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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1937

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CHIEFS FEARFUL

Townsend Interested

Only in Safety, Is Claim.

By TRISTRAM COFFIN

Slight hope for a minimum of state legislation was seen today as lawmakers gathered here for the opening of the 80th Indiana General

Assembly tomorrow. Although Governor-elect Townsend has indicated he will give his personal backing only to highway safety laws, many Legislators, unchecked by a firm Administration hand, are prepared to present “pet” bills. In addition various interested groups, governmental units and state departments have announced they will sponsor legislation.

“Record” Aims Feared

Legislative leaders are fearful the 13 new Senators and 43 new Repre-

sentatives will attempt to “make a record” by filling the hopper with bills. An extensive report of the Governor’s Committee on Public Safety probably will be incorporated in the Administration-sponsored safety bill. Special committees are to be appointed in both houses to consider safety bills. Although the gross income tax was the most controversial issue during the election campaign, there is little indication that any major changes will be made, it was learned.

_ Jackson May Push Bills

Gross ‘Income Tax Director Clarence A. Jackson may sponsor “ amendments providing withholding and jeopardy clauses to tighten tax collections, it. was reported. The 1937-39 biennium budget may -be the most hotly contested bill in + the Legislature, due to the requested increases of more than $48,000,000 over the previous appropriation, observers believe. Despite the reported need for an extensive building program for state institutions, many legislators are said to be demanding strict Governmental economies.

New Taxes Considered

Additional taxes to pay for the local cost of social welfare have been considered by the Legislative Survey Commission, which decided that local communities should continue to bear that expense as long as they retain the authority for administering the funds. However, the Commission suggested that $800.be returned to each teaching unit to make up for the local social welfare costs. In its survey, the Commission studied doubling the intangibles tax, a distillery tax, taxation of taxexempt properties, - cigaret tax, amusements tax and repeal of the county and three-mile grave! road bond laws. State Welfare Director Wayne (Turn to Page Three)

GRACE PERIOD ENDS FOR 1936 LICENSES

City police tomorrow will arrest motorists, whose cars bear 1936 license plates, Acting Chief Fred Simon announced today,

BOB BURNS Saye rights

the world as hollow as self-praise. If you roll an empty barrel and a full barrel down a hill you'll find that the empty barrel makes Lhe most noise. And when a man starts tellin’ me what a wonderful character he is I watch him like a hawk. The other day, a man started tellin” me about the things he'd done this year to bring happiness into other people’s lives. He said he sent his wife and children to Europe and he bought his stenographer a new fur coat and he said he helped the automobile industry and put money into circulation by buyin’ a new streamlined car for himself. Then he said, “You'd think a man who's brought so much happiness to other people would be entitled to happiness himself,” hut he said “Some thief siole my brand-new car the second day I had it.” I says,

“Did the thief break in your garage and get it?” And he says, “No. ey stole it from right in front of the poorhouse, while I was in making my annual visit to my poor old aged mother and father.” (Copyright, 1937)

TOPS PROGRAM

Commission Powers Would Be Curbed Under Plan.

By JERRY SHERIDAN

The Indiana Municipal League is to ask the new General Assembly for statute changes which it claims would remove obstacles to establishment of municipally owned utilities. In announcing the legislative program today, Mayor Clell E. Firestone, Goshen, league president, said municipal ownership of utilities was the crux of the program. The league’s program “would give to those cities and towns which so desire the full, clear and unrestricted right to erect anew, enlarge or extend their existing utilities.” The league also wants given to city and town councils authority to acquire existing private utilities by condemnation and purchase. These bodies, according to the league program, also would have the “final right of determination of ‘convenience and necessity’ with full and unrestricted power to operate, manage and control atl such utilities now owned or hereafter acquired by such cities and towns.” This would in effect limit the powers of the Public Service Commission in favor of city councils, it was explained. Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs’ much publicized fight against the North(Turn to Page Three)

BODY OF DRUGGIST SOUGHT IN GREEK

Blood Reported .on Bridge in Shelby County.

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State = police this afternoon dragged a creek near Shelbyville in Shelby County for the. body = of missing William H. Bright, 36-year-old Indianapolis pharmacist. Captain Matt Leach ordered the creek dragged after it was reported that a considerable quantity of blood was found on the bridge that spans it. Convinced that Mr. Bright was murdered, but unable to form a single clew as to by whom, State Police also continued a search of the southern part of the State for clews. Mr. Bright's automobile, stripped of accessories and blood soaked, was found yesterday at Madison, Ind.

‘His hat was found, blood stained

and with a small caliber bullet hole in it, in a cornfield near Shelbyville. Fingerprints evidently had been removed carefully from the steering wheel, door handles, windows “and (Turn to Page Three)

DEMAND RENEWED FOR FRANK’S OUSTER

By United Press MADISON, Wis, Jan. 6.—The University of Wisconsin has been paying “too much for windowdressing” with Dr, Glenn Frank, famed liberal educator, as its president, the university board of regents was told in extraordinary session today. Denying that either politics or academic | freedom was involved, Harold M. Wilkie, Madison attorney and regents’ president, renewed in a 15,000-word statement his demand that Frank be ousted.

STRIKE CHIEFS MEET AS PEACE EFFORTS FAIL

U. A. W. Strategy Committee To Plan Further Action.

SLOAN GOES TO DETROIT

Workers in Anderson Free|.

Trucks Impounded by Road Patrol.

By United Press DETROIT, Jan. 6.—First attempts

of Federal labor concilators to bring

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executives ' together for a conference on a strike affecting 53,900 men apparently failed today. The United Automobile Workers' strategy committee met at 12:45 p. m. to plan further action. Homer Martin, union president, said at a press conference that no meeting with General Motors Executives was scheduled for today and added that there was “very little” prospect of such a meeting soon. Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors, arrived from New York and conferred this morning with William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of the corporation.

No Statement From Sloan

Mr. Sloan said no statement would be made today and indicated that he was not ready to start nego-

tiations with the union. Mr. Martin asserted that the strike might spread soon to the Fisher body plant and the Chevrolet factory in St. Louis. James F. Dewey, Federal labor conciliator, conferred with Mr. Martin last night, and today, as a result of that conference, the union president - said he was ready to meet Mr. Sloan "and Mr. Knudsen any time to discuss the eight demands: made by the U. A. W. In reply to a statement by Mr. Sloan, in which he said General Motors never would consent, to the closed shop, Mr. Martin asserted: “The union is not attempting to run the plant of General’ Motors nor are we asking for the_ closed shop as Mr. Sloan would imply. A closed union shop is one where only members of the union are permitted to work and requires all the workers to share in the maintenance of the union. This is not one of our demands.”

Anderson Strikers Release 13 Trucks

Times Special ANDERSON, Ind. Jan. 6.—Hugh Thompson, United Automobile Workers ‘of America official and strike leader here, this afternoon released all impounded trucks bearing General Motors merchandise that had been seized by an extensive striker road patrol. Thirteen trucks were freed. “We found,” he said, “that holding trucks carrying new cars and (Turn to Page Three) °

EGONOMY URGED IN CITY DEPARTMENTS

Municipal Revenue Should Be Enough, Says Boetcher.

Mayor Kern and City Controller Walter C. Boetcher today warned city department heads against making excessive expenditures during 1937. Mr. Boetcher told the officers that the city has at present a free working balance of only $3300 in the general fund. An ordinance was passed at the last City Council meeting authorizing a temporary loan of $650,000 to take care of the city’s needs until the next tax collection in June. Barring an emergency, this amount added to $50,000 anticipated revenue fro mthe iCtizens Gas & Coke Utility, will be sufficient, Mr. Boetcher said.

‘NARROW ESCAPE FOR3 BOYS . . . . .

A pilotless Army plane plummeted earthward at Bellemore, L. I, and struck the home of Louis Seltman. Only the wing and the fuselage .crashed into the room where his three sons slept. None was seriously

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Calling All Cows! They Yield More and Eat Less to Swing Time.

Times Special REENFIELD, Ind., Jan. 6.—It was only two weeks ago when Almon Wickard, farmer near here, got lonesome at milking time with no one in the shed but the animals and the silliest things have been happening since then. Mr. Wickard put a radio in the milking shed. The seven cows and four horses were mildly amazed, but said nothing. Pretty important among the developments was that the cows quit eating to listen. This cut down the feed bill. Then Mr. Wickard noticed that it took longer to milk. He measured the milk from two of the cows, and found that before radio they had been giving three gallons between them, and after radio were giving five gallons. The longer it takes to milk, the longer the radio is on and the more the cows stop eating to listen and fhe more milk is given and the longer it takes to milk and so on and sO on,. period, paragraph. Mr. Wickard hasn’t dared guess where all this may end. The horses are pretty placid about the whole thing. One did whinney the other day at Stoopnagle and Budd, but it's pretty hard to say what he was thinking of.

W.R. HEARST TOPS PAY LIST

$500,000 Largest in Nation; W. C. Dunn Highest of Hoosiers Listed.

By: United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—The 10 Americans who earned the most money in salaries and bonuses or commissions in 1935 today were listed by Congress as: 1. William Randolph Hearst, publisher, $500,000.. 2. Mae West, actress, $480,833. 3. C. W. Guttzeit, Latrobe, Pa., steel executive, $398,808. 4, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president, General Motors Corp., $374,505. 2 Ty Marlene Dietrich, actress, $368,6. W. R. Sheehan, president Twentieth Century-Fox Corp., $344,230. 7. William PF. Knudsen, General Motors executive, $325,869. 8. Bing Crosby, film and radio singer, $318,907. 9. B. D. Miller, president F. W. Woolworth Co., $309,880. 10. Thomas J. Watson, president, International - Business Machine Corp., $296,028.

Indiana Leaders

The 10 Indiana leaders were listed as: W. C. Dunn, Terre Haute, Merchants Distilling Corp., $89,469. “Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Eli Lilly & Co., $83,978.

J. K. Lilly Jr., Lilly & Co., $83,978

ar les J. Lynn, Lilly & Co., $83,M. H. Noyes, Lilly & Co., $83,978. Dr. G. H. A. Clewess, Lilly & Co., $77,693. H. S. Vance, South Bend, Studebaker Corp., $74,290. Paul G. Hoffman, South Bend, Studebaker Corp., $73,564. Louis Schwitzer, Indianapolis, Schwitzer-Cummins Co., $58,034. F. C. Ball, Muncie, Ball Brothers Co., $50,000. A. F. Hall, Ft. Wayne, Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., $50,000.

RAIN IS TO PRECEDE SNOW, BUREAU SAYS

HOURLY TEMPERATURES . 34 100a.m... 37 3 11 a.m... 40 36 12 (Noon) 43 37 1pm 44

Ra hv? t for tonight and toW Py the Weather Bureau to2 turn into snow tomorrow, when it will become much colder, tlie report stated. Tonight is to be

somewhat warmer, the bureau said.

PIA APPROVES SCHOOL GRANT FOR IRVINGTON

$202,500 for New High Scéhool Is Given Final 0. K.

ANDERSON WINS PLEDGE

Allotment Not to Be Made Until Extension of Agency Is Decided.

Times Special | WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.— Rep. William H. Larrabee was informed by Secretary of Interior Harcld Ickes today that the three examining divisions of the Public Works Administration had approved a $202,500 grant for a new Irvington High School building. Allotment will not be made until it is learned whether PWA will be extended beyond June 30, the expiration date under the present law, he said. It is considered likely that Congress will vote a PWA extension, Mr. Larrabee added. A grant of $94,909 for a high school building at Anderson is in the same status he was informed. It has also been approved by the legal, engineering and financial divisions of PWA.

Indianapolis School Commissioners have been informed of ‘approval on the Irvington High School PWA project, according to A. B. Good, School Board business director, who said the structure is part: of a $2,200,000 building program. The Irvington school, to be located at the south extension of Riley Ave. and E. Washington St., is to cost approximately .$459.000.

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EFFECTS OF SMOKE

Four persons who were overcome by smoke in the apartment-business building fire at 912 E. Washington St. yesterday, which resulted in the death of Chester Dunbar, 33-year-old -electrician, were reported recovering in City Hospital today. Mrs. Grace Barnes and her 9-year-old daughter, Mary Lou, were listed as serious by hospital physicians while the conditions of Clarence Barnes and Robert Smith, 17 months old, were described as fair. The blaze apparently started from an overheated flue, firemen said today after an investigation.

DOCTOR'S TRIP NOT T0 MEET KIDNAPER

Paid Visit to Hospital to Treat His Patient.

By United Press : TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 6.—Dr. W. W. Mattson was absent from his home for two hours before dawn today but attendants at General Hospital said he was called to treat

a patient and was not on a mission to contact the kidnaper of his 10-year-old son, Charles. Dr. Mattson left the house overlooking Puget Sound, from which his son was kidnaped 10 days ago by a bearded man who left a note ! demanding $28,000, at 4:41 a. m. (P. Ss. T). He returned at 6:50 a. m, and would not discuss his mission. Attendants at General Hospital said, however, that he had been summoned there to treat a patient upon whom he performed a major

| operation yesterday and that he

spent the entire time at the .hospital. The third day of the “truce” declared by law enforcement agencies at Dr. Mattson’s request to permit an open channel for negotiations with the kidnaper brought no further evidence of contact with the kidnaper. Mrs. Mattson was re-

ported near collapse.

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Hope Neutrality Bill Will Be Passed by Nightfall.

ACT; ON RUSHED

Spanith Ship Leaves N. Y With Supplies Fr Loyalists.

* | BULLETIN By United | ress NEW YORK, Jan. 6.— The Spanish Government freighter Mar Car abrico, loaded with airplanes a) 4 supplies for the Spanish loyal its, sailed from its pier today at 12:47 p. m. (Indianapolis time . It carried eight airplanes, ¢! rolling kitchens, formerly use i by the U. S. Army, and more th n $2,000,000 worth of foodstuff: clothing and other supplies.

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By United 1 :es8 WAS! INGTON, Jan. 6.— Adminis ration leaders speeded up (‘ongressional action today hc ing to jam through a joint 1 solution prohibiting shipmen' of arms to Spain in time to 1alt cargoes loading in New ork harbor.

Both Ho ise and Senate were expected to | ass the resolution before nightfall ¢ id send it to the President for h : signature. Spurred jy reports that stevedore gangs are sweating in unbroken shifts seek ng to get’ off a cargo of arms to Sj iin before the new resolution can be passed, both House and Senat!' drove into action. Presiden Roosevelt, himself, directed stra egy of the drive to whirl through t e emergency legislation today. : 400 Export Licenses Adding {) the desire of Congress to avert d lay was a report of the National Vunitions Board that more than 4000 licenses for arms exports we e issued last year. Chairma:| Key Pittman of the Foreign Re¢ ations Committee, failed to get the resolution through the Senate imi iediately at the start of today’s meting but the upper chamber 2 reed to take up the measure ir mediately after hearing the Presid: at’s message. The Hot ie arranged to consider the matter at the same hour.

STATE “ARM BOARD T) ELECT TODAY

Charles Morris, Salem, Slate for President.

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The eleciion of Charles Morris, Salem, as p esident, and State Senator E. Cw jis White, Indianapolis, vice preside it, of the Indiana State Board of 2 iriculture was expected today. : The boar; was to meet today following the ‘onvention of the Indiana State A sociation of County and District Fa: s yesterday. Governorelect Town: :nd welcomed the delegates. Jam 3 L. Beattey Jr., manager of the 1936 State Fair, spoke last night. | Officers w re re-elected. They included Ro and Ade, Kentland, president; ¢ E. Edwards, Connersville, vice pi sident, and F. J. Claypool, Munci, secretary-treasurer.

CHAPLAIN OPENS HOUSE SESSION WITH PRAYER . 4

As House Hiembos stood with heads bowed at their first session penta the

ih Congress in Washington,

ISOLATION OF U.S. HELD AIM INWAR CRISIS

Wilson Policy Abandoned In Preserving Peace, Simms Says.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—While foreign battleships massed menacingly off Spain; Congress today set about isolating America more completely than she has been isolated .in 150 years. Completely abandoning the policy of Woodrow Wilson with its promise of world peace through international co-operation, the majority party now seems headed back to the two fundamental principles of Jefferson, who said:

“Our first and fundamental max-

im should be never to’ entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs.” Last month, in Buenos Aires, President Roosevelt gave additional force to the latter principle when he took the lead in Pan-Ameri-canizing the Monroe Doctrine. Today Congress is preparing to frame a neutrality law by which it hopes to make certain of the former. And the oddest part of.it all is, Congress today boasts a greater majority than at any time in its history. The new Senate roll-call counts 76 Democrats, licans, 2 Farmer-Laborites, 1 Progressive and 1 Independent. ‘A 2-to-1 majority could put the United States into the League of Nations, or the World Court, or an alliance with other democracies or could clinch any co-operative undertaking the President might wish to undertake abroad.

Might Have Halted Crisis

Such a majority in 1919, without

question, would have put American support behind the covenant of the League, which in the opinion of the world’s foremost statesmen might have changed the course of mankind. For, they insist, the presence at the council table of so mighty a “neutral” most likely: would have prevented failure at crucial times. But all that is water over the dam. Despite its almost 4-to-1 preponderance, the Democratic side of the Senate will not put America in the League. We missed the boat, and it is now too late. Regardless of where lies the blame, or what part of it is ours, the present painful fact is that the world is in an awful stew and we do not want to get mixed up in it.

Rebel Forces Fail To Hold Position

By United Press MADRID, Jan. 6.—Bitter fighting continued at Majadhonda, 18 miles northwest of Madrid, today as rebel forces tried to consolidate their positions oniy to be shelled out by government artillery as fast as they dug in. Loyalists denied they had lost Las Rozas or that the rebels had cut the Madrid-el Escorial line of communications as they had claimed. The rebel attack, launched against Las Rozas, has continued since Monday and thousands of German troops, using World War tactics, had hurled themselves

against the key points of Madrid's |.

communications. Wild, desperate fighting on two Madrid fronts was holding up the rebel advance as the battle went into its third day. The government militia stormed machine-gun nests in Villaverde and captured two fortified houses.

the Rev. James Shera

Montgomery is shown at the Speaker’s table as he intoned prayer after the call to or ‘er. Following roll call and presentation of the gavel to Speaker Bankhead, the Representatives indulged in the traditional borseplay of thei ' opening assemblage. In contrast to the crowded Senate chamber, any empty seats may be noted in the House. \

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H EMBARGO

(GES LIBERAL JUDICIAL JLINGS ON SOCIAL LAWS; {INTS AT NRA REVIVAL

Warns That Joblest And Relief Still Problems.

LISTS OBJECTIVES

Enlightened View of Constitution Vital Need, He Says.

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By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.— There is no vital need for a constitutional amend: wet to legalize NRA, President Roosevelt informed Congress today in a message asking authority to embargo munitions shipments to Spain and calling on the judiciary for more liberal interpretation of the

fundamental law.

He said the courts are asked by the people to do their part in making democraey successful. Congratulating Congress for its spirit of co-operation in emergency with the executive, the President said: “We do not ask the courts to call nonexistent powers into being, but we have a right to expect that conceded powers or those legitimately implied shall be made effec tive instruments for the common good.” The message did not name the U. S. Supreme Court, where much of the New Deais emergency and recovery legislation has been outlawed as unconstitutional. But the inference of criticism was plain. | The President sketched his objectives, proposed Federal and state supplementary laws to help solve the social and economic problems of a modern industrial democracy and challenged speculation, recke less overproduction and monopoztic underproduction as create ing wasteful, net losses to society.

Tried to Do Too Much

Mr. Roosevelt conceded that NRA had “tried to do too much.” He said it was unwise to expect a single agency to deal with hours, minimum wages, child labor and collective bargaining as well as un= fair trade practices and business controls. “The statute of NRA has been outlawed,” Mr. Roosevelt continued. “The problems have not. They are still with us.” Likewise; he warned that the twin problems of the jobless, immediate relief and prevention of future unemployment, had not been disposed o and that the Government could not now place “the unemployment problem in a filing cabinet of finished business.” “During the past year,” the President continued, “there has been a growing belief that there is little fault to be found with the Constitution of the United States as it stands today. The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental law, but an increasingly enlightened view with reference to it. Difficulties have grown out of its-inter-pretation; but rightly considered, :t can be used as an instrument of progress, and not as a device for prevention of action.”

PONTIFF REFRESHED BY NIGHT’S SLUMBER

By Uniced Press VATICAN CITY, Jan. 6. — Pope Pius spent a comfortable night and awoke breathing easier and looking more cheerful, a Vatican official said today. Refreshed by a satisfactory night’s sleep, the Pope received in audience Cardinal Pacelli, his Sec-~ retary of State; then. Msgr. Alfredo Ottaviani, Assessor of the Congre= gation of the Holy Office; then Msgr. Dominico Tardini, Undere Secretary of State.

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