Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 242, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1934 Edition 02 — Page 3

FEB. 17, 1934

-AUTO VICTIM'S RITES ARE SET FOR TOMORROW R. E. Buck Funeral Will Be Held at Lafayette, His Former Home. Last rites for Ray E. Buck. 33. of 518 East Thirty-third street, who *'as injured fatally yesterday morning when his auto struck a traffic signal, will be held at 1 tomorrow afternoon in Lafayette. Burial will be in Mulberry. Ind. Mr, Buck was on his way home from work at the Chevrolet commercial body division of the General Motors, when the accident occurred at Thirtieth and Meridian streets. He died shortly afterward at the Methodist hospital. Mr. Buck was bom in Mulberry. He formerly lived in Lafayette and Frankfort. He was the brother of Arthur C. Buck, automobile editor of the Indianapolis Star. •Survivors besides the brother are, the widow. Mrs. Anna Buck, f Frankfort, his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Finley V. Buck of Mulberry; two sisters, Mrs. Alta Hetrick and Mrs. Cleo Bryan of Lafayette and another brother. Theodore S. Buck, office manager of the Prest-o-Lite Storage Battery Corporation. Mrs. Alma Marie Powell Rites Funeral services for Mrs. Alma Marie Powell. 31, 1119 North Tuxedo street, who died yesterday at the Methodist hospital after a short illness, will be held at 9:30 tomorrow morning at Shirley Brothers chapel, 946 North Illinois street, and at 2 p. m. in the St. Nicholas church of Peppertown. Burial will be in Peppertown where Mrs. Powell was born. Survivors are the husband. Earl Powell, chemist for Eli Lilly Cos.; her father. Charles Hannebaum, and stepmother, Mrs. Charles Hannebaum of Peppertown; three sisters, Miss Gerttude Hannebaum, Miss Clara Hannebaum, both of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Mabel Tate of Keystone; a brother, Virgil Hannebaum, Indianapolis, and a stepbrother, Paul Swartz. John Fulmer Funeral Set Funeral services for John Fulmer. 71, pioneer resident of Johnson county, weie held this afternoon in the Bluff Creek Christian church. Burial will be in the Salem cemetery. Mr. Fulmer was a memocr of the Bluff Creek church. Bargersville lodge lodge, F. A: A. M , and Greenwood lodge. I. O. O. F. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Flora Evans Fulmer; a daughter, Mrs. Grace Gregg; a son. Liester C. Fulmer, both of Johnson county; two sisters, 4rs. Mary Weyl and Mrs. Elizabeth McKinney, both of Indianapolis; a brother. Will Fulmer, of Bargersville, and five grandchildren. Mrs. Frances Chapin Dies Mrs. Frances Chapin, wife of Stanley N. Chapin, former resident of this city, died Tuesday in her home at Brownsville. Tex., according to word received here. Survivors are the husband and a daughter. Dcsdemona Chapin. Mr. Chapin. is a son of Mrs. G. A. Pennock. Indianapolis. MINNEAPOLIS POLICE FORCE GIVEN SHAKEUP Mayor Denies Twin Cities Poison Spots of Crime. Bp l nilfd Pri ll MINNEAPOLIS. Feb. 17— Minneapolis, which is threatened with a senate investigation of crime conditions, today saw a complete shakeup of its police department including dismissal of Chief John T. Hart. , Mayor A. G. Bainbridge, who issued a statement denying Senator Royal S. Copelands charges that the Twin Cities were "the poison spots of American crime.” roused from his hospital bed to ordej the changes He curtly dismissed the second police chief of his administration for "insubordination," appointed a new chief inspector, anew traffic chief, and replaced an important police captain. SCORES NURSE BRUISES AFTER NEW YORK RIOT Socialists and Reds f lash at AntiDollfuss Meetings. Bp 1 piled Prt is NEW YORK. Feb. 17.—Hundreds of Communists. Socialists and police nursed bruises and grudges today as the aftermath of yesterday's riot at Madison Square Garden in an antiDollfuss rally summoned by the Socialists. Dozens of chairs were smashed in the pandemonium that ensued when nearly 3.000 Communists forced their way into the mass meeting and. according to Socialist leaders, ‘tried to steal the show." Police, who had orders not to interfere with the meeting, finally took a hand when the 1.000 Socialist ushers found themselves unable ' to keep order. TARKINGTON NIGHT IS PROCLAIMED BY MAYOR Tribute W ill Be Paid Hoosier Novelist Friday. I Mayor R.*lnald H. Sullivan today proclaimed next Friday night as • Booth Tarkmgton Night." in connection with tribute to be paid the noted Hoosier novelist when liis famous play. "Seventeen." is presented at the Murat theater by a Civic theate- cast. CViofsAFETY WEEK SET Prize to Be Given Winning Districts in Contest. Next week was proclaimed as "no accident week" on all civil works projects in a bulletin sent today to all CWA district safety directors by .Neal H. Dow-, state safety directors. Mr. Dow instructed the district directors to call meetings of foremen in each county to further the campaign. Prizes will be given in* speciors whose districts make the best showing during the week.

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Charles Fenton Charles Fenton. 82. of 40 Jackson place, is entering his sixtysecond year as an employe of the E. C. Atkins & Cos. (StDPT nn Pije ) CLEANERS NOT TO HIKE PRICES, HEAD DECLARES Alleged Bombing Threat Is Denied by Man Named in Report. Denial that any immediate change in cleaning prices here is contemplated was voiced today by J. F. Huffman, managing director of the Indiana and Indianapolis Cleaners' and Dyers' Association. Inc. Mr. Huffman's statement was prompted by a report to police Thursday that Forest E. Doolittle, 2407 North New Jersey street, operator of a cleaning shop at 4318 East Tenth street, had received a threat that he would be ‘‘bombed out" unless he raised his cleaning price from 75 to 95 cent'. Mr. Doolittle, according to a police report bv Sergeant Martin Fahey and squad, found the warning note on his car after Doolittle said he refused to raise cleaning prices. Mr. Doolittle said today he does not remember turning in such a report to police and knew nothing of the report until questioned by detectives. "Prices for cleaning are approved by the NRA and can not be changed without such approval,” Mr. Huffman said in his statement. He also asserted there has been no meeting of the Indianapolis Cleaners and Dyers Association for that purpose and that any price changes made by the association would have to have the sanction of Arthur Whiteside. deputy NRA administiator.

HOUSE STUDIES EXCHANGE BILL Administration Submits Proposed Act to Committee. By l nitrri PrctK WASHINGTON. Feb. 17.—A commodity exchange regulation bill was submitted to congressional committees today by the administration as the basis for legislation this session. The bill as received by Chairman Marvin Jones of the house agriculture committee provides: 1. A commission consisting of secretary of agriculture, secretary of commerce and the attorney-general to fix a limit on purely speculative trading for long and short accounts. 2. Licensing of commission merchants handling orders for customers. 3. Outlawing of bucket shops as far as possible under federal law. 4. Requires margin money to be treated and dealt with as trust funds and prohibits the use of such money to extend the credit of or to margin the trades of others than those from whom the money was collected. 5. Transfers the power as to violations of the*act concerning Board of Trade members and individuals to the secretary of agriculture, but leaves unchanged the jurisdiction of the proposed commission over contract markets. The bill also modifies the grain futures act so that it ran be extended to any commodity. Cotton also is added to the commodities covered by the grain futures act. The proposed commission would be empowered to fix trading limits beyond which it would be unlaw-ful for any person to buy or sell a commodity for future delivery or speculative purposes. The bill outlaws “indemnities'’ also “wash sales, cross trades and all transactions which are used to cause any price to be reported, registered. or recorded which is not a true and bona fide price.” URGES UNIFORM LAW TO FIGHT NARCOTICS Depression Hit Dope Traffic. Supervisor Says. Uniform state narcotic laws must be passed to fight the illegal dope traffic. Mrs. Elizabeth Bass, supervisor of the Ninth district of the United States Bureau of Narcotics, said yesterday. The Indiana law. with a fewminor revisions.- is similar to the uniform law which is being advocated. she asserted. The illegal narcotic traffic has suffered from the depression, she declared, but more funds are needd to curb it further While in Indianapolis. Mrs. Bass conferred with J. J. Keene and Elmer A Crews, local agents. She is a forger Democratic national committee woman and the only woman executive in the narcotic service.

LIGHT TO FALL ON DARK NORSE OFFICESEEKERS New Democratic Nominations May Be Announced at Press Meeting. Several unannounced candidates are expected to be brought out in the open in the race for Democratic state nominations at a reception this afternoon in the Claypool, preceding the banquet of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association tonight. Interest in the race for the United States senate is expected to be heightened by the entrance of heretofore unmentioned candidates in the field. United States Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming, will be the principal speaker at the banquet and will be presented by Governor Paul V. McNutt. Officers to Be Presented Presentation of new officers of the editorial association will take place at the banquet. The officers as advanced by the association are Frank Finney of Martinsville, president: William C. Minor of Cannelton. first vice-president; Scott W. Chambers of Newcastle, second vice-president; Dean Barnhart of Goshen, third vice-president, and Jack Dolan of Hartford City, secretary. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic state chairman, and Mrs. A. P. Flynn, vice-chSirman of the state committee, are the only other speakers scheduled. The four announced candidates for the Democratic nomination to the United States senate will attend the candidates’ reception. They are R. Earl Peters of Ft. Wayne, Albert H. Cole of Peru. W. N. White of Covington and George W. Rauch of Marion. Mention Sherman Minton Others regarded in the senate race, but still unannounced, are Sherman Minton, public counselor of the public service commission; Lew O'Bannon, Corydon editor, and Clarence A. Jackson, gross income tax collector. Louis Ludlow, representative in congress from the Eleventh Indiana district, w r ill arrive in Indianapolis this afternoon to attend the banquet. He is being mentioned strongly by a number of Indiana editors as possible nominee for United States senator. Three candidates have announced for the Democratic nomination for supreme court judge in the Fifth judicial district. They are Judge William D. Ricketts of Rising Sun, Judge John M. Paris of New Albany and G. L. Tremain of Greensburg.

Four Seek Renomination Four members of the appellate court w’hose terms expire this year are candidates for renomination. They are Posey T. Kime, Evansville; William H. Bridwell, Sullivan; Harvey J. Curtis, Gary, and Alfonso C. Wood, Angola. Fred Pickett, Richmond, is candidate for renomination for clerk of the supreme and appellate courts. The candidate for nomination for auditor is Lawrence Sullivan of Princeton, now deputy state auditor. The banquet starts at 6:15 in the Riley room of the Claypool. BYRD’S CRAFT CONQUERS ICE Bear of Oakland on Way to Little America After Grueling Battle. By United Prat ABOARD THE S. S. BEAR OF OAKLAND. BAY OF WHALES, Feb. 17. (via Mac Kay Radio) With another great adventure behind her, this 60-year-old vessel is ploughing through more or less open water' toward Little America, apparently none the worse for a violent battle with pack ice that threatened to freeze her in. Having made a number of records, penetrating the unknown 190 miles beyond the record northeast coasting of the British ship Discovery and charting 5.000 square miles of hitherto unknown seas. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd is anxious to reach his base as soon as possible because of the rapidity with which the bay ice has disintegrated. He fears the difficulty of finding a safe mooring of the Bear. Three days ago. during her voyage of exploration, the Bear became surrounded by a thick, heavy, jagged ice pack. For hours Captain R. A. J. English sought an opening. One cold night, he knew, would freeze the vessel in for the winter. Finally, early yesterday open water was discerned on the other side of a point of the pack. The passage was about half a mile wide. English ordered the vessel into the pack. The Bear rammed ice blocks and shoved them aside. Often progress was by inches. It was disconcerting at times but there was no backing up because of the danger to the rudder from the jagged ice. Finally, after hours of struggling the ship w-as maneuvered into the open water. PLAN SPECIAL PROGRAM Washington and Lincoln Will Be Honored by Legion Post. A special program in observance of Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays will be held by Service Post 128. American Legion, and its auxiliary unit Monday night in Legion hall. Oaklandon. it was announced by Commander John F. Linder and President Alice A. McCord. Plunges to Death in Chicago By I Milrd Prrtt * CHICAGO. Feb. J 7 — George Althorp. 55. of Tulsa. Okla.. plunged to his death today from a twelfth floor window fn the Sherman hotel. Mr. Althorp had been at the hotel since Feb. 3 and had been reported ill. It was uncertain whether the plunge was accidental or suicidal. t *

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While Austria’s troops were concentrating on suppressing the Socialist uprising they were not neglecting the country's borders. In his picture men of the border patrol are seen being provided with immunition before leaving for their mountain outposts.

Trackless Trolleys to Take Over Four Lines

Public Service Commission Approves Plans of City Company. Trackless trolleys will replace street cars on four lines, as result of orders issued yesterday by the public service commission authorizing Indianapolis Railways, Inc., to make the change. The lines affected are the West Michigan, West Tenth, West Indianapolis and Northwestern. The works board previously had given permission for the company to make the change. Shipment of the new trolleys'is to be made soon. Transportation on trackless trolley lines on South Meridian street and the Riverside lines has increased 27 per cent, compared to 16 per cent in January, the company declared. Specification was made by the commission that rates should not be increased above the present fares on the rail lines. Routes approved by the works board were adopted. A reduction of about $750 a year was made in the electric rates charged by the Northern Indiana Power Company at Shelburn, Sullivan county. The commission also disposed of seventeen truck cases. app¥ntgarden GROUP LEADER Mrs. Perry O’Neal Will Head County Community Movement. Mrs. Perry O’Neal, head of the community garden movement in Indianapolis last year, today was appointed community garden chairman for Marion county by Leo M. Rappaport, chairman of the Governor’s commission on unemployment relief. Mrs. O'Neal will open an office Monday on the ground floor of the Holliday buliding, Alabama and Ohio streets. She will start at once to plan more relief gardens than in 1933. Seeds will be supplied by the state relief commission. "This year we hope to have 10,000 gardeners,” said Mrs. O’Neal. "Last year we started out with the idea that perhaps we could develop 5,003 gardens for unemployed people in Indianapolis. By June we had distributed 7.000 packages of seeds and we had more than a dozen large community gardens besides countless vacant lots.’’

7TTSCPR A DAT BY BRUCE CATTQN YOU are not apt to find any funnier book this fall than “My Life and Hard Times,’’ by James Thurber. This book, I suppose, is an autobiography—but what an autobiography! Told with a perfectly straight face, it includes some of the most thoroughly insane anecdotes and reminiscences anybody ever herd. There was the time, for instance, when the residents of Columbus, 0,. thought that a dam had burst and loosed flood waters on their city. Everybody started running—young and old, healthy and infirm, male and female—and what Mr. Thurber does with this frantic hegira is nothing less than sidesplitting. Then there was the time when the Thurber family heard footsteps downstairs at night, suspected burglars. and called the cops; then grandfather, the old Civil war veteran who slept in the attic got the idea that the cops were deserters from McClellan’s army trying to hide under his bed. and managed to shoot one before he could be set straight on things. Grandfather, in fact, is a swell character, who almost steals the whole show. He helps make “My Life and Hard Times” a book which deserves that overworked phrase “screamingly funny.” Published by Harper's, it sells for $1.75. it you read “The New Yorker,” you’re familiar with O. Soglow's delightful sketches of the little king. Well, they're collected now in book form, titled “The Little King,” and the book is a dandy to keep on the living room table. It's offered by Farrar <fc Rinehart laughs. for $2, and it is remarkably full of

MABEEELECTED BT ENGINEERS State Group Also Supports Roosevelt’s Public Works Program. Sessions of the Indiana Engineering Society annual meeting were closed last night with a banquet in the Lincoln following election of William C. Mabee, Indianapolis Water Company chief engineer, as president. Other officers named were W. A. Hanley, Eli Lilly & Cos., vice-presi-dent, and Professor W. A. Knapp, Purdue, secretary - treasurer. Trustees named were Professor Ben Petty, Purdue; Louis Guepel, state health board; Chesleigh Gray, American Aggregates Corporation; R. V. Achatz, Aurora, and A. K. Hofer, Ft. Wayne. Resolutions supporting President Roosevelt’s plan for a long-time public works program, and urging continuance of the topographical survey in Indianapolis, were adopted. The Indiana Society of Architects, meeting concurrently, also named officers. They are; Carroll O. Beeson, Crawfordsville, president; Callix Miller, South Bend, first vicepresident; Guy Mahurin, Ft. Wayne, second vice-president; Lee Burns, Indianapolis, secretary; Kurt Vonnegut, Indianapolis, treasurer, and Joe Wildermuth, Gary; Edwin C. Berendes, Evansville, and August Bohlen, Indianapolis, directors. WILLIE MASON TRIAL IS OFF Indefinite Postponement of Case Due to Lack of Funds. Indefinite postponement of the second William H. Mason slaying trial, scheduled to begin Monday in the Hamilton county circuit court at Noblesville, was announced today by Marion county Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson. Mr. Wilson's statement came after telephone conversations with Harold Beeler, Hamilton county prosecutor, who said that Mason's trial had been taken off the calendar until Marion county pays SB7O venue and attorney costs of the first trial, in which the jury failed to reach a verdict. Possibility of ~ re-indictment of Mason on the same charge by the Marion county grand jury and consequent trial in the Marion criminal court was declared by Mr. Wilson. Financial complications in the case arose Wednesday when Floyd Christian, defense attorney appointed for Mason, appeared before Judge Fred E. Hines in Hamilton circuit court and announced his withdrawal from the case. He said action was prompted by failure of the Marion county council to appropriate his SBOO fee for Mason’s defense. When Mason was arraigned he pleaded he was a pauper, and the court appointed Mr. Christian to defend him. Prosecutor Wilson stated that Mr. Christian had not applied to the Marion county council for a special appropriation before the first trial, as is required by law, and as a result, will not be paid. Mason is accused of complicity in the slaying of Sergeant Lester Jones of the Indianapolis police force during a holdup a year ago. AL FEENEYTO TALK Knights of Columbus to Hear State Safety Director. Members of the Knights of Columbus will heat an address by A1 Feeney, Indiana safety director, at the lecture program Monday night in the clubrooms, Thirteenth and Delaware streets. The program is under direction of Frank McHugh. Ex-Resident to Run Chicago Club Frank C. Hurley, former Indianapolis resident, has been named manager of the Lake Shore Athletic Club of Chicago, according to word received by his friends here. Mr. Hurley was at one time manager of tiie Indianapolis Athletic Club.

WHEELER HITS RESTAURANT WAGESCALES Proposed Code Will Bring Drastic Salary Cuts, City Man Says. Charging that wages for restaurant help as provided in the wage scale of the proposed code for restaurants will bring drastic wage cuts, W. O. Wheeler, president of the Indiana Restaurant Association, today criticised sharply the code conditionally signed by President Roosevelt. Mr. Wheeler stated last night that wages under the code will be even less than they are now under the provisions of the temporary code placed in effect some time ago. He charged that less than 10 per cent of the Indiana restaurants are abiding by the code. Surprised at Labor View "I guess we'll have to turn around and fight on the side of labor for higher wages,” Mr. Wheeler declared.” I am surprised that labor interests permitted the code to be written with those wages scale and hour provisions. We expected a maximum for forty hours for female help and forty-eight hours for male help, with the wage at 26 or 27 cents an hour. Mr. Wheeler disclosed that the restaurant code establishes a sixday w'ork week, with a maximum of fifty-four hours for male help and forty-eight hours for female help. The code provides that wherever the hours have been shorter they shall not be increased to the code level. Wages, according to the provisions of the code, have been established on two scales. Nonservice employes are to get sl2 to sls weekly according to the population of the community in which they work. Service help are to get $9.50 and $10.50 with all tips to be kept by the waiters. Will Call State Meeting Mr. Wheeler said that he would call a meeting of the state association as soon as a copy of the code is received here. The code is to become effective Feb. 26, it was learned. ‘‘The provisions adopted yesterday are exactly what the chiseler wants,” Mr. Wheeler declared. “It will prevent the legitimate restaurant operator from paying a fair wage because of competitive conditions. While admitting that the restaurant code is not fully satisfactory from a “social standpoint,” General Hugh S. Johnson, national NRA administrator, said that the code should result in the employment of more than 125,000 additional workers. The code, it was learned, permits a reduction of $3 a week for meals and a deduction for waiter’s uniforms on an agreement between employers and employes. The present temporary agreement provides a wage of $14.58 for men and sl3 for women with deductions of $3 for meals and $1 for linen.

AUSTRIA REVOLT SHOWNJN FILM Scenes in Washington Mail Probe Also on View in News Reel. The tense situation in Austria as civil war is threatened by Socialist revolutionaries, is graphically pictured in the current issue of The Times-Umversal newsreel. Graham McNamee, raido announcer and the screen’s talking reporter, describes this and other events. Martial law is declared throughout Vienna and upper Austria as the army and the Fascist heimwehr set up machine guns in the streets. The wide boulevards are filled with barbed wire, armed men and light artillery weapons, creating scenes reminiscent of the World war. Other importane news events in the reel include scenes in Washington, where the government cancelled all commercial air mail contracts and ordered the army to fly the mail, Edward G. Bremer describing his abduction and release at St. Paul, views in New York City and other parts of the country during a record cold wave, , bobsledders risking their lives at Lake Placid, anew streamlined automobile being tested in New York city, the damage caused by a bomb set by strikers in Havana, a huge shipment of gold arriving in the United States aboard the liner Bremen, and anglers fishing for sharks from a blimp at Fisher Island, Fla. Nurses’ Apartment Looted Thieves who broke into the apartment of Misses Aileen Maguire and Eva H. Evans, Methodist hospital nurses, at 1728 North Capitol avenue, stole articles valued at S7O yesterday afternoon. The loot included two bed pillows, alarm clock, eight dresses, four white uniforms, five sheets, three blankets and other articles.

Roosevelt Is Defended by Butler Professor

Dr. Slifer Debates With Socialist Orator Before 1,500. President Roosevelt’s “New Deal” has been able to “get things done despite the Constitution,” Dr. Walter L. Slifer, Butler university history professor, declared in defending the Democratic regime before a Socialist meeting at Germania hall last night. Nearly 1.500 Socialist party members and their friends attended. Dr. Slifer presented the affirmative side in a debate on the new deal, with Professor August Claessens, of the Rand school of New York City, taking the negative. Professor Claessens has been a noted Socialist orator for years. Attorney Laurens Henderson, a Republican, presided. Professor Slifer contended that the "brain trust” and the President have injected anew concept into

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George W. Rauch, Marion, former congressman, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for United States senator. Mr. Rauch said his candidacy had neither the sponsorship of Indiana state officials or Indiana officials in Washington.

CITY ELECTRIC LEAGUE ELECTS NEW DIRECTORS More Than Two Hundred Attend Supper After Annual Meeting. Election of directors of the Electric League of Indianapolis took place last night at the annual meeting in the ballroom of the Fountain Square theater. More than two hundred members attended the buffet supper and floor show that followed the business meeting. Directors elected to represent the various departments of the league are: Directors at large, A. Schleisinger, C. V. Sorenson and Harry S. Hanna; contractors’ division, Charles Glore, O. F. Wadleigh and H. M. Stradling; electrical distributors, Fred Fitchey, Roy L. Brown and Harry Rasmussen; electrical maintenance engineers, Theodore C. M. Mauch, G. W. Ferling and C. H. Reed; manufacturers, J. H. Niesse, G. A. Fischer and W. P. Thayer. In the motor repair division the directors elected are: Paul G. Winter, D. L. Fryer and R. A. Scherer; oil burner division, Dennie Dalton, Charles Buck and A. H. Voight; radio and electrical dealers, Frank Argast, C. H. Domhoff and William J. Shine; refrigerator and radio distributors, Clark S. Wheeler, S. C. Kahn and W. C. Griffith; central station division, E. G. Ralston, J. B. Bailey and Clifford L. Harrod. Mr. Ralston is president of the league. Other officers are Adolph Wagner, vice-president; Mr. Argast, treasurer, and Ted C. Brown executive secretary.

DEMOBILIZATION OF CWA STARTS 200,000 Let Out: 400.000 to Be Dropped Weekly, Starting Friday. By United Prets WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Civil Works Administrator Harry L. Hopkins proceeded today with arrangements to demobilize the entire CWA at a rate of about 400,000 weekly beginning next Friday. Formal announcement that all of the nearly 4,000,000 persons on CWA jay rolls would be dropped by May 1 was accompanied by pledges from President Roosevelt and Mr. Hopkin that the government would permit no one to go hungry. It was indicated that those in need would be cared for through the new $500,000,000 fund which congress has made available for relief grants to the states. Nearly 200.000 workers on CWA federal projects already have been dropped. Further demobilization will begin in the south and in small communities. Mr. Hopkins promised that the CWA would be maintained at its present strength in industrial cities through March. Hours hereafter will be held down to twenty-four hours weekly in urban areas and fifteen in rural communities. “Prevailing rates of wages” will be paid.

American government, putting the rights of people before that of property. He said that various new deal measures admittedly are experimental, but that it was this that made them superior to the Socialist solution which he condemned as “too dogmatic.” High praise was given the NRA for wage raising and spreading employment through shorter hours. Professor Claessens ridiculed the Democratic attempt at solving social problems without collective ownership qf the means of production. as being merely "a court plaster on a wooden leg." “What is a code of fair competion?” he asked and asnwered: “Fair competition is as absurd as polite pocketpicking or scientific chaos.” During the questioning following the debate, Persident Roosevelt was applauded, and mention of Governor Paul V. McNutt booed. |

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RESENTMENT OF HEALING POWER CAUSEDHATREO Work of Jesus for Lowly Aroused Resentment of Higher Classes. Text—Matt. 8:1-9:34. B B B BY W. E. GII.ROY. D. D. Editor of The CongrestionaJist In this lesson Jesus appears in two distinctive phases of His personality and influence. We see Him in the presence of the sick and needy, ministering comfort and, along with His comfort, bringing healing of body and soul; and we see Him also in the alluring power of his personality, drawing men to Him and into the inner circle of devotion and discipleship. No man, however, no matter how fine his character or how beautiful his deeds, is free from the criticism of those whose religion moves in the realm of form and prejudice. In proportion as the religion of men is loveless, they are bitter against those who dare to speak of religion in terms of reality and love. Jesus, in healing the man sick of palsy, assured the unfortunate man of good cheer, because his sins were forgiven. Bigotry Demonstrated The idea that any man could forgive sins roused the conventionally religious to wrath. If Jesus had no power to forgive sins they might at least have let the matter pass without great ado, but that is not the way of the narrow and the bigoted. To them a matter of that sort was much more important than the healing of a fellow mortal from a dread disease, and when Jesus manifested his power in the healing of a man it made no difference to them. Their hearts still were full of bigotry, and they hated and persecuted Jesus. How different was the reaction of the multitude, many of whom, no doubt, made no great profession of religion! When they saw that the man was healed, they marveled, and they glorified God because he had given such power to heal. Great Power Shown Following this incident, we have recorded the call of Matthew, who, we are told, was sitting at the receipt of customs. A teacher of religion, who could lure a man away from a government job to accept all the uncertainties and perils of allegiance to a prophet proclaiming what seemed to be anew sort of religious teaching, indeed must have been great. The incident was all the more remarkable inasmuch as the friends of Matthew apparently were not those who were recognized as partially religious. We do not know just where Jesus went when Matthew arose and followed Him, but we have the description of his being entertained in a house where many who were not among the conventionally religious and who were described as publicans and sinners sat down. The chances are that some of these had witnessed the miracle and had heard the words of Jesus and were drawn either by curiosity or by some inner response to a greatness they perceived in Jesus* himself.

Blow to Pride Such a sight was too much for the proud people who had faith in their own righteousness and who looked down upon those who were not as good as themselves. They could not withhold their indignation. but asked the disciples why Jesus should eat in that way with publicans and sinners. With what plain effective words Jesus answered them' “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.” The man whose goodness takes him away from his fellow men ana leads him to distrust or despise others well may doubt the genuineness of his own goodness. The greatest souls in history have been large and tolerant in their human contacts. They have felt their kinship with the sinful and with the poor and the needy, and even at the height of their religious experience, when they have viewed the high standard of Christ, they have cried with real sincerity, “God be merciful to me, a sinner.” TRAYLOR’S INSURANCE REPORTED $1,000,000 Chicago Banker’s Family Named as Beneficiaries. By United Bring CHICAGO. Feb. 17. policies estimated to aggregate $1,000,900 will be paid to the family of Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First National Bank, it was learned today. The policies which named his family as beneficiaries, were said to have made Mr. Traylor known as one of the largest insurance holders in Chicago. They made up the bulk of his estate. Mr. Traylor died. Wednesday of pneumonia. NOTED ARTIST SPEAKS Painting for Beauty’s Sake Gone,* Says Topshevsky, “Painting for beauty’s sake alone is gone forever,” was the opinion voiced by Morris Topshevsky, artist, before the John Reed Club in the Columbia Securities building last night. “What is art?” he asked. '“lt is not beauty, it is work.”

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