Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1939 — Page 2

FIGHT OVER WPA HINGES ONSTATE

OR U. S. CONTROL

NATIONAL AFFAIRS RELIEF ISSUE splits ranks of Democrats. ALIEN LAW “loopholes” studied in Congress. HARNESS bill to bar Bergdoll from U. 8S. is in committee. SURPLUS FOOD plan to be tried first in Rochester, N. Y. WPA UNION aid testifies he is Communist.

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B; THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 18—The big issue developing over WPA and relief is whether the Federal Government should continue its administration or whether the major part of the burden should be turned over to the states, This is now made certain by the advocacy of state administration, with Federal supervision, by Republican Senate Leader (Ore) and by the split which is aligning some conservative Democrats with Republicans to precipitate another of the battles which have featured the current session. Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum (D. Va.), a power in the House Appropriations Committee, has introduced &

bill calling for grants to states for|

relief and it will be this type of solution to which some conservative Democrats. though not all, will rally.

Senator Byrnes (D. S. C)), South- |

ern bloc leader, will be found leading those who favor continued Federal administration of relief, with some reforms embodied in a

bill which the Senate will begin to]

consider in a few days. Favors Federal Control

Senator Byrnes is influential. It ts expected that he will succeed in defeating the attempt in the Senate to turn relief administration over to the states. In this he will be the champion of the Administration. His bill would lump together the various relief agencies—WPA, PWA, the public building agency of the Treasury, the Bureau of Public Roads, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Adminjstration, the Federal employment exchanges—into a new independent agency. The Administration has not given its full approval to this bill in detail. but probably will, as a means of fending off the plan to turn relief

over to the states. |

Two principal arguments for state administration are brought forward by Republicans and conservative Democrats. One is that it would make for economy, on the ground that local officials. knowing local problems, would be better able to weed out those undeserving of relief.

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UNION AID SAYS HE'S COMMUNIST

But Executive of WPA Union Declares He Does Not Advocate Overthrow.

WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P) | — Herbert Benjamin, secretarytreasurer of the Workers Alliance, {told the House WPA Investigating Committee today that he is a Communist. He denied, however, that he be{lieved in the overthrow of the Amer{ican Government by force and said {he saw “no inconsistency between [the philosphy of the Communist [Party and the American principies {of democracy.” ‘March’ Called

The Workers Alliance is an organization of WPA workers, seeking | higher wages for relief clients. It {has called a “march” on Washing{ton next month to ask Congress to appropriate larger relief appropriations. Rep. George W. Johnson (D. W. Va.) asked David Lasser, Alliance | president, how many of the 45000 aliens he said had been remove from WPA rolls belonged to the Alliance. “I believe no more than 1000,” |

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Ohioans Wed For 19 Years, Get Married

MERCER, Pa, April 18 (OU. P) —After 19 years of happy wedded life, a Youngstown, O,, couple, parents of two children, were married for the first time. It developed that when the couple decided to marry here in 1920, they forgot one important thing: The marriage ceremony. They thought the license was all that was necessary. The facts were brought out when the wife recently applied for citizenship papers and it was discovered that no minister or justice of the peace had signed the original license. A new license was obtained. The names of the couple were withheld to save embarrassment.

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WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P). —William J. Quinn, Police Chief of Francisco, told the National

HOUSE STUDIES BERGDOLL BAR

Indiana Representative’s Bill Would Shut ‘U. S. Gates’ to ‘Dodger.’

WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P). —Legislation to bar Grover Cleveland Bergdoll from ever returning to this country was in a House Committee today after his attorney had offered to surrender the notorious World War draft-dodger to serve a

five-year Federal prison sentence. Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind) yesterday introduced the bill which would prohibit Bergdoll's return and that of any other person who may have fled the country as a deserter from the nation’s armed forces. Earlier Harry Weinberger, Bergdoll's attorney, conferred with officials of three Government agencies, informing them that the draft evader wanted to quit Germany and return here to serve his courtmartial sentence. In introducing his bill, Rep. Harness, a war veteran who was cited for bravery, referred to an attempt by Bergdoll to regain his half-million dollar property and said he “was moved to offer this measure at this

CONGRESS

ACTS T0 STRENGTHEN ALIEN STATUTE

Decision on Strecker Still Leaves Bridges’ Case In Doubt.

WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P.). —The Supreme Court's decision in the Strecker case precipitated today a Congressional move to eliminate “loopholes” in the statute providing for deportation of alien members of organizations advocating violent overthrow of the Government. Chairman Hatton W. Sumners (D. Tex.) planned to have the House Judiciary Committee examine the law immediately and consider changes that would leave no doubt that past as well as present membership in such organizations shall be cause for deportation. Bridges’ Case in Doubt The Court's decision, invalidating a deportation order against Joseph George Strecker, admitted one-time Communist, still left in doubt the case of Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast labor leader who has been accused of being a Communist. The Bridges deportation order was held up by the Labor Départment pending the Strecker decision. But the court voided the Strecker order because he was not a member of the Communist Party when deportation proceedings were instituted or upon entry to this country. Mr. Bridges denies that he is a Communist. Thus his case appears to depend whether the Labor Department can prove he is, or was when entéring this country, a member, and whether the Communist Party advocates violent overthrow of the Government. The court did not rule in the Strecker case whether that party falls within the category of proscribed organizations. Law Held Almost Dead Some Government officials said privately, and Associate Justice James C. McReynolds, in a dissenting opinion, indicated that they considered the Federal statute in question practically a dead letter as a result of the Strecker decision. The majority decision held that the law limited deportation to two classes of aliens—those belonging to organizations advocating violent overthrow of the Government when they entered the country and those belonging when deportation proceedings were instituted.

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The “ranch-house” model home at the 18th Annual Home Show is receiving more favorable comment than any previous one, J. Frank Cantwell, managing director, said today. Builder of the All-Indiana home is Forest B. Kellogg, seated at the mahogany semicircular desk in the den. Mrs. Kellogg is seated in a bleached oak chair which is

upholstered in turquoise frieze.

Attendance Exceeds 38: Garden Club Day Noted

Attendance at the 18th Annual

Home Show at the Manufacturers’

Building at the Fair Grounds is running slightly ahead of last year despite bad weather, J. Frank Cantwell, show managing director, said

today.

No special day will be observed at the exhibit today, he announced, because of the death of Emmet G. Ralston, Electric League president

for the last four years.

As in the past the Electric League was to have celebrated its ‘day’ with the annual luncheon.

Officers, members of the board of directors and exhibitors sent a greeting to Eugene Whitehill, Ban-ner-Whitehill general manager, who is recovering from an operation at St. Vincent's Hospital. BannerWhitehill furnished the model home at this year’s exhibition. More than 450 Indiana women interested in gardens and garden clubs attended the “Garden Club Day” yesterday. Mrs. M. Clifford Townsend was honor guest at their luncheon and speakers included Mrs. Walter P, Morton, Indiana Garden clubs state president, and Mrs. Robert H.

Miles, garden representative on the show's board of directors. W. H. Potter, Cleveland, O., discussed garden lighting and demonstrated methods with colored slides. Committee chairmen in charge were Mrs. Minor Goulding, Mrs. Robert F. Mannfeld, Mrs. Leonard Murchison, and Mrs. Chester Taylor,

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DAY, APRIL 18,

TAX VALUATIONS RAISED $25,000

230 Assessment Lists Given Righer Ratings After Reinvestigations.

Property valuations on 230 tax assessment lists which were considered “too low” have been raised’ $25,000 after reinvestigation, Center Township Assessor James F. Cun-

: ningham announced today.

More than 2000 lists, chiefly from North Side homes and apartments, have been ordered taken back for revaluation. The drive against low valuations? is the second phase of a campaign by Mr. Cunningham against “tax dodgers.” A $pecial squad of picked

|deputies are working to “collar” | property owners who have failed to

turn in any assessment lists. Seve eral hundred in this class already have filled out and turned in lists, he said. .

‘BAD BOY,’ 25, TO DIE SOON BY LETHAL GAS

FLORENCE, Ariz, April 18 (U. P.) —Archie Lee Short, 25-year-old “bad boy” Arizona convict, will go to his death in the lethal gas cham ber at dawn April 28. The youthful murderer, whe killed a deputy sheriff during an escape, made his final appeal for his life to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, asking commu tation of his sentence to life im= prisonment so he could “help some other boy in this prison to reform.” The board ignored the plea.

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The second is that local bi-par-| tisan boards. proposed for adminis-

J. O'Connor Roberts, committee counsel, questioned Mr. Benjamin tration by Republicans, would keep about a statement in the report of relief more clear of politics. | the House Committee on un-Amer-ican Activities that he had made a! Seeks Local Responsibility {report to the Third Internationale of the organization of the Workers Alliance. The statement attributed to him was that the unification of

Parole Conference today that while time to insure against this archlcivilization has progressed amazing-|traitor's return to this country lv, the penal system in the United under any circumstances.”

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Senator Byrnes. in his bill, seeks to bring about local responsibility bv requiring one-third local contribution for all work relief projects of the type hitherto provided through WPA. Senator McNary

States has not kept pace. He urged separation of poli-| tics from parole administration and Rochester, N. Y,, Chosen for suggested that other states follow Surplus Food Plan the example of Minnesota, which ; : restores civil rights to parollees who| WASHINGTON, April 18 (U.P). te Jnemployed councils ine the live up to state standards of good! _The Federal Surplus Commodities Jorkers lance represent the 'hehavior. ivelv culmination of a four years’ cam-| The conference was called by At- |Corp. tentatively selected Rochester,

proposed a 25 per cent local contribution.

As for politics, Senator Byrnes!

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paign by the Communist party.

Reveals U. A. W. Gift Benjamin denied

he made

argues that local administration would be far more likely to throw relief into politics than Federal ad-

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| torney-General Murphy to seek {means of standardizing and perfecting state parole systems.

SIX BOYS CONFESS TO

IN. Y,, today as the first city to use |the new food stamp plan for distributing farm surpluses to relief clients. The plan probably will be put into effect May 15. prcbably in the Middle West, is ex-

of this new

Questioned the alliance

ministration. The weight of evi- financial report for a 15-month

dence seems to be with him on this point. As a result of the “poltics in relief” revealed by the Sheppard committee, the Senate now has passed a permanent law forbidding politics | in WPA, with heavy penalties. This bill is expected to be approved by the House. Col. F. C. Harrington, ' the Army Officer now in charge of WPA, has begun to clean house.

NEW BUDGET CHIEF PLEDGES SELF-RULE -

WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P) LLM —Harold D. Smith, the new budget on \

SIGNING’ CRACK TRAIN | The second experimental city. period ending Aug. 31, 1938, Mr. nn

(pected to be named early next Benjamin said a $7000 contribution, WASHINGTON, Pa. April 18 (U. oii, was received from the United Auto-| P.).—Six boys today were put on REWEAVE mobile Workers Union, a C. I. O. Probation and ordered to pay damaffiliate. | ages and costs after they pleaded MOTH HOLES In protesting procedure used dur-! guilty to defacing the “Coronation ing the hearing, both Mr. Lasser Scof,” crack British train touring Owndlvna Nay, s and Mr. Benjamin said in a joint this country. i? f 1602 MERCHANTS BANK BLDG. LI-9674

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