Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1936 — Page 1

VOLUME 48—NUMBER 183

NO NEW TAXES NEEDED, F.D.R. AIDS ANNOUNCE

Balanced Budget Is Due Sooner Than Expected, Harrison Says.

U. S. INCOME IS SOARING

Next Congress Only Should Remove Inequities, Is Morgenthau View.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—Administration tax experts decided at a conference with President Roosevelt today that no new taxes will be necessary next session because of increasing revenues.

The gesture to answer business

criticism of an unbalanced budget’

came after a meeting attended by Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee. “We have found business conditions improving so much and revenue receipts coming in so fast,” said Mr. Harrison, “that we can reach the point of a balanced budget sooner than expected.” A letter to the President from Mr. Morgenthau was made public at the same time which said the Treasury had concluded that no new taxes or increases in present tax rates are necessary. It was agreed that tax changes at the next session will be limited to the purpose, according to Mr. Morgenthau'’s letter “of removing any inequities” in present tax laws and modifying or ending taxes that “create unfairness to consumers or to trade or have other disadvantages which outweigh the

Sees Adequate Yield

“With continued: recovery,” Mr. Morgenthau’s' letter said, “we are steadily approaching a revenue yield which will be entirely adequate to cover the expenditures of government and to reduce the public debt.” However, none of the three tax experts would predict when a balanced budget would be reached. Senator Harrison announced he will immediately call congressional tax ‘Ina session: to work with experts to carry out the suggestions of Mr. Morgenthau. . “Any change of course, Wt probably be toward reducing § taxes,” he said, citing especially “taxes where administrative cost virtually wipes out revenue.” Mr. Morgenthau sald that taxes .of this kind were particularly in the “nuisance” tax category.

Tariff Not Discussed

Mr. Morgenthau would not discuss which specific taxes he had in mind. The Cabinet member and the congressional leaders met with the press after a half-hour conference with the President, although it was indicated that the decision hadveally been reached before Mr. Ha

and Mr. Doughton were called to J

Washington suddenly yesterday. . ~~ Mr. Harrison said that there was no discussion of tariff changes due + to the drought situation. . The dramatic White House conference broke up three-quarters of an hour before the President was to leave on a tour of Pennsylvania and New York flood areas. Mr. Harrison, involved in a bitter primary struggle in Mississippi, was summoned hastily to the White House yesterday and came here by plane. Mr. Doughton was reached at his Sparta (N. C.) home and arrived here only a few minutes before the conference began.

Nuisance Taxes May Go Among the various nuisance taxes

whose abolition may be pushed, are

those on gasoline, oil and numerous luxuries. "The nuisance taxes particularly have brought resentment from people back home and the announcement that some of them might be ed certain

would be held later in the fall,

MARKETS AT A GLANCE

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

revenue yield.” |.

Hands Off

Times Special PRINCETON, Ind. Aug. 13.— Town Clock lator | Carl Applegath is in the market for some good hoot owls. He wants to use them to Iignien pigeons away : from the courthouse clock tower. The pigeons, Mr. Applegath says, roost in unequal numbers on the hands of the fourfaced clock and as a result no one ever has the right time.

MARY, EX-MATE T0 SHARE CHILD

| Agreement Reached; Judge

to Impose Severe Conditions.

BY RONALD WAGONER United Press Staff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13.—Judge Goodwin J. Knight will impose severe conditions today upon Mary Astor and Dr. Franklyn Thorpe in granting them joint control of their 4-year-old daughter. His intent will be to “sew up” the sensational litigation between the film 'star and her divorced husband so that it can never be reopened.

Judge Knight made this statement of his plans in revealing that he would take charge of Miss Astor's rhapsodical diary, in which she confessed an extra-marital Jove for George S. Kaufman, famous playwright. The disposition of the diary will be known only to Dr. Thorpe, Miss Astor and the court, but it was understood that. Judge Knight would impound it in such a way that it can do no further damage to Miss . (Turn to Page Three)

NO-LEFT-TURN SIGN BRINGS FINES FOR 4

Four persons were fine din Municipal Court today for disobeying a no-left-turn sign at 16th and Dela-ware-sts. They were Frank Klobecar, 23, of 935 Howe-st; Harold B. Marshin, 59, of 4317 E. Washing-ton-st; James Rowdios, 40, of R. 17, and Hilda Hendricks, 17. Miss Hendricks was fined $4 and the others $5. Municipal Judge Charles Karabell characterized the corner “as one of the most fangese ous inthe city.” Ys a

SIL Peta on

Nature Lover

BY NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

NOW THERES A VIEW. THAT MAKES YOU GLAD YOU'RE ALIVE!

E flew ‘round the curve with the greatest of ease— Enjoying the scenery, the moun-

tains and trees, Quite dumb, we a but with just as much ease As the man on the flying trapeze.

You can't eat your cookies—and still keep a few— Nor can you watch highways, and watch scenery, too.

TRAFFIC DEATHS TO DATE 1936 1

TRAFFIC ARRESTS

Sens asemetes eres

Speeding . Running red light .. vin ens Running preferential street .

Drunken driving TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

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NEEDED FUND IS VOTED FOR

Co-operation; WPA Labor to Be Used.

i The Marion County Council today voted a special appropriation of $350 to the County Commissioners to buy materials for a low-cost housing experiment seeking solution of the Indianapolis slum problem. Urged to do so by Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson of the Marion County Works Progress Administration and Dennis O’Harrow, research director of the State Planning Board, the council passed the appropriation unanimously. If the State Tax Board also allows the money, it will become available: for purchasing materials. WPA labor would be used to construct the house on a plot of land to which title is held by the commissioners because of a defaulted school loan. ’

Elliott Pledges Aid

Meanwhile, the Purdue Housing Research Project, probably A best equipped liboratory in the country on housing materials and costs, has been enlisted in the project and has turned over its staff to a search for durable, weather-proof and cheap materials. Frank Watson, director, has. assured the commissioners ,the WPA the State Planning Board and other governmental .agencies who have been advising the commissioners, that President Edward Elliott of Purdue is anxious to do everything possible to assist, The commissioners, using Purdue and State Planning Board plans and specifications, are to erect a one or two-room housé containing inside flush toilet and running water for

R. | $350.

May Rent as Low as “

The house is expected to rent for approximately $4 a month. Itis sise to be a demonstration’ of - ‘whether

All information developed by the oped DEL. ‘Board, and by the i ence of building the model house are to be made available for private owners and managers of property in what now are slum areas, not only in Indianapolis, but in every city in the

| state.

Meanwhile, the State Fire Marshal. who some time ago announced

+a campaign that would mark ap-

proximately 500 ramshackle Indianapolis ‘dwellings for destruction as fire traps, today has marked - more than 200.

‘Health Board Active And the City Health Board, which

1 simultaneously stepped up its in-

spection of dwellings in slum areas, announced that 500 structures in the city now have been branded by

inhabitable, The board, through Joseph Rautenberg Jr., chief clerk, warned that many families are living in the branded dwellings regardless. It estimated that of the 500 branded,

repaired and put in sanitary conditions,

$33,000 in County Expenses Approved County Council members meet with department heads during the last week of August to discuss budget requests, William A. Brown, Council presiderit, said today.

Council's action today in approving approximately $33,000 for additional

to meet salary increases ordered

MODEL

$350 Request Is Approved Unanimously by the County Council.

EXPERIMENT IS ASSURED | *

Purdue Renews Pledge. of

Private capital can successfdlly enter 5 TE lant Stratum of frais

the inspectors as insanitary and un- |

300 probably would be wrecked, 200 |

are’ 46.

The announcement followed the

current county expenses and $13500 \

5. 0.P. HOPEFUL OF SETTLEMENT

in_Ralston. Reply

publican Souity chairman, ing today. that an injunction suf, filed against “County . ‘Clerk: Gleen B.} Ralston : to force the n of

deputy registration ‘cierks mig withdrawn if the County Clerk names the clerks “forthwith.” ; Mr. Schortemeier saw in Mr. Ral-

ston’s statement yesterday. the possi‘bility. that the clerk might haye re-

treatéd from his stand of no. /naming registration clerks from the two major political Jaxties, he said. The: G. O. P. county chairman pointed to Mr. peri d comment, which said: “ . . . voters will be properly registered or transferred in our various branches manned by

registration officers.” “His statement was quite a concession,” Mr. Schortemeier said. Mr. .Schortemeier: indicated that |! if the County Clerk named | ty registration clerks by the lat of this month that the 1 suit might not be pressed. / ; “Of course: the naming of the

would be foo late. By registration drive early ‘many

or who do not care to wait lines, will be given a chance 1

Cliaitman “Sees C Concession ¥

er part, :

clerks: in the middle of- September |'

| persons, especially - those ‘who are ill |,

Loyali is fs A ttack Oviedo; Spain Lacks Central Rule

ee aig. rhe cities with

air Toby

Government Opens Decisive Drive. Against Rebels in North; Nation Controlied: aby Several Factions.

TOLOSA—Rebels in ‘desperate drive for eba : «communications: before Oviedo falls, ~~ | SAN SEBASTIAN—Rebels not Fascists, ‘Loyalists sot Communists, in revolt; militia and labor unions are real powers in government. : BURGOS—Mola and Franco, rebel leaders: An a and south, ‘announce : establishment of: telephonic contact,

By United Press” - MADRID, Aug. 13. Tovalists have

opened an attack in force on Oviedo |

in. an effort to break the. long siege

3 and. deal a decisive blow to rebel

‘hopes in; the far riorth; 1 way an. nounced today.’

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¥.aesial strength, opened up its an-}°

JT rebel dies of Segovia and

both . Democratic and sd Toutioed: bombing: attack of all rebel |,

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allowed: thie cabinet to keep its posi- + | tion; -but .the Popular Front militia | really rules, for there are two work-

‘every national soldier

3 (Editorial on Page 14) enor BY RALPH HEINZEN (Copyright, 1936. by United Press) | SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Aug. 13. — Battle lines are distinctly drawn in this war of Spaniards — Right

‘against Left—but there is no truth

in’. the belief that the Rignt means Fascism and the Left Communism. Government as a national institution has been supplanted. by cor-

| related ‘governments.

In. Barcelona, in the. northeast, a mdicalist - Communist win workers’. committee real-

| ers under arms in. the capital for of - civil guardsman. rs ‘Workers’ Junia Rules - In Valencia, on the east coast,

: a workers” ‘junta—the Junta De | Levanté—rules with iron hand and

by the

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‘CORN HARD HIT

Production 46 Per Cent

Off, Purdue University Station Learns.

LONG DROUGHT BLAMED

Wheat Alone Has Weath‘ered Dry Spell; Oats Fall .Off Slightly.

Times Special

LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 18.—A withering - July drought and five months of deficient rainfall have cut months of deficient rainfall have cut the forecasted production of Indiana’s corn crop to only 111,900,000 bushels, as compared with 160,474,000 last year. Wheat alone weathered the drought, the Department of Agricultural Statistics of the Purdue University Experimental: Station announced today. With harvesting done under favorable conditions a wheat production of 32,200,000 bushels as compared to last year's 29,109,000 bushels was forecast. The report revealed that corn was 46 per cent of normal, which is 29 points below the average from 1923 to 1932. Much of the early corn in all sections of the state was beyond help as of Aug. 1. .* The condition of late corn was reported as spotted due to local rains, and in many localities the line between good and poor corn was quite distinct. The five-year corn. average from 1928 to 1932 in Indiana was 155,968,000 bushels yearly. The oats yield was forecast at 24 bushels an acre and a production of 32,064,000 bushels as compared with 36,610,000 bushels last year. ‘Seared by the drought, potatoes were at: 39 T. pent of normal or 41 Polnis. _belo e 10-year aver‘Sweet, 3 four

Toward bry Hn

HOURLY TEMPERATURES ed. m. ... 17 19 5 2 oe ) | 72a.m ...79 1am... 9 8a.m. ... 8 12Noon... 9° Sam. ...88 1Ipm...9%

With the prediction of fair weather today and tomorrow the United States Weather Bureau also forecast femperatures would be slightly higher than yesterday. Although the mercury is. not expected to reach the 100 mark today, J. H. ton, - meteorologist, said ‘the higher temperatures would = continye to-

ke M DILLING DEAD; FOUNDED CANDY FIRM|

Rites to Be Held Saturday for Manufacturer.

$975,000 Is Allocated fo Midwest Farmer Aid by U. S. Agency.

GRANTS TO BE ALLOWEL

Quota for Needy Rural Residents of Indiana Put at $80,000.

Allocation of $975,000 in Federal funds to aid farmers whose crops were burned out during ‘the ‘drought in this region was announced here today by R. C. Smith, regional Resettlement Administration director.

Of the total allocation, $80,000 has been allotted for Indiana farm * ers and rehabilitation work is to start at once; Mr. Smith ‘said. Instructions were sent out ear today to rehabilitation supervisory in every Indiana county and in the four other states comprising this. reflon to take applications fre ‘farmers whose crop losses have arsated an emergency. Other states included in this. region are Hiinots, Ohio, Iowa and Missouri.

Direct Grants Permissible

Mr. Smith said $600,000 of . the total allotment has been avdilable for loans to farmers and the remainder for direct grants. Indiana is to receive $50,000 loans and $30,000 for direct grants, ‘he said. “Loans will be: made to f Mr. Smith said, “to buy feed livestock that is suffering from of . pasturage and to buy séed for next. year’s crops. “The. direct. grants will be- made to: farm families found ‘to ¥ desperate circumstances for ¢ diate. food: relief.” ‘Mr. Smith said county sup had been instructed to rush try gation “of ‘all applications ‘for and: forming them to to headquarte

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designated y drought. areas or oh he sald: I ———

U. S. TO OPEN HUGE

By United Press : WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.1 Treasury announced today that would assign 570 men to start a

tion-wide drive ‘to halt

Henry Morgenthau. He said most of the smugling tivity was on the West Coast,

POLICE CHIEF PAYS _ SON'S TRAFFIC: fl

By United Press

ROOSEVELT ARRIVES ww HARRISBURG, PA

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