Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1937 — Page 5

TUESDAY, DEC. 7, 1937 9 of 12 Hoosier Representatives Signed Wage-Hour Bill Petition

* By E. R. R. : ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—“Tsar” Reed, Uncle Joe Cannon, Nicholas Longworth would have been amazed could they have sat with ‘the 90 Republicans in the House of Representatives at Washington last week and witnessed -the tribulations of a later-day leadership of the body over which they once presided. Also they would Have been -amused. ; Shades of these former Speakers would have seen the present Majority Leader and Democratic Whip and all his assistants engaged in

a strange activity, namely, soliciting ‘signatures by members of the House to ia petition to get a vote before . ‘adjournment on one of the principal measures the special session was called to enact. It was not like that

~ . in the olden days.

‘ When Read, Cannon & Co. ruled the House, the discharge petition was the ‘last resort of a downtrodden membership, deprived by its leaders of every other means of legislative expression. In the present special session, for the first time in the history of Congress, the discharge petition has been made an instrument of leadership. Last Thursday it was announced that the House leadership (Speaker Bankhead, Chairfnan O’Connor of the Rules Committee, and Majority ‘leader Rayburn) had scored a notable victory by obtaining the 218th signature to a petition to take the Administration’s Wage-Hour Bill from the Rules Committee. and bring it to _the floor for a vote. + Members from Indiana who signed the petition were: Reps. Schulte, Farley, Jenckes, Griswold, Greenwood, Crowe, Gray, Larrabee, Ludlow, all Dem- ° ocrats. Reps. Boehne, and Petten~ gill, Democrats, and ‘Halleck, Re“publican, did not sign. No signatures were obtained from representatives of the Democratic ' _ state of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico or Tennessee, or from the Republican sti of Vermont. Geographical disthibution of the signers was as fol-

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.. Number of > Signers Members in House pi Percentage cod Signing

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1 25 ntain Stat 8 14 57 Pacific Coast 20 29 69

Nearly one-third of the signatures came from three industrial states: New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. .

Defeat Is Suggested

Despite the almost: unanimous opposition of members from the South to the Wage-Hour Bill, 38'members from the South Atlantic and South Central states signed the discharge petition. This suggests for the first time the possibility of outright defeat for the bill on the floor. A certain number of members from the Deep South “were persuaded to sign the petition by threats of members from urban states to vote to strike out | the cotton sections of the pending Farm Bill unless the Wage-Hour Bill were permitted to come to” the floor. Once the Farm Bill is out of | the ' way, however, they.:will be under no compulsion to vote for the labor easure. .

Charges of “log-rolling” and use |

of undue influence by the House leadership to obtain the necessary signatures to the discharge petition led to the introduction by Rep. Fish (R. N. Y.) of a resolution to order an investigation of these charges by a select committée of the House. Majority Leader Rayburn (D. Tex.) promptly -moved that the Fish resolution be laid on the table. - The motion to shelve was carried ‘nearly three to one. Although. only 196 Democrats had signed the petition, 270 Democrats voted against an investigation of how the signatures were obtained. Vote Next Monday Members from Indiana who voted to shelve were: . Reps. Schulte, Pettengill, Farley, Griswold, Jenckes, Greenwood, Crowe, Gray, Larrabee. . Rep. Halleck voted against shelving the Fish resolution; Rep. Ludlow voted present, and Rep. Boehne was not recorded. Completion of the discharge pe- . tition last week will make it in order to vote on the discharge motion next Monday. Had = the petition not been completed until this week, the vote would have been . delayed until the “fourth Monday in December”—that ‘is, until Dec. 2. But leaders of the two houses have agreed that the special session shall come to an end on Dec. 22. :

* | SEEKS COUNTY POST ~~ DESPITE INDICTMENT

SOUTH BEND, Dec. 7 (U. P.) — - Dr. Harry W. Helmen, prominent local physician, has filed his application for appointment as County - Health Officer despite the fact that he is under indictment for alleged * violation . of Federal Narcotic and Postal Laws. : Dr. Helmen was indicted secretly by a Grand Rapids, Mich, Grand Jury more than a month ago on charges of selling a former South Bend resident morphine tablets through the mails.

EXEMPTION IS UPHELD

Members of the National Guard will continue tc be exempt from payment of poll taxes, the Attorney - General's office” held in an opinion issued today at the request of William P. Cosgrove, State Accounts Board chief examiner. Guardsmen have not paid this tax in the past.

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| daily wage of $6, retroactive to ‘| Nov. 1.

for 12 homes and four lots. The re-

COUNTIES TO BE PAID $3 FOR EVERY AUTO

State to Distribute Tay Funds on New Plan.

The State is to distribute $3.76 in taxes next year for every automobile owned within the borders of its 92 counties, the Accounts Board. estimated today. . At present the State distributes money to local governmental units: on the basis of road mileage and population. Under the new plan to go into effect Jan. 1, distributions are to be made to counties on the basis of the number of machines registered and the number of vehicular miles

" According to Ross Techemeyer, Board Examiner, there are 949,626 vehicles registered. . The State collects the money from automobile license fees and gasoline tax. :

DISTRICT 8 MINERS GRANTED $6 WAGE

BRAZIL, Dec 7 (U. P.).—Strip miners in District 8 of the Brazil Coal Block Division, today had a new contract providing for a basic

"The contract was signed yesterday by representatives of the United Mine Workers and the Indiana Coal Producers Association which had been deliberating for three gweeks.

deadlocked the committee for more than two weeks. Previously =the District Mine Workers committee had signed a contract. with pick mine operators. Lloyd Lambert, District president of the U. M. W,, said the miner's scale committee would confer Thursday with the Truck Mine Operators’ Association to negotiate a scale for small truck mines in District 8, completing wage negotiations for the block coal district. 2

TWELVE HOMES © SOLD

North Side Realtors today had re-} ported real estate sales of $140,725

port was made yesterday at the’ weekly luncheon of the group. J: J. Argus .and B. L. Edwards were named to head the committee in charge of the annual election of officers. " : :

0. E. S. UNIT TO MEET

The Englewood Auxiliary, O.E. 8S, will hold an all-day meeting tomorrow in the Englewood Masonic Hall.

121 INDICTED BY

‘delayed Government pay check.

‘transporting two 15-year-old girls ‘| from Indiana to Illinois in violation Ss

U. S. GRAND JURY 'FAGE_HEARINGS

Many Former Government Employees Named as Defendants.

Twenty-one persons, many of them former Government employees, named in a series of indictments returned after a one-day session of the Federal Grand Jury, are to be arraigned Thursday before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. William*J. Casserly, of 2517 E. 13th St., former postal carrier - foreman, accused of* taking hundreds of letters from the mails during the last two years, was one of those named in the true bills. Horace E. Stamback, former secretary to an Indiana Congressman, was another of those indicted, charged with impersonating a Federal officer and with borrowing money on the pretext of expecting a

An REA Martin County employee, Roy Mowery, and Sam Harris, WPA worker, both alleged to have forged Government checks, also were named in true bills.

50 Witnesses Heard

Others indicted included alleged members of counterfeiting, nafcotics and white slave rings. Claude Compton and Steve Taylor, both of New Harmony, are charged with

of the White Slave Act. “The Grand Jury, headed by Frank W. Mauck of Princeton, adjourned after returning the indictments late yesterday. More than 50 witnesses were heard during the day's testimony. . & Val Nolan, U. S. Attorney, said

the Grand Jury restricted evidence

to cases involving charges against deferidants held in jail in lieu of

bond. © | Judge Baltzell will set trial bonds after the defendants enter their pleas at the time of their arraignment. The special session was called to expedite clearing the spring criminal docket, jammed because of the unusual number of arrests, Mr. Nolan stated.

RICHMOND MAN GETS “CITY LIGHT CO. POST

Hess Named Assistant to General Manager.

RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 7 (U. P).

—Dan C. Hess today assumed du-

ties as assistant to the general man-

ager of the Indianapolis Power and Light Co. He had resigned super-

intendency of the Richmond Muni- |’

cipal Electric System yesierday after 16 years service. Under his management it had increased in value from $609,000 to $5,000,000..

FORMER CHILD BRIDE

SUED FOR DIVORCE

LOGANSPORT, Dec. 7 (U. P.).— Bora Adkins Airhart, 23-year-old mother of six children, today

awaited actioh on a divorce suit filed against her by her 59-year-old husband, James Airhart. The couple was married nine years ago when Mrs. Airhart was 14 and he’ was 50. Mr. Airhart also asked custody of the six children, one of whom is named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Airhart and another Wayne Coy Airhart. Wayne Coy, after whom the child was named, was former State Welfare Director and now is executive assistant to former 'Governor McNutt, -U. S. Commissioner to the Philippines.

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