Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1939 — Page 3

MONDAY, MAY 15, 1939

CIVIL LIBERTY IN’ CITIES 1S VITAL, MURPHY WARNS

Roosevelt Asks Mayors to

| | | | | |

Co-operate; Harrington Hits Congress.

NEW YORK, May 15 (U. P).— Attorney General Murphy today assailed governments directed by “ar-| rogant minorities that happen to, hold the kev to the gun room.” Speaking before a joint meeting

of the United States Conference of Mayors and the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, he urged Americans to realize increasingly their responsibility as “trustees of civilization.” Without naming any government, Mr. Murphy criticized political doc- | trines that recognize human being | “only as cogs in a machine.” He| described the safeguard of civil lib-| erties as the best American safe-, guard against such doctrines.

Speaks of Denials Mr. Murphy said he had informa-| tion indicating that “some public officials had used their power arbitrarily.” “Ordinances have been passed and invoked that are oppressive and un- | just and violate common right,” he

rb re shai a eA ei Tung. Wi

State Democratic headquarters

dressed up with a glitter rivaling a movie set. ger and Miss Gene Selby of Sullivan (left to right) certainly know the | offices are just around the corner with that neon sign pointing the way.

State Chairman Fred F. Bays had

enameled walls, blue rugs and wine-colored draperies. of the private office are portraits of the pelitical greats.

have to spend a lot of tough hours’

| as well have them cheerful to keep

FOTN |

Times Photo. at the Claypcol Hotel have been Miss Jane Yung of Dug-

the rooms redecorated with white On the walls “We all will work in these rooms and we might up the morale,” Mr. Bays said.

said. “Citizens have been denied] the right to express freely their] opinions and to worship as they! please.” The Attorney General cited the] establishment of a new unit by the| Justice Department for the specific | purpose of increasing of the Fed- | eral Government's ability to protect | civil rights. He said that a deluge] of complaints—‘"some unwarranted and many not’—asserting that civil liberties have been abridged had been received.

“Seeds of Barbarism Sown”

“The unmistakable fact is that] the seeds of barbarism have been, sown among us,” Mr. Murphy said. | “and there are those who would like | to see them sprout and grow.’ Mr. Murphy told the mayors and | municipal officials that the first | battleground is for civil liberties in local communities. About 150 mayors attended the] conference, opened by Mayor F. H.| La Guardia. He criticized the Fed-| eral Government for failure to “take! care of all jobless employables.” He said relief was the most important problem for the mayors to discuss. President Roosevelt sent to the conference a message asking “co-| operation with the national Govern. | ment on our common problems.”

Harrington Also Speaks

WPA Administrator F. C. Har-| rington today accused the Congres-| sional WPA investigating commit-| tee of magnifying the faults and] ignoring the virtues of the Federal] relief program. In an address before the United| States Conference of Mayors, he| vigorously defended WPA policies, but said present relief methods are| “doubtless capable of improvement.’ “The investigators seem entirely ab-| sorbed in hunting things to! criticize,” he said. “So far as I can| learn, not one of them has yet told | the Committee anything about the! accomplishments of this program, or| the good it has done the unemployed. | Small faults have been magnified and great virtues entirely omitted. | “The true and fair story of the WPA is to be had from thousands| of sources, merely for the asking.| Several of your own membership | gave very effective parts of it to the| congressional committee on May | and 9—testimony in strange contrast to that the investigators are bringing in.” | Seeks Different Criticism

Col. Harrington said criticisms of the general WPA setup based on| “isolated projects” were ill-founded. | The projects are of varving de-| grees of social value and conducted] with varving degrees of efficiency, he said, adding: “Criticism along these lines would | be yseful.”

Tere Is the Traffic Record]

County Deaths 7

(To Date)

193% .. 1938 .....

Speeding 30 Reckless | 33 driving 0 Running | preferential street

City Deaths (To Date)

1939 1938

12 23 ‘Running Red light

May 13-14 Injured . . .. Accidents Dead Arrests |.

7 Drunken . 24 driving 9

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50 Others .......

MEETINGS TODAY

Indiana Dental Association, vention. Claypool Hotel American Society for Metals, Hotel Washington, 6:30 p. m Marion County Democratic luncheon. Clavnool Hotel, 12:15 p . Indianapolis Sales Exetutive ' dinner, Columbia Club, 8 p \ Ladies of the Oriental Shine. convention, Hotel Lincoln, all day pam and Wall Paper Credit ds meeting Coiumbia Club. 4:45 PRs 7h Theta Tau, dinner, te

Enda va polis Press oh dinner, 48 Monument Circle, Clu Board of

Stigntech Trade, noc Hotel Lincoln, | Club,

on. Service Club 8 p

noon Boara

C State conall day. dinner Women, m

Council, ,

national

¢ e lavpool Ho-

b Mine heon

luncheon

Cc meeting,

Irvington Republican 5446’ m, of Trade,

I ast Washington !petia Upsilon, luncheon, noon Insurance Adjusters Association, Hotel W ashi ngton, noon eeting, Hotel W ashington

Ca-| CotCo-! |

luncheon, Servus Ulan, ' 2 pm Sigma Rho Chi y Cottage. noor Notre Dame Club, It tage. noon ndiana University Club, lumbia Club, hoon

meeting. luncheon,

incheon, Canary

luncheon,

MEETINGS TOMORROW

ink-Arms Hotel, |

lg Gyre Club, luncheon

on Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, | noon Indiana Dental Association, vention, Clavpool Hote a Indiana Funeral Directors’ Assoeiation. | onvention, State Fairgrounds, all day. Ladies of Lhe Oriental Shrine, pational mvention. Ho Lincoln, all da Rotary Club Tuneheon Clavpos:

Alpha Tau Omega, , Broiherhood of Locomotive

el] Washington, 6 p Delta Omega, meeting.

o TNE con- |

Hotel, luncheon, Board of p Engineers, Ii Hotel Universal © lab, noon University of Michigan Club, Board of Trade, no Knights of Columbus. of Trade, noon Lutheran Service Club, Co? Lage. noon

Pp. m luncheon, Columbia Club, luncheon, |

luncheon, Board

. Men's Grille, Block's,

| naturalization

aged mother, critically ill in a hos-

Belmont

2 Oharies Teresa Wert,

bet son S. mols, hemiplegia ames

pulmonary 3> iberculosis

nenhritis,

sclerosis

trash pile in garage,

| defeeiive wi 1:23 A. Alahsma St,

3:12 p parks from bonfire,

lawn Ave, 3:30

| fire | WkRpwn,

luncheon, Canary Se

n Piper Credit Group, luncheon, Ne re igposcavhic Sis ool SE

Mothers Have Their Day With Happiness and Sorrow Mixed

Foul on Feller’s Blood May Give

HICAGO. May 15 (U. P).—Mrs. William Feller smiled through a swath of bandages today her appreciation of a Mother's Day gift from her son Bob, 20-vear-old Cleveland Indians’ pitching ace, which

resulted in near-tragedy.

The bandages covered lacerations over her left eye suffered when she was struck bv a foul tip from one of her son's pitches.

There were 28.000 spectators in

terday in celebration of “Feller Day.”

Mrs. Feller, hers husband and daughter, Marguerite, 10, had ac- | companied a delegation from Van Meter, Towa, to pay tribute to the hometown fireballer. The family occupied front row seats on the first base line. ” 5 OB promised his mother he would win the game as a Mother's Day present. He was fulfilling his promise easily when the game reached the last haif of the third inning with the Indians leading, 6 to 0. Marv Owen, Chicago third baseman, tipped a fast pitch into the stands. The ball struck Mrs. Feller above the left eye, shattering the lenses of her glasses. She was rushed to a hospital. Bob stood stunned for a moment, then resumed pitching. Chicago scored three runs before he regained his composure but he stayed to win, 9 to 4. ” = =

Family Reunited After 18-Year Separation

OGANSPORT, May « P).—An 18-year separation for John Domenick, a railway | shop worker, and his family was ended today.

Mrs. Domenick and her children arrived back at Logansport late | yesterday to rejoin him. { In 1921 Mrs. Domenick and seven children left for Italy to visit relatives. Because she had never taken out citizenship papers she was unable to return. Mr. Domenick worked to obtain papers for his | Last year he was success-

15 (U. |

family, ful

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Siz Sons Bring Gift Of Blood to Mother

HICAGO, May 15 (U. P).— Six brothers visited their

BIRTHS

Girls

Daniel, Thelma Lady, John, Beulah Mace James, Marie Webb at City C 1rtis, Marie Catts, at City Gerald, Barbara Oren. at Coleman Corydon, Nellie Pedlow, at Coleman Corydon, Nellie Abbett, at Coleman Joseph. Edna Pedlow, at Coleman, Richard, Bernice ZanNoyv, at St.

at City atCity

Fran-

Joseph Join Erwin, at St, Francis. Charles, Elsie Garner, at 1475 Roosevelt. | Wendell Johnie Martindale, at 1301 S|

at 825 Birch

Fiae Etta Tinsley, Carine Marmon, at 818 S

ate uFe, Sen- | at 2714 N. Olney Bovs

Rilev. Ruth Wall, at City Al, Jan Kettler, at Coleman. Francis Mildred Overstreet ————

at Coleman

DEATHS John Wilson, "6. at 2202 Ww oronary occlusion Forenee Miller, 60, at 1014 Eugene, dia-

Bedel, 96, at 29 - fractured femur N. Jefter.|

Janice Carcl Lathrop, 4 months, at 1045

St ate, Wine bifida Flora Weicher, 61 Methodist, carat 3156 N. mii-

inoma Mary M. Townsend. 83. mes J. Dunbar, 80. at 2459 a ! ardio vascular renal disease Madison, Elizabeth Parke, 42. at Centra! Indiana,

at Methodist,

Minnesota

Margaret E. at Leonara 8S. Hall,

ral hemorrhage. Alice Partlow. 85.

8, cereat aza Maxwell. 50. at

emphigus Benjamin Franklin, 72, ardio renal disease y 1030 Traub,

Anna Lloyd, 82, at 805 W 11th, arterio4 City, William Swainsbury, 95, at 1107 N Rey: |

Methodist, acute Long at

Harrv Collier, at intestinal ob-

struction.

stone, arterios-‘lerosis.

FIRES

SATURDAY 9:57 A, M.—Garage, 116 S. gmerson Ave. loss $25 M.—Residence, 2021 Brouse St., Arne, lose $3. 6 { esidence, 1854 ks from fue $3. Se Bett

loss “P21 P. M.—False alar

m, Washington Sts, Drieiial 4ne 1:26 P. M.—Apartment building, 928 N.| sparks from flue loss $5. garage, 1422 Beliefontaine St. | shed,

shed,

11:06 A

2:34 p. m.,

loss $75.

2:38 p. m., 1426 Bellefontaine, loss

920 Woodlawn Ave.

oss $5 carpenter shop, 924 Woodloss $50. Pp. m, garage, 533 N. Belle Vieu lace, cigaret thrown in bucket of gaso-

ne, no loss. : , false alarm Dickson St. ! ., residence, 2814 N. Capitol] e.. cause unknown, loss $400. 7:29 ». m., Udell Theater. 1017 Udell St. in machine operator's booth, cause loss unestimated. 07 p. m. false alarm, Newman and E.|

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m.,

3:12. p. mm,

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12th RS s

\ Breer Ye ae

wR Pin Mrash i

Pitch Injures Parent's Eye; Son’s

| gasped and died of heart disease.

Lindsay, Cal,

| Mrs, Don Kessler, of Rochester. Mr, 'Klinsick was 71.

IN INDIANA POLIS

Life to Another.

the Chicago White Sox park yes-

pital yesterday, and brought a Mother's Day “gift” which gave her renewed hope for life. Mrs. Laura McCarty, 73, Robin-

DUCE SPEAKS OF PEAGE BUT ASKS ISSUES SETTLED

Europe Listens Closely and Tension Drops Around Danzig.

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declaring that by objective, cold examination of the situation there are not now actually in Europe questions of such magnitude or acuteness as to justify a war, which from a European war would from logical development of the event become universal. “There are knots in European politics, but to untie these knots it is not necessary to resort to the sword. “However, these knots must be untied once for all because sometimes hard reality is preferable to a long period of uncertainty.” The Italian Premier's attitude helped to lessen the tension generally in Europe and especially between Germany and Poland, where it had been feared that Nazi demonstations in Danzig might be a forerunner of an attempted forceful seizure of the city. But despite the satisfaction with which London and Paris received the peace gesture, it was uncertain whether it would lead immediately to negotiations for a settlement of the Suez Canal, the Djibouti port or the Tunisian minority problems with France. Rome and Paris have been insisting that the other make the first move toward a solution and neither has yet given a definite sign of abandoning that attitude.

Confirms Alliance

Sig. Mussolini continued to emphasize the unbreakable solidarity of German-Italian friendship, and

Life Grasp

Parents Give Approval For Surgery to Save Blind Baby.

UINCY, Ill, May 15 (U. P.) — Five-months-old Gerald Wilbur Grunden, who survived a premature birth by incubator care, faced an operation for removal of an eye today in an effort to save his life from a cancerous tumor which already has blinded him. The infant is a victim of glioma, a malignant growth on the optic nerves. Physicians said he will die unless the growth is removed before it reaches the brain. They said it already is too late to save the sight of either eye. The middle-aged parents protested against “an experiment in which there is no assurance the baby will live.” But they withdrew the objection Saturday night after consulting five Quincy specialists.

SCAN CASE OF MOTHER AT 5

Indian Child Bears 5-Pound |

Baby and Both Are Doing Well.

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about her age, we are assured by the girl's conformation that she is not more than six years of age, making this truly an astounding case.” The child mother lay bewildered | in the hospital today,

had happened. | family of nine living in a hut.

| Thursday.

man military alliance would be signed at Berlin next month. Semi-

official sources in Rome today said | it might be signed on Saturday. While Sig. Mussolini continued his! inspection of Northern Italy, including fortifications on the French frontier, Herr Hitler left his moun-| tain lodge at Berchtesgaden to in-| spect German forts known as the Limes Line on the German-French | border. Nazis took the attitude that | Sig. Mussolini's lv for “home consumption” and that!

son, Ill, a patient at Mercy Hospital, was reported in grave condition when physicians advised a blood transfusion. A call went out to her sons, scattered in towns through Indiana and Illinois. Among them was Prentis of Evansville, Ind. The blood of one son, Harry, matched that of his mother and the operation was performed. After the transfusion, hospital attendants reported Mrs. MecCarty's condition had improved.

| |

2 = Mother Pins on Corsage, Drops Dead

LOS ANGELES, May 15 (U. P.). —Mrs. Jennie Rush, 78, was happy | vesterday when she started out in | an auto with her daughter and son-in-law to attend a Mother's Day dinner in suburban Van Nuys. She pinned on a corsage they had given her, then suddenly

” ” ”

2 Killed, 13 Hurt As Giant Oak Falls VISALIA, Cal, May 15 (U. P).

| —Two persons were dead today

and 13 injured, three critically, after a 100-foot oak tree toppled onto a crowd surrounding an ice cream stand in Mooney Grove Park, during a Mother's Day celebration here last night. The dead are: Cecil Griffin, 42, and Mrs. Dale King, 30, Dinuba, Cal.

SHOE MERCHANT DEAD LOGANSPORT, May 15—Fred H. Klinsick, shoe merchant, died Saturday at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. He is survived by his wife and daughter,

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11:47 P, M.—False alate, N. Miley St. | land Big Four Railroac | SUNDAY 10:11 A. M. —Residence, 1024 W. 27th St., kerosene Steve explosion, loss $2, | il:44 A. M Residence, 347" N. Bevi'le Ave i 6:29

cigaret on table, no loss P —Transformer on utility at Henry St, S. Capitol Ave. circuit, 11:19 P. M.—Residence. 1131 BE. 15th St cause unknown, loss $50.

and shoit

OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. S. Weather Bureatlat

INDIANAPOLIS FORLECAST—Cloudy and somewhat coole: tonight, followed by fair and warmer tomorrow.

1:29 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE —May 15, 1938— M..... 48 1:00 p. m.....

B BAR! OMETER

6:53

6:30 a.

Precivitation | 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation pitice | Excess since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Cloudy, becoming fair, precedgd by showers in evireme south portion tonight, cooler in central and north portions tonight: tomorrow generally fair and warmer. followed by showers in north portions bv afternoon or night.

Minois—Generally fair, except unsettled | extreme south portion, cooler except in xtreme south portion tonight; tomorrow generally fair south, increasing cloudiness | with showers in north portion bv afterin central and

6:30 a m an.

00 17.32 2.41

noon «r night, (nor h portio:.s. Laver Michigan—Mostly cloudy, showers beginning in north portion late tonight or tomorrow ( and in south portion Tuesday: cooler in east rnd south portions tonight: Somewhat warmer tomorrow. Ohio Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with showers in extreme north portion tonight, and in north portion tomorrow: somewhat warmer in south portion tonight. Kontueky—Mostly cloudy, warmer in east and central portions tonight; tomorrow generally fair and warmer.

| WEATHER IN OTHE (CITIES 5:30 A. | Station. Bar. A Tex. N. D.

warmer

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Mp! st, Hau 1 NISbiie Ala, ioe New Orleans New York us Okla City, ha. Ne

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{hind whatever program the Fuehrer | worked out for solution of the Dan{zig issue.

make a new peace move by propos-

|pean conditions appeared favorable. ole |

Rejection by

Se aues oF

sel

fended by

the two axis powers would stand be-

Nevertheless, Poland's army, now (numbering well over a million, remained on the alert and Gen. Tadeusz Kasprzyski, War Minister, left Warsaw for Paris to look into the] possibility of acquiring French ma- | chinery for Poland's armament works.

Palestine Plan Drafted There also was optimism in Paris, which received reports that Germany and Italy were encountering difficulty in the phrasing of terms

of the new military alliance. Wheth=-|

ler such difficulties indicated Italian |

uncertain. Great Britain prepared a pro- | gram for solving the Arab- Jewish | conflict in Palestine without much hope of satisfying either side. The program, which would seek to set up a state in which both groups) would participate, with Arabs domi- | nating appeared certain to meet Arab opposition and to result in

| Jewish nonco-operation.

F. D. R. Plan to Call ‘World Parley Denied

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U, P.) — |Officials expressed belief today that (the United States would be willing to participate In an international]

economic conference only on condi-| tion that Europe first remov ed threats of war by settling military

and political quarrels. This was their reaction to suggestions that President Roosevelt might make a new European peace move by seeking to initiate a world economic conference. At the White House Secretary Stephen T. Early characterized as “made out of whole cloth” a New York Times Washington dispatch whiclh said Mr. Roosevelt might|N

ing an economic conference if Euro-

Her pregnancy one-half months. showed x-rays

Dr. of Lina's same age or older, and they showed that she has almost adult bones. She seemed to be a “woman in| | miniature.” The doctors on the case said they would be delighted if some tific foundation from the United | | States would send an investigator |

treatment for the child-mother and baby.

Fishbein Doubts

'Case’s Authenticity

ST. LOUIS, May 15 (U. P) —-Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, today doubted the report of the birth of a son to Lina Medina, 5-year-old Indian girl. Dr. Fishbein, convention of the A, M. A, said he believed such a birth biologically im-

possible, but said that precocity has] {high tribunal last April.

not been unheard of. The youngest |

mother known to the medical world cisions in several important pending

was 9 years old, he said.

“I doubt that the child actually Hague Jersey City civil rights inwas 5 years old due to the fact | junction, the dispute over the pro|that birth records usually are inac- | posed Child Labor Amendment and |fears of domination by Berlin was curate in primitive sections of some

countries,” Dr. Dr. Fishbein declared.

VANDENBERG URGES ITEM VETO FORF.D.R,

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P). —Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.) urged President Roosevelt today to seek legislation giving the chief executive an item veto over appropriations bills. He criticized Senate approval last | {week of unbudgeted items in the Agriculture Department supply bill as the House began a struggle over three bills involving economy and {amendments to the wage-hour law. Most of this week in the House will be devoted to the following work: 1. The $1.218.666,572 appropriation bill must sidered in the light of amendments.

2. The $305,000,000 appropriation Press was reliably informed today.

for rivers and harbors and flood

control improvements was scheduled | Pittman (D. Neb.) of the Senate

for a vote today.

3. Chairman Mary T. Norton (D.|discussed with colleagues advisaJ) of the House Labor Commit. | bility of delaying all action until e | hext session.

tee planned to move to suspend th

HOUSE PASSES FLOOD BILL AS SPENDERS WIN

Indiana as Economizers Are Defeated.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS TAX showdown to be sought at White House. (Page One.) NEUTRALITY amendment may be delayed for year. LEWIS demands WPA of three million, SUPREME COURT rules against stockyards rebate,

FLOOD bill may give Indiana $5,000,000.

LEISERSON suggests U. 8S. mediation agency.

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U.P) — The House today passed a $305. 188,514 appropriation for rivers and harbors and flood control work over the opposition of the economy bloc.

(The bill would provide $200,000 for flood control work on Fall Creek in Indianapolis, but there has been some question whether the local authorities could meet their share of that work this year.) More than $5.000,000 is included for flood work throughout Indiana and an additional $1,211,500 for Ohio River channel work and lock and dam construction, Passage came after the House rejected, 254 to 127, a motion by Rep. D. Lane Powers (D. N. J.) to recommit the bill with instructions that

apparently |that Indiana's share of the fund with little understanding of what would be substantially as follows: She is vne of al

She 000; Tell City, $530,000; Evansville, he confirmed that an Italian- Ger- | Vas brought to Lima from Pisco last | | $800, 000; Gill Township Levee Unit,

lasted eight and |$200,000; Cannelton, $326,000; Law-

Larrabure renceburg, $900,000; pelvic Clarksville, $600,000; Shoals Reser-

| structure, compared to girls of the voir,

scien- Stockyards Rebates

remarks were chief-|to observe the case and advise of |[—The Federal Government

attending the 90th]

agriculture —A movement to abandon neutrality con- legislation at this session of Con=Senate gress is developing in responsible

rules and take up proposed amend- |

ments to the Wage-Hour Law.

Russia of

British Offers Reported

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the Black Sea-Dardanelles-Eastern “there probably are less than 30,000.

Mediterranean flank is unquestion- | True, Britain is permitted by treaty |the United States from June T until ih (tue evening of June 11.

ably the biggest blow yet suffered by | the Italo-German alliance, It was an especially severe blow | to Mussolini. If there is a general European war, his job at the south-| ern end of the axis will be vastly | more difficult and dangerous than ever before. Italy can scarcely | relish the role she would have to play. Turkey is the key to the Whole eastern end of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, Southern Russia and | the back door to the Balkans. She! makes the defense of Egypt and Suez much simpler.

Neutralizes Rhodes As long as Turkey and Greece!

hold out, supplies can reach Ru-|Port Said and Alexandria. It would! Taylor

mania and even Poland via the] Black Sea. The same applies to Russia—if she finally decides to! cast her lot with Britain and France. Without Turkey, the Italian | Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean | ‘|could have proved extremely dan-| gerous for Britain, France, Greece

and Egypt. Rhodes and Leros, some backs on Egypt and attack French ‘Federal Mediation

to maintain 10,000 soldiers Egypt and she now has an armored division on duty there, and an un-| revealed number of planes. But {the Italians outnumber the Anglo-| Egyptian forces at least three to one. Turkey's appearance on the scene radically changes this picture. She has more than 200,000 well-trained troops in her standing army and behind these are more than 1,000,000 reserves. The Turks could strike northward toward Germany or southward in the direction of French Syria, British Palestine and Egypt. A railway connects Scutari, opposite Istanbul, and Ankara, the Turkish capital,

be hazardous for Italy to try to at‘tack this line of communication, leven by plane. With Turkey in the Anglo-French | coalition, the ranean, Suez and Egypt should be) fairly safe. Not only that, but should | the Italians in Lybia turn their |

350 miles to the north of Egypt, are | Tunisia on the west, they might find |

marvelous bases from which launch air raids. blanketed by Turkey. Should Germany try to impress) Bulgaria and Jugoslavia in a war,

against Rumania and Poland, Tur-|

key and Greece could attack from! Germany,

she should be still more

their bases on the Aegean and the so now that Turkey has complicated

Bosporus. Too, Britain has long been afraid

her task.

Small wonder that Nazi Ambassa-

of a sudden Italian attack against dor Franz von Papen is now said to

Egypt.

Italy could muster approxi-|be in disgrace with Hitler. He was

DR 250.00 0 fayoucs: for a drive sent to Turkey on Special mission to

by mative do wl

(One plan suggested among legis-

with |in a letter to Chairman Edward T.

Eastern Mediter- | investigating WPA.

to themselves attacked in turn from | But now they are behind by the British, Egyptians and | William M. Leiserson, nominee to

| Turks. If, as reported, Italy has been today asserted that much criticism

lukewarm toward participating in a of the agency was precipitated by general European war on the side of |

de-|win that country over to Germany Labor Relations Board ghat perhaps which 'at almost any cost, an gt

|O. Douglas since ascending bench in |

|ruptey claims based on a defaulted

{beth

it be reduced $50,000,000. Tables at the hearings indicated

Muncie, $200,000; Brevoort, $192 -

| $35,000; Fall Creek, Indianapolis,

Jeffersonville

$370,000; White River Levee Unit No. 8, $333,900; Anderson, $127,000.

‘Supreme Court Delays

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. PJ). today won a major victory in the prolonged legal fight over rates proposed for cattle handling at the Kansas City Stockyards when the Supreme Court set aside a lower {court decree calling for immediate

distribution of $586,000 fees impounded during litigation, The Western Missouri Federal District Court ordered distribution of the $586,000 to cattle handlers at the yards following invalidation of the rate order, proposed by Agri[culture Secretary Wallace, by the

The court failed to present de-

| cases including the Mayor Frank

the challenge to constitutionality of | Federal milk marketing agreements. The decisions are expected next Monday or the Monday following after which the Court will recess for the summer. Other action today included: Decision upholding constitutionality of registration provisions of the National Firearms Act. First opinion by Justice William a case involving the Connally Hot | Oil Act. A decision holding that the Federal Housing Administration does not hold preferred status in bank-

| note if the note is still in the hands of a bank.

‘Neutrality Change ‘May Be Delayed

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P).

Administration quarters, the United It was understood that Chairman

Foreign Relations Committee has

The State Department, also, was reported to be aisturbed over indiscretions developing in the neutrality debate to the embarrassment of United States foreign policy. A factor working toward postponement of neutrality discussion for at least a month is the presence of King George VI and Queen Elizain the Western Hemisphere.

lators was that discussion of neutrality should be avoided, at least, ‘until the royal visitors have departled. They will be in Canada the rest of the month and are to be in

3,000,000 on WPA

Is Lewis’ Goal

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P.). —The House Committee Investigating the WPA resumes hearing today after receiving demands by C. I. O. President John L. Lewis urges that Congress provide 3,000,000 WPA jobs during the coming fiscal year, The Committee will hear witnesses testify about relief activities in Ohio. Mr. Lewis’ appeal was included

(D. Colo.) of the House Appropriations Committee, which soon will consider the relief appropriation bill for 1940. It is an ap- | propriation subcommittee that is

'Leiserson Urges

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P.).—

|the National Labor Relations Board,

the lack of an adequate Federal mediation service. “ Ih ave the feeling that in ,the amsenc eof machinery for mediation,” Mr. Leiserson told the Senate Labor Committee inquiry into the Wagner Labor Relations Act, “many disputes ar ethrown to the

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Five Million Provided for

Crash Victim

WATER 0. PRICE OF $22,825,000 IS ‘SUGGESTED’

Figure Would Be Favorably Considered by Owners, McNear Declares.

(Continued from Page One)

which resulted in the Legislature amending utility laws affecting the

Wilford Ping ” ” n

13 ARE DEAD IN STATE TRAFFIC

‘Margaret Canner, Edmund

Welch, Wilford Ping Are Killed in County.

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and James Canner. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Beech Grove Nazarene Church. Burial will be at New Crown Cemetery. Mr. Ping was the son of Allen and Lottie Ping. Survivors, besides the parents, are four sisters, Mrs. Helen Lewellyn, Mrs. Caroline Salter, Virginia and Colleen, and a brother, James.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a, m. Thursday at the home. Burial will be at Columbus. Mr. Ping had been in the automobile only 15 minutes, joining the! party after he had left a theater | in Fountain Square. Mr. Welch died at City Hospital yesterday after the car in which was riding crashed into a oT Te zone guard at Fairfield and College Aves. Harold Holroyd of 1850 Clay St., the driver, who also was hurt, was arrested by police and charged with being drunk. The car in which the Monon victims were riding hit a Monon Railroad locomotive at a crossing near the depot. It was dragged about 500 feet and then crushed between the engine and a water tower.

than two hours while another train was used to pull the wreckage apart. The victims had been attending a party at the Blake home near Remington. Four persons were hurt when the car in which they were riding and another driven by Earl Needler, of R. R. 17, Box 101-J, collided at Moller Road and 56th St. The injured were Canwin Alex-

and three passengers in his car, Norman Weiss, 8 months, and his sister, Jeanette, 19, and their mother, Mrs. Olivia Weiss, of 710 |Laverock Road. Wayne Jeffries, 21, of R. R. 1, Box 368, was reported in a critical condition at City Hospital. thrown from his motorcycle on Pleasant Run Blvd., 800 block, when he lost control of the machine. Sam Fleming, 81, of 211 Puryear St., was hurt slightly when he was struck by an automobile on Ft. Wayne Ave. 800 block. The driver, Russell J. Clark, of 1832 S. Emerson Ave., was charged by police with driving while drunk.

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City of Indianapolis. Under the original law, City Council had the right to decide on the purchase of a utility. Under the amendment, the proposed purchase must be ap|proved jointly by Council, the Utility District trustees and the Mayor. After a conference with Mr, Mc= Near and his local attorney, Fred Bates Johnson, Mayor Sullivan sent [copies of booklets issued by Mr, 'McNear on the proposed purchase to Councilmen, Utility District truse tees and other City officials, then called a meeting of this group last month. This group named a committee of (seven City officials, headed by the Mayor, to meet with Mr. McNear and obtain a price at which the Geist estate heirs would be willing to sell. After several conferences, the committee obtained the price proposal last Saturday, but held the figure secret until after today’s meeting.

Value Long Disputed

The value of the company long has been a controversial subject. Back in 1925, in the McCardle rate case, the U, S. Supreme Court found the company entitled to a rate based on a 19-million-dollar valuation as of Dec. 31, 1923, 3 A few years later, the City, seeke ing a rate reduction, filed a new case | with the Public Service Commission, |which in December, 1932, fixed the value at “not less than $22,500,000.” The City appealed to Federal |co urt. Federal Judge Robert C. | Baltzell named Albert Ward a spee € cial master in chancery to hear evie dence in the case. In his report, Mr. Ward recome mended to Judge Baltzell that the value should be $20,282,143, as of April 1, 1933. In November, 1935, Judge Balt zell gave his ruling, increasing the figure to $21,392,821,

Baltzell Ruling Appealed

His ruling was appealed to the U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, which in turn remanded ‘the case to Judge Baltzell for ree trial, holding that he should have

included the Oaklandon reservoir, which brought the valuation to $22,368,258. In addition, the court said: “We now find that there was a definite rise in commodity prices of approximately 25 per cent during the 32 months period referred to, which was bound to be reflected in (the appraisement of appellant's property. “We think, under the authorities referred to, this general and persistent rise in prices should have been given effect in fixing a fair valuation.” The case never has been retried in the district court here, under a standstill agreement, but Mr. McNear has submitted figures to show that adding 25 per cent to the de= preciable property item of $14,905,110 would increase the rate-making valuation to $27,083,883. The U, S. Supreme Court in January, 1938, sustained the appeals court finding.

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