Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1938 — Page 4
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ys Inventors Would Lose; Ford Suggests Tax Cut . ‘As ‘Best Incentive.
Calls Munich Peace Synthetic
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P).—|8
resident William S. Knudsen of neral Motors Corp. warned the nopoly Investigating Committee
Writer Claims Dictators Must Be Checked; Lauds Tarkington.
The totalitarian states in Europe must be checked and it will take a
| |showdown, or war, within the next
two years to do it, Isaac Marcosson, for 30 years a writer on world politics for the Saturday Evening Post,
said today.
He was here under sponsorship
lof the Irvington Union of Clubs to
address an audience tonight in
gton St Mr. Marcosson, who has inter‘viewed all but Fuehrer Hitler of the present-day leaders of Europe and counts many of them as personal friends, talked in a interview today about their recent activities. The Munich Pact, he said, “re~
‘| duced France to a second-rate power and provided Hitler with his
last great bluff—the greatest in histo: ”»
“The democracies, if there are any left in Europe, are now wise to him,” he said. / ' Calls Rearmament Wise
Mr. Marcosson said the Munich Pact is a synthetic peace, or an armed truce. He said that within 48 hours of the signing of the pact
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barked on greatly increased rearmament programs. ? ! ‘On the silver lining side, Mr. Marcosson saw the recently signed Anglo-American Trade Pact. “That is the one hopeful thing since Munich,” he said. “It is the
first defenite expression of an un-§
derstanding between the fwo great Anglo-Saxon peoples.” A rearmament program in the
United States is the wisest program |
of all, he said. Mr. Marcosson had sent. a telegram to Booth Tarkington, hoping to meet him here, but was informed by wire that the novelist is at his Maine home, He called Mr. Tarkington the “most outstanding American novelist of his time, Sinclair Lewis not excepted.” : He will talk tonight on his inter-
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both England and France had emay that to abolish the patent sys- : : would be “bad for industry geny.? It wouldn't mean much to Gen1 Motors,” he said, “but it would urt the inventors.” Mr. Knudsen, third major motor andfacturer to testify in the Comhittee’s investigation of the use and trol of patents in the automobile ustry, said that while; patents lean little in the industry at pres=Ent, their use has helped develop the motor car and extended its life. ~ =. Mr. Knudsen, like Edsel Ford of the Ford Co. and Alvan MacAuley |§ of ‘Packard, who testified yesterday, |i said that a desire for protection against possible suits for infringement prompted General Motors to obtain patents.
i Other Executives Called
~~" Mr. Knudsen was the first of . _three General Motors executives | Sealed by the Committee in its in- ~~ *Festigation of patents. The others . are Charles F. Kettering, vice pres- ~~ ident, and James McEvoy, the cor- _ {poration’s patent counsel. ~ The existence of three patterns for dealing in patents was established yesterday through the ques- ©. tioning of Mr. Ford, Mr. Macauley and Alfred Reeves, general manager of the Automobile Manufac- . turers’ Association. “Chairman O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), >gaid that “all three systems worked for the encouragement and growth of the industry.”
Isaac Marcosson
2 Die on Christmas Trip; Safety Program Outlined
cago it would. The National Safety Council has just begun its study of the pedestrian problem.” : Mr. Fennell said he believed the greatest single need for advance in traffic safety, not only in Indiana, but throughout the country, is pub-
{lic recognition of the necessity of a (Continued from Page Ons) safety program and support for it.
Permanent Officers Named
Following an announcement by the council at yestérday's meeting that traffic schools for city police departments and sheriffs’ offices would be held next year by the State Police Department, permanent officers of the council were elected. They were Paul G. Hoffman, South Bend, president; William H. Hill of Vincennes, president of the Indiana State Bar Association, vice president; Ross Coffin, president of
Three Others on Way to Buy Gifts Injured Near - Oaklandon.
Remy plant and is survived by his wife and two daughters. Mr. Rudrow was reported to be an assistant foreman in the bakelite division of the plant and is survived ~ The systems are: by his wife, son and daughter. ,. 1. The Ford system. Mr. Ford| The bodies were taken to the testified that his company neither Rozelle Bineral Home. The funerals “pays royalties to others for licenses are to be held in Anderson. son their patents nor charges royal-| State Policeman Ralph Metcalf ties for patents it licenses; that it|and Marcellus Timme and Dr. Norhas 515 reciprocal agreements for|man Booher, deputy Marion County . the exchange of patent licenses, |{Coroner, investigated the accident. .and stands ready to grant licenses| Meanwhile, city police reported the Indiana Association of Insur- ~ .to any auto manufacturer. ‘|seven auto accidents occurred injgnce Agents, secretary, and Gilbert "..2. The “pool” or cross-licensing|Indianapolis overnight, none of raflinger of Jeffersonville, president “agreement of the Automobile Manu- | them causing serious injury to mo-|of the Indiana Trustees’ Association, _facturers’ Association. In 1914 the |torists or pedestrians. treasurer. “members of this association—ex- Members of the executive commit‘cept Packard and Franklin—en- tee are Mrs. L. F. Hughes, Indian“fered into an agreement to pool apolis, president of the Parenti virtually ‘all licenses, charging no Teachers Association; Tod Stoops, ‘Toyalties. | secretary-manager of the Hoosier £°'3. The Packard system. Packard Motor Club, Indianapolis; Mrs. Ed- . grants some licenses and receives win I. Poston, Martinsville, presisome licenses without royalties, and dent of the Indiana Federation of pays and charges for others, Nation- | Women’s Clubs; Lon L. Stiver, State i Urges Tax Slash safety director; Miss Rose E. Boggs, Gath? Richmond, president of the Indiana =- Mr. Ford was called before the Teachers’ Association; Alban Smith, sSenate Finance Subcommittee today La Porte, president of the Municipal to testify on profit-sharing and in- League of Indiana, and William centive taxation as a means of Arnett, managing director of the
booming business and improving Indiana State Chamber of ComJabor relations. ’ merce.
«= Mr. Ford asserted in five minutes’ testimony that the best encourage- _ Mient to business would be a general _ / reduction in taxes. . + Mr. Ford said he felt that a sysdem of incentive taxation, providing . for Government tax credits to encourage industrial profit-sharing, £might create more problems than it- would solve.” “My feeling would be that a re- _ duction of taxes generally would be as good an incentive as any,” he told Senators Herring (D. Iowa) and Vandenberg (R. Mich.).
Five-Point Safety Program Suggested
(Another. Story, Page 8; Photo, Page 3)
D. D. Fennell of Chicago, al Safety Council president, today had outlined in an interview a fivepoint program on which he said Indiana’s traffic safety future depends. Mr. Fennell spoke at the meeting of the Indiana Traffic Safety Council yesterday at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. His recommendations for Indiana included:
1. Approval of the proposed recodification of all state traffic laws. 4 ASTY 4 ANDITS GET 2. The development and improvement of all traffic and accident pre- $ 45 THEN LOSE IT ! J
vention departments in the state. 3. Strong public support of a trafDrop Filling Station Loot in Hurry to Leave.
fic program and continuous education of the public in the aims and purposes of such a program. 4. The establishment of strong local community safety councils rather than dependence on one centralized body.
5. Adoption of a program of con-| Two men held up Lawrence Laz-
Referring to tax credits for social management of industries, Mr. Ford said he “supposed” that “an incen-
zelle, Drexel Gardens, as he opened his filling station today at 1201 S. West St., and [escaped with his
tinuity to bring together and:to develop all civic groups which will work toward a common goal.
tive of that kind will always have an appeal” but that “it leads to complications and consequences that might be difficult to handle.” He said a general tax reduction program would provide business with benefits adequate to stimulate plant expansion, increased payrolls, profit-sharing and other practices for which incentive taxation might ~ be an encouragement. : Mr. Ford called the Ford company “high wage” system the best form of profit-sharing, saying that “we try to be more than fair, and we believe earnestly in paying just as high wages as can be paid and producing just as cheaply as possible in order to get a large volume’ of production.” :
THEATER FIRM LOSES BLOCK-BOOKING SUIT
The Indianapolis Amusement Co. today had lost its suit for $266,000 damages from major motion picture companies in Federal Court. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendants yesterday. The company charged that, while it operated the old Colonial Theater, it was forced to use the film . companies’ block-booking system. | Officials of the plaintiff firm testified. that this forced them into receivership. - Block-booking, according to the - plaintiffs, made compulsory the booking of poor as well as. good films. They also charged that the film ‘companies had conspired to estrain trade in violation of the ‘Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Following his talk before the council, Mr. Fennell said in an interview: “It will be necessary, of course, for the State to realize that such a program cannot be carried out without funds, which must come from the State. A portion of the income from gasoline taxes and license plates could be used for this pur--pose.” 2 . ‘ Asked if he thought the adoption of a state highway speed limit would aid materially in reducing accidents and fatalities, he said: “Not in Indiana. I question its actual value even in Pennysylvania. The trouble with such a plan is that no two parts of the state require the same speed limit.
Not Enforceable
. “A limit suitable for the northern part of the state would not necessarily be the limit for the southern part. A standard rate-of, say 50 miles an hour, might prove ruinous in the more hilly sections. “Perhaps the chief argument against a speed limit is; that it would not be enforceable in Indiana. There aren’t enough State Police officers. The existence of a law that cannot be, and is not, enforced simply breeds. contempé .for the law, which is what we wish to avoid.” ¥o8 ox Asked if he believed that strict laws forcing pedestrians to obey traffic signals would aid Indiana in its safety drive, he said: “In some states, and more particularly, in some cities, ho. But in Indianapolis, yes. It wouldn’t slow up movement much here. In Chi-
GERMAN PLANE SINKS
STAN LAUREL FREED. | ON FLIGHT TO MANILA MANILA, Dec. 6 (U. P.).—A Ger-
"ON TRAFFIC CHARGE man goodwill monoplane which ‘flew
HQLLYWOOD, Dec. 6 (U. P.).—|iq Tokyo in record time made a
Judge Harold Landreth today dis-|forced landing in the sea off the
a drunk-driving charge Phili . ppine Islands today ‘on a against Stan Laurel, the film come-|qokyo-Manila flight, first stage of
dian, who recently was tried by aii return flight to Berlin.
jury which failed to agree on a verFishermen rescued the members dict. Deputy City Attorney John of the crew as the plane sank. The
five aviators and one passenger
luncheon basket containing a sack holding $45 in change. However, in | their flight, they dropped the money, and it was recovered by police in a nearby lot. Edwin and Richard Lucas, newspaper boys, told police they saw a man break the window of a fiiling station at 2201 N. Delaware St, climb in, and come out with several articles of - merchandise. He pu them in his car and drove away. Police arrested Tom Marshall, 1132 N. Senate Ave., in the 900 block of N. Capitol Ave. last night and said they found a 32-caliber revolver in his possession. He is charged with violation of the fire-arms law. Raymond Henry, 1642 Tabor St. streetcar operator, told police a man held him up at 41st St. and Boulevard Place and took $15 to $20 last night. David Levitt, 3139 Central Ave. told police some cne stole a silver service valued at $150 from. his home. i
ANDERSON REJECTS U. S. HOUSING CASH
Times Special ANDERSON, Dec. 6—A TU. S. Housing ' Authority grant for $1,075,000 for a slum clearance and low-rent housing project was re-|. jected by the City Council here last night. : Several hundred taxpayers and property owners recently placed a| remonstrance to the project before the Council. | Walter E. Stanton, State Housing Board executive secretary, had urged City officials to accept the grant. A similar lowcost housing program now is undey way in Vincennes. ) Property owners said the project would increase their tax load because houses in the project would not be subject to taxation.
HEARING ON PRIMARY VOTE QUIZ PLEA SET
Judge John W. Spencer, Evansville, has set Dec. 15 for a hearing S here in Criminal Court on the plea aboard were brought to Manila by|in abatement filed in behalf of ‘92 launch. They said that they would |Primary election workers charged dismantle the plane after it was|with violating the Indiana election hauled from the water and ship it|laws. to Germany, The plea, filed by six defense atThe four-motored plane, the Con-
1-|torneys, accused Criminal Court dor, which made a record round-trip| Judge Frank P. Baker of “coercing flight between Berlin and New York
the Grand Jury into returning the last August, had flown from Berlin . to Tokyo in 46 hours 43 minutes.
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