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TEXAS MOVES TO BRING GAS INTO MIDWEST Ickes Expects Request for $50,000,000 Loan for Pipe Line. HELD BLOW TO TRUSTS Surprise Development Set With Probers’ Demand for U. S. Quiz. The Indiana Senate, at the request of the legislative committee probing natural gas manipulations, this afternoon voted unanimously to ask the United States Senate tc investigate the entire industry. At the same time, as a bolt from the blue to all investigators and others interested in the natural gas situation in this area, in Washington Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes was announcing that he expected the State of Texas to file an application for a Public Works Administration loan and grant to finance a pipe line to carry gas from the Texas Panhandle to St. Louis and Detroit. This line would necessarily go near Indianapolis. The project, expected to cost between $30,000,000 and sso.i\'J,ooo, would carry to midwestem cities approximately 1.000.000.000 cubic feet of gas now being wasted daily in the fields. “The project,” Mr. Ickes commented, “has two obvious benefits. In the first place it would utilize gas now being wasted in West Texas, and would make passible the selling of fuel at considerably lower gas rates in St. Louis and Detroit.” Move Distinct Surprise This revolutionary proposal, entering a state government into a public utility field against companies that are charged with being monopolistic, came as a distinct surprise here. In asking Senate intervention, the Indiana committee followed the lead of an association of middlewestern mayors who met in Columbus last month. United States Senator Gerald P. Nye < R... N. D ) at that time said he would introduce into the Senate a resolution calling for a complete investigation of the industry, centering about the receivership action of the Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Cos., now pending in chancery court in Wilmington, Del. Nye Charge Is Recalled Senator Nye said then: “An astounding brief in this case has come to my attention. It presents a picture of such utility barons as the Morgans, Philip G. Gossler. president of the Columbia Gas and Electric Corp.; Henry L. Doherty and Christy Payne of the Standard Oil (New Jersey) up to their necks in a utility cesspool of their own creation. “Briefly, one Frank P. Parish, former independent natural gas pipe hue operator, committed the extreme indiscretion of attempting to buck Mr. Doherty. Mr. Gassier, Mr. Payne and other Wall Street overlords, and the brief tells the story. Those facts, admitted and unchallenged by attorneys for the natural gas barons, alone justify a sweeping investigation.” Today Luke Scheer, an agent of minority stockholders c ft he Mis-souri-Kansas, who are fighting the receivership, gave the Indiana committee his version of the affair and told how Indianapolis once was a factor in the *hole negotiations and could once have had the cheap natural gas it now is fightng to get. Offered City Chaep Gas He said that, in 1931, the Kentucky Natural Gas Corp.. then a subsidiary of the Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Corp., offered to build a belt pipe line around the city to supply natural gas from the Kentucky fields to manufacturers. “With this pipe line around the city,” Mr. Seheer told the legislators. “Kentucky Corp. could have put gas at the city gates at 35 cents for each 1000 cubic feet. lam not (Turn to Page Three) BURGLARS LOOT HOME OF WILLIAM FORTUNE Civic Leader Loses 595 in Jewelry; Maid S5 in Cash. Burglars forced their way 't.to the home of William Fortune, p: eminent Indianapolis civic leader, at 1010 N. Deiaware-st. yesterday while the Fortune family was out of the city, and stole jewelry valued at $95 and $5 in cash from the room of Miss Louis Kleer. a maid. FLEES STORE WITH 40 PAIRS OF PANTS Thief Walks Out of Rear Door With S2OO in Loot. Police are looking for a fashionplate thief who yesterday afternoon walked out of. the Star Store, 360 W. Washington-st. with 40 pairs of trousers, valued at S2O. The trousers were piled near the rear door, store officials said. YOUNG HOOSIER SLAYER IS SENTENCED TO CHAIR Hobart Youth Found Guilty of Killing State Farmer. By Umitrd Prett CROWN POINT, Ind., Feb. 5 Richard Chapman, 20. of Hobart, Ind., 1* to die in the electric chair May 25 for the murder on Jan. 1 of Henry Nolte, Hobart farmer. Chapman was sentenced yesterday by Judge William J. Murray, Lake County.

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Fisch Collected Ransom Money, Reilly Charges, Promising to Prove Assertion by Witnesses

Dramatic Outburst by Bruno’s Chief Counsel Enlivens Drab Testimony; Defense Nears Finish; Jury May Get Case Saturday. By United Prat FLEMINGTON. N. J., Feb. s—The shouted declaration of Edward J. Reilly, chief defense counsel, that he would prove Isidor Fisch, now dead in Germany, was the Lindbergh ransom extortioner, brought Bruno Richard Hauptmann's murder trial to a sharp climax today The declaration came to startle the courtroom as an interlude to the droning of a group of petty witnesses brought by the defense to clear up some of the hundreds of discrepancies in previous testimony.

LABOR UNREST SPURSCAPITAL New Deal Leaders Move to Speed Recovery Legislation. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 Administration ieaders, spurred by growing labor unrest, today speeded recommendacions to Congress for recovery legislation intended to give workers added benefits, While admitting seriousness of the labor situation, Administration leaders professed to believe widespread strikes could be averted by prompt enactment rs social security relief legislation and NRA extension. Legislation for continuation of the NRA for one or possibly two years probably will be recommended to Congress soon, it was indicated. Future of the recovery act, which expires June 16, was discussed at a two-hour conference at the White House. Donald R. Richberg, Recovery Co-ordinator, and NIRB officials attended. Mr. Richberg said later there was "practical general agreement on recommended legislation.” None who conferred with President Roosevelt would give any hint as to the nature of the recommendations. Strong indication the President will ask for a continuation of his recovery agency was seen in discussion of future legislation at the Capitol and the code hearings being conducted by the NIRB. Threats of strikes before spring are being made in three major industries—automobile, steel and cotton textiles. The American Federaof Labor has been openly critical of some Administration labor policies. G. 0, P, TO SPONSOR NET INCOME BILL Tax Measure Is Patterned After U. S. Law. Emboldened by a recent Indiana Supreme Cot’rt decision, the Republican minority in the House of Representatives today sponsored a net income tax bill. The Republicans caucused yesterday and reached the decision to introduce the bill, which would fulfill one of the pledges of the Republican state platform. The measure, introduced by Rep. H. H. Evans, Newcastle, Republican caucus chairman, was patterned after the Federal net income law. The tax rate would be l’s per cent after the same deductions allowed by the Federal government are made. The Federal exemptions are $2500 for a married person, plus S4OO for each dependent. and SISOO for a single person. Federal employes would be exempt from the state tax, but state employes would be forced to pay it. A commissioner of income to supervise administration of the law, would be created.

Gold, Glory Await City's No, 1 Pinochle Player SIOOO Prize to Be Awarded National Champion; Local Winner to Receive S3OO. Pinochle players in Indianapolis received the announcement of the national pinochle championship tournament, sponsored in Indianapolis by The Indianapolis Times, with enthusiasm and interest. In homes, offices, clubs and even on the streets, pinochle players were speculating on who would win the city championship and thus represent Indianapolis in the

national playoff in New York. The city championship tournament here will be held in the Columbia Club and will be under the general direction of P. Hal Sims, foremost authority on contract bridge, pinochle and other card games and author of many books on bridge, assisted by Fritz A. Schneider, beginning the week of Feb. 9 and continuing for three weeks. In all there will be nine sessions to choose Indianapolis’ champion, who in turn will go to New York to compete for the national championship which carries an additional award of SIOOO. All expenses to and from New York will be paid, i In addition, the local champion will receive S3OO. Second and third are SIOO each with the 50 ne\ ghest scores receiving an autog. hed copy of "Pinochle Pointc ’ by P. Hal Sims. This book is .he first one of its size and magnitude to be published on pinochle. There is no charge to those entering the tournament. All that is required is that you sign the entry blank on Page Sixteen and mall

It was riurine the examination of Mrs. Bertha Hoff, a Bayside housewife, that Mr. Reilly made his statement to the court. Mrs. Hoff had testified that Isidor Fisch had brought two suitcases to her home and wanted to leave them there before he departed for Europe. The defense inference was that Fisch was trying to dispose of the ransom money by leaving it with friends. Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz objected that Mrs. Hoff’s testimony was incompetent and immaterial, and his objection was sustained, but not before Mr. Reilly announced his intention to prove that “Isidor Fisch was the man who jumped over the cemetery wall and received the ransom money.” Witness Is Withdrawn Mr. Reillv withdrew his witness after making no headway on his promise, and then called Special Agent John E. Sevkora, of the Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, through whom he tried to show that Dr. John F. Condon had been examined by alienists, and that “a report on his mental condition is on file.” Mr. Seykora insisted he had no such report and that the man known as “Jafsie” had not been examined by any men of his department. Previously, Mrs. Maria Muller and Mrs. Louisa Wollenburg, matrons in the Hauptmann’s little group in the Bronx, testified to being present at gatherings on Nov. 26, 1933, at a time when the Bronx carpenter is accused of passing a ransom note in Greenwich Village. Hauptmann, they said, was at home throughout the evening. The day’s comedy relief was provided by Philip Moses, ope-tim.e Bronx taxidrivert who amused the trial fans by imitating Will Rogers, after having told a vague story of seeing three men “in a huddle” at St. Raymond’s Cemetery on the day the ransom money was passed. Federal Agent Scored In his examination of Agent Seykora, Mr. Reilly did his best to picture Dr. Condon as “eccentric,” and questioned the witness severely on his department's “failure to investigate the doctor thoroughly.” Hauptmann’s defense may be completed today or, at the latest, tomorrow. This would permit the jury receiving the case by Saturday. Mr. Reilly said he had “at least 30 more witnesses,” enough to occupy the court's time until Saturday, but even his associates of the defense said pmately this was exaggeration. It was understood the defense had three more handwriting experts and two or three minor figures, and was not certain whether to call all of its experts. Mr. Wilentz will need another day to present about 20 rebuttal witnesses, including, perhaps, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, mother of Mrs. Lindbergh, who will defend her servants against Mr. Reilly’s innuendoes. An additional day will be needed for lawyers’ summations. Justice Trenchard’s charge to the jury will require about one hour. Communications Board Approved By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—The Senate Interstate Commerce Commission today voted to report favorably the nominations of Chairman Eugene O. Sykes and four other members of the Federal Communications Commission.

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Morgan Interests Backing Wall Street Fascist Army Plot, Rockefeller Group Supporting Roosevelt, Author Declares

The United States is controUed by two powerful warring banking groups—the Rockefeller interests, associated with the national Administration, and the Morgan interests, backing a potent Wall Street conspiracy—John L. Spivak, famed instigator and author of articles in The New Masses and American Mercury, stated last night at the Lincoln. Mr. Spivak. who appeared under auspices of the John Reed Club, charged that the Diekstein Committee, investigating subversive interests in this country, deliberately suppressed important testimony given by Gen. Smedley Butler, which involved not only the Morgan

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1935

HOUSE DELAYS VOTE ON CHILD lABORREPORT Postponement Bares Lack of Unity in Ranks of Democrats. Their ranks lacking unity in support of the Federal Child Labor Amendment, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives today postponed a test vote on the state s ratification of the amendment until 11:15 Friday. Fate of the amendment was to have been determined at 11:30 today when the House was to have voted on the minority report of the labor committee. Opposition to binding members of the Democratic party to support the amendment developed at a party caucus of House members late yesterday. Decision to postpone action on the committee report until Friday came after much bickering from the floor. Republican floor leaders presented several resolutions for postponement until Thursday at 11:30; until Thursday at 11:15 and until other hours. During the caucus of the Democratic Representatives in the Claypool late yesterday Rep. Morris H. Coers (D., Indianapolis) was reported to have attempted to make the amendment a matter of caucus action. This, it was said, drew a bitter attack from Rep. J. Napier Dyer (D„ Vincennes). Geckler Backs Reform Meanwhile friends of ratification learned that Marion County Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler, whose court is one of the largesj in the country dealing with child problems, had issued an appeal for approval of the amendment which is a Democratic program measure indorsed by President Roosevelt and Gov. Paul V. McNutt. In a telegram to The Indianapolis Times, Judge Geckler made an appeal to the Marion County delegation to support the amendment. “I respectfully and hopefully urge the members of the Marion County delegation to support the pending Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution of the Untied States,” Judge Geckler said. “Not only will this amendment give the United States government the power to protect the children of this country, but it is in step with the progressive democratic spirit of the times.” Farm Argument Rapped Ralph A. Scott, Greenfield, last night opposed the amendment in an address before the Irvington Republican Club, saying it would mean complete regimentation of the people. The amendment has been bitterly attacked bz out-of-state industrial interests which have been responsible for the circulation of reports that farm children would be prevented from doing ordinary chores if the amendment is adopted. Advocates of the plan, including its sponsors, organized labor, dispute this interpretation and claim that the courts have indicated the labor of children would be prohibited only in gainful employment in industry. In addition to organized labor, the amendment is supported by the American Legion, the League of Women Voters and more than 25 other national organizations. M’CRACKEN MAY SEEK REHEARING IN SENATE Facing Jail, Former U. S. Official Will Consult Attorney. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—William P. MacCracken Jr., assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aemouatics in the Hoover Administration, indicated today he may ask for rehearing of his Senate conviction on contempt charges. The Supreme Court yesterday upheld action of the Senate in sentencing Mr. MacCracken to 10 days in jail on conviction of contempt of the air mail investigating committee. He planned to confer with his attorney as to whether he will petition for a rehearing on the ground his contempt was purged when he gave the committee the information it desired.

bankers but also weii-known “patriotic” groups. He warned his audience that the bankers, fearful that a change in the economic order would decrease their power and holdings, were prepared to establish a Fascist army. He divided the Fascist elements into two groups—those which are sincere Fascists but unimportant such as the Silver Shirts, the Khaki Shirts, the Crusade of White Shirts, the American Vigilance and Intelligence Association and other vigilante gorups, and, on the other hand, powerful groups backed by Wall Street. In this list he included the National Civic Federation of New York, of which Matthew Woll,

BRITAIN, FRANCE REACH COMPLETE AGREEMENT ON MUTUAL DEFENSE, PREMIER FLANDIN INFORMS PARIS

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Thomas E, Maloy MYSTERY HIDES MALOYKILLERS Slain Union Head Had Many Enemies, Police Learn During Probe. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. s.—Police made no apparent progress today in a quest for gunmen who revived the butchery methods of the old gang days to kill Thomas, E. Malloy wealthy labor leader, in the sight of many motorists before the World Fair grounds. Principal difficulty of the investigators was that many people had reason to narbor grudges against the czar of motion picture operators and to wish him out of their way. He was under indictment for income tax evasion and probably would have been called upon in his defense to implicate several associates in off-color financial dealings. State’s attorneys charged that the union business manager “sold out” on more than one occasion in disputes between his union and employers, to his personal financial gain. . Police sought Edward (Red) Donovan, head of a truck drivers’ union, and Ralph O'Hara, organizer for Maloy’s union. O’Hara once was Maloy’s closest friend, but was reported lately to have disagreed with him. O’Hara said over the _ telephone that he “might” surrender today. He denied he and his associate were unfriendly. Maloy vvas killed while driving from his -South Side home to his Loop office with a friend, Dr. Emmett Quinn, a dentist w'ho also is a motion pic:ure operator. The killers, apparently three of them, fired from a passing motor car through the windows of Maloy’s sedan. The union chief was killed almost instantly. Dr, Quinn, although wounded slightly, stopped the big car as it careened across the drive.

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Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 32 10 a. m 39 7a. m 34 11 a. m 40 Ba. m 36 12 (noon).. 39 9 a. m 37 1 p. m 36 Tomorrow’s sunrise, 6:49 a. m.; sunset, 5:10. In the Air Weather conditions at noon. Northwest wind, 11 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 29.91 at sea level; temperature, 39; general conditions, overcast; ceiling, estimated at 7000 feet; visibility, four miles, hazy, GIRL, 6, UNCONSCIOUS SINCE CRASH SUNDAY Specialists Called to Treat Young Accident Victim. Specialists were called in today to treat 6-year-old Alice Bader, who has remained unconscious since she was injured in an automobile collision at 4:15 Sunday afternoon. She lives at R. R. 81, Box 268, but is now at St. Francis Hospital. The child was riding in an automobile driven by Miss Ida Bruning, 38, R. R. 10, Box 2878, which was in collision with a car driven by Mrs. Helen Bennett, 27, Shelbyvlile, at Brookville and Franklin-rds.

American Federation of Labor vice president, is acting director; the Committee of the Nation, the American Liberty League and the American Legion. Mr. Spivak said that all in the second group, with the exception of the legion, were organized to take issue on the monetary issues such as inflation and deflation. Mr. Spivak claimed that the money given the American Legion for its organization was donated by a Wall Street broker and that the legion has been prominent in antilabor activities. He said that a clique has controlled the legion until the last convention, but at that time it was overthrown and Frank N. Belgrano Jr. was named, commander.

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PRICE CONTROL POWERS TAKEN FROMJA ACT Loss Leaders, Destructive Cost Cutting Barred in Proposal. All powers delegated to Gov. Paul V. McNutt, by proposed amendments to the state NRA law, to intervene in price-cutting wars and fix minimum prices, today were stricken from the proposed bill by the House of Representatives. Rep. J. Napier Dyer (D., Vincennes), original author of the bill, offered a further amendment which makes the use of loss leaders and destructive price cutting unlawful. A Republican effort to compel indefinite postponement of the entire measure failed 62-36 following a brief debate, during which Rep. Dyer said the amendment offered today met the approval of the Governor. Section 11 of the bill, included in a batch of amendments presented unexpectedly last Friday, would have given the Governor power to intervene in price wars and establish minimum prices in areas affected. Loss Leaders Prohibited As now drawn, Section 11 reads: “The use of loss leaders as heretofore defined in any business transaction, including those of a strictly intrastate character, is hereby prohibited and any form of destructive price cutting which tends to demoralize a trade or industry and threaten existing wage levels, shall be deemed an unfair method of competition and a violation of this act.” The Democrats rejected an amendment offered by Rep. Roy J. Harrison (R., Attica) to prevent coercion from any source against employes from selecting their own agency for collective wage bargaining. At present the bill prevents coercion by “employers of labor.” The entire Republican membership of the House voted against the amendment and supported the attempt to kill the bill by directing indefinite postponement. G. O. P. Attacks Bill Rep. H. H. Evans (D., Newcastle), Republican caucus leader, repeated the opposition to the bill which he read into the House journal yesterday. He declared the entire Federal NRA program has been declared illegal by the United States Supreme Court and has been called unworkable by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA Administrator. Today’s action in the House carried out the predictions made by Rep, Dyer in The Indianapolis Times Saturday that the new Section 11, placed in the bill at the request of “independent dealers” who appeared before a committee and gave the impression the section was approved by Gov. McNutt, would be wholly changed. A one-house legislature is sought in a bill introduced today in the House by Rep. Joseph E. Klen <D„ Whiting), 50 Members Proposed The measure sets the membership of the proposed General Assembly at 50 members, to be elected on a separate ballot and under a nonpartisan emblem without political designation. Nominations are to be made by petitions filed with the Secretary of State between 30 to 60 days before election, with petitioners to be onefourth of the voters who cast ballots at the last general election for the office of Secretary of State. Terms for the general assemblymen, to be voted upon in districts with the same boundary lines as the present senatorial districts, would be six years, with ‘the first election held in November, 1936. Following election, the assemblymen are to draw lots for terms of office in the first assembly, vith the range of term being two, four and six years. Elections are to be held every two years.

Mr. Belgrano, as a California banker, is associated with the William Randolph Heart interests, according to Mr. Spivak. The speaker pointed out that the Hearst papers anti-red campaign and the legion anti-Communist drive began at the same time. “The leader of the Fascist army must be a man who believes sincerely in its aims and who is a tool in the hands of the bankers,Mr. Spivak said. On that ground, he discarded Huey Long as a Fascist menace, saying that the Kingfish was a mountebank and not sincere in anything but his own interests. Mr. Spivak traced the financial interests of all leaders of the Fascist movement, claiming that they led directly to J. P. Morgan. He said

Europe’s Two Greatest Powers Provide Tor Reciprocal Assistance,’ Leader Tells His Chamber of Deputies. OTHER NATIONS INVITED TO PARLEY, Two Governments to Act Together When Replies Are Received, He Declares in Speech Baring New Accord. By United Press PARIS, Feb. s.—Great Britain and France have agreed on a complete pact of mutual defense, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin told the Chamber of Deputies today. In a startling declaration to Parliament on the accord just reached in London on Germany’s re-armament Premier Flandin said: “We have provided for reciprocal and complete assistance between France and Great Britain. We believe other

RUDY ADMITS RDGEJARNINGS Weekly Income $8350 or More, Crooner Says as Trial Starts. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. s.—Rudy Vallee, battling to prevent his wife from obtaining more than the SIOO weekly stipulated by their separation agreement, admitted reluctantly in Supreme Court today that his income varies upward from $8350 a week. But from this sum, the crooner hastened to explain w'hile Mrs. Fay Webb Vallee fixe him with a steady stare, he must pay his band and other enttrtainers, so that he does not ofen have as good a year as 1932, when he made SBB,OOO. “That,’ ’he sighed, “was in the good old days.” Nevertheless the parade of figures adduced by Thomas I. Sheridan of counsel for Mrs. Vallee—s2Bso for a weekly broadcast, $50,000 for a moving picture, $5500 a week from a night club—impressed Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo, who added, however, that the “prime consideration” was not how much money Mr. Vallee made, but whether “Mrs. Vallee was a dutiful wife.” A hint of the spicy testimony in store was given by attorneys for both sides when, in stating the case, they mentioned the celebrated records by Mr. Vallee of telephone conversations between his wife and Gary Leon, handsome adagio dancer, Hyman Bushel of counsel for Vallee, asserted that Mrs. Vallee was “the most disloyal woman alive,” that the records were such that when her father, C. E. Webb, Chief of Police of Santa Monica, Cal., heard them he ordered her to leave the cronner and “go home to California.” CITY MAN KILLED AS AUTO SKIDS, CRASHES Phone Supervisor Injured; Icy Pavement Blamed. Harry W. Shaw. 537 E. 32nd-st, was killed instantly today when his automobile skidded on an icy pavement and collided with another car three and a half miles south of Plymouth, Ind. With Mr. Shaw was R. J. Montrose, McCordsville, who was taken to the Marshall County Hospital at Plymouth suffering from chest injuries. Mr. Montrose is supervisor of central" office problems for the Indianapolis Telephone Cos., and he is a brother of F. A. Montrose, vice president and general manager of the company. Mr. Shaw, who was 61, also was employed by the telephone company as supervisor in charge of installation and general maintenance. He and Mr. Montrose were on a business trip.

that the Morgan groups held a large number of short-term German notes and thus were anxious for United States trade relations with the Soviet to be discontinued in order that Nazi Germany might benei.t. The speaker revealed that the editor of the American Mercury who had dared publish Mr. Spivak s articles on the American Red Cross, dealing with the financial interests of its directors, had been discharged about ten days ago. Asked by a member of the audience whether or not the Scripps-Howard papers could be depended upon to print all the news, Mr. Spivak said: “They can be absolutely depended upon so long as their financial interests are not touched.” He did not say what the financial interests were.

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nations should likewise be interested in removing the danger of aggression and therefore we decided to call for the participation of the nations which signed the Locarno pact.” Os the London accords. Premier Flandin said further: “They must not be misunderstood. They are principles presented with a view to later conversations, as the two governments must act together again when tehy receive replies to their invitations.” Outlining the reasons for the accords, Premier Fiindin reiterated that Germany’s seci’t re-armament and wtihdrawal from ii:e League of Nations created anew situation. ‘We think it would be inopportune,” he said, ‘‘to give any pretext whatever to anybody to avoid his obligations to the international organization of peace. “There is no change in French polciy—that is. there is no question of removing from the League of Natk>ns a problem affecting the family or nations which can not be solved with the exclusion of someone. “Each nation has the right and the duty to organize its own security. it will be necessary to define for each country the guarantees for security.” MORGENTHAU SUGGESTS PENSION TAX INCREASE Treasury Head Given Hearing by House Committee. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—The Administration, through Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, this afternoon recommended that contributory old-age pension taxes in the security bill be sharply increased to prevent- huge Federal contributions in years to come. Mr. Morgeftthau proposed to the House Ways and Means Committee that pay rolls and earnings taxes under the contributory old-age annuity system start at 2 instead of 1 per cent as provided in the bill. They would increase to 6 per cent at the end of 12 years instead of 5 per cent at the end of 20 years. MAI ITrUCK”HOLDUP IS FOILED BY DRIVER Federal Employe “Steps on Gas,” Runs Down Bandit. By United Press NORTH SMITHFIELD, R. 1., Feb. s.—Three highwaymen wearing orange-colored masks, attempted to hold up a United States mall truck today but were frustrated when the driver stepped on the accelerator, ran down one of the bandits, and sped away. North Smithfield is 23 miles from Fall River, Mass., where less than a fortnight ago five bandits held up another mail truck, kidnaped the driver, and escaped with $129,000 in cash. Federal authorities believed today’s raid was the work of the same gang. TWO ACCIDENfvicfiMS ARE GREATLY IMPROVED Charles S. Stratton Also in Mishap Involving Times Editor. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. -Stratton are recovering rapidly at their home, 27 N. Euclid-av, from injuries they received Friday night when an automobile in which they were riding collided with the car driven by Mrs. Talcott Powell, wife of the editor of The Indianapolis Times. Early reports of the accident did not state that Mr. Stratton was in the car, which was driven by Edwin B. Riegel, 406 N. Chester-av. Mrs. Riegel was a fourth passenger. Times Index Bridge 4 Broun 11 Comics 15 Crossword .hizzle 15 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 6 Hickman—Theaters 13 Pegler 11 Radio 3 Sports 12-13 State News 2 Woman's Pages 4-5