boranham. 2611 East Tentn street, last night, stealing $l7B from a locked trunk. Mr. Boranham reported to police

Helped by CWA Spending, Business Enjoys Flying Start for New Year

Indices Show Steady Gains, Jubilant Capital Officials Say. By United Pr< s* WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 —Grow- j ing confidence in the business out- j look with the turn of the new year j was reported by administration and \ commercial circles ted ay as gov-1 ernment recovery expenditures ap- J proached their maximum proportions. The government’s bank deposit :

U, S. TO STUDY LINDY’S INCOME TAX RETURNS Herbert Hoover Jr., Others Face Quiz in Air Mail Probe. By United Prens WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Income tax returns of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, Herbert Hoover Jr., and other national figures, came under the scrutiny of senatae investigators today. Investigator A. G. Patterson revealed the returns had been obtained from the treasury in connection w'ith the Black airmail committee’s inquiry into the income tax of all persons, including Postmaster General Walter Brown, who handled air mail contracts for the government or who were connected in any way with air transport companies. “We want to find out how much these people made, and what returns went to the government,” Mr. Patterson said. “We are not trying to single out anyone, and we’re not conducting an income tax investigation. But the returns may throw light on the committee’s investigation of the airmail contracts.” Returns of William P. McCracken Jr., airline counsel; W. Irving Glover, former assistant postmas-ter-general; David K. Bruce, son-in-law of Andrew Mellon, former treasury secretary, and Richard K. Mellon also are being investigated, Investigator Patterson said. The airmail committee’s scrutiny of the tax returns coincided with a treasury drive for collection of back taxes which revealed to have resulted in the receipt of $50,000,000. Colonel Lindbergh has been revealed as the recipient of stocks in airline firms, and young Hoover was connected with a western air line which received government contracts. 24 MORE PROJECTS APPROVED BY CWA State Total Is Now 4,261; Wages $181,493. Twenty-four additional projects have been approved by the state civil works administration, two of them in Marion county. The projects are designed to employ 422 men with a wage total of $87,286 and materials’ cost of $5,635. Marion county projects are repair of Crooked Creek school, employing four men with wages at S6O and materials at $lO, and the repair of the two portable school buildings at 1240 North West street, employing ten men with wages of $1,872 and materials at $250. The projects added today boost the total approved by the state authority to 4,261 with wages at $181,493.

Herron Director Named to Judge Chicago Art

Wilbur Peat Will Serve on Jury for Thirty-Eighth Exhibit. Wilbur Peat, John Herron Art Institute director, will go to Chicago to serve as a member of the | jury which meets there Jan. 17 and IS to select painting for the thirty- j eighth annual exhibition by Chi- j cago artists, held in the Art Insti- | tute of Chicago during February. Recently given to the local art : institute by Mrs. James W. Fesler j is a set of German biographies of i individual artists, including such painters as Giotto, Botticelli, Memling, Velasquez, Ruben and Durer. i The books list every known work j of each artist. Purchased for the institute’s • permanent collection from the | Julius F. Pratt fund is a small Gandara head of Buddha, dating from the first to the fourth cen- j turies A. D. This is the first pur- | chase of the museum in the field , of East Indian sculpture. A portrait of John C. Johansen by his wife, j Jean McLane. has been loaned to i I the institute for exhibition. JOINS REALTY COMPANY County Delinquent Tax Collector Accepts New Job. Lawrence Sexton, Marion county delinquent tax collector for the last two years, today became associated with the Fidelity Trust Company real estate department. Formerly he was in the real estate. rental, loan and insurance business. He will continue as Prudential Savings and Loan Association secretary. Hurt in Street Car Fall Stubbing his toe against the foot of another passenger. Henry Whalen. 109 West St. Clair street, fell on a street car yesterday, suf- ; sering a badly bruised shoulder. He was taken to city hospital. The catfish of the African swamps i is the only fish which will swim upj side down; other fish found in that position are either dead or dying.

insurance program, newest recovery move, was reported in many seci tions as improving sentiment and | drawing money back to the banks, although the plan has been in es- : feet less than two weeks. Principal business indices have * shown a recovery in the first week of the new year from the usual holiday lag in many lines of in- : dustry. Although no significant j changes have occurred it was generally felt that the current year has opened in far more auspicious : fashion than last.

M. E. Tracy Says — THE original manuscript, together with one of the first printed copies of The Star Spangled Banner, has just been sold for $24,000. As such things go that is not a big price, but songs are few that j have gripped the imagination as this American favorite has, and original manuscripts are fewer. Added to that, the circumstances under which this particular song was written form an almost perfect background for its reception and endurance. By no stretch of the imagination can the poem be considered as great or remarkable, while the music was borrowed from an old world tune which had been used as a British drinking song. However, the country, as well as the author, were in peculiar distress when The Star Spangled Banner was written, and the mere fact that the old flag still waved above an important fort which had been threatened with capture was sufficient to thrill both. tt tt a OESIDES, it was an errand of ■“-* mercy which caused Francis Scott Key to be detained by the British aboard ship during the attack on Baltimore. A short while previously Dr. Williams Beanes had been captured by the British and, with the advice and help of President Madison, young Key had gone to negotiate his release. The release had been agreed to, but fearing that their plans might be divulged the British had kept Key and his associates under guard during the assault on Ft. McHenry. All through the night they heard the booming of cannon and saw the flash of shells. When morning dawned, they waited anxiously for enough light to tell which flag waved above the ramparts. When it proved to be their own, Key was so thrilled that he immediately began to pen the words which not only made him famous, but which have been adopted as our national anthem. tt tt tt PART of the song was written on the back of an old letter aboard the ship, and it was finished when Key reached Baltimore. There he gave the lines to Captain Benjamin Eades of the Twen-ty-seventh Baltimore regiment, who had participated in the battle of North Point. Seizing a copy from the press, Eades hastened to the old tavern next to the holliday street theater, where the actors were accustomed to assemble. Key had directed Eades to print above the poem the direction that it was to be sung to the air “Anacreon in Heaven.” The verses first were read aloud by the printer, and then, on being appealed to by the crowd, Ferdinand Durang mounted a chair and sang them for the first time. In a short period they were familiar throughout the United States.

No Ax-cuse City Hatchet Man Goes to State Farm. TpCHOES of a “sharp reception’’ accorded door-pounders at a downtown hotel Christmas afternoon, were heard in municipal court yesterday. Walter Smith, 459'a East Washington street, faced Judge Dewey Myers on charges of assault and battery on William Drake. “Judge, another man and I went to Smith's door and the other man pounded on it,” said Drake. “Then, smith opened the door and parted my hair with a hatchet, and I had to have six stitches taken in my scalp.” When Deputy Prosecutor Russell Dean inquired why the men went to the room, Judge Myers said. “I don't think that question is necessary, as many complaints as we have had about Smith.” "Oh, i know he runs a bootleg joint,” Dean said. “Why, judge, I haven't been home for two weeks,” Smith intervened. "We wereij't talking about the last two weeks, but anyway, we’ll make it $lO and costs and thirty days cn the Indiana state farm,” said the court, closing the case. •NEVER FELT BETTER.’ SAYS PIONEER; DIES 76th Birthday Anniversary Party Ends in Tragedy. By United Press ALBION. Idaho. Jan. 13.—Hardly had he completed saying: “I never felt better in my life.” when John A. Clark, Albion pioneer, fell dead. A group of friends had just decided to conclude the "surprise birthday party” commemorating Clark's 75th anniversary when the pioneer collapsed.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The government's gigantic spend- ' ing program, which is expected to take more than a billion dollars out of the treasury this month for the first time since the war was expected to have an important influence on business generally. In addition to providing for more pay envelopes the heavy spending was expected to moderate inflationary influence on business with a resultant boosting of price levels. A more seasonal gain in department store sales in December, and a 12 per cent gain over the corresponding month of last year, has created new orders for the manufacturing industry and led to expectations that January will also show a gain over a year ago. Automobile output in the week ended Jan. 6 amounted to 20.307 units, against 30,775 a year ago and 13,896 in the preceding week. Other “heavy” industries have made a better showing. The steel industry has held most of its unseasonal holiday gains. Output this week was unchanged at 31 per cent of capacity. Bituminous coal output last week also improved, amounting to 7,025,000 tons, against 6,443.000 tons in the preceding week and 6,126,000 tons a year ago. Electric power production last week was 9.7 per cent above a year ago, against a gain of only 8.8 per cent in the preceding week.

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EDISON TRUST'S POWER COMPANY CODE ATTACKED Plan ‘to Further .Despoil’ People, Says Aid of lekes. BY HERBERT LITTLE t Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—A major conflict within the new deal was on today, over whether NRA administrator Hugh Johnson can approve the power industry code sponsored by the Edison Electric Institute. Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, directly in charge of the government's vast power business, through Henry T. Hunt, his general counsel, has challenged the institute as containing “sinister forces” and its code as an agency to -further despoil the American people through exorbitant rates, nefarious financial practices.” NRA general counsel Donald Richberg, taking partial responsibility, told the code hearing that NRA “strongly pressed” the institute to submit the code. Judge W. L. Ransom, counsel for the industry's code committee, said as code hearings resumed today that he contemplated no amendments or changes to meet the interior department objections, or the protests made by Chairman Frank

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House Committee Mav Study Old Age Pension Commission May Be Created to Probe Feasibility of Federal Aid for Persons Over 65. By Scrippe-Hoicard Xctespaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—An old age security commission, empowered to study systems or old age pensions which might be applied on a federal scale, will be created at this session of congress. Speaker Henry T. Rainey indicated today.

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ADMINISTRATION IS BACKED BY VOTE INJIOUSE Passing of First Supply Bill Reveals Power of Roosevelt. By United Prcee WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.—President Ftoosevelt held the whip hand over the house today, his leadership established by a vote of 240 to 141 against opponents of the first supply bill of the present session of congress. The test came last night on a motion to recommit the bill. Later it was passed without a record vote. Importance was attached to the result because of the narrow five-vote margin Thursday by which the Democratic leadership imposed a gag rule on the membership. The supply bill carired $566,000,000 for independent offices and agencies of the government. It restored 5 per cent of the 15 per cent salary reduction which federal employes received under the economy bill enacted at the special session last spring. The omnibus was designed in France by Blaise Pascal, who obtained a patent from Louis XIV in 1662; Pascal had invented the pushcar earlier.

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