Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1938 — Page 1

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if GLASS INTRODUCES #. OWN BANKING BILL;

PA FUND RAISED

NATIONAL AFFAIRS TODAY

REORGANIZATION BILL defended. BANK HOLDING COMPANY bill introduced. TAX BILL called recovery aid. BIG NAVY BILL Changes rejected. ROOSEVELT MAGAZINE articles seem conservative.

RELIEF BILL signed.

"M’NUTT requests Coy salary increase. - BRIDGES to appear before Senate Committee. BURLEW nomination reported favorably. - BALDWIN CO. president blames New Deal. - HOUSE PASSES Postoffice appropriation. PRESIDENT gives press NLRB report.

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Administration Leaders “At Odds Over Bill

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 2.—A controversy has developed within the Administration over the scope of projected legislation concerning bank holding companies. The dispute came to light when Senator Glass (D. Va.) today introduced a bill to freezesthe present bank holding-company structure by forbidding further expansion, and to apply additional regulation. Previously both President Roose--velt and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau had suggested the gradual abolition of bank holding - companies. | Senator Glass, who has frequently been at odds with the Administration, took his bill to the White House and talked to Mr. Roosevelt about it. When he left he declined to say what the President thought of it, but announced that he would introduce it. Questioned later at a press conference, the President would not say what ne thought of Senator Glass’ plan, explaining that he had not had time to read the measure. Senator Glass had been consulting . with a committee of Administration banking officials relative to such tion, and the latest word had

heen that the bill would mot be of

3 tered 1 for two months. Suddenly he deciding to

z many inde Ye .At least two members of the Administration committee side with the Senator in opposing complete : ciition of existing bank holding - companies, of which there are now 63, some large and some small, con- - tro 560 banks. These are Mar8. Eccles, Federal Reserve ‘Board chairman, and Leo T. Crowley, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. head. Final action by Congress is not expected at this session on bank holding-company legislation, though the Senate Banking Committee, which Senator Glass formerly headed, probably will hold hearings on the subject presently.

Democrats Support Tax Bill Revision

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P). —The Democratic majority of the House Ways-and Means Committee today recommended enactment of its new business tax revision bill and predicted it would bring “a very substantial stimulation to business.” In a 7T0-page report, the Democratic faction sought chiefly to explain the proposed changes rather than attempt to answer Republican charges that the measure retains levies causing the present depres-

sion. The Republicans, in their majority report, accused the Administration of attempting to “purge” the business structure of opponents of its policies through a proposed new tax on closely held corporations. “They opposed three other provisions of the new bill: 1. Retention of the “vicious and indefensible principle” of the undistributed profits fax. 2. Imposition of an “unwarranted and discriminatory penalty tax on closely held or family corporate business organizations.” . 3. Failure to improve the capital gains tax so as to encourage capital transactions and the investment of new funds in productive enterprise.

Naval Committee Rejects Two Changes . WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. PJ). * —The House Naval Affairs Committee today rejected two policy a to the billion dollar expansion program and Tal roe the bill as e An amendment by Rep. Frank C. Kniffin (D. 0.) designed to re-

strict operations of the fleet to de- toda,

fense of a line if the mid-Pacific - and mid-Atlantic was rejected, 16

to 6. A substitute offered by Rep. William H. Sutphin (D. N. J.) calling for the withdrawal of Navy ships from China also was rejected.

. McNutt Asks s Better $ [Salary fo for Coy

. SWassmGTON, March 2.—Paul McNutt, High Commissioner to

the Philippines today asked the

ppropriations Committee

House An the Lrg of Wayne administrative assistant,

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President Signs

Relief Measure WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. PJ). —President Roosevelt today signed the $250,000,000 Works Progress Administration deficiency’ appropriation bill, The speedy signature by the Pres-

ident will enable WPA to place into | immediate effect its program for in- |

creasing relief rolls to accommodate mounting numbers of idle : workers. It was estimated that the added appropriation will enable the WPA to provide for an average of 750,000 persons more.

Senate Debates

Reorganization . WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P.).

—The Administration’s Government:

reorganization bill brought Senate debate today on proposals to abolish the post of Controller General

and substitute a single administrator for the Civil Service Commission. Senator Schwellenbach (D. Wash.) led defense of the bill's provisions for eliminating what he termed the “useless” - office of controller.

Charge Minority

Leads Manufacturers

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. PJ). —Investigators read to the Senate Civil Liberties Committee today al statement that “it would appear” that 207 companies—5 per cent of the membership—were “in a position to formulate policies” of the National Manufacturers Association. An exhibit read into the record of a committee hearing headed by Chairman La Follette (P. Wis.) reported that “approximately 60 per cent of the tear gas purchased by all ‘industrial firms in the United States during the period of labor warfare was purchased by these 207 companies.”

Opportunity Called Chief New Deal Aim

By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, March -2.—Not very many Americans would dis-

agree with the objectives of the New Deal as outlined by President Roosevelt in the first installment of his current writings, which is appearing in Liberty Magazine for March 12, out today. President Roosevelt outlines the New Deal objectives as follows: “A chance for men and women to work in industry at decent wages and reasonable hours; or to engage in farming at a decent return. “A chance for adequate recreation, better housing, and sounder health. “A chance to make reasonable profit in business protected against monopolies and: unfair competition, but organized so as to provide fair prices for the consuming public. “Planning and use of natural re-sources-for the benefit of the average men and women. “Security against the hardships of old age. “Security against unexpected or seasonal unemployment. “Security against new as well as old types of criminals. “Security against war.”

Lenten Season Program

Rarely photographed, and: subject of hundreds of news cameras on her recent visit to her husband at Alcatraz prison, Mrs. Mamie. Capone, wife of Al Capone, is shown here after an alert camer-.

‘No Visitors’ Sign Is Posted At Stokowsk:i- Garbo Villa

Re SALE Na aR | RAVELO, aly March 3.5.13 red

wiki posted a sign:

today on the gate of the Villa Cimbrone, where he and Greta Garbo are staying, reading “No visitors until further notice.” With growing . irritation, the fa--mous musician sought. privacy. from. villagers and - newspapermen who thronged to the villa to “catch glimpse ‘of “Donna Misteriosa” (the mystery woman), who has been identified definitely as the movie actress. The white-haired orchestra conductor and the tall’ blond woman had aroused :the curiosity of natives. for days by their strolls from : their | Spe villa overlooking the Bay of Naples. It ‘was taken for granted that the long standing. rumors" of their romance were true and many believed that they soon would be married.

So Sorry! Antipigeon Bloc Gets

~ No Help From City Works Board.

A COALITION formed to further “ the campaign: for eviction of the downtown pigeons took its case to the Works Board today, but received little eucouragement. Ernest Frick, Board executive secretary; said “It’s none of our business.” A. E. Martin of the Indianapolis’ Athletic Club told the Board the pigeons caused his organization $1000 damage during the:past year. Frederick Coffman, representing Hotel English, said several guests have checked out because of the “pigeon _ nuisance.” . Each member of the delegation requested that the eviction be carried out “in the most humane way

possible.”

Opened by City Churches

Catholic and Protestant churches in Indianapolis were to usher in the Lenten season with special services

y-. 4 . Protestant devotions were to deal with “phases of personal religious living,” according to Dr. Ernest Evans, Indianapolis Church Federation executive secretary, who is coordinating Lenten observance among Lutheran, Episcopal, Evangelical and Reformed churches, These faiths will hold services to= night and tomorrow evening. Lenten programs in Catholic churches will conclude with distribution of blessed ashes.at morning and night services. The Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis, declared in an official letter to the faithful that the laws of fasting are to receive a “milder interpretation” this year. The Rev. E. Ainger Powell, speaker at first of a series of noonday Episcopal Lenten services at Christ Church, said: “Of the many ministries in life,

, | the most neglected is that of simeditation,

lence, of contemplation, retirement and rest, .

Christ. knew |

well the value of thad ministry and availed himself of it on many occasions. “Lent is our God-given opportunity to talk less and think more; to seek through rest, ‘meditation and worship the restoration of our moral, Spiritual and ‘ physical in-

At All Saints Cathedral the: Rev. Robert C. Alexander will‘ hold pénitential office and give a sermon gl night at 8 o'clock.

During the 40-day. penitence, Christ Episcopal Church is to offer ‘Holy Communion at 10 a.m. each Tuesday and 7 a. m. each ‘Wednesday. Litany and penitential office will. be at 11 a. m. on. Wednesdays. Lenten services at Evangelical churches begin tonight with ‘a sermon on “Mary of Bethany,” by the Rev, Frederick R. Daries.. Tomorrow evening the Rev. E. A. Piepenbrok is to speak on “The, Seven Words ot Christ on the Cross” at St. John’s Evangelical Church. Dr. W. A. Shullenberger, Central Christian ‘Church. Duster. ‘will ad - service:

ichte id “Cao who is a citizen, would: hive. noti= fled the ‘Consulate which, according to :law must. publish the news: in foreign newspapers. ume announcements dot be published three weeks before the marriage. Garbo. has not. notified. the - Consulate. I ‘therefora. : believe that no marriage is contemplated at present. It is my personal opinion that, owing to many years of friendship, Garbo and Stokowski . are spending a short vacation together. » However, the town halls of 8 dozen villages in this romantic region . ware watched today: for the marriage bans of the famous musieian and the movie actress.

SHIFT IN ORPHANAGE CONTROL IS REJECTED

Plea of: Social. Agencies Is “Turned Down.

County Commissioners’ today: re{Scsad she proposal of civic leaders at they turn.over to the County | Welfare Department . operation “of the. Colored ‘Orphans’ Home. In a letter to Thurman Gott schalk, State Welfare ‘Director, the Commissioners said they would welcome any assistance from .the State board, and charged they had been! handicapped in operation of the home because: the “County Council and State Tax Board didn’t: appropriate necessary funds

“We feel,” the. Comiissioners wrote, “that control and operation of the home ‘should remain in the hands’ of the ‘Commissioners because if it were: turned over .to the County Welfare Department, the | total cost nécessarily would have to

| be borne by the county anyhow.”

Request that control: of the home be given to ‘the County Welware' Department was submitted to the

-commissioners Feb. 24 by Council of

Social Agencies representatives.’ Informed of the commissioners’ {letter to Mr. Gottschalk, Raymond F. Clapp, secretary of the Council of Social Agencies, said: ; “We are anxious about the care for the children at the home. We believe that it is now up to the ‘State and County Welfare Departments to work out a atistactory solution to the problem.”

TWO DIE IN. SLATE FALL

‘CLINTON, March 2 (U. P) —Two men were killed in the Crown Hill

No. 5 mine here today when a fall

of slate jarred loose and buried them in the mine shaft. »

‘The men were James Marietta, Constino

living at al. Sandytown, and Bergo, Clin

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man surprised her in her automobile. Mrs. Capone, ‘shown peeking out over the collar of her expensive mink coat, was overtaken by cameramen when her car ran out of + os near Morgan Hill, Cal.

COURT REFUSES

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4 FIRES CAUSE

$4500 DAMAGE;

BOY, 18, ISHERO

Lad Extinguishes Flames While Fireman Rushes - For Gas Mask.

GIRLS RESCUE AGED KIN

| (Two Blazes Within Eight

Hours Ruin Home; Grocery Store Burns.

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“Two fires in the sa same house that reduced it to ruins and two other

| blazes early today and last night ‘ | caused damage estimated at more

than $4500. Most of the home of Frank Wise-

' | man, 1128 N. Haugh St. was de- | stroyed as smoldering embers of the

first blaze started a second fire. Meanwhile, an 18-year-old youth | was taking the hero role in another fire at his Speedway City home and ch started in a broom pile, caused $500 damage to a Castleton grocery and feed store. Two girls shared honors with their brother by assisting other members of the family to safety in the Speedway City blaze. : Girls Warn of Blaze

While Mr. Wiseman, Polar Ice & Fuel Co. truck driver, was at a meeting last night and his wife and son, Frank Jr., were visiting neighbors, Mr. and "Mrs. John Raymond, 1125 Haugh.St., when two unidenti-

‘| fied girls knocked at the door and

informed the Raymonds that the house across the street was on fire. Before Mrs. Wiseman could . return to her home, another neighbor, Mrs, Grover Guire, had summoned firemen. Mr. Wiseman was called from his meeting and helped fight the blaze, which lasted two hours. At 5 a. m., Mrs. Guire, saw flames at the Wiseman home, this time ‘near the roof and again called the ‘fire department. The Wisemans, who were at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Augustine Bowes, 1515 N. Haugh St., estimated their loss at $2000. Smoke Awakens Girl Marian DeWar, 15, daughter of

“if Mr. and Mrs. P. K. DeWar, 4945 W.

‘As Federal Judge Baltzell refused to grant a restraining order against | Roper, 70.

enforcement of the windshield titleholder law," Municipal Judge : McNelis today “cracked down” on miotorists failing to give pedestrians the | right-of-way in traffic. . Judge... Baltzell denied - the . restraining order on the ground that | “an emergency does not-exist.” He ordered : T. Ernest Maholm, -attorney who brought the suit, I. amend his petition to ask for. a temporary injunction instead. He set. March 16, 17 or 18 for 4d hearing before a three-judge court. “The law is in effect and I believe no harm can be done by leaving things as they are a few days,” he said. ¢ \ No Arrests Made

‘Two days’ efiforcement of the ban’

1on,1937 license plates had.led to no. arrests in Marion County. Both Chief Morrissey ‘and «State Safety Director Stiver indicated . arrests | would be made “soon.”

-| Meanwhile, Judge McNelis fined

a motorist $11 for failure to give a ‘pedestrian the right-of-way - and ‘termed the ordinance “one of the most important in.the City Code.” The municipal judge said: “There have not been enough peo ple arrested for failing to give pedestrians the right-of-way. This is the first case: brought before me since I have been on the ben The driver, Dewey Owens, 34, of ‘1750 Boulevard Place, was arrested Feb. 17 at ‘Alabama and New York Sts., after the car he was driivhg | struck O. E. Steinkamp, 3904 Rook-. wood Ave. = He also ‘was fined $40 and sen‘tenced to 30 days on the State Farm for drunken driving. Judge McNelis his driver's license - for one year.

‘Police also are marking: time on enforcement of the windshield ‘title holder law, which became. effective at 12:01'a. m. yesterday. The only arrest yesterday was Shat of a. driver whose truck failed to carry directional signal lights, a tail light or certificate of title. . Meanwhile, a 6-year-old- boy was injured seriously : and 54 drivers were arrested in overnight traffic. Charles Trottier, first grade pupil Lae Public School 55, ran from between cars parked in front of 1833 Roosevelt Ave. into the side of an auto driven by W. A, Grimes, 59, of 28 N. Ritter Ave. The boy's head struck: the- right front door h e, cutting asdeep | gash on. his chi X bone. i

, KENNEDY "REACHES . LONDON (Cartoon, on, Page 10)

LONDON, ‘March 2 (U. P)— Joseph P, Eenusdy anived today to assume his duties as United Sta Ambassador to Great Britain.

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13th. St, was awakened at 8 a.m.

clothes closet. She aroused her G-yeéar-old sister, Irene, and the two ran to nearby rooms, where théy awakened the parents, their brother Donald, 18, and their’ grandfather, Walter

While they helped Mr. Roper to safety, neighbors called Arthur Veeler, Speedway City’s one-man fire - department, but he was off ‘duty and John Gibbs, 50, of 4901 W.. 16th * St., Presto-Lite Battery station watchman where one of the trucks is stationed, answered - the alarm. Thick smoke forced Mr. Gibbs to retire in search of a gas mask and, while he was gone, Donald grabbed the hose and extinguished the fire. ‘Mrs. Anna Heins, proprietor of the Castleton ‘grocery store, was waiting on Ellsworth Kimberlin early this morning. “What's that light in the back room?” he inquired. “My, the brooms are on fire,” she screamed. They sounded an alarm and apparatus from Indianapolis Fire Station 16 on N. Illinois St. responded.

NAME MALELWARD

PURDUE GRID COACH

Noble Kizer to Continue as Athletic Director.

LAFAYETTE, March 2 (U. P.).— Mal Elward, acting Purdue University football coach, foday was named pe ent head football coach after Noble E. Kizer, who has been ill since last August, asked to be relieved of those duties. The announcement wac made by Dr. Edward C. Elliott, Purdue University president, who returned yes‘terday from a visit with Mr. Kizer at Tucson, Ariz, where he is refrom a severe attack of nephritis. Mr. Elward, who had been chief assistant coach, took charge of the Purdue squad last fall after Mr. Kizer was stricken. Mr. Kizer will retain his position as director of thletics and will return to active duty Sept. 1.

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LOS ANGELES, March

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Searchers Comb Snow and Brush of Moun- ~ tains East of Fresno After Pilot Radios

Landing Spot.

TWO OHIOANS AMONG 6 PASSENGERS

Type Used on Shuttle

Line Between San Francisco and Winslow, Ariz.; Trip Switched Last Night.

2 (U. P.)—A twin-motored

Transcontinental and Western Air liner, 15 hours overdue here, was lost in the mountains east of Fresno today and fear was expressed for the safety of its six passengers and crew

Officials of the line sent searching parties into the mouhe tains where eight feet of snow covered the rough brush and

Last word from the radio of the plane came shortly after 9 p. m. when the chief pilot, Capt. J ohn D. Graves, reported first that he intended to return to Fresno, and then that he

intended to seek the Bakersfield airport. - The plane left San Francisco at 8:33 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) bound for © Los Angeles.

FEARS GROW FOR KIDNAPED BOY

Police Withdraw From Hunt "To Allow Father Free Hand in Negotiations.

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., March 2 (U. P.) —Authorities revealed today that they had withdrawn temporarily from the Peter Levine kidnapcase: because they feared the

old boy. Peter, son of a well-to- do New

Attorne , disappeared Thurspo, y been heard from:

ransom notes have been made public, one purportedly threatening the boy's life if” $60,000 was not paid ' within 48 hours. One note, composed on a toy typewriter, was believed in some official quarters to be authentic. Asked if police would re-enter the case soon regardless of Mr. Levine’s wishes, Philip S. Tilden, New Rochelle’s director of police safety, said: «If the police. stepped into the case without Mr. Levine’s requesting it and the boy was killed, you know what the answer would be.”

License Plates Covered

Mr. Tilden discounted speculation that the boy, an imaginative and sometimes dramatically-in-clined youngster, might be in hid-

houses and shacks in the area, saying police had made a thorough canvas of the more than 400 such structures in the city. Meanwhile, the haggard, sleep-

in his $23,000 suburban home. ‘ There were indications that police or. G-Men already were conferring

who has not left him home since Peter disappeared last Thursday while returning from school. Belief that an’ automobile parked behind the home yesterday was an official car was bolstered by the fact that its license plates had been covered. by manila ‘envelopes. Mr. Levine, aided in his vigil by his wife, Minnie, and their daughter, Helene, 10, appeared at the door of his home yesterday, and in a tired voice told reporters: “I have no statement to make. I can’t tell you anything. There has been no change since Monday night. When there is any reason to make a statement, I will let you kn

LOCAL BOY, 2, INJURED BY WRINGER, DIES

Two-year-old John F John Furr died at City. Hospital today of injuries received Feb. 23 when his left arm was crushed in the washing ma-

chine wringer at his home, 1018 S. |

State St. Bie To tha pu of MW: and Mrs.

{| Myrel Purr

All-Night Torrent Floods

108. ANGELES, March 2 (U. P).

'—An all-night rainstorm sent water

coursing down city streets. today, filling them from curb to curb, and inundated low places and highways. ‘Many families were marooned but tes | there were no casualties. Office workers were obliged to ‘wade water knee deep to reach

through “| | their places of employment. : The ran\giaried at 9 p.m. ye |

ued today.

Streets of Los Angeles

biles were abandoned where they stalled. Landslides in the hill districts blocked streets. Trees, their roots loosened: by wal water, toppled.

Cold May Follow id 8 Son Rains

ing abductors might slay the 12-year- by

less father maintained his vigil be- |, side the special telephones installed

roy with the distraught father,

At no time on his flight south from San Francisco did Capt. Graves report any trouble other than that ice was forming on the wings when he was flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet between

Tejon and Saugus. That was when he advised offi« cials of his line that he decided to turn northward. : - Amateur Reports Message San Francisco offices of T. W. A. announced this afternoon that an East Oakland radio amateur. ree ported that he had reéeived a short wave message. su sent out the missing plane saying: 1 “We're all sale but very uncom fortable.”. 4 Mrs. C. G. Landry, ‘wife of an emJloyee at the Edison Co. power ouse at Huntington: ‘Lake, reported that she saw the plane flying déwn the San Joaquin River at an altitude of 500. feet at. 9:20 p. m. Because of her report, the airline sent its Fresno manager and others of a search party by automobile to the vicinity. The Bureau of Air Commerce dn Washington ordered three inspectors to report immediately to the area.' R. W. Delany, Kansas City airline inspector, and W. E. Phelan and J. E. Read; Los Angeles, were sent to conduct preliminary investigation :in event of fatal accident. The power house is about 40 milés north and east of Fresno and is ab ah altitude of 4500 feet. On each side of the river mountain ranges rear another 1000 feet. Search for the plane, it was said, would be handicapped by. the fact that the Kerckhoff Bridge across

ing in one of the numerous, vacant | the San Joaquin was out and would

prevent automobiles from reaching the vicinity where the craft was last sighted. That the craft was down was a foregone conclusion. Old-Type Plane The plane was one of the older type Douglas bimotored airliners, It was on a shuttle line usually connecting ‘San Francisco with the main T. W. A. transcontinental route at Winslow, Ariz. because of weather conditions the flight was switched to Los Angeles instead of Winslow last night. The passengers were: Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Walts, of San Francisco, en route to Chicago on a pleasure trip. He is a salesman with the Standard Oil Co.’ V. Krause, San Francisco, Stepe father of Gene Klose, a- TWA pilot of Ka City. Mr. Krause was en route to Kansas City to visit his stepson. Jay Tracy Dirlam and Mary Louise Dirlam, Stanford University students en route to their home at Mansfield, O. He is a senior and his sister a sophomore. They were en route to the bedside of their dying father. : 'M. H. Salisbury, a company pilot en route to Winslow, Ariz. He had been visiting his mother at Walnut Grove, Cal. The crew included: Capt. Graves, chief pilot, Palo Alto, Cal. aia W. Wallace, co-pilot, Tuscon,

Martha e Wilson, hostess, fore merly of Philadelphia.

Pilot Dies in Crash

On lllinois Farm CHESTERFIELD, Ill, March 2 (U. P.) —A pilot, said to be William Greieve, 21, Toronto, ‘Canada, was killed today when n bis plane crashed on a farm near here The body bore three metal tags around the. neck, with the number “148” stamped on them. He is said to have been a student at Parks ar College, East St. Louis

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