Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1935 — Page 1

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LIQUOR BILL IS APPROVED BY HOUSE

ALLEN NAMED TO PLACE ON MERIT BOARD Personnel Expert, Political Liberal, Is Selected as Citizen-Member. 2 OTHER' PLACES OPEN Kern Is Likely to Appoint Dr. De Armond to City Position. William Rowland Allen, personnel expert and political liberal, has accepted an appointment to the newly formed merit commission, which will supervise working of the merit system in the Indianapolis Police and Fire Departments. Mayor John W. Kern announced this afterM*r Allen, whose home is at 130 Berkley-rd. was appointed as the citizen member of the board which also is to have physician and psychologist members. He is personnel director of L. S. A> res A: Cos. He is widely known for his work in that position and in similar positions elsewhere and for his views on personnel wort:. At the same time, it was learned at City Hall that Dr. Murray De Armond. 522 N. Chester-st. psychiatrist. probably would receive the psychologist's appointment. Dr. De Armond also is widely known here. He has appeared in Criminal Court numerous times as an expert witness. In addition to the merit commission. Mayor Kern will appoint under the merit system law passed Tuesday by the General Assembly two merit boards, one each to be composed of ranking members of the fire and police forces. WALLACE WITHDRAWS CITY'S MILK LICENSE Universal Disobedience After Court Cpset Is Cited. By T nitr4 Prr* WASHINGTON. Feb 28 Henry A Wallace. Secretaty of Agriculture, today terminated the Indianapolis milk license. "Almost universal" disobedience of license l "Quirements following an adverse decision by the Federal District Court made cancellation imperative. the AAA said. In effect, the Indianapolis milk lieem has been inoperative since an adverse Federal Court ruling. Milk industry leaders interpret the action as a complete and permanent withdrawal of the AAA from the field. The ruling was made by Judge Robert C. Baltzell for the Greenwood Dairies. Greenwood. Ind.

YOUTH FOUND SLAIN IN PLAYGROUND POND Heart Cut Op*n. Probably With Ax. Police Say. Bw l mil r 4 Prr*• YOUNGSTOWN. O . Ffb. 28 —The body of Frank Suhovrcky. 13-year-old schoolbov missing since Feb. 18. was recovered today from Lake Cohasset in Mill Creek Park. 1600-acre public playground. The boy's head had been cut open with a hatchet or .'Omr such sharp instrument, according to police. An elderly, eccentric hermit-crave diceer who lives in a shack near the lake has been held for questioning. RELIEF FUNDS SOUGHT Hopkins Asks 580.000.000 for March Program. By f mit'4 Pm* WASHINGTON. Feb. 28—Relief Administrate Harry L. Hopkins today asked PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes to advance 580.000.000 to cars for the nation's needy during the first three weeks of March. Times Index Bridge Broun 1" Comics - 23 Crossword Puzzle Curious World 23 Editorial 18 Financial 19 Junior Aviation 8-12 Napoleon’s Letters 17 Pegler 17 Radio 12 Roosevelt Pictures 3 Shooting School 12 Sports 20-21 State News 5 Woman's Pages 14-15

MOVIE NEWS Starting today. The Indianapolis Times offers its readers news of the mode world on Thursdays instead of Saturdays. Elsewhere in this newspapers you will find the advance information on the movies which will be shown in this city tomorrow. Coupled with this new service. Thf Times will present movie reviews on Fridays and Saturdays. The usual presentations of the? legitimate theater and night iluhs will continue to appear cm Saturdays.

The Indianapolis Times Fair tonight and probably tomorrow; no decided change in temperature; lowest tonight about 22.

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 251

TWO YEARS OF ROOSEVELT

His Progress , His Defeats and His Future

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TMJE President at work! A rare, intimate glimpse, is this, of the nation’s No. 1 Executive unmindful of the camera’s presence soberly intent upon his official tasks at his White House office. That’s Aid Gus Gennerich (at right), helpfully standing by with a blotter. Photographer Thomas D. McAvoy snapped this and other historically valuable pictures white awaiting the opening of an official conference.

6 ESCAPE FROM FLAMING HOME Awakened by Fire, Fathe* Rouses Family: Four Children Saved. All the worldly goods of Robert McNeill. 55. and his large family went drifting up in smoke early today as fire destroyed their shanty in a field in the 3200 block, Scho-field-av. Ironically, the fire was caused indirectly by coal which the family had just received from a relief agency. Mr. McNeill told an Indianapolis Times reporter that he was so unused to coal that he must have put too much in the stove. A strange dream that someone was setting his lace on fire awoke Mr. McNeill. Arousing himself, he saw the shanty wrapped in flames. He and his wife. Mrs. Myrtle McNeill. 40. rescued Dorothy. 14; Nellie. 7. and Ruth. 5. Mrs. McNeill suffered burns on her shoulders. After the first confusion. Mr. McNeill noticed that Donald. 2. was trapped in the flaming shanty. He threw himself through the flames and brought the child to safety. He received severe bums, but the child, who had been sick for some time, was out of danger. The clothing which the children had been given through The Times Clothe-A-Child campaign last Christmas was destroyed. So was a new supply of groceries donated by a relief agency. The family's wealth. 65 cents, was lost in the fire. Clad only in the scanty clothing in which they had escaped from the fire, the McNeills went to the home of a kindly neighbor. George Bolander. Because Mr. Polander lives in a one-room house, the family has sent an urgent request to the relief agency for new quarters and provisions. Several residents of the Rink Apartments. 401 N. Illinois-st. were aroused early today when smoke and fumes from clinkers that a janitor had removed from the furnace filled the corridors. HUEY LONG ADMITS HE MAY SEEK PRESIDENCY Could Run for Governor at Same Time, Says Kingfish. By Vnitrd Pm* BATON ROUGE. Feb. 28—Senator Huey P. Long said this afternoon he had "about decided" to run for Governor of Louisiana at the election to be held next spring. "I've been thinking about it seriously for a long time." he declared, "and I may make up my mind to do it.” “Does that mean you will not run for the presidency? he was asked. "Sufficient unto the day," replied. "We'll take that up when the time comes. For that matter I could run for Governor and President both."

(Photo by Thomas D. McAvoy; from NEA Service, Inc.; Copyright by Time. The Weekly Newsmagazine).

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Franklin D. Roosevelt is completing his second year in the White Hause, a year laoking in the spectacular achievements of his first twelvemonth in office. In three articles, of which this is the first, Koiney Dutcher, NEA Washington correspondent, frankly discusses the progress and failures of the Administration, what advances have been made in the war on the depression, new policies in government, the future of the President and the New Deal, the possibilities of recovery, and the threats that arc rising for the 1936 election. a an BY RODNEY DUTCHER (Copyright, :935. by NEA Service. Inc.l WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Franklin D. Roosevelt's second ™ year in office has been neither as spectacular nor as brilliant as his first. Nor does its end find him on as high a pedestal of personal popularity as he occupied 12 months ago. There has been a letdown of morale in Washington which apparently is reflected to some degree over the country, despite the encouraging effect of the Supreme Court gold decision. Even the President has lost a bit of his gayety. The New Deal just hasn’t been going places. On the first anniversary of his inauguration, Roosevelt could point to the

HONOLULU FLOODED BY STORHh 5 DEAD Torrential Rain and Hail Worst in History. By Vnitrd Prr** HONOLULU. T. H„ Feb. 28. Governor Poindexter today called out national guardsmen to search for the bodies of victims of one of the most severe storms in Honolulu's history. The guardsmen joined rescue forces which already had recovered five bodies in the flooded areas of the Island of Oahu, on which Honolulu is the largest settlement. The downtown Y. M. C. A. building was converted into a refugee camp. It was feared that the death toll would be much larger than five. Two-inch hail stones cut telegraph and telephone wires. Rain which at one time reached a rate of 3.6 inches an hour, flooded low-lying areas.

PRESIDENT DEMANDS WORK RELIEF ACTION Roosevelt, Robinson Confer on Measure. By I'nitrd Prnt WASHINGTON. Feb. 28. President Roosevelt called Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson to the White House today as he worked to untangle the jam holding up congressional action on the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill. Hardly had the President arrived from his four-day Hyde Park vacation than strenuous efforts were under way to get the relief bill going again. A break in the stalemate was predicted by White House advisers "within 24 hours.”

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most remarkable achievement record in American history. Much has happened since, but the pace has slowed. Economic improvement since last March has been inconsequential. Except for a billion-dollar increase in farm income—largely caused by a calamitous drought—the nation has done little better than hold its own. Washington still asks: "What are we going to do with the 10,000,000 unemployed?” Relief rolls are larger than ever, with more than 20,000.000 persons. Unemployment remains the government's most vital problem and relief its most vital function. n n n ROOSEVELT thinks he has the answers, but the psychological effect of his $4,000,000,000 work relief and social insurance programs was discounted by long anticipation and has been largely spent since they became ensnarled in Congress. It began to appear in the second year that the New Deal had been over-ballyhooed by many of its enthusiasts. Roosevelt, himself, was not guiltless and, though he still has popularity and prestige to spare, he is suffering from a reaction. Perhaps the lesson of his second twelvemonth is that recovery and reform can not come over night. The New Deal now appears in the light of a long-time effort, after an initial spectacular and far-reaching reorientation of national policy. Meanwhile, there is much confusion here about the next steps, even among high officials. n a a MUCH time since last March has been spent in repairing mistakes, reorganizing, taking stock of (Turn to Page Six) A U N E R S Victors in Times Event to Be Named in Tomorrow's Editions. Winners In The Indianapolis Times Scrambled Auto Contest will be announced in tomorrow's editions of The Times.

CAGE TOURNEY BEGINSTONIGHT 781 State H. S. Quintets Poised for Title Eliminations. Indiana’s great winter pastime, basketball, becomes king today for a two-week reign while the 781 teams in the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s 24th state tournament to determine the 1935 hardwood champion. Play opens tonight in two oi the 64 sectional centers, Indianapolis and Gary. Three games in each will eliminate the first six teams. Continued elimination tilts in the centers tomorrow and Saturay will reduce the field to 64 district champions. Next week the sectional winners will gather in 16 regional centers, four teams to each center to determine the 16 finalists. The windup of the state championship series will take place in Butler University fieldhouse Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16. The 16 finalists will engage in 15 games over the two-day period to determine the champion. Logansport, 1934 winner, is a favorite to repeat in the sectional, get by regional competition, and reach the final games in Indianapolis where favoritism stops. Jefferson of Lafayette, Jeffersonville, Anderson, Newcastle, Noblesville and Michigan City are others popular with the experts.

Citizens Gas Firm Ownership Target of Probers; U. S. Investigator Hears Payne

While a Federal Trade Commission attorney-investigator listened intently, the joint legislative committee ii vestigating an alleged natural gas monopoly last night delved further into the ownership of the Citizens Gas Cos. The attorney-investigator was Miles Furnas, Winchester. Ind., a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives. Mr. Furnas asked no questions, although once asked to, and later joined the committee in executive session. Principal witness at the hearing was Gavin Payne, Indianapolis broker who painted for the committee’ a picture of lost opportunity in which Indianapolis might have become one of the steel cities of the United States had Cyrus Eaton, Cleveland capitalist, been allowed to buy a controlling interest in the Citizens Gas Cos. The meeting started on a jocular note when Senator E. Curtis White (D.. Indianapolis), the committee chairman, observed: ■•I used to be Mr. Payne's office

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SPECTACULAR ATTACK ON MEASURE CONDUCTED RY BAUER; DEBATE IS BITTER

poumiicT RIVALS DIVDE IWIBMES Amendment Allowing Local Courts to Hear Appeals Is Passed. Foes of the anti-stream pollution bill yesterday gained one point and lost another in the most bitter Senate battle of the present session. The Senate defeated an amendment offered by Senators Ralph H. Jernegan (R., Mishawake) and Daniel D. Lynch (D., Hammond) that provided for a special local election to decide on compliance with state Health Board orders. Members overwhelmingly supported an amendment offered by Senator Charles H. Bedwell (D„ Sullivan) that struck out the provision giving Marion County courts sole jurisdiction in appeals from pollution board decisions. Senator Jernegan spoke first on his amendment calling for a referendum. Claims Problem Not Local “Don’t thrust this measure down our throats," he said. “It would cause large increases in taxes and now is a poor time to do that.” He denied that the bill was primarily a health measure. “Don’t be frightened by the old argument of ‘running industry out of the state’,” counseled Senator Jacob Weiss (D., Indianapolis), majority leader. “This is not a local problem,. The poison from a city or county is carried to the next city or county. You must choose between a relatively small expense to industries and municipalities and the health of our citizens,” Senator Weiss added. Senator Lynch, in a bitter tirade, called the bill “dictatorial, despotic, arbitrary and discretionary.” Court Clause Attached “The right of access to the courts is denied,” he shouted. This bill could add $35,000,000 to the tax burden of the people of the state. It would abolish the $1.50 tax limitation law. if you drive out the Lake County industries you are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Lake County contributes millions in gross income taxes “The health angle is not as important as the backers of this bill would have you believe,” Senator Lynch continued. “Lake County ranks high in public health.” “Why don’t you clean up your streams?” asked Senator William Fitzgerald (D., North Vernon). Can’t you control the filth up there?” Calls Bill Dictatorial Senator Bedwell, speaking for his amendment to allow’ the courts of each community to have jurisdiction on pollution board rulings, said that all he asked was the right to let each community pass on their own problems. "This is the most dictatorial piece of legislation that has come before this body,” he charged. Senator Walter S. Chambers CD., Newcastle) called the bill a “contractors’ racket.” Senators Weiss, William B. Janes <D„ New Albany) and Thurman B. Gottschalk (D., Berne) fought the proposed changes. “I have a letter from a farmer living on the Mississinewa River,” said Senator Gootschalk. “He has been ordered by the board of health to fence his cows away from that poisoned stream before he can sell his milk.”

boy when he was managing editor of the Press (former Indianapolis newspaper) and now I have him where I want him.” Questioning by the committee, with Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr. and Joseph McNamara, one of his investigators in the roles of interrogators, tended to show that Cyrus Eaton had attempted to gain control of the Citizens. Mr. Payne promptly admitted that he had attempted to buy Citizens Gas Cos. stock for Mr. Eaton in 1925 at a S4O bid, but that- the Citizens directors had warned stockholders against selling at that price. He offered in exhibition a bulky scrapbook filled with clippings which revealed the publicity at that time of the Eaton efforts to gain the common stock control and revealed what he said were Mr. Eaton's plans at that time. The relationship of the coke industry to gas rates was revealed by Mr. Payne in the significant statement that: “As Andrew Carnegie said about

Young Terre Haute Legislator Conducts OneMan Filibuster Against Administration in House of Representatives. CHARGES AGAINST HIM ‘LIES,’ HE CRIES Men Behind Act Will ‘Collect the Gravy,’ He Shouts in Tirade; Flings Challenge at Members of Committee. Following the fiercest legislative battle of years, the House of Representatives this afternoon stood by the state administration and beat down an attempt of Rep. Lenhardt Bauer (D., Terre Haute) to scuttle the administration’s amended state liquor control bill. Only 14 Representatives went along with Rep. Bauer in his battle against the administration. Rep. Bauer said he will continue his fight on second reading. A fierce battle raged on the floor of the Indiana House of Representatives this afternoon as Rep. Lenhardt Bauer, (D., Terre Haute), conducted a bitter one-man filibuster against the state administration’s liquor control bill. The Terre Haute legislator charged that amendments offered by a majority of the House Public Morals Committee were not drawn by committee members and that the admin-

UTILITY STRIKE CRIPPLES CITY El Paso Officials Plead for Power for Hospitals During Walkout. By United Pret EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 28.—Alarmed by the crippling of hospitals and paralysis of practically every line of business in the city affected by a strike of power company employes, city officials appealed to the El Paso Electric Cos. this afternoon to negotiate with the strikers. County Judge Joseph McGill, assisting Mayor R. E. Sherman as mediator, said he would recommend to officials of the company that they accept demands of the members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers for recognition of their union and the “closed shop.” “Personally, I favor the closed shop,” Judge McGill added, “Mayor Sherman and I are taking part in the negotiations only in the interst of the public. “We want to keep people from dying in the hospitals and keep up the water supply, to avoid fire danger. We know nothing of the merits of the controversy itself.” He pointed out that three persons at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, living in oxygen tents, were in danger if electric power to operate the oxygen equipment were not restored immediately. M. C. Smith, electric company president, said he had received an 11-page proposed agreement from the strike committee last night, but declined to comment until company officials had conferred this morning and had communicated with Stone & Webster of Boston, the parent concern. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 22 10 a. m 31 7a. m 22 11 a. m 35 Ba. m 25 12 (noon).. 37 9 a. m 27 1 p. m 41 Tomorrow’s sunrise. 6:18 a. m.; sunset, 5:37 p. m.

steel, coke either is a prince or a pauper." He related, after explaining he did not feel he now would be breaking a confidence, that Mr. Eaton in 1925 had plans to make Indianapolis one of the steel cities of the country. “Mr. Eaton wanted to buy 40,000 shares of Citizens Gas Cos. stock,” Mr. Payne said. "He expected to start with one blast furnace—and even one blast furnace is an expensive proposition. Mr. Eaton then was a man of manifold interests and was rated at around $100,000,000. He said to his attorney one day in my office that he expected eventually to have between eight and nine million dollars invested in Indianapolis. In reply to a direct question as to the possibility of obtaining natural gas here, Mr. Payne volunteered that "he could not understand why Indianapolis does not have 60-cent gas.” He referred to the fact that consumers now pay $1.05 a thousand cubic feet for gas.

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istration bill would be “worth $1,500,000” to the administration leaders backing the measures. Five Representatives struck back and attempted to tear the Bauer amendments to shreds. House leaders predicted the vote would not bo reached until well after 1. Stress Nine Points The administration arguments, summed up in a brief supporting the House Public Morals Committee majority report, are made in nine points. They include: 1. "The Bauer amendment would create a monstrous monopoly far more complete and exclusive than any monopoly alleged to have been created by the Acts of 1933 (the old law) or House Bill 399 (the new bill.)” 2. “The Bauer amendment is loosely and carelessly drawn and exhibits either a complete indifference to or ignorance of the statutes and Constitution of the United States.” 3. "The Bauer amendment is lame and ineffectual in its enforcement provisions, which are almost completely absent.” Seeks Combination, Is Claim 4. "The Bauer amendment seeks to compel a combination of the beer industry with the hard liquor industry.” 5. "The Bauer amendment would deprive the state and the local communities of revenue which is necessary for the relief of the property owner and necessary public expenditure.” 6. "The revenue provisions of the Bauer measure are inexpertly and confusedly drawn.” 7. “The Bauer amendment does not in any sense tend to restrain the consumption of hard liquor in the rural districts where law enforcement is more difficult.” Bans Beer Spots, Ls Charge 8. “The Bauer amendment will not permit places of sale to be established for the consumption of beverages of alcoholic content separate or apart from hard liquor of an intoxicating character.” 9. "The Bauer amendment prohibits the sale of beverages of low afcoholic content for consumption on the premises unless the beverages of higher alcoholic content, namely, the alcoholic spiritous beverages, are sold on the premises simultaneously with beverages of low alcoholic content. In other words, it is impossible to have a case or restaurant where bee" alone is sold for consumption on the premises or where wine alone is sold on the premises. These two beverages of low alcoholic content can be sold by the drink only in case hard liquor is there sold by the drink. This is the so-called single or combined license. “The fee for this license is $750 a year uniformly throughout the state ... in large city, small city, town, village and countryside. The German village can not have its beer for drink on the premises unless the proprietor is able to put up $750 a year and also becomes a whisky retailer.” Bill to Be Amended To m>_ t a strong objection of Indiana cities that the proposed bill takes finances away, the administration will amend the majority bill on second reading to give civil cities twice as much of the retail license revenue from beer and liquors. Rep. Fred Barrett (D., Indianapolis), as administration spokesman, told the assembly the amendment (Turn to Page Three)