Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1938 — Page 6
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FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1938
6000 Motorists Fail
,
To Pass Driver Tests:
Nine Hurt in Traffic|
More Than 44,000 Successful in Car Examination;
Police Arrest 44; With $176
20 Are Fined $50,
Suspended.
(Editorial, Page 18)
More than 6000 motorists failed to pass drivers’ tests required by 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 ignoring preferential street stop signs and one with driving while drunk.
In Municipal Court today, 20 mo-«
torists were fined $50°for traffic violations. Judge John L. McNelis suspended $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 2 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
Mr. 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 to City Hospital. Mrs. Woodruff’s condition was reportad 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, or 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 ..e0eeese 35 1937 cveeinvn 89
City Deaths (To Date) 1938 IEEE RRR) 21 1937 cconeenes 3D
(April 7) Accidents 12 Injured ..... 9 Poad .....evs 0 Arrests ...... 44 | Others .....
MEETINGS TODAY Indianapolis Home Show, Manuraciurers Building, State Fair Grounds, all da Exchange Clu, dinner, Hotel We ning. ton, 6:30 p. Optimist os, luncheon, Columbia Club,
Speeding .... 7
Reckless ‘Driving ..... 3
Running Preferential Street.. 15
Running Red
Drunken Driving ...
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no So iosmen's Club, luncheon, Hotel Washg on I a Bama luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Reserve Officers’ Board of Trade no Phi Delia Theta, Toficheon, tage. no
Canary CotDelta au Delta, Columbia Club. noon.
Zeta Theta Pi, luncheon, Town Tavern,
Association, luncheon,
luncheon,
digas Indorsers of Photoplays, meeting, Claypool Hotel, all day. Indiana Republican Editorial tion, dinner, Claypool Hotel, 6 Indiana Stamp Club. meeting, Arms Hotel. night. Indiana Lumber Dealers and Supply Soefation, luncheon, Claypool Hote a.
Asteria ink
As11:30
International Union of Operating Englneers, meeting. Claypool Hotel, 8 p.
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Indianapolis Home Show, Manufacturers’ Building, Fair Grounds, all day Alliance Francaise, EAnoRaOn, Hotel Washington, noon. : Construction League of Indianapolisy luncheon, Indianapolis Home Show, noon.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore. is not responsible for errors in names or addresses.)
Jos eph Shaw, 25, of 114', S. Illinois St.; Hen se Meade, 21, of 114! S. Illinois St James Barkla Bewley, 22, of 822 S. East Doreiny Pauline Gill, 16, 5 2315 Morgan ; : Willis McCoy Sr., 36, of 720 N. East St.; Marjorie May Cleveland, 35, of 2521 N. Alabama Roy O. Hiand. 54, Jamestown; E. Dovitdeon 43, of 366 Good Ave. Stewart B. Wetherald, 22. Flint, Cecil M. Harbert, 18, of 2832 W, St.
Robert K. Taylor. 21, of 622 N. Chester Ave.: Margaret Britton. 20, of 622 N. Chester Ave.
Verna
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BIRTHS Boys
Harvey, Anna Norris, at City. Thomas, Naomi Leeper, at City. Earmon, Delphia Hubbard, at City. Leonard, Lucille Teepe, at City.
Aribur (deceased), Betty Silverman, at
LY wel, Florence Kroot, at Methodist. William H., Mary Macomber, at MethoS Mabel Derbyshire, at Methodist. Pa Helen Munger, at Methodist. berta Williams, at Coleman. i ired Annee, at St. Vincent's. James, Lillian Stark, at 608 E. 12th.
Girls
q Margaret Wagner, at Methodist. Fhilio” arian ‘Hankins, at Coleman.
Kenneth. Ruth Baker, at Coleman. Floyd. Marie Bracken. at 4722 Bertha. Acniamin, Lona Patterson, at 12
Ak Evelyn Camp, at 1625 Berwick.
DEATHS
Bernice Harlan Duffey, 54, at Methodist, pelvic ahsces,
Andrew J. Sooper. 82, at 616 Woodlawn, chronic myocarditis. Corte A. Wolfe, 63, at 937 English, cerebral hemorrhage Frank P. Miller, '80, at 1525 Pinggold, arteriosclerosis. John Shaw, 55, at City, skull fracture. Alvin Gentsbittle, 55, at Central Indiana,
broncho-pAeumonia. Nora Cook, 69, at 2003 N. Capitol, cere-
bral embolism. Elizabeth C. Murray, 61, at 1105 Wright, organic "heart disease John C. Leslie, a1 “at Methodist, pneumonia. Anthony Stehle, 51, general paralysis. Charles A. Stevens, fracture. Ocie Williams, onia.
lobar at Central Indiana, 41, at City, skull
1, at City, lobar pneu-
OFFICIAL WEATHER
— Uhited States Weather Rureat..!
INDIANAPOL IS FORECAST—Cloudy with rain and possibly some snow tonight and tomorrow morning; continued cold.
Sunrise ....,. 5:18 | Sunset ...... 6:16
TEMPERATURE —April 8, 1937—
BAROMETER 7am, .. 29.78
Precipitation 24 hrs, endin Total precipitation 21s m,
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Cloudy, snow or sleet in north and rain south portion tonight and probably tomorrow morning: colder extreme So Wonight, and extreme southeast tores 0 stron no ine g rtheast to Illinois—Snow or sleet central and north and rain in extreme south portion tonight and probably tomorrow morning: somewhat colder extreme south tonight, fresh to strong northeast to north winds. Lower Michigan—Snow_ or sleet tonight and tomorrow, possibly heavy sputh portion; continued cold, strong northeast to 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. Weather. Amarillo, Tex. Bismarck, N
Cleveland Denver veri Cl Dodge City, ‘Kas. Helena, Mont. C Jacksonville, Fla. Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock, Ark. Los
3 Pia. Ha
Mobile, Ala. New Orleans New York . er naerC Okla. City, Okla. Omaha, Neb. C Pittsburgh Portland, Ore. San Antonio, Tex. .. San _ Francisco Louis
Rain sesens ‘PtCidy 29.94 n, D. 'O. ese.Rain
"THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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Detroit Streetcar Strike Ended
HEE Re
A strike of streetcar and bus operators in Detroit, which paralyzed transportation 33 hours, ended to-
day.
Times-Acme Telephoto,
Strikers and police are shown around car
(Story, Page One.)
barns during strike.
G. O. P. Editors Hear Plea for ‘Realism’ State Committee Maps Primary Fight
Ray Save Machine Bustars 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. 2. That the Republican organization should be “retooled” and those 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 812 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 ihe 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 told 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 cannot 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 do to bring about such a condition?” He advised that the party cannot continue to stand for prohibitive tariffs that breed monopolies; 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, aust 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
it]
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 shouider the present load of government cost. ... “Business has absorbed much punishment inthe past few years. The fact it has come out of its corner fighting js 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 interfering with business in general when it is going for a few offenders. The Administration has only a short time to get 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 H. 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 thefconfinement of primary political cheaters and thieves.” “Boy, I wish that primary were here tomorrow,” the Sherif continued. “I happen to be Sheriff of
Marion County, and I'm going to |
put deputies at those voting places with plenty of authority. 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 pri= mary, 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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Hopkins Asks Spending for Jobs; House Approves RFC Loan Bill;
Senate Beats Liquor Tax Increase
&® 50-50 Chance for Wage Bill Seen; General Hits Navy Bill.
(Continued from Page One)
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,-
ness and local communities. The bill removes present limitations on the amount RFC may lend to municipalities, public or private corporations, or individuals. No limit is placed on the maturity date. 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 .end' the current recession—particularly 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 determinad battle from bipartisan opponents, the House rejected the propcdsal 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,
25 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 stricken the undistributed profits tax.
Lower Exemption Proposed
Still to be voted on before final passage of the tax bill was Senator La Folletie’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 coin 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 Ithat the people will “turn on it.”
“I have a feeling this bill does |,
not represent thee 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 session 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
the Senate today eliminated a House provision from the bill for a
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 improve= ments obtained for his district.
Chance to Soothe Foes
Another factor favoring the WageHour bill is that Congressmen who oppose the President on reorggnization 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 be= cause of the anti-Administration revolt over the reorganization bill, until word of the new White Houss program percolated through) the House. Impartial observers believe \the measure now has about a 50-50 chance. The new subcommittee draft of the measure will be taken up iTuese day 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 ad= mitted to probate today in Judge Gideon Palmer's Butler County Probate Court. : Official witnesses were .Fred S. Ferguson, New York, president of Newspaper Enterprise Association, and J. Pierson James, Cincinnati, attorney for the Scripps- -Howard Newspapers. The will, signed by Mr. Scripps July 12, 1935, provides 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 children after some minor specific bequests. :
CAPONE PLEA POSTPONED CHICAGO, April 8 (U.P).—A
‘hearing on a writ of habeas corpus,
seeking release of Al Capone, former Chicago gangster, from = Alcatraz Federal Prison, was postponed today until April 12.
CLUBS COMMEND NOLAN Val Nolan, U. S. District Attore ney, was commended at a board meeting of the Seventh District Federation of Clubs, at the Hotel Claypool ‘today for his campaign against obscene literature.
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