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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 170

PAUL STETSON * RITES ARE SET * FOR THURSDAY

Educators Send Messages Of ' Condolence After School Chief Here Dies.

BODY TO LIE IN STATE

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Four Accomplishments in Revising Local Plan Win High Praise.

PLUG TAX LEAK, CONGRESS TOLD

Roosevelt Message Cites 7

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Indianapolis and the na-| tion's leading educators joined

today in mourning the death : : S of Paul C. Stetson, superin- Ways in Which U. S. tendent of public schools here, Levies Are Evaded. who died of heart disease Trtinmtehis early today. He was 52. | Thé School Board office and Mr. Stetson's home at 4026 Central Ave., were swamped with message of sympathy. => One, from the alumni of Kalamazoo College, which Mr. Stetson attended, read: “A great life has come to a close. Our grief is inevitable, but a glorious memory ‘will console and inspire us in all the years to come.” : Funeral services were set tentatively for 2:30 p. m, Thursday in First Baptist Church. The body is to lie in state at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary from 5 p. m. tomorrow until Thursday noon, and at ithe church from 1 to 2:3) p. m. Thursday. Burial is to be in Kalamazoo Friday. City schools are to be closed tomorrow and Thursday. afternoons. -Flags are to be at half staff. Mr. Stetson was school = superintendent for seven years.

{Won National Prominence

Since coming here in 1930 from Dayton, O., where he was school superintendent nine years,® Mr. Stetson’s work had gained him national prominence in the educational field. = a Four accomplishments here, associates said, appeared to stand out. They included his revision of the elementary. school curriculum, an extensive building program, in--auguration of the Indianapolis plan of junior high schools and added co-operation in parent-teacher relations.

Ry United Press WASHINGTON, June 1.— The Senate today passed a joint resolution calling for investigation of ‘“shocking” tax evasion and avoidance.

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By United Press . WASHINGTON, June 1.—Presi-

gress for new legislation at this session to halt widespread tax. evasion and avoidance by a “minority of very rich individuals.” Mr. Roosevelt also requested that the Treasury be given “all authority necessary” to expand and-complete a preliminary investigation revealing methods , employed to escape Federal levies. Efforts at evasion of tax liability have been “so widespread and so : , {amazing beth in their boldness and Indianapolis | their ingenuity,” he said, “that further action without delay seems imperative.” The President addressed a special message to Congress which- was read while he was in Hyde Park. Tax evasion shifts the tax load to the shoulders of others less able to pay.” Mr. Roosevelt urged Congress to grant the Treasury full power to summon witnesses and compel their testimony in an investigation of tax evasion estimated to have cost the Government between 200,000,000 dollars and 400,000,000 dollars in revenue this fiscal year.

Means of Evasion

The evasion devices enumerated included: 1. Formation of personal holding corporations. in nearby foreign countries and islands. 2. ‘Creation of closely-held-foreign insurance companies. 3. Formation of domestic personnel holding companies, incorporation of yachts’ and country estates. 4. Artificial deductions for interest and losses on loans to taxpayers by their personal holding companies or family , trusts. 5. Creation of multiple trusts for

Lauded by Evans

William Evans, School Board publications director, said: “I have never seen a man who did so much in such a short time.” Before Mr. Stetson came here, there had. been no revision ofthe elementary” curriculum for 10 years. |. He improved and reorganized the course of study. Last fall, he began revision of senior high school courses. Recently, a committee of 75 teachers had. submitted. preliminary reports. . More than 3000 elementary school | relatives and dependents. pupils were housed in “portable” | 6. Formation of husband and buildings when Mr. Stetson took | Wife or father and children part- - charge here. | Less than 700 ele- |Rnerships. mentary students now are housed in || 7. Setting: up of tax-free pension portables, as a result of his new |trusts of which the only bene-

“puilding program, School City rec- | fiiciaries are small groups) of ofords show. ficers and directors in the high in-

: come brackets. Started New School

ie Three major instances in which The new Thomas Carr Howe High | the law itself permits individuals School, ground for which was

and corporations te avoid - their broken last week, was a part of this | share of the tax burden, were cited: program. : 1. Percentage depletion of such . W. G. Gingery, Washington ¢High | properties as oil wells and mines: School principal, said he understood | 2. Division .of income between bids were fo be opened tomorrow |husband and wife instates having for additions to that school includ- | community property laws: ing a gymnasium, classrooms, shops, | . 3. Elimination of the requirement science laboratories and’ home eco- [that & nonresident alient must file nomics facilities. . |an incecme tax return. The School Board said in a state ——e ment:

“No greater misfortune could have SNOW BALKS HUNT befallen the Indianapolis public FOR M ISSI NG PLANE

schools than the untimely death of By United Press

Paul C. Stetson. Mr. Stetson -was, in every respect, an ideal superin- , SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 1. —Snow, ‘heavy clouds

tendent. His thorough educational 30d cold weather today impeded™a new

and cultural qualifications were supplemented by character of the highest type“combined with a most | search for the Transcontinental : Western Air express plane that dis-< appeared over the Wasatch moun-

pleasing personality. : “City Is Fortunate” : tains last Dec. 15 with seven persons aboard. 1

“The qualities of leadership, unremitting devotion to his task, The finding of two unopened letters that may have been cargo of

trustworthiness and courage were the plane, inspired the new search.

his to a rare degree. Under his ‘guidance the standards of education : : Several private ground parties were trudging throug the mountain

in our public schools have moved snowdrifts in spite of warnings that

steadily forward. This city may count itself fortunate to have had the storms made the area still unsafe.

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for seven years the services of this great educator. Our school system

U. S. High Court Closes 1936-37 Term With Three ~~ Anti-New Deal Actions

Rules Against New Deal Request for Consideration Of Lower Bench Ruling Ordering TVA to Trial in Tennessee,

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WASHINGTON, June 1.—The Supreme Court concluded its' 1936-37 term today by acting adversely to New Deal pleas power and utility test cases brought before it.

The utility actions involved court ® cisions.

dent Roosevelt today asked Con- in the next session of several im-

raised by Robert A. Taft, son of the

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in three importan

rders .rathér than written de-

he Court ruled: 1. That it would not, as requeste by the ' Government, consider lower court ruling which ordere the Tennessee Valley Authority trial in Tennessee Federal Distric Court in.an attack brought by. the Tennessee Electric Power Co. and other utilities. | 2. That it would not—as requested by both the Government and the utility-—hear the Electric Bond & Share Co., test of the Utility Holding Company Act until the Circuit Court of Appeals has first .heard the case. ' 3. That it would hear—despite the protest of the Government—an appeal by two utility concerns from a District of Columbia Court of Appeals verdict which denied their right to challenge constitutionality of public works administration power loans to municipalities. The orders of the Supreme Court today insured a broad consideration

portant aspects of the New Deal's power and utility policy. The consideration will not be made by the nine justices who sat today, however. This group of nine men who have held the power of life -and death over New Deal legislation has assembled. for the last |: time. Van Devanter Retires

. Next term at least one new jurist and possibly more will sit on' the high tribunal. Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, dean of Court conservatives, retires tomorrow. There is the possibility of' further retirements or deaths before the fall meeting. At least one more review of the far-reaching issues raised | by the New Deal's gold clause legislation was insured by court action today

Judges(s).

(Mrs. Roosevelt’s Column, Page Nine) By United Press v WASHINGTON, June 1.— Fitness, not sex, should be the _base for selecting Supreme Court justices, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said today. “If there is a woman who is outstandingly fitted, and she is chosen as an individual, not as a woman, 1 should be delighted to see a. woman on the Supreme Court,” Mrs. Roosevelt said. - “I think Supreme Court appointments should be based on fitness to serve on (he Supreme Court, not on other considerations such as sex.”

when the tribunal agreed to hear two new cases testing unruled-upon phases of gold clause litigation

late President and Chief Justice. Two actions intended to test further the constitutiorality of the Na-' tional Labor Relations Act were refused consideration by the Supreme Court today. : The tests were sponsored by the independent workers ‘of Clayton Mark & Co. Chicago steel pipe manufacturers, and the El Paso Electric Co., and members of its company union. Each sought to,enjoin National Labor Relations Board elections. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals without’ comment. Sutherland Fails to Vote

In one of the few cases decided by opinion today-—a California utility rate case—the decision was made by a vote of four to four with Associate Justice George Sutherland not participating. The reason for Justice Sutherland’s failure to vote in the matter was not revealed. He has been mentioned as one of the Justices who might possibly retire before the new court term starts. - The Court ordered reargument next fall on several minor cases which had once been argued but left undecided. : One of these involved the fight of 945 pensioned Chicago school teachers against economy = reductions of their pensions.

[WPA IN STATE

districts, with an estimated annual savings of $109,000, was announced today by State Administrator John

K. Jennings.

program ‘aimed at ficiency and economy, ready has saved $183,000.

County is to go under the State ' Administration, and 11 districts are to be reduced and combined into five. : * z :

office save nually, Mr. Jennings said.

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‘TUESDAY, JUNE 1,

CONSOLIDATED T0 CUT COSTS

Marion County Is Placed Under Supervision Of State.

EXPECT $25,000 SAVING | Resignations of 3 Deputies Announced; Employees To Be Lopped.

Reorganization of Indiana WPA

He said the move was part of a increased efwhich alapproximately new plan, Marion

Under the

Employees Eliminated According to Mr. Jennings, “in|

no case will relief clients be af- | fected.” He said he was ridding | (the organization of - employees | Skull Fracture Fatal; Toll whose duties overlap, and that the |

savings effected would go to rela f clients. -

Absorption of the Marion County into State ‘supervision will approximately $25,000

* Under the plan, effective June 15,

f districts one and seven are’ to be combined, with an office at South Bend; merged with Ft. Wayne,

the Muncie office is to be and the Terre Haute and Lafayette offices

will be combined at Lafayette.

Mr. Jennings also snnctinced the

resignations of three depufy administrators, Mrs. Robert West Nicholson, Marion County district; M. J. Sallwasser, Gary, and: E. Arthur Ball. | effective June 5, the others today.

Mrs. Nicholson's resignation is

No Replacements Planned

Mr. Jennings said: “In view of the progressive cur-

tailment, no -replacements will be wl made as a result-of these resigna-

tions. Their duties will be assumed

| by others already on the payroll. Mr,

Ball, who always has been active in

| unemployment relief work, has of-

fered his services in an advisory capacity. We regret his resignation.” Mr. Jennings said other personnel changes would be made next week. He added that the Indiana efficiency and economy moves are not a part of a national program, and are

merely the institution of “good busi- |

ness methods” which would be

undertaken regardless of Congres-

sional curtailment of WPA funds.

OVER BAHAMAS, IS EARHART'S REPORT

Aviatrix Heads for Puerto Rico on World Flight.

BULLETIN Ry Uniled Press i SAN JUAN, P. R., June 1.—

Amelia Earhart arrived here at 12:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time)

‘| today, completing the first leg of

her. round-the-world flight,

By United Press : MIAMI, Fla., June }.—Amelia Earhart was over Long Island in the

Bahamas at 6:45 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), according to a wireless report

from her ship picked up at Key

West and relayed here.

- 8he is headed toward San Juan,

Puerto Rico, on‘a second attempted flight around the world. >

" The flier put WE J $80,000 ship

through a dawn test of nearly an hour, Thecking the motors and instruments before deciding to start on the 28,000-mile trip scheduled to terminate at Oakland, Cal.

Miss Earhart lifted her plane, the

same that crashed March 20 and halted her first attempt to circle the globe, from the

runways at Municipal Airport at 4:56 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). She was accompanied by her navi-

gator, Capt. Fred J. Noonan, for-

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1937

Temperature Is Headed for 90s, Forecast

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

m... 95 10 a, m... «Mm... 96 11 a. Wm... . Mm... 7 12 (noon). » m... 83 1p m...

83 85 85 88

The heat eased off today, if you can call two or three degrees easing. the nineties. Yesterday it got to 92 and heated everything up so that it was uncomfortable. The Weather Bureau predicted it would be cooler tonight, and there would be occasional unsettled spells in tonight's weather. No records for heat have been broken in the last two days, no matter how hot you got. Neither was it a record when, on May 14, the thermomter reached 39 and everyone thought May was going to be one of the coldest ever. The last few days picked up May's temperature average to about rormal, the bureau said. TT It has been good for the farmer and the crops, too. Temperatures today are running about one degree lower than yesterday. I

CHILD TRAFFIC VICTIM IS DEAD

Of County for 1937 Hits 65.

‘THE HOLIDAY TOLL

National Nearly 300 Indiana 11 Marion County

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

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TRAFFIC ARRESTS Speeding Running red light - Running preferential street... 5 Reckless driving Drunken driving

Marion County's holiday traffic record “listed one dead, two injured seriously and nearly a -score of others hurt slightly as the 1937 death toll today reached 65.

Five-year-old Donald Francis Conlin, 816 Coffey St., died in City

Hospital at 12:45 a. m. today from | {injuries received when struck by

an automobile in front of ' his home Sunday night. He was taken ‘to the hospital, (Tarn to Page Three)

POPE PIUS RESTS, “ALARM DISCOUNTED

Ry United Press CASTLE GANDOLFO, Italy, June 1.—Pope Pius XI rested comfortably at his summer home today, while psysicians denied that his condition

had become alarming.

SISTERS, 9 AND 11, CONFESS TO THEFT

Took Pennies to Buy Movie Tickets, They Say.

Two sisters, age 9 and 11, today told police that they had stolen 100

pennies from Robbins Market, 910 Virginia Ave., to buy picture show tickets. When police found them, they had a new grey leather purse containing three pennies and a package of cigarets.

Jessie Edwards, 849% Grove St.,

called the police today and said that the screen on the’ back porch

of the market had been tofn off

and the glass in the door broken. The police called Jess Robbins, 1525 Hoyt Ave. market owner, who said that 100 pennies had been stolen from the cash register and that the place also had been entered on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday of the week before. " He suggested that the meney had been taken by the two little girls who confessed the theft to the police.

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LEWIS ACCUSES POLICE

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

PICKETS FIGHT CREWS INSIDE REPUBLIC MILL

Two Hurt as Missiles Fly When Workers Try to Enter Ohio Plant.

Charges Steel and Chicago Officers With ‘Murder’ After Five Killed.

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By United Press Violence flared in the nation’s steel strike again today when 1000 pickets battled workers inside the | Republic. Steel Corp. plant at | Warren, O., according to report of | Sheriff Roy Hardman of Trum-

bull County. r Bricks and iron bolts were hurled when employees tried to break through the picket line, the Sheriff reported. Two men were injured.

In Washington, John L. Lewis, |

chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, charged Republic Steel and the Chicago police force with being “guilty of planned murder.”

Calls Battle Massacre '

He accused them of aiding the steel company and described the battle in whieh five steel workers were killed Sunday in Chicago as a “brutal massacre.” In Cleveland three railroads petitioned Judge Samuel H. West for an injunction to prevent members of the C. I. O. from blockading | freight shipments to and from Republic plants at Warren and nearby Niles, O. . The suit was filed by the ‘Balti- | more & Ohio,” Erie and Pennsyl- | vania | Railroads... It named the | Amalgamated Association of Iron, | Steel and Tin Workers. C. I. 0. | union, and organizers and members as defendants. | charges Arms Buying [1] At the same time another action was filed at Cleveland by a stockholder of the Republic Corp. who charged that the company’s officers

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illegally had spent more than one million dollars for ammunition and for employment of ‘company thugs,” | detective agencies and private po- | lice to combat the unionists. | Meanwhile Republic Steel itself | charged that pickets at the Warren | and Niles plants had been “snipin ig) at food planes the company is | using to drop supplies to workers in | the besieged plants. \

|+ Charges Drafted In | Chicage Van A. Bittner, | regional director of the Steel Werk- | ers’ Organizing Committee. ‘went | into conference with four attorneys | regarding the method of pressing | charges against the police in con- | nection with Sunday riots in the | South Chicago area. The Republic countered this move | with demand for a probe of reported | death threats received by company | workers in the Buffalo, N. Y., plant. In Detroit the United Automobile Workers of America promised the support of the C. I. O. in the drive to unionize Ford plants, summoned its Ford Organizing Committee to plan new strategy in the. member- | ship drive. . f The union likewise disclosed plans for ‘a mass meeting Saturday at | Baby Creek Park in the shadow of | the great River Rouge Ford fac-' tories.

POLICEMEN TO DROP HEAVY TUNICS FRIDAY

Chief Morrissey today told the Safety Board that Indianapolis uniformed police are to change from heavy, hot tunics to summer uniforms. It's a little hot, the Chief said. But they won’t do it until Friday when they change shifts, the Chief said.

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Your Daily Laugh— "Al Smith knows what II Dobchay wants," says Mr. O'Keefe. Page Nine.

' Hull has called upon both the

'tleship Deutschland by Spanish | Loyalist-planes, and the retaliatory

interval in deference to her mem-

PRICE THREE CENTS

HITLER AND DUCE THREATEN SPAIN; U.S. ASKS PEACE

Britain and France Warn Fascists and Nazis Against Acts of War; Parleys in All Capitals:

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HULL APPEALS -TO REICH ENVOY,

German Warships Rush to Danger Zone

‘Armed for Military Reprisals; ‘Fire if Necessary.’

PARIS—Britain and France warn Germany and Italy that further direct " action in Spain might have serious consequences. ;

ALMERIA—Refugees stream northward from devastated, almost deserted city. | ¥ BERLIN—More German warships en route to Mediterranean with orders to fire is necessary, re

ROME—Reports circulated Mussolini is considering sending more men and material to Spain.

WASHINGTON—Hull appeals to German ambassadér to keep the peace, LONDON—Britain protests to Valencia at threat to British destroyer at Palma. '} Le GIBRALTAR—Twenty-four dead from Deutschland buried. . VALENCIA—Loyalists charge Deutschland deliberately proveked bombing.

Is It War or Peace? “Answer in Balance

i Bv United Press WASHINGTON, June 14— Britain and France strove Secretary of State Cordell to save the peace of Europe today in the face of Italian and German threats that Fascist and Nazi warships would fire on any Spanish Loyalist vessels or planes that were deemed a threat in the Mediterranean.

Conferences went on in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Washington and Geneva. :

It was/a clear alignment of two European blocs—Britain and France against Germany and Italy. The Fascist nations indicated from boh Berlin and Rome they would act together against Spanish Loyalist “ag=gression,” and Paris ‘and London were standing together to exert pressure against further acts of war.

The warning of possible further reprisals by Germany, backed by: Italy, was contained in a German war order for all Nazi warships speeding to Spanish waters to “fire” on provocation, and in a statement in Reme by Virginio Gayda, in the authoritative Giornal d'Italia.

“Reply With Arms”

Gayda. a frequent spokesman for Premier Mussolini, said: “Italy and Germany will reply with arms from now an, without delay and without limit, with shots anywhere they come in contaet with the same provocative manifestations on the part of Spanish Soviet air or sea forces.” | : - France and Britain have warned the Loyalist Valencia Government in its own interests not te commit any further gcts which would, ine evitably result'in its destruction and perhaps a general conflagration. The motive for the bombing of the Deutschland was obscure. The Valencia Government ~ charged” the Deutschand deliberately provoked the attack so as.to get an excuse for intervention. On the other hand, it ‘is. not illogical to speculate on whether Va-' lencia hopes to create a situation which would force Britain and) France to support it against the disguised intervention of Germany and Italy which has been a powerful fac tor in the Rebel offensive. .

Neutrals Offer Plans

Germany has advised Great Brie tain and France she considers the bombardment of Almeria by a Gere man war fleet to have given her the satisfaction she required for the bombing by Loyalist planes Sqairday of the battleship Deutsch« and. There were two moves to liquidate the Deutschland-Almeria incident (Turn to Page Three)

BOB BURNS

Says: -A atmosphere is

Senators Divide On Neutrality

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German and the Spanish Loy- | alist Governments to use every effort to compose their differences and settle the: present Ger m a n-Spanish | crisis amicably, | Secretary | Hull revealed today. The secretary conveyed the hope of this Government that the two European Governments would use every effort to find a peaceful solution to the crisis arising out of the bombing of the German pocket bat-

naval bombardment of the Spanish port of Almeria by the German fleet, This hope was conveyed in turn to the German Ambassador, Dr. Hans Dieckhoff and the Spanish Ambassador Fernando de los Rios in conversations which were tantamount. to’ informal representations by the United States to Germany and Loyalist Spain. i In each case Secretary Hull made it tlear that the United States was | concerned over the situation in Europe.

BOB BURNS AND HIS SECRETARY MARRIED

Humorist and Bride on Nevada Honeymoon.

By United Press LAS VEGAS, Nev. June 1.—Boh Burns, the purveyor of backwoods lore from Van Buren, Ark. and his secretary, Harriet Madelia Foster, were on honeymoon, here today under the names of |“Mr. and Mrs. Lastfogle;” which M . Burns said he “just picked out off my mind.” : They “eloped from Hollywood were married here | i 24 hours earlier, Mi broad-mouthed comedienne who has appeared in several pictures with him, eloped here |with- Hamilton Westmore, Hollywood makeup man. Mr. Burns and Miss Foster had been planning the marriage several weeks. - His wife died a year ago and’ he had been waiting out a 12-month

ory. He said she would have approved his remarriage. They came here by airplane and, to avoid publicity, the comedian hid in the airport locker room until plane time. He was recognized by John F. Cahlan, Las Vegas newspaperman, who was recruited as a witness. He sighed the marriage license “Robin Burns,” and gave his age as 45. -His bride is 28.

could have had no wiser, abler administrator, nor one more constant in his devotion than Paul C. Stet- . son. . - -~ “His death brings deep and lasting sorrow to all those with’ whom he ‘had personal contact, but it has a much widet and a more far | “reaching effect than the grief of (Turn to Page Three) .

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CHICAGO POLICE INSPECT WOUNDED STRIKERS . . .

- REMOVE INJURED PICKET FROM ‘BATTLEFIELD

supposed to be the most excitin and thrilling in the world. People come out here from all er the country jest in hopes of pttin’ a little

Some people ve been right it so

've only been in it a short while and a lotta folks wonder why I don't get excited about it. I guess I ain't just of an excitable nature. I come from a line of people that seem to take everything very calmly, |One day, when Grandpaw Snelson and’ a hired hand was tarrin’ the roof. Grandpaw slipped and fell off, .: The hired hand went rusHin’ into the room where Grandmaw was | = sittin’ and says “Your husband jest | fell off the roof.” Grandmaw yawned and said, “Yes, I jest saw him pass the window!” to a Copyright, 1957)

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