Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1935 — Page 1
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RECORDS BARE 1 SCHOOL FUND LOAN TO GRAY
Grossart Approved Mortgage on Lots He Once Owned, Books Disclose. DEBT IS OVER LIMIT City Man Purchased Land on Which Taxes Were Delinquent. Seventeen days after he had deeded nine of his parcels of land to Mark R. Gray, "for $1 and other valuable consideration,” County Auditor Charles A. Grossart approved a $lBlO county loan on the lots and took a mortgage on the same lots as security, official M ion County records disclose t,oda„ Indiana laws, regulating loans from the school funds, provide that loans shall not exceed one-half the assessed valuation of the property on which the loan is made. According to records in the County Assessor's office, the aggregate assessed valuation of the nine lots in 1333, 1934 and 1935, was $2720. The $lBlO loan is $450 more than one-half the aggregate assessed \aluation of the lots and $137.50 more than one-half of the appraised value of the lots as shown by records in the Auditor's office. Purchased in December, 1933 The lots upon which the school fund loan was made wee deeded to Mr. Gray by Auditor Grossart on Dec. 13, 1933. They are the same lots which County Treasury records show were delinquent when the 1932 sale of lands for non-payment of taxes was held, and which did not appear in the list of delinquent land offered or sale published in 1932. Seven of ihe lots did not appear in the 1932 list published in The Indianapolis Times. The state law governing school fund loans have provided, since 1923, 1 hat the sum loaned shall not exceed one-half of the assessed value of the premises proposed to be mortgaged as such premises were iast assessed for purposes of taxation. July 31. 1934, the Marion County Commissioners reported to Floyd I. McMurray, State Superintendent of Public, Instruction, that the total of the Congressional Township Rinds safely invested was $19,128.78. and the amount of the Common School Fund safely invested was $1,406,495.61. Cost Approximately 52000 According to the same report. Congressional Township funds invested during the year was $370 and of th Common School fund, $46.775. Funds loaned to Mr. Gray are shown as coming from the Indiana University Permanent Endowment Fund and the Congressional Township Fund. \ Mr. Grossart’s need to Mr. Gray hears two $1 Federal documentary revenue stamps. The Federal tax laws require a 50-cent. stamp on transactions between SIOO and SSOO and a 50-cent stamp for each additional SSOO. The Federal stamps on the Grossart. deed, therefore, would indicate a consideration for the property of approximately S2OOO. Deeding of the lots by Mr. Grossart to Mr. Gray was revealed after The Times had learned Mr. Grossart s lots did not appear in the lists published in advance of the 1932 tax sale. Tax Sales Voted Illegal Mark R. Gray is listed as publisher of the Indianapolis Commercial. Jan. 12, of this year, Mr. Gray presented a statement to the County Auditor for 14.172 proposed 1935 tax sale items at 30 cents each, totaling $4261.80. This was approved that day and submitted to the County Commissioners. Jan. 16 a check was issued to Mr. Gray covering the legal advertising claim. On that dry also. Mr. Grossart left for Florida. On the day before the General Assembly had passed a law making such tax sales illegal in 1935. A cheek of proofs submitted later by Mr. Gray was said by John Newhouse, County Commissioner, to show only 10.670 items. Mr. Gray tendered the Commissioners a check for $1060.80. the difference. The commissioners refused to accept this in settlement of the matter. ‘’The Times Knows" Mr. Grossart declined today to discuss the loan to Mr. Gray when invited to do so by The Indianapolis Timrs. The Times evidently knows what t. law is because they have printed it on the front page today,” Mr. Grossart declared. Before making this statement he had told other persons that several of the lots deeded to Mr Gray were worth S4OOO each. The Times was informed. The highest assessment on record on any one of them was S4BO. 1 1 1 * TODAY’S WEATHER Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 44 10 a. m 59 7a. m 46 11 a. m 64 Ba. m 56 12 < noon).. 65 9 a. m 59 1 p. m 66 Tomorrow's ei ?se, 4:54 a. m.; sunset, 6.32 p. it )
The Indianapolis Times Unsettled with showers tonight or tomorrow; somewhat warmer tonight.
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By I nitrd Prr* WASHINGTON. April 23.—The nomination of Marriner S. Eccles as governor of the Federal Reserve Board was approved this . '•moon by the Senate Banking J Currency Committee. The action indicated collapse of the opposition to Mr. Eccles. It was believed the nomination would be confirmed speedily by the Senate itself.
DUST BLIZZARD HITS 4 STATES Tons of Grime From Kansas Swept Over Midwest: It May Be Last. By United Prea* KANSAS CITY. Mo., April 23. Dust from southwestern Kansas spread today over four Midwestern states. There were indications it was the “tail ender” of the storms which have plagued a five-state area recurrently since February. Dodge City was the center of the new “black blizzard.” Tons of grime were picked up by a 32-mile wind and carried over Nebraska and the Dakotas. Visibility was reduced to zero at Dodge City during the height of the blow. At Bismarck, N. D., 600 miles north, visibility was half a mile. Although a stiff wind blew over eastern Colorado it carried little dust. The Oklahoma and Texas panhandles reported little drifting Recent scattered precipitation and listing operations were credited with keeping the dust dow;n in some areas previously subjected to severe wind erosion. Concordia, Kan., reported a 24mile wind but comparatively light dust. Visibility was three-quarters of a mile. Earlier in the season such a wind w’ould have whipped up enough dust to smother the city in darkness. Garden City for the first time escaped the dust. Week-end i;ains were reported over most of Oklahoma and part of western Kansas. Kansas State College agronomists said that the advancing growth of vegetation during the week since the last major blow helped to hold the soil in place. Times Index Bridge 6 Broun 11 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 17 Curious World 17 Dionne Babies 3 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Hickman—Theaters 9 Hugh S. Johnson 4 Pegler 11 Radio 4 Sports 14, 15 Woman's Pages 6. 7
Quins Fine , Famed Doctor Says; Father Still ‘Peeved’ Oliva Dionne Insists on Another Examination Desitc Specialist's Praise of Dr. Dafoe. By 1 nitrd Prma v ALLANDER Ont., April 23.—A famous child specialist today pronounced the Dionne quintuplets in splendid physical condition but their father. Oliva Dionne, continued to protest that he was not satisfied with medical reports on the recovery of four of the girls who are suffering
from slight head colds. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who has cared for the quintuplets since their birth and who wav'; highly praised today by the specialist. Dr. Alan Brown of Toronto, told Dionne that he would not object to further examination of the babies, but that it would have to be delayed. Dionne demanded that Dr. G. W. Smith and Dr. J. Joyal. both of North Bay. Ont.. examine the babies and report directly to him. "I pointed out that the children would be fully recovered in a day or so.” said Dr. Dafoe, who brought Dr. Brown here at 3 a. m. todpv for the special examination. "I told him I would not object to the examination later.” Dionne visited Dr. Dafoe <*t the Dafoe Hospital, home of the babies. He said he was not satisfied with : the examination made by Dr. Brown ; and Dr. William Dafoe of Toronto. "Oliva, accompanied by his brother. Leon, and his manager. Leo Kervin. visited me here today.” Dr. Dafoe told the United Press later. "He said he was not satisfied. I told him it would injudicious to have the babies examined again so soon as I was afraid it would upset them. "If Dionne had told me last night ■ about wanting the other doctors 11 would have agreed. Under the circumstances I did the best I could in asking Dr. Brown, one of the leading child specialists on the con-
PREDICT ACUTE SHORTAGE OF HOUSES HERE
City Today Has 1500 Fewer Dwellings Than It Did Year Ago. SURVEY IS COMPLETED - Problem to Grow More Troublesome Within Three Months. Indianapolis today has approximately 1500 fewer dwelling places than it did a year ago and some real estate experts predict a noticeable housing shortage within three months. The 1500 dwellings have been dismantled by owners or vandals in the last year, and relatively few have been built to replace them. The Indianapolis Water Cos. completed a survey recently that showed 5463 vacant residential properties of all classes in the city, exclusive of apartments, whereas there were 7678 vacant at this time last year and 10.102 the year before. There is a chronic shortage of apartments in Indianapolis. Os the 5463 residential properties the water company found vacant this year within the city limits, only 646 were classed as thoroughly modern and desirable. 12,000 Families Doubled Up Only 1307 of the remainder, the company estimated, can be rendered thoroughly modern with alterations and repairs. Some of the others could be made attractive with extensive alterations and construction. Thus 1953 properties could be made available to tenants with a minimum expense, the company figures show. But there are now nearly 12.000 families by Federal count that are doubled up with friends or relatives, two families living in one dwelling intended for one family. When and if industry takes back to work the earners in these families, and they seek separate quarters. the available supply will by no means satisfy the demand, real estate experts point out. Phone Business Gains For this exigency the real estate men are preparing themselves as best they can. Straws in the wind indicate the ti-end is toward re-es-tablishment of homes. The Indians Bell Telephone Cos. reports that there are now operating in the city nearly 2000 more phones than there were last year at this time. The building trades industries, judged by the number and value of building permits issued last month as compared to a year ago, are much populated now than last year. Only 6 per cent of available rental dwellings in Indianapolis are untenanted. and real estate experts say this is the lowest percentage in J years. I CITY PURPLE HEART CHAPTER WILL CLOSE National Organization to Change Name to Military Order. The charter of the Indianapolis chapter of the order of the Purple Heart will closp May 1. according to Fred Breil, secretary-treasurer of the chapter. Word has been received by Mr. Breil from the national headquarters of the organization that the name will be changed to Military Order of the Purple Heart instead of Purple Association. The local chapter meets every Wednesday night at the Kech building. 29 S. Delaware-st.
tinent, and my brother to come up here. "I though that, would satisfy every one. but I w T as wrong.”
Device Predicting Length of Individual’s Life Is Shown to Scientists at Washington Parley
(Copyright. 1935. by Science Service! ’ll! ASHINGTON. April 23. " * One of the dreams of science. discovery of a way to predict how long an individual will live—if not claimed by murder or sudden death—was announcvd to the National Academy of Sciences here today. A key to an individual's normal span of life, long or short, is carried with him, heretofore unrecognized. in his own eye. Dr. Felix Bernstein of Columbia University revealed. The aging process of the human body, he reported, can be measured easily by taking note of the change when the lens of the eye becomes less elastic, some time during middle life. Most persons become aware of the change at the age of 45 or 50, when the hardening lens can no longer
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1935
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Capt. Edwin C. Musick In command of the Pan-Ameri-can Clipper, homeward bound from Hawaii this afternoon, is the veteran Capt. Edwin Musick.
APPROVE HUGE NAVYMEASURE Peace-Time Record Broken by $465,286,261 Appropriation. By United Prrat\ WASHINGTON. April 23.—The House Appropriations Committee this afternoon reported favorably the new $465,286,261 peace-time record-breaking naval biyiget for the 1936 fiscal year, which exceeded that of 1935 by $174,879,098. Despite the increase, the committee slashed the Administration's projected new building program of 24 new ships in half on tne grounds that this work can be started later under a special appropriation if the scheduled naval disarmament conference is unsuccessful. The bill, generally, aside from the construction angle provides keeping step with the second year of the government’s five-year program to build this country’s sea forces to full treaty strength by 1940. Airplanes. enlisted personnel and officer strength increases were recommended in the bill, which will be debated on the floor during the next, few days.
ATTORNEY RUNS UP TAXI BILL OF sl2, THEN ‘STEALS’ CAB
A cab driver called police today and said Attorney Joseph Ryan, 2009 N. Pennsylvania-st. after running up a sl2 bill, ran away with his cab early today. Later on. police w'ere informed that a man was driving a car up and dow'n a hill at Keystone-av and Allisonville-rd. Police arrested Attorney Rvan and charged him with drunken driving and vehicle taking.
Highlights in Today's Headlines
What Has the C. C. C. Achieved? A highly interesting, factual account of what the C. C. C, has done for our young men and what these voung men have done for our country through the C. C. C. appears . . . On Page Eleven of Today’s Times Let Summer Come ... . . . say the fascinating Dionnes, all togged out, in their new bonnets. See the striking new' poses of these celebrated sisters . . . On Page Three of Today’s Times Where Does Europe Stand Today? After the recent series of conferences ... the new understandings ... the Allies' pointed note to Hitler and his temperate answer . . . w'hat is the true situation in Europe today? William Philip Simms gives you the lowdow'n in a characteristically searching and brilliant article . . . On Page Twelve of Today's Times 11 ho 18 11 all Street's 1936 Presidential Candidate? From the sidewalks of New York. Big Business has picked their favorite for the presidential race next year. Guess who? Then read the article by Lyle Wilson, chief of the U. P. Washington Bureau . . . On Page Eight of Today's Times Out Again! In Again! When Mrs. T. Lavery s tenant moved out of her apartment a Times Economy Want Ad found another one to move right in again. Cost of the ad, 24 cents!
make sufficient accommodation for reading. If this aging process, called presbyopia or "old-sighted-ness,” occurs early, the individual's normal span of life is comparatively short. If it occurs late in middle age, the individual can expect to see a venerable old age, unless some infection or accident cuts short his natural lifetime. a a a pvR. BERNSTEIN told how he has reached his conclusions after systematic investigation of this means of measuring the aging process, carried on both in Germany and this country. "Data on 5.000 cases of presbyopia.” he said, "gathered from the University clinics of Goettingen and Leipzig by two students from my Institute in Goettingen and . rom two private oculists, and followed individually from the
GIANT CLIPPER BATTLING FIERCE HEAD WINDS IN RETURN FLIGHT ACROSS PACIFIC TO CALIFORNIA
BONUS MEANS lISHER TAXES. SENATE TOli) Passage of Any of Bills Needs New Levies, Says Morgenthau. By United, Prex* WASHINGTON, April 23. —The Roosevelt Administration today demanded that new taxes be levied if Congress passes any soldiers’ bonus bill. * Henry Morgenthau Jr.. Secretary of the Treasury, told the Senate Finance Committee that passage of any of the pending bonus bills would impose unexpected burdens on the Treasury and endanger the national credit unless accompanied by new taxes. "The Treasury would view with great concern,” he said, "the enactment of any bill which calls for large additional expenditures without compensating additional taxes.” He said if the bonus passed, he would submit a program for raising $200,000,000 to $600,000,000 through higher inheritance taxes, Mr. Morgenthau applied his demand even to the Harrison "compromise” bill which had been offered with a degree of Administration sanction. Rep. Wright Patman <D., Tex.), contended new taxes were not needed under his bill, which the House passed, to pay the bonus with more than $2,000,000,000 new currency.
PWA BOOSTS GRANT FOR HOSPITAL WING Flower Mission Grant Is Increased to $51,000. The Public Works Administration announced today that the $38,500 grant to cover 30 per cent of the construction and equipment of the Indianapolis Flow'er Mission Hospital had been increased to $51,000 to cover increased material and labor costs. The hospital will be a 100-bed I unit, addition to City Hospital for | advanced tubercular cases. The j Mission is raising the additional 70 per cent. The original estimated | cast was $132,000, but, w'as said at PWA offices here today that new' | estimates w’ould bring the figure up ! to at least $150,000.
first tests until death, proved that presbyopia is correlated with the duration of life in such a way that the early presbyopes die early and the late presbyopes die late.” Brainstroke and heartstroke were the causes of death in the persons whop proved the significance of the eye change. These accounted for about half the 5.000. The rest of the patients died of cancer, pneumonia, or other diseases, and for these the research workers could find little or no correlation between the time the eye lens hardened and duration of life. a a a REPORTING a further experiment under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation given to the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor. N. Y„ Dr. Bernstein concluded:
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Henry Morgenthau Jr. Passage of any of the bonus bills means that additional taxes are necessary, said Henry Morgenthau Jr„ Secretary of the Treasury, today.
FORMOSA TOILS AT REBUILDING Japanese Soldiers Marshal Populace Into Squads; 3209 Dead. By l nitrd Prexs TAIHOKU, Formosa, April 23. Natives of the island of Formosa today began reconstructing wrecked homes from the. shambles w'rought by a series of Easter Sunday earthquakes. Marshalled into squads by Jppanese soldiers, they began the work with a determination that their own resources would be sufficient to carry them clear of the disaster. Island officials estimated the death toll at 3209. An additional 9991 were reported injured in the catastrophe w'hich struck this island, 30 miles off the China coast. Entire towns of mud and grass huts must be rebuilt by the citizen workers. Fallen schools and wrecked temples also must be 'replaced. Reconstruction in isolated rural areas was expected to be a more complex problem, but officials still felt outside relief would be unnecessary. 500 KILLED IN QUAKES Series of Shocks in Persia Take Heavy Toll. By United Pres* BAGHDAD. Irak. April 23—More than 500 persons w'ere believed today to have been killed in a series of earthquakes in the Mazanderan province of Persia, starting April 12. The Persian quake was one of a series felt recently in widely separated parts of the world,
Relief Chief Fires Back at VanNuys ’ Criticism State Costs Lowest of Six in Chicago Region, Coy States, Giving Figures for Year. Wayne Coy, director of the Governor’s Commission on Unemployment Relief, today cracked back at all who have criticised the cost of his methods writh figures since May last year w'hich show it to be the lowest of the six states in the Chicago region.
The average cost for administering each case in Indiana, he said, has been $1.78 since May last year, and the average number of employes for each 100 cases has been 1.6 persons. The cost, he said, is strikingly in contrast with that of Illinois, the highest of the six states. There the administration of each case has cost $3.42 over the same period. The other states—Michigan, Wis-
"This shows conclusively that the physiological aging measured by the range of accommodation is strictly hereditary. Our former conclusion that the natural length of life may become predictable if a proper measure of the physioaging has become available, is strongly backed by these findings ” Stressing the significance of the discovery for heredity, Dr. Bernstein said: "These implications of natural span of life are especially important in regard to the fact that the natural causes of death come more in the foreground the more the infectious diseases are brought under control. The span of life in the future will be determined .jnuch more by that which Francis Galton called ‘the treasure of inheritance’ than by conditions which he in the environment.
YOUTHS HELD FOR SHOOTING HOLDUP VICTIM Frankly Admit Escapade During Night; Seized at Shelbyville. After a night of apparently aimless and certainly futile crime, two youths, both of whom had police I records before, were arrested today and brought to police headquarters facing the serious charge of armed robbery'. The youths are Raymond North. 21, who gave an address that doesn't exist, and Clifford Moorman, 19, 817 E. St. Clair-st. First details of their wanderings came to attention of police when Charles E. Horner, 51, R. R. 9, Box 424, reported he had been shot in the wrist by one of two holdup men at his filling station in New Bethel. The assailants had escaped. They next were heard from early today when the marshal of Shelbyville came upon them tinkering with the motor of their car, and arrested them on suspecion when he found each had a gun. Taken into custody by deputy sheriffs, the boys readily admitted they had held up Mr. Horner, and North admitted the shooting. They said they had stolen the car they i were riding in Sunday night in Indianapolis. and they said they had. ; between the Homer shooting and the arrest, robbed a bakery' at St. Paul, Ind., owned, Moorman said, by an uncle of his. In the car was found a radio, a check writer, an adding machine and a suit case full of spark plugs. Moorman said he had been sent to White's Institute four years ago for car theft, and North said he is on j parole from the Indiana State Reformatory. where he was serving a sentence for car theft. The boys were not, apparently, perturbed at all over their arrest, and talked freely with police about their night's adventure. FAIR AND WARM FOR OPENING BALL GAME Showers. However, Forecast for Tonight. The weather promises to be fair and warm today at least until after the first home game of the Indianapolis Indians in Perry Stadium this afternoon, the United States Weather Bureau here predeted. The atmosphere will be unsettled with showers tonight Rnd tomorrow.
consin. Minnesota and Missouri—fall somewhere between Indiana and Illinois, he said. The statement was construed by observers to be an answer to United States Senator Frederick VanNuys, who two weeks ago publicly advoated the return of the administration of relief to township organizations and who, in so doing, sharply criticised the state's administrative expenditures. “There has been a great deal of misinformation relative to the cost of administration of relief in Indiana," Mr Coy said. “I am pleased to submit the records since May, 1934, as revealed by the official records of the FERA. “I have heard a great deal about chiselers on relief, a chiseler is despicable at any time and particularly on public relief rolls. Any information regarding such chiseling, when accompanied by sufficient data to make investigation possible, will be carefully checked, the name of the informant being withheld. “Independent of such information, vigorous efforts are now under way to remove any such chiselers from relief rolls. Re-investigation under rigid supervision is being inaugurated to supplement the home visits regularly made. “Collateral visits to check the information secured will be made. Our objective this spring is to get the man or woman on relief back into a job. No person on relief will be permitted to refuse a job at a living wage and remain on relief. Employers are urged to get in touch with county relief officers for additional help."
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Pan-American Luxury Liner Nears Goal, Slightly Off Schedule. SPEED CUT FAR DOWN Craft May Be Delayed an Hour or More, Belief on West Coast. i By X nitrd prr*a ALAMEDA AIRPORT, Alameda, Cal., April 23.—New headwinds assailed PanAmerican Airways' huge flying Clipper less than 500 miles off the California coast this afternoon. After 15 hours in the air the Clipper was 1823 miles from Honolulu. A 33-mile I headwind had cut its ground speed to 96 miles an hour. The headwinds reached a velocity of 40 miles an hour in slowing the progress of the trans-Pacific plane flying from the Hawaiian Islands to Aiameda. At one phase of their fight against the unfavorable wind, Capt. Edwin Musick artd his crew of five made only 79 miles in 60 minutes, reducing their average speed considerably. Arrival May Be Delayed Pan-American Airway officials, waiting here for the plane's arrival, were not yet ready to revise their estimate of an 18-hour flight. Under that program the plane was due here by 2 p. m. (Indianapolis time). Should the wind prevail as the plane draws nearer the coast, its arrival : may be delayed an hour or more. The Clipper's log showed the es- ! sects of the weather conditions on its eastward journey. For the first nine hours the plane averaged 135 miles an hour to reach the halfway point of a 2400-mile flight. During that tune they had opportunity to prepare a supper and to chart atmospheric conditions over a route which planes will follow in regular mail and passenger services later in the year. Record Hopes Fade But. as they zoomed down the last arc of the great circle, they met stiffening winds and their speed dropped below any chance to equal or better the record of 15 hours for the flight set last year b j Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. Far over the Pacific Capt. Musick and his five companions went about their business with the efficiency which brought about their selection for the trail-blazing expedition, on which they are completing a roundtrip flight to the Hawaiian Islands. Radio Officer W. T. Jarboe Jr. relieved Victor Wright of his engineering duties for a time while Wright went back to the liner s complete kitchen and cooked suppersoup, meat, sandwiches and coffee—while 7000 feet above the surface of ocean. Visibility Is Excellent Visibility above and ahead remained excellent through the early stages. The sky was bright blue above the massed clouds. Navigation officer Fred Noonan didn't need the bright moon, however, to guide him for the plane rode eastward on the beams of radio directional ray* broadcast from Alameda. The take-off was symbolic of the flight. To the men it was a routine trip they have repeated many times on trans-Caribbean service. They will make it often again when Pan-American begins regular schedules from California to China by way of Honolulu, the Midway Islands, Wake Island, Guam and Manila. The crew reached Pearl Harbor an hour before the time for departure. The four motors were started. They idled, warming up, until 7:59 p. m. (Indianapolis time). Then Capt. Musick and his aid* waved good-by, gave the motors the gun and rose in a graceful arc toward Diamond Head. The 19-ton craft carried 13.000 pieces of mail which will be delivered in California within 24 hours instead of the five days required by steamship schedules. MURDERER OF TW(T CHILDREN ASKS DEATH Slayer of Daughter, Son, Begs State to Hang Him. By United Preat CHICAGO. April 23. William Gardner, 56, bank teller, who killed two of his children and wounded a third, lay on a jail hospital cot today and begged for death. Gardner, maddened by dread of family insanity, murdered his pretty daughter, Rita Jane, 20; his son. Donald. 14. and wounded another son. Kenneth, 17. The mother, Mrs. Else Gardner. Is an invalid. "I wish they would hang me,” Gardner said weakly, "I am not a quitter but I certainly don't want to live. My family never will want to see me again. This will kill my wife.” I’rge Moffett to Keep Post By l nitrd Pm* WASHINGTON, Apnl 23 —James A. Moffett, Housing Administrator, may be prevailed upon to take a leave of absence Instead of resigning. it was reported today at the White House.