Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1939 — Page 3

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The Senate Appropriations Sub|committee on relief

continue th inter. = : Strong support for the plan, which vould postpone until warm weather onsideration of demands for a harp cut in relief expenditures, was indicated by Commitiee members seeking to avoid a| bitter conflict ver President “Roosevelt’s request for 875 million. dollars for five months and the Pa ap-

WPA through the

propriation of 725 million dollars for eh same period. 1" simultaneously, it was learned that the White House, in answering letters of protest on the 150-million-"|ldollar House reduction, was placing all responsibility on Congress for any cut in relief rolls necessitated by a reduced appropriation. Letters on White House stationery to those who have protested threatened discharge of WPA workers reiterated the President’s statement that “the Congress alone has power” to provide the necessary funds.

Barkley Fights Compromise

Reports that the compromise on ‘the relief bill originated with the Administration were discredited by Senate Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky.). . “Th does not appeal to me,” he ifsaid. “I think we ought to bite the whole cherry at once.” Chairman Adams (D. Colo.) of the Subcommittee, who discussed 1the relife situation with Mr. Roosevelt Wednesday, explained the compromise to newspapermen, but -|| denied its outhorship. | “We would appropriate 183 million dollars for ‘February and the | same amount for March on the basis of $61 for each of the three million persons on relief - rolls,” Senator Adams said. “During that time, the Public Works Administra- | tion’s vast construction program | should be well under way, the social | security plan should be shaped up | and investigation should determine actual needs for the spring and summer months.”

G.-O. P. Proposal Similar

The compromise is similar to an | unsuccessful amendment offered in | the house last week by Rep. John | Taber (R. N. Y.), and supported by the entire Republican membership. Rep. Taber proposed 350 million dollars to continue relief until April 7, pending a Congressional investigation of WPA. The Senate | plan would not include the inquiry proviso. Senator Adams said that in past years, 500,000 or 600,000 persons were removed from relief rolls from | Jan. 1 to July 1. “Propaganda. is being spread,” he | said, “that those who favor an ap- ~ propriation of 725 million dollars | wants)to drop a lot of people from | relief during the cold, winter | months when, there is snow on the II ground. «It is suggested that if Congress | makes an appropriation for only two months and stipulates that there shall be no reduction in the relief rolls, this propaganda will be answered.” : Acting WPA Administrator F. C. Harrington, who appeared before both House and Senate subcommittees in support of the amount requested by the President, announced that WPA rolls would have to be cut more than one-third unless the pending 725 million dollar bill is increased.

U. S. Prevented 339

Strikes, Conciliator Says

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U, P.) — Conciliation Service Director John R. Steelman reported to Labor Secretary Perkins today that his agents | averted 339 threatened strikes. in- — volving 230,565 workers during the fiscal year ended last June 30. Estimating that each strike averages 20 days, Mr. Steelman said the accomplishment of his service equaled a potential saving of 4,611,300 man work days.

|Adams Reports Plan but

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. P).—

considered today a proposed compromise on the deficiency appropriation bill which ould provide 366 miilion dollars to

Deficiency Bill Change Called 3 of Delaying Relief Cut Farm Issue Worries New Deal

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS RELIEF compromise suggested in Deficiency Bill. ; Farm surplus worries Administration. HOPKINS may today. : OKLAHOMA Governor fights for states’ rights. MONOPOLY probe of patents to end today. =

ROOSEVELT observes anniversary of second inauguration. (Page Four.)

TAX on salaries and bonds to hit Congressmen. (Page Four.)

HOLT CHARGES WPA ‘PADDING’

Hopkins’ Confirmation Held - Likely Despite Sharp Senate Debate.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. P.). —Senator Holt (D. W. Va.) today charged the Administration with pedding the relief rolls at election time, for political purposes. He made the charge to the Senate in opposing the nomination of Commerce Secretary Hopkins, former WPA administrator. A vote on Secretary Hopkins was expected late today. Indications were that he would be confirmed over opposition of 20 to 30 Senators. ; On April 24193, Senator Holt said, relief rolls were 2,445,415, but they climbed to 3,257,592 on Nov. 12, 1938, just after the last election. He said the rolls on Nov. 27, 1937, was 1,519,740.. ° : “I feel that the 2payrolls were padded and added to for political purposes,” he said.

Business aClled Bitter

“If each of those individuals (added to the rools) means four yotes, you can figure what that would mean.” ] He aserted that the industrial

production index was going up and unemployment down at the time that the relief folls were climbing the record highs. Senator Holt said that Labor Department figures showed that nearly one million persons returned to private payrools between July and October, 1938, while WPA rolls increased 400,000. He said WPA spent $1,884,558 in Kentucky and $1,830,957 in West Virginia last April, but “in August when the Kentucky primary was held, WPA spent $3,369,425 in Kentucky and $2,363,996 in West Virginia.” “Of course there wasn’t any politics in that at all. It just happened that way.” He charged that WPA rolls’ also were increased in “certain other states” at the time of the primaries, mentioning the Administration’s unsuccsesful attempt to defeat Senators who had opposed the Supreme Court bill and other New Deal measures.

Patents Called

Progress Incentives

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. P.).— Clarence C. Carlton, vice president of the Motor Wheel Corp. Lansing, Mich, today told the temporary National Economics Committee that patents; “instead of becoming a monopoly, are incentives to progress” and competition in that industry. New inventions aid even competitors to retain gales, he said, and in the wheel industry there is a crosslicensing arrangement that permits an exchange of patents. The Committee was advised by Counsel John Diening of the Commerce Departnient that the United States had a favorable patent balance with all nations except Germany and Switzerland between 1930 and 1937. . Only 132 per cent of patents granted by the U. 8S. during that

time were: awarded to foreigners.

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Fear Frazier-Le ke Bill; Oklahoma Now in Flood Control Dispute.

By RAYMOND CLAPPER 3 Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. tional defense and relief are taking the headlines, but there is real concern ‘here over the agricultural situation, in which the Administration has reached what appears to be a dead end. For six years the Administration has pursued a bold, experimental course with regard to the farm problem yet it remains the headache that it was for | Presidents Harding, Coelidge and | Hoover. In some ways the headache is worse. Almost everything conceivable has been tried. Yet the

bad as it has been in 50 years. - Mr. Hoover piled up some two or three million bales of cotton in the hands of the old Farm Board and that, was considereds an appalling condition. Now 11 million bales are held in hock with Government loans. EX-

‘Iports of cotton are about half of

average. Other major crops are not as badly off as cotton, yet dissatisfaction was sufficient in [the wheat and corn-hog sections to turn out vast numbers of Democrats and replace them with Republicans last November. Fear Frazier-Lemke Bil

All of this has produced’a depressed state of mind in the agriclutural section of thes New Deal. Officials have lost the (aggressive and, seemingly unable {to find a way out, are reduced to ing to prevent Congress from doing in desperation, something worse than has already been done. Mainly the fear is over “cost-of-production” legislation which is now pending—the Frazier-Lemke Bill. It has been indorsed by a considerable number of members from the Farm Belt, including New Dealers like Senator Robert. M. La

* |Follette (Prog. Wis.) and Bone (D.

Wash.), conservative Democrats like Senator Burke (Neb.) and conservative Republicans like Senator Gurney (S. D.). | The same propostion, as the Mc-Adoo-Eicher Bill, almost carried the Senate a year ago. It has the same easy money ring that the Townsend scheme has, and is hard for a politician from the farm ‘country to resist. That's why the Administration is so much concerned that this measure may rush into the vacuum whic now exists in the field of farm policy. : . The New Deal says [the scheme would not only put the Government into price-fixing and licensing of industry, but would encourage farmers to grow crops to the limit of their capacity, thus accentuating, not easing, the suprlus problem. The dumping provisions would make hash of Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal program.

Oklahoma Joins In Flood Dispute

OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 20 (U. P.).—Oklahoma joined Vermont today in challenging the constitutionality of the 1937 Flood Control Act, alleging that it violates the principle of States’ rights. | The Legislature approved a resolution sponsored by Governor Phillips, demanding that Congress susPpend a 54-million-dollar flood rontrol project nn the Red River until the state could investigate its desirability. The project calls for a flood control and electric generating dam which would cost the state nothing but which would be erected without the State’s formal consent. The project was similar to flood control dam in Vermont challenged in the same way—by legislative action—by Governor D. Aiken of that state. The Vermont Legislature appropriated funds to prevent the Federal Government from going ahead by seeking injunctions and taking other court action. The Oklahoma Legislature appropriated no money. | Federal authorities reacted to the Vermont suit by intimating that the project’ to which Governor Aiken and the Vermont Legislature obiected, would be dropped. It was assumed that this would be the reaction\to the Oklahoma suit.

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MEETINGS TODAY

Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington. noon. fndianapolis Symphony Orchestra, concert. Murat Theater, 2:45 p. m. Salesmen’s Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington. noon. . Kappa Sigma. luncheon, Hotel Washing-

n noon. Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. : Reserve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Board of Trade, n Phi Delta Theta, tage. noon. Petts Tau Delta, luncheon, Columbia Club, no

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MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, concert, Murat Theater, 8:30 p. m. ”

Indiana National Guard Association, dinner, Claypool Hotel, 6 p. m. Hotel

Alliance Francaise, luncheon, Washington, noon. : Daughters of ’98, meeting, Spink-Arms Hotel. 7:30 pn. m. Reserve Officers, American Legion Post No. 9, dinner-dance, Spink-Arms Hotel, 7 . m. .

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

Bernard A. Burch, 26, of 1205 Olive St.; M: 40 Eas A

on. Indiana Stamp. Club, meeting, Hotel m. be

Robert U. Salmon Jr. 20, Brownsburg; Margaret son, 20, of 1621 8. Hig School Road. ., Harvey A. Beaubier, 30, of 2254 Park Ave.: Goldie Erisman, 27, of 3925 College

Ave. . Curtis R. Benner, 24, of 1940 Ruckle St.: Ruth M. Lamb, 19, Indianapolis.

William Gerod, 39, of 736 Edgemont St.:

. Isaphens Coleman, 28, of 736 Edgemont

BIRTHS

. Girls Allen, Evelyn Trulock, at Methodist. Helen, Chris Iverson, at, Methodist. Joseph, Betty Daly, at Coleman. James, Lucille Todd, at Coleman. Harry. Dorothy Link, at City. Jasper, Loyel Gatewood, at 68 S. Sum-

mitt. v Harold, Elizabeth Brown, at 1475 Rooseelt.

Boys Charles, Edith Lahey, at St. Vincent’d. Robert, Ruth CGanner, at Coleman. Methodist. N. State. itt, 1 . Miley. h, Ethel Shelton, at 1812. E. Clay. Ellis, Mollie Level, at 3317 Downey. v Sr henus, Margaret Pepper, at 2509 es. . ME Joseph, Ruth Williams, at 18592 Shelby. Thomas, Helen Coffal, at 510 Arbor.

DEATHS

J. Frank Sottinghan, 64, at Methodist, pneumococcic meningitis. . Amber’ Kiefer, 59, at 3602 N. Meridian, cerebral hemorrhage. : Albert Eugene Adair, 71, at 1308 Central, coronary occlusion, Carl Thomas Nicely, 42, at 781 E. McCarty, .acute cardiac dilatation. . John W. Kehog, 58, at 108 N. DeQuincy, lobar pneumonis, . Iva Grace Willams, 19, at Methodist, toxemia. ; , Walter H. Cox, 79, at 237 N. Summit, acute cardiac dilatation.

Eu Highland Place, brongho-pneumonia.

Adell Deel, 29, at City, general peritonitis.

Cora Lee Brown, 44; at 1029 N. Illinois, cardio vascular renal disease

cerebral hemorehage: William Oliver Guthrie, 61, at 265 N. olmes, chronic inyocarditis. William en Ellis, 76, at 1867 Orleans, cerebral hemorr: Anna Rebecca Long, lace, carcinoma. Carrie Romig, 55, at 120 W, 12th, contusion of scalp. E. Forsyth, 70, at Methodist,

Fail vl maker 3 [ of 1318 Appiecate bi ce B. 3 a & PP oy

coronary. occlusion Marvin Roe, il

nice Wilsna Robinson, 4 mo., at 2525|D

Gertrude Floyd, 50, at 1726 Martindale, |]

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Kentucky—Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight; Sunday rain, colder Sunday afternoon or night.

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LICENSE CHANGE SEEMS CERTAIN

Deadline of" March 1 for Auto Tags Approved By Administration.

(Other Auto News, Page 19)

Indiana motorists appeared assured today that this session of the Legislature will change the deadline for purchasing license plates and will alter in spme respect the present auto registration fee rate. Two bills to advance the ‘Plate deadline to March 1 are pending in the House and Senate. The Senate measure, advanced to third reading today, was given the Administration’s blessing yesterday at a conference between Governor Townsend and Democratic Senators. When the bill was reported out of committee Wednesday, a floor fight developed, led by a group of Senators who sought to amend it to make the deadline July 1. With a deadlock apparent, the Democratic majority delayed action and called a caucus for yesterday afternoon.

Ask Governor’s Opinion

At. the caucus they decided to ask the Governor's opinion on the matter and following the conference announced they had agreed to let the measure remain with the March 1 provision. Inasmuch as the House measure which reached second reading yesterday was introduced by Republicans and contains provisions similar to the Senate Bill, it seemed likely that the March 1 deadline eventually will be enacted. Another House bill which would make July 1 the deadline was held by the Roads Committee which gave the March 1 bill the right-of-way. : Meanwhile, nearly all legislators are agreed that the present fee rate should be changed from its. present $5 to $10 range. Five bills, three in the House and two in the Senate, have been introduced to change the rate in some way. Nearest passage is one to be reporfed favorably by the House Judiciary ' Committee today for second reading providing for a flat $5 fee. This measure, as originally introduced, provided a $4 fee but it was amended in committee.

SLEW IN DEFENSE OF MOTHER, BOY CLAIMS

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 20 (U. P.). —Fifteen-year-old Sidney Badeaux shot and killed his father today after pleading with him, he said, to stop beating his mother. The boy walked from the squalid four-room cabin in the moss-covered oak forest along Gentilly Road with his mother and uncle to tell police of his patricide. Mrs. Zelma Badeaux Sr. said her husband, Sidney Badeaux Sr. 42, came home after midnight in a grunken stupor and quarreled with er. ¥ : #

will request each competing student’s records from the principal of his high school. The awards will be made on the basis of scholastic record, required number of credits to enter college or agetechnical school, character, and (ability to carry through in the student’s’ chosen field. No additional tests will be required, though the board may ask for personal interviews. The board’s decision will be final. : Virtually every major high school in Marion County now is represented in the competition by one or more entries. Many additional entries are expected before the deadline Monday, Jan. 23. Any entry in the mails

Measure Proposing Tax On Net Incomes to Be Filed in Senate.

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on schoolbooks now is being prepared by Senator O. Bruce Lane (R. Bainbridge), chairman of the special Senate committee investigating schoolbook adoptions by the State Board of Education. According to Senator Lane, retailers now make a profit of 20 per cent. He would cut this to 10 per cent. It was brought out at the Tvestigating committee’s hearing that 10 per cent is the usual margin of profit allowed in other states. “I see no injustice to Indiana retailers if| we limit the profit here to that made by retailers in other states,” or Lane said. “This bill would result in a vast saving to parents of school children.” Senator Lane said he would confer with officials and ‘members of the Indiana .State Teachers’ Association relative to a plan which would prevent changing of te ks unless a majority of teachers agreed that a switch was necessary. : The domestic relations court bill is to be introduced by Senator Joseph F. Sexton (D. Indianapolis). The bill would establish a new court in this county to handle divorces ‘and other domestic relations cases. Jurisdiction of the new court would be exclusive and cases of this type would be eliminated from other county courts.

4-Year Term Provided

The judge of the proposed court would be appointed by the Governor until the next general election when a judge would be elected to serve a four-year term at an annual salary of $7500. Marion County judges have urged establishment of a court of this type. A technicality of law brought a delegation of about 100 Hammond citizens before the Sefiate committee on Public Rights and Franchises last night in the Senate Chambers. The majority of the delegation came as proponents of a bill which would prevent any change in the classification of a school board or the term of office of school trustees in any city whose classification might be changed by the 1940 census.

According to Senator Harvey J. Post (D. Hammond), coauthor of the bill, there has been an attempt to oust the present Hammond school board because the members filed their candidasy under the Mayor, City Clerk and City Controller instead of the Lake County Clerk at Crown Point. Points to 1933 Act _

«Under the 1933 Reorganization Act candidates must file with the County Clerk,” Senator Post said. “My bill cites the 1940 census only because Terre Haute and Hammond will be affected and because it will assure the legality of the present school board.” More than a dozen speakers representing the P.-T. A., the Chamber of Commerce apd other civic organizations stated that the present board had been elected by a majority of Hammond people and they were satisfied with their choice.

that “there was an attempt in Hammond to seize control of the school board because it controls a large amount of the public funds.” - Democratic Mayor Frank R. Martin, one of the two opponents present, charged that “the proponents of this bill have got up here tonight and said that the school board was nonpartisan. This recurrent statement is proof of a guilty conscience. This meeting is a setup for the bill’s proponents.” There are three Republicans and two Democrats on the school board. Members of the committee gave

their thanks to those present and

Five Agree to Serve on Air Scholarship Board

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before midnight Monday will be accepted. As has been announced before, this competition is open to any Marion County high school senior boy who will be graduated either in February or June of this year. All he needs to do to be considered for one of the 22 aviation scholarships being offered is to send in the coupon printed elsewhere in this edition. : Winners in this and other Seripps-Howard cities will have a choice of scholarship from 12 colleges - and universities, including Purdue, Case School of Applied Science, Carnegie Institute of

Technology and the Boeing School of Aeronautics at Oakland, Cal.

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Other Senate Bills

Other Senate bills infroduced today would: 4 Give gardeners or, landscapers right to place lien on property where owner does ‘not pay for services. Decrease the number of pupils per teaching unit to increase distribution of State funds to larger city school units. : Amend State banking laws .to permit establishment branch State banks and trust panies in adjoining counties. : Permit county welfare boards, the county or interested persons the right to appoint a guardian for any person receiving assistance under the 1936 Welfare Act. Permit release of lien on property of judgment debtor pending appeal. Extend the expiration date of the fie -Milk Control Board to June, : House Measures Filed

Other measures introduced today in the House would ; ~ Require contractors bidding on county highways to submit samples of materials. The county would be forbidden from using any road building material which had not been tested by the State Highway Commission’s laboratories. The State agency would furnish this service to county officials without charge.

Extend the state Milk Control Board expiration date to June, 1941, and continue the powers of regulation now exercised by that board. The present law under which the board acts was passed in 1935 to be effective for two years and was extended for another two years by the 1937 Legislature. The board expires this June unless the act is extended again. : Provide that members of City councils in cities: having a population between 10,000 and 15,000 should receive salaries of $300 each.

Hotel Liability Involved

Provide that hotel owners and operators would not be liable for the loss or damage of the car of any guest which is kept In a garage not operated by the hotel. Fix the salary of the prosecuting attorney in the Starke County Circuit Court at $1500 per annum. - Provide that persons who are qualified voters and who are confined in any county institutions should not be entitled to vote in any township in which the institution is located unless that also is the township of his original residence. These inmates would register and vote in the tonwship, ward and precinct in which they resided just prior to being confined. Repeal an old act which made it necessary for railroads to carry axes and other tools in passenger cars. Sponsors of the bill pointed out that railroads now use steel coaches and their tools are worthless. Establish a penalty for applicants for poor relief, direct relief or free

concerning their financial condition.

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“29% Club’ Bill Moved to Second Reading: 1 Debate on Reorganization Act Delayed:

Upon conviction the person would be considered guilty of a- misdemeanor and would be fined not to exceed $100 or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months or both. Intorduced by Reps. Judson H. West (D. Indianapolis) and Kenneth K. Baker (R. New Albany), this measure was referred to Judiciary “B” Committee.

Loan Investment Bill

Enable executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and receivers to invest without limitation in obligations issued by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. and issued under provisions of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act. Enable Federal savings and loan associations located within Indiana to issue share accounts to minors. Allow personal representatives of persons killed by carelessness or the wrongful act or omission of another to institute civil proceedings. Tighten the absent voter’s law by requiring that persons who vote the absentee ballot because of confinement from illness or physical infirmary must back up their claims with the sworn state of a licensed physician. At present all these people are required to do is make a sworn statement. This measure was introduced by Reps. Wilfred W. Wingate (R. Muncie) and Paul S. Brady (R. Muncie) and was referred to the Elections Committee.

‘Passes Minor Bills

The House passed three of its minor bills. Approved 88 to 4 was

a measure to give court reporters full notary powers in the administering of oaths. Unanimous approval was given to bills which would authorize Michigan City and La Porte to appropriate $2500 annually for music in the city parks and which would extend to township commissaries in Wayne and Elkhart Counties until May 1, 1941. Among House bills advanced to third reading was a measure to appropriate $10,000 to finance a fight against the efforts of southern states to secure discriminatory freight rates. Authors of the bill contend that rates on freight from the North to the South are lower than rates on freight traveling the other direction. Other House bills advanced to engrossment would reduce women’s fishing and hunting licenses from $1.50 to 50 cents and amend the municipal corporations act to prohibit city court sessions on legal holidays. : Amendment Withdrawn

A House bill amending the téachers’ retirement act to provide 4 per cent compounded interest on contribution reimbursements from the retirement fund was withdrawn on the motion of Rep. Albert McCoy D: Anderson), a coauthor of ‘the House bills reported favorably by committees and advanced to second reading would: 7 Amend the Narcotics Act to out-

law all marijuana as used in ciga-

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rets or any other article except mae ture stalks and sterilized seed

Put State banks on a partly with \_

National banks by allowing State

banks a credit on their intagibles

taxes on deposits equal to the: amount they pay in gross income tax. This bill also would allow all#% banks to deduct a proportionates amount of their cash reserves from the intangibles tax on deposits. - Repeal the act providing that ap=" peals in criminal cases taken from a Justice of the Peace or City Court . judge must be acted upon within: 90 days or the lower court conviee ; tion becomes final. Nye Abolish speed traps by prohibite ing constables from making traffieviolation arrests except on Justice. of the Peace warrants issued on complaint. Validate real estate sales made by trustees, guardians, administrators, or domestic or foreign executors. Provide a method of remonstrance against the levying and collecting a county library tax. Permit Union County Council te - appropriate $1054 to reimburse Fos-"] ter Osborn, former Circuit Court 4 clerk, for which he was personally | liable when bank holiday county | funds failed. : Provide a lifetime pension for the |

wife of State Patrolman Paul A.

Minneman, killed by the Brady | gang. : ; f Amend the fish and games laws

and establish additional game and .

fish preserves.

Legalize all records of instruments .'

executed by corporations when the record fails to show that the corporation seal had not been affixed.

Discuss Proposed Liquor Changes

Members of the House Publio”

Morals Committee this afternoon held preliminary discussions on the Republican measure to change the State liquor control system and de- . cided to ask their constituents over ; the week-end for suggestions on - tavern closing hour provisions. As now drafted the bill would leave the closing hours in larger /' cities at 1 a. m. Rep. Glenn A. Markland (R. Zionsville), the committee chairman, said he favored a “flat. midnight closing provision” and, would support: “any suggestions ; which would remove the liquor busi. ness further from political control.® The committee decided as a mate ter of policy not to report bills back into the House until all members had been given a chance to sign

.| either majority or minority reports.

A Commission created by the special session of the egislature to investigate methods used by other states for self-advertising reported to Governor Townsend today. The group recommended the establishing of a commission to bg known as the Indiana Publicity Council providing an appropriation to defray its expenses. | The recommendations are to be ¢ embodied in a bill to be introduced by the American Legion members in | the House Tuesday. * |

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