Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1940 — Page 3
"FRIDAY, JAN. 12, 1940
." Reopening Markets Is Trade Program’s Aim, Hull Declares
Fears Economic Helplessness if Act Expires; Wallace Backs Him.
wassNGToN, Jan. 12 (U.P) — Secretary of State Cordell Hull today told the House Ways and Means Committee that if’ the re-
ciprocal trade agreements act is|
junked, “we walk off in a dark corner’ and sit down, utterly helpless to solve our economic problems.” : Mr. Hull made the statement in
reply to a new Republican attack on the program which—unles ex-
tended for three yedrs as desired’
by the Administration—will expire June 12. “The old days are gone forever,” he said, “and we are obliged to turn over anew leaf. “Why, every week other nations are negotiating trade agreements to obtain new trade or hold trade they have.” He said he was conducting the trade program in a manner to “reopen new markets an preserve the markets we already have.”
. Wallace Assails Foes
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, who is scheduled to follow’ Mr. Hull as a witness in favor of the embattled farm program, declared that its opponents are “preparing for another tariff grab like those of 1922 and 1930.” In a sta ent prepared for delivery before the Committee, Mr. Wallace followed up with the assertion that opponents of the program are “apparently attempting to induce certain farm interests and certain labor interests to act.as the shock troops in this campaign, so that they themselves can stay in the rear and come up in time to walk off once more with the major share of the booty.” 9
Gearhart Challenges Hull
“There is always a certain amount of enticement for the farmers in talk about raising tariffs high enough to shut out competitive imports entirely,” Wallace said. “There is no doubt that farmers are as much entitled to tariff protection as any other group.” Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart (R. Cal) took up the Republican attack today, challenging Mr. Hull's contention that the Smoot-Hawley tariff act of 1930 was a major cause of the depression. Mr. Hull said it led to “bitter retaliation” against our [trade by foreign countries, “and a collapse in prices’ both abroad and in the United States.
Denies Conditions Normal
The Californian then sought to make|the point that the farmer had not been “brought back to the high point [of prosperity” -he had enjoyed. “THat question,” Mr. Hull said, “assumes that we are having normal conditions. We have made real rogress in attacking the terrific rE of restrictions. If we could get moré help at home we could make more progress.” “The fact still remains that after five years of this program the farmer hasn't been brought back anywhere near the prosperity he had under protection,” Mr. Gearhart asserted. “His share of the national income used to be $12,000,000,000 and now it is $5,000,000,000.” “I am making the point,” Mr. Hull said, “that the farmer is now better off than he was several years ago. We are hoping” and insisting that prices should become better than they are.” Mr. Gearhart also contended that the decline in ‘foreign purchases in the early 1930's was due not so much to tariff restrictions as to the “decline in foreign purchasing power.” Mr. Hull said that the decline in purchasing power all over the world was in great part due to throttling restrictions placed on world trade by tariffs, quotas, exchange restrictions and similar mediums.
RETURNS FOR DOG, GETS PRISON TERM
ELKO, Nev, Jan. 12 (U. P).~— @ndian Sammy Johnny so cherished his big mongrel sheep dog that he is going to prison today. Sheriff C. A. Harper said that the Indian, charged with stealing saddles from dude ranches, could have escaped from his Dead Man's Gulch cabin if he had not returned for his dog. Harper and deputies approached the cabin and Johnny ran toward the surrounding hills, but he returned when he found his dog could not follow him in the deep Snow. Johnny pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two to 14 years at the Carson City Prison.
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Congress in Brief
TODAY °
Senate in recess. Monopoly Committee continues investment banking investigation. House votes on $267,000,000 appropriation for national defense. House Naval Affairs Committee continues hearing Admiral Stark on Navy appropriations. House NLRB Committee calls more review attorneys.
YESTERDAY House began consideration of $267,197,908 national defense appropriation. Senate approved numerous nominations, including Edison as Secretary of Navy. Judiciary subcommittee approved Murphy nomination to Supreme Court. House received President's report on National Resources Planning Board. - House Naval Affairs Committee heard further testimony by Admiral Stark.
U.S. ANNUITY PLAN FAVORED
Wagner Says | Security Board Approves in Principle Low-Cost Policies.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U. P.). —The Social Security Board has approved “in principle” a proposal that would allow the Federal Government to sell low-cost insurance policies, Senator Robert F. Wagner (D. N. Y.) announced today. Mr. Wagner, who is chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, is drafting such legislation and will introduce it in Congress soon.
$100 a Month Maximum
The plan, to supplement existing benefits provided by the social security program, would be designed to meet demands for insurance annuities among low-income groups. Mr. Wagner would have the Government sell the policies at postoffices in the same manner that baby bonds now are sold. As now planned, the annuities would be paid for in lump sum annual payments or by installment plan. They would be designed to return to the owner, in 20 or 25 years, a maximum of $100 a month. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt's proposal to slash the Work Projects Administration’s budget for the 1941 fiscal year to $1,000,000,000 was headed for Congressional trouble. Senator Wagner said he would consult WPA Commissioner F. C. Harrington and National Youth Administrator Aubrey Williams on proposed relief appropriations because “they might be too low.” Although he indicated that he would reserve judgment on the adequacy of the proposed WPA proposal, Mr.. Wagner was confident that the NYA’s 1941 budget of $83,000,000—$12,000,000 less than this year—was “too low.” May Seek Super-Cruisers Senators James F. Murray (D. Mont.) and Dennis Chavez (D. N. M.) also thought that the projected $400,000,000 cut in WPA appropriations might be ill advised in view of prevailing economic conditions. Over in the House, Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, told the Naval Affairs Committee that the Navy may ask Congress next week for authority to build new type, super-cruisers capable of meeting on better than even terms the famed German pocket battleships. Mr. Stark offered no explanation of the Navy’s desire to build the new ‘heavy-gunned cruisers. However, informed Congressional circles said it was obvious that the proposed warships were designed to counter the threat of the speedy commerce raiders of the Graf Spee class. Mr. Stark said the Navy desired to build cruisers larger than 10,000 tons. and believed specific Congressional authority might be needed for this purpose. He said the Navy was considering arming the super-cruis-ers with 14-inch guns.
CONTRACTORS FINED NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 12 (U. P). —Federal District Judge Wayne G. Borah today fined the New Orleans chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association $3500 "and 26 members of the association $1000 each when they pleaded guilty to violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust
come of the Federal Government's
investigation of building trades monopolies.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record ° DEATHS TO DATE County City Total
1939 ...ceeennnnieen. 2
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Injured ........3/Arrests ..... ves Dead ..0}Accidents : Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid $o 0
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Ss ing Specqins driving... : Failure to stop at
through street. 1 3
signal Drunken driving. 2 All others '. 0
Totals .........16
MEETINGS TODAY
Indiana Bar Association, meetings, Clay1 Hotel, all day. Indiana Adges es’ A clgyool Tans Council and Council of Women for Home | Missions, convention, Hotel Severin, all
xena nge Club, eo, Hotel Severin, ne Optimist Club, ‘luncheon, Columbia Club, Reserve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Board of Trade. grat, annual meeting, 1 cope Chee cal Society. -dinner, Ho-
rin, 6 tel Sever te and Ja Bureau, meeting, Hotel Severin
diana Motor B ~ MEETING TOMORROW tion, meetings, Clay-
Association, dinner,
Home Missions Council and Council of Women for Home Missions, convention, ay. |
Hotel Severin, all day
BIRTHS Boys Montague. Jeanette Adamson, at St. Vin-
Siorman, Josephine Schrader, at St. VinJoseph, Frances Mattingly, at St. Vin-
Robert, Bessie Wason, . at Methodist. Carl, Virginia Lofgren, at Methodist. William, Minnie Southern, at Th Ye Harry, Pauline Becker, at Cit Girls Ralph, Helen dh at Co Vincent's. Fred, Mary Kenda ncent’s. Sherman, y odist. Benneth, Frances 3 Methodist Eddie. Hattie Reedus at Cit sthodist, Field he Margaret Hyatt, tos nard, Verna Coryell, at’ pe Carroll-
DEATHS ohn Warner, 80, at 645 8. Alabama, arterioscleros oy Villlam Seeuley. 73, at 323 Agnes, acute Elizabeth Craig Place, broneho- pleut Spri braficho-prieumo nia.
acute yremia,
ank Clark, 24. at City, aortic insufficiency.
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FEAR 68 OTHERS
‘Men Didn’t Have a Chance To Move From Tracks,’ State Inspector Says.
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covered today was not made immediately. Three section foremen were among those believed dead. They were G. L. Spence, 43, foreman in No. 6 heading, father of five children; Lee Hall, 43, foreman in fourth left, father of two, and Alonzo Barnett, 37, foreman in third right, father of four. Outside the mine tipple, hundreds of relatives and neighbors stood in the cold, damp air. The news that the bodies had been found brought tears to most of them. There was a hush as all waited for identification of the victims to be made. Three of the dead taken from the mine yesterday were identified as Charles Moffett; Roy Hyatt, 32, a motorman, and Roy Evans, 41, a motorman. The other body was too mutilated to be reeognized. The 91 miners trapped ranged in ages from 19 to 63. Nearly all were family men, with an average of four children each. Some had seven or eight children. Every effort was made to sustain the hopes of the wives and mothers, some of whom had scarcely left the enclosure, roped off for them 1000 yards from the mine shaft, in 40 hours. Disagreeing with Mr. Chatfield, W. J. German, general. superintendent of the Pocahontas Fuel Co. of Pocahontas, Va., said that “some of the men have a good chance to get out alive.” “Their chance is better than in any other explosion I've worked in in this field,” he said. German believed that since the mine had been rock-dusted two days before the explosion, the heat from the blast would not have carried to all sections. He said they would have been shocked from the air compression, but that if the poison gases’ did not reach them, there should be enough air in. their sections to sustain them. The coal company announced that it would provide relief, including food and clothing, for families of any miners killed.
John Matavich, 22 = year =- old miner, received word from Bartley, W. Va., today that his father, Andrew, also a miner, was not in the mine there in which 68 men still were trapped today following an explosion Wednesday. John is living temporarily at Wheeler City Mission.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. S. Weather Bureas
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair and considerably colder tonight; lowest temperature 10 to 15 degrees; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, snow by Sunday. Sunrise 7:06 | Sunset TEMPERATURE —Jan. 12, 1939—
. BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m...20.95
Precipitation 24 hrs. endin Total precipiiation Fifice Deficiency since Jan.
MIDWEST WEATHER
‘Indiana—Fair and Sopsidersbly. tonight; tomorrow fair followed. by by Sunday, except treme south portion.
Illinois—Fair tonight, colder except in northwest portion: increasing cloudiness tomorrow followed .by snow at night and Sunday, except rain or snow in extreme south portion; somewhat warmer tomorrow except along Lake Michigan. Lower Michigan—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, except local cloudiness; much colder tonight.
colder snow snow or rain in ex-
Ohio—Fair and colder tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness followed by rain or snow tomorrow night and ‘in ‘south portion tomorrow afternoon. Kentuoky—Mostly cloudy and = colder with "ight rain in extreme east portion tonight; tomorrow‘ cloudy with rain in sout. and rain or snow in north portion.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Peainer Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex. .......PtCldy 29.97 28 Bismarck, N. D.
Dodge. City, as, Helena, Mont. : Jacksonville, Fla. . Kansas City, Mo... Little Rock,
Mia.
] mi, 5:39 a. m., 2022 N, Pennsylvania, sparks Mobile,
from flue 8:01 a. m., 816 Bradshaw, defective fiue. 5:50 p. m., 3358 N. Capitol, overheated stove. loss $10.
a. m. Massachusetts Ave. and walnut, auto, 1022 N. Keyst . Keystone, overheated ove Toss sa, Jan, 12
8:15 a. ; dis. 1355% N. Senate, Apt. 6.
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HAVE PERISHED
Rescue workers change clothes at mine rescue station at Bartley, W. Va., where 91 men were trapped in an explosion Wednesday.
Here is the scene of the tragedy. Bartley is a small village in
southern West Virginia near the .
Virginia border.
ECUADOR CRUSHES AIR FORCE REVOLT
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan, 11
DIPLOMATS ACT
S&S
WHEN WEATHER PUTS OFF WAR
New Lineups May Come by Spring With Balkans and Italy as Key Nations.
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France, the Scandinavias and the smaller neutrals of Western Europe are also anti-Communist. Thus, there exists a common bond and the chance of a “united front.” Germany would be in the enemy
lcamp as long as she is allied with
Russia. . The most recent development in the “stop Russia” campaign came from . Gen. Franco, whose antiCommunist Government in Spain was set up with the support of Italy and Germany. Gen. Franco, according to Ttalian sources, has authorized the dispatch to Finland of important war material left behind by the Italians at the close of the Spanish civil war. It includes modern airplanes, tanks, armored cars, artillery and trucks. Further, he is reported to have advised Pope Pius that he is willing to collaborate in any effort to restore peace in Europe which will end the danger of Communist penetration. Thus spring may see radical changes in the war situation as it stands today..
Record Cold Wave Sweeping Europe
LONDON, Jan. 12 (U. P).— Storms and record cold in central and eastern Europe have paralyzed Russia’s Black Sea ports, as well as frozen the Danube delta, and Denmark's “great belt” channel in the Baltic is threatened by ice, reports said today. More effectively than any naval blockade, the cold and storms are impeding Germany’s supply of raw materials, ‘it was indicated. The Moscow radio, in a broad-
“||cast picked up here last night, re1 | ported that a severe storm in the
Black Sea had paralyzed all navigation. No ship had left a Russian Black Sea port since Tuesday, the broadcast said; wireless stations were receiving distress signals and two Russian ships, a freighter and a tanker, had been fighting their way to port for three days in the teeth of a gale. The temperature at-Moscow had reached a record low of 40 degrees below zero. ° (German , wireless newscasts picked up at New York said there were numerous reports from all over European Russia of people freezing to death, that all rivers were frozen and that even Odessa harbor in the Black Sea, was in danger of becoming ice bound. Port traffic was being kept open by means of ice breakers, it was said.)
(U. BR).—A Government manifesto today asserted that a revolt by the air force in connection with the Presidential election had been suppressed. State police during the night killed three persons and wounded about 40 others when they fired into crowds demonstrating in the streets. The air force rebelled in‘ support of former President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, who was trailing the leading candidate in the presidential election, Dr. Carlos A. Arroyo Del Rio, of the Liberal Radical
Party. The manifesto said the revolt had failed because aid expected by the air force from Carabineros and some army units had failed to materialize.
‘Supplies of Coal
Dwindle in Germany
BERLIN, Jan. 12 (U. P.).—Severe cold caused increased suffering in Germany today because of the strict rationing of coal. Supplies of coal were dwindling, because canal boats were ice-bound. At first only poorer people suffered, but today big apartment houses in the prosperous west end of Berlin were feeling the cold. Landlords had to close down furnaces, and such families as could installed electric heaters or tried to
build small emergency fireplaces in|§
their apartments. Beer halls and similar places, in some instances, had to close down because of lack of fuel, and out-
door vegetable markets closed.
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ASOPENHAGEN, Jan. 12 (U. P.) .—
The newspaper Berlingske Tidende reported today that- Russian troops were being dropped in parachutes behind Finnish lines on the Karelian Isthmus. ; : The newspaper said the Russians were trying new thrusts in the Salla sector of central Finland and near Petsamo, Finland’s Arctic port. Long-range guns were reported to
: have resumed shelling Viborg, Fin-
land’s second city, and it was reported that about 20 Russian divisions, each of 20,000 men and 2000 guns, had been concentrated against the Mannerheim defense line.
Russian Planes Drop Food
(In Stockholm, .the newspaper Ticningen reported from Helsinki that 50 Russians had been dropped in parachutes behind the Finnish lines and that all had been killed by Finnish sharpshooters while their parachutes were @escending.) A telephone message from Aabo to Stockholm: reported that Russian airplanes raided Aabo, with an air alarm lasting from 11 a. m. until 4 p. m. One woman was injured but none was reported killed. Two houses were set afire and six were destroyed by bomps. Several others were damaged. : Twenty Russian planes appeared over the town. Finnish anti-air-craft guns shot down at least one, officials said. Russian airplanes were reported dropping provisions for their troops on the Salla Arctic Circle front, suggesting that the Finns had disrupted Russian communications as they had done on the Suomussalmi front before their recent big victory.
2000 Cannon Massed
A social Demokraten Dispatch reported that the Russians now had at least 350,000 men and 2000 cannon massed in the Karelian Peninsula facing the Finnish Mannerheim Line. Berlingske Tidende, in a idispatch from the Finnish northeastern front, quoted a Finnish colonel as saying that when the Russians appealed to their headquarters by short wave radio for reinforcements during the recent battle of Suomusalmi, headquarters radioed back: “We demand that you advance and gain the victory.” Finally, however, the Finnish officer said, “a few companies” of reinforcements were dispatched. This officer was quoted as alleging that Russian prisoners had said they were glad they were out of
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Stal in on Phone
~ COPENHAGEN, Jan. 12 (U. P.).—The National Tidende here reported today that Josef Stalin, dictator of Russia, was in constant communication with his Army staff on the Karelian Isthmus and was personally directing some of the operations against Finnish lines. :
the war, and that they had shot some of their political commissars during their retreat through the forests. Russian prisoners who were offered the chance of returning to Russia ‘declined, the colonel was quoted as saying. | A company of nish infantry was formed at ‘Helsinki yesterday, it was reported, fromm among the volunteers who had | arrived there. In the Danish company, it was
said, were a well-known painter as:
captain, the students, workmen, engineers and Danish veterans of the French Foreign Legion. | Thirty per cent of those in the company were Danish Reserve
officers and non-commissioned offi-:
cers, it was said. A second contingent of Danish volunteers were reported to be on the way. A national Tidende dispatch reported that Mauri Norma, Finnish Olympic gymnast, and P.H. Salminen, a leading Finnish high jumper, had been killed in action.
Finns Report Russia Is Using Dreaded GPU
By HUBERT UEXKUELL United Press Staff Correspondent
FINNISH MID-FINLAND ARMY ROVANIEMI, Jan, 12,—Crack. troops of the Rus-
sian secret police, the dreaded GPU, have been in action on the Suomussalmi front in a vain attempt to retrieve the disaster to three Russian divisions, Finnish sources said today. Finns believed that GPU men, or other selected Russian troops, had been thrown also into the’ Salla front, above the Arctic Circle, where another big Russian force is reported in difficulties. On the Arctic Petsamo front, according to fragmentary reports, Russian troops took advantage of a sudden rise in temperature to try to regain some _of the territory they had lost in recent fighting. It was
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reported that all attacks so far had failed. : Finnish officers who took part ih the last phase of the battle which resulted in the destruction of the 44th Russian infantry division on the Suomussalmi front reported that GPU shock troops were thrown into the fight, among other reinforcements, trying to rescue the 44th. ~The GPU men, the Finns said, could be distinguished by their better outfits—for instance leather boots instead of felt ones, and sheepskin coats—and also by better fighting spirit. The GPU units seemed much pet- ° ter trained and much higher spirited than ordinary Russian- troops, who, according to the Finns, in some instances seemed not to have their whole hearts in the fighting.
BRITISH AGAIN FIRE ON GERMAN PLANES
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today. The crew of the Granta was rescued. The Keynes was attacked twice and one airplane made five direct hits on it. Seventeen members of the crew, including a wounded radio operator, were landed today. The trawler Star of Scotland, which had been bombed and ma- | chine-gunned by a German plane off the Shetland Islands, reached port with two dead and two wounded. The German plane, members of the crew said, machine-gunned and sank the trawler’s small boat containing three members of the crew who were attempting to leave the trawler.
BERLIN, Jan. 12 (U. P.) —The official news agency said today that German planes brought home important observations from .yesterday’s flights over the British Isles, where a communique said they sank three patrol boats, a merchant ship and a British pursuit plane. A British attack on the German air base on the island of Sylt was without result, the communique said.
PARIS, Jan. 12 (U. P.).—French pursuit planes shot down a German reconnaissance plane during the course of two aerial flights over eastern France yesterday, military informants said today. The bringing down of two German planes had been reported officially yesterday.
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