Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 124, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1934 — Page 3

OCT. 3, 1984

SENTIMENT FOR BONUS GAINS IN LEGION'S RANKS

Bitter Fight on Perrenial Issue Expected at Miami Parley. BY THOMAS L. STOKES • Tin... Special Writer WASHINGTON. Oct. 3—American Legion officials who professed : ten days ago to see little danger of a cash bonus uprising at the com- . ing Miami convention revised their j estimates this afternoon as they ] analyzed sentiment among the delegates. Latest reports show that fourteen states and the District of Columbia will send delegates committed for cash payment by action of departmental conventions, which represents 38 per cent of voting) strength. This gives the bonus a i head start. Only two state conven-; tions rejected bonus resolutions. New Lork and Louisiana. It was not an Issue this year in the other state j conventions. Some states which; took no action one way or the other, j however, have voted previously for immediate cash payment. The convention which runs from Oct. 21 to 25. is likely to see a real fight over this perennial issue which haunts congress and gives sleepless nights to Presidents. Renewed Campaign Looms A renewed bonus campaign now j appears in prospect at the coming session of congress. Beyond the potential threat from the American' Legion. Representative Wright Pat-! man iDrm.. Texas) has jumped back into the limelight to announce he has drafted anew bill for immediate payment. It would require $2,200,000 000. Mr. Patman, whose bill passed the house last session, opened his new drive before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which has supported the bonus for several years. He undoubtedly will take his case next before the legion. For the last four years he has been a member of the legion's national legislative committee which has jurisdiction over the bonus issue. Last year he withdrew from the bonus fight, declining to sign a house petition which finally forced a vote and passed his measure through that politically thinskinned body. Administration officials, confronted with large outlays for relief and the recovery program, are prepared to do everything possible to squelch the drive. Roosevelt May Interfere President Roosevelt may find it necessary to repeat his personal and successful plea of last year. Every attempt will be made to prevent an indorsement by the legion because of its recognized power in congress. Bonus champions are seeking an alliance with inflationary blocs with the argument that the bonus offers the best means of getting purchasing power into the hands of a large segment of the population. For this reason it may become a formidable campaign. Some legion leaders will seek to check the tide. They argue that the legion got everything it wanted when congress passed over President Roosevelt’s veto the bill restoring various benefits taken away from the veterans by the economy act. and that it therefore is not wise to flaunt the administration again. PO ST A L R E CEIPTS GAIN Increase of 1.48 Per Cent Shown Over September, 1933. Postal receipts for last month were an increase of 1.48 per cent above September, 1933. Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker announced today. Last month's total figure was $291,633.

Submarine Genius Seeks Gold Under East River Bullion Shipped by British to Quell Revolution, Goal of Inventor in Vacuum Cleaner Device.

I nitre! Press MILFORD. Conn.. Oct. 3.—Simon Lake, known the world over as submarine expert and inventor, completed plans today to go gold hunting on the floor of East river, which runs within the shadow of New York's towering skyscrapers.

Within the next two weeks, an especially constructed submarine will descend twelve fathoms to the bottom of East river, opposite Stony Point, and explorations of the sea floor will be commenced in a search for millions in gold lost when the British frigate Hussar was sunk 164 years ago. It is the ambition of Lake to retrieve the more than $5,000,000 in gold which had been shipped from England to carry on the fight against rebellious colonials during the American Revolutionary war. The submarine, a combination undersea and surface craft, will be launched at Stratford Friday and after trial runs will be ready to undertake a venture which has been defeated by treacherous currents more than a dozen times within the last 100 years. • m m THE craft, the construction of which has been closely guarded. is 130 feet long and contains an air chamber which permits divers to leave the ship and re-* turn while the vessel is submerged and to operate at will along the Meat and Potatoes Aren't Enough I Vitamin “D” Gum A famous nutritionist says. "The greatest deficiency in the diet today it the lack of Vitamin "D”. This valuable food element is not found in the every day diet It must be obtained from other sources. Keep fit—chew orbit Vitamin "D” Gum. 5c a package everywhere.

Rival Mayor Candidates Come to Grips —Fraternity Variety

BY TRISTRAM COFFIN Tine* Staff Writer THE bonds of brotherhood last night held two profound political rivals who happened to be initiated into the mystic rites of the same college fraternity in their less serious undergraduate days. Brother John W. Kern (Washington and Jefferson). Democratic mavoral nominee, and Brother Walter Pritchard (Indiana), old guard candidate for mayor, met and modestly disparaged their respective efforts at the Phi Gamma Delta Indianapolis alumni chapter meeting at the Athenaeum. Genial Brother Omer F. Jackson 'lndiana*. tJemocratic state chairman, sat between the two political foils at the speakers' table and adroitly avoided any mention of specific merits or demerits of the candidates in his capacity of toastmaster. Although to the boys Just lately out of college it was another chance to rip it up for the Fijts sas the Phi Gams are called), the older members regarded the occasion as a somewhat unique political meeting where neither candidate tactfully could launch into a red-blooded campaign speech. a a a THE theme of the five-minute talks by Judge Kern and Mr. Pritchard seemed to be that they were and would be congenial friends and that campaigns were so much nonsense that had to be endured by the sprinters in America's most popular game. There was some loose talk by fraternity officials of “illustrious brothers.” The illustrious brothers looked at each other a little sheepishly and grinned as if thinking "what are we boys doing here as distinguished guests among our I brothers.” Speaking of what lay heavily on their minds, the candidates spoke of the rigors of the political campaign and candidly admitted that they wished the race was over and won. They declared that the campaign was amazingly free of invectives of one mayoralty candidate for another because each respected the other. Mr. Pritchard said he was afraid to take anv stabs at Judge Kern because if his opponent were elected he was afraid he might get arrested for crossing the street in the middle of the block. nan JUDGE KERN replied with equal jollity that if Mr. Pritchard were elected, he expected no leniency on such a minor offense as jaywalking—there were bigger and better things to be done. Both candidates, as they met in the doorway, expressed surprise that the other could be looking so well. Brother Pritchard admitted embarrassment in his talk that among the brethren there should be a newspaperman <De Pauw). There was some brotherly laughter among the tables that the newspaper man borp the same last name as one of Brother Pritchard's dear friends. In closing their addresses, each candidate expressed appreciation that he had been able to meet and talk with his rival on com- 0 partively friendly grounds and that when the campaign was over the two would be able to while away pleasant hours with reminiscences of the battle. Veterans to Hold Dance Captain William E. English auxiliary, No. 56. United Spanish War Veterans, will hold a dance at the Antlers tomorrow night.

river bottom without direct contact with the surface. The ship has been described as a “vacuum cleaner,” which sucks the mud from the sea floor and carries it to a barge on the surface where it can be examined for traces of the lost treasure. The exact operation of the “vacuum cleaner” was not disclosed by Mr. Lake, who preferred to wait until after the launching to describe the mechanism of his latest creation. The location of the sunken hulk is above Hell Gate and in treacherous waters where strong currents repeatedly have defeated attempts to descend to the bottom of the river to search for the wreck, which for many years has been covered with sand and mud carried along by the tides. Through use of the “vacuum cleaner” it is hoped to uncover the hulk, probably buried many feet, and remove the treasure in slow stages.

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Their college fraternity grip united the two major party candidates for mayor at the Phi Gamma Delta Indianapolis alumni chapter dinner last night at the Athenaeum. Superior Judge John W. Kern, Democratic nominee (left), enjoyed the unusual procedure as much as did Walter Pritchard, Republican nominee (right).

Hugh Johnson Remains Actor to Very End And When He Leaves the Hall at Last, Only the Cynics Are Dry-Eyed.

• BY LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer 4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—The general couldn’t go on. Thirteen pages of manuscript he had dropped one by one to the floor after reading them to his assembled staff, and the fourteenth and last lay before nim. He got down to where he had written: “And now that it is time to go! ‘The Lord thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious

unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace.’ ” But Hugh Johnson couldn’t say the words. He stood there silent for half a minute, before a hall jam-packed with the men and women of NRA, and you could have heard a pin drop but for the rustle of handkerchiefs. Th';n, abandoning his script, in a voice that was choked with welling tears, the general half cried, half sobbed: “God bless you.” It was all over. The general headed for his old office for a few days of handshaking and reminiscing. n a u A NEWSPAPERMAN, leaving the hall, exclaimed to a colleague: “What an actor that man is!’* “Who said that?” cried an NRA underling, threatening to whip them both for a fancied slur. Johnson went out as he came in, riding a whirlwind of emotion, a prodigious actor on the stage of life whose every word and gesture, even his enemies would admit, sprang from the heart. That husky, strangely musical voice which has stormed and pleaded across fifteen months of American history was full of magic as the general, red-faced, delivered his swan song to “the army which has fought so well together.” The galloping rhetoric of old was at its best as he described the poignancy of departure. “My departure from leadership of you in this holy thing has been to me an agony of spirit which has wracked me. physically and mentally. ... I said it would be red fire in the beginning and dead cats and oblivion in the end.” nun HE told them the new NRA organization was his own idea, the new executive personnel his own men. Perhaps there was a note of vanity as he pleaded that his hearers give their full devotion “to these seven men who have been selected to take my place.” A bitter humor there was, too: “Just before I resigned there seemed to have been a regular ‘last call for dead cats.’ ” But, “since the news of my leaving was out, the whole tenor of public comment has changed. My desk is piled high with editorials, telegrams and letters, any one of which would bring tears to the eyes of a brass Buddha.” Pride of achievement, grinning

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scorn of his detractors, sorrow at leave taking—whatever key the gruff voice struck reflected in the throng. And when on the final note of unchecked grief the general took his leave, amid tears and cheers, only the oldsters and the cynics were dry-eyed. AD CLUB MEETING SET Jack H. Rhoades Is Listed for Address Tomorrow. Jack H. Rhoades, president of Rhoades, Hice & Etter, Inc., will speaks on “Pictorial Progress in Advertising” at a luncheon of the Advertising club of Indianapolis Inc., at the Columbia Club tomorrow.

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ELECTRIC CODE 'PIGEON-HOLED' BY ROOSEVELT

President Fails to Sign Agreement: Fears Rise in Power Rates. BY LEE G. MILLER Timei Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—A proposed NRA code for a $13,000,000,000 industry has rested without action in a White House pigeonhole for four months. Approved by the bulk of the industry and recommended by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, a code for the electric light and power industry was submitted to President Roosevelt “about June 1. Apparently neither the industry nor the NRA has sought to expediate its signature by the President. The suggestion was made in wellinformed quarters here today that the administration’s apparent reluctance was bom of fears that the code with its wage and hour provisions might be used as an argument for electricity rate increases. Such a result, running counter to the rate-cutting fostered by the Tennessee Valley Authority and by the Public Works Administration, would be far from welcome to the administration. Meanwhile the industry, which employs around a quarter of a million persons, was said to have adopted, in most cases, the wage and hour provisions contained in the proposed code. This was done voluntarily. The only binding agreement made by the industry was to observe the wage and hour conditions of the President’s reemployment agreement, and some units did not even sign this. The stalemate of the electric code has held up code negotiations for a dozen other branches of the utilities industry. . . It was said at NRA today that few complaints have come from labor about its treatment by the electric power industry. ‘PAPA’ DEAN TO SEE BOYS IN ST. LOUIS “Dizzy Will Win Two, Paul One,” He Claims. By United Press HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 3.—“Dizzy’ll win two games and Paul one and the Cards are a cinch to win the world series,” A. M. Dean, 62-year-old father of Dizzy and Paul Dean said today as he shaved with one hand and attempted to stuff a shirt and a necktie jnto a suitcase with the other. “Yes Siree, and I’ll be right on hand in the front row to see my boys turn the trick,” he added. “I’m leaving by bus at 11:45 tonight, going through Dallas, Oklahoma City, aKnsas City and will arrive in St. Louis at 11:30 tomorrow night.” CHIC SALE LOSES OUT Comedians Cincinnati Engagement Canceled by Producers. By United Press CINCINNATI, Oct. 3.—A Cincinnati engagement of “Elephant on His Hands,” featuring Charles (Chic) Sale, was canceled by producers after dissatisfaction with the show had caused cancellation in Pittsburgh.

Better Times Assured; Senator Norris Thinks Noted Liberal Predicts New Era Wherein Human Values Will Be Recognized as All-Important.

(Copyright. 1934. by United Press* M’COOK. Neb.. Oct. 3.—A new era in government. In which recognition of human values will harmonize political and religious theory-, is visualized by Senator George W. Norris as the outgrowth of current social, economic and political change. The Nebraska progressive, who has seen the “New Deal” outreach many of his pioneer liberal views, is willing to keep pace with the march of political progress which he believes must come. There is no place to

stop, in his opinion. The Constitution was not intended to be a “stop-signal to progress.” “The fight in which we are engaged is for the preservation of our civilization. That civilization is better today than it was one hundred years ago because men going before us did not fear progress, Mr. Norris says. The whise-haired senator is in his home state now to lead what he believes may be his last fight for a progressive issue—the creation of a unicameral state legislature. ' In an interview with the United Press he discussed the changing picture of the times. As one of the original progressive leaders he has seen many of his policies. once considered radical, become the accepted law of the land. The New Deal, in many phases of social thought, has advanced beyond the original Norris conception. What did the veteran progressive think of it all? What did he think of the future?

Another Depression Would Be Fatal, He Thinks “It would only take about one more depression to kill our civilization,” he said. “If we are as wise as I think we are, we will recognize that we can not permanently exist with an army of 13.000.000 unemployed. We will devise, through legislation, a means to prevent the return of depressions which the older

school of economists tell us are natural. “To do so will require that we set aside some of our cherished ideals which have outlived their usefulness. What we need is humanity in our statutes. If we learn to practice humanity in government, recognize that we are. after all, our brother’s keeper and that the sole object of government is the happiness of the people, there will be no difference between politics and religion.” Where will such a course lead us? Will it mean the creation of new governmental forms? Not W’orried About Future These questions concern but minor details in the reforms which must come, Mr. Norris said. “I’m not worried as to where we are heading. The fact that we are on the move, progressively pressing forward, is the thing that counts. “As long as I’m satisfied that every step is honestly made and right, I’m willing to take it. There is no place to stop.” The charge that such a policy means “experimenting with government” is no cause for fear in his opinion. • No Cause for Alarm “I do not admit that we are experimenting,” he says. are answering the demand for progress. The New Deal, the changing attitude toward labor, our social and economic reforms of today are no more an experiment than the actions of our forefathers in rebelling against England, freeing the slaves, adopting the initiative and referendum.” There will always be a place, Mr. Morris believes, for the man with new ideals and fresh ideas. He sees no cause for alarm in the nomination of Socialist-Democrat Upton Sinclair for Governor of California. No Room for Wreckers “Os course there is a place in the political scheme of things for men like Mr. Sinclair. The same question has been raised concerning me. And I believe I have given and shall still give valuable service to my nation and to humanity.” The Constitutional bugaboo,

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flaunted whenever change is suggested, is little more than amusing, Senator Norris said. “Our Constitution represented the ultimate in progressive government 150 years ago. It met the demands of that period with courageous measures such as we seek to invoke today. It sought to guarantee to men the right to improve their station through improving their government. It was not intended to be the stop-signal to progress which many would make it.” There is, he says, no place in the modem scheme of things for the man with the wrecking bar. “The need of the day is for men with constructive idealism. Through them, I'm confident that we will not only save our present civilization, but will evolve anew era in which human values will be the measure of governmental success.”

WITNESS PICKS WRONG MAN; HE’S ACQUITTED Defendant, 50, Bought Peanuts for Grandfather, She Says. By United Press BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Oct. 3.Anna Rose, Negro, told a federal court jury today that 50-year-old Jesse Shinn, charged with counterfeiting, gave her a $1 bogus bill when buying peanuts for ‘:his grandfather.” “Anna, show us which man here is Shinn,” said defense counsel, Francis Hare. Anna pointed out Robert Hardwood, assistant United States district attorney. The jury acquitted Shinn. FLOWER SHOW TONIGHT Mars Hill Pupils to Stage Exhibit of Autumn Blooms. Pupils of the Mars Hill school will hold a flower show in the school building at 7 tonight. Prizes will be awarded for the handsomest bouquets of the various autumn flowers. All cut flowers exhibited will be sent to the Riley hospital after the close of the show.

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NRA ATTORNEY SCORES POINT IN WEIRTON TRIAL Cards Show Two-Thirds of Workers Enrolled in A. F of L. Union. By United Press WILMINGTON. Del., Oct. 3. Membership cards in the N. R. A. lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers indicating that two-thirds of the 3,000 Weirton Steel Company workers eligible had joined the union, were introduced as evidence today at the federal court trial of the government's suit to compel Weirton to carry out labor provisions of the recovery act. The cards, submitted by the financial secretary of the lodge, George Moore, were the most important link the government has yet submitted in support of its contention that the company union plan does not represent” the employes' free choice in the matter of collective bargaining. The cards, each indicating that one Weirton employe had been initiated into Amalgamated, were tied with string. Each was red and many had the bottoms torn off. This, it was explained, was because the employe represented had paid his initiation fees in full. In addition Mr. Moore produced a single bundle of white cards which he described as “pledge cards.” There were about 300. Some of the names, Mr. Moore said, were duplicated in the red cards. Mr. Moore, who caused a sensation yesterday by saying he was discharged on an “open and shut case” after the Weirton strike, amplified his charges of coercion today. He said that on lodge meeting nights as many as fourteen or fifteen officials or foremen of the Weirton plant stood across the street as men went into or came from the lodge hall. This action, Mr. Moore testified, had a tendency to make lodge members afraid of losing their lobs. On the night Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania spoke at the lodge, he said, the foremen showed the greatest turnout.

LEGION AIDS DRIVE TO KEEP OPEN SCHOOLS Americanism Director to Confer With U. S. Education Chief. A conference between Russell. Cook, director of the American Legion’s Americanism commission, and John Studebaker, federal education commissioner, in Washington Friday will mark the opening of a drive by the legion to keep the country’s schools open full terms next year, Legion national headquarters here announced today. Director Cook also will discuss with Mr. Studebaker other aspects of the Americanism commission’s program for the coming year. EXPLOSIVE IS STOLEN Supersensitive Powder Taken; Firm Pleads for Return. By United Press BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Oct. 3. Officials of the Remington Arms Cos„ from whose powder reservation ten cans of a supersensitive explosive were stolen, have promised immunity to the thieves if the explosive is returned. An appeal to the robbers was issued by Works Manager James H. Chasmar.