Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1938 — Page 5

NEW SHAKEUP BILL INDICATED BY ROOSEVELT

President Calls And Senator Byrnes to White House.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P.).— Indications that the Administration is preparing a new Government reorganization bill were seen today when President Roosevelt called Louis Brownlow, Luther Gulick, and Charles E. Merriam, his Government reorganization advisors to the White House for a conference. The three advisors helped draft the reorganization bill killed in the last Congress. White House attaches believed the present discussions were of an exploratory nature, presumably a fore= runner to actual drafting of a spe- - cific bill and agreement on provi- _ sions. Byrnes Also Called

Senator Byrnes (D. S. C.), chairman of the Special Committee on Governmental Reorganization had a luncheon appointment at the White House. He said he believed the House should take up first any reorganization proposal submitted to the coming session by the President. Senator Byrnes was expected to discuss reorganization at his luncheon conference. Senator Byrnes said he had no plans of his own regarding reorganization, but that “in view of what happened last session, it is my .. opinion the bill should be first taken up in the House and see what happens there.”

Wants Separate Bills

The Senate passed a reorganization bill, the House substituted its own measure, and then killed if. Senator Byrnes said he beljeved that reorganization should be accomplished in separate bills instead of being lumped into one measure. He said he still held to his opinion that amendments offered last session to provide Congressional veto power over Presidential reorganizations orders were unconstitutional. Senator Byrnes asserted his belief that “any relief bill will carry provisions prohibiting political activity,” and said drafting of such legislation, possibly following the civil service act as a guide, would be comparatively easy.

WHALE INVADES INNER NEW DEAL

Follows Farley’s Tactics, Asking Fearlessly for McNutt Support.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Busier than one would imagine from his ample girth is portly Frank M. McHale, generalissimo of the Presidential ‘campaign of Paul V. MecNutt, former Indiana Governor and now High Commissioner to the Philippines. : : Having visited Washington only two weeks ago, the McNutt advance agent slipped back into town again on “private business” which included, among other things, a luncheon conference with two members of President Roosevelt's “little Cabinet”—Assistant War Secretary Louis A. Johnson and Assistant Commerce Secretary J. Monroe Johnson. The two Johnsons, the former from West Virginia and the latter from South Carolina, are both long-time associates of Mr. MecNutt in the high command of th American Legion.

McHale No Milquetoast

Mr. McHale might be regarded in|

some quarters’ as rather brash in moving into the New Deal, but he is not a timid soul when it comes to matters political. He reminds one, in fact, more and more of one James A. Farley, who went about back in 1932 asking all sorts of politicians to back Franklin. D. Roosevelt at the Chicago convention. Mr. Farley pot away with it. Mr. McHale thinks he can, proving himself more optimistic than some others. Both the Johnsons are politically prominent in their states and, though no one revealed what went on at the conference, it is assumed that Mr. McHale did not miss an opportunity to talk about the possi- . bility of securing delegations to the 1940 convention. It is suggested that perhaps another matter was also discussed. Louis Johnson has been angling for the job of War Secretary and there have been persistent rumors that Secretary Woodring might be switched elsewhere. One post suggested is that of Philippine High Commissioner, succeeding Mr. MecNutt. This transfer would fit in nicely with Mr. McNutt’s plans to return to the states early next year and actively begin his Presidential campaign. National headquarters are to be opened at Indianapolis in January. ad

SIXAT NEW CASTLE FACE ARRAIGNMENT

NEW CASTLE, Ind, Dec. 8 (U. P.) —Six employees of the Chrysler . automobile parts plant here, indicted by a Henry County Grand Jury on charges of violence in a labor dispute, will be arraigned Saturday. Those indicted who are free on $500 bond are Crosby Anderson, Kent Romine, Hiram Jones, James Tucker, Virgil Cavin and George E. Lewis. "All were said to be members of the U. A. W., an affiliate of the C. 1 O. 5 The men are accused of throwing two nonunion workers from the plant last week. The plant closed

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HEAVY INCREASE BRINGS ACTION

Five-Story Unit Will House 2500 Students in Two Departments.

A new. building to accommodate a maximum of 2500 students, being constructed at Bloomington, will house Indiana University’s school of business administration and its department of economics.

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per cent in enrollment in the last 12 years and by the fact that business administration and economics classes are now scattered throughout eight different buildings, . officials said. Designed by A. M. Strauss, Ft. Wayne architect, the new building is to be of Indiana limestone in a modified type of modern collegiate Gothic. Containing 25 classrooms, it will seat 1700 students at ope time. Of Five Stories

Besides the classrooms the fivestory, Y-shaped building will contain two large lecture rooms, laboratories, library and readfng room. The building has a ground floor, three principal floors and a small fourth floor which can be extended. One of the lecture rooms will seat 450 and will be used for convocations, lectures by businessmen, business conferences and motion pictures. The other, seating 200, will be used for lectures, motion pictures and examinations. Study of business administration buildings at other universities preceded the designing of the new structure by Mrs. Strauss. He designed the Lincoln Tower in Ft. Wayne and the Medical and Stores and Service buildings at the university and has been chosen by the board of trustees as architect for the

auditorium-music hall.

INDICTED STATE AIDS KEEP JOBS

Cosgrove Will Confer With Governor on Case of Two Examiners.

The two State Accounts Board field examiners, who are under indictment in Floyd County on charges of being accessories to the fraudulent withholding of public funds, are conducting audits for the Board in Clark County, William P. Cosgrove, chief examiner, said today. Mr, Cosgrove was to confer with Governor Townsend relative to the cases. 2 : The examiners, Joshua Crandall of New Albany and Claude Gladden of Scottsburg, were indicted after a State Accounts Board report showed a shortage of $127,768.50 in the Floyd County treasurer's office. Earlier this week, the Governor said he would confer with Mr. Cosgrove on plans to rotate the assignments of the Board’s chief examiners. In the past some Board examiners were kept at work in specific localities for long periods of time, it was said. : Mr. Cosgrove said he believed the personnel of his department should be increased by 20 examiners in order that they could keep “up to date in their checks of governmental offices.”

PHONE GAINS SHOW BUSINESS UPTURN

Firm Reports Increase in New Stations.

three months is being reflected in station gains of the Indiana Bell felephone Co., firm officials announced today. : The company gained 1161 phone during November against a gain of 914 for the same month last year. While the net gain for the first eight months of this year is below that of 1937, the gain for the past three months has been 390' phones greater than for last year’s similar period, they reported. ie Although a net gain of 5672 phones for the 11-month period of this year is 8003 under the figure for the same months in 1937, company officials said that almost all of that loss: was incurred during the first eighs months of 1938. The company expects that the three-month gain will continue during 1939 and that next year will exceed 1938 and 1937 both in the volume of calls and station increases, officials said.

- VAGRANT WEARS 6 SHIRTS LOS ANGELES, Nov.%25 (U. P.— John Rix, 70-year-old vagrant, has solved the art of traveling without baggage. When arrested he was

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Dog House

That’s Where Canine Tax Has Landed "Em, Trustees Say.

By JOE COLLIER

The Hoosier hound, it developed today, may be man’s best friend but he’s the township trustee’s greatest headache. As their three-day convention opened in the Claypool, trustees from all over the State kept pointing out to each other that something ought to be done about the dog and the dog tax. The law now provides that the township assessors, who don’t like it any better than the trustees, collect the dog tax during the tax payment time, and after that the trustees collect it. It so happens, the trustees said that at tax collection time many people put sentiment aside, gather their personal pooch into the family car and abandon it in the country to save the tax.” The trustees say that the dog, nine times out of 10, will remain away about as long as the tax collection period and then return just in time for the tax to be the trustee’s responsibility. Moreover, they claim, the dog catchers don’t pick up delinquent dogs as they should and hold them. in pounds for the tax, but allow them to wander around duty free. » 8 ”

HIS causes the trustees, they said, to estimate the time of the return of the dog to the family that did not declare it. Then they visit the home and make the family angry by finding the dog that wasn’t supposed to be there and demanding the tax for it. The assessors also are against the present setup, because they say families who are proud of the assessed valuation of their chattels, will declare they don’t have any dog at all, until it barks in the other room, and then claim it is a male, and subject to a $1 tax, when the assessor knows it is a female and subject to a $3 tax. Furthermore, they say dog own.ers with a chip on their shoulders will state flatly that they aren’t going to pay taxes on their dogs because cat owners don’t have to pay taxes on their cats and do the assessors want to make something of it? i : All of this tends, the assessors and trustees said, to make their jobs tedious and themselves unpopular. And only to the end that the State treasury is enriched because that’s where the money goes. Both assessors and trustees agreed it was pretty certain that the Legislature would be asked to do something about it when it meets next year.

GIRLS VOTE NO ON HIGH HEEL FASHION

CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 8 (U. P.).— The girls’ cabinet of suburban Cleveland Heights High School voted

“thumbs down” on red finger nails, high-heeled shoes and a preponderance of jewelry for the well-dressed high school girl. The cabinet decreed that up-to-the-minute high school fashions consist of “sensible” shoes, modest tailored dresses and sweaters. The group presented a style show to illustrate their fashion decrees. All the models, except one, wore simple two-piece costumes of sweater or middie and skirt, anklets and low-heeled shoes. The lone model attired in highheeled, open-toe shoes, fancy upsweep coiffure and much jewelry, was picketed by fellow students.

REFORMS URGED IN CHILD LAWS

Commission Finds It’s Still Legal to ‘Bind Out’; Offers 7-Point Revision.

In Indiana it is legal for parents and township trustees to “bind out” children for work. This was revealed today in a report of the Governor’s Commission on Child Welfare which recommended a sevenpoint program for the 1939 Legislature to follow in bring up to date Indiana’s laws pertaining to children. The Commission said that a law

still remains in effect which gives

a father or mother the right to indenture a son under 21 and a daughter under 18 and permits a trustee to bind out any child under 16. It recommended the statute’s repeal. “Many laws pertaining to children are antiquated and should be either abolished or revised,” the Commission said. Other specific recommendations included in the report were: 1. “Amend the laws governing children to conform to modern thinking and the accepted policy in child welfare. | 2. “Amend the laws governing the care of children born out of wedlock to conform with modern thinking and accepted policy in child welfare. 3. “Amend the laws governing the licensing of child-care agencies to raise the standards of such care to uniformly accepted levels. 4. “Amend the laws regarding the foster care of dependent and neglected children to provide a fully integrated program of child welfare in the State. 5. “Amend the laws governing the importation and deportation of dependent and neglected children to provide proper safeguards to the State and all concerned. - 6. “Permit more liberal interpretation of the laws governing the State’s service to crippled and sick children. i The Commission wag established by the Governor in April and includes members of the State Department of Public Welfare and child welfare officers of the Indiana Department, American Legion.

ERECTION OF FILLING STATION IS DISPUTED

Neighbors to Oppose Site on Washington Blvd.

North Side property owners will protest the proposed erection of a

filling station at the southwest cor-.

ner ‘of 38th St. and Washington Blvd, when the City Zoning Board meets Monday, Val McLeay, Board secretary, said today. A petition seeking variance of the City’s zoning laws for the erection of a superstation to be operated by the Gulf Oil & Refining Co. has been filed with the Board by Harry Hauger, owner of the site, Mr. McLeay said. The vinicity, he said, is zoried for apartment houses and adjoining property owners have informed the ‘Board that they plan to file a re-

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FORMER PROBER SUES ICKES FOR $750,000

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P.).— John D., Glass, former Interior Department investigator today had filed a $750,000 damage suit in U. S. Distriet Court against Secretary of Interior Ickes. He charged Mr. Ickes “published false and defamatory statements” about him. The statements, Mr.- Glass asserted, were made in a memorandum which warned oil operators against contributing to “a $5000 oil lobbying fund sought by Glass in order to effect immediate reforms in the Connally Hot Oil Act.”

KRAUS TO SPEAK HERE

Dr. Charles August Kraus, presi-dent-elect of the American Chemical Society, is to address the Indiana section of the society tomorrow night at Butler University. Dr. Kraus has been director of research at Brown University since 1924.

MODEL FORNEW "HOSPITAL LAW

Landon Praises Statute; Personnel Needed Here, Dr. Morgan Says.

- Hugh McK. Landon, chairman of the Joint Executive Committee of Riley Hospital, today suggested that the Legislature consider at its next session a law for other charitable hospitals similar to the one under which Riley has been operating for 14 years. At the same time, Dr. Herman Morgan, City Health Board secretary, said that he believes an increased personnel at City Hospital would correct abuses without the enactment of any new laws. Mr. Landon said the law under which Riley is operating has cut “chiseling at Riley to a minimum,” and said he believed that similar laws for City Hospital and Marion County hospitals devoted to service to the indigent would be successful.

Seek Eight Laws

The statement came after a report to Mayor Boetcher of a committee of physicians and laymen that eight laws are needed to stop abuses of free service at City Hospital. Mr. Landon said the Riley Hospital law provides that the Circuit Court judges of the state, together ‘with the Juvenile. Court judges, where there is a Juvenile Court, and the Public Welfare Department, are alone empowered to commit children to Riley and are responsible for determining the financial status of their parents. ; He said that 30,000 cases handled at the hospital since that time had proved the system to be satisfactory. " Dr. Morgan said: “I think the situation can be remedied without passage of new legislation. This is my personal féeling, and I am not speaking for the Health Board.” : The report, representing a year’s study of the present laws: governing the eligibility of persons for

As Suspect in ~ Shop Looting

NEW YORK, Dec. 8—Police guarding fur shops against a renewal of looting arrested Eldon Dunnuich, 24, Peru, Ind, today when they found him carrying a paperwrapped brick and a beer can opener. Bricks were thrown through show windows of Fifth Ave. stores by thieves who took valuable furs. Dunnuich, police said, denied that he carried the brick for this purpose explaining that he. specialized in breaking into automobiles. xe He told police he came here a few days ago from Chicago where he served a year and 100 days on a charge of tampering with: automobiles.

ENROLLMENT HIGHER AT INDIANA STATE

Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Dec. 8.—Advance registration for the winter quarter opening Tuesday at the Indiana State Teachers College indicate an enrollme:, of more than 1500 students, according to Registrar Harry E. Elder, Enrollment in the fall quarter which ends tomorrow is 1492. Examinations are to be given candidates for June degrees during the winter quarter, Dr. J. Erle Grinnell, dean of instruction, announced.

City’s expense, was made by authorization of City Council. Mayor Boetcher said he had no comment to. make on the report, but indicated that it would be referred to the Health Board. The Board has the power to make certain changes in the hospital setup, which are not covered by the State Law. Council President Edward B. Raub, who has been one of the advocates of the investigation into hospital admissions, said he had not seen the report, but pointed out that City Council could take no other ac-

Six Elected in Indiana Digs cuss Relief Needs With * Jennings.

Economy in the administration of WPA will be sought by the six In diana G. O. P. representatives-elect in Congress this session, they an=nounced today. . : % The Congressmen met with John K. Jennings, State WPA Adminig= trator, yesterday to discuss the State's WPA needs and to formue late a program tor the State in Congress. ; . Meanwhile, it was announced .

week. ended Dec. 3, compared with the previous week, according to & report made public by Harry Ls Hopkins, WPA Administrator. = = This brought the total number of

Nov. 6, it was reparted. s Rolls Will Be Cut i i Mr. Jennings was quoted at the conference as saying that he had received orders from Administrator Hopkins to make no more Iré-

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employment and are now unem= ployed. Ls G. O, P. representatives-elect ree affirmed .their pledges to see thd

care of “deserving” : would be maintained, but at the same time, they agreed they wou do all they could to bring economies in administration. sn Forest A. Harness, Kokomo, Fifth

tive-elect, was quoted as. saying that a program to bring adequate WPA to Indiana “can be worked out, but we all have our own ideas

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