Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1934 — Page 1

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INSULL SERENE AS CLIMAX OF TRIAL NEARS Former Utilities Czar Calm Despite Overruling of Defense Motion. DINES WITH WIFE, SON Jury May Get Gigantic Swindle Case Thursday or Friday. By f mlit4 prt . CHICAGO. Nov. 19.—The climax of a hie which led from a farm honu' on London's outskirts to the pur pi sos one of the world's greatest finai.ri.il empires approached rapidly today for Samuel Insull. Before the week is out he probably will stand a quitted or convicted of wrecking his own $2 000 000.000 utility system in a swindle of more 500 000 investors.

Law vers for clexen of the whitehaired old man’s co-defendants in their trial on mail fraud charges were ready today to conclude prrsentafon of motions for directed acquittals. Final arguments will be heard immediately afterward. Court attaches predicted that the trial, nearing the end of its seventh we k will go to the jury Thursday or Friday. Judge James H. Wilkerson indicat'd Saturday that he will deny motions for directed acquittals. He acted negatively then upon pleas by Insull end his son. Samuel Insull Jr., and four other defendants. Insull Unperturbed ‘The government has made a case uflftcient to warrant presentation to the jury.” he said. The elder Insull. whose colorful life and dominating personality have made him the center of the courtroom scene, was apparently unperturbed by its fast nearing end. with it: dramatic possibilities in shaping the lives of himself, his son and fifteen of his friends. Varying his customary Sunday r not a whit, he dined yesterday with his wife and son and his 4-yea:--old grand.-on. Samuel Insull 111. walked a bit between showers and worked on an autobiography. Lives Spartan Existence Since his return as a prisoner last j spring from Turkey, to which he fled in a chartered steamer from Greece, the 74-year-old financier has lived a life almost Spartan in comparison with the former grandeurs of a Gold Coast mansion, a thirty-room country house and a pent house atop the forty-four-story Civic Opera building. Although he insists that he is destitue. a personal fortune once estimat'd at $200,000,000 wiped out to the last penny, he has a luxuriously appointed four-room apartment in the Seneca hotel, two blocks off Lake Michigan on the near north side. Mrs. Insull, with the maid* she brought with her from Paris, has another apartment adjoining on the building's front and their son and grandson a third. The combined rent is somewhere between S4OO and s.'oo a month. Insull Jr., still active in managment of the companies his lather lost, pays the bills. Dictates Chapter a Day Insull dictates a chapter of his aut biography daily. The book already ha* been sold for S4O 000 to a magazine and motion picture company. He walks alone to a nearby bus i.ing. preferably riding atop the bus on his way to court. Hi returns at night m an automobile of Halsey. Stuart & Cos., bond house which in twenty-five years did $200,000,000 worth of business with his firms. His principal diversion, since the World Fair closed, is gossip with music and dramatic critics of local newspapers. He has not visited the Jew. 1 Box’* ci\ ic opera which his endowments and gifts created, nor has he any intention of doing so. *T don t even own a dress suit anymorehe explained. “Why. I haven’t even money enough for a taxicab to get there." The idea apparently caused him more amusement than distress. •FORGET FEARS.' JONES TELLS U. S. INDUSTRY RFC Chairman Calls on Business to Co-operate in Drive. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19— RFC Chairman Jesse H Jones today called upon industry and business "to forget their fears" and co-op-erate with the government in a drive for permanent recovery.

The New Deal—and the Joneses IF there's anything about this mysterious NewDear' that you don't understand. just as* the Joneses. The Joneses, you'll be Interested in knowing, are the new family moving into the pages of The Indianapolis times to tell you what it s all about. TURN TO PAGE 9

The Indianapolis Ti imes Unsettled weather with showers probable tonight and tomorrow; continued mild temperature.

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Dread infantile paralysis is conquered by discovery of an immunizing serum which he has produced, Dr. William H. Park • abovet of the New York health department, announces, declaring twenty-five children already have been innoculated successfully. The serum is developed from spines of rhesus monkeys.

FLAMES RUIN 57.500JN FOOD Schnull Warehouse Swept by Fire; Total Loss Is $9,500. A fire of unexplained origin today destroyed approximately $7,500 worth of groceries in the Schnull <fc Cos. warehouse. 2603 East Washington street, and damaged the building to the extent of $2,000. Duscovered and reported by a motorist, the fire had gained considerable headway before firemen arrived. Flames, they said, were leaping thirty feet from the front window of the cement block one-story building and hampered them in their efforts to put it out. Orlando O’Grady, of 1703*2 East Michigan street, the manager, who estimated the loss, said groceries of ail kinds were stored there and that fire, water and smoke had ruined th< m all. He could suggest no explanation for the fire. A stove in thv building had had no fire in it tor two days, he said. Discovered at 6 the fire was under control within one hour and was extinguished in another. It burned stubbornly in wall boarding stored between the rafters and the roof. Firemen said defective wiring or spontaneous combustion might have caused the blaze. Home Is Destroyed The one and a half story frame dwelling of Fred Kleis at Stop 6*2, Rockville road, was destroyed by fire Sunday morning with an estimated loss of $3,500. Outside the water protection area, the house burned while two engine companies poured chemicals on it with no effect. A radio aerial pole fell, injuring slightly Captain Cale Racobs and John Sullivan, both of Engine House 18. BAILIFF TO KEEP POST Backemeyer Reappointed to Job bv Herbert Wilson. Herman F. Backemeyer. bailiff of superior court five, has been reappointed to his post by Herbert E. Wilson. Marion county prosecutor and superior judge-elect, to succeed Judge Russell J. Ryan, room five, it was announced today.

Murder Charge Placed Against City Laborer Police File Formal Accusations Following Probe of Party Death of Earl Hemry. A charge of murder was placed against Ralph Hennmger. 27. of 1027 North Warman aienue. a laborer, today in connection with the mysterious death of Earl H Hemry. 33. of 909 North King avenue. Fridav night in the home of Mrs. Rachael Richwine. 57. of 2816 West Tenth street.

Henninger has been held since police were called to Mrs. Richwines home on the report that a man had died suddenly there. The murder charge was placed against him after witnesses had told of hearing a scuffle on the Richwine front porch, in which Henninger and Mr. Hemry were involved. Held on vagrancy charges are four others, present at the drinking party which led to Mr. Hemry s death Funeral services for Mr. Hemry will be at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon in the Roscoe Conkle funeral home. 1934 West Michigan street, with burial in Floral Park cemetery. Those under arrest with Henninger are Mrs. Richwine. Mrs. Pauline Henninger. wife of the accused man: John Conway. 29. of 1144 Centennial street, and Forest Herring. 34. of 1216 Gross treet. All are held on , charges of vagrancy pending further investigation. Henmger continually has said that he was ‘IOO drunk to know w hat happened." according to police. Mr Hemry. who is survived by a widow and three children, was found dead on the front room floor of Mrs. Richwine's house. Mrs. Richwine. Mr and Mrs. Henninger. Conway and Herring were present. They all refused to make statements other than that Mr. Hemry had entered the house and had fallen dead. Mrs. Richwine fled the house while police were questioning others. PoLce reports stated that she had two wet spots on her dress and that that garment was tom. ' An autopsy by Coroner William E.

WOMAN LEAPS 18 STORIES TO END HER LIFE Third Victim of Chicago Suicide Plunges Within Week. OTHER JUMPS PROBED Football Stars Will Be Questioned in Death of Ex-Show Girl. By Unite*l Press CHICAGO. Nov. 19.—Theresa Naughton Ryan jumped from the eighteenth floor of the Stevens hotel to her death on crowded Michigan avenue today. It was the third time within a week that a woman has so met death in Chicago. Today's victim was 65 years old and was alone in her room whereas the other victims of the suicide epidemic had been young and their plunges followed drinking parties. The tragedy occurred while investigations were in progress in two similar cases, both involving women. Three members of the Chicago Bears professional football team were called to appear at an inquest into the death of Nell Walker Ablin, pretty 26-year-old former show- girl who jumped from the eighth floor of the north side Commonwealth hotel yesterday. Nell had sent a telegram to one of the players in New York congratulating him upon victory over the New York Giants just before she plunged to death. Bernie Masterson was the player to whom the wire was addressed. It was planned to question him and two of his teammates. Meanwhile, plans were made to complete an inquest into the death of Lucille Nolan, 21-year-old night club hostess, whase plunge from the seventeenth floor of the Medinah Club started the suicide epidemic. Her jump and that of Mrs. Ablin followed drinking parties.

CONFESSES MURDER OF YOUNG SISTERS Negro Spirited Away; Mob Violence Feared. By United Press ROANOKE. Va.. Nov. 19.—Philip Jones. 25-year-old Negro, confessed to police here today that he murdered Alice and Ellen Hill. 6 and 14-yrar-old sisters, last night at Clifton Forge. He was charged with murder and immediately removed from Roanoke to an unnamed destination. Police feared mob violence. Both girls had been criminally assaulted. BYRD UNIT STRANDED IN ICE CREVASSES Tractor Party Seeking Safe Trail Over Another Plateau. LITTLE AMERICA. Antarctica, Nov. 19. (Via Mackay radio to United Press!—The Byrd expedition tractor party which was marooned in treacherous ice crevasses reported today that it had retreated and circled northeastward in an effort to find a safe trail over another plateau.

Arbuckle and Deputy Coroner John E. Salb revealed that Mr. Hemry had died from a fracture at the base of the skull, in the occipital region, and also had suffered a fracture of the nose.

Mountaineers Swing to Side of U. S. Agents in Effort to Smash America's Largest Moonshine Whisky Ring

tCopvrißht. 1934. by United Press) HARRISONBURG, Va„ Nov. 19. Mountaineers came down from the hills today to help United States treasury agents expose the nation's biggest moonshine whisky ring., A federal grand jury reconvened to hear more than one hundred individual stories of a moonshine industry', alleged to involve official corruption, that has marketed millions of gallons of illicit liquor in adjacent states. Gawky mountaineers complained to the grand jury that they were held in virtual slavery by the ring masters. Traditionally, these same mountaineers have spent their lifetimes hating the "revenoors.” but :n this case they seemed to be siding with the government. The grand jury probably will report bv Christmas. Persons not afraid to talk—there has been some shooting since the jury convened—predicted its finding would precipitate a major political scandal in this state.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1934

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“I stand for social responsibility without Socialism.” That is the terse platform indorsed by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg—and it may be the one on which the G. O. P. will stand in 1936, for the Michigan senator, shown above, is regarded as presidential timber, since his re-election on Nov. 6 despite the Democratic landslide.

CHAILLOUX NEW LEGIONOFFICIAL Californian Named to Post Formerly Held by Russell Cook. Homer L. chailloux, former California departmental commander and now California delegate to the national executive committee, has been named to succeed Russell Cook, 345 Buckingham drive, resigned, as director of the American Legion National Americanism committee, it was announced today. The anonuncement was made at the 1935 legislative program threeday conference of department commanders and adjutants over which Frank N. Belgrano Jr., newly elected national commander, presided at legion headquarters, 777 North Meridian street. At the conference, Commander Belgrano reaffirmed his stand for "immediate payment of the adjusted service certificates.” * Mr. Chailloux, a native of West Baden, Ind., was graduated from Orleans (Ind.) high school and attended Indiana university until his enlistment in the army two days after America entered the World war. He served overseas for twentyseven months. He is known as an active opponent of Communism and only recently won a $50,000 damage suit which was filed against him by the California Civil Liberties Union. The union sued Mr. Chailloux for having called one of its lawyers a liar when the attorney claimed he had been kidnaped by the legion during a Com-munist-incited vegetable strike in California’s famed Imperial valley. The Rev. Park W. Huntington, national chaplain, opened /the session by pronouncing the invocation. National Commander Belgrano was the first speaker. Greetings were extended to the group by Mrs. A. C. Carlson, auxiliary national president. and John D. Crowley. Forty and Eight chef de chemin de fer. Times Index Page Bridge 6 Brcun 9 Business News *..... 8 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Hickman—Theaters 7 Pegler 9 Radio 4 Sports 12, 13 State News 16 Woman's Pages 6, 7

Evidence gathered by the government, it was understood, indicates leaders of the ring have reaped large profits for six years while virtually holding in bondage illiterate mountaineers, who for generations untold have considered it their God-given right to run little stills. The ring's operation have been marked by murder and wholesale corruption of law enforcement officers, it was alleged. The ring survived prohibition, but now faces dissolution. The inroads of its illicit product on government tax revenue was said to be considerable. The federal government has determined to smash bootlegging and colect maximum taxes from the liquor trade. Center of the ring's operations is Franklin county, which ranges for 600 square miles over the rugged country of southwestern Virginia. Frarklin county has been famous for its mountain corn whisky for a century. It was cued m the Wicker-

DIPLOMAT FOR POPES, GREAT GASPARRI DIES Famed Italian Cardinal, 82, Loses Battle Against Pneumonia. RITES TO BE THURSDAY Pope Deeply Grieved by Passing of Former State Secretary. By United Press VATICAN CITY, Nov. 19.—The Roman Catholic church, the Italian government and Italian people today mourned Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, retired papal secretary of state, who died last night of pneumonia. Cardinal Gasparn's funeral will be the most imposing accorded any cardinal in modern times, with the highest ecclesiastical and civil honors The funeral will be held by the pope's order, at 10:30 a. m. Thursday in the spacious church of St. Ignatius, one of the largest in Rome. Burial will be at the cardinal’s birthplace at Ussita, in a rugged marble tomb already completed to his order, and needing only the date “1934” to complete the simple inscription, “Cardinal Gasparri, 1852 Monsignor Tito Trocchi, titular bishop of Lacada Emonia, will officiate at the mass and Cardinal Pignatelli Di Belmonte, dean of the coliege of cardinals, will impar: absolution. The Italian government, for decades estranged from the Vatican until the negotiation under Cardinal Gasparri of the 1929 treaty, will be represented officially, the Premier Benito Mussolini probably will be at the head of his attending ministers. Succeeded by Pacelli Cardinal Pacelli, Cardinal Gasparri's succesor as secretary of state, will succeed him also as Camerlengo of the Holy Roman church, which Cardinal Gasparri held under two popes, as he did his foreign ministry. This dignitary acts as ruler of the church during the interval between the death of a pope, and the election of anew one. Giving instructions for the funeral today, the pope expressed sorrow that “this great cardinal is lost to the church just at the moment of the glorification of his work as a diplomat.” From boyhood the cardinal’s career had been brilliant. He won high honors in school. He became professor of canon law in the urban college of the propaganda Fide. In 1907 Pope Pius X intrusted him with the codification—a monumental task—and a few months later made him a cardinal. Paid Unusual Honor It was in 1914 that he became secretary of state. In that capacity he had direct charge of the Vatican’s peace efforts during the war. Cardinal Gasparri became known as a superbly skillful diplomatist. And when Pope Pius XI ascended in 1922 he remained as secretary of state—a most unusual honor. It became apparent yesterday that he was dying. Enrico Cardinal Gasparri, his nephew, administered the last rites. Blood transfusions and oxygen were of no avail. During his last hours he barely breathed. When he died, Monsignor Ottaviani telephoned the pope from the cardinal's house. The pope was in his private library, reciting the rosary with one of his secretaries. He turned pale, then said: “Lord, give eternal peace to this great servant of yours.”

TODAY’S WEATHER

Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 63 11 a. m 69 7 a. m 63 12 (noon).. 70 8 a. m 64 12 (noon) .. 71 9 a. m 65 1 p. m 71 10 a. m 67 Tomorrow’s sunrise, 6:36 a. nr; sunset, 4:35 p. m In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.t Southwest wind, eighteen miles an hour: barometric pressure, 30.03 at sea level; temperature. 65; general conditions, high, thin overcast, lower scattered clouds; ceiling, unlim-

sham commission's prohibition report of 1931 as the worst county in the nation for illicit distilling. Smashing of the Franklin county ring, treasury officials believe, wall be a challenge to illegal tax-fill liquor operators everywhere. Agents of the treasury’s alcohol tax unit have been working on the case for fourteen months. It took them months to break down the reticence of the drawling, stolid but cunning mountain folk who won't even admit to a stranger that they ever heard the name of their lifelong next-door neighbor. Many in this region are convinced Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Richards was murdered on a mountain road last month to seal his lips from the grand jury. Richards was slain six miles from Rockymount. county seat of Franklin county, the night of Oct. 12 as he was bringing a Negro prisoner to the county jail. His body was riddled with buckshot and .43-caliber revolver bullets.

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New hope for his life cheers David Lamson, former Stanford university press executive, as he leaves the death house in San Quentin prison on his way to San Jose jail, where he will await a new trial, granted by the state supreme court, on the charge of murdering his wife.

Two, Hun ting Happiness on Island ‘Eden, ’ Lose Lives Brief Radio Messages From Galapagos Islands Tell Graphic Story of Tragic End. By United Press The quest of a few men and women for happiness in an island “Eden” far from the civilization of 1934 has ended in death for one couple. The bodies of a man and a woman—and the clothes of a baby—were found on a white beach on a volcanic isle in the Galapagos group, off

MERCURY HITS 71, NEAR-RECORD MARK Warm Spell to Remain for Few Days, Is Word. The all-time temperature high for Nov. 19 was on the verge of being shattered shortly after noon today when the mercury soared to 71. only five degrees under the record set Nov. 19, 1930, when 76 was reached, according to J. H. Armington, local meteorologist. Indianapolis just as well might lay aside the heavy overcoats, he said, for the current warm spell not only is reaching record proportions, but is destined also to remain for at least two more days, intermittent showers may occur, Mr. Armington said, but they will do little to detract from the spring-like air now permeating the city and making citizens wonder why they ever started the furnace. Mr. Armington continued to blame the great basin west of the Rockies for withholding the colder weather which is gripping northwestern Canada. Until the cooler breezes escape from the basin, he said, the 76 degree record will be in imminent danger of being surpassed. WILLARD MACK, 61, OF MOVIE FAME, IS DEAD Actor, Author and Director Stricken at Home. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Nov. IS.—Willard Mack, 61. actor, author and film director, died today at his Beverly Hills home after a sudden attack of heart disease. He was in good health until a few days ago. when he suffered a slight illness. His condition, however, was not alarming until late last night. Mr. Mack was one of the most versatile figures in the theatrical world. During his career on the stage he wrote thirty-six plays, twenty-six of which appeared on Broadway. For twelve years he was co-starred under the banner of the late Da! id Belasco, once with Lenore Ulric in one of his three greatest hits, “Tiger Rose,” which had a seventy-six-week run. At the time of Mr. Belasco’s death he was working with the great producer preparing a stage version of Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities.”

The Negro with him was killed, apparently to prevent him from identifying the murderers. In the windshield of Richard's automobile were counted twenty bullets. Big city gangsters could not have performed a more thorough job. The only name mentioned in court thus far bearing on the Franklm county ring is that of Charles Carter Lee, the commonwealth’s attorney or county prosecutor. During trial of a minor case in county court Tom Cundiff, wellknown as a moonshiner in the mountains, while under oath on the witness stand, publicly a<?cused Lee of taking money for protection. Lee denied the assertion and Cundiff was sent to jail for ten days for contempt of court. Shortly after he served his ten days. Sundiff was arrested by county authorities on an assault charge, tried and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. He will be an important federal witness.

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EVERY STATE TO HAVE OWN TVA, SAYS ROOSEVELT Exhorts South to Pay Little Attention to Obstructionists Attempting to Block Giant Utility Program. CHALLENGE TO PRIVATE COMPANIES Government to See That Low Rates Are Made Available, One of High Administration Officials Hints. By United Press WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Nov. 19.—President Roosevelt settled back in his little Georgia “White House” today awaiting reaction to his new creed of the New Deal—wide community co-operation of power utilities.

Ecuador. Apparently, they were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wittmer. They had died of thirst. There appeared to be small doubt as to the identification, but dispatches from Guayaquilse Eloisa Bosquet De Wagner Wehrborn of Austria, and Robert Philippsohn of Germany. The Baroness, Philippsohn, the Wittmers, Dr. Karl Ritter, Frau Dore Koerwin and others migrated within the last few years to the equatorial islands, living in primitive fashion. Recently, the baroness and Philippsohn set sail “for the south seas.”' By United Press LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19.—Starvation and thirst on a barren volcanic island off the coast of Ecuador have ended the Adam and Eve existence of a man and woman believed to be Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wittmer, who sought happiness in an isolated Eden. Discovery of two bodies on one of the most desolate islands of the Galapagos group was reported by radio by Captain Manuel Rodrigumez of San Diego, skipper of the tuna clipper Santo Amaro. A bundle of baby’s clothing lay near the victims, but no third body was found. From a description of the bodies, Captain G. Allan Hancock, Los Angeles oil magnate and amateur scientist, said he was convinced the victims were the Wittmers, a German couple who found happiness and parenthood on Charles island with other “exiles.” Their child, a son, was 2 when Captain Hancock visited them last February while on a scientific expedition. Depict Fight for Life A graphic struggle against hunger and thirst was depicted’ in brief advices the tuna clipper radioed here. Apparently, the two set out in a small skiff to visit another island when a violent storm dashed their frail craft against the beach of Marchena island, one of the most j isolated of the Galapagos group. Without food or water, they | sought shelter from the sun. Their wrecked skiff was erected as a roof, j They averted starvation, momentarily at least, by killing a seal. Decayed remnants of the mammal were found. But there was no water. Fought Thirst for Days It was believed they fought thirst for days before succumbing. The man died first. This was attested by the fact his body was dragged under the lee of the boat and covered with articles of his mate’s clothing. His head was pillowed on her coat. A strip of the lining r/as laid over his face carefully. Her heroism ended, the woman dragged herself out of sight of the body and died. Her body was clad only in lingerie. A weather-beaten rug fluttered from a crudely constructed flagpole, which was jammed in a crevice of A lava formation. It was this distress signal that supposedly attracted a! landing party from the Tuna clipper, j

SENATOR BROUSSARD, FOE OF HUEY LONG, DEAD Legislator, 59, Dies in Louisiana; 111 Several Weeks. By t'nited Press NEW ORLEANS. La.. Nov. 19 United States Senator Edwin S. Broussard, ill for several weeks, died at his home today. He was 59. Funeral services will be held in New Iberia tomorrow. Senator Broussard was defeated for re-election by Senator John W Overton, Long henchman, two years ago. Senator Broussard was one of the chief opponents of Senator Huey Long. Your motor checked, carburetor adjusted. See Carburetor Sales, 214 E. Ohio.—Adv.

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His definite declaration of policy in a speech at Tupelo, Miss., was regarded by close administration friends as carrying a challenge to private industry rather than any early, direct action. “It means,” one of them said, “that the private companies either play ball in providing cheap power or else.” The inference was that the government would see that low rates were made available. Mr. Roosevelt’s pronouncement came as a climax to a three-day inspection of the Tennessee valley development—a tour that convinced him of its future value alone as a rate bargaining instrument between the people and private utilities. The chief executive, in setting forth his views, took his cue from the little city of Tupelo, first in the nation to contract for TVA power. Holding it up as an example to other communities, he observed: “I can use you as a text—a text that may be useful to many other parts of the nation, because people’s eyes are upon you and because of what you are doing here is going to be copied in every state of the union before we get through. Sees Opposition Fading “We recognize that there will be a certain amount of—what shad I say?—rugged opposition to this development—but I think we recognize also that the opposition is fading as the weeks and months go by, fading in the light of practical experience.” From Tupelo, the President moved into Alabama, carrying his fight for the TVA into Birmingham, hub of the industrial south. There he took note of opposition to the project, saying: “I am aware, of course, that a few of your citizenry are leaving no stone unturned to block and harass and to delay this great national program. I am confident, however, that these obstructionists, lew in number in comparison with the whole population, do not reflect the views of the overwhelming majority of the people of Birmingham or the other cities where they reside. Pleads for Co-operation “I know, too, that the overwhelming majority of your business men, big and little, are in hearty accord with the great undertaking of regional planning now being carried forward. “I particularly bespeak of the people of Birmingham an active cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Authority.” In the Tupelo address, Mr. Roosevelt also spoke strongly of an improved economic outlook which he said was reflected in the people and noticed as he entered Kentucky. “The great outstanding thing to me for these last three days,” he said, “has been the change in looks on people’s faces It not only has been a physical thing. It has not been the contrast between what actually was a scarcity of raiment two years ago or a lack of food two years ago—the contrast between that and better clothing and more food today —but it is something in people’s faces and I think you understand what I mean. No Federalization, He Says “There wasn't much hope in those days,” he continued. “People were wondering what was going to come to this country, and yet today I see not only hope but I see determination —knowledge that all is well with the country and that we are coming back. Appealing for an extension of the community co-operative spirit, he pointed out that what cities like Tupelo, for example, were doing, was not coming from Washington. “You are not being federalized,” he said. “We still believe in the community; and things are going to advance in this country exactly In proportion to community effort. “This is not regimentation—it is a kind of community rugged individualism.” Makes Frequent Stops The President reached Warm Springs late last night after an arduous train ride that called for frequent stops and occasional platform appearances. Thousand turned out to hear him at Birmingham and other places en route. At Birmingham, Mrs. Roosevelt left the party and flew to Atlanta to keep an engagement, later rejoining the train when it reached that city. At the litle station of Warm Springs, several hundred of Mr. Roosevelt’s old friends and neighbors assembled to welcome him. He will remain at the little “White House” atop Pine Mountain until early in December.