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Gen. Hugh S. JOHNSON Says:
Washington. March i6 This government took office wr.th a definite plan with which to meet each principal threatening *conomic problem —NIRA for labor Bnd industry; AAA for agriculture; the banking and securities bills, and so forth. The enactment Os those plans into legislation came Mth slashing speed. For the most r part they went
r a p idly into into execution. It came at a time cf unr’st b o r dering on chaos and a great sigh of relief went up from the whole country. After four years of almost bemused inaction. We had a definite program, an insp-.red leader. a marvel-
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mis freh vigor and we all believed we were going places and doing things. There is little of that atmosphere In this countrv today. There still exists a concerted general program, but seme of its major parts conflict or fail to click. Faced with the actual threat of statutory death. NRA could not agr*e on a specific plan for its own existence. NRA could not agree on a specific plan for its own existence. NRA and the Federal Trade Commission are in open and obvious opposition on the most fundamental issue of our business life—unregulated competition or supervised co-operation. In AAA. government is asking for arbitrary licensing and controll*ng power over very large segments of industry while, in NRA it is moving in precisely the opposite direction. A secretary of agriculture engaged in production control and restriction on a tremendous scale, suggests that industry greatly increase production at a loss, or at least at substantially lower prices while at the same moment the government is committed to increase prices to the 1926 level. m u a Ao Rhythm, Timing, Tuning • \ MERICA must choose.” says Henry Wallace, speaking of Acceptance or rejection of a policy cf self-containment. But America dees not choose. It imports more animal and vegetable products than it exports and yet ruts out wide areas from farm production. Two opposing schools of thought on foreicn trade—those of George r- ck and Cordell Hull —exist in the State Department. We have as yet no certainly defined monetary or borrowing policy? If there is a clear and certain labor policy I do not know what it is. We talk about monopolistic practices and interstate commerce in connection with NRA. and yet we have no plain statutory definition of either and because we have no such definition nobody knows what a code really does or incans. The President's own plans and program have been clear and definite from the start. He can not be expected to provide more than the most general sort of direction. It is lacking of tuning, timing, and rhythm in certain parts of the orchestra which spoil the melody with which we started —"a passionate ballad, gallant and gay.” I wonder what has happened to the great co-ordinator.
Got to Hat e Something THE danger of this at such a time Is that when plan and action in government itself seem confused, the unofficial planmakers get busy. Usually such kibitzing operations reach no further than some congressional committee. But that is not so today. Among the most remarkable phenomena of this depression are the vast unofficial organizations set up through the radio by Father Coughlin and Huey Lone. They stick together. They pay their w ay. They speak with votes. I agreed with Father Coughlin about the World Court, but when a man with a purely personal party has the power, by a single radio speech, to swing a Senate majority away from its appointed leaders, it is time to stop, look and listen. Their plans and programs are very bad. but they are something —and you can t beat something with nothing. <Cer Tr -it>t 193* hT United Fevjr* Svni Ir.e All Rights reserved Reproduction m whole or in part forbidden i FAIR STORE COMPLETES INTERIOR DECORATING Work Reflects Firm's Faith in Business Conditions. As one of its movements of confidence m local business conditions. The Fair Store has finished a complete redecoration of the interior of the building. The project was instituted in order to provide a daylight atmosphere for the store and the work, done by Barriers. Inc, gave employment to 12 men for a period of several teiu. I
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CONGRESS IS IN PRESIDENT’S HANDS AGAIN Roosevelt Regains Control of New Deal Destiny in Senate Victory. LEGISLATIVE JAM ENDS McCarran Amendment Tossed Out: Substitute Is Passed, 83*2. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 16— President Roosevelt again is the master of the New Deal’s destiny. Defeat in the Senate of the McCarran prevailing wage amendment to the four billion dollar work relief resolution served to return control to the White House today and simultaneously to scatter the dark clou Hint have hovered over the wl. iosevelt program. Th margin of victory last night was comfortable. The Senate, reversing itself, defeated the amendment by 50 to 38. The previous vote for adoption of the amendment, which would have required that prevailing wages be paid on all projects financed under the measure, was 44 to 43. Victory Removes Obstacle The Senate, by 83 to 2, substituted the compromise amendment proposed by Senator Richard B. Russell (D.. Ga.) and approved by the White House, which gives the President discretion in imposing prevailing wages, except in the construction of buildings for government departments, where such wages are made mandatory. The victory, which came after several days of persuasive strategy by the President, removed the major obstacle to passage of the work relief bill—though several radical and inflationary proposals still must be hurdled—and broke the jam which has held up other important measures in the Roosevelt program. Its effect was psychological. For more was at stake than the fight with organized labor over the w r age issue. A general lethargy had begun to permeate the whole New Deal system. Republicans seized the opportunity to snipe at and obstruct the President's program. Huey Long was capitalizing the Administration confusion to promote himself in the Senate and over the air. Demonstrates His Skill The President again demonstrated the political rapacity and patient persistance which have served him well before. By slow pressure, skillfully applied, he won over six converts. For three of these he reached right into the camp of organized labor and plucked them out. They were Senators Robert Wagner tD„ N. Y.), perhaps the outstanding spokesman of organized labor m the Senate; Robert La Follette, leader of the new Wisconsin Progressive party, who long has championed labor, and Hugo Black <D.. Ala.>, who has fought in and out of season for labor's 30-hour-week bill. It was rumored about the Senate that Administration support for Senator Wagner's labor relations bill was the price of his switch on the McCarran amendment.
82 Per Cent of Gas Cos. Revenues Are Gobbled Up by Operating Expenses
BY VINCENT LYONS Time* Financial Editor Os total operating revenues of $49,301,699 shown by the Citizens Gas Cos. in the last 21 years. $40.502.034 was eaten up in operating expenses, according to an analysis made of earnings reports filed with the Public Service Commission. In easily understandable figures this means that for every $49 which passed through the company's hands m the form of earnings, it had to return S4O of it for expenses, such
SETTING THE PACE ON ALL FRONTS
ITS the greatest human interest story in years and the smashing photographs have increased the value of the story ten thousandfold. It's the world-wide story of the Dionne quintuplets. Their birth was a marvelou* thing. But today. as teeth are beginning to appear. the Dionne babies attract the attention of every man and woman. Today on Page 3 The Indianapolis Times presents two more exclusive photo-portraits of the famous babies. And next week there will be additional pictures, picking up the stories of their lives that have been watched by millions. And there are other numerous features that brinz The Times really home to you. Or Page l you find the latest
WILEY POST LANDS PLANE ON ITS STOMACH AT CLEVELAND
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Landing the Winnie Mae on her “stomach,” Wiley Post, one-eyed globe-girdling flier, came down at Cleveland airport, unhurt, on his projected seven-hour sub-stratosphere hop from Los Angeles to New York, when his oxygen became exhausted and the induction coil froze. This picture shows the plane, tilted on one wing, a moment after it landed, after barely clearing a fence and skidding along for 150 feet. Post’s time from Burbank, Cal., was 7 hours and 35 minutes.
81 DOGS—77 IN POUNM GONE Wilhelmina Adam Today Has Nothing—Except, Perhaps, a Summons. Miss Wilhemina Adam, the Albert Payson Terhune of Churchman-av, today was without a dog to her name and yet w'as charged wdth having no dog license. Seventy-seven of the dogs she brought back to her home yesterday were today the guests of Marion County in the dog pound. Four of them were away without leave, having outmaneuvered two dog catchers in broken-field running from the home yesterday. Miss Adam saw the police and dog catchers approach her home at 2224 Churchman-av, yesterday and, sensing the game was up, opened all the doors and liberated the dogs. The dogs charged away in aU directions. Leonard Ragsdale and George Marshall, the dog catchers, caught dogs. They made one-hand stabs, backhand stops, plain ana fancy running grabs. They lost four in the sun. Miss Adam w r as left quite alone when the dog catchers were through, unless the four fugitives returned in the dead of night. In Municipal Court Miss Adam faces a charge of having no dog license, which is the way the thing stands to date. DENMARK'S QUEEN ILL, OPERATIONPERFORMED Stricken in Stockholm on Occasion of Son's Betrothal. By United Pres* STOCKHOLM, March 16.—Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, visiting here on the occasion of the betrothal of her son Crown Prince Frederik to Princess Ingrid of Sweden, was stricken with appendicitis today and an emergency operation was performed. It was understood she was suffering also from intestinal strangulation.
as cost of producing gas and coke, maintenance of plant, salaries and wages. These operating expenses were entirely aside from allowance for depreciation, which also is charged against earnings during the year. Insofar as the Citizens Gas Cos. is concerned allowances for depreciation since 1914 has varied from $22.431 —a paltry allowance —to 5450.000—an equitable figure—for the last seven years. The item of depreciation bulks large in the finances of any corn-
comment of Gen. Hugh Johnson, the former NRA chief who is the center of one of the greatest verbal outbreaks in many years. Along with the comment of Gen. Johnson. The Times is carrying full coverage on the activities and remarks of the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin and Senator Huey Long, who have opened their bi§ guns on the former NRA boss. M 9 9 AND there are two more features that make The Times the newspaper you want to read. One is the letters of Napoleon to Marie Louise, appearing on the feature page. The series, one of the most novel of its type, will end Tuesday. If you've followed the many previous chapters, you won’t want to miss the last few. The other is The Times Shooting School is being conducted daily at the Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1935
Wiley to Try and Try Again, He Says Following Second Failure. By United Press NEW YORK, March 16.—Wiley Post will try and try again until he spans the continent by w>ay of the stratosphere in seven hours, he told reporters today. His second projected flight through higher altitudes a failure through a forced landing in Cleveland, the veteran round-the-world pilot said he w'ould fly to Cleveland in a few' days, take the Winnie Mae back to Los Angeles and prepare for another attempt. Transcontinental and Western Air and Frank Phillips, Oklahoma oil millio.iaire, revealed that they would sponsor Post in as many attempts as needed to achieve success. Post flew here last night after his forced landing at Cleveland. “I guess I’d passed out in a few minutes if I hadn't headed for the ground,” Post said of his misadventure. “I w r as flying at 30,000 feet when the oxygen gave out. But that altitude doesn’t give you much notice.” Post was 100 miles east of Cleveland when the oxygen flowing through his specially constructed breathing helmet was exhausted. He had to retrace his course, landing 8 hours and 17 minutes after the takeoff from Burbank, Cal. Deducting time lost for this retracir nis record from Las Angeles to Cleveland was 7 hours and 19 minutes, bettering the old mark. Post believed the flight demonstrated the practicality of commercial flights through the stratosphere. He predicted the day would come when "properly equipped” passenger planes would span the continent on 7-hour schedules. The Winnie Mae in lower altitudes has a top speed of 150 miles an hour. In the stratosphere, it has reached 350 to 450 miles an hour. Post's average speed yesterday was 278. Two Die in Fireworks Blast By L nitrd Press TIJUANA. Mexico. March 16. Mexican officials today were investigating a dynamite explosion in a firew’orks factory yesterday in which two unidentified workers w r ere killed and three other persons injured.
pany. The term itself means the decline in value in the use of fixed assets, such ?.s buildings and equipment. The best method of showing how the principle of depreciation works is by the following example: A plant is erected at a cost of 51.000.000 by a company. Executives fix the calculated life of such a plant at 20 years. On this bas*s the equitable method for setting up a depreciation reserve would to apply $50,000 annually to this fund. (Turn to Page Eight)
Gun Club. 1340 S. Lynhurst-dr by that local expert, Charles E. Adams. a a a THE expense of joining and participating in the event is small, because all you have to do is buy your ammunition at the clubhouse. And there are a world of things to be learned about shooting, to say nothing of the knockout prizes that will be presented at the close of the school the latter part of the month. Don't miss the daily stories on the shooting school and the series being written by Mr. Adams. And. above all, don't miss the school and the opportunity of learning to shoot. The Times is your paper. In it you will find a general run of news that will interest you and your family. ,
FLOOD FIGHTERS LOSING GROUND Missouri Levees Weakened by Battering; 3000 Families Flee. By United Press KENNETT, Mo., March 16. Fighting to keep the St. Francis River within its banks south of here, 1000 civilians and National Guardsmen today piled sand bags along levee No. 4. Northward, the river already had cu, numerous pathways through the levee, sending flood waters over thousands of acres of fertile farms. More than 3000 families have evacuated the lowlands. Many were sheltered here in a small “city of tents.” Additional hundreds have taken refuge in box cars. National Guard headquarters said that the crest of the flood would probably be reached today but that it was doubtful that straining levees south of here would hold throughout the day. Working with the guardsmen, the mid-western unit of the Red Cross cared for the homeless. Dust Storm Rages By United Press KANSAS CITY, March 16. Cla.hing winds today filled the atmosphere above six states with stifling clouds of dust so fine that it filtered past closed doors and window's and settled everywhere. Silt from fields in Nebraska, Kansas. Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri filled the air. There was fear that the contending currents might unleash destructive tornadoes. Times Index Page Bridge 4 Broun 7 Church Services 11 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Editorial 6 Financial 14 Hickman —Theaters 9 Junior Aviation 8 Napoleon's Letters 7 Pegler 7 Radio 11 Shooting School 3 Sports 10-11 State New's 3 Woman’s Pages 4-5
Score Card of State Basketball Finals
Rushvillle (34) \ Friday, 9:00 A. M. [ Rushville (23) 1 Princeton (32) ) / Saturday. 8:30 A. M. Richmond \ Frankfort (17) \ i 1 Friday, 10:00 A. M. [ Richmond (32) ) I Richmond (34) ) I Saturday, 3:30 P. IC. ' Mentone (24) v [ Friday, 11:00 a. m. Michigan City (23> \ V ,2 Michigan City (35) ) I I ~ Saturday, 9:30 A. m. Jeffersonville / Jeffersonville (41) i l 7 s Friday, 2:00 p. m. .Jeffersonville (26)..../ Montgomery (36) ) * SEMI-FINAL? FINALS >• & Berne (24) \ Saturday, 8:00 P. sc. "~ Friday. 3:00 P. M. [Berne J Roachdale (22) ) / rjj Saturday, 10:30 A. M. ....A Logansport (21) \ \ .2? Friday, 4:00 p. sc. / Shelbyville / I SC Shelby ville (27) ) I Saturday, 3:30 P. SC w Brazil (22) \ I Friday. 7:30 P. SC. > Anderson | Anderson (31) ) I Saturday, 11:30 A. M. , ...................... J Nappenee (37) \ V Friday. 8:30 P. sc. > Nappanee / Tipton (33) ) .
MORTON IN SEMI-FINALS OF BASKETBALL MEET, ATTACK IS LED BY LOGAN
2000 SEIZED II VASTUS. CUfIE DRIVE 12,000 Federal Agents Renew Raids; Total Arrests to Reach 3000. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 16.—Nearly 12,000 Treasury agents renewed their drive today on the nation's criminals. Indications were that by tonight, the second day of intensive roundup activities, the total arrests might reach 3000. Harassed by raids and activities from the land, sea and air, demoralized underworld elements sought new refuge havens from the relentless pursuit of Federal agents. At dawn today nearly 2000 arrests had been made. During the night scores w ? ere arrested as the agents searched dozens of ships for smuggled goods and narcotics, raided counterfeit money plants, battered into opium dens and harried bootleggers and tax evaders. Local police in many cities were co-operating with the Federal officers in the campaign. Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, expressed satisfaction with results. The drive, it was indicated, will be pushed vigorously today and tomorrow. Treasury officials reported that the narcotics and custom bureaus, coast guard, secret service, the tax unit, and the intelligence division of the Internal Revenue Bureau were ‘‘co-operating perfectly in their first co-ordinated drive.” Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger reported that his investigators are striking “a terrific blow” against the dope traffic, arresting scores of the so-called “big-shots.”
STOCKS MAINTAIN IRREGULAR TREND Dull Trading Prevails at Start of Session. By United Press NEW YORK. March 16.—Stocks opened irregularly higher in dull trading today, while bonds were .steady, cotton dropped 12 to 19 points, and the Belgian Belga broke to unsettled foreign exchange markets. (By Thomson & McKinnon) 10:00 A. M. Prev. N. Y. close. Chrysler 33 32% Briggs 28% 26% Anaconda 8% 8% Kennecott 14% i.4% Texas Gulf 31% 31 1 2 Dupont 88% 88' h Union Carbide 55% 45'4 Conti OH 15% 15% Phillips Pet 14% 14 :, 4 S O of N J 36'2 36’.2 Beth Steel 23% 24 U S Steel 29'a 29 Lorillard J9 7 s 13% AT&T 102% 103% Cons Gas 16% 18% Int T & T 6Vb 6% Western Union 22 ’i 22 Borden 21% 21% Natl Dairy 15 15 Natl Dist 27% 27% Celar.ese 22 21% Schenlev . 25% 24% Johns-Mansv 40% 40%
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Michigan City Tangles With Jeffersonville in Second Battle of Day at Huge Butler Fieldhouse. THOUSANDS PACK GIANT ARENA Losers in First Tilt Put Up Game Struggle, But Go Down Before HardDriving Assault. Jeffersonville advanced to the semi-finals of the State Finals Basketball tourney today by defeating Michigan City, 26 to 23. BY DIC K MILLER Times Staff Writer Morton of Richmond swept into the semi-finals of the Indiana High School basketball tournament at Butler Fieldhouse today with a 32-to-23 victory over a scrappy Rushville team. Richmond will meet the winner of the Michigan CityJeffersonville game at 2:30 this afternoon. Thousands of fans were streaming into the fieldhouse
all through the opening quar-ter-final game and it was expected that the crowd would reach a full 15,000 by midmorning. Four games were on the quarter-finals schedule. Logan led the Richmond attack against Rushville, scoring 12 points on five field goals and two free throw's. Squier scored three field goals for the victors. Roller was high point man fpr the Rushville aggregation, scoring four field goals. First Quarter The tussle opened fast as Roller dribbled under the Lions’ basket for two points for Rushville. Richmond came right back to knot the score with a basket by Logan. Oster failed at the charity stripe when he was fouled by Logan. Oster, in turn, fouled Logan, who connected, giving Morton a 3-2 edge. Roller fouled Rock, but he missed both his free tosses. Buchanan dribbled through the whole Richmond defense to score from under the hoop. But Lyboult sent the Red Devils right back into the lead, 5-4, with a distance shot. Lyboult sped down the side of the court and fired in another field goal to increase Morton’s advantage to 7-4. Westercamp scored on a long shot from center. Ratekin replaced Buchanan. After several wild attempts at basket by the Morton pastimers, Squiers finally connected, boosting the count to 11-4, Richmond, as the quarter ended. Second Quarter Lyboult missed a free throw' w'hen fouled by Ratekin. Buchanan came back in for Ratekin. Oster tallied for Rushville, after a lapse of five minutes w'hen he drove under the basket. Sharpe of Rushville connected for his initial field goal of the tilt. Westercamp retaliated on a pivot boost for Richmond, closely followed by a one-hander down from the corner by Logan. Rushville called for time with the Red Devils leading, 17-8. Logan contributed a point for Richmond when he was fouled by
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Buchanan. Roller connected on a field goal and Sharpe broke loose on a pivot play and counted from under the hoop. There was a w'ild scramble under the Lions’ basket as the half ended. Score: Richmond, 18; Rushville, 12. Third Quarter Oster, on the first tip-off of the period, batted the ball to Ratekin who dribbled under fast to cage a field goal for Rushville. Squier sank one from far out on the floor and Richmond led, 20 to 14. Rock connected from midcourt for Morton, and the Lions called for time. Benedict replaced Woods for Rushville. Roller made good deep in the corner. Oster shot a long pass to Roller who scored from under the hoop. Squiers made it 23-18 when he was fouled by Benedict. Gohring replaced Sharpe. Logan made good on a pivot pass from Westercamp and the Red Devils were ahead 25-18. Fouled by Squier, Roller garnered two points Irom the free throw line, for Rushville, making it 25-20 as the quarter ended. Fourth Quarter Buchanan, following up a shot, scored, slicing Richmond's lead to three points. Sharpe, back in the game, added another point when he was fouled by Lyboult. Logan eluded Oster and dashed under the hoop for a two-pointer. Rushville took its fourth time out, and Morton was allowed a technical foul. Lybolt tossed the free throw and connected. Less than three minutes remained when Logan counted again on a clever pivot attempt, to make the score 30-23. Rock missed twice before connecting for Richmond. The gun sounded on the next tip-off and Richmond entered the semi-finals with a 32-23 victory. Rushville (23). Richmond (32). FG. F. P. FG. F P Buchanan,f 2 0 ljLogan.f ... 5 2 3 Poller.f . 4 2 1 Squier. f . 3. 1 1 Ratekin, t . 1 0 1 Lyboult.g .211 Oster.c 1 0 3 Westcamp.c 2 0 1 Master.c .0 0 0 Rock.g 2 0 0 Sharpe.g 2 11 Woods.g .0 0 0 Benedict.g 0 0 1 Winkler,g 0 0 0 Total ..10 3 8 Total .14 ~4 ~<j
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First Quarter The war between the “North” and ‘•South’’ got under way with Verganes of Michigan city snaring the initial tip-off. Jeff put up a stiff defense, and the Red Devils were unaole to crack through. Jeff obtained the ball and Andres was fouled by Burau. Andres connected. Burau made up for his foul by sinking a field goal a few moments later. W. Johnson of Jeff drove under on a fast break and the downstaters held a 3-2 lead. Gay tied the score at 3-ail when he was fouled by Groth. Jeffersonville called for time. The quarter ended a few seconds after play was resumed with the score still tied at 3 to 3. Second Quarter ‘•Tarzan” Thompson sent Jeff into the lead, 5-3, with a fast pivot under the hoop. Rauth fouled Vergane, and the tall upstate center missed both free throws. Jeff carried the ball down the floor on a fast break and Thompson counted again, boosting the Jeff lead to 7-3. Vergane aded a point for Michigan City when he was fouled oy Thompson. Gay fouled Johnson as the latter connected on a field basket, but the additional free throw was missed. Erickson replaced Ciolek. Gay dribbled around the foul circle for a sensational field goal just before the half ended. Score: JeXXersonviU'- 9; Michigan City, &