Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1938 — Page 31
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6000 Motorists Fail
To Pass Driver Tests; | Nine Hurt in Traftic|
More Than 100 Successful in Car ‘Examination; : : 20 Are Fined $50,
Police Arrest 44 With $176
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-£ More than 6000 motorists failed to }
to pass drivers’ tests required be the
new Indiana statutes, Roberts Hill, Auto License Bureau chief hearing
Judge, disclosed today.
He also announced that more than 44,000 others had passed the ex-
aminations,
Meanwhile nine persons were injured in traffic here and 44 motorists were arrested. Seven of them were charged with speeding, 15 with ignor- |. ing preferential street stop signs and one with driving while drunk.
=In Municipal Court today, 20 motorists were fined $50° for traffic violations. Judge John L. McNelis sus$176 in fines.
Edwin C. Priest, 55, 2257 Gordon}
st., was charged with drunken driving after an .accident at the Belt Railroad and E. Washington St. in which his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Priest, 46, suffered severe face injuries.
Car Strikes Post
Police said Priest’s car struck a post in the railroad elevation. Mrs. Priest was taken to City Hospital. . Miss Mary Larosa, 18, of 1253 High School Road, received several fractured right ribs when the machine in which she was riding struck a tractor-trailer at. Union and Morris Sts.
William Hurt, 23, of 825 Maple St., driver of the truck, said he was .parked at the curb and flashed his directional signal light just as he started into the line of traffic when the trailer was struck by a machine driven by Louis, Bange, 46, of Ben Davis.
Miss Larosa, a passenger in Mr. Bange’s machine, was: taken to City Hospital. “Police questioned a driver suspected of being the hit-run driver who ran down Ralph Thornton, 22, of 942 S. Senate Ave, in front of 518 Indiana Ave., early today. Officers found the suspect’s machine had a damaged right fender. The man said his machine had been taken from him in a robbery by a Negro woman at 16th St. and Capitol Ave. He said he did not know how the fender had been bent.
Pedestrian Unconscious
Thornton was found lying unconscious in the street and was taken to City Hospital. He received lacerations and bruises on the head and body. Herbert E. Woodruff, 27, of 4317 E. Washington st., his wife, Justine, 26, riding with ‘him, and Ralph Barton, 23, of 3055 Ralston Ave, driver of the second car, all were injured in a collision at Adams and 30th Sts. - Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff received severe lacerations and bruises. Both were taken to Methodist Hospital. Mr. Barton, also cut and bruised. was taken 1p-City Hospital. Mrs. Woodruff’s / condition was reported serious. \ Mr. Woodruff reported to police that $20 was taken from his billfold at the accident scene.
Some Have Second Chance
Mr. Hill's figures on drivers’ tests showed 6342 autoists had failed. to pass, and 44,731 were successful. = Mr. Hill reported that out of the total number of failures 2516 will be unable to obtain licenses, while the remainder will be given an _opportunity to take another examination. Many failed in the first test because of ignorance of the State's traffic laws and regulations, Mr. Hill said. In most of these cases the motorists are able to pass the test on a second examination after a short period of study. Profes-
sional chauffeurs and beginning drivers are given the tests. “The reckless or careless driver, for the driver so physically handicapped that he cannot.operate a car safely has no chance to get a license,” Mr. Hill said.
23 KNOWN DEAD IN WIDE STORM BELT
Red Cross Rushing Aid to 20,000 in South.
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below. Not a trace of the frame building could be found.
Will Ponder, father of two of the children who were spending the night with the Connor family, came to Jasper and gave an account of the tragedy. He said he was working as night watchman at a stone company near the Connor store and saw the structure sway in the swift-running waters. “I ran to warn the Connors and just as I got there the store began to move,” he said. “The water was ‘up to my knees. I got a rope and tried to throw it to Carter (Connor) but he could not catch hold of it and the store floated away.”
Residents Evacuate
Georgia, Alabama Areas
MONTGOMERY, Ala, April 8 (U .P.)—Flood waters stood 4 to 6 feet deep in the business section of Prattville, Ala. today while rainswollen rivers and creeks overran their banks in a 500-mile area in Georgia and Alabama. More than 500 persons were evacuated from the residential section of Prattville when the Autauga Creek flooded after a heavy rain. E. D. Emigh, weather observer here, said flood warnings had been issued for river areas from Rome, Ga., to Mobile, Ala. He said there was danger of widespread disaster.
National Guards Aid
Tornado-Torn Town
ALICEVILLE, Ala., April 8 (U. P). —National Guardsmen helped restore order today in the tenant farming country between here and Pine Grove, where a tornado swirled in from the Southwest during a rain storm yesterday afternoon, killing 10 and injuring 50 persons. A section of the residential area of this town of 1000 was wrecked. The storm missed the business section here. Mayor J. H. Sanders estimated the damage to homes at $200,000. Governor Graves sent eight = National . Guardsmen from Montgomery, to aid the homeless survivors.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record
County Deaths - (To Date) 1938 Secs teeee 35 1837 ees ssssed 49
- City Deaths (To Date) 1938 essssscse 21 1937 edecsssnsse 35
(April april 7) Accidents .... 12 Injured :.... 9
Dead ssssseese S——— Arrests ...... 44 (Others ......
MEETINGS TODAY
dianapolis Home Show, Manufacturers’ Baan: Bate Fair Grounds, all day. Exchange Clup, dinner, Hotel Washington, Dp.
Speeding .... 7
Reckless Driving ..... 3
Running Preferential Street.. 15
Running Red Light ........ Drunken Driving .....
optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
~Saiesmen's Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash-
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noon. td, Toon. Officers’ Assogiation, luncheon,
Boar f Trade no Ny Delta I Theta, \unicheon, Canary CotPaar Tau Delta, iuncheon, Columbia aa Theta Pi, luncheon, Town Tavern,
a ndjama ol Hotel o Plhaetoplays, meet0 otel, a me, dia lr R can Editorial’ Associam
» dint er, re push ol Hotel, . ng a “Stamp PCiub. meeting, Spink--ms Hote “Indi jana Lumber Dealers and Supply Assdeiation, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, 11:30 8 Jnternational Union of Snerating bn Engineers, meeting. Claypool Ho MEETINGS TOMORROW : Indianapdiis Home Show, Manufacturers’ Building, air Grounds, ail day. Alliance Francaise, luncheon, Hotel Washington, i TR t Indianapoli ° a League Home Show, Boon,
Construction luncheon, Indianapolis Hom
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These: lists are from official records fn the County Court House. The Times. therefore. is not responsible for errors in names or addresses.)
Joseph Shaw, 25, of 114%; S. Tinols Bis Belen 1 Meade, 21, of 114% 8 n James Barkla Bewley, 22. of 822 S gt Doruthy Pauline ' Giil, 16, of
Morgan ‘8 McCoy of 720 N. St.; Marjorie Yay “Claveland. 35, of
N._ A bama . O. Hiland, 54, Jamestown; B Davidson, 43, of 366 Good Ave Stewart. B. Wetherald, 22, Flint, Mich.; Cecil ™ Harbert, 18, of 2832 W. St. Clair
"K. Taylor. 21, of os N. Chester Margaret’ Britton, of 622 N.
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BIRTHS Boys Harvey, Anna Norzis,_ at Clty, Thomas, Naomi Leepe t Cit; Earmon, Delphia po at" Yeity.
rd, Lucille z crv "(dece ased). Te Beity silverman, at
mu Bi ence Kroot, at Methodist. William ok por , Mary Macomber, at Meth-
J. L., Mabel Derbyshire, at Methodist. Paul J, Helen at Methodist. h, Alberta Wiliams, at Coleman. , Mildred Annee. at 8t. Vi pont 5 Lillian 8 task. a at 608 E. 12th
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Kenneth, Ruth Baker, at Coleman. Floyd, Marie Bracken, at 4722 Pershe, AL Djamin, Lona Patterson, at N. Frank, Evelyn Camp, at 1625 Berwick.
DEATHS .
Bernice Harlan Duff pelvic absce ey, 54, at Methodist,
drew 3, Se Jooper, 82, at 616 Woodlawn, chronic myocarditis. Corte 63, at 937 English,
Wolfe, setebral Nema age. Miller, 80, at 1525 Pinggold,
arterinecterosis. 55, at City, skull fyfcture. beg praumanis, 55, at Central Indiana, Coo - a C. Ea Ai Srgalic nears Sisease
Leslie, 47, Phe ain e, “at Methodist, lobar.
Anthony Stehle, 51, hi at Central Indiana, #3 Sh zHles A. Stevens, 41, at City, skull ae Williams, 1, at City, lobar pneu-
OFFICIAL WEATHER
eee United States Weather Rureatem...
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Cloudy with rain and possibly some snow tonight and tomorrow morning; continued cold.
Sunrise
ses ses 5:18 | Sunset
TEMPERATURE —April 8, 1937—
Cees 6:16
Precipitation 24 hrs, endin Joual precipitation £75 mn.
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Cloudy, snow or sleet and rain south portion tonight. B ii ably tomorrow morn colder extreme gouth on ght, ang extreme southeast toNg IE Ly strong northeast to Illinois—Snow or sleet central and north and rain in extreme south portion tonight and _ Probably tomorrow (Romine: h somer extreme sou on. to strong northeast to north Winds. Iyesh Lower Michigan—Snow or sleet Jonight and tomorrow, possibly heavy s tion; continued cold, strong oi Por north winds, Ohio—Rain, somewhat colder in southwest portion tonight: tomorrow snow flurries, colder in east and central portions. Kentucky—Cloudy, rain tonight and probably in east and central portions tomorrow morning; colder tonight with temperature near freezing in west portion, colder in east portion tomorrow.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.
Station. Amarillo, Tex. .... Bismarck, N. D. «ee. ton ee C
Bos! Chicago Cincinnati .. Sleveland
Dodge City, Kas. Helena, Mont. Jacksonville, Fla. os | Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock Los Angel . Miami, Fl; . ei Mi DO.
Mobile, Ala. ... New Orleans .....
A strike of streetcar and bus operators in Detroit, which paralyzed transportation 33 hours, ended to-
day. ;
barhs Siting strike.
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Strikers and police are shown around car
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G. O. P. Editors Hear Plea for ‘Realism’ State Committee Maps Primary Fight
Ray Says Machine Busters Checker Will Serve at Every Polling Place.
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tion, said approximately 258,000 will be eligible to vote in the primary. In his address at the editors’ luncheon, Mr. Guard, commented: 1. That Republican editors should condemn no policy unless they have something constructive to offer in its place. 27 That the Republican. organition should be “retooled” and ose who “had brought the party to defeat” retire voluntarily in favor of new and younger leaders. 3. That “what the country needs today is a few economic realists— not economic royalists—to balance the budget, to eliminate waste in food distribution, and to preserve the sovereignty of the states and the liberties of the people.” “There is no surplus of food in the world today,” he remarked. “Not so long as orphans are starving in China, widows are perishing for lack of food in Spain, or children in American cities are undernourished. The great farm problem is distribution. “In Indianapolis a workman bought two tomatoes, a ham sandwich, a piece of apple pie and a pint bottle of milk for his lunch. This amount of food costs the laborer 38 cents. The farmer who raised it collected only 8% cents for it. Sees National Problem “Less than one-fourth for the producer is not enough. There's your farm problem, yea, more, your national economic problem, to discover what becomes of the other 75 per cent. That, too, is a problem which can be solved for :-the advancement of the nation.” : Mr. Guard recommended that the association appoint three committees, one on agriculture, one on labor and one on the general welfare of Indiana, these committees to hold hearings, issue fact-finding questionnaires and formulate an Indiana state policy on economic’ and social recovery. “I am an economic realist—not royalist,” he said. “Under the leadership of a bunch of planners who have no plan, we are slipping into another depression. The only way to escape governmental bankruptcy and national disaster is to balance the budget, take in more money than we pay out. “Of course it can be done. Just a year ago President Roosevelt promised the agricultural editors of America that: the budget would be balanced this year. Now the deficit looms larger than ever. Confronted by inflation on one side and
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Explains Spending Views
Discussing the idea of halting work on dams, canals, highways and other projects— no more spending anywhere until we get the money”’—he commented:
“Immediately I will be charged with having no social conscience. With wanting to starve people to death. Not so. Roosevelt and his wastrels have no monopoly on social conscience. We can supply food
-and shelter to every needy person
in America and still balance the budget. : “But we can’t do it by making relief a vast vote-buying machine, We must do it as they do in England, by creating relief rolls of the deserving and letting the local communities administer the governmental allotments of food and shelter. “Cut out the waste, the luxury indeed, the mad, Neroic extravaganza of spending money we do not have. We are spending ourselves into the depression of 1938. It is no more difficult to balance the budget of the United States of America than it is for any little businessman or farmer to balance his budget. “The farmers of America, I know, will gladly forgo the gentle rain of benefit checks, to the amount of half a billion dollars annually and give that as agriculture’s contribution to a balanced budget.”
Seek Coalition Vote
Mr. Keefe fold the editors that America does not need any sort of “ism” government. “That is what we have in part now,” he said. “What we have should be eliminated by constructive measures, “The sure-enough Democrats can= not muster enough power to do it; however, if a down-to-date Republican platform is developed, there is more than a likely chance that the real Democrats will vote with the Republicans in the next national election. . “Now what is it “the Republican Party should’ oo to bring about such a condition?” He advised that the party. cannot continue to stand for prohibitive tariffs that breed monopolies; it must shake off the reagtion due to the New Deal smearing campaign that the Republicans caused the depression that started in 1930, and
‘which, by the way, is still with us
after five years of New Deal tactics that have increased the national debt some 22 billion dollars.” The party, he asserted, must meet the challenge of a new social order that has been developed during the last few years. “There is no use thinking about going back to the old ways of doing
things,” he added. “Whether we like it ‘or not, conditions have changed and must be met with a mind relieved of standpat thought. “Young Republicans must assert the right to assist the party to success. It’s the young man who in the natural course of life will have to shoulder the present load of government cost. . .. “Business has absorbed much punishment in the- past few years. The fact it has come out of its corner fighting is a hopeful sign of progress. (“It must continue to speak for itself. It is true that business needs help. Not Government dollars -— rather, then, assistance, that can
come from the Government not in-
terfering with business in general when it is going for a few offenders. The Administration has only a short time to gét economic results satisfactory to the American People or take the consequences in the congressional election this fall.
Business Is Employment Aid
“If the taxpayer is not to pay for the livelihood of the idle, who are employed by the Government, then industry and private business are the proper employment means.” Following ‘the custom of advancing ' officers, the G. O. P. editors were scheduled to elect Foster: W. Riddick, Columbia City, association president to succeed Walter HH. Crim, Salem. : Sheriff Ray addressed a group of approximately 300, most of whom were candidates for precinct committeemen. Many signed their power of attorneys to a Machine Busters attorney who may represent them in asking checkers. The Sheriff said he already has bought some “extra heavy” barbed wire with which he could construct a stockade in the Jail yard. Over it, he said, he would build a tent, and a sign which he said will read, “Jail stockade for thi nfinement of primary political eaters and thieves.” “Boy, I wish that primary were here tomorrow,” the Sheriff continued. Marion County," and I'm going to put deputies at those voting places with plenty of guthority. .And I don’t care who they are, I'm going to arrest everyone I get evidence on.” : 50 Clerks Preparing Lists
Mr. Flanary reported that in the registration ’ period which closed Monday, 43,608 voters were registered or transferred. Of these, 14,= 677 were new registrants and 28.931 transfers. The total was 5608 greater than that for the 1936 primary, he said. Fifty deputy clerks are preparing the official registration lists. These must be submitted to the two major political parties at least 10 days before the primary, May 3.
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the New Deal plan. The money would be devoted largely to: 1. Highway construction. 2.' Slum clearance. 3. Flood control.
. | Glass Bill for RFC Loans Goes to F. D. R.
WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P). —The House today passed and sent to the White House the bill by Senator Glass (D. Va.) expanding the lending powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to make $1,500,000,000 available for loans to business and local communities. The bill removes present limita-
to municipalities, public or private corporations, or individuals. No
Under the bill the RFC also is authorized to make loans on character, and relax the collateral requirements. The bill was devised by the Administration as a means of providing further impetus to business to nd the current recession—particu5 rly through loans to small industries and businessmen.
Controller General
Proposal Beaten
WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.) — President Roosevelt's leaders, smashing the Byrnes = Cochrane Government Reorganization Bill toward final action, today defeated an amendment to make the Controller General independent of the President and responsible only to Congress. Holding Administration lines intact in the face of a determined battle from bipartisan opponents, the House rejected. the proposal by voice vote. Earlier a section authorizing the President to appoint the six assistants at annual salaries of $10,000, was approved without objection.
Senate Votes Down
Liquor Tax Increase
WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.)— Rushing toward final action on its business-aid tax (revision program, the Senate tod eliminated a House provision from the bill for a
tions on the amount RFC may lend |
limit is placed on the maturity date.’
[Hopkins Asks Spending for J obs: |House Approves RFC Loan Bill;
Senate Beats Liquor Tax Increase
a cents per gallon increase in liquor’ taxes. The action would leave the liquor tax at its present $2 per gallon level. Meeting at 11 a. m.—an hour earlier than usual—the Senate swept into immediate action on the $5,331,000,000 revenue bill from which it already had cken the undistributed profits tax.
Lower Exemption Proposed
. Still to be voted on before final passage of the tax bill was Senator La Follette’s proposal to lower income tax exemptions for single persons from $1000. to $800 and for maried persons from $2500 to. $2000, to increase the surtax on incomes up to $40,000 and to increase the rate on personal incomes from 4 to 6 per cent. Also to be voted on today was Senator Pope’s (D. Ida.) proposal to levy processing taxes on manufactured cotton, synthetic fiber, wheat, rice, tobacco and field corn to increase farm benefit payments.
Butler Fights Naval Expansion
WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.). —Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired, of the U. S. Marine Corp. predicted today the proposed Navy expansion program probably never would be carried out. He told the Senate Naval Affairs Committee as it opened public hearings on the Vinson Navy &xpansion ‘ Bil. lthat the people will “turn on it.” “I have a feeling this bill does not represent thep concensus of naval officers,” he testified, “that this bill is a grand bluff for the purpose of bluffing the world, that it will never be built because the people will turn on it.”
Wage-Hour Bill Aided By Spending Rumors
-By HERBERT LITTLE Times Specia’ Writer
WASHINGTON, April 8 (U.P) —
The $1,500,000,000 PWA spending]
program now being considered by the President gave new life today to the drooping Wage-Hour bill ‘Mr. Roosevelt sent word to various House members that a WageHour bill should be passed this ses= sion if at all possible, and this word was significantly coupled with advance information of the spending project. Democratic Congressmen, all up
for re-election, have been famished for pork and patronage for several
years. The PWA spigot has been turned off for a year. There has not been a Rivers-and-Harbors bill this session, and it is important to a’ campaigning Congressman to be able to point to Federal improvements obtained for his district.
Chance to Soothe Foes
Another factor favoring the WageHour bill is that Congressmen who oppose the President on reorganization would have an opportunity on the Wage-Hour bill to support the Administration and [thereby soothe those constituents |.who remain wholeheartedly New, Dealers. The wage-hour bill had been cone sidered virtually dead, mostly because of the anti-Administration revolt over the reorganization bill, until word of the new White House program percolated through the House. Impartial observers believe the measure now has abou a 50-50 chance,
the measure will be taken up Tuesday by the full Labor Committee.
WILL OF R. P. SCRIPPS ADMITTED TO PROBATE
HAMILTON, O., April 8 (U. P.).—= The will of the late Robert P, Scripps, controlling stockholder of the Scripps-Howard | Newspapers and associated enterprises, was ade mitted to probate today in Judge Gideon Palmer's | Butler County Probate Court. + Official - witnesses were Fred 8S. Ferguson; New York, president of Newspaper Enterprise | Association, and J. Pierson’ Janfes, Cincinnati,
‘attorney for the Sctipps-Howard
Newspapers. The will, signed by | Mr. Scripps July 12, 1935, p ovides that his widow, Mrs. Margaret C. Scripps, is bequeathed all of his personal effects with his business properties left in trust for his wife and chil dren after some nop specific bequests.
CAPONE PLEA POSTPONED
CHICAGO, April B (U.P) —A hearing on a writ iabeas corpus, seeking release of ot apone, former Chicago gangster, from Alcatraz Federal Prison, c pgstponed today until April 12.
CLUBS. COMME Val Nolan, U. S,. ney, was commende meeting of the! Seventh District Federation of Clubs, at the Hotel Claypool today for his' campaign
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