Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1940 — Page 9
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WADE DECLINE
LEVELING OFF
Hopkins Says No °‘Expan-
sion’ in View, However; | February Dip Reported.
"WASHINGTON, March 8 (U. P.). «~The Federal Reserve Board reported today that its seasonally adjusted business index dropped 10 points in February to 109. This compared with 119 in January and
@ peak of 128 in December.
The February figure, the board reported in its monthly review of business, was based on preliminary figures which showed that during January and February industrial production, particularly output of
steel and other basic materials,
decreased contrary to the usual seasonal trend. The index, however, still was above the average for last summer when it approxi-
mated 100 per cent of the 1923-25 average.
Last night, Secretary of Com-
merce Harry L. Hopkins announced
that a slight "business rise in the ‘last two weeks of February “shows
some indications” that the dekline
which has existed since December
is “leveling off.”
He cautioned, however, that there were “no indications of expansion”
in industrial demands which would
imply “an immediate reversal” of
the downward trend. The main factors tending to stabilize business aetivity, he said, are foreign shipments, principally machine tools .and aircraft, and a revival of buy4ng in non-ferrous metals. The Federal Reserve review reported: that exports have continued at a high level since the first of the year, but that employment and
payrolls, and distribution of com-1
modities have declined.
ROAD GANG FACES PRISONERS
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March 8 (U. P.).—Atlantic City officials have announced that prisoners may be returned to road gang work because of the cut in WPA funds.
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ARCHG M0 == THE INDIA ‘Commissioners File for Re-Election
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OFFERS TO DROP OUT OF REVENUE RAGE
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intend to send his name to the White House and today I am only
waiting to see if the newspaper charges contain anything I did not know. “Unless there is something with which I am not familiar, I will send his name up next week whether Senator Minton joins in my recommendation or not. “Mr. Rock is an outstanding citizen of Anderson and has devoted his life to a large family of relaHe has been indorsed for the internal revenue collectorship by Judge Charles E. Smith of the Anderson Circuit Court, Judge James Edwards of the Anderson Superior Court, Mayor Harry Baldwin of Anderson and other Madison County officials. “He has been my friend for 30
years. It is considered unlikely here that Mr. Rock will succeed Mr. Smith, since the Treasury turned thumbs down on Pleas Greenlee, who was
recommended by both Senators.
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Britain Orders
BULLETIN LONDON, March 8 (U. P).— The Air Ministry announced today that Royal Air Force planes bombed three German patrol ships near Borkum, North fea German air base, yesterday.
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(U. B)e— Great Britain suddenly and unexpectedly speeded up mobilization of armed man power today by calling
The call was issued just prior to the arrival of Sumner Welles, United States Undersecretary of State, and at a time when the Allied powers were in a quandary. over Scandinhvian efforts to end the Russian-
approximately 1,000,000 men, will have been registered in Britain for military service since the start of the Of these about 600,000 al-
23-year-old youths were About
Times Photo. with the County Clerk this merning were County who will be candidates to succeed themselves. and Robert Smith, ree f the Elections Board, and Mr. Newhouse and Mr.
Additional
250,000 Youths Into Army
250,000 were affected, some of them
being ordered to report today. forces within two weeks.
year-old : reserves, 300,000, will register tomorrow.
Planes Fly Over Poland Poland . during the night on th
since the war started.
which fell into the sea off the nort coast of Scotland.
It was the first time that Britis
many days British planes had bee
Germany, North Sea naval bases.
dropped leaflets ‘on Posen, an
today* as scheduled.
German airplanes were reporte the 5846-ton German steamshi
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CIEW.
off the east coast of England. On
lifeboats. The Amelia Lauro was the sec ond Italian ship attacked by Ger
by German mines
seizure.
In Air Raids, Nazis Say
ms See HATCH BATTLE
All will be absorbed in the armed
Meanwhile, the new class of 24estimated at
Royal Air Force planes flew over
longest reconnaissance expedition
At the same time it was announced that British planes had shot down a German Heinkel plane
planes had flown over Poland. Flights had been made over Austria and Czechoslovakia and for
making reconnaissance flights over particularly over the
The planes started from England,
landed at -a French -air base early The roundtrip flight totaled nearly 1500 miles.
over an east coast British .town early today but no air raid alarm _|was sounded. The Admiralty announced that
Uruguay was scuttled by its own crew in the North Atlantic ‘after being intercepted by a British warship. The warship picked up the|
Nazis. Set Fire to Ship
A German airplane bombed and set. fire to the 5335-ton Italian steamship Amelia Lauro last night
man of the crew was killed, almost cut in half by bomb splinters, and three were wounded. The wounded men and the remaining 26 members of the crew were landed in British
man planes since the war started. The 3615-ton steamship Mira was. slightly damaged by bombs March 1. Six Italian ships had been sunk
The attack on the Amelia Lauro came after a German announcement that neutral ships which entered British contraband control stations were liable to attack. It was reported that the ship was on the way to Italy with a cargo of coal, and presumably was about to pass the Downs where it would have been subject to challenge by a British blockade ship. It would have been taken into the Downs where its cargo of coal, presumed to have been German, would have been liable to
11 Ships Sunk or Damaged
BERLIN, March 8 (U. P.).—Ger-
IN FOURTH DAY
Challenges of Minton and Others to. ‘Clean Politics” Act Beaten Back. (Continued from Page One)
velt signed the measure his heart was not in it. On the contrary, said Mr. Roosevelt, he feels reasonably certain that Senator Chavez’ heart was not in it. Senators backed by state political machines are fighting the bill. Sen-
seek to get even, because their own power was curbed in the original Hatch act of 1939. Many Senators would like to wipe out both the original act and the ‘| proposed extension, leaving both state and: Federal machines free. This is 1940, a Presidential year. For more than a century the party in power has used jobholders to get out the vote and perpetuate this power. The politicians are reluctant to yield the prerogatives long held. A slight, wiry, Democrat from New Mexico, Senator Carl A, Hatch, seeks to bar Government workers from campaigning and from being coerced - into’ campaigning. With but occasional help from men
the attacks of some of the country’s most resourceful political leaders,
Argue on High Plane Always the argument of those seeking to cripple or kill the bill is pitched on a high plane. States’ rights must not be invaded. Precious human civil rights must be
delegates its power. No Senator, of course, wants political coercion. But—. And so on.’ Always Mr. Hatch smiles back, answers sharp questions oftly and meets sarcasm without show of temper. statement of lofty ideais.
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& Minton Accuses Barkley
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tributions would come in less readily. Some are up for election themselves, and they demand that workers in the government service turn out to send them back to Washington. = |tension of the crucial roll calls, and high comedy in the parliamenta®s maneuvering. have pleaded heatedly with members, on the Senate’ floor and in the cloakrooms, to swing votes.
Maloney Has Amendment
The Senate returned to the fight today with an amendment before it by ‘Senator Francis Maloney (D. Conn.), which would cripple the proposed extension of the law. to state: workers paid from Washington. If this move fails, there is- a
i. e., to kill it. The Senate will sit tomorrow, Senator Barkley said, if tHe bill is not disposed ‘of today.
ators opposed by state machines
on his side, hé has stood hour after hour on the Senate floor meeting
protected. Congress is derelict if it
He questions no Senator's
One after another they challenge. him—=Senators Minton, Kenneth McKellar (D. Tenn.), Scott W. Lucas (D. Ill), Claude Pepper (D. Fla.), John E. Miller '(D. Ark.), John H. James F.
From Senator Alva B. Adams (D. Colo.) and Senator Miller have come proposed amendments to cut the bill to pieces. Then in final defense before each roll call Senator Hatch has shown his steel to ‘warn his Democratic colleagues that the issue is simply one of the spoils system
The intensity of feeling was seen in Mr. Minton’s charge that the Barkley, in tch had led the Republicans in victory; and in Mr. Barkley’s proclamation that any time he had to stifie his views because he was majority leader, he
"* The politicians fight hard in this election year. Back home there are contests over selection of nationalconvention delegates, and some of the usual methods of control are menaced by the Hatch bill. Some fear that jobholders’ campaign con-
There has been drama in the|
Opposition leaders] :
possibility of a new drive to send| the whole bill back to committe—|
[Uncle Bob’ (i 84: Huffs As Usual
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 (U. P.).—~Robert Findley Paine looked suspiciously at every reporter or cameraman who came near him today. He huffs and puffs and edges away, yielding to a habit formed several years ago when it became a custom to write
a birthday stery about him. Today is “Uncle Bob's” 84th birthday. Eighty-four isn’t an
unusual age, but he has been doing the same work for the last 61 years. ; “Now that isn’t correct,” he said. “I don’t work anymore—I ~ just hang around the office. And I'll be hanging around a long time yet.” Mr. Paine does work even ‘if it isn’t the 12 or 13 hours a day he put in when he was editor of the first Scripps-Howard paper, the old Cleveland Penny Press. He reads everything that goes into the paper, offers suggestions to copy boys and thé boss on the San Francisco News, and occasionally writes an editorial or feature article.
ITALO-BRITISH COAL COMPROMISE SEEN
LONDON, March 8 (U. P).— Italian authorities here said today that a compromise settlement of the British-Italian controversy over German coal was in sight. It was reported that under the settlement now being negotiated Britain would release 14 Italian ships, including their cargoes, carrying coal from Germany. The ships now are in the British contraband control and their cargoes have been ordered seized as prizes of war. Italy, it was understood, will present evidence that “hazards of the sea” prevented departure of the ships from Dutch and Belgian ports,
before midnight of March 1.
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man airplanes sank or badly damaged 11 merchant ships, totaling 30,000 tons, in the course of "recon=naissance” flights along the Brite ish east ‘coast Wednesday night, the High Command said in a communique today. The ships were either under British warship convoy or were traveling along the. coast with
dimmed lights, the SOmHmsigue said.
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