Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1939 — Page 5

LA FOLLETTE COMM

Proce Due to End on Sunday: "House Avoids Record Vote In Debate Over Relief Cut

Four Lahcr Bills EEN. Offered; Hopkins and Murphy Called.

. By ALF ED FRIENDLY Time: Special Writer WASHING ON, Jan. 13.—Its official life end: ne Sunday, the Senate Civil Libertie: Committee will culminate its {vo and one-half years of activity b’ proposing TR hoon strictly forbic ding industrial espion‘age, emplovrient of strikebreakers, accumulation of weapons and munitions in kisiness establishments and strikebre aking activity by local officials. .f The legislition, it was learned from Commitee aids, will be offered within: a few days, either in four separ: t bills or as an omnibus measure. The two Committee members, Senators Foosert M. La Follette Jr. (Prog. Wis.) and Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah). 1 romised when they received additional furids last session to wind up the investigation by Jan. 15. : No New Grant Expected

Senator .1.a Follette said today that he would be unable to continue his work wish it, even if the Committee’s life were extended. Senator Thomas declined to say whether he would seek its continuance, but said he would zo on with the investigations if e Senate charged him with the cd. Strong are from labor, liberal .and New Deal quarters has been exerted to keep the investigations alive. The Senate, however, is likely to let the Corimittee expire, unless the President ¢r Senator La Follette appeals for funds to continue, Chief unfinished business is the investigation of ‘the “Associated Farmers,” an alleged vigilante group charged vith obstructing agricultural unicnization efforts in California an other states.

Lea Asks Extension Of ICC Power in Bill

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P)). —Chairm:an Clarence Lea (D. Cal) of the House Interstate Commerce Committees, today introduced an omnibus railroad aid bill, expanding the powers of the Interstate Commerc: Commission and revising the systera of reorganizing insolvent lines. Rep. Leca’s proposal differs sharply from thie comprehensive program for rail :ehabilitation submitted by a special committee of rail management and labor named by President Roosevel® to study the situation. The Lea bill, as explained by the chairmar:, would: 1. Increase the Interstate Commerce Commission from 11 to 14 members, dividing it into one body of nine io handle rate cases, and a finance division of five to handle administrative functions. 2. Give the ICC rate regulation povers over all transportation agencies railroads, trucks, busses, coastwise shipping, inland water carriers, pipelines and air carriers. - 3. Create a special ICC appeal board ito handle appeals from administrative orders of the finance division the chairman of the board to be ramed by the President and serve a: chairman of the full commission Rail Court Proposed 4. Provide for the appointment of a speciz! administrator by the President, to make transportation , studies 2nd recommend legislation. 5. Establish a railroad reorganipation court of three members, apinted by the Chief Justice of the upreme Court from judges of the Circuit or District Federal courts. Appeals from the court: would be ‘ faken directly to the Supreme. Court. + 6. Give the carriers authority to propos: consolidations, mergers, purchases, leases and acquisition of control. and give the ICC power to authorize pooling of traffic and éarnin: Sa 7. Give the ICC power to co-ordi-nate 1: tes, and the prescribe “different minimum rates for different ¢arriers” to “restrict cutthroat competiton by the same or different types of transportation agencies.” * 8. Authorize, Reconstruction Finance Corp. loans to carriers when funds can not otherwise be obtained to comply with ICC orders requiring capital expenditures. g Equipment Loans Sought

9. Give the RFC authority to make loans to finance reorganizations, consolidations and maintenance, and purchase of railroad obligations without present strict repayment requirements. 10. Authorize RFC loans not exceedin » 300 million dollars to finance equipment purchases and “encourage the employment of labor. ‘ : ” 11. Add seven million dollars a year to railroad revenues by permittinz land grant roads to charge the commercial rate for hauling Government persons or property. Tnder existing law the Government geceives cheaper rates. ! The Lea bill differs from the recommendations of the President’s ‘committee in that it gives broad increases in power to the present ICC. The President’s committee proposed ‘establishment of a new national transportation authority to which awould be transferred many existing CC powers as well as additional grants of authority. ;

‘Hopkins Blames Senate For Politics in WPA + WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U, P.).— Harry L. Hopkins, former WPA ‘head, said today the Senate made *g great mistake” last year in reJectin g the Hatch resolution to outdaw politics! in relief. £ Mr Hopkins, testifying before the {Senate Commerce Committee in deifense of his nomination to be Commerc: =~ Secretary, admitted that , isome WPA officials and employees ;in various states had engaged in podditics | activity. : o> FSona| ly,” he said, oa have no

“FIVE MORE JOIN VERMONT FIGHT ON LAND POLICY

Eastern Governors Protest U. S. Seizure Without States’ Consent.

BOSTON, Jan. 13 (U. P.) —Governors of the five other New England states voted today to present a united front in support of Vermont Governor Aiken's drive for nationwide “concerted action” against Federal land seizures without a state’s consent. Governor Aiken won the support of his fellow Republican Governors at a conference in the Massachusetts capital. The Governors unanimously voted to send this resolution to President Roosevelt and War Secretary Woodring: ; “We urge the Federal Government

to co-operate immediately with the

New England states to accomplish flood control without demanding the complete surrender to the Federal Government of basic rights which belong to the people in the states. “We believe that the natural resources of all the states belong to the people. therein and that they should not be taken away without the consent of the states acting through the duly chosen representatives of the people.” Signing the protest resolution in addition to Governor Aiken, were Governors P. Murphy, New Hampshire; Vanderbilt, Rhode Island; Barrows, Maine; Baldwin, Connecticut, and Saltonstall, Massachusetts. Before the conference, Governor Aiken told the press he hoped for “concerted action” by all 49 states in support of his fight, centering around the immediate issue of the War Department’s attempt to build a dam at Union Village, Vt., without the state’s consent. A tentative contract had been drawn up by Army engineers and State officials and approved by Governor Aiken. It had not been signed by Federal authorities, however, and Governor Aiken was informed by War Secretary Woodring Jan. 7 that the Government was proceeding to build the dam without a contract, under authority of the Flood Control Act of 1938 which authorizes the easements and rights-of-way necessary for any dam, reservoir project or channel improvement in any state. : .“Almost Beyond Belief” Governor Aiken said hc had -no authority to permit the dam to be built without a written contract. The issue was whether the Federal Government could build a dam without a state’s consent. “It 1s almost beyond belief,” Governor Aiken told the Legislators, “that the Federal Government should consider the taking of our lands of so little importance that it doesn’t even require a written agreement. The very fact that they feel that way raises a very grave issue, not only for our state but for all states of the Union. That issue is not flood control; we have offered co-operation for flood control and it has been arbitrarily refused. It is not cheap power because the agreement as signed by the State of Vermont did not prevent the Federal Government from developing power. The issue is the insistence of the Federal Government that it can take from us what it chooses, when it chooses, and without any regard at all for our wishes and our rights.” The $67,500 “defense fund” will be used to start injunction proceedings against the Federal Government and carry them to the Supreme Court if necessary. The protest was in the form of a memorialization to Congress.

Aiken Considered

Presidential Candidate

WASHINGTON, Jan, 13 (U. P).— The results of the dispute between Vermont's Governor Aiken and the Roosevelt Administration over ‘States’ rights will be important to Federal flood control development and politically significant because the Vermonter is rated a contender for the 1940 Republican Presidential n@nination. He is in relatively the same position now that President Roosevelt as Governor of New York took in challenging some Hoover Administration policies. The issues are different but the tactics are similar. * War Secretary Woodring, speaking for the Administration, denied today that he was attempting to interfere with Vermont's rights. “I am proceeding,” he said in a press release, “under these (Federal) provisions by which the U. S. Government expends the Federal taxpayers’ money for complete flood control by Building dams and reservoirs without the expenditure of one cent by the. State. I cannot accept lands transferred to the Federal Government if any restrictions are imposed by the State. I served as Governor of a State myself and I do not concede to Governor Aiken nor to any other person in the United States a greater ehamplonship of States’ rights.”

STAMPS EXCEED TAXES

SPRINGFIELD, O. Jan. 13 (U, P.) —Collection of personal property taxes last year in the tiny corpora-

tion of Clifton was an expensive proposition for the county, officials have learned. The cost of the 3cent stamp to mail tax proceeds amounted to three times what the community received as its share.

concluded before noon and the Senate Committee agreed to vote next Wednesday on his nomination, Committee approval of his nomination was regarded as certain. Another new Cabinet member, At-

torney General Murphy, appears be-

Rep. Fish Charg Charges ‘Scandal’ ; New Planes to Be Built Privately.

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ing you and me for more before we adjourn.” : Rep. Allen Treadway (R. Mass.) said the request for more funds *is the most convincing proof ' that couid be advanced of the failure of the Administration’s program.” “It is obvious now that the Roosevelt Administration will never solve the problem of unemployment during its incumbeney,” he said.

F.D.R. Says Private Plane Plants Will Be Used

WASHINGTON, Jan, 13 (U. P). —President Roosevelt said today that the Administration’s proposed aircraft expansion program—which may give the nation a maximum of nearly 13,000 fighting planes—can he carried forward almost entirely with present facilities of private industry.

Mr. Roosevelt did not estimate, in|

a press conference discussion of his new defense program, the exact number of planes which will be built in the new program. In his message to Congress he specified a minimum of 3000 but declared “it is hoped that orders placed on such a large scale will materially reduce the unit cost and actually provide many : more planes.” More Shifts Sought

Aircraft experts suggested that mass production under the new program might give the Army as many as 6700 new planes, With other ex-

way, that could mean a total Army and Navy plane force of nearly 13,000 planes. It was emphasized, however, that it could not be determined at this time the exact number of planes which will be built. ; Mr. Roosevelt said today he believed the program could be accomodated in existing private plants with the use of two and three shifts of workers. He said the possibilities of a “bottleneck” in construction existed due

to the fact the program would re-|

quire 15 to 20 per cent more skilled aircraft builders. However, he believed workers might be obtained from other industries, such as au mobile plants. He said the question of training mechanics for thee arms expansion drive had not been completely studied.

U.S. to Make Guns

Mr. Roosevelt said that all the new planes would be constructed in private plants except a few ships of an experimental type that might be turned out in the naval airplane factory at Philadelphia. New guns requested in the program would be manufactured in Government plants, such as the Washington naval gun factory, and the arsenals at Watervliet, ‘N, Y., and ‘Rock Island, Ill. He was asked where new tanks would be made but said this was not yet settled.

LONDON, Jan, 13 13 (U, P.) —British newspapers today commended editorially President Roosevelt's defense message to Congress. The News Chronicle said: “There will be nothing but welcome in this country for his request.© United States armaments threaten nobody except those who threaten the United States and the American concept: of free life. By this program Roosevelt underlines his warning to international lawbreakers in a way they will not mistake.”

BERLIN, Jan. 13 ( 13 (U, P.) —Berlin morning newspapers printed brief excerpts of President. Roosevelt's message to Congress on armaments, but only on commented editorially in early editions. The Berliner Tageblatt, under the headline, “Roosevelt's neuralgic point,” said: “If one reads the motivation—the defense of strategic points against sudden attacks—one understands why the President delayed this message. At any rate he had good reason to let as much time as possible elapse between the message and the recent ‘attack by men from Mars’ on the United States.”

Hull and 0’Mahoney To Ask Lobby Probe

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P.).—= Secretary of State Hull and Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) agreed today, after an acrimonious debate on the “sugar lobby” before the Senate Finance Committee, to urge a Senate inestigation of gll Washington lobbyists. : Secretary Hull promised to draft and amendment to a Senate resolution ordering an investigation of the State Department’s conduct of trade agreement negotiations with Cuba, to embrace an investigation of “pernicious lobbyiss.” He charged that sugar lobbyists: have been “swarming all over Washington” seeking to “undermine the good work of the trade agreements.” He said he would not sit idly by while this was being done. Senator: O'Mahoney, coauthor of the resolution to’ investigate the Cuban agreement, said he would urge the adoption of the amendment if Senator Hull would draft it. Senator O'Mahoney said he understood Secretary Hull had implied his resolution was the work of the “sugar lobby.”

SIMON WILL LEAVES

=~ i The entire estate of Milton N.

| Simon, attorney who died in his

downtown office recently, was left

according to a will filed in Probate Court today. The will provides that after the death of Mrs. Simon a trust fund

pansion programs already under|-

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to his wife, Mrs. Rose M. Simon,

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INCIDENT DENIED BY SCHMELINGS

News Dispatches Claim Max And Wife Provoked Goebbels’ Wrath.

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against the Reichminister but that Herr Himmler did not take the incident too seriously. The newspaper said Miss Baarova was in hid-

Schmeling Denies Story (Schmeling at his country estate in Pomerania vigorously denied that he or his wife were in difficulties with the authorities.) The News said “Schmeling’s illchosen words” ‘at the party, said to

immediately reported to the doctor. “On Monday morning Schmeling was summoned to the Propaganda Ministry for questioning,” it said. “From Goebbels’ headquarters he was escorted to several other Nazi offices. Members of the Gestapo, the German secret police, meanwhile questioned Maxis petite wife at her home, and on Tuesday the investigation was continued.” The Daily Mirror said both Schmeling and his wife were questioned for two hours at police headquarters and then released.

Spokesman in Berlin

Denies Reports BERLIN, Jan. 13 (U, P.), — A spokesman for the Propaganda Ministry, told today of London and New York press reports involving Max Schmeling and Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, said:

“This rumor is the most utter|

nonsense. When Schmeling heard of it, he came to the Propaganda Ministry personally and told us to deny it in the strongest terms.”

KNOX URGES 6. 0.P. TARIFF POLICY SHIFT

Calls for Party to Plead Tax Reductions.

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tion of American labor from cheap foreign standards. He said the other reasons, cost of raw materials, crude transportation facilities, lack of capital, skilled labor and skilled industrial management, all have disappeared. He recommended establishment of tariffs high enough only to protect American wage standards and elimination of “artificial secret pricefixing,” which he said had increased greatly among ' trade associations Since. 1933 and 1934, the era of the

He said secret price-fixing in deflance of law was responsible “for the monopolistic prices chdrged for commodities the farmer needs. “A system of free competition in which the law of supply and demand operate without restraint is needed to return prosperity to the farmer.” The experience of both Republican and New Deal administrations, Col. Knox said, has been that the farmer’s purchasing power cannot be brought to parity -by artificial means. He charged the New: Deals experiment with price-fixing and subsidies in agriculture ‘had been a complete failure. “For six years the farmer has been the beneficiary of subsidies. It ‘has, in many instances, saved him from acute distress, but after six years of = experience with it, he finds his total income, measured in dollars and cents, is 25 per cent less than it was 10 years ago.

enforcement, there should, and must g0, a campaign of education designed to lay bare the effect of a secret price-fixing policy on . business itself, We, as a people, are determined’ to remain living under a private enterprise, a profit and loss system, of political economy.” |

i st hr ris. AWARD GASOLINE CONTRACT County = Commissioners today awarded the annual gasoline contract,’ smounting to more shan

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be set up for the benefit. of a son, | $10.000, to th Nati

“Along with a drastic revision of : our antitrust laws and their regorous:

TORTOSA SEIZED IN GIANT DRIVE, REBELS REPORT

Loyalists Reinforce Lines, Claim Mining Area Is Surrounded.

- HENDAYE, Jan. 13 (U, P.)— Generalissimo Franco’s Rebel troops, smashing a wide path through Catalonia toward the Mediterranean Coast today, seized the city of Tortosa, closed in on Tarragona and tottered the outer defenses of the Loyalist capital at Barcelona. The Rebel troops reported they had advanced in the Sierra Cogulla sector to within sight of the sea. -The Rebel drive, surging forward most rapidly in the south, appeared to have made the greatest gains since Gen. Franco launched his offensive just before Christmas. The triumphs were too late however to affect the British-Italian talks at Rome where hope had been expressed that Premier Mussolini might persuade Britain and France to aid the Rebels by granting them belligerent rights of naval blockade.

100,000 Reinforcements Sent

Loyalist dispatches reported that the Barcelona Government was sending probably 100,000 ‘reinforcements—newly mobilized men from

118 to 45 years old—into the front

lines in an effort to stem the Rebel advance. Loyalist reports also said that the Government offensive on the Estremadura front in southwestern Spain was advancing and was within 20 miles of Cordoba. : The Estremadura offensive was launched by the Government to divert Gen. Franco's Catalan drive— which it has failed to do—and to seize a rich mining area centering around Penarroya. That mine zone is now surrounded, Government advices said, and more than 20 miles of the important Rebel railway line to Cordoba is under Loyalist fire.

Chu Teh’s Army

Resumes Attacks

SHANGHAI, Jan. 13 (U. -P). Chinese Nationalists guerrillas believed to be part of the Communist 8th Route Army of the “Red Napoleon,” Gen. Chu Teh, have resumed widespread attacks in North China, dispatches said today. The Japanese admitted that guerrilla units had penetrated into the environs of their North China base in Tientsin and that traffic on the vital Tientsin-Peiping railway was disrupted. The Japanese Domei news agency reported in Tientsin that the famous Manchu woman spy, Yoshiko K--washima—long a heroine of the Japanese Army—still was in a hospital in the Japanese concession suffering from wounds she received when she was attacked by Nationalist agents during the year end. Her eonditjion was described as “critical.”

Pope Congratulates Prime Minister on Effort to Keep Peace.

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feels he can get anything for himself by fully supporting the Italian campaign for territorial revisions, they predict .French-Italian tension would soon be brought to.a head. German sources here hinted that Herr Hitler has not yet made up his mind. Premier Mussolini's Mediterranean demands and his refusal to take his troops: out of Spain proved the stumbling blocks which prevente the conference from achieving any concrete results. J

Promises New Review

It was discloseci that the Italians informed the British that Sig.. Mussolini expects the Spanish war to collapse finally “within a few weeks,” after which the Italian forces would be withdrawn.

have told Mr. Chamberlain that after liquidation of the Spanish war, the situation would be reviewed again between Britain and Italy. The impression in sources close to the British legation was that if Sig. Mussolini’s belief that the Spanish Rebels will be in Barcelona within a few weeks does not materialize, Sig. Mussolini will reconsider whether he should not begin to liquidate Italy’s participation. A most important angle of the present situation was the urgency with which the conferees on both sides made it their business to inform the Ambassadors of friendly nations of their progress—or rather their lack of progress. . As soon as Mr. Chamberlain and Sig. Mussolini had ended, last night, what was expected to be their final formal talk, Lord Halifax received the United States and French Ambassadors, William Phillips and Andre Francois-Poncet, and informed them fully. This maorning Viscount Halifax again received. Mr. Phillips for a long and cordial talk at the British Embassy and as soon as Mr. Phillips had left—to cable a report to the State Department—he again saw M. Francois-Poncet.

Ciano Sces Nazi Envoy

Yesterday Count Ciano had seen Hans-Georg von Mackensen, the German Ambassador, and Pedro Garcia Conde, Ambassador of the Spanish Rebel Governing Junta. It was discolsed also that Sig. Mussolini himself conferred with the new Japanese Ambassador, Toshio Shiratori, just before his first talk with Mr. Chamberlain Wednesday. The German Ambassador official-

ly denied reports that Fuehrer Hit-

Sig. Mussolini was understood to}

Spy Suspect

“Just another experience,” laughed blond Natasha Gorin, above, as she was arrested on espionage charges in Los Angeles. Her husband, a Soviet tourist agent, faces similar charges.

ler had asked Premier Mussolini to keep the peace in .Europe for at least a year. Until Mr. Chamberlain leaves tomorrow morning, there is of course always a chance another meeting will be arranged with Sig. Mussolini. None was in sight today. None was expected. The results of this ‘breakdown, for that is what it really is, are almost certain to be: 1. The further Jettisoning of Mr. Chamberlain’s “appeasement” policy in favor of 2 new orientation based on a less complaint attitude toward Premier Mussolini and Fuehrer Hitler. '2. A poisoning of the atmosphere between the London-Paris and Ber-lin-Rome diplomatic axes, with an intensification of suspicion and uncertainty in European relations. 3. Closer mutual alignment of the two groups, democratic and totalitarian. 4. A new spurt in armaments, 5. Fortification of Mr. Chamberlain’s personal position with the critics in his own country on his policies. It was forecast that this would be the last of Mr. Chamberlain’s “appeasement” visits, and that the British people would be glad for it. Today Mr. Chamberlain's chief engagement was to visit His Holiness Pope Pius XI—whose views on world affairs seemed more nearly aligned to those of the British Pre-

US Reich Rift Bi

Nazis Refuse to Pledg Fair Treatment to U. S. Jews.

: BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P.) —Secretary of State Hull ° revealed today that in an effort to obtain a showdown : with Germany specific in-. stances of German discrimination against rights of ’ American citizens of Jewish i race have been submitted to the Nazi Foreign Office for action.

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BERLIN, Jan. 13 13 (U. P.).—Naxi.

Germany has advised the United

States that the Reich -will respect treaty obligations but pointedly refused to commit itself in regard to discrimination = against American Jews living in Germany. The official DNB news agency published today a review of notes exchanged between the two Govern-

ments, including a Jan: 11 note

from the United States in which the Washington Government repeated its earlier declaration—one of the points of severe strain on rela-

tions between the two nations-=that

Germany has no right to discriminate against Jews who are American citizens and living in Germany. Germany has replied, the agency said in reference to a note of Dec. 30 dispatched to Washington, that

the Reich did not necessarily ac- 5

cept the principles of the American

position but gave assurances that = |

all guarantees under international

law and under treaties between the two Governments would be observed. The exchange of notes left the disagreement between the Governments more sharply outlined than ever. The United States maintains that treaty ‘obligations ban discrimination against “American Jews living in-Germany: The Reich refuses to accept that interpretation of the agreements, although pointing out that it: will attempt to deal satisfactorily with any spécific cases raised by the U. S. Embassy. far none have been raised.

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BUDAPEST, Hungary, Jan. 13 U. |

P.).—Hungary ended the last hint of resistance to Nazi expansion. eastward today when the Government adhered to the anti-Communist bloc of Germany, Italy and Japan.

mier than to those of’ the Italian Duce. “It was understood that the Pope encouraged Mr. Chamberlain to continue his efforts to safeguard peace .and complimented him on his interest in the Jewish refugee problem and his efforts to obtain a ces= sation of the Spanish civil war. Mr. Chamberlain was understood to have

told the Pope that he was satisfied with the results of his visit to: Rome.

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