Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1939 — Page 1

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1939

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$1,411,459 BOOST FOR STATE'S NEW BUDGET IS SOUGHT

State . College Fund Would Be Raised $1,180,000.

SLASH WELFARE

New Tuberculosis fo Cause of Major Boost.

The biennial appropriations bill being prepared by the State Budget Committee for introduction in the Legislature now calls for an increase of $1,411,459 to operate penal, benevolent and correctional institutions and State colleges and universities, it was announced today. Appropriations for all institu-

tions, including State colleges and |:

universities, have been fixed by the committee” at $21,452,550 for the next biennium as compared with

$20,041,091 adopted - by the 19374

. Legislature. Meanwhile, Budget Committee members are completing work ‘on the budget for other State departments ‘and the Welfare department. Committee members reportedly are slicing 10 per cent from operating expenses of other State departments, and hope to keep the total budget within $2,000,000 of the amount appropriated in 1937. The complete budget bill, expected to amount to about $82,000,000, probably will be introduced late this week. By making a 10 per cent slash in operating expenses other than salaries and building materials for the State’s hospitals, homes, correctional schools and penal units, the Committee reduced the State Welfare Department’s original request from $12,741,388.30 to $10,781,550, a net increase of $231,458.70 over the amount appropriated for the 1937-38 biennium. "The appropriations for State colleges and universities would total $10,671,000, an increase of $1,180,000

over the amount, set aside for the

‘turrent biénnium, New Hospital Takes $182,800

Operation of the new Southern|

Indiana Tuberculosis Hospital established by the special session accounts for most of the net increase of $231,458.70 in the appropriations for penal, benevolent and correctional institutions, committee mempers explained. The total set aside for this institution for the next two years was $182,800. Five other institutions other than

State colleges and universities were | given increased appropriations. |-

They are: Indiana Girls’ School, ' Clermont, increased $2450; Logansport State Hospital, increased $110,000; Richmond State Hospital, increased $21,700; Muscatatuck Colony for: Feeble Minded, increased $187,600, and the State School for Ddaf, Indianapolis, increased $1452.49, Large decreases totaling $274,543.79 were made for 15 other institutions. These range from $4550 for the Women’s Prison at Indianapolis to $50,000 for the Madison State Hospital. Other large decreases over current appropriations were made in the budgets of the State Prison at Michigan City, which was reduced $26,955.57; the Boys’ School at Plainfield, reduced $22,057; the Evansville State Hospital, reduced $24,000; State Penal Farm at Putnamville, reduced $20,458.34, and the Indiana Reformatory at Pendleton, reduced $37,000. The Special Session’s building program, for which the State appropriated $5,329,750 to match PWA ~grants, and the institutional construction approved by the 1937 Legislature was responsible for the increased costs at six of the penal, benevolent and correctional institutions, committee members said.

More Enrolled in Colleges

Transformation of the Muscatatuck Coloney to a major institution accounts for the increase there while the building program at Logansport State Hospital is to re(Continued on Page Five)

MINTON IN HOSPITAL ‘WITH INFLUENZA

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Senator Minton is confined to Naval Hospital here today with an attack of influenza. Returning yesterday afternoon from his home in New Albany, where he had gone for the funeral of his father, the Senator went to the hospital at once. He likely will spend the remainder of the week there, his office reported.

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LEGISLATURE TODAY |

HOUSE | Receives substitute bill putting the “Two Per Cent Club” | under the Corrupt Practices | Act and recommits the original bill to the Judiciary “A” Committee. Debates on third reading the House G. O. P. bills which would nullify 'the Reorganization Act. Ways and Means Committee returns favorable report on a bill to reduce the retailers’ gross income tax rate from 1 per cent to one half of 1 per cent and to lower the exemption from $3000 to $1000. Advances to second reading a House bill to enable Indianapolis to purchase any. privately owned utility.

SENATE

Passed its bill regulating the manufacture, sale and use of fireworks. (Page Two). Receives House bill providing syphilis tests for expectant mothers. Passed its bill establishing 10-year statvie of limitations on collection of delinquent gross income taxes.

Prepares to receive report of Elections Committee on a Senate bill to extend the direct primary. State Budget Committee members recommend 10 per cent slash in salary and supervisory: expenses of State Highway Commission. 8 8.8

‘TWO PER GENT’ BILL IS HALTED

G. 0. P. Delays Measure by Bare Majority, Offers -New One.

BULLETINS The House Judiciary B Committee this afternoon voted unanimously to recom-

mend for passage the Administration’s declaratory

marriage bill. The bill would require that physical examinations, including a test for syphilis, be taken not more than 30 days before application for a marriage license,

Governor Townsend has announced that he will give the Senate Textbook Investigating Committee “a constructive program for future textbook adoptions,” at a meeting he called for 9 a. m. tomorrow, Senator O. Bruce Lane (R. Bainbridge), Committee chairman, said this afternoon.

(Other Stories, Page Two)

The Republican House majority was forced to call on the deciding vote of Speaker James Knapp today to rescue its bill to place the “Two Per Cent Club” under jurisSiction of the Corrupt Practices ct.

The measure was made a special order of business on third reading when the Democratic minority yesterday afternoon had charged that it repealed the “heart” of the Corrupt Practices. Act. After they were successful in having the bill recommitted to Judiciary “A” Committee on a 50 to 49 vote with the Speaker participating, the Republicans introduced a substitute bill which they claim would avoid the objectionable features of the original. Meanwhile, House committees recommended for passage bills to halve the retailers’ gross income tax rate and re-enact the Milk Control Law and the Senate passed and sent to the House a bill to regulate the manufacture and sale of fireworks. The House bill to provide a new method of distributing State-col-lected motor vehicle and gasoline tax funds to local governmental units was advanced to third Teadine in the lower chamber. The . House Agricultural Com. mittee voted to return a favor(Continued on Page Five)

SERIOUS FLOOD THREAT CUT BY

Red Cross Prepares to Aid 30,000 Driven From Their Homes.

Crest of Six Feet Above Overflow Stage Due At Louisville.

TEMPERATURES 31 11 a. m.... 30 12 (noon). 30 1p m.... 30 2p mm... 32

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The Ohio River was rising steadily

| here today toward an expected crest

of six feet above flood stage but

leviated fears of a disastrous flood. River stages*were falling or stationary in the northern part of the

mouth, O., and indications were that the river would be near normal above Louisville by the end of the week. The Red Cross prepared to aid an estimated 30,000 persons who have been driven from their homes along the Ohio and ifs tributaries in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana and in’ the Tennessee valley in southern Kentucky and western Tennessee.

said the river was rising here early today at the rate of .1 of a foot an hour. It already had reached 31 feet—three feet above flood stage— and was expected to reach a crest of 34 feet tomorrow. At Cincinnati the river was 5.8 feet over the flood stage of 52 feet and weather men expected it to reach a crest of 58 feet some time today. A summary of ations in com=munities most seriously affected: NEWPORT, KY. — Red Cross moves 215 families from waterfront Breas} sets up emergency food sta-

tio MIDDLESBORO, KY.—150 persons driven from ‘homes on Cumberland River; public health nurses arrive Atom Louisville to aid refu-)

PAINTSVILLE, KY. —Water 8ystem disrupted byyfif waters: of Licking River. S

ties, Kentucky.—Between 400 -and 500 persons reported homeless; shipment of emergency rations sent from Lexington to Jackson for distribution to isolated communities in Breathitt County. HUNTINGTON, W. VA.—Three hundred and fifty families homeless; water recedes and city officials mobilize forces to clear debris. NEVILLE, MOSCOW and NEW RICHMOND, Clermont County, O. —WPA workers aid 200 families in evacuating homes. EVANSVILLE—River stage 40 feet, 5 feet over flood stage; crest of 44 feet expected; flood waters inundate lowlands areas and several families in outlying sections prepare to evacuate homes. AURORA, Ind.—Fifty families prepare to evacuate homes as Ohio reaches stage of 53 feet; crest of 59 feet expected; Big Four railroad places loaded coal cars on bridge at the mouth of Hogan creek to weight it against flood waters. NEW SHAWNEETOWN, Ill.— Barracks built for workmen and residents while their homes are being moved to new Shawneetown from Old Shawneetown—one of communities devastated by 1937 fiood—made ready for occupancy in case old village flooded again. - LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—U. 8S. Army engineers distribute 30,000 empty sandbags and hundreds of picks and shovels at strategic points along Arkansas rivers where overflows threaten. :

No Rain, Much Colder Forecast Here

0 more rain, and much colder weather by tomorrow night were (Continued on Page Five)

VAUGHAN UNDERGOES SECOND OPERATION

EVANSVILLE, Féb. 7 (U. P.)~— Robert (Pete) Vaughan, athletic director at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, underwent an emergency operation here today for a stomach disorder. Vaughan appeared recovered from an operation several weeks ago. The trip was o be a rest period for him.

Symphony May Present Summer Concert Series

By JAMES THRASHER The possibility of a summer concert series by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in the Butler Bowl was made known today by Louis

| Schwitzer, summer-concert commit-

tee chairman. The proposed series would begin in June, and would include several evening concerts eacn week. Complete arrangements must be made,

however, Mr. Schwitzer said, before|

the concerts can be ahnounced as an accomplished fact. “The orchestra’s winter season of popular-priced Sunday afternoon concerts has appreciably widened

6|the public which avails itself of fine

music,” he said. “Summer concerts such as we have in mind put fine

Fabien Sevitzky, the orchestra’s conductor, said that if the plans go through he would direct the majority of concerts in the four to sixweeks season. “We are ready to serve the local and State public during the summer, and we welcome the chance to play to larger audiences than we have at the Murat Theater,” Mr. Sevitzky said. “There would be one symphonic program each week, and two of lighter music. We also plan to produce at least one opera.” The concerts, in Mr. Sevitzky’s opinion, would be a valuable civic “added attraction” for the large number of tourists expected to pass shrough the city. next . to

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COLD FORECAST

OHIO STEADILY RISING]

LOUISVILLE, Feb. 7 (U. P)—|@& forecasts of a severe cold wave al-

valley from Pittsburgh to Ports-|§

Meteorologist James L. Kendall

BREATHITT and CORBIN Coun- 3

Times ‘Photos. ‘William - €.. (Wild’ Bill)] Cummings (below): was injured critically last night when he lost control of his car while driving home on Road 29. The car plunged over an embankment (upper) into Bean Creek near Emerson Ave. Mr, Cummings was thrown from the car into the creek, but was rescued, unconscious, by passersby. _ The car was 5: badly wrecked . (center).

BUTLER FOUNDER'S MEMORY HONORED

School’s 89-Year History Is Traced by Van Duyn.

(Photos, Pages Two and Six)

In .cap and gown ceremonies at the Fieldhouse today, Butler University officers, faculty and “students honored the memory of Ovid Butler, founder of the school. It was the 89th annual ceremony. Begun with an academic processional and>climaxed with an address by Grover Van Duyn, State Superintendent of Schools and a Butler graduate, who traced the school’s history and lauded its founder, the program was witnessed by about 1000 persons. As Mr. Van Duyn closed his-ad-dress, an honorary doctor of law. degree was awarded to President Herman B Wells of Indiana University: who is to speak. at the annual dinner at 6:30 tonight in the Claypool Hotel. The ‘Butler band played during the black-robed : processional. Mr. Van Duyn, Dr. Wells, the Rev. Ralph Holland, Carrollton Avenue Reformed Church pastor; the Rev. Virgil Ragan, Fairview Presbyterian Church pastor; Dr. M.'O. Ross, Butler Business Administration School dean; Butler President James W. Putnam; Hiiton U. Brown, Board of Trustees president; Emsley W. Johnson, Board vice president, and J. W. Atherton, were on the platform.

Quotes Original Charter

Mr. van Duyn said that when Mr. Butler founded the school, oneseventh of' the population wss illiterate, and only one sixth of the school-age children attended any school. Indiana had established its free school system o three years earlier. ' The purpose of the school, he said, could not be better expressed than by Mr. Butler in the original charter granted him for the school, which he quoted as follows: “To establish, found, maintain, and perpetuate an institution of learning of the highest class, for the education of the youth of all parts|" of the United States, and especially of the states of the Northwest; to establish in said institution departments or colleges for the instruction of students in every branch of liberal and professional education; educate and prepare suitable teachers for the common schools of the|cr country; to teach and inculcate faith and

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HURTLED FROM CAR INTO CREEK

| |Operation Eases Concus-

sion, but Crisis to Exist 24 - Hours, Wife Is Told.

+ Surgeons this afternoon reported

‘|they had successfully pperated on

William ©. (Wild Bill)’ Cummings,

* |race driver, to relieve a brain con-

cussion ‘he Boceived in an auto ac-

Still unconscious, the 32-year-old sportsman was described by" Methodist Hospital physicians as in a critical condition. His condition grew worse during the night. and resulted in the decision to operate. Mr. Cummings was injured when his car plunged down a 20-foot embankment into Bean Creek at Road 29 just east of Emerson Ave.

Has Brain Concussion

Mr. Cummings, who won the 1934 Memorial Day Race here and who never has been seriously injured in Speedway competition, was on his way home, R. R. 9, Box 417, near Five Points, when the accident occured. Deputy sheriffs said that had it not been. for the presence of three men who heard but did not see the crash, Mr. Cummings might have drowned. He was found, they said, face down in one foot of water and unconscious, Dr, E. V. Hahn said examinations of Mr. Cummings have revealed no

_{other- serious injury than the brain

concussion. “Deputy Sheriffs Hubert Stevens and Richard ‘Stewart said skid marks on the pavement indicate that the Cummings car, which he alone occupied, swerved onto the soft shoulder of the highway about 100 feet northwest of the bridge over the creek. It then crashed through the guard rail, destroying the entire 30 feet of it, leaped high enough into the air to .clear some small trees, and came to rest right side up in tne soft mud of the bank, front lights still burning, the deputies said. The top was crushed in. William Franks, 19, R. R. 5, ‘Box (Continued on Page Two) :

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9 as rou ‘at “the Sie or. Se operation was 105, they said.

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FOREIGN SITUATION

LONDON—British .and French Minorca surrender. tepney electric » works ex= plodes and burns. PERPIGNAN — Rebels renew drive to French frontier. "ST. JULIEN, France—"Spain wants peace,” Azana says. ROME—Gayda lays four condiions for Jaly’s Withdrawal ” ARIE Danie as confidence vote on labor policy. ; ® 8 =» TOKYO-—Japan does not -ear Guam fortification, Diet told.

(Photos and My Diary, Page Nine)

LONDON, Feb. 7 (U. P.). — The Spanish Loyalist Government defied Generalissimo Franco's demand for unconditional surrender tonight and lannounced it would move to Va-

‘{lencia to continue the civil war in

Central Spain. . Although Catalonia has been definitely lost, the Spanish Embassy in London issued a statement saying Premier Juan Negrin and his generals would fly to Valencia and continue resistance with the 300,000 troops in Central Spain led by Gen. Jose Miaja, defender of Madrid. The embassy statement coincided with reports through diplomatic

|channels that Dr. Negrin and For-

eign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo had resisted all efforts of the British and French to induce them to cease the struggle,

Minorca Fears

It had been reported that the British and French had sought to persuade the Loyalists to surrender their great base on the island of Minorca to Spanish troops of Gen. Franco to prevent its possible occupation by Italian troops from Majorca. Meanwhile Ce Soir in Paris reported that 50,000 persons on Minorca are threatened with famine. Rebel submarines were reported to have arrived at the Alcudia naval base on Majorca, preparatory to attacking Minorca, powerfully defended by. the long range. naval guns of Port: Mahuo, At home a flurry of activity British police followed an

Borough Council elec Plant officials anno

tricity ‘works. ced that the rkened a quar‘not ‘a bombing or, a despite a recent series of bombing outrages attributed to the outlawed Irish Republican Army which seeks union

It was officially announced at (Continued ort Page Three)

COLD FORCES POPE TO END AUDIENCES

Condition Is Not Serious, Report. Emphasizes.

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 7 (U. P). —His Holiness, Pope Pius XI has temporarily suspended all audiences, it was announced today The Vatican Secre a of the State said he suffered a slight coid. A high Vatican source told the United Press that he also had had an attack of cardiac asthngi! yesterday and that a physician, hastily called, had administered a digitalis injection. A Vatican informant divulged that a slight fever which the Pope had yesterday had abated today and he hoped to be able to resume his routine tomorrow or Thursday. It was emphasized that the Pope’s condition was not serious. It was added that he was more amenable to his physician’s suggestions because he hoped his throat might be in condition for a speech Saturday when he is to receive the Italian Episcopate in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the

between Northern Ireland and Eire. |

.D.R. WARNS OF EMERGENCY"

IN U.S.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

ROOSEVELT urges reconsideration on WPA grant.

MONOPOLY. probers hear of largest insurance; company. NEW DEALERS worried by Roberts defeat. ; AMLIE article in 1933 revived.

LA GUARDIA asks overhaul. of tax system. HOUSE gets proposal for 3000 new Army planes. ‘DIARIES’ may reveal secret HALLECK named as lieutenant whip.

FRANF'URTER supervises U. S. courts in Indiana.

INDIANA aged allocated tive ~ million for next year.

INSURANCE FIRM HEAD TESTIFIES

Tells [flonopoly Probers of 100 Million Dollar Investments.

WASEINGTON, Feb. 7 (U. PJ). —Frederick H. Ecker, head of the $4,720,000,000 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., told the temporary national economic committee today that Metropolitan has paid its policy holders 100 million dollars annually i1 dividends for the last 10 years. Mr. E:ker said Metropolitan also invested 700 million dollars annually, This total included some reinvestinents. He roported © that Metropolitan has between 28 and 29 million policyholders, or one out of five persons in the nation.

The Committee i studying ecoinsurance.

nomie 1 ed by companies through investments and the methods employed to preserve the mut ality of mutual companies, which control approximately 90 per cent of the assets of insurance companies. Agrees With Douglas

“Mutuality is no guarantee of wise, priident management,” Chairman William O. Douglas of the Securities and Exchange Commission suggested. “I agr:e with that,” Mr. Ecker re-

plied, ac/ding that Metropolitan was,

Mutualited in January, 1915, for from that the stock might constitute a “menace” if it fell into “unscrupulous” hands. “Were it not for the fact that interests of all policyholders are protected at all times by the mandatory state laws and the discretionary powers of insurance commissioners, as well gs the constant study of the internal affairs of each company by state insurance examiners, the mutualization never would have been consummated,” he said.

SEC Lays Basis

Mr. Douglas said that the manner by which insurance company managements come into power is “of greaf; significance.” He pointed the inquiry toward a determination of the extent “to which the demo(Continued on Page Three)

STOCKS TURN DOWN

((yuotations, Page 17)

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (U. P)— Losses extended to more than a point in many sections of the stock list today as prices turned lower after early irtepuistiiy. U. S. Steel was off 11%, U. S. Rubber was down 1%, and Chrysler was 1% points

signing of the Lateran Treaty with Italy. :

lower.

Sentiment Still Against Third Term For Roosevelt, National Poll Shows

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP American Institute of Public Opinion

NEW YORK, Feb, 7.—The third-|

term barometer of the American Institute of Public Opinion continues to show a large ,majority of American voters opposed to a third term for President Roosevelt, as Senator Rush Holt (D. W. Va.) and other Administration foes seek a Senate resolution against another term for the President.

Although the survey obviously]

does not indicate how President Roosevelt would fare against an actual opponent in a third-term

race, it does reveal that less than|

one voter in three favors such a race at this time. The vote is: “Do you favor a third term for President Roosevelt?” 3 "YES reesei 1% NO eve . ee : 69% On the ‘basis of the 1936 election, this represents app: tely 21,000,000 votes against a third term to 13,500,000 in favor, The Institute|has survey i a a, vuretully 3 the voting p

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Urges Congressmen To Reconsider WPA Cut.

SENDS MESSAGE

Immediate Action Is Askéd to Allow Planning.

(Text, Page 18) WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (U. P.)~ President Roosevelt today - warned Congress that an unemployment rélief “emergency exists” and recome mended immediate consideration of an appropriation of 150 million dollars more for the WPA. “In my opinion an emergency now exists,” the President. said in a special message asking that Congress reconsider its decision of last month to reduce his deficiency WPA relief appropriation by 150 million dollars. He protested “in human d any winter reduction of WPA i 4 and said that from six to eight million persons might be deprived of Federal aid in the spring under the economy relief plan approved last month by Congress.

Decides Against Cut

His estimate of the number ¢f persons likely to be deprived of aid if Congress persisted in refusing a ditional funds was based on a ratio of three dependents for each WPA employee. The President announced that relief rolls would be maintained at three million persons during Febru= ary and March regardless of economy proposals and called on Congress for funds to permit that rate of employment without unduly re=ducing the Jolls. later in the fiscal

emergency 1. WPA rolls should beheld to the present three million persons through February and March, = 2. The 725-million-dollar fund provided by Congress, if nct supplémented, would require drastic reductions of WPA rolls after April 1, with widespread want or distress.

Signs Bill

The message announced that Mr. Roosevelt had signed the reduced 725-million-dollar appropriation last Saturday but that he would refused to sign it except for|its pro vision that WPA rolls should not be reduced more than 5 per cent before April 1. ~ He contended that the 5 per cent limitation suggested that Congress was ready during February and March to “reconsider actual needs in time to increase before April 1 the appropriation for the last three months of the fiscal year” ending June 30. Alternatives : Cited

He said WPA had two alternatives under the existing appropriation: 1. Reduce rolls abruptly by one million persons April 1 and provide. employment for an average of two million during April, May and June, 2. Commence = week-by-week reductions April 1 and carry through on that schedule until June 30. ; Regarding the first, he said’ that “on the average every person discharged from the rolls has dependent on him or her three other persons—in other words the greater part of four million -Americans will be stranded.” He said the second = alternative would “require that employment hy the end of June will be reduced to a figure well below 1,500,000 per< sons.”

Asks Reconsideration

“In other words,” he continued, “the program of present employ= ment would be slashed considerably more than one-half within a period of three months. “If, however, proper reserves were maintained at the end of the fiscal year, employment at .the end of June would drop still further to:a figure of only slightly more than a on a

million persons. “Therefore, program of gradual reduction, from 1,500,000 ‘two million persons would be thrown out of Works Progress Administra= tion employment—or, with the ad= dition of those dependent on them, from six million to eight million Americans would no longer rece} Federal aid, >

mence immediate consideration g

{these simple and alarming facts.”

WOMAN AND CHILD ~ SLAIN, YOUTH HE

"EASTON, Pa., Feb. 7 w P.

| Howard Romig, 22, Jobless g

WPA worker, today fess& the killing of kirk, 24, an expectant mo her 15-month-old daughter fe ol by Windgap. : Northampton County quoted Romig as killed the young voman, he had been.

months, and Ro a third rel.