Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1938 — Page 1
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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 287
WOMAN IS
INDICTED
IN HIT-RUN DEATHS; BAD CURVE DOOMED
Mrs. Runyon Accused Of Failing to Halt After Crash.
HER CAR KILLED 2
Judge Warns Taxicab Drivers Fines Will Be Boosted.
Mrs. Mary Runyon, Plainfield, held in the hit-and-run traffic deaths of Noah Russell, 24, Bridgeport, and his 4-year-old daughter, Margaret, was indicted by the Marion County Grand Jury today on a charge of failing to stop
after an accident. Meanwhile, Municipal Judge John McNelis warned taxicab drivers “to obey City traffic ordinances or face higher penalties.” “Every day there are six or seven taxi drivers in court for some traffic offense,” Judge McNelis told John Robbins, 424 N. Delaware St, a taxicab driver arrested for making an illegal left turn. Should Know the Law “If anyone should know city ordinances, you should. You will force me to levy heavier fines, if the laws are not obeyed.” He fined Robbins $5 and 25 other drivers a total of $209. Seventeen others arrested overnight were to face charges this afternoon. Mr. Russell and his daughter were killed as they walked beside Road 40 near Bridgeport the night of Dec. 4, Mr. Russell was carrying Margaret in his arms. Mrs. Russell, carvying a younger child, was uninJured. Two days later, Mrs. Runyon, a State Health Board clerk, surrendered and was charged with murder by the coroner. She explained she was ‘driving slowly whefl something broke her windshield. She added that she drove to the next crossroad, turned around, drove slowly past the place where her windshield was broken, saw nothing and proceeded on her way. She said she decided to surrender when she read newspaper stories of the fatal accident, Husband Died in Crash In Municipal Court, the murder charge was reduced to involuntary manslaughter. She entered a plea of not guilty and was held for the Grand Jury. Mrs. Runyon's husband was killed in a traffic accident several years ago. Arthur MeKinsey, 59, of 4252 Rookwood Ave, was injured when the auto driven by his wife, Anna, collided with another car at Blue Ridge Road and Boulevard Place yesterday.
Auto Crash Costs Life Of Hitchhiker, 19
LINTON, Feb. 9 (U. P)—A coroner's investigation today revealed that Raymond Robbins, 19-year-old CCC ‘enrolee of the Shakamak State Park, died of a broken neck in an automobile accident last night. With a companion, Robbins had been picked up by Mr, and Mrs. Coordes of Terre Haute. A collision with an automobile driven by Rob-
ert Wiikes, 17, of Jasonville, threw
Robbins to the pavement, breaking his neck.
Traffic Accident
Records Held Essential William A. Evans, School Safety Director told Kiwanis Club mem-=-bers today that the Indianapolis safety program could not be a success “until accurate and complete traffic accident records are maintained.” “Records should be kept by traffic officials, as well as the schools,” he said.
Broken Back Fatal
To Accident Victim
WINCHESTER, Feb. 8 (U. P)—A broken back suffered in an automobile accident Sunday at Farmland was fatal today to John Fielder, 31, He died in a hospital later,
BANDITS GET $50,000 IN MIAMI BAR HOLDUP
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 9 (U. P)= Three bandits today held up the Arena Bar, one of Miami's bestknown drinking establishments, on Biscayne Blvd. broke open strongboxes and escaped with cash esti= mated at more than $50,000. It was known that some of the regular customers of the bar used the deposit boxes in which to keep cash and, occasionally, jewelry. Three bandits, each armed and unmasked, eld up nine employees and ohe customer.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (U. P.). The United States Steel Corp. today anhounced renewal of its contract with the Steel Workers Organ Committee of the Committee for Industrial Organiza
$18, 837 Is Is Voted for Right-of-Way to Underpass.
OBTAIN OPTIONS
U. S. to Give $250,000 For Elimination Of Hazard.
Elimination of the dangerous underpass curve at W. Washington St. and Road 40 appeared a step nearer today when the Works Board approved expenditure of $18,837.42 for purchase of land for rights-of-way at the site.
The State Highway Commission i
and City officials have been co-op-erating on the preject for nearly three years. The City Council must appropriate the money. The Federal Government has appropriated nearly $250,000 for the construction of a new underpass, new roadway and new bridges; all a part of project. Options on the land inside the City were obtained by the Highway Commission. The State is to spend approximately $20,000 for purchase of rights-of-way outside the city limits. Plans call for construction of a new underpass west of the present one; a new bridge over Big Eagle Creek and a new roadway between Little and Big Eagle Creeks.
WEIGHT LAW DODGED BY FARM TRACTORS
Jackson Rules They Are Not Liable to Levy.
Attorney General Omer Stokes Jackson today ruled that farm tractors, if used only to transport property incidental to farm operation, are not subject to the State truck weight tax law, The opinion was requested by Earl Crawford, State Highway Commission chairman, Mr, Jackson explained, however, that if tractors are used on the State highways in competition with other ‘commercial haulers they are subject to the tax. In another opinion he ruled that the State Highway Commission is responsible for the installation and maintenance of signal lights along State highways through cities and towns. Mr. Crawford requested this opinion after the Commission took control Jan. 21 of streets which are State highways in all cities and towns except Indianapolis.
State Loses Point In Truck Dispute
Buperior Court Judge Joseph Markey today overruled a demurrer filed by the State against the interstate truckers suit to prevent en-
forcement of the truck weight tax. The demurrer denied the suits allegation that the tax violates the State and Federal Constitutions. The action paves the way for a hearing on the suit, which seeks a permanent injunction. Judge Markey ordered the Attorney General's office and attorneys for Kenneth C. Foster Trucking Co. the plaintiff, to agree on a hearing date.
BOY KILLS PAL AS BOTH LEVEL RIFLES IN FUN
‘Didn’t Know Safety Catch Was Off,” Asserts High School Freshman.
PAIR HAD BEEN HUNTING
‘I’ Thought It Was an Act,’ Says Woman Who Saw Youth Collapse.
Donald Rusher, 16, of 546 Goodlet Ave. died today of a bullet wound in the head inflicted accidentally by a companion. Glenn iL 715 N. Sheffield Ave, 16-year-old Washington High School freshman, explained the gun discharged when he playfully pointed it at his friend late yesterday. “I thought the safety catch was on,” he said. The boys had Neo been shooting Don Rusher birds. Wright said they returned through a vacant lot at 506 Tomlinson St., and met 15-year-old Lenora Ferguson as she alighted from a Ben Davis High School bus. He said they began telling her of their afternoon's exploits and that “Rusher playfully lifted his rifle, aimed it at me and said ‘Don’t move, I have a bead on you.”
Woman Sees Boy Fall
Wright said he aimed his rifle at Rusher, believing the safety catch was fastened. The weapon suddenly discharged. Mrs. Jennie Ferguson, mother of Lenora, was watching from the porch of her home when the boy slumped to the ground. She told Deputy Sheriffs she thought the boy's fall was “just an act.” Mrs. Ferguson helped Wright carry the boy to the Ferguson porch, from which an ambulance took him to City Hospital. Wright was arraigned before Municipal Court Judge Charles Karabell today on a vagrancy charge. The case was continued to Feb. 18. He was released to his mother.
“Tt is hard to realize what has happened. Don was my best friend,” he said. “There's just nothing much to say, theres no way to explain.” Mr. and Mrs. Orval Rusher, the dead youth's parents, were at his bedside when he died at 3:17 a. m. today. Mrs. Rusher was reported near collapse at her home, The grief stricken father said “I'm sorry I gave the boy the gun for Christmas.”
Opposed Plea for Gun
“I didn’t want him to have a gun, but he wanted one. Now I feel like taking an acetylene torch and cutting the gun to pieces. Mr. Rusher is employed by the Hall Construction Co. Rusher was born in Indianapolis and lived here all his life. He attended Washington High School. Besides the parents he is survived by a 12-year-old brother, William, and a year old sister, Loretta; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Moll, Indianapolis, and another grandmother, Mrs. Benjamin Whisenand, Bloomington. : Funeral services are to be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Wald Funeral Home, 1637 N. Illinois St. Burial is to be in Floral Park.
FLYING BOAT CRASHES IN HARBOR, KILLING 8
MARSEILLES, France, Feb. 9 (U. P.)—A trans-Mediterranean seaplane skimming over the water at high speed crashed into a breakwater in the harbor today, killing eight of the 14 persons aboard, including the pilot. The plane burst into flames immediately after the crash, and sank quickly,
City to Give
Apartment
Owner Last Soot Warning
The Safety Board today ordered into its office for final warning an apartment house owner who has ignored orders of city smoke inspectors to reduce the amount of s00t pouring from his chimneys. The Board's action followed a report by Building Commissioner George R. Popp Ji. that repeated visits by smoke inspectors brought from the man “nothing but insults and surly answers.” The inspectors said they found smoke conditions at the building “terrible.” At the same time, the board asked the City 1 Department for a ruling on the rd’s powers, under the smoke ordinance, to punish wil= ful violators. The ordinance provides fines and jail sentences upon conviction of failure to comply with the smoke regulations, but Board members seek a clearer definition of its meaning, Theodore J. Dammeyer, Board president, who was scheduled to confer with the apartment owner, will report results of the conference at the Boards next meeting,
Meanwhile, Mr. Popp began reorganizing the WPA soot survey crew preparatory to resuming the city-wide soot tests abandoned six weeks ago when a WPA appropriation was exhausted. Mr. Popp was informed yesterday that a new project had approved in Washngton with a Federal grant of $0054, to be supple= mented by $2549 in city funds. The project is set up for empl SHIpIOy~ ment of 20 men six months, but Mr Popp said he may use a lesser num-= per in order to stretch the money over a Jonge period. Fourteen men comprised the former crew. The new funds will be available Feb. 26.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1938
Stork’s Path Is Cleared by Police Sirens
Mrs. Della Hendricks, 24, and her new 8-pound boy were reported “doing fine” today after a police car, with siren screaming, won by three minutes a race with the stork to City Hospital last night. At 9:55 p. m. Guy Hendricks, the father, rushed into Police Headquarters and told the desk lieutefant, “My wife is in a cab and is going to have a baby any minute-—I. don’t want to. get arrested— could I have a police escort.” Officers jumped into action and in less than a minute sirens were blaring and the race was under way. The baby was born 10 minutes later. Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks live at 708 Fletcher Ave.
HARRY E. SMITH DIES HERE AT 64
He Supervised Construction Of Many Buildings in Last 36 Years.
Harry E. Smith, Service Construction Co. building contractor here for 36
years, died at his home on the
Noblesville Road last night. He was | 64.
Funeral services are to be held at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Moore & Kirk Funeral Home, Burial is to be in Crown Hill. Mr. Smith, who had been ill of heart disease more than a year, had supervised construction of many large office and store buildings here, Born in Indianapolis, he became associated with the Bedford Stone & Construction Co. in 1901. Several
years later he was elevated to super-.
intendent of construction. In 1924 he joined the Service Construction Co. During his service with the Bedford company, Mr. Smith supervised the construction of the old William H. Block Co. building, the Circle Theater and Hotel Lincoln. Other construction jobs he supervised included the Kahn, Roosevelt, I. 8. Ayres & Co, and Century Buildings.
He was a member of the Hillside
Ohristian Ohurch, Scottish Rite, Murat Temple, Veritas Lodge, F. ahd A. M., and the Brightwood Lodge No. 655, I. O. O. F. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rose Anna Mae Smith; sons, Ernest and William, also associated with the service company; Omar and Harry Jr.; daughters, Mrs. Viola Mae Perling and Mrs. Myrtle Frances Monroe; a brother, Samuel Smith, and 19 grandchildren, all of Indianapolis.
BERLE APPOINTED ASSISTANT TO HULL
Roosevelt Sends Senate Name of Ex-‘Brain Truster.
WASHINGTON, Feb, 9 (U. P.)— President Roosevelt today submitted to the Benate the nomination of Adolf A. Berle Jr. of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of State. Mr. Berle is one of the early New Deal “brain trusters,” having worked with the President during the 1932 campaign with Raymond A. Moley, who at one time also was an Assistant Becretary of State. Until recently, Mr. Berle was City Chamberlain of the LaGuardia Administration in New York. Becretary of State ull said that Mr. Berle would take over the duties of former Assistant Secretary" of State Hugh Wilson, who was apDinted Ambassador to Germany. Wilson was concerned chiefly with European affairs during his tenure of office.
WILL KING AND QUEEN SEE DUKE IN PARIS?
LONDON, Feb. 9 (U. P.) —Britons speculated today on whether King George VI and Queen Elizabeth wquld see the Duke and Duchess of Windsor when they go to Paris on a state visit in June. ; Buckingham Palace officials an= anounced that the King and Queen had accepted the invitation of President Albert Lebrun of Oy to visit from June 28 to July 1 The Daily Mirror said that the Duke “will not be in Paris” during the royal visit.
TWO MEN INDICTED ON MURDER CHARGES
Two men were charged with first degree murder in indictments returned today by the Marion Coun= ty Grand Jury. William Owens Was indicted in connection with the fatal shooting of Bamuel Gant last Dec. 4, while James Woodard was indicted in the fatal atig of Catherine Heizer
Mr. Popp pointed out that ac- | Dee.
curate information on the soot deposit centers is necessary remedial steps can be taken, “Information gathered in a sur= vey lasting but a few months is of little use,” he said. “We must con= tinue our work at least a year and perhaps two.” He said ohe of the important phases of the soot campaign is edu= cating furnace users to proper stok= ing. uxt "i the complains have been adjusted when engineers dem= onstrated correct furhace
firing | beat
before PATIENT BURNED IN
OXYGEN TENT FIRE
NEW YORK, Feb, 0 ( “Feb. 9 (U. P)=Fire broke out last night in an o tent under which a patient was fon ing treated in an overcrowded tu= berculosis ward at Bellevue H
Other patients pulled Greene, 32, from the the biasing bed Shilo 8 une nl 3 mule atisngunt out the fire. Greene
superintendent and |.
JAPAN DRAFTS NAVAL REPLY, PRESSES WAR
Hull Again Denies Entente ® As Naval Bill Faces New Attacks.
SOVIET ALLIANCE ASKED &
War Profits Bill Rushed; Rumanian Fascists Quit Campaign.
TOKYO — News agency reports Japan will reply to British, French and American notes Friday and make a public statement asserting the inquiries as to its plans were unjustified.
SHANGHAI—Japan prepares for great offensive as Chinese claim recapture of two fewns., WASHINGTON —Secretary of State Hull again denies naval entente with England. Former Congresswoman and Dr. Charles A, Beard oppose naval increase, House pushes war profits bill. CHAPEL HILL, N. C.—Soviet Ambassador declares alliance between U. S., Great Britain and Russia is necessary to prevent new world war.
BUCHAREST—Fascist Tron Guards withdraw from election campaign.
TOKYO, Feb. 9 (U. P.). — The Government was reported today to be ready to reply to American, British and French notes asking reassurances as to Japan's naval build. ing program. Prince Fumimaro Xonoye, the Premier, conferred with Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, Navy Minister, and newspapers reported that the Premier approved, subject to possible changes in phraseology, a draft reply which naval experts had formulated. It was forecast that the Cabinet would consider the reply at a meeting tomorrow or Saturday and that then the notes would probably be forwarded to Washington, London and Paris,
There were reports that in her reply, Japan would say that she was not obligated to notify foreign powers regarding her building plans, but at the same time would offer to participate in a disarmament conferemee provided that thé question of total warship strength was ¢on= sidered.
Japan Prepares
‘Great Offensive’
BHANGHAI, Feb. 9 (U. P)— Japan is ready for the greatest offensive campaign since the beginning of the war in hope of inflicting such humiliating defeats on the Chinese "that the national Government will crumble, according to reports which reached foreign mili= tary experts today. These reports coincided with Japanese allegations of widespread disaffection in the Chinese forces and with unconfirmed rumors at Hongkong that the Chinese Government was seeking British mediation vo end the war. But from the Chinese side there was no evidence of a defeatist trend. ' Chinese sources said today that Chinese had recaptured Wuhu, up the Yangtse River from Nanking; that they had recaptured Waocheng, in the Pengpu sector of the central front, ahd that Chinese airplanes had heavily bombed Pengpu and Hwaiyuan, on the cen= tral front.
Hull Again Denies Entente With Britain
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P.)— Secretary of State Cordell Hull today said the world has the jitters because everybody in all countries is trying to talk at the same time on international matters without knowing what they are talking about, He made this comment in re= sponse to questions concerning a statement by Prof. Gilbert Murray in London that the British Government had assured the United States of support in event this country became involved in Far East difficul= ties which would threaten the United States. Secretary Hull said he had heard of no such assurances from Great Britain or from any other country, from officials or private individuals. Prof. Murray said that he was told on good authority that there were ‘confidential communications” petween Iondon and Washington few people knew anything about. Russia would also help, he said Meanwhile, Miss Jeannette Rankin, Natienal Council for Prevenvion of War legislative secretary, told the House Naval Affairs Committee that the “wholly abnormal” proposed U. 8. naval building program would speed the world toward war. Miss Rankin, first woman member of Congress and one of the small group of legislators who voted against U. 8. entry into the World War, urged the committee to with= hold approval of the proposed 20 per cent naval increase until “the demands can be judged on the basis of a declared policy of defense only.” Dr. Charles A. Beard, the histo= (Turn to Page Three)
VINCENNES IS GIVEN $270,000 FOR HOUSING
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P). =A total of $270,000 today was ear= marked for U. 8. Housing Authority te in Vincennes, Ind., Nathan , director, announced today. "amount was ineluded
Second-Class Matter Ind.
on tot? ce, Indianapolis,
He's 72 Today
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb. 9 (U. P).—George Ade, Indiana humorist, observed his 72d birthday quietly today at his winter home here. “I don’t feel a day over 90,” he joked.
HOUSE PASSES NEW FARM BILL
Republicans and Western Congressmen Fail to Stop Approval.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P.)— The House approved and sent to the Senate today the conference report on the farm bill, creating a long-range agricultural program to stabilize production and prices cof cotton, wheat, corn, rice and tobacco. The vote was 263 to 135. The program, among President Roosevelt's major legislative objectives since the special session was convened last year, was approved after bitter attack by Republicans and Western blocs fearful that the livestock industry would not be protected adequately and that the measure would result in agrarian regimentation. The measure was rewritten by conferees from the conflicting versions of President Roosevelt's No. 1 emergency legislation passed by the House and Senate in December. A “gag” rule required acceptance or rejection in whole and did not permit sending the report back to the conferees with specific instructions for revision. The Benate can consider the report immediately. It was possible the crop control legislation would receive final congressional action and go to President Roosevelt for signature by the end of the week. Hits at Surpluses Containing prircipally acreage control and, for bumper years, marketing quotas, the measure is designed to lift farm incomes toward the “parity” of the 1909 to 1914 period by preventing vice-depressing and surpluses. To protect consumers against price-jacking shortages and further pad the farmer’s income, there are modified ‘“ever-normal granary” provisions for storage of surpluses with loans to farmers, and a new Federal Crop Insurance Corp. to write insurance on the wheat yield and purchase the grain when neces= sary to assure a stable supply. The measure is based on the existing Soil Conservation Act and of= fers benefit payments to induce cooperation in a complicated system for control of production. As a new help to the small farmer, $50,000,000 of the $500,000,000 available annual= ly is earmarked to increase benefits to those who would otherwise receive less than $200.
Unchanged Under Gag Less stringent than the original
Benate bill but more than the House |p
bill passed in December, the pres= ent version ran through a bitter at= tack in the House yesterday un= changed under s “gag” rule which a any effort at modifica= tion. It was possible that strong efforts would be made in the Senate to restore the full force of the Boileau= McNary Amendment preventing use of soil-conserving crops on which Federal benefits are paid to feed dairy and meat animals and
poultry.
ROOSEVELT GIFT STOLEN
BOSTON, Feb. 9 (U. P.) —Presi= dent Roosevelt's personal secretary, Miss Marguerite A. Le Hand, was robbed of a diamond-pear] ring last Dec. 28, less than three days after she received it as a Christmas gift from the President, it was revealed today when police recovered it in a pawnshop here.
PRICE THREE CENTS
30,000 Facing Loss of | WPA Jobs in Indiana.
60,500 ON ROLLS
Jennings to Confer With Williams Tomorrow.
Indiana WPA Administrator John K. Jennings left for Washington this afternoon to seek additional funds to avoid the threatened dismissal of 30,000 Indiana WPA workers by May 1.
Mr. Jennings is to confer tomorrow with Aubrey L. Williams, acting WPA administrator, and other works relief officials. After a conference with administrators of 13 middlewestern states and WPA directors of the larger midwest cities Friday in Chicago, Mr. Jennings reported that heavy slashing of WPA payrolls is inevitable unless Congress passes a 5izable deficiency appropriation at once, Ten thousand workers would be dropped by March 1 and 20,000 more by May 1, he said. Indiana WPA rolls already are up to their maximum quota of 60,500 persons and no additional assignments to projects are being made.
BLIND ORGANIST OF S. BEND GETS BREAK
N. Y. Orchestra to Play His Symphony.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (U. P)— After long years of work and waiting, Carl Mathes, blind organ player in a South Bend, Ind. church, got his break today—the chance to emerge from the obscurity of the hometown choir loft. Next Tuesday Eugene Plotnikoff, a noted conductor will lead the New York Civie Orchestra in the first performance of Mathes’ symphonic suite, “Five Tone Pictures.” On the same program willl be music of Beethoven. Strauss, MacDowell and Enesco. Notified by the National Bureau for Blind Artists that his work would be played at the Federal Music Theater here, Mr. Mathes, at first
incredulous, replied: “I must confess that after seeing the indifference of my home town I was just about ready to give up; for I did not believe it would be possible to find any opening at all for the symphony. So you may imagine how your letter took me— for which, at present, all I can offer in return is a feeble but very sincere ‘thank you.” The music is believed to be the first modern symphony ever written a blind composer. The bureau Dy os that the New York Philharmonic Orchestra will play the suite Jater in the season.
A.F. OF L. DEMANDS PROFITS TAX REPEAL
(Editorial, Page 10)
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 8 (U. P)— The American Federation of Labor joined business groups today in a demand for amendment of the Federal tax laws to give industry a “preak.” The Federation, controlling one of the most powerful lobbies on Capitol Hill, ordered its legislative representatives to seek repeal or amendment of the two taxes considered most oppressive by business— the capital gains and the undis=
tributed profits taxes.
Capone in Strait-Jacket Following New Rampage
BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. § (U.P). =A] Capone was strapped in a madman’s strait-jacket on Alcatraz
Roek after his second rampage within a week, the San Francisco News said today. The newspaper said that the out= break occurred in the prison hos= pital wheie Capone, under observa= tion for paresis, suddenly leaped out of bed in a furious frenzy. “Six guards were required to sub= due him,” the account continued. “He fought with the terrific strength that comes only to madmen. “Now he is stretched inert on a prison hospital bed, his hands strapped to his sides ahd his legs pinioned, He will be kept this way until after a formal sanity hearing that has been se
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an innocuous idiot, making and unmaking his bed and occasionally singing Ttalian arias. Capone, America’s No. 1 gangster of the liquor racket era, and boss of Chicago's hoodlums, has become a maniac in the last year of his sentence on Aleatraz Island. The Department of Justice in Washington announced that Cas pone’s affliction would win him no favors. “He is still under observation, but the doctors have not made a defthe case,” the of=
F.D. R. MAY AM MORE AID FUNDS; HOOSIERS PLEAD
Estimates es D rafted To Fix Scope of Request.
MAYORS CLAMOR
Declare Extra Cash
Needed to Avert Chaos.
(Editorial, Page 10)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U, P.) .— President Roosevelt will ask Congress, probably this week, for a deficiency relief appropriation expected by au= thoritatiye sources to be $200,000,000 to $300,000,000.
A seoond Administration source said flatly that Mr, Roosevelt will request $250,000,000. This source said the President will send a letter outlining his recommendations to Speaker William B. Bankhead of the House tomorrow, Estimates on which the deficiency appropriation request will be asked are being prepared by Mr. Roosevelt and will be submitted in a day or two, Senate Majority Leader Barkley said after a White House cone= ference, In the House, Rep. John J. Coch= ran (D. Mo.) introduced a bill te repeal the provision of the current Work Relief Appropriation Act which limits spending to $1,500,000,= 000. Leaders Meet F. D. R. He said he had official informastion that—to comply with the requirement—WPA would have to reduce its load March 1 at least 20 per cent with further reductions following every 15 days. “We are faced with a situation, especially in the large cities that will require the Government to carry the present load until at least the middle of April,” Rep, Cochran said. “This cannot be done and comply with the provision in the Appropriation Act without practically discontinuing the WPA entirely during May and June.” Midwestern mayors, labor organ= izations and some New Dealers are clamoring for additional relief funds. Their estimates of need from now until June 30 range from 400 million to one billion dollars of new funds. A delegation of midwestern mays ors visited the President yesterday to demand 400 million dollars addis tional to remedy ‘chaotic’ condie tions in their communities. Senator Barkley made his statement after Mr. Roosevelt gathered with Congressional, fiscal and relief officials to discuss an increase in Works Progress aid to the unems ployed. Billion Already Spent The deficiency appropriation would be in addition to the $1,322,= 000,000 budgeted for 1938 fiscal year spending for strictly work relief projects. Of this sum the Treasury reported $1,000,000,000 already has been spent or allocated for spends ing. Those who met with Mr. Rooses velt were: Senator Barkley, Chairman Glass (D. Va) of the Senate Appropriations Committee, House Majority Leader Rayburn, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Acting WPA Administrator Aubrey Williams and Acting Director of the Budget Dans fel Bell. Mr. Williams estimated that the Federal relief rolls now contain 1,900,000 names.
FREEZING WEATHER FORECAST TOMORROW
TEMPERATURES 6 ns 55 10 a. m.. 7 ass 96 11 a. WM. % way 01 12 (Noon) . 9 57 1pm...
58 59 58 61
Freezing temperatures tomorrow, following unsettled weather tonight, were predicted by the Weather Bue reau today, after temperatures soared 15 to 20 degrees above note mal for this time of year. The Bureau predicted snow probe ably will follow rain tonight.
By United Press Despite continued high temperas tures and rain in eastern and southern Michigan, floods which ravaged wide areas of the state had passed their peak today. A cold wave from the Northwest was exe pected to bring freezing temperas tures to the entire state by Thurs= day and offset the effect of today's rainfall.
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