Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1937 — Page 4

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SATURDAY, JAN. 2, 1937

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Mink Trapping Is an

Important Indiana Industry ar d Takes Lots of Skill, Too

The trapper finds a wounded fish

By JOE COLLIER

INK are so hard-boiled that even when they are a coat they might snap at you. They are small and silly looking and live mostly on water food. One trapper down state goes along a stream, finds fish that have been set upon by mink but

* VANNUYS BALKS - AT CHANGES IN CONSTITUTION

Problems Can Be Solved by Legislation, View of Hoosier Senator.

Bu United Press

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—Senator”

Frederick VanNuys, Indiana member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where 25 proposed constitutional amendments are pending, asserted today that he is opposed to “tinkering with the Constitution.” Declaring that he believes the amendment question will be one of the first importance in the new Congress, Senator VanNuys indicated he believed that current problems can be solved by legislative action and amendments to the Constitution will be unnecessary. “Our basic law has been amended 21 times in 149 years,” Senator VanNuys pointed out. “Ten of these amendments—the Bill of Rights— were ratified in 1791 and may well be considered as part of the original instrument. — “This leaves only 11 amendments during the last 145 years. For a period of 43 years—from 1870 to

ade to the Constitution. “Practically all the leading nations of the world have changed their forms of government during the present generation, but the Constitutional government of the United States has remained stable and®unshaken. What better evidence of the vision and statesmanship of the forefathers need be invoked?”

Opposed to Tinkering

made to t+ were no amendments

“I mean. by ‘tinkering,’ these attempts to force through amendments to meet only passing, temporary condition. “Changes come ~and go in our economic and political life. Emergencies arise which may call for the exercise of powers which dave been heretofore dormant. Such emergencies do not create new powers but they may call for the unprecedented exercise of powers already granted. “In order to meet many passing conditions, I fully believe that it is, within the wisdom of the Congress to so frame legislation that will successfully meet such situations, without. change in our basic law.”

Partial List Is Cited

Among the proposed amendments now pending, Senator VanNuys listed the following: Equal rights for men and women, taxation of tax-exempt securities; empowering Congress to regulate “hours and wages in industry; prohibiting war; empowering the people to veto a declaration of war; proposing amendments by popular vote; restricting aliens; providing uniform primary laws; re-enacting prohibition; giving’ the President iull treaty power; requiring two-thirds decision of Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional; regulating agricultufe. Senator VanNuys said he expected many more to be proposed after Congress gets under way.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Cloudy , and considerably colder, with rain early tonight; tomorrow | fair and colder.

Sunrise ........ Yn 07 | Sunset eae 4:31

TEMPERATURE —Jan. 2, 1936— NR MY 35 1 PMevennes 38

r BAROMETER

=. 29.76 1p m . 29.5%

. 7 a. m. ecipitation 2 hrs. ending 7 Fritaion 2 ion since Jan. 1, ?10%6 Deficiency since Jan. 1 1936

MIDWEST WEATHER

‘Indiana—Cloudy southwest, rain in east and north portion early tonight: much colder tonight, moderate cold wave northwest and west central portions; tomorrow fair and decidedly colder.

Ohio—Rain_ tonight, probably changing to snow. flurries tomorrow morning; colder jn west portion late tonight; much colder tomorrow and tomorrow night.

Kentucky—Cloudy and colder with rain in east ang,central portions tonight; tomorrow 'gefierally fair and much colder, except probably light rain or snow flurries in extreme east portion.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Bar. Temp. 29.96 16 30.14 30.56 29.72

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have escaped in a dazed condition. He picks up the fish. Then he gets a trap that is carefully freed of all human smells, carries it to a water hole where he thinks a mink might be, lets his hands get pretty cold, and

sets the trap with the mink’s own

fish under water.

JAIL ANDERSON MAN IN FATAL SHOOTING

By United Press ANDERSON, Ind. Jan. 2.—Herbert Cartwright, 40, ‘liquor store owner, was in jail today for investigation into the death by gunshot wounds of Nelda Carter, 26, last Monday. His arrest was ordered oy Coroner S. J. Stottlemyer, who first had said that Miss Carter's death] was accidental and had indicated [Cartwright would be released. Cartwright told police| he kept in the store to} discharged ed accidentally. Lo

PLOT ON CAL LFE IS BALKE

Ex- President of | Mexico Guarded After Effort to Bomb Home.

a shotgun shoot rats

By United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 2.—Gen. Plutarco Calles, former president of Mexico deported by Presidént Lazaro Cardenas last summer, was guarded today after an effort to bomb his house was frustrated last night. Police said they had reports of increased political activity along the border recently but added they were unable to connect the effort against Calles’ life with rumors that a Fascist revolt against the Cardenas’ administration was being fomented. Department of Justice Agents, said to be keeping a close watch on Calles, Louis Morcnes and other political refugees, could not be reached. Gen. Nicholas Rodriquez, another political enemy of the Cardenistas and now an exile in this country, recently was reported recruiting a group called the Gold ‘Shirts for a march on Mexico City. .He boasted he would lead an army of 800,000 against Cardenas. Braulio Estrada, Calles’ chauffeur, said he saw a Mexican slip up the front steps to the door of the Calles home last night, light a fuse and run. Estrada leaped from his car, stamped out the fuse ahd then pursued the would-be bomber, he said. Police said the “bomb” was a bottle of black powder connected to a fuse. Had it exploded the front ‘of the Calles house would have been badly damaged, they said, and there might have been loss of life. Calles refused to see reporters.

ATTORNEY GENERAL NAMES SECRETARY

Attorney General Omer S. Jackson today announced appointment of Miss. Maxine Faust Weber, Greenfield, as his personal secretary. Miss Helen Schadd, Danville, was appointed secretary to A. J. Stevensen, first assistant Attorney General, and Miss Mary Thatcher, Indian apolis; Miss Grace Remster, Shelbyville, and Miss Iona Sylvester, Fortville, were #amed to the stenographic force.

EDWARD IGNORED IN CANTERBURY’S NOTE

By United Press

LONDON, Jan. 2.—The Arch-

bishop of Canterbury's New Year's

message to hist diocese paints a gloomy picture of European war clouds, and deplores the growth of anti-Semitism in Great Britain. He referred to the new reign of King George VI, but made no mention of the ‘Duke lof Windsor.

MEETINGS TODAY

Hillerest Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, no ianee Francaise, Washington, noon Gideons’ Association, Washington, 8p. m.

luncheon, Hotel

meeting, Hotel

LES

Baits a mink trap under water

AUL DAVIS of Center Valley, _Ind., who is a trapper himself, says if his hands are 5 degrees warmer than the water, the mink can smell him and will stay away from the trap.

The reason- for setting traps under water is so that the mink,

caught, will drown. If it were in the open, the mink would contrive somehow to get out, even if they are wounded in the attempt. Mink trapping in Indiana

amounts to a major seasonal industry. All trapping in the state

Sev | it into a coat , .

high |s $1.35 a skin, and minks

Cures the hide . . . . . .

last year netted trappers about i three-quarters of a million dol- as hih as $1250 a skin. Most lars. This year it probably will trapp rs are mink fanciers. be better. ¥ Muskrat also are good. = This was a good year for the family life of muskrats and there are a good many muskmice about, trappers: say. Muskrats bring as

and grain and couldn’t be identified even by their parents. Minks ‘are more sensitive than fox, trappers insist. They say mink are best in Indiana of anywhere. Muskrat are marketed under about 15 different names of fur, all not muskrat, trappers say.

Moles used to be hot stuff ior

y = 2 un [EN a hundred or. more minks are herded together in a oat that costs plenty, the minks: are all shredded for color

Which costs $1500 . . . . |, trappers, but they aren't any more. They bring now about 12 to 15 cents a skin and at that aren't worth bothering about. They're practically insolvent, so far as the trade goes, but live

much the same as they used to in the woods, only more peacefully.

THREATEN NAZI SHIP SEIZURES

Tiny Basque State Notifies Germany That Force Will Be Used.

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transcontinental travel use— had been puchased with the specific understanding that they would be used for the transport of gold ore within the boundaries of Mexico. “If these ‘planes have now been sold to the Spanish government it is 3 plain breach of contract on which the American Air Lines would attempt to halt delivery had the ships not already been turned over to the purchaser,” Smith said.

England Is Ready To Act as Mediator

By United Press LONDON, Jan. 2.—Great Britain may be prepared to mediate -between the German and Spanish governments the incident caused by a German warship’s seizure of the Spanish Loyalist steamship Soton, it was reported today in diplomatic circles.

The seizure seemed to constitute the most direct and most open intervention by a foreign nation in the civil war that has yet occurred, according to comment in unofficial British circles.

Because Great Britain remains eager to avoid any danger of international confiict arising from. the war, it was believed that the government might indicate its willing-. ness to comply with any authorized requests that it act as go-between Germany and the Madrid government to settle the incident. The threat of new trouble in the Spanish situation rose today when it was semi-officially confirmed that Germany had informed the British and French Governments that she would never tolerate a Communist Government. in Spain. This news came immediately after an editorial in yesterday’s Giornale D’Italian of Rome in which Virginia Gayda, often regarded as a mouthpiece for Premier Benito Mussolini, argued that establishment of a Communist “base” in Spain would force modification of the territorial and political status quo in the Mediterranean.

Italo -British Pact on Mediterranean Signed

Ly United Press ROME, Jan. 2.—An Italian-Brit-ish agreement for co- operation in the Mediterranean was signed at noon today after months of negotiation. Count = Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister, ‘and Sir Eric Drummond,

British amabassadar; signed the

treaty. Premier Benito Mussolini was still absent, resting in his favorite retreat at Rocca Della Caminate. Under it, Italy and Great Britain define their interests in the Mediterranean in such manner as to show that there is no clash of interests.

HOLMES AVE. MAN HELD TRAIN VICTIM

late last night lying beside the tracks of the Big Four Railroad, at Holmes Ave. and Michigan St. Police said he apparently had been struck by a, train.

son St., yard conductor, found the body while switching cars. John

Jordan, 14, a son, identified the body.

Forced Into Auto by 2 Bandits And Robbed of $45, Victim’ Says

Police today investigated a series of burglaries and holdups re-

ported over the New Year’s holiday.

L. H. Tuttle, R. R. 1, Box 569, told police he was heldup and robbed of $45 by two men who followed “him outside a tavern at Ohio and

West Sts. and ordered him into his automobile.

Tuttle said he was

forced to drive the men to Michigan St. and Tibbs Ave. where the

robbery occurred.

Police arrested iwo boys, one 11|igan St., reported theft lof several

and the other 14, whom they discovered in a grocery store at 13th and last night. The boys

window to gain entrance, and several cartons of cigarets were stacked up outside, police said. The boys were taken to the Marion County Juvenile Detention Home.

articles of clothing valued at approximately $100 from his apartment yesterday. A man who boarded an Alabama St. car early this morning held up the operator, William Smith, 61, of 1822 8. Meridian sSt., and robbed him of $8. Smith told police the

GOVERNMENT IN

| The body of Thomas Jordan, 42, of 353 N. Holmes Ave., was found

Carl McClester, 35, of 2103 Jack.

holdup occurred at the end of the . James Dewell, 24, of 25 W. Mich-|lines ~~ |

Advisers Say Roosevelt Undecided on Course if

Labor Act

Certain Members of Supreme Court Are Said to Be Not Averse to Constitutional Amendment Enlarging Congressional Powers.

By United Press

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—President Roosevelt was said by some of his advisers today to have determined definitely a course of action by the Administration will follow if the Supreme Court outlaws the Wagner

Labor Relations Act.

Simultaneously it was learned on unimpeachable authority that some members of the court personally would not be averse to a constitutional amendment enlarging congressional powers over social legislation. Jusit is said, would consider such an amendment as clarification of a porblem which has become increasingly acute during

tices of that mind,

the Roosevelt Administration. In quiry at the White House about probable action if the Wagner Act were invalidated obtained from the secretariat only denial of knowledge that Mr. Roosevelt had reached such a decision. Others usually acquainted with such New Deal policies insisted that the President had resolved upon a plan, after considerable study of potentialities of an adverse Wagner decision. There was immediate speculation among interested persons regarding the nature of the program. Two possible ‘actions are obvious, in the opifiion of labor. union attorneys. The first would give Congres broad powers over social legislation on a nation-wide scale; the second might conceivably restrict court decision involving labor laws. Both are hypothetical moves discussed as conceivable desires of the President. The latter would involve constitutional amendment stipulating a definite court majority in decisions “involving certain statutes. it might be effected so that a 7-to-2 majority would be necessary to declare certain laws unconstitutional.

No Talk of ‘Stuffing’

No discussion is heard currently of “stuffing” the high tribunal with additional appointments as was done in the reconstruction pericd after the Civil War. For a time, after a series of decisions adverse to the New Deal, there was some speculation along that line.

While union leaders pondered Mr. Roosevelt's probable desires and actions if the Wagner Act is banned, it was definitely established that certain justices; of the Supreme Court would not be shocked by an amendment enlarging Congressional powers over social legislation. It was pointed out that some members of the Court would not consider such an amendment a curb on the Court’s powers, but rather a clarification of | existing statutes. Justices ' hoiding| that opinion feel individually that such a change in tne constitutional structure would take the Court “off the spot.” Indications today were that Con-

gress would delay any discussion of

amendment possibilities until the |

Wagner decision and that if the Court upholds the act, the movement for such a change will lose considerable ground. A sharp battle is virtually certain to: develop if amendment proposals crystallize.

Labor Awaits Decision

Labor circles in the meantime awaited the Court’s decision on the two measures most closely affect-

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2 HOOSIERS TO AID LOYALISTS, REPORT

Times Special

NEWCASTLE, —Two Hoosiers, who have served in the United States Army, were reported here today by relatives to be on their way to enlist in the Loyalist forces of Spain now defending Madrid. They are Harry Dearmond, Spiceland, and Edward Loy, Connersville. Relatives said they were en route to New Orlean$; La. where they have been promised transportation to Spain and $250 a month for a sixmonths enlistment.

OFFICIALS HERE ARE SWORN IN

COUNCIL GREETS NEW YEAR WITH L TTLE UNDONE

Actior Required on Only Two Orc \nances; Meets to ( rganize Monday.

Is Outlawed

stically clean slate awaits Council when the first regting of 1937 is held Monday dall. | B. Raub is expected to be re-elect 1 to the presidency and Dr. Silas J. Parr again is slated for the vice pre idency. © Amon: | ordinances. to be .intro-

A pre the City ular me in City Edwa:

Member Federal Deposit Insurance Gamortion

duced is fhe measure asking a $1200 appropr: (tion for additional help in Municip 1 Court traffic division. The assistant is to serve under Albert Thayer, tity prosecutor. Anoth'r appropriation of $1500 is to be-a ed for services of special counsel n the Indianapolis Light & Powe | Co. rate case. James E. Derry, v 10 resigned as corporation counsel, ias agreed to continue the case forgthe City. Held ¢ rer from the last meeting were tw | controversial ordinances, one proy ising an increase in police and firer ien’s pay and another, discussed s: ice last June, proposing to abolish |ntipicketing regulations. lecodify Ordinances pile, the committee named oy Mayor Kern to recodify lances is nearing comple- { work, according to Adolph Emhardt who has been in charge. Includ¢ 1 are all Park Department ordinanc 5, which are to be reclassified ‘at the suggestion of Mrs. Louis Mz: 'kun, Park Board member. On thi Recodification Committee are L. E { Slack, Walter Pritchard and Mr. Emhardt. When | ompleted, the city’ code is expected jo include new. provisions for elect ic and building specification, adju ited traffic ordinances and none of { ie archaic measures which have clut ered the code, last revised in 1925. Council approval will be sought. ||

ing workingmen that are scheduled to come before this session. of the Court—the Wagner and Social Security Acts.

William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said he -would personally lead a fight for an amendment if either is declared unconstitutional. ‘The rival committee for industrial organization, headed by John L. Lewis, already is strongly committed to an amendment regardless of © the Court's decisions. Major George L. Berry, coordinator for industrial co-operation, wrote to members of the Council for Industrial Progress noting that the President’s position on labor legislation coincides in several points with the council’s recommendations.

SHATTERED BOTTLE INJURES GIRL’S EYE

Miss Madelyn Deaterage, 22, of 24 Sycamore St., was treated at City Hospital last night for injuries received in an alleged fight at a S. Meridian St. tavern. Witnesses told police the girl was hurt when someone nurled a bottle which shattered and threw pieces of glass into her eyes.

Few Appointments Made as County Officers Start New Terms.

County officials, who took oaths of office yesterday, today started new terms. Few major changes in appointive positions were made. John W. Corydon, 652 S. West/ St., was named bailiff by Judge Dan V. White of Municipal Court 2, to Succeed Burton Beville, who resigned. County commissioners delayed naming a highway superintendent until later this month, indicating the office may be separated from the County Surveyor's duties. . Herbert Bloemker, County Surveyor, has been in charge of the work. Three deputy coroners are to assume duties today under Dr. Ethelbert R. Wilson. County Democrats took part in ceremonies yesterday when Prosecutor Herbert Spencer was sworn in by Judge Flank P. Baker of Crimfhal Court. |

Sheriff Names Deputies. |

Meanv last year city ord: tion of it

Judge Dewey Myers gave the oath of office td Sheriff Ray, who| announced appointments of David Taylor and Frank O’Brien as deputies. John F. Linder was reappointed

RESCINDING OF TRACTION LINE ORDER HINTED

Judge Wilson to Meet Today With Representatives Of Workers.

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sponsored circulation of the petie tions were said to be from Ander= son and Terre Haute. They could not be reached for press statements. Company employes testified at a hearing ‘before the labor board that they were not receiving a living wage and that some were forced to apply for township relief- to keep their families.

May Get Raise Monday

R. B. Armstrong, member of\the Amalgamated Association executive board, said last Thursday that “organization would stand by the decision of the arbitration board, granting a 20 per cent boost.” Judge Wilson said he would make an” order directing the receiver to pay 446 union workers the 20 per cent increase from the time the labor board ruled Nov. 18 until last Thursday. “If the closing order is rescinded the 121% per cent increase will ‘bee come effective for all employes Mone day,” he said.

county attorney by the commise sioners. Others named James Twineham, superintendent of the Coungy Infirmary; Dr. O. D. Ludwig, Marion County Health Commissioner; Harry Barrett, superintendent at Julietta Hospital for Mental Cases; Susa Milliken, Colored Orphans’ Home superintendent;” Anna Pickard, head of Juvenile Detention Home, and Eve erett McCurdy, truck foreman. at the county yards. Mr. Bloemaker is to take oath of office today for a second two-year term as Surveyor.

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