Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1938 — Page 25

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Hoosier in Line for Chairmanship.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—Senator Minton (D. Ind.) is slated for chairmanship of the Senate PenSons Committee, it was learned toay. ; Although he still is the junior Senator from Indiana and next to the lowest ranking Democrat on that committee, defeat of three of the committee members puts him at the top. For those who outrank him on the committee already have chairmanships of committees of greater importance in thé Senate. Senator McGill (D, Kan.) was chairman of the Pensions Committee at the last session, but he and Senators Lonergan (D. Conn.) and Bulkley (D. 0.) failed of re-election. Senator Wheeler (D. Mont.) is chairman of the important Interstate, Commerce Committee; Sena-

tor Walsh (D. Mass.) chairman of | &

Naval Affairs, and Senator Thomas (D. and

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Pensions Committee -and the only other Democratic member of that committee is Senator Schwartz (D: Wyo.). s Activity May Increase Other members are Senators Frazier (R. N. D.), Townsend (R. Del.) land Shipstead (F. L. Minn.). It is reported that the advent of Senator Minton, a World War veteran, may make the Pensions Committee more active in that field. Heretofore veterans’ pensions have ‘been handled by the Senate Finance Committee and only minor individual pensions by the Pensions Committee. Senator Minton’s other committee assignments included, at the last session, Interstate Commerce, Military |Affairs, and Privileges and Elections. He also was chairman of the Committee to Investigate Lobbying Acivities but failed to get a last-minute appropriation to continue its activities. The senior Senator from Indiana, Senator VanNuys, is fourth ranking member of the important Judiciary Committee a also a member of Foreign Relations, likewise a major committee. He is third ranking member of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Depart-’ ments. .

WPA ‘VACATIONS ITH PAY CHARGED

Worker Tells U. S. Judge How Idea Works.

3 CLEVELAND, Nov. 24 (U. P).— - Carl Paul, 40-year-old WPA worker, appeared before Federal Judge Paul Jones today charged, along with two fellow workers, with forging WPA ' Worker Patrick J. Smith's name! to a $31.16 WPA check, cashing it and using the proceeds to get drunk. . = Paul elaborated to the court even ~ further than the. scope of the charges. “It’s possible,” he said, “to check in at your project, go home, get drunk, go back to the project and be checked out as having worked all day. “And they all do it, Judge.” Judge Jones lifted an eyebrow. “They all do it?” “Yes, sir. Everybody does it,” Paul replied. Judge Jones smiled. “It will take a little time to think over this one,” he said. He sent the accused—Paul, Carl F. Stiver, 32, and Norman Kanserski, 21, back to their cells to wait until he determined their sentences.

Dips Beware ‘ —It May Be § New Racket

Er PROVIDENCE, R. I, Nov. 24 (U. P.).—Wnhile standing in line at a theater, Frank Pelczarski was jostled by two men. Then he discovered that billfold was missing from his hip pocket. The two men were driving off in an auto. Mr. Pelczarski pursued them. One got out and started to cross a parking lot, and Mr. Pelczarski overtook him. “I want’ my money,” yelled. The man said he didn’t have the money. Mr. Pelczarski continued shouting and a crowd gathered. “Listen, I haven't got your money,” the man said, “but how much was in the billfold? “Twenty-five dollars.” The man counted out $25 and gave it to Mr. Pelczarski. Actually, Mr. Pelczarski told police, the billfold had contained only $14, so he made $11. :

DRY TENNESSEE GETS UNIQUE LIQUOR PLANT

LYNCHBURG, Tenn. Nov. 24 (U.P.) —Mellow whisky soon will be flowing through an almost historic still in Tennessee and the “revenooers” won't be able to do a thing about it. Although Tennessee is legally dry, Lem Motlow soon will revive an industry for which his family once was famous. Mr. Motlow, by virtue of a law passed by the last session of the Tennessee Legislature, will manufacture liquor for ers of this Sta

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WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Nov. 24

His middle-aged wife, Mrs. Marie Burckhalter, is now held on $10,000 bond on a little-used manslaughter statute which makes it a crime to “counsel or advise” anyone to commit suicide. Changed Report

Dr. Amos O. Squire announced today, after a more thorough autopsy, two important revisions in the earlier report, which said the death was a suicide, and that there was ho trace of alcohol found in the dead man’s brain.

The first change was the omis-

sion of any reference to suicide in

the death report, and the second was the evidence of toxicologists, who said Burckhalter had been a “heavy. drinker.” The trace of “hypnotic drug” found in an analysis of the brain may have been due to sleeping tablets which Mrs. Burckhalter said her husband took shortly before he supposedly went into the garage, and aided by his wife, rigged up a hose from the automobile exhaust to the interior. The testimony of a maid, Betty Murdock, conflicted with that of

Police Drop Suicide Angl In New York

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Mrs. Marie Burckhalter, 44, after her arrest on first degree manslaughter charges in connection with the reported suicide. of her husband, Eugene, 47, whom she is alleged to have aided in his death

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Garage Mystery

(U.P.).—A trace of “hypnotic drug”

found in the brain of Eugene Burckhalter, whose wife admitted she helped him commit suicide last Saturday, today caused police to withdraw the suicide theory and declare the case “wide open.” The rotund businessman, twice married to his wife and by testimony of his own sons, a roamer and drinker, was found dead in an automobile in his garage, and a coroner’s physician said death was due to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Mrs. Burckhalter in certain details. She said Mrs. Burkhalter had spent four hours with her husband in the garage, and that he was “shaking and shivering—he was so weak” when she took him to the garage. When she came back, the maid said she asked Mrs. Burckhalter what she was doing “with a sick man in that cold garage,” and her mistress said: “Don’t worry Betty. He’s in the car. I closed the windows and stuffed them with papers. He won't be in a draft. Just don’t disturb him.”

FORMER HOOSIER TAKEN TO JOLIET

CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (U. P.)—Elliott J. Trees, former assistant cashier of the Chicago Title & Trust Co., who pleaded guilty in Criminal Court to an embezzling charge a few days ago, was taken to Joliet today to begin a one-to-10-year sentence. Trees, formerly of Kokomo, Ind. was charged with embezzling $14,740 of the bank’s money.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1938

STATE DRIVERS BACK CHANGES

89 Per Cent of First 5000 Ballots Support Motor Club Proposals.

Indiana motorists are backing the Hoosier Motor Clubs’ proposed state auto law reforms by an overwhelming majority, it was disclosed today. : First returns of 5000 ballots sent to Motor Club members showed more than 89 per cent of them voted “yes” to the sweeping proposals, according to Todd Stoops, club sec retary and manager. If a majority are in favor of the changes, they are to be recommended to the coming session of the General Assembly, the club has announced. Motorists voted 131 to 15 for a 50cent four-year fee in place of the present yearly driver’s license. A suggested change in the date of buying licenses from Jan. 1 to July 1 brought a favorable vote of 103 to 36. The repeal of all Federal excise taxes on autos, gasoline, oil and accessories was favored, 137 to 9. Only two persons did not approve of the proposal to make the operation of a mechanically unsafe car illegal. One hundred and fifty approved. The proposed return of $2,000,000 diverted by legislative , action into the general fund in 1932 received 162 votes for and 6 against.

Members Foot Postage

The ballots used in voting were published in the November issue of the Hoosier Motorist and are clipped and mailed to club headquarters at the members’ expense. Also heavily favored was the

by July 1 each year, instead of the present June 15-Sept. 1 period. The vote was 164 to 1. Other proposals and the votes were: Repeal moratorium on county unit' and gravel road bonds. Yes, 106; No, 22. Eliminate jurisdiction of - justices of the peace over highway traffic violations. Yes} 142; No, 7.

Fund Diversion Opposed

All motor car taxation and license fees collected by the State to be placed in the state highway fund and to be used exclusively for road building or maintenance. “Yes, 144; No, 5. y- Lic Widen - and arterial highways. Elimi the oil inspection fee. Yes, 146; No, 5. Require all new cars sold after Jan. 1 to be equipped with bumpers of a uniform height. Yes, 146; No, 3. Have a uniform license fee for all makes of passenger cars. Yes, 114; No, 24. : Eliminate the necessity of presenting a poll tax receipt before ob-

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taining a license. Yes, 106; No, 48.

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If Picnicking Is Fun, Thank ‘The Gambusia

‘The Gambushia is a predatory little fish. It doesn’t like mosquitoes, so makes them the chief item in its diet. This was revealed today by Virgil M. Simmons, State Conservation Department Commissioner, who reported that more than 30,000 of these . mosquito-eating fish have been planted in lakes constructed

on State-owned property to make outings easier next summer. At maturity the Gambusia reaches a length of about two inches, he said. It has a high forage value for bass and other game fish, who regard the Gambusia the same way the Gambusia regards mosquitoes.

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MUTE GIRL ADJUSTS SELF T0 NEW LIF

Frightened at First, Now Waves at Everyone.

COLUMBUS, O.; Nov. 24 (U. P.). —Six-year-old Annabelle Barton, who never learned to talk, played with a doll and with other children in a hospital here today, trying her best to adjust herself to a new life. Almost all of Annabelle’s life has been spent with her mute mother in her’ grandmother’s home in Mt. Vernon. The child, living in the bedroom “cell” with her mother, learned only the strange sign language of her unmarried mother, In the hospital, Annabelle will be taught by roychologists to talk. At first, annabelle was frightened by people. She particularly distrusted men. Now she is happy and

waves her hands at everyone.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—Any attempt to pass a wage-hour law in Indiana, based on the model being supplied the states by the Department of Labor, will meet with considerable opposition, L. F. Shuttleworth, managing director of the Associated Retailers of Indiana, predicted here

today. ja = Mr. Shuttleworth has been attending the third annual association executives’ conference of the American Retail Association, of which he is secretary and member of the executive committee. A copy of the so-called “model wage-hour law for states” was studied. during the two days session at

the Hay Adams House and Mr. Shuttleworth said that many objections were raised to the draft. After attending a Labor partment. meeting here last” week,

Thomas R. Hutson, Indiana Com-

missioner of Labor, said Governor Townsend will recommend to the 1939 Legislature passage of a state

wage-hour law to match in intrae state commerce the provisions laid down in the Federal law for inter state commerce. “I do not believe that any state law will be passed which will in any way handicap business revival ab. this time,” Mr. Shuttleworth de= clared. He declined to elaborate on obe jections to the Labor Department's model measure. .

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