Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1938 — Page 2

F.D.R. TO CONFER WITH CONSUMER GROUP LEADERS

Lobby to Ask Congressional Inquiry Into Food Monopolies.

By MAX STERN Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—The consumers are descending on Washington today for the first time since early in the NRA era. ~ Twenty-five visiting spokesmen for consumer groups in half a dozen cities are led by Miss Helen Hall, Consumers National Federation chairman, and head of New York’s Henry Street Settlement. Five of them will see the President tomorrow. Conferences with congressional leaders and the Federal Trade Commission also are - scheduled. ° The consumer “lobby” grows out of a series of meetings held at New York in December under the sponsorship of the Consumers National Federation, which embraces labor, co-operative, social-worker and farm organizations and professes to represent two million people in New - York City alone. Consumer Bureau Proposed The delegation - will ask three items: - 1. An ‘inquiry by Congress into “the under-consumption of “the > necessities of life and’ the business and financial - controls which deny to workers and farmers the right to enjoy the abundant standard of : living they are ready and able to produce.” 2. The printing and distribution of a Federal Trade Commission report, paghared hi 1935 ‘at Congress’ instruction, - the extent of monopolistic ioe over food and other farm products. 3. Creation of a consumer bureau in the proposed new Welfare Department. The FTC report, a voluminous affair, never has been printed in full. A short, printed summary, : however, revealed a concentration . of vast control in the hands of a relatively few firms dealing in foods, tobacco, leather goods and other farm-produced articles. - It disclosed that 10 meat-packing firms in 1933 sold 70.3 per cent of all beef carcasses and cuts, 985 per cent of veal, 35.1 per cent of pork and 73.1 per cent of hides. Thirteen wheat-four milling companies sold 473 per cent of the total wheat-flour . production in 1935; 10 bread and bakery companies: produced 30.6 per cent of all ‘bread in 1933; 8 leather com-

panies sold 15 per cent of 1935's

production; 14 shoemanufacturers - in 1935 produced 33.5 per cent of = the total; ete. Z One committee of the delegation - will - confer with Senators Borah ‘(R. Idaho) and O'Mahoney * (D. Wyo.), co-authors of the Federal Corporation Licensing Bill.

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SHARP IS NAMED "HOWE PRINCIPAL

Manual Official Will Take Over His New Duties in Irvington July 1.

Charles MacKay Sharp, Manual High School vice principal for 12 years, today had been appointed principal of Howe High School, now under construction at Irvington. Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan announced the appointment at the School Board meeting last hight. At the same time, the School Buildings Committee recommended construction of a classroom building at Tech High School, costing about $800,000, and an addition at Broad

Ripple High School, costing about |

$150,000. The committee asked inclusion of these funds in the 1938-39 school budget. Completio nof Howe High School has been set for Sept. 1. The Tech classroom building is to be known as Milo H. Stuart Memorial. The Broad Ripple addition is to include an auditorium-gyme-nasium and cafeteria. Earl Buchanan, Buildings Committee president, Mr. Morgan and A. B. Good, members, asked that elementary schools be repaired as soon as the emergency high school building program is finished. Mr. Sharp, who is| to assume his duties July 1, was born in Springfield, O., where he completed high school and received a degree at Wittenberg College in 1911. He has studied at the University of Chicago, Ohio State University and Indiana University, and received the master of arts degree at Butler University in 1930. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, honorary scholastic fraternity; Beta Theta Phi, national social fraternity; School Men's Club, and State and National Education Associations. . He also, is a member of the Central Avenue M. E. Church and Scottish Rite.

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By State Police After Chase Through Field.

+ Four robbers who got $49 loot last night were sought by police today. Two men -robbed Miss Adeline Amick, 25, of 1129 N. Alabama St., of her purse, containing $19, her week’s wages. One man entered the filling station at Delaware and Michigan Sts., locked Max -Merrith, 22, of 51 N. Arlington Ave. in the - washroom and escaped with $25. Another man entered the filling station at 2338 Wheeler £&t., slugged the attendant, Robert Hedrick, and escaped with a change bag containing $5.

Fugitive Surrenders Meanwhile, State Police had under arrest an alleged auto thief after a long chase in fields near Plainfield yesterday. : Weary, mud-spattered, too tired to run any farther after a vain, fivehour flight through the muddy woodlands, Thurman Swan, 25, of 925 Massachusetts Ave., surrendered to State Police. Officers Ralph Metcalf and ‘Richard England -had followed Swan’s tracks through the muddy fields from 9 a. m, yesterday until 2 p. m. before capturing him. The officers took up the chase abandoned by Patrolman W. J. Schofield, who had attempted to halt Swan. in a 60-mile-an-hour chase on Highway 40 when Swan allegedly was driving a stolen car. Takes to Fields Swan jammed on his brakes, backed into a ditch and fled before Patrolman Schofield could halt his machine. Patrolman Metcalf and England, starting at the point ‘Swan’s tracks appeared through ‘the cornfield, spent the entire ‘morning following the footprints. Sighting Swan en two occasions, they emptied their guns in the air in an effort to halt him. Knee-deep mud hampered both Swan and his pursuers. The officers and a volunteer posse of farmers finally converged on Swan in a fence corner, where he had collapsed. The officers said Swan was .a parolee from Michigan State Prison and had admitted taking the machine to drive to a nearby city “to look for a job.” Burglars broke into the Millos Pleasure Inn, 550 W. Washington St., early today, stealing $15 from a cash drawer, a revolver and about

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Times Special - WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 —President Green of the A. F. of L., while

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Times Photo. Paul -V. McNutt, High Commissiones to the Philippines. exchanged

greetings with a political adversary before he left for Washington.

Shown with him is Chester Jewett, a Republican and brother of former Mayor Charles W. Jewett in the lobby of the Union Station.

$8 from an electric phonograph. A smell safe under a counter had been battered but not opened. Yeggmen broke into the Maytag Sales Corp. office, 802 N, Senate Ave., early today, hammered the combination from a safe and took about $35, Manager C. W. Birchard reported to police. . Deputy sheriffs still were without clues to identity of thieves who broke into three district schools over the week-end. The thieves stole confections valued at $22 from University Heights District School 43, Hanna Ave., east of Shelby St., confections valued at $10 from Wayne Township District School 13; Lyndhurst Drive and Raymond St., and woodworking tools ‘worth $40 from Center Township District School 2, Yoke and 8. Pennsylvania Sts. Report that Public School 4 was burglarized over the week-end was erroneous, school officials said.

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Wagner Labor Act, said today that “it is not the law but the adminis‘tration of thelaw which is at fault.” Commenting’ on the proposed amendments to the act submitted to the President last week by the Business ‘: Advisory Council, Mr. Green said he fully agreed with a recent = editorial = statement. in Scripps-Howard newspapers “that there is nothing in the law which gives the National Labor Relations Board or its agents power to favor

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to geparste some of ite maladmine istrators from the public payroll.’ ” Mr. Green pointed out the Federation ‘is sponsoring one amendment to the act which would re quire the Labor Board to permit members of a craft union in any plan to determine for themselves the collective bargaining unit they wish Ww Yepresens them.

amended. - The act itself is a Straightforward pronouncement . of public policy, the core of which is the protection of American workers in their right to organize and bargain collectively. :

‘Maladministration’ Charged “‘But the administration of that act, in too many instances and in too many regions, has been fumbling and partisan and has tended unjustly to bring the act itself into disrepute. So we repeat what we have often said before: The best way to protect the Wagner act is

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