Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1939 — Page 4

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Murphy Launches Drive To End Graft in Cities

LOS ANGELES, May 25 (U. P.)) «Attorney General Murphy revealed today that the Justice Department has started a nation-wide campaign to eliminate political corruption in major cities.

90 Republicans and 3% of

Russia Holds Peace Key by

He cited the conviction of Boss) income tax evasion charges as in-|jnvestigation of race Wire services

Democratic Party Face Hard Decision.

By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer

| Choice of Ally, Experts Feel.

By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 25—Unless

WASHINGTON, May 25.—Behind the action of the House Ways and | Means Committee in forcing 4 House vote, »robably next week, | on the Townsend old-age pension | plan, is & skillfully contrived bit of | Democratic strategy designed 10) clear up the political record. The objectives may be sum- | \ marized as: To lay the ghost of the Town- ™ s-send Plan, which has been haunt- |

Mrs. Florence E. Grossart

Pressure which is visibly revealed in tons of mail, and remove the threat

{Prime Minister ‘Chamberlain

is reading the auguries through rose- | colored glasses, & historic readjust. |

ment of the European balance—or unbalance—of power is about to)

take place.

But Moscow is yet to be heard from. Hence there exists in some |

jurors had conferred with Mr. Murphy. The Attorney General was accompanied on his trip to the West Coast by J. Edgar Hoover, Federal Bureau of Investigation chief. Robert S. Odell, former president of the Pacific States Co., and Gerald

quarters here an attitude of “well|R, White, former vice president, believe it when we see it” about Mr. were charged with mutilating, deChamberlain's assurance that helstroyving and concealing records of has “every reason to hope” Russia certain of the company’s properties, will soon join the so-called peace The company, one of the largest of its kind in the United States, re-

in Chicago on June 1. He indicated that the jury probably would widen the scope of its inquiry to include gambling and racketeering. “We are determined to break the rule of the overlords of the underworld,” Mr. Murphy said. “But we do hot intend to encroach on the

{here last night shortly after the power of local officials.

“Six weeks ago mm Kansas City an indictment was returned and a socalled poiltical boss, who had bought off local officials and remained immune from local prosecution for many years, was convicted by the Government and sentenced to

prison. “I do not know to what greater purpose the Federal Government can be used than to invoke its laws to promote clean, decent and incorrupt Government in local municipalities.”

front. Suspicions that Dictator Stalin may be piaying a devious game,

cently was placed under control of

State authorities. Mr. Murphy said the campaign

PARLEYS CALLED IN BRIGGS SHUTDOWN

DETROIT, May 25 (U. P)=¥urther conferences with Briggs Manus facturing Co. officials and union representatives were called by a Federal labor conciliator today in an attempt to settle a labor dispute which has shut down 14 auto plants and forced nearly 30,000 workers into idIness. >

Although the Briggs management and the United Automobile Workers Union (C. I. ©) did not budge on

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Mr. Dewey was forced to consult

each side individually because they refused to sit at a conference table

unless it was for arbitration over their specific sets of grievances. All 26 grievances involve the oases of individual men either discharged or

docked

The strike, ordered Monday upon expiration of a contract, kept the Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge, Plymouth and Lincoln motor car plants closed

in Detroit and Chrysler Corp. plants in Kokomo and New Castle, Ind. shut down.

TTA

THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1989

the issues involved, James I. Dewey, U. §. Labor Department, hoped to clear the way for mediation.

JAP MISS CARRIES TORCH FOR WHALEN

SAN FRANCISCO, May 235 (U. P.) =A “torch of friendship” symbolize ing friendship between Japan and the United States was brought tO this country today by Miss AKikO Tsukimoto, selected as Miss Japan. Miss Tsukimoto arrived on the NYK Motorship Tatuta Maru from Tokyo, where the torch was lit by Mayor Keikichi Tanomogi in the presence of Ambassador Grew and Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, She will present the torch to Grover Whalen at the New York World's Fair on Japan Day, June 2.

ing politicians; relieve the constant | > » ®»

« to the Administration's own social * security program. To embarrass the Republican Party by showing that its position

was being oarried on “without! thought of party lines.”

and that an alliance with Germany

: . . Mr. Murphy disclosed that the may be his hidden aim, will not be

Justice Department, through a

as far as lots of its representatives

go, is a straddle from balancing the |

budget, on the one hand, to the . Townsend Plan on the other. Some |

* 90-0dd Republicans, including six, Succeeded Husband in Job | » Ti Indiana, were elected last No- { vember with Townsend Sport ond After Death Nov. 6 Stricken Saturday.

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i they are among the most uncoms- » fortable folks in Washington just] * now. Certain of Defeat Mrs. Florence E. Grossart, Marion | Once the Townsend Plan 18 de- | County auditor, died late yesterday | feated By the Mouse—and the |of a heart ailment at her home, 5148 ‘ ml dl ¥ IN. Meridian St. She was 60. + Democratic leaqership as Mrs. ‘Grossart had been ontined] * careful to count noses and be Sure (to her home since Saturday when of that—the Administration willishe suffered a heart attack at her bring forward amend - [office In the Court House. proved by the Ways and Means] She had been auditor about six » Committee, liberalizing the Social months, after being named to

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| lentirely obliterated until the proposed Anglo-French-Russian alli- | ance is formally sealed. These sus-

picions have been fed by several circumstances, especially these: 1. The recent mysterious retirement of Maxim Litvinov, an apostle

of collective security, as Soviet For-}

eign Commissar, 2. The soft pedal lately applied by Fuehrer Hitler and his lieutenants When mentioning Russia, in| sharp contrast to their previous) truculence. 8. The gradually narrowing gap| between the ideologies of Naziism | and Stalinism, the former tending more and more toward communism | and the latter toward nationalism.

Russia Sticks to Terms Russia has been insisting that any |

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Security Act in several succeed her husband, Charles A. laliance with the democracies be on! ownsend Plan supporters Will [Grossart, Marion Count emocratic | : a PI Grossart, Marion County DEMOCTANC [jo gum terms, and apparently Brit

: get § of time to the | leader, who died Nov. 6, 1938. Her; = elaborate scheme for a 2 per cent term would have expired Dec. 31. jain is now ready to vield by agreeling to a fully reciprocal three-way

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transaction tax to create giant| The daughter of Joseph and Em- » revolving fund, from which the|ma Wagner, Mrs, Grossart spent money would flow to all past 60. [her entire life here. She took an | Eight hours of debate are pro-active part in Democratic politics | vided under a& rule which will be las a member of the Marion County | « proposed to the Rules Committee. | Women's Democratic Club After the debate, the House then| She was a graduate of St. Mary's) * will vote the bill H. R. 6466, up or [Catholic School and was a member | down, without any opportunity foi the St. Joan of Arc Catholic] offering amend Church. She formerly was a soloist | The chief sponsor of the plan in [in the St. Patrick's Catholic Church the House, Rep. Joe Hendricks choir. | (D. Fa) suggested tha Mrs. Grossart is survived by two amendments be barred. He wantsisons, Fred C. and Joseph the bill just as it stands. This fits [Grossart, and a daughter, in nicely with the desire of Demo- [guerite, all at home, cratic leaders, who would not want | Services Will be at 8:30 a. m © see the plan such [Saturday at the residence and at 9| a way that it might atiract votes a. m. at Joan of Are Church. from opponents of the Townsend [Burial wi Plan principle

ye at Crown Hill, Big Republicans on Spot ‘Ralston May Fill Out Republicans who are on the spot Mrs. Grossart’s Term

include their top man in the House, | Selection of a to Mrs Rep. Joe Martin minority | Florence E. Grossart, Marion County Jeader. He was elected with Towne auditor who died late yesterday, will . ) . . « [NOt be considered by County Comsend support. Also JATASSEA IS I mjssioners until next week, at the Rep. Allen T. Treadway (Mass), earliest, William Brown, president of ranking Republican the Ways | the commissioners’ board, said today, and Means Committee, who pledged | It was reported at the Court House himself to seek a vote in the Houseqthat the commisisoners probably] Neither of these gentlemen is saving | vould select Glenn B. Ralston, for. how he Will vote oo imer County Clerk and County) Mr. Treadway’s dilemma was em- | uditor-elect, to fill out the term. | phasized in the session of the Ways Mr. Ralston's regular term as audi and Means Committee which voted, [tor Will start Jan. 1

23 to 2, to report the Townsend Bill TWO ATTEMPTS AT

to the House without recommenda-

he veteran Committee didi BURGLARY REPORTED

man, Rep. Robert S. Doughton «D N. C), his eyes twinkling, looked | about the table when the time ior a vote came, and drawled that he was willing to entertain a motion

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Two attempted burglaries were investigated by police today Mrs. Minnie Perkins of 811 Harlan St. reported that when she went (downstairs at 1:30 a to close a

Anglo-French-Russian military alliance. If that is accomplished--and Mr. Chamberlain hopes it can be] announced within a fortnight—the | Reich will be virtually encircled. The pooled resources of Britain, | Trance, Russia, Poland and Ru-| mania—to say nothing of Turkey | and Greece—would add up to the | most formidable combination of men, equipment and money in all| history. Some still think Italy would | welsh at the last minute if Ger-| many chose to fight against such | odds, But on the other hand, if Stalin and Hitler should suddenly spring on the world a German-Russian military alliance, the situation of the | democracies would be desperate. | There would be no further doubt of | Italy's adhesion to the axis. Poland | and Rumania would be “in the | middle.” Turkey, long friendly with | Russia, might reconsider her new | Mediterranean agreement with Brit |

ain. Evidence on Both Sides

In the Par Bast, according to the theorists of this school, Japan might be persuaded to make terms with | Russia by' the promise of easier) pickings to the south, among the) rich Asiatic possessiohs of ‘the British, French and Dutch. With a lavout like that, the pros-| pects of peace would be bleak indeed. Such an outcome is by no means anticipated here, but it is not being dismissed entirely as a possibility. A hopeful straw in the wind is the issuance by an official Russian publishing house, a few days ago, | of a war novel in which the climax is the defeat of Germany in a raid |

to report the bill favorably A great silence ensued. Mr. Treadway sat very still {

window, someone grabbed her am She said she and her brother found | nothing had been disturbed. | Joseph L. Hanna reported unsuc- | Some Democrats will be on the [cessful attempts had been made to » | Pry open the front and rear d of his home, 4451 N

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Spot, 100. Some of them elected with Townsend support. this does not extend to the leader- | ship, which is taking a strong stand | against the measure, | The leadership, however, is taking no chances with the so-called | General Welfare Bill, which calls for pensions ranging from $30 to $60 a month to be paid rom per cent tax—instead of the larger outlays of the Towns | 1 loose

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send Plan. For such a bill, let on the floor, might get plenty of votes. The Ways and Means Com- | mittee quietly shuffled this measure into a pigeonhole |

Six Hoosiers Will Back Plan, Rep. Landis Says

Times Special WASHINGTON, May 25-Six of the seven Indiana Republicans will vote for the Plan, Gerald W Ind.) ber of the bipartisan steerin in

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t Landis (R 1= 8 1mittee handling the bill House, predicted today. | All belong to the Hoosier G. O. P.| bloc” in the House and! nost of them have a consistent record of voting against excessive expenditures. Rep. Landis said the plan as now proposed would raise about $73,000 & year in Indiana and pay all persons in the state of 60 or over around $30.50 a month at the start. Rep. John W, Boehne Jr. (D. Ind.) ‘ was one of the Ways and Means © Committee members who voted the bill out but will not support its passage. Neither will Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind), dean of Hoosier Republicans in the House. Those Republicans listed by Mr, Landis as likely to favor the bill are Reps. Grant, Gillie, Harness, Johnson and Springer. Informed of the Landis prediction, Rep. Forest A. Harness said that he will do his own announcing when “the proper time comes.”

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