Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1935 — Page 3

DEC. 27, 1935

12 ‘LITTLE WASHINGTONS’ IN KEY CITIES OF NATION ARE URGED BY CABINET OFFICERS

Program Is Advocated to Simplify Functions of Government, By United Pri m WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Administration officials today considered establishing “Little Washingtons” in 10 or 12 cities throughout the country to simplify and accelerate the complicated functions of the Federal government. The plan was proposed to President Roosevelt by four Cabinet officers, It provides for concentration of departmental field offices m the “sub-capitols” to administer affairs in their surrounding areas. The tentatively selected cities and their areas of jurisdiction, would be: Boston, New England; New York, Eastern; Knoxville or Nashville, Ozark-Appalachian; Atlanta, Southern; New Orleans, Gulf Coast; Chicago, Midwestern; Portland, Pacific Northwest; San Francisco, Pacific Southwest; Denver, Intermountain or Great Plains, or both. Salt Lake City also was suggested for the Intermountain area, with either Bismarck or Omaha for the great plains region. Cincinnati was suggested for the Ohio Valley; St. Paul, or Duluth or some other city in that section for the Great Lakes forest and cut-over region. The number of territories might be'increased to 16 or 18. Economy Is Advanced The action was proposed by Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes as chairman of the National Resources Committee, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Walalce, Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, board members. Secretary of War George H. Devn was in the Philippines when the report was being considered. Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, Frederic A. Delano, Charles E. Merriam and Wesley C. Mitchell were other signers. The committee pointed out that its members and other departmental heads now have the country broken into 108 different arrangements of districts for administration of their field work. “But there are distinct advantages in economy of time and effort in directing those organizations more sharply toward some simpler framework,’’ he report said. Entire Nation Surveyed “With concentration of their field headquarters the establishment of 10 or 12 somewhat unified regional agencies of the United States government could be made to coincide with the state regional secretariats now developing, and might serve as centers for regional or subnational planning agencies.” The committee, after a survey of planning activities in the whole country, said that “enough is known now to begin on the nation-wide selection of centers, at least in a tentative way. “Additional work is necessary in analyzing and mapping the functional areas, the distribution of problems and projects, the relationship to field offices, state capitols, and universities and state colleges, and in checking tentative selections with the Federal and state agencies and executives.” Coal Board May Move Another contemplated removal of Federal authority from Washington, it was learned, is the expected removal of the National Bituminous Coal Commission. The- commission, which is administering the Gufley soft coal code, is increasing its personnel rapidly and has been unable to find office space in Washington. It now has 135 employes and may soon increase the number to 400 or more. Possibilities of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Charleston, W. Va., are being investigated as sites. Any of these, it was said, would bring the commission closer to the coal fields and facilitate the numerous hearings on code authorities. RUSH COUNTY HOLDS . ANNUAL CORN SHOW Charles Trover Serves as Judge of Large Number of Entries. Tim*"* Special RUSHVILLE. Ind., Dec. 27.—Rush County’s annual corn show continued today at the Courthouse with Charles E. Troyer, Lafontaine, former international corn king, as judge. The show, opened yesterday, is to be concluded late tomorrow. With one of the largest list of entries in recetn years, officials predicted a good attendance despite the cold wave. Today’s features are to include a home economics demonstration, a talk on hybrid corn by Keller Beeson, Purdue extesion agronomist, and the annual achievement banquet for 4-H Club boys tonight.

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Sunrise 7:06 ! Sunset 4:26 TEMPERATURE —Dec. 27. 1934 7 a. m 15 1 p. m 41 —Today— Midnight ... —3 7:30 a. m...—6.4 1 a. m —4 X a. m —6 2 a. m —4 9 a. m —4 3 a. m —5 10 a. m —2 4 a. m —5 11 a. m 5 5 a. m —5 12:00 (X00n).... 8 6 a. m —6 1 p. m 10 7 a. m —6 BAROMETER 7 a. m 30.44 1 p. m 30.36 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... 00 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 37 68 Deficiency since Jan. 1 183 OTHI.R CITIIIS AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar Temp. Amarillo, Tex. Cloudy 30 04 26 Bismark, N. D Snow 30.14 8 Boston PtCldy 29 68 16 Chicago Clear 30 38 —2 Cincinnati Cloudy 30 44 —4 Denver Clear 29 86 22 Dodge City. Kas Cloudy 30 10 22 Helena. Mont Cloudy 29 88 26 Jacksonville. Fla Clear 30 38 24 Kansas City. Mo. ... Cloudy 30 42 10 Little Rock. Ark Clear 30 50 18 Los Angeles Cloudy 30 06 54 Miami. Fla Clear 30 22 40 Minneapolis Snow 30 36 2 Mobile. Ala Clear 30 44 24 New Orleana Clear 30 44 28 New’ York Cloudy 29 86 18 Okla. City. Okla Cloudv 30 24 24 Omaha. Neb Cloudy 30 33 8 Pittsburgh Snow 30 22 6 Portland. Ore Cloudv 27 74 48 San Antonio. Tex Cloudy 31 28 32 San Francisco Clear 30 00 54 St. Louis Cloudy 30 46 6 Tampa, Fla. Clear 30.34 30 Washington. D. C PtCidy 30.13 It

Supreme Court Decisions Expected to Set Pace for Congress. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Congressional leaders returning for the session beginning next week today looked to the Supreme Court to set the pace through decisions on important New Deal laws for legislative activity in the next few months. Chairman Pat Harrison of the powerful senate Finance Committee qualified predictions of a short session with the assertion that “if the Supreme Court should knock out the AAA—and I hope it will not—we will have to evolve another program to take its place.” The Supreme Court is expected also, through the pending decisions, to determine some of the paramount political issues for 1936. For instance, a series of anti-New Deal decisions would bring to the front proposals for a constitutional amendment which would give the Federal government powers which the court denies it. Another factor bearing on this phase of the situation is the January meeting of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, which will consider the mandate of the federation’s October convention for active support of a constitutional change to permit Federal regulation of wages and working conditions. In addition to the AAA, the court will pass on the Bankhead Cotton Act, the Guffey Coal Contral Act, the Wagner Labor Disputes Act and the Utility Holding Company Act. Decisions adverse to the Administration in any or all of them would start immediate efforts to devise substitutes or to alter the present relationship between the executive and judicial branches. Crime Inquiry Suggested At the same time, decisions favorable to the New Deal might open the gates to new legislation along similar lines. Senator Joseph Guffey (D„ Pa.), for instance, has announced that if his soft-coal stabilization measure is upheld he will introduce a companion bill for the anthracite industry. Other developments are likely to spring up to thwart plans for a short sessioii. Senator James P. Pope < D., Idaho), is considering a resolutibn for a congressional investigation of crime conditions in the United States. Such a proposal easily could develop into a broad inquiry into every phase of law enforcement and perhaps might parallel the Wickersham prohibition report. The subject is of particular interest because of the flight of the Lindbergh family. Senator Harrison said he thought general tax legislation would be unnecessary at the new session, that a compromise bonus bill could be passed, and that he believed the Townsend Plan unworkable. Liberty League Assailed He issued a statement bitterly eonciemning the American Liberty League, which he termed the “American Lobby League,” for “undertaking to tell Congress what legislation it should enact” and "presuming to assume the functions of the United States Supreme Court.” He asserted the league is composed “in a large part of a group of griping and disgruntled politicians” and "apostles of greed,” who seek to control the entire government through “plutocratic” propaganda. “It becomes increasingly apparent,” Mr. Harrison said, "that this band of sturdy, super-patriots is ready to take over both the legislative and judicial functions of the Federal government, and perhaps in its usual magnanimous way, the league may agree to assume control of the executive functions as well.”

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Thelma Todd Beaten in [SPEAKER URGE: ' T Tgjijfc Case, Probers Informed CHRISTIAN UNI ** * iffSsSaitf I Attack Took Place Several Days Before Her Death, Is n I 7. „ %. v: , ; ...... Dr. G. M. Day Also Pie Claim; Assailant’s Identity Undisclosed. . ... .. . _ , ! for Liberalism in But- > j By L hi ted Press 'Wmlk >. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27.—Reports that Thelma Todd had been |GT Speech. "Slill J| beaten severely at her case several days before her body was found in a ( ! .v " garage were checked by district attorney's investigators as a grand jury (Continued From Page On< ' ' inc l uir y into the blond actress’ death resumed today. Swartz —Bloomington —Id * ‘ said ’ illv ° lvecl the name of ° ne of Miss Carmen, owner of the property St ° r ’ the principal witnesses in the grand Qn which lhe case building is lo- c l cted de ' ctlonal senice- > *>• v The story, as reported to the in- cated - Although Miss Todd was terian Church foreign mi& > vestigators, said Miss Todd and a listed as owner of the case, books board secretary> and the man en &ag ed ln a heated argument showed that West was the financial r p hj)li _ c rim , ol . ,_. . 1 late one night after guests at her . , . . t old C ’ phllll P s - Cleveland First . • •>.. , v L:j case had departed. The man, whose r pa i e . tist church pastor, are to speak Y •> v name was not disclosed, struck Miss Miss Carmen was to undergo afternoon. % y •'$ \ Todd and knocked her across a rigorous questioning on her state-’ The Rev. Hayes Beall. Meth \ table. He then rushed to strike her rnent that she saw Miss Todd riding Episcopal Church religious ed ag Capt. Lloyd Yar- that Sunday night with a “tall, dark tion secretary, who also spoke \ ' row of the district attorney’s staff and handsome foreigner,” Grand morning, is to conduct a forum said several witnesses to the beating Jury Foreman George Rochester de- Blteinoon on Can the Ch would be called to testify. dared. Adopt a Program for Social •, . ~ -iw4ir Rochester said he also hoped that tion?” —-- ~ ’ -■■■■■■ ■ ' ' 11 De Cicco, West to Testify questioning of the three witnesses William Temple, famed A

With the mercury below zero, ice skaters and sledders kept up their outdoor activities at a dizzy pace today—if only to get exercise from the bitter cold. Every coasting place in the city had its clientele this morning and hastily made fires offered some protection for the "polar bears.” Upper (left) —Two young women pause a moment during their skating at Lake Sullivan. They are Miss Janet Ernst, 1446 N. Belle Vieu-pl (left), and Miss Essie Cox, POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED BY AUSTRIA Amnesty Granted by Chancellor as Christmas Present. By United Press VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 27—The gates of Austrian concentration camps were opened today and hundreds of detained Nazis and Communists were released under the proclamation of year-end amnesty. Adolf Hitler's strongest ally in Austria, Anton Rintelen, former cabinet minister, was understood to be slated for release on New Year’s day. The amnesty was announced by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg as a Christmas clemency act after the Socialists had put persistent pressure on the government. It indicated the government’s intention of making peace with the workers and presents a strong front against the Nazis in the coming year. Miner Found Frozen to Death CLINTON, Ind., Dec. 27.—Christ Costa, 50, coal miner, was found frozen to death today in a vacant lot here.

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4525 N. Keystone-av. Miss Cox testified that the trip from her home on the far East Side to Lake Sullivan in Riverside was a long, frigid one today. Upper (right)—And here’s the disastrous end of a toboggan trip at the Coffin Golf Course. Left to right in the spill are Charles Fink, Oscar Wagner, Bob Girvin and Edward Unglass. Lower—Their first venture disastrous, the four young men have dragged the sled up the hill and started down again. FACES COURT HEARING Sam Schweitzer Is Held in Louis Stern & Cos. Case. Sam Schweitzer, arrested in Chicago several weeks ago in the case of the Louis Stern & Cos., alleged bucket shop, in which persons in the Indianapolis area lost approximately $50,000 is to be arraigned in Federal Court this afternoon.

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Thelma Todd Beaten in Case, Probers Informed Attack Took Place Several Days Before Her Death, Is Claim; Assailant’s Identity Undisclosed. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27.—Reports that Thelma Todd had been beaten severely at her case several days before her body was found in a garage were checked by district attorney’s investigators as a grand jury inquiry into the blond actress’ death resumed today.

The reported attack, investigators said, involved the name of one of the principal witnesses in the grand jury inquiry. The story, as reported to the investigators, said Miss Todd and a man engaged in a heated argument late one night after guests at her case had departed. The man, whose name was not disclosed, struck Miss Todd and knocked her across a table. He then rushed to strike her again but waiters interfered. Capt. Jess Winn and Lloyd Yarrow of the district attorney’s staff said several witnesses to the beating would be called to testify. De Cicco, West to Testify Two men who occupied leading parts in the life of the actress, Pasquele De Cicco, her ex-husband, and Roland West, her best friend and financial backer, were to be principal witnesses at the grand jury hearing. De Cicco was scheduled to arrive by airplane from New York shortly before the jury convenes. But before the jury hears either West or De Cicco, Jewel Carmen, estranged wife of Roland West, was to testify on two phases of the inquiry. Miss Carmen, only person who knew Miss Todd personally of the many who said they saw her after the hour originally set by police as the time she died, was to tell of seeing her at about 11 p. m. Sunday, Dec. 15, when police insisted she died between 4 and 6 a. m. that morning. Seek Mystery Man The involved financial structure of “Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk Case” was to be clarified to the jury by

Miss Carmen, owner of the property on which the case building is located. Although Miss Todd was listed as owner of the case, books showed that West was the financial backer and her partner. Miss Carmen was to undergo rigorous questioning on her statement that she saw Miss Todd riding that Sunday night with a “tall, dark and handsome foreigner,” Grand Jury Foreman George Rochester declared. Rochester said he also hoped that questioning of the three witnesses would offer some clew to the identity of a mysterious “gentleman from San Francisco” with whom Miss Todd was having a “marvelous romance” before she died.

Not Too Cold Some people will try anything once. That was the deduction of police today who are holding sleds of two boys who fled after J;hey stole ice cream from the Tompkins Ice Cream Cos., 2929 Northwestern-av, in below zero weather. Police are holding a boot today for the owner, but they don’t expect him to claim it. He threw it on a turn last night as officers were chasing him as a prowler suspect in the rear of the 1000 block N. Illi-nois-st. It was a pretty good boot, too.

SPEAKER URGES CHRISTUM UNITY Dr. G. M. Day Also Pleads for Liberalism in Butler Speech. (Continued From Page One) Swartz, Bloomington, Ind.. First Presbyterian Church pastor, conducted devotional service. The Rev. Robert E. Speer, Presbyterian Church foreign missions board secretary, and the Rev. Harold C. Phillips, Cleveland First Baptist Church pastor, are to speak this afternoon. The Rev. Hayes Beall, Methodist Episcopal Church religious education secretary, who also spoke this morning, is to conduct a forum this afternoon on “Can the Church Adopt a Program for Social Action?” William Temple, famed Archbishop of New York, is to speak tonight on “Dogmatic Faith and Human Freedom.” The Archbishop said that his mission here was purely of a religious nature, and declined to make any comment on the condition of European affairs. Os economic conditions in England, he said: "The country is improving in t rade and industry in keeping with general world improvement, and the feeling and spirit of the English people are excellent. "The only, industries that have not responded to the general improvement are coal, cotton textiles, iron and steel.”

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CATHOLIC UNITY APPEAL DRAWS SHARPATTACKS Protestant Leaders, With Few Exceptions, Assail Episcopal Plan. By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 27 —Leaders of Protestant churches of all denominations condemned with few exceptions today a plea of 29 Protestant Episcopal churchmen that their church reunite with the Roman Catholic Church. Catholic clergymen generally refused to comment, but the Rev. Charles Coughlin of Detroit and the Rev. Paul James Francis of the Friars of the Atonement at Peekskill, N. Y„ called the proposal indicative of an inevitable trend. The appeal came from a group of Episcopal "High” churchmen, organized as the Church Unity Octave Council in America. Its membership includes ministers and laymen. Other Episcopal Church members attacked the group’s right to claim representation of any considerable number of church members. The Rev. Dr. Alexander G. Cummins, rector of Christ Church. Poughkeepsie, and editor of the Chronicle, church newspaper, accused the Protestant apostates of "bad manners and ignorance.” “Insult’’ Is Resented “I feel that all Episcopalians must consider that there is an apology due to the members of other Protestant churches for this insult from a group of Anglo-Catholics," he said. Particularly incensed by a statement of the Unity Octave Council that the Protestant Church is "bankrupt ethically, culturally, morally and religiously," he said that the charge was "untrue in fact and untrue in practice.” Editors of two other Protestant Episcopal periodicals joined him in attacking the proposal. Clifford P. Morehouse, editor of the Living Church, Milwaukee, said the Unity Octave Council “is not typical of either the Episcopal Church or Anglo-Catholic movement, both of which reject the Roman claim to be the only true church.” An editorial by Dr. Guy Emory Shipler in the Churchman next week will say that clergymen of the council “include not a name of any well-known Anglo-Catholic in America.” Unison of Protestant churches, rather than of the Protestant Episcopal and Catholic faiths, was suggested by Dr. Ivan Lee Holt, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, as a more practical way to strengthen Christianity. Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf of the Chicago diocese of the Methodist Episcopal Church, summarized the comment of leaders of other Protestant denominations in a denial that Protestantism needs anything to be found outside its own potentialities. Father Couhglin, radio priest, said he considered the suggestion logical and desirable. Father Francis, whose order deserted the Anglican Church to join the Catholic faith in 1909, asserted that eventually a majority of Episcopalians will follow.