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Crippled; Opposing Forces Tie Up Farm Bill
In Lower Chamber.
revised measure Monday. :
FARM BILL—Opposing groups tie up TAXES—Study proposed of program bonds.
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action on measure in House.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. P.).—Democratic proponents of Wage=organized a “bodyguard bloc” to protect the labor standards measure against emasculating mendments when it reaches the
Hour legislation today
House floor Monday. - At a caucus called by Rep. the bill agreed to stay on the floor
‘BODYGUARD BLOC IS FORNED | 70 PROTECT REVISED PAY BILL WHEN IT COMES UP FOR VOTE
House Group Unites ‘to Protect Measure From Being
= WAGES-HOURS BILL—“Bodyguard Bloc” formed in' House to protect || =] from being crippled when it comes up for vote |&
to levy on tax-exempt wages and
Arthur D. Healey (D. Mass.) friends of during debate to assure that there will be enough votes at all times to smother any forays against its principal
provisions. Cag The bill has been rewritten kt the . House Labor Committee so as to include provisions for industry committees patterned after the code authorities of the outlawed NRA ‘but restricted in recommending ‘powers to wages and hours, A confidential print lof the rewritten bill, prepared for exclusive use of Committee members, revealed these details of the proposed committee setup: “1. A wage and hour division would be created in the Labor Department under the direction of a $10,000 administrator in place of the five-man board proposed in the Senate Bill.
Committee to Aid
9. The administrator, would ap-
point a wage and hour committee to: consider and recommend a minjmum wage rate or a maximum workaday and workweek. or both for any industry in which he has reason to believe oppressive labor conditions exist. No committees, however, would be appointed - industries in which the minimum wages and maximum hours are better than the 40 cents per hour and 40 hours per week named in the bill. Fight for Farm Bill "In the meanwhile House leaders fought to steer the Farm Bill to passage between drives of two opposing blocs, one seeking to tighten control features of the bill and the other to.eliminate these provisions. In the Senate, Senator Copeland (D. N. Y.) and Senator Lee (D. Okla.) led a new assault on the * Administration measure. Senator
f Lee gave notice he would offer a
substitute for the Farm Bill's cotton section. - Chiarman Hatton W. Sumners (D. Tex.) of the House Judiciary Committee said today he plans an “immediate study of constitutional amendments to permit Federal taxation of municipal and state salaries and the income tax exempt securities.
Brookings Institute
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Killed Dancer And 4 Others, Engineer Says
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dangerous.
police, making further conversions
Weidmann told the detectives, they said, that he had selected the
villa, carefully. He wanted a place so isolated that there would be no danger of anyone hearing the out-
Times-Acme Photo.
Precibus Mary Geraghty, 18, Indianapolis, secretary of State Senator Joseph F. Sexton, is shown above during a lull in her fight in a
Chicago court for a daughter’s share in the $50,000 estate of John H.
Geraghty, campaign button manufacturer.
on a charge that two of her toes
for.
cries of his victims. Miss Dekoven’s body was
eris examination.
at the scene of their deaths.
Desire Landru, the lived out his last days.
ings.
found under a porch of the villa, where Weidmann said he had buried it. Detectives: dug in the cellar and found Frommer's body. Both were left where found, pending a coronThe bodies of Weidmann’s other victims were left
After he had confessed, Weid- ; mann was lodged in a cell that adjoined the one where the most celebrated of mass murderers—Henri “Bluebeard,” Landru murdered 100 women and one boy from 1915 to 1919 in the course of a matrimonial swindle in which he defrauded 283 women of their sav-
Part of her claim is based
are joined together by a “web,” a
physical characteristic that she said Mr. Geraghty possessed.
OF LOCAL GIRL
Chicago Judge to Hear Final Arguments Saturday.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 9 (U. P.).—The case of Precious Mary Geraghty, 19, Indianapolis, secking to establish a
corporations. :
$1000. ture.
gestion was patterned
general tax revision being considered by the House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee. Legislative tax experts have been Working a week on a substitute tax plan which would ease the pressure on
Senator Minton (D. Ind.) injected new cofhplication into the tax situation, “however, by proposing a gross tax, probably of 1 per cenf, on all personal and business incomes above He would substitute it for the entire existing income tax struc-
~ Senator Minton’s gross tax sugafter a
claim ia Circuit Court that she is the najural daughter of the late John E[. Geraghty, Chicago manufacturel, was in adjournment today. Judge Denis Normoyle said he would hear final arguments Saturday. | Mrs. Annie Laura O’Shea, charity worker for 46 years at St. Anne’s Nursery, Chicago, testified late yesterday she placed Precious Mary in the Geraghty home seven days after the girl's birth. She said she did not know the name pf the baby’s parents. ‘Precious Mary, who received her unusual name from Mrs. O'Shea, is
‘| similar plan now in effect in In-
ADJOURNS CASE | Further Drop
In Temperature Predicted Here
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Mr. Sweeney ran to a nearby engine house and called firemen, who extinguished the blaze. Damage estimated at $300 resulted from a fire in a vacant house at 409 Wolcott St. early today. An overheated furnace left by workmen yesterday was believed respénsible, firemen said. Street Commissioner Fred K. Eisenhut said no complaints on the condition of the streets were received yesterday.” However, three trucks were to be kept ‘in readiness today to spread sand and. salt and remove Snow.
La Porte County With Zero Coldest in State
United Press
La Porte County became the coldest spot in Indiana with a reading
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COMPENSATION 1132 Children Are Cared
For; J. W. Mull Jr. Takes 10.
E list of children cared for .- A= in The Times’ Clothe-A-Child campaign today moved past the 200 mark with the addition of 32 boys and girls to the lists. Largest contributors were J. W. Mull Jr., who provided funds for 10 children and the National Library Binding Co. which cared for seven. Today’s donors list: J. W. Mull Jr, ....cvvennns ...10 children J. M. Powell Wiegel Cabinet Corp. . Anonymous Hayward Barcus Auxiliary American Legion Mrs. Gertrude Benson ¢ Paul Krause Chapter, Beta Beta 1 Bob and 1 Girl
Committee to Study Laws of | Other States on Helping Wage-Earners.
Formation of a five-member commission to study workmen's compensation laws of other states and $0 make recommendations to the 1939 Indiana Legislature was announced [today by Governor Townsend. The members are Earl Hefner, | State Industrial Board; Carl Mullen, State Federation of Labor; Senator Charles Bedwell, Sullivan, rep- | mrs. Margaret Davis Phi Tau Sorority Eli Lilly Co-S, Bacterial Vaccine Dept. .......1 Boy. and 1 Girl Alpha Chapter, Phi Gamma Tau Display Advertising Salesmen, Indianapolis Times . National Library Binding . . C0. «.civvennieniiniviiannes 7 Children
HINT RENT CUT AT LOCKEFIELD
FHA Indicates Questions on Defects to Be Settled
Bess Robbins, representing the Indiana House of Representatives, and A. H. Myers, Indianapolis, representing the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. | The commission was authorized in a resolution passed by the 1937 Legislature to study various compensation insurance systems “for. the purpose of ascertaining and determining whether it will be desirable for the State of Indiana to establish compensation insurance | systems, which employers of labor are re-| juired to maintain.” :
* Reports in 1939 The commission will report findings to the 1939 Legislature. The Workmen’s Compensation Act now in operation was passed in 1915
its
and amended
in 1929 and 1937. All employers are presumed to come
Tomorrow.
-to refuse, providing the State Indus-
under its provisions, although any employer or employee has the right
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heavy rain, the condition was again periodically noticed up to the time and including the last ran in early November.”
The company estimated that if the calking continued at the present rate, it. would not be completed until next spring. Recently, the Government has made experiments with waterproof paint for the purpose of a combination dampproofing against further leaks, and correction of discoloration. Meanwhile, maintenance expenses continue, with no revenue. The Severin firm has paid the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. approximately $26,000 for steam heat in the last year at the rate of about $3000 a month. It was estimated by contractors that the Government expense of maintaining the management branch is $2500 a month; the cost of the Government’s supervisory field force, used during construction and still retained, approximately $3000 a month.
24 Buildings in Project
The company stated that it has additional expenses for watchman service, fire insurance and other maintenance. The project consists of 24 buildings, 748 apartments, and 2538 rooms, not counting bathrooms, halls and closets. There are 456 threeroom apartments, 290 four-room apartments, and two five-room
trial Board is notified. Occupations exempt from the present system are transient laboiers, farm workers, domestic servants and operating employees of railroads. ~~ = Two Methods Open
An employer now has two ways to provide insurance. He can have workmen’s compensation. policies policies written by any one of approximately 55 authorized companies, or he can carry the risk himself if he can prove his financial responsibility to the Industrial Board. : Benefits are to be paid to in-. jured workmen seven days after the accident and are to be 55 per cent of the worker's average weekly wage, with the further provision that benefits are not to exceed $16.50 weekly or fall below $8.80. Total amount paid to any one person cannot exceed $5000. The worker also receives free medical treatment for 90 days, and in case of death, survivors are given an additional $150 burial grant. If a dispute arises, the employee can have his case heard by one of the five Industrial Board members, and if dissatisfied with that decision can appeal to the full Board. The case then can be taken to the Ap-
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ENJOYED IN CITY
Only One Minor Accident Reported; County Toll At 145.
Indianapolis enjoyed its safest traffic day since 1933, with only one minor accident reported during a 24-hour period ending at 8 a. m. today. In the lone accident, only a
fender was bent, according to police. There were no. injuries. Increased alertness by motorists and a marked drop in the number of vehicles on the streets due to hazardous driving conditions was credited for the unusual safety record. “Conditions of the streets warranted more accidents,” Lieut. Lawrence McCarty of the Police Accident Prevention Bureau said, “but the result that there were fewer is due to the people becoming safety conscious.”
Two Killed in State
"~ Meanwhile, Marion .County’s 1937 traffic toll reached 145 today with the death of Patrick Spellman, 60, of 340 Eastern Ave. Three other traffic deaths were reported in ‘Indiana. Six-year-old Harry .Lee Pell was knocked down and fatally injured by an auto while returning from gs West Terre Haute school to his home yesterday. The driver, Dean Davidson, was held on charges of drunken driving. Walter Sass, 47, was injured fatally at South Bend when knocked from his bicycle by an auto. Everett: Martin, 20, living near Eaton, O., was killed when struck by a hit-and-run motorist as he was walking along U. S. 35 southeast of Richmond. } Police traffic arrests here dropped to 15 overnight. but deputy sheriffs continued the County safety campaign by ordering three more alleged traffic violators into Municipal Court. Fifteen motorists were assessed $131 in court today. John Graham, ‘5140 "Ralston Ave., was assessed $20 and his driver's licenses suspended for one year on a drunken driving charge. Five drivers were assessed $25 for turning around in the middle of blocks sand three others were assessed $37 fgr preferential street violations. Mr. Spellman was injured Dec. 2 when the car he was driving collided with another at Road 67 ‘and 38th St. Three other persons were injured slightly in the crash.
Resident 40 Years
He was a resident of Indianapolis for 40 years. He formerly was em= ployed by the Indianapolis Railways. He was a member of St.
Philip Neri Catholic Church. Funeral services are to be held Saturday morning. Burial is to be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Time of
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of the cruelest blows a wife can suffer is being disillusioned in her husband. This could be avoided so easy, but it jest seems like pret’ near every man has a small streak in him : that makes him "“wan'ta pretend ~ to be somethin’ .. that he ain’t. - I felt so sorry for my “Aunt: Sophie when I saw her on the street the other day. She looked like a broken woman and when 1 asked her what the trouble was, she said “Oh, it’s that husband of mine! I've been so happy because he’s been callin’ up every afternoon and sayin’ such sweet things over the telephone and jest today, I found out that it wasn’t him at all. He’s been goin’ to the baseball games every afternoon and he’s had his office boy call up instead.” I says “Well, surely you*can tell your own husband’s voice from that of the office boy” and she says “No, you see I been goin’ to bridge parties every afternoon and I been havin’ the cook answer the telephone!” (Copyright. 1937) °
NANKING RINGED BY FIRES AS DEFENSE
Italy May Quit League, Rome Reports Say.
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Two field guns and machine guns were emplaced at the Nanking Bund, adjacent to the Uaited States guhboat Panay.
Japanese Demand
Nanking Surrender
TOKYO, Dec. 9 (U. P.).—Japa~ nese commanders in Shanghai’ have demanded the surrender of ‘the Chinese Army defending Nane king, the Domei (Japanese) News Agency reported tonight.
Italy May Announce
League Resignation
ROME, Dec. 9 (U. P.) —Ttalys intention to renounce membership in the League of Nations may be announced after a special meeting of the Fascist Grand Council on Saturday, it was reported today.
Titulascu May Save Little Entente
"BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. 9 (U. P.) ~The state visit of Foreign Minister Yvon. Delbos of France was obscured today by an ane nouncement that Nicholas Titulescu, bitter foe of fascism and champion of a firm Franco-Rumanian alliance, had been made an official United National Peasant Party cane didate in the forthcoming
appeating a Probate Court decision parliae
in order to share in Mr. Geraghty’s $50,000) estate. Mrs. O’Shea’s testimony was presented on behalf of
of zero today as a cold snap blan= keted: every section of the state. Half of La Porte County’s 39 rurai schools were closed, County Superin-
the services was to be set today.
| apartments. 3
diana. He said he planned to speak mentary elections.
on the subpect in order to start a discussion of it but did not expect
pellate Court for final review.
Raps Profits Tax
. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. PJ)—
The Brookings
titute joined the movement for repeal of the undistributed profits tax today. In a 108-page analysis of the operation of the tax it concluded that “equitable and effective administration is impossible.” . - There was no gvidence that the report would have any efféct on the
to offer any legislation.
Paul V. McNutt.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
~ Here's County Traffic Record
Deaths {To Date), 1937 (evee. oe 145 1936 ..... .. 150 Deaths in City
Accidents . (Dec. 8) Accidents .... ¢ Injured seses 0 Dead ........ 1
Arrests (Dec. 8)
Speeding
kil Driving + iL |] Running Prefer-
ential Street 2
‘Running Red | Light
: 2 | Drunken Driving
0 » Others I 3 =
MEETINGS TODAY x
. :Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington,
noon. Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League, League, ‘luncheon, Hotel Washington,
noon. fi “Alliance Francaise, meeting, Hotel Washington. 8 p. m. . L i dianapolis Real Estate Board, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. | ‘ Commutlity. Fund, dinner, Claypool Hotel. p.m. | ne Paper Credit Group, luncheon, men’s grille, William: H. Block Co., noon. Advertising Club of Indianapelis, luncheon. Columbia Club, noon. q Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. 2 American Business Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. noon. i Acacia. luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat Temple,
dians Motor Traffic Association, luncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon. Oil Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin. noon. . Construction ague of Indianapolis, luncheon, - Architects and Builders Build-
. noon. Indianapolis Nationa} Poult Expos gi ~ tion, Manu cturers’ Bhiding "State air Grounds, all day. : {
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Indiana Hist Conference, joint state Heeting of historical societies, Lincoln and
3y000 ] all day. 2 ‘Indiana’ | Society of Professional Engineers, meeting and dinner. Claypool Hotel. afternoon and night. t diana [Intercollegiate Coaches, meeting. Claypool -Hotel, 4 p. m. b Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington. no i ‘Kappa
n, noon, \ | Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, n |
on. i A Sigma, luncheon, Hotel Washing-
* Girls
DEATHS
carcinoma.
l. Frank Warner, cerebral hemorrhage.
| BEdwar chronic nephritis.
|. John L § bronchial-pneumonia. rbara M. BO
| Ba 50, land, cerebral hemorr
age myocarditis.
br 1 homortha e sete! ral hemorrhage. nell. cerebral hemorrh
ry
rion, 2 hemostasis.
Frank Shaw, compensation Willie thrombosi
Earl, Gladys Allen, at 812 Parkw solestle. Virginia Rosselle, at 801 S.. ‘Mis-
- fol0seph, Rosara Thurman, at 423 N. Caligen. Freda Moreland, at 1416 BrookHenry, Fannie Snodgrass, at 1222 W.
Guy, Pauline Lottis, at 1421 N. Warman.
Sale of 1938 Auto Tags Opens
In Indiana, he said, the plan was found highly successful, permitting real estate tax reductions up to 60 per cent and accumulating approximately $24,000,000 in the State Treasury in comparison with a deficit prior to the regime of Governor
Carry L. Chambers, 53, at 2920 Hillside, 46, at 2021 Singleton, d J. Hartzer. 44, at Veterans, . Norwood, 89, at 1834 E. 10th, at 3115 GraceThomas Bemis, 75, at 1119 N. Hamilton,
-| Mary H. Gambrel, 80, r ay BGs 80, at 3334 Graceland,
George Apo. 58, at 219 Bright, cereSalome Righter Taylor, 71, at Methodist, Wesley Gregory. 66, at 1539 Corge. {| .Mary An‘oinette Barton, ,23, - cent’s, acute pancreatisis, 75, at Si. Vin La. Ba days, at St. Vincent's, alvin G. Slagle, 50, at {| Sanatorium, COIonArY OO Jackson Long, cardiac de-
Cockrill, 40, at City. corona
Mrs. Marie Geraghty, the manufacturer’s third wife, who is contesting the suit. Mrs. O'Shea said she was given Precious Mary by a priest at a hospital on Chicago’s West Side.
DIES IN STATE PRISON
§ ‘ MICHIGAN CITY, Dec. 9 (U. P). —Jolan Curney, 74, sentenced to the State Prison last September from Dearborn County to 1 to 10 years for arson, died last night in the prison hospital of pneumonia. Curney was suffering from a broken hip when he entered the prison and never had
been out of the prison hospital.
tendent Scott Knoll estimated, and
heavy snows blocked roads in the
northeastern section of the county. Two State Police cars were stalled in drifts near Stillwell for several hours last night until they were extricated by snow plows. Logansport, reporting a low of 2 degrees above, was the next coldest spot in the state. Evansville, in the couthern section, reported 12 above. Michigan City and Goshen had lows: of 6 above while Terre Haute’s minimum was 10 above. Valparaiso reported 4 above. Snow blanketed” the entire state although the sun was shining in most areas.
Throughout
State. Tomorrow
| Indiana’s crimson and cream colored 1938 auto license plates will be placed on sale tomorrow at 176 offices in the State. : The deadline for use of 1937 plates will be midnight, Dec. 31, with arpests to start thereafter, Frank Finney, Motor Vehicle Bureau head,
sajd. n addition to the State House headquarters, there will be 20 branch offices in Marion County, and 155 others in the State where licenses can be purchased. Besides regular passenger car plates, there will be for sale truck and trailer plates, drivers’ licenses, truck weight tax tags and registration eard containers. The latter o were added to the list by acts { the 1937 Legislature. 3
emus United States ‘Weather Burean
Sunrise ...... 6:55 | Sunset
TEMPERATURE —Dec. 9, 1936—
see 4:20
OFFICIAL. WEATHER
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair and continued cold tonight and tomorrow: lowest temperature tonight about 4 above.
Containers Cost 25 Cents
| | The tard containers will be sold. Ly the State at 25 cents each and gre to be installed on windshields. Ifark Rodenbeck, of the Motor VeBicle Bureau, said the net profit for the State would be “less than $0 cents for each container.” : | The truck weight tax is to be colfected on the basis of the size of tires on the truck for which plates
ure bought. Under the amended drivers’ li-
To
tal precipitation Excess
MIDWEST WEATHER morrow, continued cold.
morrow: except mostl south portion; continued cold. Lower
ries exterme west an portions; continued col
tonight and tomorrow; flurries near Lake Erie. Kentucky—Increasing quite so cold tonight; occasional show in south portion.
possibly cloudiness,
Station. 30.12
noon. Reserve Officers’ Association, lunchepn, inet
Trade, noon
Board of . Phi a Theta, luncheon, Board of
Trade,
Olein Th
hets Pi, luncheon, Board! of soils National Poultry Exposition, irers’ Building, State Fair:
‘Also Scp Women’s Events, Page BIRTHS | 3 Sa : Boys Chester, Mary Hawkins, at 3408 8. 2 Ria, { Mary. ~Neidiinger, at
noon. 1 Delta Tau Delta, luncheon, Columbia |] 20) |
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Pre:ipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m..
$ not tomorrow. cloudy,
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Indiana—Generally fair tonight and to- |
Illinois—Generally fair tonight and tocloudy extreme Michigan—Much cloudiness to- |
night and tomorrow, probably snow flur- | extreme nor:h
Ohio—Partly cloudy and continued cold]: Snow
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT TA. M. Weather. Bar. Temp. 20. |.
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cense law, persons under 18 years or Ider persons applying for their first
53 [license will be required to take out ; beginners’ permits ‘only.
| Must Take Tests
'. Then the new drivers will be allowed to drive only if.a licenseed
driver is present. These .permits
are good for three months. At the end of that time, the ne wdriver is to apply for a beginners’ license and take special examinations. After one year’s trial, the driver can obtain a full-fledged license. “The department will keep a running record: of every licensed driver and motorist whose records: are bad will be required to take special examinations,” Mr. Rodenbeck said. A staff of 70 investigators will be maintained to conduct the examinations, he said. 3 Supervised by Legion Of the 20 brarch license officials in Marion County, three will be conducted by the American Legion. They will be located at 127 W. Market St., 12 W. Ohio St., and 930 N. Meridian St. Fees received at these
offices will be used by the Legion
for its various charities. The 17 other branches here will be conducted by City officials. The proceeds from these will be used to maintain the City’s soup kitchens for the needy. Chaufeurs’ licenses, dealers and bus plates can be purchased at the heaquarters office in the State House only. Beginners’ drive permits can be purchased at any of the branch offices except those in Marion County. : ¥
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