Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1937 — Page 3
SATURDAY, NOV. 13,
1937
~~ PRESIDENT REFUSES CHANCE T0 STOP ROW IN CONGRESS OVER COAL COMMISSION WAR
White House Gives Official Approval of Chairman Hosford, Accused of Being Dictatorial; Minority Expected To Ask for Inquiry.
By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—The White House has turned down a chance to head off Congressional fireworks over the noisy friction within the National Bituminous Coal Com-
mission.
Persons in close touch with the Commission’s affairs believe an official inquiry will be asked in Congress. Whether
there would be enough votes is another question.
to authorize such an inquiry
Chairman Charles F. Hosford Jr. stated after a confer-
Roosevelt, the President's secretary-son: “I am author-
ized to announce that I will
remain as a member of the Coal Commission and as its chairman, and will, of course, continue to work with the other commissioners in making minimum prices effective at the earliest possible moment. This, of course, means that I will withdraw my resignation which was tendered some days ago.” Thus the official okay was placed on Mr. Hosford, who has been accused by three of the six other commissioners of being dictatorial and the leader of an effort to keep them and the public in the dark on the methods of arriving at minimum prices for coal. Minority Is Silent The minority members, who demanded in a formal vote several days ago that Mr. Hosford's resignation be made effective at once, kept silence on the White House development. But Commissioner Percy Tetlow, a labor member, declared. “If it’s the last thing I do I intend to see that there is no preference for, or discrimination against, any class of consumers in the prices they pay for coal.” Mr. Tetlow and his colleagues of the minority—John C. Lewis, labor member from Iowa; and Pleas Greenlee, public member from Indiana—have been contending that Consumers’ Counsel John Carson should be let in on the commission’s secret data, as the basis for price fixing. These commissioners say this information in large part is withheld even from them, The White House okay for Chairman Hosford was regarded generally as a flat turndown for the commission minority, which is backed by C. I. O. Chieftain John L. Lewis,
CAR RUNS WILD WITH DYING MAN AT WHEEL
BUFFALO, N, Y., Nov. automobile sped wildly down a busy
scious driver at the wheel. Directly in its patch was Patrolman Thomas Cody and a 9-year-old girl he was guiding across the street. Without regard to personal danger, Officer Cody picked up the child and threw her out of danger. The car struck him an instant later, breaking his right shoulder and wrenching his back. The driver, Murray Joseph, had suffered a heart attack and was found unconscious in the wreckage of his car, He died a short time later.
125 TO HOLD DINNER Col. Clyde Dreisbach, Ft. Wayne, is to preside tonight at the dinnermeeting of the 152d Infantry, Indiana National Guard, in the Severin Hotel. The meeting is to mark the 16th anniversary of Federal recognition of the regiment.
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DENIES ‘LIKKER' AIDED WEDDING
Southern Bride of New York Heir Defends Romance of ‘Three Minutes.’
MORGANTOWN, N. C., Nov. 13 (U. P.).—Mrs. Martha Ryan clung to her belief today that her husband of eight days, Basil Ryan of the wealthy Ryan clan, wants her by his side forever, despite reports that he had expressed a desire to annul their marriage “as quickly and painlessly” as possible. The pretty bride, who was Martha Barkley until Ryan escorted her to a justice of the peace after a “three minute” romance, made another pilgrimage to his bedside in the Hickory Hospital last night, and took along a witness to dispel reports that at the wedding Ryan was under the stimulus of “corn likker.” Mrs. Ryan said that assertions that her husband wanted to dissolve the marriage were “contrary to his expressed attitude when I was with him at his own request from 7:30 until 10:30 last evening.” Dr. J. B. Riddle, father of Mrs. Ryan's attorney, confirmed that statement. He was in Ryan's room, he said. and the youthful grandson of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan begged his wife to stay with him. Dr. Riddle said she waited until Ryan fell asleep, then left. That was just a few hours after Ryan's attorney, C. W. Bagby, had announced that he'd have nothing more to do with his client’s marital difficulties. Mr. Bagby emphasized that he was “extremely fond" of Ryan, but that the youth had disregarded his advice by granting
. an interview to newspapermen. thoroughfare with a dying, uncon- |
It was Mr. Bagby who first announced that Ryan, accustomed to the mild cocktails of the social set in New York, had come a cropper when he tangled with the North Carolina brand of corn liquor. Mr. Bagby said Ryan was suffering from a severe hangover; hospital authorities described his complaint as “an intestinal disorder.”
MUNICIPAL FISCAL ACT HELD INVALID
FRESNO, Cai., Nov. 13 (U. P).— Federal Judge Leon Yankwich today ruled the Federal Municipal Bankruptcy Act was unconstitutional on the grounds it was an interference of State rights. It was the second time that such an act was declared unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of the United Slates outlawed the 1934 act in May,
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here’s County Traffic Record b : Deaths (To Date) : 1937 ....129 1936 ....134
Accidents (Nov. 12) Injured ....2 Accidents . .2 Dead ..... 0
Arrests (Nov. 12) Speeding 21 8 Reckless Driving
3
BF Running Preferig ential Street
Running Red Light 10
Improper Parking 3 Drunken Driving
1 Others 8
MEETINGS TODAY
Alliance Francaise, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. ndianapolis Automobile Show, Indiana State Fair Grounds, all da
MEETINGS TOMORROW Brethren Association, meeting, S Hotel, 8 a. m, % ever Ethical Beauty School, meeting, Severin otel, 1 p. m. Indianapolis Bowling ing, Severin Hotel, 2 p.
BIRTHS
Girls Charles, Dorothy Lindsay,
ins. Alonzo, Elizabeth Jeffers, at St. Vincent’s. . Hervey, Cecelia Anderson, at St. Vin-
cent’s. Alfred, Opal Holmes, at St. Vincent's. Carlo, Juanita Burrello, at 927 S. East. Loren, Marjorie Knuckles, at Methodist. Vernie, Ozella Eggers, at Methodist. Walter, Frances Ward, at Methodist. Donald, Allison MacGregor, at Method-
st. Robert, Lois Goodwin, at Methodist. Robert, Emmalou Fox, at Methodist. John, Anna Allen, at 1214 E. New York.
Boys
Maurice, Mary Fogarty. at St. Vincent's Frederick, Norma Grimm, at St. Vin-
cent’s. wt oe. Novita Degolier, at 525 S. Hardidon, Frances Smoldt, at Methodist. Harr, llian ant, at Methodist. Harold, Lenora at Methodist,
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opening y.
Association, meetm,
1805 W. Wil-
Ralph, Mildred Meixner, at Meth Roland, Elizabeth Duvall, .at Methodist. _ Harold, Belvamell Nicholas, at Method-
ist. Ernest, Mary Krieg, at Methodist. Ralph, Annette Caldwell, at Methodist, Evert, Mark Rubush, at Methodist.
: Twins David, Blanche Klain, at Methodist.
DEATHS Roy Taylor, 29, at City, broncho pneu-
monia. Joseph Cain, 37, at 217 Blake, carcinoma William M. Camely, 43 at St. Vincent's, broncho pneumonia. Rose Gladden, 54, at City, cerebral hemorrhage. George Addison Altizer, 72, at 116 N. Denny, chronic myocarditis. Flora Honnold, 61, Methodist, strangulated hernia. William Schribner, 50, at 348 Anderson, myocarditis. Elnora Collins, 69, at 1018 Cedar, carcinoma.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
United States Weather Bureau...
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair and colder tonight and tomorrow.
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Dr. Harlow Shapley, Harvard
shown above inspecting plans for a new telescope under construction here for a Morgan County observatory. He visited machine shops and the observatory yesterday. Left to right are Dr. Wil-
Dr. Shapley Sees Telescope
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For Morgan County Project
(Virginia Moorhead Mannon’s Column, Page 4) By JOE COLLIER
Dr. Howard Shapley, eminent Boston-bound today to pick up the
Harvard College astronomer, was stars where he left them to come
here and address the Indianapolis Contemporary Club last night. While here he discovered a brand new 36-inch:telescope about to be assembled
and placed in a Morgan County ob-® servatory. After a tour of a little room next to a beer tavern in the 3900 block English Ave. a modest little machine shop several blocks away and an exploration of a glacier shelf in Morgan County, Dr. Shapley congratulated Indiana for its new window to the skies, and said he probably would send work for it to do when it began operations. The new telescope is the property of Dr. Goethe Link, 4207 N. Pennsylvania St., an amateur astronomer, and is to be erected in an observatory dome under construction on his Morgan County farm. Dr. Link said that the observatory, the largest in Indiana when completed, will be available to any serious students of astronomy and “always will be available to Indiana college and university astronomy departments.”
Writes on Astronomy
It is through Dr. Shapley that announcements of astronomic discoveries, no matter where they originate, are made and it was through his studies that the conception of the size of the Milky Way recently was considerably altered. He has written many books on astronomy, six of which are in the Indianapolis Public Library. In the little room next to the beer tavern, Dr. Shapley watched for a while the grinding of the glass that will be the eye of the new telescope when completed. It will photograph stars 200 million light years away. Also in the party were Dr. Link, Dr. William N. Wishard Jr., Russell Sullivan, Attorney John Rauch of Indianapolis, and Dr. W. A, Cogshall, Bloomington, Indiana University astronomy department head. The work of grinding is in charge of Carl D. Turner, optical engineer, who built the grinding machine and who has been at work for more than a year on the project.
Poured at Corning
The glass was poured from the same pot and at the same time that the famed 200-inch “eye” was poured at the Corning Glass Works. It is ground in two-hour stretches, six hours a day, and after three months is about five-sixteenths of an inch thinner. At the machine shop, men are at work on the optical tube and mounting, which is a massive affair and at the same time a precision instrument. During the drive to Morgan County, Dr. Link and Dr. Shapley engaged in conversation that touched on the weather, astrology, the curling of moonstruck shingles, the moon, and John Dillinger, Indiana bad man. “I suppose,” said Dr. Shapley in a facetious mood, “that astrology bucks up the devotee. But it's so utterly absurd.” He turned to Dr. Link, who was in no sense arrayed on the side of astrology, and said: “They say that Mars or Jupiter has an effect on the lives of certain individuals. If I would pass my hand before the face of those individuals, the gravitation pull and the light reflection would be enormously greater than exerted on them by either Mars or Jupiter, and therefore might be supposed to have a greater effect on their future.”
Believed Old Adage
Dr. Shapley said that as a child he was impressed by his Negro Mammy’s sincere belief that certain phases of the moon would play hob with butter churning. “And how about the adage that shingles laid in the dark of the moon would curl?” some one asked. “Well, you see,” he said, “if an airplane would fly over the shingles, the gravitation pull of the plane would be greater than that of the moon. If the plane had twin engines, there would be a greater electrical disturbance from it. And the lights of an auto, if they shined on the shingles, would be brighter than the moon.” He said that the moon, astronomically, “is largely ignorable.” Most astronomers look suspiciously on methods advanced as ‘“‘sure-fire” to make long-range weather predictions from tree rings, stars or accumulated data, Dr. Shapley said. But he held out hope that within the next 50 years “we will be better able to analyze the relati of terrestrial and solar phenomena.” That means, in nonastronomical language, he said, that there is a probability that astronomy may be able then to make long-range predictions, such as rain and tempera-
Shapley exhibited a casual interest in Dillinger, whose crime career started there. At the Morgan County observatory site, now under construction under direction of Victor Maier, Indianapolis, the party inspected the building. A huge block of concrete, resting on solid bed rock and untouched by other and less solid parts of the building, will hold the telescope. The dome, to be covered with sheet steel, is nearing completion. Dr. Shapley was invited to climb a rather shaky ladder to the framework of the platform from which observations actually will be made. He contemplated it, and declined, explaining: “I might fall and that might interfere with the lecture.” Mr. Rauch gave a dinner for Dr. Shapley before the lecture. -
Wed to Wrong Bridegroom 1n
Church Mixup
BELFAST, Nov. 13 (U. P.)—MTrs. Ruby Cunningham Craig was honeymooning with the right bridegroom today after being first married to the wrong man. The bride and Cristopher Craig, the bridegroom, went to the village church near Castlederg to be married. They shared the excitement of the usual bridal couple. The clergyman, the Rev. J. H. Lyons, was excited, too. It was his first marriage ceremony. At the altar, Albert Muldoon, the best man, was standing by. He explained later: “Somehow I got into the bridegroom's place beside the bride and made all the responses. Then I put the ring on the bride's finger.” Neither the bride nor the real bridegroom saw anything wrong and it was not until the wedding party adjourned to the vestry room to sign the register that it was found Miss Cunningham had married the wrong man. Everybody returned to the church and the ceremony was repeated with Craig in his proper role.
HUNTINGTON'S CITY ATTORNEY INDICTED
Released on Bail on Charge Of Accepting Bribes.
HUNTINGTON, Nov. 30 (U. P). —Arthur D. Saylor, Huntington City Attorney and member of the Board of Public Works, today surrendered to Sheriff Arthur Thompson after being indicted by the County Grand Jury on a charge of accepting bribes. He was released on $1500 bond. Saylor was charged with receiving bribes from Wilbur Miller who also was indicted for ownership of slot machines. There were five counts in the indictment against Saylor charging that he tipped off slot machine owners when the police planned to raid them, that he advised slot machine owners when to operate or remove the machines, that he advised the City Police against the raids and also had an agreement with Miller to defend him should he ever encounter legal difficulty in the alleged slot machine operaions.
MISSING MAN FEARED AMNESIA VICTIM
CHICAGO, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—Belief that Wilson S. Davis, 24, son of a wealthy retired Wisconsin banker, was a kidnap victim faded today when police learned he has suffered frequent memory lapses. His wife, Harriet, 22, said Mr. Davis suffered lapses of memory since he was injured in a motorcycle accident in 1932. Police continued, however, to question traders of a midcity meat and produce district where Mr. Davis last was seen Tuesday morn-
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Inspects Hoosier Observatory Plans
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Jr.; Dr. Goethe Link, Indianapolis
surgeon and amateur astronomer who is building
Dr. Shapley, and Attorney John
Rauch, who was Dr. Shapley’s Indianapolis host.
Go
ARREST 30 ALLEGED KIDNAPER OF PASTOR
Gang Rounded Up Shortly After Preacher Escapes.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. Nov. 13 (U. P.).—The arrest of the third and last member of the gang alleged to have held a 79-year-old retired preacher prisoner for $50,000 ransom in an abandoned coal pit, was announced today. He was Orville Atkins, 24, an exconvict. He was arrested last night near Canada, Ky. by a Kentucky Deputy Sheriff and a West Virginia State Policeman. Lodged in the County Jail at Williamson, W. Va., he probably will be arraigned before i United States Commissioner toay. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents had all three of the alleged Kidnapers in custody a few hours after Dr. James I. Seder, former superintendent of the West Virginia Anti-Saloon League, escaped from his prison yesterday. John Travis, 24, and Arnett A. Booth, 46, also ex-convicts, were arrested first and were being held here. The Bureau of Investigation in Washington announced that they had confessed. Seder was kidnaped Nov. 1. On Nov. 6 a note was mailed in the Huntington Postoffice to his son, Arthur Raymond Seder, of St. Paul, Minn.,, demanding $5000 ransom He went to the G-Men and nothing was known of the kidnaping until the minister escaped his crude prison where he had suffered from exposure, and two of the alleged kidnapers had been arrested.
THREE FIRMS DENIED PERMITS FOR BEER
Renewal Refused by A. B. C.; Favoritism Claimed.
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the Southern Indiana Beverage Co. Evansville, William E. Clauer, recently elected Marion County Democratic Committee chairman, is head of the Hoosier Wine and Beer Co. and Ownie Bush, Minneapolis baseball club manager and friend of the administration, is head of the Universal Beverage Co. Permit of the Calumet Breweries, Inc., East Chicago, was held up by the commission pending further investigation. Besides the two Indianapolis firms granted entry permits, 13 other local companies were granted wholesalers’ permits. They were: General Distributors, Inc. 701 Fulton St.; City Beer Co., 2000 Northwestern Ave.; Steel & Smith, 1120 Senate Ave.; Capitol City Supply Co, 1101 E. 46th St.; Klee & Coleman, Inc. 421 S. Delaware St.; Marion County Beverage Distributors, 529 W. Court St.; Monument Bottling Co. 910 N. Davidson St.; Advance Beverage Co., 1430 E. 19th St.; B. & B. Bottlers, Inc. 55 S. Oriental St.; Dunn Beverage Co., 1440 N. Senate Ave.; A. & A. Beverage Corp. 22 S. Delaware St.; Central Beverage Co., 155 Kentucky Ave., and the Nu-Grape Bottling Co., 1440 N. Senate Ave. A total of 60 permits were granted to wholesalers throughout the State. A large number of ovhers were taken under advisement by the commission.
20 TAKE TO BOATS AS STEAMER SINKS
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (U. P.).— The Greek steamer Tzechandry sank about 50 miles northeast of
Cape Hatteras today and the crew of 20 took to the lifeboats. Mackay Radio reported that the S. S. Swiftsure had picked up six members of the crew 30 miles northeast of the Diamond Shoals lightship which is 20 miles off the cape. The rescued men indicated that 14 others of the crew had taken to another lifeboat. The Greek ship sailed from Morehead City, N. C,, last Thursday and was reported by Mackay to have sunk at 4 a. m. today.
SNOW IS BLAMED FOR JAPANESE LANDSLIDE
TOKYO, Nov. 13.—Three hundred persons were killed in the landslide at the Ogushi copper mine near Kaizuma, Nagano Prefecture, it was announced officially today. It was believed that the landslide
was caused by melting snow.
HINT FIRM STEP AGAINST JAPAN AT CONFERENGE
U. S. Is Leader in Move; Italy Flatly Rejects
Condemnation.
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would change her attitude, the draft declaration said: “If, however, this proves not to be the case, the representatives met in Brussels must consider what is to be their common attitude in a situation where one party to an international treaty maintains, against the views of all other parties, that the action which is to be taken does not come within the scope of that treaty and claims to set aside provisions of the treaty which the other parties hold to be operative in the circumstances.”
Rejects Japan's Arguments
The declaration firmly rejected all of Japan's arguments to justify her invasion of China, including the contention that Japan is trying to prevent the spread of communism, declaring: “The representatives met in Brussels are moved to point out that there exists no warrant in law for the use by any country of armed force for the purpose of combating in another country the spread of political doctrine, and that the logical conclusion of any general assumption of such a right would be international anarchy.” The Chinese-Japainese war, ambassador said, raised the question of whether law or force should rule the world. Anarchy threatened if the conception of change by violent methods should be dominant, he said. It was impossible, he said, that there could be an equitable settlement of the Chinese-Japanese war and a just peace in the Far East except under law and order. Then he said, for Japan's ears: “From the standpoint of the letter and spirit of treaties to which she voluntarily put her name, from the standpoint of her material self interest, from the standpoint of world peace and progress and international good will, it would seem that there are compelling reasons why Japan should co-operate in our work. We hope that Japan may see her way clear in doing so.”
High Spot of Morning
Ambassador Davis's speech was the high spot of a morning in which delegates for China, France, Russia, Italy and Belgium spoke. Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, for China, demanded that the powers under the Nine-Power Treaty, supposed to guarantee China's political and territorial sovereignty, penalize Japan by denying her financial or material supplies, and by aiding China materially. After Dr. Koo and Ambassador Davis, Yvon Delbos, Foreign Minister of France, spoke. He made a veiled attack on the German - Japanese - Italian antiCommunist pact and declared that the Chinese-Japanese dispute could not be settled by force. He urged all peace loving peoples to unite against violence. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, in his speech after Minister Delbos’, backed up Ambassador Davis.
Nipponese Break ‘Chiang’s’ Line SHANGHAI, Nov. 13 (U. P).— Japanese troops have smashed through the Chinese defense lines 15 miles northwest of Shanghai, it was announced today, and it was believed that the Chinese would be forced to withdraw westward all along the northern part of their line. The move was the second phase of the Japanese drive to push the Chinese far westward of Shanghai and isolate them from the country’s commercial capital.
U. S. Reopens Bilbao
Consulate
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. P)). —The Government's decision to reopen the American consulate at Bilbao, Spain, raised the question today of United States recognition of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's regime in Spain which State Department officials have been dodging for months. After denying that it had been decided to reopen the Bilbao Consulate, officials finally admitted that it had been decided to reopen the Consulate and place William E. Chapman in charge.
Nazis May Raise
Colony Question
BERLIN, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—Germany intends to raise the questi®n of colonies when Viscount Halifax, Lord President of the Council in the British Cabinet, visits Berlin next week, it was said today in well informed quarters. Lord Halifax, on an “unofficial” visit to an international hunting exhibition, is expected to arrive here Wednesday and to remain four or five days. It is possible, informants said, that he will see Fuehrer Adolf Hitler Thursday. German leaders, in talks with Lord Halifax, foresee three subjects
BOB BURNS
Says: Nov. 13.—~I
was just thinkin’ today how true thet old sayin’ is that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” If you just trace your big troubles back, you'll find that they started from some little faults that coulda been cleared up in a minute if you'd just caught it in time. I had an uncle that had to go to a hospital for repairs and when he come to, he got to meditatin’ over the events, that led to his bein’ there. He traced it back to the time he had a bad corn that pained him and to kill the pain he took to. drink. The drink caused him to go home and start an argument with his wife and she come back at him with a rollin’ pin and put him in the hospital. Well, sir, when my uncle got up, he went straight to a doctor and had the corn removed and to this day they've lived a happy, peaceful
life. (Copyright, 1837)
U.A.W.TOPUSH DRIVE ON FORD
Seeks to Organize 140,000; Tentative Pact With G. M. Reached.
DETROIT, Nov. 13 (U, P.).—The United Automobile Workers union today called 400 delegates to a conference to consider a tentative agreement reached last night with General Motors and to map an organization drive in the vast plants of Henry Ford. The long-awaited General Motors agreement is to be subjected to the scrutiny of 300 union delegates representing 60 G. M. plants through-
out the country. Though its details were not divulged, U. A. W. spokesmen said it dealt with the union's demands for revision of the “permanent peace pact” which ended last winter's 44day strike. These demands included: Sole collective bargaining rights in all G. M. plants. The union now represents only its own membership. $ Elimination of the existing wage differential between North and South and a blanket wage increase. Elimination of the six-months “probationary” period through which workers must pass before being entered on the seniority lists. Union officials said the revisions agreed upon last night with General Motors conferees would not be revealed until they have been approved by the conference of union delegates and drawn up in final form at subsequent meetings between U. A. W. and corporation representatives. While delegates from General Motors plants are considering this agreement, a simultaneous conference is to be in progress at which 100 organizers from Ford plants in all parts of the country will learn details of the U. A. W.'s long-post-poned drive to unionize the approximately 140,000 Ford workers.
as the principal point of discussion, it was said: A Western European peace treaty; the necessity—as it is regarded here — of allotting to Germany some at least of the colonies wrested from her under the Versailles Treaty, and the Far Eastern situation. Germany and Italy alike, aside entirely from their “Berlin-Rome axis” of co-operation, have long sought a four-power combination, including themselves, Britain and France, to make secure the peace of Western Europe, and specifically excluding the Soviet Union.
Report Duce’s Son Nearly Hit by Bomb
ROME, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—It was reported reliably in aviation circles today that Bruno Mussolini, son of the Premier, narrowly escaped death on Tuesday when Loyalist air bombs fell in an airfield at Majorca near the entrance to a hangar where he was conversing with a group of fellow Italian aviators. A bomb fell a short distance from the group and the explosion knocked the fliers to the ground. Young Mussolini escaped injury.
Rebels Attack South Of Madrid
HENDAYE, FRANCO-SPANISH FRONTIER, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—Fierce engagements directly south of Madrid were reported in dispatches to the border today to be prelude to a Rebel attempt to encircle the city. Intensive Rebel attacks near Cuesta De La Reina brought activity to a sector which has been comparatively little action since late last winter when the Rebels made their desperate push in the direction of Arganda and the Valencia
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HOLDS PROFIT TAX GHANGE IS UNLIKELY NOW
Barkley Predicts Delay on Any Amendment During Special Session.
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designed to inaugurate a period of greater co-operation with the utili= ties. Dislike Farm Changes
Agriculture Department officials said today that changes in farm legislation proposed by the House Agriculture Committee are “entirely unsatisfactory” to Secretary of Age« riculture Wallace. Department officials said they had informed Congressional leaders that the committee’s decision to bar compulsory control of wheat, cotton and rice mean “in all probability that satisfactory legislation” would not be passed at the special session, American Federation of Labor officials said today they would ope pose any attempt by President Roosevelt to reduce hourly wages of building workers in order to facilie tate a privately financed home cone struction program. Simultaneously, the U.S.Chamber of Commerce called a meeting of Federal officials and private cone structors on Nov. 17 and 18 “for a realistic discussion of the obstacles now standing in the way of a ree vival of residential building.”
Many Congressmen Get Levy Protests
By THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov, 13.—Cone gress assembles Monday in extra session in an atmosphere clouded by business uncertainty, troubled
world conditions and the unpleasant inevitablity of elections next fall, Incoming members have differe ing solutions for some of the nae tion's problems, but there is one avenue of assistance to business and industry upon which there is a chorus of agreement. This is modification of the undis« tributed profits tax and the capital gains tax, which their local busie nessmen and industrialists have convinced them is necessary if there is to be expansion. Many Senators and Congressmen are returning with specific examples of hardships and injustice affecting industries back home. Once a bill amending these taxes is prepared, 1t should have a fairly easy road through Congress, though tax biils always require time and there seems prospect of final action until after New Year's. Aside from this measure, there 18 sharp disagreement on major legis= lation in the New Deal program left over from last session—the Wage=~ Hour Bill, the Farm Bill, the “seven TVA's” and reorganization of the Government
Cleavage Is Seen
On these measures there is a fundamental cleavage between Conservatives and New Dealers because of the extension of Governmental control that is involved There is
evidence from the expressions of re« turning members that the resistanca of the Conservatives, and these ine clude Democrats and Republicans, is if anything stronger than when Congress left here in August. The business recession offers them the argument, which they are using, that at this time the Government should abandon further reform, relax the reins of private initiative, and give business and industry an opportunity and incentive to expand. New Dealers, both in Congress and in the Administration, realize they are up against a real fight for enactment of the further reforms they desire. They are counting heavily upon President Roosevelt's opening message to Congress Monday.. The assumption is that Mr, Roosevelt will confine himself to a general statement of his objectives as examplified in measures already started and will postpone discussion of measures applying specifically to business stimulation.
Message to Be Read
This is deduced from the fact that he is sending his message to be read instead of delivering it in person. If he were ready to outline a general program of emergency measures to assist business and ine dustry—aside from tax relief—he would appear personally before Congress. The plain fact is that, while certain general plans for stimulating business have been evolved, the President has not got to the point of putting them down in concrete form. He still is conferring with officials and business and industrial leaders. Housing and utilities have been selected as two lines in which exe pansion can be encouraged. Next week Mr. Roosevelt will talk to utility representatives to see what might be done in that field.
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