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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 34

LOVE BLASTED YOUTH KILLS GIRL, 15, SELF

Washington Boy, 19, Ends

Life After Shooting Grade School ‘Fiancee,’

BROTHER IS WITNESS

‘I Don’t Want to Live,” Dying WPA Worker Gasps To Police.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Ind. April 20— Henry V. Raney, 19, died today as police stood by to charge him with the “puppy love” murder of his schoolgirl sweetheart. He died without denying that he shot pretty Mary Hartman, 15, to death because she wouldn't go riding with him. Mary died a few minutes after the youth fired one bullet into her heart as her mother watched last night. Raney died at 4 a. m. today in Daviess County Hospital. “It was just a puppy love affair,” Police Captain Lewis Greenwell said. They had been prepared to charge him with murder if he survived. Raney, a WPA worker, met Mary, student in Class 7A at a Washington grade school, seven months ago. They “dated” frequently, but while Henry talked to his friends of his “engagement,” Mrs. Hartman said there was no real understanding.

Brother Leaves

They quarreled recently. Henry accompanied by his brother, Joe, 17, went to Mary's house apparently hoping to. patch up their quarrel. Mary, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hartman, and their four other children were in the kitchen of the Hartman | home when Henry and Joe arrived. “They came into the kitchen and talked for a few minutes,” Mrs. Hartman said, “and Joe got a drink of water and then went outside.” A few minutes later Mary started out with a neighbor's daughters Betty Fleetwood, 3. They were go_ing across the street to play. Henry followed Mary out the door, and Mary's mother followed both of them. Mrs. Hartman arrived at the door just in time to hear Mary say: 2 “No, I'm not going with you. 1 don’t want to have anything to do with you any more.” “When she said this,” Mrs. Hartman told police, “Henry pulled a gun from his pocket and shot her.”

Dies on Way to Hospital

An ambulance was summoned, but Mary was dead before she reached the hospital. Joe, Henry's brother, was standing by the car when the shooting occurred. "Henry started across the street when Mary fell to the sidewalk. Joe called to him to “wait a minute.” Henry stopped and warned, “If you follow me, I'll shoot you, too.” “When he reached the other side of the street, he fired his gun twice and then ran down the street about a half block when I heard another shot,” Joe said. | 3 Neighbors aroused by the shooting called police. Greenwell found Henry lying in a yard with the gun still in his hand. Greenwell snatched the gun from Henry's hand. “Hello,” Henry said, “It’s you, isn't it, captain. I know you. It was a love affair, captain. I don’t want to live.”

VAN ZEELAND VISIT TO HITLER RUMORED

By United Press BERLIN, April 20.—Premier Paul Van Zeeland of Beigium may be invited to Berlin to see Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, it was reported today, before he goes to Washington to discuss the world economic situation with President Roosevelt. This would bring Germany fully into the discussion of possibilities for a world economic conference, started recently when Van Zeeland was invited by Great Britain and France to study and report on the possibilities for international cooperation.

BOB BURNS Sots Fan

all know that nature is pretty thorough in her work, but one of her best points is not makin’ things too perfect. For instance, nobody’s face is jest : alike on both sides. I suppose a face that’s abso‘lutely perfect would be right pretty at first glance, but imagine you'd get pretty tired lookin’ at it. I had one uncle that might have been a wonderful writer if he hadn't tried to be too particular about stickin’ to facts. That's my Uncle Wadsworth Dickens Hink. He wrote a book one time and gave it to me to look over. I noticed there was quite a few blank pages in the book and I ask him what the meanin’ of em was and he says “Well, the hero and the heroine had an argument on page 8 and from there on to page .24 the pages are blank until they started speakin’ again.” sii {Copyright, 1937)

P.-T. A. convention opened here

speak this afternoon.

Fussy Planet Mercury Near Earth Tonight

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At sunset tonight the planet Mer-

cury will be visible just over the northwestern horizon for not longer

than two hours—if| everything goes all right.

color if the sky is clear. Mercury is one of the most capricious planets we have. It appears but three times a year as an evening star in the Western skies, and then appears three times a year as a morning star in the Eastern skies. It usually is too close to the sun to be seen by the naked eye but on these six times a year manages to break away far enough to be seen.

It Crossed Up Astronomers

It is only 36,000,000 miles from the sun whereas the earth is 92,900,000. Its diameter is but 3030 miles while the earth’s is 7918. So much for statistics. What Mercury is really noted for is that it crossed up the early astronomers to such an extent that they thought up the planet Vulcan to make things come out even. > None of them could understand the movements of Mercury, during its 88-day year, because it appeared to have no moon. Almost all planets have themselves a moon, which causes slight irregularities in their movements and explains them. But Mercury, having no moon, nevertheless mooned about the heavens in such a slipshod manner that they invented Vulcan, which was supposed to operate coastwise around the sun, in Mercury's orbit. Today nobody believes there is a Vulcan but it is listed in encyclopedia as the planet nearest of all to the sun in theory only. You may not be able to see Mercury tonight, however, because the Weather Bureau has forecast thundershowers ior tonight or tomorrow.

NEAL AND MARSHALL MAY MAKE NO APPEAL

Bright Killers to Be Taken to Prison This Week.

By United Press

SHELBYVILLE, Ind.. April 20— Vurtis Neal and Hugh Marshall Jr.,

' | who were sentenced in Shelby Cir-

cuit Court -to die in the electric chair, July 24, for the murder of William E. Bright, Indianapolis druggist, were taken to Michigan State Prison today. x No appeal from the death sentence may be.made, it was believed, since all attorneys except one have withdrawn from the case.

Condemned Youth’s Father Is Jailed

.Hugh Marshall Sr., father of one of the condemned youths, was slated at police headquarters here today on charge of being an accessory before and after the murder. Filing of that charge followed a continuance until tomorrow of his hearing before Municipal Judge Charles Karabell on a vagrancy charge. ; Marshall was arrested in the Shelbyville courtroom before the jury convicted his son and companion. He had testified that he had talked with the youths about a holdup before and after the murder of Mr. Bright. When arraigned this morning: the father said his son was not guilty of he murder, only of implication

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FORECAST: Showers and thunderstorms beginning tonight or tomorrow; continued warm.

T. A. Head Chat

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: Dr. Ada Hart Arlitt, (right) national Parent Education Department chairman of the Parent-Teachers Association, chatted with Mrs. Logan G. Hughes, Indiana P.-T. A. congress president as the State

today. Dr. Arlitt is professor of

child care and training ‘at the University of Cincinnati, and was to

SCHILD THEME FOR CONGRESS

Educators and Leaders in Movement Convene at Claypool.

(Editorial, Page 14; another photo, Page 11)

“The Child—a Community Re-

sponsibility” is the theme of the Indiana Congress of Parents and

Teachers which convened at the

Claypool Hotel today for a threeday session. More than 600 men and women— educators and leaders in the parent-teacher movement—were expected to attend. ; Registration was to follow a meeting at 9:30 a. m. of the state board of managers. Formal opening of the congress was scheduled for 1:30 p. m. with Mrs. Logan G. Hughes, state president, presiding and presenting the convention theme. Meeting highlights - were to include addresses by Governor Townsend; Dr. Ada Hart Artlitt, professor of child care and training at the University of Cincinnati, and Dr. Wendell W. Wright, State Teachers’ Association president and Indiana University professor. The first social affair of the congress is to be an informal dinner at 6:30 p. m. today in the Columbia (Turn to Page Three)

JUDGE TELLS YOUTH T0 HITCH-HIKE HOME

Frees Him on Charge of Looting Cash Register.

Joseph Taylor, 16, today was en route back to his Brown County tarm home with the aid of his thumb, southbound motorists and Municipal Judge Charles Karabell. The youth was before the judge today for taking $4 from the cash drawer at a S. Illinois St. hotel. He admitted the charge in court, but said things weren't going too

ell on the farm, that he hitch- | iked here to seek work and didn’t ispend the money foolishly, but bought sandwiches with it. : The judge fined him $10 and costs and sentenced him to the Indiana Farm for 60 days. Then he decided that the youth should have another chance, that it would be better for him to spend the 60 days on his family’s farm rather than the State's. So Judge Karabell suspended the sentence on condition that the youth hitch-hike back home. The judge contributed $1 out of his own pocket to help him start on bon hitch-hike.

LOCAL DELEGATES TO MEETING ARE NAMED

Indianapolis delegates = to = the United States Chamber of Commerce national convention in Washington April 26-29 were announced today by the local chamber. : George S. Olive, local president, headed the list, which included: Edgar H. Evans, E. H. Harris, H. T. Pritchard, Col. Richard Lieber, Hugh J. Baker, Charles W. Chase, Felix McWhirter, W. Paul Jones and Charles Yoke.

By United Press NORTHVILLE, Mich., April 20.— Three bank robbers who sprayed tear gas on a dozen customers and officials of the Northville State Bank as they fled today, robbed the bank of an estimated $2000. The bandits entered the bank, scooped up all available cash, discharged

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TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1937

COUNTY BOARD FAILS TO ACT

ON NEAL'S PAY

Some Members Take Posi-

tion That Act Creating « Post Is Unconstitutional.

OTHER SALARIES VOTED

Joel Baker’s Aid to Get Wages; Present Secretary Still Unpaid.

The Marion County Welfare Board today failed to approve the salaries of County Welfare Director Thomas Neal and his secretary, Miss Marie Sifferlen. The board, however, approved salaries of all other employees at its closed session. Mr. Neal said after the meeting that the two salaries were not presented for approval because some members, who were not identified, questioned constitutionality of the legislative act under which Mr. Neal was appointed. No Future Meeting Set

Mr. Neal did not indicate what action he would take and Judge L. Ert Slack; board president, set no date for another meeting. “The Board took the position that the act under which I was appointed was unconstitutional,” was all Mr. Neal said. ~ Among salaries approved was that of Miss Bernice Church, secretary to Joel A. Baker, ousted director. Miss Sifferlen, apointed by Mr. Neal, is acting in a similar capacity, but 1s not receiving pay. y Mr. Neal's appointment was made by the State Welfare Board six weeks ago after it was empowered by a legislative act. The act was passed during the investigation which followed the slugging of former State Welfare Director Wayne Coy by Peter A. Cancilla, associate of Joel A, Baker. ‘The State Board has set May 1 as tentative examination date for county directors, Investigators and stenographers under the new Merit System Law. ; Mr. Neal and six others had filed for the Marion County directorship until late yesterday, according to Rcbert W. Bunch, State Bureau of Personnel chief. He said a total of 360 applications for county posts throughout the state had been received until last night and that today’s mail probably would boost that figure to 450. The deadline was last midnight. May 3 is the last filing day for stenographers’ examinations and May 7 for investigators.

AVERY DEATH HELD ‘APPARENT SUICIDE’

Coroner Wilson Says He'll Continue Inquest.

Coroner Ethelbert Wilson today said the death of Ralph C. Avery, 56, R. R. 1, New Augusta, a farmer

who died of a bullet wound yesterday, “apparently was suicide.” “We're continuing the inquest, however, today and through Thursday,’ he said. Coroner Wilson said the fact that a 22-caliber rifle was found outside the door of the yoom where the body was found did not “prohibit suicide.” “It would have been possible for Mr. Avery to have put the- rifle down and walked 12 feet after shooting himself” he said. Funeral services for Mr. Avery are to be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the North Liberty Christian Church in Pike Township. Burial is to be in the church cemetery. _A son, Raymond, survives besides the widow, Mrs. Lola Avery. Mr. Avery, according to the widow, had been despondent for some time.

COURT TEST IS WON BY MOTOR BUREAU

Suspension of Local Man's License Upheld.

The first court test of the State Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ findings on suspension of drivers’ licenses was won by the bureau in Criminal Court yesterday. Last Feb. 18 the bureau, after a hearing, suspended the driver's license of Fred S. Greenleaf, 64, of 5509 N. Capitol Ave. Greenleaf appealed the finding to Criminal Court, the first appeal taken under the drivers’ license law. Yesterday Judge Pro Tem. Dan V. White, after hearing evidence of reckless driving, affirmed the bureau’s finding and ordered Greenleaf’s license suspended for 178 days. He was charged with reckless driving at a hearing before the bureau several months ago. The charge grew out of a traffic accident in which his car was alleged to have collided with another driven by Charles Lynn, 5600 Sunset Lane. Both Mr. Lynn and his wife were badly injured, according to evidence.

TELL CITY MAN DIES TELL CITY, April 20.—Overwork during the January flood is believed to have resulted in the. death yes-

terday of Andrew Steinauer, 79, Tell

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Peace Moves Up to Europe, U.S. Declares

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 20.—President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull today passed back to Europe responsibility for calling a possible international economic or military disarmament conference. Mr. Hull has indicated repeatedly that he believes such a’ meeting would be a mistake unless the way first was prepared by one or more regional agreements. The United States is willing, however, to take part in any international economic or military disarmament conference which Europe may call on its own behalf. This assurance was given by Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of State, in a speech before a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It obviously had both the President’s and Mr. Hull's approval. : The foreign policy of this Government, Mr. Welles said, is to assure that the United States shall not be involved in war and to advance and promote world peace.

FOREIGN PATROL

“ANGERS MADRID

Loyalists Suspicious, Order War Fleet to Protect Friendly Shipping.

By United Press VALENCIA, Spain, April 20.— The Loyalist Government, deeply suspicious «it the international control plan which became operative at midnight, ordered its war fleet to protect friendly shipping within its territorial waters today. Further, it oraered parvicular vigilance in those zones which Italian and German warships patroled under the plan to keep volunteers and munitions from the civil war combatants, and said that there would be no hesitation to make “sacrifices” if necessary. Loyalist leaders have made no secret of their belief that the ‘“‘nonintervention plan” really constitutes intervention by the 27 participating nations in behalf of the rebels. They hold that the Loyalist government is the legally constituted one and is entitled to all the munitions it can buy. ; The open anger of the government was reflected clearly in a general order issued by the Ministry of Marine and Air today to the Loyalist battle fleet and air force as the control plan became operative and warships of Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy steamed off the Spanish coasts.

Fascists and Monarchists Merged by Franco

By United Press SALAMANCA, Spain, April 20.— Gen. Francisco Franco, Rebel dictator, merged into a single party today the Fascists and Monarchists, who are his principal Spanish supporters, and ordered dissolution of all other parties. He decreed that the Fascist and Monarchist militias, which have enjoyed a measure of independence, should be made an auxiliary of the Rebel Army under his supreme command. At the same time Gen. Franco, in his decree of amalgamation, made provision for a possible future move to restore the monarchy -in event his cause is victorious.

FEARED ASSASSINS, UM. W. AGENT SAYS

Disguise Necessary in Har-

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By United Press WASHINGTON, April 20.—The Rev. Marshall A. Musick, United Mine Workers field representative, today told the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee h- nad frequently “removed my fa..c teeth and blacked my face” as a disguise to avoid Harlan County, Kentucky, deputy sheriffs. ; : Mr. Musick told the committee inquiring into terrorism in “bloody Harlan” County that he had “frequently” used the disguise to escape from the deputies who trailed him while traveling through the county in behalf of the U. M. W. “When I was tropped on the road by deputies,” Mr. Musick testified, “I'd remove my false teeth, black my face and change my clothes as a disguise. I got away from deputies that way lols of times. ’

Super-Colossal Cast to Support

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

CAPITAL-LABOR CHIEFTAINS SIT TO SEEK AMITY

Secretary Perkins Urges Co-operation Under Wagner Act.

LEWIS, GREEN AT TABLE

Canadian GMC Officials to Meet Strike Heads in Peace Move.

Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April 20.—Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins today asked leaders of industry and labor to “suggest a plan which will serve to lessen the tension and minimize stoppages of work through misunderstandings.”

Miss Perkins spoke at the first of a series of informal coriferences designed to work out satisfactory machinery under the Wagner Labor Act, which will tend to eliminate strikes. Both John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee of Industrial Organization, and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, attended the meeting.

30 at Conference

Other prominent persons included among the 30 conferees were Harper Sibley, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce; Colby M. Chester, president of the National Association of -Manufacturers; Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; Warren Madden, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board; Edward F. McGrady, assistant secretary of Labor, and Maj. George L. Beery, co-ordinator for industrial co-operation. Miss Perkins opened the conference with a brief informal address. She said: “Labor and management, the two great partners in industry, can co-

operate to stabilize industrial rela-’

tions with the Government standing by to offer its good offices and the advice* and experience of veteran experts in labor matters. “It is to be hoped that out of this conference and other similar ones in the future, labor and man- ! (Turn to Page Three)

ABANDONED BOY'S MOTHER ARRESTED

‘Loves Baby,” She Insists; ~ Husband Also Held.

Police today found, then took into custody a mother who Sunday kissed and abandoned her 6-year-old son in a Dreier Place home. Acting on an anonymous telephone call, police went to 114914 E. Washington St. where they said Mrs. Fay Black. Mrs, Corrine Coombs, mother of the child, told them where she could be found. They went to 1049 Elm St. and found Mrs. Coombs and her husband, John. Both were taken to headquarters where ‘they were charged with child neglect. : Police said the name of the abandoned child, who is at the Detention Home, is Donald Lee Brasser. They said he was a son of Mrs. Coombs by a former marriage. Police sala the mother insisted that “I do iove my baby. I do.” Mrs. Coombs disappeared Sunday from the home of Mrs. Lydia Johnston, 921 Dreier Place, after leaving the baby there. Mrs. Johnston did not know her and the child was unable to tell his name.

ROBIN IN 13TH DAY OF BOUT WITH IMAGE

By United Press PAINESVILLE, O. April 20—A weary little female robin today began its 13th day of battle with its reflection in the window of a private residence. The bird has flung itself against its image in the pane, clawing and pecking, each day since April 8 at the J. D. Thompson home, pausing only for worms and nightfall.

WOMAN, 95, KILLED By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind. April 20.— Injuries received when she fell into the cellar at her home here yesterday were fatal to Mrs. Margaret Brown, 95, widow of James H. Brown, Civil War veteran.

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PRESIDENT ASKS ECONOMY DRIVE: AID WANTS TAXES

Wages and Profits Too Far Apart, Ezekiel Says.

‘BALANCE’ URGED

Wallace Aid Hints Levy Increase to Aid Idle.

Higher taxes on incomes and business profits and continued large governmental relief expenditures may be necessary to end unemployment, Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace

said here today.

The Government economist spoke on “Will Unemployment and Relief Ever End?” at a Rotary Club luncheon meeting in the Claypool Hotel ! He warned that lack of balance between the amount of profits exacted by corporations from incomes and the amount paid in wages can “land them in a depression” “Recovery in production and income has not reduced unemployment and relief costs in proportion,” Dr. Ezekiel said. “We are back at practically the same 1929 production level, but the number of unemployed is down from the peak of 15,000,000 only to about 9,000,000. “The question is whether technological improvement is to blame. The increase in output per worker in the last 15 years has been only about as fast as before. The trouble is that centralized corporate control of business has gone so far that competition no longer works to reduce prices as to increase wages as efficiency in production increases.” Cites Experience of 20's “This is shown by the fact that during the ’20s,” the speaker continued, “wage payments increased little, but dividends rose 70 per cent and that manufacturers, between 1923 and 1929, increased gross margins by six billion dollars, but paid only one billion and a half in increased wages and salaries. “When managers of great corporations take too much profit instead of putting enough into lower prices and higher wages, they build up a lack of balance between what they can produce and what the worker can buy that lands them in a depression,” Dr. Ezekiel said. Speaking on what Government can do to check boosting of prices faster than wages, he hinted possibility of higher income taxes. “Some of the things that the Government might do,” he continued, “are to put higher taxes on incomes and business profits and continue large expenditures for those of low incomes through relief and other agencies. That would help redistribute wealth and defer the time of a new depression: “Minimum wage laws also are a necessity,” he said. He urged a franker co-operation between Government and business to bring about the needed balance between wages and prices to mytch the parade back to jobs with that of business improvement.

BUARD TO DISCUSS GAS UTILITY INCOME

{Earnings of First Quarter

‘Good,” Kemp Says.

Quarterly earnings of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, munijcipally owned plant, are to be discussed at a directors meeting today. The directorate vacancy left by resignation of Russell Ryan, Indianapolis attorney, named to a Federal position several months ago, has not been filled, Suggestions for the position are to be discussed at a board of trustees meeting tentatively scheduled sometime within the next two weeks, according to William J. Mooney, board president. , . Thomas Kemp, gas company general manager, described the financial returns from the first quarter as “good,” but made no figures pub-

Guble in

Drama— Fraud and Plump Widow’

By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 20.—Clark Gable went to court today to deny that he indulged in a bit of premovie love-making with a plump widow and left her with a child. Mae West also was subpenaed but this time the blond movie queen was not in the leading lady’s role. That place was reserved for the defendant, Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, 47, who is charged with mail fraud. Mrs. Norton came to Hollywood proclaiming loudly that wooed her in a cottage of her na-

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Crawford on the screen.” He became the father of her daughter, Gwendoline, she said. The child now is 13 and it happened before Gable entered the movies, Mrs. Norton said.

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she allegedly demanded that Gable support the child. Also as witnesses, the Government sumnioned Jimmy Fiddler, Hollywood radio commentator, and Terry De Lapp, movie press agent. U. S. Marshal Robert Clark took one look at the cast, remarked that he “sure had a super-colossal” on his and

called in half a dozen |to testify.

special deputies to help control the expected crowds. ] Mrs. Norton and Jack L. Smith, a private detective also named in the charges, will be tried before Federal Judge George Cosgrave. The woman was supposed to have recognized Gable after seeing him on the screen. She said he was the same “Frank Billings” who wooed her in 1923 and 1924. Gable said he had never seen her, and expected to meet her in court for the first time in his life. : Gwendoline Norton, the child named in the case, also is scheduled

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Forecasts New Tax Bill for Next Session.

DEFICIT HIGHER

Message Requests $1,500,000,000 for Relief.

(Text of message Page 9; Stock market reaction, Page 16).

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 20. President Roosevelt revised his, budget figures today in a special message to Congress which asked $1,500,000,000 for work relief in the next fiscal year and projected an economy drive to offset lagging Treasury revenue. He indicated there would be a tax bill at the next session of Congress. :

The message estimated a net deficit of $2,577,000,000 in the ‘cur= rent fiscal year and $418,000,000 in _ the 12-month fiscal period which will begin July 1, 1937. In his Jan=- - uary budget message the President estimated a $2,247,126,774 net deficit this year and no net deficit whate ever next year. Next year the bude get would have been in balance (x= cept for an item of $401,000,000 for statutory debt retirement. The net deficit forecast for next year and the debt retirement item combine to establish the probable gross 1938 deficit at $819,000,000. Treasury Tax Survey

Mr. Roosevelt asked Congress: to extend the nuisance tax levies which will expire this spring and demande ed that Congress refrain from vote ing. expenditures beyond budgeted items. He avoided recommendations of new taxes at this session, but proposed! a Treasury survey of the whole! tax structure preliminary to a report to the next session on legislation to close tax loopholes or to enact new or additional taxation, An emphatic demand for economy marked the revised budget message who was prepared by the President after it became evident that his es=timates of last January were overly optimistic. He called on Congress to resist pressure of “special interests” for appropriations. He said pending flood control legislation would impose an unjustifiable burden on the Federal Treasury. The President reiterated © that Congress should not attempt to de vote more than $500,000,000 annual< ly to public works. : Congressional leaders simultane= ously revealed that the White House had withdrawn its support from pending legislationt to. relieve the farm tenancy problem. “While I recognize,” said Mr, Roosevelt, “many opportunities to improve social and economic conditions through Federal action, I am convinced that the success of our whole program and the permanent security of our people demand (Turn to Page Three)

HITLER 48 TODAY; REICH PAYS TRIBUTE

(Another Story, Page 13) By United Press BERLIN, April 20.—Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, born across the frontier in Austria, celebrated his 48th birthday today as leader of the German nation. : It was a day of Nazi parades to - the blare of martial music. A feature was the oath of allee giance taken by 824,000 nonparty members. to Hitler. Hitler, decreed the establishment ef an “Adolf Hitler Thanks Foundation,” through which 500,000 marks ($200,000) will be distributed to meritorious party members who are ill or in economic distress. The Fuehrer also reviewed a great military party which lasted two hours.

THE REV. KUEBLER ELECTED By United Press EVANSILLE, Ind. April 20— Rev. Robert. C. Kuebler, Friedans Evangelical Church pastor, Indian= apolis, was elected moderator of the Indiana district of the Evangelical and Reformed Synod of America at the annual session today. .

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Merry-Go-R'd 14 Movies Mrs. ‘Ferguson 13 Mrs. Roosevelt.13 Crossword . Music Curious World 21 Editorials Fashions Financial

Serial Story... Short Story... Grin, Bear It..20 In Indpls. .... 3

po Jane Jordan...10 | State Deaths... 9

Johnson ......14

Wiggam ......31