Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1936 — Page 3

APRIL 15, 1936.

FARM COUNCIL ORGANIZED BY LIBERTY LEAGUER URGED LINK TO STATE G.0.P., PROBE TOLD

Proposed Agriculture Plank Written for Republicans, Committee Learns. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 13. —Activities of the Indiana chapter of the Farmers Independence Council included writing 1 a farm plank to be put into the Indiana Republican platform, the Black lobby investigating committee had been told today. Stanly p. Morse, organizer of the rouncil and agricultural consultant for the American Liberty League, testified to this before the committee yesterday. Under cross-examination, ~ with Senator Sherman Minton taking a leading part., Morse disclosed correspondence showing efforts made to have the council co-operate with William M. Swain, head of the Republican Victory League of Indiana. Swain's headquarters was given as Indianapolis. Morse met him there and discussed the formation of (he Indiana chapter. Morse testified that an Indiana chapter meeting was held at Indianapolis Feb. 26, with 35 or 40 present. He said the crowd was small, because the farmers were snowbound. Quotes Taylor Letter Senator Minton inserted into the record a letter from Lewis Taylor, head of the Indiana Farm Bureau, saying that outside of a few Farm Bureau members at the meeting to find out what the council was about, the others present were Republican farmer politicians. It was after this meeting that the proposed G. O. P. plank was sent io Swain by Morse. Morse also testified that he talked with the man who would writp the national Republican farm plank. This "farmer” turned out to be Nicholas Roosevelt. New York Her-ald-Tribune editorial writer, it was testified. Taylor Recalls Meeting Lewis Taylor, Indiana Farm Bureau president, said today that he had written a letter to Senator Sherman Minton telling of the "farm meeting” sponsored by the Farmers Independence Council and the “slimness” of the crowd present. He said, "Several farm bureau members attended the meeting. I think one of them counted about 25 persons present. They went there to find nut what the meeting was about." Mr. Taylor said he was not sure that he knew William M. Swain, head of the Republican victory League of Indiana, which is purported to have been interested in the writing of a farm plank Into the Indiana G. O. P. platform. “We will have a farm plank which wp will propose for inclusion in the platforms of both parties in Indiana,” lie said. Swain Not at Offices Mr. Swain, Victory League head, with offices at 726 Peoples Bank Building, was reported by office attaches as “out of the city” and could not be reached for a statement regarding the purported farm plank. Don Irwin, G. O. P. state chairman. and Harry Fenton, secretary of the Republican state committee, also were out of the city. George A. Ball, Muncie manufacturer, could not be reached for a statement. STEEL EXPERT TO TALK Research Director to Speak at Metal Soeiety Meeting. Dr. Marcus A. Grossmann, Illinois Steel Cos., research director and authority on carbon and alloy steels, is to speak at a meeting of the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Society ior Metals in the Washington Mondav.

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Du Ponts and George Ball Are on List of Contributors to Organization. BY RUTH FINNEY Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 13. —With John Henry Kirby of Texas scheduled to testify today, the Senate Lobby Committee continued its exploration of the extent to which anti-New Deal organizations are financed by American Liberty League members. Kirby is head of the Southern Committee to uphold the Constitution, which has helped Gov. Eugene Talmadge in his campaign against the Roosevelt Administration. The Crusaders were the first organization shown by the lobby committee to be backed by Liberty League members and other big business men. The second was the Farmers Independent Council. Stanley F. Morse, organizer and executive vice president of the Farmers Council, told the committee yesterday that it was hard work getting support from farmers because most of them were pledged to the AAA, so he turned for money “to those who had it.” He collected $25,000 in all, from packers, bankers, utility men. Du Ponts and officials of their companies. Lamont Du Pont gave $5000; Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, $1000; G. E. Baldwin of Libby, McNeil & Libby, SISOO. G. A. Ball on List G. A. Ball, Indiana banker and Republican committeeman, $500; Odgen L. Mills. $100; H. S. Schutt, Wilmington, president of the Indianapolis Water Cos., $100; G. E. Roberts, economist for the National City Bank, SIOO. Winthrop W. Aldrich, head of the Chase National Bank, $500; G. E. Crane, A. B. Echols, J. T. Brown, and C. H. Haskell of Du Pont companies $250, sllO, $259 and $499 respectively; J. N. Pew Jr. of Sun Oil Cos.. $2000; E. W. Freeman, treasurer of the Penn-Ohio Edison Cos., $100; Silas H. Strawn. $100: R. E. Fisher of the Pacific Gas <fc Electric Cos.. SIOOO, and S. M. Swenson & Sons, SIOOO. Swenson, who owns a large cattle ranch in Ter as, and whose father's sulphur company has offices in Wall Street, introduced him to a good many of the Large contributors, Morse testified, and solicited some of them himself. In Chicago he said, he appealed to Ralph M. Shaw, Illinois head of the Liberty League, for help in making contacts. Fails to Produce Receipts Morse was on the Liberty League pay roll in Washington while he was organizing the Farmers’ Independence Council. He said he did not tell Jouett Shouse. head of the League, his plans until they were well under way. Morse told the committee he used his office at Liberty League headquarters to start the Farmers’ Council, dictated his letters to a Liberty League stenographer, and had telegrams charged on Liberty League accounts. He said he repaid the League in cash for this latter item, but when the committee asked for a receipt he did not produce one. BUTLER U. MAN CHOSEN Richard Fogarty Named President of Lambda Chi Alumni. Richard W. Fogarty. Butte-, today was the new president of the Lambda Chi Alpha Alumni Association here. Other officers are Norman Babcock. De Pauw, vice president, and John S. Oden, Southern Methodist, secretary-treasurer. Richard Askren, Purdue, was named arrangements chairman for the annual state dinner-dance. On Monday, April 27, a dinner is to be hPld by (he association at the Butler chapter house.

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Earnestly pressing home his point in one pose and fist upraised militantly in the other. President Roosevelt is shown here during his Baltimore speech under auspices of the Maryland Young Democrats’ organization, an address that opened his pre-convention drive. The chief executive emphatically declared that New Deal objectives are unchanged and stressed unemployment as the major problem. In this connection, he suggested study of a plan for working age limits of 18 and 65.

SANDERS RUMOR IS REVIVED BY SPEECH Former Coolidge Aid Flays New Deal in Talk. Times Special TERRE HAUTE. April 15.—Vigo*! County’s Republican campaign opened today in earnest as voters and G. O. P. gubernatorial candidates discussed the possibility of Everett Sanders, former chairman of the Republican National Com- j mittee, becoming one of the dark j horses in the race for the highest ] state office. Mr. Sanders, in an address here j last night before the Hamilton Club,! attacked the national Admi iistra- i tion’s failure to balance the budget, the “boondoggling” of Roosevelt bureaus, and the Democratic Party’s “broken promise in not keeping platform pledges.” Summing up the New Deal administration Mr. Sanders said: “Our taxes have greatly increased. Unemployment in industry is as great as ever. Cost of living is higher. Stabilization of our currency is lacking. The credit structure of our government is imperiled. Federal bureaucracy is entrenched. Industry is stifled. Our liberties are threatened. Recovery has been retarded. “The people should call in anew administration imbued with the true spirit of sound policies of representative government. The builders of such an administration will tear down Insecure walls, remove debris and build with good materials, with skilled workmen, until the structure of government is restored.” INDIANA” METHODISTS GATHER AT KOKOMO Bishop Blake. A. H. Backus Among Those Attending Session. Bp United Press KOKOMO, Ind., April 15. — Bishop Edgar Blake. Detroit, Mich., and Dr. A. H. Backus, state director of religious education, were among church dignitaries attending the ninety-third annual session of the Northern Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church here today. Delegates were to be selected for the general conference session at Columbus, 0., and pastorates in the Northern Indiana section were to be filled.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER . i United States Weather Bureau Sunrise 5:07 | Sunset 0:23 TEMPERATURE —April 15, 19.35 7 a. m 31 1 p. m 31 —Today—--6 a. m 52 10 a, m fit 7 a. m 53 11 a. m fifi Ba. m sfi 12 (Noon) 69 9 a. m 60 BAROMBTER 7 a. m 29.88 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending at 7 a. m. .01 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 8:35 Deficiency since Jan. 1 3:20 WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar Temp. Amarillo. Tex Clear 29.90 60 Bismarck, N. D Clear 30.14 38 Boston Rain 23.98 42 Chicago Cloudv 29.88 44 Cincinnati Cloudv 29.88 69 Denver Cloudy 30.06 48 Dodge City. Kas Clear 29.92 56 Helena. Mont Clear 30.28 36 Jacksonville. Fla Clear 20.12 66 Kansas City, Mo PtCldy 29.30 60 Little Rock. Ark. .. Cloudv 30.02 62 Los Angeles Cloudy 30.02 52 Miami, Fla Clear 30.16 76 Mobile, Ala Clear 30.12 63 Minneapolis Cloudv 29 76 44 New Orleans PtCldv 30.12 68 New York Cloudv 29.88 46 Okla. City. Okla Cloudv 29.88 64 Omaha. Neb PtCldy 29.88 52 Pittsburgh Clear 29.78 62 Portland, Ore Clear 29.96 50 San Antonio. Tex. ... PtCldy 29.98 66 San Francisco Cloudy 30.02 52 St. Louis Clear 29.86 62 Tampa. Fla. Clear 30.16 70 Washington, D. C. ...PtCldy 29.82 60 LODGE WORK IN SOCIAL SECURITY TO BE TOLD Eagles’ Secretary to Discuss Lawmaking Activities. Activities of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the field of social legislation, including the efforts for enactment of old-age pension laws, are to be discussed by John S. Parry, national secretary, Kansas City, Mo., Monday night in the lodge home, 43 W. Vermont-st. J. Pierce Cummings, a member of the Eagles’ Indiana old age pension commission, also is to speak. Mr. Cummings recently was appointed a member of the state social security board. GIVES TRAFFIC TALK F. A. Doebber Begins Series of Club Transportation Discussions. F. A. Doebber, traffic manager of the Citizens Gas and Coke Utility, gave the first in a series of discussions on transportation problems before the Indianapolis Traffic Club in the Lincoln last night. He discussed shipping by rail, truck, water and airplane.

FLAYS UTILITIES FOR HIGH RATES IN RURAL AREAS

Gray Declares Excessive Costs Keep Hoosiers Groping in Dark. j Times Special WASHINGTON. April 15.—High rates of private power companies have kept the farmers of Indiana ; ‘‘groping in the mud and darkness.” Rep. Finly H. Gray charged in a i speech in the House. He sought to make provision for county district organizations to supply public power "as part of the Rural Electrification bill. The measure providing $410,000.4)00 to be made available to private companies and co-operatives for rural electric lines, is now in committee, having passed both houses with amendments. Mr. Gray contended that making the lines available will not solve the problem unless cheaper power rates ensue. TVA rates applied to present electric consumption in Indiana vould affect a. saving to the rate-payers of $19,184,000 a year, he said. Lower Rates Essential “Without low and reasonable charges for service, any program to bring electricity to farmers will prove a vain and fruitless gesture, a humiliation, disappointment and failure,” Mr. Gray declared. “It has been high and excessive charges which have denied electricity to the farmers. “That is the reason why of the I 200,835 farms in Indiana, only 23,476 enjoy the use of electricity and why 177,359 farmers in Indiana are j still groping in the mud and dark- | ness, without electricity for light, | heat or power.” Rep. Gray cited instances of public ownership in Indiana which he said show the way to lower rates. Cites Comparative Costs “The lower rates under public or co-operative ownership is shown and illustrated in Indiana by the different rates or charges between Washington’s municipally owned plant and the privately owned plant at | Madison. “In Washington the charge for 25 kilowatt-hours is $5.50, white at Madison it is $10.25 for the same 25 kilowatt-hours, or 83 per cent higher from the privately owned plant. “The Frankfort municipally owned plant sells 25 kilowatt-hours for $1.25 white the Lakeport privately owned plant sells the same amount for $2.12, or 69 per cent higher than the municipally owned plant. “The Crawfordsville municipally owned plant sells 25 kilowatt-hours for $6.10, white the private plant at Huntington sells it for SIO.BO, or 77 per cent higher than the public plant.” Blames High Executive Salaries Commenting on the overcharge for present consumption in Indiana, as compared with TVA rates, the Hoosier Congressman continued: “This $19,000,000 is being collected from the people of the state of Indiana to pay high salaries of presidents and other head officials of the private electrical companies doing business in the state and,for dividends to stockholders of many private electric holding companies for one and the same service rendered the people. 1 The local and operating companies furnishing or providing the people with electricity are being compelled by the foreign, overhead companies to collect this amount for salaries and dividends in the form of increased charges and are powerless to safeguard their cohsumers against the high and extortionate charges resulting.” Enlists in Navy Elza Ellsworth Montgomery, son of Mrs. Julie Montgomery, 1322 S. Kappes-st, has enlisted in the Navy, the Indianapolis recruiting station announced today. He is to be stationed temporarily at the training station at Great Lakes, 111.

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VANNUYS IN VICE PRESIDENT GARNER’S ‘CABINET'

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Times Special WASHINGTON. April 15.—Sen. Frederick VanNuys has anew photograph of Vice President Garner in his office. It is autographed to “my spiritual advisor/’ Senator VanNuys says the VicePresident has three “advisers.” Senator W. Warren Barbour

PROFESSOR, WIFE DIE AS BOMB EXPLODES Companions Hurt in Blast; Suicide Plot Hinted. Bp United Press LOS ANGELES. April 15.—Whitehaired Dr. William D. Moriarty, dean of the school of merchandising at University of Southern California, and his wife were kilted last night when a home-made bomb, which police believed he ignited, exploded in a parked automobile. Two other occupants of the vehicle were injured seriously, but are expected to recover. They are Harley McCoy, business associate of the educator, and Eleanor Thonis, a friend. The explosion took place shortly before midnight near Hillcrest Country Club, several mites outside the city limits. TREAT, HEAGY GIVEN TOWNSEND APPROVAL District Board's Action Waits O. K. of State Manager. L. Frank Treat, Republican, and Louis W. Heagy. Democrat, congressional candidates for nomination from the Twelfth District, received the indorsement of the Townsend plan board of the Twelfth District today. The indorsements await the approval of the state area manager.

No Party The Indiana Conference for Genuine Social Security Legislation to be held April 26 in the Y. w. C. A. has not been called to form the Farmer-Labor Party in Indiana, Miss Victoria Hardie, secretary, said today. “The conference has been called solely for the purpose of examining and analyzing existing social security legislation in order to determine its adequacy for the needs of organized labor, the unemployed, the old people and professional groups,” Miss Hardie said.

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Christened Lockefield Garden Apartments is the official name for the slum clearance housing project near City Hospital, it was announced today by Harold L. Ickes, Public Works Administrator. Joe Rand Beckett, secretary of the local advisory committee, explained that Locke-st is the western boundary of the project, that “field” doesn't stand for anything and that, “garden’ is to denote the park in the center of the project. Other names suggested by the committee to Mr. Ickes were Locke-st Garden Apartments, Northwestern Garden Apartments and Fall Creek Garden Apartments.

70 COLLEGE Y. M. C. A. LEADERS MEET FRIDAY Franklin to Entertain Annual Spring Convention. Times Special FRANKLIN. April 15.—More than 70 representatives of Young Men's Christian Association organizations from 12 colleges are to hold their annual spring convention at Franklin College Friday and Saturday. Association leaders scheduled to appear before the group include Dr. H. D. Edgren, George Williams College, Chicago; Robert Bishop, general secretary at Cincinnati; Isaac Greyearth, religious work director among Sioux Indians, Sisseton, S. D„ and B. A. Schnell, state student secretary. Indianapolis. Dr. William G. Spencer, Franklin College president, also is to address the sessions, according to Henry Miller, Marion, president of the host group. FAVORS SPORTS CODE Dr. B. F. Neiman Speaks Before Hunting and Fishing Club. Dr. B. F. Neiman, Indianapolis Hunting and Fishing Club president, speaking last night before club members at the Washington, urged a strict observance of the sportsman's code. Charles K. McCormack, attorney, discussed the campaign against stream pollution.

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COOL WEATHER RETARDS CROPS, REPORTS SHOW

Hoosier Farm Operations Delayed. Bureau Reports. {Continued From Page One) and corn have been held up th# greater part of this week. By comparison. Mr. Armington recalled that at this time last year oats were well advanced in all sections. and up to good stands in the southern half of the state. Fruit trees also were blooming in southern and central districts, while this year only a few apple and peach trees are m bloom in extreme southern counties. The peach crop is admitted to be virtually lost this year, “The condition of wheat this year, except for a few good fields in the southern division, is generally fair to poor.” he said, 'while clovers, on the whole, are reported in good condition.” Some progress, he continued. wa3 made last week with truck gardens in the northern division, and a few cantaloupes were planted in southern Indiana. He predicted a short crop of peaches, plums and cherries. Livestock Prospects Bright Livestock prospects for Indiana are the bright side of this gloomy picture. C. C. Green. Indianapolis representative of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, said. There was an increase of 31 per cent in the number of cattle on feed for market on April 1. over the same date last year. This was higher than the 28 per cent increase which 11 corn belt states averaged this year. Mr. Armington also reported that pastures are greening in all sections of the state, and white they are not heavy as yet, they soon should be able to support large numbers of livestock. GRANDPARENTS ON WAV TO SEE BARTHOLOMEW Entrain for Hollywood as Soon as They Reach New l'ork. By United Press NEW YORK. April 15.—Two more members of Freddie Bartholomew’s family were on their way to Hollywood today where the 12-year-old British movie actor’3 mother. Mrs. Lillian Mae Bartholomew is fighting for his custody. The new arrivals are his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Robert Bartholomew. They entrained at once for Hollywood. The grandparents’ arrival follows by only a week the arrival of the child-actor’s mother. She is in Hollywood now and will contest the boys aunt, Miss Millicent Bartholomew, for his custody. LUTZ RULINGS AFFECT RECEIVERSHIP, BARBERS $10,900 Bond Required for Gas Station Receiver. When a court appoints a trustee or receiver for a gasoline firm in receivership, the trustee or receiver must be bonded for SIO,OOO, Atty, Gen. Philip Lutz Jr. advised Laurence F. Sullivan, state auditor, today. Mr. Lutz also advised the state barbers’ board that persons who graduated from barber schools poor to enactment of the 1935 law licensing barbers are qualified to take apprentice examinations, regardless of whether or not their schools are now approved by the board.