Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1939 — Page 2

DEERY DOUBTS

INCREASE IN 40

CITY TAX RATE

| Controller Says, Bonds Are| Considered for Buying New Equipment.

James E. Deery, City | Controller, anneanced today he was “certain” thera would be no increase in the tax rate for the 1940 budget. The snhnouncement was made after Mr. Deery completed a study of de- | JiR partmental budget estimates for next year. oa “While some of the estimates run a little high,” Mr. Deery said, “they do not indicate that it will be necessary to boost the rate.” wo The year’s civil city rate was $1.30 for each $100 of taxable property in" Indianapolis. i Equipment Funds Asked Mr. Beery said he noted several increases in requests for equipment . funds. | Replacements to Works Board rolling stock and | Park Department equipment will be necessary next year, he said. About $15,000: for land purchase is. also being asked by the Park Department. ha | “We are considering the possibility of issuing bonds for the purchase of new equipment,” he said. “There is no reason why this needed equipment ‘which - probably should have been bought several years ago,

it create a swimming pool in a jiffy in vicinity of 23d and Pennsylvania Sts.? The only

It was a swell rain as far as this crowd was concerned. And why not? . Didn't | bad feature was the pool disappeared as quickly as it came.

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‘The new 38th St. sewer went to work for the first time. Before the big tunnel was completed the water went into basements and flooded streets. flow roared right through and came out the outlet into Fall Creek.

But yesterday the excess

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should be added to the budget all in one year. “With present. low interest : rates available, I think we shall issue

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bonds; paying off the cost, of the equipment over a period of time as| | ASHINGTON, July 20.— we. use it.” : We now are three Sen-

The Controller said he believed aaa A that. property valuation in the City] ators from Virginia—Glass, Byrd and VanNuys—all conservative

would remain about the same as last Democrats.

year. ; _ tems Being Pared Senator VanNuys formerly was : “We decided early in this admin-| from Indiana, but now resides on istration io Beep the Pgey at Jeast a farm at Vienna, Va., and so far said. “We are paring iterns which| 2s the record of ‘this Congress is might raise the total estimate for all| concerned, has been “voting VirSepariments above last year’s| ginian” 100 per cent. Be Deary said that he would /con- Throughout the debates on the fer with heads of departments and| Spending” bill this week, that divisions on their budget requests| Waspish oldster, next ‘week. The meeting will be whom President Roosevelt: calls called” to advise officials of reduc-| 2 ‘‘unreconstructed rebel,” has tions. Sa not been on the Senate Floor. But Departmental budget estimates of| Senator VaaNuys came in every all’ departments were submitted] 9aY from his Virginia farm and , earlier this week. Mr. Deery and backed his colleague Senator ~ his assistants have’ been reviewing| Byrd's amendments to the bill. the budgets and tabulating figures.| Both are great advocates of No public announcement of »esti-| curtailed spending and open foes mates will be made until all de-| ©f the New Deal Administration. partmental estimates are in final] SO is Senator Glass. "form, he said. Senator VanNuys has no inten- . tion of returning to Indiana to

‘CONFESSION’ FAILS AS ‘EASY WAY OUT’

CLINTON, Ill, July 29 (U. P).— Charles Campbell Boyle, alias George Carson, 38, a Kansas hitchhiker who confessed a “murder” in De pe of “finding an easy way out of living,” faced the prospect toda > : of a harder life. He Tater admitted foreign wars in either Europe or his confession was false. | the Orient. Polite said they would charge him : oo ® 88 with vagrancy and ask that-he be Senator VanNuys’ moving from sent to the State Prison work farm.| his Washington apartment to a "They arrested him Monday on sus-| Virginia farm recalled here the picion and he’ caused a flurry by| story of former Rep. Phil Campconfessing that he killed Edward L.| bell (R. Kas), who at one time Schneider, 58, fiscal agent of Boss| was chairman of the potent House Tom Pendergast’s Democratic po-| Rules Committee, litical organization at Kansas| City. Having held his Congressional

does expect to attend the Indiana : Democratic Editorial Association meeting and explain his stand on various measures, he said. Particularly he wants to stress his action on neutrality which he Says, as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been directed entirely toward “Keeping the United ‘States out of

Senator Glass, |

run for re-election again, but he

The Indiana Political Scene—

Party Leaders Wil Watch Town Elections This Fall

ocratic statistician said. “Furthermore, half of the present na-

Bays Calls State Central YT : tional debt existed in 1932 wh Committee to Meet | present Roosevels took omcer

| \ ” » ” Hete Tomorrow. LARENCE ' A. JACKSON, State Gross. Income Tax administrator, is reported to have applied provisions of the Hatch bill to his staff this week. . His action was reported following . Republican charges that State funds were used to finance his department’s pamphlet which carried an-article eulogizing Paul V. McNutt as “our again.”

By NOBLE REED | LECTIONS to be held in 432 Indiana towns next November, usually ignored by most State party leaders because of local issues, have become the basis of major party campaign maneuvers. i ; With party leaders scrambling for some concrete data on voting trends to use In mapping | 1940 activities, the election of trustees for towns of less than 3000 population affords a “sounding board” for political issues. The forthcoming community voting will be one of the major subjects of discussion at a State Democratic organization meeting at the Claypool Hotel tomorrow afternoon.’ 2 State Chairman Fred F. Bays has -called the entire State Central Committee to meet jointly with 184 county chairmen and vice

Nutt’s recent appointment as Federal Security Administrator. Several Gross Income Tax division employees ‘were reported to have keen reprimanded by Mr. Jackson for their political campaign activities recently. “Employees of a tax coliection branch of the Government should never take active part in politics,” Mr. Jackson was quoted as sayng. : The word “lull” has been eliminated from the vocabulary of Mc- ~ Nutt-for-President campaign leaders here. Despite Mr. MecNutt’'s recent

The article referred to Mr. Mec- .

chairmen for campaign organization, : It is the first time in history that all county organizations have been called into a State organization meeting this early in a campaign. Chairman Bays says “no cam paign can start too early.” 3 » ” 2

Republican Congressman Charles A} Halleck’s statement in Washington recently that Indiana's share. of the national debt exceeds the assessed valuation of ali the farm land in the State has caused Hoosier Democrats to sharpen their pencils for an an-

swer. : Rep. Halleck put Indiana's share of National Government debt at $1,660,000,000. . State House Democrats found that Indiana valuations in 1932 (the Jast. astesement year) totaled . $1,158,000,000 while in 1928 it was $1,743,000,000. i . “That is a valuation loss of $584,000,000 caused mostly by Republican jolicies during the Hoover Administration,” a Dem-

. papers, too,” he said.

statement that he will have to cancel most of his headquarter’s plans for extensive speaking and “get to work” on his new Federal Security job, his campaign leaders announced that the “favorite son’s” speech at Cleveland tomorrow night “will be broadcast over a world-wide hookup.” Also the headquarters staff here took an extensive poll of more than 11,000 weekly newspapers in the United States asking them if they desired “McNutt copy.” Maurice : Judd, publicity man, said 2542 of the editors replied that they wanted regular copy. “Some of them were Republican

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seat for years, Rep. Campbell, who also had a Virginia estate, seldom bothered to return to Kansas to campaign. He would send out henchmen to tell his. constituents that he was too busy with national affairs and that the President needed him here,

‘Senator-Frederick VanNuys

On: his last term, however, he

was prevailed upon to make one speech in the district. This was on the night before election and a great crowd - assembled to hear him. He was given a flowery introduction and again it was: ex-

plained how he was too busy with:

big affairs to come home and take up such trifles as getting himself re-elected. At last Rep. Campbell arose to speak. At that point the «band broke out with “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia” and the jig was up. For this had been his opponent's theme song and next day Mr. Campbell went down to defeat. He still lives in Virginia, practices law in Washington and visits his old haunts in the House occasionally. ® = = Homer Capehart was here this week, filled with enthusiasm regarding the Indiana Republican Editorial Association shindig to be held at the Fair Grounds in Indianapolis Aug. 23. If{-is going to be comparable to his famed ‘“cornfield conference,” he claimed. With himself often talked of as a G. 0. P. favorite son from Indiana, he said of Paul V.- McNutt: “I am sure glad Paul got a good job. There are too many unemployed.”

” ” ” HN L. LEWIS’ display of temper before the House Labor Committee recalled here that at the Atlantic City convention of the American Federation of Labor in 1935,”he swung at William L. Hutcheson, Indianspolis,. and knocked him down, . That really put a period to a friendship and is credited with being the starting point of the C. I.

O.-A. F. of L. split. This week Mr. Lewis, as . I. O. president, figuratively took another swing at Mr. Hutcheson. For his announcement of C. I. O's entry into the construction field is aimed directly at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, of which Mr. Hutcheson is president and whose headquarters are in Indianapolis. Back in 1924, however, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Hutcheson were great pals and used to campaign together for the Republican Party. They united their union forces, Mr. Lewis as president of the United Mine Workers; and put William Green is as president of A. F. of L. instead of Matthew Woll. the job, K when Samuel Gompers died and always had been looked upon as the Crown Prince. Mr. Green then was Treasurer of the United. Miners and thus was an outright Lewis selection. The backing of Mr. Hutcheson gave Mr. Lewis sufficient power:to put the present A. F. of L. president. in his place. Lately he has been trying to do so in the more slangy sense of that phrase, Mr. Lewis took that poke at Mr. Hutcheson in October, 1935, and in November he launched the Committee for Industrial Organization to establish industrial unions where the crafts were weak or unorganized. .. . - Mr. Hutcheson is credited with pushing Mr. Green into suspending from the A. PF. of L. the unions which joined Mr. Lewis in the C. I. O. That was done in August, 1936, and the warfare between C. I. O. and A. F. of L. has continued ever since. : According to Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind.), an ardent labor supporter in the House, ‘this split has done even more to hurt the labor legislation program than the Southern leadership, which Mr. Lewis so powerfully condemned this week in his verbal assault on Vice President Garner, ” ” ” Rep. John W. Boehne Jr., was the only Indiana Democrat to support the resolution of Rep.

Howard W. Smith (D. Va.) for |

an investigation of the National Labor Relations Board.

As a result, he received a letter

from a woolen manufactiirer congratulating him for his courage. ‘The same letter, however, asked him not to support the “truth-in-fabrics” bill, which requires labels telling the amount of pure wool which any fabric contains. Rep. Boehne replied with thanks and added: “I shall support the truth-in-fabrics bill for the same reason I supported the NLRB resolution. I feel -that anything that doesn’t want to be investigated, ought to

‘be investigated.”

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Hoosiers Give Example Of How Democrats Stand

Times Special WASHINGTON, July 29.—Indiana today could be cited as an excellent example of the condition in

which the Democratic Party nove finds itself in Congress. In the last Congress the Hoosier delegation consisted of 11 Democrats and one Republican. In this Congress there are seven Republicans and five Democrats from Indiana. : Last night the Democrats held a caucus to show their solidarity. Two of the five Indiana Democrats attended. They were Reps. Eugene B. Crowe and John W. Boehne Jr. The latter had anonunced in advance that if any attempt was made to bind him to vote fot the Administration’s “spending” bill he intended to file a written protest and not be bound. But no attempt was made to put the caucus on record for anything definite whatever. A resolution was adopted condemning the Republicans, praising the President and the Democrats, all in general terms. Rep. John W. McCormick (D. Mass), caucus chairman, said that Speaker Bankhead.and such anti-New Deal Congressmen as Rep: E. E. Cox (D. Ga.)

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CONVICT FILES WRIT, PLEADS FOR RELEASE

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. July 29 (U. P).—A writ of habeas corpus

was on fille today in La Porte Su-

perior Court by Lawrence E. Cook, a convict at. the State Penitentiary. Cook was convicted of murder

eight years ago and sentenced to

life in Jennings Circuit Court. His

writ alleged the State dismissed an appeal from his conviction and re-

committed him, and contended that

a previous new trial granted in

Jennings Circuit Court nullified his

commitment, He acted as his own attorney. :

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- WASHINGTON, July 29 (U.P.,).— Federal machinery. was put into motion today to survey drought damage and supervise any necessary relief

President’ Roosevelt has asked

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Harry L, Brown to organize Fedéral agencies for emergency relief action

|if the situation warrants. The first

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Jin - the drought area—New York,

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Vermont,

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