Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1939 — Page 2

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Committee Studies Probe Of Relief Situation in Lake County.

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ne the power of the Legislature through issuance of rules which have the effect of law.

tavern keepers are threatened with loss of their license by beer and liquor salesmen unless they buy particular brands of alcoholic beverages. His proposed bill would

sions. Senator Jacob Weiss (D. Indianapolis) said he was preparing a measure designed to protect tavern keepers from intimidation by beer or liquor salesmen. ~ Pending on second reading in the House is the measure to en‘able the Indianapolis Civil ‘City. to purchase the ‘Indianapolis Water Co. or any other privately owned utility.

«Transport Hearing Set

Interest was to shift tonight to the public hearing in the Senate chamber before Senate Judiciary “B” Committee on the bill which would make interference with the transportation of any commodity on . the streets or highways a felony. reportedly supporting this Senate measure, while miany spokesmén for organized labor said it would hamper the workers’ right to strike. While Democratic Senators planned to confer with the Governor or plans for steering the biennial appropriations bill, the bill to abolish the beer importer system and the measure to re-establish the State-wide primary through both houses, Republican representatives threatened to delay final action on the budget measure until the Democratic majority in the Senate agreed to approve several G. O. P. platform measures.

Weiss Presents Measure

The minimum. wage bill was introduced by Senator Jacob Weiss D. Indianapolis) and would establish a 25 cents.an hour minimum. However it does Hot set any maximum : on hours. : Senator Eugene Payton (D. South Bend), coauthor of the bill, told the Senate that “this bill would give the laboring man the minimum wage to . which any fair-minded man will agree that he lis entitled.” It would prohibit discrimination against women employees and does not affect farm and domestic workers. : The Senate resolution asking an investigation of the distribution of relief in Lake -County, up on special order of business today was referred to: the Senate Committee on the Affairs of Lake County, on the motion of Senator Weiss. Senator Post, explaining the need for the resolution charged that “findings of the Governor's commission indicate that 62 per cent of those on relief in Lake County had no real reason to be on-relief and’ those justified got twice too . much.” “More than $13,000,000 was spent in a year for all relief in Lake County. The total collected in taxes was $12,000,000, he said. “If our local authorities won't clean up ‘the: rottenest condition in the United States then we want the State to help us.”

Prepare Fee Bill

Bills to curb the amount of fees received by county officials now are being prepared by legislators, it was reported. One proposed measure would require county officials to turn over all fees collected to the county treasury. In some large counties the fees collected and pocketed by these. officials - under present statutes amount to more than the regular salaries for these cffices. © | i Undér Senator Phillips’ bill to limit the rule making power of State board and commissions, a legislative committee composed of one Republican and one Democratic member of each house and a fifth mamber named by the Governor would approve these rules and regulations at meetings to be held at six-month intervals. = - Following approval, these - rules would be. compiled, printed and: distributed over the State in the same manner : as legislative acts. ' At present, he said, State boards have

DELAY. INDICATED IN BENNY’S TRIAL

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (U. P.).— Federal authorities indicated today’ that the smuggling trial of Comedian: Jack Benny, on the calendar for tomorrow, would be postponed a week or 10 ddys to enable him to complete a motion picture. . The:;postponement would make it unnecessary for the highly’ paid radio and screen star to make. a courf appearance on St. Valentine's Day—which will, incidentally, be his 45th “birthday anniversary. ’ It was said that if Benny were forced to come East now, the company making the motion picture and hundreds of actors and studio employees would be the losers.

~ SCADS OF OYSTERS AND NOT ONE PEARL

STRATFORD, Conn., Feb. 13 (U. P.) —Capt. William H. Rowland has handled millions of oysters in his 53 years as skipper of an oyster dredge,

but never once has he found a pearl. “I've come to the belief,” he said, ~ “that there’s not much truth in ‘the story that you find pearls in ' oysters—or, maybe I'm unlucky.”

FORMER MAYOR DIES

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LOGANSPORT, Feb. 13.—Frank Guthrie, former Logansport mayor, died at his home here today. : Guthrie, who was 74, had been ill week, : ; 3 1 ‘ADMIRAL EARLE DEAD

. WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 13 (U. P.) —Rear Admiral Ralph Earle, U. N., retired, president of Worcest-

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provide that a dealer using threats of this sort would have his salesman’s license revoked. The measure also would limit credit to retailers to seven days on one bill of goods. Two Senate labor bills, one increasing the benefits under the Workman’s Compensation Act and the other establishing a 25-cent hourly minimum wage were scheduled for third reading in that chamber. Public Policy Committees of both chambers were expected to rush consideration and report out favorably the two identical Administration bills calling for the abolition of the importer system.

Fear Partisan Disputes

Both bills were introduced by Democrats because of the fear that, partisan disputes over the reforms; in the other Senate and House! liquor measures would reach a deadlock. ; Both parties are committed in platform pledges to the abolition of the importer system. The Water Co. bill has received favorable report from the House Affairs of the City of Indianapolis Committee. The measures would regulate the possible purchase by the City of the Water Co. Six City councilmen have been reported in favor of the purchase. The labor measure concerning interference with trucks would be an extension of the 1933 law which prohibits the interference with the delivery of farm and dairy products, its drafters declare. The bill, which is reported to be backed by employer groups, was introduced by eight senators headed by Senator William Hardy (D. Evansville). Both business and labor have issued calls for representatives at the hearing and one of the bitterest debates of the session is expected tonight.

GROUP HEALTH PLAN OF GANADA PRAISED

Doctor says Needy Aided Without ‘Politics.’

CHICAGO, Feb. 13 (U. P)—Dr. Thomas C. Routley, Toronto, told the American Medical Association

today that Canadian physicians had demonstrated they could provide group medical services for needy persons “without any political, governmental or: sociological interference. - : : Dr. Routley, general secretary of the Canadian Medical Association, addressed the 35th annual Congress on Medical Education and Licensure sponsored by the A. M. A. Council of Medical Education and Hospitals. He outlined plans tried in Canada and listed the principles adopted by the Canadian association governing its attitude toward group health proposals. He said ‘the set ‘of principles called for the organized medical profession to be responsible for the professional side of any heaith insurance medical service and asked free choice of physician for the patient. The Canadian association proposed payment of premiums by the Government for needy persons and believes insurance should be compulsory for persons with an income considered insufficient to assure adequate medical service, Dr. Routley said.

FRANKFORT: GRAIN MERCHANT BURIED

FRANKFORT, Feb. 13.—Services for Charles A. Stevenson, local grain elevator operator, were to be held at 2 p. m. today in the Powell Memorial Chapel. - Mr. Stevenson died at his home here Saturday from pneumonia which followed a case of measles. He was 68. Mr. Stevenson had been a resident of Frankfort since 1913. He was a graduate of Central Normal College and taught school in Boone County for 13 years. Survivors include his wife, Viola; a son, Kenyon Stevenson of Ohio; two daughters, Mrs. Hazel Ackerman and Mrs. Fayette Carr, and two brothers, Albert of Boone County and Emmett of Indianapolis.

RAISE NEW AUGUSTA - POSTOFFICE RATING

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb, 13.—New Augusta has been raised from a fourth to third-class postoffice, which resulted in Presidential appointment of Postmistress Ruth A. Shaw, whose name was sent to the Senate today by the White House. Other reappointments in Indiana sent up for confirmation were those of Blanche L. Anglin, Leesburg, and Peter Holzer, Osgood.

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Among the thousands of Spanish refugees fleeing | ships, they eat a hurried snack. With only old tin across the border into France from Loyalist Spain, was this pathetic group—a family | Another child and the mother: await their turn at

the younger children are fed first.

NAZIS PROPOSE REFUGEE PLAN

Rublee Resigns Post After Goering’s Terms Are Presented.

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States, who is secretary of the committee, was expected to be appointed assistant director. The United States was understood to have originated the plan to make Mr. Emerson director in the hope that it would ‘insure more active British co-operation. In Commons, Prime Minister Chamberlain answered a - Labor question on whether Great Britain would recognize Generalissimo Franco’s regime in Spain by saying the Government had not yet decided. An He denied that the Government had any part in the negotiations for the surrender of Minorca except to provide for the ' transportation of the Rebel agent from Majorca to Minorca on a British cruiser.

JAPAN SAYS HAINAN WILL NOT BE KEPT

Occupation Is Temporary, French Envoy Told.

TOKYO, Feb. 13 (U. P.).—Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita has assured French Ambassador Arsene

Henry that Japan has no territorial designs on Hainan Island, off the South China Coast, and intends to occupy it only so long as is militarily necessary, the Foreign Office said today.

Jap Northwest China

Campaign Expected

SHANGHAI, Feb. 13 (U. P.)— Japanese troop movements in Northwest China were reported today and it was believed that the long-delayed campaign against Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s Northwest Defense Area may be beginning. Japanese airplanes from an undisclosed air base shot down 18 Chinese planes and destroyed 20 grounded planes at Lanchow, the Domei (Japanese) News Agency reported today.

Philippines Periled, Newspaper Says

MANILA, P. I, Feb. 13 (U. PJ). —The Philippines Herald said in an editorial today that Japanese occupation. of Hainan Island threatened the security of both French Indo-China and the Philippines.

P.)—Twenty persons were killed, 200 injured and 600 arrested at Cawnpore during the week-end as the result of rioting between Moslems and Hindus, dispatches said today.

FOUR PAIRS OF PANTS MEAN PRISON TERM

BUFFALO, N. Y,, Feb. 13 (U. P.). —Fred Williams, 23, of Philadelphia, who walked out of a clothing store a week ago wearing three coats, three vests and four pairs of pants, pleaded guilty’ to petit larceny toay. He was given the maximum sentence of a year in the penitentiary

PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 13 (U. P.). —Federal Judge George A. Welsh, who sold newspapers: to earn his

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early '90s, has been elected a vice president of Temple University.

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and a $500 fine. The youth was trapped when salesman noticed his bulky appearance as he walked out of the store. He was arrested when ‘a patrolman tackled him after a chase down Buffalo’s main street.

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Italy Renews Press Drive; ‘Lost’ Loyalists Retreat

Mourning Truce Brief; Democracies’ ‘Bad Faith’ Charged.

ROME, Feb. 13 (U. P.).—Italian newspapers returned to their campaign against France and Great Britain today after a brief interlude caused by the Pope’s death. It had been predicted in foreign capitals that a ‘Considerable truce would follow the Holy Father's death, but in presumable confirmation of Premier Mussolini's determination to push his campaign for realization of “Italy’s aspirations,” the truce proved a short one. Not only editorials in the newspapers, closely supervised, but dispatches from European capitals showed distrust and bitterness particularly as the result of British and French negotiations with the Spanish Rebels. g The democratic governments were suspected of ulterior motives in their approaches to the Rebels after their long refusal to recognize them. Also hints that the Rebels would be recognized .fully by. Britain and France after all foreign troops had left Spain, were of particular interest to Fascists.

Gayda Reaffirms Stand Virginio Gayda, often regarded as

|a mouthpiece for the Foreign Of-

fice, reiterated in Voce d'Italia, the weekly edition of his Giornale d'Italia, that Italian troops would remain in Spain until the Rebels had won a “complete political victory.” ‘This statement recently caused anxiety in London, and was understood to have led to an official request for a definition of a political victory as opposed to a

military one. Sig. Gayda in the new article said: ; “Italy intends to assist Generalissimo Franco wherever it is found necessary to defend his military victory, which is still threatened by foreign influences. Italy does not intend to. impose a policy of her own, namely she does not pretend that the new political regime in Spain must follow this or that obligatory direction toward Fascism or for Fascism. She desires only that it respond to the national will of Spain, and preserve from corrupting foreign influences the formula salways asserted in Berlin and Rome, ‘Spain to the Spaniards.’ ” Sig. Gayda accused France and Britain of resorting to pocketbook politics in an effort to wean the Rebels away from the Fascist and Nazi Governments. Premier Mussolini’s newspaper, Popolo d'Italia of Milan, called the attention of Britain and France to the recent statement that Italy could mobilize more than 10 million men.

Australia Decides To Add New Planes

MELBOURNE, Feb. 13 (U. P.)— The Commonwealth Government has decided to increase the firstline strength of its air force to 212 planes, it was revealed today. Three new squadrons provided for under the program for this year have been formed, bringing the strength to 132 planes. :

Government Wins

Ruthenian Election

PRAHA, Feb, 13 (U. P.). — The Government Party scored an over= whelming victory in yesterday's election for the first Carpatho-Ukrain-ian Diet, it was announced today. -

Cabinet Meets at Madrid; Eire to Send Envoy To Burges.

PERPIGNAN, French - Spanish Frontier, Feb. 13 (U. P.).—A lost army of between 20,000 and 25,000 Loyalists fought on in Catalonia today as the Government established itself in Madrid, whence it had fled in November, 1936. Long after the Rebels had announced complete occupation of Catalonia, it was found that two Loyalist divisions, the 31st and 32d, had been cut off from the main body of the Catalonian Army and intended fighting as long as their ammunition held out. ; The lost force was based on the village of Camprodon, about seven miles below the frontier. When the Rebels took the Olot region last week, these divisions were separated from two Army corps. Their line of retreat lay along a secondary road and a narrow, snow filled pass which runs between peaks up to 9000 feet high.. On the French side there is only a foot path running through a ravine. It was impossible for the two divisions to evacuate their artillery and supplies so they apparently decided to retreat as slowly as possible and make their exit from the country as costly as possible to the Rebels. Madrid Is Bombed The Rebels, in theif joy at conquering Catalonia, seemed -to -have overlooked the two divisions for days. Today, however, it was reported that Rebel infantrymen were trying to get into the mountains behind the Loyalists and cut off their retreat. a The first day of the Loyalist Cabinet at Madrid was marked by two merciless Rebel artillery bombardments which, it was announced, killed at least 16 persons and wounded 23. Rebel airplanes raided Valencia, Alicante and other Loyalist towns along the eastern coast. It was announced at Madrid yesterday that President Manuel Azana, who is at the Spanish Embassy in Paris and thus technically on Spanish soil, had signed a decree establishing the government at Madrid. The Cabinet held its first meeting there yesterday afternoon, with nearly all members present. After-

broadcast: : “An immense task awaits us. The Government has determined to spare no effort to cope with the situation, which requires the fervent collaboration of all in a heroic national front.”

Eire Recognizes Franco’s Regime

DUBLIN, Feb. 13 (U. P.)—The Government of Eire, the former Irish Free State, announced tonight that it has recognized the Spanish Rebel regime of Generalissimo

to Burgos as its Minister. Former Premier Seeks Belgian Cabinet ' BRUSSELS, Feb. 13 (U. P)— Former Premier Henri Jaspar today accepted King Leopold's request that he attempt to form a Government to replace that of Premier Paul Spaak, which resigned last week. Earlier in the day M. Spaak informed the King that he had been unable to overcome the Government crisis and

requested that someone else ate tempt to form a Cabinet.

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for the purchase of light planes and

an “air infantry” corps to augment its national defense forces.

A license was obtained in Decem-

chase 165 \to 170 of the light 30ress for several weeks, it was said,

of a quantity of light, maneuverable planes, similar to the U. 8. Army’s tra. planes. They are capable of carrying two or three men and a

No Policy Change Necessary Administration officials said sale

here, so long as sales were on a cash basis and by private armament or plane manufacturers. The United States has sold many ‘military and commercial planes to Latin American countries during the last two years. : : It was believed that plane purchases. may be on the list of subjects being discussed with officials ‘here by Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, now in Washington as the guest of this Government. It was ascertained that they must be made on a cash or purely commercial basis. Government credits, through such agencies as the Import-Export Bank or the Reconstruction Finance Corp., cannot be used to finance exports of war materials.

is interested sells for about $8000 to $10,000. That price can be reduced somewhat on quantity orders, but officials estimated the average cost about $8000 for a quantity ranging from 100 fo 250 planes.

Trade Also Discussed

Senor Aranha was understood in his negotiations with this Government to be concentrating on means of improving mutual trade relations and obtaining assistance in completing Brazil's five-year public works program. If credits for such purposes could be arranged through the Export-Import Bank or other agencies, it was pointed out, Brazil might be able fo release more of her own funds for cash purchases of planes and other military equipment. : 2 : Plans for an “air infantry” corps were understood to be the result of efforts to cope with any threat of disorders in the interior of Brazil. There are vast areas which are un-

roads, where small garrison are iso-

French Guard Planes Bought in America

PARIS, Feb. 13 (U, P.).—A heavy, 24-hour ‘guard was established today around airplanes and motors recently purchased in the United States because of suspected acts of sabotage.

Dr. Frank Warns Of Foreign Policy

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13 (U. P.). —Dr. Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican Party National Program Committee, warned today that America’s present foreign policy might cause a serious international reaction. : “It is my personal- opinion,” he said, “that we are heading into very grave danger if we set ourselves up as moral judges of the internal policies of other nations unless we intend to go the whole way and back our moral judgment with a

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economi¢ force—which American people, in my judgment, will not and should not tolerate under any Administration.” : He said that America could not assume a friendly alliance with Great Britain and France without taking the position of “belligerent”

to opposing groups.

Italy Recalls

Goodwill Cruiser

ROME, feb. 13 (U. P.). — “The Italian cruisers Eugenio di Savoia and Emmanuele Duca d'Aosta, whose good will tour caused hostile demonstrations at several Central American ports, were recalled to Italy today. An official communique said that with the arrival of the cruisers at Caracas, Venezuela, they “concluded the main part of their mission,

‘which was to visit principal South |}

American nations contacting Italian immigrants resident there.”

DIES IN WASHINGTON - WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (U. P.).— Dr. Raymond Pearson, a special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture in the extension department, died Jousy after a heart attack. He was 65. .

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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13 (U. P), —Pilot Al Litzenberger today claimed an unofficial flying time record between Los Angeles and Pittsburgh as he flew a Mesta Lockheed 14 between the two cities in eight hours and 28 minutes. A stop was made at Kansas City where he refueled. Scheduled aire liners require approximately 12 hours for the flight. a Pilot Litzenberger of Pittsburgh,

claimed he was not “pushing” his plane. |

John Somsen flew as co-pilot and there were no passengers.

ASKS MORE VETERANS’ AID

BOSTON, Feb. 13 (U. P.).—Owen A. Galvin of Minneapolis, national

(commander of the Disabled Veterans

of the World War, demanded that Congress restore the slash in come

_ |pensation schedules for veterans. in

an address last night.

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