Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1938 — Page 1

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VOLUME #-—NUMBER 295

Sonzte Possibility Reported ‘Far From New.’

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LEADERS SCOFF

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Claim Nomination ‘In Bag’ for Samuel Jackson.

LOCAL—Commissioner McNntt due after midnight; reservations exceed 2000 for his home-coming banquet tomorrow night. DENVER—Mr. McNutt voices approval of $800,000,000 Navy ex- _ pansion program. WASHINGTON — Report McNutt may seek seat in U. S. Senate as part of strategy to seek Administration support as 1540 ° Presidential candidate. SOUTH BEND-—Industrial Union Council epposes Senator VanNuys for re-election and indorses Alex Gordon, Indianapolis.

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By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.— Reports are current here today that Paul V. McNutt may be selected as the Democratic candidate for the seat now held by Senator VanNuys. When the High Commissioner, of the Philippines arrives in Indianapolis, this plan is to be discussed by the State organization's board of strategy, it is reported. The

proposal is far from new, the idea having been advanced at various times s McNutt retired from the oie governorship. Should he succeed to the Senate seat, it would give Mr. McNutt an added opportunity, his friends pointed out, to show his loyalty to President Roosevelt, as. he has done

both as Governor and High Com- * missioner.

1940 Advantage Seen B aligned with the Senate Dealers, as is Senator Minton, it wotlld place Mr. McNutt in an advantageous position to receive the White House blessing in the 1940 Presidential campaign, the same friends declare. ro alvaniage might lie in the ity of Mr. McNutt supporting in the Senate ‘ highly controversial measures ‘which may be more of a handicap than an asset {two years from now, it is admitted. Should he choose to run for the Senate, Mr. McNutt would undoubtedly receive active support from the Administration, it is believed. - Senator VanNuys, with his direct-by-mail campaign, is already being considéred as an. Independent, rather than a possible Democratic candidate. While Senators Burke (D. Neb.) and Wheeler (D. Mont.) and some other fellow signers of the adverse report on the President's Court plan have indicated willingness to go to Indiana and aid Senator VanNuys, his Southern colleagues are excusing themselves. ey point out that Senator VanNuys’ fight against the Court plan been . counteracted in their minds by his sponsorship of the Antilynching Bill. Also they frankly ad) t that they would not jeoportheir positions at home by goo into Indiana to campaign for an Independent against the Tegularly nominated Democrat. ethet they will try to enlist Mr. McNutt in a move to retain tor VanNuys on the DemoSaile ticket will be-indicated next k when the High Commissioner ves here, | Minton’s Office Deluged Meanwhile Senator Minton’s office has been deluged with requests for invitations to the reception for Mr. McNutt, to be held at -the Mayflower hotel next Wednesday. Those coming from Indiana by special train are to be entertained at a party following the reception. It is being arranged by the Indiana Society of Washington.

Leaders Deny McNutt

To Seek Senate Seat

Leading Democrats here today insisted that former Governor Mc‘Nutt would not bid for the Senatorial nomination as an opponent of Senator VanNuys. They said that the Philippines High Commiser is a Presidential possibility need not make the Senate

e. : ey maintained that the nomtion at the State Convention was the bag” for Samuel D. Jackson, Ft. Wayne attorney. upstate aspirant opened at the Claypool Hotel the eve of Mr. McNutt’s return sent invitations to 2000 Hoosiers to visit him.

O'CONNOR ‘GIRL FREED ° PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 18 (U. P). —Mary Keenan O'Connor, 19-year-olds schoolgirl, was:acquitted today jon cha that she murdered Nancy et Lan uy. oi of a Beigh-

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’ Ehiers Race

Hoosier Friends to Meet Ex-Governor

In Chicago. PRESS” TALK SET

Expansion Plan for

four minutes past 7

. Navy Approved by Commissioner.

Hoosier Democratic leaders | today awaited the scheduled arrival shortly after midnight of Paul V. McNutt, High Commissioner to the Philippines, and completed plans for the banquet here at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow evening when the ex-Governor will be presented formally as a 1940 Presidential possibility. As the former Governor was speeding eastward ky train from Denver to Chicago, on the next to last leg of his long trip from Manila, reservations for the banquet at the Claypool Hotel passed the 2000 mark. Ray E. Smith, in charge of reservations for the event, sponsored by the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, said applications: indicated attendance may reach 2300. He said that Senator VanNuys probably would be the only leading Indiana Democrat absent. Senator VanNuys recently’ -declined an. invitation to attend the

banquet, explaining that pressure of , (Turn to Page Three)

REHEARING SET ON POWER RATE

New Evidence Allowed at “March 8 Study of 5-Year Case.

The Indiana Public Service Commission today ordered the reopening of the five-year-old Indianapolis Power & Light Co. rate case “te allow all interested parties to present additional evidence arising since the former hearing last summer.” The hearing date was set for 10 a. m. March 8. The company filed a petition to reopen the case, asking it be allowed to introduce new evidence showing added costs of operation and decline in revenue which have taken place since the earlier hearings were concluded. Jesse C. Moore, attorney for 17 intervening petitioners, then filed a. motion asking that these same companies be allowed to present new evidence to refute the company’s Clatin if the hearing is reppened,

COUNTY OPENS BIDS ON STORAGE HOUSE

The County Commissioners today opened bids on materials for a voting machine storage house to be erected by AVPA labor at a cost of $10,000 at 2001 Northwestern Ave. Contracis are to be awarded Monay Materials on which bids were received included granite paving blocks, roofing, sheet metal, mill work, glass and'tile. The Indianapolis Railways offered paving blocks, taken up from befween rails during its improvement program, at $20 a 1000. About 60,000 of the blocks are now stored at the warehouse site. The building is to have

By United Press James E. Watson, U. 8S. Senator from Indiana from 1916 to 1932, announced today that he again will be a candidate for his

old Senate seat at the Republican State Convention in June. Mr. Watson issued a formal statement in which he. said: “All my life I have been interested in sound government. My long experience in government should qualify me for further service in the solution of our present crucial problems. My record for sound, construction legislation, together with my desire to assist my party, prompts me to announce that I am a candidate for the Republican ‘némination for United States Senator.” Mr. Watson is 73. He first held public office in 1894 and has F been in public life almost continually snes. \ ;

WARD CHAIRMEN BACK SULLIVAN

Bossert in Senatorial Race; McClelland, Bosson Seek Offices.

By a unanimous vote, Marion County Democratic Ward chairmen today had indorsed a movement to draft Reginald H. Sullivan fa be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Mayor. Mr. Sullivan was Mayor from 1930 to 1935. At the same time four persons announced- their - candidacy for nomination and election to public offices.

WASHINGTON, - Feb. 18 (U. P.)—Rep. Virginia Jenckes (D. Ind.) today announced her candidacy for re-election in a letter ‘to citizens. of the Sixth Congressional District of Indiana.

Walter F, Bossert, Liberty, attorney and manufacturer, announced he will seek at the Republican State Convention ' next summer, the G. O. P. nomination for U. S. Senator. John P. Ellerbush, depufy state auditor, said he will seek the Democratic nomination for State Auditor. Two persons announced intention of seeking nomination as township trustees. Herbert, H. McClelland, Wayne Township trustee, said he will seek the Democratic nomination

to succeed himself, and Robert N.

Bosson, ‘Washington Township advisory board chairman, said he is a candidate for Republican nomination as Washington Township Trustee. Despite insistence! of Democratic {Turn to Page Three)

WAGNER AGT CHANGE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.).— Suggestions by the Administration’s Business Advisory Board for a fivepoint revision of the Wagner Labor Relations Act were believed doomed today, at least during the present session of Congress. Both labor and the NLRB are opposed to changes being made now, - Most Senators also are believed to be opposed to any revision of the act at this time because of the short period the NLRB has operated since the Supreme Court freed it from re-

12,000 square feet of floor space.

strietive injunctions.

BELIEVED UNLIKELY |

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1938

Police “Orders Sent From Berlin to Vienna.

VIENNA, Feb. 18 (U. P.). —Chancellor Kurt Schusch- | nigg intends tg, resign soon after a speech he is to make to the Federal Parliament next Thursday, a usually reli=

table source said today.

Chancellor Schuschnigg may resign before the end of next week, it was said. _ His resignation would be the otcasion for a new r tion of the Cabinet, it was yhderstood, so that Austrian Nazis would have even greater representation. 3 Even before Chancellor Schusch= nigg’s speech, it was reported, police presidents are to be summoned to Vienna from all parts of the country to receive instructions. The newspaper Freie Presse ‘“understood” that Dr. Arthur von Seyss-Inquart, Nazi Minister of In-

terior and Public Security who is

now in Berlin, would participate— a hint, presumably, that the instructions will come from him.

Changes Police Orders

Information was received -today that Dr. Seyss-Inquart already had ‘engaged two Germans who ‘are specialists in combating Communists to assist him in suppressing “subversive” activities in Austra. Leaving no doubt that he was really taking direct charge of police, r. -Seyss-Inquart sent orders from Berlin, that Vienna police must no longer carry their rubber blackjacks. Dr. SeyssInquart was reported to have said they were used, anyway, against “German folk and comrades only.” Also, upon his telephonic instructions, the Essen .National Zeitung, personal organ of German Field Marshal Hermann Goering, was readmitted to distribution in Austria.

Speeches Are “Linked

Austrians anxiously awaited Chancellor Schuschnigg’s promised speech before the Diet, summoned formally last night to meet at noon Thursday. J Fuehrer ‘Adolf Hitler is to address his German Reichstag Sa Chancellor

SeHuschaigys will complément - it. was vid

cated that the country, and the world, would have to await not only Chancellor Hitler's but Chancellor Schuschnigg’s speech to find what Austria really. faces under the dominating shadow of Germany. Arrangements were made today

Hitler's speech Sunday. ‘German. stations will broadcast Schusch-. nigg’s speech next Thursday. Herr Schuschnigg’s speech may be his last as Chancellor, it was reported today. In any reorganization of the Cabinet, it was regarded as likely that a Nazi would be made National Defense Minister. As regards Chancellor Schuschnigg’s resignation, it was learned only today that in a speech at a secret meeting of the Ty Fatherland Front’s Storm Corps Wednesday night he said: “When in the near future I shall be no more in this place let us all continue to work for the Fatherland in other places and capaci¥ies. We will not leave or forsake our countrv. I know you all, despite changes, will remain true and loyal to the Fatherland.” By early afternoon, 350 political prisoners had been released from Vienna jails, mostly Nazis but some Communists. The remainder, estimated to number 230, will be freed tomorrow morning in conformity with confidential instructions of the Justice Ministry. In the provinces, the procedure is (Turn to Page Three)

JAPANESE ADVANCE ON ROAD TO HANKOW

Japanese reported further advances today in their march toward Chengchow and their ultimate goal at Hankow despite assertions by ‘Chinese leaders that Japanese activity in Honan Province was merely a maneuver to attract Chinese forces away from the Hsuchow area

in the East.

Drunken Driver Gets 30- Day Term; McNelis Warns of Highway Speeding

Warning that he will stop motorists from making a speedway of W. Washington St., outside the city limits, Municipal Judge John L. McNelis today sentenced Mariom Cof-

felt, of 10641 W. McCarty St. to 30 days in jail, fined him $30 and revokéd his drivers’ license for six months. Coffelt was found guilty of drunken driving and speeding on W. Washington St., near Bridgeport at 50 miles per hour. Thirty-four other motorists paid fines and costs totaling $113 for traffic violations. - A total of $236 in costs were suspended. Sixteen, or! nearly half of the erring drivers, were fined for making illegal left turns. Ten of this number were arrested” at . Illinois and 16th Sts. Judge McNelis withheld judgment in the case of one driver who! said he turned left, according to his watch, at four minutes to 7 a. m. “Police said their Watolfes showed ‘a m. Left

turns are prohibited at that corner between 7 a. m. and 9 a. m. and between 4:30 p. m. and 6 p: m. State Policeman Francis Reilly testified he arrested Coffelt after noticing his. ear traveling 50 miles an hour on the wrong side of the highway. He said Coffelt staggered when he got out of his ear. “ eople in the vicinity of the National outside the city seem to have a habit of making a race track out of the: highway there,” Judge McNelis said. “As soon as they get a couple of drinks they open up their cars on the road. That is going to stop, drivers can rest assured.” Mrs. Mary Salter, 55, of 4244 Madison Ave, was treated at City Hospital today after the car in which she was ri with Walter Dickerson, 5229 rdegan St., collided with another driven by Earl Dillon, 4409 Manlove Ave, at Delaware and South Sts. When his car overturned on Read

2 at 86th St. Yesterday, J. W. Mc-

Murtrie, 61, Frankfort, received head cuts. He was taken to his home by a passing motorist.

Gasoline Truck Chash Kills Motorist

LAFAYETTE, Feb. 18 (U. P).— Funeral arrangements were made today for Lester Wortley, 28, sales-

man, who was burned to death when his car collided with a truck carrying 800 gallons of gasoline on: v S. 52 four miles northwest of ere.

Car Accident Fat Fatal 40 Days Later

BEDFORD, Feb. 18 (U.P.).—Funeral arrangements are being made

today for Silas Totten, 36, who died yesterday from injuries recei received in

SHANGHAI, Feb. 18 (U. P)—

British-Italian Pact Is Talked; Hint Ethiopia O. K. Duce’s Price; Report Schuschnigg May Resign pip

Grandi Refuses ee From Wrecked Gas

Discuss Austrian Situation.

LONDON—Italy reporied demanding recognition of Ethiopian conquest as price of discussion -of Auyitian problems or pact with

Vin en Sclinsehiigs may a ‘within a week; new Nazi inroads expected in Austrian Government. BERLIN—Nazi quariers indicate

have been met satisfactorily and predict: rapid “co-ordination” of Germany and Austria. ROME—Political quarters feel Brit-

, at London and Vienna home for important conferences, ‘newspaper says.

LONDON, Feb. 18 (U. P.). —Italy was reliably reported today to have demanded British recognition of the Italian empire in Ethiopia before discussing the Austrian or other

European problems. Dino Grandi, Italian Ambassador, conferred at length with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. An unimpeachable source revealed that Ambassador Grandi told the two Britisch ministers he was unable to discuss Italy’s attitude on. the Austrian situation at present. This source said Mr. Chamberlain and Capt. Eden .made a “new approach” to resumption of BritishItalian relations. Sig. Grandi, invited to Downing Street to reply to a British request for information about Austria, was said to have sprung a surprise by refusing to. enter discussions. The Austrian situation, it was said, formed only a small part of the talks, which developed into an examination of the prospects of a British-Italian pact, regarding which Sig. Grandi was reported to have made the stipulation that Britain must agree to recognize Italian sovereignty in Ethiopia. Earlier Capt. Eden told the House (Turn to Page Three)

Pan-American an Treaty Denied by Hull

President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull today denied that this Government had ever been approached with a suggestion or proposal for a military and naval alliance of the American republics against European or Asiatic aggres-

for all’ radio stations to broadcast | gion.

Reports in New York from Buenos Aires said that an unidentified Latin American country has already —or would soon — submit to the United States a Pan-American dedense project looking to possible mutual protection against future European or Asiatic aggression. The idea of a military and naval alliance of the American republics has been presumed to be contrary to the policy of both Argentine sand the United States. Meanwhile, Lester P. Barlow, -first man to do air bombing in the World War, told the House Naval Affairs Committee that a new type of “blanket” aerial attack soon will be developed against warships. > He advocated more planes instead of battleships. The House Military Affairs Committee, in executive session, restored

manpower to the May bill to outlaw profiteering in time of war.

MERCURY DROPS 15 DEGREES IN 4 HOURS

Much Colder Forecast for Tonight, Tomorrow.

TEMPERATURES ... 54 11 a.m... .. 55 12 (Noon). 43 -1p mm... 10a m... 41 2p m

Temperatures tumbled 15 degrees | 5t in four hours here today as the Weather Bureau forecast cold weather with more rain or snow tonight and tomorrow. The Bureau said the lowest reading here tonight would be between 25 and 30 degrees. Rainfall - here since yesterday morning measured .67 of an inch.

Hundreds Homeless in

Southwest Floods

OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 18 (U. P.) —Hundreds were homeless in the Southwest today as rivers swollen by days of rain confinued to rise in Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri and Arkansas. A cold wave followed the rain in several areas. More than 10 inches of rain had fallen in eastern | 5° and southern Oklahoma in the last five days.

SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS RELIEF BILL

' WASHINGTON, Feb. Feb. 18 (U: P). —The Senate Appropriations Committee today reported favorably the 4250000000. deficiency relief bill.

country subsequent to

53 and who had nok applied for

that all preliminary demands|

Fumes from a wrecked gas well,

“ the alleged PARIS—French likely to call envoys

houses filled the air.

a provision for universal draft of

‘Miami, Fla.

‘where the sixth plane of the squad-

er | fo!

‘| dead, 10 live outside the city, 15 left committee eliminated a |no Hoe provision that. would deny reilef payments to aliens who en-!

tered as Second-Class Matter » Fostoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Well Add Explosion Peril*to Horror.

SCORES ARE INJURED

Rain and Wind Devastate Area Two Miles Long; Homes Swept Away.

RODESSA, La. Feb. 18 (U. P.) —

spread across this oil town in the northwest corner of Louisiana today and added the danger of explosion to the horror of last night's tornado that killed at least 25 and injured scores of persons. ° There were no facilities left here for treating the injured, and they were rushed away. Many died in ambulances and private cars en route to Vivian, La. and Atlanta, Tex. Those found dead in the ruins were left here. There were 30 injured in the Ellington Memorial Hospital .at Atlanta and ‘30 at Vivian. Some of the bodies were so mangled that identification was feared impossible. Two of the dead at Atlanta were decapitated men. The well was running wild beside is overturned derrick at the edge of this congested community of oil field shacks and warehouses, where rescue workers were still plodding through“the ruins left by the storm, hunting for more dead and injured.

Large Alea Devastated

‘An area two miles long and a quarter of a mile wide was de-

vastated by the storm. It extended |.

to within a block of the main business corner and back along the rambling colony of supply. houses and “cartop” and “shotgun” type shacks where oil field families lived. Amid the ruins of these shacks, men had worked all night, mostly in darkness, carrying out dead and injured, who were loaded in trucks, cars and the few available ambulances and taken to Vivian and Atlanta, each about 10 miles away, and to Shreveport, the nearest large city, 35 miles south. A driving rain that accompanied the tornado at 9:45 p.m. m. last night continued all night and increased the hardships of the rescue work. Then thé peril of én explosion arose. The well, owned by the Standard Oil Co., emitted fumes noticeable in all parts of town. State Police surrounded the vicinity, turned back automobiles and took every precaution against an explosion that they feared might destroy what was left of the town. Most of the survivors described a light rumble as their first sensation of the approaching destruction. Then the - lumber and sections of sheet iron wrenched from the ware-

Homer Brown, a roustabout, said: “I was walking along the gravel road near the Arkansas Fuel Co. dis(Turn to Page Three)

ARMY PLANES LAND AT BUENOS ARES

“Flying Forts’ Complete 5300-Mile Trip.

B OS AIRES, Argentina, Feb. 18 (U. P.) —Five giant U. S. Army planes known as “flying fortresses” . across the Andes and the pampas today and landed here, completing a 5300-mile flight from

The ‘first plane came down at the El Palomar Airdrome at 10:10 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), This was 34 hours and 15 minutes after the departure from Miami, including a six-hour stop at Lima, Peru,

ron left after it developed motor trouble, A huge throng greeted the fliers at the airport.

rn np ————1 * | BANDIT GETS $13 After chatting for more than half 2h, hoe with George Stockton, 53, Idrugstore at 726 W. New York oy a young man pulled a Hh revolver from under his coat, the owner into the back room

and - took $13 from the cash reg-

PRICE THREE'CENTS

President Tells RFC) To Resume Loans To Business.

PLAN WIDER AID

foes Collateral Obligation To Remain Same, Jones Says.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. announced today that President Roosevelt had directed him to: resume RFC lending to aid business. The President, in an effort to economize had ordered the RFC’s lending activities to cease last Oct. 18. Mr. Jones said the RFC had a billion and a half dollars available; for lending, but said he did not ex-| pect the demand to exceed a few! hundred million dollars. Mr. Jones said that RFC collateral requirements will remain the same because new legislation would be required to revise them, but, he

{ added, the RFC “might modify” its

interpretation of what it believes t4 be reasonably. good. security. “We realize what is in the minds of the people,” Mr. Jones said. “We realize the people feel there is a great need for loans to small business. . We will try to qualify as many as possible for loans—both big and small business.” Mr. Jones said the lending situation was similar to that which existed before the President ordered a curtailment of RFC activities, “except that we now are mindful there is more necessity for loans than in the last two or three years.” . He said he is instructing the managers of the corporation’s 32 loan agencies to accept Sppliestions for loans that qualify “and especially’ loaris that will matntain or increasé BE woke “We prefer,” Mr. Jones said, “that banks originate and make the loans, selling the RFC a participation in them, sharing equally or ratably as to collateral and repayments with the RFC. “We will also reinstate our agrees) ment to permit banks to carry an entire loan with a call on the RFC to take up such portion of it as may be agreed upon at the time the loan is made. : For this: we will require a charge based upon the amount and duration of the loan.”

‘Mail Order Bride-to-Be Willing Now

AKRON, Ind., Feh. 18 (U. P.).—Miss Margaret Davis, 36, of Johnstown, Pa., begged forgiveness and sought another chance to marry Albert) Pontius, Akron’s bachelorcarpnefer. Mr. Pontius again was checking bus schedules between Johnstown and Warsaw, Ind. Several weeks ago he had sent her $70 for transportation expenses hut after a brief visit here: she expressed dissatisfaction. with the house Mr. - Pontius had built for her. Today the carpenter had a letter from Margaret's father. His daughter had made a “sad mistake,” he said, and asked that she be permitted to return. Pontius indicated he wauld accept.

HOOSIER KILLED IN OHIO O., Feb. WL a P)— Edwin P. Brainard, sales engineer for the ribo Ind., Rubber & Woolen Manufacturing Co., died today from injuries received when "his automobile was struck by

ister.

a freight train near Forest, O.

Old Grads’ Join to Fete I Manual’ 8 43d Birthday

Ma foal Training High School today observing its 43d birthday

anniversary. Observances by pupils will be climaxed by the annual dinner, prodance at the school spon-

gram ed by the Manual Alumni Assopr A radio skit depicting the ’s history will be broadcast aver this afternoon. ‘ at iF ComnR ts ce e an zea] its distinguished gradu- : The were 74 in the first gradlen of 1898. Of these 11 are

addresses and 30 of the remaining 38 have signified they Wil at-

tend tonight's party. - Many prominent Indianapolis

Emmett Huggins, Charles Nagel, Harry Reed, George Schley, Charles Shirk, Allan Vestal, Irving Charles Dyer, John Engelke, Ralph Gray, Arthur Meng, Harry Munsell, Lester Teeghrden, Hugh Thatcher, and Howard Young. One of the desires of tonight's stage program will be a skit contrasting the days of th Dre graduI a ae hor os 1938.

something | It was written by and is under di-

rection of Elmer Taflinger, artist. About 70 pupils, including the} band, girls’ glee club and R. 0. T. C. are to participate. Class reunions. are’ being directed by Mrs. Lucetta C. Schwomeyer and William Schiltges. ‘They will be held for classes of 1898, 1 1908, 1913, us 1923, 1928 and 1 Mr. Taflinger, Mrs, Robetta Van-

They | imeiuge’ Irwk of that class.| Arsdal } imeiude Bertermann, |

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O0SEVELT ASKS RICE BALANCE 0 CURB SLUMP

i olds Commodities - Too Low, Building

Materials High. NO INFLATION’

Raps Wage Policies In Statement on New Deal Aims.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.).—President Rocsevelt today outlined the goal of his Administration as achieve ing a balance of prices de signed to end business recéssion and restore national pros-

perity. Price rises are sought, he said, but should be confined largely to raw materials and finished goods produced under high competition and ~in which decreases have been registered. Prices which have been maintained at high levels—indicated by charts displayed by the ident as particularly those in thé building inSusiey should not be lifted, he: de= clar

The President submitted to newse papermen who crowded his White House office a statement of Administration price and economic policy prepared by a group of advisers headed by Secretaries Henry Morgenthau Jr., Henry A. Wallace and Frances Perkins and Marriner Eccles, Federal Reserve Chairman,

Amplifying his price statement informally, Mr. Roosevelt criticized wage policies of industry but did not indicate whether he believed - wages should be raised or lowered at this time. He indicated that if wages were ‘made more flexible on eco nomic upswings, objections to ree ductions on downswings would be lessened and industrial stability ‘would be increased. .

so sharp as to encourage speculation. An easy credit policy will be maintained and no dollar devgluation is contemplated, he said. ; The general objective for prices, he explained, is a relationship similar to that of 1926 but modified to take account of changes in debtorcreditor relations and other fundamental economic shifts which have occurred since that time.

7 TRAPPED MINERS SAVED, 1 FOUND DEAD

* JEANESVILLE, Pa, Feb. 18 (U, P.).—Seven miners, trapped 500 feet below the surface of slope No. 1 of the Spring Mountain Colliery, were rescued today and an eighth was - found dead. The body of Paul Kurtz, 40, of Hazleton, was found under debris and muck. The others were suffer. ing from shock and exposure. The men had been trapped since 12:16 p. m. yesterday when a stripping operation reservoir burst and flooded the shaft. Assistant Superintendent George Schutter and Bere nard McAlarney were washed toward the mine exit and escaped when the cavein occurred. Although suffering ‘somewhat from the cold in the mine, none of the rescued men were in bad condition.

SMOKE INSTITUTE | TO MEET FEB. 26

Indiai smoke abatement are met with come

* | bustion experts this afternoon te

outline the program for the Come bustion Institute to be held Feb. 26 to March 31. The institute, designed to ine struct husehioiiess ad others in proper me 0 to dvoid waste of fuel, dnd unnecesSary

| smoke and soot, will have sessions

Thursdays and Saturdays for five weeks at the Hotel Washington. All civic, luncheon and other local organizations have been asked by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board secretary and Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League president, to name institute delegates. © The delegates, after the institute closes, will pass on to group members the information received. In this way, the league, sponsor of the institute, hopes to reach directly - and indirectly between 75,000 and 100,000 citizens.

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