Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1936 — Page 3

FEB. 24, 1936

HOOVER’S GOAL IS U. S. DEBATE ON NEW DEAL Stokes Finds Ex-President Fighting for Principles of Government. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Tlmi** Special Writer PALO ALTO, Cal,, Feb. 24.—1n November, 1928, Just before the election, I discovered the gracious retreat of Herbert Hoover, the comfortable Spanish house which looks down from its hill across Stanford University’s campus to the hills and an arm of the bay beyond. Then I wondered how a man would exchange this for that glass house on Pennsylvania-av in Washington with its cruel drafts. Now, more than seven years later, I stood on the same spot and enjoyed the prospect before a visit with the ex-President, and wondered anew why a man who had served four years in the Heartbreak House should be stirring himself so actively in behalf of a party which seems to want little of him. True, Herbert Hoover is the titular leader of his party—and he is a conscientious man. Regards Principles Violated But beyond that he is imbued with a deep sense of responsibility to certain principles of government and he believes that those principles are being violated by the New Deal. So today you find in the house on the hill a determined man, an energetic man, a man with a mission who sits by the hour in the study W’ith its wide window, where I talked with him, drafting a series of messages to the American people, working out a program of his own to meet the changing times. Ever so often he descends into the outside world, now for an address, now for a conference with political leaders. He knows what's going on everywhere in the country. He misses nothing. No one, I would say, keeps better informed than does he. His observations and ideas roll forth smoothly as he fingers a pipe with one hand and drums upon the arm of his chair with the other. He is a man physically dynamic and fresh. The proof of a forthcoming address is on the desk before him. Seeks to Promote Debate The mission he has initiated —of promoting a debate by the American people on the issues raised by the New Deal —absorbs him completely. For that he has given up his fishing trips, and that recreation is dear to him. The Republican Party must reckon with Herbert Hoover. He can not be ignored. He will demand a voice in the writing of the platform and selection of the candidate, although he does not discuss these matters. His objective is a convention of uninstructed delegates—made up of serious-minded men and women and not politicians. Now is not the time to talk of candidates. It is the time to talk of principles and issues. Candidates can come later. He dismisses talk of his own possible candidacy. He is not trying to get delegates. , - Still—and this is not an impression you get from Mr. Hoover, for he insists now on his particular mission o the exclusion of all other considerations —I feel that deep in the man there is the hope that a situation will develop where the convention will turn toward him. Hoover Will Be Ready Alfred E. Smith nurtured the same hope in 1932. Herbert Hoover will be ready if the time comes. By the time of the convention he will have analyzed the New Deal from his standpoint and, I suspect, will have proposed some semblance of a counter program to be offered for the Republican platform. Herbert Hoover professes to approve many of the New Deal objectives. There was some good in NRA and AAA. Stock market, security and utility regulation had become necessary. Abuses had to be corrected. The necessity of old-age pensions must be accepted by everybody. Certain restraints by the government on the economic machinery are essential. The Republican Party had failed for too long to apply such restraints. For himself, he was overwhelmed by the immediate emergency of the depression. Considers New Deal Obstructive His complaint with the New Deal is that its restraints, its remedies, were devised too hastily so that, in his view, they fail of their purpose and cripple individual initiative, where it should be free to function, under proper regulation. Beyond that they run contrary to the Constitution and now all of them may be wiped from the statute books. Legislation of this character can not be written, in his opinion, by putting a dozen intelligent men in a room to draft it, no matter how intelligent they are, but must be developed gradually after thorough consideration. The social security program was put together too hastily. A year should have been given to public debate on the best method. He feels the Federal machinery is too cumbersome. His idea would be to vote a direct subsidy to the states to be financed by a straight-out tax, perhaps a manufacturers’ sale tax, enacted avowedly for that purpose, and let the states administer the program. Favors Consumer Tax The states, themselves, should contribute, for the sake of efficient management, and so should industry. The cost of old-age pensions will be taken from the consumer in the end. so a direct tax on the consumer would seem the best way to pay for it. As for unemployment insurance, that should be administered by industry itself, under government supervision, but should be worked out for groups of industries. For instance, the shoe industry never, during the depression, went below 80 per cent of normal employment, while the building trades went down almost to nothing. The building trades, where higher wages are paid, should be required to contribute more, or else the shoe industry would be assessed for the greater unemployment in the building trades industry in times of distress. Unemployment insurance should be very carefully worked out with consideration for conditions in each industry.

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(Continued From Page One) neath the log, like a cricket under a twig. The other loggers leaped toward him, tugged at the log, tugged at Mike, whose sweat-beaded head projected from under the log, eyes rolling, faintly groaning. a a a A SUDDEN angry shout from above caused the sweating, struggling loggers to lift their eyes momentarily from the moaning ' Scanlan. “Lift it, you fools! You want to ! tear his head off?” It was MacKenzie, the lumber company’s manager in Moosetown, and therefore the town’s most powerful citizen A hard, rough man, nobody ever accused MacKenzie of being afraid of anything. As the men looked upward, he leaped from the balcony, landing with a thump at their side. Shoving forward those who were struggling with the log, MacKenzie bent his bulk and strength to lift it at the end.. The veins stood out in his forehead and the cords of his neck tightened as he heaved at the log. It rose slowly. “Get him out, quick!” panted MacKenzie, his booted legs trembling as almost the whole weight of the log fell on his shoulders. Dragging at arms and shoulders, two men pulled Mike dear. MacKenzie and the others dropped the log with a soft thud on the ground. MacKenzie straightened up, spread his broad shoulders back. He glanced down without any expression at all at the silent Mike, who lay unconscious, one man holding his head. “Carry him over to the bunkhouse and call the Doc!” directed MacKenzie briefly, and strode without further hesitation toward his office in the sawmill building. a a a IT happened often in the logging country. The broken, bleeding bodies of men were part of the price of “getting out timber.” Luigi, another lumberman, was already off in search of the doctor. His frightened face told of a serious accident as he stopped men in the street, rushed into stores, with a breathless question, “Seen Dr. Luke? Dr. Luke been here today?” Yes, the Doc was home, one passerby volunteered, but the flying Luigi was gone before there was any answer to the startled citizen’s “Why?” The doctor’s modest little house looked peaceful enough as Luigi, gasping for breath by now, panted through the wire gate and up the front walk. Beside the door was a simple gilded sign, “Dr. John Luke.” On the porch lay Tobey, the doctor’s dog. Luigi burst in the front door without knocking. He blundered his way down a narrow hall to what he knew—and every one in Moosetown knew —was the doctor’s consultation room. And then, despite his fear and exhaustion. he stopped short at sight of a strange tableau. Seated in a straight-backed chair, hand clutched to his jaw, sat Jim Ogden, the constable of Moosetown. Before him stood Dr. Luke, a short, solid man with twinkling eyes behind heavy-lensed spectacles, and gray hair standing shocked in a pompadour. He was contemplating a pair of forceps, in the jaws of which was a newly extracted tooth. “Biggest one this season, Jim!” Dr. Luke was saying as Luigi burst into the room. “Doc, Mike Scanlan's got both legs smashed down at the mill! Can you come right down?” a a a

"CURE,” replied Dr. Luke, laying O down forceps and tooth. “Rinse your mouth out with this, Jim,” he said, handing a glass of antiseptic to Jim. “Where's Mike?” Answer, instructions, and question blended in an even flow without emphasis on either. Instruments were already going into the worn, square black bag, coat and hat were already finding their way to the doctor’s person. “They got him down in the bunkhouse,” panted Luigi. “Run over to nurse Kennedy’s house and get her! Wash it out!” The commands, issued in clipped tones to Luigi and Jim Ogden, respectively, came with equal force. And the doctor, black bag trailing behind him, popped out the door. Ogden looked sourly at the glass of antiseptic and poured it furtively into a flower pot. Then he fished out a plug of “eatin’ tobacco,” bit off an enormous quid, and marched out of the house. Tobey, the dog, looked up placidly. He was used to these tumultous comings and goings. The trip to the mill was a matter of minutes. Through the bunkhouse, smelling of pine boards, blankets and food, went the doctor, Luigi trailing after. “I got him in the mess hall, Doc,” volunteered onelegged Walter, the camp handyman. “Laid him out on a table—give you more room. . , The doctor brushed past him into the mess hall. On a table, the lower half of his body covered by a blanket, lay Mike Scanlan, groaning, grime and sweat mingling on his contorted face. "What’ve you been doing to yourself. son?” queried the doctor, his practiced fingers already at work on the crushed legs. “Trying to get banged up so you'll have to stay here with me all winter?” a a a MIKE writhed, and between set teeth came his words, “Doc ... I was grabbin’ the boat tomorrow . . . goin’ south for the winter . . .” “Ain’t goin’ to be no south for you. Tomorrow’s the last boat out!” began Walter. “Get me some hot water-boiling!” interrupted Dr. Luke. Walter turned to Sloppy, the cook, unwilling to leave the table. “Let's have the water, Sloppy,” he said. Then to the suffering Mike, "What if you lose both of ’em, Mike?” he said. “I get along all right with one, but I can't figger out how a guy’s gonna get along without no legs a-tall. I—” “Get out, Walter!” cut in Dr. Luke’s sharp voice. “ . . . and see if nurse Kennedy’s coming t. he added a little less impatiently. Walter turned reluctantly from the table just in time to greet nurse Kennedy as she swept in the door. Mike was pleading earnestly, desperately with Dr. Luke. “Doc,” came his husky voice in

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Mike was pleading earnestly, desperately with Dr. Luke. “I don’t wanta live!” he sobbed. “I wanta die!” “No you don’t, Mike!” soothed Nurse Kennedy gently. “And you WON'T DIE!”

the still room. “If you have got to cut ’em off, I don’t wanta live!” “Who said anything about cutting ’em off?” interrupted Dr. Luke, kindly but firmly. “I can’t go through life crawling on my belly,” almost sobbed Mike, sick with pain and a growing horror. “I don’t wanna live if I gotta do that. I wanta die!” “No, you don’t, Mike” soothed nurse Kennedy gently. “And you won’t die.” a a a “TT’S the pain, Mike,” reassured J. Dr. Luke, his hands busy. “You’re going to be all right. . . . Here, take a deep breath.” And he brought an ether cone near the agonized face of Scanlan. Weakly the suffering man tried to push it away, mumbling “I don’t want to live.” “Look here, Mike! You trust me, don’t you?” Dr. Luke’s voice was a strange mixture of severity and gentleness. Mike nodded a weak assent. Then just breathe this, and go to sleep. Leave it to me. You’ll be all right . . ..” Deftly he slipped the ether cone over Mike’s face. “That’s a good boy. Now just say, ■l’ll be all right .. . I’ll be all right. . . I’ll be . . .’ ” The doctors quiet voice had a persuasive, almost hypnotic tone. From under the cone came Mike’s boyish, trusting voice in a low murmur. “I’ll be all right. I’ll be. . . .” Dr. John Luke glanced at nurse Kennedy as the rigid body beneath their hands relaxed. Softly, soothingly, he murmured. “You’ll be all right, Mike . . . you’ll be all right .... all right . . . all right.” (To* Be Continued)

ALBERT G. RITCHIE OF MARYLAND DIES New Deal Foe Is Victim of Paralytic Stroke. (Continued From Page One) Thomas D. Schall (R„ Minn.) was killed by an automobile. Lost Before Landslide He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1932, but lost before the landslide that nominated President Roosevelt. He supported the President during the campaign, but soon turned against the New Deal, assailing its huge expenditures and its alleged interference with private business. During his speech last night he appeared in his usual good health and good spirits. The elevator operator in his apartment building said he joked when he rode up to his rooms. An hour later he telephoned his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Smith, that he was ill. When she arrived he was semi-conscious. Before the doctors she summoned could arrive he was dead. National Tour Arranged Mr. Ritchie had been about to start a national speaking tour, hoping to force his party back to its platform of 1932. His friends said he had no intention of following Alfred E. Smith in “taking a walk” from the forthcoming Philadelphia convention, but had hoped to influence his party’s course while maintaining his party regularity. He served as Governor of Maryland from 1920 to 1935, the longest tenure of any man in that office. In 1912 he married Elizabeth Baker, but she divorced him in 191" He never remarried. CITY STUDENT HONORED F. W. Reiter Gets Excellence Star for Military Work at Illinois. F. W. Reiter, 920 N. Audubon-rd, has been awarded a silver excellence star for military efficiency in the first semester basic R. O. T. C. course at the University of Illinois, it was announced today. Mr. Reiter is a member of the engineers unit and the Pershing Rifles. TEACHERS TO HEAR TWO Hancock County Institute to Meet at Greenfield Saturday. Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind., Feb. 24 —W. F. Loper, Shelbyville school superintendent. and Prof. Robert Phillips. Purdue University, are to speak before the Hancock County Teachers’ Institute here Saturday. A. county Latin contest is to be held in connection meeting.

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Dress for $1.50 a Week; Working Girls Are Told Rouge and Lipstick Are Skipped in Wardrobe Considered Sufficient for ‘Health and Decency.’ By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—The Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, which announced a few months ago that a working girl could eat all she needed for $2.25 a week, asserted today that she can dress for $1.50 a week.

The association specified in detail the coats, suits, nightgowns and other textile items a girl needs “for health and decency,” but shipped such items as rouge and lipstick. A man, the association said, could clothe himself for $58.65 a year, a housewife could get by on $32.50, and a family of five in the lower social strata could do with $214. The figure estimated for a man was $1.13 a week, for the housewife 62cents, and for the family $4.10. The association's complete recommended wardrobe for the working girl was: Three hats at $2; one winter coat at $12.50; one spring coat, $5; four dresses $5 each; two smocks at 90 cents; four vests at 25 cents; four pairs of bloomers or step-ins at 35 cents; two nightgowns at 60 cents; two girdles or corsets at $1; four pairs of shoes at $3 ($4.20 additional allowed for repairs); one pair rubbers, $1; one pair bedroom slippers, 90 cents; 15 pairs silk stockings at 80 cents; two pairs of garters at 10 cents; 12 handkerchiefs at 5 cents; two pairs cf gloves at 85 cents; two pocketbooks at $1; one umbrella, sl. M’KINNEY IS TO SEEK COUNTY POST AGAIN Treasurer Announces Candidacy for Renomination on Democratic Ticket. Frank E. McKinney, Marion County treasurer, has announced his candidacy for renomination in the Democratic primary May 5. Mr. McKinney assumed office Jan. 1. In announcing his candidacy, he said, “My only thought has been to provide courteous service to the public. I expect to install an accounting system that will permit the mailing of tax duplicates to taxpayers. thus saving them the inconvenience of calling at the treasurer’s office.” A graduate of Sacred Heart High School, Mr. McKinney is also a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Hoosier Athletic Club. Indiana Democratic Club, Kiwanis Club, Elks and Knights of Columbus. He lives at 2243 E. Garfield-dr. Diamond Isn’t Worth $2 Charles McGlacken, 1235 W. 28th-st, is hunting today for a Negro who last night sold him a diamond ring for $2. It turned out almost immediately that the ring was not a diamond^

IRWIN HINTS INDIANA MAY SUPPORT LANDON G. O. P. Leader Points to Record of Kansas Governor. By United Press COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 24.—Indications that the Indiana delegation to the Republican National Convention may support Gov. Alf M. Landon for the presidential nomination had been given here today by Will G. Irwin, manufacturer and prominent party leader. “Landon’s record is established and his nomination would have a wholesome effect on the nation,” Mr. Irwin said yesterday. Mr. Irwin is scheduled to be elected one of the delegates-at-large from Indiana, and he is expected to have a major influence on the vote of the Hoosier delegation. 7 TERMS COMMUTED BY CLEMENCY BOARD One Parole Granted, 15 Are Denied; Two County Cases Considered. The State Clemency Commission today granted seven commutations and one parole. Fourteen paroles were denied. The 15-year sentence of James T. McCubbins, sentenced Sept. 26, 1931, in Marion Criminal Court for a poolroom robbery, was commuted to 5 to 15 years. Parole petition of Russell Bowman, vending machine solicitor sentenced to a 1 to 10-year term in Marion Criminal Court June 14, 1935, on embezzlement charges was denied. HUNTINGTON SUES TO SET ASIDE DECISION Public Service Body’s Power Ruling Reversal Wanted. By United Press HUNTINGTON, Ind.. Feb. 24.—A suit asking that a recent decision of the Public Service Commission refusing the city an indeterminate permit to operate a municipal electi system be set aside will be filed in Huntington Circuit Court, City Attorney Claude Cline announced today. The action is another attempt of Mayor Cure W. H. Bangs to win a point in lus fight with the Northern Indiana Power Cos.

WHITED ‘LIED’ ABOUT BRUNO, HOFFMAN SAYS

Charge Comes After Quizzing of State Witness by Governor. By United Prc*s TRENTON. N. J., Feb. 24.—Gov. Harold Hoffman today charged that the “printed and written record” shows that Millard Whited, Lindbergh case witness, was “lying” when he placed Bruno Richard Hauptmann near the Lindbergh estate shortly before the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby on March 1, 1932. Asserting that “there seems to be a studied effort to suppress from the public certain important information concerning the Hauptmann case,” the Governor declared that the “discrepancy” in the Whited stories could not be explained away by “the alibi boys.” Whited, subject of an extraordinary inquisition in the executive offices at the capital Saturday, is one of the keystones of the Hauptmann prosecution since it was on his identification that the German carpenter was extradited from New York City to New Jersey. Advice to Be Sought The Governor has indicated that he will seek legal advice to determine whether the extradition and subsequent trial would be invalidated should Whited be found guilty of perjury. Gov. Hoffman stressed that Whited went to the Bronx County Jail and identifed the convicted slayer of the Lindbergh baby “after having been repeatedly shown photographs of Hauptmann by Corporal Wolf of the state police and having been promised payment and a part of the reward.” Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, state police head, declined to comment on the statement. Bruno Directs Battle The Governor’s charge came after defense attorneys revealed that Hautpmann conceived and personally is directing the newest and most promising effort of his lawyers to save him from electrocution. Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz, who prosecuted him for murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., thought the threat sufficiently serious to cut short a vacation in Florida. He announced in Miami that he would board a train for Trenton this afternoon. Bruno Vetoed Flan Hauptmann’s chief attorney, C. Lloyd Fisher, revealed that he plans to consult Hauptmann on every legal move. It was learned that only a few days ago Hauptmann vetoed a plan which his attorneys thought might induce Dr. John F. Condon to return from a vacation in Panama for questioning. What he recommended caused a sudden conference in the executive mansion Friday night of Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, Mr. Fisher, and Harold Hauck, Hunterdon County prosecutor. Saturday, the. Governor called in and personally cross-ex-amined Whited. Hochmuth to Be Quizzed Hauptmann next wants 88-year-old Amandus Hochmuth put to the same test. Hochmuth, too, identified Hauptmann as a man he saw in a motor car near the Lindbergh estate. TAX BILL PASSAGE IS DUE BEFORE APRIL 1 Congress Clears Way to Consider Problem. (Continued From Page One)

ence,. would be signed by the President this week. The tax proposals are expected early next week. Senate to While Away Time The Senate prepared to while away its time waiting for the tax proposals by battling over two secondary New Deal fiscal measures—one exempting from taxation all bank stocks held by the RFC and the other increasing the capital stock of the Commodity Credit Corp. from $3,000,000 to $100,000,000. Four other measures which the Senate may take up. if extended debate can be avoided, before adjournment, are: 1. The plan of Senator George Norris (R., Neb.), for $1,000,000,000 rural electrification program. 2. The stockyards bill by Senator Arthur Capper (R„ Kas.). 3. An increase of Panama Canal transient rates demanded by Senator Thomas Gore (D., Okla.). 4. A bill by Senator Marcus Coolidge (D., Mass.) for deportation of alien criminals. Controversy May Be Avoided Leaders were confident of avoiding the controversial currency inflation issue contained in the $3,000,000,000 Frazier-Lemke farm refinancing bill. Several names have been withdrawn from a petition to force a House vote. The Administration tax program is expected to call for raising of $500,000,000 a year, the amount necessary to finance the farm program, although there will be no connection officially between the tax and farm bills. ‘FRIENDLY’ NEIGHBORS TAKE $24 FROM GUEST Howard Bates Sentenced to State Farm on Theft Charge. The taking ways of certain Indianapolis citizens do not appeal to J. G. Biederbick, Minneapolis, Minn., fence salesman. A strange young man and woman dropped into his room in a local hotel early this morning for a neighborly chat. When they left, Mr. Biederbick charged, they took $24 he had hidden in his shoe. Identified as the man. Howard Bates, 22. a cook. w r as sentenced to 30 days on the Indiana State Farm and fined $lO and costs by Municipal Judge Charles J. KarabelL

i > OFFICIAL WEATHER ___United States Weather Bureau __ Sunrise :2-> Sunset -V3l TEMPERATURE Feb. 2*. 1935 7 a. m 31 1 p. m. 52 —Today—fi a. m 52 lfl a. m 59 • a. m 53 II a. m 57 R a. m 55 12 (Noon) 59 9 a. m 5* 1 p. m ft 59 BAROMETER 7 a. m 29.93 1 p. m 29.R2 Precipitation 24 hrs. endins 7 a. m... .00 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 3.35 Deficiency since Jan. 1 1.92 OTHER CITIF.S AT 1 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex Clear 29.72 48 Bismarck. N. D Cloudy 29.60 10 Boston Clear 30.48 18 Chicago Cloudy 29 56 48 Cincinnati Cloudy 29.94 52 Denver PtCldy 29 52 38 Dodge Citv. Kas PtCldv 29.56 52 Helena, Mont Cloudy 29.64 2 Jacksonville. Fla Clear 30.40 48 Kansas City. Mo. ... Cloudy 29.58 58 Little Rock. Ark Cloudy 29.96 62 Los Angeles Clear 30 00 50 Miami. Fla Rain 29.38 30 Mobile. Ala Cloudy 30.26 58 New Orleans Cloudy 30.22 58 New York. Cloudy 30.42 32 Olka. Citv. Okla Cloudy 29.74 58 Omaha, Neb PtCldy 29.56 38 Pittsburgh Cloudy 30.04 44 Portland, Ore. .......Cloudy 29.72 34 San Antonio. Tex. ...Cloudy 29.96 62 San Francisco Cloudy 30.02 44 St. Louis Cloudy 29.70 56 Tampa. Fla. PtCldy 30.36 56 Washington, D. C... Cloudy 30.34 32 LIGHTRAINTO PRECEDE GOLD Fall of 20 Degrees . From 58 Is Forecast by Bureau. (Continued From Page One) sources were being used today to clean water and melting snow from the streets. •Gov. McNutt announced that the coal shortage had been dissipated by warmer weather and that all state schools had been reopened. The balmy Sunday lured people out to the parks and highways. Crowds interested in flood possibilities spent part of yesterday peering over bridge railings at ice-choked streams in and near the city. County Schools Reopen Main thoroughfares are clear of ice, but side streets still are ice spotted. Firemen yesterday spent part of their time clearing ice from gutters so that the water for melted ice could course down sewers without interruption. Many pedestrians were splattered by dirty water when motorists drove heedlessly through puddles. Chief Morrissey asked motorists to be more considerate of pedestrians. ROOSEVELT APPEALS FOR RELIGIOUS UNITY ‘Time for Understanding,’ Says President. By United Pres* HYDE PARK, N. Y., Feb. 24. Observers beileved today that President Roosevelt had in mind antireligion programs in Germany, Russia and Mexico last night when he made a stirring appeal that religions “clasp hands and make common sense” prevail against the forces of unbelief. Mr. Roosevelt suggested the creation of a society of “good neighbors” in every community as a means of reaching this objective. He set f6rth his views in a brief radio address from his home here to mark the Brotherhood Day of the National Conferences of Jews and Christians. “This is no time to make capital out of religious disagreement, however honest,” he said. “It is a time, rather, to make capital oijt of religious understanding. We who have faith can not afford to fall out among ourselves. The very state of the world is a summons to us to stand together.” GREENLEE IS TO OPEN SERIES OF ADDRESSES First to Be Before Veterans’ Group in City Tonight.

Pleas E. Greenlee, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, is to fill a series of speaking engagements this week, his headquarters announced today. Tonight Mr. Greenlee is to address the Rainbow Division Veterans’ Association, and tomorrow and Wednesday nights he is to speak at organization meetings in Indianapolis. Thursday, he is to speak in Newcastle. He is to return here Friday and Saturday for the Young Democrats’ state convention. JUNK DEALER PROTESTS AGAINST FLOOD WORK River Project “Waste of Money,” Says Julius Sagalowsky. A protest against Works Progress Administration flood prevention work on White River north of Oliver-av to the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge was made today to the Works Board. Julius Sagalowsky, junk dealer, charged the work endangered the railroad bridge and was “a waste of money.” Mr. Sagalowsky is using for his business a portion of the land condemned 10 years ago by the city for flood prevention work, city authorities said. LAST RITES ARE SET Services for Claude C. Smallwood to Be Held at Bloomington. Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 24. Funeral services for Claude C. Smallwood, former Bloomington business man who died Thursday at St. Petersburg, Fla., were to be held from the First M. E. Church here today. Mr. Smallwood is survived by the widow and a son, Eugene Smallwood. Lions to Hear Chaillaux Homer L. Chaillaux, American Legion Americanization director, is to speak at the Lions Club luncheon tomorrow at the Washington, Roscoe Conkle, program chairman, announced today. Mayor Kern at Office Mayor Kern, who was confined to his home, 236 E. 15th-st, with a severe cold last week, returned to his office in the City. Hall today.

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CURB NATURAL ' GAS INDUSTRY, CONGRESS TOLD Administration Leaders Ask Passage of Rigid Control Act. By r nitrd Prcn WASHINGTON. Feb. 24 —Administration leaders sent word to Capitol Hill today that they want stringent Federal regulation of the natural gas industry through new legislation. The demand .or curbs on the gas industry follows the bitter fight over the utility holding company control act last session, which is facing tests of its constitutionality in court. Proponents of utility control legislation last session in the House sought to include a provision in the holding company bill for regulation of natural gas companies in interstate commerce as a portion of the measure. This was dropped, however, during the heated fight over the bill pending a more thorough study of the gas situation. The Federal Trade Commission, which for seven years has been investigating alleged abuses in the electric utility and gas fields, has sent its conclusions and recommendations to the House Interstate Commerce Committee. Another report was submitted by the Federal Power Commission. Both urged legislation. JEWISH WAR VETERANS TO INSTALL OFFICERS Ceremony to Be Held at 8 Tonight in Lincoln. Officers are to be installed at a meeting of the Indianapolis Post 114, Jewish War Veterans, tonight at 8 in the Lincoln. Harry Schaffer, Pittsburgh, Pa., vice commander in chief, is to have charge of the ceremony, a buffet dinner is to follow the business session. Officers to be installed are: Morris Strauss, commander; George Michaels, senior vic< commander; Harry Shalancky, junior vice commander; Paul Scharffin, judge advocate; Dave Probstein, adjutant; Lester Greengard, quartermaster; Dan Posnoiky, chaplain; Leo Scharffin, officer of the day; Eugene Schwartz, guard; Dave Saveli, bugler; Adrian Reiter, patriotic instructor, and Dr. Phil Falender, historian. Trustees are Irvin Rice, Ben Blieden and Nort Fishbein. DE MOLAY TO INSTALL' NEW OFFICERS TONIGHT Morton J. Brown Is to Assume Duties As Master Councilor. Morton J. Brown is to be installed as master councilor of the Indianapolis chapter, Order of De Molay, tonight at 8:30 in the chapter house, 1017 Broadway. Other officers to be installed are Wood, senior councilor; Donald Hassler, junior councilor; Roland Stout, senior deacon; Robert Tucker, junior deacon; Clifford Meloy, senior steward; Paul Johnson, junior steward; Elgin Lee, standard bearer; Roland Schneider, scribe; Lambert Christie, treasurer; John Gruber, almoner; James Boemler, orator; William Darnaby, sentinel; Jack Stege, chaplain, and Quincy Fesler, marshal. The following have been named preceptors: Philip Woolf red, Ronald Dingle, Edward Trembly, Robert Sloan, Clarenc& Green, John McKinley and Paul Byrkett. WAGGONER IS TO SEEK REPUBLICAN NOMINATION City Man Wants State Senator Post; Advocates Reduced Costs. Alvah C. Waggoner, Indianapolis business rfian, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Senator from Marion County. He said he advocates reduced government expenditures, lower taxes and increased efficiency in administration of public business. Mr. Waggoner resides at 1130 Parkerav, is married, has four children and is a member of the Baptist Church. He is treasurer and a member of the executive committee of the Indiana Council of Religious Education. WRITER-NAVIGATOR TO SPEAK AT SHORTRIDGE Capt. Irving Johnson to Illustrate Lecture With Motion Pictures. A lecture illustrated by motion pictures is to be presented by Capt. Irving Johnson, 30-year-old navigator and writer, Wednesday night, March 4, in Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge High School, In 18 months Capt. Johnson, his wife, a cook and 12 seamen sailed 33,000 miles in a sailboat. Ship’s doctor was Dr. Rufus Southworth, brother of the Rev. George S. Southworth, Indianapolis, Church of the Advent pastor. LABOR DISPUTES CLOSED National Board Settles 85 Cases in January; 14 Strikes Handled. Eighty-five cases were closed by the National Labor Relations Board throughout the United States during January, Robert H. Cowdrill, local regional director announced today. More than 26,000 workers were affected by the order, he said. Fourteen strikes were handled of which nine were settled. Most of the cases involved discrimination against union affiliations, the report showed. GILLEN MAY ENTER RACE Sixth District Democrats Want Judge to Seek Governorship. A campaign has been started by Sixth District Democrats to bring Judge Courtland C. Gillen, former Representative in Congress, into the race for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Judge Oillen was elected to the Putnam Circuit Court post in 1934.- He represented the old Fifth District in. Congress..