Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1934 — Page 3

'APRIL 20, 1934.

HOSTILITY TO LABOR DENIED BY MENDIETA Ban Applies to Chiefs Only, Cuban Leader Says in Revealing Plans. Ihi i* th? la*t of a *rrie of four article* on the situation in Cuba. >ut to rcrover from the Machado terror and *ubequent revolution*. BV C HESTER M. WRIGHT fHritten for the Srrippt-Hnward New*piper Alliance) "Let us go in here," said Colonel Carlos Mei.dieta. the president of Cuba, as he led the way toward the imposing hall of state in the great presidential palace in Havana—that palace which I had been unable to enter when I wept digging into the awful misrule of Machado in 1927 “Let i*s sit here where we can talk,” he said. It was a day on which all business was suspended. He took an hour to go over his program with me and to listen to criticisms and very frank discussions about what I had heard. He is tolerant o/ criticism. There is something mighty near to a free press m Havana today. Certainly there lias been nothing like it for j years. I do not care to bring in the purely personal, but it helps to illustrate the situation. In a morning paper of that day there appeared an interview with me in which I had bluntly said. "There can be no possible excuse for the dissolution and destruction of unions in a free country ” Rereived bv President A friend, reading this interview, had said. After that the President will not see you." But he did and he was as courtly and as smiling nnd as candid as any gentleman could be. And we fell to talking and here was a mast charming Cuban talking about the affairs of i his country, with an utter absence of pomp and circumstance. "Mr. President,” I said, “there is a great degl of concern in American labor ranks and among liberal men and women, about the dissolution of the unions in Cuba. Would you be kind enough to tell me about that?” There was no “embarrassing moment.” I am sure that if he used English he would have said, "Why yes, you see it was this way.” But of course he didn't say that. He said the Spanish equivalent. "The unions were engaging in activities against the government,” he said. Revolutionary Efforts Charged "Do you mean there were actual revolutionary efforts?" I asked. j "Yes.” he said, 'and the govern- I ment could not permit that. They are all free to come and talk to me, whatever their beliefs. Why, I just a few days ago received spokesmen of the Anti-Imperialist League.” “A pro-Communist organization,” I interjected. “Yes,” he said, "but I do not believe political beliefs should bar any one from talking with me.” Favors Labor Federation "We look to the day when Cuba will permit the right of free organization of workers and when there will be a strong Cuban Federation of Labor which may affiliate with American labor,” I said. "Why, labor is free to organize today.” the President said. “There is nothing to prevent the organizations of unions. It is required only that those officers who held office when decree No. 3 was issued shall not again be elected to office for two years. They can organize today with new officers and I share the wish for a strong labor movement, j I hope you will carry that, message to the workers of the United States.” President Mondiet a went on to outline other aims. I have been discussing with some Americans the matter of bringing certain technical advisers to us. to help in our newplanning. I am sura that under President Roosevelt there is a newfeeling toward the Cuban people. Notice that already our imports have improved. With stabilization of sugar and with a revision of the permanent treaty Cuba will move ahead rapidly."

Land Program Planned “We are working out a program for the parceling out of land to our workers in small holdings and we shall encourage diversification of crops, so that w> may move away from dependence up n a siugle crop. “We are studying the lroor situation with a view toward enacting labor laws and these may include a law for a minimum wage and one to create machinery for the settlement of strikes.'’ Every expression of the President was in harmony with sound progressive ideals. He spoke with fervor of creating a condition under which the Cuban masses should be able to earn fair wages "and live decently, which but few of them are able to do today. He spoke of personal freedom as a great goal. There is no his sincerity. Alien Hordes Present He took pains to emphasize that he did not desire the presidency and that he purposes to leave it as soon as it is made possible for him to do so. But there is no successor in sight and. barring revolution, none can be elected for some months. Meanwhile Cuba is overcrowded with unemployed workers. Within her borders are many thousands of Jamaicans and Haitians, brought in under Mr. Machado for the sugar fields, willing to live far below the normal Cuban standard. Grau had begun a vast program of transporting these aliens back to their own countries. That has been stopped, but President Mendieta is sending home a considerable number of “agitators,” largely of Spanish origin. So, Cuba's problems are enormous. Ho clear direction is yet visible. American advice undoubtedly is potent and it is likewise undoubtedly rot illuminated by any great humanitarian or progressive purpose. A powerful American corporation representative went into conference with the President as I went out. Trees Grow Huge Lemons Two trees of the big South American lemon, which yields a pint of juice, are now bearing fruit at the University of California's citrus experiment station.

MANY MOTORISTS WRECKED AT PASSAGES UNDER BELT LINE BRIDGE

just to the right of the street car tracks in the picture above.

Junior Music Federation Members to Broadcast

HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS WILL GIVE FESTIVAL Grade Schools Also to Participate in Event. Director of the Southport high school chorus, which will participate in the fourth annual music festival at the school at 8 tonight is Mrs. Elsie Eastburn, who has de-

voted much time and effort to preparing the organization for the extent. Bands and orchestras from neighboring grade schools have been combined and rehearsed by Whilden Amos, supervisor of instrumental music at Southport high school. This newly - organized group will pre-

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sent a concert at the music festival with Mr. Amos as director. Mrs. Jeannette Hampton will have charge of a grade school chorus of more than 400 voices, which will sing Kountz’s cantata, • Spring Cometh.” WILEY POST’iS NAMED WORLD CHAMPION FLIER International League of Aviators Honors Globe Airman. />\y 1 nitt'l Prrtu PARIS. April 20.—Two American airmpn were honored by the International League of Aviators as announcements were made today of regards for outstanding achievements in the air last year. Wiley Post, who circled the globe in record time for a solo flight, was named world champion airman. T. G. W. Settle, who piloted a stratosphere balloon more than eleven miles into the air. was named world champion spherical balloon polit. Maryse Hilsz. France, was named champion airwoman. She had strong competition from Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Hugo Eckener, Germany, commander of the Graf Zeppelin, was named champion dirigible pilot.

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Prizes Offered to Boy and Girls Receiving Most Votes. Junior members of the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs will present a program dedicated to their convention, scheduled here next Saturday, over the William H. Block Company's cnildren's hour tomorrow morning. Following its customary policy, the William H. Block Company will present prizes to the boy and girl receiving the largest number of votes from the radio audience. Miss Anne Walsh, Kokomo, state junior counselor of the federation, arranged the program which will be broadcast from 10 to 11 over WFBM by children from over the state. Mrs. Frank B. Hunter, music federation president, will speak. Included in the entertainment will be the following affiliated federation groups and their sponsors; Ogden Junior Chorale, Mrs. James M. Ogden; Junior Musical of Muncie, Miss Lorraine Cox; Allegro Club of Winamac, Mrs. Wilma Byfield; Junior Club of Irvington School of Music, Miss Alice Cooper; Junior Music Club of Peru, Mrs. S. Malone; Junior Music Club of Bloomington, Mrs. W. Arnett; B. Natural Club of Bloomington, Mrs. Dillon Geiger; Miss Walsh s Schubert Club of Kokomo; Mrs. Clair McTurnan's Junior Club, trio from Greensburg high school, orchestra directed by Mrs. Thomas Clerkins; Miss Evelyn Poston s Junior Club of Martinsville. and the B Sharp Music Club of Bloomington, Mrs. Ward Biddle and Miss Henrietta Morris, directors. SECOND OF 3 BUTLER LECTURES ANNOUNCED First Talk Discusses Hebraic Gifts to Civilization. Dr. Abram Leon Sachar, Urbana, 111., will speak May 1 in Jordan hall, Butler university, in the second of a series of three lectures under auspices of the division of evening and extension courses. Dr. Sachar made the first of the lectures last night, discussing Hebraic contributions to the world’s civilization.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

25 Mishaps in One Month Have Occurred at Danger Spot. Scylla and Charbdis are as nothing when compared to the automobile passages beneath the Belt railway bridge which creates East Washington street in the 3500 block. As many as twenty-five accidents in one month and as many as five in one day have occurred at this, one of the most perilous traffic hazards in all Indianapolis. The picture above shows the incline down to the bridge and the passage itself. Since water leaks down from the bridge, the motoriccoming downhill to a narrow passage also must negotiate pavement which usually either is wet and slippery or covered with ice. A large portion of the available space for passage is devoted to the street car tracks. The picture below shows a single automobile passage under the bridge and makes it clear that there hardly is more room for a single car to slip through with any reasonable margin of safety. The insert shows the damaged danger sign placed at the bridge after numerous Indianapolis citizens and visitors had careened into it. It is attached to the stanchion just to the right of the street car tracks in the picture above.

MRS. EMMA ESAREV DIES SUDDENLY HERE City Woman Was Wife of Prominent Lawyer. Mrs. Emma Louise Esarey, 66, died suddenly this morning at her home, 3527 College avenue. She was the wife of Sol H. Esarey. onetime partner of James E. Watson, former United States senator, Mrs. Esarey was born in Carmel - ton, Ind., in 1868. and came to Indianapolis with her husband in 1905. She was a member of the Central Avenue M. E. church. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 Monday morning in the Hisey & Titus funeral home. Surviving her are the widower, who is general counsel of the United Mutual Life Insurance Company, and three brothers, Elmer E. Clark, Earl R. Clark and James A. Clark, all of Indianapolis. BABY SUFFERS BURNS FROM BOILING LARD Infant Rushed to Hospital After Upsetting Hot Grease. Boiling lard splashed Donald Lee Riddell, 14 months old, and caused severe burns on the left cheek, neck and right arm last night. The child pulled a pan of lard from a stove at his home, 215 South Summit street. The fire department first sid squad treated the child and police took him to city hospital. GETS DIVINITY DEGREE Manual Alumnus to Be Graduated From Hamma School May 27. Alfred G. Belles, Manual graduate and graduate of Wittenberg college in 1931, will receive the bachelor of divinity degree from Hamma Divinity school, Springfield, 0., at commencement, May 27.

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RETAILERS HEAD SEEKS REPEAL OF INCOME TAX Staggering Bond Debt Also Blamed for Distress of Taxpayers. G. Fred Wiedman, president of the Associated Retailers of Indiana, meeting today at the state fairgrounds, asked the assembled retailers yesterday to indorse a legislative program looking to repeal of the gross income tax. Mr. Wiedman suggested replacement of the gross income tax, if necessary, with a wide-based tax enactment, to finance the maintenance and administration of the public school system and savings on governmental expenses, through reorganization of governing machinery and a moratorium on the issuance of public bonds. "Our assemblage here from the various trading centers of this state is a demonstration that the retail industry is unquestionably opposed to an unfair and an unjust taxation burden,” said Mr. Wiedman. “That we might not be accused of a selfish motive, but rather that we might by this demonstration create a type of thinking that will spell tax relief to the entire citizenry of our state, you will here today indorse a program that shall contribute to the correction of a dislocated tax responsibility.” Law Is Reviewed Mr. Wiedman reviewed the history of the enactment of the $1.50 tax limitation law, saying that it came as a direct result of the demand for tax relief and that while the honesty of purpose which fathered the tax limit law can not be questioned, the short-sightedness of wisdom and vision demonstrated “in this session of the legislature can find no haven.” Asa. result of the tax limit law, he said, governmental units found themselves facing a serious deficit and breakdown of public welfare agencies and public education threatened. Enactment of the gross income tax law is traceable to these conditions, he said. “That the gross income tax law in its present form is the most vicious tax levy ever legislated need not be gainsaid. This tax has proved to be nothing- short of confiscation. The retailing industry in Indiana today finds itself confronted with a dollar and cent tax load increased to a point as high as 400 per cent, greater than in any previous year. Failure Is Charged This present gross income tax law has failed miserably in its claim that it would equalize the distribution of the tax load by spreading the tax base. What it has actually accomplished is the shift of the major portion of the tax burden to other shoulders, making it class legislation in fact, if not in theory. It positively is essential that this present gross income tax law be repealed immediately at the convening of the next session of the legislature. “To demand repeal of the gross income tax law is one thing, but to make possible its repeal demands another thing, namely, that this association exert its influence in the name of such governmental reforms as to accomplish an actual dollar and cent tax relief for every Hoosier. Therefore this association should today support in its resolution a corrective of another serious factor to the problem of reducing the dollar and cent tax load. Bond Debt Is Curse “The serious factor is the curse of our bonded indebtedness. Herein have our ancestors sinned against this day. and herein are we sinning against the day of our posterity. . . .” The speaker explained that in his home county of St. Joseph the public bonded indebtedness amounts to SBO a person, to which must be added the huge interest payments that must be made before the debt is liquidated. Wisdom, he said, was exercised when a prohibition was placed in the state constitution against state bonded indebtedness, but this wisdom was not carried through to the lesser units.

GIRL SCOUTS TO HONOR ‘BROWNIE’

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Brownie Carolyn Jones (left) looks with admiration at the Girl Scout uniform of her sister Barbara (right), who will be guest of honor Saturday afternoon at the Brownie revel to be held in the Broadway M. E. church. Barbara is the first Brownie in Indianapolis to become a Girl Scout. The Brownie organization is preparatory to scouts.

CLOTHES TAKE FIRE, HE CALLS FIREMEN; ‘DAMAGE IS SLIGHT’

By United Press LONDON, April 20.—James Oliver, out for a stroll, smelled something burning and found it was his coat. He turned in a fire alarm. The fire brigade responded, put out the fire and turned in this report: Nature of fire—Man in street. Cause—Unknown. Damage Wearing apparel burned. Other particulars—James Oliver, 22, burned on face and taken to hospital. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: North northwest wind, 13 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.03 at sea level; temperature. 40; general conditions, overcast, lower scattered clouds; ceiling, estimated at 8,000 feet; visibility, 25 miles.

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MORPHINE PILLS TAKEN FROM DOCTOR’S AUTO Parked Car Thieves Get Loot Valued at S2OO. Clothing and a quantity of morphine, formed the loot taken from three parked cars last night and early today. Dr. Emery Lukenbill, 4844 College avenue, reported to police that a bottle of morphine tablets valued at $65 was taken from his car while it was parked at 1700 North Pennsylvania street. Other thefts were, Fred Montgomery, 305 North Pine street, S4O topcoat; Jack Detweiler, 8131 Keating street, Niles Center, 111., clothing valued at SIOO. Dean Addresses Journalists By United Press NEW YORK, Aril 20.—A recommendation that the province of Nobel peace prize awards be extended to newspaper and press association writing was made by Dean Carl W. Ackerman of the Columbia university school of journalism, at the annual meeting of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents.

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THREE G. 0. P. BOLTERS GET NO DEMOGRATIG AID Hiram Johnson, Cutting and La Follette Not to Ask Party's Support. (Copyright. 1934. by United Press! WASHINGTON. April 20—Three ; of the four Republican senators who bolted in 1932 to support President Roosevelt will run for re-election this fall without depending on help from the Democratic party, it was revealed today. The fourth of the group. Senator George W. Norris of NeDraska, does not come up for re-election this year. The three are Senators Hiram W. Johnson of California, Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin and Bronson Cutting of New Mexico. Their political fortunes are of more than ordinary interest because of their past independence from the regular Republican leadership and indications in 1932 that Democratic support would be swung to them in appreciation of the help they gave Mr. Roosevelt. The Democrats have offered to help two of them. In neither case, however, will the candidate depend solely on pledges or promises from the party to which he would be in nominal opposition. Mr. La Follette is the only one who hasn’t received a gesture of friendliness from James A. Farley, chief of the Democratic favor dispensers. Here is the first authentic summary of the campaign plans of Senator Johnson, La Follette and Cutting: Mr. Johnson will call himself a progressive Republican and register as such. However, he also will run | in the Republican and Democratic primaries. California law states that a man can not accept a nomination from one party if he fails to win the nomination of the party in which he registers. Mr. Johnson is going to accept Farley’s offer of the Democratic nomination but will have the Progressive nomination if any lastminute switches deprive him of another place on the election ticket. TECH SENIORS OFFER PLAY, ‘LITTLE WOMEN’ L-Z Division Presents Class Drama Tonight in Auditorium. The L-division of the senor class at Technical high school will present “Little Women,” their class play, under the direction of Miss Clara M. Ryan, tonight in the school auditorium. Mary Jane McGaughey and Charles Rennard will portray the leading characters, Jo and Laurie. Other members of the cast include Dorothy Lagler, Margaret Oldham, Glendora Valentine. Margaret Unverssrw, George Murphy, Alberta Riffle, Frank Noffke, George Messmer, Virginia Sims, and Ted Lehmann.