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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 312

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1937

Entered as Second-Clasz Matter at Postolfice, Indianapolls, Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

STATE ORDERS REDUCTION OF

POWER RATES

College of Future Must Be Ready to Meet Changing

Public Service Commission Ruling to Save at Least $525,000.

MINIMUM 1S 75 CENTS

Social, Moral and Religious Climate, Dr. Wildman Teils Inaugural Audience.

(Photos, Page 3)

| Times Speciat

GREENCASTLE, Ind, March 10.—The college of the future must | adapt itseif to the changing social, moral and religious climate or it will

Newly Inducted DePauw | 0CAL WOMAN Head Stresses Need

KILLED AS CAR

Roosevelt Chats With Nation

LEAVES ROAD!

Miss Peggy Herath, 44, Is Victim; Her Companion Also Injured.

COUNTY TOLL NOW 38

U.N. IS READY TO

HUNT CANCILLA, NOLAN DECLARES |

District Attorney Will

Call G-Men Into Chase

If Charge Is Made Mayhem, He Tells

| be ignored and disregarded, Dr. Clyde E. Wildman declared in an ad- | | dress here today following his inauguration as 14th president of DePauw

Electric Company Has No | University.

Comment; Decision Can Be Appealed.

Declaring present rates are “unjust and unreasonable and excessive,” the Public Service Commission today ordered the Indianapolis

{ The inaugural ceremony, which included a luncheon attended by | | educators and Governor Townsend, was part of the university's centennial ® celebration which

| | |

1.0. AIMS AT LABOR CONTROL

Power & Light Co. to reduce them !

$525,000 to £550,000 a year, The - der was temporary and affects billings of April 1. A perma-

nent rate will be established in a

permanent order forthcoming after more stuay of rearing evidence. Company officials were studving the order today and said they had no immediate comment to make. The company has the right of appeal from the order. 73 Cents Minimum The order lowered rates for residential and commercial power users in city and rural areas. It fixed the minimum monthly charge for residences at 75 cents, which is 10 cents higher than the current charge. The new residential rate is: Cents Per Kwh For the first 30 kwh per month «23 For the next 350 kwh per month . 1.5 For the next 10 kwh per month 3.5 For all over 190 kwh... .. 2.5 The old rate is: For the first 100 kwh per month 3.55 Far the next 100 kwh ‘ . 3 An 20 kwh v3 The new schedule for rural residences is:

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Cents Per Kwh First 30 kwh Next 30 kwh 2 Next 40 kwh.. "vasa ia sae 3.5 AR over 100 kwh.........uuuun ‘aaah « 23 The minimum monthly rural residential bill was fixed at $1. The new rate replaces several different schedules now in effect. The rate for commercial city serv ice was fixed at: Cents Per Kwh First 50 kwh 33 Next 560 kwh | "eh ern . “vw Next 100 kwh .. RE Ee 4.5 Next 200 kwh EERE ER LER a All over 1000 kwh a | Rural Commercial Rate

The rural commercial rate fixed at.

VL TROD AR

was

Cents Per Kwh First Next

50 kwh 50 Lwh . . "haan A Next 10 kwh "SAB ANA "eau LI Next 308 kwh.......... ov 38 AN over 1000 kwh...... ovine 8 Shortly after the company was ordered in 1934 to show cause why it should not reduce its rates, it made a reduction of about $516,000 a year in the rates. That, with today’s order, brings the reduction

since the order to more than $1,000,- |

000 a year.

VAL NOLAN REFUSES

POST IN PHILIPPINES

Times Special WASHINGTON. March 10.—Val Nolan, Federal District Attorney at Indianapolis, has declined High Commissioner McNutt's offer of a legal post in the Philippines and will accept reappointment to his present office for another four-year term. He wrote former Governor McNutt here, thanking him for the imvitation to join his staff. He also

wrote Senators VanNuys and Min- |

ton expressing his desire to remain in the district attorneyship. Both Senators have pledged to support his retention.

Mr. McNutt today set April 3 2s |

a tentative date for sailing from San Francisco to his new assignment.

BOB BURNS | Says . GLLYWQOD,

The real value of a thing entirely depends on how much we want it. We all have a lot of things we jest take for granted because they've always been there. We'd appreciate ‘em a lot more if we'd Jest stop every once in a while and try to figure what in the world we'd do if we didn't have ‘em. It’s like the winter that we had the big blizzard down home. Snow piled up to the second story windows. Everybody was marooned in their homes. My uncle was looking out the second story window of his store. There wasn't nothin’ but a sea of snow as far as the eye could reach. Not a sign of life. Suddenly, on top of the hill, where Main St. dips down to Lick Skillet, he saw snow flyin’ up in the air. It Kept gettin’ closer and closer. Main St. came this flurry ot snow sailin’ up into the air, Finally

‘Splits in Workers’ Ranks to Take Place Over Nation, Little Says.

| By HERBERT LITTLE i

Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, March 10.—C. I.| [ O. unions plan either to absorb and | control State Federatons of Labor | and city central bodies, now char- |

tered by the A. F. of L, or to set up {rival groups. { This is the meaning of the deci{sion of John IL. Lewis’ Committee | for Industrial Organization to is=- | sue certificates of affiliation to such | groups where necessary. This action makes labor | wholly impossible as long as Willam Green and his executive coun(211 run the A. I. of L.. and Lewis | and Sidney Hillman run the C. 1. O. | Little remains except for the A. F.

of L. council formally to expel the!

10 suspended unions and perhaps | the six other unions represented on {the C. I. O., and for the C. 1. O. [itself to adopt a constitution and [a permanent system of financing.

Splits Due Over Nation

In every city and state the unionists are due for splits, except where | the A. F. of L. unionists choose not | to take punitive action and the {C. I. O. men can work within the | A. F. of L. bodies. | In Pennsylvania, for instance, the | mine workers and garment trades | unions, all C. I. O. allies, dominate | the State Federation of Labor, Un- | less Mr. Green revokes this state feharter, the group will stay in the A. FP, of LL. The situation in Kentucky is similar, But in Maryland, in advance ol the state A. F. of L. convention, the | C. I. O. union representatives have | been denied credentials, and the these men to set up their own state group. The state federations are important in lobbying for state legislation and in collective action, just as the city central bodies are ackve in civic affairs, education, and carrying out local “unfair list” action against antiunion employers.

DENIES NEWCASTLE

| |

Chief Says Police De Not Have Such Authority.

By United Press

NEWCASTLE. Ind.

denied today reports that city police had ordered out of town four organizers for the United Automobile Workers of America seeking to contact employees of the closed Chrysler Corp. plant here.

Breckenridge said. anything about it. authority to order town that way.”

“We don’t know We have no people out of

| Breckenridge and a patrolman, accompanied by Sherman Welch, fac- | tory superintendent, had intercepted

: { uniwy |

Lewis committee will proceed to help |

"Five Others, Including Three Firemen, Are Hurt in Other Accidents.

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

started Jan. 11.| “We are living in a day when | every institution, every idea. moral | or social concept will be subjected to | cearching analysis,” Dr. Wildman said. “An institution is a set of ideas at | work in a social group. The institution which expects to survive must touch the life of that group pro-| foundly at the point of its highest values and its deepest needs.

Great Care Needed

“In its haste to adapt itself to the age, an institution will need to ex- | ercise great care lest the enduring | | values associated with the past be sacrificed. i “We cannot balance ourselves ! upon the pin-point of the present | and then plunge to the solution of |

| the vast probelms that vex even our ! “i » raffic toll Host Hants | Marion County's 1937 t t

“We need constantly to apply the | Was increased to 38 with the death | test of the ages to the ay of | today in St. Vincent's Hospital of our age, for no age is a good judge | Miss Peggy Herath, 44, of 5500 W. {of its own obsessions.” the new | president continued.

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1936

Accidents Injured .. "ans TRAFFIC ARRESTS Running red light Improper parking . Reckless driving Preferential street .. vpeeding Drunken driving Others except parking. ...

She was one of three persons injured in accidents during the night. Miss Herath was hurt when the | car in which she was riding with | Collins Pearson, 42, of 44 N. Pershing St., went into a ditch on Road 40 near the Marion County line. He also was hurt and treated at the hospital. Three firemen of Engine House 2 | were injured today when the pump- | er truck on which they were riding | skidded into a utility pole at 16th | St. and Roosevelt Ave, They were | | hurled to the ground. Woman and Daughter Hurt

They were John Johnson, 38, of 1931 N. Dearborn St. Albert Un- | derwood, 37, of 2851 N. Captol Ave. |

DePauw's Second Century

Reaching the topic of his address: “Our Second Century -— Will it, Be Harder Than the First?” Dr. Wild{man said: “DePauw was conceived in faith and born into a situation where ad- | | versity was frequent. The virtues de'manded by the first century were | | faith, vision, sacrifice, courage and | intelligence. All these will be de- | |manded in larger measure by the | second century. | “The college of the future must | [conserve all that is best in our human heritage, and yet it must be in- | tensely aware of the rapid changes | taking place all about,” Dr. Wild- | and Marion Harrison, 49, of 634 N. | man continued. | Keystone Ave. City Hospital physi- | “Education is a manifold thing. cians described their conditions as | It is hard to define. By the time we | “good.” (have defined it, it has become some-! Mrs. Donna Hopper, 35, of 25 W. {thing else. It squirms and fidgets | Michigan St. and her daughter, [when we try..fo confine it to the verbal sacket of definition,

Stresses Good Philosophy

“But whatever it is, we want it, | a State Highway truck. They were land we want a philosophy of edu- treated by a private physician. | cation that does not begin by leav- George Kimbrow, 53, of 1114 WwW, [ing out some of the most important | 27th St, was reported in a serious | factors in human nature and life. [condition in City Hospital with in- | “Occasionally, there needs to be | juries received when he steppd into that strong beat of the wing which | the path of a truck driven by Carl | carries us high above the whole | Neutzman, 18, of 1322 Roache St. The accident occurred in the 1100 |

| educational process so that we may | see it from the vantage ground of | block, Roache St. No arrests were made. A

+ W, Michigan St.. were injured today when their car skidded on Road 29

| @ higher altitude.

Washington St. | Borah-

Mrs. Virginia Hammond, 19. of 25!

near New Bethel and crashed into |

March 10. | Indianapolis today. Police Chief Floyd Breckenridge | made streets slippery for autos and r | It was to continue more or less throughout the day, the Weather Bureau said, and by night there probably will be between two and three inchs of snow on the ground. ®

| | | | | | { |

“That report is rong,” Chief | is wi Port Is all Wrong,” Chief, ou so far tis Winter

It was reported earlier that Chief | parture from this winter's custom. |

| |

four union organizers whose names |

were not learned, and told them to leave the city,

FIRE DESTROYS BRITISH SHIP BOSTON. March 10.—The Britmonths ago at a cost of $1,500,000,

by a general-alarm fire believed to

its funnel.

}

ish freighter Laila, built only six!

“Education of the future must be scientific. Our ideal for DePauw will ever be that of the college of liberal arts. “Higher education of the future need have no quarrel with applied | (Turn to Page Three) '

BANNED ORGANIZERS Spring Suffers Setback

Albert Ashley, ®, of R. R. 13, Box 21, was arrested on charges of drunkenness, drunken driving, failing to stop after an accident and reckless driving. His car had struck | and damaged four others at 28th St. ! and Sherman Drive, police said.

In Heavy Snowfall Here

One of the heaviest snows of

There was a fall in December of 3 | inches and one in January of 3.8 inches and they were the two |

Accompanying the snow were | temperatures 16 degrees below nor- | mal, which is another sharp de-

The winter thus far has piled up a

of normal.

The snow was general over Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky. It centered in Missouri. Every weather station in Indiana except Evansville reported snow. | Theoretically, spring already is here except for astronomical calculations, and the third heaviest snow of the |

was destroyed within an hour today season thus mixes things up.

A base of ice on the streets under |

have been started by a spark from | the snow created a serious traffic

hazard, especially on well-traveeld

n It took spring-minded citizens by surprise, and

an almost snowless winter fell on |

pedestrians.

streets, and the pace of traffic defi-

Shoppers brave enough to get about hurried through the flurries

| to purchase the new offerings of filmy spring and summer things on

the theory that this can’t forever, They were right, too. The Weather Bureau predicted that a light

g0 on

| large number of degrees in excess | Show Soaight Hien} Wind Jue To.

| bureau said.

Pedestrians found walking difficult. Mrs. Millie McDaniels, 58. of 2402 N. Alabama St, was treated in City Hospital for a possible arm fracture received when she fell at Senate and Indiana Aves.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

am... 10a. m... a Me... lam...

BW... 12 (Noon) i Wh...

22 21 25 27

On down the middle of |

it reached underneath |

my uncle’s window and he could |

lean out and see what it was. was a little old man with a long gray beard, shovelin’ a trench. My uncle says “Where in the world did you come from?” The little old man says “I dug my way here from 40 miles back in the mountains.” My uncle says “You must be desperate to dig your way all this distance through the snow.” And the little old man says “Yes, sir, we've been out of nutmeg for two weeks.” (Cobyright, 193%)

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SNOW MAKES FOOTING PRECARIOUS .

| King (D. Utah), foe of the hill, * | you judges to be appointed?” |

—Aeme Telephoto,

President Roosevelt is shown here in the Oval Room of the White | House as he made his Fireside Chat on the Supreme Court last night.

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Roosevelt Plan Has Loophole, Senator Declares In Debate.

By United Press

WASHINGTON, March 10.—Wil-

liam E. Borah, veteran Idaho Sena- |

tor, today led foes of President

Roosevelt's Court plan in an attack | upon Attorney General Cummings’

plea before the Senate Judiciary Committee for prompt action on the Administration proposal. Senator Borah and other ponents of Mr. Roosevelt's clashed with Mr. Cummings as soon las the Attorney General had completed an hour's exposition | reasons for enactment-ef the~President’s plan Senator Borah

op-

listened intently

to the plea of Mr. Cummings that | Court.

action was imperative to inject an infusion of new blood into the nation's judicial system. Borah Opens Attack As Mr. Cummings concluded, the Idaho statesman said: “Let us presume that the Supreme Court were enlarged by six members and then the New York mini-

Cummings Clash Enlivens Court Hearing

President Tore Away Veil | Of Mystery, Says

Stokes.

of | | made much of his quality of being a |

vonder

(Editorial, Page 14; Text of Speech, Page 22) By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March

| man sits in the White House, comfortable and at ease, and reads into

| a microphone from a manuscript. |

| A mile, two miles away, in their

plan | homes, nine middle-aged and e'derly gentlemen toast their feet before the |

{ fire. The President is talking. He has

human being: he has the common | touch, Not so with the Supreme To the public, the nine have seemed to sit up somewhere, austere, bidding, cold—minds, rather nen,

| judges

than

| But no longer, perhaps, not after

the words which came over the

| radio last night.

Two Cruel Cuts Last night must have been bitter

mum wage case came before it and | for some members of the Supreme

by a vote of 8 to 7 it acted on that | Court.

For Mr, Roosevelt tore away

law. Wouldn't your plan to prevent | the veil of mystery, reached right

split decisions have failure?” “That would depend on which side

the eight votes were,”

proved

| mings replied.

Senator that

“You mean,” snapped

would expect “Not sympathetic to my views,” Mr. Cummings responded. “Dut sympathetic to the view that an act of Congress is constitutional unless proved not to be so bevond reasonable doubt. If that is what vou mean by sympathetic, I yes, yes.” Senator Pittman gested to the committee an amendment to the Judiciary bill requiring at least 11 members—and possibly 15

! | —in a reorganized Supreme Court. nitely was stepped down.

| TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

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Movies : Mrs. Ferguson 13 20 | Mrs. Roosevelt 13 . 20 | Music | Obituaries Pegler Radio Scherrer ..... Serial Story. . Short Story. .

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Mr. Cum-=- | pefore.

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| |

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a | into those comfortable rooms, re-

vealed nine human beings. They have been attacked before, criticized But not thus openly by a President, before millions of people.

And the burden of his assault was |

that the justices are only human

sympathetic | heings after all—and that some of

them are lagging years behind the times. He pictured the justices as quarreling among themselves; he reached, in effect, into their private confer-

2 lences of the last three years. and | hinted at what must have been go- | fay ling on there behind the screen,

The cruelest cut of all, except one,

(D. Nev.) sug-|was the Presidents repetition of

Chief Justice Hughes’ remark: “We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.” But cruelest was his inferential charge that the four justices who held the Gold Dollar Devaluation Act unconstitutional were ready to throw the nation “into hopeless chaos.” “The change of one

vote,” he

Merry-Go-R'd 14 |said, “would have thrown all the 6 | affairs of this great nation back into

hopeless chaos. In effect, four justices ruled that the right under a

21 | private contract to exact a pound of 5 | flesh was more sacred 14 | main objectives of the Constitution 91 | to establish an enduring nation.”

than

Those are strong words.

20 | NEW MATTSON SUSPECT HELD | disfigure, cuts . . ,

TACOMA, Wash., March 10. — A

He said he was Joe Murphy, 40.

10.—A |

for- |

Prosecutor in Letter.

MESSAGES FROM BAKER REPORTED .

Newspapers Receive Purported Communicas tions, but Authorities Still Are Without |

Knowledge of His Whereabouts.

(Editorial, Page 14)

Val Nolan, I‘ederal district attorney, said today he would ask G-Men to enter the search for Peter A. Cancilla, if Prosecutor Ilerbert M. Spencer would institute mayhem charges against the fugitive slugger of Wayne Coy.

The County Grand Jury, checking evidence in the slug« ging, may return an indictment tomorrow against Cancilla, 1t was reported. case of Cancilla’s close associate, Joel A. Baker, also missing,

The jurors also are reported studying the

Three Indianapolis persons have reported seeing Baker in Miami, Fla. One, a sportsman, said he saw him at Trop ical Park race track. Another said he saw Baker, wearing dark glasses te avoid identification, board a northbound train | Monday night. Although the Legislative Investigating Committee is in recess, its probe will continue with a State detective, an ine 'vestigator and an attorney handling the case until members | ‘are called together again. | Meanwhile, two Indianapolis newspapers have received | communications from Joel Baker, by the committee or by other authorities. Governor Townsend, in-9 formed that Joel Boker was | : Phirteen columns of reported to have said Met's verbatim. testimony. in give the Governor a chance the Joel Baker investiga- | bs als {99.7 ald jay bri Yon, Pages 2, andy,

any session of the Legislature I've | been in.”

Miami, purporting to come from But no such communications have been received

| | | | | | |

he was assailed and that he will be

: or { Mr. Nolan wrote that it “appears Mr. Nolan told the prosecutor in a | probable Cancilla has traveled from

the |

letter that if a mayhem charge is instituted against Cancilla that he will ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation to find the fugitive. | “The flight statute” in the Fed- | eral code, Mr. Nolan said, covers the crime of hayhem, but does not cover | the charge of assault and battery | with intent to Kill, . Mr. Nolan wrote in part: “It may be said that if Cancilla has traveled from Indiana to some other state with an intent to avoid | prosecution for the crime of may- | hem in the state courts, he has violated a Federal statute. “In the spirit of co-operation, I | suggest that if you will institute proceedings charging Cancilla with the crime of mayhem, I will call upon the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate and report to me the whereabouts of Cancilla, and other pertinent facts from which I may determine whether there should be an inquiry by the Federal grand jury. Awaits Spencer's ‘Advice’

“As any action which I contemplate must be conditioned upon the institution of a prosecution of Cancilla in Marion County courts | for the crime of mayhem. I await | your advice as to whether you will | institute such proceedings.” Mr. Nolan said in his letter that

| | hem “whoever purposely and maI liciously with intent to maim or or slits the .

. . of another person, is guilty

”

[lip .

| Mr. Nolan said in the letter that

| Foreman, Mr. Coy's physician, that ‘Mr. Coy's lip was cut and slit when

IT COVERS

the Indiana statute defined as may- |

Indiana to some other state” as a | fugitive from justice.

The purported Baker statements urged the Committee to “give the people the truth about the Legisla- | ture and political affairs.” The mes« sages failed to mention Cancilla, | also reported in Florida. According to another semiofficial | report, Marion County authorities | raided three Cincinnati places Sune | day only to be told that Cancilla | had fled 12 hours earlier. : | The reported statement charged | that the Committee “has listened to | and been influenced by people ate tempting to further their political ambitions by a so-called probe of political affairs.” The alleged statement denicd thas Joel Baker, missing since the attaclk on Mr. Coy, had fled. “I came here on business,” the purported states ment said, “and will return to Ine dianapolis within a week.” Urges Committee Return

Senator Edward C. Hays, commite tee member, yesterday urged that all | committee members return to Ine dianapolis when and if Joel Baker returns, When the Committee recessed late yesterday it was decided that any member during the recess may make investigations, subpena evidence and | examine witnesses. Some members indicated the | course of the investigation had re- | vealed several conditions that should

. .| be probed further.

Meanwhile, State Police prepared to send circulars to 2000 cities and towns asking the arrest of Cancilla, The circulars bear the photograph, fingerprints and other information regarding Cancilla and announce a $500 reward for his arrest.

Jury to Hear 3 Witnesses

Three witnesses were to appear before the County Grand Jury today. They were Miss Sarah Kirby, 2348 Central Ave. a waitress in the Har= rison Hotel taproom: Charles Mare

./ shall, 3615 W. Michigan St. State

~ Times rhotos,

| |

| Welfare Department safety division | official; | tender in the Harrison Hotel tape | room.

and Richard Macy, bare

In addition to the three witnesses, Prosecutor Spencer said he would

| present to the jury a long list of | documentary

evidence, including Cancilla’s office records and other documents brought out by the legis« lative investigators. Miss Kirby was to tell the jury about a conversation she said she heard between Cancilla and Joel Baker in the Harrison taproom a few minutes before the slugging of Mr. Coy. Before the investigating committee she quoted Cancilla as saying: “I have a little jcb to do.”

Marshall to Tell of Attack

Mr. Marshall was to repeat his # eye-witness account of the Coy ate&& tack which he gave to the comm)! tee: and Mr. Macy was to tell |i seeing Cancilla and Bakér togethf (Turn to Page Three) ‘4