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COURT ACTION HINTS END OF - POWER STRIKE

Workers Hold Plants Lower Michigan During Contract Row.

MURPHY TO SEEK PEACE

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Workers Withhold Throwing Of Master Switches Until Monday Meeting.

BULLETIN SAGINAW, Mich, April 2 (U. P.).—Settlement of a strike in which utilities workers seized control of power facilities throughout the Saginaw Valley appeared imminent today when a court injunction preventing negotiations was dismissed at Jackson.

SAGINAW, Mich.,, April 2 (U. P.) —Two-thirds of lower Michigan was at the mercy of striking utility workers today as sheriff's deputies and State Police guarded against further “peaceful seizures” of Con- ; sumers Power Co. plants and sub-

- stations. Company officials reported this morning that members of the Utility Workers Organizing Committee took over strategic Croton Dam in western Michigan, increasing to six the rumber of “key” plants under control of the strikers. The plant later was relinquished by the striking workers, according to Consumer officials. Union officials refuted the company’s figures, insisting that they held control of virtually all of the system’s 43 producing units.

Murphy Speeds North Strikers, with electric service to 350,000 customers under control, refrained from pulling master switches - which would paralyze one of the nation’s most highly industrialized sections. Albert Stonkus, national director of the U. W. O. C,, said the switches would not be pulled "at least until Governor Murphy has

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y- wa speedingfor a meeting Monday in Detroit; with representatives of the company, the C. I. O, the A. F. of L. and an independent urphy’s secretary

would arrive in Detroit at 8 a. m. Monday, two hours before the strike conference was scheduled to begin. Seizure of Croton Dam, at the ‘ junction of the Muskegon and Little Muskegon Rivers north of Grand Rapids, followed night of nearviolence in which a clash was narrowly averted wh company officials, State Police and deputies refused workers’ demands to turn over the plant.

Deputies St ind Guard

Later State Police were sent to Rogers and Hardy Dams after a rumor, denied by the company, circulated that a fight broke out between 75 union men and officials at Rogers Dam. | Officers feared trouble might occur at the change of shifts today. ° Managers in the seized plants were ejected by workers. Sheriff Louis Eklund of Muskegon stood watch with a score of deputies at Newaygo after strikers were reported to have tried unsuccessfully to pull the Newaygo station switch. In<ontrast to opposition in western sections of the State, strikers in the Saginaw Valley held every major station, affecting such cities as Saginaw, Bay City, Flint, Owosso and Pontiac in addition to more than 200 other communities. The workers, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization, seized most of the plants yes--terday afternoon io enforce a strike over their demands for guarantees against wage cuts|during the next year. |

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During last year’s strike, the valley was without power for 24 hours.

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present strike -was | Feb. 28. A temporary working agreement had covered working conditions during March/ Workers occupied the plants peacefully last night after the strike had been approved at noisy mass meetings in several cities. The plants seized included the huge steam generat: plant at Zilwaukee; a substation in Saginaw; a substation and gas| plant at Flint, and a gas plant at| Lansing. Workers marched in and ordered the foremen and managers out. The officials complied and service was maintained at the sufferance of union leaders. |

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Boy ‘Serf,’ 10, Shoots ‘Manor Girl’ Intruder

HACKETTSTOWN, N. J, April 2 (U. P.)—Ralph Smith, 10, lived with his father, a cowhand, in a squalid two-room shack, smoked a corn-cob pipe like his father, and asked only one thing from the world—privaey. . The Constable had him in custody today because he shot one of the grand-mannered girls from the big dairy farms who went riding by his shack, play-acting that she was a Canterbury lady on, a horseback pilgrimage. : The wounded girl was Betty Douma, 12, red-haired. She and a girl friend had dismounted from

their horses and looked in a window |.

at the boy. The girls told the youth he was a “serf” in their makebelieve game. “I told them 1 was going to get a butcher knife after them first,” the boy said. “I pulled down the shade then I saw they were looking in the other window. I got the gun and pulled the trigger. I didn’t know it was loaded . . .” He screamed when he saw the jail cell in which Constable John Sherrer locked him for an hour, but later walked down the Court House steps with a nonchalant air, his pipe jutting from his mouth. The boy is charged with atrocious assault, and if the girl dies, he will be charged with homicide.

HEAVY FROST IS DUE TONIGHT

Danger of White River Flood Passes; Highways Are Reopening.

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A receding White River here today relieved Indianapolis of the threat of further high water, but White and Wabash Riveys continued their rie yet leaving some highways closed at nine

ints. \ Meanwhile the Weather Bureau predicted that temperatures, which | dropped today during cnow flurries, will go below freezing tonight with a “heavy to Killing frost.” Temperatures stayed at freezing two hours and rose slightly this afternoon. Slowly rising temperatures were predicted for tomorrow. Horace Abbott, county agricultural agent, said that the temperature dip and frost would not damage fruit and early plantings, but would damage ornamental shrubbery. :

Families Mop Up

" While families mopped up mud and water soaked homes all along receding Big Eagle Creek and in the Ravenswood district, the White River stage at 10th St. was 14.4 feet and falling. It reached a crest of 15 feet, three feet below flood stage, at 2 p. m. yesterday. The overflow of the White River main stream was expected below the confluence of the east and west forks in Daviess County and. in the lower channels of the Wabash. No serious damage was expected. The Weather Bureau said that the White River was falling almost down to Greene County, but - was rising below there. Elliston reported a 24.6-foot stage, a rise of one foot since yesterday. The stream was reported stajionary at Seymour, but Hazelton reported 212 feet with 24 expected. . The Wabash still was" rising at Lafayette, but had reached the crest at Terre Haute and was falling. Vincennes and Mt. Carmel, Ill, where it joins the Wabash, reported rising stages. The State Highway Commission said some of the eight roads which were closed yesterday had been reopened, but that eight were closed Bear points where rivers were risng. Highway Bulletin Here is the highway bulletin: Vincennes District—Highway 145 closed south of French Lick; Highway 157 closed north and south cf Worthington; Highway 58, will close by 4 p. m. west of Elnora at White River. Crawfordsville District — Highway 42 still closed at four points between Terre Haute and Mooresville; Highway 59 closed north of Clay City; Highway 36, under ed for 300 feet west of Highway HR, oneway traffic enforced; Highway 246, closed at Eel River west of Clay City. . Seymour District—Highway 31 co ered by seven inches of water north of Seymour, but still open; Highway 235 closed east of Medora; Highway 135 covered by 10 inches of water at Brownstown, but still open; Highway 258 covered by six inches at Cortland, but still open. LaPorte District — Highway 43 closed north of Lafayette will not open until Monday; Highway 17 open, hut covered with eight inches of water at Logansport.

GIVEN 2 YEARS ON OBSCENITY CHARGE

Ralph *H. Blair, 39, of 837 N.|

Dearborn St. today was sentenced by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell to two years in the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, O., for sending salacious publications in interstate

|shipments. Blair's recent indict-

ment was the first step in District Attorney Val Nolan’s campaign against distribution of obscene publications. *

400 INFIRMARY PATIENTS FACE LACK OF HEAT

Exhaustion of Coal Supply Is Seen by Tuesday; Budget Exhausted.

EMERGENCY ACT ASKED

Shift in Funds Suggested To Raise $1000 for Fuel Supply.

Four hundred patients at the

living in unheated rooms in the next few days, Clarence I. Wheatley, County Commissioner, said today.

The institution's coal supply is large enough to last only until Tuesday, the coal budget is exhausted, and State budget laws prevent transfer of funds to buy coal, Mr. Wheatley said. ; More than $1000 in coal is needed for cooking and heating the institution to July. Mr. Wheatley said the commissioners will seek to declare an emer-' gency, ask the County Council to provide $1000 for coal, and, pending Council action, ask the State Tax Board for permission to get the money from the County General Fund. Mr. Wheatley said he had appealed to Philip Zoercher, State Tax Board president, who declared the budget laws prevent additional appropriations except in cases of fire, flood or tornado. -

Fund Transfer Sug: sted

Mr. Zoercher said the commissioners could circulate petitions among taxpayers to authorize the borrowing of coal money. The law requires, however, that no action be taken on the petitions until a 30-day period is passed in which taxpayers may remonstrate. Meanwhile, Mr. Wheatley said, the patients would be living in unheated rooms. The Commissioner blamed the County Council for cutting the 1938 ‘coal budget for the institution from

$4500 to $4000. He said there is a|

possibility that the emergency could be classed as a “catastrophe” wnd money could be transferred from the Qounty general fund. | “But, I can’t get any assurance from Mr. Zoercher that | State Board would agree the situation is a catastrophe,” Mr. Wheatley said. Mr. Zoercher hinted the State Board might approve a transfer of funds from another budget if savings were made to give that budget a surplus. } .

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Hobo King on Visit Here Scorns ‘Bums, Low Elements.’

EFF DAVIS, famed “king of the hoboes,” visited here today to check the incorporation papers . of the Hoboes of America, which he said were filed here in 1915, and planned to head for the National Hobo Convention April 9 to 16 at Altoona, Pa. . : "Davis, who holds office for life, pledged that the convention would take drastic action against the “pums, tramps and low elements” who have given the hobo profession a bad name. “The real hobo,” he said, “supports himself, contributes to the economic life of the nation with itinerant odd jobs and is a useful, courteous citizen. We're out to lick these thieves and bums that clutter up streets, hallways, missions and offend people.” Davis recently returned from a trip to England where he was feted, introduced in the House of Commons and House of Lords and given a testimonial dinner. He crossed the Atlantic on the Queen Mary.

~ CONFESSION CLAIMED BRAWLEY, Cal, April 2 (U. P.). —Sheriff Robert W. Ware announced today that Basil Coleman, 55, held here for the alleged assaut of a school: girl, confessed two similar crimes in San Diego, and also the sensational murder of Miss Ruth Muir, wealthy spinster of La Jolla.

a : \ Hundreds filed through the State Fair ‘Grounds gates today, attending the exhibit of the 17th annual

Home Complete Show at the Manufacturers’ Building, following the formal opening last night when it was viewed by a crowd of 9000. The 1938 show, with a replica of the restored Williamsburg Colonial home as its central figure, was opened after the Chamber of Commerce sponsored a banquet last night for representatives of builders and allied industries at the Scottish Rite Cathedral. The exhibit is to be opened daily through Sunday, April 10. The Williamsburg replica, presented as the 1938 model home, is surrounded by gardens in keeping with the landscaping of the Colonial era. There are reproductions of a store and building fronts of the same period. : ; In contrast to the modes. of that

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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1938

The patients, sufferers of the infantile paralysis. dent Roosevelt at Warm Springs,

2 BANDITS ROB ILL MAN OF $55

Force Way Into E. Morris St. “Apartment, Slug and Bind Victim. .

Two masked bandits early today slugged and robbed John Ingersoll, 61, of 346 E. Morris St., leaving him bound with electric cord after taking $55 from a dresser drawer. Mr. Ingersoll, who| has been ill for some time, told police one of the robbers struck him with his revolver when he refused to reveal where he had ‘hidden his money. He said the men knocked at his door and as he opened it he was blinded by a flashlight. The men had handkerchiefs over their faces: and wore gloves. Lol “Have you got any money?” one of the men asked. ; Mr. Ingersoll said he had none. The men then bound him with an electric iron cord | while they

the money in the dresser drawer. When the assailants left, Mr. Ingersoll pounded on the wall, attracting the attention of Mrs. Stella K. Kline, occupantiof the front apartment. She released him. Police Hold Beggar ‘ - Two Negroes were held by police today, suspectéd of robbing. C. E. Wertz of $20 in his grocery at 112 W. St. Clair St., yesterday. The two robbers entered the store and asked for cigarets. One drew a gun, forcing Mr. Wertz to turn over the contents of the cash register and his billfold. Less than an hour later police arrested the two men, one with a revolver in his possession. Police held a beggar who struck Brown Coffin, 25, of 1321 N. Meridian St, in the face when his request for $5 was refused. Mr. Coffin said the man met him near the apartment and followed him, demanding money. He reported he offered the man 25 cents and when it was refused ordered the beggar to leave the building. The man became angry and struck Mr. Coffin in the face, he said. An auto thief who stole a machine from the Shaver Used Car Co. lot at 10th St. and Illinois St. abandoned it a few moments. later after crashing into a utility pole at 15th St. and Capitol Ave. John House, 834 Fayette St., told police that burglars entered his home while he and his wife were away and took $40 cash and a watch valued at $10. }

CHRYSLER TESTS © ANTITRUST ACT

WASHINGTON, April 2 (U. P.) — Chrysler Corp. today asited the. U. S. District Court here to render -a declaratory judgment to ascertain whether its dealer contracts for automobile financing are in violation of antitrust acts. The suit, naming Attorney General Homer S. Cummings defendant, asked the Court to declare that the contracts “do not constitute a violation of the Sherman Antitrus

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McN elis Sends His Old School Chum to Jail

LeRoy Devlin, 2113 S. 8 Ave. faced Municipal Court Judge John h being

drunk in an affidavit signed by his wife. . “This is the third time in a short while you have been before me on this charge,” Judge McNelis said. “That's right,” Devlin said, “but give me a break.” “We went to school together,” Judge McNelis said. “And now you are worrying your wife into a nervous wreck with your drinking. I guess I'll have to set an old friendship aside and give you $1 and costs, which Ill suspend, and 30 days in jail, which you must serve.”

STATE GROSS INCOME

| TAX REGEIPTS RISE

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State gross income tax receipts for the 12 month period ending March 31 this year were $22,958,724.08, an increase of more than $3,000,000 over the previous 12 months. Clarence A. Jackson, tax director, sajd 1937 returns numbered 487,418, an increase of more than 79,000 over filingsyin 1936. A total of 354,610 filed 1935, and 302,565 in 1934. Gr income returns covering income for the first quarter of 1938 are due April 1 to 15. Quarterly returns must be filed by all whose tax exceeds $10: a quarter. All taxpayers are entitled to an exemption of $250 a quarter, and retail merchants are granted an exemption: of $750 a quarter on ‘“receipts from selling at retail.” “It is anticipated that the num‘ber: of quarterly returns filed will show an increase,” Mr. Jackson said, “since many taxpayers have found it more convenient to pay their tax quarterly, thus avoiding the entire amount of annual tax falling due all at once.”

ARMY DISPLAYS NEW ‘SUPER-FLYING-FORT’

WASHINGTON, April 2 (U. PJ). —The War Department today displayed to members of Congress its newest and most formidable fighting craf, the new super-flying-fortress. Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson described. the new ship as “the most: powerful fighting ship in the world.” It has a gross weight of more than: 30 tons, is approximately 90 feet long, 18 feet high and has a wingspread of 150 feet. It is powered with four motors of 1500 horsepower each. The plane is armed with six machine : guns, and will carry two tons of bombs. Top speed

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are exhibiting the latest, modern ‘household appliances and furnishings. : : The displays include all modern conveniences for the home from

room. The home was designed by William G. Perry of the Boston architectural firm which directed the Williamsburg restoration for John D. Rockefeller Jr. The gardens ‘were planned by Frits Lonstein, landscape architect from Holland who has done much landscaping work on Indianapolis estates. Garden clubs of the city par= ticipated in the planning of the

setting. The exhibit won the praise of Kenpeth Choriey, Colonial Wil-. liamsburg, Inc. president and representative of Mr. Rockefeller. “It is an effort to improve exhomes and to encourage

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Hundreds View Home Show Exhibit; Firms Aid in Colonial Replica Display

that the restoration and the home show are engaged in parallel fields of endeavor. The restoration is an effort to restore accurately and preserve for all time the most historic

ica’s Colonial period.” “Last night's attendance estimate was made by -J. Frank Cantwell, managing director. ; 12 Mr. Perry was presented to exposition visitors by Paul Jones, show generali chairman. ° ¢ included O. A.

Banquef, speakers Eberhardt, former : Minnesota Governor and Federal Housing Administration deputy administrator; Mr. Chorley and Mr. . Perry. Other guests were R. Earl Peters, FHA state administrator; William H. Aruett, State Chamber of Commerce director; Mayor Boetcher, rien & Schricker.

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RAY DECLARES INMAYOR RACE

More Than 300 Candidates Expected to File for Offices Today.

. The last-minute rush of political candidates to file before the deadline at midnight tonight was under way today. More than 150 filed with the Marion County Clerk and the Secretary of State yesterday, and more

than twice that number were expected today and tonight.

The approaching deadline brought the formal announcement of Sheriff Otto Ray for the Democratic nomination for Mayor. Although it had been reported frequently that he would make the race, he delayed his actual announcement until today. Three Republican candidates for ‘Mayor were among those filing this morning. They were Herman C. Wolff and Ward B. Hiner, both of whom announced previously, and Earl B. Teckemeyer, 515 E. 39th St. Mr. Teckemeyer is rental manager for Schmid and Smith Realty Co. * Among others filing for major offices were Charles W. Jewett, Republican, for Congress, 12th. District; Walter O. Pritchard, Republican, for Criminal Court judge; Clarence I. Wheatley, Democrat, for renomination as County Commissioner, Second District; Leo X. Smith, Democrat, Superior Court 1.

Registration Is Heavy

Registration of voiers continued heavy. The registration deadline is midnight Monday. Today is the last day that branch offices will be open, but the clerk’s office will be open tomorrow from 8 a. m. until’ 10 p. m. The hours Monday will be from 8 a. m. until midnight. Branch offices open until 8 tonight are at Acton, School 16, Bloomington and Washington Sts.; the fire station at Station and 30th Sts. Warren Township Grade School, Franklin Road and Washington St, and at Lockefield Gardens, - Others filing for County and City offices included: Democrats—L, Ert Slack, for renomination as judge of Superior Court 3; Glenn B. Ralston, for County Auditor; Max Lory, Sheriff; Eph W. Virt, City Clerk; Carl F. Brandt, County Council-at-large. Republicans—John ¥F, Engelke, judge of Superior Court 4; John M. Caylor, judge of Superior Court 1; Frank Beckwith, City Council, Third District; George E. Kincaid, County Council, Fourth District; Sumner A. Furnass, County Council, Second Distzict. Duke E. Hanna, City Council, Fourth District. Township office declarations included: Democrats—Carl E. Wellsey, Franklin Constable; Glenn P. Bolander, Lawrence Assessor; George Rosskopp, Perry Justice of the Peace; Richard O’Neil, Center "Trustee; Andrew J. Bruce, Center. Justice of the Peace; Martin Lannan, Wayne Assessor; Charles Holtman and Louis G. Koerner, Center Advisory Board; Herman E. Snyder and Fred Cooper, Pike Advisory Board; Nettie Brown and W. Herman Kortepeter, Perry Advis‘ory Board; Mrs. Mary A. Stout Dugan, Wayne Assessor; Mrs. Nellie M. Walker, Warren Trustee; Clifford Cochran, Decatur Justice of the Peace. . ai Republicans—Maude G. Hobson, Center Trustee; Alonzo R. Stanfield, Wayne Justice of the Peace; Clyde E. Rhoades, Perry Constable; Edgar Sweet and Boyd W. Temple= ton, Center Advisory Board; Ethel

Board; Harry Ferguson, Perry Advisory Board; Floyd Bass, Pike Ad- . Other Candidates Listed . Congressional candidates filing were Russell J. Conlin, Gary, Democrat, First District; Hdmer Stonebraker, Logansport, Democrat, Second District; George N. Beamer,: South Bend, Democrat, Third District; Magvin D, Meyers, Michigantown, Democrat, Fifth District; Clyde / S. Payton, Washington Re‘publican, Seventh District; Harry E. Niemeyer, Dillsboro, Republican,

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Roosevelt’s Return May Start Spending

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, April 2.—The Administration is laying plans to embark upon an expanded spending program in a frontal attack on the business recession, it was learned today. ; Final decision on its size and nature is expected to be made by President Roosevelt upon his return this week-end from Warm Springs,

whére he has been In conference with Harry L. Hopkins, WPA Administrator, through whose agency part of the spending would be done. Mr. Hopkins was returning -to Washington with Mr. Roosevelt tonight. - Estimates range from one to three billion dollars. The program would embrace additional expenditures through WPA and other projects which would stimulate the heavier industries, such as flood control and national improvements of that character. The spending school in the Administration has won out against the budget balancers, who have been entrenched in the Treasury Department under Secretary Morgenthau. Likewise, the sentiment in Congress has undergone a change with news from back home of increasing unemployment.

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The object is to pump money quickly into the channels of purchasing power to halt the recession until some of the other measures already planned, and being planned, can take effect, such as RFC long-term loans to industry authorized in the bill passed yesterday by the Senate; aid to railroads to be proposed in a Presidential message to Congress soon; the tax bill which the Senate will take up next week; attempts to break the jam of high material prices and labor costs in the building industry so that a housing program can get under way; and probable efforts to attack the price control-monopoly problem in other directions. Washington is expected to go into high gear again upon the President’s return and snap out of the stalemate which has been evident in recent weeks to the discouragement of some of Mr. Roosevelt's stanch lieutenants in Congress. The ultimate objective of opening up the channels of capital investment, the stagnation of which is the basic difficulty at this time, can not be reached overnight nor through any one avenue. Nor can business be expanded at this time, nor investments induced into industrial channels, when markets are contracting through a diminution of purchasing power and increasing unemployment. Therefore, the immediate need is regarded to be the prompt infusion of purchasing power to start the spiral upward again. : 5

14 PLANES LOST IN MIAMI AIRPORT FIRE

Well-Known Crafts Burn in $500,000 Blaze.

MIAMI, Fla: April 2 (U. P).— The main hangar and 14 planes were destroyed at the Municipai Airport here today by fire. Loss was estimated at $500,000. - Several well known planes were destroyed, including: [he fleet pursuit ship of Col. Alexander P. De Seversky, airplane designer, in which he has set four speed marks. ; The Texan, owned by M. L. Benedum, Pittsburgh oil magnate, in which Jimmie Mattern, round-the-world flier, searched the Arctic for lost Russian aviators. : An $80,000 Grumman amphibjan owned by Gar Wood, Detroit speedboat racer. A fast Howard plane owned by Lee Edwards, Detroit speed flier. An autogyro used to transport guests at the hotels of Col. Henry L. Doherty.

WPA ROLLS RISE AGAIN

WASHINGTON, April 2 (U. PJ). —Works Progress A tion officials announced today that 2,394,Se ms were Smployed on WPA pro during e week ending March 26, an increase of 37,979 over the previous week.

POLICE OFFICER DIES

State Police Detective Vernon Shields, former Crawfordsville police chief, died last night at his home, 16th and Meridian Sts., after a Jrolonged illness. He was 51. e is survived by his wife and

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS REORGANIZATION bill compromise decided on. U. S. SPENDING for recovery may be resumed. WAR PROFITS tax fight certain in Senate. RELIEF BILL may catch Congress unready. RAILROAD heads: to confer with Roosevelt. TEAPOT DOME oil reserve protected. REP. SUMNERS stresses citizens’ responsibilities.

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President Phoned Before Compromise

WASHINGTON, April 2 (U. P),

—Administration leaders, stalemate ed by an embattled coalition, decide ed today after a telephone confere ence with President Roosevelt to present amendments to the Byrnes Government Reorganization Bill representing capitulation to opposie tion demands. Blocked at every step by a bitter ly fighting coalition of insurgentse Republicans and Democrats, the Administration agreed to compro-

Mise on outstanding issues in the

The agreement evidently had the approval of President Roosevelt.

~ House leaders, while refusing to

confirm that the President had agreed to. compromise in the bite terest struggle since the Supreme Court battle, moved immediately to place the compromise in effect.

Compromise Announced

Rep. Lindsay Warren (D. N. C) rose in a tense and crowded House

as violent debate was resumed, and’

announced the terms of the compromise. - Amendments carrying out the. compromise will be introduced later. The President’s House leaders re portedly told the President they must compromisé if they were to achieve passage of the measure. It was understood that leaders of the President's fight shortly wilt offer two amendments to the hill, They would: 1.. Empower Congress by concur rent resolution to. override the President’s within 60 days of promulgation. 2. Exempt the Bureau of Education from the general plan to realign and reorganize executive agencies. 3

. Glass Bill to Be Called

At his press conference Speaker .

William B. Bankhead said no ate tempt would be made to end general debate today and that the bill would be temporarily replaced Monday by the unanimous consent calendar and the Glass RFC Bill, passagé of which will be sought under suspen=sion of rules “I still think the Byrnes bill will pass,” said Speaker Bankhead. The Republican-Insurgent Democratic coalition had forced the bill into position where it faced a possible quick death or at least a long uphill fight to passage. They thwarted an attempt of the Administration yesterday to ‘limit debate by a vote of 191 to 149. o ony, Use Hoosiers voted . for . ey were Reps. Sch Greenwood and Farley. pe us Those voting against shutting off debate were Reps. Ludlow, Griswold, Pettengill, Gray and Halleck. Reps. Boehne, Jenckes and Crowe were out of the city and Rep. Lar rabee was marked “not voting” on the roll call.

Nye to Bring Up - War Profits ‘Rider’

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WASHINGTON, April 2—A wap profits tax fight on the Senate floor was assured today by Senator Nye (R. N. D.), despite the efforts of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Harrison (D. Miss.) to sidetrack the issue at this time. Senator Nye said he or Senator Clark (D. Mo.), both of them lead ers in the famed Senate Munitions Committee inquiry, would offer a rider to the tax bill in the form of almost confiscatory income taxes, effective immediately and attomatie cally upon a declaration of war. Two such tax schedules are now pending. One is the Nye-Clark Munitions Committee proposal reaching a maximum surtax of 93 per cent on individ , and even heavier taxes on large corporation earnings. The other is a schedule reaching a maximum of 80 per|cent drafted by Treasury experts and sponsored by Senator Connally (D. Tex.). Senator Harrison's argument is that the war surtaxes have not been properly considered, although the Munitions Committee ed nearly two years posal has been studied over a long period before and after.

Congress Unprepared . For 1939 Relief Bill’

Times Special

WASHINGTON, April 2.—As the big 1939 unemployment relief bill

bears ‘down on ‘Congress by way of the White House, the Senate’s special investigating committee finds itself hard pushed to complete its recommendations this session on how the Government should make its giving program more scientifie a is du © ue on Capitol Hil} (Turn to Page Three)

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