Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1938 — Page 3
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FRIDAY, FER, 4, 1058
CONGRESS PRESSURE GROWS ONF.D.R. FOR NEW SPENDING; DELAY SEENIN ADJOURNMENT
Antimonopoly Bills Expected to Go Over
Until Next Session;
Relief Measures
Face Bitter House Fight.
BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U. P.).—~Senator Glass (D. Va.) moved
in the Senate today to lay aside an appropriation bill.
the Antilynching Bill to take up
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (
U. P.).—An undercover cam-
paign to swing President Roosevelt to a renewed spending
program at the expense of W plans appeared likely today to
"hite House budget-balancing snarl prospects for a spring
adjournment of Congress. Influential Congressional factions already have sought to bring pressure on Mr, Roosevelt to resume heavy expenditures as the best method of overcoming the recession. The issue threatens to frustrate plans of many, legislators to get away early in ‘preparation for the 1938 election campaigns. Senate Majority Leader Barkley (MD. Ky.) expressed hope that adjournment would be possible early in May, but with legislative difficulties becoming daily more apparent, other Congressional veterans, including Minority Leader McNary (R. Ore), were convinced that June 1 or later was a more likely date. :
Monopoly Study Planned
The following important developments are noted: 1. Antimonopoly legislation almost certainly will be turned over to a group—possibly a joint committee of House and Senate—for study until next session, in the opinion of Congressional leaders. 2. Legislation providing for eventual abolition of bank holding companies probably will be enacted, in Senator Barkley's opinion, Senator Maloney (D. Conn) also expressed confidence a bill regulating over-the-counter securities trading would be passed. 3. Tax legislation, slow in getting before the House, will be a long task in the Senate. 4. The reliet appropriation bills face perhaps the bitterest if not the most important conflict of any legislation expected this session. Since the special session, a strong congressional faction has insisted upon sharp economies and reduction of spending in order to balance the budget. Generally, it has been encouraged by the President's attitude, but within the last few weeks, it was understood, Mr. Roosevelt had been besieged by strong Congressional New Dealers to open up the Federal purse even if additional taxation becomes necessary.
Burke Gives Up Hope Of NLRB Inquiry
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U. P).— Senator Burke (D. Neb.) admitted today that the chances of action at this session of Congress on his proposal to investigate the National Labor Relations Board were ‘‘very doubtful.”
Perkins Opposes
Maritime Bill Clause
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U, P).— Secretary of Labor Perkins, in a statement to the Senate Commerce Committee, today opposed the labor provisions of the maritime bill. Miss Perkins declined to comment | on testimony which she was to give | in executive session concerning a Labor Department inquiry into the citizenship status of Harry Bridges, West Coast C, 1. O. leader. “I say frankly that I think it would be a mistake to enact this bill or anythnig like it into law,” Miss Perkins said.
EIGHT INJURED BY AUTOS HERE
Three Are Killed in State; City Clerk Defends His Sticker System.
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was struck by a car driven by Philip H. McVicker, 23, Julietta, R. R. 10, Box 167, deputy sheriffs reported.
O’Neill Defends Sticker System
City Clerk Daniel J. O'Neill Jr. today termed as “very successful” his office's efforts in collecting traffic sticker fines. The Safety Board recently ordered drafted an ordinance which would place responsibility for the collec tions in the Police Department. The action was taken after Mr. O'Neill reported approximately $40,000 in fines were not collected last year, He said that while the collections were in the hands of the police in 1934, only $1680 was collected on 86,000 stickers issued compared with approximately $30,000 collected last year on 25,000 stickers. “However, if the Safety Board | wishes to place the responsibility on Police Chief Morrissey, it is all right with me,” Mr. O'Neill said. He claimed that no more than one-third of the sticker fines could be collected because a large number of cars are from outside Indianapolis and because many stickers are filled out improperly by the officers.” Collections have improved, he said, with the installation of a system whereby postcards are sent to those receiving stickers if they do not pay the fine in the 72-hour period the law allows. These postcards are sent out over the entire county and therefore are more effective than the old system of having the police check each sticker if the fine is not paid, he added. In 1935 when the postcards first were used, $10,209 was collected for the 53,816 stickers issued.
Waives Preliminary
Hearing in Car Case Marion F. Patton, 24, Louisville, who remained unidentified and unconscious in City Hospital for a week after an auto crash on U, S. Road 52, today waived preliminary hearing on Federal charges of Dyer Act violation, U. 8. Commissioner Howard 8S. Young held him for Federal Grand | Jury under $4500 bond. He was remanded to jail in default. He was charged with transporting from Louisville to Indiana the allegedly stolen car which figured in the crash on Highway 52 near 38th St. on Jan. 8 He claimed that he was not driving and that four others in the car fled after the crash.
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Beard Questions
Monroe Doctrine Forces U. S. to Strengthen Fleet, Is View.
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Roosevelt, however, the doctrine is a Pan-American affair rather than the sole job of the United States,
No Secrecy Possible
There can be no valid secret | agreements between the United States and foreign countries. To be valid, the Senate must concur by a two-thirds vote. Even the President's much-dis-cussed “quarantine” speech at Chicago contained nothing really new. He has never made any secret of | his intention to co-operate with the | postwar peace machinery as far as practicable. Four years ago he publicly stated that the United States would not stand in the way of what this country regarded as a legitimate international effort to discourage aggression. The Chicago speech was in line with that pronouncement. The geographical equation behind the request for a bigger Navy is more easily demonstrated.
Long Defense Line Cited
Naval needs depend largely on two factors: Coastline and the fleets of potential enemies. No informed critic questions the neces-
sity of backstopping the Monroe Doctrine. The area of our national defense, therefore, reaches from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, via Hawaii to Callao, Peru, in the Pacific; and from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Rio de Janeiro, in the Atlantic. From Alaska to Callao 1s 8246 miles. From St. John's to Rio is 6000 miles. That makes a total of more than 14,000 miles. On the other hand Japan, with China at her back, needs to face only one direction—the Pacific. The distance from Kamchatka to Formosa is barely 4000 miles.
SENTENCED IN IN HOLDUP
Times Speeinl LOGANSPORT, Feb. 4 -— Tim Whaley, 20, was sentenced to 1-to-10 vears in the State Reformatory in Circuit Court here today, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted holdup of David Elder, a grocer,
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record
County Deaths (To Date)
City Deaths (To Date)
(Feb, 3)
Accidents .... Injured
Reckless Driving 0
\ Running Preferential ii
Running Red Light
4 Drunken Drive
ing, 1
Others 16
MEETINGS TODAY
A. Recreation Committee, meeting, Hotel hy noon Indianapolis Press Assistants meeting, Severin Hotel, 8 p. m, Frigidaire, .luncheon, .Claypool Hotel, noon. Indiana Judges Association, dinner, Claypool Hotel, luncheon, Hotel Wash-
Di m, Exchange Club, ington, = Judges’ Association, dinner,
dia Clay ool “u . m, piim " t Club, or Sean: Columbia Chub,
Reserve Piticars oem, luncheon, Board of Trade, no Delt Thet Tau, meeting, Claypool | P
el Helin Bau Delta, luncheon, Columbia
Club, noon. Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, Town Tavern,
noon, Indiana Stamp Club, meeting, Hotel Lincoln, § m. Indiana Chapter, International Assoeiation of Electrical Inspaethrs, state conven. tion, Antlers Hotel, all Printeraft Club, dinner, ton, 6: h m, . Kappa Sigma, luncheon. Hotel Washing. on, hoon. Salesmen’s Club, luncheon. Hotel Washington, noon.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in @wames or addresses.)
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Union,
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Hote) Washing- | ¢ino
Helen Lee Sharp. 42, of 1 ans, Ni Mount St. Lawrence McClintock, 24, of 846 W. 30ih (iH Helen Apple, 23, of 310414 Sutherland
Siv r C, Gray Jr, 22 of 443 8, - born 8 Frances Estelle Brewer, Re bt Op eklte br Rites. 30°" of i431 Righieng: , er 0 q Gretchen, Gene Bren 34, of WN
Cubitol pee Ek Thedford, 32. of 513 Slate st Mildred Oliver, 3. of ot x:
Bm uel FP, Baker, 47, of Louisville, K Ruth Bruns. 36, of Hotel Linc oln. 8 L, Harris, 81, of 641 Ft, Wayne Avery Helen Vaughn. 24, of 3452 Kenwood
Edward Dunlop, 37. of 4044 N. Seunsylvania St.; Pearl Francis, 34, of 2263 Northwestern Ave. obert nw Suesz, 22. of 2622 B. 11th i dith wy ve, 18, of 1170 Qlive BL. RO ight, 22. of 1715 brane ? i Mi Tred Yioln Drinkut, 238, "ot R.. R. ‘Box 470 Indianapolis aesres ‘Burrus, 38, Ninth St. Marie ashington, 31, of 811 N. Califor nia St.
BIRTHS
Boys
Harry, Dorothy Dorman, at Methodi Cig Frances Shackleford, at Met hod
Roy C., Laura ki at St. Vincent's, Wayne, Helen McGlade, at Solemn. Homer, Jean Dixo , at Cotem Toney, Leone nd am, at Coleman, Robert, Magy Isley, at St. Franeis, rot Williams, 8t
al St, Jrahely,. "at 1141 fch-
at Robert, Helen Grim, any Ada Callahan, Girls
Orville Marthe Stevenson, at yy. Allen, Edith at 0 etho dis
sley, Her . “Marte Rose k, at ‘Me ‘thodist. argaret eS, at St. VinJosephine Arthur at St. Vine Elsie Vunkannon, at Bt. Vine
Proftitt, at 1725 Arrow, fers, at 435 Minerva.
t's. W. A, ocent's, Arve, en
Benty. Anna Arthur, Annie
DEATHS
Horace Bassett Hewitt, 66, at 3340 N. Meridian, coronary occlusion. Robert Humphreys, 80, at Methodist, arterioslerosi rat, 53, at City, cerebral apo-
Ties R. Neff, 73, at 48 N. Euclid, arror pro arence 0 Leet, 31, at Methodist, cere1 hemorrhage
usan Thu sone, Cerebral Tmo a Hokf, 73, at 1132 Oakland, car-
Rig Sn 82, at 12¢ N. Chester,
B ehronte lina ulin, $8, at Central In. inn orpitey. Saline DS ierstician nephri-
Ue uote Welch, 52, at Methodist, : Hzahern Schmitt, 65, at Methodist, oarPt Fields, 84, at City, chronic nephriSs Henry Meal ud) nt to% Union, cardio Mp ER RRan. , at 710 Towa, diaveg mellitus, General Goodwin, 49, at City, pulmonary De le Robert Jochim, 12, at 8. Retain, thir Fog Lou ise nekson Hunt, 7a, 20" N. ni-
nols, chron 0) melia L. ampe, 88, at 69 N. Irvington,
car-
98, at 911 N. Key- |,
fon Dees: Vasil, 67. at 2000 Draper,
Sophie “oseph Trefz, 70, at 1018 Villa,
caren So hte eine, Nn on 4006 Guilford, acute erstitial nevhrit arlott Oregor Bass, 35, at City, miliary tuberculosis. Ida A, Oraviord, 67, at 178 8,
Trauh, chronic myocarditis.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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INDIANAPOLIS FORFECAST-<Rain tonight or tomorrow; warmer,
Vive 6:51 | Sunset
late
Sunrise
TEMPERATURE “Feb. 4, 198% 1% Maan.
BAROMETER oe 30.40
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Precipitation 24 hrs, ending 7 Total precipitation Defictency
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Cloudy, rain beginning toflight or tomorrow; warmer except tomorrow extreme southwest
Tinois—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, rain probable; warmer tonight,
Lower Michigan—Cloud robably rain south and rain or snow % orth nn ih tonight or tomorrow, rising temperature.
Ohio-~Partly cloudy, slightly nimer in central and west portions tonight; tomorrow occasional rain and warmer. Kentucky--Increasing cloudiness and warmer; followed by rain in west portion tonight; tomorrow occasional rain, warmer in east portion.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.
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SENATOR TO MARRY
WASHINGTON, Feb. ¢ (U. P). —Senator Smathers (D. N. 3) to-
day disclosed for his mar-
beckon boys to the ever-fascinating game of kite
| with more
Miss Mary |
- Toe INDIANAPOLIS ™ES
Open Field Beckons Kite Fliers
brisk and both
Navy Policy;
Simms Cites F. D. R. Record
Defense Program Part of
National Policy, Writer Argues.
(Continued from Page One) ‘incidents’ and a war message. “Only a short time ago the Senate defied the President and voted
| down the proposition to join the
World Court, even with reservations
| strong enough to destroy its effec | tiveness.
That was about the mildest form of entanglement imaginable, but the Senate rejected it. Is the Senate now going to vote—without study, inquiry and probing—a naval program that means a new foreign policy and puts more instruments of entanglement into the President's hands? If so, it might as well abdicate and go home.”
Admiral Is Quoted
Several years ago, Dr. Beard said, Admiral Rodgers spoke the cold truth: “All navies relate to the national policies.” Then he cited the warning of the late Admiral Sims, delivered in a broadcast en May 8, 1935: “Our trade as a neutral must be at the risk of the traders, our Army and Navy must not be used to protect this trade. It is a choice of profits or peace. Our country must remain at peace.” “There is the business in a nut-
| shell,” Dr. Beard asserted. “Navies
are meaningless except in terms of foreign policy. Their size and composition depend entirely on the duty they are expected to perform. To vote money for battleships, cruisers, submarines, or any other kind of craft without knowing in advance whether they are to fight in American waters or European waters or Asiatic waters is simply nonsense, and every informed Navy man will admit it when away from the politicians. “Admiral Rodgers knew this. He said that for many years the national platforms of both parties in this country have mentioned an adequate Navy. They have not said adequate to what, so the Navy General Board has been obliged to find
| out what the Navy is to be ade-
quate to. Congress Should Ask
“Now it is up to Congress to find out what this new Navy demanded by President Roosevelt is to be adequate to. Is it for the defense of the American sphere of interest in this hemisphere? It is to be used in a war on Japan, singly or in conjunction with British aid? or is it to be employed in the English Channel helping to ‘quarantine’ undemocratic countries? Unless Congress is to hand the President a blank check it should find out for what foreign policy it is voting when it passes the naval bills.” “In considering the Far Eastern situation, to which naval policies are related, Congress should also heed Admiral Sims’ warning. The Navy must not be used to protect profit seekers in the war zone. Under every recognized principle of international law and practice, neutrals have no right to carry on trade ‘as usual’ in war zones where Melisa are fighting for their ives. “The Government of the United States did not guarantee safety during the Civil War to foreign travelers who wanted to see the sights 1n the South or to stay there selling goods to local merchants. For American citizens to insist on traveling to the war zones in China or on staying there to peddle oil and tobacco is preposterous, viewed in any light, and the blood of our soldiers and sailors should not be shed, as Admiral Sims declared, in their protection. No increase of the American Navy is needed for evacuating Americans from the war zones of China,
Safety in Mississippi
“I do not believe that American naval officers on their own motion would have framed up such a program for the defense of the United States. On this point we have some positive evidence. “Shortly after Admiral Sims delivered his address to the nation in 1935 a secret poll of American naval officers was taken on his proposal that the Navy should not protect traders in war zones, At least 130 admirals and captains replied and of that number 69 were for it without reservations, and only 39 were unqualifiedly agains$ it. The rest were non-commital. “Besides, Admiral Sims has been quoted as saying that the only safe place for American battleships in the next war will be far up the Mississippi River. They are essentially instruments of aggression, if any good at all, and to use the small number of them contemplated by the President's plan for aggression in the Far Pacific would be to court disaster. “Just ask any informed naval icer for the plain truth on such
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Times Photo.
flying. Spools of cord are unwound and Kites go higher and higher, seeking altitude records,
GIRL SLUGGEDIN HOME BY THIEF
Betty Williams Is Knocked |
Unconscious; Stores Are Robbed.
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An 18-year-old girl was knocked unconscious by a burglar in her home and an Indiana Ave. jeweler was threatened with shooting by a bandit in two holdups and three burglaries investigated by police today. Miss Betty Williams 18, of 951 N. LaSalle St, was slugged on the head and knocked unconscious by a burglar who entered the unlocked rear door of her home yesterday, she told police. She said the burglar ransacked the house during the 30 minutes sh2 was unconscious. Nothing was missing she told police. She received a bruise on the head.
Jewelry Store Robbed
An armed bandit who fired one shot, apparently to frighten his vietim, forced Albert C. Joss, 70, operator of a jewelry store at 348 Indiana Ave. into a rear room and robbed him of $9. The bandit started to tie Mr. Joss, the jeweler reported to police, when he was interrupted by customers entering the store and fled. A gunman who demanded a package of cigarets, robbed Delbo's Pharmacy, 3102 E. Washington St, of $7 last night. The bandit loitered in the store before displaying a gun and demanding money, Harold Rains, 186, of 27 N, Beville Ave, clerk, told police. Another clerk, George Steinberger, 31, of 927 N, Chester St, who was seated in a booth eating, was warned not to move, because “I don't want to hurt anyone.”
Apartments Looted Police believed the same thief looted two North Side apartments yesterday, stealing money, clothing and jewelry valued by the owners at $375. Returning home Iast night, Mrs, Adelaide Cohn, 25, of 3330 N. Meridian St, Apt. 305, an employee in the Marion County Recorder's office, found her apartment door forced open and a fur coat, other clothing, jewelry and household articles valued at more than $300 missing, she reported to police,
PRECIOUS MARY IS ADOPTED HERE
Action by Foster Mother Approved by Court,
(Continued from Page One) home with her new foster mother. The adoption was approved by Juvenile Court Judge John Geckler and Probate Court Judge Smiley Chambers. Mrs. Susan Geraghty testified that Precious Mary was the real daughter of John Geraghty. Precious Mary testified during the suit in Chicago that her mother was Irene Cramer, Mr. Geraghty's sec. ond wife. An associate of Mr. Geraghty in the Geraghty Button Manufacturing Co. testified at the trial that Mr. Geraghty told him he was not her father and that he took the child into his home at his wife's insistence.
LEVIATHAN AT SCOTLAND LONDON, Feb. 4 (U, P) The great liner Leviathan, on her “death voyage” to the scrap heap in Scotland, anchored a mile east of the Firth of Forth bridge, Lloyd's reported today from Dunfermline.
F.D.R. STUDIES 23 PROPOSALS OF ‘LITTLE MEN’
Many of Small Business Leaders Are Critical Of New Deal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U, P).— President Roosevelt today met in “constructive discussion” with small business leaders. He was reported to believe some of their recommendations could be carried out. The report on the meeting of the President and 12 representatives of the little businessmen's conference was made by White House Secretary Stephen T. Early. The group discussed various business recommendations — many of which were critical of the New Deal.
23 Proposals Made
The views of the meeting were submitted to Mr. Roosevelt in the form of 23 recommendations, comprising the subjects covered in more than 100 resolutions adopted before the conference adjourned yesterday. In reply to a suggestion that a permanent advisory committee be named to discuss little business problems with the Administration. Mr. Roosevelt said he did not wish to name such a committee, himself. The President suggested Fred Roth, chairman of the little business conference, discuss the proposal with Secretary of Commerce Roper. The little business suggestions proposed : That the American banking system be placed on a basis to enable it to make insured loans for necessary business purposes and establishment of a Government lending agency when financial institutions are unable or unwilling to provide such service. Modification or repeal of a wide field of New Deal acts including the capital gains tax, undivided profits tax, securities and exchange regulations and social security taxes, Mutual responsibility of employer and employee in labor agreements; investigation of the Na=tional Labor Relations Board; return of relief to localities. Government co-operation with business; an immediate campaign to stimulate business, slower social reform; cessation of Government competition with business; an antimonopoly drive,
CANTON BOMBED BY JAPANESE PLANES
50 Killed in Anti-Jewish Riot in Rumania.
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one that there had been an attempt to assassinate Mayor Chung Yuen-to, Information was most difficult to obtain because Chinese officials for the present had made themselves unapproachable,
British Arrest
Japs at Singapore SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, Feb. 4 (U, P.) =Police detained two Japanese today and seized documents they possessed, as maneuvers designed to test the strength of Great Britain's new hundrad million dollar Far FEastern Naval base reached a climactic phase, . It was said officially that the arrests were not connected with the maneuvers,
Japanese Cabinet
Meets War Council TOKYO, Feb. 4 (U. P.) =Political and military aspects of the Chinese hostilities were discussed today at a two-hour meeting between Cabinet members and memsbers of the Imperial headquarters, the supreme war council,
50 Injured in
Rumanian Riot BUCHAREST, Feb. 4 (U., P) = More than 50 members of the antiJewish Iron Guard and many policemen were injured last night in a riot at Ploesti. 40 miles north of Bucharest, dispatches said today.
BOB BURNS Sa AR
hardly pick up a paper nowadays without readin’ some solution on how to keep this country out of war. My idea would be to put war on strictly a business basis. If we see ft ain't a good deal, jest don't go into it. Up to how, every war has cost us more lives and money than we started out to save in the first
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place. It’s kinda like my Uncle Pud's pants. He said the only way he could keep ’em from frayin’ at the bottom was to cut 'em off at the knees,
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Big Cops Eject Little Man
Times-Acme Photo. A. 8. Shaffer, Philadelphia building contractor, struggles in the grasp of husky policemen as he is forcibly ejected from the conferenca of “little businessmen’ in the Department of Commerce Auditorium, Washington, after his noisy demands to be heard added to the uproar with which the conference got under way
Strauss STORE HOURS SATURDAY,
Says: 9AM to bP. M,
Wearington OVERCOATS and TOPCOATS«wcloarances and introductions, mostly to $25 values (some were 27.50 $15.75
some were 19.75) at
Neckties, quite a lot of them (and they're al fine)=<at HALF PRICE.
A large selection of 1.00 ties 50¢c 1.50 ties
Gloves, Pigskins, capes, goats and
suedes, sale price
$1.95
wire Lord Pepperell Shirts, collar-attached or neckband
style. Semi-annual salew
$1.45
Van Heusen Shirts, col attached, in a series of new stripes, $1.65
I/3 off on a number of very fine Shirts.
specially priced at
Mufflers, quite a large company. Silks and wools, at exactly HALF PRICE.
Among them are a lot of 1.00 mufflers at
50c
Fine Hats, somewhat more than a hundred priced for quick sellout at $2.95
Gentlemen's Oxfords, incuding
smooth calfskin and grains, special at
Shorts, that you'll enjoy. A large company of SHORTS made from good: looking fabrics and made well, at (Shirts also at 29¢, 4 for 1.00)