Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 170, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1934 — Page 3

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POWER INDUSTRY’S EFFORTS TO CONTROL PUBLIC OPINION THROUGH SCHOOLS REVEALED Extensive Propaganda Operations in Nation’s Institutions, From Kindergarten to University, Bared by Senate. Hi Cmitr* frr. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2G.—Efforts of the power industry to influence public opinion through extensive propaganda operations in the country’s schools, from kindergarten to university, were described today by the federal trade commission.

The commission, making’ the third of a series of reports to the senate on its six-year inquiry into private utilities, asserted that the propaganda drive was headed by some of the industry's leading figures. The final reports are expected to a.'k for regulation of the power industry. Not only was the utility co-oper-ation with educational institutions carefully planned and organized, but many of the bigzest men in the industry were actively lntcrtestcd,'' the report said. These includtd it said. John F. Gilchrist. Samuel Insull and Martin J In. ull. Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago; M. S. Sloan. Brooklyn Edison Company, Brooklyn; Henry L. Doherty. Cities Scrv- ; ire Company: H. C. Aboil, Electric B< nd and Share Company, and Owen D. Young, General Electric Company. Propaganda, the report said, was I carried out by national and state j organizations financed by contributions from th° utili'ics. The com- 1 mission submitted an “incomplete” j |j • boiii | contributions of sl.-312-264. The money, the list showed, went for contributions tt large universities. creation of fellowships and scholarships, payments to teachers, ■ publication of pamphlets advocat- j mg private power ownership, and ' publication of “favorable tevtbtoks.” Millions of pamphlets favoring . private utilities, the commission as- I serted, were distributed. In Illinois j alone. 5,000.000 were sent out. These stressed that watered stock j did not affect rates paid by consumers; that public utilities already are sufficiently regulated and that the public, through customer owner hip actually oi>erated the power; industry. “They omitted, however.” the report said, “to mention that rarely | did the stock which utilities sold to j customers rarrv any voting rights.! They also failed to mention that j there were any such alternatives to! private ownership as municipal or i public ownership of utilities. Witnesses, at hearings, the report charged, said frankly that the campaign among teachers and schools j was “not based primarily on any desire to aid general education of the nation's youth.” • Since students carry information home to their parents.” the report continued, "school teaching Is not confined to pupils, but actually extend' from the ‘cradle to the grave. Through the children, utilities built for the future while at the same time they influenced the thinking of parents.” The report quoted from a letter written by a chairman of the textbook committee of the old National Electric Light Association to M. H, until, a former managing director of the organization. "I feel,” it said, “that we have made a good start in getting the largest school book publishing house, which printed over 12.000.00© books last year, with its. which will boa tremendous leverage on any other house should opposition occur, which I doubt.” STATE C. OF C. WILL BACK MEXICAN TOUR Booming of Indiana Trade in the Southwest Is Object. The first step of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce to advance Indiana's trade in Mexico will be taken Jan. 15, when a special observation train. all-Pullman and airconditioned. will leave Indianapolis over the New York Central lines, for a good-will tour of the southwest and Mexico. The Missouri Pacific and the Natl tal Railways of Mexico will participate in the tour, according to W. H Arnett, state chamber manager, under whose direction the trip has been planned. The expedition will be headed by J. E. Frederick, state C. of C. president; W. H. Arnett, managing director. and Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hinkle. MANUAL SENIORS TO STAGE PLAY DEC. 6 Salesmanship Classes to Handle Publicity for Show. Salesmanship clasps at Manual Training high school are handling the publicity for the January class play. "Skidding.” which will be presented Thursday ar.d Friday. Dec. 6 and 7. in the school auditorium. Miss Helen Haynes, faculty member. is sponsor of this group. Bober. Crouch heads the committee which has charge of all 800 ter publicity for the performance. The students who have charge of designating the cast and members of the senior class are Carl Haas, chairman: Marion Diilman. Emma B'.osser. Nathan Str.ger and Albert Neks. Art work for the cards being prepared by this committee is being prepared by Helen Pappas, a January senior. Robert Duncan is chairman of the business committee of the class which had full charge of the distribution of class play tickets.

CHURCH BELL STOLEN Robina*lr Methodist Episcopal Building Is Looted. There was no solemn tolling of the church bell at the Robinsale Me:hodist Episcopal church. Vine and Market streets, yesterday. The reason was very simple. Just before services began, it was discovered that the bell had been stolen. It was valued at Hb.

LUTZ ATTACKS INSURANCE ACTS Indiana Laws in Need of Radical Revision, He Tells Delegates. The insurance laws of Indiana i are in need of radical revision and j that revision may come from the; impending general assembly, At-torney-General Philip Lutz Jr. told nearly four hundred delegates to the annual Indiana Fraternal Congress at the Lincoln. The congress, at which thirty fraternal orders are represented, will; last through Tuesday. “Tiie social, economic and political j temper of the people now requires! the closest scrutiny of every insti- j tution offering insurance protection to an innocent public, which is demanding that every institution must lie regulated in the public interest by the proper authority,” the attor-ney-general said. “It is the spirit of the times to require the highest measure of duty to the rights of policyholders and this, I believe, is an obligation and a responsibility of the highest magnitude on those in official positions to prevent insurance frauds by requiring a stricter supervision over insurance protection. The delegates, who were welcomed to Indianapolis by Mayor Reginald H. Sulivan and Governor Paul V. McNutt, heard the attorneygeneral describe the existing insurance code as "a patchwork of independent acts, full of loopholes and out-of-date with the spirit of the times.” “In the bitter twilight of disillu- j sionment, thousands of Indiana peo- j pie have learned that a gilded in- j surance certificate was not gold," j Mr. Lutz declared.

MORRISSEY MORTIFIED; POLICE ARRIVE AFTER CHASING AMBULANCES

Tiie day of the ambulance chaser is gone and the day of the chasing ambulance has dawned. This has come to the official no- i tice of Chief Mike Morrissey, he said today. When police arrive at the scene of an accident that has been broadcast over the police radio, ihey find waiting there, in addition to the wreckage, two or three private ambulances. Radio receivers in the am- j bulances pick up police calls and the drivers hurry to the scene in ] the hope of getting a paying run to a hospital. The chief ordered that no victims of accidents be sent to hospitals in private ambulances unless the patients so request. He ordered that police search ambulances found at the scene of j accidents for police radio receivers carried contrary to law.

TURKEYS GO UP, SO THANKSGIVING DINNER WILL COST YOU MORE

Uy United I're** CHICAGO, Nov. 26—The turkey dinner you pass around the table Thanksgiving day will cost 20 per cent more than it did a year ago. comparison of prices revealed today. Ingredients for a dinner for six persons that cost $3.40 last Thanksgiving day will take $4.70 from the table budget thus week. The fault principally is with the turkey. Because midwestem growers produced 15 per cent fewer this year than last, a ten-pound bird is going to cost $3 30. almost $1 more than in 1933. Irish potatoes are ’2 cent a pound higher at 3' 2 cents, while sweet potatoes are 3 cents a pound, no higher. A quart of oysters cost 40 cents today as compared with 39 cents last year, but a can of pumpkin was nearly doubled in price at 17 cents. Mincemeat is 14 cents a pound, compared with 12’z cents a year ago. while the traditional cranberries retail for 20 cents a pound, 5 cents more than last year. Celery prices are unchanged. CITY GETS NEW ARMY RECRUITING OFFICER Major Stationed North of MasonDixon Line for First Time. North of the Mason-Dixon line for the first time in his career. Major Samuel I. McCants. United States army, today assumed his responsibilities as army recruiting officer for the Indianapolis area. Major CcCants. a native of Mobile. Ala., succeeds Major A. C. Young who has been transferred to another post. Before coming to Indianapolis. Major McCants served thre years at Schofield barracks. Hawaii. Thieves Loot Parked Car Thieves invaded the home territory of the Indiana state police yesterday and stole clothing valued at S9O from an automobile belonging to David Cook. Blonungton. Ind., parked in the statehouse grounds.

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U. S, EXPORTS RISE T 0 1934 HIGH POINT Nation Ships 3206.352,000 in Goods During October. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—American exports rose to $206,352,000 in October, the highest level of the year, giving a favorable balance of trade for the month of $76,723,000, the department of commerce reported today. Imports, which had increased sharply in September, declined about 2 per cent in October, to $129,629,000. This compares with a usual seasonal increase of about 7 per cent. Exports were above the $193,069,-; 000 reported for a year ago and also considerably above the $191,691,000 in September. For the first ten months of 1934, total exports were SI 767.697.000 <B>, 36 per cent above the corresponding! period of 1933 and larger than the, entire twelve months of 1933. MEDICINE. NARCOTICS STOLEN. RECOVERED Articles Valued at 5450 Found in Rear of Building. Seven hours after Dr. Harry Rabb, 1311 Union street, and Dr. Leon Levi, 3904 College avenue, reported that narcotics and medicine had been stolen from their automobiles parked at Meridian and Ohio streets yesterday, Fred Hopper, 607 Lord street, found the articles in the rear of 610 Fletcher avenue and turned them over to police. Articles valued at S2OO had been stolen from Dr. Rabb and articles worth $250 i from Dr. Levi. Fpworth Speaker Is Named Mrs. Emma Schowll will speak tomorrow at the Epworth League of the Brightwood M. E. church. William P. Ellison will preside. The league will hold sunrise service Thanksgiving morning with the Rev. F. P. Taylor, church pastor in charge.

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FIRST CHECKS PAID SLUM AREA OWNERS Oldest Residents of Project Site Receive Payment, First federal government checks for the purchase of property for the $3,000,000 Indianapolis slum clearance project were delivered today to the oldest residents of the area involved, by Frank Dailey, special United States attorney. Payments were made to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Willis and Mr. Willis’ sister, Ella May Galloway, 954 Indiana avenue. Condemnation proceedings to acquire title have been started in state courts for other parcels. HEALTH OFFICIALS OPEN PARLEY HERE Central States Group to Discuss Legislation. Principally concerned with the federal government's campaign to make more stringent laws controlling the inspection and distribution of cream, the Central States Association of Health, Food, Drug and Feed Officials mtt today at the Clay pool. The two-day program was in charge of Harry Klueter, Madison, Wis., president, and the delegates, from several middle western states, wtre welcomed to Indianapolis by Dr. Herman Morgan, city health officer, and Dr. Verne K. Harvey of the state health board. Among those who were to address the convention at the afternoon session were Dr. W. S. Frisbie, Washington; S. A. Postle. Cincinjnati; Martin L. Lang. Indiana food | and drug commissioner; Rollin E. I Meek, state weights and measures inspector, and G. E. Prater, Lan- | sing, Mich. The convention will adjourn at 1 tomorrow... Twenty-five persons attended.

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PEACE SOUGHT IN CITY MILK PRICE BATTLE City Producers, Distributors Hold Parley at Office ' Here. A conference of milk producers and distributors was being held today in the office of the Indianapolis Dairy Producers Council at - ndiana Pythian building in an attempt to end the milk price war. A flat price of SI.BO a 100 pounds was asked at a meeting of approximately 300 producers from eight counties in the central part of the state Saturday, a large group of Indianapolis firms previously had agreed on a price of $1.65. The milk situation, coming soon after the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's milk license was declared ineffective in the Indianapolis area by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, dropped the price down to 6 cents a quart. TUBERCULOSIS DEATHSFEWER Average Life Span Is Eight Years Longer Than Half Century Ago. Eight years have been added to the average human life span through medical achievements of the last twenty-five years, Dr. E. M. Amos, treasurer of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association, said today in connection with the 1934 sale of Christmas seals and health bonds in the state. “Most health progress is bounded by the last half century,” he said. “The average length of life has been increased to approximately fiftynine years. “In all the amazing development of life-saving, the work of the tuberculosis associations of America takes front rank. In a score of years the death rate from the disease has been cut more than half in the nation, and even a greater decrease has been achieved in Indiana. More than 100,000 lives are saved each year by the educational campaign in preventative and curative ways of defeating the disease. “All this has been made possible by the single little emblem of health —the Christmas seal. It sells for $1 a hundred and it has financed antituberculosis work in Indiana to a point where sanatoria, clinics, fresh air schools, child nutrition classes, better nursing, better housing and a wide-spread system of education gradually is eliminating the disease.” CITY COLLEGE WILL HOLD HOME-COMING Emil Rath to Be N. A. G. A. Reunion Guest. Emil Rath, health and physical education director for the city’s public schools, will be guest of honor Friday night at the annual alumni reunion dinner at the Athenaeum of the Normal college of the American Gymnastic Union, of which he was president for twenty-five years. The alumni activities wall begin Thursday and continue through Saturday. George Vonnegut, 3721 North Meridian street, college president, will present diplomas to a group who completed their studies last summer. Speakers at Friday night’s dinner will include Dr. R. A-. Hofmeister, St. Louis; Grover William Mueller, Philadelphia, and Theodore C. Stempfel, 1564 Park avenue, college treasurer. Rail Agreement Reached By United Press TOKIO. Nov. 26.—The Japanese foreign office announced today that Russia has agreed to accept a Japanese banking syndicate as guarantor of Manchukuo’s payments in the Chinese Eastern Railway deal.

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Mayor-Elect Kern Very Unhappy —Job Hunters Give Him Little Peace Besieged by Applicants and Belligerent Party Factions. Judge Kern Is Forced to Flee From Home and Go Into Hiding in Club. BY DICK MILLER Tim.* Staff Writer Mayor-elect John W. Kern today returned to superior court, room five, erected a "No Political Discussion" sign and relaxed as he realized he could enforce it.

For the first time since election, excepting for a brief vacation in Virginia and a trip to Chicago for a meeting with United States mayors. Judge Kern found himself absorbed in a busy civil calendar. The Mayor-elect has found Indianapolis a very unpleasant place since election, though he hardly could or would admit so for publication. Used to the comparative quiet of superior court before the'excitement of the campaign, Judge Kern, since the minute the first reporting precincts indicated his election, has been in what politicians say is the toughest spot in which any mayorelect ever has found himself. Besieged by applicants for jobs and by their political sponsors, he has been forced to flee his home in despair and to go into hiding in a local club, there to figure out a workable cabinet and to talk continuously with an apparently endless stream of visitors on one subjectjobs. Veteran politicians fail to recall when any candidate made the race for mayor under exactly the same conditions as did Judge Kern. Last spring, members of thelDemocratic party split up into several factions, each with its own candidate for mayor. Party leaders began looking for a man who could smooth those factional disturbances and bring about success in the election. John W. Kern was chosen. The figures of the election proved that he smoothed the differences—but, that was before the election. Rival Factions Battle No sooner had the accurate count of the votes been announced by the canvassing board than each faction began claiming full credit for the party’s success. If there has been one person apprised of their claims, that person had been Mayor-elect Kern, The statehouse organization, the Marion county regular organization, the Otto Ray-for-Sheriff clubs, the Baker-Gossart-Ralston courthouse insurgent group, the Negro leaders and more—all claimed credit. While there is no way of verifying this from the mayor-elect, those who should know say that just about the time he decides on a likely appointment for some important post he immediately finds the unfriendly groups viciously opposed to the selection. Take, for instance, the police chief post. Naturally, the present city hall faction, from Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan on down, speaks with the highest praise for the present chief, Michael F. Morrissey. Clauer Boosts Morrissey It is said, also, that William Clauer, former city chairman, present county treasurer and beer mporter, feels Chief Morrissey should be retained. Business men are said to concur and Mr. Clauer is reported to have rallied the McNutt-Greenlee-McHale statehouse group behind him. Joel Baker, former city purchasing agent and now probation officer and political adviser for Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, is known to be opposed, strenuously, to Chief Morrissey's reappointment. Joel Baker is a close friend of former Chief Claude M. Worley, now serving a federal sentence at Leavenworth for income tax evasion. The judge’s little henchman, who managed his campaign so that Judge Baker led the ticket when the votes were counted, is said to have sold many other county officeholders with the idea that this accomplishment is a sure sign he is leading the faction which will have future control. R. Earl Peters, former Democratic state .chairman; Sheriff .Charles ißuck) Sumner, Sheriff-elect Ray, Prosecutor-elect Herbert Spencer

and Recorder Ira Haymaker are among the men he boasts are on his bandwagon now. Boetcher May Get Post While Joel Baker is known to oppose Chief Morrissey, he is said to be satisfied at this time to confine his work to the courthouse. He merely is trying to get advice to Judge Kern that no police chief should have as much powen,to function without interference as Chief Morrissey has had under the Sullivan regime. Otto Ray also is known to oppose Chief Morrissey's reappointment. Walter Boetcher. county chairman and present works board president, frequently is spoken of as the likely city controller under Judge Kern. Those who realize the battle that faces Mr. Boetcher in holding control of the party organization say he wall w'aive the additional salary, however, and stay where he is on the works board because it affords him a closer contact with the public and also with what is going on about town. In this event, it is .said. Judge Kern might ask the present controller, Evans Woollen Jr., to remain, while others talk of Albert Losche, present purchasing agent, as new controller. New Fire Chief Hinted It is agreed on all fronts that there will probably be anew fire chief. Most frequently mentioned for this post is Fred Kennedy, present assistant chief. Before the election, it seemed certain that Robert Kirby, close friend of Judge Kern, would be his new secretary. Mr. Kirby was around the city hall for a while last fall, but last-minute information is that Joseph Tynan, Home Owners Loan Corporation employe, who drove Mayor-elect Kern about the city on his campaign speaking tours, has been sitting in on many of the meetings with prospective jobseekers. Sheriff Sumner, who sponsored the gigantic barbecue in the Negro district just before election, and who whole-heartedly supported Judge Kern even to the extent of withdrawing from the primary race last spring, has been mentioned for the police chief’s job; but this is an error, he states. Sheriff Interested The sheriff admits he is most interested in seeing that some of his chief aids during his present regime get located in some city posts. To this end, Ralph Hitch, chief deputy sheriff, has been mentioned prominently as safety board secretary and also as city hospital business manager. Dr. Frank Dowd, police surgeon and husband of Councilman-elect Annette Dowd, declares that because of the post that his wife holds, it would be impossible for him to take the city hospital superintendency if it were offered to him. He states he has been mentioned for the hospital post by persons seeking to embarrass him, and not by friends, HUNGER STRIKER IN WEAKENED CONDITION Collapse Expected Any Moment, Physician Says. By United Press BRIDGETON. N. J„ Nov. 26 Weakened to a point where he can scarcely whisper, William H. O’Donnell, who was convicted of disorderly conduct, today entered the thirteenth day of his hunger strike in the Cumberland county jail hospital. Dr. H. Garrell Miller, county physician, said O'Donnell’s complete collapse might be expected at any time. O'Donnell claims he is the victim of a ‘frameup’.

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U. S, TO GRANT PRIVATE MONEY HOUSING GHANCE Public Funds to Be Used to Take Up Program Slack, If Any. 'Copyright 1934. bv United Presii WASHINGTON. Nov. 26—New Deal policy makers will give private capital a chance to deal with the housing problem before resorting to a federal spending program on the scale proposed by PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes. On housing the administration is trying to formulate another of its “middle of the road” policies. Last week's dispute between Mr. Ickes and Housing Administrator James A. Moffett is described by insiders as having been fundamentally dangerous to recovery. The real issues involved are unemployment and inflation. Housing projects are being pushed primarily to provide jobs. If anything interferes with job-making plans, congressional inflation pressure will increase, possibly beyond administration capacity to resist it. Home construction is believed now to be the best available method of providing work for the unemployed. Therefore. New Dealers are determined to get housing plans back on the track and quickly. The nuddle-of-the road plan is to co-ordinate Mr. Ickes’ PWA program with Mr. Moffett's plans for the federal housing administration. As now shaping, the plan requires that Moffett be given first r nance at the housing problem with private funds. If he fails or succeeds only partially, a PWA goveinmentmoney program would take up the slack. Either way, it is hoped that purely relief expenditures will diminish. A considerable PWA program appears to be inevitable this winter. The relief burden will be heavy. The administration feels it must attempt to stimulate private capital to assume as much of that burden as is possible. The Home Owners' Loan Corporation has applications for $1,000,000.000 of credit beyond its resources. Unless private capital is brought into the housing program much of that sum will have to be underwritten by the treasury if it is underwritten at all. Mr. Moffett's home modernization program does not figure in this dispute. It is working well. Mr. Ickes and Mr. Moffett disagree whether cheap federal credit should be supplied for home construction. Mr. Ickes suggests a 3 per cent interest rate with no down payment on a new house. The best Mr. Moffett can promise with private capital is around 5 per cent interest and an overall ovehead of about 7 per cent. A $21.000.000,000 frozen mortgage dam now blocks the flow of private capital into home construction. Mr. Moffett thinks he can induce private money to refinance that iceberg, but only if the government goes slow on 3 per cent PWA housing plans. Vigorous effort in the last fortyeight hours brought Mr. Ickes and Mr. Moffett to the White House under remote control from Warm Springs, Ga., where President Roosevelt is vacationing. The next co-ordination move probably will be creation of a subcommittee of some kind to include both administrators. SORORITY ISJTO INITIATE Kappa Tau Alpha Chapter to Receive Four New Members. Kappa Tau Alpha chapter at Butler university will initiate at 5:30 tonight Ruth Mary Morton, Terre Haute; Bessie Beelar, Zionsvillej Frances Stalker and Evelyn Wright, Indianapolis. All four are majoring in journalism.

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