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FORECAST: Fair and continued cold tonight with lowest temperatures about 10 degrees; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer.

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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 231

LINDBERGH, ANN CLOSELY SHIELD FUTURE PLANS

Famous Couple Believed in Seclusion at Morrow Home in Jersey.

SAILING KEPT SECRET

But Few Knew of Plans to

Come to U. S.; Leave Sons in England.

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ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Dec. 8 (U. P.).—Col. and Mrs. | Charles A. Lindbergh were back in their native land to- | day after an absence of near- | ly two years. The purpose of their visit —it was presumed to be a visit because they had left their children in England— and its length were known only to themselves and they

were not telling. Even their whereabouts had been left a matter for speculation by | Col. Lindbergh's strict regimen of secrecy, but there was a great deal of evidence to indicate that they were voluntary prisoners behind the high iron fence of the closely guarded estate of Mrs. Lindbergh's mother, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow. This was denied, however, by Mrs. Morrow's secretary. The Lindberghs returned to the United States on the liner President Harding. Only a vice president of the United States Lines knew when they engaged passage, the captain of the vessel did not know of his distinguished passengers until a few minutes before he sailed, and fellow passengers did not know it until the ship was well at sea. To guard against any passenger sending the news ahead, Col. Lindbergh asked that the ship refuse any radio message in which his name was mentioned. No such message was offered, so the captain was spared the necessity of ruling on the question. Spectators Astounded

Hence the few casual spectators to their clandestine landing yesterday — via the President Harding's third-class gang plank—were astounded. A small sedan licensed to an employee of the Morrow estate was waiting for them. It was seen crossing the George Washington bridge to New Jersey. The bridge is a few miles above the Morrow estate. Later a Morrow station wagon called at the pier for their luggage —two trunks and three hand bags. Col. Lindbergh, his wife, and their infant son, Jon—their second son, Land, was born in England—sailed secretly for England just before Christmas in 1935 soon after Governor Hoffman of New Jersey had expressed doubt that Bruno Richard Hauptmann had been the only person involved in the kidnap-murder of their first son, Charles Jr.—at a time when they were receving renewed public attention as the date (Turn to Page Three)

INCOME EROM U. S. IS RULED TAXABLE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P.).— The Dravo Contracting Co., of Pittsburgh today lost its Supreme Court attack on validity of the West Virginia sales tax as applied to income derived by it from the Federal Government. The Court divided five to four. The company sought to escape payment of $135,761 tax on $6,634,000 it received from the Federal Government for work performed on the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers in West virginia. It contended the tax would

constitute a direct interference with sovereignty of the Federal Government. The Court also ruled that the Federal Government may prosecute an antitrust suit seeking dissolution of the Aluminum Company of America in the southern N. Y. Federal District Court.

BABY SMOTHERS IN CLOTHES BASKET CRIB

Two-months-old Barbara Jane Brown was found dead early today by her mother, Mrs. Albert Brown, in their home at 641 Ft. Wayne Ave. The baby apparently rolled over on its face during the night and smothered, Dr. Norman Booher, deputy coroner, said. The crib was a clothes basket on two chairs alongside the bed. Beside the 18-year-old mother, the father Albert, 20, also survives,

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Movies Mrs. Ferguson 11 | Mrs. Roosevelt 11 | Obituaries ..

City Council To Hear Pleas On Smoke Law

Delegations for and against an amended ordinance aimed to lessen the smoke evil are to appear before City Council tonight. Although it was defeated several weeks ago, the amendment is expected to be reintroduced at tonight's session. It would legalize instruments for smoke detection and regulate smoke of locomotives. Dr. John G. Benson, Methoaist Hospital superintendent; is to head a delegation of Smoke Abatement League members urging its passage. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board secretary, also is expected to favor it. Opposing that portion affecting locomotives is to be a group of railroad executives headed by J. J. Liddy, Indianapolis Union Railways superintendent. They are expected to ask Council to let them regulate themselves through the Railroad Smoke Control Board. Councilmen also will consider ordinances to limit the sale of bootleg coal; to prohibit truck traffic on Pennsylvania St.; to finance completion of the new wing on the City Hospital with a $110000 bond issue, and to create a City Housing Authority.

BOBBITT HITS AT LIQUOR SYSTEM

Chairman Says Setup Is Intended to Develop Political Power.

(Editorial, Page 12)

Archie N. Bobbitt, State Republican Chairman, on the fourth anniversary of repeal, charged today “the Indiana liquor control system and the manner in which the system is being administered is altoe gether in the interest of developing the political power and raising campaign funds for the State House political machine.” At the same time, a national survey revealed that Indiana ranked fourth among the states in payment of liquor taxes to the Federal Government since prohibition was repealed Dec. 5, 1933. The collections from Indiana totaled $144, 274,013. Mr. Bobbitt said he had received numerous complaints about “the way the liquor business is being controlled out of the State House” since his election recently as State Chairman.

“We Will Do Work”

Declaring he did not wish to comment about the State's liquor laws, Governor Townsend said: “Let Mr. Bobbitt do the talking, we will do the work.” “1 indorse Mr. Bobbitt's statement 100 per cent,” John K. Ruckelshaus, newly appointed Republican executive committee chairman, said. Mr. Bobbitt recently appointed the advisory committee to formulate party policies. Mr. Bobbitt continued: “For a political party to inject itself into the liquor business . . . is far more vicious than the much-con-demned voluntary participation in politics by the liquor interests. “Politics should be kept out of liquor control and the liquor intersest should stay out of politics. So long as the manufacture and sale of liquor is permitted: by law, their regulation should be on a strictly non-partisan basis in the sole interests of the public.”

BULLETIN

Edgar Ashby, president and general manager of the Ladoga, Ind, Canning Co, dropped dead in a store at 24 W. Washington St. this afternoon. The Coroner's office was investigating.

FOUND SHOT TO DEATH

GREENFIELD, Dec. 6 (U. P).— Funeral services will be held today for Fernando Brouhard, 74, prominent farmer who was found shot to death in his home near here Saturday.

STATE'S AUTO TOLL TOTALS 10 FOR WEEK-END

Five Killed on City Streets; Four of Them by Drivers Who Flee Scenes.

SEEK WOMAN MOTOR:ST |}

Police Threaten to Charge

Her With Murder Unless She Surrenders.

(Editorial, Page 12)

Marion County's week-end traffic slaughter today had claimed the

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1937

lives of five pedestrians and caused ju

injury to 28 persons. Four were killed by hit-and-run drivers. Eleven of the injured were pedestrians. Less than 50 motorists were arrested during the tragic two-day period. The 1937 county toll now stands at 144, four less than last vears’ record high. Five other persons were killed in Indiana outside the county. With two motorists held as alleged

hit-and-run drivers and two others

object of a state-wide police search, Dr. Ethelbert Wilson, coroner, announced that “henceforth all hitrun motorists involved in automobile fatality cases will be charged with murder and held without bail.”

Pledge Drive Support

Municipal Court judges and other public officials pledged their support to the drive on hit-and-run motorists. Chief Deputy Prosecutor Hagemier said: “The Prosecutor's office is wholeheartedly in favor of Dr. Wilson's plan.” Municipal Myers said: “We need drastic measures to stop murder on our highways.” «I am in favor of any plan that will cut the traffic accident fatality rate in Indianapolis and Marion County,” said Mayor Boetcher. The week-end dead were: Noah Russell, 24, Route 1, Bridgeport. Margaret Russell, 4, his daughter. Robert H. Thompson, 5267 Broadway. aa Jones, 67, of 110 N. Drexel ve. William J. Wilkins, 40, Route 5, Box 574. Mr. Russell and his daughter, whom he was carrying, were injured fatally Saturday night when a hit-and-run car, said to be driven by (Turn to Page Three)

WAGE AND HOUR BILL ORDERED REWRITTEN

Oscar

Court Judge Dewey

House Labor Body Acts to

Kill 5-Man Board.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P.)— The House Labor Committee today ordered the Wage-Hour Bill completely rewritten with provisions throughout for administration by the Labor Department instead of by a five-man board, as provided in the pending bill. Chairman Mary Norton (D. N. J.) submitted an amendment to the measure transferring administration. The new bill incorporating it will be considered when the Committee meets Thursday, she said. Mrs. Norton told a legislative representative of the American Federation of Labor that an eflort to

substitute its bill with a flat 44-hour

maximum week and 40-cent mini-

mum hourly wage would result in such confusion that no wage-hour

action could be expected of the present Congress. The A. F. of L. proposal would vest administrative authority in the Juctice Department. The House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee tentatively agreed on two technical changes in Administrative features of the revenue laws

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Snow formed a light film of ice over downtown sidewalks and streets today, and there were many

F ilm of Ice Causes Many Bad

bad spills. Here

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Barclay’s Action to Force Decision on Gag Policy.

Times Special Writer { WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—Whether to drive forward through a cloud of |

suspicion that it is trying to smother press criticism was the question | faced by the NLRB today at Steubenville, O. There, in the hearing of C. 1. O. charges against the Weirton Steel Co., the name of Hartley W. Barclay, editor of a New York trade paper, was to be called in answer to a subpena requiring that he testify and produce voluminous records relating to the origin and motivation of an article he published in the Mill and Factory magazine. It severely criticized the Labor's Board's conduct of the Weirton case, and praised Weirton's treatment of em-~ ployees. : If Mr. Barclay carries through his threat to defy the subpena, the Labor Board must decide whether to go into a U. S. District Court to seek judigjal backing for its summons. It could defer or drop the action. The choice is entirely up to the Board.

Vandenberg Criticizes Board

In Washington the Board's procedure was hotly attacked by Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich). The Senator, himself a publisher, asserted: “The general purpose of the Labor Board's action is quite obviously an invasion of freedom of the press. “It is an advanced step toward administrative despotism which the American people should stop before it is too late. “There is a definite formula in the downfall of democracies, and one of the major steps always is to terrorize and then to throttle freedom of expression and public opii-ion. “The Labor Board seems to have taken a long journey down this road. The occurrence emphasizes that powers under the Wagner Act can be stretched to cover situations | | which the authors never contem- | plated. I am unable to believe they | | expected their Labor Board to go | to such lengths in an invasion of | fundamental rights.” Senator Wagner (D. N. Y.), labor law sponsor, said he never commented on the NLRB's actions or policies because of his belief in the separation of legislative powers from those of a “quasi-judicial” agency. Rep. Maury Maverick (D. Tex.) said that while he had not examined all the facts, he felt that publishers “often confuse freedom of the press with freedom of the publishers. “If the Board is trying to intimidate publishers,” he added, “of course it is wrong. But if it is (Turn to Page Three)

D SUBPENA

Attorneys Delay Cali and Summon Other Witnesses.

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BULLETIN STEUBENVILLE, O., Dec. 6 (U. P.).—Hartley W. Barclay, trade magazine editor, this afternoon defied the National Labor Relations Board by failing to appear when his name was called at a hearing to produce records of a magazine article criticizing the Board.

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| By FRED W. PERKINS

Police issued a warning to all motorists.

Examiner for NLRB Grills Small-Town Newspaperman on Article Against C. LO.

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STEUBENVILLE, O. Dec. 6 (U.| P.).—Hartley W. Barclay, trade | magazine editor, ignored a National Labor Board subpena to produce records of a magazine article criticizing the Board, and did not ap- | pear today when hearings resumed | in the Weirton Steel Co. case. | Mr. Barclay, Mill and Factory | editor, through his attorneys previ- | ously informed the Board he will] defy the subpena issued for his appearance in regard to the article | criticizing the Board's conduct in| the Weirton case. Board Attorney Isadore Polier announced that an affidavit of service | would be filed with Trial Examiner | E. G. Smith. If Mr. Barclay did not | appear when he was called, he | would be held in default. In event | of nonappearance, it was believed he | would be taken into a U. S. District Court either in Pittsburgh or Kentucky. Instead of calling Mr. Barclay immediately, Board attorneys swore in as witnesses five Weirton workers,

Barclay Writings at Issue

Board attorneys immediately launched an attack on the writings of Mr. Barclay, which were reprinted and distributed in Weirton. Each of the witnesses was shown a reprint of the Mill and Factory ar-

before.

In Pittsburgh, Charles T. Douds, NLRB regional director, said the “freedom of the press is in no way involved in the matter. What the Board is concerned with is whether the Weirton company interfered with workers’ rights as provided in the Wagner act. So far as the article is concerned, there are some issues that have not come to the surface. When the whole story is told, it will be evident that the question of freedom of the press is not involved.” Mr. Barclay had contended that the subpena constituted a violation

ticle and asked if they had seen it | |

of the constitutional guarantees of a free press.

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Spills.

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Own Views.

(Editorial, Gen. Johnson, Page 12)

Times Special PITTSBURGH. Dec. 6.—The denial of the National Labor Relations Board that it has any intention of infringing on freedom of the press was countered today by the revelae tion that a small-town Pennsylvania editor had been grilled for hours about the policies and content of his newspapers.

The Board's denial followed the refusal of Hartley W. Barclay, trade publication editor, to answer a subpena issued after he had published an article sharply criticizing the Labor Board's conduct of the Weirton Steel Co. case. But only recently, at St. Mary's, Pa., Editor Harry T. O'Brien of the Daily Press was compelled for hours to answer questions about the news and editorials in his paper and to identify a correspondent who had contributed an article reilecting on a C. I. O. union. The questions included a charge that the paper had not shown a friendly attitude toward the Labor Board.

The hearing involved the Stackpole Carbon Co., St. Mary's, against which a C. I. O. union had preferred charges. One company director of the company was also a director of the local paper, hence Editor O’Brien was called as a witness. He denied that the director had ever sought to influence the paper's policies, but he was subjectad to a long examination which went into the entire operation of the newspaper. Testimony dealt chiefly with an article contributed to the paper by a reader who had requested that her name be not printed, and an editorial commenting on it. Clyde A. Armstrong, attorney who represented the company and who is now attorney for the Western Steel Co., objected to the admission of the articles. He was overruled by Trial Examiner Charles B. Bayley, and Mr.

PRICE THREE CENTS

450 PUPILS FLEE SCHOOL 81 BLAZE

COLD

IN RECORD

City Shivers in Coldest Dec. 6 Weather Since 1885.

RELIEF IS SLIGHT

Mercury Drops to 8 in Early Morning Snow Flurry.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 12 (Midnight) 13 . Moe 12 11 11 9 . .. 8 ow 10 10

10 11 12 12 13 13 14

7 a m... 8a m... 9a m... 10 a. m.... 11 a, m.... 12 (Noon). 1p m...

A heavy snowfall today ac-

March to Safety in

Belief it Was Fire Drill.

PROBE ORDERED

Incendiarism Blamed As Threatening Note Found.

WEST POINT—Fire destroys come bined high and grade school, with estimated loss of $44,000. CITY—450 pupils at School 81 driven into snow and cold by blaze believed of incendiary origin. Mother, four babies carried from South Side home.

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Fire in the auditoriums

companied Indiana's coldest Dec. 6 since 1885. The Weather Bureau promised only “slight relief” from the frigid wave which covered the Middle West from the Great Lakes to the

Allegheny Mountains. The thermometer, which dipped to 8 degrees at 4:15 a. m,, rose slowly to 13 at noon. A high of 15 was expected to be reached this afternoon. A low of 10 was predicted for tonight. The previous low recorded on Dec. 6, 52 years ago, was 7, according to J. H. Armington, Weather Bureau chief.

Snow Begins at 5:30 A. M.

A light snow began to fall at 5:30 a. m., adding to the .2 inch which fell yesterday. The extreme cold was expected to continue throughout the day with snow flurries through the night. In Indiana the temperatures were the lowest along the Ohio River and slightly warmer upstate. Warmer temperatures in the Northwest are expected to bring a rise in temperatures after tomorrow, the Weather Bureau reported.

Ice Glazes Streets

In Indianapolis a thin glaze of snow and ice formed on city streets. Stop-light and preferential street intersections were reported to be slippery in several instances. Driving, however, was not extremely hazardous. One minor accident was reported to police this morning. Traffic Captain Lewis Johnson warned motorists to drive carefully and allow time for stopping at intersections. He said the Street Department would spread sand on the ice as rapidly as possile. Mayor Boetcher ordered Fred K. Eisenhut, Street Commissioner, to remove all snow from walks at street corners. Streetcars were reported running

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Clothes— Warm Clothes— Are All They’re Asking

(145 Clothed; Donors’ List, Page 3)

I'very day a new sheaf of letters comes to The Indianapolis Times’ Clothe-A-Child office—letters that carry messages of poverty among the city’s children. They tell wistfully of children who will have to stop school if they don't have clothes; of children who can't go to Sunday School because their clothes are not up to it. They tell of children whose par-

Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh are shown dining with Capt. James E. Roberts of the President Harding during their secret passage from Southampton to New York. The Lindberghs, who moved

to England after the kidnap-slaying of their firstborn son, left their two sons in England. Apparently no one but a few intimates and their shipboard companions knew of the journey

As Lone Eagle and Wife Return From Voluntary Exile Abroad

After crossing the Atlantic under the greatest secrecy, Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh (hr is directly behind her) hurried from New York to an unannounced destination without revealing the reason for their surprise

visit,

NEA Telephotos.

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ents are crippled or dead and whose family income covers rer.t and perhaps coal and that is all. Children write some of the letters, earnestly believing that Santa

Claus may get around to clothing them. They don’t ask for toys and ice cream. They ask for warmth. They ask for shoes that aren’t worn out, and for underthings that will protect them against the cold winter winds. If they are too old to believe in Santa Claus, they mention him anyway, perhaps believing they should muster all their allies in a pretty uneven fight against something they don't understand—why other children have warm clothes and they don't. Already this year such letters have been sent to the Clothe-A-Child headquarters at 206 W. Maryland St., asking for clothes for more children than actually were clothed in last year’s campaign. Last year more than 1300 children were clothed; this year Trequests already total more than 1400 and . the headquarters has been open officially only five days. And every mail brings more. You can help protect the city’s underprivileged children from the icy winds in one of the following ways: 1. If you wish to shop with a child personally, call Riley 5551 and make an appointment to meet a child at Clothe-A-Child Headquarters, 206 W. Maryland St.

2. Or if you want us to act for

3. Or you can join with others in your office, club, church, sports team, fraternity or sorority. Select

gymnasium of Parkview Pubelic School 81, 1800 Parker Ave., today sent 450 pupils from their classrooms into the 12-degree temperature of a snowtorm, most of them

without their coats and hats. “The fire undoubtedly was of in= cendiary origin,” said Chief Bere nard Lynch of the City Fire Prevention Bureau. He ordered an in=vestigation. The blaze was extinguished by Principal Murray A. Dalman and two school custodians using the school fire hose before fire apparatus arrived. Damage was estimated at $1500. Unaware of Blaze

The children filed from the build= ing in orderly manner, unaware of the blaze, Mr. Dalman said. The building was emptied in one and a half minutes, They returned three minutes later. School was dismissed until 1:10 p. m. while the building was thrown open to clear the smoke. A threat, crudely scratched on the concrete steps of the school entrance, was studied by school officials, Chief Lynch and City Detec= tives Audrey and Martin Kruse, as a possible arson clue. : “Fire (here was written the name of a School 81 teacher) or we will bust every window in No. 81. We are backed buy many, We don't want (name of teacher). If you don't, we will bust every window in No. 81,” the message read.

Question Former Pupils

Detectives said they would question two former pupils of School 81, seen in the building earlier, before classes opened. Mr. Dalman said he believed “someone set fire to window curtains” in the auditorium. Flames spread to a stage, destroying three large velvet curtains and canvas backdrops and damaged Indian clubs and a blackboard. Half of the auditorium ceiling made of special acoustic material was scorched. The blaze was discovered shortly after school opened at 8:30 a. m. by Billie Lower, 13, a 7B pupil. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Lower, 1910 Parker Ave.

“I Wasn't Scared”

“TI wasn't scared,” Billie said after the excitement was over. “I just knew that the alarm should be on and I pushed the button ringing the fire bell.” Miss Gertrude Mahoney, third grade teacher, and Miss Nina Sims, second grade teachers, were standing in the first floor hall of the school as the children took their seats for the beginning of classes. Miss Mahoney said she noticed a vellow light coming through the opened door leading into the audi torium and asked Billie to investi« gate. “Billie looked into the gym and saw the stage curtains ablaze,” Miss Mahoney said. “He yelled, ‘There's a fire in the gym!" and then ran and pushed the school fire alarm button. “I ran a little way up the hall and told Miss Opal Selby, 1B teach~ er, there was a fire. Miss Selby ran to tell Mr. Dalman, who was in his office on the first floor.

Calls It Fire Drill

“I ran Back to my classroom and told my children to put on their wraps, saying, ‘We are going to have a fire drill.”

Children in Miss Mahoney's room were among the few who had time to get their coats and hats before leaving the building. Mr. Dalman said he turned in the fire alarm and after the children cleared the building he and Albert Workman, assistant custodian, unreeled the school fire hose and quickly extinguished the blaze on the stage. Custodian William D. Mills ran from the basement when he heard the fire bell to help fight the flames. % Five minutes later, the first fire apparatus arrived, Mr, Dalman ; and the children had been the building a minutes.