Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1938 — Page 7

, ‘APRIL 29, 1038

inton Press Charge

Disputed:

‘Wage Bill Faces Crucial Test; - WPA Ordered Out of Politics

Lowell Mellett to Coordinate Relief Program.

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duced a bill that would make it a felony for any publisher to publish as fact, news known to be false. The bill would apply to “any person, firm, corporation or association” which publishes and transports through the mails “any newspaper, magazine or periodical.” Violators would be subject to a fine - of $1000 to $10,000 and two years imprisonment. The Postmaster General would be euipowes to suspend violators from the use of the mails for six months. “It was reported the bill originally was conceived by Associate Justice Hugo S. Black, who formerly headed the Lobby Committee. ‘He charged that “this Administration cannot get a headline in the newspapers of this country, but let anybody make a loose accusation against them and the headlines of the press of the country scream.” + Mentions Specific Papers ‘Specifying instances of “propaganda” in the press, he read a headline from the Washington Post which said: “Priming Foes ‘Soffened’ by PWA Grants, Taber Avers.” “Of course Taber avers it,” said Senator Minton, referring to Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.) foe of President Roosevelt’s $4,512,000,000 lend-ing-spending program. “That is all you have to do, is to aver it or accuse or make the charge, any kind of a loose charge, against this Administration and it gets a headline and goes to the country as a fact.” ‘He also specifically mentioned the New York Herald Tribune, the “un- - speakable” Chicago Tribune, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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New Spending Program

" "WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P.. —President Roosevelt revealed today that the National Emergency Council will be reconstituted and

Lowell Mellett, former Washington and Indianapolis newspaperman, as its executive director. The Council, created in 1933 for the purpose of co-ordinating emergency Government activities, will again be called on, the President said, to co-ordinate the new emergency program. -It will handle co-ordination of relief problems, flood control, PWA and other phases of the program.

Lewis Demands

Wage Bill Vote

WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P). —C. I. O. Chairman John IL. Lewis told the House Rules Committee today that failure to send the WageHour Bill to the House floor for consideration would be a travesty upon principles of American Government. ‘Mr. Lewis threw the full support of his labor organization behind the bill as the Rules Committee neared a. showdown vote. “President William Green of the American Federation of Labor previously had appealed for a favorable rule to permit floor consideration of the bill ~. Telegraphing all Rules Committee members, Mr. Lewis said that failure to approve the measure will “be regarded as an outrageous and indefensible gagging of the people’s representatives.” « Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D. Ga.) asked the Committee to deny the bill consideration on grounds it is impractical, arbitrary and in viclation of the due process clause of the Constitution. + Rep. Eugene Cox (D. Ga.) charged the bill would impose dictatorial régimentation on industry. «Rep. Reuben T. Wood (D. Mo.) and New England Congressman of boctn pariies, appealed to the Rules Committee to permit a vote on the measure. They were sure it would pass if it reached the floor.’ Rep. Mary T. Norton (D. N. J), the bill's author, and Rep. Adolph Sabath (D. Ill), a Rules Committee member, threatened to offer dis-

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Roosevelt to Send Trust Message Today

WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt said he will submit his special message concerning antimonopoly and trust questions to Congress today, despite the fact that the House is in recess until Monday and only the Senate will be in session to receive it. There were strong indications that he will not counsel delay of a Congressional study of the problem, but will call for action before Congress adjourns. Thurman Arnold, newly appointed Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department’s

audience last night that ‘“vigorous” enforcement of antitrust laws ‘is never more important than during periods of economic recession.” Mr. Arnold’s address dealt mainly with enforcement of the antitrust laws as they now stand, without amendment. He announced five policies that were considered indicative of the road his division will pursue in its work. 1. “Vigorous” enforcement in time of business depression. 2. Emphasis, in enforcement, on the “results” of corporation policies in restraint of trade, rather than on the “intent” lying behind those results. 3. More frequent use of criminal proceedings under the theory that the threat of “social stigma” will deter corporations and individuals in their activities tending toward monopoly. 4. More frequent use of the consent decree—“where the final outcome of the criminal case is uncertain”—to hasten relief from monopolistic price levels for the public. The consent decree is an agreement, approved by a court, under which the Government usually accomplishes its antimonopoly objectives without resort to civil trial. 5. Publication of the Justice Department decisions and attitudes in antitrust cases.

Hopkins Bans WPA

Political Pressure

WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P)). —Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins prepared a letter of “one syllable words” today to insure 2,545,124 WPA workers against loss of their jobs through political coercion. He also warned all WPA supervisors that they will be “fired on the spot” if they are found guilty of attempting to influence the vote of workers under them.

Roosevelt Asks Two

More Dreadnaughts

WASHINGTON,, April 29 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today asked Congress to appropriate an addi-

antitrust division, told a New York:

to lay keels of two more new battieships before July 1. Start of the war craft asked today will give the Navy four dreadnaughts in construction. 5 These floating fortresses are in addition to the three which would be authorized under the naval expansion bill now under debate in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Barkley today ordered extra Senate sessiols tomorrow and possibly tonight to speed the expansion bill to a vote.

F. D. R. Asks Earlier

Sedurity Payments

WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today proposed a broadening of Social Se-

curity Act benefits and provision

for start of old age Insurance payments before 1942 as now scheduled.

Commodity Credit

Bonds Oversubscribed

WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P.). —The Treasury announced today that the $200,000,000 offering of commodity credit corporation notes was over subscribed almost nin times. :

LEVINE BOY AGAIN REPORTED IN WEST

SANTA FE, N. M.,, April 29 (U. P.) —Police revealed today that an unidentified woman in Espanola, N. M., had reported seeing a boy resembling Peter Levine shortly be-

fore the boy appeared at a restaurant in Santa Fe Tuesday night to get sandwiches. Espanola is 30 miles north. The: woman told officers that the boy was in the company of two men, apparently the same men who stood near the door while a boy who was said to fit the Levine boy’s description bought sandwiches at the restaurant of John Karavanos. The 12-year-old Levine boy, son of Murray Levine, New Rochelle, N. Y. attorney, has been missing since he was kidnaped Feb. 24.

EARLE SAYS BRIBERY ALLEGATION IS LIE

HARRISBURG, Pa., April 29 (U. P.) —Governor Earle today denounced as a “contemptible and shameless lie,” the accusation that he had offered a seat in the U. S. Senate as a bribe to a political opponent. Charles J. Margiotti, whom the Governor fired this week as attorney general, said in a “report to the voters” by radio last night that “Governor Earle first tried to buy me. off by telling me that Senator Davis could be bribed to resign, and that if I would withdraw as a candidate for Governor and be appoint-

ed in his stead, the arrangements

could: “be made.”

CRUSADE ZEAL CRIPS BACKERS OF THIRD PARTY

Governor Points to ‘Black ~ Plague Upon Us’ After Ten Years.

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the new crusader plunges into his address. He keeps his hands in the pockets of his well-cut blue coat, except to shake a fist as he denounces those who have exploited | the people. The tide of time turns back as the young man speaks with zeal and ardor, the attentive crowd interrupting only occasionally for applause. ; Third Party in Blood

It was in this city 14 years ago that Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. broke with the Republican Party. And 14 years ago his other son “Young Bob,” stood before an independent party convention ina Cleveland and accepted for his father the nomination for President of the United States.

Demands Strong Government

Phil states his diagnosis: the Democratic New Deal nor the Republican Party offers anything today. Mr. Hoover tried and failed, he says. President Roosevelt tried, but today the country is back in depression and the vicious circle

begins again. desolate picture that he

It is a draws. “We are near the end of a road —here we are at the end of 10 years still in a depression—the black

plague is upon us.”

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sprung up from the rank and file of liberals in many states. It is not a ‘popular front’ movement and we will not accept disgruntled groups. “It is a righteous crusade to unite America and win a lost heritage. It blazes a new trail which avoids oldfashioned capitalism, socialism, fascism and communism.” Dissention within the Democratic Party, he said, has sabotaged and undermined the Administration. The Republican Party, he declared, has become a symbol for the devastation and suffering of recon‘struction.

The: Governor listed these six

principles as basic of his party:

“First—The ownership and control of money and credit, without qualification or reservation, must be under public and not private control.

\ “Second—The organized power of this nation must stop at nothing

to every American the absolute right to earn his living. . .. “Third—We believe . . . our present Governmental system is in sad need of modernizing. One importont step is to grant the executive branch power to get things done.... “Fourth—Those who work on the farm and in the city must be given security . . . founded on a definite, decent annual income for all. . . . “Fifth—We flatly oppose every form of coddling, or spoon-feeding the American people. . . . No government on earth can successfully manage, regulate and direct the numerous details that make for healthy families or successful busi-

ess. . .. “And lastly: We believe . . . our hemisphere was divinely destined to evolve peace, security and plenty. It shall remain inviolate for that sacred purpose.” 5 The only apparently contradictory note in the new party plans came from Adolf A. Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, who attended with the “permission” of President Roosevelt and as the official representative of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York City. “The problem is to unite liberals, not to divide them,” Mr. Berle said.

It’s Big Undertaking,

Lemke Says Here

To Congressman William Lemke of North Dakota, Governor La Fol-

Progressives of America, is “just another of the 87 varieties” of political parties. . ; ~ “What Governor La Follette should do is get in the Union party where he belongs,” said Rep. Lemke, who ran for the presidency on the Union party ticket in 1936. The fiery Republican Congressman appeared in Federal Court here yesterday to defend “the right of land -owning, home -owning farmers” under the provisions of the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium act. )

‘None Gan Predict Growth,” Says Robert

WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P.). —Effectiveness of the new third party movement will depend on popular response, Senator Robert

Commenting on the undertaking launched at Madison, Wis. last night by his brother Governor Phil La Follette of Wisconsin, he said it was not aimed primarily at this year’s Congressional elections or at the 1940 Presidential campaign. “No one,” he said, “can predict how rapidly this party will grow. I can’t say to what extent it will participate in the 1938 elections outside of Wisconsin and Minnesota. “The real significance is that those who are supporting this party will press forward as rapidly as they can on a soundly built program within the states.”

Norris Hints Forced 3d Term for Roosevelt

~ WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P.). —Senator Norris, Nebraska liberal, predicted today that if a Demo-cratic-Republican coalition in Congress continues to block President Roosevelt's program, Executive will be forced to seek a third term. Agreeing that an organization of Progressives is salutary, Senator

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Norris feared it might weaken their cause by splitting the ranks of liberals of all parties. “I think organization of progressive people is a good thing,” Senator Norris said. “If it is nation-wide, all the better. But whether they

should organize a new political party is debatable.” ;

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