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HURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1040 _

ECONOMY TOSSED )VERBOARD AGAIN

Senate Group Adds $73,000,000 for Civil Functions of War Department; Administration Wins New Trade Program Test.

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| WASHINGTON, April 4 ( tio Ss sub-committee, tossing

voted today to add more than $73,000,000 to a House ap-

proved $203,000,000 measure functions of the War Departm

\ The bill was sent to the full Appropriations Committee,

U, P.).—A Senate Appropriaeconomy overboard again,

appropriating funds for civil ent. |

which is expected to approve it for Senate. consideration

early next week. | Additions made by the sub-com-tee included: 0,000,000 for flood control. | $25,000,000 for rivers and harbors ‘projects. - | $15,000,000 to start work: on a third set of locks at the Panama Canal. | .$2,400,000 for construction of bases for|a power unit at the Bonneville, Ore., dam. . $1,200,000 for a War Department topographic survey of strategic national defense areas, primarily on the West Coast.

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URGE SCHOOL AS

S. SIDE CENTER

P.-T. A. Groups Ask Park

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Officials to Lease Empty Building 61.

A committee of park officials and South Side Parent-Teacher Association leaders was named by* the

Goes to Canada

The Earl of Athlone . . . hero of South African war will become neighbor of U. S.

OTTAWA,

P.).—The appointment of the Earl

of Athlone, Mary, Canada, was

flect a growing. importance at-

as Governor-General of

CINCINNATI SUIT

Local Concern Is Refused Right to Collect From Coke Sales Agency.

The Citizens Gas & Coke Utility today lost its suit to collect $47,884 from the Domhoff & Joyce Co., its former coke sales agent, in Common Pleas Court at Cincinnati. A jury in the case was ordered by Judge Dennis J. Ryan to return a directed verdict against the utility, after hearing 12 days of evidence. The Domhoff & Joyce Co. for five years served as the utility’s sales agent. Its contract expired Feb. 28, 1939, and the utility did not renew it, instead signing a contract with Hickman, Williams & Co., another Cincinnati agency. In settling the sums due the utility for coke it had sold, the Dom-

hoff & Joyce firm deducted $47,384 it contended was due for commissions covering coke it alleged had been sold through other agents in its territory. In the trial, the company contended that the utility, by accepting a check marked “payment in full” had accepted the"deduction. Tue utility was represented .in the

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Ontario, April 4 (U. brother of Queen

believed today to re--

THE INDIANAPOLIS

UTILITY LOSES "No Mere

traffic engineer was made by representatives of several civic groups at a conference called by the Indianapolis Council.

noncommittal on the proposal.

the idea has been considered by the City before and “it will take a great deal of study.”

have no comment until after further study of the proposal.

president, said he doesn’t believe additional engineering facilities are needed to cope with the situatian.

he said, is adequate, adding that he doesn’t consider it advisable to “incur any unwarranted expenditures.”

Park Board today to investigate the possibility of converting abandoned School 61 at 1233 Shelby St.. into a community center. The action was taken after P.-T. A. groups from four South Side schools petitioned the Park Board to- lease the school building from the School Board. : | The petition, signed by 400 residents, asserted that the lack of | adequate community house and recreation facilities in the vicinity was “a large contributing factor to juvenile delinquency ' in the community and a menace to the safety of school children.” The petitioners represented Schools 8, 13, 18 and 31, whose pupils would have access to the proposed center. School Business Manager A. B. Good said the School Board was planhing to sell School 61, but would consider

eject Curb on Trade Plan

eanwhile, the Senate today rejected an amendment to the reciprocal trade extension bill which would have required both houses of Congress to approve all pacts sighed with foreign Governments under the program. The ‘44-to-38 defeat of the amendment, sponsored by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) removed one of the last major

Government.

armed forces.

ing three years to the life of the program. | Mr. O'Mahoney, who vigorously pleaded for passage of his proposal,

vote was taken. As originally drafted, it would| have permitted Congress to-approve or reject future trade pacts by majority vote. As expanded, it would also haye

tached to the office by the British

He formerly was Governor-Gen-eral of South Africa, and as a hero of the South African war, is .well qualified to become com-mander-in-chief of Canada’s

case by Gilbert Bettman, Cincinnati.

Charles A. Sargeant is president of the Domhoff &- Joyce firm. Thomas L. Kemp, general manager of the utility, was in Cincinnati today and could nat be reached

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for comment, on the court action.

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against accepting the recommendation and, instead, ordered a survey of hazardous conditions in the city.

authorized Congres sto abrogate existing pacts. | B Harrington| to Testify

In the House, WRA Commissioner P| C. Harrington testifies before Deficiency Appropriations Committoe today on a $975,000,00C requist for 1941 WPA funds. I ‘The Committee has left undecided until after Mr; Harrington's testimony the question of future procedure in the House investigation of WPA. | Headed by Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum (D. Va.), leader of the House economy bloc, | the Committee intedly announced its indecision in the face of reports that the Ad- ; yinistration would seek to have lifted the restriction in existing law that requires allocation of its funds over the full year. Another report was that an increased appropriation was being considered. While a majority of the Committee was understood to be opposed to. returning to the lump sum “blank check” system of relief apyropriations, several members said hey would withhold judgment until .fter hearing Mr. Harrington's reasons, if the reports proved true,

| Battle Labor and Changes

| The House Labor Committee and the House committee investigating the Labor Board were prepared today for a last-ditch fight over amendment of the National Labor Relations Act. The Labor Committee yesterday voted to attempt to obtain suspension of House rules for consideration »f its bill proposing four amendents to the act. The move, requiring a two-thirds vote of the membership, would be designed to

INDIA

Bl | | 0 IN | Here Is the Traffic Record |

DEATHS TO DATE County City Total 11939 .oeeenses 9 9 18 11940 .....000 —April 3—

4 | Arresis ...... 32 720 | Accidents |... 14

| WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines, tried tions | paid $ 38 /

18+

| signal he $113 16

runken driving. Dru 14

| All others ..

$93

- MEETINGS TODAY 0 Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Hotel Washington, noon. Advertising Club of Indianapolis, dianapolis Athletic Club, noon. i Chi, Board of Trade, noon. Ss Club, Murat Temple, noon. Oil Club, Hotel Severin, Hoon. Construction League of Indianapolis,

: Lincoln, 6 p. m. i Ho diana polis camera Club, 110 E Ninth

. . m. BY ea Thats Pi, Canary Cottage, noon. United States Department of Agricluture Club. Board of Trade. noon. 1 Lambda Chi Alpha Alumni Association, Cafeteria. noon. : Re Motor Transportation Club, fne., Fox’s Steak House, noon. Community Co-Ordinating Connell,

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, CT ois” Hotels Association, Claypool : wo poife Bawling Association, Claypool Hotel. 1 m. oo Sigma Nu, Hotel Washington, 12:15 p. m.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Exchange Club, Hotel Severin. npon. Optimist Club, Columbia Club. noon. Reserve Officers’ Association, Board of Trade, noon. Phi Delta Theta, Canary Cottage .noon. Delta Tau Delta, Columbia Club. noon. Indiana Stamp Club, Hotel Antlers, 8

‘Kappa Sizma. Canary Cottaze. noon. United States National Table Tennis a ienship Tournament, Tomlinson all. 3 * North. Irvington, Civie League, 987 N. ve. night. . Ariing a State Federation of Public eachers. Claypool Hotel. 8 pb. m. ate 'Hi-Y Council, Hotel Antlers, all ay. | 2

BIRTHS

| Girls

Harry, Mildred Epley, at Coleman. Henry. Betty Wilson, at City. | Vera Simmons, at Methodist.

at 217%

rman. Paul. Reva Stewart, at 837 Buchanan. Paul. Wanda Rose. at 2738 N. Oxford. H Pearl Reeves, at 541 S. Ne

ev. - vi. Essie Baker. at 2756 Eastern. eorge, Marie Allen. at 303 W. Vermont. | Alonzo, Hazel Reeves, at 622 S. East.

Bovs Georze, Virginia ra Coleman,

Arthur, Nettie Benn, at Methodist. Richard, Bervadine Hall [.at Methodist. Reimer. Mvrtle Dethlef. at Methodist.

‘man Mrs. Maude Smith with af

.| guests. Mrs. Eleanor B. Snodgrass,

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leasing it to the Park Board. While Park Board = members doubted whether the Board could find funds to lease the building in the 1940 budget, they appointed the following comimittee to investigate recreation facilities in the neighborhood : ! ‘ ol Mrs. William O'Connor, School 13 P.-T. A. president; Miss Freds Popp, School 13 principal; Mrs. Gale McClellan, of the School 18 P.-T. A.; Mrs. William Noerr, School 31 P.-T. A. president. Park officials who will assist this group include Albert Gisler, Park Board vice president; Miss Gertrude Brown, Board member, and H. W. Middlgsworth, City recreation director t

SUPPORT PLEDGED VANDIVIER The Wayne Township Republican Women’s ‘Club yesterday | pledged support to County Chairman Carl Vandivier and County Vice Chair-

unanimous rising vote at a luncheon at 2617 W. Washington St. Mrs. Della Hoss, club president, introduced 25 candidates who were

State vice chairman, was principal guest speaker. . avoid the hostlie Rules Committee and head off the drastic amendments by the Smith Committee. Chairman Howard W. Smith of the NLRB group and Rep. E. E. Cox (D. Ga.), bitter critic of the Labor Board.and member of the Rules Commitiee, will oppose the Labor Committee and seek to have the bill opened for amendments from the floor.

NAPOLIS

Clyde. Mary Trent. at 1949 N. Euclid. James. Betty Barber, at 2022 Ruckle. Walter. Mary Angel, at 424 S. New

Jersey. Hoagland, 429% E.

Daniel. Louisiana. William, Elnora Barnes, at 2144 Hovev. Pleasant. Magdalin Blaylock. 801 ur

ch. Hiram. Lovie Daniels, at 517 E. Ohio,

DEATHS

Elizabeth Cock. 75, at| 2140 College, cerebral hemorrhage. kley Duck, 63. at 5111 N. Meridian. acute cardiac occlusion. \ Ella Clark, 80. at 332 Cole, coronary occlusion. . Earl Payne, 57. ai. City. carcinoma

Opal McIntire, 57, ‘at Central, intestinal obstruction. Falvey. 42, at Methodist, mas- . 50, at City, pulmonarv ) .. 62, at City, diabetes mellit ”

tus. Earl H, Ulrich, 49, at Veterans, uremia. Carrie Peck, 178, at| 35 N.. Belmont,

coronary occlusion. * at Central, hypostatic

John Ritchie, 37, pneumonia. | oyal, 62, at 2402 Highland Place,

Bernice

Clara uremia.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair and cooler tonight with frost; lowest temperature about 35; tomorrow fair and continued cool. | | Sunrise ...... 5:24 | Sunset ......

TEMPERATURE | —April 4, 1939—

76:12

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a, m... .42 Total precipitation since Jan. 1........5.08 Deficiency since Jan. 1, | 5.08 MIDWEST WEATHER | _Indiana—Generally fair in. south, considerable cloudiness in| north [portion to-! pis and tomorrow; cooler tonight, local light frost in central and north portions; continued cool tomorrow. : Illinois—Generally fair in south. considerable cloudiness in| north portion tonight and tomorrow: cooler tonight, continued cool tomorrow.

Lower Michigan—Mostly cloudy tonight and [tomorrow with local snows: slightly colder tonight, continued cold tomorrow and Saturday. _

Ohio—Partly cloudy, slightly cooler in south portion tonight; tomorrow fair, cooler in extreme east portion. :

Kentucky—Partly cloudy, slightly cooler, preceded by thunglershowers n Southeast portion tonight; tomorrow generally fair.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex. ....... PtCldy 29.90 ay Bism D. ......Snow 0.23 28 Bost Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland

Denver Dodge City, Kas. ..... Clear Helena, Mont. ....,...| Jacksonville, Fla.

San Antonio, San Francisco

oseph. Naomi Meyer, atl St. Francis.

s ampa, Fla. ....... ancis, Winifrd Otto. al Su Francis, Washington, g. C. ¢ss.Clear

St. Louis T

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~ Accident = Prevention

City officials, generally, were

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan said

Chief Morrissey said he would

Keach Sees No Need For It Leroy J. Keach, Safety Board

The City Hall engineering force,

Mr. Keach said the Safety Board wasn’t *“dodging any responsibili~ ties.” - ’ Traffic is a part of the duties of this board and the Police Department, he said, and cannot be considered: apart from the-other functions of the Board and Department. A similar recommendation for a traffic engineer was made by the International Association. of Chiefs of Police after a survey here last

r. : Ordered Survey of City At that time, officials decided

The results of this survey were

y' Ordered as City Police Draft ] Campaign Against Speeders to Cut Toll

Department and, officials said, several bad conditions have been corrected. : The survey of Municipal Court traffic records (which are carried daily in The Times) revealed that in other cases, the percentage of convictions was: f Disobeying a traffic signal, 97 per cent; speeding, 96 per cent; reckless driving, 33 per cent; failure to stop at a through street, 89 per cent; all-others, 93 per cent, total of aM cases, 92 per cent. :

Drunken Driving Fines Highest

A tabulation of the fines shows that motorists convicted of drunken driving paid an average of $20.68, highest of all. Convicted speeders paid an average of $6.71, while the average for all convictions was $3.07. Motorists found guilty of failing tb stop at a through sireet paid an average of $2.80; those convicted of reckless driving paid $2.47 each, on an average; it cost the average motorist convicted of disobeying a traffic signal $2.80, while all others paid an average fine of $1.31. During the month, 1615 persons were tried in traffic court. Ninetytwo per cent, or 1485 persons, were convicted. This /means an average of 57 out of every 62 persons appearing per day were convicted. Three hundred one speeders appeared and 289 were convicted, paying an average fine of $6.71. This means 96 per cent were convicted or about 11 of every 1112 persons.

93% Are Convicted

Of the T7'% average cases a day fried on a reckless driving charge, nearly 7 were convicted daily, paying an average fine of $2.47. Of the

turned over to the City Engineering

194 persons charged with reckless

driving, 180 were convicted, a percentage of 93. Drivers charged with failure to stop at a through street appeared 164 times. One hundred forty-six were convicted, a percentage of 89. Of the six appearing daily on an average, more than 5% were convicted, paying $2:80 each. The charge of disobeying a red light brought 232 motorists into court. | Two hundred = twenty-six were convicted, a percentage of 97. Of the average of 8.9 persons appearing on this charge daily, 8.6 were’ convicted. They paid an ave erage fine of $2.20. °

erage of two persons appearing on a drunken driving charge. An ayerage of .84 were convicted, a percentage of 42. | These convicted paid $20.68 each on 'an average. Other Cases Total 672 All other ‘cases, which include illegal parking and similar types of traffic | violation, totaled 672. Six hundred and twenty-two persons or 93 per cent were convicted. An average of 25.8 persons appeared daily with 23.9 persons convicted. They paid an average fine of $1.31. . A tabulation of the court record in the order of percentage convicted shows: :

Violation Percentage

i convicted Disobeying traffic signal ,..co00000..n 9 peeding EPRI EL conn 96 Reckless driving All others All cases ! Failure to stop at a through street . Drunken driving .:...........

The average fines paid were: Violation { Avelage i ne

Speeding All cases : Failure to stop at through street. .

Prupken driving

cesses sssaane tosses sseseane

Reckless driving . 2 2.47 Disoheving a traffic signal

All others

Tomorrow at 9:30—as the doors swing open (the clo thing floor is the third).

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did risk a visit to thei dwellings did not a up or restore furni crisis had passed.

at 7 a. to 22.94" at midnight. dic

NG WATER STIRS NEW FEAR

Return of 30,000 Refugees

To Homes Halted by 'Night-Long Rains.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, April 4 (U, P.).—A steady rise of the water

level of the still turbulent Susquehanna River resulting from an all night downpour fears among residents today despite: official reassurance there would be no recurrence -of the disastrous:

Each court day there was an av- fl

turn of refugees to their homes:

* evacuated mpt to clean re until the new

was halted Vil to hit those who

The water” level reached 23.29 ¢ after subsiding steadily Some prethat the stream would rise four or five feet in the next 24 hou

Fg bringing new suffering and property loss. oh

~~ —m—— We . i PITTSBURGH, April 4 AU. P) =

A new flood menace arose in weste ‘ern Pennsylvania today on the heels of heavy rains over the Alleghen watershed.

Reports received at the Weathe

Bureau here indicated the Allegheny 2 River was rising all along the line, 92'and a level several feet above flood 4» stage was predicted for Pittsburgh for tomorrow morning. ' Ty

DARTMOUTH LEADER DIES HANOVER, N. H, April 4 (U. P),

—Craven Laycock, 73, dean-emeritus 30i0f Dartmouth College, died unexe 121 .pectedly at a hospital today.

This is it! ( purchase and a clearance). It takes pace each year at about this time.

RAGLANS, Sir—with smooth shoulders and good sweep!

SET IN SLEEVE RAGLANS—neat, flat - front and full back.

FLY FRONT COATS— very good. BAL COLLARED

COATS in the best 1940 versions.

COLORS—ABOUT EVERYTHING!

And we can fit all

sizes from 33 to 50.

Regulars, shorts and

longs!

310 were $25 Sale Price —>

| = 185 were 19.75 Sale Price —>

"A JUNIOR CHARGE ACCOUNT

Can take care of one of these coats in great style. Moderate weekly payments. No carrying charges. Inquire at

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And at their regular price

(Regular 19.75 & *25 Topcoats)

SHETLANDS that are smart! I TWEEDS shot with color (including some woven of Scotch wools—swell).

| HERRINGBONES in the right effects.

“New Accounts” desk, Balcony.

CAMEL AND WOOL coats , . . good.

FLEECES of a special sort.

s Wearingtons are a great buy. tends to keep our stocks clean—and it serves to bring to additional hundreds the personal experience of Wearington’s fit, comfort and general satisfaction. (“You'll be better satisfied with a Wearington.”) | |

It’s a sale—that

And while 500 coats are plenty of coats—15.75 is such an astoundingly low price for coats so fine—that the response will be of record proportions. Won't you drop in soon—tomorrow, if you can—while selections are still intact!

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‘The Wearington TOPCOAT SALE IS ON!

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