Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1936 — Page 4

Hugh Johnson’s Crackdown Preferred to Hecklings in Jury Room.

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—1It is possible that before the Administration gets through with the “trustbusting” program now in progress some businessmen will be pining over the old NRA days, wishing thay were back with Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, crack-down and all. They used to come down to Washington, engage comfortable hotel suites and order up the cracked ice ‘and soda - before settling down for a rousing round with the general, Donald Richberg, and maybe Eddie McGrady. Oh, yes, they used to have words with the NRA crowd. Rough language would crackle back and forth, but the General was

always ready with a salty comeback |

and nobody stayed mad very long. They usually picked up several good stories to take back to the boys in New York, and not infrequently a morsel of inside gossip which, whether true or not, set them up back in the home office as wise and knowing fellows. Sometimes they were taken over to see the President. Washington correspondents interviewed them on the state of the nation. They got their pictures in the newspapers. NRA made them appear to he big shots, leaders of industry, collaborating with the government in great affairs. Despite all you have heard about the crack-down, Gen. Johnson and the whole NRA crowd always gave these big boys a lot of house. Yes, it was a good deal more pleasant, and certainly not humiliating like being hauled into a Federal grand jury room to be bulldozed by a brisk young lawyer from the Department of Justice, and be called a criminal, and be arraigned and relcased on $5000 bail and— crowning insult of all—be fingerprinted like a common gangster. Of course, the Department of Justice explains to the outraged defendants, if they are acquitted the fin-ger-prints will be destroyed. It's just routine. All persons indicted for criminal offenses, rich or poor, must be finger-printed. It only takes 8 moment. Please step over this way, and give us both hands. -Several of the leading oii men of the country, indicted in Wisconsin a few days ago for something which they say was legal and encouraged by the government under NRA, are complaining most bitterly about being subjected to finger-printing. Gen. Johnson, for all of his hardboiled language, was a good fellow— and in: the end he usually came around to reason, Even Harold L. Ickes didn't try to finger-print them.

‘Why Wisconsin?’ They Ask

: Oil men are bitter about this gasoline case. They think it strange that the case was put before a grand jury in Wisconsin, home of the La Follettes, where monopolists have been in particular disfavor for years.

The Department of Justice says it took the case into Wisconsin because the docket there and the schedule of Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone were not so crowded as in other jurisdictions. Besides, they could have taken it into Michigan where feeling against the defendants was so strong that the Legislature ordered an investi- - gation of gasoline price-fixing complaints and sent a subcommittee to Washington to ask for Federal help. Or the case could have been taken into Chicago, but there, the government feared, there might be attempts to tamper with the grand

Other Inquiries Planned

But the oil men—and this case - makes defendants of some 58 of the biggest in the country, naming also 23 major companies—are not the only ones who may have reason to fear the government's trustbusting program, Recently the President asked the Justice Department to investigate the practice. of several large steel companies who are submitting identical bids, the same down to the Jast odd cent, for government contracts. There'll be something doing on that probably before the snow flies. The President also asked for reports on identical bidding for government business by other industries. The cement industry Bas been denounced for this by Secretary Ickes. Other lines of supplies and equipment have often presented a united price front to government purchasing agents.

PLANS WPA OUTING

Picnic lunch and entertainment are included on a program sponsored by Edward C. Bustle, of the Marion County WPA Recreation Department, to be held Friday aft_ernoon and evening in the Standard Qil Park, 700 S. Keystone-av, An old fashioned square dance “and races are to be part of the pro-

TWO PARTIES TO MERGE By United Press » MADISON, Wis., Aug. 19.—Union of the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation of Wisconsin and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party to build “a Unified National FarmerLabor Party for the congressional ~ campaign of 1938 and the presidential campaign of 1940,” was an- . nounced today.

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FIRST AIR HOP 33 YEARS AGO

Orville Wright Observes Anniversaries of Birth, Flight Today.

Times Special DAYTON, O., Aug. 19.—Orville Wright is 65 today. He celebrated the event quietly, in Canada near Parry Sound. . Thirty-three years ago he and his late brother, Wilbur made aviation history by flying the first airplane. That was at Kittyhawk, N, C., Dec. 17, 1903. Their plane, a far cry from the streamlined ships of today, remained aloft the incredible time of one second less than a minute, Newspapers branded a reporter who viewed the flight and sent them dispatches as an imposter. From that ‘day on the problem of flying became one of development. The Wright brothers continued to contribute much to aviation by new inventions making flying safer. The brothers had been bicycle repafr men who became interested in gliders. They first invented a horizontal rudder in front for steering the vertical plane, then attached devices for the flexing of the ends of the supporting planes to keep the machine in proper balance. Their next step was to add a gasoline engine and propeller and they had a self-propelled glider. Honors have been heaped upon the Wright brothers since. Orville Wright goes quietly about his work at the Wright Aeronautical Laboratory, continuing to invent new devices for aviation. His sixty-fifth birthday is just another milestone in a busy career. =~ career, ‘

ROOSEVELT. CONEE CONE ON RE-EMPL

By United Press HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 19.— President Roosevelt was to canvass re-employment possibilities in a conference at the summer White House today with government experts representing the fiscal and administrative sides of the Federal relief program. The Chief Executive was to meet with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator; Acting Budget Director Daniel W. Bell and W. Frank Persons, director of the United States Employment Service.

TOWNSEND GRANTED PETITION FOR DELAY

By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 19.—Postponement to Monday of the appearance of Dr. Francis E. Townsend at a Cleveland receivership hearing was granted today by Judge George Kerr of Common Pleas Court, according: to George H, Hubbell, Townsend attorney. Dr. Townsend's . appearance was sought by attorneys for the Rev. Alfred J. Wright, former Ohio manager of O. A. R. P,, who asks an accounting of $1,000,000 allegedly contributed to the pension movement and appointment of receivars,

CRASH KILLS WOMAN

By United Press COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. Aug. 19. —Mrs. Wilbur Calhoun, Fort Wayne, was killed, and another person was injured in an automobile collision scutheast of here last night. A car driven by Mrs. Calhoun's husband collided with one driven by Norman Ferro, New York City. Mr. Ferro was hurt slightly.

FACES LIQUOR CHARGES

Horace Johnson, 35, of 931 Maplest, was arrested at his home today on charges of violating the state alcoholic beverages act. Police said they found 4 gallons of alcohol in Johnson's house.

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Penny Wise

Harold Akers and Miss Evelyn Bishop thought they were going to pay for their marriage license with pennies they had saved, but evidently a friend quoted the wrong price, When they gave Francis M. Feeney, marriage license clerk, 250 pennies for the license yesterday afternoon, he informed them the price was $3. After some fumbling, the confused groom-to-be produced two quarters. He is 24 and lives at 4411 Caroline-av. Miss Bishop is 18 and resides at 4501 Keystone-av.

STEPFATHER IS SHOT IN FAMILY QUARREL

By United Press FORT WAYNE, Ind, Aug. 19.— E. J. Breining, 45, was shot in the thigh by his stepson, Robert Baussum, 19, here yesterday as the climax to a family quarrel, police announced today. - The youth told them the older

man came home drunk and threatened to kill both him and his mother, police said. He said he was upstairs when he heard the threats but immediately went down. with his .22 caliber rifle, As his stepfather started toward him, he said, he pulled the trigger. Breining was not believed to be injured seriously.

ASKS FARMERS FOR CROP CONTROL PLAN

By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—Agricultural Adjustment Administration officials will go to the farmer himself to learn the best way to meet problems of crop surpluses and the drought. H. R. Tolley, AAA administrator, announced today a series of meetings, will, be held with. farmers to ‘outline a program of erdp reduction and drought relief. AAA officials will hold the meetings starting late in August and continuing into October.

REPRESENTS NOTRE DAME Times Special NOTRE DAME, Ind. Aug. 19.— Prof. Lawrence H. Baldinger, department of pharmacy director, Notre Dame University, is to rep-

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meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, in Dallas, Aug. 24 and 25.

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AMNESIA VICTIM RETURNED HOME

Ingenious Sheriff Brings About Identification of. Local Girl.

Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind, Aug. 19.— Because Sheriff Clarence Watson was ingenious, 21-year-old Mary Eichel was to be returned today to her grandparents at 2155 S. Merid-ian-st, Indianapolis. Victim until yesterday of what appeared to be amnesia, her memory had been a blank since early Sunday when she walked away from an Indianapolis dance and started down the National-rd.

She was picked up by tourists]

about two hours later, after she had

walked ‘approximately eight miles,

She appeared dazed. They tried to minister to her and took her to a physician, then left her with the sherifi. He recognized the affliction as amnesia and set about trying to discover words that would arouse in her some associations that might restore her memory, When he mentioned Indianapolis there.was a reaction, and when he mentioned an operation and physicians. she seemed #aguely responsive. So he took an Indianapolis phone directory and began reading to her the names of all physicians. When he came to the name of Dr. A. S. Jaeger she said that it sounded faintly familiar to her. Dr. Jaeger was summoned yesterday by the sheriff and identified the victim.

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