Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1938 — Page 3
WPA Chief Favored by
_ distance, that Mr. Roosevelt still will
FRIDAY, DEC. 16, 1938
HOPKINS LIKELY T0 GET ROPER'S COMMERCE JoB
F. D. R. and Inner Lords Of New Deal.
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consider what they term the “threat” of his nomination more seriously. This is because they have learned of the President's real friendship and belief in the relief administrator and because they figure, from this
be able to control the 1940 convention despite the split between New Dealers and conservatives. For this reason, a coterie of con--servatives at the Capitol already 1s preparing to use the revelations of the Sheppard Campaign Committee
46 More
Organizations, ployee Groups Push Total to 545.
Clothe - A - Child swings
participating more and more.
to date. Even so, the demand
so great this
filled. The score for the day:
Clothed directly by donors.. Clothed by donors’ cash..
Mile-Of-Dimes (estimate)
TODAY'S DONORS Brothers & Rex 1
Em-
S THE Indianapolis Times’ campaign into the home stretch, cubs, organizations and employee groups are completing plans and
Yesterday 46 more children were clothed, bringing the total to 545
299 Children
(2402.87) cvveanronancensns 246 Children" oo 5 Children
3 Children
[STATIS URGED 70 CLARIFY ITS
‘Opens With Varied Proposed Changes.
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ELECTION LAWS
Special Commission Hearing
is |plete recodification should not be year that the Clothe-A-Child headquarters -has announced it already has more requests than probably ¢an be
attempted “without longer study.”
sion be
services. J ‘Denying Suffrage”
the 1941 session.
She suggested a survey commisappointed by the 1939 Legislature to work in co-operation | with the State Legislative Reference Bureau and special election law experts be hired to supplement these
A report then could. be mace to
Wendell W. Tennis of Sullivan
tricted oly to > Tits business and not to selection of candidates. A new law should consider the rights of the voters and not the rights of party leadership.” |
Jeans Favors Primaries
Also favoring extension of the primary to include State offices - and U. S. Senatorial candidates was Everett Jeans, Indiana Farm Bureau representative. Mr. Jeans also favored retention of the absentee voters provision of the pfiresent law and the prevention of “instructive
{voting” excet when affidavits are
taken. Speaking as an individua ! and former county official, * Herbert P. Kenny, State Legislative Reference Bureau director, urged the establishment of bipartisan elective departmenwts in each county to do away with control of election machinery by the party in power. He pointed out that since the coming Legislature will have a Republican House and Democratic Senate ,it would be an ideal time for appointment; of a legislative committee of threé members from each house to make an election law study. He stressed the fact that oartisanship must be divorced from any attempt to pace ‘‘a real election law
G. “0. P. State chairman, had been invited, the Republican State Committee is expected to decide its own policy on election law reform at a meeting in the Claypool Hotel this
afternoon.
PURDUE TRUSTEES LET 2 CONTRACTS
LAFAYETTE, Dec, 16 (U. P.).— Contracts totaling $537,780 for the construction of two additions to the Memorial Union Building on the Purdue University campus, today had been awarded by the Board of Trustees.
tor, obtained the general construction contract for the west addition
on a base bid of $437,800. The contract for the east addition was given K. H. Kettlehut, also of Lafayette, on a bid of $99,980. All bids are subject to WPA approval because of a $474,545 Federal grant. The west addition will double the size of the dance and banquet hall while the east addition will double dents. facilities for men stuents
A. E. Kemmer, Lafayette contrac-
treated at City Hospital. Miss Sharp was riding in a car|: g driven by James Datong, 22, of R.
* Those srifured were Virginia 19, of 1325 W. 31st St., a passenger in one car, and Verlin Portwood, 19, driver of the other car. Both were
R. 16, Box 665.
Downtown Signals to Be Off Arrange Funeral for
In Rush Hours: Fire-Car
In Crash.
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Auto-Truck Victim
NEW CASTLE, Ind, Dec. 16 (U. P.) —Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Fred Kissick, 40, who died yesterday at the Henry County Hospital of injuries received in an
artment car was one of eight overight traffic mishaps in which four
rsons were injured. Capt. Johnson said the
new
automobile collision Wednesday.
Coroner Elmer Bentley said Kissick was driving south toward New Castle on Indiana 3 when he crashed head-on with a truck driven by
A Sharp,
Preliminary Annual Report Given Investigators.
downtown traffic detail would begin work this afternoon “to speed up traffic and relieve congestion.” “Rush” hours are from 11:40 a. ym. | to 1:15 p. m. and from 4:20 to 5:45 p. m. Capt. Johnson said the new men would be in addition to the detail assigned earlier this week fo patrol the middle of blocks for illegal double parking. “We've ‘been wanting to do this every Christmas for several years but this is the. first time we've had the manpower,” Capt. Johnson said.
Thomas will not be held, Bentley
Killed When He Walks |
Onto Train Tracks
LA PORTE, Ind., Dec. 16! \(u. 2). —Carl E. MeCoy, 50, who was partially deaf, was killed instantly here
last night when he walked in front of a fast New York Central passen-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U. P= A preliminary draft of the Tennes= see Valley Authority’s annual report
tions ot the agency registered a net operating deficit of $310,171 during 2) the last fiscal year. i The report was placed in the recs ord of a joint Congressional coms mittee investigating TVA by E. L, Kohler, TVA controller. His fige ures showed a net operating deficit of $748,664 for the period between June 16, 1933 and June 30, 1938. TVA listed the amount as “net expense after allocation of common expense.’ But Committee Counsel Francis Biddle told reporters the amount was a deficit. ‘He said the designation “net expense” was because the agency still is in the development stage.
operations during the (1938 fiscal
today disclosed that power operas
Total TVA revenues from power
County, ‘representing the County to insure purity at the polls.” Clerks’ Association, warned that a| In suggesting the compulsory use
# 2 h ty P - ‘theoretical bill” should" nol be of voting machines Dourty TiC \F|| ES SUIT TO 0UST
drafted which would be difficult to administer. was disappointed that there was no
If universilies are asked to inake concerted move to secure immediate a recodification, he suggested ' hat election law reforms.
: : ger train. year were $2,355,271, and $6,732,447 Said She Heard Siren McCoy and his wife, Hazel, had|for the period June 16, 1933, to June The Fire Department car, being been waiting for the crossing gates 30, 1935. COUNTY TRE ASURER driven by Assistant Chief Roscoe to rise. When they did not go up,| Direct expenses of power operae ! : McKinney, and an auto driven by McCoy started to cross and despite |tions, according to the report, —r Miss Virginia James, 1519 Park Ave. bay Wie: SEeams, walked onto the totaled By ne Jon fiscal a committee be named from his or-| Mr. Spencer estimated it would| MUNCIE, Dec. 16 (U. P).—A collided at New York St. and Mas- | tracks as the train bore down on year and or the five-year ganization to provide “practical|cost $1,600,000 to buy the necessary pelaware County Republican Trea- sachusetts Ave. The accident oc- him. Four children also survivs. period, leaving net. incomes Delore suggestions.” machines and said a savings would suror-glect today Mad filed ~%" curred as the assistant chief was re- : allocation of common operas 0! yo Proposals for extension of the di- |result since the total number of c ay ha, € suit in sponding to a false fire alarm. NEW STONE ORDER PLACED [700 and $405,217, respectively. rect primary and establishment of a precincts in the State could be re- an effort to oust the incumbent| Miss Jamés was arrested on| BEDFORD, Dec. 16 (U. P.).—An ACTRESS WEDS IN INDIANA preferential primary were mac le by {duced from 3840 to 2600. This would |Democrat Treasurer by Jan. 1, 1939. charges of driving without a license order for 35,000 cubic feet of Indiana A Dec. 16 (U. P.).—Ar Martin Miller, representative of the leffect a savings in the personnel ; genneth Foster asserted the in- and failing to give the right of way limestone has been placed for the CHICAGO, Dec. 1 P.).—Are
Continental Baking Co, Employees Benefit Club G. C. Murphy Co. Employees International Brewery Workers Union Local No., 150 .. Jolly 17 Club Pressmen’s Benefit Assn.. Citizens Safety Committee. -
regarding WPA political activity “to smear the Pgesidential campaign of . ‘Harry Hopkins,” as one put it.
Serious Fight Unlikely
Lp not likely, however, that any erious fight will be made on the - Hopkins nomination for a Cabinet
Children Children
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Paul G. Davis Naphtali Eskenazi .......... = Kappa Delta Phi Sorority .. Sigma Sigma Kappa Sorority Hibben-Hollweg Employees. ..
post, Cabinet officers are regarded as * personal Presidential appointments and usually are ratified perfunctorily.
2
come an Administration liability in
County Deaths (To Date)
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Others Also Mentioned
1937
Accidents .... 8 3
The arguments for Mr. Hopkins’ appointment as Secretary of Commerce, spread about by New Dealers of late, are to the effect that business would be dealing with a man who is close to the President and really represents him, and thus would be in a better positions Mr. Roper occupied no such role. He was not in the confidence ‘of ghe White House and was never able to give business any accurate guidance .as to prospective Administration policies. All the same, business is not expected to throw up its hats over Mr. Hopkins, at least at the outset. The WPA administrator has be-
his present role. This is admitted by New Dealers who will stand staunchly by him but say that the charge of WPA political activity— which they are unwilling to admit on a large scale—have reacted against the New Deal. Consegeuntly, the idea is to appoint a different type of man as his: successor, someone drawn prefereably from business or industry, 2 practical type of administrator who at the same time will have a sympathetic understanding of the underlying objectives of the WPA program. His first job would be to make it plain that politics must have no part in relief. The right man will be hard to. find. The canvass is now under way.
For Roper’s Post
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U. P.. —The resignation of Secretary of Commerce Roper focused attention today on the growing list of vacant key Government posts and increased
speculation on possible appointees. Mr. Roper’s retirement, which becomes" effective Dec. 23, makes a
total of two places open,in the Cab- |
inet; Attorney General Cummings’ resignation is effective Jan. 1. In addition, there are vacancies in the Supreme Court, the White House secretariat, the Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, the general accouriting office and the Budget Bureau. A threatening third vacancy in the Cabinet was eliminated by" Secretary of the Interior Ickes’ announcement that he would not seek the (Chicago mayoralty. There have peen persistent rumors, too, that Postmaster General Farley might
Elite Friendship Club Child
Railroad Brotherhoods.
needed at the polls and there would
to fire apparatus.
She told police new Bankers Life Insurance Co.
mida, Mexican film actress, re~
Child Child
Mrs. Verna. Harlann Seewanna Girls Club Bedding Dept. No. 69, Wass Child Arene Club "of Corinthian Child Toly Chapter Alpha Omicron Alpha .. .. {1.5 vse iidnnns ’ Dept. No. 62, G & J Tire Co. No Name Clothed Today Children . Previously Clothed ....... 9 Children
Total Clethed to Date....... 545 Children
Child Child Child
MISCELLANEOUS CASH DONORS Stein Club 5 In Memory of Marshall D. Lupton... 2.50 Mary Alice & Eddie Grande Jr Queen Bee Club Henrietta & William
Big Jimmy ...cc0000 nese es weseesses .
portant business posts which are said to have been offered him. Most prominently mentioned to succeed Mr. Roper is Works Progress Administrator Hopkins although it is reported that Mr. Roper has indicated hope for appointment of some other person. - Others whose names are being mentioned in official circles as likely prospects include: Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard C. Patterson Jr.; Willard L. Thorp, former head of economics department of Amherst College; John D. Biggers,(
rector and Toledo, O., industrialist, |
Two names stand out .in speculative discussion of Mr. Cummings’ successor. They are Robert H. Jackson, solicitor general, and Governor Murphy of Michigan. Many have been suggested as possible successors to the late Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, but the most persistent names heard include Prof. Felix Frankfurter of Harvard Law School, unofficial White House adviser, and’ Federal Circuit Court Judge Sam G.. Bratton of New Mexico. here choose a candidate from a. state west of the Mississippi,
confidential aid leaves a vacancy among White House secretaries. Governor Murphy also has been
job along with former Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West of Ohio, who served as a White House
retire if he accepts one of the im-
ilaison man at the Capitol.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is
938 .........J14 Speeding
0 Reckless
City Deaths Driving ..... 5
(To Date) Running Prefer- ! ential Street. 10 Pedestrians .
Cesesiaes 100 Dec. 15
Running Red Light ..... .. 16
Drunken Driving .....
“reas B2
Injured ...
Dead ........ 0 Others .
MEETINGS TODAY
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, concert, Murat Temple, 2:45 n ~Exchange Club, Tuncheon, "Hotel Washington, noon. Salesmen’s Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noo t Kappa | dl, luncheon, Hotel Washingon, ~Gptimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
RO ierve Officers Aneriatien, luncheon, Board of Trade, no i Phi De a Theta, Snchieon; Canary Cotage, Delta “Tan Delta, luncheon, Columbia
Club, diay "Stamp Club, Hotel
Antlers, 8 p. m.
MEETINGS TOMORROW Iadianavolls Savon Orehestra, cont Theater, 8:30 p
meeting,
"of Women ily ants. dinner. Hotel Washington, 6:30 Alliance Francaise, Ro M Por Washington, noon.
MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are. from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names or addresses.) .
Jobn B. Brents, 64, of 942 N. Shef SL G. Burress, 67, Hi se
ag les E. Ray. 37, or im Rul Blice, 34, of &3°N. Talbot Si. Claude Cantrell 21 oo ® R. 18, 1naian apoli . Lillie Armst Roache St ea 20, 759 aude cIntosh; 21, of Beech fasramas Phipps, 21, of Post A
t Preston Mitchell, 33. of 2535 Ralst Drive; Virgi R. Brooks, 23, of 3 3710 Mnitve ave it. %, {f 14 arvey Pe "i 39 Fletch Mary M. Carter, of Indianapolis. h B. Wilkon, "33. of Beech Grove: Atee Edwards, 25, of 2514 Central.
Manley L. Maycock. 26. of 1217 i Nanna Henderson, 19. of 3538 Burien
"Russell M. Collier, 30, of 2416 Ave.; Helen Redmon, 30, of 1523 Pletson
B Ra Reed, 59. of Darlington; tN Datos aus en: Elizabeth ssell Miller, 23, of 18 N.
350 Airs Belleview
Ticen, 27, of 3925 N. Dela-
Freq | L. yosley, 39. of 822 N. Illinois St.; Re To hor t L. Schaf tor. pe 7 of 11a Ton “on Ave; Fairy Brooks, 18, of 545 W.
30th ;
BIRTHS! Boys Lena Deal, at St. Vincent’s. ) Ear San Broecher, at- Coleman. William ura Gordon, af Cbleman. Haron ’ Aliee Vincent. at Colem Norman, Marjorie LaMar, at Girls
aan.
0. W., Gwendolyn Mulligan, at St, Vin-|St.
sent’s, Altred, Vigie Horsiey, at Goleman,
the Traffic Record Arrests ...... 66 dese 121°
Ernest, Nora Diller, at Colema Waltér Gertrude Hinshaw, at ity, A Virginia Rodecker, at 811 Broad-
ul DEATHS Lloyd onigomery, 1, at City, lobar
pneumonia. Henry John Mauer, 85, at 910 Key stone, hypostatic pneumonia. Carrie R. Temperley, , at 3245 N. mi-
wa,
17 hours,
‘Delbert Jones, Bowers, 68, at Methodist. Richard Lee James, Colorado, spina bifida. at 702 Carl Place, coronary occlusion, Carlyle
nois, broncho-pneumonia. Martha Emily Doan, 71, at Methodist. pernicious aneniia Brock, 8 months, at Riley. influsenza) Ahonineius 63, aft 1022 N. West. chieny myocarditis. Laura E. meningitis. intracranial hemorrhage. BL hy. HoS Celia Hurdle, 52, at Long, diabetes melAlbert Dennis Phillips, 1 month, at 56 S. Jesse Johnson, 77, at 732 D - carditis. ougias, Myo Joseph J. Lippert, 61, By U. S, Weather Bureau,
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — mM ostly clondy and probably unsettled tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight with lowest about 35; colder tomorrow afternoon and night. Sunrise ...... 7:01 | Sunset ...... 4:21
TEMPERATURE —Dec. 16, 1937—
otal precipitation since Jan. 1
Seeepinion 24 hrs. ending 7a m. Xcess Since Jan, 1
Sout and south tonight, colder tom except in extreme southeast Contin Strow Illinois—Considerable cloudiness and tomorrow, possibly light rain Ionian treme south portion; colder tomorrow and in northwest portion tonight, somewhat warmer in extreme south portion tonight. Lower Michigan—Mostly cloud and tomorrow, possibly light I tonight treme north portions; somewhat warmer in
central and east portions to gentral as nfght, colder
Ohio—Cloudy a somewhat w - night; Youd som rain armegfjtoslightly warmer in east portion, 3
Kentucky—Cloudy and warmer followed Oya ishe Jain in mer, possibly g Omorrow R) i warmer in east portion. ian rein,
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.
Cincinnati . Cleveland Denver Dodge City, Kas. Ho Mont. Jacksonville, Fla. Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock, Ark. os Angeles M bile
N New York Okla. City. O Ne
maha, areas Pittsburgh Portland. Ore. ees San Antonio. “Tex.
“Voters should never be put up against it even in the primary to declare their party affiliation. That is denying the voter his suffrage to begin with.” he declared. “Party conventions should be :e-
right of
be no need of running up immense cumbent, Lester E. Holloway, coh- |sne heard the siren but did not re- building in Des Moines, Iowa, ac- vealed teday that she and Arthur baliot printing bills at every elec- tends his term is not up for another alize the apparatus was so near. No|cording to announcement today. (Bud) Glen, manager and member tion. year. one was injured. Stone industry officials here say the|of the Empire Boys’ Orchestra, were Omer Stokes Jackson, Democratic| Foster's suit asks a declaratory] Two persons were injured. when Des Moines bujlding will be ore: of | married Tuesday at Valparaiso, State chairman. also .attended the judgment to determine status of the | two cars collided on a culvert in the|the largest private building projects|Ind., by a justice o fthe peace. Mr,.
hearing. Although Arch Bobbitt, office. 1900 block of Georgetown Road.|in the country. IGlen is playing at a Chicago hotel,
D. 0. T. ...coicunanciorosessssansass 1.00
Little Jimmy 50. |
Says:
former unemployment census di- \
and John W. Hanes, Undersecretary | .|of the Treasury.
The prevailing opinion | is that the President will!
The resignation of James Roose- | velt as his father’s secretary and.
mentioned as a possibility for this!
San PFroncscio Louis
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Strauss =
1
STORE HOURS SATURDAY
in the morning till
6
in the ; afternoon
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ROBES are on the THIRD FLOOR
+ + +
Men’s Furnishings— Hats, gloves, slippers— FIRST FLOOR
+ + +
The BOYS’ FLOOR—is the SECOND ——
The Women’s Shop is on the
SECOND FLOOR
s in the bag! It looks like the greatest holiday season in The Man's Store's history (since 1853)... And Saturday seems headed for an alltime. » peak! No “Sales”—no pressure—no ~ excitements. It's just the great and growing feeling that people like to give and to receive gifts with a name that means quality—that signifies taste, oifts that are fine and fresh beyond question, regardless of price. Which explains the Santa-Sweep-to-Strauss... And which underlies the strong and widening impulse “he will open his Strauss gift box first!
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