Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1939 — Page 3
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"GAINS AS F.D. R. GETS REBUFFS
President More Willing For 1940 Race.
WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P). —Talk of a third term for President Roosevelt boomed today as the Administration faced the hard facts of legislative reverses and the list of other available 100 per cent New Dealers shrinked to nothing.
Rebuffs from the Capitol were more likely to persuade Mr. Roosevelt to run again than to surrender to the conservative wing of the party which has combined with Republicans in Congress to vote the New Deal down. The House hit the Administration where it hurt last week when it pased a relief bill to curtail Presidential authority and abandon some pet New Deal undertakings.
More Setbacks Expected
Mr. Roosevelt will have to acknowledge perscnal defeat today when the House pases the 1939 Revenue Act to eliminate so-called “business irritant” taxes. The bill has the blessing of the President's official fiscal advisers. But it sacrifices the theory of penalty taxes cn undistributed corporation sur-
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Engineer John J. Nagle (foreground) shows Jean Graffis some of the
plus funs and, therefore, is offensive to the President and the inmost circle of the New Deal. In the| offing is a mighty Senate battle over neutrality in which the odds are even or slightly against the Administration in its effort to obtain more discretion in making our national resources available to belligerents.
All these factors—and the partial reverse suffered by the Administration in last November's general! election—beckon Mr. Roosevelt to battle and belief is spreading that | he will run again next vear. A) major factor in that belief is the, absolute dearth of an acceptable substitute New Deal candidate whom Mr. Roosevelt could nominate and support with confidence that his policies would be continued. |
Nomination of Vice President Garner would be a triumph of the anti-New Deal Democrats who have rallied around him as tae symbol | of opposition to major Roosevelt policies. Secretary of State Hull is being discussed here as the most likely = compromise candidate, a man who would have the confidence | of ‘traditional party men and vet! near enough to the Roosevelt Administration to expect substantial New Deal support. |
Farley Well Up in Line |
Postmaster General Farley is in| the running and if he misses first place on the ticket probably would be sought as Vice Presidential running mate by any Democrat nom-
inated other than the President! himself. But neither Secretary Hull nor Mr. Farley would precisely fit the | pattern of the man Mr. Roosevelt would like to see in the White House because neither is a part! of the New Deal proper. Mr. Farlev has been the party-organization man, far removed from vital spending, labor and business policies, and | Secretary Hull has been engrossed in foreign affairs and his reciprocal trade policies, The process of elimination seems always to lead to Roosevelt-for-1940 unless the President is willing to re-| linquish party control to more conservative men. It has been argued here that third term talk was an anti-New Deal strategy designed merly to embarrass the President. That charge fell when Interior See- | retary Ickes and a scattering of
| President has until recently
elaborte dials and controls forward in the Atlantic Clipper.
Sen. Vandenberg Offers Substitute for New Deal
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incentive taxation to encourage adoption of profit-sharing plans by | industry. The committee said that some method of profit-sharing was necessary for preservation of the capitalistic system. The committee iy that the best means of leveling o the peaks and the valleys of we | ‘employment would be to peg the workers’ income to the rise and fall of prices by profit-sharing.
House Expected
To Pass Tax Bill
| WASHINGTON, June 18 (U. P). ditional weeks.
|—The House probably will pass in record time today a new tax bill designed to grant business a portion of the “tax relief” it demanded, including elimination of the tax on undistributed corporate profits.
There is littie opposition to the bill and Republicans have agreed to a plan that would limit debate to three hours. When the bill reaches the Senate, leaders plan to expedite its consideration inasmuch as “nuisance” taxes, which yield 500 million dollars annually, expire June 30. Both Democrats and Republicans claim credit for the “constructive” features of the bill. Republicans indorsed it generally but said it did not go far enough toward providing the ‘business appeasement” required. They hailed the bill as “another retreat by the New Deal,” and, in their minority report, said “the
in the way of any tax revision in the interest of business.” | Democrats emphasized that they) had sought to remove “tax tants” and tivity.” Only the lack of time and a necessity tc maintain present) {revenues prevented them from going further, they said. While the bill makes several con-
| by Rep. Sol Bloom (D. N. Y).
1 : to accelerate business activity suffi-
ciently to vroduce the current $1,500,000,000 annual revenue.
TNEC to Study
Insurance Commissions
WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P) — ‘The Temporary National Economic Committee today begins the fourth phase of its broad study of the insurance business, the economic jus-| tification of high commissions paid insurance salesmen. The Committee expects to continue on this inquiry for several ad-
Roosevelt to Press For Neutrality Change
WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P). — President Roosevelt plans to press for passage of neutrality revision legislation in both Senate and House before adjournment, it was indicated | today after the weekly Congressional | leaders’ conference at the White House. Speaker William B. Bankhead said the House would take up the bill) re-| Ipealing the arms embargo provision | ‘of current law and embodying the [views of Secretary of State Hull, next week. Final action was expected | pefore the end of the week.
Other sources said the president was determined to ask senate action |
on the legislation regardless of the threat to a July 15 adjournment. | Leaders sai dthey did not expect a| to make
ators wanted “long
speeeches.” WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P).
opened a major Senate debate over Administration fiscal policy with an appeal for extension of President Roosevelt's dollar cevaluation powers and the two billion dollar
others raised the Roosevelt banner. cessions to business, it was expected. currency stabilization fund.
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his time, eats and sleeps. . . . patches cabled by Jean Graffis md, newspaperman) senger flight to Europe.
By JEAN
the Clipper down to the waters of t I last saw setting over America the I stood on the soil of these d
turies ago. As I stood at Horta I knew some awed American would stand here a generation hence marveling at some even more amazing accomplishment than riding the Clipper, would know something of the feeling I got that moment when I stepped across the float and onto the boarding wing. It was at Port Washington, L. I, the evening before. I got into the Clipper as naturally as getting into my own car at home. I ducked | through the door to a carpeted floor land was ushered to a cushioned |seat near a double window slightly aft of the starboard wing.
Motors’ Pitch Rises
The motors’ hum rose into a higher pitch as we started to taxi into takeoff position. The water below us began to stream past. Foam rose in an inverted crescent las we picked up speed until spray spattered the pane of my window. Suddenly the Clipper’s nose cleared the cascading waters and with magnificent sustained power we climbed magically onto the ig cushion of our other trackray, the air. § Not a soul aboard was willing, as |vet, to investigate the ship. There | was too much to drink in at the windows. The landscape was playing tricks. At first, the houses, farms, inlets and boats below us were etched in their natural colors with the clarity of a cameo. Then, las the ship climbed, the scene | changed. Long Island resolved itself into a mass of blacks, greens and whites.
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ne became dots, sailboats and
vachts mere pinpoints. A few min- | utes later the squares of gray and |
) i irri-| Senator Wagner (D. N. Y), vet- black landscape were relieved by “stimulate business ac- eran New Deal spokesman, today the deep green indentations of the
Sound. Makes Self at Home
Then the supreme thrill. America became only a hazy fading line. Over the Atlantic nothing prevailed but a colossus of glistening beaten copper. We were at 8000 feet. My Midwest heart stirred with momentary apprehension over this cosmic preview. But the motors were humming sweetly. Conversation began and I decided to make myself
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OFFICIAL WEATHER
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at home, Unbuckling my takeoff safety belt, I turned into the passageway between rows of berths and walked | toward the front of the ship. The first thing I found was a large com- | partment with chairs and tables and 14 people in it. The steward identified it for me as the dining room, the place where I had entered | the ship. It was the only room where smoking was permitted. | I moved forward and found, to my right, another passenger coms- | partment, to my left, a galley. On forward, there were a men's lounge and Pullman faeilities. Passengers | were forbidden to go past a certain curtain, for beyond that the passageway led to the crew stairway and to the upper deck with its pilot- | control-navigation rooms. The Clippers crew was kind but firm so I passed up invading the
Third Term
dreams . .
Writer Has Difficulty Embracing Portent of Man’s Changing Relations to Cosmic Things Since Days of Magellan’s Crawling Ships of Wood and Sail.
the thousands who, quite casually, will
“catch a plane for Europe” in future years, you will be interested how in how it feels to be a passenger on a trans-Atlantic flight . This is the first of three “human interest” dis (former aboard the Atlantic Clipper on his frst preview pas
. how the passenger passes
Kokomo, Bloomington, New Castle,
GRAFFIS
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
ABOARD PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS ATLANTIC CLIPPER, En Route to Marseilies.—In a mid-Atlantic dawn of gold and lavender I rode
he Azores and was greeted by a sun night before. rowsy Portuguese islands trying to
embrace the vast portent of all that had happened since the earliest explorers crawled slowly and painfully past this midocean oasis cen-
technical sanctum and returned to investigate the rear section. To get there I had to walk up a set of stairs because of the diminution in the size of the ship. Toward the rear I saw another section of berths, a women’s lounge—and a bridal suite. It was second in size to the dining room. | By this time those aboard were milling through the ship getting their first introductions to one another. It turned out that the Clipper was strictly a melting pot with a Hoosier like myself and people from Missouri, Texas, New York and the Far West aboard. The call to dinner broke my reverie. Capt. W. D. Culbertson presided in the dining room. The appearance of three women in formal clothes seryed to remind us of the epochal trip we were taking. I tried | again to tell myself that we were 800 miles out to sea and were making history.
Berths Are Assigned
The crew was pushing steadily eastward, going at 165 miles per hour away from the sunset. Darkness hemmed in the life confined in the Clipper’'s compartments but con-
versation, work and radio broadcasts allowed us to have no thought of the cosmos we were challenging. Eventually, as it does at home, the day's work took its toll. Berth numbers were assigned by the stewards. They pulled beds out of nowhere. Pretty soon I was sound asleep, with the Azores in my dreams—the Azores of Magellan and Vasco di Gama, the place where all set sail to far horizons and new worlds. In the dawn I awakened in the Azores, the jumping off place for adventure. The Clipper’s mighty motors were resting momentarily in the Horta roadstead. Soon they would climb again into that self-same sky which first saw men cross the Atlantic. I
the captain of the Clipper was saying, “On, sail on” to Lisbon.
Clipper in Marseilles; Sets Flight Record
MARSEILLES, France, June 19 (U. PP) —Pan-American Airways’ Atlantic Clipper completed a “press preview” trans-Atlantic flight today in the record elapsed time of 42 hours and 28 minutes. Actual flying time over the 4650 mile course from Port Washington, N. Y., to Azores, thence to Lisbon, Portugal and Marseilles was 29 hours and 50 minutes. It was the fastest trip in 18 Clipper voyages across the Atlantic, both Bast and West. The huge Atlantic sealiner came down at Marignane seaport on Marseilles Bay at 8:24 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), completing the last leg of the crossing from Lisbon, begun at 1:12 a. m. The correspondents who made the flight left the plane and continued on to Paris in an Air France tri-motored land plane.
Senator Van Nuys Balks at
for Roosevelt
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nored the NMeNutt statement from ’ Honolulu although last week they gave prominent front page headlines [to the dragging of MeNutt’s name into the Buckner trial in New York. New York papers played the Honolulu statement prominently on - the inside pages, however.
McNutt Won't Compete
If Roosevelt Runs
HONOLULU, T. H, June 19 (U. P)—Paul V. MeNutt, American High Commissioner to the Philip. pines, indicated today that he would not be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States if President a decides to seek a thin Hm. Nr. MeNutt, in a brief interview preceding departure for San Fran. cisco, said that the action of friends {in launching his candidacy in Wash ington recently had been based on the assumption that President Roosevelt would not be a third-term candidate. alg Mr. it goes comment on his expec resignation as High Commissioner, friends have indicated that he in. [tends to give up his post when he seturns vo Washington
and that he today.
the Presidency at that time. Mr. MeNutt, in a brief radio address, reiterated his belief that the Philippine Islands should remain under the control of the United States. He arrived here with his wife and daughter after a visit te Japan and China on their way from Manila. Mr. MeNutt in the intdrview denied that he had given William P. Buckner Jr. access to confidential Army records. Buckner is oh trial for fraud in New York in connec tion with Philippine railway bond promotion. “I saw Buckner once,” said My. MeNutt, “when he presented a letter of introduction. I showed no confidential reports. I told Buekner the Commonwealth would not take up the bonds. If Buckner says what withesses reportedly are testifying, then it is not true. What I sald was as confidential as a weather report.”
MRS. RUBENS FREED MOSCOW, June 18 (U.P) .«Mrs Ruth Marie Rubens, American eonvieted of entering Russia on a fraudulent passport, is at og and visited the United States Embassy
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was at the world’s crossroads and H
will begin active campaigning for
JAPAN ORDERS 290 VOLTS IN TIENTSIN WIRE
British Send Army Truck Out for Food; U. S. Admiral Arrives.
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ing to take food to the Concessions, put empty kerosene cans on theit heads and forced them to kneel in the roadway until they dropped dead under the blistering sun. Dispatches from down the coast said that the food problem was growing acute also at Kulangsu, the foreign area of Amoy. Authorita= tive sources here said that British’ and American warships might take food to the colony. Japanese sources said that the Japanese Consul General had returned to Amoy after a visit to Tokyo to receive instructions and
expected. Americans Get Preference
Severe heat added to the discomfort of the more than 100,000 people blockaded in the Tientsin Concession. Realizing that at any time a clash might cause real trouble, British Consul General Edgar G. Jamieson warned British subjects not to leave the concession except on matters of extreme urgency. A Japanese Army spokesman as= serted that the blockade was directed against the British and that every step was being taken to minimize inconvenience to Americans.
Japs Charge Mission
Aided Chinese Cause HANKOW, June 19 (U. P).—
written communication to the Japanese today demanded immedi= ate information on the correctness of a Domei (Japanese) News Agency assertion that American missionaries had engaged in proChinese activities. The communication expressed the “grave concern” of the United States at the charges.
‘Something to Be Done,’ Envoy to China Says
CHUNGKING, China, June 19 (U. P.).—United States Ambasador Nelson T. Johnson said today that “something will be done” about the British-Japanese dispute in Tientsin, where the Japanese have block= | aded the British and French Con=cessions. Mr. Johnson, commenting on his week-end talks with Chinese Gov- | ernment leaders, said that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui were “just as confident as ever” that the Chinese eventually would win the war. He evaded direct questions regarding the Tientsin incident and the blockade of the Kulangsu (foreign) section of Amoy. He said, however, that “something will be done, but nobody seems to know just what.” Chinese reports reaching here said that Chinese guerrilla fighters had succeeded in recapturing Shuangkou, in northern Anhwei Province, and inflicted “heavy” Japanese casualties. They also were said to have recaptured Yentitsun and Kuotsun, in southern Shansi Province. The guerrillas claimed to have inflicted 6000 Japanese cas: ualities in southern Shansi in the last 10 days.
U. S. Offers Tokyo Aid as Mediator
TOKYO, June 19 (U. P.) —Eugene . Dooman, American Embassy charge d'affaires, informed the Fore eign Office today that the United States Government was willing to aid in any way it could in settling the British=Japanese dispute at Tientsin, it was understood. Mr. Dooman visited Seijiro Yos= hizawa, director of the American bureau of the Foreign Office. It was said that he conveyed the United States Government's views on the Tientsin blockade of the British and French Concessions but that in conveying his Government's offer of its good services he made no commitments. Any formal offer, it | was said, would have been made directly to Foreign Minister Machiro Arita. Newspapers asserted that Mr. Dooman had advised the Foreign Office that Americans “accepted” the present situation and they quoted “reliable sources” to the effect that the United States was unwilling to aid Britain. The Stock Exchange was buoyant today in the belief that the Tientsin situation was developing in Japan's favor. The Extreme nationalist newspaper Kokumin suggested editorially: “In event that Great Britain recognizes the new situation in Bast Asia she could return Hongkong to China. Hongkong is at present valueless economically and militarily. The Nanking (Japanese sponsored) Government is ready to pur chase Hongkong from the British.”
NAZI-ITALIAN NAVAL AGREEMENT SOUGHT
ROME, June 19 (U. P.) Admiral Domenico Cavagnari, Navy Undersecretary, is expected to negotiate a German-Italian naval defense treaty at a two-day conference at Friedrichshafen, on the shores of Lake Constance, with Admiral Erich Raeder, Commander-in<Chief of the German Navy, Italian naval guar ters said today. Admirals Cavaghari and Raeder will confer tomorrow and Wednesday. Rumors here were that Premier Mussolini expected the joint come mand of the Italian and German navies, in event of war, to go to an Italian, with a German commanding the two armies.
TAX DEADLINE NEARS
With the deadline for purchase of truck tire tax licenses set for tomorrow night, only about 25 per cent of the owners have paid the fee, on an estimated 130,000 trucks in Indiana, Frank Finney, motor vehicle bureau director, said today.
that “new developments” might be
Leaps From Car, Escapes At Crossing
Mrs. Emma J. Farmer, 48, of 2120 Brookside Ave. escaped injury this afternoon when her car was demolished by a Pennsylvania Railroad train at the S. Arlington Ave. cross= ing. Witnesses said her car stalled on the tracks. She was warned the approaching train by Phillip Harris of 148 Catherwood Ave, who was walking on Arlington, they reported. Mrs. Farmer jumped from the machine before it was struck.
‘LOCAL,' HOPES CHAMBERLAIN
British Fearful of Small Clash, Keep Eyes on Rome and Berlin.
LONDON, June 19 (U.P) —Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons today “it is still hoped a local settlement is possible” in the Tientsin incident.
Mr. Chamberlain said the general position at Tientsin is not clear. He stated that the original Japanese demand for the handing over of four suspected Chinese terrorists has been confused by the introduction of larger questions.
His statement expressing hope for a local settlement at Tientsin was taken as showing that the British Government still is
He spoke following a meeting of the Cabinet Subcommittee on Foreigh Affairs. It was indicated British leaders are anxious lest a clash between some small British and Japanese detachment in Tientsin or elsewhere in China precipi tate a really serious situation. Aside from the purely BritishJapanese aspect of Japan's bid for control of foreign areas in China, it was understood that the Government was watching Germany and Italy closely. Divlomatic quarters reported receipt of intimations that the totalitarian nations were strongly tempted to take advantage of any serious British-Japanese situation. As seen here, any German action probably would be taken against Danzig and the Polish Corridor, and lany Italian action would involve open demands on France for Mediterranean concessions.
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{take reprisals against Japan. American Consular authorities in a
WEEK-END JOY IS OVERCLOUDED BY 12 DEATHS
Autos, Swimming Holes and Airplane Account for Heavy Toll.
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16, and Ben Fivecoat, 17, all of Kokomo. Commerce Department inspectors began an investigation of the plane crash in which Mr. Fifer was killed, His plane dived 1500 feet into the ground while he was flying at an airshow. Witnesses said the cone trols of his plane apparently jammed and that he gunned the motor in an attempt to pull out of a nose dive. He held a commercial flier's le cense and was co-owner of a flying school at Elkhart. Two persons were hurt slightly when another auto crashed into the Pennsylvania Railroad signal at Madison Ave. where three people have been Killed this year. They were Ralph J. Wells, 34, of 715 N, Pine St, the driver, and Mrs. Mary Wells, 31. Bruce Roberts, 18, of 3602 N. Dearborn St., and three occupants of his car escaped unhurt when his car struck and killed a horse on Shere man Drive near the Millersville Road. Motorcycle Patrolman Fred J. Stevens escaped injury when a motorist he signaled to the curb swung out and knocked him from his cycle, He had halted the motorist for ignoring a traffic light at 16th St, and Northwestern Ave. and when he started to hand him a ticket, the driver suddenly pulled away. The officer was unsuccesful in a chase,
SCHWINDLER HEADS
BORDER VETERANS
Damon E. Schwindler, Indianapoe lis, is the new state commander of the Mexican Border Veterans AssOe ciation. He was elected at the close ing session of the association's ane
nual convention at the Hotel Washe ington yesterday to succeed Lieut. Col. M. G. Henley, Indianapolis. The organization adopted resolue tions demanding deportation of ail undesirable aliens, deploring “isms” “fostered by paid foreign propae gandists in colleges” and favoring National Guard training for young men of Indiana.
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maintaining the ever freshness and smartness of the
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balanced size Scale ... Presented in the air-cooled comfort of the sales floor and fitting rooms
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The conventional 30-day charge accounts... and the Junior Charge Accounts— (No carrying charges)
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