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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 217

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1937

APPEAL TO PSC Holiday Business Outlook Bright but Need for Tax

ON COKE PRICE IS THREATENED

Attorney Alleges Municipal Gas Company Holds Smoke Key.

UTILITY DENIES CHARGE

Says Lower Quotations Here Impossible Under Freight Rates.

(Another Story, Page 15: Editorial, Page 16)

By WILLIAM L. FORTUNE Roy O. Johnson, IndianapSmoke League attorney, said today he would go before the Indi-

olis

ana Public Service Commis-!

sion “if necessary” to seek lower prices for Indianapolis-

consumed coke in an effort to | . . . 1} find a solution to the City’s |

smoke problem. He said he would ask PSC action il the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility refused to lower prices to Indianapolis consumers. The League has charged residents here could not obtain coke last winter because the Utility was selling it at higher prices elsewhere. Utility officials denied the charge. Mr. Johnson said that “unless coke prices are reduced to a reasonable figure for consumption here, we will go before the Public Service Commission. The public interest is at stake here, and this is a matter for the Commission, particularly since the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility is municipally owned.”

“No Smoke in Coke” He said that use of coke would

“help greatly” in solving the smoke | is no |

problem: here, since “there smoke in coke.” The charge that citizens here were unable to get coke last winter was

made by Richard Tubbs, Indianapo-

Abatement |

| his home

Expert Ho Faith Needed For Recovery

By MAX STERN Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—The 1937 “recession” has a 50-50 chance of becoming the 1937 depression, and a quick restoration of business | confidence is the key to the prob- | lem, according to Dr. Harold G. Moulton, Brookings Institution | president, In an interview today. Dr. Moul|ton said he regarded President Roosevelt's message to Congress as |

| the following possible steps he considered “helpful” in restoring recov|ery's tempo: | 1. Modification of the undistrib- | | uted-profits and capitel-gains taxes. | (He does not regard changes in| monetary controls as important, since money is not tight at present.) 2. Balancing the Federal budget, (Turn to Page Three)

AIRLINER RACES

BOY TO DOCTOR

Plane Pauses Moment Here | En Route to Surgeon |

| In East.

| Bearing a 2-year-old child on his way for an operation to save his |iife, a TWA airliner paused at Municipal Airport ts afternoon in its | race against death across the conti- | nent. It bore blue-eyed, blond Melvin ! | Martin, who is being taken from in Blackburn, Okla. to| | Philadelphia, for an operation, seek- |

ling to remove a screw lodged deep of seasonal factors.

lis Retail Coal Merchanis’ Associa- | in his right Tung.

tion president, at a special league meeting. Mr. Tubbs pledged the Association’s help in cleaning up the smoke problem.

We couldn't get coke for the Whose lap he slept aboard the air- | with industrial layoffs.

l'pet, dog through a window. | mother, Mrs. Maurice Martin, 36. on | cession of recent weeks keeping pace

The child swallowed the screw | last Monday while looking at his | His |

Relie

/ ds Indianapolis Trade Sees Future Hinging on

{cline during the last month.

{good. Look for an I modification or repeal of discrimina-

f Is Re

garded Vital

Swift Congressional Action; Industry Reports Recession Felt Here.

By I. A. NEDELMAN Indianapolis today looks forward to the best holiday sea-

son it has enjoyed since the dark days of the depression

during 1933.

It looks ahead to more spending, more merry-making, more activity than was evidenced last year during the same

season.

But this bright picture for the immediate holiday season is overcast by a cloud of doubt concerning January busi-

ness. Businessmen say the

future hinges definitely upon

licies of the National Administration, particularly with

a restorative influence, and listed respect to the tax reform program.

The existing Federal

business tax structure is uniformly condemned by local business leaders as the biggest single factor in the uncer-

tainty ahead. Evidence of recession is trade outlets in Indianapolis. ing with each succeeding day and can be traced back to developments within the last

two months. Here is how business looks at its record, views the holiday season, forecasts the future: Industry—Generally had a better year than last year. Showing marked recessions during the past

two months. Layoffs increasing Hopeful of revival with a change of the Administration's policy toward business.

Retail Trade—Best year since the

Showing a business Believe the holiday season will be better than last year, or at least as upswing with

depression.

tory tax measures, Building Trades’ Best Year

Building Trades—Best year since depression. Falling off now because Anticipate increased home building program in the spring. Amusements—Look for better holiday season than last vear. Re-

Feel pros-

market here because the Citizens | liner today, said "Melvin has never | pects are good for the coming year.

Gas Co. was selling it at $3 a ton higher to foundries and industries outside the city,” he said. “I un-

promotion program in mind this vear although they have guaranteed the domestic market its quota.” Untrue, Says Kemp “That is absolutely untrue, Thomas Kemp, Citizens Gas Co. manager, replied. “The Indianapolis market is to be taken care of first as far as any domestic coke is concerned.” Mr. Kemp said that “lower coke prices are not possible here under th~ present basis of freight rates anc coal prices, both of which are on the upward trend.” Dr. Herman G. Morgan,

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City

Health Board secretary and league |

president, told the league that “coke in a soft-coal burning district is the most important type of fuel to be considered from the standpoint of public health. Some day this type

derstand they have the same sales | She rushed him to a hospital ing

had become excited

their home town where X-rays were

| taken. Hospital attaches sent the | | child to a doctor in Wichita, Kas. |

proved

of fuel will have to be made avail- | relatives and a Wichita newspaper. |

Restaurants—Preparing for as good or better holiday season than last year. Anticipate free spending. Experiencing best year since 1933. Decline evidence in past three weeks but revival is being noticed. Utilities—Had best year since 1933. Still showing gains, but not

| in proportions to recent advances. | Slower to reflect trade trends than

other industries. Hope for Governmental relief from tax measures and regulation to stimulate flagging progress. Jobs Fall Off Recently

Job Placements—Falling off in recent weeks. Noticeable increase in number of skilled workers seeking employment. No predictions for future. Relief—Rolls

increasing rapidly

during last few weeks, due for most | Seasonal |

part to industrial layoffs. needs are expected to add considerably to relief costs. Shipments—Falling off in the

seen in most industries and It is a picture that is chang-

FURTHER LEVY CUTS PROPOSED

‘House Committee Agrees to Ask Raises in Surplus Profit Exemptions.

(Editorial Page 16)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (U. P).— The House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee today tentatively agreed to increase exemptions from the undistributed profits tax in two categories and to raise normal corporation tax rates. In the Senate, tempers cracked today in a bitter outburst over the filbuster against the Antilynching Bill. g The House Tax Committee action was on three fronts. To increase complete exemption from the undistributed profits tax to include corporations with yearly earnings in excess of $5060. Those with earnings up to $5000 were already ticketed for exemption. | To increase the normal corporation tax rates. To grant three-year exemption from the undistributed profits tax of corporations emerging from bankruptcy and from reorganization. Chairman Fred M. Vinson (D. Ky.) said the Committee has not vet decided how high to go in granting total exemption from the undistributed profits tax, but that it has been considered for corporations earning up to $10,000 a year, $15,000 and $25.000. Partial relief for cor(Turn to Page Three)

F.D.R. MAY CANCEL WARM SPRINGS TRIP

President Takes Up Routine Matters Despite lliness.

| |

and Merry-Go-Round, |

at Postoffice. Indianapolis.

Florist’s Condition Is Critical; 4 Other Masons Hurt.

COURTS STRICT ON MOTORISTS, JUDGE REPLIES °°

Three Killed as Snow Violators Are Penalized, Storm Rages at Karabell Comments on |

Junior C of C. Report. Michigan City.

ment.

dition “fairly good.” Charles S. Barker, 1540 College Ave. fractured right leg and shock:

Municipal Court records show vio- | win E. Temperley, Indianapmenting on the Junior Chamber | poor” condition in Lebanon The Junior Chamber yesterday court and a consistent policy of near here during a blinding Court activities in 1936. partment would be set up where | skidded on icy Road 52 and crashed Police Chief Morrissey agreed Mr. Temperley, illustrious potension that the number of accidents Sie N | Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. He | tions. Prevention Bureau head, | courts,” he said. “It also would al- | condition “fair.” have to appear in court.” | taken to their homes in Indianapolis matter for the judicial branch of | Ave. bruises.

Times 8 coil Indianapolis is witnessing strict | RL X Y nalized, Judge | i: . . laters are being penalized, Judge |... fiorist and Masonic Jeadof Commerce safety recommenda- | Hospital today with injuries asked City officials for rigid traffic penalizing violators. The report snow storm last night. The “cafeteria” court plan was | injured, two seriously, when the offenders could pay specified fines | into an overland truck. The car was with the Junior Chamber's conclu- | tate of Murat Temple, Nobles of can be reduced by strict enforce- | M riy Fav Plan ¥UNty Favors | Others injured were: {the “cafeteria” court plan. low traffic officers to spend more | Mayor Boetcher said he did not | were: the City.” Burford B. Miller,

enforcement of traffic laws and LEBANON Nov. 19.—EdCharles Karabell said today in com- | er, was reported in “very tions. law enforcement, a “cafeteria” type | received in a highway crash was based on a survey of Traffic described as one in which a de- | 8uto in which they were riding without trials. demolished. | Mystic Shrine, lives at 3537 N. suffered concussion and head laceraLieut. Lawrence McCarty, Traffic| Lloyd D. Claycombe, 4301 Park | “It would prevent congestion of | time on the streets if they wouldn't I~ Two others injured slightly and wish to comment “because it is &| Granville A. Richey, 6135 Central “We've got strict enforcement in|

1727 Central Indianapolis.” | Ave,, head injuries.

Judge Karabel said.| The five men. members of the “and the Junior Chamber is all| ghrine, were returning from Lawrong if it infers the courts have) gavette to Indianapolis when the acbeen making examples out of a few

| cident occurred. They had been in persons and levying heavy fines on pafayette organizing a Shrine club. the few found guilty.

3 In the blinding snowstorm the “I notice the survey was made in| qq

r lurched off the edge of the 1936. It may be that the courts

: ) | Toad as it approached a truck. As Ho iy lenient in some cases in|the car regained the highway, it e past.

But recent months have | skidded on the ice and crashed side- | seen a tightening up in enforcement| ways into the truck. The truck and stiffer fines and sentences. driver, L. Hamison, Chicago, was “The survey reports ‘Less than | unhurt. half of the persons arrested are ever | forced to pay fines’ Forcing every | person arrested to pay a fine would Temperley Owner of

Be vontrary @ the American system | ioral Service Here

of justice. Drivers’ Rights Cited Mr. Temperley is owner of the { Temperley Floral Service, 5518 Col-

“When a driver is arrested it is; be : up to the courts to decide whether | 1€8¢ Ave. He is Wusirious Sg the man is guilty as charged and ©! Murat Temple, Nobles of Mystic should be fined. It is the individ- Shrine. | ual’s right to be heard in court. | Mr. Barker is secretary of the | “The Junior Chamber's recom-| Temple, a post he has held for 15 | mendations do not mention thelyears. | drunk driver problem, one of the| Mr. Claycombe, attorney, is Murat | most serious which confronts us.| Temple high priest. | Court records of fines and sentences | | don’t indicate any leniency extend-|tenance man at the Temple. ed to this type violator. | Mr. Richey, Temple chief raban, is

Entered as Second-Class Mujoer

SUB-FREEZING

Four other Indianapolis men were |

favored | Ave. bruises and cuts on face; con- |

Mr. Miller is engineer and main- |

| “The ‘cafeteria’ court would be all|a manufacturer's agent.

able at a lower price.” A resolution inaugurating a cam(Turn to Page Three)

| last month. More marked in last J (Turn to Page 19) EYSTON SETS RECORD WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (U. P).— | President Roosevelt may cancel his | scheduled trip to Warm Springs, | Ga., next week because of his illness

TIMES FEATURES

| right in the case of first-time vio-| | lators, would relieve congestion on!

(Turn to Page Three) ' Three Killed as Train

Hits Car in Snowstorm MICHIGAN CITY, Nov. 19

(U. |

PRICE THREE CENTS

WEATHER HERE

— 2" WILL CONTINUE:

Highway 37 to Be Clear for Purdue-l. U. Game, Commission Says.

TEMPERATURES

25 10 a. m.... 23 11a m.... 22 12 (Noon). 22 1p Mm...

23 24 25 25

With a two-inch blanket of snow (already covering Indianapolis and | most of the state, coating streets and highways with ice, the Weather Bureau today predicted more flurries tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures that went down to a new low of 22 degrees at 9 a. m. today will remain well below freezing tonight and tomorrow, bureau predicted. The ice and snow, which forced motorists to a snail's pace this morning on all city streets, will re- { main at least the next 24 hours, the | Bureau said. | State Highway Commissioners, | who reported most of Indiana's | roads were covered with ice sheeis, | said they had sent crews of men | out to spread sand and cinders on | the curves to prevent skidding. They said Highway 37 to Bloom- | ington, where thousands will go to- | morrow for the Indiana-Purdue | football game, will be cleared for heavy traffic by tonight. Cinders and friction from traffic will melt | the snow ‘and ice, they said. | Trolleys, Busses Late The Weather Bureau predicted | that although temperatures will not | get high enough to melt the ice

| coat on city streets, the heat from | sonic work.

the |

CRASH FATAL TO BRANDT DOWNEY: FIVE INJURED IN LEBANON WRECK: SNOWFALL SLOWS STATE TRAFFIC

Services to Be Held

Sunday in Rite Cathedral.

BURIAL MONDAY D To Jail, License Is Revoked.

runken Driver Sent

Brandt C. Downey, prominent retired Indianapolis | banker and civic leader, died

jin Methodist Hospital today (of injuries received Saturday

| in an auto accident near Lebalnon. He was 63. Meanwhile, two other men were in City Hospital seriously injured in

an auto accident here yesterday and | 17 motorists were assessed $125 for traffic law violations in Municipal | Court today. Thirteen others | arrested overnight are to apear in | court later, | Mr Downey, who lived at 4828 N. | Illinois St., was a life-long resident | of Indianapolis He had been asso ciated with several banks here. He | was Indiana State Bank president, | and when that financial institution | became the Commercial National Bank he served as president. He was receiver for the Washing« tion Bank & Trust Co. and had ree | tired from business three years ago. | A former financial secretary of | Methodist Hospital, Mr. Downey | also had served as Mars Hill Asso- | ciation secretary.

‘Active in Masonry | He was a member of the Colume bia Club and Delta Tau Delta frae

ternity besides being active in Mae He was a 33d Degree

| sewers and buildings will reduce the Mason and a member of the Murat,

hazards in the dewntown area before tonight. Bus and trackless trolleys were running about 10 minutes late all morning because skidding motorists blocked street intersections, Indiana Railways foremen reported. Several minor bus and street car accidents were reported. Operators said motorists, surprised by the icy streets, slid into the cars and piled up at crossings. No serious damage resulted because of reduced speeds. Railways officials said busses and cars would be back on regular schedules later today “when motorists get accustomed to the ice.” One pedestrian casualty was re- | ported. Jesse Beaman, 77, of 447 Fulton St. fractured a shoulder when he slipped and fell at Washington and Meridian Sts,

Cold Spreads Into South and East

CHICAGO, Nov. 19 (U. P).— Snow and subnormal temperatures, oressed by a mass of cold air in the far northwest, moved across the North Central states today and | spread into the south and eastern | sections of the country. | Forecaster H. A. Downs said tem- | peratures in the low 20s and snow | flurries, following a general fall]

| Shrine, the Ancient Landmarks Lodge, and the Raper Commandery | of the Scottish Rite. Mr. Downey attended Wabash | College in 1893 and 1894, and Indiana University in 1895. Funeral services are to be held at {3 p. m, Sunday in the Scottish Rite | Cathedral, A short service is to be held Monday at 10 a. m. in the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. | Burial is to be in Crown Hill. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Nellie { B. Downey, and a son, Bowman, both of Indianapolis, and®a brother, Bertrand, Auburndale, Mass,

Two Hurt Seriously

Reported in a serious condition at City Hospital were William MecClain, 34, of 1149 W. 30th St., and James A. Atkins, 34, of 1327 W. 34th St., who were thrown from their auto as it overturned in Harding St. near Belmont Ave. yesterday after< noon. Mr. McClain received severe head lacerations and Mr. Atkins was bruised on the body. Both were taken to the hospital by George Roska, R. R. 13, Box 330, a passing motorist. The car's driver, Melvin Atherton, 32, of 1440 W. 28th St. was not taken to the hospital with the ine jured men, Deputy Sheriffs said. Clifford Atkins, 35, of 1222 W. 3ist

| resulting from an infected tooth and | | St., brother of James, received only

Smoke!

It is the despoiler of $6.500.000 worth of Indianapos property annually. It is largely responsible for 63 cent increase in pneumonia deaths here durthe last five years. been a growing menace here since 1898. Start today reading "Smoke—City's Public Enemy No. I." It is on Page 15 of this edition,

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has

WITH 311.42 .P. H,

Touches 319 on Return Trip | On Salt Flats. |

| BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS. Utah. Nov. 19 (U. P.).—Capt. George E. T. Eyston, a middie-aged Briiishcr. today piloted his huge Thunder- | bolt racing automobile to a new! world’s record of 311.42 miles and | hour over the Utah salt flats. | | On the return run along tne! |13-mile stretch with the measured | mile in the middle, Capt. Eyston | shot the 7':-ton car hurtling over | |the glass-like surface at 319 miles | {an hour.

| ON INSIDE PAGES

1 16

6 was up to Dr. Ross T. McIntire, the

11| “Everything is satisfactory.” Dr. |

5 | chances with him.”

| intestinal upset, White House aids | said today. ! A decision on the trip, they said,

President's personal physician. Mr. remained in his White | House quarters today, on Dr. Mc- | Intire’s advice, for the fourth suc- | cessive day.

| Roosevelt,

ae said regarding Mr. Roose-

velt’s recuperation from the twin |

| ailments. “I'm just not taking any Aids said that the President's | plans to spend Thanksgiving morning in Gainesville, Ga., and eat his | holiday dinner at Warm Springs | were “tentative” because of his illness.

|P.) —Three persons were killed last night when a Pere-Marquette passenger train struck their automobile 'at a grade crossing two miles west | in The Times {of here. The dead: Leslie Dietz, 28, Milwaukee. Harriet Ingersol, 25, Milwaukee. | Ann Scanlon. 21, believed to be | from Ridgewood, Long Island.

| WINNERS

| SEEK-A-STAR-SILHOUETTE

CONTEST Train Hits Truck in

Will be announced in Storm, Kills Driver + 'e oditi f | LOGANSPORT. Nov. 19 (U. P).— omorrow's ‘edtions 0 |Harry Heiny, 45. oil truck driver, this newspaper, | was killed instantly last night when {his truck was hit by a Pennsyl- | vania passenger train during a snow |storm near here.

| yesterday prevailed in the upper Great Lakes region and Ohio Valey. Temperatures will drop considerably in the eastern and extreme southern sections of the country tonight and ftomerrow, he said. Low temperatures were reported generally throughout the Middlewest and as far south as Amarillo, Tex. The first real snow of winter blanketed an area from the Rocky Mountains to Michigan.

BINGHAM ON SICK LEAVE LONDON, Nov. 19 (U., P.).—The

Bingham is sailing today on sick leave aboard the Manhattan.

| minor injuries. The men were re~ | turning from a hunting trip. Another motorist, Charles Julian, | 57, of 4831 Hovey St. received rib ts 3 i 3 : : | injuries last night in a crash in the | 4600 block dn Baltimore Ave.

Drunk Driver Fined

{ In Municipal Court. Charles Cane den, 115 N. Belmont Ave., was sen |tenced to 25 days in jail and fined [$31 on drunken driving charges. His | drivers’ license was suspended for | one year. | Clifford Watson, 5400 W, 10th St., | was sentenced to 30 days and fined

United States Embassy announced |$35 on a charge of leaving the scene today that Ambassador Robert W.|of an accident

several days ago [when his car hit several parked

machines.

SNOW BRINGS HER FUN . .

Among winter sports enthusiasts enjoying the season's first heavy snow today was Miss Evelyn Cuffel, 3507 N. Capitol Ave. excellent sledding on the ca ; is taking Miss Shirley Sarsfield for

She rode her sled early.

Even the grownups took

GROWNUPS PLAY, TOO . .

IT'S CHAINS FOR MOTORISTS . .

RC:

Chains were the order of the day for motorists as their cars

SOME FUN? MAYBE

Some fun! Not so much

NOT

Times Photos. perhaps for Miss Carrol Sherman,

careened crazily over the icy streets. Lewis Campbell, 2844 N, Capitol Butler University coed, whose feet slipped out from under her, apparatus,

Ave, stopped to put on antiskid

Misses Dorothy Jones (left) and

Mary Hull think it's funny,