Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1938 — Page 1
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[Scripps —wowarpl] VOLUME 49-~NUMBER 307
Robert P. Scripps Dies at Sea: Roy Howard Heads Trustees Of Newspapers, Press Agencies
FLOOD DEATHS MAY PASS 200;
FOOD IS SHORT
87 Known Dead, 150 Reported Missing in 30,000 Square Mile Coast Area.
LOOTING IS WIDESPREAD
Property Damage 25 Million; Rehabilitation to Take Many Months.
{Death List, Pg. 9; Photos, Pg. 3)
LOS ANGELES, March 4 (U. P.). —Dwindling food supplies added to the suffering -today in a 30,000-square-mile area of water-soazed Southern California. Officials estimated the death toll of the recordbreaking rainstorm and flood would reach or exceed 200. Eighty-seven persons were known dead. : One hundred fifty persons were reported missing and believed dead. Property damage was estimated at $25,000,000. Ten thousand persons were homeless. Many communities still were isolated and without communication facilities. Homes Are Looted Looting of abandoned homes was widespread. Six men were arrested for looting.
Sheriff Eugene W. Biscauluz of 5 Los Angeles County issued orders to] 7
bring in looters “alive if possible— but bring them in.” The sheriff said looters were rowing boats to partly submerged homes and carrying away all they could find. Reports of the theft of automobiles abandoned on streets and highways poured in at police and sheriff’s offices. _ Each hour brought new reports by short wave radio of destruction in the rough and scenic country within a 100-mile radius of Los Angeles. : Seventy-eight of the reported dead were distributed as follows: Los Angeles, 7; Riverside, 15; San Bernardino, 10; Long Beach, 4; Ontario, 3; North Hollywood, 9; Glendale, 1; Pomona, 8; Maywood, 1; San Juan Capistrano, 2; Atwood-Ana-heim area, 103: Barstow-Victorville __ area, 2; ‘Wildwood, 6.
Los “Angeles County, 23; Long * Beach, 5; North Hollywood, 9; Glendale, 3; Maywood, 2; AnaheimAtwood area, 8; Wintersburg, 2; Barstow-Victorville area, 36; Ventura, 3
Publisher Stricken on Yacht in Pacific; Age 42.
NEW YORK, March 4 (U. P.). —Following receipt of news of the death of Robert P. Scripps, it was explained at the general offices of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers here today that control of the concern is vested in the trust, founded by his father, the late E. W. Scripps. During his life Robert P. Scripps was the sole trustee and, as such, the controlling stockholder. The trust provides that in the event of the death of Robert P. Scripps the control shall be vested in three trustees: Roy W. Howard, chairman of the executive committee of all ScrippsHoward corporations; William W. Hawkins, chairman of the board, and George B. Parker, editor-in-chief. Mr. Howard is the senior trustee,
SAN DIEGO, Cal, March 4 (U. P.).—Robert P. Scripps, controlling stockholder of The Indianapolis Times and other ScrippsHoward newspapers, died at 3 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) yesterday aboard his yact, Novia Del Mar, off Santa Margarita Island in Magdalena Bay. The news was received in a message to Navy radio headquarters here and released by Rear Admiral Sinclair Gannon, commanding the 11th Naval District. Admiral Gannon’s anouncement said: “At 2107 (9:07 p. m. Pacific Time Thursday) Navy radio here received the following message: ‘R. P. Scripps died 1 p. m. aboard yacht Novia Del Mar. Signed, Master.”
Death Due to Hemorrhage
Other wireless messages said that death was due to-an internal hemorrhage. Mr, Scripps was 42. The body was transshipped from the yacht to the Panama Pacific liner Pennsylvania at 6 p. m. yesterday, radiograms from the Pennsylvania reported. The liner was northbound to Los Angeles. Mr. Scripps sailed from San Diego on Feb. 22 with a party of friends, including George B. Parker, editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Howard
Newspapers, and Joseph L. Cau-
thorn, general business manager of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers in California, The San Francisco News and The San Diego Sun. Mr. Parker, Mr. Cauthorn and Mr. Scripps’ secretary, Ed Waltz, were aboard the Pennsylvania with the
Los Angeles’ communications with
the outside world were restored gradually after 24 hours during which them tropolis was cut off except for radio and for part of the time with one or two shaky telegraph wires. Hundreds of circuits were washed out. United Press news wires to Los Angeles were restored at approximately 11:30 (Indianapolis Time) last night. Amateur radio operators in Los Angeles and Berkeley transmitted dispatches to and from the flood area during part of the time the wires were out.
Weather Clearing
Waters were receding today; the weather was clearing after four days of steady rain, but the gigantic task of rehabilitation was yet to get under way. A score of towns were without power or lights; some were still half submerged in ebbing waters; bridges were out; roads blocked by landslides; thousands were homeless refugees. Rescue workers followed the draining waters, hunting for bodies in the debris. Bodies were washed out to sea in the swirling, yellow
streams and were lost.
Food sales were restricted in San Bernardino, 60 miles east of here. Rain water was collected to drink in some places. Among those without adequate drinking water were residents of Malibu Beach, residential colony of movie stars. Rain water there was being saved. Hundreds of wealthy tourists, including film folk, were stranded at Palm Springs. A plane was chartered here to fly there with 400 pounds of milk, -bread, butter, and meat, and 500 candles. The plane was obtained from Paul Mantz, Hollywood stunt flier and former technical adviser to the late Amelia Earhart. Not until late last night was it learned that the flood crest, just before whipping out to sea, wiped out the village of Atwood and swept through Anaheim to take a toll of 10 known dead and eight missing. Two CCC youths reached a telephone from Camp Baldy, in the San Bernardino Mountains, early today and reported that the camp was destroyed; two were dead and several missing. Airplanes were used to drop food (Turn to Page Nine)
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Johnson ..... 16 Movies ........ 18 Mrs. Ferguson 15 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 Music ........27 Obituaries ......21 Pyle ......... 15
Autos ........ 13 Books ...........15 Broun ...........16
Dutcher ......... 16 Editorials ......16 Radio ..... 27 Fashions ..... 11 Scherrer ....... 15 Financial .........20 Serial Story.. 26 Flynn ......... 16 Short Story..26 16 | Society ......10, 11
Forum .. 16 Grin, Bear It. 26 In Indpls..... 3
Robert P. Scripps’ father E. W.
Scripps, died aboard his yacht, the
Ohio, in the harbor of Monrovia, Liberia, in 1926, and was buried at sea.
Wife, 6 Children Survive
Mr. Scripps is survived by his wife, Margaret Culbertson Scripps, and six children, Robert P. Jr. 19; Charles E., 17; Margaret Ellen, 16; Nackey Elizabeth, 14; Samuel H,, 11, and Edward Wyllis III, 9. Santa Margarita Island, Mexico, is 700 miles south of San Diego. Mr. Scripps apparently was Stricken with a hemorrhage of the throat early Thursday morning. Henry Kruse, master of the yacht, sent an emergency radio to the United States Coast Guard at 8:35 a. m, yesterday reporting his condition as “serious,” and requesting that Dr. James Churchill, Mr. Scripps’ personal physician, be flown to the island. Dr. Churchill attempted to radio instructions to the yacht for Mr. Scripps’ care. There are 24 Scripps-Howard newspapers. Besides The Indianapolis Times, they are: Akron Times-Press, Albuquerque Tribune, Birmingham Post, Buffalo Times, Cincinnati Post, Cleveland Press, Columbus Citizen, Denver Rocky Mountain News, El Paso Her-ald-Post. Evansville Press, Fort Worth Press, Houston Press, Kentucky Post, Knoxville News-Sentinel, Memphis Press-Scimitar, Memphis Commercial-Appeal. New York World-Telegram, Pittsburgh Press, Oklahoma News, San Diego Sun, Washington Daily News. Other Scripps-Howard enterprises include: The United Press Associations, NEA Service, Acme Newspictures,
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1938
Robert P. Scripps
United Feature Syndicate and
others.
Mrs. Scripps in Mexico, Will Fly Home
ACAPULCO, Mexico, March 4 (U. P.).—Mrs. Robert P. Scripps, widow of the newspaper executive, and two of her sons, Robert P. Jr., 19, and Charles H., 17, disembarked from the southbound Panama-Pa-cific liner California at this port yesterday and are enroute ‘to Mexico City by automobile. gis Scripps plans to leave: MexCity today by plane and is eheduied to arrive in Los Angeles Sunday noon. Mrs. Scripps and the two boys were on their way to New York by way of the Panama Canal when they, learned of Mr. Scripps’ illness.
Succeeded His Father At an Early Age
When Robert Paine Scripps, youngest son and heir of the founder of Scripps-Howard, E. W. Scripps, was 12 and a tall, frail boy, he announced that he would be a poet. The Spanish walls of the Scripps ranch, Miramar, did not fall in. Nor did the great publisher storm or rail at his son’s deviation from the sterner paths of journalism. He let the fever of youth and romance run its course. E. W. Scripps continued to impose three = hours’ reading a day in history, and the reading" of all correspondence between his father and Scripps executives. The elder Mr. Scripps’ sister, an understanding . woman, privately published some of young Robert's poetry and gave the book to him on his marriage day. Only 100 copies were printed. Robert Scripps went to school in his father’s original “university,” then managed Miramar ranch. He traveled in Europe, worked as circulation canvasser and reporter in Philadelphia, as an editor in San Diego, a circulation hustler in Bakersfield, Cal, a reporter in Eureka, Cal. He went on his own out to Hawaii and Australia.
He Gets His First Beat
In Bakersfield, he carried a sample washboard to the back doors, canvassing for circulation. The paper he served, not owned by his father, was giving away washboards as premiums. Circulation results were not so good and young Robert went into business there in the oil fields. He took a contract for hauling pipe and failed when damages he paid to an injured workman wiped out profits and reserves. The Eureka experience gave him
Michigan Dealers Confer
Here Today
A delegation of Michigan beer wholesalers was to arrive here today to confer with Indiana authorities on methods to end the beer tariff war. Hugh A. Barnhart, state excise
director, said he had no official in- |
formation on the meeting, but expected to confer with the delegation today or tomorrow. This delegation yesterday asked Governor Murphy of Michigan at a Lansing conference to postpone or abandon Michigan's embargo on Indiana beer, scheduled to start March 14 On the same date, Indiana, in retaliation, is to bar import of all alcoholic beverage manufactured in Michigan. Edward W. McFarland, Michigan Liquor Control Commission chairman, has indicated Mich-
| | igan now may consider placing a
ban on Indiana hard liquor. He
estimated Indiana ships »
‘law against states
on Beer War
mately 300,000 cases of spirits into Michigan annually. A few weeks ago, Mr. Barnhart made several unsuccessful attempts to arrange conferences. :
Michigan Enforcement Called Mandatory
LANSING, Mich., March 4 «(U. P.).—Beer distributors of Michigan took their plea to end the Michi-gan-Indiana beer feud directly to the Hoosier Capitol today. A delegation of 55 wholesalers last night named four men to represent them at Indianapolis after the Michigan Liquor Control Commission announced it had no alternative but to enforce the mandatory ‘discriminating against Michigan beer. “Our hands are tied,” Chairman Edward W. McEarland told the dele-
gation, “March 14 still I March 14]
‘cause the editors and
his first taste of a “beat.” Assigned to the marine reporting job, at $1 a day, he left one day, without warning, and traveled 40 miles with the sheriff to a point where three circus hands had been. killed in a fight with lumberjacks. His story was spread over the first page of his newspaper. It was exclusive, but the editor hawled him out nevertheless for deserting his marine
post. : In Honolulu, the young adventurer “joined up with Jack London and together they saw the town. He worked on a newspaper in Australia and, on assignment from his | father; id minutely on: .ecos nomie,: ‘political and, business cond-
tions. Became. Expert -Boxer Upon his return in 1916, his father directed him to write a novel, based upon his experiences, within | six weeks. He also required him to build up his body under a physical tutor, who, among other things, taught Robert to box. The young man became an expert amateur boxer. Young Mr. Scripps was just over six feet tall and muscular, physically the image of his father. He wrote the book. Fae | The imminence of American participation in the World War brought E. W. Scripps out of a retirement he had entered in 1908. He moved to Washington in May, 1917, Young Mr. Scripps, qualified by the type of his training, became his right hand. Differences were developing between E. W. Scripps and his oldest son, James @., who had been in nominal command as chairman of the board since 1908. The’ ather abruptly appointed Robert pps editor-in-chief, responsible to no one but himself. “It was decided to throw the young man into deep water and let him sink or swim,” Negley D. Cochran, a trusted associate of E. W. Scripps and his - biographer, wrote. “He swam. He has shown no disposition to sink at any time since.” Over the elder Mr. Scripps’ protests, he went to Camp Sherman, O., to join the Army, but he was exempted from the draft and established in Washington as the fullfledged editorial director of -a powerful aggregation of journalistic influence. Three years later, Roy W. Howard, a native of Indianapolis, left the presidency of the United Press to become the partner and associate of Robert P. Scripps. In
1922, the young men—Mr. Howard
being 39, Mr. Scripps 27—formed the Secripps-Howard partnership and ushered the Scripps enterprise into a period of wide expansion. They successfully launched an invasion of the Eastern field which
took them into Washington, Pitts-|. | burgh, New York and Buffalo. They
strengthened their forces in other cities throughout the nation by newspaper purchases and mergers,
Wrote Rarely Under Own Name
In 1926, E. W. Scripps died aboard his yacht, Ohio, in the harbor. of Monrovia, Liberia. Robert Paine Scripps, the sole surviving son, inherited the trusteeship of the Scripps enterprises. At 21, upon being thrust inty command, he had seemed shy, unassertive. He confessed later that the responsibility weighed upon
“I was embarrassed when I fe took over this job,” he Said, executives were all men of greater age and ‘experience. My associates appreciate the fact that I am not arbitrary, that I do not set myself up as a sort of oracle of infallible editorial judgment. While I'am the controlling stockholder, I do - wish’ to be a dictator.” A mythical figure to most of ‘the millions of persons who read his| newspapers. and the proguey of his. services, Ri P.:
E | ton, 44 to 19
DECATUR AND SHORTRIDGE IN FEATURE TILT
Clash Tonight in Sectional Cage Battle at Tech; Manual Also Wins.
FEW UPSETS IN STATE
Broad Ripple, Lawrence and ‘Castleton Defeated in Morning Games, \
{Detalls, Pages 22, 23, 24; Photo Page 23 23)
Shortridge and Decatur Central, two favorites in the local sectional of the state high school basketball tourney, tangle tonight in the feature battle of today’s program at Tech gym. They’ advanced to the second round; with Manual, in games this
morning. Three more games were scheduled this afternoon. Manual staved off a desperate rally by Lawrence in the opener to win, 20 to 19. Decatur had an easier
.|time defeating a battling Broad
Ripple five, 35 to 22, while in the third morning engagement, Shortridge won in a romp from Castle-
Only Few Upsets
Meanwhile, favorites continued to advance throughout the stat with few upsets. ‘Speedway and Southport opened this afternoon’s activity in the local sectional, squaring away in the 2 p. m. game. New Augusta and Beech Grove were to clash at 3 p. m,, completing the first round. The 4 p. m. game was. to bring together Ben Davis and Washington, this year’s city champions. Ben Davis moved into the second round last night by walloping Oaklandon while Washington was taking the measure of Warren Central. Technical, winner of the third engagement last night, meets Manual in the first game on tonight's program, scheduled -for 7 p. m. The third game tonight will bring
together the winners of the two first | ‘Municipal Court judges fined 48 a ‘total of $309, but suspended an ad-
games this afternoon, the Speed-way-Southport and New -AugustaBeech Grove games.
"The first of the deluge’ of spc ;
the sta e the ay Hammond Clark defeated whiting, 31 to 24, and Hobart beat Ham
mond Tech, 38 to 25. Remington Score Bistint”
Whiting had whipped Clark twice during the scheduled season. Hammond Tech, although not a powerful five, had been favored over Hobart, a small county team. - The high score of morning play was: at Morocco where Remington crushed Kinman, 79 to 15. Other favorites came through with victories. Central of Evansville started off by taking Wadesville, 73 to 13. Tipton, which defeated Noblesville twice before the lourneys, | game back again with a 37 to 27 wi Rochusier one of the 1937 state quarter-finalists, beat Richland Center, 36 to 18. Horace Mann of JGary established itself as fhe probable champion of the Gary sectional as it went past Valparaiso, 31 to 28. Valpo was one of the few teams to upset Hammond 's Wildeats this season.
M’NUTT SECRETARY'S "CLAIM IS DISALLOWED
WASHINGTON, March 4 (U. P.). —Acting - Controller General Richard N. Elliott of Connersville, Ind., today declined to pay Philippine travel expenses of the husband of High Commissioner Paul V, McNutt’s private secretary. Mr. Elliott - disallowed $505.55 in the account of Mrs. Margaret Buchanan Headdy, Commissioner ‘McNutt’s = secretary. came when she reported her husband was not dependent upon her. Mr. Elliott advised McNutt that he had ordered that expenses be paid only to “dependent” members of families of his appointees.
HIT-RUN VICTIM DIES TERRE HAUTE, March 4 (U.P). —Ira M. Stoody died at a hospital here last night from injuries suffered when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver. He was 65
‘from
The * action |
Ridneped Boy's Father Pleads To Pay Ransom
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., March 4 (U. P.) —Murray Levine, New York attorney, issued a second appeal to-
old son, Peter, assuring them he was ready to pay a ransom of $30,000 for the boy’s release. | Mr. Levine directed his appeal ‘through the press. It read: | “The last note received by me demanded $30,000. That amount is
ready. The go-between directed by that note tried very hard to deliver the money but failed. He is still
willing to act and so am I. “I am sure than any other re-
liable person selected by the holders of my boy would also be willing
to act.”
Mr. Levine gave out the appeal
by telephone to reporters.
Police and G-Men left a clear
channel to the Levine home, and Mr. Levine reassured the abductors that “the police and Federal authorities are not interfering and will not interfere.”
WOMAN KILLED BY AUTO HERE
Motorist Sentenced on Tipsy Driving Charge; Second Put on Probation.
Marion County’s 1938 traffic death toll today had reached 21, compared with 34 for the corresponding 1937 period, while police and Municipal Court judges “bore down” on al-
leged traffic violators.
The latest victim was Mrs. Daisy Drake, 232 Parkview Ave., killed last
night when struck by an auto.
Meanwhile, Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell fixed March 16 as the date for a hearing on the suit of T. Ernest Maholm for a temporary injunction against the Indiana windshield fitleholder law enforcement. He named as judges to sit with him in the case, U. S. Circuit Court: of Appeals Judge Will M. Sparks, Chicago, and U. 8. District Judge Philip L. Sullivan, also of Chicago.
One Gets Jail Term After police arrested 81 drivers,
ditional $230.
“The: penalty imposed upon: one of: g two. ‘convicted of drunken driving] doe ;Hineluded a 130-day Jail term. The other was placed on probation for six months after his. mother fainted courtroom.
in the
Oliver Morgan, 43, of 435 Jefferson Ave. was before Judge John L.
McNelis charged with being’ drunk,
driving while drunk and resisting
an officer.
The defendant said that he had not had anything to drink for sev-|a
eral hours before/he was arrested.
Judge McNelis withheld judgment on the resisting charge, but on the drunken driving charge fined him $25 and costs and revoked his driver’s license for six months, and on the drunk charge fined him $5 and costs and sentenced him to the State Farm for 30 days, suspending
‘the term.
As he was escorted back to the bench with. prisoners unable to pay
their fines, his mother fainted, Put on Probation
When she was: revived the judge
said he would put the man on probation for six months.
Mrs. Drake was killed late yesterday at Jefferson Ave. and New York St. when struck by an automobile driven by Frank E. Blackman, 24, used car salesman of 2415 N. Alabama St. He was detained for further questioning. Mrs, Drake was
65.
Mrs. Drake, according to a companion, Mrs. Sarah Lynn, of the Parkview address, had just stepped off the curb when Mr. Blackman’s
car, headed east cn New Yvurk St., struck her.
Train Victim Is L Dead; Another in Hospital
Leroy Lipton, 21, of 421 Hiawatha today from injuires received yesterday when struck by. a Pennsylvania Railroad train on a trestle over White River at the Kingan & Co.
St., died at City Haspital
packing plant. - Robert W. Waters, 51, City Hospital with serious juries received ' yesterday when struck by an Illinois Central Rail-
was
road train at Senate ‘Ave. and the
Belt railroad.
Bar Groups
to Propose
Nonparty Vote on Judges
Thomas D. Stevenson, Indianapolis Bar Association president, said today local judicial committees throughout Indiana are to recomn-. mend to the State Bar Association plans. for nonpartisan election of judges. At the same time he antiounced the resignation of Russell J. Ryan as chairman of the local association’s judicial committee. He said Mr. Ryan resigned when he. announced his candidacy for Democratic nomination to to the Superior Court 3 bench. “The State Bar Association's fight on’ partisan selection of judges was opened Wednesday High by Presi-
diana Association has taken up the
fight because it afrects the State as a whole.” James C. Jay, Indianapolis Association secretary, said: “The nonpartisan movement is a forward step which logically should follow the bar’s fight to raise standards of attorneys. I am highly in favor of it.” Mr. Stevenson said approved plans ‘will be submitted to the State judicial committee which will take pro-
posals to the 1939 Legislature. Actual changes, however, could
not be effected for four years after that because clective = judges throughout the State will be beginning new terms, he said. Present 1s would affect
{only the statutory benches because |tions h ‘would . Tequie a Constitutional
t to change the manner _ Supreme and Clroult {poration
Ti 1 es
Ente red as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
day to the kidnapers of his 12-year-|
in in-
FINAL
HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
NEW DEAL AIMS T0 BE PRESSED,
ROOSEVELT SAYS
‘Fight on Special Privilege Will Continue, President Tells Reporters on Fifth
ATTENDS BRIEF
Anniversary of Inauguration.
CHURCH SERVICE
Favors Continued Publication of _Salaries;
Calls Undistributed Profits Tax Consistent Part of Program.
WASHINGTON, March 4
(Other National Affairs, Page Seven)
(U. P.) .—President Roosevelt
today opened his sixth year in office with a reaffirmation of faith in the principles and objectives of the New Deal.
He characterized the prime current objective of the Ad-
ministration as the attainment of an increased purchasing
power for the mass of the nation, declaring that ‘after five years the ship of state still is on the same course.”
said little, except to issue a frank appeal for continuance of present tax law provisions for publicity of corporate salaries and remuneration in brackets above $15,000. This provision is eliminated in the tax revision bill under debate
in the House. The fight on special privilege, he
declared, will continue and cited the undistributed profits tax and the tax loophole act of 1937 as efforts to carry forward this campaign. As a text for his anniversary remarks, Mr. Roosevelt took Psalm 15, which had been read a few moments before at brief services at St. John’s Church, across Lafayette Square from the White House. The psalm is in praise of “le that teadeth an uncorrupt life and oeth the thing which is right and spéaketh the truth from his heart” “he that hath used no deceit in his tongue. nor done evil to his neighbour,” and “he that hath not given his ‘money upon usury, nor taken reward against the innocent.” Mr. Roosevelt presented his statement after he returned from St. John’s, where he also attended brief services Inauguration Day five years
go. : : The President emphasized that through his years in office the Administration clung to the same objectives and the same ideals. However, said Mr. Roosevelt, it is worth while to draw a distinction between those objectives and the policies carried out in order to attain them,
Warns Special “Privilege”
ministration would go ahead with
its war on special privilege and declared that he felt encouraged, too, that so-called pressure groups were being eliminated. - Today, on March 4, 1938, said the President, the main New Deal obJjedtive is increasing the purchasing power of the people as a whole. This objective, he said, should not be confused by methods undertaken to attain it. A good many people, he said, confuse methods and objectives and consequently misinterpret moves by the Administration -to keep the ship of state on its
course. As an illustration he cited the experience of April, 1937, when the Administration was fearful that its efforts to stabilize values were being threatened by an inflationary boom. Consequently, said the President; he put the helm of the ship of state hard astarboard. Hopeful for Farmers Mr. Roosevelt said he felt encouraged that business as a whole was getting an understanding of the general picture and that people are beginning to think that increased purchasing power is. necessary for economic improvement. He expressed belief that the new farm act 1 protect purchasing power of 50 miillion Americans who are dependent upon agricultural prices. That will help industry and the workers in industry as well. Mr. Roosevelt reaffirmed his determination for enactmént of a wage-hour measure. He said it was his intention to put a floor er wages and a ceiling ‘over h While it may not come
hoped that it would. He said there would be no relaxation of efforts to end special privilege. To end it, he declared, is for the good of the country. It would be good he asserted, for stocks and bonds and business generally. Speaks of Private Trust
~-He placed the tax bills of the last two years in the category of efforts to end special privilege. He said that while public office is a public trust private office also is a public trust. | There is no valid reason, he ide‘clared, why the new tax hill should repeal the clause making public the salaries and bonuses to officials o companies controlled ‘ by hn of stockholders or the officials closely-held family-owned corpora~ ons. It is a question of public. morals, he said.
Talking of closely-held family § corporations, he said the;
Of specific measures, he?
He warned plainly that the Ad-
this | session of Congress, he said he
porations, but he said we know of a great many cases where the family owned company has put on the public record that there has been no“ profit while at the same time they were paying to the family owners a handsome profit in the way of large salaries.
Satirizes Confirmation
The President was asked if he favored legislation that would allow the Senate to confirm all Govern ment employees in jobs paying
from $5000 and up. He said ‘that if the Senate wanted to do a complete job why not include jobs in the $4000, $3000 and $2000 categories and also require confirmation for scrubwomen and messenger boys. In stressing the necessity of raising purchasing power Mr,
friends come, in and know nothing,
lems of Government but are cone cerned A with their own line of “business: He ;-he- has:
lems?” Reform Eclipsed
The President then reminds them that there are 15 or 20 million Americans who have no purchasing power at all and that business generally should think of creating such a power for business’ own good. As the President begins his sixth year in office recovery is considered the vital political and economic necessity of the New Deal and reform. appears to be in temporary eclipse. The steepest decline in business activity in the nation’s history took place last autumn. Congress has broken the President’s grip on legislation and is balking at reforms promised by Mr. Roosevelt “in the 1936 campaign.
Bitterness Noted
The New Deal-Democratic Party which returned Mr. Roosevelt to of« fice in 1936 with the electoral votes of all but two states is an infirm structure today although there is no demonstrable proof that Mr. Roosevelt has become a minority leader. The party is divided in Congress and must’ go into this year’s general election in a spirit
of ill-will. Some obser believe now that one of the greatest factors of Roose= compellingly attractive individual has appeared from within the ranks
‘of his own party or elsewhere to
lead the political opposition. The organized labor movement, which deployed in fairly good order in support of the 1936 New Deal camepaign, is so badly ruptured now by
litical effectiveness is likely to be reduced by 1940. Government officials appear to be uncertain of future policies and it is known that Mr. Roosevelt is receiving conflicting advice ranging from a return to free-handed spend=ing to complete abandonment of reform objectives and a revision of the New Deal along lines more ace ceptable to business. :
RAIN TO CONTINUE,
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A slow, steady drizzle today here alded a warmer but wet week-end for Indianapolis, the Weather Bu. i reau said. Rain will continue tonight and to= morrow, it was predicted. The lowest temperature tonight probably will above freezing. Meanwhile, the Highway Comm sion warned matorists to drive ce fully as sleet and snow blanke roads up-State. :
POLICE AND SOLDIERS FIGE JUAREZ, Mexico, March 4 (U. P) ~—Three men were killed and th others were ‘wounded today in a
Roosevelt said that many of his “. for example, of the broad probe :
internal disturbances that its po-
: ! ih asked them what they thought of” ' the sharegropper and the tenant 0 farmers’ problems and the invariable answer is, he said: : “What-do you mean by the prob=
velt political strength is that no.