Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1939 — Page 3

ATOR aT, AN Te Pre ss

eets T odayl! Drive for|

Headquarters Here

~ Resolution to = General};

- Assembly to Ask for Nations Office.

State and pational officers of he |

_ ‘Veterans of ‘Foreign Wars met here today preparatory to asking the Legislature to authorize construction of a V. F. W. national head-

—quarters building on the World War}

Memorial Plaza. The building ‘would be panion to the American Legion na-

tional headquarters at the north}

end of the plaza. Space for it was provided in the plaza. A Da eution niking the Legisia-

in the original plans for}

ture to order the construction is to}

be drawn by ths group tomorrow afternoon at the World War Memorial Shrine, according: to Uoseph G. Kraft, diana department commander.

National Chief Coming

Eugene I. Van Antwerp

Among those scheduled to attend |]

the sessions today and tomorrow at the Hotel ‘Antlers are Eugene I. Van = Antwerp, Detroit, commander-in-chief; Merville ‘A Ray, deputy chie! of staff; depart mental commanders from Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee and Wisconsin, . and delegates from several state

posts. This afternoon the group was to conduct a school of instruction for post commanders, adjutants and quartermasters.. Mr. Van Antwerp, accompanied by Mrs. Nellie (Carey, department auxiliary past president, and other “officials, was to visit the U. 8S. Veterans’ Hospital. Commander Kraft said the resolution to the Legislature will ask a new building identical with, and to the east of the lL.egion headquarters.

Seek Same Conditions

« He said the V. F. W. would ask to occupy the huilding under the same conditions as the Legion. “The State paid for that building and Keeps up the exterior,” Mr. Kraft said. “The American Legion is ‘responsible for the interior. “We are most anxious to move our headquarters to Indianapolis. We feel that the central position offered by Indisinapolis would be most advantageous to us. . We are the second largest organization of - our kind in the world.”

‘Samaritan’ of Snow Appears And $45 Goes

The snowstorm cost Mrs. T. J. Rice Jr., 824 N. Gray St., $45, she told police today. Last night her automobile *'"~ became stuck in drifts at Virginia Ave. and Alabama St. She asked a nian to help her. He did. She thanked him. Mrs. Rice pulled to the curb, and found her handbag, containing $25 in cash and $20 worth of merchandise, missving from the seat, she told police.

DEATH ENDS CAREER GUIDED BY PENCIL

FREMONT, Ne¢b., Jan. 14 (U. P). —Half a century ago a student completing his course in an Indiana college made a hlind stab at a map and picked the town in which he would¢jaunch his career. The youth, Daniel V. Stephens, then a resident of Bloomington, Ind., sat in his room at Valparaiso "University and help a map before him with a pencil poised. He closed his eyes and let the pencil fall. The point struck Fremont and there Stephen went for a long career in “business and politics. Death brought an end to that -. career today but, throughout his life here, Stephens said he never regretted his choice. Stephens becaine a leader in Nebraska education, banking, politics and farming. He served in Congress from 1913 to 1919 &nd as chairman of several state delegations to Democratic national conventicns. He also held ‘office as presidert of the, state bank division of the American Bankers’ Association and as head of farm . ‘and dairy associations.

BRUSH FIRE TOLL GOES TO 61

SYDNEY, Australia, Jan, 14 (U, . P.).—The death toll reached 61 today in a series of forest and brush fires which have swept through Victoria Staiz for z week. Many persons were missing.

national |

Merville A. Ray

VERMONT GOVERNOR “LOADS FLINTLOCK’

Awaits Federal ‘Redcoats’ On Ompompanoosuc.

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power. There is a question, under the restriction of the propesed contract, whether the Federal Government would be free to do that. So Secretary Woodring declined to sign the contract with its restriction reserving other rights to Vermont, and offered to go ahead and buy ihe land and construct the dam wi out the contract.

No Invasion Expected That is the “invasion” of States’ rights which has set off the New England rebellion. The lanky, hardheaded Governor Aiken with his five other Yankee Governors alongside, flintlocks ready, are standing guard and let the first Federal redcoat from Washington try to trample down the rights of the old Granite State. The chances are there won't be any frample, one reason being that the dam is a New England proposition, intended to help ‘save large areas from floods, a project undertaken in co-operation with ‘the States in that section. If they don’t want it, or don’t like the terms, Washington doesn’t intend to try to force it on them. The law gives the Federal Government the right of condemnadion: in ‘such cases but there is no intention of resorting to it. The- attitude here is that if New England Governors won’t let old Uncle Noah build them an ark, they’ll just have to get flooded. The Federals, as President Madison did when the Hartford Convention got tough, are going to let Governor Aiken keep his stand on the banks of the Ompompanoosuc and forget it. They can’t spell the name here anyway, much less pronounce it.

RITES SET MONDAY FOR AURORA MAN

AURORA, Jan. 14 (U., P.).—Funeral services will be held Monday for Edward Paul Dober, retired businessman ‘and director of the Peoples’ National Bank of Lawrenceburg, who died at his home here yesterday. He was 55.

Surviving are the widow and three daughters.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County Deaths |Speeding .... (To Date) — 1939 000000 Reckless

3 - 1938 Driving sess

coohosse

Running ential streets ...

Running red lights ...... { — Drunken driving ..... 1

Others ....,. 14

- City Deaths (To Date) 1939 see006s os

1938 sesseseee —r si Jan. 13 Accidents .... Injured ...... Dead (EERE NNR J Arrests ...... 2%

13 9 0

MEETINGS TODAY’ Bar Association, meeting, - ry at Am ol n, meeting, Clay. 4 Tana ise, luncheon, Hotel

Wi society. banquet, Hotel Wash-|

ee ington, 6:30

- MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names of addresses.)

undid Be georgia 'L. 3

Xacoma ie. SWIShel, 19, of 1234 Cotta s are : ® ohario M Sich 18, of 1 Finley Ave..

Tela car ae oy of bd Sito

of 2947 N. Me-

8t.: 2

Charlie 'E, Benson, 23, of 91 Sto Ln ances D. Oliver, 22, nN 5 i True J. Wagoner, 27, of 1241 Ave,; . Myrtle urphy.. 21, oot 1009 B Coniral

ter V. Del h, 38. of 108 nel M. Perdew. 45, of 208 Ne Tints

Clarence S. Jones, 80, of 1528 1i3 geauline ‘Shoop, 20, us olbts

ickey, 27, of 808 N. Gonnis ¥, Broklin, 22, of 531 N.

; William L. Bar, er, Delaware St. Loti Lambert 38, POE a5 238 v, Wyoming’ St. 21, of 2422 Ethel St. 1) Katie Johnson, “18, ‘of 714 W. gth St.

BIRTHS Boys Donala, Ellen Trusty, at Methodist. Flo; yd. Elizabeth Julian, at Methodist, Arthur, Betty Brown, at St. Vincent's. Delmar, Molota Salce , at Coleman, Clare, Elissa Cox, olem. Harold, Mary Ailichel, 043 2813 Meredith. ‘Emma Burns, andes, te Leola RE ei 519 3 Hag Berniel, Bernice Kuhn, at 1248 Standard. Girls

ence, Edith Sylvester, at 1254 8. lied Margaret Robert, at 760 ConPaul, Catherine Howell, at Ses Jones, '00dS0! 934

Elmer, Ansie Wi n, at E. 15th, Samuel, Emma Pine, at Coleman,

DEATHS ‘Margaret Bright, 50, at St. Vincent's, adit Ti

Rural Bell

gleton, 22, of { myoca:

s. Gertrude Koob, 30, at Methodist, lobar pneumonia, ; Clara | Long, 76, at 4302 College, arterio-

scler ee Lambert, | aA at City, “pituitary

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Midwinter Session With Dinner.

members had under consideration

sion to the Indiana Bar.

anual midwinter ‘meeting at the Claypool Hotel with a dinner to-

Judge John’ M. Paris of New Albany was elected president of the Indiana Judges’ Association night to succeed Judge Alonzo Bales of Winchester. Judge Howard L. |Hancock of Rockville succeeded Judge Paris as vice president; and

ville was re-elécted secretary-treas-urer. Circuit and Superior Court judges comprise the association. The Bar Association’s midsummer meeting is to be in Indianapolis Aug. 25 and 26, it was decided. The report ‘of the committee on legal education, made last night, attacked two measures now before the Legislature, Senate Bill 22 and House Bill 46. The Senate bill would enable Circuit Court judges to issue temporary permits to practice law pending examinations. Law school graduates. would be admitted to practice without examination if the House measure is passed. Paul King, of Detroit, Nationall Bankruptcy Conference chairman, discussed the Chandler Act which he termed a “commercial and social device, and a very great instrument,” | In today’s sessions George E. Brand of Detroit was to discuss the “Integrated Bar,” a bill which would authorize the Supreme Court to regulate all law practice. Jurisprudence, law reform, criminal jurisprudence, administrative law and judicial selection committee were to make reports. : A noon visit to the home of former President Benjamin Harrison, the association’s first president and the banquet at the Claypool Hotel tonight, at which A. N. (Bo) McMillin, Indiana University football coach, and Judge Sparks of the U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals, will speak, complete the program.

Lady Luck On Holiday; Arrest 13

Lady Luck stayed away from a dice game last night. She would have been the 14th person present but it was Friday the 13th. So thirteen persons who police said had the nerve to roll the dice on Friday the 13th were arrested. Two men were arrested on charges of keeping a gaming house in the 300 block on W. 16th St. Eleven others were charged with visiting a gaming house and gambling.

DENIES SUPPRESSION OF TOBACCO WARNING

(Editorial, Page 10)

BALTIMORE, Jan, 14 (U, P.)—= Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins Medical School today refuted an assertion by Secretary of Interior Ickes that newspapers had ignored his studies showing that, on the average, smoking shortens life. “The matter has been printed in every crossroads newspaper in the country and the clippings have been delivered to me by the pailful,” Dr. Pearl said. Mr. Ickes in a speech in New York this week ‘had said that “I understand that at Johns Hopkins University there is a very sensational finding resulting from the study of the effect of cigaret smoking, that has not appeared, so far .as I know, in any newspaper in the United States. I wonder if that is because the tobacco companies are such large advertisers.”

OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. 8, Weather Bureatl

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Snow probable tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight with lowest about 80; colder tomorrow and Monday. : Sunrise ......7:05 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE =Jan. 14, 1988—

chen 4:43

7 a.

Precipitation 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation ine Excess since Jan.

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Snow probable tonight and tomorrow, except rain or snow in extreme Sout Soruon; i hily warmer tonight in : er tomorrow or tomorrow night, much colder: by Monday, r

Illinois—Unsettled tonight and tomorrow; probably occasional ‘snow, rain or snow in extreme south : colder in extreme northwest portion tonight; colder morrow, much colder in attertioon or Tat night,

Lower Mi hi an—ghew tonight an morrow i flieht armer in Jouthe east-centfal portions tonight; morrow, much co erate cold wave. Ohio—Cloudy followed by light SNOW beginning in west portion la‘e tonight or tomorrow and in east por on tomorrow; slow], jemperature in west portion tonight an east port lon. tomorrow; colder ‘tomorrow night and BY. Kentucky—Cloudy jomight and tomor3 HEht rain or snow, in north and

light rain . in south Sion tomorrow; 8! antty warmer onigh in extreme east portion tomorrow; oo tomo orroy Bight and ip west portion tomorrow: after

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21 an, 1 ey

and Bo er tocolder at night with mod-

WEATHER TN ORES GIFERS AT 74% :

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{Indiana Association to End

Indiana State Bar Association] for adoption today a resolution op-| posing any changes in the present : method of examination and admis-

. The Association will conclude its]

Jast|

Judge Edgar A. Rice of Crawfords-|

that the American Army shall be ready to fight—and not just ready

/ ! Times-Acme ‘Photo. Attorney General Murphy (left) and Senator Brown of Michigan confer as Mr. Murphy appears before a Senate committee. Mr. Murphy said he never pladed his O. K. on the epidemic of sitdown strikes that

prop that things are going to get better, ‘not. worse.” The" House yesterday refused, 926 to 137, to restore the 875 million dollar appropriation requested by the President, despite warnings

force 1,150,000 persons off relief rolls. A total of 107 Democrats, most of them Southern conservatives, joined 119 Republicans to scuttle the Ad-

swept Michigan while he was Governor. ‘Shave Your

‘M DAY’ ARMY SFELRSONL Lip’ Demand 1917. and Munich Teach| Stuns Police

New ‘Lessons’ in National Defense.

The Police Department was stunned today by the latest order of Chief Morrisseys to give his department snap. All police must appear at roll call hereafter cleanshaven, his order announced. “Charlie Chaplin and Hitler mustaches must go,” Deputy Inspector Edward Helm warned. “What about Sergt. John Sheehan and - Sergt. Mike Griffin, the veterans who wear big, bushy handlebars, = like those of the Nineties?” po-~ licemen wondered. “Sheehan and Griffin are exempt, I guess,” Inspector Helm declared. “I guess we have to make some exceptions.” The order, however, has had an effect. Patrolmen Cecil London, Osa Woodall and Robert Butler reported that they had compiled and had their mustaches banished.

FARM WAGES DECLINE

By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Memories of 1917 and 1838 are bearing fruit in President Roosevelt's de-

fense program. or ‘In 1917, as Assistant Navy Secretary, Mr. Roosevelt saw how America’s active participation in the World War was retarded by production bottienecks. In the autumn of 1938 his intimate association with the events leading up to the Munich “settlement” convinced him that “you have to carry a big gun even to sit| at peace tables.” An interviewer has quoted him as saying: “Munich was a great lesson to me.” The “lesson” left him determined

with blueprints—if and when “M Day,” the day of mobilization, con-

E penditure.

| Lewis Rockefeller (N. Y),

{the bolt. That gun is‘said to give

-43 | quire quickly in an emergency.

tirely on imports, as well as num-

fronts it. “Minimum” Is Requested : As he told Congress this week, in 1917 the enemy was engaged by the

Allies while we were training an equipping our Army in safety, but

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (U. P.). —The Agriculture Department reported today that wage rates for hired farm laborers ly in; the last. quarter of 1938 .and and | the number of hired hands declined to the lowest point in 14 years.

dropped’ sharp-

proposal to grant

ministration figure. After loading the bill with amendments, including one to separate politics from relief, the House sent it to the Senate by a vote of 397 to 16. The overwhelming vote was expected after decision on the amount of De appropriation. Both Democrats and Republicans were aware

-|that present funds would be depleted

to “20 on eficiency ex-

soon, and few wan record” against a

Six Democrats Vote “No

Ten Republicans and six Democrats voted “No.” The official tally sheet listed them as: § Republicans—W. Sterling Cole (N. 0, Charles Hawks (Wis), George H. Heinke (Neb.), Donald H. McLean (N. J), Daniel A. Reed (N. Y.). Dewey Short (Mo.), James Wadsworth (Ny Y.), John Taber, (N. Y.). and Fred Crawford, Mich. Democrats—Eugene Cox (Ga.), E. M. Owen (Ga.), Hugh Peterson (Ga.); A. Willis’ Robertson (Va.), Howard Smith (Va), and Milton H. West (Tex.). The vote on passage of the 725 million dollar appropriation was the only record vote taken, to make it unnecessary for Representatives to go on record before their constituents on the contested issues. All amendments were passed or rejected by voice or teller vote. The House Appropriations Committee had reported the bill in such a manner that it was impossible. to obtain a ‘roll call vote on the 150 million dollar reduction—the major issue involved. Newspapermen in the press gallery, however, kept track unofficially of the voting by teller on the the full amount

that a lesser expenditure would |

Too backs President on relief fund.

Maxine Due. To Nap Over ‘5th Birthday

ERIE, Pa., Jan. 14 (U. P.. —Birthday cakes are great . events in the lives of 5-year- “ olds, but not to little Maxine Yarrington. Tomorrow will be Maxine’s fifth birthday and she will slumber ‘on as she has been doing for the past three years .and four months, Instead of the birthday cake that other children would enjoy, the “sleeping beauty” will be fed the liquid diet she has received . since ente St. Vincent's Hospital Sept. 24, 1985. Physicians and the patient nurses who attend her fear that the little girl may never awaken from her sleep. In the | past several months, there has been no change in the comatose condition.

requested by the President. Among Indiana Congressmen, two Democrats, Reps. William Schulte and W. H. Larrabee, and one Republican,

Rep. Gerald Landis, voted for - :

875 million dollar figure. As approved, the bill os tha the appropriation be Ta over the next five months, nu the President’s recent order blank ing some 30,000 WPA officials under civil service, limits relief to Uni States citizens, limits to a maxim

25 per cent the rate of differential

in WPA wages between the North

and the South, and prohibits pay-f

ment of salaries to WPA offic and workers who seek to influen votes of persons on relief rolls.

i Only Three Hoosiers V |

For Full Grant Asked By President.

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|who don’t belong there. So far ‘{unemploym

the Bedford

[district is concerned, we _|rather have the money spent by ts Public ks ‘Administra

lege they cut out the politics 1 diana and elsewhere, there will I

plenty of money for relief at th 725 million dollar figure. Pio B million dollars was just, th =) dent's asking price. He will be gia to get what we are giving him.” Rep. Raymond S. Springer (R.) “We merely adopted the Appror ' tions Committee report and “| that committee is ruled by the Dem ocrats they must know what the are doing in relation to any genuin Administration - requirements. Indi ana will not suffer. I am sure GC hat or I would have voted oth

Indiana since the election provide that it is spent in the proper way. and not the political way.” Rep. Noble J. Johnson (R.) — sum is sufficient for Indiana Ts all the other states if it Is used right. 2” Rep. George W. Gillie (R. oe will hurt us some in Inidana, but I hope not too much. The time has come to cut down on appropriations and we will try to-do it as pain. lessly as possible.” Estimates prepared by the United States Conference of Mayors heade quarters here gave the Indiana’ WPA employment as 85,800 on Dec, 31, 1938, and the number which can be carried by June under the 728 million dollar bill as 53,800.

‘Tooth Lost, $100 Asked From Club

Damages of $100 were asked by Matt S. Ober for the alleged loss of a tooth at the Riviera Country Club swimming pool last summer in & suit on file in Superior. Court

today The suit charged that Mr. Ober was pushed into the pool by an unidentified person and . “that a ‘tooth was knocked out when he struck the bottom. . The suit contended that the ‘Country Club was responsible - for the actions of its patrons. Club officials declined to come

ment.

next time “we cannot guarantee a long period free from attack in which we could prepare.” That is why he has asked, in addition to 410 millions for Army planes other defenses, that Congress give the: 142 millions for stocking “critical items” and placing “educational orders.” The Navy has always been an «M Day” force; that is, it must be ready at all times. Gen. Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, holds that 142 million dollars is the barest minimum to provide “critical” equipment for the initial protective force of. 400,000 which the Army would undertake to throw into the field at once in an emergency. This sum would cover only equipment not quickly obtainable at any time) Few of New Rifles Made For instance, the Army has a new rifle, the Garand semiautomatic; with which an infantryman can fire eight shots without touching

one soldier the fire power of five men using the Springfield rifle, standard Army equipment since 1903. ; But the Army has turned out only about 10,000 Garand guns at its Springfield arsenal. If a war broke out tomorrow it would be months before real mass production of Garands could be achieved. Some 2345 gauges, 1766 fixtures, 1386 special tools and 79 punches and dies are required in making this weapon. In antiaircraft defense, the situ-{ ation is similar. The Army is proud of its light tanks, but is virtually without medium tanks, which it considers vital. “Critical Items” Listed : Gen. Oraig regards antitank guns as of “cardinal importance.” The Army today is “wholly lacking in an effective weapon of this type,” according to his recent annual report. In all, according to Assistant War Secretary Louis Johnson, there are 55 “critical items” which the Army needs and which it could(not ac-

These include, aside from the weapons enumerated above, such things as searchlights, medical supplies, gas masks, machine guns,| mortars, howitzers, in fact nearly all types of weapons and ammunition. Aside from the 55 items of critical equipment, the War and Navy ~ | epariments have listed some 23 “strategic” raw materials for which this country relies largely or en-

erous “critical” raw materials for which the need is less urgent. The strategic materials are: Aluminum, antimony, chromium, coconut manila mica

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glass, quicksilver, quinine, silk, Syl tin Rungsten and wool,

shells, coffee, hides, iodine, -jute,|| nickel, nux vomica, opium, optical 8 ber,

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It took the engineering ‘talent many skilled men to design

build it and keep it in the

is flying this fost little prs hip, But— :

of | it,

air.

‘There lies the greatest future in aviation —in the designing. and building and maintenance of planes and motors and equipment '—for those who have the proper

training.

Some Marion County

boy, a

senior in high school, has a chance to win that training this year through the scholarship being of-

fered By The. Hnafianepolc Times.