Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1938 — Page 3

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LINCOLN DAY TALKS MAY ASK 7" &0.P.SHAKELP DOWN SOUTH

N'NUTT BANQUET PLANS MADE

Aiken and Vandenberg Get Choice Positions for Addresses.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (TU. P.).—Proposals for a purge of Southern Republican committeemen looking toward a 1940 coalition with Conservative Democrats against the New Deal appeared likely today to develop from the week-end of Abraham Lincoln oratory scheduled by the G. 0. P.

Governor Aiken of Vermont and Senator Vandenberg (RK. Mich) have been given front center positions in the Republican commemoration of President Lincoln's birthday Feb. 12. Some 50 Republican orators will speak at meetings similar in organization to the Jackson

Day ceremonies sponsored last month by the Democratic National Committee. Senator Vandenberg, addressing the Middlesex Club in Boston, will be on the air coast-to-coast from 8 to 8:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). Governor Aiken will speak from 7:55 to 8:15 p. m. as principal guest of the National Republican Club of New York. Senator Vandenberg occupied the New York platform in 1936 Lincoln Day ceremonies when he was & likely choice of the Republican national convention for Presidential nomination. Former Governor Alfred M. Landon spoke there in 1937,

Proposes Change in South

Senator Vandenberg has touched occasionally on the coalition strategy of meeting New Deal competition for votes in 1940. But Governor Aiken has gone further in proposing reorganization of the party high command to persuade conservative Democrats to forget Southern traditions and support Republicans for state and Federal office. “The first demand,” Governor Aiken said Dec. 5, “is that at the earliest opportunity the national committee be purged of the baneful influence of the Southern committeemen who represent no one except themselves and their allied officeholders, past and present— mostly past. “Nourished on political patronage alone and used as a tool for controlling the party, this body of committee men is your organization's greatest liability. The character of their representation is such as to preclude any possibility of securing the cooperation of the millions of patriotic fellow-citizens south of the Potomac and the Ohio, and their prominence in party councils repels right-minded voters elsewhere.”

Rep. Halleck to Make Three G. 0. P. Speeches

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. T7.-—Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Indiana's sole Republican Congressman, is among the 50 G. O. P. leaders booked for Lincoln's Birthday addresses by the Republican National Committee, it was announced today. He will talk at Winchester, Ind, former Governor Goodrich’'s home town, on Thursday night; Coldwater, Mich., Friday night, and at a Lincoln Day dinner at South Bend Saturday night.

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2300 Expected to Attend Editorial Dinner on Feb. 19.

A capacity crowd of 2300 at the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association banquet Feb. 19 was forecast today by

man. Thus far, more than 700 tickets have been sold, whereas in past years the advance ticket sales never

be seated in the Riley Room of the

will be located, but a public address system will carry the speeches to dinners in other parts of the hotel. High Commissioner McNutt of the Philippines, who, with Governor Townsend, will head the list of speakers, will not leave Manila until Friday, but by taking a plane from San Francisco, will reach Indianapolis Feb. 18 or 19, Senator Minton (D. Ind.) has notified Jack Dolan, Hartford City, editorial association president, that he will attend, but Senator Van Nuys (D. Ind.) has not responded to his invitation. The Senators and Rep. Arthur H. Greenwood (D. Ind.) are scheduled for brief talks. Dick Heller, Governor Townsend's secretary and radio committee chairman, announced that the program will be broadcast over WIRE starting at 9 p. m. The editors will elect officers and adopt resolutions the afternoon preceding the banquet. At the same time, their wives will be entertained by Mrs. Townsend in the Governor's manion from 24D m

RECREATION COURSE STARTS ATY.M.C. A.

200 Youth Leaders Enroll In Second Institute.

Recreation supervisors from all sections of Indiana gathered here today for the second Recreation Training Institute at the Y. M. C. A, More than 200 youth leaders were registered for the discussions, designed to help correct juvenile delinguency. Sponsored by the National Recreation Association, the Institute will comprise a series of courses ranging from recreation administration to dramatics. Clarence Leroy Glenn of the National Association is director of the study courses.

March 1. Local social and welfare agencies are co-operating in the program. The honorary sponsoring committee mcluded elvic leaders headed by Governor Townsend and Mayor Boetcher. Hugh McK. Landon is chairman.

DR. TOWNSEND LOSES APPEAL WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (U.P.).=The U, S. Court of Appeals today upheld the conviction of Dr. Fran-

cis BE. Townsend, old age pension leader, on charges of contempt of a House committee investigating his

activities.

Ray E. Smith, ticket chair-

have exceeded 300 two days before | the dinner, he said. Only 650 can |

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The Institute will continue until be

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Prince Bernhard smiles at his little daughter, Princess

Times-Acme Telephoto. Beatrix,

born Jan. 31. Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands is her mother.

Harvey S. Firestone, 70, Dies

At Winter Estate in Florida

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venture failed, and Mr. Firestone got a job with his cousin, Clinton, a buggy manufacturer in Columbus, O. Quickly, he progressed from a bookkeeper's stool to a sales desk, then to an executive job in Detroit. When 27, he was already a Successful businessman, He married Isabelle Smith, Jackson, Mich, on Nov. 20, 1895. A few months after his marriage, his cousin's enterprise folded up. Harvey had $1000 in cash and an idea. His buggy-—the one he had used for demonstration rides—was the only four-wheeler in Detroit equipped with rubber tires.

Competition Threatened

He believed there was money to be made in selling rubber tires to buggy owners. A set cost him $14. He sold them for $40. A new firm known as the Rubber Tire Wheel Co, came into being, with book assets of $40,000, and threatened to drive Firestone out of business. But the Ford mass-production method became the Firestone Way. The Burroughs and Edison ideas of ¢reation of an American source of raw rubber became the Firestone jdea and Mr. Firestone was the first of the rubber barons to attempt large-scale growth of rubber in the Philippines and in Liberia, Africa. Mr. Firestone and his company had one million acres under lease in Li-

He was an innovator of industrial technique and many of the refinements that have made American tires one of the cheapest and long-est-wearing parts of an automobile were attributable to his keen interest in industrial improvement. Ford and Firestone seemed to go hand in hand. It was an early order from Ford, then branching out to make 2000 cars a day that made the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. first take on the stature of a greatness that was to come, Mr, Firestone, in his close control of his multimillion-dollar com-

pany, was a despot. But:-he was a paternalistic, benevolent despot in

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record County Deaths

City Deaths (To Date)

4 Reckless Driving

6 Running Preferential Street 1 Running Red Light

3 Drunken Drive ing, 6

MEETINGS TODAY te Bottlers’ Protectice Assoi. Hotel Severin, afternoon and evening. Butler University, banquet, Claypool Hotel, 6:30 p. m. Oh State Alumni, Washington, noon. Indianapolis Press Club, dinner, Press Club, 6 p. m.

luncheon, Hotel

Delta Theta Tau, meeting, Claypool Hotel. 2 p. m. Hub Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, oon.

Lions Club, hoard of directors luncheon, el Washington, noon, Building Owners and Managers, juncheon, Columbia Club, Toon,

Indi P ar Iv < luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon; meeting, In, Y Bionday Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

PR aiional Farm Loan Association, meeting, Hotel Washington, 1 .: Fy gral Yotormaiy Association, meeting, tel Severin, 8 p. m. Bie Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln,

NO Sdnnyside Guild. luncheon, Columbia

, noon. Wheeler A Rescue Mission, luncheon, ash on, noon wd Club, meeting,

blican seek Washington St., 8 Junto

Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Indtany meeting, rn

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is Association of Beauticians, DT Mhchton, Coita Ovsiton, Tincheon. Board of Trade, TOPs Omega, P Methodist Hospital, ijuncheon, Columbia Chi EB Epsilon, meeting, Hotel Lincoln, . Rorth Side Realtors, luncheon, Canary Cot , noon, Steel Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Central Labor Union, meeting, Plumbers

1, , TM. n bi ntia meeting, Columbia Club, 7:30

iim Phi Gamma, meeting, Hotel LinEp mm. i ree L Fis 3 CNR

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meeting, Hotel Lincoln, 8

MEETINGS TOMORROW Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

noon, Indianapolis Lawyers’ Association, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. wet r, Travel Study Club, meeting, .

n t: > > luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Alpha Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of

noon. Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel,

noon, Indianapolis Actuarial Club, dinner, Hotel Washington, 6 p. m. er Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Ci, noon. t Mich niversity o ichigan Club, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. lunene Purchasing Agents’ Association, lunch. eon, Athenacum. noon, Indianapolis Home Ruilders’ Association, dinner, Hoosier Athletic Club, 6:30 p. m, Indiana Farm Bureau, Juncheon and meeting, Hotel Washington, © a. Indiana Society, Indianapolis 15 p

lis Medical S Athletic Club, 8: MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records tm the County Court House. The Times,

therefore, is not responsible for errors in «ames or addresses.)

Jesse Murphy, 41, of 925 W. » : Alberta Duggins, 30, of 7% N. es ut oa ens, Ne 1447 Montoalm “ gne W, New York st s Garrett, 18, of T2¢ rtez cRard, 23, of 111% . vv Bonnie J, McLerran, 22, of 422 Yan oh Don nmin, Holthusen, 32. Chicago; Elizabeth Pope, 27, of 725 N, Pennsvivania St. William Clark, 25, of 848 8S, Penn. St.; Virginia Nickison, 30, of 901

Trade, Gyro

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uise omas, 26, of 705 N, t John Crainean, 24, of 1524 hori St. Audrey Hoover, 18, of 1821 W, Morris St. st Mea Tekin: 15 oF of Fone syivania St. I uy

————— BIRTHS Boys Farl, Frances Engelking, at 1242 8S. Iii ‘ Raymond, Stella Reddy. at 1036 W. MorEdward, Hester Waller, at 1317 Colum-

bia. George, Rosie Faulk, at 1520 S. Kappes ckham, Cora Flanery, at 1015 Orange. Maurice. Evelyn Locke. at 816 Lexinzton. John, Mildred Lynch, at 5 E. Tabor, Hors, Lenora Everett, at 3019 N. StaAlexander, Anna BP» - fontaine. : ¥ rnard, at 1943 Bell omer, Nora Lynn, 1754 Kelly. Arthur, Dorothy Kratz, at 961 Prospect. aries, Martha Martz, at 3822 Hout, ortes, Nora Welch, at 807 Chase. Elmer, Mildred Owens, at 777 W, Gath. Gayner, Helen Neal, at 2157 Avondale

ace. ovd, Adee Stone, at City. ohn, Margaret Payne, at City. ohn, Louise Moore, at ay.

. Ada Sears. at City. . Henrietta Wilson, at Coleman, B er . Sedella Mae Applegate, at Cole Joseph, Cora Jack. at Coleman. , Mary Strange, Sole an,

ory, at St. Francis. , Mary Cooper, at Methodist, Adrene, Mary Mitchner, at Arethod ist. ris honey. Margaret Taylor, at 12349 W.

peer: Matilda Hargraves, at 1511 Gim-

0, mm, at Coleman, igene, Ruby Nichols, at Coleman, Clarence, Mary Leet, at Si. cis. William, Viola Seetland. at Sta rancis. Tandill, Vesa Stethanoss, % ethodist. Harrison, Leon Collier, at Methodist.

DEATHS Ben Scholfield, 73, at Methodist, myocarditis. Michial Schneider, 88, at 6102 BE. Wash-

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Thomas, Bertha Hoover, at 1361 Pruitt. | Los

ety Soort So" at Sy. § rheumatic heart | re

Be Spratt, 57, at City, broncho-pneu-

monia, Fannie M. Roney, 85, at Methodist, cere~ bral hemorrhage. Sophia Marie Hodde, 60 .at 1138 N, Oxford, chronic myocarditis. Canida Hightshue, 79, at 2507 N. Gale,

carcinoma, H Meredith, 31, at Methodist,

oward streptoceic Septionemin. Mark T. Crunk, 9, at St, Vincent's, broncho-pneumonia, Wa Williams, 59, at Veterans, periEtta Packer, 54, at Long, intestinal obstruction, Donald May Bowman, 1, at Riley, mili ay tuberculosis, rank J. Turrell, 57, at 5358 N. Capitol, coronary occlusion, Isaac Graham, 69, at 5835 Broadway, cerebral hemorrhage. Arthur L. Cramp, 52, at Methodist, acute cholecystitis, . Nellie M. Gibson, 5, at 912 N. Hamilfon, acute myocarditis. Nannie Jameson, 62, at 1848'% Spann, mitral stenosis, Norman Walter Bray, 37, at City, rheumatic endocarditis, harles Irwin, 64, at City, bronchopneumonia. Daniel F. Bales, 52, at Central, general paralysis, Ralph E. Kennington, 42, at 711 Shelby, acute myocarditis, Peter Christian Moller, 81, at Methodist, arteriosclerosis. Flora Mathews, 83, at 5554 Broadway, lobar pneumonia, Cece In Walker, 80, at Central, cerebral

TN Durler, 80, at 331 N, : chronic myocarditis, Sm

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the eyes of those who accepted his views as their own. In Akron, he built community homes for workers, set up parks, loaned money to workers, set up systems by which workers could share in ownership of the giant he created. The Firestone company always was regarded as a “one-man show.” Through his own and his family’s holdings, Harvey Firestone controlled nearly a third of the total of Firestone Tire capital stock.

30,000 IN WPA FAGE LOSS OF JOBS HERE

Payroll to Be Cut Unless Funds Are Granted by May 1

Unless Congress passes a “sizeable deficiency appropriation,” Indiana WPA rolls must be cus by 30,000 workers by May 1, John K, Jennings, state WPA administrator said today. “A cut of 10,000 persons must be made by March 1, and another 20,000 by May 1 if the Indiana WPA is to remain within its present financial limitations,” Mr. Jennings said on his return from a conference with Howard ©. Hunter, assistant National WPA administrator, in Chicago. Administrators from 13 states attended the meeting.

NEW AIRPORT RADIO TO START NEXT WEEK

System Will Direct Traffic Over Landing Field.

The new radio control system to direct air traffic over Municipal Airport will be put into operation early next week, Nish Deinhart, superintendent, today advised the Works Board. The station, operating on a frequency of 278 kilocycles, is to be known as WIMA and will be directed by Luther Dillon, formerly of Eastern Airlines, The equipment is to include one sending station and four receiving sets. Three of these are to be tuned to various systems of the the three airlines using the port and the fourth to itinerant private fliers. The station is located on the roof of the administration building. The Works Board today accepted the $282 bid of the Hatfield Electric Co. to install a “standby” electric system or an emergency power line over Mars Hill into the airport. The action was taken to prevent any failure in the power system. It failed several month ago during a storm just after a plane had landed.

FLAGMAN, 62, KILLED IN FALL FROM TRAIN

NORTH VERNON, Feb, 7 (U, P). —Authorities today believed Alphonso F. Boone, 62, Cincinnati, O., a flagman on east-bound Baltimore & Ohio passenger train 12, fell from the rear of the train as it passed Nebraska, east of here. His body, the skull crushed, was found lying alongside the tracks,

BOB BURNS Says: H=ukYW 0D,

Feb. 7. — It inda makes you appreciate this old country of ours where we have free h when you read about some

of these dictator countries where

‘| they don’t dare express an opinion

to the law

BEGUN BY CITY

Six Motorists Who Ignored Tickets Arraigned in Municipal Court.

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Ave., where there are no sidewalks, Mrs. Georgia Crawford, 42, of 2437 Shriver Ave. received possible internal injuries when she was struck by an auto Saturday night. She was taken to City Hospital. Joe Lamb, 31, of 2440 Paris Ave, driver of the oar, told police his vision was blocked by another auto. Motorcycle Officer Fred Titus, 31, of 1001 Oollege Ave. Apt. 205, was taken to Oity Hospital Saturday night with an injured leg after his motorcycle had collided with an auto driven by Mrs. James Pierson, 47, of 4250 N. Illinois St. in front of her home. Dragged 30 feet by an auto which struck him as he was walking at N. New Jersey and E. Michijgan Sts, Leland Devault, 34, of 220=N. Illinois St., Apt. 127, was out and bruised. He was taken to City Hospital, The driver, Albert Spratt, 38, of 320 N. Sherman Drive, was arrested on charges of drunkenness, improper license plates and failing to carry a driver's license,

Double Funeral Set

For Crash Victims JASPER, Feb, 7 (U. P.) Double funeral services will be held at St. Joseph's Church here tomorrow for Miss Dorothy Schnaus, 30, Jasper music teacher, and her aunt, Miss

Theresa Haller, 50, who died Saturday in a New Albany hospital from injuries received in an automobile crash two miles south of Paoli on U, 8. 150. The women were riding with Mrs. Lum Wininger, 36, of French Lick, who was killed instantly, when an unidentified driver of a northpound oar apparently lost control on a curve and careened head-on into their machine, driven by Mrs. Wininger's husband.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. 7 (U. P.).=N. J. Schupp, 46, died in a hospital here last night from injuries received when he was struck by an automobile, His skull was fractured.

Safety Meetings at Schools Arranged

A series of public safety meetings to be held at Indianapolis public schools beginning Feb, 21 was being outlined today by Lieut. Lawrence MeCarty, Police Accident Prevention Bureau head. The first meeting is to be held at Washington High School Feb, 21.

CAPONE CONTESTS YEAR TAX TERM

WASHINGTON, Feb, 7 (U, P.) = Alphonse Capone, erstwhile Chicago gangster, today asked the Supreme Court to réview validity of a one-year sentence and $20,000 fine which he must fulfill on conclusion of the 11-year sentence he is now serving. Capone was convicted of failing to file returns and evading payment of income taxes from 1025 to 1929 inclusive. He is now serving that sentence at Alcatraz prison,

Times Photo.

James Stewart, 1101 Parker Ave, clerk, today related his experience with a bandit who held him up at the Haag Drug Store, 3302 E. 10th St. The bandit, pointing a gun at Mr, Stewart, commanded him to empty the cash into a sack. Menaced by the weapon, he did so. The holdup occurred Saturday night, (Story, Page 16.)

(50 TOSIGNUP AT LOCKEFIELD

First Group of Successful Applicants Notified Leases Are Ready.

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for public inspection from 2 to 8 p. m. week days and from 2 to 6 p. m. Sunday. He denied reports that shifting of 748 Negro families into the Gardens would create a serious housing vacancy here, Only definitely substandard dwellings would be vacated, he pointed out, adding that between 200 and 300 of the applicant families now are doubled up with other families.

Rents $18.70 to $28

“1 don’t see how there could be much of a housing vacancy,” he said, “when so many families come to me and say they can't find a house they can rent.” Under the reduced rent schedules, there will be 422 three-room apartment suites at from $18.70 to $21.70. Thirty-four three-room penthouse apartments will be available at $23.35. Also included are 195 apartment suites renting from $23.20 to $26.20, and 96 four-room apartments in group houses renting at from $25 to $28. The rent includes electric stoves and refrigerators, laundry rooms, storage space, metal cabinets and hardwood floors, together with playgrounds and nursery schools for children and recreational features and social rooms for adults, The Indianapolis Real Estate Board is studying replies to telegrams sent to 17 rental offices Friday asking “what current and ultimate effect will the simultaneous removel of about 700 famliles into Lockefield Gardens have on the local rental situation.”

Mahaney was held County Jail charged with murder. Loss of blood from a deep Knife wound in the neck caused Mr, Mooneyhan’s death in City Hospital Saturday night. Mahaney was arrested at the home of relatives several hours after the fight. Detectives quoted him as saying that the argument started in a poolroom and that, when he left to go to a nearby tavern, Mr. Mooneyhan followed. When Mahaney returned to the poolroom, Mr. Mooneyhan followed and the argument was resumed, police said. Seeking to avoid trouble, Mahaney told detectives, he left the poolroom a second time and again Mr, Mooneyhan followed. When they reached the sidewalk, detectives said Mahaney told them, Mr, Mooneyhan struck Mahaney, knocking him down, Getting up, Mahaney said he drew a knife from his pocket and slashed Mr, Mooneyhan, according to the alleged confession, then fled, When arested a knife covered with blood was found in Mahaney's possession, police said. Mr. Mooneyhan's body was sent to Fountainhead, Tenn. yesterday, for burial. He had no relatives here. Mahaney, a WPA worker, is married and has a 9-year-old daughter.

50 Are Questioned in Brooklyn Slayings

NEW YORK, Feb, 7 (U. P)~— Approximately 50 persons were questioned by police today in efforts to solve the sash-cord slaying of Mrs. Christina Oliveri, 24-year-old mother of two children, and Anthony Durante, 42, married and also the parent of two children. Their bodies were found yesterday stuffed into the rear of a parked automobile and covered with a piece of green oilcloth. Both had been missing since Jan, 28, and both had been strangled. They had been dead a week or longer. Mr. Durante’s wite, Catherine,

Poolroom Political Argument Blamed for Fatal Stabbing

Everett Mahaney, 34, of 653 Arbor Ave, today had confessed, police said, that he stabbed Luther Mooneyhan, 35, of 551 Holly Ave, to death during an “argument over politics” in front of a tavern at 1228 Oliver Ave. in Marions

Everett Mahaney

Oliveri told police that he knew that Mr. Durante “had been after my wife for a long time.”

Kills Mother of Two,

Ends Own Life

FORD CITY, Cal, Feb. 7 (U. P), ~Alfred Lang, who worked nights and permitted his wife to go danc-

ing with another man, was left today with two motherless children

‘and a tragedy at his little home in

the oil field. Because when he revoked his wife's privilege of going out, especially on nights when he was home, her dancing partner came and killed her, and himself. The slayer-suicide was Fred Freeman, 35. Mr. Lang and his wife both were 30. Freeman had taken Mrs. Betty

Lang to dances frequently, with her |

husband's permission, until last New Year's eve, when Mr. Lang said it must stop.

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FARMER RECOVERING

WARSAW, Feb. 7 (U. P.) —=Henry Schriner, 57, of near Warsaw, was reported recovering today from injuries suffered in a battle with an

enraged bull, The animal attacked Mr. Schriner as he moved bundles of corn fodder. In his attempt to escape. Mr, Sehriner slipped and fell, The bull set upon him, tossing him through an opening in a nearby fence. Schriner seized a club and struck the animal, bringing it to its knees, He then limped when he reached the house, .

JAPS MAY REPLY TO NAVAL NOTES

British Decree Wartime Secrecy in ‘Pirate’ Patrol,

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construct battleships such as these reports have mentioned,

Rebels Claim 92-Mile Advance

HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, Feb. 7 (U, P.) Spanish Rebels claimed their greatest victory in many weeks today in a mass offensive north of Teruel, key city on the

eastern front, They asserted they had gained more than 12 miles, killed 2000 Loyalists, taken 3000 prisoners, cut off a brigade headquarters and seized two artillery batteries, 100 machine guns, 300 rifles, trucks, an arms dump, mortars, one tank and fortification material,

Hitler to Make

Policy Statement

BERLIN, Feb, 7 (U.P) =Information was made available to the foreign press today that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, in his speech to the Reichstag on Feb, 20, is likely to make a strong statement on foreign affairs, “At the Reichstag session on Feb, 20,” it was declared, “the world will hear the Fuehrer’s voice more clearly than will perhaps be agree able to certain quarters abroad.”

American to Visit Mrs. Rubens Today

MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (U.P. Loy W. Henderson, American charg} d'affaires, was expected to visit Mrs, Ruth Marie RPubens today or tomorrow to confer with her regarding her arrest on charges of espionage, Permission was granted by the Soviet Government after a request from the State Department in Washington in accordance with an agreement between the two countries,

Chinese Report

Planes Destroyed

SHANGHAI Feb, 7 (U, P.) ~Chinese unofficial sources reported today that Chinese airplanes, in a raid on Nanking, destroyed 12 Japanese airplanes at the airport. This report followed assertions that an undetermined number of foreign airplanes had reached the Chinese Army, It was reported that 600 German and American motor trucks had passed through Canton last week on their way t othe Army, and that a number of American trucks were on the way, It was said also that Chinese authorities were trying to

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F.0.R, STUDIES WAY TO SPEED PAY-HOUR BILL

Leaders Fear Fatal Delay in Congress as House Holds Up Report.

By HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer 7. = The

WASHINGTON, Feb. Wage-Hour Bill is in danger of bee ing sidetracked again. The probe lem is being put up to President Roosevelt today. Chairman Mary T. Norton (D. N, J) of the House Labor Commitee has said her committee will not ack

on the bill until “after the approp= riation bills are out of the way'== six or eight weeks hence. By that time Congress will be getting ready to adjourn early, as is usual in elece tion years. House liberals, alarmed, hope to persuade the President to bring enough direct pressure to get action on the measure.

Leaders Tear Delay

Mrs. Norton's refusal to sponsor 8 discharge petition to get the bill over the hurdle of the Rules Come mittee, as she did last year, is ane other cause of concern among the bill's advocates.

Both Rep. Norton and the House leadership have been saying they were confident the bill would be passed this session, but labor and liberal members are fearful that delay will prove fatal,

In addition, Mrs. Norton now says it will be necessary to “revise” the measure before bringing it out. She does not say what lines the ree vision would follow. Rep. Arthur Healey (D. Mass.) has reassembled his unofficial steering committee which led the fight for the Wage-Hour Bill last year, and this group is discussing the situa= tion with Mr. Roosevelt today.

Recession Is Factor

After a White House visit Friday, Mrs. Norton, who had been absent from Washington for two weeks res covering from a cold, announced the further postponement. She also said that under no condition would she resort to a discharge petition as she did last fall, She thinks the Rules Committee will not block the bill this time, Some economists are raising the question whether the bill could be put into operation successfully dure ing a business recession, The mease ure is supposed to improve the pay standards of three million workers now existing at marginal and sub marginal levels. In many cases it would increase immediate labor costs to distressed employers, many of whom might resist its enforcement, It is pointed out that the bill's prow visions would not be made effective for six months or more, by which time the economic picture may be brighter,

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Farm Bill Threatens

New Congress Row

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (U, P) == House and Senate conferees on the Administration's Farm Bill will present a revised eorop control measure to Congress today after more than a month of conference debate. Final consideration of the bill threatened to precipitate another controversy in both houses. A bloe of Western Congressmen, headed by Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) op= posed it, contending the measure would bring new competition to cattle-grazing states. Sponsors of the farm bill predicte ed early approval of the report made hy Chairman Smith (D, 8, C.) and Marvin Jones (D. Tex.) of the Sen nte and House agricultural commit tees, The conferees, Senator O'Mahoney said, lessened effectiveness of the “ever-normal”’ granary provisions of the bill in an effort to obtain price stabilization though controlled proe duction of wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco. The ever-normal granary provision of the original bill was modified by elimination of a discretionary power given the Secretary of Agri culture to order stored 20 per cent of any commodity produced under the program, The revised bill pro vides that the ever-normal granary stocks be comprised only of come modities stored under wheat ine surance and crop loan provisions of the bill,

ish and American trucks apparently approaching China by steamship. There were many reports that China has received important quanstities of munitions, A small Chiness newspaper here asserted that the Government had recently imported 100 million dollars’ worth of mus nitions, mainly from Czechoslovakia, and thus was assured of munitions sufficient for a year's campaign, However, as the newspaper has no correspondents outside Shanghai, its assertion was not regarded as authoritative, Military authorities of Great Szechuan Province in Western Ohina have protested against the appointment of Gen. Chang Chun, National Military Council secretary, as provisional governor and have threatened hostilities unless he is removed, it was reported today. A dispatch from Hankow said that the National Government was likely to grant the demand of provincial authorities and that there was believed little chance of hos

insure prompt delivery of 3400 Brit-

tilities.

Women prefer the trolleys

oping, business calls or trips to the bridge club, ‘bothersome parking and dangerous traffic driving. fhe Hrolleys are the most economical form of trans.

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