Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1939 — Page 12
FDR. WATS IN APPOINTING NEW JUSTICE
Murphy Would Be Given Senate Approval.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U. P.)— - Congressional veterans today named Attorney Gensral Frank Murphy as the most likely succesor to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler. - They predicted speedy confirmation if his * Bame-in submitted to th¢ Senate. Senators William E. Borah (R. Ida.), George Norris (Ind. Neb.) and Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), all named Mr. Murphy first in calling the roil of potential Associate Justices. In Hyde Park where he is spending the week-end President Roosevelt today said that only an emer-
gency will force him to nominate a|.
new Justice before Congress reconvenes for its regular session in Jan-
uary. The President added that he has given no consideration as to whom he will name. _ Jackson May Move Up Promotion of Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson to the Attorney Generalship could be expected if Mr. Murphy were shifted to the court. Mr. Murphy’s name was not alone in Supreme Courtrspeculation. Some Senators suggested Mr. Wheeler, former Dean Wiley B. Rutledge of Jowa Law School, and Judge Harold Stevens of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Mr. Rutledge recently was named to the District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Judge Sam G. Bratton of the 10th (Southwest) Court of Appeals has
been a likely pick for every vacancy
since he left the Senate. King Asks Westerner
Senator William H. King (D. Utah), ranking majority member of the Judiciary Committee, said there was a need of a “real Westerner” on the court and advocated the nomination of Judge Stevens to replace
'~ Mr. Justice Butler,
Senators Borah, Wheeler and Norris, representing Progressive Republican, Independent and anti-New { Deal Democratic opinion, expressed satisfaction today with the liberal philosophy which has controlled the sourt for some time. | None anticipated any great departures from established Constitutional doctrines by the “New Deal Court” although they uniformly forecast that the Court will continue its liberal interpretations of the Constitution.
Butler Rites Held In Capital Church
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U. P.). =—Members of the Supreme Court and other high government officials paid their last respects to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler today at his furieral in St. Matthéws Cathedral. The Rt. Rev.” Msgr. Edward L. Buckey conducted the high mass of requiem of the Catholic Church for the 73-year-old jurist who died in his sleep before dawn yesterday. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and the seven Associate Justices of the Tribunal, were honorary pallbearers. Attorney General Frank Murphy and Postmaster General James A. Farley represented the Cabinet, Daniel Callahan, naval aid to President Roosevelt, represented the Chief Executive who is in Hyde Park. Monsignor Buckey held a brief prayer service for the family at their home. After the funeral the family will accompany the body to St. Paul, Minn,, where final rites will be held in St. Luke's Church Monday. A committee of the Supreme Court composed of Justices James ©. McReynolds, Harlan F. Stone and Owen J. Roberts—senior ranking judges next to Mr. Chief Justice Hughes—will be present there.
CALLS HONEST VOTE ‘BEST SAFEGUARD’
" “An honest, independent ballot is - our greatest safeguard against the evil of political apathy and eventual regimentation,” Gilbert Forbes, WFBM radio commentator, told members of the Indianapolis Association of Life Underwriters in a juncheon meeting yesterday at the Columbia Club. Eber M. Spence, association president, announced the following committee members for the national organization: Herbert A. Luckey, chairman of the committee on state law and .legislation; Homer L. Rogers, committee on state and regional association; Mr. Spence, committee on agents compensation, and William Kluesmeier of South Bend, committee on co-operation with the National Association of Insurance Agents.
SCORE POSTMASTER SELECTION METHOD
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov. 17 (U. P.) —Members- of the Tippecanoe
County League of Women Voters|E
were on record today as protesting “the way tha selection of a new postmaster for Lafayette is being handled.” In a resolution to be sent to Indiana’s Senators in Washington, the _ Teague requested that “one of the three eligible candidates be appointed by the proper authorities.” The County Democratic Committee last week decided not to approve «of the three who had passed the POPE’S CONSISTORY DEC. 12 VATICAN CITY, Nov. 17 JJ. P.).
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~ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1939
English Model Arrives in U. S.
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She arrived from England on the 8. 8S. Manhattan and her name is Paddt Shannon. She is an English photographer's model who says she is here to visit the most notable American scenes.
Cleveland Mayor Quiet
By CLAYTON FRITCHEY Times Special Writer
CLEVELAND, Nov. 17.—Ohio has a new political mystery man. His name is Harold Hitz Burton.
He is a quiet, conscientious, conservative, New England-born lawyer, who. has a Coolidge-like horror of baby kissing. He lives in Cleveland, the strongest Democratic city in the state and the only large Ohio city to remain Democratic when the state went Republican in 1938 and elected John Bricker Governor and Robert Taft Senator. The mystery that baffles Ohio: political bosses is how Harold Burton, a staunch Republican in a Democratic stronghold, a careful conservative:in a city bred on the.broad political liberalism of the late Tomy Johnson, can keep on being Jee elected Mayor of Cleveland. :
The Answer Is Simple
The politicians around the state think he does it with mirrors. But the people in Cleveland, who have just re-elected Mr. Burton to ‘his third term, have a simpler answer. They say he does it by employing an old-fashioned device called “good government.” Although mayor of the nation’s sixth city since 1935, Mr. Burton in that time has not come up with a single new or original idea in government. But, if he has no set program, he has his likes and dislikes, For instance: He hates grafters and bribe-tak-ers. Result: Cleveland was treated to probably the most successful purging of a police department ever undertaken. Captains, inspectors, lieutenants and lesser officers were sent to the penitentiary. Scores of others resigned or were fired.
Bonds Are Being Paid
He likes people to keep their word, especially on debts and contracts. Result: City bonds are being paid instead of defaulted; city employees are now getting their full salaries and on time. Safety is almost a religion with him. He has no patience with accidents, thinks they are preventable, was sure he could prove it. : He did. Traffic deaths were cut in half last year; more than 100 lives . were saved; Cleveland won the National Safety Council award. Being a former corporation lawyer, he has no gift or taste for political baiting of the utilities.. Either you have a lawsuit or you don’t, he argues. Cleveland has had several since Mr. Burton took office. Now it has very low gas rates and is on the way to obtain a reduction in its comparatively low electric rates. Almost 30 years ago Cleveland's great Mayor Tom Johnson pioneered the idea of yardsticking power companies by starting a municipal light plant. Since then many mayors have talked of expanding the plant. But it was just talk. It took Harold Burton, the “little brother of private property,” to do it. A $5,500,000 Sedition: is now being butts to the
But He Gets Results|}
Nine thousand store windows were smashed in one year; hundreds of places were bombed; a war of vandalism was conducted
openly. Previous mayors looked the
other way, for important labor leaders were responsible. The situation was regarded as political dynamite. ‘Mr. Burton thought such racketeers ought to be in prison. That's where they are now. The
political dynamite didn’t go off; it]
just blew a fuse. The vandalism
has stopped. In none of the Burton cleanups have. personal rights been invaded. This record is so scrupulous that
the Civil Liberties Union recently.
rated Cleveland as “distinguish for civil liberties. +. No other public official in Ohio
Ihas a comparable record of achieve-
ment, yet Mr. Burton is relatively unknown. He has no gift for selfdramatization; if anything, he has a gift for making even the spectacular seem commonplace. . He has no political “philosophy.” He is neither very left nor right. He conducts no holy wars. He eschews political scripture and relies on evidence in all his fights— whether they be with utilities or labor leaders. There must be something to this formula, for Cleveland’s dominant political party—the Democrats—
didn’t even run a candidate against!"
him this last time. If Mr. Burton doesn’t run next year for the senatorial seat now occupied by Vie Donahey, the chances are that the third term will breed a fourth one.
FALSE PLEDGES BY CANDIDATES SCORED
Times Specisi..
BRAZIL, Ind, Nov. 17.—Candidates who make ‘campaign promises
they never intend to carry out, arel
perpetrating frauds upon the voters, State Senator Charles H. Bedwell of Stllivan declared in an address last night. “If the voters would require candidates to issue a bill of particulars
on how they intend to carry out|| i
their promises; there would be a lot of fraud exposed,” he said. Senator Bedivell is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Seventh District Congressman. “When a candidate presents schemes for the unnecessary expenditure of public funds and in the same breath tells you that he advocates the balancing of the budget and the reduction of taxes, you are entitled to question his’ mental honesty,” he asserted.
—— LE AUTO VICTIM NEAR DEATH BRAZIL, Ind., Nov. 17 (U. P.)— James Boysaw, 54, was critically injured here today when struck by an auto driven by Frank Bedwell. Physicians held little hope for his ag Toovey.
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Girl Injured by Car as She
Crosses Road to Get ‘Mail From Box.
A 7-year-old :girl lay near death
in St. Francis Hospital today after .|'she ran into the side of an automopile in front of her home, 4001 S.
Harding St., yesterday. Rosemary Schanke, together with her sister, Jo Anna, 5, had started across the road to get the mail from a box. = Hemer Watts, 38, of R. R. 3, Box 636, driving north on Harding St. told deputy sheriffs that he blew his horn at the children. Apparently frightened, the girls ran across the road. Rosemary ran into the rear right side of the car. Attendants at the hospital said her lung was punctur-
led. Jo Anna fell to the road but
was not struck. She received only minor bruises. Witnesses said Mr. Watts swerved his machine to the west side of the road and almost crashed inte a ditch. John Heater, 24, of 852 W. 9th St., told deputies he was driving behind Mr. Watts and saw him swerve to avoid hitting the children. Mr. Heater said he did not see the girls until the car had passed by them and then he saw them both lying in the road.
Entered as Second-Class ‘Matter at Fomobben Indianapolis, Ind.
Bookies Sadly Set Up ‘Curb Market’
After Wires Go Dead i in the Back Room
“A new: “curb market” opened in Indianapolis today with ‘morning
quotations on all "issues fluctuating |
around zero. The curb, briefly described, is that upright facing to the ordinary sidewalk contiguous with the gutter. Operators on the new curb are those saddened but well-barbed gentlemen who yesterday presided in the
murky backrooms of the city’s myriad “bookies.” For what appears fo be an indefinite period they’ll be out of business as a result of M. L. Annenberg's abandonment of his Nationwide News Service which has hitherto provided them with direct race track wires. The Annenberg racing information network collapsed around noon yesterday, and the effect was felt here at exactly 12:01 when wires to all betting parlors became frantically silent. The drone of the “call man” at “local headquarters,” tonelessly repeating odds, track conditions, jockeys and post positions at Bowie, Narragansett and Tanforan, knifed
‘off with the speed - of a heart at-
tack. Chaos fell upon the bookie parlors, most of which bulged with players, ranging from the 50-cents-a-throw boys to the cigar chewing
gentry who toss $50 or $100 on a
favorite’s nose and think Hopung ot it ‘Who'd a {ought they'd asdunnit?” . Every bookie in town asked him-
self that question, knowing the answer all the time.
They had awaited the deadening] of the race wires with the ba breath of one sitting beneath thi Damoclean : sword. * For more than a week, Annenberg fought the Government's determined effort to abolish his in-
GIVES OPEN VERDICT IN FT. WAYNE WRECK
FT. WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 1 (U. P.) .—Coroner Walfer E. Kruse today returned an open verdict in the wreck of a Pennsylvania Railroad train here Oct. 24 which claimed three lives. Robert R. Dickens, 57, of Ft. Wayne, an engineer for the past 32 years, testified at the inquest
that he accepted any responsibility which might be attached to his yard engine crew. Mr, Dickens was in charge of a switch engine which backed into a a -chair car of the ‘Mid-City Express as it was pulling
into the Ft..Wayne station.
formation: evston. charged by the Government as 8 “part and parcel of lottery” and, therefore illegal. Bookies 1 it the losing of théir wires would deprive them of their “bread and butter.” A bookie without a direct wire just isn’t. Today the bookies were collectively consulting on ways and means of
circumventing this latest disaster. the “curb market”
Temporarily has been placed in operation. Because there are no wires, the bettor =
finds no inspiration to closet himself -in the back room. The bookie has no use for the room, knowing that the clientele will not part with money on a basis of “bet today and get your payoff tomorrow.” Quite obviously the big-timers will abandon the game, because of the diminution of profit. The “little fellows” will continue their clutching at the nickles and dimes of those who think they know the ponies. You can find them today, standing before poolrooms at the curbstone, waiting to take your “half” or “skin.” But if you lay your money in one’s
palm, don’t expect a quick payoff,
for he’ll ‘tell you: “On account of ‘we ain't got no wire now, we'll have to wait 'til tomorrow to square.” A tragic sequel to the breakup of the bookies may find some of them | hunting honest jobs.
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STATE LOAN FIRMS
R. E. Meier, Evansville, today began his second year as president of the Indiana Association of Personal Finance Companies. Mr. Meier was re-elected at the closing session of the association’s 24th annual convention yesterday at
the Claypool Hotel. Other officers re-elected were R. PF. Harts, vice president; Irvin Wesley, secretary, and Paul A. Hancock, treasurer, all of ‘Indianapolis. Mr. Wesley was named for his sixth year as secre-
IY. 2 Named .to the executive commit
‘tee were Mr. Meier, Mr. Hartz, Mr.
Wesley, William ' T. Broughman, Marion, and W. B. Nichols, Clinton, Speakers at the session included Homer O. Stone, supervisor of the State Department of Financial Institutions’ Division of Small Loans and Consumer Credit, who explained new regulations promulgated recently by the State Department. Rabbi J. M. Taxay, Terre Haute, related his personal experiences during a Tecents 16-month tour of Eu-
rope.
CHAMBERLAIN BETTER LONDON, Nov. 17 (U.P,).—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain left his official residence at No. 10 Down= ing St. today for the first time since he suffered a severe. attack of gout nine days" ago. fart
For the week preceding Thanksgiving we wish to express: our thanks to the amie How sands of our patrons who have supported us and favored us with their patronage.” Since our humble beginning in 1884 we have grown’ to become at least the second largest shoe store in the United States, which we have enjoyed through your: growing confi dence in’
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