Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1939 — Page 1

Scupes sowaRD

: PAYROLLS AND JOBS RISING AS HOLIDAY NEARS

. of C. Reports City's Trade Above October Normal;

» By EARL HOFF ‘It’s too farly to forecast a white

Christmas’ for Indianapolis this|.

year; but not. too early to predict & more Prosperous one than the last. c= ~ Every sign points to it. * Factory payrolls and employment are up in the State and City, Christmas savings funds are 30 per cent larger than last year, the Indiana Employment Bureau is soliclung ‘applications to fill a shortage of seasonal help and the IndianPost Office is expécting as large if not larger demand for its services than last year when 740 extra men were hired. : In addition, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce reported that the, City’s business was 1 per cent above normal last month, electric power consumption advanced, residential building gained, postal receipts were highest since March, bank clearings and debits rose sub- - stantially and both inbound and . outbound” carloadings were higher. Department store officials are optimistic. The superintendent of one firm predicted his store would do 10 to 20 per cent more business this year. More good merchandise is available this year than last, he said. Prices, he added, would be increased slightly in some items.

Buying Better Things

A greater increase in sales of children's toys in proportion to other kinds of m is expected His store already has placed some orders for Christmas business. The vice president of another Indianapolis store cited the general increase in business which has been in evidence during the last part of “ “The mercantile picture in Indianapolis looks particularly good,” he De, “People are buying much _ better - things; “they are stepping themselves up. a little. We expect } he 8 to 10

Aa : The: rei was fro 10 to {1 ob ana

o1his'C he said. “But it raring early ‘to forecast how large the gain will be and to make any largé commitments in the way of Christmas orders. We expect to see: the Arend clearly within a few] (

Predicts General Gains

fore the ‘European war than upon any buying impetus started because of the conflict. ‘The manager of still another downtown department store said he, too, was optimistic toward a Christmas boom. “There is a real upturn in progress,” he said, “although we don’t how solid it is or how long it last... We expect out busniess 10 or 15 per cent.” He prethe increase would be shared by lines of merchandising at Yuletide. ; Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker predicted the mail problem would be “at least” as difficult as a year

ago. xe Million in Savings

A total of 31 ,500 Indianapolis depositors are expected to receive $1,100,000:= in Christmas- Savings Funds 1. This sum, deposited in 28 in the City, is 30 per cent more than the $845,000 saved Tas Year year by 24,600 depositors. “the otal, according to naSamal averages, $356,400 is expected “be spent. on Christmas gifts, AaetTou will be placed in permanent Sayings aceoun accounts and $154,000 will used fo pay year-end bills. i ‘employment and payroll gains as & build-up of buying power. reserve, J. Bradley Haight, acting assistant director of unemployment compensation of the Indiana Employment Bureau, said October factory employment in -Indianapolis was 82 per cent above November, 1937; and 40.8 per cent above July, 1938. ' Factory payrolls in October in the City were 18.4 per cent above November, 1937, and 58.8 per cent above July, 1938.

Building Permits Rise

October building permits rose 3.9 per cent -in October from Septembut declined 0.5 per cent under on. 1938, the Chamber of Com-

‘Bank clearings were 68 and 84 per cent over September of this year and October, 1938. Power congained” 22 and 18.3 per cent, respectively. There were 0.7 per cent more telephones in use in October than September, while postal receipts rose 11 per cent and - livestock receipts advanced 13.6 per cent. The number of new automobiles sold gained 39 per cent.in October over September and - 136 ‘pér.cent over a year ago.

Lost and Found!

If you had an annual income as nine as the total value of the articles returned by TIMES “lost ~ snd found’ ads you eould live very bly. indeed. For example sy: ‘Wednesday Mrs. Kramer, 930 N. Bevifle, lost » new velvet dress but a search conducted by a2 TIMES Want Ad located the finder that © - same day, Th Should. ‘you Hnkiet:- .

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STATE T0 SCAN CITY MILK RISE

to farmers was raised from $2.18 to

na! $950,000 Bellefontaine St.

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British Snore. German Plane in France

A French soldier stands guard: over a bi-motored German reconnaissance plane which was shot down behind the French lines by a British pursuit plane,

FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with 1 probably ‘some rain} warmer tonight.

near Hagebrouck. British censors,

Legislative Committee to Meet in 10 Days; Farmers: Defend Increase.

Market and farm eonditions which led to the ons-vent milk’ price increase, effective today, will be investigated by a legislative committee. ; As ‘the committee prepared for action and women’s organizations pushed plans jor separate inquiries; farmers attending the Indiana Farm Bureau eonventicr defended the increase. They said the advange was the x result of increased sanitary requirements, higher cattle feed prices and drought ‘earlier this year. Some, however, insisted that the increase

ducers before retail © prices -were ‘Now 11 Cehis a Quart

Jiri dl pe from 5 1oh7 ee: ‘Distributors’ price

$2.46 per hundredweight. State Senator John Bright Webb (D. Indianapolis), chairman of the legislative committee formed by the last “Legislature to investigate -operations of the Milk Control Law, said the group will’ meet within a week or 10 days to hear ‘witnesses: | “We want to find out why prices to the consumers are boosted ‘every time the producer gets a little more money for- his product, ‘The consumer seems to be always paying proportionately. more for milk than the farmer is getting,” the Senator said. * Hearing Set Nov. 27

“The farmers had to have an increase this time ‘because they: have been operating at a loss and they might have shad fo sell . their. cows. Then Indianapolis would be imports ing milk.” The Board fixed Nov. 27 for, the hearing when it announced the/|. price increases, based on petitions, filed more than’ a month ago by Indianapolis distributors and Marion County producers. . '. Women’s . organizations planning to send representatives to the hearing are the Indianapolis Council of Women and the Economic-Welfare Department of the League of Women Voters. Various ‘ opinions were ‘expressed _ (Continued on Page Three)

PERMIT PLEAS COVER $300,000 IN BUILDING

Apartment Planned.

Permits for new construction totaling more than $300,000 will ‘be considered by the City Zoning Board Monday. . A petition ‘ to’ erect ‘a $250.000 apartment b g at 6216 Bellefontaine ‘St. “was filed * with = the

M. L. Hall. .The apartment will bejstories and contain: 36 twebedroom suites. Plans call for brick stone construction. . Board members also will consider the request of the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary for a permit to construct two wings to the’ funeral home at 25 W. Fall Creek Blvd. at a cost of $25,000. The wings wil conform in architectural style to the present structure. Requests for permits to build | Dr three gasoline stations, totaling more than $25,000, were filed by Harry O. Garman at 2062 N. Meridian St.; the Prospect Realty Co. at the northwest corner of 34th St. and Northwestern Ave: and the DePauw Building Co. at 16th and Meridian Sts. =~ a

‘¥. D. R. TO VISIT HOME WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (WU. P). —President ‘Roosevelt. will leave today for a ‘week-end visit to his

will lay the cornerstone for the new Franklin D, Roosevelt Memorial Library on: his estate.’

BOY, 9, BREAKS WRIST Nine-year-old Earl Conger broke

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Hyde Purk home during which he|50m

Tall Story

To Height in Effort to Learn Flying.

“KANSAS CITY, Mo. Nov. 18 (U.P.).—Take it from Kathleen, girls, if you want to get taller. She has no doubt ‘that most of you do. It can be done, she thinks, but it'll take work. “You'll have to stretch and stretch, and then when you're tired youll have to stretch some more.’ - Kathleen—her full name is Kathleen Hildebrand—is a 19-year-old junior college student eager to grow at least a quarter of an inch taller to win admission to ‘the flying course at her school. She appealed fo the CAA, declaring that she was just an inch short of the five feet two speci-~ fications. She thought she should be taken in anyway. The CAA said no. Kathleen determined to grow taller. At home she stood on her

height by t =f ters of an inch, with 4 quarter to go. By. Friday she must : feet two or give up her am ition .to become a student pilot. .

CAPONE RELEASED AT PENNSY PRISON

Freedom Gomes: at End of Cross-Country Train Ride.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (U. P.).— Scarface Al Capone was whisked across the/country in secret and released today from the Federal Government’s . new model prison at Lewisburg, Pa. ‘Capone was. dressed in a cheap suit which the Government gives to released criminals. + © Broken in’ health and tortured by paresis, Capone was turned over to relatives: and accompanied by three Pederal officials. when 'he left custody after serving 7 years 6 months

and 15 days on an 11-year sentence 3

for income tax evasion. Capone: was not handcuffed as the - train sped across the country from Los Angeles. where the: party left Sunddy, to Harrisburg, .where they arrived eerly today and motored fo Lewisburg: for the formal ‘| release. : Capone’s destination was unknown. Federal officials said he was a “free man,” but there was no doubt

that .they would keep. their: eye on

the former - gang ‘leader to: make certain: that he did not take up his old business.

Declares Slain O'Hare Witness ‘Against Capone

CHICAGO, Nov. 16 (U. P.),—Edward J. O'Hare, racing magnate who was assassinated in gangland fash-

ion Nov. 8, was. the witness who in}. 1831 supplied the Government with|

evidence to send Al Capone to Alcatraz for income tax evasion, an informed and reliable source said

Board yesterday by O. W. Cross and|oday.

- “I think there may be more murders,” the informant said. ° Capt. Dan. Gilbert ‘of State's Attorney’s Police commented: ‘There is now no doubt in my mind that the Capone mob killed O'Hare.”

CONVICTED IN DEATH OF SON'S ATTORNEY

BENTON, IIL, Nov. 16 ww. B).— George w. Sr., wealthy ph specialist, today was convicted. of murdering his son’s attorney and the penalty was fixed at death in the electric chair. The verdict was delivered in court this morning. ‘Dr. Gore shot and fatally wounded Carl Choisser, 46-year-old: Benton attorney and publisher of the Benton Evening News, last Sept. 25. At that time . Choisser was attorney for the 65-year-old surgeon’s ‘George W. Jr., 32,7 who was awaiting trial on charges of murdering his stepmother, Mrs. Nancy Gore. The - “younger Gore was acquitted. . : a ————— ‘ 2 SHIPS REPORTED SUNK. 0 02 pics ‘Denmark, "Nov. |

his'sight wrist yesterday When_he the. ground . the|&

tail surface of the plane, ' This photo, was passed by’

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Kathleen Adds 34 Inch ||

rs Satgkfactory response from Heres

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THURSDAY, "NOVEMBER 16, 1989

Times-Acme. Photo. Bullet holes can be seen in the

BRITAIN'S FALL

Soviet Press Rages Against|

Finns; Allies Try for Economic Victory.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS . United Press Foreign News Editor Nazis and Communists kept Europe’s war of words going full blast today, but the fighting fronts were

quiet. In Berlin, authorized ‘German sources declared that Adolf Hitler will carry on the conflict until “British supremacy has been destroyed.” Meanwhile, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, said in the House of Commons today that the peace appeal of Queen Wilhelmina and King Leopold was “bold. intervention in the cause ot peace,” but he added that past experience did not permit hope of a

in the War had béen Srorath ena, He. reper Germany had lost six merchant ships in the last week and that German shipping almost was bottled up PBut the Allied ‘maneuvers to strangle the Nazi military machine economically instead of attempting to destroy it by direct attack continued to hold the initiative. So far there were only German threats to seize the initative by big-scale attacks—but no comparable military operations. The Nazi attitude and Nazi forecasts that sea and air operations against Britain will be intensified

Herr Hitler's rejection of the DutchBelgian Deaee proposals on the grounds tha e Allies’ alread ‘torpedoed” the offer. 9 had In Moscow, about the same tactics were being adopted against Finland. The Soviet press raged against the Finns, charged them with prov(Continued on Page Three)

ROADS BLOCKADED-

Twenty-four police. patrol cars, two cars of sheriff’s deputies and State Poice today blockaded roads in search for two men - believed wanted in Illinois for the murder of a policeman. The alarm was given after a car, in which there was. reported. two or three armed men, stopped at a gasoLue station at 3920 W. Washington St. ‘The same car was captured later in Hancock County, but only one man was in it. He said the other two had been armed hitchhikers and that they had Eotien, out

STOCKS ADVANCE $1 AS TRADE RADE PICKS UP

By UNITED: PRESS

New York stocks gained fractions to more than $1 today as volume increased slightly over yesterday's trade. Generally favorable business news confributed to the advance. . Prices were firm in Chicago stock transactions and bonds advanced in London. Chicago wheat rallied and corn futures reflected the trend. A sharp gain in raw silk futures

| ohemurgist i Gives 5-Point

point farm program as follows:

stil of ted|to restore ‘prosperity:

10, S. JURY PONDERS

IN KILLER SEARCH |

TRADE TREATY POLICY UNFAIR,

~ Economic Program; AAA Praised.

By EARL RICHERT -A five-point program to build up

thus restore national prosperity was presented to Indiana farmers tfo-

delphia, National Farm Chemurgic Council president. : Mr, McMillen, one of the prineipal speakers on the second-day program of. the Indiana Farm Bureau convention in Tor Hall, also condemned the Administration’s reciprocal trade treaties as unfair to American farmers. - Continuation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act was urged by another = speaker, Earl C. Smith, Chicago. - Foust Boomed for State Office

Mr. Smith, vice president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, has been mentioned as a possible candidate ° for the Republican nomination for vice president of the United States. Meanwhile, a boom to win the Republican nomination of Lieutenant Governor for Edmond C. Foust, editor of the Hoosier Farmer, was underway among the ' convention delegates. Mr. McMillen outlined his five-

1. Give every advantage of the American market to American farmers. | 2. Encourage and expand by every possible means the utilization in industry of products American farmers can grow. 3. Extend and hasten experimentation to establish new crops. on American farms.

Would Encourage Self Help

4. Establish incentive payments to farmers for producing ma the U. S. does not grow in sufficient quantity efficiently. 5. Encourage throughout both rural and urban society the hapits of selfhelp 4 in reference to. ove

ite eclar his opinion there. is no other way an bila up earning power in agricule p “In. the first place,” he explained, ‘farmers themselves: with nearly 25 per cent constitute the largest single group of population. The incomes of another 25 per cent-are solely dedependent upon the first crack at the farmer's dollar. Thus, half the nation must be prosperous or depressed directly as farmers are.

Assails Trade Pacts

“Also notable is the fact that the national “income "rises and falls ‘in almost exact proportion to jhe gross agricultural income, the na onal income being regularly a little more than seven times the farm income.” In assailing the Trade Agreements Act which permits reciprocal trade treaties with other countries, he said the first forward step should : (Continued on Page Three)

"6. M. CASE EVIDENCE

Decision Also Will Affect Ford and Chrysler.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 16° w P.).—A Federal Court ‘jury today still was deliberating the Government’s anti-trust case against the General Motors Corp. three affiliates and 17 individuals. . Included are Alfred P. Sloan Jr, and- William S. Knudsen, two ® of ‘the : country’s leading industrialists. The jury received the case at 6:35.p. m. -yesterday. 2oots were current that the jury is standing 8 to 4 for acquittal. The defendants are charged with having ‘conspired ‘to violate the {Sherman Anti-Trust Act by forcing retail automobile dealers.to finance sales through GMCs financing affiliates, thereby interfering with interstate commerce. The decision in the case will affect not only G..M. C. buf also the Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler Corp. who also were indicted but took consent decrees. - Judge Walter Lindley, said the jury could find all defendants guilty, all defendants not guilty, or list

featured New York Somimodity tradng. “

FARMERS TOLD!

earning power on the farm and be:

day by Wheele -1, y by r- McMillen, Phila- |, oc perso awn today marked the

or does ‘not yet © grow |

oF - |. hut he is.a notable New Dealer, it in| rth nor nest wedded first - to [ am

Entered ‘us

Lu = 4 - Postotfis. Tadianevolis nd.

| Justice Bu tler Is Dead; Murphy Firstin Line for Seat on Supreme Court

Robert Jackson’s Promotion To Attorney General Is Held Probable.

, WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (U. P.).— Nomination of Attorney General Frank Murphy .to- be an Associate

promotion of Solicitor General Ro-

death of Justice Pierce Butler. Mr. Justice Butler's. death two

quiet end of a political contest that wracked the nation. ‘ He was 73 years old.

sor, Mr. Roosevelt will have put five New ' Deal Justices on the "high bench, an’ absolute majority of the

membership to 15.

one of the extreme conservative group which helped junk NRA; AAA ad other New Deal structures in

Opposed New Deal Acts

The Justice was a Democrat, a Catholic and a Midwesterner, Mr. *rurphy fits that prescription pre-

entrenchment of Néw Deal philosophy there for at least a generation, but it would give the ‘President an opportunity to honor Mr, Jackson further. It is believed that he would be as eager to do that as to shift his New Deal Attorney General to the judiciary. Lacking an opportunity to nominate a single associate justice in his first term, Mr. Roosevelt will have named five in his second, matching the record of Abraham Lincoln. Associate Justice © Harold © M. Stephens of the U. 8. Court of Appeals here also tits the speculative pattern of Mr. Justice Butler’s successor. Mr. Stephens is a Catholic and from Utan. He missed nomination to the Supreme Court in a close finish this year with Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter,

; Minton Is Mentioned ‘Senator: ‘Sherman Minton (D. Ind), reportedly has been under

consideration for a lesser judicial appointment. He is not a Catholic

A od not}: “to Deal but who have fi ed BE, posiilies on. each} remeé Court

ihe NEW 1

occasion of vacancy are: Joseph C. Hutcheson, Texas; U. S. District Judge . William - Denman, San Francisco; Rep. “Hatton W. Sumners, (D. Tex.); Dean Lloyd K. Garrison of the University of Wisconsin Law. School, and Associate Justice Sam G. Bratton of the U. S. Court of Appeals, New Mexico.

Promoted Reed in 1938

Congress probably would welcome | nomination of Mr. Bratton or Mr. Sumners above any others,: But Mr, Sumners hit the New Deal court reorganization ‘plan a deadly blow in July, 1937, and Mr. Bratton ‘leans to the conservative side, too. Pour New Dealers in succession have ascended the Supreme ‘bench since Aug. 12, 1937 when the President sent to the Senate the nomination of then Senator Huge L: Black (D. Ala). ‘In January, 1938, Mr. Roosevelt promoted Solicitor General Stanley (Continued on Page Three)

FOUR FOUND DEAD IN BURNED HOUSE

DUNSTON, Me., Nov. 16 (U.-P.) —

believed fo be a triple murder and a suicide. The victims were . identified as: William A. Rowe, about 55; Mrs.|: Ethel V. Rowe, also about '55; Arthur Rowe; 13, and Clare Rowe, '2. Police believed that all were killed by bullets: from a. revolver, found near the bodies, and not by the flames. - Neighbors reported they heard several. shots : just before. the fire broke out. :

CHRYSLER DISPUTE IN SEVENTH WEEK

DETROIT, Nov. 16 (U. P.)=—The Production ‘dispute between Chrysler Corp. and the United Automobile Workers (C. I. .O.) completed its sixth: week today and more than 60,000 persons were idle. Negotiations continued in: the Chrysler Engineering Institute ‘between company and union officials. Federal Labor Conciliator James F. Dewey said that “definite” progress

those guilty: and those not guilty.

was being made toward settlement.

Sheepish Defendan ts Grin as They Take It on the Chin in Boystown Courtroom

By ROGER. BUDROW

ee boys on he orishtweod disct were pi g the penalty today for violating laws of the North East Community Center Boystown, They were convicted last night in the Brat court held by ‘the Boystown ere.

Shouts of basketball players “in a gymnasium in another part of the Senter A tious the “court- ” as. Ju Potts, 15-year-old hoxer, called for order. y Grinning sheepishly, the first of-

fender, hands jammed down in his

“| time you find wut!”

hill” behind the Center last Halloween night. . Prosecutor Robert Bowlin, who also is Boystown’s:15-year-old Mayor, ruffled his carefully groomed hair and steraly admonished the grinning defendant. not to laugh. - “It’s. no laughing matter,” ‘he shouted as he pointed an accusing finger at the defendant. “Didn’t you know you violated laws? You didn’t? Well, then, it's ‘about

Fourteen-year-old Clyde Staley, the defense attorney who wore a ater, asked the jurors

“huddle. ” The defendant was found guilty only on the disorderly conduct charge because there were no witnesses.” He was banned from all Boystown activities for five days. The second offender pleaded guilty to two of the charges and not guilty to the firecracker affair: “The firecrackers didn’t hurt any one,” he maintained, Angered when the judge ordered him to “shut up” as he interrupted the testimony of a witness, the defendant ‘stalked out of the rtToon, only io be broushi ask by the sergeant-at-arms. He © found guilty—20 days :

_his| ditional days “for

Justice of the Supreme Court and

rh H. Jackson to Cabinet rank ap-. peared likely today to follow the

With confirmation of his sueces- 2

court which he sought te influence * in 1937 with a plan to expand its .

Mr. Justice Butler was the last but

cisely. And not only would his nomi= nation” to the Court complete the

‘PROS AND ANTIS

‘|ceeding methodically, quietly . and

Four bodies were found today in a| _ |burned house, revealing" what police

Justice Pierce Butler . , : from log cabin to Supreme Court.

MNUTT WOOING

Beckons to New Dealers as McHale Dickers With Foes of Roosevelt. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (U.P) .—

Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt stuck a compromise

- | feather in his Presidential campaign |

hat today as he and his manager bid for the support of both pro and anti- Roosevelt wings of the Democrati¢ Party. ;

organization, is ‘dickering ‘with anti-

the vantage point of nigh position in the Administration, is. beckoning New. Dealers to his banner. They appeared in those roles yesterday. here. in Chicago. Mr. MecHale in: the latter city “met with anti-New Deal Governor Leon C. Phillips of Oklahoma for the avowed purpose of discussing Mr. “McNutt’s Presidential aspirations. Here a few hours earlier, Mr, McNutt appeared before a iuncheon meeting of the National Lawyers’ Guild with an address based on the fundamentally New Deal doctrine that. professional—medical and legal—services should be’ easily available to the masses. The guild is friendly to the New Deal.

Campaign 1s Efficient Mr. McNutt’s campaign is _pro-

efficiently. Belief that Mr. McNutt is. ‘being given a run for the nomination by President Roosevelt . is - general in Washington although that, of course does not yet commit the President to support his Security ~Administrator. He aiready has announced his candidacy with a provision that he wants the nomination: only it Mr. Roosevelt is’ out of the: race. Mr. McNutt. is® lengths , head of all other contestants for the nomination in so far as his: personal : ; (Continued on Page Three) |

CARPENTER KILLED AS. CAR HITS. TRAIN

Dies Instantly in Accident at Castleton. oy

Henry C. Klonnelt, 54, a carpenter, of 839 W. 30th St., was killed

at Castleton. Mr. Klennert’s car crashed’ “into the side of the engine of a southbound Nickle Plate Railroad freight at the 82d St. crossing, according to Engineer Charles Rudder; Peru. The

engineer said he saw the car _ap-|

proaching at high speed. Mr. Klennert was en route to the home of Paul Rinne, three miles east of Castleton, to do. some carpenter work. He is survived by his wife, Mary; two daughters, Mrs. ‘Helen Wissen, and Mrs. Mary Hollingsworth, both of Indianapolis; a son, Robert, Indianapolis, and two brothers, Ernest,

| I'zens’ Council président, told of these

instantly today in a frain-auto crash Sas

Esteriine. Tells Muniola ‘League of Efforts Toward | Rule by Citizens, 3

By TIM river Sih . Home rule, city manage

: government and the merit {system will be put into the Ine

diana Constitution within five or six years, the National

| Municipal League was told (today.

J. W. Esterline, |

plana. & in an the tizens’ Organization group at the Slunens annual convention ‘in its second day at the Hotel Severin. . © “In the meantime,” Mr. Es said, “we are going to try to

' | dependable citizens in elective

sitions, see that . aprons. + pub employees are competent, a

glee: judges on a non-pertisen

is. Rule by Citizens Proved.

“We have proved that citizens run their own government in | partisan School Board élections, not want home rule and manager form of govérnment mer: ly in laws that we will have to dee end every time the Legislature meets.” vj Frederick L. Bird, director of- mi nicipal research for Dun & Bre Sten New Fork: said he’ felt th n a's budget laws ‘provided budgets too inflexible. “An inflexible budget, , said, “results in a loss + i to taxpayers. There are some ‘who ad= vocate granting to the head of - unit a Jump sum of money, to be

| expended and audited as the uni

head deems necessary, and to be counted for after it is spent. “It seems to me that that : . is ‘good only when the man at fn head of the unit is thoroughly fled. - However, ; the item b vantage: of the: mark et. and.

unpredictable ine pre us Sat ay ig May >

“Upon: the Le gitue. of thié basis policy,” he said, “the credit. the City of Paterson was rei and immediately it was able. to row necessary money at a saving’ of 1% per cent in’ interest rate. ing the past five years, it has’ res duced its total outstanding ine debiedness by approximately 25 per oi Edward Fenias of the Newark, N. i J., Citizens’ Union, declared Shat ; city manager form of gov Newark was brought about out by tank ‘and file “proving untrue ] popular idea that reform * ae come from abeve—from the intellece tual, the cultured, the wealthy, 4

Praises Civil Service

Carl J. Kern, Municipal : Civil Service. Commission ‘president, New York, said: i "In those communities where civil service ‘is ‘the law, the politician treated as restrained and people treat a jolly drunkard-—with tolerance so long as he does not bes come offensive.” “With our system in New York Yk City, under Tammany, the outward i forms of civil service were j sometimes, but physical testing was crooked and everybody knew it and most everybody. tolerated it.” “© ‘After the: Civil Service Law: was | firmly administered, Mr. Kern said, it. resulted in more efficiency and the payroll in a single ITS was’ lowered by $1, 000,000. the Bret year. i) A fact- inding body attached ‘to the Indiana Legislature would mini4 mize the influence of : groups on law making, “by obii=ing : legislators to talk from facts : not from .preiudice,” F H.. Guild iD told the convention. Mr. Guild is ‘director of resent’ 8s (Continued on Page: Five Five) |

RAINS MAY CHASE : BALMY WEATHER

4 LOCAL TEMPERATURES iy 8am. . . 43 0 am. Tam ....42 Ham ‘Sa. m.... 25 12 (noon) .. 63 ‘Sam... 49 1pm... ‘i 68

‘The Weather ‘Bureau was a nétie

The Bureau took a chance, and forecast warmer tem tonight, with rain likely some tonight or tomorrow. % Yesterday's nigh of 66 was quits. a bit above normal with the average temperature yesterday 132 above

Indianapolis, and Human, living in|@ormal, ‘Cloudy skies threatened

Texas.

NEW DUST STORMS FEARED ON. PLAINS

By Science Rervice WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, — Dust storms may swirl again unless something breaks the severe drought

ter approaches. BA pence val patie of the cen valley, ar in the Great Lakes region, brought

- topsoil; fi

which continues unrelieved as win- e

hold today's temperature a few des

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tempotary relief, but the Moletare 4 is Finan