Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1937 — Page 1

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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 216

CONSTANT TRAFFIC

CAMPAIGN IS URGED BY JUNIOR C. OF C.

Supports ‘Cafeteria’ Type Court to Boost Fines.

FINISHES SURVEY

Organization Wants Penalties for All Violators.

(Another Story and Photo, Page 13) By WILLIAM CRABB

Steady and rigid traffic enforcement, a “cafeteria” type court and a consistent policy of penalizing traffic law violators today were recommended to City officials by the Junior Chamber of Com-

merce. The recommendations, which are

conclusions drawn from a survey of police and traffic court activities for 1936, are to be presented to the City Council at its next meeting.

Arrests Cut Accidents

Doyle Zaring, Junior , Chamber president, said the survey revealed the following traffic situation here. 1. A drastic decrease in the number of accidents can be obtained by strict enforcement.

2. A vacillation in the number of traffic arrests from month to month, 3. Guilty traffic law violators paid varying amounts depending on the month in which they were arrested. 4, The amount of the fine levied on those found guilty apparently has very little effect on the number of accidents per month. 5. The average fine per person appearing before the traffic court has a much greater bearing on the number of accidents per month than does the amount of fines assessed. 6. The traffic court can deter accidents “to a greater extent by fining more persons found guilty and levying a moderate fine, than by making examples out of 8 few persons and levying a heavy fine on the few found guilty. 7. Less than half of the persons arrested are ever forced to pay a fine. 8. Nonfixable sticker system has led to greater observance of the parking laws. 9. The voluntary payment system of handling traffic violations is hy far the most effective method of handling cases. > Accidents Rise, Drop Regarding the importance of enforcement in traffic safety, the Junior Chamber of Commerce reported that, as the arrests dropped in October, the number of accidents increased, whereas, when the number of arrest drastically increased in November, there was a marked decrease in accidents. The survey showed also that during November, 1935, there was a 25 per cent increase in accidents over the previous month, while similar comparison for 1936 showed a 25 per cent decrease. The court’s importance in safety efforts was stressed by the fact that from May through August, the average fines per arrest gradually derlined and the number of accidents increased. In October, the average fines per arrest decreased snd the accidents increased. . In November, the average fines again increased, causing a drop in the accident rate. Half Escape Fines The survey showed that only 48.3 per cent of the persons appearing in court were fined. Ten per cent failed to appear in court. Six per cent of the cases were dismissed, and judgment was withheld or suspended in approximately 35 per cent of the cases. A tabulation of the case dispositions showed 9095 persons were arrested, 4394 were fined, 1353 had judgment suspended, 1838 had judgment withheld, 904 failed to appear, and 606 were dismissed. The Junior Chamber of Commerce describes the “ticker situation” as follows: “In April, 1936, the Indianapolis Police Department adopted a new method of handling violations of the parking laws. Nonfixable stickers were given the police and the offender was allowed to pay a $2 fine within 72 hours or appear in court. Only 10 Per Cent Pay

“During the first three months of 1936, a total of 3269 stickers were issued under the old system whereby the offender was required to appear in court. These stickers were not of the nonfixable type and slightly more than 10 per cent of the total number issued resulted in actual fines paid. “When the nonfixable stickers were used and the offender merely (Turn to Page Three)

SALISBURY AREA BURNS

SALISBURY, Md., Nov. 18 (U. P.). —Firemen, fighting a blaze which swept two warehouses and menaced the ent re downtown section, sent to nearby towns for additional equipment and men today. Swept by a strong northwest wind, the fire was spreading from the warehouses. Occupants of nearby stores were moving out their stock and equipment. Calls for aid were sent to Delmar and Laurel, Del, and other nearby towns.

Towser Motorist Is

Fined $80, Sent to State Farm.

LICENSE REVOKED

29 Others Ordered to Pay $301 for

Violations. é

Frank Minardo, 333 W. Wyoming St., was fined $80, sentenced to 90 days on the State Farm and his driver's license was suspended for a year today because he drove his auto down a sidewalk and narrowly missed running over a man and his wife. He was charged with drunken

driving. He was one of 30 defendants who were fined $381 by Municipal Judge Charles J. Xarabell. Fourteen speeders were assessed $132. Mr. and Mrs. John Cash, 506 N. Chester Ave. testified they were walking in the 200 block N. State Ave. when Mr. Cash heard a noise behind them, looked around, and pulled his wife out of the path of Minardo's car as it careened down the sidewalk. Passenger Fined

A passenger in Minardo’s auto, Miss Cleo Carr, 25 N. Oriental St., was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in the Women's Prison for drunkenness. Martin Ora Parker, 21, of 825 Arrow Ave, faced seven charges, lodged against him when, police said, his auto sideswiped a car in Virginia Ave. careened through two safety zones, and stopped only when officers drew their revolvers. He was fined $1 and costs, costs suspended, for resisting an officer; $5 and costs for drunkenness; $25 and costs for drunken driving and his driver's license suspended for 90 days: $25 and costs for failure to stop after his accident. Judge Karabell suspended a 30day sentence on the State Farm for failing to stop, and withheld judgment on charges of failure to have a driver's license, disorderly conduct and failure to have an auto certificate.

Son’s Death Halts Mother’s Visit Here

GREENCASTLE, Nov. 18 (U. P). —Coroner Charles Rector today termed the death of Arthur Logsden, 18, Cecilia, Kua, an accident. Logsden, a soldier at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, was killed last night when hit by a car driven by Vester Van Zant of near here. Coroner Rector said Logsden evidently was walking in the center of U. 8S. Highway 40, east of here, trying to “thumb” a ride when the accident occurred. Letters in Logsden’s pocket revealed his mother, Mrs. H. E. Logsden, was to have visited him today in Indianapolis.

LABOR LEADER SLAIN ON'EVE OF TRIP HERE

‘Death of Teamster Chief Bears Out Prediction.

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 18 (U. P). —Patrick J. Corcoran, a prominent Northwest labor leader, was found slain today in strange fulfillment of

a newspaper columnist’s prophecy. The slaying occurred on the eve of Corcoran’s departure by airplane for Indianapolis, Ind., where he was to have conferred today with headquarters officials of the International Teamsters’ Union. His body was found near his home (Turn to Page Three)

USE OF COKEBY

Morgan Urges Substitute for Soft Coal Used in Indianapolis.

SMOKELESS FUEL URGED

Statement Elaborates on Suggestion Made by Abatement Body.

Substitution of a smokeless-type fuel for the soft coal commonly burned in Indianapolis is the solution to the City’s smoke nuisance, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board secretary, said today. He suggested coke, at a cheaper price, -would solve certain types of smoke problems. The suggestion of a smokeless-type fuel was made this week at a meeting of the Smoke Abatement League with Mayor Boetcher. His statement today, preceding a meeting of the League, elaborated on the suggestion. “I believe, personally, an important approach to the solution of the smoke problem lies in an available fue? supply of the smokeless variety of coal,” Dr. Morgan said. “Coke in a Soft-coal burning district is the most important type to be considered from the standpoint of public health. East Has Met Problem

“Some day this type of fuel will have to be made available at a cheaper price. This would solve the smoke problem in certain industrial

sections of the City and also for apartment houses and downtown buildings. “A large number of Eastern cities have met the problem due to their close proximity to the market of the hard-coal belt. Indianapolis, situated as it is in a soft-coal belt, naturally would find the type of coal on the market which produces a great deal of smoke. “The interest of the City, the Administration and the public in this problem will eventually, in my opinion, result in a similar plan to this being worked out. Another part of the program, in a section where it is necessary to burn soft coal, would be to install modern equipment to reduce the volume of smoke. “This is not, contrary to belief, an expensive procedure, for it has been repeatedly demonstrated that modern stoker firing equipment will pay for itself in a very few years.

Cites Waste “Chimneys that continually give forth a black, heavily deposited soot smoke are wasting a great deal of

energy that could be utilized in producing steam, heat and other essential units for the given factory or industry.

“This is a situation which has |

already been worked out in a number of factories, apartment houses and hotels in Indianapolis. “The domestic consumer adds his quota of smoke to the smog. The importance of burning a better grade of fuel should be emphasized, but with any type the amount of smoke emitted depends upon the method of firing. “The tender of the furnace who carelessly covers up all the burning embers of the firebox with coal increases the smoking time of the chimney all the way from 20 minutes to one hour. This should be kept in mind by everyone who fires a furnace. “The mere practice of first throwing in a fresh supply of fuel on one side of the firebox leaves embers on the opposite side devolatilized and then much of the smoke will go up the chimney. “Those, as I see iy, are the salient points in a solution to the problem. “In the battle for clean air the time eventually will come when a smoking chimney will be looked upon with the same critical eye of the public as would now be turned if a stream of raw sewage were Sp tied into the public water supply.”

FLAMES DESTROY HOME

Flames started from chimney sparks today destroyed the home of M. K. Kuster, R. R. 10, Box 209, in Washington Township. Loss was estimated at $3500.

NANKING—Foreigners flee. Japanese troops ready to besiege city. WASHINGTON—Revision of neutrality law at special session remote, Administration believes. BERLIN—Britain may invite Baron von Neurath, Nazi Foreign Minister, to visit London.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 18 (U. P.).— American citizens and other foreigners fled from Nanking today as

Japanese armies spread over the Yangtze River Valley and prepared to lay siege to the ancient capital of the Mings. Of the Americans, only United States Embassy officials and a few doctors and missionaries, remained behind. The American gunboats Luzon, Guam and Oahu were en route to Nanking to remove Ambassador W~lean T. Johnson and all but two

Foreigners Flee Nanking; Japanese Ready for Siege

of his staff as soon as the Nationalist Government formally announced removal of its ministries. Americans were boarding crowded river boats in defiance of the refusal to sell even deck passage. They carried blankets and meager personal effects, leaving most of their possessions with the few who elected to remain.

Of the Embassy staff, George Acheson Jr, and J. Hall Paxton, secretaries, will remain. : The first Japanese assault was expected to come from the river. The Japanese army west of Shanghai resumed its advance and foreign military experts believed that Nanking was doomed. Twelve divisions under Gen. Tang Shen-chi occupy strong defenses surounding Nanking, and 40,000 troops are inside the city. They are expected to remain there even (Turn to Page Three)

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1937

Seeking Pact

Secretary Hull

U.S. ENGLAND DISCUSS TRADE

Secretary Hull Announces Reciprocal Agreement Is in Making.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (U. P). —Secretary of State Hull announced today that the United States contemplates the negotiation of a reciprocal trade agreement with Great Britain. The announcement was considered the most important since the negotiation of trade agreements was initiated nearly four years ago. Great Britain is the United States’ best customer. A trade agreement with the British Empire was considered a keystone of the reciprocal trade agreements program and an important step in Secretary Hull's world peace program. Conversations between representatives of the two Governments have been going on for months. So important have State Department officials considered the proposed Britith treaty that they have shroulled the conversations in the greatest secrecy. Only yesterday they branded as “premature” published reports that announcement of intention to negotiate a treaty was imminent.

Negotiations Planned,

Chamberlain Says LONDON, Nov. 18 (U, P.).—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain an-

nounced in the House of Commons today that informal discussions with the United States on a reciprocal trade pact had reached the stage where it is possible to announce that formal negotiations are contem-

FIRST GENERAL SNOW FALLS IN MIDDLE WEST

Temperatures Over Greater Part of U. S. Below Normal, Forecaster Says.

WHEAT GROWERS HAPPY

Indianapolis May Be Covered by Flurry, Bureau Here Predicts.

By United Press The winter's first general snow fell from the Rocky Mountains to Michigan today and forecaster J. R. Lloyd, at Chicago, said subnormal temperatures prevailed over almost all of the United States.

Snowfalls as heavy as five inches were recorded in the wheat-growing states and growers hailed them as a boon to winter wheat. Cheyenne, Wpyo., reported five inches of snow and the low temperature early today was 4 degrees above zero. Below freezing temperatures were recorded throughout the Middle West and even Thomasville, Ga., on the Florida-Georgia line, had a 32 degree reading.

Two Inches at Des Moines

Des Moines reported two inches of snow and snow ranging from one to two inches fell in Charles City, Ia., Omaha, Neb. Sioux City, Ia, Topeka, Kas, Kansas City, Mo. Minneapolis, Springfield, Minn., and Huron, S. D.

Jacksonville, Fla., had a 38-degree reading, 19 below normal; Tampa had 42, 18 below normal, and the thermometer in Miami stood at 52, also 18 below normal. Mr. Lloyd said the snow was moving east into the Ohio River Valley. No general letup is in sight, he said. .

Mercury May Drop to 24

Tomorrow, Bureau Says TEMPERATURES

24 10 a. m... 30 25 1am... 2» 26 12 (Noon). 29 29 1pm... 30

Snow flurries that the Weather Bureau predicted may cover Indianapolis with its first white blanket this season, started shortly after 10 a. m. today. Previous snows melted as fast as they fell. Temperatures that dropped to 24 degrees early today, the season's coldest, were predicted to be about the same tomorrow. A moon eclipse which covered 15 per cent of its surface occurred at 1:37 a. m., according to the Weather Bureau, which described it as nof,

plated.

a “very imposing show.”

Organization Seeks to Take Social Welfare Costs Off Property.

Delegates to the 19th annual Indiana Farm Bureau convention this afternoon unanimously called upon Governor Townsend for an imme-

diate special session of the Legislature to remove from property the cost of the social welfare work. A resolution pledging Bureau members to “openly oppose and strive to clear Indiana of slot machines and like forms of gambling, graft and racketeering,’ also was adopted unanimously by the delegates. It was presented by Earnest Condor, of White County. Delegates unanimously indorsed the proposed ever-normal granary bill, soon to be presented to Congress. They also pledged themselves to maintain the Indiana Tax Limitation law. Delegates resolved to urge every Bureau member to co-operate with the State Highway Department's safety drive by cutting high weeds and bushes at road intersections. Other resolutions asked for a national excise tax of 2% cents a pound against tapioca, sago, cassava and their derivatives to prevent a rise in transportation costs. Delegates approved a contract between the Indiana Farm Bureau and the Indiana State Canners’ Association, calling for a revision in the practice of tomato purchases. They also commended Governor Townsend “for his active support of the enactment of adequate crop control legislation.” The Bureau was to elect officers later today, ending a three-day session. It was indicated that State Senator Larry Brandon (D. Auburn), who is bureau secretary-treasurer, would be elected first vice president and_hold both offices.

DENIES OBLIGATIONS UNDER GAS LEASE

The Citizens Gas Co., in answer fo a suit filed by trustees for bondholders of the former Indianapolis Gas Co., parent company, today denied it was obligated under terms of a 99-year lease. The Citizens company alleged re-

Governor Refuses Plea For Special Legislature

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Contends ‘Emergency’ Does Not Exist in Reply to Farm Bureau.

Governor Townsend this afternoon said he would not call a special session of the Legislature, as demanded by the Indiana Farm Bureau.

“It is my firm conviction that in no case should a special session be called uniess an acute emergency exists. An emergency is a condition that would arise after the regular session and could not have been foreseen at the time of the regular session.

“However, the issue presented in the resolution of the Indiana Farm Bureau was thoroughly discussed and voted upon in the regular democratic manner at the 1937 regular session. He said that 20 per cent of social security cost now comes from the counties and that the Legislature “thinks that the counties should share some of the financial responsibility for the cost.” The Governor said:

“I would like to point out that 20 per cent of social security costs are paid by net and gross income taxes and inheritance, intangibles and excise levies, and that property taxes contribute but 20 per cent.” He said the State's surplus already had been budgeted for the future and “being a believer in governmental economy and trying to safeguard a surplus built up to meet the State's share of social security, I hesitate to call a special session which would cost the taxpayers $2000 a day.” “The State Government now returns $40,000,000 a year to local governmental units to reduce their tax load,” he said.

STUDY COMMUNITY, FIRST LADY ADVISES

FT. WAYNE, Nov. 18 (U. P.).— Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt called upon some 2000 persons who heard her lecture last night, to study their own communities and aid democracy by “working from below.” The First Lady said “In a democracy things come from below. If they come from above you are not functioning properly.” “The National Government is good

or bad according to the citizenship it represents,” she asserted,

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Dies of Burns

Daleene Kinney

CHILD SCALDED BY HOT COFFEE

‘Suffers Relapse After Day

With Her Dolls at City Hospital.

Three-year-old Daleene Kinney was dead today. Yesterday morning, with scalds swathed in white bandages, she was playing with dolls in the City Hospital children’s ward. Almost as suddenly as she was drenched a week ago when a pot of boiling coffee was knocked from a stove in the kitchen of her home, 1538 W. New York St. she relapsed vesterday afternoon into unconsciousness and died. Until then, the vigilant nurses and physicians at the hospital had reported steady improvement in their little patient's condition. Even as late as 3 p. m. yesterday her father, Dale J. Kinney, received an encouraging report from the hospital and went to the home of his mother-in-law to tell her. Almost at the same time he was there, the nurse noticed the child had suffered a relapse. The doctor was just outside the door of the ward and he rushed to the child's side. They gave her oxygen and they sent new word to the Kinney home, this time that Daleene was dying. Mr. and Mrs. Kinney rushed to the hospital, but Daleene had died a few moments before. They gath--ered up her dolls and blocks and books and returned home, Services are to be held Saturday morning in the Blackwell Funeral Home and at St. Anthony's Church. Burial is to be in Holy Cross. Surviving in the family besides the parents are Dona Lee, 2; Dee Ann, 1, and Joseph Dale, 4 months,

GIRL DRINKS OIL; BOY HURT IN FALL

Two children were in City Hospital today, one suffering severe head cuts as result of a fall and the other ill from drinking kerosene, according to police, Shirley Ann Thompson, 19-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bedford Thompson, 1212 W. New York St,, was reported seriously ill after drinking kerosene from a can An the home. Three-year-old Roland Gobqlet, son of Mrs. Dorothy Goodlet, 765 N. Belmont Ave. fell to the pavement with a large glass jar in his arms. Broken glass cut a large gash in his head.

RESUME OPERATIONS AT CADILLAC PLANT

DETROIT, Nov 18 (U.. P.).—The Cadillac Division of General Motors Corp. resumed operations today while approximately 1000 strikers continued to occupy the Fisher Body plant at Pontiac, forcing the Pontiac Motor Car Co. to remain idle. Corporation spokesmen, reporting labor troubles ended in the Cadillac plant pending union-company conferences, said that the third recent labor controversy in Pontiac had

‘brought idleness to an estimated

14,000 workers. The Cadillac foundry, where the trouble started yesterday, was occupied by 75 sit-downers until 7 a. m, today, corporation officials said. A wage dispute which led to the sitdown will be discussed in the conference today.

POPULATION OF U. S. SET AT 129 MILLION

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (U, P.).— Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper today announced that the Bureau of the Census estimate of the population of the United States was 129,257,000 on July 1. The figure was an increase of 828,000 or six-tenths of 1 per cent over the 1936 estimate.

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Wage-Hour Plan Is Endangered by House Chaos.

BLOCKADE SET UP

Leaders Unlikely to Get Action Before Tuesday.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.— The Administration's WageHour Bill, which the Senate passed last session, is in grave danger because of a chaotic legislative situation in the House arising from a combi-

nation of circumstances.

The paramount circumstance is the failure of the House Democratic leaders to crack the blockade in the Rules Committee formed by five Southern Democrats and four Republicans, who have kept the bill from going to the floor despite the fact that the Rules Committee has no legislative status. The revolt finally has found an outlet in a petition filed by Mrs, Mary T. Norton (D. N, J), Labor Committee Chairman, under seldomused emergency procedure which would force the “discharge” of the Rules Committee from further consideration of the bill and send the measure to the House floor. The petition, to be operative, must be signed by 218 members—a majority of the House, Democratic Floor Leader Raypurn has announced he will sign the petition, but he wants to give the Rules Committee another chance. He plans to attempt a bandwagon movement next Tuesday, if the Rules Committee has not acted meanwhile, by walking down to the front and signing the petition and asking other members to sign. The deadline for Rules Committee action has been set for Tuesday. Chairman O'Connor of the Committee said he would have an announcement to make on that day, but he wouldn't predict its nature.

INTESTINAL UPSET CONFINES PRESIDENT

‘Nothing to Give Us Alarm,’ Physician Reports.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (U. P). —The White House today revealed that President Roosevelt is suffering from a slight intestinal disturbance in addition to an infected

tooth. For a third consecutive day Mr. Roosevelt was confined to his bed. Mr. Roosevelt was progressing rapidly toward recovery, Dr. Ross T. McIntire, White House physician, reported. He virtually has recovered from the intestinal upset, Dr. McIntire said. The infected lower molar was removed by Lieut. Comm. Arthur H. Yando, Mr. Roosevelt's dentist. “There is nothing to give us any alarm at all,” Dr McIntire said. “The President has only one-half degree of fever and that should end almost immediately. “Dr. Yando wished first to save the tooth, but decided to extract it this morning. The abscess Is draining nicely. “Mr. Roosevelt's intestinal dis-

‘turbance has completely cleared up,

but the two together made it a little hard on the President.”

RAIDS DIRECTED AT FRENCH REVOLT PLOT

Ex-Premier Tardieu’s Name Linked in Charges.

PARIS, Nov, 18 (U. P).—French Secret Service agents moved swiftly today to crush an alleged rightist revolutionary plot in a series of

raids which added to huge quantities of arms and munitions seized in caches in the heart of Paris. The arrest of Francois de la Rocque, head of the outlawed Croix de Feu, French Fascist group, for plotting against the State was demanded by Jacques Duclos, Communist leader, in a speech in the Chamber of Deputies. Duclos also pro! that Andrew Tardieu, former jer, be transferred before a high court for divulging State secrets and publicly admitting during libel trials that he

27| had financed de la Roecque with

Government funds. Fight alleged members of the “Gagoulards,” who adopted hooded secrecy to further their ambition for a Royalist or Fascist Government, were under arrest and addi-

Johnsan sedan Wiggam sense a1

tional suspects were being trailed.

SENATE BUSINESS TAX AID DRIVE GAINS STRENGTH

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Farm Bill Report Due

Monday as Recess Is Asked.

VICTORY IS SEEN

Antilynch Filibuster May Succeed in New Strategy.

(Editorial, Page 20)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (U. P.).~Congressional de mands for immediate aid to business broke through a Senate filibuster against the Antilynching Bill again today coincident with claims that a Senate majority favored ime mediate repeal of the undis-

tributed profits tax.

Senator Borah (D, Ida), Senator Harrison (D. Miss.), chairman of the Finance Committee, and Senator Bailey (D. N. C.) joined in debate on the necessity for encourage« men tof business expansion as Sens ator Bailey resumed the obstruc~ tionist oratory directed at the anti lynching measure, Senator Bailey declared that the exigencies of the situation were such that he favored immediate repeal of the profits tax even if it meant ace ceptance of a sales tax on manufactured goods or a broadening of the income tax base. At the same time, he emphasized he did not agree that such measures would “be necessary,

Not in Favor of Sales Tax

Senator Harrison, emphasizing that he was not in favor of a sales tax, pointed out that additional reve enue would be necessary if the profits tax were hastily revised or repealed. A “Our goal should be to try to bale ance the budget at the first oppore tunity,” Senator Harrison said. “The first and best way to do that is to curtail emergency expenditures.” The debate, initiated by Senator Borah's announcement of opposition to a sales tax, coincided with these developments along the Congressional front: Prospects for at least temporary success of the Antilynching Bill filibuster mounted when Chairman Smith (D. 8. C.) of the Agriculture committee announced that he exe pected to report a farm bill on Mone day, meantime seeking a Senate recess until that day. Senator Clark (D. Mo. claimed there was a “clear majority” of the Senate in favor of repeal of the profits tax and overwhelming senti~ ment for action at this session to modify it. Senator Copeland (D, N.Y.) and Senator Burke (D. Neb.) joined in pressing the campaign for immediate action,

Takes Up Problem

The House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee took up the problem of additional relief from the profits tax for corporations with net ine comes of more than $5000 without reaching conclusion. Senate debate on business quese tions broke out while Senator Cone nally (D. Tex.) was organizing speakers to carry on the Antilynch« ing Bill filibuster until the Farm (Turn to Page Three)

PAPER SAYS PHONE OF ICKES TAPPED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (U. P), —The Washington Daily News in a copyrighted story today said the telephone of Secretary of the Ine terior Harold L. Ickes had been tapped until a few days ago and his conversations recorded by a dictaphone in the office of “one of his principal executives.” Ickes declined to confirm or deny the tapping and said after seeing the story: “If my telephone wires are or have been tapped it is of slight concern to me. Anyone may listen in to any conversation that I hold on public business at any time.”

RULING AIDS TVA IN UTILITY ATTACK

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Nov. 18 (U. P.).—A three-judge Federal Court today excluded comparison of private utilities and TVA rates as evidence in the hearing on a suit challenging the constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Circuit Judge Florence E. Allen, presiding, announced the ruling us attorneys for 18 Southeastern utile ity companies continued their attack on the validity of the TVA, TVA attorneys said the decision of the Court to exclude rates was the first major victory in the legal battle to prove that the Government “yardstick” electrical power agency is constitutional,

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