Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1939 — Page 3

TUESDAY, APRIL 25,

ENGINEER BACKS LIMIT ON WELLS FOR AIR-GOOLING

Ex-Water Co. Aid Says Plan To Guard City Sources One of Necessity.

There is precedent for the Works Board proposals to control the num-

ber of air-conditioning wells in downtown Indianapolis and for a sewer tax on waste water, Harry B. Jordan, American Water Works Association executive secretary, said today. He was here to attend the 32d annual meeting of the Association's Indiana Section at the Antlers Hotel, to which 300 delegates are expected. Meetings will continue through tomorrow.

Mr. Jordan, former Indianapolis] said that the!

Water Co. engineer, Works Board proposal, made yesterday, follows actions taken by several cities, among them Detroit, Cleveland and several ‘other Ohio cities. ‘On Convention Program

Mr. Jordan, Reeves J. Newsom, Association president, and a number of other water works officials will address the current meeting. Mr. Jordan, in an interview, said

it was a well known fact among!

water men that no American city sits over enough ground water to completely air-condition all of its buildings with the single use of well water that then is dumped into sewers and run off. He said that it had been proven that if all the rain water that fell over the Indianapolis Mile Square were to be impounded and used only for air-conditioning purposes, it would not be enough. Actually, little, if any, of the| water that falls over the Mile Square finds its way into the underground reservoir from which well water is drawn for the cooling systems. Outlines Water Problem

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Some Rush

These are part of 2300 Marion

who made demands for $8.424,000 reductions in their property valuations before the State Tax Board yes-

to Pay,

County taxpayers

HENDERSON 0. K. FOR SEC LIKELY

to Get Chairmanship Until He Quits in June.

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. PJ).

Administration leaders today predicted early confirmation of Leon Henderson as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. President Roosevelt named Mr. Henderson, New Deal economist and temporary Economic Committee ex-

Thus, he said, when more and more wells are sunk in the congested area, the water table under the city is lowered. As it is lowered,

ecutive secretary, to succeed Wii-

{liam O. Douglas, who was appointed | [to the Supreme Court.

Jerome Frank, now serving as a |Commissioner, appeared the more

the wells must be dug deeper, at a |likely candidate for the chairman-

greater expense. Each robs those already producing, he] said. The ultimate, he said, would | be so many that none would pro- | duce water for cooling systems. Mr. Jordan said several cities | have devised different methods of | control of the drilling of these! wells, and for levying sewer taxes. |! Some of them, he said, run the | water through meters and charge | by the volume. Some figure th winter month runoff normal and charge for all in excess of that during hot weather months. The lat-| ter plan was proposed to the Works Board yesterday. Mr. Jordan said air-conditioning men realize that they can not do the job they envision with the single use of well water and that they are working toward the conservation of | the water supply through its reuse. ! C. D. Alexander, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the association members as the program opened. The mornIng session was taken up with technical reports.

MORGAN TO ATTEND WHITE HOUSE PARLEY

DeWitt Morgan, Indianapolis | schools superintendent, was to leave this afternoon for Washington to participate in the White House] Conference on Children in Democ- | racy. Mr. Morgan was invited by Secretary of Labor Perkins to join with | leading educators and child welfare! experts in developing a program to “give greater security to childhood and a larger measure of opportunity | to youth.” | Among those addressing the conference tomorrow will be President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Emma C. Puschner, American Legion national child welfare] director, also will participate in the conference. |

new well ship vacated by Mr. Douglas.

If the |SEC should elect him chairman, it was believed he would hold the post only until June, when he may re-

| tire to private law practice. In chat

case, Mr. Henderson would be in {line for the chairmanship.

House to Vote on

Strategic Purchases

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P). —The House was expected to vote today on a bill authorizing expenditure of 100 million dollars for the purchase of strategic minerals and metals needed for national defense. The Senate has aproved a measure authorizing the spending of 40 million dollars for the same materials, and it was expected that an at-

| tempt would be made to reduce the |amount of the House bill.

President Roosevelt has announced that he would not approve expenditure of more than 10 million dollars for strategic materials next | year.

Cost of Production

Farm Plan Scrapped

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P.). —The House Agriculture Committee today scrapped the cost-of-produc-tion farm relief proposal. By a vote of 17 to 6, the Committee refused to report the bill that would have guaranteed farmers an arbitrarily determined cost of production price for virtually every , product. The sponsors proposed that the | Agriculture Secretary set a cost of |production on all of 52 major farm products and that this be paid to all farmers for that portion of their production domestically consumed.

WINAMAC MAN, 83, DEAD LOGANSPORT, April 25—Funeral services will be held at Wina{mac tomorrow for Charles Scott, 83, nursery salesman, who died yesterday in a taxicab.

terday and today. reduced valuations will be certified to township assessors for reappraisals.

Petitioners found deserving of

Protes: ts on Valua tions

Hundreds more Marion County

HALF OF SPRING COLLECTIONS IN

Deadline for Property Levy Payments Is Monday Afternoon.

Approximately $4,000,000 additional spring property tax installments will be paid into the Treasurer's Office before the deadline Monday afternoon, Chief Deputy Treasurer Albert O. Koesters predicted today. About half of the total $9,000,000 in spring payments due was collected to this week. Double lines of property owners with duplicates in hand filed by the cashier windows vesterday. Large corporations are expected to pay their assessments this week. The deadline for over-the-counter payments is Monday at 5:30 p. m, Mr. Koesters warned, but added that mailed-in payments postmarked not later than Monday midnight will be accepted by the office as being on time. Those turned in after that time will be considered delinquent, subject to the customary legal penalties. At the same time, th: annual tax assessment drive by Center Township Assessor James F. Cunningham was going forward at full steam today. Mr. Cunningham said more than half of the township property owners had filed acceptable lists with property valuations for taxation purposes. The deadline for filing assessments lists is May 15.

LINDBERGH VISITS BUFFALO FACTORY

BUFFALO, N. Y,, April 25 (U. P.). —Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, on official duty for the U. S. Army, completes his inspection of Buffalo's aircraft industry today. He visited the Bell Aircraft plant where 13 Aircudas, powerful multiseat fighting planes, are under construction for the Army. It was believed he would leave Buffalo late today or early tomorrow.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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MEETINGS TODAY

Bes otary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

Po parent - Teacher Association, Claypool Hotel. all day. oar Hotel Washing-

Inti Club. dinner, luncheon, Board of

meeting,

Alp ha Tan Omega, ra Gro Claw, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel,

PM OMereator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, oon, cuniversal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

University of Michigan Club, Board of Trade, noon. KRiahis at Columbus, luncheon, Board of Trade, Eutheran Pserviee Club, Cottage, noon. Fine Paper Credit Group, luncheon, Mens Qrille, the William H. Block Co.

Po Rational Food Products Credit Group, lunche Columbia Club. noon. Indiaha Section American Water Works 3 sshera Lion, convention, Hotel Antlers, all

2 coal Food Products Oredit Group, dinner, Columbia Club, 6 p

MEETINGS TOMORROW Indiana Section, American Water Works Association, convention, Hotel Antlers all

luncheon,

luncheon, Canary

Parent-Teacher Association, meetings, DIaypool Hotel, all day. ianapolis Apartment Owners Asseciation, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noo 5 iwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Chub,

NOP fons Club, luncheon Hotel Washington, n.

YX. A gamer Cluy, meeting, Central Y. “o A, ¥suag | Men's Discussion Club, dinner,

Purdu luncheon, Hotel erin, 12th District y (or TO Legion, luncheon, Board of Trade noon. ey . Alpha Epsilon, luncheon, Board of ra Delta Me heia Tau, luncheon, Seville Tavern, noon Bo Doera rative Club of A NHanspolis, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. (indiana Motor Traffic Association, lunchn, Hotel Antlers, noon **fndianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon. Canary Cottage, noon.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

Alumni Association,

ee. is not responsible for errors in ames and addresses.)

Vernon Timpus, 35, of 1140 Park Ave.; Leona Harter 27, of 511 N. Wallace St. Clifton Strother, 23. of 1016 N. Haugh St.. Ida Payton, 21, of 456 Ketcham St. Oscar Payne, 36, of 431 N. Illinois St.; Ethel Neal, 33. of 431 N. Illinois St. August Beckman, 31, of Richmond; Betty Hurlburt, 20, of 1232 \W. 30th St.

BIRTHS Boys

James, Mary Hickiman, at St. Vincent's. Leroy, Margaret Carey, at St. Vincent's. Paul, Barbara White, at Methodist. William, Hazel Nunnally, at Methodist. F. Hanley, Martha Burton, at Methodist. Frank, Grace Langhford, at Methodist. Leonard, Edith Schenck, at Coleman. Sylvester. Nere IIurley, at City Roy. Julia Huddleston, at 1114 S. Belmon

Girls

Clyde, Gladys Davis, at 1517 Mont Fred. Martha Gibson, at is Ww. Rh

Robert, E at 616 Beecher. waliam, Edith raverse. at 902 Ft. 3 E., Gladys Jobes, at Methodist. Harold, Lois Robertson, at Methodist. H. L., Nancy Breunig at Methodist. Herbert, Hazel Hoff, at Methodist. Forest, Ruth Caste ter, at Methodist. Gordon, Roberta Howard, at Coleman. Wayne, Louise Campbell, at Coleman. John, Georgia Williams, at City

DEATHS

Thomas Devening, 8, at 6543 Ferguson, cerebral apoplexy Sarah Jane Alien, 9, at 6124 Lowell, cardio vascular renal disease. May Fording, 50, at 525 Centennial, chronic Jnyearditis. Ida Alice Williams, 39, at 24 N. Richland, acute nyQeardi is. BE cob N. cin Samuel Arens, 82, at St. Vinceat's, carcinoma. a O. Locklear, 52, at City, brain William Diltz Docketer, 75, at 4217 Baltimore. coronary occlusion. Elizabeth Mary Koehl, at St. Vincent's, cerebral Atmorrh age. Leon Allender, at Riley, tuberculous meningiti Effie 0 epding, 52, at Methodist, coronary occlusion. Fr D. Hoham, 47, at Veterans, endocarditis. William A, Adam, €6, at 3036 E. 10th. chronic myocarditis. Bridget Kelly, 78, at St. renal calculus. James Sheeley, Pla at 213¢ N. Keystone, coronary_occlusi Jesse meningitis. Mary Dug mitral re tation Mary Helen ore cerebral hemorrhage James Donohue, 1. at St. pneumococcus meningitis. Johnnie Hunter, 3 at City, lobar pneumonia,

Vincent's,

, Se, at City, tuberculous an. 65, at 2143 N. Meridian,

FIRES Monday

: ¢ A. M.—Residence of V. Stan, 336 P 1 8S. |] Bon

10:28 Blake St.. sparks from bonfire, $20 loss 41 P. M—_Ward Coal Co. Rural ts

| sparks from grass “Hire loss

Harlan, 80, at Methodist, car- t

64, at 1028 Cornell, Vincent's, | |

Allfree St., kerosene stove explosion, no

P. M.—At 1015 N. New Jersey St.,

3:56 P. grass fire, no loss sr P. M.—Eli Lilly Co., 700 S. Delaware 5 1022 E.

heater tank LY oh. $40 loss. 5:02 P. M.—Hoosier Foundry Co., Michigag Sty cause unknown, $1 loss 5:59 P. M.—Residence of Dessie “Hutt, 1635 Th Ave., weatherboarding on fire, $10 105 SS. 9:51 P. M.—Residence of Mrs. Curnette, 37 E. 11th St., odor of smoke, no loss. Tuesday

6:17 A. M.—Residence of J. H. Taylor, 1006 S. East St., sparks from stove, $5 loss.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Unsettled tonight and tomorrow; showers and local thunderstorms probable; somewhat cooler

. | tomorrow or tomorrow night.

Sunrise 4:33 | Sunset — April 25, 1938—

TEMPERATURE

BAROMETER 6:30 a. m. 29.93

Precipitation 24 hrs. end. 6:30 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1.... .1 Excess since 1 3

FwERi WEATHER

Indiana—Unsettled tonight and tomorrow, showers with local thunderstorms probable; somewhat cooler tomorrow or tomorrow night. Tllinois—Unsettled tonight and tomorrow, showers with local thunderstorms probable; cooler tomorrow and in extreme northwest onight. Lower Michigan—Unsettled, night or by tomorrow; warmer extreme NE hem tonight, somewhat cooler tomorrow central and south portoins. Ohio—Occasional rain, slightly warmer in southeast, cooler in extreme northeast portion tonight; scattered showers tomorrow with slightly cooler in north portion. Kentucky—Occasional rain tonight ‘and probably tomorrow morning: slightly warmer in east and central portions tomorrow.

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property owners were to make in-

dividual appearances before the State Tax Board today demanding reductions in their property valuations for 1940 taxes. Yesterday nearly 1000 filed past Tax Board members’ desks in the House of Representatives Chambers, giving evidence to back up their petitions fon Toad juhment of valuations.

A total of 2327 Marion County petitions were on file when hearwn began early yesterday. Reductions asked totaled $8,424,000.

Pleas to Be Reviewed

At the close of the hearings today, the Tax Board will review each petition, selecting those applications that appear most deserving of reappraisement. The Board then will make speci-

fic orders for reappraisement of the properties to township assessors. After assessors make new appraisals, property owners still have the opportunity to appeal them to the County Board of Tax Review and if the final valuation fixed by that body is not satisfactory to the taxpayer, he can appeal again to the State Board. Property owners whose petitions are turned down by the State Board now will have no further recourse for reappraisals until 1941 when a general reassessment of real estate is expected to be ordered by the State Board.

1932 Last Rating

No assessment of real estate has been made in Indiana since 1932 The 1933 Legislature banned the four-year real estate appraisal plan,

leaving reassessments up to the State Tax ‘Board. That body has not ordered one since the Act was passed and each year the petitions for reappraisals have increased. Board members said they were planning to order general reassessments in 1041.

Hearing on School

Projects Is Tonight A taxpayers’ hearing will be held at 8 o'clock tonight on the School Board's proposal to issue not more than $200,000 bonds to finance building of three school structures.

The buildings are the $130,000 grade School 86, the $30,000 auditorium at School 60, and the $15,000 for excavations and footings for the Howe High School gymnasium-audi-torium. Contracts are also to be awarded for the seats and finishing hardware of the Milo H. Stuart Memorial Building at Technical High School.

GIRL, 8, IS DROPPED TO SAFETY IN FIRE

Eight-year-old Geraldine Pry was dropped to safety yesterday from the second-story window of her home, 334 Smith St., after a kerosene stove exploded. Her rescuer was Joseph Hazelwood, 26, same address. The fire did $400 damage, firemen estimated. The child was bruised in the fall.

GIRL, 9, LOSES FIGHT AGAINST PNEUMONIA

Schoolmates mourned today for 99-year-old Dorothy Leona Cowan, who died close to the religion she loved so well. Dorothy attended Holy Trinity Catholic Church and was a member of the fourth grade at Holy Trinity School. Last week she was taken ill with tonsilitis which developed into pneumonia. She was taken from her home, 2300 block on Road 52, to St. Vincent’s Hospital where physicians placed her in an oxygen tent. For

and in one of his many visits to her bedside, the Rev. Fr. Edward .Bockhold of Holy Trinity Church administered the last rites. Dorothy Leona listened attentively while the rites were being said and then when Father Bockhold had finished, she turned her head toward him and said: “Thank you, Father.” She died at 10 last night. She is survived by her parents, Alfred Cowan, a member of the rating bureau of the U. S. Veterans Administration, and Mrs. Cowan: a brother, Jack; three aunts, Miss Leona Lannon, Mrs. Laura Haas and Mrs. Homer Groves, and three uncles, William Lannan and Charles and Harry Cowan, all of Indianapolis. Funeral- services will be held. at 9:30 a. m. Thursday at the home and at 10 a. m. at the Holy Trinity Church. Burial will be at Holy Cross Cemetery.

BOY, 14, HANGS SELF DETROIT, April 25 (U. P).— Fourteen - year -old Ernest Stier slapped his mother last night in an argument over dish washing, turned, and fled to his bedroom. Twenty | minutes later his brother

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Others Ask Cuts as Hundreds Storm Tax Offices

The semi-annual rush is on for Marion County Treasurers office.

five more days to pay the spring installment of their

taxpayers at the They have only line.

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property taxes to escape the delinquent penalties that will be imposed after the Monday night dead-

SHIFT TO MERGE WPA WITH PWA

New Dea! Expected to Get

Political Boost as People Forget.

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works agency would permit the drafting of a long-time program which would be ready at the approach of depression. Heretofore, Congress has appropriated separately for the different agencies now proposed to be lumped together, with the tendency natural for each agency and its friends in Congress to get as much as possible for itself and, once it got it, to spend it all. Whiie ostensibly dropping the WPA as such, President Roosevelt at the same time would perpetuate its objective and philosophy under another and less politically vulnerable form through the new agency, which will make harder the campaign promoted by Republicans and some Democrats to consider the WPA as an emergency rather than a permanent agency. The President appropriated the idea for a public works agency right out from under the nose of Senator Byrnes (D. S. C.), who had worked on it for more than a year and had prepared a bill which was on the Senate calendar. The Senator was

‘|somewhat disappointed and finally

decided yesterday to withdraw his bill, just as the Senate was predaring to take it up, and await Mr. Roosevelt's proposal.

PWA Reports

Record Construction

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. PJ). —Public works construction reached an all-time record peak of 801 million dollars during the first quarter of 1939, the Public Works Administration said today. The PWA program accounted for approximately 40 per cent of the outlay. Private contract awards, however, were 209 million dollars, 27 per cent less than in the first three months of 1938.

JAPAN MAY AGGEPT ANTI-SOVIET PACT

TOKYO, April 256 (U."P.)., — source close to the Government of Premier Baron Kiichira Hiranuma said today that the inner Cabinet had agreed that Japan would avoid

participation in any general front

against the democratic powers unless endangered by co-operation between Soviet Russia and the democracies. The exception to the fundamental policy which the five inner Cabinet members agreed to submit to the full Cabinet was considered of special significance because of the British and French negotiations to bring the Soviets into the European antiaggression front. It was understood that the agreement reached by the inner Cabinet after several stormy sessions provided for: 1. A compromise by which Japan would be willing to enter into a military alliance with Germany and Italy directed exclusively against Soviet Russia. 2. Broadening of the alliance in event other European powers (presumably Britain and France)' hecome actively allied with the Soviets and are considered a danger to Japan. This, in effect, constituted a move by the totalitarian powers to warn Britain that an alliance with Russia probably would turn the anti-Communist pact into an outright military alliance.

FELLOW WORKERS RESCUE LINEMAN

A safety belt and the prompt application of artificial respiration by fellow workers were credited today with saving the life of George C. Patterson, a power lineman. On an Indianapolis Power & Light Co. pole at 30th St. and Guion Road, Flackville, Mr. Patterson touched a wire carrying 2300 volts and was knocked unconscious. His safety belt prevented his body from falling to the ground while Fred Bechold, 40, R. R. 15, Box 455, and Alonzo Johnson, 34, of 1154 Vincennes Ave., climbed the pole and lowered him to safety. Russell Miller, 3444 Brouse St. gang foreman, immediately applied artificial respiration and in five minutes said the still unconscious victim was breathing without assistance. Mr. Patterson was taken to Methodist’ Hospital where physicians said he probably would recover. They said the current entered the body through the left

had and left through the right both of which contact

Island for Sale

‘God’s Little (Upstate) Acre’ Put on Block; $4.05 and Up.

ASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P.)—The Government today put up God's Little Acre for sale and announced its _rock bottom price was $4.05. The tract is a tiny island in Huffman Lake: near Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Indiana, a last frontier apparently overlooked in the westward sweep of civilization, even by Indiana after her 23,080,800 acres became a State in 1816. The island has an area of only one-quarter acre.

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N 1936 a resident of Warsaw asked the Government to survey the island. “It is just God's acre and I want it,” he said, “and will promise to develop it and utilize it in a way becoming to an American gentleman.” “God's acre” will go on the auction block in the general land office here June 19. The high bidder, however, must pay spot cash and, in addition, defray the cost of advertising the sale for five weeks in an Indiana news-

paper

LEISERSON NAMED T0 NLRB POSITION

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tinued its hearings on proposed amendment of the act. Charles Fahy, NRLB general counsel, testified that proposed amendments would “create confusion and uncertainty” and ultimately frustrate ths purpose of the law. Continuing the defense of the act begun last week by Board Chairman J. Warren Madden, Mr. Fahy said the Board has and would administer the act “with all the fairness and impartiality of which men are capable.” “We are not partisans of any cause except the cause of the law itself, equally and justly administered,” he said. “We have used it to afford where necessary’ the protection it was designed to give. Every known weapon has been hurled to demolish it or push it aside. All these weapons thus far have struck in vain. It is

A now before you complete and un-

blemished in itself. Nothing has shaken it from the hands that hold it or from its place in the law of the land.” In the House, the controversy over the act was heightened by the disclosure that the Rules Committee has served notice on Administration leaders that unless action is taken on the proposed amendments it will aprove a resolution to investigate the NLRB.

CLUBS SCAN WATER PLANT PURCHASE

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all indicating municipal ownership had proven highly satisfactory, except in Wheeling, W. Va. The superintendent of the water utility at Wheeling, which has lower mini-

mum rates than Indianapolis, in-

formed Mr. Snethen that the utility there had been operated at a loss. ,Meanwhile, City Councilmen and utility district trustees were studying data on the proposed purchase preparatory to attending a conference with Mayor Sullivan, It has been indicated that the conference may be held some time next week. Under a law passed at the last General Assembly under the City's sponsorship, acquisition of any utility by the City must be approved by the Mayor, City Council and Utility District trustees. The federation also will hear reports on the proposed 1l-cent reduction in the price of milk, and on the proposal that the City Works and Parks Boards hold night meetings once a month. The proposal that the two boards hold night meetings was laid before Mayor Sullivan yesterday by a federation committee. It was taken under advisement. A hearing on the milk price reduction was to be conducted today by the State Milk Control Board.

BUTSCH IS MOVED; SANITY TEST ENDS

William Ray Butsch, accused of the hammer murder of Mrs. Carrie

Lelah Romig Jan. 17, was in the County Jail again today. He had been held at the City Hospital detention ward while Dr. Max Bahr and Dr. LaRue Carter, psychiatrists, made sanity The

F. D. R. ORDERS REORGANIZATION

Congress Has 60 Days to Reject Plan, 15 Million Saving Claimed.

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empt from the operations of the act).” The three major new agencies established under Mr. Roosevelt's plan would be of virtual Cabinet rank although no such official designation can be made under terms of the reorganization act. The President’s original reorganization plan had called for creation of two new Cabinet posts to head the security and works agencies. Mr. Roosevelt noted specifically that he was unable to transfer to the executive department “the administration of the third managerial function of the Government, that of personnel.” So he proposed to name one of the six administrative assistants given him by the act to serve as liaison agent on personnel matters. In his original reorganization plan, Mr. Roosevelt and proposed placing Government civil service under a single administrator working directly under the President. This feature was eliminated by Congress. The President said his additions to the White House executive department were designed to strengthen management functions of budget and efficiency research, planning and personnel, but denied that they could “become in any sense assistant Presidents.” Mr. Roosevelt said the task of reorganization of the Government had by no means been completed by the submission of the present law. Improvement of efficiency and elimination of duplication, he said, “may require from time to time the submission of one or more plans involving one or more reorganizations.” Over each of the three major new agencies of Government — security, works and loans—Mr. Roosevelt proposed to place an administrator drawing a salary of $12,000 a year, with a $9000-per-year assistant administrator. The function of each administrator was set forth as general direction and supervision of all transferred agencies. The three new administrators would be appointed subject to Senate confirmation.

IMPROVED S. EAST ST.

TO BE OPENED MAY 6

S. East St., paved from South St. to Sanders St., will be opened May 6, it was announced today by M. G. Johnson, city engineer. The three-quarter mile highway was expected to cost $155,000, of which 45 per cent is a PWA grant. Mr. Johnson said he believed the cost would be one or two thousand dollars under the estimate.

AF LCLD JOININBACKING FURTHER PROBE

Interrupt Fight to Seek Funds for La Follette Committee.

LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, April 25.—Miracle of miracles—while the A. FP of L.-C. I. O. batte grows hotter on every other front they have mans aged to get together on one.

Even though their agreement is unplanned and not to be interpreted as .leading to a united front on anything else, the sure

| prising fact of this isolated unity

seems to be reversing one antilabor trend in Congress. The issue is effective continu ance of the La Follette-Thomas Civil Liberties Committee or its death through lack of necessary funds. Until recently the Senate powers, partly under the influ=ence of antilabor employers, ap= parently had decided not to give the Committee any more money. The economy drive was a convene ient excuse, even though the Come mittee has more than paid for itself and the required additional amount is a modest $100,000. Also there was some kind of understanding last year that the Committee itself would not request more.

Senators Persuaded

But now unexpectedly the divide ed labor organizations are taking out enough time in their mutual throatcutting to urge continuation of the Committee's investigation and funds therefor. The A. F. of L. and C. I. O. and the independent railway brotherhoods all are lobbye ing with equal vigor for the same thing. Many on-the-fence Senators, who have been finding the interunion feuds sufficient reason to ignore the labor vote, are suddenly solicitous about the fate of the Civil Liberties Committee, Chances of passage of the Schwellenbach (D. Wash.) resolution for an additional $100,000 to continue the investigation, which was introduced last week, are now considered fairly good. At any rate, it is believed that a compromise $50,000 can be obtained.

House to Get Similar Bill

This unusual unity of all organe ized labor groups is having similar

results in increasing the chances of the La Follette-Thomas bill to outlaw so-called oppressive labor practices by employers, as the Wagner law outlaws unfair labor prace tices of employers. A companion bill will be introduced in the House soon. And hearings probably will be held early enough to prevent ene=mies sidetracking the legislation in the jam at the close of the session. Part of the unfinished business of the La Follette-Thomas Committee is a Pacific Coast investigation, particularly that relating to the alleged antilabor activities of the Associated Farmers in California.

TWO LILLY WORKERS INJURED IN BLAST

Two Eli Lilly & Co. employees were recovering today from burns received when a heating tank exploded yesterday in the plant at Delaware and McCarty Sts. Hubert Childs, 32, of 324 E. 23d St., was in Methodist Hospital with first and second degree burns on his leg. David McKinstry, 28, of 3521 Winthrop Ave., was at home with less serious burns on his face. Firemen said the explosion oe¢= curred in the liver extract departe ment.

WALTON PASTOR RESIGNS Times Special WALTON, April 25.—The Rev. T. C. Cotton has resigned as pastor of Walton Methodist Church to ase sume the pastorship of the Methodist Church at Daleville, Ind. The Rev. H. V. Cummins of Howe, Ind, will succeed the Rev. Mr. Cotton here.

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