Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1937 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Unsettled tonight and tomorrow; no decided change in tem perature; lowest tonight about 26.

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ANIZATION

NOMERCY FOR KIDNAPER, U.S, ORDERS GEN

If Captured Alive, Abductor Will Face Death Penalty On Three Counts.

$10,000 REWARD POSTED

Friend Says He Apparently Was Slain Because He Saw Too Much.

By United Press TACOMA, Wash. Jan. 12.—The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent out orders to its agents today to track down the slayer and abductor

of Charles Mattson, 10, and give . him no quarter if he resists. If the man, whom authorities said they knew, is captured alive he faces the death penalty under three. separate laws. In the isolated spot 60 miles north of here when the kidnaper tossed the boy’s battered body into the snow, were numerous clues. These, with tell-tale marks in the indefinite negotiations with Dr. W. W. Mattson will lead him to the gallows, authorities predicted. Paul Sceva, friend of the family who identified the body Wednesday, said Charles apparently was slain because he was “too smart for the kidnaper.”

Saw Too Much, Belief

“It is now the belief that Charles saw too much and was too smart for the kidnaper to be returned to his anxious parents alive,” Sceva said. “The boy was keen on G-Man study and read much of G-Man procedure. We are confident that the boy was not too much alarmed when he was- kidnaped, but aiter spending a time® with tht kidnaper cr kidnapers, they discovered that he was too smart and his young memory was too keen.” Federal agents were believed seeking a former convict named “Tim” and another former inmate of a California penitentiary who stayed at a hotel here until Dec. 27, the day of the kidnaping. An informer told police that these men were planning a “big job.” Five other persons also are on the police wanted list. They are a 37-year-old Tacoma musician described as a narcotic addict and auto thief and two narcétic addicts and two counterfeiters. , If convicted the kidnaper faces death under three laws. The Federal (Lindbergh) law provides death penalty if the kidnaped victim is harmed. The State homicidal law provides capital punishment for murder. The State kidnaping statute decrees death for .a kidnaper who demands ransom.

$10,000 Reward Posted

From Washington came news that the ransom notes were sent through the mail. This definitely established the authority of Federal authorities to handle the case. Tthe revelatign came as President Roosevelt personally directed utmost Federal effort to solve the case and Attorney General Homer S. Cummings offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to apprehension of the kidnaperslayer—largest such reward ever offered by the Federal Government. The child’s body, found frozen and battered in a snowdrift 60 miles north of Tacoma yesterday, 15 days after he was stolen from his home, (Turn to Page Three) :

| BOB BURNS

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lot on findin’ out what you're good at. No matter who you are, there's bound to be somethin’ that you can do a little bit better than anybody else, if youll stick to it. “And sooner or later youll be called on to do it and you can * pame your own price. Now, you take the case of Grandpaw Snelson. The only thing he knew anything about in this world was the river. down at Van Buren, but he did know more about that than anybody else. - He had studied it from its lowest stages to its floods fer the past 67 years. Finally, in his 87th year, he began to think maybe his life on the river had been wasted, but one day his big chance came. A construction, company was .doin’ some buildin’ on the river bank and they wanted to know how high the water came up.

They sent for grandpaw and he -

drove a nail in a tree and says “It’l1l1 never come up higher than that.” That spring they had the biggest flood in history. The water rose up within a half an inch of the nail and went down again. » The company clerk asked grandpaw how much they owed him. Grandpaw says, “$35.50.” The clerk says, “That’s a lot of money for driving that nail. I’ll have to have an itemized bill.” So grandpaw wrote on a piece of paper, “Driving one nail, 50c; . knowing where to drive it, $35.” (Copyright, 1937)

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Doctor's Family Grief-Stricken

The W. Ww. Mattson family of

plunged into deepest grief by the brutal kidnaping and murder of the youngest son, Charles, 10, is

pictured here. The parents are at

center are Muriel, 14, a sister, and Happy, the

Tacoma, Wash.,

the left. In the lower right.

murdered boy’s cocker spaniel dog. is Charles, pictured in a cowboy outfit shortly before the crime was committed. An older brother, William, 16, who with Muriel witnessed the abduction, is at

Upper right

FUEHRER WANTS FRENGH PARLEY

Requests France to Invite Dr. Schacht for Conference.

(Copyright. 1937, by United Press)

PARIS, Jan. 12.—Fuehrer Adolf Hitler wants France to invite Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, his most eminent authority on economics and finance, to Paris to engage in political, economic and financial conversations, it was said authoritatively today. Andre Francois-Poncet, ambassador to Germany, arrived today and conveyed: to Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos an expression of Hitler's desire that Schacht be invited here. The Ambassador reported also on his exchange of assurances with Hitler on Spanish Morocco yester-

day, which brought a sudden end to

the dangerous situation caused by France's fears of German infiltration. France Not So Eager Important as Hitler's wish for a here by Schacht seemed French authorities did not seem to be eager for such a visit unless the German Government was prepared to give France. political guarantees such as negotiations for an arms limitation agreement. A high personality, commenting on the bid for an invitation, said, “That does not appear to be the case now.” , In a two-hour conversation with Delbos, held immediately upon his arrival, Francois-Poncet explained in detail his conversation with Hit-, ler at yesterday's diplomatic reception at Berlin. He repeated Hitler's pledge, given to him, that Germany does not desire to alter the Moroccan situation.

Russia Studies Policy Of Isolation

By United Press : LONDON, Jan. 12.—Authoritative

| sources said today that Soviet Rus-

sia is seriously considering an isolationist policy because it is not satisfied with the result of its efforts to maintain a common front with Western European nations against fascism. This would mefin leaving Western European problems to Western European | nations and accelerating Russia’s already formidable armaments. ) The startling increase in Russia's military appropriations, just announced in Moscow, was attributed to the new attitude; viet leaders. “We have been trying to co-op-erate with the western democracies not in| order to wage war but in order jointly tq, prevent it,” a Russian spokesman said today. “But experience has- led us to doubt that the effort is worth pursuing.”

VALUE OF BUILDING PERMITS DECLINES

Building permit valuatjons for the last week dropped $201,298 below the same period last year despite a gain of 76 permits, Building Commissioner George Popp Jr. reported to the Safety Board today.

MINTON ASSISTANT WHIP

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) today was named by Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas as assistant whip in the Senate. Sen-

{ator J. Hamilton Lewis (D. Ill.) is

whip.

Label Is Clue in Tub Slaying of Mrs. Mary Case

By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Discovery of a cleaner’s label in the trousers discarded by the bath tub killer of Mrs. Mary Harriet Case, led officers to hope today that the identity of the 26-year-old designer’s assailant might soon be established. The trousers had been thrown into an incinerator in the Jackson Heights apartment building where Mrs. Case was beaten and strangled. Officers said the label could be traced. They hoped also to obtain a lead from laboratory reports on several strands of hair found under Mrs. Case’s fingernails. A theory of a robbery motive was advanced when preliminary examination failed to disclose $10 in cash known to have been in the apartment and a platinum wedding ring Mrs. Case had worn on her finger. The money was found, however, in the pocket of a coat and with this discovery the reason for the crime became confused. Among those being questioned by the 100 picked detectives on the case were Frank Solomon, a porter in the building; Harry Violo, a fireman in the building, and Benjamin Weisberg, a laundry delivery man,

MERCURY TO STAY PUT, BUREAU SAYS

Lowest Temperature Due Tonight Is 26.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES

6a m.. 26 10a m... 29 Tam. 21 11a m/{ 28 Sam... 21 12 (Noon) 28 9a m... 28 lpm... 29

Indianapolis weather overnight and tomorrow is to remain about

the same as it is today, the Weather Bureau said. It is to be unsettled, and the lowest temperature tonight is to be about 26, the bureau stated.

INTENSIFIED PAINS DISTURB PIUS’ REST

By United Press VATICAN CITY, Jan. 12.—Intensified pain in Pope Pius’ right leg again disturbed his rest, it was reported today, despite the administration of a harmless sleep-inducing potion calculated not to affect his heart. A Papal household official said that the Pope was restless part of the night, and another source said that except for some sleep early in the morning the Pope spent an agitated night owing to the persistence of newly developed pain in his right eg.

MORRISSEY AT HOME; MOTHER STILL ILL

Police Chief Morrissey, confined several weeks to St. Vincent’s Hospital, was at home today. He left the hospital yesterday to be with his mother, Mrs. Katherine Morrissey, who is ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Morrissey was reported to be under an oxygen tent last night. Chief Morrissey is not expected to

76 ARRESTED ON TRAFFIC COUNTS

Three Face Drunken Driving Charges Before Judge Karabell.

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Seventy-six arrests yesterday served as a warning to Indianapolis motorists today that there has been no letup in the traffic drive inaugurated by ‘police several weeks ago. There were only seven accidents reported yesterday, with none inJjured seriously. Three were scheduled to face drunken driving charges before Judge Charles J. Karabell in Municipal Court today. They were Clarence Sweat, 38, of 911 W. North St.; Lucian Collier, 46, of 715 N. Alabama St., and Paul Wickersham, 52, of 306 Bicking St.

KEEP EXTRAS DOWN, COUNTY IS WARNED

The State Tax Board today warned Marion County Commissioners that during 1937 no extra appropriations would be allowed unless they were cccasioned by casualty, accident, or an extraordinary emergency. The letter told the Commissioners that in 1936 there were 1528 extra appropriations to the County.

AUTO EXHAUST FUMES OVERCOME GARDENER

Ollie Vance, truck garden worker, was found dead beside his auto in his combination garage-home at S. Meridian St. and Epler Ave. today. He apparently had been dead since Sunday, deputy sheriffs who investigated said. He evidently had been working on his car with the motor running and was overcome by exhaust fumes, they said :

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LABOR ISSUES PUT FIRST AT STATE CAPITOL

Settlement in Anderson, Meet Townsend.

STRIKE BILL IS OFFERED

Act Would Require Plant To Stay Closed if Troops Are Called.

Labor occupied the spotlight today as Indiana’s Legislature shifted into high gear. Union labor leaders conierred with Governor Townsend in an effort to forestall violence in the Anderson Guide Lamp Co. strike and in the closing of the Delco-Remy

eral Motors dispute.

A labor bloc in the House of Representatives introduced a measure which would require affected industrial establishments to remain closed after National Guard troops had been sent to a strike scene.

the 20 that had first reading in the House. The others would ban con-vict-made goods of other States from Indiana and amend the Workmen’s Compensation Act accident benefits provision.

Seven Bills in Senate

Foremost among seven bills introduced in the Senate was a measure presented by Senator Walter R. Arnold (D. South Bend) providing for election of judges and prosecuting attorneys on a nonpartisan basis. A similar bill was introduced in the House. Meanwhile, 4 highway safety legis‘lative program, reported to have Governor Townsend's approval, was being drafted by State Safety Director Donald F. Stiver for introduction in the House later this week.

oral and driving tests for persons applying for operators’ licenses. In his address to both Houses tomorrow, Governor Townsend is expected to urge passage of traffic safety, banking and conservation measures.

Bureau Is Transferred

It was learned today that the Central Purchasing Bureau was transferred from the Public Works Department to the Executive Department through an order by former Governor McNutt Jan. 6. Governor Townsend said he was holding up the commission of Earl Hefiner, Gary, appointed by former Governor McNutt as a member of the State Industrial Board, pending an investigation. Dick Heller, the Governor's executive secretary, said. that lahor representatives wished to confer with the Governor on the appointment.

Meets Union Leaders

Those who met with Governor Townsend on the General Motors strike and shut down, affecting 12,000 Anderson workers, were Hugh Thompson, United Automobile Workers 6f America official; Rinaldo Cappellini, Committee for Industrial Organization organizer; Carl Mullen, State Federation of Labor president, and Thomas Hutson, State Industrial Board chief factory inspector. “We want peace in Anderson and no repetition of the Flint, Mich, situation,” Mr. Cappellini said. It was reported the labor leaders wanted the Governor to help them work out a non-violence agreement with a citizens’ organization now being formed in Anderson.

Women Voters’ Bills

The Indiana League of Women Voters, in addition to sponsoring the bills to take the judiciary out of politics, also has caused to be introduced in the House a measure removing Presidential electors from the ballots. : : A bill providing for physical examinations for couples planning to marry and the posting of bans for five days before licenses are issued also was introduced in the House. Physicians examining prospective brides and bridegrooms must certify the report 15 days before the marriage application is sought, according to the bill. . Marion County would be benefited by one measure in the House which would permit the changing of ward boundaries every three years instead of every six years. The Marion County House delegation backed the bill. strong farmer-labor blocs were being organized in both houses of the Legislature for the purpose, observers said, of: 1. Repealing the “emergency clause” of the $1-$1.50 tax limitation law. 2. Consolidation of all state labor agencies into a new State Labor Department. Agricultural Split Seen

On the second point, labor was said to present a solid front, but there was a distinct possibility the agricultural group might split over the proposed “emergency clause” repeal. The new Governor is reported to favor the retention of this clause, Repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism and Minor Parties Acts also is on labor's program. The scope of this incipient agricultural insurgency is reported to be

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Leaders, Seeking Peaceful

plant in connection with the Gen-

Two other labor bills were among:

One of its features provides for

$5000 Asked For Traffic Signals Here

An Hrdinance appropriating . $5000 from the gasoline tax fund or purchase of automatic traffic signals ic to be sponsaied by the Safety Board at the City Council meeting Mond: y night. If aj proved, the fund will be used jo supply stop-and-go signals requested by civic group: for intersections near schools, according to Theo H. Damm yer, Board president. Two requests for signals were received today. A delegation represi nting School 66, 38th St. and B oadway, headed by Miss Nellie | Chapman, principal, asked both a signal and traffic off cer. The Board ordered “no leit turn” signs placed at the - crossing during school hours 1s a temporary measure. Mr. Dammeyer said a larger police force was the only solution | to the school _ traffic problen. Sergt. Edward Moore of thi Accident Prevention Squad agreed, reporting that 38 policeinen were off duty today due tc illness. This has been the a: erage during the recent wave of respiratory diseases, he saic.. : . J. 1. Kendall urged the board to order a [signal installed at Carson | Ave. and Shelby St. A child was killed there 11st week, he said, pointing ou that many pupils pass the coi ner daily. | Daniel J. ONeill Jr. City Clerk, ‘eported $1466 collected last mcnth on stickers.

TRO(PS CALLED IN AUTO STRIKE

Soldiers Are Mobilized to ~ Prevent Recurrence: of

Flint Riots.

BULLETIN By United ress LANSING, Mich, Jan. 12.— Govern: Frank Murphy of Michigz:: announced today he will order [500 mobilized National Guardsy en into the Flint strike area to “be on hand” for any emerge :y.

By United Press G—Mobilization of 126th 11 Guard regiment, 1500 rdered for “riot duty” by Colon¢ | John S. Bersey, adjutant genera . Governor Frank .Murphy, riediator in strike controversy, returns to Capitol. Assembly line of Olds Motor Works -G. M. subsidiary, closes down .oday. WASHI!:GTON—John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organizajion files charges with National Labor Relations Board allegin; General Motors Corp. is resjionsible for the Flint riot; {hat the company is employing professional strikebreaks. NEW Y()RK—General Motors official characterizes’ Flint riot as “onz of those things,” says battle beiween city police and striker; did not involve company. | £ DETRODIT — Sit-down strikes, walkol is and shutdowns in G. M. plants | bring total of unemployed to 112,000 with sit-down strike it Fleetwood body, G. M. divisi¢ii,, and the closing last night «f Fisher Body’s stamping plant ' here. PONT] AC—Fisher body plant closed this morning; Pontiac Motor Co. assembly line closes tonight.

LANSIN Natiox: men,

By United. l'ress FLINT, Mich., Jan. 12.—A Michigan National Guard regiment of 1500° men’ was mobilized today for “riot duty! in the Flint labor situation as authorities made plans to forestall any recurrence of last (Turn to Page Three)

REPORTS BIG FOUR T0 MOVE OFFICES

Business Seeks to Confirm ‘Reinoval Rumors.

Indianapolis business circies were disturbed ‘oday by an apparently reliable re¢nort that the New York Central Lies will move its departmental accounting division from this city to Dei roit. The mos 2, reported scheduled for April 1, would take about 200 families from he city, it was said. The Indianapol 3 Chamber of Commerce is prepared to protest if it learns the move has& been ordered, William Book, exec itive vice president, said today. It is understood the move is considered ir order that the departments of {he Big Four Route and the New York Central Lines can be united in :)etroit under one set of executives. Big Four officials here refused to confirm or deny the report, or said it was at his date a “roundhouse

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SEEKS TO WELD 100 AGENCIES IN 12 DEPARTMENTS

not Survive ‘in These Troubled Times’ ~ Without Efficient Administration.

4T.PAGE REPORT IS SUBMITTED

President Says He Is Overworked and That Executive Branch Is Organized Badly; Asks Two New Departments.

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Text of message accompanying Reorganization Report, Page 5; Text of Report, Page 6.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—President Roosevelt today asked of Congress authority for creation of two new executive departments and discretionary power for unprecedented governmental reorganization to consolidate in the White House vast powers assigned there by the Constitution. He warned that self-government could not survive in these troubled times without efficient administration. The President said he could not now properly discharge his duties as Chief Executive because he is overworked and the executive branch is badly organized. Pointing to 100 separate governmental establishments of departments, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, authorities and activities; Mr. Roosevelt said: “Neither the President nor the Congress can exercise effective supervision and direction over such a chaos of establishments. Nor can overlapping, duplications and contra-

"He called upon Congress for sympathetic and immediate: action, charged that the present organization of the executive branch defeats the intent of the Constitution, and gave a hearty second to the charge of the committee which drafted the plan that the Controller General had unconstitutionally . usurped Presidential prerogatives. :

Rests Solidly on Constitution

Conflict between the White House and Controller J. Raymond McCarl was a sparkling feature of the first New * Deal. McCarl left office last June after a 15-year term. ; “The President said he realized he would be charged with * recommending an increase in White House powers. : “This is not true,” he asserted. He saié his program rested solidly on the Constitution “and upon the American way of doing things.” . : The message was received in Congress with the 47-page report of the President’s Committee on Administrative Man. - agement. It contained five chief points, all providing greater - Presidential authority in executive management than ever before in American history. They were: : - 1. Creation of a new Department of Social Welfare and. a new Department of Public Works, making 12 Cabinet posts: instead of 10. The Government's 100 boards, commissions: administrations, authorities, . corporations, committees; agencies and activities would be placed under the dozen de<. partments. : 5 2. Assignment of six “executive assistants’ to the Presi«

| dent so he may devote more time to his office. At the same .

time the White House secretariat would continue as prese ently planned, making Mr. Roosevelt’s son, 29-year-old James, White House liaison man with Congress. Fiscal, personnel and planning activities would be placed directly under the

President. : Develop Bureau of the Budget

3. Development of the present Bureau of the Budget into - the President’s right-hand agency. Its functions would be : enlarged to include direction of a central information and publicity bureau, conducting Government research, drafting . and issuing executive orders and studying legislative recom= - mendations in line with co-ordinating Federal activities—all in addition to formulating and executing the Federal budget. 4, Extension of the Civil Service system to all Govern= ment workers except top-rank, policy-making jobholders. The Civil Service Commission would be abolished, replaced by an administration appointed by the President on a merit basis, and an advisory board of seven nonsalaried laymen approved by the U. S. Senate. _— 5. Elimination of the Controller General's office. The new position would be that of an Auditor General. A new gene = eral auditing office would be established in the U. S. Treasury. President Roosevelt would be given the broadest discre- ° tion in effecting reorganization. His would be authority to de termine which agencies would be continued; which consolidated; which abolished; which placed under each department, -. and which continued under semi-autonomous status. Congress - would increase upper bracket salaries—Cabinet members would be increased from $15,000 to $20,000 a year—but the President would fix pay of heads of independent establishments and members of regulatory commissions. A liberal. - contingent fund would be provided the President, each Cab- . inet member and for each of the three new managerial agen~..:

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