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38,000,000 Awarded

To Indiana by PWA ||

* In Five-Year Period

Grants of $31,624,347 and Loans of $6,665,994

Used

For Projects Costing Total of 79 Millions; Five New Allotments Are Announced.

Times Special

CHICAGO, Aug. 22—Sinc its inception in 1933, the PWA has poured more than $38,000,000 into Indiana in grants and loans for projects with

an estimated total cost of $79,000,000, according

to a report issued today

by the PWA Chicago Regional office. :

The report, compiled by Harold®—

K. Philips, assistant to the regional director, listed grants of $31,624,347 and loans of $6,665,994. Grants up to Aug. 17 this year —$15,620,347—more than double

those for any previous year. Loans Show Decline

Loans this year have totaled only $344,000. Although under the 1938 program WPA will make an outright grant of 45 per cent of the total estenated cost of a project, and loan the remaining 55 per cent, ‘Mr. Philips said, few applications for loans are being made. “The public markets have found bond issues for PWA-approved ~ projects so sound from a financial viewpoint,” he said, “that applicants in a great majority of cases are able to float loans in the public markets at a lower interest rate than PWA is permitted to charge. “We, of course, encourage private investors to participate in PWAapproved projects, and, therefore, have made no effort to rcduce the interest rates.”

Table Tells Story

The report included the following table showing total estimated cost of projects, grants and loans by years: 1933-34 COSt .icccncvrennvnvins .+.$17,633,915 "Grants ....cecesee--c0eees 4,006,318 TIORIIS vcuvse ns ssessssnce 0,321,004

1935

«eee 15,765,027 6,963,895

Cost

Grants ...eeceecsisesaes 3,177,568 - 1937 :

4,125,014 1,856,252

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1938 (to Aug. 17) erasvenenaes 34729401 cirasnsenrenesess 15620314 344,000

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Five New State Grants Approved

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—Five PWA grants for Indiana amounting to $121,499 were announced here today. They included: Huntington Court House, $40,909; East Chicago library addition, $27,- . 000; Eberfeld gymnasium, $16,363; Byrer School, $32,727, and East Gary school addition, $4500.

BUTLER TO OPEN TERM SEPT. 12

Record Freshman Enrollment Expected; New Faculty Additions Made.

Butler University’s 84th school year will open Sept. 12 with registration for both day and evening courses, it was announced today. The Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Religion, Education and Business Administration will begin class work the following day. The freshman class, expected to be one of the largest in recent years, will attend.the annual orientation conference Sept. 8 to 10 at Arthur Jordan Memorial Hall and Field House. The activities will be handled by a committee consisting of Prof. Clyde L. Clark, chairman; Prof. Dean E. Walker, College of Religion; Prof. Corrine Welling, Liberal Arts, and Dr. Irvin T. Shultz, College of Education. Beginning students will be given entrance tests, adjustment tests, aptitude tests and medical examinations. Curriculum advice will be given by faculty members. Students of the Butler Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. chapters wiil distribute the freshman handbook containing greetings from University officials, school regulations, athletic

schedules and the school calendar.

Several new faculty appointments have been announced by Dr. James W. Putnam, president. These include Dr. M. O. Ross, as aean of the College of Business Administration; Prof. Peyton H, Canary, College of Religion staff; Raymond Sears, track coach; Andrew Boa, intramural director; Prof. Roy M. Robbins, history staff; Dr. Amalia Lautz, home economics department, and Magdalene Adams, women’s physical education department.

‘Addition of 22 new courses to the |-

Butler University evening division curriculum was announced: today by Director George F. Leonard. Registration for the school will be from Sept. 12 to 17. Courses will be offered in the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Education and Business Administration. No religion courses will be offered the first semester in the evening school. Courses to be added are business and professional speech, general astronomy, advanced study of play, 12 new If science courses; principles, methods and materials of health and safety education, I and II; industrial psychology, prehistory, its cultures and civilizations; traffic management II, credit management problems, business correspondence and news photography.

STATE 1S 20 IN CANNING SURVEY

Hoosier Industry Follows * California’s in Total Jobs Offered.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. ---Indiana ranks second in the [United States in the number of persons employed in the vegetable cénning industry, a National Youth Administration survey disclosed today. “The vegetable canning industry is expanding and now offers increasing opportunities for employment to young people, untrained workers and older women,” Robert S. Richey, Indiana NYA director, reported on the basis of the survey. California, with 30,746 employees, ranks first in fruit and vegetable canning, while Indiana is second with 8812, the survey shows. New York employs 8545; Maryland 7300; Illinois 5862; Wisconsin 5341; Pennsylvania 5246; New Jersey 4246; Washington 3880; Oregon 3841, and all other states 32,479. There are 2744 canning factories throughout the United States, employing 116,298 wage earners, 10,206 salaried workers and having an annual payroll of about $70,611,298. The chief drawback, the survey finds, is the seasonal quality of the work. It is suggested that frozen foods and larger plants may aid in solving this, however. In 1934, Indiana farmers sold $5,000,000 worth of raw products to the canners, representing 11 per cent of the total value of the crops of the state.

Dreiser Likens Roosevelt to Hitler, Stalin

BOSTON, Aug. 22 (U. P.) —-President Roosevelt can be classed “along with” Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin as today’s leaders who are ‘making a very good thing out of Karl Marx's theories,” according to Theodore Dreiser, author. t § “These leaders will pass on--there ave been others before them—and sometime they will die and the pople will go on as before,” Mr. Dreiser said in an interview yesterday when he arrived aboard the S. S. Laconia from a European vacation. “Most of these leaders today, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and you can put President Roosevelt in along with them, and all the others, are making a very good thing out of Karl Marx’s theories. ‘They take his ideas and apply them to the masses and make a good living for themselves.” As to the place historians 50 years hence will accord President Roosevelt, Mr. Dreiser said: “It’s too bad he has always been associated with the same social type. Consider who they are--the 60 families. Yet he does seem to have some sympathy for the ordinary people. If there is anything to the theory that you'll do better if you take care of the masses, he'll stand out, but if individualism is the real key to progress he won't look so good.”

COUNCIL TO GET BUDGET PROPOSALS

County Bids Would Jump ’39 Property Rates.

(Continued from Page One)

rejected by the Tax Adjustment Board or State Tax Board because of a law requiring that all ‘County road work be financed from gasoline tax receipts. ) : The 1939 County levy proposals and the amounts they would raise, compared with the 1938 figures, follow: : dice County general fund, 25.5 cents, up 5.5 cents; would raise $1,544,358, up $263,890. Gravel road repair, 2.4 cents (not levied this year); would raise $141,014. Welfare, 15.5, up 2.2 cents; would raise $942,047, up $134,076. Welfare bond, 4 cent, down 1 cent; would raise $24,400, dowm $5974, : County sinking fund, 12.7 cents, down .5 cent; would raise $773.912, down $27,984. Tuberculosis hospital, 3.6 cents, up-1.6 cents; would raise $217,945, up $96,446. Flood: control, 1 cent, none this year; would raise $59,000. ’

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Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, Indianapolis, 38th Division National Guard commander, reviewed his 8000 troops from the deck of the Army’s latest attack

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aircraft gun and radio, is one of more-than 500 in the new mechanized cavalry r nt Fort Knox. Gen. Tyndall took his review from the tank at the invitation of Maj. Gen. Daniel Van Vorhies, commander of the mechanized unit. The 38th Division closed a two-week encampment Saturday.

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Alexander Pompez, West Indian Negro “independent” who was forced to join the “Schultz combination” on pain of death, testified that his business fell from $8000 a day to $186 “in about a week” after Schultz lieutenants forced key men in the gathering of policy payments to take a cut of from 30 to 25 per cent. Abe Landau, gang gunman subsequently slain, accused Pompez of “double-crossing” the mob ,and threatened to “bump you off,” the witness said. It became apparent, however, that resentful controllers were themselves the cause of the drop in “profits,” and the cut eventually was restored. Business picked up “but we never did get it all back,” Pompez said. Pompez, questioned by Assistant District Attorney Charles P. Grimes, testified concerning the smooth “protection” system evolved after the combination took over the Har-

District Attorney: Thomas = E. Dewey charges Hines—the most powerful of Tammany district leaders—figured in the protection end of the -business. Mr. Dewey, pulled up at every turn by defense objections, is attempting to link Hines to magistrates who ordered wholesale dismissals of policy arrests. Reports $10,000 ‘Touch’ Pompez, bitter over the loss of his policy business to “the combination,” testified last week that Schultz lieutenants repeatedly took money out of his bank for “the campaign” of 1933 in which Wiliilam C. Dodge, with Hines’ support, was elected district attorney. The biggest single “touch,” he said was $10,000. He also testified that policy arrests were, on occasions, dismissed in Magistrate Hulon Capshaw’s court. Justice Ferdinand Pecora ordered Judge Capshaw’s name stricken from the record until and unless Mr. Dewey introduced testimony directly supporting his charge that Mr. Capshaw was one of the judicial officers “intimidated, influenced or bribed” by Hines on behalf of the racketeers.

MRS. M. K. JANES KIN SHARE IN ESTATE

The will of Mrs. Marie Katherine Janes, widow of Frank Janes, wholesale feed dealer, was filed in Probate Court today. Value of the estate was not estimated. Mrs. Carrei Swindel, Kansas City, a sister, was left $15,000 and a large part of the personal property. Russell Janes, a step-son, was left some personal property; Thomas L. Crum, a brother, $5000, and Harry Crum, another brother, $5000. The remainder of the estate is to go to the Indianapolis Home for Aged Womeh.

$6,725,046 PAID BY AAA IN INDIANA

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Agricultural . Adjustment Administration payments to Indiana farmers under the 1937 conservation program, together with administrative, costs to July 1, amounted to $6,725,~ 046, it was announced here today. Total benefit payments: made were $5,770,747 and certified $659,466,

making the actual total for the |

farmers $6,430,213. State office

expense was $294,833. 3

Hines Trial Witness Tells of Dip in Policy Play Earnings

(Trio’s Future Hinges on Hines’ Trial, Page 7)

BULLETIN NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U. P.).—District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey and Justice Ferdinand Pecora clashed today at the Hines trial, the Prosecutor protesting that the Judge was unfair in one

NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U. P.)—Fired by insatiable greed, Dutch Schultz almost killed the goose that laid the golden egg, a State witness testified today at the trial of James J. political protection for the “Duichman’s” $100,000,000 policy racket.

Hines on charges that he furnished

STATE GETS 4 NEW REA LOANS

Steuben, Wayne, Marshall, Lagrange County Grants Total $575,000.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—The Rural Electrification Committee today announced four allotments totaling $575,000 for rural power line construction and wiring loans in Indiana. They were included in a $13,175,000 allotment to 25 states. The largest in Indiana was $178,000 to the Steuben County C, Angola, to build 255 miles of line to serve 989 customers in Steuben, Lagrane and Dekalb counties. Wayne County REMC received $209,000 for 173 miles of line to serve 670 customers in Wayne and Randolph Counties. The project previously had been allotted $255,000 for 213 miles of lines to serve 666 customers. Marshall County REMC, Plymouth, received an additional $40,000 for 30 miles of line to serve 5 customers in Marshall, Starke, Kosciusko, St. Joseph, Fulton and Pulaski Counties and Lagrange County REMC, $48,000 for 33 miles of line to serve 154 customers in Lagrange, Elkhart, Noble and Steuben Counties. A The former previously had received $285,000 for 250 miles of lines to serve 826 customers and the latter $218,500 for 204 miles of lines serve 750 customers, >

DICK MERRILL PLANS 12-HOUR OCEAN HOP

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 22 (U. P). —Dick Merrill, internationally known pilot, said today he planned a 12-hour flight to Europe next month, He disclosed plans for his fifth flight scross the Atlantic in preference to discussing rumors of an engagement with Toby Wing, blond motion picture actress. Both flew here yesterday from Houston, Tex. Mr. Merrill said he planned to carry only enough gasoline for 12 hours in an open model, singlemotored stock plane capable of 350 miles per hour. : TREMORS FELT IN BANGOR

BANGOR, ME, Aug. 22 (U. P).— A series of earth tremors here and

in adjacent Brewer broke windows

and glassware in several dwellings and frightened inhabitants at 5:50 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today. Telephone service. was temporarily disrupted.

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WOMAN GETS 28 TRANSFUSIONS

Hospital Reports Anemia Victim in Critical Condition.

After 29 blood transfusions for the treatment of chronic anemia, Mrs. LaVera ‘A. Downey, 928 Hawthorne Lane, was reported in a critical condition at the Methodist Hospital today. / ;

1 . Hospital records showed that 29 is

the greatest number of transfusions ever administered at the hospital. However, physicians said that the large number of transfusions is not unusual in ‘the treatment of the disease. They said a man died recently in a Southern city after 320 transfusions. : Mrs. Downey is employed in the office of A. B. Good, School Board business director. She has received the transfusions in the last 10 weeks, the last being administered Saturay. :

COUNT’S PLEA FOR RECONCILIATION FAILS

VENICE, Italy, Aug. 22 (U, P.).— Count Court Hauwitz-Reventlow and his wife, the former Barbara Hutton, are estranged permanently, Lido gossips agreed today. The Count, a disconsolate figure atfer trying vainiy for a final interleft by automobile yesterday for Vienna and Budapest. The Countess made plans to visit Capri. She ordered her motor launch, Saida, shipped to Naples by train. The countess had: secluded herself in her apartment at the Hotel Excelsior. After learning that the Count had departed, she appeared on the beach, smiling and in the best of spirits.

POLICE STUDY ARM FOUND INSIDE SHARK

MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 22 (U.P. .—Investigators hoped today that fingerprints made from a man's hand found in the stomach of a shark would lead to identification of the victim. : City, County and Federal officers, joining in the investigation, considered the possibility the man was a murder victim originally because his arm was found in a sand shark which ordinarily will not attack human beings. The discovery was made by Whitey Paulsen, a professional fisherman who caught the 10-foot shark in the Gulf stream east of here.

——————————— ALS $A DROWNS AT STATE LAKE

pleted today for John Brebaugh, 39, of Huntington, who drowned when his canoe overturned near the shore yesterday. Surviving is the wife, Lucille, Huntington - County deputy auditor.

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Victim, While Assailant ‘Seeks Release.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22 (U. P)— Counsel for Charles E. McDonald,

he blamed her for his marital difficulties, pre seeking & writ of habeas corpus for his release. William' Bronsten, attorney for McDonald, said ‘he would ask for the writ.

Authorities have delayed filing formal charges against McDonald pending a change in the serious condition of Mrs. Krueger, wife of the prominent Kansas City philharmonic orchestra leader and member of the McCormick Harvester family. George Whaley, detective ligutenant, said he would ask the district attorney's office to delay no longer in filing charges if McDonald's attorney asked his release. McDonald has been held since Friday on suspicion of assault with intent to murder. Mr. Krueger said freedom for McDonald would endanger not only himself but his daughter, Theresa, 11, and McDonald’s wife.

Police Claim Confession

“Tl fight this any way I can,” he said. : Dr. Lawrence Chaffin, Mrs. Krueger's personal physician, said it would be two or three days before she could be considered past dangers of pneumonia or peri tis. McDonald, husband of Mrs. Krueger's maid and companion, was sullen, almost defiant. He had admitted verbally to police that he forced Mrs. Krueger's automobile to a curb in front of a dance studio on busy Hollywood Blvd, and that he shot her in the hip and chest, but, on advice of counsel, he had refused to sign a confession. Police discredited McDonald's story that his 28-year-old wife had sought divorce from him because

Krueger. : Calls Complaint ‘Imaginary’ Detective Joseph Page said he considered McDonald’s grievances “imaginary.” Mr. Krueger, who learned of the shooting by reading newspaper headlines, said McDonald’s charge was a “dirty lie.” Mrs. McDonald was equally as strong in her defense of Mrs. Krueger, for whom she had named her 2-year-old daughter Emita.

VOTE PROBE CRITICS INVITED TO TESTIFY

All critics of methods used in investigating the Primary election were invited today by Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer to appear before the Grand Jury and “tell what they know.” He said Carl Vandivier, County Republican chairman, who last week criticized Mr, Spencer's investigation, will be called before the jury this week. : Mr. Spencer said: «If Mr. Vandivier has indictable information, then let him produce it. There seems to be a great many persons who talk freely of reports and rumors and then, when before the Grand Jury, become tonguetied.” The Republican chairman, in a speech last Friday, declared that “there are rumors that Mr. Spencer and his staff are going to prepare a report for the Grand Jury in regard to the Primary election, whitewashing the whole affair and at the same time making the Republicans appear as: guilty as the Democrats in the perpetration of such frauds.” Mr. Vandivier also said that the investigation should be conducted by deputies assigned by Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker rather ‘than by Mr. Spencer's staff “because the Prosecutor and some of his deputies are candidates on the Democratic ticket.” A writ of prohibition issued by the Indiana Supreme Court July 13 prevented Judge Baker's appointees from serving as special prosecutors. They were Attorneys Fae Patrick and Harold Bachelder. : Mr. Spencer said Mr. Vandivier. probably will be called before the jury today or tomorrow.

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New Civil Air Authority Takes Over Regulation Of Aviation Industry

Oswald Ryan of Indiana Included on New Directive Body; Functions of Three Agencies Shifted to CAA as It Begins Operations Today.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U.P) &The new five-man Civil Aeronautics Authority begins today regulation of the $600,000,000 air transportation industry. It will assume the job previously distributed ameng three other

Government agencies. Created in the closing growth of severe criticism

days of the last session of Congress as the out~ Government aviation policies, the

agency has unprecedented powers to regulate the comparatively young industry from both safety and economic standpoints.

With the transfer of functions hitherto vested in the Commerce and Postoffice Departments and in the Interstate Commerce Commission, the 12-year-old Bureau of Air Commerce went out of existence. All Government personnel engaged in air commerce activities were automatically shifted to the new agency. Denis Mulligan, its last director, was not taken into the Authority. However, it was learned, he will be named shortly to represent the United States at an International Aviation Conference to be held in Brussels next month. . Civil Aeronautics Administrator Clinton M. Hester becomes chief

executive officer of the authority

with jurisdiction over construction, operation, airways maintenance; air trafic rule enforcement, air commerce promotion and ‘similar activities. During the day, two members of the Air Safety Board, Col. W. Sumpter Smith and Thomas O. Hardin, were escheduled to take the oath of office. The third member, provided for in the law, has not yet been appointed by President Roosevelt. The Board will make independent investigations of accidents and assist the Authority in studying aviation safety. : Members of the Authority, who will be to the aviation industry what “the Interstate Commerce Commission is to the railroad and bus industry, are Edward J. Noble, of Connecticut, chairman; Harllee Branch, Georgia, vice chairman; G. Grant Mason, Washington, D. C.; Robert Hinckley, Utah, and Oswald Ryan, Indiana, A member of the Authority assured the industry that there would be no immediate, radical changes affecting airline operations. “The transition,” he said, “will be

evolutionary; not revolutionary. We |-

want to avoid chaos.” The first task confronting the CAA will be consideration of applications which must be filled by all existing air transport lines for certificates of convenience and public necessity. Among the powers vested in the Authority is the right to alter airline passenger and freight rates if

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it finds them unreasonable. It is empowered to supervise the business practices of ‘air lines and also is enabled to prevent such interlocking

relationships in the aeronautical

field as it finds to be contrary to the public interest. Its objectives, according to the declaration of policy in the law, are: 1. To encourage and develop an air transportation system adapted to present and future needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, the Postal Service and the national defense. - 2. To regulate air transportation in such a manner as to assure the highest degree of safety and to foster sound economic conditions. 3. To promote adequate, eco nomical and efficient service at rea sonable charges, without unjust discriminations or unfair. competitive practices.

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