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SENATE TO PROBE TOWNSEND FUNDS; INDIANA DRIVE ON

Information on Operations Is Being Collected by Committee. STRATEGY WORKED OUT Current Moves Directed by Hugo Black, Head of Group. By United Prct* WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Investigators for the Senate lobby committee are collecting information on the financial operations of sponsors of the Townsend Plan for oldage revolving pensions, it was learned today. The file of data is being reserved for use whenever the Townsend lobby becomes active at the capital. The mere fact of its collection does not indicate that any of it is necessarily of unsavory character. It was learned that considerable information has been gathered, covering financing, promotion methods and dossiers of persons prominently connected with the movement. The Senate lobby investigation was authorized last year. Senator Hugo L. Black (D„ Ala.), who conducted the inquiries into activities of public utility holding companies, as chairman. Since adjournment last August Senator Black has had his agents working quietly on a variety of lobbies whose projects were expected to figure in the present session. With the sudden revival of Townsend Plan enthusiasm during the summer and fall investigators were instructed to collect data on its inner workings. This has been done and the committee is now prepared to conduct hearings on the S2OO---month pension proposal whenever such a coui*e might be decided upon. Other Lobbies Probed Senators have recalled the deluge of Townsend Plan mail which developed last year. The movement is stronger now and a weU-torgan-ized campaign of pressure upon Congress would be extremely embarrassing to those who want to be re-elected and who do do not want to antagonize any sizable bloc of constituents. Under the wily strategy being worked out as part of the lobby investigation. the Black committee coufd begin firing away at the Townsend Plan whenever such a contingency developed. The Black commmittee has obtained files on other powerful Washington lobbies, including oil, the veterans’ organization and the American Liberty League. Much of this information never will be used. Delegation Visits Capitol Should a lobby became troublesome at the Capitol in regard to any particular piece of legislation, however, the committee would be in a position to begin an immediate investigation. A forerunner of what may be expected in the Townsend Plan campaign was seen at the Capitol yesterday. A group of about 40 Townsendites under the leadership of Father James R. Cox of Pittsburgh visited the Capitol on a tour which was as much in sight-seeing as in propaganda efforts. The friendliness of Townsend advocates toward their Senacors and congressmen might easily change if the temper and zeal of these campaigners for greater security in old age were fanned to fierce intensity. Would Avoid Demonstrations This is realized at the Capitol and legislators who have seen bonus marches, hunger marches and other mass demonstrations want to avoid any similar outbursts from the Townsendites. The lobby investigation might do it. As one Senator remarked privately after being visited by the cheery-minded Townsend group: “I’m glad they didn’t ask me if I would support their bill.” The Black committee has not announced a date for resuming its hearings. It was believed that it would not be continued until conclusion of the munitions committee's inquiry into war-time financial operations by American bankers. SOUTH AMERICAN BOAT WRECKED NEAR PERU Passengers. Crew Saved by Grace Liner; Vessel Total Loss, Is Report. By United Press SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 14.—The South American steamer Cautin, with cargo and passengers, was wrecked in a heavy fog on the reefs of Lobos de Tierra, off the northwest coast of Peru, today. The passengers and crew were taken off by the Grace liner Santa Catalina. The vessel is a total loss and was reported by the National Radio to have sunk. It was carrying a cargo of Chilean products to Ecuador. BURNED IN EXPLOSION; Frank Morrison of 655 E. 23d-st Victim of Heater Blast. Frank Morrison. 21. of 655 E. 23dst was treated at City Hospital today for minor bums suffered when an oil heater exploded in a filling station at 701 E. Michigan-st. The resulting fire was extinguished with loss of sls.

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Fifth District Forces to Emerge as Militant Political Group. CLEMENTS ON PROGRAM Kokomo Is Chosen for First of Series of Party Rallies. Time; Special KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 14.—A new and possibly significant chapter in Indiana politics is to be enacted here tomorrow when Fifth District forces of the Townsend plan emerge for the first time as a militant political bloc. Chief business coming before an all-day convention is to be selection of a seven-member congressional board. This group is to be charged with the important work of putting the organization’s stamp of approval on Hoosier aspirants to elective positions in Washington. Despite whatever significance politicians may see in the event, there is little doubt but that old-age pension sponsors believe it important. Included among those scheduled to appear as speakers are H. E. Clements, co-founder of the national movement, and W. S. McCiintock, state executive secretary of Old-Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. Kokomo was chosen for the first of a series of district conventions because it is centrally situated in one of the state’s strongest areas, according to word frem state headquarters at Indianapolis. Similar district meetings are to follow In both the Twelfth and Fourth districts, sponsors have revealed. The program here is to open at 10 a. m. A roll call of delegates and naming of a temporary chairman are to follow opening ceremonies. Committee reports are to be presented in the afternoon immediately after the election of a permanent chairman. State organizers then are to speak, with balloting for congressional board places to follow. An address of welcome Is to be given by Mayor Olin R. Holt at the night session, when Mr. Clements is to deliver the principal address. PAROLED CONVICT IS SHOT BY DRUGGIST Youth Near Death After Holdup Attempt. A 21-year-old product of the Indiana Reformatory at Pendleton, on parole from a holdup sentence of one to five years, is near death in City Hospital today with wounds inflicted by a North Side druggist he tried to rob last night. He is Albertis Lynn Matherly. In his body are three wounds made by bullets from the gun of Harry Neller, 50, of 2214 Park-av, who owns and operates the drug store at Central-av and 22d-st, where the holdup and shooting took place. One of the bulets struck Matherly high in the back on the left side; another entered the left shoulder and passed entirely through the body, puncturing the kidney; another struck his tr-lt buckle and inflicted a small abdominal wound. Disguised in a mustache that was one-third whiskers and two-thirds charcoal. Matherly, who had been (Turn to Page Three) ICED KIPLING IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION Poet Fights for Life in London Hospital. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 14. Rudyard Kipling fought for life in Middlesex Hospital today. Two nurses stood beside him throughout the night with oxygen cylinders available. His daughter was within call. Dr. A. E. Webb-Johnson, abdominal and gastric specialist who operated on Mr. Kipling yesterday for a perforated gastric ulcer, spent the night in a room nearby. Mr. Kipling spent a comfortable night and his wife left the hospital this morning for a few hours’ sleep. The 70-year-old Poet of Empire, stricken without warning at his hotel yesterday and operated on within an hour after his arrival at the hospital, remained in critical condition. He rallied well. Soon after he emerged from the influence of the anaesthetic he showed his recovery from the shock by talking for a few minutes with his wife and the surgeon. But partly because of his advan ved age. his condition was admittedly most serious. INTANGIBLES TAX GAINS County Collects SIO,OOO More in 1935 Than in Year Before. Marion county intangibles tax stamp sales for 1935 totaled $210,000, increase of SIO,OOO over the preceding year, John J. Braden, county collector, said today. The amount does not incldue sales to banks, building and loan organizations and certain corporations which pay directly to the state, he said.

FORECAST: Unsettled tonight with lowest temperature above freezing; tomorrow partly cloudy and considerably colder.

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HOHLT LEAVES FOESJN COLD Doesn’t Want ‘His’ Building Torn Up, Says Trustee, Explaining Stand. Leonard A. Hohlt, Perry Township trustees on wfcose orders the Southport High School last night was closed to a meeting of his taxpaying enemies, today added a “what’s more” to his order. “I doubt very much,” he said, “if I’ll ever allow them to use it because I don’t want my school torn up. Let ’em rent a hall if they want to hold that kind of a meeting.” The Perry Township Taxpayers’ Association, Inc., which was locked out of the building last night by the janitor who would talk to them only through the chained doors, intended to discuss further plans for impeaching Mr. Hohlt. Tire association yesterday filed an impeachment suit against the trustee in Circuit Court charging that on two occasions Mr. Hohlt had been intoxicated in his office during office hours when he was conducting township business. Today Mr. Hohlt said of these charges: •‘They said I got drunk and came back to my office during office hours. Well, just remember my office hours are from 8 until 11 in the morning.” The latest episode in the HohltTaxpayers’ feud got off to a spirited start yesterday noou when. JSc&d Foster and Kenneth Baker, leaders in the association, attempted to give pupils handbills that were derogatory to Hohlt. Greyble McFarland, a dairy farmer and reported stanch friend of Mr. Hohlt’s, and janitors de(Tum to Page Three) PIKE TRUSTEE SIGNS FOR FIRE PROTECTION City To Get $350 for Runs to Township in 1936. Edward Cook, Pike Township trustee, has agreed to pay the city $350 for fire protection in his township in 1936, Theodore Dammeyer, Safety Board president, said today. This is the third contract made with units outside the city. Woodruff Place is paying $7,500 yearly for fire and police protection and Miss Hannah Noone, trustee, is paying $250 yearly for fire protection in Center Township outside the city limits. Other trustees are expected to sign similar contracts shortly, Mr. Dammeyer said. JAPAN’S EFFORT TO HALT PARLEY FAILS Naval Meeting to Continue, Although Tokyo Quits. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 14.—American and British delegations, at a t o-hour meeting today, rejected a Japanese assertion that the naval limitation conference could not legally be continued after Japan’s intended withdrawal. The Japanese assertion was a last effort to prevent delegates of the United States, British Empire, France and Italy from continuing the conference when the Japanese go home, refusing to continue because their bid for naval equality has not been conceded. Japan’s delegates were preparing today a statement of their claims to naval equality, intending to deliver it at the next meeting of the conference and then leave for Tokyo. STOCKS TURN RAGGED AFTER EARLIER GAINS Oil Shares Retain Advances; Some Issues Hit New 1935-36 Highs. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—The stock market turned irregular today in realizing after early strength. Cil shares for the most part retained gains made in the first two hours in which a number of issues went to new 1933-36 highs, but the industrial list eased off. General Motors was % lower at 55 ta, U. S. Steel was % lower at 58, Westinghouse was 2 points lower at 99. Mining shares weakened, U. S. Smelting losing lVi to 94 and American Smelting about a point lower American Telephone slipped from its high, but still had more than a point gain at 158%. Pair Robs Man of $16.30 Norman Jackson, 31, of 618 Ful-ton-st told police today that a white man and a Negro held him up last night at 13th and Alabama-sts and robbed him ot $16.30.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1936

GOV. HOFFMAN UNDECIDED ON REPRIEVE PLEA Has ‘Made No Decision’ on Delaying Execution, Executive Says. HAUPTMANN IS FRANTIC Seeks Talk With Colonel or Lie Detector Test as Doom Nears. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—A special American Bar Association committee report on the Lindbergh kidnaping, understood to contain bitter criticism of newspaper tactics used during the Hauptmann trial, was sent to the association’s executive committee for approval today. By United Press TRENTON, N. J„ Jan. 14.—Gov. Harold G. Hoffman today said he had “made no decision” on the question of granting a reprieve that would prevent electrocution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann Friday night. Hauptmann’s lawyers meantime continued conferences, preparatory to making an eleventh-hour appeal to the Federal courts to save the convicted murderer of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Chances of obtaining any consideration for him there were so slim it generally was agreed Hauptmann will die Friday night unless the Governor decides to act in the face of threatened political opposition to interference. Suspect Grabs at Straws Gov. Hoffman was busy today with other matters in connection with the state Legislature, which met at noon, and was not expected to make a decision on the reprieve question until tomorrow or later. The Governor said his trip to New York over the week-end had no connection with the Hauptmann case. As his execution hour grew nearer, Hauptmann himself began to grasp frantically at any straws, pleading for a lie detector test and an interview with Col. Lindbergh. “Richard offered himself tc any test that they want him to take,” Mrs. Hauptmann said through tears after a visit td the death "hooise. “He will do anything at all to show that he Is honest—that he is innocent.” While the condemned man fought off fear in the death house, five lawyers began anew fight to obtain consideration of his case in the United States Supreme Court. They raced against time, for Gov. Hoffman showed no indication of ordering a reprieve and most lawyers considered three days too little to win a court delay. Refusal Is Expected Hauptmann’s three permanent counselors—C. Lloyd Fisher, Frederick A. Pope and Egbert Rosecrans —conferred secretly last night. Their plan, it was undersood, is to ask the Federal District Court in Trenton or Newark for a writ of habeas corpus on a constitutional point. If the district court refuses the writ, as most observers believed it would, the lawyers would go to higher and higher courts until they again reach the Supreme Court. The high tribunal already has refused to review Hauptmann’s conviction. Gov. Hoffman, once believed 10 be Hauptmann’s best bet for escape from the chair, stayed in New York yesterday and was busy today witn opening of the Legislature. Powerful political pressure bore on the Governor to prevent intercession for Hauptmann. His authority to grant a reprieve was doubtful and a stfbng Democratic minority in the Legislature murmured threats of impeachment if he overstepped constitutional bounds. Despite the Governor’s predicament, many thought he would save Hauptmann from death Friday with a 30-day reprieve. Both he and other New Jersey Governors have interpreted the Constitution literally and granted other such reprieves without challenge. The difference in this case is that Hoffman is accused of political hay-making and Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Hauptmann’s prosecutor, is Hoffman’s bitter political enemy.

F. D. R. Budget Wrecked by Court , Pending Bonus Payment to Veterans to Add Further Strain on Treasury Hit by Reversal of New Deal Laws. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 14. —Congress and the courts will leave just enough of President Roosevelt’s budget undemolished to mark th. spot where it stood before the explosion began.

Mr. Roosevelt may as well prepare anew budget for the 1937 fiscal year which begins next July 1. It is too late to do anything about the current fiscal year. The Supreme 6ourt is diminishing Federal revenue by invalidating New Deal laws. Congress shortly will increase expenditures by voting immediate payment of the soldiers' bonus. Mr. Roosevelt did not budget for either of those contingencies. It is a quibble to argue that the Senate compromise bonus softens the shock to the Treasury. The House voted unadorned cash payment. The Senate is ready to vote the same thing with a provision calculated to persuade some veterans to delay collection until 1945. Neither House nor Senate shows any disposition to say how the bonus payment monojjr is to be

GROSS INCOME TAX LAW REVISION HELD POSSIBLE

It’s in the Air By United Press NEW YORK. Jrm. 14.—Republican Party leaders and the broadcasting chains swung lustily at each other today in a war over radio time for political uses. While President William S. Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System produced figures to prove that Republicans are getting better than an even break with the Democrats on the air, the G. O. P. radio committee announced that it had bought time on a Chicago station and would present the first of a series of dramatic propaganda skits tonight. National Republican Chairman Henry P. Fletcher had accused the National Broadcasting Cos. and Columbia of knuckling under to a “political party which regulates the isuance of your licenses.” He argued that if the chains gave free time to speeches by President Roosevelt the Republican Party was entitled in fairness to buy time for its proposed. dramatic presentations. Paley wrote to Fletcher last week that “appeals to the electorate should be intellectual and not based on emotion, passion or prejudice.”

STREET PAVING PUSHEDBY CITY Victory in Gasoline Tax Suit Permits Start on $500,000 Program. The $500,000 Federal street Improvement program, made possible by settlement of the city-county gasoline tax cases, is to be carried out only in those sections of the city where property is unable to bear the normal assessment costs, Ernest Frick, Works Board secretary, said today. In more prosperous communities, the Works Board will charge part of the improvement costs to property owners and not use Federal funds, he said. This policy, he pointed out, was decided on by the board several months ago. A compromise agreement reached by city and county officials released $134,000 in gasoline tax funds to the city which previously had been tied up by litigation. With this money, Mayor Kern announced, the city will be able to match funds provided in a blanket Federal grant. WPA Labor to Be Used The city is to furnish equipment, supervision and material, and WPA labor is to be used. Judge Arthur C. Van Duyn of the Hancock Circuit Court at Greenfield, yesterday ruled in favor of the city in the gasoline tax suit brought by the county. The county contended the city is receiving an unfair amount of gasoline money. The state law permits it half of the county’s apportionment. A compromise agreement previously reached by officials of the two governing bodies will be carried out, Walter C. Boetcher, city controller, announced following the decision. It provides for rental at $1 a year of several heavy duty highway machines by the city to the county in .return for the county's consent to discontinue the contest over apportionment of the gasoline tax funds. BOY’S BODY IS HUNTED River at Fori Wayne Is Dragged for Victim of Drowning. By United Press FORT WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 14. Police and firemen dragged the St. Mary River here last night, searching for the body of Charles Fox, 5, who drowned yesterday in a sledding accident. The drowning occurred when the ice gave way under a sled on which the boy was being pushed by his 10-year-old brother, William.

raised. The Senate plan substitutes SSO bonds for the House bill to pay by Treasury check. But any veteran would be able to take his bonds to the nearest postoffice and get cash. The postofflee, in turn, would get the cash from the Treasury. The question is where the Treasury will find the money. However the money is raised, Mr. Roosevelt’s week-old budget is as dead today as the budget of 1876. It depends on so many unknown quantities that it has ceased to mean anything. One is the work relief appropriations for next year. There is. for instance, the Jan. 6 budget estimate that the national debt would be $30,933,000,000 when this fiscal year ends June 30. The facts are these; The national debt will go up by as (Tarn to Page Three)

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RRM TO SPEND $500,000 FOR PIANTREPAIRS Chapman-Price Aims at Steel Mill Second tc None in U. S. The Chapman-Price F..-el Cos. of this city, a subsidiary oi the Continental Steel Corp. of Kokomo, today announced a $500,000 expansion program through the industrial commission of the Chamber of Commerce. Extensions and alterations of its plant at Troy-av and Shelby-st are to begin immediately and the rolling mills are to be closed Saturday for a 30-day period for the purpose of carrying out the modernization program. With the completion of improvements the company will have one of the most efficient steel mills, galvanizing and fabricating plants in the industry. A voluntary committee of employes is given credit for the decision of the corporation to keep this plant open. It haci been previously decided to close the plant and transfer all operations to Kokomo, it was announced. Officers of the Chapman-Price Cos. arc Niles Chapman, president; Louis H. Haerle, vice president, both of Indianapolis, and Urlin K. Becker of Kokomo, secretary-treasurer. John E. Frederick of Kokomo is chairman of the board of the Continental Steel Corp., and D. A. Williams is president. Finishing department at the plant will continue to operate during the modernization. POLICE CANDIDATES MEET WITH DELAY Kern Says Action Awaits Approval of Chief’s Rule Book. Candidates for the police school will have to wait at least two weeks longer to begin training, Mayor Kern said today. The names of 60 men were to be offered to the Safety Board today for approval, but the delay is necessary to enable the city legal department to approve Police Chief Morrissey’s rule book, it was explained. Mayor Kern said the first few classes of 30 men each will all be Democrats because Republicans now outnumber Democrats on the department by about 30. PENDLETON EXPLOSION CLAIMS FIFTH VICTIM 32-Year-OM Farmer Dies in Hospital at Anderson. By United, Press ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 14. — Everet Brateain, 32-year-old farmer, died in a hospital here early today from burns and injuries suffered in the explosion at Pendleton Town Hall last Thursday night. He suffered a crushed leg and third degree burns when he was buried under the debris for more than an hour. Three others who were trapped in the ruins still are in critical condition. They are William Longtoft, 60, president of the town council; Raymond Cory, 28, towfi electrician, and Frank Eakes. Four persons were killed by the blast. TWO OVERCOME IN TRUCK ABE SAVED Fellow Employe Pulls Men From Burning Cab. Anderson Day, 447 Spruce-st, and Riley Day, 1236 Deloss-st, today are thanking a fellow employe at the Leonard Coal Cos., 1114 E. Marylandst, for their lives. Yesterday their truck stuck in the mud at 350 Vine-st and they called the office for help. Then they got back into the truck cab to wait. When C. H. Johnson arrived he found both had lost consciousness from carbon monoxide fumes, and the truck on fire. Johnson pulled them to safety and they were revived with no ill effects. VIGO COUNTY WANTS MARTIAL LAW LIFTED Terre Haute Mayor Tells Governor Emergency No Longer Exists. By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 14. Residents of Vigo County today awaited action of Gov. McNutt on a request that he lift martial law imposed last July 22 when a general strike paralyzed the community for 48 hours. The request was submitted to Gov. McNutt yesterday by Mayor Samuel O. Beecher, who said the emergency which led to martial law no longer exists. Meanw’hile, former employes of the Columbia Enameling and Stamping Cos., whose strike last March 23 led to the general walkout, continued picketing the plant pending decision on their petition to the National Labor Relations Board.

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STATE TOURNEY CENTERSNAMED City Is Awarded Sectional and Semi-Final Cage * Meets. Centers for sectional, regional, and semi-final competition in the annual basketball tounament of the Indiana High School Athletic AssociaI tion were announced today by Arthur L. Trester, commissioner. Semi-final tournaments, w’here competitors for the final round will be decided, will be played at Gary, Indianapolis, Muncia and Vincennes March 21, Mr. Trester said. The total number of sectional starters for the titular chase this year is expected to equal last year’s record entry of 781. Entries for the sectionals are not due until Feb. 21. Schedules for all four tournaments will be drawn by lot. Semi-Final at Tech Indianapolis will not be host to regional teams this year, but has been awarded the sectional and one of the four newly inserted semifinals, which will match the 16 regional winners to determine the finalists for Butler Fieldhouse play. Sixteen Marion County teams are to compete in the local sectional at Tech gym. The winner will travel to Anderson for regional competition against survivors at Anderson, Danville, and Greenfield. The Tech (Turn to Page Fourteen) COMMITTEE FAVORS BONUS COMPROMISE Payment in Bonds Provided by Senate Bill. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—The compromise soldiers’ bonus bill, providing payment in bonds which could be cashed immediately or held as an investment, was speeded toward Senate enactment today when the finance committee voted to report it favorably. The vote was 15 to 2. By unanimous vote the Senate committee decided to substitute the measure, introduced by Senator Pat Harrison TD., Miss.) for the “united front” measure passed overwhelmingly by the House last week. The House bill provided for immediate cash payment, but did not prescribe means of raising the money. The two Senators voting against the compromise “demand note” measure were James Couzens <R., Mich.) and Peter Gerry <D., R. I.). HUGHES SHATTERS TBANS-U. S. RECORD Flier Crosses Nation in 9 Hours 27 Minutes. By United Press NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 14.—Howard Hughes, 30-year-old millionaire motion picture producer, established a transcontinental speed record today by landing his low-winged Northrop monoplane at Newark airport 9 hours 27 minutes 10 seconds, after leaving Los Angeles. His time was more than 35 minutes less than the 10 hours 2 minutes 51 seconds of Col. Roscoe Turner, I which had stood since Sept. 1, 1934. Officials of the National Aeronautical Association said the record undoubtedly would be accepted as official. Only five months ago Hughes es- ' tablished an unofficial world speed record for land planes over a closed course near Santa Ana. Cal. He flew 352 miles an hour, far faster i than the official record of 314.319. Petit Jnry Venire Drawn Marion County jury commissioners today picked a venire of 50 persons to appear Thursday for examination for petit jury service. The panel will hear the Forrest Jacoby case.

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Change to Increase State Receipts $2,000,000 Hinted by McNutt. AWAITS U. S. ACTION Reform May Be Necessary for Social Security Program, Is Report. Revision of Indiana’s gross income tax law for future financing of Indiana’s participation in the Federal Social Security program is possible, Gov. McNutt indicated today on his return from Washington. The Governor also hinted that th state may find it necessary to take over operation of county benevolent institutions such as infirmaries and orphan asylums. He refused to amplify his statement that: “It might be in the program.” Redefinition Only Likely Any amendment to the gross income tax law would involve only a redefinition of some types of taxpayers, he said, and would not affect the one per cent levy now paid oa wages by individuals. The redefinitions would be based on the experience the state has had thus far in taxing wholesale and retail transactions, according to the Governor. If* carried out, the contemplated change in the income tax law would raise approximately $2,000,000 more a year, he said. The Governor also said that present estimates of Indiana’s share in the social security program call for an expenditure of approximately $7,000,000 in addition to the amount now being expended by both the state and counties for all types of social welfare. Silent on Special Session He said he did not have an accurate estimate now of the total amount being expended, but that it probably was in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 a year. % There now Is between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 in the state treasury and this money can be used through legislative appropriation to pay for the first-year cost of the program. The Governor refused to indicate when a special session of the Legislature may be called, but repeated that his action will be dictated by a passage of the deficiency appropriations bill in Congress. He said he learned while in Washington that there is a possibility that the bill may be sent back to the House of Representatives for rewriting. It is in the Senate now. Predicts No Tax Increase It would be useless to set up tho Indiana machinery until the Federal matching money is ready, the Governor pointed out. Asked what he thought was tha likelihood of the United States Supreme Court upsetting the social security program, as it has done in the cases of other New Deal legislation, the Governor commented that any legal attack on the measure probably could not take placa until tax collections were started. Gov. McNutt reiterated his determination that the Federal program shall not entail any tax increases in Indiana. “We hope to work out an arrangement whereby the state can absorb the,entire additional $7,000,000 cost which probably will be necessary,** he said. No Time for Politics The scope of the contemplated social security program covers not merely old-age pensions, but also blind aid. aid to crippled children, child and maternal welfare, and pubic health. The only cost to the state in handling the unemployment insurance part of the program is the expense of administration. The Governor said he spent so much time while in Washington in conference with social security officials and members of the WPA advisory board that he had no time to discuss politics with Senators Frederick VanNuys and Sherman Minton. OHIO OVER FLOOD STAGE River at Evansville Rises to 35.$ Feet; Little Harm Reported. By United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., Jan. 14. Little damage was reported in this vicinity today as the Ohio River soared to a crest of 35.2 feet, slightly above flood stage. Several county roads were inundated. Roosevelt to Visit Newark By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 14,-Presi-dent Roosevelt will go to Newark, N. J., Saturday afternoon to attend a meeting of National Emergency Council officials who are projecting the New Jersey recovery program. Times Index Page Amusements g Births. Deaths 15 Books H Bridge 9 Broun u Comics 17 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Merry-Go-Round 11 Mrs. Roosevelt 8 Pegler 11 Radio 4 Serial Story 9 Sports 14-1$