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Stgie Joins: Probe After Oily fiags Are Found Near Cleaning Plant.
Vig rims ARE QUESTIONED
Desd “Girls Sister ~ Badly .rned: Fleeing Brother Overlooks Them. (Photos, Bottom of Page) 58 ‘State Fire re Marshal this afteri or. joined city and county officials
: 78 investigation of a fatal South ms £ Thre ‘reported by: poiice to have
ber i of incendiary origin.
vidence of arson, reported by Dit: -ctives Arch Ball and Orin Mangus. launched the ‘probe into the fire in ‘which a. 7-year-old - girl was burned to death and another critica} iy burned. Eleven other persons
wg ve forced to flee. Mildred Bowden, daughter of Mrs. uise Bowden, is dead. After an
Bend, f e27ly morning blood transfusion, her
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“ical condition at City Hospital with severe burns over most of her be ody. : The: fire broke out at the Colum- : Cleaners, 1025. Virignia Ave. dnd ‘on the outside of: the structure police said: today they found some mburned oil-soaked rags. Itspread in 1021 and 1025 Virginia ‘Ave., adcoining frame structures. i Deputy Prosecutor Edward Brenfran, Coroner E. R. Wilson, a squad i «detectives, Fire Prevention Chief 3ernard Lynch and Gordan Sherer, ad! of the Indiana fire marshal’s Ba rson division, all were investigat- | Al witnesses to the fire were ‘questioned in the Coroner's office | today. Because of minor discrepan(cles in their stories, they will be ‘asked - to give additional statements; : Coroner Wilson said. : Meanwhile, a ‘City. fireman stood’ ihy’ at City Hospital to give blood : for: another transfusion for Mary | elle: n.’ Wayne Babbs, 30, of 1308 "Elm St. “i “taxi driver who } aked 1 his life rescuing three-othér Bowden children from the fire, gave | hie? blood for the first transfusion.
: ge Brother Passes Sisters
A tragic misunderstanding is: believed ‘to have led to the death of
the one. girl and ‘critical ‘injury of
| the othér. When the fire was dis-
. covered they were asleep in the west.
| réom of the living quarters over ths i cleaning Pp. : Floyd, 13, their brother, was sleep- | ing-in the east ‘room. He said he : awakened. choking and the smoke : was so thick he did not see his sis-
: ters-in the next room and supposed
- they had fled. But the two girls safe in the store- . room. were Eleanor Maier, 8, and Louisa, 5, who had been carried to safety by their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Maier, from 1021 Virginia Ave. Both Detective Ball and Chief Lynch said the fire had burned between partitions of the room where : j She girls were found. At the hottest, Chief Lynch- said, the temperature . in the room was approximately 2000 . degrees Fahrenheit, . The fires was started, Chief Lynch said, on a small. coal pile outside the structure and went into, the walls.
It was similar, he said, to fires that |’
- have been “discovered: in: the same
- neighborhood ‘recently.
Mrs, Bowden, who 8 night at the hospital,
last “was
with part of her family at the ‘heme’
of Mr. and Mgs. David T. Webb, 928 Woodlawn ‘Ave. The -children are Floyd, 13; Melvin, 12; Clara, 5 Phyllis, 3, and Henrietta, 10 months. She told this story. Lights Extinguished . “I' had some work in the shop, and'I think it was after 9:45 when I got through. I locked ‘the door. All the children had gone to bed except the baby. “Henry ‘Werking, Who ol Wh: the (Tum, to: Page Three
ONE: OF THEIR NUMBER ‘DEAD. AND ANOTHER HURT. WN FIRE vinteile 4 sista sinn
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"REORGANIZATION BILL
BORAH SAYS nation’s ills
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Controller General May Be Exempted
WASHINGTON, March 29 (U. P.).—Democratic members of ' the House Special Committee on GovArnment Reorganization decided | today to substitute four of ‘its own measures for the Byrnes bill granting President Roosevelt broad pows ers to reorgrnize the executive de-
partment. Committee members began consideration of the reorganization proposal as the measure, approved. 49 to 42 yesterday in the Senate, was sent to the Ho for action. The bill, ch precipitated the bitterest Senate fight since: defeat of ‘President Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan last summer, was expected to encounter a DemocraticRepublican coalition of oppositionists similar to’ the Senate coalition which met defeat yesterday. Plan to Delete Bill
Chairman John J. Cochran (D. Mo.) of the Reorganization Committee, announced he would convene the full Committee tomorrow to confirm the decision of the Demo‘cratic committeemen. Speaker William B. Bankhead told reporters that he hopes to place the bill before the House by the end of this week. “We will strike out all of the Senate bill after the enacting clause and substitute the four House bills dealing with Government reorganization,” ‘Cochran said. House Minority Leader : Bertrand H. Snell (R. N. Y.) charged the action of Democratic Committee members_was without regard for proper procedure and “so bold they even announced it to the House.”
Controller General Kept
One of the House bills is in wide variance - with the Senate plan to abolish the office of Controller Geh- | eral and his function of: ch
The Sendte bill would establish in
General whose function would be a postaudit of Government expenditures. The pénding House bill proposed as a substitute, . ‘however, would create the office of Auditor General for postaudits, while retaining the |£ Controller General, appointed. by and responsible to . the President. To make preaudits of Federal spending. One of the House bills already approved - would : establish ‘a new Public Welfare Department and permit the President to reorganize and consolidate various agencies. It is comparable to Senate bill provisions. The other approved bill would
tive assistants, as also is provided by the Senate measure. The fourth proposed . substitute corresponds to Senate provisions to place civil service under: a single administrator.
Detective Says He Destroyed Records
WASHINGTON, March 28 (U. P.). —Ralph' F: Smith, president of the Corporation Service Bureau, a tCleveland detective agency, today told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee he -had . destroyed all: com-
prior to Jan. 1, 1937. ‘Mr. Smith, World Association of
». | Detectives secretary, testified that
he had “wiped out” -all accounts,
: | journals, correspondence, and other
records ‘pertaining - to employment by “industrial concerns,” which had been’ subpenaed by the Committee. Mr, Smith said he destroyed the records “in ‘anticipation of being called here.” He said after the investigation. started it became ‘‘common policy for detective ‘agencies
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ecking | Ickes had said expenditures before they aré made.
place of the Controller, an Auditor
‘give the President six administra- |
pany records of industrial work
[Senate Given Plan for Loans to Help Business;
Shakeup Bill Change Due
N ATION AL AFFAIRS
to be ‘modified in House.
RFC AND PWA loans to aid business proposed. JOINT TVA probe backed by House Committee. DETECTIVE says he destroyed industrial records.
are economic.
"SUPREME COURT backs: civil liberties (Page 10).
; * Blass Bill Supported
By Ickes and Jones WASHINGTON, March 28 (U, P.) ~The “Senate . Banking and Currency Committee today voted to report favorably a broad administration plan to ‘invoke Reconstruction Finance - Corp. and Public Works Administration powers in an effort to: lift business out of . deepening economic recession. The Committee approved amendments to the RFC act proposed. by Senator Glass (D. Va.) which Secretary ‘of Interior Harold L..Ickes and RFC Chairman ‘Jesse Jones ' said should give wide aid to lagging industry, ‘The amendments would broaden new ;self-liquidating loans to public bodies and would remove. the. present, limit of 300 million dollars on loans carried in the act. ‘Mr. Jones ‘and Secretary Ickes said the amendment would enable RFC to. employ $1,500,000,000 for loans to business and to finance new PWA self-liquidating loans to public bodies. - The PWA proposal was advanced by Secretary Ickes who said his agency still had the power to make nek 'self-liquidating loans to pubic bodies but‘ was without funds. He said that under the amendment RFC could advance funds for loans, using PWA facilities to handle applicants. Mr. Jones said that if the Glass hill is enacted RFC could loan money to virtually any business with
to collect in 15 or 18 years. Senator Glass angrily denounced persons who delude themselves into believing they are: “getting some-
Federal grants. He pointed out that they pay premiums on the Federal loans and eventually pay in taxes for the Federal grants. His outburst came after: Secretary] he thought PWA had: “dorie &- -job, “In other words,” said Senator (Glass, “some communities dre silly enough to suppose that the Federal Government can draw money out of the air and turn it over to them. “The Secretary knows I'm not blanjing: him — I'm blaming the senseless people that think. they're getting . something | for nothing. Where do the people think the | money comes from?”
Joint TVA Probe
"Backed in House
. WASHINGTON, . March . 29 (U. P) ~~The House Rules Committee today reported favorably the Sen-ate-npproved resolution. for a joint Congressional investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Chairman John O'Connor (D. N. YY.) ‘said the resolution, to create
Senators and five Representatives, would be called up in the House tomorrow. The Committee amended the resolution slightly to make ‘certain. that there would ‘be authority for investigation of every aspect ‘of TVA. © The Rules Committee action was thought . virtually to’ assure a joint House-Senate inquiry into the TVA along the lines proposed by <the Senate. House sentiment .was generally regarded as favorable to type of investigation, = © ‘Another change by -the Rales Committee would require the investigators to report not later than the a oo of the next Congress Jan. 3; 1939
5000-MILE FLIGHT ENDS
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, March 29 (U.P.)—The German Dornier flying boat DO-18 landed at Caravelles, 450 ‘miles northeast of here,
flight of more than 5000 miles from
‘Dartmouth, England.
a reasonable prospect of being able
thing for nothing” when they get ||
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‘lof "the law upheld by the Indiana
= preme Court’ last November.
an. investigating committee of five |
at 3:16 a. m.-today after a nonstop |said
Mayor- Asks. Continuance of Project From Sanders to - Raymond : St.
FINANCIAL SAVING SEEN
Cross-Town Truck, Passenger Thoroughfare Is Aim Of City’s. Plan.
‘ Extension by. one.mile: of the 8. East St. widening project at an additional cost of approximately $300,000 was proposed today by Mayor Boetcher. The Works Board and City. Council; already have approved widening of 8. East .St. from ‘South St. to Sanders St. » . The Mayor's proposal today is to continue the project -from . Sanders St. to Raymond St. Both projects - are . designed . to mie S. Bast-St.-a-cross-town truck and . passenger car thoroughfare. Mayor Boetcher said the new project would not'cost the City as much as the original project now underway. Under the plans, the entire stretch from * South St. to Raymond: St. would be widened to 84 feet. S. East St. from South St. to Sanders is now 40 feet wide.-From Sanders: St. to Raymond St., S. East St. now Is 50 feet wide. Thus the new. project would - require 10 feet less of construction than the one slready approved.
GROSS TAX APPEAL SET FOR TOMORROW ==
U. S. Supreme Court to Pass on Adams Firm Case.
"Oral arguments in the J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co. suit test-
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xz 30s7Ts. Deep re. on 5 Ee Bomorrow
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. Although. mild ' temperatures” are
| tor prevail today and tonight, the
is due to drop to 38 degrees by tomorrow “night, the Weather Bureau forecast: today.
tomorrow is to follow rain, which fell during the Right and early today. :
|3DDEATHRAISES
CAR TOLL TO 27
Five Ae: Hurt in Hort in Accidents: Film Truck: Burns; 58 Arrested.
Ones man died” of traffic. injuries, bringing the’ 24-hour death total to three, and five persons ‘were ‘hurt in overnight accidents, marked by the burning of a film - truck ‘with $3000 loss: The death of John Stritt, 53, of
2306 N. Delaware: St., at City Hos- |
pital yesterday brought the Marion County traffic death toll for 1938 to 27. A year ago 47 had been killed. ‘The city death: toll today reached - 16. Police, meariwhile, arrested 53 motorists for traffic violations, 20 for running: preferential: streets, 18 for speeding and two for reckless driving. In Municipal Court, 22° motorists appeared before Judge Charles J. atahell, 14 being assessed fines and ‘totaling $75. Additional fines and costs ‘of - $159 were suspended. Two cases were. continued.
Tasues Safety ‘Warning
With one schoolbo§’ death recorded this week, which is spring vacation mores Lieut. lawrence. McCarty, Po-
ing constitutionslity of the Indiana| “This c po
gross income tux before the 2 orem Sour is ;
The ‘suit asks the high court to review the question of applying oe tax to” income derived from interstate. commerce and i.om: tax‘exempt municipal bonds. X The company's suit was filed; here 'in * Superior Court where "in- 1933 former Judge Russell J. Ryan held ithe law unconstitutional. The lowe! court; ‘was’ reversed, and the validi
Supreme Court a. year ago. The'case | was transferred to the U. 8, -Su-
Pending decision in the case, thé State. has: not collected gross income |in tax on goods sold outside Indiana.
Companies have been required, how- |
ever, to file reports showing the amount of business transacted outside the state.
INDIANA NOT IN ON OHIO BEER PARLEY
COLUMBUS, O,, Mar o. March-29 (U. BR). —Members of: the-Indiana Alcoholic Beverages Commission failed to af~ tend a meeting today of the Ohio State ‘Tax Commission and ‘representatives of brewers to which they had heen invited to discuss probable settlement of the “beer tax war” between the states. ~~ - » W.-J. Huster, Cincinnati, spokesman for the brewers’ group, said he had been informed’ that the Indigna. officials would. be willing to: attend a “secret meeting.” : Ohio ‘recently imposed a‘ tax of $1500 a year on Ohio distributors of Indiana beer in retaliation ag t tax policies of the he neighboring state.
Hugh Barnhart, I Indiana Excise | ois Director, annouriced last week that ri the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission would be unable to meet the Ohio commission today but another. date: was being ar-
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Tun, and eg moment | Dé
to | where they death, in the form of an autorno-
bile: driven by. a, careless motorist, it strike. 5 3 its ‘should : iristruct their : children about this danger.” ‘The Safety Board today instructed police. to-make -every effort to stop roller: skaters .and = cyclists from iitchshiking rk Tides! by ‘holding onto trucks and The: wa)
of Ro Little, .16, 30 hwood
ol upil, | 5 stridgs, igh Sek pup Si the 3300 Hook ™ ortiwistern Ave yess A Rear riding hisce bieycle, Yay clinging to a truck when he was thrown beneath the wheels.’
Dr. Kettleborough Dies
" Yesterday’s other traffic ‘victim was. Dr.: Charles. ‘Kettleborough, 50, of’ the Spink-Arms. Hotel, State Legislative. Bureau head; who died ai Methodist Hospital of injuries received when - struck. by. an: auto Maren. 13. : Stritt, a carpenter, was struck by a car.at Park Ave. snd E.. “St., : Saturday. A native of Shoals, ‘he had lived in Indignapolis many years and was a member of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral. : Funeral services are to. be held at 8:30 a..m. Thursday at the-residence and. at. 9: a.. m. at the Cathedral. Survivors are three . sisters, Miss Elizabeth ' Stritt and. Mrs. Agnes Stoskoll, both of Indianapolis, and Mrs; Anna: Hawkins, - Shaals; and a brother; Carl, Indianapo ‘The film truck am Be ried at W. ‘16th. St.’ and Tibbs Ave., when, police said, an auto driven by. Francis Reynolds, 31, of Terre Haute, failed to gtob for a ‘preferential street: and. lies into .the rear of he truck truck, overfuming it. and setting
‘Berry, 28, was the driver |
ranged. He could not: “be rgheq today for comment,
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William for: the Indiana. Film. Transl Co., truck.
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sources on the border.
* THE’ FOREIGN “SITUATION :
SHANGHAI — Chinese claim / major victories in north; Japan denies claims.
; HENDAYE—Spanish Loyalists use dynamiting miners in _- desperate attempt to halt Rebel: drive. :
3 NEW. YORK—Hoover nopeh'® ‘eorpéace, hits at Neutrality Act. . BERLIN — Nazis = again warn ‘Czechs on minority question.
WASHINGTON--Nine nations accept. U. S.'plan to aid refugees; Italy refuses.
+“ LONDON — Three-power announcement of big battleshiph reported drafted.
ANKARA—Tiirkey accepts von Papen as Gérman envoy.
BULLETIN SHANGHAI, March 29 (U. P.).:— Heavy Japanese reinforcements were thrown: into breaches along the North China fronts today. Chinese ‘sources admitted being driven from Lineheng. and Tsining.
lapaness Officials
Deny Chinese Claims SHANGHAL, March 9 -(U. P).— Chinese military authorities claimed major victories today in North China fighting. Gen Chiang Kai-shek had instructed his commanders to undertake the broadest: counterdrive of the war. Every type’ of i was in the Chinese ranks, from native volunteers and Eighth Route (Communist) guerrilla: units to regular army men. Foreign military observers estimated: that at least 50 Chinese divisions were engaged in a mass counter-offensive on all North China fronts. It was the direct result of
Generalissimo and the North China comman at Chengchow. The Chin claimed to have recaptured numerous towns and villages in Shantung Province. Latest Chinese reports said that they had. routed the Japanese in a fierce bat- ° | tle east. of Siheliens ahd had “bot-
BSD [aimed to have ang, 28 miles orm ts-on’} ant:
Other. C ese reports claimed that the Japanese communications had. been cut at several points following attacks along: the TientsinPukow Railroad. Japanese reports claimed that a force ‘of the: Eighth Route Army in northwestern” Shansi Province was routed aftér bitter clashes in which the Chinese casualties were above
In Shanghai, a Japanese. military curtly denied the gains the’ Chinese claimed.
Dynamiteros Miners Fight Rebel Advance
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Frontier, March 29 (U. P.).—Dynamiteros, savage units from ‘the mining regions of Northern Spain, were thrown today into the path of the Rebels’ equally fierce fighting Moroccans. on the road to Lerida, a key city in the Nationalist drive into Catalonia. Reports ‘ received on the, border said that the miners’were contesting every dnch of. the way with their dynamite slings which . were used with : such . costly: effect on the Rebels in the: sieges of Bilbao and Oviedo, but the ‘Nationalists pressed on. Although Loyalist resistance was stiffening, the Moroccans were reported to have advanced to:a point on the Lerida highway from which they could see the towers of the ancient city.: Working with great haste, ' the dynamiteros set mines: at bridges and culverts along the road. - The Rebels renewed their drive from Alzarraz, only eight miles from Lerida, according to Rebel
Rebel ‘reports: from the front radiated confidence that with the
BILLS,
Apparently: the victim of a
was found in his clothes.
QUIZ 10 HELDIN NUMBERS RAIDS
Police Say Effort Is Made to Identify Higher-Ups in Policy Racket.
Police this afternoon questioned 10 persons held on gaming charges in what Chief Morrissey cribed as “an attempt to identify” the higher ups in the policy racket.” ’ The men were arrested last night when. police. raided. a home. in the 1100 block Vandeman St. Suspects were to appear in Municipal Court this afternoon. Police said they confiscated “policy” slips and other gaming equipment. inl Chief Morrissey said: “I am directing the ' proper department | to make /an exhaustive’ study of the n rs racket, using
from those persons seized in the raid. “We are going to have everyone connected with policy = operation
who are the real promoters of the racket and to what extent its operation has spread here. : “So far as we know. there has been
game, ahd - whatever information we receive now we shall use in an attempt to get the bigger men tbe= hind the gambling.” . Four men and six women were among those charged with operating a lottery and gift enterprise.
JU CE BRANDEIS ILL WAS GTON, March 29 (U. P.). —Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was confined to his home today with “a slight cold.”
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
cess 11) Mrs. Ferguson 11 Music
Obituaries
Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Scherrer = Serial ] Storey ..16
Jane Jordan 3 Johnson .....
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such information as we can get
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Holger Johnson, Member of Masonic Orders, Victim of Bandit Sluggers, Is
Theory of Police. WATCH REPORTED MISSING
Boys Playing on, Bank Make Discovery: Attorney, 60, Left Home Yesterday, His. Landlady Says.
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a bandit, the body of Holger
Johnson, Indianapolis attorney, was found today ‘in Fall Creek about 125 yards west of College Ave. Police early this afternoon tentatively agreed on a. robe. bery theory. after learning that Mr, Johnson was in the habit of carrying large sums of money. Only some small change,
Mr. Johnson, who apparently had no relatives in this country, was 61. He was a member of several Masonic orders and lived at the home of Mrs. Ettie R. Ford, 2335 Broadway. ‘He had offices in the Meyer-Kiser Bank Building.
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Dr. Hugh XK. Thatcher, deputy = coroner, said Mr. Johnson apparently had died
from a deep scalp wound. “A preliminary investigation leads me to believe the man was slugged,” said Dr. Thatcher. He also said the body had been in the stream only a short time and that death was not caused by drowning. The body was found about eight feet from the south side of Fall Creek by four boys, Calvin Meador, 13, of 2333 Guilford Ave.; his brothe er, Raymond, 15; Jerry Johnson, 13, of 2062 Park Ave., and Bobby Myers, : 10, of 2409 G ford. Ca : They called police emergency squad. Dr. Thatcher advised the police homicide squad to assist in the investigation. Left Home Yesterday “Mrs. Ford said ‘Mr.’ home yesterday morning office. He told her, she said, that he would not be home for supper bes cause he was going to a lodge ineet= ing. When he did not retum late last night, Mrs. Ford said, she called lodge members and learned he: had.’ not attended the meeting: Mrs. Ford told police Mr. Johnson did not own an automobile. All his relatives live in Denmark, she said. She told police she knew of -no enemies he might have had.
found on his body. She said he | habitually carried large sums of money, | Native of Denmar k First identification was made from a 1935 driver's license and lodge cards of Mystic Tie, Scottish Rite and Murat Temple, Mystic Shrine, Masonic orders. 1 Mr. Johnson, a native of Denmark, came to the United States when he was 13 and lived in Minnesota. Five years later he moved to. Indianapolis and was employed as a bill clerk for the A. Burdsal Paint Co. Later he joined the claim agents office of the Pennsylvania Railroad here, advancing to the position of district claim agent. Concluding 20 years of servicethe railroad, Mr. Johnson res : tired to practice law. STATE UNION HEADS ASK U. S. FUND SHIFT;
Times Special ©. WASHINGTON, March - ‘29. - Fifteen building trades union officials from Indiana were here today seeking to have Federal funds switched from the Works Progress
‘| Administration to the Public Works
Administration to “saye ' the wage Scales from pauperization, * they sai ys
ple
A gold watch, which Mrs. Ford said he carried constantly, was not |. |