Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1938 — Page 13

TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1938

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La Follette’s Party Gets Chill Reception

By Midwest Liberals!

Governor Willing to Wait for Buildup of Sentiment; Roosevelt's Name Still One of Magic In Farm Belt.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer MADISON, Wis.,, May 3.—The La Follette independent political movement has had a frosty recepiion so far among liberal and progressive groups, with a few exceptions in this area, and it has not won the support of any “big name” from that element. The shower of wet bankets was expected by young Governor Phil La Follette, its creator and central figure. He is politician enough to know that such men as Fiorello La Guardia and John L. Lewis, who might be expected to sympathize with some of his objectives, cannot afford to cut loose from President Roosevelt and the political organizations which they respectively head

until they find which way the wind | is blowing. Mr. Roosevelt, the Governor y knows, has done a lot for progres-

sives and labor through concrete | New Deal measures, and until it is demonstrated that conservatives | have captured the Democratic Party, | these men are not going to jum into another political camp. Phil La Follette is willing to wait, and while waiting he will be building up local organizations in various parts of the country and provagandizing by personal appearances, to the end of stirring up rank-and-file sentiment—which is all that can move the leaders above. For his missionary work he setting up regional headquarters in New York, Chicago and San Fran-

New Foreign Craft Rival | Speed of Cruisers Owned | By U. S.

WASHINGTON, May 3 (U. P)

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FASTEST SHIPS

Alekso Samardgieff, a Macedonian by birth, became a naturalized American citizen just two months ago. At 6 a. m. today he was waiting at the polls to cast his first ballot. He voted at the Fifth Precinct,

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in Precinct 3, Ward

Folks

in line before 6:30 a. m.

cisco. Roosevelt Still Popular Out here, hundreds of miles from

| The German and Italian navies will soon have the fastest battleships { ever constructed, it was learned to-

19th Ward. to set up shop out-of-doors.

CHALLENGED VOTERS ADJUST REGISTRATIONS

Washington, the Governor has felt According to reports to the Navy the pervading influence of Frank- | Department the speeds of new Ital-

lin D. Roosevelt. When he men-

tioned the President before his own folks at Madison, in the speech announcing his third party movement, a chorus of sincere applause welled up from his audience to smite him full in the face. In his speech at Cedar Rapids he was even Kinder in his remarks about the President. He had learned to tread softly There, too, the mention of the President brought a big hand. The Roosevelt name still carries magic in the corn belt. Political experts say he could carry Iowa today by 50.000; his majority in 193¢ was 135,000. Knowing the the

potency of

Roosevelt magic, and the swiftness |

of the President's political footwork, the evangel of the new political movement will proceed carefully for a time. For instance, he plans to hold back on further revelation of the type of measures he would offer

(and this omission has been noted !

in many quarters) until after Congress geis out of Washington. He knows that the President could attempt to match him by sending messages to Congress designed to deaden his firr Movement like that started by the La Follettes sometimes click almost overnight. Sometimes they denly show their strength at the ballot box, without much previous - Indication of their strength. Sometimes they dwindle away. This one has emitted no sudden spark that caught on quickly.

Opportunity May Come

Yet should President Roosevelt's attempt to check the down-curve of

sur- |

{ian and German capital ships will [be 50 per cent greater than any | existing United States battleship. | These reports said that both coun- | tries have two battleships under | construction whose speeds are offi- | cially stated to be “at least” 30 | knots. America’s present battleships are | capable of a top speed of about 21 | knots. Even the 35,000-ton Washington and North Carolina, now under construction, will be capable of only 27 or 28 knots. | Navy Department officials ad- | mitted that if these foreign ships | measure up to expectations, a revi{sion in American battleship con- | struction may be necessary. The fast Italian battleships now | under construction are the 35,000[ton Littorio and Vittorio Veneto, | which were laid down in 1934 and | scheduled for completion soon. The | vessels reportedly will carry nine | 15-inch guns and 12 six-inch guns. It was reported that Italy plans | to lay down two more battleships {of similar design in the near future.

French Building Two

The German vessels are the 26.-000-ton Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Three 35,000-ton fast battleshivs | reportedly will be laid down soon. In addition to the German and | Italian ships. it is reported that the { French Richelieu and Jean Bart, | both of 35,000-tons, will be able to reach speeds in excess of 30 knots. | In some quarters it was believed {that these speedy battleships will not only present a serious threat to | slower ships of the same category | but may revolutionize naval con- | struction as a whole.

business by his spending program |

fail, then the disgruntled might be |

ready to follow after a and follow in droves. Governor La Follette also has the encouragement of his father's independent political movement in 1924. a few months before the election. inadequately financed and floated in food times when voters were not greatly disturbed, it corralied five million votes. The elder Senator La Follette ran ahead of the Democratic 1924 candidate, John W. Davis, in several states in this area. Voters are independent today than ever in the country’s history. President Roosevelt proved that by turning the Democratic debacle in 1928 into the Inadslides of '32 and 36. The La Follette movement. despite its cool reception at the start.

new god,

can not be discontinued when one |

considers the two LaFollette brothers.

No man who has been elected Gov- |

ermor of Wisconsin for three terms can be discounted—especially con-

sidering his type of economic and |

social program and the influences against him in the state. Both carry dignity, Bob in the Senate and Phil in There is nothing of the Huey Long or Father Coughlin about them. They are steady political craftsmen of experience far bevond their vears. They will make smoke, and maybe fire.

DUCE MAKES HIS AIDS SING SONG SIX TIMES

ROME, May 3 (U. P.).—Premier Benito Mussolini has given some of his highest aids a special compulsory course in how to sing the new Hymn of Empire, it was understood today. Sig. Mussolini was reviewing some battalions of Fascist cadets on the

recent celebration of Rome's birthday. A band struck up the anthem. Mussolini casually asked those about him for the words of the hymn. There was some shuffling of feet and reddening of faces in the silence that followed. “What! You don't know words?” exclaimed Premier lini. Achille Starace, Fascist Party secretary general, was sail to have been first to confess that he had “forgotten” them. A young Fascist Party secretary stepped up. Sig. Mussolini, it was said. ordered the secretary to waif, and at chance told him to dictate the words to the ministers. Then he had the band play the anthem six times with the ministers singing it.

the Musso-

BARBERS DO GOOD TURN

PORTLAND, Ore, May 3 (U. P). —The Portland chapter, Association

Thrown together quicly only |

inclined to be more |

Both are shrewd politicians. |

Wisconsin. !

the first |

‘Hatching an Egg Is Job for

nevertheless |

WASHINGTON, May 3 (U. P.).— Mollie and Moe, mated penguins at | the National Zoo, started day and | night shifts of egg-sitting again today. The penguins, after sitting on two | other eggs for 40 days and 40 nights, recently hatched two penguin chicks —first ever hatched in an American Z00. The tiny chicks, immediately named Minnie and. Malcolm, died soon after they were hatched. Yesterday, Mollie laid another | egg. She promptly began the sit- | ting process. Moe relieved her on | the nest last night. If they maintain the same sched{ule on which they operated during | their first family enterprise, they | will alternate regularly for day and night shifts on the nest.

RAILROAD DIRECTORS’ ~ OUSTER DEMANDED

{ Robert R. Young, Chesapeake Corp. board chairman, today struck out at Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, and called upon it to remove Charles L. Bradley and John P. Murphy from the board of the corporation. | In a letter addressed to W. C. | Potter, guaranty board chairman, | Mr. Young denounced the attitude | of the bank in the present con- { traversy over voting of Chesapeake | Corp. stock which the bank holds | as collateral on bonds of Alleghany | Corp.

‘OHIO BANK ROBBED BY NERVOUS YOUTHS

| | | LIMA, O, May 3 (U. P.).—Three | nervous young bandits today robbed the Citizens & Farmers Bank at | Spencerville, 12 miles southwest of | here, of approximately $500. The bandits made their escape in 12 black sedan and headed north to{ward Delphos. The automobile bore | Ohio license plates CA-422. State highway patroimen reported the | plates had been stolen from an ! automobile at Columbus.

| Three Bandits Sought By City Officers

{ Indianapolis police were asked to | watch for the three bandits reported to have held up the Spencerville, [O., bank and escaped with about

| $500.

Gilbertsville Project

Two Penguins

NEW YORK, May 3 (U. P).—|

of Master Barbers of America, does | It was the second bank holdup a good turn menihly. Every 30 days, reported in less than 24 hours. Inseven master barbers, serving in ro- | diana officers sought a lone bandit tation, pay a visit with shears and | who obtained about $700 at a Crossclippers 10 the Sarine hospital for | ville, Jl. bank vesterday, then crippled children and keeo the 50- | headed for the Indiana State line odd patients tonsoriaily neat. 10 miles away at New Harmony.

Scores of voters jammed the Marion County Clerk's office all day getting their registrations checked after their right to vote had been challenged at the polls,

When their registrations were verified, clerks | gave them official slips that allowed them to vote, .

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Favor in Congress hy Series of Deals.

By E. R. R.

WASHINGTON, May 3.—A complicated series of trades, in connection with conference reports on the Independent Offices and Interior Department appropriation bills, resulted in mustering enough votes in the House last week to win approval for: 1—A $2,613,000 appropriation to begin construction on a huge TVA

Ky. 2—A $29,000,000 contribution from the Treasury to the Reclamation Fund. The first item was primarily of interest to the states of the Southeast, where more than $112,000,000 will be spent before the Gilbertsville dam is completed. The second item was primarily of interest to the arid-land states of the Far West. In addition to the first $29,000,000 — which represents 521: per cent of the royalties received by the Treasury from naval oil leases in the public land states since 1920—the Reclamation Fund |is to continue to receive 32’: per jcent of the royalty payments on a permanent basis. The proceeds will be used to develop new irrigation | projects in the Far West. Involved in the trading also were appropriations of (1) $3,500.000 for the Blue Ridge Highway in Virginia and North Carolina; (2) $1,500,000 for the Natchez Trace Highway in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama; (3) $1,250,000 for the ColoradoBig Thompson irrigation project. The last named project calls for a 13-mile tunnel through the Continental Divide in Colorado and 7000-acre reservoir, ultimately to cost $44,000,000. These appropriations were accepted without record votes. Would Create Big Lake

The Gilbertsville dam project in-

56.000 acres to create a lake with a shoreline of some 2000 miles. The project has been opposed both on account of its large cost and on the ground that it would add greatly

to the power facilities being em- |

ployed by the Government in competition with private utilities. According to Chairman Mansfield (D. Tex.) of the House Rivers and Harbors Committee: “You may have a powet dam, you may have a fioodcontrol dam, but take it from me

in my horse-sense view, vou totally |

destroy navigation.” The proposed lake would be deep enough in many parts, Mansfield said, to float the largest ships on the high seas, but the barges that ply the Tennessee River could never traverse its rough waters. The appropriation for beginning construction was added by the Senate to the Independent Offices bill after that measure had been passed by the House. When the House was first asked five weeks ago to accept the Senate amendment, Rep. Mansfield and his supporters argued that the money to be spent at Gilberts-

ville could much better be devoted y

dam and reservoir at Gilbertsville, |

volves the flooding of approximatelyv |

Crowe Only Hoosier Voting for TVA Dam;

flood control projects well distri- | buted throughout the country. This | argument proved appealing, and the | members rejected the appropriation (186 to 157. | When the House was again asked | to accept the appropriation last | week, it reversed itself and gave its | approval by a margin of seven votes {| —159 to 152. Rep. Crowe was the only member of the Hoosier delegation to vote for the Gilbertsville dam ap- | propriation. Reps. Pettengill, Far- | ley, Greenwood, Boehne, Larrabee |

and Ludlow voted against the | measure, Reps. Halleck and Griswold were paired against it, and Reps. Schulte, Jenckes and Gray were not recorded. In the interval between the first and second House votes on the | Gilbertsville dam, the Senate had |adopted the amendment to the | Interior Department appropriation { bill ‘which provides for a transfer of | $29,000,000 from the Treasury to the | Reclamation Fund.

Farley Joins in Approving Fund Transfer

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| This proposal had originally been Senate.

Wins to smaller river and harbor and | embodied in a separate bill offered |

| by Senator Hayden (D. Ariz) and | O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), with the sup- | port of other Senators from the | public land states. When it was submitted to the House last week it won approval in that body by a margin of 15 votes—165 to 150. Of the Indiana delegation, Reps. Farley and Crowe voted aye. Reps. Halleck, Greenwood, Boehne and Ludlow voted against the amendment. Those not recorded were: Reps. Schulte, Pettengill, Griswold, Jenckes, Gray and Larrabee. While accepting the Senate's Gilbertsville and Reclamation Fund amendments, the House indignantly refused to concur in amendments to | the Independent Offices and Interior | appropriation bills which would have made appointments to offices paying more than $5000 subject to confirmation by the Senate. No roll calls were necessary to establish the House's emphatic disapproval of this attempted patronage grab by the

‘Nebraska Dam - Means End of

Three Villages

OGALLALA, Neb. May 3

{dated when construction of Kings-

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COSMETICS SAFER NOW, SAYS SPEAKER

(U. | olis chapter of the American Chem- | P.).—Three villages will be inun- [ical Society today.

He spoke at the regular meeting

[ley Dam, second largest earth-fill (of the group at noon at the Severin

{dam in the world, is completed on | Hotel

| the North Platte River. land Martin will be put under 60 | feet of water by the flooding of the

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“Introduction of vitamins to cos- |

| The villages of Lemoyne, Belmar |Mmetics and employment of highly

trained chemists have raised the | standards of products to a great ex- |

2.000.000 acrefoot reservoir. Thirty | tent,” Dr. Niles said.

{miles of Union Pacific railroad | track must be relocated. The dam and reservoir will be the { principal unit of the Central Nebraska public power and irrigation {district of Hastings, better known ras the Tri-County project. Everything about the project is | big. he dam, surpassed in size {only by the Fort Peck dam in Mon- { tana, will be 1:4 miles long, and will | require two years to pile up the earth of which it will be formed. The project is the largest among | Nebraska's three major public { power districts, which include the | Platte Valley: (Sutherland) and | Loup River districts. Tri-County is | expected to consvee $30,000,000 of [$50,000,000 alloted to the three projects. Purpose of the Tri-County project (is to provide irrigation water for | farms in the Platte Valley and elec- | tricity at low rates.

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‘TWO WPA PROJECTS HERE ARE APPROVED

| WASHINGTON, May 3.—Presi- | dential approval of two Indianapolis | WPA projects was announced today by Senator VanNuys. They were: $18,400 for levee im- | provements on the north bank of { White River from Harding St. west | across the old river bed, and $17,075 [to raise and regravel roads at the

| municipal sewage disposal plant.

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YOUTH SUFFOCATES | AS PARENTS DANCE |

DAUGHTER BLESSED

WASHINGTON, May 3 (U. P).— Senator Harrison (D. Miss.) today | sent his “blessing and good wishes” | to his daughter, Catherine Harri- | son, who ended a whirlwind ro- | mance with a California doctor by | an elopement yesterday. “My daughter goes with my good | wishes and blessings,” Senator Har- | rison said. Miss Harrison was married to Dr. Irvin T. Miller of Colton, Cal, at | Frederick, Md. No previous announcement of their plans had been made and the couple was accompanied only by two close friends.

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The ones at the table are checking registrations.

MOONEY'S PLEA CALLED ‘FALSE

California Fights Review, Charging Brief Insulted State High Court.

WASHINGTON, May 3 (U. P.).— California today charged attorneys for Thomas J. Mooney made “absolutely false” charges against the California Supreme Court and asked the United States Supreme Court to deny Mooney’'s plea for a review. Mooney’s petition for review of the California Supreme Court decision denying his plea for release on a writ of habeas corpus was filed with the high Court three months ago. Action on the petition may be announced at the Court's next decision session, May 16. Mooney is serving a sentence for conviction pation in the California paredness Day bombing. The charges which Mooney has made against the Supreme Court of California are “absolutely false,”

life prison ¥ partici1916 Pre-

the State said in its brief filed to- |

day, signed by the California Attorney General U. S. Webb. “The petitioner knew when he

the warning to

swamped election officials at their polling place in the 2400 block N. Illinois St. Blue skies which prevailed throughout the morning enabled election workers

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This group was waiting

BEDFORD MAN

DROWNS SELF, THREE CHILDREN

Drives Auto Into White River After Buying Soda Pop for Sons.

BEDFORD, May 3 (U. P.) —Lester Etchison, 32, wanted to make his three sons happy, but was cone cerned about their future. He thought he was near a separation

from his wife. He hurried home from his job at the Public Service Co. late yes= terday and rounded up the children, Max, 3, Russell, 8, and Donald, 10. “I'm going to take you fishing,” he told them, “and I'll buy you some soda pop.” With Mrs. Etchison and her pare ents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Cox, they climbed into the car and headed for Williams. Near there Mrs. Etchison and Mr, and Mrs. Cox got out. The boys and their father went on to a roadside stand for the soda pop and returned to the car to drink it. When the bottles were drained, Etchison whirled the machine about and plunged it into the White River, They drowned in 30 feet of water, The automobile and bodies were recovered. In a pocket of the car police found a note to the wife, Mabel, and another to a brother, Louis, of Shelbyville. “I was wrong,” the note to Mrs. Ethison said. “I judged the wrong person, you instead of myself. 1

was the guilty one—guilty as hell, It would be all right if we didn’t made them that such charges were| have the boys but they are innocent

of all this and I won't have it

false and has deliberately misstated | evidence bearing upon contentions

thrown back up to them later.” In the note to his brother, Etchi«

argued in his brief,” said Mr. Wes) son asked that he be buried in a brief. | corner of a clover field. . i

| “On first consideration we were| “Leave no juoing > Slang | ing ; ti .| read, “or anything that wou inter= of the opition. shat he pe ftioner | fere with someone working in the |= deliberately misstate the evi- | field.” | dence in an attempt to deceive this| Coroner R. E. Wynne said the Court on points of fact which he | note indicated Etchison’s act Vas . i. wane | CONCeived in an unbalanced mind. Yhought, of pretencied Wo hing, Were He said he would return a verdict material to his case, to the end that | of yyrder and suicide. this Court would review the decision | renee

of the Supreme Court of California. |

{ “Further consideration has led in X-RAYS SHOW FOUR | to believe that the petitioner de- | SAFETY PINS IN GIRL

liberately made his brief so insult- | ing and his misstatement of fact 50 | obvious as to cause this Court to RICHMOND, Va., May 3 (U. P), order the brief stricken from the | —X-Rays disclosed today that 15« Re, ...” | year-old Helena Turner turned here ———————————— | self into a virtual human pine ’ | cushion. SHARKS GREED LETS | The girl entered Memorial Hos- | pita,] asking doctors to remove a | safety pin she said she had swal« NEW YORK, May 3 (U. P).— | one but four—one in the esophagus, When Capt. J. H. Hart leaped from | one in the stomach and two in the his sinking Pan American Airways | Intestines. : | esophagus and began consultations | been removed, he landed in a school | {4 agree on treatment to remove the | of sharks. The sharks began fight- | other three. | 4 ’ e————————————— | ing over him and thus diverted, he | RACES WITHOUT SHOES a lifeboat. | Airlie, filly which won a flying The plane went down 12 miles off | handicap at 33 to 1 recently, ran | Kingston, Jamaica, April 25. The |barefoot. Her owner has never al- | story was told today by Norton V.!lowed her to wear a shoe or plate

{ PLANC PILOT ESARE [ lowed. An examination revealed not | plane after the 12 passengers had | Doctors removed the pin from the managed to escape them and reach | gypNEY, May 3 (U. P.). — Lady | Ritchey, one of the passengers. 'for fear of injuring herself.

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