Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1939 — Page 3
Final Pleas Made in Senate
Before Close WPA Cut Vote;
~ Green Fights Wagner Act Repeal |
Barkley and Adsns Make| A. F.of L. oul Says||
Final Maneuvers on Iséue of Cut.
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delayed until tomorrow. If the
| Senate raises the appropriation to
| Eh
875 million dollars the bill then will
. have to be returned to the House
for consideration.
The conservative Democratic
| group planned to have Senators
Adams (Colo.) and Byrnes (8. C.), both members of the Appropriations Committee, make the principal clos-
{ ing arguments in support of he 725 | million-dollar figure.
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Pairs Arranged .
With the exception of Senator]. ~ Chavez (D. N. M.), who is attend-
ing a WPA fraud trial in Albu‘querque, N. M, all Senators were expected to be present for the vote. Assurances have heen given that
three ill members of the anti-Ad-|.
ministration group—Senators Van-
denberg (R. Mich), Bridges (R. N. H) and King (D. Utah)—either
. will be present or will be able to
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arrange pairs with Administration supporters to maintain a balance. Senators said the dispute over pairs indicated that the vote would be “very close,” with perhaps less than three votes deciding the outcome. Senator Barkley appeared quite optimistic last night after “doubtful” Senators had been deluged with telegrams and letters from labor organizations, Chambers
| “of Commerce, mayors and others | protesting against the proposed re-
duction. : Labor Non-Partisan League, C. I. O. political arm, announced that it was distributing one million pamphlets disclosing its check of members of the House on the vote to keep the WPA appropriation at 875 million dollars. The vote in the House on that
‘issue was a “teller vote’—by which
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members pass between tallymen and are counted, but not recorded by name. Some Congressmen willingly let their vote be known, however. The League said that it had compiled a partial list and then supplied each Congressmen with it, requesting correction of any error or omission. The list of names as printed in the pamphlet of Con- ' gressmen “voting right” totaled 137. The amendment was defeated 226 to 137. . High Administration officials, including Agriculture Secretary Wal-
‘lace, Reconstruction Finance Corp.
Chairman Jesse Jones and Joseph B. Keenan, assistant to Attorney General Murphy, were seen in the Senate wing of the Capitol as cloakroom maneuvering progressed.
Townsend Seeks High WPA Grant
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Governor Townsend sent telegrams to th Indiana Senators fo support a Narge appropriation for WPA but neither changed, his mind about voting today. * Senator VanNuys (D) will continue to be for the 725 million dollars passed by the House and Sen-
ator Minton (D) for the 875 million |
asked by President Roosevelt. The Governor's telegram to Senator Minton reads: “Relief load still tremendously heavy in Indiana. Keep the amount of WPA as high as possible.” Replying by letter, Senator Minton wrote: - “I have your telegram abouf relief situation in Indiana and appreciate your wire to me. “Believe me I will do all in my ower to see that the Administration’s program, which is none too I=rge, is carried-out.”
‘Hearings Ordered on
= County Deaths
1930 caieisree
. Amlie Nomination
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (U. P.) — The Senate Interstate Commerce Commitee today ordered hearings on the nomination to the Interestate C'smmerce Commission of Thomas 2. Amlie, ' Wisconsin Progressive, hich has drawn sharp attacks in ~th House and Senate of the Wis-
Ham " Lois On Thursday For Downey
Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan, 27.— Senator Downey . (D, Cal) isn’t able to collect $30 every Thursday, but at least he col-,
for lunch on that day each
week. A group of his Senate col
leagues have made the California pension slogan an excuse for a new luncheon club at the Capitol. Senator Guffey (D. Pa.) started it with a ham and egg party for Senator Downey two weeks ago and some of the others thought it such a good idea that they have rounded up “a group for ham and eggs every Thursday since then. At the first meeting, Senator Guffey invited a cameraman, thinking it would add to the sport to have a picture of Senator Downey taken sitting over a plate of ham and eggs. Senator Downey, far from objecting, announced he would send the picture back to California with a word that "all the Senators eating with him had been converted to the pension plan. Whereupon the photographer was banished from the room.
‘WHITE-COLLAR’ WAGE ISSUE UP
Andrews to Call Hearing for Discussion of Status of Workers’ Group.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (U. P.),— A public hearing to. discuss the advisability of exempting from the Fair Labor Standards Act “high-
ing newspaper reporters,” held within three weeks, according
to Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews. Mr. Andrews said the hearing would attack the problem from two directions: 1. Should such workers be exempt from the act? 2. If they should be : exempted, should the change be made by administrative regulation or Congressional amendment of the WageHour law. He said many businessmen have complained’ about effect of the overtime pay clause on year-around, well-paid employees, who do not punch a time clock and get sick leave and vacations with pay. Mr. Andrews said he did not know what salary level should be the di-
viding line between the exempt and
nonexempt employees. Salary levels ranging from $150 to $400 a month have been suggested, he added. . Mr. Andrews emphasized that he had not decided definitely on the advisability of the change.
Probe on French Plane Buying in U. S. Due
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (U. P)). —President Roosevelt made it clear today that the United States has no objection to the purchase of American military planes by France. Mr. Roosevelt made his statement at a press conference while two of his Cabinet officers, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and War Secretary Woodring appeared before an executive session of tHe Senate Military Affairs Committee in connection with the presence of a French military observer on a experimental plane which crashed in California Monday.
consin Legislature.
The President did not, however,
lects a plate of ham and eggs 1
‘lof the NLRA. . .. only the administration of the law
priced white-collar workers, includ-| will bel
He Will Boost Walsh Amendments. By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—On the
eve of his long-awaited battle for
revision of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, President William Green of the A. F. of L. today refused to make ‘common cause with business groups that oppose the act. 2 “The A. F. of L. will not join with employers in any move to destroy or amputate the letter or the spirit of the National Labor Relations Act,” he said in an article written for the February issue of Fortune. “If employers had been willing to
pargain collectively with their work- |:
ers there would have been no need We believe it is that is at fault.” : Two Complaints Answered At the same time Mr. Green con
curred with three of business’ most
frequent complaints against = the Labor Board: That it (1) denies
employers the right to petition for|, lelections among their employees,
(2) denies employers the right of free speech, and (3) “condones sit-
{down strikes and illegal seizure of
property by C. I. O. unions.” The A. F. of L.’s proposed amend-
- I ments, introduced this week by Sen ator Walsh (D. Mass.), would deal|:
with the first two complaints, As to the third, Mr. Green wrote: “The Board appears to have adopted the policy that if an employer is guilty of unfair labor practices, his employees are perfectly justified in breaking other laws
to coerce the employer and must be|:
reinstated with back pay after the dispute is adjusted.” He pointed out that this issue is
now before the courts (notably in |i
the Fansteel case recently argued before the Supremes Court). But neither he nor the Walsh amend ments gave any comfort to those who would prohibit coercion of worfers “from any source” (instead of only from employers).
Administration Hit
If the Wagner act had been properly administered, Mr. Green wrote, the A. P. of L. would not be seeking amendments. But the Board “has made a complete flop,” he said. “It has stretched the law beyond recognition. By the promulgation of rules, regulations and policies it has built up a monstrous superstructure of new law. . . . It has committed itself to a one-sided set of principles and beliefs. It has acquired a nationwide staff of subordinates commit-
ted to these same beliefs. “Because of these beliefs the
‘Board has deliberately sought to
build up the C. I. O. at the expense of ithe A. F. of L. It has coerced workers into joining unions not of their own choosing. It has con--doned the violation of law , ..” And SO on. Next Tuesday has been tentatively designated for a meeting of the Senate Education and Labor Committee by its-chairman, Senator Elbert Thomas (D. Utah). While Mr. Thomas would prefer to put off amendments of the act until the courts have had a further chance to interpet it, he is expected to appoint a subcommittee to conduct hearings on the amendments.
discuss that quebtion=.whellier the French Government was being permitted to purchase new-type aircraft in this country. A bar on such sales to foreign countries is normally in effect by the War Department. Committee Chairman Sheppard (D. Tex.) said today that an extensive inquiry will be made to determine the Treasury Department’s connection with the French mission. It was understood that the French propose to purchase about 600 planes in the United States. Of the total, 100 are being delivered and an- order for an additional 100 was reported Joday from Parks to have been placed.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record Speeding wees 1
D . (To Date) 4 Reckless 4
driving ....
Running preferential streets ...
City Deaths (To Date)
1939
Running red lights
5 2 0 30
Accidents . Injured ...... Dead ........ Arrests
Drunken driving ....
ave 15
Others ...
CRE RR
MEETINGS TODAY
Indiana Retail Hardware state convention, Murat Temple, all day. yp EacHange 4 Club, luncheon, Hotel Washon, ptimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
oS iianip olis Merchants’ dinner, ‘Hotel Washington, | 6: Rese ticars’ Association,
Association, 0 m. luncheon,
; Board of Trade
A Delta Theta, Tencheon. Canary Cot00 ota Tay Delta, Columbia Club, Sin Washalesmen's Club, luficheon, Hotel Washington.
fagiel Federation of Community 730°. Clu meeting, Hotel Washington,
on Federation of Clubs, meeting,
luncheon,
As luncheon, Hotel
Clay pee) Hotel. all day
MEETINGS TOMORROW Indiana State Federation of Public School Teachers, luncheon, Claypool! Hotel, noon Alliance Francaise, luncheon, Hotel Washington, n Fo lg ily Conference on Human
Welfare, meeting 1udiana World War - morial Shrine, ail day Me
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are from official records in the County Court Fguse. The Yimes, therefore, is not respotisible for errors in names of addresses.)
stn Daniel Dunn, 26. of 1414 S. t.: Virginia M Sirman. 18. of 933 Bon
tt DIU Io. ot
ons, 2 Marforie ¥ vin uriey © Bovin
of Indianapolis; Indianapolis. 519 paTiway Ave.; 1240 Wri
of ht of Pa hi Elder a:
Association, born
red C. Wh:te Jr., 22, of 237 Kansas 8t.; % Ei} Fe M. Halloran, 20, of 912 8. West S Frederick V. Ennis, of 2 Epler sh Lima Browdeus, 19, of R. R. 17, Box 237P.
BIRTHS
Boys |Clarence, Naomi Calloway, at Cit. y. Leonard, Mary Gorman, at City. (Charles. Catherine Wagner, at %t. Fran
“Harlan, Mary Kays, at Coleman. Wayne, Velma Wolcott, at Coleman. Edward. Louise Butler, at Colem aS atles. Beatrice Ford. at 1048 Ne "Bel-
mot Eliza Chapman, at 906 E. 21st. Gus, Carrie Woods, at 2612 Winthrop: - oi Tom, Flossie Releford, at 1706 S. KeyLeo, Mary Hurléy, at 404 W. Vermont. Margaret, Harold Virgin, at Methodist. Catherine, Porter Pope. at Methodist. Harriett. Paul Shargs, at Methodist. Regmald. Helen Howe. at Methodis Jban, Anna Thompson, at 328 N. Siack-
fo |¥irsit. Corine Patton, at 1220 E. 2 Horace, Marjorie Mitchell, at'448 “Sign. Victor, Gretchen Hoff, at 343 S. Dear-
Girls Richard, Lucile Glass, at 2004 E. Mich-
iga Be nneth, Mary Prather, at 717 E. 17th, | Virginia, Grada Sayers, at Methodist.
Theckla_ Boles, at Methodist.
bert, Clara Arnol . Gale. Mary Hayse, at 1227 8. Me-
an, | Clarence. Fannie Correll, at ‘215 Hanson Clyde. Opal Hammond. at 1443 Hill-
side. Earl, Mary Pumphrey. at 570 W. Morris. Thomas, Y Dorothy ‘Shaw, at 1005 W
‘Robert, Alice Payne, at 207 Leota. Reed, Garnet Wallin, at St. Francis. ry liam, Margaret Branson, at ranc {overt Martha Meyers, at Coleman.
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Twins ® arr. Pearl Danz, at 1117 Church, boy and girl,
S—— DEATHS Emm ridian, myocarditis. Bo heces Miller, 84, at Methodist, carcipert Jennings, 63, at 419 N.California,
coronary occlusion. - Catherine Quill, 78, at 4048 Ruckle, Shaw, 53, at St.
chronic cholecystitis. cerebral hemorrhage. Jennie Parr, 83, at 1610 E. Iowa, arteriosclerosis. a illiam Clarence Myers, 49, at City, carod eta Asher, 62, st City, peimor yi
ema Helen Charles, 81, at 3921 E. 31st, -ere-
Vincent's,
a A. Gillespie, 69, at 402 N. Me-~ B
Thomas Hugh McGuire, 61, at 701 N.
t. | Pershing, coronary occlusion.
Malinda Fagan, 80, at 1018 v Michigan, cerebral hemorrhage.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
By, U. 8. Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS WEATHER: not so cold tonight, with lowest Pair to tomorrow increasing cloudiness with ris-
3, Lomperature, becoming unsettled by
Sunrise....... 6:58 | Sunset....... 4:58
TEMPERATURE —Jan, 1, 27, 1938—
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m. Total . precipitation since Jan.‘1 Excess since Jan. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Fair tonight followed by increasing cloudiness tomorrow with snow or rain in north portion; not quite so cold
-| late tonight; rising temperature tomorrow.
Illinois—Increasing cloudiness tonight;
joer tomorrow mostly cloudy with snow or rain
in central and north ‘portions; rising temperature tonight and tomorrow.
Lower Michigan—Generally fair tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy. probably snow in afternoon or at night; slowly rising temperature tomorrow.
Ohio—Fair and not
uite so cold tonight; tomorrow increasing c
oudiness and much warmer followed by toln beginning tomor-
st.| row night or Sunday.
Kentucky—Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow ‘increasing cloudiness an much warmer; rain tomorrow night and Sunday.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7A. M. ti n, we her. Bar. Te Amarillo, eX oes Veber 30.22 28 Bismarck, ton
Cleveland as
Dodge City, Kas, . Helena, Mont. .
Pit
bral hemorrha | Cora Bin Wien J. 14 N. Dosis 3
Baha: h n
|Hopkins’ ‘Approach’ |
we FUND
Child Victims of Malady Can’t Take Part, but They’re Excited.
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Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt tries to comfort a 3-year-old victim of infanitle paralysis, during the First Lady’s annual Birthday Ball visit to Children’s Hospital in Washington, recently.
FDR Money Power Stirs F ight;
Wallace O. K.’s
Banking Interests Appear Préssing to Cancel Dewaluation Right.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — Continuation of President Roosevelt's powers to devalue the dollar, which expire June 30, is to become an issue again before Congress soon and will set off a fight involving monttary conservatives, Administration forces and inflationists. ‘A Senate Banking Subcommittee, headed by Senator Glass (D. Va.), will begin consideration of a bill introduced recently by Senator Wagner (D. N. Y.), Banking Committee chairman, to extend the President's devaluation powers and the stabilization fund until Jan. 15, 1941. The New York Senator presented the bill after the President, in a message to House Speaker Bankhead a few days ago, asked for continuation of his authority on the ground that “the: international monetary and economic situation is still such that it would not be safe to permit such powers to be terminated.” Banking and financial interests, it was learned today, are bringing pressure to cancel the devaluation authority. They argue that this would remove uncertainty in financial circles caused by the possibility that the dollar might be devalued further. Thomas Would Object Senator Wagner, himself, is reported to have doubts about whether the authority should be continued, though he has not made up his mind finally. His introduction of the bill was in his capacity as chairmam. The Senator’s doubt indicates that thescontroversy may become a more lively one than was anticipated, for} he has been a consistent supporter of the Administration. There has been no tinkering with the dollar since President Roosevelt, in January, 1934, issued a proclamation creating a 59-cent dollar. Under the powers conferred upgn him in the Thomas amendment to the 1933 Farm Act, the President still could cut the gold content of
2 the. dollar to provide a 50-cent dol-
lar. Repeated rumors from time to time that the Administration contemplated reduction to the figure fixed by the law have been denied, but Hoosier-born Senator Elmer Thomas (D. Okla), inflationist leader and a moving ‘spirit in the early Congressional fight for the extraordinary Presidential powers, still is clamoring. for a further cut to the limit. There appears to be no mavement to close down the Stabilization Fund, with which the Treasury operates in international exchange, to protect the position of the d in relation to other currencies.
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Businessmen Back i
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (U. L). —The Business Advisory Council— a group of industrialists or by the Commerce Department—decided today to continue its work “with enthusiasm” under the leadership of new Commerce Sesretary Hopkins. ; Mr. Hopkins met 50 men be S the Oouncil, cre ted by ol
Budget Changes
New Accounting System Would Shrink U. S. Debt Figures.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (U. P)). —Agriculture Secretary Wallace, who insisted early in the New Deal upon vigorous plans for eventual ‘budget balance, was on record today in behalf of a new system of Federal accounting’ to shrink the national debt. Secretary Wallace’s proposals, published in book form under the title “Paths to. Plenty” by the National Home Library Foundation, are likely to attract considerable attention. He is the first Cabinet officer formally to indorse the new accounting system suggested by President Roosevelt in his budget message this month. Congress was cool to the suggestion. Secretary Wallace's book also is notable because he is among the 100 per cent New Dealers who might be put forward in 1940 to succeed Mr. Roosevelt, assuming that there is to be no third term candidacy.
HOOSIER PRESS ASSN,
AGAINST CARRIER BAN|
Notifies State Labor Division Of Its Stand.
8 — . The Hoosier State Press Association will oppose application of state child labor bans to newspaper carrier boys, Wray E. Fleming, President of the Association, notified the State Labor Division today.
He also announced that the Association would support The Indianapolis News in its suit for a declaratory judgment and injunction to prevent proposed application of such State legislation to that newspaper, Mr. Fleming's announcement in the Association’s organ, “The Indiana Publisher,” follows in part: “While there is no disposition on the part of the Hoosier State Press Association to. advise its members, or nonmembers, to violate’ any law or laws, it will be the policy of this organization to oppose to the very end all unreasonable and capricious rules, regulations and . legislation tending to interfere with the normal
| processes of [Personal fights and
privileges. “That is our answer given this day to notice received from the director of the Bureau of Women and Children of the Division of Labor for the State of Indiana, which demands that the Hoosier State Press Association co-operate with the campaign that seeks to void ‘little marche contracts for news carers. “Our advice to the newspapers of Indiana, decided upon by the board of directors of the state press association, is to ignore this movement instituted by the director of the bureau and to rest our case with the public, with the parents of boys who are earning a few dollars a
attack. He has left the hospital since, but he wears a brace. Children who contract the disease are ftreated, and then sent home, often still are patients and
Bus. Mrs. Kahmann says, there has grown up among Indiana victims treated in Indianapolis -a def-
{inite camaraderie. Although none in
the hospital now was there when the President visited it, all of them have heard, time and again, of the event from those who were. The significance of the dances, to be held Monday night, is thus greatly heightened for those 30 bed-rid-
‘den patients, because they know
that the dances are in honor of the President’s birthday, and for the benefit of all who may ever be stricken.
Card Parties Also Planned
scores of persons in the City have been giving their time to commit-
[tees and arrangements for the nine
dances so that the proceeds can be used for treatment and research. There are card parties planned, too, the proceeds of which will go to the Nationwide fund. The dances are to be at the Marott Hotel, the Naval Armory, Antlers Hotel, Athenaeum, Murat Temple, South Side Turners’ Hall, Indianapolis Saengerbund Hall, Syrian-American Lebanon Brother‘hood, anc. Walkers’ Casino.
LAD Corpses Lie Unburied ‘a8 Chile Quake Toll Is Puta 30,000 Dead,
Tet return periodically for sur-
And so it is that for weeks, now, |
50,000 H:
SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 27 (U. P.).—The toll of the most dis earthquake of the century on this continent, mounted rapidly ‘haggard workmen repaired communication lines to south central Appalling conditions were revealed in the six stricken states em ing an area of 40,000 square miles with a population of 1,600,000,
the earihquake struck early Tuesday. In the constantly changng fiugre,&—
a partial United Press compilation showed the following major centers of death: Chellan, 10,000; Concepcion, 2000; Cauqueries, 2500; San Rosando, 1000; Penco, 00. Scores of other places reported 10, 20 or more dead. Many more hgve not been heard from. The injured number tens of thousands and the homeless hundreds of thousands. The damage may well reach $0,000,000. German,’ French, American and Argentine planes were arriving frequently to aid the exhausted Chilean pilots making trips from dawn to dark in bombers. The water problem was acute. .In the shattered ruins of cities; hundrecis . of corpses lay unburied.
Survivors Fight Threat of
|Disease Outbreak
CONCEPCION, Chile (By Radio to Santiago), Jan. 27 (U. P..— Campec¢ in the open, surrounded by fires, ruins and the stench of death,
survivors of Tuesday's earthquake struggled to establish order today and ward off an increasingly grave danger »f epidemic.
There were at least 2000 unburied |
dead and countless injured demanding attention. A typical impression was that of Dr. Salvador Allende, Socialist deputy, who visited Chillan. “When I arrived in the city,” he said, *“’' saw a sight worthy of
Dante's ‘Inferno.’ The sight is indelibly engraved on my heart I will never forget it. “Silent, depressed, lifeless fi stood dully. . . Corpses strewn on every hand. . . . throat choked and I was unable”
speak.”
Two Americans Are Reported Killed
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (U, —Norman Armour, U. S. dor to Chile, reported to the 8 Department today that two Amy
icans were killed and four o injured, one perhaps fatally, in Chilean earthquake. 3 The victims were members . the Samily of Courtland, Swet. gi:
SUGGESTS NEW SQUA | TO PATROL TROL TAVERHS
Police Chief Morrissey sugge
‘today that a new liquor ‘squad
have to be created to police erns for violations of the Stat
liquor laws. Effective Feh. 1, the State Ej Department will withdraw all two officers from Marion Coun a result of a retrenchment prog announced yesterday in which 2 officers were given indefinite leaves of absence.
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