Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1934 — Page 3

JUNE 14', 1934

UTILITY FIGHT ‘MADE’ MINTON SENATECHOICE $4,000,000 Rate Cuts Put Democratic Hope in Public’s Eye. (Continued from Page One) ton and his conversion of the Governor to his views have left discord in the party by affronting United States Senator Frederick Van Nuys. Mr. Greenlee has established Governor McNutt as the head of the Democratic party in Indiana and Senator Van Nuys may have had some illusions along that line himself. If he had, they should be dissipated thoroughly by now in view of the Governor’s refusal to accept the senate choice of the senator—Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan of Indianapolis. Van Nuys’ Hold Fails The Van Nuys leadership failed dismally except in its iron control of the big Marion county delegation, which stood practically steadfast under the stewardship of E. Kirk McKinney, Van Nuys’ appointee to the head of the Home Owners Loan Corporation. Inability of Senator Van Nuys and Governor McNutt to get together on a senate choice was marked by a series of deadlocked conferences. The senator didn’t show up the * morning of the convention, after a parley lasting until 5 a. m. Many thought he was sulking in his tent, like a modern Achilles, but the facts are that the senator is in ill health and shortly wall take a trip for a rest. The Governor and his lieutenants w'ere in charge of the convention, and the voting went as scheduled, except that the administration program slipped one ballot. Three-Way Deal Rumored Minton was scheduled to win on the third instead of on the fourth, when a landslide swept him to the nomination. There are -reports that the program went almost completely awry because of a three-way deal between the forces of R. Earl Peters, Clarence Manion and the Marion county delegation, but they can not be confirmed. A switch of the Peters delegates and the Marion delegates to Mr. Manion would have done the work, but it was Manion’s St. Joseph county delegation of ninety-six that definitely swung the tide to Mr. Minton. When Mr. Minton didn’t win on the third ballot, the administration forces obviously scented danger. There was a hurried conference on the convention platform between the Governor, Mr. Greenlee and Frank McHale, another of the Governor’s astute advisors. Hurried Parley Heed Worried looks and a few words were exchanged and Mr. McHale and Mr. Greenlee hit the convention floor. It was all over then except the shouting and that came when Mr. Manion, or rather his advisors, switched the St. Joseph delegates. The Minton victory, it generally is agreed, did more than establish the Governor as the party’s chief. It also placed squarely on his shoulders the responsibility for a senate victory in the fall. Republican strategy is being planned carefully now. Where the Minton campaigning will be attacks on Robinson, and dwelling on Mr. Minton’s record for utility regulation, the Republican blasts will be directed, not at Mr. Minton, but at the McNutt administration. The gross income tax law and the liquor control act probably will be the focal points of attack. The Governor will be the “candidate” campaigned against because Mr. Minton is the administration choice. Monument to Greenlee It was this administration label attached to Mr. Minton, it is agreed, that led Senator Van Nuys to insist on Mayor Sullivan as the one acceptable candidate in the fiela of eight, against whom nothing damaging could be said and to whom no odor of factionalism clings. Mayor Sullivan, the senator is reported to feel, was the one Democratic candidate who could be counted on this fall to get Republican votes that ordinarily would have gone to Senator Robinson. The Republican strategists, it is no secret, feel the same way and more than one of them has expressed satisfaction at the Democratic choice. Whatever the result this fall, the Minton nomination stands as a monument to Mr. Greenlee's power in Indiana Democracy. His position in the party appears impregnable. CITY STUDENT HONORED Miss Gertrude Ford Turns in High Scholastic Mark. Miss Gertrude Ford, 4843 Park avenue, made a high mark of 4.72 out of a possible 5.00 in scholastic attainment at the University of Illinois for the second semester’s work, it was announced by the university today. Miss Ford is a senior in the college of education.

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One Indianapolis Woman Is Proud Today—Son’s Play Is ‘Coming Home’

Mrs. Anna Milholland Will See Picture Based on Work Written Here by Rising Young Playwright. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN Times Dramatic Critic Tomorrow will be Son’s day for at least one Indianapolis mother. Son’s day has not become nationally observed, but Mrs. Anna Milholland will observe it in her own way by seeing “Twentieth Century” at the Circle theater. This 74-year-old mother has a special reason for seeing this movie, because her son, Charles B. Milholland, wrote the original play in the very home in which she lives today. The characters in “Twentieth Century” are not quite ghosts to Mrs. Milholland. Her son tried out some of the play’s “wise remarks” on members of the family. Those Funny Titles “Charles has written many plays,” she said today. “This is the first one to reach Broadway and the movies. “He started writing this one after he had told us of some of the funny things he had seen theatrical producers do while directing plays. “One of his brothers told him it would make a good plajr and so Charles got busy. He’s written a lot of plays with funny titles.” Tilting back in her rocking chair. Mrs. Milholland recalled that one of her son’s earliest attempts was named “Heaven and Hell.” “Os course,” she smiled, “the title is the result of youth. One time he told me that he was writing a play about Cleopatra. I asked him who was interested in her. Mother of Seven Sons “I don't know how any one can write about love when they know nothing about it. I doubt that Charles has even been seriously in love.” Asked how old Charles was, she shook her head. “Thirty-four or 35,” she said. “I would have to look in the Bible to be exact.” “I am the mother of seven sons,” she said slowly and proudly. Looking back over the years, Mrs. Milholland recalled the time when she read every word of advice to wives in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “The writer stretched the point to look dainty and nice on rising in the morning. Who could look dainty and nice at 6 in the morning when one had to get a hot breakfast.” Never Liked Plays She chuckled softly. “So I gave up reading the Journal.” During the interview, she was holding the novel, “Black Thunder,” in her hands. “I get a basket of books each week at the library,” she said. “I never did like to read plays,” she added. “Charles is now writing one on faith healing. I’m a bit afraid of that one.” I asked her to be photographed with a bronzed head <-f Charles, as done by Robert Davidson, Indianapolis sculptor. She believes in Charles’ success, because all he has is what he has earned himself. And the son has every right to be proud of his mother’s understanding of his own genius. This son wanted to write plays. She urged him on. That’s why it will be Son’s day in Indianapolis tomorrow.

SOCIETY AWAITS NEW OUTBREAK IN ASTOR, GILLESPIE SKIRMISH

By United Fret.* NEW YORK. June 14. —Society waited today to see what Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gillespie would do about the statement of John Jacob Astor 111, who is reported to have referred to certain of her remarks as “fairly intelligent bluff.” Previously, Mrs. Gillespie had announced, in revealing tl at her daughter Eileen had given back Astor's SIOO,OOO engagement ring in return for a written apology, that if Astor ever said anything disrespectful about the Gillespies in the future she might publish the correspondence exchanged between Astor and Eileen. It was intimated the letters were such that Astor would not like to see in print. EPWORTH HEADS PLAN TO MEET TOMORROW Officers’ Conference to Be Held at City Church. The annual officers’ conference of the Indianapolis District Epworth League will be held at the Fletcher Place M. E. church at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow night. At the group sessions from 8:30 to 9:30, the league officers will be given the outline of their work for the coming year. The program of songs and devotions will be directed by Miss Lydia Michel. Steals $l5O Surgical Instruments A thief broke into the automobile of Dr. Raymond Butler, Beech Grove, last night and stole obstetrical instruments valued at $l5O.

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WAGON HITS TRUCK; BOY, 7, IS INJURED City Lad Hurt at Play; Companion Escapes Unhurt. Robert Shelton, 7, of 430 Erie street, was critically injured today when a small wagon in which he was playing on a drive in the South Side market, off New Jersey street, rolled into the side of a truck driven by Albert Duvall, 22, R. R. 8, Box 379-C. - A second small boy playing in the wagon, whose identity police did not learn, was not injured. The Shelton boy suffered internal injuries, head injuries and a broken left arm. INDIANA PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD SESSION ENDS Committee Reports, Addresses on Final Day’s Program. By United Press HANOVER, Ind., June 14.—Committee reports and addresses by Will H. Adams and Mrs. Anne Elizabeth Taylor, New York, today concluded the four-day meeting of the Indiana Presbyterian synod and the Women’s Synodical Society held jointly at Hanover college. Mrs. W. F. Bockemeyer, Gary, was elected president of the Synodical society in the annual election yesterday. 2,000 ELKS TO MEET FOR STATE CONCLAVE Annual Convention at Anderson to Last Three Days. Plans for the entertainment of 2,000 Elks expected to attend the annual state convention in Anderson Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday have been completed. The memorial speaker will be Hinkle C. Hays, Sullivan attorney, and brother of Will Hays, movie czar. Bands from Newcastle, Nobiesville, Terre Haute and Ft| Wayne will play at the convention. The program includes a golf tournament, trap shooting contests, and a parade.

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‘FAULT-FINDERS’ARE TARGET OF CAUSTIC BARRAGE BY FARLEY

By United Press WORCESTER, Mass., June 14. Postmaster-General James A. Farley, national Democratic chairman, laid down a barrage of caustic words before the Democratic state convention last night, leveled at fault-finders. He contrasted today with the days of the Hoover administration in sharp colors. “With four years of dreadful ruin behind them and because of them, these critics now assume the post of men who alone know what should be done today,” he scoffed. “This old guard that now urges you back to the sterile days of Hooverism, sat dazed by the magnitude of the ruin their lack of policy had wrought,” he roared, “silent in their fear, twirling their thumbs in nervous apprehension —they were wells without water, cupboards without bread.” CITY SOCIAL WORKERS NAME NEW OFFICERS Miss Estle Fisk Elected President at Session Here. Miss Estle Fisk was elected president of the Indianapolis chapter of the American Association of Social Workers at a dinner last night in the Severin. Other new officers are Miss Louise Griffin, vice-president; Miss Beatrice Short, secretary, and Mrs. Gladys Denison Spalding, treasurer. / FIVE FUGITIVES SOUGHT Texas Posses Seek Jail Breakers in Stolen Car. By United Press WACO, Tex., June 14. —Posses in south central Texas today searched for five prisoners who broke from jail yesterday and fled with two homages in a stolen motor car. The hostages were released unharmed.

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TARIFF BILL IS HERALDED KEY TO PROSPERITY New Reciprocal Act Marks Historic Change in U. S. Commercial Policy. BY MAX STERN Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 14.—Administration leaders consider the signing yesterday of the tariff bill not only a welding of the missing link in their chain of new deal measures, but an historic step toward world prosperity and peace. From today until the end of the next three years, the President is authorized under this measure to work out a tariff policy unique in America’s history since its first tariff act of 1789. The new policy will create a treaty or “conventional” system in place of the rigid, or autonomous, one that under recent - Republican rule pushed the United States into a position bordering on economic isolation. President Roosevelt will work the change by means of the gradual adoption of a series of trade agreements with the ten great trading nations and the smaller Latin American republics. Crisis in World Trade The thing that has wrought the amazing tariff reform is a crisis in world trade, and one that has touched the United States harder perhaps than any other exporting nation. Few realize how near the brink of disaster this country’s tariff policies have pushed the nation and its customers. Towering tariffs, politically forced by special groups and regions and resulting in retaliatory barriers and boycotts in practically every big exporting country, have shrunk the volume of world trade to approximately 70 per cent below the 1929 figure. The United States has paid more dearly for its tariff mistakes than any other nation. Between 1929 and 1933 this country’s exports fell from $5,241,000,000 to $1,675,000,000; imports from $4,399,000,000 to $1,499,000.000. To this choking off of American trade, economists trace much of the depth and duration of the depression in this country. Although we export normally only about 10 per cent of our production we export a much larger percentage of our basic products. Seven Million Jobs Involved There are an estimated 7,000,000 persons dependent on foreign trade for a livelihood in the United States. To make thlir jobs secure and to help lead the world back to sane commercial intercourse the administration is out to make the new measure work. In departing from Ihe beaten, but bogged-down, autonomous tariff path it has followed for 165 years, the United States will go neither to the left of extreme nationalism nor to the right of extreme internationalism. It will follow “the middle road,” and even upon this road it will move with extreme caution and deliberation. The leftward road toward “America self-contained” leads to stagnation, according to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace. To isolate the United States under the logic of Grundyism would mean the ultimate removal from production of more than 50,000,000 acres of good farm land, the shifting of large groups of people, the complete abandonment of foreign investments. The road to the’right would lead to economic imperialism, with equally disastrous consequences. The middle road, administration leaders explain, means a policy combining a planned economy at home with tariff reciprocity abroad. Fart of National Plan Thus, the new reciprocal trade act complements the domestic planning projects under NRA and AAA.

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OFF TO EUROPE WHERE ‘THEY’LL BE SAFE’

Horace E. Dodge, wealthy speed boat builder and racer, whose Detroit home has been closely guarded day and night because of reputed kidnap threats, is taking his young son and daughter “where they’ll be safe.” He is shown with the children, Horace 111 and Delphine, as they sailed frftm New York for England aboard the Leviathan.

Ickes Board Soon to File Planned Progress Report

Guide' for Economic and Social Policies to Be Outlined. (Copyright, 1934, by United Press) WASHINGTON, June 14.—The national planning board within a few weeks will submit the draft of Since we can not sell more goods without buying more goods, the stimulus to trade must come through bargaining. How will the new plan work? First, all interested services in Washington will gather facts. The tariff commission already is gathering data on whsft types of commodities can be used in trade agreements, what countries first can be approached. Next, the fact will be passed upon by a “general staff” or planning group representing the departments involved. This group will include representatives from state, commerce, agriculture, tariff commission and the organization of George Peek, special adviser to the President on foreign trade. This group will make recommendations to the President. Finally trade treaties will be offered to nations anxious td trade their surpluses for ours. Lktin America First The impetus to trade will be created by the President’s power to reduce tariff rates by 50 per cent, after hearings; and to remove other obstacles to international exchange. Thus, for instance, instead of California olive oil retaining airtight tariff protection in the mistaken belief that this will protect home trade—California produces only about 3 per cent of the American needs for this product—this barrier might be reduced in order to permit Spain to buy tires and tubes from Ohio. The first overtures have been made toward the Latin American countries. Because the harvest seasons in South America occur during our winter, it is possible that a seasonal arrangement can be worked with some of these countries. In all events the dire prophecies of certain senators that the new act will work to put out of business many big producing groups are not likely to materialize, in the belief of those who will help administer the act.

the first step in translating President Roosevelt’s proposed “greater New Deal” from words to blueprints. Little known, but officially recognized as a vital unit of the recovery administration, this board established by Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, has been engaged in research upon which the government may base its future physical, economic and social policies. Its work promises to bring a step nearer realization the President’s ideas of planned progress for the nation. At his desk in the Interior building, Charles W. Eliot II explains the task involved in national planning. “The board is engaged in the exploration of what might be done toward a continuing program to meet physical, economic and social requirements of the nation,” said Mr. Eliot. “What are we doing, where are we going, and why?”—those are questions before us.” The three-member board is engaged in four types of work: Advice on the public works program. Stimulation of state, city and regional planning. Co-ordination of federal planning activities. A research program contemplating preparation of a “plan for a plan”—or a report on the best organization for continuous planning work. RENTAL BUSINESS BRISK Vacancies Less Than Half of Those in Last Two Years. Apartment vacancies in Indianapolis now are approximately 14 per cent less than half those in 1932 and 1933, William P. Snethen, Apartment Owners’ Association manager, reported at an association luncheon yesterday in the Washington. NAME TOWNSHIP JUDGE Local Lawyer Is Pro Tem. Jusist in Center Township. Douglas D. Brown, associated with the law firm of Bamberger & Feibleman here, has been appointed justice of the peace pro tem. in Center township to fill the place of John F. Manning, who is seriously ill.

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NAVY’S SECRET ‘EXPLOSIVE D’ IS RECLAIMED Coroner Probing Fatal Ail} Crash Forced to Give Up Chemicals. By United Press LIBERTY, N. Y., June 14.—Thef secret formula for “explosive D’M was safely back in the hands of : hard-boiled naval intelligence of-' fleers today, and Dr. Victor Bourke.i Sullivan county coroner, enveloped* himself in a cloak of scared silence concerning the air crash in which it has played a mysterious part. ‘ “A higher .authority than the. state,” Coroner Bourke said, “hasintervened. I faced authority high-* er than that of the state. I was threatened by this power, also, and sworn to secrecy under it.” In the light of the navy depart-; ment’s frantic efforts to regain pos-’’ session of “chemicals, a missing brief case, and certain important; documents” carried by WilliamBaxter Bader, engineer-chemist of : the war explosive manufacturing firm of Semet-Solvay and a victim? of the American Airlines crash,' the hasty denials from brass-bound officers in Washington that any importance attached to the case stood, out in bold relief. Two naval intelligence officers bounced through Liberty and over, the bounding roads to Livingston. Manor, in a Ford car labeled \ “U. S. N. 4380,” They tramped into the coroner’s office and “showed him’ certain credentials.” Dr. Bourke, demurred for three’ hours, but finally turned the material over to the officers. Outside the office, two men in * civilian clothes guarded the navy’sFord and announced ferociously to? newspaper men who sought to ques-* tion them that they “had spent; five years in the navy gettin’ tough” and that it wouldn’t do for any; one to lay a hand on the automobile. ‘No Secrets/ Is Report WASHINGTON, June 14.—Rear : Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, assistant chief of naval operations, said today papers and chemicals taken from the baggage of William Bader, Buffalo chemical engineer, in the wreckage of the airplane crash inthe Catskills, contained “no naval secrets.” UNITED PROTESTANT CHURCH IS ENVISIONED Reformed Leader Predicts Gigantic Unification Soon. By United Press FREDERICK, Md., June 14.—A new, gigantic Protestant American, church was envisioned by the Potomac synod of the Reformed Church of the United States today as it met here to discuss merger of the church and the Evangelical synod of North America. . The consolidation, already underway, was hailed by Dr. George W. Richards, Lancaster, Pa„ a reformed church leader. He said the unification was expected to result in bringing all Protestant churches into a unit to be called the Evangelical Reformed church. President Roosevelt’s relief program* and “assault on the citadels of capitalism” were approved. 1,750 QUOTA FOR C. C. C. Governor’s Commission Announces New Enlistment. Anew enlistment of 1,750 Indiana young men in the civilian conservation corps has been set for July 1, the Governor’s commission on unemployment relief announced today.! Unmarried.men between the ages-' of 18 and 25 whose dependents need support will be accepted to replace corps members who have served a year. jt