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Lindbergh Hit For Keeping His Air Route Secret
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FRIDAY, APRIL 9,
VOLUME 49—NUMBER 25
Ace Pilots tq Test Blind F Lying System
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By United Press
EDITORS TOLD
Senators Facing Campaigns Watching Sentiment, Writer Declares.
STATE MEETING OPENS
200 Delegates Expected as Press Association Convenes Here.
Public opinion will determine the fate of President Rcosevelt’s Su- " preme Court reform proposal, William S. Neal, Washington correspondent, told members of the Hoosier State Press Association here today. He spoke at a noon .luncheon for association members, holding their annual two-day convention in the Spink Arms Hotel. Vv More than 75 delegates were welcomed at the luncheon by Mayor Kern. The number attending is expected to reach 200 before the end of the day, according to Wray Fleming, president. Mr. Fleming was to give his an- | nual address at ‘a meeting following |
the luncheon.
Native of Stale
Mr. Neal, native of Noblesville. Ind. said “those who believe the President's plan will become law point to the huge Democratic majorities in both houses. They mention the thumping popular victories of the President at the polls. They cite! the potent influence of patronage and the shadow of coming elections.” : : “One-third of the Senate must face election each two years,” the writer pointed out. “It was noticeable during the long fight over the soldiers’ bonus that those facing an early campaign were inclined to favor the bonus. Some Senators with an election four years away opposed the bonus. “Those who believe that the President will lose the court fight say that he can not risk a party split. ‘They insist that a majority of Congress will fight the plan either because of a conviction or: because of their regard for public opinion. >
Filibuster Is Discussed
“There always is the weapon for filibuster for the minority. At the present time there is not the twothird majority necessary to enforce limitation of debate. Some Senate leaders say that clothre will not be invoked. While opponents of the court, proposal talk little of filibuster, there is believed to be a band of at least a dozen Senators who dged themselves to conengthy and determined filiif necessary.”
Mr, Neal said there is a real need ) truthful reporting on
ten speaking from their own Drejufijoes/ and | beliefs than from an inside survgy of the situation. The cor- | respondents in Washington, to a remarkable degree, disregard their | own | opinions, resist nressure and | flattery and give the American peo- | le a fairer, more complete, more | comprehensive picture of what is going on at the seat of their Gov- | nt than newspapermen. are able [to do in almost any other nation in the world.”
Rail Official Talks
E.| laypool, Illinois Central Railroad assistant public relations director, likened the task of the] newspapers to that of the railroads —both meeting and serving the public : | He [said [that last year railroads | spent | $10,000,000 in newspaper ad- | vertising. Russell Hammargren, Butler University | journalism department, spoke |on modern trends in journalism. | Another speaker was John Benson, president of the American Assocjation of Advertising Agencies. A |resolutions committee appointed by President Fleming in- | (Turn to Page Three) |
OB BURNS
Say S. O LLYWOOD, April 9.—Hollywood |is fast becoming the “meltingpot” ‘of the nation. If you look around you can can find fanatics on all subjects and there's hardly a cult of any kind that isn’t represented here. I know one lady out here who is a fanatic against whirl-wind courtships. She has had two of ’em. She married once for love and once for money and didn’t get either — so she became a rabid advocate of long engagements. Not long ago, her personal maid came to her and told her that she was gonna git married. ‘The lady says “I hope it ain’t.that man that’s been callin’ on you for two weeks.” The girl said “Yes.” The lady says «you can’t possibly learn anything about a man in two weeks,” and the girl says “Well, I ain't takin’ any chances. I wouldn't marry him unless I knew all about him. You ses my best girl friend was engaged to
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CITY IS WARNED OF SEWER NEED
Steeg Suggests Two Ways to
Keep Water From Backing Up.
Unless some ion is taken by the city to control air-conditioning, overcrowded sewers may back up on the downtown area during a heavy downpour this summer, City Engineer H. B. Steeg warned the Works Board today. Mr. Steeg outlined two possible procedures. He suggested a large main running through the business district to carry away the water used in air-conditioning equipment, or legislation restricting equipment to a certain type of condenser which uses 5 per cent less water than most equipment now in use. He said the former method appeared to be the best, with the main emptying into Pogue’s Run. He said the equipment which used little water still was in the experimental
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Mr. Steeg pointed ouf that most |
| of the large department stores and
theaters have cooling systems and
that many have wells to provide
the water. He said the water, which drains into the sewers. is | threatening the sewers and also
works a hardship on the Sanita-
tion Plant.
The Board decided to notify the City Council it is studying possible legislation to remedy the situation and to ask the Council's co-opera-tion. The question was raised when a downtown theater asked permission to sink a well in front of the building to be used for air-con-ditioning.
WEATHER FORECAST S FAIR AND WARMER
With Rains Stopped, Farmers Look to Plowing.
TEMPERATURES 35 10 a. m... 37. 11 a.m... 39 12 (noon). 39 1pm...
"LOCAL a.m... a.m... a mi. a.m...
6 41 7 42 8 42 9 44 Today and tomorrow are to be fair, and tomorrow is to be warmer, the Weather Bureau predicted today. With rains/ stopped for a day or two at least, farmers looked with renewed hope toward- getting into their fields for sowing and plowing.
SUGAR RESTRICTIONS MAY BE REMOVED
and Puerto Rico to put them on a parity with the United States, it was learned today will be contained in a revised Sugar Quota Bill to be submitted to the House
Agriculture Committee within 24 hours.
to witness tests of. three types of blind flying and landing equipment at
Municipal Airport.
The Lorenz system. used in many European ports, will be tried for
the first time in the United States.
The antenna house, containing the
Lorenz radio equipment, is shown below. The U. 8S. Army air corps is to play an important part in the tests and will try out a system of its own. Shown above is a new-type ship brought here from Langiey Field, Va. In addition.to radio experiments, the Army also is to test its new “tricycle” landing gear shown in the
picture.
Na rajo Tribesmen Meet To Draw Up ‘New Deal’
Young Braves Demand
Legislature to Replace
Council; New Constitution Drafted.
By United Press
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. April 9.—Hundreds of Navajos. represent atives of a rich and growing tribe of 50,000, assembled today in constitutional convention at their Hoghan-type council house to draw up a “new deal” for the nation within a nation. Younger members of the tribe believe that after 70 years of struggle and expansion, their nation has become too large to be governed by the ancient tribal system. They want a legislature to replace the tribal
council. Thomas Henry Dodge, son of the venerable Chief Henry Chee Dodge, who is an attorney and legal adviser to the U. S. Indian Service, was a leader in the movement.
The delegates streamed into this million-dollar Navajo capital today from all directions. Some were draped in blankets and only pacifi-
cally remove@ from the war paint days. Others, college educated, were
{modern businessmén.. All discussions | were to be in the Navajo tongue.
WASHINGTON, ‘April 9.—Re- | | moval of restrictions against im- | portation of refined sugar from | Hawaii
Seventy years ago warfare and sickness had all but annihilated the tribe. Today there are 50,000. They own a million sheep. Their reservation includes 16,000,000 acres in three states and their land is rich in coal and oil. Their blanket business is approaching a million-dollar industry. Now they want a greater voice in
Despite | evidence of a naturai death, .deputy sheriffs today reviewed the personal life of Michael A. King, Plainfield Boys’ School vocational instructor, for any incident that might have provoked a motive for foul play in connection with his death last! night at his home, 5138 W. Washington St. Mr. King, who was 37, was found dead in a pool of blood on the
| grounds of his home.
Dr. Norman Booher, deputy coroner, said today that Mr. King apparently had died after a blood vessel burst in his heart. He said, however, he would hold the verdict open until satisfied there was no suspicious circumstance surrounding the death. Mrs. Fanchon King, the instructor’s wife, told deputies she found hjs body. She said he had gone outside and that she became worried when he failed to return.
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Foul Play Motive Sought In State Teacher's Death
who helped her carry the body into the house. She then called Dr. W. L. Jennings, the family’s physician. He pronounced Mr. King dead. Dr. Booher found a bump over the right eye, two scratches on the
left side of the head and a cut over the bridge of the nose. \ He said an autopsy revealed that violence had caused the death. | ) Mrs. King said her husband had suffered from no serious illness. She knew of no enemies, she said. Mr. King formerly lived in Brownsburg and had recently moved to Indianapolis. Surviving besides the wife are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick King, Brownsburg; a seven-months-old son, Donald Joseph King; two brothers, Kevin, Brownsburg, and Charles, Columbus, O. and two sisters, Miss Mary King, Browns-
Mrs, King summoned a. neighbor
burg, and Miss Shelia King, Chicago...
the affairs of their domain. Dodge has prepared a new constitution, patterned after that of the United States, with some innovations chosen from the English parliamentary form. . It provides for a president of the Navajos, representatives to an unicameral legislature and members of the president's cabinet, all to be elected by the Navajos. Older members of the tribe opposed the new convention at first, but most objections have subsided.
BULLETIN By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 9.— George Moran, who with the late Charles Mack ‘rose to the “Two Black Crows,” is working here on & WPA writers’ project, it was
fame as
learned today affer a man - who represented himself as Moran was found dead Ypsilanti, Mich.
YOUTH ‘WORKING HIS WAY’ GETS 60 DAYS
One youth “working his way through college” was serving a State Farm sentence today and another was released on his promise to leave Indianapolis immediately. Bess Robbins, Municipal Court judge pro tem, gave Milton Wilston, Castle Hilis, Fla. a 60-day jail sentence for trespassing on the property of Mrs. Sylvan Bush, 5151 N. Capitol Ave. She allowed Norman Brooks, Williams Hotel, to leave the.city after
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Mrs. William Evans, 2101 Boulevard to her.
Five columns of letters from readers, Page 16, 30 _and 31.
he was convicted of stealing $2 from
Place. He has returned the money.
BUDGET VIEW
Governors Ask President Not To Cut Estimates for WPA Work.
RELIEF PARLEY TODAY
EF. D. R. Denies Rumors of
{~ Slash in Gold Prices;
Buying Is Heavy.
By United Press : WASHINGTON, April 9.—President Roosevelt today renewed his expression of hope that there will be no need for new taxes at this Congressional session. : Mr. Roosevelt made his statement as he prepared to present to Congress next week his estimates of the required relief appropriation for the 1938 fiscal year. His statement that he hoped nc additional taxes will be necessary came in the face of lagging tax receipts and Congressional approval of expenditures not included in the budget. ; Mr. Roosevelt said he had not yet decided the amount he will recommend be spent for unemployment aid during the next fiscal year.
Revised Estimates
The message, he said, will contain revised budget estimates. The President was to confer ‘today with Governors H. Lehman of New York, La Follette of Wisconsin, Benson of Minnesota and Quinn of Rhode Island on the relief problem. Governor Charles F. Hurley of Massachusetts and Governor Henry Horner of Illinois will be represented. The state executives, representing industrial areas where the relief problem is most pressing, asked President Roosevelt last month not to cut WPA work-relief jobs. Mr. Roosevelt conferred on reliefbudget problems and their relation to the general price situation with a group of Government fiscal and relief officials. Cabinet members included in the
| group were Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes; Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. and Secretary of Labor Frances
. ~~" | Perkins. America's aviation leaders will assemble in Indianapolis next week
No Cut in Gold Price Planned, Says F. D.R.
By United Press 1 WASHINGTON, April 9 —President Roosevelt said today he knows of no plan to lower the present price of gold, now $35 an ounce. Mr. Roosevelt said that the U.S. Treasury likewise has no plan along
|that line.
Reports of such a move, he said, seem to originate from the foreign press. of At the same time, Administration fiscal officials were watching with keen interest operations of the federal reserve system’s open market committee which purchased $25,194,000 of long term U. S. Government bonds in the first three days
of this week. By its new operations, the federal reserve system enlarged its open market portfolio for the first time since Nov., 1933.
POSSE BRINGS BODIES OF § DOWN MT. BALDY
Inquest Into Plane Crish Is Scheduled.
(Photos, Page 13)
By United Press : M'NARY, Ariz. April 9—A posse camped today at a trail’s end in the mountains with eight bodies that were removed from the wreckage of a Douglas transport plane. : Headed down Mt. Baldy with the remains of six passengers and two pilots who died when the plane crashed in the wilderness Saturday, Lumberjacks had to chop trees and build a bridge across White River before they could proceed. A ‘sudden spring thaw made traveling through the snow more difficult. An inquest was scheduled at McNary and Navajo County officials planned to investigate the cause of the wreck, which Douglas officials said was due to a snowstorm.
Two Die as Plane
Crashes on Hill
By Uilited Press : GO. N, Cal., April 9—C. H. -Christop and E. A. Grumm, both
of Los Angeles, were killed today when their big cabin monoplane crashed into a brush-covered hillside 300 yards from a highway.
WABASH COUPLE DIE AS TRUCK HITS CAR
By United Press Lorie driver AKRON, O., April 9.—The d of a truck and trailer which skidded on a curve near here and collided with the automobile of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Cooney, Wabash, Ind, and killed both instantly, was held today for investigation. ; The Cooneys’ daughter,: Jeanne, 21, was in City Hospital suffering minor hurts from the crash which occurred yesterday. Mr. Cooney, a Chicago advertising agency representative, and his had been living recently in
| family h
0. He was 52, his wife 50.
LONDON, April 9.—Emrys Jones writing today in the Daily Express criticized Charles A. Lindbergh for his secrecy when flying. Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh, who returned home today after a five-hour flight from Munich, gave no word
during their aerial tour of the Medi- |
terranean and India of their destination when leaving any port, causing concern when they were unreported for a time. The Lindberghs flew to Munich from Zagreb, Jugoslavia, and were “missing” for more than 36 hours earlier this week. Mr. Jones wrote: “Seeking Lindbergh has. become an international affair though what fliers who have to do it say about it, nobody prints. “Now you may say Lindbergh's private life is his own. Quite so. But imagine what a row there would be if one day Lindbergh really did crash and nobody bothered. “You can understand and sympathize with the Lindberghs. It was fame that robbed them of their child . . . But as an Atlantic flier he had become famous and his fame still sends four airplanes to look for him when he is ‘lost. “You have to pay for fame, though Lindbergh would not need to pay so heavily if he, became a iittle less secretive.”
U. S. TO CONCLUDE
JOB TAX DEFENSE
By United Press WASHINGTON, April 9.—The Administration today prepared to conclude argument in the Supreme Court on validity of the unemployment insurance -provisions of the Social Security Act, The case is the last of a series of test cases instituted by Alabama employers who have challenged the validity of both Sfate and Federal laws providing for payments to jobless. The Government's defense was opened yesterday by Charles BE. Wyzanski Jr. special assistant to the Attorney General, with an outline of the problems which induced the Government to enact such legislation.
RED FLANNELS MADE FIRST LADY UNHAPPY
Awkwardness Was Bane of Girlhood Too, She Reveals.
(Mrs. Roosevelt's Column, Page 10) By United Press PHILADELPHIA, April 9.—Red flannel underwear and extreme awkwardness combined to make Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's early girlhood pretty miserable, she confesses today in the current issue of the Ladies* Home Journal. “My grandmother saw to it that I wore fllannels from the first of November until the first of April,” the President's wife writes in “This Is My Story,” her autobiography. No matter what the temperature, she had to wear her flannels—and “the flannels went from my neck to my ankles.” ‘Because she was tall, thin and “very awkward,” the First Lady's story continues, “my grandmother decided that I should have ballet lessons.” So she learned toe-dancing. Her “Cousin Franklin,” the man she later married, won her gratitude by an act of kindness at a time when she was suffering acutely from seli-consciousness. It was at a Christmas party given by her uncle, Theodore Roosevelt. “lI was ‘a poor dancer and the climax of the party was a dance,” Mrs. Roasevelt writes. “I still remember the inappropriate dresses I wore; and worst of all, they were above my knees. “I knew, of course, I was different from all the other girls; and if I had not known, they were frank in telling me so. “I still remember my gratitude .. . to my Cousin Franklin when he came and asked me to dance with him.” :
Mrs. Roosevelt Termed
‘Nuisance’ No. .1 WASHINGTON, April 9.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt revealed last night that she has been nominated as “America’s first nuisance.” Introduced at a dinner as “the best social agency, in herself, that the United States has known in many a decade,” Mrs. Roosevelt responded | “After that introduction, I think I'll have to tell you about a letter I got today. It said: ‘You may think it is useful to poke your nose in so many things. Really, you are America’s first nuisance.’ ”
tinued their sit-down strike in the
BEGUN BY GREEN
Hepburn Rings Strike Zone With Force Of 300 Police.
UNION DEFIANT
Texas Oil Workers Are Given Increase In Wages.
By United Press Interest in the Committee for Industrial Organization’s drive to unionize automobile workers swung today to Ontario, where 300 mounted police and provincial officers massed near Oshawa to back up Premier Mitchell Hepburn’s promise to aid the General Motors plant to reopen in defiance of a strike. Mr. Hepburn summoned the police to stamp out agitation of a kind which® he said has “brought the Unitéd States almost into a state of anarchy.” Strike leaders answered by strengthening picket lines around
the plant. : At Detroit, United Automobile Workers union officials prepared for a “relentless struggle” to unionize Ford Motor Co. plants in defiance of Henry Ford's declaration that he would “never recognize” any union. Eleven thousand Hudson employes prepared to return .to work following settlement of a monthold strike. About 65,000 Chrysler employees also are preparing to return to work. Employees in the Ford plant at Kansas City wore union buttons on their overalls, having won _ that right in a one-day sit-down strike, Bedraggled relief workers con-
office of Governor Davey in Columbus, O., demanding an “adequate program” to care for Ohio needy. The Humble Oil and Refining Co., Houston, Tex., instituted a pay increase for 13,000 employees in plants where the C. I. O. is con-| ducting a unionization campaign, Outline Labor Program
In Washington, the House prepared to vote on a Senate-approved resolution condemning both . sitdown strikes and Wagner Act violations on the part of employers. Administration leaders announced a three-fold drive for labor legis(Turn to Page Three)
LOYALISTS BATTLE MADRID BESIEGERS
Offensive Planned to Drive Rebels From Capital.
By United Press Loyalists in the Spanisit civil war began a mass attack on the Madrid front today to drive the Insurgent invaders clear of the capital.
It was probably the biggest battle since the siege of Madrid began last November. The defenders drove steadily through the wooded Casa de Campo in the western outskirts of the city, forcing the Rebels slowly back. North of Madrid, the Loyalists advanced down the Manzanares River from El Pardo toward the Casa de Campo, seeking to cut off the Insurgents from two sides and trap them, isolated from their base of supplies farther west. The other main scene of military action was in the Bilbao region on the north coast. The Basque Loyalists threw 35,000 more men into action, making a total of 100,000 trying to stop Emilig Mola’s drive on Bilbao. The Rebels were not stopped, however, and expressed confidence that they would take the city. On the diplomatic front, ill feeling between Italy as against Britain and France was unabated. It even went to the extent of severing sports relations. After yesterday’s cancellation of the French-Italian football match in Paris next Sunday plans were made to cancel boxing, bicycling and horse show events.
Nichol Smith Shoves Off For Spot He’s Never Seen
. By JOE COLLIER Nichol Smith is an explorer who has been almost every place except where he 1s going on his next trip. That is the island of Hainan, off the south coast of China, where squirrels fly and there may be a bear, although everyone doubts it. The idea of an expedition is to set out to get what some people say is there but you don’t believe is, Mr. Smith says. Almost everyone says there are bears on Hainan, Mr, Smith says, but no one appears to have met one personally. Mr. Smith, who is so enthusiastic
he sheds static, is 27, comes from California, but spends a lot of his nonexploring time in New ‘York. Elsa Maxwell gave him a party just before he came to Indianapolis. He left Indianapolis at 7 this morning, remarking after a day’s experience that he hadn’t known before he came that this was the rainy season here. It reminded him, he said, of Dutch Guinea—the rain, not the town. ; In a book to be published next January by Bobbs-Merrill Co., Mr. Smith will tell a story about Dutch
Orders
Bridge «ieee
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Summons Council to Consider Special Convention.
MEET IN 10 DAYS
Extra Levy To Build Up a ‘War Chest.’
(Editorial, Page 16) By United Press ia
~ WASHINGTON, April 9.— President William Green of the American Federation of Labor announced today ‘that the Federation's executive council would meet within 10 days to consider summoning a special A. F. of L. converition with power to expel the rebel Committee for Industrial Organization Unions. Mr. Green said he would ane nounce the exact date of the coune cil meeting shortly but that in any case the federation leaders would assemble inside of 10 days. : He said that the principal topie at the meeting would be the special convention question. The convention, it was anticipated, would sever completely the last ties of relationship between the federation and the
unions grouped under leadership of John L. Lewis. At the same time Mr. Green said that a special emergency assessment on A. F. of L. members was likely to build up a new organizing war chest. “We need a larger organizing | fund because of the rapid advance" | in our work,” he said. “Our organizers are going along in a wonderful way.”
Proposal to Probe Sit-Downs Beaten
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 9.—Congress breathed easier today because the legislative ghost of the sit-down strike had been laid, at least temporarily. The same thing may be said of the White House, which came off nicely from a vexing situation, with the House killing by 236 to 149 the Dies resolution for an investigation of the sit-downs and many related issues. The proposed inquiry had all the aspects of a Pandora’s box. Its squelching late yesterday was the second Administration victory in two days. It followed the coup of Senate leaders in tacking onto the sit-down condemnation resolution passed by that body a denunciation of industrial spies, company unions and violators of the Wagner Labor
Relations Act.
: John L. Lewis and his C. I. O. allies were jubilant over defeat of the Dies resolution. Their leaders would have been haled here before an investigating committee, and they believed that the resolution was (Turn to Page Three)
DEPAUW U. ALUMNI SECRETARY IS DEAD
By United Press . GREENCASTLE, April 9.—Miss Mary Belle Denny, 62, for 13 years employed in the alumni and reg istrar’s office of DePauw Univers sity, died suddenly of heart disease on a downtown street here. A member of a pioneer Putnam County family, she graduated from DePauw in 1897 and taught in high schools of Indianapolis and Roches= ter. She was associate editor of the DePauw Alumni Magazine and had been in charge of alumni records for 10 years. Nearest relatives are cousins, one of whom is Jack Denny, orchestra leader. -
SIMPSON SUIT OFF LIST
By United Press . LONDON, April 9.—Attorneys for Ernest Simpson, divorced husband of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, said today that Simpson’s slander suit against Mrs. Joan Suthesrland,: society
| woman, had been struck off the
court calendar of the present ses sion by mutual consent. x
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