Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1938 — Page 1
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310DIEINU.S, 17 IN INDIANA ~ AS 1938 BEGINS
‘Hlinois Leads With 56 Dead; Hit-Run Car Fatally Injures Local Man.
DEPAUW STUDENT SHOT
Children Hurt in Crashes; Seven Pupils Killed in . Butler, Ind., Wreck.
NATION—Toll of violent deaths for New Year's week-end placed at 370 with traffic accidents . responsible for 222. ‘LOCAL —One man killed by hit- . nm driver and 11 others others injured over week-end. STATE—Seven school pupils killed in auto-train crash at Builer, Ind.; two women killed in:auto collision near Bluffton; farmer killed at Oakland City.
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: By United I Press’ : Traffic accidents, shootings,
poisonings and drownings -lock-stepped with the nation’s New Year's célebration bring‘ing sudden death to at least
370 persons. "The number of fatalities fell short of the 625 deaths recorded during the Christmas week-end. Traffic accidents took the greatest toll, accounting for 222 deaths. * Illinois led other states in total fatalities with 56. Twenty-three were caused by traffic accidents. Cook County (Chicago) alone re= ported 39 deaths. Five boys and two girls, all Ohio high school pupils, were killed when : their automobile crashed through a guard rail at a downtown Butler, Ind., crossing and was struck by a New York Central Railroad
passenger train, ; DePauw Student Shot
Alcohol. poisonings caused seven ‘ deaths in Ohio, and two at an in‘digent’s home in Des Moines. ~ Twenty persons died in New Eng- .... Ten of he. deaths were. ited to'one of the most severe’ blizzards in the section in two years, Dryden Northcott,” 19, orauw : - University. sophomore, was killed “accidentally at Lake Bluff, _ Il, when the rifle he was carrying discharged when ‘he slipped on icy steps near his home. + Young Mr. Northcott, son of J. E. Northcott, Swift & Co. official, died almost immediately before his parents, who were with him, could summon aid. State by state tabulations: Tree Mis.
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Killing Seven Pupils : BUTLER, Ind. Jan. 3 w. P).— - The deaths of seven Ohio students, killed last night when their auto‘mobile crashed through a crossing gate and was struck by a speeding ‘passenger train, were investigated today by Coroner O. B. Shook. He went to Hicksville and Edger- . ton, O,, to ascertain activities of the Es children before , they left’ their : ~ homes. to come here to a movie. - Speeding along a downtown street (Turn to Page Three)
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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 255
F orms Cabinet
RUMANIA GIVES 'FASCIST POWER
Carol’s Threat of Personal Dictatorship Stirs New European Crisis.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. — The Balkans, always a breeding ground of wars, have got away to a perfect start for 1938. A political crisis is in full swing in Rumania, and Europe
is atremble over the possible consequences.
VIENNA, Jan. 3 (U. P)— Mme. Magda Lupescu, redhaired beauty who has been King Carol's sweetheart for years and for whom he once renounced his right to the throne, is expected to leave Rumania soon for a long “vacation” in France, it is reported - here. The Jewish descent of Mme, Lupescu is the reason.
Rumania is going Fascist. King Carol, playboy occupant of the throne, may make himself dictator. An alliance with Germany and Italy isa ‘By the same token,
possibility. so is a rupture with France and Czechoslovakia. ~Straitied
with Soviet Russia, over Bessarabia,
{also are in prospect.
Such a turn of events: brings the world’s democracies face to face with a new danger. Up to the Christmas holidays, Rumania had been in the democratic column. Now she is deserting. The peril of the situation is due less to her size than to her geographical situation and her re-
| sources. She is a small country,
about the size of Arizona. Her population is less than 20 million. But she is a granary of Europe and is fabulously rich in oil. As grain-and oil are precisely what the war machines of Hitler and Mussolini need most, an entente between them and (Turn to Page Three)
{PORTER'S HEROISM
SAVES 5 FROM FIRE
Blaze Causes Heavy Damage at Seymour Hotel.
SEYMOUR, Ind, Jan. 3 (U.P.).— Five persons escaped injury because of the heroism of a Negro porter early today when fire swept through the third floor of the Lynn Hotel in downtown Seymour, causing several thousand dollars damage. The porter, Booker T. Ford, discovered the fire shortly after midnight, aroused all the guests, led four of them to safety over the roof of an adjoining building and directed a fifth through a wall of gg e gu who escaped in their night clothing from the blaze were Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Hardy of Seymour, Hugh C. Mitchell and his daughter, Josephine, of Frankfott, Mich., and J. T. Ferris of Champaign, Ti Ford a hed death or severe injury when he slipped from the top of the adjoining building. He clutched the side as he was about to fall to the alley 75 feet below. He dragged himself back to safety and then obtained a ladder over which the four guests could escape. Ford then returned to the burning building and directed Ferris to freedom.
[FRANCO HURLS GIANT ARMY ON
TERUEL FRONT
Snow-Covered Battlefield Scene of Bitter Drive: Against st City.
TANKS SLITHER ON ICE
Troops Flounder as Planes And Cannons Pound Weary + Ranks.
HENDAYE, French-Spanish Fron- ||.
tier, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—The battle for Teruel reached its final stage today. Spanish Rebels, seeking not only to recapture the city but to shatter the Loyalist Army, hurled an army of almost World War propergions at the Loyalist lines. It was one of the most terrible of battles. A heavy storm had covered
‘| the. battlefield with from three to
four feet of snow. Under the snow were the bodies of thousands of men, killed in action or, helplessly wounded, frozen to death in the near-zero weather. In the snow floundered scores of thousands of men, under the constant fire of hundreds of cannon and great fleets of fiighting airplanes whose shells, bombs and bullets splotched the clean white snow with the blood of victims.
Reports Disagree
On the roads to the rear, tanks, |
armored cars and supply trains slithered in the ice on their way to the front, endangering their own men on each side of the highways— orie: line straggling back, exhausted, dirty, bearded, the other on: the way to carry on the fight to aifinish. As was the cese when®the Loyalists -in a surprise offénsive took Teruel two weeks ago, reports from Rebel and Loyalist sides’ disagreed. Both sides claimed possession of the city. The fact seemed to be that, while Gen. Franco's troops had
reached : the city proper, they. had}
not taken it or rescued the : small garrison which has held out tenaciously. Nevertheless the Rebels now were definitely on the offensive, they had thrown back the Loyalists at key points: and: they were confident that
the city woultl be: theirs within a day % or two, “x
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“I hope for a sound, consistent (farm) measure which will keep administra thin ment expenditures in aid of Sgtiouliure
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not fall, and a Setiine beyond which the hours of industrial labor shall no, rise.”
“If you increase that purchasing | power for the farmers, and for
the industrial workers—especially for least of it today—you will increase the purchasing power of the final
“Our goal, our objective, is to raise it (the nation’s purchasing power) to ninety or one hunted billion dollars. y”
. . While proven (tax) hardships should be corrected, they should not ‘be corrected in such a way as to restore abuses already “terminated or to shift a greater burden to the less fortunate. »
“Capital is essential; reasonable earnin, tial, but misuse of the powers of: capital or selfish suspension of the employment of capital must be ended, or the eapitalistie system will destroy itself through its own abuses.” »
ufid of operating efficiency, but have
the business of the nation provided the component parts of business’ abandon practices which do net belong to this .day and age, and 8s appropriate to the times” -
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were expected to leave at once for :
Teruel.
Chiang Gives Up Civil Powers
SHANGHAI, Jan. 3 (U. P).—A new Chinese overnment, pledged fight against the:Japanese, re all political prisoners today, ordered an intensification ‘of guerrilla warfare, and opened an airplane bombing campaign against Japanese-held areas. One of the first acts of the Government, headed now by Dr. H. H. Kung as president of the Executive Yuan, or Cabinet and Finance Minister, was to order reformatories throughout China emptied. Prisoners in these institutions are almost all political prisoners, most of them Communists.
The principal effect of a change of government by which power was centralized and Gen. Chiang Kaishek, Army commander in chief, relinquished the Executive Yuan lead-
ership to his brother-in-law, Dr.
Kung, would be a more eMclent fight, Chinese asserted.
BANDITS TAKE 490 IN LOCAL ROBBERY
Hold Up N. Meridian St. Inn, Escape in ‘Auto.
Two bandits entered the Southern Barbeque and Cocktail Inn, 1820 N. Meridian St., shortly before noon today, held up Robert L. Dalson as he turned to serve them drinks, and escaped with $490 in cash. A third man waited in a car, Mr. Dalson told police. The two ordered drinks, he said, and when he turned to get them, one produced a small nickel-plated revolver and said: “Now, don’t say anything. We are just going to take your money.” The money was in a cash box at the bar. They pushed him into a lavatory, told him to stay there and then left, he told police.
2 Laurel Returns Bride to
Hollywood in iE :
1 HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3 w. PI Stan Laurel, the pickle-faced come~ | dian,
kissed a new wife goodby | when he left for work at his movie studio ‘today. She is Illiana, a comely Russian cafe dancer, with
| | whom he eloped to Yuma, Ariz.,
Saturday and whom he ' brought back tp Hollywood in a bageaee car to hide from his pursuing ors
Mrs. Virginia Laurel, the ex-wife,
was. ajust one jump behind the slop
Mr. Laurel's new bride came from |
Georgia. which in Russia is a province that once boasted: many
of Stalin. Her real name is Vera Inanove. Shuvalova. Mr. Laurel | spied her five weeks ago While he was auditioning singers for one of
his pictures. He is 46 and she is| 28. She is described as statuesque |
by Hollywood standards.
“Saturday afternoon, just about 24 |¢ Laurel got hi:
hours after his di-
New Utility Evaluation Basis Hinted in One Decision.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.) —Senator Norris (I. Neb.) I " lution for a far- - vestigation of the Tinuesses Valley authority. a
WASHINGTON, J: Fan. 3 (U. P)— Supreme Court action advanced the New Deal’s power and utilities program on three fronts today. One decision—validating Public Works Administration power grants and loaas —was hailed by the Administration as a major victory. The Supreme Court action came as the tribunal met in its initial session of the New Year. Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo was absent, due to illness. Court actions: ; Approved asi constitutional : PWA grants and loans to municipalities: for power projects. PWA Adminis trator Harold L. Ickes said the decision meant construction will start on 61 projects held up by Court injunctions. Opened a path toward possible overturn of the 39-year-old judicial theory that reproduction costs must be considered in evaluating utilities for rate purposes. President Roosevelt seeks to replace the reproduction cost theory with the prudent investment theory, as a move in a drive to lower power rates. Accepted for an expected early hearing the Electric Bond & Share Co. test of registration and mailban provisions of the 1935 Utilities Holding Company Act. ; The PWA decision was unanimous and was presented by Justice George Sutherland in tests brought by the ‘Alabama ‘and Duke Power Cos. It held the utilities were without grounds for complaint against the
‘power loan and grant program.
UNSETTLED WEATHER “FORECAST FOR CITY
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there 89 per. cent. | Es again the was shining. But the forecast tor tonight and
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Government Wins Money Paper Case Appealed From Here.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.)— The Supreme Court today formally |: affirmed a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals order ealling for further | proceedings in the Indiana Federal District. Court in the appeal of the Indianapolis = Water
lic Service Commission. The Court also reversed a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision setting aside the conviction of Ralph Raynon and Chet Fowler, Indianapolis, on charges of possessing paper suitable for making U. S. currency. The action in the water company case was indicated last week when, after hearing attorneys for the Commission, the tribunal refused to allow company attorneys to present their side of the case.
1932 Rates Involved
The Commission, on complaint of tHe City of Indianapolis, fixed new rates for the company in 1932. Following complex legal maneuvers, the company’s suit for an injunction finally was dismissed by the District Court, and the company appealed to the Circuit Court. That tribunal remanded the case for further proceedings, and the Commission appealed to the high court on the grounds the Circuit Court did not have jurisdiction to hear the company’s appeal. Justice Hugo L. Black dissented from the order, contending that the company’s suit ‘should be dismissed and the proposed rates approved. The majority opinion read by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, modified the Circuit Court's order for a retrial to provide expressly that the trial court. should take notice of how the rates have worked in actual practice during ‘pendency of the litigation and of economic changes consequent to promulgation of the rates.
Expects Case to Return
Mr. Justice Black notéd that ihe litigation had been pending for six
years. “At that rate,” he added, “this Ho art be back here in 1943.” Fié asserted thas he had Saretully udied the records in the case ‘and that “I do not see how it would be possible to establish confiscation from a record like that.” ‘Raynor and Fowler appealed their |
guing that the applicable Féderal
| ~ Teontrol ‘corporations engaged in in- | terst= te commerce.
Co. against | rates proposed by the Indiana Pub- |’
‘conviction to the Circuit, Court, ar- |
, were allied with the wrong side.
flattered the Church by calling it + the great conservative force, and} then called upon it to act as a police
Business on Strike Senator Minton Charges.
PUSHES ACTION
He Favors Licensing - Of Interstate - Corporations.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.— Senator Minton (D. Ind.) expects to call his Lobby Investigating . Committee together to plan an investigation of “capital's sit-down strike” he
announced today.
“I feel the same way as Interior Secretary Ickes and Assistant Attorney General Robert L. Jackson about business being on a strike, Senator Minton said. “The Lobby Investigating Committee will meet this week and discuss what can be done about it.” The junior Senator reported several instances of what he means by “capital sit-down strike” which he picked up in Indiana. “The. year of 1937 was a banner one in Indiana and: business still is good ior the mast part, despite the antiad ministration propagandists,” he continued. “I think this session of Congress will help business by modifying the undistributed profits tax so that about 80 per cent of the corporations will be exempt. “There undoubtedly will be changes made in the capital gains levy =2lso0.” A New Deal leader who may become 3 White House spokesman during the session, Senator Minton stated that he will favor passing of the O’Mahoney Bill to license and
“Ws tried * large unit control through the. NRA, but were thwarted by the Supreme Court,” he said. “If we are not going to be allowed to control monopolies I certainly agree with some of the Administration spokesmen that they should be broken up and competition restored that will stop the high price pegging’
BULLETIN
~ LINTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.).— ~ Disagreement . flared today between the Ben Lacer and Fred Chapman families over 3 financial settlement for the birth of a baby boy last week to 12-year-old’ Betty June Lacer ose father was 13-year-old Tommy Chapman. Mr. Chapman, who had been a2, friend of Mr. Lacer for years, said that he ha doffered $50 “in full settlement” to Mr. Lacer for the birth of the child. > Mr. Lacer, however, asserted that he had refused that ~ sum and had demanded that Mr. Chapman pay $50 now for the baby’s support and to make a similar payment: every year until ihe child'is 14.
CARDINAL MUNDELEIN ASKS LABOR JUSTICE
Chicago ‘Archdiocese Head + Deplores Exploitation.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—His Fminence, George Cardinal Mundelein, head of the Chicago archdiocese of the Catholic Church, today had condemned “selfish employers of labor who practice social injustice,” and called upon the laity and clergy to rally to the ballot box as a
| practical means of relieving the con-|
dition of the poor, ‘Speaking before 2500 members of ‘he Holy Name Society fast night, he urged strong organization to combat the various kinds of “isms,” and found fault with his own
church members for their inactivity | high.
in fighting such forces. His statements, clergy members’ said, reiterated his support of Administration attempts to rehabilitate the poor and relieve unemployment. | The Cardinal ‘is a close’ friend of | President. Roosevelt. “The trouble with the ‘Catholic Church in the past,” the Cardinal | said, “has been that we too oftenp
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To ASKED BY CUMMINGS
Request Is Supplemented by
Concurrent Report From Jackson.
BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.) ~Attorney General Cum- . mings today sent to Congress rules adopted by the U. S. Su- . preme Court for simplification of Federal district Sout procedure. : The rules were adop! after a two-year study by special committees named by the Court to co-operate with De- - partment of Justice officials. Two major changes in court procedure were included: 1. A single system of procedure for all ‘civil cases in Federal trial courts. Heretofore, each district court has been governed by rvles of the state in which it was located. 2. Combination of rules for legal and equity cases, establishing one form of action known as “civil action.”
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.)--The Administration shifted its fight against. monopolies ‘to Congress today as Attorney General Homer §. Cummings in his annual report called for new legislation “to bring the antitrust laws into harmony with present needs.” President Roosevelt will recom - mend “reconstruction” of existing antitrust statutes in a special message to be sent to Congress within a month or six weeks, his annu il message indicated today. Outline of proposed antitrust law lieved
withheld from today’s message prin= cipally because the Administration (Turn to Page Three)
133,136 STATE JOBLESS LISTED
1,822,912 File Cards Nation During Census, Report Shows.
(Editorial, Page 12)
Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.— The complete Indiana break- ° down on unemployment fig: ~ wres: Persons who, between - Nov. 16 and Nov. 20, registered! as totally unemployed andl wanting work, 133;136, of which 97,724 were males and 35/417 females. The total working at WPA, NYA, CCC or other: emergency work was 53,267, of which 47,865 were males and 5402 females,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.).— A Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed today that the bulk of indirect or “behind the nes” employment created by public works: construction went to heavy industries, some of which have been attacked
.| by the Administration recently for
alleged monopolistic trends. With a report by John D. Bijgers that 7,822,912 persons filed cards in the voluntary unemployment census, the analysis of Public’ Works Administration employment is exp:cted to play a major. role in Congress’ decision whether the jobless should be kept on the present relief setup, put on the doie or cared for through a revived PWA.
Cement Figures Given
The report, covering the four years ending June 30, 1937, slowed that of 1,337,000,000 man-hours in “behind -the lines” PWA en ployment, 611,000,000 man-hours went into the steel industry, which has been assailed for keeping pric:s too
The cement industry showed 116,000,000 man-hours of indirec; employment created by PWA crders, while lumber showed 129,000,000 man-hours, transportation, 114,000,000, and clay products 44,000,(00.
Last Saturday the Federal Trade!
Commission entered an.
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Asks More Revenue Without Higher Tax Rates.
"WORLD IS TENSE"
Plea Foreshadowed For New Naval Construction
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By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan, 8.— President © Roosevelt today abandoned hope of a balanced budget in the next fiscal year and in his annual message to Congress . sketched a fare reaching business, industrial, banking and labor program to increase national income and
purchasing power.
Reporting the world in a state of “high tension and disorder,” Mr, Roosevelt foreshadowed an early ré= quest for additional naval construce tion with a warning that “we must keep ourselves adequately strong in self-defense.” Conference Is Held oy Mr. Roosevelt condemned monope oly, and outlined a far reaching legislative program of business ree form; to be detailed in a later mes= sage, but asserted that capital and" reasonable earnings on capital are essential to our economy. A conference on the legislative program was held at the White House before the séssion began. i Mr. ‘Roosevelt conferred with
Speaker Bankhead (D. Aa) ajar Lender BAF Barkley D4
‘House Majority Leatier Tex.), and Vice. A ayburn Gi The two ‘houses — passe alter the brief: vacation which fo . lowed the special session—met in their respective chambers on the stroke of noon. Grave problems arising from a. ‘troubled world ;abroad and a busi=
the legislators as they met to hear Mr. Roosevelt's message, Which he delivered in person. The President deviated from his prépared text when he - substituted “national defense” for “self defense
-1in speaking of the need of kéeping
the nation “adequately strong in nae tiona] defense.” The “President got a big: Jhand when, in speaking of farm plans, he said it was “shameless misrepresen= tation” to call the New Deal's plans for “adequate reserves an economy of scarcity.” | “Misuse of the powers of capital or selfish suspension of the employment of capital. must be ended,” the President warned, “or the capitalis= tic system will destroy itself through its own abuses.” He estimated that “essential functions” of Government and provision for the destitute henceforth would maintain. Federal expenditures at approximately = $7,000,000,000 ane nually. Proposes Rise in Income Mr. Roosevelt proposed that this sum be raised, the budget ultimately balanced and the national debt reduced by increasing the nation’s taxable income under existing rates rather than by increasing tax sched« ules. He acknowledged desirability of “tax changes” for which business clamors but stipulated: : 1. Federal revenue shall not be decreased by revision. 8 2. Tax escape abuses must not be restored. 3. In changing tax laws which work definite hardship, “especially on the small business men,” specu= lative income shall not be favored over earned income.
New Deal program an urgency which ct by partial action.” He said economic conditions were fundamentally sound. He belie current business recession cal
| more perplexity than fear, in >
trast to “the terror and despair five years ago.” Dispositig of foreign affairs nine terse paragraphs critical nondemocratic states where is most greatly Roosevelt warned hat “stabl aL As actually {hreatened.”
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ness recession at. home ‘confronted 5