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The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 111

LEGISLATURE GETS

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow ; cooler tomorrow.

COUNCIL AGAIN BALKS VOTE ON HOUSING PLAN

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Two-Month Additional Study |

Time Given Realty Board |

Despite Pleas. |

STANTON SEEKS ACTION

Says Delay May Mean Loss Of Federal Funds; Pool Fee to Stay.

The Indianapolis Real Estate Board today began a study of slum clearance needs here. City Councilmen last night grant- | ed the Board's request for two months more delay of the long- | pending resolution setting up an Indianapolis Housing Authority. They voted to give the realtors until the | first Council meeting in September to conduct a survey of slum conditions and report to the Council. | At the same time, Councilmen voted to kill a resolution to eliminate the 10-cent swimming fee at municipal pools. Republican Councilmen Edward R. Kealing, who in- | troduced the proposal; John A. | Schumacher and William A. Oren votea for the measure. The Council voted to deiav the Housing Authority action despite: 1. A warning by Walter E. Stanfon, Indiana Housing Board execu- | tive secretary, that if the Council delavs passage of the resolution three months more, there probably will be no more Federal aid available for slum-clearance projects here. In three months, he estimated, the additional $300.000.000 provided by the latest recovery bili probably will be exhausted, since Federal money has been earmarked for municipal projects in 123 other | cities at the rate of $100,000,000 a month, he said. |

Plead for Action Soon | plea for “favorable action | very soon” on the proposal by C. I. O. members here, 3. A request for an immediate favorable vote by Adolph J. Fritz, Democratic Councilman and Indiana State Federation of Labor executive secretary, who warned that if the resolution was held, it probably would be four or six months before anything is done. The Council passed eight other measures, heid four others, struck two from the records and listened to the introduction of seven more. Mr. Stanton appeared before the legislative body at the invitation of | Mr, Fritz. He outlined and presented answers to five objections to the! proposed Housing Authority: 1. “In reply to a claim that there are no slums in Indianapolis,” Mr. Stanton pointed out a 1934 U. S Department of Commerce ey which showed Indianapolis to be the sixth worst city among 24 of com- | parable size in the United States It said 20.7 per cent the total housing here is “in bad condition.” 2. Regarding the claims that there is no market for municipal housing | authority bonds and no assurance | of repayment, Mr. Stanton said: “I have as yet to find a representative of a bonding house who felt the security behind the bonds was bad.”

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Housing in Other Cities

3. Claims that Indianapolis would | be “pioneering” In the municipal housing field, were answered by Mr. Stanton. who said “28 cities out of 37 in the U with a population exceeding 250.000 have set up housing authorities If Indianapolis is| to pioneer, it would have practically every alert major city in| America pioneering with it.” 4. The State official answered Real Estate Board claims that the City should delay action until a pri-| vate survey has been made and pri- | vate capital given an opportunity by saying: “A private survey probably would cost at least $25,000 and would prove too costly if properly made. Moreover, a survey would take from four to six months, an additional six weeks would be consumed in setting up the Authority, and by that time the Federal money probably would be exhausted.” 5. Charges by some Councilmen that the proposed Authority would | “take liberty from everyone and | create a commission responsible to no one,” were answered by Mr. | Stanton, who said: “It is incon- | ceivable that 123 major cities could | be so completely hoodwinked that! they would set up housing projects | under the United States Housing Authority if the setup were rotten. (Continued on Page Two) | |

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‘Near Philippines

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Mrs. F.D.R. Jr. Expects Baby

‘Very Soon’

PHILADELPHIA, July 19 (U. P). — Attendants at Lying-In Hospital | said today that Mrs. franklin D.| Roosevelt Jr. was expected to bear | a child “very soon,” possibly today. She entered the hospital yester- | day, arriving by automobile from | Wilmington, Del, where she had | been staving at the home of her | parents, the Eugene du Ponts. Her | husband accompanied her. | Dr. Robert Kimbrough Jr. was| in charge of the 22-year-old cu Pont heiress, who married the President's son June 30, 1937. The expected child will be the President's eighth grandchild. i CAMPORBELLO, N. B, July 19 (U. P.)—John Roosevelt and his| bride of one month, the former Anne Lindsay Clarke of Poston, | were en route to Montreal today | to board the Canadian national] liner Lady Somers for Bermuda. |

HEALTH PARLEY HINTS UPRISING

‘Consumers’ Talk Agitation For Medical Care on | Insurance Scheme.

By WATSON DAVIS | Science Service Directox | WASHINGTON, July 19.—An air! incipient uprising among ‘“consummers” of medical service is hovering over the National Health Conference here Contrasted with the insistence of representatives of the American | Medical Association that all's well in the medical world, the farmers’ and labor representatives, the par- | ents and the liberal faction in the medical profession made it plain that all who are ill in mind and | bodv are not being served as they | could and should be. This is Mrgely an economic matter. Obviously, scientists must learn | more about the cure and prevention | of disease and there must be more accent on prevention in the future! national health program, as Surgeon General Parran of the U. S Public Health Service urged. But the major immediate problem is how | to get medical service to all the peo- | ple—and who is to pav the bills. | Among the consumers—patients to the doctors—there is a growing feeling that medical care is something that can be paid for under some insurance scheme, without any | loss of quality of service or income by the average physician. More than 100 representative lead- | ers of medicine, government, labor, | agriculture, press, social service and other fields are seated in this deliberative congress called by the | committee co-ordinating Federal health and welfare activities, head- | ed by Miss Josephine Roche,

Fishbein Says Major

Points Overlooked WASHINGTON, July 19 (U. P).

| —Dr. Morris’ Fishbein. editor of the

Journal of the Association accused

Medical | columnist, | committee | and welfare with having “purposely important elements” in recommending an $85,000,000 annual heaith program. He refused to add to this state-

American and Times the President's

| ment, but promised to “analyze” at

SHIPS CRASH IN FOG

* OFF IRISH COAST

Passengers Sent to Deck, | Given Life Preservers.

LONDON, July 19 (U. P).—The| warned today by Chamber of Com- |

American freighter West Cohas and | the British passenger ship Munster |

collided early today in a thick fog | below budget appropriations be- | in Indianapolis, Center Township, is

off Skerries, Ireland, north of Dub- | lin, The Munster’s 450 passengers were ordered on deck and given lifebelts. It was reported that a hole | had been torn in her hull at the waterline, but she started for Liver- | pool under her own power.

| Bois de Boulogne station

TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1938

PARIS DISPLAYS

KING AND QUEEN

THE FOREIGN SITUATION PARIS — British royal couple welcomed by 500,000. VALENCIA—B ri ti s h ship bombed; eight workers killed.

HENDAYE—Rebels attack Sagunto from three sides. SHANGHAI—Japanese bomb American school at Hankow.

500,000 Line Route Of George and Elizabeth

PARIS, July 19 (U. P.O). —King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, making their first state visit to any foreign nation since they ascended the throne of Great Britain, were welcomed to Paris today with a great military display. Their majesties arrived at the at 9:50 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) by special train to begin the four-day visit designed further to cement the AngloFrench friendship. Two hours before their arrival, troops virtually took over Paris. Army tanks rumbled through the boulevards and took up commanding positions in the Place de Con-

| corde and the Champs Elysee, bar-

ring all traffic. About 35.000 troops, comprising 20 infantry regiments, five cavalry regiments and 10,000 mobile guards, were stationed along the route from the station to the Quai d'Orsay, where the King and Queen will stay in the state apartments of the Foreign Office. About 500,000 civilians also lined the streets. The special train that brought the King and Queen from Boulogne, where thev had landed after crossing from Dover, pulled slowly into

| the station to the thunder of a 101gun royal salute and the cheering of |

a huge crowd that pressed against the lines of troops. The King, dressed in the uniform of an admiral, and the Queen, wearing black and pearls. were escorted into the central pavillion of the station, where President Albert Lebrun,

Mme. Lebron, Cabinet members and |

other French dignitaries awaited

them. formal

dress and silk hats, while

the brilliance of the military uni- |

forms and sashes added to the color of countless flags. For four days the British royal

couple will be the honored guests | | of

President Albert Lebrun, the Cabinet and the people of France, welcomed as allies and friends.

LONDON, July 19 (U. P.)—The Daily Herald reported today that Capt, Fritz Wiedemann, Adolf Hitler's personal adjutant, had conferred with Viscount Halifax, Foreign Secretary, on the international situation. The Daily Herald inti-

| mated that Capt. Wiedemann cau-

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DEPUTIES DISPERSE PICKETS WITH GAS

(Other Labor Stories, Page Five)

NORTH CHICAGO, 1ll, July 19 (U. P.) —Fifty deputy sheriffs dispersed 500 pickets at the bound Chicago Hardware Foundry Co. today with tear and sickening gas. The pickets had ignored orders to break their cordon withia five minutes. The attack lasted 30 minutes and when it was over the sheriff's men

controlled the factory gute for the |

first time since June 6, when the C. I. O. union called a strike in protest against a 10 per cent wage cut. Five pickets were arrested and held without formal charges. Deputy Sheriff Stanley Xnauth shouted the ultimatum strike leaders to disperse. The pickets—men and women who

earlier today had linked arms and |

forced back an auto filled with factory ranks and waited till

threw the bombs.

the

All the civil officials wore |

strike- |

foremen — solidified their | ee |

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LABOR STRIFE

Employers, Workers Believe In ‘Give and Take’ to Settle Disputes.

(Sweden has found comparative industrial peace through a long process of evoIntion rather than hy striking upon some magic formula, Wehh Miller, European manager of the United Press, writes in the first of a series of dispatches anaIvzing the relations hetween employer and | employee in Sweden and Great Britain, | Mr. Miller has gathered his information | on the scene in both countries.)

By WEBB MILLER Copvright, 1838, by United Press

STOCKHOLM, July 19 —The se{eret of Sweden's famous “middle way” of solving labor disputes, a | formula that is the envy of all in- { dustrial nations today, lies in a spirit of “give and take” that breathes life into the dead letter of the law, r ‘The | dent

which Presihas appointed Swedish system vain through

commission Roosevelt | to study the | will search in law hooks for the answer to why | this nation has so few labor dis- | putes and virtually no violence. The | answer is not written in law books, | but in the minds and hearts of the Swedes, a patient, law-abiding peo- { ple who will go to almost any end | to avoid the use of force, That is

SWEDEN CHECKS To

Swedish system could be applied in |

| other nations, including the United States, where the inhabitants lack the peculiar temperament and outlook of the Swedes. | It was this respect for law and | the orderly processes of Government that struck me most forcibly when I came here to interview the country’s leaders and find out first-hand the secret of Sweden's industrial peace. For instance, there is ordinance against the excessive | blowing of automobile horns. I

nav t heard an automobile horn | have not heard | The Department of Commerce can-

since I have been here. That attitude does much to explain the success of the Swedish system. Here is a system that has been developing for two decades. Progress toward complete industrial has been rapid. In 1930 there were 261 disputes which reached the stage of strikes or lockouts. By 1936 the number had dropped to 60 and still is dropping.

The framework on which Sweden 9-vear-old plane was granted before old Los Angeles flier landed yester-

has built its system is simple: 1. There is a statutory eight-hour day for industrial workers, 2. There are seven scattered throughout Sweden whose (Continued on Page Five)

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ECOVERY PLAN

GOVERNOR ASKS

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the people should be given the benefit of their thriftiness.”

Highlights

“We have a balance of $24,500,000 in the State Treasury, and I believe that the people should be given the benefit of their thrift-

iness . . .

“Briefly, I am recommending to you that you (1) provide funds for needed public construction, (2) equalize the property tax load further, and (3) consider amendments to the Motor Vehicle Title-

Holder Certificate Law.

“At the same time we are faced with an entirely different sort

of problem, a social problem. . to care for the sick and mentally

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. If we act immediately.

. . We do not have adequate facilities

afflicted.

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we can construct vitally needed

public works at a cost to the State of only 55 cents on the dollar of

value received. . .

“If we neglect the clear duty that is before us, the state would eventually have to pay the full cost of the necessary institutional

building. . . .

“The mental hospitals are overcrowded.

are obsolete, and one dormitory

Many of the buildings has heen condemned as unsafe,

. . . Eight thousand patients are crowded into five mental hospitals which were built to accommodate no more than 7500 patients. . , ,

“The recovery value of the program is abvious. , .

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“If we have monev in the Treasury beyond our needs and beyond a necessary surplus, it should be returned to the people at this

time when they need it. .

“We have found that property tax rates for welfare are excessive

in some counties. , . . “This . .

. will be a beginning in the equalization of property

taxes among the different sections of our state... .

“I feel that if it

(the windshield title holder law)

is unsatis-

factory in any way, it should be amended.

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“Labor. business and agriculture will all benefit through some

phase of this program less of his political affiliation, will wheel of recovery and tax relief.

. . . I believe that every legislator, regard-

want to put his shoulder to the

“I hope that you will confine your consideration at this special

session to the imperative task at hand...)

Irish Release

why most students doubt that the |

Corrigan’s

Plane at U. S. Request

Air Officials Punish Flier He Promises to Return Home |

‘Gently’ and ‘Join in | His Pleasure.’

WASHINGTON, July 19 (U. P).— |

celed the experimental license of |

| Douglas G. Corrigan today to pre-

| vent flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

peace |

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conciliators |

C. of C. Warns Tax Heads

Of Th rea

(Tax Table, Page Two)

Local taxing unit officials were merce officials to hold expenditures

cause of a “threatened shortage in

| tax collections” for the year.

The Indianapolis Chamber's governmental research bureau reported that first installment tax collections

Total collections, both current and delinquent, in the spring installment were the highest in recent years, but this. the Chamber reported, was due { to the large increase in the tax rate i for 1938. The current year’s rate

highest in

| $3.20, said to be the the year

history. Total taxes for were $18,370,999. Since local budgets were based on | an assumption of 100 per cent col-

PICKABACK‘ PLANE

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in Marion County indicate that for | lections this year, this would mean | the first time since 1934, receipts | a total deficit of $500,000 for the |

will fall substantially below the

| amounts actually levied.

SOS Heard

SAN FRANCISCO, July 19 (U. P.) —Globe Wireless announced today its Manila station intercepted an SOS from a vessel which itself as the “City of| Derby” and reported itself ashore on Silino Island in need of imme-| diate assistance.

{ collection,

The difficulty is in the reduced collections of delinquent taxes. On the basis of the spring tax the Chamber reported, the collection of current taxes this year probably will be approximately 6.6 per cent delinquent, only .2 per

| cent more than last year, and 1.7

making a tightening it

| various units, of budget expenditures advisable, | was said. In comparison with this year’s | estimated 97.3 per cent total collec- | tion, the figure last year was 99.4 | per cent, and in 1936 the figure was 1 100.5 per cent, ! The more than 100 per cent col- | lection two years ago was accounted

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per cent less delinquency than in for by the fact that heavy collec- |

1936. However, the total

tions of taxes delinquent from

The Luzon Stevedoring Co. or-| time to run only $715,888, as com- | rent taxes.

dered the tug Trabajador to the] rescue, Silino Island is midway be- | tween Mindanao and

caJries a crew of 33. i

pared with $069,847 last year and $1.387476 two years ago. This is

ing than in other recent y

The bureau's estimates for 1038 collections were based on the as-

} year's collections. a

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tened. Shortage

him attempting a westward They cabled Irish authorities, through State Department channels, of their action against the intrepid aviator who confounded aviation experts here by his week-end trip to | Europe in a “crate.” | The experimental license for his | Mr. Corrigan made a nonstop flight | from California to New York on | July 9. | Assistant Secretary of Commerce | J. Monroe Johnson told the United Press that the “gentle” punishment ! which would be meted out to Mr. Corrigan for his unlicensed transAtlantic flight would involve sus-| pension of his pilot's certificate for | a period of from 30 to 60 days. { “We all admire Mr. Corrigan’s pluck,” he said. “We all join in his plesure at the accomplishment and want him to feel as good as possible about it. But we've got to do something about his violation— some little thing, you understand.”

TO BRAVE ATLANTIC

FOYNES, Ireland, July 19 (U. P.). —The airplane Mercury flew here today from Southampton, England, and prepared to take off tomorrow on its first commercial flight to New York via. Bo Wood, Newfoundland, and Montreal. It will carry pictures of King George's | visit to Paris and other express, but no passengers. The Mercury will be taken into | the air on the back of the airplane | Maia. When a good altitude has

| heen attained, the Mercury will cut |

loose from its mother ship and | proceed alone. The Mercury would not be able to take off from the ground by itself when it is loaded with enough gasoline to cross the

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By Boat, but Would Fly to London.

(Editorial, Page 12; Photos, Page 6)

DUBLIN, July 19 (U. P.).—Douglas Corrigan’s $900 monoplane, the most inexpensive craft that ever

| was flown across the Atlantic, was

returned to him today by Irish customs authorities, who had detained it for several hours. The plane was formally returned to Mr. Corrigan’'s possession at Baldonnel Airport, where the 31-year-

day on his “accidental” flight from New York. Customs authorities had detained the plane because Mr. Corrigan’s status was siightly irregular. He had flown here blithely without a passport and without fulfilling any of the other formalities that inter national travelers, and especially trans-Atlantic aviators, are to supposed to adhere to. It was understood, however, the Irish Government had decided to take no action whatsoever against Mr. Corrigan—although the U. S. Government had ordered his flying license suspended for 30 to 60 days —and instructed the customs men to return his plane to him.

U. S. Minister With Him

U. S. Minister John Cudahy was with Mr. Corrigan at the airport

| when the formal return was made.

Previously, Minister Cudahy had arranged to get the flier a new outfit of clothes. It was believed that Mr. Corrigan would remain here about a week while the plane is dismantled for shipment back to the United States. Despite hints that Mr. Corrigan might have some other aerial adit was believed that he would return to the United States on the same ship on which the plane is transported. Mr. Corrigan was asked if he had been notified of the suspension of his American pilot's license. He

| laughed and said: “That's the first

I have heard of it.” He went to the Pitz William Lawn Tennis Club in the afternoon to watch Donald Budge, a fellow Californian, play in an exhibition match. Before his plane was released, he had asserted that he would like to (Continued on Page Six)

OF $7,

$24,500,000 Treasury Balance Cited at Extra Session.

ACTION IS NEED

Citizens Should Get

He Asserts.

(Text, Page 10)

Governor Townsend, “to give the people of Indiana benefit of their thriftiness,” today asked the Indiana Legislature to appropriate more than $7,000,000 from the State's general surplus for an eight-point building program and to help counties meet their welfare costs. In addition, he recommended revision of the auto title holder certificate law “if it is unsatisfactory in any way.” Speaking before a joint meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives in the House chamber, the Governor said he called the

special session because “there is a real need for public action.”

Cites Treasury Balance

Citing a $24,500,000 balance in fhe State Treasury, the Governor declared: “1 believe it would be fair and just to return to them (the people) in a recovery program a portion of the balance they have so thoughtfully accumulated.” With thousands of Indiana citizens unemployed and many businesses operating under capacity, emergency measures are required to take advantage of the Federal Government's newest recovery program and spur the State's rebound from the last business recession, he declared, Describing his proposals as a “1638 Indiana Recovery and Relief Program,” he said the money is available, and its expenditure will provide the needed impetus for a continued business revival.

value Called Obvious

“The recovery value of the program is obvious,” he said. A $24,500,000 surplus in the State Treasury is sufficient to pay between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 for public works and $2,000,000 for welfare costs, the Governor declared, but he warned that any additional spending might lead to an unbalanced budget. The present surplus was built up through the ‘thriftiness” of Indiana taxpayers, and it is “fair and just” to return part of it to them, he said. The eight-point building program

as recommended included:

at Logansport, Evansville, Rich- | mond and the Central State Hos- | pital. | 2. Feeble-Minded and Epileptic | Institutions—Construction at Mus- | catatuck Colony and the Epileptic Village. 3. Corrections -—— Construction at the Women's Prison, Boys’ School and Girls’ School.

School Building

4. Schools—Construction at Indiana University, Purdue University, Ball State Teachers College, Indiana State Teachers College and the

Club building on the State Fair Grounds. 5. Construction of a State tuberculosis sanatorium in Southern Indiana. 6. Construction of a new building for the State Health Board at the Indiana University Medical Center here. 7. New National Guard armories at Attica, Spencer, Lebanon and Indianapolis. 8. Construction of walks and drives, and landscaping for State institutions, with the State furnishing materials and using WPA labor. Describing his proposal to help pay county welfare costs as “welfare tax relief,” Governor Townsend said the real problem is equalization of taxes between sections of the State and not property taxation as a State-wide matter.

'STOCKS REACH NEW ’38 HIGH, THEN DROP

NEW YORK, July 19 (U, P).— After rising to new highs for the year at a 4,000,000-share clip at the opening, the stock market settled down to a more orderly affair this afternoon. Led by industrials, the market spurted and then prices slipped back from the highs on realizing. However, there remained gains of fractions to 2 points, . Bonds and commodities joined advance while the ticker gradually caught up.

1. Mental Hospitals—Construction |

Indiana -Deaf School, and a 4-H |

APPROPRIATION 30

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$5,300,000 Is Sought For Program of Construction.

‘HOSPITAL URGED

‘Change Suggested in

Benefit of Thrift, | Display of Auto

Title Card.

(Other Photos, Pages Three and Nine.)

The special session of the Indiana Legislature called to consider Gov= ernor Townsend's $7,300,000 emergency recovery program, went into high gear shortly after opening today. Promptly after the Governor explained his plans at a joint session of the House and Senate, Democratic leaders introduced in the

House the measures he seeks The program includes appropria=tion of about $5,300,000 to match | PWA grants for a State institutional | building program, $2,000,00 to cover most, of the various counties’ share | of social security costs, and a mea- | sure removing ‘obnoxious’ features of the windshield “gadget law.”

G. 0, P. Move Defeated

A Republican attempt to have | Senator VanNuys' charges of mal- | feasance in the State Administrative | Department investigated by a spe- | cial House Committee was defeated { by the majority. The Senator's charges were made | before his recent Democratic renomination, and while he planned to seek re-election as an independent Democrat. A motion {to table the VanNuys probe resolution was introduced by Rep. Edward T. Barry (D. Indianapolis) and was carried by a voice vote, The House 7:30 o'clock tonight to give the Ways and Means Committee, to which most of the administrative measures were introduced, time to report these bills back to the House, The Senate, which recessed a few minutes after convening, was to meet again later in the day. The Administrations proposals were to: 1. Appropriate $5,300,000 from the State general fund balance of $24, - 500,000 to match an anticipated PWA grant for an institutions building program. 2. Establish a tuberculosis hospital for Southern Indiana 3. Distribute $2,000,000 annually in State funds to relieve counties of a portion of their social security costs.

then recessed until

Gadget Law Revision

4. Amend the Windshield Title Holder Act to provide that certificates of title could be displayed in | other places in the driver's come | partment besides the windshield.

| 5. Appropriate $20,000 to pay exe

| penses of the session.

Refers Other Measures

Independent measures introduced | without administrative support were referred in every case by Speaker Stein to more inactive committees, They included: 1. A bill to return nomination of all state offices to the primary. 2. Bills to repeal the present dis tribution system of motor vehicle funds and provide that these funds | be used only for road construction. 3. A hill to provide that all ine comes now taxed at the rate of 1 | per cent under the Gross Income | Tax law be taxed at the rate of | 3% of 1 per cent. Governor Townsend spoke to a crowded House chamber and repeated his wish that the session be limited to the recovery program only, with the exception of the gadget law revision. He said: “Of course, we have many other problems which should be considered at the regular session. I promise you that they will be considered.”

Provides Lump Sum

The appropriation measure for the institutional building program provides for a lump sum appropriation of 5,300,000 to the executive department for its contingent fund for public improvements. It makes no specific mention of individual institutions, leaving that matter to the decision of the Governor and the budget committee. The appropriation would available until June 30, 1940. The institutional building appropriation measure and the act to defray expenses of the special session were introduced by Rep. Frank G. Thompson (D. Bluffton) majority floor leader, and both were referred to the Ways and Means Committee. A separate administration measure was introduced by Rep. William Black (D. Anderson) for the estab~