Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1940 — Page 1

VOLUME 51—_NUMBER 255

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Roosevelt Proposes New Defense Ta axes in National Unity Message

(Text of Message, Page 5)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.) .—Proposing new taxes for emergency defense and extension of reciprocal trade agreements as a further safeguard, President Roosevelt today called for national unity to safeguard American democracy in his annual message to Congress, Coincident with the President’s appeal for such unity was Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison’ s request to.Congress that it give sEiraordinary peschlime powers to Mr. Roosevelt. In a letter to Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead, Secretary Edison asked legislation be enacted extending the President’s war-time powers to commandeer fac- - tories, materials, ships and “other such resources so as to per-

mit their exercise in times of peace under a national emer-

. gency proclamation. The President also reaffirmed in his message his hope . and expectation that the United States would remain at peace. The third session of the 76th Congress convened at 11 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) and met in joint session shortly . before 1 p. m. to hear the message—a world-wide broadcast by the President of United States foreign and domestic policy. Practically all Government expenses except for national defense will be reduced next year, Mr. Roosevelt said, in the “hope that “these days of increasing economic prosperity” will permit continued reduction of the Federal deficit. But he warned that unemployment remained an unsolved problem and that with a program of social improvement begun, the processes of recovery must be carried on ‘to preserve gains and provide jobs at a living wage.

24 INIURED IN JER WEATHER

Only Slight Relief Promised; I. U. Students Hurt as Bus Strikes House.

Report by Dies Clears Lewis Of Communism

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.).— The Dies Committee in a unanimous report to Congress today exonerated John L. Lewis and the majority of

members of the Congress of Industrial Organizations of charges that they are Communists or Communist sympathizers, but charged thdt the leadership of 11 of the 48 C. 1. O. unions “is more than tinged with communism.” “It is - unmistakably clear,” the Committee said, “that the overwhelming majority of the members of the CI. O., as well as its president, Mr. Lewis, are not Communists or Communist sympathizers, but sincere American workers seek-

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EDISON URGES

A large part of the Trey s deficits for the past sev-| eral years has been created by national defense costs, the President said, but he declared that such spending must be continued. ‘ “] am asking Congress,” he explained, “for ‘Army and Navy increases which are not based on panic but on

ists seek. They are not as small as unrealistic persons claiming superior private information would demand.” : The amounts asked will be revealed in the President's

budget message tomorrow.

He said the social and economic forces which had been

siinaragad abroad until they brought revolution and dictatorship ‘and war were identical with those we were attempting to’ adjust at home. Expressing the hope that “we will have fewer ostriches in our midst,” he asked Americans

to look ahead and see:

1. The possibilities for our children if the rest of the world's 18: dominated by concentrated force alone. 2. The effect on our future if small nations throughout the world are shorn of independence by powerful military

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.) .~Highlights of President Roosevelt's annual message to Congress on the

state of the Union:

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PEACE—The United States must “be a potent and - active factor in seeking the re-establishment of peace.”

WAR—Roots of the war are to be found in mismanagement of social and economic forces “until they

have resulted in revolution, dictatorship and war.” » »

DICTATORSHIP—“The philosophy of force . . « originated in almost every case in the necessity for drastic action to improve internal conditions,” ;

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NATION AL UNITY—It is “the fundamental safe- -

guard of all democracy.”

Highlights of Presidents Address on State of Union

ON U. S. PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR—*“The United States will not become involved” militarily.

TRADE TREATIES—“The trade agreements act should be extended” to aid in organizing durable peace.

THE BUDGET—The only increase is for defense, “practically all other important items show a reduction.”

UNEMPLOYMENT—Idle youth “must be an especial concern of democratic government.” |

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TAXES—“I am asking

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EXTRA POWERS

Wants President to Be Able To Use War-Time Rights During Peace.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.) — Secretary of Navy Charles Edison today proposed to Congress that it vest in President Roosevelt vast § peace-time powers {0 commandeer |S factories, materials, ships:and Other. 4 résources. : Mr. Edison sent. a letter to Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead requesting that the Chief| Executive's war-time powers of com-

day of the coldest wave in four years today as fire and transportation accidents attributable to the weather took a heavy toll. Twenty-four were reported injured. Only slight relief from zero tem- ; peratures of today and yesterday was promised by the Weather Bureau. The low tonight, the bureau said, will be about 5 degrees. Light .snow flurries were forecast for tomorrow. Eight Indiana University students were injured, none seriously, when a Greyhound bus left Road 37 near <-Glenns Valley and crashed into a house last night.

Two Persons Burned

Six persons were injured yesterday; when a Peoples Motor Coach busi struck a bridge on E. 21st St. near Emerson Ave. Two persons were burned seriously: yesterday in fires which accompanied the cold wave, and 21 of the 24 runs made by the Fire Department since 7:30 a. m. yestorvay were blamétl on the weather. The Airport Weailis? Burean thermometer broke a season record today at 5:30 a. m., when it registered 5 below zero. A 10 to 15-mile-an-hour wind bit hard at pedestrians and made the temperature seem even colder than yesterday. Other temperatures over the State, recorded at 6:30 a. m., were: McCool, 2 above; South Bend, 3 below; Goshen, 1 below; Ft. Wayne, 1 below; Lafayette, 3 below; Terre . Haute, 2 above; Richmond, 3 below; Milroy, 3 below; Washington, " 3 above, and Evansville, 6 above. At Evansville, the Ohio River froze over as the temperature sank to!5 above zero.

Crashed Into Farm House

Those injured when the Bloom-ington-bound bus left, the road and > crashed into the farm home of Charles 'W. Mann were: | CHARLES K. GREENOUGH, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. reenough, 556 E. Fall Creek’ lvd. Walter Greenough is a vice president of the Fletcher Trust Co. | WARREN ANGRICK, 17, son of ir. and Mrs, Angrick, 810 S. heffield Ave. MARY REMUS, 20, Gary. | STEVEN G. SLIPHER, 19, Co-

mbus, O. | MARION JABLONSKI, 23, East

= ALBERT MEYERS, 20, East icage. 1 JACQUE FERGUSON, 32, of W. 27th St., Indianapolis.

"IAs the bus approached a narrow b idge, Robert Fitts, 37, of 1855 Place, driving north in a jssenger car, applied his brakes his car skidded. He told State plice he believed that if he had sroceeded onto the bridge the car id bus would have collided. , : Car Hits Bus ; The skidding car struck the bus. e bus driver, Marshall Elrod, 27, B swerved the machine and it went off the road, 75 yards through a field and plunged 10 feet " into the side of the Mann home. - Mr. ‘Mann and four members of his’ family were sitting at a table in, I53.the room wrecked by the bus, and te Police said they might have

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ing to improve their lot in-life in perfectly legitimate American asjgion.” : |

. Pleads for Continuation

The 15,000 word report, the last official act of the Committee unless the House extends its life, made no legislative recommendations. It merely cited the Committee's ‘accomplishments and gave four reasons why 1ts members believe the investigation of un-American activities should be continued. Its major appeal ‘was to Governmenf agencies for an active campaign of prosecution to “repel insidious forms of attack by foreign powers . through organizations whose obvious objectives can be no -other than to destroy the American form of government.” . The Committee foresaw a time soon when “subversive” organiza(Continued on Page Three)

SIX-MONTH DEFICIT TOPS F. D. R. FIGURE

Increases Expected in New Budget Tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.).— The Federal Government ended the first six months of this fiscal year with a deficit more than half that President Roosevelt estimated for the entire year, Spending to Jan. 1 exceeded income by $2,023,238,159, the Treasury revealed today. The budget forecast a gross deficit of $3,426,343,000 for the entire fiscal year. The new budget, which the President submits to Congress tomorrow, is expected to revise the estimates for the current fiscal year. Fiscal experts expected that both the spehding and deficit figures will be higher than originally forecast. The Treasury said that income for the first six months of this fiscal year was $2,744,229,513.71. Gross expenses ‘were $4,767,467,673.59. Income was $183,000,000 below that for the first six months of the previous fiscal year, most of this deficiency

being in income’ tax Peceipts: {

mandeering and procurement be extended to permit their exercise in times of peace under a proclamation of national emergency. Secretary Edison’s letter to Speaker Bankhead offered no explanation

of the reason for.requesting the ex- |: pansion of Executive powers at this

time. Navy Department officials said the proposal was of’ “precautionary” nature. They said Mr. Edison did not envisage U. S. entrance into war or the actual use of the powers during peace-time.

Emergency Now Limited

The United States is now operating under a proclamation of limited

national emergency, issued by Presi- |.

dent Roosevelt shortly after the outbreak of the European war. Mr. Edison’s letter explained that under the Act of March 4, 1917, the President was authorized to exercise broad executive powers in time of national emergency or war. The right to exercise these powers in time of national emergency expired March 1, 1918. They can now be used only in war-time. Mr. Edison said: “The purpose of the proposed bill is to vest. with the President, during a national emergency those powers which he has in time of war by the terms of subsections (b) under the

appropriation heading ‘naval emer-!

gency funds’ of the Act of March 4, 1917, entitled ‘An act making appropriations for the naval service | # for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and for other purposes.” .

. Powers Are Defined

Under terms of the proposed legislation, the President could, in a national emergency: 1. Order ships or war materials to meet the nation’s needs as defined by the Chief Executive. 2. Modify or cancel previous orders 3. Require factory owners . in which ships or war materials are produced to put their facilities at the disposal of the President. 4. Requisition, for Government usage, any plants that he determines that the Government may need,

So He Grabs

By JOE COLLIER The security that results from a planned economy was thoroughly demonstrated at 2 a. m. today when a red fox visited Riverside Park on personal business. If it hadn’t been for what Andy Miller, the town’s chief duck fancier, insists is a co-operative society, one or more Lake Sullivan ducks would now be the fox’s personal business. As it was, the fox nabbed ‘a chicken, which As further proof of Andy’s theory that ducks are smart, he Sage, ‘have a very low

Andy’s Ducks Duck Fox

Foolish Fowl

an ice patrol on Lake Sullivan and every able-bodied duck was req ired to do a regular hitch.

In regular fleets, the ducks cruised.

the lake and when they saw a piece of new ice forming, they bit it off. The idea was to Kéep open water for safety, recreation and ‘medicinal purposes. Through this extremely

cold weather the ducks have pa--

trolled their open space night and day, biting harder and faster as the temperature got lower and lower. The open space now is about as big as a street intersection. So, when the fox was discovered by the ducks last night, they wel 0 :

Flames spread quickly through this Minneapolis a partment hotel, tiapping scores in their This is how the building looked five hours after the fire started.

taking a toll of 20 lives.

IBLITZKRIEG FAILURE,

RUSS DIG TRENCHES

Finns Smear New Attempt On Mannerheim Line.

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HELSINKI, Finland, Jan..3 «U. P.).—An officially authorized statement today said that the Red Army was “digging in” on the Karelian Isthmus after Finns had broken up another attempt by Soviet troops to outflank the Mannerheim Line. The Soviet offensive has. been so

unsuccessful that the Russian troops have resorted to trench warfare in Sonirasi to their original plan for “lightning” blow. All danger of an immediate thrust across midFinland toward the: Gulf of Bothnia ‘has been. eliminated, the statement said, by a battle at Kianta Lake, where a Soviet division was reported wiped out and where Finnish troops and cold weather have now “finished off” the remnants of the Russian force, - Ten thousand tanks were used by the Russians on the isthmus, according to the statement, and many have been destroyed. About 400 Russian tanks have been captured on all fronts. The latest Russian attempt to outflank the Finnish defense lines by sending troops southward along the shore of Lake Ladoga was frustrated and one of the chief dangers to the Finnish Mannerheim line was (Continued on on. Page } Three)

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SUB SINKS STEAMER |

LONDON, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—Twenty persons were missing today after a German submarine torpedoed and sank the Swedish steamer Svarfon, 2475 tons, off the north coast. of Scotland. Eleven survivors were picked up by a lifeboat. ‘They said their ship went down a minute and a half after the torpedo struck. :

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (U. pas Mackey Radio intercepted an SOS

from the Swedish steamer Kiruna today, saying a submarine had fired upon it and it was sinking.

“The ship asked immediate assist- fi

och: It gave its position as about

~ miles northeast of Bermuda fun about 700 miles Sauthwest, oflw ) oas :

\He Learns This

Lad Will Be Sick At Heart When

Twenty-month-old Larry Lee Murphy is too sick with pneumodnia to use his “Eskimo” sled with a driver's seat and long red runners

curved up in front. His 10-year-old brother and sister, Paul and Pauline, can’t use it either. Their mother, Mrs. Orville C. Murphy, 2909 N. Harding’ St., reports the sled has been stolen. There are seven children in the family and Mr. Murphy is a WPA worker. But when Larry Lee went shopping: with his mother before Christmas he saw the sled and wanted it. They had never seen another like it. Mrs. Murphy dared to buy the sled because she thought it would do for the twins as well as for Larry Lee. But it was really Larry Lee’s sled. He said “Claus” brought it to him. A neighbor boy said he saw a girl “about 12 years old” pick up the sled in the yard and run away with it. Since then the twins, and another brother, Wayne, have searched the parks where all the children are playing with their Christmas sleds. They haven't ‘seen Larry Lee's sled. Evidently whoever got the sled isn’t having much fun with it.

POPE GREETS PILGRIMS ' VATICAN CITY, Jan. 3 (U. P.) — His Holiness Pope Pius XII resumed public audiences today, receiving many pilgrims from various countries,

Security Law Extending Hand to Young Workers

(This is the third of a series of* articles. explaining important changes in the Social Security Act which went into effect Jan, 1.) By GILBERT LOVE Times Special Writer The new Social Security system gives persons who are now ‘young or. ch 10 bud good foundation on which to

their financial fuSnowing; ‘how . much they should

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‘Where Minneapolis Fire Trapped Scores

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3. See the kind of lives our: children would Leal if much of the rest of the world were compelled te worship a god imposed /by military rule, or were forbidden to worship at all, or were deprived of true news. - 4, See the effect on our future if world trade is cons trolled by military force by any nation or group of nations, “Modern man,” he said, ‘can no longer live a ‘civilized life if we are to go back to the practice of wars and cons

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quests of the 17th and 18th centuries.”

Mr. Roosevelt said “blind economic selfishness” Heke and in other countries after the last World War produced trade restrictions which blocked commerce between nations. From that premise, he devoted the mid-section of his message to a defense of the reciprocal trade agreement program sponsored by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Authority for negotiation of those agreements, which are conducted by the Executive Department without Cons gressionai consent or advice, will expire in June. : 1 “It is not correct,” he said, “to infer that legislative powers have been transferred from the Congress to the Executive Branch of the Government. Everybody recognizes that general tariff legislation is a Congressional function, but we know that, because of the stupendous task involved in the fashioning and passing of a general law, it is advisable to provide at times of emergency some flexibility to make the general law adjustable to quickly changing conditions! “We are in such a time today. Our present trade agrees ment method provides a temporary flexibility and is, theres

fore, practical in the best sense. It should be kept alive to (Continued on 1 Page Three)

20 DEAD AS HOTEL [5 SWEPT BY FIRE

Minneapolis Gress | Trapped in Beds a8 Flames Leap Ur Walls in Few Minutes.

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MINNEAPOLIS, Mis, Jan. 3 (U..P.) Twenty pers sons perished today “when trapped in the ‘Marlborough Apartment Hotel by flames that'survivors: said “seemed to

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The fire started at 6 a. m. Even’ peters: at eo could

Ibe turned in it had licked upward through the halls. and

stairways, trapping scores of residents in their apartments

and in the hallways. Many of them still were in ‘their beds,

‘drought. had cut heavily

mentary income was necessary to

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1900 FLEE BLAZE IN SCHOOL HERE

Pupils File Out as Fire Starts at Our Lady of Lourdes Building.

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BABY OF 4 MONTHS SMOTHERS IN BED

Sleeping With Parents Who Came Here for Work.

Four-month-old Viola Briley, the youngest member of three generations of Tennessee farmers living at 2010 Quill St., was accidentally | smothered in her sleep last night. She was sleeping with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Briley. The family had doubled up on sleeping accommodations after the arrival Saturday of the child's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Briley, who came up from Tennessee for winter work. : They explained that the summer into the farm’s earnings and that. supple-

Two hundred pupils of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic school, 5315 E. Washington \ St., Irvington, fled to safety today when a coal pile fire started in a boiler room.

The fire was believed to have

boiler developed a defect when janitors were battling zero temperatures. Property damage was reported as slight. One hundred of the pupils were in classrooms on the first floor. They gathered their wraps and filed out of the building in an orderly firedrill method.

Throw Wraps Out

The other hundred were in church on the second floor. They filed out of the building inte the cold without their wraps. Sisters gathered the garments and threw some of them out windows to the children and carried other wraps out. The children were hurried by priests and nurses into the nearby rectory and convent so they could adjust their wraps, and then were dismissed for the day. Today was the first day’s school after the holidays. Lewis Hibbert, janitor, discovered the dre and spread the alarm.

Fire Kept in Basement

The Rev. Fr, L. T. Gootee, assistant pastor of the church, said the damage to the building would amount to no more than $50. The fire was confined to the basement. Three firemen were slightly injured in fighting the blaze. They were Daniel Scanlon, Co, 25, at 5432 E. Washington St. who slipped on the stairway and was bruised; Howard Sanford, also of Co. 25, who injured his hip slightly, and. Fred Fate, Co. 12, 400 block Sherman Drive, who was bruised. None left his ‘post. No other person was even slightly injured

NATIONAL AND STATE BANK CALLS ISSUED WASHINGTON, Jan. 3° (U. P).—

The Controller of the Currency today issued a call for the condition of hanks as o

protect the property's mortgage. - Several months ago the parents of the infant victim came to Indianapolis from Tennessee to live with the infant's great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Suttle, who own the property on Quill St. and who many years K ago came to Indianapolis. Mr. Suttle is in the trucking business. Young Mr. Briley was his assistant. The mother was nearly prostrated with grief.

WORKER SHOT BY WIFE KOKOMO, Ind. Jan. 3 (U. P.).— Warren' Martin, 28; unemployed WPA worker, was shot by his wife during a family quarrel at their home at Cassville north of here today. His condition is serious. Mrs. Martin told authorities a revolver Sischarged accidentally.

whatever else they deem necessary through private savings or insurance policies. It has been predicted | that. many

the task of providing for old age or untimely death seemed hopeless be- ‘| fore, now will be encouraged to save] a little something to add to their expected Social Security benefits. But, for those who never are able| to put anything aside, the Social Security foundation itself will proshelter. | The following figures will show t {workers who are now young or midal

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all national. Dec. 30, 1939.

eel ‘ The State Department of Financial Institutions today issued a call for the ondition of all State banks as of .

Cem i SENATOR NORRIS IN CLINIC

BALTIMORE. Mi, ‘Jan. 3 (WU, P.). Senator George W. Norris (Ind. today % Jotins Hopkins checkup,

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started after one heating plant

Five hours after: the fire was discovered 17 bodies were lined up in the Hennepin County Morgue. Three more were removed from the still burning building. ‘Several of the bodies were burned be-

yond recognition. : Fire Chief William Traeger said the fire started in a rubbish heap in the basement. Identified were the bodies of Mrs. Jay Franke, 52, her son, Ofto, 25, and her daughter, Renee, 16. A woman who jumped head first from a third-story window was identified tentatively as Florence ‘Hessing, 30,

Child’s Body Identified Others identified were Mabel Brown, 34, and the infant son of Charles Coovert. : Forty persons were injured, and 23 of them| were taken to three hospitals. vo firemen and two poe licemen were among the injured. Survivors said that when they were warned, nearly every avenue of escape’ was blocked. Most were saved by jumping from windows in the upper floors of the three-story building. - Some managed to crawl to fire escapes. < Charles Norton, 61, said he was awakened by an explosion. He ran into the hallway, "but found it a mass of flames. “The fire seemed ‘to shoot right out of the walls,” he said. Scores of the hotels 200 residents . were trapped. City officials said it was the most disastrdus fire in Minneapolis’ history. Screaming women and children jumped from windows into the fey. streets. Those who. could ran from the building in their night clothes. Neighbors for blocks around re~ ported that they were awakened” by the screams of the dying ad injured.

Janitor Describes Blast

Otto Knaack, 49, janitor, said he went to the furnace room this morning. ; “When I opened ‘the door T was struck by a blast that knocked me 10 feet across the hallway,” he said .at General Hospital. “I'got up and tried to run, but 1 (Continued on Page Four)

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