Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1938 — Page 1
closed because of water.
[== mon] VOLUME 50—NUMBER 6
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Streams Gor tinue to Climbin Southern Sactor; Wabash - Stage Is Up.
12 ROADS Now CLOSED
Expected to Tomorrow if Rains Are’ Not Too Heavy.
-Showers wer= predicted for Indiana “fonight or tomorrow ' as southern Indiara streams continued a slow rise anc one more road was
* The State Fighway Commission reported that 2 roads now closed because of high water will be open for traffic by tomorrow afternoon, if the rains are no‘ too heavy.
TEMPERATURES
cee 36 10 a. m... 50 ve 3 Nam... 54 «as 4 12 (Noon).. 56 vee 4 1p m....
The Weathe Bureau reported that a storm, about the same proportion as the one that last week brought flood ~ains, was as far west now as. Minnesota and moving this way. But the storm, the Bureau said, is unpredic able. Stages of the "Vabash River south of Lafayette today were slightly higher than yé¢sterday, and the Bureau said the crést had been passed - at Lafoyette. The stages were: The Wabash: Covington, 19 feet, up 23; Terre Iaute, 15.2, up .07; Vincennes, 13.6, 1p .02; Mt. Carmel, 185, up: 05; New Harmony, 14.2,
Pp “05. - West branch ¢° White River: Indianapolis, 10, down .4; Elliston, 25.6 the same, 2d Edwardsport, 19, up 2. East branch of White River: Shoals, 16.4, wp, 3. Mainstream of White River, [Iatersburg, 20.7, up 13, and _Hagellor up .09.
#74%6kd Cond: ans Reported The ‘Highway Jommission’s early report. roads’ in the Vincennes
detour running x, a AT . Ind. 44—Three, /nches of water beI Franklin» dd Shelbyville; not
closed. Ind. 46—Close: west of Columbus; detour over Indi na 58 and county Ind. 67—Cov-ed at Ramona; closed between Martinsville and Spencer. Ind. 235—Clos:1 east of Medora; detour over: Ind: aa 50 and 135. Ind. 135 — Cased northwest of Brownstown; nc detour designated. Ind, 250—Clos-1 east of Brownstown; no detour lesignated. Ind. 258—Clos- eat of Seymour; no To desig ated High water telayed work on southern Indian. roads. A bridge runaround on . S. Highway 27, one mile south: st of Lberty, was lifted during tk- past week. © WPA Gran to Be Asked Marion Coun'y:- Commissioners today said ther will ask a WPA grant for clean: 7 ditches lying between W. Wash: 2gton St. and the Big Four Railro-d and west of the Hohlt Road in " ’ayne Township. The action - me after a delegation of 100 persons told the Commissioners hat recent rains had flooded lots and roads in that area and that v fer was not drain-
ing off properly.
TWO KILL'D IN AUTO CRASH NEAR CLINTON
* CLINTON, wn rch 18 (U. P)~— 2 Two: persons wcr2 killed and four
8 ean Kulenski, ‘Terre Haute, driv"a of tho ower car, was rushed to ; Angiony's Jospital at Terre hi: condition was re-
¢ all of whom were 2 were Paul vie, and A Alva Ball ye: is, facial and head
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DICUS IS NAMED HIGHWAY CHIEF
Chairman Resigns Post After Conference in Governor’s Office.
Governor Townsend today announced the resignation of Earl Crawford, Indiana Highway Commission chairman. ; T. A. Dicus of Marion was named his successor. The announcement followed a conference of State officials and Democratic Party leaders in the Governor’s office.
“Mr. Crawford, appointed to head the Commision in. 1934, was candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in the ‘1928 primary election. ; He represented Fayette and Wayne Counties in the Legislature |as in 1813. He sérved as a member of the State Highway Commission from the time of its organization in 1919 until Apel 17, 1926.
He ws district ditector 6f the Indiana Farm Bureau and was connected with the Fayette sank ae Trust Co. of. Connarsvifl e™
|Rails Ask Rise
In Intrastate Freight Rates
- Fifteen railroads today petitioned the Indiana Public. Service Commission to grant them the same 10 per cent increase in intrastate freight rates as was authorized March 8 by the Interstate Commerce Commission on interstate shipments. “The railroads face a crisis in their existence, confronted as they have been and are with greatly increased costs of operation and with greatly increased taxes,” the petition set forth.
PENNSYLVANIA WORK “LAW HELD INVALID
‘HARRISBURG, Pa, Pa., March 18 (U. . P.)—Pennsylvania’s 44-hour work week law, affecting nearly 3,000,000 workers, was declared unconsti*utional today by the Dauphin Ceunty Court. Judge 'W. C. ‘Sheely ruled the maximum hours law void in a brief. decree in order that an appeal might be taken by the state to the Pennsylvania Supreme Couit: by Monday. He said formal adjudication of the challenge on the law , | woud be handed down ina few ays
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BANKERS’ AD | FAVORS LIT | ONFDRPOWER,
‘Carte Blanche’ Authority Seen in Reorganization Bill by Needham.
RISING DEBT IS ‘SCORED
Considered Peril to U. S. Bond Prices by Chicago Representative.
One speaker criticized New Deal measures and another - predicted that Federal Government bonds will lose their stability if the public
‘debt continues to rise, at the closing sessions of the American Bankers Association Regional Conference here today. The Reorganization Bill. now pending in the U. S. Senate “would give the President almost carte blanche authority to do anything he wants,” D. J. Needham, Association Washington counsel declared. He spoke at the Claypool Hotel. In an interview, he asserted that the Reorganization ‘Bill is meeting “a8 much opposition as the President’s Court Bill.” “Unless Congress gets the jump on him,” he said, “the President will have authority to. transfer or abolish nearly all special agencies of" the Federal Government. Want Controller Exempt “The Association is trying to get the office of the Controller of the Currency exempted from the bill by amendment. The Federal Reserve System and Securities and Exchange Commisson are already exempted under the bill’s provisions.” Commenting on the Administration tax bill. Mr. Needham said: “I don’t believe the men who drew up that ‘legislation know what it would do to bankers of the country. It ‘would prevent banks from de-
‘ducting bonds that go sour from
their income tax ‘reports. It rules they are no longer to be classified ‘bad debts.’ ” *o. P. Decker, of Chicago, American National Bank and T Trust Co. vice president, scoring New Deal
Snanessl DO sal;
ple ‘man. can’ the .. market ony bonds,
“ime ones the market. Seen free. “If people want their money and become afraid of Government
‘| bonds, - the Government bond mar-
ket will sell down and the liquidity of Government bonds will disap-
Until :the New Deal: changes its] disapproval of utilities. ung Revd ‘manufacturing industries, declared, “the future trend of He securities markets appears to be largely a matter of conjecture.” It is more important for banks to be. profitable than for individual businesses because upon the strength of the banks rests: the financial security of the nation, E. S. Woolley, New York accountant, declared. : : Bank Income Drops “Banks are corporations organized for profit. They must sell for more than costs if they are to continue in business. No matter how large, they cannot remain safe banks unless they are profitable.” A public meeting climaxing the conference will be : held tonight,
| featuring an -address by Merle
Thorpe, editor of Nation’s Business, ‘official U. S. Chamber of Commerce publication. He is to speak at 8 p. m. in the Murat Temple on “Putting Dollars in Overalls.” Speaking at last night’s session, William B. Schiltges of Indianapolis, Fletcher Trust Co. first vice president, asserted a campaign to educate the youth and adults. of America to the banker’s viewpoint must be carried on if public confidence in banks is. to ‘be regained. “Many of us can leck back upon the years beginning with 1921 and ending -in the crisis of 1933, and | follow through the successive steps:
in the loss of ‘public confidence and |
respect which banks and Bankes suffered,” he said.
Attack Hinted on Relief Law’s Deportation Clause,
Possibility that the deportation clause in the 1935 Poor Relief Law will be attacked as at variance with the State Constitution was forecast today in the case of Sadie and Adam Anderson, ordered deported to Ken-
tucky by a Justice of Peace jury. Frank Williams, their aktoraey;
of
the local organization. of the American Civil Liberties ot; said 0 had. conferred with Attorney Wil-
sary, ‘he would attack the validity of :law.on the grounds that a Justice of Peace has authority to. remove. a person from one township to another, but none to remove a person from one state to another. . Mr; Smith declared at the time of
(8 Justice of the ‘| defendan
Peace order. : John H. Kingsbury, attorney for |r-
held in Justice of the Peace: John F. Manning’s court. Mr. Smith declared the statute allowed only the trustee or overseer of the poor in the countty to which |} th veo wa depois 48s
However, it was pointed out today} that a general statute, passed in 1852, gives the ie Hight of appeal from ‘peace court’ to-any
In the Siders case, “testimony
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aus said he stay in Kentucky had been only a visit, and contended he and his wife had ‘not relinquished their citizenship by. action. three minutes. Justice Manning refused to allow a motion for appeal after the case was tried there, Mr. Smith said today. Mr. Williams obtained a man-
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Special T VA
Roosevelt Hints He May Appoint Board
WASHINGTON, March 18 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt today suggested he might use his executive powers to create a special agency to: investigate - the basis of charges of dishonesty on the Tennessee Valley: Authority directorate. 'Flatly demanding the basis . of charges made by TVA Chairman
Arthur E. Morgan against his: as-
Sociates, Mr. ‘Roosevelt said he
dicated that’ plans for a congressional inquiry into the TVA battle might be headed off by direct action from the White House. Until. the suggestion -was: made, both friends ‘and foes believed a congressional investigation was/ ‘inevitable. a : Decision ‘Pending No, decision on: such an: inquiry was made ‘when Mr. Roosevelt ‘ad-’ journed his personal inquiry today until: Ménday. Reopening his investigation cof the ‘battle ‘ameéng the three. TVA directors, the President demanded all’ the facts. . He made the demand orally to Chairman Morgan, who faced him across his desk in the White House. Also opposite. him were Chairman Morgan’s associates — David E. Lilienthal and Harcourt A. Morgan —against ‘whom :the Chairman ‘had leveled the charges. : “I come back to where I left off Friday last,” the President said. “I. must ask Chairman; Morgan: to respond to’ the: questions I asked: ‘him last week, and I request: him at, this time ‘to. submit ' the: facts, if: any, ‘concerning ‘the. ‘matters:
When the first conference ‘with. the directors broke up, Chairman Morgan had defied the President’s demands for specific. information. .
Others: Give Evidence Mr. Roosevelt said Harcourt “Mor-|-gan and Mr. Lilienthal ‘submitted | as
points raised.“It is-worth nothing, ” ‘Mr. Roosevelt asserted, “that .the charges g Chairman { erans
NATIONAL AFFAI AFFAIRS '
. ROOSEVELT HINTS SPECIAL probe of TVA row. _ REORGANIZATION BILL amendment defeated. RAIL WAGE CUTS opposed ‘by President. BUSINESS BLAMES faulty taxes for recession. HULL SEES TRADE WAR likely- in pork tariff. JOHN L. LEWIS asks: three billion for: ‘relief, . WPA HALFWAY toward goal of 2,500,000. © FIRST LOANS approved for housing projects. HOUSE APPROVES MORE, planes for. Navy.
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that I inquired: about last week.” .
oral and documentary evidence on’
FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1938
Executive. Bill Adored:
YA Quiz H inted |
Minton ‘Quizzes Witness On Klan Charge
WASHINGTON, March 18 (U. P).~In the bitterest atmosphere of the session - the Senate today defeated the Wheeler Amendment to the Government Reorganization Bill,- refusing to" curtail the. measure’s broad grant of power to President. Roosevelt, The vote was 43 to 39. ‘Senator Minton of Indiana. voted against the amendment. Senator: VanNuys of Indians was not ee, eortied: as vo
~ Gonstitutiona al’ Go
e. I of the bill
charged - the: ‘Administration usta 'Caspe..
“ap, patronage and. projects” to win’ support’ of ‘wavering Senators. “The Wheeler Amendment was de--signed to require Congressional approval of any: changes in Government organization ordered by the President. Voy 4 Kian. Tssue Injected
FAL few ‘hours before the vote, the lobby Sui roses pe of tHe Constitutional ommittée and’ -CON= victéd under the war-time “Trading With. the Enemy Act and: ‘that he participated in Indiana Ku-Klux
"Klan affairs.
‘Both charges were dented by Mr.
‘Ruthely: who defied, on advice of
counsel; a committee subpena that he turn over records. of ‘his organization. - Mr. Rumley said he had been convicted -under ‘the Act, but that his | conviction was: set aside and that President Coolidge granted him. a
full pardon. He said Senator. Min-
ton’s ‘assertion. that he “helped organize the Ku-Klux ‘Klan in in In‘diana’ was “totally false.” On» the? ‘Senate » floor Senator ‘Wheeler (D. Mont.) ‘challenged Senator “Minton, to_ investigate the. acHivities of Srianizaiions favoring
Wheeler Demands. Probe
Describing the: lobby investigation ~ a “Kangaroo court,” Senator
lor demantied the {investigation
‘be broadened to include the American Farm Bureau. : Federation; American Federation of Labor, Vet.erans’ Bureau, “heads of several de-
Rebel Bombers Drop Leaflets
| —A “surrender or perish” ultimatum
struck 4 building. pet
: belligerents ‘in. ‘Spain.
oe: dist 3 Houle ¥ visit.
Times-Acme “Telephotos.
|*YIELD OR DIE, LOYALISTS TOLD
During Bombing of Barcelona.
(Copyright. 1938, by United: Press) BARCELONA, March 18: (U. P.).
to the terrorizéd populace. of Barcelona ‘was ‘punctuated today. with periodic blasts from Rebel sky raiders that added to the large: death toll almost hourly, ’ ““ For - the third consecutive day bombers roared’ over this Loyalist capital on . systematic raids. The sixth raid started four fires in the central part of the. city, The Government was beginning to fight back. = Two ‘bombers ‘were reported: to have been shot down in an air. battle: onthe outskirts, of the city. Antiafieraft guns were -re-
ported to have hit a third: plane. It hurtled down in midtown and
mad hopping up ARIS, at
and others arriving at ag ‘from Spain re an increasing number ‘ of . public - demonstrations in which Communist and" Socialist leaders were attempting to: get: thie populations to answer mobilization calls, but with indifferent success. : In the first four raids today, .at
least 50 buildings were destroyed ‘or. partially wrecked. Approximate | ejen iy 50 -weére ‘added to: the. ‘death toll, which. had reached : approximately 1000, with three times that number wounded. Most of the dead and ‘wounded were civilians.
an-exodus of terrified citizens to the comparative safety of the mountains awhich close Barcelona in on the sea. The city was like’ a dead ° city. ‘Offices, public buildings, siores, cafes, all were closed, and all ac-. tivity was concentrated on caring for the dead and wounded. The British, ‘freighter Clifford,
iorpadoed at 1 4. today off Cape Cerbere, reports said. :
WASHINGTON, } March 18 (U. P,).—Secretary of State: Cordell Hull - indicated : today. that. the ‘United States will . maintain, at least for the: present, the! embargo prohibiiing arms shipraents. to
Spanish Ambassador PFermando de los Rio had‘ appealed ‘publicly for rélaxation of the embargo to per‘mit Spanish Loyalists « to purchase swar materials to meet. “aggressor nations™ on an. ‘equal plape.. A
. ‘QUEEN. GREETS KENNEDYS = ‘March ° 18 45 erican Ambassador osep. Senedy and his- ge “were received Elizabeth ‘a
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.of ‘Germany, including Austria, will | be gathered around loud - speakers.
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THE FOREIGN SITUATION TODAY
- WARSAW—Poles send ultimatum to Lithuania. KAUNAS—Ultimatum sets deadline tomorrow. BARCELONA~—Surrender of city demanded. HENDAYE—Spanish Rebels resume advance, LONDON—Cabinet crisis held unlikely now. BERLIN—Hitler to address Reichstag.
VIENNA—Jewish purge
and “suicides” continue.
PARIS—Time called chief foe of Hitler, WASHINGTON—Officials fear Fascist advance. FRANCO'S aims in Spain, if he wins (Page 19).
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Hitler ABnounces
Plebescite for Reich
: BULLETIN : BERLIN, Mareh 18 (U. P.). —Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, addressing the Reichstag tonight, announced that a .~ plebiscitc would be - held throughout the Reich on April 10 on the same question — union of Germany and Austria—which will be decided in Austria on the.same day.
(Radio Details, Page 29)
-BERLIN, March 18 (U. P.).— Fuehrer Adolf Hitler addresses the Reichstag tonight and extensive preparations to insure every German hearing him indicated that it
would be of major importance. Well informed persons believed: that his.address would touch only briefly, if at all, on Germany's future foreign policy—the question in which all the world is inferested— but would be devoted almost entirely to Austria. He ‘was expected to review the events leading to the union of Germany and Austria last week and explain measures to be adopted toward Austria in the
future. Practically the entire population
suhoney
n Austria April . he Dlebiacits Ia Sushil Aud he ties to the new Reichstag would be elected from Austria. .
British Cabinet Crisis Held: Unlikely LONDON, March 18 (U. P.) —Well informed sources said today that though there has been disagreement in the Cabinet regarding Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s fories, he is assured of united ‘and: $haty a Cabinet crisis is most. unlikel y.: :
‘ NEW YORK, March 8 (U. P.).~Traders dumped stocks today = apprehensive over the European situation and disappointed that the Administration had no immediate plan for assisting the railroads.
. The ‘railroad average was depressed to the lowest level since 1933. The utility average . and the Dow-Jones average for 70 stocks made new lows since 1935. 0 At the peak of the selling, - the ticker ran three minutes behind the market. ’
There have been insistent and cir-
of Cabinet disagreements and suggestions: have been fade that Mr. Chamberlain might resign or that a National Union Government might be formed. < Opponents of Mr: Chamberlain's policies ‘in the Conservative Party even went so far as to draft a “reconstruction Plan” which involved replacing Mr. - Camberlain with Winston Churchill as Prime ap and reappointing Anthony Bden to the Foreign Office.
agreement, ith ‘Mr. Chamberlain,
'| to discuss the
Polish Newspapers
Fan War Fever _ BULLETIN i ROME, March 18 (U. P.).— Great Britain and: Italy have . reached an agreement in ~ principle on the chief ques- . tions concerned with a mutual understanding, it was under-
stood in diplomatic quarters : \
tonight.
WARSAW, Poland, March 18 (U, P.). ~The wat fever in ‘Poland reached its péak today at a huge mass meeting in the main square of Vilna, wheré the crowds shouted for invasion ‘of Lithuania. - Despite credible reports that Lithuania - would accede to the Polish ultimatum and seek negotia~ tions, the mass meeting passed a resolution. demanding “Elimination of Lithuania.” The meeting was engineered by the Pilsudski Legionnaires and the club of Poles living in Lithuania. The resolution also demanded Polish access to the Baltic by the Niemen River, whose lower course and estuary, forming the border between East Prussia and the Memel ‘District, is considered by Germans, as potentially a German
river, War Fever Fanned The resolution was - ‘handed te
a ‘war fever n Vilna, was
fanned by half-hourly - newspaper extras reporting. i tions and troop J oneentrat) ons: elsewhere in
When the mass meeting commite
tee handed the resolution ta Mars
“You can frust me and the Po« lish Army that Poland's interesta will be safeguarded.” The attitude of the country was reflected in such incidents as the appearance of the newspaper
Wieczor Warszawski with headlines
reading: “The frontiers are artis ficially ‘closed: the doors will .be opened by force.”
Excitement Is High
The ultimatum arose over a bors der incident in which a Polish guerd was killed. It demanded sats isfaction and reopening of the Juestion whether Vilna really is the
thuanian capital or belo: to | Poland. nes
A meeting of the ‘Polish Senate was called for next Wednesday, by which time the Government plainly expected the: incident to be settled. Exeremant in Vilna was intense, seemed that almost the entire ulation of 200,000 in Vilna was - the streets, marching in columns past the house where Marshal Smigly-Rydz was 2s quartered.
Lithuania Reports
Time Limit Is Two Days
KAUNAS, ‘Lithuania, March 18 (U. P).~Poland’s ultimatum to Lithuania set a time limit of 48 hours vexpiring at 2 p. m. (Indian~ apolis Time) Saturday, it was said in usually reliable quarters today. Poland’s -.note was - received last
might Shraush the Esthonian Gove
tomorrow sit was
rhe "The. Gabinet » ‘will mi “ultima understood... Powers Urge Polish Accord With: Lithuania: —
BERLIN, March 18 (U.P) —Ger-
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