Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1937 — Page 1

“VOLUME #—-NUMBER 251

368i BUSINESS IS ON STRIKE, | SAYS JACKSON _

Charges Recession Being Used to ‘Liquidate’ New Deal.

HINTED AS CANDIDATE

Cummings Denies Opposi- |

tion to Federal Corporation ~ Licensing Bill.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29

(U. P.).—The Administration |

today broadened its drive against monopolies on three fronts. ? 1. Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson charged at Philadelphia that big business is conducting a general strike of capital to coerce political action. He as-

serted “big business” is seizing “up- | on the recession to liquidate the; :

New Desl.” 2. Attorney General Homer 8S. Cummings announced that reports

- he is opposed to the O’Mahoney-| 2

Borah bill for Federal licensing of corporations - are “incorrect.” Although warning not to interpret his statement that he favors the measure, Mr. Cummings said licensing is “one of the most potent of administrative weapons.” 3. Secrefary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper gave “good business” the reassurance it has nothing to fear from the New Deal, but described the practices of “evil monopolies” as obnoxious.

The renewed antitrust drive fol- |

lowed reports from a source close to the Administration that President Roosevelt has expressed approval of Federal licensing of interstate corporations but met with opposition from some members of his Cabinet.

Split Emphasized

The development emphasized 2 sharp split in Administration ranks over the weapons on Ls broad campaign aga . whieh ‘Mr. Roosevelt is. Rein to suguraie at the. tegular session

: of Dunes den brought. up. the “Federal licensing bill sponsored By Senator O'Mahoney (D. D. Wyo) and Senator Borah (R. Ida.) at a recent cabinet meeting. “T am for the principle,” he was quoted as saying, “but I don't think it goes far enough.”

Warns of Socialism

Reiterating charges of trust manipulation, Mr. Jackson warned that “private -regimentation” of finance, industry and commerce, if not checked, will lead inevitably io political socialism. “Certain groups of big business have now seized upon a recession in our prosperity to “liquidate the New Deal and to throw off- all governmental interference with their incorporated initiative and their ‘aristocratic anarchy,’ ” Mr. Jackson (Turn to Page Three) :

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NEW MICHIGAN ST. BRIDGE REQUESTED

' A delegation of 25 persons from the Tibbs Avenue and Eagle Creek Civic League today appeared before the County Commissioners. and sequested. a new bridge in the 3900 Block. W. Michigan St. Paul Leiske, League vice president, termed the present 40-year-old span as -“d and a traffic hazard because it provides for only one-way “me he Commission id th e ors sa ey were law from issuing bonds to Peverted e bridge, except in an emergency, but will ask the City and County engineers ' to inspect the span and determine the amount of fepeire which are necessary. Leiske said that -the delezaor also would appear before the Work Board and make a similar : request.

hl HREAT OF STRIKE

NEW YORK," Dec. 29 (U. P.y— The threat of a truck drivers’ strike today caused a ‘stoppage of the scale of grade “B” bottled milk by independent ilk companies in market lan sponsored by the city because of eh milk prices. - Officials of the Milk Wagon Drivers’ Union warned all independents that drivers would be struck if the dairy companies continued the practice. They contended union contracts were being violated. Mayor F. H. Ia Guardia made futile efforts to have the 9-cent sale continued but only one or two dairies

dareq the union ban.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

* Industry, Chicago, the Advancement of Science.

impulses in Many Animals Are Similar as Death

By WATSON DAVIS (Copyright, 1937. by Science Service) ‘The mysteries of life, death and consciousness have been probed by surgeon’s scalpel and electrical impulses in-the-prain-itself. The seat of human consciousness and with it the ability to speak is located in the brain’s artery in the left front side of the head, Dr. William H. . Thompson, Municipal University of Omaha, told the American Association for Advancement of Science here today after reviewing - heroic. operations performed b ‘brain surgeons. Amazingly large amounts of a person’s brain can be removed if necessary without seemingly affecting his ability to lead a normal life and carry on his business. The right cerebral hemisphere of the brain, for instance, has been removed with no observable permanent loss of the higher mental processes. Surgeon’s knives have whittled away other portions of human grey matter previously thought essential in the control of mental functions. And the patients : (Turn to Page Nine)

COMMISSIONERS LET COUNTY CONTRACTS

Estimated at Ne: at Near $500,000; Burford Gets Printing.

Annual contracts for . Marion County’s supplies during 1938, estimated to total near $500,000, were let by County Commissioners today. The printing contract, largest single item amounting to about $100,000 annually, was awarded to the

William B. Burford Co. The Levy

Printing Co. was the only other bidder. The contract to furnish tar for county roads next year, estimated at about $50,000, was let to the Marvin Corp., representative of the Roley Tar and Chemical Co. -Oil and gasoline contracts were let to the. National Refining Co., Perine Oil Co. and the Campbell Oil Co. “The Capitol Milk Co. was dairy products to county institutions. The annual milk bill amounts to about $40,000. The hardware contract was given to-the W. J. Holliday Co.

ROBINSONS LINKED WITH. REVOLUTIONARY

CHICAGO, Dec. 29 (U. P.)~—The lost or. stolen papers of an aged Rusian revolutionary once charged with plotting against the Tsar were believed ' by Federal - agents today to hold: a posible clue to the identi-: ty of the mysterious “Donald L. Robinsons,” ‘held by Rusian secret police: on a spy charge.

lives ‘on a Gleason, Wis. farm — said his naturalization papers were

If this belief is true, it will be’

the second set of forged passports | in their hands. Earlier, State De- : * announced

5 Neges, Is Finding, . . |.

awarded the contract to furnish’

Christian Rudewitz, ¢who now |

“lost or stolen” four years ago when | be moved from Chicago to Gleason. |

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Times Photo.

“It’s this way,” says Dr. Phillip Fox (left), Museum of Science and between sessions of the American Association for “Yes, I see” (right), Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz.

Brain Sleep Suggested as Cause of Some Insanity

says Dr. C. O. Lampland

Changes in Wave Patterns "Are Recorded by

is saatigrvard BX Expert, Rega

(Ediforial, Page 12)

By DAVID DIETZ - « Times ‘Science = Editor

The possibility that certain forms of insanity may be the result of a: part, of the brain falling asleep was suggested today by a paper read before: the. American Association- for the Advancement of Science by Dr. Halowell Davis, Harvard University, one of the ration’s chief authorities upon’ brain. waves.

Dr. ‘Davis reported : experiments |

performed by himself and his colleagues 0 determine what changes took place in brain waves when a person fell asleep. These experiments have revealed the surprising fact that “apparently different ‘parts ‘of the brain may go to sleep separately and to different degrees,” Dr. Davis said. “It makes quite -meaningless any question .as to the exact moment at which "a Person falls asleep,” he added. But more surprising is ‘the possible relation between sleeping por-

tions of the brain and abnormal |

states’ of mind. “The electrical patterns of early sleep strikingly resemble those which we have seen in: some -patients who are psychotic ‘or otherwise abnormal,” Dr. Davis said. “Many abnormal conditions: may prove to depend upon general modifications of ‘{functien which are fundamentally similar to those of normal sleep. We are now investigating this possibility.” Waves Are Recorded

Brain .waves, . as. most = readers know, are electrical waves generated in the brain by the activity of the brain cells. They are recorded by attaching electrodes to the head.

Usually’ one needle-like ‘electrode is

stuck into the skin:on the top of the (Turn to Page Nine)

GREENFIELD UNDER;

RABIES ‘QUARANTINE

A: 120-clays rabies :quarantine ‘was ordered in Greenfield and . Center

| Township of Hancock County today

by. Dr. J. L.. Axby, State veterinarian. He ‘said there Had been a serious oubreak there, and that 21 Greenfield persons were taking Pasteur treatments. During the first 30 days, all dogs and. cats not. quarantined or on leashes will be destroyed, Dr Axby said. During the second 30-day: period, all animals vaccinated

FLEES PENAL

Police were informed today ‘that ||’ Harry Hatfield, 37, sentenced here last “on auto theft

September |charges, had escaped from the State | |

Penal F : 4 DIE IN QUAKE

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Half of Nation's Lobar Pacumonin Victims Might Be Saved by Serum, Science Association Is T old Herel

I Specialists Report; Laboring’ Classes Most Affected by Disease.

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Half of the nation’s lobar pneumonia , victims - “might be , saved through the serum treatment, 4 three New York special sts told the

vancement of Science here today. ‘They added = that pneumonia, rated third highest as a death dealing disease, is fatal among salesmen and clerks, laborers snd factory workers, four times more than it is among professional classes. Meanwhile, Dr. Ifrancis ® E.

Senear, University of Illinois Col-

lege. of Medicine, warned that “blood tests for syphilis in its later stages may give negative reactions in as ‘high as 20 to 30 per cent of infected persons.”

Professional Rate Lowest

Drs. Russell L. Cecil, Louis I. Dublin and Donald B. Armstrong of New York’ told the association that pneumonia has a lower nijortality rate among the professional occupational class than any other. . They conducted a study for eight years in 10 selected steites. Of their case histories, 13.5 per cent of unskilled workers died ¢f the disease compared to only 3.9 per cent of professional - workers. Agricultural workers were next lowest with a 4.3 per cent rating. The disease has a higher death rating among males than females and the excess is more marked in industrial than in agricultural states, they said. They pointed out the advantages of determining wheres the disease strikes most often, thfis giving time for more complete treatment and administration of serum as soon as the ailment is diagnosed. Pneumonia, they said, causes more deaths than any other diseases except the heart ailments and cancer.

Tests Not Always Positive

Dr. Senear told Association members that the famed Wasserman and other serclogic tests are not positive in all ctises of syphilis infection. Only in the early stages “} do bload : ‘ghost invariably

i “thi reports from

+ | différent Iaboratories examining the:

same specimen of b'ood may differ greatly due to the: fact that some laboratories - use -a more sensitive technique, » he said. “In some cases, when too sensitive a test is used the ‘reaction may indicate syphilis (Tum te Pag to Page Three) Three)

BULLETIN

RUSHVILLE, Ind.,’ Dec. 29 (U. P.) —Walter Cline of Martinsville, /Ill,, was burned to death today when the truck in which he ‘was riding with his

son, Robert, strick an abuttment on Road 52 near New Salem in Rush County, and caught fire. Robert, who is 16, suffered a broken leg. Cline was caught in the wreckage of the truck.

NEW SCHOOL TEXTS ‘WILL BE SELECTED

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New sont books for Indiana’s public schools will hi: adopted by the State Education Foard at a special meeting Feb. 4, State Superintendent Floyd I. McMurray, announced today. :

used before in Indiana schools will

economics and a third ‘on English, Mr. McMurray said. : The Attorney General's office ruled that the State Board’s adoption of text books would supercede any. local .board’s orders for change. No new books have been adopted for public schools since 1933.

(Other Stories onl Pages 9 and 11].

American ‘Association for the Ad-|

ive Siu the correct positive reactions, | ¢

New books that have never been | include a text. on biology, one on |

- Base in Hawaii, Build One on Coast.

BRITISH REJECT APOLOGY

Tsingtao Power Substation Bombed; Chinese Claim Victory.

accept Japanese Army’s éxplanation of gunboat bombing. LONDON—Newspaper reports Gov-. ernment has taken option on whole Canadian wheat crop in event of war.

Shansi counties, they: claim.

TSINGTAO—Main ‘electric substation dynamited. : WASHINGTON—Roosevelt rushes plans for better national defense as Congressional Bloes gird for controversy.

SAN DIEGO-—Navy hurries prepa~ ratio to strengthen Pearl Harbor base. Flight of 12 bombers to Hawaii is moved ahead.

four machine guns to 10 already mounted.

WASHINGTON; Dec. 29 (U. Par As President Roosevelt rushed plans today for increased national defens:

for a controversy onthe subject.

Departments revealed that the President, alarmed by world-wide unrest and particularly by the threatening international situation resulting | - from the armaments race and disregard of treaty obligations,” has given orders to press ‘rearmament

plans for the American fighting

forces-at all possible speed, regardless of budget-balancing ' requirements: or other domestic political considerations. These inquiries revealed that a Roosevelt Expects 4 to ask

appropriate wel over dollars for 1

“Phe Navy Supply Bill is: expected to call ‘for about $580,000,000, in addition to.-special: appropriations required for such extra warship construction as the President may request: - The Army Supply Bill probably will total $415,000,000. In ‘addition to both of these bills several deficiency supply bills are anticipated :

Economy advocates appeared likely to be the first to collide with whatever armament increases, the Administration may propose, but the so-called Senate neutrality bloc also was preparing for opposition.

Navy Hurries Plans

For Hawaiian Base-

SAN DIEGO. Cal., Dec. 29 (U.P). —The Navy today was making hurried plans to convert its Pearl Harbor fleet and airbase into an impregnable outpost in .the Pacific. The date for a scheduled flight of (Turn to Page Three)

GRAY SKIES TO STAY, IS BUREAU’S REPORT

TEMPERATURES

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Slightly warmer mer weather is forecast for tomorrow by the Weather Bureau with overcast skies to continue at least ‘another 24 hours. A light rain may accompany the unsettled conditions forecast” for ‘to-

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night, .the Bureau said.

Auditori um. : “Power ‘Resources,”

‘Murat Templ: Auditorium. Dr.

dinner.

Auditorium,

totum,

Amel om, tuncheon. .

rs WE a Today’s Science Program Symposiun. on: Science and Society, 4:30 p. m,, Central Shrine “by A.

_ “Capitel Resources,” by David Friday. Washington, D. C. A. A. A. §, and United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 8:15 p. m.

bridge; Mass., will speak on “Shakespeare and the Cri a Entertainment American Society for Horticulture Science, 6, Hotel Lincoln,

Phi Sigma Society, 6:30, Hotel Lincoln, dinner. American Nature Study Society, 6 ' Mathemalicians, 6:45, Marott Hotel, dinner. *' Physicists, 7, Indianapolis Athletic Club, dinner Zoologists, 7, Claypool Hotel, dinner. Entomolo sists, 6:30, Hotel Lincoln, dinner. Botanists 7, Columbia Club, dinner. TOMORROW = : : uiferan oon Seiciics. and Sodlety, 430.3. m. Contes! Shrine “Man Power,” hy Frederick Osborn, New York City. ‘ : Leotues to the General Publ, 8:16 3. m, Mutat Temp A :

“yoni nea Public Health Froblem.” J 5 on Entertainment. i: Science Teachers’ Associaton, 0, unt Metric Aasiciation, 12:30, Columbia: clu, tuncheon.*

A. Potter, Purdue University.

George Lyman itheedan) Cam-

6:30, Claypool Hotel, dinner.

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U. S. May Strengthen Naval

TOKYO—Great Britain -vefuses fo |

SHANGHAI—Chinese: recapture 16

CANTON—U. S. gunboat here adds|

‘| he could: not make their terms

| and falling wounded in battle, were

¥ ag; night fo a group of 100 news-

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Congressional lines: began forming | #

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‘partment of Air Commerce, was thirsty for coffee when he Se here id Nish. Dienhart, airport superintendent, is: looking on.

36 to Appeal S| Nine Bi in

B) ) The! 36 en convicted: of tere rorism_ and bombings: in the southern: Illinois coal fields were’ prepar:. ing; ‘today: for ‘immediate filing - of appeals” from their maximum sentences of four years each, imposed by ‘4 : Federal Judge ‘who regretted

longer... ; SALLY except two of the defendants were : ‘members of the Progressive Miners of: America, rebel offshoot of the ‘United: Mine. Workers of Amer= ica. ‘They. ‘were found : guilty. Dec. 18 by a Federal jury of interfering with ‘the U.S. Mails, interstate and foreign commerce. . . U.:S.: District Judge Chales A. Briggle sentenced each to two: years imprisonment and :a- fine of -$10,000 on the first count, and one year: and'‘a $5000 fine on each of the other counts; ~The sentences will rah concurrently. ;"Théy were. indicted as : ‘result of a five-year reign ‘of terror during'a conflict -with.the U. M. W. A, for union control of the mines.

PANAY 'NEWSREELS ARRIVE IN AMERICA 2

One: “Shown in Theaters: Other : Flown East.

On Pate 3 die fuk pictus. to arrive: in the United States of the Panay bombing.)

HOLLYWOOD, Dee. 29 (U. P)— Newsreel pictures of the attack on the LU. 8.. gunboat. Panay by Jap-

anese “fijers, showing: = American Navy ‘men: fighting for their lives

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shown to :the: public for the first time today in: Jos Angles thea Sheaters The pictures : provo! ‘horror. from' the few Ee tators: when they were first ‘shown

per’ ‘reporters and ‘employees of Fox Moretone co. ‘were taken by Eric Mayall, cameraman aboard the Panay, and wére brought to the United States yesterday aboard the: Clipper.

out and hundreds of thousands

DON MARQUIS,

AUTHOR, DEAD

Ee ie ‘Atchy the Cock

roach’ and ‘Mehitabel the Cat’ Was Long: lll.

NEW: YORK, Dec. 29 (U. P.).— Don Marquis, ; playwright and author: who created the characters of “Archy the Cockroach” and “Mehit-

able thelCat,” died today after a long illness which ‘started from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 59. An engaging and witty writer in all the fields in which he touched journalism; poetry, ¢¢lumning, play w righting and fiction—Mr. Marquis was stricken with paralysis two years ago. His condi ition became worse aft er his second wife, Marjorie Vonnegut, = died 8 year ago. Dr, A. March, his bhy-

severely ill pneuinonia- 13 years ago but.appesehtly recovered. : fered a period of blindness that lasted a few. weeks. In February, 1936, another hemorrhage -affected the speech and mor: centers of his brair; Friends were propaTing a benefit

‘| entertainment for him as his death

was announced, Earlier this year his sisters, the Misses Berenice and Virginia Marquis, mortgaged the Forest Hills home in which he died to 1neet medical expenses. They were ab his bedside when he died. -

CALL ON ARMY, NAVY ' IN PARISIAN STRIKE

PARIS, ‘Dec. 29 (U. P.).—The of | Popular Front Government of Pre- - | mier Camille: Chautemps, endangered by rapidly-spreading strikes which . tied : up public services in Paris, called on the Atmy and Navy tonight to break the movement. I; was estimated that nearly 150,00" “yorkers wére on strike. “Transport and municipal workers were of Parisians ‘were forced to walk.

iY lis t Dies of Injuries dh eceived in Auto Wreck

“ Charles aces Earinl she was i jor being the driver .of the car struck and killed Edward Jones, 65, of 110 N. Drexel Ave, at Linwood

In 1932, he swi-

Ww orks Board Delays:

Decision During Lease Talk.

| ACTION IS URGED

| Commerce Aid Asks Building Be Ready =~

By May 1.

The Works Board today dee layed signing a lease with the: Government for approximates ly 500 acres of land at Municipal Airport for establishs ment of an $800,000 radio experimental station pending a decision on type of materials which would be used in three runways. the City is to build.

Safety and Planning Division Die rector, U. S. Bureau of Air Com=merce, who came here to close the negotiations. “It's time we brought this all out of the talking stage and take legal steps to get construction underway,” the Commerce Department representative urged, He said he would remain in the city several days if necessary to sign the ground lease and close the deal. Mr, Gazley and C. R. Smith, American ‘Airlines, Inc., president, heralded establishment of the exe perimental center as increasing the city’s possibility of becoming the nation’s air and aviation manufacturing center. Proposal Outlined Under the: proposal, the City would lease land at the northwestern corner. of the mirport: to the Government for $1 a year, would erect. a $50,000 building and -build three runways; the Government would supply the equipment énd man the station. Of the $50,000 WPA would provide $20,000. and the City $30,000 through a bond issue. Mr. Gazley said the Government

of material for the runways, but that they must be of hard surface. He added that one or. part of it should be of such material that 'it would look like concrete at night. Nish Deinhart, Municipal Airport superintendent, suggested thatthe runaways might be made of gravel packed with clay, similar to those at the Terre Haute Airport. Asks May 1 Deadline Mr. Gazley informed the Board that the Government was eager to avoid any undue delay because. it has been ready to move the-equip-ment here for six months. He urged that the building be ready for occupancy by May 1. Mayor Boetcher replied that une der Indiana law, it would require two months to float the bond issue and he asked that the occupancy date be fixed for July 1, Mr. Gazley, -who had to come by train because planes were: cancelled out of Washington, stressed that “the station and necessary runways will be separate and apart from the airport proper and will in no way interfere with commercial aviation.” . He said he had inspected the Municipal Airport on previous visits and termed it “splendid.” Mr. Gazley said the station. would make Indianapolis a national aviation center and that it no doubt would lure to the City radio and aviation industries as well. as bringing numerous visitors from both ine dustries. Logical Selection, Smith Says” Mr. Smith also said that the stae tion would not interfere with come mercial flying. - His- telegram to the Works Board said: “Indianapolis Has ‘the finest nate ural approaches without hazards of any airport in the United: States.

is yet the aviation. manufacturing center of the country as plants are widely scattered. With his. start and the fine aviation ' you have in Indianapolis, you exe cellent chances of concentrating manufacturing there. “We can see no conflict on: the airport with private and transport operations for the reason that the Department of Commerce regulates both and will not permit its. active ities to interfere with other normal uses of the airport. : Meanwhile, a protest against: the project had been filed with Mayor Boetcher by Louis Schwitzer, loeal manufacturer, engineer and aviation enthusiast. He charged the station would “congest the air with exper= imental planes to the detriment of commercial ‘aviation.” --. ‘He -added that “if ‘necessary, XI will appeal to the court, for an injunction.”

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RICE ESTATE VALUE

The decision was made during a. conference with Richard C. Gazley,

did not specify any particular type .

This is a logical selection. No city

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