Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1940 — Page 3
FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1940
F.D.R. OPPOSES: DRASTIC CUTS IN FARM PROGRAM
Warns Congress That Trims Below Estimates Will Impair Efficiency.
HYDE PARK, N. Y. Feb. 2 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt warned Congress today that drastic reductions proposed by the House in his agriculture budget figures will impair efficiency of the farm program and work undue hardship on individuals and economic groups. At a press conference Mr. Roose-
velt cited excerpts from his budget message, and said he stands firmly upon his statement made in that message that he cannot accept responsibility for the 20 per cent cut below his budget figures. * Describing the proposed reductions as perfectly terrific, the President reiterated his conviction that appropriations for agriculture should not be reduced below $900,000.000 under any circumstances for the fiseal year which begins next July 1. The reductions were made in the agriculture measure by the House Appropriations Committee. The bill was being considered by the House today. It appropriates $634,374,000.
Farm Bloc Tries Again To Restore Millions
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 (U. P.)— The House farm bloc makes another attempt to restore several millions to the Agriculture Department appropriations today before House economy advocate demand a final vote. Rep. Phil Ferguson (D. Okla), leader of the farm bloc, predicted that “substantial additions” to the $634,374,256 bill would be obtained. But Rep. Clarence Cannon (D. Mo.), chairman of the appropriations sub-committee that slashed $154,530,263 from the amount recommended in President Roosevelt's “bed rock” budget, said that the bill would be passed before the House adjourns tonight and “without any more nicks.” Yesterday, the farm bloc succeeded in restoring $128,828 to the appropriation for dry-land agricul-
ture. The $212,000,000 parity payment fund for which Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace has appealed appears to have no chance of consideration in the House. House farm leaders were confident, however, that an attempt would be made to add it in the Senate. Meanwhile, economy advocates were cheered by Senate’s action yesterday in trimming $961,300 from a $57,541,300 urgent deficiency bill The bill was returned to the House where the near-million dollar cut below House figures will be considered before final passage.
Johnson Seeks to Halve
Proposed Finnish Loan
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U. P.)— Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal.) led a move in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today to cut $50,000,000 from a proposed $100,000,000 increase in the ExportImport Bank’s revolving fund—a fund that would be used to extend & non-military loan to Finland. Meanwhile, committee action was delayed at least until next week when the committee again meets.
. Demands Committee Act
On Wagner Law Revision
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U. P).— Rep. Prank Fries (D. Ill.) today . called for House Labor Committee action on amendments to the Wagner Act, “Committee has been sitting around doing nothing while people are being murdered.” Mr. Fries made his statement to the Labor Committee, of which he is a member. The Committee is considering amendments to the Wagner Act, while a special House committee is investigating conduct of the National Labor Relations Board, which carries out the act.
Before the special House NLRB,
inquiry, Lloyd K. Garrison, University of Wisconsin law dean and first Labor Board chairman, defended the present Labor Board.
charging that the)
By JOE COLLIER The average groundhog hasn't enough sense to come in out-of the
Called whistle pig for short, the groundhog is one of nature’s dumb~
way about weather. “That is, he is a dumb manager of personal affairs. If he is smart at all, he is smart in the wrong places. It is true that the ground-
strategists.
average groundhog will build an average of five complete dens for himself and family. It takes him about a week to build each one, even if the little woman helps. | He (and she) is very smart indeed about directions because one twill start burrowing from one side of a hillock, maybe, and| the other from the other side. And they always meet, with no blueprints to go from. This is very hard for anyone to do. They will build comfo able living quarters, with connecting doors, and in them they will rear their young. But every day or so, they will move from one home to another, so their enemies can’t find them:| Then, after they are there a day or so, they will move to another, like a detective who's being followed changes taxicabs in a busy city. And so it goes all summer. Moreover, they have an uncanny sense in choosing sites that overlook the surrounding territory, so that, by merely coming to the front porch, they can see any enemy in the vicinity. In addition to that, they feed usually just after Sunup and just before sundown. Other times they are sleeping in their caves during the hot summer days. (They do not get clear caught up on their sleep during the winter, due, possibly, to the fact that they have guests all winter.) * Practically everything the groundhog does, in fact, seems to be ingeniously designed to foil his enemies and there's apparently noth-
rain, let alone out of a shadow. 4
est beasts and is not gifted in any :
hog is one of nature's smartest
During the average simmer the :
Miss Barbara Fuller, 5225 N. Illinois St., a Butler On her staff was a groundhog.
weather situation today,
ing he will not do to avoid danger from other wildlife. That is extraordinarily dumb of a groundhog, because he has no known natural enemy. There is no bird or beast that preys or feeds on the groundhog. If he never built a den, or if he built one in the most unstrategic place imaginable, no wild thing would take advantage of him. That’s just half of it. He builds these dens partly because he knows that he and his wife and his children will have to have some place to winter. Groundhogs don’t care for other groundhogs being around when they are sleeping the winter away. They want to be alone. So each member of the family takes a separate abode. Each crawls
[Groundhog Tip: He's Probably Still - Asleep),
University freshman, did some research into the She has not announced the conclusions.
way back in and goes to sleep. And| many carnivorous animals and yet while they sleep, the foxes and .the|they are strict vegetarians.
rabbits and quail and other wild-
But all of those reasons need not
life, who privately admit they can’t convince you that when the groundhold a candle to the groundhog| hog saw his shadow today he became when it comes to home building, | frightened and ran back in his den
visit them.
and there will be another six weeks
All winter long these other ki-|of winter.
bitzers come and go at will, making
In the first place, Capt. Herman
use of the groundhog dens, rent|G. Riley, of the State Conservation free. The groundhog never protests,| Department, who knows as much unless maybe a skunk, who also likes| about groundhogs as anyone, says privacy and sometimes insists on it,| that no groundhog is apt to be out tries a little fumigating. Under] today.
those circumstances,
individual
And if he was out, his eyes prob-
groundhogs have been known to|ably were so blurred by his winter’s push the skunks around a little, but|sleep that he couldn't see his
they never bite them.
That’s another reason they are
shadow. : If he could see, he was looking
dumb. They are equipped with ex-|intently for enemies ‘that weren't cellent tusks that are the envy of|there.
ASKS LIGHT CO. STOCK SALE 0. K,
Attorney to Seek Approval In Chicago Federal Court Next Week.
Formal permission to scll 645,980 shares of Indianapolis Power & Light Co. common stock now hela by the Utilities Power & Light Co. will be sought in Federal Court at Chicago next week, Attorney Melvin M. Hawley announced today. The announcement by Mr. Hawley, in Chicago, substantiates reports earlier this week that plans, for the sale to a group of New York bankers for about $15,000,000 virtually had been completed. Sale of the stock, which represents a controlling’ interest in the local company, is a part of the bankruptcy reorganization of the Utilities Power & Light Co., and is necessary to comply with the Fed-
ley said. The Act prohibits any company from holding more than 10 per cent of a subsidiary firm. Mr, Hawley is a director of the Indianapolis company. : Indianapolis financiers said some of the 645,980 shares, to which will be added 55,000 shares now held in the local utility's treasury, undoubtedly will be purchased in Indianapolis. They added, however, that there is little likelihood of any group of Indianapolis men obtaining a controlling interest. When the company refunded $32,000,000 in bonds two years ago to obtain a lower interest rate, it was explained, the issue was han-
dled by a group of 80 bankers, only two of which were Indianapolis firms. That group was headed by the same firm making arrange{ments for the present common stock ale, it was said.
eral Utilities Holding Act, Mr, Haw- [ing
spondent with the northern armies, reported that communications had been blasted out by new air raids and that he had been forced to drive by automobile to the porder vo get in touch with the outside world. It was the second successive day of severe aerial attack on the northern Finnish headquarters at Rovaniemi and Finnish officials expresed fear that it was only the beginning. In operations northeast of Lake Ladoga, the Red Army has been trying for almost two weeks to break up Finnish lines and flank the main Mannerheim defenses on the Karelian Isthmus. The Finnish communiques regularly have reported failure of these attempts but the Russians have thrown more and more men into the fighting and have stood off Finnish ccunter-attacks. Furtihermore, the Finns have refused permission for correspondents to go,to the front northeast of the Lake to see for themselves what is happen-
On Wednesday, the Red Army forces in the Far North made a thrust. against the Finnish lines for the first time in weeks in the Petsamo sector, but were driven back. Communications with the Finnish capital and with other Finnish cities had been comparatively easy throughout the war but in the last three days it has been increasingly difficult. The censorship, which had been confined to military information, was tightened yesterday before
| President Kyosti Kallio, in a speech
io the final session of Parliament, said Finland was willing to make an honorable peace but would not submit to the Soviet “dictates.” He also appealed anew for military help. The Finnish President today added in another Parliament address that “no nation wit'. a lower standard of civilization than ours can conquer us.” In Moscow this morning, the official radio made a reply—direct or indirect—to the speech by de-
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record
DEATHS TO DATE
County Cily Total 1939 .
090.2... aeseines : 2 i
—Feb. 1— Injured ....... 3|Arrests ....... 35 0/Accidents THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT
Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid
Failure to stop at through street. . Disobeying traffic
signal .. All others ........ All others eet 0s
Totals .....
MEETINGS TODAY Exchange Club, luncheon, Severin Hotel,
“Opiimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
Reserve Difisers' ssueiation, luncheon, Board of Trade, Phi Delta Theta, op acheon, Canary Cot-
tage oben T Tau Delta, luncheon, Columbia uw . Iniiana” ‘Stamp Club, meeting, Antlers p. m. Kappa gE luncheon, Canary Cot-
Sage diana polis Symphon Orchesira, concert, Murat Theater, "op Indiana Canners, na "Ciaypool Ho- | P tel, afternoon. International Municipal Signal Associa- |B tion Midwest section, convention, Hotel | py Severin, all day. Brotherhood o Railway Traiamen, meetiing, Hotel Severin, all day
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Alliance Francaise, luncheon, Hotel
Washington. no x Chi Alpha, state convention. Butler University” ie house, all day. Indiana ymphony Orchestra, conothe Murat Theater. 8:30 p Supervisors, Otoheairs Clinie, ctgypo ol Hotel, morning and luncheon rnationai Municipal Signal Association (Mid-West section), Hotel Severin, morning.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are trom official records in the Countv Court House. The Times therefore. 1s not responsible for errors innames and addresses.)
Walter E. Davis, 25, at Rokomo: Mildred M. Schmidt, 24, of 2614 W. Riverside Felix Mastr: 34, of 1254
| cinom
tha Hoffman, 27, of 1621 LaSalle. Andrew Kirtley, 50, of 870 Burshot Park; Elnora Prather, 38. of 1446 N., Joseph Samuel Bowman, 48, o Pershing: Irma Hortense, Akens, 39, 1023 N. Pershing. Robert E. Winder, 22, of 1039 W. Ist: jige Kathryn Gardner, 20, of 1037
- BIRTHS
Boys George, Jane Campbell, at Methodist. Morris, Pearl DeWitt, at Coleman. Girls Lewis, Rosemar, t Patrick, Franary y Morris, Priscilla at ward. Minetta Lois Burks, at Junius, Eileen Harris, at
DEATHS William Peck, 78. at 1922 N. Pennsyl-
|vania, cerebral hemorrhage.
Eee Renner. 61, at 630 Cottage, car-
Ennard Dowe, 84, at 1139 S. State, cardio vascular renal disease Mowray Johnston, 35, at st. Vincent's, cardio vascular renal disease ritoniiis. Satterfield, 36, at City, general 'homas McDonald, 76, at 3414 R53 Drive, Brookside Parkway, cerebral embo! ar Lee Mcrris. 67, at City, toni
mia. James Hook, 63, at 3381 Douglas, car-
ito Turner, 69, at 220% W. 20th, cerebral hemorrhage. Charles Mang: 75, at 510 E. 25th, aremia. Alma Henry, 69, at 1422 Park, arteriosclerosis. Harvey Spangler. 68, at 2406 E. 16th, cerebral hemorrhage. cas Sephin ne Harmon. 70, at 351 S. Spencer, pho rge *Mendell, 32, at Long, acute neai ers, 38, at City, malignant ypertensio em Thurman, 49, at Methodist, pneu-
ne Walton, 17, at’ Long, diabetes
Donald Lawson, 66, at 1009 N. Alabama, coronary occlusion.
ad Glover, 68, at 1620 Asbury, coronary occlusion.
cin
FIRES Thursday '
Sg :08 A. M. —924 Meikel, explosion of ker-
on :10 A. M.—522 N. New Jersey, unknown,
on motor.
3:18 P. M.—130 W. 20th, unknown. $25. : . M.—St. Clair and West, 150: | N
9:00 P. M ~—Alvord and 17th, Jalse alarm, Hf 50 P. M.—2224 W. 10th, bi backfire
Friday
1A M.—2525 Yandes. stove apie:
2:46 P. M.—Columbia and 16th, alcohol |;
N LEB P. M.—5126 Kenwood, smoking fur- |Okl
sparks i salamander, not estimated. 1333 S. Richland, . sparks trom fe,
No :22°' A. M.—112 E. 23d, sparks from flue, : A. M1150 Ww. 16th, gasoline on hot 2s $10 M.—2140 Boulevard, hot ashes. 7:80 i M.—Park and Westfield. Bivd., hot motor,
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. S. Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair and colder tonight with lowest temperature 5 te 10 degrees; tomorrow fair and cold. Sunrise 6:53 | Sunset ..... 5:05
~ —Feb. 2, 1939— TEMPERATURE
BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m .. 30.45 Precipitation 24 hrs. endin
Total Precipitation since Deficiency since Jan. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER
Joruions tonight; tomorrow fair, risin emperature in afternoon in northwest an extreme north portion.
Nlinois—Fair, somewhat colder tonight; tomorrow fair rising temperature in afternoon in west-central and extreme north portions.
Lower Michigan—Fair {tonight and tomarrow; rising temperature tomorrow.
Ohio—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, colder in extreme south portion iL slightly warmer near Lake Erie
Kentucky—Partly cloudy tonight and toMOrrow; colder tonight.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex. ...,... y 30.44 Bismarck, N. D........ 30.75 Boston 30.75 Chicago Cincinnati ......e0..0 Glevsjand Denve
Jacksonville, Fla. . Kansas City, Mo, . Little Rock, Ark, y 8 Ang je .
a Oma
Pitts
Soviets Attack With New Fury on Karelian Isthmus
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WINDOW PIERCED BY MYSTERY SHOT
A mysteriously fired pellet ripped a hole in the screen, window and curtain inf a room of her home today, Mrs. Laura Beatty, 328 N. Eu-
claring that the Soviet’s war firmly determined to wipe out the “Finnish bandits.” On the Western Front sharp exchanges of machine-gun fire between opposing pill boxes in the Rhine sector -were reported. Exchange of artillery fire, which recently have marked activity in the Rhine sector, gave way to the machine-gun duels between the lesser fortifications. Most aviation at the front was grounded yesterday and early today because of low ceiling. Patrol activity also was reduced to a minimum. French War Office Communique No. 303 said that “there was nothing to report.” The German High
were “no particular events.” Japanese Offensive Reported Dispatches from Shanghai said and strategically important ofnorthern China and are combating a Chinese offensive in the central area. Coincident with the southern offensive, French sources said that Japanese planes were bombing the railroad which extends into southwestern China from French IndoChina. In Tokyo a Foreign Office spokesman said that Japan has formally demanded the return of 21 German seamen seized by a British warship from the Japanese liner Asama Maru 35 miles off the Yokohama Coast. The demand, which had been anticipated, was made in a note which Masatuki Tani, Vice Foreign Minister, handed to Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador, last night, This note replied to a British note against the seizures. Germany's worries appeared mostly economic. So far, according to Bucharest sources, Germany still is failing to get anything like the 130,000 tons of oil a month she is scheduled to receive from Rumania. The best guess in Bucharest was that she would be lucky to get 1000 tons a month until spring breaks up the ice blockade on the Danube River and opens new methods of transportation. The Nazi leadership in Berlin, meanwhile, was reported working on a gigantic economic program designed to put the Reich’s economy on a firm war footing and to raise an additional $4,000,000,000 annually, mostly in luxury taxes. Marshal Hermann Goering, leading figure in the economic battle against the Allied blockade, was understood to be direciing formation of the plans.
BROADER HATCH BAN ON POLITICS SOUGHT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U. P.) — A Senate Privileges and Elections subcommittee = today acted to strengthen two bills by Senator Carl A. Hatch (D. N. M.), designed to
Indiana—PFair, colder in west and south |
o | broaden the’ act prohibiting Federal
employees from engaging in political activity. One measure would extend the prohibition to state employees paid in part from Federal funds. .The other bill would ban solicitation of funds for political purposes from Federal employees. The measures were given to legislative draftsmen who will tighten their provisions.
EX-KAISER IS LISTED AS FAVORING ALLIES
NEW YORK, Feb, Feb. 2 (U, P).— Wilhelm II, former ruler of the German empire, believes his fatherland should scrap its treaties with Soviet Russia and join with Great
the world and civilization of bolshevism.” The 81-year-old former ‘Kaiser's views were expressed in a letter mailed Jan. 16 to Poultney Bigelow of Malden-On-Hudson, N. Y., his friend and biographer. The letter arrived thre days ago and Mr. Bigelow, 84, decided to
make public a portion of it in the that, Wilhelm’s
clid Ave., told police. She said she discovered the holes a short time after her daughter, Kathleen, 15, had left the room. The pellet could not be found but police believe it was fired from an
FIFTY-ONE CLUB
B 0. P. URGED
|Evans Asks Bobbitt to Seek
Legislators” Views on Platform.
A move to revive activities of the
|“Fifty-One Club,” composed of Re-
publican representatives in the last Legislature, to help draft the 1940 G. O. P. platform, was started today by Rep. Herbert H. Evans of New Castle, majority floor leader. The G. O. P. legislators organized the club to publicize their majority in the House for the first time in
eight years, There were 51 Republicans ‘and’ 49 Democrats in the House last year. Rep. Evans wrote a letter to State G. O. P. Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt, asking him to call a meeting of the club for March 6, the first anniversary of the organization.
Calls for Co-operation
“I am writing you this letter so that it can never be said that I or any member of the club ever went around ‘the state organization, because we are all organization Republicans,” Mr. Evans’ letter stated. This statement was seen as a cover-up for charges Rep. Evans made in another open letter earlier this week when the floor leader accused some party members of “going along with the McNuttTownsend outfit.” Mr. Evans proposed that the Fifty-One Club help draft the party platform in the State Convention “so we all can get back of it.”
Recalls 1939 Stand
“This thing of a few persons getting into a small room the night before the convention and coming out the next morning with a socalled platform is all bunk,” he said. “When the Legislature comes along, it is every fellow for him-
-|self and we have no program and
no organization on the platform. “We had that very situation’ in 1938. We stood together as one man on the platform but it was weak.” He said the club is going to insist that the “Fifty-oners help the State Committee in drafting the 1940 platform.” g
ENVOY TO LEAVE RUSSIA
MOSCOW, Feb. 2 (U.P.).—Paul Naggiar, French Ambassador, was expected to leave for France tomorrow on “indefinite leave.” Sir William Seeds, British Ambassador to
Hin tof Rumanian-Nazi Tie | Upsets Belgrade Parley
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some form of non- ~aggression treaty under ‘which the Soviet claims on Rumania’s Bessarabian territory (formerly Russia) would be at least temporarily © shelved. Rumania’s frontiers now include territory that belonged to Russia,” Hungary and Bulgaria before the World War. . The apparent “about face” of the Rumanian Foreign Minister was described as designed primarily to back up the position of Bucharest in opposition to the Hungarian demands for territorial revision.
Doubt Demands to Be Met
Diplomatic sources® expressed belief that there was not much chance that the Balkan Entente would agree to Rumania’s reported demands and some sources reported reason to believe that the Bucharest Government already had reached an agreement in principle with Germany which would be put in operation after the Entente turned down the frontier guarantee plan. In connection with the rumor that Rumania was threatening to sign a non-aggression treaty with Russia, observers studied an inspired article in the newspaper Echo De Belgrade which urged small states— specifically Bulgaria and Hungary— not to act hastily against Rumania.
Nazis Accuse Allies
The article pointed out that hasty action tions sefting “fire to their own homes while warming their hands” and thus result in loss of their independence. (In Berlin, the, Foreign Office mouthpiece declared that Germany and Italy were interested in maintaining peace in the Balkans but charged that the allied powers were attempting to draw the smaller states into the war to complete the biockade of the Reich. In Rome, the newspaper Messagero attacked the British press for attempting to create “catastrophjc complications” in the Balkans.) The article in the Echo De Belgrade was regarded by observers here as a plea on behalf of Rumania and as resulting from failure of Jugoslavia to mediate the Hun-garian-Rumanian territorial dispute recently. Millions Involved
There were reports, too, that the.
British and French, acting through Turkey, were exerting heavy pressure cn Jugoslavia, which as a neighbor of both Germany and Italy, has attempted to maintain the strictest neutrality. The conference opened -in an atmosphere of tension. Not only were the problems of the conferring na-
Russia, is now on a similar “leave”
Command announced that there
Japanese troops are engaged in big}
fensives in far: southern and far’
Britain, France and Finland “to rid |
in Great Britain.
tions different, but each delegate knew that the great powers, Ger-
ight result in the small na-1,c "40 "pajcans and its dread of
many and Italy shove all but the Allies also, were watching (every move -he made.
The conference was perhaps the most important since the war started, involving not only nearly 60,000,000 people of the Entente nations direct, but the 15,000,000 of Hungary and Bulgaria indirectly— to say nothing of those of the bel-: ligerents. It was predicted freely that the conference would result in a split marking the real end of the Little Entente.
Turkish Envoy Causes Alarm
Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu of Turkey had astonished other delegates, and particularly Foreign Minister Aleksander Cincar-Marko= vitch of Jugoslavia, by saying before he left Istanbul: “Our country is hot neutral but is (merely). out of the war.” This plain statement of Turkey's
-|alliance with the Allies just before
a conference whose keynote was the strictest sort of neutrality, caused not only consternation bul resentment here. If anything had been needed to cement the pessimism of delegates generally it was that. But what between internal dissensions, the
. |competition between Germany and
the Allied nations for raw materials, Italy’s ambition to be the protector
the spread of bolshevism, it had been predicted already that the conference would fail.
Weygand Sees Turkish General
Further, Gen. Maxime Weygand, French commander-in-chief of the powerful Allied Army concentra=-
‘tions in the Near East, had just left
Ankara, the Turkish capital, after secret conferences with the Turkish’ general. It was reported, also, that Saracoglu would go direct to Paris, for an allied conference, from Belgrade. There was an evil augury late last night when 'Saracoglu and Gen. John Metaxas, Greek strong man, who is both Premier and: Foreign Minister, arrived here. Their special train was an hour late. Jugoslav Premier Dragisha Svetkovitch Cincar-Markovitch, high Foreign Office officials and the Turkish and Greek Ministers waited all that time on a bitterly cold railroad plat-. form. . When the visitors arrived, the: military guard of honor presen arms and an army band. blared the Turkish, Greek, and Jugoslav na-« tional anthems the delegates shoo. hands stiffly and formally and the:
visitors drove at once to thei countries’ legations. :
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