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515,000,000 GAIN IN ESTATE TAXES URGED ON HOUSE

. or Fostofes.

VOLUME 49—NUMBER 227

APOLOGY ENDS | FLAG INCIDENT. : HULL INDICATES

Hints State Department Is Satisfied After Japanese Return Vessel.

NIPPONESE GET RECEIPT

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1937

Company Extends Deadline;

Violence Flares in New England.

WAGE INCREASES ISSUE

It's Bad Weather for Youngsters in Rags— Clothe a Child NOW

The Temperature—2; degrees above zero.

Hoosier Is World's Corn King

The Place—Indianapolis,

The Date—Today. The Result—Thousands of needy children, shivering in rags.

Utility Leader Asks Lower Exemptions For Truce With Proposed to Aid Government. U. S. Coffers.

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HAT is what The Indianapolis Times’ Clothe-A-Child campaign is about. Today opens our eighth annual drive to provide adequate winter clothing for needy school children between the ages of 5 and 12. Community Fund relief agencies and the Social Service Department of the Public Schools check the lists to determine the neediest children and to eliminate duplication of clothing gifts. The Times has set up headquarters at 206 W.

Maryland St. with a staff on duty from 8:30 a. m. NEW YORK, Dee. (U.| WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (U.

to6 p. m. IR . Here are the Ways you ¢an participate in Clothe- P.). = Wendell L. Willkie, |P.).=The House Ways and ys Means Tax Subcommittee ten-

ad president of the CommonACh: tatively agreed today to sim=

wealth & Southern Corp., one IF YOU WISH to shop with a child per- of the utilities involved in |plify the taxes on estates and sonally, call Rlley 5551 and make an the TVA suits, suggested to- | gifts without changing the appointment to meet a child at Clothe-A-Child day that the time had come revenue yield, and to lower exHeadquarters. for a truce between the Gov- | emptions to add an estimated OR IF YOU WANT us to act for you, ernment and business. $15,000,000 to $25,000,000 mail a check to “Clothe-A-Child, The In-

Continued bitterness, he said in | annually to Treasury receipts. : : : » : an interview, can only harm the | Following this decision, which dianapolis Times.” Our experienced shoppers will do the rest.

country, [San Fred M. Vinson (D. Ky.) is OW Willkie has | 581d virtually completed the study OR YOU CAN JOIN with others in your 2 ’ office, club, church, sports team, fraternity or sorority. Select a treasurer and

10 | mittee turned to a discussion of tax« President Roosevelt, proposals for ing the salaries of State and Mus shopping committees. Then jet us know how many children your group will clothe.

a rapprochment between the Ad- [nicipal officers and employees, now ”

A. F. L. Council to Meet for Wage-Hour Bill Discussion.

Reported to Have Forward. ed Regrets to Yarnell; Italians Get Boats.

ACCEPTS PRUGEAN fray BILL PUSHED

CLEVELAND, Dec. 1 (U. P) =An apparent new deadlock stymied expected settlement of the Greyhound

Bus Lines strike today. Company officials and representaatives of the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen, sponsor of the walk=out, conferred with Federal concili= ator John L. Conner several hours past the time Mr. Conner had believed he would be able to announce an agreement, It was indicated that the company at 11 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) had expected a settlement momentarily. At that time, it announced a half-hour postponement until 11:30 a. m. of the deadline, after | which it had said it would consider | all striking drivers as “having resigned.” Order Not Enforced

Company officials made no apparent attempt to enforce the order, nor did they make a second extension, when the new deadline hour passed, assumedly still awaiting a | possible afternoon settlement. | Mr. Conner met with both sides in his hotel room. The company de- | clined to comment after issuance of | its deadline extension, and union- | ists likewise withheld ——

Willkie Would Agree Treasury Attacked With Roosevelt For Seeking To On Valuations, List Assets.

SHANGHAI — Japanese apologize | for tearing U. S. flag from Amer- | ican boat. Return it and two Italian vessels to owners. WASHINGTON — U, SN. satisfied | with apology, Hull indicates. French - British conversations termed most far reaching peace move since Versailles, LONDON-—French and British lead- | ers embark on three-point program to seek European peace settlement. BERLIN—Anglo-French “solidarity” | viewed as threat to world “new |

MIAN Duce’s newspaper ridi- | So ft Coa l Prices in Ci ty Up as U.S. Sets Minimums

cules work of Nine-Power conference, refers sarcastically to UU, S. Increase of 50 to 75 Cents Schedule Effective Dec. 16 A Ton Predicted by For Mines East of Dealers. Mississippi.

is shown with the samples of le of Corn King of the World He also won

william H. Curry of Tipton, Ind, Curry's Yellow Dent that won him the tit at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. the title last year, (Other photos and story, Page Seven.)

TOKYO-Japan formally recognizes Spanish Rebel Government.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (U. | P.).—Secretary of State Cordell Hull indicated today the State Department is satisfied |

with Japan's return of a]

launch seized from its American owners and apology for hauling down the American flag on the boat. Mr. Hull said the Japanese Admiral had offered suitable expressions of regret and an apology for seizure of the launch This expression from Mr. Hull was interpreted to mean that the inci- | dent was considered closed, or virtually so He said the question of ownership of the launch had not been settled definitely. However, he said, | Japanese action in restoring the |

ministration and the utilities, He ET: pro Peuetal ve. No con suggested that his companies Yo} Mr. Vinson describen OR 4 accept the New Deal's ideas on ool av ange

: | estate an t es iva v . evaluation questions and that the | ye a, doves 4 ivaumst

Government should modify thee otal for as ” It : » s for estate taxes, now figholding company “death sentence | ,..q on the basis of 1025 and Ho and fix rates for TVA and other | ,tac : public power projects on the same | o peaplishment of an effe ? f i effective basis as private companies. rate for estate and gift taxes in Expands on Ideas Piake of the present bracketed sysem, Expanding on these ideas, MI.| The taxpayer, Mr. Vinson exe Willkie said today that Government plained, will pay the same lr officials and utilities executives of dollars under the new plan as ought to get together in a confer- | ynder the existing system. ence and settle their differences | New Treasury tax forms—designed questions so that hundreds of mil- | t4 aid in checking the returns of lions of dollars worth of new con-|jarge taxpayers=have been adopted struction can be started by the |i wae revealed today The new power companies, on | forms immediately drew a CongresAdoption of the “prudent invest=| gpa) attack as being of doubtrul ment” theory of utility evaluation legality

and elimination of capital “write-| a. forms have been distributed

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (U. P).— Higher soft coal prices for industry and railroads and lower average | | prices for householders were announced today by the National Bi-

Prices of Indiana-mined coal for Indianapolis domestic consumption will increase from 50 to 75 cents a ton on Dec. 16, when minimum prices set by the National Bituminous Coal Commission become ef- tuminous Coal Commission. fective, it was estimated today. The new schedule of the minimum Price increases for coal produced prices, effective Dec. 16, will apply | provisions. | in eastern Kentucky and West Vir- to coal mined in bituminous fields A drivers’ demand for a mileage | ginia and consumed domestically! of Towa and all states east of the | wage increase from an average of | here will not be as great, according Mississippi River. This represents | 3.61 cents per mile to 5.5 cents, with | to Earl Z. Sigmon, Indianapolis Re- | more than 80 per cent of the in- a 200-mile daily guarantee, was re- | tail Coal Merchants’ Association | dustry. | ported to be the principal issue unsecretary. There will be little change| The Commission said that rates der discussion. in Pocahontas prices. | for mines west of the Mississippi Violence in three New England Increases on Indiana coal for in-| Would be announced soon. | cities was reported today. ET CE Hoya the | 4 ctrial purposes will be 25 to 35| The bituminous industry, through | In Boston five men whom strikers vessel to its owners and apologizing | pent he said. producer boards, had asked for |said were “armed guards hired to for its seizure had been made ON | “wpuiimum prices set by the Com- | lower prices on “industrial coal and | protect the bus” were arrested. At the representations of AMEriCAN |. cian are for coal delivered at the | higher prices on that used in homes. | 3 ‘Wrentham filling station, strikers Government officials that the launch

while the conference continued. It was understood that both sides | had agreed on questions concerning seniority rights, hearings for dismissed drivers and other contract |

” HE cost of outfitting a boy or girl depends on individual needs. The average is from $8 to $12. The Social Service Department of the Public Schools estimated today that the need is greater this winter than last. More children are reported inadequately clothed. Your gift will mean warmth for chilled bodies, an increase in morale and a step toward a happier life for the underprivileged children of Indianapolis.

Telephone Rlley 5551 NOW and ask for “Clothe-A-Child.”

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to President |

y : | mine. and are approximately 25 to | The new prices are designed to (Turn to Page Three had been seized illegally pp > | revitalize the bituminous industry, : )

| eliminate “cyt-throat” competition and stabilize wages and hours of miners. Under the Guffey-Vinson | Coal Control Act, producers who agree to the Commission's code must abide by the prices fixed. As an inducement, operators who agree to the Act's stipulations pay a much smaller tonnage tax. Steam Grades Higher Coals, used by railroads and industry, comrnonly known as steam grades, such as mine run, nut and slack, were priced from 5 to 20 cents per ton higher than proposals made by the coal industry. Prices for double screened coal, commonly used in home furnaces,

He indicated the State Department was now inclined to let the matter drop.

Japanese Return U. S.

And Italian Boats

SHANGHAI, Dec. 1 (U, P) —Japanese authorities returned the American-owned tug, Feiting, today and formally apologized. Vice Admiral Kivoshu Hasegawa, commander-in-chigf of the Japa-

nese Third Fleet, was understood to

have made the apology to Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander of the United State Asiatic Fleet,

50 cents higher than present prices. Freight Rates to Play Part

Recent, freight increases further | will boost the prices to 50 to T5 cents | by the time the fuel reaches the consumer, Mr, Sigmon said. Explaining the commission's prices at the mine, Mr. Sigmon said freight | costs, handling charges and dealer's profit are added to determine the | price to consumers. Freight costs for West Virginia coal in Indianapolis are $2.62 to $2.72 a ton, Mr. Sig- | mon said. Of the increased consumer price | of Indiana coal, from 10 to 15 cents | is for higher freight costs, he said. It was estimated that Indianapo-

and United States Consul Clarence |, consumers of Tndiana coal, Who

E. Gauss.

Rear Admiral Yarnell had pro-

tested to Japanese authorities yes-

terday when the tug, property of the

William Hunt interests in the Far

East. was hijacked from its base at the Kin Lee-Yuan wharf in French Concession. The Japanese Naval party ripped the American flag from its standard and threw it into the Whangpoo River. The Japanese also returned (Turn to Page Three)

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NEW BONDS ISSUED BY HOME LOAN BANK

wo Debentures to Finance Rec-

ord Volume.

were from 5 to 15 cents per ton below those proposed by the industry. The prices on this product will apply also to industrial users ex-

cept artificial gas manufacturers and by-product plants, Prices range from a low of $1 | a ton for coal classed as industrial | slack in Kentucky to $485 a ton for domestic lump and egg in Dis- | trict 13 which comprises all of Ala- | pama and some counties in Georgia | and Tennessee. The range of prices in all dis- | tricts for the various types of coal follow:

In Jal’

That's Excuse Offered For Overtime Parking.

HE Municipal Court, said | Ross H. Apple today in Mu- | nicipal Court was an accessory before, during and after the fact of the charge on which he appeared in Municipal Court. Before Judge Dewey Myers he was charged with overtime park-

mother arrived from Youngstown, O

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SMOKE IS REMOVED | 4s BY STRONGER WIND

“How could I help it?” he | queried with a trace of exaspera- |

tion in his voice. “I was in jail!” Higher Temperatures Here |

a “In Jn” Judge Myers said. Why? Forecast Tomorrow.

“On a traffic charge,” said Mr. Apple, Then he said he was fined $10 and costs yesterday for speeding and didn’t have that much money. So he went to jail and was there until 4 p. m. Meantime, the time

TEMPERATURES

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10a. 9m... 11 a. m... 12 (Noon).

Boy, 14, Looks for Mother, Finds Her in L City Prison

By WILLIAM CRABB A ld-year-old boy walked downtown streets for nearly two hours | looking for his mother early today, and then found her--in jail. The boy, whom police described as a “bright youngster,” came to headquarters as a last resort, he told officers.

ups’ were suggested Roosevelt as basis for a rapprochement with the Administration by Wendell L. Willkie, Commonwealth and Southern president, it was disclosed early today. Mr. Willkie’'s formula for new understanding between utilities and the Administration was presented to Mr. Roosevelt by the utility executive at White House conferences last week. A text of his formula, re- | vealed by an authoritative source, showed that Mr. Willkie suggested that important concessions be made by utilities to constitute “a force for the stimulation of recovery.” Mr. Willkie's suggestion for scaling down the $12000,000,000 capi-

He said he and his , their former home, yesterday. Last night his mother gave him | money to go to the show and told | him to meet her afterward at a restaurant. There was a note at | the restaurant which said: “Go | tal structure of the utilities indus= to E. Washington St. |try and adoption of the “prudent Mother.” investment” rather than the “cost The lad said he went to that ad- | of reproduction” theory of evaluadress and found it to be a liquor | tion was outlined in two points: store which was closed for the | “1. That the utilities immediately

night Y v tures all writeups heretofore claimed

streets. { vad | by the Federal Trade Commission. Arriving at police headquarters | Vag, That the utility valuation

cold and tired, the youth described | : : | under the rule established by the his plight to Capt. Otto Petit, Who | ots apply either up to this date found his mother’s name on the | .. + the date of the commencecourt slate. She had been charged ment of vour first term as Presi with drunkenness and petit 1arceny | q.n+ and that after such date and

great |

So he began searching the | eliminate from their capital struc- |

GROUP TO OUTLINE | CANCER CAMPAIGN aunentare the Foderat Home

——————— | Loan Bank has made an additional State and national leaders of the | yw. million dollars available for Women’s Field Army of the Ameri- | ome mortgages in the Indianapcan Society for the Control of Can- olis district Fred T. Greene, presicer are to meet here tomorrow to | dent of the local institution oll map plans for their campaign |, need today : against the disease. : | The bank, acting’ as a credit Mrs, Marjorie B. Illig, national |. earvoir for the member banks commander of the organization, Wit | announced the total available tie confer with Mrs. George R. Dillinger, | mediately is in excess of $5.500.000 French Lick, and other state iead- | and ‘Will permit member banks to ers. The conference is to be held in | \orinue the volume of loans that the Columbia Club. Pave a) / ; Dr. Frank L. Rector, Evanston, | 8% ouch a record high in ‘the Tl. field representative for the S0=| yveiyis ciety’s central district also will be | Oo NE he LR I resent : : P banks made home mortgages total-

WOMAN LEAVES 122 [$2000 000 hes ‘been advanced. Stil LIVING DESCENDANTS

outstanding are mortgages amounting to $11,850,000, the largest balRICHMOND Dec. 1 (U. P)— ance in the figg-year history of the Mrs. Maria Burkett, 86, died today at her home

system, in Arba, near here, and left 122 living descend | ADAMS TO APPEAL ants. She is survived by eight sons | and daughters, 42 grandchildren, 67 great-grandchildren and five great- | great-grandchildren. | The conviction of Ralph Adams, | 33, for the murder of his wife, Mrs | Lucille Adams, last April, will oe | appealed, T. Ernest Maholm, his | attorney, said today. A Criminal Court jury found ba kali Adams guilty of second degree murworking in half a dozen tele- || der after deliberating only four vision laboratories today to || hours. Special Judge Charles B. perfect the next great inven- | Staff sentenced him to life imprisonHor"wirelsss seeing " ment in the Indiana State Prison. 3 JR : Robert Fowler, charged with being Norman Siegel in ‘Radio | an accessory after the fact of murOpens Its Eyes,'' a series of | der, was to go on trial today in articles in The Times begin- |! Criminal Court.

ning today on Page 13, tells

when we may expect televi- VIAL OF POWDER sion to become practical in | SENT BLUM TESTED

the home, what problems remain to be solved, and what tha outlook is for television programs. Begin this fascinating and informative story today.

RADIO OPENS ITS EYES

A corps of scientists is

PARIS, Dec. 1 (U, P).—An envelope addressed to Leon Blum, Vice | Premier, containing a glass tube of | plack powder was discovered in the | Postoffice tod~y. IL was sent to the { Municipal Laboratories for exami-

| nation. wa A isn, pr. »

MURDER CONVICTION

ran out on his parking and he got a ticket. “Well,” said Judge Myers, “if you were in jall you certainly souldn’t have moved your car, SO I'll withhold judgment.

Domestic lump $2.05--$485 Beg, $1.85--$4.85, Nut and pea, $1.40-—$3.60. Railroad fuel, $1.95-—-$3.60. Industrial slack, $.1.00—-$2 85,

Stoker coal, $1.95—$2.60. Adjustment Is Possible The Commission said all prices | + were established on a basis which : . will permit adjustment of existing | freight differentials limited to an | LUDENDORFF STILL ILL amount not more than 35 cents a ton, since it was believed that a| MUNICH, Germany, Dec. 1 (U.| producing district so situated that it could not reach a market with-

“But next time you come to court, better park in a parking

too far for sales. ailment,

P.) —The condition of Gen. Eric unsettled weather tonight and to- | Ludendorff, aged German World morrow, out reducing its F. O. B. mine | War hero, was unchanged today. He | tomorrow. price above the limit was reaching is suffering from a gall bladder [were about seven normal.

25 1 p.m... 34 |after a complaint by two men in a | downtown hotel.

Mother Is Sorry

Officers took him to his mother’s cell in City ®rison. All he said was. “Hello.” His mother replied: Harold.” Capt. Petit asked him if he would mind spending a little time in the Detention Home “where you'll be warm and well-fed.” “I don't care,” the lad replied. “I'm just a little nervous, that’s all.” So Harold is in Detention Home. The petit larceny charge against the 30-year-old mother was dismissed in (Turn to Page Three)

Wind velocity picked up to eight miles an hour at noon today and blew away much of the smoke pall that had hung over the downtown area since early morning. The day began with a moderate pall over the city which was little

affected by a four-mile-an-hour wind prevailing until noon. The Bureau forecast cloudy and

“I'm sorry,

with rising temperaiures Today temperatures degrees eo

EW YORK, Dec. 1 (U, P.).--Mrs. Ely Culbertson was en route to N Reno today to tell a divorce court judge that Ely is her favorite bridge partner and a perfect business associate, but an unsatisfactory husband. : The matter had been arranged with all the finesse for which the Culbertson card game is famous. Having talked it over calmly, having arranged all the details from the custody and education of their two children to a division of their large joint fortune, they agreed to part as husband and wife but not as bridge partners nor as associates in the flourishing bridge business, “The Culbertsons, Inc.” Their attorneys then got together and prepared a statement remarkable for its amiability and frankness,

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” ” " ” ” Ld R. CULBERTSON assured his public, in this document, that no other woman was involved, that Jo Culbertson was “the grand romance in my life and always will be.” But, he continued, it was unfortunate that for a married man he had ‘bachelor instincts” and that solitude was “often my most precious and most necessary requirement.” Though signed by attorneys, the statement was composed by someone obviously familiar with the requirements of newspaper publication. It mentioned that Mr. Culbertson was about to publish an autobiography which Mrs. Culbertson considered “brutally frank,” and indicated that Mrs. Culbertson was not sympathetic to this autobiography’s primary purpose—‘to teach my children how not to do certain things.” Their children are Joyce, 10, and Bruce, 9, who are being educated on most modern principles under a plan devised by the Culbertsons, by private tutors only. They will have joint custody and each may see the children at any time, » ” on ” ” ” HE statement set forth their financial agreement in some detail.

Mr. Culbertson had assigned one half his property and income to Mrs. , Which will assure them an income of $100,000 each. |

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Culbertsons to End Breakfast Table Partnership, But No Change Is Due at Bridge Table, They Say

Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson. The perfect bridge partners,

He also had made an irrevocable will leaving his half of their joint corporation to her, but on the stipulation that neither child on its 21st birthday would receive an income of more than $400 a month. If there is more when the children come into their heritage, it will go to a foundation for research in physics. -

for the future the prudent investment method be adopted.”

BOY SAVES FAMILY AS HOME BURNS

Cries Awaken Parents; Damage About $250.

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from possible injury when fire broke out in their Warren Township home early today. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jackson, 246 Routier Ave. said they were awakened when their son, sleeping in another room, cried, “I'm choking.”

Two of the family fought the flames | with buckets of water and a third ran to a neighbor's home to call the | fire department, Firemen, who extinguished the blaze with chemicals, said a delay of | a few minutes might have resulted | in a serious fire, because no water | was available, They said the fire started from a short-circuited floor lamp cord, burning a davenport, curtains and rug. Loss was estimated by firemen at $250.

FISHING IS GOOD, ROOSEVELT FINDS

MIAMI, Dec. 1 ( U. P.)=President Roosevelt remained in (he vicinity of Dry Tortugas off Key West today, where he has found the fishing excellent. Radio advices from the yacht Potomac, serving as a floating White House for the Chief Executive and his party, revealed that Harry Hopkins, WPA Administrator, is leading

{the fishermen in catches, |

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| to Internal Revenue collectors for the purpose of listing all assets=- | whether taxable or not--of all per- | sons reporting a net income of $100, 000 or more for the tax vear 1936 | and subsequent years. Would Aid Checking | The Treasury explained that the | forms were designed to provide a | continuous record of the assets of | large taxpayers. This record, the | Treasury said, will aid Internal Ree | venue agents in checking the ac | curacy of income tax returns, | Senator Burke (D. Neb) imme= | diately attacked the new Treasury requirement. He declared that (Turn to Page Three)

‘WILLIAM B. BURFORD DIES OF PNEUMONIA

| Willlam B. Burford, 1503 N. Meri« | dian St., formerly associated wit {his father in the William B. Bure ford Printing Co., 40 8. Meridian St., died today in Long Hospital of pneumons. He was 47, Mr. Burford, who was a resident of Indianapolis all his life, retired from the printing company when his father died 10 years ago. Since | then he had been activé in civie affairs and clubs. Surviving are the wife, Mrs. Geor« gette Burford; sons, William B. Bure ford Jr., a student in John Hopkins University; Miles Burford, a student in Williams College; and a sis‘er, Mrg. Henry R. Danner. Funeral arrangements been completed today.

$720,000 MAILED BY YULE SAVINGS CLUBS

The holiday spending fund for Marion County residents was ine creased by $720,800 today as banks mailed checks to 21,860 Christmas savings club members. The distribution was only $3000

had not

less than the 1930 figure, and was

| about $160,000 more than last vear’s, | Merchants interpreted the increase | as a barometer of a booming Christe

mas trade.

It was expected most of the

| money would be spent for toys and They found the house filled with | other gifts and clothing. Shopping smoke and the living room ablaze. | crowds,

already sharply increased since Thanksgiving, were expected to grow even larger after the checks are delivered. Although most banks mailed the Christmas savings checks yesterday, a few were to distribute their club

money today or within a few days, .

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Bob Burns ..-. 3| Merry-Go-R'd 14 Books ........13 | Movies 16 Broun .,......14 Mrs, Ferguson 13 Comics Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Crossword ,.. 21 Curious World 22 | Editorials ... Fashions Financial .... Fishbein

Questions ,.,.. Radio Food Serial Story ,.22 Short Story., 22 Grin, Bear It. 22 In Indpls ..... 3 Jane Jordan ..13

State Deaths. 4, Johnson vevvesil

wWiggam ,..... 23 \ :