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ROOSEVELT TO ASK 4 BILLIONS FOR JOB RELIEF Report Coincides With Assurances President Will Take Strong Stand Against Bonus Bill. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—lntimations President Roosevelt w ill ask Congress for at least $4,000,000,000 for reliel and public works coincided today with assurance that the New Deal will oppose immediate payment of war veterans’ compensation certificates. The bonus issue is scheduled for an early decisive vote

in the 74th Congress, which! convenes at noon Thursday. If Mr. Roosevelt defeats Congress on the bonus issue he w’ill have achieved a victory which was beyond the powers of three Presidents who preceded him. All were defeated.] outright or were compelled to compromise with the bonus bloc. Mr. Roosevelt’s letter to a Texas Legionnaire removed all doubt that he would oppose the bonus this winter. Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee and others have been counseling compro-mi.'-e. They have been overruled. The 54.000.000.000 forecast of publick works and relief appropriations by this Congress is made by congressional leaders who confess they are uncertain as to Mr. Roosevelt’s exact plans. There are indications that Congress will not be taken into Mr Roosevelt’s confidence just now on his entire legislative program. Advisers Give Warning From the White House word has reached the Senate that the President's message on the state of the nation will concern itself more with a statement of progress toward recovery in 1934 than with specific legislative recommendations for the 74th session. Some of Mr. Roosevelt’s advisers have pointed out that as quickly as definite New Deal proposals are made there will develop on Cfrpitol Hill blocs of legislators determined to defeat, amend or expand the bills sponsored by the Administration. It appears to be Mr. Roosevelt’s intention to deal exclusively in generalities in the message which he will read before a joint session of both houses. Jan. 4. At a press conference last week Mr. Roosevelt said he would continue this year to send messages to Congress from time to time, each in behalf of specific bills. That procedure will enaile him to keep his program before Congress flexible and avoid laying the whole before hostile critics in and out of Congress. Work Relief Stressed New Deal relief plans are expected to be presented early to Congress. There is acute interest in the possibility of a combination of PWA with FERA after all unemployables have been stricken from Federal relief rolls on Feb. 1. After that date both emergency organizations will be concerned primarily with the creation of jobs although the dole system of aid can not be abandoned entirely for some time. Administration strategy calls for quick disposal of the veterans’ bonus issue. With that disposed of New Dealers foresee fairly smooth progress for the New’ Deal program. Bills for social security—old age pensions and unemployment insurance—are virtually assured of a place on Mr. Roosevelt's schedule. NRA must be revised and continued beyond its expiration date. June 16, 1935. Controversial AAA amendments abandoned last session will be presented again, including the bill to give officials access to books and accounts of organizations operating under marketing agreements. Bank Legislation Certain White House aid is expected for a bill to clarify and re-affirm labor's guarantee of collective bargaining. The regular appropriations bills must be enacted to supply funds for routine Government operations. The Treasury and Federal Reserve Board have combined to draft new’ bank legislation designed to give Washington control of the nation’s credit machinery. The substitution of political for private control of credit will take its place as one of the major innovations of a New’ Deal which has not hesitated to experiment for recovery. Excise taxes—best known of nuisance taxes —expiring this year have brought Government annual revenue close to $500,000,000 a year. They must be continued or substitutes must be found for them. There has been consideration of reduction in Federal liquor taxes to discourage bootlegging by making legal drinks cheaper. Mr. Roosevelt is eager for ratification of the St. LawTence Seaway treaty at this session. He has asked Senate leaders to obtain a vote on the resolution for adherence to the World Court. - fIMESINDEX~ Bridge 4 Broun 11 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 17 Curious World 17 Editorial *. 10 Financial 12 Hickman—Theaters 15 Pegler 11 Radio 2 Sports •••••.••••• Mi*, 14.15 Roman's Pages

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 201

6 BEGIN TERMS IN COUNTY JOBS Spencer Is Sworn in as Prosecutor Along With 26 Deputies. Six important offices in the Marion County Courthouse were changed today as r.ew’ly-elected ofcials took over their duties. Herbert M. Spencer, former assistant attorney, was sworn in as prosecuting attorney by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker this morning, as w’ere his 26 deputies and clerks. Herbert E. Wilson, former prosecutor, yesterday afternoon took the oath of office for Superior Court judge in Room five from Russell J. Ryan, w’hom Mr. Wilson succeeds. The other new Courthouse judge is Superior Judge Joseph TANARUS, Markey, who succeeds Mayor John W. Kern in Room one. Herbert Bloemker, formerly chief deputy surveyor, became County Surveyor today. Sheriff Otto Ray and his staff of 16 deputies were to be sworn in this afternoon at the county jail at ceremonies sponsored by the Ray-For-Sheriff Club. The (Turn to Page Three) MERCURY TUMRLES; WARM SPELL IS DUE Temperature Drops to 9 During Morning. The clear, coid weather which dawned upon Indianapolis New Year’s Day will continue until tomorrow, when the temperatures will rise, according to the Weather Bureau forecast today. The mercury dropped sharply during the night with a low mark of 9 at 9 this morning. At 6 a. m. the temperature was 14. A brisk, cooling wind of 25-miles-an-hour velocity blew from the northwest late last night and this morning, bringing the cold weather with it. Although the chilly temperatures will have vanished by tomorrow the fair w’eather will continue, the Weather Bureau promised. Rescued From Fire, Dies By United Press HUNTINGTON, Ind.. Jan. I. Rescued from his burning home by neighbors, George McGinnis, 80. died in a hospital last night of shock and exposure. He had been ill for some time.

Store Owner Is Killed; Robbery Believed Motive Variety Shop Operator Found Shot Beside Open Cash Register; No Money Missing, Is Report. A tall, slender man today was sought as the slayer of Reynolds E. Macbeth, 42. who was shot and wounded fatally last night as he checked the day’s receipts in his variety store at 822 r 2 N. Alabama-st. The cash register stood open when Mrs. Claude Ford. 514 E. lOth-st, ran into the store alter hearing a shot. The money had not been disturbed. y

Detectives found witnesses who said they saw a man wearing a light gray coat hurry from the store a few minutes before the shooting was discovered. He hurried across Alabama street and disappeared down Ft. Wayne-av. The slaying occurred in the same neighborhood where six years ago a theater cashier was murdered by thugs. Mr. Macbeth died in St. Vincent’s Hospital at 10:30 last night, an hour and a half after he was found shot through the head. Police believe he was wounded mortally while resisting a holdup, although the crime is cloaked in mystery because the money in the cash register was not taken. Meanwhile police searched for a clerk who had worked in the store earlier in the night, and for a second clerk who is said to have disappeared about two weeks ago, in order to question them. James W. Nugent. 1639 Park-av, said he saw a shabbily dressed man loitering near the Haag drug store at Ft. Wayne-av and Alabama-st. Detectives believe the tall, slender man said to have left the store a short time before the murder was discovered, is the same man who ordered a soft drink in Wimpy's

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WOMAN'S DEATH BAFFLESPOLICE Unidentified Metal Slug Pierces Lung of Noted Social Leader. By United Press BALTIMORE, Jan. I.—The strange basement slaying of Miss Catherine Briscoe, 51, socially prominent, baffled criminal and medical investigators today. She died of a metal slug—the size of a pea—imbedded deep in her breast. Miss Briscoe went to the basement of her home yesterday to stoke the furnace. No one else is known to have been in the basement when she was mortally wounded. Her outcry brought Rear Admiral William S. Pye, her brother-in-law, and a maid. “Something struck me,” she gasped and then lapsed into unconsciousness. She died before medical aid could reach her. X-Rays discolsed the piece of metal, apparently brass. A physician said it apparent was not fired from a gun. There were no signs -of struggle in the basement, nor was there any weapon. No member of the family recalled hearing any report that might have been a shot. Furnace ashes were sifted, but revealed no cartridge shell that might have exploded. Police were inclined to believe an accident responsible, but could find no evidence of anything that could have propelled the missile. CARDINAL BOURNE DEAD Long Illness Fatal to Archbishop of Westminster. By United Press LONDON, Jan. I.—Francis Cardinal Bourne. 73, Archbishop of Westminster since 1903, died early today from the effects of a serious t illness suffered in Rome in 1932.

Restaurant at 801 Ft. Wayne-av shortly after 8 last night and accidentally displayed a pistol in his coat pocket as he stood staring out of a window. Mrs. Hazel Macbeth, wife of the murdered man. was at work in another store operated by Mr. Macbeth at 5404 College-av, when she was informed of the shooting. She became hysterical and also was taken to St. Vincent's. She could advance no motive other than robbery. When Mrs. Ford heard the pistol shot in the Macbeth store she was looking in a store window. She saw a man run out, cross Alabamast and disappear on Ft. Wayne-av. Hurrying to a restaurant at 820 N. Alabama-st. Mrs. Ford called the police, who accompanied her to the store. There they found Mr. Macbeth lying unconscious in an aisle of the store. The cash register was open. “No sale” had been rung, but the contents had not been taken. Detectives of the homicide squad could find no weapon in the store. There were no powder burns around the wound in Mr. Macbeth’s head. The murder climaxed a series of holiday crimes which included holdups of two groceries, a veterinary hospital and ruunerous pedestrians.

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So Help Me, It’s the Truth—Wins Liar Title Californian’s Notation Takes International Medal in Walk from 5254 Contestants.

By United Press CHICAGO, are taller than the giant redwoods of his native state, is the new champion liar of the world. With the title, which he won yesterday in a walkaway from 5254 contestants in all parts of the world, went a diamond-studded medal awarded by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars’ Club. Osborn clinched the championship and a chorus of “phews” and ■phooies’’ from the judges with a scribbled notation at the end of his entry: “And, so help me Hannah, this is the truth.” The world’s best—or worst—lie of the 1934 crop was: “I had a w’ell-trained mule I used to ride when I went hunting jackrabbits. One day we lit out after a rabbit and the chase led to the edge of a 1000-foot precipice.

“Well, the rabbit was going so fast it couldn’t stop. So over he went. The mule, being well trained, followed the rabbit over the cliff with me on its back. “The situation had me up in the •air for a minute. “Then I collected my wits and, when 10 feet from the bottom of the gorge, 1 hollered ‘w r hoa!’ Gentlemen, that saved my life. The mule was so w’ell trained he stopped in his tracks.” a a a THE judges were hard put for a time to decide between Osborn and a Burt Blurt of Drooping Daisy, Mich. The decision went to Osborn when neither a Drooping Daisy nor a Burt Blurt could be foun i. Mr. Blurt submitted a modest little story of his grandfather, w r hose whiskers were so heavy he had to get up in the middle of the night and shave to keep from ripping the pillow cases. Third prize, if there had been one, would have gone to Mrs. Beulah Barnstopple of Indianapolis, who said she was so thin as a child that her father fed her grape-juice and used her for a thermometer. . The list of “good clean lies” submitted this year far exceeeded those of any other year, according to O. C. Hulett, president of the Burlington Liars Club. They came from every state, Mexico, Canada, Alaska, Cuba, England and Australia. a tt LOUIS ANNA of New Orleans asked that the medal be awarded to Huey Long “without considering the competition.” Gilbert Karcher, a Burlington lawyer and the Judge Landis of liardom, said an amendment to the by-laws adopted last year rated politicians, newspaper men, and public speakers as professional prevaricators. “Were going to keep this club on an amateur basis,” he said. Philip McCarty of Denver, 1933 winner of the world’s championship, sent word to the judges that the diamond-studded medal is “the biggest lie of all.” “It isn’t gold; it's brass,” he complained. “And it isn’t a diamond; it's a hunk of glass.” Breaks Arm in Stairs Fall Mrs. Amanda Fondren, 54, of 724 N. Alabama-st, was in City Hospital today, her left arm broken between the elbow and shoulder as a result of a fall downstairs last night*

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JOHN LINDER NAMED COUNTUTTORNEY Other Posts Are Filled by Commissioners. Jonh F. Linder today was appointed county attorney by the County Commissioners to succeed Charles Clarke. Mr. Linder is judge advocate of the Indiana American Legion. Other appointments included: Commissioners’ Bailiff, Verl Pierson. reappointed; stenographer, Mrs. Elizabeth Brewer. Dr. Clarence Rees was appointed physician at Julietta Hospital and Dr. A. G. Schneider was named jail physician. All other institution heads were reappointed. Dr. O. D. Ludwig was appointed County Health Officer. Miss Mildred Reynolds received the appointment as Health Board Clerk and Mrs. Emily Yager was appointed record clerk. t FEENEY TO REMAIN ON JOB, M’NUTT INSISTS Governor Denies Story Printed in South Bend Paper. Reports emanating from. South Bend to the effect that A1 G. Feeney, State Safety Director, is scheduled to be replaced by Donald Stiver, former Goshen city judge, were branded by Gov. Paul V. McNutt as being “characteristically inaccurate.” The Governor neither would deny nor affirm that Mr. Feeney’s displacement is imminent. The report was carried in the South Bend Tribune and was said to have come from sources close to the Governor.

State to Call 40 Witnesses in Effort to Place Hauptmann at Murder Scene

By United Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. I. Forty witnesses wall be called by the state of New Jersey to prove that Bruno Richard Hauptmann was in or near Hopewell on the night the infant son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was kidnaped. Most of these witnesses will be drawn from the Hill folk in the Sourland Mountains. Their testimony will be vigorously disputed by Hauptmann's alibi witnesses who will try to place him in his Bronx apartment at the moment of the kidnaping. . Hauptmann w T ill come into court tomorrow, shackled to $ deputy sheriff, and two state troopers will guard him constantly until he is convicted or acquitted of a charge of murder in connection with the kidnaping. Defense and prosecution believe

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STATE INCOME PAYMENTS DUE 300,000 Expected to Pay Tax Before Jan. 30, Jackson Announces. The period for paying the Indiana gross income tax will begin tomorrow and continue through Jan. 30. Preparations for handling the annual tax returns of more than 300,000 Indiana citizens were completed yesterday by Clarence A. Jackson, gross income tax administrator. Mr. Jackson expects between 40,000 and 50,000 taxpayers to file their returns in person at the gross income tax office while the others will be filed at automobile license branches throughout the state or will be mailed directly to the division office at the Statehouse. Returns must cover all income received during 1934 regardless of previous quarterly returns filed, Mr. Jackson pointed out. The tax is computed on the income for the entire year, he said, and if quarterly payments have been made, these are deducted to learn the balance of tax due. All persons whose gross receipts were more than SIOOO during 1934 are required to file returns. POLICEMAN SLAIN BY THREE-GUN REVELLER Slayer Is Killed in Turn by One of Captors. By United Press HAMILTON, 0., Jan. I.—A New Year’s eve celebrant from whom police took two revolvers, suddenly drew a third from his pocket early today, shot and killed one policeman, wounded another and was himself slain in a patrol wagon. FOUR RESCUED7ROM PLANE ARE RECOVERING Pilots of 111-Fated Plane Suffering From Exposure. By United Press UTICA, N. Y., Jan. I.—Three survivors of a plane crash in the Adirondacks rested in a Utica hospital today, recovering from their exposure in a winter storm for more than two days without food or heavy clothing. The fourth person aboard the American Airlines Curtiss-Condor plane that crashed Friday night en route from Albany to Syracuse, R. W. Hambrook, attache of the Federal Office of Education at Washington, returned to New York by plane last night. Ernest and Dale Dryer, pilot and co-pilot, respectively, of the ill-fated ship, were still weak from exposure, frost bite and shock. Jack H. Brown, fourth member of the party, will be released from the hospital today.

they will succeed in getting a jury of Hunterdon County citizens within the first two sessions of court. “I do not intend to question the talesmen about their prejudices,” Lloyd Fisher of defense counsel told the United Press. “There isn’t a man or woman in the United States who hasn’t read about this case. If a talesman said to me that he hadn't read or heard about it and had not formed an opinion. I would consider him either a liar or a moron. We will accept anybody who has an open mind and who looks intelligent.” Both prosecution and defense forces scoffed at the idea that any new witnesses might be brought into the case, although it was known that the state definitely has at least two men wo will place Hauptmann at the scene of the kidnaping on or about March 1, 1932. The Federal Government today began to ,play a more lmporuot part in the

KERN ASSUMES NEW DUTIES AS CITY EXECUTIVE Pledges Same High Type of Business-Like Administration That Featured Regime of Ex-Mayor Sullivan. Voicing a solemn pledge for himself and his official cabinet to continue the municipal policies of honesty, economy and efficiency established by Reginald H. Sullivan, his Democratic predecessor, John W. Kern today took charge of the Indianapolis civil city government. His voice trembling with emotion as he pledged his energies toward the continuance of a business-like administra-

NEW YEAR GETS LUSTY GREETING City Clubs, Bars Thronged; Churches Also Draw Crowds. With a carnival spirit unequaled in a decade, Indianapolis last night ushered in the new year and with an old-time zip and playfulness flung Old Man 1934 into oblivion. With the lusty new year not more than a half dozen hours old before it buffeted the city with an icy breath, the city today settled down for a quiet observance which was to incude the inauguration of anew Mayor and his !(taff. As the passing year made way for the new, the streets were jammed with cheering crowds; hotels became citadels of mirth and the city’s swanky clubs held brilliant celebrating groups. Paramount social events of the night were the programs at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Columbia Club and at Murat Theater, where the Princeton Triangle Club show (Turn to Page Three) CITY TWINS BURN IN OLD, NEW YEAR Three 1935 Babies Reported oy Hospitals. The twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Boles, 350 E. Norwood-st, will have some difficulty adjusting their birthdays. The first was born in City Hospital last night 10 minutes before midnight and the second 17 minutes after the New Year 1935 had made it appearance. The second baby of the New Year was that of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Landgrigan, 623 W. 30th-st, born at 12:23 a. m. in St. Vincent’s Hospital. It was a boy weighing eight pounds. The third infant was a boy born at 4:47 a. m. in St. Francis Hospital. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fitzwater, 1939 Carroll-ton-av. STATE POLICE RELENT IN CAR TAG CAMPAIGN No Arrests for Driving With ’34 Plates Reported. Although a state police order that all r/iotorists whose automobiles bore the now obsolete 1934 license plates should be arrested went into effect last midnight, state police and local police reported this morning that no one had been apprehended on the improper license charge. Capt. Jesse McMurtry of the Indianapolis police said that no arrests would be ordered until notification from Chief Mike Morrissey. Capt. McMurtry said that the chief had" received no official request from state officials to enforce the license law. Hoosier Youth Found Guilty By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. I. Sentence of 2-to-21 years’ imprisonment faced Lon Hartfield Jr., 16-year-old Bloomington Negro today, after his conviction on a manslaughter charge in connection with the shooting of Charles Languell, Gosport farmer.

trial than ever before in the 30 months of investigation. Francis Fay. head of the Department of Justice’s divis’on of investigation in New York, sent Thomas Sisk, his chief assistant, to Fleipington with instructions to be available for- the prosecution throughout the trial. Mr. Sisk will be one of the state’s key witnesses. Betty Gow, Scottish nurse of the Lindbergh baby, will be one of the first witnesses and one of the most important. She will identify the sleeping-garment in which she wrapped the baby on the afternoon of March 1, 1932, as the identical garment that was returned to her 15 days later as a “token” from the kidnapers. Her words will be used by the prosecution to prove, first, that a kidnaping took place and, second, that the kidnaper was the man'that negotiated for the $50,000 ransom with Dr. John F. (Jafsie) i Condon In the Bronx.

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I tion, Mayor Kern pleaded for the non-partisan sympathy of the people in his effort to discharge fully the mandate which he said had been imposed by the results of the November balloting. At noon Mayor Kem took the official oath of office which was administered by his brother, William C. Kem, who earlier in the day had .become Deputy Prosecutor under appointment of Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer. There was little of a pageantry in the inaugural ceremony. Mayor Kem had insisted that simplicity mark his entrance to office. Gets Key to City Following Mayor Kern’s brief speech retiring Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan congratulated his successor, predicted a successful administration and handed the smiling young executive a huge gilded wooden key to the city, emblematic of his new official position. The ceremonies took place on * raised platform in the main rotunda of the City Hall, which was gayly decorated. Beside the Mayor during the ceremony was his mother, Mrs. John W. Kern Sr., widow of John W. Kern Sr., former United States Senator; the Mayor’s wife, and their son, John W. Jr. After the inaguration of the Mayor, Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox Administered the oath of office to other city officials. Ceremonies at the City Hall began at 10, when the Mayor opened his office to receive callers and wellwishers. Other offices were opened and their new cjccupants received the congratulations and best wishes of crowds of friends who surged through the building. The Police and Firemen’s Band played patriotic airs following a march from Marion County courthouse, where newly elected county officials had been inducted into office earlier in the day. Mayor Kern had not complete’, selection of his official staff when the inaugural began. It was not considered likely that he would make any additional appointments during the day, so occupied did he expect to be with routine affairs of his first day in office. List of Officials Those who took office today included: Mayor’s Office—Mayor, John W. Kern; secretary to mayor. Joseph B. Tynan; stenographer. Miss Harriet Day; messenger, William W. Walker (Negro). City Clerk—City clerk, Daniel J. O’Neill Jr; assistant clerk, Mrs. Frata MacCabe. Department of Finance—Controller, Walter C. Boetcher; deputy controller, Herschel M. Tebay*; finance auditor, Francis A. Muehlbacher*. Department of Law—Corporation counsel, James E. Deery; city attorney, Floyd J. Mattice; assistant city attorney, Michael B. Reddimiton. Public Works Board—President, Hubert S. Riley; members, Louis C. Brandt* and Robert K. Eby. Barrett Law Department—Chief clerk, George D. Yeazel". Assessment Bureau (Public ’Works Department) Bond clerk, Cecil McConahay*. Street Department—Street commissioner, Claude E. Shover. Safety Board—President, Theodore H. Dammeyer; members. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch and Edward P. Fillion; market master, Paul W. Lindemann; assistant market master, Rocco Meo. Municipal Garage—S"perintendent, Daniel G. Watkins'; assistant superintendent, Wilbur H. Winship. Building Inspection Department —Commissioner of Buildings, William F. Hurd*. Police Department—Chief, Mike Morrissey*. Fire Department—Chief of force, Fred Kennedy; first assistant chiefs, Roscoe A. McKinney and Harry H. Fulmer; second assistant chief in charge of fire prevention, Bernard A. Lynch*; secretary, Harry R. Gould*; police and fire department surgeon, Dr. Frank T. Dowd*. * —Denotes reappointment. Council Is Sworn In Meanwhile. Judge Cox administere the oath of office to the new City Council. Among the members was Mrs. Nannette Dowd, first Indianapolis woman ever to occupy an elective position in the city’s legislative body. Other members are Edward B. Raub, Dr. Theodore Cable, Adolph Fritz, Silas J. Carr, Ross H. Wallace, Edward R. Kealing. John A. Schumacher and William A. Oren. City Engineer’s Office Looted Police today were notified of the theft of two platinum crucibles and one platinum dish from the offices of A. H. Moore, city engineer, yesterday, jhe loot was valued at $65.