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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 41 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1937

U. S. AUTO DEATHS UP 26 PER CENT

LEAGUE NAMES TRACTION FIRM SUPERDAM T0 [GAIN SHARPLY IN

Farley to Talk at Dinner

Funeral Plans

SEVERAL’ FOR WELFARE BODY

Women Voters’ Committee Confers With Cox on Appointments.

IDENTITIES KEPT SECRET

Action Follows Claim of Judge He Could Not Find Any Willing to Serve.

The Indianapolis League of Women Voters today recommended names of “capable and qualified persons” to serve on the Marion County Welfare Board.

A committee of three League members made the recommendations to Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox, who appoints the Board, after he had said he was unable to find persons who would accept appointment. His statement and the Women Voters’ recommendations followed resignation of four members of the Board Monday. The League committee declined to divulge names of persons it had recommended. The committee was composed of Mrs. Clarence F. Merrell, president; Mrs. Thomas Sheerin, child welfare committee chairman, and Miss Ger- - trude Taggart.

“Told Him of Several”

“In view of Judge Cox's recent statements that he was unable to find anyone who would accept appointment,” Mrs. Sheerin said, “we infermed him of several pcople who would be willing to serve and who are qualified to perform the duties. “The persons we suggested have had experience in welfare work,” she added. An opinion is expected. tomorrow from Attorney General Omer Jackson on the authority of the State Welfare Department to pay the salary of Thomas Neal, Marion County welfare director. Request for an opinion was made ‘by the State department following the resignation of the board members, who had refused for six weeks to fix a salary for Mr. Neal. Thurman A. Gottschalk, State Welfare Director, said he had found legal authority to keep benefits flowing to needy persons on the welfare rolls but that no new claims for assistance could be| approved without a board. |

Belzer Asks Advice

Meanwhile, F. O. Belzer, only member of the county board who didn’t resign, said he had asked Judge Cox to explain a request for his resignation. In a letter to Judge Cox, Mr. Belzer said: “I do not find that the reasons for (Turn to Page Three)

OPPOSE COURT REFORM

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 28.—Three Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee—McCarran (D. Nev.), O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) | and Hatch (D. N. M.)—committed themselves against President Roosevelt's Supreme Court Bill today, making certain an unfavorable report to the Senate on the measure calling for addition of six ‘justices, [

WOMAN'S BODY FOUND

By United Press MARSHALL, Mo., April 28.—The body of Miss Nellie Price, 43, who worked 20 years in a shoe factory and sent money to her wayward brother in jails and prisons, was found on a sand bar in the Missouri River below here, weighted with iron. She disappeared April 20.

[BOB BURNS Says Smee,

think a person gits more exhausted and uses up more energy thinkin’ about the work he has to do than if he actually did it. Instead of sittin’ around thinkin’ about all the wood you have'ta Hchop, jest go out

and grab an ax and start choppin’. I went out to visit my uncle nad one time and I found him sittin’ over in the corner of the parlor jest completely worn out, I says “What's the matter, Uncle Snad?” And he says, “Well, this farm work’s gittin’ a little bit too heavy for me.” He says, “The plowin’ is gittin’ me.” He said, “I wouldn't mind a little bit of it, but I declare plowin’ that 40 acres has jest about got me!” I looked out the window and I says, “Well, Uncle Snad, I don't see any land out there that looks like it’s been freshly plowed.” And Uncle Snad says, “Well, I don’t exactly plow it, but I been turnin’ it over in my mind.” (Copyright. 1937)

Postmaster General in State to Study Political Situation.

Postmaster General James A. Farley was in Indiana today, dedicating postoffice buildings, studying the Hoosier politisal front and praising the President’s court plan. The Democratic Party chief is to speak at an invitational Demacratic dinner in the Indianapolis Athletic Club tonight, arriving at 6 p. m. and staying overnight at the club. ‘Mr. Farley is expected to get a “fill-in” on the political situation from party leaders. Among the subjects which some leaders indicated would be discussed was possible opposition - of the State House group to the renomnation of Senator VanNuys next year. The senior Senator has led Congressional opposition to the President’s court reform plan. A convention opponent may be discussed. : Among party leaders reportedly being considered are Sam Jackson, (Turn to Page Three)

ASK ALTERATION OF WAGNER ACT

C. of C. Spokesmen Want Amendment to Protect Employers.

(By United Press)

merce spokesmen today demanded amendment of the Wagner Labor Relations Law to protect employers and compensate industry for collective bargaining advantages gained by labor. George V. McLaughlin, Brooklyn, ‘N. Y. banker, today suggested to the Chamber that the Federal budget be balanced through “higher taxes and a broader base of taxation.” In Detroit, Packard Motor Car, Co. workers balloted to determine whether the United Automobile eI Union should represent Workers as exclusive collective bargaining agency. Circuit Judge Arthur Webster convicted 79 women and 41 men, evicted sit-down strikers of the Yale & Towne Lock Co. today after they were found guilty of contempt of court charges because they violated an injunction to evacuate the plant. Justice Harry Manswer ruled in Auburn, Me., that seven -C. I. O. leaders - must go on trial Friday. Apparently deadlocked, negotiators in the Auburn-Lewiston shoe strike recessed their conference, At Portland, Me., C. I. O. counsel asked Federal Judge John A. Peters that the cases against the seven leaders be transferred from the State Supreme Court to Federal Court.

NLRB to Get Results of Connersville Probe

By United Press CONNERSVILLE, April 28. — Thomas Hutson, State Labor Commissioner, said today he will give the National Labor Relations Board results of an investigation into a labor controversy between officials of the Rex manufacturing plant and the local United Automobile Workers of America Union. Four men were injured last night in sporadic disorders following a walkout of 500 union members. The situation was quiet today.

F.D.R. Favors Cut in Appropriations, Claim

By United Press ; WASHINGTON, April 28.—President Roosevelt favors a program to force economy legislation by impounding up to 15 per cent of appropriations, Speaker William B. Bankhead said today.

United States ‘Chamber of Com- |

*Nomination

Of Democrats Tonight; O.K. for Greenlee Claimed

Townsend Approves Coal Board Appointment, Minton Says.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, April 28.—Governor Townsend was “in complete agreement” with him in procuring

the $10,000 Guffey Coal Commission post for Pleas Greenlee, Senator Minton said today. Bringing Mr. Greenlee to Washington is expected to heal whatever wounds existed after the Democratic convention where the former McNutt patronage secretary, also was a gubernatorial candidate. Senator Minton himself was censured by some of Mr. Greenlee's friends for “not having fought hard enough for Pleas.” So the appointment, which is expected to be confirmed by the Senate without opposition, will result in a reuniting of the Townsend and Greenlee forces, it is believed here. Senator VanNuys remains outside the camp, however, and his opposition to the President's Supreme Court plan provides a public peg upon which some believe the state organization may attempt to sidetrack him. The junior Senator's success in securing one of the prize Administration posts for Mr. Greenlee is indicative of how he stands with the White House, his friends claim. It is reported | here that Senator Minton was asked to select some Hoosier for the commission and he immediately recommended Mr. Greenlee. Senator VanNuys approved and President Roosevelt put his name on the list of commission=ers nominated and sent up for Senate approval. Senators Minton and Black (D,, Ala.) are labelled here as having been selected for outstanding leadership jobs by the Administration for the second Roosevelt term.

Hoosier Senators Probe

Times Special WASHINGTON, April 28.—Senators VanNuys and Minton are investigating today the reasons why John J. Keegan was nominated for the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission instead of Harry Bassett, whom they had recommended jointly. The latter is from Indianapolis and a present member of the Commission. Mr. Keegan's nomination was sent to the Senate yesterday by President Roosevelt and his state was given as Indiana. The Senators may join in refusing to confirm the nomination, it was said.

$6,375,000 PAID FOR BALL RAIL HOLDINGS

Buyers Plan to Shrink Vast Van Sweringen Empire.

By United Press NEW YORK, April 28.—Robert R. Young, Frank F. Kolbe and Allen P. Kirby acquired working control of the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail empire for a purchase price of $6,375,000, Mr. Young announced today. He also revealed that the purchasers will make every effort to “shrink” the corfporate structures of the vast enterprises rather than to “expand” them. Mr. Young said that $4,000,000 of the purchase price is payable in cash and the balance in a two-year note bearing 21; per cent interest and due May 4, 1939. Mr. Young and his associates refused to disclose the amount of securities involved. The purchasers have not acquired the Midamerica Corp. itself and will await liquidation of the corporation when it may be sold at a nominal price.

WILL ABANDON DAYTON ROUTE

Court Permission Granted After Elder Plea of Revenue Loss.

ASSETS TO BE SOLD

Order Does Not Call for Dissolution of Richmond City System.

Court permission today was granted Bowman Elder, receiver, to abandon the Indianapolis-Dayton, O., division of Indiana Railroad May 8, and to sell its assets. Judge Herbert E. Wilson, Superior Court, signed the order after Louis A. Rappaport, receiver's auditor, testified the division had lost $87,896 in the eight months ended Feb. 28. Between 150 and 200 employees will be thrown out of work when fhe, division is abandoned, officials said. The line conné€cts Indianapolis, Newcastle and Richmond, Ind., and Dayton. The order doses not call for abandonment of the Richmond city transportation system, another unit of the company.

Tells of Losses

Mr. Rappaport told Judge Wilson that an analysis of the books showed that if the division had not been operated during the eight months ending Feb. 28, approximately $29,000 could have been added to the operating income of the system. He testified that during 1936 the division lost $90,216 and that had it not been operated during the year, aproximately $40,000 to $45,000 could have been added to the operating income of the system. The receiver's petition asserted that “there is no prospect of the operation of the division becoming profitable.” The order was asked so that the receiver “could conserve the assets of the receivership.” The action was supplemental to a petition filed last week in which Mr. Elder asked permission to present evidence “from time to time” for abandonment of the non-profit-able lines. Charges Are Denied Meanwhile Frank McHale, receivership attorney filed with the local Labor Relations ‘Board office a denial of its charges that the company and Mr. Elder had wviolated the National Labor Relations Act. ; Trial of the case before an examiner, to be selected in Washington, has been set for May 3 in the Federal Building here. The denial said that the company was improperly charged because it has not been the operator since Mr. Elder was named receiver. The answer denied that a majority of the employees had designated the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric and Motor Coach Employees of America as a bargaining agent. It said that if it had not been for the demands of the union, “there would be no necessity now for the abandonment or liquidation of the properties of the receivership.”

F. D. R. HEADING SOUTH

By United Press ABOARD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S SPECIAL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO NEW ORLEANS, April" 28.—President Roosevelt relaxed today from two days of overtime work as he headed South toward the Gulf of Mexico for a spring fishing vacation. He signed the Naval Appropriation Bill for the 1€37-38 fiscal year

for the South.

"Middletown" 10 years after—Muncie again turns municipal guinea pig for sociologists. Page 13.

carrying $515,000,000 before leaving:

‘| decree on Monday,

Unaltered by Wite’s Death

By United Press DANVILLE, Ind. April 28.— Mrs. Ida Leathers Millman, 77, wife of Wade Millman, 80-year-old Coatsville farmer, who plans to conduct his own funeral May 16, died at her home today of heart disease. Her funeral tentatively has been set for Thursday afternoon in the Canaan Church, where her husband plans to conduct his own last rites. Mr. Millman, overwhelmed with grief, said he would conduct his funeral services as scheduled. On May 16, his friends who received printed invitations will meet in the Canaan Church, watch Mr. Millman get into the casket and he conducted to his grave. Mr. Millman said today that might hire an undertaker and use the services of a minister. Previously he had said he would preach his own funeral sermon.

SCHOOL PLANS

Curtailment Forecast in

$200,000 Pay Restoral To Teachers.

Restoration eof $196,780 in pay cuts for city teachers may reduce the City’s school building program for 1937-38, Alan Boyd, School Board president, said today. The Board raised salaries of 1478 teachers receiving $2294 or less by $100, and all others $90, at a meeting last night. : This increased pay schedule boosts the yearly payroll from approximately $3,800,000 to $4,000,000, Board members pointed out. Last night's action will not affect the 1936-37 building program, Mr. Boyd said, for which $875,000 was included in the budget. Mr. Boyd said the teachers request for restoration of salary cut was met (Turn to Page Three)

WARMER WEATHER IS HEADED FOR CITY

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

46 47 48 52 56

58 60 62 62

11 a. m... 12 (Noon) 1p m... 2p m...

Temperatures crept nearer to normal today, but remained a few degrees on the cold side. Tomorrow it is to be slightly warmer, the Weather Bureau predicted, and there may be showers tonight or tomorrow. :

EX-BRITISH OFFICIAL DIES LONDON, April 28.—Capt. Frejerick Guest, former air minister, died in his sleep today at Sunbury on Thames. ‘He had been ill of -pleurisy. He was 61.

HELD IN PERIL

Affect Wabash in Indiana.

Single Barrier on at Cumberland Mouth, Is Considered.

BULLETIN By United Press WASHINGTON, April 28.— Possibility that the Tennessee Valley Authority may construct a $300,000,000 “super dam” for flood control, navigation and power purposes across the mouth of the Cumberland and Ohio Rivers near Gilbertsville, Ky., was disclosed today to Congress. Dr. A. E. Morgan, TVA Board Chairman, told a House Appropriations Sub-Commit-tee handling the second deficiency bill, that he believed construction of two smaller dams probably was desirable but that the “super dam” idea was under consideration. “It would provide nearly 500 miles of excellent inland waterway, without a lock, extending from near the north boundary of the state of Mississippi across Tennessee and Kentucky, wel linto the state of Indiana on the Wabash, up the Cumberland River nearly to Nashville and up the Ohio nearly to Louisville.”

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By United Press

At least 21 persons were dead and flood

12,000 homeless today as

waters spilled over parts of four Eastern states. and sections of western Ontario. Property damage was estimated at $10,000,000. = In Washington President Roosevelt planned a program of quickstarting flood control projects today, but demands for an immense outlay which arose with the nation’s newest floods appeared stemmed by his new economy policy. Although he ordered: Army engineers to pick from their list of $800,000,000 worth of river control projects a few on which work can begin immediately, his budget for the coming fiscal year permits expenditures of only $52,250,000. Eight persons were counted dead in Virginia today where the swollen waters of the Rappahanock, James, Rivana and Potomac Rivers overflowed, causing damage of approximately $1,000,000. Five were killed in western Pennsylvania and two in northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio. Virginia streams also receded and rehabilitation work started. Fredericksburg was hardest hit. At Wheeling, the Ohio rose to 45.8 feet—9.3 feet above flood stage—and

then remained stationary.

(Photos, Page Three) By United Press LONDON, April 28.—Solicitors for Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson applied to the courts today for an award making her divorce from Ernest Simpson absolute. The court is expected to grant the leaving Mrs. Simpson free to marry the Duke of Windsor, who gave up the throne for her love. Officials tried to preserve great secrecy about the matter. A repre-

sentative of the law firm of Theo-

Wallis Asks Final Decree In 62-Cent Climax of Suit

dore Goddard & Co., acting for Mrs. Simpson, visited Somerset House, in the Strand near the law courts where Sir Alfred Bucknell is due to act on the petition on Monday. The climax of the most celebratéd divorce case of the century came in routine fashion. The Goddard representative visited Somerset House, paid half a crown—62 cents—and filed the necessary affidavit certifying that there is no legal bar to a final decree. The decree was granted at Ipswich on Oct. 27.

CONTROL THREE RIVERS STUDIED

$300,000,000 Project Would |

MORGAN TELLS OF PLAN

Ohio,

INDIANA

TOLL NOW

Marion County, Total Reaches 53 for First Quarter.

Traffic Director Sees Hopeful Sign in Jaywalk Curb.

(Other stories, Pages 3, 9 and 13)

Marion County - traffic deaths today stood at 53, as against 48 for the same period of 1936, an increase of 10.42 per cent. Thirty of this year’s victims were pedes-

trians. This was below the 26 per cent national increase for the first quarter of 1937 over 1936 as reported by the National Safety Council. Fatal traffic accidents in Indiana increased 19.8 per cent the first

quarter this year over the first quar(Turn to Page Three)

MUSICIANS VOTE ON DIRECTORATE

Proposal to Establish U. S. Fine Arts Division Is Offered.

Election of directors and a proposal to establish a division of fine arts in the Interior Department's Bureau of Education shared interest at the National Federation of Music Clubs’ convention here today. One of the leading candidates for the board was Mrs. Lloyd Billman, Shelbyville, Indiana's only nominee in the field for the 50 posts. The polls opened at 8:30 ‘a. m. and were to close at 4 p. m. in the Claypool Hotel. National officers are to be elected tomorrow by the election board, appointed by Mrs. John Alexander Jardine, Federation president. The proposal that the Federation seek a division of fine arts, made at today’s business forum by Miss Ada Bicking, Indianapolis, was referred to a resolutions committee, which was expected to act on it immediately. Miss Bicking urged the move as the first step in the Federation’s goal, a Fine Arts Department in the Cabinet. She is school and college music department chairman of the Federation. While a Department of Fine Arts (Turn to Page Three) i ————————————

STATE EVIDENCE HIT BY DENHARDT COUNSEL

By United Press NEW CASTLE, Ky., April 28.— Defense counsel for Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt chipped away today at the scientific evidence which the Commonwealth hopes will convict the pudgy soldier-politician of the murder of Verna Garr Taylor. Defense Counsel W. Clarke Otte recalled F. C. Buckmaster, Pittsburgh Pa., chemist, to the stand for cross-examination and introduced a Federal Bureau of Investigation bulletin which criticized paraffin tests

as inconclusive.

of the Potomac River,

WASHINGTON PARK WORKERS BUSY . . .

This scene was photographed at Hains Point, Washington, D. C., on Monday, as the District of Columbia Park Department employees removed benches to prevent their being swept away by the roaring waters

STEPS TO SAFETY ,

the right direction. as the Ohio River

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This young peeing refugee is taking a few steps in pPying a floating pair of steps, he boarded them and with a pole Proven Rimselt to safety

PITTSBURGH RAILROAD YARDS UNDER WATER .

—Acme Photos

Gondolas would be right at home in this Pittsburgh setting. The watery

wed its banks.

vista, which would remind the cosmopolitan of Venice and its canals, is the Pitjsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station under water heid River had. ov

after the Mononga-

MORE CARS USED

WITH 37 VAT 282

~ Safety Council's Report Shows.

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2840 IN MARCH

Decreases From 1936 Figures Shown by Only 6 States.

By United Press CHICAGO, April 28.—The National Safety Council today reported 8500 automobile traffic deaths for the first quarter, an increase of 26 per cent over the corresponding

1936 total.

Decreases from the 1936 figure were reported in only six states and 15 of the 93 cities with more than 100,000 population. Largest city without a traffic Sool up to April 1 was Bayonne, _R. L. Forney, chief council statistician, said increases reported for January and February were mostly . among persons more than 24 years old. March deaths totaled 2840.

Kansas Totai Down

Kansas’ first quarter traffic fatali= ties were 36 per cent under those of 1936. Arizona reported a 32 per cent reduction, Washington 27, Nevada 18, Wyoming 13. Missouri reported a reduction of 16 per cent in its January-February total. Cities of more than 100,000 popu= lation reporting fewer accidents in the first quarter included: Atlanta, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Roches=ter, N. Y.; Oakland, Cal.; Memphis and Chattanooga, Tenn.; ‘Seattle, Wash.; Tulsa, Okla.; Wichita, Kas.; Cambridge, Mass.: Duluth, Minn.; Trenton, N. J.; New Bedford, Mass., and Waterbury, Conn.

WARFLEIGH SEWER BIDS ARE APPROVED

~ The Works Board today authore ized advertising for bids for cone struction of a sewer for the War fieigh section, to extend from the pumping station south of the Canal on Meridian St. northeast to College Ave. and to cost $161,398. : Several Warfleigh residents urged the Board to proceed with the improvement. The pipe will be 24 inches in diameter, and will be laid from 10 to 23 feet deep, according to city engineering plans. It will be 9685 feet long and will be paid for with a Sanitary District bond issue,

TELLS OF ‘SHOOTINGS’ IN HARLAN UNION WAR

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 28.--Hugh Taylor, former “Bloody Harlan” County Deputy Sheriff, today told the La Follette Civil Liberties Come mittee of several “‘shootirgs” by Hare lan deputies last January and Febe ruary in attempts on union men seeking to organize coal miners. Taylor testified he had . been offered $2000 to “stay away” from the Committee’s Harlan inquiry. He said the offer was made cither by Harlan County Sheriff Theodore R. Mindision or a deputy, Clarence oor.

TAX SUITS REMANDED

Federal Judge Robert Baltzell toe day remanded to Marion County Superior Courts three suits involving the return of processing taxes to 27 city and State bakeries. The action was taken on motions by attorneys for the bakers, who said that less than $3000 was involved, takipg the

cases out of Federal jurisdiction,

MATTSON SUSPECT HELD By Unitea Press SHREVEPORT, La. April 28— Police today held a man said to ree semble the description of the kide nap-slayer of Charles Mattson, Tae coma, Wash., schoolboy. j

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