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D.R. SUBMITS TWO MESSAGES ON RESOURCES

Prepares to Go South and Watch Naval Games in Caribbean.

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on the European situation. It was not known when he would appear. The : Committee was expected to conclude its investigation of French plane purchases with the appear-

ance of Secretaries Morgenthau and | #®

Woodring and then take up the 376

“million dollar emergency national

defense bill passed by the House and sent to the Senate yesterday. The House bill, authorizing an increase of Army air strength irom 2320 to 5500 planes, was passed by a vote of 367 to 15. Fourteen Republicans and one Denver voted against it. The Committee soproved a resolution by Senator Bridges (R. N. H)) asking for Ambassador Wilson's appearance. Senator Bridges said he had reason to doubt that Mr. Wilson’s. opinions would coincide with those of the ambassadors to Great Britain and France, Joseph P. Kennedy and William C. Bullitt, who told the Committee last month that they anticipated a general European war this spring.

Republican Congressional leaders]

have demanded to know why Mr. Wilson was not summoned before the Committee at that time. He is in Florida now but he was in Washington then, having been recalled by Mr. Roosevelt last fall from Berlin for “report and discussion.” Germany Subseyuently recalled its Ambassador.

Rep. Cox Warns Of ‘Taking Sides’ - WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (U. P.) — Rep. E. E. Cox (D. Ga.) in a speech prepared for delivery in the House today, condemned the Administrations “internationalistic” foreign policy and said that if the United States “vake sides” in world affairs “we may be embarked upon a journey that will lead us directly into another world war.” Rep. Cox pleaded for Administra-tion-Congressional co-operation on foreign policy and said that “there should be no more secrecy about the conduct of our foreign relations

than is absolutely essential to the national welfare.”

Morgenthau. Aid’s

Resignation Accepted

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today accepted the resignation of Wayne C. Taylor as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, eflective Feb. 28.

Injunction Granted

On Wage-Hour Law [

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (U. P.).— Wage-Hour - Administration announced today it had obtained in Sioux City, Iowa, its first permanent

‘injunction restraining an employer

from alleged violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act which has been in effect since last Oct. 24. The decree, signed by Federal District Judge George C. Scott, enjoined the Powers Manufacturing Co., Waterloo, Iowa, from paying employees less than 25 cents an hour and from shipping its products in interstate commerce until the legal minimum wage is paid.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (U. PJ). —Senator Lee (D. Okla.) introduced today a domestic allotment bill designed to guarantee farmers a “fair” price for cotton and wheat Songuied in the United States.

The sap = gathered , sve 0

Maple Sirup

It may be spring in the city

person to take a comfortable nap.

Year's Fir irst

Harvest—Hard Work, Too

By JOE COLLIER vi Times Staff Writer RUSSELLVILLE, Feb. 16.—Sugar water is running in the maple trees and that means spring has come to the Hoosier farm.

only when the weather warms up

enough to make it pleasant to be outside and a park bench invites a

has arrived when the earth gets soft, and the meadow brook steals like a burglar through the winter ice and the maple sap runs. It’s time then to get out in the woods and tap the trees, collect and boil the sap into sirup. That's just what many Indiana farmers now are doing, including Ray MecGaughey, who lives near here. Ray says that a lot of persons, in= cluding his father, used to tap the maple trees by the signs of the moon. Although they seemed to get along all right, Ray and others

like him have gone left far enough

simply to tap the trees when the sap begins to run. They get along all right, too.

Other Signs of Spring

Among other signs of spring on Ray's farm is a noticeable’ preference on the part of sheep to eat their afternoon hay in the barnyard rather than in the barn and a disposition on the part of King, the collie, to chase exuberantly horses at pasture, without rhyme or reason, Maple sirup is the first harvest of the year. This year it has been good so far. In Ray's case, as in the case of many Hoosier landowners, the woods and pasture lots are generously dotted with sugar-pro-ducing maples, not by chance, but by design. The first. owners of the land planted and encouraged the growth of maple trees because from them only, in most cases, came the family supply of sugar. “They used to make a barrel of sugar from these trees,” Ray said. And today, Ray and hundreds like him make the sirup according to the methods of their fathers, who learned it from their fathers who, like as not, acquired the farms on land grants. “That’s the way they went about it,” Ray explains when he’s asked why his particular camp is divided into five “runs,” or collecting routes, and why the trails that lead over the hills and into the bare February winds were laid out as they are. The five “runs” weave around over about 370 acres of wood and pasture lands. Each of them is

about a mile long and sap is col-

But to the farmer, that season®

lected from each about 30 times a season. In all there are 1225 collecting buckets in his camp, and every day the sap is running he empties them into a 120-gallon tank perched on a trailer that is hauled by a tractor. When he pours it into the tank it looks like gasoline in texture and color. It sloshes,k around in the tank as the tractor drags over hills, bumps over humpbacked roots, and Bescenus steep hills like a mountain 0a, 8 Down in a hollow, protected from the winds, is the sirup house with part of the roof open to let out steam from the sap. The long stove, especially built for the work, contains four simmering trays and is about eight feet long. The fire box extends for the entire eight feet and is fed continuously with long wood cut from the farm. It’s Not All Profit

“Waste wood, we call it,” says Ray, and in the next breath admitted it could just as well be burned in the furnace. But no one figures the costs too closely on maple sirup production. It might be discouraging in view of the fact that standard retail price is around $2 a gallon and that it ‘take§ 30 gallons of sap to make a gallon of sirup, and that it takes an hour of roaring wood fire to do the boiling for each gallon. The cans it’s sold in cost 15 cents each, the tractor burns $1 or more in fuel in a day of collecting. Then there’s the work, and whatever cost there is to marketing it. Ray doesn’t go past figuring the cash outlay for cans and fuel. If

nothing to do, this being the time of year it is. Whatever cash he gets for the stuff over and above what he has to put up for supplies is considered to be so much profit. One Indiana farmer, whose family had for years made maple sirup, installed a new system of account-

ing and stopped sirup production,

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record County Deaths 9 (To Date) 1939 ......... 1938 ......... 16

City Deaths (To Date) 1939 .... 1938 ....

Feb. 15

Speeding ....

Reckless driving seco

Running preferential streets ....

sess

10 Running red

lights ......

Drunken driving «...

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| MEETINGS TODAY

oo Rdianapolis § Real Estate Board, lunchshingtoa, noon. *Auvertisin Club of ‘indianapolis lunch-

Club, Sima’ Chl, notieon, “Board of Trade,

American Business Club, luncheon, Co-

Jumbia Glut, Credit Group, juncheon, Men's 'S Taper the William Block Co.,.

luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. “Rei du luncheon, Hotel Washington,

£8 Caravan Club. luncheon, Murat ‘Temple,

cert,

ang, State Fair Grounds, 10 p. m.

| Antlers . x) |

: {uncheon, Architects and Builders Building,

"Baio Engineers’ Guild, meeting, Hotel

Pp. nu. Oil Club, iuncheon, Hotel Severin, noon Construction ague Indianapolis,

| Rlnenete, Camera Club, meeting, 110 Theta A * Rincheon, Canary Cot-

“noon. ts’ Association of InEa ® sho W, Manufacturers | Bu fiaing. State Fair Grounds, 2 p. m. to 10 D.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Baseball Centennial Dinner, Claypool otel, 6 p. m. Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, conHr nts’ ~ iati f I ssociation of Inchasing show. Manufacturers

Age Pure ann pal

Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash-

ington, n

| tage, noon | Club,

Optimist Club. luncheon, Columbia Club, nog serve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Bost Shite Theta, luncheon, Canary Cotluncheon, Columbia meeting, - Hotel |o

eta Tau Delta,

Indians "Stamp Club, Antlers, 8 p.

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

dons Ferguson. 2 4K R. 260.

Blvd a iy 8° Xe 27 ' 26 Marion: Irma 5 N. Merid px ps0 Engiai 4 Ave.; 5 of 3

pson Te. 23, of ier Dy Fe ret toner M. Yeazel, 33, of 2930

27. of 1655 N. AlaSt. wards, Wickersham, 23. of 55 N. abama 16 eth L.

St. Keegan. 27. of 1119 8. Villa Aver ® ‘Wanda P. Basye, 16, of 1205 Wright

velt Dixon, 32, of 1169

Sit Betty R. Dorward, 20, of 201 E

James M, Mescall, 23, St 910 Daly St.; Bessie Inman, 18, of Ie, Sa Ave. B. Johnson Jr.. 29, Washington Blvd.: Betty Claire BRL 22, of 4133 Rockwood Ave - Russel Wakefield, i. of 309 W. Vermont St.; Rosemary Lee, 16, of 435% Indiana Ave A net G. Hill, 23, of 310 N. Tinos Charles Westenhofer, 21, of 1431 Groff Eide: Rosalya J. Lineberry, 17, of 125 N. er 5 ® Dauss, 21, of 612 W. 12th St.; rances Glenn, 19, of 722 op 12th St. H, Bru 20, of 1377 Oliver 5 Borotty M. Caniste, 9s. of 805 Cof-

Moriand Russell, 23, of Ft. Benjamin $0) Gray, 17, of 955 8.

aris J. Harman, 24, Lawrence; Ida M. Hinds, 18, of 1434 "S. Tiinois St,

BIRTHS

Girls

Wilfred, Elizabeth Noone, at St. Vincen John, Eve Massie, at St. Vincent's. James, Ruth Griggs, at St. Vincent's. Keller, Vivian Eaton, at Methodist. Prymos, Lillie Brooks, at 1102 N, Miley. Earl, Oma Calvert, at 1094 River. Paul, Margaret, Hendricks, at 1435 W.

rket Archie, Mildred Taylor, at 2405 Columbia. Bert, Louise Means: at 1631 N. Arsenal.

Frank, Julia Wooded, at 1526 Rejsnen. George, Mildred Kurtz, at 647. Blake, Walter, Doris Bush, at 1219 Jillelte, John, Jean Jones, at St. Vincent's. Fo am, Charlotte Nicholson, ancis. Calvert, Lida Craig, at Coleman. Ernest, Virginia Young, at Coleman,

DEATHS

James F. Boswell, 71. at yeterans Hospital, pulmonary tuberculosis Richey Middleton, 67, at Methodist, cardio vascular renal disease Anna Elizabeth Thomas, 84, “at 1923 Central, chronic myocarditis. Lillie May Koch, 67, at 1037 N. Jefferson, chronic myocarditis. James M. Roney, 68, at 1329 W. 23d, caidio renal insufiieicne cy. Kathryn Mullen, at Long, poeumohia, Adolph Herrmann, |68, at 30 N. Parkview, chronic myocarditis. Suto 4 P. logis. 33, at 5230 E. 34th, miliary tuberculosis Lous mith, 7 at 2148 Columbia, apoplexy.

Lorena Wegman, 62, at 1506 N. Illinois, cer shia hemorrhage. ard E. Baker, 41, at City, pulmonary tuber Toss, Anna Sanders, 61, at 523 N. Central Court, coronary occlusion. Austin Jones, 75, at City, arterioscler-

0818, . Michael Halloran, 79, at 1529 Carrollton, neumonia. “Re alton, 71, at 1216 S. Illinois, ute cardiac dilatation arson H . Hill, 47, ab Veterans’ Hospital,

i Hr Pulliam, oo at 45 W. New York, coronary occlusio 92, ‘at 814 8S. State,

Ww. Stites. chronic myocarditis. ary Jones, 75, at 1113 Calhoun, myocar

lobar

tis. Sarah Pletcher yiagnen: 84, at 401 N. limos chronic myocarditis. rvin Cartwright, 23 Says, at City, general peritonitis. Joseph Marshall Francis, 76, at 1537 Central, carcino

INCORPORATION S

Auto Loan Co., Inc., 542 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis; resident agent, Dudle R.

"Ro F. Gallahue, Kurt F. Pauntze

Patterso Ave abet Houston, 37, o 68 P.

oe Detestives, 1417 Finley 8

oils m Lovell, 84, at City, general peri.’

y allahue, same address; capital stock, 1000| Omah ares no par value; finance business; Ed- Po

230 E. Ohio St. Indianapolis: no capital stock; to promote the interests of beauty shop owners; Margaret M. Kepple, Nancy I. Davis, Yvonne Chenoweth. Schott Bros. & .Co., Francisco, Cal.; registration of trademark “Graf-O-Lyte, ¥ Class 15: oils and greases.

Perma-Lube Graphite ¢o., San Francisco, Cal.; registration of trademark “‘PermaLube,” Class 15: oils and ETenses. Hark Products Corp.,, 141 8S. Sherman Drive, Indianapolis; resident agent, Sherman R. Hawkins, same address; capital stock, 1000 shares no par value; manufacturing and selling repair parts and/or accessories for automotive, seal or aircraft equipment; Frances Simonds, Paul J. Simonds, Sherman R. Hawkins. : ‘Farmers Co-operative Co., Cicero, fnd.: registration of trademark “Ho-Maid,” Class 1: feed.

Syler and Syler, Plymouth; registration of trademark “Pilgrim. Class: 1 big oy > ‘Henry Weis Mtg. Co., Elkhart: amendment ‘decreasing authorized capital to 12,000 shares common on par value and other amendments,

OFFICIAL WEATHER

eeeBY U. 8. Weather Bureau... INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight with lowest temperatures 25 to 30. Sunrise ...... 6:37 | Sunset ...... 5:22 TEMPERATURE —Feb. 16, 1938— 1p m....

BAROMETER

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... T Total precipitation since Jan. 1 « 6.27 Excess since Jan. 1 .

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Most]y cloudy tonight and tomorrow, occasional snow in extreme north portion 'tonight* warmer tonight, somewhat colder in southwest and extreme south portions tomorrow. Illinois—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, occasional snow in north portion tonight, warmer tonight, somewhat colder in west and south portions tomorrow, Lower Michigan — Occasional snow toJigh) ar and probably tomorrow, rising; temObie Fair.. not quite so cold tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, slowly rising temperature followed by rain or snow in afternoon or at night Kentucky — Increasing cloudiness followed by rain or snow tomorrow and i west portion late tonight, slowly rising lemperatie tonight an in east portion

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7AM. Station. aSaon. Tex. eather. 58% Tee Bismarck, N. D. Clear 20.44 2 Boston ... ..Clear. 30.02 18 Chicago ....ceeseess..PtCldy 30.50 - Cincinnati seseecnses.Clear 30.58 Cleveland . «.Clear 30.56 Denver restart a vas EHOW 30.34 Dodga City, Kas. ....Cloudy 29.50

Helena, Mont, ........ Jacksonville, Fla. oes Kansas City, Mo. .... Little Rock, A

oland E. Duckworth d-b-a Ace ‘Secret |S San ans 8) Indian-|

salaries.

he wasn’t making sirup he’d have|:

“And hauled to the sirup house . . « »

‘Hundred Days’ Widens Democratic Party Rift

PRESSURE FROM TAX ON BONDS

Senate Group Expected to Approve Levy on Salaries.

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By LEE G. MILLER ‘Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—A wellorganized fight put up by state of-| as ficials has endangered President Roosevelt's chances of ending tax exemption of public bonds at this’ session of Congress, it appeared today. t Senator Brown (D. Mich.), chairman of a Special Senate: Committee which has been studying the subject, admitted that he had not yet decided for or against the President’s proposal of a “short and simple statute” making income from future public bond issues taxable.

The Committee, which is concluding its hearings today with rebuttal testimony by Government officials in support of the President’s plan, will then begin its private deliberations preliminary to drafting a report to the Senate. It must report by March 1. Senator Brown said the Committee would make recommendation “right away” on the less controversial proposal to abolish tax exemptions of Federal, state and local The Senate Finance Committee is awaiting this recommendation before acting on the bill for this purpose which the House passed a week ago, 269-103.

Legal Statue Disputed

But on the matter of abolishing tax exemption for securities, which numerous state officials attacked before the Committee last week as both uneconomic and un-

constitutional, Senator Brown said: . “This is one of the nicest legal questions I've ever encountered. I confess I have been unable to make up my mind, “The doctrine of tax immunity did not arise from any provision in the Constitution, but from a decision by Chief Justice Marshall based on the general plan of the Constitution. “And then if you approach the question on the basis of the language of the 16th (income-tax) llamendment, without considering how the courts have construed that amendment, the pgwer to tax seems to be there. But the courts have ruled otherwise.

“It is very ly to reach a

conclusion.” Some Justice department officials conceded privately that they were dubious about the prospects for obtaining the statute sdught by the President. But they expressed confidence that\if such a law were obtained the Supreme Court would uphold it, overruling ancient precedents. One factor against the proposed statute is the confidential report prepared by the staff of the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation, which advised that it would be unconstitutional to abolish by statute the tax immunity of either public bonds or public salaries. Besides Senator Brown, the committeemen are Senators Byrd (D. Va.), Logan (D. Ky.), Miller (D. Ark.), Townsend (R. Del.) and Aus=

STATES DELAYS |

tin (R. Vt.).'

8-Year Dominance Tested By Congress-White House Dispute.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 16,—One hundred days have elapsed since the November election. As far as the Democratic Party is concerned, this period might be described aptly as “The Hundred Days’ War.” Fighting among Democrats is nothing new, but now it has reached a stage of bitterness where sideline observers are beginning to forecast that, if continued, it will drive them from power in 1940. Vastly different was the dazzling “first hundred days,” after the New Deal took over the Government on March 4, 1933. President Roosevelt, then at the head not caly of a triumphant and unified party - but united nation, led Congress through a dizzy pace of legislation ~to save the banking structure, to open up work opportunities for ‘the jobless through NRA, to bolster up the agriculture structure through AA

A. The President eventually found himself at war with the conservatives in his own party. But he was able to whip them into line, and to hold the party together on major issues, as a result of the electoral mandates of 1934 and 1936 which showed Congress what the people at home thought of the President.

Election Emphasized Split

The November election saw the first Democratic backslide in. eight years—for their march "to power started in 1930 when they captured the House, greatly increased their strength in the Senate and helped to discredit Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party.

- What has happened since, the strafing between the White House]:

and Congress, develops from that election and the interpretations of its meaning. Conservative Democrats translated the Republican gains as indicating that the people wanted a slowing down of reforms. There was no better public expression on this than the desertion of numerous Eastern and Midwestern lawmakers on the first real issue between the President and Congress—the Emergency Relief Bill. While Mr. Roosevelt in his annual message to Congress set as his ob-

‘jective the tightening up of the Ad-

ministration of certain agencies and the revision of some measures, he stood pat on fundamentals. His political objective, as he set forth in his Jackson Day speech, was to keep up the fight to liberalize the party. He went so far as to express his willingness to have conservatives leave the fold. He revealed that he had withdrawn not a whit from his “purge” program of the primary, which failed so miserably in its immediate objectives. Appointments Uncompromising

This is the line he has followed since. He revealed it in the mature of his important appointments, recognizing true and tried New Dealers such as Harry L. Hopkins, Frank Murphy, Felix Frankfurter, and reaching over to the left for Thomas Amlie, and by the fight: he sought to make on the anti-New-Deal Glass-Byrd Virginia through another appointment. Similarly, he is found fighting back at Congress on the relief issue.

On duty, but bound for New York and what promises to be a glamorous adventure, Mae Leslie, American Airlines stewardess, stopped a moment at Municipal Airport here today. She will make her debut to ‘New York society under the sponsorship

| of Peter Arno, cartoonist, and other

celebrities as the “Cinderella Girl” for the month of February.

party in Chez Firehouse that will be attended by scores of prominent New Yorkers. Since early last week

she has been the center of a swirl of activities. “But she went about her duties as

time to say even a word—Shc just appeared in the ship. McClelland Barclay, Lucius Bee= John Hertz Jr., Jerrold Krimsky, Burgess Meredith, Rudolph Mont.

sponsoring the debut. Miss Leslie is 26, a blue-eyed

and weighs 115 pounds. She was born in Antler, 6 at

Cinderella Stops Off for Pause That Refreshes Us

She will make her bow at a formal

a flagship stewardess, and was so Za busy at them today that she had no

posed for a quick picture and dis-

be, Alfred DeLeagre Jr, Vernon Duke, Jaro Farby, Jules "Glaenzer, 4

geles and Franchot Tone also are brunette, five feet, five inches tall

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machine| .

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Where it is boiled to sirup . . . ready for sale.

Unity Caucus Is Really Tribute to G. 0. P. ‘House Leaders.

y RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Democrats didn’t advertise the real meaning of their House “unity” caucus the other day but the fact is thet it was a spectacular tribute to the new House Republican leader, Rep. Joseph Martin (Mass.). Eight" long years have pa;sed since the Democrats have regarded Republicans seriously. Democrats have had easy going. They have nagged President Hoover, ‘petted Governor Landon on the back as one of their best friends, razzed John Hamilton, and mocked &Henator Vandenberg. Never were the Democrats worried. They consid2red everything in the bag. So \jt was, even after the last election when the Democrats were set back. They still had tremendous majorities in both Houses of Congress. ‘Suddenly, however, Administration : leaders discovered that although they had a majority of 92 in the House, the Republicans were outvoting them and outnumbering them on the floor and in committee meetings. Democrats had grown soft and quarrelsome and Joe Martin was taking advantage of the situation in a way that alarmed the White House, especially after funds for an important TVA dam were voted down. House Democratic leaders were called on the carpet by the Administration and as a result they ordered a House meeting of Democrats 'to pull the majority: forces together.

Gone at Wrong Time What had happened was that Democrats were out running . errands, either accidentally or on purpose, at critical moments when the House was in session, and the Administration was taking a beating despite ‘its large majority. Some of the Democrats were just too lazy to show up the House floor, or they were [showing constituents

around the city, or were downtown | wangling jobs for party workers.|”

Others were out of sympathy with

the Administration, but not wishing to vote with the Republicans, played hockey to avoid being counted. During the “unity” caucus, one Administration member complained about the absences of Democrats. Another member retorted that perhaps it was just as well the Democrats remained absent, because had they been present they would have voted with the Republicans, making the result much worse than it was. When one Democrat told the caucus it make his heart bleed to see Democrats walking down the aisle to be counted with Republicans, and to see Democrats, after the Administration was defeated on a vote, rush over to Republicans and give them congratulatory slaps on the back, another Democratic member, Rep. William B. Barry (N. Y.) rose to make an inquiry of Majority Leader Sam Rayburn (D. Tex),

“How Can One Know?”

“How was a loyal Democrat to know which way he should vote.”

Rep. Barry asked, “when as .in the} WPA fight, the President asked for

875 million dollars and the Demo-

cratic majority of the Appropriations Committee recommended 150 million dollars less? Which was the true Democratic position, Roosevelt’s recommendation or that of the Democratic Appropriations Commit-

tee?”

Into this situation Republican Leader Martin moved so quietly and that the Democrats didn’t know what had hit’ them un-

{| til they checked up after several de-

feats and discovered that Rep. Marfin had his men on hand When the Democrats didn’t. Then the day after "House Demo-

crats were ordered to be on hand to}

maintain an edge over the Republicans, a count of noses on .the House floor during debate on: the Army defense programs revealed present 42 Democrats and 45 Republicans.

|Bill to Revive

PWA Rumored

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—An official of the Public- Works Adminis-

| tration has discussed ‘with members

dollar appropriation, it was

| learned today. \ | One ‘account was that Rep. Fritz Lanham (D. Tex.), chairman of the

‘Public Buildings and Grouncis Com-

2 ities, would introduce the bill,

Rep. Lanham admitted he had heard the suggestion and :aid he was $ going to gk with some PWA

‘| make a deposit in a given bank was

Times Photos.

INSURANCE LINK TO BANK BACKED

Mutual President Points to Safeguard of Dual Directorates.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (U. P.). —David F. Houston, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, told the Monopoly Investigating Committee, today that interlocking directorates influenced deposits of the company in banks. ‘He defended the action and said that directors who also were connected with banks in which deposits were made. would take an interest to safeguard the insurance company’s funds. He said that the interlocking directorates were not a deciding factor, and that the decision to

controlled “by the fact that we regard it (the bank) as safe.” Gerhard Gesell, Securities and Exchange Commission counsel, introduced testimony to show that several directors of the insurance company had solicited - deposits for banks with which they were connected.

TVA and Memphis Buy New Utility MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 16 (U. P.). —Another competing private utility has removed from the area served by the Tennessee Valley Authority today when Memphis Power & Light Co. agreed to sell its electric and gas properties to the city and TVA for $17,360,000. The Memphis company is owned by National Power & Light, a sub-

sidiary of Electric Bond & Share Co. The agreement, reached at 3:30

city ‘to acquire properties of the company. It followed by only two weeks the $78,600,000 deal by which TVA will purchase all electric properties in Tennessee owned by Commonwealth & Southern Corp. The City will pay $15,250,000 and

a.m. ended a four-year fight by the.

BILL GIVEN 0

Senate Committee Drafts Report on Inquiry Into Adoption.

As the Senate Textbook Investi-

pupils.

the Committee that he favored either free or rented «textbooks to

and taxpayers alike. The measure introduced today would place the purchase of the

| books on .a staggered basis. School

authorities would purchase texts for grades one, two and nine for the 1940-41 term; for grades three, four and 10 for 1931-42; for grades five, six and 11 for 1942-43, and for grades seven, eight and 12 for the 1943-44 term. These books would be paid for through a tax levy. Governor Towne

{would result from the states being

sale.

House G. 0. P. P. Keeps

Recount Bill Intact

House Republicans needed their one-vote majority again today to advance intact their bill to provide

dividual districts. When the measure came up for second’ reading, Rep. Edward H.

leader, offered an amendment proe viding that when one candidate, who had secured a tie or had lost in the original count, asked for a re-

rival candidate also would be able to pick out a precinct for a recount, “The way this bill is written now, a candidate who has lost by a few votes, could pick out a precinct

get his opposing candidate counted out,” Rep. Stein said. “This amend-

the other candidate the same right to pick himself out a friendly Precinct.” Describing this amendment as a “curve ball,” Rep. Herbert H. Evans (R. New Castle), majority floor leader, said that the Setin amendment actually would kill the intent of the measure, The Stein amendment was tabled on a 51 to 47 roll call vote which proceeded along party lines.

SENATOR KING CALLS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (U. P.).— Senator King (D. Utah) described Paul V. McNutt, High Commissioner to the Philippines, as an “able man” and said he “would not be adverse” to his nomination as Democratic Presidential candidate. “He is a fine and able man,” Senator King said. “I wouldn't be adverse to seeing him nominated for the. Presidency. “Of course, there are others I would prefer, but I ‘would prefer seeing him nominated than one of those rabid New Dealers.” Some of those “preferred” by King were Vice President Garner, Secretary of State Hull and Senator

Clark (D. Mo.).

TVA $2,110,000 of the purchase price.

Strauss Says:—

You are

a good

BLUE GRASS Hats! green fused with blue—

Dear Sir;

going fo

see a lot of

‘BLUE GRASS this Spring!

We mean nof the carpeting that is going to cover the earth 44, but the color above men's eyebrows!

soft—very wearable, | very 1939! But it takes

hat to "take"

Blue Grass right! For instance:— Wearingtons—-3.50 Dobbs $5 and up.

LOWER HOUSE

gating Committee was drafting the

report on its probe, the House ‘today : received a bill to require schools to ‘| furnish textbooks free to their

Governor Townsend earlier told

recounts for State candidates in in=- .

today"

| save thousands of dollars for parents ,

send said the saving from this plan . able to purchase the boks at whole« ;

‘Stein (D. Bloomfield), minority floor

count in a particular precinct, the

particularly favorable to him and :

ment is fair because it would give ot

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