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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937

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RUSH WORK ON VALIDATION OF {ARMS EMBARGO

Congress Hopes to Send Resolution to President ! Late Today.

BUDGET SPEECH READY

Expected to Ask $500,000,000 to Tide Government Over Fiscal Year.

(Editorial, Page 16; Photo, Page Three)

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—PresiBent Roosevelt's challenge to the United States Supreme Court to follow the election returns placed on Congress today responsibility for dealing with national social and Economic problems without congtitutional amendment. The President said these was no vital need fo change the Constitution. New Deal legislators, meanwhile, pought to expedite action on the ‘Spanish arms embargo. At home Iabor trouble became more acute hourly and seemed headed, ultimately, toward presidential intervention. The west coast shipping strike was deadlocked and the controversy between General Motors Corp. and the United Automobile Workers was spreading. The arms embargo, snapped fhrough Congress yesterday at Mr. Roosevelt's request, faced temporary delay in becoming effective because of a parliamentary technicality.

Completes Message

Mr. Roosevelt = completed his pnnual budget message. He will meet with newspaper reporters togay to explain it preliminary to submission to Congress tomorrow. It is expected to call for upwards of $500,000,000 to tide the government over this fiscal year and forecast another deficit in the next fiscal period. The resolution embargoing export of munitions to Spain awaits signature by Vice President Garner before going to the White House, Under Senate rules such resolutions must wait one day before being signed. The Senate neglected in yesterday’s hurry to authorize Garner to ignore that rule and sign today when the Senate is not in session.

To White House Today

Attaches said it might be possible to complete action on the bill anyway and send it to the White House today. Much of the need for haste had ended when a Spanish freighter sailed yesterday irom New York partly loaded with munitions for the Spanish loyalists. No other cargo is scheduled to depart today although additional arms export license are outstanding and will remain valid until the embargo resolution becomes effective.

Men and Munitions Pour Into Spain

(Copyright, 1937, by United Pres) PARIS, Jan. 7.—Men\and muni{tions poured into Spin oa to join " the civil war factio while diplomats talked neutrality and the rebels hammered at Madrid in desperple assault. Spanish loyalists asserted that P000 Germans were participating in {the Madrid attack; British official jpuarters were anxious at news of the landing of 10,500 Italians in Southern Spain. But through France there was fmoving almost a parade of war mumition transport, most of it destined for the loyalists: It was reported that the Ameritan liner President Harding would reach Havre Saturday with eight American Vultee planes and that nine other American planes were on their way to Cartagena, loyalist maval base on the Mediterranean, in a freighter, trans-shipped from e Mediterranean port. Seventy American tractors, 40 American mofor trucks, an observation balloon. and 2 Pratt and Whitney airplane

Conditional Doomof RFC Is Approved

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—Administration leaders, preparing quick Congressional action on the second point of President Roosevelt's emergency program, today gave tentative approval to a conditional “death sentence” for the multi-billion dollar Reconstruction Finance Corp. The leaders, conferring on .Mr. Roosevelt's request for extension of expiring fiscal legislation, revealed that the President probably would be given authority to discontinue the RFC — first of the Government’s long series of emergency depression agencies — at ahy time conditions warrant. The discontinuance would apply to the active lending powers of the RFC which expire this month unless extended. Liquidation of RFC loans would be continued until all affairs of the corporation. are cleaned up. ©

ULIANA WEDS GERMAN PRINCE

Throngs Cheer Couple as They Pass in Great Golden Coach of State.

(Photos, Page 11)

By United Press THE HAGUE, Jan. 7.—Crown Princess ‘Juliana, heiress to the throne of the Netherlands, married Prince Bernhard Zur Lippe-Biester-feld today in a 15-minute civil ceremony followed by religious confirmation at the Dutch Reformed Church of St. James. In taking a German consort, the Princess Juliana followed the precedent of her mother, Queen .Wilhelmina, who married Prince Henry of Mecklenburg in the same church 40 years ago. He died in 1934. Sharing the spotlight with Juliana but not official attention, was the wedding of another Juliana in the little town of Oegstgeast, .pear Leyden. This Juliana van Der Meer, a housemaid for the Widow Lubbe, was born on the same day and hour as the royal Juliana, and, likewise, married at the same moment. Theirs were the only weddings in the Netherlands today. Unlike other weddings, in which the bride considers it bad luck to meet her bridegroom before she sees him at the altar, Juliana, according to Dutch custom, met Bernhard at the great palace of The Hague, this morning. Ride in Golden Coach They sat side by side in the great golden state coach and led the wedding procession from the palace to the town hall where, in the presence of the burgomaster and his assistants, they gravely affixed their (Turn to Page Three)

| BOB BURNS

Says, feelin’ sorry

for these people that try to tell other people how to live. If they have made mistakes themselves, they are taking a risk by bringin’ up the subject and if they have never done anything wrong they can’t be much of an authority on the subject. Some of ’em are so interested in saving your neck that they hang themselves. ; I had an aunt that was that way. One time she caught her little boy tellin’ a fib and she called him to her and she says “Do you know what happens to little boys that tell lies?” And he said “No Mamma.” And she said “Well, a big green man with jest one eye swoops down and gits the little boy and flies with him up to the moon and makes him pick up sticks fer the rest of his life.” She says “Now, ypu’ll never tell another lie, will

motors were reported also among yecent shipments.

you? It's awfully naughty.” tCopyright. 1937)

NEW MEASURE DISCUSSED . . . . . . .

Talking it over on the House floor before he O 5 ciat

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eft), Indiana State Firemen

MADISON MEN CHARGED WITH BRIGHT KILLING

Material Witness Held After Druggist’s Car Heater Is Found in Home.

RELATIVE IS INVOLVED

Police Refuse to Disclose

Names of Suspected Slayers.

By United Press MADISON, Ind. Jan. 7.—Wilbur Kidwell, 25, was held here today for questioning in connection with the alleged slaying Monday night of William H. Bright, 36, Indianapolis pharmacist. Kidwell was quoted by authorities as naming two Madison men as the slayers. ' Sheriff Leslie S. Bear and State Policeman Robert Gorman, said they were holding Kidwell as a material witness after finding a heater stolen from Mr. Bright's car at his home. They refused to disclose names of the men accused of the crime. One of those named was described as “a distant relative of the prisoner.” Body Found in Creek

Mr. Bright's body was recovered late yesterday from the waters of Big Sugar Creekw near Boggstown, 20 miles southeast of Indianapolis. The officers said Xidwell told them the two men had given him a complete description of the slaying. According to that story, they stopped Mr. Bright at a traffic signal in Indianapolis late Monday night, intending to rob him. Officials said Kidwell claimed innocence of the slaying, adding that he was given the heater by the two suspects a short time after Mr. Bright's blood-spattered automobile was abandoned on a Madison street Monday night. Forcing Mr. Bright to drive south out of Indianapolis, one of the two holdup men allegedly shot him, officers said they were told. After disposing of the body, the men drove straight to Madison, police quoted Kidwell. Kidwell was quoted as saying‘the men came to his home immediately after abandoning the car, left the heater with him and left on foot for Florence, a small town along the Ohio River northeast of here. Mr. Bright, who lived at 4102 Bowman St., was killed by bullets fired from a 38-calibzsr gun that was rusty and apparently had been unused for sorae time, police ballistics experts decided today. He was shot twicz in the back, twice in the head, and was dead when his body was thrown into the creek, police said. Three of the four bullets were recovered from the hody, and were subjected to ballistics tests. The other is missing. At the scene of the shooting, a corn field near the Jbridge, Capt. Matt Leach of the State Police found 22-caliber. shells as well as 38s. He held tentatively to the theory that two guns may have been used in ths murder.

Disappeared Monday

Mr. Bright disappeared Monday night shortly after 6 o'clock when he left the Harbison Drug Store, 1740 E. 10th St., where he worked. Tuesday his blood-stained automobile was found in Madison, and later his blood-stained, hulléi-pierced hat was discovered in a field near the Red Mill bridge. Two farmers living in the vicinity discovered blood stains on the rail of the bridge yesterday morning and reported the discovery to State Detectives Robert O’Neill, Meredith Stewart and George Granholt, who were investigating bridges near the spot where Bright’s hat was found on the theory that his body had been thrown into a river. * Funeral arrangements were to be completed today at the Roy J. Tolin Funeral Home. Survivors include the wife, Mrs. Lois Cherry Bright, a teacher in the University Heights public school; the parents,

{| Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bright, Elnora; | five brothers,

Ira Bright, Rome City; Edward Bright and Frank Bright, Patchhogue, N. Y. and Arthur and Mort Bright, Elnora;

“Total Loss

Thieves Steal Coal and Take Watchdog As Well.

F a beagle hound has any sense of duty about him, there is one somewhere in Indianapolis today whose mood is as sultry as the weather. Walter Pennycuff, 2305 Reformers Ave. told police today that some thief had been stealing coal from his garage for seyeral weeks and had made off with about two tons—vaiued at $i2. . So he bought a beagle hound, rut him in the garage, said sic ’em, and went away on a short visit. ‘ When he returned, he told police, some one had made off with the rest of the coal—valued at $12 —-and the beagle hound—valued at $50.

FARM TENANCY RATE LOW HERE

Indiana 18 Per Cent Below National Average, Speaker Tells Committee.

Thirty-two per cent of Indiana's farmers are tenants, compared with a national average of 50 per cent, M. L. Wilson, Alsistant Secretary of Agriculture, said here today.

He spoke before a meeting of Midwestern farm leaders and the President's Special Committee on Farm Tenancy in the Claypool Hotel. The rate is “comparatively low,” he said. The session here was one of five being staged throughout the country by the committee. Representatives of farm groups fro mall sections of the Corn Belt discussed suggestions to lessen the evils of farm tenancy. More than 250 persons attended the hearing. Finding of the President’s Committee through its hearings, are to be presented to the President, Feb. 1. Suggestions to Congress for legisla-

tion are to be made.

Dr. A.-G. Black, Bureau of Agricultural Economics chief, Washington, pointed out the steady increase in farm tenancy throughout the country since 1880. Tg “There has heen a progressive de(Turn to Page Three)

DETECTIVE CAPTAIN * QUITS POLICE POST

Herbert R. Fletcher Accepts Insurance Position.

Capt. Herbert R. Fletcher, for 28 years a member of the Indianapolis Police Department, resigned today, effective Monday, to accept a position with the Police & Firemen’s Insurance Co. The company is a mutual in no way connected with police and fire-

For the last three years Capt. Fletcher has been in the detective division, but previously had been for two years a uniformed division captain.

FOUR GRAND JURORS

DRAWN FOR SERVICE |

Four grand jurors were drawn today from a list of 25 prospects by Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker. One was drawn last week. A sixth will be drawn Monday. Selected for service were Susan Thompson, 3914 Fletcher Ave.: Ben H. Long, 1045 Warren Ave.; John E. Saettel, 1514 Finley Ave.: Frank J. Selig, 3421 W. Washington St., and John M. Corwin, 5451 University Ave.

ATTORNEYS FACE TRIAL

Arraignment of Forrest Helms and O. Hayes Mendenhall, Indianapolis attorneys, on charges of soliciting suits was set today for Mon-

and a sister, Lorena Bright, Elnora.

SENATE COMES TO ORDER. ..

day by Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker.

men’s pension funds. 21

20,000 ILL OF RESPIRATORY DISEASES HERE

39 Die of Influenza and Pneumonia During Week.

PEAK EXPECTED SOON

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Serious Epidemic Is Not Threatened, Belief, but Caution Is Urged.

BY JERRY SHERIDAN

Approximately 20,000 Indianapolis residents have respiratory infections, including colds, pneumonia, influenza and bronchitis, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health Board secretary, estimated t®day. Pneumonia and influenza deaths and late yesterday and today brought totals for the week to 32 from pneumonia and seven from influenza. Thirty-one pneumonia, deaths were recorded last week. Dr. Morgan said he anticipated the peak would be reached late this week or early next week.

Infection Peak Near :

While the infection peak was approaching here, the national picture showed no indication of an epidemic, with reports for the last two weeks in December compiled. Public health authorities did not believe a serious epidemic threatened at this time, but the need for extreme caution was shown by comparative figures. More than 2000 new influenza cases were reported from 41 states during the last week of 1936, nearly 60 per cent above the normal for the five years beginning with 1929. However, new cases reported for the last week of December were only one-tenth of the normal during serious epidemic years, a national survey showed. The Indianapolis situation was described by Dr. Morgan as “bordering on an epidemic.” Respiratory diseases usually occur in three waves, he pointed out. A peak is reached and the spread of infection recedes temporarily. Suspected cases are being sent home from school by visiting physicians and school nurses. Restau(Turn to Page Three)

WOMAN FOUND DEAD | IN APARTMENT HERE

Miss Mabel Gentry, 52, was found dead in bed in her downtown hotel apartment today by her sister, Mrs. Robert Norman, 2415 Sheiby-st. Deputy Coroner Dr. F. B. Ramsey said that Miss Gentry had been dead for about 12 hours. He ordered the body sent to the City Morgue, where he is to perform an autopsy. Mrs. Norman told police she received a letter from her sister in

iuch she stated that she had been ill. :

1936 GAIN REPORTED BY UNION RAILROAD

J. J. Liddy, Indianapolis Union Railroad superintendent reported today that both passenger and freight business of his road showed a considerable gain in 1936 over 1935. The number of passenger tickets sold increased 38.2 per cent and the revenue from these was 11.5 per cent. Carloadings increased 19.1 per cent. : y Mr. Liddy attributed the gains to hetter business, better road facilities

‘and lower rates.

PRESIDENT ASSURES AID TO JOBLESS

By United Press . WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — President Roosevelt today gave direct assurance that no individuals in need of relief will be dropped from works progress rolls and that any one who has been eliminated will be reinstated. The assurance was contained in a letter to Rep. William Sirovich, (D,, N. Y.), who had protested reduc-

tions on WPA projects, especially

Sn w to Follow

M:n Still Holds

HO JRLY TEMPERATURES 6 a.n... 53 10 a.m... 55 v.a.in... 53 11 a.m... 56 8a. na... 54 12 (Noon) 56 9 a ja... 54 1p. m... 56

. (Photo, Page 22)

Today's rain will be tomorrow’s snow, Weather Bureau claimed again is day. And tomorrow's snow will he a eold gue, with lowest temperz jure about 20. The 1 ew year. at 9 a. m. today had a precipitation of .63 inch, which i a few hundredths of an inch sh' of normal. ‘It probably will ha: e attained normal pefore the end of the day. The © d year ended with a deficiency »f 6.53 inches, in spite of heavy u iseasonal rains in December. Si ice, “however, the normal rainfall or a year is 40 inches, the deficienc tr was not alarming, the Bureau : ated. )

G.M ISTOCLOSE 3 NORE PLANTS

Four C ganizers Join Strike Chizf Thompson in Anderson.

BULLETIN By United I ress LANSI iG, Mich., Jan. 7.—Governor Fiink Murphy, returning here fror Detroit where he conferred vw th strike leaders and General | lTotors officials, said today he e pected “there would be importani’ developments within the next ew hours.”

By United 1 ess DETROI[, Jan. T.—Pinched for materials, | teneral Motors Corp. today annoui ced it would close three Chevrolet | Jlants in the next two days as Fideral labor mediators worked raj idly in an attempt to start direc: negotiations between capital and lebor before strikes and shutdowns paralyze the two-and-half-billior; dollar corporation. The plants are in Flint, Saginaw and Bay City, J ichigan. i

Governor Frank Murphy took direct char ie of negotiations this morning an | then hastened back to Lansing wh re he was to address the Legislaf ire. “Things ¢ re moving along satisfactorily,” hh . said after a conference with Williar 1 S. Knudsen, executive vice preside: ; of General Motors. From that conference he went across the si ‘eet to talk with Homer Martin, Uni bd Automobile Workers (Tur: to Page Three)

DENIES CONTACTING MATT ON KIDNAPER

Father I akes Mysterious Trip; Family Cheered.

By United Pres | TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 7.—There were new sig 1s of cheerfulness and relaxation ol! tension at the home of Dr. Willii m W. Mattson today, but he deni¢ 1 he had heard from the bearded |2an who kidnaped his 10-year-old on, Charles, 11 days ago, : The physic in, who had appealed to local polic : and Federal G-men to let nothin: block his chances of negotiating v ith the kidnaper, returned from : mysterious four-hour trip and anni unced: “I have hii no word from the kidnaper. M: boy is not home.” Mrs. Mattsc 1, remaining home to be near five telephones installed should the kid 1aper attempt to contact the fami’ ' by that method, appeared more heerful than at any time since !:r son disappeared. But she, too, vas reluctant to discuss the case.’

Asked if Caiarles had returned home, she sali, “I can't say any-

the four WPA arts programs.

thing about tat.”

AS DOES THE HOUSE . . . . . .

Ran, Weather

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Disposes of Opening Ceremonies in Two. Hours, and Then Adjourns Until Tomorrow When McNutt Will Speak.

$125,000 APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED.

Officers Named in Party Caucuses Are Elected Formally; Galleries of Chambers Are Only Partly Filled With Spectators.

\ (Editorial, Page 16)

The 80th Indiana General Assembly disposed of its open ing ceremonies this morning in two hours and adjourned until tomorrow to await Governor McNutt’s final message. The overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature started on its 61-day course prepared to act on demands for rigid highe way safety laws, gross income tax revision, funds for new governmental functions and other measures. Gavels rapped the House to order at 10 a. m. and the

NOTE ON PAY CHECK RULED COMPLIANCE

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—The In-

that a notation on a pay check showing the amount of an employe’ Social Security Tax deduction is sufficient compliance with that section of the act requiring employers to provide employes with a “suitable statement” indicating the amount of tax deducted. . The bureau" held a written statement which is merely signed by the employee without opportunity for him to determine the exact amount and purpose of the deduction and which is retained by the employer

dges not conform with the law’s requirements.

POKER FAGE GREETS MAXIMUM PENALTY

Boy, 17, Gets Farm Term And Fine in Pencil Set Theft.

Harley White, 17, heard himself fifled $500 and sentenced to 180 days on the Indiana State Farm for petit larceny in Municipal Court today,

‘and then calmly marched back to

the prisoners’ bench without changing expression. The youth was charged with breaking into School 16 here and stealing a pen and pencil set and cooking utensils. Detectives testified he had been in Juvenile Court before on various charges and asked that the case be disposed of in Municipal Court. Judge Pro Tem E. H, Smith dismissed a burglary charge and gave the youth, who lives at 564 Lynn St., the maximum penalty for petit larceny.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Merry-Go-R’d 16 Movies Mrs. Ferguson 15 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 Music Crossword ....24| Obituaries Curious World 25 Editorials ...-16 Fashions Financial Fishbein Flynn Forum Grin, Bear It.24 In Indpls ... 3 Jane Jordan. ;18

Questions .... Radio . + Scherrer Serial Story.. Short Story... Society ....... Sports ; .State Deaths.. 8

Johnson

ternal Revenue Bureau ruled today |

Senate at 10:30. The galleries were oniy partly filled. Legis~ ators wore red carnations, | the Democrats: buoyed by their | heavy vot® in November. the Re- | publicans announcing a policy of i “watchful waiting.” Officers already selected by cause cuses were elected formally. First legislation was the passage, under suspension of the rules, of a $125,000 appropriation bill to pay legislators’ salaries andj legisiative expenses. The House vote was 93 to 0, the Senate, 45 to 0. Governor-elect Townsend, in his last official act as retiring Lieutenant Governor, opened the Senate. He will outline his program to a

inauguration Monday noon. The House, by a straight party vote of 75 to 19, elected Rep. Edward H. Stein (D. Bloomfield), as Speaker over Rep. James M. Knapp (R. Hagerstown). : The Senate elected Senator Thurs man A. Gottschalk (D./ Berne), as president pro tem. In the House, where the rostrum was banked with flowers, both Houses then met and canvassed the Nov. 3 popular vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor.

Little Trouble Forescen With Democrats in control of both Houses, it was evident, observers said, that the new Administration will experience little difficulty in getting its program enacted into law. Mr. Townsend has said he will propose a minimum of new legis lation, The Legislature, aside ‘rom the proposed safety measures ¢f Gover= nor-elect Townsend, evidently was without a comprehensive program. Republican leaders said they would vote in favor of good measures buf would in the main adopt a “watch~ ful waiting” policy to see what action was taken by Democratic majorities. The Governor's Comm ttee on Public Safety is to meet tcnight to give final approval to proposed bills on highway safety.

ceivable subject are exptected to be tossed into the hoppers as the sese sion swings into action next week. Most of them will stay there unless hauled from oblivion by th: Demo-

2 | cratic leaders in control.

At a caucus last night, Senatd William E. Jenner (R.. Paoli), wa named G. O. P. Senate ficor lead~ er and Senator Perry Johnson (R. Atlanta), caucus chairman. Republican House leaders are: Rep. James M. Knapp (Hagerstown) minority floor leader; Rep. Elam Y. Guernsey (Bedford), caucus chairman, and Rep. Bert Mayhill (Delphi), caucus secretary. | With a potential voting strength of 77 Democrats and 22 Republicans,

the House convened to the gavel (Turn to Page Three)

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